This is the result of me being bored in S.I.P after the system messes up. Pretty sure that AP English Lang/Com is not English 3… Oh well, I'm here to write, but I want to make sure that everyone knows this (this is due to reveiw #1) MY CHARACTER IS NOT A GARY STU. He is based off of me, to an extent. I'm not nearly as agile and flexible as he is, nor is my hair full of blue streaks, I only use temporary dye. I can make music, use all his weapons, etc. etc. He just is a bit different than me. Also to my fourth review (Sorry currently zero internet during typing) I will try to add more dialogue with Jaune and Ren, but am I the only one that noticed Ren doesn't really talk that much? Anyways I think that's it for now. Let's start the next chapter of The Black Lotus.
Disclaimer: Seeing as I'm not named Monty Oum…
Zune sighed as he got to his huge empty room. It only served to remind him that he was alone at this school. He sat on his bed and opened up his laptop. He loaded up a music file he was working on as he opened up a 1 liter bottle of black cherry flavored sparkling water. He also grabbed a bag of Sea Salt and Vinegar chips and put on headphones listening to the beat. He closed his eyes as he let his heart get with the bass thump. After a few minutes he stopped the music and took off the headphones. He felt like it needed work but was good for the moment. He then heard a knocking on the door.
"Zune, are you in there?" Came the voice of Jaune.
Zune went over and opened up the door to see the blonde standing there looking nervous. "Yo man, what's the problem?" Zune asked pulling him into the room.
"Well I'm worried about the sparring class we have in the morning…" Jaune said looking down.
"Oh, well here, let's go to the roof and I want you to spar against me. I wanna see what you can do." Zune said grabbing his gloves and club.
"Okay…" Jaune said following him up to the roof.
When they got up to the roof, Jaune pulled out his sword and activated his shield. Zune smiled and then ran at Jaune and swung with his club. On instinct Jaune blocked, then tried to swipe at Zune who jumped and swung at Jaune. This time he made contact and it knocked the breath out of Jaune. Zune stopped at that point in time.
"Well you seem to need to work on how to realize the difference between times to defend or attack." Zune said with a smile.
"You didn't defend once!" Jaune said feeling bad.
"I did, that jump to avoid your sword is defending." Zune said wisely.
"Well can I spar against you?" Jaune asked seeing that Zune was better than his current level but wanted to challenge himself to get better.
"Of course! I'll give you a few pointers and spar against you, lets say every other day?" Zune asked Jaune.
"Sure, so I'm guessing, one day to train in a spar, the next to rest and train with the new technique?" Juane asked.
"Yeah, but don't expect me to go easy. I won't hurt you but I will give it my all, and I expect you to do the same." Zune said with a laid back attitude.
"You got it!" Jaune said enthusiastically.
"Let's go back, it's almost curfew." Zune said heading back to his room.
When they got down and split ways Zune went to his room, and laid down thinking about everything that had happened to him since enrolling into this school. He dwelled for a moment about the death of his teammates then thought to the girls he had met so far along with Jaune and Ren. They were all great people and he couldn't wait to learn more about them, but the girls did seem to like him a lot more than as a friend. He sighed. He wasn't a huge lady killer where he was from. He knew people liked his hair and when they met him they liked how he was, but he just never really worked for people to like him, and people were jealous of that, so he was an asshole to people who tried to start shit. He shrugged and started to nod off. It would be an interesting day tomorrow.
But that night was also interesting, but not in a good way. Zune was thrashing around in his bed, his eyes still half open like normal but darting around, his sweat was actually turning to blood. He was muttering, but then suddenly lashed at his face trying to tear it off it seemed. After a while it appeared he tired himself out and stopped thrashing but still sweat some blood, and was twitching every now and then.
Zune woke up with a gasp and looked around. It was a dream, he was in his room, and his sheets appeared to be covered in blood. Again. He sighed and stripped them off before going to the bathroom and quickly noticing the scratches on his face and washed them with some hot water and took a quick shower. He quickly put on his uniform and grabbed his rifle, short sword, and club. He put on his glasses and gloves and went to go get some breakfast. He got there and actually got a good amount of food. 20 pieces of bacon, three pancakes, a hard boiled egg, some toast, a orange and a glass of apple juice. Before he could get started teams RWBY and JNPR sat down next to him.
"Wow, Zune, that's more than we've ever seen you eat." Ruby said having seen him never eat more than some bacon and fruit.
"What's wrong?" Blake asked recognizing the different behavior as a problem.
"Don't worry about it, it's nothing abnormal for me." Zune said deflecting the question.
"Are you sure?" Pyrrah asked wanting to make sure that he was okay, after all, she may have just met him but he seemed like a really nice guy.
"If it's a problem you can tell us, we are your friends." Ren said looking him in the eyes.
"Guys, it' nothing wrong, I just sweat a lot of blood last night so I need to get my blood sugar back up." Zune said before realizing he just said sweat blood and clamped a hand over his mouth in mild horror.
"What do you mean sweat blood." Yang asked worried.
"Nothing, just drop it. Please." Zune basically begged them, causing them to stop.
"Okay, let's just enjoy the food we have, alright." Ruby said snapping everyone out of their stupor only to see something they had never have thought possible.
Zune got a thankful look in his eyes and then proceeded to do one thing; eat. He literally stuffed his mouth so full everyone was sure he would choke but in a matter of 3 minutes he was done with his food and was sipping his juice. Everyone else had barely started.
"Dear god Zune, where did you put all of it?" Weiss asked noticing his was very skinny.
"Simple, my stomach." Zune said with a cheeky grin. Before Weiss could get mad he said "In reality most of it is just to replenish my blood and muscle mass. It will give me enough energy to do everything I need to do today before lunch." Zune said with a grin.
"But still, you're so skinny, and ate all that!" Weiss said slightly jealous he could eat that much and not gain a pound.
"High metabolism, along with the fact that I wear at least an extra four pounds, and that's not counting my two pound boots." He responded with a shrug being used to it.
After they were all done they headed down the hallway to a large intricate room made with a stage to spar in. Before they could even think about who should spar who in walked Ms. Goodwitch.
"Greetings students, today we will have some sparring practice, now I will randomly select two people to spar." At saying this she pulled up a screen. "And it looks to be the leader of teams JNPR and CDRL. Jaune, Cardin, both of you get up here and ready to spar."
The two men in question quickly got up there, but it was easily seen that Jaune was at a disadvantages size. Cardin was much taller and much more muscular. Jaune gulped and quickly charged Cardin who within two minutes beat Jaune without breaking a sweat.
"Mr. Arc, you need to learn how to control your aura better." Goodwitch said sternly before noticing Cardin smirking. She frowned not liking arrogance as it destroys good foundation. "Does anyone want to face Mr. Winchester?"
Zune suddenly stepped forward, also disliking arrogance. "I would like to Ms. Goodwitch." He said pulling out his club.
Zune and Cardin both got in battle stances and didn't move for a good minute, then Cardin rushed him. Zune started dodging waiting for an opening, then saw one. He ducked under Cardin's swing of his mace and quickly slammed his club into Cardin's stomach. Cardin lurched over but before Zune could do anything else Cardin managed to slam his club into Zune's back while he was falling, causing Zune to slam to the ground and drop his club.
"That was an interesting strategy. Both of you could have won. But fear not, you both did great." Ms. Goodwitch said before having them all start to spar. Zune would have just relaxed but noticed Jaune was looking blue.
"Hey man, what's the matter?" Zune asked him sitting next to him.
"Just got beat by Cardin without landing a hit on him." Jaune said dejectedly.
"Hey, I'll help you, now come over here, and remember what I told you last night? Let's see if you can tell the difference yet." Zune said standing in front of where Jaune was both drawing their weapons.
They looked at each other, neither moving until suddenly Zune leapt forward and Jaune blocked his club with his shield. Zune then tried to swipe Jaune's legs with a sweep kick but Jaune managed to jump but stumbled on landing allowing Zune to slam him down with his club, suddenly pulling out his rifle and pointing it at Jaune. Jaune not being one to just give up tried to swipe out Zune's legs, but he jumped then threw his sword impaling Jaune's shirt and pinning him to the ground.
"Looks like I win this match Jaune." Zune said with a smile putting up his weapons and helping Jaune get up.
"Dammit, you always win." Jaune sighed with Zune patting him on the back reassuringly.
"Don't worry, you'll get better, just give it some time." Zune said with a smile. "Just so you know, I only lost to Cardin because he got lucky.
Jaune smiled understanding what Zune meant, "Thanks, I mean when I first met you I was unsure if I could consider you a friend, but you've only helped me, so thank you for that." Jaune gave him a grateful smile.
"Hey, why wouldn't I be a friend?" Zune asked curious.
"I don't really know, you just seem a bit intimidating." Jaune said shrugging.
"Huh, odd." Zune said to himself more than to Jaune.
Suddenly Zune shoved Jaune to the ground. Shocked Jaune looked to see Zune had been frozen by Weiss' dust attack.
"OH MY GOD!" Weiss yelled out running to where Zune was.
"Weiss! Watch where you aim that!" Ruby yelled having been her sparing patner. Then she noticed Zune "WEISS YOU KILLED ZUNE!" Ruby said loudly on borderline hysterics gathering the rest of teams RWBY and JNPR's attention.
"He's not dead, I think." Weiss said trying to stay calm.
"YOU THINK?!" Ruby yelled at her, not staying calm.
"What do we do?" Yang asked in shock.
"Um guys." Jaune said but no one hearing him.
"How should I know?!" Weiss said.
"It was your attack." Blake responded.
"GUYS LISTEN TO ME!" Jaune yelled getting their attention.
"What?!" They asked hoping it was an idea.
"Why not break the ice?" Jaune asked logically.
"That's an ingenious idea Jaune!" Pyrrha said happy.
"One slight problem guys." Blake said "Remember the Deathstalker and Nevermore?"
"Oh, that's right, Weiss' dust attack stopped them cold." Ren said realizing this would be a problem.
"That's not going to stop us!" Ruby said pulling crescent rose out in it's basic form and starting to shoot at the ice, barely cracking it.
"Come on guys, we got this." Yang said punching it with her gauntlets and Blake sliced it up, along with Jaune and Pyrrha, as Ren also shot it, and Nora slammed her hammer into it.
"Weiss you could help!" Ruby said while reloading.
"Alright, I will." Weiss said using an exploding dust attack, causing large cracks in the ice, enough for the rest to use to shatter the ice open and free Zune.
Zune fell out of the ice and didn't move, scaring the girls and making Jaune and Ren worry.
"Is he alive?" Ren asked when Jaune went over and turned him to be on his back.
"He's cold to the touch." Jaune said turning him over. "He's breathing but it's very small and shallow."
Zune was covered in frost and had blue lips. He wasn't moving and barely breathing.
"WHAT!" Yang said freaking out and causing fire to sprout up.
"Wait! Yang don't calm down, but hit Zune with the fire!" Ruby said causing the others to jump away from Zune. Yang somehow managed to hit Zune with said fire and it simply melted the frost and gave parts of him second degree burns.
"Okay, that's not a good idea, let's get him to the infirmary." Blake said with Jaune and Ren picking him up to carry him there.
Zune groaned and sat up. He looked around and saw a bunch of empty white beds and some big windows. He was in the infirmary.
"What happened?" Zune asked himself right as the door opened and in came Weiss.
"Zune! You're awake!" Weiss said running to his bed.
"Yeah, what happened and how long ago?" Zune asked confused, "Last thing I remember is shoving Jaune out of the way then I woke up here."
"My dust attack missed Ruby and went towards you and Jaune. Right before it hit Jaune you moved him and got frozen." Weiss said feeling guilty.
"How long ago was that?" Zune asked curious.
"Almost two weeks ago." Weiss said feeling even worse about causing that.
"Well I don't blame you okay? I know it's your fault but it was an accident. Don't worry about it, I'm alive so it's fine." Zune said knowing it was going to still take a day or two to recover fully from it, but he would be fine.
Weiss smiled at him, grateful that he didn't blame her for causing it. She sat down in a chair next to him. "Thank you Zune, you have no idea how much that means to me that you don't blame me." Weiss said with tears in her eyes.
"Hey, don't cry, it's nothing major, I just don't blame you for the accident." Zune said wiping the tears off her face with gentle yet calloused hands.
"Thank you." Weiss said right before kissing him. It surprised Zune, but he kissed back. The kiss soon ended though.
They talked for a little until the nurse came in. She gave Zune some food and told Weiss to leave and get dinner and let him rest so Weiss promised someone would be by tomorrow to talk to him. Zune smiled as he fell asleep. For once his dreams were not filled with nightmares full of death. They were filled with snow and roses.
Okay and that's the end of this segment of the story, and before you ask, yes you can actually sweat blood. It's what happens if you have extreme stress and people with horrible nightmares will do it quite often. As you can see, i'm starting it off a bit slow, just building it up. Eventually it will be OCXHarem but that will take a little while. Hope you enjoyed this so far. Also the reason nobody reviews this before I post it is A) there are not a lot of betas who would actually want to read this that I trust and B) Because while my Grammar is bad, it's improving. I just don't have it down yet. I'm in advanced English yet suck at Grammar… Anyways Review, Flame, Insult, Criticize, just some feedback people. Also Read other stories like Blood Stained Chessboard by GMG. It's some great stuff in that one. Peace.