Jesus guys, I got so many reviews that I can barely keep up with finding out which of the ones are actually the ones for the last chapter.
Right, straight into the reviews.
Masso 2010: Yes, Raven's twin sister was a joke, after you reviewed I even added a bit at the end of last chapters AN. I don't plan on changing the canon of the story overly so, there's going to be a lot of my own little charm for RWBY, but of course with all these new characters I have created I have to alter some things here and there in order for the story to flow more smoothly. Like I said before, I have a plan for this story going all the way up to Volume 3, so I already have teams set for the beginning of the RWBY cannon after the initiation. This is going to be hard for me because I have to balance original content and the cannon, but It is also a fun challenge that I enjoy. Trust me, when we get to the Beacon arc, you and many other people are going to LOVE it, trust me on this one. Lastly, since this story is going to follow the cannon, I am going to have to listen to what RT reveals and explains. It just has to be that way, with a bit of my Genatools spice in there… sounded a lot better in my head.
Arctech: Ah yes, the enjoyments of 8 hours of sleep, I love it so much I can't remember a time where I managed to sleep that long. Don't worry man, you actually cheered me up a bit when you reviewed and said all that, and for that I thank you. Kai and Rav- I mean Falcon… are going to have quite the talk in the future, just you wait and see.
Yeetus, and all of his followers: I am glad I have started a sort of cult ever since Yang passed Ruby, it means that you all like the story!
Reddevil47: A DMC x RWBY crossover sounds cool, but it is going to take a lot of world building. Like… a lot, in order to get those two universes to coincide with one another. I am glad I managed to make this very long prologue arc into something that some people now don't want it to end! I promise that I will make the Beacon arc great for you all!
Whew, some long responses this time. Those of you that I did not respond to, I simply am not responding to those that are purely just voting but know that I read every single one of them. All of those who said I did a great job, thank you.
All of those who reviewed in general, I thank you.
It's getting really hard to count all of the votes, so I hope I am at least close here:
Yang Xiao Long- 56
(AAHH YET ANOTHER TIE!)
Ruby Rose- 56
Orchid Rosa- 23
Weiss Schnee- 23
(Wow, a sneaky three-way tie here!)
Blake Belladonna- 23
Neo-21
(Finally hit the twenties!)
Pyrrha Nikos- 18
Wow, things are getting really heated now! I mean, look at those numbers! As a reminder to you all, the Poll does not decide what the pairing actually will be, but I decided that it will count for a special for let's say… Valentine's day? I'll at least start a little side bundle of the story for TBH, each chapter would be a different pairing.
As a celebration for 2019, I am going to make this chapter pretty long. Like… Idk 12k words long? It's around there, so wish me luck from the future!
Now let's get the show moving!
RWBY: The Blind Huntsman
Chapter 23- Volume 0, Episode 21
Unbreakable
Malikai woke up first, after sharing a night of love with his wife. They both needed it after being separated for so long. It has been so long that he has slept in a bed unless you could call cots and sacks of… something in teepee tents back in the Branwen tribe that were in the shapes of bed, then it has been many months since he has been able to sleep in an actual human bed. Even better that he actually woke up well rested unlike pretty much all of the nights he has been away from his family, especially the nights immediately following his death battle with the monsters that are Tyrian, Hazel, and whoever the new partial Fall Maiden was that burned his back with the heat so hot it felt like the sun.
He even got to take a shower in an actual bathroom, and not just hope it rains one day in order to get one back when he was in the tribe. He took extra care to wash all the dirt and grime that was stuck to his body after living in the dirt with the Branwen tribe. Seriously though, Raven admires strength, that much has been confirmed ever since he met the woman years ago back in their days at Beacon, so wouldn't being clean lead to more strength?
He wondered how Raven and Vernal could look so clean all the time, they don't have anything to clean themselves with! He would know, he searched their tents to see if he could find something that could keep his own body as clean as theirs. Of course, he found nothing, and he had a great time trying to explain to them why he was sneaking around their tent late at night.
Especially when he brushed his teeth and finally got rid of approximately eight months of morning breath… it felt like Heaven.
He got nostalgic when he opened up his pack and took out the gear he hasn't worn for years. Why Raven had it in her camp, he had no idea, but she let him have it back. It was his old set of light armor that he wore in is Beacon days, it looks like the same metal the made-up Silver Ebony, the sword that is. But it wasn't, it was the next best thing, Etricium, as far as he knows that metal is second only to Silver Ebony metal. It had dark obsidian-like color and had a slight purple tint to it. Which could easily be fixed by some decorative paint, the same paint that makes the armor set look like it is made out of Silver Ebony.
First, he slipped his head through the hood he has taken up while living with Raven and her tribe, a black-greenish hood that flaps down to just above the back of his knees. Next was the breastplate, which snugly fit on his fit form. He had one shoulder piece that went over his left arm, leaving the other bare to give himself the most flexibility he could possibly get in that one arm. Just in case, however, he also wears a bracer like his son does, on both forearms instead of just the one, unlike his son. Meant for parrying, and blocking light attacks, the best it could do against heavier attacks would be a perfect parry or a redirection. All the armor he had on his legs covered just from the beginning of his ankle, all the way up to his knee.
It didn't really look all that pretty, but it would protect his body should his aura break. It had a light pattern of decorative engravings that matched, but other than that, it was a mostly plain set of light armor.
It was meant to be light armor anyway, his past self realized that a full armor set made entirely out of leather and Etricium was actually pretty heavy. So heavy in fact, it was like he was constantly carrying something or someone on his back that equaled his own body weight, which was around one hundred and eighty pounds, give or take.
However, after using the set of armor for about ten years before finally relinquishing it for a faster, and somewhat riskier fighting style that relied more on his aura for protection than anyone else really. It also made him even faster because the damn things weren't weighing him down anymore. His body has become so strong that it feels like nothing to him. Even though he has already passed his prime, his strength only increased throughout the years. Raven certainly noticed, on first sight no less.
After gearing up, he took a glance at himself in the mirror. His shorter graying black hair still in a relatively wild style. Other than his stubble that has barely been kept at bay over the years, and his older look, he looks like he was fresh out of the academy again, minus the blindfold he used to wear all the time, he noticed that Marron has it wrapped around her arm, and so he doesn't mind its new purpose.
"Ah, the memories." He said with a fond smile.
He would reminisce in the past another time, however, because right now. He had a son in the next room that needed to be picked up.
During the early hours of the night, he heard a lot of laughing followed by nine loud thumbs, and yes, he counted, he was curious about what could have actually happened during the night. Instead of waking up his wife that has had to take care of the kid all on her own for the past couple of months, he put on his best father persona and steeled his nerves to go check on his son. The walls were apparently very thick because he didn't really hear much besides some really loud yelling and laughing, and of course he sensed all the thuds as they hit the ground. Whatever happened...
Honestly… he wouldn't really be surprised if Kai had a girl in there with him, despite being young, in this line of work you had to grow up quickly. He did the same when he was near his age, Raven could attest to that, and if you asked Qrow he would throw up whatever alcohol he had in his system because he would have had to remember dealing with all the play by plays that his sister un-embarrassedly gave him while he was more than unwilling to hear anything about her nightly 'training' sessions with Malikai.
Kai did have a lot of female friends too, there was his partner, who he hasn't met personally yet, has heard plenty about her the night before after his little talk with his old headmaster.
Orchid Rosa was quite the character from what he has heard, she has a rare disability, which honestly sounds more like a strength to his ears, that forces her body to have multiple personalities. Apparently one of those personalities was one that kept offering her body to Kai for a night of what he was told to be called a 'Night of the Flamingo, and the human'... He would have been surprised if he hasn't known the people he had known throughout all his life, but alas, Team STRQ were just some of the people he knew.
But even though all of his surprises and experiences he had under his belt, he did not expect to walk into the room to see nine kids including his son completely unconscious in a state of what he hopes the be asleep. He winced when he saw the daughters of one Taiyang among the group, hogging the bed they shared with another girl and a boy…
There was only one actually awake and standing, his top completely missing, besides a white headband that looked a lot like his sons tied at an angle the covered only one light red eye amongst a head of black hair with red tinted tips, similar to Ruby Rose's hair who was thankfully fully clothed. Thank God. Luckily he did have pants on though, so he was able to look at the boy who froze on the spot as soon as they met eyes.
It wasn't his son, he realized.
Malikai looked around the room again, and saw that Kai was one of the four kids that were completely knocked out on the bed, someone else that matched the description of his partner snuggled up with him, if he could call draping pretty much all of her limbs over his body snuggling, and on the other side was Ruby, clinging onto his arm. It would have looked adorable if Kai wasn't shirtless, and missing his headband, with a lipstick mark of a kiss on his cheek, and on his chest. His tail that seemed to have gotten longer was even wrapped around the blonde brawler whose name he recalls was Yang, another daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long who was currently spooning the sleeping Orchid, and acting as the big spoon.
After finally tearing his eyes away from that mess of limbs, he looked to the bottom of the bed, to see a facedown underage dark-skinned girl with stripes on her body. Her tiger ears completely limp against the top of her head and floor. Then in a chair was two other boys, the larger one with cyan colored hair actually sitting in the seat with the other that was identical to one actually awake except with a mass of black and blue hair that covered his eyes and was hanging off the back of his head, sitting in the others lap sideways with his legs draped over one of the armrests and his head resting on the other. Thank the Gods that those ones also had all of their clothes on. The last one, who is also a girl but with dark green hair, was actually waking up a little, was slumped up on the floor against the wall, her shirt was unbuttoned and draped over one of her shoulders, but thankfully she had an undershirt underneath that covered anything that would have been otherwise illegal for him to see.
"Mmmmmmm, mmm mm?" She hummed her own thoughts on the matter as soon as she opened her now pink eyes.
But then, he spotted the many bottles of booze scattered around the room.
"What happened." He asked, making it sound like a demand rather than a question as his eyes hardened into chips of ice cold death into the light red eyes of the one who was unfortunate enough to be the first one to wake up.
Brick was all too happy to explain.
"Sooooo, we may have had a really big sleepover last night." Brick began with the friendliest smile he could muster up past all of the fear within his body.
Malikai waited for him to continue.
The night before...
Kai opened the door to his room after hearing many knocks that came faster than Ruby running to go devour a plate of cookies, along with the plate itself.
"Okay, okay I'm coming!" He exclaimed, slipping on his pants and jogging to the door which is now constantly vibrating with every knock. He just finished taking a shower, and he was just able to dry his hair and body before he started hearing the knocking. But since the knocks were so frantic with almost no signs of slowing down and only speeding up, he panicked and opened the door without a shirt on. Revealing his perfectly muscled lean upper body that no one was expecting to see. He literally only had his hastily tied headband tied around his eyes, and the pair of pants that he was bought earlier that day.
"Hm… not too big, not too small. Just right." His partner was the first to speak as she leaned toward him.
"Hey, Matsu!" Ruby greeted next, a little louder than was really necessary, but she just couldn't take her eyes off of those abs… what was she doing again?
"We're here to celebrate!" Yang cheered next, pushing all of them into the room so fast that they nearly knocked over Kai. "I brought the refreshments~!"
Kai sniffed the air, and he wouldn't be able to forget the smell of alcohol after having to deal with the smell of it off of Qrow for the many months that he has lived with him. "Yang, we can't drink this, we're still minors!"
"Oh, you and your minor excuse." Another person he sensed spoke up, this one being Shae. "I like your whole goody-two-shoes act, but sometimes you just gotta let go, man I mean, here I'll help you."
Kai yelped when he felt his tail being tugged, and the stiffness that was once in the tail disappear in a flash, and was reduced to a limp relaxed extra appendage on his lower back. "S-Shae… my tail… please let go." He pleads as heat ran up his neck and cheeks.
"Tch, sure thing Kai," Shae said with a smirk, then finally let go of the tail which immediately wrapped around his waist in order to protect itself from the clutches of the demon that was the tiger Faunus and her sharp claws. "Just thought I should do that since you MISSED MY MATCH!" She suddenly screamed, grabbing Kai by his shoulders and getting close enough to smell his breath.
He yelped while she simply snarled at him, he couldn't see the way she bared her teeth at him, but he could smell, hear, and almost taste it. Which was more than enough for him to feel just a bit scared by one of his rivals.
Shae didn't let up either, though she did realize how close she was to her cru- rival, and so went a bit red out of embarrassment and pushed him away, her lips pressed into a small pouty frown as a darker tint of red rose up to her cheeks.
"You're lucky I won, or else I would have made sure you regretted it." She said next, looking over her shoulder and her orange eyes staring daggers at his even behind the blindfold.
"You won? That's great! I'm sorry I missed it, who were you up against?" Kai asked, more or less back into his normal personality.
"Mmm." Two hummed, tapping two of her fingers against his shoulder.
"Oh, hey Two, I didn't sense you there." Kai greeted, and then widened his eyes when he put two and two together. No pun intended. "Wait, you and Shae were in the same match?!"
"Mhm." Two confirmed though she was a bit salty about it. It would fade away in time.
"Yup, that Cardin guy was too, but he was taken out in the first minute." Shae briefly explained.
"Mhm." Two hummed in agreement, with more than a small amount of satisfaction.
"Well… how did it go?" Kai asked next. "You two were made partners for a reason, so I assume you two would be close in skill."
"Tch, don't even get me started on that!" Shae exclaimed. "Did you know that she's a marksman? And she has two powerful as fuck revolvers!? Two nearly beat me with those things, even with my primal form I wasn't able to get close to her without getting a clip shot into my throat, I managed to do it in the end by just deflecting as many bullets as I could until I got close to her, and it turned out that her semblance drains her aura really fast, so much so in fact that I wasn't even allowed to hit her when I finally got close to her! God that was so annoying..."
"Mm mm mm." Two laughed in her own special way.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up vine head. I still won the match!" Shae pointed out.
Two just shrugged.
"Hey! Don't pretend that you don't care, I know you do!"
"Eh." Two used her voice a bit, which shocked everyone else into silence, she looked about the room with a confused look on her face. Like they thought that she couldn't talk. She could talk, she just chooses not to. Unless a friend actually asked something that was worth answering with words instead of her hums, she chose not to speak.
"What is your semblance anyway?" Kai asked with a smile on his face.
Now that, was something she would use words for.
Two sighed and brushed some hair behind one of her ears. "My semblance gives me greatly enhanced reaction speed and reflexes, the only downside of it is when I have to use it constantly in a fight where I need to use it, and the longer I use it, the faster my aura drains, which was why my aura was so low when Shae finally caught up with me." She explained simply, and without a care in the world.
Everyone was even more shocked, save for Kai, who just smiled even wider at her. He was a good friend and was worth using words for. In truth, everyone in this room was worth using her words for, along with her family, of course, she just didn't because she found it hilarious when they kept trying to get her to talk.
"You can talk!?" Shae, Rick, and Brick exclaimed all at the same time. The latter two of the three suddenly appearing seemingly out of nowhere as if her voice was something to be praised for.
"Mhm." Two hummed with an amused smile as she sat down on the wooden chair in the room.
"Do it again!" Rick and Brick requested, twin faces putting up the best puppy-eyed face they can both manage in an attempt to convince Two to speak.
It almost worked… maybe it would have if Cyan didn't grab Rick and Brick by the necks and throw them away from her. "Both of you are old enough to know not to pressure a girl to do something she doesn't want to do." He spoke to them like a big brother as he gave an apologetic nod to Two.
Two smiled up at him, a light dust of pink over her cheeks as they met eyes.
"Thanks." She said.
"Mhm." Cyan hummed and winked at her. Making Two giggles, and roll her eyes at him.
"How'd you do that!?" Brick asked as he rubbed his head, pushing off the hood in the process to reveal the rest of his hair, which Ruby took notice of right away.
"We have the same hair color! Awesome!" She exclaimed, speeding up in front of Brick and beaming at him.
"I know right!? Red is the best color!" Brick cheered along with her as they high fived each other.
"Yeah! Nothing can beat red!"
Kai leaned toward the closest person to him, which was Cyan, and asked him a question: "I can't really see, but Brick and Ruby have been around each other for a few months already, how did she not notice his hair color yet?"
"Beats me, but I know Brick has been wanting to talk to her for a while now," Cyan smirked and leaned back toward Kai. "Don't tell anyone, but I think he has a small crush on the brat, that's why he never actually tried to talk to her until now."
"Oh." Kai chuckled. "Secret is safe with me." It still didn't explain how Ruby never noticed that Brick had the same hair color as her, but whatever, he didn't know either. Even though his excuse is that he is literally blind, and doesn't even know what any of the colors actually look like.
"Since we're on the topic, how about you?" Cyan asked quietly with a teasing smile. "Got anyone you fancy?"
Kai blushed a little bit but composed himself. He already told others and himself that he wasn't really looking for a girlfriend at the moment, and wanted to focus on his career as a huntsman. But that didn't stop him from liking a certain girl…
He gulped. "I'd… er… rather not say." Kai admitted.
Cyan widened his eyes slightly, he truly didn't expect Kai to actually admit that he did like someone. He didn't even know that Kai liked someone, and usually, he is really good at spotting things like romantic interest. Kai acted the same to everyone equally, so it was really hard to get a bead on him. But he could definitely tell that some certain girls looked at him with interest in their eyes.
Shae couldn't be more obvious about it, he didn't even think she was even trying to hide it and was actually trying to get Kai to pick up on her signals that she was interested. But alas, Kai is literally blind, and he hasn't really had a lot of experience with females before. It was a shame, and he didn't know if even Shae could do it, but Cyan personally thinks that if a girl wanted Kai to know that she was interested in him, she would have to just flat out tell him.
That would be very fun to watch at least, especially if she was the one that Kai happens to have a crush on.
"I get it, I won't push, and before you ask I am not really interested in anyone, I'll just have to see what the future holds," Cyan said with a shrug, unbeknownst to the listening ears of one of the girls in the room with him.
Kai nodded to him and decided not to call his ass out for his blatant lie.
"Sweet! The whole group is here!" Yang cheered, and she pulled Kai into a one-armed (And forced) hug while laughing hardily.
"Now we can get this party started!" Orchid yelled out next, a pink cup of something in her one of her hands.
"Wait! Don't we have matches tomorrow? How are we all going to compete if we're all tired?" Kai asked everyone, even as half of them cheered along with Yang.
"The matches don't start until two, so we would have plenty of time to recover when we wake up in the morning," Cyan explained for him, the only one who wasn't laughing and dancing to no music like Yang, Ruby, Brick, and Rick are right now.
"Yeah, c'mon Kai you're with me now," Shae said as she took Kai by both of his hands and took him to the dancefloor. Which was just the center of his bedroom. "Remember what I said before? Sometimes you just gotta throw caution in the wind and have some fun!" Shae exclaimed as she started dancing along with everyone else, and cheered when the music actually started. It was quite enough that it wouldn't bother anyone else, but at the same time besides Marron and Malikai, they were the only ones who were on this floor. But still, it was Kai's scary looking dad, they didn't want that barging in on them as the drink and party while underaged, especially since Ruby is with them all.
Yang would be making sure Ruby drank nothing but milk or water though, so she would be fine. Even if the older sister was a bit tipsy.
Kai rolled his eyes underneath his blindfold but started to move along with Shae the best he could. He couldn't see what he was doing, and couldn't see what the girl dancing with him was doing, but he was going to do his best to go along with it. Letting Shae be the one to lead, he bumped his feet into hers a few times, but she easily shrugged it off.
This was the nicest Shae has been to him, he noticed that after hearing her giggles and laughs as they danced together the best they could to a song that didn't really sound like it was okay for kids his age to listen to. Of course, she was nice to him before, but the way she was laughing, and the way he sensed her heart beating in her chest as she brushed up against him. The way she took his hand on placed it on her waist and the other in her hand, and had her other hand wrapped around his shoulder and the back of his neck, it was fun. He was having fun, and she was too.
He liked it.
After more of this fun dancing that Kai managed to get used to the movements of, he decided to let Shae convince him to drink one of the drinks that Yang and Orchid brought with them. Of course, many of his other friends also pressured him to go along with it, chanting 'Kai, Kai, Kai' and then cheering when he finally drank from the cup and laughed when he coughed some of it back up.
Next was a sit around, Some sat on the bed, others on the floor, and the smart ones pulled up chairs to sit in a circle. This was Orchid's idea, of course, to sit around in a circle and talk about their lives.
Brick and Rick went first, they spoke about how their parents didn't want them to become a Huntsman because of their grandfather, and even got violent with them sometimes. It got emotional, but when they spoke of how Cyan was the one to knock some sense into them, both metaphorically and very literally, they begged for their forgiveness and started supporting them.
Cyan was up next, and his story really started after he met Rick and Brick, who were a year younger than him but still trying to become a Huntsman. He trained, but he didn't start training hard until he met the two Violet twins. He said that they were the ones who inspired and convinced him to become a huntsman. It was a rather happy story more or less, but when he revealed that he was actually into both girls and boys to them all. They all clapped and respected him even more for it.
Yang asked, "Why did you say that you only liked guys before?"
Cyan replied with, "So you would stop trying to tease me."
They all laughed after that one.
Next up was Orchid… Her story was different from the others before her, and was the most emotional. She explained that she was born with a chronic mental illness called Dissociative Identity Disorder, a very severe kind of disorder that made her brain develop an uncountable amount of personalities. It was also incurable, and she can barely control or figure out which personality was the original one. She inherited it from her mother, and early on in her life her biological father just couldn't handle her and her mother anymore, so he walked out on them. She had trouble making friends, and her first real friend was Kai, and she admitted that sought him out during the exam to partner up with him. They both hugged when she said that if it weren't for him, and the friends that she has made, she would have not lasted this long into her life. She was eternally grateful to them all. Another big group hug was shared between everyone at that.
Ruby and Yang went next since they're sisters. They shared that they did not have the same mother, but the same father. The first one abandoned Yang and Taiyang, and about a year later, Tai fell in love with another woman, Summer Rose. They had a child, and that child was Ruby Rose, she took after her mother completely while Yang took after both of her parents. They left out the part about Tai being deeply depressed for a very long time after the death of Summer, but it went without being said that it hit all of them really hard, and they were barely able to stick together through the whole thing. After wiping her tears away, Ruby explained that she wants to become a huntress in order to save people and to bring happiness to the world. Yang wanted the same, but her main priority was to watch over her little sister. They did reveal that Tai-Yang didn't want them to become huntresses at first, because of the fear that he would lose them after losing both of his wives to the profession, even if one of them were still alive. But after years of convincing they managed to earn his support, and now he couldn't be prouder of them both.
Two spoke up next, she didn't have much to tell, but she did the best she could. She came from a relatively normal family you might see in a movie or a book. She had an older brother, who was slain by a Grimm while protecting her. He became the first person in recorded history who managed to slay a Grimm without having their aura unlocked, but it cost him his life. His name was Ten. He is her motivation to keep going so that no one would have to suffer the same fate he did if she had anything to say about it. She didn't share much else besides that and went back to her humming when people started asking questions about her past.
Second to last, was Shae. She was the only full-blooded Faunus among the group, and she admitted that she was thinking about joining the White Fang as her parents did. But once they were both killed in a raid against the SDC, her uncle and his wife took her in, and they brought her back from her lowest point. Her goal is to stop the White Fang terrorist organization, in order to stop the pain and suffering that they cause and the negativity they bring with them, and if she saves people while doing it would be a big plus.
Now all eyes were on Kai, not that he would have known. It took a nudge from Orchid for him to realize that it was his turn to speak. He was very open with himself, completely trusting in his friends with the truth of his past. He was born blind, so he has never seen the world before besides what he could only describe as a void, he has never seen color before, and he can only barely be able to tell if there is light in the room he is in, so at least he would know if it were night or day if he were outside. Even though he would probably tell by how hot or cold it was outside.
He can tell what people look like by feeling their face with his hands, and that he has been wearing that blindfold ever since he was a baby. After the surgery, he had bandages around them, but every time his parents took them off he would cry, so instead of constantly replacing flimsy bandages his father gave him his own blindfold, and he wore it for many years to come before getting a brand new one earlier this day.
He wants to be a huntsman because, like Ruby, he wants to save people and do good in the world. He also sees it as a way to get stronger, and he shared that he needs to work harder than anyone else in order to achieve that goal. He lived a pretty poor life in Vacuo, a very hot kingdom that made it hard to get by, but he and his family got by. They planned to move to Vale together as a family sometime after Kai was admitted into Signal. He later admitted that he really likes it when he proves people wrong and that he didn't really like the fact that he was famous, he didn't care for it. He dislikes people who bully others and hates those who do evil in the world just for the sake of it.
He vented a lot more the pent-up anger he had at the world. He almost revealed something about Salem but kept his mouth shut. It was just good to get all that stress off of his chest after holding it all in within himself for the sake of the world. He could relax now that his father has returned to him.
"Why do you wear the blindfold?" Ruby asked suddenly. "I mean, it can't be that bad, right?"
"It's really not, I've seen them before." Uncaring Orchid revealed to everyone in a colder voice then she was really used to. That rare personality was quickly snuffed out and replaced with a shyer Orchid. "I-I'm so sorry Kai, I didn't mean to say it like that!" She stammered, feeling terrible about revealing something she promised she would keep to herself.
"No, no, it's fine Orchid." Kai sighed, and placed a hand around his headband. "This is a fear that I need to get over if I want to be a fully fledged huntsman… if it is okay with you guys, I'd like to show you all my eyes." He said with a hint of apprehension and fear in his voice.
As expected, everyone was more than happy to offer their feelings on the matter, all of the positive and encouraging. In truth they all were, minus Orchid because she has already seen them, very kind to him. Even the youngest ones of the group, Ruby, Rick, and Brick.
Orchid comforted him by placing a hand on his arm, and with a deep breath. He reached around the back of his head and removed the blindfold. Revealing the light scars he has around his eyes that he got from the surgery all those years ago. He kept his eyelids closed for a moment longer, hesitant on opening them to reveal his blind eyes.
With another deep breath, he opened them, revealing silver eyes with a cloudy white pupil in the center of them both. He kept them aimed in a random direction, which was toward the ground, and he rose his head as if he was looking around the room, but really his eyes were just moving around as if they were trying to find something, they stopped when he realized yet again that he can't see, and locked them straight ahead as he awaited the response of his friends.
Everyone leaned in and pushed their way to get a good look at them, some of them fell over. Those being Rick and Brick, and the closest to him other than Orchid which was Ruby and Yang got a great look at them. After that, they decided to take turns looking Kai in the eyes, each with varying degrees of great curiosity and awe.
"Wow, your eyes are actually really good looking," Shae commented when it was her turn.
Kai wasn't expecting a comment like that, especially one that would hit so close to home for him. He went red in the face as Shae took his hands and brought them to her face, he felt the way her lips curled up into a smile as he felt her face and committed all of her features in his memory. Her facial stripes were especially easy to feel with his hands, she had three of them on both sides of her face, and two coming down from her hair over her forehead. "Y-yeah?"
Shae laughed when he took his hands away, satisfied with his reaction. "Well? How does this tiger look to you?"
Kai almost didn't answer honestly. "B-Beautiful." He answered completely honestly.
Despite the line being so cheesy and bland, it still managed to let a smile appear on her face. "Good, now here is what I think about your face~"
"Uh… what?"
Shae planted a deep kiss right on his cheek, humming as she kept her lips firmly planted on that cheek. Everyone widened their eyes, and some of them gasped at the sight, especially when she pulled away and a mark of lips was left behind on a now very red Kai Matsuoka who couldn't form words.
You didn't need to be blind to not be able to know you've just been kissed by a girl, even if it was just on the cheek.
"Uh, I- wow uh- Thanks." He ended up stammering out, earning a laugh out of everyone, except for some who put on the best forced smile they can muster up.
Then the party started up yet again, and the rest was history.
"-and then after that, we all just sorta kept partying quietly, we all got a few drinks, then we all sorta passed out sometime later, and so here we are!" Brick ended as he slipped his head through his shirt, and tossed Kai's headband onto his chest.
"Okay… that explains a lot, but what about the other kiss mark on my son's chest? And why are some of you missing articles of clothing?" Malikai asked, he actually sat down during the story, it was surprisingly intriguing. Brick didn't need to tell him the backstory about everyone in that room, but some of it was good to know at least. "Also why did Kai not put a shirt on throughout this entire thing?"
"Honestly I don't know, I think he tried but the girls kept denying him his sweatshirt… As for your other question, I really have no idea, I was the first one to pass out." Brick explained the best he could.
Malikai nodded, he's honestly a bit impressed that they got away with all this, but there is still just one more question eating away at his mind…
"Who got you all those drinks? None of you look even remotely close to being the legal age limit for buying alcohol."
"Oh, it was that tattooed lady." Brick answered right away with a little nervous smiled. He mentally curses at himself for blurting that out, since he really shouldn't have. Now there ran the possibility of getting on the bad side of that scary lady, her ice blue eyes were still burned into his memory.
"Goddammit Vernal… okay, how about this." Malikai stood up. "I'll pretend that I didn't see anything, but only if you wake all these kids up and make this room look better then it did when you entered it. If not, then it will be either my wife, that girls father, or both that will be giving you all quite a… talk, yeah let's go with that."
Brick swallowed a nervous lump in his throat and nodded frantically. He then saluted, his body as stiff as a tree in order to give the man the respect he deserved for not killing them all on the spot. "Yes, sir! Thank you, sir! I am forever in your debt sir!"
"Don't mention it… seriously, don't. I don't ever want to remember any of this… I never thought Kai would do something like… Oh God if Marron finds out." Malikai shook his head and shuddered, then left the room before the rest of the kids get up, later on, today he was going to need a drink. It's a good thing that Qrow was around, he would need a drinking buddy after today was over.
"I was never here." He said just before he left the room.
Marron would never know that he woke up before her, and went to go check on Kai, and saw all of that. No… he was just going to sneak back in, and play this game on his scroll that he hasn't touched ever since he installed it, he didn't touch it since Vernal was the one who installed it for him, but now whatever it is he would love the distraction.
"Oh hey Malikai!" His wife called out to him, leaning on the wall right in front of him as soon as he left the room. "I am so glad you woke up, and went to go wake up Kai! How responsible of you… So, what was that about never being here?"
"...God help me."
"Ugh." Kai moaned as he walked with the support of Ruby toward the stadium. "I am never drinking again, why would they do this to me?" He asked her. "I have a match today…"
"I dunno Matsu, maybe they were just happy to see you?" She answered hopefully, at least she tried. She also tried to pretend like she did nothing wrong, she knew that no one would accuse her of anything though. She was way too cute with her sad pouty face to be accused of anything.
"Maybe… well, at least I am feeling better. That drink dad gave me really had a kick to it." Kai said with a chuckle.
"Yes dear, your father did a great thing making you that special drink just so you can recover after last night's activities… wouldn't you agree my love?" Marron asked her husband, draping an arm around his neck and squeezing it slightly.
"Y-yes, it was a good thing I was friends with Qrow back in my younger days." Maliai agreed.
"I know riiight?"
After waking up in a mass of three other girls, Kai didn't really know what was going on at first, and then, of course, they woke up and screamed at him. He didn't really know what to do so he tried going back to sleep. Only to get unceremoniously be kicked out of his own bed by Shae, and have his clothes and headband thrown on him. Everyone vowed never to speak of that night, but to remember the fun of it all.
As per his partners' warning, he wiped off the kiss mark on his cheek and chest. He didn't remember how or why he had one on his chest, and when he asked his partner how it got there, she simply laughed nervously and then ran away. Whatever happened in that room would stay in that room it seemed.
After that, Rick and Brick along with Cyan moved along as well. Cyan, of course, was the responsible one, and when a drunk Rick sat in his lap and fell asleep, he couldn't bring himself to wake him up, so he fell asleep as well. Brick apparently passed out in the bathroom after tying Kai's headband around his head in the worst way possible and was the first to wake up.
Two actually didn't drink at all, or at least that was what she told him. She just happened to fall asleep in the corner of his room with an empty bottle of booze beside her. No, she didn't drink at all. She hasn't spoken a single word since either, answering only with hums just as she was known for before last night.
Whatever happened to Shae, it ended up with her being face down at the foot of his bed. He didn't really want to know how she ended up there, but the bottle in her hands was explanation enough. He still gets goosebumps when he remembers the kiss on the cheek she gave him. She was the first to depart from the group after a quick goodbye.
At least now they were feeling better, most of the group split off into different groups as they woke up. In Kai's group, it was the classic quartet that was himself, Ruby, Yang, and Orchid. With the two-plus being his parents just behind him. Why was his father's heart beating so fast?
Anyways, they apparently slept until noon, and after an hour and a half of recovering, it was now half an hour before the first match of the quarterfinals branch of the tournament. He was hyped up in a sense, he really wanted to get back in there. After his little scuffle with Vernal, the Spring Maiden the day before, he has been excited. He has so much more potential to get even stronger, and he can't wait to achieve that strength. His father must be hundreds of miles ahead of him if he is able to defeat Vernal as easily as he implied himself to be, it was confirmed by her reluctant confirmation as well.
Speaking of Vernal.
"Hey, what happened to Vernal? Is she going to be around for the matches today?" Kai asked, standing up straight and without the support of Ruby. Orchid looked like she wanted to help, but she kept getting too nervous to get any closer to him. Or it might have been Yang, those two are actually pretty similar in weight so it gets hard to tell which is which sometimes when they are in the same room.
He sensed Malikai a cough silently, and his heart rate speeds up just a little bit more.
"Vernal has gone to go speak to Qrow, apparently something came up." His mother Marron answered instead of his father. "Don't worry about her Kai, I am sure that she is going to be watching the matches one way or another."
"Uh… okay. Have they announced the matches yet today?" Kai asked next.
"Yeah actually, I have them right here," Yang said as she looked at her scroll and typed away at it in order to get the schedule of the quarterfinal matches for today. She took one look at it, and started laughing, and then quieted down when she realized that she was son in trouble with her dad when word got to him.
"What's wrong? Are you up against someone you know?" Kai asked.
"Not quite… I don't think you're going to like it though because of how you feel though." Yang said with a stifled chuckle.
"Why is that? It's not like I am in the first round, right?"
Yang didn't respond, Orchid started whistling and tune, and Ruby didn't know what was happening here.
"... Right?"
"You're in the first round, Kai." Malikai told him.
Kai's shoulders slumped forward. "Nooooo." He groaned, he was still a bit hungover. So now was as good a time as any to get that liver moving.
"And your opponent is Weiss Schnee."
Marron tensed up, and in turn Malikai tensed up, her arm was still around his neck after all. Her tail even slapped against the ground angrily as soon as she heard the name Schnee. "Weiss. Schnee!?"
Kai's head snapped up next, and he tilted his head in confusion.
"Who's that?"
"Oh, so that's who Weiss Schnee is… so I would need to be careful against her more than any other opponent why?"
"Because Schnee's are known for being brutal against Faunus." His mother told him, they quickly arrived at the waiting room after realizing that Kai's match was actually starting pretty soon. The others went up to the seats while Marron took him to find the room, it was the same room as before. Marron took extra care with making sure that Kai's headband was still on more snug than usual, double and then triple checking the knot just in case it wasn't tied on properly.
"How do you know that this one is though…?"
"I… I don't," Marron admitted. "I'm just worried, I've dealt with enough prejudice in my life, I would hate to see my son go through the same thing, on camera no less. I'm not saying that this Weiss girl is the same as all the other Schnee's, but just in case I want you to be careful."
"Mom, I'll be okay, whoever this Weiss girl is, whether she is a racist or not, I'll be okay. I promise." Kai said with a comforting smile.
Marron's expression softened, and she stood up. Much more confident in her son. "Yes, of course, it's you after all. You continue to surprise me with everything you do." She nodded and held her son close to her body. "Good luck Kai, show the Schnee where she can stick it."
"Uh… where would that be?" Kai asked, confused, and acting innocent.
Marron rolled her eyes. "That might work on your friends but it won't on me."
Kai laughed. "Yeah, I should have known. I'll do my best as always mom, I'll see you when the match is over."
"When you win, you mean." Marron corrected with a wink as she broke away from him. "Love you son!"
"Love you too," Kai muttered back, Marron laughed as she shut the door behind her.
Kai sensed the person who was standing on the other side of the door, she used her foot to stop the door from closing all the way. Somehow his mother didn't seem to notice, and her footsteps and weight traveled further and further away. Falcon, er, Raven stepped into the room a second later. That was going to take some getting used to.
"Hey little Kai, miss me?" Raven asked him as she leaned against the door after she closed it.
"Eh, you're fun to be around I guess…" Kai scratched the back of his neck and smiled at her.
Raven smirked at him. "I have that effect on people… I saw your match yesterday."
Kai perked up at that. "Really? What did you think?" He asked, a bit more excited than before.
"Nothing I wasn't already expecting, but I guess I was a bit-" Raven was going to continue, but then she smelt something all too familiar. Something that would come off her brother… alcohol. "Have you been drinking…?" She managed to form some sort of a motherly tone of disappointment as she spoke. Something that even surprised her when it came out of her mouth.
Kai was caught red-handed, and red-faced. He didn't even need to answer for Raven to find out what he has been up to.
She nodded her head as she realized what the answer to her question was, she didn't really care, of course, she did a lot worse when she was around his age. She just didn't expect it to come from Kai of all people. The kid she thought was one of those goody two shoes types, he took after his mother that way. Not too much of Malikai in him except for when he fights and only in specific situations. But nonetheless she still was very fond of the kid, and yes she finally admitted it, she liked him.
The other thing she smelled was something she would have never thought she would have smelled off of Kai. It smelled of multiple different scents of fragrant perfumes of multiple different kinds of flowers.
"Did you get laid!?" Raven asked suddenly, more impressed than anything. He would have tied with her when she lost her maidenhood if this were the case.
"What!? No, nothing like that!" Kai denied immediately. "I was just in a party last night, and I woke up with three girls in my bed and I know what that sounds like but-"
"Wait, you had a foursome for your first time? Damn, you beat me completely and utterly. I admit defeat when it comes to first times."
"No! I would never do that to Ruby-"
"Ruby?"
"-or Orchid, or Yang-"
"YANG!?"
"- like that! I swear nothing like that happened, I promise you that Rav- Falcon, I am still very much a virgin!" Kai finished.
Raven stared daggers at Kai with widened eyes. Not only did she just get a few bombshells of what she hoped and didn't hope happened to him last night. Then he goes ahead and accidentally reveals that not only has he been with her daughter and her late leaders' daughter, but apparently also knows who she really is!
Right… priorities.
"You know my real name?" She asked instead of asking another question among about a few dozen others she had after hearing everything she had just heard.
Crap… Yeah, Kai was caught there, it just came out without him thinking. "It was Qrow…" He would apologize to him the next time he saw him. He was thinking about putting the blame on Vernal, but if he did say that it was Vernal then she would have gotten in trouble, and if he said his father told him, he really would have gotten in trouble.
"Qrow huh… Figures, my little brother always was the softer one." Raven relaxed. "So, you got a problem with me kid? Because of the whole abandoning my family thing?"
"I… I can't forgive that," Kai said honestly.
Raven shut her eyes and sighed. "Very well, remember what I've taught you."
"Because it is not in my right to." Kai continued, stopping Raven just as she was about to cut a portal back to her tribe. She turned to look at him, her eyes widened in the surprise for one of the first times ever because of him. "What you did was wrong… and it wasn't right, but I can see- well, not see but sense something good in you. I don't know what it is yet, but I don't think you are as bad as you were made out to be."
Raven stared at him, stunned into speechlessness for the first time in… forever, she has never heard something like this come from anyone, not even from her own brother… and yet, here she is, getting something she didn't know she wanted until the moment she received it.
"Alright! Time for the first match of the Semi-finals! Weiss Schnee, come on out!" The announcer called out before Raven could let the words come out of her mouth, she snapped her mouth closed and released a breath of air she didn't know she was holding.
Kai sensed her heart beating just a bit faster and harder. He smiled because that meant that his words got a reaction out of her, he wished that he could stay, and talk with the woman, but it is now his time to show the world what he was made of yet again, Weiss Schnee was a popular name apparently, if he defeated her, that would make a lot of progress into his secondary goal of proving himself to the world.
The crowd applauded loudly at the calling out of Weiss Schnee, it was a mixed reaction, but more of it was positive rather than negative.
"Well, It was nice talking with you Raven, now watch as I show the world exactly what Kai Matsuoka is made of!" He exclaimed as he backed up toward the now open gate that he sensed open up.
"Now let's hear it for our most recent record holder! Kai Matsuoka!"
Raven chuckled once as she saw Kai turn around and run into the arena, and then blew up into full-blown laughter when the gate closed off behind him.
She cut the portal into the air a second later, though not one to her tribe, but one to her brother.
She had to have a talk with him after this discovery.
So… that's him, the blind huntsman in training in the flesh. Weiss thought as she observed the boy with the white blindfold run into the center of the arena, stopping just before her with a friendly grin on his face. She nodded at him in acknowledgment, but she got no reaction out of him. Oh right… he's blind.
"I am Weiss Schnee, for your sake, I hope you don't hold back on me because of my heritage." She greeted.
Kai tilted his head in confusion. "Why would I do that?" He asked. "To hold back on a stage like this would be an insult to my opponent, I only hope you won't hold back on me because of the fact that I am blind, but you already seem smart enough to know that." He retorted with the same friendly grin, she couldn't sense any sarcasm or hostility in his words, which was surprising because of his half-Faunus heritage, she was expecting much worse from him.
Weiss was taken aback by his words, and a small smile curled up from the corner of her lips. She liked that when people didn't care about her heritage. "Then we are in mutual agreement." She held out her hand, Kai sensed the displacement in the air in front of his body and assumed it was a handshake. After a lot of practice with his friends, he is now able to sense handshake offers in his vicinity… it was progressing at least. "Let us give it our all, Kai Matsuoka." She said as they shook hands.
Kai simply nodded at her, and when the announcer called for it, they moved back to their respective sides of the arena. He couldn't sense any change in the environment, so it must mean that the stage was just how it was before, he slid his sword out of its sheath, and got into his stance. He then sensed his opponent do the same from across the arena. He got more serious as the countdown started, entering Focus Mode and relaxing his already warmed up muscles to ready himself for the opening attack.
Weiss didn't show it, at least not visibly, but she was actually pretty nervous, after witnessing this blind boy pull off a feat countless others have failed at on his first try, it was a little polarizing standing across from him. Ready for combat. After his match ended, Winter herself was even surprised, and her little brother was just in pure awe at the display of such skill. She wouldn't be making the same mistake as the two fools made against him, she was going to start this match completely serious. He earned enough of her respect for that.
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2…
1…
"BEGIN!"
Weiss immediately shot off her back foot, and with great speed lunged at him with her rapier aimed at his chest.
Fast! Kai thought as he barely sensed her in time to dodge the attack, although the blade just grazed him. He ducks under with a spin and tried to sweep her legs out from under her. But she jumped over his feet and parried his follow-up attack, and punishing him with a piercing riposte.
Kai moved with the momentum, and spun with his body, blasting air with his feet to give himself some distance while also doing a small amount of damage to his opponent. As soon as he landed on his feet, he sensed Weiss lunging at him again. Just as he predicted.
This time, he met the tip of Myrtenaster with Silver Protector and perfectly parried the attack. Leaving her body wide open for a riposte of his own. She gasped lightly when she realized that she doesn't have any time to react, and with speed betraying that of what a blind person should ever be capable of, slashed her across the chest, taking a chunk of her aura with it.
She spun with the attack twice, and skidded to a stop, only to narrowly dodge a slab of stone that would have hit her in the face if she hadn't reacted in time. What? Stone and air? She did her research on him, admittedly it probably wasn't a very sportsmanlike thing to do, but she couldn't help herself. She just thought that having two semblances was impossible. She would have to be careful with her dust usage in this bout.
She spun the dial on her weapon and stopped it on a yellow piece of shock dust. She elegantly prepared the attack and shot a yellow lightning bolt in his direction. It didn't seem like he was ready for it if him taking it directly in the shoulder was anything to go by, she took the opening while she had it, and lunged at him while the opportunity presented itself.
Kai was forced to block her blade this time, but she didn't let up. He was forced on the defensive when his opponent kept stabbing and slashing at him while doing elegant movements that he was not used to sensing at all. His arms had to surpass their own speed in order to match her own, in just a few seconds. Their blades clashed together twenty-seven times, and he only let three others in.
It's only been barely half a minute so far, and yet it already felt like twenty to them. Kai put his sensing into overdrive in order to keep up with it, his eyes pointed downward as he fought with Weiss. His insane physical training regime showed itself, and it was clear that if they kept fighting like this, she would be the one who got tired and slower first.
Weiss realized this, and when she lost her balance and was pushed away by a blast of air, she ended up being on the defensive this time before she could come up with a different strategy. Kai launched himself at her with his back foot, the pressure from his pure strength cracking the tiles, her smaller blade wasn't able to hold up against his much bigger and heavier one, and vibrated heavily when Weiss tried to parry, it nearly fell out of her hand just because of the force.
How is he so strong!? Weiss screamed in her mind as she weaved her head away from a high attack. And fast! She thought as she dodged to the best of her ability. He had momentum going, and that wasn't good for her. She kept being pushed back further and further toward the out of bounds line, and it wasn't going to be long before she would have no more room to back up.
She gritted her teeth as she kicked her foot out, and stopped his in its tracks. His leg was much stronger than hers, but with the positioning and the location of where she kicked, he lost his balance and wildly missed his next attack.
Weiss spun to his side, and jabbed the tip of Myrtenaster into his side, his aura is the only thing preventing the blade from piercing through his body, and a chunk of aura going with it.
Kai winced at the pain that ran throughout his side, but he held strong and tried to counter-attack her anyways. Though it was probably a much better idea to actually take a moment to sense where she was before he did that because she was nowhere near his blade when he lashed out and it was too late for him to realize that she was further away, and her sword was already stabbed into the ground.
"Hah!" Weiss yelled out as a sheet of ice accelerated his way, he sensed the cool air come his way and didn't know what was happening until his feet slid against the ice and he landed on his belly.
Ice! He realized as he felt the moisture of the ice be absorbed into his clothes.
Weiss charged at him, using a sheet of ice as a means of transportation in order to get him while he was down, but what she wasn't expecting was for her own ice to rip off of the ground and completely block her path. She couldn't stop herself in time, and she ended up crashing right into it.
Kai shoulder charged through the ice a second later and drove his shoulder into the midsection of his opponent. Then with a combination of air and flames that he absorbed from the device Ruby invented for him, blasted it out of his palm right after, landing a direct hit unto Weiss.
Out of a plume of black smoke, Weiss rolled out of the smoke screen and continued to roll on the ground with a few bounces along the way. Each bounce taking another percent out of her already low aura after tanking that blast head on combined with a shoulder charge. She glanced at the aura meter and noted that she was now at 39% while her opponent was at 70% aura.
He had almost double of her own aura… that was unacceptable.
This is unacceptable… for a Schnee to be down this far… I have not perfected this ability of mine but now is as good as time as any to try it.
Weiss held her rapier up to her face and focused hard. A glyph in the shape of a clock with Roman numerals appeared beneath her, and just as Kai was about to slash her blade into her shoulder, it slowed down to a crawl, his blade moving a few millimeters a second.
Time dilation, a trump card she was saving for later on in the tournament. She was intending to use this ability of her semblance on Pyrrha Nikos, but if she didn't use it now, she was going to lose… in the second round of the tournament no less.
It took a tremendous amount of strain on her body, but she managed it. First, she backs up away from Kai's sword, because if it touched her, it would still have the full force behind it, and even if that wasn't the case, she wasn't willing to test that theory out.
His sword slammed into the ground, sending a slow-moving shockwave toward her as she created a sphere of glyphs all around him. She then gave herself a speed glyph and combined with the slowed down time, not even a trained eye could see her movements.
Kai didn't know what happened, first, he sensed Weiss in one place, and now she was moving at speeds much too fast for him to keep up with. He then got slashed behind his thigh, and before he could fully sense where she was next, he already took two more attacks into his back and shoulder. He was frantically sensing around, but he couldn't get a bead on her. Then he took a barrage of attacks, about fifteen at least, all coming one after another, and it didn't stop.
This speed…! Is this her semblance!? He wondered as he did his best to defend himself. But his aura was draining fast, he could feel it draining with a hit that landed on him.
"Uh oh! A few more of those and his aura will drop into the red!" The commentator announced.
"NO!" Kai screamed defiantly, releasing an instantaneous blast of air in a three-sixty sphere.
Even with time slowed and with a speed glyph, Weiss couldn't defend against an attack that had such a wide range of effect. She lost her focus and was blasted away, time returning back to normal speeds for her, she landed on her feet, and panted heavily.
Kai breathed heavily as well, he was getting winded now, an instantaneous spherical blast of air like that took a lot out of him when he didn't charge it up at all, and not only that, since it was not charged up at all, it had no destructive force behind it. It was only enough to just knock someone off balance, or like in Weiss' case, out of the air.
But he couldn't let up now, he could sense her breathing heavily, and her heart beating so fast it felt like she was exhausted. Much like him, it seemed like her last attack also took a lot out of her.
He still had one major advantage over her though, even though they were both tired and very low on aura now, he was much more physically fit. He still had some stamina to spare, he just couldn't afford to use his semblance anymore, and neither could she.
Kai ran at her, Silver Ebony shining in the sunlight, and even radiating light of its own. He felt it grow in his hand, so much so that he had to wield it with both of his hands in order to adjust to its new size and weight. The blade shined a silver light as he slashed at the air in front of him in the direction of where he sensed his opponent, and out came a silver sonic wave that sped towards her at an incredible speed.
Weiss saw the blast coming, but it was moving too fast. She tried to block it, but her thin blade wasn't nearly enough to block the entirety of this sudden new attack.
Kai didn't even know what he did, he just felt something within himself that told him to slash much earlier than he really should have. He felt something fire out of the blade, even though it had no such mechanisms to hold dust, and then afterward it felt warm.
He didn't see it, but it was an attack of pure white light, one that dipped his opponents below the red, and won him the match.
Weiss winced as she held her stomach in pain, her weapon so hot that she was forced to drop it lest she burns her hand. She heard the announcement of her defeat, but the burning pain in her hand was too much for her to give any acknowledgment to the crowd. Tears stung at the corner of her eyes as she held her burned hand, her aura was too low to fully defend against that light attack and combined with the shame of losing so early on in the tournament when she even got by through the first round. She was about to break down on the spot.
That was the case at least before she felt a soothing liquid envelope around her burned hand. She cracked her eyes open to see Kai's hands around her injured hand, blue shiny water surrounding his hands, she looked up at his face, but it was aimed in the wrong direction, aimed past her head rather than toward her face. She may have been angry at him for injuring her, but when the pain in her burned hand completed faded away, she didn't yank them away from him.
"I sensed that you were in pain, I didn't really know what it was until I thought about how hot my own sword was. Then I realized that you must have had it a lot worse than I did." Kai explained with a nervous smile, his tail moving to wrap around his waist again. "This is a trick that my dad used on me when I got hurt when I was younger, I don't really know how it works… but I am using the water from the melted ice from earlier in order to heal your hand… I'm sorry for hurting you." He said with shame in his voice, he really felt guilty for her.
"It's… fine." Weiss said, resisting the urge to berate him about how to properly control your own strength. "I will forgive you this time, but only because you healed my hand!" She exclaimed, yanking her now healed hand out of the water and pointing it at him.
Out of surprise, Kai dropped the water onto their feet. Weiss' eyes widened slightly as she realized that her very expensive combat boots have just been doused in water.
Her eye twitched, and Kai gulped when he felt a vibe of completely terror wash over him. He felt like if he could see at this moment, he would be even more terrified.
He was right to fear her, and he realized why that was the case when she started yelling at him.
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Malikai was astonished, he couldn't stop thinking about what he just saw his own son do. That sonic wave of light was something that even he couldn't master, and he had Silver Ebony longer then his son has been alive. He was excited that his son won the match, but he was in complete awe when he saw him use an attack like that.
It was an attack that only silver-eyed warriors could use.
It was possible for Kai to use his eyes, even though he was blind.
"Hehe… you surprise me every damn day kid." He said as he clapped along with his wife.
WOW, that was a long one, I decided to make this one extra long as a way to celebrate new years, and so, here is my late Christmas gift to you all! A 12k+ plus word chapter! It took so much effort in order to make something like this and to come up with everything, so I hope that you all enjoyed it!
And yes, Kai does have a crush on one of the girls, and yes, that is going to be a secret. Take your guess! Though, after this one, I think I already know what you guys are going to think. Just know that that person in your head, is the wrong answer.
I don't really have much else to say, but this will be the first chapter that I will be having an editor look at, I may do it again if the response for this chapter is good. It depends on the feedback really.
Thank you to the one who edited this chapter! Travis was the name!
I'll make a short next chapter, and trust me, you guys are going to love it.
Please review and let me know what you think of this chapter!
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