Alright so I want to thank everyone who gave team name suggestions. In the end, I used Jack Lycan and Deltablacknaruto's team names for Team A and Team B respectively. Thanks guys. Now on with the show. I do not own RWBY.
Chapter 3- Teams formed and First Day of Class.
Jaune's POV
You would think a room full of Hunters and prospective Hunters would be more observant but no-one has called me out on Fenrir so far. Of course, the teachers might just be waiting to see what happens. Ozpin just put four guys together forming team CRDL.
"Jaune Arc," Of course he uses that name, I should have come up with a fake name over the years. "Blake Belladonna, Lie Ren, and Nora Valkyrie. You collected the white rook pieces, as such you shall form team ABRN (Auburn) … Mr. Arc you are aware there is a Grimm on your shoulder correct?" Weapons are readied and pointed while I pick Fenrir off my shoulder and start telling Pecus to get ready for action.
"Yep, he's my new pet. His name is Fenrir and unless I tell him to he won't hurt a fly." Ozpin leans in to examine Fenrir and once he's close enough Fenrir licks his face while staring at him with big eyes. The little guy already knows how to use his cuteness. Ozpin wipes his face off and then takes a sip from his coffee mug.
"You are aware pets are not allowed at Beacon?" I shake my head at that and put Fenrir down on the ground.
"Call it an experiment in if Grimm can be tamed. So far it seems to be working." I doubt anyone but me could pull something like this off but whatever works. Ozpin seems to think for a few seconds before replying.
"Any damage he causes shall be your responsibility. The first time he hurts someone in anything other than self-defense I will have him destroyed." That's as good as it's going to get. Nora then grabs Blake, Ren, and I in a bear hug and I feel bones crack. After Nora is done trying to break our spines we get off the stage and Little Red, Pyrrha, Ice Queen, and Firecracker step on the stage.
"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Pyrrha Nikos, and Yang Xiao Long. You four collected the white knight pieces, therefore you shall make up team RWYN (Rain) led by Ruby Rose." Hmm, Little Red has a lot of potential and honestly does seem the best choice. Pyrrha wants to avoid the spotlight, Firecracker seems to be a hothead, and Ice Queen is too entitled. With team RWYN formed the ceremony is over and everyone can hit the hay. We all go grab our stuff and head to our assigned dorms, we end up across the hall from team RWYN. Once everyone claims the bed they want I cough into my hand to get their attention.
"Alright so I think we should all lay down some ground rules. All in favor?" The others nod in agreement while Fenrir holds up a paw. "Alright so rule one, no waking us up by shouting out at the top of our lungs. I have enhanced hearing and really don't want a repeat of this morning. Also, I doubt the neighbors will be fond of us for waking them up as well." Ren sends me a look of sympathy while Blake agrees with me. Nora pouts at the rule but doesn't argue.
"Rule two, we should make some kind of chore rotation. That can be left for later." That motion passes as well. Honestly there's only one more thing I can think of. I address Nora and Ren
"And finally, this one is for you two. If you need to have some private time wait till the weekend and go rent a hotel room. I don't want to have to walk into the room and have it reek from your couple activities." Both of them blush at that but look confused.
"But me and Ren aren't together-together." Wait what?
"But your scents are perfectly mixed. I've only smelled something like that on married couples, and never on the level you two have." Ren's faces may be calm but it's burning red while Nora is sneaking glances at Ren. I shrug and start unpacking.
"Never mind that one then. If you guys ever have an issue bring it up and will sort it out. Anyone want a wake-up call in the morning? I usually get up early." All three ask for one, Ren rather begrudgingly. I let everyone go ahead and wash up before me while I unpack my stuff. Once my three teammates are down using the shower I drag Fenrir into the shower, remove my hoodie, my bandages, and lock the door before I start scrubbing Fenrir down.
"Looks like the pup doesn't like getting washed." Understatement of the year. Fenrir keeps trying to get loose and it's taking me pinning him down with my Grimm arm to keep him relatively still while I use a washcloth to try and get all the grime off his bone mask.
"Stay still you little rascal!" I wasn't xpecting this to be so hard, Fenrir is strong for such a little thing.
"Need some help leader?" I jump when Nora slams open the door, which I was sure I locked, and grow a bone blade which I point at her. The blade isn't what her eyes are on though. Rather their drawn to my Grimm arm. Before I can react she grabs me and drags me out to the bedroom. Blake and Ren are both reading when we come into the room and look up at the noise. Both gasp at the sight of my arm. Blake reacts first.
"Jaune what happened." Blake knows the truth of my existence and as such she clearly has an idea. Hope she's good at improv.
"I got cocky and overused my semblance." I hold up my right arm and start making the bone gauntlet sink in and out over and over again. "Body Modification, it's rather useful but there's a time limit for how long I can safely use it. I kept up this transformation too long and now my arm won't switch back, on the bright side I can do this now." I hold my left hand up and make the fingers grow into sharpened points.
Nora starts gushing over the arm, finding it interesting. Ren takes note of my bone gauntlet and then keeps switching his gaze between it and my left arm.
"Is there a reason your features look so Grimm-like." Sharp, I'll have to be careful with him. "I find it humorous to fight Grimm using features similar to their own. Over time it simply became habit for me to use Grimm as a model for what I shift my body into." I focus on my left arm and it shifts into a black King Taijitu head. I hold it up and it's tounge flicks into the air.
"I'll ask you guys keep this a secret. I've had a few close calls where people thought I was part Grimm. One time the only thing that stopped a mob from forming was a retired hunter that saw something like my semblance before. It's always been okay when I can change back instantly but the arm sets people on the edge." Ren and Nora nod and promise to keep it a secret while I go back and finish cleaning Fenrir up. Once that's done I take my own shower and put on a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. After rewrapping my bandages, I slip into bed while Fenrir curls up into a ball at the end of my bed.
Sleep comes easily, it's the nightmares that are hard to deal with. Usually I end up back in Watt's lab having a cocktail of Grimm blood and chemicals pumped into me followed by intense electrical shocks but sometimes it's worse. Along with the abilities and forms of Grimm I gained the memories of the ones I absorb, Pecus keeps them wrapped up tight usually but occasionally some slip through. Tonight, appears to be one of those times.
I'm running through a small village on all fours. Something that smells sweet is nearby, the metallic scent of blood is so thick I can taste it, it makes me hunger. A scream draws my attention, I rush towards the noise. All around me flames rise and my pack feasts. Soon I reach the scream and find a human female being eaten from the legs up. I stand over her and look down at her tear-filled face before lunging forward. My jaws snap around her neck and I wait for the squirming to stop, I listen as the heart stops beating and then begin eating my meal.
I shoot up awake and unsheathe my claws. Looking around I see I'm the only one awake, the only noise in the room being my heavy breathing. I hold back a sob and calm myself down. It's times like this I struggle to not just tear my own throat out. I know that wasn't me but the memories always get to me, it's worse once I wake up because then my human thinking picks up details Grimm don't recognize.
Grimm don't usually grow in size during pregnancy, maybe a slight growth around the womb during the last month or so but that's it. It's a brilliant adaptation because it hides the fact that by killing that Grimm you'll be taking out more than one. Because of this they don't recognize pregnancy, only the fact the human has more meat to devour. That woman whose throat I... the Grimm… whoever bit down on was pregnant, probably close to birth from the looks of things.
I make my way to the bathroom and start vomiting into the toilet. I try to keep it quiet but then I hear someone come up behind me and rub my back. Once I'm done I look back and see my partner in her black dress-thing looking down on me with concern.
"Ren and Nora are still sleeping, want to talk about it?" I make to say no when Pecus speaks up.
"Just do it. I live in your mindscape, I know what these memories are starting to do to you. Since we don't have an actual shrink to talk to just talk with her. You know I can't help you here." No matter how different he is or the fact he has a wide emotional spectrum Pecus is still a Grimm. He didn't pick up as much from me as I did from him. He feels sorrow at a child dying but it's dulled, he also sees the Grimm eating and finds it natural. I'm not sure who between the two of us is more broken.
"A side effect of the absorption is I get the memories of the Grimm. Usually they're locked up tight but sometimes one or two slips through. I saw one… it was bad... lots of dead. I'd rather not think about it" Blake seems to think on my words before she speaks again.
"What actually happened to your arm, I doubt you told the whole truth." I smirk at her, I knew I got a smart one for a partner.
"I wasn't lying about getting overconfident. That bastard Taurus didn't take my rejection too well and started a fight, I got overconfident and then he used what I believe to be his semblance. I barely dodged enough to not be cut in half, as it was I lost the arm but managed to take one of his eyes before running out of there. I managed to regrow it, to my own shock at that, but as you saw it's not exactly human. Now if you'll go wake up the others I'll take first shower."
Blake nods and leaves the bathroom. I then get into the shower and scrub myself clean before brushing my teeth. I don't bother with the hair, it's pretty much untamable. I slip on my boxers and then walk out to change into my uniform. The others stare for a second before looking away, Blake seems a little red though. I wonder why? It's not that hot in the room.
"Blake's POV"
After we all got ready we all went for breakfast, team RWYN was oddly absent but less time with a Schnee is a good thing in my book. That reminds me I'll have to be more careful when I read Ninjas of Love now that I have roommates. Ilia gave me enough flak about my choice in literature, it's not smut no matter what she says.
Our first class is Grimm Studies under a professor named Port, he's interesting to say the least. After team RWYN runs in a second before they're late he starts talking about his own experiences and the story then starts turning into a sleep-inducing speech.
"Sir, was the Beowolf you faced one that grew elbow protrusions or one that focused more growth on its claws?" I look at Jaune surprised to see him awake and taking notes while Fenrir is sitting on the table next to his notebook.
"I'm rather impressed Mr. Arc..." Jaune's face twitches and he then interrupts the teacher. "Just Jaune Professor, I prefer to be known by my name, not my ancestors." Port nods at him and chuckles.
"Oh I like that attitude, now as I was saying I'm rather impressed you were aware Beowolves can vary like that. For your information, it had an extra inch or two on the claws then the standard Beowolf, nearly took an eye out." Jaune nods and rights that down while Port gets back to the story. Once he's down he gestures to a cage in the corner of the room.
"Now normally I would ask for a volunteer at this point but I actually want to see if Mr. A.. sorry, if Jaune has the brawn to go with the brain. Jaune sighs and hops over the table onto the stage like area that is in front of the tables, Fenrir is right on his heels.
"Uhh, do you not want your weapons and armor?" Jaune shrugs while unbuttoning his shirt to reveal his chest, for the second time today for me. I just now noticed his tie isn't actually tied.
"I am my own weapon and I can move freely enough in this, besides you've only got a low-level Boarbatusk in there." Everyone, including me, stares at him in shock and Port raises an eyebrow at him. Seeing the looks he shrugs.
"Size of the cage, the fact we're only first years, and the slight squeal I can hear all put together." Port claps his hands and seems pleased.
"Good show boy, now then let's see if you can be a true Hunter." With a swing of his axe Port destroys the cage's lock and as Jaune said a Boarbatusk comes flying out of the cage. It stares at Jaune for a second before rolling into a ball and rolling forward at Jaune. Jaune merely sidesteps it and swings on one heel to bring the other crashing into the Grimm and send it flying into the wall where it slides to the ground. In a burst of speed Jaune is in front of it and has planted his foot on its ribs before leaping back.
"Fenrir, show me what you got." Fenrir seems to nod before placing himself between Jaune and the Boarbatusk. Said creature then gets up but with a limp and starts rolling again only for Fenrir to dodge this time by jumping to the side and then slashing at the Boarbatusk with his claws. When the spinning stops claw marks are visible on its hind legs and the Fenrir runs forward and his jaws close around the Boarbatusk's throat. In a panic, it shakes its head back and forth causing Fenrir to lose his grip and go flying. Jaune plucks him out of the air and sets him down.
"Good boy. About what I expected for someone so young." Jaune rushes the Boarbatusk and plants a foot on a tusk gasping it and pulling. With a snap, it comes off and Jaune then uses it to stab the Boarbatusk in the chest. It squeals for a few seconds before it stops moving.
Jaune was playing with it the whole time, he didn't even use any of his abilites from what I could tell. And he was able to fight Adam and live while apparently blinding him in one eye, just how strong is he? The idea of fighting him as an enemy scares me, I can tell he'd show no quarter.
Jaune's POV
"How did you do that?" I've barely sat down for lunch after a couple more classes and Ruby is looking at me with stars in her eyes from my right while Black is sitting on my left. I notice that the rest of my team and team RWYN is also looking for an answer.
"It's merely experience, I've faced enough Boarbatusks to know the best place to stab them." Ruby seems disappointed that I can't give her trick to use, it's like looking at a little puppy that's been kicked.
"If you want I can teach you a few things, Grimm are my specialty." Ruby nods so fast I can barely keep up. Before I can react Ruby has a tight grip around my neck.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" I try to reply but I can't seem to get the oxygen to do so. I grip Ruby's wrist and try to lightly break her grip but it's not working. How is this slip of a girl so strong?
"You might want to let your boyfriend breathe sis." Ruby lets go as if burned and I gulp down the air.
"Jau…Jaune is just a friend Yang." I nearly snort at how timid she sounds, what happened to the girl that decapitated a Nevermore. Yang then focuses on me.
"So, Jaune did you find that fight in Port's class boaring?" I chuckle at her joke and start eating my meal only to notice Ruby is looking at me with horror in her eyes. What could have scared her so much?
Time skip
Oum if you have any sense of mercy strike me down now. Two hours since lunch and every chance she's had Yang has been saying pun after pun.
"Make it stop! I don't care if you have to put a knife in your ears just make it stop!" Even Pecus is in agony right now.
"Jaune, I hate you."
"I'm right there with you Ren." Nora is just laughing up a storm while Blake is somehow able to ignore Yang, I need to get her to teach me how.
"All right students. I am Professor Goodwitch, I expect to be called that. I shall be helping you improve in combat. We shall be using tournament standards for these matches and for now will focus on 1v1 matches. Now if Mr. Arc and Mr. Winchester would go get their gear and then come down here I'd like for you two to help show how the aura monitoring system works. Stretching I get up and move Fenrir from my lap to Blake's.
"Keep an eye on Fenrir for me, I don't want to have to worry about him dying on me." I'm fine letting him help in a fight against Grimm but against a Human or Faunus will leave him dead. With promise to keep an eye on him I head to the changing room and switch into my normal clothes. Once that's done I head out into the arena and see Cardin standing on the other side with a smirk on his face resting a mace on his shoulder. Once I'm standing across from him Goodwitch taps her scroll a few times and a screen pops up with bars under pictures of me and Cardin.
"Now then you will fight until you either get a ring out or you manage to force your opponent into the red. If I feel the need I will intervene." A clock starts counting down from on the screen and once it hits zero Goodwitch gives us the signal to begin.
"Take this beast!" Cardin runs forward and swings his mace at me but it's so slow. I backpedal away from him and he hits the ground where I was standing causing a few cracks to form. This soon becomes a pattern, he rushes straight forward and swings wildly at me while I dodge easily enough. There are a few close calls but I can tank several of these blows.
"Stand still and fight you animal!" I sigh and when he comes swinging at me again I grow a bone gauntlet around my right hand and catch the mace with it.
"One minute, that's how long you'd last in the outskirts. All power with no real speed or tactics to back it up. Not to mention racists like you tend to die pretty quickly out there, most don't bother helping morons like you survive." I rip the mace out of his grip and kick him back a few feet before giving the mace a few practice swings to get the feel of it. Nope, I don't like the feel of it. Tossing the mace behind me I wait for Cardin to make the next move.
I don't have to waste long as he starts throwing punches at me. One after another in a rain of blows, if I can't dodge one I simply grow bone armor at the spot where it will hit. Then I start going on the offensive. My punches have either the bone gauntlet or the Grimm enhancement backing them up on top of aura powering each blow up. Seeing Cardin is near empty I grab his shoulders and drive my knee into his gut. When he kneels over I bring my elbow down on his neck while driving my knee into his face. He falls to the ground dazed after that while his aura enters the red.
"I take what I said back, you wouldn't last thirty seconds." I proved I could handle his mace and he comes swinging at me with his fists. I'll give him points for stubbornness but that might just be stupidity.
So, first day at Beacon and I've already become a teacher's pet from what I've heard students whispering out and I've made an enemy given the way Cardin is glaring at me, he's kinda like a less-talented, human version of Taurus. Well this should be fun at least, I'll need to study up on team strategies though. I'm not a lone wolf anymore, what was Ozpin smoking to make me team leader?
Thoughts? Ideas? Hopes for later on?
