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Metal clashed together as the two huntsmen fought, which sent poor Jaune colliding into the ground thanks to Cardin's attack.
Today happened to be the sparing match of Cardin Winchester and Jaune Arc.
And Jaune Arc wasn't looking to good.
Both students weapon's slamming into each other, after Jaune's charge at Cardin, the two were deflecting each other's attack's from doing any kind of damage at the moment, until Cardin knee's him in his stomach cackling as Jaune crippled to the ground.
Cardin swing's his over his head aiming it down at Jaune, until Ms. Goodwitch flickered on the stage's lights signalling the match was over.
" Cardin, that's enough. Student's as you can see Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament style duel, This would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match.". From the crowd of students sat a worried Pyrrha looking over the difference in Jaune and Cardin's aura bars, with Cardin in the lead by a long shot.
" Mister Arc, it's been weeks now please try to refer to your scroll during combat gauging your aura will help you to decide when it is appropriate to attack or when it's better to move to a more...defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to get gobbled up by a Beowolf, now would we?". Glynda spoke giving Jaune a stern look.
" Speak for yourself...". Cardin uttered out pulling his mace over his shoulder and walking away, Raph sent glare's his way, the guy's act made him want to roll his eyes as he played up the '' School bully act", Leonardo shook his head as he stared back up to the stage.
" Remember everyone! The Vytal Festival is only a few semesters away. It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving to Vale, so keep practicing!''. The two clad turtles, as well with Pyrrha, gazed over to Ruby, Weiss,and Yang, who were excited for the upcoming Vytal Festival coming soon, practical bouncing in there seats.
The two turtles wished Donatello was there to give them a answer, so they gave small looks of confusion over to Pyrrha, though she gave them a smile in excitement in return, they decided it was best to ask Donnie at a later time.
" Those who chose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale.". With this new exciting announcement, the bell rang signalling the classes to change, Pyrhha looked back in sadness as Jaune looked utterly embarrassed on stage, letting his head hang low, Leonardo looked over in sympathy to Jaune as well to Pyrrha as well.
He was getting a good idea how the leader feels right now from past experiences.
" So..There we were...In the middle of the night..''. Nora spoke in a creepy tone.
" It was day...". Ren sighed out, sipping at his drink in hand.
" We were surrounded by Ursai.". Yang stared in amazement, watching Nora tell her story as Ren corrected her, while Blake sitting next to her continued reading on in her book with a flower imprinted on it, a rose and a Iris 'Rajah' flower intertwining with each other.
" They were Beowolves.-". He was abruptly cut off again by Nora.
" DOZENS OF THEM!". She stood up from her seat making Yang jump back and shake Weiss's arm.
" Weiss! Weiss! Did you hear that?! Dozens!". The blond brawler stared amazed, Weiss groaned as she was filing her nails down.
" You know sitting right next to you.". Weiss says back to the sunny little dragon.
It had been only a few days, since Weiss had given her apology to Ruby, though the heiress knew Yang would still be angry at her out burst to her sister, after only getting a side glance at her, feeling the anger radiate from the blond student
However, the next day Weiss had decided to give her apology to Yang, she had found the blond brawler outside working on bumblebee, she was nervous from not knowing how the hot-head would react, only to find out that during her conversation with Ruby she had woken up and began listen to her apology, becoming a tad more happy Ruby seemed to start fixing her problems by herself, not asking Yang once to talk with Weiss once, even though it did hurt her pride a small bit, she wanted to encourage Ruby more to do this.
Weiss was shocked that she didn't hear the obnoxious snoring stop, but Yang gave her an encouraging smile thanking her for giving Ruby a second chance, leaving the heir shocked, yet content.
Raph rolls his eyes, stabbing at his food not wanting to eat much, to much running threw his head at the moment.
" Actually, two of'em...". Ren spoke again continuing on the story as he sighed at his partner's story, which she exaggerated.
" How are you so interested in this?". Raph spoke up to the brawler, but was cut off by his younger brother Mikey.
" How could you not dude! I'm on the edge of my seat listening!". Mikey perked up excitedly, just how Yang was acting toward the story. " Go on! Continue! What happened next!". Mikey said as he listen along with Yang.
" You got it! Ahem!...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 lean back on the bench smiling from finishing her story.
" Ah...She's been having this reoccurring dream for nearly a month now.". Ren says sipping at his cup of tea.
Pyrrha notice how down Jaune has been. Not even a small chuckle from listening to Nora's story/dream she told everyone, though she realized since Cardin's and his sparing match he hasn't been acting the same, looking upwards Ruby and Leonardo share small looks of concern to each other.
" Jaune...Are you okay?". Pyrrha leaned forward nervously trying to get his attention.
" Uh? Oh, Yeah! Why?". Jaune asked nervously not knowing if he was ignoring someone.
" It's just you seem a little...not okay...". Ruby pushes her fingers together nervously at Jaune, seeing Leonardo nod as well.
" Eh, guys, I'm fine...Seriously, look!". Jaune struck a pose trying to show he was the same old person.
" I'm agreeing with Ruby, since the sparing match you haven't been acting like yourself Jaune .". Leonardo stated with Pyrrha adding on.
" Jaune, Cardin's has been picking on you since the first week of school.". Pyrrha said, crossing her arms, trying to get her point across, Jaune looked around nervously trying to avoid the eyes of his worried friends.
" Who? Cardin? Nah...H-He just likes to mess around, you know? Practical jokes!" Jaune tells the group nervously, trying to show he can take care of his own problems.
" He's a bully." Ruby states knowing how Cardin acts to everyone getting Mikey to agree with her.
" I know practical jokes man and that dude isn't doing a comedy act. He's bullying you!" Mikey commented onto Ruby's statement.
" Oh please...name one time he's " bullied'' me..." Jaune states out confidently, making quotation marks around his words, then gave a nervous laugh.
" Oh I can think of a few..". Raph said giving Jaune a glance." How's about the time he putted a open box of Grimm into your locker?". He raised a eyebrow as Jaune wanted to shrink away at remembering the memory, he had opened his locker and let out a attack of tiny baby Nevermore chicks, chasing and pecking him around the school.
" Or when he opened your shield as you were walking and it caused you to get stuck in the doorway for 2 hours?". Donnie spoke up from tinkering with a small cylinder tube.
Jaune let out a nervous groan remembering the memory as well, Glynda was very mad at Jaune after finally getting him out.
" Or when he pushed you into a rocket propelled locker!". Mikey added with Jaune cringing at that last moment. " I didn't land far from the school..". Jaune laughed nervously looking away from the group, Leonardo cut in abruptly.
" The point being! Cardin is bullying you.". Leonardo stared up at Jaune as Pyrrha nodded speaking out.
" Jaune, you know if you ever need help you can just ask..". Pyrrha voiced to Jaune with concern, before Nora shot up from her seat.
" OOH! We'll break his legs!" Nora cheers out excitedly striking a fighting stance when she spoke.
" I'm agreeing with her on that one and I know just the turtles for the job for it.". He sends Cardin a glare, even though the tormentor didn't catch it.
" We would be expelled in moments Raph.". Leonardo voiced dully to his brother, giving him a glare, a secret way of saying ' You know why were here', even though the blue clad turtle didn't mind giving Cardin a piece of his mind, remembering some disgusted glances Cardin gave him and his brothers a few time in the hallway's, however Jaune stood up holding his tray trying to fix the problem, before more start.
" Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone.". He left walking up to throw his food away, the group however agrees to Jaune's last statement.
" He's not wrong though.". Yang utters turning the apple in her hand towards her taking another bite from it, before being cut off by the bunny fanus from earlier pitiful cry.
" Ooww, that hurts!". The bunny fanus cried as team CRDL was mocking her, Cardin doing most of it though, pulling at her rabbit ears trying to escape his grasp.
" Please, stop...". She tries persuading him to let go only for him to laugh at her.
" I told you it was real!". He laughs with his teammates, who nod along laughing with him, she breaks away covering her face from anyone and flees the scene.
" Atrocious. I can't stand people like him.". Pyrrha says irritated by his behavior, before seeing Jaune glance over to Cardin and speeding off.
" I'm going find out what's going on with Jaune. Wish we luck.". The red head warrior said as she walked off after Jaune, however as she left surprisingly Blake spoke out.
" He's not the only one.".Blake snarled at Cardin gripping her book before standing up.
" I'll be back.". She exits the cafeteria, following after the poor fanus who left in a hurry, Yang looks over in sadness as she watch Blake run after the girl.
" It must be hard to be a Faunus.". She leans on one arm looking at the table, before glancing up at the turtles.
" Sorry you guys have to deal with that as well.". Yang voiced to the turtles giving them the same uncomfortable feeling anytime someone talked about there looks.
" Thank you Yang, but we just decide to ignore comments like, we have dealt with worse.". Leonardo said, closing his eyes.
" Right Raph?". He had expected a grumble or at least a growl, but he was left with silence from his brother. " Raph?". He opened his eyes to see Raph giving irritated glares over to him and his brothers, mocking them.
" There bigger freaks then rabbit over there." Cardin taunted the team, with his team laughing on at the mocking, Raph growls becoming irritated by Cardin.
" That's it..!". Raph stood up fast, slamming his tray as he shot up into the air, ready to confront the annoying bully, however his insult was cut off by the lunch room door's slamming open.
A group of three students walk storm inside, a tall teenager girl with fair-skin, short dark-brown hair that was dyed at the end with a caramel color, dark-brown eyes, wearing her uniform, however her outfit looked like a designer one, with mixture of cocoa-colored, Mocha, and blacks, with gold accents added on some parts of the school uniform.
She was wearing a raven handbag with gold stunts and accents on it, with a hand on her hip she pulls down her glasses to send a glare at Cardin and his teammates and Raphael.
" Which one of you idiots made one of my teammates cry? Hm? I'm going to need answers and make it quick". She points out to the group, giving them glares from her sun glasses.
Cardin gave out a audible groan of annoyance, before standing up and leaving with his team.
" Come on guys, let's leave the faunus advocates alone, before they beat us with there caring words.". He snickers waltzing away, with the rest of team CRDL snickering along with them, the teenage girl shot up pointing at him as she yelled at him, ready to run after him.
" Excuse me?! You made her cry! We are defending her!". She was about to run after them to give them a piece of her mind.
Her teammate who was dark skinned, had messy copper hair, and his most noticeable trait was his lack of pupils, stopped her from advancing after him by putting hirs hand on her shoulder.
" Let it go Coco..". He states as she lets out a irritated huff, before turning back to the three teams sitting at the table.
" So your the groups of first year students that defended Velvet, huh?". She glanced over the groups, though she gave a longer stare at the turtles, giving them a nervous feeling again.
" Well I-I mean..". Ruby spoke up, nervously only to be cut off by the student again.
" Your teammate got guts, I like that. And thanks, we saw you about to yell at Cardin, something he deserves.". She pushes up her glasses again giving Raph a smirk, he rolled his eyes crossing his arms.
" He deserved it, Cardin's trash, but there's nothing we can do.". Yang says laying her head on both her arms, before Nora lets out a whisper liking her idea.
" We still can break his legs..". She let's out a whisper, giggling at the idea with Ren shaking his head sighing.
" Why can't we? Why would stopping bullying be a bad thing?''. From behind the team leader, which they found out was name Coco, Blake come out crossing her arm with the same faunus girl from earlier, she was happy she had some help, though she felt as if she had caused this scene to happen.
Though before the conversation continued the lunch bell rung out, signaling a period change, with heavy sighs the groups and team's in the cafeteria left, as well with the four teams.
However, as Yang was throwing away her food, she heard a side comment being sneaked in by Weiss, a comment on her bafflement with faunus even being allowed to attended Beacon in the first place, staring at her as her heels clanged against the ground, walking away from the group to her next class.
Yang surely knew this was going to cause some cracks in there team dynamic, as well causing tension with Blake if she finds out what she said.
She let's out a huff thinking away, as if tensions weren't high enough now, leaving the cafeteria for her next class.
Pyrrha had followed after Jaune wanting to see what has been troubling him so much.
She know's partly it may be from Cardin, but he seemed to be more nervous when it came to class, as he was the first day of school.
Walking threw the empty halls she was able to see a light cutting threw the dim hallways, peeking around the corner she hear's Doctor Oobleck's shouting from his classroom, as she stalks closer she hears who he's talking to.
" Pages 51 to 91! I want an essay on my desk by my next class! Now! Run along Mr. Arc.". And with that Oobleck was zooming out of the classroom with Jaune looking at the recovery packet he'll have to do for history if he wants to stay a huntsmen.
He's been so busy trying to catch up to everyone's insane level that he had forgotten to study for his big test he had, and now flunked it.
With a heavy sigh he left, only to be spooked by his teammate, Pyrrha Nikos.
" Jaune, why didn't you tell me you needed help in your studies?''. Pyrrha asked Jaune, he nervously played with the papers in his hand, with a sigh he looks away, only for Pyrrha to perk up grabbing his hand.
" I have an idea!". She cheers pulling him away with her.
" Here, come with me!". She calls out as Jaune lets out cry from the pull she gave him.
However, the two students did not here the quiet snicker of Cardin Winchester following after them.
Crickets chirped quietly as the sun began to set, the two huntsmen walked threw the open passage to a open balcony area which over looked Beacon's towers, showing a beautiful site, however Jaune spoke up nervously at what this meant.
" Pyrrha what's is this about? I mean the sunset is pretty, but I need to get to work..". Jaune looked at his book, which he had to finish by tomorrow.
" No Jaune, I know you're having a difficult time in class with practicing so hard on your fighting,which is cutting into your study time, but...I want to help you!". Pyrrha told him, giving a encouraging smile, though Jaune's face was more concerning, seeing this she tried fixing the way she phrased it.
" We can train up here after class where no one can bother us!". Pyrrha spoke happily to Jaune, wanting to encourage him, however she didn't get the answer she was expecting.
" You think I need help?". Jaune asked rubbing the back of his neck nervously as Pyrrha eyes widen and spoke up.
" N-No! No, that's not what I meant, everybody needs a little help from time a time. It doesn't make you any different from the rest of us. You made it to Beacon , that speaks volumes of what you're capable of!". Pyrrha said to Jaune making him feel worse about himself, turning away from her he sighs.
" You're wrong...I-I don't belong here.". Jaune utters out, nervously looking at the ground.
" That's a terrible thing to say , of course you do! Just because you failed a test doesn't make you lesser then any of us.". Jaune turned back to her quickly.
" No, I don't...I want's really accepted into Beacon..I didn't go to any combat school! I didn't pass any tests! I didn't earn my spot at this Academy! I lied! I got hands on some fake transcripts and I lied." Pyrrha gave him a shocked look, she heard of people trying this, but it never went well.
" What? But why?". She asked confusedly.
" 'Cause, this is what I've always wanted to be! My Father, My Grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all hero's! My I just wanted to be one too..I wanted to prove to them I could be...I was never good enough..". Jaune looked down at his shoe's nervously avoiding eye contact with Pyrrha, she reaches her hand out to him and places it on his shoulder.
" Then let me help you-"
" I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"
" Jaune! I-"
" I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for there lives! Iv'e been trying to catch up with everybody to defend them or help them! To prove everybody wrong! That I can do this! But, if I can't do this on my own, then how can I prove to my family I can be a huntsmen.". He didn't look at the disheartened and unwanted Pyrrha, who leaves sadden.
With Jaune alone on the roof Cardin takes this new information he has gained to use it as a advantage, leaving from his hiding spot he confronts Jaune.
" Well, this is a touching moments. I couldn't help but overhear you two from my dorm room ."Jaune freezes up in that moment seeing Cardin there and now knowing his secret was in his hands now.
" You snuck into Beacon, huh? I've gotta say Jaune, I've never expected you to be such a rebel.'' He crossed his arms smirking at Jaune, who was backing off slowly, heart pounding against his chest.
" C-C-Cardin! Please, don't tell anyone!". He stuttered out, shaking like a leaf.
" Jaune! Come on! I'd never rat out a friend like that!". He waltz over to Jaune as he looks at him nervously.
" F-Friend?". Jaune stuttered out nervously, then Cardin wraps a arm around him cackling, pulling him down with a gag ecaping his mouth.
" Of course! We're friends now, Jauney boy! But friends help friends out, so the way I see it , as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time.". He states darkly, dropping Jaune to the ground as he coughs, gasping for air.
" That being said... I really don't have time to do those extra readings Oobleck assigned the class today. Think you could take care of that for me, buddy? Don't worry Jaune; your secrets safe with me.". He mocks him cackling as he left Jaune alone.
With Cardin knowing Jaune's secret he was left ragged and worn out with staying up threw the haul night doing not just his homework, but all of team CRDL's homework now, which had caused him to fall behind in his own training to catch up with the other students.
He was so out of it, snoring loudly in the class, he didn't even hear Doctor Oobleck calling on him, only for him to be awaken by Oobleck calling out his name.
" Jaune Arc! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?". He questioned to a sleep deprived Jaune.
" Uhhhhhh...The...answer...the advantages...over...the guy..wassss...Um, B-Binocular's!". Jaune spoke out giving the asinine answer, which made the class abruptly quickly with laughter, especially Cardin, but his friends gave concerned looks of confusion on his answer, questioning what's been wrong with Jaune.
Oobleck sipped at his coffee cup, shaking his head at the once attentive Jaune to become lack luster in class.
Thankfully the class soon ended with Jaune being the last one to leave the room, a sluggish manor thanks to the lack of sleep Jaune was missing, but before he could get going to his next class he was pulled back, a arm wrapping around him.
" Hey Jauney boy, me and the guys are going out tonight you think you can do the homework for me and the team?". Cardin casually orders to Jaune, though to prevent his secret getting out he slumps over nodding defeated.
" Thanks your a real pal." He proceeded to give Jaune a hard slap to the back causing the weaken Jaune to fall forward, with a cackling Cardin structs off leaving a tired Jaune on the ground.
"-ne?..-ne!...-JAUNE!". Jaune jumps awake after hearing the distanced voice; praying he didn't fall asleep in class again, but he wasn't as luck as he had thought after seeing he wasn't in class.
" Dude what's with you? Are you like sick? Is it contagious?! Are you dying?". Mikey questioned to the delirious boy, though he was cut off by Raph's knock to his head, letting Leo cut in to talk to Jaune.
" You realize that you have been sleeping for most of lunch? It's only over and you haven't even touch your tray. Is Cardin still bothering you?". Leo uttered to Jaune with Yang commenting as well.
" Maybe we should tell Glynda...". However Jaune jumped up immediately at Glynda's name, wanting to avoid her help as much as possible.
" NO!". He stopped for a few seconds letting the yell sink into everybody at the table, he sat down swiftly, cheeks turning a light pink in the process.
" No..no..no I don't need Glynda guys really I'm fine." He stood up nervously holding his tray.
" I-I'm just...tired. Yeah I'm tired. I-I think I might go back to the dorm's to rest up. S-See ya guys..". Jaune says, shrugging them off and leaves them, heading back to his dorm in order to get started on the large amount of added workload he would need to do if he wants to stay enrolled in Beacon.
" Something is up with Jaune guys I can feel it!". Nora speaks up voicing her concerns to Pyrrha who is still uneasy from the night she talked with Jaune, but equally confused as the rest of the group, but she was too polite to ask him.
" Maybe he just needs a break? I mean, come on he looks like he may pass out any second! And I have a idea where we can go!". Yang states her intent wanting to bring the group closer together, a notion that Donatello counters.
" Jaune didn't seem like he liked the idea of us getting involve, not that we shouldn't be concerned, but it's maybe not the best plan for Jaune right now, he seems like he wants to solve this himself. If he's acting this distressed over something like this we may make him feel worse, but telling". Donatello said, reading away articles in his scroll as well as notes he has taken.
" What about you Blake? You in?..Blake?". Yang looks over questioning no response from Blake only to see her paying more attention to team CRDL today, watching out for the faunus girl from yesterday, who they had learn her name was Velvet.
" I don't understand why people like him get to go to a school for training warriors to protect everyone, even though he treats Faunas as second class.". Leo utters glaring his eyes at Cardin's team, not noticing Blake's bow twitching with his words he stated, as well giving a glance over to him.
" Agreed, but there really isn't much we can do about the situation.". Ruby said sadden by this scene, pushing her food around on her plate.
" I got a few ideas we could to.". Raph grunted, cracking his knuckles showing what he meant.
" See! He gets it!". Nora stood up cheering, Ren groaned placing his hands over his face.
" Raph you know that would get us suspended, if not expelled.". Leo told Raph with Donnie nodding in agreement as he read along articles he had discovered.
Though he wasn't expecting Blake, who has been silent the haul lunch period to speak up and bites back.
" Why would stopping bullying be such a bad thing?". Blake spat back placing her book as she argued back, which did startled Leo, since he didn't expect her to even say a word to him like she's been doing.
However, before Leo could respond to her, a annoyed huff came from none other then Weiss.
" Faunus should understand that humans don't take attacks on kingdoms with open arms. It baffles me that such a prestigious academy would even allow Faunus to attend Beacon in the first place.". This statement caused a barb wire to snake it's way through team RWBY, making Blake, Yang and Weiss seem more of enemies then teammates with there word views.
The lunchroom's bell rings out signalling the block was over, Weiss stood up with a huff and left for her next class.
" What's up with her?". Mikey asked making Raph sharply hit his elbow irritated, Ruby gave out a sigh looking down at her food which was left untouched.
" Sorry your team seems so divided right now Ruby. I know how it feels when each member of your team seems to be against each other.". Leonardo said over to Ruby as the table began getting up to put there food away.
" Thanks Leo..I just-how do you guys have such a good team dynamic?". She waves her hand around to get her point, making Leonardo chuckle a little.
" Maybe I can tell you over a sparing match. I haven't seen you fight against anyone since we meet.". Leonardo offered to Ruby, which she gladly took up the offer.
" I think I'll take that challenge.". Ruby agrees to his challenge, nodding up to him with a confident smirk.
They were about to get going, but Ruby remembered something she needs to confirm.
" Oh! Wait! Blake were still going shopping for the Forever Fall class trip right?". Ruby spoke up to the Faunus, leaning on the table as she asked.
However, Leonardo noticed something about Blake when Ruby mentioned the class trip, though she shook it off nodding.
" Awwww yeah hope to get some good books for the ride down. Maybe we can find marshmallows?". Though she was cut off by Mikey practically zooming over to the two.
" Excuse me? Marshmallows? I thought this was a dumb a class-boring-work-trip! Not camping!". Blake gave a very puzzled look over to Mikey as Donnie let out a long sigh shaking his head.
" Why would we be going on a camping trip? Mikey you know that it's for our survival class?". Before Mikey could answer however, a strict voice cutting threw there conversation the group was having.
" Excuse me, but I believe that the bell has already rung.". spoke strictly out to the three lingering groups of teams, which got them to quickly collect there things and made it towards the doors with Blake leaving in the opposite direction of Weiss, as her comment was irritating her more and more, she needed space.
" So, you guys want to come with me and a few buds in downtown Vale, since it is Friday. It may take some of the edge off were feeling.". Yang whispered back to the group not wanting to get caught by Ms. Goodwitch.
The groups of teams decline Yang's offer with Ren having decline for both him and Nora and Donnie having to cover Mikey's mouth before responding.
" There lost.". Yang uttered out to herself as she began walking to her last class period of the day, planning her night of partying.
The bell rung all threw the school, signalling that all the classes were over and the weekend had began.
Mikey burst threw Professor Port's classroom doors, exciting the class with a giant yawn and rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
" I thought his lecture was never going to end...". He slurred out with his voice thick with sleepiness.
" How does he have so many stories though?!". Yang spoke up, drowsy as well.
" But I have to say it's a good...because we get less homework now~.". Yang said as she stretched her back out, putting her arms around the sides of her neck.
Ruby, who was acting a bit more somber since the incident at lunch, goes over to her locker with team LMDR and with her sister as well, Blake and Weiss seemed to still be very tense since lunch and seemingly been avoiding each other in any way possible.
Blake has been in the library reading away at any book she could get her hands on to keep her occupy, while Weiss was studying in her dorm as a excuse to not talking to her team.
Ruby punched in her locker code to opens the lockers door up, she reaches inside the locker to get Crescent Rose out and her Dust cartridges.
" Leo I got Crescent Rose! And there ready to destroy you in a sparing match". She cheered striking a pose with her weapon held in her hands, trying her best to hide away her worried fears of her teammates.
" Then you won't mind if we test that idea out in the training rooms hm?". Leonardo said as he pulled out his twin katanas, which makes Ruby cheer up as she looks at his weapons in excitement.
" Awe! Twin Katana's! I'm sorry there just- so cool!". Ruby cheered out with her and Leonardo leaving for a sparing match before heading to her dorm, but as Ruby left Yang turned around, her back facing Ruby and pulled out her scroll to pull up her friends group call they had set up.
" Nowwww, time for me to get going if I'm going to meet my friends in time. Catch ya later dudes". She said pulling out hers shades she seemingly always had on her, placing them onto the bridge of her nose and pushing them upward.
Yang walks off from the team, going back to the same pose she did when she walked out of class.
Mikey gave her a small wave goodbye a little jealous that she got to go out partying, but they couldn't.
He was about to rant this back to Donnie, however he noticed how Donnie was failing to even be listening to him, focusing mainly on his scroll as he seemed to be making out a plan for tomorrow, since Donnie was beginning to work out idea's for the new Dust powered weapons to fight against the Grimm to cause more damage to them.
As Leonardo made his way to follow after Ruby he was swiftly pulled back by a irritated Raphael.
" Excuse me, fearless leader where are you going?". Raph growled out annoyed with Leonardo turning back to him a tad bit annoyed.
" Raph what are you talking about? I'm going to train with Ruby. We need more information on how this world weapons work and notes will only get us so far.".
Donatello opened his mouth to comment on that sentence, but was swiftly cut off by Raph arguing back.
" We'd get more information if we were all here working!". Raph growled out getting up in his face as Leo glared back at him, crossing his arms.
" Raph I know you don't want to be here, but we need to get a lot of information on this world if were going to figure out how to get home." Leo said scowling back at him.
" Yeah no duh, fearless. But how's playing with there toys going to help us get home!". Raph growled towards his brothers making them more irritated the longer this went on.
They all knew they had to get home, but how can you get home if you don't know where you are..
" By playing with there " toys" Raph we'll be able to figure out more how this world works by seeing how they defend themselves and how a Huntsmen powers there weapons.". Donatello spoke up finally as he felt his attitude becoming irritated from the rising conflict.
" We could learn faster if we are doing it together.". Raphael growled out towards his brothers, only for Mikey to speak up.
" Dude what's with you? Why are you still freaking out about being here? We'll figure out a way back! Right D?..Uh? Donnie?". Mikey looked back over to Donnie when he didn't respond back to him.
" Whatever, if you three want to joke around, while were stuck in some alternate dimension then have at it! I'm going to follow our leader and do it by myself!". Raph shoots his hands into the air with a jaded, exasperated breath coming out as the red clad turtle stormed off.
" I know he's still made about being here, but I thought he warmed up a little to the idea". Mikey said in a concern tone of voice.
Donnie pats Mikey's shoulder trying his best to help him out.
" Don't worry Mikey, he'll come back, but I think I know what is bothering him so much." Donatello announced to his brothers as his expression turns to a glum structure.
" Though, we should allow him to have breathing room. Crowding him with questions would make it worse. We don't need two dysfunctional teams right now..". Donnie utters as the three give sour expression, remembering what happened earlier today.
" Alright..". Mikey sighs out with him following behind Donatello as he was returning back to there dorm to begin working on there new weapons, as well as plan for what they'll need for the Forever Falls trip tomorrow and Leo going in the direction Ruby had went off to for there sparing practice.
Raph stomped threw the halls of Beacon as he walked out to the back part of Beacon academy where the student parking was located, with a loud grumble he began working on his bike, which he manage to get Donnie away from his research to convert the Stealth bike to use Dust as a energy source.
They haven't tested the motorcycle yet to double check if it was working well, he began working on the bike, checking it over and over, getting ready to test the bike out and maybe find some information to get out of here.
He was focusing so much on the Stealth bike that he didn't hear Yang pulling up towards him on her own ride, ending her group call on her scroll as she approaches the hot head.
The hotheaded turtle groaned loudly trying to ignore them, but failed to ignore her as Yang's shadow loomed over his back.
Feeling them standing right next to him, he stood up irritated and turned to them.
"Mikey I swear, if this is you tryin' to be funny, I'm going knock you clean into the air!''. Raph exclaimed, the response he had gotten was instead a familiar chuckle that wasn't Mikey's.
" Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not Mikey.". His head perked up as he heard the voice of Yang, which he had found it easier to tolerate her more then others here.
Standing up quickly, he hit his head against the handle bar of the bike, he let out a yelp as he rubbed his head and turned to see the familiar blonde hair huntress, Yang Xiao Long.
" Oh 'sup Yang, Whatcha doing here? I thought you left with your..friends or whatever?". He said dusting himself off, though she jut shrugs with a hand on her hip looking back at the turtle.
" Nothing much, just came out to get good ol' Bumblebee." She smirked back at her shining bike, but her eyes wandered over to Raph's ride. "So this is the bike you've mentioned?".
" Well Donnie fixed it back up and I kinda use it the most. We named it the Stealth Bike." Raph added, patting the top of the bike.
Yang nods at him, returning her lavender eyes over to him as he smirks proudly.
" Probably the best and fastest bike ever." Hearing that comment made Yang's friendly smile turn into a competitive smirk.
" Oh is that so, huh? Well clearly you've never seen Bumblebee in action, she's may be a beauty to look at, but man she's the fastest there is!". Yang smirks pulling down her glasses at Raph with a big smirk on her face.
" Listen lady, I'm sure your bike is pretty decent here, but there's no way Bumble bee matches against the Stealth Bike.". He proudly states back with a smirk on his face, he leaned back on the motorcycle confidently with his arms crossed, but Yang wasn't the one to back down from a challenge.
" Oh yeah? Prove it! If this thing can beat Bumble bee all the way out to the down town part of Vale where my friends are tonight, not only will I pay for your drink I'll tell the haul club that the Shell cycle was better then Bumble bee." She challenges him, crossing her own arms.
" Your on Yang, let's see who's bike is the best.". The two stared back at each other with smug expressions, ending it with a handshake.
With a loud roar the two bikes shot off from Beacon's parking lot, the route was simple enough: they would cut threw the forest get down to the city area of Vale, using the long road to get there and down to the industrial part of Vale.
Raph revved his bike at Yang to taunt her, she ignored him with a smirk slipping onto her face.
The two of them were neck and neck on the road, Raph took notice how many times Yang would swerve in close at him to try and mess him up to gain ground on him, making sure when he looked back at her to send a glare she would stick her tongue out at him to taunt him more.
So that's how she wants to play? He smirked accepting the challenged and shot forward down the steep road, which was coming closer to the rocky trail leading into Vale.
The two made it to the half way point, the road turning into a dirt trail leading into a part of the Emerald Forest, Raph grips the bikes handles tightly as he and Yang speed up on the road, there bikes shoot threw the air from the propel of the hill side.
Yang cheers in excitement when Bumblebee slams down onto the mossy ground and shoots off with The Stealth cycle coming quickly behind her.
Yang swerved Bumblebee at Raph, he swiftly dodge the attack making Yang give him back a smug expression in return, the dirt on Beacon's trails gets swiftly picked up into the air as Yang and Raphael zip off, trying to mess up each other while racing.
" Your going down Xiao Long! Bumblebee can't beat the stealth bike!". Raph shouted out back to her with a smug grin still plastered on his face, Yang pushes up her glasses and swiftly turning to her.
" Oh yeah, then you better watch the road then shell-head!". She cackles out as she lowers her body and floors it, Yang shoots out into the air, Bumblebee shined in the moonlight, crashing down into the overpass of the industrial part of Vale.
" That cheater! If she's playing like then that's how were playing then!". Raph spun around on the bike, the roar from the machine seeping away into the forest again.
Yang looked behind her laughing, thanks to her incredible recklessness she had lost Raph, she could practically taste the sweet victory! However, her win was quickly cut short.
A warrior cry came barreling towards her from none other then Raphael himself, who had propelled himself upward and into the air by using a Dust trucks as a ramp.
Yang quickly dives forward causing her to get behind a pair of cars, forcing her to slow down and lose her lead she was previously leading.
The turtle turns back to her to see she the blonde, but she wasn't giving up so quickly. She forced Bumblebee to shoot forward, zooming quickly between two car gaps, even though Raph was sure she won't, she cackles happily as she has was coming at him quickly.
Raph gritted his teeth together, seeing as his victory was coming to it's quick end, however by using his rear-view mirrors on the Stealth bike he could see a pair of cars quickly approaching behind Yang.
He could tell by the flashing lights from the stores that were merely blurs shooting by them that they were getting closer to Yang's night club, he had a idea that would surely give him victory.
He pulled back snickering, he pulled the bike back on it's back tire, causing the machine to slow down, Yang recklessly took the advantage, skating right by him victorious and oblivious to his plan.
He let the two cars go in front of him, he pulled backwards, the bike fell forward as he used the two cars as camouflage to hide from Yang's eye sight.
She turned her head back, knowing Raph was still trailing behind her, yet she couldn't see him thanks to the traffic on the highway tonight, but there was no way she would let him pass, staying in front of the crowd of cars, peeking around to catch a glance if maybe she could try to see him.
Raph clung to the back of the cars, laying low from Yang's piercing glances in his direction, but missing him by minor seconds.
He swiftly changed his position as the cars began moving forward to pass right by Yang, Rah watched the blond brawler try keeping her lead in victory, denying Raphael even the tiniest breathing room up there, wanting to win this race.
Raph gave out a sigh, tired of her tricks and games as Yang was enjoying them clearly, looking up Raph realized he was running out of time when he saw a exit sign indicating they were close to the end of there chase.
He needed to act fast now and with his limited space he had, it would be a close call. Grinding his teeth he looked ahead of Yang, currently on the third lane to the right, ready to give him the quick slip and floor it towards the Three brother's Bear's Night club. Next to her was his target, a upcoming car that would be a obstacle for her, as has for him. He took his chance and followed after it.
Just as the car passed right next to Yang, Raph faked a turn right behind it, hoping to mess her up while pulling up right behind her. Seeing the car Yang groaned pushing her sunglasses back up as she wasn't prepared for Raph's attack.
He came out of nowhere almost, pulling up dangerously close to her, too close for Yang to make a swift dodge, thanks to his speedy maneuver he used that to his advantage, he shot off the bike aiming to kicking her off the bike, his ninja body coming full force at Yang.
Yang's lilac eyes widen as she pulled back immediately, she watch him as he gave out a slow-motion kick with his leg, striking against the car's side and flipped backwards into the Stealth's cycles seat, pulling away in victory.
He threw his arms into the air, cheering out in excitement that it ACTUALLY worked! The final exit was coming up close and for the first time Raph was enjoying himself in Remnant, he cupped his mouth with his hand and cried out a cheer.
" Eat my dust, blonde!". Raphael shouted back victoriously, as he cheered and laughed at his accomplishment he had failed to a small dust explosion by a fire shard happen ahead of him, followed by two blurs, one a mix of orange and white and the other more of a dark color, shot threw the traffic, which had caused the cars in front of Raph to slam on there brakes.
" OH SHELL!" He yelled out, gripping the handles of his bike trying to slow down, he turns the bike on it's side, sliding down the screeching halt.
" That was...to close...". He pants out from narrowly escaping, only to look up quickly from the hum of a motorcycle increasing in volume, he looked up quickly to see flying pass him.
Raphael swore that as Yang shot by him on Bumblebee she gave him a wink as well. Raph hit the top part of his bike as he had lost the impressive lead he had, while Yang had gotten a better one.
Yang flies down the highway's steep inclines, cheering out in excitement as Raph stared from above, but quickly looked over at the holographic railings on the side of the roads.
Thinking for a second, Raph shrugged.
He spun around on the Stealth cycle, he revved his bike backwards and floored it straight at the railing, he pulled at the handles of the motorcycle as it formed into a structure of a giant turtle shell, crashing into the barriers and over the overpass's side.
The bike and rider plummeted down towards the street's below, smirking after he catches the few of the striking yellow of Yang on Bumblebee, grinning he crashes down right next to Yang, swerving into Yang from the crash landing only prompts the two to finally finish this race with smug expressions on there faces as they look at each other, speeding down the road, to fast for words.
The two brawlers and hotheads were neck and neck, motorcycles humming and roaring as there speeding there way through the streets as they were closing in on the Three Bears Night Club.
The two were barely edging ahead of the other, only taking advantages to try getting ahead of the other one, however, what happened next the two didn't expect it, if anyone would ask the other would probably, jokingly blame the other one.
One of there bikes front wheels take a sharp turn, normally they would had avoided it, but since they were trying to cause the other to mess up to win the race, since they were so caught up in the race had caused the wheel to crash into the others wheel.
There bikes both lost control from there riders causing them to fly threw the air and crashing into the ground.
The hot-head turtle and reckless blond brawler crashed and tumbled threw the streets, groaning and gasping until they crashed into each other, which caused them to finally slow down, Yang opened her eyes as she landed on top of Raph's chest thanks to the crash.
There Aura's flashed around there bodies as it got to work at healing up the damaged they took from there abrupt crash landing onto the street.
Both laying still for a few minutes they finally got off of each other and sat up looking over the damages of the vehicles, groaning in pain as they did.
To be fair, their bikes weren't...that bad..at least they weren't broken broken, which was a good thing! But man..Donatello's going to have a fit over the state over the machines.
Looking back over at each other and feeling the adrenaline slowly deplete away and the sheer realization of what actually happened hit them, the two lost it and burst into a fit of laughter. As there laughs slowly subside they slowly and painfully stood up as everything felt sore.
The two looked over the mess that was there bikes now. She chuckled looking over at her competitor.
" Well I'll say that this is as close to a draw as you get!" She adds, extending her hand out to Raph, which he took it and snickered.
" Yeah I guess our bikes are pretty equal to each other." Raph said with a smug grin on his face, slowly walking over to his bike with Yang following him to retrieve her.
" Yeah, I say. Even though the Shellcycle's driver cheats at a race." She smirks and playfully hits his shoulder.
" Hey! It wasn't cheating it's called training." Raph defended back, knocking her in the shoulder, which caused the two to keep arguing, though still friendly as they walked towards the Night club.
However, with the two being in such high spirits, playfully hitting back at the other one they had failed to notice a peculiar red eyed raven watching them from a far.
Ruby pushed threw the metal doors of the combat room, groaning as she did. She had never used up so much of her semblance on one opponent.
" How...just how?!
...How did you keep up with me?!". Ruby panted out as her Aura slowly began repairing her health back, Leonardo walked out of the sparing room with a smug smirk on his face.
" Heh I guess I've been threw a lot of experiences to help me keep up with you." Leo says swiftly putting away his katanas; looking over he see's Ruby's eyes sparkle at them still.
" I keep forgetting you really like weapons." He says darting his eyes back to his weapons only for Ruby to quickly perk up.
" Liking weapons? Just liking WEAPONS?! I LOVE THEM! There simple, but complex structures! How they work so well with the user! They're an extension of ourselves! There almost a part of us! They're so cool!" Ruby excitedly exclaimed as she and Leonardo walked the empty halls.
Beacon was almost silent in the night only being able to hear the chirps of crickets as they excited into the courtyard. Leonardo looked back over to Ruby as he was about to comment on the noiseless nighttime when he noticed Ruby had quieted down when they had passed the dimly light library.
Weiss must have still been inside, even though it was becoming the late hours into the night. He hadn't scene her since there last class together, which was Professor Port's class, she looked irritated and left quickly after the bell rung, the same with Blake she walked the opposite direction of Weiss and went swiftly back to team RWBY's dorm.
" Ruby have Blake and Weiss...talked to each other yet?". He looked over at her as she distracted herself with her long flowing hood.
" N-Not yet..Blake doesn't want to talk about it and Weiss...hasn't left the library yet. I'm just worried I'm doing everything wrong. Even though Ozpin said it wasn't a mistake, but I still feel like it was a mistake to, but me as the leader." Ruby kicks a stone across the campus courtyard.
Leonardo stares down at her in shock, Ruby was a amazing leader. He saw her quickly think of a way to beat the Nevermore on the second day of Beacon. She was able to help Weiss defeat the boarbatusk in Professor Port's class. He seen her care for her teammates wanting to do her best and wanting to prove to everyone she could lead team RWBY.
Leonardo looked down at the silver-eyed girl as he remembered a conversation he had between himself and his father. He remembered what Master Splinter had told him about being a leader.
He remembers being stressed out, thinking he wasn't fit to be leader of his team, thinking that he would mess up and cause his team to fall apart, until Master Splinter told him what it means to be a leader, about having Giri..
He hadn't realized he had whispered the last word out until Ruby spoke up to him." What was that Leo?" Ruby questioned him as he perked up slightly.
" Oh, I said Giri..my f-..master told me about it..Giri means " The burden hardest to bear". Ruby for being a leader to my brothers is a Giri for me. A constant reminder for me that if i'm not giving my all in battle, then I could lose them. It's a burden we have to carry now with our titles. Being a leader is a Giri for me, but as well as you and even Jaune. But if I can handle I'm sure you can."
Ruby looked down at her hands thinking over what he had said to her, before her smile on her face became a lot bigger.
" Thanks Leo." She smiles up at him realizing they had found there way up to there dorms, she looks around confused for a few seconds before waving Leonardo goodbye.
" Goodnight Ruby" Leonardo waved back to her in a more hushed tone after hearing his younger brothers obnoxious snores, which made Ruby giggle at.
Leonardo rolled his eyes remembering this to pester Mikey with later, with that he closes the dorm's door. Ruby gives out a sigh turning back to her dorm before her scroll goes off showing it was Jaune calling her.
She press the message he left for her a tad worried." Ruby can you-uh- meet me o-outside? I-It's about..Cardin." Jaune spoke out nervously as he was conflicted about what Cardin had asked him to get for him.
With that, Ruby was out in a flash with a trail of rose beetles behind her.
The sun pierced it's way threw team RWBY's window and hitting Ruby Rose right in her eyes, causing her to groan and roll over to hid away from the prickly light waves and try to get back more sleep, until she heard talking.
Though since she was in a dorm that had more then one person in it, she had learned to block out the noises from others to gain more sleep, but what had stopped her from continuing on with it was when she heard the two talking. It was Weiss and Blake.
When did this happen? What time did they come back?! Are they making up? Ruby thought to herself, before she began listening to them continue there talk.
Though she was quickly let down as she listen to Weiss go on and on about how if she was the leader of team RWBY she'd have them into perfect form by now.
However, Weiss was cut off by a loud knocking at the door.
" Thank the gods" Blake muttered out from behind her book she was reading, she placed it down and got up from her seat on the bed to open the door, only to have it slammed inward at her from non other then Coco Adel and Velvet Scarlatina.
" Professor Ozpin isn't going to like this.'' The bunny-eared girl groans out.
" You! Schnee! Where's the leader of team RWBY?" The taller-dark haired woman ordered out, making team LMDR stop fixing there bags for the Forever fall trip today.
" Annnd there goes Yang." Raph groaned out with Mikey giving him a confused look as he petted Ice-cream kitty.
" Who is it?" Mikey questioned, not even looking up. Raph growls out a little strike him upside the head, before getting up and opening the door with a loud creek.
" It's the same two idiots, who help me get Yang's dumb self back here." He points to the two of them only to see rose petals appear.
" Team RWBY's leader right here! Oh! Hi neighbors!" She waves back at the turtles with Mikey shouting a" What up!" over to her as he had now stolen the scroll to see if he could play anything on it.
Though Donnie quickly swiped it back.
The bunny faunus girl noticed the extra pairs of eyes on them and turned facing team LMDR, familiar with one member of there team, being Raphael" Oh. Hello! Sorry about her she's just...um..extra." She looks back at Coco, who seemed to be chewing out team Rwby.
She walked over to the turtles holding a yellow motorcycle helmet," W-We found this left in the streets. I-I'm guessing this was left from last night?" She holds up a bright yellow helmet, a black fire emblem printed on it's side.
" There it is. I told her it would show up again." Raphael groaned out remembering how Yang lost her helmet after there ' tumble' threw the streets of Vale, the other night, only realizing it after she could barely stand and was done laughing her butt off in the Three Bears Nightclub with Raph and her friends.
" We saw it after me and Coco's early morning jog and I thought she'd be needing this." The bunny faunus smiled back at the four. She gives a small wave to them as she goes over to her teammate trying to pull her away.
" Come on Coco! Class starts in a few minutes!" Velvet says finally being able to pull the taller girl away from the scared team RWBY, while Yang was scene snoring away in her bed.
" So where were you and Yang last night?" Mikey smirked up at Raph.
" MIKEEEEEYYY!" Raph growled out chasing after him, Mikey gave out the most girliest scream anyone has ever heard as he began chasing after his younger brother.
" Should we help?" Donnie asked looking up at the scene, while he packed away a book he found on the forest of Forever Fall.
" I told Mikey not to say it, but he didn't listen." Leo says as he watches Mikey zip around the room to avoid his brother.
" GET BACK HERE MIKEY!"
" NO PLEASE!"
Professor Goodwitch and Peach lead the group of students threw the woods with all of them carrying supply's they'll need for there assignment. Every student stood in awe at the forest they were in.
" Wow. It's so...beautiful!" Ruby gawked walking ahead of the group of students, trying to keep up with Goodwitch and Peach.
" Ugh. This forest is covered in sap! It's going to stain my heels for sure. Fantastic." Weiss said, trying to avoid the puddles of sap coating the ground around them like icing on top of a cake. Which Nora happily jumped into.
" What? Miss your frozen castle, Ice queen?" Raph smirked down at her as she scoffed back at him.
" That was pretty schneeky of you, Raph." The blond brawler snickers, causing Weiss to let out a huff of anger.
" Yes students. The forest of Forever Fall is indeed breathtaking. The forest is practically glowing with color!" Professor Peach smiled happily and gazing threw the tree lines of the vibrant vegetation.
" Professor Peach, why is the region in this state of non-changing autumn?" Donatello looked towards the smaller woman as he took notes on his scroll, which she happily answered.
" Sadly, to this day no one is sure how this region experiences a perpetual state of autumn, which makes it one of Remnant's many wonders." The short teacher told her student as she held up her gown, not wanting to ruin her glowing outfit.
" However, we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach brought you all here to test your survival skills, and I'm here to help ensure none of you die in the process. This region is plagued with the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to keep your eyes out for any sign of near by threats. We will remain here for the next 48 hours, so with that good luck!" Professor Goodwitch voiced to her groups of students.
" And don't die!" Peach cheered out, cupping her hand around her mouth.
" Very encouraging, Thumbelina." Glynda groaned out, pinching the bridge of her nose as Professor Peach waved bye to her students.
" Leave it to Ms Peach to give us encouraging words." Mikey jokes aloud as the teams go off to explore the safe areas rope off for them.
Cardin swiftly grabbed a handful of Jaune hoodie to stop him from going on, he gave him back a devilish smirk.
" C'mon, buddy! Let's go." Jaune looked up to see Pyrrha staring back at him only for him to be pulled along by Cardin.
The sun glowed brightly in the sky above, causing the forest to give off a bright glow over the land, team LMDR finished setting up there tiny campsite they needed for there stay here.
" Finally. Were done." Raph huffed after looking over there campsite as Team RWBY came over to see how the team was doing after settling into the area.
" What up dawgs! This forest is pretty cool isn't it!" Mikey said going over to the team of four.
" Aw yeah!" Ruby cheered agreeing as well to the beautiful scenery as Yang yawns with a smirk, a hand on her hip as well.
" And we got the best seat in all of Remnant." She smirks confidently, bouncing a tad bit on her heels.
" What's that supposed to mean?" Donatello questioned as Yang pulled out her scroll with a grin on her face.
" We're overlooking Lake Persici! It's so beautiful! I'm so happy we got the spot!" Ruby awed over the few over the surroundings. Yang shows off the picture she snapped when they first got there;
" It's also coated with slap I should know, I almost slipped off the cliff side if it wasn't for Blakey over here!" Yang calls out wrapping a arm around her partners neck, though she seemed to be on edge here and Yang pulling her over to them wasn't making it easier on her.
" I-I..it was nothing Yang, I told you to watch out, though you weren't listening." She recalls remembering as she had to swiftly use her semblance to catch Yang by the back of her jacket.
" Yeah Yeah I know! I'll keep an eye out blakey!" Yang laughs pulling her partner closer with a one-armed hug.
" Oh yeah! I can't wait to taste this sap!'' Mikey exclaimed, while holding one of the jars he and his brothers got for this field trip.
" I didn't know you could eat this stuff" Leo said as he looked at the stained grass, covered in pink sap.
" Actually you can, I did some reading on this place beforehand. The trees are supposed to taste amazing." Weis stood surprised as Ruby nods in agreement, drooling over the sweet taste she's been missing all her life.
" It would be best not to have it til nightfall. It tends to make you fall asleep faster." Blake says as she seemed to be on edge being in Forever Fall now, Leonardo stared at her as he could see how nervous she had become, but still trying to seem all right to her teammates.
" You had it before?" Yang asked confused.
" No. Old friend of mine. She loved the stuff." Blake said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
" I think we'll be find. We're not trying to get on Goodwitch's bad side." Raph smirked only for Mikey to hit Raph with a small ball of pink sap.
Ruby, Weiss and Blake stood there shocked, expecting the worse as Leonardo and Donatello know what was coming.
" You good Raph?" Yang snickers covering her mouth as Raph slowly turns toward Mikey.
" Oh yeah Yang, I just gotta teach mikey A LESSON! GET BACK HERE!" Mikey screamed loudly scaring a small crow into the air as Raph chases after Mikey.
The red glowing vegetation blew threw the air as Team CRDL were relaxing and taking it easy as Jaune walked over slowly, stumbling over to the group holding five containers of the sap.
With a exhausted huff Jaune dropped all the containers of sap, he let out a loud sneeze which sent him backwards, colliding into the ground.
" Hey. Great work, Jauney boy. Now that wasn't to hard, was it?" Cardin snickered out to Jaune.
" I think I'm allergic to this stuff..." Jaune said sickly and congested.
" Great, great great. So, Jaune, I bet your asking yourself, " why did my buddy Cardin ask me to collect six jars of tree sap when there's only five of us?" Cardin snickers as Jaune tried giving out a sarcastic line, but it was...disappointing at best.
" I wonder Cardin." He sniffles as Jaune was able to get himself up off the ground.
" Well come with me and you'll find out." Cardin snickered back at the small blond, but Jaune was prepared to stand up to Cardin, but before Jaune could hit Cardin back with his ' card' he was saving up to fight back with he's dragged off to fulfill Cardin's evil plan.
Team CRDL watched the three team collect there supply of sap with there partners, with Jaune leaning lower to the ground when he see's his friends.
Donatello hand Mikey his jar filled with sap as he gets a glare sent back to him after trying to steal a taste from the container.
" Cardin, what's going on?" Jaune asked worriedly over to Cardin as he felt his nerves getting worse and worse.
" Payback.." Cardin glared daggers over at Pyrrha who was quietly filling her jar up as she chatted along side Leonardo and Raphael.
" What are you-"
" There they are. Red-haired know-it-all thinks she's so smart and those freaks from lunch. This is going to be fun. Alright, boys. Last night ol' Jaune here managed to round up a entire box of rapier wasps. And know we're gonna put'em to work. Now, according to one of the essays he wrote for me last week, these nasty things looove sweets. I'm thinkin' it's time we teach them a thing or two." Cardin growled out as he shook the box to irritate the rapier wasps more.
" And you're going to do it or I'll have a chat with Goodwitch, and you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon." Cardin growled stabbing his finger into Jaune's chest.
Cardin smashes the container into Jaune's hand as he stared back at his friends, clutching it close to his chest.
" No." Jaune growled holding it to his chest, tightly.
" What was that?" Cardin bit back at Jaune as the team was ready to fight him.
" I said...NO!" Jaune cried out throwing the jar into Cardin's chest, the glass drips down his chest from the sap.
" Oh-ho-ho, you've done it now."
Slap after hits go to kicks and slams. Team CRDL take turns beating Jaune into a pulp, but there was no way Jaune was ever going to hurt his teammates and friends. Not to just save his skin. He wasn't going to let Cardin use him for something that scummy.
With a direct punch to the face sent Jaune backwards as his Aura began to flicker bright yellow over his body. Cardin gripped the front of his hoodie and pulled him upward.
" I'm going to make sure they send you back to your mommy in teeny, tiny, pieces." Cardin shook him, growling like a beast at him.
" My mom would eat you alive. But I don't care what you do to me Cardin, but you aren't messing with my team." Jaune scoffed back at him.
Before Cardin could get his hit on Jaune for comment he spat back at him a thunderous roar shock the forest.
A towering Ursa Major broke free from the forest prison, snarling loudly at the five students. Attracted by the smell of the sap that coated Cardin's chest.
Russel, Sky and Dove scatter out of the area, dodging the Ursa Major's swipe at them, the three sprint back to there classmates as Cardin curses under his breath.
He dodges the creatures swipe at his legs, Cardin smirks back the beast as he pulls out his mace and activates his aura.
A warrior cry left Cardin's chest as he dashed forward at the beast.
A loud, thunderous roar ruptured shout threw the tree tops as ear piercing screams followed soon after filled the air.
" Hey did you guys hear that?" Ruby perks up as she was holding her's and Weiss's jar of sap.
" That was a Ursa's roar!'' Pyrrha stated, jumping back as the rest of team CRDL came sprinting threw the forest in pure fear.
" Ursa! Ursa!" Russel cried as he slammed into Yang and Blake, though Yang swiftly pushes him off the two, she grips him by his shirt and hold him up.
" Hey watch it buddy!" She growled at him as he tried not to anger the blond brawler.
" Why the shell are you sprinting threw the forest?!" Raph snarled at Russel as he began begging the group for help.
" There!-There! It was a Ursa-! Came from nowhere!" He cried out in fear.
" What? Where!?" Leonardo said as he pulls out his katana's ready for a attack, with a quick nod Donnie and Mikey pull out there weapons.
" Back there! It's got Cardin!" Russel said scarily, Pyrrha shocked by this news drops her jar, fearful for her partners life.
" Jaune!" Ruby look over to her teammates as they retrieve there weapons, ready to attack.
" We can get Goodwitch!" Nora said as she pulls out her weapon and turns Magnhild into it's hammer form, Ren nods with her and pulls out Stormflower.
" This weapons are still so cool.." Mikey gawks at each students different weapon they used for battles. This world was so interesting!
With nods sent back and forth to each other for good luck, The three teams split off with Pyrrha, Team RWBY and Team LMDR going after the Ursa Grimm.
Racing threw the thick woodland area the seven students come a crossed a clearing in the wood leading two different ways, a cliff side and a root going deeper into the woods.
" Great. Road block." Raph groaned out as he twirled his sais's waiting for the enemy to appear, out of nowhere a loud scream abrupt from the cavernous, vast forest.
There heads slowly turn towards Mikey, expecting it was him that gave out the loud, blaring scream, Mikey shakes his head swiftly.
" Not me dudes!" He shakes his head repeatedly.
A thunderous roar came following after the scream is tear as Cardin was thrown threw the air from the Ursa, colliding into the ground looking around for his mace, but he was to slow from his Aura beginning to heal him back up again, causing the huntsman to lose his mace over the cliff side.
The creature looms over the defenseless student, ready to destroy his aura with a final blow. In a final attempt to escape, Cardin throws a jar at the Ursa as a attack to ward the creature away. It growls deeply as it licks at the sap coating it's face.
Jaune stares at the beast, forming a idea. He whistles loudly and opens the fresh jar up, wafting it around in the air to get the creature to follow after him, it snarls at Jaune following right after him.
" What is he doing?! Is he crazy? Mikey whispered out in fear, as Donnie quickly follows up to him.
" Grimm are attracted to the sap, they'll go after it if they get the scent. Jaune's not crazy; it's genus!" He laughs as the creatures roars loudly following Jaune threw the path in the woods.
" Let's get that beast! I always wanted a bear head on a wall" Raph said twirling his sais's and began to get ready to attack the beast.
" I hope Smokey doesn't mind a small fire" Yang gave a smirk as her bracelet turned into her golden gauntlets, however the two were stopped when Weiss cut in.
" Please you ruffians, we could effortlessly deal with the creature with my glyphs. Simple and straightforward." Weiss crossed her arms over her chest as Raph glared back at the snotty princess. Mikey groaned rolling his eyes at her, though she just sent a huff back in anger and irritation. But before he or Yang could get a comment out to the Ice Queen Ruby popped up.
" Leo you can keep up with me right?!" She quickly spoke out to him, which caught him off guard a little.
" You mean when we were sparing? Then yeah, but we'll have to keep it distracted if we're going to try that."Leonardo said to the smaller girl as she nodded quickly to him.
" Yang, keep that bear from escaping back to the woods! Make sure it can't escape and keep it towards the cliff!" Ruby said with Yang smashing her fist together nodding.
" Won't let Pooh near the honey sis" She smirks as her hair almost ignites into glowing flames.
" Mikey be support for Yang if the Ursa tries escaping" Leonardo states as he reaches and grabs his katana's out. Mikey nods with a smug grin, swinging his Nunchucks around.
" Can do, dude!" He and Yang run after the beast in toe of Jaune.
" Blake Pyrrha can you guys keep the thing distracted with me and Leo?" She gets a quick nod from Blake as she quickly disappears with Pyrrha.
" Don Raph remember when we fought that Beowolf, we'll break the ground like we did last time" He gets a groan from Raph, since he was excited to get back into the rhythm of fighting again. But both turtles went off to fight against the creature.
Jaune rolled out of the way of the Ursa's attack on him he saw Team RWBY and Team LMDR appeared, the four jumped out to protect Jaune from the devastating blow.
The Ursa major roared out in frustration, swiping at the ground Blake quickly dodged the blow to the ground, using her semblance to avoid the hit to her.
Ruby fired Crescent rose at the beast to distract the creature from Donnie and Raph using there weapons as blunt forces to the rocky cliff side, Donnie stabbed his sharp end of his bo-staff into the red stained grass, while Raph dodged the Ursa's boney, sharp armor sticking out from it as the beast swung backwards to attack Ruby.
The beast cried out on it's back lays, it huffed out puffs of air as it charged down Ruby, who was firing rounds into the Ursa for a distraction, the beast threw it's claws into the air ready to strike the girl down.
Metal clashed together as Jaune and Pyrrha came together to defend Ruby from the attack, slamming there shields upwards the beast stumbles backwards.
Ruby looks over to Jaune, she knew he had there backs.
Though the reunion was cut short as the Ursa Major slashed out at the students of Beacon, readying a attack to tear them a part.
" Ruby, what's the plan?" Pyrrha said, holding her shield up as defense, the Ursa major snarls loudly out as a chain wrapped around the beast tail, causing it to screech.
The chain yanked it back, causing the creature to investigate, but was quickly met from a suck-punch to it's face, which gave Ruby enough time to get her plan.
" I know what to do! We can't penetrate threw a Ursa Major's hide, but I can knock it off the cliff, but I need a boost from Weiss's spring glyphs to give me the extra push! All we need is an opening!" Ruby calls out, Jaune and Pyrrha immediately hear this, giving each other quick nods.
Jaune sprints for the cliff side as bait, Pyrrha sprints for the other side of the path to get a view on Jaune. The Ursa growls going after Jaune, which gives them that opening.
" Now!" Ruby cries out as Weiss summons a glyph, this shoots Ruby forward swiftly, Leonardo grabs onto her as they shoot by, landing a power blow to the beast, Jaune barely able to move out of the way, with Pyrrha demonstrating her semblance by dragging him the few extra inches two safety, with nothing to stop the Grimm from falling it sends the creature flying over the cliff.
Pyrrha lets her hand fall to her side as it stopped glowing a dark color, she smiles happily that Ruby's plan worked out with her quick thinking.
" Uh, What was that?" Mikey asked looking back at Pyrrha's fallen hand.
" How did you do that Pyrrha?" Yang tilted her head in confusion as Pyrrha chuckled.
" Well, Ruby has her speed, Weiss uses her glyphs, my semblance is polarity." Pyrrha says quietly as Mikey stares in awestruck.
" You have control over magnetism? That is incredible! If you wouldn't mind, could I maybe see how your semblance works against the properties?" Donnie asked as Pyrrha kindly agreed to his inquiry.
" Not at all! Though, I would like to do it in more...private locations" She says a tad bit nervous, pawing at her fingers. She and Donatello turn back and were about to make there way back to camp before they were stopped.
" Wait, Pyrrha? Where are you going?" Weiss questioned to the red-haired champion with Ruby agreeing with her, since she wanted to tell Jaune what happened.
" We could. Or we could let this be our little secret. Cardin doesn't need to know. Come on now, Ms. Goodwitch may be worried we were eaten up by the Ursa" She says as she was off, making her way back to the camping area, followed quickly behind with the rest of the students, but Ruby and Leonardo stayed behind just in case.
Jaune walked over to Cardin slowly, he held out his hand a waiting Cardin's choice. With hesitation Cardin grips Jaune hand and pulls himself up.
" Don't ever mess with my team, my...friends, ever again. I had a friend sneak in and swap out your transcripts with forged replicas that we made from the originals. We both now have the same black mail over each others head. If you drop the blackmail and call it even then we're good. Got it?" The two come to a agreement to drop the blackmail on each other, though animosity clearly is still lingering around the two.
The broken moon in the sky above glows brightly over Forever Fall, the three teams stayed together after the events that went down today, but right now Jaune was soaking up the alone time as he watched over his friends sleeping away.
He quietly moved the burning pieces of wood around to keep in going, the night was quiet as Remnants other wildlife made noises in the night.
Jaune was so lost inside of his thoughts that he didn't hear Pyrrha unzipping her tent to come over to Jaune.
" No Cardin tonight? I guess you scared him off." She smiles warmly at the blond.
" O-Oh-hey, um..Pyrrha. I wanted to talk to you...I'm sorry Pyrrha. I was a jerk to you. You only wanted to help me. I-I just-I just wanted to be a good leader. I wanted to prove to myself I could become stronger if I just kept training, but...putting you guys in the dark is the worse thing a leader can do." Jaune sighed out letting his head fall.
" It's okay Jaune. I always believed in you Jaune."
" Huh?"
" Even when you told me you didn't want my help, I still believed in you. I never resented you and I knew you would come around. But your team really misses their leader Jaune." She smiles standing up.
" Well, I need to get back to bed. I'll be helping Ren tomorrow with Yang! He's making pancakes, though our syrup has been devoured all up. You can thank Nora for that." She smiles walking towards her ten.
" Wait!" Jaune called out to her as she stopped turning to him.
" Pyrrha..I know I don't deserve this after everything that happened, but...would you still be willing to help me?" Jaune gave back a nervous smile To help me become a better fighter?" He asked her nervously, unaware of the small smirk she gave when she was turned away from him and it was taking everything in Mikey's power not to cry out in excitement.
She walked over slowly to him and pushed him backwards. " H-Hey! What was that for?" Jaune asked as he dusted his jeans off.
" Your stance is all wrong. You need to be wider and lower to the ground." She says smiling and helps him up. Forming a combat position she gives him a smile.
" Let's try that again, shall we?"
Roman torchwick squeezed his lighter tightly as he looked over the map of Vale, scratching area's off with his mark in the other hand, he was in a old abandon Dust ware house, readying his next attack. But after that huntsmen attack him on the highway, he wasn't in the best of mood.
" Yes. Yes, Cinder, I'm aware. Look, I got all the Dust I could manage after that idiot attacked us." He snarled out flicking away articles on his scroll.
" Yeah...yes I hear you." Roman's eyes widen at the word 'mutated' and shivered. He couldn't lose her to those monster and wasn't going to let them.
" Y-Yes Cinder. I won't disappoint you." Roman hangs up and sighs loudly and exhausted. He lights his cigar up and smokes it.
A cough comes from the other room down the hall. Roman quickly puts the cigar out heads over to the next room. He always joked the bright colors burned his eyes, but right now he said nothing as he made his way over to a sick bed ridden Neopolitan, coughing in bed.
" How ya feelin', kiddo?" He feels her head as she smiles at his touch.
" Just rest remember? I need you alive and well for our big mission in a few weeks." Neo looks over at him giving a face.
" Excuse me?! Watch the facial expression, young lady!" However, Neo quickly gives him a puppy dog face to avoid getting in trouble.
" Oh, I can't stay mad at you." He kisses her forehead as he stood up. " Get some sleep, okay, Neo?" She happily nods yes to him.
" Which means no scroll, no video games. Not even a book. Just sleep." She happily nods again to him." Good girl" He turns her light off and leaves the room, only for Neo to get back on her scroll.
" Give.." He calls out as she rolls her eyes and hands it to him. He leaves with the scroll in hand, he lets out a sigh.
" You're doing this for her, Roman. Neo is all that matters." Roman puts away her scroll as he goes on his, coming across a story about the Schnee Dust company contributing some valuable artwork to Vale for the Vytal Festival.
" Well...I was always a fan of the classics." He snickers lighting his cigar again
Guyysss I'm back :D how have you been! I hope you guys enjoy and be on the look out for new stories coming! Me and this amazing person are beginning to write our own TMNT and RWBY story called TMNT: the Remnant remix and two Final Space stories ( please I need to get my feelings from that season finally aaaaaahhhh) I hope you guys enjoy and see you guys around!