Finals are done! I'm free! Anyway I had some free time after my finals so I made the newest chapter of BLZEing Remnant.
Enjoy.
"Fucking bullshit!" Blaise shouted as he kicked a nearby trashcan after leaving the infirmary building along with his team.
"Blaise, it'll be alright," Zaria said trying to comfort Blaise.
"No it won't!" Blaise nearly growled making his team jump back. "Since I haven't been cleared for combat yet because my injuries from Xais Cay I won't be able to participate in the combat classes. If that happens I will lose practice and become sloppy in a real fight then potentially die. I need to fight."
"Blaise, you're probably one of the best fighters in the first year," Lapis cautiously told him, "You probably won't be needing practice for a while."
"Really?" Blaise sarcastically asked, "Then how about this, next time the fucking mutated grimm are attacking, by all means, stay behind and make some popcorn because papa Blaise is going to beat all the bad monsters."
"Blaise, you don't have to be an ass about it," Lapis said completely done with being nice. "You're not cleared for combat. If you were to get into a fight you would surely lose. If we were fighting mutated grimm you would be the first to die. We are trying to keep you alive."
"Look Lapis," Blaise said as he walked over to Lapis and put his hands on his shoulders. Looking him in the eyes though his wayfarers he said, "You're an asshole." Letting go of Lapis' shoulders and straightening his jacket he turned around and headed to the main building. "Anyway, we have Glynda's class soon."
"Over my dead bod-" Jaune was saying to Cardin until Cardin kneed Jaune in the gut making him collapse. Cardin then stood over Jaune and raised his mace ready for the killshot then a buzzer went off and the stage lights turned on and Glynda Goodwitch stepped out onto the stage.
"Students as you can now see Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament style duel this would indicate Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match," Glynda said to the crowd then turned to Jaune. "Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now, try to refer to your scroll during combat. The gauge of your aura will decide when it is appropriate when to attack or when it is better to move to a more defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a beowolf, now would we?" Then she turned to everyone else in the arena. "Remember everyone the Vytal Festival is only a few months away. It won't be long before the students from the other kingdoms arrive in Vale, so keep practicing. Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale," she finished as the bell rang and people dispersed.
"So there we were in the middle of the night," Nora said to the three teams at the table.
"It was day," Ren said in a monotone voice.
"We were surrounded by Ursi," Nora continued with her story that seemed to be entertaining Yang.
"They were beowolves," Ren corrected again.
"There were dozens of them!" Nora exclaimed standing up.
"Two of them."
"But they were no match. And in the end Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of lien selling ursa skin rugs," Nora said happily.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now," Ren explained to the group.
"Jaune are you ok?" Pyrrha asked her partner who jumped a little from being brought out of his daydream.
"Oh, yeah. Why?" Jaune asked her putting down his fork.
"It's just that you seem a little, not ok," Ruby said to the knight.
"Guys, I'm fine," Jaune said trying to lighten the mood, "Seriously look." He then pointed his thumb up striking a pose, but then his attention was drawn to the sound of Cardin laughing next to Velvet.
"Jaune, Cardin had been picking on you since the first week of school," Pyrrha said.
"Cardin Winchester, nah. He just likes to mess around you know, practical jokes," Jaune said trying even harder to lighten the mood.
"It didn't seem like a joke when he was trying to hit you in the face with his mace," Blaise said after finishing his food.
"He's a bully," Ruby said scowling
"Oh please name one time he's 'bullied' me?" Jaune asked.
"Knocking down your books in the hallway, pushing the button on your shield to pin you in a doorway, shoving you in a rocket locker and sending it off to random coordinates," Eva said reciting them from memory.
"I didn't land far from the school," Jaune said trying to blow off Eva's remark.
"Jaune, you know if you ever need help you can just ask," Pyrrha said to Jaune.
"Ooh, we'll break his legs," Nora said standing up making a sadistic face sending shivers down everyone's spine.
"Guys really, it's fine. Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me, he's a jerk to everyone," Jaune said then everyone turned to the sound of Velvet.
"Ow! That hurts!" Velvet shouted as Cardin pulled on her ears laughing, "Please stop." Nobody at the table noticed when Blaise disappeared from the table.
"I told you they were real," Cardin said to his team laughing, still holding on to Velvet's ear.
"Cardin, let go of her," Blaise said as he seemed to appear right behind Cardin. The he grabbed the back on Cardin's neck. "If you should know anything about me, its that I always have blades on my wrist that are very deadly. If you do not release her ear, well, let's hope Beacon has a very good infirmary." Cardin, not wanting to have another hole in his neck, quickly released the rabbit faunus' ear who just ran out of the cafeteria. "Now was that so hard?" Blaise asked him as he removed his hand from Cardin's neck.
"What the hell is your problem?" Cardin asked Blaise as he pushed Blaise off of him. "All faunus are just freaks." At that comment Blaise went silent, Ruby dropped her pudding spoon, Yang looked like she was going to kill Cardin, and Blake reached behind her for Gambol Shroud only to grasp air.
"They are not freaks you ass," Blaise retorted.
"Why are you even defending them? They are freaks of nature that shouldn't even exist." Cardin was waiting for an answer but only received a fist to the gut from Blaise.
"Sunday, noon, the arena," Blaise said turning around, "If you truly believe that faunus are freaks of nature then you'll fight for your belief. I'll even let you have your team help you out." He then turned around and left the arena to prepare for the match in two days.
"God Dammit!" Blaise shouted as he dropped his left broadsword and grabbed his shoulder after he hit the hit the training dummy. "Piece of shit!" He then punched the dummy with his good arm breaking the dummy's steel head off its body.
"Uhh hello," he heard a voice say from behind him. Turning around he saw that it was Velvet.
"Hello," Blaise greeted then stood up holding his shoulder, "I swear I'm not usually this destructive."
"It's ok," she replied, "I just came here to say thanks. Is there anything I can do to thank you for helping me at the cafeteria?"
"I don't suppose you can fix bad shoulders," Blaise joked as he picked up his broadsword. There was a moment of silence as the blades retracted back into his sleeves. Standing straight up he then leaned on the shoulder of the broken dummy. "You do, don't you?"
"In my second year aura control class they taught us that aura can be used to speed the healing processes for others," she explained, then she turned her head to the side to look away, "but it does require direct skin contact."
Blaise sat there for a moment considering his options the took off his jacket. "Alright let's get this over with." After taking off his thin hoodie he paused for a moment before taking off his shirt. Velvet had turned around slightly embarrassed. He then pulled off his grey shirt. "Ok, let's do this."
She turned around to look at his wounds and what stood out were all the scars, some were recent, but others seemed to have been there for a long time. One of the newer ones was located right on his shoulder and it seemed to be the most bruised up.
"The scars," Blaise said looking at the scars on his bare chest, "I could probably make up some epic story behind all of these, but I don't like to lie. Even with amnesia I still have a good idea where most of these came from." Velvet was going to ask before Blaise cut her off. "Let's just say I'm not fighting Cardin just for you."
"Blaise, this is probably going to hurt," Velvet said as she rested her hands on his shoulder. After she said that she focused some aura into her hands causing them to heat up sending a warm pulse into his his shoulder.
"That's actually quite nic-aaaaahhhHH!" he shouted as his shoulder felt like it was erupting in fire as the bone force healed and his muscles stretched into the area healing. This went on for several minutes as Blaise tried to move away from Velvet's hands, but she still kept them on. Randomly during that time Blaise jerked his head back in pain knocking his hat off revealing his wolf ears. After a couple of minutes Velvet had removed her hands but Blaise's shoulder was still burning.
"That should be it," Velvet said rubbing her hands together.
"That was fun, we should do it again," Blaise said standing up and holding his shoulder. "So theoretically, my shoulder should be better now?"
"Yeah, after the swelling goes down," Velvet explained as she headed towards the exit.
"Velvet," Blaise said making her turn around for a second, "Thank you."
"You're welcome, good luck." She then left the room leaving Blaise alone to grab his hat then head back towards his room.
"Hi Blaise," Lapis greeted not looking up from his book as Blaise walked into the room, hung up his coat, put on his winter cap, then flopped down on his bed. "Not even going to say 'hello'?"
"Mmmfft," Blaise mumbled through his pillow attempting a greeting before he nearly passed out.
"Nice to see you to," Lapis said, "Also the girls are out for a movie. Apparently there is some new romantic comedy thing that was based off of a book or something. They left with Pyrrha, Weiss, Nora, and Blake. So guys night? I'm sure Jaune and Ren are bored out of their skulls right now."
"Mnft," Blaise mumbled then started to snore.
"Fine, I'll go over there by myself," Lapis said then closed his book and stood up. Just as he was putting away the book he was reading he heard the door open. "Yes, what do you want?" he asked while turning around to see Yang at the doorway.
"Hi Lapis, have you seen Blaise's jacket?" Yang asked walking into the room only to get the response of him pointing to the coat rack with Blaise's jacket sloppily hanging on the hooks. "Thanks. You wouldn't happen to know what Blaise's symbol is, would you?" she asked as she grabbed the jacket.
"Something like a wolf howling and the broken moon," Lapis said walking to the exit, "Now then, this is where I depart." He then left the room and headed toward team JNPR's room.
"Alright Ren, the girls are out and this is probably our only chance," Jaune said while removing the false panel in his headboard, "Lapis is getting some snacks before he gets here, but Blaise is out cold sleeping, so we need one more person," he then pulled out a new gaming console and four controllers, "to help us beat this game tonight."
"Couldn't we just play some other game since our player four is out?" Ren asked as he pulled four cushions from under each of his teammates' beds.
"No, we have worked so hard for this. If we have to we can have Blaise's character sit on the side lines as we finish the campaign," Jaune explained as he hooked up the console to the room's tv.
"Blaise worked just about as hard as us, if not harder, to get to where we are now."
"We can't miss this opportunity," Jaune said then inserted the game disk and selected 'play game'. As soon as the screen faded there were several color explosions on the screen, then it flashed black and white. Suddenly Blaise's symbol appeared on the screen and underneath it some text started to appear on the screen.
It said: 'Jaune, Jaune, Jaune. You seriously couldn't wait for me? Come on? I carried your ass through the whole game. Thanks to my pyromancer we managed to beat the sixth boss when you three died, then I revived you all. So long story short, I have the game and we are not finishing it unless we are all present.'
"Hey guys, are we finishing the game today?" Lapis asked as he burst into the room, he then looked at the screen, "Oh."
"Guys, have any of you seen my jacket?" Blaise asked his teammates while going through his closet trying to find the grey leather aviator trench coat.
"Nope," Lapis said peeking his head through the covers, "I have no idea what you did with it after you came back last night. In other news we had to play an open world sandbox game since you took the other one. Now let me sleep," he finished then pulled the covers over his head.
"I didn't see it when we got back last night," Eva said brushing her hair, "Also we didn't see your fedora."
"Great, now I've lost two pieces of clothing," Blaise muttered as he threw his hands up in frustration.
"Blaise, it's the weekend," Zaria reasoned after finishing drinking a canned iced tea, "You can just go in casual clothes for the day. I'm sure we'll find your things."
"I have to train anyway," Blaise said finally giving up and getting up, then he grabbed his black hoodie and left the room.
"He's going to go train?" Eva asked skeptically, "He should still be injured from Xais Cay."
Sunday finally approached and most of the first years, most of the school's faunus population, several second year teams also came along to the arena to see the fight. While Blaise was still preparing for the fight in the locker room the rest of team BLZE was located in the first row next to teams RWBY and JNPR.
"Do you think we should've been in the fight along side Blaise?" Zaria asked biting the tip of her thumb nervously, "He should still be injured from Xais Cay making him not able to use his left arm correctly."
"He'll be fine," Ruby said relaxing in her chair then she looked around, "Where's Yang?"
"Alright, broadswords, railgun pistols, and wrist blades. Am I missing anything?" Blaise asked himself outloud as he checked over his weapons on each of their holders.
"You're missing this," Yang said as she walked over to him and threw his jacket at him. "I took the liberty of making your jacket cooler."
Looking at the jacket, it seemed to not be any different, except for two things. On the back of the jacket was his symbol, a black wolf howling in front of the broken moon, and on the top of the jacket was a simple grey leather hood. The hood was a little bit larger than his head so it drooped a little almost reaching his eyes and in the middle of the hood was what appeared to be a small leather triangle that was all part of the attire. All of the adjustments seemed to be professionally done, he couldn't even tell that the hood wasn't supposed to be there since it wasn't messing with the collar. In the back of the hood just above the seam on the inside was a very small version of Yang's symbol.
"Thanks Yang," Blaise said as he took off his hat and pulled on the jacket. Then he paused for a moment and asked, "Did you take my fedora."
"Uhh yeah."
"And where is it?"
"I burned it," Yang smiled as she said that.
"Well it doesn't matter," Blaise said pulling the hood over his head, "I won't need it after today." He then turned to walk towards the arena.
"Don't forget. If all else fails, hit 'em in the balls!" Yang shouted as Blaise was almost out of the room. When Blaise heard that remark he chuckled loud enough that Yang heard him. "Oh crap," Yang said then rushed back to the arena to where Ruby was saving her seat.
"Are you ready for this faunus lover?" Cardin asked him then laughed along with his team who were standing behind him Holding their weapons ready.
"You know," Blaise said, "having a team during a fight is good only if the team can work well together. So in some situations," the buzzer went off and Blaise shot forward then before they could react Blaise was right in front of Russell with both of his pistols out right against his chest while turning up the charge, "being a solo act is the best plan." He then pulled both triggers throwing Russell into the wall. He pulled the triggers again shooting Russell who was still in the wall knocking his aura down to red taking him out of the match.
Sky and Dove both readied their weapons' guns counterparts and fired at Blaise at the same time connecting with his back barely even knocking 5% of Blaise's aura off. Cardin then took the next move uppercutting Blaise with his mace causing the mace to release explosive dust sending Blaise flying into the air.
At the apex of his ascent he activated the broadswords still keeping them connected to his wrist. Then when he fell he aimed himself towards Cardin. Just as he was about to hit the ground blaise delivered an axe kick down on Cardin's head making him double over. Then he pivoted on his leg and smacked Cardin with the broad side of the broadsword throwing him into the wall. Activating Ruby's adjustment Blaise shit the broadswords into the ground at an angle, then he just stood in the middle of the two swords.
Sky and Dove both knew it was a trap so they tried to shoot Blaise again, but this time he dodged without moving his feet. They attempted to shoot him again several times but still getting the same result, so in a moment of shared anger they charged. Just before they hit Blaise he reached for his blades, one hand grabbing the handle normally and the other upside down, and with one spinning tug he pulled both blades out of the ground and hit both of the CRDL members sending them both into the wall. Quickly putting the blades back on the wrist holder he activated Ruby's contraption sending both of the blades at Dove and Sky pinning them to the wall by their clothes. He pulled out both of his pistols and fired off a round at each of them knocking their auras to red.
Just after Blaise fired off the shot Cardin charged at Blaise hitting him with an explosive mace strike throwing Blaise back into the wall making him drop his pistols in the process.
"Now what are you going to do? Fight me with your little wist knives?" Cardin mockingly asked him slowly walking over to Blaise who was standing back up with a slight slouch.
Blaise then crossed his arms in an 'X' formation and extended both of his wrist blades. "Yes," he said then lunged at Cardin who was already in mid swing. Adjusting the path of the blade he shoved one in between the blades of the mace and twisted it disarming Cardin. Then Blaise took his other blade and cut the top of Cardin's hand sending his aura down to the red immediately. At that point before the buzzer would sound ending the match Blaise took that split second to sheathe his right blade and punch Cardin right in the face sending him on his back.
There was total silence from the crowd from what they've seen, so Blaise took that opportunity to talk.
"You really think faunus are freaks of nature? Lesser beings than you? Well guess what motherfucker?" Blaise asked as he pulled off his hood revealing his wolf ears on the top of his head gaining a shocked gasp from the spectators, "You just got your ass handed to you by one." He then kicked Cardin in the face giving him a bloody nose and turned around to leave the room accompanied by cheers by the spectators.
Aaaand cut. Alright good shoot everybody. Oh wait, this isn't a movie. Well that was something.
I decided to have Blaise reveal his heritage at the end because I honestly couldn't think of any other plans to have Blaise hide who he is. So next chapter will be interesting including: Blaise calling Lapis an ass, many questions about Blaise's past, and possibly a meeting with Sedric and/or Roman because I want to.
Anyway, have a good day.