A/N: Boo Surprise chapter!
Chapter 35: Song, Wind & Fire
It's been a couple of weeks now and life at school has been interesting so far. Classes are somewhat boring but we are learning a lot more now. Everything so far has been great, the team has been working well together as we all are learning a lot about eachother and little by little have grown accustomed to having everyone around. So far, I think we are all terrific friends right now.
Sure we have our differences but I feel like we are getting better at understanding each other well, and what better way to understand each other than visiting Vale!
We all went out on Sunday and walked around Vale. We saw many nice locations and we did a lot of shopping for supplies that we needed. However, I didn't get all the dust that I wanted. Apparently, some of the stores were getting robbed and took most of the dust, so that sucked. With a low supply of Dust, I was only able to make a few grenades this time around. Oh well, I can manage.
It was a nice day overall and for the first time since being here, I didn't get too many headaches. There were a few when we passed the docks. But they were at least bearable this time around.
Team RWBY has also been... Good as well.
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Sigh... Okay, so this is what happend with Me and Weiss.
Three weeks ago.
"Weiss I'm sure we can talk about this!" I said to the girl who was chasing me and now had me corner.
"We shall. After you hold still, and let me stab you!" Weiss said as she rushed me with her weapon in hand.
Yep, that's me, you might be wondering how I got here.
After running out of class and passing a lot of students. I ended up getting cornered by her, how you may ask. Well, she created a giant wall of Ice infront of me and I slammed right on it making me fall to the ground. After that, I saw her walk towards me and soon enough, she went to attack... With her fucking rapier on hand!
I kept on dodging her attacks as she threw them. Honestly, I could easily deal with her, but one wrong move from me and I would be the bad guy in this situation. How you may ask? I don't know, but someone will somehow blame me for it. So I was not taking that risk now. As Weiss was about to strike again, her rapier began to glow black, making her stop her attack.
"Weiss!" We hear someone and suddenly Weiss gets pushed toward the ground in front of me, as Yang and Ruby try to hold her down.
"Off you two dolts!" Weiss said as she tried to get the two off her.
"No way." "We will after you calm down."
"Okay, fine I am calm." Weiss tells them as she begins to relax.
"That's a lie and you know it." I say out loud looking down at the three.
I see Weiss begin to move around again and see Ruby and Yang look at me with annoyance.
"Ehe. My bad." I said to them as I rubbed the back of my neck. I turn around and see the rest of my team and Blake, all standing with mixed reactions.
Nora had an upset face. Ren was mixed with shock and confusion. Jaune looked like he was surprised. Blake for some reason had an amuze face on her. And Pyrrha... Oh, she looked pissed off.
"It's fine guys, nothing to worry about." I tried to assure them that nothing was wrong but soon we heard Miss Goodwitch's voice.
"Miss Schnee and Mister Sapphire, in my office Now!" She said to us and waved some type of Crop, lifting both Me and Weiss in the air. Soon we begin to get carried away by Miss Goodwitch.
I wave to the group. "I have been chosen! Farewell, my friends, I go on to a better place."
"Oh shut your mouth, you idiot!" Weiss said to me as she kicked me in the back.
"OW!"
Miss Goodwitch split us apart even more as we headed down to her office. Once inside she placed us both down on a chair and told us to sit still.
I was fully expected for Weiss to run towards me and begin to throw punches and I was ready for it too. However, she just sat there like she was the best student out of the two of us.
'What the hell is her problem? I swear I do not need another person on my case for this.'
"Now I understand that the two of you are not, on the greatest of terms with eachother. But may I remind you two that this is a school of Huntsman and Huntresses? Meaning that the two of you must work on each other's problems and move past it."
"I understand Miss Goodwitch. I will move past this problem as I see fit." Weiss informed her, trying to sound as proper as she was.
'What does that mean? Also, are we going to ignore the fact that she was trying to stab me here?'
"You are not out of the hook yet Miss Schnee. Attacking students outside of combat class is against school rules. No less with your own weapon. This is a serious issue here."
Yeah, it is.
"As punishment, you could be expelled from this school."
The look on Weiss's face tells the whole story, she was shocked by what she heard Miss Goodwitch say and quickly stood up from her chair.
"Miss Goodwitch please, I didn't mean to cause a scene like this, he put his hands on me during the fight and I was just-"
"Yeah, in a fight." I mumble to myself.
"Enough, my decision is made up and I will inform the headmaster about it. Also, the reason he put his hands on you was because the two of you were fighting. As unorthodox as the fight was."
"But!" I could see her eyes beginning to water at that. Damn to be kicked out of school in less than a week, I'm impressed. I turned my head and saw Weiss begin to sit down with her head down and begin to sniffle.
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Sigh... Curse my bleeding heart. I'll pity her. "Can't you just let this one slide?"
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Both just look at me one with a surprised look and the other with a shocked one.
"Excuse me? Do you not understand what she was trying to do here?"
I just shrug my shoulder. "I mean, to be completely honest here. I knew I wasn't in real danger. I could have handled her at any point."
"Excuse me?!" I heard Weiss say and I turn my head to her and mouth. "Shut the fuck up."
I turn back to Miss Goodwitch. "So yeah, just give her detention or something. I really don't care."
"Mister Sapphire, I understand what you are trying to do here but you need to understand this is a serious assault."
"Okay then give her a whole week. Look it hasn't even been a week at this school and you are set to expel her. Just give her a warning."
At least she will be given a chance. I don't want to be the reason why a team got disbanded. Especially if it's Ruby's team, they at least got to better terms with eachother from what I heard.
Miss Goodwitch leans back in her chair and removes her glasses while rubbing her head. I can tell she was thinking about it. Meanwhile, I could tell Weiss was looking back and forth between Me and her. After a minute, her decision was made.
"I will inform the headmaster about this, and see what he thinks about it. If Miss Schnee gets the chance then she will be in detention for the next month. You are free to go Miss Schnee. Mister Sapphire a word"
Weiss then began to stand and left the room leaving me and Miss Goodwitch alone.
'I hope I'm not in trouble now.'
"Mister Sapphire, it is school policy for students to not have any accessories in class. Can you explain to me why you are still wearing your sunglasses?"
You know when I said I would fight for my rights. I didn't mean it.
I removed my sunglasses while keeping my eyes closed, once I opened them I saw her reaction.
Shocked was all over her face, almost like she has seen a ghost, weird It's almost the same reaction as Qrow had. "You... You have-" I quickly cut her off.
"Before you ask. I'm not blind. I can see perfectly clearly, this is just how I was born. Born with White eyes."
It takes her a minute but she regains her composure. " I see, so why do you wear them?"
"I just wear them 'cause people tend to look at me a bunch, I don't like that people stare too much. Also at a young age, you can say kids tend to be real... Pieces of work. So I kind of felt subconscious about it. Now that I'm older I really don't care too much about it. Thanks to some friends."
"I see, so why wear them?"
I shrug again "It's my style."
I see her put back her glasses, stand up, and walk to the door. "Very well, I see there is no point to this unless a teacher tells you to remove them, you can keep them on. You won't be the first student here to be wearing something like this. So just listen to the teachers." I get up and put my sunglasses on.
"Thanks, Professor."
"Hmm, take care."
"You too." I leave the room and begin to walk to my room.
Huh, you know she is not that scary if you get on her good side. Well on the bright side, I can at least wear my sunglasses with no problem.
And I didn't need to fight anyone for it! Yeah!
"You!" I heard behind.
'You can not be serious right now.' I turned and saw Weiss beginning to walk toward me.
"For fuck sake we just finish talking in peace! Why!" She soon stops infront of me and I prepare for what she might do to me.
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"Tha... Than... Tann...I wis... Wish to..." Weiss kept repeating words without making sense.
'Is she having a stroke?'
"You good?"
She takes a deep breath and with her mouth shut, she tells me. "Shank you."
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I turned around and began to walk away from her.
"I am not dealing with this shit today."
"Thank you!" I stopped in my tracks and turned around to face her. There I see Weiss looking at the ground.
"Was that for me or the floor?"
"Don't push it." She walks past me as she begins to leave.
"Yeah, Yeah." Sigh... I blame Mom for raising me right.
After that, we all went our separate ways.
Sadly it wasn't far because we literally lived right next door to each other and we mostly had the same classes, so we did our best to avoid eachother. My team even decided to try to avoid team RWBY but I just told them it was fine. There was no need for that. Nora even suggested breaking one of Weiss's legs with her hammer.
A nice gesture but unnecessary.
Yet.
So Weiss and I just kept our distance from eachother and continued our life here in Beacon. Our teams did have a little bit of an iffy but that quickly past thanks to Ruby and Nora.
On the bright side, the headmaster still allowed Weiss to be in the school. But she did have to serve detention for the next two months. And have a meeting with professor (Doctor!) Okay, that's getting annoying!
With Doctor Oobleck, over anger management.
So that was a thing.
Oh, another thing. Pyrrha wanted to fight Weiss now. I tried to stop it... But... Yeah. Weiss really had a bad first week in school.
So here we are right now. In combat class watching the match between Nora and a member of Team GOTH.
The guy did his best and with his axe, he was holding his own. But Nora was on a whole nother level that with a few clean hits, The guy was down for the count.
"And that's the match. Mister Blanc, as well as you did, you need to keep moving unless you will get cornered by the opponent."
"Life is pain. Life is only pain." I felt that when he said that.
"Right... Miss Valkyrie as always nice work. However please keep the damage to a minimum next time. This is the fifth time I had to fix the ring."
"You got it teach." Nora said with a cheery demeanor knowing too well she would just do it again next time.
"Now we have time for a few more matches, Who else would like to participate." Miss Goodwitch looked around trying to see any volunteers and stopped when one student raised her hand.
"I will teach! And I would like to fight shades over there."
"Shades has a name! Thank you very much."
"Okay, I would like to fight Seth."
Sigh... Why am I not surprised? With what had happened with Weiss and Me, Yang shifted her focus on her team, so I didn't have to fight her. Up until recently now that our groups had gotten better. Now she decided to fight.
I got up from my seat and began to walk towards the locker to get ready, as I was walking there Yang also met up with me.
"Don't keep a girl waiting." She winks at me and begins to walk inside the girl's locker room.
"I swear three weeks in this school and now she decides to fight." I say to myself as I begin to change. "Well, what do I know about her? Her punches are strong, she gets angry really fast if you touch her hair, she also likes to tease people and for some reason, me and Pyrrha are her main targets. Honestly, if we didn't help her back then I feel like we would not be too friendly with each other." As I grab my weapon I place it on my back and begin to walk away. I don't take any grenades with me since I on;y have a few on hand. So I rather use them for actual Grimm.
'So avoid her punches and try not to touch her hair.' Simple enough.
Still, I might have a feeling what her semblance could be. Might need to test it out if I can.
Stepping inside the ring I begin to stretch while waiting for Yang to come out.
It took her seven minutes to come out. At that point, I was sitting on the ground singing to myself.
"Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September"
"Sorry to keep you waiting. But what can I say, I am worth the wait." Yang begins to step into the ring.
"It's fine, honestly I thought you got cold feet to fight." I said to her as I began to stand up.
"Me, get cold feet. Ha! I never back out from a fight. Especially one with you."
I roll my eyes at that, but thanks to my sunglasses she doesn't notice.
"As Miss Xiao-Long finally decided to show up. We may begin."
We both go to our respective positions and wait for Miss Goodwitch to give us the go. Meanwhile, our friends decided to give us some words of encouragement.
"Go Yang! You got this!" I heard Ruby cheer for her sister. Yang just looked up and gave her a thumbs up.
"You Got this Seth!" Now I heard Pyrrha also cheer as well. I look up and throw my thumbs up as well.
"Break his stupid face, Yang!" Weiss also cheered for Yang in her own way.
"Break her legs!" "Nora!" I laugh at that, oh those two will always be special.
As we both got to our position, I saw Yang begin to take a boxer stance. Meanwhile, I took my weapon out and flipped it into a tonfa. I could fire at her, but at this point, it would be just a waste. Since everyone likes to dodge.
"Close combat Huh? That's fine, just make sure you know where those hands go."
"Please you're not the first person I had to throw hands with."
"Then I bet you are really good with your hands then?"
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"God damn it, Yang"
"If you two are finished." We heard Miss Goodwitch speak. "Then the match will begin." She began to tap on a tablet and soon our Aura levels were shown on the screen.
"Now then you two may begin."
The Buzzer was heard and I was about to rush in.
"Hey, Seth!" I stop in my tracks.
"Huh?"
"Play us a song."
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"Wait, you serious?"
Yang nods her head at me "Why not, I feel it will make the fight more interesting. So why not? Just play something good. Why not, I burn."
I mean I could play it, but... "I'll play a song, but sorry Yang." I raise my hand to my heart. "I don't do requests." I tap it.
Devil May Cry V OST - Silver Bullet (HQ Studio) - Casey Edwards
As the song began I began my rush at her.
"Not bad, let's see what you are made of Shades." She also ran towards me and we met in the middle of the ring, clashing with eachother.
"I hope you ready Seth, 'cause I'm bringing the heat!"
"Please Yang, Your about to be blown away."
I separated us by pushing us away and soon the fight was on.
Immediately as both fighters got close again, Yang began to launch punch after punch toward her opponent, as Seth simply blocked and parried all of Yang's attempts.
'Damn, she hits way harder than I thought, might need to dodge her at this point.' Seth raises Favillae to block more of Yang's punches and soon begins his own counterattack. Parring a punch Seth sends out kicks toward Yang's upper body making her now block.
As Yang began to get pushed back she was starting to smile more at the enthusiasm of the fight and with the music, it was really motivating her to keep going. Countering a kick From Seth she pushes his leg away and goes in for a punch to the face. However, Seth quickly raises Favillae and blocks the punch but gets sent back by the power of the punch.
"Ow." Seth kickflips up and aim Favillae at Yang beginning to shoot two shot. As Yang dodged the shots, she once again closes the distance between her and Seth and continued her assault.
"Come on Shades don't make me do all the work here." Yang teased as she blocked one of Seth's punches and threw one back at him.
"Fine, just don't be mad once you lose." Seth grabs Yang's hand as her punch gets close and pulls her in for a shoulder tackle. It made Yang go to the floor and Seth followed it up with a kick, but Yang blocked it and began to fire her weapon making Seth back away.
As Yang got back up she began to open fire at Seth, but he simply dodged all of the incoming fire that Yang was dishing out. Soon the fire stops and Seth turns to see Yang launch herself with the help of her weapon and head straigh for him.
Raising Favillae they both lock in place looking at each other face to face.
"Any reason you're not using your sword?"
"Any Reason you're not taking this fight seriously."
"Ha! You want me serious, fine!"
Yang pushes Seth away and delivers a combo of punches and kicks to Seth. As Seth tried to keep up, he began to back away from Yang as she continued her barrage of attacks. Not having much of a choice Seth aims his weapon sideways and shoots making him spin to avoid Yang's next punch. Having an opportunity, he sends a kick toward Yang, but she turns around and grabs it.
"Nice try!" Yang then grabs his leg with both hands and turns around making him follow and soon throws him to the other side of the ring.
"OOF!" Raising his head he sees Yang jump up and head directly toward Seth's body.
With quick reflexes, Seth rolled out the way and began to flare around on the floor. With some adjustments, he was able to deliver some kicks toward Yang making her back away and soon Seth got back on his feet and looked back at Yang.
"What's wrong can't keep up with these moves?"
"I'm just impressed, that's all."
"There's a reason why they call me the... You know what never mind." Not bringing that name back.
As I was running toward her the song that was playing ended.
'It's over, oh well. Focus on the fight then.' I tap my heart to stop the drumbeat and split my weapon apart.
As I began my strikes, Yang was now on the defensive, trying her best to avoid any incoming strike that I sent. She soon started to fire back after every punch making me also avoid her attacks as well.
Blocking and Parring the two combatants were beginning to enjoy the fight in their hands. Both were determined to win it.
As the fight continues on, Seth notices something about Yang. 'Her hair is glowing. Shit, something is about to happend.' Blocking the next punch, Seth Palm strikes Yang in her stomach making her slide back.
Yang brushes it off and takes out more ammo for her weapon. Seth also begins to reload his, knowing that this fight is far from over.
As both fighters looked at eachother a smirk appeared on Yang's face. "Okay Shades, show me a good time now." Yang launches herself toward Seth with the help of her weapon and sends a barrage of punches at him. Seth raises his weapons and begins to block all oncoming attacks that Yang delivers.
'Shit! Her punches are way stronger now.' Seth thought to himself as he raised his weapon to block more of Yang's attacks. 'Fuck these are the second worse punches I have received.' Dodgin her attacks, Seth soon started to counter more of Yang's punches, however, the more he hit back at her, the more it felt like Yang was hitting back but stronger.
Blocking another one of her punches, Seth soon felt his sword fly off his hand and fall outside the ring.
"Shit."
"My Win!" Yang went for the blow but Seth spun around her and grabbed her by her arm. With that chance he drives her toward the ground and wraps his arms around her neck, trying to choke her out.
'Hold it, no matter what hold it.'
As Yang struggles to get out of the hold she soon begins to slow down on her actions. 'It's working, just a little more an-'
"Ha...Har.." I could hear her say something in a low voice.
'Is she giving up?'
"Harder."
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'What!' I loosened my grip and felt my face turn red by her comment. "What."
I see her turn her face to me and smirk at me, "Got ya!" She then delivers an elbow to my face, making me let go of her, and as she turns around she delivers a strong punch to my face making me slide to the edge of the ring.
"What just happened?" Blake asked.
"Knowing Yang, she might have said something to throw Seth off."
"Yeah, Yang! Hit him again!" Weiss yelled at her teammate.
"That was a cheap move by her!" Nora said as she stood up from her seat.
"Nora it's a fight, anything can happend." Ren said as he tried to calm her down.
"You think it's over?" Jaune asked as he turned to his partner.
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"Pyrrha?"
"No... If anything this is just about to get interesting." She saw as Seth began to take off his sunglasses.
"Welp, sorry shades but it was the only way for me to get you off me. Don't take it personally." Yang said as she looked at the screen with their Aura levels.
"Huh, 55% to your 30% I will say this. This was fun." Yang soon turns to face the professor "Call the match teach?"
"I would but your opponent is still willing to fight."
"Huh?"
"Hey, Yang!" Yang heard her name behind her and as she turned, she saw Seth stand up and throw away his sunglasses to the side. Showing the whole combat class what he was hiding.
He then raises his fist up "I didn't hear no bell."
Seeing this, Yang was shocked, to say the least. But at last, she was happy to be able to continue this.
"I'm so glad I met you two." She whispers to herself as she also raises her fist up. "Alright, Seth! Let's end this." She begins to walk toward Seth. He also begins to walk to her.
"Let's Rock!" Seth slams a fist to his heart and soon a song begins to play.
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
As both got close Seth raised his fist toward Yang. Seeing this Yang as well raises her fist. As both got close, they both fist-bumped each other and soon the fight was on again.
As the two began to throw blows with many landing at each other, Yang started to notice a few things as they fought.
'Is he singing?'
"I'm the best around!"
'Huh, okay. Also, why is the wind picking up now?'
Landing a punch on his side, Seth counters it with a strike at Yang's upper body. Making her wince at the hit. As she continued to throw punches at Seth, he simply began to block them or dodge them as well as counter each punch Yang threw.
'Okay, his punches are actually starting to hurt. What the hell is going on?'
Yang soon began to wait for Seth to throw his punches to find a counter, but she started to have difficulty as he was beginning to move faster with each punch he threw.
Raising her arms to block the punches, Seth began to move around her trying to get an opening. His speed was becoming more noticeable as he kept on sending punches at Yang.
'Oh you are just full of surprises, aren't you.' Smiling at this Yang soon began to fire a pound Seth, knowing too well that she had this fight in the bag with her gauntlets.
However, with each shot she took, Seth was able to avoid it or to her surprise somehow able to make it explode before it hit him.
'Okay... Change of plans then.' Yang began to change her approach and began to send kicks toward Seth taking him by surprise. Taking the advantage Yang's hair began to glow yellow making her punches hurt even more.
With each punch she threw Seth was always able to dodge every punch she threw at him. With a few good dodges, he began to counter her attacks. Landing a few good punches on her face and body. And with one final punch he throws at her, she gets sent flying back.
Landing hard on the ring. Yang got up quickly and as she was about to rush back in...
Until she saw a small piece of her hair fall off.
With anger on her face, Yang's eyes soon turn Red and slam her first together to activate her semblance. "Your DEAD!" Yang rushed Seth with full force and Seth stood his ground ready to receive the blow.
As Yang threw a punch, Seth dodged it and went for his own punch. Connecting to Yang's face. With each punch he connected a small amount of wind was mixed with his punches and as he continued to sing the wind was beginning to grow stronger and stronger. That it was soon became noticeable. To everyone.
Even the Professor.
"I'm the best around! Nothing's gonna keep me to the ground"
"Stop singing! And Fight!" Yang angrily said as she kept trying to land a hit on him. Soon she went for a grab on Seth's scarf and pulled him in to deliver a few good punches to his face and stomach. Making his Aura flare.
Seth retaliated by grabbing Yang by her own scarf and delivering a few punches of his own. Also making her Aura flare as well.
As both students began to punch each other in the face wanting the other to give up. A buzzer was heard and both were about to send their final punch.
Yang's hair glowed bright as fire, as she threw her punch and Seth's whole body began to be covered with Wind as he threw his punch.
As both fists got close to each other faces, a purple glow stopped them.
"Students! The match is over!" Goodwitch proceeded to separate the two by sending them to each side of the ring. Making them land hard to the floor.
"Ow! She didn't have to throw us that hard." I said to myself as began to stand up. On the other side, I see as well as Yang also began to stand up. Tapping my heart again I stop the beat.
'Oh cool her eyes are back to normal.' I begin to walk to the center and - 'Wait, who won?' I turned to the screen and saw the results.
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"My win!"
Sigh... I turned and faced Yang. "Yeah, congrats on your win, Yang. It was close though." Looking back on the screen I see our Aura levels. Mine was 14% while Yang was at 18%
"It sure was, not gonna lie Shades, you had me at a tough spot there. It felt like I was going to lose once you started singing."
"Meh, what can I say. It motivates me."
"Now students. I am happy that the two of you are getting along, however, the next time the buzzer sounds. You two will stop. I was lucky enough to be able to stop the two of you before you delivered that final blow. So I will say again. Stop at the buzzer." She told the both of us and looked at us with a stern look.
"Right, sorry Miss G." Yang said while rubbing her arm.
"My bad." I said while rubbing my neck.
"Good, now you may all go to your respective teams." With that she lets us go. While she began to fix the ring that we damaged.
I begin to walk towards my Sunglasses and pick them up I notice they are a little crooked.
"Ah no! My sunglasses, oh mom is going to kill me!"
"Really, you are worried about that."
"You have no Idea Yang, my Mom is way worse than me. Hell even worse than Ice Queen over there."
"Hey!"
"Anyway, I might need to fix them soon." I placed them inside my jacket and began to pick up my weapon. As we began to walk toward our team I could hear people whisper about me. 'Yeah, Yeah, White-eyes and all of that. I swear people just mind your own-'.
I then heard Yang whisper to me. "So what was up with the wind."
"Huh?"
"The wind. Each time you hit me I felt it. So spill."
"Oh...ugh..."
Crap think Seth think! Gods! Give me a distraction!
"Seth! What was up with the wind!" I turned and saw Nora standing close as well, wondering about the wind as well.
'Fuckers! You were supposed to give me a distraction, not reinforcement!'
"Now students, we have just enough time for one more fight. Will anyone wish to fight as well?" Miss Goodwitch informed the class and soon I saw Jaune stand up.
"I will." To the surprise of everyone Jaune volunteers.
'Alright, Jaune! Now we are talking!'
"Very well, Would anyone like to fight Mister Arc?"
"I will!" Oh great...
The one that volunteered was none other than...
"Mister Winchester. Very well, both of you get your equipment."
Jaune stood up from his seat and walked past me. I can see it in his eyes that he was determined to fight for some reason. I took a seat next to Pyrrha and the rest. To my surprise, Yang also decided to sit with us. followed by Ruby, Blake, and Weiss.
"So where were we." I heard Yang start.
'Son of a bitch!'
Sigh... "That was... Dust, Yeah Wind dust that I put on my-"
"Oh please, that was no ordinary Dust that you used. Even someone like Ruby would have figured that out." Weiss chimes in destroying my only way to lie.
"Jeez thanks, Weiss." Ruby told Weiss.
"Oh! Are you lying to us, Seth? That's not nice to do~." Yang said as she leaned close to me. I scooted away from her and now I was sitting close to Pyrrha. I turned to apologize but also saw her beginning to lean close as well.
"Yes, Seth. What was all of that? I feel like I've seen that before... From your Mother. Also that time you fought Arslan. Are you hiding something from us? From me?"
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'I blame Yang for this... I just got to.'
"I... I... Hey, look! Jaune is getting ready to fight!"
We all turned and saw Jaune walk out with confidence, but from what I could tell his face was not. I don't know what's been up with him. But for the past three weeks, he's been struggling with almost all of his classes. This one especially. We all had our fair share of fights but we all have managed to win. But Jaune, man has been on a losing streak since the first week.
And all he's been doing is fighting the same guy over and over again.
Cardin... From what I can tell, he's a real asshole. Since the first week of school, he's been picking on everyone he sees fit. But Jaune has been his target as of late. Him and some of the Faunus students at this school.
Some of us tried to intervene, However, Blake said something to us that made us really think. "If you guys stick up for them, then they will hate you guys even more. And their problems will only get worse from there on."
She had a point with that. Cause I know that will happen eventually. It happened with Fiona and it happened with Marrow as well.
Sigh... People are just Assholes.
We all see him walk out with his armor and his head raised high. The arrogance of his was getting annoying fast.
"Come on Jaune you got this!" We heard Ruby yell at his friend and soon Nora joined as well. "Come on! Fearless leader!"
Right... Nora really likes to call him that now, ever since the time we went to Vale, and for some reason got involved with those club people again. I swear if I didn't know any better I should have burned that place when I got the chance. Oh well.
As the match began... Shit went downhill really fast for Jaune. Cardin was semi-skilled enough but he was strong enough to do some real damage to people. Especially to Jaune, even if he did have a shield, Jaune was not using it to his advantage, most of the time he blocked with his sword, and that's when he would tend to lose but now.
He was just wasting energy.
Took seven minutes for the match to almost finish and Jaune was on his last legs. His Aura levels were close to the red while his opponent was still Green.
As Jaune rush Cardin.
Cardin simply sidesteps him and swings his mace, hitting Jaune's shield and making him lose it in the progress.
"You can do it Jaune!" "Let's go! Let's Go!" "Stay calm and focus!" "Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!" We all did our best to cheer for him, hell even Ruby was cheering as well. "Keep fighting Jaune! Represent team JNPRS!"
With those words of encouragement, Jaune got up and charged Cardin with his sword. Only for Cardin to block the blow with his mace. As Jaune struggles to push forward, Cardin just stands there smiling at his opponent.
Soon he knees Jaune in his stomach and he goes down for the count for good. The buzzer rings and the match is over.
"Students as you can see. Mister Arc Aura has now dropped onto the red. In a tournament-style duel, this will indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and the official may call the match." Miss Goodwitch informed the class.
Honestly, she always said this to us after every combat class. Well, I don't blame her. Because soon the Vytal festival will come.
"Mister Arc, it's been weeks now please try to refer to your scroll during combat. Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it is appropriate to attack or when it is better to move to a more defensive strategy." As Miss Goodwitch teaches her lesson to Jaune. He just sat there looking at his scroll with a look of defeat.
"We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a beowolf now would we?" She then turns to the rest of the class "Remember everyone the Vytal Festival is only a few months away. It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale. So keep practicing." Turning my head I saw Team RWBY all practically excited about it. With Ruby, Yang, and hell even Weiss all happy, and Blake well... She looked excited as well. Facing my Team I also see Nora and Ren excited as well.
Well, more Nora than Ren but I could tell he was also excited as well. I turned to see Pyrrha's reaction but she was only looking at Jaune still on the floor.
"Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale." The bell rang and we all got up from our seats. As we were all walking I thought to myself.
'The Vytal festival in a few months, Oh I'm actually excited to be in it. I'm sure we will all be able to fight and... Wait, hold up.'
I soon stopped in my tracks.
"What's wrong Seth?"
"There's five of us." I turn to the team. "How will this work?"
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"That's a... Good question." Ren said as he also wondered as well. How will this work?
A/N: And We are done!
Thank you for reading this chapter I hope you enjoy it as well.
Thank you to Saber for the recommendation of the song.
To Enili: Love the song, and I think I know where I'm going to use it. However, it will take some time to get there.
Welp thank you for reading again and up next 'Everyone's favorite -'
(I swear if you make that joke!)
Fine, I won't see you all next time for... No Hero.