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-Best Day EVER!-
"Mr. Dragneel, are you sure that's what happened down at the dock?"
A few weeks after the raid on Vale's dock have been slightly stressful for the Dragon Prince. When Natsu returned to Beacon, Glynda gave him a good long talk about engaging in combat in public areas with civilians close by. After the lecture Natsu had to follow her around for those few weeks, she said it was for her own good. It wasn't so bad in Natsu's case, he liked spending time with his mentor.
Now he sits in the famous detention room, with the metal table and two metal chairs under one lone light. Ozpin is questioning him one last time before he is left off the hook from Glynda's punishment.
"That's right, Blake and Weiss had an argument, making Blake run away. Yang called me to help her and the others find her, I did and found her talking with Sun at a cafe. I joined in and then we talked for a bit, after that the three of us walked around, we ended up at the docks and the rest you already know." Natsu explains the 'story' for the third time in the last hour.
Ozpin studies his expression for a bit but decides that he's just wasting his time, "Very well then, we're done here Mr. Dragneel." He explains and picks up his cane next to him and walks toward the door, passing Glynda on the way out.
'Finally, I'm hungry.' Dragneel thinks to himself.
"Natsu?" She calls.
"Yes?" He replies as he gets up from his chair.
"Ms. Eirwen requests for you in her office. I think she wants to give you another check up." The teacher explains.
"Oaky dokey."
As Natsu approaches her, she pulls out an average sized box and hold it out to him, "Don't forget your breakfast, you forgot it this morning Natsu, you can eat it...after...the checkup understood." She explains as Natsu takes the box.
Natsu takes a good smell of the box and smiles brightly then looks at Glynda with passionate eyes, "My favorite! Thanks Glynda...I mean it."
Natsu's favorite for breakfast is the ultimate breakfast sandwich, two waffles holding two pancakes, eggs, bacon, ham, melted cheese into one supreme sandwich of deliciousness. He discovered this amazing invention one day he was eating breakfast with Glynda, they were in a hurry to leave for their classes so Natsu took everything he had left and stuffed it together and ate it. Glynda remember's Natsu's look on his face once he finished eating his creation and he described it as the meaning of breakfast in a sandwich.
From that day forward Glynda kept that in mind for potential awards to give her student, why she made it for Natsu today, because the new semester begins tomorrow so this should motivate him to start it off strong.
Glynda smiles back at him for his gratitude, but she notices how he forms his words, I mean it, and the way he looks at her.
'Impossible, does he...' She thinks about all the hugs, looks, hints he's been giving her ever since they become acquainted. Every time their together Natsu makes her his top priority.
A massive blush on her face emits and gasps, 'He loves me!' She thinks and steps back in shock.
"Glynda are you alright? Your face is all red." Natsu points out and takes a step forward.
Watching her student come closer her shakes her head and turns around, "I'm absolutely fine Natsu, I...I think you should see Ms. Eirwen now. I have some...some meetings to attend to." Glynda breaks from Natsu and walks down the hallway, from Natsu, walking faster with each passing step.
"He can't love me, it's forbidden, I'm his teacher not his...his lover." Glynda rants herself but imagines herself and Natsu acting as a couple together. Making her realize that they go out together every week to Vale and spend time together.
'WHAT HAVE I DONE! He see's our field trips as dates, no wonder he loves me!' She realizes as she turns the corner of the hallway.
The 'teen' tilts his head slightly to the side wondering why she wanted to leave so soon. He puts aside that question for another time and heads to Eirwen's office.
-Eirwen's office-
"Hello hello?" Natsu calls out as he walks into the Doctor's office with Glynda's lunch box in his hands. He spots the blue skinned maiden sitting at her desk with a screen pulled up on her computer with an little white lily icon in the middle of the screen.
Eirwen leans back on her chair, letting the woman in the screen to see him walking in.
"Oh my- Winter that's not a scratch!" The woman yells and covers her mouth looking at Natsu's face.
The winter maiden looks back at her as Natsu walks up behind her, "What do you mean not a scratch?"
"You said he has a small scratch on his face, that looks like someone clawed his face off!"
"Same thing, Natsu, this is my friend Ms. Midori." Eirwen introduces and gestures her hand toward the screen.
"Nice to meet you Natsu, just call me Midori, Sorry you can't see me, I'm on the scroll right now. Oh and drop the title, miss just makes me sound old." The green lady chuckles to herself.
"Hello Midori." He greets and waves to her.
"So Natsu, I called you over because Midori here is interested in that eye of yours. She thinks she might have a way to cure your blindness." Eirwen explains.
"Really?!" He gasps, the possibility to see out of his bad eye excites him, he's used to being half blind but having the ability to see again is preferred.
"Yeah, just let me see the condition it's in right now, if you don't mind, and I'll see if my guess was right." Midori explains.
"Sure, I don't mind." He agrees and sits down on the examination bed with his box next to him.
He watches the Doctor roll her chair in front of him and puts her hands on his scarred eye, "You're looking right Midori?"
"Yeah yeah just let me see already."
Eirwen doesn't say anything and opens his eye, Natsu spots Midori gasp, "So it is true...amazing...and you can't see out of your eye Natsu?"
"That's right, Ms. Eirwen said it's perfectly fine but I just can't see out of it."
"Hmmm, have you even tried to see with only your bad eye?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well just close your left eye but keep your right eye open, see if you see something then. Maybe your eyes conflict each other when their both open."
Eirwen closes his eye and lets Midori take over, "Now try to open your right eye." She instructs.
Natsu tries to open his right eye but his eye refuses to give in to his command. After trying for a moment he sighs, it was like his brain forgot how to open that eye.
"I can't open it..."
"No, problem, Natsu close your eye and tell us if you see anything when Eirwen opens your bad eye."
"Okay..."
He feels Eirwen's hand touch his face again and opens his eye, then he gasps as red outlines of everything around him appear.
"Natsu, what do you see?" Eirwen asks, watching Natsu's right eye scan the room around him.
"This is awesome! Everything is so red and you look like a shadow?!" He explains then points to Eirwen.
"Elaborate."
"It's like ah, looking through those goggles at night...um dark vision-"
"Night vision?"
"Yeah night vision, but instead of green and white, it's black and red."
"Fascinating, he can see in two different visions..."
"Huh? Midori you got something?" Eirwen asks, closing Natsu's eye again, letting Natsu return to his normal vision.
"If the two both function properly, then the eye is not the problem in the first place." Midori thinks out loud.
"Midori..."
"But they can't be open at the same time, they'll just fight for dominance for control of sight."
"Midori!"
"Furthermore, that brings up the question...why can't he open his right eye when he can open his left eye at ease. It's like his right eye refuses to cooperate with his command, as if it has a mind of it's own."
"MIDORI!" Eirwen yells at her friend.
"Yes Eirwen?"
"Slow down, at least explain what you're talking before executing another crazy plan of yours."
"Natsu's not blind, it's all in his head."
"A psychological disorder? That makes sense, these scar are from some serious physically and mentally damaging trauma last year."
"No it's natural, he's brain is protecting himself from his eyes, seeing all black/red with normal vision will just confuse Natsu, making it hard to focus, therefore the brain cancels out one eye to save the other."
"So you can't fix his blindness because he isn't blind." Eirwen gets to the point.
"Sadly no-"
"Don't worry about it Midori this is way better than having two eyes, it's like wearing night vision goggles but without the goggles." Natsu assures with a big smile.
"Really?"
"Yeah it's no big deal, I don't need two eyes to live, I've been living with one for a while now, it hasn't slowed me down back then and it certainly work slow me down now."
"Thank you for understanding Natsu, oh, I need to go. Natsu, Eirwen, it's been fun but I'll see you two later." Midori explains.
"Okay, bye Midori."
"Bye Midori, nice meeting you."
"Ha ha yeah, bye guys Beep." The lily lady ends the call and the icon on Eirwen's screen closes itself.
"Now Natsu, we're done here, thank you for your time."
"Anytime Ms. Eirwen." He says and makes his way toward the door.
The maiden notices a box on her examinations bed, "Natsu, you left your box here!"
Hearing this the hunter instantly turns around and grabs his box, "Oops, thanks Ms. Eirwen, I almost forgot my breakfast again."
"Breakfast? But it's noon."
"Well see you later Ms. Eirwen, thanks for the save again!" He ignores her question and walks out the room while pulling out his sandwich from the box, heading over to the dinning hall to meet up with his friends.
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It took Natsu little too no time at all to finish his extra epic extra legendary sandwich of the morning while walking to the dinning hall. Now with the dinning hall in sight and with an empty lunch box in his hands, he goes to a nearby water fountain. He holds his hand above the drain of the drinking fountain and turns it on, he watches as the cold water lands on his hand and unnaturally forms a large sphere above his hand. After letting the ball of water grow to a reasonable size, he uses his free hand to lift the box into the air. Then he washes the box by putting the box into the water orb and shakes the orb in place for a few seconds. After that he removes the box from the water orb and looks inside the box.
'That should be enough.' He thinks as he tosses the orb of water into some healthy bushes next to him.
Now with a wet box in his hand he gathers some wind then drys the box till it's free from it's water covering. Satisfied with his work he closes the box and heads to the dinning hall door.
"Hey, Sun!" He calls, spotting his faunus friend conversing with a blue hair guy.
Sun turns around then raises his hands, "Hey ooo! Natsu what's up dude?" He greets as the two fist bump each other.
"Nothing, just joining Blake and the others for lunch, you and ah..." Natsu stops and lets Sun's friend introduce himself.
The blue haired man raises his hand and gives Natsu a mini military salute, only with two fingers, "Neptune Vasilias, it's a pleasure."
'Hmm, Sun was right, he really pulls off the pink hair look.' He agrees with his faunus teammate then looks at his own blue hair.
The Dread hunter nods slightly, "Hello Neptune, Natsu Dragneel."
"I was actually going to introduce Neptune to team RWBY. Is it cool if we tag along with you?" Sun asks.
"Of course, I'm sure team RWBY won't mind-" Natsu stops as he opens the dinning hall doors when the sound of screaming and running fills his ears.
"FOOD FIGHT!" He hears as what could be the population of the dinning hall sprint past him to flee the conflict of food.
Sun smiles at the chaos while Neptune and Natsu scan the room in disbelief, "I'm queen of the castle, I'm queen the castle Ha ha! Bow before your queen!" The three hear a laughing Nora standing on top of a tall table tower with her team scattered across the table tower looking extremely imitating to their schoolmates. On the flip side he sees his little buddy Ig on top of a little castle of perfectly cooked waffles, munching on one of the castle's towers.
"Whoa, that's so cool." Natsu mumbles looking at the tower before him.
"I know right, I told you Neptune, this guys are way cool." Sun agrees.
Before his friend can respond, they watch as Team RWBY charge Team JNPR's barrage of watermelons, "That's a lot of watermelons." Neptune mutters watching the hoard of green approach the advancing warriors of RWBY.
Even under artillery fire, the four girls marched on with Yang on the front lines taking out as many green ball of healthiness as she can with the safety of two turkeys covering her fists, turning the green barrage into a red rain as she pushes closer to her enemies position.
Sun cheers at the destruction of food but Natsu doesn't take this lightly. At first he thought this was going to be a little short food fight and not a lot of food would be wasted, but he spots something, in his opinion, completely unacceptable. He squints his eyes darkly and holds Glynda's box to Neptune, "Hold this for me." He mumbles.
Neptune takes the box hesitantly and watches him walk toward the fight ahead, "Um, sure."
"Oh this is going to be good, even Natsu jumping into the fray." Sun assures.
Walking toward the fight Natsu spots, not only fruits and veggies, but his favorite type of food...meat scattered everywhere, bits of food of all kinds can be found all over the floor, the walls, and even the ceiling. How the food got there, Natsu will never know, but the important thing is the one lone food still sitting on the floor in front of his legs. A perfectly good brisket sitting on the food tattered floor.
'Why...why who someone do such a thing? It's a perfectly good brisket just waiting to be eaten, and they just wasted it...' Natsu asks himself as he reaches down to pick up the lone pile of meat.
But as he closes in on the brisket, a metal boot steps on the brisket, crushing the meat into a pancake, "Natsu? Well we meet again." He hears a familiar voice that belongs to the one who destroyed the brisket.
Natsu looks up ands finds someone that mostly everyone hates, Cardin Winchester. After their encounter back at Forever Fall, Cardin suddenly kept his distance from him from that day forward. He'd always distance himself for him and everyone Natsu knows. He didn't mind the isolation, as long he didn't cross his path again he'd let him be, but today he crossed the line and he will pay for it greatly.
'Lil Brisket, no, Lil Brisket why?' Natsu thinks as Cardin steps back with slight fear in his eyes, "Natsu, be a pal and get out of my way." He asks and attempts to push him over, but as he extends his arms out Natsu swings a heavy upper cut aimed at his chin. Caught off guard, Cardin takes the hit and staggers back then falls to the ground Natsu hit him hard.
'I will avenge you Lil Brisket!' He declares and waits for Cardin to get back up on his feet.
"So it's a fight you want, fine then, I'll just beat you up like last time." He taunts, spitting out some blood next to him while rubbing his chin.
Natsu starts the fight by swiftly moving to Cardin's right side, while cocking his fist back, to unleash a right hook. In defense, Cardin raises his hand to block the shot, his hand rises just in time to block the punch.
'What the?!' Cardin gasps at the unexpected force behind Natsu's punch, it was so hard his blocking hand is forced back so far his own knuckles drill into his cheek.
Recoiling his fist, Dragneel watches Cardin fall to his fours while growling in anger. Natsu doesn't stop and kicks him in the gut, on the power behind the kicks slightly raises Cardin into the air for a bit before sending him crashing back into the ground. Displeased at Cardin's inactivity to fight back the prince of dragons takes a step back to let him recover.
"Get up." Natsu orders.
"Cough cough, don't tell me what TO DO!" Winchester yells as he attempts to sweep kick his enemy.
Cardin manages to get Natsu on his knee but that doesn't bring the man down. Natsu gets back on his feet and kick him right on the kneecap. The team leader writhes in the ground, twisting and turning on the ground while holding his injured kneecap. If Natsu kicked any harder, he would have bent his leg the opposite direction.
"Stop stop! I give in...AHH!" Cardin is interrupted by Natsu stomping his chest, knocking the wind out of his lungs.
"Not one person had the pleasure of eating that brisket, and you let it go to waste but stomping on it with your boots!" Natsu rants and stomps his chest.
"Do you know who how much time Professor Goodwitch spent to make this feast!" He stomps again.
"I don't care one bit about that dumb- GAH!" He stomps for the second time.
"I'll make you care!" Dragneel declares and unleashes an unrelenting combo of stomps to his chest.
Stomp
Stomp
Stomp
Stomp
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Cardin feels an excruciating pain pulsing from his chest grow stronger with each stomp Natsu lands, it was like a group of people, with sledgehammers, slammed the hammers on his chest all at the same exact time. The pain is so bad it hurts to breathe, so he starts to breathe in short, quick burst to suppress the pain.
'How'd he get so strong?' Winchester ask and notices Natsu glaring at him.
"Lil Brisket deserved better than what you did to it."
"What-thud" Cardin couldn't comprehend what he just said as Natsu knocks him out with a strong punch on the nose.
The Dread Hunter sighs then looks at the pancake brisket on the floor, 'I'm sorry Lil Brisket, but I'll make sure that you and your brothers and sister's deaths won't be in VAIN!'
After paying his final respects to the squished meat pancake, he moves on to face the two teams fighting each other with food weapons in their hands.
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"Natsu, over here!" Ruby calls her best friend taking cover behind a table while team JNPR bombards their position with soda cans.
"Hotshot, you came just in time, we're pinned down over here. Can you take out the soda team on your side?" Yang asks.
"We're taking too many hits, we have to move now!" Blake suggests, watching Nora ready a six pack of soda for another barrage.
"Natsu don't listen to them, join us and take them out!" Nora yells and throws another soda can at team RWBY.
"He would never join you the likes of you, your reign ends here and now Nora! Your defeat will be soon and will be bitter to the core!" Ruby taunts.
Nora growls at her enemy's words as she stabs a metal pipe into a watermelon, "TO BATTLE!" She orders and rushes team RWBY with her loyal teammates behind her.
"CHARGE!" Weiss yells and jumps over the table.
Natsu acts quickly to intervene as Yang runs straight for Pryyha, with her turkey fists ready to bring the smack down. Yang leans back and launches a high kick aimed for Pyrrha's head. Pryyha readies to defend herself by raising two baguettes to block the kick. Unexpectedly, Natsu jumps between the two and catches Yang's foot.
"Natsu?! You're fighting for the enemy...or do you like what you see?" Yang smirks and looks down her raised leg, she wearing a skirt currently and if she raised her leg just a little bit higher. She could give Natsu a nice view of what she's wearing under the skirt.
Pyrrha smiles at the assist and goes in to finish her off by dashing past Natsu then attempts to hit Yang with the baguettes in her hands.
Natsu's eyes widen and pushes Yang back, saving her from the swing, then manages to snatch one of Pyrrha's break sword and puts it on the nearest table.
Pyrrha recovers and looks at him, "Natsu what are you doing? We're allies in this fight." She asks.
Yang also wonders this and which side Natsu's fighting for.
"All of you are blind to the real crime being executed right as we speak, so much food has been wasted this hour and I will not stand for it." Natsu explains as he rips the baguette, he got from Pyrrha, and eats it quickly.
'What is he talking about?' The two think.
"I will avenge the fallen consumption items destroyed during this fight and will stop anyone in my way. Punishment will be futile for all I see who are guilty. The deliciousness shall be avenged!" Natsu continues pointing at the two with an accusing finger.
At this moment the two realize who Natsu's fighting for, no one, they look around each other. The piles of food all across the dinning hall, they look at each other and look at the food weapons they have.
'I'm so naive, I should of seen this sooner, Natsu loves FOOD and this is FOOD FIGHT! Of course the waste of food will anger him.' Pyrrha realizes.
"I guess we're on that list then huh..." Yang sheepishly look at the large turkey gloves covering her hand.
"Yup." Natsu answers plainly.
"And everyone in our teams?" Pyrrha asks.
"Yup."
"What if I give you a big kiss, can I get off the list?" Yang tries to seduce him and winks at him.
"Nope."
Yang looks at Pyrrha and the get the same idea, they both look back at Natsu with smirks on their faces, "Then we have no choice then...AHH!" Yang sounds her battle cry and charges Natsu, she swing in a rapid succession, trying to overwhelm him.
Natsu blocks the first three punches then dodges the fourth punch, as Xiao Long recoils the punch, Natsu wraps his hands around her turkey hand and pulls, successfully disarming her right hand. Dragneel puts the turkey with the baguette, on the table, behind him. As he turns, he finds Pyrrha right above, slamming down her last bread sword with both her hand in a downward motion. Natsu quickly catches the sword, stopping it in it's place, and steps back as Pyrrha lands on the ground.
"I will not fall to you Natsu!" She taunts, applying more force behind her sword. She's taken back a bit by the big smile on Natsu's face.
"Me...chomp...gulp...neither!" Natsu, surprisingly, takes a bite out of the bread in his hands, then uses his brute strength to push her back.
The warrior staggers back and finds her sword missing it's tip, this makes her drop her sword, but before she could retaliate, Natsu fires a powerful ball of wind at her. Sending her flying, crashing into the table tower she helped create with her team. He hears Yang running behind him and turns around to meet a turkey to the gut, he grunts at Yang's power sending him across the dinning hall, but before Yang gets out of his range, he takes her last turkey glove with him.
Natsu opens his eye and finds that turkey in his hand, he gets up and finds a large tornado in front of him, it ends a few seconds later to reveal a wall of color created with the food scattered around the dinning hall. Four people peel off the wall like a bandage off a wound, covered in many bright colors. Then, behind him, the dinning hall door open fiercely. Natsu turns around to find his mentor walk in with a ticked off look in her face. She whips her rider's crop around, manipulating the dinning hall to clean itself up in a matter of seconds.
"Students please..." Glynda starts and adjusts her glasses, "Don't play with you food." She orders.
After hearing this Natsu couldn't help but to feel a little ashamed to anger his mentor, but his attention is drawn elsewhere by the sounds of laughter near him. He turns his head to the side and finds team RWBY and JNPR smiling at each other laughing and overall having a good time.
'Where's Yang?' He asks looking for his close friend in the crowd of students around him.
"Ahhhh- ugh..." Yang screams as she falls threw the ceiling of the dinning hall and falls on something hard and warm. She moans softly as she snuggles closer to the warmth.
"YANG! G...GET OFF N-Natsu!" She hears her sister stutter, she opens her eyes and finds herself staring at a familiar scar on some defined abs.
"A-ah" Yang hears stuttering from Weiss and Ruby, she looks up and finds Natsu rubbing his forehead in pain. She looks back down and finds that she's lying between his legs, that must be why her teammates are flipping out. From their perspective, it must look...inappropriate.
'Sigh, fine, all good things must come to an end.' Yang gives in to her lil sister's request and gets off him, but in a way to tease the man under her. She puts her hands on his abs and pushes herself off him slowly, really taking her time. After finally getting back on her feet, she turns to look at the current conditions of her teammates. Weiss, Ruby, Blake, and Pyrrha are all covered in the same deep crimson around their face. Ice Queen and Lil Red are mumbling incoherent things while Blake and Pyrrha try to distract themselves from their dirty thoughts by fidgeting in place.
"Argh, my head." Natsu groans, but the strange soft feeling on his abs is helping ease the pain.
"Natsu, pull it together, it's just a scratch!" Nora points out and picks Natsu off the ground right after Yang gets off him.
"Right, thanks Nora, I'm fine now." Natsu shakes his head and gives Nora a big smile.
"Good, now let's go, we have the whole day together so let's not waste it." Valkyrie explains and smiles back.
"Yo Natsu, your box?" Neptune, now covered in grape soda, hands Natsu his box he left him just the way he left it.
"Oh thanks Neptune." Natsu says and takes the box.
"No problem, well I need to clean myself up, I'll see you later." Neptune explains and leaves with Sun behind him while passing Glynda on the way out.
"Mr. Dragneel, I need to speak with you for a moment, the rest of you can clean yourselves up." Goodwitch interrupts.
"Here you go Professor Goodwitch, I cleaned the box for you." Natsu explains and holds out her box to her.
"Thank you Natsu, I was just going to ask you about that. I just wanted to remind you that later in the afternoon Beacon will be hosting a large amount of exchange students from the different academies for the Vytal Tournament so we won't be able to go out to Vale for the first week of school, because I will be organizing the exchange students' schedules." She explains and takes the box.
"You got it Professor, that's okay, we'll just go when you have time, no need to rush yourself."
"I appreciate Mr. Dragneel, thank you. I need to be going now, good bye Mr. Dragneel." She assures with a soft smile.
"Anytime Professor, I'll catch you later!" Natsu plays it cool and runs off after RWBY and JNPR.
-Library-
After team RWBY, JNPR, and Natsu cleaned themselves up, they all met up at the library of Beacon, team RWBY decided to play a match of Remnant The Game, a 4 player game of world conquest in the world of Remnant. Each player controls a faction/kingdom that has it's own unique abilities, strengths and weaknesses. It's a turn based game, the order is determined by a simple dice roll or sometimes a question, in which the one who has the most correct/best answer goes first and so on and so forth. The team of four girls got their own table in the library to play their game of strategy and role play while team JNPR sit at a table next to them reading books, while Nora is sleeping on a book Ren's reading.
Natsu is with Yang in the fight to conquer Remnant, "Ooo that's so dirty." Natsu exclaims looking at Yang's cards.
"Stop it Natsu, you'll gonna ruin the surprise, and that's the best part." Yang warns and pokes his arm, looking at her small army of Grimm figurines all grouped up together on the board on the table.
"Yang Xiao Long and Natsu Dragneel! Prepare for battle! I declare war on the Grimm hoard!" Ruby yells and points at the two with determined eyes.
Yang gasps dramatically and hugs Natsu's arm, "You wouldn't dare!"
Natsu puts his hand on her shoulder and looks at her with the same sense of drama, "She won't win, we can do this Yang." He motivates.
"Oh yeah, I send my Atlasian fleet right over your main force and right into to the heart of the Grimm all in one turn!" Ruby explains her turn and shows the two a card of a fleet of ships with little details of what that fleet can do on the battlefield.
Yang smirks and pulls out an unturned card then holds it out to Ruby, "Well my dear sister, you activated my trap card!"
"No way!" Ruby yells.
"Yes way, I activate my Nevermore hunters, a trap card that can completely destroys your fleet and buffs my Ursai forces by plus 25 defense points!"
"No, you have to roll at least a 6 or higher to even damage my fleet, let alone a 12 to grant a defense buff and if you roll a 5 or lower that Nevermore attacks all friendly units in a 2 tile radius!"
"Well then that's a risk I will gladly take." Yang assures and picks up two white dice and shakes it in your hand.
"You're not gonna do it, just you wait, you'll gonna roll a 1 right now!" Ruby predicts as Yang rolls the dice on to the board with a twisted smile on her face.
"That's right! Take that, boom goes the fleet!" Natsu tips over a little airship on Yang's territory, next to the dice that both read six.
"NOOO! My fearless warriors..." Ruby falls down on the table, mourning the lost of her strongest unit.
As Ruby cries comically for her soldier, Weiss looks at her cards confusingly, "Weiss, now it's your turn."
"Um, what are we doing again?" She asks.
"We're trying to see which of us can take over Remnant. You're playing as-" Yang starts to explains to Weiss what going on.
Natsu notices Blake is spacing out., "Blake, you there?"
"Huh, sorry what did you say?"
"Are you feeling okay Blake you look tired."
"I'm...I'm fine thank you." She assures and rubs her eyes and spots Weiss crying with Ruby in her arms crying as well.
"I hate this game of emotions..." Weiss mumbles.
"You used it didn't you?"
"Yup, the good old Berserker card always wins the day." Yang assures and crosses her arms with a grin on her face.
Jaune gets out of his seat and walks over to team RWBY, "Oh oh can I play?" He asks.
While Weiss explains why Jaune can't play, Natsu spots his little buddy Ig sitting by himself on a window ledge. He walks over to the little drake and puts his hands on the ledge of the window, "Hey buddy, watch'a looking at?" He asks looking outside the window, showing a beautiful overview of the city of Vale.
The little dragon coos and crawls up his arm creates a little space for himself on his shoulder to sit on, "You've been hanging out with Weiss a lot for a while now Ig. I've been thinking you started to forget about me, ah but who am I kidding, how can you forget you pal Natsu right Ig?" Natsu chats with his drake.
The drake doesn't respond as it nibbles on his collar, Ig has gotten slightly bigger over the semester, ever since the field trip to Forever Falls, Ig's been growing slightly bigger each day and now he's about the size of a normal bowl. This also hasn't gone unnoticed by the students of Beacon, like Natsu, Ig's became widely known as the school's mascot, a red lizard that is always with Professor Goodwitch at every school assembly and always making an appearance with Weiss during classes. He basically became friends with almost everyone at Beacon, the others just got growled at but that was the worse it could get for Ig. He wasn't a mean drake, he was just protective of his friends, just like his best friend Natsu.
"I think we should go out something Ig, just the two of us like old times before we moved her to Vale you know. I kinda want to practice my fire skills, don't want to forget how to use it after all. All these swords and guns is cool and all but I think it would be fun to go back to the good old one two. What do you think Ig, should we do that?"
Ig coos cheerfully in response and nuzzles into his collar as a gesture of approval.
"Then it's settled, next weekend we'll head out and just relax in the woods, get away from everything for awhile. That'll be nice, the sun in the sky, wind blowing threw the trees, and the best part it'll be just you, me, and Grayfia hanging out for one day. Grayfia said she would be back after a few days after she took care of some things with mom." Natsu talks to Ig while holding his neck, where his necklace Mother Nature gave to him used to be, but now it's gone.
Before Cardin kicked him off the cliff, and into Igneel's final resting place, he took his necklace. The next following day, after they got back from the crimson forest, Ruby gave it back to him and said Jaune found it on Cardin after he saved him from a Ursai. The necklace's crystal was smashed into three pieces, Both team RWBY and JNPR tried to repair the necklace but the final product became a ball of duck tape holding the three pieces together. He told everyone that it was okay and that he's knows someone that could fix it and that made the two teams feel less guilty for breaking Natsu's necklace. Even though Natsu never told them about who gave him the necklace, they knew it was important by the way Natsu would always rub the crystal every time he talked about his past. Gaining his new popularity in Beacon made people want to get to know him better. Sooner of later Natsu's close friends noticed this habit of rubbing the pristine red crystal.
"I'm just about done playing for now, I'll you guys later." Natsu hears and turns around to find Sun and Neptune joining the group while Blake is leaving.
"Woman." Nora mumbles watching Sun shrug as Blake leaves.
"She must be tired." Natsu mumbles.
Ig pulls on his collar toward Blake's direction, "What? She can find her bed on her own Ig."
This doesn't stop Ig and he pulls harder on his collar, "Fine, I'll see what's up." Natsu gives in and walks to reach Blake.
"I'm going to see what's up, later." Natsu explains and jogs after Belladonna as Ig flaps his wings then lands on the table.
"Whoa what is that?!" Sun asks.
"That has a name, it's Ig, who's my favorite wittle wizard! ~You oh it's you~" Weiss scratches Ig's chin.
"Hey little guy." Neptune greets and slowly moves his hand to pet him but Ig growls in return.
"Nice lizard, nice lizard." Neptune takes a step back to reduce the chances of Ig biting his finger off.
"Iggy? Sorry about that, Ig's mostly never like this." Weiss explains and rubs his chin some more.
"It's alright nobody got hurt, you must be a really good owner."
"Me? No, Ig's belongs to Natsu, Ig just likes to spend time with me." Weiss explains.
"Oh gosh get a room already..." A random student across the room complains.
-Dorms-
Blake returned to her room quickly and sat back down on her bed thinking about the White Fang and Roman down by the docks.
'I know he said to let it go but how can everyone be so calm, it's almost as if no one realizes that the White Fang will come back again and unleash some elaborate plan right under our noses. It could be happening right now and no one who know, and what about Torchwick?! He's just another thief scum on the streets, why would the White Fang do with someone like that? And the dust, if he's been robbing those dust stores, then he has to be giving it to the White Fang.' She thinks and her heart begins to beat faster at the idea of giving the White Fang an load of dust.
Knock Knock
The cat jumps in place at the interruption as she hears two knocks on the front door then opens it, "Peek-a-boo?" Natsu mumbles as he pops his head in and looks around.
Blake drops her guard knowing it's just Natsu looking for her, "Do you need something Natsu?"
"White Fang's still on you mind huh?" Natsu walks into the room with a two cups of hot tea in his hands.
"What? No." She lies.
"It's obvious that not true Blake, if it's on my mind then it's definitely on yours too, especially yours as a matter of fact." Natsu takes a sit on her bed and hands her the cup of tea.
She nods in thanks, "It's bothering you too?"
"Yeah, all that dust is making me a little bit uneasy, they must be preparing for something scary. Like a bombing or some kind of all out ambush."
"Don't tell me, thinking about that just makes me worry about one more thing." Blake mumbles and takes a sip of her tea, which is quite different from the tea she drinks, it really makes her feel relaxed and warm on the inside.
"What is this?" Blake asks, feeling extremely refreshed and relaxed.
"That right there is my Mom's secret tea, she would give me this to help me relax when I got frustrated with my training." Natsu explains while unknowingly touches his neck, as if there was a necklace there to grab, with his free hand.
"Training? I thought your father trained you?"
"He did, but that was for CQC, my mom trained me to use my elemental magic and stuff." He explains lifting his hand up into the air, making the tea in his cup rise into the air.
"Impressive, she taught you to play with your food?" Blake teases with a sly grin.
Natsu smiles brightly at her joke, "You're one to talk, I remember that Ruby told me you were swinging a sausage chain at lunch." He counters making Blake slightly pout.
"Aw Blake don't look at me like that. I kinda want to touch your ears again." Natsu thinks out loud while putting his cup down on the bookshelf next to her bed.
Blake's eyes shoot open the mention of her ears and she quickly gets off the bed, "N-no! I refuse to have you touch my ears." She stutters placing her cup next to his then cups her hands over her ears to protect them from any potential sneak attacks from Natsu to touch her ears.
"Come on, just one squeeze, they're so soft it's a crime not to touch them." Natsu teases and slowly walks toward her with his hands aimed for her ears.
"Stop right there, Ah!" Blake cutely panics and runs around the room, trying to protect her ears from Natsu's warms hands. The chase goes on for a few minutes till Blake trips on something and falls right on Natsu, sending the two crashing to the floor.
The two end up face to face and they share an awkward moment of silence till they both start to laugh uncontrollably.
"Sigh, fine you win Blake, but I still win." Natsu assures.
"Really? How?"
"I get to see you smile."
Blake blushes at the cheese comment but that same cheesy comment makes her heart beat wildly, "You like my smile that much."
"It's not the only thing I like about you."
"Like what?"
Thud Thud Thud
-Outside-
As the end comes to an end, everyone heads to their assigned rooms, all but three. Three 'students' wearing the uniform of Haven academy. Two females, one with green hair and the other with black hair, and one male with steel gray hair. Cinder Fall, Emerald Sustrai, and Mercury Black. Cinder is actually brought Natsu's backpack with her to school, and it still carries everything that Natsu left in when he...disappeared.
"Ugh, I hate uniforms, it's nagging at my throat." Mercury mutters.
"I kinda like the stripes." Emerald points out.
"So this is the prestigious Beacon Academy, Interesting." Cinder talks to herself and looks at the large tower by the ball room.
'There's the target, no security around, fools.' Cinder observes her surroundings.
"So what's the plan?" He asks.
"We look around, become familiar with our surroundings." She explains and looks to a building where many of the students are entering. She then decides to explore that building first, so she walks toward that building with Emerald and Mercury right behind her.
The three enter the building and look around, it's a large room ball room with people getting ready to sleep.
"Are we sleeping here? On the floor?" Mercury asks.
"We'll return here after making our own tour of this place." Cinder decides and turns back to return to where they came from.
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They picked a random building and explored the hallways of the large building. The three turn the corner and Emerald bumps into someone.
"Ouch..."
"Oops, sorry my bad." Emerald apologizes and helps the girl up.
"I'm Ruby, are you three new?" She asks.
Cinder takes over and steps in front of Emerald, "Visiting from Haven actually..."
Ruby takes a moment to think but realizes who they are, " Ooo you're here for the festival, but exchange students have their own dorms...um..." Ruby tries to thinks where the dorms are as Emerald walks past her.
"I guess we got lost..." Mercury assumes and follows Emerald.
"Well that's alright, the dorms should be east from here."
"Thanks, I guess we'll see you around?" Cinder assumes then follows the two ahead of her.
Ruby turns around and notices the backpack Cinder's carrying. 'Isn't that's Natsu's backpack?'
Ruby says something else but she ignores it, what's really on her mind is Natsu.
'That's the girl Natsu was with during that robbery, but where's Natsu?' She thinks and hears a door open behind her.
Walking further down the hall she notices Emerald look behind her then her eyes widen, "Cinder behind you!" She hears.
The three fully turn around and they see a man wearing a black jacket, and black pants both with a similar golden skull design with black combat boots. The most noticeable thing about him is the pink hair on his head, the two jagged scars going down his right eye and the three slashes on his chest.
"Cinder..." He mumbles with his face filled with disbelief and shock. He never thought he'd see the woman in front of her again, but she's standing right in front of him right before his very eyes.
"Cinder is that really you." He asks again while slowly walking toward her.
The servant of Salem feels her heart flutter when he calls her name, all she wanted to do is to say yes but she can't form the words in her mouth.
Mercury and Emerald stare at the man with deep curiosity, they want to know why he knows Cinder and why Cinder won't answer him.
"Look buddy, I think you got the wro-" Mercury starts but Cinder interrupts him.
"Yes, Natsu...Natsu it's me." Cinder assures in a soft tone.
Natsu doesn't need to hear another word and he instantly pulls Cinder into his arms then nuzzles into her neck, making the most of this precious time he has with his first friend.
'Cinder...she's here, she's actually here hahaha she's here!' He thinks holding without any thoughts of letting go.
Cinder feels Natsu's warm touch cover her body, and it's leaps and bounds better than the scarf she used last night. Recovering from the shock of seeing her precious servant, she raises her arms and wraps them around his neck, returning a universal hug between two people who haven't seen each other to what they think is an eternity. Two people who need no words to express how much they care for each other.
What does this hug mean?
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I missed you.
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