A/N: I did it! One more before the year ends!
Enjoy the LAST chapter of the year!
Chapter 40: After-school
Hey Mom, it has been a few weeks since the last message I sent you, but you could say that the team and I have been busy for the past few days. If I remember correctly the last time we talked, I said that we were having problems among the team. Well happy to inform you that it's already past us... For now. You could say we all had to learn to rely on each other and work more as a team, but for the most part, I think we made progress on that now. No more doing things on our own. Now we are helping each other more than ever before. Our leader has a big obstacle to overcome now, but I'm sure he will do it someday. School for the most part has been good as always. I think tomorrow the other students from different kingdoms will be arriving in Vale for the Vytal festival. So I guess it's going to be exciting to see some of my friends. By the way, thanks for giving Penny my number, even doe she blew up my phone the first day she got it. But other than that it's been fun having her here in Vale... Mom, I need to tell you something on a call, it's been bothering me. But that's for another time. Hope you are doing well and maybe I will visit over break soon. Take care, Bye!
"Come on Arc! Just a few more and you are done!" I tell Jaune this seeing him on the ground doing push-ups. It's been another week since we started to help him get better and progress has been going slow for the most part. I feel like physical training has been the most difficult part of this whole training course for us since Jaune is at a beginner level. But with the help of Nora, she has been pushing him to do more. And I mean MORE.
Like holy, I had never seen Nora's training regiment be this intense before. But gods I pray, I never do what she does. Even Mom had some pity on me.
The others have been helping him in their own ways, Ren opted to help Jaune with his studying as well as a few Aura techniques that he knows. Pyrrha decided to help him with his swordsman skill as well as her own subjects that she was good at. I, on the other hand, had helped him with Hand-to-hand combat and a few dust studies that I learned as well, mostly the type where you don't blow yourself up. Very important.
Other than that, Jaune does have a long way to go. But I could tell that this was already a bit of an improvement from before. Especially that first day of his training.
One week ago.
Outside in the Emerald Forest close to the school. We see team JNPRS stopping in a nice clearing with a bunch of trees surrounding them and none close to them. A group of four were all huddled up talking to each other while the last remaining teammates was waiting patiently for them to begin.
"Okay... So how should we do this?" Seth asked his team.
"I believe we should start with something simple, to get a feel for what he is capable." Ren said to the group.
"Okay, so don't send Nora first."
"Hey! I'm awesome. I'm sure I can wip Jaune Jaune into shape with a few of my exercise techniques." Nora said defending herself.
"Nora, I believe that your form of training is a little bit... Harsh for a beginner. The same thing could be said about me as well. Seth why don't you start us off and see how much he can take on." Pyrrha tells me as she looks back at me.
"Really, Me? I'm not sure... Mom wasn't too easy to deal with, she didn't start off slow in the beginning, but then she really picked off. What about you Ren?" I tell them.
"I will have to know what he can truly do first before we begin so for now, you will have to be first."
"Sigh... Fine. I guess I will, but you guys can't be mad at me for this." I tell them as we break from the huddle, and I walk up to Jaune seeing me step forward.
"Listen up, Runt! Today we're going to commence your intense training under me." I tell him in a serious tone.
I could see Jaune gulp in fear, but I toned it down just a bit. "Don't worry Jaune, I'm going to teach you the same way my Mom taught me. But more simpler." I finished and I began to walk toward him.
"Really? Well, that's good. So what will you have me do first?" He looks at me confused as I walk right next to him and place my hand on his shoulder.
"Simple. I'm going to throw you at that tree over there." I said as I pointed to a tree in the distance.
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He looks back at me and back at the tree. "Why?" He asked in fear. And I just smile at him.
Grabbing him by both shoulders I throw him towards the tree and hear him scream.
"Seth!" I hear Pyrrha scream at me and I turn to them and see Ren's shocked face, Nora's happy face, and Pyrrha's upset face.
"Don't worry... Everything will be fine. Mom did this to me when I was young and I didn't have Aura at the time. I'm sure he will be okay." I tell them and turn back to Jaune seeing him get closer to the tree. "Any minute now, his Aura will protect him and he will be-"
SPLAT!
"Oh Gods!" I said to myself as I saw Jaune face plant on the tree and slide down on it. I turn and see Ren covering his face, Nora covering her mouth and Pyrrha looking at me with a deadpan expression. "Maybe, we should have Nora. Do this first. To get a feel on what he can do... Nora, you're up."
"You got it!" We see Nora run to Jaune and see her pull Magnhild out of nowhere. "Wake up creampuff! Bench this, 765 reps!" She throws her weapon at Jaune who was still on the ground in pain. As the weapon lands on him he passes out.
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"This is going to be a loooooooong training session for us." I tell them and see them all agree to this.
"Well, we will at least do this as a team." Pyrrha said to us as she began to walk toward the two members.
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Jaune falls face-first to the ground in pain as he recovers on his arms. "Remind me again why I am doing one hundred push-ups."
"Helps you with your endurance. Remember a week ago you could only do twelve push-ups. Look at you now, twenty."
"Yeah, big improvement." Jaune said with a sarcastic tone.
"It's the little things first Jaune. We all started somewhere. But with the help of your Aura, your pain tends to vanish right quickly. Have you been following Ren's techniques?"
"I have, but they tend to be a little difficult for me."
"As they should, Aura is something that does take a long time to master."
"Didn't you break your legs and you still fought Pyrrha with the help of your Aura?" Jaune asked.
"Well, someone else told me about a technique. Anyone can do it, hell even you. Just focus on the part that hurts and push your Aura to that part." I see Jaune close his eyes and take a deep breath. For a few minutes, nothing happened and when he opened his eyes, he gave out a disappointed sigh.
"Nothing."
"Don't worry." I go to him and give him a hand. "When it happens, you will be surprised." He takes my hand and gets back up to his feet.
"So what's next?" I pulled out my scroll and saw it was almost seven. Another half hour and we should head back.
"We got thirty minutes left. How about some hand-to-hand combat?" I tell him and see him gulp in fear.
"Sure... Let's." Jaune said as he raised his fists.
"Alright... Lesson One."
"Aw Come on!"
"DODGE!"
He wasn't ready.
Entering our dorm room I am greeted by the rest of the team all laying down on their beds doing their own things. Ren, sitting on his bed reading a book that he borrowed from the library. Nora, lying on her bed listening to her music while also reading my notebook. And Pyrrha sitting on her bed brushing her hair. They all turn to us and see me helping Jaune into the room.
"Hand-to-hand combat?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yeah, he wasn't ready." I move Jaune to his bed and lay him down. I then move to my bed and lie down.
"How was it?" Nora asked,
"Progress, he finally made it to twenty push-ups, twenty-five sit-ups, and can now block more attacks from before. Aura wise... Well, we still need to work on that." As I said that I pulled out my scroll and saw that I got a new message.
"By the way, are you planning on doing something tomorrow?" I heard Pyrrha ask me.
"Maybe... Why?" I asked her as I continued to read the message that I had gotten.
"Ruby and Yang invited us to go to Vale tomorrow. Apparently, Weiss said that students from Vacuo should be arriving tomorrow. So they are going to explore a little bit of Vale. Also, because since Weiss has been in detention for the past two months here, she is taking the opportunity to explore it now."
"And they thought that inviting me also would be the best idea for her?" I tell her and see her reaction.
"Well, she did invite all of us."
"However, Nora and I will be busy tomorrow. Professor Peach asked us to help her with something." Ren said to us and we saw Nora stand up. "She promises us more Sap for the help!"
"Right, so we will be busy after school." Ren informed us.
"Huh? Alright, what about you Jaune?"
"Ugh... I'd rather take a break tomorrow. Since it's Friday I need to regain my strength for this weekend." Jaune said as he got up from his bed and walked toward the bathroom.
"Well... I guess I can go as well. But I need to meet up with someone as well tomorrow."
"That's great. But who are you meeting?" Pyrrha asked.
"Penny. She just texted me and asked to meet up tomorrow after class. So I can go with you guys and also meet up with her. She said she has something for me."
"Oh... That's fine." I heard Pyrrha's voice and it sounded down for some reason. I was going to ask what was wrong but I saw that she was already down in her bed. I turned and saw Ren's reaction, he simply just shrugged at me. However Nora on the other hand just shook her head at me, for some strange reason.
'The fuck did I do?' That's all I thought as I lay down in my bed. Sigh, too many problems these days that I just need to rest.
Not gonna lie... This was a big mistake on my part coming with them. For one, Weiss is giving me the death stare for just existing right now. Blake couldn't care less about me being here. Ruby looked so happy to have more people coming with them. Yang is being... Yang. And Pyrrha just had a neutral expression right now that I couldn't tell what she was thinking. We were all on an airship heading to the docks where Weiss wanted to go. From what they were telling us, Weiss wants to check on the other competitors.
"So tell us again why we are going to Vale on a Friday afternoon?" Blake asked.
"It's Vytal season. That means all of Vale is getting ready for the tournament that is happening soon." Weiss informed.
"Also, since Weiss has not yet visited Vale since she got in trouble. We thought to show her a few good places now." Yang told the rest of the group.
"Quiet you! But yes, I had to spend my time for the past two months inside Professor Oobleck's class. And I have yet to explore Vale at all. It's all thanks to that idiot." Weiss said as she pointed at me.
"Aw, you shouldn't have. But remember you are still here because you looked so sad when you thought you might get expelled." I retort at her and see her narrow her eyes at me while I just send her a smile.
"Can you two at least get along for the time being? This trip should at least be fun for us." Ruby told us. However, Weiss was not listening to a word she said.
"This trip would have been more enjoyable if you didn't bring him along."
"Would you have liked Jaune to come along then rather than me?" I questioned and she got quiet right away. "Thought so."
"Quiet you."
"Aw, shit here we go again."
"I think bringing both of them along was a mistake." Blake said to the rest of the other girls.
"Yep." "Hm." "Yeah, you might have a point Blake."
The whole ride was mostly us arguing with each other. I mean at least it wasn't boring for me, but I could tell the others were not enjoying it at all. Once we landed in Vale we made our way toward the docks. Vale streets were full of people. Some were just enjoying the city and its shops, while others were decorating the city. Some of the shops had discounts to sell and others were taking advantage of the people who were visiting.
Yep, same as every city that has a festival. Just like in Mistral.
"The Vytal festival! All this is absolutely wonderful." Weiss said with a cheery demeanor.
"I don't think I ever seen you smile this much Weiss... It's kinda weirding me out." Said Ruby.
I wanted to comment on that but I just held my tongue.
"How can you not smile? A festival dedicated for the cultures of the world. There will be dances, parades, a tournament. Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking." As Weiss finishes her little speech she begins to lead the way toward the docks while enjoying the view of the city.
"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." Yang told her.
"Quiet you." Weiss told Yand as she continued to lead the way. As we made it to the docks we saw a bunch of ships already docking and removing the cargo.
"Aw, this place smells like fish." Ruby commented as we were reaching the destination.
"I mean we are close to the sea Ruby, people do tend to sell a lot of that here."
"I like the smell." We all turn to Blake who has a dreamy expression on her face. Really out of character for her, but hey you learned something new every day.
"If what I heard was true, then students from Vacuo should be arriving by ship today. And as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemm duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom." Weiss said in a proper manner.
"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake told Pyrrha and I.
"Yeah, that figures." "It was easy to know her motives."
"Ugh. You can't prove that." Weiss argues.
"Yeah, we can. You have a pen and paper on you right now." I pointed it out seeing Weiss holding said things in her hand. She quickly puts them away and narrows her eyes at me again.
I felt my scroll beep and saw that it was a text from Penny.
"Hey guys I'll be right back. I made plans to meet with my friend now. So I'll be going, meet up with you guys later." I tell them as I begin to walk away.
"Oh sure Seth see you soon." Ruby at least said to me while the others were just paying attention to Weiss and her ships.
"Seth wait!" I turned and saw Pyrrha walk right behind me. "Let's go meet with Penny."
"Really? I thought you were going to hang out with them?" I question.
"I'm sure they will be fine without us. Let's go meet up with Penny. It has been a while since we last saw her. Let's go." With that, she begins to walk next to me as we both head down some street. As we were passing by some stores, we saw one that had their windows broken and police tape all around.
"Another shop that was hit." I said to her as we passed by it.
"There have been a lot of those since we arrived here in Vale. It's strange that this still be happening."
"Yeah, to think they would just send someone to deal with this already. But to have it still ongoing for the past two months now is insane." We turned another corner and saw Penny at the end of the street. "Penny!" I yell her name and wave at her, she turns and sees us. With a smile, she grabs a briefcase next to her and begins to walk close to us.
"Salutations Friend Seth." She places the briefcase down and goes in for a hug. That I prepare for, however, it's Penny.
"Ack!" I muffle trying to hold the pain. She eventually lets go and I drop to the floor. Penny then moves her attention to Pyrrha.
"Salutations as well Pyrrha Nikos. It is also good to see you as well."
"Good to see you too Penny. How are you." Pyrrha asked.
"Everything has been wonderful. My time here in Vale has also been amazing. I had explored almost every part of the city and got to see a bunch of nice places." As Penny finishes I get back up on my feet while stretching my back. I look at the two and see them continue to talk for a bit.
'Well, at least they are getting along, that's always good.' I shake my head ignoring an image that I just seen.
"So Penny, you said you needed to hand something to me?" I see her turn her attention to me and nod.
"Yes." She picks up the briefcase and hands it to me. "Here you go, Seth."
I take the briefcase from her and open it. As I open it, my eyes go wide and quickly close it.
"Penny... Tell me you didn't steal this?" I was praying that she didn't.
"No. Father was kind enough to have this sent to me after explaining why I needed it for. By the way, he also said 'Hi' to you Seth." As she finishes talking I see Pyrrha lean in, taking the briefcase away from me and open it. To her surprise, she also goes wide eye over what was in the briefcase.
"This is a lot of dust." Inside the briefcase was a bunch of cases of Dust mixed in together. All from Water, Fire, Gravity, hard light, and wind. The ones that I use the most. Closing it up she hands it back to me as I continue to rub my face in embarrassment.
"What's wrong?" Pyrrha asked.
"I didn't think she would do this. Let alone tell her father about my low supplies of Dust. You know how I feel about getting help like this."
"Is something wrong?" Penny asked me as I turned to her and smiled at her.
"No Penny, it's just you didn't have to. I am really thankful for this. But promise me that you would at least tell me that you were planning on calling your father about this." I see her look down at the ground and now I felt like an ass for saying this to her. "Thank you though."
"I promise to inform you the next time this happens Seth. I promise." She gives me a salute. I laugh at this as well as Pyrrha.
"So what's your plan now Penny? Cause we are here with a couple of-" I get cut off by someone pushing me to the side as well as Pyrrha. Making us both fall to the ground. Raising our heads we see a person with blonde hair and a tail running away.
"Watch where you're going you fool!" I yelled at the guy and as I got back up I could hear the person yell out. 'Sorry dudes!'
I went to help Pyrrha up who was also looking at the guy that ran. However, once again I get pushed to the ground. I quickly catch myself before falling on top of Pyrrha having our faces close to each other.
"Sorry." I quickly apologize to her as I back away to get back up and give her a hand.
"It's fine Seth." She takes it and I help her up. We both see the blonde-haired guy getting chased by two people wearing Black and White.
"What the hell was that?"
"No idea. But it looked like he was getting chased by those two. You think he's in trouble?"
"I hope. That guy bumped into us. So I bet he-"
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We both turned our heads and saw Weiss on top of Penny.
"Oh, they are here now."
"No! He got away." We heard Weiss yell as she looked onwards to the people behind us.
"Ugh... Weiss." Yang soon told her as she pointed at Penny who was still on the ground with a smile on her face. Seeing this Weiss quickly got up.
"Salutations!" Penny said as she told them, still on the ground.
"Uh, Hello." Ruby kindly said.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm wonderful. Thank you for asking." Penny said still on the ground.
"Penny." I go to her and help her up to her feet. "You good?"
"Yes. Everything is fine. Thank you for asking." Once again Penny told us. But this time Weiss also said.
"You just said that." Giving her a confused look.
"So I did."
"Where did you guys go? One minute you guys were behind us the next you two were gone." Yang looked at both Pyrrha and I.
"Oh, we came here to talk to Seth's friend here." Pyrrha answered.
"Salutations! My name is Penny it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Hi Penny, I'm Ruby." "I'm Weiss." "Blake." "Are you sure you didn't hit your head on the way-" Yang gets cut off by Blake bumping her in her arm. "I'm Yang."
"It's a pleasure to meet you."
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Team RWBY all looked at me giving me confused looks. Which I shrug off. "What can I say, she is my friend."
"This explains a lot now. Well, sorry for running into you." Weiss said as she began to turn around and walk away.
"You guys coming?" Yang told us.
"Nah, We were going to walk around for a bit with Penny here and see what we can do. You guys enjoy your fun here. I think it will be better like that." I said to them as I pointed at Weiss who was waiting for her team to follow.
"Oh, right. Well, we will see you guys later." Yang said as she also began to follow Weiss.
"Take care friend." With a final goodbye from Ruby, they began to walk away.
Seeing them leave I turn back to the others and see Penny with wide eyes and Pyrrha with a smile. "What?"
"Nothing. So what are we going to do now?" She asked.
"Hm, No idea. Any good hidden places around here Penny?" I turned to face her but she wasn't there. "Huh? Penny?" I looked around and saw that she was gone.
"What!?"
"How did she do that? She was right next to us?" Even Pyrrha question.
I turned around and saw Penny close to Ruby while the others were on the ground behind them.
"How? She was right next to us?" Penny is a scary one.
"I just blinked once and she was gone." Pyrrha also questions her logic in Penny. As we both walked towards them I saw Penny turn her head to us and smile.
"Seth, Wonderful news. I just made a new friend here." I turn to see Team RWBY just pointing at Ruby who also had a confused look on her face.
"Well, that's good." I then see Yang step next to me and ask me.
"You have some strange friends don't you shades?"
"Yeah, I do. But at least there all nice."
"True... And all girls."
"Huh?" What the hell does that mean? I got guy friends as well.
"Nothing... So Penny, what are you doing here in Vale?" Yang asked her.
"I'm here to fight in the tournament." Their reaction was all surprise at her revelation that it got Weiss to question it.
"Wait, your fighting in the tournament?
"I'm combat-ready."
"Forgive me but you hardly look the part."
"Said the girl wearing the dress." Blake retorted and that got me to laugh at that. Seeing Weiss take offense to it.
We then see Ruby back Weiss up, when she said it was a combat skirt. I wanted to say something, but then I remembered something that my mom told me a long time ago. So once again I kept my mouth shut.
"Trust me when I say this. Penny is really strong. She is the third strongest person I know."
"Who's the fourth?" I heard behind me Yang say this but her tone really changed for some reason. Something told me not to answer that question.
"Uuuuhhmmm..." I tried to ignore that question and prayed that someone would change the subject fast. Thankfully Weiss did.
"Wait a minute. If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed rapscallion?"
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Okay on second thought. Maybe having her step in on this was a big mistake on our part.
"The who?" Penny questioned.
"The filthy faunus from the boat." Weiss pulls out a really crappy drawing of what I assume was the person that bump into us. Holy shit, that is a really bad drawing.
Blake however took offense on this and began to argue with Weiss about the matter. The two of them both shared their opinions on the matter and both began to argue even louder, to the point that people were starting to look at us. Eventually, Blake walked away from us and began to head somewhere.
Weiss followed after her as she continued to talk.
The five of us all looked at each other and saw Ruby turn to Pyrrha and me. "I think we are going back to Beacon. Sorry about this trip guys."
We both shake our heads in understanding seeing them continue to argue.
"It's fine Ruby, don't worry about it." Pyrrha said as she looked at the two.
"Yeah, hope they get better." That's all I said as we all saw them walk away from us.
"Yeah, see you guys back in Beacon." Yang said as she went to follow her two other teammates, with Ruby soon tagging behind her sister. We all see them walk away from us as they begin to head back to the airship. Well, this could be a problem later on. Man, Weiss is always starting something with others for no reason.
I looked at the other two and saw Pyrrha with an upset face over what she just saw. Meanwhile, Penny just had a smile on her face.
"Sigh... Well, today doesn't feel like a good day huh?"
Pyrrha nods her head in agreement. Penny on the other hand.
"I believe this was a wonderful day. I got to see you two again and got to make new friends as well. I see this as an absolute win in my books." We both looked at her giving us a smile in response. I just laughed at that, eventually Pyrrha also joined in and we both gave a happy laugh making Penny confused. "What is funny?"
"Nothing Penny, Nothing." Pyrrha told her and she continued to laugh.
"What a nice day then. So what do you guys want to do now?" I asked them as I began to walk towards more into Vale.
But Penny pointed out something important.
"Seth, where is the briefcase?"
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I looked back at where it was left off and saw that it wasn't there. "Son of a Bitch!"
Pyrrha and I had a bunch of questions when Penny told us where the briefcase went.
Some of them included. How does she know that? Why does Penny know that? Why does the briefcase have a tracker? How does Penny know it had a tracker? Why are we entering a nightclub that we visited on the first day here? WHY ARE WE GETTING INTO A FIGHT WITH THESE PEOPLE AGAIN!?
So yeah, we did have a lot of questions right now. But those are questions for later. My only regret now is that I don't have my weapon on me today.
"Hey, Seth." I started by doing my best impression of Pyrrha and what she told me before we left the school. "Why not leave your weapon here? I'm sure we won't run into trouble while we are in Vale today. It's going to be the six of us after all. So please leave it behind and enjoy this trip." As I finished I heard Pyrrha groan at me for doing that.
"Okay, Seth I get it. I'm sorry." Pyrrha told me as the three of us looked at the guys in suits pointing their weapons at us.
You might ask yourself why we entered without a plan. Well, to be honest, we were following Penny here and we didn't pay too much attention to where we were going. It was already too late once we entered the building and saw where we were at.
So in a way that was on us.
"Pyrrha you think you can remove their weapons from their hands?" I whisper to her.
"I can try, but I need to raise my hand towards them so I can do it. I can't guarantee that it will work." Great so this could end badly for us. Unless... I turned to face Penny who had a confused look on her face.
"Why are they pointing weapons at us? Are they bad people?" Penny you sweet innocent child.
"Honestly Penny at this point I don't care too much about that. But I have a plan, and it's the same thing we did-." I get cut off by someone screaming at us from behind the guys.
"Wait! Stop! No one Shoot!" Walking towards us we see the boss of this place. The really tall guy that Yang punched out of this building. He stepped forward fixing his tie and looked at us confused.
"You two are back... Why?" Even he was confused as well, about why we were here.
"Would you believe us if we told you we got lost on our way home?" I joke, however, no one laughs.
"No. So spill the real reason why you guys are here again, after you destroyed most of this club." He crosses his arms at us.
"Okay to be honest here, that was the other girl." Don't want to give out Yang's name to these guys. "Second of all, all we did was fight two people... And you... To be honest here I'm just going to shut up now." I was not helping our case right now.
"We are sorry for the mess that our friend made back then. We are only here in search of something that belongs to my friend here." Pyrrha quickly got to the point as she always did.
For some reason, the guy just looked at her and soon his eyes widened.
Oh shit...
"Your Pyrrha Nikos. The four-time Mistrall Champion. HA, who would have thought that you of all people would come to a place like this? Wait until the news people hear about this." He began to laugh and soon his gang all joined in. Pyrrha soon backed away from them after hearing what they planned to do. I stepped in front of the tall guy and got right into his face. Or the best that I could reach.
"You laugh at her again. And I can promise you that my foot will be planted somewhere between your lungs and or colon. And that goes for everyone in this club!" I made a promise that I would burn this place to the ground if they ever bothered us again. I guess I can finally fulfill that promise today.
"Big talk coming from you kid. You don't even have your weapon on you." He smirked at that.
"I don't need a weapon to break some guy's legs today." I tell him as I crack my knuckles. We both just looked at each other narrowing our eyes. Sooner than later he backs away and laughs even more.
"You got guts kid, however, you are just as dumb as all the others." As he said this he began to walk back to the bar. He then turned to face us and motioned us to follow him.
I turn to face Pyrrha and Penny and see them all look confused as well.
"What do you think? It could be a trap." I tell them.
"If it is, I say we don't go." Pyrrha response
"But what about the Briefcase?" Penny asked.
"I can get another one Penny. I think our lives are more important than a few dust crystals. I say we leave then." We were about to go, but I felt someone grab both of my arms and begin to drag me. "Wait, Huh?"
"The boss doesn't like to wait." "So move your ass." I turned my head left and right and saw the people who were dragging me.
'Aw shit these two.' I tried to escape their grips, but the red one only tightened even more and the one wearing white also had a stronger grip as well. "Ah, fuck me." I said in a tired tone.
"Hmm, maybe." "You do have a nice face." I looked at the two with a shocked expression and with my mouth wide open.
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"Didn't I knock you out? You should be mad at me?" I tell the white twin this. However, she just looked at me and smiled, which freaked me out.
"What can I say... I'm into that." "She really is."
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"I need an adult."
"We are adults." They both said in unison.
'AHHHHHH!' I internally screamed and looked back at Penny and Pyrrha for help.
Back with the two, they just looked on as they saw Seth get dragged away more into the club.
"I had no idea Seth had more friends here." Penny asked.
"He doesn't." Pyrrha said to her as she began to walk towards them.
"If they are not his friends, what are they?" Penny asked as she also followed Pyrrha more inside the club.
"Harpies." That's all Pyrrha said as she got closer to Seth and the twins. She grabs ahold of Seth's jacket and pulls him close to her and away from the two.
As the two twins turn back to us. I see them flinch at the sight of Pyrrha looking at them. Looking at Pyrrha I also flinched at the look she was giving out. 'Why does she look like she wants to kill them? I don't think I've ever seen her this upset before.'
"We are leaving, now." Pyrrha said to them as she began to drag me away once more. As I get dragged away from them, we hear the boss again speak up.
"If you are leaving, then I guess you don't want this." We turned to him and saw him holding the briefcase that was stolen from us. "Now, how about we talk for a bit and -" He got cut off by Penny who appeared right before him.
"I believe that does not belong to you. I would kindly appreciate it if you return it to me." Penny reaches for the briefcase but is met with guns pointed at her. I quickly get to her and push her behind me.
"WAIT! I wouldn't do that if I were you." I tried to warn them. "If you think the blond hair was a pain. You guys are not ready for what she is going to do to this place." I really had to warn them, why you may ask? I don't want Penny to get in trouble for our behavior with these people.
The boss looks at Penny then back to me, then looks back at Penny then back to me, he looks at his men, then back to me. I felt like I knew where he was going with this, so I just walked up to him and sat down on a stool.
"Okay, so what do you want?" I tell him as he turns back to me(SonofA).
He places the briefcase down on the table in front of him. "What's your name kid?" He begins with a simple question. A question that could cause me a lot of problems if he knew my real name. However, since he already knew who Pyrrha was...
"Seth..." I tell him without giving him my last name. I feel like eventually he will figure it out but for now, I rather that not be the case.
"Why are you here?"
"For the case."
"What's so important about it?"
I feel like he would have opened it by now. "It has dust."
I see his eyes widen a bit, he reaches for the case, opens it and closes it right away. "So I'm guessing you're working for 'him'?"
'Him?' I thought to myself. "I... No? Who are you talking about?"
The guy rubs his face in annoyance as I see him reach under him, pulling out a glass and bottle. "Where did you get this much dust?"
He is really asking too many questions. "I got it from her." I said as I pointed at Penny, who in return waved at us. "My friend here got it for me. And someone here stole it!" I looked around, seeing a few of his men looking anywhere but us.
"You know there is a shortage of dust here in Vale right? With this much dust, I'm sure I can sell this at a high price."
"It's not yours."
"You can't prove that."
"I can." We both turn to Penny who is now sitting next to me. "The briefcase has a serial number inside of it. I can easily tell you those numbers and prove it is ours." We both look at her dumbfounded by this and the man looks at me.
"Who is this girl?"
I place a hand on Penny's shoulder. "Don't worry about her. Your talk is with me."
"And me as well." I turned to my other side and saw Pyrrha also sitting down next to us.
"And what will you two do? I'm sure the press will have a field day once they hear the news that little Miss Champion here came to a place like this."
"Yeah, a shady place that is filled with people with weapons. I'm sure they would take your side in all of this."
He takes a sip of his drink and slams it down on the table. "They will after they see the video of you kids smashing up the place. I can easily give this to the local news outlet and have you kids expelled from your school."
"What the fuck do you want from us?" I tell him now getting annoyed by him.
"A simple request, you help me and I will hand you your briefcase back."
Oh gods one of these, I looked to my side and saw Pyrrha shake her head in disagreement and I nodded to her.
"No deal." I get up from my seat and begin to walk away from him. I hear Pyrrha get up from her seat and walk away as well. However, one person still didn't follow. Turning my head back I see Penny still sitting there. "Penny let's leave now."
"But what about the case? He clearly said it's yours."
"Doesn't matter now, I don't care about that now."
"But I care. It's yours and I will not leave until he hands it back to us." She turns back to the man and stands up from her seat. "I would kindly ask this once more. Please return the case to me at once. It is not yours and I wish to have it back."
The man begins to laugh at that and soon everyone around him also laughs as well. Seeing Penny getting picked on like this really made me angry, so I began to walk toward them and reach into my jacket for a grenade.
"You guys are already messing with someone I care about and trust me when I say this. You are not the first group I'm going to beat to the ground. Those fuckers the spiders already made me hate people like you. So I hope you are ready, 'cause I'm bringing the mother fucking pain."
I see the boss look at me and raise his hand to stop me. "Hold up, did you say the spiders?"
"Figures you people know them. I bet you guys are all buddy-buddy with eachother."
"They murdered my father."
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"That's rough buddy."
"Meh, it was a good thing though. I run this business now and we don't have any problems. I also have to play babysitter for those two." He points to the side at the twins who were just looking back at us, well mostly at Pyrrha. "Tell you what kid. You can have your case back, but you never come back here again." He gave me a deal, one that I should take... But...
"No de-" I get my mouth covered by someone.
"Deal!" Pyrrha answers for me. "However tell your people to stop attacking us every time we come to Vale. It's getting annoying now." I tried to remove her hand out of my mouth but she kept her grip on it.
"Fine, I will see to it. Now get the hell out of here." He hands the briefcase to Penny who happily receives it and begins to walk back to us. As Pyrrha once again begins to drag me out of the club and into the streets of Vale.
"Damn kids." The owner said as he took another sip of his drink.
Once outside Pyrrha lets go of me and I can finally look back at her. "Why?"
"You were going to get into another fight with these people and we didn't have any sort of weapons on us."
"We had Penny."
"I am combat-ready."
"And what was Penny going to do?"
"Kick everyone's asses, while I curve stomp the Boss."
"Seth." She looks at me with a deadpan expression.
"Sigh... Fine, whatever. Let's just get out of here. It's already getting late now. Penny, we can walk you home."
"Thank you! By the way, here you go Seth." She hands me the briefcase and I take it from her. We all soon began to walk in the direction where Penny was staying. The walk was quiet, to say the least. Eventually, we made it to her place and said our goodbye for now. I promised her that we would again meet up next time. But for now, we just headed back home to Beacon.
Today was already a tiresome day.
As we were sitting on the last airship back to Beacon, we both sat there quietly not uttering a word to one another. I took a peak at Pyrrha and saw her facing the window. I took a deep breath before I began talking.
"I'm sorry."
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"I'm sorry for dragging you into another one of my attempts in fights and you having to drag me out of it again... I'm sorry, Pyrrha." I keep quiet just looking at the briefcase on the floor. This damn thing has caused too many problems today. I soon feel her head rest against my shoulder and I look back at her.
"You're an idiot." She tells me.
"Hm, I know."
"But, I know you mean well. I could tell you were ready to burn that place to the ground cause they were making fun of Penny."
"Yeah, I was." She laughs at that.
"You really need to stop doing that."
"Well, those people just know what buttons to push."
"I mean it, Seth. What was your plan back there? Have Penny deal with the others?"
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"Yeah?" She raised her head to look at me like I was crazy.
"You're making Penny sound like this unstoppable person." Cause she is unstoppable. I wanted to tell her but I still made that promise to Penny.
"Trust me on this, when she is ready, she will tell you Pyrrha. Have some faith in me."
She looks at me trying to find any sort of hint to my words, but she simply nods her head and agrees with me. The airship lands and we begin to walk out of it and head back to our dorm. As we made our way to the dorms Pyrrha stopped in her tracks, turning to face her I saw her facing towards the school.
"What's wrong?" I asked her.
"Is that... Blake?" I turned in the direction of where she was facing and saw Blake standing in front of the statue near the school.
"Yeah, why is she out this late? I hope she didn't get to upset with her team." We see her reach for her bow.
"I'm sure whatever they had; they will just push through it and... and..." Pyrrha's words don't leave her mouth cause of the sight in front of us. As Blake reaches for the bow on her head, we see her untie it and reveal a pair of black ears.
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"Holy shit dude."
A/N: Happy Holidays People enjoy your time!
And stay safe!
