{AN} Hope you are enjoying the story so far! This is a longer chapter, and with my work schedule I've been unable to write most days. Anyways, here is chapter three. Language and violence warning. {END AN}
Team RWBY sat silently around a table in the back corner of the library. Ozpin stood at the head of the table with a fresh cup of coffee in hand. He took a sip from his mug, then began speaking.
"I am not sure how much Ms. Rose told you, but I am sure you all want to know what is happening with your teammate."
"He's not our REAL teammate." Yang said angrily.
"While you are correct in that statement, I'm sure that everyone on your team would appreciate it if you at least put up with him Ms. Xiao Long." He looked her in the eye, then continued.
"It seems as though Mr. Midori also has a Semblance, and as you recently learned he has been genetically altered to be part Grimm. This change is no doubt difficult to control, but I believe that he can manipulate his Grimm form due to his Semblance. As you all know, a person's Semblance is a manifestation of their innate and personal power and derives from their innermost personality. A person's Semblance allows them to manipulate some force in the world, such as speed in Ms. Rose's' case. While current studies on the nature of Semblances say that they do not alter the user's physical body, it is clear that we still have much to learn."
"Just get on with it already. I could be doing better things." Yang yawned.
"Yang." Blake said sternly "At least try to not be rude for two minutes."
"Fine, but you owe me some of your time for wasting mine."
Blake rolled her eyes, then looked at her teammates "But seriously I'm sure we all learned how semblances worked, right guys?"
She looked at Ruby and Weiss, who were sitting across from her. Ruby was asleep and Weiss had a notepad and pen in hand and seemed to be eagerly awaiting Ozpin's description of Jace's Semblance. Blake sighed and looked at Ozpin "Please continue."
Ozpin cleared his throat "Mr. Midori's Semblance is mimicry."
"Really? Can't he do that 'cause he's a chameleon?" Yang asked.
"No. Chameleons do not mimic anything, they simply change colors to blend in with their environments. Mr. Midori was a level above chameleon camouflage"
"And what was his level?" Weiss asked eagerly.
"I can't say to what extent he can control it, but when I was in that room I had to do a double take. I could have sworn that each of you took turns lying on the floor in the same spot he did." He chuckled slightly "But I'm sure he could show you all just what I saw if you asked him. Now I wouldn't want to keep your team from lunch. I hear that they have chocolate chip cookies on the menu."
At the word cookies, Ruby awoke and jumped out of her seat. "C'mon guys! What if all the cookies are gone by the time we get there?! We have to go now!" She then sprinted off.
"Well I guess that's our cue, we'll be seeing you Ozpin." Yang said, jumping up to follow her sister. The other two girls got up and followed Yang, waving goodbye to Ozpin, who remained standing there for a few seconds before leaving the library.
The next day, around 6 p.m.
Team RWBY sat at their usual spot in the cafeteria and were finishing their food when Weiss nudged Blake in her side.
"Weiss, what was that for?"
"That girl," Weiss whispered "she's been looking at me the whole time I've been eating. It's really creepy."
Blake followed Weiss' gaze to a girl sitting across the room. She had purple hair that was put up in two ponytails off the back of her head and touched the floor when she was sitting. Her eyes were a bright yellow that gave Blake shivers to look at. She was wearing the typical Beacon uniform, and it was obvious that she was staring at Weiss.
"Weiss, I don't know what to tell you. Just ignore her."
"I've been trying to, but I can feel her eyes on me even when I'm not looking at her."
"You should go over and talk to her, tell her to stop or something like that."
"I...I guess so." Weiss stood up, and began to walk over to the girl, who kept looking at Weiss. As she walked across the cafeteria, she passed by the table where Cardin was sitting, and someone tripped her. She stumbled slightly, but quickly regained her balance. Cardin spoke after seeing her trip.
"What's wrong Weiss? Can't walk past cute boys without stumbling? How embarrassing!"
"No, it's just the stench from you that caused me to die a little inside."
"By stench you mean the glorious smell of four warriors, right?"
His cronies burst out laughing, but the laughter was brought to an abrupt end when a plate smashed on the back of Cardin's head. Weiss looked up, and saw the purpled-haired girl standing of the table that she was sitting at earlier. She was wearing a black bikini top, black combat pants and black combat boots. Weiss could have swore that the girl was wearing the Beacon uniform just a second ago. Cardin followed Weiss' gaze, rubbing his head.
"Who's that, your slutty little guardian angel?"
"I actually don't know who she is." Weiss replied flatly.
"You really are a pest you know." Cardin called out to the girl. "I was just joking around." The cafeteria fell silent. After a few seconds, the girl spoke.
"I can be a pest at times." Her voice was light and had no noticeable accent, and Weiss thought she sounded similar to Ruby, if she was a few years older.
"OK, so why don't you just sit back down so Ice Queen and I can finish what we started? Unless you are going to come over here and act like you're dressed."
He looked at Weiss, who practically vomited in her mouth at the thought of Cardin procreating. The girl's eyes narrowed, and the students sitting in between the two began to move, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire if a fight broke out.
"You want me to suck your dick? I'll be sure to bite it off so then you really will be a bitch."
Cardin stopped laughing. "What did you say?"
"I said 'You are going to be my bitch.'" she yelled
Cardin stood up "You have a deathwish? Or are you in love with Weiss, you lesbian." The girl held out her left hand towards Cardin, as if to point him out. She then raised her right hand to her temple, making a gun shape out of her fingers. After a second she pulled the imaginary trigger and moved her hand back a few inched from her head, mouthing the word "boom" as she did so.
"Look's like we have to teach her a lesson guys. Get her!" Cardin said to his teammates, who got up and charged at the girl.
Russel reached the girl first but was quickly dispatched by kick to the mouth, the girls boot making a sickening crack as it contacted his face. She jumped onto the floor and grabbed a steak knife from the table, sticking the knife into her right boot. Dove and Sky charged at her and she dodged Sky and grabbed him by the hair, pulling him to the ground. She looked up and was met with Dove's fist in her face. The girl was knocked over, and she released Sky's hair. She lay on her back a few feet from Dove, her hands up to her face. After a few seconds, she sat up and moved her hands away to reveal that she was bleeding heavily from her nose.
"Yeah! You like that? That's what you get for messing with Team CRDL!" Dove yelled. The girl smiled. "Why are you smiling? You want some more? Come get it!"
The girl ran towards Dove and Sky, who was now standing. Dove was in front of Sky, and as the girl reached him he swung at her again. He missed, so the girl took advantage and punched him in the throat. Sky grabbed the girl's arm and readied his fist, but the girl turned and spat a mouthful of blood into his face. Sky screamed and let her go and began to try to wipe the blood from his face. The girl kicked him in his groin and looked at Cardin, who was still standing by Weiss. Cardin looked around, and grabbed a nearby steak knife.
"D...Don't you come over here! I'll...I'll stab you! I mean it!"
The girl smiled, revealing that her teeth were covered in blood. "You really are a bitch." Blood flew from her mouth as she spoke.
"Wh...What do you mean by that? You're being the bitch here!"
The girl grabbed a cup and threw it at him. The cup landed and broke next to him, but he closed his eyes and tried to cover his face nonetheless. When he noticed that the girl had missed he began to laugh. After a second of laughing, he opened his eyes and saw the girl standing in front of him mere inches from his face.
"Boo." She whispered.
Cardin screamed and stumbling backwards, dropping his knife and falling to the ground. The girl jumped on top of him, pulling the steak knife out of her boot. She held the knife up in her right hand and looked up at Weiss, who was standing in horror. Weiss' hands were off to the left side of her body, just over her left shoulder. The girl saw this and repositioned her hand, then she brought the knife down and stabbed Cardin in his left shoulder. Cardin screamed and tried to grab his shoulder, but the girl had his arms pinned to his sides. She leaned down and whispered something into his ear, then got up and pulled the knife out of his shoulder and cast it aside. Her face and chest was covered in blood. She looked at Weiss again, then spoke.
"Hi! Your Weiss Schnee, and I'm Sashimasu. I need to go back to the infirmary, they might start wondering where I am if I'm gone too long. Plus Jace hates it when I'm like this. Bye!"
She winked at Weiss, then ran off. Weiss stood there in shock, and after a few seconds the rest of her team came to her side asking if she was OK or if she was hurt. Ozpin and Goodwitch arrived with Qrow and the paramedics moments later. Weiss was unsure how the girl was able to get past two hunters and a huntress without being stopped, not to mention all of the students that were fleeing the cafeteria. Ozpin and Goodwitch approached the girls as soon they saw them standing by Cardin, who hadn't moved since the girl spoke to him.
"What happened here? Everyone alright?" Qrow asked, looking at the girls. Ruby, Blake, and Yang all looked at Weiss who spoke after a second.
"Well I'm...not too sure really. It all happened so fast. I think she said something about Jace, and the infirmary?"
"Ms. Schnee, please tell us all you can, and Ms. Rose didn't you pass me as I was entering?" Ozpin asked.
"I've been here the whole time, I would never leave my teammates alone in a situation like this." Ruby answered.
"Hmmm." Ozpin turned to Qrow, who was standing next to him "Qrow, please go and find the Ruby that passed us as we entered. I would start with the infirmary, that is where Ms. Schnee said that the assailant was going."
Qrow nodded and left. Ozpin turned back to Weiss.
"Now, start where you remember the most."
Weiss recounted the events to the best of her memory, starting from the time she noticed the girl looking at her until the current moment. Once she was finished, Ozpin took a sip of his coffee and thought for a moment.
"Can you give a good description of the girl?" Goodwitch asked, who had joined in a few moments into Weiss's account after she had helped the paramedics with team CRDL.
"Well she had long purple hair that reached to her knees and was in two ponytails, yellow eyes, probably my age, about Yang's height. She was wearing a uniform I thought, but I saw her wearing a black bikini top and combat pants before she ran off."
Goodwitch entered this information into a large scroll she was holding. After she finished, she looked at Weiss.
"Did she tell you her name?"
"Yeah, I think she said it was Sashimatsu? Sushimatyou? It was hard to tell, there was blood in her mouth."
"Alright, thank you for the information. We will submit this information to the Vale Police Department so they can broadcast and APB later. Thank you for your cooperation." Goodwitch then left and began to gather accounts from other students in the area. Ozpin spoke to the girls after she left.
"If you see this girl again, please contact Qrow, Glynda, or myself as soon as possible. Do not be afraid to protect yourselves, but please be…"
"Ozpin, I found this in room 15!" Qrow called from the door, partially winded. He approached Ozpin and team RWBY holding a white and red towel in his hands. "This was shoved into the sink with the water running. There was a lot of blood in and around the toilet and the window was open." He showed the towel to Ozpin.
"Could that be the girls?" Yang asked..
"Room 15 was Jace's room right? Was he in there?" Ruby asked.
"Jace? That room was empty kiddo. If your friend was supposed to be in there, they weren't."
"Oh no, we have to go looking for him! Let's go!"
"Ms. Rose," Ozpin calmly interjected "Jace is in room 24. I had him moved after he complained of having the sun in his eyes every morning. You should check on him though, who knows where that girl could have gone. Just make sure you aren't defenceless this time."
"OK professor Ozpin, we will find that girl if it takes all summer to do!"
The girls then headed to the locker room to get their weapons before going to the infirmary.
Team RWBY reached the infirmary, weapons in hand. They made their way through the halls to room 24, and as they approached the door they could hear what sounded like two people arguing inside. They quietly waited outside so they could hear the argument.
"...can't be doing that!" a male voice said.
"Why not? You know it was fun!" a female voice said.
"Yeah, it was kinda fun. But it was also dangerous! What if we got hurt?"
"We?" Yang mouthed to her teammates, who just shrugged and returned to listening to the argument.
"What did that accomplish? NOTHING." the male said.
"Oh, it did something alright. I protected our Snow Queen!"the female voice said.
"Our? Yeah, OK. Our Snow Queen. If she finds out, we are truly dead. No getting out of it this time. I doubt she even likes us in the first place."
"That's because you aren't letting me do the talking!"
"The only talking you do is with a knife."
"That's the best kind of talking!"
"Using a knife isn't talking. It's acting."
"I speak with actions, just like you."
"But you aren't me."
"But I am. We were bonded by those scientists, remember."
"Shut up! If I could kill you, I would."
"Then do it! Just take a gun and…"
The voices in the room stopped, because out in the hallway Ruby sneezed. After a few seconds the door was opened by someone from inside the room. It was Jace. He opened the door partially to where only his face and upper body were visible.
"Hey guys. What are you doing here? Don't you have summer-y things to be doing?" he said nervously.
"We would, if someone didn't just attack team CRDL at dinner." Ruby replied "WE were just checking on you, making sure you were OK."
"Well I'm all good, thanks for the thought. Bye." he tried to close the door, but Yang put her foot in the frame, preventing it from being closed all the way.
"Hold up. I thought you had emerald green eyes." Yang said accusingly.
"Yeah." Blake added "When did you get a bloody nose?"
The rest of the team looked at his eyes, which were a yellow-green now instead of their usual emerald color, along with the little bit of blood that was around both of his nostrils.
"The little things…" Jace muttered. He sighed and let go of the door, quickly retreating into the room. Team RWBY entered the room which smelled strongly of jasmine, and looked around. They didn't see Jace in the room. After a few seconds, there was a rush of wind past them. The girls looked in the doorway, and saw Ruby standing in the frame. Ruby had one hand on the door handle, and the other at her side. Her head was down, casting a shadow over her face.
"Ruby, what are you doing?" Yang asked.
"I'm right here Yang." Ruby said at Yang's side.
"What do you mean you were just..." she looked at the door again. Jace was standing in the door where Ruby once stood.
"Wait how did you do that?" Yang looked confused. "You just used her semblance."
"Please forgive me," Jace said "but I think you've seen enough for today. Please wait here until I sort this out."
"Jace, what are you doing?!" Weiss cried. Jace looked up at her and smiled partially, then closed the door.
"What do we do now?" Weiss asked.
"It's simple." Blake replied "These doors only lock from the inside, so we just walk out."
"But how will we find him?"
"Zwei?" Ruby suggested.
"That might work. We could get some clothes of his or something." Weiss added
"Or we could just look outside the door and down the hall." Yang said, standing in the doorway.
The rest of the team walked over to the doorway and looked out. Jace was sitting behind a plant at the end of the hall.
"We can see you." Weiss said flatly.
"No you can't, I'm invisible." he replied.
Yang sighed and walked over to him. She reached down and grabbed him by his shirt collar and carried him back into the room. He tried to break free, but gave up once he knew he couldn't. He grabbed Yang's arm for a few seconds and his arm lit up temporarily, then he let go and shook his hand as if he had touched something hot. Yang threw him onto the bed once she was close enough to it, and Blake closed and locked the door once Yang was inside.
"We want answers, so speak." Yang demanded.
"Fine, but let's get on even ground shall we?" Jace sat up in the bed and smiled. In what seemed like only a second, he changed into Yang. He was wearing the same clothes she was currently wearing, which was her regular battle gear.
"Is this some sort of joke?"
"No, I'm just showing you what I can do." He sounded just like Yang "You try to hurt me during this chat, you might just find a few less-than-desireable photos on the internet tomorrow. That goes for all of you."
"Why you little…" Yang stepped forward and raised her fist.
"I would stop if I were you." Jace changed what he was wearing, and his Yang-form was now wearing only short-shorts and a sports bra. Yang stopped dead in her tracks, took a few steps back, and collapsed into a chair.
"That's what I thought. Now, who has a question?" Yang raised her hand.
"Yes, Yang?"
"You're a pervert."
"I'm hurt. I would never do such a thing as use my morphs for my desires. Next question."
Yang raised her hand again.
"Yes, Yang?"
"Could you at least put some clothes on me?"
"OK, fine." Jace changed what his Yang form was wearing, which was a VERY small black bikini.. "You never said what to change into."
Yang stared at Jace, and the temperature in the room began to rise rapidly.
"You're no fun." He changed back into his regular form, and he was wearing the clothes the hospital gave him. "Next?" Weiss raised her hand.
"Weiss?"
"Who was that in the cafeteria?"
"That was me." a female voice said from Jace's mouth.
"Stay out of this, you psycho." Jace snapped at the other voice.
"Why should I? I just want our Snow Princess to notice us." the female voice whined.
"Killing people doesn't put us in a good light." Jace said.
"Hey!" Weiss interjected "Answer the question!"
"Can I please talk to her in person?" the female voice asked.
Jace sighed "Fine, but make it quick. You know I hate being you."
"Yay!" the female voice exclaimed.
A second after the female voice cheered, Jace changed into a girl with purple hair and yellow eyes.
"You're the girl from the cafeteria?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah! My name is Sashimasu, but you can call me Sashi. I really care for you Weiss. You may not like me at all but I will always like you. I will literally do anything to protect you. Anything." she smiled crazily.
"That's terrifying." Weiss replied.
"OK, that's enough of you." Jace said.
"Aww, but I was having fun!" Sashimasu whined. Jace returned to his usual brown-haired, green-eyed self after a few seconds of weird body-shape melding. When he returned to his usual form, he was breathing heavily as if he had just ran a race.
"Why are you breathing so heavily all of a sudden?" Blake asked.
"I had…" he paused and held up his pointer finger, took a few more breaths, then continued "I had to retake my body, she was fighting me 'cause she's an arrogant little shit."
"Explain how that works." Yang said, motioning to all of Jace "And why there is a girl inside you."
Jace sighed "Well at the 'facility' I grew up in…"
"Where is this facility you grew up in anyways? And if it's as bad as you make it out to be, why did they let you go?" Yang interrupted.
"I'm not sure where it is. All I remember is it was snowy, and running for a long time until I collapsed."
"Really. You grew up there and that's all you remember?"
"Presently, yes."
Yang sighed "Continue your explanation."
"As I was saying, those scientists were messed up. They did some really weird experiments, and that's one of them." he changed his head into Sashimasu's and pointed at it. "They shoved brain parts of one of the girls who didn't make it through the experiments into my head, and since my Semblance allows me to look like other people, I kinda worked this thing out with her."
"We're two people in the same body!" Sashimasu said happily from Jace's mouth.
"Yeah. It is truly a blast having her inside my head." Jace replied dully.
"You know you like it. I know you do, especially when you get really horn…" Jace covered his mouth with his hands, and muffled out whatever Sashimasu was going to say. After she stopped talking, he lowered his hands.
"Let's not talk about that, OK? Anyways we basically have it worked out that I get to control my body most of the time, and she gets to stay in my head. Reading my thoughts and my deepest feelings. It's a parasitic relationship if you ask me."
"But I LOVE IT!" Sashimasu yelled out.
"So why did you say you had to fight her earlier?" Ruby asked.
"Sometimes she just gets needy and wants to stay in her form, so I have to take my own body back."
"Oh. That sounds kinda cruel."
"Mmm no not really. I'd say I'm in my form 75 percent of the time and her form 25 percent of the time, which is about how much of her that one can handle."
"That still sounds cruel. It should be 50-50 so both of you can do what you want." Blake said.
"All she wants to do is kill anyone who comes near Weiss. I can literally hear her thinking that right now."
"That is not true!" Sashimasu cried "I only want to stab the people that come near her, not kill them!"
"Stabbing can kill people." Jace replied.
"Yeah, but not if you stab them in their legs!"
"I guess you have a point. Weiss, Sashi wants to go get dinner sometime. I'd really appreciate it if you went with her."
Weiss was caught off guard "Uhhhh like as in a date? Or just as friends?"
Jace and Sashimasu were silent, but the team could tell from the expressions forming on Jace's face that he was having an internal discussion with Sashimasu. After a moment, Jace spoke.
"Let's just go as friends for now, but maybe later we can move up to better things." he winked at Weiss. Weiss almost gagged at the thought of dating someone as perverted as Jace but when she thought of the possibilities that could arise with his Semblance, such as all the classes she could take, she giggled.
"Alright you love birds, snap out of it. We still got more questions." Yang said, snapping her fingers.
"Like what? That's really all there is to know about me. I can't answer any more questions about myself, unless you want to know how my day's been."
"How was your day?" Ruby asked.
"It was terrible. I woke up and had to fight with the purple-haired psycho for an hour before breakfast. At lunch I spilled my soda all over myself, and then you all saw how she acted at dinner. Then I learned that I couldn't escape like they do in the movies. How was your day?"
"Fine I guess."
"OK cool. I'm all tired now so if you guys don't have any more questions, I'm going to sleep. Feel free to look around the room. You might find some of Sashimasu's underwear or worse, her drawings. Who knows." he layed down and before any of the girls could say anything, he was snoring.
"Underwear? I thought he just made the clothes as part of his morph-things." Blake said.
"I dunno with this guy." Yang said "He's really an odd character."
"Yeah." Weiss agreed "He didn't even tell me when we were going out to eat. How rude."
"Oh well. Maybe he'll stop by our room later and fill you in on the details."
"I hope so."
"Let's just get going. I found one of those drawings in the bedside table." Blake said, holding up a piece of paper with a drawing on it. The drawing was in pencil, and though it was crude it was obviously a picture of Weiss as a cat. There was something written beside it, but it was illegible.
"Yeah, let's leave." Weiss agreed.
The girls left the infirmary and headed back to their dorm for the night.
The next day was uneventful for team RWBY until lunch time, when they ran into Jace as they were leaving the cafeteria.
"Jace? What are you doing here? Did they let you out of the infirmary?" Ruby asked after greeting him.
"Yeah." he replied "I got my own room now, it's just below your room. I got it all to myself."
"Technically I live there too." Sashimasu said through Jace.
"Technically you are me, so it doesn't count. Only got one body in the room." he retorted. Sashimasu was silent. "Anyways, I'm sure you guys may be wondering how I change my clothes for my morphs?"
"Yeah...wait did you hear me last night?" Blake asked.
Jace laughed nervously "Yeah, I wasn't actually asleep. I just wanted to get out of that conversation because it was getting awkward. You were correct in your assumption though."
"OK?"
"Oh and Weiss," he added "We are going tonight if that's alright.."
"Tonight?! You really couldn't have told me last night so I could have been more prepared! How about tomorrow night?"
He shrugged "I guess. Sashi might be mad though. Oh well."
"Wait, I'm going with her?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I don't know if I want to go any more. Will she act the same way as she did yesterday?"
Jace thought for a moment "No. Probably not."
"Probably not? How reassuring."
Jace laughed "I'm sure it'll be fine."
"You say that like you won't be there."
"I technically won't be there. I'm going to trust her and let her take control for the night."
"Yep!" Sashimasu piped up from Jace's mouth "I promise I won't do anything stupid!"
"I hope so for both our sakes Sashi." Jace replied.
"I hope so too." Weiss added.
"I'll make sure she is at your room to pick you up by six tomorrow. Right now I could use some lunch, so I'm off. Bye guys!"
He began walking off towards the cafeteria, but stopped and turned around.
"Hey Yang!"
Yang turned to face him "What?"
"When are we going to fight?"
Yang thought for a moment "How about tomorrow morning."
"OK sounds good. I'll be sure to wipe the floor with your face!"
"Oh it's on now. Loser does the others laundry for a week."
Jace laughed, turned back around, and entered the cafeteria.
At seven o'clock the next morning, most of team RWBY was awoken by a knock on their door. Blake was the first one to fully get up. She was unsure who would be knocking on their door at seven in the morning during the summer, so she made sure Weiss and Ruby were awake before she even made a move to open the door. She would have liked to have Yang awake as well, but she remained asleep even after being shaken by Blake. Blake opened the door once Weiss and Ruby were up, and she saw Jace standing in the doorway.
"Jace, what are you doing here so early in the morning?" Blake asked, still somewhat asleep.
"I'm here to fight Yang. She said she wanted to fight this morning, right?" he peered into the room, and saw that Yang was still asleep. "Oh well, I guess she forfeits 'cause she's asleep."
As if on cue, Yang began to stir.
"I'm not asleep anymore, so I can't forfeit now!" Yang said, still mostly asleep.
"OK, then let's go to the courtyard and fight!"
"Why the courtyard?" Blake asked "We have an arena you know."
"Really? But the courtyard is more fun. Plus people get to watch from there."
"People get to watch in the arena too, and it's much safer."
Jace looked at her for a second "Fine. But only because people can watch there."
Blake facepalmed, and closed the door on Jace. She then began the difficult task of getting Yang up.
Jace decided to hold off the fight until nine so that Yang could fully awaken and get some breakfast. The remaining members of team RWBY and team JNPR were spectating, along with Professor Goodwitch who was overseeing the fight. Yang and Jace stood on opposite sides of the arena as Professor Goodwitch read the rules. Yang was wearing her typical combat gear, and Jace was wearing black jeans and a black hoodie, with black and yellow sneakers.
"This will be a one on one fight. First competitor whose aura drops below twenty percent, or is drained completely, loses. If at any point during the match I deem one of the competitors to be in a situation that could seriously injure or kill them, I will call off the match and intervene if necessary. If you understand these rules, raise your right hand."
Two right hands went up into the air.
"Begin!"
Yang charged Jace, who remained still. She reached him and swung at him with a right uppercut. Her fist made solid contact with his chin, and he went flying up into the air. He came falling back down and landed on the ground with a thud. Yang was confused.
'Did I win already? He didn't even try.' Yang thought as she looked towards the board that displayed their auras. Hers was full, and Jace's was at 88%. Yang looked back to where Jace was lying. He still hadn't moved. Yang began to approach the spot where he was lying, but before she could reach him he stood up.
"Finally getting up are we? Can't take a little hit from a girl?" Yang taunted.
Jace scoffed "You ain't seen nothin yet."
"Nothin? That's how much laundry I'm going to be doing!"
Yang charged at him again, and swung for his chest. Jace jumped out of the way of her punch and swung his knee up, slamming it into her gut. Yang fell to the ground, gasping for air.
'Damn, how is he so fast?' she thought. She regained her breath and began to get up when she noticed rose petals on the ground.
'Rose petals? Is Ruby in here?' she followed the trail of petals, and saw that Jace was standing at the end of them. She stood fully up.
"So you can copy semblances too. Huh?"
Jace smiled "That I can, but only if I come into physical contact with the person, and even then it's difficult to copy them. Ruby just happened to trust me enough at the time I came in contact with her that I could feel her aura easier and copy it."
"I feel robbed." Ruby said quietly in the stands.
Yang looked at the aura meters again. Her aura was at 90% after one hit, but Jace's had dropped to 60% without him being hit again. She smiled.
"I see that using your semblance-copying-thing really takes a lot out of you."
Jace shook his head "Yeah, but I can beat you with only…" he looked at the board "60 percent."
Yang took a more defensive stance, readying her fists in front of her.
'All I have to do is hold out and make him use his copying-thing a lot, and I'll win by attrition.' she thought.
Jace ran at Yang. She readied her fists to block his strikes but as Jace reached her, he dived at her feet. She took a step back and readied a downward strike with her elbow, but before she could swing he reached her legs and knocked her down. Yang fell forward and thought she had the advantage by being on top of Jace, but as she tried to get up her feet wouldn't move. She rolled over onto her back, sat up, and looked at her legs. Her feet had somehow been handcuffed together.
"What the…" she began. She looked at Jace, who was standing a few feet away "How'd you get these on me?"
Jace smiled, his hands were in his hoodie pocket "I don't think that matters. You should focus on getting them off though. I've been talking with Sashi, and she is not happy with you right now."
"You've been...What? What do you mean?"
Jace pulled a small wooden rectangle out of his hoodie pocket, and began slowly walking towards her. After a few steps, his figure changed into that of Sashimasu. She was wearing the same clothes Jace was.
"I heard what you said about Weiss, you fiery demon lady. Now you will pay, preferably with your life." Sashimasu said calmly. She continued walking towards Yang, who began to struggle to get the handcuffs off her legs. The box that Jace once held was now held by Sashimasu, and as she was walking towards Yang the box turned into a large chef's knife. Yang struggled even more to escape as Sashimasu advanced towards her.
"Professor Goodwitch! Ruby! Anyone! HELP ME!" Yang screamed, but it seemed to fall on deaf ears. Sashimasu laughed.
"They can't hear you! Now DIE!" Sashimasu ran towards Yang, and Yang closed her eyes. She felt something hit her chest and bounce off, then she heard hysterical laughing beside her. She opened her eyes and looked down. There was no knife wounds anywhere on her chest or body. When she looked next to her she saw Sashimasu rolling around on the ground laughing hysterically.
"What…?" Yang asked, confused.
"OH MY GOD! THAT WAS SO FUNNY HOW YOU REACTED YANG! ZERO SURVIVAL SKILL!" Sashimasu practically screamed through laughter.
After a few minutes she composed herself and changed into Jace. He started laughing, but he got up off the floor and reached into his hoodie pocket and produced a small pair of bolt cutters which he held out towards Yang.
"You really think I'd kill you? You're funny. That reaction, on the other hand, was priceless." Jace said.
Yang took the cutters and cut the handcuffs off of her feet, then she got up. She looked towards where the teammates were sitting. Ruby was nowhere in sight, but her laughter could be heard echoing through the arena. Weiss was covering her mouth with one hand and giggling, and Blake was laughing lightly and shaking her head. Team JNPR sat in shock, but after a while Jaune and Pyrrha began to laugh. Nora pouted slightly that someone didn't get murdered, but was also happy that one of her friends didn't get murdered. Ren sat silently. Professor Goodwitch looked slightly amused, but showed no signs of laughing or enjoyment in the event that just occurred.
"What happened? There was a knife and Sashimasu…"
"The knife was fake, they use them in movies all the time." he handed the box to Yang. It was wooden and fit comfortably in her hand. There was a button on the side, which she pressed. A chef's knife popped out, but when she tried to touch the blade her hand went right through it.
"And I'm not really mad at you." Sashimasu said through Jace "I was just playing my part."
"Yeah." Jace said "I told them what I wanted to do, showed them the knife and stuff while you were still waking up. They were all in on it. Even Goodwitch, which surprised me."
Yang looked around at her teammates, then back at Jace. She punched him in the gut, sending him to his knees and knocking the wind out of him. "That's for pulling a stunt like that. An this-" She punched him in the face, sending him sprawling out onto the floor "-is for stealing my sisters semblance. Have fun doing my laundry."
After a moment, Jace sat up and coughed "Yeah, I feel I deserve that." Jace forced out, blood running down his face "See you later."
Yang left the arena angrily. Jace stood up after a second and began walking towards the locker room to clean the blood off his face and attend to his wounds. As he was about to enter the locker room, Blake appeared in front of him.
"Blake, what up? You trying to sneak into the locker room with me? How dirty." He smiled at her devilishly.
Blake sighed "No, I'm not. I saw something while you were fighting that needs explaining."
"What? You not like pranks? Shame.." Jace walked past her a few steps and continued towards the locker room.
"It's about what happened when you changed into Sashimasu."
Jace froze. "What do you mean?" he asked nervously.
"I saw the aura meter, and unless it is broken I believe you have something to tell me about Sashi."
"I'm not sure I know what you mean." he replied.
"I think you know what I mean. I can replay the footage if you'd like." she pulled out her scroll and opened the video.
Jace turned around slowly and looked at the scroll.
"Watch the aura meter right when you let Sashimasu take over. I know you can see it, so don't lie."
She started the video, and Jace watched it without moving. The video was taken from a camera off to the side so that the fight and the aura meter could be visible to viewers. The video played through the fight, but as Jace was about to turn into Sashimasu Blake paused the video.
"Now watch the aura meter closely. I'll even play it in slow motion so you can really see it."
She resumed the video in slow motion, and it was painfully obvious to Jace what she wanted to show him. As Jace changed into Sashimasu, the aura meter changed from 60% to 100% in an instant.
"Explain that." Blake said, pausing the video and putting her scroll away.
"Explain what?" he asked timidly. Blake looked at him harshly.
"Well Sashi was a warrior too?" Jace said, smiling nervously.
"Do you have two Semblances?"
"No?"
"I knew it. What is hers, unlimited aura?"
"Kinda. Her Semblance is resistance."
"And that means?"
"It means that she doesn't get her aura drained from strikes like you and I, it only drains as she uses it to block things like bullets and stuff."
"Bullets. Really. Prove it." Blake drew Gambol Shroud and pointed it's pistol at him. Jace sighed.
"Fine, shoot then." He held his arms out and spread his legs apart slightly, as if to submit his body to the shot. He then changed into Sashimasu. Blake hesitated. She didn't want to shoot a defenceless person, especially someone who she was trying to trust.
"Well? Sashimasu asked. Blake lowered her gun slightly, aiming for her chest, closed her eyes, then fired. Blake opened her eyes a few seconds after firing and looked at Sashimasu. She stood there looking at Blake.
"You shot my boob. How rude." Sashimasu said, laughing slightly. Blake let out a sigh of relief.
"I guess you were right, I'm sorry to have been so rude."
"It's OK, I know that it's still hard to trust someone that can literally be everyone. Even you." Jace then changed from Sashimasu into Blake. "If anyone ever tells you to go fuck yourself, I can help you." He winked at Blake, then changed back into his usual form.
"You are such a pervert." Blake said, shaking her head "I'll remember that though."
Jace smiled crazily "Sashi says you owe her for shooting her boob."
"Does she like to read?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I might have a book that can satisfy her tastes."
"Is it Knights of Lust? I've read that already."
"No, Ninjas of Love."
Jace's mouth fell open. "I've been looking everywhere for that! I require it immediately!"
Blake laughed "Wash up first, then come up to my room later. My teammates don't know about it, and I'd like to keep it that way."
Jace nodded eagerly, then ran off to get cleaned up so he could hopefully get to reading sooner.