Finally after the girls went back home and fought with their team for their first battle, the vytal festival tournament was ready to commence. saw crowds that were cheering in the stands, visitors from all over the world. In the field of volcanic earth and icy glaciers below, Ruby kept a keen eye on the battlefield as she fired and swung her Crescent Rose at an the enemy. Blake also seemed to be giving everything she got while exchanges blows with Reese Chloris. The blades of her Gambol Shroud were colliding with the hoverboard of her opponent until she flips away, readies herself, and charges in again. Behind her, Weiss was using her tactics as another weapon while she waves her Myrtenaster as the sound of her mystical power is heard, and finally Yang used both strength and reflexes to dodge explosive forces of Arslan Altan's fist before returning fire with her own Ember Celica.
High above the action, two familiar teachers are sitting at a sportscaster's desk, watching the battle just like any other person. The two adults were Port and Oobleck, who were surprisingly the referees of the tournament. They went over the simple rules of the tournament while continuing to watch for any devastating blows delivered to the teens. Some people took the time to understand how things work while many just ignored them and cheered for their favorite teams.
As the battle continued, Reese steers her board through the ice to keep balance against it and Blake. She then twirls herself until the board gets launched at the faunus, but she's able to knock it away, only for her opponent to direct it back at her. The black haired girl blocks it again, but the board rotates back to its wielder just in time to defend Reese as Blake delivers several slashes and kicks. The teal haired deflects each attack and spins her weapon around until she can flips away and rides it again, rushing towards a smirking Blake. She collides with the frozen shadow clone, causing her to uses this opportunity to slice the board in two, only for the halves to become dual katars that in turn fold up into bayonet-bladed revolvers. Reese manages to fire off a few green rounds before her tailbone collides painfully on the cold ground, causing Blake to wince with sympathy.
Meanwhile, Yang lands mere feet away from Arslan, who backs away before being pounded by a flurry of punches and kicks until she delivers her own hits, ending with the two smashing fists and creating a shockwave of force from the impact. The two are both thrown back, but the blonde reaches her and tries delivering more blows before the enemy uses her rope dart to tangle up her goldilocks adversary and land a kick of her own to send Yang skidding on the ground. While she tries to get her balance back on the slippery surface, Arslan rushes forward and knocks her back even further.
Nearby, Nadir tries aiming with his assault rifle at Arslan's opponent before a sudden burst of frosty blue explodes behind him and leaves the whimpering gunner in a block of ice up to his thighs. Who caused it? Ruby Rose, her girlfriend.
"Always got your back," she yelled out to her, earning a small kiss blown to her before the blonde realized that was bad since it probably made some people in the audience confused. It also left the redhead off guard from one of the enemies behind her, Bolin
"But who's got yours," He asked her as he twirled his staff, right before when a black snowflake glyph appears to his left and Weiss kicks him through it into a rock.
"My BFF!"
"No," the heiress replied coldly before she walked away to fight more. Even though she said that, her partner had a feeling she was just hiding her true feelings and just whispered they were to herself.
Meanwhile, Bolin crouches with his weapon as he sees a white glyph appear in front of him. A second later, Weiss dashes by and slashes at him, then leaps up and attempts an aerial attack, which he's able to block. She readies her sword while preparing a glyph behind her, and Ruby uses it to launch herself straight up and come down spinning on the boy, who manages to block the curved blade. The redhead grimaces and blasts herself away to her bff's side, and their opponent rushes at them, rolling away from the shards of ice that rain on him and jumping over the young girl swing as he continues running to her surprise.
Bolin manages to reach an orange crystal deposit and slice off a shard, which he throws to Reese over in the icy half of the stadium. With Dust in hand, she fuses it with her board, turning the aqua lights to a crimson shade. She winks at Blake, then uses the board's heat to free Nadir from his icy snare.
She comes back to faunus and slams her board into her enemy's blade, but propels herself backwards and knocks the black haired girl through a frozen pillar. Reese attempts to use her board to slam her foe into the ground, but when she dodges that, she spins around in a flaming arc that Blake narrowly misses thanks to her shadows. Changing tactics, she launches the pistol part of Gambol Shroud at a nearby glacier and launches herself behind it, as the teal haired girl follows her and sees Blake with her back turned to her under an arch. The predator grins before riding in to deliver a flaming spiral at the shadow clone, only to see the ribbon Blake had is launched to trap her opponent a moment too late. She pulls tightly and causes Reese to slam body-first into the string, only to use a final kick to knock her out of the stage. She crashes into the wall of the stands before landing on the ground, earning a double k.o from losing her aura and getting a ring out. For that, she was laughed at by others for having the most embarrassing defeat so far in the tournament.
Back in the fight, Arslan uses her rope to swing around and avoid Yang right behind her, using shotgun blasts to propel herself forward. Nadir comes into the picture, aiming his rifle at Weiss as she summons another glyph and launches Bolin at him. The two teammates are helpless as the heiress creates a whirlwind from underneath them and slamming the two together until she forms a giant ice fist straight up from the ground to trap the two. It reforms itself into a ball that rolls around the field, and when their leader sees her team in this state, she rolls her eyes, annoyed, before changing direction and sliding into the path of the ball. She readies her stance and drives her hand into the sphere, which cracks under her power and frees her allies. With that, Weiss had them exactly where she wanted them.
"Yang," the white haired girl called out causing the blonde to turn to look just as Weiss creates a large frozen slide-like shape. "NOW!"
Knowing what to do, the goldilocks blasts herself forward and skims over the wall of ice, catching Blake's pistol as her teammate uses Ruby as a launch pad to jump off of towards the remaining members of ABRN. The three only have a second to look horrified as the faunus whips a screaming Yang around to land a devastating punch that sends the trio flying into their elimination. The buzzer sounded and the battle was over. Team RWBY was victorious.
Weiss couldn't help but look around and hear the crowd cheer out loud for them. She just had to ask her team, "We... did it?"
Ruby looked at her secret love for confirmation, to which she smiled and gave the young one a thumbs up. With that, the redhead couldn't help but attack hug her sister to her surprise, causing the crowd to cheer louder as the blonde spun her in place. "We did it," she stated loudly.
"Yes we did, Ruby," Yang replied softly in the young one's ears, causing her to laugh and hold the blonde closer. Everyone just thought it was a act of sisterly love. But they both knew it was a act of passionate love. And maybe. Just maybe, Weiss and Blake had a idea it was that too. And how will they be able to deal with it? That's soon to be found out.
After the fight, team RWBY walked around the fairgrounds to hang out. As they did, Ruby could hardly help but to continue cheering on about their victory. It was just so much for her that she had no choice but to jump up and cheer yet again, "We did it," before Yang caught her in midair and set her back on the ground gently to find a exhausted expression on her face. "Is anyone else starving?"
"I may have worked up a appetite," Blake stated out loud in a cooing tone only for her stomach to growl out loud much to her embarrassment. The whole team just looked at her shock about what had just happened, all except for Weiss who just shrugged it off and jumped into the conversation sarcastically,
"Gee, if only there was somewhere on campus to get food around here." The heiress then signaled to the concession stands all around them before correcting herself with a "oh wait".
She thought this would make her partner and leader understand where they were, but instead, she just touched the heiress shoulder and told her in a calm tone, "It's okay, Weiss. I forget about the fairgrounds too."
"I was being facetious?" The new word caused Ruby to look up at the other teammates with a confused expression. Blake just threw a look at Yang before she answered to the young one that facetious was another word for sarcastic, making the young girl throw her arms in surprise while yelling if the white haired was hungry, why didn't she say so. With that, the blonde showed her group to a place where they could eat.
As they walked, Ruby was stopped by a female voice calling to her, saying, "Hey. May be hard to eat without these." The female seemed to be holding up the redhead's wallet filled with lien. That alone was enough to make her panic before the guest revealed herself to be a close friend of hers. Emerald Sustrai. Knowing it was her, she took back her wallet politely and cheered, "Thanks, Emerald! Guess I dropped it. Ugh, girl pockets are the worst!"
"What's up, Em," Yang asked while walking towards her 'sister' and throwing a arm around her so she could pull her close.
"Just leaving the stadium after your awesome fight," The mint haired girl replied nicely to the blonde in front of her. "You guys were awesome!" This alone caused Ruby to blush hard and look around in a shy manner. As she did that, the monochrome pair of the team asked their friend how her fight went. The dark skinned thought for a second before answering that it was really well, even though in reality, the fight was brutal.
"That's great," Ruby responded. "Uh, why don't we go get some victory food together."
"Oh gosh, that is so nice of you, but-."
"We accept the offer," A deep female voice answered for Emerald from behind. Who was it they asked? The leader of the thief's team, Cinder. She stood in front of the group of teens with a calm smile as she greeted to them quietly, "Hello, Team RWBY."
"Hi, you must be, um-."
"Cinder. Leader of Emerald's team, Team CMEN," She informed the young redhead with a smile still pasted on her face. "I was coming her to get my teammate until you said that you would love for us eat with you. And so, I nicely approve your request."
"Oh that's great! So where's the rest of your team?"
"Oh hold on. Mercury! Neo!" With the loud call for her 'friends', a silver haired boy appeared quickly on the left side of the woman while a gothic lolita looking girl swayed to the right side of the woman and smirked at team RWBY creepily. It confused the teens until they simply shook off the feeling the girl gave them and walked off to get some grub.
The two teams followed Yang to a hut called 'A Simple Wok' and decided to eat over there. After thinking of what to get, the blonde told the waiter that she would have the regular. Ruby didn't know what it was so she chose to get the same. Weiss kept thinking and Blake just nodded at the man, making him understand what she wanted. All of team CMEN asked for the regular in unison to the other teams surprise. As they waited, the blonde had to ask the team, "So, who did you guys pick for the doubles round?"
"We decided Emerald and Mercury since me and Neo here aren't very good together on the battlefield," The raven haired lady stated then whispered in a joking manner, "But we do good in bed," causing the young girl to hit her shoulder and frown. Even though the hit hurt for a split second, Cinder couldn't help but chuckle.
"Well, as leader of this team, I thought hard and long about this decision," Ruby stated proudly until Weiss revealed that they actually put it into a vote, making the redhead try to backtrack quickly. "Yes, so, but I decided that we should put it into a vote."
"We voted for her and Yang since they got a stronger bond, they used to be sisters, and since me and Blake saw them making o-." Weiss was interrupted by the hand of Blake which covered her mouth so that the heiress couldn't continue. Instead, she finished for her, saying that they saw the two making oatmeal cookies together once. To her surprise it worked since both girls got the memory back into their heads. And it wasn't a very good one either.
"Yeah, It's only for the best."
"We're going to kick some a- I mean, butts," Yang told them as she punched her fist together with a face filled with cockiness.
"Ass. Got it," Cinder replied, emotionless. "Just don't think Emerald and Mercury are gonna go easy on you if you guys have to fight."
"Wouldn't have it any other way." With that, the teams' meals came out of nowhere. They all got the regular and were content, even though Weiss was sort of confused about her meal for a while. As for Blake, she was served a huge bowl of fish, enough to make the girl go googly eyes for it. For team CMEN, the leader paid for the meals and so they started to dig in. Weiss took it upon herself to pay for her group as well, only to know that her card has been declined to her surprise. This only made the group of teens afraid of what was going to happen. And that was that they weren't going to eat. Until a ray of hope was able to stop that from happening.
Pyrrha Nikos, who was walking around the fairgrounds with her team, JNPR. "Maybe I could help," She suggested while lifting up her card to them. The sight of her made Ruby raise her arms in delight and cheer while Weiss suggested, "You don't have to, honey."
"But she could!" Blake countered at her friend like she had just seen the devil, which made the red haired teen and her group chuckle for a second before she insisted since it would celebrate them moving on to the next rounds, and as a meal before they were going to fight as well. So the teams ate and soon were all filled up from the noodles. Especially Jaune since he was so close to throwing up. As the owner of the hut grabbed the empty bowls, Ren asked Pyrrha, "Is it okay to eat before a match?"
"Of course! It gives us energy!"
"She's not wrong," Cinder jumped in, but even with her word, the boy wasn't sure.
"If I barf, I'm blaming you," Jaune told his partner with his head laid on the table in exhaustion, only for Nora to tell him to aim his throw up at the enemy. It was a disgusting tactic to the teams, but if he had to, he would do it.
"So, Pyrrha, are you guys ready for the match," The leader of Team CMEN asked in a sluggish tone while she smiled evilly at the red haired girl.
"I hope so. I mean we have been practicing and studying so hard for this moment. I just hope we make it to the last rounds."
"We all know you will," Weiss guaranteed her girlfriend nicely before Nora jumped in out of nowhere,
"You know, she knows, I know. Don't be so nervous! The worst that can happen is we lose, that is just a few more years of walking around school with everyone knowing we're failures, our friends will slowly abandon us to preserve their social status, we won't be able to show our faces in class, no one will sit with us in the cafeteria, Ren and I have no parents, we have no home left to go to, we'll be officially renamed Team Lose-iper!" The orange haired girl's laughter soon turned into sobs as she slams her head on the counter in worry.
"Well, I know SOMEONE who's nervous," Mercury stated, causing his teammates to chuckle for a second before the announcers turned on the intercom to tell Team JNPR to head for the stadium immediately for their battle.
"Well, looks like this is it." With those words from Pyrrha, her and her team decided to go for battle. Before they all left, both CMEN and RWBY wished them all good luck in their own little ways. Weiss gave her love a quick peck on the cheek while the others just waved bye. As for the other team, they all did the same. Except for Cinder, who just told Pyrrha to 'have fun', sending a shiver down the young one's spine. Not long after they left, her and the rest of her team decided to leave as well, leaving only Team RWBY at the hut. As they all sat in silence, Weiss and Blake got up to corner their teammates right where they were standing. What they did was a little off but all they could do was wonder what was going on.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by one devastating question delivered from Blake, "Are you two dating?"
"What?! N-No-."
"Yes," Yang answered over Ruby with a serious tone. This alone made the heiress next to the faunus roll her eyes and sighed that this would've happened eventually. "Why ya ask?"
"Because of that stunt you pulled. Look. Me and Weiss are okay with you guys showing your love to one another. But others aren't because they might think it's incest."
"So?"
"So, no public displays of affection."
"Why? Can't we just tell everyone we're not related?"
"That's up to you, not me. I'm just saying, if you're going to do that and give a good explanation as to why, then hurry up and do so. But if you aren't, then I hope people don't see you with your tongue down your 'sister's throat." With that, the black haired girl left along with Weiss to go see other things around the grounds before the battle. Yang didn't know why, but there was something about what Blake said that had ticked her off. That made a fire just swarm through her body. A fire filled of hate.
Ruby could tell she was upset so she touched the girl's arm lightly and called her name, only for her to be pulled into a hard and sexual kiss out of nowhere. Suddenly, she heard loud gasps from all around her for a split second until Yang broke the kiss and yelled out, "That's right! Me and Ruby are dating and I'm proud about it! If you guys hate it, then go ahead and hate us! But that won't change anything! I'll still keep kissing her no matter what you guys say!
The redhead expected loud boos to be spread everywhere she goes or for the blonde to kiss her again. Anything that could be embarrassing or out of the norm. But instead, she heard something else. She heard girls ooing and boys calling out to them like wolves. She heard adults clapping lightly at the display as well.
She heard cheering. And with that, she already knew the happy results. With a wide smile spread around her face and around Yang's, they both knew the happy fact around them.
That they approved...
Again. I. Regret. Nothing! So yeah, Yang is desperate. And why everyone is cheering for this? You will know in the next chapter. So you have just experienced a huge change in this fanfic. Unlike in the show, Ruby and Yang are partners and Cinder made her team eat with Team RWBY and JNPR. Also, yes. I ship Weiss x Pyrrha. Go ahead and get mad, but I don't care~! I love it! XD
Anyways, this so far was the longest chapter ever in the story and I am proud about that but at the same time not. I don't know, I guess that's how my mindset works. Other then that, I hope you guys liked this chapter and I also hope you guys have a good day! :)