Chapter 40: Team JNPR (7)
Chapter 40: Team JNPR (7)
~Third POV~
On the next morning of the day with team JNPR waking up and getting dressed they soon noticed their leader being unresponsive and breathing assuming to be asleep.
The first to notice was Ren as he began to go towards him shaking him up as he spoke up to him, "Jack, it's time for class. Wake up."
Having a single blanket separating the rooms from the girl's side of the boy's side Nora peeked out seeing Jack was still unresponsive, "What's wrong? Did he catch a cold or something? I think was showing signs of one yesterday no?"
Listening to Nora's words Pyrrha and Ren both ponder it as a possibility but that was when Pyrrha replied to Nora, "If he had a cold wouldn't he mention it to us? I mean we are his friends right?"
Ren sighs at this thinking it was not to worry the team kind of thing with Jack.
Ren tried to solve this with the recent events coming to his own conclusion about the condition as he spoke, "Hmm… it might be more possible that Jack was simply tired. He must be tired from the training spar with Cardin yesterday, right?"
Getting concerned Pyrrha went ahead to clasp Jack's hand with her own using her Aura to sense what was going on with her friend….
She reeled back when she noticed that her Aura detected something amiss with Jack's aura in genuine concern and expressed, "Something's wrong with his aura!"
Taking off his shirt they all reeled back to see black shadow thorns crawling around all around Jack's body as if something was rooted inside Pyrrha told Ren in a hurry, "Ren contact Professor Ozpin about this!"
"Right!"
Leaving out of the room for a moment he began to take out his Scroll to number Ozpin about the situation with a concerned look on his face as this was caught by the members of Team RWBY seeing the worried expression on Ren's face.
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Soon enough members of Team RWBY with Yang and Ruby concerned for Jack's body came in to see the situation as Blake and Weiss followed seeing the body condition as Ruby and Yang checked his aura.
They got the same reaction as Pyrrha when they noticed his aura felt… wrong.
Soon enough Ozpin managed to get inside the room to see the situation at a glance as he calls his own Scroll the students hear his reaction calmly, "Glynda would you please get the Dream Hunter Shion here immediately. I believe we found his target."
Hearing the response from him Glynda immediately followed as instructed, "Over Headmaster."
Soon enough with little time has passed Glynda opens the door to reveal Shion coming towards the body as he scans Jack's body using his Aura to get a feel for Jack's aura, "It's my target. We need to begin immediately."
Turning his face forward to Ozpin as he simply replied with a nod as he spoke, "We already have a private room available Shion."
Shion nodded his head with a simple reply, "Good."
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When everyone got inside the private room with Jack's body unconscious as Shion gets ready to prepare for his work with his weapon and equipment.
Shion carried a suitcase full of equipments for hunting down Nightmares and dream-related cases.
They have a special hourglass filled with lavender flowers instead of sand to keep track of Shion's Aura from depleted or recovery. They also have unnamed equipment that turns Nightmares back into a dominant state.
Next, he has in his hand his weapon a large Dream Catcher with purple gravity Dust infused strings attached to it.
Shion moves around his Dream Catcher as the strings begin to move he introduces himself to the Hunters in training, "My name is Shion Zaiden. I'm a Nightmare hunter."
*Shing*
A bell-like the sound was heard as Shion moves his catcher Ruby asked innocently at him, "What's a nightmare?"
That was when Glynda answers Ruby's question as Shion's string moves around beginning to form around Jack's body, "A type of Grimm that possesses humans or Faunus and grows by draining their aura. The possessed victim is trapped in their dreams, as their body becomes a breeding ground for Grimm."
As the strings began to form around Jack's body so did it wrap around Jacks's face blindfolding him as Nora asked about the scene, "So we just have to kill the Grimm?"
Glynda replied to Nora's question with a nod, "Yes, inside his dream of course."
Ren spoke somewhat surprised at Glynda's answer as he replied, "Inside his dreams?"
That was when Shion began to open his voice to the group watching as he spoke to them, "It's a task for his close friends. If a stranger tries, his heart will reject them."
*Swirl*
The strings infused with Gravity Dust began to levitate Jack's body as the string began to form into a larger form of the Dream Catcher Shion replied to the hunters, "Are any of you willing to enter his dream to battle the Grimm?"
Pyrrha comes forward with Ren and Nora by her side as she spoke to Shion, "Absolutely. We'll go to help our friend."
Shion nodded at this as the remaining members of JNPR go on top of the string dream catcher as soon as the strings wrap around their faces as small voodoo dolls of team JNPR began to drop down.
The string then began to tie around their fingers tying them into the voodoo miniature doll versions of them as they began to enter the dream world as Shion thinks to himself with a frown, 'How odd? His aura… it feels as if I'm looking at an abyss… and… it's growing… its as if his aura doesn't have a limit. How pecuiliar.'
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Inside the dream world a river never ending as three souls enter into the royal blue color taking form…
The three souls enter into the stream of which seems to be a river completely made of souls as the three souls red, green, and pink enter inside…
*Splash*
Splashing what seems to be a never-ending abyss inside the water the three souls began to take form as strips of memories that seem to be from an old video film as each one fills numbers of 11000110011 repeated in each numbers entering the soul.
Each soul began to take form as the abyss began to show numbers as if they were inside a code….
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~Pyrrha POV~
*Shiii*
Huh?
Entering inside the dream world of Jack we found ourselves…
Darkness was what I only saw as I see myself falling down some kind of void of sorts as I fall down.
But the most noticeable were all the numbers floating around the area as I open my eyes as I felt like being submerged in water.
That was when I heard a cheery voice from Nora in the distance, "Hey Pyrrha! Ren!"
Turning my head around I see Nora falling down as the same as me along with Ren as we enter down this darkness as our Aura flickered around lightning up the place.
Is this what Jack thinks in his dreams?
An endless black abyss?
Codes of numbers floating around the area?
*Tap*
That was when we tapped down on a glass floor as I see the glass window floor take the shape of a shattered moon… of Remnant… with numbers codded in as if glitched.
Just a gut feeling for sure though.
Although what happened next, I began to hear voices outside my head that almost sounds feminine when I heard it but in a static voice.
'So little time… take your time…'
'Don't be afraid.'
'The door is still shut to a new path you must discard the old.'
'Now step forward. Can you do it?'
Hearing Ren's voice I began to turn around to see him question it out loud, "What does all of this mean?"
Listening I went to walk towards him also seeing the situation as well as I spoke to him confused, "Is this what Jack dreams? Does it seem a bit… off would be the word? And who's the voice we heard?"
Next, I hear what Ren assumes to be what's going on in this Dream World as he spoke with his hand over his chin, "Hmm… it might be because of his amnesia. If we recall when his Semblance awaken it forced him to forget. So, we might be seeing blanks of his memories inside the Dream World no matter how off this feeling is."
Nodding my head in agreement I see Nora looks around as she talks about the area in question looking below the platform, "Whoa… there is nothing here. I mean only an abyss inside his dream. Or is it some floating numbers? Is this what Jack dreams about each time he goes to sleep? And what's with the voice we heard?"
Right…
This feels strange when we first step onto the window floor, I began to observe the area a bit more as I walk forward in the middle.
Yet why do I get this instinct feeling that something feels… familiar yet off…
Going through my pockets I began to see the coins as per Shion instructed what they can do.
There will be 12 coins appearing in a dream regardless of the number of people Shion sends. Something happens when coins are used.
That consumption also uses Shion's Aura.
Telephone booth: A telephone booth pops up, making it possible to talk to Shion in the real world. Calls are available only for a limited time. It disappears once the receiver is hung up.
Marker Door: Marker Door appears. Each Doors are connected and door-to-door transfer is available.
Decoy: A decoy of coin user emerges.
Map of the dream world: A blackboard with a map of the dream world appears.
Bring back to the real world: Bring back someone Shion sent into the sleeper's dream to the real world.
Those are what the coins we have can do as we have no choice but to examine the area ahead of us.
*Shiii*
Sighing at this was when we all saw a glass row of stairs as we see them as we looked at each other as we all took the chance to go down the stairs that seemingly led us afar.
We continued to go but not before we used one of the coins to have a door at the ready as we go down the path.
…
As we walk down the path of glass steps we continue onward as we held our weapons tightly leading to another glass floor as it lit up but this time showing something we have never seen before.
The shape was circular with a green and blue color on it something I had never really seen before.
It was titled 'EARTH' on it.
Why would Jack have something like this here?
Next, I heard Nora speak to me as I heard her, "Hey Pyrrha!"
Turning my attention towards Nora I began to see her point at a book with the same emblem called EARTH on it.
As we –
My instincts were alerted as I heard one of my allies call me out, "Look out!"
*SWOOSH*
*BOOM*
"Ah…!"
Feeling a shockwave from the intruder guarding the book as thorns began to wrap around it…
*SHIII*
"Argh…!"
However, a blinding light protected the book as we got to see whoever it was couldn't touch it as it was protected by another force as we see…
My eyes widen to see Jack here as I mouth out his name, "Jack?"