CHAPTER TWO
BEACON ACADEMY: TEMPORARY SLEEPING QUARTERS
Blake stands over James, trying to wake him up. Worried, she looks around and finds Raycaster. Bracing herself, she hits james in the stomach as hard as she can.
"WHO THE HELL... oh hi Blake." Comes the response
"James hurry, the initiation starts in twenty minutes!" Blake exclaims worriedly. With that, he changes behind a flurry of clothes. Putting Raycaster into the partial scabbard on his belt and they head to the cliff where they have been told to meet. "See you soon James," And just like that she saunters off.
"As I said before, some girlfriend you've got there James." Jon says behind me.
"By the semblance don't ever do that again!" Jame replies. Ozpin gives his little speech, than the squares they're standing on start launching them into the air one by one. James puts on his sports sunglasses and flies into the air. As he approaches the treeline, James pulls out Raycaster and switches it to sword forme, which he then stabs into a tree. This allows him to slide to the ground swiftly. Once on the ground, he starts moving towards the temple. He encounters a few Grimm along the way and easily dispatches them. About ten minutes later he runs into Jon... the guy low on James' partner list and makes eye contact with him. Jon tries to start a conversation, but James cuts him off and they continue towards the temple. They get there and and find one relic left, the black knight piece. As Jon grabs it, James hears a battle in the distance and gets Jon to follow him. They arrive as the body of a nevermore falls down the side of cliff. "So friggin badass.." James mutters "I always miss these moments." The last obstacle ahead of these students is the cliff, which leads back to Beacon. Every student finds their own solution, and James takes a direct practical approach. By switching Raycaster to energy rifle forme he can shoot handholds into the side of the cliff and scale it, which he does. Jon takes the lazy approach, he switches Grey Cube to recharge form and has it drag him up the side of the cliff. Once they make it up the side, as a group they head back to Beacon Academy for their team formations. Hours later, after the students have cleaned up they head to the main hall to find out their teams.
"Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark. You four have acquired the black rook pieces. your team name is CRDL lead by... Cardin Winchester." Ozpin says as he makes team CRDL. "Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren you four have aquired the white rook pieces. Your team name is JNPR lead by... Jaune Arc." Than Blake and her teammates go up. "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long you four have acquired the white knight pieces. your team name is RWBY... led by Ruby Rose." Than finally James relaxes as they go up. "James Greenwood, Jon Gunmetal, Viola Shirbroun, and Chance Amaranth you four have acquired the black knight pieces. Your team name is JJVN led by... James Greenwood. And thus we close the team formation ceremony, so go to your dorms and get aquantited." Ozpin leaves the stage with Glynda right behind him. James and his new team head to their assigned dormitory room and within forty-five minutes have unpacked, claimed beds, and decorated the walls of their new dorm room. As soon as they finish, someone knocks on the door. Perplexed, James answers it and finds team JNPR, team RWBY, and an unknown team with them.
"So, having a party here? And I find out from Blake? That's a new low for you, James." Yang says. The rest of team RWBY enters with Yang, along with JNPR, and the unknown team. It quickly gets discovered that the unknown team created the party. They reveal themselves to be team CFVY. The party quickly gets off the ground and James, with Blake, quickly separates himself from the rest of the others.
"So Blake, how about a date on Saturday?" James asks bluntly.
"I-I would love that, I especially want to know how you know Yang. Since, you know she's well endowed." She replies.
"Hey, Yang is into my friend Jon and I'm going to make sure that relationship works." James responds to the insinuation. Ruby notices the exchange and walks over, but they notice and fall silent as Ruby gets closer. Yang joins them and puts James into a choke hold.
"So, James now you have no excuse to hide behind. Me. You. Outside spar right now." She says forcefully. James agrees and jumps out of the window, followed closely by Yang. He pulls out Raycaster and points at Yang. "So that's why, you have the cane with that little blade crossguard." Yang says. James merely nods as Weiss and Coco walk over.
"I'm going to ref this match and this girl will record it on her scroll." Coco says. Both fighters agree to the rules, and Coco gives the signal. James uses his right foot to launch himself towards Yang. He approaches at so fast that Yang doesn't have time to react. He starts jabbing at her nerves attempting to paralyze her, but as the first minute and a half draw to a close James starts to lose his speed advantage. Yang starts to take the upper hand, giving some pretty vicious blows. As James gets battered he taps into his determination, increasing his speed, strength, and agility by 1.5x what they normally are. After that he goes on the offensive, blowing through his aura so fast most people would be astonished. He delivers his last thirty hits and Yang falls to the ground, depleted of her aura. Coco announces the victory and Weiss looks at her scroll, shocked.
"T-that's impossible there's no way that many hits can be given with such precision and speed." She says still stunned. Everyone but James gathers behind her to see what she means, and they too become stunned.
"2,000 hits in four minutes, how is this even possible?" Chance wonders.
"It's both a gift and a curse." James replies.
"What do you mean curse?"
"I have to have kids by the time I'm thirty-five or I die. That's the curse part, the gift part allows me to move at high speeds." He replies. Everyone does a double take.
"So you have increased speed, but you die at thirty-five if you have no offspring." Weiss clarifies.
"Exactly." James says. Everyone looks a little stunned.
"That's kinda dark bro" Jon says sympathetically. They all nod their heads in agreement as they walk back inside to discuss the fight that just occurred. They come to the consensus that James is either on or above Pyrrha's level of fighting. As James goes off with Blake for some alone time, just as Yang approaches Jon.
"So Jon, when do you want to have the first lesson?" She asks flirtatiously. Jon just kind of stutters looking down. "What was that?"
"I don't want the lessons." Jon says sullenly. Yang looks at him a little hurt.
"Jon, I just want to help-"
"I'm tired of everyone always wanting to help. When can I just be accepted for who I am?" He shouts. Yang looks down sadly, mumbles an apology before walking off. Jon then stalks off to his room to tinker on Grey Cube. Meanwhile James finishes a nice make-out session with Blake and heads back to his dorm to get some shut-eye before classes start. Yang finds Blake and sits down, crying she explains the situation between Jon and her.
"Blake I don't know what to do, I mean the flirts I send across and the insinuations I make don't seem to get into that skull of his!" Yang breaks down into tears yet again. Blake puts her hand on Yang's shoulder.
"Yang, go talk to James tomorrow. I'm sure he'll straighten Jon out." Blake responds. Yang looks up a little comforted by what Blake said. She helps Yang back to their dorm and sends a scroll message to James letting him know Yang wants to talk to him tomorrow. James acknowledges the messeage and goes to sleep, wondering what the hell is going on.
(A/N: I want to thank you for sticking with the story even though I posted that semblance-awful summer special, but that summer special is an actual chapter in this story. So those who read it be warned, and those who are just getting into this story prepare your eyes for what will be the first smut chapter of the series. Thankfully I still need to get through season one, so you guys are off the hook... for now. Chapter Three is currently being created and will be up shortly.)