Chapter nine: Training

Black woke up at dawn, the sun just barely entering the dorm.

He quietly opened the window and jumped out and headed towards the forest he met them at.

He landed on the ground near a small lake.

'Time for a little warm up.'

Black took off his shirt off and started to stretch his arks and legs.

After a little while of that he fell forward towards the ground and stopped himself with two hands.

He placed one hand behind his back and then started to do pushups.

" 1.....2.....3....4....5...-" he counted out each one.

This continued for hours.

-Back with Team RWBY-

The four girls came around at about 7 o'clock.

"*Yawn* sooooo early..." Ruby complained.

"Well Black told us he'd start training us before our classes." Weiss told her with her eyes still barely open.

"Hey where is Black anyway?" Yang pointed at his usual spot against the wall.

"We should really get him a bed." Blake told the group quietly.

"We should go find him." Weiss told her teammates.

"But how?" Ruby asked Weiss before slowly getting ready.

"I put a scroll in his waist band when he went to sleep. I can just track it."

The other three girls gave her a shocked look.

"You put a tracker on him?" The three asked her at the same time.

"What? Is that soooo wrong?"

"YES!" The three said at the same time.

"Well we have a difference of opinion." She told them before looking off with her arms crossed and her eyes shut.

"Can we just.....*sigh* go find him?" Ruby asked the group.

They all finished getting ready before opening their door. The entirety of team JNPR fell down inside team RWBY's dorm.

Jaune looked up at the four girls staring down at him.

"Soooo, hi."

-A little while later-

Both team RWBY and team JNPR were following Weiss who was walking deep into emerald forest.

"We're getting close." Weiss told the group.

Jaune looked at the rest of the group and asked them "So are we ignoring the fact she put a tracker on Black?"

"We're going to have a discussion later." Yang told him.

"Ah, I see. Does she have one on any of us?"

The rest of the group immediately made a mental note to check that out.

Yang was about to ask when Weiss beat here to the point.

"He's just up ahead." She told the group.

The group quietly made their way to a large bush which the pushed aside as quietly as possible.

The sight on the other side had all the girls in the group blush.

Black was doing a hand stand while pushing his entire body up and down slowly.

"7.....8....9..-" Black counted each push.

"I hope we didn't interrupt the middle of his workout like last time." Yang said quietly remembering the training rooms first encounter with Black.

"10 million!" Black let out one last grunt before flipping up and landing on his feet.

The entire group of eight fell face forward out of the bush in shock.

Black looked over at them wiping some sweat off his head.

"So, you guys found me." Black walked over to his shirt which had the scroll Weiss hid on him on top of it.

"Thanks for the scroll by the way." Black told the group before picking it up and sliding it into his red sash.

After the group got up and he put his shirt on they immediately started to ask him about training.

"So I have to train all of you now?"

They all nodded.

"Shesh. All right first things first, hand over all your weapons."

"What why?!" Ruby freaked and held onto her compacted scythe like it was about to be stolen.

"You all need to work on hand to hand combat, you rely in your weapons far to much. So-" Black held out his hand and motioned for them to give up the weapons. "-give me the weapons."

They all handed them over, Ruby the only one he had to pry away from when she gave hers to him.

He sat them down against a tree base.

"So were gonna start really easy, one thousand push ups, one thousand sit-ups, then one thousand jumping jacks. After that little warm up we'll run back to the school just in time for class which we'll use as a break. Then we'll start the moderate part of today's training." Black told them with shut eyes and one finger pointed straight up like he was referring to a list.

The eight of them just stood there with their mouths gaping. Nora's hit the floor.

"One thou- we can't do that many!" Jaune freaked out.

"You can't?" He asked them.

All of them shook their heads.

Black started to scratch the back of his head.

"Well how about a hundred?"

The group nodded but it seemed more like a question.

'How am I going to deal with these kids?' Black thought to himself.

After a little while they all got started while Black levitated over the lake with his arms and legs crossed. His eyes were shut and he was very still.

Jaune, who was nearly done with the push ups stopped and looked at Ren.

"Is he even paying attention? How does he know if were even doing the workout?" Jaune asked him nearly below a whisper.

Ren shrugged but then Black spoke up "Cause you talk really loudly and I'm not deaf."

Jaune immediately started to do his last few push ups really quickly.

A while past but they all finished their exercises and fell over on the ground exhausted.

Black floated over and landed in front of them.

"OK guys we only have ten minutes until class starts so were gonna have to book it." Black told them.

They all shot up and yelled "Ten minutes?!"

"It took us almost an hour to get here!" Weiss screamed at him.

"Then you better start running. Grab your weapons and let's go." Black told them and started to lightly jog/bounce in place.

They all ran to grab their stuff and took off towards the school with a cloud of dust following them.

Black simply jogged after them. But Black's jogging is like watching a NASCAR racer floor his gas petal into the asphalt under his car.

He quickly caught up with them and ran circles around them telling them to speed up.

"Come on guys! I've seen street lamps faster than you!"

They all made it to class in about eight minutes with Blacks.....motivational words of encouragement.

They eight of them fell face first onto professor Oobleck's class room floor.

Black walked in behind them with little more than maybe a dab of sweat and took his seat.

"Now, now children take your seats the floor is not an option." Oobleck told them.

Slowly they all stood and sat down.

"You guys are already worn out? That was the easy part." Black told them.

"EASY!!!" The eight of them freaked out and collapsed onto their desks.

After class it was time for lunch something even Black would stop training for.

They all sat down like usual except Black was the only one eating.

"So are you guys not hungry or something?"

Jaune was the first to speak or groan out "If we eat after this morning, we'll puke."

The rest just weakly nodded in agreement.

"I'm only trying to figure out how you eat so much and do stuff like this." Pyrrha told Black.

"Oh, its easy to me when we do stuff like that. If I really wanted to get a workout in I would need lots more time than what we have."

Pyrrha just groaned at the thought of a harder workout than what they just did.

Black quickly finished his meal and threw away all his plates. "Let's go you guys we have a little over an hour till our next class, so time to start the fun stuff."

The eight if them groaned. Black signed at their reaction

"If course you could always back out of the training. Then you would miss another cool looking technique."

They all shot up.

"A new one?!" They asked.

"It'll only be new to you." Black told them before walking off.

They all quickly scrabbled to follow him.

The were in the courtyard when Black stopped.

"Were not going to a forest? No mountain?" Ruby asked him.

"No. I told you guys fun stuff now."

"Can you show us the the technique now? The new one?" Nora asked jumping up and down.

Black sighed.

"Fine, but only if you promise to work hard for the rest of the time I train you. Deal?"

The group nodded anxious of his new technique.

"This one can help you guys train to so that works for me." Black said before getting in a stance.

"Alright, our next part of training is simple. All you have to do is catch me-" Black's form faded and became vaguely see through.

Several more formed all around the group in several different poses. "-the real me."

"What the? What kind of technique turns see through and copies you?" Blake questioned the insanity she was seeing.

"Their not copies. I'm moving fast enough to make mirages of me. Its called the after image technique." Black said.

Ruby quickly jumped towards one trying to tackle it only to go through it and fall onto the ground dissipating the after image.

"No no no. That's the wrong one." Black mocked her.

The entire group tried to grab him but they all went through.

The more they dissipated the more after images formed.

"If you want to pick the right one you need to use more than just your eyes. Use your whole body, all of your senses, then maybe you can find the right me. If you can find me before we have to stop we can take the rest of the day a little easier." He told them in the hopes of them actually succeeding.

They continued for a while only exhausting themselves.

"This.....is....impossible..... Not even.....Ruby....can....keep up." Jaune panted out.

Suddenly all the images faded out into nothing.

"You can try again tomorrow." Black spoke.

They all looked up onto a nearby lamp post to see Black standing on the top of it with his arms crossed.

"Wait, you've been up their the whole time?!" Weiss angrily questioned.

"Pretty much Weiss, I jumped up here after minute five. We've been doing this for about an hour. None of you did as I told you or you would have figured out I was up here."

The whole group slumped down to the ground in defeat.

"Come on guys its time to head back for Goodwitch's class." Black told them before jumping down and heading to the school.

They all slowly followed him.

"Say Black, how is it your not tired? You said you were running around the whole time right?" Ren asked him.

"Well yes and no. At the beginning I was but once I built up enough speed I just made a bunch of them for you guys to fall through. And to answer the part about me being tired, I don't get tired from a simple burst of speed."

"Simple?! You waaaaay faster than me and I'm the fastest one here!" Ruby let out a childish burst if annoyance.

"Ha ha, poor Ruby." He said before patting her head.

They reached Goodwitch's class and sat down a short time before the class started.

The class went by kinda slow, a few people went up to fight but Black didn't pay attention he just fiddled with his time ring and occasionally thumping his earring.

'No ones gonna ask to fight me after the CRDL fight. Jeez this is gonna be boring.' Black thought to himself sighing.

The class past by and Black did nothing just as he thought he would.

As he got ready for the last 2 parts of his training regiment for the day, he wondered what the two teams would think of it.

Him and his two teams all went back to the lake he was by that morning.

"So what are we going to do now?" Nora asked kinda worried about the severity of Blacks final training for the day.

"Well now comes by my standards the hardest part." He told them jumping up and sitting on a tree branch and laying back against the tree before pulling out his new scroll and setting an hour long timer.

The whole group gulped at his words.

"We nap or we relax, wither one as long as your resting." He told them before getting comfortable and shutting his eyes.

The group of eight all fell over and face planted.

The first to get up was Pyrrha. "So after everything we did this morning, were going to spend apart of our afternoon.....napping?" She asked.

"Sleeping is good for the muscles allowing them to rest and gives you more energy." He said without opening his eyes.

"So we just sleep?" Jaune and Ruby asked at the same time.

"Yes."

Nora was the first to plummet backwards and immediately start snoring.

The entire group followed suit and simply relaxed, rested, or slept.

"Is this how you were taught Black?" Blake asked looking up at him from the base of the tree she was laying against.

"Partly, this was a man named Master Roshi's training schedule. A light workout, followed by an intense workout, a tad bit of learning, rest and then the last one is something I've added all my own. Now no more questions, reeeeelaaaaaaxxxx." He told her.

The group stained quiet and simply did as they were told.

The alarm went off and Black shut it off before jumping down.

"Alright guys, time for the last training part of the day."

The whole group got up and were ready to go.

"Hand to hand development. You will each attack me at the best of your ability. And to up the anty a little, if two of you can hit me well skip tomorrows practice and just do something in Vale."

The eight of them got real excited.

" Alright! I'm so hitting you in the gut ~cant mess up that lively face of yours.~" Yang told him.

'Son of kia she's back.' Black though in horror while letting off his little blush of embarrassment.

"Pyrrha, would you like to make an attempt?" Black asked Pyrrha shaking off his blush.

Pyrrha got ready with a good combat form.

Black put one hand behind him and the other to his side.

Pyrrha ran at him and threw up multiple kicks which Black dodged with out much effort, she followed the last kick with a back hand that Black leaned back and flipped kicking Pyrrha up into the air and on her back.

"And stop." Black announced to Pyrrha who seemed to be in a little shock.

"Good form Pyrrha but you follow through wasn't as well planned. You left your sled open as soon as you spun, in a real fight never let you eyes leave your opponent unless your absolutely sure your going to hit them." He told her helping her up.

"Ren."

Ren let out a sigh of worry.

Ren assumed a boxing stance where one hand was near his face and the other just a little lower closer to his chest.

Black assumed a stance where the outside of one hand was facing him and Ren and the other was doing the same just a little lower and further away.

Ren jumped up and tried to land a downwards kick onto Black only to have it blocked. Ren let himself fall down onto his feet where he crouched and went for a leg swipe. Black jumped over his leg and pushed his head down while pushing off of it launching upwards. Ren quickly rolled and tried to hit him with a quick succession of jabs when he landed only for Black to grab his last punch and hip throw him onto the ground knocking the breath out of him.

"And done." Black went to help him up. "Good form your hand to hand is very good, but you assume your opponent isn't expecting most of your attacks after you let out an obvious one like your first kick. Always have a back up, think three steps ahead not one."

Black looked over the group. "Blake, come on."

Black let out a look of sadness hoping he wouldn't pick her next.

She assumed a simple boxing stance.

Black put one hand palm facing him and the other hovering over his extend elbow.

Blake rushed at him and jumped up higher than Ren did and right into the sun. She brought her leg down on him getting blocked by his palm. She flipped her other leg up and tried to hit his face bit he pushed her back so it barely missed his chin. She ran at him again and tried to punch him. This showed she really needed to work on her upper style, her Punches were predictable. Black dodged them and then knocked her last punch away and threw his palm into her stomach and sent her flying away causing her to fall on her back.

"Stop." Black helped her up as well "Your use of the environment is really good trying to blind me with the sun was a great idea. Everything after that went down hill. When your using your kicks your great but the second you throw a punch all your moves are slow and predictable."

Black looked over the group again. The only ones that remained were Yang, Nora, Ruby, Jaune, and Weiss.

"Let's speed this along. Nora, Yang."

Yang and Nora fist bumped and smiled darkly.

They charged at Black with no warning. Black dodged the first punch from Yang and grabbed Nora's punch.

"Please don't through me." Nora asked him sadly. "No." Black told her and tossed her into a incoming Yang. They both hit and fell onto the ground on top of each other.

"That was fast." Weiss said in shock.

"Your to use to working alone, try to mix up your partners and try different support and attack strategies. Your not always gonna fight alone." Black told them lifting the up from the ground by the backs of their jackets like they weighed nothing.

"Ruby, Weiss your up next."

"Yes, best buddy!" Ruby held her hand out for a high five. Weiss looked at her like she was crazy. "No."

They both got into different stances, Ruby the slowest as she was used to her Scythe.

Black assumed the form Goku used against his first fight with Vegeta, one hand out stretched behind him and one I'm front with his front knee bent forward.

Ruby charged at him only for Black to do the same with a warrior like yell. Ruby stopped in mid charge in surprise. Black went for a side palm to knock her away only to blocked by a glyph from Weiss.

Black jumped back to avoid a high kick from Weiss her jumped through the glyph.

Ruby shook off her shock and burst into Rose petals and went straight over Weiss's head. Black back flipped in time to let Ruby fly over him with a kick. Weiss used that as a chance to hit him in his back with her foot.

Black twisted when he felt her hit him and let her role off his back.

'Their pretty good. If only they were strong enough for more than .1% of my power.' Black  thought in amusement and disappointment.

Black twisted again to avoid another punch from Ruby but grabbed her hand and continued to spin around and around several more times and them threw her into Weiss and the both rolled on contact like bowling balls into a tree.

"And finished. Good job you two that was a decent attack, that's one hit you guys just need one more." Black directed his eyes to Jaune.

Jaune pointed at himself and mouthed the word "Me?" As he was to scared to talk.

Black nodded.

"Guess where not getting tomorrow off after all." Weiss said to herself.

Black and Jaune faced each other, Jaune took up a simply, shaky boxing stance.

Black looked at him and turned with his hands crossed.

Jaune ran at Black with no strategy or sense of attack. Black dodged the first punch and twisted so that Jaune stumbled behind him.

Jaune turned and ran at him again, Black flipped over him and pushed him forward with his foot.

Jaune nearly fell but stayed up right.

"Come on Jaune, use your head." Pyrrha shouted to him.

Jaune looked her a little worried but then faced Black and ran forward.

He threw a punch that Black caught, and then another that Black stopped with his other hand.

Jaune then threw his head back and nailed Black right in the for head with a head but. Black wasn't expecting such a dirty tactic and was caught off guard.

Black stumbled backwards holding his forehead. Jaune held his "ow ow ow, Black what's your head made out of metal?!"

"I could ask the same of you you little brat!" Black was upset that such a low powered fighter could inflict pain on him.

"I'll give you a point for actually thinking out a strategy though."

"Strategy? Pyrrha said use my head."

Black looked at Jaune like he was a idiot and the rest of the two teams kinda just fell over at his statement.

'Oh my kai, This is must be how Vegeta felt with Goku.' Black just thought and then jumped forward and nailed Jaune with a head but of his own.

This one knock Jaune on his back.

"Owwwwwww whhyyyyyyy?!" Jaune screamed while clinching his forehead.

"Alright we take tomorrow off, can't believe Jaune's the one that got me." Black said walking forward and towards the school.

"What's that support to mean?!" Jaune asked him when Ren helped him up.

"You know what it means." Black shouted back and kept walking.

Jaune went to say something but stopped. "Yeah, he's right."

Both teams went back to the school with Black and started to plan their trip tomorrow.

And Black prayed that it wouldn't involve him being used as a dress up toy.