As soon as I woke up I got ready for the day ahead, and after eating a lot of food, I headed to my locker to go get my gi. Once there I see a red-haired girl next to my locker, talking to that Weiss girl. “Uh, Hi,” I say, after switching my swords into staff mode and slinging them around my back.
“Hello, I’m Pyrrha.”
“Robert, pleasure to meet you.”
“The pleasure is all mine.”
“Who do you hope to team up with?”
“I’m just going to let the chips fall.”
“Ok, well, I want to be teamed up with someone very powerful! I want a partner I can spar with and not worry about harming them. Maybe you?”
Weiss intervenes. “Whoa whoa whoa! Do you know who you're talking to?”
“Yeah. Pyrrha.”
“... do… you actually know about her.”
“I just know her name.”
“ *sigh* She graduate top of her class at sanctum.”
“Where?”
“Uh! She’s won the mistral regional championship four years in a row, a new record.”
“The what?”
“TCH! Shes on the front of every pumpkin pete’s marshmallow flakes box!”
“I dont pay attention to the boxes.”
“UGH! You may be cute and all, but how can you be so clueless?”
“I don’t know, how can you have so much attitude?” i ask, genuinely.
“I-! Wait, what?”
Luckily, jaune starts bothering Weiss, I slip away from them before weiss can redirect her attention back to me
*time skip*
As Ozpin tells us what the test is, people are suddenly launched into the air, Catching me by surprise, until the pedestal I was standing under pops forward, launching me in the air.
As I was falling, I decide to just float down. Once I landed, I looked around. I then ran straight towards the temple. On my way there, I bump into someone. “OW!”
“Sorry,” I say, helping them up. Once we looked into each other's eyes, the deal was sealed.
“Name’s Ember. My semblance is flame control,” He says, creating a small flame on his finger.
“Robert. My semblance is Ki manipulation,” I reply, creating a ki ball in my finger to copy him. “Alright, lets head straight to the relics, Ember.”
“You got it.” we then run north to get there. Once there we look around and just see a bunch of chess pieces. “Which one should we take?”
“Hmm… why not the black rook?”
“Ok.” He grabs the rook. “Now what?”
“I have no idea actually.” I look around and see yang and blake. “Oh. HEY!” I yell waving my hands. “OVER HERE!”
“Hey Robert, Is this your partner?” Yang ask while jumping down.
“Yeah this is Ember.”
“‘Sup.” He nonchalantly says.
“Hey, are these the relics?”
“I have no idea,” I remark, scratching my head. “I just took one and was about to go-”
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I was interrupted by a scream.
“*gasp* sounds like a girl is in trouble,” Yang says after taking a white knight.
“Yang…” Blake says looking up.
I look up and see ruby falling from a nevermore. “Look out!” Ruby yells before getting sideswiped by jaune. Then two people named ren and nora run in on an ursa, then Pyrrha runs in being chased by a deathstalker. Yang then sorta explodes, calming everyone down. Weiss then drops down from the same nevermore, but jaune catches her in time for them to both fall.
Next two other people run from the forest, also being chased by a nevermore. Once we all gather, Ruby decides to show off by attacking the deathstalker. “RUBY!” Yang yells as she runs off. As one of the nevermores shoots its feathers, She retreated, but was caught by one of the feathers. “GET OUT OF THERE!” Yang shouts as the deathstalker is about to attack.
“I’m trying!” Ruby says pulling her cape/cloak.
Before I get a chance to move, Weiss runs ahead and freezes the deathstalkers tail. I run ahead and help the two people. I fire a couple of ki blast at the nevermore who just circles around with the other one. “Whats yall’s name?”
“I’m Micheal, and my semblance is adaptiveness,” he says while grabbing the black rook. “I can adapt to any situation given time, no matter what. If I don’t have something needed, or don’t know what I need, I can summon it just by thinking.”
“My name is Briana,” The girl says as Ruby, Weiss, and Yang get back to the group. “My semblance is future sight, and I can see a few minutes ahead of time. I recommend that we get out of here before those grimm return.”
“What are we going to do?” jaune asks in a worried tone.
“Look,” Weiss says. “There is no sense in dilly-dallying, our objective is right there,” She gestures to the chess pieces.
“Shes right,” Ruby says in a leader voice. “Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs.” Ruby and Weiss nod to each other. “Their is no point in fighting these.”
“Good idea,” Jaune says. “Now that is a plan I can get behind.”
Ruby, Jaune, and Micheal grab the white knight, rook, and black rook. We run off back to the cliffs. Along the way, the grimm finally catch up and start attacking. As we were crossing the bridge, one of the nevermores crashes into it, separating the group. “EMBER, You help jaune and them. Micheal and briana help Ruby and the rest. Leave the last grimm to me.” I run along the falling pieces of the bridge firing Ki blast at it to distract it from the rest. I manage to get up the mountain and jump on it to it. I look down and see that ember and them are dealing with the other grim. I grab my weapon and it transforms into sword mode. I infuse my ki into it and start slashing at the grimm. It does little to no damage however, and it does a barrel roll to make me fall off. I stab its back and manage to hang on. “Tch, this is taking too long,” I say as I see nora slam her hammer into the deathstalker’s head. “Kaioken! X3!” I start charging a kamehameha. “KA… ME… HA… ME… HA!!” I aim it underneath me, causing it to go straight through.It crashes into the cliff causing me to fall off. I focus on the energy around me and use instant transmission to teleport to the nearest person. It ends up being Ruby, who is caught off guard by my sudden appearance. “What-? Where’d you come from?”
“Magic,” I say, doing the imagination spongebob meme.
“Huh?”
“A trick only I know.” I say, watching the nevermore’s head she cut off fade into dust.
*Timeskip*
“And finally, Robert Hutchison, Ember Lynn, Micheal Groth, and Briana Hansley. Together, you obtained the black rook piece. From now on, you shall be known as Team EMBR, With your leader Being Ember Lynn.”
Everyone clapps as I stand on stage smiling, Glad I’m not the leader.
Ember jabs my side. “Why am I the leader?”
“Simple, You didn’t abandon the others, plus, you have a sense of leadership.”
He smiles. “Glad to have you by my side, partner.”
I die on the inside as he says that. Poor chap already trusts me, so now I’m going to feel terrible once I have to leave to do a heist, or if he should find out.
As we walked to our room, Ember came up with a small plan.
“Ok, how about we unpack now so we don’t have to do it tomorrow, and the set an alarm so that we don’t miss class in the morning.”
“Sounds like a plan boss,” Micheal says.
As I’m unpacking, my scroll rings. “Uh, I gotta take this.” I set my stuff down and go outside. “What is it Roman?”
“Just telling you ahead of time, I plan on recruiting the white fang into our operation.”
“What? Are you crazy? They hate humans. Why would you even attempt that?”
“Because we need more men! We are scraping by with what we have, and you know how demanding cinder is.”
“True. Well, if you think it will work, just tell me ahead of time so that I don’t get caught off guard.”
“Alright. That's it, I will send you the coordinates to our next heist soon.”
“Got it.” I hang up the scroll.
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As the alarm went off, I got up and grabbed my uniform. I’m glad we got to customize it, as I just made it a vest that I can where since I hate uniforms, due to some incidents at private schools on Earth. After getting dressed, I head to class once its 8:40. I get to Port’s class I take a seat in the front, so that way I can see everything since I am blind, and I left my glasses at the hideout. As port talks about grimm, I look over to my right and see team RWBY bored out of their minds. I look back at my notes and notice that almost all of it is blank, I write down a bunch of notes as he keeps telling the story of his first kill. Once he is done with his story, he starts naming things a huntsman should have. “A true huntsman must be honorable. A true huntsman must be dependable. A true huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise. So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?”
“I do sir!”
I look over and see Weiss with an angry expression on her face. “Well then,” Port says, waving his hand towards a container I swear wasn’t there before. “Step right up and face your opponent.”