Training
*Wow I looked at my last, chapter, and I am truly sorry that you had to even see the amount of mistakes I had. It was atrocious, honestly. I definitely will be careful from now on. By the way, a little Michael and Gavin friendship in this chapter. I will not ship them, though, only portray their friendship.
"Now, let's blaze!" Ray yelled, pointing at the building. Nora smiled.
"My specialty." She replied, readying her launcher. She took a second to analyze the concrete buildings. Supported by pillars, two floors. (Albeit a very small second floor.) The building was very wide, though, it would most likely take 6-7 well placed grenades to take down the one building. Now knowing her strategy, Nora flipped into action. She quickly fired two grenades at a supporting pillar. It gave way, and the building started to teeter, but it would not be enough to knock it down. Before she could make another move, Ray stopped her.
"That was an ok shot, but you didn't have to waste two grenades." He turned around. "What were you doing?" He asked, looking at the faceless, nameless people. They merely shrugged. Ray hung his head in disappointment, and ran off to the side. Nora took this as a sign she could continue, and fired another grenade. It hit the supporting pillar on the right, and the building collapsed to one side. Nora finished off the rest of the building with another well-placed grenade for the remaining pillar. With the last of the building's foundation gone, it collapsed to the ground in a heap of dust. Nora turned around and basked in applaud, even from the Achieve Men. Except one, Ray. He sat with his arms crossed.
"It was good," He began. "But you should've only used three shots, not four." Ray said, pouting. Nora smiled.
"I think I did quite good!" She replied, fairly self-confidently. Ray shook his head.
"You wanna see good?" He asked rhetorically, pulling a large rose from his shirt pocket. "Stand back."
He spun the rose in his hand, and put it near his mouth. He whispered, "Blaze." And the rose was set alight. It burned with such fury, Nora could barely look at it without tearing up. Ray's eyes filled with fire, his face with much concentration. In one swift motion, he swiped the rose towards the remaining concrete building. A row of fire burst from the tip of his rose, and collided with the building, setting it on fire. A concrete building, on fire. The crowd began to applaud upon this feat, but Ray silenced them with a gesture of his hand.
"Wait." He said. After he said this, the building exploded into thousands of pieces. He smiled, turned to face the crowd, and bowed. The applause was monstrous. They had just witnessed a master at work. Finished with his demonstration, Ray extinguished his rose and placed it back in his pocket.
"Thank you. And thank you," He said, facing Nora, "For helping me out." Ray said, completely ignoring the faceless, nameless people. Nora saluted him, giggled, and ran back to sit with Ren. Ray bowed, and left his destroyed course to stand and watch with the others.
"That was good. But I think my group can do better!" Michael shot, beckoning his team to group. This group was particularly large, including no faceless, nameless people. It included Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Pyrrha, Jaune, and Cardin. The group huddled, similar to Ray's.
"Okay," Michael said. "I don't think we can do better. That was pretty badass what he did there." Ray heard this.
"Hmm?" He said mockingly.
Michael coughed. "Ahem. I mean, they sucked. We can do better. Okay… break!" The huddle was broken, and the group was left to face their opponents: cheap practice dummies. Ruby sighed.
"I can't impress him with this garbage!" She thought. Before she could complain any more, Michael interrupted with an ear-piercing whistle blow.
"Go!" He yelled. "Just Blaze! Or whatever! Ahh fuck it."
Within seconds, all of the dolls had been thrown across the field, or torn to pieces, except for Jaune's; he finished his a little later. Once all of them finished, they turned to face Michael. He stared back.
"What?" He shot at them. They all sighed and walked off the field in disappointment.
"What the fuck? What the fuck? Ahhh, fuck you. Party-poopers. Anyway, I'm going to show you all my skills!" He said, pulling out a diamond sword. Before he could do much, he was booed.
"Get off the field!" People yelled. Michael was truly taken aback.
"Why? What the fu…" He was about to cry manly tears when Gavin came to his side, standing tall.
"Leave my boi alone! He just wants to teach you!" Gavin said defiantly. Michael stared at Gavin as if he was a piece of bloodied cow meat.
"Are you… defending me?" He asked. Gavin nodded. Michael didn't know what to say.
"My boi!" He yelled, his arms open for embrace. Gavin gracefully accepted the embrace. What he's always wanted, his dreams, finally came true. They walked off the field together. Half of the crowd moaned, complaining, and half cheered. The Achieve Men merely rolled their eyes, Ray the most upset about this new friendship.
"I thought we were friends… Now you ditched me for the one you hate." Ray muttered under his breath. No one heard him. No one ever did.
Geoff calmed the audience down.
"We have no more time, guys. You gotta get to the next class. We'll continue this next time we meet. Or maybe not. I'm not sure. Whatever we feel like." He said. Everybody groaned. This class was quite fun, and many people wanted to go and prove themselves. Ruby sighed.
"That was kind of disappointing." She said as they walked back to the school. Yang punched her playfully.
"Eh, calm down. Little sis. I didn't get a chance either." She said. Weiss shook her head.
"That Michael guy, he's pretty… uhmmm… emotionally unstable, huh?" She said. Yang laughed.
"Yeah, that was weird. He usually treats Gavin like shit." She said. "Can't wait 'till next time, though!"
*Ok, so what Geoff said, pretty accurate. I might write another chapter on the training, depending on the response I get. Anyway, just bear with me.