Is it just me or do all the cute ones end up as the strongest?
"COME ON!" Roared a tall, beige-haired brute of a boy. "I CAN'T BE THE ONLY STRONG ONE HERE!"
The bruiser cracked his knuckles loudly from inside his metal gauntlet.
"YOU PROUD HUNTERS GONNA LET YOURSELVES BE BEAT BY A FARMHAND?!" He pointed to each of the surrounding hunters-in-training, who had formed a crowd to watch him fight. "YOU DISGUST ME!"
His most recent victim, with long blonde hair and bright silver eyes, crawled away from the scene in tears. "Should've listened to Dad…" She muttered over and over like a mantra.
Another girl promptly pulled the sobbing girl to her feet and dragged her into the crowd. The beaten teen seemed to look fine under her touch, until she slapped her hand away and stumbled away crying.
Her grey haired saviour, who was even taller than the attacker, turned back to face him with an angry snarl on her face.
"THIS IS THEIR FIRST DAY!" She screamed. "LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE!"
The brute laughed. "THE GRIMM DON'T CARE, MAKE ME!"
In response the challenger gripped the handle of her weapon, which was strung across her back, and pulled the massive construct off. It was a gigantic double-headed battle axe, engraved with a wolf head.
"Fine" Was her calm response.
The she-wolf slammed the axe into the stone path, creating a wide shockwave that barely even shook the brutish boy. Fortunately, barely was all she needed.
As he looked back up from his oak-coloured boots he was greeted with an axe head to the face, sending him sprawling backwards into the statue.
"Damn," He began, scrambling to his feet. "You're pretty strong…"
The bully then slammed his fist into his open hand, the knuckles on his gauntlet lighting up with Dust infusion. "…But you're not me"
He lunged forward, punching the axe-wielder. She caught the fist on the axe haft, from which sparks started to fly. The gauntlet was using fire Dust in an attempt to melt the large weapon, albeit unsuccessfully.
She parried his attack, showing off her sharp teeth to the bruiser. The wolf Faunus then brought her battle axe around, burying it next to his feet after his close dodge. He retaliated by striking her chin with an explosive uppercut, knocking her high into the air. She drew a round metal shield, Axis, from her back and tossed it like a sharp frisbee.
The circle of metal ricocheted off of the brawlers face and back onto the she-wolf's arm. She hoisted her axe, Periphery, out of the ground and compacted it into a smaller, single-headed weapon. She leaped and span, hitting his guard repeatedly with Axis and Periphery until his metal-sheathed hand was knocked aside.
The wolf swung her axe in a finishing blow, only to have it caught on his unprotected arm. He simply looked at the blade digging into the skin of his forearm, which had turned stone grey, and smiled. A solid, fire infused punch blasted his opponent back many feet, where she skidded to a halt.
"You know," He began in his strong accent. "Where I come from we have to lift pretty heavy farming equipment. You, on the over hand, are much lighter"
She slowly shambled to her armoured feet. "Where I come from, we have to lift Goliaths!" A large violet bruise now adorned her face, highlighting her amber eyes.
The beaten girl stumbled forwards and attempted to smack him with her shield, only to be swept off her feet once again. The sound of an eagle calling echoed from the distance.
"I kinda expected more of a challenge from the legendary Ylva Freki, you know" He teased. "Once again, I be a simple farmhand fighting titans. Titans who have all been huge disappointments" He added, glancing in the direction his last challenger had run in.
"Before you get put in a hospital…" Ylva began with a stoic look. "…Would this simple farm hand mind telling me his name?"
The boy laughed. "Aye, you're cocky lass to say that"
He stood over her, preparing a knockout punch. "You have the honour of being beaten by the GREAT LETH PIER-"
A pair of red and black clad-feet slammed into the side of his face, causing spit, blood and a single tooth to burst out of his mouth.
The devastating dropkick had impacted hard enough to propel Leth several metres over the statue, across the courtyard and into the docks, where he smashed into the side of the last airship, leaving noticeable Leth-shaped hole in the wall.
Ylva's winged saviour extended a gloved hand to her, which she hastily accepted. "Thanks for the save, noble warrior" She proclaimed, a wide grin on her wolfish features.
The new female bowed while retracting her mechanical wings, sharing a similar smile. "Not a problem Miss Freki, I simply cannot stand people like him" Her expression soured. "I hope I don't end up on the same team as that brutish thug" She shivered.
"I do" Ylva replied, earning a look of horror from the newcomer. "It's only because of his strength. He threw me around like he did without using his Aura. The only time he did was when he activated his Semblance, that part where he blocked with his unarmoured hand"
"Question!" Her saviour inquired. "How do you know he didn't use Aura?"
Ylva coughed. "Well asides from how badly he took that hit, it just so happens to be that my Se-"
"Semblance, known as Ultrasense, allowing a massive increase in all senses and the ability to sense various types of energy including Aura, Dust and the soulless energy produced from the Creatures of Grimm". A new voice introduced.
Ylva yelped and jumped around, readying her weapons, only to receive the barrel of a gun to her neck. "How the hell do you know that?!"
"Put your weapons away, little girl. You wrote your semblance into your transcripts, and no transcript reaches Professor Ozpin without my consent."
This would be a normal conversation even with the gun pointed at Ylva, if not for the fact that the Professor hadn't actually opened her mouth to talk.
"Miss Sunder! Why are you attacking the new students so viciously? And don't you dare say that they started it"
The red-haired aviator shuffled her feet uncomfortably for a moment and mumbled something under her breath.
"Rekale… I heard that. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt just this once." The red-haired teacher then turned to Ylva. "As for you Miss Freki, try harder to evaluate your opponent next time"
With that, the professor turned away and sauntered off to the academy building.
"Did she just… What?" A stunned Ylva asked.
Rekale smiled. "You didn't know? Professor Rouge can't talk, but she knows a rare form of telepathy to compensate. People have been clamouring to figure out her secret for longer than we've been alive"
"Ah" She responded. "Well, it's time for me to find my cousin, Acantha, she should be around here somewhere. Blessed be your journey, Rekale"
As Ylva dashed away, Rekale was left alone. "This is what I get for trying to make friends isn't it?"
Kai Tzun and Syl Arson were stood over a barely-conscious body.
"Err…"
"Syl, what did you do to him?
"I swear I did nothing. He just landed here"
"And the hole in your father's ship?"
"Okay, so he crash-landed here"
"Is he dead?"
"I already checked. Only injury is his mouth"
"His mouth?"
"Something, probably a massive blunt weapon, hit his jaw so hard that it dislodged a tooth"
"Conscious?"
"Barely…"
"I'm fine lass, stop worrying" Leth spoke, spitting blood that happened to land on Tzun's cheek.
He wiped it off, scowling. "Whatever happened, why didn't you use your damn Aura?"
Puzzled, Leth shakily stood up. "Aura? You mean the invisible magic forcefield right?"
Tzun responded with a facepalm. "I guess…" He muttered.
"Maybe because we aren't supposed to overuse 'Aura'. Or at least that's what my pa told me" Leth responded, cockily. "But I'll tell you what. That bitch kicks like a Griffon…"
"Yeah I don't like yo-"
"Wait!" Syl interrupted. "You were kicked?"
"Aye"
"Really hard?"
"To give you an idea, I was at the school gates and now I'm here!"
"The kick came out of nowhere?"
"What's with all the bloody questions? I've probably got a concussion"
Syl growled.
"Kay fine. It did"
Syl began squeaking loudly and violently shaking. "Oh my God oh my God oh my God!"
Tzun calmed her with a hand on the shoulder. "Syl, the chances that Rekale Sunder just so happened to attend Beacon at exactly the same time you did when she has access to all four academies easily is pretty slim"
"I got fucked up by Rekale Sunder? Now it all makes sense…"
At that moment, a figure gracefully descended next to Syl.
At that moment, Syl fainted.
Rekale opened her mouth to speak, but quickly closed it.
The following silence was deafening.
"I'm not carrying her" They all stated simultaneously .
Okay so this took longer than expected. Sorry about that and the chapter length. Same promise exists from last chapter.
Next chapter will come out later this month.
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-Leth is taken from Leather, Pierre means 'stone' in French.
-Rekale is taken from Recalescence, a process occurring during metal heating. Sunder is taken from Asunder, usually meaning something exploding or splitting.
-Ylva means 'she-wolf' in Swedish. Freki is a legendary Norse wolf.
-Professor Rogue Rouge isn't too hard to figure out yourself.
-And mystery silver-eyed girl? That's Sakura Uaithne.