[RWBY Dorms]
"THAT ARROGANT JERK!" Yang shouted when she entered the dorms with red eyes as she looked very angered and pissed.
"Yang calm dow-" Ruby tried to say calmly
"CALM DOWN!?" Yang yelled, "DID YOU LITERALLY FORGET WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO JAUNE!?"
"Of course I remember!" Ruby said loudly as she had her hand holding the front of the hood. "What Drago said was distasteful, but-"
"Why are you trying to DEFEND him!?" Yang shouted as she grabbed her head in frustration.
"Are we sure he's not an ex-White Fang member?" Weiss asked with a glare.
"Weiss!" Ruby shouted, as if that wasn't a good thing to say.
"Ruby, look at the way he acts." Weiss said as she pulled out a notepad, "He's been nothing but cruel or annoyed at us, he's threatened to kill us if we do annoy him, and he avoids large groups." Weiss finished as she closed the notepad.
"Then why would he be in a group if doesn't like going near one?" Ruby asked.
"Maybe he's still in the White Fang and he's just using this charade to cover his tracks!" Weiss explained. "Have you not seen the way he watches us fight? He's been studying us, learning our fighting skills! Finding our weaknesses!" She then looked to Blake, "Blake, back me up here."
Blake stood there as she folded her arms. "I have to agree with Ruby on this one about him being apart of the White Fang." Blake said as she walked to the side of Ruby.
"But why?" Weiss demanded.
"Think about it Weiss, he may have been studying us, and learning our weaknesses, but the way he acted when fighting Jaune, he is a one hundred percent fighter at heart." Blake explained, "The words he said to him, it makes sense."
"How does that make sense!?" Yang demanded as she walked over to Drago's things in the corner of the room, "He's got to go!" She said as she picked up the bag.
"Yang, that isn't a good idea!" Ruby said as she rushed over there put a hand on her shoulder.
"I still don't understand what you SEE in him!" Yang said with a whole new level of frustration.
"Yang, just listen to me!" Ruby then grabbed the bag as she tried to pull it out of her sister's grasp, with much difficulty.
"I am done listening!" Yang said as she gave a hard tug, a little to hard as something flew out of the bag, and landed in Blake's hand: a book. Ruby and Yang still held onto the bag as Blake walked over to the two.
"Um guys, I think you want to see this.." Blake said as she held up a large journal with a dark leather cover, and what looked like a winged unicorn, locked in combat with an equally sized dragon, the winged unicorn having the horn stabbed into the dragon's arm, while the dragon had his claws digging into its back. The winged unicorn was gold and platinum with black diamond eyes, and the dragon was blue and black with red ruby eyes. Both staring at each other intently, the dragon with pure anger and hated with his mouth opened like it was roaring, and the winged unicorn with an arrogant glare and smirk. The leather looked worn out as the color was dimmer, it was a dull dark brown cover with some cracks in it, yet the dragon and winged unicorn, still looked clean and new. Yang and Ruby stared at it for a couple of seconds before Yang snatched it with a somewhat wide grin.
"Yang, what are you…? Ruby asked, a bit suspicious of her sister.
"What have we here?" Yang said with a murderous like smirk as she looked over the book. "It seems our good ol' friend Drago has secrets!"
"Y-yang, that wouldn't be wise." Weiss stated with a worried look.
"We are gonna get payback whether you want to or not!" Yang said as she opened it up to a random page. She started to skim through it a bit, then she actually slowed down and started to read it. Her grin started to slowly deflate as she continued to read.
"Huh...it seems you and Drago have something in common Ice Queen." Yang said as she reread the page.
"Why would I have something in common with a ruffian like that!?" Weiss shouted and demanded, not wanting to be compared to the faunas.
"Well you're an heiress right?" Yang asked looking up at her.
"Indeed, what about it?" Weiss asked as she folded her arms and looked away.
"Well apparently he's a prince, or king I should say." Yang answered as she rubbed her eyes to see if she was reading it wrong...nope, still there.
"...Really?" Weiss said, a bit surprised at this information. Yang nodded as she flipped to a few pages carefully.
"Yep, prince Drago, the heir to the Draconian clan along with his...brother?" Yang said the last part like a question. Ruby, Blake, and Weiss formed a thinking cloud above their heads and imagine Drago wearing a crown.
"...I don't see it." all three said as they looked at Yang with blank expression.
"It's true! Look here's a picture of his family!" Yang said as she pulled out a photo that was taped to the page. The photo showed four people, the tallest one who had a small goatee and a scar going over his eye with a stern smile was labeled 'father'. The second tallest one was a young woman with hazel colored hair and a kind smile labeled 'mother'. The last two showed two young boys with smiles on their faces, the one on the right who had his arms crossed was labeled 'Drago', while the one on the left who had his hand up in a waving pose was labeled 'Brother Draco'. They all wore royal armor, the father having the most as his helmet was like a crown with a red jewel in the center and a green and black cape flowing behind him as he had his wings spread out. Yang looked at the picture for a good while as she looked at Drago, who seemed more...happier. She placed it back where it was originally, looking the same as she found it, then flipped through more pages.
"I can't believe it...he's royalty." Weiss said as she fumbled for a bit. "Hold up! Are we sure that's Drago we're talking about here?" She questioned as she took the book out of Yang's hand. She flipped through the pages a bit and read through it...the facts are listed right there in his journal, and there was no way to counter it.
"Thats...amazing…" Weiss said as she was looking at all the accomplishments he wrote in his journal. She flipped through some more, and her face soon turned into something of sadness, and shock at the same time. The next picture that was pulled out, didn't look nice. The father was missing. It showed the mother who had a sad look behind her forced grin. The brother had a neutral look as he too had a forced smile. Drago though, wasn't even looking at the camera as he had a distant sad look, no smile. The most noticeable thing about him, he had his father's helmet like crown on him, obviously too big, but the crown itself had scuff marks on it, some of it was cracked, and the red jewel was cracked badly, what Blake noticed, was a tiny red spot on it...blood, old blood that's could've been over weeks old.
"Thats...terrible." Weiss said as she showed sympathy for Drago as she looked hard at the picture. A bit saddened she flipped through more pages until she found one, relatively more happy, it showed the three again, but there was a circle from a red marker drawn around the mother's belly, with a line pointing to a word simply saying 'little sister!' Draco had a grin as he stood close to the mother, Drago just stared at the mother's stomach with a small determined look.
"Awww, I can't wait to see the little sister!" Ruby squealed with a large grin and sparkles in her eyes. Weiss flipped even more pages as she was curious to see the sister herself...only to find nothing.
"I don't see any pictures of the sister." She said as she found a very...disturbing photo, of Drago and his own brother...locked in combat, the mother in the background with a sword through her heart, a line pointing at the dead body and Draco saying 'Murderer!' in red ink...which was actually dried blood. Drago had pure anger on his face with tears streaming down as his brother had a dark sadistic smile and a glare. Ruby had her mouth open slightly as she had a sad look in her eyes. Yang looked away, she was about to get revenge on someone by using dark memories? She hates herself for even bothering to think that. Ruby couldn't help but cover her mouth as a small tear was escaping her eye. This was too much for her to see from what she was observing.
"Where's… Where's the sister?" Ruby asked as she looked around the picture.
"...I don't think she made it, Ruby." Weiss said with a sympathetic look. She pointed at the mother, who had a slightly larger stomach, but had an arrow in it.
"She wasn't even born yet." Blake said with a sad look. Ruby couldn't help but cover her mouth from the picture. Weiss, had enough looking at such a sight, that she flipped to a few more pages. There was yet another photo, but it's Drago in the armor he wears now, with his father's crown like helmet, with a stern glare as he frowned, surrounding him were other warriors in royal armor who had a look of battle readiness as a little note on it said 'One Last Stand with my friends'.
"One last stand…?" Ruby asked as she gently took the book away from Weiss, then continued to go through his journal. She slowly gained wide eyes as the journal was very descriptive about the last stand. There was a drawing instead of picture, showing a strange being with feathered wings and gold plated armor with a platinum outline, labeled 'Alicorn soldier'.
"Alicorn? I thought those were meant to be magestic, not...warrior material?" Ruby said confused as she had always seen a Alicorn as a beautiful creature in the stories she was told as a child. The next page showed something everyone did not want to see and never wanted to ever again; as it showed Drago on his knees as Alicorn soldiers had spears, swords, and arrows piercing his body as the bodies of all his friends were on the ground with lifeless eyes. He has a pained look as a tall being had his golden sabre sword raised above his head as he had a dark victorious smile. He wore all gold armor with a feathery design as his wings had metal guardians on them, his crown, much like Drago's, was almost like a helmet. The note above him said 'Alicorn God, the Ruler if the Alicorn Clan' as it pointed at said person. Ruby slowly closed Drago's journal, and put it back where it belonged, and made it look like they never touched it to begin with. She looked back at her friends with a full on sympathetic, and saddened look towards them.
"I'm…going to bed…" Ruby said quietly as she walked to her bed with a sad look. The rest of her team said nothing as Yang looked down, Weiss held onto her arm and looked to the side, while Blake leaned on the wall a bit from what they have learned.
[With Jaune in the Hall]
It seems the day just went completely downhill for Jaune. Turns out, Cardin was listening to his conversation with Pyrrha, and found out about his fake transcripts. So as long as he be's his "friend," he won't tell the professors about his fake transcripts and have him do things for him. For tonight he asked him to get...rapier wasps? Jaune isn't exactly sure why he needs them, but he said it was for a "project." Not to mention he had to write a report about said wasps, which caused him to groan as he hit his head on a wall. Soon, he went to his door and slightly opened it, to see Nora jumping on a bed, Pyrrha looking out a window, and Ren checking on his dual StormFlower's.
"Why is Jaune so late?" Nora asked with her usual bubbly tone.
"He's become rather scarce ever since he's been fraternizing with Cardin and Drago." Ren said as he paused from cleaning. "The last person is worrisome."
"That's weird. Doesn't he know we are going on a field trip tomorrow?" Nora asked as she jumped one more time. "We need our rest!" she flipped as she jumped and immediately started to snore.
"I'm sure our leader knows exactly what he is doing." Pyrrha stated aggressively. She saw Drago fly around campus with a bored and tired look as he yawned, but what caught her attention, was the fact that he had Jaune's sword in his hand. It panned back over to Jaune peeking into the room, then slowly closing it back up, then sighing in shame. What has he put himself into? He wants to stay here, but Cardin has him by the leash, and he knows he can't get out of it till Cardin forgets about it, or at least SOMETHING. He started to walk and turn right from the hallway.
[The forest of Forever Fall; with Glynda and Rodriguez leading the way]
Glynda and Rodriguez were walking side by side as the big group of students followed behind as the teams were huddled together. Drago just walking with his hand on his sword as he scanned, and to what he admits, a beautiful forest. The dark read tree's as leaves slowly fall off the branches as the light wind pushed them forward. The clean red grass, smoothly flowing with the wind.
'It almost reminds me of the crimson forest.' Drago thought as he noticed Glynda and Rodriguez giving a glare at him, confusion him. 'What?'
"Yes, students, the Forest of Forever Fall is, indeed, beautiful." Glynda said as she had her newly fixed crop in her hand. "But we are not here to sightsee. Professor Peaches asked all of you to collect samples from the tree's deep inside this forest."
"Why exactly?" Drago asked boredly as he flew above them.
"Professor Peaches wants to use it for an assignment she plans later on in the week."
"What could possible be useful about sap?" Drago deadpanned.
"You should ask Professor Peaches for that." Rodriguez said simply as he shrugged. "She'll probably think of something."
"Regardless, we are both here to make sure that none of you die while doing so." Glynda stated, getting back on topic as they walked further down the forest. Jaune was hauling a load of jars as he accidently runs into Cardin, who annoyingly looked at him, who nervously chuckled in response.
"Really, Jaune?" Drago deadpanned, "You're worried about Cardin now?"
Jaune looked over at Cardin, who just gave a knowing smirk that if he said anything...then bye bye Jaune Arc. "Just uh...helping out a friend…" Drago gave a look of "really?" as he had his hands on his hips. He read that lie faster than a grimm falling from his sword if he had to guess. But seeing that Jaune had a rather pleading look to not question it, he just sighed and crossed his arms. He grabbed a few of the jars to lightenihis load a bit, just for today.
"Where to blonde idiot?" Drago asked in a monotone voice. Jaune just pointed in a direction, which actually had a good amount of sap there. He just nodded and walked over to the trees, setting his jars down when he got closer. Right away he took a jar and scooped up some sap as he brought up a full jar to his face. He looked at the pink looking fluid, which somehow looked like something you would honestly drink, like a strawberry sundae. He took a sip of it, smacking his lips to identify the taste. It wasn't that bad to be quite honest.
"Could be sweeter." Drago commented as he handed the jar to Jaune. Jaune was about to get some until he got pulled over by Cardin, Drago looked back, and he already knew Cardin was a bully. Bullies were something Drago always frowned and despised. Firstly, they just talk but no bite, and pick on people who are weaker than them, in this case Jaune...but that will definitely change quickly. Secondly, he knew major flaws of Cardin when he first saw him, which was that he was lazy and used brute force. Drago was about to go towards Cardin and give him what for, but instead, he wanted to see if Jaune can handle himself, so he just went back to getting more tree sap.
"Hey, buddy!" Cardin said as he grabbed the back of Jaune's sweater. "Let's go." Jaune looked at his team going to their side of the forest as Pyrrha looked back. Jaune just simply looked away with a sad look as he followed Cardin.
'Hm….hopefully this little event gets over with soon, don't want Jaune not focusing on training.' Drago said as he heard someone walking towards him. Glynda stood in front of Drago, who was currently kneeling to get tree sap. She had her crop behind her back as she looked at him.
"...Do you need something?" Drago asked as he filled a fourth jar.
"I just come to inform you that after this field trip, Headmaster Ozpin would like to talk to you." Glynda stated as she started to leave. Drago squinted his eyes at the ground in confusion. The hell does Ozpin want now?
"Why does he want to see me?" He asked out loud.
"It's more of a ….personal matter between you two." Glynda said as she walked off to check on the other students.
'Personal matter, huh?' Drago thought confused. 'I have a feeling I won't hear the end of it.'
[With Team CRDL]
They are currently chilling and doing absolutely nothing as Jaune is seen hauling six jars total as he had a look of disgust on his face. He dropped them to the ground and fell on his knees and his hands resting on the ground.
"Hey, great work Jauney boy." Cardin said smugly as he watched Jaune having a hard time. "Now that wasn't too hard now was it?
"I think i'm allergic to this stuff…" Jaune said with slightly puffy lips and a stuffed nose.
"Great great great." Cardin stated, empathetic to his condition and getting up. "So, Jaune, I bet you are asking yourself, "Why did my buddy Cardin ask me to collect six jars of tree sap when there are only five of us?"
"That is one of the many questions I ask myself today, yes." Jaune said with a nod.
"Well, come with me and you'll find out." Cardin said with a very neutral, yet evil smile as Jaune gulped. Soon, they were all prone looking out at the students collecting tree sap. Ren collected another jar of tree sap as Nora looked at it, and as soon as he grabbed the empty jar and got more jar of tree sap, only to see Nora has already gulped down the first tree sap.
[With Jaune and his "friends"]
"Cardin, what's going on?"
"...Payback." Cardin replied as he was looking at someone. Jaune followed his eyes to a familiar face to Jaune.
"...Pyrrha?" Jaune asked as he looked at her getting tree sap and being with her team. "What are you-"
"That's the girl. Red-haired know-it-all thinks she's so smart." Cardin said bitterly. He has gotten humiliated by her in history class when she called him out for being close minded and ignorant. He then pulled out a box, which was buzzing like crazy.
"Alright boys. Last night ol' Jaune here managed to round up an entire box full of rapier wasps." Cardin said as he has it in front of him now, with a big "W" in the middle of it. "And now we are gonna put 'em to work. One of the boys patted Jaune on the shoulder as he looked on in disbelief, then gave a nervous laugh.
"Now, according to one of the essays he wrote for me last week, these nasty things looove sweets." Cardin said with a grin. Jaune knows where this is going as he looked at Pyrrha again. "I'm thinkin' it's time we teach her a thing or two." he then offered to pull Jaune up, then yanked him to his feet, shoving a jar of the tree sap into Jaune's hand. "And you're gonna do it."
"Do what?"
"Hit her with the sap! Either that, or I'll have a chat with Goodwitch, and you'll be the on the first airship out of Beacon." Cardin threatened as he got in Jaune's face. Jaune looked at the jar, then back at Cardin, who was giving a confident smile that he was gonna do everything he asked him to do. Jaune then turned around and was ready to throw it at Pyrrha. However...one look and he was being very hesitant as he was shaking his hand, like he was resisting. He then heard all of Drago's insults in his head as tried to shake them away. Soon, it started to get to him quickly as he looked at Pyrrha, who turned her head to the side, with her beautiful green eyes, and sweet smile. Soon he stood for a moment, then closed his eyes.
"No." Jaune said as he still closed his eyes.
"What did you say?" Cardin said as he frowned a bit and stepped forward.
"I said…" Jaune started as he stopped shaking and turned around. "NO!" Jaune then threw the jar of tree sap at Cardin, with no sense of hesitation as the jar broke and sap is all over Cardin.
"Oh-ho-ho…" Cardin laughed out. "You've done it now." Soon his friends grabbed him as Jaune nervously laughed as he watched Cardin walk up to him. He pushed him to the ground, then grabbed Jaune by the collar and punched him square in the face.
"You know that wasn't very smart, Jaune-y boy." Cardin said as he picked him up again. "I'm gonna make sure they send you back to mommy in teeny, tiny pieces.
"I don't care what you do to me…" Jaune said , then glared at Cardin. "But you are not messing with my team."
"What, you think talk like that makes you tough, you think you're a big strong man now?" Cardin demanded as he frowned at Jaune, not liking the reaction he was recieving. Jaune in response, only smiled. Cardin growled as he went to punch him in the face again. Only for his aura to activate, causing Cardin to let go and grunt in pain as he held to his wrist. Jaune looked at his aura in amazement as it has healed his bruise. It was short-lived as one of the boys kicked Jaune in the back, causing him to fall to the ground on his stomach. Jaune looked up, his glare not leaving as Cardin was in front of him.
"Let's see how much of a man you really are…" Cardin said as he took a step forward, but was soon interrupted as he heard a loud roar behind him. His team turned around to see an adult Grimm Ursa and went in front of the group. Cardin's team stepped back a bit while it went on its back legs. Soon, the Ursa sniffed and looked at Cardin, who had sap on his armor. He then put his face in front of Team CRDL as it roared.
"That's a big Ursa!" one of Cardin's teammates shouted as they started to book it back to the other students.
"Ursa Major…" Jaune clarified with wide eyes. Moments after he clarified that, Cardin gets swatted by the Ursa Major. The Ursa only looked at Jaune for a brief moment, then crawled towards a downed Cardin, who was trying to back away. Cardin quickly grabbed his mace, but that too got swatted to the side, in front of Jaune.
[With the rest of the group]
Ruby was currently collecting sap as she was checking out a full jar of it, then heard a distant, yet loud roar in the background.
"Did you guys here that?" Ruby asked in confusion
"Alright you annoying fools, where's the blonde idiot?" Drago asked as he walk towards them with an annoyed, bored look. Everyone who knew Jaune just frowned at the name. They were about to say something until they heard screams. Soon, the remaining three of team CRDL ran past Ruby and Pyrrha.
"Ursa! Ursa!" Russel yelled out as he was running and looking behind him, and running into Yang.
"What? Where?" Yang asked as she clutched the collar of Russell's shirt.
"Back there, it's got Cardin!" Russel said as he pointed in that direction, causing Pyrrha to drop her tree sap jar.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha said horrified. Ruby looked at Yang.
"Yang! You and Blake go get Professor Goodwitch and Professor Rodriguez!" Ruby said as Pyrrha Looked at Nora and Ren.
"You two, go with them! There could be more!" Pyrrha said as both her and Ruby took out their weapons.
"So you left your own teammate behind and didn't try to help him or that blonde doofus?!" Drago demanded as he lifted him up to his face with a growl. Russel immediately nodded, though had the look of small regret. "You fools, do you have any idea what you put them both in!?" Drago yelled as he dropped him roughly. Soon he sped walk towards Ruby and Pyrrha.
"Let's go!" Drago shouted as he started to run the moment he passed them, both quickly following behind. 'I swear if that blonde idiot dies, I will bring him back and kill him again!'
[Back with Jaune, Cardin, and the Ursa Major]
Cardin was trying his best to run away from the Ursa, due to how he has no weapon, only for it to jump in front of him and swipe at him, causing him to fall to the ground on his back.
"Crap, crap, crap!" Cardin said as he tried to slowly crawl away. Drago, Pyrrha, Ruby, and Weiss made it to the scene as the Ursa Major was about to swipe Cardin.
"No!" Pyrrha shouted, despite Cardin being a bully, anyone dying would be not a good sign. Drago walked forward a bit as he was about to unsheathe his sword, only to see something he didn't expect: Jaune jumping in front, with his shield out, and blocking the swipe. Drago froze for a bit before he stood there with crossed arms as he watched the battle. Weiss was about to intervene, only to be stopped by both Drago and Pyrrha.
"Wait!" Pyrrha said as she put a hand in front of Weiss.
"Don't you fucking dare intervene." Drago growled as he had his sword pointed at Weiss with a threatening look. Jaune pushed the claw back and sliced across its body, causing it to move back from impact. It tried to stab at Jaune, but only hit the ground as he rolled out of the way. It tried to do it again, but Jaune jumped over it. While he was in the air, an incoming strike was about to hit him, but he put his shield up, yet still got launched back, but he skidded across his feet. One thing for sure, is that the Ursa Major is fast as he ran towards Jaune and hit him, but he got back up and ran towards it, it tried to swat him away but he parried with his shield and sliced at it upwards under its armor. This caused it to roar, but it then punched Jaune away, causing him to fall to the ground but he got on his knee. He took out his scroll, and it indicated red. He then looked at the Ursa Major, who was waiting for him to charge him. Soon, Drago's insults were replaying in his mind again. The words of "pathetic" "worthless" and so on circled around his brain. Then, he did something unexpectedly, especially for Drago as he did a loud battle cry as he sprinted towards the Ursa Major.
"What the hell is he doing?" Drago asked confused. "What are you doing!? You are gonna get yourself killed-!"
Jaune continued to sprint forward, despite what Drago has stated to him. The Ursa pulled its claw back into a swiping position. Jaune got his sword ready to strike as well. Things went slow as Jaune did something Drago didn't even think he would do: lifted his shield up, blocking the swipe as the claws grinded on his shield, then Jaune stepped forward and swung his sword up, decapitating the Ursa Major, causing it to fall to the ground.
"Did he...?" Drago asked with a raised eyebrow. "Defeat an Ursa Major?"
"Yea he did!" Ruby said excitedly as she was grinning wildly. Pyrrha smiled in amazement as Jaune stood straight up and sheathed his sword. He had a bruise on his face, as he walked towards Cardin. Cardin only looked up as Jaune stood over him, offering a help up.
"Holy crap, Jaune?" Cardin said in surprise.
"Don't ever mess with my team...my friends, ever again." Jaune said sternly as he pulled Cardin closer as he glared at him. Cardin only gave a regretful look on his face. "...Got it?" Cardin only stared as Jaune turned around and walked away, where Drago was standing. And yet another thing Jaune did that Drago didn't expect, not even being friendly enough to walk around him, but walk right past him as his shoulder hit's Drago, said person recoiling a bit. It was like it was out of complete spite and anger towards him. Drago watched him leave with a small frowning glare.
"He's getting bolder now." He said to himself with a growl, before he gained a small hidden smirk. 'Good, about time too.'
"Mr. Arc, are you alright?" Glynda asked, though she had her usual glare, she did sounded worried for her students. "And Mr. Winchester?"
"We are fine." Jaune answered as he gave an assuring smile at both Professors.
"Well good, glad to see that you two are ok." Glynda said as she gave a little sigh of relief.
"Shouldn't really worry about them, he turned out fine, sloppy, but fine." Drago said as he gave a small reassuring glare to Jaune. He didn't respond as he started to walk away...but stopped. He turned towards Professor Rodriguez.
"Professor R?" Jaune asked as he stood there.
"..Yes?" Rodriguez replied with a neutral face.
"...I'd like to take your offer to train me."
"...Por supuesto. Just come by my class when you have the time." Rodriguez replied with a small smirk.
(I think that line was unnecessary, don't you think?)
[Night time; on the balcony with Jaune]
"OOF!" Jaune said as he landed on his back. He tried to get up, but an armored boot stomped on his chest, keeping him down.
"Come on! I know you can do better than this!" Drago exclaimed as he picked him up and kneed him in the stomach. "You took down an Ursa Major, yet you can't even Dodge one attack from me!?" He finished with a backhand. Jaune was on his stomach as he got on one knee, huffing and puffing. He was tired, and sore. They have been training for more than three hours, and Drago never let up. He kicked Jaune in the face, pretty hard as Jaune stumbled more on the ground. Yet, he still got up, with some difficulty, but he still got up. He stumbled a little bit on on his feet as he looked at Drago with blurry vision. He was walking towards him.
"Really Arc?" Drago said as he grabbed Jaune's arm and flipped him over his shoulder. "This is starting to get pathetic." Jaune only got up to his knees as he huffed and puffed. Drago pulled his fist back and brought it down on Jaune, but it seemed to have missed as Jaune quickly rolled to the side, despite the beating he got for three hours. Drago walked forward to kick him, only for Jaune to block with his shield, Jaune found an opening on Drago's leg as the draconian faunas spoke.
"Come on Arc, show me the warrior you claim to descend from!" Drago said as he readied a kick to Jaune's head. Soon, it was blocked by Jaune, and this time he looked up at Drago with fire in his eyes as he stabbed Drago directly in the weak spot in Drago's shin armor. He soon got on his feet as he picked up the shin with his sword, took it out and rapidly stabbed it with force, which actually did hurt Drago. After about the six stab, he pushed Drago's foot away, causing the Draconian to stumble back. Drago on instinct grabbed Jaune and body slammed two times before lifting him above his head as he prepared to slam him onto the ground. Jaune took the time to think in a matter of a few seconds, what Drago didn't notice, was that he left his face wide open, as Jaune did a downward slash down Drago's face.
"GAH MY EYE!" Drago shouted as he slammed Jaune back down on his knee as he dropped him. "WHY IS IT THE GODDAMN EYE!?" While Drago is distracted, he see's Jaune get up, and shield bash him in the face, making the vision a bit worse now. Drago skid back a bit as he held to his face and shook his head a bit.
"Oh you goddamn fucker!" Drago shouted as he closed his eyes. He then charged at Jaune, who waited for Drago to make a move. Drago tried to dropkick Jaune, who sidestepped, and elbowed Drago to the ground. Drago jumped with ease as he did a reverse roundhouse punch to Jaune's back, and tossed his sword and shield away before he axe kicked him. It seemed Jaune was on his last stand as he got up quickly, but stumbled a little bit. Drago sped walk towards him as he cracked his knuckles.
"You better hope I don't kill you on the first practice." Drago growled as a blue flame surrounded his fist. Jaune stopped fumbling as he stood up straight with his eyes close. Drago punched both fists together as he tried to wail on Jaune, but Jaune was doing many dodge moves, like the back step, duck, side step on either side. Despite having no shield or sword, he was dodging Drago beautifully.
"Impressive, but not for long!" Drago said as his aura flared as he landed multiple punches and kicks to Jaune, and finished with a sword strike with his own sword, knocking him onto his back with a small amount of blood escaping Jaune's nose. Drago put his sword away as he started to walk away...and still heard Jaune getting up. Drago stopped as he looked behind him, and walked back towards Jaune and grabbed him, and tried to end it with a knee to the stomach, it made contact as Drago smirked, it went away when his knee was shaking as Jaune had his hands, blocking the knee. Drago had his eyes half closed as he slammed his elbow on Jaune's neck, knocking him back down as he heard him groan.
"Tomorrow, meet me in the emerald forest, same time, no armor, no shield, just sword." Drago said as he helped Jaune stand up. "If your team asks about the bruises and scratches, just say you fell down some stairs or something I don't care." Jaune huffed and puffed a bit as he held onto his stomach. He only nodded as he rested by leaning on the wall. Drago turned around and went to fly away, but he stood and looked back slightly.
"...You did good boy...you did good." He gave a small compliment before he flew off to Ozpin's tower after shouting, "But still weak!" Jaune didn't really care he was called weak, at least he gets a break. After about a few moments of resting, his aura kicked in, healing his bruises and cuts as he stood in the middle of the balcony. He heard someone open the door.
"No Cardin tonight?" Pyrrha asked as she smiled and walked next to Jaune. "I thought you two were best buds?" Jaune looked forward for a few seconds then turned to face Pyrrha.
"Pyrrha...I'm sorry." Jaune apologized as he gave a disappointed look about himself. "I was a jerk, you were only trying to be nice and...I-I had this stupid macho stuff in my head-"
"Jaune, it's ok." Pyrrha said reassuringly as Jaune smiled, as Pyrrha smiled back. "You're team really misses you, you know." Pyrrha turned to walk away.
"You should really come down, Ren made pancakes~!" Pyrrha stated as she was near the door. "Except no syrup, you can thank Nora for that."
"Wait!" Jaune insisted as Pyrrha stopped and turned to Jaune, who put his hand on his arm. "I know I don't deserve it after it all that happened, but...would you still be willing to help me? To help me become a better fighter." Pyrrha turned around, but soon gave a wide smirk, before slowly walking towards Jaune and pushing him to the ground.
"Hey!"
"Your stance is all wrong, you need to be wider and lower to the ground." Pyrrha lectured as she helped Jaune up. "... Let's try that again." As Jaune grabbed her hand, he suddenly pulled her around and put her in an arm lock.
"Whoa!" Pyrrha exclaimed surprised.
"Yea, Drago is training me now, was up here for three hours." Jaune said with a small nervous chuckle before whispering, "Just, keep that a secret, I'm not suppose to tell anyone." Pyrrha looked back, with her arm still outstretched, and only smiled.
"Your secret is safe with me." Pyrrha stated. "But…" she then went in and put Jaune in a sleeper hold, getting out of his arm lock. "You've got to have a better grip." Pyrrha said teasingly, as she let go of Jaune, who gave a nervous laugh. Soon both of them started to laugh.
[The top of Ozpin's tower]
Ozpin was pacing back and forth as he looked at the sky. Soon he heard foot steps landing on the other side. He turned to see Drago with his arms crossed.
"What do you want Ozpin, if it's about what happened yesterday, then you are wasting my time." Drago said as he closed his eyes. Ozpin walked up to Drago and pulled out a tablet. Drago opened his eyes and furrowed his eyebrows. Soon Ozpin showed Drago the video that he watched, him slaughtering White Fang members, eating and devouring them.
"...So that was on." Drago said with half lid eyes.
"Is that really all you can say?" Ozpin stated with a glare.
"Why do you think I should-"
"If you say you don't care, don't waste your breath, that is a terrible excuse and you know it."
"Then what do you even want me to say? These White Fang fools are showing they are a threat to humanity!" Drago yelled as he growled.
"It does not give you the right to hunt them down like a wild animal!"
"It's how I deal with threats, you expect me to just let a bunch of animal terrorists run around causing mayhem for humans?!" Drago shouted as he raised his arms.
"No, but what I do expect is for you to not kill with a close minded inquisition on society! Human or Faunus!" Ozpin stated boldly.
"It doesn't matter if my mind is closed or not, I will deal with these enemies as I see fit!" Drago shouted as he was close to drawing out his sword.
"This isn't the talk of a huntsman or someone who protects!" Ozpin then points his cane at Drago. "It's the talk of someone trying to gain as much power as they can! Like a Dictator." he said the last part coldly, indicating all this "protecting" is for Drago's ambitions, and his ambitions only. Said person had his pupils shaking, his anger rising as he growled.
"The way of the Huntsman isn't doing anything at all against people in the White Fang, your ideas solve nothing if they still roam freely!" Drago shouted as he slapped Ozpin's cane away.
"And what in Oum's name is your idea doing!? Not a damn thing!" Ozpin stated, getting closer to him. "The only thing it is doing, is just creating more fire for the world to burn in! Despite how many you have killed, they still roam, so who's the one really failing here?"
"Atleast my way is doing something, the Faunas are more fearful now, so yeah they probably still join, but I will just be there to kill them again!"
"You are a fool for thinking this will stop anything! The more you kill, the more they generate more and more faunus in their cause! This is why I don't see you as a warrior, but some power hungry bastard who cares only and but for himself!" Ozpin then leaned back with a half lidded expression. "You don't give a damn about these people, but only yourself." This made Drago go wide eyed for a brief moment before he quickly gritted his teeth and made a small angered roar, grabbing Ozpin by the collar.
"How fucking DARE you!" He roared in his face. "If I only cared for myself, then I would've killed that blonde bitch of a woman Glynda after our fight! I would've killed the weak bastard Arc because of how pathetic he was, hell, I would've killed you the first time we've met!" Ozpin didn't lose his glare as he looked directly into his eyes.
"In that case, if a warrior truly doesn't care for himself, how come someone like you doesn't fight for peace? How come someone like you doesn't fight just for his self enjoyment, but for doing the right thing? You have forgotten what being a warrior was all about the moment you started killing White Fang members! You don't fight for peace, but to see a forever burning fire, you don't fight for justice or what you think is right, but for your own selfish ambitions!" Drago letted go of Ozpin's collar as he Drago walked away for a moment, then walked right back with his finger pointing at the headmaster.
"Listen here and listen closely you old fucking fool, I have seen many things in my life." Drago said as he jabbed a finger into his chest. "I've seen people who had enough power to wipe out entire planets! And I've seen people who could rip the fabric of reality with their own minds!" Drago said as he jabbed his finger harder. "All those times, I've had to watch over tens of thousands of lives fade away while I could've done something, but I couldn't!" Drago turned his back and put his hands on his hips. "I couldn't, and all I could do is watch, and bear in mind I couldn't save those lives." Ozpin stood tall as he had a look of sympathy, but also had a confused look as to what he means.
"...I have a feeling you aren't just a student." Ozpin said, putting the pieces together as Drago froze for a moment. "It seems as if...you've lived a lot longer than I have thought." Drago was silent as he looked over his shoulder. For an old man, he will admit, has a pretty good train of thought.
"I don't fight for peace because it never lasts as long as enemies roam freely. I learned in my times training that to get rid of threats for good, you have to commit things that many don't agree with. My kill count of the White Fang, doesn't even scratch the surface of all enemies I killed in the past."
"And for the toll it brings, you started to feel major pain towards it." Ozpin added.
"Enough times of feeling that pain, I stopped caring." Drago said sighing a bit, "It took me years before I finally got the power to help them, and I made sure I eliminated every threat that they had to deal with. Without payment or any gratitude, I was willing to do all of this, but then it was too late for my self-mind because I felt hopeless everytime I see another warrior, or civilian get killed."
"Why would you make it your fault, if you couldn't do anything about it?" Ozpin asked, not understanding why he puts all that guilt on his back.
"Because I couldn't protect those I cared about." Drago said with a small growl. "I've lost my family, my race, my friends. All those times I was never strong enough to do anything. You wouldn't understand, you're not as old as I am." Drago growled as he glared at Ozpin with a cold stare.
"You know you can't put all that grief on your shoulders if you were held back, the only thing it ever does it dig a deeper hole for you, and it would continue." Ozpin explained as he walked to the side of Drago.
"The thing is Ozpin." Drago said as he turned to face the sky. "I have to, or else someone else will have to carry it, and I can handle it. I've been doing it for years. I've made more mistakes than anyone in the whole damn multiverse." Drago then went on his knees, looking at the ground with his saddened glare. "And guess what, it doesn't help I am becoming a terror to a world, I've already got that pathetic group of faunas to fear me, now I'm pretty sure this school does as well."
"Then why even bother trying to make them fear you?" Ozpin questioned.
"Do you honestly think I do it on purpose?" Drago asked with a growl. "I've tried in the past not to start fear, but it doesn't last long as some mercenaries or Alicorn comes around to kill me!" He growled. "And I just….lose it."
"...Lose it?"
"Ever since my family and friends died, I have been hunted by my sworn enemy." Drago explained, "It never stops. Everywhere I go, there's an assassin or Alicorn around the corner, day in and day out." Drago punched the ground. "Killing their leader didn't do jack shit either."
"Then let me ask you; have you found any assassins, or "Alicorns" ever since you have been in Vale? Or in this world I should say?" Ozpin asked as he waited for an answer. Drago was about to say something but he didn't, for as long as he has been here, he has not seen any of the sort.
"No, I've never met one Alicorn here, one reason is because I made sure to drive them into extinction. And the other, they never existed here." Drago explained, "As for assassins, I'm pretty sure those still exist, and The White Fang just prove that."
"The white fang wasn't as you thought they were." Ozpin said as he carried his cane. "If only you arrived here when they actually did something good." That part got Drago off guard.
"...What do you mean?"
"The White Fang was never a crime organization, they were once a peaceful protest group for the freedom of Fauna's discrimination, until five years ago…" Ozpin stated as he was walking to the middle of the top of the building, where a platform is. "Heed my advice, Mr. Dragonheart, even if you couldn't protect those in the past, create bonds in the present and protect those you care for, we all made mistakes, even someone as me, that we have in common." Drago didn't give a look of anger, boredom, or even annoyance, but a look of thinking on the advice.
"...Farewell, Mr. Dragonheart." Ozpin said as he descended into his office. Drago stood there as he flew towards the forest.
"I can't promise anything, Ozpin, I will do what I have to...even if they see me as a monster." Drago said as he flew to RWBY's dorm. 'Hopefully they didn't burn my things or else Ozpin will need four body bags.' Drago looked through the window to see that team RWBY were just currently sitting around, RWBY studying as Yang relaxed. Blake reading a book, and Weiss also studying with Ruby.
'Huh, sweet.' Drago deadpanned, before he gave a loud banging knock on their window with a scowl. He...looked at them differently than he usually does as he saw either smiles, or calm looks. Ruby quickly got up, then opened the window letting him in.
"Thanks…" Drago said in a deadpan tone as he just sat in his corner.
"...You sure you don't want a blanket? Or a pillow at least?"
"Oh trust me, I've been in way worse sleeping spots." Drago said glancing at Ruby, "Now shut up and let me sleep and don't bother me." He finished with a growl like yawn.
"Okay." Ruby said simply as she smiled and went back to her studies.
'How come everything I say doesn't scare her in the slightest?' Drago questioned in his head as he took a glance at the rest of the team. 'I wonder if they are still upset with me...yeah maybe.'
"Night Drago." Yang said ….surprisingly friendly as she rolled over and started to go to sleep.
"Night... blonde... Brawler?" Drago said with slight confusion. '...Ok, guess not.' He looked to only seeing Weiss giving a wave goodnight as she went to sleep too, who he replied with a VERY hesitant wave back '...Just Blake then?' He looked at Blake, who only smiled at him in response, then went back to her book. '...who are they and what have they done to the rest of Team RWBY?' He questioned with a blank look. Despite how strange it was he just rolled his shoulders a bit and just laid on the floor, just staring into the darkness of the room as he finally started to go to sleep for the night.
