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Just before Nemesis's head connected with Maori's, he distributed his weight, swinging his left foot the back of her right leg, and using her hand to push her in the other direction. He pushed them both over onto the ground, swinging her leg back, flipping over her, taking on what looking like a dancing, bombastic stance.

"Nice try. If you'll allow me to speak for myself for a mome', yeah? Fox girl's cute, no two ways about it. And unlike you lot, I can appreciate that kind of beauty. As far as I'm concerned, we've only got two jobs here as Hunters. Fighting, and Loving. Women happen to be an expert in the latter, as my experience will tell me. Now, I'm no brute, or villain. You won't find any rape on the brain with this one. Now, if any of you men can truly attest to your chivalrous nature, and you ability to see past the cruel gender and race divide that the Gods have thrust upon us, then can't you allow this maiden to protect her own purity, and not do it for her. She very calmly denied my advances, at least for now. You call me a pig, and a brute, maybe even a slobbish barbarian. But I'm not the one making threats now am I? For shame. Violence is so unbecoming of gentlemen. Tsk tsk tsk. I'm sure the girls back home were very smitten with your maturity. And I'm sure the girls at Beacon will take kindly to it as well."

edited 5th Mar '15 6:07:34 PM by Saturn

"Tch." The masked figure got back up, dusting herself off. "Not only you talk too much, but also whitewash yourself as casually as you attempt your trickeries." The blue eye and the green eye alike stung again, this time not aiming anywhere in particular. As long as his sense of superiority was shaken, his smug posture dispersed, Nemesis cared little for the actual target.

"You are the absolute last person to lecture me about maturity. Unlike you I'm very well-aware of what I should be doing in Beacon. That is not, as you might have thought, seducing and fornication." Though her voice was calm, Nemesis was seething inside. Amazing just how much Maori managed to anger her in a span of mere couple minutes.

There was a slow clapping coming from the front of the car. If one were to look Ovid was clapping and grinning, his eyes a luminescent red. "What interesting people you all are. I must be sure to keep my eyes on all of you."

"It is for me." She told Verna as she was brushed away from Maori. She said nothing to him, but instead turned around and began to walk back to their train car, tapping Verna on the shoulder. "Leave it." She tells her. "Besides, I already have a nickname, it is Onyx Knight."

Maori chuckled, placing a hand on Nessie's shoulder. "No hard feelings, ay there boy? Sorry to tell ya, but seducing and fornicating is exactly what I should be doing. The man who has his blood in the right place can think clearly. I'd be happy to help you get your dick wet when we arrive on campus. I call it a Wingman."

Nemesis batted the hand away as soon as it was upon her shoulder. "Don't touch me." She snarled. "And get your head out of the gutter while you're at it."

Vacuo Car

"I stand corrected," said Bao, standing from her seat.

And then, she disappeared. Teleportation? Super speed? Bao appeared behind Maori in an instant.

"You are the most irritating amongst them all."

A firm hand grasped Maori's shoulder. It was a tall redheaded young man clad in heavy armor...and carrying a lot of weapons.

"Now, that is no way to speak to our brother in arms, yes?" said Gareth, a cheerful smile on his face.

Golden-brown eyes looked in the fox woman's direction, and the slightest hint of disapproval appeared on his face.

"Let us all calm down. We shall soon be blood brothers in the battlefield, after all."

Enter Tempestas

The muscular inventor decided to take a bit of a walk over to the next car, since it seemed like no one was willing to talk in his own. He walked into the Vacuo car to find quite a large number of people gathered in it.

"May I ask what is going on?", he said.

"Okay, okay, that's enough. There are severely too many people in this car right now." Ahyan said, standing up finally.

He wasn't very tall, or too imposing.

"Friend, if you would do the honors?" he said, resting his hand on Nemesis's shoulder. At his touch, Nemesis would feel a pleasant warmth course though her body, followed by a sense of somewhat increased strength.

Enough to shove people out of the car, perhaps.

Nessie didn't bat away Ahyan's hand, but she still wriggled her shoulder away from him after his intent has been realized. "With great pleasure." She spoke, setting her icy gaze upon the closest target available: Gareth. Without so much as an introduction she began pushing the red-headed figure out of the car, her increased strength easily enough to likely move him around as she pleased.

She wasn't particularly gentle with her pushes, either. Best of luck on not crashing into doors and walls.

"Hey, Hey, Screw this peace and good will, bull." Ovid objected loudly. "Fight, dust-dammit. I want your moves!"

The white-haired man let out a small cheer when he saw the shoving begin. "Good start but more!"

edited 5th Mar '15 7:21:14 PM by guyshane

Gareth grinned and flared his Semblance as well. Silver light covered his body. Gareth was very strong normally, but with his power tripled, he was more than a match for Nemesis's boosted push.

He didn't move. Gareth laughed happily.

"Excellent. Testing our mettle already, brother? This will be most enjoyable."

A punch right into the face.

"This car is, for your information, overcrowded." She drawled in response, swaying away from the punch. "We can "test our mettle" once there's more room and less people to accidentally hit."

"And since I can't push you out, how about you leave on your own?" She added, her icy glare seemingly drilling Gareth through.

"Err..." said Nonie. "Why is everyone so insistent on fighting in the first place?"

Gareth nodded at the masked one's voice. "Aye. You have a good point, o masked comrade."

He bows respectfully at the others in the car and smiles warmly at them. "Mine apologies."

He looked at Nemesis again and grabbed one of "his" hands in an enthusiastic shake. "I look forward to meeting you in glorious combat, my brother!"

He laughed again and made his way back into the Vale car. "That was...very enjoyable, yes?"

Ahyan shrugged when Nemesis shied away from his touch. That too was perfectly normal.

"I don't know!" he yelled over the mass in front of him at Nonie (despite not being able to see her), "but I know it's something stupid!"

"Yes so give into the stupidity and just fight already." Ovid called out, still hoping to get some more moves than those he had already seen.

Vale Car

"I guess so, your highness," Vladimir responded, still writing in his journal.

Vale Car

Taking note of how quickly his train car had emptied, Gerhart took leave of his watch, removed his helmet and began watching the landscape as he rushed by it.

Vacuo Car

How much did that cost you? How much did that cost you? That was the thought that played over and over in Reymond's head as she silently watched the fights break out, people leaving and entering the cars. She eventually drifted into the Vacuo car, and watched that one for awhile. Lots of expensive armors there. Grimacing, she affixed the two club attachments to The Spinner, just in case.

"Fucking fringe benefits to Boar ancestry..." She mumbled under her breath, shifting her strange weapon around in her hand. More loudly, she asked, "So, friend..." She eyed the dark-skinned human. Maori. "Now that the tin tyrants are gone, I'd like a piece of the action. You're gonna apologize now."

edited 5th Mar '15 7:46:27 PM by Taco

Maori smirked at Reymond, looking down at her. She was pretty average. Not really his type. "Apologize for what. I did nothing wrong."

Rey snorted in derision—wait FUCK SHE SNORTED AGAIN. She scrunched up her nose and brought up The Spinner firmly in both hands, one on the throttle and the other on a handle positioned opposite the actual spinning mechanism.

"You harassed a girl who probably gets that every day—I understand that you were just saying what was on your mind, like I am right now, but maybe it'd pay to consider the larger scope of what you're saying, right?" She took a step back from Maori. "Basically, because she is both a woman and a Faunus, she gets that all the time, and you're basically contributing to all that weight on her. You know how once you meet someone about our age, they've probably heard every joke in the book about their name, and it's tacky to try one?" She tried to smile. "My name's Rey, for instance, so I get the 'Gay' crack a lot. Nobody needs that any more than they already do. It's like that, with what you just did there."

"But I repeat. What did I do wrong?" Maori skipped around Rey as he spoke, dancing a bit with his swift steps. "Where I come from, a man learns to be charismatic and forward when dealing with an attractive girl. I simply spoke out my opinion on her attractiveness, and once she informed me that she was not interested, I stopped. At that point, I was threatened, attacked and pushed out, pretty roughly, yeah? Haha, everyone is sure giving me a hard time but I'm just having a fun time! Hahaha!" He laughed, chuckling brightly.

Vacuo Car

"You made several disparaging remarks," said Bao, as she started reading her book while standing, "insinuating that the girl is an expensive whore, and then a cheap whore. For all you know, she could be a noblewoman where ever she happens to call home."