A New World

Chapter 7: Jaune Arc and Cardin Winchester

A/N: Ugh. Having less time to write this story due to College is quite annoying. That and writer's block. I spent at least two weeks writing this chapter and I'm still not happy with it. Regardless I hope you all enjoy it.

Also, The poll for Hiccup's semblance is now closed and Elemental Control is the chosen semblance. It received 4 votes. Here is the chapter now.


Hiccup was sitting near the front of Glynda's sparring class where a fight between the leader's of teams' CRDL and JNPR was about to take place.

Cardin Winchester was standing with his mace perched on his shoulder, Jaune Arc was standing opposite him with Crocea Mors drawn. The knight was leaning on his sword as if exhausted, in the spotlight shining on the Beacon Academy auditorium stage.

Jaune glared at Cardin, who laughed at his opponent's exhaustion. Getting his breath back, the underdog gathered his strength to charge forward and swing his blade at his bully, only for him to jump out of the way.

Jaune looked back surprised, as the massive mace crashed into Jaune's shield sending both him and it flying back. The shield landed several meters away from him as the spent boy wearily rose to his feet. Now only armed with his sword, Jaune continued to try and attack, but was blocked by the mace's hilt. Their weapons locked, Cardin forced himself up, towering over a struggling Jaune.

"This is the part where you lose." Cardin said.

"Over my dead-!" Jaune began but is cut short as Cardin kneed him in the gut, making him drop his sword with a clatter as he fell to the ground in pain.

Cardin raised his mace and just before he could bring it to bear on a prone, terrified Jaune the buzzer rings. The arena lights come back on, and Glynda Goodwitch's booming voice causes him to stop in his tracks

"Mister Winchester, that is enough!" Glynda shouts. Cardin relents but not without a sneer towards the thoroughly embarrassed knight before he walks away. The teacher made here way to the stage before tapping her scroll and addressing the student body.

"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 is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match."

While Jaune was still laying on the floor in defeat looked upon by a morose Pyrrha Nikos, Glynda turned her head to look at the losing warrior as he pulled out his own scroll and looked at his low, blinking stats and that of his entire team.

"Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to refer to your Scroll during combat. Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it's 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 Beowolf, now, would we?" she commented without a hint of mirth.

"Speak for yourself..." Cardin muttered as he left the stage.

Ignoring Cardin, Glynda continued to speak. "Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!"

The bell ringing punctuated the end of her statement,and students began streaming out of the auditorium. Apart for Pyrrha of course, whose anguish was plain as day on her face as she stared at Jaune, who was still sitting on the floor, his head hanging in shame.

"You know you could have won the fight or at least done better if you had dodged Cardin's strike's." Hiccup stated as he walked onto the stage. "I hope you now know you can't beat him in terms of strength." he continued and Jaune's expression turned sour. "Leave me alone." he said through gritted teeth.

"I just want to help you improve-" Hiccup tried to speak but was cut off.

"I don't want your help sir. I want to improve on my own." Jaune said firmly, standing up and leaving the room with a mixture of varying defiance and defeat.

"Same as always Pyrrha?" Hiccup asked, glancing at her.

"Yes, Same old Jaune." she confirmed with a sigh. "I'll go cheer him up as usual." Pyrrha said before leaving the room as well.

"Don't feel bad. Our fearless leader will be fine!" Nora announced with a large grin.

Ren gave Hiccup an apologetic look before sighing. "Come on Nora, lets go to lunch."

"Okay Ren." Nora said, skipping out of the room as Ren followed her.

"I know you mean well Hiccup but I think you should leave this to the rest of team JNPR." Glynda spoke up now after watching the conversation between Hiccup and Jaune take place.

"Perhaps," Hiccup sighed. "But I doubt he will want help even from them."

"That remains to be seen." Glynda said

"I hope your right." Hiccup said before they both left the classroom.


"So! There we were, in the middle of the night..." Nora spoke up while sitting at a table in Beacon's cafeteria with team RWBY and JNPR.

"It was day." Ren, who was sitting next to her interrupts.

"We were surrounded by Ursai…" she said, ignoring Ren completely.

"They were Beowolves." Ren corrects again.

"Dozens of them!" Nora shouts eagerly.

"Two of 'em." Ren replies

Ruby and Pyrrha now look at Jaune who seemed distant with concern.

"But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!"

Ren sighed in irritation. "She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now."

When Lunch time arrived, Hiccup went to the cafeteria. He sat down at a table near where teams RWBY and JNPR were sitting. The teams were talking among themselves, but he noticed Jaune was staring off into space.

Ignoring his food for a moment, Hiccup took out his scroll and typed out a message.

"Is Jaune ok? He seems lost in his own thoughts. Also did you manage to calm him down?" Hiccup typed out and sent the message to Pyrrha before proceeding to eat his lunch.

Hiccup received a reply a few moments later, "He doesn't seem too sad about the fight but I still think he has problems with Cardin. Everyone has noticed it

Pyrrha looked at the leader of her team. "Jaune? Are you okay?"

Jaune is drawn away from his thoughts as he turned back toward them.

"Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?" he asked

"It's just that you seem a little... not okay..." Ruby spoke up.

The others stop their distractions and stare at him, making Jaune uncomfortable.

"Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!" He holds up a thumb while laughing nervously until his attention is focused on the members of Team CRDL, standing around a girl with brown rabbit ears jutting from her hair as Cardin laughed at her and Sky Lark holds up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her unusual featurnedes.

"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!" Pyrrha exclaimed.

"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!" Jaune replies indignantly.

"He's a bully." Ruby said flatly.

Jaune scoffs at this "Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me."

"Ok" Ruby said before listing three examples.


Jaune is seen on the way to class as Cardin is going the other way down the hall. When the two pass, Cardin knocks his arm into Jaune and makes him drop his book, then continuing on his way with his hands out as if daring anyone to challenge him.

"Ah, come on!" Jaune exclaimed in irritation


Jaune and Cardin are about to pass through a doorway, but Cardin clicks on Jaune's sheath and extends it into its shield form as he's going out, causing him to run into his own defense and have it block the exit.

Jaune grunts in frustration as he tries to lift his shield back out. "Come on...!"


Glynda is in the locker room with several students, gesturneding at the devices.

"Each of you will be assigned one rocket-propelled locker to store your weapons and extra armor. Additionally, your locker can be sent to a custom location based on a six-digit code." She tells the students.

Hearing this, Cardin looked at Jaune - who was standing between him and the only open locker in the room - and the cliché plays itself out as Cardin quickly pushes a shocked Jaune into the small dark space and closes the door on him, pressing random buttons on the pad right after that.

"What?! No, wait, wait! You've gotta get me out of here! Please! Don't! Don't! Don't do it!" Jaune begged Cardin.

It's too late to protest however when the locker launches up with a burst of blue fire coming from its base. Cardin watches as the locker slowly soars across the sky.

"Ahhh, coooome oooooooon...!" Jaune said, still being heard from the locker.


The others are totally focused on him now.

Jaune attempts to laugh it off.

"I didn't land far from the school!"

"Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask. Even Hiccup is offering to help you train to fight. Pyrrha states.

Nora gets up from the table and presents her diabolical plan with a not-entirely-sane grin. "Ooooh! We'll break his legs!" She said but is ignored completely by everyone at the table.

"Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone." Jaune pointed out

They all looked over as laughing in the background grows louder, mixed in with cries of pain from a rabbit faunus when one of her ears are tugged on by Cardin.

"Ow! That hurts!" The girl stopped struggling and grimaced. "Please, stop…" she begged.

Cardin continued laughing as he turned to his cronies.

"I told you it was real!"

Russell Thrush, one of the members of team CRDL is still guffawing with his teammates.

"What a freak!" Russell said.

"Excuse me, boys. I couldn't help but notice this scene." Hiccup said, approaching team CRDL's table.

"Is there a particular reason why you are bullying miss Velvet here?"

"What's it to you?" Cardin sneered. "Why do you care?"

"I care because Velvet here is on team CFVY. A team whose leader - Coco Adel - happens to have a Gatling gun disguised as a handbag, and is very protective of Velvet here.

Now I don't know about your teammate's, but I personally don't want to see you filled with bullets, Cardin, regardless of whether you deserve it or not. So I'd recommend you let go of her ears." Hiccup said.

Cardin finally relented, and the girl stood up and hurried away, her head bowed and hiding her face from the watching table of heroes, but not before directing a soft "Thank you" in Hiccup's direction before she left the cafetepast

Hiccup turned and was going to return to his table when Cardin spoke up again.

"We're not done here!" Cardin snarled when Hiccup turned around. He stood up and lunged at Hiccup. Hiccup however simply sidestepped out of the way and kicked Cardin as he went past, sending him sprawling to the ground.

The whole Cafeteria became silent and everyone watched the scene take place in excitement. Especially Blake, who was angry at Cardin for what he had just done to Velvet.

Hiccup glanced at the rest team CRDL. "This is between me and Cardin." Hiccup said firmly before looking at Cardin who was glaring at him while still on the ground.

"I don't know what you think would happen but don't forget I'm a hunter and a member of staff. Use your brains next time Cardin. If you have any that is." Hiccup said and the whole Cafeteria started laughing at the bully.

Hiccup then returned to his table and continued to eat his lunch as if he hadn't just humiliated the leader of the third strongest first year team after teams JNPR and RWBY.

Hiccup then left the cafeteria after finishing his lunch, unaware of Coco Adel following him. She had watched the whole scene between Hiccup, Velvet and Cardin and was happy that someone had taken care of her teammate and partner while she was ordering lunch.

"I'd like to thank you for taking care of Velvet." Coco said, smiling when Hiccup jumped and turned around.

"Oh, it's you Coco, and you're welcome. But you don't have to thank me, I hate bullies so I would do it for anyone." Hiccup said honestly

Coco's smile widened. "That's nice. We need more men like you." Hiccup laughed.

"Maybe" He agreed and the bell rang signifying the next class.

"Right, I'll see you later sir. Got to head to my next class. Also I love the leather suit. It looks good on you." Coco said with a wink before walking away.

Hiccup then turned and headed for professor Oobleck's class.

Having gotten up from the table, Jaune looked back at his friends and sighed to himself before moving on with his tray table. He doesn't realize that Cardin is watching his walk of shame with a sinister grin.


In the next class, Jaune Arc is currently sleeping with his head resting in his hands while Hiccup is sitting next to him and a constantly-zooming and fast-talking Professor Bartholomew Oobleck is in the middle of his hyperactive lecturnede, educating Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Pyrrha Nikos, Velvet, who had been bullied earlier at lunch, and a leaned-back Cardin Winchester sitting directly behind Jaune.

"Yes! Yes, prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution-more popularly known as the Faunus War-" Oobleck zoomed up to the front of the class and the map covered in papers behind his desk.

"…humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." He points at the map of said-area with his stick, then zoomed off to the side for a sip of his coffee before appearing in front of the desk.

"Now! While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events! Why, the repercussions of the uprising can still be seen to this day!"

Oobleck zoomed around the classroom more, sipping his coffee again before continuing to zoom and talk.

"Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?"

Some of the silhouetted students raised their hands. The rabbit faunus girl, after a moment, does the same.

"Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence!" Oobleck exclaimed before he takes another sip of his coffee.

"I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to White Fang! Now, which one of you young scholars can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?" Oobleck asked and a hand is raised. "Yes?"

"The battle at Fort Castle!" Weiss answered.

The professor smiles. "Precisely! And, who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?"

Unseen by the professor, Cardin flicked a paper football at Jaune's head, causing him to wake up.

"Hey!" Jaune exclaimed in surprise

Oobleck zoomed over into Jaune's face.

"Mr. Arc! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?" Oobleck asked.

"Uhhhh... The answer... The advantage... that the Faunus..." Jaune struggled to think of an answer before he looked behind Oobleck's focused face at Pyrrha, who coughed and motioned to her lips as she gave him the answer.

"...had over that guy's stuff..." he sees Pyrrha cup her hands around her eyes and he went for the most obvious answer. "Uhh... Binoculars!" Jaune exclaimed.

While Jaune looked pleased with his answer, the class laughed at him and Oobleck, who was now back at the front of the class, sipped his coffee. Pyrrha sighed and slaps a hand to her forehead as Cardin pounds his fist on his desk while chortling.

Oobleck zoomed back behind his desk.

"Very funny, Mr. Arc! Cardin! Perhaps you would care to share your thoughts on the subject!"

"Well, I know it's a lot easier to train an animal than a soldier." Cardin said arrogantly.

Pyrrha spoke up as Oobleck shook his head in disappointment.

"You're not the most open-minded of individuals, are you, Cardin?"

Cardin sneers at her. "What? You got a problem?"

Pyrrha rolled her eyes. "No, I have the answer! It's night vision. Many Faunus are known to have nearly-perfect sight in the dark."

Cardin growls angrily at the correct response.

Blake spoke up next. "General Lagune was inexperienced, and made the mistake of trying to ambush the Faunus in their sleep. His massive army was outmatched, and the general was captured." she turned to look at Cardin with a smirk.

"Perhaps if he'd paid attention in class, he wouldn't have been remembered as such a failure."

Cardin gets up from his seat, with his fists clenched.

"Mr. Winchester! Please take your seat." Oobleck orders. When Jaune laughed at his tormentor's embarrassment, the Professor zoomed up to him.

"You and Mr. Arc can both see me after class for additional readings." he takes yet another sip of his coffee.

Jaune's shoulders slump. "Oohhhh…" Jaune said embarrassed.

Oobleck ignores him and zoomed away. "Now! Moving on!"


When the lesson ended, Pyrrha, Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren exit of the classroom, only for Pyrrha to stop near the doorway.

"You go on ahead. I'll wait for Jaune." she said to the rest of her team.

Hiccup then left the classroom and approached Pyrrha.

"Did you see where Velvet went Pyrrha?"

She shook her head. "No. Sorry. But she might be with Coco. They tend to hang out."

Hiccup sighed before smirking "Thanks Pyrrha. Have fun with Jaune!" he said before walking away with a laugh as she blushed.

She then looked back inside as the after-class talk occured to the two boys.

Oobleck sipped his coffee.

"You two have been struggling in my class since day one! Now, I don't know if it's a lack of interest, or just your stubborn naturnede, but whatever it is..." he takes a longer sip of his coffee before slamming his mug on his desk, making Jaune flinch.

"It stops now! You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so I expect you to act like it. History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it. Pages fifty-one to ninety-one! I want an essay on my desk by next class! Now! Run along."

With that, he zoomed out of the classroom and past a waiting Pyrrha in a green and white blur.

Jaune comes out first, and Cardin emerged behind him, pushing him to the ground and earning an "Ow!" from him that makes the bully laugh before walking away.

Pyrrha pulled Jaune back to his feet.

"You know, I really will break his legs." Jaune sighed, and Pyrrha looked like she is struck by inspiration. "I have an idea! Here, come with me!" she grabs a confused Jaune by the arm and drags him along as she ran down the corridor.

Hiccup found Velvet and Coco heading to their dorms.

"Coco!"

Coco turned around and looked at Hiccup. "Hello again sir. Can I do something for you?"

she asked, lowering her sunglasses.

"Please call me Hiccup and can I speak to Velvet?"

"Yes, of course." She nodded.

"Great, follow me" Hiccup said before walking away.

Hiccup lead her to a spare room and opened the door. The room was furnished with a desk and two chairs placed inside.

"What is this about sir?" Velvet asked as Hiccup sat in the chair behind the desk.

"Sit and I'll tell you. Also like I said to Coco, please call me Hiccup" Hiccup replied. Velvet does so and Hiccup spoke up.

"This is about the fact that you, A second year, on one of the strongest teams of your year, decided not to beat up Cardin. Why didn't you fight back? Or at least prevent him from grabbing your ears?"

"I don't know" Velvet replied, looking away and refusing to meet his gaze.

"Is it because you didn't want to hurt him and thought he would stop eventually?" Hiccup said, ignoring her previous answer.

Velvet nodded reluctantly and Hiccup sighed.

"I thought so. Velvet, - speaking from personal experience here - bullies won't stop bullying you if you don't do anything.

My own cousin bullied me for years because I wasn't able to fight back. You are however, so stand up to Cardin or he will continue to bully you."

Velvet nodded with a small hint of a smile, now more confident.

"Another thing is I won't always be around to help you out like I did earlier, same with Coco so like I've already said, you should stand up for yourself."

She nodded again and Hiccup continued.

"Now that that is out of the way, feel free to talk to me about any other problems you might have. Off you go." Hiccup said in dismissal.

"Thank you Hiccup" Velvet said as she stood up and surprised him by embracing him in a hug.

Hiccup returned the hug awkwardly.

"You're welcome I guess? I haven't been hugged by a student before. I didn't know you are a big softy" Hiccup commented and she drew back, her face completely red.

"Sorry about that." She replied, embarrassed.

Hiccup waved her off

"It's fine, just didn't expect it. Now off you go."

"Thanks again." Velvet said before leaving the room.


A dejected Jaune and Pyrrha come onto a rooftop of one of the buildings, with a clear view of the glowing green orbs in the central tower of Beacon.

"Pyrrha, I know I'm going through a hard time right now, but I'm not that depressed." He jokes lightly as he looks over the edge of the roof, to the confusion of Pyrrha.

"I can always be a farmer or something…" Jaune comments

Realization hits her with horror. "N-n-no!" she dashes to push Jaune away from the edge.

"That's not why I brought you up here!" She exclaimed before calming down.

"Jaune, I know you're having a difficult time in class and that you're still not the strongest of fighters, so… I want to help you!"

"Wh-what?" Jaune stammered

"We can train up here after class where no one can bother us!" Pyrrha said happily with a smile

"You think I need help?" Jaune asked

"N-no! No, that's not what I meant." Pyrrha's smile disappeared and she backpedaled

"But you just said it." Jaune points out.

Pyrrha sighed. "Jaune, everybody needs a little push from time to time. It doesn't make you any different from the rest of us. You made it to Beacon! That speaks volumes of what you're capable of!"

Jaune looked away from her before lowering his head and voice.

"You're wrong. I-I don't belong here." Jaune said

"That's a terrible thing to say! Of course you do!" Pyrrha exclaimed indignantly.

Jaune look back around, now angry.

"No, I don't!" he shouts before he sighed as Pyrrha looked bewildered and he reveals the truth.

"I wasn't really accepted into Beacon…" Jaune looked his back to her so he doesn't have to face her.

Pyrrha is still confused. "Wh-what do you mean?" she asked.

Jaune's voice goes higher and higher as he confesses.

"I mean I didn't go to combat school, I didn't pass any tests. I didn't earn my spot at this Academy!" he looked at her again.

"I lied! I got my hands on some fake transcripts, and I lied!" He shouts in frustration.

"What? But… why?"

"'Cause this is always what I've wanted to be!" he look away again.

"My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one, too. I was just never good enough."

Pyrrha approached him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Then let me help you!" she pleaded

Jaune suddenly turned on her with mad frustration.

"I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"

"Jaune, I-" Pyrrha begins but is cut off.

"I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own… then what good am I?"

Pyrrha attempts to reach out for his arm and console him, but he leans back from her touch.

"Just… leave me alone. Okay?" He said sadly.

Pyrrha bows her head, sad.

If that's what you think is best…"

She walks away, her footsteps getting softer and softer until she leaves the roof. Jaune paces a little until he hears a mocking laugh and Cardin appeared on the roof after climbing up from his window.

"Oh, Jaune…" he said mockingly.

Jaune looked behind him at his bully.

"Cardin!" he exclaimed in surprise.

"I couldn't help but overhear you two from my dorm room. So, you snuck into Beacon, huh? I gotta say, Jaune, I never expected you to be such a rebel!"

Jaune's voice takes on a looking tone.

"Please, Cardin, please, don't tell anyone!"

"Jaune, come on! I'd never rat on a friend like that!"

"A… a friend?"

"Of course!" he traps Jaune in a headlock under his arm despite his struggling.

"We're friends now, Jauney boy! And the way I see it, as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time."

He finally releases Jaune, who gasps as he leans on the ground.

"That being said, I really don't have time to do those extra readings Dr. Oobleck gave us today. Think you could take care of that for me, buddy?"

He leans down to rub Jaune's hair and gets up with a grin.

"That's what I thought."

Cardin heads back to hang onto the edge.

"Don't worry, Jaune; your secret's safe with me."

Cardin drops back down to his room as Jaune rubs his neck in pain and worry at his situation.

"Well this is a problem isn't it." A voice behind Jaune said.

Jaune look around fast enough to receive whiplash and saw Hiccup standing behind him.

"You heard all that?" Jaune asked him.

"No, but if I were to guess it isn't good. Is it about your transcripts?" Hiccup asked and Jaune paled, telling him that he had guessed correctly.

"Please don't tell Ozpin about my transcripts! I'll do anything!" Jaune begged him.

Hiccup raised an eyebrow.

"Alright, Let me and Pyrrha teach you to fight. You definitely need help with that, your fight earlier - if I could call it that - was horrible. Cardin isn't a pushover but you didn't even try to dodge, losing your one advantage over him - speed."

Jaune nodded, agreeing reluctantly to his statement

"But first I think you should apologise to Pyrrha. She looked quite upset when I saw her." Hiccup said. Jaune looked sheepishly at him and nodded. Hiccup then turned to leave before pausing and looking at him again. "Oh and Jaune?" Hiccup called out, to get Jaune's attention again.

"Don't worry about those transcripts, I have a feeling Ozpin already knew. And I'll deal with Cardin" Hiccup promised


The day that the protest was set to take place on arrived and Hiccup was tense. The protestors had formed as a crowd in the middle of Vale and the police force was wearing riot gear in case the protest turned violent. This was guaranteed to happen if the White Fang showed up as this had happened at the previous protest and the memory was fresh in everyone's mind.

Hiccup was wearing his leather mask and was alert, looking for any signs of the white fang when he noticed one of the people among the crowd had a black bow and it twitched just as he laid eyes on it.

'Blake' Hiccup thought. 'What are you doing here?' he wondered

"Do you think the White Fang will show up?" one of the police officers standing next to Hiccup asked him, bringing him out of his thoughts.

"Yes. It just depends on when." Hiccup answered

The officer chuckled nervously. "I hope not. This is my first day here."

Hiccup's eyes widened. "They put you against the White Fang on the first day?"

"Yes. Why, a-are they as bad as they say on the news?" the officer asked, afraid.

"Let's just say that it is a good thing you are wearing riot gear." Hiccup said before walking away as he heard the officer gulp loudly behind him.

Hiccup walked closer to the crowd and was about to pass through it to reach Blake when a gunshot rang out and he saw someone wearing a Grim mask out of the corner of his eye.

The White Fang had appeared, and Blake was here.

"Oh for Thor's sake" Hiccup muttered under his breath as the crowd had started to disperse in panic as soon as the gunshot was heard and Hiccup prepared his weapons as the riot police behind him sprang into action.


A/N: So how are you all enjoying this? Are you enjoying this as much as I am writing it? I certainly hope so. Next chapter will be the rest of this protest scene and other shenanigans.

Until next time my loyal readers.

Silvolde.