Chapter 12: Gathering
Clover always loved visiting Vale. The city was clean, the forests were beautiful and best of all…it was not cold.
He loved his home in Atlas, his one complaint living there was it always so cold!
"Man, I'm so excited to visit Vale, I've never been there before!"
"Pipe down rookie, some of us are trying to work on our equipment here. "
"Harriet, you're a rookie as well, you only joined a couple of months before."
"Yeah, but you don't see me acting like a rook do you Marrow?"
"Ok, let's not start fighting." Clover interrupted before Marrow could continue his argument with Harriet. "Harriet cut Marrow some slack, this is his first time out of Solitas."
Harriet nodded as she went back to her weapon maintenance.
"And Marrow," Clover then turned his attention to the AceOps newest recruit, "Remember this isn't a vacation we are on a mission, so I need you to be focused, ok?"
"Yes captain," Marrow replied as he went back into his seat and on his scroll.
Silence once again filled the room on the airship. Clover looked outside at the rest of the fleet that the General was bringing.
"General Ironwood is really going all out for security for the Vytal Festival, isn't he?" Marrow asked as he too looked out at the sight of the fleet
"That's just the General being cautious." Another voice chipped in before Clover could answer.
"Still Elm, a fleet of Atlesian warships is a bit overkill isn't it?" The Dog faunus responded.
"It may be overkill to you, but General Ironwood never does things without good reason," Elm answered back with a serious voice.
"What kind of things require a full Atlesian War fleet!?"
"Marrow are you dumb or deaf, like Elm said the General always has a reason."
"Don't give me that Harriet, I saw that face you made at Atlas when the fleet was launching." Marrow snarked back as he got into Harriet's face.
"Get your ugly mug away from me or do you want to be my test subject for my tuned-up knuckles?"
Clover just gave a sigh as he turned to Elm, his second in command. She nodded as she went over to the bickering rookies and grabbed their collars to separate them.
"Captain, we will be landing shortly should we go over the mission?"
"You are right Vine; we should be going over our mission right now." Clover replied back to the only member that had not spoke yet, "Listen Up!"
His command got the two to stop bickering, as all of the AceOps looked to him as he started the mission briefing.
"Our first objective in Vale is investigating the abnormal White Fang activities." Clover started. "Their tactics have been vastly different than how they operate in Soliltas and the first part of our mission will involve locating and destroying the numerous bases around Vale."
"Question Sir."
"Yes, Harriet?"
"Can you elaborate more on their abnormal activity?"
"Good question Harriet, as you can see with this chart of White Fang related crimes, armed theft reports are 75% higher in Vale compared to Mantle while their public demonstrations and other actions like it to further their cause are down by 50%. In fact, a significant number of armed robbery cases involving the White Fang only involved stolen dust."
"It's like they are preparing for a war or something," Harriet murmured.
"Jeez you can blow up a whole city with the amount of dust they've stolen." Marrow worryingly chipped in.
"That's why we are here, too protect the people of Vale and make sure no harm comes to them," Clover spoke up. "We will start our investigation by going to the spots with high White Fang activity and move on from there. If we locate a White Fang base our orders are to destroy it immediately and apprehend all suspects within the building"
"Search and destroy, just how I like." Harriet commented with a smile as she punched her fists together.
"That doesn't seem that bad, White Fang; I've fought plenty of White Fang members before." Marrow replied with a relieved voice.
"And the second part of the mission?" Vine asked in a monotone voice.
"The second part of our mission will involve the investigation of a student Beacon a first-year, name, Mori Jin, we will refer to him as Subject Beta." Clover replied as he switched to the next panel showing a picture of their target.
"He looks kind of dumb," Harriet murmured again, Marrow just chuckled and stopped immediately when everyone's eyes went on him.
"So, why are we investigating a first year?" Marrow asked, curious of what possible reason they were investigating a minor.
"Marrow, have you not been paying attention? There is a reason why General Ironwood does what he does; though captain, what is the big deal about this guy anyway?" Harriet asked after she hypocritically rebuffed her teammate.
"A couple weeks back there was an incident with the White Fang at the docks and Subject Beta was involved." Clover answered ignoring the two's antics, he started to play the video at the docks. "It was a dust robbery of a Schnee freighter, and confrontation soon escalated between the Fang and some Huntsman-in-training."
"The subject arrived a couple of minutes later and confronted the White Fang while telling his allies to retreat."
Mori's massacre at the docks soon started to play.
"Wow, this guy is pretty good," Marrow commented as he watched the fight.
"Ehh, doesn't seem too special, any of us including you could easily do that to those guys, look at how untrained they are." Harriet boasted. "What makes him so special that we are needed?"
"There are a couple of red flags involving the subject in question." Clover pointed out as he gave the reports, "For one outside of his records at Beacon there is no known references to a Mori Jin anywhere in Remnant."
Clover then pulled up the files of Mori Jin.
"It's like he never existed before," Vine murmured as he looked over the file.
"So, the guy doesn't show up on records, so what?" Harriet commented. "There are plenty of settlements that are out there."
"The second thing that has the General concerned is according to the agent that filmed this battle, Subject Beta did not use any aura." Clover replied in a calm voice.
This one shocked the rest of the group, even the stoic Vine was surprised.
"He didn't use aura at all? Did I hear that right Clover?" Elm asked in an unbelieving tone.
"You are kidding me; he did all this without the use of aura?" Marrow commented as he looked back at the video of the massacre.
"The last reason will be shown at the end of confrontation video." Clover continued.
The video then switched to Mori Jin jumping into the air and firing off a kick with incredible wind pressure.
Silence filled the room as none of the Ace Operatives could find words to describe the scene they just saw.
"No… way… Did he just blow up harbor with a kick?."
"Marrow there's no way someone can blow up a harbor with a kick, especially someone without aura; look where they are fighting?" Harriet commented as she finally recovered from the sight she just saw, "Yeah it was a powerful kick, but it probably was just caused by some stray dust lighting up."
"Unfortunately, Harriet, according to reports there was not enough dust to cause that much damage to the surrounding area."
That shut the other rookie up as she looked at the aftermath of the dock scene with curiosity.
"So, what are we to do about him Clover," Elm asked with a concerned voice.
"First thing we are going to do is we are to investigate and observe him while we do our first job." Clover commented. "The General has a belief that Subject Beta may be involved with a rogue terrorist group due to the nature of his fighting style."
"Wait what do you mean fighting style," Marrow asked in confusion.
"Marrow, if you noticed during the fight Subject Beta's attacks were mostly aimed to be devastating for humans," Elm answered as she explained the reasoning.
"I can't believe you didn't notice something so simple Marrow," Harriet snarked.
"Like you were able to notice," Marrow snarked back.
"For now, our only interactions with Subject Beta will be through observation," Clover interrupted before the two could start arguing again. "The only time we are to have confrontation is if Subject Beta shows any suspicious movements, any questions?"
"No sir," The Squad replied with a salute.
"Good, now that we have our had mission briefing, let's just relax as we wait to land."
Everyone else soon went back to their original tasks as Clover laid back and closed his eyes.
Even though he trusted James with his life, he was a bit unsure of why he wanted the AceOps to watch out for this kid. In fact, James told him straight up that Subject Beta was more important than the White Fang.
Clover couldn't help but wonder, Why?
Why was a kid that was a first year, a bigger priority than a known terrorist group.
Subject Beta didn't seem that dangerous and while Clover could admit that he was a good fighter, he had faced worst threats in his mind.
Still though if James wanted to watch out for the kid, he could at least do that.
It shouldn't be too hard right?
Ruby didn't know where it all went wrong.
All her plans, dreams and hard work had all gone down the drain.
She had lost so much; everything was in ruin.
Why? Why?
How could it all go wrong.
"I hate this game of emotions we play."
Ruby looked over to her defeated partner. For she too had been crushed by the merciless overlord known as her sister.
"Stay strong Weiss, we'll make it through this together." Ruby comforted her partner as she went on Weiss's lap
"Shut up, don't touch me." Weiss cried back, her words not matching her actions as she pulled Ruby in for a hug.
"Alright Blake, Mori you guys are up." Yang said as she attempted to claim her next victims.
Ruby could only stare in concern as the two were both asleep. After Yang woke the two of them up, she then explained what was going on during their board game.
"Hey guys can I join?" A voice asked.
It was Jaune, who had gotten distracted from his studying.
"Sorry Jaune," Ruby said apologetically, "This game is meant for four people and putting Mori and Blake together was so we could fit all of us."
"Well why don't I just pair with Weiss." Jaune hopefully asked.
"Uhh no," Weiss quickly replied back.
Ruby only sighed as she watched her blonde friend get shot down immediately.
"Are you even sure you want to play? After all, this game requires a highly strategical mind, something you obviously don't have." Weiss continued in a prideful tone.
"Uh, Weiss didn't you attack your own fleet three turns ago?" Mori asked from across the table.
"Oh shush you buffoon, you were asleep," Weiss snarked back, "Besides, I don't want to hear criticisms on strategy from the moron who thought it would be a good idea to send a single soldier into an army and expecting him to win."
"Hey, it has worked for me before!" Mori shouted back defending himself.
"When?" Weiss asked incredulously, "Your decision making and strategy in this game makes me really glad you are not a king."
"Are you guys ignoring me now?" Jaune asked as he seemed left out.
"Come on Jaune," Pyrrha said as she came to comfort her partner, "Lets, get back to studying."
"Sup, losers!"
A voice cried out.
"Hey Sun!" Ruby replied back to her friend from Haven.
"Ruby, Yang, Blake, Mori, Ren, Jaune…Ice Queen."
Ruby had to stifle a laugh for fear of earning her partners ire.
"Why do people always call me that?!" Weiss cried in confusion.
Ruby really wanted to say because she acted like one, but her self-preservation won out.
"It's because you act like one."
Mori's on the other hand, didn't.
Weiss's gave a death glare him, but he just ignored it, having developed an immunity to her.
"I never formally introduced you to my friend." Sun said as he pointed out the blue haired guy next to him.
Ruby had to admit he was kinda cute, though based off how much of a kill joy he was being about them playing their board game, she doubted that feeling would ever evolve.
"So, Neptune where are you from?" Weiss asked in a flirty voice after he finished introducing himself.
That caused the red head to roll her eyes. They only rolled further when Neptune flirted back and called her snow angel.
Surprisingly, Weiss did not get mad at that and instead a gave a flirty laugh.
"You've got to be kidding me!"
Ruby looked over at Jaune with Pyrrha trying to comfort him. Poor Jaune, Neptune made more progress in four seconds than Jaune had done in half a year.
He really should stop going for Weiss; but, since he was one of her first friends at Beacon all Ruby could do was support him from the shadows. Though she did try to nudge Weiss his way couple of times; however, the face Weiss made whenever she did that, seemed to suggest that it was not working.
While Weiss and Neptune were acting cringey, Ruby noticed Sun head over to talk to Blake.
She was less receptive to talking then Weiss.
Ruby also noticed that in the confusion Mori had managed to slip out, probably to train again…
Ah cookie crumbles, she had barely managed to convince him to try out Remnant the Board game.
Playing the game was supposed to help her friends un-stress and instead all she got was a moodier than usual Blake and a tired Mori.
"I'm think I'm done playing, so I will see you guys later."
Annnd there went her second friend.
Everyone looked in concern as she left.
Operation get Mori and Blake to feel better by doing fun stuff had failed.
Their game wrapped up about a half hour later and all that was going on was Yang complaining about how Neptune turned the table on her.
Ruby felt no sympathy for the dictators fall.
Still, her idea for a game night had completely failed.
Ughh, why did her friends have to so moody, well from Blake that was to be expected; she was always anti-social and quiet, it was worse ever since her confrontation at the docks but Ruby at least knew what was wrong with Blake.
Mori on the other hand…
Ever since the docks, he had been doing nothing but training.
At first Ruby didn't mind because he hadn't used his martial arts in a long time, so it made sense for him to get the rust off but…
His schedule had basically become, eat, sleep and train and occasionally doing fun stuff when Ruby had to drag him to relax.
She liked working out and getting better as much as the next huntress but, the amount Mori was doing though… straight up unhealthy.
If he wasn't in class napping; you could find him up on the roof top training. It had basically become a second home for him.
Heck, when he visited Patch she once caught him training before she went to bed and when she woke up, he was still going over his forms. When she asked him if he slept, he answered that he lost track of time.
Even after she forced him to sleep, he woke up in 3 hours and went back to training.
His pursuit of strength had completely consumed him, and as a result he wasn't doing as much stuff together with his friends now a days.
Each time Ruby would ask Mori if he wanted to do something with them, he'd give a smile and say not now Ruby.
Every time he'd say that, memories of a figure in white saying she'll be back home soon would go through her head.
The more and more like a hero Mori got, the farther and farther she felt him drift away.
The only time he had actively made time for his friends and was not being dragged along, was when he was training herself in Renewal Taekwondo.
Even Yang could notice Mori's obsession, as she too started too drag him to do stuff to get him away from just using all his time training.
The mask he wore that covered his sadness when she first met him had now been used to cover his worry.
What was he worried about? Why couldn't he tell her, Yang or even Jaune what was wrong? Why did he have to keep it to himself?
What could she do to help him?
Ruby's internal debate got interrupted as she finally got to her room. Just as they arrived, she noticed Blake, her second problem child trying to leave the room.
"Stop, lately you've been quiet, antisocial, and moody." Weiss said as she prevented Blake from leaving.
"Uhh, Weiss have you met Blake?" Yang asked.
Weiss and Yang soon started to confront Blake about her problems.
Blake's problems were easier to detect than Mori's…everyone knew what she was worried about.
"How, are you guys so calm?" Blake asked in a desperate tone.
"Are you still thinking about Torchwick?" Ruby asked,
Torchwick working with the White Fang had really bugged Blake. Ruby knew that Blake used to be a part of the White Fang, so this issue was very personal for her.
"Torchwick, The White Fang, all of it! Guys something big is happening in Vale and nobody is doing anything about it?"
As Yang tried to explain that Ozpin and the police had a handle on the situation, Weiss soon chipped in about how since they were students, they were not ready and there was not much they could. Blake in turn argued back that they may never be prepared.
Ruby couldn't help but feel that Blake had a point for some of the things she was worried about. She too felt something was off about these dust robberies and there really did seem to be dark forces lurking around.
There had to be something that they could do to help. After all what else were heroes supposed to do?
"I agree with Blake," Ruby said confidently as she made a heroic pose, "I think there's something wrong is happening right now and as future huntresses it's our duty to do something about it and protect the people! So, anyone that wants to be the youngest huntresses to take down an evil organization that threatens the Kingdom of Vale say, Aye."
"Yes!" Yang said with a smile punching her fists together, "I'm down to kicking bad guy butt."
"I suppose it could be fun," Weiss replied as she seemed to have been convinced by Ruby's speech.
"Guys you didn't say aye," Ruby whined.
What was the point of her cool speech if nobody said aye?
"Ok, lets hatch a plan," Blake said ignoring her complaints.
"I think because of our status, it may be better for now if we just gathered information," Weiss chipped in.
Both Ruby and Yang's excitement depleted by Weiss's completely boring suggestion.
"That would make sense," Blake said agreeing with Weiss, "I know a guy that could help with that."
"Should we get Mori and JNPR involved?" Ruby asked, seeing if the extra help would be needed.
"You dolt, we are just doing information gathering, do you really think a guy like the buffoon can do subtlety?"
Ruby, Yang and Blake's imaginations soon went back to Mori's persona as the Banana King and the harbor incident, and immediately shook their heads agreeing with Weiss's assessment of Mori's skill fit.
"Yeah," Yang said scratching her head, "He really does not care about that stuff."
Yang was right, Mori was a lot of things: funny, skilled, brave, kind, reasonable…at times, smart(Weiss disagreed on that one), strong, and incredibly well built.
Everyone on Team RWBY agreed with her on that last one, the only other person at Beacon that even came close to as built as Mori was Pyrrha, Yang and surprisingly Cardin…too bad Cardin was Cardin.
But yeah, despite all the positive traits Mori had, subtlety was straight up not one of them. His flair for the dramatic was worse than Ruby's at times.
"And if we bring JNPR I'm 99 percent sure the blonde buffoon will start another fight."
Weiss technically wasn't wrong.
Poor Jaune, it seemed like whenever he did something, the universe had a way of just making it blow up in his face.
Mori and Jaune together just had a way of starting trouble, the end result usually being at the police station.
In fact, Ruby was pretty sure Mori had become pretty good friends with one of the policemen there, what was his name again… Dave?
"Yeah Vomit boy has a habit of causing incidence's," Yang admitted, "Though we should have them on call if we need some extra fire power."
Ruby agreed with that, don't have them involved but call if they are in trouble.
As they continued their plan on what to do Ruby soon realized she was missing something very important.
"Oh crap, my board game!" Ruby cried out as she went back to grab her game, Weiss just hit her head with her head..
Just as she left the room and started to run back to the library, she ran into someone.
"Sorry about that," Ruby apologized to the person she accidentally ran into.
"That's ok," The girl she ran into answered back. "Just, watch where you are going."
Ruby took a look at the people who she ran into. The girl she ran into was a green haired girl, while her companions consisted of a tall guy with grey hair and a beautiful brunette-haired woman in a red dress.
"I've never seen you guys before," Ruby commented, "Are you guys new?"
"We are from Haven," the girl in the red dress commented.
"Oh, that's cool, here for the Vytal festival, right?" Ruby commented, "Wait aren't transfer student's dorms in a different spot?"
"They are," the brunette answered back, "We were just taking a look around."
"Oh, ok" Ruby replied, "Well it's nice to meet you, I hope you enjoy your stay,"
"I'm sure we will," the Brunette said a soft voice and with that the trio left.
"Huh, that was weird," Ruby thought to herself as she went to retrieve her precious artifact, "They seemed nice though."
The start of the new semester had a different feel for Mori than the last semester.
For one, Yang's assistance with his studying really helped him with classes.
That was a nightmare with how far he was behind at the start of the year.
Another thing was more people were talking to him for some reason.
He had gotten so used to being ignored, that it was a surprise to him when a lot of people that weren't his friends tried to get to know him.
In fact, during lunch today, an all-girl team from Shade tried to talk to him while he was getting his food. He couldn't really remember their names though…Mori was pretty sure it had something to do with a color… which really didn't narrow it down at all.
Actually, now that he thought about it, most of the people that had tried to get to know him had been girls.
He was pretty sure that they were scouting him out for the Vytal festival. It seemed like his Renewal Taekowondo had gotten people to pay more attention to him.
Normally, he'd relish the challenge; but he wasn't quite sure he would even be able to participate in the festival.
Still, it seemed like people were marking him as a threat and they were trying to scout him out… why else would they invite him to do activities with them? That or they were asking him out on a date, but he highly doubted anyone would be interested in him.
*clang*
"Remember Jaune, you don't want to jump in immediately or else you can get disarmed like that."
"Sorry Pyrrha, it just feels so tense waiting for my opponent to make his first move and I sort of…panic?"
"As you get more experience, those tense moments before a fight will become more and more important." Mori chipped in from the sideline.
Mori was helping Jaune with improving his fighting skills along with Pyrrha. He did promise he would do that after all.
"Well, what should I thinking about?" Jaune asked as he picked up his sword.
"Because of your lack of range, you should be thinking 'how I can get close without getting hit,'" Mori answered back as he got into the ring with Jaune.
"So, let me guess, you just speed blitz them?" Jaune sassily asked, "When you are not ending a fight in one punch."
"…I usually just speed blitz them," Mori admitted, "And to be fair I did not end any fights in one punch today!"
"Yeah, instead you ended your fights ended with three punches," Jaune snarked
"Hey, I reached 5 seconds on my last fight!" Mori defended himself.
He was improving! His control was getting better and better.
"So how do you recommend I close the distance then?" Jaune questioned.
At that Mori just gave a blank stare and held up his left hand to represent Jaune's shield.
"Ohh, right"
"Use your shield to slowly close the distance between you and your opponent," Mori recommended, "Once you are in close, develop a rhythm with your strikes."
"A rhythm?" Jaune asked as he tilted his face, "What do you mean?"
"Let me explain," Mori said as he went up to Jaune "You know how in those fighting games we play you like to start with a jab, jab then a straight?"
"You mean A A B?
"…yeah sure," Mori said going along with it, "Why do you like to start with that?"
"So that when I do something else my opponent is thrown off,"
"It's the same concept," Mori said continuing to explain, "Let's, call your downward slash A and your stab B."
Mori then picked up a sword and started clashing with Jaune's weapon. Showing his example and getting Jaune into a rhythm.
After getting Jaune to react to everything by instinct, Mori all of a sudden changed up his strike hitting Jaune in the side.
"Ow," Jaune whined, "That's not fair, I was getting used to…oohhh,"
It seemed like a light had popped up in Jaune's head.
Mori nodded as Jaune had gotten the concept.
"In a fight your reflexes can save your life but if you are not careful, they could be your undoing," Mori explained as he put the sword down, "If you are too predictable when fighting , your opponent could easily counter them…but if they get too comfortable, when you do something different they may not be as well prepared."
"That makes sense," Jaune said.
"Of course, you don't want to have just one attack pattern," Mori started again, "Always have different ways you could attack so your opponent can't anticipate them."
"Man, I don't know how you keep track of this stuff," Jaune said holding his head, "It feels like my head is going to explode."
"It's mostly experience, Jaune," Pyrrha said chipping in, "Remember, you've only recently started fighting so you don't have that intuition yet."
"Well, how do I get it?" Jaune complained.
Mori just chuckled at his friend trying to find a short cut to getting stronger.
"Intuition comes when you combine instinct with past results," Mori explained after he finished chuckling, "The only way to get that is just by continuous fighting."
"Yeah, I've had plenty of fights in Mistralian Tournaments growing up," Pyrrha shared, "Those fights let me develop that intuition for fighting so I don't have to think as much."
"Huh, that makes sense, what about you Mori, how did you get your experience and strength?" Jaune asked turning to Mori.
Wars against the Gods…was probably not answer he should go with.
"I've just fought a lot of strong people," Mori settled on, "Fighting strong people was really the best way for me to get stronger, I always gain something from fighting strong people, I don't grow as much if I don't." he finished as he reminisced his teacher's words.
"That makes sense," Jaune said after a moment of silence, "Everyone I've faced has been stronger than me I've fought each time I've fought; I've started to learn more and more each time."
"I'm sure you have faced plenty of incredibly strong people Mori," Pyrrha said with a glint her eye and a look of hunger on her face.
Mori could only gulp at the look Pyrrha was giving, he knew she had been wanting to have a match with him, but Mori first wanted to make sure he could regulate his strength before he faced her.
"Dude, you are way too strong. Strong enough for me to work up a real sweat from this session and want to just lie down and not move," Jaune tiredly replied as he went to change his shirt.
Mori couldn't help but notice Pyrrha had a look of interest while he was doing that, she noticed he caught her staring and she suddenly blushed and looked up to the sky whistling pretending that it didn't happen.
Pyrrha had been giving that look of want a lot. It would be either for him or Jaune…though her reason for giving Jaune that look was way different.
Honestly, Mori wasn't quite sure how his friend had not noticed that Pyrrha had fallen for him. She would always want to spend her time with him, help him whenever he was struggling, ask him for advice even though she really didn't need it. Aggh, it was like watching Daewi and Mira all over again.
How could Jaune be so blind to the fact that his partner was crushing hard on him.
"Hiii Mori,"
A group of girls called out to him while he was complaining about the dense Blonde.
He just waved back.
"Were they trying to test my reaction speed?"
"Speaking of which, what are your plans for tonight Mori," Jaune asked after he finished changing.
"Not much," Mori admitted, "I finished most of my schoolwork so I will probably go train,"
"Are you not doing anything with Team RWBY?" Pyrrha asked.
"Nah, they are doing something, apparently it's 'super-secret'," Mori said with air quotes.
Ruby was terrible at hiding secrets. When he asked her what she was planning on doing, she said "nothing" really quickly and mentioned she wasn't planning on stopping an evil organization.
At that Mori couldn't help but raise an internal eyebrow as he was fully expecting the Red-head and her team to be doing something completely reckless.
They really were bad at hiding the fact that they were planning on something.
From Yang muttering something about an adventure, Weiss tuning up Myrtenmeister, to Blake being in deep thought and mapping something out.
It was like there was a big bright sign that said, "We are going to do something completely reckless".
But they seemed to have not want to get him or JNPR involved, so he decided to respect their wishes. They were strong on their own and could take care of themselves, besides if they were in trouble Ruby would probably call him like she usually does.
Though, why Ruby pulled him aside and asked if her new dress was good for stealth, Mori would not understand.
Ruby was a lot of things, cheerful, kind, energetic, enthusiastic and, even though he'd never tell her this for fear of her holding it over him, a little cute…but stealthy? Nah. That girl could barely move through the halls of Beacon without alerting everyone to her presence.
But it wasn't just Ruby, for some reason all of Team RWBY decided to change their clothes tonight.
Mori couldn't help but wonder…why?
Why did they feel the need to change their clothes for a mission?
New wardrobe aside, like he said he'd respect their privacy and if they didn't want his help he'd respect that and if they needed help he'd be on his way.
"Oh shoot," Jaune said interrupting Mori's thoughts, "I still have my fairy tales project I need to finish, but we are almost out of dust.".
"Wait, didn't you guys go on a dust run earlier this week?" Pyrrha asked in confusion. "And you haven't finished your fairy tails project?" she turned in accusation to Jaune.
"We did…" Mori started,
"…But then we had that thing with the water balloons," Jaune finished.
"…You guys," Pyrrha said putting her hand to her head.
"I can go grab itfor you while you do your project Jaune," Mori said, "
"Would you do that for me," Jaune said with stars in his eyes, "Yay, maybe I have enough so I can salvage a C,"
"Jaune you need to aim high, like for an A," Pyrrha chided. "But we'd be grateful if you'd do that." She said turning to Mori with a smile.
"It's no problem," Mori said dismissing the thanks, "It was kind of was my fault we got side tracked the last time. Besides, I'm just getting Dust in Vale, how hard could that even be?"
TMT here with another chapter. No Hui short this week, life just got too busy. Like Always I hope you guys Read and Review and I hope to hear your guys thoughts on the latest chapter.
Reviews:
Creus: I am glad loved the fight it was a lblast writing it as well. My favorite reference was the ending one with Glynda smashing her invisible hand down on Mori.
netapel: I have some ideas on how to challenge Mori, hopefully they go well.
ilanddubrowski:You are welcome
Wizardwolf 1020:Ultio R in Remnant would be pretty cool, he'd definitely offer a challenge.
0404617: Sorry not this week
andielgranrayo: Thank You!
fpinheiro96: Yeah, I'm excited for their reaction as well, especially Weiss, she seems to just have a way of accidentally hitting the nail on the head.
Guest: I'd say their relationship is close right now it's not fully familial but it's also not romantic as well.
Hasirama1710: Blake has a vivid imagination that's for sure.
Dxhologram: It's amusing as readers to see how off base people are on Mori's true nature, but to be fair to them his true nature is really way out there.
Fanreaderayy: I love those moments as well they are fun to write.
Gen2324: There are plans for future spars with his friends. I addressed why Mori is waiting in this chapter, hopefully it makes sense and is reasonable.
Luke: I'm glad this story caught your attention hopefully you will stay along for the ride.
Natsu261003: Man I can't wait til he gets his full power back in the Webtoon, as for the story...who knows? He's going to be regaining strength but it will be through increasing his skills.
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