So everyone i hope you like my little surprise about halfway through. No spoilers, though just remember to check for low flying bears. Anyway hope you enjoy.
Tomoko woke up again to the sun shining through the window and Beurling not in her bed, getting up she looked in the main room and she wasn't there either. After she had got changed, she came out to Frenda and Maple sitting in the main room.
"So, how's things with you and Beurling?" Frenda asked first.
"We're ok, I think." Tomoko spoke, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Is she still asleep?" Maple asked.
"No, she was gone when woke up."
"I see." Maple said her thumb on her chin.
Just then the door opened, Beurling walked in with her hip flask in her hand, all the others looked at Beurling and Beurling in turned looked back at them.
"Something wrong?" she asked noticing the way all the others were looking at her.
"Where were you?" Maple asked.
"Just out for a cigarette."
"Yeah we can smell that from here." Frenda spoke.
"It's not that bad." Beurling spoke, though Tomoko thought she could see Beurling trying to smell herself to check "Anyway, I called about the dust while I was at it."
"What did they say?" Frenda asked.
"They said it's fine, but you'd need to bring the weapons to." Beurling answered.
"What time they said to come around?" Maple asked.
"They said any time after twelve is good for them."
"Ok then, we'll head there as soon as we can, but first Beurling, Tomoko I need a word."
Beurling sat down next to Tomoko with Frenda and Maple opposite, Tomoko felt like she was being told off by her older sister.
"Now." Maple started "About last night."
"It's sorted Maple, you don't need to worry about it." Beurling spoke.
"Look, I get you have your reasons for the reaction and I won't dig into them, but I can't have a repeat of last night, are we clear." Maple continued.
Beurling let out a sigh "We're clear."
"Good, I know we haven't known each other a long time but I'm quite fond of all of you, I'd hate for this team to fall apart, ok." Tomoko nodded, and Beurling followed suit.
"Wow, getting told off by big sis here, girls." Frenda joked.
"Frenda! I told you about that before." Maple
"Ok, Mom." Frenda countered.
"Frenda!"
Beurling shock her head and went off to the kitchen, Tomoko followed her once their Beurling set about making a cup of tea.
"Do you want one?" Beurling asked.
"No, thanks." Tomoko spoke, Beurling carried on with making her tea with Tomoko just standing there watching her, if Beurling found Tomoko unwelcome doing this she didn't let on. When Beurling was finished she went back to the bed room to get changed. Tomoko, Maple and Frenda spent the time chatting till Beurling came out the room saying that it was almost time to go to shop.
The first thing Tomoko noted about the capital was the dust and sand it got everywhere. The second thing she noticed was the houses, they weren't big and grant like Atlas they were simple and sparse, at most the shops would have a simple sign on them maybe a cover over the door but that was it. Frenda almost seemed to enjoy it remarking how much she preferred it to her home, Maple too found the rather simple buildings rather familiar.
After a short while they approached a shop with a sign over the door saying "Blades of Dust.", Beurling was the first to enter the shop, when the door opened Tomoko could hear a small bell ringing.
The shop was divided with a wall but the middle cut out of it, the first half they walked into was covered with spears, swords and guns of all types and shapes, the second half had dust on most of the walls and a till stretching across the back with a door to one side. Behind the till stood a girl with short purple hair and a cat's tail, she looked few inches taller than Beurling, in contrast to the girl's size which looked imposing, her face looked warm and welcoming.
"Welcome." she spoke with a voice that was soft and motherly, looking over the team with her hazel eyes "So this is your team Beurling?"
Beurling walked to wall so she was in front of the door "Yeah, this is my team."
"God's help them." spoke a girl behind Beurling, she was a couple inches shorter than Beurling unlike the first girl this girl's hair was longer and red and she had a set of cat ears on her head, she walked behind the till next to the first and leaned on the till "So you going to introduce us?"
Beurling named the team from furthest to closest to her "Frenda, my leader Maple and Tomoko" she then turned her head "Meet Sara." Beurling named the first girl "And her wife, Alia." once they had all greeted each other Alia asked Beurling a question.
"So, which one's your partner?"
"Tomoko." Beurling spoke looking at Tomoko.
"Aw, you protecting the cute one Beurling." Alia spoke, Tomoko felt her face heat up, she also saw Beurling's pale blue eyes glare at Alia's deep brown one's.
"Alia behave, I apologise for her, now I believe we have some weapons and dust to look into." Sara spoke.
Alia and Frenda seemed to hit it off immediately, going on about the design of Frenda's hammer, Sara was much calmer. While they were going on about the amount of dust they would need as well as some more magazines for Tomoko's gun, a cry of "Aunty!" filled the air.
Tomoko saw Beurling who was standing where she was when she walked into the shop fall sideways with a little person with white hair and polar bear tail, wrapping their arms around Beurling's stomach, the persons feet were at Beurling's shin so they had clearly jumped up to do that.
"Klara?" Beurling spoke looking down at the little girl, the others in the room were stunned into silence at the scene, as Beurling sat up with girl hugging her around the neck now, the little girl giggled then coughed.
"Are you still sick?" Beurling asked her.
Klara nodded shyly "You know you should be bed if you're sick." Beurling spoke as she tried to stand up with the girl still glued to her.
"But I missed you, I haven't seen you." spoke Klara coughing after she spoke.
"I was gone for three days; it wasn't that long"
"Aunty?" spoke Frenda and Beurling and Klara suddenly remembered they weren't alone, causing Beurling to blush and Klara to bury her face in Beurling's shoulder, to try and hide from the strangers. As Tomoko watched on stunned by what was happening.
"Klara, why are you out of bed?" Sara spoke.
"Mama Alia, said Aunty Beurling was coming, mommy." spoke the little girl, her bright purple eye poking out Beurling's neck where she'd been hiding her face.
Sara sighed, she then turned to the others "Sorry about this, but I need to take her back to bed."
"No, it's ok, I can do it." Beurling spoke.
"Are you sure?" Sara asked.
"It's fine, besides I have missed her." Beurling spoke "I'll be back in a minute." Beurling said as she went through the door.
"Take your time, Aunty!" Frenda shouted after her.
Tomoko could see, Beurling shake her head and she got the impression this wasn't going to go away anytime soon.
"You, trouble later." Sara spoke to Alia, who shrunk slightly.
"Sorry about our daughter, but she's quite fond of Beurling." Sara apologised.
"No, it's ok, it's fine really." Maple replied.
As they were talking Tomoko noticed that a photo had fallen on the floor when Beurling had been ambushed, she walked to photo and picked it up to hand it back, she noticed the people in the photo, she could see Sara and Alia, what caught her eye was Beurling, standing to the side with a small smile, next to her was a face she'd seen before a girl with blonde hair.
She walked back and handed the photo to Sara "Sorry it was on the floor." Tomoko explained. Sara took the photo and thanked Tomoko, before handing Tomoko three magazines "Beurling suggested I give you these as well as what you ordered." Sara spoke with a smile.
Once Maple, Frenda and Tomoko had finished going through what they needed Sara ran through the list "Right." Sara spoke "We can get most of your stuff done now, the only thing that will need to wait is the Magazines for Tomoko and Frenda, Frenda's is custom stuff, and while we do have a few of the magazines that will fit Tomoko's gun we will need a bit of time to find them."
"How long will it take?" Tomoko asked.
"Should be done in a few days." Sara spoke "Can we have one of your contact details?"
"You've got Beurling though haven't you?" Tomoko pointed out.
"But what if she's busy?" Sara replied.
"Well I don't mind!" Frenda spoke.
"Not with those bombs you carry." Maple spoke.
"Oh, come on, they're not that bad."
"Can we take a vote on that?" Beurling joked, appearing in the door way.
"Hey!" Frenda pouted "No need to be mean aunty."
Beurling dropped her head down, sighing "You're not going to let that go, are you?"
"Nope." Frenda spoke with a smug smile on her face, causing Beurling to sigh again.
After they had collected all the things they needed, the four girls left the shop and said goodbye to Alia and Sara, once back at the room they started to organise their purchases.
"They seemed nice." Maple spoke to Beurling who was sat watching them organise their own stuff as she had nothing to buy.
"Yeah and who would have thought Beurling was an aunty." Frenda spoke again.
"She's not my actual niece you know." Beurling spoke
"Yeah I do, but that doesn't make it any less fun."
"How old is she?" Tomoko asked curious.
"Four." Beurling spoke "And before the question is asked, she's adopted Alia and Sara did have a child at age fourteen." Beurling spoke glaring at everyone.
"Hey, we weren't." Frenda said defensively.
"Sorry, it's just they get that a lot and I'm sick of hearing it." Beurling spoke.
"You care about them a lot." Maple stated.
Beurling stood up, though Tomoko thought she could see Beurling's cheeks turn red slightly "Right, I'll be out for a bit." She spoke taking out a cigarette, not acknowledging Maple's observation,
Tomoko smiled a bit, though she wasn't sure why, but there was also the question of the mysterious girl that was playing on her mind that she'd seen in both the memories and the picture, she would ask but she was in no mood to ask Beurling.
The next day the girls woke up and got ready for classes to start, heading down to their first class which was History and Culture, the room was more like a hall then a school room, with benches and desks to the front, Tomoko took a seat next to Frenda on her left with Maple and Beurling on the right.
Their teacher was the male teacher wolf Faunus they had met during their initiation "Good, morning class, I hope you are all well rested and ready for today." He spoke with a smile, while he put his red varsity jacket with back cuffs on his chair, "You can call me Mróz Sosabowski or teacher, don't call me sir I work for a living." The last part got a giggle from the room. The rest of the teacher outfit was a light blue track suit with grey arms, black trousers, white boots and a strange grey helmet.
The next class was Grimm Biology, which was taught by the female Faunus spotted cat teacher Tomoko had seen during the initiation, she walked in sat in the chair and introduced herself "Hello class, my name is Dearg Kunoichi." She spoke with a soft but intimidating voice. Tomoko thought she looked more like a student with her navy-blue hoodie, blue grey trousers and black boots. But her mannerism revealed her real age.
The next class was combat training, this class room was more open than the others which looked like theatres, this class room looked more like an arena with benches in a semi-circle, standing in the middle of the open part of the room were two teachers.
The first was the head master, the second was shorter with a dark green hooded cloak on which covered her face, which was held together with a silver coiled snake broach. What Tomoko could see under the cloak was black top and trousers, in her black gloved hand was a staff. Tomoko wasn't sure what it was about them but they seemed to give her feeling of dread like she was demon or monster disguised as a human.
"Hello class." spoke Tammy "Now I'm sure your wondering why I'm here, well I will be taking you in Semblance class tomorrow, but I wished to observe your fighting class today, now I will hand you over to your teacher for this class."
"Good day class." spoke the teacher, Tomoko could hear a very cold and dry female voice, it seemed to send stone cold chills down her spine "My name is Fídi Petros, I will be your combat instructor." she spoke lifting her head a little, the class could see she had a dark green blindfold over her eyes.
"How could someone who's blind teach us about combat, it could only be worse if it was a Faunus." spoke a voice Tomoko recognised, it was the girl who had hit her the first night. Tammy was about to speak before the teacher raised her hand up to stop the head teacher.
"What is your name?" asked Fídi.
"Blau Steel." spoke the girl with pride.
"And where are you from?"
"Atlas." Tomoko could hear Beurling mutter that the rest of her team were like from Atlas as well.
"Well then, if you have concerns with my skill why don't I give you a demonstration."
Blau strode towards the teachers "Very well." she spoke with her hand on her weapon a Rapier.
Tammy nodded and the two took their positions, just before the head teacher told the two to begin Fídi pulled out a chain with a cross shaped head, in her left hand, there was also screen revealed itself, showing the twos aura level. The speakers then shouted begin.
Blau charged forward, she also kicking in her semblance which seemed to make her go faster, Fídi swung her staff and batted the Rapier out the way, Fídi then thrust the staff forward and hit Blau in the centre of her chest causing her aura to flicker from the hit while forcing Blau backwards, Fídi then swung the chain around her head and forced Blau back.
Blau trust again and Fídi dodged, Blau tried twice more and twice more Blau missed, to Tomoko Fídi seemed to be almost made of water the way she moved so effortlessly, Fídi jumped back to avoid a slash "Not even worth mentioning." she spoke.
Fídi then swung the chain again as Blau charged in again, the chain swung around Blau's ankle and Fídi pulled causing Blau to lose her footing falling forward so she was kneeling, Fídi then thrust the staff again at Blau's chest before swinging the staff again and hit Blau right in the head causing Blau the fall on her back.
The speakers shouted "Match over, Blau aura depleted." true enough next to the picture of Blau her bar had fallen below the red line on the screen.
"Now." spoke Fídi as Blau went back to her seat with her pride massively hurt "Does anyone else wish to try their luck?"
Tomoko felt someone stand up next to her, turning she saw Beurling stood up "I'll try." she spoke.
Fídi hummed to herself "Not as cocky as the last one, but still brash" Beurling walked down and took her position, drawing her knife to cries that she was crazy, Tomoko had to agree, Fídi was clearly no push over, so why was Beurling trying, Fídi hadn't even removed her hood during the fight, or used her semblance.
Once both of them were ready, the speakers shouted begin to again.
Beurling stood her ground as opposed to charging in, Fídi swung her chain at Beurling, Beurling brought her free arm up and chain spun around the vambrace and arm, just then Beurling kicked her semblance in and this made Fídi pause, which gave Beurling the change to charge Fídi.
Fídi, brought her staff up to block Beurling's upper cut but the contact still knocked Fídi's head to the side, Beurling then kicked Fídi in the stomach forcing her back with force and causing Fídi to let go of the chain. The students gasped in surprise Beurling had got a hit in, especially given the ease Blau was beaten.
Beurling dropped the chain on the ground, Fídi stood up her hood having fallen away, to reveal her short light green hair, her skin also seemed to have scale patches "Wait is she a Faunus?" thought Tomoko."I'm impressed you have some experience in fighting then?" Fídi asked.
"A bit." Beurling spoke not breaking her stance, Fídi then removed the cloak which fell to the floor, Tomoko could see that the top that was mostly covered up she could now see had green sleeves.
Fídi then made ready again "Well then, may I know your name girl?"
"Beurling."
Fídi then smiled "Beurling, I'll remember that, now then let us continue."
Fídi advanced and tried to swing the staff, Beurling leaned back and tried to counter cut which Fídi dodged by jumping backwards.
This time Beurling advanced and threw some discs, at Fídi causing her to cover her face and breaking her stance, Beurling followed up by slashing at her, Fídi stepped back to dodge it but it wasn't enough and it glanced her leg this time, but Fídi countered by thrusting the staff catching Beurling in the side and making her go back.
Fídi swung the staff at full power, Beurling caught the staff under her left arm, Beurling greeted her teeth, before grabbing the staff with her left hand and swinging herself and Fídi around and then Beurling punched Fídi full force sending her flying backwards.
Fídi landed on all fours just before the students in the front benches, Tomoko was impressed she'd rarely seen such a fight before.
"They are quite the opposites." Maple spoke next to Tomoko.
"How do you mean?" asked Frenda.
"Beurling has the edge in close range and strength, while Fídi had the edge in reach and dexterity." Maple explained.
"Compensating for your lack of reach I see." Fídi spoke smiling "I am very impressed."
"Thanks, you're quite the deadly fighter to, not had a fight like this in a while." Beurling replied.
"Your semblance is also quite impressive, how hard was that full force punch around one thousand pounds, if I had to guess, if it wasn't for my aura that would have killed me."
"One thousand and two hundred pounds actually." Beurling spoke.
Glancing at the screen Tomoko could see that Beurling and Fídi's aura had dropped a fair bit, both were quite the close to the red line.
"Well, as fun as this has been it's time to end this." Fídi spoke before undoing her blind fold, staring at Beurling.
Tomoko noticed Beurling hunch slightly, greeting her teeth, it looked like she was hit in the gut.
Fídi then charged Beurling, who tried to ready herself, but Tomoko noticed Beurling was much more sluggish like her hands and feet had weights tied to them.
Fídi thrust the staff at Beurling hitting her at the centre chest and sent Beurling staggering back, Fídi picked up the chain swung it and caught around the neck and pulled it slightly, making Beurling go forward right as Fídi hit Beurling in the back of her leg making her kneel. The chain around her neck was released and dropped to the ground.
Fídi then hit Beurling under the left armpit forcing her on to her back, Fídi then whacked the staff into the side of Beurling's face and her semblance fizzled, Beurling looked up again to see the staff pointing at her face.
The speaker then shouted "Match done, Beurling's aura depleted." Fídi then put the blindfold back on then helped Beurling stand up, Beurling then held out her hand which Fídi shock.
"I hope we get to fight each other again." Fídi spoke to Beurling, to which Beurling agreed.
"Right, that's it for today." Tammy spoke "Class dismissed." The class left the room all in a bustle over the fight between Beurling and Fídi, all heading back to their team rooms.
So who was expecting that Beurling to be an Aunty? (UK version of the word)
So i will do Fídi today and Tomoko will be next time.
So as you likely can tell Fídi is based a fair bit off Medusa and the name is from me typing snake into google translate and that is the way it is said. Her second name Petros is the Greek word for rock or stone again google translate.
The Green is actually off a friends of mine who has a green clock similar though theirs is darker shade and they too practise quarterstaff fighting, my friend is also a teacher so it seemed appropriate.