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It's been a few weeks after Ruby and Weiss made up, the two of them got along so better and Weiss no longer lashed out to Ruby. She had to scold Ruby sometimes, but she even taught some things that she didn't know about in a good way. Right now Isaac along with RWBY & JNPR are now in the Amphitheater, where Glynda is teaching everyone to use their Aura in combat. To demonstrate she called up Jaune and a guy named Cardin to fight each other.
However, it's pretty obvious who's going to win due to Jaune who was panicking and shaking nervously while Cardin smirked arrogantly, which caught Isaac's attention, "Oof, this is not good."
"What's wrong, Isaac?" asked Ruby.
"It's Jaune he's fidgety today." said the wanderer.
"Fidgety? You mean he's nervous, sure it's natural to be nervous in a fight but I have seen him fight before back in the initiation, it may be flawed but at least skillful." pointed Weiss.
"Hmm, I hope so." said Isaac, as he looks down at the fight, he couldn't help but narrowed his eyes towards Cardin. But express concern for Jaune.
"Begin!" announced Glynda.
Three minutes have passed, and Jaune was panting heavily with his Aura bar dangerously red. The reason why is because he was easily beaten up by Cardin with ease, Jaune tried to slash him only for Cardin to sidestep avoiding the swing, and knock away his shield. Jaune stumbled a bit and tried to slash him again, Cardin brought up his mace and easily blocked it, the blonde knight tried to push through but Cardin was too strong as he pushed back Jaune.
"This is the part where you lose." said Cardin arrogantly.
"Over my dead-" Jaune was cut off when he got kicked in the family jewels.
Making every male wince including Isaac.
Jaune grunted and fall in pain, as he looks up helplessly and saw Cardin raised his mace ready to deal more damage.
"Cardin that's enough." said Glynda, not wanting to see any brutality, making the arrogant brute back up, "Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament-style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match."
She turned to Jaune who was down, "Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now, please try to refer to your Scroll during combat. 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?"
"*scoff* Speak for yourself." said Cardin placing his mace behind his back, he then looks at Glynda, "Can I have someone stronger to fight?"
Glynda was surprised a bit, "We have ten minutes."
"Good." said Cardin with a smirk, as he looks around the Amphitheater and his eyes landed on a certain wanderer, "Hey you!" He looks in the direction where Isaac and the others are.
Isaac turned around and saw no one then looks back at Cardin, "Me?"
"Of course it's you, idiot!" said Cardin, then he smirks, "I saw that stupid video where you transform into a strange being and fight off that strange monster, everyone keeps talking about how awesome you are. I call bullshit on that, let me prove it to you down here."
"Oh great, typical arrogant bully." thought Isaac reminiscing his previous encounters of bullies, "Fine, then." said Isaac walking down in the arena with his hands in his pockets.
He walks on the stage and was positioned on the opposite side of the arena with a calm look on his face.
"What are you waiting for? Transform and take out your sword." said Cardin preparing his mace.
"I don't need to transform or use my sword against people like you." said Isaac.
"C'mon fight me seriously!" said the arrogant brute gripping his mace tightly.
"I'm serious when my opponent is serious." said Isaac with a smirk, making some students let out a silent "ooohh".
"Fine don't come crying!" Cardin charged at Isaac.
Isaac saw the mace coming down at him he simply sidestep, causing the mace to crash to the ground. Cardin saw the smirk on his face making him angry and did a side swing, Isaac simply dodges, Cardin did another left swing but he dodged it as well. Cardin kept on swinging at him left and right, but Isaac easily avoided them with his hands on his pockets. Cardin let out multiple swings but all Isaac did was simply backflip, dodge to right and the left with ease, he spins around that dodge another swing from Cardin making him infuriated.
"Fight me, coward!" yelled out Cardin.
"Nope." smirk Isaac.
Cardin let out a growl and did a lot of swinging with his face and tried to hit, Isaac. The wanderer just kept on backflipping backward, until he reached the end of the arena, forcing him to stop, he saw Cardin coming right at him ready to smash him, his mace was raised high then slammed down near the wanderer's face, Isaac just jumps high dodging the mace causing it to crash in the ground, and he landed behind Cardin a few feet away.
"What's wrong Cardin? I thought you wanted to prove to anyone that I'm 'bullshit'." taunted Isaac with a smirk.
"Shut up! Fight me seriously." said Cardin swinging rapidly with his mace.
The wanderer once again just dodge them with ease, Cardin just out a frustrated growl.
"If you wanted me to fight serious, then don't say I didn't warn you. Believe it or not, I don't like jerks except jerks with hearts." said Isaac covered in a red aura.
Smirking at this Cardin charges at him and raised his mace in the air then did a side swing, Isaac just simple raised his left arm blocking the bladed part of the mace, making a metallic *CLANG* sound. This made the student's jaw drop, along with Cardin, taking advantage of the distraction Isaac did a right punch to Cardin's chest making him grunt in pain. Cardin felt that despite having armor, Isaac repeatedly punch his chest, Cardin tried to hit him with the mace only for Isaac to catch it, shocking him. Isaac took the mace out of Cardin's hands and slammed it against Cardin's chest making him grunt in pain sending him flying out of the arena, causing him to crash in the wall knocking him out.
This made Glynda and a few students' jaw drop, while Isaac drop the mace and dusted his hands.
"Arrogant jerk, why can't they understand that messing people harshly all the time, will bite them ass?" asked Isaac himself.
He noticed all the students and Glynda are staring at him with shocked looks, "Uh, aren't you gonna end the class now?" asked the wanderer to the professor.
Glynda shook out of her shock, "T-That's all for today, class dismissed. Also, remember everyone the Vytal Festival is only a few months away, it won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing. Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!"
This made some students feel happy excited along with Team RWBY, JNPR, and Isaac who were interested, but part of him knows that he will not reach the Vytal Festival due to his mission and he will leave this world to continue his mission. The bell rings signaling the students to leave, Isaac notice Jaune was looking down making him concerned.
"You should've let me take control so that I can beat that asshole's ass!" said a grumpy voice within Isaac's head.
"Be patient, I'll let you use me when the time is right. Besides, I'm not gonna make things complicated and people asking me why I have a change of attitude." responded Isaac to the voice.
"Still, I want to fight! I've been itching for a good fight ever since!" said the grumpy voice in annoyance.
"Don't worry, I'll let you know the time where you can fight." Isaac reassured the voice.
The grumpy voice let out a few grumbles within his head, "Fine, you better be or I'll kick your ass."
Isaac just simply chuckled.
It was lunchtime, Isaac was now in the cafeteria along with RWBY and JNPR, who were sitting together, eating lunch. Nora was telling a bizarre story that involves her and Ren saving a village from the Grimm.
"In the middle of the night." started Nora.
"It was day." Ren corrected her.
"We were surrounded by Ursa."
"They were Beowolves."
"DOZENS OF THEM!"
"Two of them."
"I see." said Isaac eating a sandwich then turned to Ren, "How long has she been having this dream?"
"A month." said Ren.
"Oh, then I suggest you hear some happy folk songs during your free time." suggested Isaac putting a sandwich in his mouth, while Ren thanked him for the advice.
Isaac then kept on eating a bunch of sandwiches on his plate, not noticing his friends(minus Jaune who was looking down) gawking at him for the huge amount he's consuming. He then noticed they're staring, "What?"
"Dude, how much did you eat?" asked Yang.
"I don't know around 10, maybe." answered Isaac nonchalantly, as he kept on eating.
"10!" exclaimed the group, shockingly.
"Not even I can eat that many cookies." said Ruby, she can only eat a few cookies before getting full.
"Wow, you just like me who can eat a lot, but with pancakes!" said Nora.
Isaac just nodded.
"Hey, maybe we can make a food addiction club! In the club, we'll get our favorite food and see which one eats the most!" exclaimed Nora randomly.
Isaac stops eating and looks at Nora with a shocked look.
"That's a great idea! A club where we value our favorite food is the greatest thing ever!" said Isaac with stars on his eyes.
"I know right!" agreed Nora happily.
"Let me join in the club guys!" said Ruby, also joining in the topic of favorite food.
The three food addicts began to converse crazily about their favorite which made some of their friends laugh a bit, with Weiss just sighing.
"Why do you like sandwiches a lot, Isaac?" asked Weiss.
Isaac just turned to Weiss with a serious look, "Because Weiss it's... The food of the gods." said Isaac dramatically with Nora and Ruby being awe at his word.
"Riiiigghhht." said Weiss unsure about that.
Pyrrha laughs at the scene and turned to Jaune who was looking down making her concerned for her leader.
"Jaune are you ok?" asked Pyrrha.
These snapped Jaune out of it, "Huh? Oh yeah! Why?"
Ruby, Isaac, and even Nora stop their fun discussions about food and express concern for Jaune.
"It's just that you seem a little... not okay?" said Ruby.
"Guys, I'm fine seriously look." said Jaune with a fake smile.
Then they saw Cardin picking on a rabbit Faunus girl by grabbing her ears harshly while mocking her along with his team, making RWBY & JNPR even Isaac glared at them. It reminded Isaac of how some good seijins and kaijins being treat harshly by humans.
"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school." said Pyrrha.
"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah he just likes to mess around! You know practical jokes." said Jaune waving it off.
"He's a total jerk and bully." said Isaac.
"Oh please, name one time he bullied me."
Cue a flashback, where Cardin treated Jaune's life harsher. One time where Cardin drops Jaune's books, a second time where Cardin stuck Jaune's shield in a doorway, and finally Cardin stuff him in the rocket-propelled locker and sends him flying in the sky.
"Your lucky I was just passing by, otherwise you'll be lost in the forest." pointed out Isaac.
"I didn't land far from the school." said Jaune laughing it off.
"Jaune, you know if you ever need help you can just ask." said Pyrrha expressing her concern.
"Oh! We'll break his legs!" said Nora sinisterly.
"I like that girl's idea already." said the grumpy voice in Isaac's head.
"Not the time." said Isaac to the voice.
"Guys, really, it's fine. Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me he's a jerk to everyone." said Jaune.
"Ow that hurts." said the Rabbit Faunus girl, feeling her ears getting pulled painfully by Cardin.
"Hold my sandwich." said Isaac dropping his food near Nora making her salute to him, while others express concern for their friend.
"Please stop." pleaded the rabbit girl.
"I told you it was real." laughed Cardin, along with his cronies.
"Hey Cardin, stop that." said Isaac.
Cardin then turned his head around him, "Oh yeah, what are you gonna do?" Mocked the arrogant bully.
"This." Isaac raised his right hand and karate chop his neck, making Cardin's eyes widened making him fall on the table.
"What did you do?!" demanded Cardin.
"I just simply paralyze you, by striking a specific nerve on your bone. Don't worry it's not permanent you'll move again for a few hours." said Isaac unknown to them on his right wrist was the AbareBlue Dino Brace.
"Damn you." said Cardin.
"Come on." said Isaac to the rabbit girl, grabbing her.
"Next time." said the arrogant brute, with his team dragging him away.
"Are you okay?" asked the wanderer in concern.
"Yes, thank you." said the rabbit girl looking down shyly.
"Don't mention it. Name's Isaac Furno." said the wanderer.
"Velvet Scarlatina." said the rabbit girl shyly, and blushing a bit.
"Well Velvet nice to meet you, and if some jerk tries to mess with you again, call me." said Isaac to the girl, making her nod. He then goes back to his table with the others.
"That was nice of you Isaac." said Blake with a grateful smile.
"You stood up for her." said Yang with a smile.
"Thanks, I just don't like heartless jerks treating people like trash because they look different." said Isaac eating a sandwich.
"Your right about that." said Weiss.
"Man, being a Faunus is really hard, huh?" said Yang making Isaac agreed.
After they finish lunch, they're now in Professor Oobleck's class, he has messy green hair, glasses, a white polo shirt, a yellow tie wrap around his neck, and black pants. He was explaining and teaching about the Faunus war, in a hyperactive way due to his consumption of coffee.
"Yes, yes, prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution more popularly known as the Faunus War, humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie. Now! While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events! Why the repercussions of the uprising can still be seen to this day! Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated against because of your Faunus heritage?" asked Oobleck zooming around in high speed.
"Jeez he should tone down the coffee though." thought Isaac.
Velvet simply raised her hand, along with a couple of Faunus students.
"Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence!" stated Oobleck while taking a sip of his drink.
"Hey." Isaac getting Velvet's attention, "Don't worry though there might be a lot of jerks in the world, there are still a lot of good people like your team along with team RWBY and JNPR." the wanderer reassured her.
"Thank you." said Velvet with a smile.
"Now which one of you young scholars can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?" asked Oobleck, and he noticed Weiss raising her hand, "Yes?"
"The battle of Fort Castle." answered Weiss.
"I'm confused is it a Fort or Castle? I can't tell." said Isaac himself in confusion.
"Precisely! And who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?" asked the hyperactive professor.
Cardin throws a piece of paper at Jaune, "Hey!"
Oobleck turned to Jaune, "Mr. Arc! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?"
Jaune was getting nervous as he tries to look around for an answer, "Uh, the advantage that the Faunus had over was..." He kept on looking around for an answer until he saw Isaac having two pictures of a knight and a pair of eyes, making him realize the answer, "Night Vision."
"Correct." said Oobleck, as he resumed his class making Jaune relieved, and gave Isaac a grateful glance, in which he returned it with a tip of his hat.
After Oobleck's lecture, the class is finished and every student began to leave the class. When Jaune reach the exit, he was quickly pushed to the ground by Cardin before leaving. Isaac glared at the jerk's back, he then helps Jaune by picking him up.
"Thanks." said Jaune.
"Are you ok, Jaune? Do you need some help?" asked Isaac.
"No, I'm fine I just need some time alone." said Jaune in a depressing way, as he walks away.
Isaac was about to say something, only for him to notice Jaune's depressing aura. He then gives the knight some personal space to clear some things up, he goes back to his team's room, unaware that Pyrrha followed Jaune.
Isaac now in team RWBY's room was just messing around with his phone, only for Ruby to called him up, "Hey Isaac that was nice of you helping Jaune out."
"Don't mention it, I rather not see Jaune getting embarrassed himself in front of the class, ruining his life due to some jerk." said Isaac.
"I'm surprised you know a lot Isaac back at Oobleck's class." said Weiss.
"Well it's kinda easy though, I read it in a book a long time ago, before I got enrolled in Beacon." said the wanderer, despite not being a super knowledgeable guy he can have some small knowledge.
"I'm glad you're nice towards that Faunus girl." said Blake with a smile.
"You mean Velvet, I just don't like seeing others being treated harshly due to their looks and appearance." said Isaac not liking, he remembers a lot from the memories of his predecessors where some kaijins/seijins treated harshly due to their looks and reputation because of their evil half, "The last thing we need is people being treated harshly because of their skin color, am I right?"
This made the team laugh.
"Speaking of Velvet, you're not trying to go to her rabbit hole?" teased Yang wiggling her eyebrows.
This made Isaac confuse, "Why would I go to her rabbit hole? I doubt she digs holes around in the campus." said the wanderer densely.
All Isaac get was just a sigh from his teammates(except for Ruby who was also confused), with that all of them went to sleep.
Beacon, rooftops...
Pyrrha followed Jaune on top of the rooftops of the academy, there they began to converse.
"I know I'm going through a hard time right now, but I'm not that depressed." said Jaune looking over the edge, "I can always be a farmer or something..."
"That's not why I brought you up here. Jaune, I know you're having a difficult time in class and that you're still not the strongest of fighters, so, I want to help you." said Pyrrha with a smile.
This surprised Jaune, "W-what?"
"We can train up here after class where no one can bother us!
"You think I need help?"
"N-no! No, that's not what I meant."
"But you just said it." said the knight feeling confuse now.
"Jaune, everybody needs a little push from time to time, it doesn't make you any different from the rest of us." said Pyrrha comforting her friend, "You made it to Beacon, that speaks volumes of what you're capable of."
Jaune just simply looked down and turns away from her, "You're wrong, I don't belong here."
This shocks Pyrrha, "That's a terrible thing to say, of course, you do!"
"No, I don't!" snapped Jaune surprising Pyrrha, "I wasn't really accepted into Beacon."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I didn't go to combat school, I didn't pass any tests. I didn't earn my spot at this Academy! I lied! I got my hands on some fake transcripts, and I lied" said Jaune admitting it in shame.
"What? But, why?"
"Because this is always what I've wanted to be! My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one, too, I was just never good enough." said Jaune sadly.
Pyrrha places a hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "Then let me help you."
"I don't want any help!" snapped Jaune, pushing her hand away, "I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"
"Jaune, I-"
I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own, then what good am I?" asked Jaune, "I just wanted to be a great hero like Isaac, along with those heroes that he talks about that time."
Pyrrha tries to say something but was unsure what to. She tried to reach him only for Jaune to step back.
"Just leave me alone." said Jaune.
"If that's what you think is best." said Pyrrha sadly, leaving him and going back to the dorm.
Jaune was now alone feeling guilty, and full of negativity within his heart. He then heard a mocking laugh and saw Cardin appearing on the roof, as he comes out of the window.
"Oh, Jaune..."
"Cardin!" exclaimed the knight fearfully.
A devilish smirk appeared on the arrogant brute's face, "I couldn't help but overhear you two from my dorm room. So, you snuck into Beacon, huh? I gotta say, Jaune, I never expected you to be such a rebel."
"Please, Cardin, please, don't tell anyone!" begged Jaune.
"Jaune, come on, I'd never rat on a friend like that." said Cardin.
"A friend?" asked Jaune in confusion.
Cardin wraps his arm around Jaune's neck, "Of course, we're friends now, Jauney boy. And the way I see it, as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time." He then lets go of Jaune, "That being said, I really don't have time to do those extra readings Dr. Oobleck gave us today, think you could take care of that for me, buddy?" asked Cardin rubbing the knight's hair.
Jaune just nodded reluctantly.
"That's what I thought. Don't worry Jaune, you're secret's safe with me." said Cardin going back into his dorm.
"What am I gonna do now?" asked Jaune, feeling stressed out by the things happening to him.
He heard a voice that scared him, "So a little knight want's to be a hero?"
"Who's there?!" demanded Jaune fearfully.
He kept on looking around only for a strange figure to appear in front of him, surprising him causing the knight to step back. The figure who appeared at Jaune, was a young man that wears strange clothing, he wears a large shirt(with sleeves) that covers his knees, the shirt has a peculiar design where on the right is color white and on the left side was color black, he wears black pants with black shoes
Jaune felt scared, something about this man feels wrong.
The man senses the knight's fear and approaches him, "Don't be afraid, I'm just here to help." said the man with a smile(a scary one to be precise).
W-what can you do?" stuttered Jaune.
"Simple really, I can fulfill your wish to make you become a true hero, where tales of your name can be reached throughout time and the universe." said the man raising his arms.
"You can do that?"
"Of course my young friend, all I need to do, is do this." the man shoots out a small purple orb towards Jaune's chest.
Jaune braces himself and notices that he wasn't feeling any pain, "That feels weird."
"Rest assured your wish will come true in due time." said the man.
"Who are you?" asked Jaune.
"My name is simply Kirisaki nothing more. But I need you to forget about this conversation, forget about me and act as nothing happened. Don't want the Cosmic Wanderer to find out about me." said Kirisaki making Jaune's eyes widened at the last name.
"Cosmic Wanderer?! You mean Isa-" He stop when Kirisaki snapped his fingers, causing him to lose unconscious.
Jaune opened his eyes and felt strange for a bit, and notice that he still on the rooftop, he quickly picked himself up and goes back to his dorm and tries to do Cardin's bidding. Unaware to the knight Kirisaki is watching him, and he has a sinister smile on his face.
"All in the will of Dark Killer." said Kirisaki his eyes glowing purple.
It was nighttime, and all of the students in Beacon are enjoying some peace and quiet. In JNPR's room where all the team(except Jaune) are minding their own business. Pyrrha was staring out in the distance due to her discussion with Jaune, Nora jumping up and down on her bed, and Ren is cleaning up his weapon StormFlower. They notice their leader is hanging out with CRDL which made them concerned.
"How come Jaune gets home so late?" asked Nora.
"He's become rather scarce since he started fraternizing with Cardin." said Ren cleaning his weapon.
"That's weird, doesn't he know we have a field trip tomorrow? We need our rest!" exclaimed Nora in the air before landing down on her bed.
"I'm sure our leader knows exactly what he's doing." said Pyrrha angrily.
This makes Nora and Ren look at each other in concern.
"Hmm... I guess so." said Nora.
Unknown to them, Jaune was outside of the dorm listening to every part of their conversation through the small gap of the door. He closes the door in shame, feeling worse.
"Jaune, are you alright?" asked a voice in concern.
Jaune got startled a bit and turned around and see Isaac wearing a white shirt and black shorts, "Oh! Hey, Isaac."
"Did you accidentally lock yourself out again? Cause you need to be mindful around your surroundings." said Isaac placing a hand on his hip.
"Uh nope, I got my Scroll right here!" He pulled out his scroll and make a nervous laugh.
Isaac narrowed his eyes and sense something wrong with Jaune, "C'mon Jaune don't hide it, I know there's something troubling you. Tell me what's wrong?"
"*sigh* I-I messed up, I did something I shouldn't have and now Cardin's got me on a leash and Pyrrha won't even talk to me, I'm starting to think coming to this school was a bad idea." said Jaune as he sits down on the floor with a depressed look, "I'm a failure."
Isaac looks at him, then takes a seat next to him, "Jaune all of us make stupid mistakes and failures, nobody is perfect, even me though. If we understand our failures, then we can always make them right. Besides you're a leader now, you can't fail here."
"But what if I fail as a leader?" asked the knight unsurely.
"You don't, if you're not a true leader then how come Ozpin has not expelled you right now?" pointed out Isaac.
This surprised Jaune, how is Ozpin not expelling him right now? Surely he found out about those fake transcripts.
"The reason why Ozpin chose you to be a leader is that he saw a man with infinite potential where he can lead his allies into battle and ready to help those in need. If you worry only about your own problems then you only care for yourself, a true leader always values his allies above else along with others. You are needed Jaune, and your team needs you."
Jaune couldn't but feel awe in his words.
"Also never gave up Jaune, as long as you did that you can carve into a better future." said Isaac as he stood up, "Oh it's midnight already, gotta go Jaune see you tomorrow."
He walks away from Jaune leaving him behind with his thoughts. While Isaac was walking he couldn't help but sense something malevolent within Jaune, he doesn't know why but he'll figure it out tomorrow.
Morning, Forever Falls...
All the students are now on a field trip, as they walk through the forests of Forever Falls, Isaac couldn't help but admired the trees and took out the Build Phone taking pictures of them.
"Yes, students, the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful, but we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest, and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so." said Glynfa, "Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap. However, this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates, we will rendezvous back here at 4 o'clock, have fun!"
All of the students began to collect samples from the trees and Isaac noticed Jaune carrying a bunch of jars, going with Cardin instead of his team, making him worried especially that he sense the malevolence within Jaune growing stronger, which made him concerned.
Isaac was now with RWBY and NPR are collecting samples, Isaac manages to collect some of the samples in the jar, while he takes a few ones for his sandwiches, he saw Nora trying to take them, but he quickly slaps her hand away.
"No Nora, those are for my special sandwiches." said Isaac with a small glare.
Nora just let out a sad sigh, with Ren scolding her.
Not wanting to make her feel bad, he gave her a few samples which surprised her, "Here for my fellow Food Addiction Club member." said Isaac with a smile.
This made Nora happy and quickly gave Isaac a hug, "Food Addiction Club forever!" Isaac just pats the girl's back.
Up in the hill, all of them are being watched by CRDL and Jaune.
"Cardin, what's going on?" asked Jaune.
"Payback." growled Cardin glaring at Isaac for the humiliation.
This made Jaune gasps, "Isaac. Wh-what are you-?"
"That's the guy, fedora freak thinks he's so special and cool." said Cardin as he took out a box, "Last night, old Jaune here managed to round up an entire box of Rapier Wasps, and now, we're gonna put him to work."
This made Jaune nervous.
"Now, according to one of the essays you wrote for me last week, these nasty things looove sweets. I'm thinking it's time we teach him a thing or two." said Cardin menacingly.
Cardin then drops a jar filled with sap on Jaune's hands.
"An you're going to do it."
"Do what?" asked Jaune in confusion.
"Hit him with the sap! Either that, or I'll have a chat with Goodwitch, and you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon." threatened Cardin.
Jaune stared at the jar for a moment before then to team CRDL who had devilish grins on their faces. He was about to throw the sap not wanting to be exposed, but stop as he stared at the smiling Pyrrha and the niceness of Isaac, he began to shake unknown what to do and was conflicted by the choices he makes, inside was the strange orb given by Kirisaki is getting bigger absorbing Jaune's negativity. He was about to throw it until he remembered Isaac's words...
If you worry only about your own problems then you only care for yourself, a true leader always values his allies above else along with others. You are needed Jaune, and your team needs you."
Jaune remembered the words Isaac gave him, he shifts his gaze and saw Isaac having fun with Ruby and Nora, he recalled the words that it gave him. Whenever he heard it, it began to make an impact on his body, and the strange orb feeding on his negativity stopped. With some silence, he stops raising the jar and lowered his arms.
"No." said Jaune in a silent strong voice.
"What did you say?" growled Cardin.
"I said, NO!" yelled out Jaune throwing the jar at Cardin's chest, surprising his teammates.
Isaac's words finally gave him the courage to stand up.
"You're a bully, Cardin, you pick on the weak just to make you feel good, but no more. Say what you want to Goodwitch, I won't let you harm my team." growled Jaune determinedly.
"Oh, you've done it now." growled Cardin.
Cardin's team grab hold of Jaune, and Cardin began to beat him up. While Jaune may have been getting beaten up by Cardin, he still won't go down which pissed off Cardin more as he rapidly punches the knight. The orb within Jaune began to get unstable due to Jaune no longer expressing negativity, which causes it to burst out of Jaune's chest surprising Cardin making him fall down to the ground. The purple orb was in the air then landed straight into a cave colliding with something, letting out a purple shockwave that can be seen miles away.
"What was that?!" exclaimed Russel shockingly.
His question was answered, when a growl came from the trees. Coming out of the trees was an Ursa, but the Grimm looks different now, the Ursa looks like a muscular humanoid with thick black armor with white spikes on it, glowing purple lines surrounded its body, and on its right hand was an ax but the handle is color black with the blade white. The humanoid Ursa let out a roar, causing all of the members of CRDL to run away in fear. The humanoid Grimm sniff around the air and saw the sap on Cardin's armor, it quickly rushed towards Cardin knocking away his mace.
Back with RWBY, NPR, and Isaac, they were just talking before he senses something familiar and sinister. He turned and saw the rest of Cardin's team running away.
Isaac grabs Russel, "What's going on?"
"Ursa, it got Cardin." said Russel, before he ran away.
"Jaune!" exclaimed Pyrrha.
"Yang!" called out Ruby, "You and Blake, go get Professor Goodwitch." The two of them nodded and run away.
"You two go with them! There might be more!" ordered Pyrrha.
Ruby and Weiss nodded taking out their weapons, while Isaac pulled out his sword. RW followed after BY, while Isaac and Pyrrha ran towards Jaune's location. On a mysterious location, Kirisaki senses the 'gift' he has given to Jaune vanish making him shakes his head in disappointment.
"A pity young knight, you have many potentials in using that negativity to achieve what you wanted. But alas you wasted it, oh well time for me to have fun." said Kirirsaki with a smile, as he throws a purple orb at a group of Beowolves.
Meanwhile, Cardin was trying to fight off the powerful Ursa with his bare fist but completely failed. The Ursa simply grab his arm, rapidly punches him making Cardin roar in pain, the Ursa uses its ax to rapidly slash him in the chest causing sparks to come off. Cardin falls down in pain and saw the ax of the Grimm coming down forcing him to close his eyes, he felt nothing for a few seconds and saw Jaune grunting blocking the ax of the Grimm with his sword.
"You may be a jerk and a bully, but you don't deserve to die here." said Jaune to Cardin, who looks shocked before passing out.
The knight then pushed back the Grimm causing it to stagger back, Jaune then rushed forward rapidly slashing its chest but it did little damage surprising Jaune, the Ursa growled at him and covered itself in red aura slashing the knight in the chest with its ax sending Jaune crashing to the ground. Jaune panted realizing how freaking strong the Grimm is, he looks into his scroll, noticing his aura meter is in orange. He was shocked at how strong the Ursa was, he quickly rolled away from the swing of the Ursa and rapidly slashed its back, only for the Ursa to get annoyed and punch Jaune away making him crash into the tree, he grunted and look up and saw the Grimm raising its ax ready to kill him, only for the Grimm to get pushed back by a barrage of bullets.
Jaune looks for the source for who shot it and saw Isaac and Pyrrha coming his way.
Pyrrha get near Jaune's location and kneeled down, "Jaune! Are you okay?" asked Pyrrha in concern.
He just grunted, "Yeah, I'm fine but still that Grimm it's different from the one we face regularly."
Pyrrha looked and Jaune was right, the Grimm look different and notice the strange armor, weapon, and the fact that it stood straight up like a human. Isaac notices it as well and he knows why the Ursa change and the fact that he senses the energy within it, meaning one thing...
"Dark Chaos Energy." said Isaac with a stern look on his face, "Jaune mind explaining to me what happened?"
"I don't know when Cardin and his team were beating me up, a strange purple orb came out of my chest, then that Ursa came out." explained Jaune.
Isaac figures out that the strange orb has merged with the Ursa and began to speculate, that something/someone put that strange orb within Jaune and absorbs his negativity using the orb, he thinks that it might be Dark Killer's lackeys but who? Many questions filled his head, but he'll figure it later, right now they must defeat that Chaos-infused Grimm. Before he could fight it off, he senses other Dark Chaos energy signatures.
"Guys prepare yourself, we got company." said Isaac, making the other two confused.
Groups of Beowolf Grimm came out of the woods and surrounded them, they stood by the Ursa in which they act live bodyguards around it. What's strange about Beowolves is that have purple lines on their bodies, just like with Ursa.
Isaac even though, he's strong he can be overwhelmed by this amount of Chaos users. So he turned to the students, "Hey Pyrrha is your Aura full?"
Pyrrha checks her scroll and saw that she has a good amount, "Mine's full."
Isaac nodded, he turns to Jaune, "How about you Jaune, do you have enough Aura?"
Jaune checks his, and despite being orange he has enough Aura, "I have enough. Why did you ask us?"
"Cause we're gonna fight our way through this." said Isaac determinedly making them shocked, "Yes, I know there's a lot of them but its the only way for us to survive. Not to mention we can't let these things live otherwise they'll destroy Vale."
The two of them pondered a bit before they look at Isaac with determined looks on their faces.
"Very well, I'll fight them through the very end." said Pyrrha preparing her spear and shield.
"Count me in as well." said Jaune preparing his sword and shield.
"Good." nodded Isaac.
Jaune realizes something, "Hey shouldn't you check your Aura too, Isaac?"
"No I don't have Aura." said Isaac, making them shock.
"Then how come you're still standing despite the damage you take from the initiation?" asked Pyrrha.
"Look, I'll tell you guys another time right now we got a pair of dogs and bear to took down." said Isaac making them nod in understanding, "Me and Pyrrha will try to take down those Grimm, while you Jaune take care of Mr. Bear over there." pointed out Isaac.
Pyrrha nodded, while Jaune was shocked, "Me taking down that Ursa?! I can't take that thing down Isaac, it just takes my attack like nothing."
"Then, I'll give you this." Isaac then tossed something into Jaune's hands, surprising him, "Give that back to me, after we finish this."
On Jaune's hands was the Zeronos Driver.
"Use that, c'mon Pyrrha let's go!" said Isaac towards Pyrrha, "And here's a boost." He shoots out a small orb that hits Pyrrha's weapons, in which they glow orange.
"Thanks." Pyrrha then charged towards the group of Beowolves.
Pyrrha stabs one in the head killing it, she slashes the one behind her, then stabs another one in the chest. She rapidly slashes a group of them, then converts her spear into a rifle shooting down a few of them from far away. She then turns it back into a spear, then hurls it towards its chest making it pinned on tree killing it, she throws her shield on a group of Beowolves slicing their heads off and ricocheting on their bodies returning to her right arm, she then held out her hand in which her spear goes towards it and she grabs proceeding to fight all the Beowolves.
"Dang wasn't expecting Pyrrha to be that tough. Well my friend it looks like your about to fight after all." said Isaac referring to the voice in his head.
"About time, I'm itching for some action!" said the grumpy voice.
"Let's go!" Isaac summoned a belt around his waist.
The belt was colored gray and in the middle was a circle design with a sideways 'T' on it. It has four different colored buttons red, blue, yellow, and purple. This the Den-O driver, Isaac then press the red button causing it to emit music that comes from a train, he then pulls out a black casing and swipes it across the belt, "Henshin."
SWORD FORM
White pixels surrounded his body covering him, head to toe in black-suited armor with white designs. Then a small train surrounded his body, causing red armor parts to appear around him, then planted themselves on his body. A red metallic peach slide down on his helmet then spread apart turning into a visor with an antenna. This is Kamen Rider Den-O.
"Ore Sanjou!" announced Den-O while doing a pose, "So you dogs want to fight, huh? Let me say this: from start to finish, I'm a climax all the way! Ikuze! Ikuze! Ikuze!" Den-O then charged at the group of Beowolves.
He sends them flying when charged over them, he rapidly punches one and sends it flying, he grabs another one in the snout and throwing it on its own companion, he kept punching another one in the face then punch through its chest, and another he kicks it in the nuts making it howl in pain.
"How do you like that, huh?" asked Den-O taunting one of them, "Time to bring out the big guns." He then pulls out 4 metallic devices from the sides of the belt, then combines them into a single machine, which causes a red blade to pop out, this is the DenGasher in sword mode.
"Hope you like grinded meat? Cause, I'm putting wolf in it!" He charged at the group with his sword raised in the air.
He rapidly slashes a group of them making them turn into shadowy mists, he stabs another one in the back and rapidly slashes another one from his right side, he then stabs the sword in the ground and spins around it rapidly while kicking the wolves along the way, he spins around like a tornado rapidly slashing a group of Beowolves. He did a combination of punches and slashes towards the group of wolves taking them down.
Jaune looks and saw his friends fighting for their lives, he looks down at the belt that Isaac gave him. He looks up and saw the humanoid Ursa growling at him, a determined look appeared on his face, as he wrapped around the belt on his waist.
"I may have a lot of things that will cause problems in my life, but what matters to me most was my friend's lives, that's what matters!" said Jaune pulling out a green card from the side of the belt, and pressing a button on top it making it play music.
"Henshin."Jaune then inserts the card on the belt.
ALTAIR FORM
Green pixels surround his body covering him, head to toe in some sort of armor with green designs. Then on his helmet, coming down were two metallic bulls forming into 'eyes' of the helmet. This is Kamen Rider Zeronos.
Zeronos then raised his finger in the air, which caused lightning to rained down in the sky destroying a nearby tree. He pulls out metallic pieces from the side of the belt forming it into a large sword, this is the ZeroGasher.
"Let me say this to start, I am fairly strong!" declared Zeronos doing a pose with the sword, "Whoa I sounded cool for a moment there." said Zeronos to himself.
Den-O notices this, "Tch, just like the previous one that my predecessor remembered, he acted cool."
"Momotaros, focused!" said Isaac within his head, noticing the Beowolf coming right at him.
He just simply slash it in half causing it to turn into black mists, "Bad mistake trying to attack me, dogshit." said Den-O before charging back at the group of wolves.
Zeronos then charge at the Ursa, he and the Grimm exchange slashes but Jaune felt stronger as he slashed the Grimm's chest making it roar in pain. Zeronos then rapidly punches its chest then did multiple kicks to it. The Grimm growled at him and glowed red and shoots out an energy slash attack from its ax hitting Zeronos in the chest making him grunt, he notices that it hurt a little bit thinking that the armor protects him, the rider then morph the sword into gun mode then rapidly shoots the Grimm in the chest making it roar in pain, Zeronos runs around it in a circle formation rapidly shooting it forcing the Ursa to block but the energy bullets pierce its tough body making it grunt in pain. Then Zeronos charges at the Grimm rapidly slashes it, making it roar in pain.
Den-O manages to finish off another group of Beowolves and notice that there's a few of them, "Hey Vomit boy! Let's finish this!" called out Den-O.
"It's Jaune! But ok." said Zeronos.
Den-O pulled the Rider pass and scanned it against the belt.
FULL CHARGE
Red electricity filled the sword with energy, "My Special Attack, Part 1." announced Den-O, which caused the blade to cover in red energy, then he rapidly slashes all the remaining group of Beowolves engulfing them in an explosion.
Zeronos then insert the card on the ZeroGasher causing it to cover in green energy.
FULL CHARGE
The green rider charged at Ursa, who lets out a roar and covered its ax in purple energy then charge at him as well, Zeronos did a powerful energy slash with the Grimm doing the same, they slash each other which cause them to stay still for a few second before the Ursa roared in pain covered in electricity before exploding.
Zeronos panted and pulls out the card, engulfing him in a bright light turning him back into Jaune, who was panting heavily.
"That fight took a lot out of me." said Jaune panting on his knees.
"Thanks for the assist, Momotaros." said Isaac to the rider.
"Don't mention it, call me again if there's another action coming." said Den-O towards his host.
"Ok." The belt on his waist vanishes, engulfing him in a bright light turning Isaac back to normal, with a red spectral figure coming out of him.
Isaac then approaches Jaune and helps him get up, the knight saw his friend lending a hand in which he grabs and helps him stood up. Jaune then gave back the Zeronos belt to Isaac, which he took it back into his pocket dimension.
"Jaune, I'm proud of you for standing up." said Isaac with a smile.
"Thanks." said Jaune with also a smile.
Pyrrha groups up with them who manages to finish off the remaining Grimm and approach her friends, she was glad Jaune was alright and also proud that he stands up for himself and others. The three of them approach the unconscious Cardin, who then wakes up wondering what happened, he saw the three of them had stern looks on them and Jaune told him to never mess with his friends ever again in a serious tone. With that, they manage to regroup with RWBY along with the other students...
It was nighttime in Beacon, and Isaac was on top of the rooftops staring into the night sky wondering, who put that strange orb within Jaune, many questions filled his head. He was broke out of his thoughts when he saw Jaune calling out to him from the entrance of the roof.
"Hey, Isaac." said Jaune.
"What's up?" asked the wanderer.
"I have to confessed." said Jaune in a straight look, which made Isaac raised an eyebrow.
"The reason why I hang out with Cardin during those past weeks is that he found out about my secret that I have fake transcripts to enter Beacon and he tried to ake me hurt you and everyone. I shouldn't push everyone away due to my mistake and Pyrrha said to tell you about this." said Jaune.
Isaac has a shadowed look on his eyes with his hat covering it, Jaune feels nervous thinking he might make his friend mad, he saw him raise a hand he quickly close his eyes, preparing for the hit. Except he didn't feel any pain or impact, he saw Isaac's hand on his shoulder and his face has a smile on it.
"Don't worry it all happened in the past, I'm not gonna judge you on how you come here, what mattered is that you move on and be done with it." said Isaac with a smile. "Besides, I doubt Ozpin ignore those transcripts and probably see through it and enrolled you in due to your potential."
This made Jaune smile, "Thanks. Wanna come to our dorm? Ren is making that special syrup-filled pancakes and sandwiches."
"Sure." Isaac nodded.
They go to the entrance of the rooftop, and enter it, walking in the hallways. Jaune however has another thing to asked.
"Hey, Isaac I got a question?" asked the knight.
"Sure what is it?" said Isaac.
"Earlier I had a strange vision or dream." said Jaune making Isaac confuse.
"A vision?"
"Yeah, you see in that vision, I saw a weird man with white/black clothing and pulls out this strange purple orb inserting it into my chest, then everything went black." explained Jaune, "Do you know what that means?"
"A weird man with white/black clothing, why does that feel familiar?" thought Isaac to himself, "Sorry Jaune, even with my knowledge I can't seem to figure it out."
"That's a shame. Anyway let's hurry, Nora might be hogging all the sap." said Jaune walking faster.
"Yeah." said Isaac following him, "Still, why do I have a bad feeling about that man, more worse than Kei?"
To be continued...
FINALLY, I'M DONE! DEAR GOD THIS CHAPTER TOOK ME A LONG TIME AND WE'RE ALMOST CLOSE TO FINISHING THE RWBY ARC.
Just to be clear guys this is not the Momotaros that fought with Ryutaro, but rather a reincarnation of him and Isaac's own Imagin, he still acts like the original Momotaros. This will also be the same for other partners of the Kamen Riders, Super Sentai, and Ultraman.