A black bird is flying slowly and magnificently, right up to the moment it gives a final shriek and Ruby crashes through it in a burst of feathers as she plummets downward.
"Birdie, no!" Ruby cried as she continued to plummet. She fired off a few rounds from Crescent Rose to slow her down, then turns the weapon into its scythe form to catch the branch of a tree in her blade and fall downward at a slower pace. Weiss, armed with Myrtenaster, summoned a white snowflake circle under her and leapt off of it to the forest below. Ren descended (with Nora briefly being seen next to him at a faster speed) and spun in the air, eventually using StormFlower's blades to spiral around the trunk of a large tree and hit the ground, brushing off his clothes before looking up to see...
"Woo-hoo! Yeah! Alley-oop!"
Yang, soaring right over the treetops, is using her gauntlets and its fiery force to push her through the air further and further north, spinning and laughing with each blast, even when she crashes through the leaves of a tree and leaps off two trunks to tumble to the ground.
"Nailed it!" She said before running off.
Pyrrha, her weapon in sword form and armed with a shield, crashed through several trees and rolled on a branch, immediately shifting her blade into a rifle and looking through the scope at Jaune as he continues to scream and fall helplessly. Pyrrha coolly transformed her weapon again to its spear form, takes a moment to evaluate her throw, and rockets the javelin deep into the forest until a "THUNK!" is heard.
"Thank you!" Jaune called in the distance.
"I'm sorry!" She called back, waving despite not being able to see him, so he wouldn't be able to see her.
In the middle of the forest, Ruby lands in a crouch, then darts off with a single mantra in her mind. (I gotta find either Yang or Bayonetta, maybe both!) She thought. "Yaaaang! Bayonetta?! Where are you?!" She called out. (Where could they be?) She wondered.
At this time, Bayonetta began to descend into the forest, when she noticed a long beowulf prowling the forest, almost directly where she calculated she'd land. "Perfect!" She said, extending her legs, slamming them into the unfortunate Grimm and using its body to break her fall, before aiming her guns at its head. "Thanks for the soft landing. Now you can take a nice long nap." She said, unloading into its head. "Now, then. I SHOULD start looking for Ruby... but I'd rather look for that Dante boy." She said, licking her lips and sauntering into the forest.
Further away, Kratos also began to descend, throwing out his swords and chains out and latching onto a branch above him, swinging and jumping at the top of the swing, slowly his descent, but maximizing his jump, latching and jumping to several lower branches until he could reach the ground without injury. "Alright, now I'd better find Pyrrha before that Jaune punk does." He said. Suddenly, he heard Jaune's dazed thanks in the distance, followed by Pyrrha's apology. "Brilliant..." He said sarcastically and annoyed, starting to take a few steps, before an ursai emerged from the forest and bloacked his path. "Out of my way, beast! I need to stop my sister from partnering with someone she's WAY too good for!" He snapped.
Suddenly, he and the Ursai looked up as they heard a voice in the air. "YA-HOO!" Dante shouted, before apparently seeing Kratos and the Ursai, creating a glyph in the air in front of him and swinging his legs forward, planting his feet on the glyph and back-flipping off of it, firing several bulllets down at the Ursai from his pistols while spinning in the air, weakening the monster and making it drop to its stomach. It struggled in an attempt to stand again, but this attempt along with the Ursai was torn apart when Dante crashed down on it with Rebellion. He then looked up at Kratos. "Well... Not who I was looking for, but not the worst option." He said with a shrug.
Kratos scoffed at this, letting the minor insult go, as he was more annoyed that now he couldn't partner with Pyrrha and keep her away from Jaune. "I SUPPOSE I could say the same about you. Let's go." He said, walking past Dante and bumping into his shoulder on purpose as a way to say "Don't push me".
"Oh, this is gonna be fun." Dante said.
Elsewhere, similarly to Kratos, Ryu had descended into the forest in the taller trees, spinning around and swinging off several branches to slow his fall, before seeing a beowulf, jumping to it and grabbing its shoulder in mid-air to stop himself and pull himself behind the beowulf, brining out the Dragon Sword and stabbing it through the chest, before throwing it to the ground to disappear. "Cursed beasts." He said.
"Well, that was pretty impressive." Bayonetta said, stepping out from the treeline.
"So, I suppose this makes us partners." Ryu said. He would've rather partnered with Nora, but this girl looked quite capable as well. She had all those weapons, so she most likely knew how to use them.
"I guess it does. Don't worry, though. I'm pretty easy to work with. And I like to think it's also pretty fun to work with me." She said sassily as she walked past him, twirling one of her pistols.
"I already have a girlfriend, if you're trying to flirt with me." He warned.
"That's fine. I had my sights set on someone else, anyway." She said.
And so the two pairs continued to the forest, Dante leading him and Kratos around with guesses while Ryu's heightened ninja senses lead them to the shrine. However, it wasn't long before they ran into trouble. The first ones to have confrontation was Dante and Kratos. After a while of walking, Dante smelled the air. "You smell that?" He asked.
Kratos sniffed the air as well. "The air's heavy with smoke. Some idiot must've lit the forest on fire fighting the Grimm." He confirmed.
"Some people, just attack without thinking of the consequences." Dante agreed.
Background Music: "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars
Suddenly, the two of them ran into a large group of beowulves that had run away from the fire and the Grimm immediately surrounded them, eager to attack these new targets in place of the ones that had gotten away. "Well, now I get to see if you know how to use those swords." Dante said.
"Just don't get in my way." Kratos said.
One beowulf ran in from behind Kratos while 3 rushed in at Dante. Dante quickly made a glyph under his feet and slid forward, using his stinger attack to impale the beowulf running at Kratos, who responded by swinging his blades at the 3 that had rushed at Dante, before quickly sheathing his blades and turning his bracers into the Cestus, slamming it into the face of another charging beowulf. Dante was then surrounded by 5 more beowulves in a tight circle, but simply smirked at this. "I always loved it when this happens." He said, pulling out his shotgun and cocking it with a fist pumping motion, before whipping it around like nunchaku and firing it at the same time, blasting the Grimm away and sending them flying. The two jumped back to back as the remaining 10 closed in. "Hey, I got an idea." Dante said, pulling out Cerberus and tossing it into the air. "Catch!" He said.
Kratos swung one of his swords and caught the weapon by the ring connecting the 3 rods, Dante jumping/backflipping into the air as Kratos spun while swinging their weapons, hitting and freezing the beowulves, flinging Cerberus back up to Dante and transforming his blades into uzis as Dante pulled out Spiral shooting one beowulf and causing the bullet to ricochet off of 3 others as Kratos slowly turned while unloading his guns, the bullets breaking off and shattering large pieces of the frozen enemies while 4 Dante shot had completely shattered.
"Nice shooting." Dante said as they looked around. "Wait a second... It feels like we missed one." Dante said, looking around. Even though shattered and fading, their bodies were closely piled where they died and Dante only counted 9 piles around the same size. There should've been one more larger pile. "Where's the alpha?" He asked, unaware as the creature suddenly rushed out and lunged at him.
"Watch out!" Kratos said, pushing him out of the way and blocking it. Dante then blasted the alpha in the chest, knocking it onto its back and sending it skidding a few feet away, but not killing it. This was quickly corrected, however, when Kratos once again transformed his bracers into gauntlets, jumping and slamming his right fist down on its head, smashing it.
"Thanks." He said, looking back at the billowing smoke. "That makes me wonder how my sister's doing... And that Bayonetta chick. I wouldn't mind seeing her in action." He said, before they continued on their path.
Elsewhere...
Bayonetta and Ryu both jumped back away from their enemies, now standing with their backs together with their dual swords drawn as they faced a group of Creeps. The monsters charged at the two warriors and they attacked the monsters, able to fight and take note of each other's fighting styles in the process: Bayonetta's wild and flashy, yet effective moves and Ryu's trained and precise moves. A Creep rushed at Bayonetta from the side, forcing her to backflip, using her semblance to bring the monsters to a stop, turning the swords into shotguns and blasting the one that rushed her in the face. Suddenly, Ryu moved at normal speeds and with a wide swipe, decapitated 7 more of the monsters, unaffected by her semblance. "You're immune to my semblance?" She asked.
"It alters time. I have a similar ability, so I used it to negate the effects of your semblance only on me." He explained.
"So, in other words..." She said, looking at the still frozen Grimm.
"They're sitting ducks for the both of us." He said, rushing in with tonfas and smashing a few of their skulls, combining them into a machine gun and unloading on several of the Creeps.
"This partner thing just became a lot more fun." She said, pulling out her scythe and slashing through several Grimm, restarting time, before aiming the rifle part at them and firing at them the same time as Ryu. The monsters were dead before they could even figure out what happened.
End Music
"Not bad at all." He told her.
"You're quite capable yourself. You've definitely got your share of surprises. I kinda wanna see what else you can do." She said.
"I'll try not to disappoint you." He said.
Back on the cliff, Glynda was observing the students over her scrolls. "The last pair has been formed, sir. Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren. Poor boy... I can't possibly imagine those two getting along. Still, he's probably better off than Miss Nikos." She said, flipping to them on her scroll and confirming she had met up and paired with Jaune despite Kratos' best wishes.
"Hm..." Ozping simply replied.
"I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat." She said, deactivating her scroll and walking up to him. " I guess we'll find out soon enough. Or, if he's lucky, he'll be able to team up with those more advanced first years, like those boys Kratos and Dante. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes." She said, before looking at him. "Speaking of which, what did you use as relics this year?" She asked. Silence. "Professor Ozpin?
Ozpin didn't answer, as he was paying attention to his own scroll, watching as Dante and Kratos trekked through the forest. While the two weren't directly at each other's throats, they didn't seem to particularly be getting along.
"So... How do you think your sister's doing? Think she got lost yet? Or anyone else for that matter?" Dante asked.
Kratos scoffed at this. "Pyrrha wouldn't get herself lost. She doesn't just wander aimlessly, she has a great sense of direction. I taught her everything she knows, which is everything I know. The only POSSIBLE way she could get lost is if she paired up with that Jaune idiot and he got them lost, but she wouldn't just blindly follow someone if she thought they were going the wrong way." He said.
"Okay, okay, I get it! You take pride in helping your sister be a warrior, I'll get you a medal. I was just asking. Knowing my sister, she's probably got her partner following her in circles." Dante said. Ironically enough, they themselves were going the wrong way. They had actually flown over the temple and were heading North when the temple was South of them.
"Speaking of which, I have a feeling YOU don't know where we're going, either. I'm letting you lead for now, but more than 10 minutes of this and we're turning back. Every voice in my head is telling me we should turn around and head back the way we came." Kratos said.
"Oh, please. I KNOW I'm going the right way. There is NO reason for us to turn around." Dante said, before stopping as a shadow now loomed over them and the large Grimm in front of them let out a low growl. "Like I said, time to pop a U-Turn!" He said, the two of them turning and running for their lives.
Meanwhile, Yang and Blake reached the top of a hill and looked down to see the temple. It was broken and decrepit but for the platforms around its inside, holding several black and gold objects. "This must be it. Hey, look! That's my sister down there!" Yang said, pointing at the two black-clad figures that were Ryu and Bayonetta (oh, I haven't mentioned this yet, but Ryu is wearing his signature Ninja Gaiden uniform, minus the mask).
"That wasn't so bad." Ryu said, picking up one of the black objects and pocketing it.
"Hey! Glad to see you made it here in one piece!" Yang said, high-fiving her sister, Blake and Ryu simply observing their partners.
"Yeah. But more importantly, I beat you here!" Bayonetta said teasingly, earning her a playful punch in the arm from her older twin.
Blake then looked away from the sisterly antics and to the "artifacts" they were supposed to collect, said items being mere... "Chess pieces?" She asked.
"Yes. Some of them are missing, meaning we weren't the first ones here." Ryu said, holding up their black Bishop piece.
"Well, I guess we should pick one." Blake said as Yang walked over and looked as well.
"Hmmmm..." The elder Xiao Long twin pondered, studying the golden knight, then picked it up and showed it to Blake. "How about a cute little pony?" She asked.
Blake smirked at this. "Sure." She said, walking up to her partner.
"That wasn't too hard!" Yang said happily.
"Well, it's not like this place is very difficult to find." Blake said, the two sharing a smile.
Suddenly, Dante and Kratos ran in and jumped through a hole in the back wall, panting heavily. "There... See? I told you... We needed to turn around..." Dabnte said as he got up and grabbed the other black bishop piece.
Kratos glared at him after this. "I told YOU we needed to turn around. You only decided to turn around before we were stomped on!" Kratos snapped.
"Well, it's certainly nice to see you again." Bayonetta said, putting a hand on Dante's chest and back to help him steady his breathing.
"It certainly made the trip worth it." Dante agreed. Kratos and Ryu shot each other a look, shaking their heads at their partner's antics and lack of focus.
"So... Has anyone seen Ruby?" Bayonetta asked.
"Or Weiss?" Dante asked.
"And what about Pyrrha? She should've gotten here with her partner by now, even if it was that useless Jaune punk." Kratos said.
Suddenly, a high-pitched scream rang out all the way to the temple, everyone turning in its direction. "Some girl is in trouble! What should we do?!" Yang asked, turning back to the rest of the party.
"I say we should head over there and help... Or just get away from here, we'll have MUCH bigger problems in a minute." Dante said, looking back from where they came.
"FINALLY, he has a good idea." Kratos said, also somewhat nervous that the Grimm that chased them there would catch up soon.
"Blake, what should we do?" Yang asked her partner, who was for some reason looking up at the sky, before she finally pointed up to it as everyone heard a new voice screaming.
"Heads uuuuuuuup!" Ruby screamed as she fell towards the ground.
"Ruby!" Yang and Bayonetta shouted, looking at each other and nodding. Bayonetta made a small dash towards her twin and jumped onto her shoulders as Yang formed Ember Celica into their guantlet forms and fired at the ground, launching the girls into the air, at which point Bayonetta jumped off her sister's shoulders. Suddenly, as she flew towards Ruby, she heard another voice screaming and looked to the side, seeing Jaune flying towards them. Quickly, she grabbed Ruby's hood and turned slightly, allowing Jaune to pass her rather than crash into her and shot her arm out, catching his hood as well, before firing the guns on her feet to slow their descent.
Ruby breathed a sigh of relief at this, smiling up at Bayonetta. "Thanks, sis!" She said, brightly.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked.
"I..." Yang said, unsure of how to respond.
Suddenly, an Ursai burst from the forest, ferociously waving its claws before a pink blast hit it in the back, causing it to stiffen up and fall forward. "Yeee-haaaaawww!" Nora yelled triumphantly, before tumbling off the Ursai's back as it collapsed to the ground. "Aww, it's broken..." She said, observing its corpse.
"Of course... Only Nora would think of doing that." Ryu said.
"I'll have to try that sometime." Kratos said.
"Or not..." He said, sweatdropping.
Ren quickly followed behind and leaned up against the dead Ursai to catch its breath. "Nora... Please... Don't ever do that again..." He said (*sigh* I still miss Monty. R.I.P). He suddenly looked up to see Nora was no longer there, a dotted outline of her appearing where she had once been standing.
"RYU! I'm so happy you made it okay! I mean, I KNEW you'd be okay, but I feel so much better SEEING you okay!" She said excitedly, hugging her boyfriend tightly as he tried to calm her down and free himself from her vice-liked grip that surely would've broken his back without his aura.
"It's okay, Nora... I'm fine... You still need to get a relic..." He said, pointing to it.
"Ooh! You're right! You're so smart! You always know what to do!" She said, giving him one more crushing squeeze before hurrying to the chess pieces, causing him to drop to the ground as Kratos and Bayonetta looked down at him, then each other. "Ooh..." She said, marveling at the Golden castle-like rook. "I'm queen of the castle~! I'm queen of the castle~!" She sang, taking different poses, holding the piece on her foot, then head.
"NORA!" Ren called, to which she saluted.
She giggled at this. "Coming, Ren!" She said, tilting her head to the side and catching the piece in her hand, before skipping over to her friend.
"Did she just ride in on an Ursai?" Blake asked.
"Uh..." Yang said, again unsure how to respond.
"We JUST saw it happen." Bayonetta said.
Suddenly, they heard a monstrous roar and Pyrrha was sprinting out of the forest with a Deathstalker hot on her trail, managing to hurdle through one snapping claw and rolling to avoid the next one. "Pyrrha!" Kratos shouted rushing in. She ran past him as he turned his bracers into the cestus once again and slammed his fist into the Deathstalker's face, pushing it back a little and shaking its head to recover from the impact. "You picked the wrong target today, beast!" He snapped his a forceful nod. The Deathstalker paused for a moment, before swinging its claw and sending him flying back to the group, skidding on his back the last few feet, then continuing its pursuit of Pyrrha.
"Wow, you showed it." Dante said.
"Let's see you do better." Kratos said, somewhat dazed.
"Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked as Nora happily and mindlessly shimmied in place and Yang trembled in rage from all the crazy things happening.
She finally exploded after this, flames shooting around her and her eyes turning red. "I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for 2 seconds before something crazy happens again!?" She demanded, panting to calm herself.
The sound of an egg timer ticking down could now be heard as Ren ran up to the group and Dante helped Kratos to his feet, Ryu tilting his head side to side with his eyes closed as he silently counted down along with Bayonetta, who instead counted with her fingers as the two seconds past before the timer dinged. Ruby then tapped Yang on the arm. "Um, Yang?" She asked, before pointing up in the air.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss asked as she dangled with one hand from the talon of a Nevermore.
"I said jump!" Ruby said.
"She's gonna fall." Blake and Bayonetta said together.
"She'll be fine." Ruby said dismisslvely.
"She's falling." Ren and Ryu said together as Weiss' grip finally slipped from the talon and she fell towards the ground.
"Weiss!" Dante shouted, creating a glyph from the ground. Suddenly, a massive white raptor bird emerged from the glyph (Griffon, Dante can summon demons defeated in his past life, except Mundus, Argosax, Abigail and Vergil/Nelo Angelo), Dante immediately jumping on its back and making it take off towards Weiss, managing to catch his sister bridal style and jumping off the bird, which flew after and attacked the Nevemore as Dante and Weiss safely returned to the ground, Dante using a number of glyphs to use as platforms and ease the descent, finally setting Weiss down on her feet once safely on the ground. Griffon put up a decent fight, but was unfortunately destroyed when it took an onslaught of spear-like feathers from the Nevermore.
Pyrrha was then knocked back to their feet by the Deathstalker, earning it a growl from Kratos. "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said with fake pep.
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby said, rushing in at the Deathstalker.
"If we do die, I'll drag this beast to hell with me!" Kratos snapped, rushing in along with Ruby, but both were unfortunately knocked again.
Kratos lifted himself up, facing back at the group and was about to turn around, but was horrified to see a familiar figure through the hole in the wall slowly but surely approaching the temple. Back with the group, Bayonetta looked at Dante. "So, what were you two in such a hurry to escape from?" She asked.
"Well-" Dante started, before a Goliath burst through the wall, everyone hurrying to run and dodge out of the way. "That!" He said. It was smaller than most, likely younger, but it still stood tall enough for a Dante, standing at 6 feet tall and stabbing at its stomach with a sword of the same height was only stabbing the very tip of the blade into the monster's belly.
"I was really hoping I WOULDN'T have to fight building-sized monsters in this lifetime." Ryu said, shooting it in the face with the Howling Cannon.
"Grab your pieces and go! We'll hold this one back!" Dante said, rolling to avoid getting stomped on by the Goliath, then stabbing at its stomach.
Jaune quickly grabbed the other golden rook while Ruby grabbed the gold knight, the group taking off. Luckily for he resurrected heroes, the Deathstalker and Nevermore decided to chase after the other two teams rather than stay and fight them.
Background Music: "Not Gonna Die" by Skillet
"4 of us vs. one monster taller than the 3 of us put together? I like those odds." Bayonetta said, circling it and shooting it at the same time.
"Go for the legs, they'll be weaker!" Ryu said, slashing at its front right leg with Dabilahro. It raised its foot to attempt to stomp down on Ryu, but Kratos drew the Blade of Remnant (Blade of Olympus) and swung the blade, sending a sphere of lightning from it, hitting the monster in the face and staggering it, causing it's foot to miss the ninja.
"This ought to slow it down!" Dante said, striking the ground with Cerberus and freezing the Goliath's back feet, then striking them with the triple nunchaku. They appeared to buckle a little bit, at which point he rolled out and started shooting at it with Ebony and Ivory.
"I'll make an opening! Don't waste it!" Kratos said, throwing his swords and hooking them to the Goliath's trunk, pulling back on his chains and managing to bring the monster down to its knees.
"Good work!" Ryu said, running up its face and jumping, twisting in the air and smashing the weight of his Kusari-gama, before striking at its back and sides with the sickle part.
"Maybe I was wrong. This might just be too easy." Bayonetta said, rushing in and striking at it with her scythe and her whips which were attached to her feet.
The monster then bellowed and began to pull back and rocking to the sides. "Look out!" Dante said, rushing up to Bayonetta and grabbing her, turning his back to shield her from the beast as it slammed the side of its head into them, sending them flying a few feet.
It then wrapped its trunks around Kratos's chains and pulled him in, before smacking him away with its trunk. "No! Why won't you go down, you beast!?" Ryu demanded, repeatedly stabbing it in the back with his dual swords.
It bellowed once again and reached up, grabbing Ryu and slamming him into the ground in front of it. It then reared up on its hind legs and prepared to stomp down on the ninja. "Wretched beast!" Kratos shouted, rushing in and holding his hands up.
"Get out of there, you idiot!" Dante shouted, but to everyone's shock and amazement, he held back the monster's massive feet.
"No way... Not even Yang could hold one of those back. It's impossible! It's the size of a house!" Bayonetta said in shock.
"You may be powerful, one of the strongest types of Grimm there are, but you are nothing compared to the monsters I've faced! I was the Ghost of Sparta! I overpowered everyone I faced! And now, I am the Ghost of Remnant! My power is no longer to destroy, but to protect! But I can still destroy those who would do harm to the innocent!" Kratos snapped, his semblance, pure strength that increases along with his heart rate, allowing him to hold back the towering Grimm. He then looked back at his teammates. "Unload on it!" He shouted.
"You got it, big guy!" Dante said, pulling out Spiral and blasting it in the stomach, Ryu again combining his tonfa into their machine gun form and unloading on its stomach as well.
"It's not as effective when my target doesn't have a soul, but it should work!" Bayonetta said, rushing in with her scythe, jumping and slicing the monster's throat.
"Push it back! I'll finish this!" Ryu shouted. With a final shout of effort, Kratos pushed the mighty beast back as it still struggled to live and fight. He did a few hand signs with a red Dust crystal in his hands. He finished his hand signs and jumped into the air. Amazingly, the fire from the dust engulfed him and turned into a massive serpent dragon. It flew at the Grimm's head and slammed into it and vanishing to reveal Ryu impaling it in the head with the Dragon Sword, even getting through the armor-like bone on its head. He pulled it out and twisted in mid-air, now at the monster's neck and hacked down, managing to slice the beasts head off.
End Music
"Great work. Now we need to check on our friends and family." Dante said, to which the others nodded and rushed in the direction their friends went. The were lucky enough to arrive just in time to see Ruby run up the cliff wall while holding the Nevermore against the wall by its throat with Crescent Rose. She reached the top, catching the massive bird's body on the lip on the edge of the cliff, firing the Sniper Rifle one final time and decapitating the massive bird, landing on the cliff wall like a badass.
"That's my baby sister." Bayonetta said proudly as she looked up at the youngest member of her family.
"Man, I'm glad we were around to catch that." Kratos said.
"Took the words right out of my mouth, buddy." Dante said, putting a hand on Kratos' shoulder and giving him a small shake.
"Yeah. We all did good, but we'd better hurry and get these pieces to Ozpin if we still want decent grades." Ryu said.
Later, in the auditorium...
"Cardin Winchester, Russel Trush, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The 4 of you retrieved the white bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as... Team CRDL. Led by... Cardin Winchester." Ozpin said as everyone applauded a group of soldier-looking boys all dressed in full suits of armor. "Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you shall work together as... Team JNPR. Led by... Jaune Arc." He continued.
"Huh? Led by?" Jaune asked in disbelief.
"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin said.
"I still say it should've been Pyrrha." Kratos said with his arms folded.
"Oh, come on. Be happy for him. And your sister. I think they'll make a good team." Ryu said, happy for his girlfriend and best friend as well. Pyrrha then gave Jaune a playful punch in the arm, but this knocked him on his butt. Kratos then looked back at Ryu with a smug 'you were saying' look. "Okay, maybe that is asking too much." He said.
"Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you shall work together as... Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose." Ozpin continued.
"Yes! Way to go, Ruby!" Bayonetta cheered.
"Your sister's gonna be pissed." Kratos said to Dante.
"She'll get over it... It'll take a while, but she will. Eventually, she'll just be happy she's on a team with a cute redhead." Dante said, smirking and shrugging as he saw Weiss shoot him a pouting glare.
"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said, hugging her younger sister.
"And finally: Cereza "Bayonetta" Xiao Long, Dante Schnee, Kratos Nikos, Ryu Hayabusa. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you shall work together as... Team SCRN (Scorn. Sounds kinda evil, but it's the best I could come up with). Led by... Dante Schnee!" He said.
"Aww, yeah!" Dante said, fist-pumping.
"Congratulations. I think celebrations are in order." Bayonetta said.
"Well, I can't say this won't be interesting." Ryu said.
"It'll certainly be one hell of a ride... I'm kinda looking forward to it." Kratos said.
"Looks like things are shaping up to be an... interesting year." Ozpin said.
However, not everything going on that night was good. Elsewhere in a warehouse hideout, Roman Torchwick, Medusa and 3 other figures in the shadows were going over their plans as Roman was dealing with someone on the phone. He hung up, grumbled and lit a cigar as a member of the white fang wheeled something up to him. He paid him some lien and the transaction was complete. "Open it." He said, the White Fang grunt busting open a case full of differently cut gem crystals of many different colors. He inspected a crystal quickly, before deciding it was too his liking. One thing wasn't, however. "We're gonna need more men." He said.
"Bullshit! The hell do we need more men for?! We already got those White Fang mutts working for us and any one of us could deal with dozens of those little shit huntsman and huntresses in training ourselves!" One figure said, his yellow eyes glowing in the shade given from the hood of his yellow jacket with snake designs.
"Precisely! We have enough Dust to level the school and all its pathetic students! They cannot stop us! No matter what they try, it's USELESS, USELESS, USELESS, USELESS, USELESS!" Another one of the figures said from deeper in the shadows slamming his fist on the table the 3 in the shadows sat at.
"Don't be stupid. With this much time and effort spent planning, we can't afford to be cocky! We have to make sure everything is perfect. Down to the last detail. Then, we will absolutely crush our enemies. They won't stand a chance." Medusa said.
"Whatever. Just as long as I get to cause some destruction and kill as many people as I want, I'll go with the plan. Just don't keep me waiting." The final figure said, licking her lips as her left eye let out a pink glow.
They all looked to the map, which had different sectors labeled, as well as the high concentration of cops... and dumb cops, with the main target on the map being... Beacon.
(OH, MAN! That was intense! And we get a glimpse of the sinister plot unfolding, as well as a few extra villains! Can you guess who they are with the more or less subtle hints? Good luck!)