CH3: Sword of Justice

AN: Hello again! I am back with another chapter. A couple of you guys mentioned giving a timetable for when I when updates will occur! So, currently I'll be adding a chapter a day til I hit 10, and afterwords expect chapters once a week!

Now, time for hints yet again! Expect for Pyrrha and Blake to be getting some hints of their own within this chapter! We will also get the first glimpses of how the team dynamics of PARN and RWBY will look like within this chapter! This is gonna be Arthur/Jaune's development chapter, can't spoil too much but we're gonna get a glimpse inside Jaune's head! On the account of the other knights, they will appear pretty soon. I just need to fully flesh out our current roster before I add the others. Also expect a pretty different Arthur/Mordred dynamic since I'm using Fate Mordred instead of Prototype Mordred who was just a douche, nuff said. On the thought of pairings I'm leaning towards coupling Jaune with potentially someone/someones from NDGO, CVFY, Amber, etc. Just good girls for now. ;)

(Dream Sequence)

Jaune and his team were doing a quick training mission for Ozpin. When he heard a whisper.

"Come seek me," The voice felt warm, like a mother calling to her child after a long day of playing. The feeling of deep longing and sadness clung to those words though, as if it had been alone, lost more like, for a large amount of time. To him it was a prayer; a prayer to be saved. He immediately called to his team to gather around him.

"Guys, I know this is insane, but I think we should go further into the forest. I feel something calling for me," Arthur told them.

"Are you sure Jaune? It may just be an elder grimm," Hector skeptically inquired.

"Yes, I'm sure. It sounded so sad, and alone. Even if it's an elder grimm I can't just simply ignore the sheer amount of longing and regret clinging to it like a mother losing her child. Please, come with me," He stated looking at his team hoping, praying that they wouldn't leave him. The three of them looked at their leader. No longer was he the confident and proud leader of the team. He looked like the broken boy they met all those years ago, shattered from the abandonment of those that were to be his second family. Arthur was no longer the twenty year old knight captain of the finest damn knight squad in the kingdom, but the scared, wary, and emotionally scarred recruit that just joined on Ozpin's recommendation. They quickly affirmed in their heads that when they finally arrived at Beacon. There would be HELL to pay.

"We're with you captain, never worry my sword is with you," Gawain in a rare moment of resolution on his usually upbeat face, assured his captain that he would never leave his side.

"I'm your partner captain, I'd follow you to the ends of Remanent come hell or high water. I will always be by your side," Lancelot earnestly declared before continuing, "You are my best friend, even within our squad. You were my first and truest friend I will never abandon you," towards the end of his declaration he gave Arthur a warm smile to fully assure him of his loyalty.

"Captain pardon my rather blunt comment, but you're an idiot," the final member of his team spoke up "When we swore to be by your side, that meant by your side, we will always be by your side for the sole reason that you are our captain. You are our captain because we chose you, never forget that," Arthur couldn't help but tear up as his team, his family. Quickly wiping his face with his sleeve.

He told them "Right, how silly of me. Thank you for assuring this fools worries," he gave a smile at them and began following the sound of the voice. His team quickly followed behind him, looking at each other in fond exasperation at how emotional their leader was.

(Dream Sequence End)

Arthur awoke in his team's room with a rather comforting feeling of nostalgia and warmth. As leader he always woke up the earliest, something beaten into him by his mentor. A smile slowly graced his face as he began to get ready for the day. He quickly took a shower and got dressed in his signature captain's garment. He then woke the rest of his team up awaiting for them to get ready and into their usual garb. When they all finished and were ready to head out to do morning training. He gave them a fond look and said,

"Thank you," He then pulled his hood over his head and began striding out to the entrance of the housing building. The other three looked at each other questioningly, shook their heads in fond exasperation, and quickly trailed behind their leader.

(Beacon Cafeteria Lunchtime RWBY POV)

Classes quickly passed by and lunch was being served teams RWBY and PARN were sitting with one another.

"Combat class is happening again today, do you think any one of us will face a member of team CHAL?" Ruby idly stated to the rest of the group of eight.

"I hope so! I especially wanna fight, that Lancelot guy. I wanna see if I can measure up to him in a straight fight," Yang excitedly replied as she slammed her fists together as if preparing to fight him right that moment.

"Be wary Yang, he didn't even use his weapon in that entire debacle with team CRDL. So, we don't know how he actually fights," Weiss stated calmly sipping at the tea she grabbed earlier on.

"Aww don't be such a Weissblock, ice queen, I just really wanna see how good he is!" Yang teased the snow angel. As everyone groaned at the pun Pyrrha spoke up

"To be honest I was really hoping to face the leader of team CHAL, if you paid attention he was already issuing commands towards his team at the beginning of the fight," Pyrrha stated eyes glancing around as if to see the hooded leader of said team.

"Are you sure that you don't want to get to know him better P-Money? You seem awfully fixated on Mr. Mysterious Hero. Your boyfriend might just get jealous," Quickly switched to teasing the red haired amazon. Amusedly watching as she turned red and started to try to reassure her boyfriend Alistair.

"No! I-it's just because he seemed really familiar to me ok? I w-wanted to fight him because if I know him from somewhere I'd probably be able to recognize his fighting style," she managed to stutter out after sputtering out random denials to both the group and her boyfriend.

"It's fine Pyrrha, I know exactly what you mean even though I don't recognize him anywhere" The ravenette in question chuckled out.

"I do wonder how he fights too, his build seems to suggest that he can do both powerful strikes and agile movements," The green monk mused as he took another sip out of his (read:disgusting) healthy smoothie.

"I bet, he's some long lost friend of us. Just biding his time til BOOM he surprises us with his identity after we're at our weakest coming in to save the day!" Everyone in the group stopped and looked at Nora as though she grew a fifth head, then promptly wrote it off as one of her Noraisms (AN: *sitting at the computer and promptly spits out coffee* What the actual fuck.) The group just kept on making small talk until they heard a cry of pain. They all looked up and saw team CRDL bullying a faunus freshmen by grabbing her by the tail and yanking on it.

"Ow! Let go you're hurting me!" she cried out.

"Hey guys! The animal speaks! Say something else!" Cardin laughed out as he gave another yank at her tail. The rest of the racist team just laughed uproariously as he kept on yanking at her tail.

"Disgusting," Pyrrha muttered out.

"Absolutely abhorrent," Weiss hissed as she looked upon the scene with disdain.

"We're going to break their legs!" Nora exclaims as she got up.

"Agreed," Blake growled out as she too stood up to give team CRDL a piece of her mind.

"Wait, look who's making his way to the group" Ren stated. Everyone looked to see the leader of team CHAL striding his way forward with the rest of his team quickly striding trailing behind him. They could tell that he was furious even if they couldn't see his face by how tense his shoulders were.

"I suggest you let the girl go Winchester," The team in question looked up to see Arthur standing before them.

"Or what, are you going to sic your guard dog on me? Not man enough to handle me by yourself?" The leader cockily stated. Everyone in the cafeteria watched on as they saw Arthur tense then relax.

"You know what? You're right," He simply stated.

"Hah! Admitting that you're n-" Cardin didn't have a chance to finish as he was punched stunning him, forcing him to let go of the tail, and then spartan kicked into a wall in which he made a large indent into slowly peeling off.

"I won't sic Lancelot on you. I'll handle you myself," He then spun on his heel backfisting Sky in the face. Russell and Dove rushed at him in a rather pathetic attempt of a pincer attack. Arthur just stepped toward Russell who was the lightest of them stopping the bandit from gaining further momentum. In a rather impressive display of skill he grabbed Russell by the arm and using the momentum Russell had already generated slammed him into Dove knocking the both of them back and into a set of tables nearby, breaking them. He then strode towards Cardin and grabbed him by the lapels of his uniform. Unintentionally echoing his partner he stated

"Apologize," He then threw him at the foot of faunus girl who had ended up tripping and landed on her butt at the beginning of the commotion. Cardin struggled to get up growling as he did so. That was until Arthur stomped on Cardin hard enough to cause a small impact crater to form.

"I will not tell you again Winchester, apologize" He then pushed his foot harder into the small of Cardin's back making the idiot squirm in pain.

"I-I'm sorry," He managed to sputter out despite the pressure on him leaving him with little to no air. Arthur got off of him picking him up once again. When Cardin looked into the face of the mysterious leader all he was greeted with was a pair of glowing blue eyes.

"Your blatant racism ends today got it," The hooded leader demanded. Cardin started to rapidly nod as he tried to make Arthur let go of his uniform.

"Y-yeah man we'll stop messing with faunus ok?" Cardin fearfully stated,

"Swear it," Arthur growled out.

"I-I swear I-" he was then punched in the gut leaving him breathless.

"Swear on your family name you idiot," Arthur spat out looking as if he was the absolute scum of the world.

"OKAY okay, I swear on the Winchester name that I will not harass or attempt to harm any faunus anymore," He stuttered out hoping to Oum that he will survive this. Arthur then casually threw Cardin to the side into another set of tables. He then knelt down to talk the faunus girl.

(Faunus Student POV)

"Are you ok? Nothing swollen? I know when someone grabs an appendage that roughly there is usually some swelling," he questioned her kindly.

"Y-yeah just a little swelling nothing that won't go away in an hour" she told him shifting slightly in discomfort.

" Now, we can't have that can we? Stay still ok?" His hands then lit up with white aura, and he quickly began to heal her. She felt a warmth wash over her as he was healing her similar to a mother's, no, a lover's protective embrace. He then looked her in the eyes accidentally giving her a glimpse of his face. She tried to burn the image into her eyes as much as possible, turning an atomic red as she looked into his eyes Pretty was her thought as she looked into the glowing sapphires that were his eyes. She was so entranced by his handsome features that she didn't even realize that he was talking to her til he touched he lightly on the shoulder.

"Uh? Buh?" she said as she snapped out of her trance.

"I asked if you had a name," The angel spoke to her with a gentle smile that made her heart do a rather impressive series of acrobatics.

"A-ah r-right, my name's Alice. I'm a fox faunus," She managed to choke out. He chuckled good naturedly inadvertently bringing a blush to the faces of all the girls and some males in the room.

"Alice huh? Rather pretty name for a very pretty girl," He said making said girl blush prettily. His team behind him just sighed, as if they saw this happen multiple times. The girl in question was undoubtedly pretty. She had dark brown hair the naturally curled, a heart shaped face, and green eyes.

"He's doing the thing again Lance," Hector pointed out.

"I know Hector, but the most impressive thing is that he doesn't even know that he's doing it," Lancelot muttered out slapping a hand on his face irked at the fact that his leader was denser than adamantium.

"I say it's a good thing! It just shows how much our leader has grown up!" Gawain gave a smile at them.

"But still, I know the captain is charismatic, but this is just ridiculous!" Hector exclaimed as he threw his hands in the air. As peanut gallery were talking amongst themselves Arthur had finished healing the girl and helped her up.

"There all better! If they ever bother you again just come to me ok? I'll set them straight," He warmly tells her. Slightly disappointed that a majority of his face was hidden underneath the hood once again, but was grateful that he healed her.

"Thank you for healing up my tail, you honestly didn't have to do that." she told him.

"Ah, it's no problem at all. I'm a huntsman after all, it's in the job description," He told her in a joking manner as she giggled.

"By the way was that your semblance? Because that's a really cool one if it is," She asked him.

"It's a part of it," he answered her, "But the rest is a secret,". He then made a show of putting up a finger up to his lips deliberately exaggerating as he did so for her amusement.

"Okay okay, I won't pry any further. Thank you, I hope to see you again" She sincerely stated as she saw her team waving her over. Saying her goodbyes she made her way to her team.

(With RWBY and PARN)

"Well that was a thing," Yang stated still staring at the leader who was talking to the freshman.

"I concur, that was a rather impressive show of skill," Weiss stated.

"My question is what did he do with his aura to heal her? Semblance maybe?" Alistair questioned.

"Maybe," Pyrrha answered him as she stared even more intently at Arthur. White Aura? I swear I've seen that before somewhere.

"It was a good thing he did, standing up for that freshman," Blake looked at Arthur with a approving eye.

(Timeskip afterclasses)

Team RWBY were walking back to their dorm when Blake heard a couple of girls talking and giggling.

"I heard that he was a total cutie," Stated one girl.

"He had golden blonde hair," said another one.

"Hah! Alice told me that he had really pretty blue eyes that glowed"

"And did you hear that laugh? So hot," The girls tittered and giggled as they continued to discuss what the mysterious knight captain of team CHAL looked like. Blonde hair and glowing blue eyes huh? Interesting, Pyrrha might want to hear this. Blake thought as they continued onwards.

(Team PARN's dorm)

Alistair was alone in the room as Pyrrha was bathing, Ren was off to look for a place to meditate, and Nora of course had followed him. He received a call on his scroll listed as Cindy. He quickly answered the call and said "Hey Cindy! What's up?".

"Nothing much Alistair, how are you doing?"

"I'm fine big sis, everything is just fine. I made some pretty good friends I even got a girlfriend. How are things on your end?"

"Oh it's been wonderful, I've been planning Ozzie's birthday surprise any ideas?"

"Oh, I have a few. You know how Ozzie loves fairytales?"

"Yeah, I do why?"

"Because I found this neat little book back at home, in the basement I think that it would make a wonderful gift for him,"

"Oh dear, you're absolutely right! He'll just love that surprise, thank you Alistair,"

"Of course big sis," During that time Pyrrha had already finished her shower, changed, and was sitting on her bed waiting for her boyfriend to finish up his call.

"Sorry, did I keep you waiting?" He asked her.

"No, it's fine Alistair. You have a really good relationship with your sister," Pyrrha stated

"Yeah, we're just two peas in a pod," He gave her a smile. "Say, Ren and Nora won't be coming back in a while. So, how about having a bit of fun?"

"Oh? What kind of fun Alistair?" She gave him a coy look and giggled lightly.

"Oh I think I can think of something," As he strode over to her and pulled her against his chest. He then leaned down to kiss her as her arms wrapped around her neck. Hook, line, sinker. He smirked as they fell on the bed together.

(Team CHAL dorm)

"Right, the others will be arriving within the coming months. We gotta boost Beacon's defenses for when that idiot Alistair and his boss decide to attack," Arthur ordered out.

"Yes sir!" the other three quickly saluted to him and began setting themselves around the table to plan for the coming future. Just you wait you smug bastard, I will not let my kingdom be burned to the ground. I will defeat you and protect my kingdom.

AN: Hoo boy, the enemy is finally making their move. Pyrrha and Blake hold two really big pieces of the puzzle when do you think they will figure it out? What did you think of the memory/dream sequence? And, who will be the second team of knights to arrive in Beacon? Please Read and Review, I do take your inputs into my story!

See you Next time

KG12