Sorry for my bad English.
I wish my story focused on my OCs was so popular like this one but I know how just a little group of readers are interested in those types of stories. With that said, I quite surprise that has so many readers interested in this fic, even with some negative criticism brought by a little misunderstood, and I'm not talking about the mistake on the title.
But I'm curious what you reading this think about Ryan. I did not get an answer in my OC fanfiction so I was hoping to get some from this story. I want to invest in fictional worlds and I need some criticism about the type of characters that I create. So please leave in the review what you think about Ryan so far.
Enough said, to the fic!
Training Arena
The use of droids for training in the academies has become something usual make some time already. The droids were always ready to fight whenever someone needed, and they could be settle in a easy mode to grimm slayer mode, which the later was only for those who have some experience already.
For Jaune, was something between them as he trade blows with the droids as Ryan stood afar, giving to him hints about what to do against his enemy.
Shied always covering the upper part of his body, pay attention to his leg play as he dodge and blocked the attacks, and use the sword to block only if he need, those were Ryan's instructions as the blonde knight fought against the machine.
He parried the strike with the nightstick and pushed the droid away, leaving him open for a minute and Jaune did not waste this opportunity. He swung his sword in the machine's leg and making it fall down on the floor, and shoved the sword on the droid's shoulder ripping off its arm.
Feeling some sense of triumph, Jaune calmed his nerves and lowered his sword and shield, and notice too late the droid still moving. The machine kicked his leg making him stand in one knee and proceed to kick his face, making Jaune fall face fist on the floor.
Even with just one arm, the droid quickly moved on top of Jaune while he tried to recover and pointed a gun in it wrist against his face. Before the droid could shot, a shot in its head stopped him, making him roll to the left. Jaune look to his right and see Ryan pointing his revolver.
He walked over the arena and offered his hand to Jaune.
-Never let your guard down until you are sure your enemy is defeated. –Ryan said as he helped Jaune to his feet. –A thin line divides victory and defeat. So when you are closer to win you also is close to lose.
-Thank you for the advice. –Jaune said. –This comes from Chariots' mouth, right? No offense but I can't picture you saying something like that.
-Actually comes from my father.
-Now seems more likely that you thought about that advice.
They shared a short laugh and went to the locker room. Since their "dorm" did not have a shower they used the locker room to take their baths. Once they left the arena, they were surprised by both teams RWBY and CNVL.
-Hey guys! –Ruby greeted them. –What you both are doing?
-We're just training a little. –Jaune answered keeping out the fact he was defeated by the droid.
-We will go to the cafeteria to lunch. –Pyrrha said. –You both want to come with us?
-Pyrrha, they must have some school chores to do. –Weiss said, not wanting to be forced to hear Jaune once again trying some shame pick up line with her.
-We actually are free for now. –Ryan said.
-Thank you so much Ryan. –Weiss mumbled.
-Sooo… -Nora began approaching the duo and trying not being seem as if she was dying of curiosity. –Any news about the Challenge?
-So far the headmaster said nothing about it. –Ryan answered as everyone start to head to the cafeteria. –But I think first match will come soon.
-Have any idea of who you both will face in the first match? –Ren asked.
-No idea. –Jaune said.
-Just to you both know if I be chose for this, I don't pretend make the fight easy for you both. –Yang said and cracked her knuckles to emphasis her point.
-You just took the words from my mouth Xiao Long. –Weiss said after her, making Jaune scratch his cheek.
-I think it is pretty clear that if any of you be chosen to face us, we will not expect anything go easy. –Ryan said, not knowing that he was wrong about just one member of team CNVL.
Pyrrha knew that while she is in a fight, she need to do her best to win, but she did not wanted to be the responsible to makes Jaune leave Beacon… and Ryan of course. She did not forget about Ryan.
She only meet him makes a couple of weeks but already found herself liking the blonde knight, and she did not wanted to see him leave so soon. While she likes to have Chocolat as her partner, she still could be friends with him and if she does anything right, they may become something more. It was the first time she ever felt that way so she did not know exactly what to do. Normally a boy would literally throw himself at her feet but Jaune sees her as a normal girl so she knew to not expect something like that to happen.
None of her friends seemed to want go easy against Jaune if they ended up fighting against him in the Challenge… and Ryan too.
The thought worried her, especially after she saw him fighting in Glynda's class. She knew that Ryan was helping him in his training but his help will be enough?
She keeps thinking about it all the way to the cafeteria.
Once there, Pyrrha decides to keep her thoughts for herself as everyone was getting a meal, and quickly forgot about while witnessing Ryan's artistic skills with a tray of mashed potato. The one-eye gunslinger was what everyone around thought to be a sculpture of a dog sitting.
-He does that every meal he has? –Blake asked to Jaune as she watched the sculpture in front of her.
-Only sometimes. –Jaune answered. –Last week he made circus tent. –Ryan seemed to not hear his partner's statement as he went to grab some more mashed potato for his sculpture. Seeing him leaving, Jaune decides to see if his friends can help him with his little dilemma. –Guys. –Jaune called earning the attention of everyone around. –Can I ask something? –With some of his friends saying "Sure" and "I don't mind" or even nodding the head, he asked. –Any of you know why would a faunus hide his animal trait?
If some of them were really paying attention, they would have notice the bow of the black haired girl twitch a little, the rest of the group eye Jaune curious as they were trying to understand his question.
-What do you mean? –Ruby asked.
-While I and Ryan were hunting with Professor Port, he mentioned something about Ryan that I did not notice.
-And what it is? –Chocolat asked.
-Professor Port asked why Ryan was hiding his faunus trait.
-Ryan is a faunus? –The surprise tone in Blake's voice surprised her team while CNVL were surprised which what their heard.
-It is what says his transcription.
-But I did not see anything what seems a animal trait in him. –Ruby said.
-He is hiding whatever he has? –Yang asked.
-It seems so but when questioned about it he said he did not wanted to talk about it.
-He is ashamed of his faunus trait? –Blake asked.
-I don't know and I don't know if I should just ask or wait for him to tell me why he is hiding whatever animal trait he has.
Before anyone could say a word about what Jaune could do, Ryan returned with more mashed potato, and both groups decide to end the conversation, not wanting for Ryan to know he was the topic of their conversation.
-So Ryan, I heard you are faunus? –Except for Chocolat who asked bluntly making everyone look at her with eyes wide open.
-Yes.-Ryan answered focusing in make a head for his sculpture, and surprising everyone how calm he answered.
Despite everyone reactions, Chocolat keep going.
-Which type? I do not see scales so of course you're no reptile.
-I'm a stallion. –Ryan answers while putting peas in the head of his sculpture for the eyes. –And done! –Ryan declared his dog sculpture. –What do you guys think?
-It… is a nice sculpture of an Egyptian dog. –Ren said.
-It supposed to be a cat. –Ryan said bitterly resulting with the group laughing a little.
Combat Class
After saying their goodbyes to the duo, both teams RWBY and CNVL went to the combat arena for Glynda's class.
The class went as normally goes, expect the duo was nowhere in the arena. This makes Pyrrha wonder where they went after the lunch was over.
Bathroom
Jaune opened one of the toilet doors in the bathroom to clean, but was greeted with the vision of hell.
-Dear god! –Jaune shouts.
-What's wrong? –Ryan asked.
-Don't look in the second cabin. -Ryan looks and screamed. –I told you to not look!
School bathrooms, am I right?
Shrugging, the redhead focused in the combat happening in the arena. Ruby was showing why she was able to come to the academy two years earlier, and her opponent, who laughed at her on the beginning, felt the difference between their skills once his aura reaches the red.
Then it was over.
Glynda congratulates Ruby for the victory making the reaper leave the arena with a smile. As Ruby left the arena, Glynda looks down in her scroll, the teacher look for the next ones to battle.
-Flare Dynamite. –A girl wearing only red with a big afro hair went down to the arena as Glynda chose her opponent. –Chocolat Cream.
After hear her name, the leader of team CNVL went down to the arena ready to show what she is capable of.
Once in the arena, Flare stood with a pair of big gauntlets and Chocolat stood there with her arms behind her back. Looking at Chocolat's weapons, Ruby notices that Jaune was not the only one who seems to stick into the classical. The brunette had only a pair of desert eagles with her. One silver and one copper colored, and they did not seem to transform in something. This makes Ruby wonder if Chocolat only planned to point her guns and shot to fight.
She would soon discover after Glynda allowed the girls to begin.
Flare rushed against Chocolat with high speed, aiming a fist against her pretty face. She merely moves her head to the right, making Flare stumble ahead. Flare turns around and tried to punch Chocolat on the back of her head, surprising everyone around, Chocolat dodge the strike without even look to behind. She ducked the next two punches and side-stepped the third, and pushing Flare away with a bump of her rear.
The match keep going like that, Flare screaming and trying to hit Chocolat with her gauntlets while the brunette keep easily dodging her attacks, her arms always behind her back and the smile in her bright lips not leaving her face a second.
Flare smashed her gauntlets together making electricity start to charge in her hands. This however only makes Chocolat raise an eyebrow.
-This will change nothing you know? –Chocolat asked but Flare ignored her and charged.
The brunette just sighed and pulled out her guns for the first time since the match began. When Flare was close enough, Chocolat shot at her leg making her stumbled a little, not expecting the shot close to her leg from all the places. This did not stopped her advance as she raised her gauntlet with a open hand to grab and electrify Chocolat.
The brunette spins around her opponent and Flare her on the back of her leg, putting her on her knee. Flare tried to hit her but Chocolat dodges again and pointed one of her guns against Flare's face.
Flare frowned and tried a sweep kick but had her tight shot by Chocolat, followed by a kick in the cheek. Flare groaned on the floor and when looked up, saw the barrel of Chocolat's gun in front of her face.
Flare groaned while thought in her next course of action.
-I believe this is enough. –But Glynda turned down any plan her mind could come. –The victory goes to Ms. Cream due her excellent timing in dodging and attacking. As Ms. Cream said, turn on your gauntlets did not make any difference Ms. Dynamite, not only making you lose the element of surprise but also making you reveal more about your fighting style for your opponent. About you Ms. Chocolat, try not help your opponents in future battles, okay?
Chocolat raised an eyebrow at the statement. With her match over and hear Flare says she wants a rematch, Chocolat went back to her seat alongside her teammates. Nora was about to speak when…
-No Nora, they are just a pair of pistols. –Chocolat said.
-I didn't know future vision could be this annoying. –Pyrrha stated making Ren and Nora eye her curiously.
-Yes Ren, she said future vision. –Chocolat said before Ren could ask and turned to Pyrrha. –Annoying? Really? Some of my friends think it is fun.
-I also notice that you do not seem so surprise the fact I figured out your semblance.
-To be honest, I thought you had figured out in the tournament.
- Not all the times only skill helps someone to reach the victory. –Pyrrha said, remembering what one of her tutors told to her.
–I'm curious, how long can you see? –Ren asked.
-It depends of my focus. If I'm fully focused, I can see at least five seconds, if not, only one. -This affirmation took Pyrrha back in the semi-finals of the Mistral Regional Tournament she last compete, when she pulled the trigger of her rifle close to Chocolat's ear. The shot so close to her ear may have made her lost the focus she had in the time. –Yep, this is what happened. –Pyrrha frowned. –Alright, I stop.
-You can see the future? –Nora asked. –Did you know if will rain tomorrow? When a surprise test will happen? How about…
-Nora. –Ren interrupted her. –She just said she could see at least five seconds in the future.
-Not only that exactly. –Chocolat said.
-What do you mean? –Pyrrha asked.
-There times I have random vision of something that eventually will happen. I not have total control of my semblance so those visions come anytime without me knowing.
-This is why you was so certain that Jaune and Ryan would return from the Danger Zone?
-Yep, I had a vision in the afternoon of the initiation, and I saw them both returning alongside professor Port.
They were surprise with their leader's semblance of course, but was the only reason they were surprise.
Chocolat Cream, the leader of team CNVL, is an Esper.
End of the chapter.
I gave most of the time to the duo so this time, I thought give some spotlight to my second OC. Next time I will make her combat scenes more longer.
The name Esper I got from One Punch Man and some more fictional world and if you know what it means, then you may know a bit more of what Chocolat is capable of.
While the volume 6 of the show is going better than the last two volumes, there is still a thing or two Rooster Teeth did that bothers me. I will keep my opinion limited to just that until I see the last episode.
No Spoilers! Please! My brother did that and I wanted to choke him.
See you next time.