Hey, hows it going, A couple of things have happened since my last update. 1 I got a PC so now I don't have to type this all out on my phone. 2. I have been working on a book, honestly better than most of my fanfic work. Also, a question I saw was about what will happen with team JNPR and Oscar, well Oscar is taking Jaune's place and it won't be called team JNPR. Now please enjoy this chapter.
Some hours later
"So Qrow, you have any other missions from Ozma or not," asked Jaune as the hours of walking through the frozen forest of the Atlas/Vale border had barely phased him.
"A better question would be how you aren't even tired. It's already dark for fuck sake" responded Qrow, annoyed because he has had to trek through a dark snowy forest to keep up with the immortal. "You already know why Qrow" shot back Jaune."But seriously shouldn't we at least rest for a little bit" continued Qrow. "You know that this is too serious to just be left off the table Qrow" answered Jaune.
"Fine Fine, but yeah I do have some other things to do for the old man" responded Qrow before he took out his flask to take a sip. "You're just going to freeze quicker doing that" quipped Jaune as he stepped over a snapped log. "Does it look like I care" Qrow retorted while pocketing his flask. Jaune didn't respond but sighed at the blunt response from his follower. He then raised Pars Lunea and motioned to Qrow to stop.
"What?" Qrow whispered before the ground began to shake violently. Over the horizon, a massive herd of Manticore could be seen, their forms bathed in the light of the moon as their eyes glowed with malice and rage. Qrow quickly withdrew his weapon and shifted it into its shotgun form, barrel pointed to the horde and his eyes sharp. Jaune fired several shots, each killing one of the charging Grimm, but it failed to thin the charging mass. When his gun clicked empty Jaune holstered it and withdrew Sapentaoi as the mass neared them. Qrow fired several shots before shifting his weapon to a sword. "Whoever kills the most buys the other a drink" Qrow joked as the two stared down the mass. "Yeah, sure" spoke Jaune as the first neared them.
The Morning of Initiation
Oscar third-person Perspective
Oscar awoke to a stinging pain on his forehead; he opened his eyes just to see Yang, finger ready to flick once more. He quickly put his right hand up to his face to guard against her. Yang took her hand away from Oscar while a smirk strewed across her face. "Ruby already left for breakfast, she asked me to wake you up so that you wouldn't miss it" she explained while Oscar sat up and rubbed his forehead.
"You could have woken me up a different way," he said, getting up and pulling out a set of day clothes. "But where's the fun in that?" she retorted. Oscar only sighed before heading over to the bathrooms to get dressed.
The two soon joined Ruby for breakfast before they headed over to their lockers, not missing an interaction between an Ice Queen and a red-haired girl who just wanted to get out of it.
the three soon arrived at the edge of the Emerald forest where Ozpin and Goodwitch waited for the rest of the arriving participants. the trio stood atop metal sheets in a line while many of the other participants filed onto ones of their own before Ozpin cleared his throat and began his speech.
Oscar only paid attention to the most important parts though he turned to Ruby when he heard the sound of glass cracking to see her petrified. he was unable to give her any comforting words as Ozpin finished his speech and Glynda gave instructions on what we were all to do.
Oscar saw the first one flung into the air by his sheet and many followed. He adjusted his footing and, with a mechanical hiss, he was flung into the air with the rest of them. He pulled the box off his belt and pressed a small lever. it began to shift and alternate before a gladius was in his hand; he twisted the grip and pulled causing it to extend into a polearm and he now held a pike in his hands.
He watched as Yang used her gauntlets to realine and land unscathed while Ruby used her scythe to slow herself. He stabbed his pike into the nearest tree canopy and twisted around it before dropping down and shifting it back into a gladius. He then stabbed his blade into the bark and glided to the ground, landing right in the center of a Beowolf pack.
The pack growled at him as he pointed his blade at the nearest one before they charged. He ducked under the first one and sliced its underbelly before twisting his body to avoid the next one, causing it to crash into the first one. He thrust the blade into the head of the third one before lifting it over his left shoulder and crushing the next one, he pulled the blade down causing it to slice the crushed Beowulf's head completely vertically.
He shifted the blade back and the guard thrust forward while a trigger poked out of its underside. he brandished the now transformed handgun and fired several rounds into the next approaching mass while he used the two dissipating corpses to cover his flank. The echo of 9mm hollowpoint rounds tearing through unarmoured Grimm flesh reached Oscar's ears as he saw them struggled while black mist emanated from wounds.
Oscar, satisfied with his work as their dying whimpers reached his ears, turned to the now dissipated corpses and walked to what he believed was the north. A voice soon stopped as he turned and met eye to eye with the red-haired girl from earlier. A silence reached the area until she spoke up; "I guess we're partners now" she said while walking up to him. "Yeah I guess we are" he responded before the awkward silence returned.
"We should probably head for the temple," she said as she walked up beside him. "Probably should, by the way, what's your name mine's Oscar," Oscar said as the two continued through the forest before gunfire broke the silence. "My name's Pyrrha and it seems that our comrades have encountered the enemy" spoke Pyrrha as she began rushing towards the sound of gunfire.
Oscar followed suit and the two trekked for a couple of hours until they came across a cave entrance with paintings and warnings around its entrance. "We should avoid going in here" Oscar stated as he took in the details of the warnings, specifically the deathstalker in the painting. "But what if someone else were to stumble upon this cave and they don't notice the warnings, the Grimm don't die of age and I don't think the Grimm in this cave was taken care of" Pyrrha responded.
Oscar couldn't argue with that logic, considering how his teacher just about beat it into his head, and shifted his weapon into a spear. Pyrrha grabbed a rotten branch and wrapped it in a rag before lighting it. The two of them cautiously walked through the dark confines of the cave before halting as a glowing object was brought into view. It shook in a mesmerizing way, slowly back and forth, but Oscar looked down and Pyrrha fired several shots from her rifle.
This stopped the swaying and a ferocious roar echoed causing the two to turn back and start running back to the entrance. They made it out and quickened their pace as the elder Deathstalker burst open the much smaller cave entrance and made a b-line for them.
They dodged trees and stones while the Grimm broke through any object that would get between it and its prey.
They soon made it to an opening to find Yang and three others; the quiet girl who sat and read to herself during lights out, a hyperactive girl who seemed to have ridden in on an Ursa, and last of all a boy who just seemed out of breath (probably the hyper girl's partner).
A sound from above caught their attention as the girl in black pointed up and the echo of "heeeeaads uuuuupppp" reached their ears. Oscar looked up to see Ruby rapidly falling towards them and ran to catch her.
He managed to do that, albeit he ended up buried under her. Ruby quickly got off of him with embarrassment written on her face while she apologized profusely to him. Oscar groaned while getting up and just responded with a; "No worries, just keeping you safe".
After a small name game the girl, Blake, pointed out how they were one short before a rude voice shouted; "How could you leave me?". the group looked up to see that, probably, Ruby's partner was still holding on to a Nevermore (most likely how they got here in the first place). Said person then lost her grip and began to plummet to the ground, only to land on Oscar.
The woman sarcastically said; "My hero" while Ruby helped Oscar up. The Deathstalker broke through the treeline as the Nevermore circled back. "Great now we can all die together," Yang said in her own sarcastic tone. "Not if I can-" Ruby was cut off by Oscar putting his hand on her shoulder before saying; "What we need is right here, it's best if we just grab our relics and get out of here while keeping the Grimm away from us," he said while pointing to the relics.
The group followed Oscar's advice and grabbed their choice of the relics and fled from the rapidly approaching Grimm until they made it to temple ruins. they began to cross over the bridge to these ruins before the Nevermore burst through it, splitting them up.
Oscar looked over to see Pyrrha, Ren, and Blake stuck on the grounded side of the bridge while holding back the Deathstalker. he looked back got Nora's attention as Blake was knocked down. Blake used her weapon to grapple to falling debris while Nora used her hammer to send Oscar flying into the group before she propelled herself.
Oscar shifted his weapon back into a pike and stabbed the blade right in the Deathstalker's right eyes before shifting it into a spear and kicking it in the face, pulling the spear out of its eyes. the Grimm howled in pain before bringing its stinger down but was stopped by a small barrage of grenades that blew the stinger clean off, stabbing it in its carapace.
This sent it into a blind fury as it thrashed violently, forcing Pyrrha to block each blow. while Oscar and Ren fired off shot after shot from their guns. Nora rejoined the group and fired off grenade after grenade, keeping the beast from gaining ground. Oscar loaded a cartridge of fire dust rounds before speaking up; "Guys I have a plan" he said before firing several shots into the Deathstalker's exposed flesh. "what would that be?" asked Pyrrha as she redirected another pincer. "We hammer the nail in the coffin and get out of here," he said. Ren and Pyrrha looked at each other, considering what he said, before nodding.
Ren joined Oscar and the join fired a fury of bullets in the creature's eye's, the chorus of bullets was joined the echo of flesh Grimm flesh-tearing throughout the cliff face. Pyrrha brought her shield up and Nora leapt atop it before firing herself into the air. She fired once more and began to spin her hammer, gaining momentum.
The sound of her hammer striking the stinger and snapping the carapace rang in their ears before it was replaced by the sound of Nora firing off another grenade and the stones below their feet breaking apart. Oscar, Pyrrha, and Ren found themselves being thrown by the bridge before landing at back in the grass. They turned to see the Deathstalker falling to its death while screeching in horrid pain.
They then looked up to see Ruby dragging the Nevermore with her scythe up the cliff face before decapitating it. The four could only gape in awe as the scene finished with Ruby standing atop the cliff, victorious.
Time skip
Ozpin had just finished announcing team CRDL led by Cardin Winchester before calling the next team over. "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long; you four have collected the knight piece and shall be known as team RWBY led by Ruby Rose," He said. Ruby and Weiss had shocked looks on their faces while Yang and Oscar looked proud of Ruby.
The four of them left the stage and Ozpin called in the next four. "Oscar Pine, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren, and Nora Valkyrie; you four have retrieved the rook piece and shall be known as-"
Back with Jaune and Qrow
Jaune put his left foot forward and hand his hand on Sapentoia's grip while his right leg began to glow with aura. The first manticore reached the two before a bang could be heard and Jaune spun through their ranks like a tornado of blades. The Grimm caught in it stopped for a second before splitting into thousands of pieces with none sparred.
Qrow sliced through several of them before stabbing into the head of one and transformed his blade into a scythe before pulling it out and slicing another one clean in half.
The two found themselves back to back while the horde encircled them. Jaune's sword began to glow and he unleashed a wave of kinetic energy, slicing through a small portion of the horde, and the two charged forward.
Grimm parts flew across the forest as the two sliced any that got in their way as they made a B-line for the Alpha Manticore leading this attack. Jaune raised one of his legs and fired off a shot of kinetic energy, cracking the ground and bisecting any Grimm it hit, clearing the path. Qrow raised his scythe and swung down into another Manticore's skull before using his weapon to pole vault over them.
Jaune's approach was interrupted by a Manticore tackling him into a grove of trees, the sound of cracking bark and splinters hit Qrow's ears. He looked back to see two pine trees explode with a flash, shredding any Grimm in the vicinity, and Jaune flying out as aura cracked off his legs and his cape was torn. Jaune quickly regained ground and swung his blade, launching another wave of kinetic energy, and stomped the head of a downed Manticore.
Another tried to jump the two but Jaune grabbed the beast by its neck and shot some of his aura into it, causing it to explode and tear apart any Grimm hit by the bone shards.
They made it to the Alpha while the rest began running in a circle, enclosing them with the alpha. It charged first with fury in its eye and its stinger raised above its head. Jaune met it head-on with his blade raised and pointed towards his foe. The Grimm brought its stinger down as Jaune sliced off both of its front legs while Qrow leapt upwards and sliced its tail off.
The Alpha roared in pain while Jaune sliced its throat out before thrusting his palm into its face and realised his aura. The alpha tried to screech but it was unable to as its body started to swell and exploded.
This didn't seem to stop the horde as they stopped circling and surrounded the two, slowing getting closer, as Jaune and Qrow stood back to back.
"Qrow I need you to get out of here, your mortal and you have people waiting for you," Jaune said while stretching his arm out and keeping his blade drawn. "But-" Qrow was about to say but Jaune interrupted him; "Just go, I can take care of myself". Qrow stopped trying to argue and just transformed into a crow while Jaune stared down the surrounding horde.
And that's that, I hope you enjoyed it. Here's a reminder of the pole for what story I might do next.
1. New Dawn: An AU of One Piece where Shiki had attacked the East Blue earlier, this will bring many changes to the Straw Hat Crew.
2. Hero's Mind: A crossover between My Hero Academia and Red vs Blue, in this Izuku's quirk is a manifest of his personalities that take the form of AIs, how will all this affect the world of MHA.
3. Grievous Arc: A Jaune betrayed story where after his transcripts where discovered nearly all the students tried to kill him, and some almost succeeded, he is then found by Salem's faction and rebuilt to be her champion. A general of metal and rage, he will soon take his revenge.
4. Hero in the Shadows: An esper/vigilante/eventual OP Izuku Au. Born with great power. A dark reality thrust onto him at an early age, costing him nearly everything and leaving so few, he has one left to protect and like hell, he's going to let the world hurt her as it scarred him.
So far I just have a vote for Grievous Arc, thank you for voting Kv1n20 I appreciate it, but I hope that I get a lot of votes.