Chapter 16:Take it a little cereal!
The moment we enter Argus, We had to make a few stops to inform the guards that there are a few Grimm close by. They took it as a joke at first, hell even had a good laugh, but once Mom got in the face of one of the guards. I have never seen an Atlas guard lose his confidence in a matter of seconds.
After that, we decided to head home.
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"Sigh... Well, this was a long day, Don't you think?"
"Yes... If anything hopefully by tomorrow the Guards will have everything under control at the walls. But enough about that come here and let me see your face."
"Huh, why I said I was alright?"
"Now Seth."
With no room to argue, I just went toward her and sat down.
"Stay here and wait."
She soon left the room but came back fast with a bunch of bandages.
"Is this really necessary Mom? I told you, I'm alright, if anything Aura will just help me heal."
She just keeps quiet and applies a bandage on my cheek. Looking at her now I can see that she was upset. Was it because of the Grimm in the forest or maybe the guards at the wall, or was it me? If anything now I feel like we should try to move past this and try to get an answer to this question that I had in mind.
"Soooo, when did you get a weapon?"
"I'll tell you that later, but right now I need you to listen to me." Her tone switched from a caring mother to what I like to call 'teacher mode'. "Seth listen to me and listen to me well. I am so proud of you that you were able to defend yourself and help me when you saw the chance, never forget that. But you need to stop acting like some sort of novice and start taking what I taught you seriously. Today you could have died Seth. If I wasn't there you would have died. I know you are excited to become a huntsman soon, but you need to start taking this seriously Seth, this is your life on the line and soon others will be on the line as well. So stop acting like a fool and start acting like your actions won't cause consequences in the future."
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'She does have a point, all I've done was fight against people who have a code of respecting each other. But this world has Grimm who will kill you if you give them the chance, Bandits that will kill without a second thought, and Gangs that will cause problems to anybody without a care in the world. I need to start taking each fight as seriously as I can or else it will be my life next. Or worse someone else.'
I just nod my head. I think this is the wake-up call I needed to start fighting serious. I train as a kid and that was all fun and games, but now I'm 15 going into 16 and later 17. I think I got to worry more about what my actions can cause trouble for others.
"I will Mom, I promise I will start taking every step from here on seriously."
"That's not to say you can't have fun on the way Sweet heart, you just need to pay more attention in the future."
"I will... Soooo, when did you get a weapon?"
Sigh..."Of course, this is your first question for me."
"Sorry, I was just interested to know when and were did you get one?"
"It's fine. To tell you the truth, I had this for a long time." She reaches inside her jacket and pulls out the Rifle and shows it to me.
By the look of it, looks like a Lever Action Rifle, one that some cowboys would carry around, but way smaller.
"Sweet heart... Meet 'Long Shot.'"
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"Did you come up with that name?"
"No, I didn't... Is it bad?"
"No... I like the name."
Kind of ironic that it's called that. Just looking at it from here It's small enough to be able to carry it around without no one knowing you have it.
"So how long have you had it?"
"I had it for a long time... Way before you were born Seth."
"But you said you didn't have a weapon. You said you use your hands and your semblance to fight. So why didn't you tell me this?"
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"Mom?"
Sigh..."I didn't tell you, because this is not my weapon."
"What? What do you mean?"
"This weapon was from Lavender... My old teammate."
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"Ohh... So why do you have it?"
She just sits there looking at the Rifle in her hands. The rifle must be special to her.
"This was the last thing she gave me before she passed, she told me to use it to protect the others."
I see her grip the Rifle hard.
"But in the end, I couldn't even do that. I fail them... I fail to protect them."
"Mom..."
"I'm sorry... But when I saw you go down by one of those creatures. I just saw-"
"No Mom it's fine, you did the best you could. You save me from the Grimm, I don't think I would have been able to get it off me without your help. You save me there." I try to reassure her that she did all she could. Man, I don't think I've ever done this before, usually, I'm the one getting reassurance for my own mistakes, but shit this feels weird to do.
"I think Lavender would have been proud of you. Knowing you use her weapon to save your own son."
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From here I can see her eyes start to tear up, and with a little sniffle she looks back at me.
"Thank you Sweet heart." She goes and hugs me "Thank you for being in my life...My little Sapphire."
I just hug her back "No problem Mom."
We stayed like this for a good minute, it got to the point that I was beginning to get embarrass for the hug.
"Ok, Mom I think that's enough hugging." I just feel her grip get strong around the hug.
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"I feel like you have a question for me right?"
With that, she lets go of me and looks me in the eyes.
"Yes. What happened back there? You said that the song just played by itself, without you tapping at your heart right?"
"Yea. That hasn't happened before, even me trying to stop it only happened once when I first fought Pyrrha. So I have no idea what causes it to occur."
"Hmm. This Semblance of yours is a real mystery. It's even strange that Grimm started to appear out of nowhere"
"But that's never happened before, even when I was training earlier they didn't appear, so I don't know what could have caused it. Maybe bad place wrong time?"
"Hmm. But for Grimm to get close to the city like this is strange."
Yea, that's true I never heard of Grimm getting this close to the City walls before. Maybe it was just a fluke that they just happened to pass by. If anything this will probably not happen again, so I don't think we should worry about it. The song on the other hand, why start playing then and there?
"Another great mystery of my life."
"Don't worry I'm sure this would not happen again. And if the guards actually do their job right then, this won't happen any time soon. Go get some rest we can talk more about this tomorrow."
"Right, well good night."
"Good night sweet heart."
We decided to not go outside the walls for the remainder of the week just in case there were any more Grimm outside the walls of Argus. The decision was made by Mom, but I understand. I think having my first experience with Grimm was something that I needed to know. For one, I know that I'm skilled enough to fight them, however, I need to stay focused and keep an eye on my surroundings when I'm by myself. Two, They are way stronger than I was expecting, I think having one on top of me really made me realize just how dangerous they can be and that was only one, can't Imagine a whole pack just jumping you. And three, I might need to train my semblance more, I can't have it just decide to start playing songs out of random. What if I'm in the middle of a forest sneaking around and a song decides to play? I'll be swarmed at the drop of the beat.
But oh well, I need to hurry and go and meet Pyrrha, her train should be arriving at the station soon. And knowing what could happen I should probably bring another flash grenade just in case.
"Mom I'll be right back Im going to go meet up with Pyrrha!"
"Okay! Tell her I said 'Hi' and congratulate her for my part!"
"I will! Bye."
As I'm about to leave my house I pick up my backpack taking it with me, and out the door, I go. Walking down Argus right now was interesting, to say the least. Around every corner, I saw more Atlas troops. They must have taken Mom's word from earlier this week since we fought those Grimm. Hopefully, they won't be anymore and we can continue with training.
The moment I arrive at the station I saw the biggest group of people just waiting by the front of the entrance. People as far as the eye can see, just waiting there patiently at the arrival of the train. Oh, who am I kidding they are all waiting for Mistral two time champion...
"Look her train is arriving!" one person in the crowd said getting the attention of everyone.
Soon everybody got as close as they can that even security was having trouble containing them.
As the train went to a stop and passengers soon began to leave, the Crowd was getting impatient for the arrival of Pyrrha. I on the other hand decided to wait in the far back, not wanting to get stuck in that crowd. Honestly, if I start to play a song I feel like they can start a mosh-pit.
RING! RING!
The ring of my scroll got my attention and saw that I got a message.
'Hello there, I will be exiting from the back of the station, if you are here to meet up. meet us at the back exit. P'
Huh smart move no one ever expects the back exit. Oh well if anything I just save a flash grenade... But... I did bring it here...But mom also said I need to be more responsible... Then again she did tell me I can have some fun...
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I pull the pin off and threw it at the crowd and I start to leave. Behind me, I hear a bunch of people screaming and yelling at the blindness of my actions.
Ehe...Oh well.
As I make my way towards the back of the station I start to notice people in suits. Strange, why would there be so many people in suits here, unless they are here for someone or some business?
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Oh, Fuck don't tell me.
"Seth! Over here!"
From a distance, I can hear Pyrrha shouting my name and see that she is surrounded by a few people in suits. From here I can see her sign at me to 'help her out'.
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I Should have kept that flash grenade now that I think about it.
Oh well, guess we are doing it the old fashion way.
Getting close to the group I start to hear what the people in suits are telling Pyrrha.
"Hear us out , with me as your manager, we can guarantee you many sponsorships and brand deals for all of your future tournaments."
"But if you join us, your future in the tournaments will guarantee you to be Mistral Golden Child for many years. What do you say, ."
This is getting ridiculous the more I hear these people the more they make me sick. They are only using her as a face, just to promote their next product. You know what I'll join in on the fun.
I walk behind them and yell out. " if you come with me, I can promise you one of your favorite Ice creams for winning this tournament!"
Soon everyone turned towards me and looked at me with a 'are you serious look'.
"Who are you, kid? Get out of here we are trying to do business."
Too easy to pass.
"The name is, Mr. Jass. First name Hugh."
"Hugh Jass?" The people all look around confuse by that name. But from the corner of my eyes, I can see Pyrrha's eyes go widen and see her turn her face with a hand over her mouth.
I do my best to keep a straight face, but seeing all of their reactions was really priceless, to say the least. But soon Pyrrha decided to step forward and draw the crowd's attention.
"Thank you all for this, but I need to discuss this with my mother, so I can only promise you that I will decide soon." She tells everyone this and makes her way toward me, soon she grabs my hand and pulls on it. Dragging me back in the direction of an exit.
Once outside the station, we see a car, and inside I can see Pyrrha's Mom just sitting there.
"Come on we can go to the Ice cream shop you promise."
"You know I was only saying that as a joke right."
"Are you saying you lied to me, Seth?"
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"Son of a... Fine, let's go."
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"By the way, Welcome back Pyrrha."
"It's good to be back Seth."
In a little Ice cream shop on the corner of Argus, there were only two people inside talking about the long week both had.
"No way that happened."
"It's True Seth, almost everyone was gunning for me once they heard I was entering again. Well except Bolin, he was nice and all. He also said to tell you he said 'Hi'. I think he wanted to have a rematch from last year.
"Damn, you must have had a crazy week then."
"What about you? How was your week? Were you able to find a way to fight with your weapon or..."
"No, That's the good news! I have, I was finally able to learn how to fully use Saltatio Favillae to the fullest. But sadly I haven't been training since."
"What. Why not?"
Sigh..."Well, I kind off went off on my own trying to figure out How I can use it. And it got late, so late that my Mom went out to find me and take me home. But the moment we were about to leave a pack of Grimm came out of nowhere and attacked us."
"A pack of Grimm. This close to the city walls? Were you hurt?"
"No, nothing like that, Mom was there to do most of the work, I was just her backup. Well, there was one who got the drop on me but-"
"Seth you could have died!"
Sigh..."I know, trust me you are not the first person to tell me this. And that was the only mistake I'm going to make... Sigh... Look I know I like to take things as a joke and all, but that experience with the Grimm really open my eyes to what they are capable of. I saw firsthand just how tough they are and how if my Mom wasn't there... I could have died."
I look at my hands and see that they are shaking a little. That experience must have really shaken me up, I haven't had someone to talk to about it and now I'm telling Pyrrha.
"Your scare right?"
"Maybe I am, but like I said this was a wake-up call I needed."
"So what's your plan then?"
"I guess keep training, go to school and become someone who takes things a little bit more cereal then."
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"I don't think you are doing a great job at that Seth, especially back at the station. And really cereal?" Pyrrha said with a deadpan face.
"Well, Mom did say I can still have my fun on the way. So it's the little things that count, I mean the champ got to laugh a little right?"
"You have no proof of that." she just pout.
I just laugh.
I hope soon everything will be back to normal, and life can continue. I'll go back into training and go to school again. And soon after that I'll be 16 just one year away from becoming a huntsman-in-training. For now, let us just focus on the now and worry all about the future later.
Next week is my birthday. I'll be sixteen and close to going to an academy of my choosing. Still don't know which one I want to go but I will have to make the decision by the end of next school year for me to get into one of the academies. Hell, even Pyrrha is also having a hard time with this decision, I also don't think that people around the school are helping, they keep asking her where she will be going to school. For now, She told me she was keeping that a secret and won't tell anyone, not even me.
"Sweet heart come to the living room, please! I got something to give you."
That's strange what could that be? I soon leave my room and head toward the living room. There I see Mom standing with something behind her back.
"What's up?"
"Well, you know that next week is your birthday right!"
"Yea..."
"And you said you wanted to add more color to your outfit right?"
I mean yea I did say that. My old combat gear was starting to feel a little tight around me. I mean I did grow a lot for the past year.
"Soooo. Here I got you this new one!"
She reveals to me a new jacket. The jacket was dark blue with the zipper being more light grey, around the hands there were more grey colors, but I notice something around where my heart was. There was what looked like a play button there.
"What is that around my heart?"
"Oh well, I decided to sew it on, Since you always tap your heart to play a song why not actually hit play on your heart."
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"Is it bad? Do you not like i-"
I just run up to her and hug her.
"No... I love it, thank you Mom for this gift."
"Well go ahead and try it on."
She hands it to me and I quickly put on the new jacket, It's a little bit long but I feel like I will grow on it sooner than later.
"Not a bad fit right maybe a little too long but you can still grow on it right."
"Yea, if anything I still got another year before I head off. Thanks, Mom."
"But wait I still got one more surprise for you." She quickly leaves the room and returns with another thing behind her back.
"Sweet heart, how would you feel if we went on a trip to go see some old friends?"
Old friends. A trip where?"
"Umm, Where exactly?"
She pulls out two tickets from her back and shows me.
"We are going back to Mantle and visit Peitro and your Friend Fi!"
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"Okay, but WHY, though?"
A/N: We are going back to Mantel! (Okay but why) Plot! (fair enough) So here is something I have in mind, Now I feel like I need to make Seth, By that I mean Draw him, or hell use paint and make something. Hell, I'll even throw in his weapon if I have to. However, I can't draw for shit... So I can only promise to try and make his outfit. To be fair I won't be doing his face or legs because that is a challenge in it self. So maybe by the end of Mantel, I can put it as the cover picture.
Thank you for reading this chapter and I will see you next week again. Bye!
(Tell them about the clown!)
OH yea! New story, Something about a clown, Honestly just making something fun to do so I won't get tired of this one. and that will be updated later, whenever I feel like posting about it.(Dude you already posted like 3 chapters...Slow my ass) Thank you, Bye!