Chapter X
An hour later, Beacon Arena:
Tyler was waiting for the girls to come in while Simon was preparing the combat with Glynda Goodwitch, in case of cheating from Cardin's part.
When the girls arrived, the match was about to begin. Glynda accepted the match as a normal practice between two students and let the two fighters go in the arena. The two fighters positioned themselves in front of the crowd and waited the signal.
-Students. A practice has been held between the two leaders of team CRDL and team SEAT. This will not be a fight to the death, but a simple fight to prove their strength in combat. Firearms will be allowed for the match. Cardin Winchester, Simon Seablue, ready yourself. , said Glynda.
The two fighters prepared for combat.
-I don't need a firearm to beat you. , said Cardin.
-Then prove it. , provoked Simon.
-Let the match….begin! , said Glynda.
At this moment, Cardin decided to start the match with a rush with his mace. But, when the mace was almost touching Simon, he teleported away to the other side of the arena. When he finished teleporting, he took his scimitar, split it into his pistols and fired. The bullets was normally highly devastating to the Grimm (He tested them a week after he changed his weapon), but most were not penetrating the target and rebounded away, making the pistols useless for this fight.
-Bulletproof armor. , laughed Cardin, swinging his mace towards Simon.
Simon then unleashed a Dust Ice spell, covering Cardin's feet, and punched him right in the stomach, blowing him away until it hit the wall. When Cardin got back on his feet, Simon teleported straight in front of him and started a series of punch that leaved Cardin stunned for a moment. What he didn't know is that all of his punches were Aura-powered, making them stronger and taking Cardin's aura out by bits.
When Cardin regained himself back, Simon was about to finish this fight with a slash of his scimitar, be Cardin blocked the attack with his mace and kicked Simon back. Simon was blocked the kick with his sword, but he slide back a bit.
Tyler was watching the fight, trying to find something that could be suspect. He saw the girls and did a hand sign to make them come.
-Can you make please recon the area? Simon thinks something unusual will happen during the fight. , asked Tyler.
-Ok. , said the two girls.
-Anna, are you all right? , said Tyler, worried by its sister behaviour an hour ago.
-Don't worry for me, something's wrong and Simon is in danger if it achieves to do so. , said Anna.
There was indeed something wrong. The other members of team CRDL: Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing and Sky Lark, were approaching the scene, weapons in hand. When Tyler saw them, he took his sword, get to them and blocked the path with it.
-Go any further and you will have trouble.
-Ha! You do know that you are alone, right? , provoked Sky.
-No, we are equal. , said Anna, weapon in hand, behind the three teammates of team CRDL with Emma.
-Oh, look, the freak's back! , said Dove, trying to provoke Anna.
Simon noticed the little team that was blocked by his teammate coming to the fight. He then unleashed all the Aura he had, bursting it through the arena with strength and making his eyes glowing bright blue.
-You…..COWARD! , shouted Simon, rushing to Cardin and punching him with all the Aura he had in his stomach.
This punch would have been enough to destroy a Beowolf in half, but most of Cardin's armor resisted to the punch, destroying the belly part of the armor.
-Simon, that's enough! , said Glynda, worrying about Cardin's state and stopping the fight at the right moment.
When Simon saw the Aura bar of Cardin, he immediately stopped his rage. The bar was almost at zero, about 5% of it was still there and it was red. Simon's was at 95% and it was green.
-What. But I though he was…. , said Simon, astonished by its power.
-Leave this power to fight your enemies, not your fellow students! , said Glynda.
-But he was going to beat me up with all of his team! , replied Simon, pointing to the other members of team CRDL, who were still blocked by the rest of team SEAT.
-Yeah, but with your freaking rage mode you could have annihilated us in a second! , said Cardin.
-You started it. , said Simon, slowly walking out of the arena towards the exit.
When he left the arena, the day was almost over and most of the students were going back to their chambers. When Simon arrived in its team's chambers, Emma arrived shortly after, knowing that he would go there.
-Simon, I've never seen someone enter a rage mode like that before. I think something's wrong with you.
-Nothing's wrong with me, the only thing I did was defending myself. , said Simon.
-By almost killing Cardin Winchester?! , said Emma.
Simon, then, regretted the thing he did to Cardin, but the things is that he didn't do anything to activate its rage mode.
He took a book that was in the staircase, gave it to Emma and sat on his bed.
-''The Berserkers''? , said Emma, intrigued.
-Do you know Yang Xiao Long? , asked Simon.
-Well, yeah. She's one of the strongest hand-to-hand fighters in Beacon. , replied Emma.
-Read this and you'll understand why she goes into a rage mode if something touches her hair.
-Okay.
The book was pretty intriguing. It was telling the story about Huntsmen and Huntresses who, when something specific happens, unleashes all their energy and strength into all the targets around them. Most of the time, on female warriors, a single hair that is taken out of them can activates this. The reason of these ''Berserkers'' to exists is unknown, but most of the sources leads to a modification of Dust usage or an Aura overload that many people used in the past, bringing it only to be an heritage that only some families possess. Siegfried's family, the Browns, possessed such power, giving it to Simon when he was born.
After thirty minutes reading the story, Emma closed the book.
-Well, now you know…I'm sorry I didn't told you earlier. , said Simon.
-I understand, but you should maybe talk to professor Ozpin about that. , said Emma.
-''sigh'' I am sure he already knows. He knows who I really am, so I guess he also knows that too. , said Simon.
-Maybe it's time I should tell you something too now. , said Emma.
-Hmm? , said Simon.
-It's something I maybe shouldn't tell you, but I think it's gonna be all right. , said Emma.
-What is it? , said Simon, intrigued by the tone of Emma as she speaks.
-It was nine years ago…