The Recidivist Ch.9
(Sorry it took a while. Reason: School again.)
NOTICE: I know the series is not finished yet. So if some events from an episode changes the characters or experiences, think of this story that its in a different universe. Like after the characters of RWBY have nothing to do.
RWBY along with its characters that you might obviously know DOESN'T belong to me. The series belongs to Rooster Teeth productions and the creator, Monty Oum. The plot in this Fanfiction and some characters you'll know who are OCs are from me.
Chapter 9: You're a What?!
I didn't catch that. Say it again.
(Third-Person View)
*10:00 AM. Amphitheater, Combat Practice.*
There was a current dual going on in the amphitheater on the stage. The timer was still going. It showed that the dual has been happening for about three minutes. Two girls were in the dual. Both of them were panting lightly because of how exhausting they were. On the right side of the stage was a black haired girl with a bow and holding a katana looking sword. On the left was the other girl with snow white hair with a ponytail and holding a rapier. These two were obviously Blake and Weiss. They decided to dual each other to practice their skills just like everyone else.
Blake gripped her Gambol Shroud tightly and stared directly at her fighting partner, who was Weiss. The both of them stood there in their beginning stance and waited until the ring of the alarm will go. Team JNPR was going to go up next after they finish. Other teams like CRDL, LADS, DRAK, and Others were already finished. Ozpin wanted to see something if Team RWBY and JNPR can handle Wyvern for a while. Ever since they found out about Wyvern's origin and secrets, the two teams were to be important to keep the information away from other students or teams.
Back to the ongoing fight, Blake took one last breath before the alarm started the match. Weiss air stepped up as Blake jumped up by using her ribbon within her weapon and immediately went for using the sword. Both girls crossed each other's path, which resulted no damage. Just their weapons clashed.
"Again." Glynda Goodwitch said.
The both of them did so, but this time, their weapons were left collided making them face to face to each other. Blake quickly stepped back as Weiss air stepped towards her. She blocked her attack and tried to trip Weiss off her feet, but Weiss jumped away from her right.
"Keep going."
Blake exhaled loudly and jumped towards Weiss with her weapon ready to take a hit. Weiss simply deflected it and swooped to her left. Then, she switched her rapier to yellow to enhance her agility and flipped behind Blake in an instant. Blake reacted by slashing sideways, but it seems Weiss ducked in time and tripped Blake to make her fall backwards. Since the trip Weiss delivered was strongly forced, Blake luckily had the chance to land on her hands. She did so and kicked Weiss' side sending her to the edge. She stopped herself from falling off the stage. If she fell, it would be Blake's victory.
Weiss got in position to get ready for another air step. Blake timed herself getting ready to jump out of the way. Her aura was concentrated on Weiss' movements as she gave a focused expression on my body. She was obviously trusting hers as well. Instantly, she air stepped and Blake immediately stepped out of the way. But…she was jumping from the left as Blake jumped in her way. In shock, they actually didn't have enough time to react. Which resulted them to bump into each other. The both of them were on the floor, panting in exhaustion. Blake, who was the first one to get up, got over to Weiss. She let out her hand if she needed some help to get on her feet, and she did as Blake helped her up.
"Good job." Blake smiled warmly.
"You too." Weiss nodded.
Glynda went over to them and nodded. "Well done. The fight lasted four minutes and three seconds, both your aura energy levels stayed above fifty percent, and stayed focused on the fight without any distractions. Just like how hunters are supposed to fight." She sighed. "But next time, don't bump into each other again."
"Yes ma'am." Weiss nodded.
"Okay." Blake said.
Ozpin looked at Wyvern and nodded. Saying that it was his turn to go up. Wyvern walked up at the stage and began to stretch.
"Would any of you like to dual with Wyvern for a try?" Ozpin looked at them.
Ruby raised her hand and gave a game face look at Wyvern. "Let's see if I can do it." She hoped up on the stage. Her team was just cheering her on. Jaune gave a thumbs up for a sign of good luck.
"Thirty seconds until match starts. Ready yourselves." Glynda Goodwitch warned them.
Wyvern continued to stretch. "I don't hit girls. So don't think I do."
"I can handle punches. My skin is just like steel." Ruby took out her Crescent Rose and aimed it at Wyvern.
Wyvern nodded and stood up straight. He reached for his Dragon Tails, his twin scimitars, and took them out in a blink of an eye. Some bolts of electricity sparked when he took them off the scabbards. He put his Dragon Tails behind his back like he was hiding something and waited for the match to begin.
Ruby blew up some strands of her hair away from her face to get a full visual. His eyes…well, 'eye' because he's currently wearing his eyepatch, showed that he was calm and ready. She looked at the timer on the screen and saw fifteen more seconds till the dual begins. She gave a smirk as Wyvern gave one back. The voices of cheering especially Yang was the loudest because she was cheering for her little sister. Ozpin and Goodwitch stepped back when the timer was set to ten more seconds. Wyvern kneeled down as Ruby stepped her left foot back and slightly crouched. Timer was going, and the both of them held their breath in in the final five seconds. 5…4…3…2…1…
RING!
Wyvern jumped quickly with the help of the recoil from his Dragon Tails since he fired. Ruby didn't expect him to jump but it was a good thing she had plan B. She flipped back from the spot she was standing and made a more clear shot on Wyvern. Firing and pulling the bolt, Wyvern spun around like a top deflecting all her bullets. He landed and strafed sideways while going forward towards her. As soon as he got six feet closer to Ruby, she jumped and swiped her scythe around her. She looked back and saw him still in one piece. Literally.
Ruby spun around and swiped again. Wyvern jumped and rolled around in the air while firing rounds from his swords. She avoided the bullets flawlessly jumped to him and clashed their weapons then landed on the ground. They were stuck at first, but Wyvern swooped below her Crescent Rose, making his body close to hers. Ruby dropped a sweat from how close he was, but he jumped and kicked her back. Separating her Crescent Rose and herself. Her scythe was on the ground behind Wyvern leaving no choice but to use her fists. She went into a comfortable stance and waited for Wyvern to strike. She may prefer using her weapon, but she has good hand combat skills if things go wrong.
He charged straight towards her and swiped his swords at her, carefully. But Ruby kept dodging every swipe which Wyvern felt like he was striking nothing but air. She back flipped and slid towards Wyvern making him trip and face plant on the floor. Ruby got up and quickly took her Crescent Rose and readied herself. But something shocked her, as well as everyone else. Wyvern was bleeding from his nose and some parts of his torso because of his swords. He just got up like he didn't feel anything. She also noticed Ozpin and Goodwitch just standing there, not really caring what's going on.
"Professor? Should he go to the infirmary?" Ruby asked.
"It's alright. He's fine." Ozpin replied.
"B-But…"
"I'm fine. Don't worry. Trust me." Wyvern smiled and gave a defensive stance.
She nodded and spun around while firing her rounds for the recoil to make swings more forceful yet powerful. He jumped and landed right on her scythe and spin kicked her. His kick hit her face and resulted a devastating screw up. Ruby began to tumble while still spinning as Wyvern started to hang on for dear life on the handle. The both of them were so dizzy that they couldn't tell where they were going. Next…they fell off the stage.
Ouch…
Yang ran towards the both of them as Weiss and Blake followed. Jaune and his team walked towards them and saw them on the ground. Ozpin and Goodwitch just walked over the edge and looked down on them.
"Ruby! Are you okay?!" Yang kneeled down and made Ruby's head rest on her lap.
Her face had a bruise from Wyvern's kick. She didn't realize this and she looked around.
"Huh? What? What happened?"
"Oh my god! She has amnesia!" Nora yelled out with a shocked look on her face.
"Huh?! Wait, I don't have amnesia!" Ruby said and sat up. Her eyes widened in surprise from a striking pain on her shoulder. "Ow ow ow ow…" She yelped.
Wyvern sat up, still a bit bloodied from his wounds. He noticed the bruise on Ruby's face and frowned.
"That bruise looks like it would hurt." Jaune commented.
"Well, it does hurt."
Ozpin looked at Wyvern. "Will you be kind enough to heal her bruise?"
"Yes of course."
Yang raised her eyebrow. "You're a doctor or something?"
"No. Watch." Wyvern took out rag from his pocket and placed it on his bleeding cuts. He did it quickly before his aura heals it. He crawled next to Ruby and held the rag still with his blood.
"What are you doing?" Weiss gave a disturbed look by his rag.
"Don't worry Ms. Schnee. Just watch and see what happens." Ozpin said.
Wyvern put the rag on Ruby's face where her bruise was located and left it for a few seconds. He was looking away just in case she felt uncomfortable. Ruby was kind of confused by putting a rag containing his blood on her bruise. A few more seconds later, Wyvern took away the rag and gave a look at her face. Everyone stared in surprise by what just happened.
"There we go. Like you never had a bruise." Wyvern smiled.
Ruby realized that the pain and numbness was gone. She looked around in confusion but Weiss was good enough to have a small mirror with her. Ruby looked at herself and saw that her bruise was…gone!
"What just happened?" Ruby asked.
"Miracles!" Nora yelled happily. (Hallelujah…)
"No way a bruise would heal that fast." Ren said.
Pyrrha looked at the rag. "Could it be…his blood?"
Goodwitch stepped up a nodded. "Correct. Before Wyvern's arrival to Beacon Academy, we made studies and examinations on him. One thing we found out was his blood was mixed with his mother and fathers…"
"So the mixture of their blood makes a healing liquid? That kinda sounds like his mother's blood is where the souls heal her if she gets a cut and his fathers blood heals quickly like a strike of lightning." Blake said to them.
"I don't know how fast you came up with that, but that actually makes sense." Weiss said in surprise.
Ozpin chuckled. "Perhaps. Wyvern's blood can heal others just like his aura. Well, not only his blood. Other ones like saliva and tears."
"Three different flavors of medicine.~" Nora giggled for the joke.
Wyvern gave an unamused expression. "Wow…"
Ozpin cleared his throat. "I think that should be enough. Take a break."
Wyvern got up and saw that his cuts were already gone. He picked up his swords on the floor and sheathed it in his scabbards. After brushing off himself, everyone stared at him like there was a spider on his face. He awkwardly looked at them, then around the amphitheater. It was just like his first day here again. Wyvern couldn't take it everyone staring at him. He sighed and gave a serious look.
"Alright. What's bothering you guys?" He asked.
"Huh? Nothing." Weiss stopped staring.
"Well…it's just we didn't know your blood can do that." Blake said.
Wyvern shrugged. "Well, when two dragons start mating and have a hatchling, that hatchling will be mixed up with their abilities and such." He blushed by what he just said and looked away. "Anyway, I'm sure those…Grimm creatures can have that."
"Wait, isn't your mother and father part of the Grimm race?" Pyrrha asked.
"No. They're not. But we're part of a clan, if that answers your question about what are we." Wyvern replied.
"Clan?" Ren raised his eyebrow.
Pyrrha's lightbulb went on and explained. "The Drahen Clan. I heard it only existed for only twenty five years."
"Twenty five years ago was when my parents stopped fighting each other in the north. Then eight years after, I was born." Wyvern said.
"Mind telling me what's the Drag…gon…hetic…clan?" Jaune asked.
"The Drahen Clan. It was created to make all dragons unite and be at peace instead of fighting each other. My parents were the ones who created it, and it was successful. But…uh…" Wyvern stopped and scratched his head.
"What?" Yang tilted her head.
"The dragon that wanted to be chosen as the leader wanted to become hostile towards humans out of hatred because of…hunters. Just because this clan was created for peace for all dragons doesn't mean we have to be at peace with humans. And of course, all the dragons disagreed. So my…" Wyvern cleared his throat. "My parents killed him before he could attack the humans."
"Sheesh. What happened to the clan after that?" Ruby asked.
Wyvern stayed silent for a few seconds and shrugged. "Nothing. The clan still exists and we are not going after humans."
"What about you?"
He blushed and looked away in time to not let them notice. "Just an average member. Nothing special."
"O-ookay…" Ruby shrugged. "Anyway, thanks for getting rid of my bruise." She touched her face where the bruise was last time.
"You're welcome." He smiled.
"That's pretty cool that your blood can heal injuries even on others." Yang smirked. "Is there a difference between your other ways to heal?"
"No. They're pretty much the same. The blood is the common one." Wyvern said.
"What about the saliva one?" She snickered.
"Like I said, same thing." He blushed.
Wyvern looked at the rag in his hands coated in some of his bolos and looked at everyone.
"If you got injured during the dual, I'll heal you guys." He said.
Blake raised her hand that had a cut during her dual with Weiss.
"Let me see what happens." Blake called.
"Alright." Wyvern walked towards her and grabbed her hand. He could hear Ruby, Yang, and Nora giggling.
"I want a picture of this." Yang grinned.
"Don't even try." Wyvern chuckled and rolled his eyes.
He placed the rag on Blake's cut and waited for around five seconds. Blake could feel her cut being healed. It felt…nice. Wyvern removed the rag and revealed Blake's cut free hand…or patched up hand.
Wyvern nodded. "All good."
"Wow." Blake stared in surprise and looked around her hand.
"I wish I had that." Jaune said.
"You have your aura. Don't you?" Wyvern smirked.
"Don't say that in front of your aura!" Nora told Jaune.
"What?"
Suddenly, the front door of the amphitheater opened up with a young woman in a maid outfit and the feather duster holstered. It was Alice. In her hand was a familiar letter that Wyvern noticed. He slightly jumped like somebody scares him from behind as Alice walked towards them with the letter. While walking, Alice just played with her feather duster until she turned it into a mace. While looking at the note, she spoke.
"Wyvern. Your parents replied back." Alice said.
Wyvern's glass broke because of her saying that…in front of his friends. "Th-Thanks Alice…"
He reached for the letter that Alice had until…you guessed it. It was swiped…by Nora!
"Hey! Gimme that!" Wyvern jumped to her in attempt to get the letter, but Nora evaded as he face planted on the floor. "Ow…"
"Ohoho~…Lemme see what they said to you." She pulled out a piece of paper that had Wyvern's reply from last night and in the bottom was the new reply from his parents.
"Alice? Can't you get the letter?" Wyvern covered his face.
"There's nothing wrong with your friends reading your mail." Alice smiled like she knew this would happen.
"It's not like you wrote something bad." Weiss crossed her arms.
"It's just that it's embarrassing." He sighed.
Nora scanned her eyes around the letter…fast. You could see her eyes were moving around side to side like she's been drinking too much coffee. Jaune, Pyrrha, and Ren looked into the letter as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang all gathered like they were all reading the same book. Wyvern just hid behind Alice from embarrassment.
"Ooo~. Your parents want you to visit them this weekend. And it says you can bring your friends!" Nora jumped in excitement.
"Calm down Nora. We don't know if Wyvern will bring us." Ren told her.
Nora stopped and ran to Wyvern. She stopped immediately in front of him just eight centimeters, which made him flinch.
"CanwecomeCanwecomeCanwecome…!" She kept repeating.
"Whoa whoa. Calm down." Wyvern covered her mouth.
Weiss looked at the letter. "It would be kind of nice to meet you parents. I'm sure they're great peop-…I mean, dragons." She gave a light smile.
"Yeah. Perhaps TOO great." Wyvern was referencing.
Weiss looked down on the last sentence and noticed this sentence: 'Please come by. It would be nice for the prince to spend time with his Emperor and Empress.'. Weiss stared in surprise at Wyvern as he stepped back.
"What did they mean 'Emperor and Empress?" Weiss asked.
Wyvern knew he couldn't persuade her…again. "Uh…well…"
Pyrrha raised her eyebrow. "Don't they mean chieftain or patriarch? Because it's a clan. Not anything higher. Right?"
He sighed. "I'll keep this brief. The Drahen Clan was worshiped by some people worldwide. They believed we are one of the protectors of humanity because of what my parents did to the dragon that wanted to kill humans. Plus I don't know if you heard of this, but the clan hates the Grimm." Everyone stared at him, wanting him to get to the point.
"Okay?" Weiss spoke.
"I lied about that my parents are just average members. The dragons part of the clan and the people saw them fight and kill the dragon that wanted to make war with the humans. Two years later, the clan was now an empire because of my parents. My mother and father were chosen to become the leaders in some territories from the east and part of the north. Which gives them the title. Emperor and Empress of the Drahen Empire. Where humans and other races live in peace almost like Vale."
Blake blinked. "Wait. If your parents are the Emperor and Empress, then that means…"
Alice nodded. "Yup. Wyvern is a Prince."
They all stared at him in surprise. This resulted Wyvern to hide his face with his hood and balaclava mouth piece.
"There goes my other secret." He gulped.
"So, the clan is an empire now?" Alice asked.
"Kind of." Wyvern looked away.
(This is rather a busy week. I'll post the next chapter soon. Plus I'm wondering if you guys like the story fast-paced or slow-paced.)
*Sorry if you see errors.
