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Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

I heard there was a combat tournament coming up, it certainly sounded interesting, the chance to fight strong people from all over the world, I could surely learn a lot.

For now though we were at lunch, eating with our friends from team JNPR.

"You're food is so much spicier here." I looked at my tray "In my home we eat most meats with fruity sauces and spices so these flavors are rather strange."

"Weird, different foods from different places." Ruby said as we sat down.

"And there we were in the middle of the night." Nora seemed to be telling some sort of story.

"It was day." Ren sighed.

"We were surrounded by Ursa." She continued.

"They were Beowolves." Ren sighed again.

"There were dozens!"

"It was just two."

"Perhaps you two should coordinate your hunting story." I laughed.

"Well they were no match, and in the end Ren and I took them down." Nora laughed.

"She's been having this dream for nearly a month now." Ren sighed.

"Jaune is something bothering you?" Pyrrha asked looking at the boy playing with his food.

"Uhh yeah why?"

"You seem a little…not good." Ruby said trying to be nice.

"You look terrified puny man." I added.

"Ouch." Yang laughed.

"I'm fine." Jaune laughed and smiled "See, fine."

"Jaune Cardin has been picking on you since the first day." Pyrrha confronted him.

"Who Cardin Winchester no he just likes to mess around." He laughed "You know, practical jokes."

"He's just a bully." Ruby said.

"If you can't work towards the goal of the group you are dead weight." I added "He only holds people back, in my village he'd be marked for death acting like that."

"Name one time he's bullies me." Jaune tried to laugh it off.

"That time he knocked your books out of your hands."

"Or that time he opened your shield in the doorway."

"Or that other time he shot you across campus in a locker." I added "You are a weak man Jaune Arc. If you want I can beat him up."

"Oh let's break his legs!" Nora cheered.

"I like the way you think." I smiled slapping her hand as the people around here do…high fives they call them.

"Guys it's fine." Jaune said standing up "Besides it's not like he's only a jerk to me, he's like that to everyone."

"YOW Stop!"

At the present moment the aforementioned bully was tugging on the ears of another student. I had actually never seen one like it before, Ruby said they were called Faunus, they're like humans but with animals like features and abilities.

"How autrocious, I despise people like him." Pyrrha growled.

"Are you sure we can't break his legs?" I asked again "Because I kinda really want to do that."

I wanna break him in half…I bet it would be fun to just leave him a crumbled-up mess on the floor…

"It must be hard to be a Faunus." Yang commented.

"I find it hard to understand why you treat people differently based on something as trivial as appearance." I said "If anything someone should be shunned for weakness."

"You have a very strange outlook." Blake looked at me.

"I have an outlook of my homeland, there strength is more important, we don't breed like rabbits after all, we can't afford to be picky with things like looks." I explained.

"I think you look great." Ruby giggled.

"Why thank you, although all Amazons aren't as beautiful as me." I said smugly "That's not to say they're ugly or anything…"

Later

The next few days were quiet, Jaune was still acting off, somehow he had become friends with the bully, but no one really called him out on it. After that we got to go on a field trip in the woods, it was a nice refresher compared to all the time we had been spending inside.

We had to gather sap from trees, simple enough for me but not so for everyone else.

"How do I get it out?" Weiss asked looking at the bark.

"Just ask nicely." I poked a tree, a branch lowering and filling my jar.

"I feel like that's cheating." She grumbled trying to jam a wooden spike into a tree to tap it.

"Be careful, if you force it-."

"YOW!" she yelped as the spike bounced off and cut her hand.

"The tree will fight back." I sighed.

"Are you okay Weiss?" Yang asked.

"I'm fine, just a cut." She hissed.

"Hmm." I grabbed her wrist and looked at her hand "You're lucky this sap isn't also poison."

"What are you-."

"MM!" I dragged my tongue over her cut.

"What is god's name are you doing!" she yelped.

"GULP!" I swallowed "Wow Weiss you taste delicious."

"Wow…" Yang stared at us.

"Don't lick people!" the white haired girl yanked her wrist away.

"Sorry." I laughed "I just saw that dark red on your pale skin…and I couldn't help myself. That sweet iron tang…yum."

"You are so weird sometimes." She scoffed "What are you a vampire?"

"What's a vampire? Sorry, I know it's a bad habit." I laughed "But I've been doing it since I was a kid and just can't seem to help myself."

"ROOOOAAA!"

"Did you guys here that?" Ruby asked.

"Sounded close."

"It's an Ursa." A boy ran passed.

"Isn't that kid on Cardin's team?" Blake asked.

"Where?" Yang grabbed the kid.

"Back there, with Cardin." He whined squirming free.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha gasped.

"I wanna kill it." I smiled reaching back for my blade.

"No." Ruby told me "You go with Yang and Ruby, find Miss Goodwitch."

"I can't kill it." I growled "You're…telling me know."

I want to kill it, I want to kill it, I want to kill it…if she won't let me…I could just kill her first…

"It'll be best, you can make sure everyone else is okay that way." Ruby nodded "I'll be fine."

"…fine." I sighed turning around "But the next time we hunt together, I'm killing something."

I walked back with Yang and Blake, there were no other beasts on the path and by the time we reported in there was no need for back up, Jaune already killed the creature.

"I'm surprised." I mentioned on the flight back "I had thought you too weak to slay a Grimm."

"Hey!" he yelped.

"That's not very nice." Ruby told me.

"What I mean is…you're not as weak as I thought, perhaps you do have some skill." I smiled "Originally if you had wandered into the Jungle of the Amazons you'd probably have been killed, women don't want to breed with weak hearted men, I'm glad you've proven that thought wrong. Strength is what matters, the thrill and skill of a hunt."

"Is that why you like to fight so much?" Ruby asked.

"Of course, the more strong things I fight the stronger I'll get." I smirked "And I want to be the strongest."

AN

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

I forgot how Season 1 is 16 episodes, and so many of them are short 5 minute things as opposed to the 12 minutes episodes from Season 2 on.

Till Next Time!