Hey guys I'm back from the dead and welcome to another chapter of 'Another Day in Remnant', I've removed the "Interlude or Delay" chapter thingy if you guys/girls haven't noticed...Now...ONTO REVIEWS!
Oh and before we get to it, I've been doing Beta reading and collaborating for Dilnos521, if you guys like Strike Witches then go read his stories, they're at three seasons worth of killing time (And Neuroi, No offence Lio) while you wait for my chapters, and he's created a crossover between Hyperdimension Neptunia and Strike Witches, which I'll be in the author notes for that, so...enjoy!
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Oh and before we actually get on, I have done a major 'makeover' bleh...more like 're-vamped' this whole series if some of you guys/girls have noticed, but I kept the reviews as it is. NOW TO THE NEXT CHAPTER WE GO! (For real this time...)
"So, why are we going to Forever Falls again?" I asked Weiss.
"For the umpteenth time, we're going to Forever Falls to collect some samples for Professor Peach," Weiss answered.
"And what are these 'samples' we're getting?"
"Professor Goodwitch will tell us when we get there."
Currently, Weiss and I were together in a Bullhead as it was called by Weiss and the rest of my team, along with Team JNPR and CRDL. The problem right now is that it was a bit cramped with everyone on the Bullhead, being squashed by everyone.
"Why didn't the academy have any spare Bullheads?"
"Because most of the Bullheads were occupied at the moment."
"And here I thought we were in the most prestigious academy in Remnant."
"Oh stop whinging, at least we have a Bullhead for the trip."
Just as Weiss finished her sentence, the Bullhead rocked to the side, tilting anyone who wasn't paying attention, and Weiss was one of them. She ended up hugging my chest for balance. I looked at her as she looked back at me, our faces centimetres apart, too close for comfort. It felt like hours when we just stared at each other before long I realised the position we were on.
"U-um...Weiss?" I called out her name, snapping her out.
"S-sorry," Weiss apologised for some reason and tried to tried to push off me.
The only problem was that the space Weiss once occupied was filled up, causing me to realise that Weiss would be in the position we were currently until the Bullhead arrived its destination.
"...Weiss, are you alri-?" I quietly asked her only to be quickly interrupted.
"Shut up and don't move!" Weiss quietly ordered me, noticing her blushing madly, which I listened and stayed quiet.
Forever Falls...
The Bullhead finally arrived its destination, landed and opened its cockpit doors for the other teams, and the rest of my team except for Weiss, to get off.
"Weiss?" I called out her name again, her still around my chest.
Weiss quickly released her grip and jumped off the Bullhead.
"Weiss?" I repeated as I proceeded to jump off as well only to notice Weiss' right index finger pointing at my nose.
"Let us never speak of this again, ever," Weiss suggested in an angry tone.
"Speak about what?" I jokingly asked her before I proceeded to re-group with the rest of the team.
"Yes students, the Forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful, but we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this forest and I'm here to make sure that none of you die while doing so." Professor Goodwitch explained to everyone before turning around to face us, making us stop in our tracks.
I then heard the clinking sounds of glass jars and turned around to spot Jaune carrying a suitcase with a couple of glass jars on top before I turned back to face the Professor and listened.
"Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap." Professor Goodwitch continued to explain, holding a jar of red sap. "However, this forest full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here at four o'clock. Have fun!"
"Alright, Team RWBEY, let's go that way!" Ruby announced, pointing at a random direction, and so we followed her.
Before I followed Ruby and the gang, I turned around and noticed Cardin dragging Jaune with him, as well as spotting Pyrrha looking at her leader.
"Hey, guys, I'll catch up in a second, I have someone to talk to very quickly," I told my team.
"Alright, Ekuro, but be quick about it!" Ruby replied and so I walked towards Pyrrha and stood next to her.
"So, you see that Jaune is acting differently too don't you?" I asked Pyrrha.
"Yeah, Jaune's been hanging round Cardin more," Pyrrha worriedly said.
"And you know about his forged documents?"
"H-how did you-"
"His fighting style is irregular and very sloppy. I noticed it very clearly that he didn't come here legitimately."
"...Are you going to report it?"
"Nah, I think Jaune deserves to be here, he just needs to be trained to a level of an average hunter-in-training."
"...I really appreciate it, really."
"You don't have to thank me, it's what friends do."
"Hey, can I ask you a favour?"
"What's this favour?"
"I want you to help me train Jaune. I think he needs more people with experience in fighting Grimm."
"Sure, I'll do it, it's been awhile since I taught someone."
"Thanks, Ekuro."
"Again, don't thank me, it's what friends do," I repeated again to Pyrrha, patting her shoulder before I turned around to catch up to my team. "Anyways, we should leave it here and see what happens next, alright?"
"Yeah, sure," Pyrrha acknowledged.
Half an hour later...
"Work you piece of junk!" I cursed in frustration, attempting to stab the needle's tap end into the tree.
Weiss noticed my frustration and headed towards me.
"You're not doing it right, Ekuro," Weiss informed me, noticing that she had already filled her jar already.
She then snatched the tap I held before kneeling down next to me. "You're meant to find the soft parts of the tree first," she then explained, finding a soft patch but taking it out, " only then you can get the red sap, now you try."
I took the tap back from Weiss and searched for a soft patch, stabbed it in and extracted the sap out into the jar.
"Thanks, Weiss."
"A-anytime..." Weiss replied back to me while I noticed a small blush.
"Hey, Weiss, you've been acting up lately, is there something wrong?"
"What? Nothing wrong at all!" Weiss quickly assured, quickly waving her hands in front of her, making me a bit more suspicious.
"Right, is it about the Bullhead 'Incident' you're thinking about?"
"W-w-what?! I thought we agreed to never speak of it again!"
"Oh, right...sorry" I apologised before I realised the jar I held was nearly full, which I then sealed it up and got another two jars.
"Why are you getting more red sap?" Weiss decided to ask me.
"Well, I thought the sap smelt nice, so I thought maybe we should have at least a jar full of this to make our dorm room smell nicer?"
"Isn't that thoughtful of you, Ekuro," I heared Yangs voice which I reacted by backing up a bit and turned to look at Yang.
"Gah! How long have you been behind us?" I asked Yang.
"When Weiss came up to you to help."
"So you just heard everything we had just said..."
"Yep! So, what is this 'Incident' I heard about?"
"That's only between Ekuro and I!" Weiss quickly answered.
Before I could comment, I heard a large roar of an Ursa in the distance.
"Did you guys hear that?" Ruby called out to everyone.
I then spot Cardin's team members run passed Ruby and Pyrrha.
"Ursa! Ursa!" Russel called out loud before he bumped into Yang before she quickly grabbed Russel by his shirt and lifted him up.
"What, where?" Yang demanded.
"Back there, it's got Cardin!" Russel pointed to the direction he ran.
"Jaune!" I heard Pyrrha called out Jaune's name, dropping her jar of red sap.
"Yang! You and Blake, go get Professor Goodwitch," Ruby ordered, getting her scythe out.
"You two, go with them! There could be more," Pyrrha ordered Ren and Nora, also unsheathing her weapon.
"I'm going with you guys," I told Ruby and Pyrrha, while I took out Midnight and my left Five-Seven.
"You're not going alone, Ekuro," I heard Weiss informed me.
"I'm trusted to go alone, aren't I?"
"Not the time to joke, you two. We need to get to Cardin and Jaune before it's too late!" Pyrrah told us before Weiss and I followed her and Ruby.
We ran towards the direction Russel pointed and arrived to see Cardin crawling away from a Ursa Major.
"Oh no," I heard Pyrrha say out loud.
The Ursa Major was about to swipe towards Cardin only to be blocked by a shield, which I then noticed that shield belonged to Jaune only to see him slowly become overpowered by the Ursa Major.
Weiss was about to engage onto the Grimm before Pyrrha stopped her.
"Wait!" Pyrrha ordered Weiss.
I then noticed Jaune pushing back the Major and slashed the Ursa once, causing it to stumble back before it tried to swipe at Jaune. Jaune then rolled to the side to avoid the large arm before he had to jump over the other arm, when the Ursa tried to swipe him off his feet, only to use its other arm again to punch Jaune, knocking him away. Jaune rolled back before quickly getting up, stumbling in the process, continued to charge and leapt at the Ursa Major head on only to be swatted away to the other direction, on the ground once more, yet he still got back up.
I then noticed Jaune looked behind his shield before he charged at the Ursa Major for one strike, but I then noticed that the Ursa was readying an attack as well, which would lead to his death if he continued on. That was when I noticed Pyrrha raising her left arm up, having a barely noticeable black outline around it, before I quickly looked at Jaune, his shield, also having the same black outline, moved up a slightly to just block the blow the Major was about to inflict, before Jaune ended its life with his sword, beheading the Ursa.
I then noticed Pyrrha lower her left arm before noticing Ruby and Weiss looking confused.
"Uhh, what?" Ruby said, completely confused.
"How did you...?" Weiss asked Pyrrha.
"Well, Ruby has her speed, you have your glyphs, my semblance-" Pyrrha explained to Weiss before I cut in.
"Is polarity. Did not expect that one," I concluded for Pyrrha.
"Ah, you can control poles," Ruby commented.
"No, you dunce! It means she has control over magnetism," Weiss corrected Ruby.
"Magnets are cool, too."
I then noticed Pyrrha walk away.
"Wait, where are you going?" Weiss asked Pyrrha.
"Yeah, we gotta tell them what happened." Ruby pointed out to Pyrrha.
"We could. Or, perhaps, we could just keep it our little secret," Pyrrha suggested to us.
"What secret?" I asked, acknowledging her suggestion before she walked away.
Weiss and Ruby nods to my comment and walks back to the group, but Ruby noticed that I stood where I was.
"Ekuro, aren't you coming with us?" Ruby asked.
"No, somebody's gotta find them, I'll catch up with you guys later."
With their acknowledgement, they then left, leaving me to observe Jaune and Cardin. After I see Jaune pulled Cardin back up and walked away, I walked in the scene slightly more pissed off.
"So, threatening my friend, Jaune, to do your bidding, I see? I gotta say, you've got more guts than I thought," I said out loud, catching Cardin off guard before he looked at me.
I then picked up his mace that was lying on the ground before inspecting the mace.
"You've got a nice toilet plunger here, Cardin," I commented, infuriating Cardin.
I then threw the mace back to Cardin for him to catch before I looked at Cardin straight in the eye.
"Tomorrow afternoon, you, your team, and I are duelling. Basically a one verse four. Am I clear?" I ordered Cardin which he smiled.
"Oh bring it on you little twig," Cardin answered, accepting my challenge.
I then walked away and headed back to my team.
"You're going to be begging for mercy, you little shit!" I heard Cardin cursed out towards me.
"I wouldn't count on that!" I called back at him.
Academy Rooftops...
After the eventful day, Pyrrha asked me to follow her up some stairs to one of the roof areas.
"Thanks for the syrup, Ekuro. Nora couldn't help but eat all the ones we had," Pyrrha thanked me.
"No problem. I thought I would always bring an extra and now it's in good use," I assured her.
"I don't think giving Nora more is considered 'good use'."
"Well, I still have a spare jar. Although, I am using it to make my team dorm room smell nicer."
"I see, do you have any suggestions on making Jaune a better fighter?"
"Push him and see if his stance is right?"
"Ha, ha, very funny..."
"No, seriously, it worked for me!"
"Alright, I'll think about it, wait here," Pyrrha instructed me behind the door before she went out. I kept the door slightly open for me to hear.
"No Cardin tonight? I thought you two were best buds?" I heard Pyrrha asked Jaune.
"Pyrrha, I'm sorry," I heard Jaune apologise.
"I was a jerk. You were only trying to be nice and...I-I had all this stupid macho stuff in my head-" Jaune then explained before he was cut off by Pyrrha.
"Jaune, it's okay," I heard Pyrrha assured. There was few seconds of silence before Pyrrha started up again.
"Your team really misses their leader, you know. You should come down. Ren made pancakes~ And we have syrup now, you can thank Ekuro for that," I heard Pyrrha announced, slowly getting louder towards the door.
"Wait! I know I don't deserve it after all that happened, but...would you still be willing to help me? To help me become a better fighter."
I opened the door slightly to see Pyrrha looking at me, smiling, before she turned back to Jaune, walked up to him, and then pushed Jaune, causing him to fall on the ground.
"Hey!" Jaune called out.
"Your stance is all wrong. You need to be wider and lower to the ground, and I learned that from Ekuro." Pyrrha explained before I noticed her turning around to face the door I was behind. "Hey, Ekuro, you can come out now!"
"Wow, didn't expect you to actually do it Pyrrha," I commented, opening the door and came out.
"What can I say? I learn from the best."
"How long has Ekuro been there?" Jaune asked Pyrrha.
"I brought him up here with me, so pretty much the whole conversation," Pyrrha answered Jaune.
"Come on, Jaune, I'm also here to help you," I told him, extending my hand out to him.
"Are you sure that you're fine with this?" Jaune asked me.
"If it makes you a better fighter, then yes, now grab my hand and let's try that again."
AND SO WE ARE DONE...-ish...
Anyways, I've been doing a lot of work lately and somewhere halfway in July and the beginning of August, I'll be very busy to the point I can't edit or continue on for this FFN, this does not mean I'll give up on this...also, I'm adding in another new character into the next chapter!
...Really?
HEY, GET BACK TO YOUR SHELF!
So till next time of the next chapter...
