Here is the next chapter in our grand adventure with the team. From here on out it will be epic fights and romantic scenes! Actually it will probably be mostly normal days with a few misadventures, but still epic none the less. Now onward to the story, as always RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth my team is my own.
Getting up in the morning was not difficult for Levina or Delilah as they were used to the concept. Levina hopped down from her bed and gathered her things as she entered the shower first claiming a space on the sink for her items. Delilah being nice laid out Levina's school uniform on her desk as she got her things ready for when Levina finished. A few minutes later Levina exited the shower as Delilah went in, claiming a space of her own on the sink Delilah to a quick shower. Carmine was still sleeping when Delilah came out of the bathroom, Levina shook Carmine awake as he groggily dragged his feet to the bathroom. When it seemed that everyone was ready Carmine heard Omar turn in his bed, "dang it he has to get up so we can get to class, Delilah can you make sure he gets there, me and Lev are gonna head out first." Delilah nodded as she tried to get Omar up. After Carmine and Levina left Delilah stood on a chair making her level with Omar and gave him a slap prompting him to bolt upward, still half asleep he looked around, "Omar you have to get ready class starts soon." Nodding he slumped over the side as he fell the few feet out of bed landing on his back, almost crawling to the bathroom Delilah leaned back on a bed post as she waited for him. The window to the room was open as a breeze gently blew through the room, Delilah caught Carmine's scent in the small breeze. Tuning her ears to the bathroom she figured Omar would still be in there for a bit, climbing into Carmine's bed she looked back at the bathroom door before picking up Carmine's pillow and smelling it. She was so engrossed in the scent that she did not hear the shower stop or the door open, it was only when Omar cleared his throat as he leaned on the stopping bar that Delilah snapped out of it. All of the blood drained from her face as she turned to see Omar looking at her with an almost evil smile, "my, my, what have we here?" Delilah was at a loss for words as Omar stepped back dressed in the school slacks, shoes and shirt that was untucked with the jacket. "What would Carmine think if he heard about this?" Omar said almost mockingly as all function in Delilah's head went blank, Omar slowly inched to the door never looking away from Delilah. As he was about to reach it something snapped in her head as she growled leaping from the bed toward Omar who ran out the door, she gave chase hoping to catch him before he told Carmine or anyone.
Ruby and her team ran out of their room as they were late for class, Jaune and his team were right behind them. As Yang turned the corner she ran right into Omar, the resulting fall knocked her on top of him. Omar opened his eyes and saw darkness, as he brought his hands to his face he felt something soft. Squeezing slightly brought out a yelp, "hey watch what you're gropin!" Yang lifting herself climbed off Omar as he went red realizing what he just grabbed, "I'm sorry Yang I was so busy running that I didn't see where I was going." Yang got up as Omar got into a seated position, seeing his embarrassment made her giggle, "it's fine," as she went to extend a hand Omar was kneed in the face slamming his head back to the ground. Delilah tumbled into a crouched position as Omar held his face, standing up she noticed the others looking at her with a confused expression. Sitting up again Omar groaned, "Ow! Are you crazy! You shattered my nose!" he got up and everyone saw the torrent of blood gushing from his nose, leaning forward so none of it got on his uniform Omar kept his hands over it to try and stop the bleeding. Delilah and everyone else panicked at the amount of blood he was losing, Delilah even more so, "oh my god! What? How? Why didn't your aura block the hit!?" Yang was at his side with Pyrrha as they took out handkerchiefs placing them up to Omar's nose, Yang's eyes went red with fury, "why'd you knee him like that!" Delilah tried to explain, "In the morning he caught me doing something embarrassing and said he would tell Carmine so," Pyrrha who was almost as mad as Yang interrupted, "so you thought shattering his nose would stop him?" Delilah's ears flattened and her tail drooped at Pyrrha's comment. Omar removing one of his hands held out a cup he made to Delilah, "fill that with water." Tentatively grabbing the cup she went to the nearby fountain, coming back with the cup three quarters full she handed it to Omar. He patted Yang and Pyrrha on the shoulder, "ok can you two step back I don't want to hurt you." Both looked confused but stepped backed as instructed, still gushing blood Omar held the cup up to his face. Squeezing the cup the water inside turned into steam as it rose out of the cup, the steam drifted to his nose as he took a deep breath. Everyone could hear the small popping and cracking as the blood stopped and his nose looked like it was resetting itself. Using the handkerchief in his hand he wiped his bloody nose revealing it to be in perfect condition. Ruby took a step closer awe struck, "wow how'd you do that?" crushing the cup as it turned to dust that disappeared Omar explained, "it's part of my semblance, I can heal most wounds completely if I have the right amount of aura." Weiss crossing her arms questioned, "But why didn't your aura protect you from getting a shattered nose in the first place?" "It doesn't work like that for me, I don't know why but that's just how it is." As she was about to press further in her questioning Blake looked at her scroll, "he seems to be fine now, if we hurry we can still make it to class. If we just say we got lost trying to find the class room we might get away with a warning," Weiss looked back as Blake showed her the scroll, it read 9:18 am. Yang placed a hand on Omar's shoulder, "you sure you're alright?" Omar nodded as he followed the others to class.
Professor Port's class was boring as he went on about his youth, Carmine and Levina had chosen seats up near the top of the stadium style seats. Delilah was still frazzled when she and Omar entered the class with Ruby and Jaune's team, they managed to convince the professor that finding the class was hard since they hadn't figure their way around the school yet. The heavy set man laughed allowing them to take their seats, the class was Hunting Basics a class Omar could ace in his sleep. Falling back asleep he put one of the provided books up as a cover to block anyone from figuring out that he fell back asleep. Delilah was taking notes when she saw Omar asleep, sighing she made a mental note to give him a copy later. Levina was reading some of the later sections in the book as Carmine made a detailed schedule of what classes his team had together and what classes they had by themselves, to ensure that all the work was done he allotted two hours after classes were over to get the work done together. Some time had passed when the professor had Weiss spar against the Boarbatusk, when she won he looked at the clock, "it seems like we have enough time for another epic match between good and evil, is there any volunteers?" As he looked around the room Delilah worried the professor would yell at Omar for falling asleep, leaning over and gently shaking him she urged, "Omar get up before the professor yells at you." As she shook him the professor turned to Carmine's team as Omar bolted up, "yes professor!" the professor smiled, "alright my boy come down here and show up your skills."
Allowing Omar to change into his battle gear the professor wheeled out a large cage, standing in the middle of the main floor Omar yawned as the professor spoke, "are you ready my boy?" Omar nodded as he noticed Yang, smiling widely he waved as the professor opened the cage. He felt a gust of wind and something bump him when he saw Yang's face go from smiling to sheer horror. He was about to question her expression when he felt cold creeping up his shoulder, as he went to grab it his left hand suddenly felt wet as he turned to look. His hand was covered in blood when he noticed he was missing his right arm from the middle of his bicep down. Gritting his teeth he turned around and saw the Grimm tearing chucks out of his arm, when it became bored it tossed his arm aside and set its sights on finishing the job. Professor Port scrambled across the room to reach his gun when the Grimm let out a snarl as it crouched to attack again. Carmine ran down the steps as Omar looked at the Grimm with an irritated expression, "you know this sweater isn't cheap, I could really careless that you took an arm but now I have to call a special tailor to see about fixing the sleeve you tore off." The bleeding from his arm stopped as he crouched into a fighting stance, "now I'm gonna have to kill you." Letting out a roar the Grimm charged with its fangs bared as Omar raised his stump and took a position like he was going to throw a punch. Just as the professor grabbed his weapon loading it Carmine hopped the railing to the practice area when the Grimm let out a yelp. The Grimm slumped forward slowly dissipating as Omar pushed it forward off of his right arm. Everyone in the class did a collective double take as Omar inspected the right arm that clearly should not be attached to his body, his sweatshirt was still torn but his arm looked like it had not just been inside the mouth of the Grimm. Carmine walked over to Omar and grabbed his arm tracing a hand over the area where it had clearly been severed, Omar frowned shook free from the grip, "I'm not into dude's back off." Carmine watched as Omar pushed past him as he walked toward a confused Yang smiling, as he looked down he saw a large hole in the floor near where Omar stood. The professor had the school doctor's rush to the room to inspect Omar as he tried to deter them showing them he clearly had an arm. One of the doctors held up his arm and questioned him, grabbing it he removed the sweatshirt sleeve before gripping the dead appendage as it started cracking before crumbling to dust that evaporated. The doctors held him for questioning as the class was dismissed, Delilah stayed back as the other went their separate ways.
With Omar being held back for questioning and Delilah making sure he was ok Carmine and Levina went to their separate classes, Levina ended up walking with Ruby who would not stop talking about what happened in class. "Oh man that was so scary and so cool at the same time!" waving her arms in an excited manner she mimicked the beowolf taking Omar's arm off then Omar killing the Grimm with the new arm he had. Levina just smiled and listened as Ruby was too hyperactive to try and get a word in. As they rounded the corner to the hall with their classroom Ruby bumped into a taller girl, Ruby stumbling back slightly was about to apologize when the girl berated her, "oh my god watch were you're going! Oh my god why is there a kid wearing the school uniform? What is beacon running a day care, are you here with mommy and daddy?" Before Ruby could respond two girl stepped out from behind the one Ruby bumped into, Levina looked them both up and down as they circled the poor girl throwing insults. "Hey are you potty trained or are you wearing a diaper little baby?" "Yeah you better be careful or the big bad Grimm are gonna eat you up." "Careful we don't wanna hurt the wittle baby's feewings." "Aww are you gonna start crying?" All three laughed at the red face Ruby as the lead one walk past knocking her books down. As Ruby bent down to pick them up Levina helped, "I'm sorry, I should have said something." Ruby putting her hood up replied, "Its ok I'm fine." Levina could hear in her voice that she was putting tremendous effort in not outwardly crying, when they got to their class Levina sat in the back of the class room with Ruby as she put her head down silently crying.
Carmine was sitting next to Jaune in 'Leading Strategies', the class was about teaching battle field tactics that would be needed in a variety of different settings to the team leaders. Carmine was writing everything down that wrote on the board as Jaune just sat completely lost. When it came time for as the teacher would call it "Strategy Implication" everyone had to pair up, Jaune not really knowing anyone picked Carmine and the two took a seat at one of the battle tables. Placing their scrolls in the small stands in front of their chairs a field was displayed on the table and several units were spread about. The teacher was called Professor Fallow he was a tall man with light brown hair swept to the side, he wore round reading glasses and a brown suit. He was almost as much of a history nut as Doctor Oobleck, while not as hyperactive he can be enthralled in a subject just the same. "Now class today is just to get a feel for commanding troops around the battlefield, at the end of the week when you have sufficiently knowledge of how to effectively implement your own strategies on the field we will begin the tournament." The professor stopped by the table where Jaune and Carmine were sitting, "the tournament will count for a large portion of your grade, but your written strategies that you will hand in will help bolster your score if you do not do well. Now class please follow the instructions on your scrolls to become acquainted with the game, after which you may as you say 'fool around' with the game until the end of class." Carmine read every instruction that he could testing each command out before resetting the practice field on his side. Jaune was still at a loss when Carmine set up his troops and sent the invite to start the game. Jaune lost completely every time he played, Carmine at one point had to direct Jaune on how to maneuver his troops for them to be in attack range for Jaune to have a chance at winning. Professor Fallow looked disappointingly at Jaune as he lost for the fifth time in a row, the other groups had more even matches. Jaune slumped against the table as Carmine won for the sixth time in a row, "how do you do it Carmine? I can barely make any moves when you already have my guys surrounded." Carmine reading some of the unit bonuses answered, "I simply read the instructions, saw what the field could offer me, saw where my units could have the most advantage and worked around that. Don't worry just reread the instructions and unit manual again, write down some good maneuvers that you think you can pull off and hopefully when the tournament happens you can get a decent place." Jaune slowly nodded as the bell rung for class to end, everyone packed their things and headed to the lunch room.
The lunch room was almost as big as the great hall that the entrance ceremony took place in, the kitchen for the cafeteria served a variety of foods from all over the kingdoms. Carmine and Levina found each other grabbed some food and found Ruby and Jaune's team at a table. Delilah was sitting with them shortly after, as they started eating Omar grabbed a seat across from Yang. His team as well as Ruby and Jaune's just stared at his right arm as he picked up a spoon full of mashed potatoes. Sighing he answered the silent question, "yes this is my real arm, no I did not fake losing it." Carmine asked, "But how'd you have it now?" "My semblance doesn't work like a shield like everyone else, if I get hit I take the hit I just heal really fast." "Fast enough to regrow an arm?" "That is part of my semblance, remember the night I lifted the beds?" Carmine nodded, "well regenerating limbs for me works off that same principle, I just need the proper amount of material to do it." "But an arm? What can't you regrow?" "Organs, my body can repair organs but it can't regrow them so I have to be careful on how much damage I'm taking and where I'm taking it." "There has to be a way to not constantly be losing limbs or getting hurt." "There is when I'm fighting I condense the aura around me to form a sort of armor that can brush off a glancing strike or grazed shot. I can form real armor but that would be too obvious when fighting." Ruby asked, "So how strong are you? Like can you lift this table with everyone on it or like punch a hole through a wall?" Omar laughed, "Well if the weight of the table was condensed into something that I could feasibly get a grip on probably, and how thick is the wall I'm punching and what is it made of?" As Ruby was about to answer a girl with an obnoxious laugh walked by, as she neared Ruby Levina saw it was the same girl that made Ruby cry earlier. Just as the girl was about to pass Ruby she intentionally tripped dumping her entire plate of food on Ruby who sat horrified remembering the laugh. Yang's eyes burned red as she turned around, "hey watch where you're going!" the girl feigned innocence, "sorry this part of the floor must have been wet, I didn't mean to dump my food on her." Ruby slowly turned gripping her cape afraid of what kind of condition it was in when she saw a thin dome covering where the food had been thrown. She turned back and saw Omar wink at her as he grabbed his bowl of soup stepping over the table and onto the side with the girl. Lowering the shield he made revealed no damage to Ruby's cape as the girl made an irritated look, "what do you want?" with the most nonchalant look Omar raised his bowl of crème of potato above the girls head dumping the contents slowly into her hair.
Everyone at the table snickered as the girl slowly moved her sticky hair from her face before letting out an ear splitting shriek. Seconds later large footsteps stormed toward Omar as he found himself being raised off the ground by his collar, a large student with a furious expression yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Omar looked at him with a bored expression, "woof" everyone was taken aback by the sound. The guy red with anger dropped Omar, as he was about to fully touch the ground the guy slammed his fist into Omar's face sending him crumpling to the ground. Carmine, Delilah, Yang, Nora, and Pyrrha all stood up when Omar waved a hand as he sat up. Yang and Nora helped him up as he rubbed his jaw, "its fine he didn't even hit me all that hard." The guy had a triumphant smirk on his face, "I'll let you off with that one for now, but the next time you mess with my girl I'm putting you in the emergency room." Under his breath Omar whispered, "The same goes for my friends." The guy left with his girlfriend as Omar took his seat again as Yang gave him a concerned look, "are you sure you're alright, I mean it looked like he hit you pretty hard." Omar gave a wide smile, "please my sister hits harder than him, actually if it was my sister I'd probably be across the room halfway through the wall." Levina and the others laughed as they continued their lunch, Ruby gave Omar a quick look, "thanks."
After classes were over Omar went with Ruby's team to get some help from Yang on the class he missed, Levina went to the library to get some quite study time leaving Carmine and Delilah alone in the room together. Pulling their tables together they laid out the day's material as they began to work, having a second pair of eyes to go over work helped to correct the few mistakes they had. Delilah was uncomfortable sitting in silence for so long, trying to be friendly and know more about Carmine she tried to strike up a conversation. "So Carmine where are you from?" Penciling the last lines for a maneuver he thought of for his homework for Leading Strategies Carmine replied, "Well I was born in Vale, my parents live in the country side in a modest home. What about you?" Closing her math book Delilah opened her Grimm Studies book, "I was born in Mistral, my grandfather raised me while my parents traveled for work." "What do they do?" "They film nature documentaries as far as I know, they really couldn't take me with so they left me with my grandfather. But it's not like they didn't call or visit whenever they got the chance. What about your parents?" "My mom is an accountant and my dad works as a farmer, he and a few other workers tend the fields we have out behind our house." Smiling a bit Delilah did some of her work before asking Carmine, "so why did you want to be a hunter?" Carmine who had just finished the last of his homework sat back in his chair, "I used to watch a show called 'Silver Adventures' the main team were my idols, I wanted to be a hunter just like them. They were a team made of entirely Faunus, they were just as good as any other team and only took on the most dangerous jobs. Whenever I would watch them I wondered how cool it would be to have a team of my own go on missions with them. What about you?" stretching Delilah leaned back, "I wanted to be a huntress so I could travel with my parents when they film, see the world in all its glory and not though some screen or photo." Carmine smiled, "well if we can survive classes and each other long enough I don't see why that can't be a possibility, I kinda want to see the world too." Delilah felt the heat rise up her neck, her ears twitched at a noise outside the door only for the noise to stop. Feeling a little bold she asked, "Well in preparation for that day how about we spend the whole day exploring the city this weekend?" flashing a smile the melted Delilah internally Carmine agreed, "Sure I'd love to got to the city." Just as Delilah was about to immerse herself in the moment she heard a muffled laugh just outside the door, quietly getting up she stalked to the door slowly gripping the knob. In one swift motion she jerked the door open and two people ended up falling backward, Omar and Levina were sitting in the hall looking up at Delilah. Giving an irritated sigh she asked, "What are you both doing?" Omar awkwardly looked to the side, "what I can't sit in the hall without being questioned?" Levina coughed, "yeah it's not like we were listening in or anything." Omar slapped Levina in the arm as Delilah pinched the bridge of her nose, "whatever just get inside."
After putting the desks back Delilah packed her bag for the next day when she asked, "So Levina how was the library?" Levina had finished putting away her books as she grabbed her scroll, "it was quiet like you said, Miss Orchid was just like you described. The moment I mentioned my favorite authors her attitude changed and I was able to get a private study room to myself." Turning to Omar who was currently playing a game on his scroll Delilah sighed, "So how was your study session with Yang?" Pausing the game and rolling over on his stomach as his arms dangled over the side he smiled, "well she is a natural blonde, she grew up on the Island of Patch with her sister Ruby. Her mom left when she was really young, so when her dad introduced her to Ruby's mom she didn't know how to really interact with her. But eventually they grew close until she went on a mission and didn't come back. She is also if I am guessing correctly a 38 DD, they could be a bit smaller I would need to see them without the top." Both Delilah and Levina gave Omar a disgusted look, "you are such a pervert, can a girl go one day without being ogled by guy like you?" Omar hopped down from his bed puffing out his chest, "nonsense ever guy when talking to a girl with try and figure out her boob size before the conversation is over, and judging from how much they bounced when she laughed I can say that I might be on the money with the size." Levina headed to the door making gagging sounds, "alright well I'm just going to the lunch room to get a bowl of fruit and hope I don't throw up on the way." Delilah gave Omar one last disgusted look before following after, "hold on Lev I don't wanna be in the same room as this disgusting perv right now." Closing the door behind them Omar and Carmine sat in silence for a few minutes before Omar gave Carmine a sideways glance, "so what'd you figure the size was?" Carmine gave a nervous cough, "I don't know what you're talking about." Omar smirked, "right, and you weren't aware of the earth shattering crush she has on you." Carmine cleared his throat as he answered with his back turned, "I was aware, but I don't know how I want to go forward with that. Or if I even wanna go forward, she is a team mate I don't want being in a relationship jeopardizing the safety her, me or anyone on the team." Omar crossed his arms nodding, "true we don't want that….but that wasn't what I asked." Carmine gave a defeated sigh, "I figure around a 38 C," Carmine slowly turned red after answering Omar question, quickly changing into his pajamas he climbed into bed. Carmine did the same as the girls came back to find them both asleep with only Delilah's desk light on for them. Finishing their late night snack the girls changed and made sure everyone's bag was set for the next day as they climbed into bed and slowly drifted to sleep.
