Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

"He must have aged backwards!" Nora said.

"His skin's a different color." I noted.

"He's possessed then?" Jaune suggested.

"This is weird." Ruby said.

"Haa…." I sighed as everyone seemingly hid behind me.

What do they expect me to do about it?!

"Hmm." I leaned in and looked at him.

"Well Leona?" Tarzana asked.

"Beats me, I've never heard of anything like this." I told her "Maybe he just bonked his head and thinks he's Ozpin?"

"Everyone just relax for a bit." Qrow said "I'm sure this is strange for everyone."

Oscar, that's what the kid called himself, seemed to calm down when Ruby smiled at him.

"Grr." I made a point to loudly crack my knuckles and send him a hint to stop staring.

"Neo." I looked at the girl who was being extra quiet "Thoughts?"

"I…don't know." She coughed "Never heard of…such thing."

"Ozpin, he once visited the jungle." Tar noted "If you are him as you say Oscar Pine…you must prove it to us."

"Umm…yeah." He nodded "Just so you know I'll still be here."

He closed his eyes and I felt his Aura shift.

"It very good to see you again students." He said.

"Uhh…what just happened?" Jaune asked.

"They switched places." Tar leaned closer "Fascinating."

"I'm sure this is all quite perplexing." He said.

"And weird, bizarre, alarming and you know just really kind of hard to believe." Nora sputtered out.

"…what she said." Neo nodded.

"It's good you're all in high spirits." He said "I know you've all been through a lot lately."

"It's not your fault." Ruby said.

"No, it's all my fault." He told us "I told you once before I'd made more mistakes than anyone else on the planet, I wasn't exaggerating. I am cursed, for thousands of years I have been living, dying and reincarnating in the body of a like minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you met was not my first body, and clearly not the last. It's a strenuous process on all parties involved."

"So…" I hummed "What are you?"

"I am the combination of countless men who have spent their lives trying to protect the people of Remnent." He explained "Each time my soul eventually merges with another and I am changed, but my memories remain. This curse was bestowed upon me by the gods for failing to stop Salem in the past, we must stop her now."

"Hmm." Neo rubbed her neck.

"How do we do that?" Ruby asked.

"We start by ensuring the safety of the Relic of Knowledge." He continued while getting a cup of coffee.

"We can't get in." Tarzana noted "We have no Maiden as you call it."

"Can't tell…Leo." Neo coughed "too dangerous."

"What do you mean?" ruby asked.

"Don't trust, Leo…" Neo coughed more "Work with…Arthur."

"Neo says that we can't trust Lionheart since apparently she heard through her evil grapevine that he's not on the up and up." I elaborated.

"Surely you noticed how defensive he was being." Tarzana added "For someone who should have just gotten good news he didn't get overly excited; his demeanor was nervous…he was lying to us. If he is compromised like Neopolitan says then telling him Ozpin has returned would be poor, he would only report it to that Arthur fellow."

"I had the same thought when Qrow informed me of your meeting." Ozpin stood up "he's already ignored specific instructions I'd left for him. No one outside this room knows I'm paired to Oscar, we should keep it that way."

"That still leaves the issue of the Maiden that's with Bandits." I grumbled "The eight of us won't be enough."

"Leave finding more huntsman to me." Qrow said "I know some people."

"That's step one, we still have step two." Ozpin said.

"What's that?" Nora asked.

"Getting you lot in fighting shape." He said twirling the cane.

"We already know how to fight." Ruby said.

"You are too dependent on Crescent Rose and have little skill in hand to hand." He pointed at Ruby, Mr. Arc still has yet to activate his Semblance, Miss Neopolitan and her friends are one bad drug trip away from being nothing more than blood addicted beasts, I've seen none of Miss Tarzana's combat abilities and Leona is still too focused on rushing headlong into every fight. You all have a long way to go."

"If we're dishing out critiques I've got a few for you." I looked at Oscar "Puny little man."

"A hunter is only as strong as her blade is sharp." Tar said "That is a saying we Amazons have."

"What does that mean?" Ruby asked.

"It means that not matter who freaky strong the individual may be, if their weapon is nothing but a stick they'll be useless."

"You have similar saying here." Neo squeaked out "Chain only as strong as weakest link."

"And right now, our weak link is the brat." I growled "Oscar is just some tiny farm brat, he's barely in shape and his Aura is weaker than a wet paper bag."

"He needs to train himself." Tarzana said.

Later

"GRA!" I pushed up off the ground.

"Again." Neo laughed sitting on my back as I did pushups.

"You know this isn't the impressive, you're not the world's heaviest weight you know." I laughed.

"Here you are." Tarzana walked out and joined her in sitting on my back.

"I'm not a fricken bench you know." I growled continuing my work out.

"I'm borrowing your Whetstone." She reached into my pocket.

"Fine." I growled a bit pushing up again.

"So tell me," she started swiping her blade over the stone "What did you think of what happened today?"

"Hmm…" I pushed up as sweat beaded down my nose "He's hiding something still."

"I thought the same thing." She spoke over the scraping noise "It bothers me."

"Every thing bothers you." Neo giggled.

"You know what I mean, I don't think we should trust everything he says." Tar added "It's all just too convenient, we remain hidden in the jungles for centuries and suddenly he's one of the first people to show up after we make contact, he lets Leona into his school, he can reincarnate, it does not seem like it was all just strange coincidence."

"What do you think it is?" I asked.

"I don't know." She sighed "But something else."

She looked at me.

"You and Ruby Rose, just what are you doing?" Tar glared.

"What?" I glared back.

"Keep focused on why we are here is all." She said "To learn about the humans outside the jungle, to learn about this society."

"I can do that and be close with Ruby, it won't get in the way." I told her "Besides, I see you scoping out every guy we pass on the street."

"That's for research on potential breeders!" she blushed "Besides it doesn't hurt anyone if I look at for example Ren's smooth, hard…personality."

"Oh sure." I laughed.

"We should but our best foot forward with this training." Tar told me "We need to control it better, without the blood we can't reach full strength, but it's also dangerous and too risky to keep relying on Neopolitan's concoction."

"For now I think our focus should be on preparing Oscar and the others." I said "We can focus on controlling the Bloodlust and Rage later, we've been trained since our birth to hunt and fight, the same can't be said for them, our skills out class there's but we can't be held back by them."

"Fear not leave them to me." Tarzana tossed me back the stone "I'll have them in fighting shape in no time."

"Ohh you're gonna be in charge." I laughed.

"Try not to kill them okay." Neo said.

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