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Welcome to the next chapter of RWBY: Heroes and the last chapter of 2019. Hope your going to enjoy the chapter and now on to the review.

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And now, story time.


Under the orange sky, two motorcycles came to a stop on top of a grassy hill. Stepping off of them stepped Jason and Ciaran. Taking a knee and his Fusion Blade off its holster, the white haired young man used its sniper setting to get a better look into the camp.

"There are a lot of bandits in that bandit camp. What a surprise!" Ciaran said, looking through the scope, "But between the two of us, I think our chances are pretty good. I can see us doing it in two ways. The practical boring sneaky way or we enter the camp guns blazing and with a bang."

"I see no need for violence." Jason said, crossing his arms, "If they give me what I want."

"Oh, your no fun..." Ciaran said with a disappointed look, placing his weapon back, as the two stepped back on their bikes, "Let's get this over with... I have this friend who knows someone who is en expert in Outerworld artifacts."

"Outerworld?" Jason said.

"You know, things not from Remnant." Ciaran said, "You know, I'm surprised you didn't say something like 'Friend? You mean the voice's inside your head?' or 'Aren't all your friends invisible?'. I knew you were softy on the inside!"

"Dear God... His personality is Kyle's on steroids." Jason thought as they began to drive towards the camp.

"W-w-wait, did you remembered to stock up on ammo?" the white haired man said.

"Like I would ever use a gun." Jason scoffed at the notion.

"Good, good. I once forget to stock-up on ammo." Ciaran said driving up next to Jason, "Then I got in a shoot-out and had to kill fifteen guys with ten bullets."

"Did they use guns?" Jason asked, with his companion confirmed they had, "Why didn't you just use their ammo?"

"Because..." Ciaran began, but instead of answering he sped up, as if to avoid the question.


The silence in the camp was disturbed by the roars of motorcycles who jumps over the gate, the black one ramming into a group of bandits as Ciaran landed, ready for battle.

"I'm baaaack!" Ciaran shouted, much to the fright of the bandits, "And I brought a friend. He wants to talk with your boss about a MacGuffin or something." he gestured to Jason, who had parked his bike and was now standing next to Ciaran.

"Well, Well, Well. Look who it is." a young woman with tan-colored skin, short brown hair and icy blue eyes. She had a tattoo of a bird rising from flowers on her left arm, "We meet again, Ciaran Aleron."

"Do I know you?" Ciaran said smugly.

"Yes you do!" she shouted.

"Whatever girl with a boy's hair cut." Ciaran said, gesturing to her, "Now go fetch that smoking smexy boss of yours, Vernal!"

With a growl, the woman named Vernal complied, the bandits parted to create a path for a woman dressed in a shallow cut black dress, five necklaces with an assortment of beads, a red girdle-belt, and a pair of matching gauntlets. An object that looks to be made from feathers hangs from the right side of her skirt. She also wears black, thigh-length boots with a red splatter pattern. On her face she wore a fearsome, full-face mask that resembles the face of a Creature of Grimm. The mask has four eye slits, further enhancing the character's inhuman appearance.

"So the psychopath returns..." the masked woman said.

"That's not a word, Raven!", Ciaran said, pointing with his free hand to her, "I can make up words too you know!"

"Lady Raven, excuse my companion." Jason said, stepping forward, "Allow me to introduced myself..."

"I have only known one to have such burning amber eyes. Your a Skywalker..." the masked woman interrupted him, "Turn around now, you will only find death on the path you are on."

"That is something I cannot do." Jason said, "I have to stop a great evil from returning."

"Your choice is your own." Raven said, "All I'm suggesting is that instead of getting wrapped up in something too big for you, for any of us that doesn't swing around an oversized key or a deadly glow stick, that maybe you take a moment to wonder if you're already where you belong."

"You can tell me whatever you want." Jason told her, "But nothing is going to stop me from facing my destiny."

"And what would a young man like you know about the whims of fate and destiny?" the black haired woman said.

"More than you might expect." he said.

"It sounds like we're done here." Raven said, turning to her men, "Take them away."

The bandits surround and begin to move in on Jason and Ciaran. The duo stood ready to engage the bandits.

"This is where the fun begins." Ciaran said with a smirk, charging at the bandits.

The first bandit decides to rush Jason with his bayonet outfitted rifle but Jason kicks at his legs to knock him off balance and punches him into the ground. A second bandit tries to swipe at him with his machete but he dodges with a cartwheel in order to kick his arm away and doges another swipe before kicking him away.

Jason shrugs off a volley of shots from a group of bandits firing their rifles, before proceeding to throw all of them back with a flick of his wrist.

A female bandit tries to engage Jason in hand-to-hand, but she is knocked down by a back handed slap from his right hand. Jason blocks a strike from another machete bandit, shattering his weapon before uppercutting him.

Jason delivers a left twirling kick to a trio of bandits that try to attack him from behind. As Jason tosses another bandit to the ground, a lightning bolt appears, summoned by the young woman, stopping the fight before it starts.

"Thank you, Vernal." Raven said before turning to everyone else, "If you people don't keep it together this place will be crawling with Grimm. You two. In my tent. Now. If you want your... MacGuffin."

Raven enters her tent as the surviving bandits attend their wounded.

"Well that could have gone more smoothly." Jason said dryly as they entered the tent.


It was lunch time at Beacon Academy, team RWBY, team JNPR and Toshi were sitting at the same table as Nora tells an unbelievable story to her audience.

"So! There we were, in the middle of the night..." Nora started.

"It was day." Ren corrected dryly.

Blake was paying no attention as she is lost in her book, while Yang is hanging on her every word with her hands cupping her face. "We were surrounded by Ursai..." Nora continued.

"They were Beowolves." Ren corrected her again, holding a cup.

"Dozens of them!" Nora screams this as she stands at the table.

Weiss is ignoring Nora and filing her nails, Ruby was typing something on her scroll, Toshi and Pyrrha are listening politely, Jaune is messing with his food.

"Two of 'em.", Ren corrected once again.

Nora continued, "But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!"

"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren said with a sigh.

"Jaune?" Toshi asked, snapping Jaune out of it, "Are you okay?"

Turning back toward them, "Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?" he said.

"It's just that you seem a little... not okay..." Toshi said as the others started to stare at him.

"Guys, I'm fine." Jaune said, he holds up a thumb while laughing nervously, "Seriously! Look!"

His attention was drawn back to Ruby who was still writing on her scroll, Yang peeked over her shoulder.

Grinning mischievously as she began to read out loud in dramatic fashion what her younger sister was writing:

"So instead of wasting our time reviewing subjects..." he said, wrapping his arms around her waist, "What about some snuggle time?"

"I could use some relaxing myself." Ruby said with a devilish smirk, pulling him back to the couch and began mercilessly kissing him, surprising him at first but began to kiss back soon enough.

"Now flip over." Clark said, she looked at him puzzled.

"Clark, I am not really in the mood for anal tonight." Ruby told him, much to his surprise, but with a smile, she obeyed.

"Yang!" Ruby yelled embarrassed, closing her scroll.

"Oh, so cute." Yang teased, "My baby sister still writes fanfiction about her self insert and her book crush."

"You write fanfiction?" Toshi said interested, "Can I have a look?"

"N-No!" she shouted, surprisingly loudly, "You of all people can't read it!"

"Why not?" Toshi said, "I have this friend called Kyle who enjoys writing fanfiction... I can't be as bad as his."

Their attention is focused on the members of Team CRDL, standing around a girl with brown rabbit ears jutting from her hair as Cardin laughs at her and Sky Lark holds up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her unusual features.

"Jaune, has Cardin's been picking on you again?" Pyrrha said, much to the surprise of Jaune.

"Who? Cardin Winchester?" Jaune said, "Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!"

"He's a bully." Ruby said.

"Jaune, at my old school there were those four guys who used to bully me. So I know a thing or two about bullies." Toshi said, "So Jaune, if you ever need help, you can just ask."

Nora gets up from the table and presents her diabolical plan with a not entirely sane grin, "We'll break his legs!" she said.

"Guys, really, it's fine!" Jaune tried to assure them, "Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone."


Inside Raven's tent, Vernal pours cups of tea for Raven, Jason, and Ciaran, with the latter three seated around a table.

"Get the ornate box from the top shelf." Raven said to Vernal, who went into the back of the tent, "You know, it's better when it's hot.", taking a sip from her cup as neither Jason nor Ciaran had made a move towards their cups.

"Yeah, mine is probably poisoned or some shit.", Ciaran said, suspiciously eyeing his cup, "Besides I don't drink tea. Do I look like a pussy or Gabriel?"

"You look like the albino version of Clark Kent from PAKC going through a edgy goth phase." Jason said dryly.

"Hey! That hurt..." Ciaran said insulted before his eyes widen in realization, "Wait, doesn't he end up rich, married to a very hot girl and at the top of the Tier List?... I can live with that."

"So Jason Skywalker, sate my curiosity." Raven said, her red eyes not leaving his face, "What's your opinion on the Huntsman academies?"

"I doubt everyone in that place goes there with noble motivations. As I have learned most people are just in it for the money or fame." Jason said, "But there's even more that are just looking to grow stronger."

"Very observant, Jason. I guess there is more Marc in you than I thought." Raven said approvingly, "And what about you, Jason? What motivates you?"

"You want to know what motivates me? I just want the leave the Worlds a better place then when I found it." Jason explained, "It's what I try to do. I won't always be successful, but that's life."

"How adorable." Raven said as Vernal returned with the ornate box, "You can wait outside." and Vernal does so.

"If you hear your boss moaning, don't be afraid to get naked and join in!" Ciaran taunted Vernal as she went.

Raven slid the ornate box over the table towards Jason, who opened it finding the key he was looking for.

"Thank you... Miss Raven." Jason said, picking up the box as he stood up, "We won't longer be taking advantage of your hospitality."

"We're leaving already?" Ciaran said, almost disappointed as he stood up already.

"One last warning, Jason." Raven said, standing up herself, "There are more dangers than Grimm in this World. The man known as Ozpin designed the schools and has followers inside every academy on Remnant that are loyal to him and no one else. Because old man Oz has a great and terrible secret. One that could spread fear across this World."

"What's the big secret?" Jason said, "What's so crazy that the rest of humanity don't know?"

"The creatures of Grimm... Have a master named Salem.", Raven explained, "She can't be stopped, she can't be reasoned with, and she will not rest until humanity crumbles at her feet."

"No one is invincible." Ciaran said, "Not even dear old Salem."

"You know this Salem?" Jason said, turning to his white haired companion.

"Oh, we went on a blind date once. It didn't go well, she claimed I was too weird." Ciaran explained, "She never returned my calls..."

"...Right." Jason said, turning to Raven, "I will put this scary witch woman on my list of things to fix." turning away from Raven and began to leave the tent.

"As long as you get down to it eventually." Ciaran laughed, waving at Raven as he followed after Jason.


"Can I ask..." Ozpin said as he stood among ruins, Team RWBY behind him, "Why you were destroyed your dorm room?"

"Well..." Ruby began.


A few hours earlier inside the dorm room Ruby and Weiss glare at each other, Ruby standing on stacked desks and chairs, Weiss standing on Yang's bed. Blake hides on Weiss' bed behind four pillows, while Yang is on the floor crouching by a tipped-over desk with stacks of papers in front of her.

"Weiss!" Ruby declared, pointing her finger, "Your chilly reign of terror has finally come to an end!"

At this Weiss laughed, "Don't make me laugh as I did just now."

Ruby cocks a pillow like a gun and then fires herself across the room at Weiss, swinging the pillow at her. Weiss jumps out of the way, knocking into the stacked desks and chairs.

Weiss gets to her feet and Ruby stands across from her, both in fighting stances. Weiss activates a vertical glyph and Blake jumps up from the bed and uses it to propel herself at Ruby. She throws two pillows directly at her.

Ruby is knocked into the bookshelves on the wall, prompting Yang to leap up and fire two pillows at Blake.

Blake dodges the pillows and the second one heads straight for Weiss. It hits her right in the face and Weiss is knocked out onto her butt. Blake leaps out and then looks around in confusion as Yang rapidly fires pillow after pillow at Blake, who dodges them all, appearing in different places around the room.

Chuckling, she taunts Yang every time with a wink or a combo of a wink and sticking out her tongue. Yang rages and, fires a pillow, finally knocking Blake back and out.

Ruby groans, causing Yang to gasp and run to her side. Her younger sister lies on her back, pillow under her head and hands folded on her chest as Yang cries out, "No! She was so young!"

"Yang!" Ruby couched, "Avenge... me..." she jerks her arm out, clutches her neck, and finally falls back as though dead.


"Just a little dispute." Ruby said, trying to play innocently, "So how long will it take to fix... all this?"

"A month at least." Ozpin said, "With the damage caused, you will need to find a room were you can stay in the mean time."

And with that, the headmaster left, leaving the team of RWBY standing in the hallway with what they could recover from their belongings.

"Who are we going to stay with?" Blake said.

The others shrugged, "Who would take us in?" Weiss said.


"What are you reading?" a voice asked through the soundbars of Toshi's laptop.

"It's a fanfiction a classmate of mine wrote." Toshi said, sitting at his desk near his laptop were he had the profile containing Ruby's fanfiction, her profile name he had gotten from Yang, up as he was talking to one of his friends not attending Beacon, "It's surprisingly well written."

"Not as well written as mine right?"

"Kyle... Your fanfiction is something else entirely." Toshi said with a small smile, "Though it's still better than what Skyguy626 tries to pass off as writing."

"So..." Kyle asked through his monitor screen, "How is everything going over at school?"

"Actually its pretty nice here." Toshi said.

"I bet... So how are the girls there?"

"Why does it always come to girls with you?" Toshi said with a raised eyebrow.

"Because it's my shtick, Star!" his friend Kyle shouted, "If it had been Messiah, he would have a harem by now!"

"Jason wouldn't know how to react to a girl confessing to him." Toshi protested, "If she said she likes him, he would think she was seeing him as a friend."

"Got a point there... Even though she had the hots for him since day one, it took ages for him and Sunshine to get together! And when finally the Skyshy got together... he breaks up with her and disappears!... Fucking Messiah..." Kyle said as Toshi could hear a knock on the door, "What was that?"

"Someone knocking on my door." Toshi said, standing up as he walked towards the door, hearing whispers coming from behind it.

"Are you sure he won't mind?" a voice sounding like Blake said.

"Why would he? I mean at least a month with four hot girls?" the voice of Yang said, "What guy could say no?"

"Maybe a guy who is being interrupted in the middle of the night." Weiss scoffed.

Toshi opened the door as he found the four members of team RWBY about to start bickering with each other. "Hello there." he said.

"Hey Toshi, sorry to bother you..." Ruby began, looking up at him, "But would it be okay if we can stay over at your room until ours is fixed?"

Without saying a word, Toshi stepped aside so they could enter.

"What?" Weiss said surprised, "Just like that?"

"Sure." Toshi told them, "It's late, and you four can't be worse than the four guys I had to share a house with."

"I heard that!" Kyle shouted from inside the room.

"Who is that?" Blake said.

"Nobody." Toshi said, walking over to his laptop and closing the chat program before walking to the closet, opening the cupboard under it and taking out a pillow and a blanket.

"So you girls can take the beds." he said, "And I will take the floor."

"What why?" Weiss said.

"Well there are only four beds, and five of us." he said as if it was the easiest answer in the world.

"No, we can't do that. We can't let you sleep on the floor in your own room." Yang said, a slight smirk creeping on her face, "As I was responsible for the majority of the damage to our room, I will take one for the team and share a bed with our generous host."

"...None of that!" Ruby said quickly, hitting her sister in the arm, "As the leader of Team RWBY, it should be me who should sleep with you... I mean share a bed."

Toshi shrugged his shoulder, "Fine by me." he said, walking over to his bed, dumping the pillow he was holding on it as he threw up the sheets.


The broken moon was shining above the night skies of Remnant as Jason followed an enthusiastic Ciaran walked through a city in southern Vale.

"That was so cool! Those shots just bounced off you and then you broke that machete with your bare hands!" Ciaran said, "Please tell me it's your Semblance to do that."

"It isn't." Jason said annoyed at all the questions Ciaran had been giving him the entire time they were driving to the city.

They stepped inside the crowded establishment that was the local pub, Ciaran looked over the heads when he spotted the woman at the back of the bar.

Gesturing for Jason to follow him, "Okay, she is a real looker. So play it cool, Jay." he said over his shoulder as the duo made their way through the crowd, "So be yourself."

"My name is not Jay." Jason growled annoyed, rolling his eyes as they arrived back of the pub, were at a table sat a young woman with ashen-black hair that covers her left eye, which were bright amber in color.

She wears gray pants and boots; a beige leather, sleeveless jacket with light-beige details; brown gloves, a sarashi tied around her chest and another around her hips, and a pauldron on her left shoulder. She also wears a belt around her waist, which has multiple brown pouches attached to it.

"Cinder!" Ciaran yelled loudly, waving at her.

"Well, well, well. Ciaran Aleron shows up on time." Cinder said with an amused smirk as she stood up, "I thought we were done?"

"I can walk away from that job in Mistral..." Ciaran said flirty, taking her hand and kissing her hand, "But I could never walk from you."

"You tease..." Cinder said, finally noticing Jason standing behind Ciaran, her eyes widening in surprise as if he looked familiar to her, "A-And this must be that friend of yours."

"Friend might be a little far fetched." he said, "Call me Jason."

"Cinder Fall." she said, shaking hands with each other before they sat down, "How about I order some ale for us and a glass of milk for Ciaran while we get to know each other?"

"I do love myself some milk." Ciaran said, "Don't bother talking with Jason, he doesn't talk much. Except annoyed grunts and short answers..."

"That's what most people do around you, Ciaran." Cinder said as the waiter placed two glasses, a can of ale and a cup of milk.

"So, Cinder." Jason said, "You have a friend that can help us get into a vault?"

"A direct one, aren't you? I like that." Cinder said, filling the two cups, before picking up one, "She should be here any moment now... Speaking of."

She gestured over Jason's shoulder, just as the young man picked up his cup. Looking over his shoulder he saw a young woman with fair skin, pale platinum blonde hair and light blue eyes.

She wore most of her hair in a half-bun style, with a small bun on the top, and the remainder of her long hair hanging at the bottom. Most of her bangs were tied back, barring several large locks that framed her face to her left.

She wore a white, two piece dress consisting of a sleeveless, diagonally overlapping white pleated top with a raised, pale blue collar adorned with a aquamarine colored rhombus-shaped crystal on the clavicle. Her long, high-waisted skirt was white with a faint purple tint, adorned with white diamond emblems and white wavy lines near the bottom hem, ruffled around the waist and completed with a purple sash.

"Oh, hello." Ciaran thought approvingly, "...Do I know her from somewhere?"

"Greetings." the blonde woman said, "Lesam Launfal, pleasure to make your acquaintance."


Sometime during the night, while Toshi was shaken awake by someone's hands on his back.

"Toshi, are you awake?" the voice of Ruby whispered.

"I am now..." he groaned annoyed, looking at the clock which read 03:00. Weiss, Blake and Yang were still asleep in their beds. He turned to look at Ruby, "What's wrong?"

"I had a nightmare..." Ruby said embarrassed, "Would it be okay... If I cuddle up to you?"

"...Sure why not?" Toshi yawned, too tired to argue as he wrapped his arms around her in a comforting way as Ruby rested her head on his chest.

"T-Thanks Toshi." she sighed happily, her cheeks heating up as they drifted off to sleep.


And that was the last chapter of 2019, hope you enjoyed.

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Bye for now and happy new years.