Kestrel
Chapter 6 pt 2
As the sun began to set over the evening sky the tournaments remaining combatants lined up to take part in the first of the singles round. Hawx was watching the live feed on his scroll. He was very pleased to see Yang Xio Long standing in the line-up, she had grown a lot since Hawx had last seen her all those years ago. But her long golden locks were a dead giveaway. Hawx was sitting atop a tall apartment building below the stadium. he pretended at first not to notice the child that was spying on him from the staircase. The little girl had an impressive aura despite her being no older then ten.
Hawx turned around to face her.
"your parents not teach you to stay away from strangers' kid?" Hawx grinned.
The girl nodded her head.
"yep, except for police officers and Huntsmen. Like you!" she barked excitedly.
The little girl had long dark hair and a pair of drooping rabbit ears on either side of her head. Hawx Laughed. He waved the girl over. she took a seat on the wall beside him. Hawx held out his scroll in front of both of them in time to see the names of both fighters called. Yang Xio Long was going to Fight Mercury Black. Hawx immediately recognised Mercury from the earlier battle between Qrow and Winter.
"I love her hair!" the girl exclaimed excitedly.
"Her name's Yang Xiao Long, it means sunny little Dragon" Hawx replied.
"do you know her?" the little girl asked.
Hawx nodded.
"yeah, her Dad and Uncle were my teachers at Signal academy, I used to train with her between semesters sometimes."
The two watched the battle as Mercury and Yang attacked one another at full speed.
"who's going to win?" Asked the girl.
Hawx watched the fight for a few seconds, studying their movements.
"Yang is weak against kicks and this guy is a lot more experienced…" Hawx's mind trailed off. "I honestly can't tell though if he's really trying."
Mercury fell from the fighting stage, he used his boots to propel himself back onto the stage and attacked Yang again.
"he's so fast!" the girl called out.
Mercury began firing his shots in all directions. Yang failed to see through the attack and hit him straight on.
"Damn it Yang!" Hawx called out.
Mercury knocked Yang to the ground as all of his shots that had been spiralling around the stage all came down on her at once.
"oh no!" the girl cried.
Hawx watched narrowing his eyes as Mercury walked away.
"there's no way he didn't notice."
As mercury began to walk away. Yang activated her semblance, engulfed in a golden flame and with burning red eyes, she launched a volley of attacks into Mercury. Knocking out his aura and the young man from the fighting stage.
"Yay!" the young girl jumped for joy.
Then, Yang reacted to something. She spun around launching a strike into Mercury's leg. Hawx closed his scroll before the strike could connect so that the girl didn't see, but the cries of the people from the stadium could be heard all to easily.
"What happened?" the girl asked.
Hawx shook his head, starring up at the stadium he activated his semblance, his vision shot forward. He grit his teeth as he tried to activate the next layer of his semblance. His aura flagged up as his head started to hurt. Hawx grunted from the pain bringing a hand to his face. A drop of blood ran from his nose and Nexus's words passed through his mind. The girl looked to him with a worried look.
"it's ok, I'm just a little under the weather." Hawx reassured.
"No!" grunted the girl. "your aura is to weak for you to keep up your semblance!"
Hawx looked at the little girl.
"how exactly do you know that?"
The girl shrugged, she looked about herself trying to find the words. Hawx took a knee in front of her.
"What else can you tell about me?"
The girl looked at him and cocked her head.
"Your name is Hawx Kestrel, you're a faunas. You studied at Beacon with Nexus, Track and Rook and…" the girl stopped, recoiling from him.
"there's something inside of you. I don't know what it is but it's scary. Is there something wrong with me?" asked the girl. Hawx shook his head.
"Nope, you have a very powerful semblance, I can't tell how it works but it lets you see things about people, not quite mind reading though. it's something else."
The little girl's eyes widened.
"you want to be a huntress right kid?" Hawx asked with a warm smile. The girl nodded excitedly. "when you're a little older, apply to signal academy, look for a man called Tai Yang and tell him I sent you."
Hawx got to his feet and stepped to the edge of the building. He turned back to face the excited child.
"the road ahead of you will be tough. Grab everything you have, hold it tight and run with it as far as you can until you can't run anymore and then keep running towards that goal. Train hard, eat well and never stop moving forward."
Hawx stepped off the side of the building, the little girl raced over to look over the ledge but Hawx had already disappeared. The huntsmen had slipped into an ally. Wanting to have a dramatic exit. But he couldn't help but wonder what it was the girl was afraid of, it could have just been a false alarm he thought. But then again, since when was anything that simple.