Natsu was staring at the moon as he waited for Erza to return with his friends.
"Um…. Natsu?".
Natsu turned to see Ruby looking at him nervously.
"A-are you really from another world?"she asked.
"Seems so, why?".
"Why did you come here? To this world?" She asked.
"Don't know" he said "but I'm glad we did".
"You are?" she was surprised at the statement.
"First day here and I already made an awesome new friend" he put his hand on her shoulder.
Ruby smiled up at her new friend then jumped slightly as the door opened.
"Professor Ozpin this is Lucy Heartfilia and Gray Fullbuster" Erza introduced her friends.
Ruby turned to look but her face was grabbed by Natsu.
"GRAY SHE'S JUST A KID YOU PERVERT!".
"What the hell are y- OH CRAP! Where'd my clothes go!?".
"Even the undies? Come on Gray!".
"Hey its not like I do this on purpose!".
When Ruby's eyes were uncovered she saw two new teens, a female with blonde hair and a near naked male with dark blue hair, the blonde came over to Ruby.
"Sorry about Gray" she said "he has a slight… stripping problem, I'm Lucy by the way".
"Ruby" the two girls shook hands, then Ruby turned to Ozpin "Um.. professor why am I still here?".
"Because I wanted to ask you a question Miss Rose" Erza responded "who forged your weapon?"
"I did, all the students at Signal do, why?".
"Impressive" Erza complimented her "as magic does not exist in this world, we may have to keep ours secret, so we may need weapons".
Ruby's eyes lit up at the prospect of making four personalised weapons.
"Can I Professor!? Can I!?" She nearly screamed.
"I see no reason why not, you have a week before term starts, so if you escort us to your workstation I can explain the details of this world to our new guests".
By the time they arrived Professor Ozpin had filled in the wizards on the world of Remnant, the Faunas and Dust.
"Well" said Ozpin "I shall leave you and inquire about accommodations for you all… and perhaps some new clothing".
All the wizards looked at the state of each others clothing as Ozpin left the Natsu gasped.
"Hey guys! Where's Happy!?" He asked them.
"He.. isn't here Natsu"Lucy answered slowly.
Natsu froze "T-then he'll be with everyone else, yeah that'll be it".
"Natsu" Erza started "there is a chance… we are the only ones here because…. we might be the only ones that surviv-".
"DON'T YOU SAY THAT! EVERYONE IS FINE!" Natsu shouted.
Lucy and Gray were stunned, they had never seen Natsu shout at Erza like that and they had never heard desperation in his voice like that, Erza stared for a moment then reached forward and hugged him.
"Everyone is fine" Natsu whimpered "they have to be".
"I know how you feel, but you have t-".
"You have to keep hoping" Ruby interrupted "you have to hope… until you know for sure" Ruby looked down as she finished "So" she returned to her chipper attitude "what weapons do you all want?".
"I use a variety of weaponry" Erza said calmly "Lucy uses a whip, Natsu prefers his fists and Gray use a variety as well".
Ruby thought for a moment "I could make Lucy a Dust powered blade-whip, maybe transforming weapons for Erza and Gray and for Natsu…. maybe shotgun gauntlets?".
"What gauntlets?" Natsu asked eagerly.
Ruby went and rummaged through the junk on her workbench then came back "This is an old prototype of my sisters Ember Celica, try it".
Ruby gave it to Natsu and pointed him at the targets, Natsu threw his fist forward and ensuing shot blasted the head off a dummy.
"Awesome" Natsu said smiling "a little weak though".
"How many barrels do you want?" She asked jokingly.
"Four would be good" Natsu smiled again.
Ruby gaped at him, then she thought 'He is pretty strong.. why not'.
"Okay" she said aloud.
"Oh and boots to please".
"Okay".
Lucy shivered at the thought of Natsu's future weapons "I think I'll need that blade-whip".
"Cool" said Ruby happily "Erza, Gray what about you?".
Erza answered first "If you can make a weapon that shifts between a sword, lance and axe I will be satisfied".
"Can do, Gray".
"While I use various weapons I would like to stick to one".
Natsu spoke up "What about blades like your Seven Slice Dance?".
"That could wor- HEY! Since when do you remember the names of my spells?".
"So that next time I can beat you with even less effort" Natsu smirked at him.
"Oh you're on flame-brain".
"Seven what-what" Ruby asked confused.
Gray put his fist to an open palm "Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance" a jagged blade of ice extended from his fist and elbow.
Ruby eyes went huge "AWESOME! I can definitely make arm blades like that…. although if you keep stripping you may have trouble holding on to them".
"I can't help it" he sighed.
"Even with armour?".
"I don't like armour, never could figure out how to get it on or off".
"Then it's prefect" Ruby yelled "if you put the holsters on armour you won't lose them and it might even help you keep your clothes on".
"Alright!" Gray said enthusiastically.
Some time later Ozpin strolled back into the building with a bag of clothing.
"Hey Oz… person" Natsu greeted him.
"It's Ozpin moron" Lucy told him.
"How long has Ruby been working?".
"How long have you been gone?".
"Five and a half hours".
"About that long".
Ozpin raised an eyebrow.
"We tried to get her to take a break" Gray told him "but she kept shooting at us until we left".
Ozpin chuckled and shook his head "Well I have arranged for you all to stay here before term starts".
A blonde man wandered up behind Ozpin.
"This is Taiyang Xiao Long" Ozpin introduced him "he is Ruby's father and has made up beds for you".
"Thank you Mr Xiao Long" Erza bowed slightly "we are in your debt".
"No problem" he said "and call me Tai, I made dinner so come get some, I'll leave Ruby's here".
One week later.
Natsu was dressed in his new outfit, his scarf remained but he now wore white pants with black knee-length combat boots and a brown trench coat with the arms torn off and black fingerless gloves, he would have struck an imposing figure if he wasn't curled up in ball on the floor of the bullhead moaning in discomfort.
Gray looked down at him, he wore a white button up shirt, with light blue pants and black sneakers, dark green leather armour adorned his upper and lower legs as well as his forearms.
"How are you still not use to vehicles yet lizard boy?" He asked his pink-haired rival.
Natsu continued to groan.
"These are your new friends Ruby?".
"Yeah" she signed.
"You'll have to forgive him" Erza walked up to them, she was outfitted in her modified Heart Kruez armour, it now had greaves and each segment had vials and capacitors to collect Dust from hostile sources "Natsu's… Semblance passively grants him increased senses but they get overloaded by vehicles thus triggering this motion-sickness".
"Huh" Ruby said thoughtfully "oh Erza this is my sister Yang".
"Hi" "Greetings" the two shook hands.
"Wait" Lucy walked up, she was wearing a blue and white striped skirt and plain white blouse "your name is Yang and your dads is Taiyang… that's lazy naming".
"A little yeah" Yang admitted, she then spotted someone "at least pinky isn't alone with his motion sickness".
They looked over and saw a blonde boy failing to keep his lunch down as he ran past.
"OH GROSS YANG YOU HAVE SOME ON YOUR SHOE!".
Author's Note: Thank you for the support this story has already gotten, wasn't expecting that, anyway for now the wizards won't use magic but they will later, they will lay low so a certain someone doesn't get her hands on them, I'm already having fun with this story so I don't want to E.N.D. it so soon.
Thank you and see you later!