Not a good sign... It's only the third chapter and I don't know what to put in these... Uhhhhh...
Get your reading glasses ready and your moustache wax stowed
That was awful...
- Chapter Three -
- Start of the Year -
Their first few days at Beacon were quite tame, and almost boring compared to the initiation. Team Chrome met their teachers, one of which was a short, and slightly overweight older gentleman, with far too much interest in telling old tales of his youth. Although he did have an outstanding moustache. Professor Port was supposed to teach Grimm Studies, something that should be one of the more important classes available to Huntsmen and Huntresses in training, however he mostly rambled on about his acts of bravery in the past, occasionally pitting one of the students against a Grimm he had previously captured.
Doctor Oobleck on the other hand, was nearly the exact opposite of the Grimm Studies teacher. Tall, thin and very young, at least compared to most other Doctors Charlie knew. Oobleck spent much more time going through the important parts of history to teach his students to learn from the mistakes of the past. History was a much more in depth topic, and there was no way in hell that you could slack off in his class. Jaune had already suffered the consequences from doing just that.
However, as much as you didn't want to irritate Doctor Oobleck, it was much worse if you were to annoy Professor Goodwitch. She refused to accept any nonsense from any students, no matter who they were. Disobedience was not an idea she would entertain, and tardiness was a close second.
The upside to Professor Goodwitch's classes however were that they were combat classes. Something that all of the students were excited about. Glynda had gone through the specifics first, instructing all of the students who did not already know the rules of tournament style duels. Inside the combat area, nearly anything was allowed, but as soon as the aura level of one of the fighters had been depleted to what roughly equated to 15% of their maximum power, the battle had to stop, just in case actual physical harm was caused.
The Arduin twins already knew all of this information, as they had been instructed on the proper combat rules during their years of private tutelage at their home. A few of the other students, including Weiss and Pyrrha also knew these rules, and so did not need to pay as much attention, although they feigned a look of interest for their own sakes. All of the other students around them were hanging onto every word coming from Glynda's mouth, eager to get into the ring.
So, it came as no surprise that nearly every student sitting in the stands around the arena raised their hands to be picked when Glynda asked if there were any volunteers for the first match of the year. They were all disappointed however, as Glynda decided to change her mind.
'Perhaps it would be better if two students who already know the rules and regulations around a tournament style duel would participate in our, introductory fight,' Glynda said, eyes flicking down to her tablet as she scrolled through a list of possible candidates. 'Ms Schnee, Ms Arduin? Would the two of you care to demonstrate for us?'
Robyn's eyes raised upon hearing her name being called out alongside Weiss', and then her mouth set into a smile. She had been looking forward to finally being able to have a proper duel with Weiss. All those times when the Schnee Heiress had spoken ill of her, well, Robyn wasn't going to be pulling any punches.
Her brother, on the other hand, wasn't too happy with her plan of attack.
'Hey, I know you really want to get back at her,' he said, grabbing her arm as she began to make her way down to the arena floor. 'But don't do anything that you are going to regret.'
Robyn looked at him with narrowed eyes. 'What makes you think I'm going to do something regretful?'
'I've lived with you since birth, I know exactly what you want to do,' Charlie retorted.
Robyn flicked his hand off of her arm, giving her brother a light wink. 'Don't worry, I won't be too rough on her.'
Robyn then proceeded to make her way down the side stairs from the viewing platforms onto the arena floor, where both Professor Goodwitch, as well as her opponent were patiently waiting. Weiss was already standing at attention, her rapier drawn and held with the tip of the blade nearly touching the floor.
Ever since Weiss' argument with Ruby, which Robyn only knew of because of Yang's incredibly talkative personality, the short girl had become much friendlier. She was still a little bit cautious and slightly rude towards the twins, but she had become much nicer than Robyn had ever seen her before. Of course, that didn't stop Robyn from wanting to win this battle.
Goodwitch gave a nod towards Robyn, who took her place several feet before the Heiress. She pulled her weapon off of her back, spinning it a few times, shifting it into a spear. Robyn twirled her spear by her side a few times before settling into a defensive stance, weapon positioned before her, ready to block or parry an attack.
Glynda turned her head to Weiss, also giving her a nod. Weiss simply got into her usual combat position, blade now pointed towards Robyn. The dust chamber beneath the guard of her rapier spun, clicking until it landed in position. Robyn tried to make out which dust chamber it had landed on to gauge what form of attack Weiss may begin with, but from the distance couldn't quite make out which colour it was.
The clacking of Glynda's shoes against the floor echoed through the arena for a few moments before her voice rang out, 'Begin.'
Weiss made the first move, rotating her arm so her hilt covered her face but the blade of Myrtenaster was still pointed towards Robyn. A white glyph formed beneath the Heiress' feet and she dashed forwards in a blur of motion. Robyn held her ground and activated her semblance, slowing time around her, and the white blur became a clear image of the Heiress dashing towards her. Robyn waited until Weiss was close enough, then pushed her spear to the side. It connected with Myrtenaster, and the two weapons clanged against each other.
Weiss stopped her advance as her attack was deflected, spinning on the spot to face Robyn, who was already taking her opportunity to launch a counter-attack at the Heiress. Her spears white blade swung towards Weiss, who raised her rapier to block the attack. Robyn pulled her spear back and swung low at Weiss' feet, but her blow was easily parried.
Weiss flicked Myrtenaster up towards Robyn, who spun her spear around and deflected the incoming stab. Robyn swung her weapon around, shifting the positioning of her hands to deliver a more powerful strike against the heiress.
Weiss raised her weapon in response, dust chamber spinning as she did. Red dust energy flared across Myrtenaster when the two blades hit, the shock of the collision causing Robyn's to bounce backwards, throwing her off balance.
Weiss had hoped that the strength behind Robyn's attack would have resulted in her opponent being more off balance, but unfortunately the spear wielding girl simply spun on the spot, already preparing another attack.
When Weiss pulled back her blade to make a slash at Robyn's side, she was surprised when the shaft of the weapon found its way to block the attack. In another flash of motion, Robyn spun the weapon once around the back of Robyn's head and made its way towards Weiss' unprotected side. The Heiress made a feeble attempt at defending herself, but the power behind Robyn's strike pushed Myrtenaster against her chest and sent the Heiress tumbling backwards across the floor.
Letting out a smile, Robyn threw the spear into the air, letting it spin once. As it spun through the air, the spear shifted back into its usual bow form. She caught the handle in her left hand, already nocking an arrow on the string. She pulled back on the string then let it loose, sending it directly towards the prone Heiress.
Weiss managed to roll to her feet to dodge the first arrow, which exploded against the wall behind her, then deflected the next two with quick flicks of her wrist, knocking the arrows from the air, each causing some other effect to the arena around them, likely fuelled by dust covered arrow heads. When Weiss went to deflect the next arrow, she missed, but it was because Robyn had missed, shooting the arrow into the floor before the Heiress.
Confused for a moment, Weiss only noticed the thin trail of wire leading from the arrow back to Robyn when it was too late. She looked up in time to see Robyn tug on the wire and come rushing through the air towards the Heiress. Leg extended, Robyn's foot dug into Weiss' gut, knocking the wind from her and sending her back a few feet.
Robyn spun her bow in her hand, creating her spear once again and swinging it towards Weiss. The Heiress leant backwards, placing her hands on the floor behind her and ducked beneath the blade. She used her hands to flip backwards and out of Robyn's reach. Raising her rapier once again, Weiss dashed towards Robyn, who managed to sidestep her attack and swing her spear across the back of Weiss' legs, causing the Heiress to lose her footing and fall onto her back, sliding along the ground.
Robyn leapt after Weiss, weapon raised above her head as she prepared to stab it down onto the Heiress. Weiss placed her hands behind her and flipped backwards to her feet. Robyn passed over her head, blade clanging against the floor. Weiss formed a glyph behind her, leaping onto it before forming another glyph between herself and Robyn. Weiss leapt forwards, the glyph before her turning black and accelerating her speed upon contact. Weiss stretch a leg forwards, planting it in the square of Robyn's back, sending the girl rolling across the arena floor.
Weiss dug the tip of her blade into the floor, sending a wave of ice shards towards Robyn. The Arduin girl managed to get to her feet and leap into the air, spinning forwards and cutting the shards of ice from the floor. However, the floor was still coated with ice, and she nearly fell over once more upon landing. With her footing unsteady, when she blocked Weiss' next attack, her foot slipped out from beneath her, sending her to the ground on her back.
Weiss spun around, raising her hand and causing glyphs to appear all around Robyn. She dashed forwards, dust chamber spinning as Robyn made her way to her feet, then swinging her blade at the girl. Robyn, now on steady ground as she had made her way off of the ice, blocked Weiss' blade with ease, but the electrical dust energy coursing through the rapier gave her a slight shock once her blade came in contact with it. Robyn gritted her teeth and swung after Weiss, but was unable to land her counter attack as her opponent sped past her towards one of her glyphs. Weiss leapt into the air, feet landing on the glyph then pushing off towards Robyn.
Robyn activated her semblance once again to slow time around her, making it easier to take notice of Weiss' movements as she made them, making it unbelievably easy to spin her weapon into the right position to deflect the Heiress' next strikes, however the electrical dust energy coursing through the Heiress' blade was still shocking her with each connection.
As Weiss blurred around Robyn, she took her time to grow accustomed to the nature of the Heiress' strikes, and before long she noticed a flaw in her technique, that being that Weiss relied on her opponent to be trapped in one position during this manoeuvre. Robyn blocked another strike before dropping to the floor, watching as the Heiress passed over her during her next attack.
Pressing the tip of her spear into the ground, Robyn vaulted into the air. Weiss darted beneath her, blade tapping against the spear, pulling it from beneath her. Robyn let the spear spin in the air, swinging it around in a full arc to meet Weiss once more, connecting with the Heiress' blade and knocking the two opponents away from one another as the final charge of electrical dust gave Robyn one final shock.
By the time Weiss had landed on the floor, Robyn had already shifted her weapon into a bow and was firing off arrows towards the heiress. The first arrow clipped Weiss in the shoulder, but she easily deflected the next volley as she closed the distance between the two combatants once more.
The Heiress stabbed and slashed at Robyn, who parried each attack with her bow, knocking the blade of Myrtenaster aside, slowly moving backwards as the pair fought. Weiss stabbed at Robyn's face, who deflected the blow to the side, whipping the weapon back to Weiss' face, stunning the Heiress for a moment. Robyn ducked to the floor and swept Weiss' legs from beneath her, and firing an arrow at the Heiress as she began to fall to the floor.
The impact was soft against Weiss' side, but before she had hit the ground, small tendrils of wire wrapped around her body, and tensed tightly, trapping her arms to her side. Robyn backflipped to her feet, kicking Weiss back into the air, where she hung for a second, before an explosive impact struck her side, causing her to drop Myrtenaster and sending her across the room. The Heiress hit the ground hard and rolled across the arena floor, the thin tendrils of wire slipping off after being damaged from the explosion, as she rolled, freeing her arms.
Robyn raised her bow once again, firing a volley of arrows at Weiss, who blocked them all with a quick glyph in front of her. Weiss summoned another glyph beneath Robyn's feet and activated it, sending the girl into the air with a loud bang. The Heiress darted forwards for her weapon whilst Robyn flailed through the air. As her hand wrapped around the hilt of her weapon, an arrow flew towards Weiss, landing beside her hand. The same tendrils of wire wrapped around her fist, preventing her from raising Myrtenaster from the ground.
Weiss turned her head to see Robyn falling towards her, spear raised above her head as she prepared to strike at the girl. The blade met another glyph, which held the strike at bay. Weiss kicked out at Robyn's legs, tripping the girl up and sending her to the ground. The Heiress vaulted to her feet, ripping her arm free just in time to avoid another swipe from Robyn's spear.
Weiss raised her free hand, aiming at the prone girl. Thin dots of blue energy formed behind her, bolting forwards, streaking towards each of Robyn's limbs. Once they hit, Robyn found herself unable to move, trapped on the ground. Weiss flipped backwards, landing on a glyph and propelling herself above the girl. Forming another glyph in the air, Weiss tensed her legs and pushed off, straight for her opponent, the chamber of Myrtenaster spinning as she did so.
Once her blade connected, the ice dust vial activated, spreading across Robyn's form, trapping her on the combat floor. Her opponent struggled for a moment, but lay still as Weiss landed a blow across her face, soft enough to be gentle, but hard enough to eliminate the required amount of aura to have her unfit to continue battling.
'And that's the match,' Professor Goodwitch announced, the lights turning on across the arena hall once more as she strode towards the two opponents. 'Well done to the both of you, you performed exceptionally well.'
As Weiss dispelled the ice coating Robyn with a flick of her rapier, she couldn't help but notice the frown of disappointment on her opponent's face, which quickly vanished once she noticed Weiss' gaze was focused on her. Weiss held out a hand to Robyn, who graciously took it and was pulled to her feet. She looked up into Weiss' eyes, yet another reminder of how short she was.
'Now, if you two could please head back to your seats, are there any other volunteers who would like to have a match?' Goodwitch continued, turning to face the rest of the students.
'You fought well,' Weiss said, a strange look of appreciation on her face.
'Thanks,' Robyn replied. 'You too.'
And with that, the two separated and headed back to their own teams, each leaving their encounter with a newfound respect for the other.
'I didn't realise you were going to be that soft on her,' Charlie said as she sat down beside him, eyes on the arena as Jaune and Cardin made their way to the arena floor. Robyn simply rolled her eyes at her brother and gave him a gentle punch on the shoulder.
'So! There we were, in the middle night…' Nora begun telling, eyes narrowed intensely as she stared at everyone at the table.
'It was day,' Ren interjected, receiving no response from Nora.
'We were surrounded by Ursai…' Nora said, dragging out the Grimm name for emphasis.
'They were Beowolves.'
'Dozens of them!' Nora exclaimed, jumping onto the table, knocking over Charlie's glass of milk, to which he frowned at.
'Two of them.'
'But they were no match for us… And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!' Nora concluded, raising a triumphant fist into the air, drawing a raised eyebrow from a few of the other students, and a chuckle from Hannah as Robyn tried to wipe up her brother's spilt milk.
'She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now,' Ren added, sipping on his coffee.
'How do you know so much about it then?' Misty asked, leaning forwards to the stoic boy, dragging her plate back towards her after Nora had accidentally moved it by jumping on the table.
'Are you kidding? I've been hearing this story evolve every day,' Ren said, resting his coffee cup in his hand.
'Jaune? Are you okay?' Pyrrha's voice cut across the table, causing everybody to turn and face the blonde leader, who turned to the rest of them confusedly.
'Huh? Me? Oh, yeah, I'm fine! Why?' he stuttered unconvincingly.
'It's just that you seem a little… not okay…' Ruby answered.
Jaune stuttered under his breath as his eyes darted around the rest of the table. 'Guys, I'm fine. Seriously, look!' Jaune then proceeded to raise a thumb and put the most nervous smile on his face, an equally nervous laugh emanating from him.
His gaze soon shifted to something behind the group, which caused them all the turn to look at whatever had grabbed his attention. They saw all of Team Cardinal sitting around a brunette girl with long brown bunny ears, and from the looks of it, she wasn't too happy with them being around her as they mocked her for her faunus heritage.
'That's it, isn't it?' Hannah asked, eyes narrowed at the four boys, fists clenched on the table.
'What's it?' Jaune asked.
'Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the start of the semester!' Pyrrha pieced together. 'He's what's got you all worked up, isn't he?'
'Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah… he just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!' Jaune lied.
'He's a bully, Jaune,' Misty said, through a mouthful of food.
'Oh please! Name one time he's 'bullied me'.' Jaune said, making air quotes with his fingers.
'How about all the times he knocks all of your books out of your hands when you're walking to class?' Blake replied, no longer reading her book, eyes narrowed at the scene on the other side of the cafeteria.
'It's just a running gag!' Jaune said. 'We both know it's just for laughs!'
'How about when he trapped you in that doorway with your own shield?' Hannah asked, eyes on Robyn who was laughing at Charlie's new milk moustache.
'That thing's faulty anyway,' Jaune said meekly. 'It might've gone off by itself anyway.'
'When he tripped you up and you fell down an entire flight of stairs?' Nora asked, rocking unsteadily on the bench she was seated at.
'In his defence, I didn't tie my shoes very well that morning!' Jaune answered.
'What about the rocket locker incident?' Charlie asked, wiping the milk moustache off of his upper lip.
'I didn't land that far from the school!' Jaune replied, attempting to laugh it off.
'Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask,' Pyrrha said, placing a hand on Jaune's arm.
'Oooh!' Nora exclaimed, jumping onto the bench seat, bread stick in her hands. 'We'll break his legs!' To which she proceeded to give them an example by snapping the bread stick in half.
'Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me! He's a jerk to everyone!'
At which point, the laughing behind them grew louder, and a shriek of pain accompanied them. 'Ow! That hurts! Please stop!'
Hannah slammed a fist down on the table, her usually bright eyes appearing much darker. 'That's it!'
The fox faunus bolted from her seat towards the four boys as they tugged at the girl's ears, still laughing, unaware of the world of pain that they were about to enter.
'You may want to go handle that brother,' Robyn whispered into Charlie's ear as he finished off his fourth glass of milk.
'I know, I know,' Charlie replied, standing up and moving after his teammate, whose fists were clenched so tightly that her aura had flared up to stop her fingernails from cutting into her skin.
'Hey!' Hannah called out, causing the four adolescents to stop what they were doing. 'Let her go!'
'Pfft, look guys, it's another freak,' Cardin spat at Hannah, chuckling as he tugged once more on the girl's ears then letting her go. The rest of his team crowded around the girl to prevent her from leaving as Cardin stood up against Hannah.
Charlie was already quite tall, standing well above any of his friends, even Jaune, but Cardin was on another level, towering another few inches above even Charlie. His big, chunky armour only served to make him appear even bigger than he already was. This didn't faze Hannah at all however, who stood up against him, nearly a whole foot shorter than the bully, her eyes glaring up at him.
'What do you want bitch?' Cardin spat in her face, smirking in her face.
Charlie reached forwards and grabbed Hannah's fist, struggling to keep it back. He needed all of his strength to move her behind him, stopping her from caving in Cardin' face right then and there.
'Nothing! Nothing at all!' Charlie said, hand still clasped around Hannah's arm, the other on her shoulder to hold her back. 'We were just heading out actually.'
Cardin grunted at him, turning away from the two. Charlie spun on the spot and started to push Hannah in the opposite direction. She allowed him to direct her for a few steps, and then Cardin spoke again.
'Good, got to keep dogs under check, am I right guys?'
Hannah halted in place, and no matter how much force Charlie pushed with, he couldn't get her to move. She turned her head, brown eyes meeting his own pair of smoldering red ones.
'Charlie,' she stated, voice laced with anger.
'Yes, Hannah?' Charlie asked with a hint of fear.
'Duck.'
'Crap.'
Charlie bent his knees and arched backwards as Hannah's fist spun right through where he had been standing, flying past his face, straight towards the back of Cardin's head. Hannah jumped lightly into the air, placing one foot on Charlie's leg to get herself some more height, now hanging in the air above even Cardin. With a loud crack, her fist connected with the back of his skull, sending him face first into a plate of food on the table.
All conversation in the hall stopped suddenly as everyone turned to locate the source of the sound. Cardin rose from the plate of food, spitting out peas and blowing mashed potatoes from his nose. He slowly turned to face Hannah, who Charlie quickly rushed to her side as the rest of Team Cardinal gathered around their leader, even though he knew she could easily take all four of them. As they began to stare each other down, the bunny eared faunus ducked away from the confrontation, heading into the crowd of students who were gathering to watch.
Cardin took the first move, swinging once at Hannah, who ducked out of the way, throwing her own punch into his gut. The strike barely affected Cardin, whose punch continued forwards, straight towards Robyn, who had darted over as soon as Hannah threw the first punch. She took hold of Cardin's fist before it reached her torso, leaping into the air and wrapping her legs around Cardin's arm, angling downwards to the ground. With the sudden extra weight at the end of his arm, Cardin stumbled forwards, falling face first to the hard floor of the hall. Once both herself and Cardin had hit the floor, Robyn unwrapped her legs, pushing herself into an upright position, spinning to look for Hannah.
Hannah had charged forwards, blocking a punch from Russell, retaliating with a fist to his face. She swept his legs from beneath him and delivering another kick to his side, lifting him into the air with force. Charlie charged forwards from where he had been standing, drop kicking the airborne student into the other two members of Team Cardinal, who had been standing behind their blue haired teammate. Dove managed to duck out of the way of Russell, but Sky was unable to avoid the incoming boy, tumbling backwards over the table alongside his teammate, food flying into the air.
Hannah charged forwards towards Dove, who raised his fists to the girl, prepared to fight. Once she was close enough, he swung a punch at her face, which passed completely through her. Hannah leapt into the air, spinning as she did, her entire body passing straight through Dove's. Her hands wrapped around his throat, and her feet connected with the table beneath her. She pulled against the boy's neck, slamming him into the table, where another eruption of food began to cover other nearby students who were watching.
At this point, most of the students in the cafeteria had gathered to watch the spectacle, most of them cheering on, encouraging the fight to continue. Others were standing in the side-lines, rolling their eyes at the mess before them, or simply refusing to acknowledge the unorthodox altercation at all.
Cardin got back to his feet, preparing to throw a punch at Charlie, whose back was currently turned. As he moved to throw his punch, his arm found resistance. Turning his head ever so slight, he saw Misty's arm wrapped around his own, a grin on her face. He felt her spare palm land against his shoulder, and she pulled him to the side, leg hooked around his foot, shoving him to the ground, arm twisted behind his back.
Sky and Russell leapt onto the table beside Hannah, who still had Dove pinned to the table. Sky started to make a roundhouse kick to Hannah's head, whilst Russell ducked down, supporting himself up with both arms, he kicked out with both legs against Hannah's side.
Russell's attack carried on straight through Hannah's form, causing him to continue moving forwards, falling against the table on his back, whilst Sky's kick was blocked by Robyn's own leg, who had jumped up onto the table alongside her partner. Robyn lowered the leg she had blocked Sky's attack with to support herself, kicking out at the student with her other leg, hitting him in the hip and causing him to stumble backwards.
Russell scrambled to his feet, sweeping at Robyn's legs, missing as she leapt into the air to avoid the attack. Russell moved to Sky's side, the two of them moving into a defensive position as Robyn turned to face them.
Sky threw a punch at Robyn, who deflected it to the side with a flick of her arm. She whipped the same arm back in front of her, parrying Russell's own punch, retaliating with a quick punch to the chest. Robyn dodged backwards as Sky kicked forwards, narrowly avoiding the attack before she kicked out at Sky's knee, causing it to buckle under the force of the attack. The girl then placed her hands on Sky's shoulders, vaulting over the student and kicking out at Russell, who barely managed to avoid the attack.
Hannah rolled away as Dove struggled against her grip, grabbing a plate off of the floor and Frisbee throwing it into his face, knocking him over once more as he attempted to stand up. As Cardin managed to roll over, escaping from Misty's grip, Dove fell backwards onto Cardin's chest, knocking the wind from him.
Dove stumbled back to his feet before he rushed at Charlie, sending a flurry of punches at his face, which he either managed to dodge or deflect. Charlie dodged to the side, wrapping one arm around one of Dove's, pulling it to the side in his grasp, and he threw a punch into the boy's face, whose head recoiled from the shock, eyes closed. Charlie let go of Dove's arm, placing his hands against Dove's shoulder and chest, pushing hard, throwing him into the seating at the side of the table.
Without even having to turn, Charlie heard Sky letting out a cry of attack before Robyn darted across the table, wrapping her legs around Sky's torso, twisting in the air and throwing Sky off of the table, crashing into a nearby bench, which snapped from the impact.
'You're welcome,' Robyn said, glaring at her brother.
Charlie began to respond, but was interrupted by the sound of the entryway double doors slamming open, bouncing against the stone walls. All heads turned to the entrance, and many students went scampering off when they saw Professor Goodwitch storming in. If looks could kill, Charlie would be dead on the floor by now.
Neither members of either Team Cardinal or Team Chrome dared to move as Goodwitch marched up to them all, the nearby students parting to form a path for her. She stopped before the eight of them, narrowed eyes darting around, glaring at all of them.
'They did it,' Misty said, pointing at Team Cardinal.
Half an hour later, and both teams Cardinal and Chrome had been to Goodwitch's office, scolded quite heavily, but managed to avoid being given detention due to the silver tongues possessed by both of the twins.
After being dismissed by the angry professor, both teams separated to head to their next classes, of which should be starting in the next few minutes. Charlie and the rest of his team set off in the direction of Professor Port's classroom, where according to their latest class, they would be learning about a new type of Grimm, and hopefully getting a bit of practical work done as well.
Unfortunately, Professor Port's class didn't live up to the expectation, as instead of his promised exciting lesson, it turned out to instead be another range of tales from his youth.
Robyn sidled slightly closer to Hannah, eyes still hard and fists tightly clenched, as Professor Port began to imitate a wrestling match between himself and an Ursa, rolling around on the ground and occasionally throwing punches into the air, narrating the entire battle.
'I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Cardin can be a massive asshole,' Robyn whispered into Hannah's ear.
'It's not your fault,' Hannah replied without turning to face her partner.
'I know. I just can't help but notice how angry you are about this whole situation. I completely understand it, and your feelings are definitely justified, especially with what he said to you. I just wish that there was more I could do to help out,' Robyn answered, eyes never leaving Hannah's own pair, waiting for her partner to turn and face her.
Hannah finally turned her head to face Robyn, eyes still hard, but slightly softer than before. 'The fact that you were so quick to stand against them with me was good enough.'
Robyn's heart rose quickly at her partner's words. She opened her mouth to say something else, but Hannah beat her too it.
'We've been partners for long enough now that I've noticed one thing about you, you aren't really all that strong,' Hannah said, not averting her gaze from Robyn's own. 'Your weapon is based around ranged combat, and although you do have the typical close combat shifting to the spear, you don't use it as a typical melee weapon, especially if your enemy is a lot stronger than yourself.'
'Although, you seemed to be able to hold your own against Russel and Sky earlier,' Hannah taunted, but with a small smile accompanying it.
'Yeah, well, I can also attribute that to the unstable table surface he was on,' Robyn replied.
The two partners let out a quiet chuckle at that, glancing up at their teacher, who had not noticed their conversation yet, as he was standing by the Ursa diagram at the front of the classroom, going over weak spots, a topic he had gone over a few days ago.
'I'm glad that you had my back today,' Hannah smiled.
'Of course,' Robyn replied. 'I'll make sure I'm there for you Hannah, no matter what.'
'Thank you,' Hannah said, leaning over and giving Robyn a small hug, causing the girl to profusely blush, eyes darting around the room to see if anyone was looking. Nobody appeared to be watching, until her eyes met a pair of red ones. Damn her brother, she should know by now that he always saw everything…
'You sure you're up for this?' Yang asked Misty, the two of them crouching behind a flight of stairs leading up to the higher floors of the Eastern dormitory building.
'Hell yes,' Misty nodded, rubbing her hands together maniacally. 'Just cause we kicked their asses today, doesn't mean I don't want to do something else to embarrass them!'
'Good!' Yang said in reply, glancing around before pulling out a pair of big duffel bags from a compartment beneath the staircase, handing one of them to Misty, who slung it over her shoulder, checking for any students, particularly any of them from Team Cardinal, then making her way upstairs, Yang following closely behind her.
Team Cardinal was on the highest floor of the building, not including the roof. It took them nearly a minute just to climb the flight of stairs to get there. Once they reached the top floor, Misty opened the door leading from the stairwell into the accommodation halls, poked her head into the corridor, checking to see if anybody was around. Thankfully, the hallway was empty. She turned to face Yang, then jerked her head sideways, letting her partner in crime know it was safe to go.
Misty crept down the hallway towards Cardinal's dorm room, silently dropping her back to the floor, whipping out a set of lock picks and began working on the door, as Yang outfitted a simple tripwire system to the door from the stairwell which would set off an airhorn if opened. As Misty worked her way through the tumblers in the lock, Yang dashed to the other end of the hall, fitting the same early warning system to the doors at the other end of the hallway, before rushing back to her partner, who was still fiddling with the lock.
'You sure you know how to do that?' Yang asked impatiently, glancing up and down the hallway, keeping an eye out for any other students.
'Yang, please. Both of my parents work as PI's, I've learnt many things from them over the years. It just so happens that breaking into places I'm not supposed to be is one of those things.'
The lock clicked, and with a grin towards the blonde, Misty twisted the handle, opening the door. 'After you, mighty mastermind.'
Yang sauntered into the dorm room, Misty picking up the duffel bag and creeping in after her, slowly closing the door behind herself. Yang and Misty ripped open their duffel bags, grabbing out various tools they had brought to sabotage Team Cardinal's bedroom.
Once their job was completed, the two rushed to either ends of the hallway, destructing their alarm systems, rushing down their respective staircases and meeting up out the front of the building, ducking to the side as their victims began to make their way to their dorm room from the training halls, chuckling and laughing at each other.
They dropped off the duffel bags in Team Chrome's dorm room, where Ruby wouldn't be able to get back her wakeup whistle, which Yang had also stolen and hidden inside one of the bags.
'I think that this is going to have to be a recurring thing for the two of us,' Yang said, giving her partner in crime a high-five after they had hidden the duffel bags beneath Misty's bed.
'Definitely, a little less breaking and entering though,' Misty smiled, until she saw Charlie standing in the doorway, eyebrows raised as he stared at the two of them.
'What's this I'm hearing about breaking and entering?' he asked, causing Yang to jump.
'Where did you come from?' the blonde asked, having not heard the door open.
'This is where I sleep, remember?'
'Oh, right,' Yang replied, rubbing her hand against the back of her head, causing her mane of hair to dance across her back.
'So, breaking and entering, what is that about?' Charlie asked once more.
'Let's put it this way,' Misty said, sitting down on her bed. 'The less you know, the better.'
Charlie rolled his eyes, stepping into the room and throwing a pile of books onto his desk, causing it to sag slightly under their weight.
'That's a lot of study you're doing there,' Misty said in shock, counting the number of books he had thrown down. 'When are you going to have the time to read all of those?'
'They aren't all for me, some of them are for the rest of you,' Charlie said, smiling at his partner and picking up two handfuls of books. 'These ones are for you, for example.'
Misty ungratefully took the books from her leader, reading some of their titles. 'And why are you giving me, A History of Dust?'
'Because some of the stuff in there relates quite well to the report you're writing for Doctor Oobleck,' Charlie replied with a grin, walking out of the dorm room.
'How do you know what my report is about?' Misty asked, glancing at her desk, where piles of work were strewn across the surface, not recently touched either.
Charlie turned back to face her with a smile. 'After spending the last few weeks with me, do you really need to ask how I know things?'
'Let me guess,' Yang said with a smirk. 'You know everything that happens, ever?'
'Well, I can only assume that Cardin and his friends have already run into your dorm room prank?' Charlie replied with a grin, leaving the room. 'Dinner will be starting soon, I'll see you there!'
Yang looked back to Misty, confusion written across her face. 'How does he…?'
Misty raised her hands in the air, shrugging her shoulders. 'At this point, it's not even worth asking.'
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