"Everyday a castaway." Speaking
"A vagabond!" Communications
'Battle born!' Thinking
La Le Li Lo Lu Sounds
I own nothing and nothing...and also nothing.
Combat Training
"Ah, that was refreshing." Ruby moans and walks out of the showers, now wearing her usual outfit, followed by her sister, The Ice Queen, and The ex-White Fang member of her gallant team.
"For once I actually agree with you." The Schnee heir admits as the team begins to head back to their room to drop off their towels and tooth brushes.
"What took you four so long? It's been 25 minutes, now 26 minutes, how long does it take for you four to take a shower?!" They hear someone yell behind them.
All but one slightly jump up in shock then turn around to find Natsu pointing at them accusingly with Ig sitting on his right shoulder nibbling on his jacket collar.
"Natsu? Why are you here?" Rose questions.
"I was waiting for you guys, right Yang?" Natsu puts his blond friend under the spot light.
Ruby, Weiss, and Blake turn around slowly to their heavy hitter teammate, "Yang?" He hears the three girls call in an irritated tone.
Xiao long rubs her chin and looks down, "Oh yeah, didn't I tell you guys that I left Natsu out here to wait for us to finish our showers?"
Weiss rolls her eyes at her, "What do you think!?"
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"No?" She sheepishly answers after a period of silence.
She hears a loud groan from her teammates and several mumbles as they walk pass her.
She waits for the three girls to gain some distance between herself and Natsu before saying, "I think they're mad at me."
"They'll get over it." Natsu comforts her and pats her on the back.
"Thanks Natsu." She gives him a smile and the two walks back to her room together.
Dinning Hall
"Alright! We're early, first dibs on the bacon!" Ruby yells as she runs down the hall with her hands in the air.
"Oh no you don't! You always get the bacon!" Yang challenges than chases Ruby.
"Hey, save some for the rest of us!" Weiss orders and runs after Yang and Ruby.
Natsu licks his lips as pictures of plates filled with food fill his mind. He prepares himself to go after the others till he feels someone grab his arm.
"Natsu?" He hears
He looks to his right and sees Blake looking at him with a serious look on her face, "Can we talk?"
The Dragon Prince calms down from his food cravings and nods, "Sure, what is it?"
Blake looks around for anyone else around them but she find no one, they're alone, "Do you know who I am?"
Natsu's face saddens as he hears those words he knows all to well but he quickly recovers to hide his true feelings, "You're Blake Belladonna" He answers in a singsong like tone.
She shakes her head, "No, do you know what am I?" She clarifies.
Extreme deja vu hits him as he hears those words, 'I'm sorry for everything mom..'
"Natsu please, I need to know, do you know what I am?"
The teen feels a little uneasy from her serious tone but answers confidently, "You're a faunus, a cat one."
"H..how do you know that?" She says, even though she had her suspicions, it was still surprising to hear it personally from Natsu.
"Well Velvet has her bunny ears and you have your cat ears."
'Who's Velvet?'
"Explain." She bluntly orders, his knowledge of her species and her species type was a little bit too convenient for her liking.
"Watch this."
Belladonna watches Natsu invade her personal space and looks directly into her eyes, "Natsu?" She mumbles and feels a little hot at her cheeks from his boldness. She jumps a little at the sound of a loud snap next to her right cat ear.
Natsu smiles at her reaction, "See, your cat ears twitch to some sounds, I noticed this when we first met."
The cat frowns at his vague answer, this just brings up more questions, but she decides to let it go. His current answer satisfies her curiosity for the time begin.
"Why do you wear that bow?" Natsu turns the table of her.
Blake breaks from her thoughts and squints her eyes at him.
"That bow, it's hiding your ears, why wear it when it hides something that makes you...you know...you." He asks innocently, even though he's a seasoned, battle hardened, dragon slaying, lady killing, hunter.
This personal question leaves a bitter taste in Blake's mouth but she finds Natsu worthy of her answer, "I wear this...this bow because most humans don't like people like me. They call us freaks, beat us, blame us for their problems just because we look different from them. I wear this bow to avoid unwanted attention directed toward me."
"But how are you different from me?"
"We're different because-"
"We eat the same food, we wear the same clothes, we speak the same words, we...feel...the same emotions, so you and me aren't really different after all. Us being different is the last thing we should be defined as, we should be similar if not exactly the same." He interrupts her, with a strangely mature answer.
"Natsu..." She feels a slight sense of hope from his words, but words can't fix the mental and physical scars the human inflicted on her and her people. Only actions can even attempt to heal those wounds, actions speak loud than words after all, she of all people would know that.
"Can I feel you're ears?" He completely changes the subject to an odd topic.
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"You want to...feel...my ears?" She asks.
"Yeah, that bow is just hiding those fluffy things, I'm wonder what they feel like, so can I feel your ears?"
The strangely odd question warms her heart strangely, this feeling is one that she hasn't felt for some time now, maybe he can be the spark that lightens her world and make her feel...happy again.
'Maybe I do have a chance of a good life after all.' She thinks and wraps her arms around his neck and pulls him close to her for an unexpected surprise hug.
"Sure, one day, one day I'll show you." She agrees and snuggles closer to him.
"The bacon is MINE! HA HA HA!" Someone interrupts their moment.
Blake jumps away from Natsu and looks behind her, Nora is holding a plate with a huge pile of perfectly crispy bacon with her teammates behind them with their own trays filled with pancakes.
"Good morning Natsu, Blake." Pyrrha greets as she and her team take their seats on a nearby bench.
"Morning."
"M..morning."
The two greet the armored beauty as the smell of breakfast invades their noses.
"The...the bacon...why?" Ruby mumbles with her head staring down at the waffles on her tray in shame.
"That red headed good for nothing bacon stealing-" Yang grumbles to herself and sits down in front of Team JNPR with her team following behind her.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Blake asks.
"She took all the bacon..." Weiss mumbles.
"Yes! Food, let's go Blake!" Natsu calls and grabs her hand then runs down the hall.
"Wait!? What?" She blurts out as she's dragged across the hall.
An awkward silence replaces Natsu's voice as he runs down the hall, the two parties eat in silence till the remaining members of Rwby stare at JNPR's carefree red head eating one bacon strip after another with the happiest smile on her face.
'We'll remember this...' The girls think grimly, watching their enemy eat down their prized breakfast dish.
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"Mm...what to eat...what to eat, there just so many choices! What do you think Ig?" The pinky talks to himself, standing in front of a large serving table with Blake standing by his side. Ig climbs down his shoulder and walks to a waffle tray in front of him than stares at one waffle curiously before taking a small nibble of the square pancake. The young drake's big black eyes widen at the foreign flavor and he quickly picks up the waffle, he just took a big chuck out of, with his mouth then travels to a tray in front of his best friend and drops the waffle in one of the square slots of the tray.
Blake stares at him for his strange food addition but leaves him be and grabs her own tray then begins to fill her tray up with food.
"Waffles it is then buddy." He agrees with his dragon partner and starts to fill up two trays in front of him with waffles.
'That can't be lizard, lizard's don't have wings, what is he?' The cat questions the species of Natsu's/ Glynda's pet.
"Well look at this, morning lady killer, who's your lady friend here?"
The two first years turn around and find Beacon Academy's favorite team leader smirking at them with her team right behind her.
"Coco!" Natsu favorite bunny scolds her fashionable leader.
"What? It's a legitimate question, and I know that you're thinking of the same question Ms. Scarlatina."
"No...no I'm not!" She stutters with a blush on her cheeks.
"Natsu! How are you doing my friend?" Yastuhashi kindly asks holds out his hand for a shake.
While Natsu talks to his friends, Blake slowly inches away from the crowd with her food filled tray.
"Hello everyone, I'm doing good Yatsuhashi, you?" Natsu waves to team CVFY and grabs his forearm, Yatsuhashi copies his action then gives him a firm shake.
"You pulled quiet the fight yesterday, I'm still recovering from that move you did to me." The large man makes small talk as he rubs the back of his neck.
"Ah...yeah...sorry about that. I can get a little carried away."
"Oh don't worry about him, he'll live, so...who's your ~friend~" Coco brings up Blake again.
Natsu stop the fleeing faunus in her tracks by putting his hand on her shoulder, "Everyone, this is Blake Belladonna from team RWBY, Blake, that's Coco Adel, Velvet Scarlatina, Fox Alister, and Yatsuhashi Daichi of team CFVY!" Natsu introduces.
"...It's nice to meet you all, but I think I'll be going now." Blake tries to separate herself from Natsu but his iron grip holds her in place.
'How is he so strong?' She thinks as she struggles to free herself from Natsu's one hand cage.
"Why, they just got here, so what will you guys be having for breakfast. I'm getting some waffles." He tries to persuade his feline friend to stick around.
"Hm...I would like...' Coco starts and walks toward him with a lustful look hidden behind her Coco wear glasses, only for 1999 Lien at your local Gemstone.
The charmer caresses his check and lowers her glasses with her free hand, "You." She flirts.
The group, obviously besides Natsu and Ig, looks at her with mixed emotions.
'Me? I...I don't think I taste good.' Natsu mumbles and a strong sense of fear invades his mind as she looks into his eye. Remembering his mother's lessons about women's soul taking techniques.
'Excuse me? What fight, and why is she so close to Natsu?' Blake questions, forgetting about her plan to escape.
Velvet feels a little jealous for her leader's advances toward Natsu, "I saw him first..." She mumbles and declares, mentally, to step up her game for Natsu attention.
"N..Natsu...c..can we sit together...and um...eat together?" She shyly interrupts Coco's charm assault.
Coco turns her head toward her teammate and smirks, 'That's the way Velvet, fight for your man!' She praises and smiles inwardly at her friends act of confidence.
"Yeah Natsu, you can even sit next to your favorite superstar." Coco backs her friend up and points her thumb at herself.
The Dread Hunter looks at Velvet with the most novel, but soft, smile, making the bunny feel an intense feeling of love in her chest when their eyes meet.
Same with Natsu, her shy, timid, personality just tempted him to hug her with all his might and keep all of her adorableness to himself.
"Sure, we can sit together with Blake's and Pyrrha's team after you guys get breakfast, you'll guys will totally like them, they're nice." He plans.
Coco's curiosity grows in each passing second as she thinks about another female friend of the first year, 'More competition eh?'
'What's a girl got to do to fall in love around here?' She thinks as she and her team walk up to the serving table than grab some trays from a pile right of the table. They all raise their eyebrows at the sight of the large waffle pile on top of Natsu's tray.
'He wasn't kidding...' They all think at the sight of the waffle pile.
"Natsu? You got into a fight?" Blake finally brings up.
Natsu face brightens up at his friend's question, "Blake! Oh you missed out, yesterday the second year students had did this huge party and there was amazing stuff called Hot Coco and Velvet Cake, you got to try it sometime, anyway that's where I met these guys..." He begins his story of yesterdays events.
"A second year party? Aren't you a first year Natsu?" The cat points out.
"Yeah I'm a first year, why?"
"Don't you think that this party will be only for SECOND year students?" She answers with a question.
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The Dread Hunter rubs his chin at the question, 'Hm, that does makes sense, why was I at that party...right...Professor Goodwitch!'
Belladonna studies the teen's facial expressions to confused to eureka in a matter of seconds, "Natsu?" She calls.
"Well Professor Goodwitch said her job was my job, so I think that's why I was there."
'Why would she say that?'
"Natsu, what was your job at the party?"
"It was entertaining team CFVY, Professor Goodwitch told me to do that before the party started."
'Okay, he was just helping Professor Goodwitch, strange, I don't remember her asking any of the first years for help.' She notes and lets Natsu off the hook for the time being.
"So what about this fight you were talking about?'
"Now that was awesome, after the party, everyone went out of the-"
"Natsu, you can tell her the story once we get a table, I'm starving!" Coco interrupts.
The two turn to her as she points her thumb at Yatsuhashi and Fox walking down the hall for a table while Velvet finishes filling up her tray.
Natsu nods and looks back at Blake, "I'll tell you once we get back." He assures and picks up he tray then his eyes widen.
'Where did all these waffles come from?' He thinks.
"Natsu?" Velvet calls.
"Where's Ig?" He mumbles to himself, looking around for his scaly partner.
Blake's cat ears hears this and copies Natsu and she looks around the serving table, 'He's right...where did he go...wasn't he getting waffles?'
"Wait, who's Ig?" Coco asks as Blake and Natsu search inside the food trays for this 'person' called Ig.
"Natsu? Your tray is moving! The waffles are going to explode!" Velvet points at the waffle pile in fear and hides behind Coco.
"Velvet, you're just-" Coco assures but stops as Natsu's waffle pile begins to tremble more violently with each passing second.
"Seeing things..." She mumbles as Natsu and Blake turns the waffle pile.
'He has to be in there! I can hear something nibbling in the pile.' Blake declares to herself.
Natsu smiles and removes one waffle from Waffle Mountain then looks inside, "There you are little buddy, it was you who made this huh?"
Coco lowers her head down to Velvet, "Why is he talking to the waffles?"
"I don't know...but I don't like-" The bunny is interrupted as an abrupt sound, resembling a sneeze, emits from Waffle Mountain and the whole pile glows a bright orange for only a moment before dying out.
Velvet screams and hides behind Coco while she examines the waffle pile for any alien species to break from Waffle Mountain.
The black cat activates her danger reflexes and jumps on to the closest thing near her...Natsu. Blake now holds on to Natsu's back for dear life and waits for the danger to pass.
"Bless you." He mumbles and reaches inside Waffle Mountain then pulls out a small red reptile with a slightly burnt waffle in his mouth.
'Aw, little Ig burned his first object! He's growing up so fast.' He praises his partner trying not to tear up.
He takes a look inside the waffle pile and finds the entire thing a golden brown, creating the perfect wall of crispy waffles.
"Is it over?" Scarlatina asks and peeks her head around Coco.
"Who's this Natsu?" Coco asks and walks up to him with Velvet still hiding behind her.
Coco observes the creature called Ig as he nibbles on his burnt waffle then slowly rubs his small head.
The small drake hums happily to himself at Coco's affection and nuzzles closer to her finger.
Coco's face brightens at the little ball of adorableness, "Velvet, looks at him, he's adorable!"
"Are you sure?' Velvet asks as she pops her head around Coco's side.
"It's fine Velvet, he's not going to bite...he doesn't bite right?"
"Of course not why does everyone ask that, say hello Ig, this is Coco and Velvet." He tells his partner as Ig finishes his waffle.
Velvet's eyes widen at the sight of the small version of Natsu's dead father as it looks at her with it's big black eyes.
'Aw, he's so tiny, and just look at those big eyes.'
Ig examines the two friends of his partner and takes a liking to their foreign scents, one smells like chocolate while the other smells like a sweet. He then flies up above the group and lands on top of the one who smells like chocolate then situates himself on the soft cloth on her head.
"I think he likes me." She mumbles and tries to adjust herself to the new weight on her head.
"H...hello little one." Velvet greets the small thing and offers her hand to Ig.
Ig decides to give the bunny some attention and he hops on her hand. He feels the giant faunus bring her hand right in front of her face.
Before Velvet could say anything, the young dragon flaps it's little wings and flies above her head and land behind one of her large brown bunny ears.
'It can fly?!' Coco and Velvet both think as Ig examines the two large furry ears of a bunny.
"Natsu! What's taking you so long!" They hear someone yell at them from down the hallway.
"We better go, Yang doesn't like it when she has to wait." Natsu explains and takes a step forward but stops as he feels Blake tighten her grip around him.
"Blake..."
"Yes."
"You can let go now." He suggests.
Blake's face warms up and she lets go of Natsu, "Of course, sorry." She mumbles and grabs her tray on the serving table.
"Now let's go back to the others, all this talking is making me hungry, I feel I can eat the whole buffet right now!" He exclaims and walks back to team RWBY and CFVY.
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The sound of laughter fills the Dinning Hall with a happy atmosphere as the students of Beacon Academy gather in the hall for their breakfast. Luckily for Natsu he was right, Team CFVY, RWBY, and JNPR hit it off real well with each other as soon as Natsu introduced the teams.
"So this is the one called Ig ha ha, what a gentle creature, you have a very luck man Natsu. Ig is very unique thing, I hope you'll take care of him." Yatsuhashi praises as the small drake nibbles on another waffle with team CFVY, RWBY, and JNPR all gathered at one table with Natsu sitting with team CFVY, between Velvet and Coco, and team RWBY and JNPR sitting together on the other side of the table.
"I'll do that, thanks." Natsu agrees and watches some of his friends squeal at the adorable sight of Ig nibbling on another waffle with a satisfied look in his scaly face.
"Aww! Wook at the wittle guy eating his wittle waffle! You like your wittle waffle don't you Iggy! Don't you!" Weiss showers the small dragon with love while scratching his wittle wed wead wn wlee.
"Ren look at him! He's like the definition of cuteness! ~Just look at him eat that waffle~" Nora nudges her best friend then eats another crispy piece of bacon.
Ren only stares at Natsu's partner while rubbing his chin, 'What species is he? It's obvious that he's a reptile but there are no known records of a winged reptile to my knowledge. Yes, that must be it! Remarkable! This must be the first of a new reptilian species! This is amazing, simply amazing. What should I calls this new species...' Ren asks and begins to create lists and lists of names for Ig's new 'species'.
"How about Igians...yes Reptiles of Ig! Named after the first of it's species." He mutters to himself as he studies the small dragon.
"Ren you're being weird again." Nora whines.
Her team leader Jaune stares at the small creature and attempts to pet Ig on the head, but as his hands approaches the drake, Ig growls and huffs through his nose.
"Heh heh, easy now...please don't kill me..." He laughs nervously and returns his hand to the safety of the wooden table before Ig gets the idea of bitting his hand off.
"Great job, you're made him angry, it's okay wittle guy, just eat you're wittle waffle. Who likes their wittle waffle, who does!" Weiss begins to comfort Ig with another one of her scratching-the-head-with-love sessions.
"He hasn't done that before, sorry about that Jaune, he must be really hungry." Natsu notes and watches Ig climb back inside his waffle lair, after Weiss finishes scratching his head, then returns with another crispy waffle in his mouth.
"Oh it's fine, we all can get a little cranky when we're hungry right guys?" Jaune plays it cool and watches the drake strangely glare at him.
'He's out to get ME!' He thinks and hides behind his small stack of pancakes.
"Jaune, are you alright?" Pyrrha asks, worrying about her leader for acting so strange.
"Yeah I'm fine, nothing wrong over here heh heh, all is good." He mutters as he nervously avoids eye contact with the territorial reptile.
"Hey Natsu!" A female voice calls out behind the group.
Everyone at the table turns around and finds a group of second years, a few feet away from the table, waving at them, "Awesome fight yesterday! I can't believe you took do-" She stops mid-sentence as Coco and Velvet turn around.
"Are you guys seeing this." She asks her friends.
"Are they..." Friend 1.
"With him..." Friend 2
"This must mean!" Friend 3
"HE HAS A CHANCE!" All four girls cheer loudly, echoing around the dinning hall.
Everyone at the table stares at them in an awkward silence till they calm down.
The second years squeal in delight at their two role models sitting between the man on the top of her 'OTP Material List'.
"Oh Hi Coco, Velvet! Sorry for interrupting...~have fun Natsu~" She apologizes and leads her group of friends away from the table, thinking this will let Natsu, Coco, and Velvet some time to bond. Then after bonding comes relationships...then after that...other romantic things that won't be named.
"BYE! Okay so what were we talking..." Natsu stops as Team RWBY and JNPR stare at him.
"What's wrong guys, did I say something?"
"You got into a fight?" Weiss asks.
"Without us? Natsu I thought we had something?" Yang pretends to be hurt and covers his large pillows of love with her arms, squishing them together.
"What? You got into a fight without us..." Ruby stares down at her pancakes on her tray and slowly picks at them with her fork.
"Yeah Natsu! I thought we were friends, and friends invite their friends to beat other people up!" Nora scolds and points at him accusingly.
"Are you alright Natsu, did you get hurt?" Pyrrha asks while unknowingly ogling him for any bandages or fresh wounds on his body.
"I'm fine Pyrrha, it was just a sparring match at the amphitheater yesterday after the party with..."
"PARTY!" The two teams create an uproar, making Blake, Natsu, and Team CFVY cover their ears from their yells.
"When was this party!" Weiss starts.
"And we weren't invited!" Yang and Ruby backs Weiss up.
"Was there a bouncy house at this party?" Nora asks the most important question.
"Calm down guys, this was yesterday with the-"
"Yesterday!"
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It took Natsu 10 minutes to explain everything about the fight yesterday with Team CFVY. During those 10 minutes, the occasional second year student stopped by the table and praised the pinked haired teen for the fight yesterday, which didn't help Natsu's situation at all. After he finally finished the story Team RWBY and JNPR calmed down.
"You should of seen Velvet, I was right in front of her and the next thing I know, I'm on the ground and she has my gun aimed at my head. I thought the match was over so I decided to go out in a blaze of glory and I surprise Velvet with a final surprise attack..." Natsu continues his story and Team RWBY and JNPR seem really immersed into the story.
"Then what? Then what?" Nora persists.
"The attack worked and I now had the upper hand, but before I could steal the win Glynda stopped the match before it could go any longer. So the match ended in a tie." Natsu finishes the story of the battle of the second years with a big smile on his face.
"You managed to take down Natsu and use his own gun against him? Impressive Ms. Scarlatina." Pyrrha praises the bunny faunus.
"T...thank you..." Velvet mumbles with a blush.
Ding dong ding dong
The bells sound off the end of breakfast.
"Aw, breakfast is over already." Ruby mutters and begins to clean up her tray.
"You guys ready for this, Professor Goodwitch's is next." Yang points and out as everyone at the table begins to clean up.
"Professor Goodwitch? Wow you guys have it rough." Coco mumbles.
"W...why do you say that?" Jaune nervously asks.
"Oh no, what's the fun in that if I tell you that?" She teases and Team CFVY leaves Team RWBY and JPNR.
"~See you later good looking~" Coco teases Natsu and gives him a wink before walking away with a sway at her hips.
The pinky smiles and waves, "Bye Coco!"
"Bye Natsu, I'll see you later?" Velvet approaches The Dread Hunter with a soft smile on her pale face.
"Of course!" He assures and wraps his arms around her for a warm hug.
"C'mon Natsu, we're going to be late." Nora yells as she and everyone else begins to make their way toward the amphitheater.
Natsu puts his bunny friend down and gives her another one of his warm smiles before setting off to Goodwitch's class.
"I'll see you guys at lunch!" He yells back as he leaves Team CFVY at the table.
As the two teams leave Velvet catches up to Coco, "You'll think they'll be alright?"
"Oh they'll be fine...for the first 5 minutes..."
"Again!"
Coco was right, the first years have it rough, as soon as they enter the theater, Glynda made everyone do an extreme workout to warm themselves up for the day. Now all the first years, besides Natsu, is on the floor doing push ups on her count. Natsu was standing next to Glynda on the stage while Ig sits on her shoulder.
"Down..." She orders and everyone drops slightly above the ground.
"Up..."
"1..." All the first years count as they push themselves up.
"Down..."
"Are you sure you don't want me to do this with them Professor Goodwitch?" Natsu interrupts.
"Yes I'm sure, I need you to watch these first years and make sure they're all correctly doing their push ups." She explains and several grunts and moans follow her, she didn't say up and now everyone is currently in the down position.
"They look fine, it'll do no harm if I do a couple of push ups."
"Nonsense, just watch the students as they...oh...excuse me...Professor Ozpin is calling...Yes?" Glynda turns away from the group of freshman and takes the call.
"What...I wanna do push ups..." Natsu grumbles and gives the first years an envious glare.
"T...this is...isn't easy..." Ruby mumbles as she feels her core starting to burn.
"Oh yeah! That's the stuff, FEEL THE BURN!" Nora talks to herself as Goodwitch takes her sweet time talking to Ozpin.
"What...a...pain..." Weiss mutters.
"I feel like my abs...are going to...burn me from the inside..." Jaune whines.
"Yes, he's with me now...of course...I'm sure no one knows. Yes sir..." She finishes the call and turns back to the first years.
"Up..." She orders, not forgetting about the first years.
"...2..." They all barely blurt out.
"Down..."
"Up..."
"3..."
"Down..."
"Up..."
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".F...four.."
"Down..." Glynda raises an eyebrow at the reluctant call.
'It's only been four push ups and they're already worn out...we'll have to work double time if they want to be efficient hunters.' She notes and decides to raise the level of training by a tick.
"Down..."
"Up..."
"F..i...ve.." She hears then everyone drops to the ground breathing heavily, with only a few student still holding out, like Pyrrha, Nora, Yang, and Blake.
"...My...abs...fire...water..." Jaune calls for help while clenching his burning tummy.
"It burns...it burns so much..." Weiss mumbles and copies Jaune's actions.
"If you can't handle five push ups then we all have a problem." She scolds and gestures for everyone to get up.
"Now with that warm up down, how about we demonstrate how an official sparring match." She lets the first years rest before popping the questions.
"Now, I need two volunteers for this demonstration."
"Heh...heh...I'm...not...done yet..." The leader of JNPR calls out.
For this activity some first year named Cardin Winchester volunteered for the event, then Jaune accidentally raised his hand to be the next volunteer.
Goodwitch lead them up the stage and explained the rules of a sparring match, after everything said and done she finally let the two volunteers test their skills against each to see where each team leader stood in terms of combat. The match was shorted lived as Jaune preformed quite poorly despite his high combat scores on his transcript. Winchester showed exceptional combat ability when faced with one opposition, but his style of engaging the enemy was...predicable...in Goodwitch's words. His style of fighting is purely brute strength to overwhelm his opponent with heavy blow after blow till either the enemy is wounded or dead. Glynda thought Jaune would use his nimble size to his advantage but the boy only showed skill of a novice for some reason. She thought he was only playing with Cardin but is wasn't long before Jaune's Aura level was in the red, so she ended the match to save what was left of Jaune's pride.
"Then let's finish this." He mutters and raises his black mace as he walks up to the fallen teen with a twisted smirk on his face.
"That's enough, stand down." Goodwitch orders and waits for the leader of the birds to comply.
Cardin seems lost in his twisted mind and ignores her order, before the brown haired brute could smash Jaune's face in, Natsu intervenes and easily stops the mace from going any farther with an iron grip on the mace's handle.
"Hey watch it, let go pinky!" He yells and tries to escape from his grip but to no avail.
"That's enough Mr. Winchester. Students as you can see on the display..." Glynda begins to debrief the aftermath of the battle while Cardin calms down.
It takes a few seconds before he realizes that his grand scheme to hurt someone was compromised he scoffs to himself and stops struggling. Natsu lets go and watches the teen turn around and begins to walks off stage, "Watch yourself pinky..." He mumbles and rests his mace on his shoulder then walks off stage.
"Now Mr. Arc, it's been one week already, please for future reference, use your scroll to check your current Aura level then plan your next move, strategically preferably." She lectures and watches the team leader nod and slowly returns to his teammates waiting for him in front of the stage with the other first years.
'Wait? Check your scroll in battle? That's crazy!' The Dread Hunter thinks.
"Um...Professor Goodwitch?" Natsu asks.
"Yes Mr. Dragneel?"
"Why would you do that, check your scroll I mean, the enemy won't wait for you to check your Aura willingly. Wouldn't that just endanger you and your team during the heat of battle?"
The first years mumble in agreement and wait for Goodwitch's answer, "Excellent question, this is important so everyone listen, Mr. Dragneel is correct but this method of checking your Aura level is just for training exercises so you can get a feel of you and your team's Aura limits and patterns you can use when planning your next attack during battle. Like you said this tactic is very risky and it will endanger you and more importantly defenseless civilians, if any. So I advise you all...NOT...to check your scroll during a real combat situation. This can and will increase the chance of casualties or injuries during the fight so please only refer to your scrolls ONLY in an supervised match by a certified hunter. That being said don't get used to this method, once you all spend a few months with your team, you will all get familiar with your team's limits regardless if you use this method or not." Glynda clarifies and lets everyone absorb this information.
"That makes a lot more sense now that I think about it, thanks Professor Goodwitch." Natsu realizes.
'Heh, training method, who knew?'
"You're welcome, now continuing on I will need you and Team RWBY's members Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose's assistance, if you don't mind, for this next demonstration." She explains.
"Sure no problem, what is it." Natsu complies and watch his friends walk up the stage and takes their places next to him.
"Hey hey hey what's going on hotshot?" Yang greets and wraps her arms around his neck and brings him into an one armed hug.
"What's up Natsu." Ruby waves at him as her big sister squishes his head on one of her large flesh pillows.
"I would like Ms. Xiao Long and Ms. Rose to go against you Mr. Dragneel. Then during that battle I would like either Ms. Xiao Long or Ms. Rose to check their Aura level. How does that sound?" Glynda explains.
Hearing this challenge, Yang lets go of Natsu and punches him, playfully, on the shoulder, "Oh yeah! You're definitely going down Natsu!" Yang cheers and all the other first years cheer with her, trilled to see another match with an interesting match up between the mysterious pinky vs Team RWBY's leader and blond haired beauty.
"Bring it Natsu! Victory shall be ours!" The leader of RWBY taunts and unsheathes her beloved Grimm slaying scythe, Crescent Rose, and prepares herself for battle.
"I like to see you try RUBY! I'm not going down without a fight!" Dragneel challenges and changes into a dueling like stance, with his hand right above the holster on his waist.
"Alright everyone, I need both opponents to take their positions like before, as always there are no lethal attacks in this match." Glynda repeats the nonlethal rule than disappears to the back of the stage.
"Yang's done for, Natsu's in a completely different league from her, and that includes Ruby." Jaune predicts.
"Oh really, what makes you say that, Yang and Ruby are quite capable of themselves. In fact I think Natsu will have a lot of trouble dealing with those two." Weiss warns.
"Did you forget who we met a few minutes ago, Team CFVY, the strongest team of the second years? He fought the whole team by himself and won."
"He is right, if Natsu can hold his own against experienced hunters, then Yang and Ruby are put at a disadvantage." Ren backs up.
"Ren that doesn't mean anything, Yang and Ruby will win with the strength of GIRL POWER! So kick his butt LADIES!" Nora sides with Weiss with her fist raised into the air.
"He didn't win, it was a draw, and draws mean that everyone wins." Weiss counters.
"Well bickering about it won't solve anything because we all know that Yang and Ruby will beat Natsu, just watch the fight and we'll prove you guys wrong." Blake challenges.
"Your lost, so don't cry to us once Natsu is the one left standing." Jaune warns.
"I think the fight is balanced equally in terms of combat ability, but in numbers, obviously Yang and Ruby have that advantage.
"See! Even Pyrrha thinks Natsu going to lose, take that.
"3..." Glynda announces like before.
"Go Team RWBY!" Weiss, Nora, and Blake, mostly Nora, cheer for their teammates with little RWBY merchandise in their hands...only for 500 Lien at your local Beacon Store.
"2..."
"Good luck Natsu!" Pyrrha wishes, feeling mixed feeling about Natsu going against
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"BEGIN!"
The two huntresses charge Natsu head on with their weapons close at hand, "Go Meteor!" Ruby yells and begins their combo assault.
Ruby start by aiming her scythe behind her and fires once, launching herself forward like a...meteor...toward Natsu with a large smile on her face.
Natsu only stares at the approaching hunter as she begins to spin in mid-air with her scythe acting as her weapon of spinning death. As she gets into his 'kill' zone he immediately drops to the floor to dodge her and Ruby flies right over him. Now lying on his back he looks behind him and draws his revolver and fires twice at the spinning red blob.
Two blue bullets shoot out of the barrel and speed toward Ruby, with extreme precision, the bullets barely miss Ruby's blade and pierce the back of the crimson-haired leader.
She grunts in pain as the bullets land on target, and she begins to feel a little bit fatigued as she tumbles to the ground.
"RUBY!" She hears her sister call for her.
"Ow...not my best landing..." She mumbles as she slowly gets back on her feet and turns around.
She watches Natsu roll back into a crouch and starts to lay down suppressing fire on her sister sprinting toward him.
"You forget about me!" She taunts and raises her Rose of death above her head for a downward swing.
Natsu evades her and her sister, by rolling out of harm's way, as they both cock back their weapons of exterminating then slams down to where Natsu used to be.
Out of ammo Natsu thinks of one thing that will maybe, probably, take out one of the two sister, 'Lighting!'
He feels his gun charge up in great power as he recovers from his second combat roll and aims at the first person he sees then pulls the trigger.
Instead of a bullet, a ball of pure electric energy launches out of the barrel and hits Ruby dead on the chest.
"AHH!" He hears as Ruby scream as she trembles erratically in place from the new unstable amount of energy invading her body.
Yang watches as her sister falls on her back and breaths heavily with her entire body twitching slightly, "Are you okay?"
"Y...yeah.." Ruby mumbles.
Yang feels her blood boil at the sight of the state of her sister and she turns her head to Natsu with fierce eyes as she screams a battle cry. The whole stage brightens and trembles at her cry, forcing everyone to cover their eyes from the blinding light. When the light dies down, Natsu finds Yang glowing an fiery orange.
'Now the real fun begins!' He notes and prepares himself for the worse of Yang's wraith.
"No one hurts MY SISTER and gets away with IT!" Yang threatens and disappears from sight.
Natsu is a little bit surprise of this new power of his friend but smiles regardless of his disadvantage. He senses Yang behind him and he goes on the offensive. He swings around to her and throws a quick jab to his enemy, just to feel the knuckles of Yang stopping his fist mid-attack. Yang counters with her own punch, with her free hand, but Natsu copies her and they both punch each other's fist. This cycle repeats itself for what seem like minutes for a sick game of bloody knuckles, each opponent waiting for the other to give in to the pain. Sadly for Natsu is at another disadvantage because Yang's special ability in this form, the ability to use pain to fuel her power of kicking evil to a pulp.
"Just give up ALREADY!" Yang yells and increases the power of her punches by ten-fold.
Natsu doesn't say a word as he tries to keep up with Yang's endless bombardment of punches. With each punch he feels Yang get stronger, making each second even harder to keep with her than the last.
'That's it! Give me you worst!' Natsu praises in glee, despite Yang's killer intent to destroy him, he's having the time of his life.
"It's OVER!" The blondie predicts and gives Natsu a curve ball by slamming her fist dead under his chin, happily giving Natsu a powerful uppercut of sister vengeance.
Yang watches Natsu violently flies back and tumbles all the way to the other side of the stage then is consumed in a cloud of smoke, where this smoke came from...no one knows. She breaths heavily as she feels her berserk mode die down and she begins to return to normal.
The first years are completely speechless at the recent events, 'No way...she beat Natsu.'
'She did it...those boys will never learn.'
'What was that? How'd she do it?'
'Impressive, it seems Mr. Dragneel isn't the only one with tricks up their sleeves.'
Several thoughts run through the audience of the fight of the 'century'.
Yang let's her guard down and pulls out her scroll to check her current Aura level. Before she could even push the power button, Natsu sprints out of the smoke with his fist ready for the finishing blow, Yang's is too confused to react to Natsu's unexpected recovery as he closing in on her. Time seems to slow down as she spots Natsu, oddly, smiling face as he drills his fist right into her gut. She spits out saliva on impact as she feels all of her energy deplete to nothing in a matter of seconds.
'What!? How? That should of defeated him!' She thinks.
"See...never...take your eyes out off your enemy. Even when you think you've won...always confirm...heh heh...the...the..." Natsu stutters and wraps his arms around her as he falls down to the ground.
The two fall to the ground in each other's arms, ending the match, "...Kill." Natsu finishes his lectures on a dark topic.
Before Yang could reflect over his words, she feels the burden of fatigue consume her body and she falls limp in his arms.
"You got lucky hotshot...I'll...get you. Next time." She mumbles and snuggles closer to her pillow. Immediately getting over her 'defeat'. The reward of this snuggle was more than enough to make her shallow her pride and accept the 'lost'.
"I believe you...but I am hungry!" He changes the subject lets go of Yang and gets up.
As Natsu helps Yang to her feet, Glynda debriefs the fight, "As you can see here, Yang was focused on her scroll instead of Natsu, endangering herself even though it seemed that she won. So please take away two things from this fight, never check your scroll in real combat situations and even if you think you won that battle, always keep you guard up, the battlefield is a dangerous place and anything can happen." Glynda again lets the first years absorb the lesson into their brains.
"That will be all for today class, dismissed." The professor orders and watches the first years begin to leave the amphitheater.
"Come one sis, walk it off." Yang suggests and helps Ruby off the ground.
"Ouch." Ruby mumbles and gets on her feet, but her legs don't feel like working and she loses her balance. Falling right into Natsu's arms like a cheesy romance movie.
Clinging on to Natsu, Ruby looks up and finds him avoiding her eyes with a blush on his face, "Sorry about that Ruby, here let me help you." He suggest and picks her up, bridal-style.
Ruby blushes at Natsu's kindness, "It's fine Natsu, I can walk." She tries to persuade him to put her down.
Yang smirks and decides to tease her little sister, "No no no, you need to rest after what handsome over here did to you. Natsu, why won't you make it up to her and carry her to the dinning hall. She'll be fine by the time we get there." Yang initiates her plan to break Ruby like a certain leader with the name of hot coco would do to a certain faunus.
"Sure no problem, Professor Goodwitch, are you coming?" Natsu accepts.
"You go on ahead Mr. Dragneel, I have to speak with Professor Ozpin first." Glynda explains.
"Okay, I'll see you later Professor." Natsu bids farewell to his mentor, that he oddly treats as he best friend, begins to walk off the stage.
"Likewise Mr. Dragneel." She mumbles to herself and a small smile breaks her strict demeanor as her beloved student heads out to the dinning hall.
"Wow Natsu, so how's it like to be best buds with the academy's strictest instructor?" Yang asks teasingly.
"Professor Goodwitch? I don't know who you're talking about, Professor Goodwitch is nicest instructor if you ask me. Remember what we did this morning, we went around Vale, visited Blades-N-Bullets..." Natsu defends his mentor.
"BLADES-N-BULLETS?! You mean Vale's number one weapons store!" Ruby interrupts and grabs Natsu by the collar than closes in on his face. Natsu must of forgot that Ruby was a weapon-lover, so this topic is sensitive, in a good way, to her.
"Yeah, me and Professor Goodwitch stopped by this morning, why? You been there before?"
Ruby's eyes sadden and she let's go of his collar, "No, I want to though, there's just so many guns, swords, axes, bats, shields...and DON'T get me started on the types of ammunitions! It's like heaven on Remnant." Ruby rants on about her favorite weapons store.
Natsu's expression goes blank at her words, "See what you did Ruby, you're freaking him out with your weird weapon wuv. Sorry Natsu, she has this strange obsession with weapons." Yang tries to break Natsu from his mental prison.
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"You like weapons?" Natsu mumbles.
Ruby break eye contact with him in shame and thinks he thinks that she's a weirdo, "Y...yes.." She mutters.
Hearing those words The Dragon Prince's face brightens, "I KNOW RIGHT!"
"What?" Yang and Ruby both mumble.
"There's just so many ways to fight, with guns, and there a thousands types of guns, and with blades, and there are MILLIONS types of blades! It's amazing that there is a weapon for every type of fighting style!" Natsu agrees with Ruby.
Ruby takes a deep breath in to comprehend who's carrying her right now, "SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME!" Ruby yells to the world and squeezes him with all the force she can muster up.
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"You got to be kidding me...another weapon-lover..."
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