Hey everyone, this is my first RWBY fanfic! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as i enjoy writing it!
DISCLAIMER: Roosterteeth and Monty Oum own RWBY, I only own my OC's
The sun shone in brilliant radiance as it rose over the jagged mountains to grace the world with a new day. Adrian lay peacefully on the plain of grass in the emerald forest near Vale. His emerald eyes reflecting the suns rays glowing in response.
The grass crunched in response to something moving over it progressively getting louder as the whatever it was moved closer. The noise stopped and was replaced by a hand on Adrian's shoulder.
"Hey buddy, what are you up to?" Gage beamed, leaning over the top of Adrian's resting figure.
"I'm just relaxing Gage, any reason why you're here?" Adrian said countering with his own question.
Gage's black spiky hair stood out over Adrian's face with noticeable red highlights. His dull hazel eyes alive with mischief.
"Well yeah, of course I do. Why else would I be here?" Gage replied smugly
"Oh I don't know, maybe to annoy me like you always do?" Adrian said nonchalantly.
"What? Me? Annoy you? Nah, surely not?" Gage responded his voice dripping with sarcasm and a smile crawling onto his face.
"Well since you've ruined my time alone I guess we should probably get going, who knows what Rin will do if she has to keep waiting for us" Adrian stated shivering at
the thought of Rin's patience running thin.
Adrian began to move, sitting up on the grass instead of lying down. Gage extends his hand with a smile plastered onto his face. Adrian clasped Gage's hand to get up, only to be hefted fast and hard past him landing face first in the ground. Laughter roared behind him. Turning his head Adrian saw Gage doubled over laughing hard.
"Very original Gage. I need to remember that you always look to prank people" Adrian said unimpressed.
Gage couldn't even respond due to his excessive laughter at such a small joke.
Brushing himself off, Adrian rose to his feet chastising himself for believing Gage would actually help him up when they aren't in trouble. Gage's laughter finally died down, replaced by small chuckles and smirks.
The pair began to walk back in the direction of society, side by side. Gage's short spiky hair being tossed about by the strong winds.
"God damn this wind man, it's messing up my hair!" Gage whined attempting to fix his hair in a fruitless frenzy.
"Is there ever a period of five seconds where you aren't talking or complaining?" Adrian inquired.
"Nope!" Gage replied his typical shit-eating grin spreading across his face.
10 minutes later
Adrian and Gage arrive at the gates of Vale, largely shadowed by the prestigious academy of Beacon, a structure that houses and trains future huntsmen and huntresses to fight for and protect the ordinary citizens. They both dreamed of entering Beacon together with Rin as a three member team, however they were more than happy to accomodate a fourth member if the situation called for it. Currently the trio attended Signal academy and were in their third year of training, at the age of sixteen years old. One year from being able to apply to Beacon.
Whack! Adrian and Gage stumble forward as an unknown force hits them from behind. Adrian turns around rubbing his neck to see nothing behind them.
"Oof!" Adrian groans as an unknown assailant jumps on his back, pushing him to the ground.
Small round breasts press against Adrian's back as the unknown female holds him down. The pressure that was being exerted on his body was relieved only for Adrian to be roughly turned around to face the assailant. Piercing red eyes and flowing blonde hair grace his eyes as he sees Rin sporting a cocking smirk.
"Hi Rin" Adrian greeted.
"Hello Adrian, Gage, you guys love to test my patience don't you?" Rin retorted matter of factly.
"Always, I love getting you all riled up" Gage said wearing his trademark grin.
Rin walked over to Gage hips swaying, promptly punching him in the stomach, relishing in his mild suffering.
"That's why you don't make me wait or mess with me, I thought you would remember that Gage so you don't end up doubled over in pain" Rin said matter of factly with a chillingly calm demeanor.
"Alright you two lets put the shenanigans away for the moment, we have to get ready to go to signal for the final few matches of the tournament" Adrian stated, nursing his neck where a bruise was forming.
Signal was holding a tournament between all its different grades, each match was recorded and there was an end prize for the winner, access to the materials that will allow them to build an upgrade for their current weapons. The recording of each match was done for two purposes. The first was known to the students as it was to use the footage to give constructive criticism on each student's fighting style. The second was hidden from the students, the recordings were sent to the headmaster of Beacon, Professor Ozpin who analysed the footage to determine if certain students were ready to attend beacon earlier than other students.
1 hour later
Adrian was preparing for his next match, he was facing Rin in the semi final match. There was a definite amount of competition between the two in the tournament, both having won all matches to get to this fight, there was a lot on the line. Sheathing his curved daikatana, Adrian composed himself for the fight to come.
"Would the contestants please standby the gates to enter the arena" the referee sounded over the loudspeaker.
Adrian moved to his respective gate, on the opposing side Rin did the same. The gates squeaked to life, slowly opening allowing Rin and Adrian to lock eyes. Piercing red challenging glowing emerald. They both paced to their starting positions, readying themselves in their fighting stances. Adrian's right hand resting on the hilt of his daikatana and Rin holding both of her daggers, one on a reverse grip.
"You better not go easy on me Adrian!" Rin shouted playfully.
Adrian chose to not respond and let actions do the talking. The referee moved to the middle of the field to properly manage the match.
"Are both fighters ready?" the referee asked.
Adrian and Rin both nodded in reply.
"Well if that is so, three, two, one, BEGIN!" the referee announced, clearing the way for the Rin and Adrian to fight.
Adrian's hand was still resting on the blade's hilt in a draw stance, waiting for Rin to close the gap. Rin dashes not a moment too soon hoping to gain an advantage by having Adrian on the defensive. As Rin approaches Adrian, he preemptively began to draw his blade to parry her initial attack. The resounding clang of metal rings out in the arena as daggers meet katana. Rin lashes out in a flurry of light attacks trying to wear out Adrian's defense.
Adrian matches Rin blow for blow despite the difference in weight between their weapons. Slowly Rin pushes Adrian back, forcing him closer to the walls of the arena aiming to corner him. Adrian suddenly switches from defensive to offensive, launching precise and clean strikes at Rin forcing her to jump clear of his blade, giving Adrian breathing room.
Adrian sheathes his daikatana, but begins to run forward his hand once again resting on the familiar leather of the hilt. Caught off-guard by the sudden aggression, Rin's falters in her stance. Adrian takes an advantage of her being off balance. Adrian approaches striking distance with his katana, Rin somersaults over Adrian to reposition and regain the advantage.
Adrian watches Rin's passing form and stares unimpressed when she winks at him flirtatiously, she always was a tease and a showoff. Adrian sheathed his daikatana planning to show off some different skills of his, unclipping the sheath from his belt he layed his katana on the ground.
He turned around to see Rin waiting, with a cocky smile on her face. She too had put away her daggers, the fight had turned to hand to hand combat.
Adrian had forgotten to wear his arm braces, leaving his forearms bare. Rin was wearing fingerless gloves which weren't much better for protection. During the temporary 'truce' Adrian pulled out his scroll to check his and Rin's aura levels, both were pretty healthy at 85%
'This is going to take a while' Adrian pondered.
Rin sprints forward hoping to land the first strike in this new phase of the fight. Adrian adopts a wide boxer stance waiting for Rin to reach him. As Rin extends her arm to slam Adrian square in the face, he avoids the punch by directing her arm off course with his own. He counters by throwing a strike of his own, only for Rin to bend backward to avoid it, planting her hands on the ground she flipped backward slamming the ridge of her foot into Adrian's chin, putting him off balance.
Adrian stumbles backward, his vision blurred from the sudden attack. Rubbing his jaw to ease the pain from the well placed kick, Adrian watches a blurred form land gracefully on the ground, if you could say that. Shaking his head, Adrian cleared his vision staring forward. Rin watches in amusement as Adrian regains awareness of his surroundings, adopting her trademark smile.
Adrian checks his aura, 60% to Rin's 75%. He sees her grinning at him again for the umpteenth time. Adrian slowly approached Rin, taking his time in order to avoid another hit like that kick. Seeing her not move at all, Adrian advances faster eventually breaking into a light jog. He launches a roundhouse kick at her midsection, Rin reacts too slowly to his move and takes his kick full force sending her flying across the ground, kicking up dust in the process.
Rin's aura took a massive hit from the strike, her aura dropping to 30%. The tournament standard dictated that a battle ends when one fighter is below 15% or when one of them is knocked out. Adrian's aura dropped slightly to 57% from the recoil of his kick.
Rin rose to her feet visibly affected by the strike, holding her stomach in pain. The smile on her face was replaced by a serious expression, now she was taking him seriously.
Despite her injury Rin needed to gain an advantage as soon as possible to even hope to win the match. She dashed forward in a rushed attempt to even the playing field. Adrian humoured Rin by charging at her himself.
Both adolescents clash with immense force both their fists meeting each others faces. The impact created shockwaves that kicked up dust and sent them both flying backward in their respective directions.
Silence follows the clash as the onlooking students wait for either student to get up or a sign that one of their auras dropped below 15%. As the dust settled it was plain to see that both fighters were afflicted with injuries from the conflict.
Adrian sturred a few second after the dust settled, pulling out his scroll to check his aura. His eyes widened in amusement, his aura was at 16% and Rin's was at 10%, he won by a measly 1% of his aura.
"And the winner is adrian by aura depletion and knockout." the referee announces.
Professor Morn entered the arena to retrieve Rin and take her to the medical centre on the other side of the academy. Adrian followed to make sure his friend and former opponent would be okay after the fight.
1 hour later
Adrian sat in the medical centre worrying he may have gone too hard on Rin in their fight. Breaking his train of thought was the rustling of sheets and groans from a certain bruised and battered teammate.
"Hey Rin, you feel okay?" Adrian inquired.
"I wish, my whole body hurts, thanks for the superb spar though." Rin replied with a forced smile.
"Anytime Rin, you just have to ask." Adrian informs her.
"Jeez Adrian, there you go again, getting all formal in tone with me!" Rin chastised.
"Have you ever tried to loosen up a little?" Rin asked.
"Not really, never considered it an option." Adrian replied nonchalantly.
"I'll see you later Rin, the finals match begins in a few minutes and I can't be late, rest well." Adrian said sincerely.
"Thanks, straight laced..." Rin mumbles as Adrian leaves the room.
Adrian began his trek back to the arena to face his opponent in the finals. Apparently she was a second year. One year his junior but was considered a prodigy in her grade, being the only student to learn how to wield a scythe. Adrian turned the next corner only to bump into a short girl, falling on top of her. Shaking off his daze, he attempts to get off of the girl to take a good look at the her. Adrian notes her silver eyes, short black hair with red highlights. He knew the face but not the name. A blush creeped onto the girls cheeks as she realised the situation.
"C-c-can you please get off me?" the girl stutters.
"Oh, right, sorry..." Adrian says apologetically, moving to get off of Ruby.
"My name's Ruby Rose!" she stated giddily.
"What's yours?" she asked immediately after.
"Adrian Kryta." Adrian replied introducing himself.
"Nice to meet you!" Ruby says beaming.
"I'm sorry, you must excuse me I need to be at the arena in a few minutes for a match." Adrian stated matter of factly.
"It was nice to meet you Ruby." Adrian said with a small smile.
Adrian resumes his walk toward the Arena, arriving in due time for his match. He scouts Gage from the crowd who was minding his daikatana while he took Rin to the medical centre. Walking over he taps Gage on the shoulder, turning around Gage wordlessly hands the katana back to Adrian.
"Thanks Gage," Adrian says graciously.
"Not a problem, man just doing my job of being the best person to grace the continent." Gage replies smugly.
"Will there ever be a time where you won't crack a narcissistic joke or pranks in general?" Adrian asked shaking his head in disappointment.
"Nope," Gage answers.
"Why did I ask when I already knew the answer, I'll catch you after the match Gage, I got a match to fight," Adrian says.
"Yeah good luck buddy, not that you'll need it, you gonna use your semblance or not?" Gage inquired seriously trying to suss out the course of the match.
"Its probable, just depends on my opponent..." Adrian responds trailing off
"Well whether you do or don't probably won't matter, have fun out there Adrian." Gage said normally.
"Thank you Gage, I'll see you after," Adrian replied.
2 minutes later
Adrian now donned his gaunlets for this fight, respecting his opponent's weapon and
Adrian stood ready at the gate to enter the arena, despite his usual organisation he never looked at who his opponent was, only knew their 'status' and the weapon which they wielded. The gate groaned to life for a second time opening to reveal the arena and to grace him with a powerful gust of wind causing his cloak to dance in the its embrace. As he adjusted to the winds, Adrian looked forward to see a very familiar figure carrying a scythe that was probably double her size. He was fighting Ruby, she was the prodigy, the scythe wielder. Sadness crept onto Adrian's face as he realised he had to fight someone he just met a few minutes prior.
Ruby's face was one of shock, she didn't expect to see Adrian walk out to face her in the arena. She sized him up in order to not be unprepared. Charcoal cloak, some sort of katana with arm braces covering his forearms, also noting the sad expression on his face as he saw her in-front of him.
"H-hi Adrian, I-I didn't know you were in the finals," Ruby said shyly, stuttering slightly.
"Hey Ruby, I didn't know about you either, that said may the best fighter win," Adrian replied calmly
"Y-yeah..." Ruby stuttered in response.
"Are both fighters ready?" the referee asked.
Adrian and Ruby nodded in reply.
"Then take your positions." the referee ordered.
Adrian and Ruby get into their respective fighting positions weapons ready for the duel. Adrian's face remained expressionless and Ruby's was one of conflict.
"3, 2, 1, begin!" the referee announces.
Adrian begins the match by activating his semblance, unbeknownst to Ruby and all the students watching. Regrettably he enters Ruby's mind and alters her feelings of fear, the noise and presence of the crowd overwhelming her senses. His semblance is a creepy one, Emotional Manipulation. Adrian prefers to avoid using it due to the guilt associated with messing with the human mind, but in specific circumstances uses it albeit remorsefully. The result of Adrian using his semblance went unnoticed as Ruby appeared to have a high tolerance to such trickery.
Ruby launches herself forward Cresent Rose in hand, activating her semblance and bursting forth into a beautiful red swirl of rose petals heading straight for Adrian. Aware of her rush to end the battle Adrian aimed to draw the battle out as long as possible to test Ruby's mental fortitude.
Ruby swung her scythe haphazardly at Adrian trying to land a hit, left swipe, then right, followed by an overhead strike. CLANG! Adrian unsheathed his daikatana to deflect her scythe and preventing injury. The katana becomes a silver blur as Adrian launches a counterattack horizontal swings from the left and right trying to overwhelm Ruby through sheer momentum.
Activating her semblance again Ruby dashes behind Adrian and pulls the trigger on the scythe's handle unloading a rifle shot directing into Adrian back sending him careening into the ground, kicking up dust from the impact. Ruby knew Adrian wouldn't be down for the count, call it woman's intuition, she readied herself as the dust settled.
Adrian rose from the dust with a scowl adopting his face, a rather unique expression. Ruby's attack had ripped a hole in his favourite cloak, he was not impressed. Ruby saw the hostility painted on his face and knew she had awakened a beast that was regularly tame. The thoughts and feelings she experience at the beginning of the fight began to surface again, stronger than they were originally. She pauses to mentally push them back so she can focus on fighting Adrian.
Adrian dashed forward with inhumane speed, crossing the arena and drawing his daikatana slashing each of Ruby's limbs with unmatched ferocity, taking a massive chunk out of her aura. Ruby cried out in pain. She fell to her knees in agony dropping her scythe Cresent Rose, the thoughts seeped in trying to overwhelm her pain-riddled mind. Ruby forced herself to her feet and glaring daggers at Adrian, if looks could kill Adrian would've fallen then and there.
Ruby launches a retaliation attack dashing around Adrian taking shots and slashing his cloak, quickly depleting his aura as she moved too fast for him to defend against her onslaught. Adrian's rage only amplified as his cloak was further torn to shreds by this little girl, gritting his teeth in frustration he began to notice a pattern in her movements. Dash, shoot, slash, shoot, dash, slash, shoot, repeat.
Adrian let her continue the attack for one more rotation hand firm over his daikatana's hilt in a draw stance. As Ruby dashed to follow up with a slash Adrian unleashed his blade slicing Ruby horizontally from left to right, the strike sent her flying due to her momentum, her grip on Cresent Rose was lost as the scythe's blade bit into the ground standing crookedly. Ruby slammed into the ground dust kicking up in response. She evaluated herself noticing her corset was shredded, her limbs complaining in response to the torturous battle, her face and hair sweaty and dirty. Frustrated she pulled out her scroll to compare aura levels, she was left on 18% and Adrian 20%. Both fighters were nearing the end of the battle, battered and bruised like no other.
The thoughts and emotions resurfaced for the second time impacting Ruby's ability to process anything surrounding her, the dust still shrouded her from any sudden attacks for the current moment. She screamed in frustration at not being able to shake off these stupid thoughts and emotions that were hindering her ability to fight, let alone think. Resolving to just try to end the fight before it became impossible to bear Ruby leaped out of the dust cloud to see Cresent Rose was awfully close to Adrian. She activated her semblance for what would probably be the last time, vaulting toward Cresent Rose. Ruby didn't stop her advance once she retrieved her scythe, launching herself at Adrian for a last ditch assault.
Adrian watched in awe as this little girl, Ruby Rose had brought him so close to defeat and resisted his semblance with little to no trouble at all. He was stunned to say the least. Readying himself Adrian prepared to meet Ruby in one final confrontation to decide the fight. Katana met scythe, the metal blades grating against each other protesting to be the better weapon with the backup force of their respective wielders.
Adrian withdrew from the stalemate, only to immediately re-engage Ruby with a side slash that she met with equal speed and strength. Both glanced at each other trying to shake the other's composure, both failing to do so. Adrian initiates a barrage of slices and slashes at Ruby in an attempt to end the duel. She matches him blow for blow and manages to fit some of her own strikes in-between.
Eventually the two fighters, withdraw from attacking each other. Viewing their aura on their respective scrolls they find that both of them are left at 16% remaining. Putting their scrolls away, Ruby and Adrian exchange looks of pure enjoyment at the thrill of how close the battle was. Both Adrian and Ruby scream at the top of their lungs, dashing at each other with insane speed.
The impact of their clash created shockwaves from the sheer force, creating a cloud of dust that shrouded both fighters. The audience of teachers and students could only wait for the cloud to settle to find out the result of the battle. As the dust cloud settled, the result stunned everyone watching, even Gage was gawking in disbelief at the result...
And that's the end of the chapter, i'm sorry for the cliffhanger right off the bat everyone. Rest assured there will be a new chapter soon :)
Please Read and Review, also if you have any ideas for the fourth character that will join the current cast of Adrian, Gage and Rin PM me. I'm more than happy to include another OC that can fit into the story.
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Adios, Jamsieboy :D