Wind Surfer
Team RWBY surrounded Cash in a square like formation, standing still anticipating what he would do. Cash stood in the center eyeing the girls doing the same. This went on for a whole minute, none of the girls making a move, being cautious. Cash grew bored and his expression began to somewhat sour.
"This is someone who's fought people and grim from other kingdoms, showing my skill will show how close it is to his." Weiss thought.
"I've watched the Vytal Festival almost every year, but I was taking finals that day and I only watched it once where Cash was in the finals. " Ruby thought slightly frantically.
Cash looked between the 4 girls with meager interest at this point. With more than a hint of disappointment, he sighed. And dashed making the girls put up their guard but not really seeing where he was going. They all looked back and forth trying to find him.
Yang who had her fists up keeping her guard tight, heard a whisper. "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey, what ya looking at?" Cash was behind rather close to her ear. Yang shouted and began firing off shots from Ember Celica, he dodged her punches shifting left and right and from his side Weiss went into strike, but he caught her and in slow motion dodged her straight strike from her sword and pushed her head forward making her lose balance and made both Yang and herself stumble over themselves.
Cash Landed near the edge of the ring. Ruby blasted her self towards him with her crescent rose and went in for an attack. He dodged her first strike, keeping limited movement he began keeping pace for her multiple slashes. He continued to dodge her attacks, while making sure to keep one eye on Blake who was waiting behind her teammate.
As Ruby continued empty assaults with her scythe, Cash grunted. "C'mon your not gonna step in already?" he thought as looked annoyed at Blake. He sighed. As dodged a slice from the left from Ruby, he kicked her almost making her fly sliding away where, Yang and Weiss fell over themselves. Blake attacked Cash with her sword, as he went to counter, he hit a black fake, the real Blake jumped over his head to his back, she put her sword in it's sheath. She took the whole "sheath" and swung it at him. Cash looked indifferent as she swung the "sheath" . In the short moment from Blakes sword swing and Cash Eyeing it, Glynda chimed in. "Cash the Sheath is a sword too."
"DAMMIT I FORGOT!" Blakes Cleaver slashed Cash's shoulder and face. His aura took the attack, and he and Blake eyed each other intensely. "You kidding me? That damn things all purpose as a damn utility belt! You're more than just doppelganger generator aren't you?" he said eyeing Blakes weapon.
Blake smirked and raised her weapon as a sword again. A glyph appeared below Cash's feet. "Were more than you realize." Weiss said holding a stasis glyph making him stuck to the spot he was in.
"Yeah." Ruby chirped.
"Payback time!" Yang said. The sisters went in for an attack.
Cash smirked. He took a breath,"ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!" A burst of energy erupted from him breaking Weiss's glyph, and making the girls falter from the force. Blake held her ears in pain, whincing even when he was done roaring.
Ruby and Yang regained their footing but their bodies were still shaking. Weiss felt heavier with every move she made to stand. "H-He Destroyed my glyphs." Weiss stammered wincing trying keep her posture.
"What did he do?" Yang asked biting her lip to stabalize her body.
"This is my Semblance. Semblance Break" Cash said as the energy continued to course around him violently. "I can break any semblance thrown my way." He explained as he dissapted the energy. "I've gotta wonder. When you guys took down that Giant Never More, was actual skill, or was it just luck!" Cash said as jumped to the center of the arena, stretching and winding up his arm.
The girls sneered at that comment. As this went on the other students began to get riled at this information. "He…can break all semblances?" Pyrrha asked.
"I don't think all Semblances can apply, I mean there must be SOME limit to it right?" Jaune theorized, as he looked to his teammates Pyrrha could only stay indifferent and Nora and Ren shrugged.
Ruby looked to her sister and Blake, Weiss, seemed to also get the message and stood with her teammates. "We'll show him!" The others nodded. Weiss formed 3 Glyphs around Cash. Then Ruby sped to the one farthest to the left seen as no more than a bushel of petals.
"She's faster than Oobleck." Cash thought eyeing her.
Yang rockets herself to the right glyphs holding on to Blakes tether throwing her to the center. Cash anticipated their movements and made sure not to leave Weiss unnoticed for long. The three behind him began to fire off barrages of shots form their weapons through the glyphs. Cash moved swiftly and began jumping around the arena avoiding barrages of bullets with indomidable speed.
"This was supposed to force him towards Weiss but he's moving like almost like Uncle Crow!" Ruby said firing shot after shot from her Rifle.
"Plan B?" Yang said keeping up attack after attack from her gauntlet guns.
"Weiss put a Glyph behind him!" Ruby shouted!
"What kind!?" Weiss retorted, maintaining the ones she already had out.
"The Black one!" Ruby said hammering the trigger on Crescent Rose.
She put a black Glyph behind Cash, but it wasn't close enough to do anything to him. He did however looked intrigued. Ruby jumped through the glyph she was shooting through and sped towards Cash, in the midst of still dodging bullet fire, Cash spun to meet Ruby head to head, Ruby attempted to slash him but she missed as he moved his head up, she then fired off a shot from her rife and then landed behind Cash and attempted to attack him again. He didn't have to move to avoid this strike just watched the blade swing up in his face. But as the blade left his view he saw the black glyph from before holding the bullet Ruby fired, bearing its momentum. Weiss focused on the glyph and it flung the bullet in the direction it came but straight towards Cash. With it looking like he had no where to dodge this attack the girls smiled thinking victory was theirs, and then the bullet had made contact with Cash. Ruby smirked, but in instant it faltered. Cash's head turned slightly for Blake and Yang to see and their smiles were gone as well. Cash had the bullet in his teeth. He proceeded to spit it out on the floor.
Ruby's jaw dropped and couldn't find the air to even gasp. The other members of team RWBY no better, as they almost let heir weapons drop then and there, granted Yangs is attached to her arms.
The whole class went deafly silent. Nora not being part of the battle was just as awestruck as team RWBY. "Nice. I think a good number of people in my year wouldn't of been able to deal with that." Cash complimented as he smirked.
"Y-Y-y-You…" Ruby stammered. "Caught a bullet in your-MOUTH! That's so awesome!" she exclaimed in a fangirl fashion.
Yang still stupefied said weakly. "What is this guy? Weiss what did you say about him earlier?"
"His team won the Vytal Festival two years running..." Weiss said horrified not even able to move after Cash's demonstration.
"Impossible…."Blake murmured to herself, also scared.
As Ruby continued to geek out over Cash, he got flustered, and scratched his nose. "Anyway. I think that ends this." He cracked his knuckles with a smile on his face. Team RWBY became pale and their stomachs sunk Bass low. Cash launched a barrage of punches and kicks that knocked Team RWBY around and on the ground defeated, depleted of aura.
"Oowwwwwww." Ruby piped as she winced from the kick in the face Cash just delivered her.
"That'll be all for today. You can return to your seats now." Cash said cracking his knuckles. The girls collected themselves albeit bitter returned their section above on their way out, Yang did however eye his Gun Katana. "Next Team JNPR" Glynda said to the balconies, The ragtag group of Jaune, Nora, Ren, and Pyrrha walked down to the arena, retaining their nervous exterior, still intimidated by Cash's skill.
They walked in front of Cash, and brought out their weapons. "Ready. Begin!" Glynda gave the call as Cash readied himself for their assault.
Pyrrha made a bee line for Cash, and attacked with her spear in it's shortened state. Nora followed suit Swinging her hammer from below her, Cash moved his head making the hammer miss and Grabbed Pyrrha's spear as she tried to attack again, Pyrrha struggled to take back her weapon, but his grip was tight and she could not pull it away. Ren jumped over all of them in a spin and fired an array of shots from his Storm Flower Pistols, Cash's aura endured the blows, but he focused on Nora as she tried to tackle him and force him to lose his grip on Pyrrha's weapon, held up an arm to keep her off.
As he maintained his grappling on the girls. Cash looked towards Jaune who was standing in the back, doing nothing but trying figure out what to do. Letting go of Pyrrha's weapon, he pushed off Nora, as he avoided a kick from Ren and charged Jaune. He panicked slightly and put his Shield and sword up. He closed his tightly waiting for the impact. Noticing he had not yet been hit Jaune opened an eye. Cash was spinning over his head and he landed behind him, and grabbed his head. He proceeded to throw him at his teammates. "Aaaagh, guys a little heeeeeelllp!" Jaune screamed as flew to his team. He collided with Ren and Nora as they tried to keep him from crashing head fist into the arena floor. Pyrrha made a way to Cash extending her spear, aiming multiple jabs at him as he smoothly dodged her strikes.
Jaune with help from Ren and Nora picked himself up and saw Pyrrha engaging Cash with him not really retaliating. "It's…still a test. We just gotta show our stuff. Alright Jaune think of something!" Jaune thought as he gripped his sword looking at Pyrrha. He looked quickly at Nora and Ren and a light bulb came on in his head.
"Nora get ready to fire, Ren with me!" Nora nodded and changed her hammer into a grenade launcher. Jaune and Ren followed in after each other to Cash who was still not getting hit by Pyrrha. Ren tried to hit Cash, but he ducked as Jaune went for a wide slash, Cash moved his head slightly to avoid the tip of the blade. Jaune nearly tripped over himself getting next to Pyrrha. This however did not falter him as bumped his shield into Pyrrha's and seemingly understood what he meant, put her's firmly next to his. Ren slid by Cash and jumped behind their shields.
"Fire in the hole" Nora fired a barrage of pink grenades at Cash. Explosions erupted all round Cash, he stood right in front of Pyrrha and Jaune so they did not feel the brunt of the explosions. After Nora's blasts the arena was filled with pink smoke. As it finally dissipated it showed Cash relatively unharmed, he had an intrigued look on his face. Ren and Pyrrha saw this and prepared themselves, while Jaune only noticed seconds later cause he had not looked up yet.
Before they could make a move. Cash held up his hand to them. "That's enough. I've seen what I wanted to see." He said, as Nora didn't get he message until it was too late and finished swinging her hammer down up Cash. It's impact rang out slightly shaking the room. Nora a bit flabbergasted, was held in place with her hammer. Which was firmly planted in Cash's face. He looked indifferent, and actually alright.
"You guys can return to your seats now." Cash said.
"Uh…" Jaune muttered.
"Are you alright?" Ren asked, quietly..
"Yeah. Guys c'mon aura, protects us from stuff, helps us not die." Cash said. Nora returned to the ground, looking him over, but saw that he was fine, his merely dissipated his aura as she moved her weapon.
"O-k…" Pyrrha said unsurely walking towards the stairs, with Jaune in tow, also fazed by the man. Ren only walked away in silence. Before Nora could walk away Cash put a hand on her shoulder.
"Tell me. How many ounces do you put in per ammo?" Cash asked with interest.
"Oh I don't do any of the measuring or anything. I just get some good explosive dust and mixem and pour em in and it makes good'ol Nora's Blasting jelly." She said happily.
"Hmmmmm. Keep it up." Cash encourage, as Nora gave him a thumbs and a smile as she walked with a skip in her step after her teammates.
Cash smiled. "Next Team CRDL." He said loudly as prepared himself for the next group.
It took nearly an hour but all the teams were tested by Cash and Glynda and the students exited for other business or other classes. "So what do you have to say about the new students this year son?" Glynda said fiddling with her Tablet Scroll.
Cash put his finger on his chin in thought. "First Team RWBY. Weiss Schnee, her glyphs are handy and multipurpose and she's decent with a sword, also makes fair use of dust. But her stamina issues make any talent she has be shortsighted. She's paper in the wind in terms of physical ablility. The girl Blake Belladonna, she has a very versatile weapon that comes in 4 forms, which I thought was 3 from what you told me about their initiation. But I don't think she's been in straight up fights much, she's methodic but to a point where she could be putting energy to the workings of the team but doesn't. And the blonde-Yang Xiao Long" Glynda interrupted.
"Yes. You saw how she fights she has no defense. There's no restraint with her unless she's with her team, even if I trigger her semblance I can put her down easily. On the upside she works well with others. I heard she has a nice temper." Cash joked. "Indeed." Glynda said rolling her eyes.
"And the young one, Ruby, hmmmm…" Cash began to think. "A bit reckless, but she's keeping up with people who've been at this longer than she has, thought 2 years is barely a blink in this case. She's not accustomed to being a leader yet, a bit slow to give out commands unless it's in the heat of battle. She'll improve well enough in due time." Cash finished.
"And Team RWBY as a whole?" Glynda asked.
"A bit slow on the approach, but their well synched with each other, with more work they'll find a balance for their attack and defense." Cash said assuredly.
"Ok now Team JNPR." Said Glynda scolling a student list and stopping on a picture of Jaune Arc.
"Oh yes, Nora Valkyrie IS wreckless but she's their heavy, trigger happy, frankly all the wonderful things I enjoy are made of. If she has one weakness it's only her blunt tactics." Cash said with a smile. Glynda looked annoyed.
"Pyrrha Nikos is a stand alone Complex waiting to happen. Why do you keep buttering her up anyway?" Cash asked.
"Pyrrha Nikos won the Mitral Regional Tournament, got top marks in her combat school, and has performed great feats comparable to that of pre-graduate students.." Glynda explained as she view up a hologram showing Pyrrha fighting.
"Glynda, you know prodigies bore the hell out of me." Cash said annoyed. "But she's lucky. The system used by the Huntsmen Acadamies revolve around working with a team. Since she already likes to cooperate and befriend others this weakness of hers will dull, and her teammates will keep her down to earth. Instead of a pedestal." he shot at Glynda, and she scrunched her nose in response..
"Lie Ren, it's as you said he's got the skills and…he's not weak or anything but I think he's lacking a little something extra." Cash said.
"Now Jaune Arc." Glynda Grunted. "He has a good head on his shoulders. He can call strategy well and the others react to him well. Of course his basic fighting ability leaves much to-" Glynda interrupted while callously pressing hard on her Scroll Tablet. "He fights like a first year in combat school, his transcripts greatly exaggerated his standing among the students in other various combat schools." Before Glynda could rant any further Cash interrupted her.
"Glynda c'mon he got through initiation, he was accepted into a huntsman academy in general." Cash urged, Glynda looked to begin again but stopped herself.
"Now Jaune Arc has a way to go developing his own strength. Cause we both believe in the concept," Cash said.
"That a chain is only strong as it's weakest link." Glynda finished.
"So he'll get stronger, and he'll catch up." Cash said trying to assure Glynda.
She let out a hard breath. And focused on the task at hand. "And team JNPR as a whole?" she said.
"They work together well right out of the gate for any situation and with Jaune's leadership can improvise for his plans. Individual skill is a factor, further assessments will infer on what direction the team is going." Cash Declared as leaned against the wall of the arena.
"Team CRDL." Glynda said.
"Work well together, but bad attitude, give'em some of your good'ol charisma and it'll set em straight soon enough." Cash said with with a wink. Glynda grimaced.
It is now night time, students are in their rooms turning in for the night, so they could be ready for tomorrow. We now set on team rwby before they hit the sack.
"He's so COOOL! His semblance beat ANYONE's!" Ruby exclaimed cheerfully looking up the ceiling in bed.
"He didn't even use his sword." Yang said almost bitterly, here arms above her head.
"I don't think that's really an issue…" Weiss charmed.
"He's strong, very strong. Blake said quietly.
"His nick name from when he participated in his second Vytal Festival was the Wind Surfer, because of his proficient use of wind dust." Said Weiss.
"And he didn't do any of that against us." Yang said with actual bitterness.
"Don't worry Yang we'll make him take us so seriously he'll have to get two swords! I really wanna see what he could then!" Ruby said in a fangirl fashion. Her other teammates could only sweatdrop and be daunted by how the girl cut the tension in the room. That in tow the girls laid down in their beds to rest.
Chapter End.