Niren Argent: Niren had paid little attention to Ports lesson and Vanir's fight, three years of them had still taught him little as he had no need to fight like Vanir did and he already knew how to hunt his prey. During the lesson Niren had been reading a book on the great war, it was comprised of journal entries of soldiers from all sides as well as refugees seeking peace both during and after, every other book he had found in Atlas seemed to paint their side as the ones in the right, while every book in Vacuo and Vale painted them as the aggressors.
"Once again politicians point fingers and scream that it was the foe's fault." He thought to himself before going back to his reading. He was enjoying the new reading material he picked up while Vanir recovered, it was mostly tech manuals and some fiction that he enjoyed, but he also grabbed some poetry and history books for his own edification and well as a couple of romance novels for Talia while she was searching for a gift for Vanir.
Niren had his attention drawn from his book to the desks above him when someone tossed a ball of paper at his head and it landed neatly in his lap. "Cardin and his team just followed Vanir out of the room." It read, Niren looked up and saw Yang was jerking her thumb at the door with a concerned look on her face as it shut behind the last member of Team CRDL.
"Fuck." Niren whispered before standing up and heading over to Port, careful to avoid tripping on the small fissures in the floor from Gram's impact. "Sir, I'd like to check on Vanir, you know how he is at times." Niren said to the man, Port smiled before nodding at him, pleased with Nirens concern for his adopted brother. "Thank you sir." Niren said before bowing and leaving the room, he would mostly likely need to explain two fights with the first years to Glynda now.
Vanir Argent: Vanir let go of the lever on the water fountain and stood up, there were four people behind him and they were all more than willing to try and beat him within an inch of his life it seemed, his semblance was still active and he could smell their hate and fear.
"Pretty rude trying to sneak up on a guy when he's trying to get a drink you know." Vanir said while turning around to face them, it was Cardin Winchester and his little band of punks, Ruby had told Vanir about them earlier that day after she learned that Niren had a run in with them the other night. "What's this about then?" He asked calmly, not giving them any reason to be wary just yet, aside from his confidence in the situation of being outnumbered.
"You're teammate gave us some trouble the other night." Cardin said matter of factly, Vanir rolled his eyes at the statement, Niren only dislocated two shoulders, broke a finger or three and gave someone a black eye, nothing their auras couldn't patch up. "So? Be glad that he only gave you some superficial wounds, he could have easily made it much worse." Vanir replied, already annoyed with this whole show of bravado that Cardin was insisting on doing.
"So now, we're gonna give you some trouble so he gets the message that we won't be messed with." Cardin replied while reaching for his own weapon, a large collapsible mace. "They must have stopped at the armory before coming to fight." Vanir thought as the others pulled out their own weapons, he was however pleased that ceilings and walls were far enough to allow him to swing fully, fewer restrictions to how he could beat these fools down.
"You wanna get your ass handed to you again, fine by me, just don't go crying to Goodwitch about it, or do I don't really care." Vanir said, at this point he was just wanting to make them wish they never pissed him off. Cardins team pulled out their own weapons and waited for Vanir to do the same "At least they have some honor, but then again they probably don't want to say they got their asses handed to them by a cripple with his bare hands." Vanir thought as he unsheathed Gram and shortened its blade to fit the hall better, he was grinning at this point as he waited for one of them make the first move, one of them being all of the apparently.
Vanir, blocked Cardin and two other members of his team's attacks all at once, the four of them followed the predictable pattern of attacking one by one, then join together, it was pathetic really. "Come on, change your style or something this is fucking boring!" Vanir shouted at them after forcing the guy with the sword and the one with the daggers back, their swordplay was nowhere near his level or the level that Lucas had always imposed on him.
Once again they attack him from all sides, only for Vanir to avoid it by using Gram to launch himself above them and onto Cardins back before he pulled it out of the floor, the other student was on the ground for a while until his friends also got sent flying backwards, Vanir chuckled at the four of them, apparently they had done little physical combat in their first year and didn't improve as much as others, like Jaune Arc for example, he was far from acceptable to Vanir, but at the least he could fucking adapt.
"Really now this is just sad, what do you hope to gain by coming at me all at once?" Vanir asked, he knew that they were trying to tire him out before moving in for the kill, like that would ever happen. "Honestly at this point I think you should just fuck off and leave my team be, you'd earn less beatings that way." Vanir said after Cardin charged at him once again, this time Vanir didn't even bother using Gram to block, he just grabbed the mace and tripped Cardin, one of the perks of having a non organic arm he realized.
"Fuck off faunus." Cardin said a moment before his team rushed Vanir again, a moment later however the air was filled with the smell ozone and one of Cardin's lackeys fell to the ground, spasming from the electric dust round sticking from his back, the probe was one that Vanir knew very well. "About time you joined in Niren." He said with a grin as the other man stood up from his position at the end of the hall, Gungnir didn't have it's usual blade, just a solid hunk of steel meant to lessen the AT rifle's recoil at the end of it.
"Figured this would happen, sorry about not letting you know." Niren told Vanir as the rest of Cardins team finally recovered from their initial shock. "Let's deal with them then." Vanir said with a sigh before raising Gram once more, by this time someone had to be wondering what the hell was going on.
Niren Argent: Niren was glad he stopped by the armory and outfitted Gungnir for riot control, it would make his job easier when dealing with those four, at least he thought that until he actually began to fight them, he was surprised at the skill of the member of Cardins team who also fought with a halberd, if he wasn't on Cardin's team he could have made a decent sparring partner.
"Not bad, you might be worth the fight." Niren said to him after they disengaged their weapons from each other and hopped back a couple of inches and taking up the usual stance, the top of the weapon pointing the opponent like a lance.
"Heh, you too, really a shame we couldn't have started off on a better foot, but I gotta keep on Cardins good side." He replied to Niren, who only nodded before they engaged each other again he knew too many people who had to stay on a horrible person good side until they had the chance to be free of them.
After a few more minutes of fighting Niren managed to force his opponent to yield and drop his weapon, after that Niren moved on to his next opponent, the one with the longsword, he could see the small and honestly crappy firearm attached to the hilt and he knew that he wouldn't use it for fear of attracting others. "I'm glad I sent Goodwitch that message, though she's taking her sweet ass time to get here." Niren thought to himself as he quickly engaged and dispatched his foe.
Niren took a moment to look over at Vanir and saw that he had forced the last of Cardins lackeys to surrender, all that was left was Cardin himself. "It's over Cardin, drop your weapon and get on your knees." Vanir said while holding Gram out in front of him, the tip of the blade just grazing Cardins adams apple.
"As is wolf boy." Cardin said, Niren noticed that Cardin was pulling something from his belt, a small vial filled with red sand, dust aspected towards fire. "Don't use it." Niren said said, a moment later Cardin shoved Vanir away and tossed the vial on the ground, causing a small blaze that was slowly start to expand, Vanir looked and Niren and Niren quickly moved to get the dorm evacuated, while Vanir chased Cardin down the hall.