The Big Bad Wolf
Ch.4
The Big Bad Attack
During the quiet and cold night, Jay lays comfortably in his bed. His ears perk up to the sound of a quiet noise; this causes him to awake suddenly. He begins to scan his room for the cause of the sudden exit from his slumber. After his scanning of the room for several brief moments, he lays down to go back to sleep. Several minutes pass with his mind wandering through several topics, forcing him to wake up. He hadn't normally slept too much during the night when he was living on the streets. He had grown to love the night, it gave his robberies good cover and it allowed him to walk around without the annoyance of the anti-Faunus supporters heckling him.
Jay, now wide awake, slid his legs off of the bed and gave a quick stretch to get ready to stand. After his stretch he stands up and moves over to his dresser and grabs his casual clothes and his grey jacket. Finally he picks up his purple scarf and stops and stares at it, making time itself feel like it stopped. He remembered his purple scarf's backstory and subsequently his own life. A tear drops on the scarf causing a tiny wet mark to appear on his scarf. Noticing this wet mark causes Jay to break his forlorn stare and wrap it around his face like usual. He then went over to his nightstand and unplugged his scroll from the charger and grabbed his wallet. With everything he needed, he exited his room and locked it, not realizing that one of his windows had been unlocked and opened.
Jay exited the dorms and began to explore the campus. He made a circle of the campus, using his night vision and map to help him get accustomed to the layout of his new school. Finishing his lap of the school, he saw the airship to the city open and active. Finding this to his interest he slowly meandered to the airship and flashed his scroll to activate it. Once it activated and began to make its way to the city, he sat down on one of the benches near the entrance and stared at the quiet city. He knew it was late and he could be in trouble for his adventure but it didn't matter to him at the moment. At that moment he had realized that he had missed the streets, it was a part of him and his character, much to his chagrin.
The airship landed and opened the door allowing him to exit it safely onto the station below. Jay smiled at his return to the city and began to make his way towards some of the families that he had helped when he was living on the streets. He had a twinkle in his eye to show his glee and looked like a man that had just returned home after a several year dispatch with the army. Jay was so relieved about his return to his previous life that he left his ears up to show off to the world that he was a Faunus.
Jay had made some visits to his friends and their families in the Faunus part of the city to ask how they were. He smiled and laughed with them all but kept his time with them short. He finally said his final goodbyes and continued to walk the streets with a small smile hidden behind his scarf. He was still seemingly oblivious to the figure that stalked him and always stayed slightly out of sight.
Scanning the stores that he used to visit and talk to the owners caused him to feel a slight bit of heartache about leaving them. While doing this he found a new store that was also, surprisingly, open during the early hours of the morning. Entering the store revealed that it held many books and other types of supplies. Jay happily greeted the Faunus man who was behind the counter reading a book to pass the time. The clerk nodded in response and returned to his book without even giving Jay a second thought.
Jay looked through the books, hoping to find a good book. Figuring that the clerk didn't give two shits about him, he had set on his own journey to find a book. Looking through the shelves, he found a book that interested him and was small enough to fit in his jacket's pocket. He remembered his rule about stealing from Faunus stores and went up to the counter and placed the book on the counter top. The clerk still hadn't noticed him, causing Jay to become increasingly frustrated. After a solid three minutes of waiting he started slamming his palm on the tiny bell to alert the clerk to his presence.
The clerk looked at him with annoyance and closed his book. "Are you buying that?" The clerk lazily asked. Jay looked at him and rolled his eyes, but he kept his composure. "Yes. How much?" Jay responded. "Uh… that'll be 20 lien." The clerk responded, his voice full of annoyance. Jay paid for the book and pocketed it but on realization that he had nothing left to do at the moment, he tried to begin a conversation. "So I see you're a Faunus. What type are you? Me, I'm a wolf. The name's Jay Wolf. You've probably heard of me." Jay wouldn't let him get a word in, although that would mean that the clerk wanted to speak, which he didn't. He didn't want to talk, not a single word, but he needed to shut him up.
"My name is Ted, I'm a bear, I haven't heard of you, and I don't want to talk nor do I want you to talk. So please get the fuck out!" Ted angrily yells, showing his short fuse. Not wanting to cause a scene, Jay bowed slightly and left feeling the death stare from Ted. After leaving the store and walking a block down the street, Jay stopped and pulled out his scroll to check the time. The time read 4:30. Jay sighed, having hours before he needed to be at his first class.
After mindlessly walking down the street, he sees a park that he used to live in for several months. He walked through and began to remember the good times he had here. It was where he first learned to properly pickpocket people and where he read his first book on the streets. Upon seeing the open field near his favorite sleeping tree, he pulled out his book and laid down to read it.
Reading the book in the quiet night underneath the stares really hit home to him. He promised himself that he would go out and do this more often at school. Losing interest in the book, Jay sat and listened to the crickets and the slight breeze pass through the branches. While listening to the sounds, he heard a noise that was out of place from behind and he heard it grow louder as it came closer. He sniffed and smelled something familiar which caused him to open his eyes in alarm and he put his hands into his gauntlets, preparing to fight. He rolled forward and spun around to see the girl with the bow behind him with her sword out.
She saw that her sneak attack failed and began to charge. She began to swing her sword at him, hoping that his lack of shield would allow for her attacks to connect easier. Jay knew that his opponent would believe this, so he used his gauntlets to deflect her slashing attacks aside and took quick jabs when she tried to recover from his deflects. Jay's attacker knew that her slashes wouldn't connect due to him being able to deflect her sword while leaving him with a free hand and her open to attack. She began to change her attacks from slashes to thrusts, causing Jay to have a bigger problem. He wasn't too good with thrusts due to barely having any practice with this. He began to have to dodge her thrusts and using his aura to protect himself instead of blocking.
Jay finally began to figure out a way to switch from defense to offense without too much injury. He waited for another thrust and grabbed the blade with his gauntlet and kicked her knee, causing her to block it with her aura but also losing her original attacking position. While she fixed herself for another attack, Jay removed his scarf from his face and used it to grab her sword hand and restrain it from an attack. While she was restrained he slammed a fist on her restrained hand, disarming her sword and leaving her open to attack. Jay capitalized on this by sending a flurry of punches at her with his free hand. He finally grabbed her other hand when she tried to punch his face and used his strength and leverage to flip her onto her back. While on the ground she reached for her sword, which Jay grabbed and pointed at her threateningly.
"Why are you attacking me?" Jay asked with anger. "I barely know you and you've attacked me without warning!" The two never broke eye contact; their eyes fighting their own battle. Jay didn't hear an answer from her and not wanting to kill her; he lifted her sword up and slammed it next to her head. He began to walk away from her before a sudden bang hit his ear before feeling the dust bullet explode on his back, causing him to hit the ground in pain. He turned around and saw the girl holding her sword in a gun form and its barrel smoking.
She continued point it at him and finally broke her silence, "I know that you're a Faunus with very little record of his past. The White Fang would do very well to recruit someone with that type of past." She spoke calmly but accusingly. "I also observed you visit several Faunus homes and you even visited a known White Fang front and had a conversation with the leader. This all accumulates into a high amount of evidence that you are working with the White Fang." She finally accused Jay but Jay wasn't worried about that. He was too busy worrying about another thing she had mentioned.
"Aw fuck me. Did you say I went into a White Fang Front? Shit…" Jay worriedly rambled, confusing his attacker. "I even told them my name. I'm so stupid…. Hey, you, could we postpone this. I need to go a.s.a.p." He continued his rambles. Before she could answer, the bow girl had been disarmed from behind and pulled into a tight grasp, making her unable to move and crushing her for every attempt made to struggle.
Jay watched this happen, seeing Ted the clerk constricting his previous attacker as several White Fang underlings surrounded Jay. "Look here boys; we have a pretty girl and a big bad wolf to play with today. The White Fang will pay good money for the Big Bad Wolf." Ted smugly bragged before giving the orders. "Get 'em boys!" At this command, the henchmen began to charge at Jay. Jay slammed his gauntlets in preparation of the fight. He charged at the closest one and slide tackled him, knocking the henchman off his feet. He quickly turned around and picked up the henchman off the ground and swung him into several other henchmen and letting go causing them to land on the ground in a pile. Two more approached him as he continued his motion from the throw and two handed one of the henchmen's head. The other one began to slash at him, which Jay dodged expertly and disarmed the henchman. He then used the butt of the handle to knock him out.
Jay then threw the sword at one of the henchmen and it nailed him with the handle causing him to stumble. Jay then ran up to the stumbling henchman and disarmed him of his sword too and gave him an uppercut to the chin with his free hand, launching him into the air. Jay also picked up the sword on the ground that he had thrown and began to dual wield them, finally feeling at home with his weapon choice. He began to slash and parry the remaining henchmen until they were all dead or unconscious.
Jay turned to face Ted, whose face was full of anger at his henchmen's failure. "You think your hot shit because you can beat a bunch of henchmen? Well you haven't won yet, I still got the girl and I know you didn't kill her before so you won't kill her now." Ted taunted Jay, who knew that Ted was right. "So drop the swords or else I squeezer her so hard that she breaks." Ted gave out his ultimatum and Jay begrudgingly accepted by slamming the swords into the ground. This caused Ted to laugh victoriously at having defeated the Big Bad Wolf. "It seems like the Big Bad Wolf was just a puny fuckin' mutt that had more bark than bite." Ted continued to taunt.
The girl realized her opportunity to break free and head-butted Ted, causing him to not drop her like she planned. He held steadfast but grew in anger, "You bitch! That fuckin' hurt." Ted then bear hugged her, causing her to scream in pain. Jay saw this and grabbed the swords and charged Ted, swords following behind, ready to attack. When he reaches Ted, he slices his swords vertically across his arms, causing Ted to yell in anguish and drop his hostage. Jay then howled in the night, causing a mirror image of himself to appear. One of them grabbed the injured girl and ran, while the other began to attack Ted.
Ted noticed that Jay had dropped the swords to fight with his gauntlets only. Jay began his barrage of punches that seemed to move too fast. Ted could only block most of them, allowing some to hit. Ted kept on the defensive until he felt the hits slow down and took this as his chance to retaliate, grabbing Jay's final punches and using his grip to slam Jay into the ground several times causing Jay to look bloody and broken. Ted finally slammed Jay onto the ground for the last time and he stood over the beaten body and spat at him. "I was right you were just a mutt trying to be tough." Ted said victoriously over the injured Jay. To which Jay laughed at, causing Ted to look at him in confusion.
"You may think you've beaten me, but you've only beaten part of the wolf pack." Jay said before disappearing with only a howl left behind. Ted saw this and became furious; he had only beaten a clone. Ted began slamming his fists on the ground until they became bloody before he screamed out in anger, causing everyone a certain distance away to awake.
The real Jay had been carrying the injured classmate bridal style while his wolf pack clone distracted Ted. He had been running for some time now, carrying his classmate in his arms causing the run to be very tiring. They finally arrived at the station as Jay entered the airship and swiped his scroll to bring them back to Beacon. He placed the girl down on the bench and sat next to her, finally allowing him to catch his breath.
She had been silent the whole time, not knowing what to say to Jay. She had attacked him earlier and yet she was also saved by him. Now sitting next to him on the airship, she still sat in silence and in anger. Mad at herself for being suspicious of Jay and mad at herself for attacking him without warning.
Not wanting to cause any problems, Jay didn't ask any of the thousands of questions he wanted to ask and allowed the silence to continue. He finally felt her shivering and felt terrible. He removed his jacket and tried to give it to her, "Here, take my jacket. You look cold." She didn't take it nor did she even seem to acknowledge his offer. He then proceeded to drape in around her, causing her to jump in shock.
She looked at him and saw his reassuring smile, which caused her to go deeper into her self-anger. She removed it and tried to give it back to Jay, who took it back with a confused look. Jay then pulled his scarf out of his pocket which was slightly dirty due to him having to grab it off the ground before he saved his classmate. "You remember at lunch when I talked about my scarf?" he asked. She looked at him, wondering where he was going with this. "Well if you don't remember it then I'll remind you. I said it was very sentimental to me but gave to further clue as to why. Well, the reason why I keep it is because my mother had knitted me and my siblings all one that was to last until the end of time. Well at least that's what she said, but this was when I was five years old that I received this. Well, when I was ten, my parents had too many kids to take care of and they had to pick one to abandon. Well, I was actually the mutt of the litter so they decided that I wasn't worth the money. With the clothes on my back and the scarf around my neck, they left me at a park in the city." Jay had revealed his scarf's story to someone who he barely knew.
She had listen to him the whole time and began to notice the sloppy stiches that were sewn into the scarf in several that revealed he was speaking truthfully. She also remembered when she was hiding in his room that he was staring at it for longer than usual. What happened next surprised her; he wrapped his scarf around her neck gently and sat back in his seat.
He smiled while looking forward, trying to not look her in the eyes. "I understand you might not be too happy with your decision to attack me, but you weren't too far off base with your accusations. I was brought into the White Fang when I was thirteen years old by someone who saw me defending myself against some anti-Faunus drunks. It's how I got my scar on my nose. The White Fang member found me with blood all over my face and scarf. He took me into the White Fang and they stopped the bleeding and were about to fix it until the man who found me told them not to. He said it would be a reminder that a human will hurt me just because I was different. So I became part of the White Fang for several years, even earning the nickname 'The Big Bad Wolf.'" Jay continued his explanation, still not daring to look her in the eyes. "I stayed until about a year ago when I had gained enough money, knowledge, and connections to leave without anyone noticing. I also stole the plans for several attacks and destroyed a whole base when I left to cover my tracks, hoping everyone believed I had died in the explosion. Apparently they didn't and I now have a bounty on my head." He finished his explanation.
Blake had finally understood why he had seemed so familiar and why she thought that he was possibly with the White Fang. It had finally made sense to her and she had to explain it to him. "First off, I apologize for attacking you and then shooting you in the back when you spared me. Secondly, my name is Blake Belladonna and I have something I have to show you." She moved her hands to her bow and removed it, revealing her cat ears. He didn't show any sign of confusion or shock and then she remembered that he could probably smell it on her. "I also was part of the White Fang before I left and joined Beacon. I also know of your nickname, Mr. Big Bad Wolf. You received your nickname when you were being bullied by a higher up for being too young and when he pulled out a knife and cut your arm you changed into a more feral looking form. Your claws grew sharper and longer, your teeth grew sharper, and your eyes glowed neon yellow. After you changed you easily took out the higher up and his eight henchmen, severely injuring all of them in the fury. This caused you to be used in more dangerous missions and to become mostly ostracized from everyone who heard the story of the Big Bad Wolf."
Jay listened to Blake's long winded explanation and sat in silence for several moments before breaking out in laughter, much to Blake's confusion. "Yeah, that's the truth although I began to keep the nickname out of spite. I guess you heard of The Big Bad Wolf and kept away too. I understand that; keep the pretty kitty away from the Big Bad Wolf." He joked. Blake's blushing was hidden under Jay's scarf. She began to shiver because her combat uniform had several openings.
Jay noticed this and moved closer to her and wrapped his arm around her. She jumped at the contact and glared at him for pulling a move. He smiles his toothy grin and explains, "Well if you don't want the jacket then it's better to share the warmth then let you freeze." She continued to glare at him before sighing and resting her head on his shoulder. Jay began to blush and stayed close to Blake until they finally reached school. They awkwardly separate and walk to the dorms, still staying close to one another. When they reach the dorms and need to go their separate ways, Blake stops him from walking away. "You know, you're not as bad as they say you, Mr. Big Bad Wolf" He doesn't know how to respond to this as she walks away and quietly enters her room.
Jay stands there for several minutes, still trying to understand the night he just had. He turns around and walks to his room, humming a happy tune along the way. He enters his room and changes back into his sleepwear. As he goes to undo his scarf, he realizes that Blake is still wearing it. He silently swears, knowing that this will cause problems during class. Jay then drops down on his bed and tries to get as much sleep as possible. "This isn't going to turn out well." He silently mutters before falling asleep.
AN: Hello to those who read this. I am beginning my final year of High School as of today so I have to say that it will be very unlikely that I post a chapter every day. I had planned to do that, but as I began this chapter I slowly began to realize that this was taking a lot of time. I always write out a storyboard for each chapter so I have something to follow when writing. It was a page per chapter for chapters 1 and 2, but it's escalated to 3-4 pages per chapter. So I do apologize, but I will be writing a storyboard one day and hopefully bang out a chapter the next day. Don't hold me to that though because you will be sadly disappointed. Anyways, on to the fun part, I have finally revealed Jay's semblance and it's called the Wolf Pack. I will explain it in detail next chapter but for now I will leave it at that. I also revealed a TON of Jay's backstory in a very big exposition dump that I hadn't expected to write, yet here I am with the finished product and the exposition dump still there. Finally, I want to ask how you are enjoying the story. I have no reviews which makes it hard to grow as a writer. So if you don't like my story and you read up to here, then explain why you don't like it. If you like my story, then please explain why. I may be taking some OC teams later on in the story for Jay to be subbed into because he can't always sub in for RWBY or JNPR. That'd be lazy writing in my opinion. Okay, I have written enough here so I'll say goodbye for now and thanks for reading.
P.S. I will TL;DR for those who are lazy. I'm trying to post every other day with a storyboard for the first day and the chapter writing for the second day. I may also request for OC teams later on. I also want you to review more. I'd rather you leave a review than favorite it because it'd help me learn more and become better if you gave constructive criticism.