Old world history...

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Georges POV
Well, after an eventful evening with Kyle and his other sister, Saiya, I headed to my lesson, but as fate would like to be as it is, I had a joint class... With Saiya, but I don't think she fancies me, because I swear to what ever god exist that I'll be dead as RWBY would probably kick my ass and then melt me down to nothing.

It was history and our loving professor wanted me to to talk about the world before,  "can you tell us about your good old days in the old world, what you liked to do, and such ?" He asked, "well, sir, I'll talk about the good year of 2010, it was the year that my family got a nice house by a cliff side in the country of England, and there was this cool movie, Paranormal activity and the newest models for Apple came out, like iPad mini and things like that, is that what you wanted to know sir ?" I said, (some of that may not be true, they are just some examples that came to mind, couldn't think about anything else, sorry) then he just said "surely you had some good times, a house by the cliffs, what was it like ?, what was life like compared to now ?".

"Well... It was big, about 8 bedrooms, similar to one of our previous houses by the cliffs, in fact, it was the same one, anyway, in the summer, I would dive from the cliffs and walk through the he countryside in the sunlight and enjoyed my day, there were no Grimm back then, so no real worries and we used fossil fuels and..." I was interrupted by someone shouting "THIS IS BORING, TALK ABOUT SOMETHING COOL !", I didn't know who shouted that but then I say "what ?, you want a war story ?" I say, not facing the crowd, "YEAH !, TELL US ABOUT THE WARS YOU FOUGHT !" They said again, seriously, who is that ?.
"So you want to know about the war, huh ?, I don't think so, I doubt that you'll be able to handle even half of what happened, it's not in the books, not entirely there" I say, still not facing the crowd, "WHY NOT ?, YOU A COWARD OR JUST SCARED ABOUT A LITTLE FIGHT ?, TELL US, TELL US !" That voice shouted, then some of the other started to chant "tell us, tell us".
"COWARD, I SLEPT IN SO MANY HELLHOLES THAT IT WOULD MAKE YOU EYES BLEED, I WOULDN'T JUST TELL YOU, I GONNA SHOW YOU !" I shouted back and turned to the crowd, "don't say you weren't warned about this, you want to see war, I'll show you war" I said, and got some dust, and threw it in the air, I then raised my right hand and closed my eyes to concentrate, then the dust covered the whole room, my body takes part in the memory yet my mind is making the memory come to life.

The dust changes colours to that of my memory, it looked so real, it was a dark night and there were fires everywhere, my armoured Vehicle was destroyed and we were under heavy fire, me and a couple of lads were behind the vehicle, "Sir, what are we going to do ?, our reinforcements aren't going to get to us and we are spread out thin, we can't stay here" said one of them, barely audible over the sounds of gunfire, the figure at the end turns round after firing a couple of shots into the darkness, it was me, "we will have to fall back, give the order to the men that they should head to RV1, after about 10 minutes, they should hot foot it back to base, relay that order then go, make sure they break contact immediately, I'll... I'll stay behind and provide covering fire" I shouted, then the guy goes onto the radio he had on his back, then the guy on the end, to my left, says "oi, sir, your not doing that alone, we can both fight here and await for reinforcements, we will make less targets if you send the rest of the Platoon back, come on sir, me and you" he said, then the radio man turned to me and says "sir, order given and received", "OK, get out of here,corporal, if you want to stay, then take up fighting positions and shooting back" I say, then the radio man disappears and me and this corporal was on our own, fighting against an impossible number of enemy, then the corporal fell back, blood squirting from his throat, he lets out a gargled scream, as blood came from his neck and mouth, "s-sir, I..." I saw this and turned to him, then dragged him to the side of the vehicle and placed a bandage on his wound, "stay with me now corporal, I'll see that you get to the hospital, hey, you'll get a nice nurse looking after you and warm showers, ha, come on now" I said, "sir, I-I tried sir, it wasn't suppose to end like this, it-it wasn't suppose to end like this, uh... Tell, tell my family, I-I did my job and that... I love them...." He said, then the light faded from his eyes, I held his hand, "don't worry, you did you duty, for queen and country, rest in peace and may the Lord say your name in honour and for your courage, till the end of time" I said, then the battle quietens, and the image fades, return to my body, kneeling on the ground, facing away from the crowd, "his name... Was Corporal James Buster, 10234521, B company... Yorkshire regiment, of queen Elizabeth the seconds, British Army, he died in service to his country, on the 5th of September, 2010, one day before we were due to go home for R and R, the last time he saw his family was a year before, I had to inform his family at the airport, the next day." I stood up, a tear fell from my eye, "that is war, no one wins, no one survives, and there is no such thing as an uninjured soldier, those... Nightmares, will stay with me for the rest of my life" I say, then turned to the professor, "that was my life, I was only 24 years old, corporal Buster was only 20, we... I planned to get married and have a family, like Buster, he had a teenage fiancée, only a year younger then him and she was 10 months pregnant" I say, then walked back to the stand, but fell to my knees, and bust into tears, "...in the dead of night, I can still hear the screams, the sounds of battle, I left the war, but the war never left me, and I can't escape it, I was young and stupid, why didn't I die ?, I wanted to, but I'm always the survivor" I cried, then Ruby hugged me, Yang and Blake carried me to the door and Wiess just looked at the crowd, "I hope your pleased with yourselves, because now... I can't even speak with any of you, you pushed a line" she said, and we headed to my room.

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