Chapter 2: A Dragon's Challenge


[Time Skip, Next Morning]

I awoke to my alarm clock. I turned it off and got up. I then put on a plain black shirt with the normal holes and some blue jeans. I then put my coat on, then the new red gloves I bought on. Then put on my new red and black stripped beanie. I tucked in my tail and walked down for breakfast. Once I got my food, which was just bacon, sausage, and eggs, I sat down at a vacant table and began eating. Then all of a sudden Velvet and Coco sat next to me. I stopped eating.

Me: "Need something?"

Coco: "We wanted to know why you sit alone everyday."

Me: "I'm not a people person."

Velvet: "Well you can always come and talk with us."

I finished eating and got up.

Me: "I'll keep it in mind, thanks."

I put my trash away and went to go get ready for class.

[Time Skip]

I sat in the stands and listened to music as two girls fought in the ring bellow. At the moment we were in Ms. Goodwitch's class. The match ended with the red head winning against the ginger haired girl. I think they were part of Team JNPR. I looked at the teacher and watched her talk, I couldn't hear anything because of how loud I had my music. Suddenly my headphones flung off my head and to the ground a girl with white hair had taken them off.

Me: "The hell do you think you're doing Snow White?!"

I raised my voice.

???: "I just challenged you to a sparring match. You've done nothing but sit there and blare your music so everyone can hear."

I didn't say anything I just looked to the teacher and she nodded. I picked up my headphones put them on my chair and walked down to the ring. I then drew the Dragoor Blade(Image Above) The girl squared off with me and pulled out a revolver/rapier.

Good witch: "Weiss Schnee vs. Alexander Ignis. You both know the rules so when the timer reaches zero begin."

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Weiss: "I'm going to teach you respect."

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Weiss: "No response?"

Me: "I'll let my blade do the talking."

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Weiss got into a proper stance and readied herself while I just stood there holding my blade.

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Weiss shot forward and went for a thrust aimed at my chest. I dodged and flicked her on the forehead lightly and backed away smirking.

Weiss: "Take this seriously!"

Me: "I beg your pardon, But then it'd be over too quickly."

She created glyphs and shot forward much faster, I almost didn't have time to block, almost. I parried her blade and pushed it up causing her to be thrown off balance.

Me: "Come on, Ms. Schnee. Teach me respect."

???: "Kick his butt Weiss!"

I looked over to see a red hooded girl cheer for Weiss. I turned back only to be hit and fly back a bit. I was able to recover mid air and land.

Weiss chuckled at me and smirked. I looked down and saw that there was a good sized hole in my jacket. My eyes let off a glow comparable to that of a flame, luckily no one noticed.

Me: "You wanted me to take this seriously? Fine. I will."

I stabbed my blade into the ground causing a few flames to come up from the ground, I left it in the ground and began walking towards Weiss slowly.

Weiss: "I won't go easy on you just because you don't have a weapon."

Me: "Never asked you to. In fact come at me with all you've got."

She summoned a lot of glyphs around me. She shot around me place to place before shooting towards me at incredible speed. A second before she made contact my hand shot up and I grabbed her by her head, my hand over her mouth. The crowd gasped and I threw her. Before she hit the wall I appeared behind her and kicked her upward, then appeared above her and kicked her down. I looked over at the aura chart to see she was already in the red. I shot down and caught her bridal style before she hit the ground. She had her eyes closed but she slowly opened them looking up at me. I sat her down and went and grabbed my blade.

Goodwitch: "And Alexander is the winner."

I walked past Weiss to go back up into the stands.

Me: "Good match, you had perfect form."

Weiss: "Are you mocking me?!"

She spoke in an annoyed tone. I turned around with a straight face.

Me: "No. You had good form, your thrusts were clean and accurate, your stance perfect, and your glyphs and magic abilities you possess are befitting of a Schnee. I'm simply complimenting you. Proper ladies like yourself get those often, I assume."

I didn't wait for her to respond and just walked up the stands took my seat and put my headphones back on. Weiss made her way back up the stands and sat beside me like she was before. Only I kept catching her looking at me throughout the class. When the bell rang for lunch I got up and walked out and went to lunch. I got my food, separated the meat from other stuff and began eating. Then four girls, including Weiss, sat down around me. I stopped eating and looked at them. Weiss then grabbed my headphones and took them off.

Me: "Could you at least ask for me to take them off?"

Weiss: "I have. You didn't hear me."

Me: "My apologies then. Now what do you want?"

Weiss: "My team said they wanted to meet you, so I came along."

Ruby: "Hi! I'm Ruby, nice to meet you!"

The red hooded girl spoke overly excited.

Yang: "I'm Yang, Ruby's sister."

The blonde spoke.

Blake: "I'm Blake."

The black haired girl said in almost a mumble with her face in a book.

Me: "Nice to meet you all, I'm Alexander Ignis. But I assume you knew that from the match. Is that all?"

I began to finish up what I was eating.

Yang: "Is all you eat meat?"

Me: "Yes. It's part of my diet."

Yang: "Weird."

I went to stand up but Weiss stood up with me showing that she wanted me to stay.

Weiss: "Where are you going?"

Me: "To throw away my trash and head to class."

Weiss: "Don't you, oh I don't know, want to talk a little?"

Me: "No. I'm not a people's person."

I walked away threw my trash away and walked to class. I sat down in my normal spot all the way in the back.

Dr. Oobleck: "Mr. Ignis, early as usual. How are you today?"

Oobleck walked, or rather ran, in.

Me: "I'm fine today Doctor Oobleck thanks for asking, and how are you?"

Dr. Oobleck: "Splendid! Just splendid."

After a little the bell rang and people began walking in, at that point I put on my headphones. At some point I got bored enough to start drawing in my notebook. I began drawing a clawed hand reaching up out of a field of roses. I don't even know why, I just did. As I was shading though Oobleck appeared in front of me. I took my headphones off and looked at him.

Dr. Oobleck: "Fine drawing Mr. Ignis, but this is not art, it's history. Now, what rare faunas' were hunted down and executed, to the point of extinction not too long ago?"

My eye twitched. Oobleck was one of the teachers that didn't know about my little secret.

Me: "The dragon faunas sir. And this event was called 'The Dragon Cleansing' although the dragon faunas referred to it as 'Reliqua Draconis' or 'Dragon's Rest' in English. The dragon faunas hid and tried to survive. They were viewed as monsters because of the raw power they held."

Ruby spoke up.

Ruby: "Wait, if they were so strong, then why didn't they fight back?"

Me: "The dragon faunas didn't want to be seen as monsters, they wanted equality. So they thought that with their sacrifice in showing peace even when threatened with death, that historians would look back at the Reliqua Draconis and learn to accept all faunas and see they simply wanted equality."

Everyone was silent for a moment.

Dr. Oobleck: "Excellent! Absolutely spectacular! You certainly know your history Mr. Ignis. Most history buffs don't even know the detail and reasoning they used, let alone the dragon's language. Just for that I'll be giving you extra credit."

Oobleck then went back to his lecture. I saw people still staring at me so I put my headphones back on and finished the drawing. Not long after the bell rang, I walked out and headed to my last class. I got in and sat down. I then felt a tap on my shoulder I looked over and it was Blake.

Me: "Yes?"

I said while removing my headphones.

Blake: "I wanted to ask you how you knew all that. Durning the Dragon Cleansing they burned every record or book that had anything to do with dragons. I can't even find a book on the dragon faunas."

Me: "My mother and father used to tell me stories of them."

Blake: "Were they part of the Dragon Cleansing?"

Me: "You could say that."

The bell rang and she walked away to her seat. I put my headphones back on and prepared for a long boring class with Professor Port.

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