Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring you the next chapter of "The Reaper of Beacon" Thank you guys for checking out the chapter and letting me know what you all thought of the previous chapter.
Time to pick up where we last left the cast.
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Going to be One Long Day
Beacon Academy, 10:00 A.M.
"ZZZZ..." Ichigo was snoring as they were in class with Professor Ports telling them about his story with Ruby, Nora, and Yang joining him as their heads were down sleeping. Erza was writing something in her notes as well as Pyrrha. Blake was trying to figure something out about Ichigo's connections to the White Fang since that is all she has been thinking for the day. Ren was being a normal student with paying some attention to what Professor Ports was talking about along side Lucina and Caeldori.
Jaune in the meanwhile was trying to talk to Weiss.
"So, Weiss, y'know, uh, I-I was thinking after this, maybe we could go grab a bite to eat?" He then turns to the teacher for a second, then turns back around, "And, uh um, I-I've got two tickets to that new Spruce Willis movie, if you wanna make the trip to Vale. I hear it's awesome... Aaaand maybe after that, we could study together? I mean, you're smart and I'm, uh... Y'know."
Finally, the clock in front of Weiss gives a shrill beep as it changes from 3:59 to 4:00, and she dismisses it with a wave of her hand. The professor is temporarily unaware of the alarm.
Port was posing as a towering monster about to attack, "And then I— Oh." He then straightens his stance as the students start to leave., "Timed that one wrong, I guess. Well, the stunning conclusion to this story will have to wait. Until next time!"
"Weiss? Did you hear me?" He asks the heiress.
"No, no, no, yes."
Upon hearing this, Jaune groans and does a faceplant into his desk.
As the rest of Team RWBY walks out of class behind him, Yang ruffles Jaune's hair without even looking, "One day."
"Wake up." Erza smacks Ichigo behind his head, leaving a massive bump on his head.
"OW!" He instantly stands up and rubs his head, "You need to stop doing that!" A tick mark appears on his forehead from Erza smacking him and this was the second time that has happened between the two of them.
"Then stop sleeping in class." She stated to him as they all gathered their stuff and exit the class.
"Then have the professor actually teach instead of tellin' us some boring ass story."
"By the way Ichigo," Both of them turn their attention to Lucina, "We still need to work on our teamwork. Mind if we can do that?" She suggested to him as that wasn't a bad idea. They still need to work things out with him being out for the past couple of days but...
"Ichigo!" He turns around to see Sun running towards them, "Need you for a quick sec."
"Uh..." He yanks him away from the girls as they didn't know what just happened.
"Well...so much for that idea..."
Outside of the Dorms
10 Minutes Later
"What the hell Sun?" He rolls his right arm after being dragged by Sun.
"Sorry but we kinda need a third man in this." Sun said to Ichigo but this made him rather confuse.
"Say what?"
"I overheard that Team RWBY is doing some investigating and thought we might need another man to join us." He stated to him.
"Who's us?" He raises an eyebrow at Sun as he pointed up.
"My buddy Neptune is by their window and should be there by now. Anyway, let's get going." He then jumps up at the tree and starts climbing.
Ichigo groans as this was something he didn't want to do but then again, he did had to make some amens with the team.
'This sucks...' He uses his Shunpo from the ground and instantly teleports himself to the branch by Team RWBY's window.
All of the members of Team RWBY were in a new different outfit.
Ruby's outfit consists of a long-sleeve, light gray shirt with black belted cuffs near the ends of the sleeves. Over top of the gray shirt is a black pinafore with two vertical lines of red stitching that resemble the lacing on a corset. She wears a red skirt with a large print of her emblem on the side of it in black and black tulle underneath. Her stockings and shoes remain the same as her Original outfit, except the boots no longer have red trim around the top. A few pieces of metal arranged in an abstract shape are attached to her sleeve on her left shoulder, and her hooded cloak has been wrapped around her neck similar to a scarf before hanging down her back.
Weiss's outfit consists of a white, double breasted jacket with black piping, cuffs and buttons over a white, pleated full skirt with black lace trim. She also wears a pair of white, thigh high boots with black heels and lace-topped black stockings.
Blake's outfit consists of a white, v-neck, zip-up crop shirt with a black hem and three quarter sleeves. Her emblem is printed in off-white on the left side of the shirt. She wears black pants that have a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg and a black belt. Attached to the rear of the belt is a black piece of fabric that covers her from hip to hip. Underneath this is a longer, translucent, purple piece of fabric. She also wears black high-heel boots with two straps and buckles and purple undersoles, reaching to mid-calf. She retains the black ribbons on her forearms and her black bow.
Yang's outfit consists of a deep-collared cream vest over a low cut black shirt and covered by a dark gray shrug with a raised collar, three quarter sleeves with a single black stripe down the outside of each sleeve, and gold cuffs. A black miniskirt is worn under the cream vest. A pair of crooked black belts with gold accents are slung around her hip, with a purple piece of fabric attached to the left-rear of the lower belt. She wears thigh high stockings attached to her miniskirt by garter-belts on the front and back of each thigh and decorated with four golden studs above her knee and her emblem on the outside of each thigh in gold. She also wears black ankle boots with multiple buckles and white ribbons on the back tied in a bow. Around her neck is a purple pendant set in silver.
Blake approaching her bunk as she tightens her wraps, "I thought that class would never end."
From Ruby's position sitting on the hanging bed ,"Alright, guys, today's the day! The investigation begins!" She happily leaps off her mattress and onto the floor, arms raised excitedly. She almost lands on Weiss, who is on the bottom bunk.
"I'm glad to see we're taking this so seriously." Weiss says sarcastically towards the young one in the group.
"Hey, we've got a plan! That's... moderately serious." Yang says
"Right!" Ruby looks around at her teammates, "Everyone remember their roles? Weiss stands up as the camera quickly shifts left to each member who state their objective."
"You and I will head to the CCT and check the Schnee records for any other Dust robberies or inconsistencies. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem." Weiss stated briefly on their objective.
"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning." Blake stated her objective to the group.
"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too hard..." Yang stated her objective to the group as well.
"Great! We'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" Ruby pumps her fists in the air.
"Yeah!" Sun Wukong said as he hangs upside-down by his tail in their open window. The whole team is taken aback from this and to see Ichigo
All of them were surprised and alarmed to see the both of them. "Sun! Ichigo?"
"How did you guys get up there?" Yang asks the both of them.
"Ah, it's easy; I do it all the time." Sun said plainly to them.
"You do what?!" Weiss raises an eyebrow. "And you Ichigo?"
"I can use my Shunpo to get up to the tree without breaking a sweat." He says plainly to them.
"I climb trees all the time!" Sun says without reacting to Weiss' scowl as he flips into the dorm room., So, are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?"
Blake steps forward and says, "We are going to investigate the situation... as a team."
"Sorry, Sun. We don't want to get friends involved if we don't have to." Ruby didn't want to involve her friends in this case since this is only something they can do.
"Psh! That's dumb! We should always get friends involved! That's why I brought Neptune!" Sun says as he points out the window.
The girls lean out the window on top of one another cartoon-style to see the aforementioned teammate of Sun's standing outside, cool as can be.
" 'Sup?"
"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asks the blue haired teen.
"I have my ways." Neptune says as Ichigo gives off a unimpressed look.
"And people think I'm a creep." Ichigo says
"Seriously, though, can I come in? We're like, really high up right now." Neptune says nervously.
Inside the dorm room, the group are standing in a circle as Ruby lays down the new plan.
"Alright, I'll go with Weiss; Sun, you can go with Blake." Ruby says as she pushes Neptune past Weiss, he slips her a wink. Weiss looks mildly shocked but then comes to her senses quickly, "And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Ichigo, you can me and Weiss. Everyone good?"
"Actually, Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? After all, she is your sister." Weiss suggested to Ruby but didn't get her wish.
Ruby pushed Neptune, who is stiff as a board, up next to yang. When she is done pushing him, he rocks back and fourth looking nervous. Yang put her hand on his shoulder to stop him from rocking. "But, Weiss, who would go with you, then?" She asks the white haired heiress.
"Well... I guess Neptune could come with me." She suggested once more but...
Neptune puts on a suave look and points at Weiss as Ruby cracks up, "Hahaha, nah!"
Weiss is obviously less than amused, yet is powerless to stop Ruby from pulling her by the back out the door. She sticks her arms out fruitlessly trying to get back to Neptune, "But! But!"
"This is going to be a long day..." Ichigo says as he follows the two girls.
1 Hour Later
"So what are you guys doing?" Ichigo asks the two of them, with him placing his hands in his pockets.
"We're going to the monumental tower and Weiss is going to call up faculty member of her family's company." Ruby stated to him, "By the way Ichigo, how did you get dragged into this?"
"Sun said he needed some help and just dragged me. I didn't even get to say no."
"You could have left him when he went up the tree." Weiss suggested.
"That I could have but I still owe you guys."
"Well this is a good start then!" Ruby says happily and pats his back relatively hard for someone of her height. They continue on with their conversation and once they were, Ruby was in awe, "Woooow! I forget how big the Transmit tower looks up close!"
"You should see the one in Atlas!" Weiss suggested to her.
"Haven also has one and the other kingdoms have one as well." Ichigo said to the girls but Ruby was still in awe from seeing this building up close.
"That was the first one, right?" Ruby asks Weiss.
"Correct."
Ichigo, Weiss and Ruby continue their walk down the path towards the building.
"Atlas developed the Cross Continental Transmit System to allow the four kingdoms to communicate with one another. It was their gift to the world after the Great War." Weiss would then explain how each of the kingdoms to them but for Ruby...
"Oooh, look at me! My name's Weiss! I know facts! I'm rich!" Ruby says in her and does her impression of Weiss and snorts into her hands at Weiss' frown.
"Don't be a pest! Besides, the only reason we're here is because you like the tower so much! We could have just as easily made a call from the library!" Weiss says annoyed by Ruby's antics while Ichigo sweat drops.
"I know, but it's so coool! Ooh, I'm going to take a picture!" Ruby grabs her Scroll from a pocket on her clothes, but in her excitement, the device is launched from her hands, bouncing along the pavement until it lands at Penny's feet.
"Oh!" Said a girl with orange hair and green eyes. She Picks up the Scroll and extends towards the clumsy teen, "You dropped this."
"Penny?!" Ruby said in shock to see her again. Ichigo looks at Weiss as she tells him that she's a friend of theirs from a couple of months ago.
"Uuuh..." Penny has no idea what to say as she was surprised as well to see Ruby and Weiss again.
"Where have you been? We haven't seen you since that night at the docks!" Ruby asks Penny.
"S-Sorry. I think you're confused." She suddenly hiccups, throwing the Scroll into Ruby's hands, "Uh... I've got to go! She turns quickly and walks away.
Weiss turns to Ruby, "What was that about?" She asks her.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out." Ruby says as she starts walking in Penny's direction as she shouts back to her partner, "You go make your call! I'll meet up with you later!"
Weiss reaches toward Ruby, "Wait!" Seeing the futility of stopping her teammate, she lowers her hand and sighs angrily.
"Looks like it's just the two of us."
"Do anything funny, you'll die." She warns the Soul Reaper but he just gives her a plain expression.
"Like I'm scared of you Ice Queen." He rolls his eyes as he pats her back, "Come on, let's get this over with."
"Hey!" She took offense to the nickname.
"I'm more honor bound than you think Weiss. You should to try to think of me in a different way than some pervert or playboy like Neptune." Weiss was somewhat surprised to hear that coming from him. She thought he was somewhat of a bad boy with the way he looks but with him saying he's honor bound, that something odd. "If you have questions regarding my involvement with your family's company, you can ask."
"How will I know if you're lying?" She questions him.
"I got no reason to lie. I'm a deadman in 1 whole year."
"What do you mean by one whole year?" She raises an eyebrow as Ichigo shows her the effect of having the Dust in the body for too long with half of his face on the right side turning black.
"Having too much in the body is toxic to the human host. It can change parts of the human body if burned, like my arm and it can also effect the hosts Semblance." He manifests the Spirit of the Right Arm by his side as Weiss didn't know it can effect.
"How long did you had this?"
"Around 5 years." He rolls up his right sleeve and takes off the black sleeve, "You can see some burnt marks on my arm that is now the Devil, as I call it."
"How did you know my sister?" She decided to change the subject and asks him.
"Ran into her a couple of years ago but its all hazy for now. I'll eventually remember and I will tell you." He stated to her, "Anyway, let's get going."
'I guess I might have to make things right with him.' Weiss frowns on the thought of having a newly acquainted friend already on a deathbed with him having only one year to live. 'I can at least be friendly with him.'
While the two walk on their way to the monumental building, inside Ichigo's inner world; Summer was smiling to see that Ichigo is trying to make amens with the teams.
Glad that he's doing his best.
Summer turns around to see Zangetsu walking towards her.
'He's doing what he can before he dies Zangetsu.' Summer replies to the man in black, 'This is his last ride after all.'
That I do get Summer but there is a way for him to live on. This intrigued the former Huntress as she wonders what does he have in mind.
'What do you mean by that?'
And that ends this chapter guys! Ichigo's relationship is starting to bloom with Weiss.
The story will now go onto the main canon storyline besides having some new moments into the story as well.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.