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Chapter 2: New Hardships
The faunus wondered what she meant by that, then remembered she had only been in her dormitory for about ten minutes since her arrival at Beacon, and when she was there, the room was clearly already occupied, but nobody was there.
"I'm Yang, we'll be living together until graduation." Yang was clearly enthusiastic about having somebody to share her apartment with.
"You sound excited."
"I haven't had a roommate since the beginning of the year."
"Oh, ok."
"You said 'sis' when you were talking to Ruby..."
"We're sisters, if it wasn't obvious." Yang joked, knowing they looked so different that one would never suspect any blood relation between the two. "Well we're half sisters. Same dad, different moms."
"So, Blake, what's your story?"
"There isn't much to tell."
"Oh come on, I'm sure there's something interesting somewhere along the line."
"Well I've lived all over Remnant."
"Ooo, what cities?"
"I lived in Mistral a few years ago, then I moved to Tamaris, Moorviah, Polaris, and a few days ago, I came to Vale."
"Cool, Yang and I haven't even left the state. I've always wanted to see the world."
The hour past quickly, and the girls, of course had to return to their classes. Yang walked into her math class alone, it was a lower level class meant for high school seniors and juniors. It was humiliating to be placed in this class to begin with, but to be doing as poorly as she was made her feel like she had some kind of brain dysfunction, which was demoralizing. She had tried not to be seen entering or leaving the class, but her efforts were in vain as some of her friends had already spotted her, some of them teasing her for it.
Yang sat in the very small class, only twenty people were present. She tried despirately to pay attention and learn the material, but it was so mindnumbingly boring that she eventually just started drawing in her notebook. By the time the class was over, Yang had created a rather impressive portrait of a dog she passed earlier that day. The teacher dismissed everyone, letting them leave the confines of small, whitewashed room.
Yang pulled her duster on over the yellow t-shirt and walked out, looking down to make her face a little bit less recognizable. Once she was a good distance from her class of embarrassment she picked her head back up and walked a bit more casually to her dormitory.
The blonde pushed open the door of dorm B-thirtyfive to find Blake Belladona laying on the couch, her nose buried in a hardback book.
"Blake, you should know the rule, leave a sock on the door if you get under the covers with something that hard." Yang found her own joke to be quite hysterical.
"Hilarious," Blake said sarcastically, not looking up from her book.
"So, do you not smile?"
"I'd love to chat, Yang, but I'm kind of reading."
"Right, sorry." That was the end of that. Yang walked off to the bedroom, the dorms were small, so they shared a set of bunkbeds. 'What's the point of a roommate who doesn't talk?' The blonde wondered to herself. Yang climbed up to the top bunk and stretched out.
Yang had nothing to do, the school soccer coach told the star player to keep rested for the weekend's game, so she couldn't do anything physical. Ruby was studying, she had a cramming to do for a biology test. There was Weiss, but she hardly seemed likely to want to hang out. All of the people she could think of were busy or off campus, thus she elected to roam the halls.
After several minutes of Wandering aimlessly, Yang heard a shrill cry from down the hall. Looking for some excitment, the pyro decided to investigate. When she rounded the corner, Yang discovered the source of the cry, a short, dark haired, fair skinned rabbit faunus. The girl's left ear was held tight by a tall young man who was laughing at her pain.
"Please let go, this hurts." The girl begged.
"You want me to let go? Alright, fine."
The boy pulled his captive back, the slammed her forwards into the wall.
"Ah!" The faunus hit the wall hard, the recoil knocked her onto the floor. She laid there, face down, completely still.
"What's wrong bunny ears? Get up."
"Hey, asshole!" Yang yelled.
"Look at that, bunny ears, your girlfriend came to save you." The boy turned to Yang. "Stay out of this, Blondey."
"Why? Afraid I'll kick your ass?"
"Come over here and find out." Yang gladly obliged. She charged in, pulling a fist back, then letting it fly. The girl felt a satisfying crack as she punched the boy in the side of his jaw. There was little effect, however, as the bully quickly recovered and sent a counter attack back at her. The throw was sloppy and Yang easily dodged it. One after the other, the brawler landed hits all over the boy's face, chest, and stomach, knocking him back a few meters. With a final blow, Yang put the boy on his ass.
The bully scoffed as he picked himself up and walking away, knowing he couldnt win. Once he was out of sight, Yang dropped to the girl and tapped her shoulder.
"Are you ok?" The girl groaned in response. The voice along with a closer look at the girl's face when she rolled over revealed thay it was a certain softmore that Yang had not spoken to in a long time. Her name was Velvet. "Hey, can you here me?"
"Yeah, I think I'll be fine." There was a large, dripping cut under her left eye, her nose was running red liquid as well.
"You're bleeding, you should get cleaned up. Where's your room?"
"I'm actually in building A."
"Mine is just down the hall. I'll get something to stop the bleeding." The girls walked down the hall, Velvet leaning on her friend the whole way. Yang sat the faunus down in a chair, then walked to the kitchen and grabbed a bag of ice. Velvet winced at the sudden coldness on her face, but Yang's gentle touch felt good.
"What happened?" Blake asked, walking out of her room.
"Some guy named Cardin. He hates faunus and bullies everyone, you together the rest. Can you get a towel or something?"
"Sure." Yang put a hand on Velvet's face to get a better look at the would, but the brunette flinched.
"It's alright, Velvet, I'm not gona hurt you."
"I know, I'm sorry."
Yang placed three fingers under Velvet's chin to lift up her face to the light. After close examination, she concluded that the wound would definitelt scar, it may be there for a very long time, but it would heal. "You should be fine, we just need to clean you up."
"Ok. Thanks, Yang, for saving me back there."
"Don't sweat it, you would have samd thing for me." And Velvet would have, gladly, for her old and dear friend. The conversation was cut off abruptly when the front door swung open, and a frantically pacing redhead walked in having a nervous breakdown.
"Yang! I need your help, now."
"Ugh, I can't solve this entire campus' problems."
"This is now time for jokes. Weiss is angry."
"Weiss is mad? Stop the presses, alert the president!" The older sister said sarcastically.
"No, this isn't her normal pissed off, this is real pissed off."
"Listen, Ruby, I'm sure you two can work it out, but right now, I'm a bit busy." Yang took the gaws and roller bandage that Blake had passed to her. She folded the pad, then placed it along the long cut, and keeping it in place by wrapping the roller bandage all the way around the other girl's head, covering the eye over the scratch to prevent further damage, and trailing just over the other eye.
"Oh god! Velvet what happened?" Ruby covered her mouth in shock.
"Ruby, I'm fine." Velvet looked up with a reassuring smile.
"It wasn't that jerk, Cardin, again. Was it?"
"Maybe." The faunus looked back down at the floor.
"Velvet, please tell me if something is wrong."
"Sorry if I don't trust you anymore."
"You're still mad about that?"
"You humiliated me in front of everyone at Signal! That isn't something I can just forget." Velvet couldn't remember the last time she had raised her voice like that. The brunette was so soft spoken and shy, people typically had step close to her in order to hear.
"I told you it wasn't my fault."
"If you had just let me keep my ears down, nobody would have know I'm a faunus."
"Both of you stop," Yang commanded, silencing the room. "This isn't a good time to be argueing with Velvet, Ruby. And Velvet, you should at least try to forgive her. Besides us, no one at this school went to Signal High while we were there."
There was a long, awkward silence.
"I guess I could let it go," Velvet said, being the first to break through the unsettling quiet.
"Let it go? You should be apologizing!"
Velvet suddenly felt a drop of blood land in her lap. Her excelerated heart rate had caused the blood to flow out of her wound faster than the bandages could absorb it. Yang quickly stopped the flow with a few more layers of cloth.
"What do I have to be sorry for?"
"You-"
"Enough!" Yang demanded for a second time. "If you guys are going to be like this, wait until I'm finished."
Velvet sank back into her chair and let her friend patch up the marks. Ruby waited silently by the door for her sister to finish playing doctor.
"Just leave the bandage on for a day, take it off tomorrow after last class."
"Right. Thanks." Two words, and Velvet was gone.
