Lurking Darkness

Under Pressure

The next day, while everyone is on Amity Colosseum awaiting the next round of the singles matches, you and Qrow begin your training.

"Alright kid, I need to see what you've been doing to keep from destroying another sparring facility." He asks in both a joking way and a serious way.

"Yes sir."

"Also, drop the sir schtick. That's more James's thing. Just Qrow is fine."

"Alright Qrow." You nod. You begin to meditate, lowering your body temperature, then raising it, lowering and raising, over and over again, 5 times and then a 30 second break in between.

"Not bad kid, but now that you know how much your emotions play a part in it's effectiveness. We need to figure out how to make you feel emotion while using Thermostat."

"Oh that's easy, make me angry." Qrow sighs.

"We don't want to destroy the school, you already have enough flak on you. How about we ramp it up slowly, for now, just think about anyone or anything that has made you annoyed or stressed." You think back to the day in the cafeteria, when Cardin Winchester was abusing poor Velvet. You think about that one night with Blake, how incredibly nervous and tense you were, you then think of the bullies who ruined your life when you were little, you then think of your mother, and how loving and caring she was.

"Hey kid, guess what?" Qrow interrupts your mediation.

"Wha- What Qrow?"

"Your highest temperature just shot up to 210 degrees, thanks to that handy little device on your wrist, I could tell, and your coldest you got to was -88. You really are a prodigy huh?" He says chuckling. There is no way your emotions can really have that much of an affect on you.

"That's incredible Qrow."

"I agree, now that we have an understanding of how you can get to those highs and lows, we nee—." Team JNPR minus Pyrrha comes rushing into their dorm room.

"Y/n)! It's Pyrrha." Jaune says worryingly.
You feel the tension and temperature in the air reach new highs, and lows.

"Is she okay?" You ask quickly. Jaune looks away.

"Yes she's fine, but Penny..." You remember Ruby telling you about her friend Penny she met while you were unconscious for 3 weeks, how she was amazing and powerful and really fun to be around.

"What happened?" Qrow asks before you can.

"Pyrrha used her Semblance to reflect Penny's swords back, but she used too much power and Penny was cut in many pieces." Now everyone knows something is up, Pyrrha Nikos, used too much of her power on purpose? No way.

"That poor girl." You say.

"Penny wasn't a real girl, that's the scary part. Penny was an android." Qrow leans off of the wall.

"Dammit James. I gotta find Oz, I'll find you later kid." Qrow is out the door in seconds.

"Let's go, we gotta get to Pyrrha." You follow Jaune, Nora and Ren to Amity, where find Pyrrha, on her hands and knees, breaking down. Then you see it...
Penny's broken and mangled, electrical body. You hope it was quick and painless, you jump over the guardrails and run to Pyrrha, so does Jaune. Just before you reach her, a Nevermore breaks through the hard light barrier and comes crashing down. It charges Pyrrha.

"PYRRHA!" A trail of roses fly past you faster than you've seen anything ever move. It's Ruby, and she's carrying a sword, she pushed the Nevermore back.

"Ruby?" Pyrrha is in tears.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Ruby screams at the Nevermore. You stand beside her.

"Ruby, I got this." You walk to the Nevermore, it charges you, however, the training you and Qrow did earlier, while short, was very effective. You think of something that irritated you, and you froze the Nevermore instantly.

"Woah.." Jaune gasps. You then look at Pyrrha and return to normal.

"Ruby, I..." She's in waterworks now.

"Ruby I am so sorry.."

No notes this time, there probably won't be any notes for a while, thanks for reading again! -P