Chapter 11: Going for a walk.
"You have Silver eyes?"
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Umm hum...What?
"Umm No I don't... I have White-eyes."
I mean if you look at it from a distance and have the lights of the room off, maybe but... Yea... No.
"And you can see?"
Ok, there it is. I was wondering if he was going to skip that but I guess not.
"Yea, I can see. What does it matter if I have silver or white eyes?"
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"...Nothing kid, Just nothing."
That sounds ominous, but then again people always go for the 'oh he's blind'. I have never had someone say my eyes were Silver. I mean I can't blame them it's kind of hard to tell the difference.
I felt like something about that was important.
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"Soooo. you needed something?"
"...Right. Well, I got good news and bad news."
Oh, one of these, I always like these.
"Ok give me the bad news first."
"You sure?"
I just nod " I rather have good news in the end right."
"Hmm... Alright, so the bad news is that your mother has the last word in all of this since she is the parent to you. This was the reason they didn't let you sign in."
"So how is that bad news?"
"Well, she needs to go talk to the headmaster because he's the organizer of the tournament and he sends all the information to the staff. But right now, no one knows where he is."
"Can't you do it?"
"I'm just security here, I have no power in that."
"Great."
"Don't worry sweet heart. I'm sure the headmaster will turn up soon."
'I hope so. I still got that feeling in my heart about him. But that doesn't matter I guess.'
"So what's the good news then?"
"The good news is that the first matches are over." He goes to a TV and turns it on.
"And with that! The First day of the tournament has ended come back tomorrow for the next round of the tournament. But now we are going to find out, who they would face against each other for tomorrow!"
Soon the screen changed, and we saw pictures of all the remaining fighters getting shuffled around getting paired off with one another.
'Eh, I could care less now. I already decided that I'm out so who cares who my opponent is. Pyrrha on the other hand.
I looked around trying to find her picture and to my surprise, I was upset with the results.
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Next to her picture... Was mine.
I was her opponent for the next round.
"Seth, are you ok?" My mother asked worryingly.
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This was just not my day.
As the day passed, I just stay in bed in the medical room with not much I could do.
My mom went to go find the headmaster to tell him that I was out for the next round. The drunk just left after telling me both bad news, and said something about 'making a call', eh I could care less. And me, well right now I'm just tapping at my heart and hearing the drum beat that keeps coming out of me.
The one good thing about all of this was all the pain I had in my back and arms was now gone. The wonderful world with Aura.
It's funny how Aura really works. It can heal any outside damage in a blink of an eye. Any cuts, bruises, and any outside damages around the body. But when It comes to internal damage it can depend on the situation of the person. For me who has two broken tibias and just unlocked his Aura this will take its time from what I know maybe a good two months. rather than the whole four to six.
'Man, ever since coming to Mistral I had nothing but bad luck. Nothing has been going my way at all. Problem after problem.'
sigh... Well, it can't get any worse right?
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Seth it's me Pyrrha may I come in?"
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'Why do I say things!'
"Yea, It's open!"
Dumbass, the door is always open.
The door opens and in comes Pyrrha smiling.
"Hey, how are things? Umm, how did you know I was here?"
"Good. Your mom told me, I saw her at the entrance of the school. Said something about 'trying to find the headmaster'. But seeing you in like this makes me wonder if you will be ready for tomorrow?"
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"Is something wrong?"
I guess my mom hadn't told her. Great Im the one who has to tell her now.
"Seth?"
"Yea, everything is alright. Ehe."
What do you mean 'Ehe'?!
"You can tell me, Seth we're friends right?"
You are really not helping right now.
"I know! Just wondering what I'm going to use for a weapon for the next round."
"Don't you have your sword? Wait why did you use a chair in your fight?"
"Oh that well. Did a man go to check on your equipment?"
"Yes... He said something about some guy throwing dynamite at fighters."
"Yea... Well, he kind off broke my sword when I gave it to him."
"Really?"
Oh, you have no idea Pyrrha.
"Yea, swung it around and 'snap' broke it in half. So I had to improvise on the spot."
"Oh.. that's... nice"
No its not. I think the worst part of it all was me going into the fight without Aura. My sword breaking was something I could deal with. Then again, me going in without a weapon and Aura would have made my chances of surviving really low.
"So what are you planning on doing? Are you going to get a replacement or going without one?"
Well, here we go. I need to tell her now.
sigh..."Pyrrha...I won't be-
KNOCK! KNOCK!
CAN PEOPLE STOP KNOCKING AT MY DOOR!
"It's open!"
Dumbass! it's always open!
I quickly put on my glasses.
And in walks in
"Bolin?"
"Hey finally found you. Man to think this place is big! Huh, people can get lost if you don't know where to go."
"Uh yea, I know that. So what's up? how are you feeling?"
"Good! My head is getting better but I'll live. You on the other hand look to be alright."
Outside oh yea 100%. Inside 50% upper body is alright, but my lower body still feels a little numb.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine. If anything I can't say the same about the chair."
Cough!
I look to the right of me and see Pyrrha just standing there 'menacingly.'
"Oh right, Pyrrha this is Bolin, Boling Pyrrha. She is my friend and my opponent for the next round."
"Nice to meet you."
"Same as you."
Good, we're all friends now Yay!
"So what's your next plan now Seth?"
"My plan?"
"Yeah I mean you use a chair in the fight, and I don't think that was your weapon. So are you getting a new one or are you fighting with your hands?"
"I uhh"
"He is right Seth. You are going to need a weapon for tomorrow so why not take the opportunity right now to get one? It's still early so we might have time to go and get you a replacement."
I go and pick up my scroll and check the time. Yea, it's still seven at night, If we hurry we could.
No! Wait that's not what I can do, I'm out. I'm not fighting anymore.
"I..."
"Let's go Seth if we hurry now we can get to a shop. I know where they sell weapons, they close at nine so we got time."
Bolin, you are not helping right now I need to tell them I'm out.
"Seth let's go we can explore Mistral as well." Pyrrha grabs my hand and tries to pull me up.
Pyrrha your my friend! Don't encourage him!
"Wait...Wait...I..."
They both look at me, with confusion and anticipation on their faces.
'Come on just tell them, How hard is it.'
"I... I need to...Put on some pants."
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Oh My God...
"Ohhh I'm sorry!" Pyrrha lets go of my hand "I'll go wait outside." and with that, she left the room.
"Oh yea, I'll do the same." Bolin also leaves the room.
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sigh..."God, I'm fucking stupid sometimes."
I pull the blanket off my lower body and see that my legs are still bandaged up. So I roll my pants down to cover the bandages with them and try to do the next move.
See if I can stand.
"Ok, this can't be too hard."
I move my feet to see if they react.
They do.
"Ok, that's good."
I need to do this fast, just like ripping a bandage off you. But it's much worse.
Ok 1...2...3
Go!
I push myself off the bed and my feet touch the floor.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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And it's gone.
Huh, that was a quick shot of pain going straight to my body and now it's gone.
Man, you really got to love Aura.
ok, let's see if I can walk.
I try taking a step and to my surprise, it goes well but what I notice was a small glow of blue flickering over my lower body.
"Was that my Aura?"
'Wait what did mom say about that.'
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FLASHBACK
"Son if your Aura ever flares up, it means you are taking damage and it will break."
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Great.
"So I'm taking damage over time."
I need to get this over with quickly.
Mistral has a whole different type of vibe at night. For the most part, a lot of the buildings are lit up with beautiful neon color light and few have a more traditional appeal to the building. It's weird but it looks like a place I use to see a lot in my dreams.
For some reason, something is telling me I should be careful when I cross the streets here.
"Ok, the place I was talking about should be around the corner and I'm telling you this place has it all when it comes to weapons."
'I really hope so Bolin, I did not just walk for a good hour with broken legs to the middle of Mistral just for the shop to not have a sword.'
"Really hope so man." I just reply.
"Hey, Seth. Are you ok?"
I looked to my right to see Pyrrha just looking at me with concern.
No Pyrrha my legs are crying in pain and I'm just screaming on the inside.
"Yea, why do you ask."
"You look like you are not having a good time."
I'm not.
"I am! It's just there are too many people around me. You know I'm not good when it comes to that."
I feel like any bump to me and I will fall to the ground in pain. Any moment now it can happen.
"Yea. But don't worry we are at a safe place in Mistral, no one will do anything to us."
You might be right. But like my mom always said careful of your surroundings no matter where you are at. Also, I don't trust these people around us wearing purple, something is telling me they are bad news.
"By the way, Seth was there something you wanted to-"
"Hey, Guys over here!" I looked up and see Bolin waving to us pointing at the store next to him.
We walk up and saw the store and to my surprise, it looked small from the outside.
"Ye old Rift."
"Is this the place?"
"Yep, come on let's get inside." Bolin quickly enters
I look at Pyrrha
"You were saying Pyrrha?"
"Oh, nothing let's go inside."
Huh, that's weird.
The store itself was small but I did have weapons and lots of them. They had katanas, claymores, polearms, bows, and daggers from the look of it. But from what I saw, these are just normal original weapons nothing like the newer ones that we have seen at school. I think that explains the name of the shop.
"So what are you looking for Seth? A claymore, bow, or something fast like a dagger?"
"I think just a normal Iron sword would be best for me. That's what I had earlier and what I'm most comfortable with."
"I see... Well, I'll go ask the shopkeep and see what he got. If you want look around and see what else you like."
I don't want to look around I just want to find something to sit on. Damit at this point my Aura is going to break and I'm going to fall.
"Hey Seth look at this."
Why Pyrrha Why.
I move to her and see that she was holding a sword.
"What do you think? You said you needed a design for your sword right? How about this one?"
She show it to me and to be honest, it looks nice, however, it was a katana. Now don't get me wrong. Nothing wrong with them. It's just I feel like I see them around everywhere now that I don't think it's special anymore. At least change the style a bit. But this one right here, I feel like someone would say "My blade is yours."
"Looks nice, but I really don't like Katanas. I'll keep the decine in mind though."
"Have you decided on how it's going to look then?"
I have. Honestly, the design might look crazy too many, but for me, I think it's special. It will really make an 'Impact' on people. (Boooo!)
"Yea, But I still need to work on my Scabbard first, once that's done I'll take my time with the blade."
"Hey Seth come check this out!"
We both turn to Bolin at the front of the store.
"Yea, what's up?"
"Well good news and bad news"
Please at least have good news this time.
"Well, what's the good news?"
"Good news is that we got a sword for you."
Ok, that is good news at least, can't get any worse than that right?
"Ok, what's the bad news then?" I ask
"Bad news is that the shop doesn't have any iron swords. So the best he can do is a Katana."
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Son of a Bitch!
After getting the 'Sword' from the shop. I was at my limit of how long I can stand, any minute now my Aura can break and I will fall over. I need to think of something fast or else.
"Hey, how about we stop by that shop and get some food?"
Aw, Bolin you amazing son of a bitch.
"Yea... that would ...be great."
"Let's go."
We started walking to the shop and enter.
"Looks pretty empty. Should we go somewhere else?"
Nope! We got no time.
"It's fine. We just get food then we leave."
I rush to one of the tables and sit down.
Ahhhh! Thank you.
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I see both of my friends just looking at me wondering why I was in a rush.
"Come on guys the food won't order itself." I wave at them
With not much room to argue they just follow my lead and went to the table. Bolin sat in front of me and Pyrrha sat next to me.
Ahhh now hopefully my Aura regenerates itself enough for me to make it back to my room.
"Sooooo. Seth, you still owe me some questions."
I look at him with a questionable look.
"About?"
"How did you learn to move fast? And why did your mom start to sing when we fought? And why are you upset with the sword you got?"
Ok, that's too many questions heading my way, but he did find a place for me to relax so why not.
"Well to answer the first question, I learn from my Mom. And it's more like reacting fast rather than moving fast."
"Reacting? Really."
"Yea, let's just say my Mom is really, really fast when she fights. So, I had to learn to react fast to be able to fight with her. So all that training went into fighting one on one."
"Huh, that's nice I can see that it paid off in the end."
"Yea, you can say that. The sad thing is I'm not good when it comes to group fights or having to fight more than three or more people at a time. I can deal with two, but I need to focus, and that's kind of a pain."
I mean, I only trained against one person because that was all we could do. Once in Sanctum, I realize that Hunstman and Huntresses are to pair up in groups to help one another. So that could be a problem.
Then again Mom has been doing that for a long time now. I guess she doesn't need help. Or I don't think she wants to lose anyone close to her again.
"For your second question she...Well, she kind off read something that I wrote down and for some reason, she decided to use it at that moment, so don't ask me why."
"Well I'll say it was better than that joke you made." he smirk at that.
'This guy!'
"He has a point Seth that was pretty bad."
'Pyrrha you too!?'
"AHHH! It was one time and it won't happen again."
"It better not happen tomorrow when we fight."
"That's right! Are you two ready to fight tomorrow? Friend versus Friend how are you two feeling?"
I really need to tell them I'm not fighting. But after all this time I just couldn't. They took time out of their night just to help me find a weapon and now I'm going to tell them that it was a waste of time.
"Well..."
"I for once am excited for tomorrow. Seth and I have been friends ever since I move to Argus and we have been great friends ever since. I don't think I would have any friends If I never meet him."
"Yes, you would. If anything you would have made more friends If you didn't start talking to me."
Pyrrha just looked at me dead serious.
"Have you met my mother?"
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"You know what I take it back. I was the only one who had to deal with that woman's angry face the whole time."
Maybe Pyrrha would have made more friends if we never talked. If anything, I think her Mom would have stayed calmer if she never saw my mom. But then again, we were in the same class, so she would have found out about my last name sooner rather than later. Or worse met each other at school.
"Well, you did tell me you didn't care what she did to you."
"Pyrrha I was a kid back then I had no idea your mother wanted to send me away. But look at the bright side I think she opened up to me. I think?"
Well at least to me.
"Man, so you two have a history together huh?" Bolin smirked at that.
Pyrrha and I just looked at each other and back to Bolin and we both said.
"We don't want to be like our mother."
"Huh?"
Soon the waiter came by our table and took our order. Then I started to rant about how Katanas were everywhere nowadays. Let's just say, they started to see my point once we left the shop and saw that almost everyone was carrying one.
After getting our food and eating I had enough Aura to make it back to my medical room. I said my goodbye to Bolin, thanking him for the trip around Mistral. He's a chill dude, but he can talk a lot.
Once Pyrrha and I made it to the school grounds we went our separate ways. Both telling each other goodnight and to rest up for tomorrow.
At least the school was using the dorms for the competitors to rest, so that was a good thing on them.
Tomorrow. Yes, I was going to fight tomorrow. Made up my mind and there was no changing it now. I just need to think of a plan so Mom doesn't find out. But that's future me problem.
Surprisingly there was almost no one here. It was too perfect, act like I was in my room the whole time and no one was the wiser. Nothing could go wrong.
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Man, I hope I don't jinx myself now.
Once I reach my room I enter it and turn on the lights.
"Ahh perfect now to relax, and get ready for tomorrow."
"You sure about that kid?"
I quickly turn my body and threw a punch behind me. But it was caught by.
"Old man! What are you doing here?!" How did you get behind me like that?!
The damn drunk let go of my hand and started to walk to the other end of the room.
"Well, I came to check up on you on behalf of your mother. Said something like "Please tell my sweet heart that he needs to rest and I would deal with the headmaster tomorrow." He said holding in a laugh.
THIS GUY!
"Thanks"
He then started to walk towards me.
"But when I came to check on you you were gone and by the looked of it you went and did some shopping."
He went to reach for the sword but I quickly move it away from it. Not wanting him to break this one.
"Yea well. I had some friends to help me with that."
Sigh..." Kid you can't fight."
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"I know. Trust me I know, if this was any other person I would gladly just give up and not care about the rest. But this one I can't. I won't."
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"I need to do this old man I just need to."
I made a promise to her that we will face each other and I will make true of that promise.
"You know I can just tell your mom about this right?"
"I know you can. But you won't."
"Really what makes you so sure about it?"
"Cause I know what type of person you are."
"But you don't know me."
It's true I don't know you. Hell, I don't even know your name, but something is telling me that I do know you enough. It's weird. But for some reason, I trust him enough.
"I guess I just know who to trust then."
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sigh..."... Fine. But If she finds the headmaster before your fight and calls it off, then that's on you kid." He turns his back and heads to the door.
"Thanks, old man."
"The name Qrow kid... Don't forget it." and with that, he leaves the room.
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'Qrow?'
I close my eyes and see someone new appear in front of me. I see a girl, small, black hair with red tips and... Silver eyes.
When I open my eyes again. I walk to the bathroom and take off my sunglasses. I go to the mirror and looked at my eyes.
'What was so important about those eyes?'
Oh well, I need to rest, I'll deal with this tomorrow.
A/N: We doing another fight?! (Yes!) WHY! (To get better at them!) Son of a. You know what that's fine, We can call this the season finally or whatever. (That's the spirit!) If anything thank you for reading and hopefully we will see you next time. (Bye!)