Sorry that I haven't uploaded in a while. My internet was down for a week and I had to go to the doctors and stuff like that. I'll try to make this chapter longer than they usually are to make up for not working at all. Anyways, on with the show... book fan fiction thingy.
Setting Up The Plot For Later
Fire was walking down the hall on his way back to his dorm and had just finished eating dinner and was stuffed. He had gone early to avoid Jaune and Blake's questioning and was deep in thought about the images he had saw when he passed out yesterday. Were they real or just a dream? Fire's thoughts were interrupted as he bumped into somebody. "Hey watch ou- ohhh hey Marco." Fire said meekly as Marco turned around. Marco had black, messy hair and had black wolf ears. He was wearing a black trench coat that was red on the inside and jeans with a chain coming out of the pocket and was connected to a belt loop. He was also wearing sunglasses and his red eyes glowed behind them whenever he was mad, like they were now. His frown became a smile after he saw it was Fire who had bumped into him. "Oh, don't worry about it buddy." Marco punched him in the stomach and Fire fell over, clenching his stomach. Marco began to walk away as if nothing had happened and as he passed Fire he kicked him in the stomach and kept walking. "Ow." Fire got up to his feet and looked around, thankfully no one had seen that. Fire let out a sigh of relief and continued towards his dorm, trying not to throw up. Getting kicked in the stomach when you just finished a huge meal wasn't the best thing for his health at the moment. When he arrived he checked to make sure no one was there. He fell over on to his bed and let out a groan. Marco was going to get his one day, but until then Fire was going to have to live with his constant bullying. Is this what Jaune felt like when Cardin had been bullying him? Blake and Ruby walked in and seemed to be talking about something and saw the condition Fire was in. He looked a little green and looked like he was about to throw up. Ruby turned to walk out the door to avoid him, but Blake grabbed her by the shoulder to stop her. "Could you give him a break for once? he's in more pain than he lets on and you ignoring him isn't helping." Ruby grumbled something and climbed onto her bed and started doing her homework. She usually did it at the last second with Yang, but she was willing to do anything to avoid talking to Fire. Blake walked over to him and looked down at him. "You okay?" Fire looked up at her. "Yes, I'm completely fine." Blake was about to say something until Fire ran to the trash can and threw up. "I'm assuming you're trying to take Jaune's title of 'Vomit Boy'." Fire stopped throwing up and turned to face Blake. "No, you're just really ugly." Right when he finished insulting Blake he turned green again and continued to throw up. Blake decided to leave him alone for now. "I'm going to go get something to eat, do you want to come Fire?" At the mention of food Fire felt even worse and threw up some more. Blake sighed and walked out of the room, leaving Fire alone with Ruby (the person that hated him most at the moment) as he continued throwing up. Serves him right for using Weiss' fear of snakes against her.
After a while Fire had stopped throwing up and stumbled back over to his bed and fell over. He reached in between the wall and the mattress, pulling out a bottle and he began to drink from it. It wasn't his usual Cherry Cola and Ruby looked closer at the label. It was called "Red Demon". She had heard that name before, it was a really strong sort of rum that even Yang couldn't drink without getting drunk out of her mind. Only people that were really depressed drank it, it was used more to numb yourself than to drink. Fire finished off the bottle and belched and placed it back in his hiding spot and rolled over to face the wall as he fell asleep. Weird, Fire was usually the last one to fall asleep and the first to wake up. Sometimes he didn't even sleep, whether he had school tomorrow or not. Ruby remembered all the times Weiss would yell at him for not going to bed earlier and sleeping in his normal clothes. Fire said it was in case they were attacked, but everyone knew it was because he didn't want to get caught in the middle of changing since everyone in his dorm was a girl. Ruby thoughts were interrupted by Fire tossing and turning, he seemed to be having another nightmare, just like he always did. After a while it got annoying and Ruby threw a pillow at him. His eyes shot open and he grabbed it in midair as his fist caught on fire. The pillow turned to ash in Fire's hands and he put out his flames. "Sorry. It's a reflex. I'll buy you a new pillow tomorrow." Ruby just glared at him and he rubbed the back of his head. "Good talk." Fire laid back down and went back to sleep as Ruby continued to glare at him. Because of him she had to make a new Crescent Rose from scratch, she had nightmares all the tie, and her twin brother had died... yet she felt more empty than mad. She just wanted Garnet back, but that wasn't possible and that made her angry. A lot of things that Adam had done had made her angry and she had took it all out on Fire and she blamed him. Maybe she should try to make up with him. He had apologized and wasn't angry at her even after all the things she had done to him. In fact, part of her ached every time she saw him and wanted nothing more than to have things the way they used to be. Him annoying her, making her laugh, and the the movie nights they had. She sighed and looked over at him as he continued to snore silently. Maybe it was time to end all this before he snapped. Ruby set aside her homework and yawned, she'd deal with it tomorrow.
The next day Fire had woken up early, it was Saturday and he wanted to make sure it wasn't ruined by him running into Yang or Ruby. He grabbed some linen of his dresser and was about to grab the doorknob until Blake saw what he was doing. "Were are you going?"
Fire jumped and spun around. "God, don't do that! I was going to go out and enjoy my weekend."
Blake raised an eyebrow. "At four in the morning?"
"Okay, I really want to avoid the others. I prefer to not hear why I'm a monster and getting dirty looks all the time."
Blake sighed and closed her book. "I'm coming with you."
"What? No, I need some time to myself!"
"Too bad. Every time you go out to have "time to yourself" something crazy happens."
"Name one time."
"The docks, when you and Jaune went grocery shopping, when you went for a walk, and the time you-"
"Okay I get it! Let's just go already." Fire hung his head in defeat as he followed Blake out the door.
A few hours later Fire has found himself in a bookstore. He was heading to a weapons shop to finally buy himself an awesome sword or something until they had passes a bookstore and Blake dragged him inside. He needed to find her a new hobby. Fire decided he might as well grab a weapons magazine while Blake looked through everything, he was probably going to be here for a while. After an hour two people walked into the store, one had blue spiky hair and brown eyes, and the other was a girl with red eyes and green hair that went to her shoulders except for two long strands that reached her waist. Fire tried to ignore them, but they were really annoying. The girl kept asking the owner if he had certain books while the boy kept slamming his books close. The boy with blue hair was wearing a blue and black jacket, jeans and black shoes, while the girl wore almost nothing. She had a white shirt that exposed her waist ans the middle was cut out and was green at the bottom of the opening. She also had a band around her upper arm and white pants. Fire finally snapped after a few minutes of this. "Will you both be quiet! God, your both giving me a headache." The boy and girl turned to him and the boys eyes narrowed. He started to approach Fire until the girls eyes widened and she grabbed her friend's shoulder. "Don't you know who that is you idiot!" She hissed. "Um, no."
"He's that guy from the rumors we've been hearing! The kid that everyone is calling the "Big Bad Wolf". The kid that beat Cinder, killed over a hundred guards, and took out a ton of our bases in only two days!" She was now whisper screaming in the boys ear and he finally decided to leave the boy alone, the Big Bad Wolf his a**. They walked out of the store, but the boy was still glaring at Fire on the way out. "The Big Bad Wolf huh? Has a nice ring to it." Fire was glad he had super hearing, now he knew that the White Fang was scared of him, this would be useful later on. "Wow, thanks kid. Things might have gotten pretty ugly if you didn't show up."
"Don't mention it."
"Tell you what, I'll let you and the girl you came in with have as many books as you want for free. I'll be closing this store in a few days anyways." Fire was about to object until Blake placed a hand over his mouth and placed almost every book in the store on the counter. Blake retracted her hand from him after a few seconds and glared at him. "Were you licking my hand?!" Fire hesitated for a minute. "Maybe."
"Gross!" Blake wiped her hand off on Fire's back and noticed he was staring at her. "What?"
"Why do you act so... different whenever I'm around?"
"What do you mean?"
"Whenever I'm not around your quiet, moody, and all mysterious, but when I'm around you act like an actual person."
"Moody?!"
"See! The Blake everyone else knows wouldn't have responded like that."
"I still don't know what you're talking about. Besides, you act the same way. When I'm not around you act like an emo kid."
"Whatever, just pretend I didn't say anything."
After hauling all the books back to Beacon and putting them in their dorm. Blake had left to go do something and had left Fire by himself and he was grumbling about not being able to get himself a weapon. It was bad enough that Blake wouldn't let him leave campus by himself, but now he had to do what she wanted to. He was about to leave until Jaune had walked in with a red box with Ruby's emblem on it. "What's that?"
"Ruby's new scythe, some of the guys in te armory called me down since they couldn't find Ruby or Yang."
"Do you think I could maybe look at it?" Fire said hopefully, sure a scythe wasn't a weapon but it still looked cool.
"No, Ruby specifically told me to never ever let you touch her "Sweetheart". Not since what happened with Adam."
"Aw come on, you can trust me." Fire said with a sly grin.
"Nope, nu-uh, not happening. If I let you even look at this scythe it'll be pointed at me instead of Grimm."
"Nobody will know, come on Jaune, give in to the peer pressure. All the cool kids are doing it."
"Very funny. My answer is still no, and if you keep asking me I'll have Weiss fill your dorm with snowmen."
Fire crossed his arms. "You're no fun." Jaune sighed and handed him the box. "Your funeral." Fire tore the box open and had the scythe unfold, loging it in the ground. "This is so cool!"
"Holy shit dude! I didn't think you were going to touch it! Ruby's going to decapitate you!"
"Hey, I thought you said this one was new? Why does it look exactly the same as the last one?"
"Because it is the last one in a sense. They used the melted metal to make the new Crescent Rose by poring it into casts and stuff."
"...You don't know do you?"
"Yeah I don't."
"Well there's only one thing to do now! To the simulator!"
A few minutes later Ruby walked into the dorm to get her board game and had retrieved it from under her bed. She was about to leave until she saw a red box that was ripped to pieces on the floor. She picked up one of the pieces and saw her emblem on it. She dropped the board game and ran out of the room, using her semblance. If Jaune had done what she thought he had done, he was going to pay! She ran faster as the thought of Fire using her "baby" to open bottles of Cola ran through her mind.
Ugh, finally! I've had this chapter halfway done and then my wifi is gone for a week, then I got writers block! Why is life so hard (cuz my life is so hard)?! Anyways, Camp Fire out.
