DO NOT own Kamen Rider or RWBY
For my own sanity and for my readers
*word* :Driver sounds
*word* :Dragon Speaking
"word" :Normal speech (of course)
-word- :Internal speaking directly to Dragon
NOT a new chapter. Just a re-upload because I forgot to add the above edits so its less confusing. Next chapter is in the works and should be up by the weekend!
It was only a short flight from the cliff above the Emerald Forest to Ozpin's Tower Office but it felt like longer with the Magic exhaustion that was starting to hit me. As soon as I was at the tower I found an open window, slipped in and dispelled my armored form just as I hit one of the guest chairs in his office.
I needed a nap, badly. Despite Ozpin's orders I went ahead and decided to take one, just so I could be at least a little more energized when he arrived with my team. Despite the already low reserves of Magic I had remaining I had to bite the bullet and summon a familiar so that they could wake me when Ozpin showed up.
As I summoned Garuda, Dragon gave me a quick reminder that we both had a psychic link to my summons so although we couldn't understand them, while they were in range they could project sounds and images into either of our heads kind of like a live feed. The only exception being Griffon. He technically wasn't mine so Garuda usually translates.
"Ok Garuda, fly down and watch the elevator and let us know when Ozpin is coming they fly up here through the window. If I'm not awake by the time you get here wake me up. Ok?"
He chirped in reply and flew out the window as I raised my hood and started to doze off...
*MAGUS!*
'I'm awake! Nice to meet..." I quickly stood up and turned around to see...no one. I waited a minute and at the elevator. It didn't open and the indicator showed it was still on the ground floor.
-Dragon what the fuck? Is Ozpin on his way? I just fell asleep.-
*Oh no. He's not coming yet.*
-Then what the actual hell?!-
*I was just REMINDING you that your need to keep your armored form hidden from your team.*
-Yea, I know that. Thanks for the update- Dragon just groaned in frustration at this.
*It would be easier to hide if you're NOT wearing all the rings in your arsenal. Like Ozpin told you to.*
-Oh. Right... I'm too tired to make it to the lockers though.-
*Then just take off your Ring Chains and hide them in Ozpin's desk! You can always connect to get them later. Just leave him a note or something.*
Eager to get back to my nap I quickly detached the chains that my rings sat on and found a pen and some sticky notes on Oz's desk. It took me a bit longer to find an unlocked drawer. Ignoring the contents I easily fit the chains inside and attached a quick note saying I was hiding them from my team till I could put them in my locker. I also took out my earpiece and put it on the desk while I was at it. With the deeds done I returned to my chair and got comfortable again as my consciousness faded and I fell back asleep.
I woke up again, a bit later this time to Garuda pecking my head through my jacket hood.
"Ok ok buddy I'm awake. Ceasefire." Looking over to the elevator I saw it was about halfway up the tower and would be there in about a minute so I got up, stretched, wiped any drool from my face and checked Ozpin's desk clock. I'd had about a 2 hour power nap and was feeling less of a drain from my Magic recharging a bit. As I finished those thoughts the elevator opened to reveal Ozpin and my new team.
"This is him ladies. I'd like you to meet my nephew, Magus Noir. As I said before, although he and his partner and team did pass initiation there was an Grimm rampage that occurred because of the two awakenings of Ancient Grimm. That rampage put his future teammates into intensive care and they have all decided to prematurely retire as Huntsmen, understandable after a brush with death like that."
-Oh shit. That's kind of messed up.-
*Indeed. I guess you should act appropriately. That is to say, tired and devastated.*
-There's no acting needed Dragon, did you see who is on that team?-
"Miss Rose, Miss Xiao Long, Miss Belladonna, Miss Schnee I believe that Mister Noir might do well on your team so I have brought you here to meet him and ask if you would take him on as a temporary teammate till the time we can assign him on to a different team of his own or till next year when he can retake initiation."
"What happens if we say no?" Blake tentatively asked.
"If you come to the decision as a team to not take on this fifth member then he'll have to wait till next year to attend beacon. A whole year to delay the training to being for a potential huntsman who could save lives. What say you ladies?"
"Team Vote!" Ruby then declared out loudly and pulled them off to the side to discuss my future out of earshot. Unfortunately this plan failed because they talked so loud Ozpin and I could hear them anyways.
"Ok guys, I've met Magus and he seems like a cool guy! Plus he has this cool semblance that lets him summon cool cute looking animals! He also has this awesome weapon and I bet he's good in a fight too if he didn't get hurt in that rampage that happened!" Ruby argued.
"I will admit although I can't speak for his combat ability I do feel a bit guilty. From the sounds of it we were the cause of the rampage and put 3 possible hunters out of commission" Weiss stated.
"He's the Headmaster's nephew. If we let him on the team, maybe we'll get some special treatment?" That input came from Blake. Despite her knowing that wasn't true at all I think she was trying to push in my favor by suggesting favoritism to the other girls.
"Declined. A.) He'd be the only guy on a team full of girls. B.) I don't like him. C.) How do we know he fought and didn't get injured? He could have run like a little chicken shit and let the other guys be meat shields. No. Denied. No way.
"But Yaaaang..." Ruby began to whine
"No buts Rubes. I'm not budging on this."
Then began the non verbal battle of wills. Ruby tearing up and doing puppy dog eyes and Yang trying to stare down her sister and ignore the tears and puppy eyes with a will forged from steel. Sadly the red reaper broke first.
"Ugh, fine! What about you girls?" she asked the rest of her team.
"I've only really seen part of his semblance and although I have no personal qualms against him or him being of the opposite sex I don't have enough information so I'll abstain from voting."
"Huh?" Was all Ruby and Yang said to this. Apparently a lot of big words are a no with those two.
"The both of you are dolts. I mean I choose not to vote."
"Ohhhhh." Both of them replied, which left my fate in Blake's hands.
"Sure, why not. I don't have any problems against him."
"Then it's settled, as leader of Team RWBY I welcome Magus! Wait...does that mean we're team RWMBY now?" Ruby went from excited to confused in a span of seconds, it was kind of cute honestly.
"No no no, you're still RWBY. Allow me to clarify. As a five person team, you will still be held to the standards of other teams except for a few things. First, as far as grades go individually nothing will change. As a team average Magus's grades won't apply to you. The same goes for his combat scores. He will not be exempt from participating with you in team activities except the Vytal Festival if you all qualify for it. He's also not exempt from any full team punishments any of my colleagues may impose on your team as a whole. Lastly since I was made aware of the situation early I made arrangements for some emergency modifications to your dorm room. You'll be in room 555 across from Team JNPR. I hope you enjoy the room. You might keep it come next year. You're all dismissed."
As a group of five plus Garuda we loaded into the elevator. Yang just locked eyes on me and my jacket the whole time while Ruby and Weiss examined a squirming Garuda. Blake followed Garuda's movements as he tried to escape like well...like a cat.
"So..." I began to try and break the ice.
"One more word and I'll break your jaw." Yang quickly interrupted.
"Yang! Be nice to our new teammate! What's your problem anyways? I know you don't like guys getting close to me but this is really bad. Even for you."
"Well Ruby, remember how I got in trouble during the break? This is the fucker who fought me and got me in it!"
"Language! While I am curious as to your high levels of animosity we are civilized huntresses-in-training. I'm sure we can work this out with words and not fists." Weiss immediately voiced out.
"Yeah," I retorted. "Especially since I've never seen you before today anyways."
"Bullshit! I recognize that jacket anywhere! It was you in that club and you were the temple guardian!"
"Umm no. That was my master. He gave me this jacket when I finished training with him." Already enacting the rehearsed plan for the lie.
"Ok then what about your belt?! He had one just like it!"
"The guardian's belt was bulkier and silver actually." Blake decided now would be a good point to butt in. "Magus's looks just like a belt buckle. Plus his had some kind of lever mechanism that let it change. Again Magus's lacks that."
"Thank you Blake. My master made this for me to focus my semblance. I make connection portals that let me 'summon' items I own or generate my familiars. It's some kind of Dust tech I believe. He never really gave me details on its construction because he wanted to keep it secret I guess?"
"That's understandable. The Schnee Dust company does tend to keep its own Dust breakthroughs secret till they are tested completely." was Weiss's input
"Hmmm..." Yang still seemed skeptical but she dropped it for now at least.
"What's the story on your Master anyways? Is Wizard his actual name?" Blake asked.
"That I don't know. I don't even know what he looks like. He always covered his face, or walked around in that armor of his. I'm grateful to him though. He found me after my town was attacked by Grimm and took me in. I didn't even know I had an uncle till a few weeks ago when he sent me to Vale to meet with him."
"What about his impressive displays of power? I've never seen anyone utilize dust with that much control outside my family."
"That Weiss I also don't know. He keeps a lot of stuff like secret so your guess is as good as mine. He could be related maybe?" To that Weiss just hummed in deep thought response.
I spent the next few minutes it took us to get to our dorm answering questions the best that I could. By the time we were at the dorm entrance I was ready for a nap and a shower. Jaune and his teammates were waiting outside their dorm when we got there.
"Hey are you guys staying in that room?" Jaune asked
"Yup!" Ruby replied, taking the extra effort to pop the 'p' for some weird reason. "Why what's wrong?"
"What's wrong?! What's Wrong?! I'll tell you what's wrong!" The orange haired girl with them started to excitedly reply. "What's wrong is that we couldn't get any sleep yet because some construction people came in, and have been making a loud racket for the past few hours! They just left awhile ago and I want to know what they were doing before I start BREAKING LEGS!" As she said this last part she pulled a war hammer from no where and raised it above her head.
"Nora, calm down." The one with the long black hair said while taking her hammer away from her. "The construction people are gone now and now that the team residing there have arrived we can get in and see what has been done."
"Aww, but I wanted to break some legs."
"No Nora,"
"Kay Renny."
"I must agree I'm also curious to see what changes were made. If that's ok I mean?" The redhead with them finally spoke up after politely waiting her turn.
"Welp, lets see what benefits we get from having the headmaster's nephew on our team!" Yang said as she scanned her scroll on the door lock and unlocked the door.
Since we didn't have any comparisons yet all we could say was the room was fairly large. There were 2 bunk beds arrayed against the wall by the window. Between the 2 beds under the window was a third non bunk bed. From there were some single wide study desks with shelves above each were wall mounted shelves for books and other things you would put on a shelf. There were also 2 doors inside next to each other that we learned were en suite bathrooms complete with shower.
"Whoa your room is huge! Ren! Its twice as big as our room right?! And oooo they have 2 bathrooms! Why do they get two bathrooms?!"
"Forgive Nora, she gets easily excited. But she does seem to be right. It looks like your room is exactly 2 times as big as ours."
"It looks kind of like they just knocked down the wall to the dorm next door doesn't it? It would explain why they have 2 bathrooms. Why do they get bunk beds though?" Jaune observed.
"Sweet. Perks of the nephew. Almost makes me forgive you for your master. Almost. So for this Magus, I give you the honor of a second chance! Don't screw it up."
"Second chance? What happened to my first chance?"
"Your master screwed it up." She quickly said with a darkened face.
"Ah."
At this point Ruby shouted excitedly "As team leader, I declare our next door neighbors Team JNPR our sister team!" As such we should all introduce ourselves to our fifth teammate since he wasn't with us at initiation or at the team up ceremony."
"Oh that's right. The last time I saw you was after lights out. You were gone in the morning and I don't think I saw you at the cliffs. What happened and why are you grouped up with RWBY?" Jaune asked. He may be a faker but he caught on quick. I'd have to keep an eye on him. Luckily Blake came to my rescue.
"I saw him at breakfast. After that he was standing on the panel next to mine when we were launched." Good save Blake! I'll have to owe her one.
"So anyways let's start with RWBY! We already know each other but I'm Ruby Rose, team leader! I'm 15 and Yang is my older sister. I like weapons, I like my dog Zwei, chocolate chip cookies, and strawberries! My semblance is a really cool speed boost that leaves behind rose petals for some reason and my weapon is a High Calibre Sniper Scythe Crescent Rose! My bestie and partner is Weiss and she's next." Ruby excited and shy as ever probably over shared but she passed on to Weiss."
Team introductions went around like that with the WBY of RWBY then JNPR. Finally as the team's 5th wheel it was my turn, and that's when I realized I didn't really have a name for my weapon, or in Yang's case, my bike. Could I tell my team about my semblance? How long had they been staring at me like that?
"Ok well my name is Magus Noir. Due to some...unfortunate circumstances, my team had to retire and my uncle Ozpin asked Team RWBY to let me join them and as you can see they agreed. I like books and reading. My weapon was a gift from my master, a Variant Gun Blade named...Trick Shot! Yeah and...my semblance is kinda like Weiss'? I can create portals that connect to things I own, like so" I then placed my hand onto my belt to show off.
*Connect, Please!* As the spell was cast the group gasped at a small magic circle I created as I reached in and pulled out my weapon in its gun form. then triggered the mechanism that changed it to its blade form.
"Tada. And that's pretty much it. Oh and my portals also summon what I call familiars. This is Garuda." The small red bird had been perched on my bed and chirped out for his introduction.
"Ooo that's so coo!. Not as cool as Renny, but close. Unless you can summon pancakes. GASP! Can you summon pancakes?! If you can I will dub thee the Queen's honorary pancake mage!
"Umm no. If I had a plate of them that was mine I could. For now I can only get like my bike, my weapon, things from my bag, stuff like that."
And with that the introductions faded into idle chatter and more questions about my master, usually answered with the same response of "I don't know". Eventually as time passed and the sun set and it became dark the adrenaline from the day wore off and Team JNPR excused themselves to wash up and sleep.
As RWBY was giving their goodbyes I stealthily ducked into one of the bathrooms and used my connect ring to grab my pajamas and my toiletries. They had no idea I stole the first shower till they heard the water turn on and found the door locked. Even over the sound of running water I could hear them arguing about first shower. I decided to be nice and rushed my shower a bit so they could take a turn. I was also really eager to get some rest since class started the next morning and I still hadn't unpacked.
Deciding to show a bit more kindness, I rushed my shower and exited to let them have an easier time deciding the shower order. They were still fighting over the showers as I drifted to sleep.
In my dream I heard screaming. Someone was being tortured and I felt sorry for the poor soul. I couldn't make out what questions were asked nor what the person was saying. All I remember is the screaming. The screaming and a pained beastial roar that threw me out of the nightmare and brought me back to full consciousness.
SO! I'm back. Sorry for the long wait, but I have my laptop back now and I'll be updating this story weekly at the very least. Also a bit of ominous foreshadowing for future chapters. Anyways feel free to leave a review!
Spell Rings:
Driver On
Kick Strike
Dragorize
Connect
Defend
Big
Liquid
Bind
Copy
Drill
Griffon Plamonster
Garuda Plamonster
Special
Thunder
Style Rings:
Flame
Hurricane
Land
Water
Flame Dragon
Hurricane Dragon