Chapter 21
It had been about 3 weeks since we successfully got rid of Garnet, and things were looking up. I have a girlfriend that loves me, I have a lot of good friends, my grades are good, and my robotic leg has actually improved my speed to the point where if me and Arthur race, I win, not by much, but I win.
Today my physical therapist wants me to come in, she wants to make sure that my robotic leg is still functioning and isn't messing with my normal day to day activities. Everytime I go Yang comes with me. I told her she didn't have to and I would only be there for 30 minutes but Yang insisted so she goes with me. I won't tell her this but I'm glad that she continues to go with me even though I tell her no. It makes me feel like were un-breakable.
As we were walking to the infirmory I noticed Yang was a bit more distant than usual, "You good Sunshine?" Yes that is still her nickname, and yes she does like it.
Yang looked to the ground as she spoke, "Yep, just thinking..." Now she's just being difficult, "About?"
"The Vytal Festival." Ahh yes the Vytal Festival, A place where all four kingdoms get together to celebrate a treaty that was signed about 80 years ago at the end of the Great War, on the island of... You guessed it, Vytal. Now every two years a festival is held to commemorate our untiy as a whole and to show everyone that we are at peace. Yang wasn't much for the fesival, she mostly wanted to smash some heads in at the tournament, I can't blame her for it. The tournament is supposed to have some of the best teams from each school come and participate. I'm not too keen on fighting in the tournament myself but Yang has been training all year for it so I know it means a lot to her, and as her boyfriend it is my duty to comfort her and help at any point as long as she needs it.
"What about it?" I ask as we begin to enter the infirmory, some of the nurses and doctors saw me and waved, I obviously waved back.
"I... I want you to fight in it." Yang didn't look at me she just keeped looking down. Once I told her that we wouldn't fight she has been quite pushy to get me to change my mind. The way I see it is that my team may be one of the better teams at Beacon but we pale in comparisson to team RWBY and JNPR who both fight each other constantly to see whos best, while my team tends to fight only when necessary.
"Yang I told you, we aren't ready for this caliber of fights. We can barely hold our own against one of your teammates let alone all of us versus all of you... We aren't ready."
Yang didn't say anything after that, she just looked forward and dropped the subject, it was starting to bug me. She always got like this after we talked about the tournament. Yang would just look indifferent until I made her laugh, which was easy to do, but still she shouldn't be upset with me at all.
"You know what Yang... If the therapist says it's okay, I'll talk with my team about joining in the tournament." I felt like I shouldn't have given in but when she smiled at me, I was happy that she was happy.
"FINALLY... Why do you have to be sooo stuburn sometimes?" I chuckled and opened the door to my therapist's room and waved at Dr. Terra Lekarski, my therapist, well she's not really my physical therapist because the part of my body she checks isn't my body. She works on my robotic leg and makes sure it's running properly, so I guess that makes her my... Technician? She was about the size of Yang and wore black box framed glasses over her terracotta eyes, she had light brown hair that went into a ponytail, she still had some bangs falling free on the left side of her face but not to the point were you couldn't see her eyes. She may be my technician but she could still preform the work of a doctor, so she wears a white lab coat with a red button up shirt underneath. Her pants were black slacks and she was wearing dress shoes. As I walked in she greeted us with a warm smile and gestured for us to take a seat.
"Hello you two! Lance how you feeling today?" Terra pulled out a clipboard and grabbed a pencil and waited for my response, "I feel fine Terra, you?" Yes I called her by her first name. She made it very clear when I first met her that she wanted me to treat he like a friend, a friend that was sent here by Atlas to watch over my leg and make sure I was okay.
"No he's not fine... He's been complaing about what happens when he takes a shower with his leg." Yang doesn't let me lie to Terra, like, at all. If I get a date wrong Yang is going to immediatly tell her when and what really happened. It was sweet to see her care so much about my well being.
Terra looked at me and cocked an eyebrow as she spoke, "Lance what happened?" the room got silent after she finished speaking, I started to rub my neck and look away until Yang elbowed me in the ribs.
"Fine... I get mildly shocked, not enough for me to scream out or anything.. Just enough to make me move my leg out of the shower." Yang and Terra are the only people I tell about my leg problems, Arthur tries to understand but he simply can't. Not even Rosey or my dad know about my leg... I haven't had the courage to tell them yet.
Terra smiled slightly and began to write on her clipboard, "You do know that you're not supposed to wear your leg while you bathe?" Yang spoke up, not even giving me time to defend myself.
"I TOLD HIM THAT!" Yand said as she punched me in the arm. I hate when she's right especialy after I finished arguing with her, because it usually ends with me being harmed for protesting against her. I really do love Yang, she tuaght me how to love, be a good friend, and... Pick my battles.
"Okay... I'm sorry, it's just wierd to stand with one leg." I did it one time to see what it was like... I fell and almost couldn't get up, luckily Viktor was there but it was a really awkward day after that.
Yang let out a deep sigh before she spoke, "Just take bath-"
"YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" I have a deep hatred for baths. Why? I feel as if taking a bath is me bathing in my own filth, and showering washes it of my body and down my drain, not stay in the tub with me.
Both Yang and Terra face palmed, Terra wrote something down as she spoke, "The only reason he gets shocked is because he takes his leg in the shower. Taking a shower with your leg won't get you killed but it can cut down the longevity of it use, so please take good care of it. Anything else?"
I looked at Yang to see if she had anything else to add. She looked to me and gestured towards Terra. Yang wanted me to ask about the tournament. I quickly shook my head and stood up to walk out. Yang immediately grabbed my arm and yanked me back into my seat.
"He has something to ask you Terra." Yang started to dig into my soul with those big lilac eyes of her's causing me to fidget in my seat a little, "Yeah Terra... Ummm, how's your day?"
Yang definitly didn't think that was funny as she cocked her hand back and smacked the back of my head hard enough to make me see black spots.
"Ask. Her. NOW." I gulped as Yang's hair started to smoke a little bit, I looked back to Terra and sighed. I'm doing this to make Yang happy.
"Is it... Okay... If I participate in the tournament?" Every word that came out of my mouth was forced out, I didn't want to ask her but when Yang kissed my cheek, it was all worth it.
Terra started to flip through her clipboard, she would stare at each page for a second and then flip to the next, until finally she stopped and looked back to us, Yang was hopeful, and I was definitely worried.
"Yes, just make sure you continue to come see me regularly so I can continue to keep track of your leg. Got it?" I nodded and stood up, Yang did the same.
"Got it." I said sadly, I hunched my shoulders and walked out after waving bye. Yang quickly grabbed my arm and spun me around so she could hug me, "I'm soo happy that you're going to fight in the tournament. Be sure to train hard okay and- Wait a second." Yang pulled out her scroll and took a call.
"Why would Weiss want us to go to the docks?" Yang started to walk ahead of me so I sped up to keep pace with her.
"To spy on the other teams? That sounds about right... I'll be there in a minute. Okay see you in a few, Blake." Yang put her scroll back in her pocket and looked over to me.
"Wanna come with, maybe you could spy with Weiss." Yang smiled at the thought of me going with her, I simply chuckled and patted her head... No I didn't get punched, Yang trust me with her crown jewel.
"Not this time. I'm going to go back to my room and give them the bad news and then we'll start training I guess." Yang started to laugh as she wrapped an arm around me.
"Stop complaining... You'll like it, I promise." Yang kissed me on my cheek to make me feel better. I would be lying if I said it didn't help a little bit.
I shook my head and noticed that we were approaching team RWBY's dorm "Yeah, yeah, yeah... Go on your boring espionage mission." Me and Yang opened the door to the room and we looked at the rest of RWBY. Ruby was laid back in her bed, Blake was reading, and Weiss was pacing back and forth.
"What took you so long!?" Weiss' impatience was bafiling sometimes.
The heiress approached us and snatched Yang up, "We have to go welcome the new students!" Before I could even say bye, Weiss had stolen my girlfriend and hauled her off. Ruby and Blake stepped up to me, both seemed happy to see me.
"Hey Lance, did you two just come from the infirmory?" I nodded and looked at Blake who noticed my slight scowl, "Is everything okay?" I was about to nod but my mind told me that I would be lying.
"No... Yang wants me compete in the tournament." The two girls were trying to surpress their excitment. Blake's expression changed very little, her face only hinted at a smile while Ruby was losing her fight against her face until finally she burst out and hugged me.
"YAY... Now the three strongest teams at Beacon will compete!" I lifted Ruby off of me by her cape and smiled ever so slightly.
"I'm absolutly positive team CFVY can beat the crap out of us." Ruby poked me in my nose, and giggled. I let her go and Blake spoke.
"Out of first years we are the strongest three." I wasn't going to argue with that, "And besides, you already took down a criminal organization in your fourth week at Beacon... THAT'S AWESOME!" Ruby said as she tapped me on the chest.
"Your teams skill is a lot higher than you think, if only you would believe in your teams abilities, then maybe you can surpass other teams." Blake was pretty wise for her young age. It's probably from reading all of those books.
Weiss ran back to the other two members of her team at mach speed and dragged them away, "YOU TWO COME ON! WE'LL MISS THE BOAT!" I waved as the three left me to walk alone. I headed to my room that was a few doors down and opened it to see Viktor texting and Amara trying to teach Arthur how to draw.
"Hey Lance!" Viktor shouted from his bed, "Sup... We nead to have a team discussion stat." All of the team looked up from there activities and listened carefully.
"I have been talking with team RWBY and they think it would be best if we...Compete in the tournament. As you guys know, I don't make big decisions without speaking to you guys first... So what do you guys think?"
Everyone looked at each other. A devilish grin formed on Viktor's face, "I'm deffinitly about beating up some kids and sending them home to their moms." I nodded to Viktor. 1 for the tournament.
"I don't mind either way." Amara said as she started to erase something Arthur drew, It wasn't looking good whatever it was.
Arthur's eyes seemed to twinkle for some reason, "Lot'a cute girls could notice me when I'm out there." As soon as he finished that Amara smaked him in the back of the head, "And if you try to talk to anyone of those girls, I'll break your neck." Amara said with her teeth clenched together, Arthur laughed and kissed her cheek and whispered something in her ear.
"Well that means 2 are for it, 1 is indifferent, and 1 is against it... Looks like we're training for the tournament... Common guys, lets go to the sparring room." I was the one agianst it but it didn't matter now. We began to leave our room and head for the sparring room. Thats where every student who was participating in the tournament went to train. While we were walking I heard Viktor gasp as he read a message on his scroll.
"What, did Neo say something rude?" Amara asked with a hint of venom as she spoke, "No, Gray just sent me a text... My jackets done!" Before we could stop him, Viktor was already across campus, with us chasing him down.
"VIKTOR SLOW DOWN!" Arthur shouted to our yellow blur. Once we got to the smithy we saw Gray handing Viktor a yellow jacket, alot like the one he wore when we first met but this one had white going down the sides, and on the cuff of the jacket it opened up kinda like those hoods on sports cars, Viktor quickly put it on and smiled.
"Perfect fit Gray!" Viktor said as Gray pated him on the back, "That's good now try it out!" We all stepped back a few feet and let Viktor try somethings out. I noticed on each wrist was a type of circular wheel that had four different type of dust in four slots. Viktor switched it to electric dust and the white strip on the side of the jacket turned yellow signifying electricity, while the outlets on the cuffs of the jacket sparked and a electric line passed in front of Viktor's fist. He did the same to the other one and now he had brass knuckles made out of pure electricity. I could see the happiness radiating from Viktor's face until he went solemn again and switched his jacket back to safe mode.
Slowly Viktor pulled his left sleeve back to reveal his old weapon, "I'll miss you Electick." He began to unclip it and hand it to Gray.
"Don't worry Viktor, I'll make sure I she gets fixed up and good and proper. She deserves no less than the best." Viktor nodded and smiled slightly, "We had a lot of great time you and I... You were a bit overpowered... WAIT!" Viktor snatched the watch out of Gray's hand and began to take it apart. He opened up the titanium cassing around the yellow dust crystal and pulled it out with a set of rubber gloves Gray handed him.
"Why are you taking it out? it's just a dust crystal" Amara semmed to be bored of his antics, I was just curious, the way he was handling the crystal made it seem very important to him.
"My grandfather gave me this crystal befor he passed away." Viktor took the yellow dust crystal out of his left wrist dust system and placed in the old one, earning a look of confusion from Gray.
"I understand that it has a lot of sentimental value to you but what happens when it's drained of its energy?" Gray looked at the yellow dust crystal that Viktor had gaven him and placed it in a box with other dust crystals.
"I'll drill a hole through it and make a necklace and then switch the crystal." Viktor took off the rubber gloves and handed them back to Gray. Gray seemed pleased with the answer and switched his focus to me.
"Lance how is your leg?" I sometimes forget that the teachers know about my robotic leg. It was to make sure that the teachers knew that if my leg malfunctioned and I didn't make it to class they would excuse me.
"Fine sir... Though it's still a bit weird to have a robotic leg, but I'm getting over it." Arthur and Amara had already began to walk away to the sparring room and Viktor was adjusting his jacket.
Gray could tell I wasn't fine and continued to question me, "You sure? You don't seem fine."
Viktor started to giggle but never looked either of us in the eye, "He's just mad the he let his girlfriend sweet talk him into competing in the tournament."
"He's not completely wrong... She didn't sweet talk me into it, she kinda gave me the silent treatment until I finally gave in to her demands." Both Gray and Viktor burst out laughing.
"I don't see how that was funny." I crossed my arms and turned my back on the two, waving as I walked away, Viktor quikcly caught up to me and patted my soulder, he had a sly smile on his face before he began to talk again.
"Sooo, did you two ever pick up were you left off... Y'know, the day we went out to the club and you two danced up a storm." My face began to blush. I tried to walk even faster but Viktor was the fastest on the team so he easily kept up with me. I didn't want to tell him the answer to that question.
"What me and Yang do is none of your business." I heard Viktor laugh, he must not have seen it because he walked directly into a wall as he was laughing, causing me to laugh.
Viktor regained his composure and ran up to me, "That's not funny... It hurt." Viktor started to rub his head as we walked. We soon arrived to our destination, the sparring room.
The room was the same size as a basket ball court but without the staduim for people to sit in. Every inch of the floor was covered in tile, so when you fell it hurt. Glynda stood by and waited for any structural damage so she could repair it. I saw Arthur talking to Amara over at an empty area, of course we began to walk over there when I was stopped by a girl in a beret and some shades, her hair was a dark brown color but her right bangs turned to a caramel color before it reached the end. She had on a long sleeved cocoa colored sweater and around her waist was a vest of some sort . She had a belt with bullets going across it, the belt was holding up her black pants. On her waist was her weapon that I hadn't seen yet. It was a black purse, something about it was off though, it seemed metallic. This was Coco Adel, leader of team CFVY.
Coco had tilted her glasses revealing her brown eyes as she talked, "Hey Lance you finally decide on whether or not you're competeing?" I looked down at her and grimaced, she had also been trying to get me to join in the tournament. I just chalked it up to her wanting to pummel me but I guess today's the day I find out.
"Yes we will enter... You can thank Yang for the change of heart." I could see and glint in her eye but she never smiled, she pointed to her biggest teammate, Yatsuhashi, and dragged me over to him.
"Hey, Yatsu, this here is Lance, he's going to help you train for today." My jaw dropped, I yanked Coco back to me and began to scold her, "How can you just put me up aganst the biggest member of your team?!"
Coco placed a hand on my shoulder and winked at me, "Size doesn't matter." Okay well I'm not going to tell Yang that comment, I brushed her off, and let out a deep sigh. Coco didn't see that as a no and pushed me to the locker room.
"Go get changed and bring your A-game. You'll need it to win." I shuttered when I looked back to her giant partner who was sharpening his sword that was bigger than me. Viktor ran over and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"If you die can I have your bed?" I sighed and continued to the locker room, "I guess." I heard Viktor jump for joy behind me, as I walked into the locker room, I went to my locker and opened it. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Jaune getting dressed in his gear.
Jaune hadn't noticed me yet so I made my presence known, "So who you fighting Jaune?" Jaune almost jumped out of his skin, he gets scared easily.
"Umm Pyrrha, you?" I smiled at him and Pyrrha's 'relationship'. It consited of her dropping mega hints on his head and him not even noticing, "Yatsuhashi." I heard Jaune gasp a little.
I could feel him place a hand on my shoulder, "You were a dear friend to me, and I just want you to know that...that you were like a brother to me!" Jaune had the most dramatic acting I had ever seen, it was moving. I pressed my hand against his shoulder and began to act with him.
"I... I lived well... So don't let this haunt you... Remember me as I was." And with my final words I grabbed Fides, placed it in my sheath, and left the room with Jaune shouting
"I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!" Soon after that I heard laughter, and I began to laugh too. Jaune may not be the best fighter, but he was definitely a good friend.
I walked out onto the arena that Yatsu was standing on and saw we had drawn a crowd, even Glynda was looking up from her scroll to see. I guess Viktor had told everyone what was goind to happen. I stood in front of Yatsu, his shadow casted over me, making me gulp. I don't know what his parents fed him but if Ruby wants to be big I think she needs to lay of the milk and eat whatever he does.
"Are you ready to begin?" Yatsu's deep voice startled me, but he seemed indifferent, "You bet." And with those words he stepped back and I went to my side of the arena. He pulled out his giant orange buster sword that was even bigger than me. I pulled Fides out of it's sheath and pressed the button to make it go into it's buster sword from. it was big but nowhere near as big as Yatsu's. He grabbed it with both hands and got into his stance, I did the same.
I started to try and physc myself up to fight him, and It was kinda working, "Okay me, you got this, like Coco said, size dosen't matter. How strong can he be any way?" I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. If I lose this fight I'll know how good I really am but if I win... This fight will be a fluke accident.
"BEGIN!" I heard Glynda yell from the sidelines. I immediatly ran towards Yatsu and let my body take control, I switched Fides back into a normal sword and slid under a swing from Yatsu. I could see my reflection in his blade, while sliding I kicked him in his knee and made him stumble back, I used gravity dust to shot at the ground and send me flying into the air. I looked down at Yatsu and saw that he didn't have any range so I switched Fides into a rifle and began to fire explosive dust rounds at him. He somehow managed to cut one of my rounds in half, makng it impact around him. I swticed my weapon back to gravity dust and aimed behind me, I fired and the recoil sent me flying back at Yatsu. I switched Fides back to a buster sword and slammed it into Yatsu's blade causing a loud ringing sound to go through the entire arena.
I felt something wrap around my foot, I looked down to see that Yatsu had me by my real leg and threw me to a wall. I hit the wall and started to see black spots. I fell to one knee and saw that Yatsu was approaching me. This isn't looking to good, I haven't even landed a hit on him yet and I'm starting to get tired. I noticed that Viktor and Arthur were cheering me on, they gave me the will to keep fighting. I stood up and thought of a plan. I waited for Yatsu to get about 3 feet away from me then I threw my blade at him and ran at him while he tried to block my sword from hitting him. As he slashed my sword away from him, I grabbed the hilt of Fides as it flew past me and I swung it at Yatsu's chest. I HIT HIM!
I didn't stop there though, I keep pushing with my attacks going as fast as possible to end this fight. Yatsu grabbed my head with his huge hand and threw me again this time I was ready and aimed at him while I was flying back. I fired 5 ice dust rounds and landed all of them. I switched my rifle to gravity dust and reoriented my body and fired my rifle behind me. I didn't stop completely. I used my robotic leg to absorb most of the impact and allow me to fire of the wall with my gravity shots. I think I saw air form around me. Did I almost break the sound barrier? Once I was about to hit Yatsu, I did a front flip and switched to buster sword mode and swung the giant sword down on Yatsu's head. I watched as the ice around him shatterd from the sheer force of my swing and sent him flying into a wall. I used my gravtiy dust to slow down until I could land safetly and even then it wasn't a soft landing. As soon as my feet touched the ground I tripped and started to roll, soon I was in front of Glynda.
I looked back at our aura trackers. Mine was a shade of dark orange, sitting at 30% and Yatsu's was at... 1%, "I...Won?" I looked back to Glynda to see she was smiling slightly. I looked over to Viktor, Arthur, and Amara, all of them had the same look of awe in their face.
The crowd that we had gathered started to cheer. I stood up and recieved a few pats on the back, I walked past all of the people until I was right in front of a weak Yatsu.
I reached my hand out to help him, he grabbed mine and I leaned back to get him up. Once he was up he let go of my hand, "That was an amazing fight Yatsu... Thank you for sparring with me."
He nodded and shook my hand, "You are a good fighter Lance... You will do well in the tournament." I smiled at the words of encourgement and fell backwards from exhaustion. Viktor and Arthur ran over and picked me up.
Viktor mumbled under his breath hoping I wouldn't hear, "Now I don't get his bed." I flicked him in the forhead as we walked back to my room. Once we got to the room they threw me into my bed and left back to the sparring room. All of me ached for a nap so I did. I woke up about 3 hours later to a text from Yang.
HELP! SOS! SOS!
As soon as I saw it I walked out of my room and headed to team RWBY's room to see what was wrong. I heard yelling as I approached the door. I stopped in my tracks as I heard Weiss speak.
"I'm a victim!" Ohh boy, the rich girl is a victim, sounds like something a rich kid would say.
"You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't perticularly trust the faunas?" I always did notice that Weiss watched Viktor extra close if he was in her vacinity, I always assumed that she just didn't like him. Looks like I was mostly right.
"It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War. As in actual bloodshed." Okay that sounds pretty bad, "My grandfather's company has had a target painted on it's back for as long as I can remember." I wouldn't doubt that, I did a research project on the Schnee Dust Company and found some pretty messed up things that didn't put the Schnee name in the best light.
"And ever since I was a child, I've watched family friends dissapear, board members exicuted, an entire tran car full of dust... Stolen." Wow, okay now I just want to give Weiss a hug and tell her everythings gonna be okay, but as I moved to the door she spoke with twice as much sadness as before.
"And every day my father would come home furious, and that mad for a very difficult childhood." I though of the implications of that and then I remembered her scar on her eye, and my blood started to boil. If I ever meet Weiss' dad I'm going to personally escort him to hell.
"NO!" Weiss screamed at somebody, I couldn't tell who, "You want to know why I despise the White Fang!?" Now I want to know but I'm kinda scared of the answer. Wait who is she yelling at anyways?
"It's because they're a bunch of liars! Thieves! AND MURDERERS!"
"WELL MAYBE WE WERE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND!" That was Blake and and she sounded... Wait... We?
I opened the door as fast as I could and stepped into the room to see Blake looking at us with the realization of what she had said.
"I-..." Before anyone could stop her she bolted out of the door as fast as possible.
"Blake wait! Come back!" Ruby must have known that she wasn't catching her because she stopped before she passed the door frame. I looked over to Weiss and put on the calmest voice possible.
"I must be a faunas because I did all of those things, Viktor hasn't though... Must be a human." All of my sarcasm came with venom and anger.
Weiss shot a look of pure hatred at me, "Do NOT patronize me!"
My heart ran cold at her tone towards me, "I'm sorry that you're racist."
"Lance... You wouldn't understand." Weiss began to walk over to her bed and sit down, placing her head in her hands.
Yang asked for help so here I go. I walked over next to Weiss and sat down, "Weiss, has Blake ever hurt you?" Weiss didn't say anything, she only shook her head.
"How about Viktor?" She shook her head again, "Alright... So don't lump every faunas you meet into a group of killers... It's not my place to tell what you will do, but as a friend... I can tell you what you should do."
Weiss used her sleeve to wipe of the tear stains, "Then what should I do Lance?" Her voice was cracking ever so slightly and her eyes were getting red.
"You should acess how you truly feel towards faunas and make a decsion based on that. Not just say what you think you know." I guess me and Blake both like to get as much wisdom as possible because that sounded a little to smart even for me.
Weiss looked down and thought of something else to say, "But what about all the years when the White Fang-"
"See Weiss, thats the problem... You keep saying White Fang and then adding faunas in with them as if there the same thing... Look at it like this... The average White Fang member wears white clothes and a mask. Normal faunas just walk around and talk with friends... But what you did pushes faunas to be angry and become White Fang members. So essentially you're creating the problem evertime you yell about a faunas doing this or a faunas doing that... It's not them... It's the White Fang... Do you understand what I'm getting at?"
"I do... Truly I do... But I can't just forget everything that happened, I can't just-" I put my hand in front of her face to hush her.
"I don't want you to forget... I want you to think." I patted her on the back and stood to leave out of the room, Ruby walked over and hugged me.
"Thanks for trying Lance. We'll be heading out tomorrow if she isn't back by morning... You should come along with us."
I chuckled and patted her head, "I don't think I'll make it but if you guys need me, Yang will call me." I looked to Yang, she was sitting in a chair thinking of what to do now that her partner ran out on her. I moved past Ruby and kneeled in front of Yang.
"Get some sleep, you'll need it for when you guys look for Blake." I wrapped her up in a hug and she hugged me back tightly.
"Thanks for coming at least." I caressed her hair and smiled, "It was the least I could do. Now Yang I'm being dead serious here... I do not need you to come with me to go speak to Terra. Just find Blake and bring her back." Yang nodded and kissed me lightly on the lips. I let her go and left the room back to mine.
As I walked through the door I saw Viktor, Arthur, and Amara watching the fight from earlier today on Arthur's scroll. I shut the door behind me and hopped in my bed.
"Lance that was a good fight!" Viktor stated as he ran and hovered over me with a giant smile on his face.
I smiled back at him and plucked his forehead, "Thanks." Arthur and Amara walked to my bed and sat down.
"So what are we doing tomorrow captain?" Arthur spoke with a bit of enthusiasum, "Tomorrow... We train for real. Non stop for the whole day and then after tomorrow we take a break. Sound good?"
All of my team looked at each other and spoke in unison, "Sure."
"Good now get off my bed... I'm trying to sleep." They all laughed and did as I said, each of them going to a seperated bed, except for Arthur and Amara they got in the same bed. I chuckled at the two love birds and slowly drifted into uncoNsciousness.
I woke up before everyone else, I heard my stomach rumble and felt it's empty ness. I sat up from the bed and looked around. The sun light peering though the closed curtain shining directly on my face. I stood and stretched my back, hearing a few audible clicks. I decided to help my team and make sure they were ready for their training day.
I headed into our dorm's kitchen and started to cook eggs and bacon. The aroma swept through the dorm. I heard noise coming from the bedroom and in a matter if moments Viktor was standing behind me drooling.
"You... You... Can cook?!" Viktor began to reach his hand towards a plate of finished bacon. I immediately smacked it and kept cooking.
"Yes."
Viktor was clearly annoyed with me for some reason, "You've been able to cook this whole time... WHY IS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU COOKED!?" Viktor began to prod me in the side making me jump. I spun around and put him in a head lock.
"You gonna shut up and eat or are you gonna complain?" My ultimatum made Viktor hush instantly. I let him go and handed him a plate. I walked out of the kitchen and went into the bedroom. Arthur was just now waking up.
"I cooked." Arthur looked at me and hearts started take shape in his eyes.
"Bro... I love you...no homo." I chuckled and pointed back in the kitchen, "Better get in there now before Viktor eats it all."
Arthur whispered into Amara's ear and ran into the kitchen. Within seconds he came back with two plates of food. One for him and one for her. I walked back into the kitchen to see Viktor with a few pieces of bacon hanging out of his mouth and a plate of eggs.
I chuckled and grabbed some bread and put some eggs on the bread and eat a sandwich. I walked out and went take a shower after I ate. When I finished I put on my school clothes and began to leave, but was stopped by Amara.
"You not training with us?" She placed a hand on her hip and seemed slightly annoyed,"Don't worry... I'm going to my therapist and then I'm gonna go to the sparring room." I reassured her and left to see Terra.
Arthur POV's
I watched as Lance left and headed for his doctor and I felt a bit sad as he left, Amara noticed and sat down next to me, "Arty what's wrong?" Amara wrapped her arm around me and tried to comfort me but still felt bad.
I could feel my throat choke up, "He's the second person that almost died because I wasn't strong enough to stop it." Amara leaned her head on my shoulder and scooted closer to me until her shoulder was against mine, "Arthur no one blames you."
I lowered my head and shook it as I talked, "You're wrong... I blame me... " No one understands, I don't want to be alone in this world but I can't even defend the people closest to me.
Amara started to caress my face to try and get me to calm down but it didn't work, "Arthur I..."
I stood up and decided to go train to relieve some stress, "Don't worry... I'll be fine... Let's go train for a while." I guess Amara thought it would get my mind of it so she agreed and Viktor ran past us and out the door.
We walked leisurely to the sparring room. When we entered we saw teams CRDL, CFVY, and JNPR. All of which were training for the tournament. I walked over to the locker room and got dressed. Once I finished I saw Viktor and Amara stretching.
"So who's fighting first?" Viktor asked as he started to stretch his leg, Amara looked at me and smiled I merely looked at the two. "You two train together for now... I'll go find someone who wants to spar with me." On that note I placed my two pistols on my waist and walked away to team JNPR, maybe someone over there would like to spar with me.
"Hey guys... Anyone free to spar?" I didn't really care who said-
"I will spar with you Arthur." See I was going to say I didn't care who I fought but I didn't mean that. The invincible girl, Pyrrha Nikos stepped up to me and I stepped back a bit, "Umm, you dont have to if you don't want to."
I tried to keep my calm but how could I? I watched this girl fight before and the guy she fought never hit her once. Pyrrha grabbed her sword and shield off her back and readied herself.
Pyrrha smiled slightly as she saw the fear in my eyes, "I'm fine to fight you... Jaune needs a break anyway."
Pyrrha is easily the nicest person on this campus but don't take her niceness as a weakness. She could probably beat Yang in a fight one on one. I wouldn't tell Yang that but I believed Pyrrha would win.
I sighed deeply and grabbed my pistols from my waist and turned them into short swords, holding them in a backhanded position, "All right just... Just don't break anything, okay?" Nora and Jaune started to laugh and I let out a smile, but I was being serious.
Pyrrha began to walk over to her side of the arena,"Don't worry. You'll be fine." Were Pyrrha's final words to me. Jaune walked up behind me and paatted me on the back.
"Good Luck." The way he said it meant either he was scared for my safety or he was really trying to wish me luck either way I was still scared. I put up my hands as if I was in a boxing stance and my swords were being held in a backhanded way, the blades were pointing to my knees. Ren walked over to the sidelines and began to ref the match.
"Pyrrha! Are you ready?" Pyrrha nodded to the ninja. Ren looked over to me, "Arthur! Are you ready?" I nodded just as Pyrrha had before me.
"BEGIN!" Just like that the match was on. I didn't run at Pyrrha, I was smart enough to know that she was very skilled in close quaters combat so I switched to my pistols and started shooting. Pyrrha pulled up her shield and ran at me, using her shield as mobile cover. I switched to my short swords when I realized that my bullets weren't stopping her. We clashed, me and Pyrrha locked eyes for a moment before she used me as spring board and kicked off of me and into the air. While she was in the air she spun around and began to shot at me with her rifle, causing me to deflect a shot with my sword but the other hit me in my chest. I grabbed at the spot the bullet had hit me and started to breath heavily. That hurt way more than I though it would. I saw Pyrrha send her sheild at me like one of those super heros and I dodged out of the way. I stod and ran towards her, now that she doesn't have her shield it should be easy right? Wrong, Pyrrha was just as good, if not better without he shield, every blow I sent her way she deflected and countered. At one point I hit her sword hard enough to fall out of her hand and she still managed to dodge my attacks and pick her sword back up before it could even hit the ground. Remember Pyrrha's sheild and how I rolled out of the way. It hit me in my head from behind and sent me flying past her.
"What. The. Fuck." I thought that someone had cheated and threw it at her. Turns out her semblance is polarity. I'm starting to see why I was missing my attacks. Since she can use her semblance I can use mine. I activate my semblance and watched as my red aura created my copy apendages and I began to move them to make sure that I was good. I looked up at Pyrrha and smiled cockily.
"Can you still beat me if I don't use metal?" I began to run full speed at her and started to attack with all four limbs. Pyrrha was able to stave of my attacks but I was still getting hits in, thanks to my aura arms. Me and Pyrrha were going back and forth with hits until finally I couldn't use my aura generated arms anymore and I felt my exahustion catch up with me. Pyrrha noticed to and leg sweeped me before I could even stop her. Once I was on the ground she held her blade to my neck with a serious look on her face. I noticed that she had a few cuts on her face, but they were going away now.
Ren ran over from the sidelines and caled the winner, "This match is over! Pyrrha Nikos wins!" After Ren finished announcing the victor, Pyrrha reached her hand down to me and helped me up, her gentle smile made me feel a little less bad.
"That was a wonderful sparring session Arthur. Thank you for giving me the oppertunity to fight you!" Pyrrha's cheery tone was helpful too. Jaune is a lucky guy.
I smiled back to Pyrrha and patted her shoulder, "Thanks Pyrrha... Even though I lost... It was still fun!" I looked over to the aura trackers and saw that Pyrrha's aura was at 47% and mine was sitting just under the red line at 15%. I was a little salty to say the least. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around to see Amara and Viktor smiling at me.
"I really wasn't able to land hits on you as well when you activated your semblance so if you can mangae to improve your aura usage it woul benifit you greatly." Pyrrha's words were stored inside my brain cause she was right about that. If I could use my semblance a bit more conservitivly than maybe I can beat her in a fight, and if I can beat her than I can beat anyone else who stands in my way.
"Thanks Pyrrha... I'll try to get better." Pyrrha nodded to my final statement and headed off to the locker room. I turned around and began to walk with Viktor and Amara. Viktor being the talkative one.
"Guys check this out!" Viktor ran over to our spot on the area and activated his jacket. He switched one arm to fire, causeing the left arm to spew out fire like a flamethrower. The fire leaped out at about 15 feet. Viktor switched his right arm to ice and began to shot ice crystals out of his jacket, they landed a good 15 yards away. Viktor could now shot at a small disance but at least he has the option. I heard a very familar voice come from behind us.
"Try crossing the two." I turned around to see Lance with one arm crossed and the other holding up his chin, Viktor smiled and did as he was told, pointing his hands at each other and firing his jacket. A huge smoke cloud filled the room and Viktor couldn't be seen anymore. The mist started to float over to me and engulfed me to the point were I couldn't see my own hands. I felt a hand grab me and pull me out of the fog.
Viktor was staring at his hands with pure excitement, "COOL! NOW I CAN BE A NINJA LIKE REN!" Viktor started to pull a Ruby and gitter around like one of those small dogs.
Ren heard Viktor and approached him, "I can't dissapear in a cloud of smoke." Ren said in his usual bored tone. Viktor started to jump for joy.
"I'M A BETTER NINJA THAN REN! YAHOOO!" While we were all laughing at Viktor's antics no one noticed that somehow Ren had taken Viktor's jacket and was holding it over his shoulder. When Viktor realized this his jaw dropped.
"You have a lot to learn, young grasshoper." Ren handed Viktor his jacket back and started to walk away. Ren maybe the coolest quiet person I ever met. Viktor looked at his jacket and then at Ren and bowed on his knees.
"TEACH ME YOUR WAYS MASTER!" Viktor started to bow repeatedly, not once did Ren turn around to acknowledge him. I grabbed Viktor and began to drag him away from the scene he had caused and placed him on a bench.
"I've got an idea." Lance said as he walked up to the rest of us with his school uniform still on, "We'll listen to your advice when you get into your gear." Amara said as she pushed towards the locker room. Lance chuckled and left to the lockers.
Lance's POV
When I left the lockers I saw Amara and Arthur about to spar and Viktor waiting for me, "Okay Viktor you ready?" Viktor looked up at me with a smile and a glint in his eye, "You bet." I nodded and tried to remember my plan.
"Use your ice blast." Viktor complied and began to shot ice out of his jacket and into the ground, "Good now flametrower." Viktor used his left hand for the flamethrower and melted the ice.
"Use your electricity on it." Viktor ran up to the large puddle of water and put his fist against it, making it become electrified. Unfortunatly Amara and Arthur were both in that puddle of water and conciquetally were shocked. By the time we realized what happened both of them looked burnt and their hair was frizzy.
Arthur looked over to use and pointed at Viktor, "I'll. Kill. You." Viktor tried to put his hands up to surrender but it was to late and Arthur was already pummeling him.
"OKAAAY. I'M SORRY... STOP!" Viktor pushed Arthur off and the two locked eyes, a spark of electricity conected the two as the stared each other down. My face darkened when Yang sent another text to me.
Weiss didn't listen to ANYTHING you told her yesterday.
A small frown creased my face. I really wanted Weiss to understand that it's not okay.
What did she say?
The scroll went silent for a second. Arthur noticed my frown and walked up next to me, "Everything good?" I nodded and left to the locker room, I felt my scroll buzz again.
She said that the innocent never run... And I agree kinda.
I don't know what to say about that. Weiss wasn't wrong in that regard.
What does Ruby think?
My scroll went silent again. I already knew the answer to the question. Ruby was the smartest little girl out here, she understands people even though she doesn't like them.
Ruby didn't hear what Weiss said... She was with a friend looking somewhere else.
The only people I know Ruby is friends with is my team, JNPR, and the rest of RWBY. A dark thought started to force itself out and it made me a little angry.
It better not be a boy.
I could feel myself chuckle. I was kinda protective over the little reaper even though I know she is capable of handling herself. I guess she's like the sister I didn't want but I'm glad to have.
Wow protective much? Don't worry its a girl. Hey I'll text you later we're about to go check in another store.
I felt a little sad that she didn't ask me to come along but it soon past. I kinda want to help her but if she doesn't need it there's no point.
Be safe Sunshine.
I walked out of the locker room and Viktor and Arthur were still arguing, "Alright that's ENOUGH. 100 push ups... NOW!" my voice echoed through the room and scared both the boys half to death. Both of them dropped down and began to do as I said. I walked over to Amara with a little smile on my face.
Once I got up close to her I whispered out, "I can't believe that worked." Earning a laugh from Amara. I looked back at the two boys both of them were moving up and down rapidly. I think they hit 40 already.
Amara walked behind me and tapped my shoulder, "What the game plan today Lance?" I hadn't really thought about it too hard so I just came up with a very direct answer, "We continue to train."
My whole team looked at me and waited for more instructions but I couldn't think of any so we seperated into groups of two. Me and Amara. Amara wanted to be partnered with Arthur for obvious reasons but I told her that fighting the same person over and over again will make you vulnerable to other sorts of fighting styles, she reluctantly agreed.
Viktor and Arthur have always had a rivalry. I thought it made sense to pair them up because they will push each other to get stronger. Our training session consisted of sparring, resting, and then switching partners.
When me and Amara finished sparring I had to wait for the others to finish but as I was waiting I got a text from Yang. .
JUST HEARD AN EXPLOSION AT THE DOCKS!
I didn't even let that sink in before I texted back.
I'm on my way.
"Guys Yang needs me, she's in trouble!" Before they could say anything I was already bolting to an airship to Vale. I ran at the Bullhead and yelled to the pilot.
"I need to get to Vale it's an emergency!" The pilot slung his head back to look at me, he could probably see the worry in my face. The pilot nodded and the ship took off towards Vale. We arrived in about 3 minutes. Before the bullhead could land I jumped out of the side and ran to the docks as fast as possible. When I got to the docks I saw Blake and another faunas standing and talking so I ran over to check on them. Blake being the first to see me. She looked down and started to walk away.
"Blake please stop running!" Blake stopped but didn't look at me, "You can't keep running when things get tough."
I approached Blake and saw her cat ears and smiled, "It's hard to believed that no one noticed the cat ears." Blake looked at me with worry in her eyes. She was probably scared I would be mean.
"It's cute... Not trying to hit on you I'm just saying... The ears are cute." I walked over and touched one, Blake instantly smacked my hand and scowled at me, "Thet are sooo soft!" I wasn't lying her ears were really soft. Blake started to blush slightly. I looked over to the other faunas who was had both his hands behind his head and one closed eye with a giant smile.
I crossed my arms and switched my attention to the blonde monkey faunas, "You are?" The faunas began to fidget under my gaze and looked away, "He helped me against the White Fang." Blake vouched. I looked him up and down and smiled slightly.
"You got a name?" I put my fist up and held it there, "Sun, you?" He fist bimped me in kind.
"Lance. Thanks for helping her, her TEAM would have been devistated if anything happened to her." I shot an irratated glare at Blake who held her arms and looked down. Out of the corner of my eye I could see a little red hood flapping in the wind, I turned to my right and saw Ruby and some other girl running full speed towards us.
"BLAAAKE!" Ruby jumped up and grabbed the cat faunas and embraced her in a hug, Blake could have easily used her semblance to get out but I guess after she ran for so long that maybe a hug from Ruby would get them to calm down. The other girl however took a seat on a box away from the rest of us and sat alone. Me and the mokey faunas now known as Sun started to talk for a bit while Blake told Ruby everything.
Sun placed his hands behind his head as he spoke, "Sooo... How do you know Blake?" I sat down on a box next to him to get comfortable, "I go out with one of her teammates. You?"
Sun thought about the question for a bit longer, probably thinking of a way to explain hisself, "I met her yesterday when I was... Running from the cops." I looked over to him and cocked an eyebrow.
"So you just... Decided to help her? That's... Strange." I smiled as Sun started to chuckle awakwardly, "Says the guy who showed up out of nowhere." I laughed and leaned back so I could look at him.
"I got a text from my girlfriend and came running." I looked past him and saw Weiss and Yang walking over, "Speak of the devil and she shall apear." That statement earned a laugh from Sun. I stood up and watched as Weiss walked a bit faster to speak with Blake, I stepped aside and went over to Yang and stood next to her. Ruby quickly got in between the two and tried to talk Weiss down.
"Look Weiss it's not what you think she explained te whole thing you see she doesn't actually wear a bow she has kitty ears and their actually kinda cute." Weiss completely ignored her younger teammate and continued to Blake, Ruby stood next to Yang and I and we watched the confrontation begin.
The two stared each other down until Blake got the courage to speak, "Weiss. I want you to know that I am no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with-"
"Stop. Do you have have any idea how long we've been searching for you? Twelve hours... That means I've had twelve hours to decide. And in those twelve hours I've decided..."
Pretty, pretty please don't be racist.
Was the only thought going through my mind. Weiss inched closer to Blake before she spoke, "I don't care!" I could feel everyone calm down when she said that. I let out a deep sigh and smiled. Maybe she had listened to me.
"You don't care?" Blake duobted that Weiss was being serious, as she cocked an eyebrow.
"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?" Weiss countered making Blake stutter to find her words.
"No, I-I haven't been one since I was a-"
Weiss raised her hand and waved it to cut off Blake as she spoke, "Upupupupup, I don't want to hear it! All I want to know is that next time something this big comes up you'll come to your teammates and not some... Someone else." Did Weiss just show some self control? Oh my God, I think hell just froze over.
"Of course." I smiled harder at that moment than I had my entire time at Beacon. Still doesn't top when Yang punched Arthur in the mouth.
Ruby noticed the silence and began to get hyped, "Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" Weiss looked over to Sun and I could see he wasn't out of trouble yet.
Weiss pointed a finger at Sun and edged into his personal bubble, "I'm still not quite sure how I feel about you!" Sun nervously laughed and stepped back a bit.
Ruby looked around for a second, like someone was missing, "Hey, wait a minute. Where's Penny?" I just realized that the girl that Ruby ran over with was nowhere to be found. I looked behind us and saw a car pull off. Me and Ruby assumed it was her ride and continued our way to Beacon.
As we were walking I could see Blake shuffle over to Weiss' side, "Weiss what made you not care?"
"A friend." Weiss looked over to me and smiled. I walked over to Weiss and was about to hug her when I remembered something.
A smile crossed my face and Weiss was starting to get scared, "Can I has hug?" Weiss squinted her eyes at me but soon her scowl softened into a smile and she nodded. I wrapped my arms around Weiss and chuckled when I felt Yang staring at us two.
"Ahem." I heard Yang from behind me and Weiss, I let go of Weiss and went over to her, "You want one too?" Yang sighed at my stupidity and nodded. I wrapped Yang up in an embrace and pecked her lips, "Only you can get those though." Yang giggled and pushed my head back with her hand. I noticed we still had a certain monkey faunas with us.
"Ummm, Sun. Where are you going?" I asked with a small frown, "I'm participating in the tournament." Oh right, He must have been from one of the other academies.
"Lance you'll be in the tournament, right?" Sun looked over to me with hope in his eyes.
For the first time I didn't feel like not wanting to talk about it, I won't tell Yang but I'm kinda excited, "Yes. I will be in the tournament." I spoke in a monotone voice to try and hide my excitement. Yang bumped her arm into mine and smiled up to me.
"What? It's not like I wanted to or anything." I tried my hardest not to smile, but I couldn't do it, a small grin went across my face and it made Ruby laugh.
"I'm going to enjoy beating up on you!" Ruby's remark got the group to laugh.
"That is if you can beat Vik's new weapon." Everyone went silent after I spoke, the silence carried over to the Bullhead as we stepped on.
Ruby tapped me on the shoulder with a big grin, "So whats his weapon?" I patted Ruby's head and chuckled when Ruby smacked my hand and fixed her hair.
"All in due time, Rubes." Ruby wasn't pleased with my answer but she didn't press anymore. When we landed Sun said goodbye to us all and left to his team. As we headed back to the dorms I saw Viktor, Arthur, and Amara, all of which didn't look to happy with me, their anger soon switched to surprise when they saw that Blake wasn't wearing her bow. Viktor was the first to say something about it.
Viktor ran over and tapped Blake's cat ears, she tried to punch him but she wasn't fast enough, "Finally she stops hiding!" I shot a glare at Viktor that made him hide behind Yang.
"How long did you know!?" I asked while I was trying to get past Yang and to Viktor.
When I got around Yang he was already back over to Blake, "I found out when I first me her. Us faunas are pretty good at spotting a fellow faunas." I gave up trying to strangle him and walked with Yang.
"Lance did you train at all today?" The question was a bit odd to me, "A little today and I fuaght Yatsu yesterday." I could see a bit of anger from Yang.
"Why would Coco let you do that?! I told-"
I loved watching Yang get mad but she was getting mad for the wrong reasons so I interrupted her, "I beat him." A stunned silence fell upon Yang. I felt Yang grab my shoulder and pull me into a hug.
"What's this for?" I wasn't going to fight against her hug, I liked them, "You are actually taking this seriously." I cocked an eyebrow and looked down at the blonde brawler.
"I take important things seriously. I don't see how this was any different." Yang rolled her eyes and opened her dorm room allowing the others to enter first. When I was waiting to speak with Yang someone wrapped me up in a hug, I looked down and saw Blake holding me in her arms.
I chuckled slightly as Blake's cat ears brushed against my nose, "Thank you for being our friend."
"Aww shucks, you guys got me feeling all special." Blake smiled and shook her head a she went into her room. Yang looked upset for sure, "You need to stop getting jelous after all, you are the only one who can get one of these." I closed the gap between us and kissed her on her lips and pinned her against the wall, I started to kiss her neck and got a giggle out of her.
"We're right here you know." I turned around and saw my team looking at us. All of them were embarressed, even Arthur was embarrassed, it made me think for a second.
"Arthur you kissed plenty of girls in front of me but when I do it you get all awkward and stuff. How hypocritical can you get?" A devious smile slid across my face and almost immdeiatly vanished when I realized his girlfriend was right there.
Arthur slowly approached Amara and was met with a very angry face,"Heh heh... He's joking Amara... We joke like that all the time." Amara didn't say a word she just turned on her heels and walked to our room. Thats going to be fun to listen to later. Yang pulled my attention back to her and I went back to kissing her.
"You know... If we werent at school I'd-" Yang had told me plenty of times what she would do to me outside of the scool walls, and it was very flaterring but also a little scary, contrary to popular belief we hadn't actually done anything. That never stopped Yang from wanting to though.
I finished kissing Yang's neck and smiled at her antics, "Yeah, yeah, you made it very clear on what you would do." Yang bit her lip when I finished speaking and moved me out of the way. I couldn't help but stare as she walked back to her room. Yang may have never been a super model, though I know she could be if she tried, she definitly could walk the walk. I smiled as she waved at me and I did the same and left to my room.
When I opened my door I saw Arthur and Amara making out and Viktor covering his face with a pillow, "All right break it up, break it up!" I threw a pillow at the two and knocked Arthur out of his bed, making Amara and Viktor laugh, while Arthur was inraged.
Watching Arthur flip out was definitly entertaining to say the least, "You just finished making out with Yang! And I can't make out with my girlfriend!? YOU ARE THE VERY DEFINITION OF HYPOCRITICAL!" I walked up to my bed and laid down after Arthur finished yelling at me and heard the furious texting of Viktor.
"You still texting Neo?" I heard Arthur ask from his bed, "Yeah... I sent her the videos of your fights."
Amara piped up know, "Oh yeah, what'd she say?" Amara spoke in a very condescending tone when it came to Neo, we never really asked why. I could see that Viktor was happy talking to her, both me and Arthur didn't mind, but Amara just generally hates Neo.
"She said that she's happy to see Lance back on his feet. She also said that she didn't think Arthur was gonna lose until the end of the fight with Pyrrha." My jaw slacked a bit when he said that Arthur fought Pyrrha.
I sat up and looked over to Arthur who was taking his school shirt off and replacing it with a t-shirt, "You faught Pyrrha? How close was it?" When he put on his t-shirt I could tell Neo was just being nice.
Arthur shook his head and got into his bed, "I was at 15% and she was at 47%." Amara rubbed his head and kissed a bruise that was on his cheek. I looked over to VIktor and smiled at him and Neo's perdicament. They hadn't stopped texting each other since I was in a coma. They seemed to like each other but niether wanted to say anything because they were on the opposite sides of the law. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances but they still remained friends.
"Tell Neo I said thanks." I stated as I pulled my cover over my head and laid down. I would've passed out right there but the sound of giggling and kissing noises kept me up. I grabbed a spare pillow and threw it as hard as I could at the couple across the room. I heard a laugh and then a growl of anger, but I didn't here another noise after that. I think I got my message across. I adjusted my remaining pillows and slowly drifted to sleep, wondering what tomorrow would bring.
A/N: Well that leads to Volume 2. Be sure to favorite the story if you enjoyed it and also review the story and let me know what you guys think. See ya later