Cardin walked into his dorm room angry. As he entered he roared loud and slammed his mace down on his desk. "Cardin!" Sky yelled at the sight of the desk smashing to pieces.
"I've had it with him! The wolf freak, first he shows me up in class. I know he used his shadow control semblance to cause me to trip down those stairs. Then he makes a fool out of me in combat! I'm goanna just what happens when you mess with me!" Cardin shouted.
"Cardin what can we do? He's taken on each one of us in class and taken us without a problem." Spoke Sky.
"Yeah the guy's untouchable. He's nothing no joke." Dove pointed added.
"Well I refuse to let him get away with this!" Cardin shouted. "We need something. Something he cares about, something to lead him into a trap." Cardin said.
Seth was in his dust chemistry class, he liked this class for one reason, he had a partner he could actually stand. He looked to his rabbit eared partner. Velvet Scarlatina, was his partner. She was a rather shy girl, quiet and a little kept back.
"Velv, can you hand me that?" Seth asked pointing to a small test tube of dust.
"Here." She said rather quietly, handing the wolf fanus the test tube.
"Okay so we mix this, with this." Seth said mixing the two bottles of dust together." Receiving the desired result the wolf smirked. He looked over to his partner. He noticed her worried face. "Velv? You okay?" Seth asked.
"What? Oh yeah I'm fine." Velvet answered.
"Velvet, I may not always be the your first choice but I am a choice. Tell me what's wrong." Seth said, showing his more caring side.
"It's just that team CRDL keeps bullying me. I wish they'd stop. There's nothing I can do about it." Velvet said. Seth knew this was a lie. As much as Velvet was shy and timid, she is also very strong. She's a strong mage and Seth thought she would be a tough opponent. The problem was that she was more passive then most people around BEACON. As well as fanus, and Cardin just loved to pick on fauns. Velvet seemed to be his biggest victim.
Seth placed his hand on Velvet's shoulder and said "Velvet, I know I'm not always the nicest guy but if you need I'll be there." She was seeing the side of himself that Seth didn't like to let most people see. Velvet smiled at what the wolf fanus said.
"Thank you Seth." she said.
Ruby watched the pair of fanus as they talked. She saw how Seth had put his hand on Velvet's shoulder to comfort her. "Ruby, are you okay?" Ruby looked to see her own lab partner, Pyrrha.
"Yeah I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" Ruby said with her usual cheerful smile.
"Because you were staring angrily at Velvet, also Seth was sharing what seemed to be a nice moment with Velvet." Pyrrha said.
"What are you getting at?" Ruby asked.
"I think you're jealous." Pyrrha said.
"No, to be jealous I would have to like Seth." Ruby said.
"Ruby, I'm your friend so I'm going to say this in the nicest way I can, if you don't come to term with your feelings someone else I going to steal him away." Pyrrha said. Ruby turned her head back so she could see Seth again. Wait! What! She was looking at Seth, being a little too close to Velvet's face.
"I-I…" Ruby stuttered as she saw the pair. It almost hurt seeing it.
"Okay now I wanna try something." Seth said as took some dust.
"What?" Velvet asked.
"Remember when I fought Cardin? I used small amount off dust and caused an explosion in front of me. I need a more controlled way to activate that so I don't hurt myself in the process of doing this. I have an idea for it but it requires mixing a little dust in the right way." Seth explained.
"Oh okay. Can I help?" Velvet asked.
"Yeah, can you hand that container of lighting dust?" The wolf fanus responded.
"This one? Here." Velvet said and handed him the small test tube.
"Okay now if I do this just right." Seth said putting a small amount of lightning dust in to the fire dust tube. It crackled a bit but other than that nothing happened.
"Did it work?" Velvet asked.
"I'm not sure yet. I'm goanna have to test it later." Seth said. He pulled out a small bottle and poured the dust in the bottle. He went to put the test tube he had used for the mixture back but in the process bumped a test tube of fire dust. Which caused it to mix with some other dust and explode, it was a small explosion and they happened all the time in class so no one batted an eye in their direction.
A little soot flew through between the two. They coughed a little. "Sorry about that Velv." Seth said.
"It's okay." She said. She coughed a little bit after saying that. Seth went into his pocket and pulled out a small rag. He went to wipe some soot off her face.
"I should have been more careful, that was a dumb mistake." Seth said while wiping the girl's face.
"I told you its fine." Velvet said. Their faces were close together, thus where Ruby saw.
Seth backed away when he realized how close they were. He put the rag away and looked to what they had actually done for class work. "Shall we turn this in?" He asked.
Velvet smiled and said "We shall."
Cardin smiled a wicked smile, he'd found what he was looking for. He was going to teach Seth a lesson. He'd use a little rabbit as bait to do so.
Velvet hummed to herself as she walked. It was dark already and it would be curfew soon. She stopped when her advanced hearing heard something. She scanned the area, but saw nothing. She couldn't help but feel like there was something lurking nearby.
"Hello freak." Velvet turned to see Cardin Winchester.
"What do you want?" The rabbit fanus asked.
"You're goanna help us lure in certain wolf fanus." Cardin answered. Velvet felt a sharp blow to the back of her head and darkness took her vision.
"Seth I have a question for you." Ruby said when she entered the room to find the wolf fanus on the floor where he usually slept.
"When we were in dust chemistry today, you and Velvet were extremely close, are you two dating?"
"Are you kidding?" Seth responded. "I caused a small explosion and was wiping some soot of her face."
"Ooh who knew you could be such a gentlemen." Yang snickered from atop her bed.
"Shut up." Seth said and then he heard his scroll ring. He looked at the caller I.D. and it read Velv. "Hey." He said answering the scroll. To his surprise the voice on the other end was not the rabbit fanus's.
"Hey Seth, don't react. Don't let your team know that this isn't Velvet. If you want to see your little freak rabbit again, come to the old abandoned gym near the school. Come alone or her face might not be so pretty afterward." Cardin said over the scroll.
Seth complied and said "Okay Velvet. I'll be right there." The wolf fanus hung up the phone and made his way to the door.
"Where do you think you're going?" Weiss asked.
"Out." Seth simply replied.
"It's almost curfew. You'll get in trouble if any of the staff see you." Blake said.
"I don't care. I've got to go." Seth said and left the room.
"Velvet…" Ruby said. She shook her head to get rid of the thoughts. He'd said that he and Velvet weren't dating. It had lifted a weight of Ruby's shoulder but she couldn't help but feel like something was going on. "Nothing's going on." Ruby said and then lay down on her bed.
"Are you sure he'll come alone?" Sky asked.
"Of course he will. He won't let the rabbit get hurt." Cardin assured. He laid his eyes on Velvet, she was tied and gagged on the ground. "Enjoying yourself freak?" He asked.
"Mhmhmh" Velvet's muffled calls said. Seth's walking straight into a trap because of me, she thought. The rope that blinded her was burning her skin. She wanted to cry, but she wouldn't give Cardin the satisfaction of knowing he broke her. She kept her mind on how Seth was going to be walking into a trap. She looked angrily at Cardin, which caused him to laugh.
"What are you angry? I should thank you, because of you Seth is going to be taught a lesson. One he won't forget." Cardin said.
Velvet looked around the room as best as she could, it was dark but she could see just fine. The members of CRDL were waiting by the front door for Seth to come in, but there were other ways in. Velvet eyes went wide as she saw someone in a black cloak moving through an upper part of the balcony. His hand moved to his face to signal Velvet to not make a sound. She didn't move and waited for what he would do.
"Where is he?" Cardin asked no one in particular. His hand tightened around his mace. "If he doesn't come soon, his little bunny isn't goanna be so pretty when he gets here." Cardin said turning his eyes on Velvet.
Without warning shadows grabbed Cardin's arms. "What the?!" He yelled as he tried to break free. His was thrown backward from a drop kick right into the middle of his chest plate, sending him backwards onto the ground.
"Hey Cardin, sorry to keep you waiting." The wolf fanus said as he stood, Night Howler was ready to take on anything. He looked to Velvet. "Hold on. I'll get you out of this." Seth said and turned back to Cardin. "If I didn't know any better I'd think you have a few fetishes, Cardin."
Cardin stood up and angrily faced Seth, his mace ready to take Seth out. "Team CRDL, take him out." He ordered. Each member of his team got ready with their perspective weapon, Dove with his bronze short sword, Russell with his twin blades, and Sky with his halberd.
Seth pointed his sword at team CRDL and said "Let's see what you've got."
Cliffhanger! Next time Seth takes on all of team CRDL. Now I want to say one thing, Velvet! I freaking love Velvet. In my opinion she's the most adorable character in the show. Any way I know there is some dispute about how Velvet should act in fan fictions, I used what I could find on the wiki and made her act accordingly. I do think Velvet will be a forced to be reckoned with later but for now she doesn't do much. Any way until next time.