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Ruby walked into the nearly empty room, sans the teachers desk, and couldn't help but stop and gawk at what Jeremie was wearing. Really though she shouldn't have been surprised since he normally wears shorts and an open vest. This still doesn't change the fact that he was standing in the middle of the room wearing only black jogging pants. It honestly didn't help that Yang whistled from behind her and Uncle Qrow sleeping on the teachers desk. Jeremie just gestured for the group to sit down while waiting for everyone to get there.
It was a couple of minutes later that the entire class had arrived and no one could stop Cardin from making some lame comment about how he could easily take the teacher. Jeremie only smirked as he looked around at the class, almost like he was looking for his first victim. Only Ruby didn't realize at the moment was that was exactly what he was doing.
Weiss couldn't help but comment, "Are you going to actually teach us or stare at us like pieces of meat?" Yang barked out a 'Nice one, Ice Queen' from behind Ruby. Qrow was now sitting on the desk looking intrigued at what was happening, while Jeremie's eyes honed directly onto Weiss causing her to freeze.
Jeremie only smirked as the room quieted. "It appears that I have myself a volunteer for my demonstration." Qrow raised an eyebrow at him, which was ignored.
Yang must have pushed Weiss forward as she stumbled out of the cluster of students. She promptly glared back at the group before regaining her composure and returning to her 'prim and proper' state. The smirk on Jeremie's face grew as he noticed this. "Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, uses a rapier named Myrtenaster and wishes to fix the mistakes the Schnee's have made. Stand tall and strike hard, show me your hand-to-hand."
Jeremie completely relaxed his body as he watched Weiss get into a very loose fighting stance that he saw holes everywhere in. Everyone could tell that Weiss didn't have any hand-to-hand training prior to gaining this class, and Ruby couldn't help but feel sorry for her knowing how good of a fighter Jeremie is after watching kill that Beowolf with his hands. Of course, nobody knew this so it was interesting to see Weiss launch at Jeremie threw sloppy punches.
Jeremie meanwhile never moved an inch from where he was standing and only dodged with the most minimal of effort. He obviously looked bored, which very noticably angered the Schnee heiress. "You're mocking me!" She screamed out frustrated at this 'demonstration'.
Ruby couldn't help it, she snickered a little at how Weiss was acting. This caused a chain reaction of kids snickering or outright laughing at the display. That brought a dark frown onto Jeremie's face, as Weiss was suddenly on the floor and Jeremie's attention was no longer on her.
Jeremie's eyes searched the crowd once more before he called for Pyrrha to come forth. Unlike with Weiss though, he slipped into a combat stance and smirked. "Currently you are the strongest student here, Ms. Nikos." As Pyrrha got into stance as well, Jeremie sized her up. "Honestly though... You have one of the weakest potentials here!"
With that statement Jeremie struck out, stopping his fists an inch before they hit. Pyrrha tried to counter and dodge but quickly realized that he was showing the differences in there skills and the fact that she had no chance. It didn't take long for Ruby to realize that Pyrrha was being backed into a corner with no chance to escape, and it seemed Pyrrha noticed this to as she tried even harder to evade Jeremie's onslaught of punches and kicks.
After what seemed to be easily hours, but what was just a minute or two, Jeremie backed of and seemed to be about to call off the duel. It was then that was disoriented as Jeremie disappeared and reappeared where Pyrrha was standing and Pyrrha was up against a cracked wall. This caused everyone to begin to frantically murmur. This is the best among them? If so then what kind of monster was their teacher standing before them now?
Everyone immediatedly shut up as Jeremie stared at them. After what seemed like an eternity, he spoke, "Do you know the purpose of this demonstration?" Ruby could tell everyone was dumbfounded and had no answer for him. "This was to show everyone here the dangers of arrogance. As you've probably noticed, I've done extensive research on each and everyone being I will have the pleasure to teach this year."
He stepped forward causing the crowd to flinch. "Pyrrha Nikos is known quite famously thus is a culprit to getting a big head. Then with Weiss Schnee, her nickname is quite literally 'Ice Queen'. I saw from the few seconds before the demonstration that she cares about image and in that mindset most will fall prey to becoming arrogant." He began scanning the crowd. "Only a few of you know the art of martial arts, but even less of you are humble. It is my job to teach you martial arts, while stomping out those that are arrogant. I will put this like this, everyone has a reason for becoming warriors. I will put all of your resolves to the test."
He sighs and looks at the ceiling. "If you do not know your reason for being here or if you lack resolve to face the trials I will put you through, then you should leave now." He narrowed his eyes as he looked back at the crowd. "And know that I don't mean this class. I mean leave this school." Jeremie pulled out his knife and held it in front of him. "Or better yet leave this life, as I hate seeing potential wasted because of a lack of resolve."
He waited for a few minutes as the class recollected themselves the fact that their teacher told them if they couldn't cut it that they were better of quiting now. After no-one left or approached him, he put his knife away and smiled a bright smile. "Good, now that that is cleared up." A giant book appeared in his hands. "This book contains every piece of information I've learned and collected about any and all martial arts. I've spent a long time recording this in this book. Quite a few of the arts in this book will not be even feasible to be learned by human beings, certain may be feasible for our faunus brethren to master."
Jeremie paused as he set the book on the only desk in the room. "This class will only meet once a week, so I want you to look through this book and decide which martial art you wish to learn." He pulled out a pen and paper. "I wish for you to write on this what it is you want to learn so I can give you your own personal book that you can use to learn your selected art outside of class, which you will have to do if you wish to excel or even pass this class." He stepped away and looked at Qrow. "I want you to moniter them and make sure that everyone chooses one and writes it down."
With that Jeremie left the room, and everyone then looked between each other before Ruby stepped forward and began looking through the book.
In a realm of darkness sat the Queen of the Grimm, Salem. She sat on her throne looking down at her latest pawn she has used to destroy humanity, who was updating her about the situation at Beacon Academy. It was honestly aggravating to Salem that Ozpin is throwing a curveball this late in the game by setting up a mandatory hand-to-hand combat class for the students.
Salem wondered briefly if this development was due to the young Rose's time travel or if had something to do with the Breach. She looked at Cinder and considered telling her to eliminate the girl, but decided against it as she still didn't know about who sent her back in time. She of course had her suspicions about who it was, but knew that time travel was a more common ability than most actually realized.
If anything this mystery was something that gave her more to do besides just destroying humanity, since she couldn't directly interfere with this world while her 4 generals still lived. It was something inconsiquential to her because she knew that with Jeremie suppressed and sealed humanity could never actually get far enough to destroy the Grimm. She was honestly surprised that humanity has lived for so long, even though she knew that with Yoe's creation of Dust and the initial rebellion led by Razoul it shouldn't be that surprising.
She frowned as she thought about the fabled Silver-Eyed Warriors as she remembers how the group was formed in the first place.
Lunavos sat next to her master as they looked over the latest battlefield against humanity. She was surprised to see so many shadowlings getting cut down so quickly before she realized that it was in fact Razoul cutting them down with someone else that honestly looked similar to Ra's master. She didn't know what to think about that as Neio began send in stronger shadowlings trying to overpower the two lights in the darkness.
What she didn't expect was for Razoul and the girl to sending out waves of energy that covered the human combatants. At first nothing seemed to happen until they began to push back the shadowlings just as easily as Razoul did. She was confused until Neio spoke up. "It appears that Razoul and Val have decided to use their power to empower these pathetic humans."
Lunavos checked the human warriors' energies and noticed something. "Master, they feel similar to Jeremie. Why is that?"
Neio chuckled as he called off his forces. "Why you ask? That's simple, Val is Jeremie's daughter and Razoul is of course the Sustainer's Champion. You have to remember that Jeremie was the Sustainer so of course being his Champion, Razoul would have similar if not the same energy as him. As for Val, well that is self explanatory."
He began to walk away while Lunavos looked at the crowd of warriors celebrating their first victory. "They all have silver eyes?" She turned and followed her master hoping he could answer her question. "Also why are we leaving?"
Her master chuckled once again before opening their portal. "The silver eyes is a sign that hold similar powers to Jeremie, and as for us leaving like this. Why should I destroy such an interesting opponent?" Lunavos considered his question before she followed Neio through the portal.
Salem couldn't help but grin at the thought of her master. He was a strange man, condemning these humans to death by shadowling but would prolong it so the humans would suffer. Or possibly give them a fighting chance? It was hard to say which it was because with her master it could have been either.
She knew her master had at one point had some kind of friendship with Jeremie even though the two of them would never say as much, so it saddened her when Neio and Yoe sealed Jeremie away. She couldn't help but wonder if her master would still be alive today if they never did that. It angered her that those beings had tried to destroy her and the Grimm after they killed Neio.
She knew that they created those hunter academies or at leasted influenced their creation. What was worse is that her master's death proved just how correct Jeremie was in trying to fight those in the Cluster. It made her glad somewhat that the Generals negated Jeremie's power but also prevented her and anyone stronger than her from being able to directly interact with the world. While they couldn't interact like the humans could, they could influence the events on this world.
She sighed as she rubbed her temples and realized that Cinder had already left. Giving a dry chuckle, Salem stepped through the shadows into her personal bedroom deciding to get some sleep and think more on Ozpin's new class and how it will complicate things later.
Hey guys, we have the newest Chapter here with the first class being shown and some light being shown onto what exactly the Silver-Eyed Warriors are, at least what they are here as I can only hope that they tell us more in Volume 4.
Alright so tell me what you think so far about this journey as everything seems to chug along.
