"You dolt!" yelled Weiss as she glared at Ruby as they walked towards class, Ruby now dressed in her usual outfit. "Miss. Glynda was quite angry when you crashed into her with nothing but your pajamas on!"
Rolling her silver eyes, the red reaper gave her friend a small smile. "Weiss~! You're overreacting again, besides Miss. Glynda is always annoyed with me even when I'm following the rules."
"That's still no excuse," the Schnee heiress growled. "And stop talking like that, your starting to sound like your sister, and I don't need a second hooligan in my life."
"My ears are burning, is my favorite ice queen talking about me?" asked a cheeky voice. Said voice belonged to a blond bombshell, who wore an outfit that both showed enough skin to turn heads as she walked, but still covered enough to be considered decent to the public. Her lilac eyes shined in amusement as she smiled at the two. "I hope it's something good, and not something 'Weiss' cold."
Sighing the heiress glared at the busty blonde. "Please don't use my name for one of your puns Yang. Also, shouldn't you be in Professor Port's class?"
"Shouldn't I be asking you the same thing?" the now-named Yang said with a smile. "Besides Mr. Port decided to spring a surprise test today."
"What!" cried that white themed girl as she whipped her gaze towards a nervous Ruby. "did you're oversleeping cause me to miss an important test!?"
"Sorry~!" the red reaper cried as she backed away from the glare her bestie was giving her. "I was having a really intense dream!"
"Well maybe if you stop eating all those cookies," Weiss ranted as Ruby pouted like a puppy.
As this went on Yang chuckled at her sister and the Schnee heiress. "Calm down 'Weiss queen', you haven't missed anything, me and Blake covered for you and told old man Port that you were just getting extra prepared for his "super awesome test", it also helped that said test is going to be outside today, so lucky break."
Slumping her shoulder "I really wished you didn't have to lie to the teacher for us," Weiss muttered with a sigh, internally groaning at her teammates buttering up Professor Port.
"Heh, don't worry Weiss, Port is cool about the whole thing," Yang said with a layback grin as she crossed her arms behind her head and leaned back as she and the rest of the group started to make their way down the halls on their way outside. "Besides at this point, our teachers are aware of Ruby's sleeping problems."
As soon as the subject was brought up, the two elder girls of the group glanced towards the red reaper. For the past two weeks, their leader had been going into a deep sleep where she wouldn't wake up no matter how much someone tried to wake her up. The first time had almost caused the rest of the members of Team RWBY to go into a panic as they tried and failed to wake her up. No matter what they did there young team leader would not wake up until she finished her 'dream'.
It got so bad that the school's faculty soon found out after Ruby and her team kept showing up late. Then after some test from the nurse (who might as well have been a full-blown doctor) showed that besides Ruby's sleeping habits, she showed no signs of being ill. Though headmaster Ozpin was thankfully understanding about the whole thing and was willing to let it slide until whatever was happening to the young leader of team RWBY was sorted out. As long as Ruby was willing to write down what she dreamed about after said girl brought up she was having strange dreams.
The leader of team RWBY blushed at the attention she was getting as she flipped her hood over her head a little while mumbling. "Sorry… I don't know why I've been having these dreams."
While still walking Yang patted her little sister's shoulder while smiling at her. "Don't worry Rubes, whatever is going on I'm sure will pass, and hey you at least get some extra hours of sleep."
Shaking her head as the group made its way outside towards the courtyard, the white-themed girl of team RWBY gave her team leader a softer look.
"While Yang might be focusing on the wrong thing about this situation I can at least agree with her about not worrying about it too hard, and you can count on us if things get any worse."
Smiling gratefully at the two, the young leader let down her hood and started to walk with a little more confidence in her step. As the group made their way towards the main square of the school grounds they soon spotted a large gathering of students who all stood in front of the only adult of the large group who seemed to be in the middle of giving a lecture until he spotted the three girls.
"Ah! It seems the last of our little band is here!" cheered an elderly gentleman who brushed his magnificent mustache as he let out a joyful laugh that made his noticeable gut shake in delight. This was Professor Peter Port or just Professor Port for short. A former huntsman who now dedicated his life teaching the next generation on how to fight and survive against mankind's worst enemy, the creatures of Grimm.
Rubbing her head while giving a sheepish smile yang said. "Heh sorry teach, it seems like they needed more time then I thought."
Laughing at the young blond of team RWBY Port shook his head good-naturedly. "Think nothing on it, Miss. Xiao Long! We were just getting started with class and you just came by as I was about to fill everyone in on what's happening. Now move along and find your other teammates and be ready, the class is about to start."
Nodding the girls gave a quick thanks to their cheerful teacher as they made their way through the crowd.
"Sorry, excuse me, coming through," whispered Ruby as she squeezed by a few students while trying to find the fourth member of their team.
"Hmph, little brat," muttered a voice that Ruby heard right before someone stuck there foot out in front of her, causing the little reaper to let out a yelp as she fell face-first into the thankfully soft grass.
"Ruby are you alright!?" Yang said as she turned towards her younger sister after hearing her yelp.
"Ug…," Ruby groaned as she spat out some grass that got in her mouth. And the young girl tried to clean her mouth from the unwanted taste of dirt and grass, as her two teammates gave her worried and confused looks wondering what happened to their team leader.
Though there answer would come soon as they heard laughter not too far from them coming from a group of four boys who were laughing at Ruby's misfortune.
"Cardin," Weiss spat out as she stared at the leader of Team CRDL.
"Ha!" laughed the large teen and large was a fitting word for him. The teen known as Cardin was a tall and muscular young man who wore armor and carries a large mace into battle, in fact, if you didn't know him you would think he looked the part for a hunter…, sadly he and the rest of the team were bullies.
"What the big idea?" seethed Yang. it didn't take a genius to figure out what happened. If someone was in pain and Cardin and his goons were around then it was a safe bet that team CRDL was behind it.
"Cool it blonde," mocked one of Cardin's teammates, a boy with a green mohawk named Russel Thrush. The last two members, a blond named Dove, and a silver-haired teen named Sky laughed at the Blonde brawler of team RWBY.
"Why don't you just grow up?" Weiss said in a cold tone as she gave team CRDL an icy glare that would make a normal person to flinch.
"Ha! I should say the same thing to you're snot-nosed leader," Cardin mocked as he gave said young leader a nasty grin, causing said girl to shuffle nervously, which caused team CRDL to laugh. "See what I mean? Haha, well I guess me and the boys should get ready, see yeah grass face."
But Yang wasn't just going to let then walk away. As her eyes turned red the blond boxer was about to storm towards the leaving group and give them a piece of her mind along with her fist!
"Why you no good!" Yang said as she was about to catch up and lay into them but was stopped by a hand grabbing her by the shoulder.
"Don't waste your time," said the person holding Yang back. This person is a girl dressed in a mainly black outfit with long black hair with a black bow on top and golden eyes that gave off an air of aloofness.
"Blake!" Ruby cheered as she ran towards the finale member of team RWBY and gave her a quick hug. Causing the black-themed girl to let out a soft grunt of annoyance, but still give a small smile to her team leader.
"Good to see your awake," Blake muttered in her usual quiet tone. Looking up from her leader and giving Yang a flat tone. "Anyways as I was saying, don't bother with those morons."
"And let them get away with what they did?" Yang seethed as she tried to calm down while still taking a few more quick glances towards CRDL who by now had made their way towards the front of the class. Now if Yang attacked them now then it would look like she did it unprovoked. Of course, Cardin and his goons picked a fight while Port was busy setting things up.
"I'm not saying that," Blake said in a flat tone. "But there are better times for getting back at them."
Nodding her head in agreement Wiess added in. "Agreed, instead of getting in trouble by attacking them like some beast, you should just take your time and get them when you wouldn't get in trouble."
"Like Glynda's class," Ruby said with a smile.
As Yang thought it over the blonde of the team let out a sigh and calmed down enough to where her eyes changed back to their normal lilac color. "Fi~ne! But I'm going to beat that crap out of Cardin and I don't want to hear I went overboard when I do."
"Oh don't worry," Blake muttered while glaring at the back of team CRDL, her golden eyes almost looking cat-like with how her pupils were turning into slits from how much her eyes narrowing. "You won't hear any complaints from us."
"Agreed," Wiess muttered as she joined Yang and Blake in glaring at the team of boys who didn't know what was coming.
Ruby could only let out a nervous laugh as she stared at her team who were freaking out a few other students nearby with the cold looks on their faces.
'I hope Miss. Glynda has the nurse on speed dial,' thought the red-themed teen as she decided to just focus on what was doing, good thing too because it seems like he was ready to start.
"Ahem!" coughed into his fist getting his students to start paying attention. Seeing this the elderly teacher soon began his lesson. "Good, good, anyway hello class today we're going to do things a little different than normal."
"Is that why we're outside in our normal clothes?" interrupted an orange-haired girl who ended getting shushed by a young man with black hair with a pink streak mixed in. While a tall young woman with crimson hair wearing bronze armor gave a quite sorry to the teacher and a blond teen in white armor looked worried they might get in trouble.
"Haha yes, that's exactly why!" laughed Port, not even bothered with being interrupted as he gave Team JNPR a kind smile. Said team with Jaune Arc as the leader, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren all sighed out as they gave one Nora Valkyrie a flat look for interrupting the teacher. Said girl could only give a weak laugh as she rubbed the back of her head.
Letting out another chuckle the teacher continued his speech. "Anyways as I was saying, today's class will be different, mostly for the part that this will be your only class for today!"
This caught the class by surprise as some of the students started to talk amongst themselves, and as that went on Weiss raised her hand to ask the teacher what was on everyone's minds.
"Mr. Port!" the Schnee heiress called out. "Is there a reason for this?"
"Yeah!" Jaune from team JNPR agreed with gusto. "What about the other classes, like Professor Oobleck and Miss. Glynda?"
After Jaune's… support, the blond leader of JNPR gave Weiss a thumbs up along with a proud grin, this… just caused the girl to shake her head in annoyance from the obvious attempt to impress her as the rest of her team giggled at their teammate's embarrassment.
"Excellent questions," Port praised. Happy to see students so active in his class. "And to answer your question the reason why this is happening, it's mainly something we do with our classes to help mix things up, you can ask any of your fellow students from the second year or higher, they all went through this and still do from time to time."
This caused a few students in understanding as a few mumbled either about asking the seniors about what they did while others wondered if they could find out what they might end up dealing with by asking the students who went through this same thing.
"And for the second question, the quick answer is that they will be doing the same thing as this for the next few days," the portly teacher said while twirling his mustache. This caused a few students to groan. While they didn't want to come off as rude, they were not looking forward to dealing with Professor Oobleck all day. He wore everyone out just listening to him for his normal classes.
"So what will we be doing for today Professor Port," Ruby asked with a tilt of the head as she noticed a few large metal containers and even weapon lockers set to the side.
"Good question miss Rose," Port said. "And the answer is… the same thing we do in my class!"
This nearly caused the whole class to fall over from the anti-climactic answer.
"C-come again sir?" Weiss muttered out as she tried to keep an unladylike look from growing from her face.
"It's exactly what I said," Port said while twirling his mustache. "Today you will be fighting Grimm while outside, though there will be one catch… you will not be fighting with your weapons."
And as soon as those words left the aged teacher's mouth the class had the mix reaction of ether gasping in fear yells of anger at the insane rule… or more ' ' reactions.
"Awesome!" Nora screamed as she tried to run up towards the front of the class to get first dibs to break some legs.
"No!" Ren screamed as he tried to hold onto his smaller but stronger teammate.
"But Ren! Leg breaking time!" Nora cried as she tried to force her way forward but her other teammates joined in on holding her back.
"Nora, no!" Pyhrra said while trying to hold the orange-haired girl back.
"Nora, yes!" Nora shouted as she tried to shake off her teammates, causing her team leader Jaune to cry out as he was nearly flung off of his heavy hitter teammate.
"Well, it's good to see such an enthusiastic student up for a challenge!" Port laughed. Glad to see the fires of youth, ah it brought back memories from when he was a lad, back when he only had his wits and determination to carry him.
" Mr. Port?" Ruby called out, cutting the teacher from his inner ramblings. "Are we going to fight the Grimm barehanded?"
Hearing this the teacher let out a booming laugh as he had to keep himself from hunching over from how much he was laughing
"Oh, no no no," Port said while shaking his head. "*chuckle* no such thing miss Rose, I would never throw my student's against Grimm without a proper way to defend themselves."
This caused the class to let out a sigh of relief though now they wonder what their teacher meant.
"Then what did you mean?" Cardin rudely asked getting a few glares from the other students for showing such disrespect towards a teacher.
Again, Port didn't show if the lack of respect bothered him and continued with the lesson.
"What I mean young Winchester is that you will be fighting with 'basic' weapons," the teacher said with a more serious tone. "That means no transforming weapons, and no dust, just the steel in your hands and your wits to help you fight without the technology you have all grown up with."
"What about semblances?" Ren asked with his calm and polite tone. "Will we be allowed to use those?"
"No," the teacher answered quickly. "Only your Aura will be allowed, this lesson is to force you to go through a fight without the tool you all come to rely on, and to see how you far you can go, and to see where you need to improve, because having the best weapon or a powerful semblance is worthless if you are too weak to stand on your own without them."
As the teacher finished his speech, the class was left to muttered amongst themselves as he went to set up the little arena for today. Some students were talking about how they never thought about being in a situation like that while others were excited at being pushed to new limits with these rules. Then some scoffed at the idea of doing this and even commented on how anyone who would be in a situation like that deserved what was coming to them.
"This should be fun," Yang said as she punched her fist together while having a cocky grin on her face.
"Do be careful," Weiss muttered while watching their teacher easily move the metal containers that more than likely contained the Grimm they would be fighting. All the while homing a jaunty tune and planted some metal rods into the ground as he did.
"Yeah," Blake said as she gave her teammate a flat look. "You won't have your Ember Celica, and if you use your semblance in a fit of anger you'll fail."
And speaking of anger, Yang didn't like how her friends were doubting her if the small embers popping off her head was any indication. But thankfully her little sister was quick to come to her defense.
"Relax guys!" Ruby said in her usual chipper tone. "Yangs got this! Those big metal boxes aren't so big, so they shouldn't have something too dangerous, and we all know my big sis can make mincemeat of any other Grimm quickly!"
As the two more mature members of the group had to agree with their young leader Yang showed her appreciation to her sister in the best way she knew how.
"Oh~ thanks for believing in me!" Yang cooed as she gave her little sister a bone-crushing hug. "Your the best baby sister I could ever ask for!"
"MMM!" Ruby yelled, but because her face was currently being smooshed into a place that quite a few guys (and ladies) would kill to be in, her screams came off as mostly muffled yells.
Her arms flailing, patting Yang's arms as she tries desperately to breathe. Hoping to heaven her sister doesn't send her to another heaven. Thankfully her salvation comes in the form of team JNPR.
"Uh, Yang?" Jaune said while trying not to blush from seeing where the squirming team leader of RWBY was being held. "You might want to let Ruby go."
"Yes, she's looking a little… blue," Pyrrha whispered while staring at Ruby who was going a little limp.
Laughing Nora pointed at the nearly passed out girl who was mumbling about pearly gates and meeting mom again. "Though I'm sure a few guys would gladly take her place."
"You going to be alright Ruby?" Blake muttered in her flat tone as she poked her leader's right cheek, trying to get a response from the smaller girl.
After a few more pokes, witch involved Weiss and Nora joining in, Ruby finally snapped out of her dazed state and jumped out of her sister's 'loving', but deadly embrace.
"I'm alive!" the red-themed girl cheered as she took in a few deep breaths of air. After sucking in as much air as possible, she soon realized that team JNPR was near them. "Oh, hey guys what's up."
"We were just coming over to check up on you," Ren said in his soft tone.
"Ahhh~! Don't worry," Ruby laughed while waving off their concern. "I've been put through tougher hugs from Yang, I can bounce back from this no problem."
"While that's… great?" Pyrrha said with a smile that was a bit forced. "But what Ren meant was that we were checking up on you about your sleeping habits."
"Yeah!" Nora yelled as she got into the little reaper's personal space. "Wondering if we might need to get a Prince or Princess to give you a big old smooch to wake you up next time you don't come back from dreamland."
"Smooch!?" Ruby cried with a blush as she tried to get the mental image out of her head.
"Nora…," Jaune sighed while dragging his smaller teammates away from Ruby to give the leader of RWBY some breathing room. "We also wanted to make sure if you were going to be ok with this test."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Yang asked as she got into big sis mode and gave the now sweating Jaune a stern look.
"Nothing!" the blond leader said as he raised his hands in surrender. "We were just worried that Ruby might, well you know…uh, a little help Pyrrha?"
Seeing her team leader in distress the tournament champion of Mistral quickly went to his aid.
"What he means is, we are just worried that Ruby might be at the biggest disadvantage," the bronze armored girl said. "Her way of fighting revolves around her semblance and weapon."
Nodding in agreement Ren added in. "Agreed, even Weiss won't be that handicapped compared to you."
As team JNPR voiced their worries young Ruby looked down while trying to hold back a frown, she couldn't get angry at them for being worried, and they also had a point. She DID focus on her weapon and semblance. She knew without them she wasn't able to much in the ways of fighting, but it still stung to hear her shortcoming expertly with a test that would more than likely showcase that.
Seeing her teammate in distress Weiss was quick to speak in her defense. "Ok, while I'm sure Ruby is happy that you're only worried about her as friends, I'm pretty sure saying that is stressing her out."
Team JNPR saw what she said was the truth when they saw the Ruby looking down in deep thought. Feeling bad Jaune patted the young girl's shoulders.
"Hey, sorry about that," Jaune said with regret in his eyes. "We were just worried about you, and hey you're more than likely going to do better than me!"
The blond leader of JNPR said this while giving a goofy smile with a thumbs up in an attempt to cheer up his first friend that he made in Beacon Academy.
And worked as the small leader of RWBY let out a small giggled as she smiled at Jaune. "Thanks, Jaune, but please don't sell yourself short. You won't be bothered with simple weapons like a good amount of us will be."
The group had to smile at Ruby's kindness, stressing out and yet still wants to cheer up a friend.
"Besides," Ruby began as she started to walk forward as soon as she saw Port started to set up some weapon racks. "This is just a new challenge for me to face!"
And as the young huntress in training matched towards the weapon rack. the rest of the group followed her with smiles on their faces.
'Pretty cool sis,' Yang thought with a proud smile. Happy to see her younger sister more confident.
As the group made their way to pick a weapon to use for the test they noticed a few students walking away
"Dibs!" Nora yelled as she went ran ahead of the group and grabbed a simple war hammer.
"Nora…," Ren sighed out as he walked up and grabbed a pair of long daggers. "Your the only one in this class that uses a hammer."
"Let her have her fun," Pyrrha said with a smile as she grabbed a large round shield and a spear. While Jaune grabbed a simple heater shield and simple sword and held both items in place with ease. It helped that his normal set up was extremely close to what he was using now.
"Yeah," Yang agreed as she placed on a pair of Cestus, tightening the leather straps the blond boxer gave a vicious grin as she admired the iron plates placed over most of the leather and iron spikes jutting out of it that gave the simple weapon a deadly look.
"I think it would be more merciful if you just used your fist," Blake commented dryly as she picked up a tanto and short katana. All the while wondering how much the school must have spent on ordering this many diverse weapons.
While the dark themed girl was left to her thoughts, Wiess was giving a simple-looking rapier a few test swings to check it's weight and balance. Though while doing that something did catch the white themed girl's attention.
"Ruby!" Wiess called out to her team leader, catching the younger girl's attention as she looked towards the Schnee heiress with a confused look. "I found a scythe for you to use!"
True to her word the fencer of the team pointed towards a simple Scythe propped up with a few other polearms, the only one polearm of its type there must mean the Port got it just for her to use, being the only scythe user in her class means there was no need for the teacher to get more than one.
"Yay~!" cheered the younger girl as she practically skipped towards the rack containing her weapon of choice. Though something caught her eye. A weapons rack with only one weapon in it, a broad sword that looked eerily familiar to her.
'No way,' Ruby thought as she looked at the spitting image of the same sword from her dreams, the only thing missing was the mouse symbol, but besides that, it looked like it was pulled straight from her dreams.
The rest of the group stopped what they were doing once they noticed Ruby just standing there with a far off look in her eyes.
Getting worried Wiess walked up to Ruby. "Ruby? Are you ok?"
Not paying her teammate any mind, the red-themed girl stared at the weapon rack, all the while images from her dream flashed into her mind as her hands clenched as she remembered the brutal fight in her dream that almost felt real.
As if in a trance, Ruby walked forward the assorted weapons the professor had brought. Without any trace of hesitation, her left hand reached over gripping the handle of her chosen weapon. She pulled it free from the rack, it's blade gleamed in the sunlight as she holds it on her side.
Ruby lifted the double-edged short sword easily in only one hand as she hefts it up horizontally as she looks to inspect the blade. Coming face to face with her reflection, silver eyes staring back from the iron blade.
"Interesting choice!" Port said as he saw Miss. Rose picked a weapon not suited to her fighting style. "I didn't know you knew how to wield a sword, Miss. Rose?"
Snapping out of her trance the young girl looked around and noticed her friends and sister giving her worried glances from strange behavior. The little red reaper could only give them a sheepish smile as she scratched the back of her head with her free hand.
"Yeah," Ruby chuckled out weakly. "My uncle taught it to me along with scythe training, though I decided to not give Crescent Rose a sword form when making her," she said as she thought about her pride and joy scythe that she treated like a child more than a weapon.
"Ah yes, Mr. Brenwen was an expert with a sword, in fact I believe the only two in his class that could beat him was his sister Raven and your mother Summer." the elderly teacher said as he thought back when he was a fresh teacher and how he ended teaching some of the strongest students that ever came out of this school.
'So mom used a sword…,' Ruby thought as she looked at the blade in her hands. She didn't know about her mom when it came to her being a huntress. Only that Summer was good at it and she wanted to be just like her mom.
"Well now," Port said as he started to guide the young Rose towards the center of the courtyard. "I feel like this is a good chance to see how much Qrow has taught you!"
"Wait, what?" Ruby said as she watched the portly teacher walked away, leaving the young girl in the center of the courtyard. Looking around she noticed the metal rods that Port had been stabbing into the ground while he was moving the Grimm containers now circularly surrounded her. Giving her around 40 yards. She also noticed one of the Grimm containers near the edge of the boundary.
"Now to set up the arena," Port said as he pulled a remote from his pocket and pressed on of the many buttons on it. As soon as he did the top of every rod started to glow white as a nearly translucent field started to spread around the area Ruby was in, creating a dome that seals off the outside world, and kept anything from getting in or out.
"Holy!" Yang said as she took a step back. "Well, that explains why you weren't worried about a Grimm attacking anyone else during the test."
"Yes," Port said with a nod. "Your correct Miss. Xiao Long, we in Beacon try our best to keep you all safe."
"Sir," Weiss said as she stared at the rods producing the field. "Are these rods being powered by hard light dust?"
The elderly teacher only nodded his head again. "Yes, Miss. Schnee, these lovely machines were given to us by Atlas Academy who uses this type of technology for their studies quit often. I must say it helps cut down on setting up a temporary arena and give the students room to work with then inside my class!"
"Though are you sure it's safe?" Blake muttered as she gave a worried glance towards her leader. Not only was she using a weapon she barely used, but now she wouldn't be able to leave the arena quickly if things went south.
"No need to worry for Miss Rose," Port said while pointing his remote towards the arena. "You should all give her your support and believe in her."
"Now Miss. Rose!" Port yelled towards the young girl, causing her to look towards him. "I'm about to set the beast loose, make sure you are ready and if things do get too dangerous give me a shout and I will lower the shield just enough for you to get through."
Nodding towards her teacher the young huntress in training held her sword in front of her as she glared at the metal container holding her opponent.
And as if sensing the hostility being directed towards it, the Grimm inside its prison started to thrash inside the metal box as it let loose a roar, letting every student know whatever was in there was BIG.
"Heh," Cardin let out a laugh as he looked towards his teammates. "Time to see a pipsqueak get crushed."
"Shut it," Growled Yang as she kept her attention towards her sister. Hoping whatever their drunk uncle taught her in swordplay will be enough. The rest of the group gave Ruby worried glances as said girl tightened her hold on her sword.
"Ready," Port said as he readied his remote, waited a few seconds for dramatic effect before pressing down on a button. "GO!"
As soon as the teacher shouted the go-ahead the front of the iron box blew open as its prisoner flew out of it and landed in front of its target.
With a loud thud, a monstrously huge bitch black bear adorned in bone-like armor, with long bone spikes jutting from it's back, and black smoke coming off it, it's crimson eyes shining through its skull-like mask burned with pure hatred as it glared down at its prey. Letting loose a roar from its foaming mouth.
The message was clear. It wanted BLOOD.
"Holy crap!" Nora cried out.
"An Ursa Major!" Blake nearly cried out. Those were the toughest variations of their kind!
"Sir," Weiss said again with a bit of strain in her voice. "Don't you think that might be a little much for her with the restrictions?"
"Nonsense!" the teacher said with a smile. "How else with this be a challenge if she fights an easy opponent?"
"But still!" the heiress tried to argue but a hand landed on her shoulder to silence her. Turning towards the person who grabbed her she saw it was Yang who still had her eyes on her sister.
"Don't worry Weiss," Yang said in a soft tone before a smile grew on her face. "She's got this."
Weiss along with everyone else gave the blond boxer a concerned look before turning their attention back to the arena. Deciding to follow her lead and believe in Ruby.
Back in the arena, the Ursa stood there trying to measure the threat of its would-be victim, showing that it must be quite old if it's putting thought into its actions like this.
That was good for Ruby who was trying to remember every lesson her uncle taught her.
'Now remember kid, using a sword puts you closer to the Grimm than a scythe,' her uncle's raspy voice echoed in her head as she got ready for her fight as she noticed the Grimm was starting to get impatient.
'So do what you always do in a fight, wait for your chance and get in there when their distracted and land a hit and get out before they can strike back, don't try to lock out muscle something that you KNOW is bigger and stronger with you.'
As she remembered his lesson the Grimm charged at her, tired of waiting and wanted to rip her to shreds. As it got close and started to take a few swings at the red-clad girl, said girl would jump back from each swing with ease as she kept her focus on the monster, trying to find that opening that her uncle talked about.
Though as the Grimm kept missing, it's anger just grew more and more, until it got fed up and lifted both paws into the air, ready to smash the annoying pest under its body weight.
But that wasn't going to happen as Ruby quickly dove to the side with a dodge roll as she bearly avoided getting crushed under the demonic bear's mighty girth.
'There!' the silver-eyed girl thought as she remembered another part of the lesson.
'Also kid, when dealing with big Grimm, always remember their greatest strength is their biggest drawback. Being big just means when you fall, you fall hard. So always attack the limbs first. It will make sure they won't be going anywhere anytime soon,'
Heading his words the young girl bolted towards the beast back legs and rammed her sword into one of its heels. Causing the beast to let out a howl of pain as is tried to get up but with great difficulty with one of its legs out of commission.
Jumping away from the Grimm the young girl had to curse the fact she could only take out only one of its back legs and was hoping to take out the other but sadly it's had was pretty thick even if its legs were unarmored.
Now the Grimm was pissed as it got up and glared bloody murder at the sword-wielding girl. It was so angry it's back's spikes were standing up. And even with a bad leg, the creature charged at its enemy, driven with a sole purpose to kill.
Though as mentioned it had a bad leg, and it was slow, to begin with, and even the rule against semblances Ruby was more than fast to deal with it. Though it's now stopping only a little bit away from her was making the girl raised an eyebrow with its strange behavior.
It was strange. A creature that was so full of rage just stopping in the middle of its charge, though now it was standing up even with its injured leg as it seems to be preparing for something, whatever that something was the red-clad girl didn't know and wasn't going to find out as she rushed towards the beast to finish the fight.
Though someone in the crowd knew what the beast was planning on doing and she nearly had a heart attack as she saw Ruby run right into it.
"No," Weiss said in a hushed voice. As someone who studied for most of her free time, she knew what an Ursa Major was capable of and she knew it was about to do a devastating attack that Ruby was unknowingly running into. "Ruby getaway right now!"
"Huh?" Ruby said. Caught off guard from her teammate's screaming, though it was too late for she was too close and the Ursa Major used her distracted state to launch its attack.
Slamming down with all its might the Grimm caused the earth around it to burst out and earth spikes to shoot towards the young fighter, who could only pry that her Aura would hold out as she braced for impact with the earth spikes.
And they hurt, even with Aura that impact nearly caused the girl to scream out as she was sent flying by the powerful attack. She went flying a few feet away as she landed on the ground like a stone being skipped across water, she kept bouncing off the ground every time she landed until she lost momentum and landed in a heap on the ground.
"RUBY!" Jaune screamed as he reached out to his friend.
"Mr. Port!" Wiess cried out as she gave the teacher a pleading look. "You have to stop this!"
But the teacher said nothing as he looked towards his young student, waiting to see if he truly needed to end the test.
Blake gave a horrified gasp as she saw her team leader take such a hit. Even with Aura that was a powerful attack that would have taken a lot out of her Aura, turning towards her blond teammate she yelled. "Yang! You need to get Port to stop this."
But the boxer of the team simply stared at the arena more specifically at her sister who was getting up while using her sword for support.
'Also don't run dick first into an enemy attack.'
'Now I remember,' Ruby thought with a growl as she stood up as her aura started to numb the pain. 'Well good to see that my Aura didn't run out from that attack.'
'Now what to do with him,' she thought as she glared at the Grimm who was getting ready to charge, it's confidence boosted after landing that attack. 'That's right charge, then I can pay you back.'
As those surprisingly dark thoughts went through her head, she tightens her grip on her sword as she waited for the Grimm to make the first move. As the monster was getting ready to charge at her again, images started to flash in her mind on how she could deal with the threat and her body started to move on its own as she got ready for the Grimm's attack.
"Hmm," Port hummed out as he noticed Ruby getting into a stance that was leaving her wide open for the Grimm's attack. "This is quite strange."
'What is she doing?' Pyrrha thought as she noticed all the openings in Ruby's stance. It was if Ruby was asking the Grimm to attack.
And it did. Letting out a roar the Grimm charged towards the girl with as much speed that it's messed up hind leg would allow. All the while it's hated pry just stood there as if it wasn't a threat.
"Ruby! What are you doing!" Jaune screamed.
As the rest of the group minus Yang, all yelling the same thing the young huntress in training ignored them as she waited for the Ursa Major to get as close as possible.
And as soon as the beast was in range for it to swipe at Ruby, the young silver eyed girl leaped into action. Like a bullet, she twisted and turned, and even spin as she landed blow after blow at the giant beast much to the shock to everyone watching as she tore into the beast. Slashing it's two front paws of the with first two hits and attacking its body with eight more attacks taking its jaw off with the tenth one. The class and teacher stood there stunned as they saw the fast but brutal attacks, and even some students swore that they saw Ruby's sword have a golden glow around it, but mainly shrugged it off as a trick of the sunlight.
As the creature stood there limbless and jawless, it fell to its knees and was about to die slowly, but Ruby wasn't done as she landed three more powerful hits. The first two having her slashing across its chest and leaving an X shaped gash, and the final attack having her do a forward somersaulting slash that resulted in the creature being split in two.
As the two halves started to crumble and turn into even more black smoke as it soon disappeared into nothingness as all Grimm do, Ruby let out a sigh as the exhaustion was catching up to her.
'RUBY!" a couple of voices yelled as she red-clad girl turn towards the shouting to see her team rushing towards her with her sister leading the charge.
"Wait, no!" cried the young leader but it was too late as she was scooped up into her sister's embrace and was reliving the crushing sensation she had earlier, and a small part of her was starting to prefer the ground attack she was hit with from the Grimm.
"Don't scare me like that again!" Yang yelled as she started to shake her sister around. "Do you hear me, young lady!?"
"Yaaang!" Ruby cried as she was being shaken around like a ragdoll by her sister.
"I think she gets it," Blake said with a small smile as she stopped the blond member of her team from shaking their leader, just happy to see Ruby was ok. "You had us worried there Ruby."
"Yes, quite worried indeed," Weiss said with a huff as she fixed Ruby with a glare. "Don't try to pull stunts like that again."
"Heh, sorry," Ruby chuckled out as she gave a weak grin. "Though I think I might need a nap after this…"
"No need to wait for that!" Port said as he walked towards the group. "Like I said this class is all you will be having today, so feel free to rest up, you deserve it after that magnificent show!"
"Yeah Ruby," Yang said in agreement. "Get a little shut-eye, we'll wake you if you needed."
"Oh, that's good, because I think… that… trick I pulled… made me a little tired…" Ruby said as she soon passed out into her sister's arms into dreamland. Letting out a few soft snores as she snuggled into her sister.
Smiling at the cute scene, Yang gently lifted her sister into a bridal carry as she and the rest of the group made their way out of the makeshift arena to let the class carry on as they looked for a place in the courtyard to let her rest.
And as they walked away, the scene soon paned outward towards the sky as the bright sun and clear blue skies to show the temporary piece this world would know as the logo for this world popped up.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~world intro sequence~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A dark border appeared as white rocks rose from the ground, spinning around in a whirlwind of rock and dust. Soon all of it combined, making a white shimmering castle with colors of blue, green, white and orange decorating the windows. With everything in place, the words "Land of Remnant," appeared as a gust of dust blew by.
Enjoy the peace young wielder of light…
For they shall end soon, and you will need to help close the door...
The door… to Kingdom Hearts.
Chapter end.
I decided to not go overboard with physical descriptions like last time, though I'll go back to it if you want.
Also sorry for how I'm not delving too much into the rwby lore so for, I'm writing this chapter on the assumption that you at least know the bare minimum of RWBY and I didn't want to stop every minute to go into deep detail of everything on RWBY.
Also, I hope enjoyed the world intro! Was trying to emulate how KH3 did their world intros.