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Secrets
"Good morning students I hope you all had a good nights rest." Professor Goodwitch says standing in the middle of the arena. "Seeing that the Vytal festival is coming closer we are going to start with tournament style battles." She goes on getting some exited replies from other students.
"Now for the first fight of today I will choose two random students." She types in something into her scroll and pictures of students start spinning. "Would Mercury Black and Drake Swart come down to the arena please."
Getting up and going to get boys locker room I start changing into my combat gear only to be interrupted by my opponent. "Hey even if I am going to embarrass you no hard feelings right." He says with a cocky smirk on his face.
"Oh no the same goes for you." I answer putting my hand on his shoulder and applying pressure making him go onto his knees. After that I make my way to the arena waiting for my opponent. He arrives a couple of minutes later with a death stare on his face. "I will fucking teach you, nobody embarrasses me."
"Okay students remember the rules, when someone is ringed out or his aura drops in the red they lose. Now get ready." Not knowing what kind of fighter Mercury is I decide to not get in a combat stance. Instead I just stand there observing my enemy.
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Mercury directly comes at me trying to deliver a couple of blows with his feet. I just stay still waiting for the right moment to duck under his attack. Doing this I am behind him giving me the perfect opportunity to kick him the back before shooting him.
"You son of a bitch!" He yells trying a different strategy, now trying to do close quarter combat shooting at me with his boots. Trying to evade the incoming attacks I get hit a couple of times but not enough to put my aura in yellow. "He fucking hit us and is still smiling...kill him make him suffer!" the voice in my head yells at me. Trying to ignore it I transform my gun into his baton form.
Waiting for him to come at me again. When he does I hit him in the gut successful stunning him giving me the time to hit him again in the head. Walking over to him he surprises me by using his weapon to shoot me in the leg making me fall to one knee. He takes this opening to get up and deliver a big punch to the side of my head.
But before he can do it again I grab his leg pulling on it making him go off balance. Seeing my chance I slam him into the ground by punching him in the dick. Standing over him I put the barrel of my gun against his head with my finger on the trigger.
"Good now do it, end this piece of shit!" Clocking back the hammer of my pistol I am about to shoot was it not for miss Goodwitch. She walkes over to us before using her semblance to get me away from Mercury.
"And what do you think you are doing! Report to the headmaster office immediately." She says dropping me to the ground and going over to where Mercury is laying unconscious in the floor. Getting up I go to the exit and make my way to the elevator to Ozpin office.
"You should have killed him when you had the chance. We should just leave, Indigo told us they aren't here to kill us we can rejoin them." Simply ignoring the voice I step into his office when the doors finally open.
"Mr Swart please take a seat." Doing like he said I take a seat looking at him we lock eyes. "I am not going to lie, I know about you and the red hand " He says probably hoping to get an reaction out of me but I don't move an inch.
"You are not in trouble but there are some things I would like to know." He continues still not getting a reaction. "Ah I see they probably trained you to never say something to anyone."
"No normally we should kill ourselves before we get caught." I reply in a monotone voice not breaking eye contact with him. "I don't know what you wanna know, but I am not telling you they still are my friends
They took care of me when nobody else wanted. And for what happened today in the arena, I will take full responsibility and exept the consequences."
"I am just trying to help you. When you tell me everything the red hand knows about the White Fang in Vale I will leave it by that. Think about it doing that can save a lot of civilian lives." He says trying to convince me my reply is just to keep silent and break eye contact.
"I am sorry but I'm not going to tell you that. Are you going to hand me over to the police now?" I ask hanging my head low accepting my fate. "No you would make a to good huntsman to do that, plus you saw what you were doing was wrong and tried to better your life."
Standing up I make my way to the elevator not saying another word. Looking back one more time at the headmaster he is looking at me and by the looks of it trying to study me.
"Hello...how was the rest of combat class?" I ask trying to play off. "You mean after you almost killed another student." Blake says coldly looking up from her book. "Oh come on I wasn't going to really kill him. The guy was a dick to me in the locker room so I scared him a bit." I try to convince myself more than them at this point.
Before they could answer the teacher walks into the class getting everyone attention. Tuning out his lecture because I am not in the mood right now to focus on class I just try to forget today ever happenedYou can't ignore me forever.And above all else trying to tune out that annoying voice in my head.
Now can anybody tell me something about Humanities Hand Front? He asks getting my attention immediately. 'God dammit Ozpin I swear if this is your doing." My thoughts are interrupted when another Faunus in the class answers.
"They are a pro humanist group who are set on making Faunus second class citizens. In the beginning they only fought White Fang however over time they also began murdering normal Faunus. Nobody knows what their real end goal is but they are feared especially their trapper agents."
"Very well, now students who thinks to know why they do this or if these trapper agents are even real." Looking around the class nobody seems to have an answer for that until Weiss answers. "They are reall for sure and not some story to scare kids." She says getting the attention from everyone in the room.
"And how do you know this for sure miss Schnee. There are not a lot people in this world that have claimed to have seen one." Now everyone attentions is going to Weiss waiting for her reply. "I have seen one, I was doing my duties as a heiress when all a sudden a trapper appeared end in cold blood killed a couple of Faunus employees."
"That's not what happened!!!" I yell at her not yet realising what I just did. "And how would you know that mr Swart?" The professor asks curiously, looking around I see everyone attention is now focus on me.
"B-because...I-I was there." I stamper out trying to control the rage that has been building inside of me.
"I was the trapper that fucking saved you! And this is how you repay me. By telling some lie that I just started killing a couple of random people!" I yell in anger, realising my mistake I look around the class seeing faces of hatred and discussed. "Oh yeah fucking look at me like that, I was a trapper I have killed a lot of people. Now if you would excuse me I am going for a walk." I say making my way to the door, all students I pass directly get out of my way. Arriving at the door I take one last look at the class before leaving.
With the rest of the team
"I can't believe it I have been living with a trapper from the beginning of the year." Blake whispers still trying to proses what just happened. "Weiss why did you do that!" Yang growls in anger her eyes flashing red. "Simply if he won't tell anyone I will." She defends herself crossing her arms. "He saved your life if I understand correctly."
"He did, and that's why I pushed him so much that secret wasn't good for his mental state and you know it." She answers ignoring the death stare Yang is giving her. "Wait you guys knew?" Blake asks shocked not believing her ears.
"Well we found out about it the other day. You know that box...well he keeps a couple of pictures and his mask in there." Yang tries to come up with a solid reason why she didn't tell her partner or sister.
"We should go and find him." Ruby says getting up and ready to run out of the room only to be stopped by Blake. "Why should we? He is a trapper! A trapper who knows how many people he has killed?" However saying all of this made Yang only angrier.
"How can you say that, his parents where killed in front of him, he just wanted revenge." She desperately tried to argue back. However she knows it is a lost cause, trappers are legends. Nobody knows that they really exist, however Faunus parents tell their children stories about them. When they don't listen the trapper is gonna come and get you. The ones that do know about their existence say they are mass murdering super soldiers. That won't stop at nothing to reach their goal.
"Well I don't think he's that bad." Ruby says now receiving all the attention. "He didn't try to hurt anyone from us he helped us train and get better. He never was a racist to any Faunus we met and sometimes would take the blame for us! So I don't think he's that bad." She finishes her statement by sitting back down and turning her attention back to the teacher.
Drake PoV
"Stupid stuck up bitch." I mutter to myself walking through the halls of the academy. All other students getting out of my way because of the murder intend I am producing. I'm on my way to the gym to let loose some anger on the training bots.
Arriving at my destination I put the training bots on the highest difficulty. Taking out my katana I started hacking away at the bots. After a couple of hours the training room was out of bots and I finally take a breather. Looking around I am surrounded by broken bots and behind me is no one other than Ruby Rose.
"How long have you been standing there?" I am able to get out between breathes. "Oh uhm...like only fourthy minutes or so." She replies not making eye contact with me. "What do you want Ruby? You part of the mob probably send out to get me." I say angrier than I intended.
"Uhm... I just want to know is it true." She says barely audible for me to hear. "Yes it is I am a trapper, after my parents died I wanted one thing, revenge. I spent seven years hunting and killing animals and let me tell you I enjoyed every minute of it."
"That's not true! You never tried to hurt Blake or any other Faunus. You are one of my best friends. If you where one of them you wouldn't have left them." She says locking eyes with me and looking very determined. "I left because they ordered me to kill innocent people. If they hadn't I would probably not be here." I finally say the real reason, letting her know I have no problem killing people.
"183" I say catching her of guard and making her look at me again. "That's my kill count, the hand had us keep track of it. So they could determine the best, I was fifth in a list of the good hundred trappers there are." I admit noticing some noise coming from behind the door. "Yang, Weiss I can fucking hear you!" I yell making them come out of hiding.
"Didn't anyone tell you that listening to other peoples conversations is rude." I say making them both look at me. "So..." I want to continue but am cut off by Yang.
"We don't care, we accepted Blake so we accept you. If you didn't feel sorry for your actions you wouldn't be here." She says getting up in my face before punching me in the gut. "And that is for not telling us sooner."
"And I guess I should apologise for saying all that. I am really grateful that you saved me all those years back." Weiss says also coming closer to me. "You aren't going to punch me in the gut to are you?" I ask after catching my breath. I look up to her and see her smiling warmly.
"Blake is out for my blood I guess?" I say making my teammates lower their heads. "Don't worry she is just stressed about the whole Torchwick thing. She hasn't slept for days now." Yang says trying to cheer up the rest. "Yeah but first we need to plan a school dance."
"Doesn't another team plan that?" I ask Weiss while taking a towel and wiping off some sweat from my forehead. "No team CFVY hasn't returned from their mission yet so me and Yang will be planning it." She answers clearly proud of it. "Oh okay, can we go back to the dorm I wanna sleep and just forget about this day." I say receiving nods from all off my friends.
With Cinder
"The guy was going to shoot me! He was going to fucking kill me." Mercury says for like the fourth time this evening. Ever since he got out of the sick bay it's the only thing he has been talking about.
"Yeah hahah you should have seen your face." Emerald replies finding the course of actions of today hilarious. "You little bit...boss tell her to shut up." He says getting angrier with the minute. "Hey boss you there?" He says after he doesn't get an answer. Looking at her he sees that she's in deep thought.
"This is a very interesting development. A trained killer walking around the halls of Beacon. This certainty complicates things." She says getting up and looking out the window of their dorm room. "We could kill him but his team would ask to many questions."
"Letting him just wonder around also isn't an option. He would be to much of a treat, clearly has no problem in killing and very highly trained." She continues still in very deep thought. "One of the only options is to turn him to our side. He would make a very good pawn." She says having made up her mind.
"But how are we supposed to do that?" Emerald asks not knowing how they would accomplish that. "Simply he's a man." She says letting her eyes get engulfed with flames.
The end
That's the end of this chapter hope you guys enjoyed it. I am sorry for the late upload but for now hope I see you guys in the next chapter.