We know what happened last time. I'm not doing this anymore. So after being launched in the air, I land on a tree branch and scale down the tree.
"I hope I don't get partnered with Weiss." I said.
I walk around for a bit, then suddenly I hear footsteps, and I know they're not human. I see a herd of weird werewolf-like creatures with bone-like armor surrounding me, and I deploy Venka.
"I'm guessing these are Grimm. Let's do this."
Six of them charge right at me, I activate my speed and start cutting them down to pieces. More and more start attacking, I kept on dodging their claw strikes and run up the trees. I retract Venka and switch to Gorgon. Shooting most of them down one by one with a barrage of bullets.
"I love this rifle."
I then switch to Stug and shoot five Grimm with the sticky, toxic, explosive compound, blowing their heads off. I land on ground to see remaining Grimm ready to pounce.
"Better end this."
I shoot out my shocking projectile at one Grimm and it chains to the others, killing them all. After a few moments, they disintegrated.
"Too easy. Better go above high ground."
I jump above from treetop to treetop.
"Better find a partner. Any partner. Well, hopefully not Weiss."
I was still jumping from tree to tree at super speed.
'I wonder who my partner will be?'
With Ruby. She is currently running looking for her big sister.
"Yaaaang! Yaaaang!" 'Ugh this is bad, this is really bad! What if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? There's always Jaune… he's nice. He's funny! I don't think he's very good in a fight, though. Oh! What about Blake? So mysterious, so calm. Plus she like books! Well, then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her. Ugh! Okay… who else do I know in this school? Justice! He's literally out of this world. And his weapons. Mmmmmmm. So there's Yang, Jaune, Blake, Justice, and...'
She stops her tracks when she sees Weiss and makes eye contact with her. Weiss immediately walks away.
"Wait! Where are you going? We're supposed to be teammates…" The reaper whines.
She kicks the dirt a little. Weiss walks through some bushes that scratch her legs a bit. She then hears Jaune up in a tree.
"Ugh come on you stupid urg… come on agh." He sees Weiss and laughs nervously.
Weiss walks back to Ruby and drags her by her hood.
"By no means does this makes us friends." Weiss clarifies.
"You came back!"
Jaune yells for help but Weiss ignores him.
"What's the hurry?"
"I will not let my mission be delayed because you're too slow. I swear, if I get a bad grade because of your-What the?" She was surprised by her speed.
Ruby appears in front of her in the blink of an eye.
"I'm not slow see? You don't have to worry about me!"
"When did…?"
"Weiss, just because I don't exactly know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters."
"Well, at least you're not that blond scraggly dunce... Or that so-called alien."
It was at that exact moment! That a sturdy, listen carefully, sturdy tree branch, broke when I stepped on it, causing me to fall painfully on different branches in a comedic fashion, and fall right in front of the two!
"Owww."
Ruby was happy to see me. "Justice!"
Weiss, not so much. "Oh great."
I get up instantly and relax my body a bit.
"Good thing I have my shield. So, I guess all three of us are partners."
"This is awesome! I have an alien partner!"
"Oh please, I doubt that he's an actual alien."
Ruby runs off in excitement and I follow her at similar speed, leaving Weiss alone.
"You maybe fast, but you still excel at wasting time!" She starts to get nervous hearing the leaves rustle. "Ruby? Justice? ...Guys?"
Growling is heard from the bushes surrounding her. The same kind of Grimm that tried to ambush me appears and gets ready to attack Weiss.
"Ruby, Justice!"
The Grimm roars. And we'll see what happens next chapter.
Chapter 5
Last time, you know what happened. So now Weiss is surrounded by these werewolf Grimm things and is taking stance with her rapier, and oh my god why is she taking so long to attack? She gets ready to attack the Grimm in front of her but Ruby appears out of nowhere and uses her scythe to swipe away the Grimm.
"Uhh! Gotcha!"
"Gaah!"
Weiss stops charging and accidentally burns down a tree. This distracts Ruby, causing her to get knocked into Weiss by a Grimm.
Ruby and Weiss scream. "Ah!"
"Hey, watch it!" Ruby yells.
Weiss was upset. "Excuse me, you attacked out of turn. I could've killed you."
"You'll have to try a lot harder than than that."
I jump in the scene cutting off one of the Grimm's head with Venka. And soon, join Ruby and Weiss.
"So, what are those?"
Ice Demon was baffled at how I knew nothing about these creatures. "Beowolves, you know, Grimm?"
"Beowolves, huh? So like wolves there must be an alpha."
"The Alpha is even more dangerous." Ruby adds.
The Beowolves growled ever so threateningly from being ignored. Ruby reloads her weapon and I take out the Stug Gel Gun. But the tree that Weiss accidently burnt down crashes and sets most of the area on fire causing the Beowolves to howl and moan.
"We have to go."
"No duh!" I yelled running off in the distance way ahead of them.
They run away from the site and Ruby and Weiss catch their breaths.
"What was that?! That should've been easy!"
"Well perhaps if you had exercised even the slightest amount of cation with the placement of your strikes, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!"
"*Scoffs* What's that supposed to mean?"
"Alright, knock it off! We just recently became partners, it's not going to be perfect right away. But the least we can do is to get along with each other and try not kill one another by accident. Do I make myself clear?!"
Ruby and Weiss respond. "Yes sir."
"Whoa now. Don't call me sir, I'm 14, it makes me sound old."
Their eyes widen in shock.
"Wait, you're 14? How did you get into this school?"
"Yeah, you're like a year younger than me." Wait, Ruby's older than me? Weird.
"Ozpin trusted me enough that he would allow me to attend this place. Now come on, that relic thing isn't gonna find itself now is?"
I walk forward through some bushes and Ruby and Weiss followed. Unbeknownst to us, a ginormous black feather gently floats down on the ground. Find out what happens on the next chapter.
Chapter 6
You know what happened, again. At the cliffs, Ozpin and Goodwitch go over the all students current progress.
Goodwitch reports. "Our last pair has been formed, sir. She taps on her glass-like device and it shows live footage of the hyper orange-haired girl and her friend.* Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren. Poor boy. I can't possibly imagine those two getting along. Still, he's probably better off than Ms. Nikos."
"Hmm…"
"I don't care what his transcripts say, that Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat. And then there's Mr. Volt, apparently he formed a trio with and . Can we allow that?"
"Hmm…"
"I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, the should reach the temple within just a few minutes. Speaking of which, what did you use as relics this year?...Professor Ozpin?"
"Hmm…" Why is Ozpin hmmmming?
He is currently viewing live footage of us. In the forest, Weiss won't admit that we're totally lost and me and Ruby are sitting down on the ground. If my map HUD was working we wouldn't be in this mess. Weiss is walking back and forth, confused on where to go.
"It's definitely this way. I mean… this way! It's definitely this way. Alright, it's official, we passed it!"
Me and Ruby get up.
"Why can't you just admit that you have no idea where we're going?"
"Because I know exactly where we're going! We're going to… the Forest Temple!"
"Oh brother." I rolled my eyes.
"Ugh!"
"Oh, stop it! You two don't know where we are either!"
"Well at least we're not pretending like we know everything!" Ruby was getting mad.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means you are a big stupid jerk and I hate you!"
"Enough! Remember what I said about working together and getting along!"
Ruby and Weiss responded like soldiers. "Yes Justice!"
"That's better. Now, I know what it's like to argue with a teammate, I worked with my siblings on some missions, and believe me, we argue and fight, but we realized that's what family is, and that we should be fighting the enemy, not each other."
"You're right, Ruby, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so immature."
"Yeah, me too."
I gesture them to follow me. "Good, now let's keep moving."
We travel towards wherever the wind takes us. You know the stupid drill. Find out next chapter.
Chapter 7
You already know. So somehow, Ruby convince us to ride a big ol' Nevermore( a giant raven Grimm). The wind is on our face like crazy. You guys know my reaction.
Weiss is freaking out. "Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!"
I was having a blast. "This! Is! Awesome! This is no Archwing, but it's still cool!"
"Yeah, we're fine! Stop worrying!" Ruby said
"I am so far beyond worrying!"
"In a good way?!" The reaper asks.
"In a bad way! In a very bad way!" Yo, she needs to chill.
Ruby was thinking of an idea. "Well, why don't we just jump!?"
"I'm down with that!" I said in agreement.
" Are you two insane?!" She looks back at our spots, and knows that we jumped off. "You guys are insufferable-!"
At the bottom with Yang and Blake. They hear Ruby scream from above.
"Blake, did you hear that? What should we d-" Yang sees Blake pointing up and looks up, her bow twitching( I noticed from the air).
"Heads up!" That's Ruby.
This is me. "COWABUNGA!"
They see us falling down and know that we didn't think things through. By luck, Jaune collides into Ruby midair and they crash into a tree. I land feet first on the ground near Yang and Blake.
"Remind me to bring you to parties." Yang says.
Blake then asks. "Did your sister and alien friend just fall from the sky?"
"I-"
She gets interrupted by a weird growl from a bear-like creature, which I assume is a Grimm, breaks down some trees before it collapsed from Nora riding on it's back and Lie Ren not far behind being out of breath.
"Aww. It's broken." She stands on it's head. "Eeeew…"
"Nora? Please… don't ever do that again."
Before he knows it, she was gone, leaving a pink outline of herself in her previous spot. Nora sees one of the relics.
"Ooooo…" She grabs the relic and starts singing. "~I'm queen of the castle~. ~I'm queen of the castle~."
"NORA!"
"Hehehe, coming Ren!"
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?"
"I-" I was about answer her until Nora looks at me.
"*Gasp* Look Ren!" She points at me. "It's an alien."
"Nora, I highly doubt that's the case."
"Actually, she's pretty spot on."
"Oh, okay. My name is Lie Ren, and this is my friend, Nora Valkyrie."
"Valkyrie? That's my sister's name."
"I have a space twin!"
"Is she anything like Nora?" Ren was hoping I said no.
"No, she has a lot of anger issues."
In space, an orange and black ship is resting peacefully in orbit. Inside was a very temperamental Tenno called Valkyr.
"Why do I feel like hurting Justice right now?"
Back on Remnant, somehow Pyrrha lead a giant scorpion-like Grimm to us.
"Jaune!"
"Pyrrha!"
"Whoa!"
"Ruby!"
Ruby jumps down from the tree and joins us.
"Ruby?"
"Yang!"
The two get ready to hug but Nora interrupts them.
"Nora!"
Yang looks like she's getting angry.
"Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?"
"I would say, yes. But I have no idea what a Deathstalker is. Or any other Grimm I haven't heard about today."
"Grrrrr!" Yang explodes in anger and her eyes turn red. "I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?"
Everyone stands around, Ren joins in, and I meditate.
I count the seconds. "One, two."
A ding is heard. Ruby looks up.
"Um… Yang?"
Yang slouches down. I get up and we all notice Weiss hanging on the claw of the Nevermore we rode.
"Hey it's our ride… and Weiss."
"How could you two leave me?!"
"I said 'jump'..."
"She's gonna fall."
"Yeah." I said.
"She'll be fine."
Ren points out. "She's falling."
Jaune jumps out of the tree and catches Weiss mid-air.
"Just dropping in?"
"Do you have a landing strategy?!"
They hear my question and realized they are screwed.
"Oh God… Noooo!"
They fall down, their weapons detach from them, and Jaune lands face first on the ground. Weiss lands using Jaune as a landing pad.
"My hero." Ungrateful Ice Demon.
Pyrrha is still running away from the Deathstalker in the background.
"My back…"
Pyrrha crash-lands in front of us.
Yang say sarcastically. "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!"
"Not if I can help it! Yaaaaa!"
She charges at the Deathstalker.
Yang yells. "Ruby, wait!"
Ruby uses Crescent Rose (she told me during our ride on the Nevermore) to propel herself and attack the giant arachnid, but it smacks her away from itself.
"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!"
She turns around and sees the Deathstalker is ready to attack and shots it, but it's ineffective. The Deathstalker chases Ruby and Yang runs at it to protect her.
"RUBY!" The Nevermore comes around(guessing it wants payback for us hitching a ride on it) and launches multiple feathers at Ruby causing her cloak to get stuck by one of them and stops Yang from saving her. "Ruby get out of there!"
"I'm trying!"
The Deathstalker strikes at Ruby.
"RUBY!"
A white blur speeds pass Yang towards Ruby and reveals to be Weiss, who uses the ice Dust to freeze its stinger in place.
"You are so childish. And dimwitted, and hyperactive. And don't even get me started on your fighting style. And I suppose, I can be a bit… difficult. And Justice is right, if we're going to do this we're going to have to do this together. So if you quit trying to show off I'll be… nicer."
"I'm not trying to show off. I want you to know I can do this."
"You're fine."
Ruby whispers. "Normal knees…"
"Finally! You two are getting along better!"
Blake looks at me. "You knew Weiss would save her so you didn't have to step in, improving their friendship a bit."
"I helped a little. Told them that a little teamwork goes a long way or something."
Yang goes over to hug her sister. "So happy you're okay!" I run over to them leaving a red trail with red lightning behind. "Whoa, your fast like Ruby."
"Nevermind that. We have to go now. That Nevermore is pretty angry about us hitching a ride on it."
Jaune gets scared. "Yeah, it's circling back. What are we gonna do?"
"Look there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us."
"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things." Ruby says.
"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind." The right words for Jaune Arc.
I was getting impatient really quickly. "Yeah yeah, no time to waste. Get the relics! You guys have been wasting an hour!"
They all looked at me.
"Chief, we've been here for like five minutes." Ren states.
"Really? Nevermind, just get the relics."
Jaune grabs the rook and Ruby grabs the knight.
"I don't even want to know why the relics look like chess pieces." I said.
Ren sees the Deathstalker is about to break free.
"Time we left."
"Right! Let's go!" That's what I've been saying the whole time Ruby.
We all run off with Ruby in the lead. Yang stops for a moment and Blake notices this.
"What is it?"
Yang sees me and Ruby standing on a rock.
"Nothing…"
"Come on guys! GOONGALA!." I run off.
We escape to a summit. But the Grimm gave chase and forced us to take cover and separate in the ruins.
"Well that's great!"
"Yang don't!" The Deathstalker crashes into the scene. "Too late." I slouched.
"Oh, man, run!" More great wisdom fro the great Jaune Arc.
We all run further into the ruins, but the Nevermore is being a major pain.
"Nora, distract it!" Ren orders.
Nora dodges multiple feathers and takes out her grenade launcher shooting the bird multiple times. When the Deathstalker approaches Nora at a high speed, Blake and Ren hold it off, while Weiss picks Nora up, propelling both of them with a glyph. We run to a bridge with the Deathstalker on our tail.
"Go, go!" Pyrrha takes out her weapon, transforms it into a rifle, and fires at the giant scorpion with help from Ren, but it seems to not do anything.
"Alright let me try." I take out the Stug Gel Gun, quickly aim for the Deathstalker's stinger, and shoot multiple gels.
Jaune freaks out, thinking my weapon was useless. "What's that supposed to do?!"
"Give it a sec." The gel compounds explodes and destroys the stinger. The Nevermore comes around and destroys a section of the bridge, which separates us into two groups. Ruby shoots at the bird.
"I hate that bird!" I switch to Gorgon and start shooting at the avian.
Jaune notices that Pyrrha, Ren, and Blake are struggling with the Deathstalker.
"Man, we gotta get over there! They need help!"
"Let's do this!"
"Yeah, but, uh… I can't make that jump."
Nora smiles, and knocks Jaune behind her.
"Oh, wait!" Jaune yells.
Nora transforms her weapon into a hammer and catapults Jaune over the gap by slamming the hammer on the other end of the broken bridge.
"No, no, no, no!"
Nora then stands on her hammer's head and creates an explosion to launch herself over the gap.
"Wheeee!"
"Godspeed, you weird orange-haired girl that reminds me of Thor the God of Thunder for some reason." I said.
"Ah, smash!"
She lands a hit on the Deathstalker's head and launches herself backwards before it could cut her with it's claws, accidently bumping into Blake and knocking her off the bridge. Blake uses her weapon as a sickle to save herself and launches herself to the Nevermore by creating a clone, turns her weapon into a cleaver, attacking the bird's head multiple times running down it's back, joining me, Ruby, Weiss, and Yang.
"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake states.
"Then let's hit it with everything we got!" Of course Yang would come up with that idea.
"I'm all charged up and ready to go!"
They see my red electricity around me.
Ice Demon is shocked."Wait! You're fast, and you have electric powers? You are an alien!"
Ruby brags. "Told you!"
Ruby transforms Crescent Rose into it's scythe form, Blake's transforms into a pistol, Weiss loads her Dust cartridge, Yang readies her shotgun gauntlets, and I switch to Gorgon. We all shoot at the incoming Nevermore. Unfortunately, the Nevermore is unaffected by the projectiles and slams into the ruins, which forces us to move to a higher section.
"None of this is working!" I haven't noticed Weiss.
"Urg! I need to get close to it!" I yell.
Ruby thinks for a while.
"I have a plan! Cover me and Justice!"
We launch off. Yang is still shooting at the bird and I go near her.
"Yang, I need you cover me!"
The Nevermore charges at us, Yang leaps forward holding it's beak open, and I jump on it's back. Yang starts to shoot rounds down it's throat.
"I! Hope! You're! Hung-ry!"
She jumps off to the ground. I switch to the Stug Gel Gun and praise it.
"You know, you keep on proving to be pretty useful. Let's continue that." I climb on the bird's head and shoot a compound on each eye. They explode, causing the bird blindness and I jump off joining the group before the Nevermore crashes into the cliff. Weiss charges at it and freezes its tail feathers. And I see it was about to break free. "I'll put a shock your system!"
I shock the giant avian with my red electric strike and causes it weaken a lot. Blake transforms her weapon into its ribbon form and tosses to Yang to create a crude slingshot between two stone pillars. Ruby uses her weapon to pull herself back and Weiss assists her with a black glyph.
"Of course you would come up with this idea."
"Think you can make the shot?"
"Hmph. Can I?"
"...Can-"
"Of course I can!"
Ruby cocks Crescent Rose, and Weiss' glyph releases her, launching her off the ribbon at the Nevermore, I use Venka to cut off it's wings so Ruby has a better shot at killing it.
I encourage the youn- red reaper. "Make it count!" Yeah, that's great encouragement me.
Ruby hears this while being launched still, fires multiples shots to accelerate herself even more, and hooks her scythe on the bird's neck. Weiss creates an entire column of glyphs allowing Ruby to run vertically on the cliffside, speeding herself up by firing more shots while dragging the Nevermore with her leaving rose petals in her wake. When she gets to the top, she cuts the bird's head clean off its shoulders. We watch as the headless body falls to the ground in wonder.
Jaune says. "Wow."
Me, Blake, Weiss, and Yang walk to the cliff Ruby is standing on top of.
"Well. That was a thing." Yang says.
"Yeah, an awesome thing!" I bump my fist in the air.
Back at Beacon, Ozpin starts to announce the teams on stage.
"Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward you will work together as… Team CRDL [Cardinal]." Two big screens show their images and letters. "Lead by… Cardin Winchester!"
The crowd of black silhouettes clap. Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora walk up to the stage.
"Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as…" Their images and letters show up on the screens, forming JNPR [Juniper]. "Team JNPR. Lead by… Jaune Arc!"
Jaune was confused. "Huh? L-lead by…?"
He didn't look too happy but Pyrrha did.
"Congratulations, young man."
Pyrrha playfully punches Jaune in the arm, but knocks him down.
"Now before I get to the last team, I have a quick announcement." The crowd goes silent. I wonder what this announcement is. "Today we have a special student with us in this school. He is the first extraterrestrial to ever attend Beacon, he comes from a race of highly trained warriors called Tenno whose sworn duty is to protect the universe, please welcome Volt, a.k.a Justice Chief!"
The crowd was silent at first, and soon all started clapping as I walk up on the stage.
"Thank you all for welcoming me to this planet and school. I hope to get used to life on Remnant. And seeing black silhouettes. Which is kind of creepy."
They cheer and laugh, thinking my last two lines was a joke. Then Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang step up on the stage.
"Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Volt. And Yang Xiao Long. The five of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will be known as Team RWVBY [RUBY]. Lead by… Ruby Rose."
The crowd claps in excitement and Yang hugs her. Weiss doesn't look too happy.
"I'm so proud of you!" Yang says.
"BOOYAKASHA!"
"Looks like things are shaping up to be an… interesting year." Headmaster states.
So, this can be considered a lucky turn of events for me. Yeah, there's no next chapter. Until next time.
