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"Why live a shattered life? I can't focus on the remnants of my past. I know my path will take me back home. But now where is home now? Remnant, or Earth?" I asked.
"I don't know." He looked at me and poked my nose, "I mean, do I look like a thinker?"
I giggled at his dumb joke. "No, but we have Bakugo for that."
Chapter 42: Camp part 3
I rolled out of the way of Pyrrha's sword slash, Penny's sword in my grasp as I rolled in the dirt for my life. "TIME! TIME! TIME!" I scrambled to my feet as I slahed at her which she blocked with ease and countered with a straight kick into my stomach. I keeled over as she bashed my head in with the pommel of her sword. My chin bounced off a rock making my teeth chatter.
"There is no time in battle Ruby. Only reactions." She picked my up by the scruff of my neck. "Let's go through that again."
I brushed the dust off of me, looking down at the rest of my class training from the pillar stadium we were fighting atop of, that Pixie bob had made. "I know. I know." I could see and hear Bakugo's explosions, Todoroki's ice and flames, and Kirishima making and breaking massive pillars of stone using his quirk and semblance.
"Start in guard one, then transition to pose three, and settle in angle two." She slashed at me three time in quick succession, I blocked the first two with the flat of the blade, but the third one slipped past my guard and struck my Aura throwing me back again. "Better. Again." We repeated this until I got it. Which meant I was thrown into the dirt a lot.
I blocked the third strike and went in for a low strike but Pyrrha just countered by stepping inside my reach and decking me in the face. My brain bounced around as I hit the ground. "You didn't have to hit that hard." I groaned as I rolled over.
"Sorry." She held out her hand to pull me up, I took it and stood bent over as I rubbed the large bump on the back of my skull. "You're getting better."
"But not good enough." I cracked my back as I stood up straight.
"You'll get there, now time for you to work on your speed and endurance, fifty laps around the training grounds. I got to work on my aura." She sat crossed legged as her aura flared up around her. I dropped down from the edge and broke the fall by turning into petals at the last second, I reformed as Iida stopped to catch his breath.
"Pyrrha will be the death of me." I ran a hand through my matted hair, it had only been a few hours but she already had me at my limits.
"She's certainly a fighter." He nodded.
"Race? Fifty laps." I smiled as I stretched out my legs.
"Oh don't be childish Ruby." He smiled as he took off, fire sparking from his exhaust ports.
I burst forward in a catching up to and passing Tenya, I could hear the wind behind me whip around blowing people off balance. Took turns extremely sharp sending massive dust clouds barreling through trees. Despite the heat my back was felt cool. I pushed my self to my limits as the world elongated and the petals I came in for my second lap when I felt shock and a loud bang deafened me. I lost my balance a hit the ground as I held my head from the ringing.
I waited a few seconds as Ragdoll jogged over, I saw her lips move but I heard nothing, just a loud ringing as my aura flared around my head. "Rose you okay?"
"Did I just..." I started to ask, my own voice sounded watery I rubbed my ear for a few seconds.
"You broke the sound barrier for a second." Pyrrha said as she landed on her feet. "I knew you were fast but good lord."
"I don't think I was ever meant to go that fast. My whole body just..." I shivered as my guts fixed them selves.
"Looks like all that training you did for the exams payed off." Ragdoll patted my head. "Just don't run into a wall."
"I'll avoid walls." I stood up, my legs shaking with a unsteady stance.
"Go get some water, going supersonic is impressive, that's faster then what you pulled at the sports festival." Ragdoll smiled.
"Someone calculated that?" I asked.
"There has been a lot of debate about your max speed online." Pyrrha said as she returned to her training. "You have sparked quite the following."
I sat down and drank some water as I spotted the kid I had seen when we first got here. He was moving a crate of water bottles over to the table. Kota was his name if I remembered right. I smiled at him as I waved. He still had that look of contempt on his face. I got the uneasy feeling that he didn't want us here again. "Don't mind Kota." Mandalay said as she sat next to me. "He doesn't like super heroes."
"Really?" I asked as I wiped my face off with a towel. "Why is that? If it's okay asking."
"His parent's were heroes killed by a villain, something I sure you know all too well." I looked away from the pro. "Ever since then he's hated anything to do with quirks and heroes."
"I can understand that, when I first lost my mother as kid, I hated her for a few years, I didn't get why she had just vanished, then the hate for her changed to regret and then self hate. For about a year... I was around 11... I just wanted for everything to end. That's when my uncle Qrow started my training." I looked back to the woman. "He has to learn that their sacrifice wasn't for fame. Bad things happen... and unfortunately sometimes it's those who we love that are caught in the middle."
"Your wise for your age." She smiled down at me.
"I've had some pretty great teachers through the years." I scratched the back of my head as I leaned back. "And I still have more to learn."
"If you ever need to talk to someone, don't hesitate to ask. Now get back to your training." she shoved me off the bench causing water to fly into my face and up my nose.
"Hey!" I pushed her back as I stood up.
Everyone made their way back to main building for supper which we had to make. Curry and rice. I was on fire duty with Todoroki, I used a small pocket knife that Momo made at my request and a fire dust crystal. I lit the fires with ease as I struck the edge of the crystal with the knife. "Your quite skilled with that." Shoto said as he lit his pit.
"It's a trick my sister taught me, I just have to channel a small amount of aura into the dust. If your not careful it can burn you or just blow up." I say as I lit another cooking pit. "When I first did it I had set dad's shorts on fire."
"How many things have you set on fire Ruby?" Kyoka asked as she set the table.
"Moving on." I dodged the question. "Another trick she showed me was with Ice Dust, though I was never all that good at it, was making snow piles. I always just froze my arm in a block of ice."
"I'm just picturing you as a kid with a arm stuck massive ice cube in front of a fireplace." Kiri laughed as he cut vegetables with Bakugo.
"Replace fireplace with older sister cracking ice puns while melting the ice with a hairdryer. And you got it." I lit another pit and moved on.
"Why haven't we seen your family?" Tetsutetsu asked, I had completely forgotten that class 1-B were here with us.
"It's complicated." I scratched the back of my head.
"Well we got time while were here." Class 1-B's representative Itsuka Kendo said with a smile.
I looked over To Pyrrha and she shrugged. "I guess it couldn't hurt to tell you guys." I said. "But none of this is to get out to the public... I rather not have governments looking for a way to my home."
"Finally class 1-A's dark secret." Monamo said as he scooted over, "The one thing that isn't clear to us, the secret that set's you apart."
"Monamo, shut up." Kendo looked at her classmate.
"Pyrrha and I aren't from Earth. We don't have quirks, rather our powers are called Aura and semblance, their derived from our souls." I said as I lit another firepit.
"That's not what we were expecting though it dose explain a lot." Kendo looked down at me.
"CLASS 1-A HAS ALIENS!" Monamo exclaimed. "No wonder you've gotten so powerful."
"We're human, just from a another universe... reality... how exactly would this be called?" Pyrrha asked Tenya.
"I don't know. You guys got here because 'divine' forces." He shrugged as he fixed his glasses.
"Yeah, a literal god of evil in Pyrrha's case, magic bullshit for me." I shrugged.
"Language." Deku said from the other side of the fire pits as he boiled water.
"So your home... what is it like?" Kendo asked.
"Remnant is... a world filled with monsters." I told them a brief history of our home, Pyrrha cutting in here and there for what I got wrong.
"Wow... your world sounds like a setting for a web action adventure show." Kendo said as she sat down.
"And yours is something out of a comic book, the support gear, the powers, the lack of Grimm. To me this was just as much a fantasy as my world would be to you." I countered.
"A world without superheroes... seems insane to us." Kendo smiled at me. "But one I would like to see."
And this chapter is done.