I wanna just reply to some reviews here since it'd be better for everyone else to see it as well.
tsun: If you're asking how he became a student it was back a couple of chapters ago when he arrived in vale during the attack. But my reasoning for him becoming a student was basically due to the fact that even if he did say he had experience against Grimm before and was able to survive in the wilds of Remnant, it would indeed be amazing but would be complicated by having no form of authenticating it by the sign of a Hunter license which I thought he would need to at least spend an entire year in Beacon for reasons such as emotional and mental problems he might have which would make him unfit to be a Hunter. Similar to how even if your father teaches you all about gun safety laws and proper handling you'd still need an exam on it to prove that you truly can take the responsibility of it.
UnknownGIND, Guest-Questioner: I do plan to rewrite this but as Guest pointed out, only after finishing the entire story rather than rewriting this from a blank state which would take a lot longer. And Guest actually understood a lot of points that I had when making this.
Toxic Guest: First of all I haven't even used twitter in my life so no idea how I'm a racist on Twitter and how I'm a cucklord. Yeh, this did take a long time to update but if you have a problem with it then write a story with an original idea, and I did originally write this without an actual storyline or plan for this.
Well, that's done and done. Now back to writing.
Glynda stared at the spot that Momon and Jaldaboth disappeared from. She didn't know how to feel at that moment, everyone knew her as someone who held little emotion and an iron-willed and steadfast woman but at that moment.
It was just blank. A new student barely a month in Beacon being sacrificed by his own will to someone that had the same level of threat as Salem. If the population of Remnant ever found out about the two of them...she wouldn't know what would happen. Mass panicking across Remnant leading to hatred against them for hiding it, fear of their end, and violence someone would feel when he'd find out that no matter what he did wouldn't let him escape the inevitable.
It went unsaid how the Grimm would react to entire cities in Remnant full of negative emotions. And with the newly found information, Hunters would probably retire to protect their family from the Grimm leading to deaths untold which would lead to more negativity.
A loud thud and creaking broke her out of her thoughts as she looked up and saw a Death Knight looming above her as its cold, empty gaze stared at her. She flinched when its hand moved towards her but continued to stare at it confidently. The Death Knight grabbed hold of the table that was brought out while the previous vampire maidens that she saw before removed all the food that was placed on the table but was never touched.
She stood up and walked back towards Vale as she heard the Death Knights behind her removing all the things that were previously brought out. When she reached the gates of Vale where the other Hunters stared at her as she walked back alone. She was sure that they would still have been able to see Momon leave with Jaldaboth even if they were far away.
She glanced behind her to see the large army that terrified all of them turn around as a large portal similar to the one that Momon disappeared into opened but in a much greater size. She looked at the Hunter's eyes and all of them held anger in their eyes that would have said they would have been willing to go to war for each other, but behind those eyes were both relief and guilt.
They knew that given the choice not many of them would have given their lives when an option was available for them to abandon a team that they had no affiliation with whatsoever for their lives.
"This is no time to be depressed over this." Glynda spoke out as all of the Hunters turned their eyes towards her including some of the media crews that decided to stay behind rather than evacuate. Anyone would have felt a heavy pressure on them if they were in this situation, but she wasn't just anyone. She was the Headmistress of Beacon with years of teaching unruly, hormone-filled teens that were sometimes downright antagonistic, gave her a tolerance to the amount of attention that she held.
"His sacrifice has given us time. Time to rebuild, Time to be stronger, Time to overcome fear!" A round of cheers echoed. "So stop moping around here and do something productive. Help the citizens re-acclimate to the city, tend to the injured, help any other Hunters who need it. Be stronger!" A final round of cheers exploded out as everyone moved with renewed vigour.
She walked towards a Beacon Bullhead that landed quite some time ago during her speech. But before she could enter. Someone grabbed her hand, and as she turned around, she met the eyes of a young girl with pale green hair and red velvet coloured hair.
"Yes?"
"Uhm...ca-can I join beacon? I saw what happened and...I wanted to help" The girl looked up at her with almost pleading eyes as tears threatened to fall. She smiled at her conviction but sadly she couldn't refuse since they needed everyone that they could get. After all, anyone would want revenge after their father was taken. "Of course, we'd be happy to have you at Beacon."
With a final farewell, she stepped inside the Bullhead as the ramp rose with the girl staring at her with an elevating smile. Unknown to her as soon as the ramp blocked their vision of each other. A mirage-like haze danced across her face as it revealed her cold and emotionless face.
Nazarick
Demiurge and Ainz who was still in his armour came out of the portal into an office that he had made for him to look at all reports that would need his attention. He ended up delegating a majority of it to Albedo who seemed more than happy for it (poor girl) and sat on the chair as the maids beside him removed his armour for him due to the fact this was no longer the spell [Create Greater Item] which meant it had to be equipped and unequipped the normal way.
Demiurge moved to the front of the table who had Sebas standing there since the beginning. Shortly after, Albedo arrived through another portal.
"Demiurge, report" Ainz spoke urging Demiurge to speak. While he did agree to the plan of invading Vale, he didn't expect the plan of Demiurge to reveal himself either.
"Surely, someone such as you would be better to explain the grand plan that you have don't you milord?" Ainz would have found it sarcastic if not for the gaze of pure admiration that came from him.
"What do you mean Demiurge? Wasn't this your plan from the beginning?" Albedo turned to Demiurge questioningly while Demiurge looked at her with pity.
"Very well then. Demiurge, explain it to her" Yes, please do explain it for both of us since even I don't know about this 'Grand Plan' that he apparently has.
"You see Lord Ainz knew that if we were to take it by force would only lead to it becoming dysfunctional with the other cities coming in aid. We would need to deal with civil unrest on a daily basis. Therefore he laid out this entire plan ever since he stepped foot unto the City! Which is why Ainz-sama saved Emerald who was knowledgable on both Cinder and her master along with life withing the City would have us the perfect agent which is why she is currently in Vale trying to enter Beacon. And under the pretence of obtaining a Hunters license, Ainz was able to enter the City without large amounts of suspicion creating himself to be the perfect Martyr to be used to allow Emerald to enter Beacon and will slowly rise in both skill and reputation making her be the face of all Hunters in Vale. And with the recent revelation. More power would be given to the Hunters rather than the council in fear of 'Jaldaboth' ever returning, and if Momon were to return heavily wounded after an encounter with Jaldaboth keeping him at bay. Then the council will have no choice but to rely on Momon for the fear of Jaldaboth." Demiurge ended with his arms spread apart with a face that looked like he was able to understand the void. Sebas and Albedo looked at Demiurge with enlightenment and praised him for his great wisdom to be able to know Ainz's plan.
That...
How did you get that?! All I wanted was to get a Hunter's license to be able to roam Remnant freely! And I just saved Emerald because of pity back then!
"Incredible Demiurge. But there's a problem with some of your reasonings. Firstly, we would be using the threat of Jaldaboth for every City in Remnant and with Momon being a person being able to fend off such evil. Surely everyone would try to sway said person to their side entering a political or simply hidden war with each other. Second, I do not plan to control the Cities personally, it would be under the control of the appointed Floor Guardians as a test of their wit and cunning. And lastly, Many of the high ranking persons have been replaced by Pandora's Doppelgangers which I appointed to him." He ended his speech which he made on the spot but he did feel that he was slowly integrating with his stats. If it were his previous self, he would have never thought of these points on his own.
"Amazing Ainz-sama!" Albedo cheered as she stared at him with infatuation.
"Truly I was foolish to think that I have completely understood your plan. Truly befitting of being the Leader of the Supreme Beings" Demiurge spoke as he adjusted his spectacles while Sebas only nodded holding his chin.
Truly his master's intellect and wisdom truly is beyond us. Demiurge stared at his master's face and was sure, that he was planning the entire future of this world in his mind.
Beacon
It'd been two weeks and life was normal after everyone came back. Sure, everyone was moving with nervousness and some amount of fear but everything still went the same for everyone's lives. Classes continued, fighting would start in the hallways, and even missions again.
The news immortalized the form of Momon. Even a petition to put up a statue in the City for him. To commemorate his sacrifice, and more often than not. Ruby felt it was her fault for everything.
If only she didn't accept the Headmaster's offer to investigate the strange energy that was felt. If only they ran instead of fighting that Death Knight that they found. If only she wasn't so childish to accept the mission immediately! She was just so excited to finally go on a proper mission that she didn't think about anything else, she just wanted her first mission to be successful that she didn't think about why that monster was there in the first place. If only-
"Ruby, stop moping around. It wasn't your fault" Yang put a hand on Ruby's shoulder to comfort her.
"But, if I didn't accept the mission then maybe the-" Yang covered Ruby's mouth
"But nothing Ruby... If we didn't accept the mission then Ozpin would've just given it to another team. Now, do you want another team to be in our position?"
"No..." Ruby shook her head weakly. "But I feel like we should've been there with Momon you know? To help him and stuff"
"Would've, Should've, Could've. You're thinking about the past Ruby. You should be thinking about the future you know? Being the greatest Hunter Remnant has ever seen! Travelling the world, fighting the Monsters and Grimm. Going down a Legend!" Yang spoke while swinging her hands wildly as illusions of Grandeur appeared where Yang gestured.
"Yeah, You know what Yang. You're right! I shouldn't be standing here in the hallway moping around! I should be training as hard as I can to make sure Momon's sacrifice isn't in vain!" Ruby held her hand above her as a new spark lit up in her eyes.
"Yeah about that Ruby." Yang pointed behind her as annoyed students stood there. "Maybe you should move" Looking around Ruby saw that she was in the middle of the hallway blocking it.
Ruby immediately moved to the side as she let out a squeaky sorry as the students passed by her grumbling. "And you do know we're late for class right?" Ruby tilted her head to the side and checked her scroll.
"Yang we're late!" She screamed as she started running towards the classroom they needed to be in. "Yeah, I know Rubes. I told you"
They both sprinted down the hallway as she opened up her scroll and looked at what class it was.
"Oh no...Its combat class.." She didn't want detention now that she had a new goal in life.
Soon they arrived at the door and slowly opened it hoping Glynda wouldn't hear them. She peeked inside and saw Glynda staring at her scroll as she configured the Arena's settings. She and Yang both slowly sneaked their way inside as quietly and as low as possible.
"Hello, Miss Rose and Miss Long. Can you tell me why you were late to my class?" Glynda spoke not looking up from her scroll as she continued to focus on the scroll.
"Uhm...traffic?" Yang just said weakly as she let off a shrug. Glynda just sighed looking up briefly from her scroll as she looked at Yang then to Ruby. Ruby wasn't sure but her eyes seemed...sad.
"We are on an island separated from the City where there are no vehicles anywhere on Campus Miss Long. Take a seat so we can begin." Glynda walked off to a more open part above the Arena below as both Yang and Ruby moved over to Weiss and Blake with Weiss waving over.
"What were you guys doing?!" Weiss whispered. Or at least making her voice whispery as she basically sounded just as loud but in a whispery voice.
"I told you. Traffic." Yang shrugged as she sat down with a smug look as Weiss glared at her. "Guys, doesn't something look off with Glynda? Doesn't she look kinda...sad?"
"Now that you talk about it yeah. She didn't even get mad at me" Yang let out a smirky grin "How far do you think i can take it?" Ruby looked at her with a deadpan face and just stared at her with a face saying 'Really? just...really?'
"What? everything's been so boring since the attack yknow?" Everyone pretended to at least ignore it. But everyone was affected by it in some way or another with some teams missing members from grieving since a lot of the students either wanted to become a Hunter because someone in their family was a Hunter or or was inspired by a Hunter.
"I get that it was horrific" She quickly added "But everything's just not the same as before"
"Team RWBY, please settle down"
"Sorry, Miss Goodwitch" They calmed down as Goodwitch continued. "Now, everyone's settled down. Can we have Miss Rose and Miss Coco unto the stage please"
Ruby stood up as Coco did the same and went down to the arena "Wish me luck guys"
Ruby and Coco stood opposite to each other as they readied their weapons and waited for the signal. Ruby knew what weapon Coco used and she knew that she'd be at a disadvantage at long range and Coco would've known that too and would likely have a way to keep her at a distance despite her semblance.
"Are both sides ready?" Both of them nodded as the screen above them lit up and showed both their auras in the green. They stared each other down entirely focused on one another.
"Begin" With that, they exploded into action as Coco brought out Gianduja as it transformed into a Gatling gun and opened fire on Ruby. Ruby immediately ran around as the sound of the stage behind her breaking from Coco's gunfire. She came to a stop and shot the ground in front of her and used the recoil of the shot and jumped above the line of fire that Coco was shooting and landed behind it as fought to control the recoil and change its direction.
Ruby immediately used her semblance and charged towards Coco as she readied Crescent Rose to cut down Coco only to feel a something hard as a loud clang resounds through the Arena. Looking down, Ruby saw Gianduja back in its handbag form blocking Crescent Rose. Ruby was knocked back as Coco swung the handbag as it hit her face and landed a few feet back only to look up and find Gianduja back in its Gatling form.
Ruby knew that doing the same trick twice wouldn't work and now that she knew Coco could defend herself from close range made it a bit more difficult and with the weight of Gianduja staying the same in its handbag form basically turned it into a morning star. So she decided to change her plan again by taking aim with Crescent Rose before Coco could fire and shot a round at her which Coco dodged rather than blocked and continued her assault.
Taking a move out of her Uncle Qrow who was still missing until now. She started shooting the ground around her as more and more dust was kicked up and started to cover her side of the arena blocking everyone's vision.
Coco started eyeing the dust cloud suspiciously as she looked for any minor movement that she could see until a gunshot come from within as a silhouette dashed out of the dust cloud bringing some of the dust with it as she immediately brought Gianduja aiming at it and firing until she watched it fall to the ground. She hadn't even shot yet so why did she fall? She looked closer as she heard footsteps beside her and turned to see Ruby without her cloak on charging at her with her semblance.
She moved back in surprise and glanced at the silhouette that she was looking at before and found Crescent Rose with her cloak tied on top of it. She grinned and turned towards Ruby. With Ruby's semblance and her small form basically made her that same as a bullet and she could turn Gianduja back into its handbag form but it would be too late and with Ruby's semblance hitting her would be enough to knock her down or worse, completely out of the Arena.
So she did what seemed sensible at that time and dropped Gianduja and readied to drive a fist into Ruby's stomach. Ruby had a wide grin on her as she charged at Coco as Coco jumped forward with her fist.
A staff member burst through the doors and shouted: "Miss Goodwitch, there's an emergency!" Both Coco and Ruby looked towards the man as they crashed into each other at full speed as they both fell and rolled on the ground as a human tumbleweed.
A round of laughter passed through the crowd before they all quieted down as Glynda glared at them.
"What's the emergency?" She said turning to the man who was in an unkempt state and clearly stressed with his clothes dishevelled and profusely sweating.
"There's something weird in the city!" The man spoke clearly as if he wanted to leave as soon as possible. "Speak clearly. What do you mean something's weird in the city. Don't tell me you called me for something so small."
"No no no. A portal the same was as the one Jaldaboth made appeared in the City." This got her attention. Didn't Jaldaboth say that he'd leave the city alone if he got Momon? Of course if he was to be believed to be a demon then he wouldn't keep his word so the only reason why a portal appeared inside the city rather than outside would mean that he was planning a direct attack on the city unlike before.
"Inform Vale and have the surrounding area evacuated and call all available Hunters to take positions around the portal. I'll have some of the students come with and have the faculty keep Beacon on lockdown and ready the Bullhead in the worst-case scenario" She immediately listed off as she readied her scroll and turned to the students "Everyone, I want all of you to return to your dorms and bring your weapons with you and follow the instructions of the staff for the time being" Glynda quickly left the Arena as the entire room went up in whispers between teams and members with some of them spreading rumours that this could be a false alarm or even a drill that was staged.
But Ruby didn't believe it. Miss Goodwitch was too panicked for it to be a drill and a false alarm like that would have already been investigated especially if it was something as severe as something that just happened recently.
She turned to her team and Weiss and Blake were already getting their things and ready to leave while Yang was already pushing through the people that started forming crowds after Goodwitch left. She followed them out and after leaving the room with some other teams that also left.
"So what do you think guys?" Yang asked first breaking the ice "I don't know. Its already been resolved right? So I don't know why they'd do this again"
"Weiss is right, they wouldn't do this after two whole weeks after but we don't know anything about them except that the guy is apparently a demon lord"
"Yeah, but its better to be prepared. Just in case you know. They aren't like the white fang, at least the white fang could be stopped since it had a few powerhouses in it but with them. We wouldn't stand a chance" Blake spoke with a hint of fear.
"Hey, guys!" They all turned to the voice and saw team JNPR with Jaune waving his hands as Ruby waved back. "What are you guys doing out here?"
"Oh nothing, it was too noisy inside. So where you guys going?" Jaune pointed behind him "We're off to get our weapons with the announcement that Goodwitch made and maybe some extra training."
"Hey, why don't we go with you? We were planning to do the same thing anyway. Minus the training part at least." Ruby looked behind her to see if her team was okay with it.
"Yeah, we got nothing better to do right now. Except maybe read some smut." Yang said cheekily as he pointed towards Blake who started to become red from embarrassment.
"It's not smut!" Blake knew she fell for Yang's trap when Yang turned around with a big shit eating grin "Really? Why don't we go read some then?"
"On second thought. Yay, training!" Blake added quickly as she hastily turned to move towards the opposite way to the lockers. "Yang, what's smu-"
"Something you should never talk or ever learn about Ruby" Yang pinched both of Ruby's cheeks and stared into her eyes "Uhh...Okay. Can you let go now?" Yang did. After squeezing harder "Now come on. Let's get our weapons. Hey Blake! Lockers are this way!" She pointed behind her as Blake realised she was going the wrong way and quickly walked the opposite direction earning her a few snickers from JNPR and RWBY.
A Bullhead above Vale
"So what's the situation down below?" Glynda peeked out of the Bullhead as she watched police and military ward people off as a clear perimeter was set around a swirling portal hovered over the buildings menacingly as it seemed to pulse every now and again.
"The surroundings have been evacuated and defences in place with the Hunters either behind defences or within the buildings as vantage points" She looked down as she saw Hunters on top of the rooftops with their weapons trained at the portal. Not many of the Hunters arrived here even though it was addressed to all Hunters within the area simply because of the events that happened 2 weeks ago with many of the Hunters either retiring or simply became traumatised from it and ignored the call from Beacon.
"Bring us down." The Bullhead circled around as it landed on a parking lot not far from the portal. After getting off the Bullhead and pushing through the blockade and crowds that circled the barrier with the police trying their hardest to push people away and telling them to go home but refused since their curiosity overtook them.
They waited in front of the portal for about 15 minutes with nothing happening until they saw motes of light and some bits of sound coming from the portal and after waiting a few more minutes, some rubble or debris fell out of the portal.
"Have everyone get ready!" Glynda shouted at a man near her as she relayed her orders as the surroundings noticeably changed as silence was drawn out through the air with only the sounds coming from the portal polluting the air. Until a black figure burst from the portal and landed on the ground with 2 more following through.
The Hunters immediately trained their weapons on the new arrivals while the ones with no ranged function went forward to either stop them or delay them in any case. After the figure landed with their armour clearly battered and bruised with chunks of the armour simply missing parts of it while the 2 that followed were the well known Death Knights that they've seen before.
The figure immediately stood back up and brought a black Great-sword in his hand high into the air and pierced down into one of the Death Knights as it collapsed under the weight of the weapon as the man was thrown to the ground with the other Death Knight bashed him with his tower shield and readied its giant Kris sword and stabs towards him. (the closest type of blade of that I could find)
But the Death Knight staggered back as it received a large blast that pushes it back a step as it looks above it and sees some people above the rooftops with one girl, in particular, holding a miniature rocket launcher before the more and more shots came flying at it from different directions of different calibres of guns with the ones with swords, spears, daggers, or even hammers closed in as they sort of kited around the Death Knight taking swings in when it focused on someone else.
The Death Knight enraged from all of it. Starts swinging around wildly at anything closest to it as some of them were knocked to the ground only to be saved by someone else quickly pulling them out of the Death Knight's range.
The figure around this point stands back up and runs towards the Death Knight with it turning towards the sound of heavy footfalls coming towards it and sees the man tackle it onto the ground as the man grabs hold of its arm and plants a foot on its face and strongly pulls as the arm of the Death Knight disconnects with a great crack that resounded throughout and grabs the sword that was held by the now disconnected arm of the Death Knight and plunges it into the chest of the Death Knight as the red glow of light slowly flickered away from its skull as the bone and armour seemingly falls apart.
Everyone stood still watching the dead body of the Death Knight expecting it to come back from the dead but after some time they all settled down as nothing happened after a few minutes. The entire area erupted in cheering as everyone celebrated but Glynda didn't celebrate or cheer but instead walked closer to the man that stood over the Death Knight.
"M-Momon?" She called out both hoping and fearing that he'd answer. Momon didn't turn around however as he continued to stand there. "I know you might be mad at me for leaving you behind but I had to put the people of Vale first." He still didn't turn around, however.
She was about to turn to leave and let him have his thoughts until Momon dropped his sword and collapsed on the ground.
She immediately rushed to him and found him unconscious from either the fighting or jus this overall state which suggested that he fought a lot more than just now.
"Medic! Get someone here now!" The clamouring died down as people turned to her and found the man on the floor. People squeezed through the Hunters and immediately knelt beside him with their equipment.
'Come on. I'm not losing another student'
So that's the next chapter. I know that I kind of made Glynda a bit girlish here but no matter how strict a woman is or how upright they are. They are still first and foremost, a woman so with that on top of her being a teacher. Yeah I thought she'd put a lot of the blame on herself even if it wasn't her fault. And suddenly having said sutdent com back to life would be kinda shocking for her. And before someone says that Ainz couldn't be knocked down just from that. Well...yeah of course he wouldn't. This is him pretending since he just 'Apparently' escaped from Jaldaboth and fought tooth and nail to escape.