Hey everyone, nothing really to say for this not. Hope you enjoy chapter 6.
Italics = Memory/Dream
So far Beacon had been good for me. I was still a recluse, only staying in public when I had to, whether it was in class or doing whatever it was Yang and Ruby would drag me to do. On the other hand, I didn't completely freak out every time I was in a large crowd anymore. I still avoid them when I could, but I can get through them. Classes had been consisting of your basic subjects like math, science, etcetera etcetera. They were classes we needed to take, but were not very exciting. While along with those we had the more...interesting classes. Strategy, forging, and Grimm studies (Yes, I called Port's class interesting. That man surprises you in more ways than you'd think possible).
Of course everyone looked forward to Combat Class the most. Only held once a week on Friday for freshman, it gives us a chance to use what we've been learning. Currently, Jaune and Cardin were duking it out in the arena below us. Sadly, Jaune is...he's just getting his ass kicked six different ways. Currently, he's leaning on his sword, breathing heavily, after taking quite the beating from Cardin. Looking up determined, he charges wildly, yelling at the top of his lungs only for Cardin to sidestep and give Jaune a good whack that sent him sprawling. Getting up again, he charges Cardin for a second time in ten seconds only to be beaten down again.
As Cardin is raising his mace above his head to finish Jaune off, a buzzer sounds, ending the match. With the lights coming on, Ms. Goodwitch steps forward to stop Cardin from seriously injuring Jaune, "Cardin, that's enough!" Turning away from Cardin to address the audience she says, "Students, as you can see Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament style duel, this would indicate that Jaune was no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match." She turns back to Jaune, "Mr. Arc, it has been weeks now, please try to refer to your scroll during combat. Gauging you aura will help you decide when it is appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more…defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowulf, now would we?"
Smirking, Cardin lifts up his mace and departs with a, "Speak for yourself."
Ignoring Ms. Goodwitch after that statement, I watch Cardin saunter off feeling pretty good about himself. I shake my head, wondering how he managed to get into this school. I turn to Yang voicing my question, "How did Cardin even make it here? I thought Beacon only took the best, and I remember that Cardin wasn't anywhere close to that during our first year at Signal."
Looking annoyed herself she answers back, "Believe it or not he actually improved tremendously over the years after you...um"
Sighing, I nudge her with my shoulder, "Yang, you can say it. What happened happened. While I'd rather not talk about it, not even acknowledging it happened is stupid."
Nodding her head she continues, "Yeah...well anyway he may have not been in the top of our class, but he definitely isn't a pushover anymore. His coordination sucks, but he makes up for it with brute strength. There was only one person stronger than him in our class and that was me and not by much." I raise a skeptical eye-brow at that one, "Okay, as long as I'm not angry." I 'ahhed' as Goodwitch reminds us about the Vital Festival along with the tournament that comes with it.
Leaving class, we head to the cafeteria to get a late lunch before heading out to do whatever we wanted with the rest of our day. As we entered the cafeteria and grabbed food, I revert back to the quite version of me when I wasn't alone with Yang or Ruby. I still didn't feel comfortable with Blake for her affiliation with the current Fang. She might have left for good reason, and I can respect that, but I doubt she kept her hands clean during her remaining time with them. Weiss still hadn't asked Yang about what happened to me and she hadn't looked it up either because she didn't know I was a faunus yet. Not that I felt insult by that, if I had my way then no one would know who took me. The only thing is that I'm just not sure if she hasn't asked due to not caring, or unsure if she wants to know.
While I was brooding, Nora was telling the group some dream she kept having, apparently keeping Yang VERY interested. "So, there we were, in the middle of the night!"
"It was day," Ren corrects.
"We were surrounded my Ursa!"
"They were Beowolves."
"DOZENS OF THEM!" Nora exclaims, standing up.
"Two of them."
"But they were no match, and in the end, Ren and I took them down! Making a boat-load of lien selling Ursa skin rugs" stated Nora proudly.
Ren just sighs, "She's been having this reoccurring dream for nearly a month now."
Glancing over, I see Jaune playing with his food while Ruby and Pyrrha shared concerned looks. Finally speaking up, Pyrrha turns to voice her concerns. "Jaune, are you okay?"
Jumping, Jaune turns towards us, "Hmm? Oh, yeah...why?"
Ruby replies moving her gaze around the room as if searching for the answer there, "Weeellll you seem to be a littllllle...not ok?"
Jaune just waves his hand at us, "Guys I'm fine, seriously look".
I just stare at the most pitiful attempt at reassurance, weighing the idea of giving some advice or not. As I give in, I'm about to say something when some laughing drew my attention away. Looking over, I see Cardin and his team messing with some faunus girl I didn't recognize. Completely forgetting about Jaune's problem, I quietly slip out of my seat when everyone was still talking to Jaune.
(POV Yang)
Jaune stands up with his empty tray to head out, "Guys really, it's fine. Besides, it's not like he's a jerk to me" he looks over at Team CRDL, "he's a jerk to... everyone..." Jaune just trailed off as he looked over everyone's shoulder.
Raising an eyebrow at Jaune, we all turned to see what had surprised Jaune. Spinning on my chair, I was surprised when I saw Davian smash Russel's face into their table. I just sit there, trying to figure out what got Davian so mad. He wasn't one to draw attention to himself unless someone was messing with Ruby as I could easily take care of myself. I tensed as Cardin threw a punch, not sure how Davian would fair. I knew he was a good fighter, but he had yet to be called up to compete in combat class so I wasn't sure how he would do against Cardin. I guess I underestimated how much he had pissed Davian off.
(POV Davian - Few Seconds Before)
When I got away from Yang and the others, I gently pushed my way through the crowd towards the assholes messing with the faunus girl. As I was about twenty feet from the table, non-other than Anderson steps in front of me, "Kadar, I didn't know you got in."
Trying to keep my patience, "What do you want Anderson?"
He just stands there grinning, "Oh you know, just wondering how you weaseled your way into Beacon?"
As I was about to give him some smartass response, Cardin roughly pulled on the girl's ear, "OW THAT HURTS!" By now the girl is just trying to leave, her food forgotten, "Please stop." Grinding my teeth, I shove past Anderson not wanting to waste anymore of my time.
Cardin kept laughing, "I told you it was real."
Russel just shook his head grinning, "What a frea-"*bang*.
Not giving him time to finish his sentence, I smashed his face into the table and knocked Dove and Sky onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them. Hearing something behind me, I ducked right as Cardin throws a punch, yelling at the top of his lungs. Pulling his fist back, his drives it forward again, hoping to catch me off guard, but no such luck for him. I grab his arm, spin, and drive him sideways into the wall. Giving him some encouragement to stay there, I smashed an aura powered knee into his stomach before letting go and walking back to the table. He didn't fall however, and just hanged limp in the wall due to being stuck to far into it.
I walk over to the faunus girl to check on her, "You okay?" She numbly nods her head, tenderly rubbing her ears. Ignoring the quiet room, I offer my hand to her, "Come on, I'll walk you to the infirmary." Looking at me as if she expected me to push her down too, she eventually takes it and I pull her up, "Come on".
Walking out of the silent cafeteria, we start walking in silence. "Why did you help me?"
Looking down at the timid question, "What do you mean?"
She stops walking to look me in the eye, "Why did you, a human, help me? The only people that would make themselves a target is my team. So why did you help me?"
"Never said I was a human" I reply.
She cocks her head to the side, "You don't have any faunus traits, showing at least, and every faunus has something. So where are yours?"
Making my face was neutral, I answer "It's not important…come on we need to get an ice-pack on your ear." I turn, continuing towards the infirmary, "So your name?"
She takes a bit to realize I asked a question, "What? Oh um, my name is Velvet Scarlatina." I just nod my head, holding the door open for her. As I look over her shoulder, I see CRDL and Anderson standing at the end of the hallway staring straight at me.
I scowl as I put my head into the infirmary, "Ms. Scarlatina, will you be fine for a second?"
She turns away from the nurse she was explaining to, "Yeah I'll be fine, why?"
"Just get what you need, I have to talk to a few people for a second" I reply closing the door before she could ask who. Turning around, I find CRDL and Anderson five feet away from me.
Cardin takes a step forward grinning from ear to ear, "Imagine my surprise when you of all people walk up and stop me from having a little fun. I thought we had an understanding back at Signal, I don't mess with you too much and you just keep your filthy faunus hide out of my way." As Cardin is talking, Anderson jams the door closed while the others circle around me, "Now here's what we're going to-"
"You're going to leave her alone" I interrupt him.
Cardin just laughs and laughs, "Why - HAHAH! Why would we do that, she's such an easy target?"
I steel myself, knowing I couldn't win a five on one fight in this situation, "If I let you guys take it out on me with no aura, you WILL leave her alone."
Cardin didn't even think about it for a second before he throws a punch right into my face knocking me back into the door with a loud thud. The others jump in kicking my chest, stomping on my arms and legs. Next thing I know, I see stars as someone kicks me in the head again, and again, and again. Everyone gives me a final kick before stepping back allowing Cardin some space to step forward. I try to stand up but only get to my knees because my legs and arms were splitting in pain, literally.
I look up at Cardin grinning, "You know Cardin," I say, spitting out some blood, "you guys are reminding me of the days back at Signal. You still need to work on your follow-through, still shit." Snarling at that, Cardin pulls his mace out and puts as much power behind it as he swings it right into my chest lifting me into the air. I land on my chest with a sickening crunch and start having trouble breathing.
They all started laughing as they listened to my labored. I couged again, causing a stream of blood to dribble out of the side of my mouth. By now, the infirmary door began to be beaten down from the inside. Cardin gives me a final kick on the head and runs off with the others. Facing down the hallway, my vision fades into black. The last thing I see is Ruby come around the corner with the rest of her team. Yang looks up from whatever she was saying and a look of horror falls across her face.
(POV Yang)
"Come oooooon Rubes, breaking Cardin's legs with Nora sound pretty freakin aweso-what's tha-DAVIAN!" I push past Weiss at a sprint who cried out in prissy anger until seeing my cause for concern and runs after me with Ruby and Blake on her heels. I reach him first and turn him onto his back, "Oh my god, what happened?" His face was bruised and swollen; his chest was an odd shape with, "OH MY GOD! THAT'S A PIECE OF RIB!" By now, the infirmary door bursts open with the faunus girl Davian took here and the nurse behind her.
The girl gasps and rushes down to see the extent of the damage as the nurse runs out with a stretcher. "Help me put him on this, we need to make sure he can breathe!" I quickly lift him onto the stretcher and help the nurse carry Davian into the infirmary. We put him onto a cart as the nurse yells at the doctor that they had someone to help. As I go to follow them, the nurse turns to stop me from following, "Honey, you need to wait here. We can't allow you to be back there during the operation. You'll only end up getting in the way."
As I'm about to give the nurse a piece of my mind, Weiss and Blake pull me back towards the waiting chairs. "LET ME GO!"
Blake spins me around to get my attention, "YANG! Get ahold of yourself!"
My eyes are blazing red, "WHY!" She forcefully turned me towards a bench with a bundle of red shaking in it. The red in my eyes drains out as I quickly walk over to Ruby and hug her as she burst into tears on my shoulder, "Sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh it's ok Ruby."
She looks up, cheeks flushed, eyes red and puffy as she asked hoarsely, "Is Davian going to be ok?"
I nod my head trying to keep my voice steady but was having trouble, "Yeah, yeah he's going to be fine. Davian's a tough guy, he'll bounce back." Ruby just nods, setting her head back onto my shoulder, dry heaving, having accepted my answer.
We sit there for an hour until the faunus girl walked up, "The nurse just told me that he'll be ok."
I sigh in relief as I lay Ruby down who had fallen asleep. "Thank-you uhhhh, sorry what's your name?"
She smiled weakly, "Velvet Scarlatina."
I nod my head, "Thanks Velvet. Do you...know what happened?"
Velvet looks down ashamed, "When Davian and I got here, he stepped back outside saying he had to talk to someone for a second. The next thing I know, I hear a loud thud against the door. I tried to open it, but for some reason it wouldn't open. When I start bashing it down, I heard Cardin yell angrily at something followed by a thud. "
I'm off as soon as I heard Cardin towards the freshman dorms. As I was walking down the hallway people are stepping out of my way sending a silent prayer for whoever was in my crosshairs. As I step out of the main building, I see CRDL and Anderson hanging around laughing. My eyes go red and my hair bursts into an inferno, "YOU RACIST ASSHOLES ARE DEAD!" Cardin and the others turn towards me and ohhohoh, watching the color drain from their faces was priceless. They all scatter into the woods with me on their heels. For the following hours, explosions and screams were being reported from the emerald forest and oohhhhh I cherished those hours, even the Grimm cleared the area for the duration of my beating, feeling the rage shake the surrounding forest.
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I walked out of the forest with a deep scowl on my face on my face. On my way back, I saw Ms. Goodwitch waiting between the main building and me. "Ms. Xiao-Long, may I ask where Team CRDL and Mr. Anderson is?"
I don't stop walking and just point behind into the forest, "Somewhere back there."
Looking concerned, she glances towards the forest then back at me angrily. "Did you at least leave them in one piece?"
Glancing back at her with red eyes "Unfortunately," I ignore any-other questions and walk off towards the infirmary.
Not amused, Ms. Goodwitch moves to stop me until Ozpin appears out of nowhere and stops her. "Let it go. I reviewed the camera recording and medical report. They almost killed Mr. Kadar. We've looked over punishments before and we will do it again this time." Sighing, Ms. Goodwitch speaks into her scroll, calling a medical team to the Emerald Forest.
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I run back to the medical building and rush into Davian's room, ignoring everyone asking where I had disappeared to and walked over to sit by Davian. Hours pass and people come in and out to check up on him. Ruby, Blake, and Weiss left for a few minutes to go get food as I continue to sit by one of the most important people in my life.
Two hours. Two hours of standing there before the crowd blooded and limp. The boar faunus steps back, taking what I thought was another two minute break.
Sitting there, I remember back to the other times we had been in this situation, not as bad of course, he was awake during those times.
Hearing footsteps behind me I close my eyes, thinking the two minute was already up.
As he lays there, I reach up to run my hands through his hair to scratch his ears like I did when he was really upset about something.
Someone grabs a fistful of my hair and pulls my head up to get a good look at me.
As I ran my hand through his hair, I froze when I found something was terribly wrong. Suddenly a lot of questions had an answer, but now I had dozens more. The rest of my team along with JNPR walks in. Ruby walks up next to me, "Yang, what's wrong?" I just sit there, eyes wide as tears stream down my face while I tried to stop myself from sobbing. "Yang?"
The lieutenant stood before me holding a pair of pliers grinning darkly. My eyes widen as I realize what he was going to do with them. He shoves my head back down and I close my eyes and clench my teeth hoping it would be over quick.
I turn my gaze over to everyone, "His ears" I say quietly.
(POV Davian)
Feeling someone's hand in my hair along with that memory I jolt awake, mind hazy, pushing whoever was next to me away. I try to jump out of the bed only to collapse onto the floor. Someone tries to pick me up but I push them away and stumble towards the door. Before I could reach the door, two arms spin me around and hug me.
I struggle for a few seconds until I realize my view is full of a mane of blond hair and not a screaming crowd. Realizing where I was, I broke down and collapsed to the ground with Yang, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Ruby rushes over hugs me from behind as everyone leaves to give us some time alone. I just let it all out, every emotion I had been penning up for half a year broke open. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
Yang just hugs me securely, similar to how she comforted Ruby a few hours earlier, "Sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh it's okay, it's okay, you have nothing to be sorry for." As I continued to hyperventilate, Yang looks at me then looks at Ruby who isn't looking any better than herself, "Ruby, can you go check Davian out, we need to get him back to his room." Ruby nods her head and is gone for a minute before coming back with my stuff. On our way to my room, my mind had just gone blank from trying to process all those memories at once. After walking for a bit, I find myself in my room. I lay down trying to think straight but I might as well of tried to go toe to toe with a Deathstalker right then.
Yang sat down on the side of my bed running her hand through my hair trying to calm me down. I just stare at the ceiling until realizing it was two in the morning and Yang had fallen asleep in the bed beside me. If I had been in a healthy state of mind I might have been a little embarrassed, but I wasn't so I just closed my eyes and fell asleep. Though for reason unknown to me, I slept peacefully that night with no nightmares to plaque my mind.
IMPORTAT - Hey guys, chapter 6 is done. For the next chapter or two I'm going to try to have something happy for a change. I know, "MY GOD! CAN HE DO IT?" I didn't mean to write six chapters of dark stuff with the odd bit of humor thrown in. I promise I'll give it my best shot. On the other hand, my offer still stands to any reader. If you have a chapter idea you want to see happen, (besides lemon) either leave it in the review section or PM me and I'll give it serious thought. Now, something very important, the next chapters are going to be slow in uploading due to...certain...reason *cough* Halo 5, Fallout 4, Battlefront 3 *cough*. Sooooooo yaaaaaa, I'll do my best but no promises on that one. Besides those three things, I've got nothing else.
Write to you guys and gals next time, Archangel out...
