Hello readers, I have started typing this the day the previous chapter was posted. This chapter will hopefully go by smoother with the aid of the transcripts. As per usual, I'll answer questions in the outro. Now then enjoy.
[Chapter Eleven: Jaunedice]
Looking down at the note written on the back of the schedule given to him yesterday, Gaster lets out a sigh. {Even with the story of us being wounded from the entrance exam, this…} he pauses to look up at Papyrus whose entire skull is wrapped in gauze, {this is a bit much.}
"yeah we should probably wrap this up before we're late." jokes Sans with a wink, eliciting a groan from the bandaged skeleton.
"SANS ENOUGH WITH THE JOKES!" echoes the muffled voice of Papyrus while adjusting his scarf, moving it down away from his mouth area. "WHAT ABOUT YOUR DISGUISE?"
"i got my hood."
Frisk looks doubtfully at the Monster as he pulls his hood up and over his head. They tap their thumb against the tips of the index and middle finger before facing their palms towards each other, parallel to their chest, and passing one behind the other. (That's not a disguise.)
"sure it is, it works for him." retorts Sans while motioning to Gaster.
{Well mine is apparently special, but nonetheless stop messing around. We still have our uniforms to put on.} he says this while grabbing his own off his bed. {and Papyrus, you'll need to take off your 'Battle Body' while wearing your uniform.}
"UNDERSTOOD!" acknowledged the skeleton with a quick salute before rushing into the bathroom with his uniform. The other three split off to their own areas to change into their uniforms.
Gaster closes the door to the common room while adjusting the sleeves of his cloak. His uniform consisted of a high collared white dress shirt with a red tie and a blue vest under his cloak, forgoing the provided jacket. {Are we all ready?} he asks while he turns to the face the others, all dressed in similar uniforms. Sans wore his similarity to Gaster, not wearing the jacket in favor of his own. Papyrus and Frisk wearing the full uniform with Papyrus wearing his scarf and gloves along with it.
"you're the last one g." comments the shorter skeleton as he pulls his hood up before shoving his gloved hands into his pockets.
"ALL READY!" announces Papyrus while fiddling with his scarf, making sure it was tied correctly.
{Well then,} Gaster says whilst he pulls his hood up as well and grabs the doorknob, {let's go.} Opening the door he barely gets to step out of the room before almost being run over by a familiar red cloak.
A rush of apologies spill from the girl before she is interrupted by the Monster. {Ruby?}
"Huh? Oh Gaster!" exclaimed the girl when she noticed who it was, "Where have you been?"
{Ah well you see…} he began in the moment before the rest of her team turned the corner.
"DO YOU KNOW HER GASTER?" inquired the bandaged head that was poking out of the door.
{Yes Papyrus I know her.} he replies, turning to face him, {Along with the others.}
"Oh great, you again" groaned the heiress, flipping her ponytail over her shoulder.
"rather poor attitude, don't ya think." mutters Sans who had appeared next to her undetected. All the girls jumping at his presence, Blake reaching for her absent weapon.
"Where the hell did you come from?!" shrieks Wiess angrily.
"hey now, that's no way to talk to a potential new friend," retorts Sans, holding his gloved hand out to the white haired girl, "why don't we start with a simple handshake?"
"Hmph fine." huffs Weiss while she begrudgingly returns the gesture.
A painfully long fart sound emanates from their hands before Weiss rips her hand out of Sans' grasp. Meanwhile Yang stifles a laugh, almost doubling over as she does so. "heh the ol' whoopie cushion in the hand trick, get 'em every time." With a wink and a shrug, Sans walks back to the dorms entrance.
"You better tell me who that is, skeleton!" quietly threatens the heiress, jabbing a finger at Gaster's face.
"Oh, she knows?" questions Sans while pointing his at her, "do the rest?"
{To answer you, Sans, yes they know,} replies Gaster, turning to Weiss he continues, {It's a bit of a long story but this is Sans.} Papyrus and Frisk step out into the hall while Gaster points towards them. {The taller one is Papyrus,} he gestures at the taller skeleton, {and this is Frisk.} Frisk gives a wake to Team RWBY, Ruby and Blake returning the wave.
"Are they your team?" asks Ruby, returning her gaze to Gaster.
{Ah yes, from what I can tell Ozpin has made us a team.}
"Oh cool! What's the name?"
Gaster raises his eyebrows questionably, {Th-The name?} he stammers.
"Yeah most teams are named after a color or something, like ours!" he leans to the side, presenting her team with accompanied jazz hands, "Team RWBY!" A comical shimmer effect appears before the three members while they look at the sparkles quizzically.
{Ah well we haven't received a name yet.} meekly replies the scientist, gently scratching at his cheekbone.
"Wait what time is it?" interrupts Blake, the small crowd looking towards her.
Fishing his Scroll out of his uniform's pocket Papyrus replies, "UH 8:55?"
"Not again!" yells Ruby while sprinting down the hall, her team quickly following behind her.
"shouldn't we also be hurrying to class?"
Frisk nods their hand with an understanding nod. (Yes.) The quartet quietly share glances before booking it down the hall after the other team.
[Auditorium]
It was a rather sad sight to behold. Jaune gasping for air while leaning on his sword with the brown haired bully, named Cardin Winchester, lazily approaching. Laughing at Jaune, Cardin adjusts the large mace resting on his shoulder before Jaune sweeps at him with his blade. Cardin easily dodges the attempt, retaliating by slamming his mace into the hastily raised shield which sends his opponent flying back. With his shield knocked away Jaune foolishly continues on the offensive, only for the attack to be blocked by Cardin's mace. Both weapons lock in place temporarily before the mace wielder pushes him onto his back.
Towering over the smaller boy, Cardin boasted, "This is the part where you lose."
"Over my dead-!" retorts the boy, until being cut short by a knee to the stomach. This causes him to drop his sword and fall to the ground in pain. Looking up he sees Cardin raise his mace over his head to slam into him just before he can, a buzzer rings. The lights come on with a thud while Glynda steps forth stopping the fight.
"Cardin, that's enough." she shouts, making the boy back off while she steps onto the stage. "Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red," pausing, she projects the Aura gauge onto the large screen with a few taps, "In a tournament-style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match."
Jaune lies on the floor looking into the crowd to see Pyrrha's worried expression before he fishes his own Scroll out. Four bars with each of his team member's faces appear on screen with his own flashing red.
"Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to your Scroll during combat," she says this with a hint of worry in her voice, "Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it's appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more… defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowolf, now, would we?"
"Speak for yourself…" retorts Cardin just out of earshot.
Not hearing Cardin's quip she turns to the remainder of the excited class. "Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away!" she announces this to the roaring crowd, excluding the four otherworldly students, "It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete will be representing all of Vale!" A bell rings signifying the end of the combat class, hearing this the many students begin to shuffle out of the bleachers.
Gaster quickened his pace to catch up to Ruby, tapping her shoulder to gain her attention. {What is this Vytal Festival that Ms. Goodwitch was referring to?}
"Oh yeah you wouldn't know," she begins, gesturing slightly, "Well it's a large tournament between all the kingdoms that happens every two years and this year it is in Vale!" Ruby shakes excitedly at the thought of it.
{Thank you Ruby,} replies the Monster, continuing down the stairs with the others, {I remember reading something about a festival to celebrate the end of the Great War but the name evaded me.}
At the bottom of the bleachers Ruby glances from Gaster to the rest of his team, raising an eyebrow slightly before leaning close to Gaster. "Wait, does your team know about the…" she gestures towards his entirety, "the whole skeleton thing?" Whispering this quietly just in case the others didn't know.
{Well yes they know but it's more complicated than that.} He glanced around the remaining stragglers, most of the students had left but a few hung around the doorway. {Promise you won't yell if I tell you?} he asks in a hushed tone, receiving a quick nod from the girl he continues, {Well Sans and Papyrus are the same as me.}
Ruby's eyes widen in surprise before she takes a deep breath to calm herself. Placing her hands together in front of her mouth, she points them at Gaster, muttering one word. "What?"
{Yes they are skeleton Monsters as well,} he explains quietly, {and Frisk is from where I'm from as well.}
"Well what's next? They're related to you?!" cries Ruby rhetorically, throwing her arms in the air to exaggerate her point.
{Yes.}
Ruby's arms drop to her sides in exasperation with a slouch. "H-how..?" she mutters in disbelief, staring at Sans and Papyrus all the while.
{Well to put it shortly I made them, and that is why I have those holes in my hands.} he explains, still in his hushed tone, {So you could say that I'm their father.}
Ruby takes another deep breath while she registers the information. "Fine," she stammered out, "This is fine, you know what? How about we just go to lunch and not talk about this any more?"
"fine by me," comments the Monster appearing beside her, "was gettin kinda hungry anyways."
The girl flinches at the sudden voice next to her before recognizing the Monster. "How do you even do that?" she questions turning to face him, only to receive a shrug as he walks off. "Well besides that do you guys have any plans for lunch?" she asks, looking over the remaining trio.
Frisk responds with a shrug before pointing towards Gaster with a questioning expression. {I don't think so, what did you have in mind?}
"I want you to meet some of my other friends!"
"So! There we were, in the middle of the night…" began the ginger girl, Nora Valkyrie, as Gaster had learned.
"It was day." cut in the voice of Li Ren, Nora's friend and teammate. Taking this brief opportunity, he took a quick drink from his mug.
Nora continued with her story as Yang listened intently, her hands cupping her face. "We were surrounded by Ursai…"
"They were Beowolves."
Nora slams her hands down onto the table as he screams, "Dozens of them!" Weiss ignores the hyperactive girl as she files her nails, Ruby and a girl named Pyrrha Nikos politely listen and Jaune messes with the food before him. Gaster looks up from the book he was reading before looking about the table. Sans continues to sleep face first on the table while Papyrus gently tabs a spoonful of something against the gauze around his head near his mouth.
"Two of 'em" Ren corrected.
"But they were no match… And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!" Nora continued, not noticing her audience averting their attention.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren says with a sigh.
"Jaune? Are you okay?" Pyrrha asks, gently placing her hand on the boy's arm, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Huh? Oh yeah! Why?" He looks around while saying this.
"It's just that you seem a little… not okay…" comments Ruby, gesturing to add to her point.
Now with the tables attention turned to him, he holds up a thumb and laughs nervously. "Guys, I'm fine. Seriously!" HIs attention is turned from the table to Team CRDL as they stand around a girl with brown rabbit ears poking out of her hair. Cardin laughed at her and his teammate's mocking interpretation of her Faunus traits.
Gaster groans internally while the others mention Cardin's delinquent actions. {Humans seem to be the same wherever you go, huh?} Nora breaks him from his thoughts at the mention of breaking Cardin's legs. Jaune reassures them that he is fine before the pained cry draws their attention. Cardin now tugs on the girl's rabbit ear, encouraged by his team's laughter.
"Atrocious. I can't stand people like him." says Pyrrha condescendingly.
Blake goes to add on to Pyrrha's words but is interrupted by Gaster standing. As he stands Frisk tugs on his sleeve causing him to look down.
Looking up at the Monster, Frisk taps their index and middle finger against their thumb before making an explosion motion with their hands. (No Violence) Gaster nods before making his way over to the group.
{Cardin Winchester.} calls out Gaster, gaining the attention of the bully.
"Well look who it is," taunted Cardin, his other team members looking over at Gaster, "The hooded loner."
{While that is not my name, I'd recommend you let go of the nice girl's ear.} commented Gaster as the other lackeys gather round.
"Or what?" asks Cardin while tightening his grip on the girl's ear just enough for her to wince in pain.
{Do you remember what happened last time, Cardin?} threatened the Monster, {I would not like for that to happen again.} He looks to the rest of Team CRDL as he says so, before returning his gaze to their leader.
Cardin glares at Gaster for a moment longer before dismissively letting go of her ear. "Fine, I was getting bored anyways." he huffs, motioning for his team to follow.
Making sure that Cardin is far enough away he breathes a sigh of relief. {Geez, I'm not used to that level of social confrontation.} he mutters before a meek voice catches his nonexistent ear.
"Um. Thank you…" says the Faunus girl while gently massaging her ear.
{Ah, no problem…} he reassures, gesturing to her for her to finish.
"Velvet, Velvet Scarlatina," she answers, "and you?"
{I'm Gaster, W.D. Gaster.}
Apologies for the few day late chapter, I had quite a bit of online work to do. Along with needing to type something 20 or so chapters ahead so I won't forget it. Now then there were no questions asked in the previous chapter so I mean there won't be much in this outro. Well then I guess I'll go work on the next chapter now. See ya next time.