Author's Note: Sorry if there were some weird spelling and spacing stuff last chapter, I was kind of rushing to put it out since it was so long, and that I wanted to say farewell to Monty. But anyway, Enjoy! (P.S: If I put a ... it means that there is a small passing of time.)
Reminder: This is a Yang x OC story. (Just saying it in case this chapter makes you guys think otherwise.)
Song: Gomen ne liko ja irarenai by Miku Sawai (From Kill la kill)
Pyrrha was grabbed and slammed into the side of a wall by three older kids. "Hey pipsqueak! Funny seeing you again!" One of the bullies said. Pyrrha tried to punch them, but they caught her fist.
"Why are you trying to fight back? You're so small!" The second one said. The third one grabbed one of her pigtails and untied it. "Stop it!" Pyrrha yelled.
"What are going to do about it? Cry? Ha!"
Someone yelled out and made the bullies pull away from her, "Hey what are you doing!"
Pyrrha looked past the bullies and saw someone behind them.
He had brown hair, turquoise eyes, and he was wearing a dark green shirt, with a sage bandana wrapped around his shoulder, and brown jeans.
"Oh hey look its the loner again! Shouldn't you be sitting somewhere by yourself?"
"Shut up! Why are you hurting her?!"
"Why do you care? You don't know her."
"Neither do you!"
The bully walked in front of the boy and got in his face.
"I know why you're doing this, you think that if you help her, she'll be your friend right? But, I can totally see you guys being friends! Two little loners!"
The boy clenched his fist and gritted his teeth,
"BEING A LONER IS BETTER THAN BEING A DICK LIKE YOU!"
He then suck punched the bully on the face and knocked knock him to the floor.
Pyrrha saw this as an opportunity to help so she grabbed one of the other bully's hands and sunk her teeth in to it.
"AAAAHHHHHH!"
He winced, and looked Pyrrha in the eyes just as her fist met with his eye socket.
The boy then came from behind the other bully and shoulder slammed him into the wall.
The boy was then rushed by other two kids, and threw him onto the ground and started to beat him. He tried to cover his face and he shouted at Pyrrha, "Go get help! *whack* NOW!"
She nodded and ran down the hallway screaming, "We need help! Please! Somebody!"
...
Three teachers stopped the scuffle, and Pyrrha got the boy to the nurse's office.
She waited and met him outside.
"Hello."
The boy had a black eye and he was holding an ice pack closely to it, but... he still had a smile on his face.
"Oh hey."
"I... just wanted to see if you were okay."
He lowered the ice pack from his face.
"It's nothing new, i'll be fine."
Pyrrha slowly turned and started to walk away.
"Okay... I guess i'll... just... stay away from you."
He dropped the ice pack and grabbed her wrist.
"Wait! What do you mean?!"
She turned back around, but the boy loosened his grip when he saw that she had tears forming in her eyes.
"*sniffle* You got hurt because of me! Because I couldn't defend myself,and it's all my fau-"
He put his hand on the top of her head, and hushed her.
"Shh. Just- don't cry."
"B...bu-"
"I said that I was use to it, so they do that to me all the time! So it isn't your fault!"
That hushed her, but she was still sniffling.
"Besides, If you stay away from me, I won't get to be your friend!"
Her eyes widened.
"Wait, *sniffle* you want to be my friend?"
He smiled and raised his hand In the air
"Yeah! And if we train together, maybe we can finally teach those bullies a lesson if they try to hurt us again!"
His cheerful manner cheered her up, so she dried her eyes.
"Okay. What's your name?"
"Gaigus, But my parents call me 'Gage'!"
Pyrrha smiled and held out her hand.
"I'm Pyrrha. Nice to meet you."
...
Jaune & Gage: "Pyrrha? Pyrrha!"
Jaune shook her shoulder and snapped Pyrrha out of her day dream.
Pyrrha: "Sorry!"
Gage: "You okay?"
Pyrrha: "Yes. I was just think about... old times."
Gage laughed,
Gage: "Let me guess, the first time we met?"
Pyrrha nodded 'yes'.
Gage: "Heh. Yeah... you were like ten right?"
Pyrrha: "I believe so!"
...
The three continued to trudge through the Emerald forest, and Gage was trying to come up with a plan on how to find a Nevermore.
He walked ahead of Jaune and Pyrrha, and stopped them. "So do you guys have a plan yet? Because I think im coming up with one." He said.
Jaune reached into his pocket, "Well, Professor Port gave me this-" and pulled out a bird call.
Gage sighed, "Seriously? Man, that professor is clueless..." he thought. He was about to speak his mind, but Pyrrha beat him to it, "I don't think that will work..." Jaune quietly groaned while Pyrrha turned to Gage. "So? What is your plan?" She asked.
"Easy! We track it!" He answered. Jaune looked at Gage weirdly, "Um, how do we track something that flies?"
Gage pointed into the sky, "We can find loose feathers that fall, and we can follow it by the excrement it drops."
"Excrement?" Jaune asked.
Gage laughed, "You know. Poop?"
"Oh...ew."
...
They tried to find some sort of clue for about an hour, but the trail turned cold just as the sun started to set.
"The sun's going down, we should probably turn back." Jaune suggested.
Gage didn't want to turn around now, he felt like he was about to catch a break, and they were too far in the forest to turn back now, as the creatures of grimm thrive in the night.
"We can't turn back now, we're too far in." He said. Jaune looked back and pointed at Beacon's clock tower, "Well, what if we go farther and get lost, Mr. Survival expert?"
Gage and Pyrrha looked at him angrily. "The fuck? Was that an insult?" Gage thought.
Gage looked at the sun and tried to calculate an easy way to get back. They were walking towards the horizon and they had their backs turned to Beacon.
"Okay... just keep the sun on your right shoulder, and walk away from it." He said.
"But the sun's going down." Jaune whined.
Jaune started to annoy both Pyrrha and Gage now. "Well, we could just rest until the sun comes back up can't we?" She asked Gage.
"Okay sure, whatever makes him happy..." Gage answered sarcastically.
...
They found a small cave that had a tree next to it and decided decided decided there for the night.
Jaune placed a few logs in a circle, and pulled some leaves on top of it. "Okay, how are we going to start the fire?" Pyrrha asked.
Gage walked up next to them and looked at Jaune. "Give me your sword." He asked him.
Jaune unsheathed Crocea Mors and handed it to him hesitantly, "O...Okay..."
Gage held it by it's blade and put it above the logs. 'Wait! What are you doing?!" Jaune asked worryingly. Gage heavily sighed, "*sigh* Relax, I always used to do this."
He slammed it's hilt into the logs and made some sparks fly. The sparks quickly spreaded to the leaves and the logs and set it ablaze. "Voila!" Gage yelled as he handed the sword back to jaune.
...
After the sun finally settled, Gage could tell that Jaune and Pyrrha were starting to get tired. "Okay, since you guys are getting restless, i'll keep watch while you guys sleep."
"No. You need rest more than any of us." Pyrrha replied. "Pyrrha im fine with it." Gage said. "No Gage! Im serious, you need to sleep. Thats final."
Gage looked shocked and he quickly changed his expression to a cooperative one.
"F-Fine... i'll try..."
He moved away from her and Jaune and perched himself in a nearby tree.
...
Jaune looked at his partner with a small smirk on his face, "Hehe. 'That's final'? You only say that when Nora won't go to sleep."
Pyrrha looked into the fire with a small smile on her face, "He's as stubborn as her. I'll give him that..."
Pyrrha looked at Jaune. She was starting to worry about him and wondered why he was acting weird around Gage.
"Jaune?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"What's gotten into you?"
"W-What do you m-mean?"
"You're acting hostile towards Gage."
"N-No I-I'm not. I-I just... get nervous around new people! T-That's it!"
"Jaune. I know when you're lying to me."
Jaune just stayed silent.
"You can tell me. It won't change anything between us."
He looked up at the tree branch that Gage was sitting on, and it didn't look he was awake. So, he heavily sighed and placed his hands over the fire.
"I'm jealous of him okay?" He answered.
"What? Why?"
"I don't want him... to take you from me."
"What?!" She whispered.
Jaune looked down and rubbed the back of his head.
"You always act different around him, and i tried to figured out why, but it wasn't that hard to see. He's older me. He looks better than me. And if he knew you, he's probably better at fighting than me..."
Pyrrha mouth opened slightly, but she slowly closed it when she realized that she did act differently around her old friend, and she never told Jaune anything about Gage.
She sighed, and moved her hand closer towards Jaune's until their fingers were entwined.
"Jaune, that's preposterous. I'd never do that to you. And Gage isn't that type of person... but I do think that it's my fault that you'd think that... because I never told you why I act weirdly around him..."
"Pyrrha, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"It's okay. I've been wanting to get it out of my system."
She grabbed a stick and tried to move the charcoal around so fire could spread faster.
"We met when I was just ten years old. I was attending sanctum, but at a very young age, and I was always picked on because of it. I could barely match any of the older students, and one time, when I couldn't fight back, Gage helped me fight back. And after that we looked out for each other, and we trained together. For two years. Almost everything I know about Aura and fighting came from him, and I excelled past him. So far that I became... 'popular', and I left him behind without knowing it. But then one day, I heard that something happened to his... to one of his parents, and I tried to find him so I could comfort him...but i was too late. He already moved to Atlas, and I never saw him again. And ever since that day, I never got over it, and I almost stopped training, but I thought that 'He wouldn't want that. He would want me to keep moving forward', so I did. I won the mystral regional tournament four times in a row. I became a star athlete. I came to Beacon. And then I met you. And I decided to help you, like he helped me. But then our partnership turned into something more... a relationship."
Jaune tightened his grip on her hand, and looked at her sympathetically. "So... if it wasn't for him... you wouldn't-"
"I wouldn't be here. With you, or Ren, or Nora...and... I wouldn't be who I am today."
"But, you don't have worry about him, or me Jaune. I will never leave you... And besides, I think he has someone else in mind..."
Pyrrha suddenly felt her pocket vibrate, so she pulled her scroll out of her pocket, and turned her alarm off. So, now it was time for someone to take the second watch.
She turned back to Jaune and pushed him onto his back. "Okay, it's your turn to sleep now, so i'll see you in the morning okay?"
Jaune smiled awkwardly, "U-Uh, O-Okay..."
She giggled and gently kissed him on the cheek, "Sleep well."
His face quickly lit up and became red.
"G...G-Good...G-Goodnight P-Pyrrha."
...
After Jaune fell asleep, Pyrrha glanced back and up at Gage as he sat silently on the tree branch, and all she could think was, "I wasn't there for you..."
...
Gage was actually still fully awake, and he was just staring up at the moon, as he always felt... at peace whenever he would look up at it. Like it was looking down on him.
But his peace was disrupted when he felt the branch he was sitting on suddenly shake.
He was about to pull his hood down to see what it was, but his action was stopped when he heard a small whisper come from in front of him.
"I'm sorry."
He pulled his hood down and saw Pyrrha sitting in front of him with her head hanging low. He chuckled,
"It's okay that you yelled at me, Pyrrha. I should take sleep more seriously."
She raised her head. Her eyes were watering, and Gage could see the reflection of the moon inside them.
"IT'S NOT THAT!"
She tried to be quiet, but she was struggling to, as she started to weep.
"I wasn't there for you!"
All Gage could do was look at her in shock.
"Pyrrha. What are you-"
"You helped me, and I abandoned you in your time of need!"
"I wanted to help you but I...I was too late, and i'm so sorry! But I know you can't forgive me-"
She stopped rambling as she felt his hand cover her mouth.
He pulled his hand away from her mouth.
"Shhh."
She let out a small series of coughs, so Gage put his hand behind her and rubbed her back.
"Breathe."
She inhaled shakily and exhaled loudly.
"Good. Now... What are you talking about?"
Her eyes started to water again.
"*sniffle* it's about five years ago! when you left. I forgot about you *gasp* but i remembered *gasp* And i couldn't find you and *gasp* then I found out that you were gone and it was all my fault!"
Gage just pulled down his hood and looked back up at the shattered moon and then back at Pyrrha.
"Don't cry Pyrrha. If it was anyone's fault, It was mine. I didn't want you to stop fighting because of my personal life. So I didn't tell you. And you can't blame yourself either. I was already on the other side of the world when you found out, and I didn't have a choice to stay or not. I just... didn't want to ruin your career. But that doesn't matter now does it?"
She looked at him, slightly angered.
"YES IT DOES!"
He shushed her again and gripped her shoulder tightly.
"No, it doesn't!"
His revolt made her look into her old friend's turquoise eyes. His facial stuff and hair make him look like a different person entirely, but his caring personality hasn't changed. Not one bit.
Gage gripped both of Pyrrha's shoulders and took a deep breath.
"Pyrrha. It doesn't. Matter. We're both still here. We both made it to Beacon! Sure, we took different paths, but we both still ended up here. And we're still friends, and nothing is ever going to change that, I promise you!"
She wiped her tears away, and tried to smile.
"*sniffle* You promise?"
"Heh heh, yes Pyrrha, I promise."
...
After that, they both just stared at the moon. Pyrrha was still sniffling, while Gage just rubbed her back again.
"You'll always be my first friend. I want you to remember that okay?" He said.
"*sniffle* Okay."
Gage glanced back at the fire behind him and saw that Jaune was quietly gently nudged Pyrrha and pointed at the sleeping knight.
"Okay, you should go to sleep, because I think your partner's getting a little lonely!"
She gave him a mix between a serious and concerned glare, but he quickly acknowledged it.
"Don't worry! I promise that sleep will be my number one priority when we get back!"
She sighed and looked down,
"*sigh* It better be, Gage."
She then jumped off of the tree branch and yawned as she tiredly walked over to Jaune.
The next day...
Jaune suddenly woke up as he felt someone shake his head. "Wake up Jaune!" Pyrrha whispered. He raised from the grassy ground and yawned.
"*yawn* Morning." He said as he stretched his arms out.
He looked in front of him and saw that Gage and Pyrrha were sitting next the fire, which was still lit.
"Mornin'." Gage muttered.
Pyrrha pulled Jaune to his feet and hugged him for no apparent reason. He hugged her back, and looked at Gage with a slightly-frightened blank stare. They both then looked at Pyrrha quickly, and back at each other, but Gage just smiled and shrugged.
After she let go, Gage walked over to both of them and handed them a small stick. "I-I uh, caught us some breakfast." He said.
They both looked at the top of their sticks and saw two grasshoppers impaled on them. "Euw..." they groaned.
Gage looked away with a small frown, "They're not that bad. I used to eat them all the time..."
Pyrrha looked at Jaune with a forced smile, "Well...as the saying goes, 'don't knock it until you try it'..." Jaune looked at the grasshopper and then back at Pyrrha, "Erm...ladies first!"
She looked at it and hesitantly brought it towards her mouth, closer and closer, until it hung above her tongue. She then bit down on it with a small crunch.
She tasted it and her eyes widened as she began to munch on it and quickly swallowed it, "Hmm. It's not that bad!" She said while smiling.
Jaune looked at her like she was crazy.
Gage picked up a stick and ripped the head off of the grasshopper that was on it with his teeth. "*munch* Well? *munch* are you going to eat it? *munch* because I'll have it if you don't."
Jaune looked at the grasshopper on his stick. It's leg was still twitching and it's body was spasming. "*gulp* Um..." Pyrrha and Gage both grinned at each other as Jaune continued to stutter.
He opened his mouth slightly, and only put the insect's head between his teeth, and he was about to bite down on it...until,
"What the... LOOK OUT!"
Gage took Mistletoe out and crouched as he shot an arrow out of it.
It went right past Jaune and hit a beowulf that was creeping up behind him. The arrow went right through the grimm's eye, which sent it flying backwards and pinned it to a tree.
Jaune looked at the dead wulf. It had stopped moving but, it's mouth was open and there was blood pouring out of it.
Seeing it, Jaune covered his mouth and dropped the stick, "I uh...think I just lost my appetite..."
Pyrrha ran to Jaune and looked across his entire body in a panic. "Pyrrha! Im fine!" Jaune protested. Gage just chuckled and walked past him and took the arrow out of the dead grimm's eye. He laughed, "Damn, I nearly clipped you with the arrow! Sorry about that Jaune."
"N-No problem."
...
After Pyrrha finally figured out that Jaune was okay, Gage got their attention. "You guys, if we find those grimm, they could make a lot of noise and attract a nevermore!" Jaune frowned at the idea, but Pyrrha agreed with it, "Sounds like a plan!"
Gage put Mistletoe on his back, and unsheathed Javix. He then changed his Kukri to It's revolver form. "Then lets get going!"
He started to walk, but he stopped. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot..."
He reached into his pocket and pulled out his scroll. "You both did say we had to 'record' our findings."
He turned on it camera, pressed record, and placed it in his pocket so only his camera lens was sticking out.
...
The three pushed themselves through the trees and reached a clearing with a huge, slanted stone in the middle of it.
Gage turned to Pyrrha and Jaune. "Okay, are you guys ready? Because we're definitely going to get swarmed by grimm once we attract them."
Pyrrha turned Milo into it's rifle form, and put Akouo on her arm while Gage activated Cynica's blades and put his hood up, but Jaune nervously unsheathed Crocea Mors.
"U-Um a question? What do you mean by attract-"
Gage aimed Javix in the air and fired before Jaune could finish, and soon enough, the creatures of grimm emerged from the trees surrounding the group of three.
Gage and Pyrrha stood in front of Jaune as a pack of Ursai roared at them. They both looked at each other, "lets do this!" Gage stated confidently.
They both ran towards the horde.
...
Pyrrha saw two of the Ursai come at her side by side so she spinned her spear around and knocked one of them back, and impaled the other one.
The other one was right behind the one that Pyrrha had stabbed with her spear, so she reached for Milo's trigger and fired, killing the other Ursa with a clean headshot.
She then let go of her spear and decapitated the first Ursa with her shield, before gripping the blood stained end of Milo and pulled it out of the grimm's stomach right as Gage ran past her.
Gage could see five Ursai as he came to a sudden stop. He stopped moving and let them surround him as he put his hand over the hammer of his revolver.
"Six shots, five targets." He thought.
One soon came after him once he processed that thought, but he turned to side and shot the grimm in the back once it passed him. "One!"
The heard the second one stomped behind him so he quickly ducked and shot it as he turned around. "Two!"
He saw the third one in front of him so he used the barrel of his revolver to pistol-whip the grimm, which made it stagger and look away. It growled and tried to turn back to Gage, but he pulled the revolver's hammer back and blew it's brains out. "Three!"
The last two charged Gage from two different sides, so he stabbed one in the chest with Cynica, and shot the other one before it could get to him. He lowered his revolver and looked up at the Ursa that he had stabbed. It was still alive and it was trying to grab Gage's head, but he just got in the grimm's face and stared into it's eyes.
After their eyes connected, the Ursa opened it's mouth and let out a roar that made Gage's ears ring. After hearing it, he got closer to it and roared back at the Ursa.
He then stabbed deeper into it's stomach and pulled it closer to him. As it came closer Gage put his foot out and tripped it, causing the grimm to fall flat on it's back. And finally, Gage pulled Javix's hammer back, took aim at it's head and executed it with his fifth shot.
"Five."
He quickly turned back to see how his friends were doing. Pyrrha was taking on three Ursai at once, while Jaune was struggling against one of them.
Jaune back it back with his shield, and was a about to finish it off, but then he heard a loud growl come from behind him.
Gage reacted to it without a second thought, "JAUNE! BEHIND YOU!"
He raised Javix and used his hand to pull back it's hammer again and fired his final shot.
The bullet whizzed past Jaune and pierced the neck of the Ursa that had just popped out of a bush.
Jaune saw the grimm fall and quickly killed the Ursa that he was focused on originally, but then Pyrrha turned to Gage and screamed at him.
"GAGE!"
He tried to turn around as fast as he could, and when he did, he saw a giant Ursa standing right in front of him.
Once he laid his eyes on it, It roared and swung it's claw at him.
Gage's reaction time slowed as it came closer, so he tried to lean to the left to dodge the hit, but he wasn't fast enough.
His eyes remained open as he saw the claw slash past his head, but he didn't feel anything.
After the grimm's claw passed by him, he saw four pieces of sage fabric fall to the ground. He could still see, but then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the right side of his hood was tattered and it had three claw marks on it.
"Wait, but weren't there four pieces of clothing?"
He looked down at the fabric, and saw that one of the four pieces had a pattern on it.
"But that could only come from..."
He looked at the bandana on his right arm. It looked wrinkled and...it had a small cut on it.
Gage looked in front of him and saw an almost countless amount of Ursai approach him slowly. He started to breathe heavily, and his blood began to boil.
"Yū... ... Yū monsutāzu!"
("YOU... YOU MONSTERS!")
Gage switched Javix back to its Kukri form and gritted his teeth. Held his knife upside down and turned it sideways so the curved part of the blade pointed behind him.
He then put Javix out in front of him with his left hand, and kept Cynica close to his right side.
"Anata wa shinu tame no jikan!"
("Time for you to die!")
...
He yelled at the sleuth of Ursai, and ran towards them.
...
As he was about to collide with the pack of grimm,a giant Ursa, which looked like the pack's leader, stepped in front of the rest of the grimm.
But, Gage wasn't threatened by it, sohe combat rolled behind the pack leader and thrusted Javix backwards, and stabbed the Ursa in the stomach.
He looked at the rest of the pack in anger as he removed his blade from their leader and menacingly walked to them.
"Anata wa sore o kizu...Anata wa sorera o kizu..."
("You scratched it... You scratched them...")
Another one tried to claw his eyes out, but he just pulled his head back and calmly slit the Ursa's throat.
"Anata no kegareta ashi de!"
("With your dirty paws!")
Then a third and four one came out. The third one tried to go for Gage's legs with his claw, but he dove over it. When he landed, he looked back and saw both them come in for another attack, so he stabbed the third one into the side of it's head with Javix, and he stabbed the fourth one in the chin with Cynica, killing them instantly.
He removed both of his blades and he their blood splattered against his chest and neck as both of the grimm fell to the ground.
"DAKARA WATASHI WA TSUMORI ANATA NO ME O EGURI YO!"
("SO IM GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT!")
He only killed four of them so far, but he could still see twelve Ursai that were still breathing.
"Subete no saigo no yū no hitotsu!"
("EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!")
He ran towards the remainder of the pack, and slid into them. He spun and endlessly hacked and slashed until he heard every last one of their cries be silenced by him.
...
Pyrrha and Jaune both looked at Gage with their mouths hanging open.
He had cleared a path and completely eradicated the pack, with only a few being able to crawl away with a few limbs missing.
"D-Damn." Jaune said.
"I... didn't remember him being that... brutal." Pyrrha added.
Jaune started to hear a flapping noise from behind him. "U-Um P-Pyrrha? W-What's that?!"
She turned around and saw that a giant flying grimm had blocked out the sun. "I-I believe that is a giant nevermore Jaune."
Jaune gulped, "C-Crap!" He looked back at where Gage was and tried to alert him, "U-Uh, G-Gage! I-It's here!"
...
Gage stood on top of a slanted stone. His clothes were colored red, and there was steam coming off of him, which was probably from the grimm blood. He looked at the giant bird, still enraged,
"Mā, hyōji suru koto ni shita fū mite!"
("WELL, LOOK WHO DECIDED TO SHOW UP!")
He continued to curse at the bird in his foreign language, which made the Nevermore move it's focus towards him.
...
It began to descend, almost to ground level and it was about to pass over Jaune and Pyrrha.
Jaune noticed this and immediately switched into his 'leader mode'. "Pyrrha! Go it's wings!" He commanded.
She nodded and raised her spear in the air, "On it!"
It cawed at Gage and flew above Jaune and Pyrrha. "NOW!" Jaune yelled.
...
A ear-piercing tear echoed through all three of their eardrums, while the nevermore screeched as both of it's wings were cut off, and fell towards the ground.
When it hit, a loud flop was heard and it head bounced up, but it didn't stop. Instead, it started to slide across the dirt, and it was skidding towards the stone that Gage was standing on.
Gage sheathed Javix and growled at the bird.
As it slid closer to him, he moved to away from the stone's edge and took a heavy breathe.
...
He heard the Nevermore cry out again, so he sprinted up the stone once more, and screamed at the bird as he jump off of the rock.
"Īkagen'ni shitteeee!"
(COME ONNNNN!")
He put Cynica's blades out in front of him as he landed on top of the nevermore's head.
"DAIIIIII!"
(DIEEEE!")
Gage thrusted Cynica into the bird's skull with a loud crunch, and continued to scream at the now dead grimm until it came to a complete stop.
...
Pyrrha and Jaune got to the Nevermore's corpse, and saw that Gage was still on top of it. His clothes were still steaming and red, and he was panting heavily. Jaune tried to talk to him.
"Uh, G-Gag-"
Gage looked Jaune and shouted at him,
"*pant* *pant* Nani?!"
("*pant* *pant* WHAT?!")
Gage looked at his friends and shook his head, "Orokana, orokana..." ("Stupid, stupid...") He attempted to speak english again, "S-Sorry... about that... Jaune." Jaune just brushed it off.
Gage looked at Pyrrha, "I, uh, think im okay now..." Pyrrha looked at him like he just died.
"Um, define okay?" Jaune asked sarcastically.
"Yes, are you sure that you're okay?" Pyrrha asked, still terrified. Gage wiped some of the grimm blood off of his face. He had two new scars. One went across the right side of his lips and the other one went across his right cheek.
He inhaled and tried get Cynica out of the Nevermore's skull, but it's blades were stuck inside it's brain. He tried to pull it out with all of his strength, "Yeah- just- give me- a- second- AHH!" Gage felt the joints in his arm tear. He winced and held his arm close.
Jaune jumped on top of the dead grimm and tried to help Gage get his arm out. "Don't worry- I gotcha- ERRGGHH!" Jaune's assistance got Gage's arm out, and they both fell onto their backs.
...
Pyrrha ran to them as they both got up. She got to Gage first since he was still holding his arm. "What's wrong with it?!" She asked.
Gage tapped his shoulder, "I think it's dislocated!" Pyrrha grabbed his risk and his forearm, "I can fix it. Are you ready?"
"Yeah but just please be gentle- BWAHHHH!"
She forcefully pushed his forearm up and back into it's socket, and his screams stopped. "Ow. Thanks guys."
"You're welcome." They both replied
...
Gage looked at his right blood-cover hand, and retracted Cynica's blades. "Gross." He exclaimed.
Jaune looked at it, and covered his mouth and plugged his nose.
"What?" Gage asked. Jaune pointed at him, "Dude, you look and smell like a slaughter house!"
"But hey, at least I got everything on camera right?!" Gage said as he took out his now blood stained scroll.
Jaune rolled his eyes and laughed, "Yeah...hey I wanted to ask, what language were you speaking back there?"
Gage pulled his hood down, "I can give you a hint." Jaune and Pyrrha tilted their heads. "Okay?" They answered.
Gage sighed and looked away from them. "*sigh* I'm an otaku..." he muttered. Jaune and Pyrrha looked confused, "A what?"
"N...Never mind..."
...
The three were about to leave but Gage and Jaune smelled something foul as they walking past the dead bird's 'hindquarters'
They both turned to where the stench was, and when they saw what it was, Gage started to laugh uncontrollably, and Jaune started gagging.
It was the giant bird's waste.
"Hahaha! See Jaune look! It shit itself!" Gage said while pointed at it.
Jaune held his stomach, "OH GOD THAT'S- BLEEHHHH!"
He threw up all over the grass and started coughing. Gage pointed at his throw up, "Ha! That one had some chunks in it!"
Jaune threw up again, even harder. "STAHP!"
Gage started to laugh again, but he felt Pyrrha punch him hard in his right shoulder.
"AHHH! PYRRHA YOU JUST PUT IT BACK IN IT'S PLACE!"
...Later
The three made it back to Beacon's campus with a few hours of daylight to spare.
They were approaching the old locker room where Gage kept Green Bean.
Gage and Jaune were both groaning. Jaune was holding his stomach, and Gage was holding his shoulder while Pyrrha was walking in between them with a smug look on her face.
Gage walked to the locker room doors and opened them, "*groan* I'll be right back."
...
He entered and saw that Green bean was resting on her side and Velvet was asleep on the horse's stomach.
"Velvet!" Gage whispered.
He walked closer and shook her.
"Velvet! It's time to wake up!"
All she did was mumble something and turn away from him.
He looked at her rabbit ears, "Hmmm , I wonder..."
He used one of his fingers and lightly touched the tip of one of her ears.
"Velv-"
Her eyes shot opened and she punched Gage in the eye as she let out a small scream.
He fell back and covered his eye, "SORRY! SORRY! I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE THAT SENSITIVE!"
She sighed and threw her arms down, "Ugh! Don't ever do that again! Is that clear?!"
He tried to take her seriously but her cute accent, and the fact that her face was as red as a tomato made it hard for him. "C-Crystal!" He answered.
She pulled him to his feet and gasped when she saw that his clothes were covered in blood. "*gasp* Are you okay?!"
Gage looked down at his pants and jacket.
"Heh heh, yeah. It's not my blood."
Velvet sighed, "*sigh* wow."
Green Bean rose from the ground and trotted in between them. Gage patted her forehead and laughed, "Well, I guess I can take it from here!"
Velvet smiled and wrapped her arms around the horse's neck. "Oh! I can't wait to take care of you again!"
Gage folded his arms and grinned at Beanie and Velvet, "Sure, anytime!"
She stared at him blankly.
"Wait, really?!"
"Yeah, just give me a heads up first!"
She exploded with happiness and hugged Gage tightly, "Thankyou! Thankyou!thankyou!thankyousomuch!"
"You're... crushing... me... somehow! And you're welcome!"
She released her grip on him and look down, "Sorry, it just that... I almost forgot what having a horse feels like. But you helped me remember!"
Gage patted her back. "Well like I said, come back anytime!"
"Okay!" She rejoiced.
...
Velvet turned back as she was about to walk out the door. "Bye Beanie! See you next time!"
...
Gage let Beanie out of the locker room and walk back to Jaune and Pyrrha.
"Gage, are you going to come with us to Professor Port's classroom?" Pyrrha asked.
Gage handed her his bloody scroll, "Nah, I've got wash my clothes and take a shower, but just give this to him."
She took it and tried to clean it's camera lens, "Alright, Jaune? Are you coming?"
"Ye-"
Gage put his arm around Jaune and smiled, "Oh he'll catch up! I've just got to talk to him for a second!"
Pyrrha smiled, but Jaune felt like he was going to throw up again, "U-Um, what?"
"That's great! I guess I will see you back our dorm Jaune!" She said as she slowly turned and walked away.
"W-Wait! Pyrr-"
Gage just tugged on his shoulder and pulled Jaune into the old locker room. "Relax, I said it'll be just for a second!"
...
Gage made Jaune sit down on one of the locker room benches, and stood in front of the knight while Beanie watched the blonde closely.
Gage closed the doors and got closer to Jaune, which made him keep his distance from him and his horse.
"Okay Jaune I just wanted to say that-"
Jaune covered his face and stomach, "PLEASE DON'T BEAT ME UP!"
Gage stared at Jaune for a few silent seconds before replying, "The fuck? Why would I do that?"
Jaune lowered his hand from his face, "B-Because I was acting like a dick to you..."
Gage chuckled. "Yeah I thought you were a dick too, but that was before I figured out why."
"W-What?"
"Jaune. I can tell that you and Pyrrha have a 'thing' going on so, I just wanted to say that...I'm not going to get in the way of it. Besides, I'm just an old friend, not her dad!"
Gage stood in front of Jaune, and held out his hand.
"So... Are we cool?"
Jaune smiled and grasped Gage's hand.
"Y-Yeah... We're cool!"
He pulled Jaune closer and slapped him on the back. "Good!" He let go of Jaune and nudged him towards the door.
"So um, are you coming Gage?" Jaune asked.
Gage stretched his arms and leaned on Green Bean.
"No, I'm promised your girlfriend that i was going to try to get some shut-eye."
Jaune looked away and rubbed the back of his head, which Gage noticed.
"Eh heh, What? That's the correct term now isn't it?" He asked the knight.
Jaune looked happy and started to leave.
"Y-Yeah. Yeah it is!"
...
Jaune opened the door, "So I guess I'll see you around!"
Gage got an idea. "Jaune! Wait a second!"
He stopped and looked at his new friend.
"What?" He asked.
Gage grinned, "Just a heads up, If you screw this thing with Pyrrha up really bad, then I will be coming after you!"
Jaune's happy expression completely imploded, and turned into a look of fear.
"U-UH, I-I UM...SEE YA!"
Jaune slammed the door, and when he did, Gage fell to the floor laughing.
"AHAHAHA! DID YOU SEE THE LOOK ON HIS FACE! FUCKN' PRICELESS!"
Green bean sat on the floor next to Gage and snorted at him as she rested her head on his stomach.
Gage wiped his tears of laughter away and sighed,
"*sigh* Oh god damn, I think I'm beginning to like this place already!"