First day of school.
Well, that's not true.
First day of the second week, and Ez's first day of attending lessons at school, Would be the better term.
She stood outside her dorm room, waiting for her friends to finish getting ready for the day. They took forever. Honestly, who needed to spend half an hour doing their hair? She could understand yang's obsession with brushing it, but Weiss, why did she have to pick such a difficult hairstyle? Buns were hard enough; did she really need to tilt it to the side?
Ez sighed. She decided to try not to question the teens looks. there would be no point. Its not like they will change it or anything. and besides, she's just lazy, with her hair let down all the time without brushing it often.
"GOOD MORNING! Good morning! Gooooood morning." Nora chanted rushing out of her room, closely followed by Ren. "it's morning!" she shouted down the hallway, "oh, hi Ez." She said, waving.
"hello Nora." Ez replied, completely use to the orange haired girls' shenanigans. "hello Ren"
Ren sighed, "hello Ez."
RWBY, Juane and Pyrrha came out soon after, each saying their separate 'good mornings' to everyone else in the little friend group.
The nine students headed out to the cafeteria, yang and Blake volunteering to get food for everyone. They soon came back with an assortments of dishes, pumpkin petes for Juane, pancakes for Nora and Ren, a plate of strawberries and cookies for ruby, tuna sandwich for Blake, toast for yang and Pyrrha and cereal for Weiss and Ez.
"Thank you" said the group collectively before digging in to their meals.
"so, you're coming to class with us today." Ruby gestured at Ez. She nodded.
"cool." Said yang, joining in on their discussion.
Weiss, sitting next to Ez, spoke up, "you're a week behind, so if you feel you need some help to catch up, just ask me. I am already assisting ruby, so it won't be much of a hassle."
Ez smiled at her white friend. She was not going to take her up on that offer.
"can I get some help too?" yang just had to take advantage of this perfect situation. "maybe all of us could use your help in class." The other team agreed. None of them were behind in lessons, in fact, they were ahead of most of the other students in terms of grades, but no one could compare to the perfectionist called Weiss. She strives for 100 percent all the time, and got it. Pyrrha was the only other student in class who could rival her academically, but she usually got between 95 and 100 percent, so close to Weiss's perfect grades, but so far. Oh well, Pyrrha didn't want to be the best anyway, she just wanted to be accepted as a person and make a real friend, so academic scores didn't matter much to her.
with Weiss's help, the other six members of their group could get grades that good, which, eventually, shine a positive light onto Weiss.
"you could get extra credit." Taunted yang.
That set Weiss's mind in stone. "I'll do it." She said. "but only if you need help. I'm not going to just give you the answers, so don't expect me to." Her chin up high to show her superiority. To the rest of the group, it just looked like arrogance. But they weren't complaining, they just got the best help ever for assignments.
"today we have Grimm studies with professor port, followed by history with Dr. Oobleck and finally, combat with professor Goodwitch." Said Weiss, one hand behind her back and the other raised in front of her.
"I can't believe you memorized the timetable already." yang commented.
"it's not that hard." Nora said.
"wait, wait, wait. Did you remember it too?" asked ruby raising an eyebrow.
"yep." She said, popping the 'P'
"how did you manage that?" ruby asked, even more confused.
Pyrrha answered for her. "Ren told her she can't have any pancakes until she did, so she memorized it." She shuddered, "it was horrifying to watch."
RWBY was taken aback by the reply. "why did you do that." Ruby asked, facing the silent teen.
"so I didn't have to." He said. Eyes closed in an act of fake wisdom.
"that's. . . is actually pretty smart." Said yang, nodding her head. "now, if only we can do that with Blake." She continued under her breath.
"but you've got Weiss." Said Ren.
"she doesn't count." Retorted yang.
"point" Pen said, nodding his head sideways.
"hey!"
nothing more was said.
"we're here." Said Weiss, entering the room. the others followed. Ez stood just inside the room without sitting down.
Professor port had just started his rambling when he noticed Ez. "ah, miss Ez. Please take a seat." He said, gesturing to an empty seat. She sat. he went back to his rambling. Ez noticed that it was mostly about himself defeating the Grimm, but sometimes he would say something interesting. These things are stuff like; the death stalker only has one weakness; the intelligence of a Grimm is measured by age and the best way to kill a Beowulf is with force.
None of these were true, the death stalker has hundreds of weaknesses, the intelligence is determined if the Grimm bother to watch and wait, or observer the prey, and you can easily kill a Beowulf with a finger nail.
This class was not going to be interesting if this is what's taught. Ez slumped in her seat, watching the rest of the class.
The only people paying attention to professor port were Weiss, Pyrrha, Ren, the kid in the far back, and a kid who said EEE-YEP! Just before. The rest of the class were in varying stages of disinterest, some were sleeping, others were playing with their stationary, two people were reading a book and eight were on their scrolls. All in all, this didn't seem like a class most enjoyed or cared about.
Ez turned back to the rambling teacher, just in time for him to point at Ez with a white board marker. He had pulled down a massive white board and had drawn a very detailed Ursa. It didn't seem like he missed anything. "miss Ez, could you please come up here and draw all the weak points of an Ursa onto my very impressive Ursa, if I do say so myself." His mustache twitched.
"ok." She said as she left her seat, taking the red marker off the professor, and standing in front of the Ursa.
She stared at it. Then turned back to the teacher. "how do you want me to mark them? Coloring it in or circling it?" she asked port.
Weiss looked happy that someone else was paying attending in class. At least Ez seemed like she was listening.
"whatever you like." Said port, gesturing to the Ursa on the board.
Ez hummed in thought, took the lid off the marker, and colored the entire thing in red. except the mask and a thin line going down its back. Everything else was colored in.
Weiss was gob smacked, here she thought she found another person excelling academically while still enjoying it, her she thought this girl ruby found would like classes and learning, and here she saw how wrong she had been.
Ez was just another immature child using class time to muck around and do whatever. She didn't care about learning, or studying, or anything a student should. This was just her way of killing time. Weiss was angry at herself for not noticing the immature behavior of the secretive person living next door.
Port scrunched up him mustache. "miss Ez, may you please tell me what you're doing." He arms were behind his back, looking like a proper professor.
"I'm coloring in the weak points of the Ursa." She didn't even turn to face him, just touching up on the drawing.
"last I checked, the Ursa have some plating on their chest, so why have you colored that in as well? Would you not just leave it blank like the spine and mask?" he asked.
"no. the armor on the front of the Ursa is always a lot weaker then the spine. The spine is one of the strongest parts on an Ursa, that is why it is not a weakness. If one were to attack the spine outright, it is more likely their weapon will dent then the spine breaking. Most people don't know this because they attack the Grimm head on. From one angle, the spine is an indestructible object, but from the other, it is very easy to break. as for the mask, it is the strongest armor on any and all Grimm." Ez explained facing the professor and the class now.
Port hummed in thought. "I can see your point. Ok, I'm giving you points for your explanation."
That caused an uproar in her classmates. "EEE-YEP!" someone cried, supporting the student at the front.
"your giving out points?!" someone else said.
"stupid you didn't know that." Snickered the boy called Cardin, flicking something into the unsuspecting boys' hair.
"but she didn't even do it correctly!" Weiss almost shouted, standing up.
Nora woke up. "GAA. . .wait. . . what's happening?"
Ren, ever the optimist, answered. "ports giving points to Ez for answering incorrectly."
"oh. . .ok." Nora said, before returning to her sleep.
Ez took this chance to go back to her seat. Port started the job of student wrangling.
"student. Calm down." He said, hand in front of him in a calming motion, most of the students paused in their ranting. "I gave miss Ez here points because of her explanation, and yes I have been giving all the people who sleep in my class minus points. These points go towards the end grade and are given as a bonus to what you earn. That is not to say miss Ez got the question correct though and she will hopefully study on it to get it right next time. Now onto my next adventure." Mr. port said without pause, not allowing the students time to process what he said before he started rambling.
When it did sink in, most of the students payed attention and not slept, intent on getting these 'points'. Some people still ignored him though.
The life saving bell went off.
The entire class left their seats and headed off to their next class, history with Dr. Oobleck. Ez was surprised at how much the student hated the class they left, sure it didn't seem very good at first, but under the surface of ports tales, there was a lot to learn from them, even if some of it was fake.
The small group, again, comprised of JNPR, RWBY and Ez, went to the next class. On their arrival, the two teams sat down yet again while Ez introduced herself to the teacher. Dr. Oobleck, like professor port, gave her a seat and started the lesson. They were learning about the great war that happened some centuries ago. To Ez it was more like yesterday.
She remembers the 'so called' great war, a time of bloodshed for humans and a feast for Grimm. They eat negative emotions. It was great fun, but as far as wars go, it wasn't anything special, In her opinion anyway.
For most other people, the war was a time of horror and fear. Humans and Faunus were terrified of every corner they turned, every person they met, and every town they came across. Ez found it all hilarious how much humans can't trust each other. She barely understood why they were fighting in the first place.
Dr Oobleck had a different opinion then her, he kept saying things like 'if you don't learn your history, then you are destined to repeat it.' he is a very serious person. When you get over the super speeds he travels at.
Speaking of which. . .why does he travel that fast? Ez wondered. For the rest of the lesson she took apart every aspect of his 'super speed' to the tiniest detail and pulled it apart to discover the mystery. After an entire hour to think it over, she decided it was just him on a permanent coffee high. So disappointing. Ez had hoped that maybe he had some cool speedy semblance or something, maybe boots that made him fast (she had seem them before, but not anytime recently) or a spell that warped reality.
But no. he just had a very bad coffee addiction.
After her analysis of her history teachers speed, she wasn't paying attention to the lecture and didn't end up making a finite opinion of Dr. Oobleck. The bell went and the class went to lunch.
For some reason Juane and the boy called Cardin stayed behind. RWBY went to lunch ahead of JNPR, dragging Ez alone with them.
Unsurprisingly, Ez didn't eat anything for lunch, again. RWBY was worried for her, she ate hardly any breakfast, no lunch and a small dinner everyday for the last week now. She wasn't looking any worse then before, but she could definitely get malnourished if this continued. They would have to do something.
When ruby finished her lunch she poked Ez, "you should eat something."
Ez looked her in the eye. "why?" she asked calmly. Ez had dealt with situations like this before and knew why, she just couldn't help herself.
"because you'll get sick." Ruby said, crossing her arms.
"no I won't."
"yes you will."
"no I won't"
"yes you will."
"yes i will."
"no you won't." Ruby said.
"so, I won't get sick, cool." Ez smiled.
Ruby was blushing in embarrassment softly, she had fallen for the oldest trick in the book. Oh, how humiliating.
"that's. . . that's not what I meant, and you know it." Ruby pouted. "and you really will get sick."
Ez's smiled dropped a bit but didn't disappear. "and I'm telling you, I really won't."
"how! If you don't eat enough, then you'll be all sick and malnourished. if you go into the field in that condition, something bad will happen! So, go eat something!" ruby was practically yelling, but only her table heard her.
Ez paused for a bit. Then looked at ruby in the eyes. Everyone else on the table had gone quiet, all hoping ruby won the argument. Everyone was on standby to support her.
"I can eat something if you want me too, but just so you know, it will not help at all. normal food does not feed me, I eat something completely different. So, if I'm going to eat something, then its going to be something that is actually useful." Ez relented. "but, I can put up the farce and eat the food from here, if you wish." She said waving her hand from side to side.
Ruby was silent for a few seconds. "what do you eat."
Ez rested her head on her hand. "well, there are only two things that I actually can eat. I'm not telling you the first one, and the second one is dust."
"you've got to be kidding." Said Weiss, joining in. "dust is the most dangerous substance on remnant, everyone who has ever put dust into their bodies have died from the pain. How can you eat it." Everyone silently agreed, some even nodding their heads.
"because I'm not everyone." Ez said, turning on her. Blake heard the slightest bit of sadness in her voice.
"even so, you shouldn't be able to eat dust." Weiss retorted, ice cold fire in her eyes. "and what's the other thing you eat? Why can't you eat that?"
Ez sighed. "well, as strange as it is, I'm able to eat dust. As I said before, I'm not telling you what the other thing is, I'm not even going to give you a clue. And for your last question, I have been eating it, you guys just don't notices."
". . ." silence filled the table.
"can you still go and eat something." Whispered ruby.
"I am." Ez said, even quieter. she left the table to find a high quiet place to sit for the rest of lunch.
"well that was unexpected." Yang said when Ez left the room.
"how rude." Weiss said.
After a few moments of silence, Blake spoke up, putting a bookmark in her book. "I'll go talk to her." she left the table, following Ez secretly.
Ez was going to beacons cliffs behind the school, Good a place as any. She sat down on the edge of the overhang, leaning backwards and swinging her legs below her, eyes closed. Ez listened to the sounds coming up from the valleys, every animal squeak, every tree rushing in the wind, and every Grimm. She could hear everything. The Grimm had noticed her, most of them carrying on with what they were doing but filled with nervousness with the proximity of their high commander, others went straight up to her and bowed down, knowing nothing else to do. They left when she growled at them to leave. She wanted to be alone.
Ez could hear the cat Faunus trying to sneak up on her. as far as her skill goes, she was pretty good when compared to her classmates, or anyone her age for that matter, but she was rather bad when compared to the professional assassins sent after her head over the years. Ez was honestly not expecting this level of skill from a student though.
Still, she could hear her coming so she might as well have a little bit of fun with her.
Ez started to sing. It was a slow song in the language of the cats. This does not mean a whole bunch of meowing. Its was in the language the cat Faunus made to communicate in the dark times, still practiced today.
"sneaky little kitty cat, I can see you there, hiding in the shadows, hunting little bears." Her song startled Blake, she wasn't expecting Ez to start singing. She was singing an old lullaby, Blake had heard it when she was a little girl. Her mother had sung her to sleep with it. Blake had a suspicion it wasn't just a coincidence that she started singing it either.
Hearing Blake pause made Ez happy, she started the next verse. "Scary little kitty cat, I can hear you there, over every mountain, even under stairs." This verse had always confused Blake. But right now, she was confused how Ez knew it. It was a lullaby, but it was a lullaby in the world best kept secret, The faunas languages.
Ez could feel the confusing radiating off Blake like a beacon, she could only guess what she was thinking, even if it was a good guess. "running little kitty cat, I can feel you fear, the hunters are behind you, they're only after ears." This was the darkest verse in the song, why that was in a lullaby, Blake didn't know.
Ez continued singing, a little louder and a little faster then before. "sprinting little kitty cat, I can smell you here, slow down or they'll find you, your running on despair." Blake didn't know why this verse didn't rhyme, maybe the writer didn't know any words at the time, or maybe that was on purpose.
"hiding little kitty cat, I can help you here, come a little further, the fear will disappear." This verse use to calm Blake, but now it scared her. how will the fear disappear? Will the hunters vanish? Or will the little kitty cat die? It that why she won't have any fear? Or is she just over thinking this?
Blake creeped a little closer to Ez. This made her smile, Ez slowed down her singing and sung softer. "safety little kitty cat, is found anywhere, just look all around you, the place is never bare." This verse was true, safety can always be found wherever you are, whether it be on the top of a tree, in a river or at a friend's house. Blake had never failed to find a safe place to go to when she needed. Blake wondered if that was because of this song. In the song it meant, find a familiar face, usually a parent or another Faunus, and they will help you when you need it.
The last verse of the song was just a repeat of the first. Blake couldn't help herself, she joined in, very quietly. "sneaky little kitty cat, I can see you there, hiding in the shadows, hunting little bears." The last bit of the song was about the ancient trust between the cat and bear Faunus. In older times, a game similar to tip was made for the two groups, it was called a hunt. No one knew why it was called that, it just was. Now it was used as a metaphor between the two Faunus groups.
Blake stood in the stillness of the trees. She wasn't really sure why she had sneaked up on Ez, it just felt appropriate.
"I know you're here Blake." Ez didn't turn to face her, she watched the forest below her.
"so you did know." Blake responded, abandoning any attempt at hiding, she had a suspicion she knew the moment she started singing.
Ez didn't answer that, instead she asked her own question. "do you like my song?"
Blake came up and sat next to her before answering. "yes. Even if I have some reservations about how you know it." Ez giggled.
"you're not going to find that one out right now." She said. Blake turned to her, watching the small smile creep onto Ez's face. Ez didn't seem to notice Blake's gaze on her. interested more on the forest in front of them then the conversation they were having. Blake faced away from the girl, interested in the goings of the forest, or, how its entertained Ez. Seriously, what was she looking at?
Ez sighed after a few minutes of peace. "might as well get into the nitty gritty. Why are you here?" she asked, no malice or anger in her voice. She was just curious.
Blake hummed in agreement. "mostly to provide emotional support. Otherwise, to ask you about what was said earlier."
Ez sighed, she wasn't getting away with this, is she. "if I tell you, I might as well just tell everyone. But I will 'come clean' and answer some questions." Ez said sarcastically. "by the way, I won't be telling you why I eat dust, I'm just telling you how. Aaaand, you get to wait until school ends for the day."
Ez stood up and left, closely followed by Blake. The two girls followed the route to their last classroom for today, the arenas. They had combat with professor Goodwitch.
Juane stumbled back from Cardin's swing, barely dodging the blow. Now off balance he couldn't escape the overhead strike coming for his chest. Juane raised his shield in an attempt to block it. the mace stuck the shield with full force, sending Juane to his knee and his aura to the middle of the bar. He took the opportunity to strike at Cardin's legs, taking advantage of his lower ground. Cardin jumped back, escaping the blows and allowing Juane enough time to get up on his feet.
With his balance back, Juane charged at Cardin, going for a sword thrust, Cardin moved to the side, Juane swept his sword across his body to follow his movements, the sweep taking half the strength out of the initial thrust. Cardin raised his mace to block the attack. The blow lowered his aura a tiny bit, but not anything substantial.
Juane pulled his sword back and attacked Cardin with everything he had, putting Cardin on the defensive. Seeing his chance, Cardin struck out with an underarm strike at Juane's many defenses gaps, he was thrown up and onto his back. Cardin then brought his mace up and struck down on his shield again and again. Juane rolled out of way of the last hit, rushing to his feet.
Yet again, he charged at Cardin. This time Juane went for an overhead swing closely followed by an underarm one. They were both blocked and counter attacked. Cardin did a final attack to his gut, sending his aura into the red.
"and that's the match." Glynda's voice boomed around the room. the lights came on. "mister arc, please try to refer to your scroll in combat." She said in a dismissive manner.
Juane left the arena groaning in pain. Cardin left laughing.
Pyrrha rushed down to the changing rooms to help the injured Juane. He thanked her for her efforts but refused the help. He was a man, he can do it himself. As stupid as that was.
Glynda addressed the crowd of students. "We have time for one more match before the lesson ends, is there any volunteers?" she asked.
No hands went up.
"then random pick it is." Glynda said, pulling out her scroll. Two large projected screens appeared above the ring, the faces of every student were flashing passed the two until they settled on Ez and Charly smith.
Ez had no idea who that was. She was going to have to memorize her classmates' names, or problems like this might happen. Honestly, who the hell was he/she. Ez walked down to the ring's changing rooms, passing Juane. She summoned her stick, like she does for her green cloth. She hadn't told her friends she can do this with everything because it would look suspicious. How else can she teleport things in a swirl of darkness then a semblance, and she already told then numerous times, she didn't have one. for now, it can stay as one of her many, many secrets.
Her stick looked like a blade. She had cut it down to a single plank and had sharpened it to the point it was as dangerous as a real blade. She made it as strong as steal, so it wouldn't break. it was her weapon, shaped like a katana. After she was satisfied with her creation, she dented the blade over and over again, so it wasn't dangerous anymore. Well, it wasn't dangerous in anyone else's hands, she could still make it a lethal weapon.
Ez walked onto the ring. Her opponent was the one who said EEE-YUP during professor ports class. He was carrying two dagger-like knifes that probably had the ability to turn into guns. They sort of reminded her of Ren's weapons, but at the same time, they didn't. they were dark blue in color with even darker blades. Alone, they might have looked sinister, but in his hands, they looked like garden tools.
If she was dealing with short weapons, a long blade like her stick would only get in the way, she was better off with free hands. She put it through a rope tied around her waist, acting as a sheathe until she got a belt or something. Her opponent didn't like this, to him she wasn't taking him seriously.
The lights in the audience turned off, putting the competitors in their own world.
Glynda clicked a button on her scroll and a five second timer started.
It reached zero.
Charly raised his weapons and flicked his wrists, turning them into guns. He started out by firing at Ez while charging at her. as soon as the first bullet reached her, Ez seemed to disappear, reappearing behind her victim. To most of the audience, she teleported, but to the trained eye of some, they could see her sprint to her place behind the knife-gun wielder.
Ez finished the record-breaking speed match with a knock to the back of Charly's neck. He stopped shooting at nothing and collapsed, unconscious, on the floor. Ez could hear a small groan coming from the unconscious victim. She felt sorry for him.
The audience stood in silence for a good twenty seconds. Before Glynda clicked a button on her scroll, causing the end siren to go off and the lights to come back on.
"t-the winner is miss Ez." Glynda said, trying very hard to keep the surprise and trembling sounds out of her face. But Ez could tell she had freaked the combat teacher out.
Ruby was one of the people to recover the fastest. "wow! Ez, your amazing." She had fought against Ez in a fight and knew she wouldn't go down easy, or at all, but to see it happen in third person just enforces how far apart their skill levels were. She was just on a whole other grading table. Ruby couldn't even begin comparing herself to the master before her.
Glynda had gotten over her initial surprise and was taking charge of the students. "that was the last dual for today, so I will let you leave early. But just this once." She turned to face Ez "and I would like to see you after class." Ez nodded at her, twisted around and poked the unconscious student on the cheek until he sat up.
"I won, your allowed to leave early." She said monotony. For a few seconds he was confused, it clicked, he smiled.
"you're a good fighter." He stood up, dusting himself off.
"I know."
He rolled his eyes. "I gave you a compliment, you're supposed to say, 'thank you'." He said, putting his twin knives together and into the dark blue sheathe at his side.
"ok." Ez said, clearly not very interested in the conversation. Charly took his cue to leave.
The rest of the students had left by now. Glynda waited until her last student left before coming down into the arena and addressing Ez.
"so, miss Ez. I know your strong and all, but how in the world did you move like that?" she said. "where did you learn to do that? Even master hunters would have trouble dealing out such a one-sided fight, not that I haven't seen it happen before, but it was never that easy."
Ez stood in silence, her face betraying her thoughts, not that she was trying to hide them. She grabbed out her scroll and texted Ozpin. Can I tell Goodwitch? She wrote. The reply wasn't instantaneous, but Glynda didn't say anything. Yes. Ez smiled a little.
Under her breath she said, "I've been given more freedom here then I realized." Glynda only heard a mumbled response. Louder, Ez spoke to Glynda. "I'm immortal." Oh, the professors face, it was priceless. A mix between confusing, surprise, wonder and horror. None of them belonged on her face, but here they were. It almost made Ez giggle. Almost.
"w-what?" she stammered. "how can you be-." she didn't even want to finish the sentence. Ez did it for her.
"immortal? Funny thing that, can't remember." She lied. she knew exactly why she was immortal, same reason she can eat dust. She's a Grimm. "it was so long ago, couple hundred millennia or something." Oh, how she wished she was that young. "I just stopped aging one day." She shrugged her shoulders. "oh well, nothing much I can do about it now."
Glynda was so close to fainting it was hilarious, to Ez. She grabbed out her scroll and started videoing the teacher, she will want evidence to prove this to Ozpin.
Glynda almost got control of herself but couldn't get the stammer out of her voice. "b-but then, w-why are y-y-you h-here?"
Ez smiled a toothy grin. It was a good question, but she was never going to tell her the real answer, that would be no fun. "well, I've been asleep for the past 200 ish years, and the language and customs and stuff changed again, so I asked Oz if I could attended his school, and he said 'ok'."
Damn it. Glynda used her own confusion to get herself out of her initial surprise. No chance of getting her to faint now. "why would he do that, for a silly reason like yours?"
Her smile dropped a bit but didn't faltered "couple of reasons I'm not going to go into." She said shrugging. Ez turned around to leave. Glynda didn't try to stop her. Ez reached the door and spun around before opening it. "though, it might be because I'm older then him." She escaped the room before Glynda had a response, but she ducked her scroll in to record the teacher faint. Glynda knew that her headmaster has had many lives, and was over a few thousand years old by now, but here Ez was, saying she was older. And with a smile on her face no less.
Ez laughed. playing with humans are so much fun. She was definitely going to be showing this to Ozpin later, but first, she should to deal with her friends.
Speaking of witch, they had waited outside for her, probably so she couldn't escape again.
Half of them perked up when she run out the door with her scroll peaking back in. the other half were eavesdropping on the conversation, badly, resting their heads against the solid wood door, they jumped up and pretended they were doing nothing when she exited the room. Blake was the only one to get a rough idea about what was said. And of that, most of it confused her.
Ruby was whistling suspiciously, as if that ever helped when your trying to act innocent. Nora acted like nothing was wrong, at least that was less obvious. Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha and Ren weren't eavesdropping so had no reason to fake innocence. Juane was waving his hands around trying to explain himself, Ez wasn't listening. And Blake was contemplating the bits and pieces she heard, it just didn't make sense.
"so Ez, howdidyoudothat?" asked a speedy ruby with sparkling eyes.
"I, uh, hit him very hard on the back of the neck." She said, by now she knew this wasn't the answer they wanted, but she wasn't going to say anything here, especially not with team CRDL listening in from around the corner. "let's go to the dorms." She offered, walking off before anyone could say otherwise.
The two teams followed their solo friend back to their rooms, each lost in their own thoughts. Only Blake and Ren thinking about the mysterious girl.
Ruby was imagining all the cool upgrades she could give crescent rose, maybe put a kitchen knife on its compacted form for cooking, or even a spare hair brush for those annoying tangles she gets in the middle of a fight. But she puts both these ideas aside, they were dumb, And she didn't even need Weiss to tell her so.
Nora was thinking about her next meal, hopefully pancakes, and the best ways to make Ren cook for her. she is well aware that the mess food is free and provided to them, but it could never be compared to the perfect meals created by Ren. Speaking of food, when did she last eat? Maybe an hour ago or something, she needed a snack. She grabbed Ren's hand and dragged him away to go get snacks for everyone.
Juane was wondering how to approach the beauty called Weiss, no other words need to be said.
Pyrrha was wondering if Juane would ever notice her. she was slightly jealous of the attention he gave Weiss, but gave no indication of it. She was annoyed but grateful of the ice queens cold turn-downs. After all, it just means his free, and ripe for the taking. Now she just had to do it.
Ren was off with Nora, so his thoughts on the matter, didn't count anymore. His mine was solely on making sure Nora didn't do something stupid or dangerous for no particular reason.
Yang was questioning how Ez had so effortlessly defeated the other student. He wasn't the best student at beacon, but her wasn't the worst either, he was average, and at a place like beacon, that was saying something. But to pull off a one-second match like that, it was just so one-sided and broken. How was she so strong and fast, she had gone faster then ruby with her semblance. Yang was so going to fight her again, this time alone and then, she will convince Ez to teach her.
Weiss was thinking about the assessment Dr. Oobleck had given them, she needed to do some research on the Faunus. It was about the different qualities and abilities of the separate Faunus groups. Why she had to learn about those degenerates, she didn't know, but she will do it anyway to get a perfect grade.
In their separate pondering, no one even noticed that they had entered Ez's room, or that they had formed a circle on her bundle of beds, or even when Ren and Nora came in with snacks. It was only after that, that they remembered what they were doing.
They were questioning Ez, like they had begun to do at lunch. Blake had told them she would answer their questions, even if hesitantly.
The girl in question was currently texting on her scroll. The group thought it might be something important, so they left her to it. after a few messages between herself and the unknown person, she put it down and sighed.
"I'm allowed to tell you about half of what I am, everything else must stay a secret." She waved her hand in front of herself, the group took this as a sign to start.
Weiss asked first, "so how can you eat dust?"
Then Blake "and how can you speak the Faunus languages?"
And yang's "oh, and how you did that one shot? Please teach me." She added on the end
Then Ren "and how you knew so much about a Grimm's spine?"
Nora added on to the end of that one "well, how little you knew about Grimm defenses or armor." She fixed.
Juane said nothing, having thought of zero questions that haven't already been said.
Pyrrha asked "where did you learn to fight like that?"
And finally, ruby, "Ez, are you Ok?" she was the only one really caring about Ez. Ruby could see the shadows covering her eyes and the sad look on her face, this obviously wasn't a happy subject for her. she looked outright depressed, and ruby was the only one to notice. Well, until she said something, then everyone looked at her to see why ruby had asked that, but by then, Ez had covered up her face with a fake smile and a happy face.
She sighed, keeping her tiny smile, then she contemplated how to answer the questions, before diving strait in. "lucky for you, I can answer most of your questions with three words. Unluckily for me, those three words will just make more questions." After what seemed like forever, Ez took the time to stare into each of the student's eyes, she continued. "because I'm immortal."
No one had a response.
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Hello to the people who read my fanfiction. I know I don't write anything down here often (because i forget) but I decided I might explain a little about my OC. As the title states, she is the commander of Grimm, she's immortal, (as you've probably figured out by now, only wrote it three times…) and shes ridiculously OP. if you think of a stupidly powerful ability that really shouldn't exist, then she has it. (also tell me about it, so I can put it in the fanfic). I also have a big fat bunch of history and stuff to fit her into the world, but you get to wait to find it out with RWBY and JNPR. my fanfiction will also stay relatively close to the canon version, except Pyrrha WILL NOT die.
And to those who want the song I wrote for Blake and Ez, here it is, without the words between them. And yes, I did make it up on the spot. If you don't like me writing songs, then tell me so I can stop. But this one is staying. (even if I don't think its very good.)
"sneaky little kitty cat, I can see you there, hiding in the shadows, hunting little bears."
"Scary little kitty cat, I can hear you there, over every mountain, even under stairs."
"running little kitty cat, I can feel you fear, the hunters are behind you, they're only after ears."
"sprinting little kitty cat, I can smell you here, slow down or they'll find you, your running on despair."
"hiding little kitty cat, I can help you here, come a little further, the fear will disappear."
"safety little kitty cat, is found anywhere, just look all around you, the place is never bare."
"sneaky little kitty cat, I can see you there, hiding in the shadows, hunting little bears."