The rest of the lesson followed suit with a pair of students heading up to the front and demonstrating their skills. Blade had to admit some had skills but none posed any threat to him. Once the last pair had finished Goodwitch thanked them all and sent them back to the locker room to get changed back into their uniform. The walk back was filled with chatter from the teams talking about their individual matches. "I knew you were strong but that was ridiculous!" Lilly said the surprise obvious in her voice.

"I know right are leaders a badass." Amber said her eyes lit up with excitement.

"Indeed." Connor said.

"He really is." said a voice from behind them. The four turned around to see team CFVY standing there. "I have to say I didn't expect you to be that strong." Coco said staring at Blade. "You should never underestimate your opponent especially me." Blade responded.

"You might wanna be careful with all that confidence it could land you in a dangerous situation."

"There's nothing in this world which poses a threat to me." Blade said his tone flat and serious. "Oh I like you." Coco said a grin on her face.

"We should hurry and get changed before we're late!" Lilly interrupted sounding a little frustrated and stomping off to the locker room. "Whats her problem?" Coco asked, confused by what just happened. "I'm still trying to figure that out." Blade stated following his teammate. "Um...t-t-thank y-y-you." A small whisper came from behind Blade. He looked back to see the red face of the faunas nervously avoiding his eye contact. "It was nothing." he said continuing down the hallway.

Lilly was already beginning to get changed when they walked, she still looked a little flustered but Blade just let her be he didn't really want to deal with her attitude right now. "Oh my god a your a viper!" One boy shouted, pointing to the tattoo on Lilly shoulder. Lilly almost froze up at the sound of viper, she quickly covered up the tattoo back up with her jacket but it was already to late most of the students were staring at her with looks of disgust. "Whats a monster like you doing here?" The boy said.

"Your wrong I'm not-" Lilly said meekly

"Be quite! I don't want to hear your lies."

"I'm not-" her voice reduced to a whisper.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" the boy raised his hand bringing it down with great force. Lilly closed her eyes expecting a loud smack but when it didn't come she slowly opened her eyes. In front of her Blade had court the boys wrist and now held it in his hand. "What do you think your doing?" The boys asked.

"Saving my useless partner." Blade responded.

"Why would you want to save someone like her, don't you know what her kind has done?"

"No and honestly I don't really care but right now shes part of my team which means attacking her is a stupid idea."

"Oh really, well then I'll guess I'll just settle for you!" The boy swung his free hand towards Blade. "You really are a idiot." Blade moved in almost a blur stepping behind the target, still holding onto the boys wrist at the same time he had drawn his sword and held it to the boys throat. "Attacking me was a very stupid idea." Blade spun his blade around and struck the boys head with the hilt knocking him out. He looked back up to examine Lilly condition but while everyone was distracted by his fight she seemed to of snuck away. He let out a sigh of frustration before walking over to Connor and Amber. "Lets just hurry and get changed before we get in any trouble." He said heading for his locker.

Once they arrived at the next classroom history with professor Oobleck they noticed that Lilly wasn't there. The three of them walked over to some empty seat next to a blond haired boy who seemed to be sleeping. "Okay class as today is your first lesson allow me to answer a question I get asked every year 'why do we need to learn about the history of Remnant?' there is one simple answer if you can't learn from the past you are destined to repeat it, which leads into our first topic the great war, now if you would please turn to pages 47 we can begin with how the war started." Blade looked down to see the brown book Oobleck had placed during his speech, his was moving very quickly that Blade almost couldn't keep track of him. He quickly flipped through the book to the page , once he saw what was on there he quickly realised a problem.

After there lesson the three of them all headed back to their room hopping Lilly would be there and to their luck she was though she had locked her self in the bathroom. "Come on Lilly we aren't mad." Connor said.

"Yeah just come one out okay we can talk about this." Amber added hoping to convince her. Blade just sat on his bed and relaxed. "Captain can't you do something, she is your partner after all?" Amber asked looking a little annoyed. Blade let out a sigh, "I guess I have no other choice." he said reluctantly getting up from his bed. "Lilly, you have five seconds before I cut the door down and drag you out of there...5...4-" suddenly the door unlocked and a red eyed Lilly came out the wet tear marks still on her cheeks. "Now lets go get some lunch." Blade said beginning to leave. Lilly looked surprised,

"Aren't you going to ask about why that guy freaked out?" She asked.

"Do you want to tell us yet?" Lilly looked confused before she thought about it.

"Honestly I couldn't care about your past as long as you don't hinder me during battle then let it be." Amber and Connor all looked at Blade each with a grin.

"He's right, though he could of said it a little better your past is your past we don't care about what happened."

"Thanks guys." Lilly said finally smiling, "though this may happen again and I think its better you guys hearing it from me than someone else." they all sat in the middle of the room Blade, Connor and Amber all faced Lilly. "As you all know I grew up in a group of traveling hunters called 'The Vipers' who unlike the usual groups didn't travel from town to town selling goods instead they attacked other groups and town killing everyone and taking all of their goods."

"So you guys were bandits?" Connor asked.

"Yes and know, you see they did kill and steal like bandits though every time they did they left one family alive and one of the masters would give the child their weapon and order them to kill their parents." Both Amber and Connor looked shocked. "If they didn't do it then the master would torture the child by making them watch their parents be skinned alive until they finally agreed to kill them if not to just put them out of their misery, once the child had committed the act then the master would mark them with the tattoo and take them under their wing to train them to be part of the group."

"And that's why you usually covered up your shoulders?" Lilly nodded placing a hand on the area of the tattoo."Wait does that mean you had to?" Amber asked almost to scared to say the last few words.

"Yes I killed my parents...and a lot more innocent people" the tears started to once again form in her eyes but stopped when to everyone's surprise Blade wrapped his arms around her. "W-w-what a-a-are y-y-y-you doing!?" Lilly asked almost to shocked to form words. Blade let go seeming to be just as surprised himself. "Sorry, I don't know why I did that."

"Wait Blade are you crying..." Lilly asked. Blade wiped his eyes

"It's nothing." He said. "So I take it you ran away?"

"Yes during a raid of one a town I used my semblance and snuck away without anyone noticing and headed for the nearest city, it was there I met Ozbin who let me enroll at Beacon after I told him my story after that I met you guys and you know the rest." The group sat their for a moment in silence allowing Lilly to settle down. "Well, that's that lets hurry and get some food before we're late for our next lesson." Connor said standing.

"I feel like burgers today." Amber said standing as well.

"Are you guys sure you okay with being with someone like me who's killed so many people?" Connor and Amber looked at each other, a little concerned until Blade interrupted their train of thought. "There is no problem, killing each other is what humans do best, all you did was survive and that's what matters."

"What are you talking about Blade killing someone is a big problem." Connor said surprised by his response. "How?"

"What do you mean? Connor asked a little scared

"I mean how is it a problem humans kill each other all the time and if they aren't killing each other then they will be killing something else, right now someone is killing something weather its for food, self defense or pleasure humans will always find a reason to kill its something I learnt a long time ago and something you need to except if you are going to survive in a world with humans in it." The room seemed to go cold at Blades harsh reasoning. "That's-"

"The truth." Blade said looking Connor in the eyes his expression emotionless.

"Can we just drop this please." Amber asked. "I mean what happened in the past doesn't matter as long as we learn from them, just like Professor Oobleck said." Lilly, Connor and Blade all looked at Amber before nodding. "Now can we please go get some lunch before I starve to death."

"Actually their is one more thing I'd like to discuss."

"OH COME ON!" Amber yelled.

"Its something I noticed back in Ooblecks class and it is quite a big problem..."