The exchange students were arriving tomorrow and Lali wanted to meet the competition early so we decided to spend the weekend in an apartment in the city that I spent time in when I needed to do things on the main land. I personally haven't been in the city since being admitted to Beacon but I knew the girls liked to spend their weekends there while I tended to spend time on campus studying or helping the teachers or other huntsmen with the odd job whether it be clearing Grimm or collecting things from the surrounding ruins for Oobleck.

It was pretty dark at the moment and I wasn't tired yet. The same couldn't be said for Ellie who had fallen asleep on a leather couch a similar colour to her blonde hair. Lali was sitting on a smaller armchair perpendicular to the couch sharpening her scissor's blades. I decided to go for a walk so I told the red head where I was going and stared heading down the apartment block's stairs as the elevator had been out of order for at least as long as I had owned the place. I always wondered where Uncle Finn got the huge sum of Lien he left me. We certainly weren't the richest people on Patch but we weren't the poorest either.

I wondered through the streets of Vale the shattered moon watching over me like a silent guardian angel. After what felt like an hour of walking I heard quick footsteps behind me. They were loud and heavy like a giant behemoth. I turned around and saw a brute of a figure in jet black armour with golden trimmings and studs looking like something worn by ancient soldiers.

The figure stopped just a mere couple of meters behind me and through the darkness I could see the face which belonged to Schwartz.

"What do you want?" I asked as I could feel my muscles tense up at the sight of the bully.

"Nothing," he replied, I noticed a slight grin, "just wanted to talk."

"Really?" I wasn't buying it.

"Yeah, I wanna know how you managed without anyone to look after you."

"What do you mean? What's going on?"

"I know that you've been going at it alone since you were twelve. How you continued at Signal and how you ended up at Beacon."

This was beginning to unnerve me a little now. I wondered how he knew. Oobleck, no he wouldn't tell anyone same with the other professors. Can't have been my team mates either because we all just about hated the guy.

"Give me the Lien," he demanded as he pulled out my journal from a pocket underneath his breastplate, "or say goodbye to all those happy memories."

"Where did you get that?"

"A little friend of mine," he remarked his grin growing larger, "now hand me the money."

"I don't carry it on me."

"Then where is it?"

"It's somewhere," I was barely holding it together.

"C'mon, don't mess with me Blanc. We both know I'm stronger than you and your team of misfits. Seriously who works with a dog, a hairdresser and a robot to kill monsters."

That was it. I lunged at him throwing punches with one arm while reaching for the book with the other. He sidestepped me and I plummeted face first into the concrete sidewalk.

"I tried to talk Blanc," he said chuckling, "but I see you're the one who doesn't listen to reason."

I quickly stood back up and turned around to see him drop the book and draw his weapon. A large golden flail roughly the size of my head. The flail glowed gold as he slammed it into the book setting it alight.

I pounced at him knocking him to the ground as I hit him harder than I had ever hit anything before, Grimm or otherwise. He managed to bring his flail around and swipe it at me sending me again into the ground.

Then something weird happened. I felt a odd sensation as a glowing red shockwave of fire came from me sending the bully into a wall.

An explosion of fire. Was that it? My semblance.

I was so confused to what had just happened that I didn't notice that Schwartz had ran off and another person was standing in front of me.

"Blanc," Ellie said seemingly upset, "I'm so sorry."