A.N: Welp here we are again… months since the last post because I suck at time management… Yay. Anyway here you go. Also if any mistakes are in this one it is my fault due to the fact that I want to put something for you to read so all grammar mistakes belong to me ant not sonic.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to RWBY. If I did I wouldn't be writing this disclaimer.

Beta: sonic123456a

Chapter 14: Simply Pawns

Ryce Savel P.O.V 3rd Person

Now Ryce could deal with many things during his time in remnant. If you told him to take care of a couple of Grimm he would do it. If you told him to go solo into an enemy stronghold guns blazing he would do it. If you told him to go into a dark suspicious cave where he would possibly get murdered by a random serial killer he would do it. If you ask him to simply look over a ledge when he's extremely high in the air, however, he would most likely breathe in heavily and pray for his life.

"Why did I forget this happened in the show." Ryce whispered to himself in agony as he was now on the cliffs that overlooked Emerald Forest. Funny enough during his time in the White Fang he has been in many situations where he has been up high before and had to jump. Usually they involve running from Grimm so he is too distracted by them than the heights but now… now Ryce was just panicking.

Trying to calm himself down Ryce looked over to the Emerald Forest where he could see the luscious green trees, the lovely blue sky, the clouds that roam through the air, and his death from falling off.

"Dude are you okay?" Ryce could hear from his left. Ike was there giving him a look of mild concern while waiting for Headmaster Ozpin to finish his speech about the initiation.

"Yeah, I'm alright. Just panicking a little from the height."

"Dude, you been through worse situations before and you panic from this?"

"You don't understand!" Ryce said a little too loudly causing Ozpin to stop and everyone looking his way at the sudden interruption.

"Uhhhh, don't mind me just talking to myself." Ryce said rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yes, quite, please try to keep silent." Ozpin said and continued on with his speech while Ryce was silently cursing at himself and Ike and Ike trying to hold back a laugh.

"What?!" Ryce heard snapping him back to the current situation where he could see Ruby looking devastated from whatever Ozpin said. If he remembered correctly it was about teams.

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest." Ozpin continued and Ryce deciding to think about how he was going to get down from the end of the forest without dying… or look completely like a loser.

"Are there any questions?" Ryce heard Ozpin say next quickly.

'Gosh did I really blank out for that long?'

"Yeah, um, sir-"

"Good, now take your position." Ozpin said cutting off Jaune from his questions.

"You had a question Jaune? I could try to answer them for you?" Ryce asked Jaune as he was to the right of Jaune. And to the right of Ryce is Ike followed by Rosa and Jarred. Ryce thought it was a miracle that Ike and Jarred weren't next to each other or they might of argued and threaten each other throughout Ozpin's speech.

"Thanks Ryce but can you tell me what exactly is this landing strategy thing." Jaune said nervously.

"Well seeing at what the other students are doing…" Pausing momentarily so Jaune could look at the other students that were currently being catapulted through the air.

"I'm guessing it's how you're going to land without dying." Ryce said giving a bright smile to finish it off.

Now Jaune looked even more nervous than before as he took another glance to the students launching.

"Um, did you perhaps get a para-"

"Nope, no parachutes. Just you and whatever plan you have for not dying on impact." Ryce said cutting off Jaune from his question.

"Uhh do you have any tips I could use for my landing strateGYYYYY!" Jaune yelled as it was his turn to be launched.

Ryce just turned to Ike and gave a little shrug before he too was launched through the air after the rest of them.

'Okay, don't panic just think, just think, just think, what can I do to TREE!' Ryce yelled internally as he suddenly see a tree a few feet away from him.j

Ryce quickly drew his sword and stabbed the tree using his momentum to swing around the tree and more slowly downwards until he got near the ground where he pull Drarer out of the tree and kicked off it and rolled when he got near the ground.

After landing he looked backed on the tree where he could see the mark that he left on the blade spiraling down like a smoke from a down plane would look like.

"Well now… where's north again?"

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Ike Blaze P.O.V

After Ryce had launched after Jaune, giving him a little shrug due to Jaunes predicament, it was now Ike's turn and after successfully landing, ignoring a few birds he accidentally killed on the way, he was now heading north to where they would get the relic was and was jogging along the way dealing with a few Grimm here or there.

During his time where he wasn't fighting Grimm Ike was thinking.

Thinking about what will happen in the future. Will it be the same as the events on the T.V Show? What would happen if Ryce and him where to interfere with the current events. Would it be for the better or worse?

While Ike was contemplating the Butterfly effect a Ursa launched passed his face and into the tree next to him knocking it down along with a couple of others that was near it as well.

After a few seconds at starring where the Grimm landed Ike looked to where the Ursa was launched from and from the bushes he could hear grunts.

'Oh gosh is it Yang? Maybe it's Nora after all only those two would have the strength to do this. But if they see me than I could say goodbye to team JNPR or RWBY I should quickly hide befo-' Ike was thinking before he gave a scowl and cursed under his breath at who came out of the bushes.

It was Jarred.

Out of all the people Ike could be paired up with it had to be with HIM.

Jarred looked at where Ike was and the two proceeded into a staring contest until Jarred started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Ike asked as Jarred was laughing.

Jarred continued laughing and then stopped and what Jarred response was put Ike's head immediately into combat alert.

"It's because no one can see you die."

Ike immediately pulled out his swords Ash and Ice but and managed to dodge one of Jarred's attacks that was heading towards his head.

He rolled out away from Jarred and quickly got his composure again and when Jarred went for the attack again Ike slashed upwards creating a blanket of fire that would of prevented Jarred from going through but to Ike's surprise Jarred emerged from the blanket of fire and grabbed Ike's head slamming it towards the ground.

Ike could feel his aura lessen from the attack but he quickly stabbed with Ice towards Jarred making him jump back.

As Ike was getting up again he could see jarred giving a smug look to Ike.

'I'll make that bastard pay.' Ike thought internally before he charged in.

Ike thrust his Ash and Ice towards Jarred's chest and as Jarred was stepping to the side to dodge his attack Ike quickly stopped his attack and slashed towards Jarred. The feint caught Jarred off guard but he managed to quickly raise his hands to block Ike's attack launching him away from Ike and skidded away but was still on his feet with his arms singed with fire and frosted due to the ice.

As Jarred lowered down his arms he still had that smug look on his face that pissed off Ike.

"Is that all you have? No wonder your number two to Ryce." Jarred said causing Ike to pause momentarily.

"Always number two to him. Roman, Cinder, and even Adam thinks that he's superior than you in everything. Always the second player in the shadow of the first."

"Shut up..." Ike muttered silently.

"What was that? I couldn't hear."

"I said..." Ike said gritting his teeth together.

"SHUT UP!" He yelled activating his semblance and went straight towards Jarred slashing with Ice and Ash which were now activated with flames coming out of Ash and the mist of frost coming from Ice.

Jarred blocked some of his slashes and jumped back to gain some distance between him and Ike but Ike sent a projectile of Ice towards Jarred and before Jarred could dodge half of his body was covered in ice preventing him from moving.

Ike took this opportunity to stab down on the ground both Ice and Ash launching both elements towards Jarred who stood there trying to get out and when it reached him it caused a massive explosion knocking Ike away from where he was standing.

Coughing, Ike stood back up to see where Jarred was once was and he could see Jarred on the ground his shirt torn, hair messed up, and pants ripped at some places.

Ike stayed silent looking at Jarred's body when Jarred started to get back up again. Ike was surprised that he could easily get back up again after his attack but he didn't show it on his face.

As Jarred was once again standing on his feet he looked up towards Ike who was looking down at him from the small crater he made.

"So you do have some bite to you." Jarred said scowling at the state he was in when he looked down at himself.

"I'll show you some bite." Ike said igniting Ash and activating Ice but before he could go down and fight Jarred again, Ike heard a gun shot and then saw the ground in front of him flick up some stones indicating that someone shot the ground in front of him.

As he looked up from where he was he could see the person who fired the shot was Ryce accompanied with Rosa.

Ryce Savel POV

Ryce certainly didn't expect this. What he expected was to find Rosa first, which he luckily did, and then find Ike before Jarred so he could at least prevent them from killing each other. But what Ryce was seeing in front of him it was probably already too late for that.

After Ryce managed to find Rosa, officially making her his partner, he heard a large explosion and birds flying from where the sound came from and Ryce went towards up hoping that it was Ike fighting some Grimm with some semblance. He was half right on that.

So when he stumbled upon the scene of Ike with both of his swords activated, semblance activated, and Jarred inside a small crater Ryce had to stop Ike before it got too bad and fired a shot from Drarer in front of Ike which luckily stopped him.

The problem now was that Ike was now glaring at Ryce and Jarred was getting back out of the crater so Ryce decided to try and ease the tension.

"So Ike I know you hate the guy but I'm pretty sure you can't just kill him right now, I mean don't you think that Ozpin knows about this?"

Ike winced at this before clicking his tongue and putting his weapons away and walked past Ryce and stood behind him.

"Are you okay Ike?" Ryce could hear Rosa ask Ike as they were watching Jarred get out of the crater.

"I'm fine." Were the only things Ike said and before Rosa could ask for me Ryce put his hand in front of Rosa's face indicating for her to don't ask him.

'I'll have to talk with him personally later.' Ryce thought before Jarred finally got out the crater his clothes worse for wear.

"Great now we have all of team uhhh..." Ryce paused trying to think of the team name.

"Team... something is all here we could get to where the relics are!" Ryce said before turning to Jarred and giving him a hard glare.

"And Jarred I'm pretty sure that SHE wouldn't very much appreciate what you did." Ryce said causing Jarred to growl and looked like he was about to kill Ryce right then and there but Ryce knew that for some reason Jarred wouldn't go against Cinder.

"Uh guys." Rosa said looking around with a worried look on her face.

"What is it Rosa?" Ryce said looking at the girl that was glancing left and right.

"I think we might have-" Rosa began to say but was cut off when a growl came from the bushes.

Everyone drew there weapons and got into a combat stance looking towards the source of the sound.

"Caught the Grimm attention." Rosa finished.

"Well it's just a few Grimm it's not like they have an entire army." Ryce said.

Then they could hear growls behind them, to the left and to the right and emerging from them were the red eyes of the Beowolf surrounding them from all sides.

"You just had to open your mouth don't you." Rosa said glaring at Ryce.

"Not my fault!" Ryce retorted but knew it was useless when Ike was looking at him.

"So anyone have a plan?" Ike said after glancing away from Ryce who was now muttering to himself that this was a coincidence.

"I have one, kill them all." Jarred said looking excited at the fact that he could now kill something without Ryce holding him back.

"Umm, with the amount of negativity that you two had during your match I'm voting no." Ryce said getting a nod from Rosa.

"Agreed, run?" Rosa asked.

"Run." Ryce confirmed and with that the group ran north towards where the relics were at.

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Beacon Cliff

"Our last pair has been formed sir." Glynda said walking up towards Ozpin with a pad showing video of the initiates. "Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren. Poor boy. I can't possibly imagine those two to get along."

"Still, he's probably better off than Ms. Nikos."

"Hmm..." Ozpin responded sounding mildly interested.

"I don't care what his transcripts say, that Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat." Glynda said before walking back towards the direction of the school.

"I guess only time will tell. Professor Ozpin?" Glynda asked heading back to Ozpin and looking at what he was watching. On one side of the screen it was Ruby Rose with Weiss Schnee and the other it was a fight between two students. Ike and Jarred if she remembered.

"Ah, yes, that incident."Glynda said readjusting her glasses.

"We will be questioning them what caused that when they come back and than give the appropriate punishment to them. We're lucky that Savel managed to come on time and stop before things got even worse." Glynda finished looking at the screen which was showing the scene that she was just talking about.

"Hmmm... quite, Glynda do you think you could let it go just this once?" Ozpin requested to his colleague.

Glynda was flabbergasted at this. "But Ozpin those two were in direct conflict with each other during the initiation and could of easily put the lives of other students in danger and themselves if they would have continued their fight."

"Yes, that may be true. But I do believe that there is more to the group that meets the eye." Ozpin said taking a sip from his mug and then started walking towards Beacon.

"Come now Glynda, we must prepare for the team names." Ozpin said.

"Ozpin you better not make any silly names like last year!" Glynda yelled back before sighing and following him.

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Relic Location

"Blake did you hear that? What should we do?" Yang asked her newest partner Blake and turned to her seeing that she was pointing up she looked up and saw her little sister falling from the sky.

"Heads up!" Ruby screamed flailing her arms as she was plummeting towards the ground but was instead got caught by Jaune as he suddenly appeared in the sky and the two landed in a tree.

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked looking to where the two has landed.

"I-" Yang was about to begin before a growl interrupted her and in front of her and Ursa came from the forest arms flailing and could hear a shout and a explosion collapsing the Ursa leaving only a boy and a girl behind it.

"Ahh, it's broken. The girl said on the Grimm.

"Nora?" The boy called.

"Please... don't ever do that again." He asked before noting that she was gone and was already at the relics singing "I'm queen of the castle!"

"Nora!" He yelled out.

"Hehehe, coming Ren!" Nora responded and went back towards Ren.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked

"I-" Yang said and was once again interrupted but this time it was the champion Pyrrha running away from a Deathstalker, dodging the attacks from its claws.

"Jaune!" She yelled out.

"Pyrrha? Ruby?" Jaune asked but was ignored by Ruby

"Ruby?" Yang asked

"Yang!"

"NORA!" Nora said interrupting the two sisters.

"Did she just run all the way over here with a Deathstalker on her tail?"

At this point Yang was starting to get mad at the sudden interruptions and the craziness around her.

"Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens!" She yelled

Everyone just stand there silently and after two seconds Ruby looked up.

"Umm... Yang?" She asked with Yang giving a giant sigh and when they all looked up they could see Weiss still hanging on the Nevemore with her life.

"You left her up there Ruby?"

"What? I said jump?"

"Umm... guys shes going to fall." Blake added in.

"It's fine."

"She's falling." Ren added.

As the group was looking the the heiress fall from the sky Jaune, who was still stuck in the tree, manage to catch her before she ended up hitting the ground. Sadly for Jaune he forgot something called gravity existed and fell with Weiss. Jaune landing first and Weiss landing on top of him.

"My hero." She said sarcastically with Jaune groaning in pain.

Soon after that Pyrrha was smacked by the Deathstalker towards the group and landed face first in front of them.

"Cool, now that we're all here we can die together. Unless any unexpected guest turn up again."

And right on cue they could hear gun fire coming from the forest and yells and out emerged four people. It was Ryce and his group.

"I found it!" Ryce yelled while he kept on firing.

"Shut up and keep firing." Rosa yelled as she decapitated a Beowolf head before getting knocked back another one and was sent flying through the air but luckily she managed to get her balance and landed on her feet as she met up with the everyone that was here.

"What did I miss?" She asked looking at Yang.

"Oh the usual. My sister and her partner falling from a Nevermore that we have to deal with now, Nora and Ren overthere hitching a ride on a Ursa who's dead now, and Pyrrha landing face first after getting smacked across over here by that Deathstalker over there." Yang finished.

"So the usual?" Rosa asked with a smile at Yang before glancing at the Deathstalker that was luckily not attacking yet.

"Yep." Yang said with a smile

Rosa looked at the rest of the group with a warm smile before giving a sneer at Blake when she noticed her. Blake just looked away and down.

"Sooo... you two know each other?" Yang askedj

"Yeah, you could say that." Rosa responded before turning away from them and went back towards Ryce and his group who just arrived managing to keep the Beowolfs back and now they were with the Deatlhstalker waiting.

"Umm... Blake?"

"Don't want to talk about it." She responded.

Yang looked over to Ren who just gave a shrug. Luckily the awkward silence didn't happen that long as Nora shouted

"Oh Ren! Look how many Beowolfs there are! We could kill them all and sell their fur! We'll make millions!"

"Nora I don't think we can." Ren simpily responded and looked the hoard.

There appears to be about thirty Beowolfs, one Nevermore, and one Deathstalker.

"But we do have to deal with that."

"Great." Yang said.

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Beacon Auditorium

Ryce Savels POV

How did they get out of that situation, Ryce didn't know. Luckily history didn't change and Ruby and her team dealt with the Nevermore, Jaune and his team dealt with the Deathstalker with some help with Ryce and his friends as they were helping each other on the bridge fighting the Deathstalker and the Beowolfs and now Ozpin was just announcing the new teams and just finished calling Ruby's team and now they were going to be called next.

"Ryce Savel, Ike Blaze, Jarred Flix, and Rosa Red. The four of you have successfully got the black pawns pieces. From this day forward on your team name will be team RIJR (Rejurn) led by Ryce Savel." Ozpin finished with the audience clapping at the announcement that Ozpin made like each and every other team. Ryce looked nervous at his announcement as team leader and Rosa was patting him on his shoulder giving him his congratulations and Ike just gave a shrug and a smile. Jarred looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here.

After their announcement they went back to their seats with Ozpin giving only a few small words before they left towards their dormitory so they could pack up but during this Ike whispered to Ryce

"Why did you want us to pick the pawn pieces?"

"Well it's simple, one because the pawn is the most simplistic piece on the board!" Ryce said with Ike rolling his eyes.

It was then that Ozpin just finished and dismissed everyone and when they were all getting up Ryce got Ikes attention.

"Also I find the pawn pieces quite similar to us right now."

"Why is that?"

"Because after all we're pawns ourselves."

A.N: Yay done with this chapter after being dead for a long time. *cough cough toomuchoverwatchwithfriends cough cough* Sorry if this was a little to fast paced for you. Since you all know what is going to happen here and I couldn't see anything I could do to change things but hey! Butterfly effect and you know that things are going to HAVE to change. I mean if I didn't wouldn't this be a boring fanfic huh? Also the upcoming chapters will be me trying to develop their characters more along with them having to deal with the plot because no one likes a bland character *cough cough mine cough cough* So anyway thanks for reading this gosh awful fanfic because we all know there are better ones out there (Professor Arc, pity it just ended.) but I thank you for reading this one! So leave me a review, P.M me, give me constructive criticism (everyone knows I need them), or just simply talk to me. Up to you. But until till next time! See ya! (Hopefully not in September or later... yell at me if I do. Also shout out to W1ll3r for always checking up on me that I can get my lazy butt here instead of someplace else to write this! YAY for 4000 word cap again!