Chapter 1: A New Player Joins The Game…

Author's Note Part 1: Alright, so after writing up some of my "Team RWBYZ" story, this little idea ended up appearing in my head. And after looking through this crossover category, I've seen only one other that's like it. However at the same time, it's different for multiple reasons. The main one being that while that story involves a Female!OC, mine will have a Male!OC, just like all the other stories that I write.

Something else you guys should know, since it'll be fairly important, is another difference between this one and the story that I've mentioned. From what I read in the summary, that one takes place right after the events of SAO. Well, in mine, it doesn't. However, I'm not going to tell you when exactly this takes place. You'll just have to find out as you read.

Anyways, since I've gone from "the writer who tells you everything at the beginning" and changed to become "the writer who constantly teases you about the character's past over the course of the story", that's about all I have to say for this Author's Note. So, I'll let you guys get to reading the actual chapter now.

3rd Person POV:

"… I could've taken him." Yang, a 17 year old girl with long, blonde hair, and lilac eyes says to a smirking Blake, a raven haired girl the same age as her, with ember colored eyes. The "him" that Yang is referring to is an Ursa. A large, bear-like Grimm that's currently lying on the ground between them since Blake had killed the creature seconds prior, as revealed by the body slowly dissipating into the air.

In response to Yang's statement, Blake just continues to smirk, before the two girls suddenly hear the sounds of more Grimm. However, the creatures don't seem like they're getting closer, and instead sound like they're already fighting something. After a few seconds of listening, the two realize that it sounds like a pack of Beowolves, which are wolf-like Grimm as opposed to the Ursa's bear-like form. Sharing a look, the two immediately run towards the source of the sound.

While they run, Yang's mind is half excited for the possible challenge that might occur when she arrives, while the other half of her mind is worried that the Beowolves might be fighting her sister Ruby. Granted, her younger sister had told her about the time that she'd fought off a large pack just a couple weeks ago, but as an older sister, it was pretty much her job to worry about what could possibly happen to her sister in the Emerald Forest, which is filled with multiple different Grimm 24/7.

Meanwhile, Blake is slightly worried about the sounds, since as a secret Faunus at Beacon Academy, she can hear better than Yang, and realizes that it sounds like there's over a dozen of the Beowolves attacking whoever it is that they're fighting against. The fact that she can hear this is thanks to her cat ears, which are hidden beneath the black bow on top of her head. However, said ears can't hear anyone yelling, so she can't tell how many people the Grimm are facing off against.

As the two get closer to the sounds of the struggle, they each hear the sounds of metal striking claws, while at the same time, the sounds of angered Beowolves gets clearer for them to hear as well. They break out into a sprint when they realize that the fight is just past the trees that they're getting closer to, and that the battle is most likely taking place in a clearing. The two ready their weapons as they burst through the trees… Only to freeze with wide eyes at the sight that greets them.

Standing in the middle of a large amount of Beowolves is a single person. This person is a 17 year old male, who has Caucasian skin, azure eyes, raven colored hair and slightly pointed ears. His current outfit consists of black and grey combat boots, black pants held up by a black belt, a dark grey shirt, and over all of it was a black coat with light grey accents, which almost reached down to the forest floor. In his right hand is what appears to be a single black sword, which has white accents. (Basically, Kirito's "Black Swordsman" outfit from SAO, along with Elucidator. You'll find out why / how he has all this later…) However, that's not what causes them to stop.

No, what makes the two to stop are the bodies of other Beowolves that are around him, each of them dissipating at this point in time. Blake quickly counts 10 bodies, and she isn't sure how many others had already dissipated before they got there. Another quick glance tells Blake that there's still close to 15 that are surrounding him, each one of them growling at the teen in the middle of them all.

However, he simply does something that shocks the two girls standing at the edge of the clearing… He smirks at the Grimm surrounding him, before getting into a stance that shows he's ready for them to attack. And then the two girls watch as three Beowolves rush him at once, already knowing that they would be too late to help with how far away they are. But, they're shocked once again at the teen's response to three of the monsters rushing at him.

His smirk disappears as the Grimm get closer and closer to him, and is replaced by a serious look, before the creatures are only a few feet away. Then, as the girls watch, he suddenly rushes towards the three monsters, swinging his sword in an upwards arc towards the Beowolf in the middle, succeeding in leaving a large gash along its torso.

Then, the teen continues with his strike, following the momentum of his swing to block the claws of a Beowolf that had been aiming for his head. When his sword stops the strike, he glares at the beast, before pushing back, causing the Grimm to stumble back slightly as well, while at the same time the teen follows his sword arm's movements once again, and directs a strike from the third Grimm away from his chest.

However, as soon as this happens, he twists his sword in his hand, and changes the direction that he was swinging it to deliver a slash across the beast's torso, changing his grip once again so that he can land consecutive hits on the Beowolf, shocking the girls at how fast his movement speed is before he finally stabs the sword through the Grimm's stomach, and then turns around with the beast still impaled, hitting the first Grimm that had tried to attack him, and sending the beast away from him as the Beowolf that was impaled on his weapon is flung off it.

When this happens, Yang and Blake see the second Beowolf from before try to attack him, and almost yell out in warning. However, before they have a chance to the teen has suddenly spun to the side, causing the Grimm to strike the ground beside him as he continues to spin, slashing the Beowolf across its back as he does so, before he continues to slash the creature with his sword, creating multiple gashes across the thing's chest, back, arms and legs as he strikes it, before leaping backwards after one final slash as the Grimm is sent crashing to the ground.

After the final Beowolf falls to the ground, the Beowolves that are left standing around the teen let out howls of anger, before charging him all at once. This sight snaps Yang and Blake out of their shocked states, and the two girls get ready to help the teen in the middle of the pack as they get their weapons ready once again…

Only to practically drop them as their eyes widen once again as they watch the teen fly through the battlefield at speeds that only Yang was familiar with, cutting, stabbing and slashing the Grimm all over as he goes through the numbers, and after a minute or so, all that's left standing in the clearing is the teen with his back towards the girls, both of them noticing that he doesn't even look tired from what he'd just done.

The two continue to watch as the teen swings his sword to the side, and then reaches up and places it in the sheath that they can now see on his back. When this happens, the girls are finally brought out of their second state of shock, and Yang gets a large grin on her face as she looks at the teen in the middle of the dissipating Grimm bodies.

"That was awesome!" She exclaims as she throws her hands into the air. However, the two are surprised when the teen suddenly reaches his hand up and grabs onto his sword once again, unsheathing it just as quickly as he cut down the Grimm while he turns around to face them, his posture revealing that he's once again ready to fight at a moment's notice.

However, when he sees the two of them, he relaxes a bit, and straightens up slightly. Though Blake notices how he doesn't completely lower his guard, making her wonder why he was still defensive since the only thing that he should be wary of out here is the Grimm. Granted, there were probably quite a few somewhere around the area, but they were still relatively safe for now.

"Finally, other people." He says in slight relief. "You have no idea how long I've been out here. So far, everywhere I go it's been fighting off these wolves or bears with completely black skin and bone plated armor." He tells them with a sigh, making their eyes widen for two reasons. The first being that he didn't seem to know that what he'd fought were Beowolves and Ursai, while at the same time, he was talking about them like they were an annoyance.

"Uh… You were fighting Grimm…" Blake tells him, still confused as to how he couldn't know what it was that he was fighting against. In response to her statement, the teen standing in front of them narrows his eyes in confusion, while at the same time straightening out a bit more.

"Grimm? What the hell are those? I would've figured that each mob was given its own name." He tells them, making each of the girls raise an eyebrow as they share a glance.

"Well… The wolves were Beowolves, while the bears were Ursai. Hang on a minute, how could you not know this?" Yang asks him, stepping forwards slightly, only for him to get into a slightly more defensive stance as she does so.

"Uh, let's see… Maybe because I have no idea where I am, and every time I try to go somewhere, more of those things keep attacking me?" He asks them, before pointing his sword at them. "Now, before we start to get all friendly, would you mind telling me why you're here? I mean, you seem like nice girls and all, but I'd rather not trust you right away, only to get stabbed in the back later so that I have to respawn, and gather all my items, levels, Yule and everything else all over again." He tells them, surprising Blake once again.

"What do you mean "respawn"?" She asks him.

"I'm confused about that too. I mean, once you die… You're dead. There is no respawning on Remnant." Yang continues, looking at the guy more closely as his eyes suddenly widen, and the grip on his sword slackens a bit.

"Whoa, whoa. Back up. What the hell is Remnant? Last I heard, we're in ALO…" He suddenly trails off as his eyes suddenly fly up to their ears. "Uh, which makes me wonder why your ears aren't pointed… And why you don't have a health or mana bar… Wait a minute, those "Grimm" didn't have health bars either…" He continues, making the girls share another look of concern at the teen's words before Yang turns back to face him.

"Um, are you alright?" She asks him, making him shake his head as he gives a shaky laugh, and straightens out once again as he sheathes his weapon, and turns away slightly, rubbing the back of his head as he does so.

"No… No, I don't think I am. Where… Where exactly are we?" He asks, and the two can hear nervousness in his voice at the question, once again making the two girls share a look.

"You're in the Emerald Forest." Blake tells the teen, making him give them another shaky laugh in response.

"Great… Just great. I'm in a place I've never heard of, and the last thing that I can remember is going through a tunnel that was like the loading screen for SAO, before I ended up here… Wherever the hell here is." He says to himself, and the girls share yet another look at his words. They seemed to be sharing a lot of looks whenever this guy started talking.

"Hey, maybe we should take you to professor Ozpin… He might know what happened." Yang suggests. Because I know that I have no idea what you're talking about. She thinks to herself, confused about all this talk about "respawning", and "health bars". If anything, this teen made it sound like he thought they were all in a video game. Her suggestion makes the teen turn to look at them in slight confusion.

"Ozpin? Is he the leader or whatever around here?" He asks them, getting nods in response.

"Yeah, professor Ozpin is the headmaster at Beacon Academy." Yang says, making the teen put his hands on his head as he gives another chuckle. Though this one is less nervous than before.

"Great. I've landed in the middle of the forest, and now I'm gonna go and meet a principal at a school." He mutters, before looking at the girls once again. "Well, I guess that since I'm stuck here for now, I might as well follow. As long as you don't mind having an extra set of eyes watching out for those "Grimm"." He tells them, making Blake and Yang share on last glance, before Yang shrugs.

"Sure thing. Just don't try anything funny." She says as she lifts Ember Celica for emphasis. When the teen sees her gauntlets, he simply raises an eyebrow in confusion.

"…Gauntlets?" He asks her, making Yang roll her eyes as she punches the air towards a tree, and a projectile flies out of Ember Celica, impacts the tree, and blows part of it up. Then, Yang turns back to face the teen with a smug grin on her face as he continues to look at the former tree, which has smoke coming out the stump. "…Shotgun-gauntlets." He says, before turning back to Yang with a small smirk on his face. "I approve." He tells her, making Yang's smug grin get a bit wider.

"We should probably get moving. The faster we get our relic, the faster we can get back to professor Ozpin." Blake says, making Yang turn and nod to her in response.

"Yeah, good point." The blonde agrees, before turning back to face the teen that's walking towards them "Say, we never did get your name." Yang continues, making the teen pause, before he gives a small, genuine laugh.

"You're right, I didn't. Sorry about that. Anyways, the name's Ethan Smith." He tells them. (Not sure if this is a name that's already been used for an OC, but "Smith" was the last name that I thought of that seemed to work with "Ethan".) "And if we're on the topic of names, I didn't get yours either." He tells them.

"Blake." Blake introduces herself, getting a nod from Ethan as he turns to Yang.

"I've got many names, Ethan…" She says, trailing off at the end. "But most call me Yang." She tells him with a wink, getting a smirk from Ethan in response.

"Well Yang, Blake. Lead the way." He says, getting nods from the two girls as the trio sets off into the forest, Yang and Blake each thinking about the new guy that they'd found as they look around the area for any Grimm, while Ethan simply follows them. If the two girls had checked behind them for any Grimm, they might have noticed that Ethan wasn't looking around at all, and might have questioned him about it.

But as it was, they didn't look behind them. So, they didn't know.

Professor Ozpin, a man with grey hair and brown eyes, and the headmaster at Beacon Academy, was not easily surprised. He'd seen many things in his lifetime, some good, others terrible. Because of this, he had learned to take situations as they came, and adapt as needed. However, when a young teenage man suddenly appeared in the Emerald Forest out of a vortex that seemed to spew lightning, and in the middle of his new student's initiation no less, then surprise could clearly be seen in his eyes.

"Who is he?" Glynda Goodwitch, a woman standing beside him with blonde hair, and emerald eyes, asks. However, Ozpin knows that she's not asking him, and is simply questioning the young man's arrival out loud. The two adults watch as he takes out 20 Beowolves as if they were nothing, getting wide eyes from Goodwitch, while Ozpin simply raises one of his eyebrows at the sight.

However, for the people who knew him well, they would have seen the surprise that was present at the corners of his eyes at the sight of a 17 year old teen taking out almost an entire pack of Beowolves as if they were simple nuisances, using nothing but a simple sword. "But… But, how? No teen of his age should be able to take out Grimm that easily. Not even the third years could do that with a simple sword." She continues, watching as the rest of the Beowolves surround him, three of which attack him after a few seconds.

"He doesn't appear to be using a Semblance, and he obviously isn't using his Aura, since the Grimm have yet to land a single hit on him." Goodwitch says in disbelief as the teen on her scroll takes out the three Beowolves. However, the woman is once again surprised when she watches the last 12 Grimm surge at him… Only to be taken out within the space of a minute and a half.

"…It would seem that he has had practice on a level that none of the students at Beacon have ever had." Ozpin tells her, making Goodwitch glance at the headmaster, before turning back to watch her scroll as the teen meets Yang and Blake. While the woman watches their interactions, becoming slightly worried when the teen pulls out his sword and aims it at the girls, Ozpin does the same, but focuses on the teen.

Ozpin was known as a great man to many, and not without good reasons. He had the ability to see talent in people, and read them well with nothing but a few simple glances. And watching the teen as he fought the pack of Beowolves, and conversed with Yang and Blake, he did just that. He focused on the teen's confusion as he conversed with the two girls, and the nervousness that he showed when told his current location. As he continues to watch the three talk, he comes to a single conclusion.

Ethan Smith was not of their planet. While most would write this off as preposterous, Glynda being one of the most likely to be in that category, Ozpin thought of the idea with certainty. His reaction to the information the girls gave him, his current appearance, the "health bars" and "mobs" that he was talking about. All of it pointed to him being from another place entirely.

The fact that he didn't recognize the planet's name "Remnant" ruling out the other three kingdoms, as well as any settlements since every human on the planet knew its name. With all this in mind, he continues to watch his scroll as the three teens begin to walk out of the clearing and back into the forest, before speaking to the woman standing beside him.

"Add him to the list." He says, making the woman turn her head to look at him in surprise.

"Professor Ozpin?" She asks in confusion, the only response she receives being the man in question taking a sip from his coffee mug, before lowering it to continue to watch his scroll as the three get closer to the temple that the relics were located.

"Ethan Smith. Place him on a team with Ms. Xiao Long and Ms. Belladonna." He tells her. Goodwitch continues to look at the man for a few seconds, before sighing in defeat as she types in a few commands onto her scroll, and Ethan's name appears next to Yang's and Blake's.

"I certainly hope that you know what you're doing professor." She says with a sigh as she takes her attention away from the trio to focus on the other groups of two that are present throughout the forest. Ozpin doesn't respond, and just continues to watch the new group of three make their way towards the temple.

With the trio in question, Yang and Blake continue to lead the way, while Ethan stays behind them, turning thoughts over in his mind. As they'd continued to walk through the forest, Yang and Blake had continued to tell him about the world of Remnant, and what happened on it. Ranging from the Grimm, to Aura, to this thing called a "Semblance" that apparently everyone had. In his mind, he connected it to everyone being like a "Conduit" from inFAMOUS, except that no two powers were the same.

They'd also told him about Beacon Academy, and how the reason that they were out in the Forest in the first place was for an initiation into the school, where the first year students had to go into the forest, collect a relic from some ruins, and then return to their starting point, all the while fighting off the Grimm and staying alive.

In return for the information, he'd given them a little background on himself. Not too much though, since he had a feeling that they'd call him crazy if he revealed it all without evidence. Since he'd already told them his name, he told them that he had come from a place "very far away" and that the beasts there were varying in strength and number.

However, he did tell them that the area that he'd been in before arriving in the Emerald Forest had beasts that were "twice as tough as the Beowolves and Ursai, if not three times as tough". The response he'd gotten were two pairs of raised eyebrows, before the girls refocused and continued to walk through the forest in the direction that they believed the temple Ozpin told them about was.

Finally, the three of them reach a break in the trees, and look down the hill they were standing on top of down towards a cluster of ruins. As they look down at the crumbling stone, Yang turns to the other two. "You guys think this is it?" She asks, getting a shrug from Ethan, while Blake simply gives her a look that says "What do you think?", before she walks down the hill towards the ruins.

Yang and Ethan follow her, and then look around to see that this was indeed the ruins that they were looking for. Set up in a semi-circle around the edges of the ruins are pedestals, and on each pedestal are… "Chess pieces?" Blake asks as she looks at a black king.

"So, these are the "relics" that you guys are looking for?" Ethan asks them as he looks around the area.

"Apparently… And some of them are missing. Guess we weren't the first ones here." Yang says as she turns to face Blake, getting a nod from the raven haired girl in response, before she looks around the area.

"Well… I guess that we should pick one." She says, making Yang turn to look at the pieces around her, while Ethan simply walks casually around the tree temple. After a couple minutes, Yang finally speaks up.

"How about a cute little pony?" She asks, holding up a white knight with a smile on her face, Blake turning to face her as she rolls her eyes.

"Sure." She agrees, before getting a small smile of her own on her face as she walks over to the blonde, Ethan making his way towards the two girls at the same time.

"That wasn't too hard." Yang says with a smile, getting a light chuckle out of Ethan in response.

"Well, seeing as these ruins are in a large clearing, and Ozpin clearly told you guys that it was north, I'd say that it would have to be fairly easy to find so that no one would get lost." He says, getting two nods in response as they look around the area once again.

"Well, seeing as you guys got what you came here for, I guess that we can go back to your starting point so that I can talk to this Ozpin guy, and figure out what the hell happened to me." He says, the two girls nodding to him once again… Just before the three of them hear a high pitched scream. When this happens, Yang turns in the direction it came from with worry on her face.

"Some girl's in trouble!" She exclaims, before Ethan speaks up.

"That, or some guy got hit in the balls…" He says, shuddering at the thought.

"Well, either way, you guys heard that, right?" She asks, getting a nod from Ethan in response, but no response from the second raven haired teen in their group as she stares up into the sky. "What should we do?" Yang continues, turning around to face the other two. However, before either of them can answer, they hear a new voice call out, which is only familiar to Yang.

"He~~~~ads u~~~~p!" It cries out, making the three of them look up into the sky just in time to see a girl wearing a red cloak falling towards them… Only to be intercepted by a different person a second later, making the two impact a tree a few yards away. When this happens, the three stare at the tree in surprise.

"…Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asks, leaning to the side slightly to get a better look at where Yang's sister and the second person ended up.

"I-" However, Yang is cut off before she can continue by a different sound coming from the edge of the clearing, making the trio turn to look at it just as an Ursa comes stumbling out on its hind legs, its front paws swinging in the air as if it's trying to hit something while it lets off a growl. Suddenly, a pink explosion can be seen behind it, before the Ursa falls onto the ground. When the body hits the ground, a person can be seen rolling off it, before standing up in plain view.

This person is a Nora. She has bright blue eyes, and orange hair. After looking back at the dead Ursa with a frown, she immediately runs onto its head, another teen coming out of the forest behind the Ursa, panting to regain his breath as he steadies himself by placing one of his hands on the Grimm's corpse. This is Ren. He has violet eyes, and hair that's almost completely black, except for a few strands that are dyed the same color as his eyes.

As the trio at the ruins watches, he seems to say something to Nora, only for her to run over to the ruins before he finishes, causing him to look all over the place as he tries to find her. Meanwhile, Ethan watches as the orange haired girl looks at one of the white rooks with wide eyes, before picking it up with a smile, and then singing "I'm queen of the castle" a couple times while dancing around the ruins. However…

"Nora!" Ren calls out to Nora, revealing her name to the people standing at the ruins as she gives a sheepish smile to the violet eyed teen.

"Hehehe! Coming Ren!" She yells back, before skipping over to the teen, who's now known to the trio as Ren. While she does this, Blake speaks up again.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" She asks, getting a nod from Ethan in response.

"I-" But Yang is once again cut off as a loud screech of anger fills the air, making everyone turn in the direction it came from to see another girl come running out of the woods with a Deathstalker, a scorpion-like Grimm, running after her. This girl is Pyrrha. A redhead with bright green eyes. As she runs, she's forced to dodge the Deathstalker's pincers as it attempts to catch her, Pyrrha only barely dodging each time.

However, Ethan, Blake and Yang focus on Ruby, Yang's sister with red-ish black hair and silver eyes, as she suddenly jumps out of the tree she'd landed in, and appears by Yang's side. When they see this, Yang gets a large smile on her face. "Ruby?!" She yells, making the girl look up and see her sister, causing her to get a large smile of her own on her face.

"Yang!" She exclaims, the two sisters throwing their arms out as they attempt to hug each other…

"Nora!" Only for Nora to pop up in between them, making them stop the hug and look at the orange haired girl in shock at her sudden arrival. Meanwhile, Ethan simply watches all this happen with a slightly amused smirk on his face, before Blake turns back to Pyrrha to watch as she continues to dodge the Deathstalker's attempts at killing her.

"Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" She asks. Unfortunately, this is the straw that broke the camel's back, as Yang's eyes suddenly glow red, her hair catches fire, and she lets off a yell of frustration.

"I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" She yells, everyone falling silent as Yang keeps her hands clenched into fists at her sides, and Ren makes his way over to them. While this happens, Ethan leans over towards Ruby and glances at Yang.

"Remind me never to make her angry." He whispers, getting a nod from Ruby, before she realizes two things. One is that she doesn't remember seeing this guy on the cliff earlier, while the second…

"Um… Yang?" She asks, deciding that the new guy can wait as she points up into the sky, making her sister hunch over in defeat at something crazy happening again, while everyone else looks into the sky. Ethan decides to look into the sky with everyone else, but at the same time pat Yang's shoulder in sympathy.

"We all reach a breaking point at some time Yang. Guess yours just happened to be right now." He says, trying to process the fact that currently flying high in the sky above them is a Nevermore, which is a different kind of Grimm that looks like a giant raven. However, his attention is quickly brought to the speck of white on its talon, which he realizes is a person after a few seconds. This person is Weiss. She has white hair, and bright blue eyes.

"How could you leave me?!" Weiss exclaims, her voice sounding more like a whisper to the people on the ground below before the Nevermore lets off a loud ~Caw!~ a few seconds later.

"I said jump." Ruby says, though not loud enough that Weiss would be able to hear her, while Yang finally lifts her head towards the sky to see Weiss hanging onto the Nevermore, her mouth dropping open at the sight.

"She's gonna fall." Blake says in a matter-of-fact tone.

"She'll be fine." Ruby attempts to argue, though her voice betrays the fact that she's not entirely sure.

"She's falling." Ren states after a few seconds. As Weiss falls towards the ground, Ethan snaps out of his surprise, and gets a determined look in his eyes. He crouches a bit, ready to catch the girl… Only for the person that Ruby got hit by earlier to leap out of the tree he'd landed in and catch the white haired girl. This teen is Jaune. He has blond hair, and blue eyes. The sight of Jaune jumping out and catching Weiss surprises Ethan, and he stands up straight once again.

However, he bursts out laughing a few seconds later when he sees Loony Toons logic kick in as Jaune and Weiss start falling once again when the prior realizes that they're in mid-air. Jaune is the first to land, with Weiss landing on his back a moment later, idly looking at her nails as she stays sitting on the teen, who manages to gasp out that his back was hurt by the girl landing on it.

Then, a few seconds later, Pyrrha is finally hit by the Deathstalker, and is sent flying towards the group standing by the ruins. When she lands on the ground in front of them, Yang looks at the people around her. "Great, the gangs all here! Now we can die together!" She says in a seemingly cheerful voice, apparently unfazed by the Nevermore and Deathstalker ready to kill them. However, Ethan simply gives her a smirk, being used to sarcasm from what he's had to go through in the past. However, her sister seems to take her seriously as she turns to face the Deathstalker.

"Not if I can help it." She states, before rushing the giant scorpion-like Grimm with a yell, making Yang's and Ethan's eyes widen at the sight.

"Ruby, wait!" Yang exclaims, fearing for her sister's life since her younger sister is currently charging a Deathstalker head on, the only thing to help her being Crescent Rose, her red scythe, which is also a sniper. As Yang thinks about this, Ethan is reminded of a similar situation. Years ago…

"Stand back! I've got it!" Diabel, a blue haired teenage male with blue eyes, exclaims as he runs through a crowd of people, a sword in one hand and a shield in another, his eyes meeting Ethan's, along with another raven haired teenager's standing beside him. This is Kirito. A teenage male who has black hair, and ebony eyes. When Diabel gets clear of the crowd of people, his sword glows yellow as he faces a red skinned monster, which towers over everyone present as it brings out a large blade from behind its back.

When this happens, Ethan's eyes widen, alongside Kirito's as they each realize something important about the weapon. "Wait, stop! It's no good! Get out of there!" Kirito exclaims. But it's no good as the red skinned beast suddenly leaps around the room that everyone is in, using the pillars to gain momentum before bringing his sword slashing down on Diabel, a pained yell coming from the teen when this happens, before he's struck yet again, and is sent flying across the room.

When Ethan shakes himself out of the memory, he sees that the Nevermore had circled back around, and launched a salvo of its feathers into the ground. One of them had trapped Ruby when it pierced her cloak and got it stuck in the ground, and the Deathstalker's tail is poised to strike the young girl. He sees Yang at the edge of the feathers, reaching out towards her sister in fear, while the others standing around him are paralyzed at the sight, since they're all too far away to do anything.

The only one that isn't frozen is Weiss. However, Ethan doesn't see this as his gaze narrows in on Ruby, and the large Grimm that's about to impale her, and by extension… Kill her. When this thought goes through his head, his eyes narrow, and he becomes determined to stop that situation from occurring.

For the others watching the situation, the only thing that they see is a black blur that suddenly seems to fly across the ground, passing Weiss before she has a chance to take out Myrtenaster, and leaving the white haired girl behind. For Yang, she suddenly sees the black blur shoot through the feathers blocking her off from Ruby, the back of her mind noticing that each looks like it had been sliced in half. Then, as the large Grimm's tail descends on Ruby, the young girl closes her eyes, and Yang yells her name in fear… Right as the black blur reaches the Grimm.

~Screeeeeeech!~

When this happens, everyone's eyes widen, while Ruby's open, as they look at the scene in front of them. Instead of impaling Ruby, the Deathstalker's tail had instead impacted the dirt ground just in front of her. However, it's quick to retract the tail, as it stumbles around and waves it's pincers around in the air, as if it's trying to hit something. Then, the black blur they'd seen just a few seconds before suddenly leaps into sight off the Deathstalker's head, and everyone gasps.

Currently standing in front of the stumbling Deathstalker is Ethan Smith. However, there are two main differences to him now. The first was that in his hands are two swords. The first was the one that Yang and Blake had seen him use earlier, while the second is its polar opposite. It's designed the same, but the main color is white, while it has black accents. But the second change is the one that draws everyone's attention. And that's the fact that he has wings.

On Ethan's back are two pairs of black wings, which spread out in an X formation, and seem to glimmer in the sun as something akin to dust drifts off them and into the air. The group of Huntsman and Huntresses in training can only stare wide eyed as Ethan turns around, and looks down at Ruby.

Then, he sheathes the white sword in a second black sheath that had appeared on his back, reaches down, and pulls the feather out of the ground like it was nothing. After tossing it to the side, he turns back to the Deathstalker, which was lowering its pincers, and appeared to be glaring at the raven haired teen.

"Ruby…" He starts, making the girl in question look up at him as he unsheathes his white sword once again.

"Y-yeah?" She asks, stammering a bit from how close to death she'd come just second beforehand.

"…I need to you leave this one to me." He tells her, before he starts walking, yes walking, towards the Deathstalker without a care in the world. When he tells her this, Ruby decides to do as he suggests, and immediately makes her way over to Yang, who hugs her sister in relief, before turning back to Ethan just like everyone else to watch what he's about to do. When he's a few yards away from the Deathstalker, he stops, and glares at the creature.

"I don't know exactly what you are, nor do I care. All I know is that after what you just did…" He trails off as he gets into a position with Elucidator held in front of him, while the white sword is also held in front of him, but behind the black one. "…You're ending up the same way as every other mob I've ever faced. As nothing but a distant memory." He says with a glare. In response, the Deathstalker lets off a loud screech, before charging towards him.

"Let's go!" Ethan exclaims, running forwards to meet the large Grimm, all the Huntsman and Huntresses in training watching as the "mystery guy" runs towards one of the most dangerous Grimm that they knew of. At the same time, Ozpin and Goodwitch watch from their scrolls as the cameras all around the forest capture the soon-to-be fight. Everyone wanting to know how this will turn out…

Author's Note Part 2: How's that for a start to a story? I'll admit, most of this was simply thought up on the spot while I was writing it, but some of it was thought up just before I started working on this. Such as Yang and Blake being the ones to meet Ethan. However, Ethan being admitted into Beacon by Ozpin when the man saw him was a spur of the moment idea.

Now, I'm sure you all hate me for leaving you on this cliffhanger, so I'm gonna try to work on getting the second chapter out later today! Luckily, I'll be at home all day (as far as I know), so I shouldn't have too many problems. However, and this applies to all my stories, I'm not sure when the next time I'm gonna be able to update after today is.

See, I'm going on an RV camping trip (or as my dad likes to call it, "taking the house into the woods") for at least a week. Because of this, I'm not entirely sure how the Wi-Fi is going to be at the camp site(s) we stay at. So, I might not be able to work on any of my stories that require me to actually watch the anime / TV show. This also means that even if I work on an Original Chapter for one of my other stories, I have no idea when I'll be able to post it.

So, I'll be posting this tomorrow after I go over it one more time (since I finished this shortly before 11 PM on Wednesday), work on the second chapter afterwards, and then depending on how the Wi-Fi is at the campsite we arrive at, I may post more the next day, or it might be another week or so before I'm able to work on anything.

But, that's about all I have to tell you guys about this chapter. So, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope to see you all next time!