I do not own RWBY or Hitman Reborn. They are owned by Rooster Teeth and Akira Amano.
Chapter 26 Initiation
"Wake up lazy bud. Its morning it morning," a hyper voice started to sing. Ren got up groggily and started to perform his morning rituals while practicing his selective hearing skill. After knowing Nora for so long he had developed the ability to listen to her but only listen when she says thing important and ignore her shenanigans. If he listened to everything he would of loss his mind years ago.
"Oh I know we can have a secret signal so we can find each other in the forest. Can you imitate a sloth," Nora asked.
"Nora," Ren said.
"Yes Ren," Nora said.
"I don't think sloths make a lot of noise," Ren said.
"That's why it's perfect," Nora said.
The two of them start to leave as they pass by Neo, Yang and Ruby. "I wonder what those two are so worked up about," Ruby said.
"Who knows anyway you seem awfully chipper this morning," Yang said.
"Yep no more awkward small talk or getting to know you stuff. Now I just let my sweetheart do the talking," Ruby said.
'I wish she was referring to me,' Neo thought.
"You know Ruby you are not the only one going through initiation and if you want to grow up you are going to have to meet new people and learn how to work together," Yang said.
"Ugh you sound like dad. Remember what mom said you don't need to know a lot of people just the ones you can trust," Ruby said. "Besides I don't need people to help me grow up. I drink milk"
"She's right Yang," Neo said. "Even if she should get to know a few more people it is better to have a few friends you can trust then a great many that just want to use you for their benefit, and Ruby she meant in a mental sense not physical."
"Yeah I guess you're right," Yang said.
"Oh come on," Jaune said passing the trio. "There is no way I put my stuff in locker 636 yesterday. I would have remembered counting that high.
"Jaune over her," Pyrrha said. "Your locker is right next to mine."
"Oh thanks Pyrrha," Jaune said.
"Do you really have to look so pathetic," Emerald said. "It's embarrassing." The three of them were about to leave when they noticed Weiss running over to the other Vongola.
"So what is the plan in the forest," Weiss asked.
"Without any knowledge of how teams are selected we will just have to play it by ear and not use our flames unless we have to," Ruby answered. Weiss nods her head and the group of seven leave to the cliff.
"Well things are getting interesting," Fon said. "So what is our plan?"
"We will try to become partners and then team up with one of the guardian pairs," Reborn answered. Fon nodded his head and they went to join the others at the cliff.
When all of them got to the cliff they were instructed to stand on a series of platforms laid out in front of them. When they were all on it Ozpin started to speak, "for years you have trained to be warriors and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald forest."
Glynda then continued from her place on Ozpin's shoulder, "Now I am sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates today."
"The teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well with. That being said the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years," Ozpin said as he waited for the amusing fallout that happens every year.
"What," Ruby yells. How can they insure they are together if it is decided through something random like that?
"Ha I like this guy style," Reborn said. "He knows how to inspire chaos."
"You would," said Fon.
"After you have partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path or you will die.
"Did you leave any children behind before we were frozen," Fon asked. That sounded like something Reborn would say.
"Not that I am aware of," Reborn said.
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose 1 and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item as well as your standing and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" Jaune was about to speak but he interrupted saying "good now take your positions." Glynda then typed an instruction on her scroll and the students started to take off.
When the group reached Reborn all he could say was, "Chaos," as he flew in the air. Fon just stayed patient as he went flying in the air. Neo gave the others a bow before she was launched performing rolls in midair. Emerald drew her weapons as she was launched. Jaune pulled out his sword and deployed his shield as he prepared for take-off. (The others launched like they did in cannon and I didn't feel like describing them.)
Ozpin and Glynda watched as the students were flying in the air. "Sir I am not sure about two of our students a Reborn hitman and Fon Hibari. Something about those two make them seem more experienced than they should be and Mr. Hibari gives me a sense of familiarity even though this is the first time I have met him," Glynda said subconsciously touching the storm pacifier.
"Everything is perfectly fine Glynda in sure they are not an enemy," Ozpin replied taking a sip out of his coffee.
In the air the students were getting ready to land. Taking a page out of Xanxus book Reborn aimed his gun and used his flames from his gun to control his decent. Fon used his semblance to slow him down before he used his mastery of martial arts to bounce across the trees to make a safe landing. Neo opened her umbrella and used the air current to catch her and slow her into a slower decent before she used her semblance to teleport to the ground. Emerald activated the chains on her weapon and hooked it to an approaching tree and swung around it a few times till she slowed down and unhooked herself from it before doing a few rolls on the ground. Jaune was having an easy time subtly using gravity manipulation to slow his decent till he gently fell to the ground. "Got to love earth flames," Jaune said.
He was walking along the woods till he came across a pack of Beowolves. He drew his sword and was making short work of them till one came at him from behind till a red spear flew forward and stabbed the beowolf. Jaune looked in the direction of the spear and met the eyes of Pyrrha. "So partners," Jaune said.
"Partners," Pyrrha said.
Neo was walking through the forest looking for Ruby or Yang hoping to team up with them. As she was walking she had to jump up to avoid a series of boarbatusk spinning towards her. She deployed her umbrella and had it scoop one of them and launch it in the air as it uncoiled Neo pulled out her blade and stabbed it in the stomach. She turned around to prepare herself against the others till she saw a dragon of storm flames appear and wipe them out. "That was quite impressive miss," Fon said.
"Thank you but not as impressive as your own attack," Neo said. She then pointed her sword at him and asked, "How do you know how to use those flames?"
"All question will be answered later but for now let's finish the test," Fon said. Seeing her look of doubt he then said, "I swear on my flames that I mean you and your family no harm." Hearing that Neo decided to lower her blade and the two started to make their way north.
Emerald was scouting the area with her pistols out. She was not the strongest of fighters preferring to use tricks over physical strength to win a fight. She was walking along keeping her ears open for any attack. She suddenly heard a sound and she turned around getting ready to fire when she saw a man wearing a suit and fedora pointing a pistol at her. The two looked each other in the eyes before Emerald said, "Emerald Sustrai."
"Reborn Hitman," Reborn said. "I guess this makes us partners."
"Yep," Emerald said as the two put their guns away. Reborn was greatly annoyed Fon had decided to split themselves up when they were in the air. He used his semblance to knock Reborn off course and the two of them were separated once they entered into the trees.
The two of them started to make their way to the temple when they came across a large clearing with a Grimm sleeping on the ground. All they could see was a giant mask with no limbs or anything else. "What is that," Emerald said.
"I'm not sure," Reborn said. He had read up on the type of Grimm shortly after they were unfrozen, but he doesn't recognize this one. "Well only one way to find out." Reborn then started to shoot the creature.
"What are you doing," Emerald said drawing her weapons.
"Waking it up," Reborn said. The creature started to move around till four legs came out of the side and a head came out from the front of it. On the head was another mask and a small tail appeared that held several spikes. "Oh fuck, what is a Chelydra doing here they stay near large sources of water," Emerald said.
"I'm not sure but my shots are just pissing it off," Reborn said. Most of his bullets are barely scratching the surface of the Grimm. If he wanted to he could take it out with more powerful attack but he was curious how the others would react to it.
"We need to go now," Emerald yelled. Nodding at her suggestion the two started to run in the forest in the direction of the temple. Seeing its targets running away the turtle retuned to its shell. It then let out a powerful roar before the shell started to spin and chased after the two. "You have got to be kidding me," Emerald yelled.
The two made their way into a clearing seeing Neo and Fon enter at the same time. As they looked around the clearing they saw a mound of ice and nevermore feathers scattered around the clearing. "Hello Reborn," Fon said.
"Fon remind me to kill you later. For now just grab a piece and run," Reborn said. He ran by the pieces and grabbed a gold king piece while Fon did the same. Right when that happened the turtle burst into the clearing and looked at them with a large amount of anger. It charged at them at a slow pace. they moved out of the way of its attack and started to launch attacks at it. Most of their attacks did little damage till Neo covered her blade with lightning flames and managed to give it a decent wound on its back.
Seeing this Fon started to look around trying to come up with a plan he had seen Neo use her semblance but was not sure what Emeralds was. He ran up to her and asked, "I'm trying to figure out a plan just so I know what your semblance is?"
"I can trap people in an illusion as long as I can keep them in my sight," she answered.
"Interesting I assume the desert flames amplify this," Fon asked. Emerald might have been surprised by his knowledge of flames if not for the fact she saw both him and Reborn using flames earlier.
"Yes," Emerald said.
"Okay," Fon said. He started to think of a plan in his head but it will require everyone to work together. "Reborn keep it busy. I have a plan." Reborn looked over and saw the look of confidence in Fon's eyes and nodded his head.
He then turned to Emerald and said, "I need you to make it thinks we are somewhere else then were we are. If you can throw it off balance." Seeing her nod her head he ran over to Neo to give her instructions.
Emerald focused her semblance and enhanced it with her desert flames. She made it appear they were on the opposite side of the clearing and that the surrounding had turned into a lake. The Chelydra had tried to dive into the water only to bang its head on the ground. This caused it to look around in confusion the creature could not understand why it could not enter the water below it. It made several more attempts with very little progress.
While this was going on Reborn had charged up his chaos shot. When it was full powered he shot at the creature with the shot dividing into four shots that hit the limbs of the creature causing it to become paralyzed. With it unable to move Fon yelled, "Neo now." Neo then used her semblance to teleport above the turtle and Fon said as he focused a large amount of storm flames. "Exploding: dragon fire dance," Fon said as he launched the powerful dragon at the creature. The dragon made impact on the turtles back causing its shell to be destroyed. Unfortunately Fon had underestimated the shell defense and the attack failed to destroy the creature. Even though his attack failed to kill it Fon let out a light smile. Reborn was confused by the smile till he noticed Neo was not with him.
Appearing on the turtles destroyed shell was Neo who had covered herself with her flames to protect herself as she traveled along the tail end of Fon's attack. She focused her lightning flames on her sword and used the hardened blade to stab the Chelydra in the brain. The creature then started to dissipate and the four of them regrouped before Emerald yelled, "Okay who are you two and how can you use your flames so well."
"That is a long story that I will gladly answer once we make it back to the school and have had a moment to catch our breath," Fon said. Neo nodded her head in acceptance since she was tired as well.
"I wonder how the others are doing," Neo said.
Earlier in the air above the temple
"How the hell did you convince me to do this," Weiss screamed at Ruby. The pair had met up when Ruby ran into her while running through the forest looking for someone. They had come across a group of Beowolves but they easily took care of them before they continued to travel to the temple. As they were traveling the pair got into an argument over which direction to travel in. as they were arguing Ruby saw the nevermore resting on one of the branches and gained the idea to ride it to the temple.
"You were the one how said your feet were hurting," Ruby said. "How you can fight in high heels is beyond me." Ruby then looked down and saw the temple before she turned Weiss and said, "Looks like this is our stop come on." She then grabbed Weiss's hand and jumped off the bird. "Weiss your glyphs." Hearing this Weiss created a series of glyphs that Ruby used as stepping stones to land on the ground. She sees Yang and Blake looking at them and said, "Hey sis so is Blake your partner."
"Yeah she is, do you want to grab your relic there is another cute little pony," Yang said. Ruby nodded her head and ran over to the other knight piece. The four of them were about to leave when they saw an ursa charge into the clearing before an explosion went off and it fell over dead. Jumping off of its back was Nora Valkyrie. "Aw it's broken," she said.
Ren ran up behind her and said, "Nora do not do that again." As he was speaking Nora had ran to the pedestal and grabbed the rook piece screaming about being queen of the castle.
The four girls were about to make their greetings to the two when Jaune and Pyrrha came running into the clearing with a death stalker on their tail. Jaune and Pyrrha were avoiding the attack with ease waiting for an opening that Weiss provided by sending a wave of ice dust that froze the death stalker in its place. Looking over they both thanked Weiss before they heard a screech from the sky
"Uh oh looks like our ride is coming back," Ruby said.
"You must not have tipped well," Yang said.
"Let's just grab the relic and run this is not the best area to fight that thing," Jaune yelled. The others nodded and he ran to grab the other rook piece the eight of them then started to run to a temple by the cliffs. While they were running the death stalker broke free and gave chase. The Grimm attempted to surround them till the group divided into two groups Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang had climbed to the top of the temple to fire at the nevermore while Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren got backed into the end of a broken bridge.
Jaune was examining the death stalker and tried to come up with a plan to kill it when Ren gave him an opportunity and an idea. He had seen Ren weaken the stinger and had an idea. "Pyrrha," Jaune yelled pointing at the stinger. Pyrrha looked over and saw the stinger and nodded her head before she threw her shield cutting off the stinger and having it imbed itself into the death stalker. "Nora bring the hammer down," Jaune yelled.
Nora gave a sadistic smile as she jumped up and landed on Pyrrha's shield. She then pulled the trigger of magnhild and launched herself into the air. Unnoticed by the others she started to channel green lightning into the end of her hammer as she fires again to launch herself towards the death stalker.
Jaune then used the gravity manipulation ability of earth flames to accelerate her and increase the damage she could cause. His semblance is booster. It allowed him to boost auras capabilities of himself or others. since it could easily be missed he has his official semblance listed as gravity manipulation. This would allow him to use his earth flames that he worked into his fighting style without anyone finding out. Nora made contact with the stinger plowing the stinger clear through the death stalker but also destroying the bridge Jaune and Pyrrha ran past the dying death stalker and jumped on the land before the bridge.
Yang had jumped into the nevermore mouth and saying between each shot, "I! Hope! Your! Hungry!" she then steered the nevermore to the cliff and jumped off when the creature was about to collide with it. When she did the nevermore collided with the cliff face and Weiss came running in to use her ice dust to pin the creature to the cliff as Blake and Yang make a slingshot using the bow on Blake's weapon gambol shroud. Ruby positioned herself onto the sling shot as Weiss makes it back to the platform getting ready to fire Ruby. "Are you ready," Weiss asks.
"Yep just don't miss," Ruby said.
"I won't. I am a Schnee after all," Weiss said. She then released the glyph as Ruby fires crescent rose sending her flying towards the Grimm. When she makes contact with the nevermore's neck and uses her speed to climb the cliff surface she subtly coated her blade in sky flames. When she reached the top she pulled with all of her strength and beheaded the nevermore. When she was done she stood at the top of her cliff and gave everyone a wave.
"Now that was good," Reborn admitted. They had just made it into the clearing to see Ruby's kill.
"Yes it was," Fon said.
"That is Ruby for you," Neo said. Emerald just nodded her head at what they had seen.
The auditorium
"Russel thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark," Ozpin said with Fon resisting a laugh at hearing the last name. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces from this day forward you will work together as team CRDL (Cardinal) led by Cardin Winchester." The room applauded a group of boys wearing armor walked off the stage.
After that Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora walked onto the stage. "Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie. You retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you show be known as team JNPR (juniper) led by Jaune Arc.
"Thank you sir I won't disappoint you," Jaune said as his team congratulated him.
"I'm sure you won't," Ozpin said as JNPR left the stage.
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang walked up onstage. "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long. You collected the white knight pieces. From this day forward you shall be known as team RWBY led by Ruby Rose," Ozpin said.
"What," Ruby said.
Yang came up and hugged Ruby saying, "I am so proud of you."
"Well you are our sky," Weiss said getting a confused look from Blake.
They then left the stage as another group takes the stage. Ozpin said, "Fon Hibari, Neo Xiao long, Reborn hitman, Emerald Sustrai. You found the white king pieces. You shall now be known as team FERN (fern) led by Fon Hibari."
"Well that is a surprise," Fon said.
"Not really I'll let you lead while I work on their training regiments," Reborn said.
After the ceremony all four teams made their way to their rooms when Neo and Emerald faced their team mates and said, "Now who are you and how do you know about flames."
"Call the others and we will tell you everything at once," Reborn said.
Well there goes initiation. What did you guys think of teams FERN fight? I tried to make it realistic and not have the Arcobaleno seemed too overpowered. I only gave a slight over view of RWBY and JNPR fight because those were mainly the same as cannon with the exception that Ruby and Weiss got along better.
What did you think of Reborn and Fon's last name? They were never given one in the series so I had to make one up. Since it is confirmed that Fon and Kyoya are related I went with giving them the same last name and Reborn's was just what he created to remain true to his profession.