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Despite having never had a formal education back home, needing to keep your city from being overrun by the jungle takes priority, Sean felt that this school's education system was…..lacking. By that he meant that the actual classes were unnecessary in what they taught. Take the class he was in currently, Grimm studies. Back home you would be shown what things were the most dangerous first by a more experienced hunter, and then you had to learn via experience. Here though they apparently learned of their enemy through classes and schoolwork. Now this would have been passable, at maximum, had the teacher for this class not be the most boring individual Sean had ever listened to. This Professor Port was causing Sean to highly consider shooting himself in the head if it would grant him escape from the man's lecture.
"Monsters, demons, prowlers of the night! Yes the creatures of Grimm have many names, but merely refer to them as prey haha!" Professor Port lectured and attempted to joke. His response was that of a lone cricket crip and Ruby snorting awake after being literally put to sleep by the man.
Her and the rest of the students were required to wear uniforms while school was in session but were allowed to customize them a bit. The male versions were a black suit with a gold trim, a blue vest and a white undershirt with a red tie. The females was the same colors but with a plaid skirt instead of pants. Sean had kept his red bandanna on with his uniform and still had his knives on him, which drew some stares from the rest of the class. He was leaning back in his chair as he drowned out whatever the hell the monotoned teacher was talking about. In order not to pass out from boredom he began to play five finger filet with the Night Reaper. Playing this game with this particular knife added incentive not to miss due to the triangular blade not allowing the wounds to heal, so even any tiny cut would last forever. Plus the blade was usually poisoned but at the moment it was deprived of its favored killing elixir.
As Sean stabbed in between his fingers, gradually getting faster he ignored the outside world and was left to his own thoughts. Memories of warzones and gunfire filled his head, entire worlds burning as he would crawl through rivers of blood in order to gain a sniping position on a target. Screams of dying soldiers as the sounds of heavy caliber gunfire going off as he as sat in a dried up entrenchment in some Emperor forsaken jungle returning fire with his Lascarbine. The shrieks of nocturnal creatures, that had evolved to be nothing short of apex predators, were silenced as he slit their throats with his Fang, Reaper, and Claw. Sean didn't notice but as these sights and sounds returned he got faster and faster with his knife movements. This continually growing noise had caught the attention of the entire classroom as the watched him get faster with his stabs, but had a thousand yard stare that none of the students present had ever seen. Port furrowed his brow at a student having an expression typically seen on Hunters and Huntresses that had seen the worst of what the world had to offer.
Sean then remembered the deaths of his squad and commander, his family in all but blood. The fact that they didn't die from some new terrible monster, or in some massive battle in a foreign jungle, but by being unlucky and being thrown through the Warp pissed him off. He saw the face of that sorceror and kept imagining horrific ways to kill him, smashing his skull in with his fists, slicing open his stomach and strangling him to death with his own intestines, breaking one of his ribs off and stabbing him to death with it. All of this envisioning caused Sean to gradually form a sadistic smile as he picked up the stab pace to an superhuman level. The rest of team RWBY looked concerned for their teammate as he started to begin smashing through the table with the force of the knife. Eventually Port let out a very loud cough as Sean slammed his knife down with one last stab, embedding it all the way through the desk, including the metal underlay.
"What!?" Sean asked loudly as if nothing had been happening. He now noticed the entire class looked concerned for their well being as everyone looked at him with wide eyes.
"Are you alright young man?" Professor Port asked.
"Ya, fine. Why?" Sean replied in the most carefree of tones. The class, teacher included, gave him incredibly incredulous stares as he looked at them waiting for a response.
"...Alrighty then. Now where was I? Ah yes, now which of you believe you exemplify these traits?" Sean had no idea what the question was, but Weiss seemed to know the answer as she proudly raised her hand and said she did.
"Good now step forward and face your opponent." Port said as he motioned to a cage, which was not there as second ago with red eyes glowing from the inside and boar noises emerging from it.
'When the fuck did that get there?' Sean thought as Weiss left the room in order to get her combat gear. She returned armed with her rapier and her white battle dress and nodded for the test to begin. The others of team RWBY cheered her on as a boar like Grimm was released from the cage and began to charge the white haired girl. Ruby apparently had the bright idea of shouting "advice" to Weiss as she fought the boar. Her rapier bounced off the Grimm's outer armor, which Sean immediately noticed only covered the top of the creature, making attacks to its bottom and areas not covered extremely effective. Ruby also noticed this, granted it wasn't that hard to notice, and she voiced her to discovery to Weiss as she grabbed her rapier that had been disarmed from her.
"Weiss, go for its belly there's no armor underneath!" Apparently the heiress took offense to Ruby's constant comments.
"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss snapped at Ruby. The redhead gained a hurt look as Weiss created two glyphs with her semblance and used one to block the charging boar, and the other as a bounce pad to get a stab off into its stomach. The Grimm began to disappear in a dark mist as Port congratulated Weiss. The heiress looked over to Ruby with an annoyed expression and stormed off out of the room as Port dismissed the class. Ruby ran out following Weiss and Sean was about to go back to their room but was stopped in the hall when one of the other students stepped in front of him. The boy was tall, at least a good head above his team, who Sean assumed were the people besides him, had short combed burnt orange hair and indigo eyes. Despite being taller than his team mates, he was still not as tall as Sean and was looking up at him at the moment.
"Aww having bad day dreams? Is the big man gonna cry?" He spoke in a tone of voice one would use for coddling a baby. Oh great a bully. Sean was not one to take attempts at bullying lightly, he had in fact killed several people who tried to do so before. Letting out a sight Sean kneed the kid in the crotch and then punched him in the throat. As he dropped to the ground grasping at his junk and throat his friends tried to attack Sean in retaliation. However all three quickly realized the difference between three kids at a combat academy, granted a very good combat academy but still one nonetheless, and a veteran soldier of 5 years of the worst warfare imaginable. The blond mohawked one had his punch blocked and the recived a fast but brutal kidney punch, they grey haired one had his kick knocked into him by a swift knee kick, and the mopped hair blond one was head butted. All had Aura, which was still not unlocked for Sean, however Sean had super strength on this planet on top of his already unmatched physique, something they didn't have. So the question of whether or not Arua protected against a few superhuman blows was answered with a definitive no. Following up on each of his attacks Sean pulled the mohawk kid into a knee to the face, did a back spinning elbow to the grey haired one, and used that momentum to slam into the mopped blond one with a tackle to the floor. He then slammed a very strong punch into the kids head, knocking him out, and possibly shatter teeth.
Sean stood back up and faced the other three would-be-attempted bullies and noted that the other two barring the big one were retreating at a very injured pace. The orange haired kid was just getting up when Sean grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up.
"Consider this a warning, pick a target that can't kick your ass." And with that Sean head butted him and dropped the now dazed kid on the floor. Continuing on his way back to the dorm Sean rounded a corner and saw Ruby finishing up a talk with Ozpin. The green clad man took a sip of his mug and walked off after giving Sean a polite nod.
"Do I want to know?" He asked Ruby.
"Hey, what was your squad leader like?" Ok that was a question from left field.
"Well the Catachan aren't like other regiments. We have leaders that are elected by rank -and-file, usually they are the best hunters or warriors from settlements. Discipline is done by trust and respect, not by respect for rank. So Crow was someone we had complete trust in not to fuck us over in terms of order because we knew that he knew, what he was doing." Sean told the red riding hood esque girl.
"Wait. Your squad leader was named Crow!?" Ruby practically shouted at Sean.
"Uh…..yes." He answered after recovering from the massive volume spike.
"My uncle is named Qrow, with a q. He taught me how to fight!" She clarified after telling him the reason for her outburst.
"...Good for you?" Sean hesitantly asked as he began to back away from the now starry eyed girl.
"You know what this means!"
"...Uh that in that vast expanse of the multiverse the odds of someone having the same name as someone else in a different universe is large and we just encountered it?" Sean replied. Ruby gained a confused look for a bit before shaking it off.
"No silly. Think about it, you like weapons, I like weapons, you wear skull paint, I use a scythe, you have a squad leader named Crow, my uncle is named Qrow, you have a red bandanna, I have a red hood." Ruby began to list off.
"If you are going to insinuate that the coincidental parallels between us somehow mean we are destined to be together, I am going to to stab you." Sean said dryly as Ruby then stopped talking and began to rock back and forth on her feet. Letting out a sigh Sean restarted for the third time his trek back to the room. Only now he had Ruby walking behind him and to make it worse she was trying to covertly stare at him. Which she was failing utterly at, and it started to weird him out a bit. However sanctuary came when he finally made it back to the dorm and opened up the door with his scroll. Looking at the now fully decorated room, with some jury rigged bunk beds to make space, Sean went to his spot on the floor and grabbed his sleep gear. By the time he had finished changing it was dusk out and Blake and Yang had shown up. Weiss was still gone though, not that he cared. The dusk eventually turned to night as the team had gone to sleep after doing some homework, which Sean cussed at and then Yang put a swear jar into place. But since the pay was abnormal things for a swear jar like ' One Fuck= Give Yang a backrub' and shit like that it was more effective than a normal one. As Sean laid on the floor using his bag as a pillow he heard the door open and drew his Fang to kill the intruder.
"NO! NOT AN ENEMY!" Weiss whispered yelled as Sean was almost at her with his knife. Giving her a bored look and turning back to go to sleep he saw her walk over to Ruby's bed. After the two had a talk on Ruby being a good leader and Weiss vowing to be the best teammate ever, Sean decided to interject.
"If your whole problem with Ruby was that you thought you should be in command because you had studied and trained, need I remind you that the things I survived growing up are a thousand times worse than anything hear, and that I was a veteran member of my regiment?" He mumbled so both could hear, but not wake up the others.
"...Couldn't let us have this nice moment could you?" Weiss whispered to him with an annoyed expression.
"No. And by the way if any one asks who beat up those kids in the hallway, it wasn't me." And with that Sean left a confused Ruby and Weiss to their own devices.