Chapter 11: The Great Cafeteria War
"So Monster, you dare challenge me"
Mori could only stare in concentration at his opponent, it was a familiar one after all.
The Crown Prince of Natak, Ardun, one of the War God's
In an instant, Mori struck quickly with a kick.
"…You are too slow…"
The War God had caught Mori's leg easily before it hit his face.
All Mori could do was once again attempt to strike him again, as he quickly spun around and tried kicking the other side.
This one was able to hit its target…Ardun was unbothered by it as Mori's foot rested on the God's face
"…You are too weak…" Ardun said with a bored look on his face.
All Mori could do was jump back and gain some distance.
What could he do?
Ardun's body was made of Barbadium, one the toughest material in the universe.
He could barely make a dent when he returned to full power originally.
Besides, it's not like could constantly spam copies of Ruyi Jingu Bang, like he did before.
Mori's thoughts on what to do were immediately interrupted as Ardun summoned a giant earth golem.
As the golem threw a punch at Mori, Mori immediately parried its strike with a kick.
After blocking the strike Mori fired off his next attack.
Jin Mori Original: Blue Dragon Kick
In an instant, Mori destroyed the summon with a burst of air.
Even though Mori couldn't damage Ardun, those golems of his were still no match for Mori.
"I guess you aren't as weak for something like that to destroy you."
Mori couldn't help but feel disrespected at the fact that the God used something like that against him.
Suddenly without warning, the War God instantly appeared in front of Mori ready to deal a powerful blow.
"Got to dodge, can't take a direct hit"
Mori was barely able to dodge the attack as it destroyed the mountain behind behind him.
After dodging the attack, once again Mori tried to strike the God.
Jumping in the air and spinning to gain momentum Mori performed the Renewal Axe technique.
The kick caused the ground to split, unfortunately his opponent was perfectly fine as Ardun had blocked the technique with no damage to himself whatsoever.
In an instant, Mori immediately copied Mori Hui, as he used his clone's original technique: Complete Gift Package.
His continuous strikes against Ardun still did no damage as the God was able to shrug them off completely.
Frustrated his attacks were doing nothing, Mori fired off a Triple Kick against the God.
It had no effect as Ardun shrugged off the hits to his head and struck Mori.
Pain filled Mori's side as he got thrown in the other direction, destroying a couple of cliffs on the way.
"No matter what you do, you cannot hurt me monster."
Mori once again appeared in front of Ardun attempting to prove him wrong. This time he gathered power in his foot as he unleashed his True Roundhouse Kick.
The effect of the technique caused a massive tornado to appear from the force of one of his most powerful kicks, causing the landscape to be destroyed and buffeted by the powerful winds.… And Ardun was still standing there unharmed.
"Like I said before, you can't hurt me, your monstrous strength is gone, and your power is insignificant to a God's."
All Mori could do was grit his teeth in frustration as he agreed with what was being said, his attacks had no bite on them.
In an attempt to solve that problem, he pulled out Ruyi Jingu Bang.
"Grow!" He commanded hoping that would be able to hurt the God.
The staff immediately and vastly increased into the size of a giant skyscrapers, destroying mountain after mountain.
However, standing amidst in the destroyed landscape, the God still seemed perfectly fine, as the force of Mori's attack seemed to have done nothing.
"if you are pulling out your weapon, then I shall pull out mine." Ardun replied as he summoned his weapon.
In an instant a Burning Wheel appeared in the War God's hand. Mori shrunk his staff back into its normal as he prepared himself.
Once again, the two clashed. In a contest of strength Mori was losing as he could feel the weight of Ardun and his weapon on him.
Mori commanded his weapon to grow as a big a tower to counteract his opponent.
Pushing the God back with his weapon's size increase, Mori once again attempted to strike the God this time with the different staff techniques his clone had learned from the Weapon Master of the Six.
As he continuously used different types of strikes with Ruyi Jingu Bang, Mori could tell that the weapon was having some affect against the God.
"Enough!" The God shouted as he punched the ground causing a huge shockwave and destroying a mile radius of landscape.
Mori jumped back as his attacks were interrupted.
"I shall end this now." The God calmly stated as he raised his hand in the air.
Mori could tell what was coming up next, it was that lightning blade he summoned in his last battle. The one that cut the Sage Realm in half.
Mori couldn't block it like last time…he didn't have his strength or his armor suits…what could he do?
There was only one option, the kick that saved his life, immediately prepping himself to fire it, he tried to focus on not wasting any power and directing it all for one purpose.
As the lightning blade entered Ardun's hand, Mori unleashed the kick.
Ardun's head was immediately knocked back.
"…That had some bite Monster," The God said after a couple seconds of silence, "But it wasn't enough!" And with that he lowered the lightning Blade onto Mori cleaving him into two.
"SHIT, I LOST AGAIN!" Mori cried out as he stood up with his head held between his hands.
"Mr. Jin, while it seems like you woke up from quite a terrible nightmare, I suggest you could avoid that by not sleeping in the middle of history."
Mori took at his surroundings as he remembered he was in the middle of class.
All eyes were on him, at his sudden outburst.
Both Ruby and Jaune who were sitting next to him were inching away very slowly.
"Since you seem to up now and volunteering, would you like to summarize what we have been talking about in the past few minutes?" Dr. Oobleck asked in a stern voice as he took a sip of coffee.
"uhhhm, sorry sir…I…I wasn't paying attention." Mori sheepishly replied as he rubbed his head.
"Hmm, Hmm, while I do believe rest is important, you should NOT be doing it in the middle of my class" Dr. Oobleck said as he once again took another chug from that thermos of his. "I believe we can rectify what you've missed during detention later on"
Mori immediately sat down in embarrassment as the class was filled with snickers at Mori once again getting detention.
Once Mori sat down, Dr. Oobleck once again started his machine gun-like mouth as he continued their history lesson.
Mori could feel his friends' eyes on him in either concern, curiosity, or in one particular case, disappointment.
He just ignored the looks; all he could think of was that battle he had in his head.
He had been using his spare time to practice fighting his old friends and previous opponents in his head.
He did well against most of them…the problem came when he faced a God caliber opponent.
He didn't have the fire power or the speed to do anything to them.
It was so massively unfair the physical difference between him and them…which coming from him was a bit hypocritical.
"Aghh"
That loss was particularly frustrating as he once again botched the kick his Grandpa did.
What was he not getting right? He still wasn't performing it correctly and was still struggling on hitting the right form.
Despite his complaints, Mori could notice that he was starting to close the gap a little bit.
His focus on the basics have caused him to not get as tired and he could tell that he was getting stronger, still… it wasn't enough.
Once class finally ended, Mori gathered his stuff, and was getting ready to head off, as he was planning on using this time to once again train and go over the basics.
"Mr. Jin can I talk to you for a second?"
Dr. Oobleck had called out Mori before he could leave, Mori complied as he went towards his professor.
"Are you doing ok? Mr. Jin, I know you were struggling at the beginning of the year because of your special condition; however, you have been doing incredibly well and have caught up to most of your classmates, that is why today's incident has me concerned that you are falling behind again."
"I am fine Dr. Oobleck," Mori replied as he barely caught onto what his professor was asking, "I've just…been training a lot for the most part."
"Hmm, while it is good to keep constant vigilance and maintenance on one's own skills, it is not recommended it comes at the detriment of one's own health."
"I understand Dr. Oobleck," Mori replied.
"Good, I hope we don't need to have this conversation again," With that the professor took another sip of Coffee and dismissed Mori.
Mori went back to his spot and finished gathering his stuff.
Dr. Oobleckk had a point, it wasn't good to neglect his own health to train…however, Mori wasn't just trying to maintain his strength, he needed to get back as much power as possible as quickly as possible in case something happened.
Most of Remnant had no idea of the powers outside of their own small world and if Mori was not strong enough, he would lose everything he cared for…for a third time.
He had to get stronger and regain as much strength as possible, stuff like history and his health wasn't important compared to training.
"Mori are you ok?" A concerned voice asked him, interrupting his thoughts as he made his way out.
It was Ruby, she had a worried look on her face.
Mori gave a smile and thumbs up,
"Don't worry Ruby I'm fine."
"You Buffoon! I told you to sleep last night,"
This time it was Weiss who screeched at him.
"Yeah I guess you are right; sorry I didn't listen to you Weiss." Mori apologized as he rubbed his head.
"I guess you could say that the professor really caught you napping at a bad time."
Mori could only groan at Yang's terrible pun.
Why did he have to have shout in the middle of class?
"Ok, so when we meet them, you have got to be cool ok?"
"Dude, cool is my middle name."
Sun had to admit his partner Neptune was the epitome of cool, except when it came to water.
"Yeah you are right, I…I just really want to make a good an impression ok?"
"I know you do man, that girl has been all you've been talking about for the past few days." Neptune replied with an exasperated tone.
"It's just…she's so cool, and pretty, and she kicks a lot of butt as well." Sun said as he continued to gush about Blake.
"Ok dude, I get it; you like the girl, and you want to impress her."
It had been a couple of weeks since Sun's adventure at the Vale's docks and he couldn't wait to see everyone from Beacon again.
"By the way," Neptune spoke up again, "I'm still mad at you for ditching without telling anyone."
"Hey, I said I'm sorry man," Sun apologized, "It was just I—oof"
Sun was in the middle of his apology when he suddenly ran into something.
It felt like he hit a brick wall.
Falling straight on his butt, a dazed Sun looked up to see what he ran into.
"Sun?"
"Ughh…Mori?"
"You ok man?" Mori asked as he stuck his hand out to help Sun up.
"Yeah…I just feel like I ran into a brick wall" Sun replied as he was able to finally regain his bearings and took Mori's hand, "What are you made of man? It's like you were born from a rock."
All Mori did was just shrug, as he helped Sun back up to his feet.
"So where are you guys going?" Mori asked after Sun finished dusting himself off.
"We were going to meet up with Blake and her team. Do you know where they are?" Sun answered.
"Yeah, they should be in the cafeteria," Mori replied back, "Let me show you the way."
"Cool thanks,"
Sun and Neptune then began to follow Mori to the Cafeteria.
"So, are you here for the Vytal festival?" Mori asked as they continued to make their way to the café.
"Yeah! And We are totally going to rock and win it all for Haven!" Sun bragged.
"I don't know Sun, we have some pretty strong people, both Yang and Pyrrha are really strong." Mori pointed out.
"Ehh if Pyrrha wins we'll claim it a win for Haven because she's from Haven. "
"…Uh dude, aren't you from Vacuo?" Neptune asked in confusion.
"Oh shush Neptune don't be a nerd."
"…Wait, your name is Neptune?" Mori asked in visible confusion.
"…Yes?" Neptune replied, also in confusion, "Have we met before?"
"…No, we haven't," Mori replied with a dazed look on his face.
It was the same look that he had when Sun first mentioned his name to him.
"Oookkk" Sun interjected, "Well since this the first-time meeting each other, Mori this is my partner Neptune; Neptune this is Mori, he's the guy that blew up the port with a kick."
"Sun, like I've said before, I've read the report; it was stray dust that blew up the harbor, not a kick."
"BRO FOR THE LAST TIME, I KNOW WHAT I SAW AND IT WAS A KICK THAT BLEW UP THE HARBOR." Sun yelled in frustration at his partner.
It had been like this for the past couple of weeks. Neptune straight up did not believe that Mori had destroyed a harbor with a kick. Like yes, saying it out loud. it really did sound absurd. But. he wished his partner would have a little more faith in him with that.
"Sure, sure I'll believe when you don't ditch me, and I actually see it." Neptune said as he flippantly dismissed Sun's yelling and turning his attention back to Mori. "Nice to meet you Mori, the name's Neptune Vasilias."
He then offered Mori his hand.
"Jin Mori," Mori replied as he took his hand.
"That's a weird name," Neptune commented, "It doesn't have anything to do with color."
Sun could only internally groan at his friend being a dork.
"I get that a lot," Mori replied with a shrug. "I think it's because my Grandpa really didn't care about name tradition and all that."
"But, but…" Neptune was trying to say something, but he couldn't get anything out.
"Just ignore him, he just a try hard" Sun chipped in. "Like his weapon."
"Let me guess," Mori said in a flat tone, "It's part trident."
At that both Neptune and Sun were shocked by Mori's correct answer.
"How did you know?" Neptune asked, he then turned his attention to Sun. "Did you tell him before?"
"Nah," Mori spoke up before Sun could respond, "Call it a lucky guess."
"…Huh, well you guessed correctly, my weapon is named Tri-hard, it has couple of different modes, but it's part Trident, part Guandao and part gun."
"That's pretty cool," Mori said, "Now, when did you realize what the name meant?"
Neptune gave a sigh.
"…a couple of years later, Sun named it for me, and I thought it was cool, like try your hardest."
"I still can't believe it took you that long to notice that." Sun laughed, Neptune gave him an angry glare.
"Well at least you have a cool weapon," Mori commented.
"Do you not use a weapon?" Neptune asked, "What do you fight with?"
"Neptune I've told you this before, but he just uses his feet." Sun said in an exasperated tone to his partner.
"…like shotguns attached to his feet?"
"No," Mori chuckled, "I just use my feet."
"And the craziest thing is Mori doesn't even have an Aura," Sun said.
"Ok Sun, you are just BSing me right now," Neptune said in an exasperated voice.
"I'm not, he does."
"Sure, sure he does. I will believe when I see it" Neptune once again replied in flippant tone.
An awkward silence then filled the trio as they continued to their destination.
Sun couldn't help but feel like he was having a rough start in meeting his friends from Vale.
He really did want to make a good impression but right now it was just awkward.
Why did Neptune have to be such a skeptic to Mori's abilities?
Sun couldn't blame him though, Sun himself couldn't believe what he saw that night in the docks.
It was like Mori was the main character in a Spruce Willis movie.
Just kicking all kinds of bad guy butt.
But even before he saw the guy be totally awesome, there was something about the guy that Sun really liked.
When he first met him, Mori scared the crap out of him. But after the incident of him leaving the bill, there was something about Mori that made Sun want to be around him.
Then there was watching the guy fight at the docks, Sun couldn't help but suddenly want to kneel at his presence…that was a weird experience, Sun didn't kneel to anyone, but his instincts just wanted to for some reason.
Strange incident aside, Mori really was quite cool. Him and Blake were struggling against those numbers and he took care of the White Fang in an instant, that and he was just a blast to be around.
Sun was hoping he would get a match with Mori during the Vytal festival.
"Well here we are," Mori said as he reached the cafeteria door interrupting Sun's musing.
"They should be—"
The door suddenly slammed open.
"Food Fight!"
"Get out, they are starting a war!"
"Why are they that crazy!"
"I don't want to die!"
A mass exodus of students were leaving the cafeteria in a panic.
The trio of boys looked inside to see what was going on.
There was a stack of tables gathered up and an Orange haired girl was on top, chanting something about being the queen of the castle. Below her were Ren and Jaune along with Pyrrha.
On the other side was Blake with her team. If Sun remembered correctly, the blonde one was Yang, her partner; the one with the hood was Ruby, her team leader, who was also at the docs; and the white haired one was most likely Weiss Schnee.
"Justice will be swift, Justice will be painful it will be Delicious," Ruby screamed while crushing a milk carton her rest of her team followed in screaming, "...Oh hey Mori!"
"We call dibs on Mori," the orange haired girl on top of the stack of tables shouted.
"What no fair Nora, you already have Pyrrha!" Ruby shouted.
"Yeah, but we also have Jaune," the now named Nora responded back. "No offense, Jaune."
"Some offense was taken!" Jaune shouted back.
"Well I found him!" Ruby cried out, "Finders keepers!"
"That's not fair we want the guy that blew up a harbor." Jaune cried back. "Besides, Mori is close to me, Nora and Ren, you guys just have you and Yang."
"He did not blow up a Harbor!"
"Weiss for the last time, yes he did." Blake said an exasperated tone.
"Huh, looks like Blake is having the same problems as I am." Sun thought to himself.
"BS quality over quantity; he was at our house over break; besides, how is Ren close to Mori?" Ruby yelled back.
"Hello, boy's night! Spending time in a jail cell is bonding." Jaune yelled back, "Not that we had a boy's night of course."
"Yeah we didn't have one," Ren commented on the side.
"Yeah there was no such thing as a boy's night" Mori chipped in with a blank tone.
Sun couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at this. They kept on denying that their Friday night adventure did not happen.
"Well let's ask him who he wants to join, Mori who are you going to be join—wait Mori where did you go?" Ruby said in confusion as she turned to the group of boys.
Sun and Neptune looked to their side and realized Mori had disappeared.
"Muah, hah hah hah!" an evil laugh seemed to fill the cafeteria as everyone's attention turned to the source.
It was Mori, for some reason he was wearing a crown of banannas and had a table cloth wrapped around his waist.'
"Foolish mortals!" Mori bellowed, "You fight amongst yourself when you should fear me, the Banana King!"
"Mori, do you truly believe you can take on all of us at once!" Ruby shouted back in exaggerated shock.
"I do! For I am the Great Glutton Equal to Nora!" Mori bragged.
"More like the Great Idiot Equal to Jaune." Weiss snarked.
"Hey!" Jaune protested indignantly.
"Queen Nora, shall we team up to take down this king built upon a clearly inferior fruit?" Ruby asked ignoring Weiss's comments.
"Hmm, Queen Nora agrees, we shall take down this fool who claims to be as much of a glutton as me!" Nora agreed as she now directed Team JNPR's focus to the Banana King.
"Uhh Nora, I don't think being a glutton is supposed to be a compliment." Ren deadpanned with a straight face.
"Who cares, let's fight!" Nora responded back.
And with that, the Great War of the Cafeteria had begun, with Sun and Neptune as the witnesses.
Nora and her team immediately started throwing Watermelons at the Banana King.
In an instant, Mori dodged the exploding fruit around him. While he was dodging, Yang came upon him using turkeys as boxing gloves.
Grabbing the longest bread stick he could find, Mori immediately blocked her turkey fists, and then counterattacked with his bread stick and sent her flying.
Just as he sent Yang flying, Blake and Ren came flying in with Blake using two breadsticks as swords and Ren using two leaks as his weapon.
In a smooth motion, Mori backflipped out of the double team and immediately used his bread staff to send two treys into the two. While he was doing that Ruby and Weiss started their attack, as Weiss used ketchup bottles to screw up Mori's landing while Ruby surfed in with a lunch trey and hit him with it.
Their attack was to no avail though as Mori was able to recover quickly from the slip and he sent Ruby flying with his weapon and used one of the bananas on his head to hit Weiss from a distance.
The next wave soon came in, this time it was Nora and Jaune. Nora grabbed a pole slammed it into a watermelon to make a hammer and Jaune came in with his own breadstick sword and trash lid shield.
Mori dodged Nora's initial hammer strike and parried Jaune with his bread staff.
After the parry he immediately kicked up some bagels near him and kicked them into jaune. Then he disarmed Nora with a swift motion of his staff and with a swing sent her flying as well.
It seemed like most of the combined army were no match for Mori.
Suddenly out of the blue the air tightened as the strongest general of the combined army started to approach the Banana King.
Sun could only stare in anticipation of what was going to happen.
In an instant Pyrrha closed the distance between her and Mori as he parried her breadstick with his.
They would continue to clash as Mori and Pyrrha were matching each other blow for blow.
It seemed like they were evenly matched.
"Now!" Pyrrha shouted as the two were in a struggle for dominance.
All of a sudden, Blake appeared with a link of sausages in hand and Ruby and Weiss were carrying what looked like a big pot full of tomato sauce. it looked large enough to fit a person inside..
Using the sausages, Blake wrapped them around Mori throwing him into the pot while Ruby and Weiss immediately clamped the lid down. Jaune, Ren, Yang, and Nora also hopped onto the lid hoping to contain him.
It seemed like the combined alliance had finally won.
However, at the 49 second mark, the lid started to shake as suddenly Mori burst out of the pot covered in Red sauce and Golden noodles.
"Ow, my eyes they really hurt!" He complained.
The combined alliance could only stare in awe as their efforts to defeat the Banana King had just seemed futile.
In an instance Mori recovered as he grabbed nearby soda cans throwing them at Jaune, Blake and Ren knocking them out.
Weiss grabbed a sword fish as she then attempted to spear Mori with it.
"This is revenge for the water balloons!" She bellowed.
Mori only ignored her as he grabbed another long bread stick dodged the attack and slammed the tip into Weiss's stomach throwing into a wall.
Ruby ran over to check if her partner was ok.
Yang, Nora, and Pyrrha converged on him with Pyrrha using what looked like her semblance to gather all the soda cans in the cafeteria, meanwhile Nora, was chucking her own soda cans at Mori while Yang was making her way to him with to once again go into close combat.
Mori suddenly ripped of a pole and using as many banannas as he could stacked them onto it make what looked like a banana leaf fan.
In one motion, he whipped the fan and sent the three flying in the air.
He had defeated most of the army, except one…his closest friend.
"Mori!" Ruby bellowed, "I will defeat you and prove that strawberries are the superior fruit!"
She suddenly started to use her semblance as she used a burst of speed to gather a small storm around her.
Mori only smiled at Ruby's charge, grabbing his trusted breadstick, the two of them were charging into their final clash.
*Boom*
a dust cloud filled the cafeteria as a result of their clash. Sun and Neptune looked to see who the winner was.
"I…will…never admit…that bananas…are…better." Ruby weakly said as she fell to the ground.
It looked like the Banana King had won!
"I'm the best, I'm the strongest! I'm the- oof!"
Out of nowhere, in the middle of his dance and celebration a giant invisible hand seemed to slam him down onto the ground.
"Children…please," An exasperated voice behind Neptune and Sun sighed.
They looked behind; it was Beacons Deputy Headmistress.
"Do not play with your food," she continued in an annoyed tone and with a flick of her crop started to fix the chaos caused by the Great Cafeteria War. Nora, Pyrrha and Yang dropping onto the tables soon after.
Sun couldn't help but drop his jaw at the events he just witnessed.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" He screamed in excitement.
Neptune was a little less enthused as he wiped away the debris that hit him.
"Yeah… sure." He deadpanned.
Blake was surprised she wasn't in mega detention right now.
Surely that food fight should have gotten them into some trouble…right?
Either way, it looked like they were cleared from any actual trouble.
"Go Jaune!"
"Come On, Vomit Boy!"
They were currently in combat class right now and the sisters on her team where cheering their hearts out for the blonde leader of Team JNPR.
Blake couldn't help but also give a small cheer, and Weiss herself was giving off small cheers of encouragement.
What her other friends were doing to show support for him, was a bit…different.
"Fearless leader what are you doing, don't just stand there…Hit him!"
"Don't listen to her Jaune, you are doing fine!"
"Jaune, stop blocking and dodge!"
"Mori, you are not helping when you tell him to dodge, he's not going to react in time."
Chaos was ensuing as they were each yelling their own advice. Blake felt it was probably more detrimental for the guy then helpful.
It didn't seem to be too much of a distraction though, Jaune was able to get in close with his shield, stun his opponent with a shield bash and deliver a quick slash through the midsection.
"The winner is Jaune Arc!" Professor Goodwitch declared as his opponent's aura hit 15%.
Blake had to cover her ears from the cheering from her more…excitable friends.
Mori was already on stage, near him doing some strange dance, while Ruby, Nora, and Yang were blasting their vocal cords.
The rest of the group, including Blake were just giving Jaune a small round of an applause. Blake really was happy for Jaune, this was his second straight win and the fruits of his hard work were starting to pay off.
"Mr. Jin, it's good that you are here right now. After you finish your support of your friend, it will be your turn to fight." Professor Goodwitch said as she interrupted Mori's dance.
Mori had a small grin grow on his face as he nodded to the professor's instructions.
Using the class randomizer, she selected a random student from their year.
Once a student had been found, she gave the special instructions for fighting Mori.
While the professor was giving her instructions, Blake turned her thoughts to Mori.
Originally, everyone in their group wanted to fight him, but he requested that before he fought any of them that he regains his sense of fighting first.
Blake had to raise an internal eyebrow at this.
Ever since the docks, Mori had been hyper focused on training…but what she saw during the docks at night was not someone who needed refinement.
Someone who could blow up a harbor and take down 150 white fang members on his own was not someone normal.
A loud smack interrupted Blake's musings.
Breaking out of her thoughts, she realized that Mori had already ended his fight.
It seems like one punch was all it took to blow the student away.
Shocked murmurs filled the room, Mori on the other hand though…
He seemed confused and frustrated about his win…Why was he frustrated?
Shouldn't he be happy that he won that easily?
"Hey Glynda?" Mori asked as he turned to the combat instructor, "Would it be ok if I could go again?"
"Again, it is Professor Goodwitch you, Mr Jin," She replied in an annoyed voice, "Normally it would be one spar a day; however, considering your…circumstances, I will allow it."
She once again called another student up to the field.
Blake really had to wonder, who was Mori before Beacon?
He was not normal…obviously, his lack of aura was already one reason for that.
But it wasn't just his lack of aura that made him abnormal
It was also his freakish physical specs and absurd fighting style. Mori was basically one of the best fighters Blake had ever seen.
Coming from her that meant a lot especially with how many fighters she met during her stint with the White Fang. It seemed like he was engineered for combat.
Her instincts about him were right, he was dang—
*Bam*
Her thoughts on him were once again interrupted, as he finished one-shoting another opponent.
Again, a look of frustration filled his face as he turned to Professor Goodwitch with a pleading look.
She just sighed and called up another vict—student.
Ever since he showed what he could do, the whispers of derision of him had become whispers of shock and awe.
It seemed like the rest of the student body were finally realizing how much of a abnormality Mori was.
Going back to her original thoughts; her instincts were right, Mori was dangerous... or at least he was before he lost his memories.
It was strange how Ruby met him.
She claimed she found him next to a pillar and he lost his memories from the impact.
The part about a pillar falling from the sky sounded absurd, but Yang also claimed to see it, so Blake trusted they were telling the truth about him losing his memories. But the question of Mori's memories and how he lost them didn't matter as much as the real question.
What was a person of Mori's caliber doing on a small island like Patch anyways?
Who was he before he met Ruby and Yang?
Her best hypothesis on Mori's past, was that he was most likely part of a militant group, like the Fang.
Mori was most likely an experimental subject for that group.
Whatever experiments they did seemed to have involved sacrificing his aura to give him his freakish physical abilities.
They were probably attempting to make him into the perfect killing machine.
It really was probably good thing that he lost his memoires of who he was before, because at times when he was fighting, she was getting serious reminders of…him.
Not that the current Mori was anything like him. Hell, she couldn't even imagine that guy throwing water balloons like Mori did.
Her main worry with Mori was—
*Boom*
"Oh, Mori ended his fight in one shot again." Blake thought to herself while Ruby and Yang cheered.
"That moron is ridiculous," Weiss spoke up, "One clean hit… they can't even get A hit in."
"So, do you believe that he actually blew up the harbor?" Blake asked, hopeful that Weiss would finally believe her.
"…I still don't, but…something about the buffoon is off." Weiss said as she trailed off. "Oh look, he got another victim."
It seemed like Mori had convinced Goodwitch to let him fight one more person.
Weiss's doubt of Mori's abilities was finally cracking, Blake was hopefully if she could get Weiss to believe they could figure out who exactly he was before.
Instead of going back to her thoughts, this time Blake decided to pay attention to the match. Once again, Mori shortened the distance between the two.
*Bam* *Bam* *Bam*
Unlike the fights before, Mori was able to deliver quite a few more punches and not end it in one hit like he did before.
"Wow, he took three seconds instead of one." Weiss dryly commented, "Is the buffoon finally getting tired?"
It did seem like that he was finally slowing down form being the juggernaut he was…but then Blake looked at his face.
It wasn't the face of someone being tired…instead it seemed like he was starting to figure something out.
Why on that one though? It took him longer to defeat his opponent.
He turned to Goodwitch begging for another match; however, this time the deputy headmistress put her foot down and told him to go back to his spot.
Mori had a sour look on his face as he went back to his seat while Ruby went over to cheer him up.
Blake couldn't help but smile at his childishness at times.
It really was funny to watch Mori at times, as he never failed in his capability to make her laugh inside..
He was always a source of amusement; from his antagonistic relationship with Professor Goodwitch, to his constant enthusiasm for cheering for their friends and he had a flair for the dramatic, exampled by their cafeteria fight.
It seemed like he not only had received the crown of the class clown but fully embraced it.
Current Mori was a good person...her main worry was past Mori.
She was fearful of who he was in the past and she prayed with all her might that he wasn't anything like that guy.
She could only hope that he would never regain his memories.
Despite all her worries about her friend's past, sadly, Mori wasn't her biggest concern right now.
It was Roman Torchwick.
Even though they captured him at the docks, he broke free from his convoy and was still robbing dust in a large amount…now with the White Fang's help.
That's was what Blakes biggest problem was.
Why was the White Fang working with Roman Torchwick?
The Fang normally wouldn't have anything to do with a guy like Torchwick.
The Fang's tactics in Vale right now were very different than what she was used to. These Dust robberies wouldn't be helping their cause of Faunus equality.
Something was wrong, there was something bigger at work and Blake was determined to find out what It was… at all costs.
Tmt here again. Sorry for not updating you guys but I decided to finally to take the break I've been desperately needing for the past month. Either way I hope you enjoy the next chapter.
Hashirama1710: God I can't wait to write that part of her finding out.
Creus: I'm glad you liked it, I will admit part of the chapter was inspired by the wedding.
ilanddubrovski:You are welcome.
Wizardwolf1020: That's an interesting idea it would be interesting for Sun to be Mori's clone.
Guest:I'm sorry to hear that you aren't a fan of that plot point. Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with it, partly because I'm the author and partly because I don't think just knowing Renewal Taekwondo alone makes him special. In fact, It's a specific plot point in the Webtoon of him teaching it to someone else.
Destiny590: Like the person from before I'm sorry to hear you don't like the fic anymore. Though I should mention and I wlll state this again the Mori Hui part has nothing to do with the main story and it is it's own story. If it's the fact that you don't like Hui meeting with Ironwood, then you are welcome to ignore the shorts because they will have no impact on Journey.
Imnotaweeb64101: I'm happy to hear that you binged this til 3 it's one of the highest compliment's I've received for this fic.
notvisiulebliss:He really is quite broken, but it's still fun trying to make an interesting fic with him in remnant.
Gen2324:Yeah part of the story was inspired by the wedding part and part of it was inspired by listening to the mirror mirror soundtrack and wanting to do something with Weiss. I agree that Mori would be able to empathise how miserable Weiss would feel.
DxHologram: You know until now, I've never heard of it but it looks super fun and interesting, I'm excited to see it come out, thanks for telling me about it.
Becoming Real Part 3
"Hui Mori this is General Ironwood, General Ironwood meet my new friend Hui Mori."
"It is a pleasure to meet you, young man," The tall General said as he extended his right arm to Hui Mori.
Mori took the General's hand and noted it felt surprisingly hard.
"Nice to meet you as well General." He replied.
"So, what was a young man like you doing in closed off, secure, and PRIVATE, Atlas Military property?" Ironwood asked with extra emphasis on the last one.
Mori could feel the General's hand tighten as he asked his question.
What could he really answer? He didn't know exactly how he was here as well. In fact, he was pretty sure he was supposed to disappear.
Hui Mori wasn't quite how he should feel about this man. He doubted telling the truth would be believed and he wasn't even quite sure if he should trust this man quite yet.
But at the same time, Mori didn't get a feeling that Ironwood was like Mujin Park. In fact, this man didn't seem to have any other agendas except knowing why Hui Mori was in a secure location.
Honestly, he couldn't blame him for feeling that way, it made sense especially since he seemed to be in charge of the military around here.
General Ironwood seemed to be an incredibly serious man who liked to get things done quickly and efficiently.
"I'm not quite sure sir, I don't really know how I ended up where Penny found me."
Mori Hui decided to go with telling the truth but not revealing too much. Hopefully, the General would take that.
"So, you've lost your memory then?" Ironwood questioned.
Mori nodded figuring that it was best to go with it.
"General Ironwood, I did a scan and Hui Mori's brain seemed to be completely fine." Penny chipped in.
Mori did a quick double take. How did she know that?
He felt that Penny was a little weird at first, but just went along with it.
Now that he thought about it though, what kind of random girl her age would be living a secure military compound?
Who exactly was Penny?
"…I see." The General murmured.
Ironwood then pressed a button and the room suddenly went into lockdown,
"Now, let's go over this again young man… How exactly did you get here and who do you work for?"
Again, Friendly reminder Becoming Real has nothing to do with Journey. It should be interesting to see how Mori Hui gets out of this one.
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