Jenkins: Damn, the captain feels pretty bad for the sorry state of Gamer of the Wasteland's latest two chapters.
Melody: Yeah, I've read a couple of reviews for it, and the captain doesn't blame people for thinking that the story's being rushed, or that he's forcing the humor.
Jenkins: Yep, I guess that's what happens when the captain updates stories early.
Melody: Agreed, now let's see what happens with our readers next, and pray that the captain doesn't kill us.
Just as Raven was about to open the book and read, Tronmaster suddenly started sniffing the air.
"Um, Alicia?" Glynda said.
"Yeah Glynda, what's up?" Alicia said.
"What's up with Tronmaster?" Nora asked.
"What date is it?" Alicia said, prompting Qrow to answer.
"Tuesday, February 28th. Why?"
"Oh, crapbaskets." Alicia said.
"Who's eating a Paczki and not telling me?" Tronmaster said, getting ready to get into the elevator, before Alicia kissed him.
"a Paczki is sweet, but so are you babe. Thanks." Tronmaster said.
"No problem. Raven, if you would?" Alicia said, motioning for Raven to start reading.
[No P.O.V.]
"Huh, once again with the no POV." Penny said.
"Oh, in case I didn't mention it earlier, the creatures mentioned a couple of chapters that the Sorceress mentioned ARE indeed Final Fantasy creatures." Tronmaster said, "Also, Powder's weapon has only three forms." He continued.
"Huh, that's good to know." Raven said, as she continued to read.
After everyone had woken up they had made their way to the locker rooms to collect their equipment, along with a slight mishap in the men's room (Namely Nora following Ren into it)
"It was highly embarrassing." Ren said.
"Hey, I can't help if I'm practically attached at the hip with Ren." Nora said with a shrug.
"Wonder what those two are so worked up about?" Ruby asked as she pulled out Crescent Rose out of her locker.
"Honestly, why did we even care?" Ruby asked.
"Who knows, with those two it's hard to tell." Weiss said.
"Oh who knows." Yang said snapping shut her Combat King magazine, "So, you seem awfully chipper this morning."
"Well, it's not like she had any reason not to be." Blake said.
"Yep." Ruby said, "No more awkward small talk or getting-to-know-you-stuff. Today, I get to let my sweetheart do the talking." As if to emphasize this Ruby began to hug stroke Crescent Rose.
Just as Weiss was about to get jealous at a weapon, she felt Ruby snuggle up to her.
"While I will always love my baby Crescent Rose, I'll also love you my Snow Angel." Ruby said, causing Weiss to smile.
'You continue to disturb me when you do that.' Alexander said to Ruby.
"Hey!" Ruby said indignantly.
"It was my other!" Alexander defended.
"Well, remember, Ruby, you're not the only one going through initiation." Yang said, "If you wanna grow up, you're going to have to meet new people and learn to work together."
"Wow, now that I hear it, it does sound kinda lame." Yang said sheepishly.
"Although, none the less true." Weiss said, hugging her girlfriend.
Ruby rolled her eyes, "Ugh you sound like Mom and Dad." Ruby groaned, "Okay, first of all, what does meeting new people have to do with fighting? And secondly, I don't need people to help me grow up, I drink milk."
"That's your defense for everything!" A few voices said in the vents.
"Who the hell was that?!" Winter said, alarmed.
"Maximus, initiate intruder purge of ventilation shaft 56-b." Alicia said.
Within several minutes, three figures popped out of the vent in the reading room. All three of them male.
"What the?" Winter and Penny asked confused.
"Oh, goddammit." Tronmaster said.
"SUN!?" Blake said.
"NEPTUNE!?" Weiss said.
"DAD/TAI!?" Said Ruby, Yang, Summer, Tai, Qrow, Raven, and Glynda.
The first male figure had blonde hair, and blue eyes, with a soul patch and a small amount of stubble on his jawline. On his right arm is a tattoo in a similar shape to a heart. He wore brown cargo shorts with a dark brown belt, black shoes, a red bandana on his left arm, and a brown leather vest over a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off. His armor consists of a single metal spaulder, leather vambrace, and a brown fingerless glove, all on his right arm.
The second male was also blonde haired, but had a monkey tail. His eyes were either blue, or dark-gray. On his arm were two red wrist bracers and an open loose collared white jacket with no shirt showcasing his muscular physique. He also wears blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt. He also has white bandages on his legs and a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. To finish off his look, he wears black and yellow sneakers and a twisted golden necklace around his neck.
The final figure had light blue hair in an undercut style with dark blue eyes. He wore a white dress shirt and black tie under a red jacket with a wide, upturned, black collar and a pair of gray jeans with black padding strapped to the sides. The back of his jacket displayed a silver reticle. And to finish off his look, were black shoes that were fastened with straps, rather than laces, black fingerless gloves, and a pair of yellow tinted goggles worn on his forehead.
These three were Taiyang Xiao Long, Sun Wukong, and Neptune Vasilias respectfully. And Tronmaster had a question for them.
"What the hell are you doing aboard my ship?" Tronmaster asked in a threatening tone.
"Well, you see, we noticed everyone here being carted off by some robot, and we decided to follow along, stage a rescue." Sun said with a smirk.
"So, you decided to follow a military-grade android, aboard a ship in low orbit above Remnant, because you thought we were being kept prisoner?" Blake asked.
"Yep, pretty much." Sun replied.
"Oh, sweet salty Christ. Look, I'm not in the fucking mood. You can stay, but we need to get the three of you up to speed." Alicia said, motioning to the elevator.
"Okay hot stuff, whatever you say." Neptune said, before Tronmaster grabbed him by the collar.
"Flirt with my girlfriend again blueberry, and I'll shove that trident of yours so far up your ass, people are going to think that you're the world's whiniest shish kebab. Got it?" Tronmaster said in a threatening voice.
"Y-yes sir." Neptune said, as Alicia led him, Sun and Tai to the elevator.
"Alright, with that momentary distraction out of the way, Raven, please continue." Tronmaster said, Raven agreeing.
Ifrit and Alexander just sighed at this.
"Well, good to know I can count on the two of you for support." Ruby said.
"Okay, but hat about when we form teams?" Yang asked.
"A legitimate question, all things considered." Penny said.
'Or you are put into a team at random.' Ifrit added.
"Which is what normally happens." Glynda said.
"Umm...I don't know" Ruby admitted, "I... I'll just be on your team or something."
"Which is exactly what happened." Yang said, Ruby smiling.
"Maybe you should try being on someone else's team." Yang offered.
"First ditching her in the courtyard, then you tried coercing her to be on someone else's team? Yang Xiao Long, you and I will talk about this later." Summer said, glaring at Yang.
'Incoming!' Ifrit shouted.
"Gee, thanks for having my back Ifrit." Yang said sarcastically.
"Hey, don't blame me, your mother actually terrifies me!" Ifrit defended.
Ruby then glared at Yang, albeit not very threateningly, "My dear sister Yang, are you implying that you do not wish to be on the same team as me? Ruby demanded.
"Jeez, if Ruby wanted to, she could be very threatening." Nora said.
"Damn right I can be." Ruby said with a smug grin.
Yang lurched back an tried to defuse the situation with her sister as Jaune passed by.
"Oh, hell." Jaune said.
"Hey, it worked out in the end." Weiss said.
'This role reversal between Weiss and Jaune is a tad weird, but I like it.' Tronmaster thought with a smile.
"Okay... Locker 636... where was that again?" Jaune asked, mostly to his GF Siren as she translucently walked next to him.
"I just realized, Siren, we should probably find something to cover you up besides your wings." Yang said.
"Because of Taiyang?" Siren asked.
"No, because of Sun and Neptune." Blake said in deadpan.
"Up ahead an to the left... between those two." Siren said pointing to Weiss and Pyrrha.
"Oh, great, I am not looking forward to how I acted." Weiss said.
Weiss was already initiating her plan to create the best team possible, "So Pyrrha, have you given any thought to whose team you'd like to be on?" Weiss asked, "I'm sure everyone must be eager to unite with such a strong, well known individual such as yourself."
"Weiss, were you coming on to me?" Pyrrha asked, only for Ruby to glare at her.
"That, does look bad." Weiss said, looking over at her girlfriend, and proceeded to kiss her.
"Weiss, reel in that pride." Shiva scolded.
"Lord, I was pathetic." Weiss said, after kissing Ruby.
"You've gotten better." Blake said.
Pyrrha however was not as enthusiastic as Weiss, "Hmm... I'm not quite sure. I was planning on letting the chips fall where they may." Pyrrha said.
"Turns out, leaving it to chance was your best choice." Penny said.
Behind her translucently were the Brother's Sacred and Minotaur.
"High five!" Minotaur said, his brother complying with a high five.
"Leaving it to luck huh?" Minotaur asked, "Fair plan I suppose."
"Not really." Glynda said.
"Not in my book." Sacred said.
"I agree." Sacred said.
"Well, I was thinking we could be on a team together." Weiss offered, "After all we both have Guardian Force's backing us up."
"Lord I was such a bitch." Weiss said, dejectedly.
"That sounds grand." Pyrrha said.
"You weren't interested at all, were you?" Weiss asked Pyrrha.
"Truthfully, I wasn't too thrilled at being recognized as 'Pyrrha the celebrity'." Pyrrha replied.
"Fair enough." Weiss said.
"She's hiding something isn't she?" Sacred asked Shiva.
"She's always hiding something." Blake said.
"Says the girl who constantly hides her smut." Weiss said.
"IT'S NOT SMUT IT'S ART!" Defended Blake, Raven, and, Alicia?
"Was that Alicia?" Summer said.
"Raven, get back to reading." Tronmaster said, Raven complying.
"Yep." Shiva said as Weiss turned away, letting her evil train of thought go through her head.
"Damn Weiss, you've got the 'evil mastermind' thing down pat. I like that." Ruby said, causing Weiss to blush.
'This will be perfect!' Weiss thought evilly. 'The smartest girl in class combined with the strongest girl in class, both with Guardian Forces with us! Together we will be unstoppable! I can see it now! We'll be popular! We'll be celebrities! We'll get perfect grades! Nothing can come between us now! Weiss was all but ready to begin her evil laughter when someone's arm reached out in front of her.
'I wonder if Weiss' evil thoughts could be used for...' Was all Ruby thought before her mind immediately went into the gutter.
"Um, Ruby? Are you okay?" Penny asked, snapping her fingers in front of Ruby's face, which snapped out of her trance.
"Huh, I guess the Xiao Long side doesn't have the most perverted mindset." Ruby said. Causing Raven to get back to reading.
"Excuse me, you two are kinda standing in front of my locker." Jaune said slipping in.
"At least you aren't hitting on me." Weiss said.
"Like I said Weiss, I apologize for not getting the hint sooner." Jaune said.
"Oh, sorry." Pyrrha said.
'Wow, Pyrrha, you're so Canadian.' Tronmaster thought with a smirk.
"It's you again." Weiss said annoyed, she'd run into Jaune once before and was a little irritated that he had a GF with him without looking very impressive, and when she asked Shiva what a GF would be doing with someone who is tall, blonde and scraggly like him, he kinda took it the wrong way.
"Damn Weiss, your other is more of a bitch than you are." Yang said, before being slapped by both Ruby and Weiss.
"Relax, he's not gonna come onto you anymore." Siren said, "I sorted him out."
"Thank Oum." Said both Weiss and Jaune.
"That's nice." Weiss said ready to start walking away.
"Oum, I really hated how I was." Weiss said.
"You really have gotten better though Weiss." Penny said.
"Thank you Penny." Weiss said with a smile.
"It's nice to meet you..." Pyrrha said reaching out her hand.
"Jaune Arc." Jaune said shaking her hand.
"And no dumbass pickup line." Pandemona said.
Weiss chose to step in for a quick moment, "Jaune, is it? Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" Weiss asked.
"Oh, crapbaskets." Pyrrha said.
Sacred and Minotaur started waiving their hands, both knowing Pyrrha didn't really like the entourage that follows her fame and popularity.
"Thanks you two." Pyrrha said.
"No problem." Said both of the brothers.
"Not in the slightest." Jaune said, "I've spent most of my free time looking around for Draw Point's to stock up my spells."
"Smart move kid." Qrow said.
"I agree." Winter said.
"Smart kid." Shiva said, Draw point's were a good way to find a solid amount of spells that never went anywhere and continued to restock after a while.
"Pretty convenient." Raven said.
"This is Pyrrha Nikos." Weiss stressed.
"Hello again." Pyrrha said.
"I really hate how I was." Weiss said, only to be comforted by Ruby.
Pyrrha graduated top of her class at Sanctum." Weiss said.
"Never heard of it." Jaune said.
"Now that I think of it, what DOES Sanctum look like?" Yang asked.
"I don't know. I hope that it gets shown in Volume 5." Tronmaster said.
Weiss then scoffed in disbelief, "She's won the Mistral Regional Tournaments four years in a row! A new record!" Weiss called.
"It's not that impressive." Pyrrha said.
"I'd probably knw what that was if I didn't spend so much time hunting down Draw Points." Jaune admitted.
"At least my other is honest." Jaune said.
"And not hitting on Weiss." Nora added.
Weiss sighed, "I'd say I'd give you that, but I don't even know what a Draw Point is." Weiss said, "But she's on the front of-"
"A Draw Point!" Sacred called out shutting Weiss up, "Is a natural forming source of stockable spells that appear all around the world, and Siren is the only one of us that can see the hidden Draw Points."
"Wait, only Siren can sense hidden Draw Points? Awesome!" Jaune said.
Weiss opened her mouth again, only for Shiva to rest a hand on her shoulder, "I think Pyrrha would prefer it if you didn't oust her on her fame to this young man." Shiva whispered to Weiss.
"Thank you Shiva." Pyrrha said.
"Why?" Weiss hissed as Pyrrha started asking Jaune about the Draw Points he's found.
"Jeez, I really need to learn to lighten up sometimes." Weiss said.
"I think Pyrrha want's people to judge her on who she is, not her accomplishments." Shiva said.
"Yeah, pretty much." Pyrrha said.
Then the intercom came on.
"Would all first-year students please report to Beacon cliff for initiation? Again, all first-year students report to Beacon cliff immediately." Glynda's voice called over the intercom.
"Awkward situation is avoided." Jaune said.
"Well Jaune it was nice meeting you, but it seems we have to go." Pyrrha said.
"And thankfully, I don't have to spear Jaune to the wall." Pyrrha said sheepishly.
"Wait, what?" Qrow asked laughing.
"It's a long, and rather embarrassing story." Jaune said.
"Same here." Jaune said as he and Pyrrha walked out of the locker room.
Siren trailed behind with the brothers, "I can sense a blooming love between those two." Siren said, "Although Jaune is a bit oblivious sometimes so it make take a bit for him to realize she's in love with him."
"I certainly won't make that mistake again." Jaune said, kissing Pyrrha on the cheek.
"I'll take your word for it." Minotaur said walking ahead.
"It doesn't look like they're in love." Sacred said.
"Give it time." Siren said smiling.
"Ah, jeez. This is embarrassing." Jaune said.
"It's like trying to introduce the person your date to your parent's place." Winter said.
The Sorceress watched from a far off cliff almost opposite of Beacon Cliff, he helmet on and the binocular function fully zoomed in, her gaze shifting to each of the student's Junctioned with Guardian Forces.
"Oum, doesn't she have anything better to do? I dunno, maybe play with a special little-" Yang said before being cut off.
"Same old initiation." She mused, only to hear a low growl, taking her helmet off she looked down to see a Creep had dug up right in front of her, "Get out of her filth." She scolded kicking the Grimm off the cliff before refocusing on the student's, who were now being launched.
"Okay, that was pretty funny." Summer said, the others agreeing.
"The Arc boy with the Nikos girl, The Schnee with the Rose, the ginger and the quiet boy, and the blonde and the Faunus." She mused, "Ozpin you still rig these things as best you can don't you?"
"Does he rig them?" Ruby asked, not getting a response from Glynda.
"Birdie no!" Ruby called out as she flew into a small crow.
"Any relation to you Qrow?" Winter asked teasingly.
"You're lucky that you're sexy." Qrow said.
'Focus!' Alexander called.
"Stay focused young Padawan." Blake said.
Ruby nodded and unslung Crescent Rose and began to fire a few shot's to slow her down, then when she got close to a tree she shifted Crescent Rose into it's scythe form and used it to catch a tree branch that she used to land softly on the ground, "Alright, where to Alexander?" Ruby asked.
"Probably towards Weiss and Shiva." Penny said.
Said GF appeared translucently behind Ruby, "The closest GF's presences I can sense are... Ifrit and Shiva." Alexander said, "Ifrit going over head.
"What do you mean by 'overhead'?" Summer asked Alexander.
Ruby looked up in time to hear Yang shout of glee as she flew over head. Ruby figured she probably wouldn't be getting to her sister anytime soon, s she may as well find the next GF.
"Which again, would probably be Shiva." Qrow said.
"Which way to Shiva?" Ruby asked.
"Down the hall and to the left?" Jaune joked.
"Just go forward." Alexander said.
And nearly running into Weiss.
"Ah, crapbaskets." Spoke the White Rose couple, who just proceeded to laugh.
A moment of silence passed between the two before Weiss sighed, "I guess this makes us Partners now." Weiss said.
"Obviously." Penny said.
"Yep. Ruby said, "Which way is north? Actually? I got a little disoriented in the flight."
"Not surprising, considering we were catapulted off of the cliff." Weiss said.
Weiss opened her mouth a bit, then closed it, she didn't know either.
"Not going to lie, I have an atrocious sense of direction." Weiss admitted.
"No worries Weiss." Ruby said, giving her girlfriend a peck on the lips.
Just a little further ahead Jaune was hanging from a tree by the spear stabbed into his hoodie, "You think anyone is going to come?" Jaune asked.
"Oum, why this again?" Jaune lamented.
"Eh, don't worry Jaune. It all worked out in the end, didn't it?" Tronmaster asked, lifting Jaune's spirit.
"Jaune?" A voice called down from below, Jaune looked down to see Pyrrha standing down below him.
"At least there wasn't an awkward conversation this time." Pyrrha said.
"Oh, hey Pyrrha." Jaune said, "Can I get a little help?" Jaune asked.
"I think acting as a human bird house isn't going to sound fun." Jaune said.
"Now I can't stop thinking of Jaune dressed as a bird house." Penny said.
"Sure." Pyrrha said, using her Semblance to pull her spear from the tree, letting Jaune fall, "Oh, sorry." Pyrrha said.
"Ouch." Qrow said.
"I'm..." Jaune started, but trailed off, there was a Draw Point at the base of the tree, "I'm better than okay, come here for a second."
"Now it's Pyrrha's turn to use a Draw Point." Glynda said.
Pyrrha nodded and stepped closer to Jaune, causing Siren to appear and put her hand on Pyrrha's shoulder, letting her see the Draw Point.
"Sounds convenient." Pyrrha said.
"What is that?" Pyrrha asked.
"A Draw point." Jaune said sticking his hand near it, "With Tornado Spells."
"Seems self-explanatory." Winter said.
"Tornado?" Pyrrha mused, "I don't have any of those spells."
"Tornado is the most powerful Wind Spell according to Siren, plus it is a really good spell for Junctioning." Jaune said, "Go ahead, I'm already fully stocked on Tornado Spells."
"Awesome!" Jaune said.
"Helloooooo?" Yang called, looking around for her sister, "Is anyone out there? Helloooo?"
"So, you actually tried to find me?" Ruby asked.
"Yep." Yang said, "Although, you clearly got Ice Queen as a partner."
'You kinda flew over her head Yang.' Ifrit said.
"Guess this joke kinda went, over her head." Ifrit said, earning a laugh from Yang, and a groan from everyone else.
"Damn it." Yang grumbled, then she heard something in the bushes, "Who's there?" Yang asked readying her gauntlets.
"Probably a couple of Ursai." Nora said.
That's when a pair of Ursai burst out of the bushes, and roared at her.
"Oh, these jerks." Yang said.
"Ifrit you wanna handle this one?" Yang asked.
'Gladly.' Ifrit said.
"Time to see me inaction again." Ifrit said with a toothy grin.
The four glowing orbs appeared below Yang and spun around her going upwards before shooting off, "Show them Hellfire Ifrit!" Yang called before leaping far back away.
"Do the summonings in Final Fantasy always take this long?" Weiss asked.
"Yep. Pretty much." Tronmaster replied.
A pillar of fire burst up from where Yang once stood, Ifrit appearing in it before landing as the pillar faded.
"Badass." Yang said.
Ifrit growled as he looked up and crossed his arms, causing the ground below him to lurch up and set ablaze mere moments before a massive ball of fire and magma shot out of the ground with Ifrit standing on it still. After the ball reached high enough into the air it stopped and Ifrit floated off of it, Ifrit reared back, his body making a 'C' shape he reared so far back before roaring like a lion and slamming his fists into the fireball, launching in to the two Grimm, creating a large blast of fire that turned one of the Ursai into ash while the other barely looked like it was alive.
"HOLY SHIT!" All the readers said.
"You not had enough yet?" Yang threatened.
"Obviously not." Blake said.
A 'shunk' sound was heard as the Ursa fell over, a kusarigama blade stuck in it head.
"Damn, that's just cold-blooded." Jaune said.
"You're not lying." Diablos said.
Blake walked over with Diablos floating next to her and pulled her blade out of the Grimm, "The whole forest probably saw that you know." Blake said.
Yang simple shrugged.
"Fuck subtlety." Yang and Ifrit said.
Ren stood in front of the King Taijitu that was barely lifting it's remaining head at this point, Ren had been abusing the Absorb ability he had gotten from Pandemona so he was still fighting on full steam.
"Ren, you would be spamming the ultimate on a MOBA." Winter said with a chuckle.
'Oum my girlfriend's a dork. I think that's hot.' Qrow thought with a smirk.
Ren was prepared to cast a Aero spell at the remaining head before several motes of light and smoke turned the massive Grimm into a small Triple Triad Card.
"Yoink!" Nora said.
"Nora." Ren sighed as said girl hung down from a branch.
"Does she always do this?" Winter asked.
"Pretty much, yeah." Ren said, smiling at his girlfriend.
"Boop." Nora said poking Ren in the nose before slipping out of the tree to see what card the Grimm turned into, "An Anacondaur card! I don't have this one!"
Nora looked at her deck, to see the card that her other now has.
"Sweet." Nora said with glee.
The Sorceress watched from afar as all this happened, even seeing Jaune having his Aura awakened by Pyrrha.
"Peeping bitch." Pyrrha said.
She watched as they all met up at the small Shrine and collected their relics and even as they defeated the Giant Nevermore and Deathstalker.
"Aww, we missed our moment of awesomness?" Ruby pouted.
"Yeah, sorry Rubes. But on the bright side, you did look badass." Tronmaster said, causing Ruby to smile widely.
"Such a waste of talent fighting creatures as week as those." The Sorceress said, "Give them a real test Elvoret."
"Damn bitch." Qrow said.
A large wind blew up as a massive creature flew over the Sorceress and toward the two soon-to-be teams.
"Not good." Nora said.
The Sorceress smiling as she watched the monster fly to them.
"Well, that's fucking ominous." Penny said.
Ruby was kneeling over catching her breath as the other seven GF users climbed up the cliff to her.
"How tiring was killing a Giant Nevermore?" Summer asked.
"Very tiring." Blake answered.
"Ruby, that was freaking awesome." Jaune said.
"Thanks." Ruby said.
"It really was cool." Pyrrha said.
"You gonna be okay for the trip back? Yang asked her sister worriedly.
"Sounds like something I would ask." Yang said.
"I hope so young lady." Summer and Raven said.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Ruby said, "It's not like I'm actually hurt or anything."
"Out of breath? Maybe. Hurt? Not a chance." Ruby said, Weiss giving her a peck on the cheek.
"At least we can see Beacon Cliff from here." Weiss said pointing ahead, "As such we shouldn't run into anymore trouble at the moment."
"I just invoked Murphy's law, didn't I?" Weiss asked.
"Yep." Tronmaster replied.
At that moment however a powerful gust of wind sprung up and threatened to throw everyone away.
"How strong was that wind?" Penny asked.
"If I had to make an educated guess, hurricane-force winds." Tronmaster said.
"What's causing this crazy wind?" Blake asked.
"Probably, a giant bat, scorpion hybrid!" Nora said.
Ruby forced one of her eyes open to see what the source was, and gasped when she saw it.
It was as a large as the Nevermore she just killed , with a purple body, it had large bat like wings on it's back, it had two long arms with clawed five long fingered hands, instead of legs it's lower body was like some kid of massive stinger like appendage, it's head was small with two orange horns and a liong orange chin that she almost mistook for a beak.
"HOLY SHIT! THAT THING'S REVOLTING!" Ruby and Weiss said, hugging each other.
"That's an Elvoret!" Ruby heard Siren shout as the wind died down, looking over she saw the Siren had only appeared translucently.
"I fucking hate those things." Siren said, bitterly.
"Are you sure?" Jaune asked not knowing what that was.
"I was sealed inside one of those damn things, of course I'm sure." Siren snapped.
"Time for a boss battle!" Nora said.
"Technically, this would be a Raid Boss." Tronmaster said.
[FF8: Force your Way]
"Whoo! More badass music!" Penny said.
"Everyone, Draw a Haste spell from me and cast it on yourselves!" Ruby called.
"Good plan kiddo." Qrow said.
"Everyone nodded and did just that, including Ruby, who simply cast the spell from her stock.
"Lucky." Ren mumbled.
"What's this thing weak to!?" Yang called out.
"That's a good question." Weiss said.
Weiss was the one to cast the Scan Spell.
"Time to see what this thing's weak to." Glynda said.
[Elvoret: A Flying creature that has been re-created by the NEO Galbadian army as a final test for it's soldiers, immune to poison and earth elemented attacks, rather resistant to magic because of it's high Spirit]
And the reactions of the students:
"FUCK!"
"Oh come on, this thing has no weaknesses whatsoever!?" Weiss said, clearly about ready to strangle somebody, until Ruby went and kissed Weiss.
"No weakness." Weiss called out, "But don't hit it with Poison or Earth elemented attacks."
"Obviously." Blake said.
"You got it." Jaune called out, as blue particles appeared around him, "Protect." Jaune said, causing two blue line's to appear in front of him one after the other and spin, creating a two layered blue shield in front of him that flashed before fading. More blue Particles appeared around Jaune as he cast another Spell, "Shell." he intoned, this time pink energy appeared below him appeared below him and spiraled up in the shape of a flower before completely enclosing him and fading.
"I'm guessing those were defense buffs?" Jaune asked.
"Yep." Tronmaster replied.
"What was that?" Weiss asked examining her opponent.
"Shell boost's my defense against magic while Protect-" Jaune started, only for the Elvoret to rake it's claws across Jaune, a blue barrier flashing into existence at the last moment to protect him from the majority of the attack. But it was still enough to knock Jaune down, "Protect boosts my defense against a Physical attack." Jaune finished.
"Neat." Jaune said.
"Leave this thing to me." Yang said as blue Particles appeared around her, "Mad Rush!" She called as a short pillar of red energy formed around her for a brief moment. When the pillar faded Yang's hole body had a slightly red tint to it, her eyes now a furious red and her hair ablaze.
"So, basically I just activated my Semblance?" Yang asked.
"It's more than that." Tronmaster replied.
"Grrrrraaaaaggghhh!" Yang shouted in primal anger as she ran to the Elvoret.
"Damn, I'm on a berserker rage." Yang said.
"Dang it Yang." Ruby groaned taking aim with Crescent Rose.
"This ain't good." Qrow said.
"What did she just do?" Blake asked as Yang jumped onto Elvoret's stinger and climbed up to the monsters face with surprising speed.
"Mad Rush put's Yang under the effect's of Protect, Haste, and unfortunately Berserk all at once." Ruby explained, "It a skill she got from Ifrit." With that Ruby began to fire at the creature.
"Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that." Ifrit said.
"She's nuts." Weiss said.
"Understatement of the century Aunt Weiss." Alicia said, as she stepped out of the elevator, followed by Tai, Sun, and Neptune. All three of whom had expressions of dread on their faces.
"Welcome back babe." Tronmaster said, as the three new readers sat down.
"Ren!" Nora called.
"I have a feeling I know what Nora's planning." Ren said.
Ren nodded as blue particles appeared around him, "Thundaga!" Ren called, using the spell he fully stocked by drawing some Nora.
"Flower Power for the win." Alicia said.
A large bolt of lightning struck straight down on Nora, causing the ground below her to crack slightly before exploding with electrical energy. What would normal knock out most unprepared people, Nora got super charged from.
"Essentially making her a human battery." Neptune said.
"Yeeeeeehaaaaaww!" Nora shouted jumping high into the air from her on electrical charged strength intending to crash down on the Elvoret.
"Sweet Monty Oum, is she insane?" Tai said.
"Yes" Said RWBY, most of JNPR, as well as Sun and Neptune.
However Elvoret knocked Yang off it's face before taking a deep breath, opening it's mouth, and effectively breathing a cyclone at Nora, knocking her away from it.
"Well who didn't see that coming?" Penny asked rhetorically.
"We gotta slow it down." Pyrrha called as she began to shoot the creature.
"I bet Ruby uses a slow spell." Weiss said.
"I got it!" Ruby called, conjuring blue particles from below her, "Slow!" This time a blue clock appeared over the Elvoret and it's moving hands began to slow down dramatically.
"I hope someone picks up the phone, because I CALLED IT!" Weiss said, Ruby pulling her into a kiss afterwords.
"Ahem." Tai said, getting the White Rose couple's attention.
"After the chapter Tai." Qrow said, Tai reluctantly agreeing.
"Nora again!" Ren called.
"Second verse, same as the first!" Nora said.
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" Nora shouted leaping at the monster again, this time successfully smashing her hammer into the monsters face, bringing it down to the ground and killing it.
[Cue FF8 Victory fanfare, then end OST]
Tronmaster pressed a button on his device, playing the victory theme from Final Fantasy, making the readers smile.
"Told ya." Tronmaster said with a smirk.
After seeing her opponent dead, the Berserk effect on her faded almost instantly, "That was easy." Yang said.
"Yeah, I'm gonna call bullshit on that." Penny said.
"Whoa." Jaune said looking at the Elvoret's corpse.
"Wait, what's so special about it's corpse?" Sun asked.
It's body was dissolving quickly, similar to a Grimm except this this was dissolving into purplish particles that flowed straight up instead of off in the wind.
"Oh, that explains it." Sun said.
"Either way, it saves on cleanup." Tai said.
"My scan said it as a NEO Galbadian creation." Weiss said, "Perhaps this is a fail safe they put in this creature to prevent us from studying it."
"Obviously, you damn harpy." Neptune grunted.
"Neptune, I will toss your ass out of my ship's airlock if you don't behave yourself. Savvy?" Tronmaster said, Neptune tensing up in fear.
From her watching position the Sorceress smiled as she turned to the woman that she was picking up after the initiation.
"Fucking bitch." Ruby grumbled under her breath.
"They took out Elvoret." The Sorceress said.
"Not much of an accomplishment." Powder said as she flipped through a magazine titled 'Timber Maniacs' with the cover dominated by Glynda Goodwitch's stern figure, "I mean killing one of those is pretty much an initiation of our own."
"She seems nonchalant about the whole thing." Sun said.
"Considering that three of them managed to wipe out an entire White Fang encampment with no effort, that's not surprising." Blake said in deadpan.
"Holy shit." Neptune said.
"True, but remember, without magic to heal them, it proves to be a fair challenge to most Huntsmen." The Sorceress said, Now let's head back to HQ, I'm starving."
"Speaking of, can we get some food later?" Tai asked.
"I'll get on it after the chapter." Tronmaster said.
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang entered their new Team dorm.
"After that hellish fight, I'd want to get shut eye as soon as possible." Summer said.
"I'm beat." Yang said throwing herself on the nearest bed.
"Again, very much like Yang." Ruby said.
"Yang Xiao Long you take a shower before you fall asleep." Weiss demanded, I'd rather not have to deal with the smell of sweat all night thank you very much."
"Jeez, no need to be such a bitch Weiss." Yang said, before being yelled by Ruby.
"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK SHIT ABOUT MY GIRL!" Ruby said.
"Ruby!" Tai said, preparing to scold his youngest daughter, until Summer put a hand on his shoulder, and just nodded.
"Fine." Yang said getting up.
That's when Diablos appeared, solid instead of translucent, "Hold on everyone." Diablos said with a devilish grin on his face, "Someone has something to say first."
"Oh, I don't like the looks of this." Blake said.
"What!?" Blake demanded, just before Diablos reached over to her head.
"Fuck." Blake swore.
And yanked her ribbon off, exposing her cat ears.
"DIABLOS YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Blake yelled, causing Diablos to flinch.
"DIABLOS!" Blake growled in rage as she leapt at the GF, only for him to move just slightly out of the way at the last moment.
"Well, that just happened." Jaune said.
"You're a Faunus?" Ruby asked as Weiss stared fully at Blake.
"Blake?" Weiss asked.
"Weiss, there's no need to apologize. I've already forgiven you." Blake said.
Blake sighed, "Yeah, I'm a Faunus." Blake admitted as Diablos dropped her ribbon back onto her head, not bothering to tie it, "I didn't want anyone to treat me because of what I am. I wanted to be treated as to who I am."
"Well, we don't treat you any differently." Ruby said, "Blake, you're our friend. And you'll always be our friend."
"Thanks Ruby." Blake said, smiling.
"You would've told us eventually right?" Weiss demanded.
"Oum, don't remind me about how much of a bitch I was." Weiss said.
Blake looked to Weiss, "Any other team I probably would have told fairly soon." Blake admitted, getting Weiss to raise an eyebrow, "But with you on my team I wanted to be sure you wouldn't treat me any different because of my ears."
"Considering how our asshat of a father has treated the Faunus since he took over SDC, that's not an unfair assumption." Winter said.
Weiss was silent for a moment before she sighed, "I suppose with my family's reputation I can't blame you." Weiss said, "We'll continue this tomorrow, I want to get some sleep soon."
"Sleep is good." Tai said.
Blake nodded and re-tied her bow.
Meanwhile Yang looked to Diablos, "I think we're gonna be good friends."
"Oh, no." Ruby, Weiss, and Blake said.
'Oum save me.' Was the thought of Ruby, Weiss and Blake.
'Hyne save me.' Was the thought's of Alexander and Shiva.
Ifrit grinned as he rubbed his hands together in Yang's hair.
The book shut after Raven read the last sentence.
"Alright, Raven pass the book to Glynda please." Tronmaster said.
"Wait, before Glynda starts reading, I want to know, how long have you had feelings for Ruby Weiss?" Tai said, turning to Weiss.
'Oh sweet salty Christ.' Both Alicia and Tronmaster thought.
Jenkins: Uh-oh.
Melody: Yep, Ruby and Weiss are in trouble.
Jenkins: Yeah, I don't like Neptune though.
Melody: Dude's a flirt with aquaphobia. Not exactly a turn-on in my book.