It's OK, Omega is here. What's up guys, I noticed something strange. The view count for chapter 8 is higher than chapter 7, view are views and I won't complain, I'm just curious as to why that one had more views? Anyway, today's chapter has a VERY obscure reference to one of my favorite manga. Hope you enjoy!
After a small physical from the doctor, along with a boat load of teasing from his team about the lipstick mark on his cheek, Cyan was released from the hospital. Team CFIN had an off day, so they decided to take walk around the school. They all had their casual clothes, which were also their combat clothes, minus the sweatshirt in Cyan's case.
They were headed towards the cafeteria, when Cyan saw a familiar pair of rabbit ears in the distance.
"Velvet?" Cyan called to the faunus. Just as Cyan had suspected the person jumped at the mention of their name, before turning towards the voice that called her. The girl was wearing a loose brown t-shirt and blue jeans. One of her ears hung lifelessly over her face, while the other stood straight up.
"Cyan!" Velvet said, running towards the blue-haired boy with outstretched arms.
Cyan gratefully accepted the hug, pulling the older, yet smaller, woman towards him. As Cyan pulled away from the embrace, he heard someone clear their throat. His team was looking at him with expressions that asked 'care to introduce us?'
"Oh, sorry guys." Cyan apologized. "This is Velvet scarlatina, one of my aunt's teammates. And Velvet these are my teammates Feirin Wald, Iris Nyanza, and Nagami Nadeshiko."
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Velvet said to the trio. As Velvet lifted her head up, she noticed that Cyan was staring at her hanging ear with a guilty expression. "Cyan I keep telling you it wasn't your fault. My ear doesn't even hurt anymore, and I can hear just fine."
"Doesn't mean I still don't feel bad." Cyan said.
"What happened?" Iris asked.
"Well, all of my aunt's teammates helped train me to be who I am. Yatsuhashi-sensei helped my strength, as well as taught me how to use my dark tyrant in it's sword form. Fox helped train my speed and my agility. My aunt helped train my semblance, and Velvet was helping me control my aura." Cyan told them. his face still shrouded in guilt. "One day we were meditating to help improve my control over my aura, and we were attacked by a pack of beowolves. Neither of us had are weapons, and I was still trying to get over the my incident in Vale, so I was terrified. Something just unlocked in me and Joker came out for the first time.
"He killed all the Grimm that were trying to attack, but when Velvet tried to check if I was okay. Joker attacked her, crushing one of her ears. Thankfully, my aunt's team had gotten there just in time to stop me before Joker did anything else, putting me in a nine-day coma in the process. When I woke up and saw what I had done, I didn't blame them for getting excessivly violent, even I wanted to kick my ass."
"I keep telling him that it wasn't his fault, but he doesn't listen." Velvet said.
"Anyway, all guilt-filled memories aside." Cyan said, trying to cheer himself up. "What are you doing here?"
"Ozpin called all of us here to discuss your little accident." Velvet told him.
"Oh, I guess that makes sen- Wait, Aunt Coco's here?" Cyan suddenly looked terrified.
Velvet simply smiled, and nodded. Without any warning Cyan ran like a bat-faunus out of hell in the direction they had come. Cyan's team looked at Velvet with faces that asked 'What the hell wass that?' Velvet smiled again, and started counting down outloud.
"5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .-"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
The FIN of Team CFIN jumped at the sudden scream that they assumed came from their leader. A couple of seconds later, they saw a woman wearing sunglasses. She was wearing desinger clothers, over one of her shoulder was a fancy-looking handbag, and over the other was a rope that pulled behind her, a petrified tied-up Cyan. The woman stopped in front of the small group, dropping Cyan who landed with a thud.
"You this ones team?" The woman asked.
They all nodded, too stunned by the situation to form sentences. The woman took of her glasses, and looked at each of them in their eyes, the woman's own eyes glowing with what they assumed was aura. She seemed to finish what she was doing, and put her sunglasses back on. She pointed at Feirin, and started talking.
"You want to be able to connect with people. You would prefer to be neutral in any conflict, and only intervene when it would effect you personally. There's also a part of you that wants to hide your true self from other, but it's way to small to make a difference." Once she finished, she pointed at Iris next.
"You're impatient, and want to get things done as quickly as possible. When you fight, you want to finish your opponents in a way that makes them realize they had no chance to begin with. In short, you don't like to play with your food." She finished again, finally turning to Nagami.
"You have control issues." She seems to rethink her previous statement before starting again. "No, it's not control issues, you don't want to control everything around you. You just want to know about everything around, as long as you're not in the dark you're satisfied."
Iris was the first to get over her confusion, and question the unnamed woman. "Who are you, exactly?"
"Oh, my apologies," The woman said in sarcastic tone, that seemed to piss Iris off. "My name is Coco Adel, certified huntress, and Cyan's aunt."
"You know," Velvet interjected, having stayed silent until that point. "You really didn't have to tie him up."
"Come on, Velvs. I told him that if he was stupid and let that stupid Joker thing come out again, that I would personally tie him up, and drag him around." Coco argued.
"Why did you change the punishment?" Cyan asked, causing his team to jump as they had not noticed that he had come out of his state of fear-induced unconciouness. "The last time it happened you hung me from the ceiling, and hit me with a paddle."
"Because, you can't hang people from the cieling here." Coco said. "Trust me, I tried."
Feirin decided to ask the scary lady a question. 'Are we going to get our leader back anytime, soon?'
"Don't worry I'll return him by the end of the day, and what's with the notebook?" Coco asked, a little confused by the green-haired boy's lack of spoken words.
Feirin for the third time since coming to beacon, showed the page that explained his messed up vocal cords.
"Hey Velvs, didn't we fight a mute before?" Coco asked her rabbit-eared teammate.
"Yeah, that ice-cream lady who was working with Roman Torchwick." Velvet said. "We never caught her, even when Torchwick went to jail. She just dissapeared, I wonder where she went."
From his position on the floor, Cyan noticed that Feirin had gotten very pale at the mention of this ice cream woman. Cyan knew that if he noticed it, then his aunt would too. Thankfully, Coco didn't press the issue.
"Who knows?" Coco said with a shrug. "Anyway, we need to head to Ozpin's office, Velvs." She looked over to the trio of students that stood before her. "You guys can tag along too, since I have your leader with me."
There was a chorus of Ok's as Coco started walking towards the tower that Ozpin used as an office, still draggin Cyan behind her. Velvet and the others followed suit. After about five minutes, they made there way into the clock-themed office. Inside were three people, Ozpin of course, and two others the students didn't know, excluding Cyan who knew the two well.
"Hello, Yatsuhashi-sensei, Fox!" Cyan called to them. "It's good to see you, again."
"Technically, it's yatsuhashi-senpai, now that you're at Beacon, but I agree it's great to see you again." Yatsuhashi told the boy. Fox simply nodded.
"Thank you for coming here, Team CFVY." Ozpin said.
"No problem," Coco told the headmaster as she sat down in one of his chairs. "Although, I wish we were here on less stupid circumstances." Coco looked down at Cyan who she was currently using as a footrest. "By stupid, I meant you."
"Yeah, I got it." Cyan said.
"Anyway," Ozpin said, showing almost no emotion at the state of one of his students. "I called you her, because you're four of the six people who can apparently calm down Cyan's Joker persona."
"Who are the other two?" Iris asked.
"My mother, and my sister." Cyan answered.
"I would like one of you to take a position here as a secondary combat teacher." Ozpin said.
"I can do it." Velvet said.
"You sure, Velvs?" Coco asked.
"Of course, you guys know what I can do. Being a combat teacher will just improve my own combat ability." Velvet said confidently.
"It would make sense." Fox said.
"Okay, if you're sure." Coco said. "Make sure Cyan doesn't kill anyone."
"The only person who's going to do any killing around here is you." Cyan said. Coco had been pressing a little too hard on Cyan's ribcage, and he was starting to blackout. Thankfully, Coco lifted her feet and let Cyan take in a breath. Coco stood up from her seated position, picking up Cyan's leash as she did.
"Now, that that's settled." Coco said. "Let's get something to eat. Oz, it cool if we grab something from the cafeteria?"
"Of course, help yourself." Ozpin said. "Miss Scaraltina, I'm going to need you to sign somethings if you're going to be teaching here."
"Okay, headmaster." Velvet said, she turned towards her team and took a small bow. "Sorry guys, I'll catch up to you, later."
"Take your time, Usagi-chan." Yatsuhashi told her.
"Yeah, we'll see you down there." Fox said.
The group of seven made there way into the elevator leading down. It was sort of a tight squeeze, but they managed to fit everyone. As they descended, Coco remembered something she was supposed to tell Cyan.
"I got in contact with Aurum the other day." Coco said. Cyan tried to looke her in the eye as she continued to speak. "He said that he would be here in a week, and that he was bringing your sister, and your mom with him."
"Oh, that's going to be a treat." Cyan said. He had nothing against his family, he loved them more than anything. They could just be a little overbearing sometimes. The elevator dinged as it opened, and they walked into the main hall.
"What's your sister like." Nagami asked.
"Well, her name's Aqua and she's fourteen." Cyan began. "She has blue hair like me, but it's darker. She's real sweet, but maybe a little too quick to follow an order."
"Yeah, I always liked Aqua." Coco said. "I'm pretty sure, she's the only reason Cyan survived his training. She was always making sure he was eating right and getting enough sleep."
"Yeah, she is the only reason I survived your hellish training." Cyan snarky comment earned him a slam into a nearby wall. "Oww. Anyway, her semblance gives her a huge power boost if her target is larger than her. The bigger it is, the more of boost she gets. Let's see what else... Oh, she's a wolf faunus."
The rest of Team CFIN suddenly got very confused. Cyan noticed their expressions, and decided to elaborate. "Did I not mention that I'm half-faunus?"
"No, no you did not." Was the response from all three, Feirin's of course being written. When a faunus and a human had a child, there was a 50% chance that child would inherit the parent's faunus qualities. Cyan's father had been a wolf faunus, his sister had gotten the faunus features, and he had not.
"Why didn't you mention it beforehand?" Iris asked.
"I think it's because the author only thought of adding that detail, while making this chapter." Cyan said nonchanantly
"Wait, what?"
"Nothing, moving on." Cyan said. Cyan's odd comment marked their arrival to the cafeteria. There were lots of whispurs from people who recongnized Team CFVY, as they got in the lunch line. When they sat down, there were a lot of people who were brave enough to ask for autographs.
"Hey, guys!" Team CFIN turned their attention towards the new voice, seeing that it was Lupa. The crimson wolf faunus walked over to their table, and noticed that she didn't see Cyan among them. "Where's Cyan?"
The response from Cyan's teammates was a finger pointed down at the ground. Lupa looked down, and was shocked to see Cyan tied up, and even more shocked that he seemed perfectly calm greeting her with a small nod.
"Why is Cyan tied up?" Lupa asked.
"Because he broke a promise." Coco said, greeting the new arrival. "Hi there, I'm Coco Adel, Cyan's aunt, and the person who tied him up. What's your name?" She held her hand in an effort to greet the red-haired girl.
"Lupa, Lupa Crimson." Lupa said, taking the older woman's hand.
"A pleasure to meet you." Coco said. "So, are you Cyan's girlfriend?"
Lupa and Cyan immediatly went as red as Lupa's hair. Coco expecting the reaction, started laughing.
"Hahaha, ah that was too easy." Coco wiped away a tear from under her glasses.
Lupa shook off her emarassment and took a seat next to closest, simultaneously sitting next to Cyan.
"Hey Lupa." Cyan said, grabbing the attention of the girl. "Can you do me a favor, and drop some food down here. I haven't eaten today."
"Sure." Lupa grabbed some blueberries from her tray, and dropped them into Cyan's mouth.
"Thank you." Cyan said while chewing.
The rest of the meal was fairly normal. They all conversed, while Lupa kept dropping Cyan food. Velvet joined them about twenty minutes later, with the news that she was officially a teacher at Beacon. After, congratulating her, everyone finished off their respective meals. As they did, Coco decided that Cyan could finally released from his ropey prison.
"Thank Oum!" Cyan exclaimed. With a flex of his muscles that ropes containing him snapped.
"You could get out this entire time?!" Iris questioned.
"Yeah, I may not have faunus features, but I am stronger than your average person." Cyan said with a shrug. "I was just scared of what Aunt Coco would do if I tried to escape."
"As you should." Coco said. "Anyway, we need to head out, and get Velvs the things she needs to move to Vale. So, that she can start teaching."
"Alright, see you later." Cyan called out as the team of four walked out of the cafeteria. "Now, I don't know about you guys, but I am exhausted. So, I think I'm going to go to the dorm and get some rest."
"Okay Cy, we have some homework to finish, so we'll see you later." Iris said.
"See ya." Cyan said, waving as he walked towards his dorm.
My first attempt at meta-humor, I think I pulled it off. I hope you enjoyed, and I will see you next time. OK is out.