A/N: No one got the last one? Really?
Well, that offer still stands. Y'know, the one from last chapter with the reference to a fighting game in it. Anyways, lets start the show!
I don't own RWBY, wish I did.
Oh man, which one should I root for? I mean, Pyrrha's my nice,
And well-endowed!
Partner and all, but Ruby's the first one here to think of all of us as friends.
Not to mention they're both attractive in their own right.
I'd normally say Pyrrha on account of how rich she must be, but as you've pointed out she doesn't seem too fond of her status.
Lucky both of them, they get to be the ones sparring right now. When's our turn?
Patience. These are randomized matches, so there is an equal chance as us getting picked over the next guy as there is us not being in the arena.
... Who really cares?
These were the thoughts swimming around in the head of one Blanc Jaune Arc as he watched a sparring match between his partner, Pyrrha Nikos, and his friend and fellow team leader, Ruby Rose. On his left side were Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren, the other two members of his team, Team AVLN. To his right were the other members of Ruby's team, Team RWBY: Yang Xiao-Long, Blake Belladonna, and Weiss Schnee. Currently, their group was surrounded by many other students watching the seventh match of their first Combat class. Today was their first day of classes at Beacon Academy, and it went well- for eleven-eighths of their group. The two that weren't counted was the red and white duo themselves, Ruby and Weiss.
It started off well enough- if you don't count that both teams were almost late to their first class of the day, Grimm Studies with Professor Port. Who spent almost the entire class time talking and telling a story from his youth. It got so absolutely BORING in his class that the amount of people who were actually paying attention could be counted on one hand alone. These were Blanc, Weiss, Pyrrha, and some other student in the back. The only reason Blanc could withstand it was because he woke up as Bleu, who realized soon after the professor was talking hat his stories actually held a hidden message inside. (But stories? Did he really think that ranting about something in his youth would be exciting?) During this, he saw that Ruby was doing things that irritated the feisty heiress next to her- doodling an unflattering drawing of the professor, picking her nose, et cetera. It came to no surprise later that when Professor Port gave the students an opportunity to prove themselves, she was the first, and loudest, voice to be heard. The opportunity, which was to kill a low-level Grimm called a Boarbatusk, was also a point where Weiss got annoyed by Ruby, who was (in her opinion) too loud to be background noise.
Lunchtime afterwards was a quiet affair- Both partners had placed Yang and Blake between themselves while they ate. Even with this, both of them faced away from each other the entire time. The only one that gave lunch some time of voice was Nora and her always effervescent attitude, who was telling a story about her dream the night before.
Lunch passed, and the group found themselves were they currently are now- Professor Goodwitch's Combat 101.
"Come on Sis! Show her what you're made of!"
"Yeah, Pyrrha! Kick her butt!"
The remaining four were silent, but doing different things. Ren and Blake were both waving a small flag with their team's names on it. Weiss was not watching the fight, simply because it involved Ruby, And Blanc, who had become Jaune because of some lychee from someone else's lunch, was in a dilemma of who to cheer for.
In any rate, we should watch this fight closely. We might be able to gather information on Pyrrha's semblance.
The fight ended when Pyrrha dodged a swing from Crescent Rose that lodged the gun scythe in the ground. Whacking Ruby's hands with the blunt end of Miló, she then did a sweep kick that tripped Ruby. The moment she had her back on the ground, Miló, in its javelin form, found its tip hovering above Ruby's throat. Professor Goodwitch's voice rang out,
"Winner: Pyrrha Nikos!"
Ending the match. As Pyrrha helped Ruby get up, both were listening to what the Professor had to say to them. She didn't say much for either of them, considering that one was a prodigy and the other won multiple tournaments. When both walked offstage, Professor Goodwitch cleared her throat. "Students, There will be one more match before class ends today." As she said this, a screen behind her that held the faces of Pyrrha and Ruby on there started to spin rapidly, going through student's faces at a fast rate. "Please pay attention to the screen as it randomly chooses the two combatants." When she said this, the spinning stopped, landing on two faces- Blanc and Yang.
Yang pumped her fists.
"Alright! Time to fight!"
Blanc, who was being controlled by Jaune, just froze up.
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO! I DON'T WANNA FIGHT!
What are we waiting for? Let's go FIGHT HER ALREADY!
This would be a good time to test something out…
I wanna get up close and personal with her OUTSIDE the ring, if you catch my drift.
Great, another lawsuit.
…*YAWN*
Jaune was frozen still to the point that he didn't notice two things- the fact that the stage had become a forest, courtesy of Atlesian technology, and the fact that his partner had dragged him down there. Jaune only responded to anything when he heard Glynda announce,
"…1… Begin."
"Wait, WHAT!"
"Here I come, Vomit-Boy!"
Yang charged, but she only made it three steps before Jaune closed his eyes, whipped the shield part of Crocea Mors out, and fired blindly at her, screaming all the way. Yang dodged the initial salvo to the right, but Jaune also moved his arm to the right. She dodged left, but his arm also moved left. She then settled for using Ember Celica to launch herself over the barrage of bullets, which had made a small clearing in the false forest. But when she tried that, Jaune also moved his arm upwards.
This was starting to irritate Yang as she kept on dodging the rounds. How the hell did he know where she would go when his eyes where closed? Was that his semblance or something? The truth was, Jaune was just randomly waving his arm around while he was shooting his high-powered rounds, shaving off a small amount of Yang's aura by pure dumb luck. What he didn't notice because of his screaming and closing his eyes was Yang steadily making her way to him while dodging all those bullets. When she was three-fourths of the way there, Jaune stopped firing, and opened his eyes to see Yang running towards him.
NOPE! GOODBYE!
Jaune started to scream again, but instead of closing his eyes and holding his ground, he went dashing off to the side, deeper into the false woods. Yang stopped running towards Jaune's previous position, instead opting to also run off to the side for a drive-by.
As Jaune was running through these false trees, one of them exploded to the right of him. Jumping out of fright, he turned around and saw Yang chasing after him, firing Ember Celica. This made Jaune run again- this time, he too was running and gunning. The difference between the two was that Jaune wasn't spending anytime looking ahead while he ran, eyes closed and body turned to the side as Crocea Mors fired, dodging everything by luck. His luck stopped working eventually, as Yang sent a round to the dirt near Jaune, surprising him for a moment. Yang used this moment to rush in, intent on delivering a powerful right hook. But the dust kicked up, well, made him sneeze. And out popped a certain emerald-eyed con-man who dodged the strike, countering with a swing of his own. Yang brought up her left arm to block the blow, which instead snaked under her arm and hit her in the abdomen.
"Ooh, your clothes look expensive. But I'm not paying for any damages."
"Heh what about the damages to your face?"
"Hey, when you can heal yourself at insane rates, medical coverage is free."
"Good, cause I'd hate to break it."
"But I will have you pay for any damage to my clothing."
And with that, the banter paused, taken up by the sounds of a right jab hitting the face of Vert Arc. But he twisted himself slightly, spinning him around, sword out to deliver a horizontal slash. At least, that's what Yang thought. But a con-man and part-time thief such as he is a master at feinting and the sleight of his hand, as evidenced by him feinting the slash and instead performing a punch, augmented by Crocea Mors's shield half. This was met in turn by a hasty backhand from Yang, who followed up with a haymaker. Vert, working his magic hands, quickly out fitted something to his shield, then brought it back up. When Yang's fist hit the shield, a bright white light shined forth, momentarily stunning Yang.
"The hell?"
Capitalizing on Yang's dazed state, Vert rushed in with a strike using Crocea Mors's pommel, which led into a chin-level, shield-enhanced uppercut with the other hand. Vert then finished this combo off with a powerful upward slash using Crocea Mors, launching both Yang and Vert from the sky. While in the air, Yang recovered from the attack.
"You want to fight me with fists? Really?"
Using her shotgauntlets, Yang propelled herself at Vert from above too fast for Vert to twist out of the way. She caught Vert in the face using her right hand, and held it there as they descended. When they hit the ground, Yang threw her arm (and Vert) downwards while also firing Ember Celica. The force of the blow managed to knock dust up several meters above ground.
"Though, I have to admit, for a guy who had his aura unlocked only yesterday…"
With this, Yang looked at the screen above the stage. This particular one, aside from having the face and name of the combatants on it, also showed the percentage of Aura on it. Yang looked at hers- she was currently at seventy-seven percent, versus the Arcs, who were at seventy percent.
"…You're putting up quite the fight, and that last combo did a healthy amount of damage too."
"You're not half-bad yourself."
As he emerged from the smoke, one could see that his eyes and highlights had turned blue. He then took aim at her with Crocea Mors's shield and repeatedly slammed the Arc crest in the center. As he fired, Yang kept on leaping and dodging the rounds fired.
"Y'know, an attack like that is kinda predictable."
Right as Yang landed from dodging one, however, Bleu suddenly shifted his arm downwards, very close to Yang's foot, and tapped the crest once. The bullet fired out, and hit the ground next to Yang's foot. Instead of just kicking up dust, the round… kicked up Dust, or more accurately, a tiny bomb filled with Freeze and Flash Dust, which was set off by Bleu's shot. As the bright light shined, Yang averted her eyes away from the general area of right below her, and covered her eyes with her arm. When the light died down, she looked to see that her leg was encased in ice. She then looked up to see that Bleu was no longer in front of her.
"The hell? Again?"
While Yang was blinded, Bleu had quickly moved away from his original position, and hid within the trees above. When Yang recovered and started looking around herself, Bleu reached into a satchel on his right pants leg. From within, he pulled out a cluster of mini-bombs, with a small Arc crest of different colors on each.
(Flashback)
As Vermillion and his team were packing up their things in their room, a tapping was heard at their window. Wondering what it was, the team looked at the window to see, with surprised faces, an eagle-sized bird with grey, white and black plumage, and an odd head crest that looked like a lock of hair with red highlights on it. The strangest part was that one of its talons seemed to be holding a satchel while the other one held a note. Vermillion went to the window and opened it, allowing the mysterious bird to enter, taking the satchel and not from the bird.
"Star? Why're you here? Something my sister wants?"
"Blanc, you know this bird?"
"Ohmygosh it looks so cool!"
"Yeah, this bird belongs to one of our, meaning me and the other five's, sisters. Her name is Ryuko, while the bird's name is Staraptor."
While he was responding to their comments, Vermillion was reading the note. When he finished, he crumpled it up, and threw it into the waste bin. "Alright Star, I got the message." Nodding its head, the Bird flew out of their room. Turning to his team, he told them the gist of the message. "My sister misses us, and sent us a small satchel filled to the brim with mini- sticky Dust bombs along with a detonator. I can easily see Bleu using something like this…"
(End)
Bleu launched one right at Yang's feet, just like he did the moment he got up from Yang's brutal attack. After doing some calculations, he sent another one to stick on the tree behind her, then another onto a tree a few feet to the left from it. Taking the detonator from the satchel, Bleu pushed the button.
At Yang's feet, a concussive blast of air launched her backwards. Bleu pressed the detonator again, with an explosion following that knocked Yang left. Once more, Bleu pressed the detonator, sending a burst of lightning from the tree Yang was right in front of outwards, knocking her towards him. Taking a leap, Bleu took Crocea Mors and slashed Yang vertically. As they dropped back down, something caused Bleu to sneeze, switching control over to Souci. When Souci took the irritator from his nose, he found a small lock of golden hair.
"YOU'RE DEAD!"
Souci kept on dodging Yang's ferocious attacks- normally he would try and block them, but she had turned Super SaiYang.
Freaking bad puns today.
Terrible puns aside, how are we able to stop her? We can't really overpower her at this rate.
Cutting her hair made her angry, even though it was barely three centimeters. I wonder- how badly would she react if I used some psychological tactics?
You're not thinking of cutting off MORE hair, right? She'd kill us!
As, if to emphasize his point, Yang charged recklessly at them shouting at the top of her lungs,
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
She then launched a vicious straight that surely would've done him in, had it connected. Instead, Souci sidestepped it and cut off a larger bit her hair this time. This made Yang feel angrier. "YOU DIE!" She threw her arms outward from her, making a small explosion, sending Souci flying away while also kicking up more dust- and dropping his Aura down to a measly twenty-one percent, barely bordering on the red zone.
When the body recovered, one could see the red in his eyes… and highlights.
Yo, Vermillion…
Yeah Souci?
Think you could give her a crew cut?
A challenge like that makes this battle more fun! I'd be an idiot to decline!
With that, both Yang and Vermillion charged at each other, Yang also leaping in the air to deliver a raging hook while Vermillion broke Crocea Mors into a pair of swords again. Yang threw her punch and missed, while Vermillion lashed out and cut off another lock of hair. Yang took another swing, and another miss. Vermillion once more made her hair a bit shorter. This erupted into an all-out frenzy of attack rushes that I wish could be oraoraoras and mudamudamudas, but instead they were
"RAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"GRRRRAAARRRGGHH!"
Yang, in her fury-induced berserker rage, couldn't quite get in a proper hit. Vermillion, however, was more than able to make Yang's hair shorter. After Yang had lost HALF her hair, she snapped. She stopped throwing punches, and instead just dropped to her knees.
"*sniff*sniff* I give. I can't fight anymore now that half of my hair is gone…"
Not quite used to her students admitting defeat, Glynda unsurely stated,
"Match over. Blanc Arc wins."
As Yang and Vermillion made their way out of the arena, Vermillion took a bomb from his satchel and gave it to Yang.
"What do you want?! What is this?!"
"That's a joke bomb- more specifically, a bomb that speeds up hair growth to insane levels. Use it on your head, and you'll have enough hair to match Sleeping Beauty. You might have to cut it again, though."
She looked down to the bomb, then back at Vermillion. She then took it from him, and gave him a playful punch to the shoulder. "That one would've sent me to the red. Rematch sometime?" He reached out his other hand. Yang took her hand and shook his
"Yeah… I think I'd like that."
A/N: Anyone who wants to know what Vert's attack looked like, look up Roy's Blazer and a gif of the Street Fighter Alpha series version of the Shin Shoryuken on Google Images (BTW SFV is amazing)
It's a combo of the two.
Also, I need work on my fight scenes.
So- as for how I feel about Arkos, I'm thinking of making all the chapters of that scene in my future fanfics edited where she lives and goes on to have fun with Jaune (or Blanc in this case), but it also depends on whether the future episodes will be affected by it. I don't like deviating that far from canon. If I can't, this will be hell. Lucky me, since I plan on putting each story on hiatus once Volume One and Two are done so I can work on my other stories, I'm free from that burden for several weeks. It'll still be like Cinder and Salem to write- a total B!T(# to write (or C***, depending on how you see them as)
So, what you think? Please review or PM Me, and I'll see you later.
Edited 2/22/2016 at 6:00 AM US Eastern Time because I could not English