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Ozpin's office

"Am I in trouble again, cuz I cannot handle anymore freakin' beatdowns from Goodwitch," Eren asked as he walked from the stairs and stood in front of his headmaster. His punishment for the events that transpired that same mourning was cruel even for Goodwitch's standards. Until the half-way point of his second semester, the only way he could get up to the headmaster's office was to walk up the fifteen-minute-long spiral staircase that leads there.

"No, fortunately for both of us you aren't trouble, you and me having been called here for something a little more fun." a voice spoke from behind.

When Eren looked he saw Edward in his casual suit and tie next to the elevator entrance. What caught Eren's eye, however, was the small figure behind his comrade.

"Who's the girl?" he asked with an eyebrow raise.

"Eep!" she squeaked trying to hide more behind Edward.

"Come on Jetta, you'll have to meet him eventually," Edward said with a discouraged tone.

"But-, but he's a-"

"I know but he's not that extreme." he interrupted making her nod.

"O-Okay," Jetta said as she moved from behind Edward and came to Eren slowly.

Now that Eren got a good look at her he could see that she was a bat faunas who stood five feet five inches with the addition of her perked up four-inch bat ears. Her white complexion and petite form were both covered by a black scalloped dress with lace-up black heels. Her black hair fell down to her lower back and covered her left eye with other eye hidden behind a pair of black sunglasses.

Eren took a knee so he could see the girl at eye level.

"Hello, my name is Eren." He said with a genuine smile while making sure not to show his shark teeth.

"I-I'm Jetta Sanguis," she said turning her face and trying to avoid eye contact.

"So Jetta, why are you here?"

"I'm here to fight for the title of Mistral's champion," she said with a new look of confidence as she now stared down the shark.

"Oh, and what would that mean?" Eren asked with a head tilt and eyebrow in interest.

"It means that in our next fight, the stage will have to be shared with two others," Edward said with a smirk as he leaned on the wall to the right of the elevator, making Eren look to the human with a blank face.

Eren turned back to the girl after he realized what Edward just said.

"So what puts you on the same playing field as us?" Eren asked now skeptical to even get near her, he had met more than enough strong people who look like children to know that judging a book by its cover was a very bad idea.

"I-I, uh." she was saying before she hid behind Edward in fear of Eren's analytical stare.

"She's a master of several material arts, a military genius, has a semblance that gives her omnipresent detection of any person or animal she has touched within a one hundred fifty meter radius and is said to have the ability to "hear" your thoughts," Edward explained as he moved out of the way.

"So you're a super genius who can finish my sentences and hit my pressure points. Anything else you wanna mention?" Eren asked not really impressed by the new arrival.

"Uh, I can also do this," she said shyly as she approached Eren slowly. When she was two feet away from him she slowly raised her open hand and placed the tips of her fingers on his sternum. She took a deep breath before she collapsed her fist and moved her arm forward and delivering a one-inch punch that gave off a loud bang before silence had filled the room.

"So did that do what it was-" Eren was saying before he felt something trickle out of his mouth and was surprised to find that it was blood that he was wiping off. When he looked up Jetta suddenly hid behind Edward. "Ok, this is getting annoying. Is she shy or is she afraid of me for something?!"

"This is worse than usual, and it's only because you're a shark faunas," Edward said as he continued to try to stop her from hiding to no avail.

"Th-They are said to have the ferocity of grimm, some cases involving them eating humans and faunas alike, and were even once-."

"Mistaken for the warriors with silver eyes do to their insatiable lust for battle and blood, along with their pale white irises, yeah, yeah I've heard this all before. I'm a shark faunas...so what?! Best lose that fear soon or you're gonna have a tough time competing with me." Eren said emphasizing his words with varying tones.

"Ok, how was that supposed to help her?" Edward asked as he crossed his arms.

"It wasn't. I'm just saying how it is, if you don't like it you don't have to like it. Just make sure you get out of my way before you complain or you're going to get messed up." Eren said making sure not to curse in front of her as he sat on the ground with his back leaned on the wall before he turned to look at her. "You got it?" he asked getting a nod before he looks back at Ozpin.

"Alright, now once Goodwitch and Ironwood arrive we can explain the situation," Ozpin said as he took a sip from his mug.

The doors to the elevator opened to reveal professor Goodwitch, who then walked past them and stood by Ozpin.

"Did he..." she leaned over and asked him

"Yes," Ozpin answered not even looking to the side.

She looked at Eren for confirmation before he took out his scroll and played a recording.

"We are wolves of the sea, we are wolves of the-" the scroll played before he quickly shut it off leaving the room with empty silence.

"Nice music choice," Edward said sarcastically with an amused smirk on his face.

"Quiet!" Eren yelled in response as he looked through the files on his scroll and found the one he was looking for. "This is what I meant to say." he said before hitting play on the recording which played an audible "Yes ma'am" from his scroll. All the figures from beacon all knew that this recording was just for Eren to avoid saying the phrase himself. Which would usually make Goodwitch angry, except in this instance she had been the one to suggest it, considering this was the only way to get him to actually "say" it.

Glynda only signed at this and turned to see a pair atlesian aircraft fly right past the tower. The sudden commotion making Ozpin get up and look out to see that a large transport ship had just landed at the school. "Ironwood certainly loves bringing his work wherever he travels," she said with frustration as Ozpin stood by her side.

'You have no idea.' Edward thought with a scoff as he continued to stand with Jetta behind him.

"Well running an academy and a military makes him a busy man...but yes those are a bit of an eyesore," Ozpin said as three more ships flew past the tower. A sound from his desk brought his attention back to reality. "Come in," he said while turning before the elevator opened revealing the general.

General James Ironwood, Eren looked at him and could already tell by his appearance that he was going to hate him. His hair was black, with some silver and gray areas, while his eyebrows were solid black. He had a strip of silver metal above his right eyebrow which complimented his militaristic look. He sported a white overcoat, with a gray undercoat, black sweater, a red necktie, and a white glove on his right hand. His suit pants share the same color as his overcoat and were tucked into silver boots accented in gray.

Everyone turned around to see the general walking in.

"Ozpin!" Ironwood greeted as he approached his old friend.

"General," Ozpin said as he straightened himself in a military fashion making the three students in the room internally chuckle.

"Please drop the formalities." the general said as they continued to walk towards each other.

"What about the-"

"Oh, it won't matter, the representatives are willing to understand and they won't care to pull some childish scheme or anything of that sort," Ironwood said with a chuckle pointing towards the students who then nodded. "It's been too long," he said shaking the headmaster's Hand. "And Glynda, it has certainly been too long since we last met," he said as she walked closer to him.

"Oh, James...I'll be outside," she said with this content and she walked to the elevator.

"Well, she hasn't changed a bit." He remarked in responses the elevator closed. "Edward! Jetta! Ha, how have you two been." the general said with the chuckle in between words.

"Ironwood," Edward said as he took Ironwood's gloved right hand in a firm handshake which oddly enough made the sound of lightly bending metal. "I can never thank you enough for what you've done for my family," he said with a voice of gratitude before letting go of the general's hand with a smile.

"And I've already told you that you've done enough. Your actions have already repaid us a hundred times over for what we've done for you." the general said before looking down at the small girl behind his student. "And Jetta, I see that the time past has treated you well. How are you doing at Haven? I hear Professor Lionheart has taken after extreme interest in you." the general's kind words made the shy girl smile and look up before answering.

"I-I'm doing well. The professor was understanding of the circumstances I gave him and has been helping me a lot." She said shyly as she came out to briefly talk to the man.

"Well, that's good. It's great to see growth in today's youth," the general said with a proud tone before he turned to look at Eren who was now sitting cross-legged on the ground at the edge of the room. 'Speaking of which, this one looks like he's made for trouble.' he thought as he walked to the young man.

Eren looked back at the general was already formulating a plan. 'Time to win an Oscar.' he thought as he stood to greet the Ironwood, who to his surprise was at eye level if not slightly taller than himself.

"And am I to assume that you are Eren Sights," Ironwood questioned with interest clear in his voice.

"You would be correct. And although this may be unconventional I just want you to know that I consider it a great honor to meet you, sir," Eren said as he took the generals right arm in his own making the same metal straining noise as the one with Edward.

Eren's response to Ironwood in a word to everyone in the room was...unexpected. With the general's back turned the faces of the two who already knew Eren showed pure shock and were silently freaking out as they had never seen this side of the shark faunas before.

'Where the fuck did that come from?!' Edward asked in his mind knowing that Eren would be able to hear his thoughts due to his telekinetic abilities.

'Hahahahahahaha, I'll tell yah, dealing with military types is just such a pain in the ass. So I devised this disgusting act of "respect" to get the freakin' metal rod up their ass bitches off my back and we never have to speak to each other again. The majority of the time, this fucking shit works!' Eren told his atlesian friend telepathically making the friend in question scoff and calm down as he realized that his friend was fine.

"Care to elaborate Eren?" the general said with intrigue as it was not the response he was expecting. From the reports and talks that he and Ozpin had, he'd expected the faunas to act in a similar fashion to Qrow and was slightly caught off guard when Sights had responded to his question in the way he did.

"General James Ironwood. The highest ranking official in the atlesian military, a force whose behavior is reflected by the climate they live in. Cold, harsh, and unforgiving the blizzards that plague your continent must be a devastating nuisance...And yet here you are, thriving with a military force who could arguably be called the best in all of Remnant...Do I need to go on?" Eren said with a tone that made it seems like he was talking to a god.

"N-No, that won't be necessary," Ironwood said raising his hand to pause and after he lowered his hand to his back he looked back at Ozpin who had calmed himself from his student's unexpected respect. "So this is your representative." the general said to Ozpin.

"Yes," Ozpin answered with certainty.

"Then we had best explain the situation...Edward." Ironwood said as he motioned to subordinate.

"Sir," Edward said before turning to Eren. "As you know the Vytal festival will begin within a few months, the ultimate tournament between the four kingdoms will be underway," he said making sure to overemphasize the importance of the event.

"Alright, so how does this "ULTIMATE" tournament involve us?" Eren asked with mockery as he forgot the general was present.

"As the tournaments raged in the years the headmasters realized that any extra students that were incapable of forming a team or even a pair we're left unable to participate. So they decided upon a secret battle of sorts. Where, if the students showed enough prowess in battle, representatives from each kingdom would fight in a battle royale for the chance to fight the winner of the festival tournament and win the title of champion of Remnant." Edward explained getting a look of intrigue from Eren.

"And what makes us "qualified" for this?" Eren asked like it was an actual question.

"Actually..." Ironwood said walking up to the desk and looked at the shark. "The only qualifications for becoming a representative state that you must have been born and lived your childhood within the kingdom that you wish to represent." the general said as he put his scroll down on the desk making three large holographic projections appear in the middle of the room. Each one looked like a paper file, one for each of the representatives present. It contained their mug shot, name, age, gender, race, and several other facts, along with the description of their appearance and their last known location.

Eren smirked as he realized that Ozpin filled out a file for him. "So I'm to assume that you were going to be representing Atlas," Eren asked gaining a nod from the older teen. "So where's number four?" he asked knowing that the other two students in the room were the other kingdom's representatives.

Silence filled the room like a flood. Ironically it was the shy bat that broke the silence from behind her "bodyguard".

"Th-there may not be a f-fourth." Jetta stuttered poking her head out slightly but still hiding behind Edward. When Eren heard this and looked at her she had already hidden again.

"Please explain her statement," Eren asked the general, knowing he couldn't get the kid to come out again.

With a tired sigh, the general picked up a scroll, fiddled with the screen a little bit, and then placed it back down. Another file then showed up and was enlarged after the general stuck his hand out to it, showing the same info as the previous three files.

The file showed a mug shot of a figure with short lighter gray hair. Disrupting his short hair was a pair of large black horns that stuck straight out in the opposite direction of his face; interesting enough one of the sixteen inch long horns had been broken off leaving the three inches of horn left jagged and unfilled. His left, opposite to his broken horn, eye burned with fiery red hatred as he bared his fangs in the photo as if ready to tear anyone apart he wishes. As there was only a mug shot there was nothing much else that Eren could find on his appearance, so he just had to use what information was given.

"Draken Tynan, otherwise known as "The Fearless black dragon", is a known criminal in the Kingdom of Vacuo. Convicted four hundred thirty-two counts of 1st degree murder, seventy-three of 2nd degree murder, fifty-nine of attempted murder, sixty-seven counts of assault and battery, forty-six counts of prison escape, eleven of attempted prison escape, and my personal favorite, one thousand six hundred eighty-nine counts destruction military equipment and property along with one count of the theft of protected, classified military property." Ironwood said as he looked at Eren knowing that he was the only one that didn't know this information.

"So why isn't he are number four?" Eren asked only two be met with silence. "I can only assume that he was intended to be are fourth by the fact that you're showing his file. So what changed?"

"It's not that simple," Ironwood said looking to Ozpin for a second before receiving a nod from the man.

'Apparently.' Edward thought with a hint of anger. This caught Eren off guard as he never even heard Foley come up with a thought against a higher ranking official or one of his seniors. After mentally processing what was thought he looked up to the general who nodded at Edward.

"The headmaster of Shade academy wishes to give him a second chance. In the report, the headmaster stated that Draken's actions were under the influence of instinct and behavioral habits and requires time to overwrite those habits. However wasting such a powerful potential ally like this due to impatience just seems like a bad idea, with that and several other testimonies a condition was set by the council, "If the other representatives accept him, then let it be so. But it must be unanimous among them.", the condition stands until all of us have voted, a revote can only be cast if the person who wishes for one had previously voted against it." Edward read as he motioned to the report he projected next to the file.

"So she voted no?" Eren asked jerking his thumb at Jetta making her jump and hang onto Edwards back is if he were a tree. "I'll take that as a yes."

"H-he's a criminal," she said in shy defiance looking over the soldier's shoulder while refusing to move from her spot.

'No he's a prisoner seeking redemption!' Eren thought as he threw a glare at her once again freaking her out. "Why does the species section say unknown?"

"One of the other details that set him apart from others around him is that he is neither human nor faunas. His DNA, while it does show similarities in human DNA, it doesn't point to any specific species and is, therefore, an anomaly." Edward explained with an indifferent look on his face.

"Is there like some sort of meeting I can do with this guy? It makes it easier to make a clear-cut decision when you've actually met the person."

"As it turns out we've already arranged for you to meet him in the kingdom of Vale," Ironwood said

"Really?" Eren asked with a brow raised.

"Yes, we figured that each representative must know each other to some effect. Even without the current circumstances each representative must have spent at least one full week with one another." the general confirmed as he showed many pictures of students hanging out making Eren snicker as he saw pictures of a scrawny looking dude's arm slammed on shattered table by a Goliath of a girl, two boys each trying to shove each other away as they played an arcade game, and a small girl holding a bat looking down with a blank face at a boy who had a steaming baseball shaped indent on his forehead. "We believe this helps remove some tension between fighters and it's been found to be remarkably successful in the passing years."

"Great, so how is the set up going?" Eren asked making sure his plans won't be messed up by these events.

"The week will take place a week from now and we've set the meeting up at the small island pa-"

"Wait you said a week from now?" Eren interrupted seeing a chance.

"Yes, we believe that both parties should be given enough time to reach the meeting place." ironwood explained with a hint of irritation at being interrupted.

"Alright then that's good gives us plenty of time to get ready," Eren said cracking his knuckles and letting a toothy grin grow on his face.

"Who's us?" Jetta said with a raised brow in confusion.

"That'd be you and I," Eren said looking at her with a wide smirk.

"Wait, what?!" Jetta said now glaring in his face using a nearby chair to gain height as she stood on the arms of the chair.

"Yeah, pretty sure you're the only one that didn't know this was going down. I'm pretty sure they got you here so when I go to meet the fourth, the week before I do you and me can get our week over with and then go straight to meeting with him and get that week over with at the same time. Am I right or what?" Eren said making Jetta look at him with shock as he shifted his gaze to the general.

"Correct," Ironwood answered with a smile of contempt making the young girl seethe and shake with anger.

"You INSUFFERABLE CUR!" She screamed dazing the entire school before she cocked her fist back and socked him square in the face. However, all it did was make Eren tear up the floor he was dragging his feet through to stand his ground before nearly breaking the wall he was backed into. He shook his head before looking up to see her with a glimmering white eye that shined through her sunglasses.

"ENOUGH!" Edward shouted as he appeared in between the two, effectively stopping her from continuing her attack and calming her down.

"Now that we've gotten all that taken care of can I go back to my dorm? Everyone has been told what they need to be told so can I just go?" Eren asked Ozpin unfazed by what just transpired making the headmaster sigh.

"Yes, Eren that will be alright. Just be sure to remember Jetta's going to need to spend the week with you." Ozpin said.

"If you'll allow it she can come with me right now if she wants," Eren suggested as he dusted himself off.

"I'll allow it. Jetta, do you want to start your week now or get a breather before going?" Ozpin asked with a smile.

Jetta looked at Eren and then to Edward who just shrugged. She was scared but figured if she started now the week would be over quicker.

"O-Ok, I'll go with him," she said as shook with fear.

"Alright, let's go," Eren said moving to the stairs.

"R-Right," she said hurrying to catch up.

"It was a pleasure to meet you, sir," Eren said bowing as he passed the general.

"Same for me Eren and have a good week Jetta." the general said smiling at the two as they walked to the stairs.

'Hey, you wanna have some fun?' Jetta heard the boy ask in her mind. "Was that actually you just now?" she asked him.

'Yes. Now if you would please answer the question.' she heard again making her settle down and nod her head.

"Alright, let's do this," he said as he picked her up and put her on his back making the girl let out an eep in surprise. He then put both his arms in front of his chest before they morphed into a huge spiked black shield that he firmly held to his chest.

"This seems like a bad idea," she said it with a hint of worry in her voice as she looked down at the stairwell.

"Too late, you already said yes," Eren responded with a massive toothy grin.

"Yeah, but-"

"SURF'S UP DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~" Eren yelled as he dove straight down the stairs leaving the remains of the occupants of the meeting to look on in shock. Ironwood turned to the headmaster with a blank face.

"That's your representative?" he asked with clear confusion on his face.

"Please don't remind me," Ozpin said holding the bridge of his nose in annoyance at the shark's antics.

So yeah this chapter is more like a "set up for what's to come" chapter.

More stuff to come, hope you stick with me.

Anyway, see you next time.

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Bon, voyage!