So chapter 3, ha-ha well now this is fun. Shaun and Li can't get a brake can they? Well no one is sending me review about my story so I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Well here is the third chapter.
Chapter 3
I deny your logic and substitute it for my own
Shaun POV
As we run through the trees the smell of ash, dirt and blood reach my nose. We can hear a group of people following us. It's weird running through a quiet forest, all the noises you hear are amplified because there is no back ground noise. I heard the sound of gears grinding and parts sliding into place behind us as we run.
I look back and see a girl wearing Greek like armour, she is pulling her arm back to throw a spear and it's aimed at Li. I think fast and tackle Li into a big ditch on the edge of the clearing. I collide with a massive thump. Li is winded. We roll down a slope into a bowl like ditch. I look at it more and I see that it's a crater.
With a gasp Li yells "What was that for"!
Not 2 seconds later a small blast and a javelin impales itself in a tree right where Li would have been, his face goes whiter than a ghosts. We move out of the crater and we see metal plates all lined up in a row. On closer inspection these plates have launch devise. I look around a find a small bolt behind each plat form. Each platform had different amount of bolts behind it.
The more something weighed, the more bolts taken out. I quickly push the plates down and put the bolts back in 2 of the pads Li looks at me funny.
"What are you doing we need to get out of here". Li whispers as we can hear a girl laughing about being a queen of a castle. I grab two big rocks and put them on the plates and move to the bush, I tell Li to shush and grab two long branches and place them next to both plates.
I hear the group rolling down the slope of the crater, and as I hear them clime the other side, I set the plates off with the 2 branches and watch the faces of our pursuers go to one of shock.
"They went into the emerald forest"? The gladiator dressed girl stated. Then another group came from the other direction. They heard what the gladiator said and paled.
"Wait what? Oh god we are so dead". The little girl in red stated, with a hint of sadness.
I look at her and sees her eyes filled with a white tint for a second. The tint leaves her eyes and she walks over to the other team. She is looking around trying to keep an eye out for anything. Li taps my shoulder and points away. As we move away a girl with a black bow hears the bush we hid in rustle and she sees a runner move away.
5 Minutes later
When we think they are a distance away and we could see a fountain. We move to a bush near the fountain and speck.
"Ok so let me get this straight, we are not on earth, we are on a planet with beasts that hunt by literally smelling or sensing fear, two groups of heavily armed teens are trying to kill us and we believe we are in a show made by rooster teeth and we are armed with weapons that we once thought of and designed ourselves". I say finally breathing.
"By the looks of it. But why are we here"? Li asked
"Well isn't that the million dollar question of the day". I decide to not tell Li about the guy I met before we came here until we are safe.
"We need to get away from here. Let's see what's over here" Li suggests.
We move to the edge of the bushes and pear through. We look around and see teens walking around and all of them are heavily armed. We don't see much of a chance to run. I think back to all the different ways to hide. In a hidden place, above or below and in plain sight.
"Li follow my lead, we need to blend in until we find a way to run for it". I say with a hint of madness in my voice.
"Your nuts, where would we be able to hide". LI says. I pull the two knifes off my belt and look at LI the mad look back in my eye.
"We will head to that room in the tower". I say as I point to a glass wall. "The most important person will be there and we can use them as a hostage to keep those guys off us". An evil grin spreads across my face.
"Shaun you do know where we are right, so if this is where I think we are there is only one person who could be in that room". Li says quickly, but before he could finish we see the girl in pink walking towards us.
"Explain later just run". I say sprinting into the mass group of teens walking around. Li not far behind, but neither is the group of 8 teens who are trying to kill us. The first 4 we have no idea where they are. We reach the main door when an explosion goes off behind us and we hear the girl again singing about being a queen of a castle. We get inside and head straight for the stairs.
Ruby POV
When we meet up with team JNPR we teamed up with them. I had to think of a way to find out why they are here, but this way I know where these guys are. We follow Blake as she tracks them through the wood. We see them behind a bush and were about to get them but Nora starts to sing and walk towards them. We see them run to the school and Nora loads her launcher, fires near them as they run into the building. The shell hit a wall which lead to Ports classroom.
As we go inside we move around the bottom floor. We sweep every room, every toilet and every closet but nothing.
"Where are those 2 thugs"? Weiss says with a slither of an accusation.
"Weiss how many time must we tell you not to judge others unless you know them" Yang says with a slight trace of anger.
"Okay, okay, let's just find them". She says with a hint of fear.
"Okay we are going to split into our partners". I say as we split. "Ok Weiss and I will go to the top floor, Yang and Blake, take the next 2 under that, Jaune and Pyrrha take this floor and the next floor and Ren and Nora take the basement levels". I say as we break off. "Call if you find anything" I say as we move to the elevator. 'Let's hope we find them before anything happens' I thought. But I was already too late.
We search for 15 minutes and we still can't find them anywhere. As we move off I hear a bang come from the very top floor. "GUYS THERE IN OZPINS OFFICE" I yell and we all run up to the office.
Ozpin POV
20 Minutes earlier
I'm sitting in my office minding my own business, bored out of my mind. I move to a chess board and was about to play by myself when my door gets kicked open. At first I don't recognise them, then I remember they are the two from my little test.
"So are you the one in charge here"? The tall blond asked.
"Yes and might I have your names please"? I ask politely.
"Why should I trust you, you send a group of people to kill us did you not" The blond says. The kid with brown punch the other in the arm. "Ouch, okay, okay, my name is Shaun and this short bed head is Li. Now that's out of the way….." He pulls a knife out and points it at my throught. "Call off those blood hounds you call students and tell us where the hell we are". The boy says with anger in his voice.
"I'll tell you what ever you like, but you must beat me in a game of chess". I hesitate at the question but move to a table with the chess set. I sit down.
"Ok then let's get this over with". The boy looks at the other teen and then the board.
Remnant POV
10 minutes later
As the match moves on Ozpin notices how Shaun keeps trying to block and set traps for his pieces. He blocks pawns with pawns the places one in a spot stopping any advance. Li watches the game but feels I'm not going fast enough and throws the chair making a loud bang.
"This is an interesting strategy you are using, why don't you attack"? Ozpin asked.
"Why sacrifice a piece, they all have values. Hold the line till your enemy makes a mistake then act, but don't keep attacking. You will need to keep that piece safe. You can't fight a battle if you have no troops". Shaun stated
"That's a different way at looking at a chess match". Ozpin chuckles
"Yeah but it works. So the way this is going one of us will have to attack".
Ozpin made the first strike, but lost a piece. He moved into a spot before a pawn and take the piece. Shaun keeps copying his movements and keeps a solid defence.
After 4 more minutes the game is called because of a stale mate. Ozpin looks at the bored and sees that they lost the same pieces and the same amount, he knew he had to answer their questions but they will need to answer his.
Li POV
"So you will tell us what we want to know Ozpin and tell those students to stop chasing us and to come here". I say with a hint of boredom.
"Li why did you call him Ozpin, that's the name of a made up character for a show and everyone one in it is not real". Shaun whispers, then realisation hits him. "Wait everyone who's been chasing us seems familiar and wait …. no you can't be, is he". Shaun looks at me.
"Yes Shaun we are not on earth from what I've heard and this is THE Ozpin from the show and that would only mean the three teams chasing us were CRDL, JNPR and RWBY". My face pales at what I just said.
"Ok so 'Ozpin' where are we and why are those students attacking us"? Shaun asks the question.
"Well to start you are currently in my office at Beacon Academy, in the kingdom of Vale, on the planet Remnant. And those 'Blood Hounds' you named earlier are on their way besides CRDL because their leader is in the infirmary. Well what's left of it". Ozpin says.
Just as he finished speaking we could hear the sound of a group of people running down the hall. Before they reach the door I moved Shaun and myself to a far off corner where we sat and started to play a game of chess. The door suddenly gets kicked in and 8 people walk in. 6 female all about 17 and one about 15 and finally 2 males who both looked 17.
Shaun was focusing on his next move so he never saw them. I started to size them up and think what we could do to get out of here. Then Shaun mumbles something, braking me out of my focus.
"What"? I say unintelligently
"Check". Shaun whispers again.
I move my king and was about to look back at the group when I hear someone screech.
"YOU"! The girl in white says. I feel a tightness in my chest. I shake it off when suddenly Shaun slams his chair back and yells.
"CHECK MATE, HAHAHAHA"! Shaun yells in triumph, rising his hands into the air. Still not noticing the people in the room. He then looks to the group and instantly feels embarrassed. "Ahhhhhh". He says with his hands in the air.
Ozpin decides to step in before anything happens, as he can see the two teams are grabbing their weapons to attack the two male teen's people.
"So team RWBY and JNPR these are the 2 males you were sent to fight, but they escaped and got past you all the way to my office and still had time to play chess, I don't know what I should say about this". Ozpin states
"Sir with all due respect you never told us why we had to fight these people and what was the point of doing this exercise". The tall gladiator asks
"Well Miss Nikos, this was to see their skill level in a fight, although no fights took place". "And the only fight we saw was Cardin being thrown from the infirmary. Now so we can still see what they can do we will have them fight a team each". "And why don't we all introduce ourselves". Ozpin suggests. The small red caped girl instantly starts an introduction.
"Hi, I'm Ruby Rose and I'm the leader of team RWBY. The girl in white is Weiss Schnee, the girl with dark hair and a bow is Blake Belladonna and the girl with long gold hair is my sister Yang Xiao Long. Nice to meet you". The girl Ruby finishes. The Blond male specks next.
"Hi I'm Jaune arc, short, sweet, roles off the tongue (Shaun and Li face palm at the sentence), this is Nora Valkyrie, this is Pyrrha Nikos and this is Lie Ren. We make team JNPR". He finishes.
"Well I'm Li Burn and not much to tell really, just don't tell me to fix my hair it's always been like this". I say, I look at Shaun who now knows that this is all real. "Shaun you can introduce yourself now". I say.
"Oh yeah, right (Cough). My name is Shaun Boomer and I love animals, camping and anything that shoots, stabs, jabs or pokes. And as long as you're nice to me I'll be nice to you". He says but with a hint off distrust in his words
"Well now we all know each other what should we do" I say.
Remnant POV
As Li finished talking Ruby suddenly started to feel really dizzy, she grabs Yang's arm for support but falls unconscious and lands face first into the ground. Everyone races to her side but Shaun, as he has a look of pain on his face. Blake is the only one to notice his eyes changing from a deep ocean blue into a dark, blood red for a second.
Shaun then growls and falls. Holding his head and tail bone. He starts to scream loud. Li moves over to him to see what's wrong but Goodwitch comes in and see's two people on the ground. She instantly makes carry glyphs and a feather glyph and jumps out the window and lands with no problem.
She takes them to the infirmary where Ruby is have a nightmare and the Shaun is in extreme pain. She then places them on beds and doctors look them over. They say Ruby's ok but something strange is happening to Shaun. When she looks she is almost faints from shock and surprise.
Ruby POV
I'm standing is a world of ice and snow. I can see a small fire with someone there. I see a small boy sitting all alone.
"Hey little guy what's wrong" I ask.
"Have you ever had the feeling that something in your heart is trying to get out to do something bad? My heart shows love but it's filled with hate. It hurts, but if I let it out people will get hurt". The boys says with a tear.
"What bad thing will happen"? I ask.
"The beast that sits in all man's heart wishes to escape but can't. Mine wants out and it hurts. If it gets out I will lose control and I don't know what to do". Suddenly he stands up and looks at the moon. His face shows fear. He then speaks.
"The true nature of one's heart and soul show on the night of a full moon". He says and as I look into his eyes they are blood red. "I can't keep it in. run while you can". He says as he falls over and black smoke starts to cover him.
The Ice and snow get thicker. The boy has become a beast and I'm scared. I run, fast but the beast is faster. I look into its eyes and see hate, betrayal, jalousie and loneliness. As I run the beast snaps at my heals. The snow and ice hit harder. I see a hill and I clime. I know this place. I look and see the alter for my mother. I run toward it, the beast still a distance away. I look ahead over the cliff and see my mother's clock floating in mid-air and then I hear her voice.
"Ruby, the beast can't stay hidden forever and a heart made of ice is hard to melt. Keep the beast tame and melt the heart to save these people". Summer finishes.
"But mum, why me"? I ask.
"Because only you can help the heart melt and keep the madness of the beast from going wild". My mum says. "Okay you are waking up so I will finish quick". She moves forward and whispers into my ear. "A picture says a thousand words, but a smile hides a million secrets". After she says that she vanishes.
I start to awake and look around. I see Shaun in the bed next to me. I almost faint of shock at what I see transpiring.
Li POV
I get to the infirmary but I can't enter. I hear Ruby's scared whimpers and nothing else.
I see Goodwitch and run to her.
"Ok what's happened and why was Shaun in pain"? I ask her.
"Your friends ok just needs sleep but he is not the same. You may visit". As soon as she says that I run into the room and I need to rub my eyes and pinch myself. I'm not dreaming. I look at Shaun in his bed asleep and at his side is a tail and on his head are fluffy ears. They look like wolf ears and tail. His canine teeth are sharper and longer. His nose twitches as he lays asleep on the bed.
Li knew what Shaun was now, he suddenly remember something and quickly ran from the room. He remembered all the talks they had about what they would be and look like in the world of Remnant, and now they are here everything they planned was coming true. So Shaun is now what he planned, and that only means his dark soul is real as well and it's made Shaun into what he is now.
Shaun has become a Faunus, and a wolf in sheep's clothing just waiting to burst free from its bonds. Li needed to find Ozpin but he was nowhere to be found.
3 hours later
Ozpin POV
As I look at the boy I'm still confused. As I look at the video of Cardin being thrown from the room. All I can see are red eyes. Those of a Grimm, on the face of the tall blond with ocean Blue eyes.
"Just what are you Shaun"? I ask myself. I get up from my chair in the lab. I take one last look at the boy on the monitor and head to my office. The question still playing on my mind as I walk.
Hey guys sorry it took so long, lots of assignments and exams so it's been slow. Reviews are good. I'll have the next chapter out sometime next month. Have a good one.