Chapter 2
Several of the teams had assembled in the training room. It was shaped like an amphitheater, only with a closed roof. After two teams were selected to fight, the members of each team would go up one at a time. Each person would fight and when they're aura dropped low enough, they would lose the round. This was supposed to be just a class, but the students took it very seriously.
"Today, we have team RWBY against team RGOK as our first battle." Will the first representative of each team please take their places on the stage?" asked Glenda, her voice somehow booming over the excited chatter of hundreds of students. The room went quiet as Yang Xia Long stood up. She walked confidently to the stage, the eyes of almost all the boys, and some of the girls, on her. She went to the left side of the stage where she stood impatiently.
"I don't like to be kept waiting," she boomed into the crowd. Quiet mumbling came from one corner of the room. There was a long sigh, and a boy a bit above 6 feet took his place on the right side of the stage. His name was Zack Orion. He was well muscled, with spiky orange hair that went down to his shoulders and bangs covering his left eye. His right was a light-emerald in color. He wore a black jacket, camo pants, and black boots. Now most of the girls had their attention focused in one place. As he flexed his muscles, donned his gloves, and entered a boxing pose, Yang felt her heart skip a beat. Stop it! She thought to herself, I am Yang Xiao Long. I must not lose my concentration because of some boy.
Glenda cast protection spells over the two, so no lethal wounds could be inflicted. Then, the battle began. I can't really hit this girl, Zack thought to himself. Yang charged at him, her DRSGs activating. She landed a punch square on his jaw and sent him flying. Now I can hit her, Zack thought. The two fought evenly. Yang was faster, but she wasn't as durable or strong as Zack. There similar fighting styles had them tiring at almost exactly the same pace.
"Why don't we kiss and call this a tie?" Yang asked sweetly. Zack was taken completely by surprise. But he wouldn't mind kissing this girl. He leaned down, closed his eyes….and got punched square in the face. The force of the punch smashed him into the wall, and he probably would have broken his spine if it wasn't for the protection ward.
"The winner is Yang Xiao Long!" announced Glenda, "May the next members of each team take their places!"
As Yang sat back down with the rest of team RWBY, she was hit with a barrage of compliments.
"Nice work, Yang!" exclaimed Ruby.
"That was pretty clever" said Blake.
"Well, whatever works for you" remarked Weiss.
"I guess…" said Yang, "I feel kind of bad though. He seemed innocent enough, and…"
"And what?" Ruby asked.
"Nevermind," said Yang. And, I wouldn't have minded kissing him.
Over where the rest of Ragnarok was sitting, the reception was not so positive. After a bunch of curses were thrown around, the next member, Johnny Griffin, stood up and walked to the stage at the exact same time as Weiss. Johnny stood about 6 feet tall. He had silver hair and green eyes. He was dressed in a grey hoodie, dark jeans, and a lopsided red belt. They took their places, and as Glenda cast incantations over the two of them, he felt sure he saw the girl somewhere before. Maybe she was an actress or something. Well, he thought to himself, I didn't exactly grow up in a city, or even a town. And I have Schnee Dust co. to thank for that. The battle began, and Johnny was soon able to see this girl was one tough cookie. Her speed, powerful rapier, and use of glyphs made it tough to hit her, let alone see her. But Johnny could keep up. He had faced tougher foes and at a younger age. He was trained to kill. He fired a bullet from his upgraded flintlock at the precise moment Weiss landed on a glyph. The bullet hit her and knocked her off balance. She feel about 5 feet, Myrtenaster flying out of her grasp. She rolled to her feet and aimed a punch at Johnny's head, but he dodged easily and brought his sword to her neck. He stopped an inch from her throat.
"Johnny Griffin is the winner," Glenda said, sounding surprised, "Congratulations for being the one to end Weiss Schnee's winning streak." Johnny stopped dead in his tracks. So that is the daughter of the Schnee company chairman. That old bastard thinks he can kill my family for some stupid fucking rocks? He is about to learn why you don't mess with the Griffins.
Both team members sat down coldly. Both were extremely angry.
"Oh oh oh Blake, may I pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease go before you I really want a turn!" begged Ruby. Blake couldn't resist those innocent silver eyes for long.
"All right," she said
"Yaaaaaaaay," Ruby squealed, and dashed to the stage in the blink of an eye. Her opponent was to be Axis Reinholt, the tall, broad shouldered, and well-muscled leader of Team Ragnarok. Both fighters took their places, and once more Glenda cast protection spells. Then, the third battle commenced. Right off the bat, Axis realized he would not be able to het Ruby with a simple swing of his dual war hammers. She was much too fast, and attacked from all angles and directions. He took a few hits, but Axis was an adaptable fighter. He had figured out her battle style.
This is too easy, Ruby thought to herself. As she launched her next swipe, she narrowly managed to avoid a swing from one of Axis's hammers. As she was about to slash with Crescent Rose, she felt something hard hit her chest at high speed. She was sent tumbling, but managed to shakily get back to her feet. She raised Crescent Rose and fired two shots, but Axis easily deflected them with his hammers. He then transformed his weapons into dual sonic cannons.
Ruby may be fast, and damn good with her scythe, Axis thought to himself, But you can't deflect sound. He fired off two pulses, each one knocking Ruby farther back. She managed to dodge a third blast by using Crescent Rose's sniper bullets to launch her into the air. She raised Ruby raised her scythe above her head as she came hurtling down towards Axis. Ragnarok's leader fired another two blasts, but she dodged them again. Crescent Rose came down in a giant arc. The power behind the swing would have cut almost anything in two, but Axis was able to block the attack with one of his cannons. The barrels of Crescent Rose and Reaction (one of the hammers cannons) were now aimed point blank at their respective foes. Ruby pulled the trigger. She was out of ammo.
"Fuck," she said out loud, before taking a sonic pulse to the gut. She tumbled across the stage, landing facedown at Glenda's feet.
"The winner is Axis Reinholt! It seems we have a lot of broken streaks today," declared Ms. Goodwitch, and continued on. "The final match for today's class will be Blake Belladonna against Faust Kleff."
The two hunters-in-training took their places for the last battle of the day. What a peculiar guy, Blake thought to herself. And indeed he was. Faust had wavy, shoulder length magenta hair with blue highlights. Similar hair covered the left half of his face. His right eye was hidden by a white half-face mask with a red treble clef on it. He wore a red blazer with gold trim over a neat white button-up shirt. He also had a pair of neat black pants and black dress shoes with red laces. The wards were cast, and the last encounter commenced. Blake battled using her speed, but Faust easily dodged all of her attacks.
She battles with such grace, he thought to himself, I dare not attack and ruin sucj=h a fine dance. Faust continued to duck and weave until he grew tired. He promptly placed his giant, three bladed, energy based shruiken-like weapon on the ground.
"It seems, my dear Ms. Belladonna, that you have one this battle," he stated. After a polite bow, he walked off stage.
"W-well," stammered Glenda, clearly in a state of confusion, "The teams have tied 2-2." Everyone in the room was stunned. And the rest of team Ragnarok was none too happy.
"What the hell was that?" demanded Zack, "You had her. Finish the job next time, you dumbass."
"I wouldn't be talking if I were you!" retorted Faust.
"Easy there," said Axis. He turned to look at Faust and gave him an angry glare. "We have our next class in ten minutes. I suggest we get going."
Later that day, Team RWBY sat together in their dorm.
"All right team, all we have to do is train harder. Next time, we'll win for sure," said Ruby, trying to sound upbeat. But her face showed a completely different story. She and Weiss both lost, Yang did win, but with a nasty trick. Who could resist a kiss from her? And Blake's opponent just put his weapon down. He hadn't taken a single blow, and he surrendered. Weiss in particular was looking glum from the latest turn of events.
"You all right, princess?" Yang asked.
"I'm fine. It's just… Do you know about the tournament in a month? The one where people from all over will come to participate in?"
"Yes," Yang and Blake replied simultaneously.
"I really need to win. I need my father to finally respect me for something I'vs become and not what he's pushed me to be…"
"Awww, Weiss," Ruby said, hugging her.
"Get OFF me, you little twerp," Weiss yelled. She tried to push Ruby away, but her grip was like iron. Blake and Yang lauged. Five minutes later, everyone was asleep. Ruby's arms were still wrapped around the snow queen.
If you see the name Klaus in my story, just know that I mean Faust. I actually had to go back and edit all the parts that said Klaus. I guess I confuse the names for some reason… I think I got all of them , but this is just in case. This chapter is VERY ahead of schedule, but people sent in OCs pretty quickly.
Please Submit OCs! The faster you do, the faster lemonz will come (no pun intended)
