Chapter 3: Regroup, and meet the Headmaster

Team JNPP PoV

team JNPR, led by Jaune Arc, had been walking aimlessly for at least an hour before anything remotely interesting happened. These apparently had giant spiders. Spiders were on of the things Jaune happened to be deathly afraid of, so while he was screaming like a little girl, his team was dealing with the giant spiders.

Pyrrha was using Milo, her spear, in its rifle form, picking off the spiders at a distance, while the other two members of team JNPR fought up close, Lie Ren using his machine pistols and their blades, while Nora used her war hammer to just smash the bugs, and did it with a crazed smile on her face. Nora was a scary person to most, but her team, and team RWBY as well, had gotten use to her hyperactive personality.

Once all the giant spiders were dead, Jaune looked up, to see his team giving him looks. Ren was impassive, and didn't seem to care, but if one looked close enough, they could see the ghost of a smile. Pyrrha had a smile, and Nora was grinning like a madwomen, so all around, normal reactions from Jaune's team.

"Just, don't mention this to the others, alright?" Jaune said to his team as they moved forward, in the direction that the trees seemed to be thinning out in. It wasn't much of a path to follow, but it was the best bet they had at finding anything that could pass for civilization.

As they continued on, the silence was getting annoying. Even Nora was quite, which was odd, as she was almost never quite. This had everyone worried, especially Ren, as she was his one of his only friends from his childhood. Scratch that, she was his only friend from childhood.

"Nora, are yo-" Ren started to say when gunfire was heard. Three shots rang out in quick secession. With how loud they were, team RWBY must have been near by. "We need to investigate. Lets move team" Jaune said, sounding like a leader compared to how he normally sounded.

JNPR moved at a quick pace, reaching the spot where the gunfire sounded from. The girls were no where to be seen, which was no surprise to the team of four. Looking around for clues as to which direction the team of all girls took, Ren spotted tracks, and a she called his team over, started to follow them, till JNPR was more or less right behind RWBY.

"There you guys are. About time you showed up." Weiss said, her 'Ice Queen' mask on full force. It had its cracks, but it was still mostly in one piece.

"Well, it took time to find the trail you guys left. Not like you made it easy" Ren said as he looked at Weiss. The tension in the air seemed to be getting thicker very quickly, till and arrow quite literally shattered it.

Tracing the arrow's path back to the bow that shot it, the members of both teams were shocked into speechlessness. What fired the arrow was a half man, half horse person-creature...thing. The teams weren't sure on how to classify it.

Before anyone could react, a whole herd of the horsemen appeared, the sound of hooves loud in the ears of the ten humans and single cat fauns. While they were trying to formulate a response, a single horsemen stepped forward, clearly the leader.

"Humans, why do you continue to walk our woods? We tell you time and time again to leave and stay out, but you never do? Why is that? Are you wanting an arrow in your skull?" the leader of the horsemen asked, even if it was more or less a threat. He then took a sniff of the air, and seemed to smile, quite savagely to boot.

"It seems your friend in black has been hiding things from you. Why don't you take off the bow, Black." The horsemen said, while Blake had a surprised, and then neutral as she removed her bow, leaving a pair of cat ears in place. The trio, which was only just now noticed by team JNPR had surprised looks on their faces.

Team JNPR were surprised, but not that much. Ren seemed the least shocked. Those didn't seem, all human.

"What do you want, Horsemen?" Blake said, taking charge for now. Dominance wasn't her style, but if it helped, she would use it.

"Why, we want you out of our woods." the leader of the horsemen said. The Hunters in training had slowly moved their hands to their weapons, but with that request, they stopped. If it was simply leaving, that was easy.

"That's what were doing, till your member there decide to shot an arrow at us." Blake said. Turning around, she started to walk away, the teams falling step behind the cat fauns. Turning your back on a centaur, as they horsemen were more widely known as, was a major disrespect, and before the horses could do anything, Blake looked back, and smiled at the centaurs as she and the rest of the teams walked off, closer to the school grounds of Hogwarts.

TIME SKIP: 15 MINTUES LATER

All characters PoV(its going to get a bit, jumpy):

After introductions were made, the group of eleven walked to the front doors of Hogwarts. It was decided that the teams of Hunters and Huntress in training should see professor Dumbledore, as it could be very helpful for both sides to talk to the older wizard. As the teams walked in, their clothing made them stand out from the crowd of students instantly.

Between Ruby and Weiss's combats skirts, Yang's more revealing clothing, Blake's black and white outfit, and team JNPR's gear as well, they didn't exactly scream 'we're from around here.' With stealth out the window, the teams, along with the Golden Trio, made haste for Dumbledore's office, and hoping that Umbridge wouldn't see them yet.

Fate favored them all, as the pink toad demon of a women didn't cross their path. Getting to the gargoyle that stood guard to the headmaster's office, Harry got lucky when he said "peppermint roses" as the password, the gargoyle moved out of the way, and the large group made way into the headmaster's office.

When the gargoyle that led to Dumbledore's office opened, he was alerted about it, so seeing such a large group of what he thought was students was a mild surprise, but not something he thought out of the ordinary.

Seeing the eight armed teenagers, however, was a cause for surprise. He was not expecting armed people at all, let alone eight of them that looked like the could have been all sixth or seventh years at Hogwarts. He his his surprise well however. It wouldn't be best to let these strangers have an upper hand. With Voldemort's return, one could never be to careful.

Unsure how to proceed, Dumbledore was saved trying to start by one of the teens, the youngest, if looks were anything to go by, spoke. "So, what is this place?" she asked, her voice holding nothing but truth.

This, more then anything she could have said, stumped Dumbledore. If she could see the school, then she, and more then likely by default her friends, couldn't be muggles, as all the would have seen was a ruined castle with a sign telling them to stay out. This was now peaking the old headmaster's interest.

"This is a school." He said, in a very grandfatherly tone. The reactions among the group varied. Two of them, the one in black with a very feline look to her, and the one in green with oriental type dress, had neutral reactions, a slight raise of the eyebrow, but nothing more.

The one in almost all white seemed happy, but her face was scrunched up, possibly from the tone of voice he used? Why would that be? He wondered as he gauged the rest of the armed teens.

The spartan looking girl looked relived, along with the knight standing next to her. The only ones that seemed to be put off at all by the notion that this was a school were the ones in yellow, who had been very endowed in her looks, and the one who spoke up, wearing almost all red. Red seemed more concurred, if he was reading her facial expression right.

"well then, what type? This doesn't seem anything like Signal or Beacon" she said, and was then elbowed in the ribs by the girl in white. "Well, it seems I've forgotten my manners. My name is Albus Dumbledore. I'd say my full name, but its simply to long to say at times. May I ask at what are all of your names?"

"Ruby Rose" red said.

"Weiss Schnee" white stated, prime and proper, with a hint of ice in her voice

"Blake Belladonna" the girl in black said, he feline looks seemingly increased, and Dumbledore couldn't fathom as to why. Although he would swear he saw her bow twitch, just slightly

"Yang Xiao-Long" the one in yellow said.

"Jaune Arc" the knight said, his hand near his sword. Cautious. Seems smarter then the rest, or is it a sign of inexperience?

"Nora Valkyrie" the orange haired one said. The older wizard noticed the giant hammer on her back as well.

"Pyrrha Nikos" the spartan looking one said. She seemed like one that could handle herself. Maybe I can somehow get her to be a teacher for a combat class?

"Lie Ren." the oriental dressed one said. Dumbledore only just now took notice of the teen's magenta eyes, and the single streak in his hair of the same color. He also seems like he could be a teacher. Well, lets see if I can get learn anything from these eight. They might just be what we need to win this war.

"well, all of you, might I ask as to where you came from? Its rare that we get visitors here at Hogwarts, so it comes to reason to ask just where you came from." Dumbledore said, hoping he could learn from were these strangers came from, and if he could find more like them.

"Well, that's a little hard to explain. We're not even sure ourselves how we got here exactly." said Lie Ren. "We were training as normal, then there was giant flash of light, and we all woke up in the forest." the green dressed teen answered. For him, ti was the truth. He had been sparing with Blake when he saw Nora's grenade heading towards that pile of Dust, and then he woke up in a forest. It was still a mystery as to how they ended up here, and not in the infirmary of Beacon.

"Well, why is that?" Dumbledore asked. This now had his curiosity peaked. He did here some odd noises come from the Forbidden Forest earlier, and if these people were connected, it could mean just about anything.

"Well you see, we were training, and I batted away a grenade Nora had just launched at me and it hit a pile Dust Jaune made, there was a blinding flash, and we all woke up in the forest." Ruby said, before getting elbowed in the gut by Weiss.

The heiress didn't trust the old man. Reminded her way to much of her grandfather, who's son had been just like him. So, a not exactly caring family, add in a terrorist organization, and it made for a very crappy childhood. So when they meet strange people in a weirder land, deal with half horse, half human beings, find an honest to gods castle, and learn its a school, Weiss's paranoia was off the charts. She didn't see it fit to tell this old man anything about Beacon, their lives, hell, the Grimm if he didn't know about. Them, which was highly unlikely he didn't. The only people who didn't know about Grimm on Remnant were newborns. Everyone else did. When soulless monsters are hellbent on wiping you out, you tend to learn about them pretty quick. So imagine her surprise at the next thing he spoke.

"Why were you training?" This almost floored every member of both teams RWBY and JNPR. The only person to not show any from of emotion was Blake, and even then she had a hard time keeping her face straight and not gasping, like Ruby or Yang.

"How, what, why would you need to even ask that question. Everybody knows what we train for." Ruby all but shouted. How could someone not know they were Hunters-in-Training. How? She thought as she nearly passed out. This was her lifelong dream, and that fact that someone couldn't tell what they're training for by their gear, it was just to much of a shock.

"Well, it seems I do not. Would you like to enlighten me?" Dumbledore asked, his voice calm and collected. The teams looked at each other, wondering if they should mention that they are Hunters-in-Training. They finally came to a decision, and it seems that ti would play into the old headmaster's favor, for now.

"We are Hunters-in-training." Ren said casually. For them, it was casual. For the Golden Trio, who had all but been forgotten, and Dumbledore, the term was not recognizable to them. "I'm afraid I do not recognize that term." the old master wizard said.

With those words, Ruby fainted. The two that reacted the fastest were Yang, and surprisingly enough, Weiss. Of course, fate didn't feel all that kind, as at that moment, Professor Umbridge had finally come up. The Golden Trio all groaned, knowing this would not be going well at all for the two teams. God help us all. Harry thought, as he tried to stand as still as possible.

A/N: So, re-done ending for this chapter. hope its better. new stuff week after next. Midterms in-bound