Chapter 33: Three of Three
"Will he be okay?" Jaune muttered staring at Arthur shakily lifting a spoonful of soup to his mouth, the soup of course going everywhere.
"He should be, I used to have the same problem in at the beginning of my training, my body would feel weak and wobbly by the end of it." Pyrrha stated "Though, what worries me is the look in his eyes… fear… just what did Summer make him do…" Pyrrha's voice trailed off.
"Yeah, what did she make you do? I didn't hear you come back to the dorms last night so did you sleep somewhere else then?" Ruby asked sending a shiver down Arthurs spine that was visible to everyone at the table.
"Oh~ were you waiting for him for a little. Night. Craw. Ling~" Yang sang out to her sister.
"Yang!" Ruby retorted throwing Blake's tuna sandwich at her, hitting her in the face.
"My lunch…" Blake whined as she stared at her now empty hands.
"Gah! Ruby! Now I'm gonna stink of fish for the rest the day!" Yang complained as she wiped the remaining tuna chunks off her face.
Arthur was silent throughout the whole exchange between Ruby and Yang, he held his spoon in front of his mouth, the soup splashing every which way his eyes were blurry as he began to recite his ordeal "She… made me do an hour of constant running…"
"That doesn't sound that bad." Pyrrha commented
"Every time I slowed down she would hit me in the back of the knees with a wooden sword knocking me to the ground, then ordered me to continue... After that… she made me do one hundred reps of at least ten exercises"
"Still doesn't sound that bad, It's not easy, but not impossible, especially for a well trained huntsman." Pyrrha added.
"I'm not a well-trained huntsman… I've never done training in my life before yesterday…" Arthur explained. "But I could barely get through the first set because I was so tired, so she got her friend who's the owner of the gym to bring in something called a Bravo's Chamber…"
"A Bravo's Chamber!?" Weiss shouted out surprising everyone at the table "How did they get their hands on that! It's still in development! It's not even public knowledge yet because of the risks of using it!" Weiss's voice rose.
"Wait, risks? What risks? And how do you know about it then?" Ruby cautiously questioned the heiress.
"My family is the biggest Dust conglomerate on Remnant, my father's been trying to buy the right to the machine for the last year. And the warning about using the machine revolve around broken bones, paralysis, necrosis of musculature. Really big dangerous stuff, especially to huntsmen, that's why it's still in testing." The heiress explained
"And mom made you go in that thing!?" Ruby cried out to Arthur.
"Yeah… I-I didn't want to go into it. She pushed me into it, It started as a full body massage, it felt amazing. But then the pain… oh god the pain… everything turned red, every bone in my body was popped, every, single, bone, within six minutes I had lost feeling in my arms, legs and neck." Arthur held his head as he recited his pains to the shivering crowd.
"Holy…" Jaune recited his eyes wide open.
"That, does not sound pleasant." Ren responded.
"It didn't break your legs did it? That's my job." Nora calmly stated
"That sounds like a really violent Chiropractor." Pyrrha stated
"It was, it really was. Once the whole ordeal was done I felt like I felt so much more flexible and energized. But that's not even the worst of it" Everyone froze as they tried to imagine what could be worse than that.
"Immediately after that Summer told me to start running again, for another hour, the another hour of the exercises every time I collapsed I would be tossed back into the chamber. Even Pit didn't dare go against her, he tried to save me… he warned her that I was only supposed to do it once a day… she didn't care… and now everything hurts, I'm pretty sure I'm an owl faunus now and I can't feel my big toe." Arthurs tried to roll his shoulders and got a jolt of pain throughout his body causing him to immediately let his arms fall to the table with a thump.
"That, that isn't training at that point, it's torture." Ren fearfully stated to him.
"You don't even know the half of it. The training started at two, I got back to Beacon at six." Arthur said.
"That's not that bad it's only like fou…" Yang was about to say
"In the morning" Arthur added shocking the entire table and silencing Yang whose eyes widened to saucer sizes.
"A-Arthur, h-how much sleep have you gotten so far?" Ruby stuttered out to Arthur whose head was now beginning to sag.
"Sleep? What's that… The chamber has an effect that forces the mind to stay awake… I went into at least eight times… I haven't slept since yesterday mor…ning…" Arthur's eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fell face first into his bowl of still hot soup, his body now limp and unresponsive.
"Oh, crapbaskets!" Ruby shouted as she pulled Arthurs head out of the soup and saw his face was now bright red, his eyes still open showing the whites of his eyes. "Arthur!" Ruby began to shake him "Come on Arthur! Wake up!" Ruby shouted in panic.
"Ruby!" Yang came up behind her sister grabbing her hand that she was about to use to slap Arthur awake. "Ruby! Calm down. He's exhausted, let him rest. Let's carry him back to his dorm, or do we take him to the infirmary?" Yang asked to the table as Ruby began to slowly calm down from her sudden fit.
"I say we take him to the infirmary." Weiss said "We can ask Professor Kardia to make sure it really is just exhaustion" she suggested
"I say we should do that as well, after that amount of exercise? He's sure to have numerous minute injuries, it's better to get a professional to make sure he will be okay." Pyrrha agreed and added on.
Ruby and Yang shared a short glance and nodded "We'll take him to the infirmary, you guys stay here." Yang said as she lifted Arthurs 'lifeless' body over her shoulder and began walking to the infirmary with Ruby in tow.
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"So what happened this time?" Kardia said pinching the bridge of her nose after seeing a familiar figure slung over Yang's shoulders, her voice not hiding her exasperation that her Arthur had returned to the infirmary for the third time in just as many days.
"Mom, may or may not have decided to take Arthur under her wing." Ruby explained trying to avoid any details on what had happened.
"What did Summer do…" she began massaging her temples as well "And Yang, lie him down on the bed…" she let out a sigh while thinking 'I should just label it 'Arthur Fielder' at this point, shouldn't I?'
"She, may have worked him non-stop since lunch yesterday, he said he only got to sleep at six this morning." Ruby explained, giving up on hiding details at Kardia's glare.
"Don't forget that chamber thing he was tossed into." Yang inputted
"Chamber?" Kardia inquired
"Yeah, apparently he was tossed into a magical massage machine the popped his joints and gave him a massage, multiple times. He also said it forced him to stay awake. Not sure how, but it sounds scary." Yang explained.
"This 'chamber' wouldn't happen to be called a 'Bravos Chamber' would it?"
"How'd you know? Weiss said it's not public information yet." Ruby tilted her head as she asked Kardia who threw her head back and let out a long groan of frustration
"Goddammit Pit, I told you not to use that damned machine yet…" she muttered, her voice low enough making it inaudible to Ruby and Yang who looked at each other in confusion and shrugged.
Letting out another sigh after a minute of silence Kardia turned to Arthur and rolled herself next to him, placing both her hands on his chest as she let her semblance begin to cover him and analyse his wounds.
"Well, I'll be damned" Kardia exclaimed as she turned to Ruby and Yang, her hands still on Arthur's chest "He's perfectly fine, in fact, he's healthier than he was yesterday. I expected at least a little necrosis but he's perfectly fine." She explained her finger lightly pushing into Arthur's chest, this not going unnoticed by Ruby and Yang who twitched and grinned respectively at her actions.
"Kardia, aren't you the handsy one today?~" Yang teased her grin getting bigger as she pulled out her scroll and took a picture of the confused professor. Her confusion only lasting moments as she looked down and saw what she was doing. Her hands quickly flew off of Arthur as her face turned red and her inner monologue took over 'Kardia! Naughty! Don't let your body take control!' her inner self screamed.
"Yes… she is…" Ruby commented, squinting at the professor with a strange, almost unreadable expression, unreadable to most that is, but to Yang, she knew exactly what that expression meant.
'I need to talk to Ruby, before she starts another cookie crusade… Arthur version this time.' Yang commented in her head.
"A-a-anyways, h-he'll be fine, ju-just l-let him sl-sleep for a while." The sputtering heart proclaimed to the two sisters as she turned her wheel chair around and hid her head within the pile of documents on her desk. 'Dammit Kardia! We've been through this before! Bad girl!' she berated herself once again.
"So… do we leave him here or do we take him back to his room?" Yang asked the professor
"His room!" both Ruby and Kardia shouted at the same time, causing them to lock eyes, Ruby squinting, while Kardia quickly averted away from her eyeline.
'oh god, I really need to have the talk with her…' Yang thought. She walked up to Arthur and once again picked him up and ungraciously threw him over her shoulder as she called for her sister to follow her "Later, ms. K!"
"It's Kardia!" She shouted out to the quickly escaping Yang, while Ruby took one last glance at Kardia, before following her sister.
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"So, you have his Scroll?" Yang asked Ruby, as they stood in front of his dorm room.
"No, wait, didn't it get, what did he call it? Assimilated? By his book?" Ruby asked, remembering that Arthur had put his scroll into his book a few days prior.
"Oh, yeah. That did happen… does his book work as the room key now?" Yang asked curiously as she brought her unused hand up to the satchel attached to Arthur's belt where his Tome was held, she deftly opened the satchel with one hand and pulled out Arthurs Tome, inspecting it for a moment before holding it up to the electronic lock too see if it worked as a key to his room.
And it did, a second after holding the Tome up to the lock it released a bed and a small green led lit up indicating that the door was unlocked. "Huh, that's neat." Yang muttered as she opened Arthur's door into his dorm room, or as it currently was, suite, as any semblance of the room being dorm room was stripped away by the lavish amenities and the giant stuffed bear in the corner.
"Lucky bastard…" Yang murmured, thinking Ruby couldn't hear her.
"Swear! You owe me cookie!" Ruby happily exclaimed as she closed the door behind her.
"Dammit." She mumbled again, soon tossing Arthur onto the centre of his bed, fully expecting him to bounce on the bed, only to see his body just softly land atop the bed as it deformed under his sudden weight before rising up once the downward force had been negated.
Yang rolled her shoulder muttering "He's heavier than he looks" while sitting down on the edge of the bed, finding once again that it was amazingly soft to the touch as she gently sank into the bed.
"Ohhh, I want a bed like this" She stated as she laid down on it next to the unconscious Arthur.
"Yang! Get off! He's sleeping there!" Ruby exclaimed as she tried to pull her sister off of the bed. Ruby's tugs weren't strong enough to pull Yang, an experienced brawler with enough strength to crack the rock hard masks of the Grimm.
Yang quickly came up with a devious scheme as when Ruby attempted pull again Yang forcefully pulled her arm back, quickly throwing Ruby through the air with a surprised "Wah!" as she landed on the other side of the bed next to Arthur.
"Yang!" Ruby shouted but was silenced as Yang placed her index finger of Ruby's mouth saying "Shhh" while indicating to Arthur with her head. Ruby realizing her folly quickly silenced herself while Yang nodded in approval and whispered to her.
"Just lie down and try the bed, it's heavenly." Yang told her sister as she lay back down on the bed, closing her eyes as she let out a content sigh.
Ruby, was hesitating as she looked between Yang, the bed and Arthur. Her hesitation eventually gave way as she let out a sigh and slowly lowered herself onto the pillow, her body facing Arthur and Yangs Direction. As her head landed on the pillow she too released a content sigh as she muttered "It really is a good bed…" not getting a response from her sister.
Lifting her head back up she peaked over Arthur's body "Yang?" she called out, still not getting a response from her sister. She noticed that Yang's chest was rhythmically rising as a light snore came from her mouth. "She fell asleep…" Ruby muttered to herself as she let out another sigh, letting her head fall onto the pillow, only for her head to impact with something harder than the pillow.
"Ow" she lightly rubbed her head as she inspected what she had landed on, seeing while she was checking on her sister that Arthur's arm had moved onto the pillow. Ruby's eyes opened wide as a blush formed on her face as she thought Arthur would be awoken from the light impact to his arm.
But, unlike her expectation Arthur didn't awaken, letting out sigh of relief Ruby's face lightened as she felt her eye's beginning to droop closed and a yawn made its way from her mouth. Her eyes eventually closing shut as a rhythmic 'fuu' sound was added to the quiet room.
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Extended Authors Notes:
Okay, so from the 10th to the 15th there might be less release's as I will be out of country and away from my desktop, I will still be taking my laptop with me, so I should still be able to write. If I can't release anything within the week I will release everything once I am back home (Or whenever I have internet)
Also not sure how many of you know this but there's a sister book called [Akashic : The Tome] which I made (Just go into my profile it's on there. I have also added a link to it in the synopsis of this book] That's where a more in-depth look into the different functions of the Tome are, so if something happens with the Tome that you want clarification on comment it on there (I'll add a general chapter if it's not about a specific function) and any ideas you may have for any specific function on said chapter.
It's also where Arthur's inventory, quests and smaller functions are listed (Completed quests are in Auxiliary) that is also where I will be adding in the different character profiles, I'll try to keep it up to date, I still have to add information to most characters listed on it.
Also, should I have a separate chapter for each world? Or just a single general chapter. (I will be keeping my OC's in their own separate chapter) and should I have a chapter dedicated to Harem members (Yes, in case you haven't figured it out, there is most likely going to be a harem, it's an inevitability when your main character can travel between different worlds with a magical book that can trick people into signing soul binding contracts that can't be broken.)
And, should I include Summer and Glynda into it? I'm still on the fence with Glynda and I'm fine with adding Summer to it, already have a rough idea of how that's going to work out in my mind.
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