So this chapter is a bit shorter than the others but there wasn't really much I could do about it. Without further ado
Chapter 3
Bullies
A few weeks had gone by. Brick and Yang stilled shared a bed. Every morning, Brick would get up early and struggle to wake up Yang as well. They would work out for about 2 hours, and then would go to class. After classes they would have lunch, and then after that they had more classes. Brick and Yang usually had dinner in the dorm. The two of them thought that since they were lazy and didn't like going to the cafeteria to get food, they bought a little fridge and stocked up on food so they could eat in the dorm. That fridge may have been the best investment that they have ever made.
They got weekends off which Brick would spend hanging out with his team or training. There wasn't too much excitement in this schedule, with the exception of the occasional small scale Grimm attack that the students would take care of. But there was one part of this seemingly pleasant schedule, that Brick had a hard time dealing with. He wasn't sure if it was because it was something that happened every day or because it happened at all. Either way, he hated it.
Every day at lunch, Cardin Winchester would find someone to pick on or annoy. Whether it was because they were a faunus, or because he felt like putting someone under his boot, Cardin spent every single lunch period picking on someone. And Brick wasn't sure how much longer he could just sit back and watch. He wanted to do something from the first time he witnessed the bullying, but his team always held him back, in fear of what Brick might do to Cardin. But they were starting to lean more towards letting Brick do whatever the hell he wanted.
Once again, lunch time had come around. Teams RWBY and JNPR sat together as usual. Brick did his best to enjoy his lunch until he saw Cardin bullying someone. But something odd happened. The group had been eating for ten minutes and Team CRDL hadn't starting bullying someone. In fact, Brick wasn't even sure that CRDL was there. Brick couldn't help but feel nervous by that. For all he knew, they were gonna do something to one of his teammates. Brick was lost in thought about what could possibly be going on that made them not show up.
"You okay, Ricky?" Asked Yang.
Brick snapped back into reality. "Yeah I'm fine. I'm just trying to figure out where Cardin and his team of assholes are."
"Stop worrying Brick. You're letting them get in your head. They probably just got forced to stay after class." Said Yang.
"You're probably right. I should just enjoy my lunch."
The group ate their lunch peacefully, completely unaware of what was actually going on.
In the washroom, Dove and Russell were busy filling water balloons. Sky was holding open a garbage bag to put them in. Cardin of course, was just leaning against the wall while his cronies did all the work. "Alright boys. That should be enough balloons to teach that blonde bitch Yang a lesson about making me look weak in sparring class. She thinks she is so tough, but let's see how tough she is once we ruin her precious hair." Cardin and his goons laughed to themselves about what they were about to pull off.
"Dove! You're going into the vent to drop the balloons. We will cover for you by telling Goodwitch you're ill."
"Understood." Said Dove, as if he was a soldier.
"This is gonna be fucking hilarious."
In Sparring Class
All of team RWBY was sitting at their usual table except for Blake, who was currently dueling Ren. They both moved with great speed, each barely able to strike the other. Each fighter's aura was slowly going down but Blake felt like it was time to finish up this match and used her semblance to vanish and appear behind Ren. But he was ready for it. Ren quickly spun around, dropped his weapons and caught Blake's strike in his hands with his aura. He pushed Blake back which staggered her and delivered the finishing strike with his aura charged palm. Blake was knocked onto the floor and her aura went into the red.
"The winner is Lie Ren." Declared Goodwitch. "The two of you fought well. For our next match, we have Dove Bronzewing against Nora Valkyrie." Nora had a mischievous smile on her face.
"Oh yeah, about that." Began Cardin. "He wasn't feeling well so he stayed in bed today."
Goodwitch looked annoyed. "Well then how about you take his place?" Asked Goodwitch. Cardin did as he was asked and got up on the arena opposite to Nora. Cardin quickly glanced up at the vent as he knew his plan was about to be set in motion.
The grate open. Dove poured out the entire garbage bag of balloons onto Yang's head. She was now drenched, but more importantly, her hair was drenched. Yang closed her eyes and took a second to process that she was going to murder the person who did this. She reopened her now red eyes to see Cardin laughing his ass off. Yang got up on the table and jumped from the table onto the arena.
Nora took a few steps away. "As much as I want to beat the living crap outta this guy, can I let Yang take this one?" Goodwitch nodded and Nora got off the stage. Yang activated her gauntlets. So far she hadn't burst into flames like she normally did, which worried everyone. She just stood there, staring at Cardin.
"Umm…is anyone else worried?" Ruby asked. Brick, Weiss and Blake all frantically nodded their heads.
"Alright fighters, Begin."
Cardin ran up to Yang with a swing ready. She did not move at all. When Cardin got close, he swung his mace with great strength. Yang swiftly put her hand up and caught the swing. She pulled Cardin close to whisper in his ear. "I am going to break your face. You will unrecognizable when I'm done with you." Yang grabbed Cardin's throat with her other hand and threw him across the arena so hard that he made a dent in the wall in which he was trapped.
Yang the pumped her gauntlets and her body went a blaze. She fired a shot behind her to propel herself at the still trapped Cardin. She put all of her momentum into her punch and slammed him in his jaw which was now broken. "That one was for being a fucking jerk!" She punched him again. "That was because I hate your fucking smug face!" She raised her fist one more time. "And this is for fucking with my hair!" Her final punch broke Cardin's nose. The majority of Cardin's face was bleeding. Yang then grabbed his shoulders, pulled him out of the wall, and kneed him in the nuts. She then dropped him on the ground and stepped off the arena, wiping some of Cardin's blood off of her face. Goodwitch called a nurse to come and get Cardin. Yang walked back over to the rest of her team.
"That guy got what was coming to him." Said Brick.
"He fucked with my hair, I fucked with his face. Seems like a fair trade to me." Said Yang emotionlessly.
"Come on Yang. Let's go back to the room and get your hair fixed." Brick and Yang went back to the room.
Beacon Academy – Team RWBY Dorm
Brick sat on the bed while Yang was in the washroom blow drying her hair. After thirty minutes, the loud noise of the blow dryer went away. Yang looked in the mirror at her hair which wasn't in its usual messy state. "GOD DAMNIT CARDIN!" She shouted. Brick came in and looked at her. Yang turned around and put her hands over Brick's eyes.
"Don't look at me! My hair is hideous!" She exclaimed.
"Come on Yang. It can't be that bad." Brick removed her hand from his face and examined her hair. Brick saw that her hair was no longer messy. It was wavy and neat. On any other girl, it would've looked beautiful, but on Yang, it didn't look right.
"Want me to help you mess it up again?" Asked Brick before realizing what he just did. That fact that he even thought of touching Yang's hair was suicide. But she didn't lash out at him.
In fact she did the exact opposite. "Please do that. I would be so grateful."
Brick was shocked by her response. "Umm…Are you okay?"
"Yes I'm okay! Now are you gonna fix my hair for me or not?"
Brick ran his hands through her hair, messing it up as much as he could. After about a minute, Yang's hair looked normal again. "You tell nobody what you saw today or I'll kill you. Got it?" Threatened Yang. Brick nodded his head and went back to sit on the bed.
"Hey Yang?"
"Yeah?"
"Can we just skip class? I really just wanna relax."
"Sure. Fine by me."
"Also, can you grab the ice cream?"
"Sure." Yang pulled out a tub of chocolate ice cream and two spoons. She climbed up onto the bed and sat next to Brick. The two friends dug into the ice cream. About a week and a half into the school year, Brick and Yang discovered each other's mutual act of eating ice cream when sad. The occasion was that Yang got a call from her father about receiving the bill for the club she destroyed. Her dad paid it off but he sold Yang's bike in order to do so. Yang was devastated. She cried for about an hour, not letting anyone near her. Eventually, she calmed down enough to let Brick ask if she wanted anything to make her feel better. That night, with Bricks help, the two of them went through 3 full tubs of ice cream.
They continued eating their ice cream, when Brick thought that maybe it was time to dig a little deeper into his new friend's life. "So Yang. I've told you quite a bit about me. I wanna know more about you."
Yang took a second to consider his request. "Alright. But on one condition."
"What would that be?"
"Once I tell you about my past, you tell me about your father and the black fire."
Brick thought about her condition. He felt at this point, he could trust Yang. "Okay. So let's hear the tale of Yang Xiao Long."
"Well," Began Yang. "I was originally an only child. I was raised by my father, whose doorstep I was dumped onto by a mother who didn't want to raise me. He had quite a bit of trouble raising me. Around when I was 2 years old, he met Summer Rose. The two of them bonded over each other's problems with raising children on their own. They soon fell in love and got married. That was when Ruby and I became sisters. Everything was great. I finally had a mom. But then the accident happened."
"What accident?" Asked Brick.
"Summer was a huntress. Once while on a mission, in a snowy mountain, the Cliffside wasn't stable and it collapsed under her and she fell. Once again I was without a mother, but Ruby took the loss much harder than I did. So in honour of Summer, I do everything I can to keep her safe."
Brick put his hand on Yang's shoulder. "I didn't realize that you went through that. I would say I know how you feel since I went through something similar with my dad, but everyone has a different experience so I can never truly know how you feel."
"That was a long time ago so I've moved on from being sad. It's your turn to tell."
"Alright…My father worked for the Schnee Dust Company as a spy. Ever since the White Fang went violent, the Schnee Dust Company has been more cautious. So people like my dad were necessary to have around. He managed to infiltrate the White Fang and gain the trust of their high level operatives. He had just recently discovered some majorly classified secrets had been stolen from Schnee by the White Fang. But before he could return the stolen files, a rat in the Schnee Dust Company let slip that my dad was a double agent. So they had him killed in an alley way. When the police found the crime scene, the White Fang's symbol was drawn in blood next to the ashes of his burned body as a reminder not to mess with them. The day I saw that was the day I swore vengeance against the White Fang."
"Wow…" Was all Yang could say.
"Which brings me to the real reason I am at Beacon." Yang tilted her head, with a curious look on her face. "I have been gathering information on the White Fang for quite some time now. I eventually got word that a former high leveled White Fang operative was going to be attending Beacon this year. So I applied to Beacon. And now I just need to find that person and get them to tell me where I can find the man who killed my father."
"Oh my god. Brick, why didn't you tell me sooner? I wanna help."
"That's exactly why I didn't tell you earlier. I don't want anyone else I care about getting killed."
"You care about me?"
"Really! That's what she pulled out of that!" Brick thought.
"Yes I do. You're my friend. Of course I care about you."
"Aww. That's so sweet…You still haven't explained the black fire."
"That's a reminder of my mission. My semblance is to control fire, but once my father died, my semblance altered to a darker form, to remind me of what those scum at the White Fang did to my father."
Yang stayed silent for a moment. Once again, she brought down a bad memory onto Brick. She climbed off the bed and walked over to the fridge. "What are you doing?" Asked Brick.
"After all this stuff, we're gonna need more ice cream."
Brick laughed and Yang rejoined him on the bed and they continued to enjoy their delicious treat.
Outside the dorm, a red hair man with a black coat and white and red patterned mask was perched on a tree. He had horns on his head. He was looking in a pair of binoculars into Team RWBY's room. He lowered his binoculars and pulled out a cell phone.
"This is Taurus. I've found him. All we need is to get the girl. I'm returning to base now. I want someone for the job by the time I get back. Taurus out."
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