The 'Lone' Hero of Vale - Chapter 7
"Fantastic job." Velvet said, almost gasping
"Thank you." Link nodded
"No seriously, your aim and technique with your sword has come a long way in just the first semester."
"Good, because my focus wasn't completely on mastering my craft." Link mumbled
"Huh?"
"N-nothing, anyways, thanks for training with me." Link smiled and helped Velvet up to her feet
"No problem, I could use work as well." She laughed
"You'll be fine, besides, the more people underestimate you, the better." Link nodded
"How come?" Velvet raised an eyebrow
"Because when, and not if, but when you show what you really can do, you'll never be doubted again." Link smiled "Even I don't know your full potential, but i'm excited to see it."
"Thank you." Velvet nodded "So Link, will you be joining my team for lunch today?"
"Ehh, sorry Velvet but Ruby asked me to join her team and JNPR for lunch." Link chuckled
"Oh..."
"But if you want I can-!"
"No it's ok." Velvet clarified "Maybe tomorrow."
"Yeah definitely, I promise."
(Hey moron...)
(What now?) Link frowned
(There's something frisky going on in town...and you know I love danger)
(Now now, I'm with Velvet.) Link shook his head
(Alright then your loss, but if there's danger and you weren't there to prevent it, what a bad hunter you are. Hehehe...)
"Leave me alone." Link sighed
"Oh i'm sorry I didn't know I was annoying you." Velvet put her head down
"H-huh?" Link's eyes widened
"I gotta go." Velvet slowly walked away "I'm sorry that I caught you on a bad time."
"Velvet wait..." Link growled as she walked away
(Good, how about now?)
"Die." Link whispered and also proceeded to walk away
"That boy really is interesting..." Glynda spoke as she and Ozpin observed him
"Another marvelous addition to our students here in Beacon, but there's much more to him that nobody knows about."
"Did he not tell you anything about himself?" Glynda asked
"Not much, the only valuable information he shared was that he did jobs for a price, so as a young kid he was a mercenary."
"And why is that-!"
"Why is that valuable you ask?" Ozpin grinned but also looked concerned "Link has done jobs...everywhere."
"You don't think he had anything to do with the-!"
"I'm not saying anything. All I suggest is we keep a close eye on him. He may just be 16 but he has shown to be deadly. And we need to find out more about it, to confirm if our suspicions about him are true or not"
Cafeteria
"Hey." Link waved as he sat down besides Jaune
"Hello." Pyrrha waves
Ren said nothing but still nodded
"Helloooooooooooooo..." Nora said with a big grin
"Hi." Jaune mumbled
"Whatcha doin?" Yang leaned over Blake's shoulder as so did Weiss
"Nothing, just going over notes from last semester." Blake said, noticing Weiss was reading her 'notes' she closed her notebook instantly
"Lame!" Yang chuckled as she caught a grape in her mouth courtesy of Nora
"Hehehe." Nora giggled then launched another grape at Yang, which she caught with ease followed with a thumbs up
"Ugh!" No that wasn't from the bad food, that came from Ruby, who lifted a huge binder and slammed it on the table, which the binder said 'Vytal Festival Activities' along with 'Property of Weiss Schnee' but that was crossed out and now read 'BEST DAY EVER ACTIVITIES!"
"Ehem..." She said as she cleared her throat "Sisters, friends...Weiss...Four score and seven minutes ago, I had a dream..."
"This ought to be good." Yang whispered as she caught another piece of fruit, it was red, so no grapes, could be a small tomato, or a raspberry, who knows.
"Jeez man that binder is heavy." Link chuckled, picking up a piece of wood from the ground
"A dream that one day, the four of us could come together as a team, and have the most fun anyone has ever had...e-ever!"
"Did you steal my binder?!" Weiss frowned
"I am not a crook."
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked
"I'm talking about kicking the semester off with a Bang." Ruby said while she pointed at Blake
"I always kick my semesters off with a...Yang...Eh!? Guys am I right?"
"Boo!" Came from a random voice who threw an apple at Yang
"Look guys, it's been a good 2 weeks, and between more exchange students arriving and the tournament at the end of the year-!"
"Which Link will most likely win." Jaune sighed
"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Link shrugs "Besides, there are many people I still haven't faced yet."
"Anyways." Ruby commanded Jaune and Link to shut up "Our second semester is going to be great. But classes start back up tomorrow. Which is why I've taken the time to schedule a series of wonderful events for us today."
"I don't know whether to be proud or scared of what you have in store." Weiss glanced at the binder
"I don't know...I think I might sit this one out." Blake mumbled
"Sit out or not, I think however we spend this last day we should do it as a team."
"I got it!" Nora giggled
"Huh?" Link looked around when Yang shook her head
Well!" Yang stood up "I for one think that-!"
And splat! Yang had a pie smash into her face
"Uh oh..." Link sighed as Jaune looked like he was out of it. Pyrrha was shocked, Ren facepalmed and Nora pointed at Ren.
After a heated argument between Yang and Nora...
"Food fight!"
"Wait guys maybe we shouldn't do this..." Link carefully backed up, noticing Sun walking in with a friend of his
"What the-! When did they..."
"Hahahahaha!" Nora chanted "Im queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora said while standing tall on top of a mountain of tables, with 3 soda machines in the front
Ruby pointed at Nora "Justice will be swift, justice will be painful, it will be delicious!" She squeezed all the milk out of the carton
"Geez talk about sitting it out." Link executed 2 backflips to avoid the crossfire "I don't want to be just another person but which side will I take?"
"Hmph!" Nora jumped to the ground "Off with their heads." She said, glancing at a section of watermelons
"Should've accepted Velvet's offer." Link shook his head and observed Ren spin kick 3 watermelons, Jaune only launched one, but the flip was fairly impressive, Pyrrha launched 2 and Nora launched a whole table's worth of watermelon's
"Oh who am I kidding, I'm on my own." Link chuckled
"Yang turkey!" Ruby shouted, then Yang stepped in front of her with two turkey's in her hands, pounding her fists together, she began punching all the watermelon's away, but she also launched her turkey's at Pyrrha who easily dodged while Jaune took both hits and was down for the count. Now Blake grabbed two bread sticks and rushed Pyrrha who also had a bread stick.
"Sometime today would be nice..." Link frowned and jumped in the air, catching sandwiches that were flying through the air, swiftly grabbing about 5 or 6, he spun in place and launched them like projectiles towards Pyrrha and Blake who were mid bread stick swing.
Blake instead of backing up, threw a breadstick, easily repelling all the incoming sandwich projectiles away, not focusing on Pyrrha who took her free and easy shot at Blake, directly hitting her and sending her flying back.
"Well wasn't that easy Pyrrha?" Link chuckled
Pyrrha however paid no attention to Link and focused on Yang and Ruby, sending more breadsticks Yangs way who did manage to smash through a few of them before getting hit and sent back
(Remember, pick your moments...) The dark voice mumbled
(Shut up, I know that.) Link frowned as he watched Ruby and Pyrrha go at it, 'picking' his moments when Ruby sent Pyrrha to the ground, he rushed in behind Ren and Nora.
"She's got another plan..." Link frowned and was right as Ruby jumped behind Weiss, who unloaded a container of Ketchup onto the floor. Ren caught on too late on slipped and slid, eventually crashing into tables, Link also slipped but managed to keep his balance at the end, instead kneeling downwards, sliding along calmly
Nora swung what was now a watermelon on a pole, slamming it into the ground, Ruby took the hit for Weiss and was sent soaring backwards, crashing into Link who had just stopped sliding on his ketchup covered boots.
"Sup Ruby." Link waved.
"Link!" Ruby laughed as she got off of Link "Sorry."
"No no, it's fair game, besides if anything, I'm surprised you didn't attack me." Link shrugged as their conversation was cut short when they saw Weiss slam into a pillar
"Ruby!" Link pointed
"Mhm." Ruby nodded and caught Weiss, saving her from any more damage
"Wow she is a good leader..." Link chuckled
"Weiss. Weiss! Don't leave me Noooo!" Ruby shouted in a very dramatic fashion
"Spoke too soon" Link facepalmed and laughed
"Anyways." Link eyed Yang, who grabbed 2 more turkeys and sprinted towards Ren "Time to move in." Link mumbled, running to the scene as well. The scene where Ren and Yang put up a good fight, but Yang's 'superior' strength gave her the edge that allowed her to slam her turkey covered fist into Ren's back, making his crash through more tables to hit to the ground.
"Ooh...that'll leave a mark." Link still stayed back because Nora came in to "save the day" a.k.a get revenge for Ren by slamming the "watermelon on the stick" directly on Yang, with enough impact that sent Yang flying through the ceiling and outside
(Stop being so passive, prove to these idiots that you should be feared.)
(It's a food fight not a fight to the death.) Link frowned and shook his head, looking back up he saw Nora's back against a soda machine
"More projectiles." Link glanced at Blake who looked ready but wasn't ready for that Nora would do which was toss the shaken up cans of soda at blake, popping instantly.
"Ah!" Blake back flipped away and then dodged any more incoming soda cans tossed by Nora
Pyrrha however thought differently, using magnetism to her advantage. And a swarm of soda cans rose in the air and were tossed at Blake
"Two can play at that game!" Link shouted as he got in front of Blake, his body glowed with gold energy, grabbing onto Blake, making her body glow with his energy as well
"What are you-!"
"Shush." Link demanded as the incoming firepower repelled off of them when they made contact
"Oh pyrrha, trying to use your special ability to take down blake, that's a bit unfair, it's just a food fight." Link grinned but came to a surprise, Blake yanked her arm away
"Hey what are you-!"
"I can fight on my own." Blake insisted
"Fair enough." Link nodded and fully released Blake, only to watch her get swarmed by the soda cans, the impact of the hits made her airborne, but also caused to take damage and hit the ground.
"I tried to help..." Link couldn't help but laugh a bit before attempting to move in for another sequence, only to stop himself and realize, he was gassed, this was more than just his aura coming to his aid, he completely repelled all those soda cans, which took a toll on him.
"Hmph." Ruby gave Pyrrha a frown when she saw her teammate hit the ground
Link's gold energy vanished, he had a smile on his face until seeing what was coming towards him, it was Ruby, trailing behind her was a tornado's worth of soda cans, food and extra rubble
"Oh shit..." Link's eyes widened but his sharp instincts helped him get out of way rather than freeze up and take the hit like team JNPR who were caught in the strong wind and bunches of food and rubble "Wow." Link still looked on, observing the cracked up wall that was now colorful and had 4 JNPR member on it, who flopped over and fell to the ground "Well, it's over. now"
"I love these guys." Sun said, he was completely untouched while his friend, had his face 'Remodeled'
Then...SLAM! The sound of doors opening echoed throughout the entire room as Glynda Goodwitch stormed in. Glynda then, with just one wave of her weapon, fixed the entire mess.
"Children. Please. Do not play with your food." Glynda mumbled as she pushed her glasses upwards
"Wow that's it?" Link whispered as he joined JNPR and RWBY, who were all in for a shock as Yang came down, smashing through a table
"Man this place always seems to have more surprises." Link smiled and walked up to a laughing Blake
"Hey Link." Blake mumbled then realized what she did wrong "Sorry about earlier I-!"
"Don't mention it." Link cut her off "I get that when we're under pressure, we do..."
"Stupid things?" Blake asked
"Mhm." Link nodded "But just wanted to let you know that I got your back."
"Thanks." Blake nods
(Ugh you are so boring, and why were you so passive, why waste MY energy too? You should've gone-!)
(Shut it. I will never go off on my friends, there is no need to. And hey it's my energy too.) Link sighed and slowly walked away
(For now that is...)
(Never.) Link frowned (Leave me alone will ya?)
(Now we both know I can't do that, no matter how good you are now, your past speaks for itself.)
(Die...) Link growled
(9/23/17) Edited: Deleted unnecessary lines + added in editing that's been fixed with every other chapter before this one.