The following morning, I got into my suit of dark plated armour and put all my weapons in place, and proceeded to wake Jaune.
"Jaune, time to get up."
"But mommy, I don't want to go to school…" He mumbled and crept into his covers. Damnit.
"A cute girl is asking for your number~" I sing-songed, and he immediately stood up.
"What? Where?" Whenever girls were mentioned, He snaps to attention.
"I have no clue what your on about, Jaune, but get dressed. It's breakfast time." We walked over to the cafeteria and Jaune grabbed a plate of pancakes, While I grabbed a slice of french toast. Before I could eat it though, Weiss Schnee slid in right next to me, stealing Jaune's spot and forcing him to sit on the other side. She began to play with my brown hair, and I politely removed her hand. My steel eyes glanced around in nervousness, and I could tell I had no escape.
"I was wondering… If maybe you would like to be partners?" I stopped eating.
"Wait, partners?"
"Partners for the survival exercise, of course!" I looked at Jaune, confirming his fear.
"Well, Im sorry, but I already have a partner… My good buddy Jaune!" I said, pointing at him. Good. Sorry Jaune, but I gotta bail. Jaune gave me a wide-eyed expression that soon molded into his 'Fuck You' expression while I gave a shit eating grin and bailed out of there, armour and all.
Several Hours later
We walked onto the Jump Pads, ready for anything. Jaune was obviously scared shitless, and I could tell why. We were getting launched off of a cliff straight into a forest. Jaune was terrified.
"Don't we need any parachutes or anything?" Five seconds left until I get launched.
"Just stay calm, and pray to Oum that you don't get splattered against the ground." I hollered, and Launched off.
"Wheee!" I went soaring through, but i could tell it wouldn't last long. I made sure I was close to where Jaune had been pinned to a tree (One of the others saved him from becoming a splatter of Jaune on the dirt) and slammed into the ground, the dirt around me shaking from the impact.
"Alright Jaune, time to go and save your ass." I muttered, and took out my longsword and grabbed my shield out of my pocket, enlarging it into it's original size. After searching around for a few minutes and killing several beowolves along the way, I found Jaune and the same girl that had thrown the spear that saved his life walking together through the forest. I decided to greet them.
"Jaune! You survived!" He blushed and glanced at the girl next to him.
"Pyrrha saved my life!" He declared, and she blushed as well. Where had I heard that name before?…
"Are you Pyrrha Nikos? Champion of Mistral?" I questioned, and Jaune had a complete blank look on his face. Pyrrha sighed.
"Yes, I am…" So I was right.
"I was one of your opponents in the past tournament! remember? The only one that tied the match against you?" Pyrrha looked pleasantly surprised.
"Are you the Atlas Knight?"
"that I am." Jaune was still confused.
"Wait, wait, wait. What's going on here?"
"She was one of my opponents in the tournament! The Dark Atlasian Knight against the Mistralian Goddess of Victory!" Pyrrha was crossing her arms and shaking her head no.
"Oh, but enough with the details. Let's get going. After all, Im pretty sure that pack of beowolves have us surrounded by now." I said cheerfully, putting my shield away and changing my longsword into it's machine gun form.
"Alright Jaune, on the count of three, Im going to shoot a large hole in their lines. I want you to go straight through and run like hell. Got it?" Jaune nodded in confirmation while Pyrrha took out her spear and shield.
"ANGRIFF!" I shouted, and began to unleash a barrage of bullets straight down their line, catching the beowolves by surprise and creating a large hole.
"Jaune, Haul ass! You too Miss Nikos!" I switched to the longsword and cut straight through another beowolf, letting out a sadistic laugh as schadenfreude clicked in.
"Pyrrha, We have to get out of here! When he gets like this, He doesn't stop until all the enemies he sees are dead!" I could hear Jaune holler, and then they rushed away. after five minutes, all that remained before me were black puddles. I reloaded Righteous Justice and changed it back to it's sword form, sheathing it and walking towards where Jaune and Pyrrha had went off to. I eventually reached a clearing in which I found… Pretty much everyone else. Jaune and Pyrrha were having a conversation while A girl was riding on top of a Ursa, which promptly collapsed and died while a boy chased after her. four girls were together (Including Weiss Schnee and Ruby) and Ruby was busy clutching onto a Blonde that I assumed was her sister. I sighed and then I noticed the chess pieces set at the stone ruins. When I came closer, I facepalmed. Four rooks, four white knights and just one dark knight, which I could tell was placed there purposely for me. The others had all huddled around me, and had chosen their pieces; Weiss, Ruby, her sister and the other girl who was apparently called Yang and Blake, chose the white knight pieces while Jaune, Pyrrha, and the girl and boy from earlier who introduced themselves as Nora and Ren chose the white rook pieces. along with the pieces were a piece of paper dictating that the black knight can join any team he chooses. Which automatically lead to arguments.
"Because he has a knight piece, he should join our team as well!" A teenage boy on hormones with a group of all girls? god no.
"Lance is my best friend! He should join with us!" Good argument, Jaune.
"WHICH TEAM DO YOU CHOOSE?!" Weiss and Jaune hollered at me unexpectedly, causing me to stumble and fall. I turned around and pointed upwards.
"We have bigger problems to deal with!" They looked upwards, and Jaune whimpered.
"Mommy…" A Giant Nevermore was flying towards them, and I grabbed Righteous Justice and transformed it into it's ranged form.
"Achtung! Feind Luftmaßeinheit!" I shouted in german, and Weiss looked surprised. No time to focus on that now. I shot at the Giant creature, making it squawk in anger and miss it's bombing run.
"Guys! bail!" I hollered, and ducked behind a tree as a giant feather speared the ground where I had been. There was no way my armour could have saved me from that high velocity projectile. Our group reached the ruins of some kind of tower, and our situation became even worse. Apparently Jaune and Pyrrha had managed to piss off a Deathstalker, because one was walking towards us right now.
"Jaune, I need a idea."
"What?! why me?"
"Because you always passed with flying colours in a test of strategy."
"Give me a moment…" I ducked a flailing claw and opened my shield, attaching it tightly to my arm. Great. Now i had some form of defence. I began to shoot at the Deathstalker again and hollered at Jaune.
"Anything is good!" Ren kept shooting at it's stinger, and then got smacked aside. And then Jaune had his moment of genius.
"Pyrrha!" He yelled, and she understood. she threw her shield and it severed the stinger, causing it to screech in pain, and as if to add even more salt into the wound, the stinger speared itself into the Deathstalker's head.
"Nora! Now!" Jaune yells, and Nora launched herself off of Pyrrha's shield which had somehow returned back to her arm, and slammed her hammer straight onto the stinger, impaling the deathstalker's brain. the Body falls limp, and then slides off into the abyss, causing us to cheer. I turned around and watched a impressive sight; Ruby was using her speed and dragging the Nevermore by the neck, running straight up a cliff before beheading the Nevermore, causing it's body to fall down. During our return, However, Weiss confronted me.
"Who are you exactly? Are you from Atlas?" She questioned.
"Yes. As for my identity… I thought it would be obvious." I sighed, and showed her the engravings on my weapon. She looked at me in shock.
"You're a…" I finished her sentence.
"Im one of the last members of the Teutonic Order, built to save the people of Astral against the Grim during the old times. One of their members. I joined the Atlas Academy to receive more training and so that I would have a plausible cover story." At this, she looked at me skeptically.
"Why are you here then?" I raised my visor and grinned.
"To learn to be a huntsman, just like everyone else."