The Next Day
With Pan's Team
Pan watched Jameson and Bianca through a window as they activated their archwings and flew speedily towards the crash site of their ships. He relaxed for a moment in the chair that was in the room given to them by Ozpin as a place to rest after their rather long and unexpected journey.
The room itself was well furnished with the essentials necessary for a team of hunter trainees. Bunk beds were placed on either side of the room with a door on the far right of the room that lead to a fully equipped bathroom. However, the tenno needed none of this.
Pan then thought back to the events and the argument that he and his team had in Ozpin's office.
Flashback starts
'What should we tell them? I mean about the tenno and our history in Origin?', asked Bianca unsure about how the squad should reply to the questions by this Headmaster.
'I believe that it is necessary for us to tell at least someone of high ranking on this planet the truth about our origins, so that we may have an ally on this planet if things go wrong due to unexpected circumstances.', Shiki said.
'Should we really tell them who the lotus is?', asked Jameson through their comm channel
'We must tell them now for if the Corpus or Grineer find a way to this planet….', Pan began, 'You know what they'd do to these humans.', he ended in a melancholic tone.
The squad silently agreed to this, fully well knowing that the Corpus while being mostly humans would try to find a way to subjugate and control these people through commerce or force, while the Grineer were predictably xenophobic to anything not grineer and may end up attempting to exterminate these people like what happened to the people living on Phobos.
'It would also be beneficial to our cause if the humans here knew some parts of our history to allow them to connect or sympathize with us and possibly help us in our attempts at ridding the corruption and threats of the origin system.', Shiki added as the squad followed Ozpin onto an elevator that led them straight up to what they believed was his office.
'I think that we should help them too. If we want them to help us with our problems we should help them with theirs. Listen, I've been monitoring their networks while me and Bianca were searching for you and our Lisets, and I found quite a few hot topics. Mostly revolving around robberies about something called "dust" and a terrorist organization called the White Fang. Not to mention, the native wildlife that we all ran into was rather hostile, so there must be some sort of way we can repay them for aiding us.', asked Jameson hopefully, ready to do anything he could to help out these people that they just barely met.
The squad shared their thoughts on this issue, Pan and Shiki were mostly in agreement with what Jameson has said, mostly due to their experiences with the Corpus in helping them stop infested outbreaks in exchanged for materials or credits, while Bianca was still rather unsure due her still being a rather newly awakened tenno and not well versed with interacting with other people that weren't actively trying to kill her.
All together the squad believed that the pros outweighed the cons and that informing Ozpin may be beneficial to them all in the future and possibly to all tenno and their cause.
The elevator stopped and dinged indicating that the squad and Ozpin had reached their destination and were to discuss the issues at hand.
Flashback end
A bell rung snapping the tenno out of his deep thoughts and back to the present. 'Jameson and Bianca won't be back for about an hour, but that's only if they're able to get their lisets and cephalons running so that they can be able to bring back ours and jury rig parts together so that at least one or two lisets will be back into space worthy conditions.', Pan thought.
He heard quite a few noises as people outside their room roamed around talking excitedly about their 1st day at Beacon Academy and how exciting it'll be.
'Hmm, perhaps we should introduce ourselves to the rest of the natives?', asked Shiki curious of how the rest of the people here would react to the tenno.
'It would be a good idea to learn more about their behaviors and training', added Pan as he rose from the chair and began gathering his weapons, letting the magnetic clamps on the back of his warframe hold his gear steady.
The pair of tenno mentally prepared themselves for a new foe that they have never had to deal with before, as they took this opportunity to learn more about this planet through their own experiences. Before their enemy was the Corpus or Grineer, now it was social interaction.
With Team RWBY
"Come on guys!", Ruby exclaimed as she used her super speed to get to their first class as quick as possible. The rest of the team hanging back but making haste as well but not as concerned as Ruby.
"It'll be fineeeeee, it's the 1st day of classes no one's gonna take it seriously enough to punish us if we're lateeeee.", Yang said while yawning as the team moved towards their 1st class at Professor Port's Room.
"But we might miss something important if we aren't there on time!", Ruby added worriedly.
"I agree with Ruby on that. There may be something essential that we may miss if we aren't on time. Not to mention, that it would make a bad impression on the teacher if we are late to their class on the 1st day.", stated Weiss as she made minor adjustments to her uniform while running ahead of Blake and Yang to catch up with Ruby.
With an exasperated sigh, Yang began to jog to catch up with them. Leaving Blake in the back of the group by herself reading a book, with a slight pink tinge upon her cheeks.
Fortunately they were able to arrive shortly before the bell rang, signifying the start of the class.
A collective sigh of relief could be heard from the team as they took the seats as the teacher began introducing himself as Professor Port and as their Grimm Studies Teacher.
Unfortunately for most people in the class, Professor Port's lectures were rather bland and boring which caused a large majority of the class to become inattentive except for the most diligent of students. However, nearing the end of the class Professor Port asked to them "Who here possesses the traits required of being a Huntsman/Huntress?" He paced around the room looking at his class while keeping an eye on two cages that were close to his desk. Weiss raised her hand and proclaimed that she had the traits of being a Huntress and walked down towards the front of the classroom to wait for whatever the Professor was to make her do.
The Professor then looked to the far back of the classroom's seats and said aloud "And what about you 2? Shall one of you hunters show these youngsters the traits needed to become Hunters?".
Ruby looked behind her, wondering who could the Professor be addressing. Only to find a pair of hunters behind her. She remembered that these 2 were named Pan and Shiki.
'Huh, were they there the entire time? How come no one ever noticed them?', she thought to herself as the one named Shiki nodded silently to Professor Port and rose from her seat and walked quietly to the front of the room. She waited patiently , not making a sound, as Weiss left to go put on her Battle Attire.
10 mins later
Weiss returned wearing her "Combat Skirt" with Myrtenaster attached to her hip. Shiki was leaning against a wall arms crossed with smoke emanating more than ever, nearly covering the entirety of her arm. When she saw Weiss enter she nodded and got up from her spot on the wall stretching her muscles.
"Weiss, you shall go 1st", Port stated eager to see how the huntress in training would perform against the challenge he had.
Port walked up to a cage to the side of the room, pulled out his blunderbuss and pointed the bladed side of it at the lock that was preventing whatever was inside from escaping. Menacing growls could be heard from the cage as Port raised his weapon.
"Ready….", Port said. Weiss got into a combat stance.
"Begin!" Port swung his blunderbuss and in an instant the lock fell off, a grimm burst from the cage.
A boarbatusk about half the height of Port growled menacingly. Its' 4 red eyes completely focused on Weiss, its' tusks swaying dangerously with every movement.
"Go Weiss!", screamed Ruby from the sidelines temporarily breaking Weiss' attention as she tried to form a retort. At this moment the Grimm capitalized on Weiss' mistake, charging forward with such momentum that Weiss' haphazard attempt of blocking the attack pushed her back close to the other side of the room.
"Push back Weiss! You can beat it!", yelled Ruby as she pumped her fist in the air.
"I don't need you telling me what to do!", Weiss sneered.
Losing ground to the boarbatusk, Weiss quickly put a glyph down below her feet with her free hand and launched into the air, momentarily breaking the stalemate. The Grimm, confused, began looking around for Weiss. Weiss then put another glyph on the ceiling as she approached the top of the classroom and launched back down towards the boarbatusk, rapier in hand aiming for the bony mask of the Grimm.
Weiss hit the mask but instead of being rewarded with a piercing hit and the sound of crunching bone, her rapier was now stuck in the mask. Weiss caught off guard by that outcome was hit by the tusk off the Grimm and sent flying a wall.
"A creative technique", Port admitted "but it seems your weapon is unable to pierce the bone mask of the Grimm, What shall you do now?".
"Weiss get your rapier and aim for the belly of the boarbatusk!", Ruby stated, eager to help out her fellow teammate. Ruby was rewarded with a glare from Weiss as she attempted to get her weapon back.
Weiss proceeded to formulate a plan as she dodged the sloppy attempts by the Grimm to attack.
After close to 30 seconds of dodging and weaving Weiss acted. She launched herself in a horizontal fashion towards the Grimm. Right before she collided she put down a glyph right underneath her to launch herself up into the air but not as high as before only going as high as the tops of Port's chalk boards. The Grimm bewitched by prey so close, jumped towards her attempting to impale her on its' tusk. Weiss acted pushing herself upward slightly with another glyph, she grabbed for her sword and pulled it out with a bit of difficulty. Weiss now reunited with her weapon, used another glyph to propel herself back towards the ground and then used another glyph to immobilize the Grimm mid air. She then ended the Grimm with a multitude of slashing strikes against the vulnerable underbelly of the Grimm.
The corpse of the Grimm collapsed on to the ground already dissolving.
"Bravo bravo . A great performance indeed.", Port stated with a hearty laugh while clapping. Weiss despite her rather tired nature from the fight managed a curtsy all the while glaring daggers at Ruby despite the her not noticing the ill intent.
"Now Ms…", Port began before realizing that he hadn't asked the huntress her name.
"Shiki.", the huntress finished. Shiki took a ready but loose stance as Port went to another cage near the one that the boarbatusk was held and readied his blunderbuss awaiting a signal from Shiki. Shiki gave a slight nod of her head and a Port chopped off the lock to the door of this cage. Out from the cage burst a beowolf. An alpha beowolf to be exact. How the Professor was able to successfully capture an alpha beowolf no one in the class knew. However, everyone in the room was focused on the huntress with gold encrusted linings.
'I wonder what she might do this time', wondered Ruby as she watched Shiki and the alpha circle each other looking for flaws in the others' defenses. The beowolf despite its' obvious experience and age judging from the multitude of scars that lined its' fur, grew impatient and went on the offensive. Using the bones protruding from its' arms to force slowly force Shiki back against the wall, despite her attempts at getting behind the beowolf.
'Why didn't she bring her weapons? Maybe she has another way to take the beowolf down? Her semblance maybe?', Blake thought reminding herself of the fact that Shiki was able to turn invisible while watching her team in the forest.
Shiki was now close enough to the other side of the room that she had no more space to evade the attacks. Saliva dripped from the beowolf's maw sensing another meal was close. Closing in on its' prey the beowolf planned to impale the human on the spikes on its' arms.
'Oh no she's been cornered', Ruby worried. Despite precarious situation Ruby observed Shiki to be in, Shiki did not appear to be concerned based on her loose body language and combat stance.
What happened next caught the class off guard.
Shiki quickly raised her arm above her head, a small whitish gray ball in her hand. She threw it down in front of her, causing a large amount of smoke to be emanate from her position, so much in fact that the class began to squint their eyes and cough as the smoke spread to them. The smoke cleared leaving revealing only a confused beowolf to a rather bewildered class of hunters in training.
Blake squinted her eyes around the classroom trying to discern where Shiki was. A shimmer in the space behind the beowolf moved very very slightly. Blake focused her attention their trying to find out if that was Shiki when the shimmer moved away to the other side of the room. Shiki reappeared where the shimmer as if she materialized behind the beowolf. Blake saw Shiki pull out a what looked to be a small hand held knife from a compartment on her armor and dropped into a readied stance.
Shiki then jumped into the air and disappeared once more much to the chagrin of the class, eager to see a huntress fight a grimm, when she appeared right above the beowolf's bone plated head and fell on top of it, grabbing hold of anything that she could to stay on as the beowolf struggled to shake her off. With one quick flick of the blade, the beowolf collapsed its' head no longer attached to its' body. Shiki stood up from her position on top of the dissolving beowolf corpse as faced the now silent class and bowed.
No one made a sound, stunned by the rather lackluster but extremely effective tactic that Shiki employed to dispatch the grimm.
Heavy clapping began from behind Shiki as professor Port congratulated her on her kill "Bravo, bravo, Shiki. I've never seen anyone kill an alpha beowolf with such ease and with such an unremarkable weapon."
Shiki nodded to him as she put the knife back into the compartment of her armor and took her place next the other hunter named Pan.
As she took her seat, the bell rang signifying the end of the class and the start of the passing period to the next one, Combat Class.
A/N Obviously it's be way more than a day or two since the last update, but IRL stuff like tests and finals for unfortunately have to take priority. Not to mention I'm not exactly good at meeting self made deadlines either...
Anyways hopefully this chapter can make up for the long wait (probably won't but i'm hopeful).
I'll try to get another chapter up soon.