Hello everyone, and welcome to chapter 3! I hope everyone has been good since the last time.

So I've been thinking, and I'm planning on releasing a chapter each week on Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully I can stick to this schedule but we will find out if school says otherwise.

On another note, I want to set some expectations for this story. I will be mostly following the original story up to about season 3 with minimal changes. I already have a lot of future events planned out but if you have an idea you would like to share then do so. Another thing is that this story will mostly revolve around Yang and Zach, with maybe a few chapters or sentences focusing on some of the other characters. Finally you won't have to worry about Zach being a so called chosen because of his background, instead it will be because of his work that he gets to where he is. I hope that clears up something's.

That's about it, so I'll just get into the story. Thank you for stopping by.

Chapter 3

Soaring through the air was different then just flying in an airship Zach thought. It was peaceful for a few seconds before he started to fall. Looking at the rapidly closing in ground and threat of impending flattening, he wished that his weapon was like the others, built with a gun in it, to help slow his fall or propel himself forward. Sadly it did not.

Bracing himself, he strengthened his aura and threw his spear towards the ground to lighten the impact. With the spear out of his hand he gathered as much aura as he could and sent it to his arms and legs. Taking a deep breath, he impacted.

Crash

Superhero landing, a crater formed around the shimmering red body of Zach. Quickly standing up, he moved and picked up the spear. Pulling it free from the ground he took a few seconds to let his senses get used to the surroundings. Nose twitching while smelling the air, he started to sprint towards the familiar scent of watermelon shampoo. A few steps into the direction of the smell and he stopped. Remembering the promise he made when he found out that the both of them were accepted into Beacon he planted his feet to the ground.

'Don't spend every moment hovering over her. Let her have space for herself.'

Gazing towards the direction of the scent, he sighed and started to move northwards, towards the ruins with the relics. On his way to the ruins his enhanced senses kept him from running into any Grimm. That didn't mean he didn't hear all the fighting that was happening around him though. Continuing forward he was on high alert to stop any would be ambushes.

Crack

Spinning at a high speed, Zach's weapon was released from his grasp and flying towards the source of the noise before whatever it was registered what was happening.

Thud

"Ahhhhhhh!" A terrified screech came.

Walking towards the source of the noise, Zach's red eyes found the person that would be his partner for his time at Beacon. Pinned to a tree by a spear was a small male figure. They looked to be about 5'6 and they were very skinny. The boy had long purple hair tied in a ponytail, terrified purple eyes, and a set of basic leather armor on. Sighing, Zach emerged from behind some bushes and went to retrieve his spear. Yanking the spear free from where it clipped the boy's clothes, he fell to the ground.

"You-you crazy person!" Yelled the purple headed boy.

"You, did you even check and see what you were attacking before you did?" He asked, standing up to his full height, about a head and a half smaller then Zach.

Ignoring the spluttering of his new partner, Zach leveled his spear with his chest and got into fighting position.

"Are you ignoring me? I have a bo-" He cut himself off when he noticed the multiple pairs of red eyes looking at the pair from the shadows.

Growl

Coming out of the tree line were about a dozen giant, black furred wolves with a bone white mask on their face. Quickly being surrounded by so many Grimm made the blood leave Purples face. Reaching for his weapon, he went to pull it out, when Zach finally made his move.

Swing

One swing of his spear and four beowolves were cleaved in half. Moving on to the next ones right away, he threw his spear at the ones closest to him. Pushing aura into his legs he pushed against the ground to keep up with the fast flying spear.

Shink

As soon as the spear pierced the Grimm, he grabbed it and pivoted on his back foot, lunging towards the next one. Reaching his target the spear pierced it before it could attack. Within 30 seconds half of the Grimm had been destroyed. Purple broke out of his stupor watching this happen. Pulling his weapon free from behind his back, he held a long bow in his hand. Grabbing two arrows from his quiver, he took aim at the Grimm that started to attack Zach. Before he could release the arrows, something hit him in the back. A purple glow protected him from any real danger, but it didn't stop him from being launched into the air.

Slam

In the short few seconds he was in the air, another Grimm came and slammed him into the ground. The purple glow surrounding his body started to flicker away. Dazedly he looked up from his spot on the ground just in time to watch as both beowolves made to strike at him. Before they struck him, the whole area suddenly chilled with crushing pressure. With the pressure came emotions. Purple felt many emotions rush through him. Anger, hatred, jealousy, depression, and then finally lingering on fear. That fear was the strongest fear he felt in his life.

Grrrrrr

Leaving Purple where he laid, both beowolves stalked towards the source of the negative emotions. Lifting his head up to see where they were going, Purple stared into a pair of glowing red eyes, seemingly endless, and they stared back.

Swish

And then the chilling pressure was gone, with it the negative emotions. Also gone were the red pits that stared at him, in its place was a wolf Faunus pulling free a spear from a melting corpse. Around him were the rest of the dissolving Grimm. Seeing no more Grimm, Zach made his way towards his partner and helped him up.

"Let's go." A rough order was snarled out.

Without waiting for a reply, Zach looked up to the sky then started moving north. Seeing him leave Purple hurried behind him, trying to recharge his aura while doing so. After a few minutes of walking, the wolf's ears twitching every so often, Purple broke the ice.

"Tha-that was some good fighting back there." He complimented.

"Hm." Exhaled the Faunus.

"We haven't introduced ourselves yet have we? My names Jamie, Jamie Wrest, and you are?" Questioned the newly introduced Jamie.

"Zach." Came the curt reply.

Silence returned as they walked. Their walk was interrupted by a loud explosion and scream somewhere else in the forest.

"YOU MONSTERS!"

BOOOOOOOOM

The ground started to shake and the sounds of shotgun shots could be heard. Jamie, looking towards the noise didn't realize that his guide had stopped and bumped into his back. Stumbling onto his ass he looked up, staring at Zach quizzically. Not even recognizing the bump to the back he took a step towards the noise, before thinking better of it. Looking towards Jamie, he saw him on the ground. Stepping past him he continued on towards north. Jamie, once again being left behind hurried to catch up.

"Why'd you stop like that? Did you know who yelled?" He asked when he caught up with the spear wielder.

"Yes."

"Really? Who was it?"

"Girlfriend." Came the quick reply.

Stopping in his tracks he looked towards his partner and caught sight of the smug look on his face. Spluttering Jamie continued on with his partner. Walking forward and continuing the small talk, Jamie asking questions and getting one word answers back, Zach finally stopped once again. Lifting his head up he started to sniff the air. Looking back towards the area they were coming from, he saw a huge plume of smoke rising in the air followed by lots of howls.

"Quickly." Zach said, quickening his pace.

Jamie, having collected enough aura to use, pushed some into his legs to amplify his speed a bit. After running for a bit, they came to the top of a small hill. Looking down below lay some broken structures, ruins. Sliding down the hill they made their way to the middle of the ruins, where there sat podiums with different chess pieces, 4 of each piece, 2 of each color. It seemed like they were all still there, making them the first to reach the relics.

"Which one should we take?" Jamie asked.

In response a shrug of the shoulders was what he got. Seeing that his partner was going to be of no help, Jamie started to carefully scrutinize the pieces. Looking at the pieces he finally decided to go with the black king piece. Having the relic in their possession, they slowly started to make their way back to the cliff. Leaving the relic grounds they caught sight of another pair entering it, two boys one bigger than the other carrying a mace, and a boy with blue hair. Ignoring them they continued onwards. Walking while on guard became tiresome for Jamie, so he decided to use his semblance. Grabbing Zach by the shoulder, he learned, was not a smart move, the small crater formed after being judo slammed supported this thought.

"Owwww." Jamie complained, sitting up rubbing his sore back.

Standing up, he grabbed Zach's shoulder once again, this time in view of the fighter. Slowly focusing his aura, he activated his semblance. The two of them disappeared, or rather appeared to disappear. They were still there just camouflaged like a chameleon. Like this no Grimm made trouble for them as they made their way to a big ruin at the bottom of the cliff. There were broken bridges and towers everywhere around the cliff. Making it to the bottom of the cliff was a little bit of a challenge because it turned out that Jamie could only camouflage those he touched or touched him, and doing parkour is hard to do while touching each other. At the bottom of the cliff, they started to climb up when a loud scream came from nowhere.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Is a girl in trouble somewhere?" Questioned Jamie.

"Doesn't matter." Zach said as he started to climb the cliff face.

It took them a few minutes to scale the rocky terrain, but it was nothing one couldn't do if they had enough aura. Upon reaching the top of the cliff, they were greeted by the impressed face of the headmaster.

"I must say, this was most unexpected. I thought it would take a lot longer for the first pair of partners to show up, but this is a happy surprise." Professor Ozpin told the students.

"You can go ahead to the ballroom where you can hand over your relic to headmistress Goodwitch." The professor said, taking a sip from his cup.

Being told where to go they made their way back to where they spent the night before.

They didn't end up waiting in the ballroom too long before more people showed up. Surprisingly the pair they saw when leaving the relic grounds didn't make it up next, two other boys showed up first. The first boy was a little taller than Jamie by about 2-3 inches, he had brown hair and green eyes, he also sported some plate armor. The next boy was taller at about 6'0, he had black hair, gray eyes, he held a big claymore in his hands, and had some plate armor on his shins, chest, and arms. Those two made their way to the other side of the room and sat in some seats. After they sat down more and more students started funneling in.

"Hey... I wanted to ask you something." Jamie said suddenly.

Giving him his attention, Zach turned towards him.

"Back in the forest when we fought the Grimm... what was that that you did?" Jamie asked.

"... Semblance." Zach said after a moment of silence.

"Makes people sad, angry, fearful, and other things." Zach added.

"Wow, that must've been the longest thing you've ever said."

Thud

Jamie picked himself up off of the floor. Going to ask him another question, Jamie was stopped when the wolf stood and suddenly stared walking towards the entrance.

"That was a good job Ruby, it went off with a Yang!" Yang joked with her sister.

Groans were heard from everyone around her.

"Anyways when do you thi-" Yang was cut off by a pair of arms lifting her up and carrying her off.

"..."

"What did we just see?" Blake asked Ruby.

"Oh, that was Zach." She said like it explained everything.

And it did in the next moment when they looked at Yang and saw that they were devouring each other's souls. Vomit sounds could be heard across the room.

"Hmmm, have a fun day?" Yang asked breathlessly, after breaking away from her lover.

"Ah." He said, shrugging his shoulders.

Wrapping his arm around her, they went in search of a pair of seats to sit in while waiting for the team announcements to start. Finding a few seats in the front by the stage they sat there. Chatting for a bit the were joined by Ruby and the people left behind, as well as Jamie, who looked quite mad.

"Hey, are these people more important than your partner?" Jamie asked, frustrated.

"Yes." Zach said with a deadpanned stare.

"Ow, I'm wounded." Jamie said as he joined the group in the seats.

Looking at all the people here, he decided to introduce himself.

"Hello everyone, my name is Jamie Wrest, don't forget it." He said with a wink.

"Names Yang, nice to meet you." She said cuddled up against Zach.

"Aha, you must be the girlfriend who shook the ground." Jamie said.

"I'll be shaking the ground a lot more in the future." Yang said, leaning her head up onto the shoulder of the Faunus.

Blush

Almost the whole group went bright red.

"I don't get it." Ruby said.

"Good." Came a gruff reply.

Their chatter was cut short when the headmistress appeared on stage.

"We will begin with the team announcements soon everyone, if you would find your partners and be ready to come up on the stage when your name is called. Thank you." She said politely.

Walking onto the stage, professor Ozpin grabbed a microphone.

"We will begin with the team announcements now. Would Jamie Wrest, Zachary River, Michael Ross, and Nicholas Avon come to the stage." The professor said.

Unwrapping the blonde girl from him reluctantly, the partners made their way onto the stage and saw some slightly familiar faces.

"Jamie Wrest, Zachary River, Michael Ross, and Nicholas Avon. The four of you have collected the black king pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team Jasmine(JZMN), led by Jamie Wrest." Ozpin said, over the overwhelming applause.

"Yay, Zach." Both Yang and Ruby cheered from their seats.

Walking off of the stage, the wolf took a closer look at his new teammates. One was black haired and gray eyed, and the other was brown haired green eyed. They were the ones who made it second. Looking at them a bit longer, he turned away and went back to his seat.

Returning and wrapping his arm around the blonde again, he stopped paying attention to the names being called. He was just enjoying being with her again. Sadly it didn't last long as his attention was bright back when Yang stood and made her way to the stage.

"Sigh"

Watching the stage with attention, Professor Ozpin began his speech.

"Finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long.the four of you retrieved the white knight piece, this day forward you will be working together as team RWBY, led by Ruby Rose."

Applause started to fill the room, the loudest clapping coming from the front row.

"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said, hugging Ruby. Looking over Ruby's shoulder, she gave a wink to Zach.

"Looks like things are shaping up to be an interesting year." Professor Ozpin said as his closing words.

Handing the microphone to Professor Goodwitch, she explained how to find the dorm rooms.

"To find what rooms your team has, please check the screens outside of the room. They will be listed beside your team name, and will tell you where to find your schedules. Please leave orderly. Have a good night everyone." She finished, dismissing everyone.

Standing up in his chair he walked towards the newly appointed team RWBY, ignoring the pestering of his teammates.

Reaching team RWBY, he went and wrapped both his arms around the shoulders of one sister. Looking at the happy face of Ruby, he squeezed.

"Congratulations." He said to her, letting go of her after dealing significant damage to her aura.

"Thank you." She said, rubbing her now sore shoulders.

"Shall we go find our rooms?" Weiss asked, looking at the barbarian, Zach.

"Sure." Everyone agreed.

Stepping out of the ballroom, they noticed that all the screens had lines at them. It was going to be a long night finding the rooms.

And that is chapter 3. I hope everyone enjoyed it.

So before I do this in the next few chapters I want to explain how I think some of the characters' semblances work.

I'll start with Yang. I think hers works like this. She starts off dealing normal damage. Then when she gets hit she deals around twice the damage back. I also think that when she's angry she does more damage, so it looks something like this.

Not angry Not hit = normal damage

Angry not hit = more damage

Not angry hit = more damage

Angry hit = extra damage

For Ruby, I think she just turns herself and people she wishes who are near her into roses and can move very fast.

For Weiss, she can make glyphs that can do things when certain dust is applied to them. But I think her basic glyphs are ice because she made the ice boarbusk without any dust on her.

For Zach, it's kinda like Yangs except instead of making him do more damage, it makes him emit different negative emotions. When he gets mad he can emit an aura that can make people feel fear, rage and other emotions.

And I'll stop now because that's a lot.

But that is chapter 3, thank you for reading.