Chapter 21 The Beginning All Over Again

Italics-Thoughts

Bold-Flashback/Dream

Saxon Armonia was deep in the Whitefall forest...not exactly how he planned to spend the second to last day of his break off of school but he needed to do this. It was chilly out and Saxon was thankful that Ruby had forced him to wear the white hooded cloak he'd bought in Snowfall on their date. Saxon was surprised there was still a road this deep into the forest, after all there was only one house this far out.

Saxon felt a mixture of fear and anxiety as it came into view, his old house. It's was a modest two story house that any family of three would've been proud to live in. Was. Now Saxon's childhood home was in shambles. The roof looked ready to cave in, the garage door looked like someone had driven their car straight into it, the previously clean dark blue panels of the house were now blackened and dirty.

Saxon stayed low to the ground as he approached, he hopped the previously white, now mostly destroyed picket fence and circled around to the back of the house. Saxon scanned the back wall and saw what he was looking for. The window to his old room. Saxon activated his semblance and jumped onto the window and grabbed the ledge. He tried to push it open but unfortunately it was locked.

Saxon had planned for this fortunately and reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a small thin pocket knife. This house is so old that thankfully we never installed electronic locks, Saxon thought as he pried the lock open with the knife. After slipping the knife back into his vest pocket, he climbed inside.

Saxon felt memories flood back as he gazed around his old room but unfortunately...it was empty, everything he'd once owned was gone. Why am I not surprised, Saxon thought bitterly, She doesn't care about me. Just where her next drink is coming from. Saxon quietly creeped across the floor and stood in the spot where his bed previously was.

Saxon dropped into a crouch and felt around on the hardwood floor until he found it. The loose floorboard. Saxon smiled as pulled it up and found the small compartment he and his dad had made for him when he was nine. Saxon slowly pulled out the accidently left behind contents of the compartment, a thick leather bound book and a black and gold necklace with a cross on it. Saxon looked at the cross fondly as memories flooded back to him of his father rubbing the cross anytime he was about to leave on a mission and having him rub on it anytime Saxon was nervous or afraid.

Saxon replaced the floorboard and took off his cloak only long enough to slip the necklace over his head and under his hoodie before replacing it. Securing the book in his left hand and drawing up both of his hoods he vaulted out of the window and shut it behind him before landing securely on the ground. Like a shadow in the night, Saxon thought as he walked away, back to Snowfall. Then home, to Beacon.

/~/

Ruby slammed a binder down on the table where teams RWBY, JNPR, three quarters of SMCD and Leo were eating, "Sisters...friends...friends of my boyfriend...Weiss.

"Hey," Weiss protested.

"Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream," Ruby announced.

"This outta be good," Yang and Jace commented as Yang caught a berry thrown by Nora in her mouth.

Ruby continued regardless of their comments, "A dream that one day, all of us will come together, and have the most fun anyone has ever had... ever!"

Weiss examined the spine of the binder closely, "Did you steal my binder?"

Ruby made two peace signs and leaned forward, "I am not a crook."

"What are you talking about," Blake questioned.

Ruby pointed at Blake dramatically, "I'm talking about kicking off the semester with a bang!"

Yang smiled as she saw her opportunity, "I always kick my semesters off with a Yang! Eh? Guys? Am I right?"

Yang glared at Desmond after his apple nailed Yang in the face and Nora booed her awful pun.

"I'm worried about Saxon," Miles commented.

"Dude, why," Leo asked.

"He said he would be gone for two days," Miles said.

"So," Jace asked.

"He's been gone for four!"

"Dude chill out, Saxon's a big boy he can take care of himself," Desmond said, "Imagine how Ruby feels man, yet here she is trying to force us into her crazy shenanigans."

Ruby's smile faded slightly as she continued, "Look guys, it's been a good two weeks and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year, our second semester is going to be great! But, classes start back up tomorrow! Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."

As Ruby finished her thoughts wandered to her boyfriend, Please be okay Saxon, please be safe.

"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store," Weiss said as Jace wrapped an arm around her

"A little bit of both," Miles said as he ate a piece of pie.

Yang still glaring at Desmond and Nora threw an apple across the room and an unfamiliar voice shouted in protest.

"I don't know. I think I might sit this one out," Blake said.

"Blake stop bein all Blakey, we're going to do this and we will have insane amounts of fun," Leo said as Blake then punched him in the shoulder while giving her boyfriend a small smile.

"Sit out or not, I think that however we spend this last day, we should do it together," Weiss proclaimed.

Nora had a wicked smile on her face as she shouted, "I got it!"

Weiss, now standing up continued, "I for one think that-"

Everyone looked at the pie now on Weiss's face and at Nora who was pointing at Ren.

"Nora that was my pie," Miles complained.

/~/

Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias walked along the side of the cafeteria as Sun retold the events of the battle at the docks with Roman and the White Fang.

"Man, that's harsh," Neptune commented as Sun finished.

"I know, we were fighting side by side. She was super fast and I threw a banana at the guy, which sounds gross, but it was awesome," Sun relayed excitedly.

"Nice," Neptune said giving a confident smile.

Sun continued excitedly, "Right? And the best part is, she's a Faunus. But that's a secret, okay?"

Neptune gave another winning smile, "Got it."

Sun leaned in close, "And not a, "I'm gonna go tell Scarlet the second Sun turns his back secret," I'm talking secret secret."

"Whoa, chill out, man, okay? I got it," Neptune said then almost whispered, "I got it!"

"You better. I just don't want to screw this up, you know? The people here are the coolest! No offense to you guys," Sun said defending himself.

"None taken."

"Oh I forgot to tell ya that there's this other team and it's four guys and two of them got in here a year early," Sun said.

"That's cool," Neptune said as they walked.

"Yeah their leader is this dude named Saxon Armonia I think and he's got these two awesome swords and he totally beat down Torchwick."

Neptune stopped in his tracks, "Saxon's here?"

"Yeah, you know him?"

"Yeah, our dad's were friends and he and Saxon would come visit us all the time," Neptune said before his face was filled with slight sadness, "But his dad died so I honestly haven't seen him since I was eleven, but we've kept in touch."

"Well that's cool, you'll get to see him again soon," Sun said.

The two friends approached a massive set of double doors and Sun looked at his blue haired friend, "They're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them. So be cool, okay? You're gonna be cool, right?"

"Dude," Neptune said as he crossed his arms and gave a smile.

"Good point," Sun said.

As the pair entered the cafeteria they witnessed what appeared to be total cuisine carnage.

/~/

JNPR, Miles and Desmond had made a castle of tables where their team stood prepared for the battle they were about to face.

"Ahahahaha!" Nora laughed with her hands on her hips. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She sang with delight as she stood at the top of the makeshift castle.

Ruby stomped her foot in rebellion and pointed at the supposed queen, "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" she stated crushed her milk carton. "It will be delicious!" She yelled.

The remaining members of RWBY, Jace and Leo all raised their hands in agreement as they shouted, "Yeah," in unison.

"Off with their heads!" Nora commanded menacingly as she dropped from her perch to the ammo stock of watermelon below.

Nora's army charged forward and started launching watermelons towards their opponents.

"Yang! Turkeys," Ruby shouted at her sister.

Yang, taking the hint, ran forward and slid two turkeys over her fists lol boxing gloves and punched the incoming watermelons out of the air, along with Jace who was kicking and kneeing the fruit back towards his enemies and Leo who was slashing the fruit out of the air with a baguette.

Blake charged into battle with two baguettes as her weapons and joined Leo in slashing the fruit out of the air. While the two faunus defended themselves, Yang had flung both her turkey gloves towards Jaune and Pyrrha, the last of which dodged and left Jaune to take both turkeys and incapacitate him.

The pair tried to take advantage of this and attacked Pyrrha together, but we're held off as she grabbed bread of her own. The pair of felines were quickly pushed down where Leo took a baguette in the chest from Pyrrha by defending Blake.

Jace was knocked back into his brother by Ren, who was clearly more experienced in hand to hand combat. Ruby, grabbing a lunch tray proceeded to table surf through the carnage, deflecting another bread missile and making an expert jump off the table and onto Pyrrha staggering her and knocking her to the floor.

Ren and Nora retaliate charging the young leader, who had a secret weapon hidden behind her. Ruby flips backwards revealing Weiss, armed with a ketchup bottle. Weiss slams the bottle down creating a red slick and tripping Ren in the process.

Nora, not falling for Weiss's tricks, jumped into the air, grabbed a metal pole and sticking it into a watermelon making a hammer. She swung for Weiss but Ruby shielded her partner and took the blow instead, sending her back.

Weiss evaded and armed herself with a swordfish to take on Nora. With a powerful charging thrust Weiss sent Nora backwards. Nora quickly leapt back into action blocking Weiss' strikes before slamming her hammer into the heiress and sending her into a pillar, breaking it. Desmond who was throwing soda cans from the back was thrown back into the wall when Nora got too excited and attacked him on accident.

Ruby quickly caught her partner and moved her out of the way of the collapsing architecture. Weiss lay limp in her arms friend's arms,defeated.

"Weiss. Weiss! Don't leave me!" Ruby cries, "NOOOOO!" She shouts dramatically as Yang leaps over her and into action. She had once again armed herself with turkey and made a beeline straight for Ren.

Ren grabbed a pair of leeks and charged forward to meet her. At first he blocked her punches but Yang quickly turns the tide and begins landing critical strikes on him sending him airborne. With his new vantage point he throws the leeks in an attempt to hit the blonde brawler. Yang dodges with a powerful jump and reached Ren's altitude. Ren takes a powerful downward hit and is sent crashing into the tables below.

Nora came at Yang with a vengeance as Yang tries to evade her swings and aims a punch towards Nora's head but is a few seconds too slow as Nora's strike sends her through the roof. Blake leaped backwards from the debris and swung a chain of sausage sending Nora into the soda machines, Nora retaliated by throwing soda cans, from the now unusable machine, forcing Blake to dodge them.

Pyrrha, who wanted to end this, activated her polarity semblance and sent a massive wave of soda cans towards Blake, which met their mark and threw her back into the wall, exploding all the while.

Ruby looked at her fallen partners in food crime, friends, team, best friends of her boyfriend. She then glared at JNPR, Desmond and Miles, the people who had defeated her army. This deed will not go unpunished, Ruby swore as she began to run.

As she ran object began following her as she went into the folds of her cape and became a little red torpedo with a trail of rose petals following her, she that blew past her opponents and stopped against the wall, cracking it.

The storm of objects that had followed Ruby caught up to JNPR and allies and sent them flying against the cracked wall as everything began to pelt them turning them and the wall into a rainbow colored mess. The previously winning JNPR and allies fell off the wall in defeat as Jace smiled.

"Saxon, you don't know how lucky you are," Jace said while standing up.

Sun, who had been watching the entire fight, had a smile plastered on his face as he looked at his blue haired friend, "I love these guys."

Neptune glared at Sun clearly displeased at the fact that most of his torso and face was covered in grape soda and jumped back slightly as the doors slammed open and Professor Goodwitch marched into the room growling slightly. With a flick of her riding crop her telekinesis reorganized the entire room. "Children, please," she adjusted her glasses slightly as she glared at her students, "Don't play with your food."

The eleven student composed themselves but fell to pieces when Nora let out a massive burp and Yang fell through the ceiling and landed onto one of the tables behind them. As the students laughed Goodwitch grumbled but stopped when hand was set on her shoulder.

"Let it go," Ozpin said.

Goodwitch sighed before replying, "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world."

"And they will be, but right now they're still children. So why not let them play the part," Ozpin asked as he began to walk away, "After all, it isn't a role they'll get to have forever."

The students continued to mess around and Neptune stepped back as an apple came his way.

"Sorry," Desmond shouted as Neptune raised a hand to catch it but was cut off when a hand snatched the apple out of the air.

/~/

"I was only gone for four days and you guys destroyed the cafeteria without me? Rude," Saxon said as he bit into the apple he had just snatched out of the air.

Saxon felt himself go down as a certain redhead crashed into him and he fell backwards.

"You're back," Ruby said happily as she pinned Saxon to the ground.

"Yeah Rose I'm back," Saxon said happily.

"Sax?"

Saxon looked up and met dark blue eyes and a cyan undercut which was kinda hard to see through the grape soda staining his hair, "Nep?"

Neptune smiled forgetting his clothes and hair, "Saxon!"

Saxon looked up at his old friend from the ground as Ruby was still straddling his waist but smiled back, "Neptune, I didn't recognize you without the dyed black hair man."

The group watched as Saxon and Neptune chatted, Saxon from a more enjoyable position.

/~/

Saxon smiled as he stepped out of the shower and quickly slipped into his pajamas and talked to himself as he set things up throughout his room, "Okay I have Ruby's favorite cookies, I have strawberries, I have milk for her and soda for me, I have my pajamas, I had the guys head to Vale for a few hours so I am golden."

Saxon stepped outside his room and knocked on the door of team RWBY's room and gave Ruby a small smile when she opened the door, "Is everything ready?"

Saxon smiled as he made a held his arm out towards his room, "Everything is set."

Ruby practically skipped into SMCD's room and leaped onto Saxon's bed, getting comfortable in his covers.

"Little too comfy," Saxon asked jokingly as he went to their mini-fridge a pulled out a small bag of cookies that Ruby tried to grab at like a little kid.

Saxon couldn't handle the cute look on her face and gave them all to her to which she celebrated slightly and scooted against the wall and patted the spot next to her, "Come on, find us something to watch...and by watch I mean cuddle and make out to."

Saxon rolled his eyes and laid in bed, instantly feeling Ruby latch onto his side.

"I'm sorry I missed our date into Vale yesterday," Saxon said as Ruby played with his hands.

"It's okay Saxon, there was nothing you could have done about it," Ruby said as she rubbed his newest tattoo on the top of his left forearm, "This one is my favorite."

"I'm surprised you like them at all," Saxon said.

"I love them, they show character and stuff," Ruby said as she used Saxon's shoulder as a pillow.

"Your dad won't be too happy about them," Saxon said as he held Ruby's hand.

"Guess you'll just have to not take off your hoodie," Ruby said.

"I need to buy a new one seeing as how I'm one down," Saxon said as he pulled up the hood of his hoodie that Ruby had stolen and had been wearing to bed.

Ruby pulled to hood down off her head and smiled, "So who was that blue haired guy from today?"

"That was Neptune Vasilias, our dad's were good friends and at least once a month me and dad would go visit them in Mistral but after he died, I couldn't go," Saxon said only half paying attention to the movie they were watching.

Ruby hugged Saxon and frowned, "I'm sorry."

"We've always stayed in touch thankfully, but enough about that nerd, tonight it's just you and me and tomorrow...ugh."

"School."

Saxon smiled before kissing Ruby deeply and felt his body come to life as he felt Ruby under his hands, after he pulled away he smiled again, "You taste like cookies."

Ruby smiled back at Saxon, "So do you."

The couple laughed as they settled in and watched their movie, dreading tomorrow.

AN: Hello guys it's me and I am back with the newest chapter and I have some announcements...GET ON THE HYPE TRAIN EVERYONE BECAUSE VOLUME THREE DROPS ON OCTOBER 24...which is also my birthday. Onward, I've been kicking around the idea of doing an AU story but with my OCs in it. I know that's not really common which is why I'm asking you, my readers if you'd be interested in that, C'mon guys if I've ever needed your feedback it's now. Leave it in a review, private message me, whatever you're comfortable with. Make sure you new readers follow and favorite so you can stay up to date on the story and leave a review telling me what you think of the AU idea and this chapter, stay cool everyone.