"This is the part where you lose" Cardin said, an arrogant smirk on his face as he twirled his mace

"Over my dead-" Jaune was knocked away as Cardin whacked him again and stood above Jaune, he brought his Mace down however Professor Goodwitch stopped it in the nick of time. "Mr Winchester that is enough" She said, Cardin backed off and Jaune got to his feet shakily

"As you can see, Mr Arc's aura is now in the red zone, in a tournament, the official would joe call the match, Mr Arc, please try to refer to your scroll during matches to decide when is best to attack and when to switch to a more...defensive strategy, we wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a beowolf now would we?" She looked at Arc as Cardin stomped off "speak for yourself..." he muttered quietly, unfortunately he was heard "Mr Branwen, as Mr Winchester is still combat ready, I think this would be a good time to brush up on his training abilities, especially as Mr Arc didn't seem to challenge him" Goodwitch suppresses a smile, nobody talked back in her class.

Y/N shrugged and clenched his fist, the power stone glowing. "Alright then" he said, glaring at Cardin, his brutal treatment of Jaune had reminded him of Tai and he was not going to go easy on him.

A few moments later, Y/N had Cardin in a headlock, the gauntlet pressed against his head and the power stone draining his Aura painfully as it crackled with purple energy that spread along his head, a moment later Y/N released Cardin who promptly fell to his knees.

"Get up" Y/N said, booting him in the side of the face "it's not as fun when they hit back, is it?" Y/N asked him quietly, leaning over him before giving him a strong uppercut with his gauntleted hand, Cardin fell backwards and his Aura hit the red.

Y/N stormed out straight afterwards without a word towards his teammates, who eyed him curiously

"What's wrong with Y/N?" Ruby wondered as Yang's stomach sank as she finally put two and two together.

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It was now lunchtime and as always the cafeteria was packed with students eating their lunch, Y/N however was not among them, team JNPR and RWBY were sat at a table, worrying for both him and Jaune who was still being bullied by Cardin.

"He's a bully Jaune" Ruby insisted

"Oh please, name one time he's bullied me!" Jaune said, immediately regretting it when a montage begins.

Y/N chose this moment to sit down, he looked like he had been crying recently but was pretty good at hiding it.

"Where did you run off to then?" Weiss asked, not reading the obvious signs that Y/N was not in the mood for a conversation

Y/N opened his mouth to tell Weiss to shut up when he was interrupted by a yelp of pain

"Ow, stop it!"

"Heh, I told you they were real!"

Y/N clenched his fist and the power stone glowed slightly as his metal fork somehow snapped

"Excuse me for one second" Y/N said politely, before strolling up to Cardin, turning him around with his right hand and then giving him  the strongest punch he could muster, the power stone glowed brightly as it connected to his right cheek, Cardin fell back over the table and crashed into the next bench over, Y/N then turned to his team who were already backing away, in all fairness their leader had just been knocked out cold and they unlike Y/N didn't have their weapons on them. So they did the wise thing, picked up their leader and ran for the hills.

Y/N then sat down next to the rabbit Faunus and started to eat the rest of his food with her.

"I swear that one of these days, Y/N is going to actually kill someone" Nora said, staring at the Cardin shaped splinter in the bench.

"He's not like this usually, one of us should probably talk to him" Ruby said

"I'll go!" Yang said suddenly, she hadn't said much during the conversation so this took the group by surprise

"Well...alright sis, maybe wait until after next lesson though, something tells me he'll need time to cool off" Ruby said thoughtfully as Y/N threw his rubbish in the trash and walked off almost robotically.