RWBY Heroic Demons Volume 1
(A/N: I do not own RWBY that masterpiece belongs to Roosterteeth and Monty Oum, R.I.P)
Chapter 9: Forever Fall
It has been a few days since the fight with Team CRDL against Yinsen and Silver, yet there has been unrest in the air. Naomi discovered her old bully Cleopatra Phareigh, who had controversial material on her and is now currently blackmailing her, while Jaune was being blackmailed by Cardin after Jaune confided to Pyrrha that he lied about his credentials to get into Beacon.
"Come on Jauney boy, where are our snacks?" Cardin ordered while his teammates snickered.
"Coming Cardin." Jaune said half-heartedly as he handed them bags of snacks to team CRDL.
"Good boy." Cardin said Russell then handed Cardin a soda "Here have a soda for your troubles" Cardin said.
Jaune took the soda "Thanks Cardin." he said as he opened the can soda sprayed over his face causing team CRDL to burst out laughing.
"Never gets old" Cardin said. Pyrrha looked on saddened her friend and crush was subjected to such behaviour
"What the hell is Jaune doing with Cardin?" Iskandar said angrily.
"I know. I don't know why he's acting like Cardin's punching bag more than usual." Leonidas said sceptically
"Yeah it's like how Naomi hasn't been more distant and not flirting with anyone for the last couple of days, I'm honestly starting to get worried." Francesca said.
"Wait where is Naomi" Iskandar just realised his missing teammate 'I still need to apologise to her, grrr, me and my stupid mouth.'
"I'm sure she's fine," Leonidas said. "She'll head back to our room to get ready for class"
"Maybe you're right, I still have to apologise to her sooner or later," Iskandar said.
"Although She wasn't wrong about you and Yang, I'm definitely seeing something between you two." Francesca said.
"I do not want to re-open this topic again." Iskandar said as the three walked back to their room.
Cleopatra looked onto Cardin and Jaune and smirked "Looks like I'm not the only one with my own personal servant. Isn't that right, Slut?" she said.
"Yes, it does." Naomi said depressed.
"I'm surprised you got her so obedient in such a small time." Ivyan said.
"Well it is best to have the right motivation." Cleo rebutted.
"I got to admit I can get used to having a servant." Mapleon said as the small warrior took a bite out of his sandwich
"Yeah same here." Olivdipus said.
"Thanks for paying for our breakfast Naomi" Cleopatra said.
"Anytime" Naomi sighed.
Cleopatra then looked to see Iskandar, Francesca and Leonidas "Oh is that your teammates over there maybe we should go say hello" she said causing Naomi to panic.
"NO CLEO, PLEASE I BEG OF YOU DON'T INVOLVE THEM, I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT" Naomi begged.
"Hmmm fine I'll leave them alone for now, but you must remember your place in Remnant" Cleopatra said.
"Thank you Cleo" Naomi said bowing her head in shame.
"Okay we should start getting ready for classes now" Mapleon added his piece.
"Your right, Naomi as we get changed get our textbooks" Cleopatra said.
"Okay" Naomi said as she went to grab their textbooks for them team PLTM decided to head to their room to prepare for class.
Team PRSN looked at Naomi as confused by her current actions. "Was that Naomi, why wasn't she hitting on those guys," Peter asked.
"Yeah and they seem to be treating her rather poorly" Senji said.
"Why isn't she standing up for herself?" Richt queried
"Yeah, her perverted antics may be annoying but I admired how she always spoke her mind" Noriaki said.
"She must have a reason for this, however we should tell Iskandar and the others" Senji said.
"Agreed, I hate bullies, Cardin and this new girl, Cleo are pieces of work, anyway we should get going classes are about to start" Peter said.
"Good call" Senji said as the three members of team PRSN got up and they walked to their room but Senji looked back and say Noriaki glancing at Naomi, even though Noriaki's face couldn't be shown he could tell Noriaki was feeling saddened from Naomi's current situation. "Noriaki we got to go" Senji said.
Noriaki snapped out of his dazzed like state "Oh right sorry, coming" the armoured warrior said before rejoining his teammates.
After a few hours classes stopped for lunch break "Uh those classes sucked" Cleopatra complained. "Any of you want to skip class"
"Yeah." Olividipus said.
"Amen." Ivyan agreed
"Let's head into town for lunch." Mapleon said.
"Guys we'll get into trouble if we skip classes." Naomi said.
"Was that back talk Slut?" Cleopatra said venomously.
"No I was just-" Naomi said sheepishly.
"When I say we're skipping class, we are skipping class, do you dare to defy me and let your secret ruin Lana and Felicia" Cleopatra said.
"No, I'm sorry, I know my place is to serve you" Naomi said.
"I don't know about you but I honestly cannot stand Professor Port's ramblings and cannot wait to miss it" Ivyan said.
"Oh wait, we're missing Port's class, okay next time lead with that" Naomi said as the group departed.
Meanwhile in Ozpin's office the white haired professor took a swing of his coffee. "Sir your 'guest' has arrived" Miss Goodwitch said over an intercom.
"Thank you Glynda send in Mr Mendez" Ozpin said before turning off the intercom. After a few minutes the elevator dinged and the door opened to reveal a young man staring at Ozpin through a cold blood red visor weird dome helmet that looked like a sci-fi shooter. What also adorned the young man was an all out full body armoured suit. A angular breastplate that came around the upper torso at sharp edges and rectangular angles. What were over it were two sets of supplemental armor which consists of a more rounded breast plate over the first one. Rectangle like pieces of extra supplemental armour covered his abdomen. Magazine rigs were attached to the abdominal area. His arms and were also armoured with oddly shaped rectangles and squares. His thighs had extra leg armour with an ammo satchel on both legs and his scroll on his left Gauntlet. Lastly a lion head on a tri-pointed shield served as his crest resting on his shoulder pads
"You wanted to see me sir?" a muffled voice from a radio said that broke the silence.
"Ah, Frederick I did." Ozpin said cheerfully. "Right I'll cut to the chase. I want you to enrol in my academy. You've already been proven to be efficient in combat, but I'm rather concerned about your social skills. After giving some thought I decided to place you on a team. Hopefully you and the other three students who haven't been matched with teams will get along." Ozpin said.
"Sir is this really necessary? I didn't sign up for being an agent of yours to eventually be told to enroll in your academy. And with all due respect they'll simply slow me down. Among other things." Frederick replied while looking at his hand.
Clenching it into a fist. He looked up to Ozpin. "I'm of much better use in the field than in some class for gods knows how long. How else am I gonna care for my daughter?"
"Its rather simple really. Your daughter can live with you and your teammates." Ozpin said
"I highly doubt four people crammed into a room plus a newborn will go together especially when it's hard to put her to sleep because she misses her mama." Frederick said.
"I understand but my decision is final." Ozpin said.
Knowing that Ozpin was not gonna change his mind. Frederick did his usual thing. "Aye sir." Frederick said heading to the elevator "Anyway, I'm going to head into the city need to stock up on baby supplies, later" he said as he entered the elevator and the door close.
"I hope that boy learns to love again" Ozpin said to himself
Later in downtown Vale team PLTM was relaxing at a nice café, Cleopatra was sipping a roast coffee, "Thank you for buying us lunch Naomi, you're such a pal" she said in a arrogant attitude.
"It was my pleasure." Naomi said in a meek voice
Cleopatra then huffed after taking her last sip of coffee, "I'm bored what shall I have you do now?" Cleopatra contemplated looking at Naomi.
"She can dress up as my mother, that would embarrass her," Olivdipus said.
"Why?" Mapleon said fearing the answer.
Cleopatra then saw Frederick and something on his back covered by a shroud and got a devious idea "Naomi get that armoured guys underwear" Cleopatra ordered.
"Nice" Ivyan said.
"WHAT!" Naomi yelled.
"Oh come on using your 'feminine charms would make this easy for you shouldn't it, now get to work or do I have to show this to" Cleopatra ordered. Naomi begrudgingly followed orders and walked towards Raku following him into an alley.
"Hey there handsome, do you want me to blow your mind" Naomi said trying to force it out.
"Excuse me" Frederick said.
"Do you want me to give you a good time?" Naomi said seductively pressing her hands on his breastplate
"I have no time for a harlot like you" Frederick said pushing Naomi to the ground. "You need to take a good hard look at yourself and forsake these antics," he said.
Naomi looked down in shame she started to sniff as tears started to well in her eyes and she began to cry, Frederick paid no heed to her tears thinking it another seduction tactic, but something under the shroud on his back began to wiggle and let out a small cry. "Dang it" Frederick said to himself.
Naomi looked up and saw something squirming on his back "What the hell?" She said as she got up and walked closer to Frederick "What's that on your back?" Naomi asked.
"Nothing" Frederick said, reaching for his handgun.
"You and I both know that's a lie, just tell me what it is or do I have to scream" Naomi said.
"Fine...you woke her up anyway" Frederick said taking the shroud off to reveal a baby lion faunus with soft round lion ears in a harness on the armoured warrior's back
"A lion faunus baby?" Naomi said in confusion.
"Yes I have a child, this is why I will not be swayed by a harlot like you" Frederick responded harshly yet with determination.
"Look I'm sorry about that if Cleo knew you had a kid, she wouldn't have made me do this to you, probably just pointed to somebody else" she said.
"Cleo? Is that your fucked up pimp?" Freddie said.
"Okay 1. I don't do stuff like this, 2. You really shouldn't swear with a baby around 3. Cleo is a old bully of mine, I thought I cut her out of my life but I was wrong, and she has something that would hurt some friends of mine, so I have to do what she says otherwise my friends lives could be ruined" Naomi said in a huff turning away from him.
Frederick sighed "I'm sorry about the whole harlot thing, I-"
"It's fine, I guess I did come out a bit too strong, anyway what's this adorable ball of cute's name" Naomi said smiling at the baby, causing Freddie's child to smile and giggle.
"Naomi. Her name is Naomi Kelly Mendez" Freddie said taking of his helmet revealing a pale face with a scar going down his left eye like Weiss but much more wide.. and much more deep.
Naomi smiled at the coincidence. 'Wow that's a beautiful name for a beautiful little girl, by the way my name is Naomi, Naomi Siren" Naomi said as little Naomi grabbed her finger
"Thank you, my name is Raku Yonopolis but you can call me Raku and I'm glad to meet someone my daughter likes" Raku said. 'Still have to keep my name under wraps'
"Well I like her too, she must take after her daddy" Naomi said.
"But she'll look like her mother, I hope" Raku said with a bit of melancholy in his voice.
"You okay?" Naomi asked, concerned.
"Yes I'm fine... Anyways, do you need me to help with your bully, I can steal that video off from her scroll" Raku said looking to the side before looking back to Naomi.
"Thanks but Cleopatra, is crafty. She probably has back ups of the video" Naomi said.
"So it's either sucking her off or the video gets leaked" Raku said.
"Actually, she asked me to bring back your underwear" Naomi said.
"Seriously?" Raku then thought for a moment then sighed "I can't believe I'm going to do this." He said as he carefully took his baby off his back "Hold her please." Raku asked.
"Oh sure." Naomi said as she cradled the child in her arms. She looked down and sticked her tongue out causing Naomi to giggle reaching out for her.
"And look away please." Raku asked. Naomi complied. Raku took a breath looked both ways to make sure no one was watching then took out his scroll and entered a code, this caused the rest of his armour to unlock from the body suit, after a minute of taking off the armour, he then unzipped the body suit.
Naomi took a quick glance as she turned her head slightly using her puerperal vision "nice butt"
"Eyes to the wall" Raku ordered sternly. Naomi quickly obeyed. Raku quickly redressed and threw a pair of boxers at Naomi's feet.
"There, hopefully that will satisfy Cleo's request." Raku said.
Naomi was stunned by his deed. "I don't know what to say...Thank you".
"You can start by finding a way to take her down. A nice girl like you shouldn't hang around people like them." Frederick said taking back his child and putting his odd helmet on. "Just know if you got friends or family you shouldn't hide this from them."
Naomi looked away as she picked up the black boxers
"Thanks for that." Naomi said with a smile and walked away.
"You got her Number?" Raku said as a purple icon appears on his shoulder.
The figure looked like Raku but without all the extra armor or magazine rigs
"Yep I got to say that that Cleo chick is a real whore than Naomi I saw her browser history and she's really into that one channel nakedfaunusdudes." said the purple figure.
Her face looked a lot like Rakus but if he was a female like a twin sister but had short hair.
"Really Carol?"
"What I really hate that shit! Honestly Porn is one of most reasons why marriages fails in the city's!" Carolina whined justifying her actions.
"I told you to delete that video of Naomi's friends on this Cleos scroll" Raku said.
"Hay I'm just an AI besides Cleo's scroll move out of range before I could delete anything." Carol said.
"Next time do as I say." Raku said annoyed.
"Fine, don't thank me. Anyways better head back to Ozpin, that White Fang crew proved no match. Also... if i may ask... why did you take Naomi with you?"
"I wanted to spend time with my daughter and two she was causing Glynda a bit of trouble, so if you think about it..." Raku said smirking
"Yeah I can see that." Carol replied.
When Naomi and team PLTM arrived back at the school she went to her dorm to think about that odd armored Titan walking around.
"Raku Yonopolis? That's an interesting name... I wonder..." Naomi thought to herself.
She then took to looking at the Internet to see if there was any chance of knowing who he was. of course last names are important for identifying people. but all she got was a gay rights activist from a conservative viewpoint on the Internet and RemTube of him debating odd people who claim to be civil rights activists yet are even more discriminatory then the current white fang. Not to mention that the names were actually spelled differently. She then tried his full name and nothing came up as if he was nothing. But then she typed in "Power armour" and all she got was a bunch of failed attempts from private companies and individuals but all ending in horrifying deaths or maiming.
"NAOMI! WHERE ARE YOU?" She heard Cleopatra yell
"Crud, I'll do this later" She said putting away her scroll
Naomi walked the halls of beacon and sighed in relief that Cleopatra, gave her the rest of the evening off. She was looking down depressed she then heard a familiar voice "Naomi" she turned around and saw Iskandar walking towards her.
"Oh uh Iskandar" She said trying to act normal.
"Look I know you've been distant from us lately, and I know I had a hand in this, I'm sorry for what I said yesterday, I know you we're just joking around it's just that you guys were right it is hard seeing Yang with Damien, I mean yeah he's an awesome guy but I haven't felt this way about a woman in a long time, I should have handled that better and for that I am sorry. Please I just want to see my teammate happy again," Iskandar said.
Naomi looked up to her team leader tears welling up only a little "It's fine, I'll admit maybe I shouldn't have took the situation so lightly, but still Iskandar you and Yang have some chemistry can't deny that" Naomi said.
"OI SLUT" Cleopatra's voice rang through the halls the colour left Naomi's face 'Please no'
"What did she call you?" Iskandar said
"Iskandar you have to get out of here now" Naomi said as she tried to push Iskandar away.
"What, that woman just insulted you, you are my friend and I cannot let them insult you like that," Iskandar said.
"No, Please you don't understand" Naomi said then heard someone clear their throat she turned around to see Cleopatra and team PLTM
"So Naomi, this is one of your little friends I've been dying to meet, my name is Cleopatra Phariegh" Cleopatra said staring at Iskandar
Iskandar stared at Cleopatra angrily 'Cleopatra that is the name of Naomi's old bully' he thought "Okay Lady I have no idea who you are but you have no right to call my friend a slut, and I'll not stand for your" Cleopatra's eyes glowed purple as she looked into Iskandar's eyes, his orange eyes turned purple, his eyes glow purple and his angry expression calmed into a blank slate.
"Wow a powerful dragon faunus now wrapped around my finger, lucky me" Cleo said.
"your power is only matched by your beauty, Cleo" Ivyan said
"Why thank you, Ivyan, I knew I could count on you" Cleopatra said.
"Naomi grabbed Cleopatra's top hysterically "Cleo you promised you wouldn't involve them in this, it's just between me and you!"
"Iskandar involved himself, I broke nothing, besides even if he did not involve himself, you still have no grounds to ask me of anything, I think you need a re-education on who's in charge here" Cleopatra said. She turned to Iskandar as Olividipus pulled out his scroll "Show her, her place" Iskandar pulled his hand back across his body and gave Naomi a backhand that had enough force to send her flying and crash into the wall. Naomi struggled to get up.
"Good, now I think it's time to head back to the dorm room, I want to see for myself what they said about faunus men to be true." Cleopatra said turning, Iskandar following suit being lured by the charmer huntress
Naomi looked up to Iskandar's hypnotised body "Izzy, I'm sorry."
"Hey Izzy" they heard a familiar voice as Iskandar's hypnotised body turned to gaze upon the approaching Yang Xiao Long who smiled warmly at the dragon faunus.
Iskandar's trance like state still remained but his eyes stopped glowing purple and returned to their normal orange colour.
The dragon faunus shook his head "Ughh my head"
"Hey are you okay?" Yang asked in concern for the dragon faunus "What's going on?"
Iskandar turned to Cleopatra "I found Naomi's old bully" Iskandar said angrily he then turned his head to see Naomi battered against the wall. "WHAT DID YOU BASTARDS DO TO NAOMI!?" he yelled.
"We didn't do anything you did" Olividpus said as he pulled his scroll to show photos of Iskandar striking Naomi.
The colour left Iskandar's face "What I-I don't remember" he then sees Cleopatra smirking. It didn't take long for Iskandar to figure out what happened. "You" Iskandar growled, "YOU MADE ME DO THIS!"
"Oh but I got evidence against you" Cleopatra said holding up the camera
"Yang you know me I would never hurt Naomi right!" Iskandar looked at Yang with honest eyes.
"Of course not, besides we can just go to miss Goodwitch" Yang said
"Oh I believe you, but everyone will believe me when they see my side of the story" Cleopatra said about to use her semblance. Iskandar was ready to fight when
"PLEASE STOP!" Naomi shouted getting everyone's attention as she slowly got up. "Iskandar, please stay out of this, Cleopatra, I'll do whatever you want just don't involve them please." Naomi begged.
"Snivelling worm you dare address her in such a—" Mapleon snarked.
"It's fine I'll let it go for now, just remember who is your better" Cleopatra said.
"I do" Naomi said
"Okay now I lent this book from that armoured guy from team PRSN please return it" Cleopatra said
"Yes" Naomi said sadly "I'll see you later Iskandar" Naomi said.
"Naomi you don't have to do this" Yang said.
"Yang, Izzy I got to go" Naomi said before she ran away with tears in her eyes.
Iskandar was ready to lunge at team PLTM "Ah, ah, ah, If you do that Naomi's secret will be revealed" Cleopatra said.
"What secret?" Yang asked.
"No spoilers, besides I got places to be, hot guys to fawn over me, and stuff to try on, come on boys" Cleopatra said as she and her team walked away, Cleopatra looked over her shoulder and gave Iskandar a wink.
"I don't like her" Yang said angrily
"I feel violated just by being around her" Iskandar said.
"So she's blackmailing Naomi, that is why she's acting like her servant" Yang said.
"It appears so, she said something about a video, she must have a copy on her scroll and lapt-" Iskandar said but was interrupted mid sentence "Hide" He said as he pulled himself and Yang around the corner they then heard footsteps Iskandar peered around and saw team CRDL laughing to themselves.
"Guys shut up I need to make a call to ol' Jauney boy for our prank tomorrow" Cardin said as he opened his scroll and called Jaune "Hey it's your buddy Cardin, I know you're probably busy with that dust project I gave you buuuut I'm gonna need you to get me a bag of rapier wasps, and make sure they have really big stingers." Cardin said before hanging up.
"Oh man Pyrrha sure is going to get stung tomorrow, and by failure boy" Rush said.
"I still can't believe he faked his way into Beacon" Dove said. This new information alarmed Iskandar and Yang widening their eyes.
"Guys someone will hear us," Sky said.
"Come on let's go grab a bite," Cardin said, team CRDL then left unaware that Iskandar and Yang listened to the conversation.
"So both Naomi and Jaune are being blackmailed" Yang said.
"Yeah but we can't tell anyone otherwise they will face consequences, Yang you protect Pyrrha tomorrow, I'll go find the evidence Cleo has on Naomi and destroy it" Iskandar said.
"How are you going to do that?" Yang asked.
"I did grow up in Vacuo." Iskandar said holding up Yang's wallet to prove a point
Yang swiped her wallet back "Smartass, anyway do you have any hacking expertise?" Yang asked.
"No but hopefully I can take the laptop away and Leonidas can crack it." Iskandar said. "anyway I must be off."
"Iskandar wait, you've been distant from me for the past couple of days, was it something I did?" Yang asked.
"Yang, I'm sorry if I've been distant, I've just had a lot on my mind lately, and this thing with Naomi wasn't helping." Iskandar said. "We'll talk later about this when this is done." Iskandar said as he turned and began to walk away.
"Okay" Yang said, saddened that Iskandar had to leave.
Iskandar stood on the roof overlooking team PLTMs room, they have left for dinner and now was time for Iskandar to make his move. He stealthily jumped down into a nearby tree, then leapt to another then to a third one right outside team PLTM's window. He used his claw to pick the lock on the window and snuck inside. He saw a laptop with the word Cleo's written on its back with sparkling gold letters, it was plugged into a backup drive, he quickly grabbed it and jumped out the window closing it behind him.
Naomi was walking through the halls Noriaki's textbook in hand with a sigh she then ran into Richt, Peter and Senji
"Oi Naomi" Senji said.
"Oh hey guys, do you know where Noriaki is? I'm trying to give him his textbook a friend of mine borrowed from him.'
"Oh yeah he's in our room, probably finishing his shower. Here I'll give you the access code to our door, he should be finished by now." Peter said sending Naomi a code through his scroll
"Thank you" Naomi said she was about to walk off when
"Hey we haven't seen you around your team lately, is everything okay?" Richt asked.
Naomi clutched the text book tightly and put on a fake smile "Yes I'm fine, I'm just helping some classmates study that's all, anyway got to go" Naomi said running away from the three.
"You could have been more subtle." Senji said.
"You guys were thinking it too." Richt said.
"Yes but Naomi may not be ready to talk about it." Peter said. Richt looked down knowing his friends had a point
"Come on we need to get dinner." Senji said as the three turned and walked away.
Leonidas was in the library studying when—
"Oi Leo, Why the hell isn't the remflix working?" Francesca said annoyed.
"Maybe because we're in school and need to study." Leonidas replied.
"Oh come on I was binge watching Bojack Horsefaunus" Francesca replied.
"Hmmm, I've heard good things about that series. Is it good?" Leonidas asked.
"Oh yeah, amazing comedy and character depth which honestly sometimes makes me reflect on" Francesca was saying before.
"Leonidas, I have a mission which requires your skills immediately." Iskandar ordered.
"Uh, if I may be so bold to ask why sensei?" Leonidas asked.
"Yeah I was trying to get him to get the Remflix working what can be more important?" Francesca asked.
"Cleopatra Phareigh, Naomi's former bully is here at Beacon and is currently blackmailing Naomi to be her servant. Said blackmail material is on her laptop and her scroll" Iskandar explained making Leonidas and Francesca look at him in shock.
"Okay, This is definitely more important than Remflix." Francesca said her attention now invested in the new assignment.
"They're going into the city for dinner what I heard, but still Leo I need you to hack into this computer and delete whatever is on it so I can return it without her being the wiser" Iskandar said.
"I'll try" Leonidas said as he opened the laptop and the screen asked for a password "Yeah password locked, we can try her father, her mother, any pets or" Leonidas said
"Huge hairy faunus dick." Francesca said nonchalantly surprising both Iskandar and Leonidas.
"Francesca, now is not the time for such language," Iskandar said.
"No, that's the password huge hairy faunus dick, no space, all capitals, it's written on the bottom of the keyboard" Francesca said pointing to the password written in pink on the bottom right corner of the laptop.
"Probably a false password to throw them off guard," Leonidas said as he typed in the password. To his surprise, it unlocked the computer surprising the two young men "Huh, how about that?"
"Okay now try going through all the files till we find something on Naomi" Iskandar said.
"It won't be that easy It's not like I can just type in 'Naomi' and have something pop up." He looked to Francesca who gave him a deadpan look. Sighing, he typed in Naomi and a file came up with her name on it "I am really over estimating this girl's intelligence." he said annoyed.
"Naomi, Lana and Felicia's sex tape? This is her blackmail material?" Francesca asked.
"Seems like it, just to check if this is actually the real file" Leonidas said clicking on it opening a video, after a few minutes the boys begin to blush.
"Yep it's real" Iskandar said closing the video.
"You pervs" Francesca said sporting her own blush.
"And Delete, also it was a legitimate reason, do not lump me as another pervert" Leonidas said deleting the file.
"Great now let's introduce her face with my axe." Francesca said angrily.
"I thought you didn't like Naomi?" Leonidas asked.
"I don't like how she gets all pervy and sometimes try to cop a feel, but she's still one of us. nobody messes with my friends." Francesca said.
"Wait! Cleo has this hypnosis semblance, I don't know how but I looked into her eyes for one second then it was just one big blurr. I was lucky Yang was there to snap me out of it. When I came too, I found out she used me to hurt Naomi. Besides she still has the same video on her scroll, so even if we approach her about it now she'll just upload it to the internet." Iskandar said holding back his frustration."I feel the same way Francesca, but we have to be smart about this. I'll go return the laptop before Cleopatra discovers our plan." Iskandar said
"Be careful." Francesca said as Iskandar walked away with the laptop he exited the library turned the corner to see Jaune carrying a box of rapier wasps a little bit covered in bites.
"Jaune." Iskandar said.
"Iskandar I was just uh." Jaune stuttered.
"Running Cardin's errands." Iskandar asked.
"Yeah, anyway I got to-" Jaune was about to walk away when
"Cardin told his teammates your secret," Iskandar said draining the colour from Jaune's face "Me and Yang overheard him, if you want my opinion he underestimates you, he thinks you are a weakling he can always push around. But I see potential in you, you just need help refining it. You have something he lacks...'Drive'. You want to be here, you want to be a huntsman and against all odds, you succeeded. I'll be honest I envy you for that. I lost my drive a long time ago." Ishkandar paused for a moment before continuing. "What you have is special Jaune. Don't let it go to waste" Iskandar said as he walked off with Jaune standing in the hallway more ashamed of himself than ever before.
Walking up the Dormitory staircase proved to be a bitter challenge. With the additional weight in her hands, Naomi thought she was walking up a steep hill. She finally made it up to second floor and was at a lost when she saw the door had a handle.
"Just great..." she panted.
Naomi managed to shuffle the textbook under her armpit and used her other hand to get the door open. She sighed in relief as she entered the hall and saw the numbers 203 inscribed on the door just where Richthofen said it would be.
"Alright, finally." she chuckled. She skipped over to the door and stopped right in front of it. She lowered herself onto her rear and sat cross legged as she examined the helmet.
"Now then. Where would i put a scroll component?" she wondered to herself. Naomi kept rotating the helmet to look from different angles.
When she fixed her sights on the backside of the helmet, she saw what looked like a compartment where you would plug in a disc just on the nape of the head. There was also a button that glowed a faint ring of neon green, almost like an elevator button.
"Aha! This has to be it!" she thought. She pushed the button and a scroll was suddenly ejected from the helmet's port. She exclaimed in awe as she comprehended the scientific marvel of the helmet.
"So cool! I wish i had one!"
With the scroll in hand, Naomi stood back up and put it to the electronic door pad. The screen of the pad flashed green and the sound of a hard click followed. The door was now unlocked. Naomi used her free hand to open the door before picking up the helmet. She opened the door and was introduced to a pitch black room.
"Hey Noriaki! Pardon the intrusion but i just had a few things i needed to return a few things." she announced as she stuck her hand in to scan for the lightswitch.
She felt a knob on the side of the wall and flicked it upwards. The lights immediately came on. Naomi walked in and was quickly frozen in her tracks. In front of her was a short girl with chin length black hair, red eyes and wearing nothing but military fatigue pants and a training bra.
Both of the girls were completely still as they gazed at one another. Naomi then looked to the door and scanned the numbers 2, 0 and 3 again. "P-pardon me but... Do you have the wrong room?" she asked with a stunted haste..
Then she looked to the bed behind her and only felt more alarms going off in her head. There were pieces of armor including a chest piece, pauldrons and gauntlets. Then, the dagger on the side table only confirmed it.
"No way... Noriaki, you're really.."
"You're really a girl?"
The girl then suddenly clapped her hands together and generated a orb of pure green energy which expanded the space of her hands.
"STASIS!" the girl cried.
Naomi immediately tried to run for it but the orb was faster and completely trapped her entire body in a state of lockdown. She couldn't feel anything move and her eyes slowly felt sleepy. The orb was then pulled back along with her and the door shut on it's own. Then she blacked out with only a few words to accompany her:
"Sorry, but for now, rest."
"Throbbing... What is this insufferable throbbing?" Naomi thought. As her vision slowly returned to a crawl, she was able to make out something tall in front of her. It almost seemed humanoid, but it was still a mess blur.
Green, that color was clear as day on the humanoid. A dark green, like a piece of Jade from Mistral. Then her vision got better, she could see that it was a female standing in front of her.
She had black hair, was wearing some type of coat but was relatively petite for a female. As her vision got better, Naomi made out red eyes, pale skin and finally a whole figure.
It was the same girl that she saw in the room, and most likely the same one who knocked her out. She immediately tried to sit up quickly but couldn't. She felt as if her entire body was completely numb.
"I'm sorry, the effects of my Stasis include the numbing of your mind. You should be regaining limb control relatively soon though."
'Soon? How about now?' Naomi yelled in her mind.
"I had to do this for obvious reasons, so you wouldn't run off and blab." Noriaki said.
"I wasn't going to blab." naomi said weakly.
"Huh that wore off faster than I expected. Oh by the way thanks for giving me back my textbook." Noriaki said surprised.
"Yeah Cleopatra borrowed it" Naomi said.
"Funny, I've been looking my textbook yet I have no memory of giving her my textbook" Noriaki admitted.
"Yeah she does what she wants, not caring about others feelings or needs." Naomi said.
"Isn't her dad the real estate tycoon?" She could have just bought the textbook." Noriaki pondered.
"'Borrowing' your textbook must have been the cheapest course of action for her" Naomi said.
"You know a lot about her... Care to explain why?" The black haired girl asked.
Naomi sighed "We met back during combat school, we were on okay-ish terms more of acquaintances than friends. But after a singing competition, she's made my life hell because of some Sort of spite that came appeared overnight. To this day, I don't know why she gets off on making me feel like a freak for my sexuality. Eventually she decided to go after my friends, Lana and Felicia. The only two people who she hasn't turned against me other than the teachers, I had to fight back and damn it felt good. I even got to spank her ass" Naomi said laughing to herself.
"If you can take her, why do you put up with the shit she makes you do?" Noriaki said.
Naomi's smiles then disappeared "She has incriminating footage of me and my friends, and if this were to get out it would ruin Lana and Felicia's future." Naomi said explaining the dire situation.
"What is it a sex tape?" Noriaki asked only for Naomi to clear her throat "Oh my gods it is a sex tape." she said realising it wasn't a joke.
"Yeah it was my first and honestly only time I had sex and Lana and Felicia wanted to make it special, I may come off as a perv but I only sleep with people I can trust." Naomi said.
"Yeah, yeah I can respect that," Noriaki said "So Cleopatra really has you in a vice huh," she added.
"Yeah, she does," Naomi said. She then looked to the armour "Say just asking why do you wear that armour?"
"That's a secret" Noriaki said clenching her fist
"Hey I told you my secret, besides I already know you're a girl now, so why not tell me the reason why you wear it"
Noriaki sighed "Very well but I warn you, you won't like it" she added. "I come from a village south of Vale, where the beliefs are a bit more backwards, more patriarchal. They believe that women should not become huntresses. Although I felt in my core that I wanted to be a huntress, I was constantly discriminated and abused from most of my village even by my own parents for many years. I hated everyone there." She said in anger.
"My god" Naomi said horrified.
"Despite what everyone thought, I still trained in secret, however a villager found out what my training, he ran back to the village, I had to run after him, I tried to make him stop but the only way I knew to keep him silent was to run my sword through his throat" Noriaki said without. Naomi widened her eyes in shock
"You killed someone." Naomi said still in shock
"Yes" She said emotionlessly "But after I did it i came to a revelation, I would never be free as long as the village existed with their oppressive ideology. I saw some grimm that were attracted to the negative emotions they then caught the scent of the negativity coming from the village. And that's when i figured out how to free myself. I lead more people to the outskirts of town and I killed them. Their fear and sorrow lured more Grimm to the village. Eventually, enough of them came so that they could lay siege to it, and tear it to the ground. I watched my parents die and my home burn to the ground, yet I felt nothing. Not regret or remorse or even joy. After the carnage, I saw this armour on a dead huntsman from my village, I took it headed to Vale and never looked back." Noriaki said she looked at Naomi who had a horrified look on her face.
Naomi regained her composure as she shakily began to stand. "Let me guess you think I'm some sort of monster" Noriaki said.
Naomi groaned "I don't agree with what you did, however I understand why you did it. I'll be honest I don't know whether or not I would have the stomach to do what you did. But I understand you. I was discriminated like you only it was by an entire school ruled by a bully with hypnotic powers. But still... to even be discriminated by even your family, I can't even imagine what that's like." She paused for a moment and took a breath "I still don't think what you did was justified, but I still sympathise with you." Naomi said walking to the door. As she walked away Naomi thought about her parents and how they both loved and supported her, even when the teachers hadn't. They were with her every second of the way no matter who voiced their complaints against her. "I never realized how lucky I am to have their support". Naomi thought.
"What about this Cleopatra girl, would you kill her?" Noriaki asked a serious question.
Naomi pondered for a moment "I won't lie the thought has occured in my mind countless times. But every time I go through different scenarios I end with the same result. No matter what I would do, it would just make me just as bad as she is, if not worse by stooping to something of her level." Naomi said."I won't tell your secret, that is something you have to tell them yourself." she added.
"And why would I do that?" Noriaki said
"Because you know that you don't wear that armour just because it looks cool, you wear it because you can't look at yourself after what you have done. Because you can barely recognise that girl in the mirror. I know because that's what I felt when I made the mistake of being forced under Cleopatra's boot again. Anyway you're welcome for the textbook it has been an experience talking to you." Naomi said as she exited the dorm.
Once Noriaki was alone, the dark haired girl sighed and picked up her helmet. She looked at it, looking at her own reflection in the visor. she thought of Naomi's words still fresh in her mind and started to tremble "Damn it" she said as she sunk to the floor tears welling in her eyes. For the first time since she donned the armor, Noriaki Hisui allowed herself to cry.
The next day Glynda Goodwitch led her class through a forest full of trees with red leaves, looking like it was autumn despite it being spring. "Yes students, the Forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful. But we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach asked to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so." Glynda said as he students followed Jaune was carrying empty jars for Cardin while Naomi carried empty jars for Cleopatra. Jaune accidentally bumped into Cardin who growled at him, Jaune responded by whistling nonchalantly. "Each of you is to gather one jars worth of sap. However this forest is full of the creatures of grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous at four o'clock, Have fun." Glynda said.
"Yeah real fun right Naomi?" Olivdipus said his attire was the same but bronze gauntlets covered his entire arms.
"Yeah not every day you go sap harvesting with friends" Mapleon said with a golden metal backpack and a sword resting on his belt
"Come on buddy let's go." Cardin said yanking Jaune away from his teammates, Jaune looked down then at Pyrrha who had a sad look on her face before walking off carrying the jars and equipment. Pyrrha just sighed as she decided to join Ren and Nora.
'I'll need to have a 'talk' with Cardin, but first," Iskandar thought as his attention turned to team PLTM and Naomi carrying Cleo's supplies "Come on Naomi that sap won't collect itself." Cleopatra said in a demanding attitude. Naomi looked at Iskandar as she sighed then turned her attention to team PLTM walking alongside them.
"So when do we smash their heads in?" Francesca asked.
"I share the same sentiment as Francesca for once." Leonidas said.
"We are not doing anything. I will follow them and assist Naomi if the opportunity presents itself. You two need to finish the assignment." Iskandar said.
"What? you can't be serious! She messed with Naomi and you want to hog the beating all to yourself?" Francesca asked.
"Sensei with all due respect, that woman is disrespecting Naomi AND our team. And you expect us to be okay with that?" Leonidas said.
If a fight breaks out between two teams, Glynda will find out and ask questions and find answers Naomi doesn't want revealed. If I need you I'll text you with my scroll." Iskandar said.
Francesca bit her lower lip in anger. It was clear she wanted to continue the argument, but she relented. Francesca said. "Make sure to punch her in the boob for me." she added.
"Noted. Anyway Leo collect the sap, Frannie, make sure Nora doesn't eat our sap." Iskandar instructed.
"Seriously?" Francesca raised an eyebrow thinking her leader was joking, Iskandar pointed to Nora filling a jar full on sap then chug it like a soda in less than 3 seconds.
"Okay, good luck" She said. Iskandar nodded before making his way in team PLTM's direction.
Cleopatra, Olividipus, Mapleon and Ivyan were lounging around the forest while Naomi struggled to carry five jars of sap. "A little help, please?" Naomi said trying to keep her balance Cleopatra just looked disdainfully as Naomi tripped and fell over, miraculously none of jars shattered, Naomi sighed as the boys snickered.
"Great thanks for helping us with the assignment Naomi you've been a real help" Cleopatra said in her superior tone.
Naomi got up and dusted herself off "Hey Cleo, I have a question" she asked.
Cleopatra raised an eyebrow "Oh wasn't expecting this, okay I'll entertain this, what is your question?" Cleopatra asked.
"What did I do to you?" She asked insistently "One day we were barely acquaintances, and then you decide to make my life hell. WHAT DID I DO TO UPSET YOU, I AM AT LEAST OWED THAT MUCH" Naomi yelled.
Meanwhile, Iskandar was in the bushes paitiently waiting for an opportunity to help.
Cleopatra scowled at Naomi. "Mauve Inglis." she growled.
Naomi stood their confused "Your boyfriend from Signal?"
"Ex boyfriend." Cleopatra corrected. "You remember the talent show they had back in combat school?" Cleo asked.
"Yeah I won by singing that cheesy pop song." Naomi said.
"Well you apparently won more than that, that night you swooned my Mauve. The next day he wanted to break up. Sure We had problems but we could have worked them out. I used my semblance on him too many times so I couldn't stop him from leaving. So I did the next best thing; Making you suffer" Cleopatra said.
"Wow this girl is cuckoo." Olivdipus whispered to Mapleon.
"I'm not going to respond to that." Mapleon said.
"Wait that was the reason you tormented me for a whole year?! Because your boyfriend broke up with you? Cleo I had no idea that would happen. I wasn't even THINKING about you when I entered that show, I just wanted to sing. And besides, I saw you guys when you were together. You treated him like garbage. Always making him pay yelling at him in front of his friends. You didn't love him you wanted to possess him," Naomi said.
"Enough! Remember I have the power here! What you say is irrelevant!" Cleopatra said angrily. "With a press of a button, Felecia and Lana get 'real' popular." she said with her overconfident smirk. "Now let's get to business."
"Which is?" Naomi asked. They then walked to a nearby small hill and crotched down they looked to see teams RWBY, JNPR, PRSN even Leonidas and Francesca. "What are we doing?"
"Setting an example of what happens when people cross me," Cleopatra said pointing to Yang Xiao Long.
"Yang, what about her?" Naomi said.
"It's quite simple. The blonde bimbo this she's so cool and sexy, and she got between me and that dragon hunk. On top of that, the bitch thinks she can have two guys fawn over her. I want to teach her a lesson in humility." Cleopatra said Iskandar listened from the tree line. "You'll lead her here, then I'll use my semblance on her. Hmmm but what shall I make her do? Have her beat herself up? Attack one of the boys that like her? Make her undress in front of the class? Oh! Or I could let my boys have some "fun" with her." Cleopatra laughed leaving Naomi horrified. Iskandar dug his claws into a nearby tree. Smoke began to rise from where his hand dug in as the dragon faunus growled.
"Lady you are seriously twisted." Ivyan said. "I love it." he said with a smile.
Naomi picked up one of the sap jars and looked to see her reflection, her sad demeanour looked back at her. She then thought of her friend and those she held dear. The look of sorrow replaced with a look of determination "No" she said.
"What?" Cleopatra said.
"I SAID NO, YOU BITCH!" Naomi said as she threw the sap at Cleo, breaking the jar and covering the charmer with red sap.
"AAHHH! THIS DRESS IS 100% MISTRALIAN SILK!" She fumed. She snapped her fingers. Mapleon's backpack opened up and a cannon extended from each side of the pack resting on Mapleon's shoulders, Ivyan twisted the handle holes on his mace opening it up and causing gas to seep through. The gauntlets left Olivdipus' arms as they transformed into two bronze robotic arms. The three members surrounded her ready to tear her apart.
"Typical. You always love others to do your work for you, afraid to finish the job yourself?" Naomi asked.
Cleopatra raised her hand signalling her teammates to stop. "You know what? You're right. I think it's fitting I finish you myself. I' ll be more than happy to make and exception." Cleopatra said as her teammates backed off. She pulled out her dart rifle and fired two darts at Naomi. Naomi activated her blue and gold trident and spun it around breaking the two darts, spilling purple liquid on the ground and onto her pinkie finger. She then squared off in a battle stance, but then she noticed a tingling sensation. She looked to her pinkie finger covered in the goo.
'My pinkie, it's numb' Naomi thought, Celoaptra saw her surprise and smirked.
"That's a new paralysing agent Ivyan concocted, exposure to the blood stream would render the body paralysed in a couple of minutes, while skin contact only affects the exposed area." Cleopatra explained before firing more darts at her. Naomi ran dodging the darts, transforming her trident into a machine gun rifle and fired a barrage of shots at Cleopatra. The black haired huntress in training folded out her dart gun and transforming it into a staff. Taking a page from Naomi's book, Cleopatra spun her staff as well, blocking most of the bullets except one which grazed her cheek.
Naomi then charged Cleopatra her rifle transforming back into trident mod. She swung her trident to strike Cleopatra's temple but Cleopatra anticipated the attack and blocked with her staff and their weapons clashed. They struggled for domination over the other. Cleopatra smiled as she broke the clash, making Naomi lose balance causing her trident to stab into the ground. "I got you now." Cleopatra said about to deliver the strike, but Naomi swung herself around the pole of her trident and kicked her bully causing Cleo to stumble back.
'Come on Naomi.' Iskandar thought.
Naomi pulled her trident out of the ground "Now to finish this" Naomi charged only taking a single glance into her eyes. Cleopatra used that opportunity to use her semblance her eyes glowed purple causing Naomi to stop in her tracks as she entered the hypnotised trans.
"About time you looked into my eyes. Now kneel to me!" Cleopatra ordered. Naomi's body trembled. Iskandar reached for his sword handles from his hiding place. "What's taking so long? I SAID KNEEL!" Cleo yelled again.
"No." Naomi uttered. Naomi had never thought it would be so hard to say no... and yet so easy. Her stiffened body trembled to resist the order. Iskandar was ready to lunge into battle.
"What did you say slut?" Cleopatra said agitated the rest of team PLTM readied heir weapons prepared to fight.
"I said, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Naomi screamed releasing a huge super sonic blast Cleopatra knocking her off her feet as well as her team. Iskandar held his ears in pain
'Oh.. god... THIS HUUUUUURTS' Iskandar thought.
Naomi's sonic scream could be heard throughout the forest, Silver, Silva, Grey, Richter even Blake held their heads in pain from the sonic frequency. Yinsen rushed to his team and quickly threw them all on his back and ran to carry them away from the offending noise.
"What the hell" Richtofen said.
Noriaki looked in the direction "Naomi" she said.
Team PLTM held their ground, trying their best not to be blown away. Naomi then screamed louder the newfound force tearing bark off the nearby trees. The four aggressors were knocked off their feet and blown back from the powerful scream. caused the wood in the trees to fly off behind them. Naomi stopped her semblance and panted for air, looking to team PLTM. The men were unconscious but she saw Cleopatra get back up and the ends of her staff have electrified. Cleopatra charged at Naomi. The blue haired huntress aimedher golden trident at Cleopatra and shoots a blast of water at her the water covers her bully as well as her electrified staff. Cleopatra screamed in agony as she got electrocuted from the water conducting her own electric attack. Cleopatra wobbled over before collapsing onto her knees. Naomi walked up to her oppressor and raised her trident overhead in a stabbing motion. Naomi brought her trident closed her eyes, yelped in fear, throwing her hands up and looking away as Naomi stabbed down. Cleopatra opened her eyes to see Naomi hasn't killed her she looks to her side to see Naomi's trident has pierced Cleopatra's scroll. Cleopatra looked up to Naomi "Don't ever mess with me or my friends again" Naomi said in a serious tone before walking off.
Once Naomi left, Cleopatra got up on her knees "That little bitch!" she propped herself on her knee and stood up "She thinks this is over? she is DEAD wrong, I'll just get my laptop and-"
"The laptop has been cleared of the video," Iskandar said jumping down from the tree and walked closer to Cleopatra.
"What, You deleted the video on my laptop?... But how?" Cleopatra asked.
"You left the password on a sticky note" Iskandar replied.
Cleopatra growled at him.
"Anyway Naomi told you to stay from her and her friends. but I see you have no intentions of learning that lesson," Iskandar said walking closer to the enchantress with the jelly covered dress.
"Oh I'll show you a lesson, that I am better than all of-" Cleopatra activated her semblance but Iskandar grabbed her face covering her top half of her head.
"I'm not gonna use that mind trick again. besides there is someone else that needs to learn the lesson I have in store for you." Iskandar said as he began to walk off dragging Cleo by the head she tried to scream but Iskandar wrapped his tail around her head to free his hand. Cleo could only scream as his tail muffled out the noise
Jaune had just slain a Ursa Major, a bruise was on his right cheek he walked over to Cardin and helped him up looking stern "Holy crap, Jaune" Cardin said with gratitude for saving his life.
"Don't ever mess with my team... my friends, ever again, Got it?" Jaune said standing his ground. Cardin couldn't even make eye contact with the new confident Jaune. With his point made, Jaune left him in the forest.
"It's good that Jaune finally grew some backbone." The voice startled Cardin as he turned around to see Iskandar carrying Cleopatra by the neck "Despite being a bully, you had to have had some pretty big balls to resort to blackmail" Iskandar said.
"You're that guy that hangs around that Yang bitch, how do you know? Iskandar who's that chick with you?" Cardin asked.
"Me and Yang overheard you and your team talking about Jaune, you really need to learn to keep your mouths shut. This woman you see is Cleopatra Phareigh. She tried to blackmail Naomi but ultimately blew it up in her face. However the message didn't get across" Iskandar said he then grabbed Cardin by the neck and pinned him and Cleopatra to the tree by their necks, his hands gripping the two bullies throats, rendering them unable to breathe.
"I want to make things very clear, I don't care what you do to me but what you did to my friends is an unforgivable offence, in simpler terms you pissed me off" Iskandar growled. "You think you can make your fellow students dance like puppets, make them suffer and destroy their lives on a whim. You are gravely mistaken." Iskandar's horns began to glow orange, his eyes then turned into slits as if they were reptile eyes. "You think oppressing those weaker than you and you can relax with a sense of entitlement. You pathetic excuses for huntsmen need to learn there is always someone stronger than you. The true meaning of strength is having the conviction to climb out of hell, to look adversity in the eye, and spit in it, I've done it so many times and the consequences are much more grave than you can ever imagine." Iskandar growled flames emitting from his mouth. Cardin and Cleopatra looked at him in fear as if they were staring at a monster.
"If I ever catch you bullying my friends or anyone else ever again, you'll see how much of a monster I can really be. I wonder... When I rip out your ribs, should I stab you with them, or should I beat you with them? Should I rip out your arteries and force you to eat them? Or should I simply start cutting and see how long you last? Whatever I decide, I will do everything in my power to make you suffer for as long as I want. As you writhe in pain, you'll think of the consequences of what you did and beg for a faster death as I slowly turn your skin and bones to ash. And the best part? I don't even have to work that hard to cover up your deaths. I can just claim that a Grimm ate you two idiots. That's a believable death for you pathetic fucks, don't you agree?" Iskandar sneered at them.
An Ursa major crept up behind Iskandar. Panic could be seen in the bullies' eyes. Unable to speak, they pointed to the grimm behind him but Iskandar seemed unfazed by their warnings. Iskandar let go of them and turned around to grab the Ursa by the face. He then set the poor grimm's head ablaze and the two watched in horror as Iskandar mercilessly melted the grimm's face. When the onslaught ceased Cardin and Cleopatra just stared in shock at the, now headless, Ursa's face as it fell on it's back and started to disintegrate. Iskandar looked over his shoulder to give a look of spite towards them "I accomplished this in 1 minute...Do you want to see what I can do in a day? Make no mistake I'm not asking you to back off, I'm ordering you" Iskandar asked as he walked off to leave the two bullies to gather their bearings.
Grey was running to the scene wondering what that noise came from till he found a moving brown box on the ground. "Hey what's this?" he said as he stopped and picked up the box. He curiously opened it and a small swarm of rapier wasps fly out of the box and into the air, miraculously not going for the faunus boy who opened it. Grey, however, didn't dwell on that particular blessing. He dropped the box and ran back hoping they didn't change their mind anytime soon.
The swarm picked up the scent of sap and locked onto the sap covered Cardin and Cleopatra and dove in to claim the sap for the hive. When the two saw the swarm approaching all they could do was scream as rapier wasps covered every surface of their bodies within seconds.
The next day Naomi was walking with a newfound sense of confidence. She felt free, and can truly say nothing is wrong now that she's freed from Cleopatra's shackles. She saw Iskandar she was about to go over and talk to him but Damien walked up to him, "Hey Iskandar can I talk to you for a second?" Damien asked.
"Sure, shoot" Iskandar said.
"I know you like Yang" Damien said. Iskandar froze. "Relax I'm not going to hurt you, you have a right to have those feelings, besides I'm not mad, I'll be honest I saw the way she looks at you, she likes you," Damien said.
"Why are you telling me this?" Iskandar asked.
"I'm not saying I'm going to stop trying to win her heart. Hell, she's the only girl I know who is as passionate as puns as I am. Whoever ends up as her boyfriend, let's just promise no hard feelings okay?" Damien said with a cocky smirk.
Iskandar was stunned by Damien's out of the blue offer "Damien I don't deser-" Iskandar hesitated for a moment then took a breath "No hard feelings." Iskandar said as the two shook hands.
Naomi smiles as she then walks towards them "Hey guys, what you guys talking about?" she said knowing full well the answer.
"Oh nothing, guy stuff." Iskandar lied.
"You seem chipper" Damien commented.
"Well I finally got rid of a pain in my ass." Naomi said
"Cleopatra." Iskandar said.
"Yep." Naomi said triumphantly.
"Glad to hear it. Anyway, I got to get going. Me and my team are going to fit in a quick training session before lunch." Damien said. "Later Iskandar." With that goodbye, Damien Walked away smiling.
"Okay see you later." Iskandar said smiling at his rival.
"Anyway, lunch?" Naomi said
"Sure." Iskandar said. they turned and as they were to head to the cafeteria they bumped into a familiar armoured warrior
"hey watch where you're going" Raku said.
"Raku?" Naomi said suprised
"Naomi?" Raku said with the same expression
"You know this guy?" Iskandar asked.
Naomi answered "I ran into him Yesterday, what are you doing here hey how is your ba-"
"Back, uh it's fine but can you keep that under wraps it's embarrassing, anyway I'm a new transfer student from Atlas, I didn't know you were here too also can I have my boxers back" Raku said.
Iskandar raised an eyebrow "Later, anyway this is my friend and team leader Iskandar Drakon"
"Nice to meet you, would you like to join us for lunch?" Iskandar said.
"I don't kno-" Raku was interrupted as Naomi gave him puppy dog eyes "fine" Raku sighed as Naomi hooked arms with Raku and Iskandar as the trio walked to lunch
Naomi and teams DMON, RWBY, JNPR, CRST and Raku were eating lunch together. "It's great that you're back Naomi" Yang said.
"Yeah It has been more quiet without you" Leonidas said earning an elbow from Francesca.
"Still it is nice to have you back, I'll be honest I've kinda missed your sex jokes" Francesca said.
"You did?" Yinsen asked
"I said "Kinda'" Francesca said.
"Anyway it's crazy that both her and Cardin were stung by rapier wasps" Silva said.
"Did you have anything to do with that?" Silver asked.
"No all I did was kick her ass I don't know where those wasps came from," Naomi said.
"Well maybe it's just a freak accident that was no one's fault." Grey said nervously.
"Grey, what did you do?" Yinsen said, noticing Grey's obvious unease
"I found a box in the Forever Fall forest and when I opened it the wasps came out. I was wondering why they didn't go for me." Grey said panicking.
"So that's what happened to that box." Jaune muttered to himself
"Anyway, why did you hang around Cleopatra, she looked like a raging bitch, Naomi? Francesca asked.
"Yes she did I was wondering about that too" Peter said with Richt and Senji in tow
"Hey have you guys seen Noriaki, can't find him anywhere" Senji said.
"I don't know where he is sorry," Iskandar said.
Noriaki was behind a corner wearing a dark green and black armoured bodysuit along with a skirt similar to Yang's only the same black and dark green pattern only it went down to the knees her face and short black hair were totally visible. She took a breath before walking from behind the corner towards her friends "Hey guys" Noriaki said. Naomi looked at her and just smiled.
"Well, hello there." Grey said in a flirtatious way
"Oh great another perv" Raku said to himself.
"Grey" Silva said annoyed.
"Uh Hello?" Richt said uncertain
"Guess you guys don't recognise me, should have expected as much" Noriaki said.
"Who are you?" Senji asked.
"Yeah and why do you smell familiar" Richt added.
"It's me Noriaki, I just ditched the armour and I removed my red contacts" Noriaki said with a smile pointing to her green eyes, everyone besides Naomi looked dumbfounded.
"EEEEHHHHH!" they all said flabbergasted.
"If you were wearing armour why even bother with contacts?" Yinsen said, unfazed by the revelation.
"She's telling the truth, I accidentally walked in on her without her armour, we had a little heart to heart about each other's past" Naomi said.
"What past?" Richt said confused.
"I'll explain later," Noriaki said with a smile. "Naomi, I am thankful if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have gotten out of my shell, I know I can't escape my past but because of you I can now face it"
"It was no problem besides you helped me as well as the words of my friends so I am grateful to you all as well" Naomi said.
"Okay now back on topic why were you with Cleo?" Silver asked.
"I'm going to go on a wild guess and say it was blackmail," Yinsen said.
"Cleo, had a video of me and my friends Felicia and Lana, I didn't know Cleo made it at the time she must have been outside the window or something" Naomi said.
"What did she record?" Silva hesitantly asked.
"Well it was after I graduated combat school, being good friends, Lana and Felicia thought a great goodbye present would be to have my first time" Naomi said.
"Wait, wait, wait so was it Lana or Felicia did you have the first time with" Richt asked.
"Both actually" Naomi said.
Grey banged the table "DETAILS, NOW" Grey demanded only for Francesca to slam the flat side of her axe
"Thank you Francesca." Yinsen said.
"My pleasure" Francesca said.
"Anyway I don't regret what I did. I honestly am grateful that I've had friends so caring and loving as Lana and Felicia, I'll always cherish them." Naomi said. "I became a huntress to protect people, to prevent people from being prosecuted for being different, I know what that is like and that is why I hold those beliefs to my heart." Naomi said smiling to Noriaki and Raku.
"I like this side of you Naomi, real noble." Raku said.
"Yes, I can get behind that." Noriaki said.
"Might I ask why did Cleopatra hate you so much?" Pyrrha asked.
"Apparently her boyfriend started to have a thing for me after he heard me sing, I honestly didn't know his feelings, but Cleo probably hypnotised him to stay." Naomi said.
"That's not love, that's just a spoilt girl playing with her toys" Yinsen said. I'm gonna have a word with this bitch."
"Anyway you said you sing?" Weiss said.
"Yeah" Naomi said.
"Can we hear you sing" Noriaki said.
"Yes I am quite curious myself," Raku said.
"I believe you have an audience Naomi" Iskandar said.
"Okay I got a piece that's still a work in process so please bear with me" Naomi said.
"Okay now please sing already" Ruby said.
"Okay" Naomi said as she began to sing. (Imagine a pop/rock like ballad)
The prays of a scared little girl, left unanswered
Always played the role of the martyr
Left alone singing her sad song
Hoping for friends to help her home
Don't regret for we shall soar
Be brave from the sound of the dragon's roar
We cannot avoid dread and tragedy
But that cannot stop our endless journey
be brave and strike a mighty blow
we will trump and reach our goal
let our love and passion flow
through our heart, body, mind and soul!
Everyone at the table was bewildered by Naomi's beautiful voice and they start to clap "That was amazing Naomi." Iskandar said.
"Yeah I'll give you that, you have a beautiful voice." Leonidas said.
"Hell yeah." Francesca praised.
Noriaki and Raku were awestruck by Naomi's voice "Wow." was all they could utter.
"I'll admit that was impressive." Weiss said.
"That was AMAZING." Ruby said, having a fondness for the pop/rock genre.
"Damn Naomi you should be a star." Yang said.
"Thank you, but my heart is set on becoming a huntress," Naomi said
"How about you make some of your songs and release them online for people to hear?" Blake suggested.
Naomi pondered for a moment "...Huh I never thought of that. I guess that will be fun during my downtime, and I do love singing"
"I'd love to hear more." Pyrrha said.
"Yeah you can make bank selling your music online." Jaune said.
"That is true." Ren said. Nora giving two thumbs up.
"Yeah you rocked." Richt said.
"For once I agree with you" Senji said.
"Amen to that." Peter added
"I see you already have a fan club Naomi." Iskandar smiled.
"Yeah, I'm just glad I have friends like you guys." Naomi smiled back
"Well Naomi looks like you got a promising singing career." Raku joked.
"Yeah, it will be interesting" Naomi said with a smile
Noriaki didn't like the look she was giving Raku. For some reason she wanted to slap him away from her but resisted the urge. "Yeah but I can be your manager right?" she said.
"Eh?" Naomi said confused "Well you're good with audio filters with that helmet of yours, so maybe you can be my sound technician." Naomi said.
Noriaki smiled "I'd like that." Noriaki said.
"Thanks guys, I'm so happy to have friends like you." Naomi said with a big heartfelt smile.
And Finished Wow this was a dooozy, sorry for the extremely long wait for this two parter but a lot of stuff as happened, I went to Ethiopia, I'm back at Uni and getting the scenes just right was a hassle to make sure the chapter was perfect anyway this puts and end to Naomi's character arc oh and I hope you liked her song I was having a hard time figuring out lyrics for her, any songwriters want to make a full version of this song has my blessing, just give me some royalties if you sing for profit
I want to throw some shout outs to Pokespecshipper my beta reader (if i had a dime for every fucking comma i had to delete for this guy.), TrueKaiser for helping me with Noriaki and Naomi's scene, animeak116 and his OC Frederick/Raku
Anyway onto the English Dub actors playing the OCs
Frederick Mendez/Raku Yonopolis voiced by David Wald
Peter Devert: Alan Tudyk (K2SO)
Richthofen Blutfur: Eric Vale (Pandora's Actor from Overlord)
Senji Feldgrau: Johnny Yong Bosch (Jonathan Joestar, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
Noriaki Hisui: Brittney Karbowski (Pretty much any role she plays)