Chapter 8
Consequences
Nicholas blocked the bullet that was send Roman's way with his shield, Professor Ozpin wasn't giving them time.
"H- Hey!, how about we talk first instead of fighting?, I'm sure we'll be in trouble for entering this place but I don't think murder on the list" Roman tried to reason with the professor.
"Interesting idea, does she also believe in reasoning ?, you've hacked into the headmaster and my personal scroll Roman, I didn't want to believe it but now?, and Mr. Arc too?, what a shame" Opzin went to continue his assault.
Nicholas parried with his sword freeing a second so he can dash in with his shield up for the price of his defense.
And his gamble paid off when Opzin stumbled back but recovered quickly sending a flurry of attacks, Nicholas aura was big, but after the tournament fight sending him to red, he couldn't hold the professor attention much longer, luckily he didn't have to.
Opzin cane was about to hit Nicholas's face but for a small explosion throw Opzin away.
"guess there isn't time to talk huh, what the hell is this, professor it's us, I don't know who's she you're talking about but I don't work for anyone except the blonde with green ey-" before he could continue, Opzin was on his feet attacking again.
Nicholas blocked with his shield on the right, ducking down for Roman to come in with his electric dust cane, stunned the professor for a moment, giving Nicholas enough time to kick him away.
"and why would I believe either of you now, as I see it, you two just came into a off-limit area no one should know about" his eyes harden, Roman and Nicholas caught on quickly.
"does the headmaster know of this place?, what is this place ?, and why are fighting us for no fucking REASON?" good point from Nicholas but they didn't hold as his aura broke in the face of Opzin attack, the professor moved in a speed he never seen before.
"…does salem take me for a Fool now." Opzin took a moment to look them both up and down, seeing none of them recognize the name he start to Reconsidering the situation while still holding them back.
Roman tried his best to fight while protecting Nicholas, but against a professor he didn't farewell.
Opzin was about to knock him out until a fire ball interrupted his way, jumping back and dodging several gun shots too, Opzin took in his new opponent or opponents.
The rest of team JNBR came in with team STRQ, all weapons at the ready but not knowing who's to fight.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE" Juniper screamed, and with use of her semblance her voice was much louder, echoing the large room.
"I ask this question myself mis. evergreen , would you mind telling me why your teammates just broke in an area for staff only?, and why you and team STRQ here?" Opzin, with much calmer voice asked the new arrivals, who eyed Roman and Nicholas for a second then turned to the professor.
"Sir, we were about to celebrate our win until we all got notification that Nicholas aura went dangerous below red, as the scroll connect to the team location and aura we thought he was in danger, him and Roman went together and we saw their aura both getting down fast, so we acted on it" Juniper explained.
"what did my two teammates do to get beat up sir ?, I'm sure no matter how bad it is, it doesn't require this much strength " Juniper sounded apologetic, but her hand tighten around her weapon, same as everyone else, except Ozpin.
Ozpin looked like he aged 50 years, with a tried sigh, he relaxed his stance, lowering his cane then spoke.
"Looks like I acted Hastily, I apologize" the professor looked somehow sincere with his apology, he looked at Roman and Nicholas.
"However, I do need an explanation to what you two are here, there's too much at the line for you and your team, and I'm afraid that your curiosity will make you join the fight"
"What do you mean fight?, is something happening?" it was Summer turn to ask.
"I saw potential in both of your teams, and I did want to bring you in, but not like this, let's sit and talk" he gesture to a couch inside.
"this going to take a long time" Ozpin looked more tired, " but sir we have the tournament tomorrow, if we don't preform then the headmaster wouldn't be happy" Juniper said.
"don't worry mis. Evergreen, I'm sure little old Arthur won't mind" the professor, talking so casually about the headmaster brought confusion to everyone.
The headmaster put in a simple words, a stone cold status, he only show up for important speeches and in front of the government officials, he didn't even give a speech for the new first year, professor Ozpin did, which paint a picture of how close those two were.
"Hopefully we just get detention, I need sleep to beat Tai tomorrow, let's hope this isn't too crazy" held between Raven and Qrow, Nicholas Arc thought, as his world Shattered after this moment.
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The day wasn't as quiet as he hoped to be, for the fact Cardin didn't bother him at breakfast, instead.
"Look at this freak, her grandparents must of have fucked animals to get this abomination" Cardin and his team started laughing at a faunus girl with rabbit ears, jaune thought they are cute, but looks like CRDL didn't think the same.
Everyone on the table, from Nora to Blake were silence glaring at team CRDL, but none wanted to cause trouble for tomorrow's trip, Cardin clearly didn't understand that.
"h- hey stop it" the girl crying in pain, and half of the cafeteria turned either with amused smiles or glares, the white fang wasn't created from nothing, and a lot of people still hate the fact faunus won the war.
"how about letting her go" everyone was surprised as Blake, the quiet and Introverted Blake, grabbed Cardin wrist.
"Oh, sure if you want to go out sometime, or if you want to go on a quick trip to the bathroom" Cardin team laughter Echoed around the cafeteria, and Blake hand tighten around his wrist threatening break it, luckily a blonde decided to step in.
"hey Cardin, how about we leave Blake here and go have some fun together" yang said with a smile that that promise death for him.
"why not both?, I'm sure arc boy isn't that good, i see you two hanging out with him a lot, if he Managed you two then surely I can han-" he didn't continue for the punch in his face, surprisingly it wasn't Yang's, it was jaune's.
Team CRDL didn't take the knocking out of their team leader too well and they went on the attack, Blake and Yang already standing joined the fight.
Several people joined too, Jaune, Blake and Yang with their teams on the way vs team CRDL and the people who laughed at the faunus girl vs the people who didn't know what's happeing but joined the food fight.
It didn't take too long until the ceiling of the cafeteria came down on them with lockers, and soon enough the cafeteria became a war zone.
Headmaster and his deputy came in to see the view of several students on the ground with their weapons, while each member of team CRDL was passed out in a crater for each of them.
Meanwhile the team leader was hanging in the air upside-down with the use of mis Nikos semblance, and with knifes all around his face, threatening him to move.
Standing on destroyed tables were team RWBY, with injuries showing how the fighting went, while the JP of JNPR stood close to Cardin , and the NR stood with Velvet Scarlatina of team CVFY, talking to her.
Opzin took a long sip of his coffee while his deputy started shouting at the students.
" and here I thought there wouldn't be a second Beacon civil war, I thank the brothers for how short this one was"
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"do you kids have any idea of the damage you have done?!" Glynda Goodwitch was terrifying, none of them could even look her way.
"Arc started it, he punched me in the face while I was talking to Yang, my team jumped in to help me" Cardin tired to shift the blame, and mis. Goodwitch did look his way.
"Now now, it's admirable to see a team come in to help their leader, but some students did see you taunting mis. Scarlatina , so I would like to see what this was all about" the headmaster stood from behind his office looking at jaune.
"Mr. Arc would you like to explain to me why you punch Cardin in the face, as far as I see it, you had nothing in this" Opzin questioned jaune, who didn't have a good answer to it.
"I- well, he was bullying Velvet because she was a faunus, and I couldn't stand it" he answered with a little blush on his face, the Headmaster nodded and turned to Blake to talk
"he was assaulting the girl, I had to stand up against people like this, and I'm glad my friends stood with me" Blake said eyes locked with the Headmaster, showing she wasn't scared of what to come, he on the other hand looked a little higher and smiled.
"Good job mis. Belladonna and you mr. Arc , standing for the weak and helping people in crisis is what a true huntsmen will do" janue and Blake relaxed, "but that doesn't make it right to start a full on assault in the cafeteria, we have a sparing rings for it" he sip from his coffee and sigh.
"You all have a trip to Forever Fall, you would still go but mr. Arc, mr. winchester ,and mis. Belladonna, you all going to have detention, mr. winchester will be with doctor Oobleck about faunus rights and the war, while mr. Arc and mis. Belladonna will be with deputy goodwitch, I'm sure you all going to learn a lot from this" he turn to the rest who stood silent the whole time, " for you all, consider it a mercy you didn't start anything, but please mis. Nikos next time don't use torture methods on studying" pyrrha looked embarrassed but nodded.
They all left the Headmaster office and getting out of the elevator team CRDL started swearing vengeance on them, jaune didn't care that much.
"so lover boy, mind explaining why you took my fight ?, if I didn't know you better I would say you were an angry boyfriend" the first one to talk was Yang, and it was to tease him, prefect.
"I- I didn't do it for you per say, I couldn't let Blake attack on her own, besides, we help Velvet, and we beaten a lot of students" jaune tried his best to deficit.
"Huh so you have a thing for Blake, a little knightshade going on, wait you two knew each other in Initiation, what's the story" before jaune could screw up more Blake spoke with a small smile.
"we meet a week before Beacon, he helped me with some stuff, and his father was the reason I could attend Beacon" everyone was surprised by that, even jaune.
"hey, why are you surprised, there's no way you didn't know, and how could your father help her ente- " weiss asked, cutting off a realization dawn on her.
" your father is The Nicholas Arc, the hero of Mt. Glenn, isn't he?! , then how the hell you didn't recognize the SDC?, yor dad helped with the train incident and we invited the heroes form MT. Glenn for celebration, it was one of the biggest events on Remnant?" Weiss was Flabbergasted with her discovery, jaune however, wasn't pleased.
"It just a stupid party, my parents are just huntsmen, they did their job, and they don't real like this useless fame" jaune Said dismissively, Weiss was about to argue when Ruby stepped in and ended it.
"We better get ready for tomorrow, we have professor Port class then first-aid class, then we have the rest of today to prepare and rest, let's use it well" Ruby announced, which reminded them they were late to class.
In the Headmaster office, Glynda stared out the window looking at Beacon.
"They are just kids, don't take it too hard, they'll grow and wise up" Opzin was sat at his desk with scroll open monitoring the basement.
"I hope you're right, and I hope this time they won't run into the basement and force themselves into this war, I still can't believe that story".
"me neither, and I acted childishly, they still have room to grow, I won't let them join this crusade now, on another note, can you keep team CVFY away from team CRDL, I don't want to go to their families telling them their kids died of natural causes like gravity or a sword to the head" hearing this, Glynda harried out, part to save the first year students, part to prepare for tomorrow's trip.
Opzin took a sip from his coffee looking at the ceiling, there, a crown shaped gear ticked the time
"What am I going to do with you"
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Team JNPR and RWBY decided the best way to pass the time is by sparing with each other, even after the great battle that happened in the cafeteria
In the ring stood pyrrha against Nora and yang, it wouldn't usually be a fair fight but pyrrha proved herself quite strong, taking on all of team JNPR in training.
Jaune sat beside ruby, who was doing maintenance on her weapon, they both sat in an awkward silence watching the match while the rest of the teams were either changing or fighting.
"so if I may ask.." ruby started talking looking jaune's way, when he raised an eyebrow she continued.
"What was that back there?, not just the fight but also the way you shut down Weiss, like you didn't care about anything she said" ruby asked not taking her eyes off him, he could only sigh.
"Well for the first thing, what Cardin said got under my skin, and he only did it to screw with me, and now yang and Blake got dragged into this, on Weiss case, you could say I had enough of it" jaune explained but ruby looked confused at the last part, so jaune elaborated.
"You know this 'famous book' soul of a huntsmen" when see nodded he continued, "well this book is centered around my parents team in the Glenn incident , everyone said that it was work of a true huntsmen, saving people and killing grimm".
"Well yeah, that's what a true huntsmen is all about, saving people, killing grimm, and all that great stuff" ruby said with a smile which put jaune bad mood to rest.
"yeah, you're right, the problem isn't there, it's the fact the famous that follows, me and my sisters never got to have a normal life because of everyone recognizing the heroes children, it got so bad we had to move to a remote village where old huntsmen go".
"I grow up hearing about how great my parents and their friends were, I always wanted to be a hero like them, to save people, but every achievement I ever made was compared to them, even though my parents always assured me and told me how strong I got, others keep comparing me to them".
"But you still came here with us, you're your own person jaune, don't let anyone tell you otherwise" Ruby cane to defeat her best guy friend.
" thanks ruby, I know and so my parents, that's why I'm here, to build my own team, to work hard and fight the good fight" jaune looked at the fight where yang just got knocked out, Nora and Pyrrha still in the yellow, the fight was almost done.
"Hey look who's back" ruby said as she pointed to Ren, Blake, and Weiss coming their way, ruby waved to them to come here.
"Good match arc, this is what I expected from the son of the famous hero Nicholas arc" Weiss said not noticing how ruby and jaune both gave her a deadpan look.
"Well jaune I got to say this was a pretty impressive match, but you'll need to work on your speed more" Ren said with constructive criticism, which is always appreciated.
"Thanks Ren, you did great too against Blake, although you need to work on you stamina and new techniques with your weapon" Ren nodded his head while Weiss was angry for getting ignored.
"he jaune, can I... have a word with you alone" Blake asked surprising everyone but jaune nodded.
Walking side by said, Blake spoke.
"thanks for the help, but you know you didn't need to do that"
"Oh well I did it because I wanted too, besides because of people like him the white fang exists, might as well try to stop racism here before it becomes worse".
"I'm not part of them anymore, i left that life behind, besides that was the deal to enter Beacon"
"I wanted to ask, how did my dad help with your enrollment"
"Well when I slip away the headmaster caught me and told me Nicholas Arc send him a message to help me, he said he knew my parents and wanted me to join the academy, it was a fresh start so I accepted"
"that does explain why he looked at your bow"
" yeah, he knows about me and what happend on the train, also thank you for not telling anyone, I'm not sure yet how my team will react to it"
"I'm sure Ruby and Yang will accept you withoutquestion, the problem is Weiss"
"Yeah the white fang track record isn't that great"
"Hey I'm sure you'll find a good time" jaune said as they got to the changing room to meet the rest of their team.
Nora was the first out, talking loudly about how she and Yang almost got pyrrha out, then pyrrha came out conforming it, it took yang another 30 minutes to get out.
"Aww you all waited for me, you guys are the best" yang said, ruby almost Exploded on Yang saying she can't keep taking this long showers, Blake and Weiss soon joined in.
"Well glad none of you take that much time" Jaune said looking at his female teammates.
"you and Ren can make us breakfast tomorrow as a thank you, I'm sure Nora would love some of Ren's pancakes" giggling, Pyrrha moved to be side by side with her teammates.
"Alright no problem, anyway we need to prepare for tomorrow, who knows what will happen" team JNPR said their goodbyes to team RWBY who still at shouting match, Blake was the only one who waved them off.
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"YOU LOST IT?!" a women with dark hair, amber eyes shouted, looking at her scroll.
"how dare you talk to us like that you little bit-" the man stopped, seeing his commander hand rise.
" don't talk to me every like that, I had it but something happened on the way and we lost track of it" the commander, who has red hair and horns said with calm voice.
"doesn't matter, you don't get this thing anywhere, I'll need to get another this gonna take ages, you keep your men in line and don't let them fuck up the plan" she said throwing the scroll away.
"You just hold your end of the deal and I hold main, your attack will be at the fastival, I'll be their a month before".
" huh and why aren't you there now" she raised an eyebrow.
"I need to get some answers before coming to Vale, it won't be long" he said while his hand on his sword helt, even though this was a video call, it didn't take the nervousness away.
"do as you please, but if anything happens to the place, I will hold you responsible" and either those word the call ended.
"we can't trust her" the man beside the commander said.
" I know, but with what I saw I can't not pick sides" removing his mask, he massaged his temple.
The man eyes harden on seeing his commander without the mask, but didn't comment on it instead.
"What was the thing we lost exactly?"
"to be honest with you, I don't know, and I don't want to know what was it".
In forever fall Forrest, a dark creature got out of small box, slowly growing in size.
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