"When I close my eyes I still see the flames burning down the school, the place I wanted to go to for so long. To become a Huntress for my kingdom." the pile of embers collapsed in on it's self sending sparks high into the night sky where the danced like fairies in the darkness.
"Huntress. Do you think you could teach me to fight, I have a few support items with me." She said as she opened up her case. Her hover boots had been improved since the sports festival. as well as quite a bit of other things that I couldn't tell what they did.
"Sure thing, Hatsume." I smiled at the support student.
Chapter 57: Old teachers.
We had been walking since the sun had started to rise, and it was sunny a day as it could be. "I was expecting to fight people." Bakugo groaned. "Not walking all day."
"Well it's not my fault that we didn't end up at a train station." I snapped back, "This is how Hunters get from town to town anyways so suck it up."
"So Dust is your world power source?" I had given my scroll to Hatsume to read up on the four kingdoms and Dust. "Where did it come from?" She asked.
"No one really knows, it's kind of just always existed. Much like how we basically have no laws around aura and semblances, everyone has it so it just is part of who we are." I said as I ran my hand through my hair, working out knots and tangles with my fingers.
"So I could just make a massive explosion in the middle of a city, and no one would say anything?" Bakugo asked.
"Yeah, the worst you would get is vandalism and destruction of property charges if there is any damages, best case is to not do it again. It's been around so long that trying to regulate it would cause a uproar among the majority of people, and it would make training hunters a lot harder." I explained.
"What about weapons?" Kirishima asked as he shook a pebble out of his boot.
"Well so long as you don't attack people with them no one will say a thing. I could walk down Main with Crescent Rose fully extended across my shoulders and no one would say a thing." I explained, "But most people don't carry weapons, mainly police, hunters and the less savory of society would carry weapons daily."
"Huh... well I guess that explains your lax attitude around your semblance when you first arrived on earth." All Might said as he looked around. "I swear, if you kept of dashing about, the whole city would be covered in rose petals."
Monoma stopped and looked to the bushes as if something was coming. "I heard something." He said as a furry object headbutted him. He fell flat on his back as a small grey and white dog sat on his chest. It barked at us with a happy smile and it's tongue lolling out of it's mouth.
"Zwei?" I looked at my corgi as if it was from another planet. 'Is this how my team felt about him when he came in the mail?' I asked myself.
He what? Pyrrha asked.
He scooted off of Monoma's chest as he padded over to me. "What is your dog doing here?" Kyoka asked as he sat in front of me.
"I... don't know." I picked him up and hugged him. "This could mean that Yang and dad are close." I said.
"Zwei!" A man called out from the bushes, it wasn't dad.
Dr. Oobleck stumbled out of the foliage, in the same clothes that her wore in class. "There you are Zwei… Miss Rose... is that you?" He slowed down for once in his life as he looked at me.
"Hi Dr. Oobleck… Been a while." I smiled as I hugged my dog.
"Simply fascinating!" He zipped over to me, making Monoma chough on the dust cloud he kicked up. "What could have possibly caused this? It looks to be a entirely new scientific discovery! I must simply document this!" He sped from side to side of me taking notes and measurements. "First question, what happened to you?"
"I was submerged in some sort of black liquid and when I escaped it, I looked like this, I am now part Grimm." I said as I grabbed the teacher. "What happened at Beacon?"
He finally stopped moving, "Beacon fell, and it still is over run with Grimm." He said. "But you didn't fully answer what happened to you. We searched as best we could, but you were no where to be found and now your here, a half Grimm as you say."
"Do you have a camp?" Aizawa asked, "You may want to sit down for this sir."
We sat in a large green tent, where Professor port was cooking food, turns out the two were excavating a old ruin while they waited for Beacon to be reclaimed as unlikely as that was. The two teacher took in a breath as they digested what we told them. "I knew Ozpin had secrets, but... magic." Port said as he scratched his bushy mustache.
"Look at me, I'm literally a demon." I said as I out stretched my arms.
"A world with out Grimm... Sounds like a children's story that's to good to be real. But your quirks prove it, unless engines and audio jacks count as animals, you aren't faunas." Oobleck looked at me through his glasses. "I'm sorry for what you have gone through Ruby."
"It's alright, I'm just glad you didn't attack me on sight." I said as picked at the end of my horn.
"How long ago was the battle with All For One?" Port asked.
"A week and a half. We came here because we believed that Haven Academy was going to be attacked." All Might said as he sipped some coffee from Oobleck's thermos.
"We came here as soon as the side effects of the Last Stand wore off from Ruby and tested her new abilities." Aizawa said.
"Last stand! You used last stand? Where did you even learn it from?" Port asked as he stood up in shock.
"Uncle Qrow… why is there something about it that's wrong?" I asked.
"Miss. Rose, it's a bandit skill, they use it to raid villages." He said.
"A bandit skill?" Kyoka asked as she looked at me.
"I didn't know, all he said was to use it when I have no other choice." I said as I looked at the older man.
"You have to ask him about that." Oobleck said as he looked us over. "If you wouldn't mind I'd like to see your quirks in action."
"What do you mean? You want to Fight?" Bakugo asked.
"Don't threaten the professional fighters!" Tenya yelled in shock.
"Oh no, we have a bit of a grimm infestation further down in the ruins, I think you could do with something other then walking." the good doctor smiled.
"Now that sounds good to me." Kiri slammed his hardened fists together.
"I'm not a fighter." Hatsume said with a squeak.
"Well if you would like to learn a thing or two about Remnantian engineering, I'd be happy to help, after all, every Hunter makes their own weapon." Port smiled at the girl.
I'll leave it there, I'm tired and it's getting late.