Team JSON

Chapter 9

The Badge and the Burden

It was a beautiful day at Beacon. The sun outside was shining bright and Team JSON was sleeping peacefully.

Jason stirred and opened his eyes. He looked up and saw his teammates still asleep. Olivia was on her side wrapped up in her blanket. Niko was half hanging off his bed snoring loudly. And Sonya was wearing sleeping masks and had curls in her hair.

He smiled as he looked at his team. 'Well, better get dressed and ready,' he thinks to himself as he hops of his bed he notices that their stuff was still in their luggage. They had their uniforms on their beds but all their personal items were in their packs. 'Well first things first lets take a shower then I'll wake my team if they are still sleeping.' He walks into the bathroom and washes off.

He comes out dressed in full uniform. He wore a black tuxedo with a white undershirt and a red striped tie. Black pants and athletic shoes and his finger-less gloves. He gelled his spikey hair so it stood up. He looked around and saw his team was still sleeping he sighed. He was about to shout when a sharp whistle rang through the air.

With that his team woke. Niko fell of his bed. Sonya grumbled and sat up with groggy eyes as she took off her sleeping mask. Olivia sat up and let out a small yawn.

"Ugh." Niko said, "Could you have found a better way to wake us up instead of using a whistle."

"That wasn't me." Jason said as he help his friend off the floor.

"Well then who was it." Sonya grumbled as she rubbed the crust from her eyes.

"I think it was one of the other rooms." Olivia says as she walk to the bathroom to get changed.

"Come on guys, we've got a busy morning ahead of us. First, we need to unpack, and second we have class at nine so we gotta hurry." Jason said.

"Yeah, whatever." Sonya said as she slowly got of the bed as Niko fell back onto his. Jason sighed, he walked over to his trunk and opened it. After some rummaging he found what he was looking for. A Glock 18, eighteen shots, he pulled out a clip that had his custom bullets, the rounds where purely full of gunpowder and no tips. They gave off quite a loud bang.

As he looked at the gun he closed his eyes as a torrent of bad memories came, his bother dying, a gunshot from the distance, his house burning down, and a White Fang soldier holding the Glock pointing it at his brother's limp body.

He shook the thoughts away as he loaded the guns with, what he likes to call, Wake Up rounds. He uses it quite often to wake up Niko, he rose the gun into the air and silently apologized to the other sleeping teams, he put in his earplugs then fired all eighteen shots into the air.

Niko and Sonya jumped to their feet then grabbed their shower stuff and ran to the school bathrooms.

Jason smiled, 'Works like a charm'. As Olivia walk out of the bathroom with her uniform of she said, "Was that necessary?" Olivia asked cocking her head to the side. "Hey it worked." Jason said. Olivia was wearing something similar to him except she had on a skirt instead of pants and wore black leggings with her sneakers.

A few minutes later Niko and Sonya walked in Niko wore the same thing as Jason only with clothe wrapped around his hand and shoes, and Sonya wore the same thing as Olivia except with no leggings and instead with boots and purple finger-less gloves and her beanie.

Olivia's hair was straight and as black as night. Niko had curly brown hair; Sonya has her light brown hair in curls. Jason's hair is spiked with a single stand hanging down from the front.

"Alright we're all set so let's get down to our first order of business!" Jason says cheerfully as if he didn't just fire a gun into the air. He put his gun, now loaded with stun rounds, and put it under his pillow. "Luggage." He says.

"Uh, what?" says Niko who was still groggy from sleep. "We haven't unpacked our stuff yet," Olivia said as she held up her suitcase, it opened and spilled all its contents on the floor, "and cleaning."

"Oh, alright let's get to it!" Niko says. They then speed around the room unpacking luggage, organizing personal belongings and putting up posters on the walls.

Olivia has a mini bookshelf on the end of her bed, she used her trunk as a stand. She also had a antique kunai in a glass case on her nightstand. She assured her team it was lethal to take out any intruders.

Sonya had a huge collection of clothing in her trunk. She wanted to take them out and put them in the drawer but after some coaxing she finally agreed to keep it in her trunk. Though not before giving Jason and Niko a lump on the head.

Niko had a whetstone, given to him by Master Evin, on his nightstand, and a poster of his favorite rock-band, the Ninety 9 Huntsmen, the poster showed a bunch of guys dressed in punk clothing.

Jason had a whetstone, also from Master Evin, on his nightstand as well as a hunting knife, on the knife was engraved in an ancient Vale language, Axio, which more or less translates into 'I am worthy'. He also had an empty shotgun shell to remind him of his family. He also had a poster that showed a wide variety of guns and swords.

Once they finished they stood back to admire their handy work, "Not bad team." Jason says, he then looks at the clock. "In forty-five minutes." he said with a nod, "Now, then on to the next thing… classes"

He clapped his hands together then said, "So first we have a class at nine wi—"

"Wait did you say nine!?" Sonya yelled.

"Yeah why?"

"Its eight fifty- five idiot!" she says and dashes out of the room.

"Crap!" they all dash out to follow her.

As they run out Team JSON crashes into Team RWBY. Jason quickly gets to his feet since he was the most resistant to pain and ran off to their first class while shouting," Quick to class!"

being quickly followed by his team and Ruby's team.

Team JNPR sticks their head out of, "Class?" Jaune says, "Wh-whaa!" he yells as he falls over. He quickly gets up then says, "We're gonna be late!" as he sprints off leaving his team to pick themselves up.

The three teams run across the courtyard as Ozpin and Glynda look on. Glynda looks at her watch as Ozpin takes a sip of coffee.

Grimm Class: Teaches the different types of Grimm

A blunderbuss ax hung on the wall in the classroom. Under it were many diagrams of different types of Grimm. And under that, a short, plump teacher was giving a lecture on them.

"Monsters! Demons… Prowlers of the night. Yes the creatures of Grimm have many names. But I merely refer to them as prey." Peter Port then lets out a small laugh.

Jason face palms and sees Ruby wake up from her sleep from her sleep. He felt a little disappointed about that since Ruby looked so cute in her sleep, he shook his head and cleared the thoughts from his mind, 'Damn it Jason, concentrate!'

He looks back up at Professor Port.

As Port noticed that no one laughed at his horribly made joke he quickly continued on, "Uhh… and you shall to upon graduating from this prestigious academy. Now as I was saying, Vale. as well as the other three kingdoms, are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world. Our planet is absolutely teeming with creatures that would like nothing more than to tear you to pieces." Professor Port continues as he walks back and forth along the front of the classroom.

"And that is where we come in. Huntsmen! Huntresses" he clicks his tongue, Yang rolls her eyes gives a small laugh, but not from joy more from awkwardness.

"Individuals who have sworn to protect those who cannot protect themselves. From what you ask… Why. The very world!"

A random student pumps his fist into the air and shouts "Eeey-yeah!" everyone turns to look at him. He shrinks back down into his chair quickly.

"That is what you are training to become. But first a story. A tale of a young, handsome, man. Me. When I was a boy…" the rest of his story turns into a series of blah, blah, blahs as Jason tuned him out.

This was mind boggling boring, sure he was a diligent student but even for him this was number one on most boring lecture, and he's had some pretty boring lectures before, mainly from Master Evin. He has learned to tune out the words and just catch important bits long ago thanks to Master Evin's hard training, for that he was grateful.

As he looked down at Team RWBY who was just a row under him and his team, he sees Ruby hold up a drawing for her team to see. It was a horrible looking picture of Port, on top it was labeled 'Professor Poop'. He covers his mouth to hold in a laugh as he nudges Nathan. Nathan looks and starts to giggle uncontrollably, as the girls look at what they were looking at.

Sonya and Yang lets out small quiet laughs as Blake and Olivia just let out a smile. Weiss glares at her leader.

Port clears his throat as the laughing teams quiet down and looks back over at him. "In the end the Beowolf was no match for my shear tenacity. And I returned to my village with the beast in captivity and my head help high. Celebrated, as a hero." Peter Port bows then continues, "The moral of this story? A true huntsman must be honorable." Weiss glares more at Ruby as Ruby cross her eyes and balance a pencil on her finger, a book on the pencil, and an apple on the book.

"A true huntsman must be dependent."

Weiss glares even harder as she growls softly as Ruby is now sleeping. Jason sees this and frowns, 'Looks like someone's not happy.' He thinks to himself as he continues to watch the two.

"A true huntsman must be strategic…" Ruby, not so discretely picks her nose, causing Weiss to glare harder.

"Well- educated, and wise." Peter Port says as Ruby continues to pick her nose. Weiss starts to shake in fury as she keeps looking at Ruby's childish act.

"So who in this room thinks they hold these traits of a true Huntsmen?"

"I do sir." she says with her fist clenched.

Jason looks to Nathan, "Does she really?" he whispered to Nathan, Nathan chuckles and shrugs.

"Man the Schnee must think they are so high and mighty." Sonya says to herself, as Olivia just watches with her usual non-readable expression.

Jason looks back to the front, Professor Port smiles, he gestures to a shaking cage at the front of the class, in it are two glowing red eyes, "Step up and face your opponent."