Chapter 38. That's insane. How did I get to this point? It feel like it was yesterday that I first started this.
I stayed like that for a few minutes, my body embracing the cold water. I lost track of time in there and after the hot flash passed I got out, my fingers and toes wrinkled. Drying myself off with a towel and putting my night clothes back on I walked over to the living room and saw that Kiri had fallen asleep on the couch, his soft snoring cutting the silence.
I looked down at him for a moment before lying down next to him. His chest slowly rose and fell shifting my head slightly. I wrapped my arms around him and slowly drifted off. "I don't want to choose... but maybe... I could bring them here... Remnant has enough Hunters." I slowly traced my finger across his chest leaving small beads of water on him. "Earth could use a little bit more soul..." I fell asleep like that.
Chapter 38: The results and a chance to relax
"Kyoka!" I tried to pull the phone from my friend as she held it out of my reach, on it was a photo smushed under Kiri on the couch. The rest of the class laughed at my beet red face. "It's not funny!"
"You did leave yourself open to this." Pyrrha giggled, she had found of like that and had drawn monocles and mustaches on our faces. Kiri still had a ring around his eye.
"I'll kill you later!" I jumped up to grab the phone but missed again.
"I don't see the big problem." Kiri said as he leaned back in his chair.
"Your not the one that looks like a pancake!" I stick my tongue out at me.
"I'll delete it, but it was to funny to pass up." Kyoka giggled.
"Meanie!" I reverted to Yang's method of punishment, I grabbed her and started to grind my fist into the top of her head.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She begged and pleaded in my grip.
"Sorry, but I have to grind this in." I smiled as I continued my torment.
"Hey don't punish the rest of us." Mina giggled.
The entire class groaned as Aizawa walked in. "Rose, please don't murder your friend. Take your seats, I have the results for your exams." I released my victim, her hair now standing on end from the lightning Dust I had rubbed into her hair. "Everyone passed the written exam, but four people failed the practical test." I could feel my class mates heads lower at that. "As such you all are going to camp." All of our heads shot up.
"But you said that we wouldn't go if we failed." Mina as well the rest of us were confused.
"Well it was a test of more then just your quirks and skills, as for what I said, that was a another deception meant to motivate you." He said. "And since we don't want to split you guys up, and as these are extra lessons, they need them the most. In addition to remedial lessons. Remember this is the first step in getting your Provisional Hero Licenses."
"Provisional Hero Licenses?" I asked.
"They will allow you to act as Heroes in emergency situations." Aizawa said.
"Oh so their like Hunter in training certification. I got mine a few weeks before going to Beacon." I said.
"I suppose." Aizawa shrugged. "You have two weeks to prepare, I'll see you then."
"Ruby, Pyrrha, what exactly did hunters do?" Tenya asked. I had invited the class over after school, mainly so that they could help me improve their gear, right now they were eating my food.
"Grimm hunting, escorting between cities and kingdoms, city patrols for the police, guarding farms. Hunters were like mercenaries." Pyrrha rubbed the back of her head. "Some even went into the criminal world after graduating. Hunters aren't symbols of peace. They do it for a living, not for the people. It's a job that has a lot of people attracted to for different reasons. Ruby here is actually the youngest ever to be enrolled to Beacon."
"What but your the same age as Ruby." Bakugo said with some confusion.
"I'm seventeen, the Brother of Darkness changed my age for, and I am quoting him here, 'For convenience'." She said as I baked cookies with Sato.
"Though your a four time Mystral Champion. 'The Invincible Girl.' I idolized you when I was going to Signal." I tossed some cookie dough in my mouth.
"'Invincible Girl'? Quite the claim." Kyoka said as she set up some speakers for music.
"It was a title given to me after two years undefeated. But being put up on a pedestal was... degrading." She let out a sad smile.
"Really?" Tenya asked, "Why would you look at it that way?"
"Everyone assumes that your too good for them, that I'm on a whole other level. That's what I liked about Jaune, when we met he didn't even know my name, I was just another person to him." She wiped a tear from her eye, "Just a brilliant strategist who barely knew how to swing a blade, when he enrolled to Beacon he didn't have his aura or semblance."
"Then he wore that dress to the dance to make you laugh." I giggled thinking of the blonde knight.
"An Arc never goes back on his word." Pyrrha laughed thinking of the event.
"I think I broke my ankle from those lady stilts that night as well." I tossed a glob of cookie dough into Kiri's mouth.
"Lady silts?" Momo asked.
"High Heels. Ruby was one of the few people without a date that night." She dodged a spoon.
"There wasn't anyone I liked, besides, we were to busy to getting Blake to go to the dance."
"Yeah the chieftain's daughter really didn't want to go to the dance." Pyrrha said casually.
"Chieftain's daughter?" Shoto asked as he flipped through the channels.
"Smame Quustion." I say through a mouthful, Sato gave me a dirty look.
"She didn't tell you? Her father is the Chieftain Of Menagerie, Ghira Belladonna, the founder of the Peaceful White fang? Did you pay attention to Global Politics at all?" Pyrrha looked at me.
"It was always so early!" I stuck my tongue out at her.
"White Fang? Isn't that a terrorist group?" Ojiro asked.
"Not originally, Blake left them a few months before coming to Beacon. If you ever meet her, she's rather sensitive about it. But I never realized she was a Princess." I admitted.
"What of your Team Pyrrha? What were they like?" Sero asked.
"Ren is a east Mystralian, he's a silent type, and playing damage control for Nora, our power house. Ren was a glass rifle, He could do a lot of precise damage, but it didn't take a lot to take him out of a fight. And his semblance didn't do much for combat, but was great for evading Grimm, he could nullify emotions." Pyrrha let out a smile. "Nora could absorb electricity to strengthen her physical strength. A double team between Kaminari and her would topple anything."
"That's if she hasn't already blown it up with Magnhild." I chuckle.
"That grenade launcher war hammer was beyond terrifying. Where did she even get pink dust?" Pyrrha asked to no one in particular.
"A store." Bakugo said dryly.
"Hey where's Deku?" Uraraka asked.
"I'm here!" He said from where Kaminari, Mina, Kiri and he were playing Blackjack, he was losing badly.
"So Rose, what type of weapons would you suggest for moi?" Yuga asked.
"Since you have the whole knight in shining armor, a sword and shield." I say quickly as I pull out a tray off cookies that is quickly swarmed, leaving me with none. "Hey you have to let it cool."
And that is done.