I'm just going to let all of you know that this is by far the worst chapter out of them all. Don't be discouraged by it.
Again on another mission in the ever dense Forest just outside of beacon all four of us dashed through the woods as fast as we could trying to beat the other to our destination. It wasn't a normal mission but it wasn't anything we hadn't encountered before; just a regular check up on the forest and the activities within.
Finally after several minutes of racing each other Blake, Weiss, Yang and Myself arrive our destination with me of course being the first one there quickly followed by Weiss then Blake and Yang.
In front of us in a clearing, as we stayed on one of the bigger trees in the area, there stood a man roughly 5'9 with black hair and he was completely naked letting it all flow in the wind, it was rather embarrassing given his size.
That wasn't the real problem with the situation though, he was surrounded by hundreds of Grimm of all different species and types ready to attack. There way to much for us to help him as if we did we would only end up dead.
Yang looked at mean without saying a word but her eyes told me she wanted to help. I silently shook my head knowing that it would only be a death sentence no matter how good we were, although every ounce of my being wanted to fight to save the man I knew it would only lead to the deaths of my friends and that was unacceptable.
Just then team JNPR arrived and perched themselves exactly to the left of us on another tree. Jaune, their leader, seemed to have the same thought process as me and stopped Nora from rushing headlong into a death trap. All eight of us just sat there waiting for the man if front of us to die although that's not how it went.
The man raised his head from looking at the Grimm that where surrounding him and looked at us. A smile spread across his face, a genuine smile that showed absolutely no fear inside of him.
Just as quickly as the smile had appeared it disappeared and he appeared right in front of my face and said, "boo," causing me to fall out of the tree.
Then at almost the same time the hundreds of creatures of Grimm either exploded and or fell apart into several pieces, literally. In almost the same instance there was a gigantic force of wind and thunder like sound that shot the rest of my teammates and team JNPR back into the forest along with myself as the wind caught me as I fell and shot me with my friends.
We all crashed into trees about 200 feet from where we had been all dazed and shocked at what the man had just done. The first one to actually voice our shock though was Yang.
"What the hell just happened?"
"We went flying. THAT WAS SO FUN," the ever energetic Nora said raising her hands in the air.
"I think we should be more worried about who that guy was though," Jaune says speaking to the entire group as a whole with his usual uncertain voice.
"Yeah, who the hell has that kind of power and just flies under the radar like that," Weiss said getting herself down from the branch she had been thrown into.
"Has anyone heard any rumors on anything like what we just saw?" I say picking myself up from the base of the tree where I had been thrown.
"Nothing," Blake and Yang say shrugging their shoulders.
"There's no legends on this as far as I know and I've read most of beacons history books," Pyrrha says speaking up for the first time.
"Nothing in my culture about that type of power," Ren says after getting helped out of the bush he was in by Nora.
"Well, I don't know about you guys though but I say we get out of here and talk to Professor Ozpin about this. Whatever that guy was he was way over our heads," Jaune says already getting his team ready to leave. I wanted to stay and see who the man was but there was no point in risking my teammates lives just because I was curious about someone. However, I wouldn't need to wait.
Just as Jaune's team had jumped to go back to Beacon all four of them including Pyrrha were smacked back into the ground by an unseen force that hit them like lightning. We instantly knew it was the man from before just from the amount of sound and shockwaves he created that quickly hit us as the others landed on the ground.
As the wind and noise settled down there came a voice from the shadows of the trees above us.
"Hello, how are you people doing today," he says dropping down into the center of us still completely naked and being the impulsive person she was Yang jumped at him almost immediately. Before my eyes could even register what she was doing Yang was lying on the ground unconscious.
"Now does, anyone else want to fight. I honestly don't mind," he says with a voice telling us he was serious.
Now since he was a lot closer than before we got to see exactly what he looked like. He had black hair and brown eyes and roguishly handsome face but his torso from his elbows to his knees was completely covered in horrific scaring. The only thing seemed not to be touched in that area was his privates. Other than that though he looked to be in excellent shape but his eyes scared me. They were full of life and happiness but you could tell from just looking at them that they had seem far too much death and destruction.
As I was finishing observing him there was a glow from his feet. It was Yang getting back on her feet with her hair burning bright and her eyes were undoubtedly bright red even though I could see them. She then attacked the man without a seconds hesitation but again the man completely disarmed her and held her by her neck above his head. He then began to speak calmly but you could tell that he couldn't hesitate to act on what he said.
"Now. You can either calm down and talk to me or you can continue to fight and if you do I won't hesitate to end you. I've killed over 3.5 million people where I come from so don't make me kill you too," he says.
When he mentioned his kill count I couldn't believe it but there was something about him that said that he wasn't kidding in the slightest. This had the desired effect too as Yang calmed down, which was a rarity and came back over to Weiss, Blake and I. This was followed by an eerie silence only broken once Nora began to speak to the man.
"So, what are you," she asked incredibly calm given the situation.
"A man looking over his domain," he says.
"How old are you," she then asked.
"29. You?" he asked.
"We're all 17 except for Ruby whose 15," she says gesturing towards me. All the man did was turn his head towards me, look me up and down and then nod as if acknowledging me.
"17 was a bad year for me," he says almost reminiscently
"Why?" Nora asked innocently and at this point the rest of us were too nervous to try and say anything else as she had the situation handled apparently.
"I'd rather not talk about it to total strangers," he says.
"Then why don't we become friends," Nora suggested with a bright smile on her face. The rest of us on the other hand were horrified at what was happening.
"I don't see why not. What are your names?" he then asked looking at all of us.
We all spoke our names starting from the closet to him which was Nora followed by Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren then Weiss, Blake, Yang and myself. When he looked at Jaune and Pyrrha there was a half smile on his face as if he knew something about them. I mean it was obvious to everyone but Jaune that Pyrrha like him and the man who now stood in front of us must've noticed that too.
"So where are we going?" he asked out of the blue after almost a minute of silence and him observing us, still stark naked I might add.
"Back to our school but you're going to need clothes," I say speaking up to the man for the first time.
"You have anything extra I could wear?" he asked. None of us had anything extra but Jaune stripped off his sweatshirt revealing a tight undershirt and tossed the sweatshirt to the man. He too noticed Prryha's expression that was now on her face accompanied by a flush of red to her face.
He then wrapped the sweatshirt around his waist letting the big part cover his above average junk and at that he nodded to us and we began to speed back to Beacon as fast as we could. A part of me hoped that he would get lost and we would never see him again but that was far to much to hope for as we stopped on the ledge of the Cliff he was already waiting for us there to the shock of most of us. Chopping it up to he realized where we were going we stopped in front of him and then began to walk the half mile back to beacon.
*10 minutes later*
"Stop here," Jaune said as we were only several hundred feet from Beacon.
"Why?" Asked Weiss who always seemed to have to undermine or annoy the leader of JNPR.
"Because he can't go there like that. Ren you look about his size. Could you go to our room and get some clothes and then come back?" Jaune asked his teammate. Ren simply nodded in silence and sped off.
As soon as he was gone the man spoke, "So when are you going to tell him that you like him," he says looking directly at Nora who now couldn't look at the man.
"It's not like that," she says almost in a whisper.
"Yeah, that's a load of crap. It's not good to hide how you truly feel to someone," the man says to her but we could all hear the conversation. "Also, he'll never get the hint unless you flat out tell him," he says looking at Pyrrha this time. Jaune of course wasn't paying attention at all and was looking out for signs of Ren. Several minutes would pass before he would get back with clothes. Jeans and a regular white T.
"This is fine," the man says before anyone could ask if that was okay. He then got his clothes on and tossed Jaune his sweatshirt which he slung over his shoulder refusing to put it on as we walked onto campus. We were mostly silent until we passed the cafeteria which had at least another hour or two until it closed for the day.
"Let's eat," Nora says as we pass it and she grabs Ren's hand and drags him into the followed by everyone else except for myself, Pyrrha and the man.
"Is she always like that with him?" he asked.
"Yes," Pyrrha answered with a slight smile on her face.
"How are they so dumb," the man said before walking into the cafeteria and we quickly followed him into the cafeteria. There was almost no one in there at this time except for Cardin, his cronies and Velvet who sat as far away from them as she could. She seemed to notice us walk in and she attempted to come over but she was stopped by Cardin and his cronies who began their usual torture of her.
As they began this there was an obscene amount of power that seemed to come from nowhere but then I saw the man and he seemed to be covered in scales. Before the rest of us had realized where the power was coming from he had already made his way over to where Cardin was tormenting Velvet.
The man then grabbed Cardin and said something that none of us could hear but it seemed to shock Velvet and piss off Cardin. Cardin the pulled out his war hammer and swing it at the man, which even for Cardin was uncharacteristic.
The war hammer shattered on impact with the man and Cardin's cronies then attacked him and like their leaders weapons they too shattered on impact with the man. Then all of Cardin's team went flying smashing into the walls all around the cafeteria. They were stuck in the wall and obviously knocked out and the man seemed to ask Velvet if she was okay and when she nodded her head he walked over to where everyone else was sitting. Needless to say everyone's mouths were agape in shock and in horror including mine.
Things might just start to get even more interesting now.
Hey Everyone. I know the story isn't all that interesting in this chapter but it gets a lot better and if you're willing to read more you'll see that I wasn't lying.
Thanks.