Chapter 8: Ozpin's Past
I jumped down into the Arena, and landed with a graceful roll to stop a couple feet from the Goodwitch. "I am completely prepared for a fight all the time, an injury is not going to slow me down." Yang raised her eyebrows.
"Wow, you got some guts dude. I get the feeling that this is gonna be fun."
"Okay, fine, I guess that I'm not going to be able to stop you, Leonardo. If you are so set on battling then you shall."
"Thanks, but I didn't really need your permission. And by the way, just call me Leo, like everyone else does." Professor Goodwitch narrowed her eyes at me, with a disapproving glare, but I didn't give a shit, I was sick of her already, I hate it when people undermine me. Miss Goodwitch then looked down at her Scroll as it started to go off, she looked at the screen and and her face was masked with confusion. "Okay, one moment please, I am getting an important call, just wait here." She then walked off to the right of the Arena and picked up the phone. I couldn't hear her so, I didn't pay attention to it, instead I looked up into the stands again. Aries and some girl with Orange hair and pink clothing were yelling to everyone to make bets on the fight. I could hear Aries from down hear easily. "Okay, for the guy in green i've got 45 seconds, oh 2 minutes for the girl in brown!" It took me a minute before I realized that they weren't betting on winners, they were betting on how long the match was going to last. I got frustrated at them and looked over to Virgo, I was still thinking about what had happened last night between Maya and I. Did she really love me? Right now she was on the edge of her seat trying to get eye contact with me. We then went into a silent conversation. "Do you really think this is a good idea? I mean Yang looks pretty tough."
"Yeah, I have to do this, if I back out now, i'll never be able to live it down. You don't have to worry about me, i'll be fine, you know I can hold my own in a fight."
"I know, I know, I'm just worried that this is too soon since your injury, if I don't worry about you, who will?"
Ms. Goodwitch finally got of her Scroll and walked back over to Yang and I. She was eyeing me kind of suspiciously now. "Okay, that was a call from Ozpin upstairs." What? was he watching us through the cameras right now? "He says that I should let you fight, but he also said that in the fight, there will be no use of Semblances." My face turned white as a sheet. I quickly recovered though I went ahead and glared at the closest Security Camera. "Okay, no problem. But next time you talk to Ozpin, do let him know that I will be speaking to him as soon as I can about a certain matter. I get the feeling you now know what I am speaking of?" She looked at me and nodded slowly. "Okay,now, if the two of you will get to either sides of the Arena, I would like to start the match." Yang and I separated to either sides of the Arena, when I got there, I pulled out Star's Edge and got into position for battle. Yang just stood at the other side of the Arena putting her Aviators on. When she noticed me watching her, she blew me a kiss. I could tell that she didn't take me as a real opponent. It's gonna be time to fix that.
"All right Students, the Match will start in 3, 2, 1. Begin." Yang and I charged at each other. As I charged, I started to prepare to defend first, and counter her first blow. We were now 10 fight from each other and I quickly bent down and prepared for the attack. I caught her first punch from her gauntlets on the hilt of Star, absorbing most of the hit and preparing my to swing low at her stomach. She quickly punched my sword to the ground mid swing and almost connected with my face before I dodged and backflipped out of range from her punches. "I didn't expect someone like you to run from a fight? Aren't you forgetting something?" She placed herself between me and my sword, leaving me disarmed. Lucky for me, that was exactly what i wanted her to do. I did the Stupid thing. I charged her bare handed. She was ready for my though, before I had gotten there, she punched the ground creating a huge shockwave, pulling up the tiles on the floor and pushing out on the ground towards me. I jumped clean over the Debris and slid right past Yang, leaving her befuddled to how I was still fighting. I quickly scooped up Star and swung at the back Yang's knee's. She was pushed to her knees from that, I then placed my sword at my opponents throat as she kneeled in front of me. "And thats the match!" I pulled my sword out from under Yang's chin and put my hand out to help her up. She just looked at me completely surprised before taking my hand. When we were both were standing there, I realized that there was not a sound in the entire room. When I looked up at the stands, I found countless faces with a complete look of surprise on their faces. Then I heard a clapping from the door of the classroom. I looked over to see Professor Ozpin standing at the door with a coffee mug in his hand. That rattled the rest of the students and they all started to clap and cheer as well.
"Well, Leo, that was quite the match. An impressive ending as well, though if our friend Yang here hadn't had access to her Aura, I get the feeling you would have cut straight through her legs, nonetheless a very impressive feat." I looked and Goodwitch as she said this. "Damn, straight it was impressive. That's just who I am." Goodwitch surprisingly laughed. "Okay, I'll keep that in mind in the Future. You are now the new champion and will be fighting every class until you are defeated. For now though, it looks like we are out of time for class. You're all dismissed." She then walked to the back of the Arena to where I'm assuming is her office. I walked back up to where Virgo was in the Bleachers. "Hey, you ready to head back to the dorms, I'm gonna need to take the tour, I haven't even been there yet." She laughed at this. "Well, I guess so will I, I haven't made it back to the Dorm's yet, too." I smiled and started to walk to the door with her to head back to the Dorms when I ran into Ozpin. "Hello Leonardo, Virgo. That was a very impressive fight, Leonardo. I had the feeling I had made the right choice in choosing you as leader."
"Thank you Professor, hey Virgo, do mind meeting me at the Dorms, I need to talk to Ozpin about something." Virgo looked at me and nodded, she walked over to meet up with Aries and Ryon as they were just walking out, Aries was counting a wad of cash as she was walking, but that wasn't even close to my highes concern right now. "Well, Ozpin, sense you can no longer hide it, do mind telling me what my Semblance is?" The man's face didn't move. "We should talk in my office, come along." The Professor and I walked over the elevator where he pushed the top floor button. As we were walking into the giant office, there was a large package by the door. He picked it up and smiled. When he saw my confused face he said. "I recently sent my cane to the best weapon smith in Vale to get it polished and sharpened, it's good to have it back." I nodded and walked in to sit down at the chair across from Ozpin's desk as he sat down to open his package and pull out his cane. He quickly put the box and the cane down beside his desk to take care of later. "So, you would like to know more about your Semblance."
"Of Course, that has been my question since the day we discovered it." He looked at me for a moment as if I was going to change my mind and walk out, he then sighed and started talking.
"There was a boy that I knew when I was your age. We had been training together for years to become Huntsmen, along with my other two friends on my team. He was always one to finish every job and mission he got. He never left a problem unsolved and always worked to be the best that he could be. Of course he was an amazing fighter and had a very powerful Semblance that could match no other. He liked to call it his Nova Bomb, because all along, he had never figured out what his Semblance was. He could not stand the mystery, and was always searching for an answer to his problem, He talked to thousands of Huntresses and Huntsmen, hundreds of Monks and Priests. He searched every book he could find on Semblances, just so he could find out what his was. He also trained using his Semblance, he was always trying to master it,find out it's limit and use it to fight Grimm, and for a long time, I helped him. But as I saw his power grow stronger and stronger, I saw him become weaker and weaker after each try." He paused for a moment to look of into the distance of the window behind him, as if he could find this guy if he looked hard enough. After a long silence he finally turned around and kept the story going.
"After we had been searching for 2 years to find a limit on his power, we had still not made a dent on his Semblance. He could take out tens of Grimm just by concentrating on his Power. One day, The two of us, and the other two that were on my team, went out on a Search and Destroy Mission against an Elder Ursa that had been terrorizing a village outside of Vale. When we had made it there, we found the place destroyed. Buildings were rubble, there were corpses all over the town, all of them still fresh. We standing in the middle of it taking it all in and we were surrounded by countless Grimm. Hundreds of them, just ready to kill the four of us. We all thought that we were going to die, until my friend told the others and I to run. We looked at him, but we couldn't just leave him behind. He gave us the most brutal look I had ever seen from him, his eyes glowing from his Aura and told us to run before we got in the way. One of my Teammates and I had gotten the picture and started to run from the town. But my other friend stayed. She had become Increasingly close to him over the years and couldn't leave him there to die, she stood by his side, killing as many Grimm as she could so He could concentrate. When my teammate and I had finally stopped to look back. We saw a huge bright light that exploded out of the town, leaving nothing in it's wake. After the light had finally died down, all there was left was an enormous scorch mark on the Earth and nothing left to show here. I lost two of my best Colleagues that day, and the only people who had seen it was myself, and Glynda Goodwitch. We searched for hours after that, and we found nothing of our friends, they were dead, disintegrated in the explosion." He stopped after that looking at me, as if he expected me to respond.
"Does that mean that I have this man's Semblance? That kind of power is in this body?" I looked down at myself scared of who I might hurt in the future.
"Yes, you have that power within you, this, What you call Aura Release, could be the most powerful Semblance to exist. It decimates all in it's path killing everything that is against the user. That is why you must be careful with it, only use it against Grimm, and only then if you absolutely have to. If you cause any harm to other people, that could be very bad for them and also you. Each time you use it, it will drain your Aura very cannot let it overpower, lest your power could take your own life."
"How do I control this? what can I do to keep myself from hurting the people around me with it?" I was thinking about Virgo at the time.
"Try to train with it, if you would like, I can reserve the coliseum for your training, so you may do it alone. We don't want anyone to be hurt."
"I would love that! I could learn to control my power in a place where i won't be able to hurt anyone, that would be perfect! Thank you so much!" Ozpin smiled at that.
"It is not a problem, I'll get everything situated for your special training sessions and will email your schedule for it to your scroll. You should probably go back to your friends though. They will probably be wondering where you are, we have been conversing for over an hour." I looked at the clock and ran to the elevator yelling back the Headmaster. "Thank you for telling me all this, and thanks for the training sessions!" After I had left the man's smile faded away as he thought back to that day again. "ahhhh, Christopher, why couldn't you be happy with your power?"
WOW Huge Release in this chapter, Ozpin explaining Leo's power and revealing a disturbed past of loss and sorrow for him. Sorry about the fight scene btw. It was kinda short, but it was my first man on man fight scene, cut me some slack, I'll get better. Anyway, Now that everything is sorted out with Leo's Semblance, we are going to go into more personal problems in his life and other school and training type stories ahead of us as Leo deals with his new Training, His school life, and the most important of all, his Love Life. More to come in the future. GuffeyManipulation Out.