Chapter 9: First Day. First Class Fights
Viralious wakes up to his alarm going off, glancing around the room he notices that Winter is already up and walking into the common room dressed in her Atlas Academy Uniform. Shaking his head, he grabs his uniform and enters the bathroom, closing the door behind him. Quickly brushing his teeth, putting on deodorant, and changing into the Drab gray and white uniform he looks at his long hair in the mirror before chuckling and exiting the bathroom. Placing his sleepwear back in his bag, he moves out into the common room to see Winter and Eckhart standing near the door waiting.
"You didn't have to wait for me, you know, I can get to the cafeteria on my own." he says while glancing at the door to the other suite in the dorm.
"No, figured we might as well eat as a team… Besides, we're waiting on Ifiral. He's surprisingly lethargic in the morning." Winter says trying to be confident.
"Winter's right. Besides, breakfast just opened at 7 I doubt most students are going to be there anyhow" Eckhart added
Viralious raised an eyebrow. "I'm honestly surprised it's so late, figured since it was Atlas we would expect to be at breakfast at 6am sharp."
"It was originally like that but you can thank the new faculty for that. All of them remember what it was like as a student and decided to start later and end later." Eckhart said in a huff
"Remind me to thank them," Ifiral says, walking out in his uniform.
"Alright well since we're all here we should get a move on" Winter says while walking out the door the rest of the team following suit.
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The breakfast selection at Atlas is kind of what you would expect; basic bland cereal and Pumpkin Petes (That's just a sugar high in a box not breakfast food), simple muffins and bagels, fresh fruit and a make your own pancake machine. But most importantly a large fresh pot of coffee. The four members of Team VIEW grab a simple breakfast consisting of muffins, bagels and a small tray of fruit for Winter. Setting it down on a table near the middle of the cafeteria, Viralious turns and addresses his team,
"I'm getting Coffee anyone else wants one, and if so how"
"Black." Ifiral says while raising his hand.
"I'll take one too, black as well." Winter adds while spearing some melon with her fork.
"Black coffee is fine with me, Viralious" Eckhart says, eyeing a bagel.
Laughing slightly, Viralious repeats the order "Four cups of black coffee coming right up." before walking towards the fresh pot. After a minute he places four mugs onto the table.
Each member grabs one as Viralious takes a seat. They are sitting two on each side of the table, Ifiral sitting next to Viralious, with Winter across from Viralious and Eckhart sitting next to the Heiress. The breakfast is quiet, only occasional conversations and curt requests for napkins or passing of utensils. Breaking the silence, Viralious says,
"Have either of you heard of Meteion?"
Winter raises an eyebrow before remembering Basil's short meeting with them last night.
Eckhart looks at Viralious with a questioning gaze while Ifiral pauses, eating his muffin.
Eckhart quickly and scholarly responds "They're a cult of Grimm worshippers who believe that the world of Remnant should be returned to the natural state of nothingness, they're more common in Vacu-"
"They're a cult of crazy lunatics that want to destroy the world, they have some presence down in Mantle." Ifiral interrupts.
Eckhart spares his partner an uneasy gaze, "And how do you know that?"
"Simple, I've had a run in with them once or twice." Ifiral responds while taking a bite from his muffin.
Shaking his head Eckhart turns back to Viralious "Ugh anyway so I guess that answers the question, Now Viralious if this is some pitch to try and get us to join I-"
"Do you take me for a crazy cultist? No, I'm not trying to convert you. I'm simply asking so I know where to start with this." Pausing for a moment he looks around side-eyeing and making sure no one else is paying attention to his team before continuing "I didn't tell you this so don't go and repeat it to ANYONE." He says while staring daggers at Eckhart. "The two goat faunus from initiation were members of Meteion that had some plan for Winter, Basil warned us that we should be vigilant for more members."
Eckhart just shook his head "Worthless drivel, I don't know what they taught you back in Patch Viralious, but spreading fake rumors about the dead is poor taste."
Ifiral was the next to respond "Alright I believe you." Eckhart's eyes go wide at this comment
"What, there's no way it's true. Meteion has no confirmed precedence in Mantle, why would they even want to do something the heiress of a Dust company." he spits out with barely contained annoyance
"I wasn't trying to start a fight Eckhart, just simply filling the rest of you in on what Basil told us last night. Figured I should keep everyone in the know since we're a team."
Eckhart just stared at Viralious before picking up his coffee mug and leaving the cafeteria.
Viralious downs the rest of his cup before shaking his head.
Ifiral just glances at the doorway that Eckhart walked through before smirking slightly "Who's going to tell him you're supposed to put your trays on the carousel and not take the cup with you?" This earns a small laugh from Winter.
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The three of them arrived at the classroom for Grimm Studies at 8:47, giving them plenty of time to find good seats and get set up early. The room was designed as a simple lecture hall, four rows stacked in three nice sections created a place for students to listen and gave Murt plenty of lecture space. Eckhart was already there when they arrived and was sitting in the front center row. The rest of his team joined him, Ifiral sat on his left with Winter on his right. Viralious glanced down at his team before quickly taking a place next to Winter.
Students slowly poured in until the last 5 minutes before classes where there was a Mad dash of the rest of the first years. Team CARD arrived with just seconds to spare before Murt stepped into the room.
"Grimm, monsters that have plagued humanity for as long as history itself." His voice booming through the room as he walked down towards the large lecture space. "Humanity has always been at war with the Grimm, an ever evolving arms race. From the sword to the claw, the firearm to the corrosive spit, and Dust to the scream of an Apathy, Grimm have ever evolved to match humanity to fulfill one thing." Turning to face the class and pausing for dramatic effect. "Extermination of humankind. Each and everyone of you has decided to partake in this arms race as the future generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses."
Murt then grabbed a piece of chalk from the desk and began writing on the chalkboard. "My name is Professor Murt, I will be teaching you all you need to know about the creatures of Grimm. Some ground rules before we launch into the first lecture. You will want to write this down" Murt then numbered the chalkboard 1 through 4.
"Rule number one, no talking or interrupting while I am lecturing, I have over 60 different types of Grimm that I will be explaining intimately, so it's best not to lose my train of thought." Just then a fellow first year raised their hand and said "What about if we have a question or would like-" the student is cut off by a modified tee-shirt cannon firing a small rubber ball at them which smacked them in the face. "What did I just say? No interrupting me, cause if you do you've got to deal with Biff!" he said while tapping the tee-shirt cannon. "Now where was I, oh right, rule one; no interruptions while I am talking! Now as for questions, I will go into as much detail as possible for each Grimm but I will leave 10 minutes at the end of each lecture for questions or further clarifications."
Every member of team VIEW except for Ifiral all raise an eyebrow at Murts… Unique approach to breaking a rule. Ifiral just stares at Biff with a horrible plan brewing in his head.
"Rule number two, write EVERYTHING that I say down, and I do mean everything. Most of my information about these Grimm is from first hand accounts of fighting them. So you will be getting the full story of the encounter, before and afterwards. I will be including details from the stories into the exams."
Winter, who was already writing the rules down in her notebook, felt a small sense of satisfaction as she saw most of the other students pulling out notebooks and pencils… then she turned and saw Viralious writing in pen and not pencil and became slightly confused.
"Rule number three, come to class and stay awake during class, I get it, it's early in the morning and you would just love to sleep in… Tough shit your training to be Huntsmen, If I had my choice we would be starting at 5 AM like I suggested. To hammer home this rule, every day that you miss without a proper excuse or reason is 1% off of your final score. Every class you sleep through I am counting as you not even showing up.:
Ifrial frowned slightly at that statement, then wondered if he could learn to sleep with his eyes open.
"And lastly rule number four, while each of your grades are separate, half of your assignments are going to be team assignments. Working as a Huntsman requires you to get along with your peers so group projects WILL be common. In fact, I expect a three page paper on the combat style of a Saybr from each team by Monday."
Viralious and Eckhart groaned. Viralious because he wasn't even 15 minutes into the first class and they already had homework. Eckhart because there were going to be a ton of group assignments.
"Alright that's all my rules, lets go over what happens if you break them." Murt says while turning away from the chalkboard and pulling out two more Modified tee-shirt cannons now it was obvious each was labeled with a distinct color White, yellow and red. picking up the yellow one "You've all already met Biff, he's just meant for telling you to shut ya trap." Picking up the white one "His sister Tiff's the mean one though as she's filled with actual tee-shirts instead of balls. One shot from her means, see me after class." Lastly, picking up the red one, "This one here is Cliff, he's the real fun one… Instead of tee-shirts or balls this one straight up fires extra homework assignments ranging from coloring the weak spots on an Ursa to an essay about the eyes on a Nevermore. Now then, any questions?"
Not a single peep was voiced in the classroom as the fear of extra homework held high.
"Alright then we can begin. So today's lecture will be about the Sabyr. So starting with its native habitat you can expect to run into them while you are in Solitas, specifically in the wastes surrounding Mantle. Now recently some jackass has decided to move them towards Anima in a small forced migration. Still you'll only really have to worry about them while here in Atlas or Mantle, I'm assuming most of you have fought these at Initiation so I'm skimming slightly. Okay as for combat style, I just graduated from Shelter Academy and was helping my father, a trained Huntsman, clear out a small cave of them for the SDC since they thought there was Dust in the cave… there was not, but the only good Grimm is a dead Grimm. Anyhow, I noticed their sharp teeth and correctly assumed their most powerful asset is their strong bite force, able to cleanly shred rocks and stones. They have a strong bone plating that armor their shoulders and hips. Their rib cage is external. This makes its stomach the best place to strike as it's the largest non armored part of their body. Best course of action is to knock them into the air then deliver a strike to the underside. As long as it's not an alpha though you could probably just shoot clean through the head. If you're in Solitas it's also good to note that some Saybrs will have ice fused into their bodies increasing their defense and making them more susceptible to fire dust. Now then we can look at the behavior, Their pack hunters so you can expect there to be at least 3 in an encounter but oftentimes you can find packs of 8 or 9 all rushing you at once. Now back to the cave I simply…" The lecture continued from there, intimately going into details of how Murt fought the pack of Saybrs with his father and details on how he killed each and every single one. Once that story was finished he reiterated his points with a story of a solo mission where he fought an alpha and used his tonfa to catch the teeth and swing it around like a ragdoll.
Before long, Murts alarm went off, signaling that the end of class was near and it was time for questions and answers. "Are there any questions or points of clarification?"
The class stood silent before one singular hand went up.
"Miss Amethyst, what do you want to know?"
Delphi slightly sinks into herself "This is less about the Saybr but more about the class in general. What is the proper procedure for coming in late or having to leave early?"
Murt nods "For leaving early I expect you to put a note on my desk explaining the reason beforehand, if it's for something as simple as going to the bathroom just mention it at the end of class. For coming in late it's similar I expect you to explain your reasoning at the end of class."
Delphi nods before looking back down. Next, Russet raises their hand "What's your stance on using electronic devices to take notes?"
"As long as that's what you're actually doing Mr. Gherman, it is fine with me."
"What are the specifications to the modifications of Biff, Tiff, and Cliff?" Ifiral said while raising his hand.
Murt just stared back at him eyes glaring daggers "Classified, Mr. Phenrix, classified"
Ifiral just shrugs before going back to packing his notes.
Winter then took the chance to glance over her teammates' notes, Ifiral had paraphrased most of the lecture… even drawing a picture of Murt swinging the Saybr around… it was surprisingly detailed. Eckhart was similar to her full information but he did leave off some of the more questionable parts. Viralious had everything and she means everything. The only difference between his and Winter's looked to be that he wrote a bit larger so he took up more pages. The bell unceremoniously rang signaling the end of class.
"You're all dismissed, remember the team report due Monday. Tomorrow's lecture we will begin going over the nervous structure of the Beowolf." Murt called out as the student's shuffled out. Team VIEW followed suit with Winter leading the four towards their next class of the day.
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The walk over to the History class was Silent, mostly just following the group in front of them. As for the room itself it was a near mirror to the Grimm Studies classroom; the only difference is there were two extra chalkboards rolled to each side of the lecture area. Unlike Murt, Beryl was already sitting at the desk in the front of the classroom reading from a large book. Team VIEW ended up taking seats that were basically the same as the previous class.
Viralious quickly glanced over at his scroll, checking the time before turning to the rest of his team. "You think Beryl's going to have a tee-shirt cannon as well?" he said with a sarcastic tone, getting a small smirk from each of his teammates.
"Doubtful, odds are he'll just make you recite old Mistiralan plays instead," Eckhart said with a smirk.
Then the bell rang. Beryl quickly slammed his book shut before addressing the class.
"Hello my name is Professor Beryl and I would like to welcome you all to History at Atlas Academy. We will mostly be going over the history of Remnant, but I think it is more important to look into the folklore and generational history of Remnant, rather than depressing wars and tragedies. So then I ask you… What's your favorite fairy tale?"
The whole class looked puzzled, normally one might have spoken up but the image of a tee-shirt cannon was still fresh in their minds. Beryl's small smile turned into a frown, "Murt used the tee-shirt cannons didn't he?" he said with a dejected sigh. There were short murmurs of affirmation from the crowd of students. Pinching the bridge of his nose Beryl continues "That ruffian… Seriously a tee-shirt cannon… Anyhow! I should explain that unlike my uncouth colleague I do want you all to participate in my class. See, you can hear and learn about material but unless you engage with it it's going to fade after the test! So please if you have questions or need something clarified, interrupt me! It's the best way for you to paint the truest picture!" Beryl's arms flew to the air as if he was praising the very sun before dropping back down to his desk. No one in the class spoke up.
Shaking his head "Since it's still the first day I guess I will be nice and pick a fairy tale for you… How about 'The Warrior in the Woods.' Who can tell me what it's about?"
Viralious raised an eyebrow at the choice in story, it wasn't the most common fairy tale, in fact it's often not included in the fairy tale books that are sold nowadays… Something he found out while hunting for one to read to Ruby when she was older. "It's about a boy who lived in a village that had never seen a Grimm so they were foolish. One day the boy goes into the forest and encounters a Grimm before he's killed; a Warrior saves him and tells him to go back and forget about her. Then the next few years he continuously returns to the forest, giving her gifts and improving his skills in combat. Until he finds her hut and her missing, having died alone. Dejected, he takes up her mantle."
Beryl looks over to Viralious with a small smirk, "Eloquently put Viralious, but you're missing one simple detail. The eyes of the Warrior were silver. Many attribute this story to either a warning about passivity and forgetting about the threat of the Grimm or the idea of losing what you love before you can tell them. But I believe it's more a way to tell the younger generations of Huntsmen, these silver-eyed warriors–"
Everyone in the class just looked at him with a little bit of confusion, Eckhart was shaking his head "I believe that the 'Hunter's Children' would be a better story for that regard Mr. Beryl" Eckhart said with a scholarly tone.
"For huntsmen in general, yes Mr. Slate but not for silver-eyed warriors. Who here can tell me what a silver eyed warrior is?"
Confused murmurs echoed around the room as students shifted in their seats but only Celica dared to answer "Silver-eyed children aren't warriors, Mr. Beryl, they're a liability. They attract Grimm and lead to the destruction of settlements" with a confident yet confused tone.
Beryl simply looked at the fox faunus before continuing "And this right here, students, is the perfect example of regional differences in fairy tales. Only Vacuo view's silver eyes as a danger, believing that it attracts Grimm. Miss Rhulk's reading plays in line with that one but who can tell me what the more common reading of silver eyes is outside of Vacuo?"
"They are seen as impressive warriors who can kill Grimm with only a look." Ifiral said in a tired tone.
Beryl nodded his head "Indeed ! It's widely theorized that the myth began with one hunter having silver eyes and a powerful semblance that used his eyes as the focal point. Now who can tell me why this is important?"
No student answered, all looking down at the green professor. Smiling, he simply turns to the chalkboard and writes one word. "Expectations, we all have them. The story of silver-eyed warriors colors our expectations for these individuals to be either great warriors, or horrible risks. That is why we need to learn about fairy tales. Even in the dressed up lines there's a meaning and a bit of truth behind them. So for the first ten minutes of every class we will go over a Fairy tale and discuss the meaning, the possible inspirations and what regional differences there are. So before we get started with the history of Solitas, has anyone here met an individual with silver eyes?"
Viralious was the only one to raise his hand. "Ah, Viralious, care to explain what they were like?" The professor called out while writing on the chalkboard. Viralious just blinked for a moment before speaking "My mother had silver eyes, She was a renowned huntress and she did tell me that she was inspired by the old warrior in 'The Warrior in the Woods' and would find herself reading it to me and my sister whenever we questioned our purpose. Oh, and I guess my little sister, but she's only two."
Beryl then stopped writing on the chalkboard and turned to the class "I believe you are forgetting one actually Viralious… In fact all of you will have class with them later this evening. Miss Basil has silver eyes and before you all start placing this story onto her. She is not a danger in fact she's more capable in a fight than me but she's not a wonderful warrior due to her eyes it's because she wanted to put in the work and excelled in it."
The class was filled with soft murmurs about the myth and what it meant. Seeing this Beryl addresses them "Take a minute or two to discuss it with the people around you. Once you are done please open the green textbook in your desks to page 13 we will be starting with the history of Solitas!"
Turning to the rest of his team Viralious starts "So, does anyone have an idea what exactly we are supposed to discuss with this?"
Ifrial shook his head while Winter lost in thought. Eckhart eventually broke the silence "I believe we are supposed to discuss how the myth colors our perception of the individuals… I think he's going to use this as a launching point for the faunus' treatment in Solitas' history." Winter cringed slightly at this before nodding in agreement. Eckhart continued "Going off of the version that he told we can safely assume it's meant to be a positive coloration and not negative like that fox faunus suggested."
Viralious nodded in agreement while turning the page in his textbook "I think you're right on the money, Eckhart. Considering one of the sections is literally 'Mistreatment of Faunuskind' in this chapter." Eckhart simply responds, "Naturally"
"Okay, I believe that's enough discussion to put a pin on that as we will be coming back to it later. Now then let's begin with the founding of Pole…" from there the lecture simply turned into the standard history lecture going over the history of the Pole settlement that was the starting point for people in the region. Eventually the bell rang and Beryl dismissed them. Grabbing their notebooks, not nearly as full as in the previous class, Team VIEW, led by Ifiral, walks toward their third class of the day.
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The Applied Science's classroom was once again a mirror of the two previous rooms but instead of large chalkboards there were holographic screens and in the middle of each desk was a plug allowing students to plug in their devices. In the front of the class stood Professor Makoto writing an equation onto the board using a small pen-like device. Once again taking their seat that was oh so similar but different, Viralious turns to Winter before saying "How do you think this is going to go?"
Winter just looks at him puzzled before responding "I don't know what you mean… Do you have an Idea of why there are two professors listed for this class?"
Viralious just chuckled slightly "Oh you'll see" Before turning to face the front of the class again.
The bell suddenly rang and the squirrel professor turned around and said in a stern voice, "Good day, class I'm Professor Cinnamon and will be teaching you Applied Sciences this year. This class will be split between two focus tracks, chemistry and physics. So expect them to alternate on different days. Now then Who here can tell me about vectors?"
"A vector is a representation of an object as a point with its direction and magnitude on a three dimensional plane" Eckhart responded in a commanding tone
"Correct Mr. Slate, and good on naming as three dimensional We will be working with vectors a lot this year so best to review them! Now then who here can tell me Newtingtons three laws of basic motion?"
"His first law states that every object will remain at rest or motion until acted upon by an outside force. His second law is that force of the object is the mass of the object multiplied by the acceleration. As for his final law every action has an equal and opposite-" Viralious says with a simple tone before being interrupted by a squirrel professor dropping onto his desk,
"EVERY ACTION HAS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION!" Makoto screams while pushing Viralious over then jumping to the lecture area standing next to a pissed off looking Cinnamon.
"Makoto… What did I say about hanging from the ceiling?" Cinnamon drones in an annoyed tone.
"Ugh Cini . Lighten up besides it's paying him back for the frizzy tail!" Makoto says while placing her hands on her hips.
Suddenly Cinnamon grabs Makoto by the ear and starts pulling "What have I said about using my nickname in front of the students?" Suddenly Cinnamon remembers that she is in fact in front of her class and lets go of her other half's ear. "I apologize you all had to see that. This is my… Other… Personality for lack of a better way to put it. She's-"
"Names Makoto, me and Cinnamon share one body but two minds… Doctors say it's a mental disorder but it's never slowed us down! Our semblance allows for us to split like this. I'll be teaching you all about chemistry while Cini-I mean Cinnamon teaches you about physics!" Makoto interrupts cheerfully.
Cinnamon shakes her head "now then I guess we can continue on with our lecture… assuming you can sit still, Makoto." She says as Makoto is already playing with the holo screen drawing a smiley face.
Dropping the pen Makoto stands at attention. Seeing this Cinnamon turns back to the class clearing her throat "Now that we know the three laws of motion who can tell me the principle for the conservation of momentum"
Delphi is the next to raise her hand "Doesn't it state that if the net force on the object is zero then the momentum is also zero?"
Cinnamon just nods her head before continuing " Alright with the simple stuff out of the way let's move on to the Lagrangian. Who can explain the Euler-Lagrange equation?"
No one in the class spoke up or raised a hand. Even Makoto looked confused. Professor Cinnamon simply smiled and said in a soft but stern voice "Well then we have a lot to go over this semester… Please pay attention to the screen. I will not be saving the notes so get them now."
Viralious pulled out his notebook and started silently wishing he had pencils or a fancy S-Pad to write on.
"Okay so let's start with reviewing the basics of the derivative. So it's…." The lecture slowly bled into discussions of mathematical concepts and different manners of measurement such as distance and pressure. This all was made more difficult by Makoto occasionally interrupting the lesson to ask… Tangentially related questions that Cinnamon would take the time to answer. By the time the bell rang, They had covered enough that Viralious was wondering if they were in the engineering class by mistake.
"You're all dismissed, remember to go over your lessons as there will be a short quiz at the start of class on Friday. Tomorrow Makoto will be teaching you about chemistry, I recommend using a different notebook for that." With that Cinnamon disappeared in the paperlike light of her semblance as it flew back to Makoto who was booking it out the door like the rest of the students in the class.
Ifiral slowly picked his head off the desk before turning to his team, "Did you understand any of that?"
"Only about 50%" Eckhart said quietly but in an annoyed tone.
"I followed it until we got to harmonic oscillations." Winter said in a neutral tone while packing her books.
"I mean I think it made sense… I can try and explain it in more simple terms later if you guys want." Viralious said in a simple voice, slipping his scroll into his pocket. His three team members just looked at him with shock on their faces before Ifiral said in a quiet sarcastic tone "burn the witch."
"How about we grab some lunch then review the material before first aid?" Winter said, not immediately picking up, that Ifiral was joking.
"Sounds like a decent plan… come along now." Eckhart said before walking towards the door.
Ifiral follows suit with Winter starting to follow closely behind before her arm is grabbed by Viralious. Turning around she sends him a puzzled look before he says, "Does something seem different about Eckhart?" Winter just blinks twice
"No I don't think so… what makes you ask?" she responds.
"I honestly don't know. Something feels off… it's almost like he's… pretending or masking how he really feels." Viralious says, staring at the ground.
"Well it's probably just nerves. Come on, we shouldn't let them get too far ahead." Winter says before walking towards the door. Viralious stares at the empty seat where Eckhart was before sighing and following her out of the classroom.
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"Whoever came up with the idea to have all four years of students eat lunch at the same time, I have some choice words for you." Ifiral grumbled while standing in line. Behind him was the rest of team VIEW and in front was what seemed to be an infinite number of students.
"Ifiral, we have two hours. You'll get food." Viralious said while rolling his eyes at his auburn teammate's comment. "Although I will agree with you, it seems like poor planning to put everyone in here at once. No way there's enough seating."
The four took roughly 20 minutes to make their way through the line and get their… lunch if you could even call it that. They took a seat in the same area from breakfast.
"Is… Is your bread as hard as a brick as well?" Winter says while picking at the roll on her plate.
"I think so. Honestly I would have expected one of the four huntsman academies to have better food then signal… I never thought I would be missing those meals." Viralious responds while picking at the dry piece of chicken on his plate.
"I've ate gas station food that was better cooked than this." Ifiral says while taking a sip of his soda to wash down the dry chicken.
"There's a pay dispute with the cooking staff right now… Murt and Lute are cooking all the food." Eckhart said while pushing away a plate of a questionable looking pizza away and getting up to grab something else. Eventually coming back with an apple and another hard roll.
"Hey, you folks mind if we sit here?" A boy drenched in camo says, behind him is the rest of Team CARD holding their trays.
Viralious nods slightly before motioning the team to sit near them. The four of them take their seats.
"Thanks Viralious, so does anyone know why the food is shit?" Celica says while looking at a salad.
"Probably because it's a military school they want us used to military rations." A blonde woman responds while peeling an orange.
"It's a pay dispute" Both the boy in camo and Eckhart say at the same time.
"Hey Delphi, if you don't mind I don't believe our teams have met. Should we introduce each other or wait until after classes?" Winter says giving up on the roll and grabbing a fork to start on her chicken.
Delphi jumps slightly before turning "Oh… Umm. Well… I… Uh, this is Team CARD." Pointing to her teammates "First there's Celica, then Arial, and my partner Russet… Oh my name's Delphi and I'm the leader…"
"Alright It's nice to meet the rest of you officially. I'm Viralious Leader of Team VIEW. My partner is Winter, next there's Ifiral, and then Eckhart."
"So now that we've all met, What are all of y'all's semblances?" Russet said while grabbing the questionable pizza off his plate and shoving it into his mouth.
"We've only just met and are on rival teams, why would we tell you our semblances?" Eckhart scoffs, taking a sip of his drink.
"Uhh to try and find common ground to start a conversation? You know basic etiquette 101?" Ariel says while rolling her eyes and taking a bite of the pizza.
"Hmph" was all Eckhart responded with before picking up his tray and walking away… This time actually putting his tray on the carousel after Ifiral gave him shit for it.
"What's his problem?" Delphi says while lifting a spoonful of pudding into her mouth.
Viralious just stares at the empty seat and Eckhart walking away… "I… I don't know."
"Since Mister Gunner Boy doesn't want to share his I guess I'll share mine, My semblance is Technopathy. Simplest terms I can communicate and control technological devices with my mind. Now how about you Ifiral?"
Ifiral looks up from his meal then gets an idea, snapping his fingers a small flame appears on Russet's napkin. "Pyrokinesis, I can control fire. Can generate it by superheating particles too but takes a lot more aura to do so. Easier to just use an existing source." he responds almost bored before going back to his dry chicken.
"That's amazing! You won the lottery on semblances!" Russet responds while frantically putting out fire on his napkin before it spread quickly.
"I won't say it's the best, there are drawbacks I assume, it also seems to require a bit of mastery to not burn yourself," Celica says pointing at the burn mark on Ifiral's face causing him to send her a death glare. "How about the leaders share theirs?"
Delphi is caught off guard by this and drops her spoon. "Oh uh you sure Celica?... Mines… Not… Not that good." she responds drooping her head
"Nonsense Delphi, it's a semblance it can't be bad" Celica says, hooking an arm around her.
"It's… It's… It's called prayer, I can channel my aura to try and get a specific outcome to occur… it's a worse version of Ace Op Clover's." Delphi says in a quiet tone.
"It's not a bad semblance Delphi, In fact it's probably better then mine… at least you know how it works." Viralious says looking Delphi in the eyes.
"Well then what is yours Viralious?" Celica says while raising an eyebrow.
"I can copy the semblances of other people, so far I have no idea the criteria or the limits of it. Only been able to replicate it with Winter's semblance" Viralious said in a simple tone.
"That's amazing. I didn't know semblances could be copied." Russet says practically shouting.
Viralious then glances down at his scroll and looks at the time. "I hate to cut these conversations short but we've got a little under an hour before class and I would like to go back to the dorms and swap my books out… you know so I actually have the right notebooks."
The members of Team CARD just nodded and went back to their food. Ifiral had already been preparing to leave and Winter had just finished eating. The three of them got up and placed their trays on the carousel. Then left towards their dorm.
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Time flew by and the team barely had time in their dorms before having to go and attend the next class. The three walked in and saw Eckhart already seated near the front at one of the many tables with two chairs on each side.
The first aid class room was surprisingly different; it looked similar to the dust lab except instead of a bunch of receptacles for dust and safety disposal bins there were various medical textbooks and tools. On the far wall were two posters showing the anatomy of a human and faunus, both the same with only a difference in the ear location. The far side of each wall had one of those chair beds that were common in getting a physical.
In the front of the room sat Professor Lute, his blue hair was tied back into a ribbon and his beret sat on the desk. He was reviewing a file on his scroll… or so Viralious thought until he heard the sound of a pixelated explosion and a small curse to emanate from his mouth. He was playing Galaga.
The rest of the first years shuffled in and eventually the bell rang. Professor Lute shot up. "Alright let's not waste any time, My name is Professor Lute and I will be teaching you basic first aid and field medicine this semester. You will be patching up simulated wounds throughout the semester, and your grade will be shared with your partners. I am not looking for perfection, I'm just looking to see if it would be passable. Now with the teacher bullshit out of the way, allow me to explain what my actual job is." The professor says while picking up his scroll and starting the projector screen.
"I've been a field medic for 15 years, I've treated everything from simple burns and bite marks to Grimm fluid in the genitals.'' This comment earns a puzzled look from everyone in the class. "Before you ask how is that possible, I don't know the specifics, but there are two things man will always try to do. Kill it or fuck it." Lute somehow manages to say with a straight face, causing small laughs to break through the entirety of the classroom. Winter just looks at the professor in shock.
"Settle down, now what that means is anytime you chuckle fucks get injuried out in the field I'll be the one fixing you up. So I would prefer to not see any of you in my medical office unless you are asking for tips on how to properly wrap a sling. Now today we are going to be going over the most important medical knowledge for anyone to know. Who can tell me what it is?"
"How to stop bleeding from an open wound or gash?" Eckhart responds while raising his hand.
"Good guess, but nope." Lute says while shaking his head
"How to prevent infection?" Delphi says with slight confusion.
"Kind of but nope."
This continues on for a minute or so before Lute just puts his hand up.
"You all are thinking too much like Huntsmen, this knowledge is required for everyone in any kingdom, not just the Huntsmen." Then he presses a button on his scroll and the screen changes to big bold letters that no one wants to see.
"Sex education… Today we're going to be going over how to use proper protection and avoid STDs or as I like to call it, how to not knock up or get knocked up by your classmates."
Winter's hand shot up "Uhh professor, is this necessary? I mean shouldn't we focus on something like medicine in the field or how to treat a Saybr bite?" her voice carried a bit of nervousness and modesty.
Lute just looked her dead in the eye and said, "Ms. Schnee, this is probably the most important lesson you all are going to hear this year because Ironwood and every other headmaster think it's a good idea to put hormonal teenagers in coed dorms with each other and expect NOTHING to happen. I'm a realist, I'm just trying to prevent my students from getting pregnant before they graduate. So then with that out of the way let's begin."
This ended up being the most awkward class that everyone had to sit through that year, as the bell rang all four members of team VIEW looked at eachother and made one solemn vow. "We are never speaking of this ever again and are blocking it from our memories.'' something that most teams did.
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All four members of Team VIEW walked into the sparring classroom. They were simple, long bleacher-like seats creating a semi circle around a simple sparring ring in the center of the ground. On the back wall was a large projection screen and a lectern. Team view takes a seat in the middle left of the classroom about two rows from the front, Team CARD takes a seat next to them, also looking frazzled from the previous lesson.
Standing at the lectern was their professor. She wore an outfit similar to Basil's and her long pink hair flowed down her back. She stood at attention holding a book that seemed to have points similar to a Mechashift weapon and Ifiral could have sworn he saw a barrel on the bridge of it. Her cold icy eyes scanned the classroom before stopping and looking back down at her scroll and pressing a button when the bell rang.
Shifting off the podium The professor glanced around the classroom "My name is Professor Kaine, I've been the combat professor at Atlas Academy for the past 5 years and have also been a consultant at Sherfira Industries for 3." the professor says in a professional tone. Ifiral's blank stare changed to a scowl at this, getting a side glance from Winter.
"I'm not going to beat around the bush when saying that this class will be testing your abilities as a huntsman. As you should already know there are 6 first year teams. You will be ranked on your abilities. This ranking determines who gets the first pick at missions when you will start with those, your stipend for supplies and in rare circumstances… your ability to stay at Atlas Academy." Kaine said with a cold pause. "As of right now you do not need to worry about that as we haven't decided to weed out the weak this year at least, besides, Ironwood believes all huntsmen are worthwhile."
Kaine shifts to the middle of the sparring ring before stopping and looking at Ifiral. "In my class you will be performing basic training drills for the first half of class and then in the second half I will call a few students to fight in a tournament style fight with each other. The whole point is to improve your skills all around, solo and team. There will also be points where we do partner sparing, where you will be fighting your team and possibly even your partner." The professor tightened the grip on their book while speaking, Ifiral's eyes narrowed.
"Now then everyone since you didn't know I'll forgive it but from now on, please take time to change into combat attire before class starts so we can begin immediately. The door on the left should take you right to the locker rooms. Go get changed." she said. As students got up to change, however, her book suddenly shifted, expanding into a small flamethrower, shooting flames directly at Team VIEW.
Ifrial bursts from his seat stepping in front of the jet of flames extending his hand in front of him. The fire dances around Ifiral's arm before stopping in a wall of fire before jetting back to where Professor Kaine is standing.
The professor just jumps out of the way allowing the fire to strike the ground and sputter out before clapping "Very good Ifiral you-"
"Eat shit and die." Ifiral says to Kaine before walking into the locker room. Everyone in the class is just looking at the professor wide-eyed.
"Oh I guess I didn't mention I will be testing your reflexes with 451 here". she says while tapping the book in her hand. "Don't worry about the room catching fire, everything in here is made of metal for that very reason."
Viralious stares at the pink haired professor before saying, "I didn't expect the professors here to make Tai's teaching style seem normal." picturing one lesson while they were naming geography facts while dodging rubber balls.
With that display, everyone quickly moves to the locker room and changes into their combat attire.
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After everyone changed into their combat attire, every student asked Ifiral what had happened and what their history was. All he muttered was it wasn't important and to not ask about it. Kaine said something similar.
The class went by slowly, they were doing simple drills to familiarize everyone with each other's weapons and the basics of team attacks. Everything went smoothly before Professor Kaine called out, "Enough group practice today, I believe we should end today's lesson with a simple sparring match between two students. So please return to your seats."
While students were walking back over to their seats Kaine pushed a button on her scroll and started a roulette wheel. It spins on the large projector screen for a moment before stopping on two students. "Celica Rhulk and Kris Winston please come down and take your positions." Celica simply jumps from the over the desk they were sitting at and goes to the left side of the arena. Kris on the other hand is walking down the path, his chestnut colored hair styled in a crappy mohawk, His combat attire is old Knight armor that is probably from the days of Pole and his weapon… It's quite sad it's only a claymore with what looks like a few swordbreakers attached to the blade. He reaches the bottom of the stairs and takes a position opposite of Celica.
"Remember you are fighting tournament rules, so you can win by ringing out or lowering your opponent's aura. When the counter reaches zero you may begin" Kaine says while walking back, tapping a button on her desk activating a small hard-light barrier between the rest of the students and the two combatants.
Catcalling Kris looks up and down at Celica "Looking nice faunus, I'd say I'd hit it but I don't want to catch fleas."
Celica simply unsheathes her weapons; the pair of gold chakrams, and begins slightly lifting her body up and down in a slight rhythm ignoring his comment.
3…2…1… 0: BEGIN
Kris rushes forward, placing his blade into an overhead strike hoping to overpower Celica. In counter, Celica throws the chackrems into the air and grabs the silver pair from her waist. Kris' blade is caught by Celica's silver chakrams before she pushes off of her right foot and ducking low, slashing his midsection once with each chakram with a small spin.
Stumbling back, Kris attempts to recenter himself by slamming the blade down into the field in between the holes in Celica's chakrams. He however misses as she throws this pair into the air as well then performs a backwards handspring while catching the gold pair. This causes Kris to imbed his weapon into the metal floor.
Capitalizing off of this Celica throws the gold chakrams into a circle that strike Kris in the side before bouncing back and attaching themselves to her sides. Catching the silver chakrams in her hands Celica begins to dance, causing confusion in the class.
Her movements are simple but move her arms and legs quite a bit. She starts with a leg kick, then a flourish of her moving her arms above her head in a small vortex pattern then finally ending with her spinning her whole body around before jumping and landing on her left foot, arms stretched to her sides.
Everyone stares in confusion before Viralious glances at the screen
Celica: 100%
Kris: 98%
He's got a lot of aura, and the armor helps shield him… Must be how he made it through overpower and outlast. He thought to himself.
Kris had finally freed his blade and began to run towards Celica again, this time he's going for a sweep at head level. Kris closes the distance quicker than most would have considered him possible and was about to connect with Celica's neck when she suddenly drops down low ducking under the blade leaving him wide open for attack.
Celica uses this moment to shift her balance and once again spins around, slashing Kris with each of her chakrams. She then follows up with two upward slashes at his chest, staggered slightly. She then ends her combo with four hard slashes to his chest, forcing Kris to stagger back.
Viralious glances back to the screen
Celica 99%
Kris: 80%
If her attacks from before were an indication of her strength then he should have been at 90%. She somehow doubled her attack power by expending her aura… Or maybe it was the dance that empowered it. Viralious thought before turning back to the battle
Kris was now on the defensive and was struggling. Truth was he was out matched, he was more suited for up front encounters where the fighter didn't dodge much. His problem was Celica was fast and slippery. She was dodging and throwing her chakrams everywhere.
Kris then shifted his weight into his right foot and pushed his blade into a long thrust toward Celica. The fox faunus took this opening to dodge to the right when she's suddenly caught off guard by the blade moving from a forward thrust to a right slash. It was only a glancing blow but the difference in power between the two was apparent.
Celica: 92%
Kris: 78%
Recentering herself Celica grabs the gold chakrams off of her waist and throws them in a spiral pattern towards Kris. The blades seamlessly soar through the open air striking him on the side before bouncing back toward Celica where she has begun dancing again. This time it's more lively and more motion heavy. As the gold chakrams reach her, she suddenly moves to a spinning pattern and throws the silver pair into the air. She continues this for a good minute or so, swapping out the two pairs in a near perfect hurricane of blades.
Kris attempts to close the distance but every time is having to dodge spinning blades that are only getting faster and faster. Suddenly the motion stopped and Celica threw all four chakrams at Kris. He managed to block one but the other three slammed directly into him.
Celica: 88%
Kris: 53%
The fight continued for another minute before Kaine stepped in.
"I've seen enough, I'm calling this one for Celica."
"What! That's bullshit!" Both Kris and Celica spat out to the professor.
Shaking her head "Language both of you… Now the outcome was obvious Celica would win before long and there was no need to see it continue. Kris, you were too committed to your attacks, a feint or a punch would have staggered your opponent giving you an opening. You could have also struck while she was wide open dancing." turning her head to Celica, "Now Celica your form was good but the dancing and showboating wasn't necessary so please refrain from it in the future."
"Can't do that, Teach, it's a part of my fighting style. Almigo taught me and those dances have significance to the fight. Without them I'm not going to be in top shape.." Celica said, staring straight at the professor.
"Then tone it down slightly, and find a shirt. Now then everyone you are all dismissed to go to and change back into your uniforms. So please do that."
With that everyone shuffled back into the showers and returned to their normal uniforms.
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Basil's classroom was just the Dust lab; it made sense considering it was going to be the perfect place for the students to actually work with dust. It was segmented into 24 segmented tables, each with a simple workstation for dust and small receptacles to place excess so it could be properly disposed of. (That being said, dust was expensive and most of the time students would just brush it back into the vials) there was also a small port to plug your scroll in to bring up a holographic screen to show exact parameters of the mix. Team VIEW walked in and unsurprisingly took a seat at the front of the room. Winter and Viralious were in the direct middle of the row with Eckhart and Ifiral behind them.
In the front stood Professor Basil, she was wearing her typical attire and was writing some long formula on the chalkboard. On the desk in front of her was a multitude of different vials of dust ranging from simple fire dust all the way to hard light mixes.
Shortly after they sat down the Bell rang, causing Professor Basil to jump. She turns around and looks at the class before her, breathing in slowly. She begins speaking to the class.
"Dust, the lifeblood of humanity. It powers your homes, your cars. Every watt of electricity you use on a daily basis, every light, scroll and simple toothbrush is powered by Dust. Don't even get me started on your weapons, I've seen the amount of dust fired in initiation." Basil stares directly at Team VIEW with this comment. "That being said, my name is Professor Basil, and I will be teaching you the intricacies of dust and dust mixing. We will be creating a large amount of dust compounds and mixes throughout the year. I will note every explosion you create in class from an improper mix is 2% off your final grade, AND the repair cost will be taken from your team's stipend."
"What's a rat like you doing teaching dust? I have a feeling your only experience is mining it." Kris yells from the back of the class. Basil pauses for a moment before taking a deep breath.
"Mr. Winston, if you say a comment like that to any professor, Ironwood has given us authority to expel your entire team. So even though I don't expect you to spare the only brain cell you have to think about, I hope your team can. After all your future as a Huntsman depends on us, the four academies DO share transcripts." Basil says in a calm tone, her normal nervous persona is nowhere to be seen.
Kris just stares at Basil and seems like he is about to go into another Triade before one of his teammates covers his mouth with his hand. "Don't worry Professor, it won't happen again." the teammate squeaks out.
"It better not. Now then where was I? … Ah right, so as Professor Kaine probably mentioned in your last class each team will get a stipend every other week that you are to use to purchase any dust or items needed for your team ranging from maintenance or bonding activities. The amount will be determined by your team's rankings; these are determined by your grades, combat performance and team cohesion." Basil responds with a melodic tone.
"Now that will be for the dust you use OUTSIDE of this class room, luckily for you we were able to receive a generous donation by the Schnee Dust Company and they will be supplying all of the dust used in this class." Basil says while winking at Winter "So I figured we could start today by going over some simple mixes with dust, that way I can judge where everyone is at and we can take the appropriate amount of time to review." She said while turning towards the large chalkboard and started writing.
"Now who can tell me what occurs when you mix pure Fire dust and Lightning dust?" Basil says in a scholarly voice.
Winter raises her hand and waits for Basil to point to her before speaking, "It creates an unstable radioactive compound, at low level mixtures it outputs relatively low amounts but the higher quality of dust and higher concentration will result in dangerous levels of radiation."
"Very good, Winter," Basil says while writing the word radioactive on the board next to a symbol of fire + lighting "Any mix that has higher than 30% fire dust to 70% lighting dust will result in a useless radioactive product. So that students, is the reason why your fire and lighting dust vials are on opposite ends of the desk, please keep them that way." She then writes a snowflake being added to three downward arrows then a lightning bolt "Who can tell me what occurs when you mix 21% ice dust to a mixture containing 29% gravity dust and 60% lighting dust?"
"It creates what we know as stasis dust, it's a rarer kind of dust as its uses are quite limited." Russet responds looking up from his scroll
"Correct, Mr. Gherman, now can you elaborate on its uses?"
"It can be used as a more expensive form of stabilizing dust but it's riskier as too much of it can stop blood flow in that part of the body." He responds rolling his eyes
"Yes that's its primary use, but less well known is it can be used as an aura suppressant, though like you mentioned it's dangerous as it can prevent blood flow in the body possibly forcing amputation of the limb." Basil responds while writing the word "stasis" next to the symbols. She then stops and turns to the class.
"Who here can tell me what is the correct mixture of dust compound to vaporize a liquid into a cloud?" she says quizzically looking over the room.
Viralious is about to answer when Winter puts her hand up
"You will add 12% air to 6% fire dust with 1% water dust to act as a stabilization unit" Winter says without any hesitation
"Nope, That is the mixture to completely vaporize a liquid mixture, that wouldn't result in the cloud we are looking for. Good guess though." Basil says calmly. Viralious raises his hand and Basil calls on him.
"Simple, fill the container with 7% air dust and 4% fire dust, then add your preferred liquid." Viralious says, looking directly at Basil.
"Correct, Viralious, now what types of liquid would this be most useful for?" she responds while beginning to write on the board.
"Well you have your normal things like perfumes, cleaning supplies, but probably the best use using this specific mixture would be poison." Viralious says, cracking a smile.
The whole class stops dead in their tracks. Winter looks at her partner with a raised eyebrow shock written over her face. Eckhart is just shaking his head…
Basil stops writing on the board and turns to Viralious before smirking "So you paid attention after all, Viralious, do you happen to have any of those vials on you?"
Viralious rummages around in his bag for a second before tossing the paralytic poison cartridge to his professor. Basil catches it before pulling out what looks like a flare gun and points it underneath a fume hood. Pulling the trigger a large cloud of yellow paralytic poison appears from the barrel before it's rapidly sucked into the fume hood.
"As you can see, even something as simple as the mixture for perfumes can have combat potential. Speaking of which, Viralious, has Cinnamon or Makoto paid you back for using this on them?" Basil says, smiling and tossing the spent cartridge back to Viralious.
"Yeah, Makoto dropped on me during the physics lesson today" Viralious says while catching the vial in his left hand and placing it on his desk.
"Sounds like her… Now then without any further side tangents please pick up an empty dust vial. Today I'm going to teach you how to create stabilization dust as it is something that is always helpful to have in the field." Basil says while turning to the chalkboard.
"Stabilization dust as you probably know is a useful type of dust that can be used to help seal wounds and start stabilizing the aura of an individual. It's best used before your aura shatters but in the thick of a fight it can be hard to know when to. Now don't rely on it as it's more of a slow recovery and is a band-aid solution, after a mission you should always get proper medical attention." Basil says while writing on the chalkboard.
"Now then, the mixture is a little bit more complicated but it's got a few short cuts we can take. First you're going to want to pull the types of dust you are using. These are going to be Plant, Fire, Water and Rock. Next you're going to want to grab a clean empty vial and four measuring vials." She drones out while turning and following her instructions.
The class is following along but Winter is still giving the occasional side eye? Or is it a fearful glance at Viralious?
"First, you're going to want to pour 56% plant dust into a Vial, next you're going to use fine powder rock dust, this is a short cut which will allow for you to not have to include the lightning stabilization agent. The correct amount should be 24% of this fine rock dust. If your measurements are correct you should have 80% of the container filled. Next, you're going to mix 5% fire dust and 15% water dust into one vial and combine it. Once you have your vial filled you place it in a heated water and salt solution for 12 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius. Another shortcut is you can just go for 7 minutes in boiling water, that being said it will weaken the mixture slightly. After that is completed you have a small application of stabilization dust, one of these vials is good for a beowolf bite." Basil says while holding the finished product in her hand. "Now then are there any questions?"
Ifiral raises his hand, "Why would you use stabilization dust over field medicine?"
"It can help close wounds. It's a bit easier to use than trying to stitch a wound back together." Basil responds calmly
"Why not just use fire dust to cauterize the wound?" Ifiral deadpans.
There's a slight pause as Basil just blinks a few times… "Ummm…Th-that would be a li-little painful Mr. Phenrix… Stabilization dust is a lot less s-s-so I believe Professor Lute would recommend it over cauterizing the wound if poss-possi-possible." She stammers out, her confident façade crumbling.
Basil breathes in a few times before shaking her head… "Well then I think we should get back on track, we still have a good 10 minutes left in class so why don't we quickly go over how to handle proper dust clean up."
With that the rest of the class goes by in a flash, just reviewing the proper way to dispose of excess dust and how to safely close down the tables. The bell unceremoniously rang. Team VIEW was the last to leave as Viralious stayed for a minute and discussed a new poison mix he was considering with Basil. After what felt like an eternity to Ifiral (it was 3 minutes) Team VIEW finishes their first day of classes and makes their way back to their dorm room.
A/N
Long chapter I know, there are definitely some places that I could have cut it but I felt it was important to set up ALL the classes that Team VIEW is going to be attending during at least their first year at Atlas academy.
I've tried to make each teacher somewhat unique and fun like the show proper. I will say that Basil, Murt, and Lute were my favorites to write in this chapter. Now then let's break down my thought process for each part of this… If you are actually reading this (or any)author's note I'm surprised
Starting with the breakfast, I just wanted a way to quickly get all of Team VIEW up to speed on the events that occurred in Basil's office as well as start to set up the next arc… You can probably see where it's going.
So onto the first class, Murt's: Murt was a blast to write, I wanted to make a Peter Port that is similarly long winded with jokes but also military stern. The tee-shirt cannons were a split second addition as they were going to just use their weapons… I think the tee-shirt cannons are funnier. Their names come from KRWBY's RWBY abridged, if you've watched it you'll know. (Cliff is the name of my old Wildstar Guild leader… RIP Wildstar you are still missed). So I think I did a decent job at explaining the strengths and some realistic fighting for the Saybr and placed it as a semi believable lecture.
Onto Beryl's class. History can either be the most interesting or most boring class in the world. so Remnant is a world of fairytales, that's why I decided to include that extended portion of the Fairy tale section. This will be important so keep note of it. As for the silver eyes thing, it's world building and will eventually play into the story but for now it's filler. As for the name of Pole, well I needed something to act as history so Atlas is snowy and where it is cold and snowy that's right the north pole! Other things to keep in mind are some names and tales will actually come from another story idea of mine here. It's called Grimm Hunters: Oztel, it's kinda a Monster Hunter crossover with RWBY. As of right now it has 0 words written so you can see some small previews of locals and historical backing in it here.
Next was Cinnamon/Makoto's class and it's simply where I decided to throw a few of my notes from my Classical Mechanics at you. In a later chapter I might actually include a few equations or word for word copies of my notes. As for their interactions I'm just giving them personality to not blend into the background.
Taking a break from the classes we have Lunch and are introducing everyone in team CARD to VIEW! So we find out a few of the semblances first off we learn about Russet's, his is Technopathy, he can communicate and control machines… In the kingdom of Atlas you KNOW that's going to play a part in the story. Next we learned about Delphi's Prayer. Religion is an odd concept in RWBY with the Grimm running around you would assume that there would be SOME type that is still around. But it's not really addressed in the show proper. Head canon is there are some simple ones that are just "be a good person" and "don't attract the Grimm." Now I wanted to represent this and also address my biggest problem with Qrow and Clover's semblance. So my problem with their semblance is there is NO indication for it, a visual or musical indication would be very nice so we are not just wondering what all was affected by it? (Did Ironwood catch Winter because of Qrow's semblance? Did Roybn's bolt hit Tyrians handcuffs because of it? If so, why didn't Clover's block it?) So her Prayer is a visual representation to act as a note to show why something will happen or, you know, I came up with it while looking at the animation for Clemency in FFXIV… you can prove nothing.
Continuing on to the next class and one that no one would probably want to go through… especially given the circumstances. Lute is a professor we have only seen very little of, he's the tenured IDGAF professor who is knowledgeable but sick of everyone's shit. He was surprisingly fun to write and that whole section was meant to continue my joking ribbing at the team housing situation in RWBY. The second reason for the Sex Ed class is so I didn't have to bullshit medical knowledge… I have very small amounts of it so those can VERY quickly turn into copy paste from Google… Sadly this class might be one that is skimmed over in coming chapters due to that.
Next class is the highlight of the chapter! FIGHT CLUB… Rule one we don't talk about it.
So the last class- I'm joking I'm joking. So first we'll start with Professor Kaine, she's a mix between Gylnda from RWBY and Kaine from Nier Replicant… Wait… She will play a large role in the story as she is the professor of the combat class in a school where everyone is learning how to fight Grimm. Her weapon is a book that turns into a flamethrower; it's named 451 in reference to Fahrenheit 451. More about her will be shown in the story as it goes on. Now then onto the fight.
Kris is meant to be the Cardin of this story and where a large part of the unfortunate racism is going to come from. He's literally just meant to be Cardin 0.5 so if you are expecting him to play an active role in the story… he's going to be more prevalent than in normal RWBY but I almost didn't name him like Dree and Drum originally.
The fight in this chapter was meant to show off Celica's fighting style and act as a teaser for a future plot point. Right now those dances are important and will play into the story. If you are looking for visual reference, all of her attacks are either based on the Zephyr class from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and the Dancer Class from FFXIV. Her semblance is also shown in this chapter but not properly named yet so I will not explain it… Patience.
Onto the final class. Basil's was always going to be hard as unlike Grimm Studies I cannot just bullshit it with actual animal hunting techniques. Dust is an integral part of the show which is a problem as it is kinda poorly explained. This makes the purpose of Basil's classes going to be me showing a bunch of POSSIBLE uses of dust. It's magic in all but name so it's going to do a lot of magic. The mixes that are described here are some that I came up with. Firstly, of course there is going to be some medical and disciplinary use of dust so that's where stabilization and stasis dust come from. These will be used in the story so keep them in the back of your mind.
With that we have officially met all of the professors as well as reaching over 50K words (Including author's notes 44k without)! So what are my plans from here on out? Well I have a few but I'm not going to tell you! On the out of story side of things I am probably going to make an easy to reference sheet with every character's semblance and weapon on there so readers can easily catch back up if they take a break or they just forget what Murt's semblance is 20 chapters later. That will be linked on my author's page when it is completed. So with that out of the way I hope you look forward to the next chapter! Until then,
Xcom Out.