The two teams walked on both sides of the carriage, both of them keeping their distance. Time to time Cardin would sneak a glance at Velvet and she would do the same.
They stopped at a nearby river so that they could rest for a bit. Given this time, Cardin and Velvet thought it was a good idea to seclude themselves.
Velvet placed her bag on the ground and sat on a large nearby rock. She pulled out a few notebooks and some notecards.
Cardin took a double take before sitting down next to Velvet.
"Are you worried that your teammates will see you?" she asked sounding little disappointed.
"Sorry," Cardin apologized. "I've told Russell about us doing this friends thing, but I'm not sure Sky and Dove will be as understanding." He pulled out his own notebook.
"I feel the same with my team given our past history together." Velvet said emphasizing the last part.
"I thought we straightened that out between us?" Cardin said.
She patted him on the shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile.
"We did, and I'm happy that we did." She said.
Cardin felt his face started to heat up, he quickly turned his attention to his notebook on his lap. He didn't know why, but he felt his heart thumping with immense speed.
"Are you okay? You look like your burning up." Velvet asked a little concerned.
"I'm fine," Cardin said quickly. "Let's just get some of this studying done before we get going."
Confused, Velvet just shrugged it off. When the time came for the two to head back to the group, they were shocked to see their teammates at each other's throats, weapons drawn and both groups ready to strike the other.
Quickly, Cardin and Velvet ran between the two groups.
"What the hell is going here?" Cardin yelled at his teammates.
"I'm sick and tired of this fashion freak telling us what to do." Dove shouted as he pointed his sword at Coco.
"I was assigned as the group leader so idiots like you don't get put in charge and screw things over." Coco retorted.
"Says you, at least our team isn't full of weirdos." Skylark shouted back clearly pointing at Velvet.
Coco activated her suitcase mini gun and aimed it directly the three other members of team CDRL.
"You have the count of one to take that back." She growled in a threatening tone.
Both Cardin and Velvet stood between the two groups.
It wasn't until a loud explosion caught there attention, it came from where Mr. Glintworth rested. All eight students rushed over, and to their surprise, Mr. Glenworth's wagon was under attack by three hooded assailants.
The largest of the three was holding off four bodyguards, while the other two made their way towards the wagon.
"Do not let them near the client." Coco ordered. The rest of team CFVY and Cardin moved in to stop the assailants, but the rest of team CRDL stayed back.
Cardin skidded to a stop turning back to face his teammates.
"What are you guys doing?"
Dove and Sky looked at Cardin with disbelieving look.
"Why are you following the freak team?" Dove asks.
"What do you mean why? We're on a mission right now it's our job." Cardin turned to see that Velvet and Fox were engaging a nimble fighter who was wielding a shotgun like weapon.
The shotgun had a revolving dust cartridge with every pump it would change its dust element. Velvet tried to kick her opponent, but miss, and was shot in the stomach. She was blown back, Fox jumped in and started attack with a barrage of swift punches. To not effect as their opponent dodge and jumped away from each blow.
Yatsuhashi was fighting the larger bandit swinging his massive blade with great speed. His opponent pulled out a pole mace and deflected his attack. Their weapons collided each blow resonating a loud thundering sound.
Coco was faced the one with black iron rod using her suitcase to deflect any blows from her attacks.
The assailant swung its rod striking with quick blows to which Coco was starting to have a hard time deflecting each blow.
Velvet jumped in with lightening, her kicks collided with the rod.
"Velvet!" Coco yelled. "I had it under control.
"It's alright," she said sending another barrage of kicks towards the bandit. "You're no good against fast fighters, go help Fox I got this." She watched as her teammate engaged.
"Fine," Coco finally said.
Velvet nodded her head without turning to look back at her teammate.
Cardin watched as she engaged her opponent. He started to grow impatient as his teammates refused to follow his lead.
"Fine, you guys stay here," he roared ignoring his teammate's refusal to help. Luckily one person from his team decided to join him. "Thanks Russel."
Raising his two daggers, Russel had a struggled expression as he nodded at Cardin. He wouldn't tell him face to face, but he was thinking the exact same thing Dove and Sky were thinking.
The two rushed into battle with their weapons raised, Cardin signaled him to attack the bandit fighting Fox while he would go help Yatsuhashi.
With his twin blades, Russel attacks the bandit from behind catching whoever it was off guard. Even with the sneak advantage, he missed as the enemy dodged his strike.
"Oh I get to play with two people at once?" the bandit finally said, and judging from the voice it was a girl. "Well at least you're cute."
Ignoring her comment, Russel and Fox re-engaged their swift enemy sending her quick strikes and blows.
Cardin struck the larger bandit with his mace, but to his shock did little to distort him. Grabbing his collar, Cardin was lifted into the air. Yatsuhashi seeing an opening struck behind the bandit swinging his massive blade onto the back of the bandit. Again, the attack did nothing to hinder his opponent. With ease the bandit swung Cardin behind him slamming him into Yatsuhashi. The two of them were sent flying crashing into trees and rocks.
Cardin let out a groan as he pushed himself up from the ground. He watched as the large bandit started to make his way towards the wagon where Velvet was fighting. Looking to his side, he saw that Yasuhashi was out cold.
"Damnit." Cardin picked up his mace and used it to help steady himself. Even from just taking a few blows from his opponent his aura was already low. What the hell was that guy, seeing that he was getting closer to Velvet Cardin really only had one solution. Taking in a deep breath, Cardin's chest rose and his cheeks puffed up. With one quick release he let out a concentrated Screech, sending a sonic shockwave in the direction of the large bandit.
The large man flinch and twitched as did everyone else, Velvet clutched her ears as her sensitive hearing caused the screech to send a numbing pain in her ears.
Velvet looked up with a wide eyes as she saw that the screech was coming from Cardin. With the best of her abilities she tried to protect her eardrums from the numbing sound. She saw that most of the bandits were clutching their ears and so was everyone else. She could see the strain on Cardin's face as it started to turn red and his a vein started to show.
Finally, Cardin stopped releasing ragged breaths, he fell back onto his knees with sweat trickling down his face. It's been too long since he had to use that.
Seeing that her opponent was still trying to recover she ignored the painful ringing in her ear and landed a strong kick onto the bandits face. With a loud thud the bandit fell on the ground unconscious.
Immediately, Velvet ran towards Cardin who was still on the ground catching his breath.
It seems that the largest bandit that took the full brunt of the sonic attack was knocked out. Now only one enemy remained, she, Russel and Fox were still recovering as they each felt a ringing pain in their ear.
"Ugh what was that-" the female bandit didn't finish her sentence as an electrical surge erupted from her body. She fell on the ground unconscious with standing behind her holding a stun baton. It seems that wherever he was hiding he finally decided to show his face.
"Savages." he said.
With what remaining conscious guards left, ordered his men to round the bandits.
As both team CFVY and CRDL started to recover from their battle, Velvet knelt down next to Cardin who was still trying to catch his breath. She looked down at him concerned and shocked at what he did just moments ago.
Sorry it's been awhile since I updated so here you are.
I'm not sure how people will feel about Cardins semblance, but since he's based off the cardin and some dude named winchester so I just used cool perks of bird for his semblance idea also I got the idea from the super hero black canary from the DC universe. What do you guys think.