Lurking Darkness

Ice Cold Pt. 2

As you storm off back to JNPR's dorm, (where Ozpin has said you will stay for your time here at Beacon), you freeze the ground where your boots stepped, pure ice is radiating from your body due to your semblance, a couple of student happen to get in your path, and now they all need to scrap ice from their clothing. You go into the room, slam the door, and hold the lock until it freezes so no one can come in for a while. You just need time to calm down and let your Semblance not become rampant and freeze half the school.

"I can't wait until sparring class, I'm going to ring his little, fuc—!" A knock is heard at the door.

"(Y/n)? Please let me in."

"Pyrrha, can I just get a few minutes?"

"In a few minutes none of us are going to have beds to sleep in tonight." She started to joke. You take a moment to look and see the bed you're on turning into an icicle.

"Yea, yea, gimme a sec." You use your weapon to break the ice and unlock the door. Pyrrha walks in, a saddened expression growing across her face.

"(Y/n), are you okay?" Her hands are crossed in front of her.

"What do you think Pyrrha? Do I look okay?" You say.

"I'm sorry, I think I knew that answer to that already." She states knowingly.

"Pyrrha.. you know why I can't keep calm around... pieces of trash like him."

"(Y/n), your mother wouldn't want you to-" She takes a step forward.

"Pyrrha. Don't." She stops.

"I'm sorry." She sighs. As do you. As Team RWBY and JNR come to the dorm room to check, you have cooled off a bit and are no longer freezing everything, seeing Blake helps, even if she doesn't know it yet.

"Hey Iceman! You cool now?" Yang says still shooting puns your way.

"Yea, I'm better now, thanks firecracker." You shoot a pun back her way, she laughs it off.

"I'm really sorry about freezing all of the food you guys." You apologize to the group.

"Ooh it's okay, I wasn't too hungry anyway." Ruby says.

"I suppose I need to tell you all why I freaked out and lost my shit back there huh?" You look at them all.

"Only if you want to, we aren't going to make you Y/n." You sigh, this is gonna take a while.
Pyrrha is grabbing your shoulder, calming you down as you have someone who at least know what happened.

"Well, sit down, this is gonna take a while." They all find a chair or a bed to rest themselves on.

"So let me start by saying, I hate people like Cardin."

"Who doesn—?" Yang asks before being cut off.

"No, I HATE people like Cardin, they all need to be locked up or die in a hole, kind of hate."
You begin to shiver slightly, Pyrrha calms you down, you look at Blake.

"People like Cardin are the reason my mother is dead." Gusts of cold air shoot through the room. You stopped yourself.

"I... I also am the reason sh... she's gone..."RWBY all look at you with hurt eyes, especially Ruby, you've gathered from Yang that Ruby didn't have her mother growing up, so for her, mothers are a hard topic to speak of.

"Y/n, what do you mean?"

"When I was little, around 7 years of age. I was in class, and was being bullied, some stupid, stupid bullies were picking on me, and a girl I liked at the time, who just so happened to be a faunus." Blake slightly reacts to the word faunus, no one noticed.

"One day when they were doing their routine, they ended up going too far.." RWBY and JNR were still listening intently.

"They.. they beat her. They beat the absolute hell out of her just because she wasn't like them, I ran over to them and attempted to fight back for her. But they had numbers, I was just a scared 7 year old. Out of nowhere, in the middle of August, I froze a 5 ft circle around me and almost killed them, it was the first time my Semblance activated, and I have no idea how I did it. It scared me, needless to say, me and the bullies were suspended for a long time." All the members of each team gasp when they hear what the bullies did.

"(Y/n).. we had no idea" Blake spoke up, a hint of anger in her voice toward those who wronged you.

"It's okay Blake, thank you, but Im not done yet." She nods and you take another breath.

"Once I was allowed back on campus, they did their best to keep those asshats and me separated, for fear of it happening again. They failed. They were doing it again, beating the hell out of her. I lost it, my Semblance triggered again and I froze each and every one of them, at age 7..." They all stayed silent.

"The school had informed my parents of what happened, and I was put on house arrest for fear of freezing everything and killing everyone. Luckily for those stupid kids, they didn't die, unluckily for those stupid kids, they couldn't learn from their past mistakes, 3 years passed and everything was good, no Semblance re-emergence, nothing bad had happened, until they came back." Still, complete silence.

"They came back one night just to prove how fucking macho they were, they brought her back. Right outside my house, they beat her until she couldn't move.." The air began to turn cold...

"She died, there on my front yard, my mother was there attempting to calm me down. She couldn't do it..."

"I think I remember this.." Weiss spoke up.

"Y/n what happened that night, so many homes, frozen solid, that was you?" You nod at her, her expression turns to one of shock.

"My mother tried so hard to calm me, I couldn't control it, my Semblance activated off of pure, uncontrollable rage, and everything with 5 miles, frozen solid, including my mother..."

"Why didn't anyone do anything? Why weren't the police there?" Nora asks.

"They said if anyone got too close they'd shoot her and kill her, I wanted to go because it was me they wanted, but my mother wouldn't let me. My sister was with my father at work, so they weren't in the radius, thanks goodness. I devoted every single day, working on my Semblance control, and I even upgraded an exact opposite to the cold part." The air begun to warm up and become bright and happy.

"Instead of killing and freezing, I would defend and protect, hence the defensive part of my Semblance came to be." RWBY and JNR were still completely silent, still waiting for more of the story.

"Around 2 years after I lost my mind. I met Pyrrha, she helped me through it all, to say the least, she saved my life. She helped me train at Signal, even helped me build Moonwake, I owe my life to Pyrrha."

"No you don't Y/n. You don't owe me anything, I just can't not help people who are hurting, that is what being a huntress is about." You smile.

"Thanks Pyrrha. So yea, that's my life story. Any ques—?" Team RWBY and JNR hugged you.

"Need. Air. To. Live."

They all release you and start laughing.

Holyyy shit that was a story, well I hope you all enjoy this chapter, Dust Robbery is soon so be ready! Thanks again for reading! -P