Well hello there. Here's the newest chapter to BLZEing Remnant. Basically this chapter takes place during Jaunedice part 2 to Forever Fall part 2. Prepare for Lapis being blunt, Blaise swearing at Lapis, Eva beating up Blaise... SEDRIC FINALLY (no Roman in this chapter sadly)... coffee jokes, then team BLZE kicking grimm butt. There you go you don't have to read the chapter now, well that's not true. If you want to know how the plot is going to progress you should read.
Enjoy.
"So…?" Zaria asked Blaise as the entire team gathered in their dorm room but then she felt awkward so she stopped.
"What?" Blaise asked her twitching his wolf ear.
"Why didn't you tell us you were a faunus?" Lapis asked bluntly.
"I didn't mention it?" Blaise asked trying to look innocent, but it was ineffective since the wayfarers were blocking his eyes.
"No," Lapis deadpanned, "Reasons, now."
"Jeez, a little harsh," Blaise commented then slumped his head down. "Do you know how confusing it was to try and get by with amnesia. Now add fanus discrimination into the mix and there you have it." Blaise then stood up and started taking off his jacket. "I know I have no memories, but that isn't a whole truth." He pulled off his last layer of clothing revealing the several scars scattered across his chest and back causing the girls in the room to gasp in surprise. "When I'm alone, I look at these scars, a-and I get slight flashbacks. All of pain, and hate at those who gave these to me. I know why they did it. Sometimes I hear their voices, all of the things they say." He touched a crescent one on the middle of his chest. "This one has a very interesting story behind it, but I've never figured it out, I just… feel it." He pulled back on his grey shirt. "Anyway, is that enough reasons dickhead?" Blaise asked Lapis while pulling his black hoodie on.
"Jeez, now who's a little harsh?" Lapis asked offended.
"Lapis, you seriously haven't caught on? I just call you insults because it's boring calling you by your name," Blaise deadpanned as he sat back down on his chair.
"Blaise, that is kinda mean," Eva noted.
"Shut it shortcake," Blaise said then smiled as he prepared for the flying attack from the archer.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" Sedric asked sarcastically as Blaise walked into the white room where Sedric was handcuffed to the table.
"She rejected you again, didn't she?" Blaise asked motioning towards Sedric's large bruise on his cheek as he sat down.
"Yeah, she's a tricky one. But one day! One day I shall convince her to go on a date with me!" Sedric exclaimed standing up suddenly then was pulled down by the handcuffs.
"You're a hopeless romantic," Blaise said pulling a fast food burger from his jacket pocket and slid it across the table to Sedric who consumed it in a matter of seconds and smiled.
"Ahh, food, somewhat real food," Sedric breathed a sigh of relief, "This place gives the same things everyday for the different meals. Breakfast: a slice of ham, a piece of bread, eggs, and orange juice. Lunch: turkey sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce, a bunch of chips, and a carton of milk. Dinner: same thing as lunch except we get a chocolate cookie, good thing we wolf faunus can eat chocolate. Speaking of that, finally good to see you're embracing your heritage."
"Well I couldn't hide it much longer," Blaise explained making his ears twitch slightly.
"And how are the ladies treating ya?"
"And why does this matter?"
"Oh, come on. I am stuck in my jail cell with a small tv in the corner ceiling on a constant news channel. I live off drama related stuff. They don't even give us books in here," he said throwing his head back and running his hands through his hair in frustration.
"I could tell."
"So?"
"No, I don't have a girlfriend."
"That still doesn't answer my question. How are they treating ya?"
"Well…" Blaise said thinking, "This morning my teammate Eva jumped on me."
"Then?"
"Then she repeatedly hit me in the head yelling at me to stop calling her short." At that remark Sedric almost fell over laughing.
Still laughing he said, "That's hilarious." Then he recomposed himself. "So, how's the cache going on?"
"I haven't gone there yet."
"Seriously?"
"I was planning on visiting Dust of a New Day during the semester break. I could probably make a cover story saying I was going out of the kingdom to investigate my past saying something about a wolf faunus family that had a runaway child. While everyone thinks I'm out of the kingdom I'll just go to Dust of a New Day, color my hair, stop wearing the sunglasses, probably get a new change in clothes. Did Ozpin ask you about the person who killed the leader of the Amethysts yet?"
"No, not yet. Why?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"I seriously don't want to be called Luchino. Can we do a cooler name like Wolfgang Costantino? It would throw them off as they're trying to find me."
"That is a significantly better idea. I don't even have to say our last name. This is why you're the smarter one out of us four. Anyway, Dust of a New Dawn, new stuff, and Wolfgang Costantino, got it. Now then, on your way," Sedric said motioning for Blaise to leave, and so he did.
"So has he told you anything new?" Ozpin asked Blaise from behind his desk drinking his coffee slightly smiling after each sip, apparently Glynda decided to buy the good coffee grounds this time.
"Same as usual, 'I hate you. You should've killed me back at Xais Cay,' same old, same old. Although this time when I walked in he saw the ears and called me an obedient little pup," Blaise replied then drank from his coffee cup surprised that the coffee was actually good. "What kind of coffee is this anyway? It is amazing."
"I honestly don't know," Ozpin replied studying the liquid in his mug intensely, "Glynda never tells me where she buys this brand, and every time she does buy the brand she burns the packaging before I can see what the label is."
"That's a shame."
"Yeah. Now, on to other business," he said then moved around a couple of papers to find the one he was looking for, Blaise's student files. He tossed them at Blaise who caught them and took a quick glance before looking back at the headmaster. "It says here that when you filled out the application you put your race as 'human.' Now I know that faunus are not really accepted as equal members of society yet, I would like for you to be a little more honest with me on these matters. For example, your amnesia."
"How do you know that?"
"That's simple." He put down his mug. "When you first came to Beacon on the first day you tended to hide in the background. You avoided people to the extent of sleeping in the hallway. Not to mention you never even uttered a word to any of the students. Then suddenly you were the talkative one who enjoyed making fun of Lapis. I connected the dots."
"So you just wanted to talk to me about lying on the transcripts?" Blaise asked raising an eyebrow as he took another sip from his mug.
"No," he said then scribbled down a note and handed it to Blaise, "Because of your performance yesterday in taking down team CRDL alone, you have been cleared for combat. I'll send Glynda the message, but if she doesn't allow you to participate, just show her this note. That's all, now I have some other business to attend to."
"Thanks," Blaise said stuffing the note in his pocket then he left Ozpin's office.
-I'm just going to put a timeskip here because why not?-
"Blaise wake up!" Zaria shouted at Blaise making his ears move so she wasn't so loud.
"No, I don't want any more pancakes devil woman," Blaise mumbled half asleep as he did a slow morning push up off his bed.
"Blaise, we're going to be late," Lapis said putting on his chest plate, "We're going on a field trip to Forever Fall to get some sap."
"Not the pancakes, I can't drink syrup," Blaise mumbled as he rolled off his bed then continued to snore.
"Wake UP!" Eva shouted as she jumped off her bed landing on Blaise's ribs fully waking him up.
"What! Where's the grimm?!" Blaise shouted jumping up off of the ground throwing Eva safely on to one of the beds.
"In Forever Fall," Lapis said throwing Blaise's jacket at him, "Now get dressed, the ship leaves in half an hour. Make sure to bring your weapons, including the ones you've been tinkering with in your spare time."
"Alright, we have the sap, now what?" Blaise asked looking at his scroll pacing around the area his team was located.
"Well, normally I would say we should just bring back the sap, but remember Joseph's story?" Lapis asked not waiting for a response, "I say we should split up and provide security for the other teams in case the mutated grimm show up since we have the most experience fighting them."
"That's probably our best course of action," Eva replied extending her collapsed spear turning it into a crossbow. "North, south, east, west. That sound good?"
"I'll take north," Blaise said walking away from the group, "Everyone, be careful. If you know you're going to lose, don't be a hero."
"Already?" Eva asked as she reached a team currently under attack from a group of four mutated boarbatusks. Jumping off of her tree just in time she implanted the spear in the ground blocking the boarbatusk's charge, she quickly pulled her spear from the earth and impaled the boarbatusk killing it.
Pulling out her spear she jumped backwards dodging two boarbatusks' charges. After she landed he turned her spear into a crossbow and shot one of the boarbatusks with an exploding arrow and the other with an ice arrow. She turned her crossbow back into a spear and threw it at the last boarbatusk impaling it through the eyes into the skull.
After accepting several 'thank you's she jumped back into the trees searching for another group of grimm.
As soon as Zaria reached a team from Beacon who were fighting a group of mutated beowolves who seemed to be handling it just fine so she held back in case she was needed. They had killed half of the ten beowolves, but then a beowolf got a lucky shot on one of the members throwing them into a tree.
Pulling her pistol out she hit the armor of the alpha distracting it long enough for the team to go and help their fallen member. Shooting a grapple from her grapple holder on her wrist she launched herself at the alpha unsheathing one of her katanas decapitating the grimm angering the rest of the pack.
After holstering her pistol she unsheathed her other katana and inserted a yellow dust crystal into the bottom of each of the handles. Then the beowolf pack charged at the ninja who's katanas sparked and glowed slightly yellow.
Activating her semblance she jumped upward and aimed her wrist at the nearest grimm and fired off a grapple hook then pulled sending her flying into the group of gimm. Adding a spin to her descent she cut one beowolf horizontally in half as she landed. Not missing a beat she spun around and hit another grimm electrocuting it then stabbing it in the skull with her other blade. Then she back flipped and in mid air she stabbed the last two grimm through the jaw into their skulls sending a blast of electricity into their heads killing them.
"That was kinda refreshing," Zaria said sheathing her katanas as the four beowolves collapsed on the ground dead.
"Why did I have to take east?" Lapis asked himself out loud as he blocked another strike from the deathstalker's stinger with his axe. "Seriously, it took all of team JNPR to kill one of these things."
Blocking another strike from the deathstalker he aimed the end of the barrel at the deathstalker and fired off some rounds distracting it for a second. He activated his semblance and tried to cut off the pincer but the axe just bounced off harmlessly.
The deathstalker striked again with it's tail hitting Lapis in the back bouncing off making him drop his battleaxe and throwing him into a nearby tree. During the time it took Lapis to recover the deathstalker cut him off from his weapon.
"You're really going to do this?" Lapis asked the deathstalker as it stabbed it's stinger into the ground causing it to explode sending a large chunk of earth at Lapis. Activating his semblance almost at the last second he punched the flying dirt causing it to break apart not hurting him. As soon as the projectile broke apart Lapis was met with the deathstalker's stinger striking him in the chest knocking him back a couple of feet.
"You're only pissing me off," he said activating his semblance again causing his armor to glow a dark blue. He charged at the deathstalker who then tried to impale Lapis again with the stinger, but before it hit him he took two steps back. As the stinger impaled the ground he jumped forward getting a hold of the grimm's bone armor avoiding the explosion.
The grimm immediately took notice of Lapis holding on to it's tail, so it started to hit Lapis on the sides of several trees, but he held strong.
"You don't seem to understand," Lapis said activating his semblance again radiating a dark blue aura off of his armor as he grabbed the base of the deathstalker's stinger, "YOU'RE ONLY PISSING ME OFF!" He squeezed the base as hard as he could causing the base to break from the rest of the tail. The deathstalker threw Lapis off screeching in pain along with the stinger. In mid-air Lapis grabbed the stinger and landed on the side of a tree, then he jumped off with enough force to cause a crater to form on the side of the tree launching him at the deathstalker.
Getting a good hold of the stinger he threw it at the deathstalker's head impaling it enough so the stinger didn't move. Closing in, Lapis drew his arm back for a punch and as he reached the base of the broken stinger he let all of his rage into that last punch. As his fist connected with the stinger the sheer force caused the stinger to force it's way through the deathstalker impaling the ground killing the grimm.
"This is why you don't piss me off," Lapis said then picked up his axe and attached it on to his back and headed to the next area to see if he could help any groups.
"I think I've gone too far," Blaise said to himself as he looked at his surroundings. The trees became so thick that the canopy was blocking out the sunlight causing the air to seem heavy. Taking one step forward he stepped on a twig causing Blaise to nearly scream like a girl. In the distance the distinct sound of movement could be heard. The movement stopped so Blaise quickly activated his broadswords fast enough to block the 8 taloned jumping strike from above by an arachne grimm.
Quickly spinning around he delivered a strength strike down cutting the grimm's head in half. Before he could take a breather another arachne jumped at him with all talons aimed at him barely letting him escape. Sheathing his left broadsword he pulled out his railgun pistol and shot another arachne getting ready to jump. Using his right broadsword he cut off two of the grimm's legs then he shoved the pistol in the arachne's face and pulled the trigger killing it.
Holstering his railgun pistol he aimed his left arm at another arachne climbing on the trees then activated the broadsword's mechanism shooting out the broadsword that assembled itself during the flight impaling the arachne killing it and pinning it to the tree. Another arachne jumped from the trees so Blaise repeated the process impaling the grimm on it's descent. As the grimm reached the ground Blaise grabbed the handle of the broadsword then swung it decapitating another grimm. Sheathing his broadsword again he shot it at another arachne pinning it to the ground, then Blaise pulled out his pistol and fired off another round killing the grimm.
He holstered his pistol and unsheathed his newly adjusted cutlasses. Another arachne jumped at the wolf faunus he stabbed the grimm stopping the grimm's descent. He then pulled the sword's trigger making the newly equipped railguns that replaced the sword's magnums fire off killing the grimm spider then he kicked it to get it away from him. After he kicked the grimm away he saw he was surrounded by the spider grimm from all angles.
"This is about to get interesting," Blaise said flipping his left sword upside down and started to pivot on his foot as several arachne jumped at him.
There we go. Now how was that? The cliffhanger should be obvious to figure out what happens next, Blaise kills the grimm. Lapis is now eligible for baseball and we don't even have to buy bats since he'll just punch it.
The next chapter should have everyone's favorites in it: Roman, Neo, Junior, Sedric, and maybe a new character. Let's see who can figure out who the next newest character will be. There are references in the chapters for this person just so you know.
Happy hunting.
-J. Van A
(Oh yeah, I changed my name a bit.)