Chapter 9: Bleeding effect then a date
Ruby, Blake and Yang were sitting on a couch while Ruby told them about Connor from earlier. Yang and Blake were surprised from Ruby when she told them about Connor's life story. Connor was in his room crafting some grenades. He was adding some fire dust into the gunpowder for the grenades. As he was pouring it into the empty husks of the grenades he heard a knock on his door, "It's open." He was expecting Ruby or Weiss but instead he saw Blake. He put down the grenade husk on his desk, "Oh Blake, what do you want?" he asked in a polite voice. "Do you mind if i sit down on your bed Connor?" she asked. "Sure Blake," he said.
She sat on his bed and looked at him, "Are you feeling okay Connor?" Blake asked. Connor gave her a confused look, "What do you mean?" Blake stayed quiet for a bit before saying, "Ruby told me about your parents." Connor's expression turned sad when she said that. "I can't believe that they went out like that. I'm sorry that happened to you. But you know what i think Connor?" she said to him. He looked up to her amber eyes, "What Blake?" She smiled, "I know that they are proud of you." Connor gave her a smile, "Thanks Blake."
Blake's eyes caught the animus beside Connor's desk. "Hey Connor what's that?" Connor looked at the animus, "Oh that. That's an animus. Back at the order we use these to train but thats gonna take a long time to explain that whole concept." Blake chuckled a bit at Connor's nervousness. She thought for a moment before saying, "Hey Connor. Do you- want to um- h-hang out tomorrow?" "Sure why not. I don't have anything to do anything." "Thanks Connor." Blake got up and left his room. Connor leaned his back more on his chair and a thought came to his mind, "She may be mysterious and all, but underneath she cares." he smiled at the thought. He looked at his animus, "Well, i could use more training from the bleeding effect." He strapped himself in and let himself go into the animus.
Ancestor: Edward Kenway
Location and Date: The West Indies, 1717
Edward was with Blackbeard on the pirate haven Nassau. Edward looked at the redcoat tied to a pole and threw a knife at him. The redcoat dodged it with a scream. "Good shot Edward!" said Blackbeard. Edward looked at Blackbeard and got up and walked towards the redcoat and grabbed his head, "Maybe he can tell me where is his little rat is hiding. Before my aim gets remarkably- better." Many pirates started laughing while one of them made his way through the crowd with haste. "Looks like that drew him out. I'll catch up with you Thatch." He followed the man that walked quickly away through the large crowds of drunk pirates. He put his hood down and made his way through the jungle, following the rat along with some redcoats. After awhile following, they stopped at a cliff. "Light the signal," said the rat. A redcoat lit a fuse. Edward was on top of a tree and jumped down and assassinated the rat. "Get him!" commanded the British officer. Before they could make their move, Edward took out his pistols and shot them all. But a flare was shot into the air. Edward heard a rumble like thunder in the air. "What the devil?" He saw a barrage of cannon fire hit the beach of Nassau, killing many of the pirates. Edward made his way to his ship the Jackdaw. He got on and took off his hood, "Stations lads. Raise the black flag!" They sailed out to meet the British fleet head on. They managed to demast a man-of-war and boarded it. Edward got on the man-of-war and killed many of the crew. But they kept on coming. He came to Blackbeard's aid, "We're outnumbered Thatch." Blackbeard got up, "It's not the first time Kenway and it won't be the last!" Edward gave him a grin and shouted to his men, "Take no quarter lads. And give none either!"
It was morning when Connor woke up from the animus. "Connor?" said the familiar voice of the black haired girl. When Connor's vision got more clear he saw Blake's face just mere inches away from his face. "Gaah!" he shouted. "Sorry about that Connor," she said. Connor let out a little chuckle, "It's fine Blake." He got up from the animus, "Let me take a quick shower and let's have some breakfast before we go." "Okay." He took a quick shower and dressed in his usual attire and they got some breakfast.
After some breakfast, they went out and took a walk around the school grounds. "Hey Connor, somethings bothering me." said Blake. Connor looked at Blake, "What's on your mind Blake?" "When we were in the forest for the initiation, i saw you doing some crazy stunts." "Oh that. That's from the bleeding effect Blake." "What's a bleeding effect?" "Again, i forgot i'm not in the order. For a quick summary, the animus allows you to relive memories of your ancestors right?" Blake nodded. "The animus accesses our DNA to relive these memories of our ancestors. Sometimes the DNA of our ancestor bleed into our DNA, giving us their knowledge and skills hence the name, the bleeding effect. What i did at the initiation, was from my ancestor Edward Kenway, a pirate assassin. He's rowdy with a hot temper and a-devilish wit. He's also a bit of a lose cannon at times. His personas must have entered my DNA, resulting in this thing to do crazy things and all." Blake was amazed at Connor's knowledge of the animus(What else do you think?) and surprised that he can have these personas at times.
They came across team CRDL picking on a faunus girl. Connor walked up to the team and patted Cardin on the shoulder, "Hey stop Cardin!" Cardin looked back at Connor and gave him a smirk, "Yeah like you could make us do what you want to do." Dove went behind Connor and nodded at Cardin. Cardin shoved Connor into Dove who pushed him down to the ground. The team started laughing at him. Connor got up with a devilish grin on his face. Blake saw this and stood back. The team went back to picking on the girl when Connor put his hand on Cardin's shoulder again, "Hey, i thought we took care of y..." Connor punched him in the face. Dove tried to kick him but Connor countered it and punched him twice in the chest. Russel grabbed him by the arms and thought he got him. Connor leaned back making him fall on Russel. Russel let go and Connor turned around and punched him furiously in the chest. Sky jumped for him only to be kicked in the crotch. Connor stood triumphantly among the fallen team.
Cardin got up and got out his weapon. He swung it to Connor. He heard a big crack but only to see Connor holding it. He let out a little yelp when Connor headbutted him. He walked over to the faunus girl and lent out a hand to her, "C'mon get up." She took it and got up, "T-thank you. I-i'm Velvet Scarlatina." Connor let out a smile at her, "Nice to meet you Velvet. Here, i'll help you get your stuff." He picked up her books and gave it to her and she walked away. Connor turned around to see Blake smiling, "So... that's Edwards persona?" "Yup." "At least you helped someone. That was real nice of you." "Thanks Blake." They walked back to their dorm. When they went inside, Connor was greeted by Yang. "Hey Connor, did you enjoy your date?" "If you cut out the part were I beat up team CRDL, yeah you could say that." "Yeah but that made the trip more exciting," said Blake. Yang smiles at the two, "Well that's nice."
Connor went to the kitchen and made some tea for himself. When he picked up his mug and turned around, he was startled. Yang was in front of him when he turned around. "Yang, you have got to stop doing that!" said Connor. "Sorry about that Connor. Since you hung out with my sister and Blake, i wonder if we could hang out?" Connor was getting more used to these kinds of requests with out blushing as much, "Sure Yang." Yang gave him a hug, "Thanks Connor." She left and Connor picked up his mug and took a sip of it, "Looks like another date for me."
