Chapter Sixteen
The six students arrived back at the class room to a find Lafayette in a bit of a mood.
"Come over here guys I need to talk to you." She seemed a Lot colder and more professional than usual. "Look I know what I said earlier but I thought you just wanted to goof off but now I know you're serious I guess I have no choice but to stop you." Damian looked to his peers then back to Lafayette.
"Okay, how do you intend to do that?"
"Well aren't you lot cocky, you know I am a huntress and I have more combat experience than any single person in this building." She snapped, causing the students to flinch a little.
-Ding dong ding dong- . The sound of the bell rang killing the conversation.
"Well I guess we'd better get going." Nathan said with a smirk.
"Yea see you later Teach." Ryu said as he slipped out the door.
As they walked down the hall towards the lunch hall Brett and the rest of team BRRO sped along to catch up to them.
"Yo Damian what's up?" He asked.
"Oh hi Brett, you know just rebelling against the system you?" He answered jokingly.
"Quick question," Ramona asked as she started circling around the lot of them, "what's this we've heard about you lot ditching the books and going out to have some fun?"
"I mean I wouldn't quite call it that." Damian said hesitantly.
"But you are doing a thing." She said excitedly
"Get me a sandwich before the que gets too big and I'll tell you everything you want to know." Ryu interrupted
"Actually Ramona grab us all sandwiches will ya." Brett asked nonchalantly.
"Challenge accepted." She replied as she sped of down the hall at brake neck speed.
"Now let's sit down and see what you guys have dug up?"
"I don't quite see why you guys can't do your own research?" Gagana asked sternly.
"Oh we are. We just want to make sure we aren't standing on anyone else's toes."
"Fair enough." Nathan replied in Gagana's place and explained what they had found out. Upon hearing all that Damian had to say Brett put on a frown and said.
"Well I guess you wouldn't have gathered that much in such little time."
"What did you expect?" Nathan asked through a mouth full of bread to which he shrugged.
"Well while you are studding dragons and what not we have decided to try and categorise as many of the grimm as possible.
Rylee's eyes lit up and she quickly whispered something to Ramona which caused her to smile.
Ramona leaned into the table.
"Have you guys ever heard of GRMM?" DRGN collectively paused. Ryu spoke up first.
"Sorry I think I miss heard you because I thought you were asking us if we'd heard of the MONSTERS that we are TRAINING TO FIGHT!" Another paused fallowed this one more awkward but it was broken more quickly by the Teal twin's laughter.
"Nah bro," Ramona said cheerfully, "we didn't ask if you'd heard about Grimm we asked if you'd heard about GRMM?"
"I am not hearing a difference between those words there." Nathan said agitatedly.
" no M," Rylee replied.
"Okay what is thi M."
"It's a team of hunters and huntresses who do extrema sports and Grimm hunting videos." She said as she loaded up a video on her scroll. The video showed two hunters jumping about and preforming crazy stunts while decimating a Grimm in close combat to some very upbeat music.
"As interesting as that was," Nathan said as the video ended, "what about this is helping us, apart from maybe copying their fighting styles?"
"No silly you can film yourself with a body mounted camera. Well that's what we are doing anyway"
"So we don't have to have Lafayette see us personally take down the Grimm?"
"Yea I think so."
"You're just filling me with confidence." Ryu said absentmindedly.
"Guys you know Lafayette said she was going to stop us right." Gagana said to the group at large.
"What's she gonna do?" Brett asked curiously. Damian shrugged his shoulders.
"She did seem pretty serious though, maybe we should watch out."
"For what Damian, she's a teacher what's she going to do?" Ryu scoffed
-Click-
Ryu felt something cold and metal against the back of his head. He slowly turned around to see Lafayette holding a gun to his head.
"I have a proposal for you lot. Scarlet tell them what it is." Scarlet and the rest of STRM walk over while Timothy mumbled something about not even being involved yet. Scarlet pulled out an envelope.
"I have send one of these to each of your dorms, inside is a message which goes as fallows. I like my cushy job here but in a moment of boredom and misjudgement I may have allowed you knuckled heads an opportunity to fuck that up so I will be monitoring you from this point onwards so you don't do anything that will get ether of us in trouble. If you try to leave the grounds for your crazy adventure, I will stop you. Get the message." She finished.
"So what your saying is. We just have to beat you in a fight and we can be on our way." Ryu asked slyly. Lafayette's jaw dropped, and her face reddened.
"Maybe I should make an example out of you right now." She said digging the barrel of her gun into his cheek.
"Sure thing we've still got time." The two of them got up and walked towards the training rooms. The remaining students looked at each other and then followed suit.
By the time they arrived at the training room Ryu and Lafayette were already pacing to each end of the room and entering the fighting positions.
"From this point onwards I'm going to let Mary-Anne do the talking." Said drawing her weapons.
"Just how I like it." Ryu said boldly, though it seemed he was shaking a little.
"Ten lien on Lafayette." Richard said bluntly
"Nobody is going to bet FOR Ryu so I don't see what you mean by that." Brett scoffed.
"Okay, ten lien on Ryu losing in the First minuet."
"Ouch, harsh." Damian said in Ryu's defence.
"Damian's right, I say three minutes." Nathan said while he took out his wallet.
"I CAN HERE YOU LOT!" Ryu shouted.
"Is this an official match?" Scarlet asked
"Yes it is," a familiar voice boomed form above. Everyone looked up to see Gwynn's face on a monitor as par-usual. "I don't really know what the quarrel is but I do love to see a good fight. Our fight today shall be Lafayette Merrigan verses Ryu lu odds are currently two hundred and forty to one and they shall be fighting in the desert stage." Before Damian could ask what he meant by stage the walls started to glow bright white and the environment changed to mimic that of a vast snowy wasteland.
"Is this how we ended up fighting in a jungle during our entrance exam?" Mary wondered aloud.
"Gwynn when you said Dessert I expected sun burn not frost burn." Lafayette shouted to which Gwynn shrugged and began a count down from three.
"Three!"
Lafayette cocked her pistols and Ryu pulled back the bolt on his rifle and loaded in a magazine.
"Two!"
Both fighters aimed at each other trigger fingers at the ready.
"One!"
"Fight!" a green light flashed from the roof and both competitors shot. Ryu narrowly dodged the two shots that went sailing past his ears, but the sound was still deafening, Lafayette on the other hand dodged Ryu's shot like it was nothing. She immediately dashed towards Ryu who tried to move but his ears will still ringing. Ryu shot at her feet, this time she jumped high into the air and smashed her heel right onto Ryu's head sending him straight into the snow. Lafayette jumped back and locked her weapons onto Ryu.
"Looks like we may have a knock out folks." Gwynn announced oddly enthusiastically. Lafayette laughed and turned walked away.
"That ought to put everyone in their place." Though the moment she turned round Ryu fired a shot of at her which hit her square in back and knocking her back to the other side of the room. By the time Ryu got to his knees she was already firing shots down range at him, he transformed his weapon and spun it around creating a scudo shield. Lafayette's pistols transformed into a pair of cutlasses and began to hack away at Ryu who was doing all he could just to block her stated to faultier. Ryu slammed the base of his weapon into the ground and propelled himself into the air at the cost of another round, for the brief seconds he had in the air he tried to catch his breath and fire of some pot shots which she dodged with ease causing Ryu to swear loudly.
"Fuck why can't I hit you!" he shouted as he unloaded the last of his ammo in Lafayette's direction.
"That was a cheap shot before and it won't happen again!" she retorted aggressively. Ryu used the range of his weapon to his advantage, making long wide swings so she couldn't get in close. She slashed and lunged but couldn't quite get close enough to the point where Ryu started to regain his composer. Then in a moment of hope he lunged for her leaving himself wide open, which she immediately exploited by in a single fluid moment she dodging his attack, knocked his weapon out of his hands and put her blade to his throat. Ryu raised his hands in surrender.
"We have a winner people, Lafayette Merrigan!" Gwynn shouted and then quieted down when he realised that no one else was going along with it. A stream of tears started to roll down his face.
"Thank you for the fight." He said trying to keep his composer. Lafayette – who looked just as confused if not more so then the students – paused for a second before saying something quietly to Ryu. She then walked off with a disheartened look on her face.
Damian, Nathan and Gagana ran over to him. Nathan brought him into a hug.
"It's okay dude, we'll get her next time." Ryu pushed him away and said.
"I'm not crying because I lost the match."
"Oh, why are you crying then?" Gagana asked.
"Reasons, personal ones" he sniffed.
"Well let's get you cleaned up we have class soon."