The Nevermore had divided them, breaking the bridge between Jaune, Nora. Pyrrha, Ren and Annie, Blake, Weiss and Yang.
"So, got any plans?" Yang asked. Yang, Blake, and Weiss had tried shooting it down, which didn't work, Blake tried cutting it's back, didn't work, and Yang shot her Ember Celica into its mouth. Which somewhat worked. The Nevermore crashed into the cliff, and Weiss managed to freeze it's tailfeathers keeping it in place.
"Annie, care to help us?" Weiss asked, annoyed by Terran's lack of work.
"You there, girl ninja!" Annie called to Blake, ignoring Weiss. "How elastic is that ribbon thing on your weapon!" she asked.
"Strong, why?" Blake asked.
"I'm going to go fast," Annie said simply. "Whitey," Annie addressed her partner, "Can you're glyphs increase speed?" she inquired.
"They can," Weiss nodded.
"Good! Ninja Girl, blondie!" Annie called.
The Nevermore was almost freed from the ice pinning it to the cliff side. In front of it the four girls making a slingshot. The blonde brawler held the ninja girl's black ribbon as far as she could, the Terran in a running position in front of the blonde. The heiress activating glyphs in front and on the Italian.
Annie took a deep breath. Her weapon in it's glaive form.
Her boot stuck to the ground, gravity dust on the front half of the boots.
"Blondie, you can let go," Annie instructed. She took a deep breath. "Just a fair warning!" she yelled so everyone could hear, "Things are going to get loud!" She turned to Weiss, "Just for the record, if I end up just running into a cliff, and accidently kill myself, which won't happen, I don't like you."
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Don't joke about something like that," Weiss said, annoyed by the now laughing Italian.
Annie composed herself, taking one more deep breath. She looked at the Nevermore.
She was ready.
The heels of her boots started to produce a flame. A strong flame, like a jet, the flare was a glowing red, with the bottom slowly turning blue.
"You said this would be loud, how loud?" Yang asked.
Annie smirked, "Noise canceling headphones loud," she said as she was off.
And true to her words, it was loud. Not even a second after she left, and what sounded like an explosion followed her.
Annie jumped into the air at her high speed, she had her weapon ready and waiting, and as she got to the Nevermore, she thought one thing.
I came.
She swung her glaive.
I saw.
She landed on the cliff side, forcing herself to skid to a stop using both her glaive and the gravity and jets on her boots to slow herself down.
I concord.
When she came to a full stop a wide grin was on her face. Not only because she killed the Grim, but she thought she broke her record.
"WOOHOO!" Annie cheered.
"I CAN'T HEAR!" Blake's voice could be heard.
"WHAT?!" Yang questioned.
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" That was Weiss.
Annie looked down, wincing. She was not looking forward to the future when they got their hearing back.
"Ruby!" Yang ran towards her sister. "I'm so glad you're here! Initiation was so stressful!" she cried, holding her dear sister in the tightest hug of her life. "We got chased by a Nevermore and Deathstalker! And I went deaf for a bit! What are the odds of that happening!" Yang told her sister. "Anyways, how are you baby… sis… why are you in war paint?" Yang asked.
Ruby Rose was indeed in war paint. Her cheeks covered having two lines on both sides, and this was not mentioning how just this morning Ruby was clean as a freshly washed car, now she was covered in dirt, even on her favorite red hood.
"A lot of fighting… the Korean students apparently led me to a trap, luckily I had my weapon, then I had to escape the Icelandic student! They were rounding up Remnants, I managed to defeat them and liberate the Remnants, which followed a swift defeat of the Americans, then it was just the Remnants and the Greek-Italian trust, but the Professor called a cease fire for the formation of teams!" Ruby said, all in one breath. She was tired! She just wanted to cook! But no! Arthur had to start a goddamn war!
"Ruby, you're such a kidder," Yang said, jokingly punching her arm. "You are getting along with your new classmates," she said. Ruby's heart dropped at the thought of what she just went through was seen as a joke.
"Come on, teams are about to be announced soon! Also, wash up when you're done playing!" Yang said, leaving Ruby behind.
Ruby aimed her Crescent Rose at Yang's back. "A quick lightning dust round, just one," Ruby muttered, but put it down. I should go," she said, heading to see team assignments. She'll get her sister back later.
"Russel Thrush, Sam Winchester,"
"Cardin!" Glynda corrected.
"Right, right, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, and, Sky Lark, you four received the black queen cards, starting today you will be known as team CRDL(Cradle)" Ozpin said to the newly formed teams.
"CRDL! (Cardinal!)" Glynda yelled, wondering how far she could stick the cane of his up a place the sun didn't shine.
"CRDL!(CARDINAL!)" he corrected. "Led by, Sa-"
"CARDIN!"
"Cardin Winchester," Ozpin said.
As the team left the stage, Jaune, Ren, Pyrrha, and Nora walked onto the stage.
"Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Jaune Arc, and Nora Valkyrie, after taking the red king card starting today you will be recognized as team JNPR(Orange). Led by Lie Ren."
"OZPIN!" Glynda yelled.
"Sorry son, I'm just doing this to piss her off," Ozpin whispered to the new team. "Your true name is team JNPR, led by… Jaune Arc."
That left Jaune surprised, stuttering and looking around, trying to find the mistake the professor made. He stopped his search when Pyrrha playfully punched his arm, knocking him down. The team left the stage, leaving the stage where the final team arrived.
"Annie Boita, Blake Belladonna, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long, you four retrieved the red spade cards, you henceforth shall be called team ABWY(Amber)," Ozpin announced.
"Wow, you didn't butcher it this time," Ozpin grinned at Glynda's words.
"Wait, shouldn't it be called Ab-wee?" Ozpin said, getting the stare that could only mean he'd be drinking some poison in his next mug of coco.
"Now, all new Beacon students, I am obligated to inform you of the current standings on Beacon World War VIII," the screen displaying names changed, revealing the crests of Remnant and the Italian Greek Flags. "Currently, the Greek-Italian trust is in the lead with the man power, but Vale has the most bodies under its belt. All new student's have five minutes to get out of here and head to their dorms. And Arthur Ride, you have detention for the rest of the semester for starting the war," Ozpin said, leaving. "Good luck to the victor!"
The new girls of team ABWY had multiple reactions. Yang was congratulating an awestruck Annie, Blake was confused at this Beacon World War, Weiss looked irritated to be passed up for a monkey. And Annie?
"THE WAR STARTING ALREADY?! AND ITALY IS IN THE RUNNING STILL?!" Annie yelled, a giddy laugh escaping her voice. "Mercutio is doing something right!"
"What war?" Blake couldn't help but ask.
"It's basically supposed to be a yearly event where the students of each nation fight one another to be the last nation standing, I can tell you more about it later, we should go, because… well look," Annie pointed seeing as the place they were standing was turning into a battlefield, students using random items to help them stay safe.
"Oh my Oum, Ruby wasn't joking," Yang muttered. Watching in disbelief.
Then someone fired.
Hell was unleashed.
"SOMEONE FIRED! ATTACK!" standing tall, the young reaper, Ruby Rose, ordered the many students. The Italian's and Greek students got ready.
"FORWARD!" a black haired Italian student yelled, this was Mercutio Marcio, a fourth year Beacon Training student, ordered his men. "The Italian dynasty shall not fall!"
"What the hell…" the brawler muttered.
"We should get going, don't want to be mistaken," Annie told her team, who quickly got out of dodge.
As they left, they could hear something about "The Red Reaper."
The next day had come.
"Weiss," Annie shook the heiress. "Weiss," she shook her again, not getting a response. "WEISS!" Annie grabbed the Heiress and dropped her on the ground. That woke her up.
"What the hell!" Weiss yelled at the Terran. "What is wrong with you!"
"You wouldn't wake up," Annie shrugged. "Now, wake up. I made coffee, go take a shower and get ready," Annie pointed behind her to both a mug of coffee. "It's seven twenty, that should leave us over an hour before we need to go, so chop chop!" Weiss grumbled, getting her stuff and going to take a shower.
"Wow, you really take this leader role seriously," Yang said, looking at Annie, who was grabbing her bags and unpacking.
"Well, it's not the first time I've led a team. During the last two BWW, I led my people into battle," Annie said.
"You have?" Blake questioned.
"Yep, also got the most kills in three of the four I was in," Annie said, she knew that bragging wasn't nice, but she couldn't help but gloat a little. "Hopefully Italy wins again."
Blake let out a small hum.
As a Faunus, her and her people had mixed feelings about Terrans. On one hand, they could feel sympathy for them since they would often get discriminated against on Remnant, and some places on Earth, Faunus were considered Gods, above humans. But then if you look at their bloody history, Faunus couldn't feel both disgust and fear. Disgust because, even without any real differences, they kept on finding reasons to hate each other, and fear for what they would be willing to do if they decided to attack the Faunus population.
Hell, Blake wasn't exactly sure how to feel about the Germans.
And now the Beacon World War. And finding out her teammate was called the "Winner" of a war against nations… it made her want to keep her distance from the Italian girl.
"But that Red Death I've been hearing about, she might be the next winner as well," Annie said to Yang, a grin on her face. "Though she'd have to defeat my second Mercutio first."
Ruby and Yu shared a room, and someone knocked on their door. Ruby rushed to get her weapon, she had brought it home just in case someone from the Trust tried to take her. Lucky, Yu was on her side, since she was already out.
Ruby and Yu shared a look with one another as Ruby readied her gun.
"Who's there?!" Yu questioned through the door.
"Is this Ruby's home? Wait, non. R-roo… Root?" it was Cecilia, still struggling with her English.
Yu looked back at the young French girl then whispered to Ruby. "It's a French girl, looks either a first or a small second year. Should I let her in or tell her to leave?" Yu asked.
"That sounded like Cecilia, let her in," Ruby lowered her weapon as Yu opened the door, and sure enough it was Cecilia.
"Ruby! It good to see again!" Cecilia greeted, giving Ruby a warm hug. "I heard about what you did to the Icelandic and American students, and then the drymate after teams were assembled!" the young French girl looked at the older student in complete amazement.
"Drymate? You mean stalemate?" Yu asked, which got Cecilia furiously nodding to what she said.
"Aw… shucks. I didn't do much. You're going to make me blush," Ruby cooed, hiding her face with her cape.
"But ist true! They are even calling you the Red Reaper!" Cecilia told the young Rose. "Or… was it the Red Plague…" Cecilia had started muttering to herself trying to figure out what the word was. "It was something red. Sorry my friend," Cecilia apologized.
"It's fine," Ruby assured her. "And the Red Death? That's… good?" Ruby didn't know if that was good or not, so she decided to look at Yu for confirmation which she nodded.
"Getting a nickname is kind of a title, which is only given to students with incredible skills, I can only think of three others who received a title who are still in the school. You know Annie, the Next Caesar, then there is Mercutio, Annie's second, and he was called Railgun, and then there's a second year student at the main Academy called the Black Death, they managed to get the most kills in the last four BWW."
"Who is this Black Death?" Ruby asked.
"Well no one knows, it's rumored that they either lose before they can claim victory or they choose not to win, hell, maybe the Black Death isn't real and is just a rumor, we don't really know."
"Wow," Ruby and Cecilia said in unison.
"So, Cecilia? What are you doing here? The French students surrendered in the beginning," Yu asked the young student.
"I just want to make sure Ruby is fine," Cecilia said, a smile on her face. It was like looking at baby puppies and kittens! It was the epitome of innocence and cuteness.
"Well thanks!" Ruby thanked her French friend.
Though, even though they were having fun, fun things were meant to end, some too soon.
Their window shattered, scaring the girls, an arrow land right above Cecilia, and when she looked up, the young girl passed out.
Yu and Ruby got to cover, keeping away from the window.
Now, Ruby wasn't one to swear, she believed that swear wasn't a good thing, but there are times when there are no other words that could convey your feelings, and swear words were all that were left. "What the fuck…" she muttered, looking at the arrow.
"That was close to hitting your little friend," Yu said. She took a look at the arrow. Something white near the head of the arrow caught her attention. Pulling the arrow from the wall, she took a look and saw what was on the arrow.
"Message by arrow? Who still does that?!" Yu yelled. Taking the message she quickly read it over. "Message for you."
Ruby, with shaking hands took the arrow message.
"Dear Ruby "The Red Reaper" Rose
I hereby challenge you to a duel.
If you choose to accept we of the Greek-Italian Trust shall agree to a temporary end to the Beacon World War. We have received complaints from new students who did not know what was happening, and our seniors who wish to have watched but were busy in initiation.
If you decline, we will attack the Remnants, and later suffer the graph of Professor Goodwitch for dragging this battle out longer than needed.
If you choose to agree, meet me at the amphitheater after the classes end.
You're truly,
Mercutio "Railgun" Marcio."
Ruby looked at the letter and saw an out.
The war would be over!
"Ruby, if you're thinking about taking him on?" Yu asked, looking Ruby dead in her silver eyes. "He was Annie's second!"
"So? He was her second, not the first," Ruby said, getting up, picking Cecilia up to take her home.
"A country's second is still super strong Ruby," Yu told her. "Like our unit! Top two would be Yuri and Lorieli, not in that order. While Lorelei isn't the strongest, she can come up with some clever tactics when she needs to, and Yuri can take control of a group and whip them into order, and if not will either discipline them or kick them to the curb and do the work for himself and them! A second is the right hand man, the second in command! When they want someone to do something, they'll have it done!"
"But if I don't accept, they'll come after us," Ruby said.
"Well, maybe losing isn't the worst. Odds are you'll have another one this year since the war technically started before school started."
Ruby let out a sigh. Should she fight Mercutio or not?
It was lunch. Teams JNPR and ABWY sitting by each other.
"So how did you do that thing during initiation? Was that part of semblance?" Pyrrha asked.
"What thing?" Annie asked, turning her head. Confused as to what Pyrrha was referring to.
"That big boom! It was so loud I heard ringing afterwards!" Nora exclaimed. "It was awesome."
"The big boom?" Annie raised an eyebrow. "I just went Mach speed," Annie stated as if it was common fact.
"Didn't you mention that in the forest? What is that?" Jaune asked. Getting a little giddy expression on the Italian's face.
"Well… Mach speed is the speed of sound. When you go faster then sound, you create what is called a sonic boom, and that is a common occurrence with my semblance if I want to go fast enough," Annie explained.
"Wow, my sister can't even go the speed of sound, and she also has a speed semblance," Yang said.
"YANG!" speak of the devil and they shall appear.
"Ruby!" Yang called her sister.
"Yang! I need your help!" Ruby called her sister. "Someone sent me this letter!"
"Oh, a letter? Does my little sister have an admirer?" Yang teased, "Don't worry baby sister, I'm sure they are just shy."
"Don't patronize me!" Ruby yelled. "Someone shot an arrow into my room! Almost hit a French girl, and then after I read this… I don't know what to do!"
"Wow, Yang. So mean," Annie snickered.
Ruby turned her head to Annie, and her eyes went wide. "You're Annie!"
"Guilty," Annie smiled, waving at Ruby. "Now, what's this letter?" she said, taking the letter from an now angry looking Yang, eyes red with rage.
"Dear Ruby "The Red Reaper" Rose, blah blah blah, challenge to duel, blah blah, sighed Mercutio? Hey, it's Mercutio!" Annie said with surprise.
"You know who this guy is?" Yang asked, looking ready to kill.
"Oh yeah, he's a good friend of mind," Annie said, "I can help with this!" Annie then turned to Ruby. "Accept and take a dive."
Now, Yang was a hotheaded person, so hearing her team leader tell someone to lose, her little sister at that, did not make her happy. "What?"
"Yang, I'm assuming your sister is strong, I saw her leading that battle in initiation, but she doesn't know Mercutio like I do, and I'm willing to bet she's going to lose."
"Ruby! Fight this guy! Show him who's boss!" Yang told her. Weiss slapped her face.
Annie and Yang had told her different things. To fight and plan to win or expect to lose and just accept it.
Ruby didn't know what to do.
It was their last class. And it would not end…
Professor Port's stories didn't end. When you thought it would, it didn't.
"Monsters! Demons! Prowlers of the night!" Professor Port told the class, "Yes, the creatures of Grimm have many names. I merely refer to them all as pray, and you all too once you graduate!" Port said with bombastic laughter, "Remnant is absolutely teaming with Grimm! And the population keeps on growing in our sister world. These creatures love nothing more than to tear you to pieces. That's where we come in, Huntsmen, Huntresses," he looked at a blonde brawler. "Individuals who have sworn to protect those who can not protect themselves but the world!"
"JA!" a German student in the back cheered.
"But first! A story!" Professor Port would spiral into a story, but Weiss was not concentrating on that.
She looked at her partner. Her monkey of a partner who was reckless and didn't seem to know anything about Remnant culture and appeared trivia.
And here she was, asleep in class!
"And I returned to my village, as a hero! The moral of the story? A true Huntsman must be honorable!" Weiss's eyes glared at her leader. "A true Huntsmen must be dependable!" Yang began stacking books on top of Annie. "A true Huntsmen must be strategic, well-educated, and wise!" The books fell, waking up Annie.
"Sono sveglio!" Annie yelled.
That got a few snickers out of the students. If looks could kill, Annie would have been long dead.
"So, who among yourselves believes themselves as the embodiment of all these traits?" Port asked the class, a few students raised their hands, but one stood out, one with passion(spite).
"I DO SIR!" Weiss raised her hand.
"Ms. Schnee!" Port called out, "Let's find out, please get into your combat attire and face your opponent!"
Weiss took a deep breath, she could do this. With no distractions.
"Go Weiss!" Yang cheered.
"Fight well!" Next was Blake.
"Go Weiss! Hakuna it's Matata!" She yelled.
A student from Swahili stood up and yelled, "THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE SAY DAMMIT!"
At the same time at the students outburst, Weiss also yelled, "Annie, I'm trying to focus!"
Annie, one of the most feared students, shrunk in her seat.
"Alright, let the match begin!" Port declared, freeing the boarbatusk from its cage.
Said Grimm rushed out of its cage, heading straight to Weiss, who slashed and dodged. The Grimm wasn't affected at all. It turned to face her once again. When both Huntress and Grimm ran toward each other, their weapons got stuck together, Weiss's Multi-Action Dust Rapier being stuck in the Grimm's tusks.
"Don't pull it forward, pull it to the side!" Annie yelled to Weiss.
Weiss glared at the Terran, and in this moment the Grimm managed to get her weapon out of her hand and get a hit on Weiss.
As the Grimm came to charge at her but Weiss dodged once again. The heiress ran to her weapon, picking it up, Weiss got ready to attack again.
"Weiss, the stomach! It has no armor there!" Annie yelled.
"Annie, will you shut up and stop telling me what to do!" Weiss yelled. Annie didn't shrink in her seat, this time she was mad.
Annie stood up in her seat and walked down.
She didn't need her weapons.
"Ms. Boita, what are you-" Port didn't finish his sentence as Annie activated her semblance. The Grimm was on its back with Annie's foot in its gut.
"Weiss Schnee, I'm not going to be dealing with your bitchy attitude!" Annie yelled, taking her foot out of the Grimm's dead disappearing body. "I tried being nice, I tried being respectful! I tried being funny with you! But it's clear to me now, you won't listen to me if I'm just nice, you won't listen!"
"Ms. Boita," Professor Port called to her, placing a hand on her shoulder to try and calm her down, only for the young Huntress in the train to grab his wrist, glaring at him.
As she looked at him, she took a deep breath, then exhaled, "Professor Port, please allow me to deal with my teammate in private."
"Why don't you both see me after class?" Port said to the young team leader, looking like she was going to snap the first person who would interrupt her neck.
Annie opened and clenched her fist, smiling at the Professor, "Fine," she spoke.
She sent a glare to Weiss, and the Atlassian girl felt a shiver of fear go through her spine.
Ruby shook in her feat.
She stood there in the amphitheater with students eyes on her and the boy in front of her.
"Ciao bella," Mercutio greeted Ruby, who would have gotten flustered if she knew what he just said. "Ruby Rose, good to meet you up close."
"And you're Mercutio," Ruby said to the Terran, who unlike her was wearing a much more casual close, no weapon in hand. "Wear's your gear?"
"I'll be fine," the Italian student assured her. "Why don't you tell me about that weapon of yours? I must say, even if I am your opponent, I can't help but admire its beauty!"
Ruby's nerves were settled a little, talking about her baby made him calm and at ease. "Aw, thanks! I worked really hard on my Crescent Rose. She's a scythe mixed with a customizable high-impact sniper rifle! Made her myself with my mom and uncle giving me pointers."
"Made yourself?" Mercutio whistled. "Must say, she's definitely unique," he said.
"What about you? What do you use as your weapon? Did you make it yourself or what?" she asked, zooming around the student.
Mercutio couldn't help but grin. "Alright, since I asked about yours. Tell me, what do you know about Aura?"
"Aura?" Ruby tilted her head in confusion. "Well it's the manifestation of our soul-"
"Sorry, not that," Mercutio interrupted. "I mean, the types of Aura there are," he clarified.
Ruby was even more confused. Why did he cut her off and what did he mean by types? "Types?"
The student nodded. "Yes, there are three, technically six types of aura. Negative, Neutral, and the Positives. Negative Aura is the aura used by most Terrans, using the iron in the blood to fuel the Aura, sometimes resulting in anemia if you don't have a high iron diet. Neutral Aura, which is the Aura you have, which has the whole protection and healing feature, which is believed to have ties with the dust in the diet. Then the Positives, Aura used by those who have Remnant and Terran blood. Positive One, healing aura with no protection, you could get rid of all the skin and muscle on a hand, and it'd grow back Positive Two no healing all protection, a seemingly infinite aura used for protection, and then Positive Three. Emitter. Aura that works like normal except we can manifest our Aura as a plasma, like fire," Mercutio explained. "Now, guess which am I? Obviously not Neutral, so you have one less option!"
"Are you a type three?" Ruby guessed, based on his name the Railgun, she could easily guess.
"Bingo," Mercutio said. "Now that we have that done, let's get this show on the road!" the Italian student declared.
Ruby and Mercutio got into positions, Ruby having her weapon in scythe form and Mercutio in a lax more calm position.
"Tournament style rule! If you are knocked out of bounds, you're out. If you're aura drops into the red, you're out. If the opponent says stop or goes limp, you will stop!" Ms. Oak instructed her students.
Honestly she didn't want to watch this. When it came to Terran students she learned one thing. When in combat eight out of ten times, Terran students would do whatever they could to end the fight as soon as possible. So when they had fewer enemies they tended to fight with stronger moves. More dangerous moves. Ms. Oak had seen Mercutio's ace, and felt nervous for the young Reaper.
"Ready?" Ms. Oak yelled, "Begin!"
Ruby ran to Mercutio. Despite what Yu and Annie said, she couldn't just stay and let him defeat her. Maybe it was her Xiao Long persistence, or her Rose tenacity, but Ruby couldn't just sit and let someone defeat her! But before she could even wind up she dropped her weapon. Mercutio's hands sparked as he made a gun with his hand.
The students watched in amazement as Mercutio hadn't moved from his spot.
"Hey Rose, want to know an interesting fact? Aura doesn't protect against electricity! It will keep things like the electricity in your brain and heart fine, but the rest? It'll minimize the damage," Mercutio said. "So to keep this from being cruel, as I keep zapping you, I'll quickly end this!"
Ruby got up, grabbing her weapon and getting ready to attack again. "Don't think I'm out yet!" Ruby said, standing up, glaring at him, only to be shot at by more of his electric aura, knocking her down again. Leaving the young Rose on her knees.
"Yeah, you are," Mercutio said. Pulling out a coin out of his pocket. He flipped it into the air. "Listen Rose. I just want to make it clear. I don't dislike you. I hope for great things for you. But one thing you should know," the coin had reached its peak, heading back down. His arm charged with an electric Aura "And that is this," the coin dropped in front of his hand. "Viva l'italia," he snapped. All the charge building up was let out, sending the coin and hitting her on the forehead. Ruby's Aura dropped, not just to red, but to zero. The coin didn't stop, but hit her head, knocking her over on her back. And when she fell, and her head tilted to the side, a 1 Euro coin mark could be seen.
"Long live Italy, Rose," Mercutio told the now unconscious Ruby, grabbing the now coin and putting it in his pocket, he looked up to see their aura's. "Only a quarter aura used? Should have been less."
"Winner by knockout and aura depletion, Mercutio Marcio," Ms. Oak's voice rang in the quiet arena. She looked at the unconscious girl.
The crowd cheered.
Mercutio helped pick up the unconscious student, bringing her to the bear Faunus. "Mind taking her to the infirmary?" he asked, getting a nod of agreement.
As the adult left, Mercutio turned to the students to address them. "My fellow Italian's, Greeks, and anyone else in the room! The war will be on temporary hold and will resume in the second semester! Spread this around! I am looking for my second! Anyone interested, come find me!" Mercutio turned and left, murmurs was all he could hear.
In Professor Port's class, the teacher not only sat with Annie and Weiss but also Blake and Yang.
"It is only your third day on campus, and you two are already at each other's throats, ready to even kill each other," Port lectured.
"Well excuse me sir, but my teammate is acting in ways that I feel will lead to insubordination, and I'm just trying to nip that in the bud," Annie said to the Professor, sending a quick glare to Weiss.
"Insubordination?! How is my actions telling you I'd be insubordinate?!" Weiss yelled.
"You are snippy at my advice, you act condescending to me as if I don't understand basic things, and you are impossible to work with when you have that stick up your attitude!" Annie yelled back.
"Well sorry if I don't see you as a competent leader!"
"Oh? Why am I not competent, Weiss?" this was something every Terran had and would have to face, someone saying they didn't like or respect you because of where they came from, what they are. "That I'm a silly pasta loving Italian? An dumb monkey who can only real talent is finding new ways to kill each other, other than flinging crap at each other?! How am I incompetent?!"
"Um, Annie, you should calm down," Yang said, like Port, she put her hand on her shoulder to calm her down, and like before Annie gripped her wrist. "Owowowow!" Yang yelped, quickly pulling her hand free.
"Don't touch me when I'm mad," Annie said, looking at Yang. "So, Weiss, how am I incompetent," Annie asked.
"I've trained, studied, and worked my butt off to become a leader, and then you come in. Calling a boy by some name that he claims wasn't his, picking a fight with a Nevermore which you couldn't win, and knowingly causing a deafening sound and not giving warning!"
"I got to give Weiss credit on that last one," Blake muttered.
"Okay, so I made a mistake, sorry, and I will admit, me picking a fight with a Nevermore wasn't smart, but I have experience leading, live experience. I know how to rally the troops when needed, Professor Port, back me up."
"Ah yes, the yearly BWW, you did manage to reduce Italian losses when you took the reins as number one. But I think we are getting distracted from the point. Ms. Schnee, you believe that you are being led by someone who should not be a leader? And you yourself are more deserving?" he got a nod of confirmation. "And Ms. Boita, you believe Ms. Schnee is acting out not because she thinks the leader position was wrongfully given to you, but because of your Terran heritage?" a nod.
"Hmm, alright! I have come to my design! Till I decided you are ready to get along, team ABWY will be… led by Blake Belladonna, till you two resolve your differences, she will be your leader. I will also have a student monitoring you till you are done," Port told them. Leaving Blake shocked.
"W-wait! You can't do this!" Annie and Weiss both said.
"He did, he could, I approve," Ozpin instructed. "Also, Ms. Belladonna, no you can not switch teams or give it to Ms. Xiao Long, till she pays the fines on the club she destroyed, she will have no power," he said taking a sip of his mug, suddenly he started coughing. "Damn you… Glynda!"
Annie didn't immediately go back to her dorm but went to the Training academy dorm, specifically the dorm of her friend Mercutio.
Annie knocked on the door.
"Coming," Mercutio said, opening the door, he saw Annie. "Ah, hello!" he greeted.
"Mind if I come in?" Annie asked.
"Um, my roommate is asleep, want to talk in the common room? He suggested, which got a nod from Annie.
Annie told him her strife. That she wasn't the leader of her team now, and had to make up with Weiss. She just ranted about her day.
Annie turned her attention to what she remembered from lunch.
"Sorry, I've been rambling," Annie said. "I heard you fought the Red Reaper, how did that go?" Annie inquired.
"How else? I won with ease, though I used more Aura then I'd like," Mercutio said. "She didn't even have me move till the very end, she didn't even land a blow," he said with pride.
"Well, at least one of us is ending the day with their pride still intact," Annie said, her voice half joking. "You didn't even give her a shot? Such a sadist you are," Annie joked, playfully punching his arm.
"Maybe," Mercutio shrugged, "it'll be nothing compared to when the war starts back up again. I'll have my second, and keep Italy's reign going, and then my second will as well," he said.
"Yep, sadist," Annie giggled. "Alright, thanks for listening to my strife, my number two."
"No problem, and don't tell anyone my plans," Mercutio waved her goodbye.
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