I ducked under a swing from Jaune's sword before I pulled back my right arm, covered in iron dragon scales, and threw it at him. Jaune had just enough time to pull up his shield to block the attack but he wasn't strong enough to withstand the power that came from it. Jaune skidded backward from the attack while I ran after him, before throwing a kick covered in iron dragon scales. The blonde ranger didn't have time to dodge or block the attack and was hit with it. The attack landed right on his ribs before he let out a gasp of pain, and almost fell to his knees.

I took the opportunity to smack him in the face, before kneeing him in the groin. Jaune let out a yowl of pain before he fell to the ground while covering his family jewels. I let out those cruel laughs as he squirmed around before I decided to be nice to him and brought him an ice pack. I gave it to him and he placed it around his groin before he let out a relieved sigh. I watched as Jaune started to relax before I looked around to see if anyone saw me help Jaune so I could lie about it.

It had been two weeks since our win against the Rinshi warriors and the Rinshi beast, and I have to say that it had been peaceful. The only thing that was a problem was the training that had gotten more intense. I also realized those two weeks that my semblance was a copy of Gajeel Redfox's ability. I could do the same things he could do with the iron dragon scales but there were other things I could also do with my semblance.

With my semblance, I could turn anything nonliving into the same iron scales that I could turn myself into. I could also absorb different types of dust and make my scales have the ability to the dust that I absorbed. That means if I absorbed a fire dust crystal, my iron scales would have fire around them and make them stronger than before.

"Thanks for the ice." I looked down at him, who had a grateful smile.

"Don't get used to it." I said to him while not meeting his eyes. "Well, I will be going." I began to walk to a window, while Jaune was still on the floor.

"Where are you going." Just when I made it to the window, Jaune had to ask.

"I will be going to the gym." I lied to him before I jumped out of the window. While falling to the ground, I covered myself in scales before landing on the floor with a loud thud. I started to look around just to see Luna waiting for me before I walked over to her. It only took me a few seconds before I was next to her and she turned around to look at me.

"What took you so long." Luna asked with an impatient tone of voice. During those two weeks, Luna and I had gotten along like fire and wood. She reminded me a lot of my little sister with what she did and how she talked sometimes.

"I had to do something." I lied to her as I was not going to admit that I was helping Jaune with his training to anyone. Luna seem to buy the lie before she started to walk.

"Then let's get going." She said as I walked behind.


I slammed my opponent's arm onto the table, as I was the winner in the arm wrestling match. The crowd of people let out loud cheers as Luna took hold of my arm and held it in the air. I smile as I looked down at my opponent before I said. Luna and I were currently inside the building, cheating people out of their money.

"Pay up." The man pulled out his wallet before handing over a few liens to me.

"Bunch of cheating bastards." The man muttered as he gave me the money before he walked away from us. I gave the money to Luna, who places them into a bucket filled with money.

"Who's next." I asked as I looked around the crowd of people that was cowering in fear. I couldn't blame them for being in fear of me, I have beaten ten adults and five teenagers the same age as me, and I win each one of them with ease, thanks to my aura. So as far as they knew, I was an average person with superhuman strength, and that was probably why none came forward to try and challenge me. I could hear some rustling in the crowd before a person came forward.

It was a monster of a man that is around seven feet tall and an athletic-looking young man with shaved-short black hair and tanned skin. The monster of a man wasn't alone, there was a girl with him. The girl looks to be the same age, and has long, brown hair and brown eyes. She also has a pair of brown rabbit ears, identifying her as a Faunus.

"I'll take the challenge." The monster said before he sat down and placed his arm on the table. I gulped as even his arms were much more significant than my own before I did the same as he did.

"Hey aren't those two Beacon students?"

"I think that you are right."

Shit, this just got a whole lot worst. How was I supposed to be able to beat a Huntsman and a big one at that? I let out a calming breath before I took hold of his arm. Luna walked over to us before placing her own two hands onto ours.

"Are you ready?" She asked us and both of us nodded. "Go." The moment her hands were no longer on us, we went all out. A gust of wind came from us as we tried to pull each other arms downs. The table started to crack under the pressure of the strength of the two of us. I could feel myself start to lose, as my arm slowly started going down, inch by inch. I took a hold of the table before I was able to stop my arm from moving before I slowly regained all that I had lost.

After a few seconds of us fighting, the table suddenly broke into pieces and both of us fell to the ground, while still holding on to each other. Both of us landed on our stomachs and still both of us were trying to win this match.

"They broke the table."

"How did they land like that."

"They are still going."

I ignored the people talking to each other while having all my attention on the person in front of me. The monster of a man smirk at me while I did the same to him. This man was the first person that seemed to have the strength to challenge me.

"You are rather strong." The man said as the man started to show his aura as he was getting stronger and stronger. I started to lose in the strength apartment before I decided to do the same thing.

"You wanna play like that." I turned every part of my body into iron, the man seemed shocked that the sudden change in my appearance, and that gave me the upper hand. I capitalize on that moment of shock before I slam his arm down to the ground hard enough to leave a mark.

"You won." Luna shouted out in shock as I got up from the ground.

"Was there any douth that I wouldn't win?" I ask her as I was not liking the fact that she thought that I would lose.

"Wait does that mean, he is also a Huntsman."

"Yeah, he has an aura that's why he is so strong."

"The bastard cheated us."

I turned to the crowd to see them turning on me, as the fact that I had an aura made me stronger and more able to beat them. I started to sweat bullets as the crowd began to move forward at me. I quickly took hold of Luna who had dumped all the money into her backpack. I ran out of the building with the Faunus girl in my arms.

"Get back here." I could hear one of them shout out as I ran as fast as possible. I could hear all the people that I cheated on the run after me before I turned around to look at them. I could see the anger in their eyes as they looked at me before I turned to face the street ahead of me.

"Turn a left." I could hear Luna say before I did so and knocked down a person that I bumped into. As I was running, I tried my best not to run into someone, before I needed to stop because of some moving cars and trucks. I looked behind me to see the people gaining on us before I ran into the road. I started to move and stop around the moving cars before I need to stop again.

I turned my head to the side to see an incoming truck before I turned into iron. I turned my body to the side to be able to shield Luna from any damage that I may take from the collision with the truck. The truck hit me with the force of a truck, obviously. I could hear the truck break into pieces as I didn't even move an inch from where I was standing. I could hear the screeching that came from the truck as he was hitting my iron body before it all stopped. I opened my eyes and saw the truck that just hit me, was slit in half. I looked around me to see people staring at me before I ran again, while Luna was still in my arms.


"Are you drunk?" Those were the first words that Weiss said to me as I came into the pizza shop with Luna and a beer bottle in my hand.

"The man before you is as sober as the day he was born." I took a sip of the beer right before Weiss's eyes.

"You are still drinking."

"This is goat's milk."

"It is brown."

"It was an ugly goat."

Weiss gave me a baleful glare at me while I tried my best to not break down in front of her. The ice queen sigh before she said. "I don't have the patience or the mental fortitude to deal with you right now." I let out an offended squawk after hearing those words. "Don't make that sound, you act like more of a child than the child here." Weiss said as she pointed to Luna.

"That was uncalled for." I said a little bit more offended, but not denying it. I was about to say something else but Jaune came into the dining room.

"Jack there you are." Jaune said before he ran over to me and took a hold of me before running again. "I need you for something."

"I did not consent to this."


"You want me to show you what." I asked for the second time while Jaune looked unimpressed. We were in an open area with a few dozen trees and with little to no people around to get hurt if something went wrong with this.

"I want you to show me everything that you can do with your semblance." Jaune said for the second time. "From what you have told me, you can turn the nonliving things into the same iron scales and you get different powers from absorbing the four main dust." He looked me straight in the eyes. "I want to see of different powers you got." He said before pulling out dust crystals.

"Sure, let's break something." I said in a rather bored tone of voice before taking the fire dust first. I turned myself in the iron black dragon scales before absorbing the fire dust. I watch as the black scales was turning into a fiery red while Jaune looked on in amazement. I looked down at my arms, and I saw a slight fire around my body before I smirked. "Fireball." I shouted out as I pointed at Jaune. Jaune jumped away from me as if something was going to happen while I started to laugh my ass off at him.

"That's not funny." Jaune scolded me like I was a child.

"I know, it was hilarious." I said as I fell to the ground.

"You have no idea of what I would like to do." Jaune tried to sound firm and stoic but I could see through him. "At least two of my current ideas involve my hands around your neck."

"That's alright with me."

"I meant strangling you."

"I know."

"I hate you."

"I know that too."

I watch as Jaune sighed at me before I walked over to a nearby tree to punch the shit out of it. I place my hand on the tree before I jab my fist into it and when my fist went in, the tree started to catch on fire. It only took a second before the whole tree was incinerated.

"Damn, I am hot." I said and giggled while Jaune let out a groan at the stupid pun. "Hey, that pun was great." I smile deviously. "Jaune is so mad, he's fuming, eh eh." I said while poking him in the side. "It seems like only nonliving things catch fire when I touch them, seeing that you are not on fire." I said before I opened my mouth to do another pun.

"On to the next one." Jaune said in a rather hurried tone of voice. "Try the water one." He threw the dust crystal before I caught it. My scales change color from fiery red to ocean blue with slight water running down me.

"Hey, Jaune why does water never laugh at jokes." I asked him but he just shrugged at me before I grinned. "It isn't a fan of dry humor." I laugh while Jaune groaned. "Let's see what I can do know." I did the same thing I did when I was on fire, but the tree didn't catch on water or anything. I started to look around to see if there was any water around here before I saw water. I went over there before placing my hand in the water.

The water started to ripple before the water started to surround my arm. I tried to force the water to make something of itself before it turned into a table. The water changed again, but this time it changed into a lion in the middle of a roar. "Nice, I'm a water bender." I said out loud.

"A water what now." I turned to see a confused Jaune looking at me.

"Just forget it." I said too quickly and that made Jaune even more confused.

"Okay." He said slowly before taking another dust crystal. "We know that fire makes you stronger and burns anything nonliving. The water makes you able to control the water to make whatever you want." Jaune summarize. "Let's see what you can do with the wind." I change to a forest green with the wind swirling around me. I tried to control the wind the same way I did the water but it didn't work.

"Let's see if the wind has anything to do with speed." I ran faster than I expected and ran into a tree that was a few feet away from me in a second. I fell to the ground while looking into the air. "That was fast." I muttered with a pained voice after hitting my face on the tree.

"Wind is speed." I force my head up to see Jaune writing it down on his scroll before I got up. "The last one is earth." Jaune said before throwing it to me. My scales were now a dark brown color. I suddenly felt the surrounding around me before I looked at Jaune.

"This one feels a little different." I said to Jaune, who looked at me intrigued.

"How different." Jaune said as I tried to come up with the right words.

"It feels like I can feel everything around me at once." I answered him before I kneeled to the ground and place my hand on it. I started to detect vibrations in the background to perceive objects, people, and other aspects of my environment. "This one gives me the ability of seismic sense." I told Jaune before I went back to my normal form.

"Great, now that we know what each of your powers does, I think that we need to tell, Weiss about this." Jaune said and I kinda agreed with him. We began to walk out of the park with our research done and clear. We didn't even make it five seconds out of the park before we heard this.

"Help he stole my purse." Both Jaune and I turned to see a man running away with an old lady's purse. Jaune went into his hero mode before he ran after the culprit.

"Goddamn it, man." I whined in distress as I ran after him. It only took me a few seconds to catch up to Jaune as the two of us were running side by side with each other. We ran through people that were on the street while the man turned to look at us. "Just give us the bag." I shouted.

"Oh, man." The culprit said as he saw the two of us running after him and gaining on him as well. I got a bit annoyed that he didn't give up and shouted.

"I'll rip your head off."

The man ran into two people on bikes, making all three fall down to the ground. The purse snatcher got up from the ground very quickly, before he started to run again. Jaune and I got close to the fallen humans before we jumped over them with ease and continued the chase at the man.

"What are the two of you, track stars." He shouted at us in dismay.

"Your ass is mine." I answered him We dodged and weaved out of the way as we ran by people on the street. I couldn't help but wonder how he was still outrunning us, did he have an aura or what. The theft looked behind again to see that we were still on him

"Oh, jeez."

"You messed with the wrong old lady today, pal." I turned to see that it was Jaune that shouted that. I guess he was taking a bit of my personality before he turned to look at me. Both of us, got a competitive look before the two of us smiled at each other and turning back to the man.

The purse snatcher turned left into the road and made a few cars stop in the middle of the road before he turned to us with a smirk. Jaune did a front flip over a vehicle following that up with a safety vault jump. I on the other hand first did a speed vault jump before doing a turn vault jump over a car. Once the two of us landed on the ground we ran after him.

"Holy christ." The man shouted, in rather serious concern before turning his tail and running.

"Now I'm pissed." I growled those words out. As we were running I started to outrun Jaune and started to gain more and more ground. But out of nowhere a police car came and stopped the man before he stood still. The man turned to face me before getting tackled to the ground hard. I could hear him lose his breath as he landed on the ground hard and fast before I jumped back up.

"That's how we do it." I said with glee in my voice.

"Hands in the air." I turned to see the police holding me at gunpoint.

"Goddamn it." I curse.


"You are the most idiotic and irresponsible person I have ever met." Weiss ranted after she had to bail me out of jail. "I can't believe that you got jailed in just a few weeks after coming here. I can't believe that you assault someone" I looked over to Jaune for him to be my savior, but he stood there in the corner while looking like a scared child. "And you." Weiss rounded on Jaune, who jumped in fear for his life. "How could you let this happen, you were with him, and you just let this happen to him." Weiss went on another rant but this time it was Jaune's turn.

After a while of her yelling at us, she let out a tried sight before she glared at the both of us. Out of nowhere, RJ came with a rather serious face that I have never seen on him before as he looked down at me.

"Jack, I can't describe what I'm feeling right now. I have never been more disappointed in you. I just hope that you learn something after all of this." RJ said before Jaune tried to defend me.

"Jack did nothing wrong, he just tried to help this old lady." Before Jaune could say anything more, I interrupted him.

"There is no need to lie Jaune." Jaune turned to me with a confused look to him. "I just felt like hurting the guy, nothing more nothing less."

"But." Jaune tried to say something but was cut off by Weiss.

"Is this a game to you?" Weiss sent me an icy glare while I smile at her. "All you seem to care about is hurting others and belittling them as must as possible. You are an awful person." With her final words said, Weiss left with RJ behind her. Once both were walking out of the room, I glared with everything I had at them before Jaune rounded on me.

"Why did you lie to them." I turned to Jaune before I struggled at him.

"Did the old lady get her purse back?" Jaune nodded. "I see no reason for them to know that I did something good for another person."

"But if you tell them the truth, they will not treat you like a bad person." Jaune tried to reason with me but I didn't care.

"I know I'm a trash human with little to no empathy, a lot of PTSD, ADHD, and ODD. I'm not worthy of being liked or even loved by people. I will just end up hated by the people close to me." I said to him in a chipper voice. Jaune looked visibly upset at my reasoning.

"That's not right, everyone deserves to be loved." I cut Jaune off.

"But not me, I have come to accept the fact, that I will never find love or be loved." I told him, this time more forcefully than before. "Besides, the world will not end because I don't find love, so talk to you tomorrow." I said before I left the room.

I never saw the sad look Jaune had on his face.


I looked at the building that was known for its underground fighting. I looked at the sky to see that night sky looking down at me. Once we had made it back to the pizza store, I waited until nighttime to sneak out of the building and make my way there to earn some money. It took me a while and a few head-bashing to be able to find this place.

I walked into the building, and past a few bloody and beaten people making their way out of the building. From what I saw, this place didn't have death matches but only beat them bloody. I could deal with that. I walked down a flight of stairs while passing by many more injured people. It took me a few minutes before I walked through a door, and saw a battle arena. I could see a few dozen people watching and cheering for two fighters. I passed people as I made my way to the person I thought was the boss of this place.

"And I told her to shut the fuck up." I could see a pimp-out fat man wearing a golden chain and diamond jewelry. He had two very beautiful women around both his arms, and I could also see three very big and muscular bodyguards around him. "Before I slap that shit out of her." The fat man loudly but stopped laughing when he saw me. "What does a punk like you want." Damn, I wanted to beat the shit out of him so badly now.

"I want to fight and win money." I said simply while glaring down at the fat man.

"You think that you can just walk in here and demand a fight." The fat man said before he looked over to his bodyguards. "Deal with him, Dean." One of the bodyguards walks over to me.

"Get out…" Those words came out of his mouth before he was kicked in the family jewels. The man fell to the floor so fast before letting out a girlish scream.

"A fight now." I said to him before the other two bodyguards came after me. Both of them went down just as fast as the first one. "Fight." I could see the man start to sweat badly before he walk over to a man. I watch as they talked for a while before he came back with a smile.

"We have one fighter that you can fight. He goes by the name Red Death and he is 12-0. Will that be good enough?" I nodded before making my way to the battle arena.

"For the last match of the day, we have the Red Death vs the newcomer, Iron Dragon." I could hear the commentator as the crowd let out excited cheers. I looked at my opponent in front of me. The Red Death is above-average height, with a rather muscular frame. He has reddish-brown hair, which initially does down to his chin. He also has the same skin complexion as me. "Let the fight begin." The commentator shouted before we ran at each other.

I threw the first punch, but he ducked under it, before bending his body around to punch me in the face. I withstood the attack before going for another punch, but he stepped back and dodged the attack. He sent out two jabs at me and I blocked them but he then sent a kick to my leg. I fell to my knees before I felt a powerful kick to the face. I slowly got up from the floor and the crowd cheered.

"You are better than I thought that you would have been." I said to him before I threw a punch. The Red Death had a rather bored look as he raised his arms to block the attack before his expression changed when the punch landed. The punch didn't have any aura on it or iron, but it had enough force to lift him off the floor before he hit the metal fence. The Red Death saw the incoming fist before he weaved under it, and threw three consecutive punches. I blocked my opponent's attacks with ease before I got a surprise spinning kick to my face.

"Iron Dragon, I see you've got muscle but that's not nearly enough." The Red Death said as he looked at me. His eyes widen as I grip his clothes, before slamming him to the floor, and I follow that up with a punch aimed at his face. The brown man bends his body around my arm before entering an arm lock. "You're strong and you can take a beating, but you won't be able to do anything about this." He said as he locked my arm close. I could hear my arm start to break before I force it to stop moving.

"Cute trick:" I slowly got up as he still had a hold on me."You motherfucker." I shouted out as I was standing up. I slammed his body against the metal fence and force him to let me go. He retreated a few steps away from me, and I could see some blood running down his forehead. The man gritted his teeth together before he sprinted at me and threw a punch at me. I blocked that attack with my shoulder before getting hit in the nose. It was my turn to grit my teeth together before throwing a punch, that was blocked by his forearm. He grips my clothes and the back of my head before pulling me down to get need in the face.

"Gah." I let out a pained sound before I need to block an elbow attack at my head. When I blocked that attack, went and tackled me to the ground. Once he was on top of me, he started to send a flurry of punches at my face. After a few hits, I place my foot on his chest before kicking him away. Both of us sprinted at each other before we threw a punch at the same time, but Red Death counted my punch with an uppercut. He followed his uppercut with a haymaker before I staggered backward and blood came dripping out of my mouth. I turned to face him again but I glared at him with everything I had.

"You still want more or have you lost the will to fight, which is it." The man asked me while I still glared at him before he sighed. "How many people do you think I've fought? Do you know how much experience I have? I only gave you a chance because I wanted to know for sure. But it looks like there is nothing more needed. I'm very disappointed by that glare you have." As he talked, he started to walk closer and closer. As he got close to attack, his eyes widen before he felt a powerful punch that had him tumbling down to the floor with blood coming out of his mouth.

"Damn, you talk too much." I said to him before I started to pick my ear. The Red Death looked absolutely shocked after the punch before he jolted up from the floor with a confused look. The man could feel a chill run down his back but he tried his best to ignore it. Red Death came at me with the ferocity of a caged animal, as he kicked and punch with everything he had. First, a liver punch, followed by a punch to the head before a kick. With each attack, I was able to block them with ease. I could see my opponent glaring at me.

"Put your fists up." He ordered me, as he walked over to me. "I'm the Red Death. Fists." He started to say before he threw a flurry of attacks with each one blocked or dodged by me. "Up." He finishes saying. Red Death couldn't help but wonder why the bastard was just blocking. He watches as the youngster let his guard down.

"Hey, just get out of here." I said to him in a rather bored tone. The man looked absolutely livid.

"What the hell did you just…" The man snapped at me before I cut him off.

"I may have not fought as much as you, but I've done enough of it to be sick of it." I started by saying, as I let the depression start talking. "I can't put it into words, but I have this gut feeling." I looked him straight in the eyes. "That's your limit. You don't have it, gut." I said before I went in for the kill. "Don't waste your energy." That was the breaking point.

"This fucking kid, you're gonna regret talking down to me." He shouted as he ran at me before he was closelined. The attack had him spinning in the air before landing on the floor and knocking him out. I got on top of him before I started to rain down attacks at him. I could see his face start to get covered by his own blood and I thought I heard some bones break from the punches. For an unrelatable reason, the more I punch the guy the angry I started to get.

I felt anger towards Weiss and RJ, for thinking how much of an awful person I was. I felt anger toward the world and the person that got me here. I felt anger at the wildcat that chose me to be a hero when I didn't want to. I never wanted any of this, but the world just kept on and fucking with me. All I ever wanted was to live alone and free from my family and friends and pretend that they didn't exist. Was that too much to ask for god?

"Hey, you are killing the guy." I could hear them say but I ignored them and kept on punching the living shit out of him. I could feel them start to pull me away but I didn't move an inch away from my target. "Tease him." I felt a strong electric shock but before I was knocked out, I heard a few more words.

"Oh my god, he's dead."

When I heard that, everything went black.