Chapter Twenty-two
Latter Damian and his team along with URCA and the majority of BLYD, found themselves in an empty class room waiting for Ms Sherwood to show up. It had already been ten minutes when the students started to wonder what had happened.
Do any of you guys know anything about this teacher?" Damian asked hoping to remove the silence.
"You mean Miss Sherwood?", Ulrik replied.
"Yea she over saw our entrance exam but that's about all we know about her." Ross added. Maya decided to tune into the conversation.
"Miss Marian Sherwood is a faunus rights campaigner, X white fang member, history teacher and historian. She was personally assigned here by Ironwood like most of the staff here." The other two teams turned to Maya bewildered.
"Where did you learn all that?" Damian asked.
"While we were training the other day she came to talk to Yuki and I decided it would be a good time to get to know her." Maya replied blankly. Suddenly the sound of fast paced footsteps echoed from the hallway. Miss Sherwood stormed into the classroom holding a pile of folders. She didn't look as composed as Damian remembered her looking from the introduction night.
"I'm very sorry," she said sounding a little faint, "I had to see how bad Mr Yuki Inari's condition was."
"He'll be fine, he looked pretty tough." Nathan said flippantly. Marian dropped her things on her desk.
"That is irrelevant Mr…" She peered to her folder quickly.
"It's Nathan, Nathan Glas." Nathan said lazily.
"Okay, well the point is more we shouldn't have our students fighting in the first place no matter how tough they seem."
"Well it's not like where in a combat school." Nathan said sarcastically. Damian narrowed his eyes on Nathan and whispered hastily.
"What is your problem?" Nathan returned a blank stare to him and didn't reply.
"Yes we are here to fight Grimm though." Marian snapped but then quickly changed tone, "I am here to teach you, using humanity's mistakes as an example. Why we should protect each other instead of fighting amongst ourselves. Now I don't normally speak my opinions, I trend just to tell history as it was but in this one belief I must share with you. Humanity almost wiped out in a war created and fuelled by its own sins. What stopped the Great War? Some would say it's because one side, with truer, purer views defeated the other. A more realistic interpretation would be that the war had to end because all the negative emotions emitted by the grieving families, the injured fighters and the lost children had caused the Grimm to expand their territory at an alarming rate. The broken and beaten kingdoms with their numbers thoroughly diminished had to put aside their differences and unite for against a common goal. You see Grimm are a force of nature that we must always deal with, there is no escaping that."
"But what if we kill all the Grimm?" Ulrik barked defiantly.
"I very much doubt a day like that will ever come, as even if you destroy all of the Grimm, humanity will fall into its old traps of ignorance and self-indulgence, creating new Grimm to take their place." Marian replied.
"That sounds like something a pessimist would say!" Nathan shouted.
"Well I mean I didn't say I wasn't a pessimist but I would probably go more towards realist." Marian replied.
"I believe the human spirit can conquer anything." Nathan retorted.
"Thank you for the insight on your personal views but I think we've gotten a little off track." Marian pulled out a book from her folder.
"I tend to find starting from the beginning of properly recorded data to be the best place to start." She flicked on a projector showing a red line labelled past on one end and present on the other.
"Now our start point will be the end of the Great War as much of the data from before this period is difficult or impossible find in complete sets." Gagana raised her hand.
"Yes?" Marian said when it caught her attention.
"Doesn't this mean we are only looking at the last eighty years of history?" Gagana asked sheepishly.
"For now yes." Marian replied disheartened, "As I said I pride myself on spreading the truth but if nobody knows what that is then we'll have to wait until I find it." There was then a knock at the door. It then opened and Yuki Inari walked in.
"Excuse my lateness." He said with a short bow.
"What are you doing out of bed your injured." Demir and Maya let out a short laugh.
"If you think that Yuki is going to sit in a bed licking his wounds you've got another thing coming." Maya said in an uncharacteristic tone. Marian sighed.
"You young people are all like this. Fine if you think your fine then take a seat." Yuki walked over to his desk and immediately rested his head in his crossed arms. Marina ignored this obvious show of indifference and began to talk again. Damian was trying to pay attention but a scuffling sound from team URCA, behind him grabbed his attention. Cheshire had a rubber band and small ball and had them aimed towards the front of the class and it seemed Amber was trying to stop her. After a quick back and forth Amber was pushed aside and Cheshire took her shot. Damian watched as the ball sored through the air straight for the back of Yuki's head. Although it seemed like he was asleep at this point the moment before the ball hit him he whipped round and caught the ball between his incisors then spat it back and hit Cheshire square in the forehead. She let out a startled squeak, fell back and banged her head then fell to the floor.
"Miss Purupura stop messing about back there." Marian said the returned to her recounting of the post war economy.
Damian nudged Nathan and whispered.
"Did you see that?"
"See what?" Nathan replied, awakening from his stupor. Ryu drew his attention away from his notes,
"You mean Yuki backfiring Cheshire's attempted tomfoolery, I did."
"His reactions are just crazy fast. How did he even see it coming?" Damian asked.
"I don't think he sees the same way we do, probably closer to a bat, you know sonar." Ryu replied. Damian looked back to Yuki. He noticed after a while that his ears twitched from side to side in a similar way to how he would look around, but that still doesn't explain how he saw behind him, Damian thought.
"If he's so good how come he got the shit kicked out of him earlier?" Nathan asked now showing signs that he was actually awake. Damian tried to think of a reason but nothing came to mind.
"Maybe he doesn't like to hit girls." He said eventually.
"I doubt that." Ryu said
"What a kinky bastard." Nathan said. His teammates looked at him frowned then what he meant dawned on them.
"Just because he does not like to hit girls doesn't then mean he does like to hit girls." Ryu said trying to suppress a laugh with a cough.
"Yea you can't just jump to those conclusions, maybe he likes hitting boys." Damian added. Nathan had to slap his hand over his mouth to stop himself laughing and Ryu looked like he bit his tongue and his eyes stated to water which causes Nathan to start losing his shit and start cry too. Gagana turned round and slapped Nathan to the floor.
"Nathan are you disturbing the peace again." Marian snapped. Nathan crawled to his feet and whipped his eyes.
"Not currently. sorry." He said then took his seat. With no sign of anymore distractions Marian returned to her lecturing.
Nathan peered of into space then said.
"I don't see how people could be into that."
"Are you seriously continuing this after you just died of laughter?" Damian asked.
"I was just curious to see your views on this subject." He replied.
"I'd say I'm a vanilla person." Ryu said absentmindedly as he jotted down some notes.
"Why do I doubt an antisocial prick like you has had many scoops to try."
"Did you just drag ice cream into your stupid kink discussion." Damian said defensively.
"I can't imagine you as being much of a top but your also too big to be a bottom." Nathan said continuing his absentminded tone.
"Do I want to know what that means." Gagana said with a glare.
"Sorry Ga, just having a bro talk so… You know men ears only."
"To bad I only see an immature kid." Gagana replied before returning to her work. Nathan turned to Damian.
"So what would it be then?"
"You are very bored aren't you?" Damian asked, to which Nathan nodded.
"I don't know I guess I'd want a girl who wants to be hugged and kissed not wanting to hit me or be hit." Damian replied turning a little red. Nathan punched him on the shoulder.
"Yours big ol' softy ain't ya? Okay if you had to pick a girl who would it be?" Nathan asked.
"What?" Damian replied.
"You know as a girlfriend." Damian thought to himself but he really didn't put much effort.
"What about me?" Cheshire said. The two boys jumped as Cheshire had appeared right between them.
"Cheshire! You scared the literal crap out of me!" Nathan whispered aggressively.
"Oh I hope not. I wouldn't want to date a poopy boy." She said as she phased into the air. The boys looked back to her desk where she gave them a little wave. Nathan whispered hurriedly to Damian.
"How the fuck did she do that?"
"Semblance I guess." Damian replied. Secretly glad that the conversation had been thrown off. No sooner had the two recovered themselves when Marian announced that the class was over for the day but that they would have a report to write up. With a sigh of relief, the whole class graves their things and left for their dorms.