Kintin23: HELLO PEOPLES OF THE INTERNET! It's time for chapter four and it is here that some questions will be answered. Just so you know, I have made it so Aston is way stronger than the other Beacon students but only because of the massive boosts he gets from using his gears. Without them he is at the level of a normal Beacon student (without haki. With haki he is about the level of a regular huntsman) and he will save his gears for something important (usually).


Aston P.O.V.

It's been almost a year since I ended up in the world of Remnant and a lot of stuff has happened. First off, a few weeks after I got here, Ruby finally decided to eat the Glint-Glint Fruit and it was a big event.


"So, Ruby. Have you finally decided what you're going to do with it?" I ask her.

Me, Yang, and Tai-Yang are all standing outside in the backyard. Ruby had told us to come out here, but she didn't tell us why. Luckily, I was able to figure out what it was about after she brought the fruit out.

"Yup, I'm going to eat it." She says cheerily.

"Are you sure?" I ask worriedly "You won't be able to swim ever again after eating one."

"I know that. That's why I spent so long thinking about this. I would much rather be able to protect people than swim. It's not like I do it that much anyways." She explains.

She really is a simple soul.

"Well, If you've thought it through, then I'm all for it." Yang says.

Throughout this entire time, Tai-Yang has been silent with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Oh! I almost forgot," I say, drawing their attention to me "Devil fruits taste terrible. Luckily, you only need to take a small bite for the full effects. Sorry for not mentioning this sooner."

"Yeah, that would have been a good thing to know." They all deadpan at me.

"Ok, I'm going to eat it now!" Ruby says with conviction before taking a small bite, the size of a finger nail and swallowing it down.

"Bleeeeegh!"

And promptly collapsing onto the ground and gagging for about one minute.

"So Gross," She says gasping "Tastes like an unholy mix of blue cheese and butt sweat."

"Well I did warn you." I say, trying to keep my mirth under wraps. I can tell it's not working, though, because Ruby just gives me the most evil golden eyed glare I have ever seen.

Wait, golden eyed?

Well shit.


So it turns out that the Glint-Glint Fruit somehow interacted with the power of the silver eyes that Ruby has. I was freaking out at first before realizing that she hasn't lost the power, it just changed. My current theory is that it was because both powers were based off of light.

Thats not it with the devil fruit weirdness, though. Yang also ended up finding one a few months later, and boy was it a doozy.


I'm sitting on the couch with Zwei and Tai-Yang watching the news when the door flies open, revealing an excited Ruby and an equally excited, but more roughed up Yang. She's clearly not hurt, but it's clear that she's been in a fight. She is also hiding something behind her back. I pause the TV.

"Guess what I found~" She says in a singsong voice with a large grin on her face.

"A devil fruit." I say simply.

She deflates.

"Aww. How'd you know?" she asks.

"What else would you have found that you would be this excited about?" Tai-Yang says, joining in on the conversation.

"So what happened anyways?" I ask, a little curious.

"I don't know," Ruby says. "I had just finished getting the newest issue of 'Weapons' when I heard this big explosion and when I went to the location, Yang was there and she was standing over this unconscious guy with a beard and a broken bat weapon with a big smile on her face saying she found a devil fruit."

Yang's face went pale and I could feel the glare Tai-Yang was giving her as the temperature in the room dropped and he started exuding so much raw danger I could almost see it.

"He started it." She whined.

"Yang, we all know you started it." I deadpan.

"Well he still shouldn't have touched my hair!" She said.

At that, the room abruptly retuned to normal.

"Oh, that's OK then." Tai-Yang says in a jovial tone, now smiling.

"Wait, Really!?" I exclaim "Just like that, the fight was justified!?"

They both give me the most serious look I have ever seen.

"No one touches the hair." They say at the same time in a deadly sounding voice.

"..."

"So, Yang, what devil fruit did you find?" I say, completely ignoring their response.

"This one!" She says as she takes what she was hiding behind her back and shows it to me. It is a reddish orange fruit of a round shape with the usual swirls on it. The unique trait of this devil fruit is that its swirls are shaped more like flames and partially come off of the fruit, like a dragon fruit. I recognize it instantly.

"HOLY SH- HOLY CRABAPPLES!" I exclaim, catching myself after realizing Ruby was in the room.

"What is it!?" Yang says excitedly after realizing that, if that's my reaction, it has to be strong.

"It's the Fame-Flame Fruit. It's a Logia class, like Ruby's Glint-Glint Fruit, but this one turns you to flames. Not only is it extremely powerful, but it perfectly compliments your fighting style!" I say, now starting to get really excited. It really is almost made for her.

After I say this, she stares at it for a few seconds before abruptly stuffing the whole thing into her mouth in one go and swallowing.

"Now I'm hot in two ways!" She says with a shit eating grin on her face.

"GODDAMNIT YANG!" We groan.


I have also been spending a lot of my time training to acclimatized myself with the skills that I received from the Gum-Gum Fruit. No one else received the skills of the previous owner though. I probably only did because I ate it in that temple place.

I have been training with my weapons as well. I wasn't originally going to use weapons because none work with the Gum-Gum style I have, but in that box that fell out of the door with me was a pair of gauntlets that, despite being made of metal, stretched like rubber but could still block blades and the like. They look like Tai-Yang's gauntlet glove thing when in the stored form, but after deployment cover my entire forearm, as well as my knuckles but not my really good because that would have been an issue to activate third gear. I named them Ace and Sabo, for obvious reasons and they have some sort of mechanism that stores kinetic energy to be released at a later time.

A day after I arrived, Ruby unlocked my aura (which is red, by the way), and a few weeks later I found my semblance, I call it 'Boost'. It lets me boost any one physical aspect, like my strength or speed, but only one at a time. Say I wan't to increase my strength but I already have my speed boosted, I would need to return my speed to normal before I could do it. It seems to be raised by a percent, instead of a fixed amount, though exactly what percent, I don't know. It seems to be around a 100% boost though

Also, a little while after Ruby ate the Glint-Glint Fruit, Ozpin came to visit.

Apparently Tai-Yang told him about me and he wanted my help in preventing the oncoming storm. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help much because they never tell the date that the attack on Amber happens, although I was able to tell him that an attack was going to happen in the first place. Last I heard, she still got attacked and some of her powers were stolen, but not as much as canon because Qrow was keeping a closer eye on her. She is conscious and recovering fine at Beacon. After that, Ozpin decided that It would be more convenient if I were at Beacon, so he invited me as his apprentice. This means that he will be training me personally. He originally just wanted me as a student but then a few weeks later this happened.


I'm in the backyard training against a dummy when from inside I hear Yang call me.

"ASTON! That uncle I told you about is here!" She yells from the doorway before heading in.

"Kay!" I call back before putting Ace and Sabo in storage mode and head inside.

Walking in, I see a scruffy man in his late thirties to early forties sprawled out on the couch with a flask in his hand taking a swig. No one else is here.

"So you're that kid Ozpin told me about, huh?" He says, looking at me appraisingly. "I wanted to talk to you alone so I asked them to leave."

"And you're the infamous 'Druncle' Qrow I've hears so much about." I say back in a joking tone. He glares at me.

"Oh, come on kid, I'm not that bad." He says in an annoyed voice before taking a swig.

"Ozpin told you about the story, right?" I ask him.

"Yeah."

"Well, the only time you didn't have that flask in your hand while on screen was when you were in a fight with Winter, and you were clearly drunk off you're ass when that started." I snark at him.

His eyes go wide at the mention of his mortal enemy and he stares at me for a few seconds before returning to normal.

"Wow, Oz wasn't screwin with me. You really do know a lot." He says in an appreciative tone. "So, Oz told me you have one of those new magic fruit powers that have been popping up lately. I wanna hear about it."

"Sure." I say while bringing my hand up to my mouth, hooking my index finger around the corner of my mouth and pulling it inhumanly far.

"I ate the Gum-Gum Fruit so now I'm a rubber man." I say with a grin. He smirks.

"Rubber! How the hell is that useful. What are you going to do; stretch at me?" he ask me sarcastically whilst laughing before taking another swig of his flask.

I smirk at him.

"Oh yeah? Wanna fight then?" I challenge.

"Sure, kid. Just don't blame me when you get your ass handed to you."

10 minutes later, Outside

Me and Qrow are facing each other, about 10 meters apart, in an open space, me with Ace and Sabo deployed and him with his weapon out in sword form. Yang, Ruby, and Tai-Yang are off to the side waiting for the match to start.

"Really, Qrow. I leave you alone for 5 minutes with the kid and you're already fighting." Tai-Yang laments.

"He insulted my rubber powers!" I say indignantly.

"And this kid's too cocky for his own good. I need to show him how big the world is." He says before turning to me. "In fact, for your first attack, I'll only defend I won't even move! I'm even giving you a free shot, see how fair I am?"

"Whatever. Just fight already." Yang says annoyed.

"OK." Ruby says from between us. "FIGHT!"

The dumbass shouldn't have given me a free shot. Sure, normally, he would definitely win, (though I could hold out a few minutes thanks to observation haki) but in second gear I would win for sure. Add on to that the fact that I have a free shot and I could use a finisher.

I get into a horse stance and place my fist on the ground.

"SECOND GEAR!" I exclaim, my skin turning a light pink as well as releasing a blast of compressed steam while I also activate my semblance, boosting my strength.

"What's that gonna do, steam me to death?" He asks sarcastically.

Ignoring him, I stand back up to my full hight before whipping my hand back and letting it stretch as far as I can make it.

"Armament: Hardening." I mutter, more out of habit than need, before the end of my arm as well as my fist turns a shiny black and it suddenly catches on fire.

"Shit!" Finally catching on, Qrows eyes widen as he hurriedly moves to block the incoming attack.

"Gum-Gum Red Hawk!" I scream out, releasing my fist and sending it at him faster than the speed of sound. He manages to block, but it does little to protect him from the sheer force of the attack as he gets thrown back, smashing into and breaking through around 5 trees at the edge of the clearing we're in before his momentum bleeds off.

We all stare at the place where Qrow's body slammed into the tree line for a few seconds before I slowly turned to the audience.

I give them a weak smile.

"Oops."


Maybe Red Hawk was too much to start out with, but the bastard was being cocky and I didn't want to waste the opportunity. He ended up being fine though, just a few scrapes and a depleted aura and once Ozpin heard about that little incident he invited me to be his personal apprentice.

And that is how I find myself here. On an airship to Beacon, along with Yang and Ruby.

"Oh, I can't believe my baby sister and best friend are going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!" She squeals in excitement while grabbing both of us in a bear hug. I'm mostly fine because I'm rubber. Ruby? not so much.

"Please stop." Ruby gasps.

Yes, Yang. Please stop.


Kintin23: Sorry about how late this chapter is. I had to rush it and cut off a bit at the end. Next week I'll be more on time. Kintin23 out!