Chapter Twenty-one
The eight students entered the cafeteria and departed to get their food. Today there seemed to be a buzz in the air, the whole place seemed livelier. After grabbing some food, today's special was burgers, the team sat down at what was quickly becoming a regular spot. Damian decided to send a message to Scarlet to if they were okay. After he sent it he looked up from his scroll and something caught his eye. It was Maya and her team, probably wolfing down a set meal before they head of for more practice he thought to himself.
"Man I wonder how BLYD do that," he said. He got some perplexed looks so he elaborated, "How they train all the time, like I'm fairly active, I'd almost say above average but those guys are something else."
"Well in the grand scheme of things if an extra day in the training room can be the difference between life and death I'd take as many as I could too." Ryu said plainly.
"So you don't believe that?" Nathan asked.
"No not really, training helps but some people just have limits and one day we all end up hitting those limits." He replied with equal emotion.
"You always seemed like someone who'd want to brake limits." Nathan said thoughtfully.
"I got that impression of you too." Gagana added.
"Oh no." Ryu said aloud.
"What's up?" Damian asked.
"3…2…1…" Ryu said slowly. There was then a Splat followed by a scream.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" The majority of the room turned to see a once blank and white girl now covered in red ketchup. It was Bianca Lenoir, leader of team BLNK. It seemed that Yuki had gotten up just as she was walking by, bumped into her and made her spill her pot of ketchup all over herself.
"Sorry about that." He chuckle
"Look what you've done!" She screamed, "My new coat ruined."
"I duno it looks fine to me." He said still in his upbeat manor. Something clearly clicked in Bianca as her face turned almost as red as the ketchup.
"Your mocking me now you blind buffoon aren't you!"
"Look it wasn't intentional, calm yourself." Yuki said, showing signs that he had lost any amusement he was gaining by playing dumb.
"Do you even know who I am?" Bianca shouted in his face.
"I'm blind not deaf you dumb bitch!" Yuki snapped. Bianca slapped him across the face and the sound echoed around the room. "You faunus are all so uppity, some is going to have to put you in your place."
"I'll admit that kinda hurt, Miss Bianca Lenoir, heiress to the Lenoir Combatant Apparel Retailer. Yes I know exactly who you are and how you run your shit show of a slave trade!"
"Such slander." She retorted and slapped him again. "You shouldn't spread false allegations like that."
"Look girl! Even a divine being will lose its cool if hit three times!" Yuki threaten, bearing his fangs.
"Down mongrel." She said slowly and carefully. Then she stamped on his food, kneed him in the jaw then kicked him in the stomach and sent him through the table knocking everything aside.
"Bianca don't you think that was a little over kill." Lyssa said showing no hint of tone. Yuki crawled to is feet. And instant later his swords were drawn and at Bianca's neck. The next moment he reappeared in his starting point and a large axe sat embedded in the ground where he had just stood.
"Who said you could attack the King?" A girl in a short red dress said, with a psychotic look on her face.
"Crimson I my fight is not with you, butt out!"
"You can't just attack my King like that and expect me her Queen to not get involved." She replied with a voice far too sweet or the words she was saying.
"You give me no choice." Yuki spun his swords in his hands and then merged them into a single blade almost long has he was tall. He lashed out at the two girls. Crimson leapt forward to defend Bianca. Crimson tried to attack Yuki but he simple had too much range. She jumped back, transformed her battle axe into a LMG and began to bring down a wall of fire on Yuki. Yuki darted around trying and failing to get as little other people involved as possible. Most of the students had already left but some, ether to hungry or to indifferent to move were now getting caught in the fire as well. Finally, Yuki jumped to the wall, and started to run back along it to Crimson. He dropped down on her kicked her in the face and butted her into the centre of the room with the flat of his sword.
"Bianca now that your pawn-,"
"Queen!" Crimson yelled from where she lay on the floor.
"Pawn is out the way let's start the real fight unless you want to throw any more meat shields at me." He said looking at Lyssa and Newt.
"No thanks." Lyssa said while Newt cowered behind her.
"Crimson attacked you of her own accord I had nothing to do with it."
"Of course." Yuki said readying his blade. Bianca grabbed her bracelet and it uncoiled into a whip and lashed it at Yuki's feat. Yuki jumped back and grabbed a handful of dusts and spread it across his blade with a swipe of his fingers. He blade stated to vibrate and glow red. He slashed at Bianca and sent forth a wave of red energy that cut into the wall and narrowly missed Bianca. He slashed again this time horizontal. Bianca jumped and narrowly avoided it again. Yuki fallowed that up with a cross slash then a thrust. Bianca jumped high into the sky and cracked her whip onto Yuki's head sending him to the floor. Yuki got onto his knee and started to get back up but Bianca stomped his face into the ground with her heel. There was then a cry of pain. And a then a scream.
"Ebony no!" A voice cried out. A moment later Bianca found herself lifted off the ground by a powerful hand that was now crushing her windpipe. The hands owner was broad black and matted faunus boy in a leather trench coat.
"What is wrong with you? He was clearly beaten and yet you stomped him into the ground! Maybe I should do the same to you!" He then lodged Bianca's face into the floor to join Yuki's.
"Damn it Ebony I told you not to get involved." A small brightly coloured boy yelled at him.
"Yea seriously Ebony, Folly's got a point now we look like bad guys, we can't go beating up first years like that." A green haired girl with glasses said exasperatedly.
"Holy cow what happen here?" A familiarly accented voice said from the entrance. Team STRM had recovered quickly enough to witness the end remains of the fight. Maya walked over to the team surrounding the two bodies.
"I'll take my teammate if you don't mind." She said as she flung Yuki over her shoulders.
Lyssa walked over as well and patted Ebony on the shoulder.
"Thank you." She said as she picked up Bianca, "Newt come get Crimson will you."
"Yes mam." He said with a quick salute.
"Why would you thank him?" Folly the brightly coloured boy asked. Lyssa sighed. "She's got an ego big enough that it effects the tides, someone has to knock her down a few pegs every once in a while.
"What a strange team you lot are." The girl with the glasses said as Lyssa walked off.
Scarlet and her team walked over to meet DRGN as they started to prop some chairs back up.
"Why are you cleaning up?" Timothy asked.
"Knowing our dumb luck well be somehow blamed so might as well start." Damian said, with defeated look on his face as he looked at all the twisted metal and shattered plastic. DRGN weren't the only team cleaning up, Team BRRO and the group of second years were also helping by sweeping all the scraps into a pile. Before long Ironwood showed up with the Gwynn and Lafayette in tow. He looked like he wanted to shout but as he noticed all the students cleaning up he let out a reluctant smile.
"You students should really leave the cleaning to the professionals." He said awkwardly, clearly fighting internally.
"Aww why thank you." Nathan said handing him a brush. He sighed and with a couple prompts on his scroll a legion of robots flooded into the cafeteria and started to gather all the broken plastic and splintered wood. He walked over to the second year team.
"So Folly what happened."
"Well you see Sir, there was an incident." The brightly dressed boy responded.
"Care to elaborate?" Ironwood asked plainly. The green haired girl in the glasses spoke up.
"It seems that a student from one of the teams bumped into another student and split some fluid all over her. Naturally for such a thing to happen in public mortified the girl causing her to speak out against her situation. Some racial slurs and fallacies where frown around until the girl resorted to physically abuse, five times I might add. Then the fight escalated from there to the point where Ebony felt he had to intervene."
"Myrtle excellent analysis as always. You'll make a great specialist one day." Ironwood said with a rare amount of affection. He then turned to Ebony, "You didn't go over board did you?" He asked hesitantly.
"No Sir, I only did what was necessary to end the violence defacing our cafeteria."
"Well I'm sure your heart was in the right place but the hole in the ground says otherwise." Ironwood said. He then turned to Damian.
"Why do you always seemed to be attached to every event in this school?"
"Wow thank you for your unfounded accusation." Damian snapped. There was an awkward pause.
"No we were not involved it was Yuki of BLYD and Bianca of BLNK." Damian added clearly hurt by Ironwoods words.
"I… I'm sorry, you're right that was uncalled for." Ironwood replied, "thank you for your efforts."
"I accept your apology and your thanks." Damian said with a smile.
"Can you do one thing for me?" Ironwood asked.
"Yea sure, what?" He replied.
"Round up your peers and head off to class, leave this to me."
"Can do." Damian replied as he put down his brush and left to gather the others.