CHAPTER 1

It was a good day for flying, Pat noted. Outside the Beacon airship, the sky remained clear and a light blue, the optimal conditions for any airship trip. Inside, Pat couldn't say the same. The viewing gallery held a slight chill, and his pine green jacket offered only a bit of warmth.

The wolf faunhaus' attention was torn from the windows when Marty, younger brother and co-conspirator, sauntered up from behind. He clasped Pat by the shoulder.

"What's up, Pat? Glad you came back to Vale. Just in time for Beacon initiation," Marty grinned.

Pat returned the gesture. "Well, I couldn't let you get your butt handed to you by all these Grimm."

"And here I was thinking you came back to Vale for all the women," said Marty with a chuckle. Pat looked to the ground but also laughed. Marty's tone turned serious after a moment, as if sensing that something was bothering Pat. "Hey, man, what happened back in…."

Whatever Marty was going to say was interrupted by a busty blonde.

"Hello," exclaimed the blonde, drawing Pat's attention. The first thing Pat noticed about their newest addition was her breasts. They were… well developed, to say the least. The second was her hair. Pat had never seen hair that long or that blonde. It shined, and when the light filtered in through the window just right, the stranger seemed to glow. "My name's Yang," the blonde continued.

Pat and Marty glanced at each other.

"And this," Yang pulled out from behind her a small girl, "is Ruby."

At first glance, it was easy to see why the girl would be called Ruby. A red hooded cloak and the ends of her hair a deep currant, she stood out like a sore thumb in the teal interior of the airship. Pat wondered if her eyes were as red as her cloak, but he couldn't see. Her head was bowed and just the faintest scarlet painted her cheeks.

"H—hey," greeted a meek Ruby. Her eyes never left the ground.

"How ya doing," replied Marty, dawning a giddy smile. "The name's Martin Goodwitch."

Marty nudged Pat's arm and shot him a look.

"Right. I'm Pat—Pat Brewner, Marty's brother." Pat nudged Marty back and grinned, "adopted, of course."

Marty lightly chuckled. Yang smiled, and Ruby gave a small, awkward laugh. It was like she didn't know how to react. Pat understood that. His blue eyes focused on the floor, trying to find what it was that Ruby was so interested in. The teal carpeting was nothing spectacular. His gaze was directed upwards when Ruby tentatively asked, "m—may I ask what your weapons are?"

He smiled. Ruby's eyes—silver, he noted—flashed to him. They widened, and she shifted uncomfortably. The ground held her attention once more. His lips became a thin line.

"Sure thing," Marty said, still smiling.

He pulled out a white SMG. Ruby's eyes lit up when she caught sight of it.

"Is—is that an SMG? Awesome," cheered Ruby. "What does it do?"

She was all over Marty and the SMG. She was practically drooling over it.

"Well, it has a shotgun under the barrel," Marty explained as Ruby paid a hundred and ten percent. Yang, however, had stopped paying attention and was glancing over to another pair of boys. These boys must have captured her interests or one of them must've, for she bid a farewell to the enthralled Ruby and walked over to them. "And if I push this button," the SMG turned into a katana, "it turns into this bad boy."

"Amazing, it's just like my scythe."

Ruby then turned her gaze to Pat.

"What can your weapons do?"

"Oh, I have a few weapons," explained Pat, gesturing to the two swords on his back and the revolvers inside his jacket.

He pulled out one of the swords out and held it up for Ruby to inspect. It was a sleek blade with the remnants of battles long past. When he turned it, the blade shined like polished obsidian.

"I wield the weapon Carbon Jäger," he smiled, chest puffing with pride.

Ruby's face lit up in amazement. If she'd been wowed by Marty's gunsword, it was nothing compared to the awestruck she expressed at the sight of Carbon Jäger. It was an impressive blade, if Pat did say so himself. For ten years he carried it, and never once did its wonder ever cease.

"Cool! What about the other sword?" asked Ruby.

Pat's gaze dropped to the floor. "I don't rather not answer that."

Marty shifted uncomfortably. Ruby stilled, so Pat took out twin revolvers.

"But I do have these," Pat said.

Her eyes lit up again, warily but excited nonetheless.

"They're twin six-shot revolvers. They're also knives."

He demonstrated. Ruby walked up to him to get a closer look. She looked ready to comment but held her tongue. Ruby looked up at him, excitement and wonder written across her face. Pat was ready to ask her if she'd like to hold one when Ruby noticed for the first time that she was alone.

"Oh no, where did she go?" cried Ruby.

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Yang was walking through the crowded airship. She had laid her gaze onto two males. Finally after pushing through the crowd, she had reached them. "Hello!" she cheerfully called as she reached the two.

The shorter one smiled at Yang. He stepped forward and waved. "Hi."

"My name's Yang," She warmly said.

"I'm Alex," he said, pointing to himself. Alex pointed to the other male, who was a lot taller. "This is my brother Ryden."

"Well hello," Yang purred, stepping closer to Ryden.

Ryden blushed a bit and stepped back a bit. "Hi," He meekly said.

"Yang!" Ruby whined, emerging from the crowd behind her sister. Yang turned to greet her sister. "Why would you leave me?"

"Oh sorry sis," Yang said, laughing. She turned back to the brothers and waved. "Bye Alex, bye Ryden, see ya later hot stuff."

Ryden sighed and Alex giggled, waving goodbye at Yang. The two watched her leave and Alex turned to his older brother. "She was nice, right Hot Stuff?" Alex mocked.

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Following the day of their arrival at Beacon. Pat and Marty were in the locker room preparing for the test HeadMaster Ozpin was about to initiate. Marty was loading his gun. He turned to his brother.

"Nervous?" Marty asked.

"Not at all," Pat replied with a grin as he sharpened his black katana. "The real question is are you going to be able to keep up?" Pat asked, snickering.

"It's been a while since you saw me fight, I've gotten a lot stronger," Marty proudly said.

"Really? Care to spar after this?" Pat asked, grinning at his brother.

Marty chuckled. "I've gotten stronger, but I'm not freakishly strong like you." Marty rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"Now come on, we don't want to be late," Pat said, strapping the sword to his back.

Marty examined his brother and gave him a puzzled look. "No revolvers or jacket, just a black muscle shirt and a sword?"

"I've got pants too, plus I doubt I'd need those for this test," Pat said.

"You love to show off, you know that right?" Marty said.

"You should it sometime, see ya later," Pat said, exiting the locker room.

"Wait for me!" Marty called, rushing to load his gun and sprint after his brother.

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Marty and Pat sprinted across a path that lead them towards the Emerald forest. The path suddenly led them up onto a cliff where Glynda and Ozpin were waiting. Glynda saw them and glared. She stormed up to her sons.

"Where were you two?" She growled.

Pat put his hands behind his head. "We were getting ready, now what's this test this year?"

Glynda sighed. "Go find a relic and bring it back, also please try not to get into any trouble!"

Marty stepped forward with a grin. "Never!" He sarcastically said. Marty clapped a hand onto Pat's shoulder. "See ya mom!"

"Wait, you're supposed to find a partner, not go togeth-" She was cut off by the two disappearing into a cloud of black smoke. Glynda huffed and rubbed her brow. "Those two will be the death of me one day."

"Glynda, I'm sure they'll be fine," Ozpin said, reassuringly.

Glynda looked over the cliff at the forest. She shook her head. "I hope."

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"I can't believe we found each other so fast!" Alex said, excited. He walked next to his brother Ryden.

"It was good, I doubt the power of must of the people here," Ryden said.

The two continued through the forest, while they had found each other very quickly, they could not find the temple with the relics. The two emerge from some brush to find an old ruin sitting in a field. Black and gold chess pieces litter pedestals inside the ruin. Alex noticed Yang and a girl with a black bow on her head are in the ruin.

Alex and Ryden run towards the two girls. "Hey Yang!" Alex called as he ran towards her. Yang spun around and smiled at the sight of the two friendly faces. She was about to run towards them, but Pat and Marty suddenly appeared in front of them.

Marty looked around as the black smoke faded and cheered, "Yes, I got it exact."

Pat nudged his brother. "Nice guess."

Yang leapt back, almost clocking Pat in the face. "Where did you come from?!" She asked, startled by the sudden appearance of the males.

Marty turned to her and grinned. "A cliff, skipped the catapult treatment though."

"I was wondering why you weren't there," Yang said. Suddenly a high pitched scream echoed through the clearing. "Oh no, some girl's in trouble!"

Blake tapped Yang's arm as she stared at the sky. "Um, guys?"

"Heads up!" Ruby screamed. The other five look up at the sky and see her flying towards the ground.

Pat sighed. "I got her," He said. Suddenly blue lightning raced around his body and he shot up into the air, engulfed in lightning. Pat caught Ruby bridal style and then shot back down, sliding to a stop with Ruby still in his arms. He looked down at her and smiled. "Why were you falling from the sky?"

Ruby looked up at her savior and saw Pat. Her face grew a deep shade of red. She struggled for words, it was like they were stuck in her throat. "Well I-I-"

Ruby was cut off by a loud roar. Everyone turned to see what was happening. An orange haired girl came riding in on the back on an Ursa. The Ursa suddenly fell down dead. Pat rolled his eyes at the sight, people at Beacon are much crazier than back home. He set Ruby down and the two ran back to the group.

Suddenly a Nevermore screeches over head of the entire group. They all look up and a girl clad in all white is falling toward the ground. A blonde haired male leapt from a tree and caught her, resulting in both of them hitting the ground.

A woman with long flowing red hair emerged from the bushes, followed by a deathstalker. She sprinted to the group and dived in.

"Great, the gang's all here!" Yang cheered, swinging her arm. "Now we can all die together!"

"Not if I can help it" Ruby replied with a grin. The girl then blast off using her semblance. Ruby tried very hard to damage the death stalker but did little to nothing. Ruby realized that her plan isn't working so she tried to run. The nevermore shot it's feathers down at Ruby and one hit and pinned her cape. The deathstalker came running up to the pinned Ruby about to launch it's stinger. Weiss flew in just in time to freeze the stinger in place. Yang ran up to Ruby while Weiss scolded her for being so reckless. A roar is heard from the tree line. Everyone looks out to it. A Beringel leapt out pounding its chest.

Pat's eyes widened. "That's one big monkey!" He exclaimed. Marty drew his SMG and Pat drew his Katana. Pat bolted towards the Beringel and slashed at it rapidly as it tried to smash him.

Marty turned to Ryden and Alex. "You two mind giving us a hand?" They both nodded. Marty turned to the others. "You guys can go, we got this!" He said, disappearing into a cloud of smoke.

Marty reappeared in front of the Beringel and unloaded his SMG onto it. Ryden and Alex both charged in, blades drawn. The Beringel brought one fist back and tried to slam it into Marty, but he teleported just in time. Ryden used this opening to strike the Beringel. He leapt into the air and flew past its head, slashing out one of its eyes.

Pat came back around at blinding speeds and slashed its leg. The grimm tried to leap after it, but it was slammed in the chest with a massive fireball. Alex stood a couple yards away with his hands raised and engulfed in fire.

The Beringel hit the ground and tried to recover, but Marty appeared behind it, placing his hand on its back. Marty disappeared with the massive grimm. Reappearing high in the air, Marty allowed the thing to fall back down to the ground.

"Now, attack it!" he called out as he teleported back to the ground.

The four gathered on the ground, Alex and Ryden raised their hand and combined their fires into one large torrent of flames, Marty shot at the beast with explosive rounds, and Pat hurled lightning bolts at it.

The grimm raised its arms and blocked what it could. The attacks damaged, but didn't kill it. Pat looked over Ryden and they nodded at each other. Pat quickly informed the others of his plan and they all nodded in agreement. The Beringel hit the ground and the four leapt away into the trees and bushes.

As the beast tried to get up, Marty and Alex leapt from their hiding spots. Marty transformed his gun into a sword and Alex raised his blade. They both came down on each of the Beringel's hands, pinning the creature.

Ryden and Pat came racing out of the bushes. Pat grabbed Ryden and shot forward like a rocket the two brought their swords back and threw them forward, colliding with the Berginel's neck, severing it.

Pat and Ryden landed past the Berginel and looked around, panting. They both walked up to the temple and grabbed a chess piece, the black knight pieces. They showed them both to their partners who smiled as they yanked their blades from the fading Berginel.

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The four walked onto a stage. Weiss, Ruby, Blake, and Yang passed them as they exited the stage. Pat smiled at Ruby and gave her a thumbs up for making team leader. The four made a straight line in front of Ozpin.

"Pat Brewner, Alex Feuer, Ryden Feuer, and Martin Goodwitch. The four of you fought and retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you will be know as team PARM, led by… Pat Brewner!" Ozpin said.

Pat's eyes widened as the crowd applauded. Marty smiled at his brother and Alex did the same. Team PARM walked off the stage, eager to get assigned their dorm and ready to begin at Beacon.

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