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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome back to another chapter of Twilight over Remnant.*
*It's been a while, but let's get right into the chapter then shall we.*
*In this chapter we see Penny giving Roxas a quick crash course in the basic of basics in Remnant before meeting Ruby and later in his first teammate. As for her origin for those not in the know, that character does not belong to me.*
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Forging Bonds
"Here we are!" Penny said cheerfully as she and Roxas walked into the amphitheater
To the Nobody it looked like a circular version of the arena in Olympus Coliseum except its architecture matched the rest of Beacon that he had seen, it was a good deal taller, and it could possibly comfortably hold a few hundred more people inside.
The entire way here Roxas had shared his past to Penny.
What a Nobody was and the fact that he wasn't a true human, his time during the Organization, his friends Axel and Xion, the Organization's true purpose, what happened to Xion and how he ended up in this world.
To say all of this surprised the gynoid was an understatement.
Her new friend Roxas wasn't even human,was actually younger then her by about two years, and actually had his friends soul residing in him.
Penny would have found that part hard to believe...if he wasn't telling the complete and honest truth to her. Even without her sensors to detect if someone was lying or not, she could tell that he was telling the truth through the sincerity or not.
That and Roxas what he understood of Xion being a Replica of himself and to merge into one being it was the most likely conclusion on why she still continued to exist as a separate identity.
It also given her some details that helped her with some questions she had about her uncle for awhile, ones she looked forward to ask when she could talk to him next.
But most importantly she felt touched that Roxas could trust here with all of this. Penny was sure that everything that happened their would have been a dramatic increase in probability of his inability to trust anyone ever again. Yet for him to be able express all of this to her and trust she would know do the right thing with it...this truly showed how much he valued her as a friend.
Something she couldn't be happier to have with such a good friend like Roxas around.
"Penny are you alright?" Roxas asked, snapping Penny from her thoughts.
"I'm fine, just still processing what you told me Roxas. It certainly was a lot to take in." Penny said, getting the Nobody to nod in understanding. "Anyway Professor Ozpin asked me to give you a crash course here, so are you ready Roxas?"
"Ready as I'll ever be, though does it have to do with anything Ozpin mentioned?." Roxas asked, getting Penny to nod her head excitedly.
"Precisely! If you are going to be on Remnant it would be fundamental to learn at least the very basic of Aura and Dust before the test begins. Furthermore we are here to also gauge your combat ability." Penny said with a smile and getting the Nobody to nod.
He could do that, and honest he was especially curious about what this Dust does. If it could defeat the Heartless and make sure they stay dead like the Keyblade, then there must be something special to it and he was curious on what it could do?
Before he could inquire on any more on what Dust or Aura was, Penny got really close to him.
Too close in fact.
Their foreheads were practically touching together and their eyes not leaving each other.
"Penny what are you doing?" Roxas asked, trying to take a step back as Penny was too close for his liking. The gynoid however just smiled and grasped his cheeks.
"For it is in passing that we reach immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." Penny recited, touching her forehead with his. From that point single point, he felt a warmth spreading through out his entire body and continue to spread further out with each word.
No, it was much more then that...
The same warmth was resonating with his very being of a Nobody.
It felt like it was setting his very soul was being lit a flame.
Roxas felt this flame grow from his very core and travel through his very being and seeping through his very flesh. Penny took a few steps back as he felt it about to burst.
A glistening light formed off of him before Roxas watched in amazement as he was covered in a grayish-silver light before it dissipated after a few seconds.
"What was that?" Roxas asked as he examined himself.
Although the light was gone, he could still feel it surrounding him.
"That was your Aura Roxas, the very manifestation and extension of one's soul. Every living thing possess it and all Hunters and Hunters in training possess it. It allows you to heal yourself with it and forms a protective barrier around you. There is a finite quantity to it, so it is advise able try not rely on it too much." Penny said, before her sensors picked up something.
"I won't, if this is like my magic it will take awhile to recharge. Not even sure I have anything to replenish it." Roxas said, examining himself and he could still feel his Aura all over him. "Still what was that about earlier, a way to awaken Aura?"
"Correct, I used my Aura to unlock your own. I recited an ancient oath that according to records have been used as a coming of age ritual. I was expecting at least an 99% of working due to being a human minus your heart and your body is essentially animated by your soul. And it seems that it worked a little too well...unless it worked better then either one of us could have hoped for!" Penny exclaimed, her tone filled with excitement and realization. "Roxas you said that you could sense the heart of others, can you sense what I'm doing right now?!"
"Of course." Roxas said with a nod, focusing his senses on Penny's heart. Only to notice something strange about it.
There was a lose sort of presence around her, the feeling getting stronger almost pulsing. Focusing on that feeling, but he presence cleared up to reveal an outline around Penny giving the same feeling as her heart. The only difference was that the presence seemed to flare up with each pulse.
It must have been her Aura judging by he could feel a similar outline around himself, much calmer and lacking any sort of feeling to it.
He shouldn't have expected any better from someone without a heart.
What he wasn't expecting was for him to sense another outline giving off the exact same feeling of that his Aura was giving off. Interconnected, yet separate.
There was one thing that he knew was the cause of this.
"It's Xion, when you unlocked my Aura you also unlocked her's." Roxas said, getting Penny to nod e excitedly as her Aura started to subside.
"Exactly, the exact reasons are unknown. But I hypothesis that due to her soul residing in your body and the connection you two have must have awakened her Aura as well. It is separate from yours, which is probably for the best given this is literally the first record of the phenomenon." Penny said, getting Roxas to nod at that.
Given that there was a supposed finite amount of Aura and Xion was just a soul inside of him, there was no telling what would happen if she were to run out of it.
It was probably for the best converse with Xion about this once she woke up.
"Now that your Aura has been unlocked, there is one more thing to go over. Can you please hold your hand out?" Penny asked as she walked over to Roxas, getting the Nobody to nod as he complied to her request. She held out a hand and gently deposited three small crystals into his hand. "Now be careful not to drop them, Dust can be volatile with the right kind of stimuli."
"Noted." Roxas said as he inspected the three perfectly cut crystals in his hands. One light yellow and two light blue. "So this is Dust, to be honest I was expecting something more from something that could destroy the Heartless just like the Keyblade?"
"I could see why, but Dust is central to the world of Remnant. It is used for just about every known utilitarian purpose to being used as a weapon in it's rawest form to everything in between. Without Dust it is speculated that Remnant would have fallen to the Grimm, and to the Heartless too it seems." Penny said, getting Roxas to nod and to stare at the crystals in awe.
Dust was much more potent then he had ever expected. For an entire world's society using it as their cornerstone for everything just spoke of the power behind this substance. Though he had yet to see if it could truly affect the Heartless at all, but if this was true then he was sure that any world had enough of this Dust then the Heartless would be nothing more than a major annoyance until the supplies ran out..
If so then why didn't any other worlds have any Dust on them? If a Keyblade wielder did come here in the past, they possibly would have gotten as much of it as they could in order to curb the rapid growth of Heartless across the worlds...unless.
"Penny do you know if Dust works off of this world, like at a certain point?" Roxas asked, figuring that Dust might have been like the effects of one's size at Wonderland. Something unique only to that one world in particular and disappeared upon leaving it.
Penny's wide smile and nodding only confirmed his thoughts.
"For reasons unknown Dust stops functioning once it leaves the atmosphere of Remnant's atmosphere. So the same principal would also seem to apply to any other method to take it off world." Penny said, getting Roxas to nod at that. "Though that does raise a question of my own. If a Keyblade wielder was here on Remnant and Dust is used often used to enhance the functionality of weapons, do you think they could work for Keyblades as well?"
The Nobody blinked at that, having not thought about it at all.
Then again it could work as there were items that enhanced a Keyblade or being enhanced through being synthesized by a Moogle.
So it was plausible.
"Only one way to find out." Roxas said as he summoned Oathkeeper to his free hand.
With the other he held on of the two light blue crystals between two of his fingers and moved it alongside the entire length of the Keyblade before it seemed to twitch a little in his fingers once it was over the handle. Roxas let it go and the Dust crystal landed on the handle, disappearing in a flash of light
The next thing the both of them knew was that Oathkeeper began to glow a light blue and emit a sort of shimmering sound. Taking a few practice swings Roxas noticed a few trails of mist emerging from his Keyblade, similar to Blizzard.
"So looks like it Dust gives Keyblades their elemental properties." Roxas said in amazement as he did a few more swings of his before touching the tip to the floor, covering part of it in a thin sheen of ice before the glow dispelled. "Well at least temporarily. Good for a surprise attack, but not for multiple usage if I have to place Dust directly onto my Keyblades."
"I agree, there are other weapons with a similar functions. Still there is a method to bypass such a limitation, but that could wait for later." Penny said as she made a mental note of possible methods of Dust distribution for Roxas.
She was curious to see what other effects Dust could have on a Keyblade, but there was always time for that later.
But now she believed that Roxas was now truly ready to gauge his fighting capabilities.
"Now I believe is the time to gauge your skills in combat Roxas." Penny said, getting Roxas to nod as he put he Dust into his bag and summoned Oblivion in his other hand.
"I see then, any conditions for this spar Penny." Roxas said, bracing himself for combat.
The Nobody might not be all that ready to fight at his full strength due to the crash landing in Vale, but he has recovered quite a bit of it already.
"None except that I will call it off when I have gathered enough combat data from you." Penny said, her face turning serious. Her heart pulsed and he could hear the sound of creaking metal once again. "Just so you know Roxas I will be coming at you seriously. Are you ready?"
"Ready as I will ever be and I wouldn't expect anything less from you Penny." Roxas said while slipping into his stance, getting Penny to smile a little bit at her new friend before turning serious once again.
From her back a metallic backpack lid open to deploy a large floating blade that quickly unfolded and split into 12 blades much to the Nobody's surprise. While Roxas did wonder what Penny's weapon could possibly be, this was not at all was he expecting.
A floating array of blades, seemingly guided by her.
"That is good to hear Roxas, because now I'm combat ready!" Penny declared as Floating Array settled behind her and the gynoid went on the attack.
Penny rushed forward, sending several of her blades flying towards him. Roxas barely had anytime to dodge and weave through the flying blades before he got close to Penny. The Nobody nearly landed a hit on her before his Keyblade was blocked by several of her blades.
For several seconds there was a great clash of blades between Penny and Roxas. With the both of them blocking or parrying the other with Floating Array or Oathkeeper and Oblivion. Neither gaining any ground managing to hit the other before the two of them pulled back. Penny once again pushed forward and began to slash at him from multiple angles with Floating Array. The Nobody could barely keep up with Penny's assault and was quickly starting to lose ground as he couldn't find any openings in Penny's style until he decided to pull back once again.
She came after him once again, pulling her blades back once again to launch an attack. But it also gave Roxas the opening he needed.
"Fira!" He casted, launching a large fireball at Penny.
She tried to shield herself with Floating Array, but to her surprise she had miscalculated the power of his spell and blew her blades apart. Roxas took advantage of this opening to took a few swings at her with his Keyblades, managing to land several hits on her but to is surprise she barely reacted to them before she slammed several of her blades into his side.
He could actually feel his newfound Aura taking most of the blow, but he could still feel some some pain flare up from his side as he flew about a quarter of the way down the amplatheater.
"You okay Roxas?" Penny asked, worried she might have put too much force into her attack. Despite telling Roxas she was going to come at him seriously, she had lowered her combat parameters to 90% in order to properly gauge him as he was still not fully recovered.
"I'm fine, my Aura took most of the pain away." Roxas groaned out as he picked himself back up and held his side.
Still even without the aura, the strength behind the attack packed quite a bit of strength into it. Almost just as much as Lexaeus could do with his fists alone. Add in she barely looked battered from the few hits he had managed to land on Penny. This was going to be much tougher then he thought.
"Roxas if you are still injured you should focus on replenishing your Aura. It will help speed up the recovery process." Penny advised, getting the Nobody to nod as he did what she said and focused on his Aura.
Immediately he could feel the pain start to disappear and soon it was gone, but it took quite a bit out of him.
"I can tell that you just exhausted yourself quite a bit and it is natural Roxas. You have only just unlocked your Aura after all, so replenishing it will be quite draining for now. We could take a break right now if you wish to do so?" Penny asked, getting Roxas to shake his head.
"I'm good, but thanks for the offer." Roxas said as he got ready once again
Penny just nodded at that and sent several of her flying towards him, forcing Roxas to roll away from them. He got back up and barely dodged a blade that would have clipped his shoulder before he saw an opening.
"Aero!" Roxas casted, releasing two bursts of air from his Keyblades. Penny pulled back her blades and rotated them inorder to dissipate the projectiles.
Roxas took advantage of this distraction and rushed to attack her from the sides, only to be surprised when Penny gathered several of her blades and they folded into a rifle like shape. She began to fire several of these lasers and forcing him back once again. Penny continued this barrage for several more seconds and forcing the Nobody back or to block the lasers with his Keyblades before she cut them of and started to advance towards him. Launching and pulling back Floating Array's blades at Roxas with each step she was taking.
The Nobody was forced to dodge out of the way at every single attack. It seemed that at long range Penny held an nearly overwhelming advantage. In order to land a hit on her he either needed to get in close or blow past her defense's.
Which was easier said then done as each attack kept getting closer and to hitting him.
Until he barely dodged under one of her blades and saw it was being pulled along by a metallic cable.
Finding a possible solution Roxas dodged a few more of her blades until he caught two of them into the teeth of Oathkeeper and Oblivion.
"Sorry about this Penny, Thundra!" Roxas casted, launching multiple bolts of lightning from his Keyblades.
Penny quickly pulled all of Floating Array's blades back and untangled the cables out of Roxas's Keyblades, but it was too late as multiple bolts had struck the cables and sent the electricity back at her.
She didn't really worry that much as her father and uncle had made sure that it was highly improbable for her systems to be shorted out from the electrical output that Roxas was generated. It certainly gave a her a good jolt to her system.
While she was disoriented, Roxas rushed towards her and landed quite a few good hits in before Penny recovered and shifted several of her blades into their gun form and sent a few lasers to blast him. He jumped back to dodge them before grunting as one or two of them managed to hit him and took quite a blow to his Aura.
"Apology accepted Roxas." Penny said as she used her blades to pull herself close to Roxas and landed a hit on him with them before Roxas blocked them with Oathkeeper and Oblivion and the two of them quickly began another clash of blades.
However Roxas noticed that he was quickly losing steam as it became harder and harder then maintain their current deadlock.
It was only a matter of time until Penny overpowered him or found an opening that she could exploit.
Not even a moment later Penny pulled back three of Floating Array's blades and shifted them into their gun forms before rotating them together.
The Nobody could tell what was coming and pulled back just as Penny released a large laser before releasing a few more bursts of it. Forcing Roxas back until he was towards the other end of the arena before launching another string of blades at him while quickly closing the distance.
Roxas barely dodged all of the blades before getting an idea to get past her defenses.
He just needed to create a distraction.
As Penny pulled back her blades to launch them at him, Roxas trained both Oathkeeper and Oblivion at her. Their tips aflame.
"Fire!" Roxas casted, launching two fireballs at her before gathering some more magic and creating two more.
Penny quickly cut through fireballs before pulling Floating Array back and rotating the blades to block Oathkeeper which Roxas had thrown.
She quickly batted it aside before noticing Roxas rushing towards her, pressing the Lightning Dust crystal she had given him into Oblivion's handle.
It glowed yellow and sparks of electricity danced around the Keyblade as Roxas caught Oathkeeper and immediately went on the offensive.
As Roxas closed the distance and engaged in another clash of blades with Penny quickly going on the defense. She quickly was finding Roxas was having an easier time battling away her blades with the Dust charged Keyblade, occasional firing a weak fireball from Oathkeeper and force Penny to block it with her blades and leaving her open to attacks from Oblivion.
The charge from the Keyblade did nothing to her systems, but it seemed like the Lightning Dust had made it much easier to cut through her Aura then Oathkeeper was.
She needed to push him back and already calculated the best method in doing so.
She took a quick step back and shifted all of her blades to their gun form, firing a barrage of lasers that forced the Nobody back.
He tried to dodge them, but a few of the laser managed to clip him. Getting Roxas to grunt in pain as hell them batter at his Aura quicker then he could replenish it.
As the Dust in Oblivion began to fade, Penny rushed over and shifted her weapons back to their blade form. She launched her blades at him, but Roxas trained both Oathkeeper and Oblivion at her once again.
"Blizzra! Thunder!" Roxas casted, creating a large ice crystal in the blade's path and used the last of the Dust to launch a large bolt of lightning at Penny.
Several of the blades made contact with the crystal and were frozen together immediately. Factor in the large lightning bolt heading towards her, Penny calculated that she was going to soon experience another great jolt to her systems along with leaving herself open to Roxas once again.
Until she calculated the best probability to turn this situation around. It was a highly improbable one, but it would do!
Penny shifted some of her unfrozen blades into their gun form and gathered them together. Using their combined fire to create a mini thruster that briefly propelled herself into the air and out of the way of the lightning bolt. While also giving the perfect hight to use to momentum of the frozen blades to the fullest potential.
Turning them into a makeshift wrecking ball that she swung at Roxas. He barely had anytime to raise his Keyblades to block it, but it was too late.
The frozen blades slammed into Roxas, shattering the ice and blowing past his defenses. Sending Roxas flying off to the other side of the arena and sprawled onto the ground.
"Roxas I think now would be a good idea to end the spar." Penny called out as she powered down Floating Array, his Aura readings turning critical after that last hit.
Maybe she had put a little too much force in her swing.
"Probably for the best." Roxas groaned out as he tried to pick himself up only to fall back down. Before Penny went over and helped him back up. "Thanks Penny."
"No problem Roxas." Penny said happily as she folded up Floating Array and placed it back into her backpack. "Do you wish to hear the results first or rest a bit first?"
"Go ahead, I can do both." Roxas said, pulling out what Penny believed that he described as an ether and taking a few sips of it.
"In all honesty Roxas, you are more then ready for whatever the test maybe. Once you are well rested of course. I have no accurate calculations on what your top performance maybe, but it is anything like our spare you are more then ready with your tatics and magic. Though will need some improvements with the usage of your Aura and Dust, but given you had only just unlocked it is to be expected. Though I had no idea that Dust could improve a certain quality of the Keyblades like that." Penny explained, getting Roxas to nod as he finished the ether.
"Something which I might have to experiment with later." Roxas said as he put the bottle back in his bag before smiling."Though I have to admit Penny, you are one of the strongest people I have ever met. Even if I had been at full strength I would find myself hard pressed to beat you."
"You really mean it Roxas?" Penny asked, getting Roxas to nod.
"Of course. You were in control for almost the entire spar and when I managed to turn it around you immediately counter it. Plus you are barely winded too compared to me. Don't know what the future holds, but I do know that I can always count on you to have my back Penny. and you can count on me to have your back as well." Roxas said honestly, getting Penny to smile happily. With her face lightly a flush.
She had never had someone compliment her like that. To actually say that they always knew that they could count on her like that and would do the same to her. It felt nice. Factor in how he trusted her and it was something she had never experienced before except for when Ruby accepted being her friend.
It felt nice.
"Thank you Roxas, no one has ever said that to me before. But even without that you can always count on me Roxas, that's what friends are for after all." Penny said happily.
"You got that right." Roxas said with a smile before turning into a questioning look. "So now what?"
Penny thought about it for a moment before shrugging.
"I have no idea, it will possibly take sometime to get our room ready. So until then how about we continue to spar?" Penny suggested.
"Are you sure?" Roxas asked, getting Penny to nod eagerly.
"Of course we could spend some more time learning from each other and we could experiment a bit more with the effects the Dust has on your Keyblades. At least for a while." Penny said happily.
"You really want to continue to spar?" The Nobody asked a little increadiously, getting Penny to nod.
"I really do." Penny said excitedly, getting Roxas to sigh out before smiling.
He supposed he had nothing better to do, and Penny looked quite happy at the prospect of sparring.
"Alright, I suppose I could go for a bit more sparring." Roxas said, summoning his Keyblades into his hands and getting Penny's smile to widen.
"Thank you Roxas, now I suggest that you prepare yourself." Penny said, preparing to deploy Floating Array once gain.
"I will." Roxas said, hoping that he would not regret this.
An hour later, Roxas regretted his decision somewhat.
For an entire hour he has been sparring off and on with Penny, stopping every now and then to take a break whenever his Aura ran out. Each time seeming to reaching just a little past his limit, but before he could activate his Limit Break Penny called the spar to take a break. Which silent he was thankful for each and every time. It was hard enough to keep up with Penny in his current condition, especially when she seem eager to test herself whenever he used a Dust crystal for one of his Keyblades.
After the first spar she gave him another Lightning and a Fire Dust crystal in order to test the effects they had on his Keyblades, and they where all interesting to say the least. Besides each crystal increase to power of a spell unleashed with a similar element, it seemed Dust affects the Keyblades differently. Lightning seems to have an easier time cutting through Aura, Ice boosted the blocking power of them, and Fire seemed to increase the overall power of all magic to a certain degree besides Fire. All in all something both he and Penny were curious about. The later especially curious to see more possibilities of what they could do.
With all of that, the constant sparring, and crashing into Vale earlier Roxas was exhausted. So much so that the last time he had been this exhausted was his fight with Xion a day ago.
"I believe that we have gather enough information for now and check up on the room Headmaster Ozpin would have prepared for us." Penny said, putting away Floating Array for good.
At that Roxas let out a sigh of relief as he could already feel the Aura began to heal up the scrapes and bruises from his latest round of sparring with Penny.
"Thank Kingdom Hearts." Roxas said before smiling at Penny. "Then let's go then, I am curious on how this room would look like."
"Same here, never had much to my own room." Penny said honestly, getting Roxas to nod.
"I know that feeling as well, though this will be a first for me. I have never shared a room with anyone else before." Roxas said, getting Penny to shake her head excitedly.
"Same here, I know this is going to be exciting. Though I wonder about what our prospective teammates will be like." Penny said, getting the Nobody to blink in confusion.
"This is the first time I am hearing about teammates." Roxas said, getting Penny's face to flush and her to chuckle embarrassedly.
"I got carried away. The Headmaster probably would have explained if we had stayed there for any more inquiries about being a Hunter." Penny admitted.
"It's alright Penny. So from the sounds of it, being on a team is pretty important to becoming a Hunter?" Roxas asked.
"Affirmative. After initiation all hunters in training are grouped into a team of four. With each team divided into a set of partners that are determined by the academies of choice initiation exam where they will all live and learn together during their time their. So even if we do not become partners we will still be on the same team." Penny said happily before she adopted a thoughtful expression. "Though there isn't hardly a record of a team being formed this late into a academy's term exactly rare but also uncommon as it usually takes time for the necessary preparations. So that means the Headmaster must've at least one of our future teammates on campus and another one picked out already. I wonder if we could see our future teammate in our new room?" She said, her tone once again turning excited at the prospect at meeting their teammate and a potential new friend.
"Only one way to find then, let's go see if our room is done." Roxas said, chuckling at Penny's enthusiasm.
"Then let's go." Penny said with a smile as she began to walk out of the amphitheater.
The Nobody returned her smile and followed her out of the arena. Making sure that she did not try to drag him off again.
A while later the two of them wondering through the halls of Beacon.
Roxas had to admit the architecture of Beacon, portraying a sort of majestic setting reminded him of Beast's Castle. Without all of the dreariness in the air, hadn't fallen to disrepair over the years, and had had a mix of the style in buildings he had become accustomed too in Twilight Town. All in all it was a much better place to start of in then what he had thought.
Given that Roxas had absolutely no idea what he would have done if he had actually survived unleashing the artificial Kingdom Hearts over The World That Never Was, anything was an improvement.
But for now Roxas had began to believe they were lost in the vast hallways of Beacon. Despite Penny insisting otherwise.
Given that possibly the best option that he knew of to finding out the condition of their new room was to inquire about it to Ozpin. Given all of the times that he had seen a clear path to his tower it should have been simple walk over there.
Yet every chance there was Penny just lead Roxas down another hallway, as if to look for something. After this happening a few more times, it finally came to him what Penny was looking for.
"Your looking for your friend here, aren't you?" Roxas asked, getting Penny to nod.
"That is correct, I know that she should be on campus as I had recently encountered her in Vale not that long ago." Penny said while turning to face Roxas.
"If that is the case then how about we just look for her right now if you really wish to see her." Roxas said, getting Penny to nod excitedly. "Now then, this friend of yours. You said her name was Ruby, then how about you describe her to me. It would give us a better chance at finding her."
"Very well then. Though to be honest it would be difficult not to identify her given her appearance. She is shorter than the both of us with silver eyes and dark hair with red highlights." Penny explained.
"Doesn't sound like she should be too hard to spot. Though is there anything else to help find her." Roxas said, before he felt a rather strong heart start to approach them later from behind Penny.
One that was had a slight imbalance towards light, which wasn't all that rare but it seemed especially bright.
A moment later he saw who that heart belonged too.
A short, pale skinned girl around his physical age wearing black clothing with red lining several places, along with a silver rose emblem on a belt slung around her hips, and toped off with a red hooded cloak fastened to her outfit by two cross shaped pins.
With her facial features matching that of which Penny had described.
So this must be Ruby. Though he supposed that he could hear a bit more from Penny before coming to any conclusions.
"Does she have a red hooded cloak and white skin?" Roxas asked.
"Affirmative, how did you know?" Penny said in surprise, confirming his suspicions before shaking her head. "Though the white skin is an apt description, it is not really that pale. To tell the truth I had first thought of the same thing when I first met her. I thought that she had some kind of skin condition, but it was just her natural pigmentation and some weird lighting."
Ruby stopped approaching as her expression turned to surprise and then a little hurt by Penny's words.
Well... this was a little awkward for the Nobody.
He didn't know what to do in this kind of situation, but figured that he should at least ease things before Penny figured Ruby was right behind her.
Knowing at least first hand how bad blood between friends could have.
Though hopefully not to the extent between him and Axel before leaving the Organization.
"Are you sure that isn't a bit much. You did say she wasn't really that pale." Roxas said, hoping that this would diffuse any potential situation.
"I did. Still her choice of clothing has colouring that make her white tone much more accentuated. Black and red mostly." Penny said, unaware that Ruby was now right behind her.
Her expression turning from a little hurt to annoyed right now.
Roxas couldn't tell if Penny just made thing worst or better. So he decided to do something Axel had once told him incase he ever angered Xion.
If you ever manage to anger her Roxas, just give her an honest compliment or something sweet. It usually works, unless she hates your guts or they feel justified in their anger.
He didn't have anything sweet on him, so he hoped that this worked.
"I'm sure she looks just fine. With the clothes making her look radiant even." Roxas said honestly.
Penny was right, her clothing and the lightning from a nearby window made her skin look white with a certain sheen to it.
Hearing that Ruby smiled at the Nobody and her annoyance melted away.
Possible crisis averted.
"True, but I think she could benefit from a more variegated outfit." Penny said.
Or not as Ruby once again turned annoyed.
"One of her teammates has a great fashion sense. I think that she could potentially benefit from taking some suggestions about-" Penny was saying, but was cut off as Ruby finally made herself known.
"No! No! No! No! I do not need fashion advice from Weiss! And my combat skirt is awesome!" Ruby shouted, surprising Penny and finally getting her attention.
Roxas braced himself for this to go either way.
But his worries melted away when Penny smiled and her expression turned to one of happiness.
"Ruby!" Penny exclaimed as she launched herself at Ruby and brought her into a hug, sending the both of them onto the ground.
Roxas could only smile at the scene as he knew all too well at what Ruby was feeling as she struggled in her friend's grasp.
"Ruby I'm so happy to see you again!" Penny declared excitedly as she continued to hug her friend. Her grip tightening and Ruby finding it hard to breathe with each passing second.
"Happy too... but... need air!" She gasped out.
Penny continued the hug for a few more seconds before releasing her as the younger girl quickly began to refill her lungs with air.
"Ruby, I'm so happy to see you!" Penny said happily, getting Ruby to smile.
"Same, but more importantly I have been looking all over for you! The headmaster told me to bring you to your room and he also told me that you're going to stay at Beacon! That's super duper awesome!" Ruby said, sounding just as excited as Penny was.
"I know, provided that the we can pass the exam of course." Penny said with a smile.
"We?" Ruby asked, looking behind Penny to see Roxas before realization dawned on her. "Right, the headmaster did say to bring both you and Roxas was it?"
"That's right. And you are Ruby, I have heard a bit about you from Penny." Roxas said, hoping that he was doing so correctly.
Ruby gained an inquisitive look and started go 'hmm' as she started to look Roxas over and began approaching him, much to his and Penny's surprise.
This was something neither one of them expected.
She kept on going 'hmm' as she inspected every single last detail of him even going so far as to get close to his face, before nodding and backing away from him. Still keeping the same look on her face.
Before Roxas could even ask what she was doing, Ruby extended right arm towards him. Pointing at him with her index finger.
"As Penny's first friend and leader of Team RWBY, the coolest amalgam of Huntresses currently in Beacon, I have to inform you that I find you lacking as her future teammate mister!" Ruby shouted out to the surprise of Penny and Roxas.
"Lacking?" Roxas asked, confused by what she meant.
" Because you lack something that I need to see in order to fully evaluate you!" Ruby said before dropping her inquisitive look. "Also I may be a bit curious."
"And that would be?" The Nobody asked, trying to figure out what the silver eyed girl wanted.
"Your weapon, like my own!" Ruby said, pulling out what looked like a black and red machine from underneath her cloak and unfolded it into a massive scythe!
Roxas stared at it in shock, sure he had seen something similar to Penny's Floating Array but it had split apart. Not turn into a scythe that looked too big and heavy for someone Ruby's size should not be able to carry around lightly.
and with the way she was grinning, the Nobody was willing to believe that Ruby might have set this all up just to reveal here weapon.
"Her name is Crescent Rose, isn't she the most beautiful thing in the world? She's a scythe - high power sniper rifle with extra mid range rifle mode!" Ruby said happily as she twirled it around with a grace that scarily remind Roxas of Marluxia before planting the top part into the ground and leaning against it.
"And where did you get a weapon like that? Unless of course you made it?" Roxas asked, honestly curious.
Only getting Ruby's grin to turn even wider and Penny to look amused at the scene in front of her.
"That's right! And just like me she is awesome and does not need fashion advice!" Ruby said, emphasising the not. "So since I showed you my weapon, now it is your turn to show me yours."
Upon hearing that Roxas just shrugged as he summoned his both of his Keyblades to his hands.
"These are Oathkeeper and Oblivion." Roxas said, showing her.
Ruby gladly looked over them, admiring the craftsmanship of the blades.
"So a pair of swords, so what do they do?" Ruby asked, getting Roxas to pause.
Figuring on what he should tell her, given that she was Penny's friend after all. Should he tell her just a bit about it, or what he knows about Remnant to blend in.
Looking over at Penny she smiled and nodded a little.
He supposed that he could tell her about at least a few things, nothing really stopping him except for the worlds being apart.
"Well you see, they are not exactly swords. They are actually called Keyblades." Roxas began, ready for whatever questions or reactions she might have
Okay maybe not all of them.
"Can you please stop poking me." Roxas said with his Keyblades put away, Ruby poking at his chest.
"Wow... you really do not have a heart. How are you even still alive?" Ruby asked, pulling her hand back.
"The most probable solution would be that Roxas's soul animates his body it also keeps his blood flowing. Otherwise his body could potentially and continuously be suffering from constant cardiac arrest that would have been fatal long ago. Minus Roxas having a heart of course." Penny said, getting Ruby to pale and Roxas to wince.
"I did not need to know that Penny." Ruby said.
"Me neither." Roxas said, wishing to have never heard that before and for once glad to not have a heart.
It had been a couple of minutes and Roxas and Penny informed Ruby on a few things.
Many involving the Keyblades, then it kept growing and growing from there to include other worlds, those like him, and him being a Nobody.
She kept growing more and more excited about what it was like with other worlds and everything, though her mood quickly turned a little grim once she heard about the Heartless.
They were essentially what the Grimm could be if humanity didn't have Dust, only like a hundred times worst.
Ar least from sounds of it things were covered out there.
Roxas and Penny never did clarify about a few things like Xion or the Organization.
For the former...there was no easy way to explain the true nature of their connection between them besides being friends, something Penny seemed keen on.
The latter, Roxas was just tired of having to explain about them and figured he would tell her another day.
Though he did hope that he would never have to or deal with them again, some that was possibly too much to hope for.
"I will take it into consideration next time then." Penny said. "Truthfully all things considered, you are taking this better then even I could predict Ruby."
"It is all very interesting, and kind of spooky with how similar the Heartless are to Grimm. But so are the best stories. I mean you are like a Hunter, in space!" Ruby said happily, getting Roxas to shrug.
"I suppose I am when you put it like that." Roxas said not really caring.
"Though it is kind of weird that you're less then a year old and you already look about as old as me." Ruby said.
"Believe me, I have seen and heard of weirder things. Besides I am a week a away from turning a year old." Roxas said.
"Still pretty weird. Though I am especially interested in your Keyblades! They work as both a sword, a wand, and a key! Do you think that if you can use it to unlock someone's death?" Ruby asked curiously.
"I don't know and I have no intention of finding out." Roxas said, the fight and near death of Xion still fresh on his mind.
"Fair enough. Though I am quite interested in what Dust does to them like you have described. So many possibilities." Ruby said excitedly.
"True, though there has to be a more effective way then placing a Dust crystal against the handle." Roxas suggested, getting Ruby to nod in agreement.
Penny eyes to widen as an idea came to mind.
"Maybe you can build a Dust distribution system for Roxas then Ruby?" Penny suggested, getting the both of them to look at her in confusion.
"Huh?" Ruby asked, believing that she didn't hear Penny correctly.
"You said that you were able to Crimson Rose on your own, a rather complex and functional high caliber sniper scythe. Isn't that correct?" Penny asked.
"That's right, but what does my Sweetheart have to do with building a Dust distribution system for Roxas?" Ruby asked.
"Did you just call your weapon Sweetheart?" Roxas asked.
"You heard right, you got a problem with it!" Ruby demanded.
"Not at all, I was just curious." Roxas said with a shrug.
Penny let out a brief giggle at her friends actions, getting their attention.
"My apologies. Still on the matter of the Dust distribution system, I am 100% certain that you will be able to make will be more technology efficent, advanced, and awe inspiring than anything commercially available for us to make." Penny said before her face flushed a little. "Or anything I could possibly make."
Technology she could handle, but she was still patching through the issue of breaking any delicate machinery with her strength.
At hearing that, Ruby's face flushed at Penny's praise and let out a nervous laugh.
"I suppose I can't deny that, no." Ruby said happily.
"So what about I supply you with all the necessary materials and you build it? And you can add any features that you deem necessary to it." Penny said.
At those words Ruby's silver eyes seemed to gleam and she gained a megawatt smile.
"It's going to be the most awesome weapon Dust distribution system Remnant has ever seen!" Ruby declared before turning to Roxas. "Also I call naming it."
"I see no problem with it, after all you are going to build it after all." Roxas said smiling a little as well.
He was curious at how this was going to turn out, after all he only has used Keyblades and magic before. He didn't even use more then one Keyblades not even a day ago and yet it feels like he has used them for years. So this, Dust, and Aura were opening up more possibilities that he was curious on trying out.
"Great! We need it by the end of the week, then! Thanks Ruby you're awesome!" Penny said happily.
"By the end of the week it shall-" Ruby was saying excitedly before the realization hit her. "Wait a minute that's in three days!"
"I will get you the materials tomorrow morning!" Penny said happily
Ruby just let out a deep sigh at that.
"I don't like working on a deadline..." She said before her features hardened and turned to face Roxas. "You are going to help and repay me mister. Three all nights are worth a lot of cookies!"
"Alright, fair enough." Roxas said, seeing no problem with it. Though he was a little surprised with the request about cookies, he changed his thoughts on that as that was probably to her favorite sweet as sea salt ice cream was too him.
But he would have to find either a way to get the local currency or someway to exchange it for munny.
"Now given the way you handle your Keyblades and once wore armor, at least I know that it would require gautlets. Is there anything else you need?" Ruby asked.
"None at all, as I said I would leave it all to you..." Roxas trailed off as he felt his body start collapse.
"You okay there?" Ruby asked as the Nobody started to lose balance.
"Roxas, what's wrong?" Penny said as she approached him.
"I think the exhaustion is starting to settle in..." Roxas groaned out as his head began to fell light.
Honestly he thought that he was past this, but then again it had literally been a long day for him.
From trying to undergo a suicidal crusade against the Organization, to crashing into Vale and sparring with Penny. He was surprised he even managed this long.
Penny gave him a once over before gently grabbing his right arm and supporting himself on her.
"I believe it will be beneficial for you to get some rest." Penny advised.
" You're probably right." Roxas groaned out.
"Well if you do need to lay down, I'd better show both of you to your dorm room already." Ruby said, getting Penny to nod as the silver eyed girl began to lead them to their room.
As she did so, Penny picked up Roxas to Ruby's surprise before carrying him off after her.
"Penny you don't have to do this, I could walk on my own." Roxas said.
"If you are sure, then on a scale of 1 to 100 how would you rate your current discomfort?" Penny asked.
Ruby could only shake her head at their interaction, her mind more focused on at the moment was the Dust distribution system she was going to make and the all the possibly features she was going to cram into it.
Combine that with the Keyblades and she swore to the gods that this will be the best weapon in all of Remnant!
Behind Crescent Rose of course!
A few minutes later Ruby lead them down the halls and up a few floors towards their room.
"Well, here's your new pad!" Ruby said as she unlocked the door and walked through it with them."So how do you like it?"
The room was large and from what they could see was already furnished with several desks, bookshelves, and four beds. From walking into the center of the room they could see several doors leading to a kitchen, a walk in closet, a bathroom, and a balcony on the outside.
All in all it was an improvement from both Roxas's and Penny's previous rooms and there was even two sets of suitcases in the room already.
One set white and metallic looking and the other set a dark pink or more of a fuchsia and made of fabric. They were also covered with many patches of cloth of more often then not colors that burned Roxas's eyes like an acidic green.
Both he and Penny figured that it belonged to one of their future teammates though judging by how Roxas couldn't feel anyone else's hearts in the room they were currently not there.
While Penny knew the other set of suitcases were her's most likely brought up by General Ironwood.
"It really nice Ruby!" Penny said excitedly. "Do all the team rooms in Beacon have a similar layout?"
"Kind of, but every team is allowed a certain level of customization. That and neither my team's or Team JNPR's room don't have a balcony. Also the teams are expected to take care of any unscheduled cleaning, particular in the kitchen." Ruby explained.
"Understood. Come on Roxas, let's get you to bed." Penny said as she carried him to a bed adjacent to the one with her suitcases were on.
"That sounds nice, I think I had enough excitement for one day." Roxas groaned out as Penny set him down on the bed.
"Given all the information that you provided me, I think that you might need a longer than average period of rest." Penny said as she began to walk back to Ruby. " Alright then. Now you stay here and rest up while I get you something to eat, alright?"
"The mess hall should be open by now, but I better accompany you since you aren't a student yet. That and you probably don't know where it is yet?" Ruby said, getting Penny to nod.
"Affirmative and many thanks Ruby. We'll be back soon, okay?" The gynoid asked Roxas, getting him to nod weakly.
"Alright, take as long as you need." Roxas said.
Penny simply nodded as she and Ruby left the room.
Once they left, Roxas let himself fall onto the bed before the exhaustion hit him like a blow from the Leechgrave.
His last thoughts before falling asleep was how more comfortable this bed was compared to his one back at the Organization.
Unaware that the door opened and a pair violet eyes with a double iris peered through the door and seemed to light up once they noticed Roxas.
When Roxas woke up he was expecting to wake up back in the dorm room.
Instead all he woke up to was darkness. An abyss illuminated by the stain glass mosaic that he was standing on. One that depicted an image of himself at the tower of Twilight Town with Axel and Xion.
It was strange. Roxas wasn't sure if he was dreaming or not.
Touching the stain glass it felt real, but somehow the Nobody knew that he was still in the dorm room back at Beacon.
So where was he exactly?
"The Dive to the Heart, at least that is what Naminé called it. Sora has been to such a place once, before his journey could begin." A voice called out from behind him with a yawn.
A voice Roxas knew all too well.
"Xion, it's good to see you again." Roxas said as turned to see her stretch herself out.
"Same here Roxas." Xion said with a smile before it faded with a sigh. "We have quite a bit to talk about though."
"That we do, you said as much." Roxas said with a sigh.
"Right, and I can guess what you want to talk about first." Xion said.
"Where do we go from here?" Roxas asked, surprising Xion.
"I would have figured that you would have asked about Sora, Castle Oblivion, or at least how I am here? If it is the later, then I still have no idea other than the fireball." Xion said with a shrug.
"That's what I have been thinking. And while I still do want to know about Castle Oblivion, I would prefer not to learn about Sora if I could help it. What I learned from Riku is enough to answer why most of the Organization had planned for us. They wanted his power to complete Kingdom Hearts, through any means necessary. I might be his Nobody and you might have been created inorder to make another him, but we are not him. Riku believes in that much and he has much that and from what he says Sora wouldn't have wanted this. I just wish it didn't take for you to have died for that him to realise that." Roxas said a little sadly.
Despite Xion still existing, she was nothing more than a soul inside his body now.
He had killed her and it had cost Xion her body, there was no taking that back.
"I wish the same thing, but I did it to save you and would do so again if I had too. Otherwise I would have killed both you and erased you from existence. I couldn't let that happen" Xion sighed out, trying to comfort him.
"Riku said as much...though if that were to have happened maybe we would have ended up in the same position, only this time I would be the soul." Roxas suggested, getting Xion to laugh a little.
"Maybe you are right, I'd certainly wouldn't forget you if you were a voice in my head." Xion said with a smile. With Roxas soon sprouting one himself.
"Looks like we are taking got it memorized to a whole new meaning." Roxas said.
The both of them were silent for a moment before laughing a little.
Both of them were laughing as they really needed it after everything that happened and they could imagine Axel's reaction.
It would be priceless.
But most importantly, the two of them were just enjoying each other's presence. It had been far too long on the clock tower and given their current situation, it would be impossible to know the next time they could.
After a minute the two of them stopped, though Xion let out a chuckle.
"The next time we see Axel I think we should tell him this, just to see his reaction. That and Naminé as well." Xion said.
"I think so too, but who is Naminé? This is the second time you have mentioned that name, is it someone close to Riku?" Roxas guessed.
Xion nodded at that with a sigh.
"In a way, but she is closer too us then him. Riku should have explained it, but Roxas just like me she is your other half. Except she was created at the same time as you were when Sora was turned into a Heartless. Though she is actually the Nobody of Kairi, a friend of Sora's whose heart was within Sora at the time." She said, shocking Roxas.
There was someone else like them out there, at least they were with Riku. So hopefully she was alright.
"Do you know anything about her?" Roxas asked, getting Xion to nod.
"A bit, though most of what I know about her is that she can manipulate the memories Sora and those close to him, hopefully we can get a chance to see her soon. But given how desperate the Organization must due to your latest actions and I'm not even sure how Riku would react, I guess we will have to lay low for now." She sighed out, with Roxas repeating her actions.
While he might be eager to meet this Naminé, it would be pointless as he didn't know where she was and that the Organization and possibly Riku would be after him.
So it would be best just to remain on Remnant for now.
"Hopefully that would be soon, speaking of which do you think I could introduce you to Penny?" The Nobody asked.
"Maybe, won't know until I tried. And I do wish to meet Penny to thank her for everything that she has done for you." Xion said.
"True, who knows we could find a way to do so. Possibly even find a way to separate us." Roxas suggested.
"What if it's impossible, that if we do succeed it could begin all over again and I could put your existence at risk once again." Xion sighed out, getting Roxas to shake his head.
"If that is a risk, I am willing to take it. You deserve to exist on your own just as much as I do and everything else. So if that includes risking my own existence, just for a chance for you to have your own body once again then I am willing to risk it." Roxas said, meaning every single word he said.
Xion paused as she processed what he said, before letting out a sigh and smiling.
"I really should have taken that into consideration given what you nearly pulled in the World That Never Was. Believe me I would like another body, but I can wait. I'm not going anywhere, so please just take your time for everything. We are free of the Organization and this is a new start for the both of us. They will still be looking for you, so just take your time to get used to this world and begin your new life here." Xion said.
Roxas wanted to speak against it, but sighed once he figured out it would be pointless as he was.
Xion was just as stubborn as he was, and way more selfless then he ever could be. Besides as she said, Xion wasn't going anywhere and Roxas couldn't think of way to give her a body.
The best he could do was to respect her wishes, but as soon as there was a chance to give Xion a new body, he would take it.
"I will, this will be a new start for us. Might not be soon, but one day we will be separate once again. Then we could eat sea salt ice cream together once again." Roxas said with a smile.
"And I will be waiting until that day becomes a reality." Xion said with a smile, before it turned into a sigh as she noticed Roxas started to fade away. "Looks like you are starting to wake up."
"Seems that way, I suppose I won't be able to see you for a while." Roxas said, getting the Replica to shrug her shoulders.
"Perhaps, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to talk to you. We can still talk to each other, though admittedly I'm still working on that." Xion admitted a little sheepishly.
"And I can't wait until that happens." Roxas said as he started to fade a away even faster. "So I will speak to you soon."
"You will definitely be hearing from me soon enough Roxas, until then take care." Xion said with a smile as Roxas faded away and began to wake up.
When Roxas woke up the first thing he noted was that the bed was much more comfortable then his one back at the Organization.
The second that while he was still waking up, he could sense and feel that someone else was moving around in his bed.
And that someone wasn't Ruby nor Penny judging by the feel of their heart.
"Inconceivable... No fair no fair no fair..." A voice said as he felt some shuffling on his bed." Maybe I need to get closer. But I'm so close already!"
That was enough to jolt the Nobody awake.
And what he woke up to was something he did not expect, to say the least.
For in the limited amount of light in the from he could clearly see the young woman practically on top of him.
She looked about Penny's age with short purple hair and glazed violet eyes with a double iris, something that the Nobody has seen before. Her clothing consistent of a white button shirt that showed off her voluptuous form, black heeled shoe, a white rabbit ear on the left side or her head, and a jacket, pants, and top hat on the right side of her head had the same coloring as the other suitcases he had seen in the room earlier. Even had the same color of patches covering them.
Meaning that this was his and Penny's future teammate.
"Maybe it's because of his Sembalance? That would explain why it feels like looking into a kaleidoscope, but I've never had any problems with those before..." She mused, much to the Nobody's confusion.
What was a Sembalance? Was it something else her on Remnant like Aura and Dust?
The young woman suddenly grinned that too be honest unnerved Roxas.
"Ah, this is useless! Let's try physical contact! In a way this is exciting! Discovering new uses and limitations of my Sembalance! Fun!" She said enthusiasticly as she began to move in closer. Too focused to notice how uncomfortable Roxas was starting to look or that he was awake.
Roxas was about to tell her to get off, possibly tempted to summon one of his Keyblades if needed.
If the door didn't open and Penny flipping the light switch.
"Roxas are you awake? If so we brought you-!" Penny said as both she and Ruby stopped at the door at noticing the young woman practically on top of him.
And she noticed too and turned her head to face them.
"Oh? Hi there?" She called out, uncaring of their reactions.
Penny looked concerned and trouble while Ruby's face erupted into an embarrassed blush.
"W-We didn't mean to interrupt..." Ruby said, trying to look away.
"Ah, it's okay! I wasn't getting anywhere anyway. So, what's his Sembalance! I think it's stopping me from observing him properly?" The mystery woman said, and it looked like she wanted to ask more.
But Penny interrupted her.
"G-Get away from Roxas!" Penny shouted out, handing the food to a startled Ruby.
"I have to agree with Penny, get off." Roxas said, finally getting the young woman's attention.
"So you're awake?! Then I could ask you directly-" "I said get off him!" The mystery woman tried to say, seeming ignoring him and Penny. Until she was cut off by the gynoid, her tone being more forceful then ever and surprising Roxas.
She executed a flyting tackle towards the young woman.
"Whoops!" The mystery woman said with a smug smile as she easily jumped off of the bed and out of Penny's way, also revealing that she was about half a head shorter then Ruby. The gynoid landed on the bed and got between her and Roxas, ready to protect him at a moment's notice.
"So stingy!" The strange woman said.
"Who are you, what are you doing here, and what were you trying to do to Roxas?" Penny said a little forcefully.
"Nothing bad! I was just observing him, but for some reason I only observed a practical kaleidoscope. So I tried to observe him harder?" Their future teammate said, confusing Penny and Roxas.
"Besides that she is our future teammate, her clothing looks like the bags, other then that I am just as confused as you are Penny." The Nobody said, getting the woman's smile to broaden a little bit more.
"It's actually the other way around, since I made the bags after I made the clothes but yeah! Smart guy! The name's Evelyn Damerot! Nice to meetcha!" Evelyn introduced, getting Penny to frown as she processed this information.
"You mean that not only are you going to be sleeping in the same room as the two of us, but you're also going to be placed on our team? Making the arrangements not transitory?" Penny inquired.
"Clever girl! Yes that's the gist off it!" Evelyn said in response.
For a moment everyone was silent in the room, waiting for someone to take the first action.
"I see." It was Penny who spoke up first, getting off of Roxas's bed and walking to the other side of the room and grabbed the bed parallel to his.
To the surprise of everyone in the room and wiping the smile off of Evelyn's face was Penny dragging the bed and turning it around until it was right next to Roxas's bed, effectively making one large king sized bed.
Evelyn was to first to break out of the shock by laughing at the situation.
"Aren't you cute being all jealous!" She teased with a grin.
"Roxas has had a long day and is currently tired and vulnerable. Whatever you were trying to do, I won't let you take advantage of him." Penny said sternly.
"I just wanted anything bad, I swear! I just...wanted to know more about my new roomie! I didn't know what to expect beside what Ozpin told me!" Evelyn defended.
Roxas sighed at that, figuring that she might have known at least some of he told the headmaster of Beacon.
"You could have just waited for me to wake up, instead of trying to use your Sembalance on me, whatever that means." Roxas said, getting Evelyn to pause before laughing once again.
"That's right, I could have!" She said, getting the Nobody to shake his head.
So instead of the more practical solution of waking him up, she chose a borderline extravagant and invasive method of doing something to him while asleep and seemed to take joy in doing so.
Give her an eye patch, ponytail, and a decade or two and he could be dealing with a friendlier, shorter, female version of Xigbar.
"So..." Ruby spoke up for the first time since entering the room.
Still holding Roxas's tray of dinner, not sure of what to think about Evelyn otherwise that she was a little weird.
And that was coming from her.
"I think Roxas is supposed to ear dinner now, I think it might be starting to get cold." Ruby said.
"Oh right." Penny said as she decided if she should retrieve the tray from Ruby. But it would leave Roxas unguarded against Evelyn, he might have his Keyblades yet Evelyn had too many unknown variables that she couldn't guarantee his safety.
Before she could ask Ruby to bring her the tray, Evelyn beat her too it.
"Let me get that for you." Evelyn said as she walked up to Ruby.
Penny wanted to protest, but concluded that it was a 50-50 chance that this or asking Ruby for the tray would be the best way to protect Roxas.
"Thank you!" Evelyn said, taking the tray from Ruby.
"No problem..." Ruby trailed off, still not quite sure what to think of Evelyn.
Either way, she decided now it was time to leave.
"Well you all seem to be settling in so... I'd better go work on the Dust distribution system." Ruby sighed out.
"Thank you Ruby, we'll see you tomorrow." Penny said, getting Ruby to smile.
"See you tomorrow." She said before turning to Roxas. "And you better remember to thank me in crumbly, scrupulous form, you hear me!"
"Don't worry it will." Roxas said, making a mental note to figure out the local currency inorder to get her cookies.
Ruby nodded curtly before she left the room.
"I think that she meant to use the word 'scrumptious'." Penny said once their friend left.
"She wants to be paid in cookies?! What a weirdo!" Evelyn said, getting both Penny and Roxas to look at her. "What? Do I have something on my face!"
The Nobody just sighed, figuring it was going to take a while to get used to his new teammate.
Either way, given where he was now compared to how he started this day it was an overall improvement.
He still would have to adapt to life on Remnant and in Beacon along with finding a way to restore to restore Xion.
But overall today was a good start to a new life for himself and Xion, and he couldn't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
The screen flickers for a bit before the author reappears with a wave.
*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter.*
*Now onto a few details.*
*First off Roxas's first new teammate, Evelyn Damerot from JPDE. As I said I do not own her. Anyway she is a Rabbit Faunus, though Roxas won't learn that to next chapter as never having encountered one before. She is to put it bluntly a well blunt person and quite a bit eccentric. So she is going to be both a trick and a treat to write about in order to capture her character correctly.*
*As for her Sembalance for those not in the know you saw quite a bit of one of it's facets, but it doesn't really work on Roxas all that well and it would have the same effect if she tried it on someone like I suppose Xemnas or Xigbar and leaving it on that.*
*All in all with that out of the way, there is no surprise on how his next teammate is going to be.*
*Anyway and onto the final part I wished to talk about, the spare between Roxas and Penny.*
*After some digging and scaling with some indirect help from a friend on YouTube I was able to determine that Roxas's skills at the end of 358/2 Days were stronger if a bit then Ruby prior to Atlas training. Meaning he is more then capable of handling most of RWBY and JNPR by himself in a straight up fight at this point in time but is only going to grow stronger.*
*Yet he only just had his Aura unlocked and was still recovering from his impact. Though he is still quite a match for Penny, both their weapons, talents, and adaptability countering what the other can do or finding a way to each other's advantage. However in a straight up fight and Roxas at full power I could see Penny winning more often the naught given it would be a war of attrition.*
*As for the Keyblades reacting to Dust like that, I figured that it would have been a good way to make both the Heartless and Grimm deader then dead. That and it would probably be something I figured Monty would have done if given the chance. It opens so many possibilities to explore given all of the kinds of Dust.*
*For the idea of Dust distribution system, I have to think warrior of six blades for their help on the idea. As well as their other all support for this story, couldn't have done it without ya.*
*Anyway what it does besides giving Roxas some extra protection to his arms is to make the Keyblades even deadlier and a certain function that I will reveal in a few chapters. Along with a bell and whistle or two provided by giving Ruby free reign of making them.*
*Which in hindsight is probably a bad idea, given enough time she could possibly make a Mandolorian's arsenal in a single gauntlet if given the resources and time.*
*She won't, but it still be a fun thing to cover next chapter.*
The author hears the sound of something beeping and looks at his watch.
*Speaking of which it is about time to go.*
*Skipping the harem part, so straight into the next chapter.*
*The next chapter will feature Roxas being given a tour of Beacon and Vale by Evelyn along with a few other events that I am not going to spoil but expect quite a bit of cameos and I hope you enjoy the chapter when it comes out.*
*If you have a question leave a review or PM me and I will get back to you when I can. So until next time, ciao!*
The author waves goodbye as the screen fades to black.