Chapter 17!

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Team DHLA

Lunch Time

A few weeks later

Team DHLA were sitting in their sparring class watching Jaune fight Cardin. "Dodge! Now Parry! No, the other way! Lunge! Nooo!" Daien had been calling out moves to Jaune in the hopes that it would help the boy.

It wasn't working.

Jaune's Aura level dropped into the red and it was over. Daien fell back onto his seat in disappointment as Mrs. Goodwitch stopped the duel. "You know that was cheating, right?" Dax said as he collected twenty Lien from Daien. "He needed it! He was getting slaughtered!" Daien said in defense of his violating the rules of their running bet. "I told you, man, he's just a bad bet! Why do you always root for the underdog?" Dax asked as he added Daien's money to his wallet. "Because its so much more satisfying!" Daien explained as they all packed up. "Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!" Mrs. Goodwitch said to the class.

"Oh man! I can't wait for the tournament! Are you gonna enter?" John said as he and his team met up with Team DHLA. John had on his usual green hoodie, blue jeans, and camo checkered sneakers. The other members of Team JETT were, Eton Bloo, Tiffany Blue, and Tyrian Purple. Eton, Ty, and Tiffany had been close friends long before Beacon and fought practically in sync, they even had similar weapons. "Of course! Dude, I've been waiting twelve years for this! There's no way I'd miss that tournament!" Daien replied. Over the past few weeks Daien and John had become close friends and had been talking about starting up a band between the two teams, due to their collective musical inclination.

"Are you going to enter, Chichi?" Tyrian, Ty to her friends, asked Chichi. Ty wore a dark purple suit, much like Chichi's combat outfit without the calligraphic designs and with loose bell sleeves. Ty had a lot in common with Chichi, they were practically sisters. "I-I don't know... It sounds-" "Come on, Chichi! You gotta enter and represent Team DHLA!" Dax interrupted the small girl, giving her a gentle bop on the shoulder. "Yeah! I bet you would totally rock!" Tiffany said enthusiastically. Tiffany wore a black and yellow bullet proof vest that had a high collar and shoulder guards over a yellow long sleeve shirt, long black tactical pants, and black combat boots with yellow laces. "She doesn't have to do anything if she doesn't want to." Daien said as the two teams entered the cafeteria. Eton and Lilac talked amongst themselves, knowing that the others wouldn't mind. Eton wore a grey tank top over white wrappings that covered her chest and part of her midriff, a pair of blue shorts under a white short skirt, and a pair of sandals that were stuck in place by runner's tape that went up to her shins.

After they got their food, Team DHLA and Team JETT sat with Team RWBY and Team JNPR. Daien popped the top of his first can of cola and stuck the tab into his mouth, as he listened to Nora tell the group about a dream she had. "But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!" Nora said, finishing her story and falling triumphantly back into her chair. Ren sighed, "She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." He explained. Daien flicked the crushed up tab to his cola can at Pyrra to get her attention. Pyrra looked at him questioningly, Daien subtly motioned to Jaune with his head, saying "I've got your back". They shared a subtle nod. "Jaune, are you okay?" Pyrra asked her leader.

"Huh? Oh yeah! Why?" Jaune said, snapping out of his funk. "It's just that you seem a little... Not okay." Ruby said. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Jaune. "Guys, I'm fine! Seriously! Look!" Jaune made a thumbs up and put on a fake smile. "Dude, you've been pushing your food around like someone shot your dog for half an hour." Daien said after cleaning his plate.

Jaune hadn't heard because he was distracted by Team CRDL mocking a bunny Faunus girl named Velvet. Daien shared his feelings towards the asshole in a can and his posse. Picking up his plate, Daien excused himself and started to walk toward the dish drop off. After he dumped his dishes, Daien took his tray and started walking toward Team CRDL's table. As Daien neared the group he saw Cardin grab Velvet's ear and start pulling, "Ow! That hurts! Please stop!" She said. Cardin laughed and said, "Told you it was real!". "What a freak!" Russel Thrush said.

When he was about ten yards away Daien let out a loud whistle. Velvet saw him approaching and high tailed it when Daien made a 'beat it' gesture with his thumb. Cardin noticed Daien walking up and turned to his cronies, "Hey boys! We had the Faunus freak, now we got the mutant!" They all started to laugh. "Hahaha! That's hilarious! Catch!" Daien threw his tray to Cardin. Cardin caught the metal rectangle and looked at it in confusion. Cardin looked up from the tray in time to see the bottom of Daien's boot as he front kicked the bully in the face. Cardin flew back into his cronies, "You son of a bitch! I'll put you in the ground and piss on your grave!" Cardin said as his cronies pushed him to his feet. As Cardin walked toward him, Daien retrieved his tray from the ground.

Cardin unleashed a powerful haymaker; Daien, using his tray as a shield, blocked the experienced yet sloppy attack and countered with three left jabs to the ribs. Wobbly now, Cardin threw a sloppy and reckless left hook that Daien knocked to the side with his tray. Seeing an opening, Daien gripped the tray with both hands and slammed it into the side of Cardin's head, knocking him unconscious and virtually ruining the metal tray. Daien looked at the rest of Team CRDL and his eyes went wide with surprise. The other three members of Team CRDL were sitting on the ground, Dax stood over Russel with his spear pointed at the boy's head, Lilac was sitting crisscross next to Dove with her knife held at the boy's throat, and Chichi stood a little behind Sky who was forced into a sitting position by stone walls enveloping him. Daien was touched that his team would help him like that, but didn't let it show very much.

"Next time, he's mine." Dax said, giving Daien a fist bump. "Deal." Daien said. Placing the bent tray on a table, Daien dropped two hundred Lien into the bend and walked to the cafeteria door with his team. "Is he going to be okay?" Chichi asked her partner. "Just a bruised body, a head ache, and a bruised ego, nothing serious." Daien reassured her. As the doors closed behind them, the cafeteria was dead silent until Blake broke it by saying, "Well that happened." Followed by a "~Daaaammmnn~" from a nigh drooling Yang who had hearts in her eyes.

Aaaaaand, that's chapter 17!

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