Lessons learned: Chapter 3

ROUGE; (Team HARP dorm room...

She was sitting on her bed, the top bunk, getting use to the feel, the smell of the room her and her three teammates would be sharing for the next four years. Small, but had everything they needed. Even what it didn't have, Rocket knew where to get stuff. She already had a mini holo screen coming in, along with a mini fridge, courtesy of team CFVY for doing good in initiation. Currently everyone was sitting on their beds, save for Hero. He was in the middle of the room going over some final details they would need to know before there day started. He was the first one to get up, surprisingly, and he woke everyone else up and made sure they had gotten ready. It was day two at Beacon, yesterday was orientation and today was Tuesday, the first official day of classes. At least for her team, her sisters first day back to school involved going away on a "Search and Destroy" mission. So Jealous. Instead she had to deal with classes with teachers like Port, and Obbleck, oh her sister had told her all about them. Speaking of classes,

"Breakfast is at 8 AM," Hero went on as she glanced at the time, 7:56, still plenty of time. "9 AM we have Dust theory with Professor Obbleck, as a team. After, me and Rocket have Combat studies with Professor Port, while Ari and Peach have Advanced weapons studies with Professor Qrow." Rouge quickly snapped her head to Hero and he answered before she could speak "Yes THEE Qrow. He started teaching here after the Cinder Fall event. Jaune told us this yesterday, but I'm glad I said it again" This should be good. She had only heard stories about the drunk legendary scythe wielder from her sister. One of the best Huntsman to currently be active, and from the famed team STRQ, but he was now teaching? Seemed like a waste in her eye. "At 12 we have lunch, I'd like us to go together. Its our for day as a team, and Id like to show up as one." He looked around to each face, receiving nods in turn, and he continued "at 1 PM me and Rocket have Advanced weapons studies with Qrow, Ari and Peach will have Combat studies with Port." She seen Jaws smile at Groot and she just nodded. "After, we have sparring class with Goodwitch," she noticed him smirk at that "study hall, gym, then dinner." He was doing good so far with this leader thing, she had to admit. He seemed so quiet before, she didn't think he would step up to the plate. She was happy she was wrong, though she would never admit it. He was looking at his scroll when he swiped a finger across it, and hit a button. Every one's scroll started vibrating and Rouge pulled hers out to see what he was up to. "I uploaded our schedules, a directory of Beacon,"

"Thank you." Peach muttered under her breath.

"my contact info, as well as scroll access to our dorms, and certain first year training rooms." Rocket chuckled. She had already gotten access to nearly everywhere in the building, save for Ozpins office, thanks to a certain elder fashionista.

"Speaking of which." she noticed Hero was looking her way

"Whats up Hero boy?"

"Id like to walk with you while we go to breakfast." She seen her normally paper pale shark faunus teammate turn as red as a tomato, she knew the face of jelousy. She grinned.

"So, CatFish huh? Sound like a good ship?" Ariel glared at her with black eyes and opened her mouth but Hero spoke.

"I mean I need to talk to you about something." He kept his straight face, and she was curious to say the least.

"Then lets get moving before Jaws here gets hungry." She grinned back at the Shark as she made her way towards the door, opened it and walked out into the hallway. Her team followed her out. The hallways were packed, but she didn't spare a glance back. She didn't need to, she knew they would follow, and he would catch up to her. She really was hungry though...


HERO;

He didn't want to make it seem like he was using her, she is part of Team HARP so she shouldn't have a problem helping the team out right? He knew her sister, everyone knew her sister. And he knew her sister had access in places he could never get. He had to pull on his teams strengths and use them. The team was only as strong as the weakest. The girl was far from weak, he knew what she could do. And he knew what she could get.

"Hey Rocket," he prepared his thoughts and placed his hand on her shoulder, getting a glimpse and letting him know the talk would turn out just fine. "I've been meaning to talk to you." She slowed her pace and turned to look up at him, straight faced as always. "Listen, I have a job for you that only YOU can do." One of her eyebrows rose is suspicion "I need you to be Team HARPs scout." A smile slowly made its way onto her lips, "Off, and, when were aloud to, on the battlefield. Ive seen what you can do, you can get to places we cant. You can be above us keeping watch, or keeping us updated if anything comes our way." she nodded at that, "As well as being our main heavy hitter on missions, and" here he goes "off of it. You see information is power. Power is getting access." He winked down at her "If you know what I mean." She had her full grin on display now. He knew the hardcore thing was just a front for her. But he wouldn't push her out her shell right away. Just cause he had instantly changed, he didn't expect his teammates to change overnight. But he tried to lead by example. So he accepted the little mini fashonista for now. And he knew he hit his mark by playing on how he knew where she would get that access from.

"Ohhhh Hero boy," she tilted her shades and winked back "why didn't you ask sooner? Anything for team HARP." She pulled her scroll out and started swiping through pages, then grabbed something and swiped it in her teams direction. All their scrolls went off again. He glanced down at it to quickly scan it. She had pulled through, part of him figured she would because she... she... Shes rubbing my ear?

"Ohh, so soft! Consider it payment in full Hero boy!" He ALMOST blushed. But a purr did escape him which made her giggle.

"Ahh good times, speaking of which," she was trying to hide a blush, that only he caught. "access, you know, my sister Co-" Yes, we know ALL about your sister. Everyone does. But he let her go on and on about how cool she is, and how she basically runs the school, and she had access to EVERYWHERE, excluding Ozpins office, and the access they got is to all the senior combat mech training rooms, the senior gym, overnight access to private library rooms for overnight studies in peace, or just to study in private. As well as the teachers lounge that had hot tubs and the senior pool room. She mentioned those twice. By the time she got to the classes for sparring, which is what he mostly wanted to hear about, they were in the cafe finishing up breakfast, yes she talked about Coco and all her access for that long, and now Rouge was taking a breath to take a sip of coffee and watch Ariel spear the remains of her swordfish.

"Sooo... new team rule. Keep Jaws fed, or GTFO." Ariel glared at her with black eyes.

"That's a good rule, so I wont get hungry for cute little children." She quickly replied while she devoured the rest. Rouge just grinned at her, taking another sip of her coffee before reading more off her scroll.

"So sparring, as Jaune had said, we will be going against each other, one on one, then a team up, then we switch, then start over. Tonight will be Jaws vs Hero boy."

"He needs a new name." Ariel spoke up,

"Working on it kid, anyways, tomorrow will be me vs Groot here. Then," she squinted at her scroll

"Oh I like this, Hero boy and Jaws vs me and Groot. Will be easy, right Groot." She said as a statement and not a question.

"Don't be so sure about yourself." Ariel huffed "I still have many tricks up my sleeve, while we all know whats under yours."

"All of Beacon for that matter." Hero pipped in.

"Damn right!" She bit back proudly, changing Cinis into cannon form, "What can I say?" and kissed it before changing it back to its hand form. "Now people can fear me."

"I don't fear what I can see, I fear what I cant see, what I don't know." Ariel replied calmly and Hero nodded at that.

"Anyways.." Rouge said in defeat. "After our team up it will be me vs Hero boy, then Jaws vs Groot. Then team up. After the second team up it will be Hero boy vs Groot, and me vs Jaws." She grinned at Ariel. "You get how it goes."

"That's a lot of sparring." Peach finally spoke up.

"They want us to be a fully functional team before we go out on missions." Hero answered. "Speaking of which, I don't want any discussions of our styles, skills, or semblances before we spar. After you spar that person, then you can do over details to expand on said skills."

"So when we go into our team battles, me and you will be prepared with each other," Ariel added,

"And me and Rocket, but we don't know your guys strat so we observe and adapt on the fly," Peach also added,

"While having an advantage, and disadvantage, trial by fire." Rouge finished, and sipped the last of her coffee. "I like it."

"Exactly." Hero beamed at his team for picking up on his idea so quickly. That was a good sign.

"Well if Jaws here is done maiming her food, I think we should head to class." Rouge winked at Ariel who said,

"You know coffee stunts your growth right kid?" Rouge just smiled at her.

"Oh I like you Jaws, come walk with me to our next class." She winked at her again as she got up from her seat and made her way over to Ariel and went to grab the girls arm, leading her out of the cafeteria. Hero looked at Peach to see her shrug with a slight smile on her lips, and they both got up as well and followed the two girls, tossing their trays away as they made there way out. This will be a interesting year to say the least...


ARIEL;

Her and her teammate, the one known as Rocket, were leading the team to there next class, well there first class as students of Beacon, Dust theory. Ariel knew all about dust, heck, her semblance was the manipulation of dust for crying out loud. She knew she would excel at this class. She glanced down to her teammate, who as per usual, had a straight face, eyes forward and focused. Though she wore shades, Ariel was tall enough to see over them. Oh, she caught all the girls winks, and smirks. She still was not sure about her. She could have a little attitude at times and she did joke a lot, but they were just jokes right? She knew she was hiding something behind those shades. And what ever happened to her arms? She had a feeling the girl was hiding behind some painful past. Only time will tell, she thought to herself. For now she would let her be who she wanted.

"Well well, what do we have here?" She focused her eyes back ahead into the eyes of Christopher Carmelo. Member of Team... Team.. ugh she would not bring herself to say it.

"Your a cutie, are those gills real?" He questioned while pointing rudely at her face.

"Hey look, its a DICK!" Rouge called out and she noticed her hand was out, stopping Hero from advancing. "I got this Hero boy."

"Oh yeah? Well damn, your a real cute littahhhh!" Ariel noticed Rouge grabbing something below his belt. She ALMOST felt bad for the boy.

"Listen up numb nuts," he squealed in torment, "if you really want me to punch a dickhead," She glanced down at her left hand, which was still still gripped tightly around his crown jewels "literally. AND, literally punch a DICKs, head," she grinned up at him while turning Cinis into its cannon form and placing it under his chin as it started glowing brighter. Ariel almost burted into laughter as the girl was on her tip toes to keep Cinis under the guys chin "keep fucking with my teammates, I. Dare. You."

"So sorry missahhh!" she squeezed harder.

"I'm Rocket, and this is Jaws, Queen Jaws." she winked up at Ariel.

"Queen Jaws I'm so sorry!"

"Good, now beat it kid!" She slapped his ass as he made a mad dash into the classroom. Seeing her tiny teammate scare off someone three times her size was pleasing. Having her defend her so readily made her feel even better. She rubbed the girls shoulder.

"Thanks Rocket, that meant a lot."

"Don't mention it Jaws. I may have unorthodox ways but I don't tread light when it comes to disrespect." Says the girl who called her Jaws... But... yeah she knew the girl meant well in the end. Even if that name was degrading. She would find a way to get her back. "Besides, I need to make it known on day one, Team HARP is NOT to be fucked with." She put her hands on her hips.

"Ohhhhh I bet!" A blond hair, blue eyed girl seemed to float her way over to her and Rouge. "And oh my god! You are the cutest little thing in here!" Oh No... OH NO, shes petting Rouge's hair! "Hehe." Even in the short time she knew the girl, she knew that was asking for the smaller girl to murder you, and from the new look on her face she feared for the girls life.

"Who the, what the FU, cuTE? LITTLE?!" Rouge was finally able to free her head from the girls grasp with bloody murder on hers eyes. But the blond instantly vanished in a puff of smoke that left Rouge and Ariel both coughing and feeling woozy. "What? That? What the hell was that?!" Rouge huffed, clearly pissed shit less, when a light brown haired boy with a matching beard and with piercing white eyes like Hero's walked up to the faunus and fashionista, the leader of Team... Ugh, THAT team...

"Hey, sorry about that." He said as his last teammate came up beside him, shaking her head, Ivory Canary her name was.

"Was that," Ariel started

"Yup, Goodwitches daughter. How can I be so cursed, or blessed?" He shrugged sheepishly. "Just keep an eye out for her, she can be... Odd. But shes cool." She noticed Rouge giving him a few run overs with her eyes.

"Hey, nice armor by the way!" She said with titled shades. At that Ariel really looked at his armor. Pink and black as a matter of fact. She almost fell over in laughter as she used her smaller teammate as a brace to keep her up. Rouge just stood there grinning and lended her shoulder as support.

"Hey its gets the job done. Its name is Mjolnir, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it." he said with a wink as Rouge failed at hiding a blush and another giggle.

"Oh yeah?" Ariel asked between laughter.

"Oh yeah. And um, I like the," he gestured to Rouge as a whole. "the everything. You really know how to dress!" He said with a thumbs up.

"Ohh, I like this guy. What did you say your name was?"

"Destin Roseus. Friends call me Spartan."

"Does seem to roll off the tongue pretty good there." Rouge winked up at him, and he just smiled back. "Rouge Adel, you can call me-"

" Rocket, oh I seen the initiation vid, totally bad ass, we will have to go over it later but, Ill catch y'all later though, my team is waiting." He winked back and made his way inside.

"Well, hes a cutie!" Rouge affirmed while Ariel just chuckled.

"Well you can have him."

"Copy that. I know who your sights are set on." Rouge replied with a grin as they finally started to make her way into class.

"Welcome to Dust theory children!" Doctor Obbleck called out while zipping around the class. Was this really a daily thing for him? They made there way in and found some seats in the 3rd row. Hero sat down next to her, and Rouge was between her and Peach as Obbleck started handing, more like flinging, out textbooks at them. "Now, if you open to page 10, we can get started!" And so began the first class of the day...


PEACH;

First spar class of the year, and Peach could barely stay in her seat, she had never seen her two teammates fight before, and watching them move around the arena in the middle of the class was exciting! The fight had been going on for only about 30 seconds, but it was heating up fast. Hero was currently flipping over streams of ice dust that Ariel was hurling at him from a safe distance with her right hand, while using her other hand to hurl fire, all the while keeping her trident spear floating in front of her. He was mainly melee with his Twin Katanas Sunder and Thunder, while Ariel opted for range. Using Trinket, her Trident spear as a platform to shoot dust, or as a sword if Hero came in too close, as well as her finger tips. She seen a glint of light as Hero's main blade Sunder shot out towards Ariel's midsection, and Peach thought he had her. But Trinket came crashing down into the floor in an instant, creating a ice wall blocking her from being impaled by Sunder, which instead left it stuck in the ice. But Hero had come flying with Sunder as well, and as he struck the wall, feet first, he plowed through ready to pounce on his opponent. But she was not there anymore, she was floating on a ice cloud above him, Trinket coming down to where his head would have been had he kept going through the ice. But instead, he was still slightly below and behind her, when she seen Sunder already dig into the ceiling, stopping his forward momentum and propelling him up, as if he already knew her counter, and was already prepared to re counter it. And along came Hero, a confused look on Ariel's face, and a knee to her chin full on as he passed her on his way to the ceiling, still riding his grapple line.

"Ohhhh!" The students in the class shouted out. Ariel grunted while she flipped off her cloud and rolled onto the floor, dropping Trinket a few feet away. Get up, Peach thought, GET UP! Hero's blade shot down, hilt side 1st, as Ariel rolled away just in time, as the hilt struck were her head was a mere second ago, putting her hands above her head the instant Thunder came crackling for her head. To Peach's eyes it was all in slow motion. She put her hands up and formed a ice barrier over her head as the blade pierced through and got stuck in the ice, inches away from her face. Her eyes flashed black while Hero landed on top, this time not breaking the ice. She seen him cock his head as he noticed Thunder was stuck in the ice, as well as the grapple line from Sunder, as well as his feet. That's when she seen his eyes widen. Things didn't look good for Hero.

"GET, OFF, OF, MEEE!" Ariel screamed loudly as she pushed out with all her might, accelerating the ice barrier at blinding speeds, charging towards the wall with Hero still stuck to it. She seen him quickly toss the sheath to Sunder onto the floor, grab Thunder with both hands as it started to light up and crackle, then the ice blast/barrier slammed into the side of the wall in a explosion of ice, dust, and lightning. All that could be seen was a faint crackle of light, as well as the slowly clearing fog that was against the wall. Ariel called Trinket to her side and prepared herself. Eyes still black holes in a blood lust, focused on the clearing dust cloud before her. The dust cleared and Hero stood in the middle, grin on his face, and holding Thunder in a 2 handed grip in front of him, crackling with with electricity dust. Though his clothes were a little tattered, his aura had dipped slightly, just a sliver to 91%. Still green. While Ariel's was in the orange, about 65%.

"Arrrggg!" Ariel screamed as she shot lightning bolts from her finger tips. Bolt after bolt after bolt, long yellow flecks of lightning arced out towards Hero as he ducked, rolled, and batted away her bolts with relative ease. He was now fighting with one less weapon, using it to keep her ranged attacks at bay with his own lightning dust blade. In a blinding flash of white, he was over the other side of the arena, twirling both swords expertly while clipping Thunder to his belt, and holding Sunder out in a salute.

"Shall we?" He said teasingly. Ariel grabbed Trinket out of the air as her eyes flashed black, hauled back, and flung it at Hero's head. Mid flight it split into two spears that started crackling with electricity between the two. He shot Thunder out towards her, following in its wake, he batted one of the spears out of the way, and the other missed him completely, but they started to arc around quickly towards his back. He seemed to know this already as he abandoned his forward approach at the last second, shooting Sunder into the ceiling, while 2 spears plowed into Ariel's shoulders an instant later. Her aura took the hit, and the spears bounced off her, but it shattered her aura levels to 33% and sent her flying into the far barrier of the arena and she fell over knocked out.

"That's the match!" Goodwitch called out. Hero was instantly by her side as she had been knocked unconscious from being hit by her own weapons at that velocity, and from being smashed into the wall, but Hero caught her just before she hit the ground. He was on one knee with her in his arms as he ran his hand across her forehead before glancing back at Goodwitch.

"I'm going to take her to the infirmary, if you don't mind." The professor nodded her head and Hero
picked her up.

"Yo, Rocket," he pointed his chin to both her weapons on the floor. "handle that for me please." Peach thought Rouge would protest but she simply said,

"On it." Then Hero made his way out of the class and Rouge returned with both of the girls spears.

"Yeah... so I don't know how this is done, so..." Neither did Peach. She hoped her teammate was alright. She knew she was but still. Peach mentally prepared herself for what she would have to do tomorrow. She glanced down at Rouge who had a eyebrow raised at her. "Any ideas how to put this back or..." Peach looked over her two Trident spears, Trin and Ket, and shook her head.

"None what so ever."

"Heh, figured." Rouge turned back to the arena while keeping Ariel's weapons across her legs. She couldn't go easy on her partner. That would only hurt her more in the long run. No she would have to be like Hero and Ariel just were. Ruthless to take each other out, and caring enough to carry your hurt teammate to the infirmary. She liked that about her leader. Willing to get the job done, but will always be there for his team. He didn't come back for the rest of the class, which she just assumed he was right by her side, which was good.

"Next, Destin Roseus and Ivory Canary, please make your way down to the arena." Goodwitch said.

"At least we get to see some good action today." Rouge commented. It was going to be like this everyday for awhile, Peach thought to herself...


HERO;

He couldn't take his eyes off of her, part of him felt bad, part of him knew everything was fine. But the last time she had seen him, she was in a blood lust trying to kill him. He ran his hand over her forehead again, and it was cool to the touch, and silky smooth. Her chest was raising and falling gently, and she looked to be sleeping peacefully. He ran his fingers through her shaggy red hair. Always kept down to just below her shoulders in a type of loose pony tail, soft but rough, like her hair treatment consisted of nothing but salt water and brushes, but had the sweet scent of lavender. Her crown was off on the table, it had gotten knocked off with one of his attacks. He supposed it held some sort of value so he wouldn't leave it there. He thought it was a cute little accessory for her, that and all her other pieces of jewelry. Making her look more elegant. He didn't know the story behind her, but he would find out in time he was sure.

"Well, now that you put me on my ass, I suppose I can learn more about you?" Her eyes were still closed, but he quickly removed his fingers from her hair but she stopped him by gently grabbing his hand with hers,

"You don't have to stop, if you don't want to," she blushed bright red. She could NEVER hide those with her skin color. So he continued to run his fingers through her hair, massaging her scalp as well, as a few cute low moans escaped her lips "Mmmm, Its very relaxing. One thing I miss the most is the scribes back at," he noticed her wince as she lifted her other arm "And the way my arm feels I have a feeling I may be here for awhile."

"Its actually healing quite fast. The nurse said you have a very strong aura." He finally spoke up. "They say you should be good to go by dinner." She slowly opened her eyes, deep pools of amber found his eyes with a warm smile across her lips.

"Its not your fault you know." She said while reaching her hand out to cup his cheek, which he leaned into. A life of never being touched, or cared for, but he didn't have barriers for his partner. He still couldn't explain why not, he had expected to be more shy with girls, and touching. But with her, she made him calm, and made him feel better. "Really though, I want to know more about my Hero." She smiled, and he purred as she rubbed one of his cat ears.

"Well..." he started. "What do you want to know?" He asked,

"Lets start by how you move so fast, it seemed like you were always a step ahead of me." he chuckled,

"I was, through physical contact I can see into the future, not that far mind you. But enough to know whats coming before it comes. Enough to know what your going to do, right before you think to even do it." Her brows furrowed in confusion.

"Those shivers out in the forest, you weren't touching anything, but you knew what was coming." She said as a fact.

"Correct, the wind from those packs touched me, and, told me, for a better way of putting it." she raised a eyebrow at that. "It, took years and years of training to master. And its proved very useful."

"That's quite some power to have." she remained silent and seemed to be going over her thoughts.

"Well that makes everything so clear now. How can I beat something like that?" he grinned,

"When I find a way, I don't think I'd share it with even you." he teased and she laughed slightly. "In fact, in all my years of fighting Grimm, I've never been touched." she cocked her head and eyebrow

"Never?" she asked

"Never." he confirmed. "Well besides from the bracers and shin plates," he slapped one of his chrome arm plates "which I use to block, which will give me glimpse's. From birth I was trained to master my powers, so I have a strong focus on them. But like I said, Grimm. Grimm are just mindless beings. Knowing where they will always be and what they will always do, makes wiping them out easy." she was focused and listened with her full attention on him. "Fighting people was always a bit different, less predictable, but I had an amazing mentor who helped to adapt. And I've dueled a lot of other people growing up, but as we seen in the past, were not only up against grim anymore. Besides getting handled and washed by my mentor, you were the first one to ever drop my aura." she burst out laughing,

"Please, I barely got a sliver off, or even a hit on you."

"Well, that's still something. Your impressive out there. We should do it more often... Uh, spar I mean." She blushed before speaking,

"I'd like that, maybe you can show me how to fight as a melee, that could greatly help me. And thank you. Your a lot tougher then you look you know." She teased with a smile. The door opened to admit a white haired girl, with snow white skin like Ariel's, hair in a pony tail down her side, white combat skirt, white heels, and a scar going down her left eye.

"Well hello Ariel." The heiress said sweetly, then glanced over to Hero. "Heliotrope right?" he nodded,

"Hero if you want, instead of saying the whole thing." He replied and she nodded back,

"Weiss?" the girls smile grew, and she put her hand over her mouth, clearing her throat before making her way over and continuing.

"I didn't plan on meeting you this way," she slightly blushed "but I had heard you were here and wanted to make sure you were ok. But yes, I'm Weiss Schnee, and its a pleasure to meet you." she reached out a hand to touch Ariel's hurt shoulder and she flinched at the touch. "Here let me." she said as she pulled ice dust from a pouch and formed a glyph with her other hand over Ariel's shoulder. The glyph started to spin and glow as Ariel moaned slightly, and Weiss worked her hand over her bruised shoulder. A few seconds later and she was done. "Hows that?" Ariel flexed her shoulder, then ran her fingers over it, unfazed.

"So much better, thank you." The heiress smiled warmly with closed eyes,

"You are most welcome!" she said while taking out her scroll. "Id love to teach you a few things about dust, here's my scroll info and the pass to get into our room, let me know if you ever need anything!" the heiress beamed at Ariel who smiled warmly.

"If you don't mind me asking, I thought Team RWBY was away on a mission?" Hero asked.

"I wish." the heiress huffed while looking away. "Were stuck here until Ozpin decides what to do, we don't even have any classes and gods Yang is driving me nuts!" So Blake is actually around.

"Have you seen Blake?" the heiress gave him a quick look over.

"If you're one of her groupies, I am not her keeper." she said sounding annoyed. "But," she said in a softer tone "I'm sure she is around somewhere." she turned her head back towards Ariel "Like I said, if you need anything you let me know." she smiled, spun on her heel, and she was gone.

"You know the Ice Queen?" Hero asked Ariel as she giggled,

"No, but my brother is dating her. I guess she found out I was here and wanted to be a proper girlfriend."

"Well, she seemed genuine, at least with you." They both broke out into laughter.

"Honestly she seemed nicer then I thought she would be. I had heard a lot of stories about her." Ariel started to rub his hand as she spoke. "What classes do you, well we have left, by the way?" He almost forgotten he still was still in school during class times. He pulled out his scroll and looked over the classes they had for the day. Only study hall, gym then dinner.

"Nothing important left, besides," he squeezed her hand gently "I'd rather stay here with you if you don't mind." she blushed and nodded in agreement. "I'll inform Peach and Rouge that your okay, and that I'll be staying until your good to go."

"Thank you, I really appreciate it Hero." She said warmly. After he finished sending his message to his two teammates, he glanced back at Ariel to find her eyes closed, as she had dozed off. He gently grabbed her hand and leaned back into his chair, maybe he could get a little nap in. But he still couldn't take his eyes off of her, and her beauty...


ROUGE;

Study hall as a class? In a combat training school? This place rocks! Hero was still with Ariel in the infirmary, and Peach said she would meet her in the library after she took care of some things. So she had shrugged and made her way to the library solo, hoping to check out one of those private study rooms, when she caught a glimpse of a blond head facing the other way. She titled her head and noticed the green vest she had on. It was that Goodwitch bitch!

"Hey, you!" she called out as the blonds head slowly started to turn in her direction. "Your that Goodwitch bitcaahh!" the blonds wrist twitched and the next thing she knew she was seated in a chair, sliding over next to the girl who was reading a X-ray and Vav comic. The girl had sea green eyes again.

"Listen sweetheart," she said while keeping her gaze on the comic "if your going to call me bitch, you damn sure better put a bad in front of it." She finally turned her head to look at Rouge, and her eyes slightly widened. But Rouge was not about to back down.

"No, YOU listen here," she retorted while changing Cinis into cannon form as it started glowing to life. "If you think you can just." She stopped when she seen the girl casually flick her wrist again and felt her arm get cold and it got a little darker, and heavy. As she glanced at Cinis, she noticed a huge chunk of ice resting inside. Confused she looked back at the girl, "What the hell is this?"

"I think, its called ice." the blond laughed. "Look, Rocket is it?" Rouge raised a brow in heated confusion.

"Yeah that's me." she said firmly,

"I know who you are, you know who I am." The blond smirked "Think of what we could do? Coco's younger sister, me, Goodwitches daughter! The shit we could do!" Rouge looked confused at the girl as she rubbed her hands together evilly. She wanted to hurt this girl, and she was sure she knew it. Yet she was scheming for something, for them to be partners in crime? Pftt.

"Please, I'm sure the Goodwitch princess has more access then me." she turned her attention back to her comic while flicking a wrist to change the page.

"You'd be surprised coffee brat. The amount of restrictions I have in this place cause of my mom, shit, I'm not even aloud to use a scroll on school grounds!" Rouge chuckled at that, then thought about it and it kind of made sense. Goodwitch was number two to Ozpin, and she would not have her, mage, of a daughter running loose. "I barely made it into the school cause they said my powers were, unorthodox. UN fucking ORTHODOX!" she shouted as people turned there way to see what the commotion was. Rouge caught a few glances and flicked her arm in a "fuck off" gesture. "I mean I've seen people who can go through walls, make people have hallucinations, people who can create illusions, create multiple copies of them selves but Nooo when it comes to smoking dust its insane and everyone losses there minds!" she yelled again, this time throwing her hands up and her comic instantly went up in flames. "Aww shit, 3rd one today." she said while flicking her wrist again and the comic instantly disappeared from plain sight. "I'm blaming that one on you sweetheart, I already got detention for today and tomorrow."

"What for?" Raquel questioned.

"I got bored as shit in Ports class, and he winked at me. So I winked back and his pants caught on fire." She said nonchalantly while Rouge burst into laugh- Hold up Rouge thought to her self,

"Did you say smoke dust?" the blond smirked at her.

"I was wondering when you would catch on coffee brat," she said with a wink. "In case you didn't notice, I have telekinetic powers like my mother. Catch is, I am the wand. But in order for me to stay focused, and keep my aura up," she smirked "I have to get dust into my lungs. What better way then to smoke it!" she said proudly. Rouge was not sure what to think. Smoking dust? Was that even possible?

"So they allow you to?"

"Meh," she shrugged. "I have access to one of the private study rooms with a vent. As long as I am discreet about it, but they cant stop me either way. I got doctors notes and shit. They even gave me contacts! Wrong color, but whatever. Its not like I care when Im dusted." she winked and elbowed Rouge. "I think they did that so they can know when I am." She shrugged.

"I bet your mom was happy about you coming here huh?" Rouge said as the blond burst out in laughter.

"Oh she was livid when Ozpin accepted me. Don't get me wrong, we love each other to death, but she is her, and I am me. I wont change for her or anyone." Rouge certainly understood that. Even though she knew she was clearly a younger version of her sister, and she dressed, and acted like her. She understood not wanting to change to please a few. Despite her antics, which she now fully understood, the floating, the puff of smoke, her playing with Rouge's hair, the girl was clearly dusted. Maybe she could get along with the blond. Her access, and the blonds, talents of being able to do things she couldn't explain.

"Names Kayreen, by the way, but you can call me Goodwitch Princess if you like Coffee brat." Rouge actually laughed at that. She was really starting to like this girl. "Speaking of which, I'm feeling a bit low, care to join me?" She said with a smirk as she stood up. Rouge thought of it, well they are private rooms.

"Lead the way Angel Dust." Rouge replied as she stood up to follow Kayreen.

"Oh, I think me and you will be great friends Coffee brat!" The dust head said while wrapping a arm around Rouge's shoulder, leading her to one of the private rooms.

"By the way, what can you tell me about your Team leader?" Rouge questioned while the dust head looked down at her with a lazy grin.

"The Spartan, as they call him? Oh hes a cutie huh?! Not really my type, but you should see him without his clothes." She grinned, "Top of his class in Atlas in both combat, and studies, also the champ three years running in the prep school there. Apparently the son of some big Atlas Generals."

"So hes another Atlas rich boy then?"

"Not quite, from what I heard he was offered a full command of a Atlas fleet, but he refused. Thinking he could do a lot better coming here. Hes very humble, though he can be snarky in combat. Overall hes a cool guy. He can be a douche at times, but hes got heart, a lot of it." She said with a smile.

"I got the humble impression. Oh I bet his parents were happy about him leaving huh." The dust head burst out laughing.

"Oh, they didn't know he left for Beacon, and apparently that fancy pink armor isn't even his." So a rebel. "But hey, if you want to learn more about him, ask him yourself Coffee brat." She winked down at her as she opened the door to the study room.

"Oh I will, trust me on that Angel Dust." She closed the door and took a seat as Kayreen pulled out her "bong weapon" and started to light it...


Updated: 2/2/2016