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1st years tower

The teams were spread around the duelling area, Talon had made his way towards Jasper. Damask and Arsenic had both gone to them to make sure Talon was okay. On the other end of the duelling area, team IVRY was already somewhat dispersed; Yale had already begun walking off without so much as a word, Raven was sitting down, waiting for Indu to get back to them, whilst Vi was already raging.

“How the hell can you just walk away like that?!” She shouted at Indu, whom was still a few meters away. “Are you stupid or something? He’s not on the ground so the fight ain’t over!”

“It’s rather detrimental to one’s image to not even complete a duel.” Raven commented

“Image? Youre a fucking disgrace if you can’t even finish a battle! Letting a wimp like that stop you?!” Vi’s outrage was now loud enough for the other teams to hear, garnering their attention.

As Vi continued to berate Indu, Regalia had finally had enough and began to make her way towards them, intent on putting Vi in her place. However she stopped when a hand softly grabbed her shoulder. She turned to see Phenix looking directly into her eyes. “Leave her be.” Phenix began, “She’s a team leader, she’s going to need to take control of her teammates herself.” Regalia sighed, looking empathetically towards Indu, who was standing calmly as Vi continued to shout.

“Are you fucking listening to me?!” Vi raged as she reached to grab Indu by the collar. At that very second Indu motioned to knock Vi’s arm aside, but she pulled back, then reaching out with her other arm, which Indu casually side-stepped. As Vi pulled back, Indu grabbed her wrist with snake-like speed. The two stared burningly into each other’s eyes for a moment, until Vi finally stopped trying to strike at her.

“It does not bother me, if you think lowly of me. However striking out at a teammate is something I will not tolerate.” Indu’s voice was calm yet demanding, enough so to even surprise both Vi and Raven. Without even sharing another word, Vi turned around and began making her way towards the dorms.

“That was a surprise.” Raven commented, somewhat mockingly, as he rose from his seat, “I never expected to see you be so forceful. Honestly you could have started doing this earl-” Indu turned her head to stare at Raven, her eyes seemingly piercing straight though the rest of his sentence causing him to end his comments.

Indu’s sharp face turned to a soft smile “It is rather detrimental to one’s image to be silenced simply by a stare.” She said replied sassily. Causing Raven to click his tongue. The two then began making their way to the dorms, still a bit of distance between the two of them.

Later in team PWTR’s dorm

“Ugh! Didn’t anyone ever teach that brat about how duels work?!” Regalia ranted, still visibly annoyed by Jasper’s actions during the duel. “Honestly, I don’t think I could ever trust someone that acts like that.”

The rest of PWTR sat around her as she angrily paced back and forth, thinking about their own opinions of the fight. None of them really approved of Jasper’s actions, though Regalia was by far the angriest about it.

“Ya know.” Wynn began as he raised himself from his seat and stretched his legs, “Don’t hold it against him too much.” His statement causing the others to look at him rather confused. “When you have to fight for your survival, you don’t really think the same way other people would. You don’t play by the same rules, after all, too him, every fight must’ve been one for survival, and when its live or die, dirty tricks may just be what keeps you alive.” Regalia opened her mouth to protest but Wynn continued before she could begin, “Now, I’m not defending him or anything, cause this wasn’t a life or death battle, but I thought a lil’ context might make his actions a bit more understandable.” He stood before the door of their dorm and turned his head to look behind him, at Phen and Wulfie who sat on their bed, and Regalia who stood in the centre of the room. “If y’all need me, I’ll be in the rec room.” He concluded with a smile and friendly wave.

“You know, Regalia…” Phen began, drawing the attention of the other two to her, “There’s no need to waste so much of your time being angry about something like this…”

“I know.” Regalia sighed, her demeanour calming noticeably “It’s just…”

Phen stood up and placed a hand on her teammate’s shoulder, despite the height difference between them, “I know, Indu’s your friend.” Regalia lifted her eyes and focused on Phen’s own. “It’s not just the fact that he cheated that makes you so angry, but the fact that he cheated against, and hurt a close friend of yours. I would feel the same way if he had done that to T’wulf.” They both looked to T’wulf who was just calmly sitting there, listening to the conversation. “Now,” Phen continued, “I’m not saying you should forgive and forget, but just don’t let something like this ruin what’s left of your day.” Phen smiled as she turned back to look at Regalia

Once again, Regalia sighed, “I guess you’re right.” She conceded. “I think I’m gonna wash up, and then we should probably head to dinner, don’t you think?”

Phen and T’wulf nodded, “That’s probably a good idea” Phen replied

“Shouldn’t one of us go call Wynn?” T’wulf questioned, to which the other two simply nodded

“Would you mind, Pup?” Phen asked, “I think need to wash my face as well.”

“Oh, uhm, okay.” T’wulf replied, making her way to the door, already having expected the duty to fall onto her. Thankfully the rec room wasn’t too far from their dorm. However when T’wulf first looked inside, it seemed to be empty, seeing as the room was almost completely dark. She slowly opened the door which allowed a soft melody to fall upon her ears, curious of the origin, she slowly creeped into the rec room, not wanting to disturb the source of the soothing music. Approaching the area from which the music originated, she peeked her head around the corner. Before her stood a single piano, silhouetted by the light of the setting sun, visible through the large Victorian window. From time to time a head would bob into view moving slowly in time with the music. The calming tune continued a little longer before fading back into a moment of silence. T’wulf ducked back behind the corner for a moment before stepping out as though she just got there. “Wynn?” She looked towards the piano and already saw him standing, “Its dinner time.” She stated with a soft smile

“Oh, right.” he replied, lacking his usual joyful tone for a moment, “Thanks! I’ll be there in a moment.” He added, his joyful tone returned along with his usual gleaming smile.

Hey, Guess what? Where at the cafeteria again!

By the time they reached the cafeteria, most of the students were already busy with eating, noticing the dwindling selection of food, Wynn hurried ahead of the rest of his team, to make sure he could secure himself a good portion of meat. Midway he turned around to ‘signal’ his teammates to hurry up, however this proved to be quite the mistake, when but a moment later he was crashing down to the ground along with a large muscular female, whom he soon recognised as Vi, team IVRY’s Vi.

“Oh god.” Wynn thought to himself as he stood up, “Sorry!” He blurted out, despite knowing this would have little effect on the visibly seething Viridian

“You stupid Mutt!” Viridian shouted as she swung at him, the nimble lion barely dropping below the strike. She swung thrice more, the first two, he barely side-stepped, the last he avoided with a dexterous backflip. This caused the scene to look almost comical to most of the onlookers, some of whom were even laughing, including IVRY’s Raven. However Indu, the rest of PWTR, KOHL and even some of JADE looked on quite worriedly at the unfolding events, though none of them wanted to get involved for fear of adding to the problem.

“It was an accident!” Wynn shouted as he jumped back from another swing, “Really!” He ducked under another, “I swear!” however none of his pleas really did much to stop the raging beast that is Vi. “Look I understand you’re mad,” he said, dodging another two swings of Vi’s fists, “but we have a lot in common!” He dropped to the ground, dodging another strike, “You’re mad at me, I’m mad at me…” He rolled away as she tried stamping down on him. “I don’t like making life-threatening mistakes, you threaten lives over mistakes…” He rolled forward and away from another strike, however slipped on a lunch tray someone left on the ground, causing him to fall flat on his back in front of her. “Well this is a problem.” He sighed as Vi stood above him preparing to smash his face through the floor.

However, just as Vi’s fist began making momentum it was stopped abruptly by the hand of another person. Vi raised her eyes to look upon this unknown interrupter. He was a large milky brown coloured male, with an intimidating physique; roughly two meters tall, with a visibly muscular build. His short, spiked hair was ginger-red in colour and accentuated with black stripes. His fiery golden brown eyes were narrowed and focused solely on Vi.

“NUTS!” Wynn exclaimed joyfully as he jumped up onto his saviour’s back, hugging his neck. Though the large male did not break eye contact with Vi, who’s fiery gaze had still not been calmed.

“I think it would be best to end this little show.” A friendly yet stern male voice spoke, causing the surrounding students to turn their attention towards the three faunus standing beside one another just a bit behind the intimidating male, presumably his teammates. “Keep this up and the teachers are probably gonna get involved.” The central standing male stated. While nowhere near as intimidating as his larger teammate, he still gave off an air of strength, with his well-built frame, piercingly sharp golden eyes and his large, white lion’s mane.

The larger male loosened his grip on Vi’s fist before she aggressively tugged it free, turned around and walked away without saying a word, clicking her tongue in annoyance.

“Thanks-” Phen began, trying to express her gratitude to the unknown students, before a white flash zipped past her, and almost tackled the three students that had stepped in.

“Al! Toffee! Milk!” Wynn exclaimed joyfully, hugging the three of them tightly for a moment. Eventually loosening his grip and turning to his teammates

“You know them?” Phen questioned inquisitively

“Haha, yeah, Al and Toffee are my older bro and sis!” He said pointing to the central standing male with the white mane, and the female standing to his left who’s white lion ears perked up at the mention of her name. Both wore neat and tidy uniforms, though the male’s shirt was untucked and his blazer unbuttoned. “Milk and Walnut, are their teammates, and old family friends.” He said beamingly

The large male turned to look at Phen, “I’m Walnut.” He stated with a deep yet friendly voice, extending his hand, which Phen shook politely

“Phenix,” She replied with a smile, “nice to meet you.”

“Oh right!” Wynn suddenly exclaimed, “I almost forgot, haha.” He motioned towards the rest of his team, “These are my teammates; Phen, Wulfie and Regalia. Phen’s our team leader!” He said with child-like enthusiasm.

“So, you’re gonna be in charge of Kitten, huh? Good luck.” An unknown female voice chuckled a little ways behind Phenix. They turned to see a pair of white-haired girls standing there. One looking overall a bit tomboyish; short, messy hair peeking out from under a beanie, untucked shirt and an open blazer, whilst the other seemed like the polar opposite; long, flowing hair, tied back in a low pony tail, a well-kept and neat uniform, completed with a large colonial hat accentuated with a purple feather.
“Kitten?” Phen questioned the girl standing behind her

“Mauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve” Wynn whined as he walked past Phen to stand infront of the tomboyish one, “You’re still gonna call me that?!”

“Of course!” Mauve replied as she threw her arm over his shoulders before pulling him down into a headlock. “Still look like a kitten, still act like a kitten, so Imma still call you a kitten.” Wynn wriggled around for a moment before blinking out of Mauve’s grip, almost falling over before regaining his balance. “Mauve Leon,” She said with a wink to Phen, “Kitten’s older sister.” She motioned to the other girl who was beside her, “This is my teammate…”

“Raspberry Schnee.” The other girl introduced herself with a courteous nod, “A pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

“Where’s Silver and Mikasuki?” Almond asked them

“They should be here any minute…” Mauve replied as she turned around to look at another two people walking towards them.