Chapter 10 Bullying!... why!?
"You mean and correct me if I'm wrong," I said rubbing my temples as I tried to think about it. "You took on a known criminal, cornered him, met Miss Goodwitch, they escaped and by the end of it… she put you in an interrogation cell and blamed you for doing the right thing?"
"...Yes?"
"The fuck is wrong with this woman?" I asked leaning back and wondered what the hell? Who the hell tells someone from actively defending themselves that they did the wrong thing?
"I mean i get what you mean but she's-"
"Yang, if your defense for this woman is shes the headmistress and knows better, theres the fucking door cause that is bullshit, your sister was in her right to defend herself being told you are not is just… argh this is pissing me off too much to really thinking about it." To reiterate I let go of my fork that was bent out of shape to show my newfound annoyance.
"Woooow you're taking this pretty personally." Yang seemed to lean back as I just slowly turned to look at her.
"I'm fucking shocked that you aren't." I shook my head at this girl. "Your sister was told by an educator from a school that teaches to fight monsters that defending herself was the wrong thing to do, look I don't know the absolute full context but from what I hear this girl, my partner, your sister was wrongfully denied her right to defend herself because, it's wrong? Dangerous? Ruby's got a damn scythe under her cloak that girl is the danger."
"Aww shucks I didn't think you would notice," Ruby looked rather bashful and I stared at her for a second and let out a sigh.
"Ruby you are just… one in a million." I muttered with a shake of the head, looking up I finally saw Team JNPR had finally made themselves present as they all quietly sat down on the other end of the table, Nora the short one had been quick to start giving out a random account of her hunting grimm.
Something I quietly ignored as I focused on my own food, or I was but the telltale sound of metal scraping against ceramic made me frown.
Looking up towards the sound I saw the blonde, Jaune yeah that's his name, was just pushing his dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets around his plate in a clear fashion that he wasn't really eating but wasting time.
"You going to keep stirring or are you going to eat that?" I asked having had enough as the teen froze and let out a pathetic excuse for a chuckle, god I'm seeing some rather graphic flashbacks here.
"Uh I'm not hungry but you can have them." Jaung moved to push the plate but just as he pushed the plate I quickly grabbed it and lightly placed it back in front of him… ok lightly isn't exactly the right word.
"That's not what I was asking for, now are you going to eat or not?" I asked as the blonde looked at me with wide scared eyes.
"Ahem, uh Jaune ignoring the forceful approach," Scuse me Ms Redhead? "Are you alright?"
"Yeah Jaune, you seem a little… off you know?" Etu Ruby? Seriously, am I just going to be ignored here?
"What? Noooo I'm fine, nothings wrong with me at all." God the tone was so fake I could feel my Bullshit metre go off two hours ago.
"Hahahahaha!" Hearing a rather obnoxious laughter and I slowly turned to the other end of the cafeteria, oh that's Cardin… Feel like I owe him something violent to happen to him for some reason… but why?
"Cardin has been picking on you since the first week of school." That's sounding like a good reason to owe him violence but not exactly.
"Who? Cardin? Cardin Winchester? Naah, that guy's just a jokester." The Denial river is seemingly getting more residents by the second.
"He's a Bully." And heres Ruby coming in for the clutch with the cold hard truth but the Denial river is harder to pull people out of than you may think there girl.
"Oh please name one time he's "bullied me'." And there's Jaune doing the air quotes with his fingers.
Ruby seemingly or more like automatically turned her head to me as I quietly sat up straight and began retelling just a few exploits Cardin did against the Blonde teen.
"Well since you asked, the time he pushed your textbooks out of your hands which is rather basic and cliche, then there was the time he activated your shield and got it stuck in the doorway and then… well Ruby told me this but you were shoved into a rocket locker and shot off into the middle of the Emerald forest."
I paused for a second and watched as Jaune looked ready to push it all aside but then I quickly placed my hand on the table.
"Face it you blonde haired twit you are so far in denial that if you even try to make up with an excuse I will make what Cardin's done to you in the last month and a half look like a fucking vacation." With that I watched how Jaune twitched under my glare and I could see Ms Redhead look ready to lunge at me but suddenly our attention quickly shifted as we all heard pained yelling.
"Ow that hurts!" Seeing the girl with rabbit ear yell out my face settled into a frown as I was ready to make a joke but the way she looked as Cardin pulled and tugged at her told me otherwise.
"I told you they were real!" Cadrin exclaimed as he looked ready to let go but quickly pulled at her ear once again.
"Be right back." I said grabbing my plastic tray, I quickly moved around the table.
"Jackson, wait!" Ignoring Ruby's call I just started rolling my shoulders, readying myself for this. I saw the girl had finally managed to get free of Cardin's grip and moved away but stopped as she saw me walk right past her.
"Hey Cardin!" I yelled out as the bully turned away from his team to look at me with that smug expression on it's face, the same face it gave me the first time we met. "Ya mums a hoe!"
The insult caught Cardin for a second as his eyes widened and then after a beat he snarled as he got to his feet. I moved, slamming the flat side of the tray against his face, slapping him hard enough for the tray to immediately break and the bully to swing around and catch himself before hitting the table.
Not like it was going to help.
Reaching for the back of his head I pulled him back, kicked his leg out, and slammed his face into the table.
The force behind it caused the table to break and crack under the pressure.
Knowing his Aura had protected him from the brunt of my assault I quietly let go of his head and walked away.
"Consider this common courtesy to fix ya shit before I stop holding back next time." I warned as the teen quickly pushed himself up and out of the table, wood and splinters immediately falling off his rage filled face as he looked ready to charge at me.
But just as he was a purple glow washed over the table and it quickly repaired itself, turning to the source of the sorcery I saw Ms Goodwitch look rather annoyed, with her crop already waving around ready to be used or whatever it is she does with that thing.
"Mr Wine, you better have a good excuse for this assault or you will find yourself looking for a new Career path." Ms Goodwitch loudly exclaimed as all I did was just silently put my hands in my pockets.
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"Headmaster's office this instant." Leaving no room for argument she pointed her crop in the direction of the exit and I just quietly moved but not before leaving behind a little present as I span around and gave Cardin the Bird before quickly shoving my hand back into my pants and moving towards the exit where I knew I was going to get the "talking to" of this life time.
God I hate the sound of ticking clocks, it made me feel annoyed as the ticking sometimes got louder with each passing second.
Soooo being in the Headmaster's office wasn't exactly filling me with much positivity that this lecture I was receiving was going to end any time soon.
"MR Wine! Are you listening to me?" oh now I'm being addressed directly.
"Depends, you going to ignore my right for self defense or am I in danger of hurting others?" The sarcastic jab seemed to make the woman flinch, her eyes widened but quickly narrowed as she was ready to begin another tirade, but I wasn't having it. "Look Maam, I am not interested in listening to a teacher that cannot understand the difference between active assault and self defence. Seeing as your current track record is disregarding my team leader slash partner's right for self defence."
I watched as the woman's eyes widened in surprise and/or shock as something seemed to click.
"I will instead ask you to save us the time and give me my punishment."
The woman looked aghast, like she had just been slapped in the face with a rancid fact but was ready to automatically disregard it and go for the tough "scary" disciplinarian shtck.
"Ms Goodwitch I believe it would be best if I take over from here." A more calm voice quickly interjected and I turned to the owner of the office as he looked unimpressed, not like I cared, as I wasn't looking for his approval.
"Now Mr Wine, looking through you records-"
"Am I expelled?" I quickly interjected. Something Ms Goodwitch looked ready to explode about but stopped as Ozpin raised his hand, halting the woman from coming after me in a verbal assault.
"No, fortunately you are not to be expelled but your behaviour against Mr Winchester is unbecoming of a student of our school so you will effectively immediately be given a three day suspension which you will be spending working in the cafeteria. Following that you will be given two weeks of detention."
Hearing this I just gave a blunt nod before the older man told me to quickly leave as I will be messaged with further information of my punishment.
Once I was in the elevator I let out a tired sigh, god damn… Well suspension's nothing new with me.
Pulling out my scroll I quietly started tapping away at the screen, as I pulled up the group chat pleasantly called Team RWBY's Chatterbox.
JDH: I'm suspended people!
Sunrise Cracker: Damn sucks to be you
NinjasofLovefanatic: Well Cardin got what he deserved
NinjasofLovefanatic:…who changed my username again?
JDH:… Ruby did it!
CookieLover_69: I did not!
Sunrise Cracker: Ruby why is that your Nickname!?
CookieLover_69: What? I see everyone else had 69 thing… why is it a bad thing?
JDH: NO…. Well yes… you know what your sister can explain it
Darkness: there I changed my nickname back.
Sunrise Cracker: Woooooow can you get any more edgier?
XxX_AvatarofShadows_XxX: what are you talking about?
XxX_AvatarofShadows_XxX: Who changed it again!?
JDH: Guilty as not charged!
JDH: Besides I'll see you guys back at the dorm.
CookieLover_69: oh can you pick me up some cookies on the way back from the TSR?
JDH: The hell is the TSR?
Sunrise Cracker: Team Shared Room, the kitchen lounge thing, can you also get me a drink?
JDH: Get one yourself I'm busy waiting for this damn elevator to get the bottom
JDH:… whoops hold on forgot to press the ground button.
Sunrise Cracker: AHAHAHA LMAO YOU DUMBASS
JDH: Up yours Blondie, seeya later!
As soon as I put my scroll away the elevator pinged open at the ground floor, walking right out I loosely swing my arms up and stretched them right over my head, feeling how my shoulders cracked right into place, even when your spines been replaced it still doesn't rid the body of the creeks and cracks of stiffness.
I feel tempted to go to the gym and do some gymnastics in order to stretch out the unused muscles I have neglected.
"Um."
"Hm?" Turning my head I blinked when I saw a familiar rabbit eared girl standing a little ways away.
"I just wanted to say, you didn't have to do that for me." The girl said, looking at me with a broad frown on her face, while I just stared at her with a non-caring stare.
"Yeah… gonna be honest here… I didn't exactly do that for you, it was more of an excuse as such. Guy irked me in the wrong way from day one, and I just didn't bother with dealing with him until today." I spoke frankly. Sugar coating the obvious was not something I really wanted to do.
"Well you still did it and I just wanted to thank you even if it was dumb." The girl seemed to look down and I saw her fingers curl, someone is clearly frustrated.
"I'm not expelled or anything, more suspended than anything else." I said before I decided to walk off.
"Wait what? You're suspended!?" The girl yelled out as I heard footsteps and the girl moved around to stand in front of me. "That's… you're suspended because of me?"
"You are making a lot of assumptions here." I said with a raised eyebrow, as this girl just continued to stare, the guilt written plainly in her eyes.
"I'm not assuming anything… You're risking your career for me." She stated rather seriously. "Just one demerit on your record and that can affect whether or not you graduate, two makes it doubly hard and three… you may as well kiss whatever dreams you had of becoming a huntsman out to the curb."
I don't know why… no I do know why, her accent irks me, not in a bad way but it just did, and the way she was talking to me made it more irksome to say the least.
"Mind doing me a favour?" I asked, looking at the girl in the eye as she seemed to blink and slowly pull her head back in what I saw was a resemblance of fear. "Save your pity for the weak."
Walking past her I didn't give her a second to react fully until I saw her quickly stumble back out of my way.
Rolling my shoulders again, I continued to make my way towards the gym as I was still planning to get that workout out of the way.
Not like this whole suspension is going to be pure suffering or anything.
Chapter 10 end
Amvmaster: tis a short chapter, people! But with it sets up the new Jaundice arc, and if I am being honest here I kinda find this arc to be a little weak as it shifted the attention from Team RWBY to it's sister team, Team JNPR or to be exact Jaune and his insecurity of lying which lets be honest is kinda stupid.
The fact he didn't come in with the basic Know how of aura or how to use his weapon in the most basic of fashion is fucking Retarded but fuck me he was lucky enough to survive the initiation which in and of itself is a skill.
Now I'm going to stop here as this rant will just go on and on, and I have better things to do then explain the intricacies of luck being a skill n shit and how Jaune's own stupidity should've gotten him killed, so I'll just leave that to Jericho to explain… if they ever choose to do so in written form and not their usual verbal form.
JERICHO: The Jaundice arc had potential but it fell short and fell hard, and why was that simple we moved perspectives with no warning, no signs, and worse of to a team we almost forgot. Now, don't get me wrong, bullying is bad and shouldnt be tolerated, but set up, set up, set up, and don't give us the punch line without the foundation/hook. Sorry sorry ranting but TLDR: I honestly could have done with this arc because it feels contrived and forced. Plus who liked team JNPR anyways individually they were more then the whole of combined, and Also fuck Jaune
Amvmaster: also forget to mention I have a new Beta reader who's helping me out with the story, introducing Jackal!
Jackal: I am here now and I'm about to make it all of your problems. Stay tuned.