"Hey so...This your first time falling or is it just me?"
"Well, first time falling and not breaking something…"
"Great, now can you two get off me? I can't exactly breathe right now…" The words slipped out from underneath the pile of bodies stacked on the ground.
"Uh, sure-ow… Hello, ground. What lovely pain you give." A girl said in monotonous, a hint of annoyance sneaking through.
"You couldn't have just, ya know, stood up instead of flopping off?" A male asked, standing up while avoiding the one underneath him's hand.
"Yeah...That's effort…" She replied lazily.
"Jeez...We fall out of the sky, and that's what you're worried about." The male replied, shaking his head before turning towards the last of the group. "Alright, up you go big guy." He says, reaching down to get one of the second guys arms around his shoulder to pick him up safely.
"I'm in too much pain to think of something witty right now…" The teen responded, rubbing his stomach as he was helped up to a stand. He blinked as he looked around. "Okay, I know I fell out of the sky, and I assume you guys did too, but I can't be the only one confused as to how we ended up in a forest, can I?"
"I'm pretty sure we fell into a forest." The female voice says in a matter of fact tone.
"Oh, is your name Sherlock?" He asked with a groan, pulling himself out of the supportive hold. "It's nice to meet you, i was wondering what someone of your calibur could come up with, but it appears the legends are… less than flattering."
"Oi mate, it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out we're in the middle of nowhere." The female said in annoyance, eyes glaring towards the white haired teen.
"Ladies, please, settle down...Is now REALLY the time to be fighting? Especially with the bird we killed?" The first male asked, looking at the black bird on the ground.
"Look, that's great and all, sorry birdy or whatever, but all the same, is anyone questioning how we all ended up in a forest, no actually, how we all ended up falling from the sky? Because I was waiting for public transport, and the next thing I know? I'm falling from the sky, with two loud voices screaming behind me." The white haired teen said, before turning towards the female with the wolf ears perched atop her head. "And can you take those off, you look ridiculous in this situation right now…"
"Take what off?" she asked him confused.
"The wolf ears." He responded, motioning to the top of her head with his hand. "I'm honestly surprised they didn't fall off while you were falling." The teen let out a sigh and adjusted his headphones slightly. Said ears twitched as she raised a hand up to feel one of them.
"Huh, fluffy."
"Okay, okay...Before this insanity goes any further, introductions are in order, yes? We okay with that?" The bearded man asked after putting his hands in front of his mouth.
"I dunno...Daddy always said never to talk to strangers." she said as sarcasm laced her tone.
"Oh, for fucks sake...Really? We're doing this?" He asked, staring at her with a deadpan expression. The girl raised her hands in defeat with a lazy smile.
"You asked, you first."
"Steven. Not really sure if last names are the best idea." The girl sat up, getting into a thinking position in the process, seemingly in deep thought.
"You...may call me Tehg." As she said this, the bearded man adopted a look of deep thought.
"...That's either the worlds biggest coincidence, or some fuckin' god is trolling us right now." The white haired teen said, rubbing a hand against his forehead. "Bryce, if that rings any bells, good, because if you two are who I think you are then it… Probably should, I dunno."
"Bryce? Canadian? Big nerd…?" Steven asked, looking at him.
"G1? American? Big asshole?" Bryce asked, smirking slightly with a raised eyebrow.
"Me in a nutshell, yeah. So that means I was right and Tehg is our tea drinking friend from across the Atlantic."
"Fuck the church." Tehg said, sighing , flopping back down onto her back.
"That had… absolutely no bearing on the current conversation, but thank you for contributing anyways…" Bryce said, holding his hands out wide and bowing, his headphones slipping off his hand and landing on the grass. "...So falling out of the sky can keep them affixed to my skull, but bowing ever so slightly is where you draw the line, huh?"
"Well, it seems like what Tehg said isn't the only thing that doesn't have any bear-ing on the situation."
"I'm sorry, what?" The teen asked in confusion, turning around to face Steven.
"Bryce. Head. feel." Tehg said bluntly.
"Alright fine, but I don't see what this has to…" Bryce paused, his hand planted firmly on the top of his head. "...Excuse me what…"
"You have bear ears. And your hair is white...So have fun with that." Steven says while checking his own person for extra features.
Bryce stares off into space, idly patting the top of his head with a look of confusion on his face.
"Hey, uh… Did my hair change colour?" The girl asked, rolling over onto her front.
"Don't know, busy understanding how I have another set of ears a top my head." Bryce said, removing his hand from his head and looking down at his hands. "...I have no mouth, but I must scream…"
"Yes. Yes it did. It's whiter than Bryce's." Steven deadpanned to Tehg, cracking his neck a bit. Tehg reached up to hair, blinking with widening eyes as her hair traveled up her slightly longer than normal hair before plucking out a few white strands from her scalp.
"Yeah… I'm not trying that out." Bryce said, looking over at Tehg before pulling out his phone from his back pocket and booted up the camera. "Oh… My eyes were not this kind of blue before… I mean, they weren't blue to begin with actually, but that's besides the point."
"So...You two have been hit by the anime bug pretty hard, huh?" Steven teased before looking around, pausing as he looked down the road. "Um...I think I know where we are…" He added, pointing at the black and white figures approaching.
"Oh if you could tell us where I think we'd all really appreciate-God dammit!" Bryce shouted, turning to look at Steven before following the man's finger, looking towards the small pack of three wolf-like creatures moving towards the group of three. Their faces were covered by a bone like material formed into that of a form fitting white mask with red markings. "Okay, everyone stay calm. Their vision is based on fear."
"No problem here. Though I'm a little worried about the bird. It still alive?" Tehg asked, looking worried.
"WHAT IS THE BIRD GOING TO DO? DISTRACT IT?" Bryce asked, turning to look at Tehg with a look of utter confusion. "Great idea! Let me grab it and chuck it at the thing, maybe I'll find out it's secretly friendly!"
Steven walked up and slapped him across the face. "Calm your tits! You'll just get us killed quicker." He states calmly.
"Right, yeah… Sorry, bad habit of being overly sarcastic in tense situations…" Bryce said, before he quickly shoved Steven to the side. "Get down!"
The two hit the floor, barely avoiding the claws of a very angry and hungry looking Beowolf. Bryce let out a hiss of pain as he looked up, watching as the Beowolf shuffled to the side and growled at the group. "Well… No I got nothing for this, we're pretty fucked." He said with huff.
"Hey, we're all wolves here...Let's talk it out?" tehg tried to say to one of the ones approaching her, the only response being it snapping its jaw at her angrily. "Welp seems negotiations are off...HEY GUYS, HELP PLEASE!" She screamed out as she was trying to get up to run away.
"No, forget this, I'm not going down on my ass…" Bryce groaned, pulling himself to a stand, a growl emanating from his throat. His fingertips suddenly lurched, small claw-like blades suddenly jutted out from his hands. "...My hands feel weird now, anyone else or just me…?"
"Just you, and that's a great idea Bryce. Try to go claw to claw with monsters. See how that goes." Steven replies, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Wait what do you mean by-You know what, I don't think I have time to question things right NOW!" Byce finished with a shout as he leaned to the side and swung upward with his open hand, narrowly avoiding a pouncing Beowolf as his claws cleaved through the bone plating of the mask and cut through flesh. "Whoa!"
The teen stumbled backwards, before looking up at the Beowolf and noticed the single glowing eye staring back at him. "...Well, I got one of its eyes!" Bryce said with a shrug.
"Ahhhhhh! So good news, I found I have a tail. Bad news...I think we're screw- oh hey you have claws!" Tehg says coming to a stop by Bryce's side. "Since when could you do that?"
Bryce turned his head to look at Tehg with an almost exasperated expression before pulling the girl back as another Beowolf flew past the two. "Shit!"
"My turn to be stupid!" Steven yelled, tackling one from behind, pinning it to the ground.
"Can I pet it?" Tehg asked, looking over at the downed Beowolf.
"Tehg no!" Steven shouted.
"But it's fluffy…" She says, pouting.
"I'm surrounded by idiots…" Bryce muttered to himself. "Then again, I'm no better…"
"At least I'm doing something productive." Steven said, keeping the creature from getting up to the best of his ability.
"Hey, I slashed one of its eyes out!" Bryce responded, before he was suddenly knocked to the side, crashing onto the ground with a grunt as he rolled over, looking on as the last of the three Beowolves walked towards him. "Hey, some good news… at least our luck can't get any worse from here…"
"When I'm around… It can always get worse, Kid."
There was a loud bang from the three's right, before the form underneath Steven began to disappear from underneath him.
"Huh...Well alright then." Steven said, awkwardly standing up from the dusty corpse to see a man in mostly grey with a cape holding a ridiculously sized sword with the blade rotated at a ninety degree from the grip.
"Hey guys...Cavalry's here." Tehg said lazily.
"I'll ask about how you kids fell on me later. For now, I have to take care of something." The man said in a drunken slur, the blade of his weapon pivoting so it looked more like a pistol with a real long barrel rather than a sword. He burst into motion, quickly dispatching the two with some quick flurries of swordplay.
"Soooo cool!" The girl squealed as she started to metaphorically hover around him.
"Ow, my new ears…" Bryce muttered with groan as he held his hands over his head.
"Oh, I'm too sober for this." Steven muttered, sitting on the ground.
"Me too, Kid, me too…" The old man muttered, pulling a flask out from his pocket.
"Kid? I'm twenty four." Steven grumbled, staring at said flask.
"Oh, good… these aren't broken…" Bryce muttered with a sigh as he picked up his dropped headphones, before staring at his left hand. "...Either some other wacky shit went down or-no that's all that really could have happened to explain the lack of the scar that was on my hand…"
"Wait...He thinks I'm a kid, you have a disappearing scar…" Steven started before pulling out his own phone and using it as a mirror. "I'm not seeing anything different from normal…"
"Now that you mention it, you look...youthier?" Tehg tried saying.
"More youthful…and how would you even know?" Steven retorted, putting the phone back in his pocket.
"You look like you took your face and got it dunked in the fountain of youth, then slapped it on a high schooler's body. Does that help?" She asked quizzically.
"You look like seven years of pain and suffering suddenly disintegrated as light returned to your eyes." Bryce said, starting off serious before his voice turned more and more sarcastic.
"Yeah, you look like one of the kids in my class." The black haired man said while taking a swig from his flask. "And that's why you're not getting any of this."
"What about me, bartender? Am I old enough?" Tehg asked the man with amusement.
"Nope." He replies, popping the "p".
"Feck...well that's whoever you are off party list…" She grumbled, her tail betraying her and wagging wildly.
"You have a party list?" Bryce asked in confusion.
"Name's Qrow. Now, can you explain what happened with you three?" He asked, suddenly serious.
"No can do birdy. We're just as confused as you." The girl answered.
"Birdy? Yeah, I did let that slip, didn't I? Ozpin's gonna have my head." Qrow muttered with the shake of the head.
"Oh… So you're… MH!" Bryce coughed violently into his fist. "Right, moving on from that…"
"No, I kinda wanna know how you three managed to fall on me...while I was a bird…" Qrow said, looking at the three of them with a twitching left eye.
"For the record, we don't know either. Bad luck?" Tehg asked with a shrug of her shoulders
"I'm in khakis and a polo… Do I look like I MEANT to fall from the sky?" Steven asked rhetorically.
"To be fair, I've seen weirder Huntsmen outfits…" Qrow responded with a deadpan. "And for the record, bad luck is my life, so I should know."
"Look, the point is, we can't really explain any of this shit." Bryce said, motioning to the three of them. "So, sorry about crushing you under the weight of three teenagers, but I'm personally freaking out a little because I'm on a different world with a bunch of fuckin' bone masked animals trying to tear me a new one!"
There's a sudden moment of silence as Bryce blinked and stared at Qrow. "...Well… Fuck me then…" Bryce said, taking a breath as he looked to the side.
"The man just admitted he can turn into a bird...Us not being from here isn't that much crazier." Steven sighed, sitting down on the ground.
"You say that, but traveling from one parallel universe to another is a bit more… outlandish than turning into a fucking bird, no offense." Bryce said, holding a hand out towards the Huntsman standing opposite him.
"...I am so not drunk enough for this…" Qrow said, reaching for his flask once more. Qrow took a long swig from his flask, before lowering it with a sigh as he looked up at the three in front of him. "Alright, come with me. There's someone who's… much more patient for this shit than I am…"
"So... You like, part of the military or something?" Tehg asked the dusty old crow in half monotone half wonder, while staring out of a window to stare at the scenery.
"I think the more important question is why he's buddies with the Wizard of Oz." Steven says in a joking tone.
"I thought his name was Oz...Oz...Ozpin?"
"Yup. That's his name. The most understanding crazy man you'll ever meet." Qrow says from his seat on one of the Bulkhead's benches.
"That's either a good thing or a bad thing, and I cannot tell which is which from your expression right now…" Bryce said, raising an eyebrow at the Huntsman.
"Not my job to tell you how to feel. Just to bring you to him." He replied nonchalantly, moving to a laying down position.
"So, what'd you think about a cute girl falling on you?" Steven teased the older man.
"So you consider her cute, do you?" Bryce asked, wiggling his eyebrows at Steven.
"I mean...I'd be lying if I said no." Steven said with a shrug of his shoulders. "She looks so fluffy."
"I'm surrounded by hormonal morons" Tehg groaned, flopping backwards away from the window onto the floor of the aircraft.
"I take offense to that." Bryce said with a deadpan. "G1's the Hormonal Idiot here. I'm the guy distributing the overall chaos."
"Nah, I'm just an idiot who wants to savor people's reactions." Steven retorted.
"Hey so, birdy? How long till we get there?" The girl asked, ignoring the other two.
"I was dreading when one of you started asking 'Are we there yet?'..." Qrow muttered with a groan. "I get that enough from my niece."
"You're an uncle? You have a sibling?" Tehg questioned the drunk man with amusement.
"None of your business, really." He said with a hand wave.
"Hey, when was the last time you two were on an airplane?" Steven asked, disrupting the awkward silence that came after Qrow's answer.
"Trip to New York City. Stayed near Times Square for a few days. 16th birthday." Bryce said, shrugging.
"A year or two back myself." Tehg said thinking about it.
"Sixteen years myself. Was eight the last time, and we were going to Disney World." Steven said, looking out one of the windows.
"This is a bit different from a commercial flight though…" Bryce said, rolling his wrist.
"I guess? Wouldn't remember." He replied with a shrug. "So, what's this place look like, Qrow?"
"Beacon? It's a big castle. Can't miss it."
"Well Tehg, there's your answer then." Steven states, pointing at the window towards a white castle like structure. The girl got up and started to look out the window, her tail proceeding to wag like mad despite the stoic face she was showing.
"Nice, wondering what this pin fellow is like." She said, much to Qrow's boisterous amusement.
"The fuck are you on about?" Steven asked.
"Ignore her. It's Tehg being Tehg…" Bryce said, moving over to Steven and placing a hand on his shoulder with a shake of the head. "So, I take it they're expecting us?"
"No... they're expecting the queen of England, Bryce…" Tehg sassed to the man.
"Oh, are they? Should we prepare the tea and crumpets too?" Steven said back to her.
"That sounds lovely, Jeeves." She replied with a roll of her eyes and a wag of her tail.
"I am so sorry about these two idiots…" Bryce said with a sigh. "What I should've actually asked, was if we were going to have a landing party, or if we were meeting them… I dunno, at an office or something? Main Foyer? I dunno, I'm listing examples."
"Oz wanted me to take you up to his office. From there, I've got no idea." Qrow stated, standing up with a grunt.
"And his office is...where?" The girl asked the drunkard.
"You kids like stairs?" Qrow asked in return, cocking a smirk.
"...Fuck." Bryce gasped out, leaning over as he breathed deeply.
"We done? Nice." Tehg sighed, still standing, though her eyes looked like she was dead inside.
"Yeah, that wasn't terrible. Could've been worse." Steven added, sweating a bit.
"Took you all long enough." Qrow said, leaning up against the nearby elevator.
"I fucking knew there was one of those!" Bryce shouted, surging to a stand, previous pain forgotten in his rage.
"Bryce. Chill. Now's not the time. Cry in the shower later, we have a talk to do." Steven said, whipping his brow.
Bryce narrowed his eyes towards Qrow. "I don't know when, I don't know HOW… But one day, I will have my revenge… and you will never see it coming…!"
Qrow idly chuckled to himself before looking ahead. "Go on ahead, but make yourselves presentable first." He added walking forward.
"If you wanted me to be presentable, don't have me walk up several hundred flights of stairs…" Bryce said. "I'm exaggerating, probably, but I'm too tired to care right now…"
"Apologies, but my colleague tends to have a rather odd sense of humor." A voice said as the chair behind the desk swiveled around, as a white haired man in a black suit with a green vest leaned forwards, a white coffee mug in his off hand.
"If that's what you want to call it, sure, that works…" Bryce said, rolling his eyes.
"He also tends to have that effect on people as well." The white haired man said, his eyes flickering over to Qrow for a moment before looking back at the three in front of him. "Allow me to properly introduce myself. My name is Ozpin, the Headmaster here at Beacon Academy."
"So you wanted to see us pin?" Tehg asked, her tail giving away her amusement. Ozpin quirked an eyebrow at her statement.
"Yes, well Qrow has mentioned that the three of you met him in some rather… unusual circumstances." He said, taking a glance at the man as Qrow rubs his back a bit.
"We fell from the sky!" Bryce said.
"Elegant as always, Bryce…" Tehg sighed
"I don't care right now, it's either straight to the point or fumbling over my words trying to walk around the subject." Bryce said. "If I go Caboose while doing so, whatever."
Steven sighed. "Then I'll do the talking then...We don't know how. We don't know why. All we know is that we were living our lives, then we were falling, then Qrow was our landing pad."
"...Not the worst landing strategy I've seen in this academy…" Ozpin said, shrugging lightly before taking a sip from his mug. "Now then, I believe it would be beneficial for all our sakes if I knew your names."
"My name's Steven."
"Tehg."
"Is that Coffee?" Bryce asked, before Steven elbowed his side. "Ack-I'm Bryce."
"It's Hot Cocoa, actual. Glynda is trying to get me off of caffeine. Lower the coffee budget." He answered as he took another drink. "Though she's not having much luck with Oobleck like she has with me."
Ozpin placed his mug down and leaned forwards, his eyes narrowing a slight amount as he took in the three in front of you. "Tell me, do you know of Remnant's naming rule?"
"Uh… Yeah. It began… mostly standard around the end of the great war, right?" Bryce said, before everyone was looking at him in silence again. "...I opened my mouth and said the wrong thing again, didn't I?"
"Probably, yea.." Tehg answered.
"He probably already knew something was up, you know, with that question and all basically calling us out." Steven added.
"Hey look, one of them has a head on their shoulders." Qrow stated with a shake of his head.
"One of these days…" Bryce muttered to himself.
"So… What now, gonna torture us for info?" Tehg asked, before the elevator dinged behind the three, sending Qrow stumbling forwards as the door opened and a blonde woman walked out.
"We're not barbarians." She said, stepping up next to Ozpin.
"Allow me to introduce my Colleague. This is Glynda Goodwitch." Ozpin said.
"A pleasure…?" Tehg asked unsure.
"Indeed." Glynda said curtly.
"Yes, well, if you know of the rule and its details, then you must be readily aware of how your names go against it." Ozpin stated, setting his mug down onto his desk. "So tell me, what else is different about you three."
"Well… How's the rest of your day looking? Because… we might be here for a while." Bryce said. "I'll start. You have a cup of Hot Chocolate, and I don't."
"We had to climb a flight of stairs because of a sadistic bird. You didn't." Tehg grumbled.
"I… can play the saxophone?" Steven said, unsure of his answer.
Ozpin smiled, looking over to Glynda off to the side. His smile grew even wider at the sight of the Huntress' twitching left eye. "Well, this certainly is shaping up to an interesting year, isn't it?"
"Unfortunately…" Glynda responded with a sigh, glaring at Qrow who was struggling to hold himself up against the elevator door.
"Did we not get a memo or something?" Tehg asked in confusion.
"Allow me to cut straight to the point." Ozpin said, leaning forwards on his desk as his eyes passed over the three in front of him. "...After being informed by my friend behind you three of your 'otherworldly' nature, I've decided the best course of action is for the three of you to attend classes here at Beacon, for the… foreseeable future."
"I did not graduate college just to go back to school." Steven says with a dead look in his eyes.
"Will it involve a bed? If so, I'm in." Tehg asked with a yawn.
"I think what you need is a shower, not a bed." Steven retorted with a smirk.
Bryce's eyes narrowed slightly at Ozpin, before he let out a sigh. "Great, always wanted to kill monsters in my spare time…" He said with a shrug, sarcasm dripping from his voice. He took a step forward and held out his hand over the desk towards the Headmaster. "I… I await your tutelage."
Ozpin smiled, before extending his hand and shaking Bryce's, before his eyes narrowed slightly as his grip tightened ever so slightly. "...Qrow, Glynda, would the two of you please step outside for a moment? I'd like to ask these three something they might find personal."
"Ozpin?" Glynda turned to look at the Headmaster in confusion.
"It's fine. I'll call the two of you back inside in a moment. I'd just like to run through a few finer details with these three." Ozpin said with a calm smile.
"Yeah, yeah. We get the idea. Come on already." Qrow said, taking the huntress by the shoulder and leading her away.
"So, before serious stuff starts… when do we get something like he's got?" Steven asked, pointing a thumb towards where the duo went.
"Your priorities are in order apparently…" Tehg deadpanned.
"Yes. Yes they are." Steven replied, a proud look on his face.
"...So… I take it we did something to set off the warning alarms, oh great wizard of Oz…?" Bryce said, his hands held at his side.
Ozpin leaned back, his eyes locked onto the teen in front of him. "...It takes a lot of magical energy to transport a being from one plane of existence to another."
"And you would know that how?" Tehg asked.
"Tehg, not the time." Bryce said. "You said magical energy. Our world has nothing of the sort, and none of us were near any machines or things that could've done something similar."
"Which means you were summoned here by someone from my world." Ozpin said, his hands folded together. "...I want to know why she sent you."
"Why who sent us?" Tehg asked.
"You both really should just… Stop… Just explain the circumstances to the man, and let's move on. I was on my way home from work, and then I'm falling, so I have no idea WHY this happened." Steven said.
"Look, the point of the matter, is this." Bryce began with a sigh. "None of us have any idea why we're here, we were living our lives normally until we were dropped from the sky on top of Qrow. I distinctly remember not having Bear ears when I woke up this morning either, so I get you're being paranoid, Ozma, but I'm not exactly happy about getting dragged here by Salem either!"
Bryce blinked for a moment, before realizing the cane pointed at the base of his neck. His eyes traveled up the length of the cane towards Ozpin, who had moved out from behind his desk faster than he was able to recognize. "...No, that's probably the appropriate reaction I should've expected, yeah…"
"And now we're fucked, so thanks Bryce. A plus friend." Steven said, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I was trying SO hard not to call him that…" Tehg said, sighing.
"...Why... You three?" Ozpin said after a moment as he stared the teen down. "I'm trying to understand what kind of motive she'd have bringing… the three of you here, but I honestly can't comprehend any reason…"
"We were hoping you could tell us that." Steven said. "So get on with the words, Magic Man!"
"...A question then. How do you know me?" Ozpin asked. "I mean the real me. The old me."
"Well… To be saying this as tactfully as possible, our world and its people are collectors of stories and legends." Bryce began. "These stories are transformed into various forms of media and texts, this world and its history was one such story. We're… very knowledgeable about it, I'll be blunt."
"To summarize, in our world, you're anime. An animated series." Steven explained.
"...She's after your knowledge." Ozpin said, eyes widening. "You say you know our history. How much of it?"
"Well… Most of the history we know is surrounding you and your past… and some bits and pieces of other stuff." Bryce said. "As for future events… Hey, does anyone else's head feel slightly empty right now?"
"Isn't your head always empty, Bryce?" Steven teased.
"I mean in regards to RWBY, not in general!" Bryce said, shaking his head as Ozpin pulled his cane back. "And shut up, I'm actually freaking out over this right now."
"Now that you mention it, i don't remember anything about the events of...whatever that thing is…" Tehg said, sounding unsure.
"Bryce. Calm. That's the third time today, and stressing doesn't help. But yeah, events from the show? Not there." Steven said
"Look, it's been a long day…" Bryce sighed.
"I'm sorry but, did you say… Ruby?" Ozpin asked.
"Yeah, but with a W instead of the U… Why is that a clear distinction?" Bryce said, shaking his head.
"It's most likely referring to a team name." Ozpin said, walking back over to his desk. "I will say, I've never had a team go by that name before in my many years of teaching…"
Ozpin sat down, looking up to face the three. "It is likely that Salem sealed your memories of the future, in the off chance that you found yourselves in my presence before hers."
"So what you're saying is magic bullshit happened?" Steven asked with a raised eyebrow.
"If you would like to call it that, yes." Ozpin said. "...I would like to apologize for my earlier actions. There were too many things lining up that spelled trouble, and I reacted before I saw things through."
"We get it. Everyone's paranoid. I can understand why you'd be so much more than the average person." Bryce said, nodding.
"Then I'd like to ask one last thing." Ozpin said, leaning forwards. "Would any of you consider joining Salem?"
"Look, she's crazy, and I rather like living, Pin." Tehg said, tail wagging in amusement.
"Nah. She's all yours, champ." Steven replied.
"I can't even with you two…" Bryce muttered with a roll of his eyes before he cleared his throat. "Look, none of us have any intention of joining Salem. I won't lie, you've made a lot of decisions that have left my trust of you a bit lacking, but I'd rather be lied to by someone trying to do what's right than join forces with the woman whose sole purpose is to kill us all."
"I see… That's very good to hear. When Glynda returns, I'll have her escort you to where you will be staying for the time being, as well as get you in the morning for your training with me." Ozpin stated, before leaning back.
"Don't you have paperwork to do though?" Tehg asked
"None that I can't pass off to Glynda to do in my stead." Ozpin said with a light smirk.
"Okay, but how are we going to train for this school without the fancy weapons?" Steven asked.
Ozpin smiled, before lifting up his mug and taking a sip.
(Author's Note)
So, there's a bit of explanation needed for this one…
That's an understatement and a half.
Should probably start with introductions, yes?
Right, so to start, my name is 0n3dgeGaming
tehg, a pleasure.
And I'm G1 ArchAngel.
And this is… well, something a bit different. See, this account is run by the three of us, so any stories you see here are written by us three as well. You'll have to forgive us if the author's note is a bit messy, we're working out the kinks.
But at the same time, this should be interesting, given how the three of us haven't worked together as a group proper before.
So we are either gonna crash and burn spectacularly or somehow pull this off.
Or both. Both is possible.
Or we could end up doing neither, but hey, bit too early to know for sure there!
Then let's not dawdle and let the good people leave, yeah?
Did you really just type Dawdle?
Problem?
No, just wanted to poke fun.
Shush you two. Now then we hope you enjoyed this and dftba.