Tekkadan Dorm
It was a new day for Beacon's students and once again, Naoto was the second person in Tekkadan to wake up. This time, Kazuki was actually waiting for his teammates, though he wasn't wearing his uniform for some reason.
"It's about time you woke up." He said to him.
"Yeah, well, not all of us can be up before the sun rises like you Mr. World-traveler." Naoto replied with a somewhat snarky attitude, as he had stayed up late at the arcade with team RWBY, Noel and Amane, Amane being an absolute God at those dancing games.
"Yeah, well.. I need you to cover for me." Kazuki told his teammate, tightening his gloves.
"What for…?" Naoto asked, slightly suspicious.
"There's… something I have to do.." He told him.
"Is it looking for the reason you're alive again? Well… not ALIVE alive but you get what I mean." Naoto asks.
"That's one thing, but yeah. I need you to cover for me, don't know when I'll be back though…" Kazuki said, walking to the window and opening it.
"Hey! What're you-!?" He doesn't finish as Kazuki JUMPS out the window, he rushes to it only to see…. Nothing… Kazuki was gone, "I REALLY need to stop being surprised at stuff like this…" He muttered to himself.
Professor Port's Class - Grimm Studies
The five teams of RJNN, BLAST, RWBY, JNPR and Tekkadan, minus Kazuki, were all currently sitting through one of Professor Port's "stories" about how he beat an Ursa Major with a rock and a stick. Now normally this would be absolutely too crazy to actually be possible but Naoto had fought against a God of Destruction - albeit a fake one - alongside his alternate self/nephew and had just seen his team leader jump out of a window from a five story drop and just vanish. Kazuma was also a literal magic user and somehow had managed to retain some of Terumi's abilities, things he's passing off as his Semblance.
Unlike everyone else in the room, except for Ragna, Naoto was actually able to believe that Port pulled it off, given the man's high life-force and everything. He had no idea if this world's Ragna could see those things but he wasn't gonna ask. As it stood however, Ragna, Tao, Nora, Yang and Makoto had each fallen asleep, Naoto, Noel and Ruby were trying their best to stay awake and finally, Kazuma, Weiss, Jaune and Jin were taking down notes, diligently. Kazuma because he didn't really require sleep and this class was still useful to him and Naoto as Kazuki, the bastard, didn't bother explaining the Grimm at all to either of them.
Kazuki did at least give them a hint as to why Professor Port's lectures were so long and drawn out, as he hid key details about a Grimm's weakness in the stories to catch out those who don't pay attention, regardless if he actually pulled off what he was claiming or not. Still wasn't helping Naoto keep his eyes open as he was slowly dozing off.
Thankfully, the class was coming to an end this meant that the exciting part was about to begin. According to Weiss, the story he told on the day she shouted at Ruby was about a Boarbatusk Grimm. And since this story was about an Ursa Major-
"Now, who among you thinks you would be able to take down a Grimm as fearsome as that on your own?" Port asked the class, immediately, Naoto's hand shot up, and Jin's hand had also gone up but not as fast, which confused Naoto as he didn't seem to be the type to show off.
"Very well, Mr. Kurogane, if you would." Port called him down.
[Cue: BlazBlue Central Fiction OST: Jaeger]
Naoto walked down to the front of the class, earning a thumbs up from Jaune as a friendly gesture, while Ragna had woken up and Pyrrha stared at him. Right, she was the Invincible Girl who never lost a fight. No doubt she and Ragna wanted to see what he could do. Fine, he could show a little demonstration.
"I hope you're ready, Mr. Kurogane, this Ursa Major is a new discovery, green markings seem to be on its body." Port told him, opening the cage and, surely enough, an Ursa Major had come out with strange green markings. They were a dark green so it can't have been one made by this Dr. Merlot guy Kazuki told him and Kazuma about.
Not even giving Naoto a chance to think, the Grimm let out a roar and charged right at him, swinging it's claws downwards to crush him, and it would have, had Naoto not sidestepped it and delivered a kick to its face. It didn't like that. Charging at him again, the Ursa Major charged forwards in a biting motion. Though he wasn't the best at it, Naoto made a shield of his blood to stop the attack that succeeded, using the time of confusion that hit the Grimm, Naoto charged at it himself. Unleashing a series of punches and kicks.
Wanting to deal with the Grimm quickly as there wasn't much time left in the class, Naoto started to utilize his blood, cutting and slashing at the Grimm with Blood-Swords and Blood-Whips.
The Ursa tried to retaliate by slamming its entire body onto Naoto, only for it's plan to backfire as Naoto now held a Blood-Axe that cut into the Grimm's shoulder, cleaving the arm off.
"Is that it?" Naoto taunted, showing that the Grimm could understand him as it was clearly pissed, "I'm done playing games." He said
Rushing forward and leaving behind blue afterimages, Naoto launched into more series of blood-enhanced punches and kicks.
"BANISHING FANG!"
He yelled as he punched the Ursa in the face, followed up by a kick to it's neck and finishing with an uppercut that bent the Ursa's head so far back that you could hear a snap. The Ursa's body fell limp onto the floor, dissipating in a black smoke
[Song End]
"Bravo! Well done, I'd have never imagined killing a Grimm as strong as this with my bare hands!" Port said, letting out a chuckle, "Or maybe I did?" He said to himself aloud, no doubt already having an idea as to what the next lecture would be like, "That's all for this class, you are all dismissed, and good work Mr. Kurogane, keep it up!" Port said as he dismissed the class.
In the halls on the way to Combat Class, Naoto was approached by Jaune and Ruby.
"That was SO cool! Seriously!? Are you really self-taught!?" Ruby asked him.
"Yeah, why? Want me to teach you?" He asked back.
"What? N-no! I mean, we couldn't! Besides I'm more of a sword and shield guy and-" "YES PLEASE!" Jaune was interrupted by Ruby who seemed oddly excited.
"I'm surprised, I thought that you'd want to avoid fist-fights." Naoto said, remembering what Kazuki and later Yang had told him about Ruby's non-existent hand to hand combat skills.
"Well, I mean, yeah… but Kazuki told me that there's a chance I might lose Crescent Rose, I told him that'd never happen but then he actually brought up some good points…" She admitted.
"No doubt that's from the other timelines then…" He thought to himself, "Well sorry Ruby but you're better off asking your Sister or Kazuki, I'm not the teaching type." he told her.
"Oh well, at least you tried," Jaune said.
Lunch Hall
The teams had just finished Combat class and were now enjoying their lunch, the only matches that had happened were two slaughters, Jaune vs Cardin and then Ragna vs an overconfident Cardin, and later was Ruby vs Ren with Ruby being victorious.
"So, did you ever fight for a mercenary group?" Bullet asked Naoto.
"No, I just sorta.. Took up hand to hand." He told her.
"Then I can't WAIT to fight you in Goodwitch's class tomorrow!" Yang said, slamming her fists together, a hungry grin on her face that reminded Naoto of Azrael.
Makoto was looking around the lunch hall, completely blocking out the conversation going on, that was, until Noel poked her.
"Makoto? Is everything alright?" She asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah, hey Naoto." She called.
"Yeah?"
"Where's Kazuki? Is he alright?"
"Yeah, he's just not feeling well, when I woke up I uh… found him throwing up in the toilet" He told her, trying to make sure no one found out he was gone.
"Oh, I see…"
"He'll be fine, he just needs a day's rest and he'll be back to normal tomorrow." Kazuma told her, once again having nothing but a bowl of hard-boiled eggs.
"Okay, now I'M starting to think you're a snake faunas." Makoto told him, earning a glare from him that was unnerving.
Over on the other side of the table, Nora was telling everyone who was listening a story of how she and Ren had beaten several Ursa.
"So there we were, in the middle of the Night," Nora said, telling her story.
"It was day," Ren corrected her.
"We were surrounded by Ursa,"
"They were Beowolves,"
"DOZENS OF THEM"
"There were two,"
"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 declared, finishing her story.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren said.
"WOW! Tell meow more! I like that story." Tao had said, enjoying Nora's exaggerated story.
"Is there something wrong Jaune?" Pyrrha had asked out of concern for her friend.
"Oh, um, I'm fine Pyrrha." Jaune had said trying - and failing - to convince her.
"Are you still thinking about your match with Cardin? You know everyone loses a few matches every now and then so don't worry about it. Or is he messing with you again?" Amane had said to Jaune, catching the attention of the other teams at the table.
"What? No, he's not messing with me, he's just messing around! I mean, that's what guys like us tend to do." Jaune said, trying - and again, failing - to reassure his friends.
"You know if you're having trouble you can talk to us." Pyrrha had told him.
"There is no trouble, I mean, tell me one time he acts mean to me." Jaune said to them.
"There are the times he always knocks you down on purpose." Ruby told him.
"Activating your shield to stop you from getting into the classroom." Ren said.
"Stuffing you into your locker and launching it off while you were still inside." Pyrrha told him.
"I didn't land that far from school! And Besides, he acts like a jerk to everyone!" He told them pointing to Cardin harassing Velvet.
"Wow, told you they were real!" Cardin jeered to his team, causing them all to laugh at the faunas' expense.
"Please stop...!" Velvet, a rabbit faunas, pleaded.
"People messing with others, I can't stand people like that." Pyrrha said, aloud.
Just as Naoto and Ragna were about to go over and put him in his place, Kazuma got up and started walking over.
"What do you want?" Cardin asked, irritated as he pulled on Velvet's ears.
[Cue: BlazBlue: Chronophantasma: Gluttony Fang II]
"I'm honestly not sure if you're blind, deaf or just plain stupid but you're clearly hurting the poor girl, so would you mind letting her go." Kazuma said to him, everyone in the lunch hall was now looking to see what would happen.
"Shove off, Animal lover." One of Cardin's teammates said to him.
"Oh you misunderstood," He said, gripping Cardin's arm tightly, "I WASN'T asking." He said as he tightened his grip on Cardin's arm, causing him to let go of Velvet before he kicked him onto the table, cracking it and spraying food everywhere.
"You damn Asshole!" Dove said as he got up and charged at Kazuma.
"Please, you lot are the LAST people who should be calling ANYONE assholes." Kazuma told them as he ducked under his punch, before grabbing one of the cafeteria knives and striking at the bully with it.
"Damn it, GET HIM!" Cardin ordered as he got up and his entire team started to gang up on Kazuma.
Ragna got up to go and help but Naoto held his arm out, "He's got this." He told him.
Kazuma was dodging and weaving around team CRDL's attacks easily. Each time one of them went in to hit him, he'd bend back so far that it looked unnatural before slashing at them with twin cafeteria knives.
Much to everyone's surprise, one of the team's members had run off screaming.
"Get back here coward!" Cardin ordered, only for it to fall on deaf ears, he looked to his other teammates and saw that they were all frozen with fear, he looked to Kazuma and saw why. Those eyes. Those golden snake-like eyes. It was as if he was staring right into your soul. Suddenly, Kazuma rushed right at Cardin with the knives, delivering a strong strike to the bully's face. If it wasn't for his aura, Cardin would be blind right now, that or dead.
One of his team members tried to sneak up behind him only-
"SERPENT'S INFERNAL RAPTURE!" for Kazuma to turn around completely and kick him in the chin so hard he sent him to the roof. He turned back to Cardin and his other teammate.
"I'm going to give you this warning once and once only," He told him, opening one of his eyes, revealing the golden snake-like eye, "Don't ever let me catch you pulling this kind of crap with ANYONE…" He leaned in, "Got it?"
Cardin and his other teammate then ran off, leaving behind their other teammate who had finally fallen from the roof, before also running off.
[End Song]
Kazuma then walked back to his table, not at all noticing the stares he was getting until he sat down, "What?" he asked.
"N-Nothing just…" Makoto said.
"You took on an entire team, all by yourself… and without even breaking a sweat…" Noel had finished.
"What made you go over?" Ragna asked.
"He was starting to remind me of the bastard you and I share a mutual hatred of. Hurting others for the fun of it…." Kazuma told him, going back to his hard-boiled eggs.
"Is he REALLY related to Terumi? And if he is, does that mean he was telling the truth…?" Ragna thought to himself.
Dorm Hallways
Makoto was on her way to Tekkadan's dorm to check up on Kazuki, seeing as how he had been gone most of the day. It was currently a free period, meaning students could do whatever they wanted.
She was about to go in only for Naoto to open the door.
"Hey, is Kazuki ok in there?" She asked
"No, he's currently throwing up in the bathroom." He lied.
"I don't hear anything though."
"He asked me to soundproof it, no idea why though." He lied, again, "He'll be better tomorrow, promise.
"Okay then…" Makoto said as she walked away.
"Seriously… just where the hell did you go Kazuki?" Naoto thought to himself.
Vale Outskirts, White Fang Encampment
On the outskirts of Vale, there was what looked to be a militaristic encampment being patrolled by men and women with white clothing and Grimm Masks. On the backs of the clothing and on some of the tents was the image of a bear with 3 red slashes behind it. This was a White-Fang encampment, the White-Fang being a peaceful, rights seeking group turned terrorist organization.
"Hey," one of the guards at the gate called out to his guard buddy, he was a bear faunas.
"What?" She responded, not amused and clearly bored, she was leopard faunas.
"Did you hear?"
"About what?"
"About what happened to the other encampments around Vale's outskirts."
"Jerry, swear to Gods, if this is another forest monster you came up with I'm gonna-!"
"No! It's real I swear! Ask anyone here who came from another encampment!" The bear faunas, named Jerry quickly responded.
The female guard let out a long sigh, "Fine, what is it?"
"Apparently, someone or something's been wiping out the encampments and outposts, the only survivors are those who left when it tells them to."
"What? And the rest?"
"Bits and pieces everywhere... cut up… guts and the insides of our brothers and sisters all spilled on the ground…" He shuddered, "I'm gonna be honest, I'm terrified."
"Damn human… how could one human do that much?!"
"That's the thing… it's a faunas….
"What..!?"
"Yeah, it's a faunas, supposedly a wolf faunas, he has black hair and pure white eyes."
"Pure White Eyes? What, like, no pupil or… anything?"
"Nope, nothing and…" he sniffs the air
"What is it?"
"Blood… from inside the encampment…."
[Cue: Fate/Zero Original Soundtrack - 06 The Gilgamesh]
The two guards rush to the center and are horrified to find their highest ranking officer cut in half. Standing above his remains is a black suit of armor, it's legs and arms are white and has what looks like yellow rib-caged styled vents on the chest. In its left hand, is a long red spear with some strange marking going all across it, it has a silver pointed butt. In its other hand is a long steel staff emitting two bright green blades of energy in the style of scythe blades, with one beam blade wing placed above another.
"Oh dear Gods…." Jerry muttered, dropping his gun, "It's him…."
"WHAT?!"
"Ah, Good, now everyone's here. I shall repeat my warning again, leave the White Fang… or die a gruesome and painful death…" A voice from the armor told them.
"L-Like hell!"
"Sara are you CRAZY?!" Jerry asked his guard buddy
"We aren't giving up until those damned humans treat us as equals!" she told the armor.
"Foolish, naive girl… the more violence you lot use in your attempts to gain Equal Rights, the longer it will truly take for Humanity to treat faunas as equals. Violence breeds more violence. I am not against killing my own kind. All you're doing is causing more resentment for faunas kind. I intend to nip this problem in the bud… tell me… where is Adam Taurus? Once I get rid of the real extremists, then maybe, you will try the peaceful approach again. It will take time, but the longer you use violence, the longer it will take. Equality is not gained in a single lifetime but takes generations." The voice told them all.
"And what about you!? You're a faunas too aren't you?!" Sara asked it.
"Indeed, I am… and I intend to make sure that no more innocents die in the war Taurus intends to wage against humanity, be it human or faunas. In killing innocent humans who have done nothing wrong, Taurus is simply proving Humanity's claims that we're monsters right. Now tell me. Where. Is. Adam. TAURUS!?" The voice boomed, causing everyone there to stiffen in fear. "So I take it none of you know?" They all either didn't answer or just shook their heads, "I see, in that case, I offer you this one chance to leave the white fang for good, your masks do not hide your identity, I know what you look like, so if I catch you at another base or encampment, I WILL kill you first." The voice warned.
Several of the members removed their masks and left… almost all of them, "Hold it", the voice said, causing the fleeing faunas to stiffen, "And just WHERE do you think YOU'RE going!?" The voice asked, as it stabbed through a deer faunas with the red spear, completely bypassing her aura and then cut her down with the double-beam-scythe, "I told you I'd kill you if you didn't leave…"
After that, the rest of the faunas started running, trying to keep their panic in check as to not attract the grimm. The armor then turned to the group that stayed.
"Let the bloodbath begin." It said, regret in its voice. That day, another group of White-Fang lost their lives, either due to being too afraid to leave… or their own stubbornness.
Author Notes: Hey would you look at that, I actually focused on Naoto for once, even though I originally planned to have him be the main focus, whoops.