Slayer: Well I'm back with another chapter Yeah!
Shadow: However your new house is still under construction.
Slayer: Please don't remind me. My only solace is that Yang's in the hospital for at least another two chapters.
Neos: How did you win anyway?
Zach: Yeah I was wondering the same thing.
Slayer: As the author I control everything in this world. So all I did was drop twenty blue whales on her.
Bladedancer: Why does that sound familiar?
Slayer: Oh you're here too… Man this is strange but since you're here do the disclaimer! Your creator commands it! But first I would like to apologize for the last chapter. As you could probably tell I was completely out of it halfway through. To be honest I still don't know why I kept writing. Anyway Bladedancer do your job!
Bladedancer: Okay! Slayer Infinium doesn't own anything except Reality building concepts and OC's which there are many. Everything else goes to their respective owners. So without further ado….
Everyone: Here's the story!
Neos: Hey Bladedancer why do you look familiar?
Bladedancer: Umm… Don't ask that question.
Slayer: Yeah best not to think of that…
?: HEY!
Everyone: Huh?!
"Dark inner voice"
"Light inner voice"
Thinking
*Important notes*
'Other language'
Chapter Four: Team building Fun!
Seven years after Neos's arrival, Four years after Zach's first incident, One day into Beacon academy.
The next morning came rather quickly for everyone. Although it was a bit too quick for Neos's tastes, this was mostly due to his dragon side. You see being such large and powerful creatures they tend to take long naps. In fact Patriarch before he met him was planning on sleeping for a thousand years. However Neos had no way of remembering that conversation. However at the moment, he was having an internal debate on whether to get up or not. He could imagine Zach having the same problem because of his faunus half. However Zach didn't have a metal ball bouncing on top of his chest.
"ED'E get off me before I turn you into scrap metal." ED'E gave a few humorous beeps.
"Fine you're right I couldn't do that but I can take out your battery for a bit." That said ED'E quickly got off and moved to the side. Neos Dragged his left hand down his face. Because of ED'E he could no longer fall back asleep so he decided to get up. However as he tried to move he felt his right arm be squeezed by something. Confused he looked to his right to see that Ruby was holding onto it. In fact she was snuggling with it. He turned red a bit before sighing. He now wanted to get up but at the same time he didn't want to wake her up. However Neos knew they needed to wake soon, so turning onto his side he used his other arm to gently shake her awake.
"Hey Ruby it's time for us to get up." He was trying not to startle her awake so he was talking in a lighter voice than what he usually used.
"Five more minutes…" Neos couldn't help but find Ruby adorable at the moment. So not wanting to be the one to force her up he turned to look at his left side in order to get Zach to do it. Only to find him not there, Neos raised one eyebrow in confusion but figured he was still with the girl from before. Turning back to Ruby he shook her a bit harder than before. This time her eyes started to open up and she sat up letting go of Neos's arm allowing for him to sit up and start putting away his things. Ruby rubbed the sleep out of her eyes before stretching and giving out a yawn.
"Morning Ruby, sleep well?" Ruby turned towards him but it took a while to register his question. When she did a smile grew on her face and she nodded.
"Yes actually! In fact I had a dream where I was hugging a cute baby dragon. Don't know why I did but it was cute! Hey do you have any idea about what it meant?" Neos visibly froze up while his faced turned red; Ruby noticed this and looked at him in confusion.
"Umm hey are you all right?" Neos came back to his senses at her question. Turning red even more he quickly finished putting his stuff away before addressing her.
"Yeah I'm perfectly fine! Why wouldn't I be? It's not like I know anything about tiny black dragons. Hehehe…" Ruby was now looking at him with both surprise and confusion.
"Hey I never said what color it was, so how did you know it was black?" Neos was now in a bind. He had no doubt that Ruby sensed apart of him in her sleep while she was cuddling with his arm. However because of his slip of tongue he might be forced to tell her what he is. The people who knew about him in this world he could count on his hands, with Zach being the newest addition thanks to his accursed abilities. Zach was already practically his brother mostly because of his dragon faunus half. So there was a bit of a kinship there. However he wasn't ready to tell Ruby. But he did know how to distract her.
"You know Ruby ED'E wanted to show you how his laser weapon worked." Sorry ED'E but I swear I'll make it up to you. He could visibly see Ruby's eyes go wide in excitement and turned her attention towards the floating eyebot. Said eyebot was now trying to back away slowly all the while he was giving off angry beeps towards Neos. In fact Neos visibly winced at the language he was using to both insult and threaten him with. Neos gave ED'E an apologetic look before grabbing his stuff and running away to get ready for the day's events.
This linebreak is worth ten Million! Won't you buy it?
On the far side of the room the half-faunus saw the entire spectacle. He was doing his best not to laugh or move because of the sleeping beauty leaning on him. Blake and him hadn't moved from their positions last night because they were so busy catching up with each other. Zach knew he would have a sore back but thought it worth it. Blake wouldn't have it as badly as him because he was the one supporting her so he knew she'd be fine. He took a look at her face and using his free arm brushed a few strands of hair out of her face.
Zach didn't want to wake her up so he was slightly glad that she started to wake because of the noise Ruby and ED'E were causing. She gave a cat like *yawn* before wiping the sleep from her eyes with her right hand before noticing Zach next to her. Looking at him she gave a warm smile which Zach returned in kind.
"Good morning kitten you sleep well?" She blushed at what Zach called her but still kept on smiling. Say what you will but he liked Blake and wasn't going to let her get away from him. However he also wasn't going to force her either.
"Yeah I had a rather nice sleep, one which I haven't had in a while." It was actually the first time in *months* that Blake didn't have to worry about anyone in the whitefang finding her. Even if they did she felt safe being next to Zach. Mostly because she knew that he would protect her. Looking around her eyes widened when she saw ED'E trying to run away from Ruby. Who was holding onto some of his antennae's trying to not let him escape.
"Hey Zach I actually know that robot." Zach looked towards ED'E and Ruby with a raised eyebrow.
"You mean ED'E?"
"Yes he was the one who helped me find Tukson's book store the day I met you. How do you know him?" Watching the scene she was trying hard not to laugh at what she was seeing.
"Well I actually personally know the owner. However Ruby there isn't it, Neos the one who actually owns him ran away a bit ago and threw ED'E to the wolves. In fact I can introduce you later if you want." Thinking back to the day that changed her life she remembered what the little robot told her about his master.
"Yeah alright based on what ED'E told me he seems like a great guy." Zach nodded his head in agreement.
"Yep and besides that the two of us have a bit in common." He slyly said making Blake look at him with squinted eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" Zach chuckled and started to scratch her ears hidden in by her bow.
"Let's just say the two of us have the same opinion when it comes to giant lizards." Blake's eyes widened at this, the only conclusion she could make was that he was also a dragon faunus.
"No it's not quite what you're thinking but close. But before you ask know that it's his secret so I won't tell it. The same as I won't tell anyone your secret." She nodded her head in understanding and stretched out her back making Zach get up and rolling his shoulders.
"Well I'll catch you when we're getting our equipment." He offered his hand to Blake who took it and was hoisted up by him with relative ease.
"Sure then you can introduce me to ED'E's owner."
"Yeah in fact I'll introduce you to all my friends." Blake looked a bit apprehensive but agreed anyway.
"Sure I don't think there's any harm with that. So I'll see all of you at breakfast?" Zach smiled and nodded his head yes and turned to get dressed. However he stopped and took a few deep breaths. This confused Blake and was about to ask if he was alright, until he turned back towards her and put a hand under her chin and kissed her forehead. The move was sudden and stunned her and before she could say anything he stopped and smiled at her.
"So I'll see you there right?" Blake only nodded dumbly and raised her hand to same spot that he kissed after he walked away to get changed. Unfortunately for the two a certain blond saw the whole thing and managed to take a picture with her scroll.
"Hey Ruby I think I have perfect teasing material! Umm Ruby?" Yang looked over to her sister to see that Ruby was still trying to keep ED'E from escaping. She somehow also managed to get Jaune, (who had woken from the commotion same as her) in on it. She sighed and dragged her hand down her face.
"What am I going to do with you?"
This linebreak is worth ten Million! Won't you buy it?
Some could say breakfast was strange for the group of friends. When they got there everyone sat at the same table. Blake was sitting next to Zach on his right side and Weiss was sitting on his left. While on the other side of the table sat Neos with Jaune on his left and Ruby on his right, Yang was also sitting on Ruby's right while glaring at Neos a bit. Neos was trying his best not to be affected but unfortunately felt as though someone was burning a hole through his head. Ruby was however was just happily sitting in between them was eating her breakfast.
Jaune was staring at the behavior of Zach and Blake whom he had introduced when they all sat down. However the reason why he was staring was because their faces were a bit red and each time they looked at each other they would turn back to their food even redder. But at the same time they were pretty close to each other. Weiss also noticed but instead smiled for her oldest friend and mentor. She believed that he deserved someone to be happy with. She herself never felt any attachment to him in that way. Not that she didn't think that he was amazing or not a good guy to be with; it's just that she's always looked at him as a sort of mentor or brother.
However that didn't mean that she wouldn't beat the crap out of anyone who hurt him. After all she wouldn't be as strong as she was now without him. Turning towards Neos she could only raise an eyebrow at him and ED'E. Who was currently stomping on his head (or at least the robots version of stomping) in anger. What was stranger was that Neos wasn't even doing anything about it. Also on the other side of the table Yang got bored of imagining a hole in Neos's head and turned towards Zach and Blake. She then decided to have fun at their expense once she saw their faces. She quickly dug around her pockets for her scroll, while Neos gave a breath in relief.
Pulling out her scroll in triumph Yang search through her pictures for the latest one. Smirking she clicked on it and stood up from her seat while clearing her throat.
"Attention everyone! I Yang have something to show all of you that will make all but two of you laugh." When she said that Neos, Zach, and Blake froze up and became unmoving. Neos Froze because he wasn't sure of Yang finding out about Ruby snuggling with him, the other two hoped she didn't mean the kiss.
"Take a look at our newest couple!" With that she showed the picture of Zach kissing Blake on her forehead. Everyone but three of them started to laugh even Weiss giggled a bit at it. Zach and Blake however turned redder than Ruby's hood, while Neos sighed in relief. Ruby noticed that and asked him, and because he was so relieved he didn't really think about what he said next.
"Oh I just thought she took a picture of you cuddling my arm in your sleep." By the time he realized what he was saying it was too late. Ruby now was as red as the others and Yang stopped laughing. Jaune surprisingly patted Neos's shoulder.
"Well it's been nice knowing you man." After Jaune's words ED'E started to play the clichéd funeral music you often hear after someone dies in a cartoon. All the while giving off a series of beeps that seemed to be laughter, to him this was payback for earlier. Suddenly as if a switch was flipped Yang's eyes turned red and she started to let out flames and snapped her attention towards Neos. Or at least where he was, because he was no longer there. Neos was now running for his life towards the lockers. His plan was simple grab his pipboy and get to the cliffs where he would hopefully be safe until the start of initiation.
As part of the plan he was also planning on using up all of his *Stealthboys* as well. He just hoped ED'E could make more later. It truly was a good thing he watched the initiation before with his adoptive mother, so he knew where everything was already. He could also prepare for being launched into the forest by Ozpin's version of aerial faith plates. His memories were starting to annoy him, mostly because he remembered the most unimportant details of his lost knowledge. For example he remembers meeting a guy that was *soulforged* to a chicken! He also remembers accidentally killing him by eating said chicken. Then he also remembered eating a talking pumpkin.
Yeah his past life sure was strange. He managed to get to the lockers and put on his pipboy and atomatized a stealth boy when Yang caught up to him. She was aiming a punch at him while he quickly put on the device and activated it while rolling out of the way. Yang was shocked at his sudden disappearance and was looking around for him when the others made it. Zach, Blake, and Ruby were still pretty red from earlier though. Yang sighed and decided to corner him later seeing how more people were starting to come in.
This linebreak is worth ten Million! Won't you buy it?
Zach now recovered from the earlier incident could only look at Weiss with a deadpanned stare. She was currently talking to a red headed girl in orange and red Spartan like armor. She was also wearing a short red skirt and had a shield and sword on her back. Her eyes were green and she wore her hair in a ponytail. She also wore a bronze circlet that dipped in a small triangle between her eyes. Zach knew her as Pyrrha Nikos. A four time Mistral regional tournament champion and mascot for the Pumpkin Pete's marshmallow flakes cereal, where she has her picture on the box. Personally he never touched the stuff since it was pretty bad for you.
However he wasn't looking at her but at Weiss's evil mastermind look. He could already tell she was trying to rig the teams in order to get a good team. Sighing he figured she probably forgot all the lessons on teamwork he gave her. However he grew curious when Jaune walked into the conversation and started to try and "flirt" with the Spartan like girl. For some reason she didn't seem to mind, especially when she found out that he didn't really know anything about her. Weiss however was getting rather annoyed at his cluelessness of people of "importance".
He shook his head and turned towards an orange haired girl that has turquoise eyes a collared black vest that ends at her waist. Her crest, a hammer with a lightning bolt, was on its back. Under the vest are two layers of clothing, colored red and light-blue respectively. She also wears a white sleeveless top that forms a tiny heart shape between her chest and collarbone, with a white detached sleeve on each arm. She wears matching fingerless gloves on each hand. She sports a pink skirt that starts at the waist and ends mid-thigh. Her shoes are a mix of pink and white with pink laces, displaying her symbol on their soles.
She also seems to wear some sort of armor that begins in the middle of the shoulder and neck and ends by the waist. It seems she has a light-gray or off-white bow at the back of her skirt, with ribbon extending to the skirt's bottom. All in all she was definantly one of the most colorful people he's seen. He also noticed that she seemed to be a boundless source of energy and was currently talking the ear off of a familiar face.
"Hey Ren! How've ya been?" Ren has long black hair tied into a ponytail that ends midway down his back. There is a magenta streak on the left side of his hair. His eyes are also magenta. He wears a dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat that is red on the inside, with black and gold trimming and pink cuffs. The trimming goes down the right side of his torso and forms a black collar. He also wears a black, long-sleeved shirt beneath the suit, and light-tan pants with black shoes. In total his outfit reminded Neos of the Chinese. Which is another stupid piece of information which is practically useless to him, but he doesn't complain because he knows that he is at least remembering some things.
Ren was a bit startled by his voice but turned around and smiled at his old friend.
"Ah Zach I had no idea that you would be coming to Beacon this year." Behind him the orangette was staring at Zach wondering who he is.
"Yeah well somethings happen and now I'm here. Anyway who's this behind you?"
"Oh this is Nora Valkyrie; I believe I've told you about her before." Zach folded his arms and nodded his head.
"Yes I do believe so." Unfortunately it was there that Nora literally jumped in between them and started asking Zach questions faster than he could answer. He was luckily saved by Jaune yelping in surprise. Turning around he saw that Jaune was speared to the wall by Pyrrha's spear. Its name is Milo and it can turn into a sword, spear, and a semi-automatic rifle. It was also red and gold in color.
"Sorry Ren but it seems I'll have to catch you later. Right now I better go see if my friend there is injured." Ren nodded his head in understanding before leaving with Nora to go to the cliffs where the initiation would begin. He started to make his way to Jaune as Pyrrha pulled her spear out of his hood and walked off with Weiss. Ruby got there first however.
"Hey Jaune you all right?" Her voice had concern for her friend.
"Yeah although I don't see what I did wrong. My dad always said all women look for is confidence." Zach shook his head and rolled his eyes. Theyboth turned towards him when he spoke.
"Jaune I think we need to talk about this at a later date. However my first piece of advice is not to flirt with Weiss or flirt with someone she's talking to. Not that I've ever done it but I could guess at what might happen. Now looking at you I could see that I was correct, so thank you for that at least." Jaune gave a depressed laugh.
"Well you know me I aim to help as many as I can. But I actually didn't try to flirt with Weiss. So at least I have that going for me." Zach gave him a knowing smirk before helping him up.
"Yep that wouldn't have ended well. More than likely she would have frozen you solid instead of spearing you to a wall." Ruby gave Jaune a pat on the back and a sympathetic look.
"Come on guys we should get going." Zach and Jaune nodded in agreement and the trio left the lockers.
This linebreak is worth ten Million! Won't you buy it?
Neos was finally able to turn off his stealth boy when all of the students lined up on the metal plates on the ground. Yang noticed him from her spot on Ruby's left and gave him a death glare. In return he gave her a wave and a nervous chuckle. On his right side was Jaune followed by Zach. Currently Zach was glancing at Blake who in turned looked at him. Both faces turned red and went back to looking at Ozpin and his adoptive mother. Currently she was looking at her scroll while also petting ED'E who took his place next to her. He stood straighter when Ozpin began to speak.
"In just a short moment all of you will begin your initiation into Beacon. Now your objective is simple… Get to the temple at the end of the forest and retrieve a relic. Do not hesitate to destroy any opposition if you do you may die." Neos heard Jaune give a nervous chuckle at that.
"Now I know all of you have been hearing rumors of teams and partners. I will now put those rumors to rest." At that point Glynda stopped petting ED'E and turned her attention towards the crowd.
"All of you will be creating teams that will be with you the entire four years you stay at beacon. The teams will be made of two groups of two." He looked at Ruby when she made a sound.
"Today will be the day you'll make these groups and gain your partner. This is why it is important that you choose a partner that you can work well with." She stopped speaking so Ozpin could continue.
"That being said the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner for the rest of the time you remain here at Beacon."
"WHAT!" Neos winced at Ruby's outburst, Neos however already thought that Ozpin would come up with something like this.
"Now each of you will be launched into the forest, now all of you remember your landing strategies. Any questions?" Jaune raised his hand to try and ask one however Ozpin ignored him and launched the first student. Soon after the student to his left was launched it was Neos's turn. He turned towards Jaune and Zach and gave a salute before preparing to be launched. It wasn't too long after that he felt the feeling of weightlessness and yelled with joy. Now being a dragon he had no fear of heights and loved the feel of the wind as he soared through the sky. However he also knew if he didn't do anything he'd be impaled on a tree branch. Unfortunately he couldn't use his dragon form as a landing strategy because of all the people around him.
So instead he created an aura shield in front of him and smashed through multiple trees as he was coming towards the ground. When he landed a large crater was created, smiling at his successful job of not being impaled he started to make his way towards the temple, at least before he heard someone screaming.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Neos looked up from his position on the ground and saw Jaune cartwheeling through the air. He lost sight of him through the trees but saw a spear head off in his direction.
"Thank you!" Neos only shook his head at what had happened. I think he'll need some training after this. With that thought he started his walk towards the temple while taking out his twin pistols. He wasn't even ten feet from the crater he made before he heard some growling. He stopped and took an offensive stance. That was when a pack of beowolves appeared and surrounded him, Neos counted fifteen in total. He smirked at the large black colored werewolf like creatures. Their eyes red and glaring at him, already he was making plans to shoot in between the white bone armor that covered them.
"One versus fifteen eh? Well I must say you've handicapped yourselves quite a bit for this fight." He opened fire on the closest wolf. It was dead before it knew what hit it. That's when the others howled in anger and charged him. He jumped up and turned upside down midair and started to spin shooting the grimm which were around him. With that stunt done five laid dead and they started to disappear into dust. Using his instincts he dodged an attack from behind a beowolf had tried to take off his head with a swipe from its claws. However since it failed it lost its balance allowing Neos to aim at its jaw and fire while jumping up again giving the grimm a massive uppercut. Neos than began to spin and fire at the other grimm coming towards him. Soon there were only eight left. The ones left began to become cautious.
However before they could do anything they were all impaled by dark shadow like spears. Neos sighed and holstered his pistols.
"You know I could have taken them down right Zach?" He turned to see Zach walk out from behind a tree to his left. However this time he had on a skull mask which looked almost like his. He quickly checked to see if his own mask was still in his pipboy. He quickly selected it and put it on. Both teens just stared at each other. Zach was the first to speak.
"Well this is a rather interesting coincidence." Neos could only nod his head in agreement. Both stood there for a while before shrugging and taking off their masks as to not confuse anyone later.
"So Neos since we're partners I'm going to have to know what you can do." Neos brought his hand up to his chin in thought.
"Well let's see, you already know about my increased *physical* abilities. However I can use fire rather proficiently. Not that it's much of a shocker there, but I can also use ice and lightning, and non-elemental attacks."
"Like what?"
"Oh things like aura missiles, aura bolts, aura shields, and summoning of void lizards."
"Void lizards?"
"Yeah, they're raptor like in shape only that their arms are shorter and their heads more rounded. Also instead of scales they have fur that varies in color form lizard to lizard. They also have a high amount of intelligence, and are very fast. A fully grown void lizard is about the size of an alpha Beowulf." Zach hardened his face with thought as his imagination tried to recreate the beast he was told about.
"Is it possible for me to learn how to summon one?"
"Sure just need to get out the summoning contract, but I suggest we do that after initiation. The binding of the contract takes quite a bit of time and energy." Zach grunted in agreement before stopping and pulling out his anti-material rifle and looking through its scope.
"Do you see something?" Neos was now starting to wish that he had made a scoped rifle so that he could just see things farther away.
"Yeah it looks like some smoke and a fairly large Nevermore. I also see… Oh Monty Oum." Zach brought his gun down and rubbed his eyes to make sure he was seeing things correctly, before bringing it back up to look again.
"What is it?! What did you see?" Zach sighed and put away his rifle before answering him.
"Well… it appears as though Weiss and Rwby are partners now however…" Neos motioned for him to continue.
"It also seems that they decided that riding on an untamed nevermore was a good idea. Currently they are a few kilometers away from the temple but they should get there soon. My suggestion, hurry ourselves over there before they get eaten." Neos quickly nodded before the two of them started a mad dash towards the old temple.
This linebreak is worth ten Million! Won't you buy it?
The temple turned out to be made of tan stone, and was circular in shape. In the middle of the circle were stone stands with different color chess pieces on top. Zach wasn't too worried about the pieces as he was worried about both his old and new friends. The nevermore was still a little ways off and well past his rifles range. He would need it to get closer before he could fire. So instead he went over to inspect the pieces. There were a few missing already so he figured that some other pairs had made it already. Examining them he found that there were two colors black and white. He knew then that both the pieces and the colors represented who they were. So thinking about what he knew of himself and what he knew of Neos he picked up the black knight piece for their group.
He knew more than likely Ruby, Weiss, Yang, and Blake would probably choose the white knight pieces but the black knight just felt right. He knew they were protectors, but he also knew that they were more than willing to get their hands dirty in order to protect everyone else. He knew the girls would always never kill someone but would try and protect the people that they could. That was what made him and Neos black knights, and the others white knights. Deciding that his choice was sound he turned to tell Neos of his decision. However he saw him frozen stiff while looking off into the forest. With confusion he turned his head to where Neos was looking at, his own eyes widened a bit when he saw Blake and Yang exit the forest. If I remember correctly Yang still wants to beat him to death, well I guess that's it for our partnership.
"Hey Neos it's been great knowing you pal. I make sure to visit your grave every year."
"Thanks I'll make sure to haunt you." At this point Yang and Blake finally noticed them, Blake waved a friendly hello while Yang waved at Zach and glared at Neos. Even when they were within talking range Yang didn't say anything to Neos. So understandably he was relieved to be out of the line of fire at the moment.
"Hey I see that you two paired up. Run into any trouble out there?" Zach may have asked both of the girls but his question and concern was mainly directed at Blake. Blake shook her head for no while looking towards her new partner, as of the moment she was trying to see if she needed to hold her back from killing Neos.
"No we killed a couple of Ursai but that was about it." She peered behind them to get a good look at the ruins
"Yep those are the "relics" and the temple. My suggestion is to pick one that would suit you. Although I already have a good idea about what piece you should choose." Before she could ask what he meant Yang having stopped glaring at Neos went over and snatched up the white knight piece. She waved it around while turning to look at her partner with a goofy grin.
"How about a cute little pony!" Blake rolled her eyes but still smiled at her.
"Sure I don't see why not." However when she turned back to Zach she could see him smirking. It then dawned on her that he knew that they would pick that piece. How he knew she could only guess at but he still knew. She was about to ask how he knew before she heard a loud scream.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Looking around Zach and Neos looked at each other before face palming at the same time. Yang however was looking frantic to find the source of the scream.
"Some girl's in trouble!" Neos snorted a bit before shaking his head.
"Um Yang I do believe that was actually Jaune." Blake and Yang both looked at him confused while Zach was nodding his head in agreement while folding his arms.
"HEADS UP!" All of them looked up to see Ruby falling from the sky towards them. Zach cursed because he forgot about the nevermore that Ruby and Weiss was on. However before he or Neos could act to save her Jaune flew out of nowhere and slammed into her. This changed their directory into a nearby tree. Blake pointed at the two of them before directing a question at Yang.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Yang could only gape at what happened.
"Umm…" All of them then turned towards a bunch of loud noises to see an ursa come crashing into the clearing. They then saw and heard an explosion and the thing toppled over with Nora on its back.
"Ahh… it's broken." Zach watched as poor Ren ran up next to her and tried to catch his breath.
"Nora never do that again." When he turned towards her she was no longer there instead she was already looking at a white rook. Zach and everyone else was caught off guard from her sudden appearance. She then picked up the rook and put it on her head while doing some type of dance.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Ren was very quickly losing his patience.
"NORA!" she stopped and giggled.
"Coming Ren!" Everyone just continued to gape except for Zach who was looking at Ren with pity. However Blake would be the one to break the silence.
"Did she just ride in on an ursa?" Yang only gave the same response as before until Pyrrha ran in with a very large deathstalker behind her. The oversized Scorpion took a swipe at her but she managed to dodge it.
"Did she just run here with a deathstalker on her tail?" At that point Yang lost it.
"I CAN"T TAKE IT ANYMORE! Can we just have two seconds before something else happens?!" Neos counted out two seconds on his fingers before Ruby tugged on Yang's sleeve.
"Umm Yang." Yang just looked down defeated while the rest looked up.
"Huh I can't believe I forgot about that thing twice now." Looking up everyone could see Weiss hanging off of the feathers of a giant nevermore.
"Ruby how could you leave me up here!" Everyone turned to Ruby who just shrugged and spoke in a calm voice.
"I did tell her to jump." Zach gave another one of his famous sighs and looked down in exasperation. Blake noticed this and patted him on the back while giving him an apologetic smile. Yang out of her funk looked towards her younger sister.
"You know she's going to fall." Ruby just scoffed and folded her arms.
"Pfft she'll be fine." Without a look of concern or care Ren spoke up immediately after that.
"She's falling." And fall she did, Zach was about to use his shadows to save her but… Jaune jumped out of the tree he was in and caught her.
"Just dropping in." Zach's eye started twitching when he heard that. It was by far a pretty lame line for saving someone, another reason was because while they were distracted they forgot about gravity. After realizing they were still in the air they held each other tightly and fell. Jaune hit the ground first followed by Weiss who landed right on top of him.
"My hero." Weiss sarcastically said while inspecting her nails.
"My back!" Was what Jaune said in pain from his position underneath her, and behind them was the deathstalker that was still chasing the Mistral champion. Zach looked at the scene and pinched the bridge of his nose while closing his eyes. Note to self, train Jaune in both fighting and the use of words, because we really don't need to ever hear something that corny again. When he opened his eyes again he saw Pyrrha finally get hit by the deathstalker and get sent face first right in front of where they were.
"Great the gangs all here, now we can die together!" Neos gave Yang a very dry look before turning his attention towards the giant scorpion. The best solution would be to quickly deal with it than turn their attention towards the giant death bird in the sky. However said bird could still easily fire its black feathers at them disrupting and hindering their movements. He would have to consider his options; He knew that he and Zach could probably take them. But he also had to worry about the others safety. But it seemed as though Ruby had a different idea.
Chambering another round in crescent rose she prepared to take off. "Don't worry guys I got this!" Using her semblance she then took off only to be tripped by one of Zach's shadows grabbing her leg. She fell face first into the dirt. Propping herself up on her hands and knees she started to spit the dirt that got into her mouth. "Hey what was that for?!" She directed the question towards Zach however he was looking off into the forest. He seemed to be focusing on something, Neos looked at his partner in confusion.
"Umm is something wrong?" Zach didn't reply, instead he kneeled down on one knee and put his hand to the ground. He then closed his eyes as if he was concentrating on something. Everyone was confused by his sudden actions. "What are you doing? You do realize that we have two large grimm heading our way to kill us right?" Again no answer from the half faunus, instead they saw his aura start to become visible. His aura was black and slightly glowing around him. Whatever he's doing he's really concentrating on it. Everyone was surprised to see his shadows start moving across the ground suddenly in a burst of speed. The shadows headed towards the west side of the forest.
Blake watched him with concern growing on her face. Turning back towards the grimm she noticed that they stopped moving. "Hey guys what's up with the grimm?" The others turned their attention towards the grimm who seemed to be frozen in place. "Hey you think this is Zach's doing?" Neos shook his head at her question.
"No Zach's abilities are mostly over shadows not live beings. He can use his shadows to trap opponents by tying them up with them. But he can't stop opponents that his shadows aren't connected to." Neos looked over in the direction of where the shadows went. "However Zach has devoted a large part of his training to sense auras. As much as I would like to say I'm pretty good at it, Zach was the mercenary and had plenty of practice." He raised his hand to his chin in thought. "Most likely he sensed something in that direction and sent out his shadows to investigate. My guess is that the grimm also sensed whatever is there." Weiss was about to say something when the nevermore and deathstalker ran in the opposite direction of where Zach's shadows went.
If that wasn't worrying than Zach suddenly collapsing onto both hands gasping for air was. Blake ran towards him and dropped to one knee and put her hand on his back. Her face was full of concern. "Hey are you all right? What happened?" Zach raised his hand to show that he was alright and got to his feet with Blake supporting him. Yang would have teased the two if it wasn't for the look of fear on Zach's face. Zach started talking despite him still being out of breath.
"Sorry but that took a lot out of me. I've never attempted to look that far with my shadows before. But we don't have time for me to discuss what that was about. You just need to know that we need to get out of here fast." He was still panting and looking a bit frantic in the direction he sent his shadows.
Neos looked at him with concern. "Zach what did you see?" Zach looked at him angrily before snapping at him.
"We don't have time for me to tell you! Just trust me that something big is coming our way and I don't think we'll be able to kill it. So everyone who hasn't grabbed a piece, grab one and let's go!" Neos was about to give an angry retort when everyone felt the ground shake a bit and the trees start moving. Jaune gulped and bit and ran to pick up a white rook piece. Ruby decided to go along with it and grabbed a white knight piece.
Ruby than ran on top of a rock and waved for everyone to follow her. "Well I'm normally one to fight but I agree with Zach at the moment. So let's move out people!" Jaune nodded his head in agreement. "Run and survive by not being stepped on by something massive. That is a plan I can go with." Everyone started running back towards the cliffs where the initiation started.
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Along the way Zach filled them in on what happened.
"So before Ruby started to run towards the deathstalker I felt something on the edge of my senses. As it got closer I could feel that it wasn't friendly so I stopped Ruby and started using my shadows to see what was over there. Trust me when I say it took a lot of concentration. I only caught a glimpse of it but it was huge and severed my connection with my shadows." Weiss and Neos looked over towards Zach in concern. As far as they knew someone who could do that to his semblance was indeed powerful. Stopping at the bridge of the ruins leading to the cliffs they caught their breath.
Neos was the first to catch his breath thanks to his dragon blood. "Do you know how the thing back there stopped your semblance?" Zach held up his hand to say to give him a few moments before he answered.
"Yeah it stopped it by giving off a bright flash of light. How it did it I don't know since I couldn't really see it. However I do know if it can get rid of my shadows I'd be useless fighting it. Well not completely useless but you know what I mean." Neos nodded his head in understanding; Zach relied a lot on his shadows for defense and to attack multiple opponents in quick succession. Further discussion was stopped when the ground shook and a massive creature plowed through the trees. The creature had a slightly transparent body, and large bat like wings. Its head was square in shape and it had sharp vampire like teeth that overlapped each other. What was strange was a red eyeball with orange veins floating inside its mouth. It's body was also serpent like without arms or legs. The eye also seemed to be slightly damaged as though it just came back from a fight. It was thirty feet long and twenty feet tall. In all honesty it was a massive beast colored whitish blue with leathery skin. The ten teenagers looked at in shock and awe before they covered their ears when it gave a loud high pitched roar.
The three non-humans of the group were the most effected since they had stronger hearing than the rest. However everyone recovered in time to dodge a white laser that came from its mouth. It was dragged slightly cutting off the piece of the cliff which the bridge was attached to. Zach grimaced realizing that it was on purpose, it seemed to be quite intelligent cutting off their escape route. It gave off a few screeches while throwing its head upwards. Everyone realized that the creature was laughing at them. Zach annoyed got out his rifle and started to fire explosive .50mm rounds at it. Unfortunately he wasted three rounds with the bullets going right through it. Growling in frustration he rolled out of the way of its large sharp teeth as it tried to take a bite out of him. Everyone was in a slight panic now because all of their attacks weren't affecting the strange creature.
Dodging another laser Jaune started to yell out in fright. "Why can't we hurt this thing?! Nothing we do seems to have any effect on it!" However the creature also seemed to be mumbling about something. What it was didn't matter. The creature sent out another white beam of energy however this time Zach watched closely to see where it originated from. Before this point the beam seemed to come from its mouth however by looking at it the beam came from the eye itself. This gave him an idea.
"Everyone keep it busy for a bit I have an idea!" Everyone gave an affirmative nod and charged at the creature. Neos who was using his sword sheathed it and took out the black contraption from the leather sheathe on his back. It had a metal pole in between a black scythe blade that was three feet long and six inches wide at the base going smaller until it became a one inch tip. Another curved blade that was one foot in length and two inches wide was on the opposite end. Both blades were curved over the pole. Then Neos twirled it while pressing a button. The pole that was one and a half feet extended to five feet in length. The scythe blade propped up and a circular blade expanded on at the top of the pole connecting to back to the pole. The curved blade also sprung up pointing downwards. The weapon had turned into a six foot long scythe. Neos charged in with it and started to spin it over his head with one arm while aiming it at the creature's torso while putting some aura into it. Finally it seemed to do a little bit of damage with a few scratches appearing.
The creature screamed and used its wings to jump back a few meters. Ruby watched with amazement as she was finally able to see Neos use his scythe skills. Looking at the scythe she could see that it was made to be spun around quickly, in order to keep up a chain of slashes while blocking any incoming attacks from behind or to the side. However she was brought out her amazement when the creature reared back and started charging its laser instead of just quickly firing it off as it had done before. Zach's voice was heard from behind them.
"Ok everyone quickly throw every long range attack you have at its eye!" Everyone did just that even if Jaune had to chuck his sword because he had no long range weaponry. The creature cried out in pain and discharged a large beam of energy into the air instead of it being directed at the group. That was when Zach lined up his shot and fired his gun straight into its eye. Everyone quickly covered their ears in pain at its loudest scream yet. However when it stopped it started flapping its wings and created some sort of purple vortex behind it. The creature gave one final scream at them and flew through the vortex which quickly closed behind it. Everyone looked at each other for a bit before they started cheering in victory. During this Ruby and Neos hugged while jumping for joy while Zach jumped from the tree he took position in. He looked over to see Yang give Neos a death glare, however she didn't say anything.
For his part he just leaned against the tree watching them. However despite everyone being happy he was still concerned. The creature they fought definantly wasn't something normally found in emerald forest, or on Remnant at all for that matter. Despite his new worry he smiled when Blake came up to him, they gave each other a quick hug before both of them leaned against the tree. Oh well I'm sure we can worry about that later. Zach thought as he started laughing when Neos and Ruby realized they were hugging and pulled apart with red faces. Then everyone started to laugh as Yang started to chase him around.
Back on the cliff Ozpin and Glynda were wearing looks of concern. They had recognized the purple vortex as a dimensional gateway. It was the same kind Raze'thur would use to travel. This type of gateway was designed so only the user could go through it. This was why Raze'thur had to leave Neos and ED'E here instead of taking them back to Patriarch.
"Headmaster do you think it was sent to kill Neos?" Glynda was worried about her adopted son's safety mostly because he still wasn't as strong as he was seven years ago. "I mean what if they finally found him?" Ozpin seemed to think carefully as he drunk from his seemingly endless coffee mug.
"No I don't think so, at least not yet anyway. Besides the creature already seemed to be wounded by something, its eye was slightly bleeding and it seemed to be moving as if it was in pain. No doubt it attacked them out of fear and not malice. However that creates another question." Glynda realized what he was getting at and nodded her head.
"Yes what could have hurt it in the first place?" Ozpin nodded his head slowly before turning back to watching the group celebrate their victory. However even Goodwitch smiled at her son and Ruby hugging. Because to her it was about time he finally liked a girl.
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A few hours later everyone was in the auditorium at Beacon, and Ozpin had just announced the group that made up team CRDL (Cardinal). Ozpin then called up the next team.
"Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren. You've picked the white rook pieces, as such from today onward you will be known as team JNPR (juniper) led by Jaune Arc." Jaune was taken completely by surprised.
"Wait you mean me?" Ozpin only smiled and nodded his head towards him.
"Congratulations young man." Everyone in the crowd clapped for them, then Pyrrha gave him a congratulatory punch on the shoulder that accidently knocked him down. There were a few laughs at the scene while Pyrrha helped Jaune up. They then moved to leave the stage when Ozpin held his hand up. "Sorry but we're not done yet with your team so please stay up here." The new team looked confused but stayed up there. Ozpin then went on to announce the next team.
"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao long. All of you have chosen the white knight pieces, as such from now on you'll be known as team RWBY (Ruby) led by Ruby." Ruby looked surprised while Yang gave her another bone crushing hug. "I ask that you too stay up here for we're not done yet." Both teams were now even more confused but did as requested. Ozpin took another sip from his mug before clearing his throat.
"Zachary Tanner and Neos Drakon Goodwitch please step forward." With some concern they both walked up to the stage. "Both of you have chosen the black knight piece, however we do not have anyone else to pair you with. So we changed things a bit. Both of you will be known as team mercenary. However both of you will lead teams JNPR and RWBY as advisors. Zachary Tanner as JNPR's advisor and Neos Goodwitch as RWBY's. Now I expect great things from all of you." All three teams high fived each other and cheered while Ozpin kept on smiling and Glynda gave Neos a tight hug while expressing how proud she was. "Well it is looking to be a rather interesting year."
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In another dimension five people hidden in shadows were bickering with each other.
"We have once again lost Eugon's signal! We just managed to reacquire its energy signal to!" Another to this figures right raised his hands a bit.
"Calm down you can't expect to just capture the creature easily. Besides its now been heavily wounded twice, whoever just fought it was rather lucky as well." There was a grunt from the person on the opposite side.
"Yes they sure were, since normally the blasted creature can destroy entire countries. Anyone remember Malaysia?" Everyone mumbled in agreement, and then the one who spoke first started yelling again.
"If it weren't for those idiots in charge of her incarceration we wouldn't be in this mess! It's a good thing that idiot Gabriel Dennis incinerated himself or I would've given him an even bigger punishment!" The second figure than spoke up again cutting him off from yelling further.
"Yes but let's not forget that captain Daniel de Fernandez betrayed us to the *W.R.C.* Now Jack of Doom has more knowledge of our plans. However we managed to at least get rid of Bladedancer." All the figures stopped talking when they heard a deep chuckle coming from the last person in the group.
"Is something funny Night? If there is we would like to hear it. After all you *Darkwraiths* know more about the on goings on in the *W.D.O.* than the rest of us." A figure wearing a pitch black cloak with a hood then stepped out into the only light in the middle of the room. The cloak covered his whole body so only his yellow demonic eyes were showing; in his right hand was a black polearm. It was as tall as he was which amounted to a giant eight feet. When he spoke it was deep and it had an echo to it.
"Yes while Bladedancer is dead, we never actually managed to grab his soul. Which means knowing Maxis he probably did something to it, currently my group is trying to locate said soul. However I fear we might already be too late and that he already reincarnated it as something else. But that isn't as worrying as another report we just got. Jauk if you would please show tell us of your report?" Another man stepped out of the shadows behind Night. The man had a small hat with a feather on it. One that would be usually seen being worn by sixteenth century British sailors. His eyes were a cerulean green and his hair was dark grey. He also had on a high collar long coat. The collar reached all the way past his ears while he wore a scarf mask over his mouth. The coat itself was closed in the front and went down past his knees. The coat also slightly covered his legs in the front. His pants was also leather and was tucked into long boots. On his hands were closed leather gloves with big cuffs that went over his coats. His entire outfit was colored with different shades of brown. On his sides though were two identical katanas. Their handles were curved and eight inches long. The blades were three feet long and were in black scabbards. The swords hilts were simply a circle with metal pieces connecting them to the sword. However they had a shiny sheen to them as well. Over all his clothes seemed to be reminiscent of gothic Victorian aged clothing.
The man looked around the assembly before putting his hands behind his back. When he spoke it was with a mix of British and French accent.
"Gentleman let me tell you about the discovery of a new *Void Spawn.*"
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Omake
RWBY Antics: Two
Hosted by: Raze'thur
He was bored there just wasn't any other way to put it. Without the constant companionship of his dragon knight friend there wasn't much for Raze'thur to actually do. Then he had an idea to get rid of it. If he could've smirked he would have done so, but his race of demons had not the muscles and tissues to do so. He quickly opened up a portal to Remnant, his plan… to freak out the inhabitants a bit while saving some from different criminals. After that he would quickly teleport back home. He just needed to be careful as to not be caught by Neos, or Tartarus forbids Glynda Goodwitch. He didn't know why but the woman scared him quite a bit, even if he wouldn't ever admit it out loud.
He ended up appearing at some docks behind a couple of Schnee dust crates. Chuckling he started to move within the shadows for his victim… I mean target. After wondering around for twenty minutes he finally found something. From an alley he saw a group of three human males harassing a faunus female. The faunus was a younger woman who appeared in her early twenties and was selling ice-cream from a stand. She was also a dog faunus from the appearance of two dog ears on the top of her head. She was wearing a regular ice-cream vendors outfit and had brown hair and brown eyes. Raze'thur chuckling evilly snuck up behind her. The three men instantly stopped bothering the woman and gaped at the demon behind her. Confused she too turned around and stared in shock at the black and purple colored demon in front of her.
"Good afternoon my name is Raze'thur and I couldn't help but notice you three bothering this woman. So unless you wish to be eaten and then have your souls sent to the abyss I would suggest you leave NOW!" They instantly ran away in terror screaming at the top of their lungs. This also caught the attention of everyone else on the streets. This in turn caused mass panic and everyone but the woman he just saved ran away in terror. Knowing what he's just done was probably the worst idea ever he slapped his face with his right hand.
"Umm why did you help me?" Raze'thur looked back at the woman he just helped and was surprised that she didn't run away as well.
"Well I'm actually here because I was bored, and when I saw you in trouble I just decided to help. Anyway I'm Raze'thur the demon prince at your lovely ladies service." He then gave a short bow towards the faunus who just laughed at the way it looked before introducing herself.
"Well my prince my name is Scarlet Flameburn and I truly appreciate your help today." She then looked around to see if anyone else was there, seeing that everyone ran off she turned back towards Raze'thur. "Well you caused quite a stir around here, was that part of the idea to?" Raze'thur slumped in defeat at the question.
"No in fact I was trying to stay in low profile. However more than likely my friends here will see me mentioned in the newspaper and get rather angry at me." He straightened up and looked directly at her. "However I still think that it's worth it since I was able to help you. However now I must leave before the cops show up." Scarlet nodded her head and chuckled a bit.
"Oh I think they'll probably send in huntsman but I see your point. Anyway once again thank you for your help hopefully we'll meet again someday." Raze'thur nodded before running off into the alleyway again. He felt good about what he had done and he was no longer bored however… He was also dreading what Neos and his adoptive mother were going to do to him now that he was most likely in the paper. He shuddered and stepped into another one of his portals to go home. His last thoughts was that he at least was no longer bored.
Notes
Yawn: It is a strange thing that cats and dragons have a very similar yawn. As in they both sound the same and the way they do it is entirely the same way.
Months: Blake had left the whitefang a couple months after meeting Zach, which meant she's been on the run for quite a while. When she went to Beacon she hadn't had a peaceful non worried filled rest for at least the last four months.
Stealthboys: An interesting invention made in the Mojave. Originally designed by Robco it turns the user invisible for as long as it has power.
Soulforged: The ability to bind two souls together. By doing so they take on traits of the other, for example the man that was soulforged to a chicken clucked and waved his arms like a chicken. While the chicken became more self-aware and could talk like a human, however if one dies the other dies so when Neos ate the chicken… I think you can guess what happened.
Physical: Dragon knights are generally faster, stronger, more agile, and smarter than normal humans. They can perform incredible feats like how Neos's normal jump allowed him to get to the top of the building in chapter three.
W.R.C: The World Restoration Corporation led by Jackson Grove also known as Jack of Doom. The W.R.C. is an interdimensional organization meant to protect other dimensions from outside threats.
Darkwraiths: A creature born from the Abyss. They are unnaturally powerful and incredibly strong. Having been born from the Abyss they have access to all forms of Abyssal magic, Darkwraiths are also immortal unless killed by another. Currently there are only three Darkwraiths left.
W.D.O: World Destruction Order, despite its name their true goal is to conquer and subjugate different dimensions. Their main beliefs is that no one is capable of ruling themselves as such they must take over and force order on them. However they are in a constant struggle against the W.R.C. who wants to do the opposite.
Void Spawn: Someone born from the void. Unlike void walkers who are given powers over void magic, void spawns are born from it giving them access to some of the more lucrative abilities the void has to offer. Unlike Darkwraiths however they are not immune to disease and poisons, although they have a much higher tolerance than humans. Their life spans also vary depending on how strong they get, the stronger they are the longer they live.
Slayer: Okay mind telling us what you're doing here Sally?
Zach: Yeah you're not even part of the Dark Guard series at all. In fact you're part of a different thing all together.
Sally: Well you see my creator Countera has been granted permission to use this account to put some of our stories up. In fact we've already created a crossover during this book and the last.
Slayer: Oh yeah I forgot about that since she's my younger sister and all.
Shadow: You do realize that this might confuse others later on right?
Slayer: Yes but she was nice enough to let me use Eugon so I thought we could at least let her post somethings. However there will definantly be a difference between our stories.
Neos: Oh yeah by the way Shadow your brother showed up during this chapter.
Shadow: Please don't remind me.
Zach: Oh and we've now finally picked a writing style that we will be working with from now on.
Slayer: Yes that is wonderful. Plus to all you readers things have diverted from the canon even more now. However the biggest change will happen later. For now don't forget to review so I can make the story better, so this is Slayer Infinium signing off.
Bladedancer: So I'm finally dead huh?
Slayer: Yeah but you can still be part of the chats here.
Bladedancer: That's good to know.