Ahoy hoy new chapter!
It had been just shy of an hour since Ozpin told James, Leonardo and Theodore about team ZNIT. Now the headmaster stood at the window of his office, overlooking Vale and watching little dots in the distance get closer. Each of those dots were probably filled with Atlas and Vacuo students for the Vytal Festival. Strangely the headmaster was neither happy or sad with seeing the bullheads coming closer. It meant one of them was carrying team ZNIT or worse. The Mistral ones would be coming in a few hours! He was too unprepared for his liking. Half of him want to halt the tournament. Team ZNIT was a anomaly, a team from nowhere that somehow got past all the checks he had in place
Ozpin kept mulling over the info he had on this team, even if it wasn't a lot. The only reason he stopped however was from the sudden noise of something hitting the window. Ozpin shook his head and looked at what hit the window, what he found made him chuckle. A certain Crow seemed to have hit his window. Ozpin slowly walked over to one part of the window and opened it fully, allowing the slightly disoriented bird into the beacon tower. The moment the Crow was fully inside he was suddenly replaced with a different kind of Qrow who was equally as disoriented as the bird
"Oz… keep your….. fucking windows… open" Qrow panted between each word. Ozpin noted that he seemed way more tired and wary than he has seen the man in a good while
"Qrow is something wrong. You seem a bit on edge" Ozpin softly placed his hand on Qrow's shoulder and slowly started to guide the disoriented man to a chair in his office. He wanted to talk while Qrow was in a bit of a better state Qrow however had other plans. Moving out of Ozpin's soft grasp to get in front of the headmaster
"Raven came to talk. She has fought team ZNIT!" Qrow said, his voice nearly a yell. He could practically see the moment Ozpin's face became paler
"That is….. oh brothers" Ozpin quickly walked to his desk and sat down, placing his mug on the desk before placing his head in his hands. Quickly however Ozpin got his composure back. He had to be calm now, not show he felt a bit surprised and pretty worried "Where are they now. I presume they are coming towards beacon a-"
"And? Oz… Ozpin?" Qrow sat there for a moment. For some reason Ozpin suddenly shut up. Qrow was really confused and began to look for why. Nothing on the walls and his mug is nearly full so he wasn't poisoned. That would leave something out the window
Qrow found why Ozpin had gone silent
Outside Qrow could see a fully black and significantly bigger Bullhead start to descend onto the bullhead dock. Team ZNIT has already arrived. Qrow grabbed his flask and got to emptying it and began to run towards the window to fly to the docks while Ozpin basically lunged for his scroll and called Glynda to the bullhead dock. He hoped she could mitigate the damage if their was gonna be some
This was gonna be long
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Blake Belladonna was a reserved girl. Reserved and never that interested in snooping. However that didn't take into account when she saw Miss Goodwitch nearly run past her to get to the bullhead docks and a gaggle of other students following Goodwitch to see what was up. Quickly Blake became one of them, ready to find out what got Miss Goodwitch running through the school
Quickly the group following Glynda into the docks and found what made the vice-headmistress suddenly run towards the docks
A black modified bullhead had landed in the docks and it seemed like they weren't the first to get here. A lot of students and even Pro- Doctor Oobleck had come to watch the bullhead
"Ah Glynda I am happy to see you. I had no idea we would be having visitors so soon! The Mistral students shouldn't be here for another few hou-… Glynda?" Oobleck stopped talking and stared at Glynda. He just started noticing how tense the woman looked. He hadn't seen this side of Glynda so on edge in a long while
"I'm sorry Barty. This was very last minute. Ozpin just told me we have some….. guests for the festival" Glynda said as her hands moved towards her crop. Bartholomew didn't like that some visitors made Glynda so worried and on edge. If anything it made him start to worry too. He moved his hand to unfold his weapon while he waited with Glynda
Slowly the door of the bullhead opened and Glynda grew more tense. Everyone stood with held breath till someone fell out of the door of the bullhead. Making some students jump while others started laughing
Glynda stared in disbelief at the fallen figure, unsure if she should help them or just keep watching this unfold. The figure was rubbing their bandage covered arms as they got up. Their tricorn had fallen right in front of Bartholomew and unlike Glynda he was actually gonna help the figure. Quickly he walked over and grabbed the hat of the floor and walked over, helping the person up and placing the hat on their head
Bartholomew took in how the figure looked. He was a bit surprised by the metal head cover and the all black attire. The person seemed more like a old Vacuo Rouge than a Mistrali huntsmen in training but he wasn't one to judge. Everyone had their tastes in clothing like he had in coffee
The person seemingly was just staring at him, making Barty him slightly worried. If he was in class he could just say they were listening but this person seemed to just stare at him or just straight through him. Maybe they were just so rattled from the fall. Just as Bartholomew was about to speak up another voice came from the bullhead
"Rouge! What did I tell you about waiting for me and…. Oh hello" out into the doorway of the bullhead stood a woman. Silvery grey heir, white shirt, black tie, pants and shoes and a sleeveless tuxedo top. What most stood out however were her silver eyes. Silver eyes that made Glynda worry slightly. A Silver-Eyed Warrior was supposedly with this strange team
"Ah hello Madam! It appears you have come earlier than expected! The soonest we expected Students for the festival would be in a few hours!" Bartholomew said a bit happier now that he seemingly found a person of authority over these students. It wasn't unheard of a teacher coming with some students as supervisor even if he couldn't remember if this woman was a teacher
"More or less. It's nice to meet you. I'm Astral Hyde. Former Atlesian specialist but now a Teacher in Haven academy" The woman now known as Astral Hyde said and did a small bow before moving The Rouge back into the Bullhead to wait next to her before waving for someone else to come out of the Bullhead
Slowly, metal footsteps could be heard as someone else stepped out of the bullhead. They were covered in old valerian knight armour with a cloak. They were followed by the rouge and 2 people clad entirely in black. Even their head was covered by a black mask and hood. However that wasn't what everyone was focused on. It was the cloak the Knight wore
It was Ruby's cloak
"Where did you get that!" Blake yelled from where she stood in the crowd before nearly running up to the knight. However when she got close she was suddenly stopped by a small scythe embedding itself into the ground right in front of her. It felt like the temperature in the whole dock suddenly got even colder
The Rouge stood close by the bullhead but still managed to swing one of their Kusarigama to be embedded into the floor. It only made Blake angrier. They must also know who the cloak belonged to before this knight looking person. It made Blake tear up. It surprised her Miss Goodwitch hadn't stopped her
Blake wanted to take another step and ignore the threat The Rouge gave her. She just wanted to grab the knight and ask him (albeit a bit violently) why they had Ruby's cloak while they had trouble even finding even evidence Ruby had been in Vale that day! However she was stopped by someone. Someone she recognized from all the searches for her leader
Qrow Branwen. The current number 1 active huntsman in Vale and Ruby's uncle
"Where did you get that?" His weapon Harbinger was unfolded in it's great sword form and was pointing it at The Knight. Everyone was a bit surprised at the sudden appearance of the huntsman. It's why it took Oobleck and the still slightly stunned Glynda to move most of the students including Blake back a bit. "I said where did you get tha-"
Qrow was cut off as he moved his blade to block another sword. Most people around him gasped as he blocked the attack. He did wasn't straining to much by keeping the block but it did surprise him a bit. He stared at the person who attacked him and looked a bit surprised as he saw the escort of team ZNIT
Qrow grimaced slightly and put more of his weight into the crossed blade, making Astral grimace slightly and try to push back. Nearly in synch both jumped back and switched their weapon's mode. Qrow to his Scythe Shotgun while Astral's blade changed into what looked like a normal staff quickly became a staff with a scythe at each end. However unlike Qrow's where the blade of the sword became the blade of the scythe Astral's weapon became the staff while 2 red hard-light scythe blades came out of each end
"Where did you get the cape, Hyde. I know you know who the original owner of that one was" Qrow said, a slight snarl coming out with his voice pointing Harbinger at
"I don't know what you are talking about, Branwen. I just know that you threatened one of my students" Astral said. Her face a deep frown while pointing her weapon at him in return
Both huntsmen were ready to start a fight then and there…. But none could move. They both tried but just couldn't do it. Finally they both noticed Miss Goodwitch slightly wincing with each movement as she kept them still with her semblance
"Not. Here. Not. Now. You 2 are coming with me to the headmaster" Glynda said. Slightly wincing with each word. Having 2 people with their aura levels still was slightly more taxing than normal for her. Still she could hold them both "Now Bartholomew. Please send the students here to their lessons"
Bartholomew acted immediately. Started to make the students move to the classrooms while the Knight, Rouge and 2 other people moved back into he black bullhead
Blake was just a little of from following the Knight. Luckily Bartholomew was there to help her get to class. Even he was pretty interested in the Knight
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Inside the black bullhead the Knight sat at a table, playing a game on their scroll while the 2 black individuals laid at his feat while the Rouge laid on the couch next to them
The Knight looked at the 3 and put their scroll down to start patting them all one after another. The 3 who were pat let out noises close to what could be seen as a human imitating a purr
The Knight stopped patting them and began to remove some parts of their armour so that they could remove the cloak
The knight was a bit confused. People seemed to find something strange with the cloak. Oh well. Maybe they were gonna give it back. Softly the knight covered one of the black individuals with the cloak like a blanket before going back to their game
So just to quickly make it open for people. Currently I am trying to do 1 update a week and doing Springtrapped 1 week and Our Shared Horror the other