I 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
That morning I sat up till dawn thinking about the dream. Specifically who was in it and why did I have it?
*That wasn't a dream Magus, but a premonition of sorts*
-You saw it too Dragon? Wait. A premonition?-
*Yes. Someone in a desperate time of need trying to reach out to a kindred soul, begging for help or at the very least a comforting feeling to ease the torture*
-So whoever that person is...they're being tortured as we speak?-
Dragon was quiet at this for a few minutes.
*Without the connection I cannot be certain. They are either still being tortured, or possibly dead. There is no way to tell unless they make contact again and even then no real way for us to locate them to assist unless they provide us with an exact location and even then by the time we reach them it might be too late.*
-...Fuck-
*Expletive indeed young wizard. But enough of this depressive talk. We have other things to worry about today. It's your first official day at Beacon as a Huntsman and you share a room with four girls. Methinks its best to take the opportunity to get ready and leave of our own volition before the ladies force us out?*
-Good idea.-
With that I hopped into the restroom to wash off the sweat caused by the nightmare and was suited up in my new uniform and out the door just as Blake was starting to stir. I checked my scroll and it was only about 7am. With two hours to kill there wasn't really a lot I could do. A rumbling from my stomach made the choice for me.
"I guess I'll kill some time with some breakfast."
About 30 minutes later, breakfast tray in hand I was looking over the empty-ish cafeteria deciding where to eat. Lucky for me a cute bunny eared faunus waving me down made the decision for me. This time was a little different as she was sitting with 3 other people I hadn't seen before, one dark skinned mountain of a man, a second also dark skinned and white eyed smaller man, and a girl wearing sunglasses and a beret to accent her school uniform. I picked a spot next to Velvet and sat down.
"Magus it's great to see you made it past initiation. I hope things are getting along with your team well. Speaking of which let me finally introduce you to mine." The bunny excitedly exclaimed while motioning to each person in turn.
"This quiet brooder is Fox, this big boy is Yatsuhashi, and last but not least the one with sunglasses is..."
"The name is Coco Adel. So you're the newbie our little bun bun has told us about." The girl with sunglass lowered said glasses and very obviously looked me up and down.
"You don't look like much, a 7 out of 10 if I had to say. BUT you did keep our Bun company while we were away so you get a bonus point for that. Welcome to Beacon newbie. If you need anything or get into any trouble just let Mama know and I'll make it go away and maybe kiss away any boo boos while I'm at it" and with that statement she winked at me.
"..." Magus has encountered an error. Run reboot program
*There's something wrong with the girls here...*
*What...?*
"Coco! Don't tease Magus! He's Ozpin's nephew so I'm sure he can handle himself! Plus I've seen him training and he an handle most Grimm on his own!"
'Umm...you've seen me training?" and with a look of realization and horror on her face Velvet turned red.
"..." Velvet has encountered a critical error...
*There's something DEFINITELY wrong with the girls here...maybe there's something in the water...*
Her teammates just stared at the poor girl for a few minutes and laughed as Velvet started to word vomit excuse after to excuse as to how and when and why she saw me training before. I just had to make a mental reminder to be more careful when I train. All her excuses told me she saw me doing "normal" Huntsman training versus the "special" kind where I used magic.
From there the next hour descended into chats about Velvet's teammate's backgrounds like where they came from, hobbies, the Vytal Festival and tournament.
"So wait, what do you mean your uncle won't let you compete? You're a student just like us. What's his deal?"
"That's the thing Velvet, I'm kinda not like you. I'm literally a 5th wheel. There was an incident during initiation and my would be teammates were injured and all decided to do something else other than being hunters. After that Ozpin asked one of the teams that did pass and they allowed me to join them, with some strings attached of course. One of those being I wouldn't be able to compete in the tournament."
"Honey I'm sorry but that's a load of bull. The least the geezer could do would be to have you as an alternate for the four on four round."
"Coco that's the HEADMASTER you're talking about. Magus is lucky he didn't get delayed from attending Beacon for another year or had him alone on some standby list till a spot on a team opened up. You've heard how those go, usually the teams become distant or fall apart because there's feelings of resentment for replacing one of their friends. This is the best case scenario, he gets the team experience and gets to make friends and be here with us at Beacon."
"Whatever you say bunbun. Hey Magus let me see your scroll for a second?"
"Sure?" I had barely gotten my scroll out and unlocked it before Coco swiped it and proceeded to take kiss face, peace signed selfie and then took candid photos of Yatsuhashi, Fox, and a worried faced Velvet. After that was some mysterious typing followed by 4 different notification tones from their scrolls.
"There you go love, I've inputed our team's contact info as well as added you to our group chat so that you won't feel lonely. You should probably convince your team to do the same. It comes in handy. Anywho, its been fun but CFVY's gotta bounce. You should probably head out too. I mean you've got like half an hour to get to class but like they say 'To be early is to be on time blah blah blah.' CFVY lets roll!"
"Bye Magus, have a good first day!"
"Well met young Magus, trust your teammates and may your day lead you to enlightenment"
"..." with an affirming nod fox left with the rest of his team following the flowery words of his larger fellow male team member. I sat there for a few minutes watching them go then pulled out my schedule to double check which class was first.
"Oh look, it's Port. Hooray...Maybe I'll volunteer to kill his 'monster of the day' just to avoid the boredom." I had only been in some mandatory supplementary lessons with Professor Port but even those had been bad. Hour long snooze fests of him going on and on about stuff he did when 'I was a young lad'. During those lessons he told me that during the normal semester he would let students battle Grimm in his large classroom. Forced with no option other than to bite the bullet I grabbed my bookbag and headed to Ports class and was there before anyone else so I picked a seat in the front row right by the stairs and then took out my scroll to browse the net and kill time as the other students started to slowly trickle in.
"Monsters! Demons! Prowlers of the night! The Grimm have many names, but I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!" Port said excitedly as his class already began to drop back into dreamland one by one. Ruby and the rest of the team had bulldozed into the classroom with literally seconds to spare right before class and I was trying to pass a note to Ruby next to me trying to find out what happened but she had already nodded off and only just woke back up and mistaking the note for her 'notes' she began to doodle on the paper instead.
"And you shall too, upon graduating from this prestigious academy!" I mean I already can take on most Grimm sooo I guess bring it?
"As I was saying, Vale, Vacuo, Atlas and Mistral are some of the only real safe areas left in this world of ours which unfortunately infested with Grimm. It will be your duty as Huntsmen and Huntresses..." He took a small pause here to wink at Yang and I swear I could almost hear her barf a little in her mouth. "It'll be your responsibility to ensure the continued survival of Human and Faunus alike." At this some random guy in the background cheered but then quickly shut up when no one joined him.
"But before we begin the lesson I would like to tell you all a story! A story. A tale of a young, handsome man... Me! When I was a boy..."
And here we go. He began to rant on about how amazing he used to be. Strong, handsome, smooth with the ladies, fighting off a larger than normal Alpha Beowolf with nothing but a flip flop. Meanwhile Ruby was getting the other girl's attention and showing off her doodle. Weiss was not happy at this and becomes even more annoyed as Ruby continues to goof off and Port wraps up his story.
"So, who among you believes themselves to be a true Huntsman?"
"I do, sir!" Weiss shoots out of her seat and screams
"Well, then, let's find out! Go grab your gear face your opponent!" He then gestures to a medium sized cage sitting in the middle of the floor and with a huff Weiss gets up and stomps out of the classroom.
"Well there goes that plan. I guess its probably best anyways. I shouldn't stick out too much..."
"What was that Magus? Also where were you this morning? We woke up and you were gone! No note and bags gone! As team leader you should have told me where you were going!"
"Chill Ruby, I woke up early and grabbed some breakfast. You all were still fast asleep and I wasn't gonna wake you up that early so I just left but you're right I should have left a note. After class lets all swap contact info." I already had Blake's but I wasn't gonna point that out.
"Ok, also take this!" She then proceeded to pull out some little flag pennants with RWBY printed on them for us to cheer with"
"Where-?"
My question was drowned out as Weiss walked in and the rest of the team started to root for her against the caged creature, which turned out to be a Boarbatusk. Ruby's cheering and yelling tips thew Weiss off her game at the beginning but she eventually slayed the beast, but then she yelled at Ruby and took off in a huff. Blake and Yang after seeing that left back to the dorm, Ruby chased after Weiss and as I was leaving I ran into good old uncle Ozpin.
"Ah, Magus my boy. I was looking for you. I was hoping to chat before your next class and return some things to you. If you'd please follow me?"
"Sure Uncle Oz, you're the boss"
With that we started to head down the hall in the direction Ruby and Weiss went.
"I hope you're acclimating well to school life and are enjoying the accommodations we set up for you? I wanted to meet with you to return your rings back to you personally and also to give you these." He then handed me a box containing the rings I had left in his desk the other day along with 4 new rings. Gravity, Blizzard, Land Dragon, and Water Dragon. "After initiation was said and done and the paperwork finished I was quite stressed out you see and resorted to ring crafting to calm myself. As you can see I may have gone a little overboard but none the less these should be of great use to you. Now as I was saying...oh dear."
It was then that we came upon Ruby and Weiss shouting and I hastily hid the rings in my bag.
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all the talk about 'working together'? I thought you believed us working as a team?"
"Not a team led by you. I've studied and trained. And quite frankly, I deserve better. Ozpin obviously has made a mistake." and with that the Ice queen walked off, leaving Ruby dejected and frozen in place."
"Well that could have gone better." Ozpin suddenly spoke up scaring Ruby
One inspirational speech later Ruby and Weiss spent the rest of the day in deep thought. Not quite avoiding each other, just too busy thinking of other things to clash with each other. Once classes were over Ruby headed straight to the library mumbling about not dragging her team down. Blake and Yang went off to the training rooms to spar, Weiss disappeared to do Weiss things which left me on my own to test out my new rings. I headed to the Beacon cliffs overlooking the Emerald forest.
"You ready for this Dragon?"
*I suppose I am. Such a pity that these mindless beasts don't pose as much of a challenge.*
-I can't argue with you there.-
"I wish we could fight something that was more of a challenge..."
"A challenge you say dear nephew? Well I suppose I could find one for you if that's what you desire."
"Uncle Ozpin? Professor Goodwitch?"
"Hello again Mr. Noir. I hope your first day wasn't too strenuous?"
"No, no all good Professor. Uncle what do you mean?"
"Well Magus, I figured after I gave you the new rings you would immediately test them out. I hate to admit it, but with your "testing" the local Grimm population in the Emerald Forest is dropping to severely low levels. While usually a good thing, we do ask that you share your toys with the other children as it were. So until they return to decent levels we'll have you face off against the staff. That should pose as a better 'challenge' for you no?"
"I mean it would be better than fighting these brainless beasts sure. Ok Ozpin, who's my first opponent?"
"Why you're looking at her Magus. If you'll follow us, we've blocked off one of the lesser used sparring rooms so you can fight without interruption."
"Wait what? Me and Professor Goodwitch?!"
"You did ask for a challenge. I assure you Professor Port, and Doctor Oobleck would also be suitable opponents but they are busy so Professor Goodwitch will be your first opponent."
"Ok..." Me and my big mouth. I've seen Professor Goodwitch fight and with her semblance I might be in trouble. But...maybe with Gravity on my side now...
A short distance off a pair of bunny ears jutted out behind one of the trees twitching in response to our conversation.
"Magus is going to fight against Professor Goodwitch? And who's this Dragon he was talking to?" Seeing that we had already started to walk off to the training rooms the sneaky Faunus quickly but stealthily headed to the sparring room and finding the one that was 'blocked off' with a closed for repairs sign, ducked in and waited for the trio to appear.
A short while later we were in the abandoned arena, facing a good distance away from each other in the starting positions as our aura levels synced with the big screen monitor.
"The rules for this engagement will have to be bent a little due to your...unique abilities nephew. First of all, no flying or riding on the wind to avoid a ring out. Glynda you may still use your semblance to levitate objects. Magus you are not allowed to use the ring that makes you sprout those dragon limbs of yours, we want our combat professor in one piece. Other than that, same rules as tournament style. Combat will continue until your Aura is in the red, you are ringed out, or surrender. Any questions?
At that we both nod.
"Well if each party is ready?" Glynda raised her riding crop weapon and I slid on my 'Driver On' ring.
"On my mark...Begin!"
As promised, one new chapter hot off the presses. Not sorry for the cliffhanger. I believe somewhere Coco is a confirmed lesbian? But it hasn't stopped other writers so I'm just gonna write her as Hetero/Bi because its more fun that way. I never really realized till I went back and rewatched the 1st season how slow things were to take off. In regards to the combat rules, I figured it would be more interesting this way, also fighting against a Huntsman/Huntress will be a lot more interesting to hear about than just one shotting Grimm. Yes I know this means we won't see the claws or tail but I'm saving that for later. Any guesses who is being tortured? I feel like you guys already know. Anyways follow/favorite if you like and comment/pm me any questions. Next chapter should be up on the 28th or 29th.
Spell Rings:
Driver On
Kick Strike
Dragorize
Connect
Defend
Big
Liquid
Bind
Copy
Drill
Griffon Plamonster
Garuda Plamonster
Special
Thunder
Blizzard
Gravity
Style Rings:
Flame
Hurricane
Land
Water
Flame Dragon
Hurricane Dragon
Water Dragon
Land Dragon