Another updated chapter of son of Qrow coming up! PS. More or less the entire first part of this chapter has been re-written for this one so i hope you enjoy the changes.
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Yang just about managed to get a bet on from all of Team RWBY and JNPR as Team CRDL walked out to fight Aodh who was waiting on the amphitheater's stage floor.
"Alright let's get started." Aodh smiled at the four boys as he activated his semblance. The four members of CRDL became nervous as they stared into what seemed to be glowing crimson red eyes.
"GO AODH YEAH!" Ruby and Yang shouted in support of there older cousin.
"BREAK THERE LEGS!" Catching some excitement from Ruby and Yang's support Nora decided to shout her own.
"I think i'm gonna like her." Aodh stated as he gave a thumbs up to Nora.
"The match now begins." Glynda then started
Volume 1: Chapter 6: Teaching a Class.
With the match away Aodh was slowly surrounded by Team CRDL. Aodh watched them carefully with his hand held with in his pockets. "Before we begin I need to ask Yang something."
Cardin looked annoyed by this but he nodded to Aodh allowing him to turn around.
"Yang did you get everyone to place bets on this fight?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Yang nervously answered.
"Ruby..." Aodh starred down at his youngest cousin.
The poor young huntress in training didn't know what to do. "Am... I... Ah..." Ruby then softly whispered towards Weiss. "Help me."
"You're on your own." Weiss coldly shoot Ruby's hopes down.
Ruby then looked back at Aodh. "Maybe we put a bit on money on a certain outcome... Maybe."
"Sellout!" Yang shouted at Ruby.
"Of course the girls in this class are betting on me. My team is just too good." Cardin scoffed as he heaped praise on himself and his team.
Aodh choose to ignore Cardin and looked back once more at Yang "Yang how much to you have?"
"About... Three thousand" Yang nervously answered Aodh.
"Three thousand! Man... That's disappointing. Was it on how many hits or seconds they'd last?" Aodh seemed disappointing in Yang's answer before asking the blond member of Team RWBY another question.
"We bet on hits. I bet on four." Ruby meekly answered Aodh as Yang continue'd to stare her down. .
"Everyone else?" Aodh then asked the rest of the class who bet on his match with Yang.
"Four."
"Five."
"Six."
Other members of the class answered Aodh question before Nora provided her's. "ONE PUNCH!"
Aodh blankly stared at Nora for a few moments before he rubbed the gap between his eyes. "Yang give them all there money back."
"Alright let's get this over with." Aodh sighed as he turned to face Team CRDL. "Same bet between ourselves. I'm not gonna be allowed to use my weapons."
"I can't wait to smash your face in!" Cardin growled in anger.
"Talk will get you nowhere kid so quit wasting my time."
"THAT'S IT! ATTACK!" Cardin order for his team to charge.
Surrounded by all four corners Team CRDL rushed in towards Aodh. With his semblance activated Aodh noticed The one in the light brown armour was the slowest of the team.
With the fire dust within his gloves alight Aodh drove his right fist into Dove's face. The shortest member of Team CRDL slammed into the arena's walls but his aura didn't fully drain.
Aodh quickly followed up and smashed dove further into the arena's wall and completely finishing off his aura levels. That's one down." Aodh calmly stated as he then picked up Dove's sword. "Three to go."
"Wait you said you can't use weapons." Sky Lark who wore light blue armour stated towards Aodh and Glynda.
"Correction I said that I couldn't use my weapons. AND NEVER DROP YOUR GUARD!" Before Sky could even react Aodh was behind him and soon after he lost consciousness after Aodh used the pummel on Dove's sword to strike the back of Sky's head. "Two down."
Cardin and Russel nodded at each other before they slowly moved towards each other. When they stood beside each other Russel dashed forwards towards Aodh. With two weapons Aodh could see some potential in his fighting style and it nearly matched his own but Aodh was not stupid.
While Russel and Aodh were engaged in a sword fight Cardin rushed behind him hoping to strike Aodh from behind while he fought Russel. But as Cardin begun to swing his mace Aodh jumped above the two young huntsmen in training. Unable to stop due to momentum Cardin's mace smashed into Russel nearly snapping him in half.
"You're so nice. You shouldn't have." Aodh mocked Cardin after his mistake.
"You bastard! QUIT MOCKING ME! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!" Cardin growled as he wildly swung his mace in the hopes of hitting Aodh.
"I know who you are. You're my student!" Aodh calmly stated as he held Cardin in a front facelock and hooked Cardin's right arm behind his neck. Showing off his strength Aodh lifted Cardin vertically into the air before spiking Cardin's head into the ground.
With Cardin's head now missing through the floor Aodh stood up as Glynda called the match in his favor. "As expected of you. Class I hope you all learnt something from this encounter."
However none of the students responded to Glynda's question.
Glynda seemed visibly annoyed by the lack of response given. "I'll answer that for them Glynda. I mean I've already started to teach them. Tell Professor Ozpin i'll be up after this." Aodh reassured Glynda who begrudgingly agreed with Aodh and left towards Ozpin's office.
"The lesson of this class is to simple there is no such thing as a fair fight in life. And because of that you must always expect the unexpected. It's a classic but it's also a basic. Cardin here and his team had no idea how powerful I was, or even how I fought and they dived straight into a fight not knowing what to expect. Now while I technically did keep my word over not using my own weapons you need to remember. I'm a teacher. If this was a fight between Team CRDL here and someone who wished to cause real harm to them. You could have easily had four missing classmates. That's the truth. While it's fun to have these sparring sessions, I am here in the hopes that you will know at least what to expect when you fully become huntsmen or huntresses."
Aodh then pulled Cardin's head out of the ground. "Now that our fight has been settled I expect you to listen to me in future classes. But after that fight if you want some rest I want you to go to the nurse's office." Aodh calmly spoke to Cardin before he turned to help the rest of Team CRDL back onto there feet.
However Cardin's ego couldn't have allowed for this defeat. He grabbed his mace and swung at Aodh hitting him directly on his back. Aodh was then forced directly into the wall of the arena.
"AODH!" Yang and Ruby shouted out in horror along with the rest of the class.
"Bastard... Fucking showing me up."
Aodh slowly pulled himself away from the arena walls. His hair was now covering his eyes as he turned to face Cardin. "Oh no... That's not good." Ruby gulped as she seen the expression on Aodh's face.
Before Cardin could react Aodh had dashed towards him and slammed his head into the ground once more but knocking him out cold this time. Cardin groaned in pain as Aodh simply dragged Cardin's body out of the arena. The first Year students didn't know what would happen next so they ran after Aodh as he dragged Cardin.
They searched all around the school until Ren noticed he was outside the school and currently dragging Cardin towards the cliff at the front of the school.
As he stood by the cliff in front of Beacon Aodh lifted Cardin's body over the edge as he held tight on holding onto Cardin's collar. "Wake up!" Aodh shouted to Cardin as he slapped him awake with his free hand.
Slowly groaning as he woke up Cardin screamed in fear as he looked below. "AHH GET ME DOWN! I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY!" Cardin pleaded with Aodh.
"Now that I have you attention I want to make something very clear to you. I might not be a professor but I am your teacher while you are going to be at this school. So I demand to be respected as such. Actually you know what, respect me or fear me I don't care. Cause either way you will listen to what I say when I say it. So I want you to get this through your thick skull. As a huntsman I am here to protect the world and it's people from the forces of darkness and those to aim to harm others. Now since you have shown nothing but a major ego complex to me i'm not sure you're quite ready to even call yourself a huntsman in training as you're acting more like a bandit who would attack innocent towns in the wilderness. So right now I'm thinking what would happen to a boy if he was dropped from a cliff without any aura to protect his landing."
As Aodh darkly spoke to Cardin the leader of Team CRDL couldn't stop his body from wetting his leg. Aodh seen the drip of urine drop from Cardin's leg as he threw him back onto the cliff's edge. "Make this a warning. One more step out of line, or if your ego harms another person. I won't be throwing towards the school. Do I make myself clear."
Cardin nodded without hesitation. "Good. Now clean yourself up." Aodh stated as he walked past the young huntsman in training.
"Don't do it!" Ruby dramatically shout to Aodh as he was walking away from Cardin.
"What the heck are you talking about?"
"Throwing Cardin over Beacon's cliff!"
Aodh blankly stared at Ruby. "Relax Rubes. I wasn't gonna throw him over. Just teaching that's all. Now back to the arena. Class isn't over yet."
Aodh then started to walk Ruby back when the rest of the first year students appeared as well. Aodh sighed in annoyance.
Later Aodh arrived in Ozpins office. It took a while to calm the first year students down and Aodh nearly lost his temper once more but he managed to explain his actions. Now it was a case of Ozpin, he wouldn't be as easy to persuade that his actions we're correct.
"You're first day as a teacher and already you've nearly killed a student. This is reckless behavior by anyone's standards." Glynda straight away showed her disappointment in Aodh's earlier actions after words soon spreed around the school over the new combat class teacher's action towards a student.
"I can explain the reason I did that." Aodh calmly spoke to Glynda as Ozpin sighed.
"Mr. Branwen. You're actions today is not something I can simply pass off as a one off. Now I don't know your reasons for attacking Cardin in such a manner nor can I justify your response. But I selected you to teach these young students not to beat and scare them." Ozpin informed Aodh.
"Ozpin I understand that but I feel what I done was justified."
"Could you explain?"
"Simple. I gave him two lessons. One don';t fuck with me an d listen to what i'm saying and two. There is always someone higher than you in the food chain. I tried to teach that in the four on one match but unfortunately I wasn't able to get that message through to Cardin as he decided to strike back at me."
"He attacked you!" Glynda asked in anger.
"Yes, that is what lead me to beat Cardin down and threaten him by throwing him over a cliff. Since words couldn't get through to him I thought actions would work better. Although instantly after letting him go I feel I really did go over board. But Ozpin... If there are other students in Beacon like Cardin and the rest of his team. I won't apologize and will do the same thing again. As Huntsmen and Huntresses we protect the innocent. Letting your ego get in the way will cause death in the field. I won't allow any student of mine to have that attitude while on duty once they've graduated... Oz I failed as a team leader. Seeing as one of my old team a major player in a terrorist group while his old partner is causing panic and chaos in Vale. And my own partner is currently under this building only being kept alive because of the tube she is inside of... So as I said. I have failed as a team leader... I will not fail as a teacher."
Ozpin calmly looked at Aodh for a few moments before breaking the silence after drinking a sip of his coffee. "If you believe this is the best course of action to take then I suppose so but I do not agree with your methods... But then again I did select you to teach at this school simply because you would think outside of the normal perimeters. I suppose for the time being I will let this pass. But if it happens again I wish to know before you take any action. Understood."
"Yes Headmaster."
"Good, then I suppose you wish to see Amber tonight?" Professor Ozpin asked Aodh.
"Actually Professor I was actually going to check out with Ruby and Yang. I haven't seen the two of them in a while and wanted to catch up with them."
"I understand. Glynda will assist you in the second year students tomorrow. But i must ask, please don't repeat the same events as today Mr. Branwen."
"I can't make any promises like that." Aodh chuckled in response as he left Ozpin's office.
And Cut!
Alright so the next chapter is going to be the first part of the Volume 1 finale, The Stray. But with out any delay here is this chapter's Q&A!
1) How would you make Dracula fit in the show as a villain and which incarnation of Dracula would you use? Oh tough one to go for so many to actually choose from. But I would go for the source material on this one and use Vlad the Impaler himself. As for the role, I would go for a council member of Atlas. Why Atlas? Well since Atlas has been known for Faunus discrimination I feel it would be a good fit as old Vladdy was known to kill simply because he considered some useless to humanity. You can kind of guess how dark this is mostly likely gonna end.
2) How does Aodh view Roman? Does he see him in the same light as Adam? Aodh sees Romans fall to darkness as his failure as a leader rather and revenge over the loss of a loved one.
So that's all for this chapter folks. If you have a question do feel free to post a review or PM myself. If I don't answer your question on next chapter's Q&A I will try to reply via PM. Thank you for reading this chapter. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Till next time!