Chapter 4: Enter Sandman Part 1

"Anime is a disease" -Totalbiscuit

So, about this world of Remnant I live in… I hate it. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, and I'll keep saying it until I die, because there is nothing you can say that will make me change my mind on that. Everything about this world is either life threatening, annoyingly stupid, or just plain weird; I'll let you figure which is which. But that leads me to my next point, what I consider to a major annoyance of this world.

I've talked a lot what I don't like about this world, for example "what makes this world so interesting", the weapons and how uselessly overly creative they are, and the severe flaws about of this world. I've talked quite a bit about these topics, and I'm sure of you have been wondering "how many more rants can he do, I mean there is only so many things to talk about right?" Oh ye of little faith, don't worry I have a lot of things I can talk about. I do hate this world after all.

Moving on, the topic of today's rant is going to be about the people that inhabit this world AKA one of my biggest annoyance's. Now I feel I should clarify, I don't HATE them; they just annoy me… a lot. You see if I hated them, I would want them all dead, and I don't want that, for multiple reasons. Reason number one: People give me missions, and people pay me to do missions. So if everyone was dead, I would have no income. Wait, if everyone was dead I would have no need for an income… moving on. Second reason: statements like "I want to kill everyone" can be taken out of context and be used against me in court of law, thus wanting those kinds of things would not be smart. I just realized I defending people when I'm trying to explain why I find them annoying, good job me.

Anyways; people, very annoying, many reasons. These reasons can stem down to one simple reason, they're stupid. You know when you're walking alone, minding your own business and someone random driving by rolls down there window and shouts "fuck you." They're annoying. Yes I know how surprising. Why do people do this, cause they're stupid and probably think that's funny.

I could go further, but I feel it would end up getting really dark and I am not okay with that. So to nutshell, I find people and their actions annoying.

So maybe a month or so after the "crazies" mission, Qrow sent me a message on my scroll asking for me to come out to Beacon and that he had someone he wanted me to meet. I had no idea what he had planned, or who the person he wanted me to meet. Now that look back on the events of that day, I don't know whether I regret going to that meeting or not. Now I haven't seen that girl in a while, but from what do I remember about her, she was… quite the character.

The plane ride to beacon's campus took me back to the last time I was there; when I had gotten rejected admittance because of my lack of a semblance. Despite the bad memories however, the plane ride still has an unforgettable view. When the plane reached its destination, I disembarked and made my way to place I was told to meet Qrow. I don't know what it was called, but they held these mock battles between students. Once I met up with Qrow, we found some seats just as a mock battle was about to begin.

The fight was between two fighters: Some Douche-y looking asshat by the name Cardin, and, although I didn't know it yet, the girl Qrow wanted me to meet, Caroline. When I had first saw her, the first thing I noticed was her outfit, which was completely black. Everything on her… was black; although now that I think about it her hair did have silver highlights, but that's beside the point. It really made me think why she went with that, and I could only come up with two reasons. One: she's one of those cringy wannabe edgelords, or two, she's one step away from cutting herself. Whatever the reason may be, I'm sure that outfit gets really uncomfortable in the heat.

Spoilers, Caroline wiped the floor with Cardin. To be honest, I was expecting much more of a fight out of him. Anyways, Qrow took me to meet Caroline after the match, and as I got a closer look her outfit, I noticed there were studs in it. The studs stuck out to me because it made think whether she bedazzles or not. Don't get wrong, I got nothing against bedazzling, it's just I don't see a girl who looks she might take swan dive of cliff be into bedazzling. But that's beside the point, we had a bit of a conversation there, and it went something like this: "John, this is Caroline, the person I wanted you to meet." (Qrow)

"Hey, how's it going?" (John)

"oh yeah, hey… freak."(Caroline)

"Woah, excuse me? Is that how introduce yourself to everyone you meet, or am I just that lucky." (John)

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Caroline has some of trust issues" (Qrow)

"Oh really, now you tell me?" (John)

So Caroline and I hung out for a bit, oh and by the way, I'm pretty sure it was against Caroline's will. But the walk was important because I got learn how fucking messed up she is. Like god damn how does a girl this skillful in fighting become terrified with the White Fang? I mean seriously, she could beat their armies to a pulp without breaking a sweat. But what confused me even more is when this blood red portal opened up and some lady wearing this weird looking red and white mask… helmet? I don't know but it was weird looking, and I don't even know how she saw out of that thing. Anyways, she walked out of the portal, and she looked to Caroline and was all like "You gonna die, bitch" and Caroline was all like "Nah uh bitch, you gonna die bitch" and I was like what the fuck is going on here.

Both Caroline and the lady pulled their weapons out. I was about to pull out my sword and help Caroline, but she told me not to interfere and that this was her fight. I was surprised, but I complied with her decision and watched from the sidelines. It was an all-out brawl let me tell ya, both sides putting up solid attacks against their opponents. For the sake of time however, I'll skip to the end of the fight, which ends draw, and they then agreed to leave it for another time.

After the fight, Caroline and I went our separate ways, with Caroline claiming she had some errands to run, although for all I know that could translate to going to the hardware store and buying some rope. Uhhh ignore that comment… that sounded better in my head. Either way, she probably went back to her dorm room to recuperate. Although I feel I should mention the weirdest part about our interaction. She said she might want to hang out again sometime soon, and the weirdest about it is that it sounded genuine. I may only have known her for a short time, but trust, it still sounded weird.

Now this may seem like a really odd thing to say, but it actually applies to the story. Now at that time I was feeling a little uncomfortable in my clothes, not because it didn't fit or something like that, it was because I had been wearing that same thing for a like a month. Because I only had one thing to wear that entire month, you can probably guess that, I didn't smell the best. I just hope that it wasn't as uncomfortable to hear as it was to say, but that's not the point. The point is that I was heading to leave campus and about to go into town so I could maybe find an inn and a shop to sell clothes to me, but before I could leave, I got so rudely interrupted…

"My god… only a arch villain could smell that bad…"

Author's Note:

Link to my Youtube Video for this Chapter: watch?v=n9lSrZVEGUc

I don't own Caroline. Caroline is the OC of my good friend Anime/Dragonfreak.

Link to her Fanfiction: The Grimm Girl (My OCs story)