Alright hey everybody and welcome back to TGRR! Sorry for the wait, but here is the next chapter. Also, just wanted to mention that I did end up changing something in the last chapter. I accidentally said the wrong thing and I changed it, but I'll fix it for you now.

The Original:

"Ragna isn't just part Grimm. Ragna is a Grimm."

Fixed Version:

"Ragna isn't just part Grimm…Ragna has a Grimm inside of him and It's more powerful than anything we've seen before."

Anyways! Enjoy!

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In a castle under a red sky with a shattered moon looming overhead a woman sat upon a throne with a table in front of her with multiple chairs on the sides. Two people stood in front of her kneeling on one knee with their heads down.

"Report. What have you found out about the Prince so far?" The woman said leaning her head on one of her hands as she narrowed her eyes at the mention of the Prince.

"Lady Salem, we have found out little about the inner workings, but right now he is right where we want him. The Prince is currently at Beacon academy along with a man and two women from the other world. We have reason to believe that he has no idea about his true powers, but that Ozpin is beginning to slowly reveal information. So far, he has only had one outburst of power that we tracked back to Patch. He has a amicable relationship with the silver eyed girl. For now, that is all."

A black-haired girl in a red dress with golden lines decorating it spoke up as she placed a hand on her chest. She opened her eyes to look at her Queen and as her amber orbs met with the soulless dark and crimson eyes of her Queen, she could feel goosebumps rising. The man next to her was cloaked in a giant black trench coat with his hood up, concealing his identity.

"I am pleased with this information Cinder. You may go now." The Grimm Queen known as Salem spoke with authority as Cinder got up, bowed, then left quickly. As she exited the door, she placed an ear to it before listening in on the conversation that was about to be held between the cloaked man and her Queen. Surely, she wouldn't be punished for wanting to protect her Queen, right?

"As for you…have you retrieved them? I know you have your own information on the Prince, but I find myself becoming much more interested in these so-called "allies" you speak of." Salem spoke up as the figure rose and his shadowed eyes met her own dark orbs.

"Hehe don't worry My Lady, I have prepared them right now. They should be here. Ooh, shall I call them in?" The man spoke eerily. The woman nodded and the man snapped his fingers opening his own sort of rift. A huge amount of energy exploded throughout the portal as the man jumped backwards dodging it. "Come now children, that isn't nice!"

Dodging again, the man rolled out of the way as a large man with blue hair charged out of the portal and slammed the ground beneath him.

"Why must you run?! Come and face me like a man! I can smell the strength on you from miles away you madman. Let's fight already!" The large man yelled as he threw off the jacket resting on his shoulders. He looked at the cloaked figure with crazed battle eyes as he cracked his knuckles. "I know you know where the Reaper is so tell me already!"

However, soon after another being stepped out from the portal. A masked man with blonde hair walked out and grinned widely as he saw the woman sitting on the throne as well as the two men currently fighting.

"How interesting…I must say this is not what I was expecting, partner." The doll like thing behind him simply nodded as the pair continued to walk away from the portal.

"This is more than just interesting." Salem said as she stood and looked at the scene in front her. She could already tell that only one of these two would serve her as a pet, but that the other one would serve her in another way, shape, AND form. "Now…come."

In a quick motion, black vine like tendrils shot out from the ground beneath the four people as it pulled them closer to the woman. The blonde-haired masked man simply allowed himself to be pulled. The blue haired man though…that was a different story. He broke out of the darkness before dodging another one. He continued to break through them, but as he broke them even more spawned. Soon he found himself being lowered to the ground as they wrapped around him creating chains. The blue haired man smiled crazily as more and more continued to wrap around him. He tried to say something about releasing a restriction before the cloaked man wrapped a cloth around his mouth and grinned under his hood.

"Ah ah ah! Can't have you getting any stronger hm?" The cloaked man laughed as he looked at the blue haired man glare at him while he was forcibly held down by hundreds of black tendrils. Even still he was resisting, and the tendrils were obviously being strained.

"Here they are My Lady!" The cloaked man held his arms out. "Memories restored and all!"

"Well then…" Salem said as she looked the three over. "So, they know of the Prince?"

"Er, well, the doll pervert does, but the Mad Dog over there is much harder to contain." The cloaked man laughed as Salem sighed.

"The both of you were brought here for a reason. I'm sure you know as much as that correct?" Salem said as the two people looked at her. "Simply put I want you to serve under me."

"And why would I do that? There is a ripe new world waiting for me to form it through experimentation. Should I allow myself to be shackled down by a higher being yet again?" The masked man said with a grin. "Though I presume that you have the very power that I could utilize to mold this world into one that we both envision. Either way I'm sure you'd have me killed even if I did refuse yes?"

"Intelligent and strong…it seems I may have more use for you than I had originally thought. Tell me, what is your name?"

"Relius Clover at your service." The masked man bowed extending his arms in greeting.

"Relius…would you under me as a subordinate? I believe that I have use for you in my new world. A man as smart as yourself could provide use to it. Would you take up the moniker of the Ultimate Architect under me?" Salem said with a small and devilish grin. She could read this man like an open book.

"You had me at new world." Relius grinned as he bowed slightly. The cloaked man grinned before Salem spoke up and told him to show him to the workshop. The man bowed and Relius followed the man outside of the room on a side door towards the more industrious part of the palace.

"Now as for you…what is your driving force hm? Greed, pride, the lust for power…perhaps even love?" Salem said as she walked to the man and removed the cloth over his mouth. The man stopped moving and closed his eyes as Salem looked down at him. However, the man quickly released a huge amount of energy as he destroyed the dark tendrils.

"You…the power you exude is exquisite! You would provide me a good meal…if you want me to serve you why don't you fight me!?" The man raised his fist and began to throw a punch. However, before he could hit Salem spoke.

"What if I told you I could make you even stronger?" Salem said with a small grin as the man stopped his fist inches from her face. "I can see power welling up in your soul. You're not even scratching the surface of your untapped potential, but I can make that even stronger than before. More than that I could provide you with a fight more intense and destructive than anything you've seen."

"Woman…you interest me." The man dropped his fist and looked down on her. "You would tell me that you could make me even stronger than my max!? Ha! Provide me with this fight and power you promise and I'll do it. Skip the pointless manipulation. However, if you fail to entertain me or give me a good meal, I will destroy you where you stand."

"Well then, what is your name?" Salem said grinning.

"Azrael…they refer to me as the Mad Dog." Azrael grinned while crossing his arms. "Now, show me this power."

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In the streets of Kagutsuchi…

"So…Bullet." Makoto said to the girl next to her. The pair was walking over to do a job for Tager. The robot was away on a mission right now and had asked the pair to go over and check on Kokonoe for him. Apparently, when he called back, he got nothing on Kokonoe's end and got a tad bit worried. Not because she didn't answer, but because she hadn't called him to yell in a few days. "What have you been up to?"

"Nothing much…just the mercenary life as it is. Traveling, fighting, collecting, and so on and so forth." Bullet said matter of factly. "How about yourself and the NOL?"

"It's still pretty fun with Noellers and Tsubaki. It feels great to finally be free of everything while also doing something for the little guys right?" Makoto chuckled as Bullet smiled a bit. "Though there has been something up recently."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, apparently these weird rifts have been opening up all over town recently. No people get taken or anything scary like that, but people's things keep getting taken away from them or something." Makoto said as she sighed. "The weird thing is though is this last one that happened."

"Oh! I've heard about these things. There has been a rumor going around town about how some kid tried to go into it, but it shot him back out." Bullet said as she put a hand to her chin. "How weird."

"I know right! Lately it feels like something is missing from the world y'know? It's like god himself has just gone AWOL! Kagura is nowhere to be found either, which makes life a bit harder." Makoto said exhausted. "The weirdest part is I've been having this weird dream over and over again."

"Weird dream huh?" Bullet said. "Care to talk about it?"

"It's nothing much, but it's like I'm remembering an old memory that I don't remember happening."

*Makoto's Dream*

"Would you get out of my way!? I need to find Noel so just tell me already!" Makoto yelled at the man who was standing in front of her. The girl was breathing heavily after being attacked in city. A few bandits and delinquents decided to attack her on her patrol through the city after she protected a young girl. Her missions were to keep the area safe and make any arrests, but her personal objective was to find Noel, who was said to be in the area along with the infamous criminal Ragna the Bloodedge. While this confused her, she had to know the answer, so she set out during one of her missions. Now…she was being saved by the very same man she had been searching for.

"Jesus lady relax!" Ragna jumped backwards from the forceful right hook the squirrel girl sent his way. He dodged a kick to his legs before pulling his sword out to block a hard-left punch. "Damn!"

"Tell me where Noel is before I beat you to a pulp!" Makoto threatened.

"I just saved you from some creeps and now you try and kill me!? That doesn't seem very sane!" Ragna retorted. He snarled at the squirrel. "And I don't know where the hell Noel went! It ain't my job to babysit her!"

"So, you just left her!?" Makoto retorted. "Actually, maybe that's for the best. It's better if she doesn't hang around someone like you."

"What'd you just say?!" Ragna snarled again before putting his sword away. "You know what? Screw this."

The red cladded man simply turned around and walked back out of the alleyway as the squirrel girl just looked at him confused. She quickly realized what was going on before she quickly ran to catch up with him.

"Hey get back here!" Makoto yelled as she chased him. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Anywhere other than here." Ragna said annoyed and continued walking.

"Oho, no way mister!" Makoto grabbed his arm with a force Ragna didn't think she could have as she began to pull him along. "You're helping me find Noel and then me and her are gonna turn you in!"

"Wha-Piss off!" Ragna pulled his arm away. "I don't have time to deal with you!"

That was until Makoto's phone began ringing and the two of them jumped a bit.

"Stay right there I just gotta take this real quick!" Makoto said as she pulled out her phone and answered it. "Hello? Oh Kokonoe! What? No way! You couldn't just do it yourself!? Ugh fine!"

Makoto grabbed Ragna's collar as he tried to tip toe away.

"Agh!" Ragna shot back as Makoto held his collar in her hand tightly.

"It's for you." She said as she put her phone next to his ear.

"Jesus…who the hell is this?" Ragna muttered as the person on the other side known as Kokonoe began to speak. "Uh…hell no! I'm not doing your dirty work especially with this chick! Wha?! Oh, give me a break…fine. I'll do this dumb job and find Noel while I'm at it. Screw you too."

The phone call ended, and Makoto let go of Ragna as he groaned.

"What was that all about?" Makoto said with narrowed eyes. She couldn't risk letting him get away now.

"Turns out I'm gonna have to take you up on your offer." Ragna said dusting himself off. "We're finding Noel. Now."

"Wait, what? What caused the change of heart? Kokonoe threaten you or something?" Makoto said with a grin before she shivered as she saw Ragna's cold and angered eyes.

"No, more like promised me something." Ragna said as he walked right past the girl and threw his hands in his pocket. "Now you coming or not?"

"R-Right…" Makoto hurriedly ran after the man before thinking to herself.

'Why did he look so serious there...it must've been something intense to make anyone that mad.'

"So where are we looking first?" Makoto said as she ran up to him.

"Wow I'm surprised you changed tones fast." Ragna remarked. "Just a few seconds ago you were trying to punch my damn head in and now you're agreeing to work with me."

"Well, Kokonoe did tell me to find Noel with you on the phone so I can't really deny it. Also, I could say the same thing to you." Makoto grinned. "I did see you eyeing me up earlier after all."

"Wha?! I was not eyeing you up!" Ragna roared out.

"Oh really? Then why were you looking at my ass?" Makoto crossed her arms under her chest causing Ragna to look away with a slight tint of pink on his face.

"I wasn't looking at your ass!" Ragna retorted. "I was looking at your tail alright!"

"M-My tail?" Makoto was a bit taken aback by the man. First off, why would he be more interested in her tail than any of her assets. Secondly, why did he answer so honestly!?

"Yeah your damn tail." Ragna face palmed before sighing. "Now can we get a move on?"

Blushing a bit, Makoto caught up to the fast walking man and they began to talk...well more like Makoto teasing Ragna constantly. For days after that the two spent day and night together trying to locate Noel with Kokonoe's instructions. Needless to say the pair became closer and Makoto even found herself becoming quite flustered around the man sometimes. The strength he showed in battle and his rugged personality tugged on something inside of her, but more importantly she found herself being more and more curious as they traveled together to find Noel.

'Just what set him on this path of destruction?'

*End of Dream*

"Wait a second...did you say a man with silver hair, a red coat, and his name was Ragna?" Bullet asked before she held her head. "Argh!"

"Bullet! Are you okay?!" Makoto touched her friends arm.

"Y-yeah...I just got a fuzzy picture in my head of someone. It seems like we may have had the same dream recently." Bullet said as she winced before taking a deep breath and massaging her temples. "Truth be told I've been having a similar dream. There's been this time where I found myself sitting at a campfire with a man similar to what you described. It was just me and him talking, but it made my heart hurt when I awoke."

"Huh...that's weird." Makoto said before they came upon Kokonoe's lab. "Welp, here we are!"

"That was quicker than I expected." Bullet said as the pair began to walk into the lab. They made their towards the main lab where Kokonoe usually did her experiments, but as soon as they entered they were met with shattered glass and small dark figure with an orange coat investigating the scene.

"Bullet, who is that?" Makoto whispered as the pair crept up on the figure.

"Hm, I'm not sure. Get ready for a fight thought." Bullet said as she readied her gauntlets. "Hey!"

The darkened figure turned around to Bullet charging him in an attempt to tackle him down. Makoto followed closely behind before they were both flung to the ground without even realizing it.

"Hm?" The figure turned around with a gruff voice. "What're you two doing here?"

"W-What?!" Bullet said as she was on the ground. "How did you do that?"

"Huh? Er, it was just reflex." The figure said as it stared down at the two girls. "Why the hell did ya try and attack me? Haven't ya learned to respect yer elders?"

"S-sorry." Makoto said as she quickly got up. "We just saw the destroyed lab and figured you did it."

"Well, I just got here myself." The small figure said as he stepped closer into the light. It turned out he was a beastkin wearing a orange coat with black lines over it while a smaller sword hung from his back.. "Names Jubei, I already know both of ya. Seen you two around before."

"J-Jubei?! As in the strongest being in existence Jubei?!" Makoto yelled out in excitement. "This. Is. So. COOL!"

"Uh, Makoto, just calm down." Bullet said while sweat dropping along with Jubei's soft chuckle. "So Master Jubei, what happened here?"

"Well, I just get here myself." Jubei said crouching down and looking at a pile of rubble that was smoking. "Looks like this thing here blew up and caused all this damage."

"Wow, so what do you think it is?" Makoto said poking it a bit with her tonfa.

"Hm, it seems like a machine malfunctioned." Bullet hypothesized. "But why would Kokonoe just use it and then not clean it up...or more importantly try and fix it?"

"That's the real question...the kid ain't the cleanest person in her lab, but this is out of her usual shtick." Jubei said crossing his arms and sighing. "Your theory ain't exactly wrong Bullet, but it looks like it's the opposite. It looks more like she used it and never came back."

"Never came back?" Makoto said leaning on one leg with crossed arms. "You mean like she just up and left her lab?"

"Doesn't seem like Kokonoe…" Bullet responded placing a hand on her chin. "Unless…"

"The machine took her somewhere right?" Jubei spoke up as he sighed heavily. "I swear that girl is gonna get a beating one day."

"W-Wait, you're saying Kokonoe teleported somewhere?" Makoto asked a bit shocked.

"Er, not exactly. Ya see, that machine was hooked up to the boundary which was making a connection to something outside it's range. It looks like it was tracking seithr from the Azure Grimoire...but that shouldn't be in use right now…" Jubei said narrowing his eyes until he noticed both girls looking at him like he was crazy.

"What?" Makoto/Bullet said at the same time. Jubei just chuckled.

"Ah, forget about it kids." Jubei said as he stretched. "More importantly I gotta ask a weird question, you two been having any, er, headaches recently?"

"Headaches?" Bullet said a bit surprised. "I figured it couldn't be a coincidence it was both of us, but for the strongest being in existence to be having the same headaches...this is truly weird."

"Hey Jubei, do you get any weird dreams about some tall guy with a red coat and silver hair?" Makoto asked.

"Missy I think that's your hormones talkin'." Jubei said a bit surprised before Makoto flinched and Bullet laughed.

"That's not what I meant!" Makoto said a bit flustered.

"All jokin' aside, I have been, er, seeing someone like you mentioned. It seems Kokonoe and Rachel were havin' the same problem we are now. Speaking of which, I should contact Valkenhayn and see if he knows anything about all this." Jubei began walking towards the door.

"Hey, uh, Jubei?" Makoto said a bit unsure. "What's that?"

"What's what?" Jubei turned around to the monitor that Makoto was pointing at. It was staticy, but was tuning in and out over and over again with a giant paused bar on the top right. "Wait a sec…"

"That's the guy ain't it?" Jubei said a bit surprised. A figure of a red clad, silver haired man was shown walking through a street with a disheveled man. "So, this mystery man does exist."

Bullet and Makoto both felt their hearts twinge as they stared at the picture of the man yelling at the seemingly homeless person.

'Why does he feel so familiar?' Bullet thought to herself as she looked over to see Makoto tearing up. She placed a hand onto her friend's shoulder before looking towards Jubei, who was studying the picture very carefully.

'This is weird...I shouldn't feel like this…' Makoto thought as she wiped her eyes.

"Hey Bullet...do you think this machine could be causing those weird portal thingies?" Makoto asked her partner.

"Huh, I never thought of that." Bullet said. "It's certainly a thought."

"I think yer right kid." Jubei said before walking a bit. He pulled out a singed blueprint that had a drawing of a weird machine that looked like the rubble of the teleporter in front of him. "Look at this. It seems like that's exactly what happened. Seems she hooked it up to the energy signatures from the Azure Grimoire...gotta admit that's impressive."

"T-That's insane...to leave the boundary for science…" Makoto mumbled before Jubei spoke up.

"Actually, I'd say she left for him." Jubei pointed at the computer with the man on it. "She had been havin' the same headaches as me. Wouldn't surprise me if she finally had enough. It's like a part of our memories is missing, but it's trying to fit itself for some reason. Whatever the reason is, it's obvious that whatever is causing these weird portals is the same thing as this machine."

"The real problem is how do we fix it." Makoto said as she sighed. "She really left us with a big mess huh?"

"You got that right...I'm sure there's someway we can fix this and get Koknoe back at the same time." Bullet said trying to think of certain possibilities. Suddenly, Jubei's eyes went wide as the two girls conversed.

"Hey so what do you think we should do first?" Makoto asked.

"Erm, girls?" Jubei spoke up as the girls didn't hear him.

"Hm, well we should first report back to Tager about what we know so far." Bullet began. "He should be the first one to know about all this."

"Ooh! Good point! Let me call him real quick!" Makoto said going for her phone.

"Okay seriously...you two should look back." Jubei tried to say again to no avail.

"Alright! I got through!" Makoto said as she held her phone to her ear. "Hey Tager! We got some infoooo-woah!?"

Makoto felt herself being pulled backwards and as while she tried to resist it was to no avail. Bullet soon went wide eyed as a huge amount of wind began to swirl around the room as Makoto was pulled into a blue portal behind them. Bullet tried to grab her friend, but missed her barely. Knowing she couldn't save Makoto she grabbed onto a nearby lab table and was barely hanging on. Jubei was trying to get away while figuring out a way to save Bullet before his jacket got caught on a flying object and he was sent flying back.

"Look out kid!" Jubei said before he slammed into Bullet, which sent them both into the giant blue portal. Bullet soon lost consciousness from the force while Jubei held onto her. He grimaced and flinched backwards at the incoming force before finally succumbing to the same power that overtook Bullet.

"Aw...s-shit…" Jubei muttered as he lost consciousness.

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"Uwagh...Ragna...how the hell are you okay?!" Jaune said loudly before he flinched back and held his aching head. "That was such a bad idea…"

"Tch, fuck if I know." Ragna said having his own slight headache. Due to Akuma's help, Ragna barely had any consequences due to his decision making last night. He still had a light headache, but it wasn't nearly as bad as Jaune had been. Neither boy had slept while Ren and Kagura had gotten a good amount of sleep considering the previous night. Currently, Jaune and Ragna were both sitting at the side of the arena before everyone else as they had gotten up early due to the punishment given out to them by their respective teams and friends. Nora, Blake, and Weiss weren't really mad, but Pyrrha, Ruby, and Rachel were livid. Well, Ruby was more of a pouty mess which tore Ragna up.

'Those damn eyes…' Ragna said shivering before he thought back to the strange power the young girl had over him with her pout. As for the two other girls missing from that list, Yang and Kokonoe, they were mad because Ragna hadn't taken them with him. Especially Yang now that she knew he went to the new club that opened up a while ago. Kokonoe was more mad because she hadn't had a drink in a long time and she could really use one with everything that had been happening. As for Ragna's punishment...exile from the group for the he had gotten back, nobody spoke to him. Kagura and Ren had to fill him in on why everyone was mad. Nobody was allowed to talk to him but Kagura and Ren, who, by the way, thought this was idiotic yet funny. Weiss and Blake were equally annoyed at the punishment, because either time either of them tried to talk to Ragna, they were immediately shut down. Ragna, on the other hand, was finding Jaune to be his only ally right now. Nora didn't care much because she still had Ren, and Kagura had recently starting talking up a third year named Coco. This morning he came back from breakfast with a huge hand mark on his face and a shit eating grin like usual. Now they were sitting in the arena in their combat outfits while waiting for the teacher and their class to arrive.

"Oh! Looks like class is starting…" Jaune said with a saddened tone as the rest of their class, including RWBY, NPR, and AMK. "I hope I don't get picked."

Ragna sighed as Goodwitch walked in and immediately stared him down and narrowed her eyes at the Reaper. Ragna stared back with his own annoyed expression before Goodwitch turned away and walked towards the arena.

"Good morning everyone. Today we will begin combat class!" Goodwitch said with authority. "I know some of you have been eager to fight and others have been...less than excited."

"Oho, I've been looking forward to this since initiation." Cardin snickered as he grinned at Jaune and Ragna. Ragna simply growled while Jaune shrunk under the stare.

"Ahem!" Goodwitch cleared her throat to get the attention of team CRDL and the other two back to her. "Today I'd like to start small. We won't do any excessive team battling until you get used to your teams, for now we will start with the basics. 2 on 2 matches, similar to how some events in the Vytal Festival will be like. So! Who would like to begin?"

"We would Ms. Goodwitch!" Cardin said with a sing song voice as he raised his hand and stood up with Sky following close behind him. The pair walked out towards Goodwitch and stood on one side of the arena.

"I'm happy to see the eagerness you hold Mr. Winchester, but please refrain from the snide comments in class yes?" Goodwitch glared at the boy. Even if she was a teacher, it was obvious she didn't like him one bit.

"Of course Ms. Goodwitch!" Cardin said with still grinning. "May we choose our opponents?"

"That seems fitting." Goodwitch grinned, she obviously knew something they didn't as she smirked towards Ragna, who kicked his foot up while Jaune jumped from the loud movement.

"Then I would like to request Ragna and Jaune from teams JNPR and RAMK!" Cardin said while pointing at the two.

"W-What!?" Jaune said a bit surprised.

"Eh?" Ragna opened his tired eyes to the scene.

"Mr. Winchester, these two aren't on the same team so it would be meaningless for them to fight you for an example match." Goodwitch sighed before the boy spoke up.

"That's right Ms. Goodwitch, but wouldn't it be more beneficial for leaders to better understand one another to create a better synergy between two teams?" Cardin said slyly as Goodwitch eyed him up and down before sighing. Ragna had already gotten up with a grunt as he pulled Jaune with him towards the arena.

"Very well. Mr. Winchester, Mr. Lark, Mr. Arc, and Mr. Bloodedge, please get ready for your fight. You will have 5 minutes to prepare." Goodwitch said as she walked off, leaving the four men alone. Sky and Cardin both grinned at Ragna and Jaune.

"Looks like you don't have your little puppy here to defend you this time Rags." Cardin said as Ragna pointed his sword directly towards his neck.

"Call me that again and I'll dislocate every bone in your body punk." Ragna dropped his sword and put it back on his back before turning and shoving his right hand in his pocket while his left grabbed Jaune and pulled him to their end. "Come on Jaune."

"R-Right!" Jaune said as he fell into pace with Ragna. Once they reached their side they began to strategize. "S-Sooo, what's our strategy? I've never fought with anyone besides Pyrrha."

"Right so-, wait what did you just say?" Ragna said a bit confused. Jaune had trained to get into Beacon, why hadn't he fought with anyone before? Then Ragna remembered last night, which Jaune probably didn't.

"O-Oh, well y'know, I just always liked fighting solo, yeah! That's right, I was always kind of a lone wolf lady killer y'know?" Jaune tried to reassure himself more than Ragna.

"Jaune, you told me about your situation last night. You don't gotta lie when you're with me. Think of this as your training." Ragna said with a frown.

"W-Wait I told you!?" Jaune whisper yelled at his friend. "Oh man, you're not gonna rat me out are you?!"

"Jaune, I'm a 17 year old dude with silver hair, different colored eyes, a giant red coat on, and a huge sword on my back, do I look like the type of guy to run and tell the teachers about something as stupid as that?" Ragna deadpanned as Jaune just breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. "Look we can talk about this later. Anyways, long story short I decided to do the exact opposite. I said I'd train your ass and that starts now."

"R-Right!" Jaune said with a salute. Ragna almost laughed at the idiotic gesture before looking over to Cardin and Sky taunting them.

"Hey Raggy! Wanna make a bet!?" Cardin said with a huge grin. Ragna snarled as he continued. "If I win...my team gets a whole night with RWBY and the girls on your team!"

"Eh?" Ragna deadpanned while Jaune actually looked like he was about to cry. Ruby looked up seriously confused, Weiss looked disgusted, Yang's eyes went red, Blake snarled as she lowered her book below her eyes to glare at the boys. Rachel grinned while Kokonoe paid it no mind as she continued to mess with one of her machines. Goodwitch was about to interfere until Ragna spoke up.

"Hmph, alright then." Ragna said with a sadistic grin. "If we win, you stay the hell away from my team and RWBY.."

"Heh, you don't seem too confident in your skills." Cardin grinned as he raised his mace to his shoulder. Sky snickered behind him.

"Alright be quiet boys!" Goodwitch yelled out as she clapped her hands. "We're going to start now!"

"U-Uh Ragna? You just made a bet that could really screw us over because we have no plan!" Jaune said as Sky and Cardin got into position, ready to attack Jaune and Ragna.

"Our plan is to kick their asses." Ragna grunted as he took out his sword and got into a lazy stance. "So for right now…"

"BEGIN!" Goodwitch bellowed out as Ragna rushed forward at inhumane speeds and sucker punched Cardin backwards. Sky had ran straight past Ragna and Cardin to focus on Jaune while Cardin recovered from the punch. His aura had only gone down 18%.

"Nice punch Raggy." Cardin mocked. "But it ain't enough to beat me!"

Cardin recovered and got into a stance with his mace in a battle ready position. Cardin circled around Ragna while the boy just stood there lazily, looking at Cardin in amusement. On the other side, Sky and Jaune were currently locked into a battle that Jaune wasn't going to win. With his halberd he was hitting Jaune with a flurry of attacks from all different angles. Jaune could barely stand up as he continued to try and block the attacks. His aura was already down to 66%. On the next move Sky went straight for the killing blow before Jaune tripped backwards and the attack missed, sending sky right over Jaune and behind him from the rush attack. This gave Jaune the time to get back up and yell out to his partner.

"R-Ragna! This isn't going very well!" Jaune said nervously as Sky turned around with a devilish expression. Ragna turned around to see his "partner" now running away from Sky. Ragna sighed as he leaned backwards to dodge a swing from Cardin.

"Listen up Jaune cause I'm not gonna deal with your shit!" Ragna said as he turned his attention back towards Cardin. "Whatever I say you listen to and don't question it got it?!"

"W-Wait wh-!?"

"GOT IT!?"

"Y-YES!"

Ragna dodged another attack from Cardin and kicked him in the right leg before Cardin stumbled as Ragna finished with a sweep kick, lowering Cardin's aura to 65% as his was still at 100%. Sky had finally cornered Jaune and grinned at him while Jaune held his shield up nervously.

"R-Ragna!" Jaune said scared as Sky went for another attack.

"Dodge to the left, bring your right foot forward, retract your shield, and bring it down onto his head!" Ragna roared out as he watched Juane from the corner of his eye while Sky rushed him. Scared at the sudden instructions, Jaune quickly stepped to the left and brought his right foot forward as Sky barely missed him with the tip of his halberd. Sky's eyes went wide as Jaune lifted up his retracted shield and slammed it down with both his arms. Sky was sent into the ground as he rolled out of the arenas edges while Jaune looked up confused as hell. Pyrrha looked at him like he just won the lottery as Jaune looked like he was about to cry out of confusion as to what just happened.

"Mr. Lark is out of bounds which means he is out of the battle! It's a 2 on 1 now!" Goodwitch announced with a hidden smirk. Rachel just watched on with the same smirk from before as the other girls had their eyes glued on Ragna. He was currently dodging Cardin's attacks with his hands in his pockets and a bored expression while Cardin was getting mad.

"Fight me you pussy!" Cardin roared out while Ragna just grinned.

"Heh." Ragna grinned at him, which made Cardin even madder. He grit his teeth as he reeled back his arm with the mace in it and flung it full power at Ragna. Ragna ducked quickly under it as it soared over him and just happened to hit Jaune right in the face, knocking him out and shattering all of his aura.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha called out as Nora and Ren looked on worried. Ragna turned back to Cardin and grinned while Cardin looked triumphant.

"You've just given me yet another thing to get bitched at for." Ragna groaned. "Let's just end this already…"

Ragna grinned devilishly as his arm was covered in a black and red aura.

"Gauntlet Hades!" Ragna roared as he dashed towards Cardin and uppercutted him as hard as he could which shattered the remainder of his aura in one hit. The red haired boy fell backwards as the class watched in awe.

"Mr. Arc and Mr. Cardin are both out, which leaves Mr. Bloodedge as the last remaining man with 100% of his aura left. Very good job Mr. Bloodedge, but try and support your partner more next time...and take it more seriously." Goodwitch said as the boys who lost got up. Cardin grunted and glared at Jaune who was still dazed. Sky went over and tried to console Cardin, but got shoved off as Cardin walked out the arena to the locker rooms. He was muttering as his team quickly ran after him like lost puppies. Ragna shrugged and walked over to Jaune, patting him on the back.

"Oi, you alright?" Ragna said snapping his fingers in front of the blonde.

"O-Oh yeah...yeah!" Jaune said finally realizing what happened. "Ragna, that was awesome! Did you see what I just did?!"

"Uh, yeah. I was kind of the person who told you to do it." Ragna raised an eyebrow as Jaune shrunk back a bit. "Anyways, you might wanna get back to your team. Pyrrha looked like she was about to piss herself when you got knocked in the face while Nora is moaning about how no legs were broken."

"Oh right." Jaune said with a slight tint of pink on his face. "U-uh this isn't training is it?"

"Learning how to talk to her is part of building up character. Now go. Now." Ragna said as he turned around having his sword push Jaune forward as he stumbled.

"A-Ah wait!" Jaune said as he stumbled, meeting up face to face with the rest of his team.

"That was an excellent move Jaune!" Pyrrha said giddily. "I wasn't expecting you to pull that off so fluently!"

"Nice job Jaune, you can only get better from here." Ren said with a small smile while Nora leaned on him and whined.

"Buuuuut, you didn't break any legs...so you get a B...maybe a high C?" Nora said looking at Ren while he just sighed.

"Nora we aren't the ones grading him." Ren said as Jaune smiled at his team.

"Thanks guys." Jaune said looking at Pyrrha specifically.

"Hey Jaune!" Ruby said heading over with the rest of her team. "Good job out there!"

"Yeah, wasn't expecting that ole move Jauney!" Yang said patting him on the back causing him to stumble again. "Ragna may have given you the order, but you still looked badass out there."

"Those guys are heathens." Weiss huffed. "I can't believe you allowed Ragna to put us on a bet like that!"

"Weiss…" Blake groaned.

"I-I'm sorry, but he made the bet before I could say anything, plus Ragna is super strong!" Jaune said nervously. They looked back to see Ragna walking out of the class as Jaune began to leave to go with him. "Oh, sorry guys I gotta go!"

He ran off to meet up with Ragna as he eventually caught up.

"Hey Ragna!" Jaune said as Ragna looked to his right as they approached the locker room.

"Yeah?" Ragna said as he cocked an eyebrow.

"How did you know exactly what Sky was going to do back there while you were fighting Cardin? I mean you wiped the floor with him, so why didn't you just do that in the the first place?" Jaune asked as he began to take his armor off and put his uniform on.

"Training. Plus, I didn't want to waste my time with them." Ragna said as he began to change as well. "Those two dumbasses didn't know when to stop pushing their luck. Hopefully, being humiliated will get them to leave the girls and me alone."

"Heh, even if they don't you're ten times stronger!" Jaune said still proud of his knockout. "I gotta ask though, how did your arm get like that?"

Ragna looked down at his arm and remembered the day Terumi fucked his life beyond all belief. Stealing Saya and turning Jin against him was something he had already moved past since he literally fought the world and won already. Usually he would annoyed and tell whoever asked to piss off, but now that he was at peace with what happened before…

"You beat me and I'll tell you." Ragna said grinning. "From now until graduation, if you beat me even once I'll tell you what you want to know."

"Going for the mysterious badass eh?" Jaune said grinning before sighing. "Aw man I wish I could be like that!"

"I'm not trying to do anything. You all just think I'm someone I'm not." Ragna said grunting as he tried to tie his tie yet again. One day he would get used to tying it...one day. After talking with Jaune, well, Jaune asking questions and Ragna either grunting or ignoring the questions, they both headed out and went to lunch as that was their next period. Apparently, a few more people had some 1v1s in class, but nobody was worth talking about. Once they reached the cafeteria Jaune noticed their teams immediately. Teams RWBY, NPR, and AMK were all sitting down and eating lunch. Pyrrha waved them over as both Jaune and Ragna walked to them.

"Hey Jaune! Ragna…" Pyrrha said as she trailed off once she got to his name. Ragna noticed this and just sighed.

'Reminds me of Tsubaki…' Ragna internally groaned at the red haired girl. He noticed the other girls not looking at him and just sighed. He completely forgot about their little shunning movement for the day.

'You really know how to pick the girls eh partner?' Akuma spoke in his mind.

'At this point, I don't even think I'm picking them anymore...or ever picked them for that matter.' Ragna said in retort to which a few voices of Akuma laughed at their hosts misery.

"Well, this is where I leave." Ragna said turning around. Jaune, Kagura, and Ren were about to say something before they all heard a yelp from across the room followed by four loud voices.

"Hahaha Cardin careful where you touch, you might get rabies!" Sky said from a table in the far side of the room. Cardin was currently sitting down pulling on a rabbit Faunus' ears as she tried to get up and leave. Ragna saw the girl pull her scroll out from behind her back and send a text to someone before Cardin pulled on her ears harder. Sky, Russel, Dove, and Cardin all bursted out laughing as the poor girl yelped again.

"Cardin's at it again..." Pyrrha said with a harsh glare.

"Cardin is truly such a boorish man." Rachel followed up with. Kokonoe glared at him before going right back to her lunch. Kagura looked pissed along with Yang and Blake while Weiss looked conflicted. Ruby looked upon the scene with a sad face as Ren stayed stoic as always.

"Someone should teach them a damn lesson." Yang spoke up as she angrily shoveled some food into her mouth. "We've barely been at school for a month yet and he's already tried to make himself top dog."

"First Jaune and now a rabbit faunus? We should really break this assholes legs!" Nora said fired up.

"Nora! Language!"

"Swear jar!"

Ruby and Ren said at the same time before Ruby giggled a bit. Everyone looked back to the scene as the entire lunch room grew quiet as everyone watched, nobody daring to step out of line.

"Oh come on guys he doesn't bully me that badly." Jaune said as everyone looked at him and he faltered back. "When Ragna's not around…"

Jaune whispered the last part as everyone sighed.

"Jaune, we can always help you out." Pyrrha said. "It's not a crime to get help."

"Yeah! We can break his le-mmph!" Nora piped up before Ren shoved a sandwich in her mouth which she began to eat happily. Ren just sighed.

"Seriously, guys, it's fine. It's just a bit of messing around." Jaune protested as Ruby began to list off a number of times that Jaune had been bullied when Ragna wasn't near him. It eventually ended as Jaune put his head on the table and everyone turned back to what was happening to the rabbit faunus.

"P-Please let me go." The rabbit faunus said timidly as Cardin pulled her back again.

"Aww, who knew animals could be polite?" Cardin said tightening his grip. He grinned smugly before he felt his wrist be thrown off of the rabbit ears. He stood and looked at who dared stand up to him and when he did his eyes widened before they narrowed and a devilish grin Whispers erupted in the lunch room.

"Oh crap it's the reaper!"

"Oh god! He's really gonna kill Cardin!"

"H-He's terrifying this close...look at those murderous eyes!"

"Sh! He'll hear you and take our souls next!"

"He's kind of hot."

"Break his legs...break his legs...break his legs…"

Ragna just mentally sighed at the stupid rumors, remarks, and the weird chanting Nora was doing behind them. He narrowed his eyes at Cardin as the redhead began to speak up.

"Two times in one day? Looks like we aren't in class and there's four of us.. What are you gonna do? Play hero an-!" Cardin began as Ragna punched him as hard as possible and put him through the table that was behind him. The trays of food all fell onto Cardin as Ragna pulled his arm back to his side while Cardin got knocked out. Ragna broke Cardin's aura, nose, and the table all in one motion. The rest of CRDL all looked on with wide eyes as Ragna turned and snarled at them causing them to pick up Cardin and retreat. Every student in the lunch room had their eyes on Ragna as he turned to leave.

"T-Thank you…" The faunus whispered at Ragna's retreating back with a small hue of red on her face as Ragna walked out of the lunch room and everyone just stared at him before the talking began to start up again. Everyone was talking about what just happened and why. Team RWBY, Kagura, and JNPR all looked at each other with open mouths.

"D-Did Ragna just save that faunus?" Jaune said in disbelief.

"What are you all so surprised for?" Rachel said while toying with her hair. "As soon as I laid eyes upon that atrocity I knew Ragna was going to take care of it."

"But why? He had no reason to save that Faunus." Blake spoke up as she put her book down. Rachel took note of the fire in her eyes when she asked that.

"I suppose you'll have to ask him on your own time." Rachel said slyly.

"Aw come on! No legs were broken!" Nora said again as Ren sighed.

"That was...something." Yang said as everyone returned to normal.

"I must admit, I wasn't expecting that." Pyrrha said. "I thought he would be the type to avoid trouble."

"He does." Kokonoe said matter of factly. "He just doesn't like people who annoy him. Hell he probably just wanted a reason to sock that bastard. Guess he finally got a reason to."

"A brute as always I suppose." Weiss said as she looked at where Ragna had left.

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Ragna currently sat on a bench outside as he checked the time on his scroll.

"Tch, only 10 minutes left of lunch." Ragna looked at the sky as he closed his eyes.

"Well, if it isn't Mr. Bloodedge." A sly voice said from the right. Ragna didn't even need to open his eyes to know who it was.

"Ozpin." Ragna said as he opened his eyes and looked at the man. "Here to dish out my punishment?"

"Quite the contrary. I applaud you for your chivalry, but you did destroy school property and broke Mr. Winchesters nose. That isn't exactly what a huntsman would do." Ozpin said with a grin as he sat next to Ragna.

"Yeah well I don't think bullying anyone is a sign of huntsman material. That dick couldn't even beat anyone in this damn school...aside from Jaune." Ragna retorted.

"Ah yes...I'm aware of Mr. Winchesters activities, which is why you won't be getting in trouble for this, but I expect this to not happen again. I shall talk to Mr. Winchester later, but right now I wanted to ask you your thoughts on your current situation." Ozpin said. "Ms, Goodwitch isn't exactly happy, but I have a hunch she doesn't like Mr. Winchester, so she might just let it slide. However, if this happens again, I won't be able to protect. I prefer the more...hands off approach."

"It ain't so bad. Sure as hell better than living on the road for my entire life." Ragna said reminiscing before he got serious. "I did meet another person from my world though."

"Is that so... " Ozpin looked in thought. "I figured that might be the case."

"Of course you did…" Ragna sighed.

"Have you put any more thought into your role?" Ozpin said changing subjects.

"Was wondering when you'd ask me that." Ragna said frowning. "Fuck if I know. I just don't want to be pushed into saving the world again."

"Understandable. However, wouldn't you rather decide now instead of waiting until it's too late?" Ozpin began. "I've seen you've agreed to train Mr. Arc. You could very well pass the pieces onto him."

"And?" Ragna said annoyed.

"The fact that you haven't tells me you haven't rejected the idea completely." Ozpin said contently. "I think you don't give yourself enough credit Mr. Bloodedge."

"Don't act like you know me." Ragn said getting annoyed. Ozpin took notice of this and decided to ask one final question.

"May I ask one last question?" Ozpin asked.

"Didn't know I was in a damn interview." Ragna said as he sighed. "Just ask it."

"When are you going to tell the others about your origins?" Ozpin asked pointedly. This question was one that Ragna thought about a lot. He leaned back again as he thought.

"To be honest, I'm not sure." Ragna said sighing. "I can't believe I'm opening up to some weird old guy, but I've said it before. I want a normal life for once. And while being at a school with a bunch of super powered girls is the farthest from normal it could be, it's sure as hell better than the place I was in before. If the others knew I was someone from a different world, they'd treat me differently. Not in a bad way, but it wouldn't be the same. Besides, I left that all behind when I finished it in my world."

"Is that so?" Ozpin said amused. "What of Ms. Alucard or Mercury? Your feelings for them stayed and so did theirs. I think your not giving yourself or the others enough credit this time. You can only do so much alone. Why do you think we put you on a team with three others?"

Just then the bell rang and Ragna groaned.

"Well Ozpin, as much as I've enjoyed this weird chat, I gotta get going." Ragna said throwing his hands in his pockets as he walked away thinking about what Ozpin said.

"I think he's making progress after all." Ozpin smiled to himself before remembering something. "Oh! I forgot to mention the portals appearing...I'll do it next time."

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