FAIRY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING
A few birds are seen flying through the night sky.
hikari zenbu atsumete
It shows Roxas on top of a clocktower. A popsicle in his mouth as he looks out calmly. It then shows Percy by the ocean. A surfboard in his hand. Next is Caboosein the middle of the city. He looks around at the buildings then looks straight ahead.
kimi no ashita terasu yo
It then shows Naruto in the middle of a forest. He's looking up at the stars. The name UMPR appears on the screen.
OH YEAH kikoeten no kako no koe wa?
Roxas on top of a clock tower. He looks at the screen with a popsicle in his mouth. He gives a peace sign to the screen.
OH YEAH karetatte sakebu kara
Percy is next and he is standing in a body of water that goes up to his knees. He looks out to see a bunch of boats sailing towards him.
OH YEAH kikoeru made kimi no kokoro ga
Caboose is standing amongst a wreckage of metal. He turns to looks at the screen. Church flickers into existence hovering over his shoulder.
OH YEAH OH YEAH
Naruto is facing away from the camera he then turns around and gives a big smile to the camera.
tsuki to taiyou no haitacchi
It shows Naruto, Jaune, Ruby and Nora are playing some kind of game involving their hands. They all stop and make the same shape. They all look comically upset.
wasuremono wanai desuka?
Percy is struggling to pay attention to Professor Port. Pyrrha looks at him with a kind smile while Weiss looks annoyed. Caboose is next to them with a look of wonder on his face.
okashii na kimi ga inai to
Roxas and Yang are trying to get Ren and Blake to laugh. But the two ignore them and continue reading books.
hoshii mono sae mitsukaranai
Ozpin and Glynda are looking out the window of his office. The camera zooms in on his face. He gives a small smile.
SNOWING sunao ni
Naruto is jumping down from a large height. Naruto looks excited as he does a small flip and thrusts his fist forward.
egao ni nareta no wa
Percy and Roxas are struggling to lift up some sort of heavy object.
futari yorisoi
Caboose is saying something to Naruto while Church angrily appears as if to correct him.
kasane atta "jikan" ga aru kara
Team UMPR is
FAIRY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING
Ruby appears and spins Crescent rose around. A moment later the other members of team RWBY and JNPR appear on the screen a fast speed.
hikari zenbu atsumete
The members of team UMPR begin to light up. A moment later a large explosion occurs.
kimi no ashita terasu yo
RWBY, JNPR, and the Beacon faculty look on at the explosion.
Why, Why, Why
A large Shadow with red eyes looms over team UMPR as they look on at it.
DON'T SAY GOODBYE (Instumental)
Ruby does a flip in the air and activates Crescent Rose and rushes forward. A wide grin on her face. Naruto activates Savage Scurra and leaps forward towards Ruby. A cocky smile on his face. The two collide and cross each other. The screen slowly fades too white. A moment later it shows team UMPR as they take various poses.
Opening end
Jaune looked at his opponent. The difference between the two was obvious. Cardin looked ready to go a few more rounds while he looked ready to lay down.
Why was he doing this again. Oh yeah because his name got chosen in the randomizer.
Then an idea forms in Jaunes head. It was risky and the chances of him failing were high but damnit he had to do something. But he would have to be careful. Cardin decided to take the that moment to look at his scroll and laugh at something. Cardin didn't even see him as a threat.
'Caution to the wind then,' And with that Jaune charged. He swung wildly at Cardin who easily sidestepped. Stumbling Jaune turned just in time to see Cardin swing his mace. Jaune blocked with his sword but it went flying.
Cardin went in for a second swing this time bringing it down on Jaunes head. Jaune blocked with his shield and waited. Cardin kept pushing his weight down on Jaune.
"This is the part where you lose,"
Jaune smirked. "That's what you think," Then he changed his shield into his scabbard form. Cardin fell forward do to the lack of support that had once been there. Jaune stepped out of the way and let Cardin hit the ground. Taking the opportunity Jaune brought the scabbard down. It wasn't a sword but hey.
"Stop," Glynda speaks up causing Jaune to stumble in surprise.
"Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament-styled duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match." She explained. "Mr. Arc, it's been two weekweeks 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?"
"Speak for yourself," Cardin growled as he got up.
"I wouldn't be cocky if I was you Mr. Winchester." Glynda scolds. "Had this not been training or a tournament but real life Jaune would have one," She says as Cardin merely looks angry. "That goes to show that you should never underestimate your opponents,"
"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!" Goodwitch reminded. Naruto punched his fist together in anticipation, Roxas gave a cocky smirk, Percy cracked his knuckles and Caboose was jumping up and down in his seat, but he was more excited at the word festival. "Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!"
The bell rings and the students began to leave. Naruto paused to notice the negativety coming from Jaune. He was upset about something. Pyrrha looked on with concern as well.
"So! There we were, in the middle of the night..." Nora said with narrowed eyes.
"It was day." Ren corrected
"We were surrounded by Ursai..." Nora hisses at the end. Yang and Caboose look entranced at the story; Blake isn't paying attention choosing to read her book instead. Percy looks confused on who to believe do to Ren interfering and Roxas simply looks amused since he was used to this.
"They were Beowolves."
"Dozens of them!" Nora screams as she stands at the table of both Team RWBY, JNPR, and UMPR, where Weiss is ignoring Nora and filing her nails, Ruby and Pyrrha are listening politely, and Jaune is messing with his food. Naruto is the only one unaccounted for.
"Two of 'em." Roxas is trying hard not to laugh.
"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!"
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren sighs.
"Well it better than the haunted grimm graveyard dream," Roxas points out.
"OH yeah!" Nora begins getting ready to go into another story. Ren puts his hand over her mouth and stops her.
Ruby and Pyrrha are now looking at a distant Jaune with concern.
"Jaune?" Pyrrha begin. "Are you okay?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?" Jaune asks snapping out of it.
"It's just that you seem a little... not okay..." Ruby explains.
The other occupants decide to take this chance to stare at him.
"If this is about the match, you did good," Pyrrha encouraged.
"You did catch him by surprise," Roxas chimed in. "And that's the best thing to do in battle,"
"Guys I'm fine seriously!" Jaune reassured.
A harsh laugh is heard and the table turn to see team CRDL standing around a girl with brown rabbit ears jutting from her hair as Cardin laughs at her and Sky Lark holds up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her features.
"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!" Pyrrha pointed out.
"Who? Cardin Winchester?" Jaune asked. "Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!"
"He's a bully." Ruby corrected.
"Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me."
"The time he knocked your books out of your hand." Roxas said.
"The time he opened your shield so you couldn't get through the door," Percy supplied.
"The time he pushed you in a locker and launched it," Blake brought up paying attention to her surroundings now.
"I didn't land far from the school!" Jaune defended weakly.
"Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask."
"Ooooh!" Nora gets up from the table and presents her diabolical plan with a not-entirely-sane grin "We'll break his legs!"
"No Nora," Roxas scolds. Then his face becomes an evil grin as well. "We'll cut off his legs,"
"Brilliant!" Nora agrees.
"Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone." Jaune says.
"That doesn't make it better," Percy counters.
They all looks over as the laughing grows louder, mixed in with cries of pain from the rabbit girl when one of her ears are tugged on by Cardin.
"Ow! That hurts!" The girl shouts in pain. She stops struggling and grimaces. "Please, stop..." She begs, a slight whimper in her voice.
"I told you it was real!" Cardin says as he pulls harder.
"What a freak!" Russel guffaws.
A glint enters Percy's eyes. For a brief moment he thinks back to unpleasant memories.
"Please stop doing that,"
Percy is brought back at the sight in front of him.
Caboose had gotten up and walked over there. He was looking at Cardin with not disdain or anger, but curiosity.
"What?" Cardin growled.
"Well she doesn't want to play with you right now so you should let her go, or she might not want to play with you next time,"
The entire cafeteria had gotten quiet at this point. Percy and Roxas had both gotten up.
"What the hell are you talking about," Dove spoke up.
"Well having friends are the great and making them is even better," Caboose explained. "You can talk to them about anything, and you can give each other piggy back rides, and the best kind of friend is your best friend because you know they always have your back. Yep nothings better than a best friend…well…except maybe ice cream…or like… a talking horse"
"What are you'"
"BUT, sometimes…" Caboose started again. "You will lose a friend. Sometimes… even your best friend. Maybe you grow apart, maybe you get into a fight, maybe they sacrifice themselves. These things happen. It's just a sad, saaad, saaaaaad, sad, saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, saaad, sad, sad part of life." Caboose explains sadly. "But you know…I think the very best part about friends… well the thing most people forget about at least… is that no matter how many friends you do lose…You can always make more. And… that's pretty neat." He was smiling brightly at Cardin.
"…Caboose," Ruby whispered.
"So you shouldn't be mean to her because then that's one friend you can't make,"
"Are you retarded," Cardin whispered. His three teammates laughed. "I mean seriously nothing you said made sense, why would I want to be friends with one of these freaks," His teammates continued to laugh. "Now I believe I told you to leave so boys make him leave," The other three were reaching for Caboose.
"Touch him I dare you," A voice threatened.
Cardin turned around to come into contact with the face of Naruto.
"I guarantee that you will not be leaving this cafeteria walking," Naruto said. "Not you or your friends,"
"And what are you gonna do about it you damn stray,"
"Last chance Cardin. Let the girl go and my teammate alone,"
The two captains stared each other down.
"What's going on here,"
The two boys look up to see a teacher staring at them.
"Nothing sir," Naruto answers with an easy smile. "Just correcting my friend Cardin here on a few facts about faunus's he had wrong,"
"Yeah," Cardin supported. "He felt the need to correct me and I feel more enlightened because of it."
The teacher looked at them clearly not believing it but decided to let it be. "Ok but I suggest you find a place to sit and eat,"
Gotcha teach," Naruto responded. The teacher walked off. "Caboose head back to the table I'm right behind you, and take my tray please." Caboose looked at him for a moment but complied. He waited until Caboose was out of earshot to speak again.
"Cardin I've never seen your bullying so I assumed it was exaggerated but now that I have seen it, I will let you off with a warning,"
Cardin narrowed his eyes. "Yeah and what's that,"
Naruto looked at him in the eyes. "You get one," Naruto growled. "Next time you try something like this…then I guarantee you'll wish Beacon had never accepted you."
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"Just what does he put in his coffee?" Roxas asked as they watched their teacher Professor Oobleck zip through the class.
"I don't know but I want it!" Nora said.
"NO!" Ren and Roxas denied immediately as they swerved their heads to their teacher's new location.
"Maybe he's a ninja," Percy suggested.
"Yeah or a child of some mythological god," Naruto added. The two looked at each other.
"Naaahhhh," They said simultaneously.
"I'm getting dizzy," Caboose said as the entire class turned there heads sideways.
"How did he get on the wall?"
"This is prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution, more popularly known as the Faunus War!" Oobleck explained. "Humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." He said as he pointed to a spot on a large map. He zips to take a sip of his coffee and heads back to the map.
"Seriously what is in that coffee?" Naruto asked bewildered.
"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!" He continued. "Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?"
A few hands, Naruto's included go up. Velvet hesitates for a moment but her hand goes up as well.
"Dreadful, simply dreadful!"
"He doesn't seem to sound like he feels bad about it," Blake mutters.
"No he's genuine," Naruto speaks up next to her.
"How could you tell?" Blake asks skeptically.
"Call it instinct," Naruto supplied. "My fox like instinct,"
"…That joke was terrible,"
"Don't make me get some yarn,"
Blake's eyes widened for a moment. "How did you know?"
"The same way the rest can tell," Naruto answered. The rest being the other Faunus's.
Blake sighed. She shouldn't really be surprised.
"I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to White Fang!" Oobleck preached. "Now, which one of you young scallions can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?"
Weiss raised her hand to answer.
"Yes?" Oobleck asked picking her.
"The battle at Fort Castle!"
"Precisely! And, who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?"
Percy raised his hand for this one.
"Yes Mr. Jackson?"
"They could see in the dark." Percy answered.
"Correct,"
'Sweet,' Percy thought. 'I managed to answer the only question I know,'
Pyrrha looked up at him with a sly smile. "That was the only thing you knew wasn't it,"
Percy nodded happily.
"Mr. Winchester what are your thought on the battle?"
"Well, I know it's a lot easier to train an animal than a soldier." He said smugly.
"You're not the most enlightened person are you Cardin." Pyrrha said.
"What, you got a problem?!" Cardin said.
"Now Pyrrha I don't know about that," Naruto chimed in. "I mean are you house broken yet, Cardin."
"What was that!" Cardin growled standing up causing Jaune to wake up.
"Mr. Winchester! Please take your seat." Oobleck commanded. "You Mr. Arc and Mr. Uzumaki will see me after class for additional reading."
"Tch,"
"Sure,"
"Oohhh,"
"Now moving on!"
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"Now remember class your report on the topic you chose is due by the end of the month," Oobleck explained before class ended. "There are plenty of materials in the library and do not hesitate to ask me or a fellow student for help if you need it. Class dismissed."
As everyone filed out Naruto, Jaune, and Cardin stayed seated.
"Now I will make this quick," Oobleck began. "Cardin, I will not tolerate those type of discriminatory remarks in my class. If you do it again we will be having a word with Professor Ozpin and I guarantee your time here at Beacon will be very short. Jaune, I suggest you start going to sleep earlier or finding ways to stay up during my class. Naruto I understand your anger but let me deal with it. Let me assure you that I am more than capable of dealing with these situations." One by one they all nodded their heads.
"You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so I expect you to act like it. History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it. Pages fifty-one to ninety-one! I want an essay on my desk by next class! Now! Run along."
And with that the man was gone.
"So Uzumaki, I thought you were going to make me pay." Cardin taunted.
"You didn't get away with it," Naruto countered. "So I can let it pass,"
The three exited the room. Cardin shoved Jaune but Naruto steadied him.
"You know," Pyrrha spoke up from beside them. "I really will break his legs,"
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We can't let him keep doing this," Percy said.
"I agree with you but there's not much we can do," Roxas explained.
"Weren't you the one that suggested cutting his legs off?"
"And I am tempted to go through with it but then he would be seen as a victim" Roxas explained. "And it's not like he's the only one. There's his team, at least a third of the student body and a few teachers that share his point of view,"
"Damnit I know that!" Percy was nearly shouting now. "So what do you suggest we do, ignore it."
"Hell no," Roxas said. "But there aren't a lot of options here,"
"We have to do something or this is going to escalate soon," Percy said. "Others are starting to be more open about their views as well. And if more of them get brave then eventually the Faunus are going to get fed up,"
"You're being dramatic," Roxas dismissed.
"Am I?" Percy countered. "Not all FaunusFaunuses are going to take this lying down. Eventually one of them will snap and go on the offensive."
"You sound like your speaking from experience,"
"I am," Percy said simply. "I guarantee you no good will come from this should it keep happening,"
"He's right," Church said. Caboose had fallen asleep but Church was always active. "As an AI I can see all possible angles and scenarios," He explained. "The probability of something good happening is 0%"
"So what do you suggest," Roxas asked.
"We do nothing," Naruto said finally speaking up.
"What!" Percy said.
"For now," Naruto continued. "I gave him a fair warning since it was my first time seeing it. So for now we do nothing,"
"And should he continue?" Roxas asked.
Naruto looked at his team for a good minute.
"Then we send a message,"
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"Church, can I ask you something," Naruto spoke up. The rest of his team had gone to sleep after Naruto had explained what his plan was.
"What's up?" Church asked.
"When Caboose was talking about friends earlier, he mentioned about losing friends." Naruto began. "The way he said it made it sound like he was speaking from experience,"
Church had remained quiet for a moment before sighing.
"A long time ago," Church began. Before I even met Caboose, there was a guy who Caboose considered his best friend. I don't know how much of what he said was true since I never saw it but from what Caboose told me they did everything together. But one day there was an incident and his friend lost his life," Church paused for a moment. "Caboose had…not taken it well. But Caboose told me the last thing his friend had told him."
"What was that?" Naruto asked. Percy and Roxas were listening intently. They hadn't fallen asleep.
"He told Caboose that he was in charge of remembering him," Church said.
"What was the incident,"
"It's not my place to say," Church explained. Naruto was kind enough to not ask questions.
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Naruto felt the despair coming off of Jaune in droves. When Percy had asked Pyrrha she said that he had become like this after she had tried to talk to him the night before.
Then he noticed that Jaune had become some kind of gopher for Cardin. Anything Cardin asked for Jaune would do. He Whenever one of the others confronted him or Cardin he would just say that everything was fine.
"It's blackmail," Roxas said. "Cardin has something on Jaune and he's holding it over him,"
"Shit." Naruto grimaced. He couldn't even go through with the warning he gave Cardin because Jaune would get caught in the middle of it.
Percy had not been happy. Even Caboose was starting to see Cardin in a bad light and that was saying something. But Percy was more upset with Naruto with not putting a stop to this earlier on.
And if Naruto was being completely honest with himself. He didn't blame Percy at all.
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Roxas was currently in team (J)NPR's room with the members minus Jaune.
Roxas was currently tossing a bouncy ball at the wall over Nora's bed as she jumped on it. Ren was loading StormFlower and Pyrrha was looking out the window.
"C'mon Nora we're almost at 1000 we can make it," Roxas encouraged.
"How come Jaune gets home so late?" Nora asked aloud but she gave Roxas the thumbs up to let him know she heard him.
"He's become rather scarce since he started fraternizing with Cardin." Ren mentioned. Roxas had thrown the ball a bit harder at that.
"That's weird... Doesn't he know we have a field trip tomorrow?" Nora said "We need our rest!"
"1000, we hit 1000 bounces Nora," Roxas says as he stops bouncing the ball.
Nora shrieks in excitement while twirling in midair so her back hits the covers.
"I'm sure our leader knows exactly what he's doing." Pyrrha scowls.
The three other occupant look at each other warily.
"Mmmmm…. I guess so," Nora says though her heart isn't in it.
None of them are aware of Jaune looking at them through a crack in the door. He closes the dor and looks dejected.
"Hey, Jaune!" Ruby greets surprising him. "Long time, no see! Did you lock yourself out again?"
"Wait he's done that?" Naruto asks as he rounds the corner into their hall.
"Yeah, three times now," Ruby explains. "I honestly only thought you were that stupid,"
"Bite me cookie monster," Naruto retorted, then he turned his attention to Jaune. "So did you lock yourself out or what?"
"Oh, uh, nope!" Jaune laughs weakly as he pulls out his scroll. "Got it!"
"So! Where have you been lately?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah Jaune where have you been," Naruto asked but the way he said it showed that he knew exactly where Jaune had been
"I, uh..." Jaune hesitated as he tried to come up with something, but just sighed and lowered his head. "I messed up. I did something I shouldn't have, and now Cardin has me on a leash, and Pyrrha won't even talk to me, and..."
'Roxas was right,' Naruto thought.
"I'm starting to think coming to this school was a bad idea." Jaune moans as he presses his back to his team's door and slides down to the floor in depression. "I'm a failure."
"Nope!" Ruby says.
"Nope?" Jaune asks as he looks up only to receive a smack across the head from Naruto. "Hey!"
"Nope!" Ruby continues completely glossing over Naruto smacking him. "You're a leader now, Jaune. You're not allowed to be a failure."
"She's right," Naruto said. "You have a team to look after now,"
"But what if I fail them?"
"Nope!" Ruby said. Naruto smacked him again.
"Don't even think like that," Naruto threatened.
"You know, neither of you are the easiest people to talk to about this kind of stuff." Jaune says.
"Nope!" Smack!
"Will you stop hitting me!" Jaune said.
"I will when you get a grip!" Naruto countered as he sat next to Jaune while Ruby sat on Jaunes other side.
"Jaune, maybe you were a failure when you were a kid..." Ruby begins causing. Jaune groans and sinks lower to the ground. "... and you might've even been a failure the first day we met!" Jaune groans and goes lower still.
"Wow Red way to encourage him," Naruto deadpanned.
"BUT!" Ruby emphasized as she gave Naruto the stink eye. "You can't be one now. You know why?"
"Why?" Jaune asked.
"Because it's just like Naruto said," Ruby explained. "You have a team now. All three of us do for now! We can't afford to go down because if we go down then they'll go down us." She said passionately.
"We come second," Naruto added. "They come first,"
"Your team deserves a great leader, Jaune. And I think that can be you." Ruby said as she began to get up.
"Personally I don't have as much faith in you," Naruto said. "But I do believe that you deserve your position as leader, See ya later Jaune,"
Naruto was about to leave but then a thought occurred to him.
"Ruby, what did you mean by for now?" Naruto asked as Ruby got ready to close the door.
"Ohh nothing," Ruby said. "I just think that at some point your team is going to get fed up with you and commit a coup," And with that she closed the door.
"….Red bitch," Naruto growled before walking into his room and closing the door.
Jaune sits there for a moment before getting up and getting ready to go into his room. But just before he can he receives a message from Cardin.
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"Field trip! Woooo!" Caboose yells as he starts sprinting around the campus. "We are going to a field! Oh my god! This is going to be...amazing! Field trip!" Team U(M)PR look on with mild interest.
"Wait if he went through that door, how did he come out of that door," Roxas asked.
"I think the better question is how are we going to stop him?" Percy asked.
The three companions looked at each other then back at Caboose,"
Damnit.
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The four freshman teams were walking through the forever fall forest with Glynda leading them.
"Yes, students, the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful. But we are not here to sight-see." She explains. "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."
The group stops, and Jaune, grunting and carrying a large case with six empty glass jars on top, tries to catch up with them and ends up bumping into Cardin. The bully scowls at Jaune, who attempts to feign innocence by whistling tunelessly.
"Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap." Glynda explains as she hold up a jar full 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 by 4 o'clock. Have fun!"
While the other teams begin to split off, Jaune attempts to sneak away from Cardin to his team, but the blackmailer sees this and grabs Jaune by the back.
"Come on, buddy - let's go!" Cardin says cheerfully. Jaune miserably looks up at his team, where Nora and Ren are already walking into the forest's depths and Pyrrha is staring sadly at the scene. Dropping his gaze, Jaune turns and follows CRDL, to the disappointment of a sighing Pyrrha before she continues on.
Naruto looks at the scene. "1,"
Immediately his senses are increased tenfold. He focuses on strengthening his nose to track CRDL and Jaune, and his ears to hear what they miht be saying. The level of malice coming from Cardin had been alarming.
Whatever he was about to do would not end well.
"Hey Church," Naruto calls. A moment later Church appears on Naruto's shoulder.
"You know I can't go around revealing myself," Church told him.
"Don't worry I just need to ask you something,"
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Team CRDL was making themselves as comfortable as possible by leaning on stones, trees, and the ground while Jaune returned to the group with six full jars, setting them down just as he collapses face-down. The surrounding team gets up in response.
"Hey, great work, Jauney boy! Now that wasn't too hard, was it?" Cardin says with a smile.
"I think I'm allergic to this stuff..." Jaune says with his eyes crossed.
"Greeeeat, great, great." Cardin dismisses. "So, Jaune, I bet you're asking yourself, 'Why did my buddy Cardin ask me to collect six jars of tree sap when there's only five of us?'"
"That is one of the many questions I have asked myself today, yes." Jaune answers.
"Well, come with me, and you'll find out." Jaune moans and gulps in worry but follows Cardin anyway.
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"You sure about this?" Church asked as Naruto told him what he planned to do.
"It's the only way to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else again," Naruto said. "Relay the plan to Roxas and Percy,"
"You got it!" Church said as he disappeared.
Naruto looked around before looking at his jar. Which was now empty again.
"What the hell?!"
The Roxas came out of the woodwork holding his jar close to his chest. "Protect your jars! He warned. "Nora's eating all the sap!"
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Now perched on a hilltop overlooking the other students, team CRDL - plus Jaune, squeezed between Cardin and Russel peak their heads over the crest and watch as everyone is retrieving their samples of sap.
Ren, is kneeling to collect it from a tree, passes a full jar to Nora, who "Mmmm!"s at the gift as Ren trades it for the other jar in her care. He turns back to the tree and starts filling it up while several licking sounds are heard off-screen until the camera pans back to Nora, now with an embarrassed smile covered in red and an empty jar in her hands. Ren realizing to late turns around in irritation.
"Cardin, wh-what's going on?" Jaune asked.
"Payback." Cardin says as he eyes Naruto who's running after Nora and Pyrrha who's gathering more sap.
"Naruto and Pyrrha...?" Jaune says his eyes widening. "Wh-what are you-?"
"That's the girl." Cardin growls. "Red-haired know-it-all, thinks she's so smart. And that damn stray. Alright, boys..." Cardin says as he pulls 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." Russel grabs Jaune by the shoulder, who barely laughs in nervousness.
"Now, according to one of the essays you wrote for me last week, these nasty things loooove sweets." Cardin explains as Pyrrha finishes gathering sap and Naruto finally catches Nora "I'm thinking it's time we teach them a thing or two." The members of CRDL get up. Cardin offers his hand to Jaune, only to painfully yank him up on his feet and shove the jar into his grasp. "And you're gonna do it."
"Do what?" Jaune asks.
"Hit her with the sap!" Cardin commanded. "Either that, or I'll have a chat with Goodwitch, and you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon."
Jaune looked down at the jar of sap in his hands and then up at the four grinning teammates waiting to see what he would do.
Jaune turned towards the group and aimed his throw at an oblivious and smiling Pyrrha, trying to steel his nerves and shaking hand to do the deed, but ultimately steeled himself for what he was about to do.
"No." Jaune says.
"What did you say?" Cardin asks the humor gone from his voice.
"I said... NO!" Jaune he yells and then turns and throws the jar at Cardin, instantly recoiling his hands to himself as he looks at Cardin's breastplate covered in sap.
The other team leader, however, just looks at himself and laughs darkly.
"Oh, you've done it now..."
Jaune humorously laughs to himself once more with his hands still raised in an attempt for defense as Dove and Sky grab Jaune's shoulders and pull him forward.
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Naruto hearing everything that went down smiles. 'Good job Jaune, I'll take it from here,'
"Caboose!" Naruto calls. Caboose turns to him and begins to walk torwards Naruto.
When he's close enough Naruto leans in to whisper to him. "I need to borrow Church for a minute ok,"
"Sure but makes sure he's back before the streetlights come on," Caboose agrees. "I worry,"
"R-right," Naruto says. "C'mon church,"
Naruto discreetly nods to Percy and Roxas who notice. They grab there jars and make there way in the direction Naruto is heading.
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"You know that wasn't very smart, Jauney boy." Cardin says as he picks up a bruised Jaune while the rest of Team CRDL watches. "I'm gonna make sure they send you back to mommy in teeny tiny pieces."
"I don't care what you do to me..." Jaune spits out as he looks at Cardin with fury. "... but you are not messing with my team or my friends."
Cardin looks momentarily shocked before recovering. "What? You think talk like that makes you tough? You think you're a big strong man now?"
Jaune merely smiles in defiance. An enraged Cardin roars and raises his fist again, but just as the hit connects, a bright light shines from Jaune, and when the white fades from the screen, Cardin is crying out in pain as he holds his hand.
Jaune, now back on the ground but completely healed, looks confusedly at his hands as they faintly glow white.
While he stares, though, Sky Lark kicks Jaune in the back and gets him on his stomach, but he looks up and glares at the approaching Cardin.
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"How far did they go," Roxas asked.
"I don't know but this will end today," Percy says.
Suddenly Naruto stops. His two teammates look at him.
"Well this is bad," Naruto states as he begins to take off in a sprint.
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"Let's see how much of a man you really are..." Cardin threatens. Just as he says this, a low growl is heard, and a surprised Team CRDL turns around and sees a large paw crash onto the scene, belonging to a huge Ursa Major with dozens of jagged spikes sticking out from its wide back.
It leaps forward and stands over the terrified students, lifting its head in the air to smell the sap on Cardin's breastplate. It lands back on its forelegs and roars at Cardin while his teammates heroically flee.
"That's a big Ursa!" Russel shouts.
Cardin is rooted to the spot when the Grimm swings its claws and knocks him sideways, revealing Jaune cowering behind him. The Ursa continues to sniff, uninterested in Jaune and following its nose to Cardin. He watches at it towers over Cardin, who gets his wits and pulls out his mace weapon only for the monster to swipe it away to Jaune's feet. He looks conflicted, wondering whether to fight or run away.
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Meanwhile, the roar of the Ursa Major is heard by the remaining members of Teams RWBY (J)NPR and (U)M(PR), still collecting sap on the other side of the forest.
"Did you guys hear that?" Ruby asks. Suddenly, the remaining members of Team CRDL are seen running the other way from the roar through the other students.
"Ursa! Ursa!" Russel shouts as he runs into Yang accidentally
"What?!" Yang shouts completely unfazed by his collision, she picks him up by the front of his shirt. "Where?"
"Back there! It's got Cardin!" Russel shouts as he gets out of Yang's grip and keeps running.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha shouts in concern.
"Yang! You and Blake, go get Professor Goodwitch!" Ruby commands going into leader mode. "Caboose you're with me!"
Pyrrha looks at her teammates. "You two, go with them! There could be more!"
The groups separate and head towards their destinations.
None of them noticing the two figures running into the direction Team (C)RDL had run towards.
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Cardin is attempting to run from the following Ursa, but it leaps over its prey and claws him away. He tries to get up and crawl away.
"Crap! Crap, crap!" Cardin panics.
Pyrrha, Weiss and Ruby are running unto the scene.
"Oh, no!" Shouts in concern.
They watch as the Ursa leans over the helpless victim, raising its paw and swiping it down... only to be blocked by Jaune's shield, Crocea Mors. He struggles to defend a stunned Cardin from its attempts to lean on him, but Weiss lifts Myrtenaster as she prepares to go help.
"Wait!" Pyrrha says.
Cardin realizing this is his chance gets up and runs away.
"So much for teamwork," Ruby mutters.
Jaune takes the shield out from the Ursa's paw and slashes at its stomach, causing it to lash out and try to crush him. He rolls out of the way and jumps over its swipe at his feet, but he is unprepared for when it launches a claw at him in midair. He lands far away, yet is immediately back on his feet as it charges at him again. The Ursa knocks Jaune behind it when he tries for a leaping attack, and he looks at the scroll in his shield to find out that his Aura level is in the red.
He grows angry again and starts to run at the Ursa as it also begins to dash towards him. As they are just about to clash Pyrrha sees that Jaune has left himself completely open to the Ursa's attack, and lifts her hand out to him, gathering dark red energy in her arm. Just as the Ursa is about to hit him, the glow surrounds Jaune's shield and makes it lift up to block the swipe. Jaune uses the surprise defensive move to lean on the ground, push his shield back up, and swing his blade right through the Ursa's neck. The head falls to the ground as the body slams onto the ground.
"Uhhh... What?" Ruby says intelligently.
"How did you...?" Weiss begins.
Pyrrha: "Well, Ruby has her speed, you have your glyphs. My Semblance is polarity."
"Whoa, you can control poles..." Ruby says mystified.
"No, you dunce! It means she has control over magnetism!" Weiss corrects.
"Magnets are cool, too..."
"Wait, where are you going?" Weiss asks noticing Pyrrha leaving.
"Yeah! We gotta tell him what happened!"
"We could... Or perhaps we could keep it our little secret?"
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Cardin had managed to find himself lost in the forest.
"Damnit!" He grunts out. "Jaune will pay for this,"
"What for your mistakes," a voice in the woods speaks out.
Cardin turns around to come face to face with Naruto Uzumaki.
"What are you doing here?!" Cardin asks.
"Keeping to my word," Naruto said.
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"Alright we're all set!" Church said. As he appeared next to Percy.
"Good," Roxas commented. "Then let it rip,"
"Ooowww," A voice groans.
"Quiet you." Percy says as he kicks Dove in the stomach. Roxas and Percy were standing in a clearing with the members of (C)RDL all on the ground in pain.
"3…2…1 and we're live!" Church said.
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Yang and the rest were heading towards Glynda when there Scrolls went off.
"Huh?" Yang thought as she pulled it out. The others followed her example.
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"What's this," Pyrrha wondered aloud as she along with Ruby and Weiss pulled out their ringing scrolls.
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Velvet looked down at her Scroll that had started ringing.
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All across the campus the entire student body had received the same link on their scroll.
They all looked skeptical but decided to open it
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"KeepingKeepin my word,"
"Is that Naruto?" Ruby asked.
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"What's he doing," Blake wondered.
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"It's the boy from the other day," Velvet said.
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On a tree Naruto's scroll was perched and filming his confrontation with Cardin.
"Now I believe I said that you would get one," Naruto said. "And buddy you used your one,"
Cardin chose to remain silent.
"See I was just going to beat you in a combat class and humiliate you," Naruto continued. "But then…. then you went and committed blackmail. And when that wasn't enough for you, you had to bump it up with the wasps,"
Cardin felt for his mace and gripped it tightly.
"See I can let it slide if its word but what you did… well I see now that I have to send a message," Naruto said as Savage Scurra weaponized itself. Then Naruto moved.
Cardin swung his mace but Naruto ducked. Naruto brought his fist up to deliver a punch to Cardin's chest causing the plate to crack.
Cardin's eyes became dilated as he struggled to breath. Not letting up. Naruto continued to punch Cardin upward before sending a spinning kick to Cardins side. Cardin went flying but Naruto wasn't done yet.
"2," Naruto rockets into the air and comes down on Cardin.
Naruto backs up. As Cardin tries to recover.
"Get up!" Naruto commands.
"Fuck you," Cardin wheezes out. "You damn stray,"
"Tch you and your nicknames," Naruto humorlessly laughs.
With a shout Cardin charges at Naruto. Naruto activates the kusari fundo on his left.
Cardin triedtries to bring down the mace but Naruto knockedknocks it out of Cardin's hand and kickedkicks him back. Taking advantage of him stumbling Naruto chargedcharges in on Cardin once again and releasedreleases a multitude on Cardin. (Imagine super saiyan 4 goku's meteor impact from budokai tenkaichi 3 with 2 difference. Except kicking him upward he justs sends him backward and closes the distance again and at the end instead of teleporting he slams his kusari fundo down on him.)
At this point Cardin was beaten. But Naruto wasn't done. He landed on top of Cardin.
"2 plus 5 plus 3!" He shouted. His red in his hair had spread even farther and his eyes began to glow red.
Then with a shout he let lose all his fury through his fist that constantly came down onto Cardin.
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'If I use more than three than I become more feral,'
"Oh no," Ruby whispers in worry
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"This is bad," Blake points out concern in her voice. Her companions began to run through the forest to put a stop to him.
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"He's going to kill him!" A random student yelled.
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"Somebody call a teacher!"
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"What do we do," Pyrrha whispered.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind and rose petal began to float around.
Ruby was gone.
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Percy and Roxas looked on quietly. Then both of them smirk.
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"Don't worry," Caboose said. Weiss and Pyrrha looked at him in shock. "My captain knows better,"
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Ruby had managed to find the clearing.
When she reached it she found Naruto getting off of Cardin. When Ruby got closer she noticed that Cardin looked relatively unharmed. Though his armor was in shambles. And the look on the face was one of fright.
Naruto began to breath in and out. Then he knelt down and pulled Cardin up by his shirt and whispered into his ear.
"Stay away from my team and stay away from my friends," He growled. "The next time you pull any kind of shit my fist won't hit the ground next to your face,"
He lets go of Cardin who drops back onto the ground.
Naruto ignores Ruby and opts to pick up his still filming scroll and looks directly into the camera.
"I'll be brief," He begins. "What you all witnessed here today, I will do to anyone I catch bullying or being racist. This goes both ways," He explains. "Just try to test me and you'll end up like that sack of shit over there. And let me tell you this now, I'm not the only one with the same mindset in the school," With that he turned off his scroll.
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"Our captain is the best," Percy comment.
"Yeah," Roxas agrees. "Now let's get these guys back to Beacon," He comment as he lifts up Sky.
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Velvet looked at the scroll that had now shut off.
'Naruto,' were her only thoughts.
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Ruby and Naruto stood in the clearing silently. Neither of them said anything.
"I was tempted to actually punch him you know,"
Ruby remained silent.
"As soon as I said the third number I could feel myself becoming feral," He continued. "And a part of me wanted to just give in, let the darkness consume me,"
"Then why didn't?" Ruby whispered.
Naruto stayed silent for a moment before speaking. "He wasn't worth it,"
Ruby smiled at the answer. "You're right he wasn't,"
The two shared a smile.
"You know you're not going to be seen in a good light by most of the student.
"It's fine," Naruto shrugged. "Nothing I'm not used to,"
"Yeah I bet whiskers,"
"Shut up Red," He growled. But it was a playful growl
Ruby giggled. The two looked at each other with humor. Then the two seemed to realize who they were looking at and began scowling at each other.
Then a thought came to Naruto. "You know we never finished our fight,"
Ruby actiavated Crescent Rose in response. "Whenever you're ready to lose,"
No more words were said. The two got into fighting positions. The two began running at each other.
"Ruby!"
"Naruto!"
And face planted at their names being called.
Ok so their fight would have to be another day.
Oh well at least one good thing came out of today.
"Nora stop eating the sap!"
Nevermind.
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Boys and girls of every age
A group of beowolves are taking a bow.
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
They look towards you. Their lips are moving as the words leave their mouth.
Come with us and you will see
They hold out one of their hands waiting for you to take it.
This our town of Halloween
They part out of the way to reveal a destroyed Vale.
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
A Nevermore is flying across the screen.
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
A group of Ursi begin popping out one by one.
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
A King Taiju comes across the screen and begins to try to eat itself.
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
A group of boarbatusks roll cross the screen running over anything in there way.
It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween
A DeathStalker hisses it swipes with his tail changing the scene to pitch black
I am the one hiding under your bed
Roxas begins to rise out of the shadows slowly.
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
He grins maniacally before transforming into a (basic) nobody and lunging forward with his mouth open.
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Percy is sitting in a swamp. He gives a watery smile while he sings as a red liquid begins to flow down on him.
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
He shows his fingers as he begins to melt into the water
This is Halloween, this is Halloween, Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Team JNPR and RWBY minus Jaune, and Ruby are in a kneeling position with their right arm on their chest. They look up at the screen and they all look like different monsters.
In this town, don't we love it now?
Jaune is spinning around with a large grin with a top hat on.
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
His entire face is in the camera giving a dark smile He fails to see Nora behind him about to bring down her hammer on him. Her hammer smashes his head in.
'Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll scream!
A beowolf in a crouching position before attacking causing the civilian to scream in fear before being killed
This is Halloween
Pyrrha, Ren and Blake appear on the screen.
Red 'n' black, slimy green
Blake and Pyrrha stab Ren who seems to bleed green ooze out of his mouth and eyes
Aren't you scared?
Weiss and Yang appear next and look scared.
Well, that's just fine
Until their faces morph into that of zombies and launch themselves at the screen.
Say it once, say it twice
Weiss and Yang begin to bite into a random civilian as a Nevermore flies by grabbing their heads.
Take a chance and roll the dice
Weiss's head says the first part
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Yangs head says this part.
Everybody scream, everybody scream In our town of Halloween
The creature Roxas turned into appars in groups and they begin to scream
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Caboose is walking across the screen as he seems to be struggling to take his helmet off.
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
He takes it off to reveal no head underneath. His voice becomes more hollow and demonic.
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?" I am the wind blowing through your hair
Church is shown next as h begins to flicker into different colors. He keeps moving around the screen before seeming flying past someone who looks around in a panic trying to figure out what he's feeling.
I am the shadow on the moon at night Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
Ruby is shown next though only her face can be seen as she is covered by her red cloak. She disappears in a swirl leaving dead rose petals behind. She appears behind Cardin and pulls her Scythe out as he looks around fearfully. She reveals her eyes to be flowing bright and she swipes her weapon making contact with his neck.
This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
It shows citizens being killed painfully by grimm. A woman is shown to be looking at the carnage that is happening with a satisfied smile on her face.
Tender lumplings everywhere
Team (J)NPR pop out of graves.
Life's no fun without a good scare
Team (R)WBY meld from the shadows.
That's our job, but we're not mean In our town of Halloween
Team (U)MPR are holding someone down as they begin to take his organs out. The smile never leaving their faces.
In this town Don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Jaune is revealed to be recovered and he once again dances as he says the words. He pulls his top hat off to take a bow. The psychotic smile never leaving his face.
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
A moment later a fist appears through Jaune's chest. Naruto's head pops from behin him and he and Jaune make eye contact.
And scream like a banshee
Naruto begins screaming in Jaune's face.
Make you jump out of your skin
Jaunes skin peels back at the shout.
This is Halloween, everybody scream Won't ya please make way for a very special guy
Team JNPR, RWBY, and UMPR begin to make a path and point there hands to an orb of darkness exploding revealing a person.
Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!
Naruto looks up at the screen with a maniacal grin on his face. Where his eyes should be is a grimm mask though his eyes are faintly glowing red. He begins to walk towards a throne. His body is covered an a dark substance that seems to be alive and blood is splattered all over him. His thrown is revealed to be made from different corpses of his victims.
This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
As he sits on his thrown the camera backs out to show all of his followers grimm included. Jaune and Ruby are standing on either side of him.
In this town we call home
Team (U)MPR (R)WBY (J)NPR along with the mass of grimm are all in the kneeling position as they look on at Naruto who has the severed head of Cardin in his hand.
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
Naruto begins to squeeze the head until its crushed by his hand.
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]
It shows them all going on a killing spree as Naruto looks on with a grin of evil glee. It ends when his eyes take op the whole screen turning it red.
Well here it is everyone. The next chapter in the adventure and a lot sooner than I thought it would be personally. This chapter was just a lot easier to write for me. And I wrote so much so I'm really happy. I think I'm going to redo the opening next chapter because I'm kinda unhappy with it. I need to do proper justice for Fairy Tail! Anyway on to answer a couple reviews.
Rio Skyron do not worry about it I get it too. Stupid A/N. though I do know why they are necessary. As for this chapter just put your review for it on chapter 9 or 7. Hopefully there will be no more need for A/N's lol.
Bludlust Thank you for your honesty. I won't lie I have a few issues with my first chapter but I don't regret what I wrote. I felt it was the best course for my fanfic and I stand by it. As for the characters I'm glad you think so. I've really put a lot into their backgrounds and making them flow with the srory so hopefully it'll bring in more readers. Don't worry about hiding your opinion because I enjoy them. Whether they be positive or negative. If I'm getting negatives then that mean that I can and need to grow as a writer and that brings me joy because that means I haven't reached my peak. Don't worry about censoring yourself but if you don't want it to be public then PM me and I'll listen. I am open to ideas and suggestions on stuff and that's being said to all of my readers.
I hope everyone Cabooses serious moment for a second their. I flt he was most appropriate of the four boys. Don't think this is the end though. sadly racism is still a very real thingand i will be touching on it again But I must say that as a 19 year old african american I truly hope to see the day that it becomes so irrelevant that the the kids born in the future will be able to say. 'What's racism,'
Anyway thats all for tonight here's a hint for next chapter…. KKKYYYYAAAAAA!
Well anyways Read Review and above all else… Hail to the Pumpkin song…Happy Halloween !
