"Professor Oobleck?" Weiss asked with much concern in front of the green haired man with glasses, a nice suit and a safari hat; like the professor was ready to go on a safari himself
"Yes I'm afraid those bags won't be necessary students" Professor Oobleck started talking in his trademark speedy voice "Seeing as you've opted to shadow a huntsman on what is now essentially a reconnaissance mission. I can assure you we will not be establishing a single base of opportunities. Rather we will be traversing several miles of hazardous wasteland, and making camp in any inhabitable locations we may stumbleupon. I've packed all our essentials myself provided the air course and readied the airship. And!" The speed talking teacher got super close to the Schnee's face ""It's Dr. Oobleck. I didn't earn a PhD for fun thank you very much"
"Uh..." Weiss could only muster that sound the millisecond the Doctor got out of her face
"Would you mind repeating that a little slower?" Sora asked what undoubtedly everyone was thinking
"No time, Sora. According to my schedule we are already 3 minutes behind schedule..." And faster than you can say "Kingdom Hearts" Oobleck rushed back over to the Bullhead the team was going to take
"Well alright then" Ruby said with fake joy in her voice "Looks like we're going to save the world with Dr. Oo...bleck- yeah ok when you say it out loud it sounds worse" Ruby seemed to get a mass agreement as all 8 students lowered their heads in embarrassment
"Save the world!?"
Both teams heard a loud whine from behind them. They turned to see Team JNPR walking towards them, with the N of the team, Nora, looking betrayed and sad
"You're going on world saving missions without us?!" The orange haired girl complained some more "I'm hurt and sad! Maybe a little hungry? That last one's not my fault, though, Ren" The tough girl looked angrily at her partner, while said partner looked away from her with his arms crossed
"Sounds exciting" Jaune congratulated both teams "Where are ya going?"
"Oh just outside the kingdom" Ruby answered
"Hey! So are we" Nora bursted out
"Ren and Nora wanted to shadow the sheriff of a nearby village" Pyrrha explained
"We set out tomorrow" Ren said
"Than you can party with us tonight"
Everyone turned their heads to see Sun and Neptune tagged into the group
"We're shadowing a crime specialist" Neptune said "All inner-city detective stuff. We get junior badges"
Both Sora and Jaune looked at the members of SSSN in awe and amazement while Riku just shook his head at how easily impressed Sora and even Jaune were right now
"We normally go to the city with you guys, which means we're bumping into jerks from other-"
Before Sun could even finish that sentence, everyone on Team SKRL gave him a stare that screamed "Say other worlds" and you'll get hurt faster than Ruby's semblance"
"Which means stuff's always exploding thanks to people in the kingdom and not anywhere else" Sun corrected himself and feeling like he caused no suspicion from JNPR "So we thought this might be a better way to check out the kingdom when it's, y'know, normal
"Well-"
"FOUR MINUTES RWBY AND SKRL!" Oobleck interrupted Ruby from a distance
There was a very noticeable feeling of awkward within the 3 and 1/2 teams. They all just smiled, hoping someone would break the uncomfortable moment
"So... you're all going on the same mission" Ren broke the silence, receiving a sigh of relief from all of his team
"Yeah, well you know, it's nice to have some backup where we're going" Kairi answered
"I feel Oobleck needing to watch 2 teams would be more hindrance than back up. Oh, no offence!" Pyrrha tried to apologize
"Well this is the exception to that" Lea answered "Speaking of, we should probably get going"
"Right. Wish us luck" Ruby said with a thumbs up
And with that, the 4 teams went off on their own to try and be successful in their missions
"Oh! I almost forgot! Hey, you guys go on without me for a second" Sora told the rest of the combo team
"What? Why?" Blake asked
"It will just be a minute, I swear. Just go before Oobleck gets angry at all of us for being later
Before Sora could even answer why, he stormed off back to where the teams met. Not wanting to waste anymore time, the rest of the teams did as Sora asked and continued their way to the aircraft
"Hey Jaune!" Sora called to the blonde leader in armor
"Hm?" Jaune turned back to Sora. Most of his team continued walking, but he and Pyrrha heard him and stayed "What's up, Sora?"
"Can I ask you a favor Jaune?" Sora asked when he came face to face with the leader of JNPR
"Sure. What do you need?"
"Before you go out on your mission tomorrow, can you go visit Team CFVY at the inferiority?"
"What?" Jaune asked, puzzled at the request
"But Team CFVY is one of the best second year teams at Beacon" Pyrrha butted into the conversation "I didn't think they're be going to an infirmary of all places"
"Yeah well they are. From what it sound like, weird creatures attacked them followed by some guy with a key-shaped sword like ours, but that's all I know. Can you just ask them any more specific details, maybe have a leader-to-leader talk with that Coco girl"
"What?!" Jaune screamed "I don't want to talk to Coco! She scares me! Why do you need me to ask them this stuff anyways?"
"Well, um..."
"5 MINUTES SORA! 5 MINUTES!" Oobleck shouted louder than before "IF IT BECOMES 6 MINUTES IN 1 MINUTE, THAN WE'RE LEAVING WITHOUT YOU"
"Well, there's that" Sora pointed back to the wacko behind him "Look can't you just ask at least one of them and that tell me what they told you?"
"But... I mean I-"
"Sure thing Sora" Pyrrha interrupted Jaune before he could come up with an excuse "Velvet and him already have a connection considering they were both bullied by Cardin earlier in the year. And I'll make sure he does it and doesn't forget or blow it off"
"Wait what?" Jaune asked, confused as to what just happened
"Thanks guys I owe you one see you soon bye!" Sora hurried back to the aircraft before it left, leaving Jaune and Pyrrha to ask questions along with a favor to get done ASAP
"I Guess I just never saw you as much of a fighter" Yang started stirring up a conversation while riding the Bullhead
"I admit I fancy myself more of an intellectual but I can assure you, as a huntsman, I've had my fair share of tussles" The Doctor replied
"Like the mushroom?" Ruby asked
"Those are truffles" Blake corrected her leader
"Like the sprout?"
"Those are brussels" Yang did the same as her partner
"Besides..." Oobleck continued "given my experience in the field of history as well as my dabblings in the art of archaeological surveys our dear headmaster saw it fit to assign to this particular... assignment
"And history has to do with this how?" Riku asked
"Why I thought you of all people would know Riku that history is the backbone of our very society. And the liver! And probably the kidney if I were to wager"
"And that means..." Weiss asked for a more clear answer
"The southeast quadrant outside of Vale is home to wild forests and deep caves. But, it is also the location to one of the kingdom's greatest failures"
"Mountain Glenn" Ruby said the failure's name
"That's right, it was an expansion of Vale" Yang remembered "But in the end it was overrun by grimm and fenced off from the rest of the city
"Correct. And now it stands abandoned as a dark reminder"
"And a likely place for a hideout" Blake realized
Oobleck adjusted his glasses, impressed at the faunus's detective skills "Precisely"
The Bullhead started descending to the road of their destination and opened it's door for everyone to jump onto the rooftop, starting from Yang to Lea to Blake to Riku to Oobleck to Weiss to Sora to Kairi to Ruby, with each of them pulling out their weapons while the Bullhead left. The team looked over their location and we put in a depressing mood, to say the least. Buildings, roads, constructions sights- the whole city was in ruin with nothing, not even the plants and grass scattered throughout, looking even the slightest bit alive or working. Even the sky above them was gray, dull and depressing. It seemed the colors of the warriors were the only signs of color for miles
"Team Rwby" Oobleck gained the attention of his huntresses in training "You may all be students, but as of this moment your first mission as a huntress has begun. And Team Skrl" The keyblade wielders did the same, with their superior lowering his glasses just enough so that they could see his blue eyes behind his pure white glasses "I hope that you 4 are as impressive as I hear"
"Trust us profesor, this will be no problem" Sora assured the green haired man, gaining a bit of an unnoticed eye roll from Weiss"
"Doctor!" Oobleck corrected the spiky haired boy "And I hope that I can trust you…" Oobleck readjusted his eyes, but there was a feeling that his direction was bent towards a silver haired boy and and red haired man in a black coat "With some of that hope being towards some more than others. Either way, from this point forward you need to do exactly as I say. Do you understand?"
The fast talking doctor gained a head nod from all of his students, but he noticed something behind the red hooded leader of Rwby
"Ruby! I thought I told you to leave your bags at school" Oobleck startled the girl with the claim
"But, uh you hadn't told us to listen to you yet… So I didn't" Ruby came up with an excuse
"She's not wrong" Oobleck whispered to himself "Very well Ruby leave your bag here we can pick it up on our return"
"But I-wha…"
"Young lady what in the world could you possibly have in the bag that could be so important for you to bring it with-"
Before Oobleck could continue, Ruby's bag started to rustle with a little black and white corgi coming out, bringing everyone silent in paying attention to Ruby
"Get back in the bag" Ruby whispered to her canine buddy, only getting a bark from the dog
"See, that makes more sense that how he got to Beacon" Kairi whispered to everyone else
"Let it go" Sora whispered, patting his girlfriend's back
"We're here to investigate an abandoned urban jungle teeming with death and hostility and you brought… a dog?" Oobleck seemed a little ticked off while telling this to team Rwby's leader
"I-uhh" Ruby tried to think of something to justify bringing Zwei along for their mission
"GENIUS!" Oobleck screamed before zipping to grab the corgi right out of Ruby's backpack so fast that she fell to the ground. But he was too busy spinning in a circle with her pet that he didn't even notice "Canines are historically known for their perceptive nose and heightened sense of sound, making them excellent companions for hunts such as ours!" Oobleck claimed in a speedy voice, getting an excited bark from the extra member to the team
Not really understanding what that all meant, Ruby decided that what he was saying was "I'm a genius" She boasted about herself, getting some face palms and eye rolls from her fellow students
"So, what are your orders doctor?" Blake asked
"Ah, yes! Straight to the chase, I like it!" Oobleck complemented before dropping the corgi, getting to their mission "As you have been informed the Southeast area has been marked as a recent hotspot for grimm activity. Now there are several possible explanations for this behavior, one of which being... grimm"
Most of the team members didn't really understand what the doctor was saying, even receiving some quite "Hu?"'s and "Wha?"'s
"Grimm. A creature of grimm approximately 100 yards from us at this very moment"
"What?!" Yang shouted, surprised, as she and everyone else looked behind the group
Indeed, there was a grimm as the doctor warned them. This grimm was a beowolf, and the students all looked carefully at it's long legs, black fur and white armor around the wolf like creature
"So that's a grimm, hu?" Lea asked, a little amazed "There's definitely a different feeling from seeing one up close than in a book. But it should be no different that stopping a heartless" Lea extended his arm out, ready to summon his keyblade
"Stop" Oobleck pulled the young man's arm back "There are a number of reasons why grimm would congregate in this particular area. The most likely of which would be their attraction towards negativity. Sadness, envy, loneliness, hatred, all qualities that are likely held by our hidden group harboring group ill intent"
"So, what now?" Ruby asked
"We wait" Oobleck answered "We track, if the specimen leads us to its pack, that pack may subsequently lead us to our prey"
"How long will we have to wait?" Sora asked
"It's uncertain. Hours, days, weeks, why lone grimm have been known to stand isolated from the pack for months and there's the whole pack"
The group turned back to see the doctor was correct; a whole pack of beowolfs came just behind the lone grimm. It was difficult to tell what the specific number was, but it was definitely a lot
"What?" Weiss was surprised at how fast this pack reunited
"And now they've seen us"
"What?!"
"AND NOW THEY'VE SEEN US!" Oobleck yelled into the schnee's ear
"I take it tracking is out of the question" Ruby asked, getting her battle stance ready
"An accurate assumption, yes"
"What's the plan then?" Yang asked as the beowolfs started charging towards the group
"Fight until they run or are defeated" Riku asked Oobleck
"Excellent plan Riku" Oobleck nodded "Now show show me what you're capable of"
(Insert Hand in Hand from KH 1.5)
Lea felt a grin cover up his face as he called his keyblade once again "Gladly"
And without a second thought, the fiery keyblade wielder charged at the enemy and shot a blast of fire, sending 4 beowolfs high in the sky. He jumped up towards his enemies slashed one across the back with a stream of fire left behind until the grimm disappeared into smoke. He fired 2 blasts of fire towards to other beowolfs which destroyed them and the last one, who was above lea about to slash at him, was grabbed by the arm, thrown towards the ground and lead ended its reign by thrusting the keyblade into its chest. One other beowolf would have attacked Lea if yang hadn't shown up and punched the sucker right in the jaw, gaining a respectful hi-five from Lea before the duo chased off a few others
One grimm started charging toward Blake, but she used her illusion semblance to jump up right before it could scratch the cat faunus, letting her cut right through the beast. Another tried to get her again, be she knocked back and cut through that one too and backflipped to do the same to a third one
Another beowolf charged towards Riku. Right before it's claws scratched the boy, he blocked the attack with his keyblade and charged a dark firaga and fired it right into the monster's gut. Another beowolf tried attacking the boy, but riku sliced it's arm right off and sliced its gut to. Another one tried attacking, but riku disapeared before it could even touch him. The keyblade master appeared in the air behind him and riku thrusted his blade right into the creature's back, creating a shockwave that sent other beowolfs around him back. One got back up and was about to charge at the boy, until Kairi blasted his legs with a thundara. 2 other beowolf came from behind Kairi, but she reacted quickly and created and reflect followed by a gust of wind thanks to aero. It wasn't enough to beat the grimm, so kairi pointed her keyblade to the sky and started charging another magical attack. Star shaped sparks started coming from the tip of the princess's blade which was followed by a blast of magic that looked like a comet, which was send directly down towards the dark creatures, stopping them in their tracks
Weiss was being chased by a herd of grimm, which she countered with multiple slashes towards 2 of her opponents. Afterwards, she swiftly charged at the rest of the grimm that were chasing her and in the blink of an eye defeated them with 1 slash for each
"Cover your ears Zwei" Ruby asked her dog as she readied the crescent rose to shoot of the bowolfs charging towards her and her dog
She shot 6 bullets at 6 grimm before grabbing her crescent rose and charged at the last of her grimm opponents and slashed the beast in 2 as fast her she shoot towards the creature
The remaining Grimm all ambushed Sora, with a total of 10 beowolfs pushing Sora against a wall. One charged at Sora with the boy pushing the grimm back and slashing it from bottom up, but another caught the boy by surprise and knocked the keyblade out of his hand. Leaving the boy helpless, the beowolfs saw their opportunity and jumped onto the boy, ready to tear his limbs off and eat them. The girls of team Rwby saw this, horrified at what their friend's fate would be
"Sora!" Ruby got ready to try and stop the attack, until
"Give me strength!"
As if a miracle had occurred, a dome of light energy pushed back the last of the beowolf, scattering them from around the keyblade wielder. In the blink of an eye, a blue blur zipped past 2 of the closest beowolfs with a ring of fire surround him which defeated the shocked grimm. The blur stopped to reveal that it was Sora, but he looked different, namely his cloths. They were mostly the same as always, except that a lot of his clothes were recolored blue, with his sleeves and pants both having a blue flame design on them. Instead of his cloths having a variety of blacks, reds, whites and yellows, his current cloths were all black, white and blue with some yellow remaining on his gloves. Another thing different about the keyblade wielder was, well just that: his keyblade. He had one in his hand again, sure, but this keyblade didn't look like his kingdom key. This keyblade's handle was colored blue and had 2 feather look a likes as the guard. The stem was covered in 4 yellow bows that got bigger as they reached the very tip of the blade which had a bird with it's wing sticking out as the teeth. Oh and did i also mention that Sora was floating of the ground by a foot?
With the beowolf still trying to get up, Sora took this chance to heal himself up with a curaga spell. He quickly noticed one of the beo wolfs was up and ready to charge at him. As it ran, Sora shot the beowolf with little blue bullets coming from the wing of the keyblade. At first it looked like it was doing very little, but the wolf started loosing it's speed in time and was starting to feel the bullets until it tripped right in front of Sora. Making sure it was dead, Sora shot some more right on the skull of the creature. Before he could shoot some more, Sora heard a growl right behind him, signaling another one had gotten up. So he jumped high in the sky, dodging the attack of the monster and shot a blast of thundaga so huge it destroyed both the attacking beowolf and the knocked down beowolf at the same time. When Sora landed back on the ground, 3 more started charging at him from afar, and he retaliated by sending 3 blizzagas towards each of them, instantly freezing them in their place. Just than, Sora's clothes shined a light, not as big as his transformation, but around where he usually summons a keyblade, revealing his cloths were back to normal and the weird keyblade was replaced with his normal keyblade. One of the last beowolfs came up from behind Sora, but he thrusted the keyblade right into its stomach and blasted a beam of light right through the beast. The last remaining Beowolf tried charging at Sora too, but Sora jumped high in the air and landed on the back of the beowolf and pierced through the skull down to the jaw, with the grimm slowly falling down with a thud. Sora looked back at the frozen beowolfs and, worrying they could melt in the near future, he performed a strike raid and threw his keyblade through the 3 ice statues, cutting through the last of the grimm the group had just faced
(End Hand in Hand)
"Heh, piece of cake" Sora said as he dismissed his keyblade
The keyblade wielder looked over to see his friends had a variety of reactions. Riku, Kairi and Lea didn't seem shocked, but were still impressed, Oobleck was a little shocked and very impressed, and the girls of Team Rwby were all amazed at the spectacle they had just watched
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Ruby broke the silence with a big horra
"What just happened?" Yang asked
"Oh I just used one of my drive forms is all" Sora answered nonchalantly
"Your drive forms?" Weiss asked
"One of them?" Blake followed with another question
"Yeah. Think of it as like my own semblance. Using power that i've stored up, I can focus my energy to enhance a type of combat I use. There are 5 different forms that I use. You guys saw my wisdom form, which enhanced my magic abilities, my valor form gives me another keyblade to perform incredible combo attacks, my limit form gives me more power in my special attacks, and my form combines my valor and wisdom forms, only at a lesser degree"
"Wow! That is so awesome!" Ruby repeated herself
"And your 5th form?" Blake asked
"Huh?"
"You said that you can use 5 forms. What's the fifth"
"Oh, heh you mean my final form" Sora scratched his head, a little backed up from Blake's question "Well… I haven't really gotten a chance to use it all that much"
"Why not?" Yang asked
"Well I never really had the chance to. I only got it during the time we first took down Organisation 13, and between helping with Lea and Kairi's training, training in this world and helping your team, I haven't gotten a chance to master it since"
"Ok, so what should it do when you master it?" Yang asked, a little eager to learn more about these drive forms
"Well, if i change into it successfully, it should amp up everything to the max: magic, combat, special skills, 2 keyblades. I should even be able to fly around a lot more that what my wisdom form was doing"
"There will be time to master that form another day, Sora" Oobleck rushed into the group "For I am certain this is the first bout of many. Shall we continue?"
Knock Knock Knock
The door that was being knocked on was opened by a nurse with long light brown hair who looked to see that Jaune and Pyrrha were in front the infirmary
"Hello" Pyrrha waved at the nurse "We heard that team Cfvy was sent here"
"Yes, yes they were" The nurse answered, closing the door slightly, being a little suspicious of the duo
"Well we were wondering if we could talk to them and see what was wrong. Is that ok?"
"I'm sorry, but we don't want too many disturbances while they are being treated right now"
"Oh well, we tried" Jaune clapped his hands and turned back, sound a little to ok with that "I guess Sora will have to talk to them when he-"
"Wait, did you say Sora?" The nurse stopped Jaune in his tracks
"Yes he did" Pyrrha answered "Sora wanted us to check on them and what happened to them"
The nurse sighed in defeat "Ok, but please hurry"
The nurse opened the door, allowing the members of Jnpr in, with jaune not seeming to thrilled about it
"Why does Sora want us to check on them again?" Jaune asked his partner
"We can find out when he comes back" Pyrrha politely answered
"And why are you so insistent on doing this?"
"Like I said, Team Cfvy is one of the best second year students that attend Beacon. I just want to know what exactly caused them to need to go here upon their return. Aren't you curious about it?"
Jaune started scratching the back of his head "Well I mean, when you put it like that I-"
"Are you coming in or not?" The nurse asked, a little impatient
"Yes, we are. Sorry about that"
Pyrrha marched right in, with Jaune dreading coming in behind her. The Duo looked to see 2 members of the team each on different beds on different sides of the room. On the left side, Yatsuhashi was getting a wound treated on the hole in his left arm, which the man shuttered at when the nurses tried to help him. Next to him was Fox, who was given some water to drink by one of the nurses. He struggled to grab the glass, but he still managed. On the right side across from the boys, Velvet was sleeping on her bed, her face looking more peaceful than how the rest of her body looked. Next to her, Coco was laying in bed, thinking to herself with a very angry face on her, her arms crossed and her right foot covered in thick bandages. Looking at the state these warriors were in made Jaune feel incredibly sorry and Pyrrha heart broken
"Let's just get this over with so they can rest up" Jaune whispered into Pyrrha's ear
She agreed as they quietly made their way to Team Cfvy's leader. Of course, though, Yatsuhashi and Fox noticed them but were to caught up in their own business that they didn't ask them "why are you in here"
"H-hey" Jaune waved to his fellow leader, snapping her out of her state "How's it going" he awkwardly asked
"Who are you?" Coco asked with a cold hearted tone
"Well, this is Pyrrha-"
"I know who she is, I'm asking who you are" Coco interrupted the blonde leader
"Right, he he. Of course you do" Jaune felt very awkward "Well, the name's Jaune Arc. You know..." Jaune tried to act more cool in front of the other leader "Ladies often love my short and sweet name"
"I don't" Coco bitterly said
"Oh... well I guess we learned something about you than, he he"
"What's did you say!?"
"What he means is..." Pyrrha cut in front of the 2 leaders to stop Coco from getting herself or Jaune hurt "We were wondering how you got in here"
"We flew back from our mission and made our way here"
"Hey, I didn't know you had a sense of humor!"
Jaune awkwardly laughed at himself, but Coco didn't seem pleased at all, Pyrrha signaled him to stop that, and even on the other side of the room, Yatsuhashi and Fox knew it wouldn't end well for him if he continued acting like this
"I'll stop talking now" Jaune lowered his head
"What I mean is how did you get hurt" Pyrhha corrected herself
"Why do you want to know?" Coco asked, a little suspicious
"Well my friend Sora was concerned, but he had a mission to-"
"Sora?" Coco interrupted the invincible girl "You mean the kid I've heard about that leads a whole team of key-shaped sword wielders?!"
"The same?"
Coco tried covering up her frustration on her face with one hand "Great! First they beat us up with no mercy, now they're concerned about us?!"
"Sora?" Pyrrha asked
"No" Coco let her hand down "I'm talking about that other key-sword user guy; the guy that practically threw us in here!"
"Yeah, we heard the guy who beat you also had one of those keyblade things" Jaune came back into the conversation "What exactly did he do? And also, what about those weird creatures? Were they grimm or something?"
"No. These things were not grimm. Sure, they tried to hurt us in similar fashion to the grimm and fighting them even felt like fighting a grimm, but these weren't grimm. They were far worse"
"Worse than fighting a deathstalker and nevermore combined" Jaune asked
"Yep. They didn't have armor like the grimm, so they were easier to take out, but they were stronger, faster, and some of them could even dive into the ground and avoid our attacks easily. Still, we could take them out like they were a deathstalker or 3 nevermore working together"
"You say that like it was easy"
"Well when you have a weapon and skills like mine, it practically is" Coco showed off a little bit of ego, but it quickly faded as she thought back to the experience "The real struggle came when that gut with the keyblade showed up, wearing a bland black coat under his spiked-up silver hair, dull black shirt with some kind of red suspenders, dated pants, and piercing golden eyes"
"I can see you're a real critic on clothes"
"You know, I can punch you into a wall after I recover if I wanted to!" Coco threatened the leader of Jnpr
"R-right" Jaune stepped back "Proceed?"
Coco sighed, Pyrrha picking up a lot of disappointment and regret in this sigh "Well I thought that we could take him on easily after those things we fought. Boy was I so wrong" Pyrrha could hear the once confident leader breathing a little harder "He took down Fox with just one blast, pierced Yatsuhashi's with his sword like it was nothing, I got blasted by rocks, lasers and fire and Velvet-"
Before she could continue, the 3 heard some rustling on Velvet's bead. When they turned, they saw her face was more scared than Jaune and Pyrrha last looked. It seemed as though her dream had turned into a nightmare
"Why?"
(Insert Missing You From KH2.5)
Jaune and Pyrrha turned back to Cfvy's leader to see that she was more sad and heartbroken than before and buried her face within the palms of her hands
"Why did I have to be such an idiot? It's my fault we almost died, not their's"
"What are you talking about?" Jaune asked "This guy sounded super strong, it's not like you told them to beat yourselves-"
"I thought we could handle it!" Coco interrupted "I thought we didn't need to go all out to take care of him! I actually told Velvet she didn't need to waste what she'd saved up!" Her face lifted to reveal she was starting to tear up "What kind of leader tells her team to go easy on a big threat?!"
"Coco..."
The 3 teens turned to Yatsuhashi, and to see the nurses had covered his arm up in bandages
"None of us knew what we were up against" The man spoke, softly "It was him that went out of his way to fight us. We didn't know he would be as strong as he talked"
"Did he tell Velvet "Oh we don't need you to use your saves, we can teach him a lesson without them"" Coco angrily quoted herself "With a choice like that, I doubt I deserve to be team leader anymore"
"Don't say that Coco! You have been a great leader! Ozpin made the right choice"
"He's right" Pyrrha continued off from Coco's teammate "You have gotten a recognition for being one of Beacon's best 2nd year team. I can't see any alternate futures, but i have my doubts that you would have gotten that way without your lead"
"Yeah? Well I guess you'll have to find some other team to claim our spot"
Coco turned to her side, wanting to ignore the members of Jnpr and even her own team. Pyrrha wanted to help her become more confident again, as it hurt to see such a great team's great leader seem so defeated. Trying to find another way to comfort her, Pyrrha started strongly rubbing her shoulder and tried to help soothe her pains as best as she could
"I know that you think you don't deserve your recognition after this, but-"
Before Pyrrha could continue, Coco turned around and slapped her hand off of her shoulder
"What makes you think I want your help?! You're the Invincible Girl! You haven't lost a fight since the big boys found your potential! You could never understand what it feels like to almost lose everything and chances are you never will!"
"Coco, I-"
"Just leave us alone! My team needs to get our rest anyways"
Coco turned back to her side and covered her head with her pillow. Seeing as how Cfvy's leader was fed up with visits, the nurses decided to politely escort the 2 first year students out of the infermory. Once they were out, they quietly closed the door as to not disturb anyone asleep or trying to sleep. It was a lot worse seeing such a great team defeated than wither of them first thought...
(End Missing You)
Before Pyrrha could feel more bad of Team Cfvy, she felt something weird on her right hand; the hand she tried rubbing Coco's shoulder with. She looked down to find something a little surprising; a stange orange aura around her glove. This aura didn't seem to hurt herself, but it seemed like it was entering her body somehow. It was hard to explain, but even though she couldn't feel this aura, it gave off some sort of angry vibe as it surrounded the girl's glove
"Well that could have gone better..." Pyrrha looked back up to Jaune "But, hey, we know more about how they lost and who the guy looks like. Now at least we'll have something to tell Sora when we all get back from our missions"
"Yes, I suppose that is something, but..." Pyrrha became quiet for a moment
"But what?" Jaune asked
"But... it's just hard to imagine that a single man could defeat 4 hunters and huntresses in training at once. Impossible, even"
"Nothing is impossible"
The 2 Jnpr members turned to see that Professor Ozpin and Miss Goodwitch walking down into the same hall as they were, the former holding a coffee cup with one of his hands
"Professor Ozpin? What are you doing here?" Pyrrha asked
"The same reason you are here; to check on Team Cfvy and possibly see how they ended up in the inferiority upon their return" Ozpin answered before taking a sip out of his cup
"Well from the sounds of it, some guy with a keyblade and black coat beat them all at once" Jaune answered
The second Jaune said "keyblade" Ozpin stopped drinking "Did you say keyblade? As in the same keyblades Team Skrl uses?"
"It kinda sounds like it, yeah"
Ozpin looked back at Glynda, both of which looked suspicious and a little worried. This didn't make Pyrrha or Jaune feel much better
"Well I'm sure you kids won't have to worry about it" Glynda broke her look with Ozpin to adress the students "What's important now is you kids get ready for your mission tomorrow. We wouldn't want your huntsman to have 2 sleepless children accompanying him, now would we?"
"You kids go prepare for tomorrow. Miss Goodwitch and I will handle whatever this hassle is about"
Ozpin knocked on the door of the infermory to see the same light brown haired nurse from before opening it. The miunet she saw Proffesor Ozpin and Miss Goodwitch, she let them in as fast as the door could open wide enough for them to come in. Once they were both in, the nurse closed the door, leaving the members of Jnpr alone
"Well, we might as well head back" Jaune turned down the hall to go back to their dorm "After all, you said you wanted to do some practice tonight before the big day tomorrow, right?"
Pyrrha turned to see her leader had already left and din't want to loose him "Right" She yelled down the hall
"Damn it!
Before Pyrrha could take another step, she heard a voice somewhere. It sounded like a man's voice, and didn't sound happy at all. On the contrary, he sounded infuriated
"13 years" The voice continued "13 years ago, you took everything away and laughed about it. You think it's funny what you did to my friends?! What you did to my master?! What you did to me?! Xehanort, I know you're out there, listening. I also know that you won't get away with everything you did you son of a-"
"Hello?" Pyrrha interrupted the voice
Suddenly, the voice stopped. Everything went quiet around her. She tried looking for the source of the voice but no one was around her. It didn't sound like Professor Ozpin, it sounded much more younger. It didn't sound like Jaune, it sounded much more manlier
"Who's there?" Pyrrha tried calling out to the voice again, but still had no response
With no answer, Pyrrha was left more curious and asked more questions. Who's voice was that? Where did it come from? What happened 13 years ago? Who's this Xehanort guy, and what did he do to this voice and his friends and master
"Hey Pyrrha!" Jaune peeked from behind the corner "Aren't you coming"
"Y-yeah, I'm coming" Pyrrha snapped out of her questioned state and ran down the hall "Hey Jaune, did you hear a man's voice?"
"A man's voice?" Jaune asked
"Yes, talking about someone named Xehanort and what he did to his friends, master and himself 13 years ago?"
"Uh, no" Jaune answered awkwardly "I think you just imagined it"
"You didn't?" Pyrrha asked, a little surprised due to how loud the voice she heard was
"Nope. But let's not stay here where people will judge us for imagining stuff. We can do it in our room before we practice tonight"
Jaune grabbed his partner's hand and started heading down the hall. Pyrrha looked down to that hand to see that the strange aura was also gone. Something about this all seemed very strange. Than again, maybe Jaune was right and she was just imagining things. Coco's talk about her entire team loosing must just be getting into her head somehow. At least, that's what she hoped
Author's notes: OK, WOW! This is so long over due! It's been like 7-8 months since I last updated this story, and i don't even know how it took this long. I mean sure, i have another story that i had to write a chapter for, but that took like 3 months or so to finish the next chapter to that. Besides that, there aren't that many excuses. The few legitimate excuses I have are that i went on a 1 week cruise to mexico this summer, school was finishing up, and maybe i can include getting ready to take a permit test and some family parties and plans, but besides that, I was just lazy. And guys, i'm really sorry for that. I really am. I try to get to these things, but for some reason it can get really hard to write these stories, weither it's because of other stuff or from the fact that i'm lazy a lot of times. I wish I could say I'll get back onto writing asap, but with senior year around the corner and how i have what's arguably one of my biggest roles i've gotten in a musical/play yet (Maurice in Beauty and the Beast), i'm afraid I cannot make that problem. All i can say is that i'll try, but please forgive me if the next chapter to this and Rwby Mystery Dungeon both aren't out until, like, winter or something. Ok, with that apology note out of the way, let's go over the chapter
Fist off, i just personally love the way I'm writing Kairi in this right now, being the straight person against all the weirdness and cartoon physics that can happen in Rwby, it's just a lot of fun. Also, we've gotten limit forms! That whole sequence with Sora in his wisdom form is probably one of my favorite fight scenes i've written yet. Kairi, Riku and Lea's were fun too, but i think it was pretty obvious the best one was Sora's
Now Jnpr are starting to get involved more and more into the story, knowing about what happened to team Cfvy and the guy in the coat and Pyrrha hearing Xehanort's name, and more on the way. Speaking of Pyrrha, i feel like a lot of people will know who's voice Pyrrha heard, but wither way people are probably asking "how can she hear him?" It will be answered at some point in the future, but let's just say i have a couple of plans for Pyrrha
Also, remember last time how I said Zwei and Team Cfvy were some of my least favorite characters in the series? Well i'm not sure if i can "fix" my problems zwei, but i can with team Cfvy; specifically coco. You want to know how you can make me give a crap for Coco and her team? (besides velvet) You gotta have them have more that 1 personallity. All i've seen from coco so far is "Yeah, i'm awesome and everyone knows it, come at me bro" and that's it. Sure she was shaking before Emerald took her out in their fight and was worried for velvet during their fight with the atlas robots, but who wouldn't inthose situations. Give me more that just one personallity, and let me see them earn their "coolness." I'm not asking all the emo depression I'm giving her here, but give me something that isn't bland and that i've seen done better in shows like gravity falls, steven universe and (i'm sure i'll get a lot of hate for saying this but i don't care) friendship is magic
There's one other thing i'd like to talk about and that's a game that came out between these last 2 chapters: Kingdom hearts 2.8. Now i haven't seen or played this game due to a lack of a ps4 in my house, but would like to say right now that 2.8 and possibly 3 will not be canon in this story. Let me explain why: for one i've only read the story on wikis and haven't seen what the full story is. Now while that's a minor problem as, from what i've heard it doesn't really change stuff all that much and i can just look on youtube a let's play or a cut scene movie, the second problem is that i've started planning a lot of stuff to happen in this story that may or may not cause some canon problems for both SKRL and 2.8. Now once i find our the full story of 2.8 i can try to make it fit within the story, but it will more than likely it will all be weaved into how i can make it all work. If i can't than consider this story separate from 2.8. Same with 3, which i know will have stuff that counters against stuff i have planned for Skrl, but I'll deal with that when i get to it. For now, let's talk reviews
Jack905: thank you, and in a way she does but i won't say until i reveal
sakuralovelight: thank you, hope i can write more often
CoraltheLeviathan: i know, right? the way i'm writing kairi, i can't imagine how she'd react to the complete randomness of rwby chibi
YamiChaos27: it's not my thing, but thanks for the suggestion. I still don't know which it'll be, but i have some ideas and plans that will make kairi jellos for sure
The Sarcasm Box: thank you, and yes i'm more than self aware of my many many many many... many... many... many spelling mistakes, and i do try to make as many corrections as i can but this is deffinatly a story that won't be perfect on the spelling side of things (P.s, love you user name)
To all the guests that are leaving... less than positive feed back from my author's note last time, 2 things: sorry i don't like Zwei, i think he was unnecessary and is much better in chibi than the show, and sorry i don't like coco, i think she's a bland character that needs more development to be a character that i at least respect
Alright, i think that takes care of things. If you liked this chapter, leave a follow, leave a favorite, leave a review, and i'll see you all next time