chapter 7: The real enemy behind the scenes
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Saffron quickly burst into the nurses offices without any regard for what people might think and let out a fast outburst with great worry in her tone of voice " IS THE MASTER OK!?" her words echoed throughout the room as everyone who resided inside it stared blankly at saffron eyes blinking in cold silence, saffron returning the stare at everyone without any change in facial expression quietly waiting for an answer to the question that she had asked.
"hahaha casual saffron always worried about me im fine still recovering but fine" teal shakes her head placing her hands on her hips and sighing as she responded to his casual response " you are lying in bed with scratches and bandages over most parts of your body after coming back from a mission, any one of us here would be worried about you especially saffron she was about to bust the school door down and rush to your location once she heard you went somewhere without us."
Amaterasu crosses her arms and legs ass she leans on the wall and taps her foot sighing as well as she spoke " im supposed to be the reckless one on the team and then you go and end looking like you just got out of a street brawl, you really need to set a better example."
saffron pouts furiously and bumps both teal and amaterasu on the head as she speaks to them angered " you two need to stop being mean to master he works hard and does his best for us everyday show some respect ladies!" teal raises an eyebrow and sternly retorts to her words " oh im showing him respect alright but telling him not to be a dumb ass and go off by himself all the time like he's king of the world, if anything you need to stop pampering him and letting him get away with it otherwise he's going to start becoming irresponsible."
auburn sat up from her bed rubbing her head back and smiling as she spoke " you really do have some great friends there verde" she giggles a bit watching them talk among st each other. " huh who's that?" amaterasu asked confused, teal responded to her question " that's auburn perrault one of the veterans in the school next to diamond rose or as i like to call her mount Everest." auburn smirked leaping from the bed landing in front of teal as she held her sharpened claws out and spoke in a rather cocky tone " you have quite the big mouth there little girl....please tell me more about this nickname you easily sprout about." teal smirked looking her dead in the eyes placing her left hand on her hip as she responded " im sorry but this is one house you wont be able to blow down little puppy."
auburn's eyes glowed with a faint bright white like the moon in the sky staring teal down, at the same time teal glared at auburn Tightening her grip in her hands ready at any moment to strike, verde then stepped between the both of them holding his hands out.
"enough! this isn't the place for a brawl to breakout, and two strong and beautiful women shouldn't be trying to fight each other like this just calm down are all friends here."
teal sighed and slowly stepped back retracting her fist and smiled as she spoke " geez you always surprise me when you make smart decisions...the compliment isn't needed though im your teammate and you are my leader so of course i will follow your orders. "
auburn sighed as well and took a step back placing a hand on her hip and smiling " you are right this isn't the time nor the place i just lost my temper a bit."
" oh thats right i almost forgot the other reason that we came here today.." saffron tossed verde a sheathed sword as he caught it and looked at it noticing the resemblance to his other sword, saffron crossed her arms and spoke again " your father said he made you that spare just in care your other one broke...but he also said if that one breaks too he has a new weapon set up for you to use." verde stood in surprise " a new weapon!? " amaterasu nodded and replied to his response " he told us it was some kind of birthday present for you to make up for all those years he didnt get to spend with you, well our work here is done we shall be heading back to class get well soon idiot leader." amaterasu, teal, and saffron exited the room shortly after giving him what they came to do verde standing there in short silence.
" i thought you would be a little bit more excited about your father giving you something?" verde looked up and sighed looking back down at the sword " i barely even know him...for as long as i have been around i never truly had the experience of a real family,and now he shows up out of nowhere thinking everything is just all fine and happy? how can i just look him straight in the eyes and call him my father?"
auburn lightly walked up and placed a hand on his shoulder and shaking her head as she responded to him " by giving him a chance...i understand how you feel and all but i dont think staying mad at him forever is seriously going to change this relationship, you may not know him but he knows you and is trying to show he actually cares the least you could do is give him the same respect he's trying to give you."
" fine i will try to make this a bit better...but no promises though hes not going to win me over that easily with something like This." auburn laughed and playfully punched his shoulder " you really are a stubborn idiot you know that?" while they were discussing the matter one large figure and a medium slim figure approached the door walking into the the room, verde and auburn turned to their attention as verde wasn't familiar with the two but auburn was.
auburn spoke softly with a smile on her face as she faced the two figures " vlad reeno what are you two doing here? i thought you were in our room." vlad slowly took his hat off and first bowed to me then at auburn as he raised his head and spoke " well me and my friend here heard about your condition after your special mission so of course we came to check on our princess to see if she wasnt too badly hurt, oh and big tall and gruesome here ran down here like a hurt child coming to check on you." reeno grunted hitting his hand on the wall and spoke to vlad on his comment about him " quiet peasant! i will not sit here and be mocked by a filthy human of course i care about my own race nothing more nothing less."
verde smirked and giggled a bit at the scene as he spoke out to auburn " this is a nice little group you got here." auburn sighed and shook her head smiling as she replied back to him " yeah this is how it usually is they both care about me a lot but they seem to get in a fight with even the most simple of things...reeno especially.." verde laughed a bit as he replied back to her " heh sounds like amaterasu and saffron those two just cant see eye to eye put them together and you are just asking for trouble however, they are still friends at the end of the day no matter how much they fight they are almost like a family to me."
reeno suddenly glared at verde with a menacing stare as if he was actually striking him with a thunder bolt, he now spoke out towards him " you there filthy human you better not be doing anything to harm one of my people or i swear i will strike you down with my own two hands that is a guarantee dont take it lightly." vlad softly spoke out against this statement " please take it lightly my colleague would not be so foolish to do anything so brash and violent but even if he was we would stop him before doing so, so i urge you not to worry he may sound menacing but in truth we are grateful to you for protecting our teammate."
verde smiled and with a sign of relief and replied back " shes helped me in more ways than once so its only natural i do the same for her...i'll do my best to keep her safe i promise you that its my duty as a huntsman." reeno slightly smiled replying to his answer " i dont really trust you humans all that much so you have to excuse my rudeness...i do what ever it takes to protect my kind so you better stick to what you said because if you do the opposite i WILL be the first to find you and make you pay dearly with my fist." verde smirked a confident smirk as he replied to his comment " i'll be sure to give you a call when that ever happens ok." vlad places his hat back on his head as he checks his watch and smiles speaking " well its been a lovely time spent speaking here but our time here is up we have a mission to attend to...of course except you auburn you have been instructed by glynda to take it easy for a while you are fully fine."
reeno crossed his arms and added to his words " we best get moving i dont want to be late we shall catch you later auburn...and slightly cool filthy peasant." the two of them said they're goodbyes and headed off to they're mission leaving auburn and verde alone once again, auburn then smiled and spoke to him " well this has been a bit of a party more than a recovery day but none the less we got to see our friends visit us but most of all i had a really great time with you thanks for protecting me out there but i must be taking my leave i will catch you later ok?" auburn winks and heads out the door moving down the hallway as verde sighs looking out the window at the afternoon son as he spoke to himself "something to protect....i think i finally found a reason mom."
meanwhile in a secluded locked up room vanilla sat there with her hands on her knees looking down as she spoke to herself " if they think this room can contain my rage they are dead wrong....i will get what i want even if i have to take down every last one of them to do it." just then a voice on her communicator voice on her communicator as jade spoke " glad to see you still have some drive left in you...you may have failed the optional objective if time we move in on the main course...cinder has given you orders to retrieve a special object found in saffron aura's room it's our key objective." vanilla seemed puzzled at this objective and rather interested "any reason why cinder is only fixated on this girl alone? " jade responded to her question " im just as much in the dark as you are she said she has personal reasons why she specifically focuses on something from saffron." vanilla smirked as she responded back to her answer " shes hiding something i can feel it...theres something she isn't telling us feels like she's giving blind information and expecting us to follow them like mindless pawns.....whatever i'll follow her so called orders but i will find out what she is planning i wont be used as just some pawn!"
jade responded to vanilla " well put...now use your semblance to open the door as soon as you do an alarm will tip off and you should head to the room while your teammates will keep the other huntsman and huntresses busy, this mission is top priority do NOT fail or you can kiss your recovery good bye their will be no second chances understand?" vanilla steeled her resolve as she stood up and started to generate electricity around her body as she spoke " electric terrain! " a small burst of electricity shot out from her body and fried the lock on the door, the alarm sounded as vanilla rushed through the halls heading for team VAST room, while off communicator jade slowly spoke to herself " silly girl...when will she realize that we are all a pawn in cinders little game.
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