To her everything was going well, the mission was proceeding the air smelled of sweat and gunpowder, just as she kicked over a bloody and beaten, but definetly still alive gang member, the bloodthirsty angel heard a loud bang. And then darkness. How much time had passed in the darkness she didn't know. She couldn't move, something was stopping her, strength usually in ample supply during her rampages, was now gone. It was becoming hard to breathe. And then light of an explosion. And in the dust cloud surrounding her, she saw a form swinging. So she did what she had always done in such a situation.
Next thing she noticed, the environment had changed, but she saw someone familiar.
"…but very violent in a fight." Now that was plain rude, but maybe that was the way others saw her? But more importantly the boy in the room had started to get undressed. And while she was unsure why her fellow lady remained in the room. She had to preserve the purity of her friend.
While as she fought against her own blush she had acted. "Kyah! Gah! Hasumi! Why are we in a … GAH… the boys locker will uhhhh go outside, don't worry about it". Before grabbing the taller woman and pretty much dragged her outside of the changing room.
And just in time as another young man passed throught them and opened a locker. She had to get to the bottom of this.
"Hello to you too president." Her voice was just as it was in her memories which was strange seeing as how she had dissapeared a couple of days before tsurugis last mission.
"Who was that blonde boy? Why werent you going out when he started changing?" the questions on her mind managed to beat down her usual anxiety when talking with others.
"I have seen him naked so many times." And with this the blood haloed angels brain short circuited. How could her vice president say something so impure, the nearly perfect yamato nadeshiko, having seen a young man naked many times. Was this perhaps what they meant about the water being deepest where its most quiet. After all that's what sometimes happened in her books too.
"I am glad to see you, but you are the first person from back home I have seen in 17 years." Utterly perplexing.
"17 years? You've been missing for a week at most." Proding for more information.
"I have been with Jaune, since the day he was born. I have seen him naked. I have seen him in a pooped diaper, seen him wearing the clothes his sisters forced on him. At this point he doesn't have secrets from me. And I have made sure to influence him as little as possible, so he can grow up as a good man and most importantly as himself. This world isnt like ours was." The tall angel seemed to be getting heated. "So I say we offer him our guidance, but leave him to make his own choices." Tsurugi nodded it made sense in a way. And then a voice behind them spoke.
"Hello, I am Jaune Arc. Short sweet…" only to be interrupted.
"You better not finnish this one. Ive told it before and Ill say it again. I still wonder how your dad pulled your mom with this cheesiness." Yup the vice president she knew and loved was back on.
"… and it's a pleasure to meet you." He finished with a smile.
"GRYAA!... kya!... pleasure is uhhhh…is mine." the angel with the bleeding haloeventually managed out.
"Was this Hasumi, Jaune? I must admit, very different from what you told us of her." His teammate spoke while putting his combat on.
"I don't really know. Hasumi told me it was a friend of hers. One who I am meeting for the first time."
"mmm." Hummed agreeingly the black haired huntsman. "You were like a different person back then. You should meditate on it."
"Good luck in your spar Ren." And stretched out a fist which the other boy bumped before exiting. And inadvertedly hearing the conversation between the angelic ladies. "And I have made sure to influence him as little as possible, so he can grow up as a good man and most importantly as himself. This world isnt like ours was." Hasumi seemed worked up so he was ready to step in when she took a deep breath before continuing "So I say we offer him our guidance, but leave him to make his own choices." Something he would be eternally gratefull to her for. But now seemed the best momment to introduce himself. Looking around to make sure noone was looking, for he knew how a person who talks to themselves looked like.
"Hello, I am Jaune Arc. Short sweet…" he for sure knew how Hasumi would react to him starting this way…
"You better not finish this one. Ive told it before and Ill say it again. I still wonder how your dad pulled your mom with this cheesiness." Hook line and seeker, her attention was on him, and not on the other girl.
"… and it's a pleasure to meet you." Said the smiling knight.
After eventually getting his respons the 3 of them were heading towards the arena to watch the next bouts. After entering they saw Ren dashing straight for Ruby, who ran away with her semblance before shooting at him with her sniper scythe. Things remained like that untill the boy in the arena managed to get a hold of the younger reaper, who tried to run away again accidentally carrying the green ninja along. And when becoming tangible again eating an aura infused palm strike to the sternum, sending her backwards and the dust around them seemed to be moved by strength of the hit.
"Learning such a technique will be beneficial." The taller angel noted with their other invisible companion nodding. "Jaune, you can relly on us, but we must not become a crutch of yours. We cant cover for all your weaknesses, the same way that a team could. You need to learn to work with them, and to learn from them." The boy hummed in agreement. He would later have to try some team coordination exercises, and think of attacks. The class ended with a draw between Ren and Ruby. A win of Yang against a dual sword wielder named Ochre from team CROE(Chrome).
The first part of the school had day finished without anything interesting happening. Cardin was giving him the stink eye from a couple of tables away. Hasumi was giving her friend a rather lengthy welcoming speech to the world of remnant which seemed to only make Tsurugi more confused.
"Ï wish I wasn't transported into a fantasy death world." Which was curious statement to Jaune, why would Hasumi call his reality a fantasy death world, were there other types of worlds? It would be amazing to imagine. He would have to ask hasumi more about it later on, she didn't like to give too many details about her home world, just that there were many schools and everyone had guns and haloes. Occasionally speaking of a person called Sensei or someone else but that was it. "But since we are here we have to make the most of it…" he tuned their conversation off and enjoyed his lunch, untill he heard a cry.
"I told you they were real! What a fre…" Cardin loudly proclaimed while tugging on the ears of a rabbit faunus student.
"That's wrong. These children have strayed from the path of the divine" Said a gentle voice in his ear, and he rose up without thinking about the surrounding him world. "Please help those lost lambs, child of god."
"Its dosgracefull what hes doing." Said Pyrrha. Looking at the scene playing out.
"Why isnt anyone doing something?" asked Ruby in disbelief. Murmurs of agreement being heard from all around the table.
"Fearless leader is going to break his legs." Said Nora pointing out how one of them was standing up.
And indeed the blond boy was rising. Soft golden glow was being emitted from his halo. And when he had fully risen the change occurred. It started from the halo, it had changed color and shape again. It was now golden with a six petalled flower. The change continued downwards, they noticed. A pair of feline ears stood upon his head, hair now fully orange with the beginings of a short braid in the back of his head. Gone was the uniphorm and in its place a black and golden cape with cross shapes over completely black robes stood. To his team mates this set them on edge, as what had been a private secret was very quickly turning into a public issue.
"Cape friends!" exclaimed Ruby.
"Once is a chance but with this we have an established pattern, it has to be his semblance…" analysed Weiss "to change his clothes?"
"He didn't have cat ears earlier." Noted the secret faunus in their midst.
"Whatever it is, shits bout to hit the fan." Said Yang excitedly turning their heads back to it, as Jaune arc had made his way to the table where team CRDL, and reached forward to grab Cardins arm.
"Whats your problem?" proclaimed the bully, having let go of his victim. And stood up now.
"Repent, then, and turn to the light, so that your sin may be wiped out." Spoke Jaune with a calm and slightly song like voice.
"Fuck off weirdo!" screamed the young Winchester, shoving the black and gold clad teen back. While his goons circled them. The first swing came from the bully. And the second and final swing came from theArc. The first was with a fist it hit the opponents face. The second one was with the handle of a black and gold handgun, held by the barrel/slide. It too hit the face of its enemy.
The fight was broken up by a purple hue holding everyone in place. A voice which left no place for arguing spoke.
"This is the second time I have had to break apart you too. While we are a combat focused academy, fighting is restricted to the spaces meant for it. Both of you will have detentions before the end of the week. The exact details will be sent to your scrolls."
"He didn't started it!" A valkurie shouted from a bench.
"I don't care. Combat should be done in the specified for the purpose spaces."
"Shes right Nora. I disrupted the peace of our fellows lunch. Even if my actions were just." The speech of her leader seemed to calm the ginger shortstack.
"Good to see you agree mister Arc, please refrain from it in the future. You are all the future of man- and faunus-kind. If you arent able to stand up for yourself. How will you stand up for others?"the words were met with silence. "Dissmissed."
There was now another one, shorter than the others, she had a soft smile when looking at him. His world was becoming stranger by the second. Fear. Would his vision be filled with more and more beings only he could see? Would he lose control of himself at seemingly random intervals? What would happen if he can no longer see the world from how full of ethereal being his vision went. And then he felt hugged by 2 pairs of hands. One he recognised as Hasumis, and the other were of the newcomer.
"You were going to panic again Jaune, please breathe." The voice of reason spoke from behind him.
"I felt your emotions and your intentions, so I stepped up to help you. I hope you forgive me for it." The ginger faunus said while hugging him from the front. "My name is Iochi Mari, a member of the sisterhood, but please call me Mari." When she smiled at him, he felt like a gentle warmth spread throught him. The warmth stopped spreading when the third angel hugged him from the side, and looked anxiously up to his eyes.
"Grah?."
Atleast his insanity would never be lonely.
"You okay there, Bossman? Now that we are the only ones here, you can tell us whats going on? You've stood still since we got in the dorm room." Ah yes being snapped back to reality.
"Thank you Nora. There are new people I am seeing… "
"Yer cheating on us?! Weve known each other for so long, and now you are seeing new people! I am betrayed now you will probably diss pancakes!" okay Nora was making this hard to take seriously.
"Nora, weve known Jaune for less than a week. He has been completely open with us." Despite knowing each other for less than a week, to Jaune the duos dynamic made them seem like a long time married couple.
"Oh, you are right Renny, how silly of me! Go on Jaune tell us of your new gal pals!" the ginger not noticing how the redheaded champion seemed to blush.
"The one from combat class is named Tsurugi, and seems a bit awkward, she doesn't speak much, and makes sounds like kyaaah graaah and so on. And is currently waving to you, with a big dopey smile."
"she sounds like a giant doofus!" happily proclaimed Nora.
"Nora please don't antagonise the being who obviously doesn't mind beating people us with its shotguns pointy stock."
"From how you descrived it seems she has some sort of an anxiety issue?" spoke Pyrrha for the first time in the conversation. "I hope she could overcome her issue and maybe one day speak with us?" Upon ending her conversation she felt as if a bit of pressure was put on her shoulders for a couple of seconds. "Jaune did she do something?" a sligthly uncomfortable Pyrrha said.
"She hugged you." The blonde boy said smiling.
"Awww! she IS a big doofus."
"The other one is from lunch. Her name is Mary. And she is from something called the sisterhood. She told me that she felt my intentions and emotions and lent me a hand." A small pause. "it's a church that preaches to love and care for yourself and others I guess? She said it is complicated. Oh and is willing to answer some questions.".
"What are her hobby?" Nora asked.
"Praying."
"Do you meditate?" Rens question.
"Prayer is kinda like meditation to me."
"Do you train, as you seemed quite capable in the scouffle in the cafeteria." Pyrrha implored.
"The sisterhood has shooting ranges, and trains to both protects its secrets and the ones in its care."
"While I am sure we would all love to continue talking with Mari and the rest, classes will resume in half an hour, and after that we will have a team training session." Ren spoke, bringing them back on track.
The Stealth and protection classes were something they had for the first time since the start of the week, and had no idea on what to expect. The room they were all in seemed empty, room being a too weak of a word. It was a storage facility, a whole goddamn warehouse being empty save for the students in it. When the last of the first year teams entered, the door clicked behind them. Blinders were rolling down on all the windows. Untill only barely seeable in darkness remained. It stayed like that for a couple of minutes, when the speakers hidden in the corners came to life.
"If this was a real situation, all of you would be dead. I am trully dissapointed in most of you."
"Why did she say most Hasumi?" the blonde whispered.
"Blake of team RWBY immediately stuck to the wall, without tripping on anything or searching for it same for Miss Chloranthy the leader of team CROE."
The light came back on, as one by one, flood lamps lit up, blinding all of them. In their midst stood a woman in a grey and green suit. Practical combat boots on her legs. Many pouches and a pair of handgun holsters stood out on her. A briefcase in her arms. A pair of glasses which seemed to turn darker with the light coming back on.
"She reminds me of a person we once met while visiting the black tortoiuse promenade, right Tsurugi?" getting enthusiastic nods from the shaggy angel.
"I go by proffesor Green or Maam. No miss or mrs, as you are all too young for that. If any of you calls me Ann, you will serve as an example. Got it?" getting the sounds of agreement she strode towards the front of the group. Hitting the wall in a spot just like any other a whiteboard came out. "Next week I will split all of you into groups of 2 teams. One to defend a VIP, and the other to try to rescue them. Your teams will be given locations and location plans, how you aproach them is up to you."
"Our job as Huntsmen will pit us against more than just the grimm. Bandits, terrorists, kidnappers, rogue elements. You must be ready for those situations and learn to plan along." the womans voice was harsh and left no argument. "I will also teach you the theories on how to properly protect a caravan in the wildlands, how to escort your targets."
"On our shoulders fall the responsibility for life, to continue going on. A huntsman has to be more than a warrior, many of you will take scouting sorties, grimm migration path checking, running recon on your enemies. This is why we have bundled Stealth and Protection in the same class under me."
The class that followed was interesting, there wasn't much in terms of stuff to write down, but many questions were asked to the class, the responses to which the teacher noted down on a binder.
"Mr Arc, what main weapons should a perfect 5 man fire team utilize in your opinion?" the question came out of nowhere.
" On what mission?" the boys response a weak one.
" Are you asking me or answering?" The teachers asked again, a slight edge in her voice.
"Answering." To which the teacher nodded and said nothing.
Soon after the class ended. Their team heading to the dorm to get into a workout gear. The academy had an extensive outside and inside training sportsbase, rings and arenas for the more combat orientated sports. When they had made their way to the outside tracks, the angels only he could see had also somehow changed into more suitable for exercises. They all seemed to wear similar gym clothes, save for small differences. Tsurugi wore a white tshirt and dark blue spats. Hasumi wore the same as her friend, save for a sports jacket matching her shorts, she seemed to struggle zipping it past her chest. And Mari wore it with fully zipped, a bag swung over her shoulder.
After their second lap, he felt as if another person is running alongside Pyrrha. A dark silhouette of a tall woman, with a long ponytail. The figure seemed to disapear when they finished running. But 3/4ths of their team were so out of breath, at this point they started drinking their water. After they made their way to the inside equipment and started using it, he would occasionally notice the pressence all around them, sometimes nodding aproovingly, while Nora was benching 1.5 times her own body weight, the pressence was holding its hands close, but not touching the barbel, on the inside of the ginger bombers hands. Meanwhile he and Ren were stretching again, before the magenta eyed warior went to practice on some dummies and the blue eeyed leader started simple kettlebell exercises.
"After this it would be best time to ask him about those aura techniques he showcased today." Thank god for Hasumi reminding him, he was going to forget it. So after finishing his set. He aproached the dark haired boy who had just gone to the water bottles, mari had sat by the whole time,
"Ren, can you help me learn more about aura strikes?" he said before taking a sip from his own bottle.
"That will be after meditation, for during it you could get more in touch with it."
Some time later he, Pyrrha and Ren were sitting on the mats, while Nora was still pumping iron.
"Jaune you must look inwards, settle in and scan your body. Breathe deeply and set your mind free." Those instructions were a bit vague but he tried to not fall asleep and follow them. It felt like he wasn't accpomplishing much but he still tried. The thing with setting your mind free, is that its not something one could focus on, or do normally. But at some point he felt as if he was surrounded by all sides, he saw a blue sky with many many haloes in it. He had probably fallen asleep. After taking a deep breath, more was shown around him, a pale white flame burning in braziers all around him, and a desk before him. Doors, gates more like 14 of them, stood proudly, dwarfing him. From underneatch one of them, a white door, a golden symbol he had seen on Hasumis rifle sitting center stage on it. A single dim ray coming from the keyhole of a massive metal door, covered in spiining gearwheels and holographic screens. The letters were uninteligible to him. Then a voice roared, shaking the earth and the heavens.
"Fearless Leader! Dinnertimes almost come, we have to gooooo!" and just like he snapped back to reality.
Omake: In which Mary is a bad, bad girl
"The other one is from lunch. Her name is Mary. And she is from something called the sisterhood… NO! Mary no smoking in the room." He stopped talking to try to get to the ginger girl, who seemed ashamed of it. Before going to the window, and attempting to open it, again and again before sighing, and looking pleadingly at him. With that the blonde boy opened the window for which the sister nodded gratefully, and lit a ciggy.
"If they have questions please tell them to prepare them for when im done relaxing.
While everyone was training or looking at how the members of team JNPR were training, she struck, when noone was looking at her, she made sure to lick the bottle for an indirect kiss with Jaune, for she felt the need to do so. The need to sin, God was she ashamed of herself and how good it felt to do so. She would steal their blonde hosts first kiss, for an infinitely small momment her halo changed colors to black with golden cracks running through it, and then it was back to normal.
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