Hey everyone. WaterDragonMaverick here with the next chapter of "Sideline: Another Story". In this chapter, we'll meet the newest antagonists for Fragment Hunter to face off against. And unlike Smoke Shadow and his crew, these four are NOT as friendly as them. Mostly because three of them have a past with one of the members of Fragment Hunter.
Dark clouds loom ahead...
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Things were intense with Terracotta helping train Fragment Hunter and the other students. His extra credit sparring sessions were tough for everyone, even for his own daughter. No matter who partook in the lessons, somebody got hurt by the end of it. Some of Fragment Hunter believed his methods of training to be... dodgy.
"DODGE," Terracotta yelled as he kicked Cereza hard enough to send her flying into Silver and Sunset. As the three were piled on top of each other, Rua went after him with Azalea and Vinyl helping her. But, they failed to harm Terracotta when he grabbed Rua by the foot and threw her into the others. Drawing his sword, Terra quickly turned to Slate and Celadon as he swung the blade and screamed. "DODGE!"
"Oh crap," Slate exclaimed before quickly ducking under the blade and jumped away from Terracotta's reach with Celadon. As they joined up with Rebecca and Vixen, Slate turned to face Azalea as she was getting up. "Was your training like this at home," Slate asked the horned Faunus girl.
Azalea thought it over and remembered all the times she sparred with her dad. Thinking back to the matches on the farm, Azalea soon snapped out of it when she heard her father go in for another swing of his sword. "More or less, Slate. But, Dad's really giving us some intense training," Azalea said as she avoided the blade.
"DOOOODGE," Terra shouted as he punched Azalea on the top of her head and sent her to the ground.
"Dude, that's your daughter," Vinyl exclaimed as Azalea fell to the floor. "So not rad."
"No, I should've paid attention. Besides, Dad's like this with my Uncle Ventus, too," Azalea said as she pushed herself off the ground.
"I think that's enough training for today," Terracotta said as he placed his sword on his back again. "Now, what have we learned?"
"Scream 'dodge' to distract opponents," Rua sarcastically asked with a smirk.
Terracotta just stared at Rua for a moment before stretching his arms. "On second thought, I think a little more training is in order," he stated.
"Wait," Rua exclaimed before Terracotta grabbed her head.
"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGE," he yelled as he brought Rua's face down to his rising knee strike. As Rua fell to the ground in pain, Fragment Hunter checked up on her. "What lesson do we need to keep practicing," Terra asked as Rua was helped to her feet by Lapis and Vixen.
"Always make sure to dodge," Fragment Hunter said in unison.
"Very good. If you dodge enemy attacks, you'll be able to exhaust them or their ammunition much quicker. Especially if you use minimal energy," Terra advised.
"Tremor actually said that to me during our fight in the factory," Azalea mentioned.
"Well then, I'll need to get busy for the next class. I'll see you all later," Terra said before the twelve teenagers headed out of the amphitheater.
"I think I deserved that hit," Rua muttered as she stumbled out the door.
Soon, Fragment Hunter were all enjoying their time between classes and after recovering from their sparring session with Terracotta. "Another relaxing day at Beacon Academy," Layla said as she started stretching. "I thought it would be a little more hectic with all the transfer students, but things are pretty good."
"Same here," Silver agreed. "Do any of you recognize some students from the other schools," he asked the members of Fragment Hunter who were not from Vale.
"Nope. Not really," Slate said. "I kind of kept to myself and my family back in Vacuo."
"I don't know anyone who came here," Layla told her friends.
"I haven't seen anyone I know from Sanctuary Academy yet," Azalea mentioned. "I'm kind of relieved about that, too. There were a lot of kids who picked on me there."
"Geez. I thought you said Mirabelle barely had any discrimination against Faunus," Sunset asked.
"Sanctuary isn't in Mirabelle. It's a bit to the south of the town," Azalea said as she covered her chest with her arms. "And there were these three bullies that were the worst of them all. They kept calling me horrible things like 'Livestock', 'Veal Cut', and..."
"Is that the Dairy Cow," Azalea heard somebody say a little bit away from her and she flinched as she recognized the voice. "Hahaha! It is her!Check it out, girls. It's Azalea," the voice said with a laugh and everyone turned to see four students from Mistral in their school uniforms. The boy who spoke was 6 feet tall, had short black hair that began to fall over his black eyes, a fair-skinned lean build, and was chewing some gum. "I didn't think we would see each other again after graduating Sanctuary," he said before blowing a bubble and bit down on it.
"Neither did I," said one of the two girls with a seemingly pleasant voice that hid a malevolent undertone. She was 5'6" with a slightly tanned hourglass figure with average proportions, purple eyes, and a half-blue half-green hime cut that reached her waist. "Who knew we would run into our favorite little cow?"
"How's it been, Holstein," the second girl asked with a sneer. She was shorter at 5'4" and was paler than the other two. She had short blonde hair that reached her ears, brown eyes, and a petite figure with a small chest. "We missed you the last few months. I think it'll be good to catch up on old times."
Azalea was panicked and curled up into the fetal position with tears forming in her eyes. Fragment Hunter all saw this and stood around their friend to keep her safe. "Just who are you and why do you know Azalea," Sunset asked with a glare.
"I don't think there's anyone from Sanctuary Academy who doesn't know about Azalea here," the shorter girl said as her brown eyes briefly turned green when she blinked.
"Sorry for not introducing ourselves," the black-haired boy apologized. "I'm Jet Pitch. These girls are my old friends and teammates from Sanctuary Academy. Aoi Lobelia, the taller one, and Envy Sinn, the smaller girl. And the guy over there is Duke Cobalt, our last teammate," Jet told Fragment Hunter as he pointed behind himself.
Duke was standing quietly as he watched the 'reunion' between his teammates and their old acquaintance. He was 6'2" with a muscular frame, tanned skin, and a scar above his left eyebrow. He had short brown hair in a buzzcut and blue eyes. As he looked at his team, he only scoffed and rolled his eyes at them before looking up at the clouds above.
"Now that we've introduced ourselves, who are all of you," Aoi asked as she flipped her hair.
"Azalea's friends and teammates," Cereza said as she stared down Aoi with distaste.
"I didn't think she would have any friends aside from those farmhands and that bird girl," Aoi giggled as she looked at all of Fragment Hunter. "I see that some things haven't changed with her despite the small change to her wardrobe," she said as she saw Silver and Vixen.
"What is that supposed to mean," Silver asked as he started to growl at Aoi.
"Just that she's hanging around others and hiding behind them," Jet said as he turned to Silver. "Seriously, she's trying to be a Huntress but keeps running scared whenever a bug shows up. It's pathetic," he and the girls laughed.
"I think you better leave us alone if you know what's good for you," Rua warned as she stepped forward and cracked her knuckles.
"Like we're scared of a shrimp like you," Envy stated before grabbing Rua's forearm. As soon as she did, Rua felt like she was getting weaker until Envy let go. "We need to head off anyways. Take care, Holstein," Envy said as she turned around to the rest of her team. "And be careful of bugs. We how much you hate them."
"Those three are annoying. What was with them," Rebecca stated.
"I don't know. Maybe Azalea knows who they are," Lapis suggested before turning around. "Hey, Lea. Who were those g-" When Lapis and the others turned around to talk with Azalea, she was nowhere to be seen. "Where did she go?"
"We'll find her," Sunset said. "Split up and find her. Stay in communication with Scrolls or the telepathic link."
"On it," Fragment Hunter agreed with their thoughts broadcasted among the eleven of them before splitting up into their original teams.
"Azalea, we know you can probably hear us," Layla stated with her mind. "Come on out."
"This is getting nowhere fast," Cereza commented. "Find anything," she asked on her Scroll.
"No. Maybe she's at the dorms," Vixen suggested.
"We'll check there next," Sunset said mentally. After a while, the three teams reached the door to Team FCSA's room and tried to open it. However, it was locked and they couldn't get inside. "I think we found her," Sunset dryly said before knocking on the door. "Open up, Azalea. We want to talk."
There was no reply and Sunset knocked again. "Lea? Are you alright," Layla asked her teammate.
Listening close, they could hear sobbing and sniffling from Azalea before she answered back. "No..."
"Come on, Freckles. Let us in and help you out," Cereza said. Azalea only kept crying and didn't open the door for her friends. "Azalea, open this door! I am your team leader!"
"Should I go get my chainsaw," Silver asked before Rebecca stepped forward. Taking Celadon's hairpin, Rebecca began to pick the lock of the door and managed to open it within a few seconds. "Or we could do that," Silver commented as he handed Celadon her hairpin.
Everyone stepped inside Team FCSA's dorm room to see that Azalea was curled up in a blanket and sobbing to herself. "Azalea, what's wrong? We saw you curled up when those transfer students appeared," Lapis asked.
"Leave me alone," Azalea told them. "I said that I could handle this kind of thing by myself."
Everyone was confused by what Azalea meant, but Sunset remembered she said the same thing when Cardin insulted her and ran away from Doctor Oobleck's class. "Azalea, I told you that I would be here to help you when things like Cardin happened. So, what's going on," Sunset asked.
"I don't want to talk about it," Azalea told them before turning away from Fragment Hunter.
"Don't give me that," Sunset exclaimed as she pulled the blanket away from Azalea. "I can feel that you want to tell us who those three were. But, you also won't. Why not tell us?"
"You wouldn't understand," Azalea yelled at Sunset. "You don't know what I've been through!"
"Then, tell us! I want to know what's got you so scared," Sunset shouted as she grabbed Azalea by the arm. As she did that, Sunset felt a surge of energy flow through her and her bright teal eyes turned completely white. The last thing Sunset heard before everything faded away was her friends calling out her name.
Sunset groaned as she held her head and stood up. "Ugh... Where am I," she said to herself as she looked around. Sunset's eyes widened as she saw that she was no longer in Beacon Academy's dorm rooms, but in the courtyard of a different school entirely. "Huh? 'Sanctuary Academy'? Isn't that the name of Azalea's old school?"
Sunset suddenly heard a loud scream coming from inside and quickly headed toward the noise to see what was going on. As soon as she got inside, she saw that several students were laughing at a girl that was completely soaked and had pieces of balloons in her hair. "Hahahaha! I guess Tits here needs a change of clothes," a voice Sunset heard earlier said. Turning around, she saw Jet Pitch was in a uniform for Sanctuary Academy and tossing a water balloon in his hand.
"Hahahaha! Would this make her a Sea Cow," Sunset heard Aoi Lobelia say before she threw another water balloon at the poor girl. The balloon popped on impact with the horns on her head and water splashed all over her.
"Nah. She's still a dumb Dairy Cow," said Envy Sinn as she threw two more balloons at the girl and hit her in the chest.
Sunset was getting mad at this display and the fact that nobody was stopping it. "Quit it," she shouted as she attempted to grab at Envy and Aoi. But to her shock, her hand passed through them and the desk she fell toward. "Wh-what's going on," Sunset asked as she looked at her hand.
"Please... stop it," the drenched girl asked as she shivered. Moving her wet hair out of her face, Sunset was surprised again when she saw familiar green eyes and freckles along with the black horns on the girl's head. She was watching Azalea being tormented by Jet, Aoi, and Envy at Sanctuary Academy.
And with this chapter (which is shorter than the others for a few reasons), we now have Team JADE from Mistral. Not only that, but a look into Azalea's past and how much she was bullied.
Why is Sunset seeing this? Will she be able to help out Azalea when she escapes? Find out next time on "Sideline: Another Story"!
WaterDragonMaverick, signing out.