Hello Fanfiction, this is J. Van A with a new chapter for you already know the title... I could just change the title to that for a day to just confuse everyone who reads this series, or just anyone scrolling through and then they'll see 'You Already Know The Title' and that will confuse them. Now I am rambling...
Back to important info. Blaise finally wakes up, but something is wrong, Cardin burns his hand, and why are people stealing the haven uniforms?
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"I wonder when Lucia will come back?" Ruby asked herself and almost looked to Blaise for an answer before she remembered he was still knocked out. Quickly sniffing the air she smelled something strange and tilting her head to herself she realized it was the slight smell of blood still on her clothes from the night before. "I should probably take a shower, but Blaise…" she trailed off seeing Blaise laying peacefully on his bed, "He's not going anywhere." Grabbing a towel and a spare Haven uniform Lucia had, she limped into the bathroom.
Unbeknownst to her Blaise slightly stirred as soon as she closed the bathroom door. As he heard the door click his eyes shot open and looked around the room.
"Where am I?" Blaise asked himself looking at his current attire consisting of a simple grey t-shirt and black cargo pants. Looking out the window he saw the congregation of students hanging out around a courtyard. "I seem to be at Beacon, but this isn't my room." Opening the window he jumped out landing in one of the nearby fountains.
Getting out of the fountain he snuck into a nearby bush to collect his thoughts hearing a slight crackling. 'Alright, so I'm back at Beacon. Sedric did… something. And everything is blurry. Did… crap! Did… Ruby! Yes, Ruby! Did Ruby bring me back here?' Blaise asked himself drying his clothes with the assistance of his semblance while looking at a group of Haven students walk by the bush. The one far in the back was roughly his size. Waiting for his opportune moment the group walked past the bush with the last one nearing the bush. Whistling to get the guy's attention Blaise prepared for what was next.
As soon the the Haven student poked his head near the bush Blaise shot up and cupping the students mouth he put the student in a sleeper hold until he wasn't struggling. Carefully taking the student's Haven uniform he pulled it over his somewhat dry shirt. Then he pulled the student's shoes off he pulled them on and casually exited the bush.
'Alright, I've got the food, now I just have to get back to the room before, shit!' Lucia said to herself looking ahead and seeing Ruby walking around in front of the cafeteria with her spare Haven uniform on with the faunus wig on. "What are you doing out here?" Lucia asked the younger girl approaching her.
"I don't know why, but after I decided to take a shower and after I was done Blaisekindofwasgone," Ruby said speaking the last part so fast Lucia almost missed it.
"What do you mean he was gone?" Lucia asked now agitated.
"He was there when I went in the shower, and was gone when I got out," Ruby explained then Lucia grabbed her by her ear dropping the food and started to pull her away before a raven haired girl stopped her.
"What do you think you're doing?" Blake asked Lucia with a killing intent thinking Lucia was picking on a faunus.
"I am having a discussion with my teammate," Lucia explained then Yang looked over half tired before recognising Lucia. Signalling for her teammates to calm down Yang stepped forward.
"Aren't you the girl Cardin terrified the other day?" Yang asked approaching the two making Lucia start to get uncomfortable releasing Ruby's ear.
"Y-yeah," Lucia replied in a somewhat weak voice remembering how awkward the whole ordeal was.
"Well, I am Yang, the one with the bow is Blake, and the princess is Weiss," Yang greeted getting a 'Hey!' from Weiss but dismissed it. As soon as Lucia heard Weiss's name she slightly glared before returning to her shy personality. "My little sister is gone today, but she's usually the one with a red cloak. And you are…?"
"I-I… I have to go," Lucia told them looking at the ground as she pulled Ruby away by the arm.
"It was nice meeting you," Yang said to her before being jabbed in the ribs by a scowling Weiss.
"So why did you leave the room?" Lucia asked pushing Ruby against the wall holding her there by her shoulder.
"I just wanted to take a shower," Ruby sheepishly replied.
"Then you should've waited until I was back so I could take watch." With a sigh she released Ruby and put her hands on her waist. "At least on the bright side, Blaise is awake. But now we have to find him."
"Shouldn't we check his dorm?" Ruby asked rubbing her shoulder.
"That would be a logical place, but Blaise might've had something strange done to him back at the facility. I know Sedric is not above experimentation on his own kind. So Blaise might be anywhere. Here's the plan: You run… walk to the dorms and check in Blaise's room, I will go and check any other places. Any questions?"
"Can I get something to eat?"
"No," Lucia coldly replied making Ruby look like a kicked puppy. Sighing, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a cookie she was going to save from lunch. "Here, take it," she said before the cookie was gone and Ruby had a satisfied smile on her face. Looking at the girl Lucia could've swore she heard the wagging of a tail. "Are you sure you're not part faunus?"
'Kill them!'
'No!' Blaise shouted in his head dismissing that thought as he stumbled down the hallway resting on a nearby handrail.
'Make them pay!' it commanded making the crackling sound get louder.
'No! I won't kill them!'
'They killed your family. Made your life hell. You have the means to kill them. You don't even have to raise a finger, just let out a howl.'
"Shut the fuck up!" Blaise shouted out loud in the empty hallway covering his ears.
'You can't keep me quiet,' it said as Blaise leaned into a nearby corner. 'You can't silence your memories.' The crackling sound got louder and Blaise fell to the ground into the fetal position as he was consumed by fire.
"Anything?" Lucia asked Ruby over the earpiece after Ruby left the dorm building.
"No, neither he nor his team were there," Ruby said walking down the sidewalk, "And all of his things were still in the room so I don't think he made a pit stop."
"Shit! Well, can you start checking the main building, I am going to go through the arena and then to the ballroom. After I check those areas I'll head to the main building."
"I'll see what I can find."
"Mom! Mom!" Blaise could hear a little boy shout through the flames of the burning building. Seeing the small boy Blaise could make out small brown wolf ears and bright blue eyes.
"Can you hear me?" another voice shouted from behind the door, "I am going to kick open the door so get under the bed so you don't get burned." Moments later the door burst open with a small fireball entering the doorway not phasing the older faunus as he ran into the room throwing off a burning blanket he was using as protection. "What are you still doing in the house? The other two are already outside hiding."
"But-but what about mom and dad?" the boy asked with tears falling down his face.
"There is nothing we can do about them," he replied picking up the little boy and started running out the room. "Dad told me to take care you three, and I am going to do that."
"We have to help them," the boy pleaded as the older one started picking up speed running down the hallway.
"I'm sorry Blaise," the older one said as he jumped through the second story window creating a small fireball behind him.
"Excuse me," Ruby said getting some attention from a group of students, "but did any of you guys see a guy wearing just a t-shirt and pants?"
"Uh, yeah actually," a guy from the middle replied, "Jack was walking around the campus heading back to the haven dorms since someone stole them."
"Stole them?"
"Yeah, Jack was knocked out then the guy took his jacket and boots."
"Well, thanks," Ruby thanked them and started to walk away while turning on her earpiece. "Lucia, I think Blaise stole someone's uniform."
"What? Which uniform?"
"A Haven one."
"What is it with people stealing Haven uniforms?"
"I didn't want to wear my smelly outfit alright."
"Oh, you're never seeing that ever again."
"What?! Why? I like that one."
"Simple. That was my old outfit, and I still wear it occasionally."
"The students are starting to enjoy weather. Should we ruin it with the announcement of finals in a couple weeks?" Ozpin jokingly asked Glynda as they were both casually walking down the main tower's tenth floor hallway.
"I thought we would announce it after the dance," Glynda said not looking up from her scroll grading homework.
"I know, I know. I was just making a suggestion since some students are becoming too comfortable here. Some even leave for a couple days and come back without their teams worrying, like with Mr. Campione and Ms. Rose. Ms. Rose left to go to a weapons convention and Mr. Campione went to the coast to look for his sister."
"He has a sister?"
"Yes… What? Is there something?" he asked turning around to face Glynda.
"It should be nothing but," she said pulling up a student list and searched 'Campione.' "Right here, a visiting student from Haven academy going by Lucia Campione. Do you see what I see?" she asked him as she pulled up Lucia's picture.
"Black hair, sunglasses and a beret," Ozpin said looking at the picture. "Are you suggesting that this is Blaise's sister?"
"I'm saying coincidences are not something that occur commonly as of late."
"Blaise?" a voice asked the wolf faunus that was sitting in the fetal position with his eyes pressed against his legs.
"I seriously don't think that is him," another voice told the other, "He's wearing a Haven uniform."
"I could recognize him anywhere," the original voice said approaching the wolf faunus. "Are you alright man?" he asked pressing his hand on Blaise's shoulder before quickly pulling it back. "Shit! It burns!"
"Come on, we should get that checked out. Why didn't you use your aura to protect you?" a third voice asked.
"I did you jerk," the first voice silently yelled at the other then turned back to Blaise. "Blaise, I don't think you're alright. You should probably come with us."
At that comment Blaise's head shot up shocking them for a moment from his eyes nearly shining blue before turning red, then to black and red. The team that had found him was the last team he would expect, CRDL, with Cardin holding a blistering hand.
Letting his body take control Blaise's claws extended out and covered themselves with black flames as he jumped through the team forcing them out of the way. Landing with a crouch Blaise spun around dragging his flaming claws on the ground cutting through the floor. Stopping to face them he paused and gave them a blank stare as he fell through the newly created hole and started to run away slightly scorching the ground leaving a black footprint behind.
"Should we go after him?" Dove asked Cardin who was now wrapping his hand.
"Yes," Cardin replied tying the bandage, "You and Russel go after him, Sky and I will get my hand checked and meet up with you two later. If the trail goes past the lockers get your weapons because if Blaise has lost it, you may need to defend yourselves."
"Got it," Dove nodded then looked at Russel who nodded in confirmation before they both jumped through the hole and followed the tracks.
"Alright, now to the nurse," Cardin said starting his jog to the medical wing and pulled out his scroll to type a message with his good hand.
"What are you doing?" Sky asked him following behind two paces.
"I think we need to alert Blaise's team about him, and we also need to tell Ozpin about the damages," Cardin explained before he hit 'send'.
"Did Cardin just send you guys texts to?" Zaria asked the rest of her remaining team who were sitting in a cafe with AQRS in Vale.
"Maybe," Lapis said taking out his scroll to see the message.
"Well… this is problematic," Eva said after she finished the message. "It would seem that Blaise is back."
"And?" Alex asked.
"He seems to have…" Lapis said then couldn't find the right words to describe it.
"Gone nuts," Zaria finished for him.
"So we should head back?" Quinton asked.
"Yeah, when we get back get your weapons and prepare to fight," Lapis told them as LZE started to head toward the door followed by AQRS. Then quickly typing a message he relayed the message to Yang.
"You go on ahead," Alex told the rest as he started to cross the street, "I'm going to buy some water dust just in case, so reserve a spot for me on the airship."
"What?" Lucia overheard Yang say after opening her scroll and considered this important to listen to. "Blaise is back?"
"Why is that surprising?" Blake asked her.
"Aparently, he has lost it and possibly dangerous," Yang explained engaging her gauntlets. "And now I might be the only one who can stop him."
Turning around she started to smell the air hoping to smell smoke as she reached up to call ruby through the earpiece. "Ruby, you may want to be careful. Blaise seems to have gone nuts."
'I know,' she replied.
"How?"
'There is a smoldering trail of beaten students and burning trees.'
"Well shit me sideways," Lucia said not even trying to rely on scent anymore, "Look, just try to find him, but do not confront him, you're still injured. I am going to get my weapons and head over to where you find him."
"And now this is happening," Glynda said to Ozpin as they both observed what was happening at the ground from Ozpin's office.
"Alright, so no announcing the test until after the dance," Ozpin said taking a drink from his mug.
"Ozpin, he is causing major damage while beating up students," Glynda told him before he waved it off.
"You can head down there if you want, but I know for a fact that this whole ordeal will be over in a few more minutes," he told her pointing at the airship that was landed. "But I am going to help out." He opened his scroll and used the locker program overdrive to send the rest of team BLZE's lockers to their location along with team AQRS's.
"You just want to watch a big battle, don't you?"
"A little," Ozpin smirked as he switched his scroll to the live security cameras on the ground to watch the oncoming battle. Taking another drink from his mug he leaned back in his chair to watch the screens more comfortably.
Pivoting on his foot Blaise hit another unarmed student with his wrist greatsword with a spin attack. Planting his other foot on the ground he jumped in the air to spin hitting another student in the back.
'Why do you stop me? Use Revenge and Fortune and this fight'll be done within moments.'
'Shut the fuck up! I'm doing what I can to avoid killing them because they're my friends.'
'You, friends with humans. Don't make me laugh. They all hate you. The humans deserve to pay.'
Just before he attacked another student he was hit out of mid air by a flare from Yang's gauntlets being knocked back through the air into a glyph trap made by Weiss. Thrusting his broadsword forward he broke one of the glyphs and jumped to the ground. As soon as he landed he was assaulted by a barrage of attacks by Blake.
After blocking the strikes from Blake, Blaise jumped back attempting to avoid any more confrontation with WBY. Then just as he landed a small blue crystal landed at Blaise's feet making him look at it questionly. Suddenly the crystal shined bright blue before it exploded into a massive amount of water that swept up Blaise.
"Is everyone alright?" Alex asked using his semblance to keep Blaise in the water.
"Peachy," one of the assaulted students said before passing out.
"So anyone have any ideas why Blaise is wearing the Haven uniform?" Lapis asked jogging over wearing his blue armor followed by Quinton in his red and black.
"Is that really the question on everyone's mind right now?" Eva asked notching an arrow on her longbow.
"Alex, how much longer can you hold him?" Reita asked unsheathing her shortsword.
"Not much longer," he said, "If I were using the water to attack this could go on for a long time, but this should last for roughly 45 more seconds."
"Great," Yang sarcastically said approaching the two teams, "45 seconds to think of a plan."
"Here's what we do," Shizuko said causing Zaria to jump a little from how close she was, "Yang, Blake, Zaria, Weiss, Alex, and I will work on getting people out of here After you're done with that help keep Blaise contained. Quinton and Lapis, you two are frontal assault. Reita and Eva are on ranged support."
"Sounds like a plan," Alex said before his arms started struggling. "Is everyone ready?"
Before they could get a group consensus, Blaise aimed his railgun pistol from inside the tide and fired off a round hitting Alex breaking his concentration.
Taking several deep breaths Blaise looked up to the two teams with blue eyes and said, "Run." They were confused and were about to ask before Blaise started to cringe in pain and grab a hold of his head as his eyes turned black and red. He then jumped from the small pool of water at Alex and was about to attack before he was blocked by Quinton's kite shield and hit out of the air by Lapis's battle axe.
Just before he could recover he was hit with an ice arrow trapping him for a second before he melted it with his semblance. Then Reita fired off four rounds that would've hit Blaise if he had not blocked it with his broadsword.
Jumping back to the two brothers he swung with one broadsword that was redirected by Quinton's greatsword and hit by Lapis's battle axe engaging the ejection mechanisms dropping the sword to the ground. Quinton then hit Blaise in the chest with the broadsword throwing Blaise back. While he was being thrown back Blaise aimed the other broadsword and fired it off hitting Lapis's chestplate throwing him back.
Getting into a fighting stance Blaise ignited his claws and boots with black flames and waited for the next attack. Reita took aim and fired off a round that hit Blaise in the left knee but melted before it could cause damage. Firing off several more shot Reita gave up with Eva disengaging her semblance.
"He has created a heat bubble around him, using ranged attacks is useless," Eva informed the group as Blaise gave her a dark smile. "Also direct melee attacks would probably do you more harm than good. Also if you use a sword or something he will probably melt that too since he was able to melt a bullet before it reached him."
"He has created the ultimate defense," Reita said.
There was a silence in the courtyard with the only sound being the crackling of the black flames from Blaise's claws and boots. Then the silence was broken by the sound of a gunshot. The bullet traveled through the air and hit Blaise in the chest slightly knocking him back before it melted.
"The thing is," Lucia said pumping her shotgun as she approached the scene, "there is no such thing as an 'ultimate defense.' Especially with Blaise. With him he likes to create the illusion that he is better than you by using cheap strategies. After you are breathtaken from the thought of the ultimate defense you forget to think."
"Aren't you the girl from earlier?" Weiss asked as she used some of her glyphs to throw some of the students away from the scene to be caught by another glyph.
"Yes I am, Snow White," Lucia responded holstering her shotgun then drew her cavalry swords, "And I am possibly your best bet on beating Blaise, unless you guys actually thought this all out."
"Do I know you?" Blaise asked in a deep voice making some nearby people jump a little from surprise.
"You could say that," she said then jumped forward to attack Blaise. As soon as her swords came close to him, Blaise melted the swords as Lucia let go and grabbed her pistol from her belt and fired a bullet hitting Blaise in the chest bouncing off of the uniform. "Fuck, kevlar uniforms, right."
"You'd think that a Haven student would know that," Blaise told her before he uppercutted Lucia hitting her in the jaw.
"Shit! That actually hurt," she said then popped her jaw back in, "You've gotten better since last time. Then again that was about three years ago."
"Who are you?"
"Someone you should know," Lucia said pulling out her longsword, "Recognize this? Excalibur, the sword that can cut through anything, the blade that can't be destroyed by force or flame."
"And you expect to fight me with that?"
"Well, yeah," Lucia told him then looked over her shoulder. "Knights and snipers, help the rest of them with helping the people. I will take care of him."
"Should we trust her?" Yang asked Bake as they picked up Dove and Russel from CRDL.
"Do you think we have any choice," her partner replied.
"We could all fight him."
"And get beat."
"Fine, at least Ruby isn't here."
"Does everyone understand?" Lucia asked as she and Blaise started to circle each other.
"Yes," Lapis said sheathing his battle axe and picking up some students.
"Perfect," Lucia responded then swung with her longsword that Blaise blocked with his hand focusing his aura to protect him but it cuted through cancelling his aura.
"How did you?" he asked but then was kicked in the chest by Lucia and thrown back.
"Surprise motherfucker," she smiled then jumped at Blaise and punched with her free hand at the wolf faunus on the ground.
Rolling out of the way Lucia punched into the ground trapping her for a moment. Standing back up Blaise extended his wrist blades and stabbed Lucia in the shoulder cancelling her aura. Kicking her in the chest with a flaming boot he threw her up in the air before punching her sending Lucia flying sideways.
"Surprise motherfucker," Blaise retorted just as they all noticed another locker flying toward the main sidewalk to the main tower. "Now what?" he asked seeing a lone figure wearing a Haven jacket. "Another Haven student?"
"Guess again," the person said turning to face the small crowd of people looking up with silver eyes.
"Ruby?" Yang asked as Crescent Rose ejected from the flying locker and Ruby caught it.
"You idiot," Lucia said under her breath.
Ruby unfurled her scythe and aimed it behind herself as she started to run using her semblance. Firing off a round she increased her speed, but she tripped from her previous injury and took advantage of her tumble. Firing off more rounds she increased the speed of her rolling spin heading towards Blaise.
"You have got to be kidd-" Blaise said but was cut off by being hit in the chest by the block of the scythe throwing him into the ground creating a small crater knocking him out from the force of the blow.
"Did I get him?" Ruby asked trying to stand up but was dizzy from her impromptu attack.
"Yes, yes you did. But" Yang said then put her sister in a playful headlock, "why are you back now?"
"I-I," Ruby said then broke away from the hold threatening to vomit, "I now know how Jaune feels."
"So what are we going to do about Blaise?" Zaria asked poking her unconscious leader.
"What any sensible person would do," Weiss said, "Bring him to the medical wing, along with as many of the beaten students as we can carry."
"You really don't have to worry about them," Lucia said struggling to get up, "When Blaise fights, if he's not drawing blood, they'll live and will be just fine. So look them over, if they're bleeding, take them in."
"Who are you anyway?" Yang asked looking at the beret wearing girl. "And how do you know so much about Blaise?"
"You could say we've known each other for a long time," Lucia replied making Yang's eye slightly twitch from annoyance. "We practically grew up together, we even shared an apartment in the Mantle region. But then three years ago he did leave and I had lost contact with him."
"Uhh, lady," Lapis said to her in a hushed tone, "You might want to not be talking about this kind of thing with Yang. She is kind of Blaise's girlfriend."
"Oh, you're Blaise's girlfriend?" Lucia asked walking in front of the blonde brawler looking Yang in the eyes.
"Yes," Yang replied turning her eyes red to stare down the slightly shorter girl, "Do you have a problem with that?"
"Not particularly, I mean I just met you," Lucia said pulling off her sunglasses to look at Yang with her red eyes, "And if you could possibly woo Blaise into liking a human then you must be quite something," she reached up and pulled off her beret releasing her pitch black hair showing her wolf ears to the whole group. "Nice to meet you Yang, I am Lucia Campione, Blaise's sister."
Now how was that?"
Every Reader: The plot moved too fast. Why did you make all that jumble together?
I wanted to get this whole thing over with so we can move on to more interesting things where I won't nearly fall asleep typing three chapters while we're still on one plot story arc.
Every Reader: But that is how anime usually is.
Not in my anime
(In case you didn't know, the 'every reader' conversation is my actual conversation with my friend who calls himself my editor but does nothing to help out except nitpick. Yeah I'm saying it!)
Well before I start rambling and publicly humiliating my 'editor' I might as well talk about some important things.
I will post the AQRS trailers in a few days, it will be called 'A Dance With AQRS' and will obviously be about AQRS, but I will inform the readers of news on things that I am planning to do like the art contest or the OC team thing that is still in the planning stages.
Blaise woke up, went nuts, has memory flashes, beat the living crap out of defenseless students, and Lucia met up with Yang.
I now have to sleep, then tomorrow I have to write a paper for my chemistry class.
Goodbye, and have a nice day/night,
-J. Van A