Lunch time was always a great time for Zin. He sat with all his friends, and listened to Nora's stories. As ridiculous as they were, entertainment was the point nonetheless.
Nora began with, "So! There we were, in the middle of the night..."
"It was day." corrected Ren.
Nora to turned towards Zin, he was grinning, while Yang was hanging on her every word with her hands cupping her face as she listened. There was a wager going on between the two as to there would be broken legs involved. The stakes were Zin wanted a small amount of Lien while Yang to know Zin's last name.
"We were surrounded by Ursi..."
Ren holding a coffee cup stated, "They were Beowolves."
"Dozens of them!" she screamed as she stood at the table of both Team RWBY and JNPR.
Weiss was eyeing Nora irritably while simultaneously filing her nails, while Ruby and Pyrrha were listening politely, and Jaune poking at his food with his spork.
"Two of them." Ren corrected.
Pyrrha now looked at the absentminded Jaune with concern.
"But they were no match... and in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!"
Ren sighed, "She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now."
Zin turned to Yang with a sigh and muttered, "Stormcrown, my surname is Stormcrown."
*Clang*
Wiess fell over, and gaped openly at Zin and whispered fiercely to Blake "Royalty!?"
"Ha, no, more like, the child not meant to be born."
Weiss looked at Zin with a frown worthy of sending some grimm to the hills.
A camera focused on the group unknown.
A pulse of Aura radiated from the top floor of the school.
-Headmasters Office-
Goodwitch dropped her scroll and Ozpin's chair clattered to the floor.
They stared at each other and, Ozpin opened with, "well that explains the Magic that no one else is able to replicate⦠I think we need to accelerate the timetable."
"But-"
"Get Brennen and James. They will want to know"
-Back at the Lunchroom-
Looking at her co-leader, Pyrrha asked "Jaune? Are you okay?"
Refocusing, Jaune faced them replied a little to quickly, "Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?"
"It's just that you seem a little... not okay..." said Ruby.
"More like abused" added Zin.
The others stopped and stared at Jaune.
"Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!"
He flashed a thumbs-up while laughing nervously, til his attention was focused on team CRDL, harassing a girl with brown rabbit ears as Cardin openly mocked her. Sky held up his hands to his head, mocking her ears. Everyone at Zin's table glared at Cardin's inhuman ways.
"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!" said Pyrrha.
"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!"
"He's a bully." Said Ruby.
"And taught a lesson in humility." added Zin darkly. Yang, who was sitting next to Zin, smacked him in the chest.
Zin looked at Yang grinning.
"I'll save you a piece."
"You better."
"Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me."
"Well there was that one time at the hall." said Zin, using his index finger.
-Flashback Start-
Jaune made way to the classroom as Cardin was heading the other way down the hall. When the two passed each other, Cardin knocked his arm into Jaune and made him drop his book, then continued on his way with his hands out as if he was daring someone to challenge him.
"Ah, come on!" said Jaune.
-Flashback End-
"And there was that one time before class." said Zin as everyone played the flash back in their minds.
-Flashback Start-
Jaune and Cardin were about to pass through a doorway, but Cardin clicked on Jaune's holder and transformed it into its shield form, jamming Jaune in the doorway to run into his own shield and have it block the exit. Jaune grunted in frustration as he tried to lift his shield back out.
"Come on...!" He said.
"We especially can't forget that other time with locker." added Zin.
Everyone couldn't forget that cruel prank on Jaune. Ms. Goodwitch was in the locker room with several students, gesturing at the devices.
-Flashback Start-
"Each of you will be assigned one rocket-propelled locker to store your weapons and extra armor. Additionally, your locker can be sent to a custom location based on a six-digit code."
Hearing this, Cardin eyed Jaune standing between him and the only open locker in the room. Cardin quickly shoved a shocked Jaune into the locker and slammed the door on him, pressing random buttons on the pad.
"What?! No, wait, wait! You've gotta get me out of here! Please! Don't! Don't! Don't do it!"
It was too late. The locker scrunched down and launched up with a burst of plasma coming from its base. Cardin watched as the locker slowly soared across the sky, wicked grin on his face.
-Flashback End-
The others eyeballed him now. Jaune attempted to laugh it off, and failing.
"I didn't land far from the school!"
"Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask." stated Pyrrha.
Nora shot up from the table and presented her diabolical plan with a slightly evil smile.
"Ooooh! We'll break his legs!" she said.
"Only if I can disable his arms." muttered Zin.
"Awwww." said a disappointed Nora.
"Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone."
They all glanced at the growing commotion, laughter, mixed in with cries of pain from the rabbit girl when one of her ears was being gripped by Cardin.
"Ow! That hurts!" She struggled and teared up she said, "Please, stop..."
Cardin continued laughing as he turned to his friends and said "I told you it was real!"
"What a freak!" said Russell.
"ZIN!?"
"Oooh, seems like things are real interesting over here." snarled Zin, grabbing Cardin by the wrist, forcing him to let go of the girl.
"Pardon me miss but close your eyes for a timeā¦
"O-ok"
"Wha-"
"Such behavior is forbidden at Beacon."
As Zin stated this, he drew the Mace of Molag Bal, behind him the visage of an enlarged, mask of Miraak, complete with a black blood oozing from the eye-slits.
-Line Break-
"Sorry guys I took it to far."
Ruby blinked as the 5 min. warning bell went off and mentally screamed, 'Everyone within five feet of you and that thing fainted. The rest of the people in the lunch room broke into a cold sweat. Carden's team was hallucinating that the fabled 'End of Days' was upon them.'
Both teams sweat dropped.
Zin looking at Yang's face of approval. "I said that skill is not being passed on!"
Yang sadly leaned her head on her hand and said "It must be hard to be a Faunus."
Having stood up from the table, Jaune glanced at his friends and sighed deeply to himself before moving. Not noticing Cardin was watching him with a grin of pure malice.
