17 Pre-Canon

As Zack was riding on his motorcycle, he didn't notice that an explosion had just occurred because of the loud wind in his ears, he missed it.

'Whooo, who knew my luck was this good, I might've just met my future baby mama, speaking of that, I haven't heard about the girl that rejected me by then, I wonder how she is doing? Maybe she finally met her soulmate, I know I did, Ahhh Glynda!' Zack thought of while he was daydreaming about his encounter with Glynda. (A/N: Please don't daydream while driving)

He finally reached Beacon but the staff there told him that Headmaster Ozpin is out and will be back in the morning, but as he was appointed to meet him there, they provided him a temporary dorm only until the teams had been decided.

As morning came, Zack finally met up with Ozpin but he didn't see his secretary as he said that they did overnight paperwork and she is currently resting. The only thing that enabled Ozpin to meet with Zack today was his precious coffee.

"Welcome Zack to Beacon, it's nice to see you again after this many years," Ozpin said with a smile as he was sitting by his desk while sipping his heaven in a mug.

"Hey, Gramps! How've you've been?" Zack said with a carefree attitude as he missed a tiny twitch on Ozpin's face when he said, gramps.

*sigh* "How many times have I told you, Zack, don't call me Gramps, I'm far too young to be a Grandfather, and please don't call me that especially on school grounds" Ozpin reprimanded Zack as a sensible adult.

"Huh, whatcha talking about gramps, your hair is already white, you're even older than my pops an old man Tai so basically, you're gramps," Zack said as he raised one of his eyebrows at Ozpin.

Ozpin's right twitched slightly as that comment.

"I told you last time, my hair is silver, not white and if I'm old, why do I look so young than your ordinary elderly" Ozpin argued again.

"One of the remaining wonders of Remnant, I guess," Zack said with a laid back answer while picking his nose with his pinkie.

Ozpin twitched again, 'Out of all the kids I've seen, this brat is probably the most annoying one I've come to meet, the first time he saw me a few years back, he called me an old man! I'm still a young man at heart, thank you very much.'

"Hmm… I feel like you've just thought something bad about me" Zack said as he flicked his pinkie with a booger towards Ozpin. The booger flew to his desk but Ozpin didn't pay mind as his experience with Qrow back in the day was worse than nose-picking.

"Alright let's get to business, Qrow has told me you have an interesting semblance, can you show me?" Ozpin asked.

"Alright, sure thing gramps, B7, come out," Zack said as he gave him a thumbs-up.

Suddenly Zack's shadow extended and from it, a greenish-blue Beowolf emerged and saluted at Zack.

"At ease B7, I just wanted to show you to gramps," Zack said as he motioned his hand for it to relax.

B7 nodded, then went in front of Ozpin, inhaled deeply, and took bodybuilding poses for him. It even smiled at Ozpin while pronouncing its biceps and winking.

"..."

Ozpin's face twitched immediately and he motioned Zack to hold for a while as he needed to call some dusky old crow right now.

"This is Taiyang, what Ozpin?" instead of Qrow answering, Tai did.

"Where's Qrow? I want to talk to him immediately" Ozpin urged.

"Oh, alright, QROW, IT WAS OZPIN NOT YOU KNOW WHO!" Tai yelled that was easily heard from the scroll.

"Hello, Ozpin, do you need me something for another long-term mission? What is it? I'm already all for it!" Qrow immediately answered.

"... No, as much as I commend you on your work, I can't give a mission for now as a certain someone(demon) was finally able to track me down and sent a few unsavory messages (death threats) to me daily so no, I can't give a mission for a while" Ozpin suddenly answered professionally.

"..."

"What I want to talk about was Zack's semblance, why did you just inform me of this? This is serious, if he attracted the wrong attention, a lot of you know might be in danger" Ozpin reprimanded him.

"...Oh, that, the brat went on a journey for two and a half years and just came back a few months ago, he showed us his semblance yesterday…" Qrow answered in a dull tone.

"Oh, if that's the case, then that's all I needed, thank you and I wish you good luck with you know who," Ozpin said light-hearted at first then ended with a serious expression.

*toot* *toot* *toot*

Qrow didn't reply and just hung up the call.

"Well Zack, as for your- what are you doing?" Ozpin asked as he saw Zack trying to teach his summoned Grimm a pose.

"Duh, teaching him how to pose with grace" Zack answered casually.

"Alright, next time I introduce you to someone, remember to add a few spins in those last poses then smile with teeth showing and eyes winking while adding the thumbs-up, we'll call this the "Men" pose alright?" Zack patiently said at the nodding Grimm.

"..."

*cough* *cough* "Zack, can you let your summon go now, I wish to discuss something important," Ozpin said as he got Zack's attention.

" Huh, oh, alright, good work B7, you can go back now and remember what I said okay," Zack said as he motioned B7 while it saluted to him first then went to his shadow.

"Tell me, what else do you know from your semblance?" Ozpin asked.

After a few hours of Zack talking about his adventures, especially on the Land of Darkness, and Grand Alphas summons, needless to say, Ozpin was shocked as this shared resemblance with a Schnee's semblance only Zack can naturally summon almost all of them at once and from his shadow no less while a Schnee uses Glyphs.

'From what I heard from Qrow, he already has the skills to up against veteran huntsman, maybe even more. If any of the higher-ups in the council or any individuals with nefarious intentions learned his semblance, he would be forced to fight until he drops' Ozpin thought of, while placing his hand on his chin.

'Good thing he chose to enroll here or I wouldn't be able to protect Zack from the politics in this' Ozpin inwardly sighed in relief.

"Alright, thank you for sharing, you can go back to your dorm now but you can't go out in Beacon for a while as I still need to prepare some documents in case some forcefully invite you to their organization" Ozpin thanked and reminded Zack.

"Sure… Oh yeah, a friend of mine called me yesterday asking if I can get her into Beacon, can you approve gramps?" Zack suddenly remembered as he was going out.

"Hmm? Doesn't this friend of yours have any transcripts?" Ozpin asked.

"Not that know of, nope" Zack replied.

"..."

*Sigh* "then, does she have the required fighting skills in attending this school?" Ozpin asked again.

"Hmm I don't know, but she seemed like one, she has been part of the White Fang for a few years now if my memory serves me right and recently she had got out of there as recently they've been becoming a problem," Zack said as he explained Blake's situation.

"Hmm Alright, just send me her bio-data" Ozpin agreed as this was a chance he can sway a few faunus from that violent group.

"Thanks, Gramps! I owe you one!" Zack said as he turned around and exited the room.

*sigh* "This year is gonna be interesting," Ozpin said wistfully while sipping his coffee.

After that, four days have gone by as nothing unordinary happened with Beacon, except for a few faculties that were surprised to see various Greenish-blue Grimms attacking a half-naked young man who was avoiding all of their attacks without looking. It was even more shocking that those Grimms never acted violently or misbehaved at all and some of them even looked docile as they saw two Grimms working on the young man's motorcycle and sword.

Zack's training was 250 one-arm push-ups each, 300 handstand push-up, 1000 squats, 300 sit-ups, 300 curl-ups, and 50 km run. After that, avoiding his summon's attacks in all directions then shadow fighting as he imagined his favorite psychopath that was no longer in his head. He trained everyday shirtless as he doesn't want his shirts to smell.

Almost every faculty by now were acquainted with Zack as he was the only one doing his training on Beacon's grounds except for one. One blonde secretary has been absent in Beacon for a while now as rumor says, she took a few days off and today was her return meaning most of the faculty members have to go back to work today as well.

Glynda POV.

As I arrived back at Beacon, it was a tiring three days as I kept looking for him since then.

'*sigh*I never found that Zack guy again, all I can tell from the witnesses of his motorcycle was that he was headed here in Beacon so maybe I can find him here'

"Why didn't I just get his scroll's number when I had the chance, instead I froze up, it's his fault anyway for complimenting me all the sudden then taking off immediately" I muttered as low as possible.

As I walked to the front entrance, I suddenly heard a noise, like there were some Grimms nearby.

I approached it carefully and readied my Disciplinarian, a thin, black riding crop.

After going in some shrubs and trees, I finally found the Grimms but they're different, instead of white bones sticking out, they have greenish-blue ones and I can clearly see someone being attacked on all sides but they weren't connecting to the half… naked… black and white... spiky-haired… young… man.

As for the final confirmation I got it when he suddenly stopped and looked in my direction with the same smile back then said.

"Hey, Glynda, It's been a while, what are you doing here?" Zack asked.

"..."

But I couldn't answer him right at the moment as my eyes trailed to his abs, chest, and face.

"Hey, Are you alright, your face is getting really red?" Zack asked again.

"..."

"Do you need to go into the infirmary?"

"..."

"Ah I know," Zack said as he took his scroll and called someone.

"Hey gramps, you see I'm out here on the training grounds but I ran across this beautiful lady again named Glynda and she's not moving, do you know what to do? And do you know why she is here?" Zack asked.

"Ah Zack, that's Glynda Goodwitch, she is my secretary and a professor here, can you tell her to come up here quickly, her work has been piling up" Ozpin's voice can be heard from the scroll.

"Alright," Zack said as he closed the call.

"Hey, Glynda, you didn't tell me you were a professor here, If I knew a beautiful professor was here, I would've come here earlier," Zack said with that smile again.

"..."

At that, I suddenly blacked out as the last thing I saw was his handsome face calling out to me.