Knox: A thoguht occures...

King: Okay?

Knox: There's actually a character in the original called Jeanne. Our Jeanne appears, but not as that character.

King: Funny that, isn't it?

Knox: Also, happy Valentine's Day ererybody~

Inspiration: Bayonetta

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Jaune sighed, "Can the next one not be that emotional…"

Pyrrha placed a hand on his shoulder, "They tend to play at random…"

Qrow took a swig from his flask, "Might make you feel better if it does. Means that it just happens, like a storm or some other natural thing you can't stop."

The next world started to open on an old era, bustling city. Tall, ornamental towers rose up atop cathedrals and the roads were lined in cobblestone. Both old and new buildings stood next to one another in a sense of harmony.

Ruby giggled a little, "It kind of reminds me of Vale."

The camera zoomed along to meet the back of a woman walking through the streets. What little they could see as she was right now wasn't much. First, she was wearing a long white lace dress with a matching, wide-brimmed hat. Second, the way she moved seemed to indicate she was in heels. Third, they could tell was that she had short blonde hair in a pixie cut. Lastly, she had a body that women would kill for, tall and curvaceous.

Ilia's face turned a light pink, but it was short lived, returning to normal after a second. She admitted the woman looked good, but that wasn't impressive enough to sustain any blushing. If it was, she'd be bright pink in this room from Sienna alone.

The camera moved around to profile, showing she wore a pair of custom glasses, black framed with golden designs in a circular form with a familiar set of dual arcs within the pattern.

Jaune paused for a moment before remembering the basic systems this screen had used, "Is that… supposed to be me?"

Nora giggled, "It's Jeanne!"

"What?"

Coco nodded lightly, "It does sound pretty similar…"

Pyrrha chuckled at the scene as she explained, "We've seen versions where our genders were flipped around."

Jaune nodded, understanding slightly, "I get that part. Still kind of weird."

Nora crossed her arms and nodded, "Oh, no doubt."

Meanwhile, the teachers were seeing a different similarity on screen. Ironwood was the one to voice what they were all thinking, "She looks like a taller Glynda…"

Jeanne pulled a lollipop out of seemingly nowhere, placing it into her mouth. Being a witch had its perks.

"A witch?" Nora bounced in her chair a bit, "As in actual magic and stuff?!"

Weiss sighed, "Don't get too excited Nora… It's not like our world has any real magic."

Ozpin and Oscar glanced to the side but kept their secret for now.

But, of course, it also made her a target at the most inopportune times.

The ground beneath her exploded suddenly, causing the people around her to panic and run away.

This caused the viewers to jump at the sudden action, their instincts kicking in to prepare for a fight. This got the world's natural laws to calm them again. The only exceptions being Salem, who was a civilian from a different dimension, and Ozpin, who'd seen so much random shit in his lifetimes it stopped shocking him.

After a light purple glow, Jeanne just walked out of it like nothing happened. She removed her lollipop and sighed, "I can't even have peace on my day off, can I?"

Coco snickered, "Her accent sounds like Velvet's."

A bright light shone over the street as creatures descended from the heavens. They looked like birds with human-like forms. Each had a pair of white wings and a strange, halo-like glyph over their heads. Each was dressed in robes of varying colors and brandished weapons of gold and white.

Qrow stopped just before he could take a sip from his flask, "What the hell are those things?"

Ozpin shook his head, "I have no idea."

Port crossed his arms, "The cloaks, halos, and wings would denote something angelic, but the creatures are unlike anything I've ever seen."

Jeanne leaned her weight to one side. One arm rose up to act as a rest for the other, which still had her treat between her fingers. She had a smirk on her face as she spoke, "But, since you all came all the way from paradise for little old me, I think I can humor you for a while~"

One of the beings pointed toward her, "Umbra witch… You are an afront to the holy powers of the creator. You're reign over the world of dark shall be brought to an end in the majestic light of Paradise!"

The camera flipped to Jeanne as she rolled her eyes. She took a breath and held the candy like a dart. After a moment, she tossed it using her magic, embedding the stick into the creature's forehead.

Yang jumped at the impact with an impressed grin, "Holy crap!"

Jeanne removed her hat, tossing it to the side, "That's the problem with you angels, you just can't stop talking."

Oobleck adjusted his glasses, the creatures reflecting in the lenses, "So those are angels…"

Port nodded, "Though not what I would have imagined."

Jeanne kept walking forward as one the angels swung around to attack her from the side. Its spear slicing through the dress, but only the dress. Jeanne fell from above the angel and curb stomped the angel's head into the concrete. She was revealed to have been wearing a bright golden body suit beneath the dress. Silver chains accented the suit along with a pair of elbow-length gloves and heels, one of which was buried in the back of an angel's head. She hopped down off the angel with a hand on her hip, "Now, do try to make this fun for me since you went and interrupted my day."

Coco tapped her chair with another hand over her mouth in thought. "Something's off here…"

Velvet turned to her partner, "What is it?"

"I can't place it, but something's weird about her outfit."

Velvet rolled her eyes, used to Coco's antics, but she also kept on edge about that suit. Coco had an eye for things like that, after all.

One of the angels flew in forward, getting into Jeanne's face and roared out toward her, arms reared back to bring its flail down onto her skull. Jeanne hopped back and the world seemed to slow down, a light purple tint covering everything. Jeanne reared her leg up, twisting her body at an angle for a heavy kick. The world returned to normal speed and the angel looked up in surprise as her heel slammed into its face, sending it back into the group. Another with a spear tried to slash at her, but she ducked under the attack and slammed her palm into its chin, wrenching the weapon from its hand. As more tried to crowd her, she swiped the weapon around and knocked them back a bit.

Yang chuckled a bit, "Damn~! Look at her go!"

Tai nodded, arms crossed and a grin on his face, "It is pretty impressive as fighters go."

"That magic seems to help." Qrow took another swig from his flask.

The angels all surrounded her, but she remained nonchalant. She rested the angels' spear over her shoulder and smirked toward her opponents. "Come now, surely you can do better than that." She spun the spear around her body and impaled an angel attempting to sneak up behind her.

Roman let out an impressed whistle, "Damn, she is good."

Neo grinned and rolled her eyes.

Jeanne glanced back at her victim, "Well. Aren't you cheeky?" She noticed it was still writhing a bit, trying to reach toward her, "Resilient too." When its hand started to approach her, hoping to slow her down, she swatted it away and swung the spear around and into the street, perpendicular to the ground. "Ah, ah~ No touching."

Qrow paused just before taking another sip. He closed his flask and placed it aside.

Tai noticed this and raised an eyebrow, "Something wrong, Qrow?"

"Nope. Just waiting."

"Waiting? What for?"

"The look on your faces."

The angels tried to swarm again. Jeanne just smirked and brought a hand to the spear in the ground. The angel's dogpiled her, creating a small mound of angelic anger. After a moment of silence, they all flew backward to reveal Jeanne spinning on the spear, one leg hooked around the spear as she spun like a pole dancer.

Everyone was in shock to various degrees. Penny was the weakest degree, not seeing anything odd in the motion. Ozpin, who didn't recognize the signs like Qrow had, ended up with a coffee-fueled spit take.

Qrow just laughed at everyone's faces, "Oh calm down. That's seriously mundane stuff. Nothing you wouldn't see from any other fitness head with a dance routine."

Jeanne spun so fast that the spear started to glow from strain. The angelic weapon was about to dissipate. Before it did, she slowed her spin and separated her hooked leg from the spear. She slowly slid to the ground to stand upright again. She grinned and the spear disappeared as she released it, "Pity. But I don't have of a choice since a certain someone still has all my weaponry for work."

The sky went black as a red portal opened in the ground between her and the angels. A figure rose up from the ground as a hellish silhouette, a single red eye glowing.

Everyone felt a chill go up their spines. Things seemed to have taken a very serious turn.

The man seemed to flick a lighter, a small orange flame forming. The light revealed the fire didn't come from a lighter, but actually rested over his thumb. The light also showed a small amount of his body, not much but it was something. Then, he raised his thumb toward his mouth and lit a cigar. When he blew out the fire, the world returned to normal. He was a tall man with orange hair with his eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. He was dressed in an open white coat, dark slacks, and boots.

Roman let out an impressed whistle, "Well now. That's a sight."

Neo grinned and rolled her eyes. They could both tell it was him, just a bit more muscular.

Jeanne smirked seeing him arrive. "Roman. You have impeccable timing."

Roman chuckled a little, "Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Special delivery." He held up a small box with one hand. One of the larger angels brought an ax directly onto his head, only for the blade to shatter on his skull. He didn't move from his spot, simply sighing before suddenly spinning around and punching the angel into the ground. "Bad time?"

Tai chuckled and leaned back into his chair. "Wish I had that kind of durability."

The camera returned to show Jeanne had knocked a group of angels into a pile as she sat atop the group with her arm resting on her knee. "I'd say its perfect timing. Assuming your visit means my toys are ready."

Roman tossed her the box, the packaging opening on route to her. Four sky blue pistols started to spin in the air toward her.

Ruby had to say something, "Why are there for of them? That doesn't make any sense."

Jeanne grinned and hopped off the pile. The camera pulled in as she caught one of the guns, then the other…

"Now… what about the other two?"

Then, the next pistol flew past her hands. The camera followed it as it lined up with a slot on the back of her heels, and then as the last pistol followed suit.

Ruby took a moment to think the scene over but found nothing. "What…? More importantly… why? What good would that do?"

Mercury shrugged, "Works for me."

"Yeah, but your weapons aren't separate pistols. You can fire those based on impact and force change. That's kind of hard to do for a trigger system. So, how does that work?"

"Uh… Magic." Nora said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. And given that this version was shown to possess such supernatural abilities, it kind of was.

Ruby was still a moment before bringing her palm straight to her face.

Jeanne landed and posed with her weapons finally in her grasp again. The guns were her favorites but having them means the rest were ready as well. She licked her lips as another angel tried to get in close. "I thought I told you no touching." She jumped back and a circular glyph appeared at her hand as she swapped out her weaponry. When she landed, she slid her foot across the ground and snapped her hand to the side. This was accompanied with the sound of a whip going taught, which made sense as she was now holding one. The attacking angel took a step back as the whip snapped across his beak, sending him flying back with a spin.

Port and Oobleck felt a chill run up their spines. They were having a flashback to their time at Beacon alongside Glynda. She was a monster if you pissed her off and that crop will leave marks.

Jeanne spun around and used the whip to grab another and pull it in so she could rear back and land a heavy kick into the angel's gut. Once the angel was off balance, she spun it around and tossed it into the crowd, swapping weapons again to fire a set of heavy bullets in the shape of a heart.

This got Nora's attention, "Woah~ I have to figure out how to do that with my weapon!"

Another glyph followed and Jeanne was wielding a katana. The world moved in slow motion as she brought her hand to the handle of her weapon, ready to draw the blade. A second later, she was ten feet passed the angels with her blade out and too the side. She returned the blade to its home and the angels erupted into bloody mists.

Roman cracked his neck and took a puff from his cigar. "Glad you're having fun. You know where to find me." He disappeared into a red portal in the ground he arrived through.

Jeanne flipped over the group of angels and killing the rest of the troopers. Unfortunately, there was one last challenge for her. She looked up the street to see an angel the size of a building standing in the streets. It stood with a massive blade in one hand dragging across the street. It started to move toward her before spinning its body to bring its sword down onto the witch before it. The impact caused a massive cloud of dirt to fly up around the point of the attack.

"Holy crap!" Tai jumped at the impact, "Thing's the size of a goliath! How is she going to beat that?"

Nora jumped up onto her chair, "Just you wait! She'll totally kick its butt!"

Ruby was starry eyed, but cautious, "But… The weapons don't seem like they're strong enough to hurt that thing. So what can?"

A feint glow could be seen from within the cloud. A second later, the angel found a massive fist straight into its face. The fist knocked it back down the street. As the cloud faded away, they saw the arm was coming from a large portal with a hair-like effect wrapping around the base.

Ruby gasped, "It's like Weiss's glyphs!"

Weiss sighed, "I can't create anything like that, though… Just small things so far…"

Winter smiled toward her sister, "Continue your training and you will one day."

Yang raised an eyebrow with her grin still on her face, "But what's with the hair?"

The clouds continued to fade, revealing Jeanne was standing beneath the portal, posed with her hands behind her head and her outfit becoming very… minimal.

Yang burst into laughter seeing the scandalized face Weiss was making.

Nora chuckled a little at her own team's reaction as well. But she was still coherent enough to ask, "What happened to her outfit, anyway?"

The arm disappeared and the portal with it. As it did, Jeanne's attire seemed to flow over her again. The suit was revealed to be woven from her own hair, through which she was able to cast her spells.

Coco shivered a little, "That's just… why?"

Blake shrugged, "In some novels, the magic someone uses needs to be through their body or something like that. Maybe she has to use her hair to cast those spells. Wouldn't be the weirdest magic system."

"I'm almost scared to ask what the weirdest is." Yang grinned.

Jeanne smirked and gestured with her finger for the angel to approach her. The angel roared and tried to attack, but Jeanne dodged this attack and ran along the length of the sword. She kicked the angel in the face, knocking it off guard and to the ground. Jeanne landed and slid her foot across the ground and moved her body like a dance. When she was done, her hair/suit flowed off and up into a mini portal. A larger portal opened above the angel as it stood up again. The angel looked up to see a pair of red eyes staring down at it. A massive demon's head shot out from the portal and bit the upper half of the angel clean off its body.

Yang was in a general state of shock, but had a thought pass her mind, "Almost wish my hair could do that…"

An Umbra Witch's hair was her magical strength. It was often safer to keep it close to the body to prevent it from being cut in battle.

Coco thought it over a bit, "Okay… I guess, in terms of practicality, it makes sense. Though that would need a lot of hair."

Jeanne smirked and walked over attire returned to her body again. One of the angels, the one with the lollipop in its skull, was still alive and reaching out in desperation. Jeanne stopped and placed a foot on the angel's shoulder and pulled the candy from its head, placing the untainted candy back in her mouth as the angel died.

Jeanne smirked, "Let this be a lesson. Don't fuck with a witch."

Ozpin couldn't help but let out a snicker. His mind went to Glynda, imagining the words coming out of her mouth. To be fair, it summed her up pretty well. It was just funny to think about.

The world closed on a scene of Jeanne's glyph coving the canvas.

Weiss, a sort-of expert on glyphs, raised a brow, "The structure is good, and the design is well formed… Jaune's symbol also seems to be designed to appear like the moon."

Ruby shrugged, "Okay… but why?"

Jaune actually had the answer. "Umbra means shadow. That might have something to do with it."

King appeared again, "Correct. The Umbra Witches are most powerful in the night while their counterparts, the Lumen Sages, are fueled by the light of the sun. They are the eternal balance of light and dark."

Weiss looked up to the fireball, "And the dancing and hair-based suit?"

"That's just her having fun. Jeanne is very… outgoing."

Knox popped in next to his creator, "No kidding."

"But let's get back on track. Another round of snacks or drinks, anyone?"