I left the three hour exam head swimming, I had every question filled out, but the two essays had messed me up for a bit. "Ruby remind me to kill Bakugo and Aizawa." Kiri said as he walked past me.
"That's if I don't do it myself. Well tomorrow is the practical exam, I think it's time we went on that date." I said as I stretched.
"That sounds nice, where do you want to go?" he asked.
"Just a nice quiet evening on the town." I say as I hugged his arm. "Then a movie on the couch."
Chapter 35: Students vs teachers; The Practical Exam
I placed the ballistic plates into my combat skirt. The cool ice dust layer felt nice on my skin. My back had felt like it was on fire all night. I knew my aura would fix it in time. But it was just annoying how much it would flare up. "You're looking mightly heroic." Pyrrha said as she slid the back plates in.
"Well I mean, I wanted to keep my look from Remnant, but I a more hero looking version. Still waiting on a replacement mask, sent them a few request for it, night vision and a mini computer." I fitted Thorns to my arms and sheathed Penny's sword. "After all I do have the whole reaper look."
"I know, when I watched the Sports festival you blew away the coopetition in the first round. I have never seen you move that fast before." Handed me my clips which I hid down my skirt.
"But you would have wiped the board with everyone there." I said as I closed my locker.
"Maybe."
"Hey you two done, we have to get going." Kyoka poked her head back in.
"Just one more thing." I picked up my cape and pinned it with my mother's rose emblem. I kept my hand on it for a second then let my hand fall.
"She's proud of you." Pyrrha smiled.
"I know." We left the changing and joined up with the rest of class 1-A at the bus.
"No mask?" Sero asked.
"Broke it when in Hosu, the support company is making me a new one." I said to him.
"Fair, perhaps a little less demon in this one." Sato said.
"I'm the Reaper Hero. It's kind of in the name." We all have a good laugh at that.
"Everyone sit in your assigned seats!" Iida called out.
"Let's go do this." Pyrrha said with a smile.
I listened to my music as the bus brought us to where the exams were going to be held. Kyoka tapped on my shoulder. "Yes?" I asked as I removed my headset.
"I was wondering something, what is music like on Remnant? Your always listening to your scroll." She asked.
"Oh, my tastes in music aren't a good representation of my world's music." I said while scratching at my cheek.
"Ruby, you grew up in a completely different culture from ours, and separate from our worlds influences. It would still be nice to hear even a little bit." Tenya said.
"I am intrigued as well." Momo joined in.
"Yeah, lets hear it." Kirishima gave me a smile.
"Uh sure." I took out my scroll and played Mirror Mirror. "This is sung by my teammate Weiss."
"Oh is it a cover?" Kyoka asked.
"No she's the one who wrote it. Weiss is known for a lot of things, She's the Heiress to the largest Dust corporation on Remnant. A talented singer and a prodigy Huntress. If she dose have a stick up her butt." I giggled. "I only got this song because of her."
"Oh, she's lucky." Izuku said.
"In some ways yes, but all that pressure has her worried all the time, about her image. And there's her father..." I remembered what she had told me about her father.
"Is he..." Uraraka started.
"Controversial is the nice way of saying it. I don't know much about her personal life. I met her older sister, a specialist in the Atlesian Military. She seemed unimpressed with me." I let a small smile cross my face.
As we got off the bus Kirishima tapped my shoulder. "Any what the exam will be?" He asked.
"Why would I know? I still have Bakugo's voice telling me that the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell in my head." I shrugged.
"At least something stuck." Our 'tutor' shoved past me.
All the teachers stood in front of us. "Now we know you have questions about the exam." Principle Nezu said with his usual cheer.
"You will be split into pairs." Midnight said. As whispering broke out among the class. "Which have been predetermined." And everyone groaned.
"As for the method of the exam, you will be facing off against us." Aizawa said with his usual tired voice.
"Now we know you heard from the older grades that you would be facing with villain bots, but we believe that a new method is necessary for this year." Cementos explained. "The pairs are as follows, facing off with me is Miss Rose and Mr. Kirishima."
I looked at Kiri and flashed him a knowing smile. He nodded.
The other students were paired up. Asui And Tokoyami against Ectoplasm, Iida and Ojiro were to fight Power Loader, facing Aizawa were Todoroki and Momo, Nezu was to test Kaminari and Ashido. Then the team of Ayoyama and Uraraka were tasked with either escaping or capturing Thirteen, quiet Koda and Kyoka had to face off with Present Mic, Toru and Shoji were put up with Snipe, Sato and Sero were facing Midnight and...
"Young Bakugo and Young Midoriya will be facing me." All Might announced after he dropped from the roof of the tower.
"Hello Smiles." I get out before he could stop me.
"Smiles?" Midnight asked.
"Rose, how many times do I have to tell you?" He just shook his head.
"It doesn't matter." I gave him his big goofy smile right back.
"Anyways, your goal will be to either capture your respective teacher, or escape to go find a pro. And as we are professional heroes, we will be wearing these wrist and ankle weights that add half our body weight. We actually had a contest among the support students and Miss Rose for the gear." Principle Nezu explained.
"Stupid Hatsune and her inventions. I would have won it if it wasn't for the sheer amount needed." I grumbled to myself.
"You insist on using hand tools Ruby." Kyoka said quietly.
"I put quality over quantity." I puffed out my cheeks.
I loosened up my arms as I stood next to Kirishima. "You sure you got a handle on it?" I asked.
"Yeah, Pyrrha's special training did tons to help, though I didn't make as much progress as you." He smiled. "Though I don't think Bakugo will be happy about this."
"Well he can stuff it if he has a issue with it." I smiled at him.
"Cementos will be a tough fight for those two." Deku said as he looked at the screen. "His walls will make it difficult to escape or attack."
"Well Ruby and Kirishima have been hiding a secret, they thought I didn't notice." I said as I looked at the lovers.
"Oh and what is that?" Iida asked.
"One of the most intimate things in our world, you'll see soon enough." I smiled. 'Hold onto him Ruby, he's a keeper.'
As the exam started we rushed Cementos, I speed to the right and Kiri charged the middle. As the walls were put He just blew through them like they were paper. I slipped between cracks and gaps as a flurry of petals. But the walls just kept growing blocking our paths. I left small parcels as I passed, small devices I had made in my free time.
As the rubble continued to grow from the broken cement and the continuous flow of the man made stone from the pro hero. I fired off gravity round, my stronger aura empowering the dust round shattering the stone with a loud crack as a wall crumbled. "It's now or never!" Kiri yelled. I pulled out a small key fob and clicked it twice as my stone bombs exploded, massive walls collapsing under the weight.
"Stone dust, an interesting choice, but it isn't cement, so it isn't ammo for Cementos." I thought out loud.
"What are they planning? The Dust didn't create a massive fire ball, so that limits the damage to the city but it's now just in the way." Momo said as she studied the screen.
"I wouldn't think so." I said as I thought of what they had tried so hard to hide. 'Has he found it?'
As the dust cleared I looked at Cementos, he coughed twice to clear his throat. "Impressive." He said. "But you only delayed it."
"Combined attack, Red Mountain." I said as Kirishima slammed his fists into the ground as a dark crimson Aura flared around him massive cracks in the ground racing towards our teacher, earth and stone rising up, and I clicked a second button on my key fob, as overcharged fire and stone dust erupted in a series of larger and more spread out circles around Cementos. The lava mounds grew around him as Kirishima moved stone and earth to contain the molten stone with his semblance. I took of at sound shattering speeds as I flashed past them and skidded through the gate.
I heard a recording of Principle Nezu say "Good Job." I sighed as I smiled. That went according to the five minute plan I had. "Congratulations, I didn't realize you added bombs to your hero Gear." Cementos said as he set him self down with a pillar of cement.
"It was nothing, just a ziplocked bag filled with Dust and a remote detonator." I rubbed the back of my head.
"Though I was surprised by you Kirishima." He said as my boyfriend jogged over.
"Yeah, we had a idea, and she tested it out... I was just the nearest test subject at the time." He lied, we had planned this out.
As we entered the observation we were mobbed by the rest of the class. "You have a aura?" Deku asked.
"Technically everyone dose, Aura is a manifestation of the soul. If I wanted I could unlock the aura of a tree and it's life span would be tripled and the constant aura barrier would ward off grimm, it's what we did with our cottage back home." I said.
"And to find his semblance so quickly, it's amazing. Though I suppose your body is already used to a power." Pyrrha said.
"Isn't a semblance unlocked at the same time as Aura?" Tenya asked as he took note with Deku.
"No, I didn't realize the full extent of my semblance until the middle of a food fight, up until then I thought it was just speed." I rubbed the back of my head.
"Food fight?" Ojiro asked.
"My team smelled like food for a month. And I was brushing splinters out of my hair for a week." Pyrrha just shook her head.
"It was just a few tables." I giggled.
"You hit us with the entire cafeteria Ruby." The Rest of the class just stared at us in disbelief.
"Such disrespect." Is all that Tenya said.
Chapter 35 is done, I may take a break for a few days, because this one took longer to edit. And editing takes a lot out of me.