Chapter 10
On his walk back to the school, he was being watched but not stalked and he made his way back to beacon without incident. He walked onto the grounds and started walking around, he saw the cafeteria filled with people. "Looks like the place to be." He said to himself taking the helmet off. He opened the doors and walked in, everyone was silent "Hi!" Colin shouted, waving at everyone. Some groaned but most just went back to eating. He saw ruby and waved, then walked over and sat down next to Weiss, Nora had just started telling her story about her reoccurring dream. Then the smaller kid next to him tried to play off a pretty severe bullying problem. He sat there and listened intently. Then he looked over at the next table and saw a large-ish boy in old style armor harassing a girl with bunny ears. "Hmm, I wonder, could that be the same person." He thought to himself. He slid over the table and yelled at the boy. "Hey, cut that out and pick on someone your own size." He shouted at the boy. Who let go of the girl's ear and she walked away quickly, and now he had his full and undivided attention. He put his helmet on expecting a fight. "Who are you?" he asked in an arrogant voice. "I'm the new transfer student from Eclipse." Colin responded in an equally coarse tone. "So how 'bout it." He replied.
"How about what." He responded "You want to pick on someone, I'm right here." Colin said opening his arms. Cardin laughed "You don't want to do that." He laughed at Colin. "You are scared, you don't want to fight me because you think you will lose." Colin said folding his arms and smirking. It must have hit a special cord because the boy stopped his movement and turned back to Colin. "I what?" Cardin asked in a very angry tone. "You are a wanker. Or mentally challenged, whichever you chose." Colin responded smirking. Cardin got very angry and threw a punch at Colin, who deflected in and sent Cardin into the table next to ruby's, slapping him on the back of his head as he went down. "Ouch, that looked like it hurt." Colin said still smiling. Cardin turned around and went to tackle Colin. Which turns out, doesn't work very well on someone who can think as fast as light. Colin simply stepped out of the way and tripped Cardin as he flew past into the table.
Cardin must have hit a point where his rage boiled over and he drew his weapon. The first swing at Colin came for his head, he sidestepped. And Cardin followed with more and more swings, each dodged as easily as the last. Cardin got more and more frustrated, yelling and swinging with greater ferocity. Not that the smiling Colin was doing very much to help the very angry boy's mood. He backed into the main cafeteria aisle, then started throwing punches, he was holding back a lot. Not that it didn't hurt, when Colin's first swing connected Cardin's jaw, he lost 1/3 of his aura. This only pissed the kid off and he kept going. Colin was laughing by the time he had thrown his 2nd punch, which had connected with Cardin's chest sending him flying back about 10 feet. "Damn, sucks when you are fighting a losing battle doesn't it?" Colin asked in a sarcastic tone. "Will I find you bullying anyone else again?" he asked. No response. Then Cardin threw his weapon at Colin, who dodged it easily, then turned back, only to get hit right in the chest, Cardin had tried tackling Colin, who still stood in the same position, just now Cardin was trying his hardest to push Colin over. Colin Just looked down in Disappointment. "You are just so sad." Colin said in a mocking tone.
Cardin stopped pushing and kneed Colin right in the place where the sun don't shine. Colin fell to one knee and grimaced, Cardin stood up and laughed, He didn't even see it coming. Colin got up and hit Cardin so hard not only did his aura disappear, he also put a hole in the cafeteria wall, and outside. Colin walked through the hole and towards the idiot laying on the ground in pain. "I thought guys had a code of honor, not, to hit each other there." He said picking the boy up by his chest plate, crumpling it in the process. And he brought him up to eye level, "I will only ask one more time, are you going to keep bullying, or in that case assaulting people?" Colin asked. "Fuck you" Cardin shouted and spit on Colin. But right before Colin put him into orbit someone shouted. "COLIN." Came the angry female voice. He turned around to see Glynda walking towards him with a very angry stride. He just looked at her as she walked towards him, she stopped right next to him and looked up at him, he was trying his best not to laugh, even thought she was wearing heels she was still about 6-8 inches shorter than him. He was also wearing a helmet which didn't help. "Put him down." She said in an angry tone. So Colin dropped him, he fell, landing on the grass in an undignified lump groaning in pain. "I said to put him down, not drop him." "Come with me, I want to speak with you in my office." She said "get someone to help him" she said to the people still standing in the cafeteria as she walked off. Colin took off his helmet and followed her back through the cafeteria, winking at ruby as he walked by. They smiled and waved. He followed Glynda back to her office and sat down in front of her desk.
"What were you thinking, you assaulted a student!" she said pacing back and forth. "I was completely justified in my actions." He responded "What? You have no idea what you are doing! How could you have done the right thing!" she yelled, still pacing. He said nothing then put his helmet on the table. "Put it on." He said. "Why?" she asked, still very angry. "It will replay the entire scenario, I recorded the entire thing. Taking off your glasses will probably help." He added as she picked up the helmet. She took her glasses off and put the helmet on "Now what?" "Just be patient". "Sheila, please replay the encounter I had with Cardin Winchester." "Yes sir, replaying." He waited as the video replayed. A minute later "That's all I needed to see." Glynda said as she took the helmet off. "I told you, I am not an idiot. I went to a combat school and had to deal with lots of bullies myself." "I won't stand by and let someone get roughed up, unless they deserved it." He finished. "I know that you think you are doing good. But you are an alien, you need to lay low." She said, her tone had softened. "No, I refuse to leave another person alone when they are bullying. I got bullied in combat school, and it got worse, and worse. Then I got this." He said, as the nanites pulled the armor away showing three parallel scars that run from his upper right shoulder down the middle of his chest and all the way to his shorts. "I had a bunch of people tie me to a tree and use me for combat practice, for bats, maces, and swords. Then they left me there, hanging on a tree. And it started with a bit of simple bullying. So no, I won't let someone else get bullied." He said, his tone and voice increasing till he was yelling.
He stopped and realized his wings were out and he had armored up, and he had taken it too far. Glynda was sitting in a chair at the back of the room, having moved as far away from the man as possible. "I apologize, I should not have taken it that far." He said softly putting his wings back and setting his armor to light combat mode. "I will be talking to Ozpin about leaving if you want me to." He finished.
