Chapter 20
Fight!
Reese woke up to the sound of an alarm going off, well his glasses were vibrating on the bedside desk.
"Muummmm what now?" Reese asked.
"Time to wake up for class." A.i said.
Reese then got out of bed and into the shower where he just spent most of his time letting the water run over his body, then he got out after 10 minutes of thinking to himself he got into his new clothes that he might wear for some time.
"Graphic tee shirt and cargo pants. Nice." Reese says.
The shirt in question has a picture of a beowulf that is being chased by a huntsman, and the pants well are just tan colored with four pockets, the last thing Reese put on him was his combat knife he used during training.
"Is that the anti aura knife?" A.i asked.
"No it's the one I got during training." Reese said.
"I see what about your sidearm?" A.i asked again.
"Not needed." Reese says back.
Reese then left his room and went straight to the mess hall for some good food, at the same time Yang was just getting up from her night time sleep.
"Morning Yang!" Ruby says with energy much to Weiss's displeasure.
"So sis are you excited for today?" Yang asks Ruby.
"What is so special about today?" Ruby asks back.
"Well today is my favorite day!" Yang says.
"What Thursday." Weiss says.
Everyone then heard Blake hold back a laugh, while Ruby is smiling a little to hard.
"No Weiss its combat training day." Yang says.
"No you mean the day that your going to find that guy right?" Blake says.
"You guys don't believe me don't you?" Yang asks as she frowns.
"Well I didn't see him after I saw you on the ground." Ruby says.
"Then I didn't find anyone that matches that description." Weiss says.
"And I wasn't convinced that your not crazy Yang." Blake says.
Yang at this point was between sadness and rage, sadness because her friends and sister are mocking her, rage because they simply didn't believe her.
"I'm leaving see you guys at class." Yang says as she slams the door.
Yang then rushed to the one teacher that she can talk to and get good advice.
"Professor Peach." Yang says as she entered the classroom.
"Ah Yang you know you should eat breakfast before you come to class." Peach says.
Professor Peach was a 50 year old huntress that specializes in grim research and chemistry.
"I know but I want to ask you something." Yang says.
Then Peach went from smiling to dead serious.
"Sit." Peach commands.
Yang then takes the chair and sits down.
"What do you want to know about?" Peach asks.
Meanwhile Reese is enjoying his breakfast that includes bacon and hashbrowns.
"Food is not half bad." Reese says.
"Well aside from that point here are your classes for the day." A.i says.
"You have to kill the mood don't you?" Reese asks.
He got no reply instead he got a list.
Grimm study professor Port
History Doctor Ooblick
Combat training Glinda
"That's it?" Reese asks.
"Yep they mainly focus on combat training here." A.i says.
"That's going to be easy." Reese says.
Just then the doors burst open to reveal four guys standing at the entrance.
"What is going on?" Reese thought.
"Man Cardin you beat up that guy so hard." Said one of the bully's
"Yep that is great to put them in their place." Cardin said.
They then proceeded to go to the front off the cafeteria to get food, all the while Reese was watching them.
"Great more of them." Reese says.
"Well then avoid them." A.i says.
"Can't. Even if I tried they will have me in their sights." Reese says.
Just then Cardin noticed Reese.
"Hey look a new guy." Cardin says to his cronies.
"Here we go again." Reese says while rolling his eyes.
Reese was focused on his food just then he heard four thumps of food trays hitting the table.
"Hey there new guy, me and my buds here just noticed you sitting here all by yourself." Cardin says with a smile.
Reese was eating his food silently.
"So we decided to join you." Cardin said.
Still no response from Reese.
"Hey the big boss is talking to you." Said one of the other guys.
Silence, Reese at this point was thinking of an attack plan if things went south and so far it was going that way.
Just then Reese's tray was on the floor with his food.
"Hey! If someone is talking to you, you give them your attention!" Cardin said with anger.
Reese then looked up and stared right at Cardin.
"Pick it up." Reese said in a calm voice.
At this point the whole cafeteria was watching this event go down.
"What!?" Cardin said.
"Pick it up. I won't ask a third time." Reese says.
"Hey Cardin he just challenged you." Said the other cronie.
"No I'm warning you it's different from a challenge." Reese says.
"Well then eat it with your face!" Cardin said as he threw a fist at Reese.
Just then Reese caught the fist and was now slowly increasing his grip.
Cardin meanwhile was trying to get out.
"You know the more you struggle the more I tighten my grip." Reese says.
Just then the door bursts open to show a really pissed off Glinda.
"What is going on here?" Glinda demands.
"Oh I'm teaching this guy a lesson about leaving people alone." Reese says.
"Well if you want to prove your point then how about a show of skill, winner is considered the best, fair enough?" Glinda says.
"Fair." Reese says while he lets go of Cardin hand.
"Fair." Cardin says.
"Good go to the arena in 20 minutes." Glinda says.
Back at Yang.
"So he is here but you don't have his name?" Yang asks.
"Yes when we get a new student all of Beacons records are updated with the appropriate information. But given the information you have given me it's that someone doesn't want us to know his name unless he says so." Peach says.
"I see." Yang said.
Just then the bell went off.
RING RING RING!
"Three rings someone is going to have a dual. Thanks again." Yang says as she runs out of the office.
"Anytime and do stop by I enjoy your visits." Peach says.
Yang was then running to the arena to see who was fighting.
Beacon rules at the time says if the bell rings three times that means that class is put on hold for the time being until the dual is over.
Yang then entered the arena to find her team waited for her.
"Hey how is it going?" Ruby asked.
"I'm fine just had clear my head. So who is fighting who?" Yang asks.
"Well it's team Cardin vs unknown." Weiss says.
"Well this is going to be short." Blake says.
"You don't know that." Ruby says.
Yang wasn't paying attention to her team, instead she was looking at the other end of the arena to see who comes out. She didn't have to wait for long just then someone came out a tall slender but muscular young man with dark red hair in a short sleeve shirt and cargo pants with a knife attached to his back side come out.
"Guys." Yang says.
"Yeah sis." Ruby says.
"Told ya he exists." Yang says while smiling.
Then the whole team rwby was now on attention to see how this fight goes down.
Down at the arena.
Reese was staring at Cardin and thinking of a battle plan on how to defeat him and humiliate him.
"What's wrong your personal cheer squad can't help you?" Reese says.
"They can't be here it's against the rules, but I'll be fine." Cardin says while hefting his mace.
"Hummm I bet ya in three minutes that you'll be crying for them." Reese says with a grin.
"All right you know the rules if your aura goes into the red your done." Glinda says.
"Got it!" Reese and Cardin say at the same time.
"Ready?" Glinda asks.
Reese nods.
Cardin grunts.
"3-2-1 GO!" Glinda shouts.
Cardin takes three steps forward but then stopped.
"Hey! Why are you standing there? Come at me." Cardin says.
Reese then drew his knife and Cardin took a combat stance ready for whatever Reese threw at him. Reese then twirled the knife around so that he was holding the blade just then Reese threw the knife into the wall.
The audience gasps in unison.
"Why did he do that?" Ruby says.
"Don't know but that's a bad idea." Weiss says.
Reese meanwhile was just smiling.
"Do you think this is funny? Take this seriously." Cardin says.
"I'm taking this very seriously, I'm just trying to see how big of a threat you are." Reese says.
"And discarding your weapon is a way to measure me?" Cardin asks.
"Less talking more attacking." Reese says.
Cardin then comes at Reese with his mace in the air, and as he brought down the weapon Reese still didn't move to evade or make a move to block it.
"Easy win." Cardin said as he brought the mace down.
SMASH!
A dust cloud enveloped the area and for several seconds everyone thought Reese was done for.
"Wow all bark no bite." Reese says several feet away.
"What how?" Cardin was about to ask but got a fist to the guts.
"My turn." Reese says with a sadistic smile.
And before Cardin had a chance to bring his weapon back up Reese kicked him, that caused Cardin to stumble backwards.
"Only an idiot trust his life with his weapon only a true huntsman learns all forms of combat." Reese says.
Cardin then gets up and tries to hit Reese but Reese caught the arm.
POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! CRACK!
That was the armor fracturing. Cardin then backed off and looked at his armor.
"You broke my armor!" Cardin says.
The audience was now talking.
"Did he just do that with his fists?" One student says.
"That's impossible." Said another.
"Now I'm mad. I'm going to finish this!" Cardin shouts.
"Good I was getting bored of you and your talk." Reese says.
"YEAHHHHHHHHHH!" Cardin shouts.
Just then the lights went out just the ones inside the arena not outside the arena.
Just then Cardin's anger just evaporated and now was replaced with absolute fear.
"GRIM!" Cardin screamed.
Now everyone was on edge.
"Staff move in!" Glinda commands.
"Wait! Let's watch." Ozpin said.
Glinda was about to protest but remained silent.
It was silent at first but the sounds of combat came through.
SMACK! KICK! PUNCH! WHAP! SMACK!
Just then Cardin came flying out from the darkness and just as his body hit the ground his aura shattered leaving him knocked out.
Reese then looked at the audience from the safety of darkness but then his eyes locked on Yang the same young women he bumped into on his first day.
Yang then looked into his eyes they were a bright red and looked like a flame was coming from the edges of his eyes, but instead of fear she just smiled and waved.
Just then the lights came back on and Reese's eyes went back to normal.
"I win." Reese says while walking towards the wall where his knife is and extracted it.
"You know manipulating the lights to turn off during the dual is considered cheating." Glinda says.
"No I was not I put a real world factor into it" Reese says.
Glinda was about to say something but Ozpin stopped her.
"Thank you for the real world demonstration mr?..." Ozpin asks.
"Reese." Reese said as he left.
"Reese." Yang says in a low voice.
"All right everyone back to class." Glinda says.
Reese then went straight to Ports class.
"I wonder what I'm going to learn?" Reese says to the A.i.
"Your considered the best of the best, why would you go to class?" A.i asks.
"Uhh remember I'm a student your to focused on the mission." Reese says.
Reese the found the classroom and entered to find it in progress.
"Well it looks like someone doesn't care about a learning experience." Port says.
"Sorry I was in a dual." Reese says back.
"Oh I see who won?" Port asks.
"Me." Reese says.
Reese the heard some of the students talking behind him.
"Did he just beat Cardin?" One said.
"Yeah I just got video." Said another.
"Well then your excused from being tardy mr.?" Port asks.
"Reese." Reese says.
"Very good now back to what I was saying." Port says.
What Reese expected was a lesson in how to defeat grim in a more efficient manner than before, not story's about a young man's glory days.
Then it was time to go to history class and for once Reese was looking forward to it, mainly for the fact that all throughout his life he just studied Atlas history.
Reese got to the classroom 5 minutes before the bell, and when he entered nobody was there.
"Umm hello?" Reese says.
Just then Reese had to blink one second his vision was clear the next he saw a man in front of him with green hair and glasses.
"Ahh yes yes for once someone who cares about being on time." The green haired person says really fast.
"Ummmm." Reese could say at the moment.
"Oh I'm sorry I'm doctor Oobleck." Oobleck says.
"I'm Reese and aren't you a professor?" Reese asks.
"I'm proud of my title that I earned so from this day forth you shall address me as Doctor Oobleck, I didn't earn the PHD for fun thank you very much." Oobleck says.
"Fine when do we start?" Reese says.
"Ah so your one of the few who likes history." Oobleck says.
"Yes sir there is always something to learn from the past and to apply it to the present or future if the conditions are set up right." Reese says.
"Oh yes very good just as a heads up today's lesson is about the two day war in the Samus mountains." Oobleck says as he retreats to his office.
Reese then takes a seat and looks at his watch.
"One minute till the bell. I wonder who is going to be here?" Reese says.
Just then the door opened to show several students walk in some human other faunas and they were talking among themselves till they saw Reese, then they changed topics to whatever they had originally been talking about, and now were talking about the match.
"That's the guy who beat up Cardin without getting a scratch on him." One female say to her friend.
"No way I also heard that his eyes glowed like a grimm's eyes." Said another.
Reese then leaned back in his chair and did hand signals to the A.i.
"I wish I didn't win that now everyone is talking about me." A.i says back to Reese.
Reese then nods.
Just then two more students walked in one with black hair with a bow on top the other with very bright red hair.
"You would not believe what I saw Pyrrha a new student not getting struck by Cardin." The black haired woman says.
"She looks familiar." Reese says in his mind.
"Well I would like to meet him and have a nice chat with him." Pyrrha says.
"Well you'll have your chance he is right there." Said the black haired woman who is now pointing to Reese.
And at the same moment the light bulb clicked in Reese's head.
"That's Kali belladonna's daughter." Reese says in his mind and the same time his eyes widened from the realization.
Then the next think he knew two woman were sitting next to him.
"Hello there." Said the red haired woman.
"Hi." Reese says back.
"I'll get straight to the point how did you defeat Cardin?" She asks.
"Well I would like to tell you but I don't know your name." Reese says.
"Oh goodness me I'm Pyrrha." Pyrrha says.
Just then Reese's glasses went off like crazy.
Searching records.
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Name Pyrrha Nikos
Information: recently transferred to Beacon after she turned down a full scholarship to attend the top academy in Atlas, currently she hold several fighting championships and has never been defeated, nickname she holds is the indestructible girl.
"Ahh I see miss Nikos I've heard so much about you." Reese says.
"Oh did you. What have you heard of me?" Pyrrha asked with a smile.
"Well I know about your odd fighting style. It's a very ancient but very effective way of fighting that involves using your shield and spear in a close quarters situation even tho it's a very bad idea, and your mastery with the sword is second to none." Reese says.
"Bravo. I commend your research but what I want to know is what your fighting style is, that made it easy for you to take down Cardin?" Pyrrha asks.
Now at this point Reese didn't even know what style of hand to hand he was taught but it involved a lot of gunplay with hand to hand.
"I was taught something called CQC, I started it when i was 8 years old, so roughly ten years I've been doing it." Reese says.
"But down in the arena, you didn't have a gun." The black haired woman says.
"And You are?" Reese asks.
"I'm Blake Belladonna." Blake says.
"That confirms my theory." Reese thinks.
"Well to answer your question, some styles of CQC doesn't require the use of a gun all the time." Reese says.
"Now here is another one. How could you see Cardin when the lights went out?" Blake asked.
"Very curious aren't they." Reese thought internally.
"Well when the lights went out I memorized where he was then I made an outline of where he was standing then I engaged and neutralized him." Reese says.
But that was far from the truth in reality he could see the thermal signature of Cardin (more details on that later in the story.)
Before Pyrrha could ask another question Oobleck comes out of his office just in time for class.
"All right settle down I know about the story's of the new student but a learning experience in history can't wait. So what we are going to talk about is the war in the Samus mountains also known as the two day war, so any one of you bright students know who were the active combatants?" Oobleck asked.
One student raised their hand.
"Yes." Oobleck says.
"Gen Ironwood vs Selena Kan of the White Fang." Said the student.
"Yes very good. Now who can tell me why it lasted two days?" Oobleck asks.
This time Blake's hand is up.
"Yes." Oobleck says while pointing to Blake.
"The reason it lasted two days is because gen Ironwood underestimated the faunas ability to withstand the cold temperatures of the mountains, so on the first day Atlas moves into the mountains expecting to have the faunas surrender by the first hour, but by nightfall Selena had the white fang move in with just knives and eliminate just the team leaders of the Atlas forces, then next morning Ironwood had to pull out because of the loss of leadership to his forces, it is still considered the biggest defeat for the then young Ironwood and probably his only loss on the battlefield." Blake says.
"Yes that is a very good break down of the battle, now for the last part I want you too figure out how you would have executed this mission." Oobleck says.
Just then a holographic mountain appeared in front of the students showing the students the location of the Atlas forces and the White Fang location.
"Now I want you to fix the general's mistake and replace it with your own plan, you got ten minutes." Oobleck says.
While other students got together fin their own groups Reese was formulating his own plan.
"Hey Reese let's formulate an idea." Pyrrha says.
"Should have said that ten seconds ago i already have an idea." Reese says.
Then oobleck somehow heard Reese.
"Wow looks like someone is on top the lesson today this is excellent, what is your plan?" Oobleck asks.
"What is my objective?" Reese asks.
"Your objective is to make the white fang surrender." Oobleck says back.
"K if i was to eliminate them I would have shot a rocket into the mountainside to make an avalanche, any way I would have snipers posted in four points." Reese says.
Reese then got up and pointed to four points on the mountain.
"Then the hard part they would have to tough it out for the cold to identify the white fang leadership, then after identifying them well engage them and anyone who attempts to take charge, then at the same time my main forces would move in and with non lethal weapons subdue the rest of them." Reese says.
"That's a lot of violence just to make them surrender." Blake says.
"Well if it's executed properly no more then ten shots would have been fired from start to finish." Reese says.
Blake then frowned at Reese.
"Well do you have a better idea?" Reese asks.
Now all eyes were on Blake waiting for her answer, then after a few minutes she shook her head.
"Hum very good Reese you solved it and let this be a lesson to all of you sometimes to stop a war you may have to take a few just to achieve peace, class dismissed." Oobleck says.
Reese then walked back to his desk to find a still mad Blake looking at him.
"Who are you?" Blake asks.
"What do you mean? I'm Reese." Reese says back.
"Well you're obviously Reese but the way you talk the way you fight and now the way you think, your a soldier of the Atlas military." Blake says.
Reese was a little surprised that she figured it out that fast but it's time to deny it.
"I don't know what your saying but you're barking up the wrong tree." Reese says in a calm voice.
"Don't give me that crap you know what I'm talking about." Blake says back.
"Well if you have proof that can back up your theory then you should do whatever is right." Reese says.
"I already have the proof the way you talk and that strategy you just demonstrated." Blake says.
"Anyone can do that it's just a matter of the right usage of your resources." Reese says back.
Blake was about to throw another retort but was stopped by Pyrrha.
"We need to go to combat class." Pyrrha says.
Blake then looks at Reese then walks away.
Reese then left the classroom and went out into the courtyard for a few minutes.
"Jezz what's her problem." Reese says.
"We'll because she cares for her people." A.i says.
"What do you mean?" Reese asks.
"I did some digging and her parents were the former leaders of the white fang, at that time they ran it under the grounds that when they did any rally they would do it peacefully." A.i says.
"I hear a but coming." Reese says.
"The but is that one day during one of their rallies it turned violent, people got hurt and according to the records two people died, then after that her father stepped down and handed it over to the current leader." A.i says.
"Yeah I can see why she got mad at me." Reese says.
"Yep but I recommend to stay away from her." A.i says.
"Got it well it's time for combat class." Reese says as he gets up from the ground and started walking.
Reese then arrived at the same arena where he did the dual against Cardin.
Reese then found a spot away from everyone but he didn't hold his breath on that.
Everyone then arrived in their combat attire and took their respective seats.
Then Glinda walked in.
"Good day everyone we are just going to jump on in so who wants to fight first?" Glinda asks.
Reese was at first going to watch everyone to see how well they fight, but then he heard this.
"I want to fight Reese." Said someone with an angry tone.
"Reese you have been challenged do you accept?" Glinda asks.
Reese then looks up and takes a look at the teacher.
"Sure it's probably one of the bully's seeking revenge for what I did to their ring leader." Reese says.
"Very well proceeded down here." Glinda says as she clears the stage.
Reese then jumped the rail and looks around.
"So who is my challenger?" Reese asks.
"Me." Said an all to familiar voice.
Reese then looks to see who said that, then his worst fear came to past.
"Blake Belladonna." Reese says.
Reese then sees her weapon.
"A pistol with a katana attached to the top of it." Reese says.
"Yes it is my mother gave it to me." Blake says with a grin.
"Ummmhumm." Reese simply said.
"I'm starting the countdown READY? SET GO!" Glinda says.
While Reese was prepared it was something Blake did that he was not ready for, she took a dash forward and as she reached punching range for Reese she looked like she stopped, then Reese punched at her and to his surprise his fist went through her.
"What the?" Reese said.
"Too slow." Blake said from behind.
But in Reese's perspective she was the one who was slow, and he caught her foot.
"Your slower." Reese says.
Reese then throws her away and she regained her footing and she started swinging her weapon at him.
"Weapon usage. Anger behind that blade, not as precise as I thought she would be." Reese thought.
Reese then drew his knife and started to block her.
"Why are you mad?" Reese asks as he blocks her.
"I'm mad because you have something against faunas." Blake says.
"No I don't." Reese said.
"Then how come in that exercise you had no problem dropping the leaders of that camp." Blake said.
"You heard the teacher how would you resolve the situation, and what made you think I went straight to the sniper option first when I considered a diplomatic plan first." Reese says.
"Cause you hate them!" Blake shouts while thumbing the safety.
BANG! BANG!
Two shots was all she could she get off before Reese got away.
Reese then looked down to see his shirt have two holes in it.
"You should be lucky that your aura held up." Blake says as she gets ready for another strike.
"How did she do that trick earlier the one of the after image? How did she do it? How? A shadow? Yeah that makes sense now think on it." Reese thought internally.
When Blake did her semblance Reese felt something like he knew he could do the same trick.
Just then she ran right at him, then Reese felt like a part of him just left and just as this occurred Reese saw Blake swing her weapon at him, Reese then ducked and rolled to her right he got up just in time to see his "afterimage" get beheaded.
"What?" Blake said.
Reese then got up and tackled her then started to punch her.
"Looks like you need another lesson." Reese says.
"That is?" Blake says as she kicks him off.
"Recon your target, and never underestimate the target." Reese says as he knocks her weapon away.
All of team rwby then stood up and was about to enter the arena.
"We can't enter." Yang says.
"She is right." Pyrrha says from behind.
Then the team sat down and just watched.
At this point the fight has just passed the 8 minute mark and both contenders looked exhausted.
"Let's finish this." Blake says.
"I agree." Reese says.
They then both charged at each other fully aware of could happen. They both prepare to punch each other but Blake then left an after image but was surprised when Reese didn't take the bait, Reese then hits her in the gut leaving her breathless, then he delivered her a side kick and made her fly back into the concrete wall, and just before impact Reese picked up her weapon from off the ground and threw it right at her.
WHUMP! CRACK!
Blake then opened her eyes to see that she was still alive and to find her weapon at her side well more or less a fraction of an inch away from her skin next to her left lung.
"Kill shot! And i don't hate faunas." Reese said as he left the arena and he just heads back to his room.
"How good is he?" Weiss says.
"I don't know but I plan to find out." Yang says.
End
A/n
I just hinted at Reese's semblance can you guess what it is?