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The two stood at the ready, waiting for the match to start, Professor Goodwitch looked between the two, "Aeren Fall versus Ruby Rose. Are you both ready?"
Aeren gave a curt nod and Ruby said, "Yes"
Goodwitch nodded and called out "Begin!"
Aeren and Ruby stared at the other momentarily before Ruby made her first move, Aeren reacting evasively.
Ruby began firing her rifle and rounds started to impact, Aeren moved quickly and in a sporadic ways to avoid her rounds. As she reloaded that's when he started his turn, drawing an arrow and aiming, firing at the girl's feet. Ruby back pedaled as she put her magazine in. She pulled the massive weapon around her and fired sending her flying forward. Aeren fired another arrow at Ruby, aiming for the girl's torso, the scythe blocked and redirected the arrow to the ground. Picking up three arrows in his hand he notched one as Ruby landed within a few feet of him and swing her scythe horizontally. Aeren dodged by jumping back, she swung her scythe around to bring the spear tipped end up to him.
Aeren cussed to himself before leaning back and turning his jump into a flip, landing on his hand before pushing himself back to his feet and falling back. He notched an arrow before rolling low to a kneel and letting it loose. She fired and used the recoil to dodge before firing again and redirecting herself into an attack, swinging the scythe vertically. Aeren jumped to the side rolling and pulling the release to the bow he gave a twist and the handle pulled away from the body of the bow.
He put the handle to the quiver as he heard her scythe rush through the air. Aeren pulled the handle around and blocked the blade of the scythe with a medium length blade with a single edge. Several of the students murmered since this was the first time he'd been drawn out into using the sword. He angled his defence and let the weight a of the scythe and the force Ruby was exerting to slide the scythe down his blade. He stood from his defensive stance and moved closer to Ruby doing what he could to get within her guard. With her superb speed and expert use of her weapon, it wasn't working any time soon for him. She blocked his attacks with the weapon and evaded his movements with ease. He had to give it to her, she was a lot better than he anticipated. She inverted her hold spinning the weapon end over end bringing the hook of the blade up in a diversion before jabbing with the weapon. He blocked her diversion and got batted back from her jab. With his defense broken she charged swinging her massive weapon at him in rapid succession, Aeren regained his footing and knocked an attack to the side before rolling around her weapon throwing his arm out to push her off balance.
Ruby stumbled forward and Aeren advanced in a walk before making an upward diagonal slash at the recovering girl with the flat of the blade, she spun and he was hit with the staff, blocking with his arm he rolled. He stood and she gave him a confident grin, she knew she was faster, and probably figured out that this battle was more her playground now that he had only the length of his blade to work with.
Aeren stared a glance at his aura indicator seeing that he was well into the yellow, with Ruby only having just touched it. He gave a sigh and changed his grip on the short sword, he had hoped that he wouldn't have to go all out on the girl who was about the same size as his partner.
Ruby's smile widened and she went after him, her speed becoming more and more unmanageable, he blocked her strikes, only able to do just so with her speed making it almost impossible to counter, and began missing blocks by just enough to take bits of his aura. He gripped the haft of the scythe and held it in place. He brought up his blade as Ruby swung around her weapon and kicked knocking Aeren back stumbling. Before he could gain his footing and stance she had him locked in and fired concussion rounds at his feet, making it harder still to stand. She fired one last shot hitting him in the hip pushing his aura into the red.
Professor Goodwitch brightened the lights and called the match, the winner was Ruby, but Aeren got what he came for, a win would have been more icing on the cake, but not necessary to do what he wanted. She walked up to him and gave a smile, "Hey, you did good."
Aeren shrugged, "Thanks, but you did better." He said respectfully earning a smile from the cloaked reaper. He then left the floor with his weapons and headed back to his team. As he came up he looked to them and Teale looked bored as ever, still hoping for a match.
Fuschia turned to him and asked, "How was it?"
Aeren sat and answered quietly, "As you saw, she's faster than she looks, and seems like she doesn't ever tire out, that scythe is probably about as heavy as she is and you saw how effortlessly she swung it. So she has speed, strength and skill. I had to resort to reveling that I'm not just an Archer as you saw, but other than that, she shouldn't be much of a problem, just so long as we don't underestimate her."
Teale scoffed, and said, "You held back"
"We needed information, remember? If I went all out on her I doubt we would have seen her offensive capabilities" Aeren replied quietly, "Especially not how I fight."
Fuschia sighed, "You two, stop, yes, we got the information, yes, she can be a problem, but, since we saw what she can do, we can find a way to counter it." She looked between the two, "Will you two ever just get along?"
Ember gave a sigh, "It'd be a nice change."
Fuschia smiled and shook her head, things would definitely be much quieter. Aeren rolled his eyes and Teale gave a shrug, she was more interested in seeing who was on the arena floor. The two fighters were Pyrrah Nikos and Cardin Winchester, it was obvious that the battle was single sided favoring Pyrrah when you looked at their fighting styles.
Cardin swung his mace putting power behind it, but failed to hit Pyrrah even once, blocking his attempts with her shield almost effortlessly. By the time Cardin was tired out, she had already won with several quick and hard blows, the match was called with Pyrrah just barely a notch made in her aura meter.
As the two came up Cardin was in a sour mood and Pyrrah was in her normal almost plastered on smile as she went to her teammates. Teale eyed her to understand her fighting style, to analyze and pick it apart and try to beat.
Professor Goodwitch came to the center of the arena and started her critique of the fight, "as you could tell, Cardin had strength and power, but had no speed, nor agility. While Pyrrah more over let him tire himself out before counter-attacking and forcing him to fight to defend himself instead of inflict damage on Ms Nikos. Now, we have time for one last match, so let's see who's up next." Then turned to the billboard showing two student's portraits, Teale, and the white haired princess her self, Weiss Schnee.
Teale stood and walked to the arena. Ruby could be heard shouting, "Go Weiss!"
Fuschia sighed, "Hopefully Teale doesn't act like she usually does in a fight here."
Aeren gave a slight nod, "Hopefully, I'd prefer not to get in a team hate match because someone took something too seriously."
Ember nodded, then watched as the two fighters came out. Teale stood holding her weapon over her shoulder. While still standing in her school uniform it shown how little she thought of the fight. Her gold, black and teal runed "sword" was the only thing that she brought out, the sword looked more like a joust not really having a visibly bladed feature to it. She placed the tip into the ground and leaned the weapon forward watching Weiss as the heiress came to the ready.
Teale smirked as she saw the girl's stance. "Is there something about me you find humorous?" Weiss demanded
Teale shrugged, "That you think you have a chance of winning" Weiss didn't take that we'll, but Teale wasn't done, "Don't worry though, I'll take it easy on you princess."
Professor Goodwitch looked to Teale scowling and said "That's enough, miss Stout, miss Schnee, are you ready?"
Weiss straightened her posture in response.
Teale rolled her shoulders and gave a nod.
Professor Goodwitch gave her signal, Weiss started first, charging with her raiper revolver. Teale responded by lifting her weapon from the ground and watching her opponent. Weiss planted from her charge and went for several slashes and jabs, Teale dodged her strikes with just a bit of effort, smiling the whole time, whispering taunts calling Weiss too slow, off balanced temperamental.
The white haired girl was quickly becoming angry, and began to work her semblance on her opponent, aiming to move around rapidly and get around her. Teale began using her sword against Weiss, blocking and deflecting with minimal effort. Teale for the better part seemed like she was attempting to show off. As she went on the offensive she pushed the smaller girl back, using her strength and preception as well as skill to push Weiss back, as Weiss began her counter attack, Teale trapped her by catching the girl's arm in her free arm, twisting her arm to throw her off balance and send her to the floor.
Weiss cringed but did several back handsprings landing in her normal fencing stance. She went for the taller teal haired girl with anger and ferocity. Incorporating dust, her semblance and her speed.
Teale jumped back from her assault before spinning her sword to give a glow to the runes. With fire dust being selected, she began her counter attack on Weiss. Using her strength advantage and pushing Weiss back, she made a large sweeping stroke taking the girl's legs out from under her, putting her sword to the girl's chest. "This is over."
She backed off and walked away, leaving Weiss sulking and fuming that her opponent hadn't even dropped from the green. Weiss looked to the professor and then with nothing have been called she called out to Teale, "This isn't finished!"
Teale snorted, "Your funeral princess"
Weiss changed her dust cylinder before sending ice at her opponent, Teale just rolled to her side before reaching her feet.
Weiss was on her as Teale got her balance, changing her dust selection and used her glyphs in what looked like a bunch of cogs and gears. Her movements seemed to go by as a near blur and she created several all around her opponent, and started to bound from glyph to glyph. Teale held her off momentarily before Weiss began to score glancing hits on Teale.
Teale was visibly vexed and noticed her patern, sidestepping and sending her large rounded blade into the smaller girl's path in a rate that shouldn't have been possible. Weiss blocked but tumbled back from the hit. Fuschia cussed to herself noticing the look in her partner's eyes, ferocity and determination in her expression as well. Both fighters were in the yellow, that last hit just put Weiss to the edge of the red, Teale sitting in the middle of the meter.
Teale pointed her blade to Weiss, the weapon began rotating in opposite directions with five directions, every other spun in the other direction. The dust seemed to radiated from the blade, Aeren looked at Fuschia seeing everything before asking, "What is she doing?"
Before Fuschia could answer Teale stopped, putting her weapon on her back, "As I said princess, you can't beat me."
Weiss got up picking up her rapier, holding it delicately in her hands, pissed beyond belief.
When Teale came back Fuschia stopped her, "are you insane? We don't want to hurt them, just beat them"
"What did you expect me to do? I told her it was over, then she came back after me. I defended, then gave them a reason to not mess with me."
Aeren sighed, "She's right, but damn it Teale, do you really want to just make yourself look like a murderous fighter?"
"I'm not going to change appease some nipple fed teenagers who don't get the reality of what we are. I thought you would understand that more than anyone Aeren. You've been exposed to it just as much as me" Teale replied, "besides, I never went for a lethal shot on her, there's still not a scratch on her, I almost cut her sword in half by accident, but beyond that she will be fine by the end of lunch."
The tone sounded for the end of class, and they stood up, Weiss still fuming and several of their classmates were in awe at what they just witnessed.
Ember spoke up, "I think we should be congratulating her, she's the first we've seen that defeated Weiss with a sword, and besides that, she shown us that Weiss uses dust along with her semblance to fight"
Teale smiled, "See? Even our quiet little Ember thinks I was right. Thank you Ember." Ember gave a nod with a slight smile.
The four walked to the cafeteria and started their meal, Teale sat quietly eating her food with Fuschia reading over her notes from earlier in the semester. Ember sat eating her food, more nibbling on it really, and Aeren sat eating an apple while jotting d I enjoy sketches and notes on the last several fights he observed.
As the team ate, they looked around, watching the other students, Teams RWBY and JNPR were both seeming to enjoy themselves with it seemed like making plans in all seriousness, probably the eight breaking up into groups to go out in the town over the weekend.
Fuschia gave a sigh just thinking about everything, finals in the coming classes, and then shortly after the Vytal festival. Almost two weeks total to be fully prepared for the festival. It wasn't much time to go with, just enough time to work on a plan and have it work. As she ate she flipped to a new page in her notebook to start up a plan for the tournament.
Ember noticed something out the corner of her eye, seeing the game of catch with food bound to go wrong, she bumped Fuschia and pointed before saying, "Let's get out before this turns into a mess."
Fuschia looked before nodding and the other two were already on the same page, Teale standing up and Aeren closing up his notebook before following after the rest of his team. Fuschia and Ember took their plates and put them up. The team parted, Fuschia and Teale walked to the training grounds while Ember went to theiron room and Aeren went to the library. As Aeren went to the library he saw what Ember warned them about, there seemed to have been a food fight breaking out, but it wasn't of his concern, he was out of the way of it all so he didn't have a care about it.
wew, the second installment of FATE is here, I'm going to delve more into the characters as I go, but I thought it important to show the two more driven characters on the team's ways of fighting, and show the differences between the characters who are going to have the most conflict starting out. If you have any words on it, shoot me a review or message, I live to improve my writing. As always, AA signing out til next time.
Attn: edited to proof read, sorry for those of y'all who already looked at it, anyways, y'all are in my heart and mind, keep up the literacy rates
