Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring you new chapter for The Reaper of Beacon, thank you guys for checking out the story and giving me the feedback on what you guys thought on the chapter. I was surprised that it got positive feedback since I thought it was still lacking some details.
This chapter is about Ichigo having a conversation with a teammate in his group and I might have something special for this chapter.
I do not own neither series.
Early Morning Exercise
Beacon Academy: 5:20 A.M.
After 5 hours of sleeping, the resident Soul Reaper teen Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't go back to bed so he decided to head outside. It was a nice change of pace for Ichigo as he felt the morning's nice breeze, flowing through him. During his travels, he had gotten used to the harsh coldness of the Winter Season's to the Springs as well and he never complained once from that (Besides the first time he fainted due to exhaustion).
He looked at the sky to see the stars beginning to fade away as the sun was about to rise up.
'This feels nice for once...' He mutters to himself as Ichigo lays on the grassy plaines.
'You seem more laid back Ichigo.' Summer appears new to him as she was sitting on the grassy plaines next to him. 'Finally decided to life your life huh?'
He chuckles for once from her question, 'You already know my condition Summer and for once: I think Ozpin's right. I'm on this path that no one can go and I can use my ability to 'inspire' others to become something great.' Ichigo replies back, 'Besides...no one else should go on this path of blood.' While he was still on his train of thought, Ichigo didn't notice that half of his right eye begins to change color, half of his eye is brown while the other half was changing into a silver color.
'So you're finally decided to live out your life?' Ichigo nods his head to Summer.
'Yeah...' He closes his eyes as he feels the nice cool breeze of the spring weather. For once in his life, Ichigo felt rather peaceful. He doesn't have to go on this 'conquest' of getting rid of the corruption in the world government since there was something in his body that is taking a effect on his body, that is causing him to slowly die from his condition. While he does have to complete that quest but for some reason, he is deciding to postpone that as he has other 'priorities' as he calls it with his enrollment in Beacon Academy.
As Ichigo was sleeping on the grassy plaines, he wasn't the only one in the field. There was another one the other side of the field, practicing her craft with her lance in hand. Since Ichigo only arrived a few moments ago, he didn't know that it was one of his teammates of his current team.
It was Caeldori, the second red haired teen in his team/third in his group. She's very similar to another red haired teen in the Academy, Pyrrha Nikos. Caeldori is a recent transfer student from Haven Academy and was placed to be part of Ichigo's team/unit. While she didn't know it, Ichigo did look over her profile thanks to Ozpin to asset her strengths and weaknesses. She is ranked as one of the top fighters in her academy, strong will, knowledgeable of most weapons (besides most Zanpakuto's and Quincy weapons) and is considered to be 'The Perfect Knight'. While there wasn't any recorded weaknesses of her's, Caeldori is known for falling in love at first sight, which can be a problem if she were to fall in love with an enemy.
She was swinging her lance left and right, vertically and horizontally. She was trying her hardest to make sure that she mastered her abilities of the lance by practicing everyday until she got it down. During her year in Haven Academy, Caeldori was known as the 'Perfect Girl', she's incredibly beautiful and has a lists of admires that wanted to 'have a chance' with her but none of the male students had gotten her attention besides some students that had someone in their life.
'Sloppy...' Caeldori said in her mind as she was panting heavily. 'Should had been 3 inches up...' She complained.
All she wanted was to make sure that she was up to par with her classmates if not possible to pass them. She wanted to be something great since she is a first generation Huntress in training in her family while everyone in her family were all part of the medical field. She wanted to be something different and she took it up to herself that she wanted to be a Huntress. Once she enrolled in Haven Academy couple months ago, she was given the nickname 'Perfect Girl' because she was getting 'A's' in her classes and her work ethic was something aspiring that she was being compared to Signal Academy's top student, Ichigo Kurosaki.
'Need to make sure it's right or I might get hit in the processes if I were to be in a fight...' She thought to herself as she went back to her training exercise but she caught a certain orange haired teen laying on the opposite field. 'Ichigo?' She is confused as to her leader is on the field when she and a couple of other people were spying from behind the door of his room. She pauses her training exercise and heads on over to the opposite side.
As she was walking towards the other field, Caeldori was trying to remember what the previous records were of her leader, Ichigo Kurosaki. She recalls hearing of a male teen about his height, permanent scowl on his face and has this aura that can either make someone fear him or admire him. The day Ichigo Kurosaki was considered K.I.A/M.I.A., all of the Academies wondered why someone was that talented was killed but when they saw that there was no proof that Ichigo was considered deceased due to the lack of evidence besides his dual pistols, Ebony and Ivory. They wanted more proof that he was killed but there was not enough.
When she heard that Ichigo was alive and is currently enrolled at Beacon Academy, she wanted to know what makes her leader the once 'legendary student of Signal Academy'. There was a lot of mystery surrounding the orange haired teen.
"Ichigo." She called out to the sleeping orange haired teen but he didn't reply. "Ichigo." She calls out once more but again no reply. She sighs the fact that her leader is sleeping on the field instead of being in his bed. This time, she decided to shake him until he wakes up.
"AH! I'm up!" He said as he jolted up. His vision was a bit blurry until he was able to blink his eyes a couple of times. He turns to his right and sees a red haired teen with a winged headband, "Caeldori?" He asks confusingly.
"Why are you here sleeping on the field? It's still 5 o'clock in the morning." Caeldori was wondering why her leader is on the field.
"Sometimes I get nightmares at night and I would usually come out to the out and open so that the nice breeze can soothe my head." He lays back on the field and closes his eyes, "When you travel as much as I have, you'll understand from my perspective." Ichigo replies causally as he crosses his legs and relax.
Caeldori looks at him with a serious confused expression on her face. She has no idea what Ichigo went through for most of his life but she's wondering why is he this relax. Most students here or in most of the other academies are either stressed to learned team moves or from school work to not being ready as a leader.
"I looked over your profile Cael and I must admit, I didn't think someone was that close to my records." Caeldori looks at him and was astonished, she didn't think that Ichigo would look over her profile, "Ozpin let me go over a list of achievements, strengths, weakness of everyone in the team as I was pointed as leader. And don't worry it was all in good faith between myself and the headmasters. I wanted to make sure that I know everyone in my team can be at their best."
She didn't think that their teachers would let one of their students look over other students profiles.
"They let you?" She looks at him with a stern expression on her face.
"Relax, it was nothing on your personal life. They made sure it was only skills and achievements." Ichigo assured his teammate as he takes out his Scroll and shows her the profile. She looks over the data and does in fact not see anything personal. "Told you."
"Alright, you convinced me but actions speak louder than words you know." Ichigo looks up at her and sees someone that wants a challenge. He slowly gets up and materializes a katana with an ornate bronze guard; the guard is an oval, and the tsuka-ito seems to be braided from white and black material. The blade features several intricate ornaments, most notable is a relief of a dragon at the endpoint of the is black, made of traditional lacquered wood, and features several metallic ornaments on its far end, it also features a yellow sageo, the cord used to tie the katana to the waist.
"You want to see where your strength is on the team right?" Ichigo spins the sword's handle around his left hand while the sheath was in his right hand. "Just from feeling your Aura alone Cael, your about 2 to 3 levels from everyone else. Your strength is up to par with everyone besides me." Ichigo places his sword back in its sheath. "Your also wondering why was I able to materialize this sword instead of having my 2 large broadswords shoot out of the portable locker. Well it's been part of my skill set that even I didn't know." He looks at her as his left eye begins to turn red as the two of them were circling each other, "As you probably guess it or not; it's based on the properties in my right arm. Anything that I see from someone skilled as me, I can learn their moves and weapon of choice if I really wanted to."
"Is that all from your right arm?" She questions him.
"Yup. My Semblance has to do something with my heritage originally but since I was in a accident 5 years ago, part of it changed." He manifested the right demonic arm, "Part of my Semblance changed as well and there is a lot of changes." Soon a translucent shadow of a demon that encompasses his body and the interesting thing is that the sword now appears behind him and the "sheath" on its left arm, used for storing the kitana when it is not in use, Ichigo himself only acquires a blue aura, burning red right eye, "I have no idea what else this power can do but this power is devastating." Ichigo continued on as his voice was deeper and echoing. "The only thing I can call this form, is a Trigger."
'Trigger?' Caeldori mumbles to herself, 'He seems in control but how long?'
Soon Ichigo calls back the apparition behind him, "I've had this power for awhile and this is the first time I was able to control it." Ichigo looks at her and sees that she's ready for a little sparring match, "You ready?"
"Ready..." Caeldori responded back as she ready's her lance.
"Set..." Ichigo materializes back the sword inside his sheath.
"GO!" Both of them went at it, as they went at it. Both of them were testing each other but Ichigo was the one really testing her abilities. One quick motion of unsheathing his sword, Caeldori manages to dodge his attack by ducking down the incoming sword strike. Ichigo was using a technique called Laijutsu, mostly used to immediately counter striking and sheathing his sword.
Caeldori sprints towards him as she was trying to get in range to strike him but Ichigo kept on blocking each of her strikes with either the sword or the sheath.
Gritting his teeth together, his aura begin to turn sky blue. Spinning his sword side to side, his aura started to leak out of his body, appearing as a darker shade of blue.
Charging right at the servant, he slashes left and right and horizontally trying to slash at Caeldori, who steps to her right. Ichigo uses a rising spinning slash but he misses her face and once again he steps to his right as Ichigo slashes downwards to cut her. He he slashes left and right once more but Caeldori blocks the attacks and forces him to retreat temporally until Ichigo leaps towards him and their blades clashed, causing a massive gale wind in the process.
Caeldori was about to strike Ichigo again but he quickly got out of her range and smirks, "Not bad." He chuckles to himself.
"Your not even sweating..." Caeldori says as she was trying to catch her breath.
"Because I was taking it easy. I didn't want to go over board." He replies back, "I'm way beyond of everyone's league here so I had to make sure that I actually didn't kill anyone here." He walks up to her and Caeldori sees his right eye begin to turn back to blue, "I have to admit, you can outclass what I was originally if I didn't this 'ability."
Before Ichigo had gotten to this point of his life, he was actually a bit weaker 5 years ago. If he didn't go on a 5 year self-exile, he would hardly make any process to his current self. He could sense that Caeldori would had been like him today minus the right 'infected' arm.
"You seriously mean that? I could be at your level if I keep on training."
"I mean it." Ichigo said with a sincere smile and sees the sun beginning to rise, "Look's like it's 6 o'clock now." Caeldori looks at the rising sun as well, indicating that school will begin within 3 hours and she turns back to see Ichigo gone. She looks everywhere but there wasn't no sign of Ichigo around the field. "By the way, don't try to fall in love at first sight." She heard his voice for some reason and tries to figure out where that came from but to no luck.
'He seriously has to teach me that.'
Dorm Rooms.
As Ichigo was walking through the dorm rooms of the students of Beacon, he begins to wonder what else his new life at Beacon would be like. He knows that he has to be a team leader of Team C.I.E.L. and try to remember who was responsible for causing Amber's condition.
'Didn't think it was going to start my day like that.' He mutters to himself as he stretches his arms above his head, 'A morning sparring match and now...' He turns the corner and bumps into a familiar red haired teen.
"Oh sorry." Both of them said to each other as Ichigo looks down and sees Pyrrha Nikos on the floor.
"Sorry about that." He offered her a hand and she gladly accepts that, "Didn't think anyone was actually up right now."
"It's fine." She replies back, "Mind if I ask you something Ichigo?"
Ichigo at first was a bit confused but shrugged it off, "Uh...Sure."
"I was wondering if you can help me with something." That was the first time Ichigo was begin asked for something in 5 years, he wasn't expecting that at all. "I was wondering if you can help me train Jaune."
"Jaune?" He raises an eyebrow.
"Jaune Arc, the blonde one in my group." Ichigo begins to remembering who was the blonde teen in Pyrrha's group (to which he doesn't know that Jaune is her team leader). For most of his life in Signal, he hardly remembers anyone unimportant besides his childhood friends and vaguely remembers anyone.
He takes out his Scroll and begins to look for 'Jaune Arc' on the school database and lo and behold, Jaune pops up.
"This guy?" He shows Pyrrha his profile, which she nods. He would go onto look at his strengths and sees that he is very unskilled and can tell that his school records are not up to par, meaning that he can tell that he 'shucked' into Beacon, just like he did. "I'm not sure Pyrrha. I mean, Jaune can be taught by his sister or something here. I do remember hearing a girl named 'Jeanne Arc' from yesterday's team initiation and thought they might have something in common." Ichigo stated.
"But I actually looked over your video records from Signal and you were a 'teacher' to your friends if I do recall."
'Oh boy...' He scratches his head, "I was only giving them advises. I don't train anyone Pyrrha. If I were to 'train' Jaune, he would have to suck it up since he's not living up to his family's legacy. Jaune needs someone like you to train him. I'm not much of a teacher."
"I've been training him Ichigo and he is making progress but I have a feeling that you can help me train him. Jaune shows remarkable potential to be a Hunter. When we clashed days ago, you skills are far superior than ours together. You might be the key to 'unlocking' Jaune's full potential and I would be glad if you can help me."
Ichigo only groans that she was this persistent, "Alright fine but just a couple of things." She nods her head, "1: My rules, 2: You'll be joining in the session with him and 3: You're going to help me try to 'get even' with your team and Ruby's team. And by 'get even' I mean try to fix my relationship with them."
She smiles from that last statement of his and senses that he does want to make it up to them for his behavior couple days ago, "You want to make amends with them huh." She replies back to him as she continues, "You do have a good heart Ichigo, even if you don't want to admit it."
He only shrugs with a smirk on his face, "You can see right through." He answers, "I may be a bad guy from my appearance and demonic looking right arm, I'm not like that at all. It's just, don't know how to 'fix' a bond."
For most of his years traveling alone, Ichigo only knew how to make a bond but 'fixing' a bond was something he had no idea of.
"I think we got a deal." She couldn't help but smile since Ichigo was willing to change and fix those bonds he has yet to start with Weiss and Yang. The two would then shake hands as the deal is now set.
"I see you guys in our first class at 9." Both of them then went to their respective ways as Pyrrha smiled the fact that Ichigo was trying to make that first step in 'rebuilding' a bond with them. There was something indeed interesting about Ichigo after all.
And that ends the chapter guys! Ichigo is going to help train both Pyrrha and Jaune in the story! I've been thinking of way to make Jaune better as a fighter in the story and also help Pyrrha as well.
I also decided to add something unique to Ichigo's abilities as to add the Devil Trigger ability from the DMC game and the first time he was able to control it. Yes I know that Ichigo is way to OP in the story with his heritage (Soul Reaper and Quincy) and a unique trait of his right arm. I wanted to make him that way as he is to 'inspire' the rest of the cast as the 'symbol of hope' that Ozpin wants him to be since Ichigo is dying.
This chapter is was also a way to interact with his teammates and examine their abilities first hand with Caeldori being the first one tested.
Also I was wondering if I can get some help on some of my stories from you guys like my 'Reaper of DXD' story, 'The Fool of DXD/Fairy Tail' and some other stories that I do need help on. I've been mainly writing chapter for this story and have been struggling to think of ways to get back at my other stories on my page.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.