Chapter 16
Ozpin sighed and leaned back as he pushed away all of the paperwork on the desk. He came to an understanding with Oscar that he'll be in control of the body whenever office work was needed while Oscar would be in control the entire time.
Standing up he walked over to the window and watched the students walk in and out of Beacon. He'd issued out a warning before to all the students that in the coming days there would be another attack in a few da0079s time.
Of course he had Glynda do the announcement since no one else outside of Team RWBY knew about his revival. And regarding Team RWBY when he told them exactly what Momon said, they've been training nonstop ever since.
It was understandable but if what Qrow was saying was true then they'd need more than training. But on the other hand they were also the team with the most experience with them.
They've sent Bullheads to scout out the area where the Army was supposed to be approaching from but they haven't heard a single one respond back. And it's already been the third one they sent.
But the distance before they lost communication was getting shorter and shorter. They've even lost contact with Huntsman and villages that were supposed to be near the path that the supposed Army would've been taking.
And all of this is happening just before the Vytal Festival was cancelled. The four kingdoms unanimously agreed to change the venue of the Vytal Festival to Atlas after the Breach showed that Vale was rather vulnerable to attacks.
As much as it would've been an honour for Vale to Host the Vytal Festival, the council decided against it since they've already suffered a blow with the breach so they didn't want anything else to happen during that would degrade them even further.
He sighed and stood up and let Oscar take over.
Oscar stumbled a bit by the abrupt transfer of control as he supported himself on the desk. Standing up he went over to the side where his cane lay or Ozpin on who you asked.
He's already being asked by students why he has Ozpin's cane. And he'd simply been saying that it's a coincidence but sooner or later people would start asking questions that surely would've been blown out of proportions because of Beacon's Resident Rumour Mill.
Speak of the devil and he shall come.
The door burst open as Professor Port strode in and slapped him in the back as he lurched forward. Rubbing his back, he smiled at the Boisterous Professor.
"Hello sir, did you need something from me?"
"Me? Of course not! I simply needed Ozpin to sign this" Port presented a paper that at a glance looked well organised and neat in comparison to his normal Nature.
But he knew better than to trust everything with the first look. Taking a quick read of the Paper as he tilted his head and pulled the paper away.
"Sir…I don't think that Ozpin would agree to this though."
"Bah! It's a simple class apparatus. In fact I'll be the one getting them myself!" Port loudly proclaimed as he puffed out his chest.
"Sir, I don't think 10 cages of Live Grimm are counted as "Simple Class Apparatus" And you're talking about full grown Ursas!"
"Why it wouldn't do for the students to just simply read about them on books. Rather than reading about them they should instead learn firsthand! Why, when I was their age I could take on four Ursas by myself! Or was it five? I never do remember weak prey. Ahh that reminds me of the time that I saved an entire village from 100 Grimm-"
"That's great! In fact I'm sure Ozpin would Love to hear about that. But I really must go and practice with Team Ruby"
He rushed out of the room before Port could say anything else. Damned Beacon Rumour Mill.
Making his way past students, Oscar soon arrived in an open space where he saw Team RWBY already in training.
He watched as Ruby sped across the battlefield in a straight line to Weiss before she raised her rapier as a wall of ice jutted out from the arena. Ruby dug her scythe in the earth to slow herself down as Yang rushed past Ruby and punched the Ice wall as it broke apart.
Weiss flinched back as she watched it explode and as she opened her eyes, she found Yang already closing in. She reflexively closed her eyes and braced for impact. But it never came.
She opened her eyes just in time to watch Yang fly out of her vision screaming.
Oscar watched as Yang flew through the air with Blake's chain tied around her leg. Yang was slammed into the floor as Blake ran over before Yang stood up and tore off Blake's chain. As Blake closed in on Yang.
In another part of the Arena, Ruby darted around Weiss as she stood in the centre with her rapier prepared.
Ruby activated her semblance as she rapidly approached Weiss as Weiss erected a wall of ice in front of her before abruptly turning left and forward again. Weiss jumped back and placed a gravity glyph in Ruby's path.
Weiss activated the glyph as Ruby rocketed into the floor, not being able to adjust to the sudden increase in gravity. Weiss quickly erected ice walls around Ruby as she rushed forward and placed another Gravity Glyph inside the Ice prison but this time with the opposite effect.
Ruby yelped as she levitated up and hit the dome of ice that Weiss had created around her. She yelped again as she suddenly felt Gravity return. She rubbed her head and as she opened her eyes she met the end of Weiss's Rapier.
Weiss looked over to Blake's side to find that Yang was standing over Blake with her fist in front of Blake's face. Yang looked over at Weiss and shrugged.
"DRAW!" Both Weiss and Yang shouted out. Weiss pulled Ruby up as Ruby dusted herself off as Yang and Blake approached her.
Ruby ran forward and lunged at Yang, pulling her into a hug.
"That was amazing Yang! Did you see me fight!"
"Of course Rubes" Yang pulled Ruby close as she rubbed Ruby's head "Especially how you were flailing around in the air"
"But Weiss's ability is cheating! I can't move if I'm in the air!"
"So your rifle can't help push you through the air then?"
"Ehehe~" Ruby rubbed the back of her head.
They continued on like this for minutes as they all took their breaks.
"Hey Guys" All of team RWBY looked towards the voice to find Oscar in his battle outfit.
Oscar wore a black and white track suit with his cane resting beside him. Oscar waved at them which they returned.
"Hey, sorry I'm late. I got held up by professor Port" And surprisingly they all nodded their heads as if they understood. He felt a hand grasp his shoulder.
"No one can escape that man once he starts talking after all" Yang smiled at him as she nudged him forward.
"Since you're late, we'll be working on one on one duels before we start team training" Ruby shouted out as she ran over to Oscar.
~~3 hours later~~
The entire of team RWBY and Oscar were laying down on the Arena floor covered in dirt and sweat. All of them were panting heavily while the Arena looked worse for wear as if a war went on. Giant pillars of ice jutted out of the Arena while large craters dotted the walls and floor.
"Rubes – Maybe three hours of practice Is too much for us *Pant*" Yang spoke up barely able to support herself as she stood up using the wall as a support.
"N-Non-sense, I'm as good as ever" Ruby tried to raise a fist only for it to come crashing down on her face
"Ow, ok maybe it was too much"
"Ya think?" Yang let out a strained laugh
"Help…My body's dying already" Oscar let out a low groan
Ruby, Yang and Weiss let out a laugh and even Blake showed a smile.
"Hello? I'm still on the floor you know?"
Team RWBY laughed as they all went to the shower as Oscar continued on with his misery, and cleaned up for another day. As Oscar still laid on the ground groaning
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Yggdrasil
"How long would it be until the Army reaches Vale?" Albedo asked as she watched the army march forward, trampling anything within their paths through the Mirror of Remote Viewing.
"2 more days milady should nothing happen such as last time" A lich replied to Albedo
There were some foolish pests that tried to stop them in their path but were quickly put down without much effort. What unnerved Albedo though was their complete randomness in ability, no unity or anything almost as if it was given at random.
And from what she'd seen, all of the so called 'Huntsmen' changed their way of fighting or entirely in some cases on their Semblances. And along with their innate ability of Aura.
One second she's about to see a huntsman desperately trying to stop them about to be hit and suddenly a thin film like barrier would appear to shield them. And it seems that it doesn't only protect as they exhibit abilities similar to magic but Albedo couldn't feel any magic emanating from them.
Continuing to view the peasants and insects run for their lives through the mirror, she was surprised to see that a portion of the army stopped. Albedo maneuvered the mirror to give herself a clearer view on what was obstructing the army.
There in the middle of the battlefield was a woman with large amounts of people behind her. She was bloodied but stood there unmoving, strong, determined.
She scowled at why a pathetic insect like her would dare hinder the plans of Ainz-sama. Raising her hand to order the undead to charge the woman. She stopped when the woman did the unthinkable.
She used magic! The woman raised her blade as lances of ice formed around her and with one flick of her blade, they soared and hit their mark.
The Undead recoiled from the impact with a few of the undead dying. Albedo smiled at this. Ainz had given the explicit order of capturing anyone who exhibited powers that seemed like magic, and if they can't be swayed?
Kill them.
She ordered the undead to incapacitate the woman, but kill all of her companions. With the order done, hundreds of undead that consisted of zombies and skeletons ran into the fray as the people behind the woman charged as well.
She contacted Shalltear to open a Gate and after a moment, a swirling portal fazed into existence in front of her. Stepping into the portal, her surroundings changed into a dense forest.
She ignored the sounds of battle around her. Albedo turned to see a man rushing towards her spear in hand. She scowled and swung her hand as the man blew apart with viscera flying everywhere.
Albedo walked in a straight line towards the woman as the undead opened a path for her. At the end of the path stood the woman with her sword in her sheathe.
Albedo approached the woman and the closer and closer she got to her, she could see the woman clearer and she could see her dark black hair that was messy and with a mask that resembled the Grimm that she wore on her face.
The woman raised her sword towards her when Albedo came closer.
"Who are you?" Albedo didn't say anything but kept walking. She could feel the frustration coming from her through the mask.
The woman slashed at the ground leaving a mark on the ground.
"Cross that line and I'll have no other choice but to fight." Albedo stopped and regarded the woman.
"Who are you?"
"Isn't it polite to give your name first before asking for someone else's?"
She hated having to speak longer to that woman but gave her name.
"Albedo, Head of the Floor guardians and overseer of the great tomb of Nazarick at your service" she ended it with a curt bow.
"Raven Branwen, Leader of the Branwen tribe" With introductions done Albedo quickly went to the main point
"Where did you learn magic?" Albedo noticed how her stance shifted into a more defensive one
"W-What are you talking about?"
"I know you have magic, there's no use hiding it from me since..." Albedo held out her hand as ice gathered around her palm. The woman was in shock as her hold on her sword loosened for a moment.
"Who are you? Are you with Salem?" She glared at Albedo, but frankly it seemed like a puppy trying to look threatening to Albedo.
"That woman? As if she could do anything for us other than being fodder." Albedo looked at the woman as a devilish smile grew.
"But if you want true power then why follow that woman? We could give you riches" Images of mountains of wealth appeared on the woman's mind
"Fame" Images of hundreds of people cheering her name appeared on her mind.
"Power" She saw herself on top of everything with everything around her burning and she could hear the screams of all her enemies.
Albedo smiled as her passive charm was working on the woman. Humans are easily manipulated creatures that follow their greed and their desire. And all you had to do, was to find it.
Albedo's smile faltered when an image of a younger woman with long golden hair with golden bracers on her arms.
"Ahhhh!" The woman screamed as she charged Albedo.
"Never!" Albedo blocked her strikes easily but…it was regrettable. The last thing the woman ever saw was a sword heading for her head.
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Beacon Academy
Yang felt a shiver down her spine. She looked off into the distance. It was if something happened that…changed everything.
"Y – YA – YAANG!"
"What?" She looked beside her.
"What's wrong? You looked out of it?"
"Haha! Nothing really, just thinking" Yang flashed Ruby a smile and a thumbs up
"Mmm~ fine~ Anyway, We're bringing Oscar to the infirmary. We think the heat's getting to him, he's been screaming that we're training freaks, but six hour trainings are what they usually do right?" Ruby flashed a smile that just screamed innocence.
'Yeah, but I don't think that they do it nonstop without any breaks in between though Rubes' She looked back at Ruby and looked away at that cute face.
'Maybe Oscar just needs to toughen up right?' She winced as she looked back at the training ground with Blake and Weiss both grabbing a leg each while Oscar clawed at the ground screaming.
She looked back at the horizon.
"Hopefully it's nothing"
"What was that?"
"Nothing!" Yang grabbed Ruby and ran towards Oscar. She'll just give Oscar her apology later. But strangely Yang felt full of energy, as if she could do more than before now.
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Ainz broke away from the crowd as he pushed past the students. He's been assigned a room already, albeit he did receive some awkward looks from the students when he told them he was a student which was pretty understandable since he looked to be in his 30's or 40's .
The room was quite wide which in comparison to his old world's dorms were much smaller than this. His room had everything he needed albeit it had 4 beds but they'd told him they'll remove it soon.
There wasn't much he could do about it but it was better than sharing it with hormonal teens. He'd already had trouble with Albedo and her figure but with teens that he'll be staying with almost all the time? He'd doubt his chances of getting through the year. (With his sanity that is)
He opened the door to his dorm room and froze. He didn't remember leaving the door open though, he pulled out a small dagger that he kept in case of emergencies and scanned the room. There wasn't much to see but something caught his eye.
Walking forward, he found a piece of hair on the ground, it wouldn't have been anything suspicious if he had any hair in the first place. And he's specifically instructed the custodians here to leave his room alone.
He held his dagger in a defensive position as he-! He turned around and blocked a strike as his assailant locked blades with him.
"Who are you!" Shouldn't he be asking that question since this is his room isn't it? He broke of their engagement and sent a kick towards his assailants stomach sending them back. His assailant's hood fell of when he knocked them back.
"Emerald?" Emerald's face lit up in worry as she assumed a defensive position.
"How do you know that name?"
Ainz brought his hand to his face as his illusion and slimes dispersed to reveal his bony figure. Emerald's face brightened up when she saw his face.
"Ainz-sama! I-I'm so sorry that I attacked you! I didn't know that-" Ainz placed a hand on her shoulder as Emerald looked up at him.
"It's fine Emerald, no harm done" Emerald's face fell low as she stared at the floor. He could also hear her muttering things such as "As expected…Benevolent…God" He didn't know if that last one was something he should be scared of or not but he chose to ignore it.
"Ehem" He coughed into his hand to catch Emeralds attention "Emerald Sustrai, What is your purpose of arriving to Beacon Academy with no prior orders from me"
By the time he looked back at Emerald he saw her already prostrated on the floor with her head bowed.
"I-I escaped from Nazarick, to reach you my Lord" Again with the lord, it looks like Albedo is having more and more of an effect on Emerald than he thought.
"And does Albedo know about this?" Emerald looked away not meeting his eyes
"I guess not." He held out his hand as a GATE appeared in front of him "This GATE will bring you back to Nazaric-" He immediately closed the GATE and cast illusion magic back on himself.
The door to his dorm opened as Glynda walked through. Sorry for the rude entrance, but I'm here to give you your sched-ule… Who are you?" Emerald froze in place as he looked towards Ainz for help.
Ainz moved past Emerald and held her behind him.
"Hello Ms. Goodwitch this is my uhh"
"Daughter" Both Ainz and Goodwitch froze. Ainz slowly turned towards Emerald and saw her just as shocked by what she said.
"Uh..Yeah She's my daughter." He wrapped a hand around Emerald and gave Goodwitch a bright smile.
"I-I understand but do understand that we can't allow your child to stay here in Beacon Mr… sorry what was your last name again?" Crap! He forgot his last name. He can't say his actual name since japan doesn't even exist here and he can't use the name Ainz Oal Gown either since he's using that for his role as the Skeleton.
"I-It's Suzuki…" … he didn't know if it was good or not that the first thing that came to mind when thinking about Japan was the brand of a car. He could either give another name again and possibly draw attention to himself or let his family name forever be a car.
As he silently sulked, Glynda tilted her head and looked at him questioningly. Deciding to break the silence Ainz continued their previous topic.
"Anyway Miss Goodwitch can we return back to the topic of my uhh daughter. You see she has training and I can attest to that since I have had partially trained her you see."
"Even so Mr. Suzuki, it specifically states here that no one may stay here unless they are students and/or staff." Ainz looked at Emerald and saw her pleading eyes looking at him. He didn't know what was weirder, the fact that Emerald is pleading or that Emerald is actually fine being called his daughter.
"Then can she still enroll?" while it would be a bother for him. It would still be a good way to let her experience fighting without danger. Albeit her fights with any of the floor Guardians are more dangerous but still its beside the point.
"I'm afraid not Mr. Suzuki, you were a special case but we could have her enrolled for next semester though sir. Along with the transfer students" That sounded better actually. He had some time to prepare Emerald and it would also enforce his cover in Beacon too.
"Sounds great Miss Goodwitch" He put out his hand to which Glynda gracefully accepted. Ainz smiled and watched as Glynda left after which he turned to Emerald.
"Emerald, we'll need you to stay here for the time being. I'll be informing Albedo tonight of my plan" Ainz left the room as he passively casted DETECT LIFE and found no one around him. Except for a single signal from below? Ainz's brows furrowed as he thought of as to why Beacon had an underground facility.
Or even why someone was down there. It could either be useful to him or not. And if it wasn't? then it was simply better off gone for now. He put it aside for now as he approached a room that he genuinely feared to enter.
Grimm studies. Port was a passionate man for his career, but being too passionate does exist. And most often than not, he would also rant on about his adventures during his youth. He learned almost nothing about the Grimm during his time with this man. Well it seems everyone else knows that too. Ainz looked around the room as he watched students sleeping and some even in front of the professor and other students doing projects or homework in other classes.
While he could listen, it was better for his sanity not to. And while he was here he could also think up on magic theories while he blacks out from boredom.
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It's been two days already. Vale was in high alert and he watched as Shuttles littered the sky bringing evacuating families away from Vale.
The public wasn't told about the Death Knights and other undead, they were simply told a large Grimm Wave was approaching Vale. He felt guilty for this but…improvement required sacrifice, even if it wasn't his own.
He stood on top of the wall as he looked on to the horizon as he watched his army approach. Hundreds of other Huntsmen and Huntresses stood on the wall while even more were below.
They counted in the hundreds down below. They were divided into three teams, with him being one of the vanguard while the ones atop the wall were snipers or anyone that could attack at range and support or Huntsmen with healing abilities or anything of that sort.
While he could qualify for all of them, he was better known for his swordsmanship rather than his… well nothing really. All he's ever shown them was his swordsmanship and nothing else. He quickly approached one of the Bullheads that were preparing to descend. He boarded and soon he was on the ground with the Vanguard team.
Looking around, he found some familiar faces among the crowd. Some teams he had short interactions with during his brief stay at Beacon. There were makeshift camps around him with some teams preparing their weapons or last minute adjustments which Beacon provided themselves along with the workbenches they were working on right now.
In fact most of the supplies used here were prepared by Beacon with bullets, top of the grade armor, and First aid teams. It would cripple Beacon if they were to survive this but It would make them stronger in the long run. And even maybe unite them for once.
And so with that. He stood in front of them all with his blades brandished beside him with the sun behind his back.
Hey guys. This took a long time to put out but sorry to say that this story is going on hiatus. Not that I'm giving up on it or anything. Just a rewrite is all. You see I've noticed that I did a lot of plot points in the story that don't really matter and I don't want to give out a half assed story and be happy with it. So I'm going to be actually setting up a storyline for this and actual planning instead of whatever I've been doing.
It's been great but see ya till next time I guess. Besides it'll probably updated again after christmas