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Arc 2: First Steps. Chapter 5: Chaotic Days
Beacon Academy - Ozpin's office
"After much consideration Mr. Mayhiro, we researched your weapon and have come to the conclusion." the headmaster sighed as he stood up from his seat and walked over to the young hammer user, placing a hand on his shoulders he took a deep breath.
"I am sorry Akashi. Your weapon is hereby forbidden to be used, you will not be given back your weapon, we will store it here, where it will do no more damage."
"...What?" Akashi asked almost inaudibly.
The whole world crashed around him.
...
2 hours before.
"Retreat." Kirk and the other ran for their lives as the tomboy blade warrior chased after them, along with Weiss and Alex. Jaune screamed as a flare shot past him and hit a tree.
"Is this what you meant by fun!?" the blonde captain of JNPR yelled at Juge, who in turn looked at Akashi "Well!?"
"I didn't know they were going to be here! And you know how Kirk gets when he sees them... though they are nice pic-"
"AKASHI!" Juge shouted "Don't tell me-!"
"What, no!" Akashi laughed nervously as a bullet swished past him "I'm not that kind of pervert!"
"Regular Customer"
"Traitor!" Akashi yelled at Kirk as the boy jumped over the rock falling a few meters to the ground.
...
5 hours before.
"Y-yang... I didn't mean to get gravy in your hair!" Juge backed into a corner as the angry blonde walked towards him, body ablaze.
"You monster..." she growled out "You did that on purpose!"
"Hell yes he did!" Akashi yelled out "He even said that girls with blonde hair are mostly dumb!"
"Why!?" Juge screamed as he narrowly dodged a fist to his face, barrel rolling fast to get some distance "Akashi, we're teammates!"
"You blamed me and Akashi to have eaten Lucy's pocky stash!" Jaune yelled at Juge who was busy trying not to die. "Kirk said that Ruby ate her stash, it was the limited 'choc chip' pocky edition!"
"Hold still and lemme hit you!" a frustrated cry came from Yang. her fist dented the cafeteria wall and Juge jumped back to Jaune, Kirk and Akashi. The girl snorted at she charged her aura and ran at them.
"You die now!"
...
4 hours earlier.
Team AKJA's Kirk D. Fire will face of against Team JNPR's Jaune Arc." Goodwitch announced. Jaune paled.
Kirk... smirked.
"After that it'll be team LARJ's Riza Inari vs Team RWBY's Blake Belladonna."
"Are they doing it on purpose?" Riza clicked her tongue and looked at her fellow classmate.
"Interesting."
...
1 hour earlier.
"This is unbelievable!" Screamed Weiss as she scanned the listing again. Akashi wasn't the type to deal with females and slowly backed away.
"You!" the heiress turned around and glared at him hard, the hammer user gulped as he continued to walked towards the door, all teams had their eyes on the two. "Don't you dare walk away from me!"
"Eek." Akashi started sweating hard as he came under the glare of Weiss. "Um..."
"HOW? A good for nothing numbskull like you...!" the white haired girl jabbed her finger into his chest.
"Got to the TOP of the listing without studying!?"
"Um..." Akashi squirmed.
...
3 hours earlier. Morning.
'... bzzzz... bzzzzz...'
"Who's... alarm?" Riza groaned as she jammed her pillow over her head.
"No mommy... 5 more minutes..." Jaune moaned as he moved around his bed before falling off with a thud."
"Phmmm... Morning..." Phyrra slowly got up and rubbed her eyes "Whose com is going off... Juge?"
"Not me... I've been up since 6." the young man replied as he continued meditation "Perhaps it's-"
"It's mine, and it's not an alarm... someone is calling me." Akashi groaned as he slapped his hand a couple of times on the bedside table before grabbing the black scroll. Tapping the button for loud speak he rested his head again. "Hello?"
"AKKKKYYYYY!" the familiar voice was more than enough for the hammer user, no- the rest of Team LARJ and JNPR jump out bed. "Gooood morning~~~" Alexis voice sang over the speaker.
"Good morning prof Alex!" Nora and Lucy sang back to her. Akashi facepalmed as Ren smirked at him. Alexis chuckled as she acknowledged them.
"How was my baby brother's sleep? Did he need his big sister's chest to sleep comfortably?" her voice was mostly low and soft. Akashi blushed to the color of his Phyrra's hair... as did Jaune. Ren shook his head.
Lucy laughed hard.
Riza was trying to comprehend what she just said.
"S-sis... now is not the time to talk about that! I'm with my friends..." Akashi was trying not to lose it.
"Boo! Don't be like that. I still remember when you had that nightmare, you came running into my room and asked me if you could sleep in my bed." Alexis voice was more dreamy and in formal tone. "Then you started to get all t-"
"Please sis, for the love of god... don't go any further! You must have called for something other than to reminisce."
"Aww... but I was getting to the good part." Alexis sighed "Anyways I need your help with my stuff in my room, you're the tallest one and my eye are... well you know."
"Yeah yeah. But don't bring that stuff up again. Please?" Akashi was turning it into a plea as his friend snickered.
"I won't. Not yet at least my cute little Akky~" Alexis purred as the transmission ended. The room was silent for a couple of minutes before Nora and Lucy busted into laughter, followed by the rest, even Juge giggled.
"Shut it guys, this isn't funny!" Akashi snarled as he was heading to the bathroom and slammed to door noisily.
"Whatever you say Akky!" Jaune mimicked Alexis voice.
"Akky... leap into my arms!" Nora joined her captain.
"Akky... please cuddle into my chest~" Lucy wiped a tear away.
"GODDAMNIT!" Akashi yelled from the bathroom, resulting in both teams laughing out loud. Even Phyrra was giggling.
"Oh Akky~ We're just playing with you!" the girl giggled, saying his nickname that he hated.
Ever since the incident with Akashi's hammer, Team JNPR and LARJ had more fun then being with their own team only. For some reason they split the now huge space into a boys and a girls side.
Akashi and Nora had hit it off well, both being hammer users, but that soon turned into rivalry when Nora said her weapon was better. Now they have decided to duke it out when Akashi's hammer is given back to him.
Ren and Juge had a mutual respect for each other, they often spar as a warm up for the day, soon they started bonding as they were both coming form respected families. Unlike Nora and Akashi, there friendship didn't turn into rivalry.
Riza and Phyrra had their differences, but they were mutual on everything else, the most common trait was to look after their leader before they did anything stupid.
"Poor Jaune… he's trying so hard to be a good leader. He just needs a push in the right direction!"
"I know, he's a nice guy, but... sorry if I'm offending you here, I can barely believe he managed to enter Beacon."
"I know, but what about Lucy?"
"She is an airhead without question, but she does know how to fight."
"Hmm. Maybe Lucy can teach Jaune a few tricks?" Phyrra asked.
"If Jaune gave Lucy some pocky, then yes. It's amazing what Lucy will do for a pack, it's like she lives on it!"
Phyrra laughed along with Riza. The blond girl casted a soft glance at her friend. It was nice being around people that didn't look down on you. Of course she still had trouble getting truly close to them. There was this emotional barrier that was not budging yet.
"Fluffy, did you use my scrubby again!?' Akashi's head peered out of the bathroom. Riza glared at him.
"What makes you think that I used it?!"
"There's blonde hair on it!"
"Umm… that could be my fault Akashi. I was sort of in a rush to class." Jaune starched his head in shame.
"Dude….you molt?" Akashi raised an eyebrow as he looked at the team leader.
"What no!" Jaune quickly answered back " I-I-I mean I've been stressed about work and assignments we have to hand in."
"I see." And with that Akashi headed back, the sound of the shower turning on met their ears.
"Riza~ When do we have classes again?" Lucy rolled around on her bed, soon joined by Nora as she mimicked her.
"Yeah Rizy! What are our classes?"
"Nora, you should ask Jaune on that." Ren reminded her.
"Well we do share classes so…" the Fox jumped out of her bed and reached for a bag, pulling out the time table.
"The usual: 'Professor Port's story time', followed by 'try to catch Obbleck in one spot for a second' and then comes Akky's sister. After that we're free to do anything."
"H-hey... has anyone done Professor Port's homework yet? I found it hard to do." Jaune piped up.
"You can take my notes Jaune!" Akashi yelled over the shower, thanking him Jaune grabbed his book.
"I wouldn't be surprised if there were scribbles and slobber in those." Juge smiled "Akashi just sleeps all the time."
"Have you noticed that Prof Alexis lets him do that?" Riza said in a disapproving tone "Talk about getting advantages."
"Obbleck doesn't mind, he just thinks Akashi is studious like Weiss and Alex." Ren stated as he cleaned lotus storm.
"Speaking of Weiss. Have you noticed that things have calmed between her and Ruby? They must have sorted things out." Phyrra commented.
"Apparently so. She's now dedicated to being the best teammate" Riza said, quoted the heiress' words with her fingers held up.
"Mm. But have you seen that she directs her anger at him now?" Phyrra's green eyes moved to the direction of the hammer user in the shower. "It's like her rage at Ruby is now all focused on Akashi."
"Really" This time Nora and Riza spoke in unison, looking at each other. "What gave it away?"
"Have you seen how she glared at Akashi's back?" the amazon woman said as she grabbed her towel and paste, she headed her team's bathroom. "And that's not all."
"Oh now I remember!" Nora jumped on Lucy's bed, grabbing team LARJ's leader Lucy. They jumped up and down, their heads nearly touching the roof.
"I saw Weiss pushing past Akashi during dinner time, and every time Akashi is talking, her eyes narrow so small… that you almost can't see them!"
"Weissy doesn't like Akky~" Lucy sang "Neither does Alex or Jasna~!"
"Jasna hates all males Lucy." Riza stated "Alex doesn't like Akashi much since he is friends with Kirk…"
"The small guy. He's like, not there, but he is!" Nora shouted as the two did back flips and spins "He's like a living ghost."
"They called him the Phantom for a reason." Juge who had been meditating finished up and looked at everyone. "Though his hobbies are admittedly questionable."
"He sure loves girl's panties." Lucy and Nora sang together. Ren and Juge looked away and Riza facepalmed once again. Jaune surprisingly was to busy to hear.
"Kirk... is an interesting fellow." Juge admitted.
Akashi whistled as he strolled out of the bathroom in his uniform "It's all yours now guys."
"Ren?"
"Later."
"Alright then." Juge got up and headed over to the showers.
"We should get ready for Port's class." Riza nodded at Lucy and Nora, who simultaneously flipped and made a perfect land on both sides of the bed.
"Right!"
…..!5 minutes later….
Once again Everyone was seated while Port rambled on about how he was outnumbered by Beowolf.
"And so, with my quick actions, I trapped the beasts. They were helpless against my wits and this is how I saved the small village!" Taking a bow the professor only received a single clap… which was Lucy's.
"Hooray~" Lucy cheered. Port smiled.
"Thank you, thank you now!" he clapped his hands. "I have graded your paper from last week's test on the evolution of Grimm. I am very pleased with the major lot of you... some… need to tidy up."
Akashi snored as he was leaning on Jaune's shoulder. The blonde teen tried shrugging him off.
"Dude, wake up!"
"Ha. My bad…" Akashi gave him a dazed smile. From another view point, Riza's ears reacted to the sound of someone growling at their direction, looking down a row the fox faunus saw Weiss doing exactly what Phyrra and Nora said.
She was glaring daggers into his back.
"You heard it as well?" Blake who was seated next to her spoke. Riza nodded.
"What, what?" Yang asked both of them.
"Weiss snarls at Akashi."
"Huh? Why?" she snorted.
"It's a long story-"
"Story!? I love them!" Ruby butted in, making the 3 roll their eyes.
"Later sis."
"Aww…." The Leader of RWBY pouted.
"And so here are your papers." Professor Port held out their paper "It has been a long tradition in my lectures that each student's markings are listed here, from highest to lowest your mark will allocate where you stand with others."
"Oh no…" Jaune sank lowed into his seat.
"Zz…."
"Akashi!"
"What….oh… again?" The hammer user wiped the drool off his chin.
"Alexandra Wilfred!" the black haired girl stood up and collected her paper.
"Not too bad." she commented. 'But still not good enough.' she added in her mind.
"Antonio Chessa!"
"Right."
One by one the collected their paper before Port walked over towards a large white board covered with name tags all aligned in a vertical line. "Your name and score are posted up here, you have 5 minutes to check where you stand." He winked.
At once Weiss stood up and strode over towards the white board, other followed behind her.
However, Jaune and Akashi stayed back.
"I don't want to look.." Jaune moaned Akashi stood up walking away… towards the door.
"Huh? You flunked as well?"
"…Yeah… I'm going to go-" before Akashi could say anything a shrill voice knocked him off course.
"This is unbelievable!" screamed Weiss as she scanned the listing again. Akashi Gluped.
"I'll see you soon-"
"You!" the heiress turned around and glared at him hard. The hammer user gulped as he continued to walk towards the door, all teams had their eyes on the two. "Don't you dare walk away from me!"
"Eek." Akashi started sweating hard as he came under the glare of Weiss. "Um..."
"How? A lazy good for nothing numbskull like you..." the white haired girl jabbed her finger into his chest.
"Got to the top of the listing with a 100% without studying!?"
"Um..." Akashi squirmed.
(Insert music - Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney- Tension)
"What?" Juge looked to the top, sure enough.
Mayhiro, Akashi: 100%.
"But he doesn't even study!" Riza whispered. Lucy was stunned at well….scratch that,
everyone was stunned, they all knew how the hammer used rarely paid attention to his professor… expect his sister…when she wasn't trying to grope him.
"…" Akashi scratched his cheek as Weiss's ice blue eye's glared at him "P-pure luck?"
Akashi cringed as as Weiss's teeth gritted, her hand balling into a fist. "I can take Ruby's antics… but you are the perfect example of a bum!"
"Weiss?!" Ruby gasped, she was called a dunce and a dolt, but she had never seen her friend call anyone a bum.
"…" Akashi's eyes where hidden under his hair as he turned around, however Weiss wouldn't have it, grabbing his arm she spun him around to face her once again. "If you walk away from me again, I'll make sure you will be frozen for the rest of your life!"
"..." Akashi remained silent.
Jaune and the other teams watched as Weiss verbally abused him, but they were more shocked that Akashi wasn't talking back at her like he usually would… he just took it.
"You snore right in my ear, laugh at Ruby's pictures, crack jokes with that poor excuse of a hunter-"
"Hey!" Jaune felt offended.
"And worst of all, your sister is a professor! It's obvious she put you over everything else!"
"…sorry."
"Oh you're sorry!?" Weiss shouted again, getting close to his face.
"Weiss, enough." Ruby spoke to her friend, but apparently the heiress didn't hear her. Professor Port watched, waiting to take action if it was necessary "So who cares if he got 100%?"
"I care!" she glared at Ruby before looking at Akashi. "Do you realize that us hard working students - who HAVE studied hard just to get a good grade - feel when you, someone like you comes along and gets a 100?"
"...I-"
"You don't." Weiss snarled "Because you'll get just 100 on everything you try without putting one bit of effort into it!" Weiss face was a inch close to Akashi's. "And that makes me sick. You make me sick."
"That was uncalled for!" Yang barked. Once again Weiss ignored her.
"I heard that your weapon got confiscated. That's too bad, because without a weapon, you can't attend Beacon anymore… And I wish that idea was a reality." She glared hard at him.
"Ms. Schnee that is enough!" Port boomed "Telling someone that they are not welcome here is not tolerated-"
"No… she's right…" Akashi said finally "I got here…because of my perfect scores on the entrance exams."
Juge, no…everyone noticed the aura around the hammer user drop dramatically. Without a moment the boy turned away "You're not the only one who hates me for what I am…but I can't help it…" Akashi opened the door.
"I'm sorry for making you feel that way Weiss, please excuse me."
Team LARJ reacted instantly as the ran past Weiss, Riza glared darkly at her, Lucy eyes were more refined and Juge didn't bother to cast a glance as they ran after the boy.
"Weiss! What was that for!?" Team RWBY surrounded her "I though you had more tolerance than this!" Ruby cried.
"…. Ruby… you wouldn't understand."
"I totally won't!" she yelled "Sure Akashi was like me…but that doesn't give you any right to go off like that!"
"I thought he could take it."
"Well you thought wrong!" Yang said. And walked back to her seat. Port coughed into his hands.
"Well… that was unexpected, Ms. Schnee you will stay after this class. For the time being please take study notes about the Beowolf's natural habitat."
Weiss was still angry…but deep down…she knew it wasn't like her to do something like that.
"Well I say good riddance to that pig, I never liked him anyways."
"Dear Jasna, now is not the time to add fuel to the fire." Antonio shook his head. "Apparently she struck a nerve."
"…." Jasna shrugged and sat down, Alex was surprised, Team JNPR was having the same reaction.
….
"I .thought… it would be different here." Akashi walked the hall until he entered the courtyard. "Instead it's the same."
…
"Huh?" what are you kiddies doing outside of class?" The 3 members of team LARJ saw Alexis walking towards them "Where's Akky?"
"We're looking for him…Weiss said some bad things about him~ It was sad to watch."
"Huh? Akky was yelled at by a girl…what a loser!" Alexis laughed.
"She yelled at him for getting the top mark." Riza added. Alexis stopped laughing…her joking face turned serious.
"What?"
"Yeah.. I don't get it either."
Alexis stared at them before sighing "Well crap…"
"You know something?"
"He not the type to be proud of his talents. He hated being smart." Alexis sighed as she walked over towards the window "You know Akky was home schooled right?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. He was an outcast and called a nerd in A.C. Institute, no one would interact with him, hence our mum pulled him out of it and taught him what he already knows. Since then he's tried to change his ways and stopped studying altogether, but still…"
"Why? Isn't being smart good?"
"That's the thing, most people would agree, but Akky doesn't see it like that." Alexis shook her head "There's more to him than this."
…
"Akashi?" the hammer user turned around seeing Jaune and Kirk behind him "Are you okay?"
"Yeah just shaken up, that's all." He smiled sadly. Jaune waited a few moments.
"With the papers."
"Yeah… I scored another fricking 100… without even opening the page of the text book." Akashi laughed sadly "No matter how hard I try, the answer is just popping into my head…like it was a goddamn encyclopedia!"
"Man... it's not all that bad. I think that's great actually!" Jaune tried to cheer him up.
" I though so to. I really thought so, but no matter what I do, I'll ace it, and I'll be hated for it. Just like Weiss did!"
"That's her man, no one else can hate you."
"They will eventually. Hard work can get you so far, but talent gets you further.. that's logic." Akashi sat near the fountain and buried his head in his hands. "I can't believe it's already come to this after a few weeks of being here."
A hand was placed on his shoulders, looking up he saw Kirk smiling at him.
"Pervert." He pointed to himself. "Hated, loathed, outcast." But his smile grew "Don't care. I am me."
"And you are you." The phantom pointed at Akashi "Smart, tactical, respected. Good friend to me."
"….." Akashi wiped his tears and nodded "Thanks guys… means a lot."
"No problem" Jaune gave the thumbs up. Kirk spoke.
"Close eye. Present."
"Huh?"
"Present." Jaune and Akashi shrugged as they closed there eyes. A soft fabric material was placed on both their hands "Open."
Opening their eyes they found two silky objects in their grasp, one green and on blue.
"Kirk… those are not what I think..." Akashi opened the fabric revealing silky undergarments. Jaune's eyes widened as well. "Kirk…who do these belong to?"
Kirk Smiled.
"Yelling Heiress."
Today got a lot more interesting.
….
"Renard, you're exactly doing what Weiss is doing." Juge nudged Riza.
"So what, she had no right to yell at him!" the Fox snarled baring her teeth as she watched the heiress study. "She practically told him to leave Beacon!"
"Oh~? Why aren't we looking for Akky~?" Lucy sighed.
"Alexis said to head back to class…she'll find Akashi. We can go soon, it's only another 5 minutes until the lecture is over."
"Have you seen Jaune?" Ren asked from above "I haven't seen him after the... incident."
"I can say the same for Kirk." Antonio scanned the room for the striking turquoise hair..
"They must have sneaked out, those three have been good friends over the past week."
"Ren has been with them as well, but why didn't you go?" Nora asked her best friend, Ren shrugged as he jotted some notes done from his book.
"I didn't feel like I should have done something. Those three have been heading of into the forest to rain and all."
"Jaune's training!?" Phyrra spoke up getting the attention on her "I mean, that's good for him."
"But here is the thing. I don;t think they train, but they're up to something." Ren said. At that moment the bell rang. Everyone had got their book and all packed. Some of them glanced at the heiress as Port spoke with her.
"Guys, you may need to chalk one up." Team JNPR, AJKA and LARJ turned, seeing Yang and Blake behind them "Ruby went missing."
…... Some time later...
"So... you're saying that you one, sneaked into Team RWBY's room while Ruby was having a shower non less..." Jaune was pink as Akashi summed everything up as they were heading to the cafeteria. "...took steamy photos of her and then proceeded that raid on the wardrobe."
"Yes."
"And I'm I'm h-h-h-holding Weiss's..." Akashi shook his head.
"As much as I want to be in the state you are, we can't be seen with these. They will expel us dude."
"Expel? Impossible." Kirk stated "Camera rigged. Everything untouched. See?" Kirk slid his hand into his pants and pulled out a small envelope.
Akashi's hand shivered as Kirk handed him a small Polaroid. Jaune nearly screamed wasn't it for the hammer user's hand covering his mouth.
The picture contained Ruby washing her hair with her back turned against the door, Kirk's camera was top of the range, it captured the young huntress's curves and the fog gave of a my steamy effect.
"Kirk... these are quality!" Akashi couldn't help but to giggle like a pervert "How much?!"
"Good quality: 15 Lein per pic."
"Jaune, Kirk, Akashi!" Jaune escaped another scream as the said huntress came running towards them, wasting no time, Akashi placed the photos into his pocket, careful not to damage them.
"Ruby!" Jaune was the first to speak "What are you doing here?"
"Well... I wanted to see where Akashi went after what Weiss said to him... are you okay?" Ruby silver eyes stared at him sympathetically. The hammer user nodded.
"Yeah I'm fine... thanks to these guys."
Amidst of these, Kirk was staring at Ruby's face, thanks to his low presence Ruby completely overlooked him. The phantom narrowed his eyes as he spotted a couple of crumbs on Ruby's face.
"Suspicion." Kirk's eyes traveled down to her uniform. Sure enough there were more crumbs on her chest. "Dirty."
"Ah I see." Ruby chirped "Weiss was held back by professor Port, everyone is going to the cafeteria, you coming?"
"Sure-" Jaune spoke first, but his turquoise haired friend covered his mouth.
"Later. Other stuff." Kirk spoke finally scaring Ruby.
"GAH! Where did you pop up from!?" Ruby backed off.
"Always here, unnoticed." Kirk said dragging both of his friends by the wrist. "See you."
"Ah right? I'll let everyone know." Ruby was still creeped out before casting one last glance at them, running to the cafeteria.
…...
"Kirk what's up?" Jaune turned around.
"Ruby. Doesn't feel right." Kirk ran down the corridors with Akashi and Jaune right behind him. "Your room."
"What about our rooms?" Akashi said "Why are we going there?"
"Seen on Ruby. Like your rooms." Kirk pointed out "Crumbs."
"Crumbs? Where?"
"Chin. Chest." The blue head man spotted Team JNPR's door, opening it and scanning the room.
"Her scent. Here."
"Seriously? Are you like a faunus or something?" Akashi tilted his head. Kirk shook his head and followed Ruby's scent to Lucy's bed. "Here." The two followed him to the red head's bed side table. What they saw was an empty cardboard packet with a few crumbs left behind.
"..That's Lucy's..." Jaune quivered.
"Limited edition cookie flavored pack." Akashi paled "Someone-"
"Ruby." Kirk stated.
"Ruby?" Jaune said before his mind clicked into gear "The crumbs on her chest you saw... she eats cookies just like Lucy..."
"And get mad with someone touches her cookies..." Akashi started to look around "Guys, we should not be here."
"What are you-"
"...My Pocky...~" A saddened voice caused them to turn around "You ate my Pocky~" Lucy looked at them with tears in her eyes. Before Jaune could say anything, Lucy hung her head down. Then blue sparks appeared. "Give them back!"
"Lucy, listen! We didn't eat your pocky!" Akashi tried to defuse the situation.
As the weak attempts to calm the leader of LARJ failed, it got even worse, when the rest of their teams walked in and saw Lucy crying. Riza who had anger building inside of her, because of the Weiss incident already was about to lash out at the three, but was held back by Phyrra and Nora. Ren was trying to make sense of the situation. While Juge took a neutral look at the situation he moved to the front.
"They say, everyone is guilty until proven innocent, so tell me." Juge eyed the three "Why are you circled around Lucy's personal space?"
'Isn't it Innocent until proven otherwise...?' Phyrra thought to herself.
"Uhm... that is a good question. Kirk, tell them."
"..."
"Kirk?"
"Can't. Pervert. Untrusted." Kirk said those simple word. Making Akashi and Jaune depressed.
"If you can't prove your innocence…then we have hold you responsible for eating Lucy's pockys." Juge shook his head "In my family evidence is everything… since you don't have any."
"You can buy me new Pocky. A dozen of them." Lucy looked at them, Akashi was about to protest when he saw blue sparks flicker again in her eyes.
"Fine, we'll buy your pockys!" The hammer wielder shook his head. "I'll get them later tonight Lucy. I'll see you guys in Oobleck's class." Grabbing his book for the next class Akashi walked past them. Kirk had disappeared with Jaune, leaving the gang to themselves.
"…who was that?" Lucy said in an unusual voice. Team JNPR (minus Jaune) and LARJ looked at her.
"Huh? That was Akashi silly!" Nora sang. However Lucy shook her head.
"No….that wasn't Akashi. He was cold and it felt like steel escaped his mouth instead of words." Lucy ran to the corridor seeing Akashi retreating figure "Who are you?"
….
Oobleck's class.
"Kirk were are you going?" Jaune asked his spiky haired friend "Aren't we supposed to get to Oobleck's class?"
"Soon, one moment." Kirk turned around facing Jaune.
"Cover for me in class, I need to help Akashi and you." Jaune's mouth formed an 'o' before nodding.
"Okay!" Bumping fists with Kirk the leader of JNPR ran off to class leaving Kirk to himself.
"…." Without saying anything, the phantom ran through the corridors before reaching his destination.
'Camera room'
"Located." Kirk took a deep breath and exhaled calming his heart down, talking of his shoes he stuffed them near the rim of his pants. The boy tried opening the door only to find it locked.
"No problem." Kirk took something from his breast pocket, a thin hair clip, inserting the key he moved it around before hearing a 'click' noise, extracting the clip he opened the unlocked door entering the room without being found out.
"Find tape." Kirk scanned the wide room before taking a small pod out, rolling towards the middle of the room it exploded, revealing multiple red lasers scattered in the room.
"As expected." With slow procession, Kirk gently made is way, avoiding all the lasers before meeting the other room, what is shown were multiple cameras that had live feeds of many places around campus. Looking for the certain camera his blue eyes came across a certain hallway.
"Found." Looking down at the control panels, it was like for only a scientist could understand it, buttons everywhere from left to right. Kirk scanned them before seeing a button with a certain number.
'Camera 04'
"Perfect." Kirked smiled before touching it, a red outline noticed that he selected the camera feed. "Rewind." His fingers hovered over the buttons before seeing a nob highlighted in the same color of the video feed, nodded to trust himself he turned the dial backwards. Reactively the feed started reversing in slow motion, Kirk nodded before turning the dial more.
The feed from the previous went past before Kirk's eye spotted a certain girl with a red cape. Returning the dial to it's original position, he watched as Ruby entering Team JNPR/LARJ's room and looked for something. The camera was inside the hallway, so he could not see what she was doing.
"Akashi?" she asked. The audio was a little numb.
"Jaune?" Ruby called again, hearing nothing back she sighed "…no luck again."
"Why?" Kirk asked himself as he continued turn to dial clockwise.
"Hmm ~ I smell cookies…" Ruby made sounds as if she was walking through the joint room. "I wanted to join rooms too. I wonder if they let my team sleep over tonight? But Weiss would probably not agree haha."
Ultimately the girl had found where her nose was taking her, as Kirk deduced by hearing drawers being opened and the rustling sound of packaging. She then walked towards the door frame looking if anyone was close by in the hallway. It was empty.
"Lucy wouldn't mind if I just took one." Ruby opened the packet and took out a stick, shrugging to herself she took a bite.
What Kirk saw was Ruby turn into something similar of a monster in blue as she grabbed a handful of Lucy's beloved sweets and ate it all in one go before taking more.
"…." Kirk shook his head before pressing the record button, taking out a small memory card card from his camera he quickly uploaded the scene onto his camera.
"Proof enough?" Kirk looked darkly as the previous feed rolled onto Jaune and Akashi coming into the room to find the packet being empty.
…meanwhile…
Ozpin watched with amusement, as Kirk slipped past the lasers and gained access within a few minutes. Chuckling to himself he placed the recording into his personal database.
"Mr. Fire, the phantom of Lighthouse Academy. How interesting."
Bzzz…Bzzzz. Raising an eyebrow the headmaster saw his scroll flicker into life, an incoming message caught his attention.
TO: Headmaster Ozpin
Subject: Hammer inspection
To the Headmaster.
With Careful examination of the gravity you taken in possession from one of your Students at Beacon, we have come to the conclusion that the weapon this student has does not use the dust as it's primary function, instead it uses ones aura to a great effect.
As you know, when a persons aura is depleted, the user will die.
We will send back the weapon by tonight, but it is highly advised that the student should be forbidden to use the gravity hammer.
Regards,
Vulcanus Quality Forge Inc.
"…Then so be it." The headmaster shook his head before looking outside at the blue sky.
….
The roles were reversed as Jaune was sleeping on Akashi's shoulders while the hammer user just tapped his pen on his paper. The two were stationed away from everyone else, including their teammates.
"This is prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution, more popularly known as The Faunus War!" The green haired professor jumped from spot to another. "Humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." Oobleck pointed to the large map of said-area with his stick, then zooms off to the side for a sip of his coffee before appearing in front of the desk. "Now! While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events! Why, the repercussions of the uprising can still be seen to this day!" Everyone was watching him jump all over the place."Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?"
Some of the students raise their hands. Riza sighed, but didn't join them. What was the use? It was a cruel reality that everybody already knew about. Velvet on the other hand did raise her hand after a while.
"Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence!"the professor took a slight pause before drinking his coffee again "I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to the White Fang! Now, which one of you young scallions can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?"
Weiss raised her hand.
"Yes?"
"The battle at Fort Castle!" Weiss stated with pride, but she could help but to take a quick glance at the boy she abused earlier.
"Precisely!" Oobleck praised her. " And, who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?"
Unknowing to the sleeping blonde, a paper was flying through the air at his direction, Akashi felt something. Elbowing his friend Jaune got up with a fright, the paper ball missing him and landing on the ground. "Wha- I'm awake!"
"Mr. Arc! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?"
"Uhhhh... The answer... The advantage... of the Faunus" Jaune started to sweat as all eyes were on him.
'Night vision… this is basic knowledge man.' Akashi tried to send him mental message but failed.
"...had over that guy's stuff..." Jaune looked around to see Phyrra trying to give him the answer by pointing at her eyes."Uhh... Binoculars!"
Akashi slammed his head on the desk.
The professor sighed while he shook his head before zipping back to his desk"Very funny, Mr. Arc! Cardin!" a tall ten with short brown hair stopped laughing at Jaune's downfall.
"Perhaps you would care to share your thoughts on the subject!"
"Well, I know it's a lot easier to train an animal than a soldier." Cardin spoke smoothly.
Riza wanted to yell at him, but Lucy shoved pocky into her mouth.
Phyrra grunted "You're not the most open-minded of individuals, are you, Cardin?"
Cardin growled back at her "What did you say?!"
"No, I have the answer!" the red head girl spoke "It's Night vision, the common trait of all faunus is their night vision, with those at their disposal, General Lagune's forces quickly dwindled, resulting into the general's surrender." Blake added more information and even made a well aimed jab at Cardin.
Oobleck nodded and continued the lecture. Suddenly Kirk appeared on the seat next to Jaune.
"Mr. D. Fire! Nice of you to join us! Care explaining where you were?"
"Number 2." Kirk said with no emotion, a few giggles echoed around the room before Oobleck shook his head.
"Yes I suppose today's Milkshake was more… dairy induced" straightening himself he zipped around.
"Moving on…"
"Kirk what did you have to do?"
"Evidence." Kirk looked at Jaune and pulled out his memory card. "Solid evidence."
"You mean….Ruby eating Lucy's pockys!?" Jaune's face turned to a joyous expression. He was bowing to his spiky haired friend.
"Mr. Arc! Mr. Fire, Mr. Mayhiro!" Oobleck zoomed on them again "See me after this!"
"Cardin laughed hard."
"You to Mr. Winchester!"
Akashi stayed silent.
"Yes sir."
…..after school….
Jaune and Cardin were standing before the professor while Akashi and Kirk waited behind them.
"You two have been struggling in my class since day one! Now, I don't know if it's a lack of interest, or just your stubborn nature, but whatever it is..." Oobleck took a sip of his coffee "It stops now! You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so I expect you to act like it. History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it. Pages fifty-one to ninety-one! I want an essay on my desk by next class! Now! Run along."
As the two walked out of the class Jaune watched as Kirk and Akashi walked before the professor.
"Mr. D. Fire…you have been absent for most of my classes-"
"Always here." Kirk opened his book and showed it to him from the 1st class they had. "Written down."
"I see… how could I make such a mistake. Disastrous!" Oobleck looked shocked. Apparently Kirk was used to this kind of thing from Lighthouse Academy already.
"Low presence..."
"Hm…carry on, and do try to make yourself more noticeable."
Kirk nodded.
"And you Mr. Mayhiro" the green haired professor looked at Akashi "You have been rather… distanced from today's class…care to explain?"
"Not really… I'm not feeing myself today." Akashi lied "I'll be fine by next class sir."
"Then see to it, from what I could tell, your book show extensive amount of interest in faunus history."
"Mayhiro were originally Faunus sir, but once human blood mixed with the bloodline, we became human…we don't show any faunus traits whatsoever."
"But you're still of Faunus lineage." The teacher reminded him "Have a good day gentlemen."
"You too sir." Kirk and Akashi walked out of the class.
"Faunus?"
"That has nothing to do with me anymore. It's ancient history."
"…cool."
"Not really."
"H-hey guys." The two saw Jaune with Phyrra walked towards them.
"Hello." Kirk nodded before looking at the green eyes of the huntresses boring into him. Feeling pressured he took a step back. And hid partly behind Akashi.
"Scared."
"It's fine." Akashi smiled at his male friend.
"Akashi, how are you feeling…you know from…" Phyrra left the sentence hanging.
"I'm fine Phyrra… are you bleeding!?" Akashi looked at Jaune's cheek seeing crimson trickle down his face.
"Oh yeah…Cardin and I tripped."
"You mean Cardin pushed you over and laughed about it?" Phyrra told the truth. "I'm telling you, LARJ and JNPR will break his legs if you want." She reminded him.
"Hehe…thanks…" the blonde laughed awkwardly at Phyrra's words. Kirk glanced at the two.
"Chemistry."
"Eh?" the two said in unison. Akashi giggled before slapping his friend on the back
"Ouch!" Jaune lost his balance again.
"Oops."
"There you are." Alex sighed as she walked towards the four "I've been waiting for you."
"For?" Kirk asked his teammate.
"Antonio wants us to sit together for class while me and Jasna are against it… That guy is supposed to be our leader. But don't get any ideas." Her eyes glinted dangerously.
"Roger."
"Good, now come along." Alex beckoned him over as she turned her back the way she came. Kirk nodded before waving at his friend.
"See you soon, I'll assist you."
"Right, thanks man." The blue haired teen smiled before running after Alex.
"What was he on about?"
"Nothing." Akashi smiled "I got to go too."
…For the interest of time…..
"As you know the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practising! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!" Goodwitch spoke "Until then we will be participating in one on one battles like yesterday."
Patting her dress down the blonde witch pulled out her scroll and tapped the first picture onto the big screen
"Team AKJA's Kirk D. Fire will face off against Team JNPR's Jaune Arc." Goodwitch announced. Jaune paled.
Kirk... smirked. Glynda wiped her screen clear before repeating the same process.
"After that it'll be Team LARJ's Riza Inari vs Team RWBY's Blake Belladona."
"Are they doing it on purpose?" Riza clicked her tongue and looked at her fellow classmate. Ozpin had to know Belladona's secret.
"Interesting."
"Then the last match will be team CRDL's Cardin Winchester vs team AKJA's Alex Wilfred."
"Then let's start this fight!" Yang yelled again a few cheers for her teammate.
"Indeed." Goodwitch nodded.
Jaune and Kirk stood opposite to each other, Kirk had Bigshot ready to fire while Jaune gripped his sword tightly. Phyrra frowned, while she didn't like Kirk (more his hobby), she also couldn't deny that he was very good with a gun.
"Begin the match." Glynda said in a clipped voice.
"YAAAAAAAAAAA-" as Jaune ran forwards to cut his opponent, his left foot was encased in ice…
Then his right.
Then his left arm.
His chest.
"Wha-" Jaune looked up seeing Kirk aiming Bigshot at his face "No wai-"
Then in face was frozen in ice.
"Sorry." Kirk emptied the mag before placing a single bullet in it. "It'll hurt a bit."
Cocking his gun he fired at his chest, causing a small explosion, as the blonde boy skidded to a halt everyone watched as Jaune's aura display turned red, indication that he was low.
And he lost.
"Target eliminated." Kirk lowered his gun and dismantled it, placing it behind his bag. Walking over towards his friend who was was coughing, he grabbed his hand pulling him up.
"Okay?"
"Yeah…but you could have went easy on me you know." He pouted.
"Mr. Arc that was a poorly done match." Glynda scolded him "Perhaps professor Mayhiro could assist you…if she ever got out of her lazy state." Sighing to indicate her disappointment she turned to Kirk. "Nicely done Mr. Fire, you two may return to your seats." Nodding Kirk helped Jaune back to JNPR before sitting with his team, Jasna punched him hard in the arm.
"Don't get to close pig." She seethed.
"Jasna, quite it if you please."
"Next up is Ms. Inari vs Ms. Belladona"
(Insert music: Black fire: Blake vs Riza (Halo 3 ODST: skyline- Air traffic control)
"Hm... interesting." Juge and Antonio smirked, both knew that this fight was going to be more than entertaining. "Riza, do your best in this fight and try not to lose your cool."
"I got it. She isn't a Grimm Juge." Riza twirled her staff around, careful not to make anyone explode. "But thanks."
"Do your best Riza~" Lucy gave her best friend the thumbs up.
"Yes... take her down fluffy." Akashi nodded in confidence.
"Thanks everyone." Riza nodded back before walking towards the main stage, all eyes were on her.
"GO BLAKE!" everyone recognized Ruby's voice as she and her older sister cheered for their teammate. The girl clad in black and white clothing walked towards the main stage as her opponent.
"You know Blake... this is the first time were talking after such a while... have you told them about yourself?" Riza whispered so only Blake could hear her.
"If you're referring to 'that'... then no." Blake unsheathed Gambol Shroud and readied herself. "And I don't plan on telling them anytime soon."
"...That's why you and me are always so different. You are not accepting who you are." Riza scolded her as change Ryuyari into its gun form. However this comment made Belladona smirk.
"You are the one to talk Inari." Blake shot back "You can't even control yourself when it comes to fighting Grimm... or should I say... show your true self."
"Ladies you may begin the fight when you are ready." Glynda said as the timer buzzed for time.
"Fine then." Riza charged forward, but unlike Jaune she moved left to right in a pace motion, ready to fend off Blake's attacks.
'Gotta be on my toes, one false move and I'm done for.'
"Riza, you really are bad in ranged and close combat."
"..Ghhhh"
Firing, Riza aimed for Blake who in turn batted her bullets away like it nothing before running towards her. Riza right on her intuition jumped back as her weapon transformed into a spear, throwing without hesitation it sped towards her creating a medium explosion.
"Not good enough!" Riza eye widened as a black object came straight at her, knocking the girl off balance as she crashed into the ground hard. On the screen showed that both Blake and Riza full green health had decreased into orange, however the Fox faunus was in a worse state than her opponent.
"Riza isn't that experienced when it comes to fighting really close, on the other hand Blake's skill in mid range fights is mediocre." Akashi said to Juge "But in this type of field it put them both in a disadvantage."
"But that's where you're wrong Akashi, Blake is more suited in tight areas like this. Riza needs to limit her power since she is a heavy area fighter. She needs more space for her attacks."
"Riza will win this~" Lucy cheered her friend on. But the boys only looked at her.
"DO your best RIZA!"
"Left, step back, right, duck, uppercut." Riza trained eye watched as she foretold Blake's attacks, but to her misfortune, she received small cuts every-time she avoided it. Biting the inside of her cheek lightly as she once again transformed Ryuyari into a gun, narrowly ducking underneath Gambol Shroud she jammed the back of her shotgun into Blake's gut, causing the air inside her to leave. As if suspended in midair Riza smirked for a fraction before turning around seeing Blake again, but this time with a fist of her own as a punch straight in the face, causing her to fly a few meters before landing with a thud.
"Damn it!" Riza cursed herself before using the momentum and flip to her feet.
"You're mine!" Blake shouted.
Blake went in close and became a blur of afterimages as she slashes both blades at Riza, who backs away and deflects each would-be blow with her shotgun at unbelievable speed. Blake continues to dash, hop over, and slide around Riza to try and find a weak spot, but her enemy, while barely deflecting the attacks, lands a few hits on Blake until one final beating with her spear causes her to go stiff.
Or did she?.
Blake's body vanished again as Riza jumped high, transforming her shotgun into a spear again "Not from below... but from up top!" Doing a 180 spin Riza saw Blake flying towards her, blades ready to cut her, in turn Riza was about to throw her spear.
"Time's up!" both student halted their attacks before dropping to the ground "As you can see, both Ms. Inari and Belladona are talented huntress's but in this case... Ms. Belladona would have won this fight." everyone looked up, seeing Riza aura level in the red zone, Blake wasn't too far away.
"Riza, my advice to you is to learn tactics to protect yourself from close quarter hunters and Grimm." the fox bowed before looking at Blake.
"...Next time..."
Blake only nodded before stepping of the stage. Riza sighed before walking back to team LARJ.
"You did well Fluffy."
"Bite me Akashi." Riza shook her head "I need to get better."
"That's why were here~" Lucy smiled as she hugged her. "You did well~"
"Next fight!" Glynda called the next two combatants.
…...
Stunned.
That was the expression everyone's face had one.
Stunned.
They didn't watched a fight.
They watched a dance of the black-haired huntress as she lulled Cardin into a beautiful defeat.
As if she had the moves of Blake, but much smoother and more refined, her face wasn't contorted, thinking of the next plan... it was calm and... scary.
Like she knew what the mace wielder was going to do.
Cardin never stood a chance against her.
She knew where to move, when to shoot and to dodge and how to finish him off.
It all ended with Alex pointing her gun to Cardin's face forcing him to surrender.
…...
"Hell yeah!" Jasna shouted "You showed that scum what you can do!" This one time she was not only talking bad about him because he was a guy. Cardin was real scum.
"Very well done Alexandra, you certainly peeked my interested." Antonio smiled as her was he extended his hand, this was followed by Jasna grabbing his wrist.
"Don't get any ideas Anto, you don't want me to do the same things to you I did to Kirk, do you now?"
"But of course not dear Jasna, I was just showing my respect to her." Antonio raised his hand in defense.
"Well you can do it without the contact!" she huffed, shaking his head Antonio sat back down.
"I certainly have no reason to impress you in the first place. I simply did how I was told." Alexandra's eyes were cold as she ignored his praise.
"That is all for todays class students, please take in todays experience and be sure to prepare yourself for tomorrows class, that is all."
Students got up and headed out to their next classes.
"Well... should we head of to her class?" Akashi gave pained expression as he looked to his team.
…...Some time later...
"And so, in order to protect yourselves from a pack of Beowulf while poisoned the correct action is...?" Alexis scanned the room seeing one or two hand up "Scarface?"
"..." Everyone in the class looked around.
"I'm asking you... the one with a tiara on your head."
"My name is Weiss, professor." Weiss was gritting out the 'professor' part.
"So it is." the blonde retired huntress gave her a deadpanned face "So you have the answer?"
"Before combating the pack, one must first try to stop the spread of poison, even if it mean amputating your own body parts."
"Interesting choice, scarface." Alexis winked at her, Weiss however rolled her eyes. "But yes, what Weiss said is the closest answer you will have to consider. In order to survive you have to make the hardest decisions."
"Once you get used to her teaching style... it is not so hard to understand." Juge said as he watched as blonde walk back and forth. "Once you throw logic out the window."
"Right... next week will be a survival week, I and professor Goodb- I mean Goodwitch." Alexis coughed. "Will be joining you on your first test."
"Wait... you mean!?" surprisingly, Ruby was the one to shout.
"Sit down Riding Hood, and yes. Your tests and exams will not be theory, but praxis."
"But!"
"Ruby Rose." Alexis stared at her "I will teach you all I know about survival and as Ozpin said: 'It is up to you to take the first step.' Now let me give you two choices. You can walk out of this class right now... or you can harden up."
A moment went by as Ruby nodded and sat down "Make no mistake Riding Hood, I won't let my students die. Not when I am around."
'I find that hard to believe.' Weiss stared at Alexis
"But that goes for all of you, this isn't a picnic... this is your test to prove you have what it takes to go beyond your limits and I might have to break you in order to do that."
"Whoa... she's serious!" Jaune was freaked out, for the past few weeks he witnessed the busty blonde talk, educate and grope her younger brother. But that was definitely thrown out the window.
"That's the end of class for today, I've send each of you 'items' for you to purchase for the test, see to it that it's done... you will suffer greatly if you don't."
…...
"Akashi." Juge called him as well. He, Kirk and Jaune sat at a table near the kitchen, while the others (Girls) sat at another table. "Akashi."
"Yeah?"
"Your sister."
"She looks like a pervert woman with incest issues, but she wasn't called 'Lightning God's Wife' for show, even though we only see her pervertedness, I still admire my sister... it's actually one of the reasons I created my gravity hammer. She used a similar hammer with lightning dust."
"Wow. She was that great?"
"We both shared a similarity: We don't like standing out. Alexis hated being well known." Akashi drank his coke "We don't pride on our talents."
"You think you have the mind of a genius. What about your sister?"
"For example she already fought in impossible uphill battles, not to mention that she had won a 6 on 1 match. She's talented like that."
"Interesting... could she teach me how to fight?" Jaune asked hopefully Akashi shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe, you just have to ask her."
"But you're her brother."
"Yep. And I'm not calling a favor, she goes over the top on any favors I ask her."
"Ah come on! Couldn't you just ask her covertly? Make it seem natural and bring it up slowly and maybe she will totally agree! She is a professor after all." Jaune pleaded. Akashi grunted before eating his fries.
"Fine... you owe me."
"Yes!" Jaune pumped his fist. "Uh... naturally." He corrected himself trying to sound composed.
….
Somewhere on the other side of the cafeteria, Phyrra dropped her fork.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
…..
"Ow!" the boys turned their heads as they saw team CRDL crowding around a small figure "Please stop!"
"Or what, you'll shed fur on us?" Cardin snickered and his teammate's joined in. the leader pulled at the girl's long bunny ears. "Come on... tell me."
"Velvet?" Akashi stood up... and followed by Juge.
"You know her?"
"She was the one who teamed up with me and Lucy during the ceremony trial, I always wondered who she was."
"Targeted. Bullies." Kirk said on his seat in a dark tone. "Alone." He watched them from afar.
"Then where's her team?"
"Don't know, don't care." Akashi walked towards the group. Grabbing Velvet by the wrist he pulled her close to him, the girl squeaked as she looked up.
"Akashi..."
"What's the big idea Mayhiro?" Cardin asked up to him "Why would you you ruin our fun?"
"Cut the crap, I hate going over how 'you should treat people', because everyone here knows that you are just scum if you gang up on other people smaller than you." Akashi glared at him. Cardin and the rest laughed before pulling out their weapons.
"Is that so? Then you wouldn't mind us having 'fun' with you, hero boy!" Akashi watched as Cardin brought his mace onto him, but.
"Attacking an unarmed person with your oversized weapons despite him not having done anything to you... you are truly the lowest of the low." Juge spoke calmly as he stopped Cardin's movement with his whip, Kirk cocked his gun at Dove while Jaune more or less determined pulled his sword out to defend his friends. "Leave now and we'll forget this ever happened." the young Velmón watched them all.
"...come guys let's go. See you around Jauney boy." Cardin released himself from Juge's whip before heading of. While passing he patted Jaune's shoulder harshly making him almost lose balance. The five watched as team CRDL walked away.
"Um... Ak-akashi...you c-c-can let go of me now." Akashi eyes widened as he realised that he was hugging the girl more than he should have.
"Sorry!"
"It's fine... thank you all...!" Velvet smiled at them before rubbing her ears.."That really hurt."
"Were is your team Ms. Scartinia, surely they would have eaten with you or something...?"
"..." the girl looked at the ground.
"Oh." Juge was smart enough to asses what was going one.
She was a faunus.
"Anyways, thanks for helping me-"
"OI PIG!"
(Prolix and Temper – Doppleganger)
Akashi (Jaune flinched as well as Kirk) growled as he slowly turned his head towards his sworn enemy. "Who the hell do you think you are, HUH?!"
"...I was helping someone in need." Akashi was taught better than to call girl names... unless it was on friendly terms. "You have a problem with that?"
"No... those guys can die for all I care, but you... holding her that closely... it pisses me off to no end!" she seethed as she walked towards him.
"..." letting Velvet go Akashi walked towards the brawler.
"Dude are you crazy!?" Jaune yelled at him "She's going to kill you!"
"Crazy. Stop." Kirk was retreating behind the first bench he could find.
"Akashi this is near suicidal, she will end you." Even Juge was warning him. A sweatdrop appeared on his forehead.
"I don't care."
Nearly everyone in the food court felt a shiver down their spine as Akashi spoke. Jasna smirked as she cracked her knuckles "Eh~ Looks like this little piggy grew some balls."
"Jasna... I don't think is this wise." He didn't bother to comment on her language. Something more important was taking place.
"Relax Anto, I'll put him in his place quickly." The two look at each other before walking to the middle of the cafeteria.
"Someone should stop them." Blake was looking on with her team.
"Why should we, Akashi is going to get what's coming to him."
"Weiss..." Blake's eyes flashed dangerously before flickering towards the oncoming battle.
"Akashi stand down this instant!" Riza shouted at her teammate, Lucy however was eating her pocky as the plot unfolded.
"This doesn't concern you Riza, stay out of this." Riza felt the same pressure coming from him again.
'This coldness... is this... the real Akashi?'
The two touched foreheads as the they tried to push the other back like angry bulls.
"I've been laughed at by you, have bruises everywhere because of you, even been called scum of the universe by you and I haven't even done a single damn thing to you since I got here."
"Oh! Boo-hoo, why don't you cry me a river? Then why won't just roll over and go out of my way already?"
"Today is a bad day, I suggest you back off Jasna." Akashi growled at her, balling her hand into a fist Jasna delivered a fast right hand to Akashi, but all that resounded was with flesh hitting flesh.
"I said... back off." Akashi pushed her off, as the girl regained her footing, Akashi's eyes a apple pie slice near him. Acting on impulse he said.
"Hey Jasna, you've been real sour lately... how about your sweeten up!?" the girl's eye flew open to see Akashi jam the treat onto her face before falling on her butt.
Everyone mind was in sync for a split second and they were all thinking this.
"What a lame pun!"
Except for Lucy who had to add her own two cents.
"That's sour apple pie."
"Who cares?!" Riza hand chopped her head.
Akashi smug grin frowned a little "I may have signed my will here... curse my anger..."
…..rewind 10 seconds back...
Juge shook his head before seeing someone's gravy bowl on the table. 'I could attack with my whip, but I won't use it on unarmed hunters.' His plan was to hit Akashi with the gravy to break the fight with some comical relief. Usually people don't fight after seeing each other full of gravy. Grabbing the gravy bowl in his hand Juge chucked it with precise aim as Akashi slammed the pie into Jasna's face.
Akashi sensed something coming from behind and ducked seeing the gravy fly right by him. "Huh? Who did that!?"
"Akashi you idiot!" Juge shouted "You ruined it!"
Before anything could arise on them a clang of pottery hitting the ground followed by many female gasps.
Everyone knew one rule you shouldn't cross…it wasn't messing with Jasna. It was something even more important.
Much more dangerous.
"Juge… who was behind me?" Akashi started to sweat fast… as did Juge.
"Akashi… you might not want to turn around…"
"….." the hammer wielder gulped as he ignored him, cocking his head around. His soul left him.
The bowl of gravy….was now mixed with Yang's blonde hair. Brown on most of the mane, it looked sticky and really hard to clean.
"…" Yang was beyond shock as her lilac eyes slowly turned blood red. "Who did this…!"
"It was Juge…all him." Akashi pointed towards Juge…who was beyond shock as well.
"Traitor!"
"You blamed me for eating Lucy's pocky and besides. 'Everyone is guilty until proven innocent', right? " Akashi was sweating in fear, but he still managed a dirty grin.
Before Juge could retaliate heavy footsteps could be heard coming at them
"Youuuuuuuuu Mooooonsteeer!"
In less than a second she had overcome the distance between them and was attacking the man in the blue vest furiously.
Despite the training Juge received, Yang was inching closer with each punch and kick to painting the cafeteria red with his blood.
"Y-yang... I didn't mean to get gravy in your hair!" Juge backed into a corner as the angry blonde walked towards him, body ablaze.
"You monster..." she growled out "You did that on purpose!"
"Hell yes he did!" Akashi yelled out "He even said that girl's with blonde hair are mostly dumb!"
"Why!?" Juge screamed as he narrowly dodged a fist to his face, barrel rolling a little distance "Akashi, we're teammates!"
"You blamed me and Akashi that we ate Lucy's pocky stash!" Jaune yelled at Juge who was busy trying not to die. "Kirk said that Ruby ate her stash, it was the limited 'choc chip' pocky edition!" a frustrated cry came from Yang.
"Hold this and lemme hit you!" her fist dented the cafeteria wall and Juge jumped back to Jaune, Kirk and Akashi, the girl snorted as she charged her aura and ran at them.
"You will die now!" The brown liquid was dripping on her jeans jacket. "Gross...!" she shivered with more than just anger.
"Enough of this." Kirk pulled out a small ball before smashing it on the ground, creating a large plum of smoke
Coughing Yang swiped the black smoke away, looking around in anger, seeing that all four boys where nowhere to do found.
"AAARGH!"
"Y-yang—"
"GAAAH!" this time it was Jasna who screamed as she wiped the apple pie off her face. "Where is he!?"
"Jasna are you okay!?" Alex and Weiss ran towards the male hating female. The growls of a wild animal met their ears as Jasna got up and stomped out of the place. "Jasna?"
"I'll kill them…if it's the last thing I do…I'll kill the four of them…"
…
"Let's NEVER do that again!" Jaune cried as he fell onto the forest floor. Juge shook his head and glared at Akashi.
"Akashi... you set me up to die in there!"
"Now you know how I felt when you didn't believe me!"
"And I still don't without-"
"Proof." Kirk handed Juge the camera and pressed play. The warm light revealed the hunter's embarrassed face as he watched Ruby take the pockys.
"...I now believe you three. This is solid evidence." Juge nodded before stretching his arms "But where did you get this?"
Kirk suddenly disappeared more into the shadows.
"...right. Well on the bright side this could be seen as a nice warm down for the day."
"Let's never do that again…" Jaune moaned as he rolled around the floor.
"They shouldn't have gone to far!" Everyone's head perked up as they heard the voice of Alex "Weiss you check those bushes."
"Right."
"No way… they followed us so fast!?" Juge cursed as he looked at the tall tree "Come on…up we go!"
Nodding the four started climbing, Jaune clung to Akashi's back as the rest on the tree trunk soon enough Weiss burst through the bushes scanned the area, the young Velmón pressed his index finger to his lip, telling the to be quite.'
"This is the last straw Mayhiro.." Weiss ice blue eyes scanned the tree, but couldn't see the four. "I can't take any more of you or your airhead sister!"
"What did she say!?" Akashi blood boiled as he reached of Jaune's sword, but Kirk grabbed his wrists.
"Hold it."
"And where is the little pervert!?" she screamed "I know he took my favorite panties!"
"….." Juge looked in horror as Jaune and Akashi pulled out Weiss's undergarments "You've got to be kidding me…"
"I forgot about these." Akashi shrugged as he passed the blue undergarment to Kirk "Here."
"Are you insane, you just stole panties from a heiress that could easily crush your lives!"
"Hey she yelled at me, and you know how Kirk gets!" Akashi defended his friend.
Juge simply shook his head as he observed the heiress. "Now there is no going back..."
"Stole bra too." Kirk stated as he pulled out a red bra from under his shirt.
"ARE YOU FOR REAL!?" Jaune shouted.
"Alex's bra."
"Kirk... you need help."
"Did you guys hear that!?" the four looked down once again as they watched Jasna and Alex regroup with Weiss. "It sounded like them!"
"Let's find them, I'll paint these trees with their blood." Jasna seethed.
"Not another sound Arc!" Juge whispered as covered the blonde hunters mouth. Watching the girls scanning the area.
"I could have sworn..."
Creak...
All four boys senses went off immediately as the creaking got louder before they all felt the gravity pushing them down to earth. "CRAAAP!"
As the four fell on top of each other the girl watched them disappear before seeing 3 objects floating towards them.
As the boys got up they witness in horror as Weiss's panties floated towards the girls. Alex's bra did the same. They all gulped as the female vengeance demon's eyes flashed with killing intent.
"Retreat." Kirk and the other ran for their lives as the tomboy blade warrior chased after them, along with Weiss and Alex. Jaune screamed as a flare shot passed him and hit a tree.
"Is this what you meant by fun!?" the blonde captain of JNPR yelled at Juge, who in turn looked at Akashi "Well!?"
"I didn't know they where going to be here! And you know how Kirk gets when he sees them... though they are nice pic-"
"AKASHI!" Juge shouted "Don't tell me-!"
"What, no!" Akashi laughed nervously as a bullet swished past him "I'm not that kind of pervert!"
"Regular Customer."
"Traitor!" Akashi yelled at Kirk as the the boy jumped over the rock falling a few meters to the ground.
Running as fast as their legs could take them the four sprinted past the bushes and trees while running from the 3 killer huntresses.
"Not so fast scum!" Akashi watched as Weiss appeared in front of him, sword ready to attack. "I will end your disgusting existence today!"
"Jaune I'm borrowing this!" the hammer user grabbed team JNPR's leader sword as he blocked of Weiss' attack, "Sorry Weiss... not today! I don't have my weapon!"
"Like I care about that! You will pay for stealing my-" Fighting the blush off she ran after him again.
"Kirk you little rat, let me punish you!" the turquoise headed teen kept running as he heard trees being cut down, the sound getting closer and closer.
"Death preying." Kirk whispered as a gun shot was heard veering to his left he saw the bullet hit the tree before igniting it on fire.
"Death coming."
"Kirk get you ass back here!" Alex screamed "This is the second time you've taken my bra!"
Juge watched as his 3 comrades (for now) ran for their lives. Akashi was balancing carrying a passed out Jaune (from the terror) while fending of Weiss. Kirk was barely hanging on.
"Oh for the love of god." spinning around Juge twirled his whip around, igniting it on fire before striking a row of trees causing them to fall.
"Akashi, grab Kirk!"
"Right!" Akashi activated his gravity, making him and Jaune light as a feather and jumped past Weiss and grabbed Kirk by the scruff of his shirt, as he dashed past the trees and Juge. The 3 girl saw the flaming logs crashing down before blocking them of course to the target.
The boys didn't stop running for at least an hour.
…...
"Do you understand your actions!?" Juge crossed his arms in disappointment as Kirk, Akashi and Jaune knelled and looked down at the ground "Don't think that they will have the state of mind to let this go... all of you should be ashamed of yourselves."
"But didn't you throw gravy at Yang?"
"That is something I will deal like a man - like all of you will once we get back to Beacon... am I clear!?"
"Roger."
"Yes mum."
"Ohhh... Weiss thinks I'm a perv now."
"Jaune" Akashi placed a hand on his shoulders "You were already a perv when I showed you those pics."
"And Jasna is going to kill us."
"Beat us with a inch of our lives left... but she won't kill us... I think." Akashi sighed as he rubbed his head.
"Then you... we all deserve what's coming to us." Juge nodded "Come on. Let's head back to Beacon."
…...
Kirk stared at his dorm door... silence was meeting his ears. There was no one around and his body shook with terror.
"Death... coming..."
Kirk took a deep breath before grasping the nob of his door. Suddenly the door swung open. He flinched in pure terror as he brought his hand up to weakly defend himself but instead of being greeted by fist a smooth voice beckoned him.
"Kirk. You and and the others have caused a storm of destruction in the cafeteria, I was about to look find our two troublesome teammates, could you help me?" Antonio asked him, but his face turned into a more concerned one. "Kirk... what's wrong?"
"Jasna... going to kill me... Alex... kill me..." Antonio raised an eyebrow as Kirk shivered.
"Now. Sure your hobbies are looked down upon and Jasna does punish you on a daily basis, but she does know her limits... most of the time."
"Killing intent."
"In all honestly, between you and me, she deserved it. Akashi protected a young and innocent girl from her attackers. Jasna's blood boils when men get too close with females... she acted on impulse, but she did seem more angered when that pie was thrown at her." Antonio shook his head "But she shouldn't stick her nose where it doesn't belong."
"Stole panties."
"I….who's?" Antonio barely manged to compose his voice and instead of reprimanding he asked the next best question.
"Heiress."
He sighed. "Did you at least give it back?"
"Yes."
"Good. But if I was in your shoes I would try to look for more... discrete places to sell my… merchandise."
"You mean!?"
"Yes Kirk. I am well aware of your job, be thankful that neither Jasna nor Alex have caught on. Actually… I've been diverting their suspicions to other things."
"Cover?"
"Yes…because behind all the filth, I see you can be a worthy hunter capable of great things. It's only a matter of time before you stop this pointless charade."
"…"
"Come. I'll try to calm the two down… you can believe in me." Antonio smiled a perfect smile at him.
"Yes….comrade."
…
Juge, Jaune and Akashi walked together, the corridors were quiet as most of the students had already turned in for the evening.
"Have you already figured out how to break it down to Yang?" Jaune asked the young Velmón.
"Not really, but I'll figure something out. Some kind of compensation perhaps?"
"That sounds about right, but her compensation could be you becoming a punching bag for all your life." Jaune looked at him.
"I won't allow that to happen… it was an accident after all."
"Try saying that to her face. I swiped a blonde strand by accident and she flipped out on me!" Akashi sulked "I swear she reminds me of someone from video game."
As the boys got closer to their joint dorms, the door swung open before closing, revealing a red haired huntress standing before them. "Oh Jaune! Juge and Akashi too!"
Dusting herself off and composing herself she spoke "We where about to come find you guys, but that's not important... Jaune come with me for second. I need to speak to you." Grabbing his wrist the leader of JNPR was dragged of somewhere.
"They have chemistry." Akashi said for the second time.
"Hm. A strong woman and a wannabe hero… maybe." He smirked.
"Mr. Mayhiro."
Akashi turned around to see Ms. Goodwitch looking at him "The headmaster would like to see you in his office."
"Alright!" Akashi cheered "I finally get my weapon back!"
"…" the teacher nodded before motioning him to follow her.
"I'll be back soon man."
"Ah." Watching the hammer wielder walk away Juge entered his team's room.
Instantly Riza's and Lucy's eyes shot up, the next moment was the two running towards him with lips tightly pressed together.
"Good afternoon-"
"Shhh!" Riza waved her arms around "Don't wake her!"
"Wake who?"
"Shh~" Lucy yawned "She came in here and refused to leave until she saw you~"
"Who?"
Nora giggled as she walked to the boys side of the room before pointing at something.
Rather: someone.
On the young Velmón's bed was Yang snoring away as she clutched his pillow tight. "She fell asleep a good 10 minutes ago.
"!?" Juge stiffened up.
"As I said before…Yang stormed in here with her hair clear of gravy, and demanded to see you, but none of us knew where you where so for the rest of the afternoon was she sitting on your bed staring at the door… she nearly killed Ren."
Ren was sleeping… in an odd position.
"…and what is her team doing about this?" He felt even more exhausted now, knowing that he had been running away with the others for nothing. Now he was a collaborator.
"Ruby tried to convince her to leave it be until tomorrow, but she wouldn't have it." Riza shook her head "No one could. Was it really necessary?"
"In order to stop Akashi it seemed like the best choice, but things don't go the way you want." Juge pushed past them as he tip toed to the foot of his bed, pulling out a sleeping bag. "I'll deal with this in the morning… I've had a long day."
"You sure? She could wake up anytime… and then…" Riza gulped.
"I'll be fine. I was trained to keep my senses up while I sleep, but… I will apologize to Yang either way."
Lucy and Riza looked at their teammate. "Okay… sleep well." It almost sounded like she was teasing him.
"Where's Akky~ He was supposed to get my pockys~" Lucy sang as she went to her bed.
"Ms. Goodwitch said that Ozpin wanted to speak to him."
"Is he getting his hammer back?"
Indeed… after such a long time.
…..
"Headmaster." Akashi knocked on the door before entering."You wanted to see me?"
"Ah, Mr. Mayhiro… I'm sure you had an entertaining night?"
"…you could say that." Akashi chuckled "Is it about my hammer?"
"Yes, please have a seat." Doing as he was told the young Mayhiro sat down, a few moments passed before Ozpin looked outside.
"A weapons is what represents us. It is an extension of our souls. It seems you have taken that to heart when you crafted your gravity hammer."
"Yes I did sir. It was inspired by my sis- I mean Professor Mayhiro's thunder hammer."
"She has told me so… you seem to look up to her."
"She was one of the main reasons I wanted to become a hunter…to be on the same platform she once was."
"But you barely visit her?"
"I like her seriousness, but her playful nature is very…"
"Bold?"
"Yeah."
"Mhm." Ozpin smirked "Akashi, it is my duty to see that the students of Beacon get the best education we can offer here, but it is also my duty to see to their safety."
"Sir… what are you getting at?"
"Akashi... Most student's weapons are dust powered and gas powered, but your gravity hammer unlike thunder hammer uses ones aura to great lengths to use it."
The boy flinched as he looked at the red carpet. "Akashi…you have a far more dangerous weapon than Ms. Rose."
"So?"
Ozpin stared into his brown eyes before shaking his head.
"After much consideration Mr. Mayhiro, we researched your weapon and have come to the conclusion." the headmaster sighed as he stood up from his seat and walked over to the young hammer user, placing a hand on his shoulders he took a deep breath.
"I am sorry Akashi. Your weapon is hereby forbidden to be used, you will not be given back your weapon, we will store it here, where it will do no more damage."
"...What?" Akashi asked almost inaudibly.
The whole world crashed around him.
"I am concerned about you safety." Ozpin said "If one's aura is depleted they will die."
"I know that!" Akashi shouted "But the G-hammer... I made that…and you're taking it away?!"
"I know that you are upset, but please listen… your enrollment will not be terminated, but you will need to get or craft a new weapon."
Akashi was stunned. His one best weapon was stripped away from him… like something was ripped out from inside him.
Clenching his hands to fists he pounded Ozpin's desk, his hair covered his eyes as he bared his teeth. Hot tears pricked his eyes. "Forget it! Without gravity hammer… I'm just a dead hunter. That was my true weapon… a new one doesn't mean crap to me."
Ozpin shook his head as Akashi headed for the door. "Akashi, is this what you want?"
Akashi looked at him teary eyed face "The requirement to attend Beacon is to have a functioning weapon… without one on hand you have no right to be here anymore."
The young man didn't reply.
"….Then so be it. Akashi Mayhiro." Ozpin said "It was a pleasure having you here."
"….." Akashi opened the door and clammed it. Ozpin sighed before pulling out his scroll.
[TO: MAYHIRO
FROM: OZPIN
I told him the news.]
He send it…seconds later:
[TO: OZPIN
FROM: MAYHIRO
"And?"
He verbally withdrew himself from Beacon.
Are you serious?! That wasn't the plan!
He has his own. I guess he will leave first thing in the monring.]
Ozpin paused.
[Are you sure this will work out?
Of course! I'm his sister and besides.
That hammer isn't his original weapon.]
"Then I'll leave this in your hands professor Mayhiro." Ozpin nodded as he took a sip of his coffee and watched the night sky.
…
Akashi walked slowly with his vision blurry and his head hung low.
"There you are!" the boy didn't need to lift his head… he already knew who it was.
Slap.
"How dare you!" Weiss shouted again, Akashi felt his cheek stinging. "I am sick of you and your sister! The day you become a hunter is the day I'll lose all faith in this institution."
"…"
"It's one thing to deal with the professor, which I barely can, but stealing a girl's underwear!? That's where I draw the line!"
"…."
Slap.
Weiss slapped him again "Look at me when I'm talking... to you…." Weiss noticed his body shaking and his tears. "Huh?"
"…"
"You are crying already… pathetic." She clicked her tongue "I'll never acknowledge you." Turning her back towards him she spoke again."Ruby asked me to apologize to you for what happened in professor Port's lesson… it's ridiculous." She turned away. "But I'm-"
"I'm leaving Beacon." Akashi spoke up.
"!?" Weiss spun around with her eyes wide open "What… did you say?"
"Just like you asked Weiss!" Akashi yelled at her "You wanted me gone and now I'm leaving. You finally got your goddamn will princess!"
"Wha- wait! I don't understa-"
"What's there to understand!?" Akashi threw his arms up "I'm going, so you can finally have that number one spot on the list you wanted so badly!" screaming in frustration he punched the wall making his hand bleed. "All i wanted was to become a good hunter, but it's people like you... people like you! Who always stand in my way!"
"….." Weiss looked at him with shock.
"You finally get your wish… you wanted me gone… my weapon has been banned and taken from me… and I'm going first thing in the morning." Shoving past a shocked white-haired girl he walked away. "Crushing my dream… maybe my downfall will be your way to the top Weiss Schnee." And with that Akashi left her.
"…" Weiss for the first time was speechless. "Leaving… because of me?"
…..