"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." Steve Jobs
The funeral was a quick affair, and Jaune knew that this was the day were he left his house to the initiation test of Beacon. He packed his bag, said goodbye to his parents, that wished him luck, and went to the bullhead without looking behind.
One thing that Jaune knew is that he was happy for bringing cards. He was in mid flight, wearing a black kimono, with a taijitu on his chest. An hour passed but the whole flight was three hours long, and he couldn't practice with anything related to fighting, and he had meditated for the hour, and he was bored. So he did the only thing that he thought of... Look for a partner to play cards. Thankfully he found a girl, and she was alone so he didn't interrupt anything. The girl wore her red hair in a waist-length ponytail, curled slightly into a loose ringlet. She also wore light-green eyeshadow around the far upper corners of her green eyes. She was tall and quite muscular compared to most of the other girls Jaune knew. As a top, she wore a brown overbust corset with a vertical strip of lighter brown in the center. Additionally, She wore an elastic, black, A-line mini skirt and brown opera-length gloves on both arms. She wore a red ankle-length sash that wrapped around her skirt.
Jaune got close. "Hello! I'm Jaune Arc nice to meet you"
"Uhm... Hello I'm Pyrrha Nikos nice to meet you too?"
"Great! Now I was wondering if you could play cards with me... I'm bored, and the travel last for two more hours..."
That took Pyrrha for surprise. He didn't seem to know her? She will take her chances.
"Sure!"
And so two hours passed while Pyrrha and Jaune played different card games - well one, the other one they talked while Jaune was playing poker, and Pyrrha uno. They talked about many non important things about their lives, families, friends, training regime, etc. And so they arrived to Beacon. Pyrrha and Jaune got separated by the crowd, and so Jaune was left alone outside the entrance, and then he saw an curious thing. A girl with fair-skinned young girl with silver eyes and neck-length black hair with red tips, wearing a black long-sleeved dress with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, over which is a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front. The skirt of her dress has red trim and red lining. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trims around the top, and red soles. He watched as the girl got herself abandoned by a yellow - brown themed girl, in the process she fell into the luggage of a white themed girl which was full of dust carried dust, and shaking it while berating the red and black girl, the red girl sneezed and the dust blew up on her face. More beratings, and a black - white themed girl, come to her rescue... Just to be abandoned by her.
When he got close to the red and black girl was on her knees defeated by bad luck with her eyes closed... Well he doesnt know her... But she seemed kind of akward over there, so maybe a friend is something she could use...
"Heya kiddo, are you alright?" Jaune said as he offered his hand
"Yeah, thanks you. My name is Ruby Rose and yours?"
"Jaune, Jaune Arc"
Time passed as Jaune and Ruby bacame friends. As they neared the entrance to the auditory, debating about the marvels of loose clothes bs armor, when an unconfortable silence manifested.
"... Uhm, so I got this thing."
And deploys her weapon, surprising Jaune who inmediately moved into a defensive stance.
"Crap. Jeez don't scare me like that"
"Sorry" Ruby said with a small voice
"Anyway. That's a scythe."
"It's also a customizable, high impact velocity sniper rifle"
"Cool, I've got a katana!" Jaune unsheathed his katana, and then sheathed it again, only to unsheathe Kanshou and Bakuya "And two wakizashi!" Sheathed them "And some throwing knives..."
"But why just that!? Where are the guns, the dust, the extra force!?"
"Well, they don't exist... The guns are because the old man was a terrible marksmanship, so he didn't teach me the way with guns, unless he wanted to shoot himself no guns for me... And any other questions are related to my semblance"
"And what is your semblance?"
"Nope, not gonna tell you yet."
"Ughh. Wait 'yet'?"
"Yep, I'll tell you later"
"Neat, Anyways we arrived" And indeed the students were already there. Suddenly Ruby was being called by the girl wearing yellow and brown, and after leaving him Jaune was about to look around, when Pyrrha started to talk to him, some time passed, and when every possible future students were counted the headmaster of the school arrived to give a speech.
The headmaster was a middle-aged man with tousled silver hair and thin brown eyes. He has a light complexion and sharp facial features. He wears shaded glass spectacles and a small, purple, cross-shaped pin on the cowl around his neck. His outfit mainly consists of an unzipped black suit over a dark green, buttoned vest and green shirt. He also wears black trouser shoes and long, dark-green pants. His name was Ozpin. Ozpin started his speech.
"I'll... keep this brief" Ozpin said "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction." Cue the whispers of the students "You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."
"Niceee..." Jaune started talking to Pyrrha "I mean don't take it in the wrong way he is spot on, after all knowledge is power, and we dont have that but I don't know, that wasn't very... nice? To say that to a bunch of newbies, it would dishearten a lot of possible future students..."
"Well that's the objective, I guess? I mean, because he as the headmaster had seen a lot of students that went here die on their missions, so he is doing that so those who are weak willed, can go out without killing themself on a mission because they lacked courage? Like a filter..." Pyrrha answered.
"Good point..."
The night arrived and Jaune had changed into the attire he had been wearing for some years to sleep, a simple black kimono. The old man protested that, after all it was not an attire used to sleep, but it was so comfy... So, in the end his normal setup for the day and night is a kimono, and his battle outfit is a hakama, of course the one the old man gave him was the one he was going to use the most, but he had some others just in case.
Everyone had to sleep in the same auditorium they were in the speech, after being given a tour through Beacon, they went back to the auditorium that was full of sleeping bags, and so after he had made his routine Jaune went to sleep when he caught the end of a conversation of a familiar person.
"... Dad would approve of all the boys, though." Ruby said
"I know I do" Purred the girl wearing yellow and brown (A little long of a tag thought Jaune to himself, and well since she was blonde like himself he thought "I dub thee Goldenlocks!"... Yes he had no originality) So he waved them as a greeting and went his merry way to bed.
The next day he woke up with the voice of a girl, and inmediately tensed himself as to prepare for danger, and then relaxed, and woke up to see an hyperactive girl rambling about something to a forlorn looking guy, and he felt sorry for the guy... But he continued his day, and prepared himself, went to the locker room and found Pyrrha talking to the girl in a white clothes (newly dubbed Snow Queen, the girl was probably from Atlas, the paleness on her skin was sure from a cold region) looking extremely unconfortable so he smoothly interjected
"...that sounds grand!" Phyrra uncomfortably said
"Great!" Snow Queen said and made a weird pose and face
"Sup!" Jaune said, snapping Snow Queen out of her trance "Name is Jaune Arc."
Snow Queen made a face, opened her mouth to talk, but Pyrrha beat her "Hi, again Jaune!" Pyrrha smiled brilliantly
"Oh, hi Phyrra! How is everything? Ready for the initiation?" Jaune said
"Everything is fine, thanks. Kind of nervous actually..." Phyrra answered. Snow Queen seemed to start boiling on the background
"Don't worry, if anything you can be in my team! With luck we could be partners!" Jaune said, and then Snow Queen exploted
"Excuse me, do you even know to who are you talking!?" Screamed Snow Queen and took a breath to calm herself "This is Pyrrha, she graduated at top of her class at Sanctum!"
"Never heard of it" He focused himself a lot on his training to be an excelent Huntersman.
Snow Queen scoffed "She's won the Mistral Region Tournaments four years in a row! A new record!"
"The what" Maybe a little too much
"She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box!"
Jaune made a noice of confusion, he didn't tend to eat a lot of cereal, as he keep himself in a high calorical diet he usualy eated things like eggs, bread, meat, but not much cereal. His guilty pleasure were ice creams, Neapolitan, Banana Split, give some of them to him, and you would see it disapear like magic.
But it seemed that it wasn't the answer Snow Queen wanted, as she started to bang her head against the closest locker, and started to murmur like crazy. Oh well, nothing he can do here, Jaune thought but as he was about to turn around to continue talking when Snow Queen (Promoted to Ice Queen, because Jesus that girl is seriously cold towards anybody.) composed herself and said "In the end what matters the most is that she is a celebrity, do you really think you're in a position to ask her to be on your team?"
"Yeah?" Jaune answered "I mean we are supposed to be students on a combat academy, which means that anything you have done outside the school is almost universally anulated. Doesn't matter if you are a normal person, a beauty queen, the heiress of a company, or the daughter of the most important guy in the goverment, you are here to prove your abilities, so basically this is a meritocracy. You are better view if you are stronger, after all we are putting our lives on the line to protect humanity and make sure it continues existing."
Ice Queen made a noice that showed his irritation and stomped her way out of there. Left alone with Pyrrha, he faced her to see an impresive sight. She was radiating sheer happiness due to his answer. He watched some seconds (Jaune had to admit to himself, Pyrrha was beautiful like that, and it was nice to see her like that, unlike some moments earlier) and started to talk to her, going to the Beacon Cliff to the initiation when the deputy chancellor (A woman named Glynda Goodwitch) anounced it.
Over there the explanation about what the exam was about started.
"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Started Ozpin
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of "teams." Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today." Continued Glynda.
"What? Ohhh..." Ruby started
"These 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." Ozpin continued "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."
Jaune swore that he could hear a mirror breaking and noticed the horrified expression on Ruby's face.
"After you've 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." Ozpin said and finished the explanation with "You will be monitored and graded through 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 one 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 raises his hand, but Ozpin ignores him
"Good! Now, take your positions."
"Uh, sir. How exactly are we going to arrive?" Students start being launched "Are you going to drop us in a bullhead?" Jaune asked
"Nope, you'll be falling to your destiny" Ozpin clarified with a smirk
"What do you-" The person next to him is launched, starts to process and then heards a spring under his feet "Oh, FUUUUUUUU -" And Jaune is launched
"Was that really necesary?" Glynda asks while raising an eyebrow to Ozpin
"Nope, but can you blame an old man in searching some entretainment?" Ozpin smirked and drank some coffee
"-UUUUUCK" Jaune stopped screaming and cursed Ozpin "God damm it Ozpin you sadistic bastard"
Jaune corrected his trayectory and started to look for possible solutions for his actual dilema, when he saw the forlorn looking guy corkscrewing a tree to reduce momentum, and so he took out Kanshou and Bakuya and did the same thing. After neately landing he turned his gaze and found out that Pyrrha was already waiting for him, and they started to search the place were the relics were hidden, and that lead them to a cave. Jaune entered expecting a sistem of caves, or the place where the relicks were, not the den of a deathstalker. So he did the sensible thing, and dragged Pyrrha out of there, took out Monohoshi - zao and started to cut his way to a random direction.
Several minutes later and a good chunck of the forest gone Jaune and Pyrrha arrived to the Abandoned Temple were he found the forlorn looking guy (the nickname is still in progress) and the cheerful girl that was with him (dubbed lightning rod, the girl was super charged, like a lightning hit her), Goldenlocks, Ruby, and a black haired girl. And Ice Queen fell from the sky. But the details were kind of unnimportant because the deathstalker was behind them!
Luckily Ruby managed to get the thing out of their backs and Ice Queen froze it (He didn't mind the pun that just happened) which gave them enough time to think. It was Jaune that pointed out the fact that they didn't have to fight the grimm (Somehow in the middle of freezing the deathstalker a nevermore joined the fray), So the group decided to run to the moutains. Of course the grimm followed closely, so in the end they were forced to engage.
What happened first is that Ruby and her friends started to get the attention of the nevermore, so Jaune and the others could attack the deathstalker. In Jaune side, he was actually looking for the death lines, and managed to find them in his left claw, the middle of his face and the base of the stinger. So when the deathstalker attacked with his right claw, Jaune was glad that Pyrrha deflected the attack, and when the deathstalker was about to follow the attack with his left claw, Jaune was grinning like a lunatic, after all, the deathstalker was inviting him to server his claw, so with a sweep of his sword, he managed to separate the claw from it's body making it look effortless, and quickly shouted to Pyrrha so she could launch her shield to dismember the sting, and while she was surprised because of the dismemberment, to her credit she recovered quickly, and followed the instruction, and then Jaune instructed Lightning Rod to hit the stinger that was buried on the head of the deathstalker so the battle could be over, and she followed that order with gusto. In the end thay had a vanishing corpse of the deathstalker, and everyone mostly unharmed (Forlorn guy was hit by the tail of the deathstalker) and with just enought time to witness Ruby decapitating the nevermore.
"Cool..." Jaune mumbled
Some time passed and finally the time for the team selection had arrived. Team after team was called until it was his turn.
"Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie." So that's their name... "The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR. Led by... Jaune Arc!"
"Wait... what...?" Jaune was shocked, Pyrrha was smiling, and Nora was hugging Ren.
As he step down he noticed that Ruby was next.
"And finally: Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!" It was a surprise? Not really, Ruby seemed to be natural when she was leading his partners to victory. But right now all that was on Jaune's head was "Ha! Now I won't suffer alone!"
And after a exhausting day, Jaune hit the bed, and knew no more
Yay, I managed to write chapter two... And it was a long process. Last time I said, "Maybe I'll be more advanced in Rwby by chapter two!" and know I say nope, I'm literally winging it. Thank's wiki!
No, this is just going to happen this once, I got myself inspired and wrote two chapters, I am not going to publish every week.
By the way, this might be a crossover, but the only thing here from Kara no Kyoukai are the Mystic eyes of death perception, This wont be psychological or as good as Kara no Kyoukai.
As you can guess the story, like the other story will be close to cannon. And why is that? Is because how the world is made. If I mad a crossover with... I don't know, High School DXD, or The Rising of the Shield Hero, that would be different, because the story depends on the enviroment. Change something, or make someone stronger and the world will change, For example instead of making a protagonist go to a city X, he goes to a city Y, and that makes a lot of changes, because new people will need help, maybe the're will be other quest, or maybe because the protagonist originally helped the city X with a problem, now that he is not there the problem will get worse, in BNHA or RWBY changes like that doesn't affect the storyline too much, as it is closely involved with the school life. If I make Jaune stronger, by the time he arrive to Beacon nothing will change, Ruby isn't stronger because Jaune is stronger, plans won't change because of a stronger Jaune, most that would happen is that there would be more enemies. For example let's take Roman Torchwick. Sure if Jaune is stronger the posibilities of capturing him will be bigger, but again there's Neo. Salem and cinder couldn't care less, after all they need dust, any thief would be useful, meaning the plans wouldn't change much. Or Izuku is stronger, and destroyed nomu alone. Would that matter? Nope, Shigaraki would still escape, and the next nomu would have to be stronger. The only thing that would change is an increasing in the disapearences, and again the fight against AFO is so close that it wouldn't matter too much
Sorry if my battle description suck.
Anyway that's all folks
See ya