In the Beacon Auditorium The students are all gathered. They're all chatting until Goodwitch taps the microphone and speaks up.
Glynda: Quiet! Quiet please. Professor Ozpin would like to share a few words before we begin.
Skipping Ozpin's speech
After the speech all begin to file out of the amphitheater.
Ruby: This is perfect! All we have to do is shadow a Huntsman working in the southeast!
Yang: Yeah! We'll follow them around by day and give them the slip by night!
Weiss: Let's check "search and destroy"!
Team RWBY approaches a hologram screen.
Ruby: Here we go! Quadrant 5 needs Grimm cleared out!
Blake: Well, it's in the southeast!
Yang: Sounds perfect!
Ruby selects it and types in her team name. However, the screen says that first years are not allowed to take this mission.
Weiss: Wonderful!
Blake: Any other ideas?
Ruby: We mail ourselves there!
Ozpin: Well, that's one option.
Ozpin suddenly appears with Joshua behind him.
Ozpin: Unfortunately, we determined that the concentration of Grimm was too extreme for first-year students. It seems that particular region is rather popular. In fact, I have the sneaking suspicion that you four will make your way there no matter which job you choose.
Joshua: You have gained a reputation.
Weiss, Blake, and Yang glare at Ruby, who nervously rubs her head.
Ruby: Whatever makes you say that?
Ozpin: I'm still curious how you all found yourself at the docks last semester. I'm interested to know how you really learned about a hideout in the southeast. And I certainly wonder why witnesses reported seeing robots and rose petals in a dance club some time ago.
Ruby: Um... well...
Ozpin: I doubt I'll ever find the exact answers I'm looking for. So how about this: instead of waiting for you all to break the rules, why don't we just bend them?
Joshua just looks at Ozpin unamused.
Ozpin selects some things on his scroll, and the hologram screen makes a noise.
Ruby: We won't let you down. Thank you, professor.
Ozpin: Do not thank me for this. Teamwork and persistence have carried you far. But you must understand, the things that await you beyond the protection of the Kingdom will not care. Stay close to your Huntsman at all times, and do exactly as he says. He will be leading you on this mission, and he can have you sent back to Beacon, if he finds your skills to be unsatisfactory. Good luck.
Joshua: I hope you behave on this mission. And Ozpin.
Ozpin: Yes?
Joshua: You and I will have a talk when I return.
The scene immediately cuts to Team RWBY staring with various stunned expressions, having just discovered who they will be shadowing. It was Joshua!
Weiss: Mr Graham?
Joshua: Dr. Oobleck was supposed to mentor you on this mission but Ozpin assigned me in Oobleck's place last minute.
Ruby: Well, alright, then! Looks like we're going to save the world with Mr Graham.
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The Burned Arc
FanfictionA month before his younger sister Jeane goes to Beacon Joshua Graham or Jaune Arc is approached by Ozpin to join as a Councilor as he knows how to deal with trauma and as a teaching aide for Goodwitch. Oz doesn't know that Joshua was a servant of Sa...
