Chapter 7: Secret's Known & Anger Let Loose
"How am I suppose to restore balance and help people...when they're afraid of me...?" You thought as you lowered your hands and tailed and walked with your head down.
Just then, a hand grabbed your shoulder and stopped you from going any further as you turned around and saw it was Julia who stopped you.
"Julia...?" You said in confusion as she stared at you.
"Let's talk..." She said as you had a confused expression, wondering what she could possibly want to talk about with you. "Let's go." She lead you off towards somewhere.
She held your wrist as she pulled you along and all you could do was watch as she did so. After going a distance away from the classroom and classes were beginning to wrap up, she lead you to a empty classroom and the two of you entered as she locked the door and you stood in the middle of the room as she turned towards you.
"Alright, explain." She said as she crossed her arms.
"Explain what?" You asked as she walked passed you and went to the desk in the front of the class and leaned against it.
"Explain why your eyes turned red, you looked beastly, and you were able to terrify the grimm into hiding in the cafe until Port shut and locked it." Julia said as you just walked over and leaned against one of the rows of seats. "Is it one of your faunus traits? Or do you have like two semblances or something?" She asked.
"It's neither really..." You said as you lifted your head up to look at her. "The truth is that I don't have a semblance. I never discovered what it was or if I even have one, so I came to a conclusion that I have no semblance." You said as she raised a brow.
"That can't be right. Everyone at Beacon has a semblance, other wise you wouldn't have been able to even get in. Your semblance is that heat ray you did during the initiation, right?" She asked as you shook your head.
"No, that's just something I learned that I had." You said as you looked out towards the windows and stared at the sunset. "I'm not your average faunus, Julia...I'm different...in a scary way..." You said to her.
"Everyone's different, that's normal. How can you being different be scary?" She asked you.
"...I'm a monster..." You said to her with a calm look on her face.
"A monster? What did you do something terrible in the past?" She asked.
"Yeah...I killed a lot of people on a boat...and who knows how many more out at sea..." You said as you stared her in the eyes. "I'm Godzilla...The monster that appeared about 15 years ago at sea when the kingdom of Atlas bombed the Island of Lagos with the atom bomb." You said with a serious look.
"...Hey, hey, don't mess with me. I'm trying to help, the least you could do is--!" She suddenly stopped when you stood up and slammed your tail on the ground.
"You don't believe me...?Fine...I'll show you..." You said as your eyes changed and your teeth sharpened.
Suddenly, a strange force blew through the entire room and knocked Julia down as the windows shook but didn't break. She groaned before looking over and seeing you grunting and twitching in pain. Black scales began to appear all over your body, but where they were most prominent was from your neck up. They slowly climbed up your neck as your mouth extending out and turning into a snout of sorts. Your hair was shrinking and getting replaced with more scales as your spines grew out and your tail grew larger. Julia was shaking and back away a bit as your head completely turned and transformed into the head of Godzilla and you growled before staring at her as your spines shined blue.
"No way...How...It's not possible..." She shook with nervousness and fear as you began to approach her.
She backed all the way against the wall and leaned as far into as she could as you stood in front of her. Your snout was inches away from her faces and she closed her eyes as beads of sweat ran down her face.
"...monster..." She heard a distorted voice come from you as she opened one eye.
She was shocked when she saw a sad and hurt look in your eyes as you backed away and went a few feet away from her. Your scales began to return to skin as steam came off your body and your head was returning to normal. Once you transformed back into your normal form, you sat against the front row seats and hugged your knees as Julia just stared at you.
"...See...I have a curse..." You said to her as she remained silent. "If you could keep this from the others, I would really appreciate it. Ruby doesn't remember and Yang is the only one who knows about this secret besides my family. I don't want to get them involved and I don't wanna get taken either. So please, just keep this between us..." You said as you got up and walked towards the door while Julia was still frozen in shock. "I'm sorry..." You said to her as you opened the door and left before closing it as the sound snapped her back to reality.
After realizing you had left Julia dropped to her knees when she saw what you had transformed into. Her heart was racing and her head was spinning as she was still sweating bullets.
"He's that thing...from those years ago...And he's in our school...?" She wondered as she turned towards the door and gritted her teeth. "I can't roam around like this...He's too dangerous..." She suddenly found a strange amount of strength as she was back to her feet and bolted out of the classroom. "Y/N...Prove that you're our ally then. Show me you wanna help people instead of hurt them." She thought while chasing you down as the day continued with her keeping her eye on you at all times.
Timeskip, Weeks Later
You were sat in a small combat tournament like classroom with a few teams in this class as you watched Jaune from team JNPR face off against Cardin from team CRDL. You watched with discomfort and pity as Jaune was tossed around by Cardin before he was knocked to the ground. Jaune tried to get back up and go on the offensive, but Cardin blocked his strike with his mace and overpowered him before kneeing him in the gut and making Jaune collapse in pain as he raised him mace to deliver a final blow. Just before he could however, the lights were all turned on and a buzzer went off as Cardin forced himself to stop much to his displeasure.
"That's enough." Glynda Goodwitch said as she walked in the middle of the arena and stood between the two boys. "Students, as you can see, Mr.Arc's aura has now reached the red zone. In a tournament style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match." She explained to everyone before turning to Jaune. "Mr.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 toward a more...defensive strategy." She said as Jaune stared at his scroll which flashed his aura bar in the red. "We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a beowulf, now would we?" She asked him as Cardin muttered a few words under his breath before walking away.
"I hate that guy..." You said while glaring at him as Julia watched you closely.
"You could say that again..." Annie said while resting her chin on her hand before the bell suddenly rang.
"Ah, it's lunch time. Let's go." Sarah said as you and your team got up to leave and team RWBY followed you guys out of class as well.
After making your way to the lunch hall and grabbing a long table for your team, team RWBY, and team JNPR, you were all sat down together talking as Nora was beginning to tell a story.
"There we were in the middle of the night..." Nora said in a spooky voice.
"It was day." Ren said plainly.
"We were surrounded by ursai..." Nora continued as Annie and Yang both leaned towards her in fascination.
"They were beowulves." Ren corrected her story as she shot up from her seat.
"Dozens of them!" Nora exclaimed.
"Kya!" Sarah coverd her ears from being scared by the sudden outburst as she was already scared from hearing a scary story.
"Two of them." Ren said while sipping a drink from his cup.
"But they were no match, and in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boat load of lien selling ursa skin rugs." Nora happily sat back down as he sighed.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." He exclaimed as you chuckled.
"Haha, it's still quite the story." You laughed as you sipped water from your cup before noticing some of your friends staring over at a melancholy Jaune.
"Jaune, are you okay?" Pyhrra asked while turning towards him.
"Huh?" He asked as before answering. "Oh, yeah. Why?" He asked cautiously.
"It's just that...you seem a little..." Ruby trailed off to find the words but Annie chimed in.
"Down in the dumps." Annie said with her mouth full of food.
"Annie!" Sarah whacked Annie with her wing as Annie held her head and stared at Sarah in shock.
"What's up Jaune?" You asked in curiosity.
"Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!" He gave a fake thumbs up and smile as you rolled your eyes.
Suddenly you all heard laughter coming from a nearby table and looked over to see Cardin and his teammates hanging around the second year you all learned was Velvet, a bunny faunus. You glared at them and your tail smacked the ground as Julia jumped a bit and was tense about your look.
"Jaune, Cardin has been picking on you since the first week of school." Pyhrra put out for everyone to hear as he turned towards her.
"W-Who? Cardin Winchester? Ah, he just likes to mess around, you know? Practical jokes." He waved of her comment.
"He's a bully." Ruby told Jaune.
"And dead if they keep picking on Velvet..." You muttered while biting the food off your fork and pulling out the fork to see you ate the top of it as well with the food.
"Is that gonna come out okay?" Annie whispered to Sarah as Sarah just shrugged with a confused look on her face as she stared at your topless fork
"Please, name one time he's "bullied" me." Jaune said as you looked at him.
"He knocked down your books whenever you pass by him. He opens your shield and blocks doorways with it. He shoved you into your weapons and equipment rocket locker and sent it flying off and you almost went off the cliff side. Need I say more?" You asked while everyone looked at him.
"....I didn't land that far from the school." He retorted.
"You were lucky Annie pulled you out before your locker fell off the cliff." You said with an annoyed look on your face before going back and glaring at Cardin and his goons.
"Jaune you know that if you ever need help you can ask." Pyhrra said as Nora shot up from her seat.
"Oh! We'll break his legs!" She said excitedly as you snapped your head towards her.
"I like where your head is at." You said with a smirk as you two shook hands firmly.
"Guys really, it's fine. Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me. He's a jerk to everyone." Jaune said as Sarah held her wings.
"You could say that again..." Sarah muttered as she remembered her first encounter with Cardin.
"Ow, that hurts!" Everyone turned to see Cardin pulling Velvet's bunny ears and laughing. "Please, stop." She begged him.
"I told you it was real." He said to his teammates.
"What a freak." Russel insulted her as Cardin let her go.
You got up from your seat and walked over to Velvet before she could leave as you checked her out.
"Are you okay?" You asked as she had a sad look.
"I will be...Thanks Y/N..." She said before walking pass you as you watched her leave.
"Atrocious...I can't stand people like him." Pyhrra despised Cardin.
"He's not the only one." Blake said while glaring daggers at him as well.
"It must be hard being a faunus." Yang said while leaning her head on her arm.
"Trust me...took a while for me to stone myself from that type of stuff. Even then, it hurts a bit." Annie said waving her hand in her face to blow air on herself. "Is it getting hot in here or is it me?" She asked.
Play Song At Top
Suddenly the sound of the floor cracking caught their attention as they turned and saw a crack on the ground under your tail. You turned back towards Cardin as a blue bolt flashed in your eyes and you had an angry look on your face.
"Oh no..." Julia stood up as she went to stop you and you were already heading towards Cardin.
He noticed you and glared at you as you went towards him, but before reaching him Julia stood between you and Cardin's team as she had a serious look on her face.
"If you do this...There's no escaping from your past...I'm going to do what I have to do in order to keep everyone safe. Even if it means protecting someone who despises our kind." She said as you glared down at her. "Let it go. Just let it go." She said.
You stared at her for a moment before sighing as you just nodded and looked away from Cardin. She sighed in relief as she closed her wings and dropped her arms from the exhaustion of nervousness. Just as she was going to sit back down though, a cup of milk was thrown at her back and got her wet with milk as she gasped and stood awkwardly as you were stunned from the sight.
"Freak, sit back down!" Cardin laughed at her as she gritted her teeth in anger.
Just then, a tray was thrown at Cardin as him and his friends just barely dodged it and turned back in anger.
"Who threw that!?" He yelled in anger.
"Me!" You yelled at him as you walked pass Julia and went up face to face with Cardin as the entire lunch hall was staring at you all.
You were glaring down at him as in your anger your body had grown in height a bit and your spines were out more than usual. Your teeth had also sharpened a bit as he glared up at you, seemingly un-intimidated by your stature.
"You wanna go, freak?" He asked you as you stared down at him.
"You knocked Jaune down....Why not try knocking me down?" You threatened him.
While your eyes were locked on Cardin, you knew that his teammates were slowly surrounding you and covering your angles. You waited for a moment before you animal instincts kicked in and your eyes turned bloodshot.
"STUPID HUMAN!" You yelled as you punched Cardin so hard in the gut that his armor cracked from the force.
Cardin's teammates watched in shock as their leader collapsed to his knees before spitting up and falling over.
"Get him!" Russel said in desperation as they all rushed you.
Your spines shined before emitting sparks everywhere as a huge force of energy blew out from your body and knocked them away while shaking the lunch hall. You turned towards Sky as he was the first to his feet and went towards you with a kick. Side-stepping the attack, you grabbed his leg before lifting it up and throwing him over and down onto a table as he groaned in pain. After this you blocked an attack from behind with your tail as you turned around and saw Russel holding a tray before wrapping your tail around him and lifting him off the ground as he struggled in your grip. All that was left was Dove who was shaking in fear of what he was seeing. Black scales were slowly growing from your neck and going up your head as you went towards him while holding Russel in your tail. Just before you could grab him though, Julia jumped in front of him.
"Stop, Y/N! Now!" She demanded you.
"MOVE!" You threw her to the side as she was shocked by your actions. "Why protect those who attack you? Attack us? They need to pay!" You yelled while grabbing Dove by the throat as he was gasping for air.
"It's not right...! We're training to become warriors of good...! What you're doing is evil!" She exclaimed as what she said had an effect on you and your grip on Dove and Russel loosened as they fell to the ground.
"Evil..." You thought as your mind flashed back to the scene where you were reunited with your parents.
Suddenly, three surges of lightning collided and struck you in the back as you yelled in pain before passing out on the ground and returning to normal. Everyone turned to see Annie had used her semblance and shocked you to prevent you from making things worse. After making sure you were knocked out she returned to normal as her golden dragon heads disappeared and she walked over and picked you up from the ground.
"Let's go, before a teacher shows up." Annie said in a serious tone as she left and Sarah and Julia both followed suit.
Following them out as well, Ruby and Yang both left the lunch hall while everyone else was confused and Weiss was scared once more. Annie carried you all the way back to your guy's dorm and Ruby locked the door before coming over as the girls surrounded you while you were unconscious on your bed.
"Okay, can anyone explain to me why I had to knock out my teammate? Yang? Ruby?" Annie asked with her arms crossed.
"I don't know...I didn't know he could be like that..." Ruby said as she looked up at her sister and Yang sighed as she stared at you.
"Well...I guess there's no reason to hide it from you guys..." She said as she sat next to you and held your hand. "You guys remember the nuclear test done more than fifteen years ago...?" Yang asked as everyone readied themselves for a story they couldn't possibly comprehend.
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top