Back for chapter 2 of this RWBY fic and I do aim for this to be longer than the first chapter but let's wait and see what fate has in store. As always I own nothing, all rights stay with the previous owners.
Chapter 2: Introductions
After I brought Niall to the hospital wing to sleep of his concussion I went to go meet the four ladies which I will be staying next door to for the rest of the year. That is where I happen to be right now. As I keep sipping my ever so tasty Mocha they keep giving me glares. I know of the little red hooded girl and her older blonde sister but between them is a small white haired girl most likely a Schnee and then next to her was a brunette that is an adorable cat faunus, unfortunately she had to cover the ears up with a bow.
"Will you guys stop staring, all I did was punched my friend through the wall you act like it isn't normal and I'm going to pay for the damages to the wall and any property." I suppose being the big man could have gone one of two ways but I doubt they would have stabbed me for saying that, unlike the last few ones I have met.
"IT ISN'T NORMAL!" ah finally the white haired girl speaks unfortunately she has a very shrill angry voice right now.
"It is if he used his semblance or even a weapon but we saw him just punch, him once through the wall." Ahh kitty kinda has a cute monotone voice but I'm pretty sure the blonde who is giving me a death glare right now makes this woman her girlfriend.
Did the blonde just have a lightbulb moment, "I think I know you… do you do street fighting?" Ah she isn't as dumb as she looks… or as much as the stereotypes would suggest. "Yes and judging on previous facts you must be the one who tried to break my record and failed half-way through it. Now judging by your friends' looks they don't know about this."
Now judging by her reaction she is surprised by the fact she must have pictured me to be some monster that has a robotic arm or something. "MR. MICHAEL, do you mind explaining to me why we need to already patch not one but two holes in your room and how your team mate is now in hospital?"
Ahh Glynda always able to ruin the mood of a nice chat, "Simple there Glynda me and Hobbit pulled apart an Ursa mating ritual, and then they jumped out the window. All of this was to protect these four beautiful ladies." I think I may have pissed her off. "Don't worry I will pay for the damages that those Grimm made, don't want to create anymore grey hairs for you… but we have to stop meeting like this." With that she storms of with a huff… hmm maybe I did piss her off I should apologise, for what I don't know. Hell I'll do it later.
"Soo, you being able to talk to her like that and get away with it aside do you mind telling us why you aren't allowed to dorm with the rest of your team?" I'm both glad and pissed that this is the first question to come up.
"Well Little Red, you see going back about three years me and my team where the champions of the festival in all aspects. Then in our home kingdom all training hunters and huntresses along with the army had to extinguish a few conflicts from Grimm to various terrorist factions so we couldn't come back to participate in the festivities."
"That doesn't answer her question." Oh for the sake of remnant you stop telling them a story to take a sip of your drink.
"Don't worry Snow White, I'm getting to it. Only last month was all this conflict resolved and school resumed and the head master along with the council decided that it would be in their best interests to send us to participate for our title again. The professors don't like use to much because we spend sweet fuck all effort and produce the most property damage but are the best team on all fronts. Soo yeah I'm sure goldilocks there can testify I am unstoppable when I fight so if you get paired against us I suggest forfeiting fast."
I'm not sure what stuns them more the fact someone can easily best her or the fact I'm still drinking the tasty liquid happiness known as mocha… I'm going to go with the former.
"Tell you what we will get Professor Goodwitch to pair my team versus you tomorrow during her class and we can fight." Impressive this is the first time in a long time I am tempted to actually go to class.
"Michael! Do you mind explaining why Hobbit is in the hospital?" Ahh Micah he can be a buzz kill some times, he probably wants the truth. "And I'm sure you four ladies are lovely but if you go out with him, he will crush your heart." And there is the obligatory fuck you from Fionn.
"He hit me first Micah and as for you Fionn these four ladies are all dating each other and are my neighbours who Hobbit got acquainted with their room real fast but tell you what I will get you acquainted with the ceiling. Plus these four ladies challenged me to a team versus me match in Glynda's class tomorrow."
Why did the four ladies move back a bit? Granted Fionn is getting his bokken out but that is non-fatal. "Relax Fionn. I'm pretty sure Glynda already attempted to yell at him but he talked his way out, like always. Plus we have an excuse to go to a class tomorrow. The class is at one in the afternoon… ehh kinda early so they may have the advantage. Michael, don't use your semblance. No more than a quarter of your power I don't want to send four people to the intensive care unit."
For once we all agree this will be nice to relax and I don't have Niall to worry about being kept up.
Sleep came easily that night knowing I get to practice a bit unfortunately, next door through one of the new holes the other team were loud and trying to figure out new strategies, personally I don't think they will work out but hey sleep deprivation can do some strange things.
When I woke up I flicked open my scroll to see it was just turning twelve. Heh a good ten hours but I may still act like I got none give them a bit of grace. I get up brush my shoulder length silver hair and put on my white suit complete with a sage green neck tie. I shrug my shoulders and began walking to the arena meeting Micah and Fionn along the way who just got Niall out of the hospital.
"Nice to see you out, but you look like someone just punched you through a solid five feet of wall there Hobbit. I'm glad you get to see me fight."
"Yeah well screw you too. I think the staff got our old reserved beds in the hospital ready when the saw you. Aaand I saw Glynda walk in she seems shocked someone asked to fight us… or at least one of us."
We laughed and all placed bets to see how long it will take to get this done with I see the four girls getting ready in the arena with Glynda who probably trying to talk them out of it but hey, can't stop them now.
"Glynda you blonde little minx if we keep meeting outside the tournament people will question our relationship and I'm sorry but I'm not the bottom ever." I thing I can see a vein starting to develop on her head.
"Don't you dare use your semblance on these people. Got it. I can't talk them out of doing it."
"Okay because I aim to go back to sleep here is what is going to happen, I will give your strongest fighter a free hit. You best hope that hit puts me in the danger zone because if it doesn't I will through goldilocks there who most likely will be the one to through the punch into Belle putting them both into the red. Then little red and snow white will charge me. I side step snow white catching her rapier. Then throwing her to little red who will catch her otherwise she will have sever permeant damage, all be it not enough to quite her huntress days but enough to hinder her when she moves back to White Castle. If you don't take the hit it will end just as fast but I won't receive any damage."
As I stare them down Yang walks up to me and punches her fists together and her aura goes all fiery and her eyes change from that beautiful shade of lilac to a shade of red that surprises me a bit. She reaches back getting ready to through a right cross. I put my hands by my side and relax to a semi ragdoll state to lessen the damage. She then releases it and it connects full force.
Once she was pulling back I quickly grabbed her arm and spun threw her into the cat Faunus named Blake. I look up to see the aura meters and notice that mine only went down a small sliver and the two semi concussed girls were down to the red. I look back at the other two girls to see snow white charging me and where little red all I see is a cascading shower of rose petals.
As I side step Weiss on her left side and catch her rapier, unfortunately I miss judged the distance and caught it by the blade. I know my hand is bleeding and I most likely will need some stiches but I push through the pain and pull her in and grab her by the arm and throw her in the direction of the wall under a team I think is called Juniper. When I look again Ruby appeared and jumped to catch snow white. The both hit the wall but the damage is reduced I look up to see their auras as well are in the danger zone meaning I won.
"I though you said you were going to go easy on them!" ah Glynda but right now is not the time.
"Look Glynda I know you feed off our banter but right now I am bleeding and those four need to get to the hospital so excuse me and my friends while we get these four some medical help." I hold up my hand showing the blood flowing from my hand showing the new gaping wound.
She shrugs and gestures use to pick up the girls. I grab Ruby and put her up on my back and began taking the shortish walk to the hospital wing. I was followed by the rest of my team carrying the other members of team RWBY and behind them JNPR was running behind them as well.
As we walk in the hospital staff just stared at us. Then a woman in her late forties just stared at me. "Well, well, well. I guess hoping I wouldn't have to see you four again. I got word from Goodwitch you would be fighting them bring them here." We followed her into a room with a few beds; clearly they were expecting the worst.
"Right Peach despite how fun it is to get a lecture after all these years but I caught the wrong side of the rapier and now my hand is bleeding severely." I hold up my hand after we got the four women into their new beds. She ushers me over to take a seat where she can see the new wound on my old flawless skin.
"Well you will need some stiches but you won't die on us. Now these four girls on the other hand if they don't turn out to have any spinal damages they should be fine."
"Thanks professor Peach but can you at least mend his hand because I'm sure they want their victor to not bleed out." One of the team JNPR members who came after us spoke up. The one who said it was a tall red head wearing golden armour.
"Fine come here so I can at least treat you and Mr Niall Go back into a bed because you are still recovering."
Niall utters something under his breath as he walks out with Micah and Fionn while I walk up to the medic so she can sew my hand shut.
After a quick stich job my hand was wrapped up and I sat next to the girls to make sure they woke up fine.
"You know you can leave I'm sure they won't kill you when they wake up." The other women on the team spoke. "As you witnessed in the fight that isn't even a problem for me, it is just what I do after I get into a fight short of it being an underground on I stay next to the people I fought to wake up. More importantly why are you four here? I don't even know you."
"Sorry for Nora being as rude as she is, she slept during the match. I'm Jaune the team leader, Pyrrha is the other girl and the guy who is trying to read in the corner is named Lei Ren but we always call him Ren." This scrawny blonde who looks like he couldn't even handle a fight with a cardboard box was speaking.
"I'm Michael and I don't particularly like talking when I was bleeding from misjudging the length of my opponent's rapier, then get five stiches from one of the teachers who would gladly watch me bleed out." I say offering my right hand to shake his.
As I was shaking his hand both Little Red and Goldilocks woke up. "Man I thought he was joking when he said that…" they must have noticed the people in the room.
"What do I have to gain from lying to you Goldilocks plus I was wrong I took more damage after you and Belle there passed out. I got my hand cut open by misjudging the length of Snow White's rapier."
She shrugs and you can see it in her eyes, she is trying to think of something to say. "So it is good two of you woke up I think, especially Little Red because she took a pretty bad hit from the wall so if she is up that means the other should be fine."
Ruby opens her mouth then closes it, then she opens it but this time begins to talk. "How long have we been out? And what do you mean 'should be'?"
"Only a few hours and you all took only a few hits from you, now that I think about it he didn't actually hit any of you, but the hits were powerful to the point where no one knew if you would wake up." They both looked shocked. I don't know why they knew I am trained to fight hell I even said how the fight will go down. As I was thinking Ren comes in with Peach shortly behind him.
"Good to see you girls are up but at the same time bad because it means he may be slipping in his strength and like most teachers here we make a killing on their fights."
"Nice to see your priority is straight there tell me, how are the turtles and can you check up on them to see if there is any permeant damage, only if it doesn't inconvenience you." This earns a snicker from everyone in the room… well the ones who are awake.
She quickly looks over them and their charts and leaves after saying they will be fine but due to policy they need to stay overnight.
"Well I guess Mrs Goodwitch was right… we couldn't win but next time we will win and defeat not only you but everyone on your team."
"Good luck then Little Red. On the other hand how are you guys feeling I didn't mean to actually put you four in here and for that I'm sorry."
"It is okay Michael but can you tell me how is your hand I'm sure besides a small bit of pain we both are fine… aren't we Yang"
"Yes Ruby my pride is just hurt right now. Now I see how you got that record in the underground fights."
"Great to know but as I told these four people, unless it is an underground fight I stay till all members of teams I fight are awake." I stayed even after those two went back asleep because it was one in the morning, but I never went to sleep the other two didn't wake up until it was already nine the next morning and Ruby and Yang woke back up.
Ruby was rubbing the sleep from her eyes and was yawning. "D-did you stay the full night and not get any sleep?"
"Hmm Little Red of course I did. When I say I stay till I know all members are alright. Besides I still need to congratulate Snow White for dealing me damage outside the hit Goldilocks gave me. So what is one night without sleep or eating, I'll be fine."
Author's Note:
So this chapter again isn't as long as I wanted but I also have been sitting on this one for a few days and I wanted to upload it so I hope you enjoy it. As for the way the chapter ended it kind of is the way I am, I will go without sleep for quite some time but for different reasons then putting someone in hospital in fact that wouldn't stop me from enjoying sleep.
Timmydog out :3