AN. New chapter new characters, references to the best army!? Welcome to Bastion. part five beggars banquet
Jaune was nervous. As he paced the room waiting to leave its relative safety. This was his first official day in Bastion. And he was already on a team assignment.
"Go to the armory? Where is that?" Jaune asked as he looked down to his scroll. Apparently, he hadn't completed the tour yesterday and the scroll was demand he go to the armory post haste.
"It's at the far end of the school; your scroll should give you directions."
The disinterested voice of Kage said as he laid on his bed. He had removed his bright red plate armor and was lying face down on the soft Bastion bed sheet while Mika poked his exposed back with a rather annoying finger.
"Well, that's descriptive," Jaune said sarcastically as he turned to walk out the door.
"Be careful!" Ruby added as he gave the young reaper a single nod as she poked her head out form the covers of their shared bed.
"Of course Ruby you have nothing to worry about. I' ll back in no time ok?" Jaune added as he opened the large door to their dorm and stepped outside in Bastion proper.
"Does somebody just leaves open the window here or something!?" Jaune said aloud as he neared what was supposedly the armory. As he walked, the cold, spiteful Bastion air had been stabbing under his armor and making him shiver viciously. As his teeth chattered making small clicking sounds as he found the large wooden door that his scroll deemed armory.
As he neared the door, he saw a poster next to it. The poster was some information display it had three shets of paper under it with the words, school-sponsored activities. It must be something like clubs.
Jaune a realized felling a little bit of normality return at his sighting. Even a school like Bastion was populated with regular kids, so focused they would have clubs!
As he looked through them, the clubs were organized akin to open handouts. With a large piece of paper detailing the basics of the clubs activities with small pamphlets hanging off them for membership information. Like the things, you would hang up to find a missing pet or list scroll on a street post.
Although only two of the clubs seemed to be attractive to Bastion students, the firs were the Vanguards. Apparently, an organization dedicated to ranged warfare, with the add-on of join for longer forge access times scrawled underneath it. Was access to the Bastion forge limited? Was there set time for students based on skill level or time or wait? Jaune wondered a he looked at the nest piece of paper.
The next part was only called staff. And was apparent doing different jobs ars school for room privileges. Whatever the hell that meant.
The last one however truly grabbed Juanes attention for unlike the other ones its application numbers were full. In fact, it even looked like someone had stapled an application back to the main piece after they took it. As Jaune read the words join the Death Korps, for better meal rations printed dully on the paper in dark ink.
Apparently, no one wanted to enter the Death Korps? He thought as he turned to go into the armory.
"Here goes nothing," Jaune muttered to himself as he pushed against the door as it swung open.
"Hello?" Jaune asked as he saw a small hunched figure sitting in front of a large furnace working what he guess what was some type of a weapon. The Bastion armory was akin to a giant forge with various smelting and metal working facilities and racks upon racks of weaponry. Mostly assault rifles, but there was a smattering of all types of weapons on the small dark walls.
"Who are you?" The figure asked as it stood up. Jaune saw that without a doubt it was a female. She was his height with bright pink hair and a weapon that had to be a strange assault rifle halberd type as she coked her head at him.
"Jaune arc! The leader of team ARKM." Jaune added as the girl whose face was hidden behind a large metalworking pair of googles nodded once at him.
As she stares at him, Jaune noticed her skin was light, unusually light while not quite Mika levels of paper white it was still lighter than what you could be considered to be a healthy color. As she took off her goggles to reveal a perfectly symmetrical face and vibrant pink eyes.
"Krix, first-year member of team KRNL, pronounced Kolonel. Pleased to meet you." She added as Jaune saw the strange collar on her neck with the letter R printed brightly on it making him gulp as he stared at it
"I have a type of schizophrenia before you ask I am no danger to you. At least not right now." Krix sad making Jaune remembers the R.I.P. table the was given...
"Now as a team leader, you will need this!" Ludo said to Juanebefre he could leave his office and continue with the Bastion tour. Jaune paused as Lucdo gave him a brightly colored tablet with the letters R.I.P. printed brightly on it.
As it turned out all students in Bastion were divided into three categories. WIth various subcategories divided among them depending on their individual needs of Rehabilitation, Initiation, or Punishment.
The R on the tablet stood for rehabilitation, it was for those with mental illness and required treatment before they returned to active hunter training, the I stood for iniation and was for students from the wilds her on their initial journey into huntsmen training, and the P was for those like himself. Criminals who were split into two subclasses, the usual and the irredeemable ones.
Jaune and Ruby were currently listed in the P category for punishment. And they were not his eternal relief but under the regular category and not irredeemable.
As he looked through the tablet, a single though played through his mind. "Sir why are you giving me this information?" Jaune asked Ludo as his silver eyes glinted at him.
"It is your duty as a leader to look out for your team. And it is my duty as a headmaster to help you do that. Inside that data slate are the R.I.P. categories of all students at Bastion. With this use your tactics to navigate the school. Now, this information is confidential, and whether you share it with your teammates is entirely up to your discretion..."
"I wasn't star-" "It's ok. Honestly, I'd rather get this over with now then have it come back to bite me later on you know?"
As she spoke, she had a light, friendly tone to her voice that put Jaune at ease. She was his first student that he met at Bastion and he honestly had no idea what he was supposed to be expecting. But he was grateful that the first student was so polite, even after he looked at her collar...
The small black circle hung tightly against her neck and shone slowly as Jaune hers it;s mechanism working. Like her, he also wrote a collar, unlike her however since he was a P class student.
A criminal his collar was fitted with a real explosive dart that this time he was guaranteed were functional, while her collar since was a class R a student in need for rehabilitation was supplying her with a constant t supply of whatever medication's she needed to keep herself stable and combat ready.
"I've never seen you before are you new here?" Krix asked as she put her bizarre assault rifle hybrid on her lap as she sat on a metal table. Her bright white smock that she word covered up most of her downward appearance but Jaune was guessing she was wearing a skirt of some type.
"Yeah I just got here last night and I' m still getting used to the place. It's a lot to take in you know?"
"Totally. I was culture shocked when I found out this place even existed! I'm just glad I got a good team, and I'm getting help." She added before staring at Jaune;s collar making him gulp.
" It must be extra jarring for you huh? Being on your last run? Knowing if you fail her this is the end. I can;t even imagine the stress you must be under." Krix added as Jaune began to sweat as he looked at the tabled he carried in his hands.
"This carries all the personal information of every student at the academy?" Jaune asked the headmaster as he nodded calmly.
"Yes, it does. Usually, such knowledge is confidential, but Bastion does value it's student so all team leaders are giving this table so they can better know who they are dealing with. Inside are incredibly detailed files on every student in this academy including yourself."
" What you do with this knowledge is entirely up to you. You can meticulously go into every detail, or you can toss it away and never look at it again. Though I do suggest against that, we do have some rather unusual cases here, and knowledge is half the battle after all."
As Jaune stared at the tablet, he saw the letters A.R.K.M. form at the top, and cold sweat gripped his body. "Sir does it also carries the information for my team?"
As he spoke a Chesire girn broke Ludo's face has he gleaned his unnaturally white teet in Jaune's general direction.
"Why of course it does. Why use would such a tablet if it didn't have the team leaders on teammates information on it?
"But sir isn't this an invasion of privacy?"
" Mister arc! You are too used to a polished school like Beacon! This is Bastion! Where knowledge comes at a premium, You would be doing not only yourself but your entire team a disservice if you did not at least look at the information cataloged there for yourself."
"Come on Mister Arc. Take a look! What's the worse that you could discover? I mean you will be spending a long time in the company of these individual it would behoove you to know just exactly who or what will be watching you back, don't you agree?"
Jaune hated the headmaster as he walked to the armory. He was getting ready for his first class at Bastion when his school went of demanding all team leaders report to the armory for some reason.
As he walked down the still mysterious empty carved halls of Bastion Jauen ponder the table in his hand. In it was the most composed personal reports he had ever read about himself or anyone else and after his decision to read it made him wish he had burnt it.
There were four files for his team, and he had read them all starting with his own.
: Subject Name Jaune Arc, Former team leader of team JNPR at Beacon Academy. Youngest of eight children son of Julius and Juniper Arc. Only Male of the previous Arc family besides the father.
Current enrollment status Unique temporary Punishment class student. The subject is scheduled to transfer back to Beacon two weeks before the VYTAL tournament pending good behavior.
Personality report: While the subject lacks much of the physical skill attributed to many hunters in training of his age, His tactical and strategic analysis are scored above his brightest classmates, and his tactical acumen was more than enough to bypass the hunter entrance exams despite his less than average physical capabilities.
Reason for enrollment: Subject was an accomplice to the murder of one of Vacuo's top-ranked political entity. Although he did not commit the murder himself, he was found guilty by proxy and sentenced to death. Bastion negotiated with the Vacuoan government for his release into our custody and he now serves as a Team leader for ARKM.
Unique perks or traits. The subject is known to have a knack for strategic and tactical cohesion. Often forming new and enigmatic plans and strategies on a moments notice. He also has what appears to be the beginning of a major depressive disorder. Although it is still too soon to tell.
Lack of confidence in early life has led to critical personal doubts, and the subject now suffers from an extreme sense of inadequacy on all levels both physical and emotional. This has lead to an inferiority complex and isolation. Note subject is known to have limited underworld contacts. Though they are not relevant in his enrolment are irrelevant as a whole.
Overall status temporary Punishment class Student pending transfer.
The hell!? Jaune thought angrily as he read his file they don't know me! He seethed as he flicked to the next folder the one called Ruby Rose...
Subject name Ruby Rose: Former team lead of team RWBY. The youngest child of Tai-Yang Xiao-Long. The only current daughter of Summer Rose. Hunter graduate of Beacon. Current staus alive and living with husband and partner. Only sister of Yang- Xiao Long Daughter of Raven Brawnen. Both alive and living on the island of Patch.
Personality report: Subject is young, accepted into Beacon years ahead of her peers on personal recommendation from Ozpin. She is known to have a carefree personality that shows in her trusting nature. This is a remnant of her rather sheltered and rather isolated upbringing. Though the subject is enrolled, they are still young and might lack the maturity required of Bastion's students.
Reason for enrollment: Subject was convicted of Murdering Vacuoan elite whom she was assigned to guard. Her reasoning for the killing was a mercy killing but the council of Vaacuo saw no reason to buy the excuse, and she was sentenced to death. Note: Unlike her peer and current team leader Mister Arc, Subject Rose was not selected to join Bastion but instead was brought along as packaged requirement with Mister Arc.
Enrollment status: Unique temporary class student pending transfer back to Beacon. The subject despite its uniqueness is still a regular Punishment class student. With the same rights and responsibilities as one. Note Subjects lack of world experience may prove pernicious on missions where hard decisions need to be made.
Jaune was fixed, information on pulp he thought he knew flew past his fingertips as he went out the rest of his team.
Mika Smith Supposed daughter of a wealthy businessman, though that information is unconfirmed. Her origins are unknown even by Bastion's considerable information network. Any and all information on her life before Bastion has been redacted.
Reason for enrollment: Multiple counts of first-degree murder, and assault on both civilians and hunters alike. Subject has committed several acts of offensive attacks form her to others with little to no provocation.
Note: Subject is a unique case as she is a hybrid class of student, and is both in need of rehabilitation and punishment. Her various crimes while officially protected under her deteriorating mental health were so heinous that punishment was deemed necessary.
Personality Report: Subject shows a complete and utter inability to show or feel empathy for any other creature including her self. While appearing superficially charming, that is merely a ruse she uses to get others to lower their guard around her.
The subject is known to have extreme and abrupt mood swings ranging from what appears to be genuine care and affection to excessive displays of rage and anger.
Subject shows a predilection to dispensing sadism and physical pain. The subject also has no comprehension of the effect her actions have on others. Or if she doses, she simply dose not care to recognize them and is know to continually violate the rights or space of others, violating and harming her peers for little or no reason.
: Note in addition to the various mental issues subject also has an odd neurological disorder. Subject suffers from a rare case of congenital analgesia, the inability to feel physical pain.
This condition is rare enough on it's own but is compounded by the fact while she can not fell pain she can feel pleasure if fact the only physical feeling she can experience at least physically speaking is pleasure, which has made her almost inert to it.
We believe that this inability to fell physical pain herself has rendered her insulated and uncaring to the pain felt by others.
Subject neither processed nor feel empathy or sympathy in any regards for other humans or animals.
The one exception to this rule is her current partner Kage. The single person she has any connection with and the only entity who she appears to show some empathy for. The reason is unknown for this bond, but they have paired together often for it.
Note: Any and all medication that was used to treat her psychosis has failed. Her psychosis which is believed to be several forms of unknown classes of schizophrenia, and a possible case of Antisocial personality disorder.
Enrollment status:
Mika Smith's is enrolled as a part of Team ARKM she is to complete her semester with her team before being evaluated and potentially released to another hunter academy.
Note: Team ARKM is not her first team. The subject has been on two separate teams prior to her current status. Both of the previous times her time on the teams ended rather abruptly with her murdering her fellow teammates for to quote "stealing time form Kage away from her."
Jaune froze as he read the information. She killed her other team members!? Jaune felt a cold hand grip his heart as he flicked to the last of his dorm mates.
Subject Venke Kage. Ex Vacuoan military. Subject is known to have strong principles of honor and service, held over from his time in the military. Orphaned as a child record of his Parent are scare to none. Joined the Vacuoan army soon as possible and was there until his discharge and recruitment into Bastion.
Reason for enrollment: Treason. SUbject abandoned pst in hostile combat operations and murdered their superior officer in a combat setting. He then fled the scene. Subject dispatched several Vacuoan hunters before being brought down by a Bastion team on a nearby mission. The subject was told to join Bastion or be sent back to Vacuo for trial.
He chose to join and is now a Punishment class student. Note: Subject was not designate a hybrid class student, even though it was confirmed he has a severe case of Borderline personality disorder. Hybrid admission was dismissed after it was shown that despite the intensity of the disease it was not debilitating of his combat or societal performance, so he was given a standard Punishment class instead.
Personality Report: Subject appears not to have much in the way of a personality. He pe prefers to us cold logic, and sheer pragmatism makes his decisions. Outside of some ornamental designs to his armor subject show little or no individualism beside thriving in combat. The subject does display disturbing levels of apathetic behavior and thought.
While not a danger to his peers directly, he often shows little to no empathy for those suffering around him and will ignore anything that is not a direct danger to himself. Reson for this extreme apathy is unknown, so no medication had been issued.
Note subject is the only student in Bastion capable of bonding with Mika Smith and is her perpetual partner. She is also the only student he seems to care for and protect actively. Reasons for their relationship is unknown, and despite our best efforts, he is the only stabilizing factor in her life.
There was more. Notwithstanding the deluge of knowledge, these tablets held everything! Every piece of awareness of every student int he school was his fingertips, as Jaune looked through them all...
"It's not so bad!" Jaune added trying to thor Krix off this subject, but she smiled and grinned.
" I know it must be hard being on the Punishment class, But I;m sure you'll pull through alright. Or you die the either way we should get out of here. We've been alone long enough, despite being a school as it is bastion is still a school and trust me in Bastion rumors fly..."
The food was an abomination. It had the consistency of cardboard and the tases of rubber. As team ARKM ate at the crowded Bastion cafeteria as they all tired of swallowing their thick bland food.
"Oi! You're Jaune, right? The one who's trying to fuck the schizo right? Wouldn't do that if I were you mate. That's a nasty business I'll tell you what!"
The boy in front of Jaune named Zach said as he chewed his food loudly. The boy was sitting directly across from him with two bright green pistols resting in front of his plate. He was rude, brash and blunt with raven colored hair brown eyes and that unhealthy pale skin Bastion seemed to give all its students.
"It's like I'm always telling Kage here! Not that he listens! Don't put your dick in crazy! It's just like I've been telling Kage his entire life! Not that he ever listens to me you miserable bastard!" Zach shouted to Kage who looked as uninvolved and uninterested with the conversation as when he was shooting down a charing Ursa Major.
"You always tell me this huh? Funny I don't even remember your name." Kage said as he stared at the boy the possible ghost of a smile forming on his lips as he did.
"Oi quite it with the I'm so depressed and need help show! You can take you borderline whatever, and your bull shit semblance away from here! I'll tell you what!" Zach spat at Kage who only put down his fork.
"What's you semblance Kage?" Ruby who was doing her best to avoid the conversation, her preference to avoid social contact only worsen by the rude boy in front of her as she asked from his right. Making him crack her alone eyebrow one of his brown eyes staring questioningly at the young reaper.
" OH! OH! I'll show you! It's really cool!" Mika said as she reached to where Zach was sitting and grabbed one of his green pistols from his side.
" Hey watch the merchandise!" He yelled as she grabbed the gun and checked it for ammunition.
" Mika I know what you are going to do but please don't- Kage never finished that sentence as Mike aimed the gun towards him and shot him in the face at point-blank range.
BANG! The gun sounded loud as Kage's head jerked violently backward blood splattering from his head before he smacked viciously into the cafeteria table. Shacking it with the concussive force.
"You killed him!?" Jaune balked as he looked at the dead body of his new teammate a look of pure shock and disgust on his face.
" Of course, not silly Just you- "King Dammit!"
the boy of Kage yelled as he suddenly sat back up with his forehead apparently completely undamaged and yelling about his leg.
"What the hell just happened?!" Jaune demanded as Kage began berating Mika.
"It's his bullshit semblance that's what it is! He takes whatever damage is done to his body no matter what it is, is transferred to his right leg! So long as he has aura the only part of his body that can be injured is his right leg! He's bloody immortal I say!" Zach spat as Kage gripped his leg tightly.
" I am not immortal! And I wish you people would stop trying to kill me already!"
" Don't be a spoilsport!" Zach said before the voice spoke from his left.
"Kage said he does not like it when we shoot him. So I do not think we should continue to do it." The voice of reason at the table and Bastion's own version of Yang spoke up.
She was easily half a foot taller than Jaune with the creamy tanned skin he knew was native to those form Vacuo. She wore a thin form fitting type of black body armor and had to tow massive red gauntlets with what looked to be pneumonic drills on their ends. Only one look at the weapons and Jaune already had no intention of being on the receiving end of.
"Oi, you don't get an opinion, Hino! You are another Vacuoan, of course, you have his back. But I Know the game! You are just mad that he won't screw you! You're just trying to push him down and ride his dick like a stallion! I know your tricks, and I Know-
Whatever else he knew was never said as a light brown fist crashed into his face so hard it sent him flying off the table throwing him off of the table and slamming into the cold floor of Bastion with a sickening THUD!
" I apologize for my teammate's lack of tact. He is young, and a thief, please forgive him.' The girl sad as eyed Jaune directly as her brown eyes threatened to overwhelm his sense of self as he stared into them.
She was literally Yang sans puns. Her towering features tanned skin light regal face and absolutely massive arms with biceps the size of his legs and a pair of equally muscled legs to match.
"My name is Hino. You may call me Hino. Call me anything else and you will die." The girl declared as she crossed her arms as Zach dragged himself up from the floor.
"Why you!" He began before spitting up blood as his black punishment collar swayed to his left. As Jaune turned he saw the lack reminder he took notice of his own, in fact, the entirety of-of table had Punishment collars on making them all criminals.
"Let's break the ice," Hino said with a calm smile. " We can play the favored Bastion greeting game of stating what the hell brought you into this living hell of a school. And since we are all wearing punishment collars there should be some good stores to tell!"
"Since it was my Idea I will start us off. My name is Hino I use to live in Vacuo all my life until I joined the army with Kage over there. We served together until the battle oh hill 879 where after a decisive battle our CO was killed standing the unit. Afterwards, here Kage went AWOL, and I followed making me a deserter. "
"I am currently a first-year Punishment class student of team- "don't tell these bastards our team name! You'll open us up to shake down at three in the bloody morning!"
Zach added as he climbed his way back to the table face matted with dry and wet blood as his aura worked to repair his wounds.
"Names Zach, don't ask for my last name you won't get it. I was a thief who got the most unlucky luck streak this side of Mistral. I got caught stealing from the Mistral elite, and after killing a couple of their best guards, I got stuck in a warehouse in the shittier parts of the Mistral capital. And trust me when I say the shittier parts of Mistal which are just a shitty place in general, you can trust me when I say they are godawful."
"This place made the worst slums in Vacuo look like a damned palace in comparison! Anyway, there I was surrounded by the bloody cops waiting to go out guns blazing before low and behold! Guess who showed up to save my sorry ass. None other then Ludo himself shows up with an offer I literally could not refuse! Now I'm in this hell hole with this deserter, a sociopath and a substance abuser for teammates!"
He said pointing to Hino who responded by merely grabbing the back of is his head and smashing it into the table, so hard Jaune saw teeth fly out of his mouth.
WHAP! WHAP! Hino smashed his head repeatedly into the table never once letting up the pressure as the sounds of breaking bones filled the air a bright red puddle formed on his face before she gives it one last thrust ending her assault with a sickening WHAP! As she smashed his face so hard he nearly bounced off the table as he crashed into his plate of half-eaten food.
" Ignore him he likes the sound of his voice," Hino said through a calming smile that set Jaunes blood to ice.
" OH! OH! Me next! Me next! I want to share my story next!" Mika added happily making Kage sigh.
"Mika we aren't taking turns you can just- "I killed people!" Mika said happily making Ruby balk and Kage sigh. The rest of the table looked unimpressed as they stared at Mika.
"We all kill people! What makes you so special?" Zach asked as he spat a tooth out of his mouth along with a thin line of blood that splattered across the table making Ruby clutch Jaune's side with an iron like vice.
" I killed a lot of people! Mainly people who were mean to me, or rude or fat or had a bad haircut or who I just didn't like!" Mika added making Hino stare silently at her.
"Great just what we need another bloody psychopath! I already got my hands full with this unhappy one now I got to deal with tow bloody head cases?! Fuck me!" Zach laments as he tried to rinse his mouth out with a cup of water.
"I- "You are an Oum damned traitor Kage! I've known you all of my life, and I know you cut and ran because you felt like it!" Zach accused as shot a wad of crimson water back into his cup before setting it down on the table.
"I am not a traitor!" Kage yelled in what was the first actual physical displays of emotion Jaune saw him show since meeting the boy.
"Hit a nerve did I?" You know how the saying goes right Kage? Nothing to hide nothing to fear right? If you not a traitor you wouldn't mind me calling you one right?"
"Say it one more time and see what happens." Kage seethed at him drawing out his second massive pistol from his belt.
"What are you going to do about it?" Zach asked as he grabbed his custom pair of guns and pointed one at kage.
"My name is Ruby! Ruby Rose! And I'm new here!" Ruby added in her awkward way of trying to stop a potentially lethal fight. Unfortunately, this also had the adverse effect of turning everybody's attention to herself as she did.
"Oi who let the kid in here? I didn't think we were running a daycare here in the middle of the ass end nowhere." Zach added as he acknowledged Ruby's existence for the first time.
"I'm not- " Her name is Ruby! And she's here because she murders a prince! She's a murderer just like me. In fact, we are murder friends isn't that right Ruby?" Mika added happily make Ruby's small form suddenly quake in ager.
" I did not kill- " Which one?"
Hino asked as she interrupted Ruby with a curious expression. " There are several Vacuoan princes, and since I have been away for some time, I would like to know which one is dead. Rest assured that I bear you no ill will for your actions." Hino said calmly as Ruby eyed her carefully.
"I mercy killed the fifth Vacuoan prince," Ruby added making Hino's face drop.
"Excuse me did you say you killed the fifth Vacuoan prince? I don't think I heard you right." Hino added as her brown eyes bore holes into her.
"And he helped her! That's Jaune! He's our new team leader. He's from Beacon academy and is here for being a proxy to the murder!" Mika added making Jaune a cough up a glass of water as Zach looked at him.
"So you didn't kill him eh? I knew it, you don't have the stomach to kill someone. I can tell just by looking you are weak." Zachary stated boldly before aloud ring n sound filled the air.
BRING! The sudden ringing of scrolls set the table a buzz as the entirety of team ARKM was called into the headmaster's office for an emergency team meeting. After a rather tense goodbye the, group of students left each other to their own business...
"STOP! THAT HURTS!"
" Shut it freak!" A loud voice yelled as team ARKM walked to the headmaster's office. " At least some things never change," Jaune said sadly as he watched a groupie if students bullying another student in the Bastion hallways.
" Some people make me sick! How can you bully somebody just because they're a little bit different than you!?" Mika said a girl as she watched the Bullies.
" You don't like bullies either?" Ruby asked her face full of shock at her and Mika agreeing on something for once.
" Of course not! How could I ever approve of someone hurting another person just based on something as superficial as Looks? Especially when they have this cute fox ears!"
" So you don't mind the Faunus?" Ruby asked impressed by Mina's apparent tolerance of the group.
" Of cause I don't mind them! How could you hate any group that looks so cute!? Mika asked as Jaune gave her his first genuine smile.
" I'm glad to know you're not a racist," Jaune said as he felt Kate grabs him from behind.
"Don't encourage it." Kate hissed as he watched Mika talking to Ruby.
" It's hard enough" to deal with her as is, I don't need you encouraging her hobby any more than necessary ok?" Jane asked making Jaune frown.
" Listen here Kate I may Amy not have been on this team very long, but as team leans an as a person I will not stand for any racism or intolerance on my I make mself-clearar?" Jaune said in his actual fearless leader voice as Kage raise him alone eye bo his twin light brown eyes staring at him in mild confusion
" I'm not racist, too lazy, hate costs energy, and I don't like paying. Secondly, trust me on this. You ever heard of a Faunusphobe? Well, she's a Faunusphile! And believe me! When I say that it is not a good thing."
Kage said with sheer determination as they pushed open the doors to the headmaster's office where Ludo sat behind his large desk fireplace growling figuratively and Liz growling literally. As they walked inside.
" Ah team ARKM my favorite new team. I hope you've gotten your feet wet for I have good news! Tomorrow will be your first mission as official students at Bastion! And I, picked out a good one!"
Back at the cafeteria ...
"You catch that?" Hino asked Zach as they stared at the departing team ARKM. " Sure did, would need to be blind to miss it." Zach responded all levity and briskness gone from his voice, replaced with a cold stelly edge.
" I'm from Mistral and I know for a fact. That there are only four crown princes." Hino said as her light brown eyes regarded the departing team with plain mistrust and suspicion.
"And that girl said she killed the fifth?" Zach replied as they watched the team leave. a low whistle escaped his lips as he watched the team go.
" She sure did and that either means she is woefully misinformed or hiding something... Somehting that might come to bite us in the ass if we are not careful. Shame though, she looked so innocent..."
"Ah crap! It's just like with Susie! We let that blade-wielding psycho in our dorm because we thought she was just a kid and she almost turned us all into sashimi! You think Ruby's like that? Another slasher taking the sympathy route right to our jugulars?"
" I have no idea. Up until we find out keep an eye on her ok? I don't want any more pint-sized surprises, all right? Killing one was bad enough let's not press our luck ok?"
" Sure thing, she won't leave my sight. And if I do find something suspicious on her... well then you know what the score is." Zach said as he tapped pistol to the side of his story of killing a prince didn't make a lick of sense. Did she expect us to believe that Vacuo would leave a damned kid in charge of safeguarding their crown price?
" DOn;t worry I'll make quick, I mean her story of killing a prince didn't make a lick of sense. Did she expect us to believe that Vacuo would leave a damned kid in charge of safeguarding their crown price?
Get real! Even if they are corrupt as all heel, their nobility is damned better equipped to protect itself then some random hunter in trained would ever be! And her saying that she killed the fifth crown prince? Sounds like a red herring to me, just like a one legged dog. And it's like what I always say about one legged dogs. That dog don't fetch..."
AND Done! Another chapter of Bastion hot and ready for the presses. Thank you for everybody reading this thing, it means the world to me. The next arc is the first Bastion mission arc proper. So, stay tuned until then. See you lovely people next time. I'm out to write the next chapter for endangered species sleep be damned!