Slayer: Well here we are again. Only this time things are going to get even further away from canon. You know why?

Neos: Why?

Slayer: Because I say screw canon!

Zach: I really do wonder about you sometimes…

Shadow: Oh yeah by the way the construction worker told me to tell you that the house is done.

Everyone: YAY!

Bladedancer: For some reason I have an urge to blow it up now.

Slayer: You do that and I'll delete your story.

Bladedancer: But you've never went past chapter prologue though.

Slayer: Umm… Shadow do the disclaimer!

Shadow: Okay… Slayer Infinium doesn't own anything except reality building concepts and OCs. Everything else belongs to their respective owners. Now Ruby can you kick us off?

Ruby: Sure! Now without further ado here's the story!

Neos: When did you get here?

Ruby: Oh I just came back from visiting Yang in the hospital.

Slayer: How long does she have left?

Ruby: About one more chapter.

Slayer: Alright then people let's prepare!

Zach: For what?

"Dark inner voice"

"Light inner voice"

Thinking

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Chapter Five: A new Arrival.

Seven years after Neos's arrival, Four years after Zach's first incident, Day two of Beacon.

Location the void.

The *Voidwalkers* part of the void is an interesting place. It is a place full of floating islands and is filled with nothing but a white fog as far as the eye can see. It changes based on which voidwalker is visiting though. As if it senses who's there and changes itself to better suit their needs. However today at this time there aren't that many left. Really only a handful out in the never ending rifts of time and space. Today this realm of the void is being used as a meeting place for two individuals. One was an old man with shoulder length white hair, a neat and trimmed large white beard, and silver eyes. His attire consisted of open white robes with a blue silver sash and silver blue pants tucked into white long leather boots. He was holding onto a brown wizards staff that had a club like head. The staff was taller than him by four inches despite him being six feet seven. Despite his robes you could see that he was strong and muscular even though he looked like an old man.

The other one was a young slim man with oily brown hair and eyes of pure black, as if looking in them you could see the abyss. He wore a brown jacket, brown slacks, and black dress shoes. Both beings were currently in a heated argument.

The old man was waving his hand to the side as though the current topic was just for show. "Listen I've already made my decision as to what to do with the current subject matter. Besides outsider I'm truly surprised you care so much." The outsider grit his teeth and clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles turned white.

"Listen Maxos (A/N yeah sorry I've been spelling his name wrong) you're right but this time you're using one of my voidspawns. This is quite different than using a voidwalker like Corvo, a voidspawn is someone born from my void so that we can interact with the outside world. Usually they have memories and knowledge of their home and who their patron is. Except now you've taken one and sealed not only their memories but powers as well." Maxos scoffed at him before retorting.

"Let's not forget what I did to my own champion." Maxos than gave an audible sigh and looks down ashamed. "I've taken everything from them all in order to defend the balance of reality. I've even created the charred council but they have slowly corrupted themselves which is why I've created the W.R.C."

"Hahaha! You think I really care about your champion and their sacrifice? In truth all he is worth is entertainment. However your champion is working with my voidspawn so I want to be sure they're ready for the times to come. I only ask you send someone to join them."

Maxos raised his left hand to his chin in thought before giving a smirk towards the old god. "I think I can do two things, send someone to help, than send someone to test them. At the very least it will be entertaining."

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Location Karakura town.

Ichigo Kurosaki an average seventeen year old high school student and ex-substitute soulreaper, he has spiky orange hair with slight side burns, and brown eyes. He is also fairly tall about five foot elven inches. He's also fairly muscular and in top athletic form. However his face is set on a permanent scowl, he was currently wearing a white t-shirt with am opened blue button up over shirt. He was also wearing grey jeans and had white sneakers. Currently his left hand was in his pants pocket while he carried a plastic bag in his right. Closing his eyes he gave an audible sigh.

I hope I remembered to get everything or else Yuzu's not going to be happy. He was currently on his way home from a store run, in which he was sent by his younger sister to go get ingredients for tonight's dinner. At this current date it has been seventeen months since the winter war and fifteen months since he lost his powers. The winter war was a battle that happened between the soulreapers and the arrancar led by three traitors from the soul society. Also known as the afterlife and home to the soulreapers, the arrancar were hollows or demons formed when spirits of the dead reside too long in the world of the living. They eventually are filled with negative emotions and end up losing their hearts and go on to be driven by and insatiable hunger for souls. Their most distinct attributes are the holes in their chest to signify the loss of their hearts, and their white masks which is what is left of their hearts.

The arrancar were a group of hollows who crossed over and gained soulreaper powers. This allowed them to regain their humanity and limit the desire for souls. The soulreaper equivalent is the vizards, soulreapers that crossed over to gain hollow powers. However this is getting off track a bit, during the winter war Ichigo used a powerful attack known as mugetsu. The attack defeated the enemy leader Sosuke Aizen. However the cost was all of his powers. This led to him being here today and living a normal life. Or at least as normal as it could be considering he still had orange hair and his friends were all kind of crazy. Even his teacher was a bit insane, for example she and the class were all kidnapped once and they woke up in the mountains. She shrugged it off and told everyone to start stargazing.

However despite all this she's still a good teacher and Ichigo was still one of the top fifty students in the school. However today his life would once again be turned up on his head, truly he picked a wrong time to close his eyes as he didn't see the black vortex ahead of him until it was too late. He couldn't help but cry out in fright and surprise as he found himself weightless and falling through an endless abyss. He closed his eyes and awaited to wake up in the soul society.

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Location back in the void

"So Maxos is the boy coming or are you just pulling my leg?" The outsider was starting to get impatient with the old *Broodknight*. Maxos only chuckled which in turned aggravated the old ruler even more.

"In time my old friend in fact he's almost here see?" The outsider turned to where Maxos was pointing to see a rift open up, a few seconds later he could hear some screaming and a blur shot out of it landing in a heap on the ground.

Said heap groaned painfully before righting itself and sitting up using its arms as supports. "Ow… Don't plan on going on that ride again anytime soon, or ever again for that matter." Ichigo looked around only to open his eyes wide in shock at what he was seeing. He was definantly not in the soul society, huecomundo, or even hell for that matter. Here was just an empty white place that looked as though it went on forever. The floating objects and islands didn't help him either, so he pinched himself to make sure he was still awake. "I see that you find yourself rather surprised." Said an old voice from behind him, standing up and turning around he saw to two beings. Maxos addressed him again.

"I'm sure you're rather surprised at this encounter. However know we mean you know harm and are actually in need of your help." Ichigo regained his famous scowl and crossed his arms.

"What help could I be? After all I lost my powers months ago. Plus why did you choose to bring me here to this…" Ichigo looked around once more in order to find anything identifiable and failed he then turned back to the two in front of him, "This place?"

Maxos was about to answer before the outsider cut him off. "First things first I personally wanted to leave you alone, so don't group me in with this manipulator. Second to answer your question you still have your combat experience and skills. Not to mention you're the right age for what we have in mind. As for your powers we'll be giving you new ones with some of your old ones." Ichigo looked at them with surprise and shock and then turned his glare towards Maxos.

"So what if I refuse? As it turns out this will be quite dangerous if you're offering me my powers." The outsider also started glaring at Maxos knowing what he already had planned.

"Ichigo Kurosaki… I'll let you know now that you really don't have a choice in the matter." Ichigo looked at him flabbergasted and then adopted a look of anger. But before he could speak the outsider once again started to speak.

"I understand you're angry about this. I myself only give my champions power and allow them to use it as they see fit. However this man has practically forced me to go along with his plan. That being said when you reach a certain level of power and can actually harm him I'll be glad to join you on that." At this point Maxos adopted a dry look while Ichigo started smirking with an evil gleam in his eyes. He already liked the brown clad man, he then realized something and spoke once again.

"You know you never told me your names. Or even what I'm doing or even what you're giving me." Maxos looked at him with a knowing smile while the outsider looked at him with pity. Say what you want about him but even he could feel sorry for the pawns in Maxos's schemes.

"What you'll be doing is what you've always done, only this time in a separate world from any connected to yours. Don't worry about your family you'll meet someone who can help you get word to them. However we'll be erasing our images from you mind. In other words you'll know what you're doing but not why you're doing it." Ichigo was about to yell out with protest when the outsider placed his hand on his shoulder.

"There's no use arguing with him, so don't bother trust me I know. As for the powers you'll be receiving my mark allowing you to use void magic, as well as some of you soulreaper abilities such as… Flash step, Getsuga, sight, and your two spirits. However at this moment in time you won't be able to use your Zanpaktou. For now I'll be giving you new clothes and equipment, except a weapon which will be given to you by Maxos. No doubt it will have extra properties itself so familiarize yourself with it." He let go of his shoulder and snapped his fingers there was a bright light and when Ichigo looked at himself he could only nod in appreciation.

His new outfit consisted of a black long coat with a hood that was opened from the waist down, along with black combat boots with black pants stuffed into them. Around his waist and over his coat were two belts over lapping each other with white rectangular buckles. On his right shoulder was a white pauldron that had a belt running down diagonally to his left, which went into a loop than came back up and attached it to the back of the armor piece. There was a white belt buckle in the middle of the belt on his front side. On his left leg was a holster for what looked like a sawed off shotgun. It was fifteen inches long suggesting a short but accurate semi-automatic shotgun went into it. On his hands were black fingerless gloves. Despite not seeing it thanks to the gloves, there was the mark of the outsider on his left hand. On his back side were two red pouches one held magnum shotgun rounds, the other held regular slugs, the bullets were both twelve gauge. Ichigo stopped looking at himself when he heard a familiar voice in his head and he couldn't help but grin.

"Hey king! It's been awhile, I personally never thought we'd meet again."

"Yes I must agree the final Getsuga Tenshou was supposed to be just that. Yet here we are thanks the machinations of these two beings in front of us."

I must agree with you there however I don't see the weapon the old man's supposed to give us. As if on cue Maxos waved his hand around and the air distorted in front of him. When it stopped a strange looking shot gun appeared in front on him. First the handle was black and was at a one hundred and fifty degree angle. It was also about thirteen inches in length with red leather wraps around it. The trigger and trigger guard were at the very top of it on its underside. It also had a red metal grip underneath the black barrel of the gun. The barrel was about fifteen inches in length, on top of it was a black metal pole with a white blade on top. However it was connected to the rest of the gun with what looked like a joint that could snap into place. The blade itself was about two feet in length and went over the handle of the gun.

Despite its bulky size it could fit into the holster he had on him. Maxos gestured for him to take it and Ichigo reached out for it and took it by the handle. It was surprisingly heavy and looked rather durable. His observations stopped when Maxos spoke to him.

"On the back there is a button I suggest pressing it while flicking the blade away from yourself." Ichigo looked and saw a small button right at the top of the handle on its backside. He then did what Maxos suggested, and to his surprise the blade flipped open and extended to a meter in length with the grip folding downwards creating a guard. It ended up becoming a single edged straight sword. He swung it around a few times getting used to the weight. Before pressing the button again making the weapon folding it up once more, satisfied he holstered it and turned back towards the beings in front of him.

"Well it seems you've prepared me rather well for this. However know I'm still not happy about this but I'm glad to have some of my abilities back. Which means I'll play along for now." Maxos started laughing and Ichigo's right eye started twitching. "Hey! You know you don't have to be rude about it!" Maxos stopped laughing and gave an amused look towards the new orange haired voidwalker.

"Sorry it's just that you're acting like you have a choice but goodbye for now." Before Ichigo could retort he found himself falling through another vortex in the ground. The two left were able to hear Ichigo screaming obscenities at Maxos on his way before he closed the portal. Maxos than turned to leave but was stopped by the outsiders hand on his shoulder.

"You do realize how dangerous this game is, especially with the others starting to get suspicious of your recent activities." Maxos shrugged off his hand and continued walking. "Maxos! I hope you sent someone worth testing them. Otherwise your whole plan will fall apart!" Maxos looked back and gave a smile before leaving through one of his own portals. This left the outsider to sigh and to go back to watching the other dimensions for something interesting. He was angry at the Broodknight for having him forced to go along with his plans. However as of right now he really didn't have any choice.

"I hope all of you are ready for what is coming for it won't be pleasant."

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Location Remnant an hour after team coronation.

Neos and Zach left the auditorium after saying goodbye to everyone and left to go to their room. As it turned out though everyone's rooms ended up being in the same dorm. In fact Team JNPR's room was directly across from team RWBY's, and Team Mercenaries room was to the left of team RWBY's. Their room consisted of two beds of medium size a closet, a small kitchen, a bathroom, and a book shelf. The others thought this was a nice coincidence that they were all near each other but… Neos only rolled his eyes because he knew Ozpin planned this whole thing. This is what he told Zach as soon as they entered their room. Zach couldn't help but shake his head before commenting.

"You know Neos I can't help but admire the thorough planning of the headmaster. If I didn't know better I'd say he knew what partners we would receive the moment we were on the cliff." He paused for a bit before adopting a dry look on his face and continuing. "You know what never mind I really shouldn't put it past him. So let's quickly set up shop, take some showers, and then do the void lizard contract thing, after which we'll go to bed." Neos folded his arms and raised an eyebrow at him.

"Fine with me but who died and made you leader? Aren't we supposed to be partners?" Zach laughed and waved him off while starting to unpack whatever possessions he brought with him.

"You guys made me supreme leader when all of you stopped and listened to my plans back at the forest. You didn't question me, just followed my orders through to the letter." Neos realized that Zach was right they did listen to him without any complaint. Grumbling he started to unpack as well by the time they were done the closet was full, and the bookshelf was also full. As it turned out most of Zach's belongings ended up being books on dust, grimm, cooking, and medicine with a few fantasy books here and there. After they were done packing they each took turns taking a shower and getting ready for bed. When they were done instead of getting into bed Neos took out a small old looking book and opened it up to a blank page before writing a few words in Voidric.

Noes explained that he was writing up the contract for what was happening. When he was done he stood up and walked away from the book before turning his attention towards Zach.

"Just so you know if you do this there's no going back. You will have a summoned companion, as such it will be up to you to care for it and understand it. Am I clear on this matter?" Zach folded his arms to think for a moment before dropping them and nodding his head in confirmation.

"Yes please tell me what to do."

"Alright then take the pen I used and stab it into your hand and use your blood to sign on the last line there." Wincing a bit Zach did what was asked of him. After he was done his aura quickly repaired the damage while he turned towards Neos.

"So now what?"

"Now you think what you want to do and channel your aura to your hand which you stabbed and place it on the ground while saying… Void call hears the summons. This is only the first time thing though so you can know the feeling of summoning. Later you won't need to say anything and can summon it with the movement and intent alone." Zach nodded his head and prepared for a loss of aura before clearing his throat and put his hand to the floor.

"Void call hears the summons!" There was a blinding light and some smoke which caused both of them to cough a bit but not overly so thanks to their dragon sides. Opening up a window outside in between their beds Neos used some energy to blow the smoke outside. Looking back they saw a small void lizard with black fur and a red head along with red talons and claws. It was only as tall as Zach's knees which amounted to eighteen inches. He was however quite confused and turned towards Neos who started cracking up.

"You've should see the look on your face! Ahh don't worry all void lizard summons start out as hatchlings this allows you to bond better."

"You know you've could've said something before I summoned the thing!"

"But where would the fun be in that!? Anyway let's see if it's a male or female and then name it." Grumbling Zach waited to see Neos's verdict on the matter since he himself had no knowledge on the void creature before him. Only that it was currently small and rather cute little thing. He started to think of names that would fit it when Neos interrupted his thoughts.

"Ah ha! It is a female lucky you! Anyway think of any good names?" Shaking his head he went over and picked up and cradled it as one would a cat. Petting it gently it started purring in a lizardish sort of way. Thinking on its colors and gender he had a name pop up in his head.

"How bout we name her Rosa. It seems rather fitting as long as she doesn't confuse herself with Ruby's last name." Neos grinned in agreement before Zach adopted a confused look. "So do I send her back now or how does that work?"

"Ah no she'll stay here for a while and bond to you. After a couple of months and she's grown a bit then she can travel back on her own and will await your call. I would summon *Hectric* my own void lizard. However he is taller than this ceiling and so he would be quite cramped. Don't worry about her too much though I'll contact Ozpin and my mother to let them know about her. They'll then allow her in the classes and tell all the professors." Zach nodded his head and went over to the left bed that he claimed as his own. He got into it while placing Rosa next to him allowing her to curl up and fall asleep. Neos followed his example and went to his own bed and got into it. Thinking on the day's events both of them soon succumbed to exhaustion and fell asleep. Not before setting their alarms for seven though, waking up at that time would allow them to get ready and have enough time to get breakfast while informing everyone about their newest resident.

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Location Somewhere in Emerald Forest.

Ichigo landed in another heap while creating a small crater as he landed in the new world. Slowly sitting up while rubbing the back of his head he tried to regain his bearings while trying to ignore the pain.

"Ow…" Slowly but surely he got up on his shaky legs and slowly righted himself while looking around at his surroundings. His confused look was soon replaced with a scowl as he realized he couldn't remember who sent him here.

"It's as we were told Ichigo, we can't remember the why but I do remember what we're supposed to do."

"Yeah king! We need to find that Ozpin guy!"

I think that's for the best given the circumstances. My only question is why did we have to be sent into the middle of the forest? There was no reply from his inner spirits so he sighed and started to move towards some lights that he guessed was civilization. After a while he started to get the feeling that he was being watched. Stopping he let his senses out and looked to his right where he heard some bushes moving. Narrowing his eyes he took out his new weapon and activated its sword mode and waited for whatever was there to come out. Suddenly a black blur jumped at him, however using his honed battle instincts and reflexes he moved to the side while slashing it with his sword. He fell in a heap on the ground; Ichigo took this chance to observe it and was surprised at what he found.

To him it looked like a velociraptor only with black fur and red tail feathers. It also had bone white claws and talons, along with a white bone like mask covering the top half of its head. At the base of its skull were bone spikes that went down its neck. The eyes were also glowing red and the mask had red designs on it. Later he would learn that this was a rare grimm called a *patheolodge*. They were like beowolves except smarter and faster. They were however not as strong or as big. Their alphas were the largest and were characterized by bone like armor covering their legs, arms, and tails. Today Ichigo would learn that they also hunted in large packs and used out flanking maneuvers. He would also learn that they did not take kindly to the death of one of their own.

While he was distracted looking at the strange creature five more jumped out of the same bush while four others went around to his back side. An alpha also came out of some bushes to his left. Looking up at the sounds Ichigo's scowl deepened when he saw that he was surrounded. Looking around he knew that he would have to fight his way through. On the plus side he could experiment with his new abilities. Trying to call upon a foreign energy he's been feeling inside of himself he felt his arm instinctively raising when a grimm jumped him. However the creature found nothing there it looked towards the others and followed their gaze only to see the human ten feet from the circle they formed around it.

Ichigo was surprised that he had just teleported or blinked away and smiled while wondering what else he could do. Thinking to see about it later he hefted his sword in front of him and beckoned the creatures to attack. The one closest to him charged and tried to claw at him only to be blocked and have its head cut off. Another jumped over the disintegrating body and tried to impale Ichigo with its long claws. Ichigo saw this and took a step back and then charged forward and cut the creature down. Thinking to experiment he then changed his sword to its shotgun mode and fired at the one trying to attack from his left. Not expecting the large recoil the gun almost flew from his hand but he was able to hold onto it still. Recovering and dodging to his left from another attack he fired again this time prepared for the recoil. The gun ended up leaving the attacker full of holes and it promptly fell to the ground.

"Five down five to go." He couldn't help but grin as he was fighting letting the adrenaline flow through his veins. It had been too long since he had a fight like this. He brought his weapon about and started firing at the creatures who now knew the dangers of the weapon and took evasive actions. He only managed to nick a few of them at that point. He counted five shots before the gun stopped firing. Pulling down on the grip of the weapon it opened up to reveal the loading chamber. He quickly loaded in five regular shells before snapping it closed with a flick of his wrist. Blinking out of the way he switched back to his sword mode. The alpha realizing that they didn't stand a chance at this moment in time gave a few calls out to its remaining pack. Ichigo then watched them retreat back into the forest but not before the alpha turned and looked at him. It's eyes were narrowed in what said "this isn't over" type of look. It than took off after the rest of its pack.

Sighing and rubbing the back of his head Ichigo decided it wasn't worth hunting them down at the moment. He then turned back to his original objected and started to head back to civilization. By the time he actually reached the city it was well within the early hours of the morning. Since he didn't have any money he decided to sleep for a bit in the outside edge of the forest. Despite the uncomfortableness of sleeping on a branch he still ended up falling asleep. Letting his thoughts wander to his family and friends. He planned to try and contact them as soon as possible. I just hope I'll actually be able to see them again

"Ah don't worry king I do believe we were told there was someone here who could send word to them so that's good."

"He's right Ichigo just rest for now and we'll try and sort everything else out later." Agreeing with his hollow and Zangetsu he fell asleep being tired from the nights events.

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Location back at Beacon.

The alarm went off awaking team mercenary from their restful slumber. Rosa their new mascot awoke as well and stretched a bit before jumping off of the bed, and waited for her new master to get ready. Even though she was still a hatchling Rosa was still quite bright. Getting out of bed and petting her on her head momentarily Zach went to go get dressed into the school uniform. After dawning on the white shirt and tie, along with the dress coat and slacks, Zach then put on the dress shoes and walked into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Neos however called up Ozpin and Glynda to tell them about last night's events. They gave them the go ahead and told them they'd inform the rest of the teaching staff. Stretching his back a bit more he went to go help out in the kitchen.

"So need any help here?" Zach thought for a moment and shook his head.

"No not right now, however if you could tell me what to feed Rosa that'd be great. In fact how bout you start teaching me about void lizards in general." Neos nodded his head before sitting down while Rosa jumped onto the table.

"Well for starters they're omnivores and can eat anything humans can. So just prepare another plate for her. They are also incredibly smart like humans and can grow to about ten feet high and twenty two feet long. They are also wickedly fast and have powerful arms and jaws. Their kicks can also be quite nasty so watch out for that. Besides that their social creatures and will reach full size in two years after being hatched and will live as long as their master lives. This is thanks to the contract which binds your souls. So like I said be careful out there." Zach only nodded his head while he made some scrambled eggs and buttered toast.

Getting some plates he set them down and the three started eating their meal. During the meal Rosa kept looking at the other two to see them eating nicely and tried to not make a mess. However this goal was impeded due to not being able to hold utensils. Still she was able to not splatter food everywhere and kept her area relatively clean. She was also very delighted to be rewarded with a cookie which she devoured ravenously after a first hesitant bite. The other two in the room could only stare as it disappeared as quickly as Ruby eating it. They looked at each other knowingly, and decided to never let those two get into a cookie box. The end of that scenario ended up being the two of them fighting to death over the last cookie.

Both shivering at that thought they both got up and washed their dishes with Zach also washing Rosa's, who had decided to run and sit on his bed and wait patiently for him. By the time they were done it was only eight twenty. Thinking it over they decided to just go early to their class this way they could save seats for their teams and get good spots. Said class was grimm studies with Professor Port. A large man with white hair and a large mustache, and no he wasn't large as in tall or muscular. Instead he was short and quite round as some would politely say. His weapon turned out to be an axe gun. As in an axe attached to a blunderbuss. Most definantly not the most elegant of weapons but it got the job done. As they walked to the classroom Rosa ran ahead a bit checking out everything with excited curiosity.

However she still being quite small never went too far ahead of her larger handler because she knew she was safe with him. The few students that were about watched as the strange creature ran around. But seeing as it was so small and just exploring they decided to leave it alone for now. As they were walking Neos's scroll started ringing a bit, so he took it out to see that it was a text from his adopted mother that said read this. Right below it was a link to a newspaper article. Curious he opened it only to have his left eye start twitching while his aggravation meter went up. In the article it talked about a strange black and purple creature roaming the streets. Although the picture of the creature was blurry he could make out the shape of his demon friend Raze'thur.

He knew they were going to have words later, as his anger rose Rosa sensed it and started hiding from him from behind one of Zach's legs who only stared at his partner confused.

"Um are you okay?" Snapping out of it he turned towards his present company and gave a forced smile.

"Yeah but let's say somethings come up that involved an old friend who did something stupid. So I'm going to have to go in and discipline him a bit later." Looking confused Zach decided to just drop the subject since they were now outside the door to their classroom. He checked his scroll to see that they still had twenty five minutes left. So walking in they got seated, the room was fairly large and was shaped like a theater with a center stage. The seats were raised like steps and surrounded the center of the room. On the walls were fake stuffed heads of different grimm, and a desk took center stage. Off in a corner though were a few cages that would rattle every now and then. Rosa was weary of the cages and stayed away from them while exploring the empty room. The only other person in there so far was the professor who was observing the small void lizard wandering around.

After a bit of exploring Rosa ran back to Zach and plopped down on his desk. "Well it seems like what the headmaster told me was true a fascinating creature you have there." The professors voice was deep and loud but not unkind. Rosa took to observing the large man with curiosity. Zach smiled and started petting her earning him a purr. Neos smiled and turned to talk back to his teacher.

"Yep Rosa here is certainly interesting, even by void lizard standards. Most other hatchling try to stay out of sight, however she's just ran about and looked at everything regardless of who was watching."

"Yes well as long as she doesn't interrupt the class everything will be all right." That said he turned towards his desk and started sorting through paper while the trio just discussed the finer details of the void lizard. It was about ten minutes later before students finally started to arrive. Although team Rwby and Jnpr were nowhere to be seen, Zach and Neos were starting to worry a bit. About one minute before class started both teams burst through the door all on top of each other. Relieved that they made in time they waved them over. Ruby sat down on Neos's left while yang sat down next to her, although she was glaring a bit at Neos she didn't say anything. Blake set on Zach's left followed by Weiss. Team Jnpr sat behind them on a higher row. All of them were curious about the strange black and red animal sitting in front of Zach.

Rosa however was being quite shy but easily warmed up to Ruby and Blake. Zach said that he'd tell them more about her later since class was starting up. Although teaching ended up being an interesting word that didn't really describe the way the class went. The whole time ended up being Port talking about his youth and slaying monsters with some rather embellished details. At some point someone got up and gave an audible "YEAH!" But everyone kind of did their own thing. Zach and Neos did take notes on parts where he was describing the grimm's weak points but mostly played around with Rosa. Blake for the most part read a book but would pet the void lizard if she approached her. Ruby did the same thing but also played a few games with the hatchling. However she also doodled a bit, Yang mostly watched their interactions with curiosity.

Weiss was also curious but instead of interacting with the new creature, she took notes on everything the professor said while giving occasional glares at her leader. Zach noticed but decided not to interfere with it at the moment. He stopped paying attention to her when the teacher spoke up.

"In short a hunter must be dependable, honest, wise, and courageous! Now who here among you believe you have these qualities?" Weiss immediately shot up from desk with her hand raised.

"I do sir!" Port bellowed out a laugh while clenching his fist and swinging it in front of him.

"Excellent! Now go get ready for combat!" Weiss looked confused but got up to go get out of uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, an suit coat, a short red skirt, and black stockings which were customizable. Within three minutes she was down in front with her combat gear on. Although it was really just her regular clothes, she also held her rapier Myrtenaster out in front of her. She gave a quick nod towards the professor who had brought out a cage. He nodded back before using his weapon to cut off the lock. Quickly as that was done a pig like grimm with tusks and covered in hard bone armor with spikes charge the heiress. The rest of her team cheered and even brought out team Rwby flags. How they got them would be something Neos and Zach would wonder about for a while. Rosa watched in interest as she had yet to see a grimm. Zach however noticed something was off with his friend who snapped at Ruby and told her to be quiet and let her concentrate.

This let the Boarbatusk attack her first and she almost didn't dodge it. She's allowing her frustration to cloud her mind. Come on Weiss I've taught you better than that! Zach knew he would have to talk to her later, he also knew that she wouldn't like Ruby being team leader but right now it was rather ridiculous. At one point Ruby told her to hang in there after she charged the grimm and got her weapon stuck between its tusks. Weiss struggled for a bit but ultimately lost and the grimm tossed her weapon to the side. Port gave an amused laugh before questioning her.

"Ha ha! Now what will you do without your weapon?!" The grimm curled up in a ball and rolled at her with its spikes trying to impale her. Using her speed and agility she summersaulted over it. It quickly turned around and charged her again. But she managed to dodge it again by rolling out of the way and ran to retrieve her weapon which she then took on an offensive stance. Her face grew angrier when Ruby gave her some advice.

"Weiss it has no armor underneath! Attack its belly!" Weiss only grit her teeth and snapped back at her.

"Stop telling me what to do!" Ruby deflated and sat back down in her chair depressed. Rosa seeing her new friend sad went over to her to try and comfort her. It slightly worked with Ruby giving a small smile at the tiny creature. Zach however was narrowing his eyes at Weiss. Knowing that they definantly needed to have a talk, Neos looked at Ruby with concern but turned his attention back to the fight. Weiss started using her glyphs to make her faster and used them to launch the grimm up in the air. Using another glyph she jumped up and charged at it impaling its stomach as they fell to the ground. The professor started clapping and applauding her, and with that classes ended with Weiss marching out of the door followed by Ruby, than Zach and Neos. On their way out Zach asked Blake to look after Rosa for a bit. Confused she agreed, where the two partners were able to hear the argument between Weiss and Ruby.

"Zach I'll talk to Ruby you talk to Weiss. Better to get this sorted out now before it becomes a major problem."

"Yeah I'll go after her now just make sure Ruby understands her position." With that he ran off towards the direction Weiss went. Sighing Neos went up towards the depressed girl. He saw that she was still wearing her cape but now had its hood up.

"Hey Ruby I saw that not exactly the most friendliest of conversations huh?" Ruby turned to him and he saw that there were some tears in her eyes.

"Neos do you think she's right? Do you think Ozpin made a mistake choosing me to be team leader?" Looking at her Neos had to resist the urge to go out and smack Weiss for the state Ruby was in. Taking a calming breath he forced himself to trust Zach's judgment on her. Turning back to Ruby he smiled and put his hands on her shoulders. She was currently looking down at the floor.

"Look at me Ruby." She looked up to see his smile and it comforted her a bit. Using his left hand he pulled off her hood before continuing.

"Ruby I've known Ozpin for a very long time. I've seen him make mistakes, I also don't always agree with him." When he said that Ruby's face grew sadder, however Neos wasn't done yet so her face took on a look of surprise when he continued talking. "However I do believe that you being leader was no mistake. I myself believe you can be an amazing leader; you just need to have some more experience and need to learn how to uphold your position. Just take some time and decide what you're going to do with it." Ruby's face lit up in joy and she embraced him in a tight hug. Not knowing what else to do he returned it. Both of them however didn't notice Ozpin watching them, and then smiling he left to leave them some privacy.

"I really couldn't have said it better than myself Neos. I'm glad to see that you've grown into an amazing young man." Ozpin than took a sip from his magical mug and walked back to his office.

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Zach ended up finding Weiss sitting outside on a bench. At the moment he was trying to best see how to approach the situation. He decided to just ask her what was wrong and then reprimand her if her concerns if they weren't justified. At the moment he figured she would take it better if someone she knew told her off instead of someone else. So walking up behind her he tapped her on her shoulder, startled she turned around to see him.

"Hey what's going on here?" Sighing she turned around and motioned for him to sit down. He sat on her right, and waited for her to talk first.

"Hey Zach what do you think about my skills as a huntress?" So she's leading off with this eh? He decided to take her question seriously and thought about her progress since he first met her.

"Well I truly believe you have what it takes to be an excellent huntress. But for now your abilities aren't too shabby and you take training seriously. Besides that you're getting stronger and one day you might be on par with me." To her that last comment meant a lot since Zach was most definantly one of the top hunters in the school, despite his age and excluding the teachers of course.

"Do you truly think that?"

He gave her a pat on her shoulder while smiling. "Of course I do I wouldn't lie about that, however I do not believe this is what's troubling you." Biting her lower lip she debated whether or not to tell him what was really wrong. Zach sat patiently knowing it's better to wait for her to come to him instead of forcing her.

"I… I think I should've been leader of team Rwby!" There it is, Zach gave a slight frown while shaking his head which confused Weiss.

"Weiss why do you think you should be the leader?"

Weiss stared at him confused before answering. "Well it's because of what you said earlier, I mean I'm definantly better right?" Zach gave an audible sigh now knowing what the problem was.

"Now while it's true you can be a great huntress being a great leader is different. So I'll ask again why do you think you deserve to be the leader?" Weiss didn't know how to really answer that so she got upset and gave a retort.

"Well I'd be better than her! After all she's still just a child and I'm older and know more things than her."

"Weiss this is being a child, now I know that you've been given almost anything that you've wanted in the past."

"That's not true!" Zach gave her a look, and she shrank a bit from it. "Fine I guess that's mostly true. But still Ruby's too young to be in charge." Zach shook his head while laughing a bit. "What's so funny there mister?"

"Ah well Ruby may be younger but so is Neos, and they both have a clean grasp of tactics and quick thinking on the battle field. Even better they would both readily sacrifice themselves to save their team. Those are good qualities for being the leader. Give it a while and add experience and age to it and eventually they'll be leading armies. Besides before you can lead you need to follow." Weiss tried to come up with something to say against that but ultimately found nothing. So she instead sighed and slumped her shoulder in defeat.

"I guess I understand but… What should I do now?" Zach pulled his friend into a one arm embrace before giving her his last piece of advice.

"You should focus on being the best teammate out there and try and understand your new team. Besides you have the next four years to learn to be a leader and be the greatest partner so just get out there and go for it." Weiss thought about what he said and gained a look of determination.

"Yes! Now all I have to do is find a way to make it up to Ruby for being so… Difficult." Zach laughed and got up while holding his hand out to her.

"Well I'm pretty sure the word impossible is a better word than what you used, I still believe you're on track. Now let me get you back to the dorm it's getting late." She pouted a bit but took his hand anyway and got up. The two of them then made their way towards their rooms. Now team Ruby's room was rather plain seeing that they didn't have a kitchen and they had to use "bunk beds" to have everyone sleep in there. However the beds were quite dangerous since they were just beds with another bed stacked on top of them. The most precarious bed was the one that was being held up by ropes. The other one had nails and books to hold it. Zach and Weiss entered her room where Zach retrieved Rosa who was enjoying Blake's company. But as soon as she saw Zach she ran over to him and started rubbing his leg. Laughing a bit he picked her up.

Turning to Blake he gave her a big smile. "Thanks Blake for looking after her." Smiling at him in return, she jumped off her bed and walked over to him.

"It really was no problem she behaved quite nicely. But you still haven't told us what she is." Zach grinned before answering.

"Well how bout you come over to our room and I'll tell. I'll even make you a small tuna fish sandwich how does that sound?" Only thinking of the fish she ran out the door dragging his arm. Yang and Weiss the only ones left in the room watched with confusion but ultimately shrugged it off.

Weiss getting over what happened turned to the blond brawler. "So Yang is Ruby back yet?" Yang shook her head and went back to getting ready for bed, both she and Blake were already in pajamas so she was just lying on her bed at the moment.

"No she hasn't come back yet. Now that I think about it I never heard Neos come back either." Yang's eyes started to narrow. "If their together and he doesn't bring her back soon…" Yang never finished as Ruby opened up the door with Neos next to her. She looked at Weiss and looked back to the floor. Seeing this Neos gave her an encouraging pat on her shoulder before leaving and closing the door behind him. Knowing that Ruby would just fine he went back to his own room, only to see Blake eating a tuna sandwich with a face full of glee. Zach was drinking some herbal tea while he was explaining Rosa to her. He coughed to get their attention.

"So Zach did you talk to Weiss?" Taking a sip and turning towards him he smirked at him.

"As a matter of fact I did. Now I'm quite sure she won't be causing any more trouble for Ruby. But I see that you have some moisture on your clothes, so my guess is that you ended up in an embrace with her crying on you. So my question is how did your talk go?" Neos's face became flustered and he turned away mumbling about something. Zach turned to Blake and they both starting laughing at his expense. Neos growled a bit before talking back at them.

"Our talk was just fine and I believe she'll be able to talk to Weiss now!" After a couple of seconds he adopted an evil grin on his face. "Now here's a more interesting question. What are you two doing in here that has you both so happy? Maybe I walked in on a small dinner date?" He got the desired outcome from Blake whose face turned red and she started sputtering but Zach only gave a sly smile.

"Sorry to disappoint you but unlike your time with Ruby this isn't a date. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't mind having one." This time both Blake and Neos gave him different looks. Neos's face was embarrassed and slightly frustrated, while Blake's was embarrassed but at the same time happy. Deciding that now would be a good of a time as any, Zach turned back towards Blake. He had decided that he wouldn't be one of those people who kept waiting and waiting, only because they didn't know how the person they liked felt about them. Those people frustrated him and also those people tended to be forced to tell their feeling by their friends sooner or later. So at the moment he decided to just nip it in the bud.

"So how about it Blake? Would you care to go out with me this weekend?" To say the other occupants of the room were shocked would be an understatement. Neos was shocked because he couldn't believe he just went for it. Blake was shocked because she couldn't believe he just asked her out. Zach was starting to get a bit nervous from waiting but held on to some hope that she'd say yes.

Finally getting over her surprise she gave him a warm smile. "Yes! I would love to!" Mentally fist bumping and celebrating he started to come up with a game plan.

"Great! So how bout Saturday at noon? I'll pick you up and we'll catch a ride to Vale. I'll work out the details between now and then." Still smiling she got up and he followed her lead and offered her his arm.

"May I escort the fair lady to her room tonight?" Laughing she hooked her arm with his.

"Yes you may good sir." With that they both left leaving a still gaping Neos and a confused Rosa. He was still in that position when Zach returned, he only shook his head got dressed took a shower and picked Rosa up. He then proceeded to tuck himself into bed with Rosa curling up next to him. Neos managed to get out of his stupor when he heard the shower running and started to get himself ready for bed. ED'E who was also in the room gave him a few beeps telling him that he was also surprised at Zach's boldness. Back in team Rwby's room Weiss and Ruby have made up and both threw pillows at Yang when she gave a bad pun. By now all three of them were ready for bed, and were waiting on Blake who returned with a very happy look on her face and a small skip in her step. Yang was the first one to question her partner's odd behavior.

"So Blakey what's got you so happy?" Turning around and looking at her from the top of her bunk she decided that she didn't want to tell them yet. Especially with Yang there, she was still remembering the breakfast incident.

"Oh nothing much just got to learn about Rosa." Everyone looked at her confused now. Ruby looked at her sister who shrugged before turning back to Blake.

"Um who now?" Blake realized that they never actually were told about the small void lizard.

"Oh yeah you never learned her name. Rosa was lizard that was with Zach. Or more accurately the void lizard you were playing with." The three others nodded their heads in understanding but Weis was still slightly confused.

"What's a void lizard?" Blake thought of the best way to tell them about Rosa before answering.

"Well a void lizard is like a summons. You summon one from the void and you care for it and bond with it until it's old enough to return. After that you can summon them anytime you want from their home in the void. If you want to know more though I suggest talking to either Zach or Neos, seeing that they know more than I do." The three of them accepted that and soon all four of them were in their beds, three of them fell asleep quite quickly. Blake however took a bit longer since she was imagining what to wear and what they were going to do on the date. But eventually sleep took her and once again it was rather peaceful.

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Location Emerald forest

The next few days weren't the greatest for Ichigo since he was still stuck training in the woods. However he was able to discover everything about his new weapon. It was made of an incredibly strong material and it acted as an asauchi. Which is a blank Zanpaktou, eventually over time his spirit energy would flow into it and he'd have his new Zangetsu. He also discovered he could fire the weapon in sword mode. This made the shell more accurate and made it travel farther than its scatter shot mode. He also had a few more run in's with the alpha patheolodge. However their fights had turned into *spars* and now they can get along pretty well. Turned out before that they thought he was a threat and so attacked him while he was just defending himself. As for his new powers he had the ability to see through walls but everything was different tints of yellow and orange, he could also summon a strong gust of wind throwing targets back, and Ichigo now had regenerating abilities although they weren't as good as the hollows high-speed regeneration.

Ichigo's favorite ability though was still the blink, combined it with his flash step and he was nigh uncatchable. Now that he knew everything that he could do and was confident that he could control his powers, he said goodbye to his strange new friend and went off into the city. The first thing he noticed was all the different people with strange hair colors. In fact he even saw a few with orange hair! To say that he was happy would be an understatement. He knew for once no one would bother with his hair color, this relieved him greatly and he continues to explore the city. While exploring he found a few weapons shop with ammunition and something called dust. Walking in a store called *Armed Dust* he went up to ask the cashier about it.

The cashier was an old man with a pointy beard and a bald head. He wore a green long sleeved shirt and red sweat pants. Despite his obvious age he was still rather buff looking and had green eyes. On his front was a blue leather blacksmiths apron. Hearing the bell to his store he raised an eyebrow at the young man who entered.

"Well now my name is Jason Grey, so what can I do for you today?" Ichigo paused at his words and thought carefully about what he should say.

"Well currently I don't have any money, but when I do I want to see about getting some dust bullets for my weapon here." He took out his new gun sword and handed it to the old man who looked at it carefully. Ichigo gave a small chuckle for effect. "However I've never used dust really before so I thought about coming here and seeing what kinds there were. As well as learn more about it." Nodding his head in understanding Jason continued examining the weapon while making small talk to Ichigo.

"Are you one of Ozpins students? It seems that with a fine weapon like this you'd be a hunter in training over at Beacon academy." Ichigo realized how lucky he was at finally hearing about where this Ozpin character was. Not wanting to give anything away he looked sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

"No sadly I'm not, however I hope to go there sometime." The shop keeper once again nodded and having fully inspected the weapon handed it back to Ichigo.

"Well I can say that it is fully capable of handling twelve gauge dust shells. Now let me explain the different types of dust, and then tell you your best options." Jason then proceeded to explain to Ichigo everything about dust, and not just the different form or uses but also its history. Ichigo was rather grateful and it showed on his face. Jason was also ecstatic that one of the younger generations was completely focused on his lesson.

"Well now I'm surprised you managed to listen to everything I told you without getting bored and wandering off." Ichigo gave a slight chuckle.

"Well to be honest I like learning things about history and what you told me was quite informative. So truly I must thank you for your time." Jason just waved him off, and laughed himself.

"Nonsense it was my pleasure, in fact wait here for a moment." Ichigo waited as Jason went down an ammunitions aisle and came back with a small red box. "I want you to have this as thanks for listening to my ramblings. This box is filled with fifteen rounds of red dust shells for your weapon there." Handing the box to the surprised voidwalker Ichigo tried to protest only to be cut off.

"Sorry but I don't want to hear anything about it. Just take them and come back to me for all of your weapon needs. By the way what is your name young man?" Realizing he never introduced himself Ichigo quickly apologized.

"Sorry I guess I got caught up in the moment. My name is Ichigo Kurosaki and I'll be sure to come here again sometime." With that being said they said goodbye for the time being and Ichigo left the shop. His happy face was exchanged with one of confusion when he something strange on the other side of the street. There were two people who seemed to be on some sort of date, not that it was strange but the group of six following them was. What was really strange was the small metal contraption floating behind them and a small raptor like lizard that was also with them. All except for one looked like they were around his age, he also noticed their higher than average powers so he decided to go and see what they were doing.

"What are you guys doing?" All of them turned around in shock and quickly grabbed him and took him into a nearby alley. Ichigo couldn't help but groan at the newest situation he's gotten himself in.

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"You know when I got in that car crash I didn't think that I'd almost die. Or even that I would get sent to a nearby shady hospital. Lucky me that things don't always turn out as planned. Oh sorry let me introduce myself, my name is I don't remember actually. However you can just call me hunter because of my newest profession as a monster slayer. Let me start at the beginning since this is probably confusing you. It all started on a normal Saturday on a blue planet called earth. I was seventeen at the time and I was on my way to work having graduated from school earlier than my peers. While they were still doing homework in the nice spring days I was busy saving up for college. My car was a nice simple ford Taurus with good gas mileage. Today however would change my life forever. During the drive a truck slammed into mine, because of the impact my head hit something and I blacked out."

"So I really don't remember what happened next, but I do remember waking up in some creepy room with an old guy giving me a blood transfusion. He said a few things about what I would be seeing next and that it would all be a bad dream. He was unfortunately right, I shudder just thinking about what happened. There was a bloody werewolf that got on fire! And then there was a bunch of creepy looking ghouls crawling on my face! It freaked me out! After though I woke up feeling different, and so began my journey of slaying monsters. You could never understand the pain and horror I felt while fighting those things. They were monstrous and hideous and…"

"Oh just shut up already!"

"Huh?" I looked towards the man wearing a red wide brim hat with red pants, a red long coat, red tie, and orange glasses with a white undershirt. The man was also fairly tall about six feet nine inches, and had sharp teeth and had black hair with pale skin. I myself was five foot ten, and was wearing a long brown leather coat that was open from the waist down. It also had a high collar that went past my ears. I also had on black leather pants stuffed into brown long boot with metal greaves. On my hands were full black leather gloves with metal forearm protectors. Around my waste was a single leather belt with buckles in both the front and back. Hanging from my shoulder and looping around myself on my right side was another belt. Only this one had a gun holster attached to it when it reached my side. On my head was a brown leather cap with feathers on both of its sides.

I was also wearing a black undershirt that had a face mask attached to it that went over my mouth and nose. Over my red eyes were black circular sunglasses much like Alucard's. On my hip on my right side was a black and silver sheath that had a curved handled katana in it. They were both quite shiny, much to my dismay when sneaking around. On my left side was a large black revolver that had up to four shots. I held its ammo in a black pouch attached to my belt on my backside.

I could tell that Alucard really didn't care for my story if his sarcastic voice was anything to go off of. "Listen I get it you had a horrible time. But what I asked you was why how you got down here and why you're interrupting my episode of adventure time."

"Well sorry Alucard! I was just telling my story, as for how I got here it was thanks to my ability which allows me to travel dimensions. I left that other world behind to rot, let some other poor hunter deal with it! Besides there are hundreds I'm sure they can handle it." Alucard sniffed before turning back to his Seventy inch plasma screen TV only for it to explode along with the door behind it.

"That was a seventy inch plasma screen TV." He took a deep breath and that's when I knew things were about to go down. So taking out my pistol and katana I waited to see what would happen. My blade was colored silver and had no guard on it. Making it meant to be used in quick strikes and parries. Although it had a secret function, my pistol however was straight forward. Sighing to myself I wondered how I go into these situations. Alucard said a few things to the man with glasses and white suit. The man also had long blond hair and seemed to be giving off a bunch of boring information about Alucard. So raising my pistol I shot him while he was doing his monologue. This killed him out right and his voice died in his throat, Alucard only gave me a look.

"What?! He was wide open and doing a monologue what else was I supposed to do?" Alucard started cracking up and walked over me to put his arm around me.

"I think we'll get along just fine" Oh lucky me I'm friends with an insane vampire lord. Well I guess it could be worse. With that last thought we both heard an explosion up stairs.

"Me and my big mouth…"

Coming soon!

Notes

Void walkers: A voidwalker is someone who is given the mark of the outsider allowing them to use void magic. Who ends up gaining the mark is random and only the outsider knows why he chose them to bear his mark.

Broodknight: A powerful being meant to protect reality, they are an elder class dragon that can take on a human form. Their powers are formidable and can obliterate entire dimensions if they wished.

Patheolodge: An interesting grimm with incredible intelligence. They are one of the few grimm not obsessed with destroying human life and can be reasoned with if not threatened. They are also some of the first grimm to ever be brought into the word of Remnant.

Spars: After realizing Ichigo was only defending himself the alpha grimm apologized in its own way and decided to try and just train with Ichigo. Despite it being strange at first the two grew an interesting friendship.

Armed Dust: A store I made up for the plot. Along with the owner said things don't actually exist in canon.

Slayer: Mwahahahaha! Fear me! And read my story! Of course the new story will be a side project to work on if I ever get writers block for the dark guard series.

Ichigo: Thanks for letting us know that… But can I ask you a question?

Slayer: Sure.

Ichigo: Why did you kidnap me in such a way!

Slayer: Because Maxos wouldn't care about your opinion so why should I? Not to mention it was about time I brought you in. Especially with all the talk about spiritual energy, soul forged weapons, and inner spirits over the course of the series. To be honest it was just about time you finally showed up.

Zach: Yeah I agree there but I also agree on the date I now have with Blake. Good job on not making me a wimp when it came to her.

Blake: I also agree however don't you think it's a bit soon?

Slayer: No it's perfect timing for what I have planned! Everyone beware for your lives will now become even harder!

Neos: OH joy…

Shadow: I can't wait to see it.

Jauk: I can't wait to do it.

Everyone but Slayer and Shadow: NO!

Slayer: Ignoring that I'll end this here by saying… I don't own anything but OCs and reality bending concepts. Everything else goes to their respective owners. Even if the list keeps on increasing that is.

Bladedancer: Just how many worlds will you include here?

Slayer: Oh so much more… So much more…

Blake: Ok so that was creepy anyway goodbye everyone!