CLANG!
BAM!
WOOSH!
Yang skidded backwards across the ground, the shockwave from her own explosion had been mostly reflected back onto herself by Pyrrah's shield.
She had gone quite far back, it looked like something other than the force of the explosion was pushing her back, almost like a magnet when two of the same poles face each other. Yang dashed forward through the smoke, she could sense Pyrrah's aura so it didn't matter if she could see. A flash of red came at her and Yang ducked, the large red spear barely missing her hair. As she was about to counter attack, from seemingly out of nowhere-
SMACK
Pyrrah had spun around and hit Yang with her shield full on in the face, sending her flying backwards. Yang hit the ground and her aura broke, leaving her collapsed on the ground.
"Yeah! Go Pyrrah!"
"You got her!"
"WOO!"
There was a small crowd gathered around the designated sparring arena, it was no secret that Pyrrah was one of the best huntresses in the school, rivaling and even beating some of the top 4th year students, so a large crowd watching the fight was not a rare sight. I could hear a scratching noise beside me, I looked to my left and saw Ruby furiously scribbling down notes on a small note pad. Turns out she wasn't kidding when she said she wanted to take some notes.
She has her tongue comically sticking out the side of her mouth, if I didn't know any better, I might have said we were in a cartoon or a cheesy fanfiction. The action partially reminded me of Zwei, how he runs around with his cute little tongue poking out and his fluffy little tail, and his big round-
"Weiss?"
"Cute eyes…"
"Uh...what?" wait...Is that...Ruby? Wait... That's RUBY, "ZWEI! I was thinking about Zwei! He's got cute eyes! I mean, not that you don't have nice eyes, I mean it's quite a rare color isn't it? And they look nice on your face." I quickly spit out. Nice on your face? What is wrong with me? I'm supposed to be more refined than this!
"Uhh.." Ruby thinks for a second as she processes my flurry of words, "Oh! Thanks Weiss! And I think your eyes look great too!" Ruby beams at me, she looks so innocent and cute, it's hard not to smi-
Wait, why do I feel so hot? "Weiss? Are you ok? Your face is turning red. Did you catch a fever?" Ruby stares at me with concern in her silver eyes. I can feel my face turning hotter, "I-I think so." I turn away from Ruby, "my stomach feels weird too, I might have caught something."
"Do you want me to take you to the nurse's office?"
"Sure.. just don't go too fAST-" Ruby picked me up and activated her semblance once again and the scent of roses filled my nose, and we speed off, the world a blur around us, it quite strange, Ruby's semblance, from the outside, it looks like she turns into a large clump of a red something, but when I'm holding onto Ruby, I don't feel changed, something certainly seems off but it's hard to place.
Before I can even comprehend what's going on around me, we suddenly stop by the nurses office, another odd thing about Ruby's semblance is the rose petals, they seem normal until she carries me, but up until last semester, the petals were normal rose petals that seemed to be partially covered in frost, but lately they've been changing. They started turning white, and now they looked to be almost completely white.
"Weiss? You're really starting to freak me out now, you keep zoning out."
"Oh, am I? I'm sorry about that, anyways" I approach the door and look back at the younger girl, "You should probably head back to the dorm, I don't want you to catch whatever I seemed to have contracted."
"Ok...When you're done make sure to tell me if you need me to help! Ok?"
I give her a nod and watch as she uses her semblance to speed off, leaving a trail of odd colored rose petals. I turn around and walk into the nurse's office. I stop in place, there seems to be a lack of a nurse and an unexpected surplus of Professor Ozpin.
"P-Professor? What are you doing all the way down here?" I ask
Ozpin takes a sip of coffee and replies "Well the nurse, ironically, wasn't feeling well, so I decided, why not try out the wonderful practice of medicine myself? It certainly wouldn't hurt to be more knowledgeable in this subject. Anyways, why don't you take a seat Miss Schnee and we may begin."
As I move to sit down, I notice a heaping stack of books on the desk where Ozpin is sitting. I can only see one book's title, Medicine for Idiots, but that alone makes me more nervous. "Professor? I'm-" before I could finish, Professor Ozpin cut me off, "Now Weiss... What symptoms are you experiencing?" he said with a kind smile.
"W-Well...I seem to be getting a fever, but it's changing rapidly, like one moment it might get better, or it could get worse." Ozpin wrote something in a small notepad and motioned for me to continue, "I seem to be getting a strange feeling in my stomach at some points in time, like if I got really nervous, it seems to be related to when my fever acts up."
Ozpin wrote more in his notebook, and asked, "Have you been in contact with anyone that has symptoms? Do the symptoms flare up in certain areas?"
"Not to my knowledge, and it happens randomly. Like in the dorms, during certain classes, and lunch."
"Alright, one more question. Do the symptoms seem to get worse around certain people? It may be someone's semblance messing around with your aura."
I have to think about this for a second. It seems to be worse around my teammates, but their semblances haven't done anything for the last few months. "I'm not entirely sure, I spend most of the time with my team. Oh, you might want to call Ruby down here, I've been around her quite a lot lately and she might have caught something too."
Ozpin looks up at me when I mention Ruby, he smiles slightly, "Miss Rose eh?"
"Uh yes?"
Ozpin takes a few seconds to review his notes, he seems to be smiling more as he reads. He then looks up. "Well, I have no clue what's going on with you." I look at him with indignation, He only looked at his notepad for a few seconds! He hasn't even consulted his books! He's not even qualified! He should at least double check!
"But sir, shouldn't you at least look it up on your scroll?"
"Nope" he says with a smile, "Now why don't you head on back to your dorm, and Miss Schnee?" He says this right before I leave the door, I'm tempted to just leave there, but I stay long enough to hear, "Ask Miss Rose to take care of you, she experienced similar symptoms earlier this semester and may be able to help."
A/N: This took quite a while to write so sorry about that, but these next few chapters will be out faster taking into account I may have been exposed to a certain disease and will have to stay home for the next few weeks. Also today is the first time I don't post in the middle of the night so woo!