Holy fricken commando! It's been three weeks since I last updated this story! You must be thinking that I'm absolutely terrible and have the worst attention span in the universe to take so long to update this story.
However, I have some very good reasons for why it has taken so long. 1) My dog decided that she would chew through my internet cables and make it impossible to do anything internet wise and 2) My laptop literally set on fire -_-
So now that I have explained my absence, let's talk RWBY. Finally getting a laptop back, I go straight to Roosterteeth and watch those 3 episodes/chapters of RWBY, and they were freaking amazing! Always so sad when the episode ends because I just want even more!
Also as a side note, I have changed a few things in the previous 1-4 chapters of the story, hopefully nobody will be too supset about it, but rather be more pleased about them instead. Basically I changed two names and edited the order and what I actually wrote.
But enough of my dilly dallying, and lets get to what you are really here for, Chapter 5 of Team LEGN!
Nathan
'So Nathan, have you written that essay for Professor Oobleck yet?'
Nathan looked at his team leader and thought of the best way to answer him. With the truth or what Lupis would prefer to hear? This was a constant dilemma for him. He had the intelligence to do most of the essays, assignments and tasks that their teachers set them, however he was always too lazy to do them. That was where Eric had normally stepped in to help, as he was much more active when it came to their homework.
'Uhh, almost,' Nathan lied, thinking to the untouched pile of paper that Oobleck had given them to write their essay on that was still at the bottom of his bag. 'I just have a little bit more to write in regards to the actions of the defenders in the battle, and then I'm pretty much done.'
The essay that had been set was in no means a simple task. The report required students to look up th events of a battle that had occurred several hundreds of years ago, in a part of Vytal that was now entirely inhabited by Grimm. The battle had taken a drastic turn near the end, when the defending force of which was part of the Atlas military, and the attacking force, a part of the Vacuo military, had been attacked by a large force of Grimm. There were only a small handful of survivors, and by the time they had made their way back to civilization, only two of them were still alive.
Not many people in Vytal knew of this battle, as it wasn't common knowledge to most people, which made it difficult to find any books that spoke of the battle and what had happened.
'Oh really?' Garris asked, a smile on his face. 'I have that bit covered, just while we're here now, can you give me a bit of help on the attack the Grimm made near the end of the battle? I had to hand the book back to the library before I was done with it, because it was in such high demand from so many students.'
'Uhm…' Nathan mumbled, averting his eyes from his teammates, who were both smiling at him mischievously. He tried to quicken his pace across the campus, trying to escape his teammates who jogged after him as they walked towards the cafeteria.
'Actually, we don't have class until an hour after the cafeteria closes,' Lupis started. 'Maybe once we've had something to eat we can all head back to our dorm room and you can show us your essay. I'm missing a bit on what caused the troops from Vale to join in on the attack and attack the Atlas forces alongside the Vacuoans.'
'Uh, yeah sure.' Nathan thought, scrolling through his mind to remember whether Professor Oobleck had said anything about Vale forces being in the battle too. Unfortunately, the past week had been a blur, and he remembered very little in regards to most of his classes that didn't require combat. That was the part that Eric had always covered to that he could pull Nathan out of the fire when he didn't listen in class.
'Yeah, I can probably help you with that. I think I wrote some of that down somewhere in my report,' Nathan replied, thinking that what Lupis had said must have been correct.
'Nathan,' Lupis said, grabbing his shoulder and pulling him to a stop. The group stopped in the middle of the courtyard and moved over to be closer to the fountain as a large group of students came rushing from the cafeteria, most of them looking as if they had soiled their pants.
Lupis looked straight at his teammate, and at such a close distance, his multi-coloured eyes became extremely intense to look at, but impossible to look away from.
'I know that this last week had been rough for you, given Eric's situation and all,' Lupis began, dropping his hand from Nathan's shoulder and letting it hang by his side. 'But just because he was your partner, it doesn't mean that you need to try and go through everything by yourself. I know that you are a bit of a dunce when it comes to being social, no offense.'
Nathan nodded, knowing that what he said was true, taking no offense at all.
'But you don't have to do everything alone. We are your teammates Garris and I. We're here to help you through things, no matter what. That's what we do. Ok?'
Nathan nodded again.
Lupis sighed silently, closing his eyes. 'Good. Tonight we'll all get together in the library after our classes and dinner and we can all work on our essays together, alright?'
'Alright,' Nathan said.
'Good. Now that you two have had your romantic moment, let's get to the cafeteria, I'm starving over here!' Garris shouted, marching off towards the large stone building, the other two teammates close behind.
However, before they could get anywhere near the building, they could her loud crashes coming from within the buildling. When they got even closer to investigate, they all jumped out of their skins as the roof exploded and they could see a student with with bright yellow hair go sailing into the sky, screaming as she went.
'What the-?' Lupis started, before he suddenly jumped sideways, a large piece of stone from the ceiling falling directly where he was previously standing, embedding itself in the ground.
Nathan and Garris both sprinted into the hall as their leader stayed back, wiping away the blood that had suddenly erupted from out of his nose. Bursting through the doors, they almost crashed into a faunus boy with a blond monkey tail, and a taller students with cyan blue hair. Nathan didn't recognise either of them and assumed that they were exchange students for the festival.
When he turned his gaze to what they were both staring at, his jaw hit the floor.
The room looked as if a tornado had come through it, with tables, benches, vending machines, food and what looked like grape juice scattered everywhere throughout the room. Most of the tables were cracked in half and left in splinters throughout the room, food was stained against the walls and sunlight streamed out of the windows in the sides of the rooms, along with the hole that was in the roof.
And then he saw the cause of all the destruction.
At the far end of the room, was a girl with orange hair and bright blue eyes. Under normal circumstances, Nathan may have thought that she would be a regular teenage girl, but this was no normal circumstance. The girl had a devilish grin on her face, and stood near a stack of cans from the broken vending machines. She had one in each hand, and was throwing them at a black haired girl with a small bow atop her head.
None of the cans hit their mark as the girl with the bow dodged and weaved her way around the cans as they exploded against the ground. Nathan noticed near the orange haired girl, that another student was picking themself up of the floor. This girl had bright red hair, just like his, but bright green eyes in comparison to his golden yellow ones. She also looked extremely familiar, to him and as he racked his brain, he recognised her as Pyrrha Nikos, the girl that graduated top of the class in Sanctum and won the regional tournament there for a record amount of times.
He had to be snapped back to reality as she slammed her hand into the floor, and lifting all of the other cans off of the floor. Once they were a decent height in the air, she stood up and shot her hand forwards, sending them all flying forwards.
The black haired girl backflipped and dodged a few of the cans, but was quickly enveloped in them all and was being pelted from all sides before being hit so hard that she was sent flying across the room. She crashed against the back wall and fell limply to the floor, sending a spray of food into the air as she landed.
Nathan looked back to the rest of the room again, hoping that it was all over and he could just sit down to eat, but realised that there was another girl standing up in front of him and Garris.
She was much shorter than most of the other students that he saw around the school, and looked much younger too. A long red cloak fell across her shoulders and down her back, and short black hair with red ends fluttered across her face as she crouched to the ground.
The next thing Nathan knew, she was gone, a gust of wind follwing her wake, and all of the debris, food and cans were pulled along with the wind. The two girls that he had seen before at the other end of the cafeteria, were being swept along with two boys that had raised themselves off of the floor.
The young looking girl reappeared at the back wall, in a dead stop, but the swirling tornado of food, plates and students crashed against it. The remaining cans exploded upin impact and left a multi-coloured mural against the grey stone of the building. The four students slowly peeled off the wall, leaving imprints of themselves amidst the colour of the soft drinks that had stained the grey stone.
As the all crashed against the floor, a loud bang erupted from behind him, Garris, the two strange looking people and Lupis. Nathan did a double take when he realised his team leader had somehow snuck behind him. Before he could ask how long he had been there, Professor Goodwitch stormed past them all, a snarl on her face, her crop in her hand.
With a flick of her wrist, everything started to fly back into place. Tables fixed themselves middair as they rolled back to where they originally sat. Benches placed themselves to be parrallel to the edges of the tables, but the spoilt food all flew back to the kitchen, presumably into the rubbish.
'Well, there goes my appetite,' Garris said with a frown on his face.
Another hole opened up in the roof and was quickly sealed up again as the blond haired girl from before came crashing into the ground. Professor Ozpin walked in behind Professor Goodwitch and began speaking to her in a soft tone.
Nathan realised his jaw was still wide open as Garris lifted his hand and manually closed it for him.
'I guess we'll just skip lunch then huh?' Lupis asked.
'Yeah, I guess so,' Nathan replied.
Roman
He set down the binoculars that he had been using to watch into the cafeteria of Beacon academy. Two groups of students had started a food fight whilst he was scouting out the area with some White Fang soldiers, and had become extremely interested when he realised that the two girls who had ruined his operation the last week were a part of the fight.
He hadn't realised how good at fighting they all were, and he was only watching them playing with food! A snarl on his face, he realised that the operation he had in mind would be much more difficult to carry out, especially with useless soldiers like the ones from the White Fang and the idiots he hired from Junior.
Turning his head to the side, he looked at a White Fang member that had a pair of fluffy white dog ears stickign out from underneath his hood.
'Do you have the information I asked of you?' Roman snarled at the mutt.
'Yessir,' he nodded, putting his scroll away into his pocket.
'Good,' Roman said, turning his gaze back to the building that the fight had taken place in. He lifted the binoculars back up to his eyes and peered through at the students that were now laughing together in the middle of the room.
'Unfortunately, we still have lots of work to do.'
He dropped the binoculars from his face once more and looked at the group of animals that surrounded him.
'Pack up, we're moving back to base.'
I know that this is more of a filler than anything else, but it's the only thing that actually felt right for me to do. I don't really plan on having too many filler chapters, but unfortunately, this is what it is.
I wanted to get a bit of Roman back into the story again, as he is one of the more important people to the plot of my story, (even if he isn't a hero in the story), so that's why the small bit from his point of view is at the end, even if it is extremely short.
Next chapter will hopefully be more exciting. However I don't really want to try and make everything action, I find that more difficult to make interesting, unless that's just me over-reacting to my writing.
But, until next time, all I can ask is for a small review if there are any problems with the story, even if you PM it to me, something is better than nothing.
Cheers!
