I'll just say this Cardin Winchester is erased from existance in this fic from all space and time. To compensate this dissapearnce William who will be taking his place will be a bit more racist which is explainable because him being ophaned by the covenant.
I originally wanted to to erase the Russel cause he looks the weakest and I don't like the hair but as I can't come up with a word that has WCLD and I can however come up with WLDR (Weilder). From cardinal to weilder both has a midieval feel to it, which is perfect.
For some strange reason I've got the feeling that I'm the only one putting the MC in (not)cardin's team and for some strange unknown reason I think William would actually fit in.
-story start-
On the stage
"William Ambrose, Sky Lark, Dove Bronzewing, Russel Thrush. You four has retrived the black knight pieces from this day forward you will be acting as team Weilder, lead by William Ambrose"
(yeah I know it was originally the black bishop but I just wanted to make it a Black knight cause they all have armor except for Russell Trash who I want to erase so badly but I can't cause he has the R in his name)
Ozpin kept on calling the next team's names so William and his team leaves the stage.
Once off the stage Dove Bronzewing called out to William, "So your my partner?"
William turned to the guy who called out to him, there a few noticable things about him him like he has light brown hair just like his armor and he has squinty eyes.
"thats right, as you all may already know I'm William Ambrose the heir of ONI. I'm an all rounder meaning that I can fight in close quarters, in mid range and in long range"
Squinty eyes replied "Dove Bronzewing, I specialized in swords, primerily close to mid range combat"
The man with long hair then said "I am Sky lark, I use a halberd-rifle and specialized in mid to rang range combat.
Mohawk then steps in "Russell Thrush I use a daggers fights only in close quarters"
They chatted some more untill the ceremony is over, they then went to their assigned dorm and slept for the night.
The next day
William woke up early and began unpacking his stuff and placing them on his part of the room, last night he had set up the rules dividing up the rooms in 4 parts one for each person to avoid arguments.
Being team leader naturally has cirtain privilege like being the one to choose where his part of the room, he organized the crates in to neat rows.
Later in class
"Monsters, demons, prowlers of the night..." while professor port blabbers on about his life's story William sat there patiently waiting for him to say something about the grimm that can't be found from a few second search on a scroll.
Eventually professor Port finally finished his 'epic adventure' defeating one beowolf "...so who among you believes them self to be the embodiments of these traits?"
The Weiss reised her hand and said with confidence "I do sir!"
"well then lets find out, step forward and face you opponent" professor Port said gesturing to the cage with the beast in it beside him.
Weiss then takes out Myrtenaster her rapier and heads down while Ruby, Yang and Blake cheers for her.
At this time professor Port said "aright, let the match begin," as he opened the cage letting the trapped beast inside out.
The beast in came out and it looked like a wild boar with tribal paintings, it's a boarbatusk. It came rushing out and nearly caught her off guard, luckily she managed to block the grimm's charge.
The grimm charged pass her, it turned and charged Weiss again. Weiss took this challenge and meet the charge with a charge of her own.
Unfortunately it seems that Weiss rapier got cought in the grimm's tusk and now is locked in a power struggle with the grimm. Unfortunately a one handed weapon like a rapier is not meant for such power struggle so Weiss lost the battle and let go of her weapon.
The boarbatsuk then throws the weapon away and charged Weiss, Weiss got knocked back a few feet but besides that she seemed fine. The grimm then made another charge at the now weapon less Weiss.
Weiss dodges the charge and rushes to her weapon, she pickes it back up. At this time Ruby told her to go for the belly beacuse there is no armor there. Weiss seemed to be annoyed at having someone give her advice and lashed back at Ruby saying "don't tell me what to do" hearing Weiss lash backed at her that made Ruby sad.
At this time the boarbatusk attacked Weiss with a different attack, it rolled like an armadillo and attacked Weiss with roll attack.
Weiss blocks with a... magic circle? It must be her semblance or some form of dust or some combination of any of them. Anyway the grimm having meet with a sudden barrier got knocked on it's back, fully exposing it's belly which Ruby told Weiss that is it's weak spot.
Seeing this chance Weiss attackes the fallen grimm and kills it with one poke from her rapier.
William of course was disapointed in her performance, for the so called elite to only be at this level!? Turely disapointing, William could have defeated that grimm when he was still a child with nothing more than a knife and a piece of rope. As he had defeated a UNSC mech at that with nothing more thant a knife and a piece of rope at the age of 12.
William then eyes the heavily panting Weiss and finished the thought with 'such low endurance'.
Then professor Port said "stay vigilant class dismiss" so he and his team leaves class and hangs out for awhile and discussed a few things. What he discovered is that they don't have a good impression on the subhuman race called faunas, which he has no problems with it.
As it would hypocritical of him to criticizes them about hating non-humans (faunas) while he himself hates non-humans (Covenant)...Well not just Covenant some humans (Insurrectionist) too and not to mention it would be highly disruptive to for team unity for him to do so.
Now that he thinks about it, most people in the UNSC are racist they hate the aliens no question asked and they also served excellent soldiers. As soldiers with deep racial hatred tend to go berserk when cornered they would mostly go down fighting saying "covenant bastard I'll kill you all" or something similar while pulling the pin of a grenade taking a few more enemies with him, also all spartan 3's have deep hatred for the covenant that's one of it's main selling point, go bersek killing as much of them before dying.
If William played his cards right he might make a fearsome grimm slaying team.