Beta Reader: Champion of Fate


Jaune, Daegan, Vince, and Daman all waited at the entrance to the arena for the agreed match to be announced. The four of them waited in an unnatural silence as they waited, none of them wanting to say anything. Until Daegan decided to speak.

"I can't believe were doing this." Daegan said in an angered voice.

"What do you mean?" Jaune asked.

"Fighting these assholes. We earned our way into the finals, they got their asses handed to them in the first round of the tournament. They have no right to challenge us, nor think in any way think they are our betters!" Daegan yelled.

"I know what you mean. Guys like that piss me off." Daman said.

"If we didn't agree they probably would have gone around telling everyone shit like we were to afraid to accept their challenge, or we pussied out of it. We might as well just get this over with." Vince said.

"Agreed. Besides, it'll be fun to smack them around the arena for a little while. And don't forget, when we win they all leave Beacon for good." Jaune said.

"That's the only good thing I find about this whole situation." Daegan said.

"The hells wrong with you man?" Vince asked.

"I'm tired. Using the armor puts me out of condition for a while, you know that." Daegan said.

"You can sleep once we mop the floor with Cardin and his lackeys. Sound good?" Jaune asked.

"Amazing." Daegan said in a joking tone and they all shared a laugh.

Their moment of peace was interrupted as the voice of professor Port came on over the loud speakers.

"Hello everyone and welcome to another day of the Vytal festival tournament! Today we have a very special opening match, the members of team CRDL vs. DAVH!" Port said as the crowd began to cheer.

"But this match will have a twist to it. If team CRDL wins the match they will take team DAVH's spot in the finals, however if they lose the match the four of them will leave Beacon academy. Forever." Oobleck said to a roar from the crowd.

The two teams then entered the arena at the same time as they walked towards the center. As they met in the center they all chose a foe. Daegan locked eyes with Sky as he began to twirl his halberd around. Vince and Russel locked eyes and began to twirl their daggers as they stared one another down. Daman watched as Dove tried to seem intimidating in front of him but thought only of how foolish he looked in doing so. And finally Jaune stood in front of Cardin, both of them equal in height and muscular build, they readied only for the match to begin. The arena was changing around them as they all readied themselves into the environments of desert, ruined city, beach, and grass land.

"Let the match begin!" Port yelled over the loudspeakers.

Jaune jumped forward and immediately kicked Cardin in the center of his breastplate, sending him flying into the ruined city. He then quickly chased after him.

Daman transformed his arm into a whip like appendage and wrapped it around Doves waist, and then proceeded to fling him into the desert terrain. He withdrew his arm, changing it back into its original form, drawing Bloodletter from his coat, and following after him.

Vince threw his twin chain daggers at Russel, wrapping them around his body in the process, and then flinging him into the grass land terrain. He soon followed suit as he flung himself forward with his chained daggers to follow.

Daegan and Sky were the only two left in the center of the arena waiting for the other to make a move against the other. Or more precisely Sky slowly walked around Daegan while Daegan waited for him to lunge at him.

"Are you just gonna stand their like a frightened little child, or are we gonna fight?" Daegan asked as he grabbed his blade off of his back.

Sky became enraged and rushed forward towards Daegan. He raises his halberd up over his head and brought it down onto Daegan.

Daegan moved to the side as Sky sunk his halberd into the arena floor and swung his blade at Sky's head.

Sky manages to dodge the blade and kicks Daegan in his chest and sent him back a little bit. He then charged again and stabbed at him with his halberd and managed to scratch Daegan's armor.

Daegan dodged to the side and in doing so got behind of Sky. He then kicked him in the back into the beach area. Daegan followed after him as Sky got back up to his feet.

Sky dragged himself to his feet and just barely missed Daegan's blade as it sliced a palm tree in half. He then jumped away and stabbed the blade of his halberd into the ground. He then began to fire a continuous barrage of bullets at Daegan.

Daegan grabs the tree he sliced in half and threw it to intercept the bullets that were currently flying at him. He ducked under the tree and continued to run at Sky.

Sky dug his halberd out of the sand and swung it at Daegan's head.

Daegan blocked the blow with his metal gauntlet and with his other hand he slashed at Sky's chest. Daegan manages to land a small, but shallow, hit on Sky's chest before once again he jumped away from Daegan.

The cut on sky's chest began to bleed down his chest and through his shirt as he tried to make it stop. He then noticed Daegan slowly walking towards him while holding his blade on his shoulder.

"I have to admit, your stronger then I would have originally thought." Daegan said.

"That will be the last mistake you made in this battle!" Sky yelled as the wind itself twisted around Sky's halberd. Sky swung his halberd upward and sent a large wind blade at Daegan.

Daegan was surprised by Sky's semblance as he quickly jumped out of the way of the giant wind blade. As the giant wind blade soared past Daegan it made a large cut into Daegan's right gauntlet, cutting his forearm in the process.

Sky wasted no time and began to twist the wind in the arena around Daegan forming a huge twister. As the twister swirled around Daegan the wind began to cut Daegan all over his body.

"Not bad. But still..." Daegan began to say as he positioned himself into a throwing stance and put his blade backwards in his hand. "...not good enough." Daegan finished saying as he threw his blade through the twister at Sky.

The blade flew past Sky's face and stabs into a nearby rock. Sky watches as it does so and he loses his concentration o keeping the tornado together.

In that moment when Sky broke his concentration Daegan broke through the wall of wind and ran at Sky.

Sky regained his focus and readied himself for whatever Daegan was about to do. He stabbed at him with his halberd, but Daegan ducks under the blade, gets beside sky, and grabs hold of the halberds haft. He then pulls his blade out from the rock it was embedded in and slices the halberd in two. He then uppercutted Sky into the air as he placed his blade back on his back.

Daegan cracked his knuckles as Sky ran out of momentum and began to fall back to Remnant. Before sky could hit the ground Daegan's fist struck him square in the chest denting his armor and flinging him out of the arena.

"Sky Lark has been knocked out of the arena! Team DAVH now has the advantage in this match!" Oobleck said over the loud speakers.

Daegan plunged his sword into the sand beside a palm tree and sat down to rest in the shade.


~To Vince~


After Vince threw Russel further into the plain Russel was able to himself by stabbing his daggers into the ground to stop himself. He then jumped up onto his feet and took a defensive stance.

Vince flew into the grassland and charged him while he still flew through the air. The two locked their weapons together and Vince pushed Russel back from the force of him hitting him after he just suddenly stopped his flight.

Russel pushed Vince back and then swung both his blades vertically at Vince's head.

Vince leaned back in response and dodged both blades before he hit Russel's blades down to the ground into the dirt with his own. He then reared his right foot back and kicked Russel in his face.

Russel slid across the ground before he once more stopped himself by stabbing his daggers into the ground.

Vince jumped up to his feet and rushed over to Russel as he crosses his arms over chest and stabs his daggers into the dirt and cross his daggers over one another.

"I suggest you yield now before you embarrass yourself." Vince said as he stood over Russel.

Russel said nothing. Without Vince's knowing he took his dagger into his left hand and a faint green light emanate from it. He then slashed at the lower half of Vince's left leg and managed to land a small shallow cut.

Vince jumps back after he got cut and watched as his aura healed the small cut. He then watched as Russel got back up and the dagger in his left hand around so it faced backwards, and kept his other dagger facing forward.

The two of them charged at one another and began to clash again.

Vince raised his right hand and brought his dagger down towards Russel's chest but was stopped by Russel's own dagger.

Russel came up with his left hand and lightly scratches Vince's left shoulder.

Vince leaned back before the blade could really sink into him and he wrapped his chain around Russel's arm and pulled him forward.

Vince slammed his elbow into Russel's face as he pulled him forward. He then placed his left hand onto Russel's left arm and drained some of his aura.

Russel realized this and spun the chamber of the dagger in his right hand. He swung and used his aura to activate the dust causing the wind to form a small tornado.

Vince uncoiled his chain from Russel's arm so it would not get broken and skidded backwards. Once he regained his foot he noticed that both his left leg and arm were feeling odd. He brushed it off as something to do with getting thrown by the tornado and decided to ignore it for now.

Russel began to spin his daggers around on his index fingers as he waited for Vince to make a move.

Vince then threw his daggers at Russel, Russel in response held up his daggers to block Vince's daggers, only for one of Vince's daggers to wrap around both of his own daggers. Vince yanked Russel's daggers out of his hands with the dagger in his right hand and then changed his dagger in his left hand into its pistol form and aimed it at Russel.

"Give up. You've lost." Vince said aloud as he stared at Russel through the sights of his pistol.

Russel said nothing. Vince only saw him slowly begin to move his right arm, and see a faint green light begin to emanate from his arm. All of a sudden Vince felt an enormous amount of pain from both his left arm and left leg. He fell to one knee and let go of his pistol fall to the ground. He held his left arm with his right arm as the pain shot through his entire body.

"Looks like its finally taken effect." Russel said with a smile on his face.

"What the...what the hell did you do to me?!" Vince yelled.

"I poisoned you, that's what I did." Russel said.

"Poison? When? You barely even hit me!" Vince said.

"My semblance allows me to poison someone with my aura whenever I am able to land a hit on them. The two times I cut you earlier my blades were enhance by my aura and when I cut you I sent my aura into the cut. It was just a matter of waiting for the right opportunity to make my poison spread. Soon you won't be able to move at all." Russel said as he picked up his daggers, walked over to Vince, and cut a deep cut into Vinces upper right arm.

Blood began to run down Vince's right arm as his entire body began to feel the same as him left arm and leg felt at the moment.

"I can even make it so that its so potent you won't be able to breath. I suggest you give up before that happens." Russel said as he took his left dagger and make a small cut on Vince's neck.

Vince could not move. The poison he had taken in had now spread throughout his entire body, he couldn't even speak at this point. Vince's body then began to emanate a dark blue light as his aura began to envelop him.

"That won't work. Even if your aura shields you it cannot stop the poison from spreading throughout your body." Russel said as he stood in front of Vince.

Russel's eyes then went wide as what looked like Vince's aura began to wiggle and stretch out in all directions and enveloped the plants around him. Russel had taken a couple steps back to avoid the aura poring out of Vince. Within seconds the plants that had been totally healthy before had withered away and Vince began to stand.

"What?! That's impossible! How can you even move!" Russel yelled.

"That's none of your concern." Vince said as he picked his weapons up out of the dirt.

The two then charged one another again and Vince began to push Russel back. Russel couldn't do anything but block Vince's blades and slowly be pushed back. Russel rolled to the side before pushing aura into his foot and launching himself at Vince. His knives had taken on a dark green glow.

Vince didn't react to Russel's assault. The cuts he sustained only seemed to heal and had no repercussion to him.

"This isn't possible! He's injected enough toxin to kill three men! How is he still standing!" Russel said to himself.

"If you continue to talk to yourself like that I'm gonna kick you out of this ring." Vince said as he continued to push Russel back.

"Shut-up! You shouldn't even be breathing right now! How are you even standing?!" Russel yelled as he stabbed both his daggers at Vince's head.

Vince blocked both of Russel's daggers with his own by smacking them down, and then slamming his daggers on both sides of Russel's head.

A loud ringing sound began to ring in Russel's ears as he held his head in agony.

Vince then grabbed Russel by the throat and began to slowly drain Russel's aura. Vince then began to walk over to the arenas edge.

"Before you pass out I'll tell you why your poison has no effect me. Your poison is made solely from your aura, and my semblance is absorbing the aura of others. When I realized what was going on I used my aura to isolate the poison into one part of my body." Vince said as he walked over and held Russel over the boundary of the ring.

"Even if you have done that there's too much of my toxin in your body for you to simply isolate to one part of your body! It's impossible!" Russel yelled.

"Your right. I was only able to contain a small amount of the poison in my body and the rest is still effecting me greatly. It is being suppressed by my aura but it hurts to move my entire body right now. But before I deal with it I have something to tell you." Vince said.

"And what might that be?!" Russel whisperd in a muffled voice as he felt the last of his aura begin to be taken his vision was starting to dim.

"I can do two main things with my semblance. One as you no doubt know by now is I can steal other peoples aura. But the second thing I can do is send aura into the bodies of other people." Vince said with a devious smile as he stopped draining Russel of his aura.

Russel had a puzzled look on his face before his eyes went wide in both shock and fear.

Vince then sent the small amount of the toxin he had contained in his body into Russel's own body. He also sent a small amount of aura along with it so Russel wouldn't die from his own toxin. He then let go of him and walked away from the edge of the ring.

"Vince Lusro has dropped Russel Thrush outside of the ring! Team DAVH now has a huge advantage in this match!" Oobleck said over the loudspeakers.

Vince winced in pain and sat down in a meditative position and began to purge the rest of the aura poison from himself.


~To Daman~


Daman was currently looking for Dove. He had thrown the guy in this direction but had no idea where he landed. He then heard the sound of a gun firing and immediantly jumped up into the air. He was a bit surprised as he was then met by Dove in mid air as he started to bring his blade down upon Daman.

Daman blocked Doves blade with his own and then kicked him away.

Dove grabbed his gut as he pointed his blade at Daman and fired off five shots.

Daman was able to dodge three of the five shots, but the other two found their mark in Daman's right shoulder and his left thigh. The wounds healed near immediately and Daman jumped off a rock formation and tackled Dove while still in mid-air down to the ground.

Daman reared his fist back and sent it at Doves face, but Dove moved his head out of the way.

Dove knee'd Daman in the gut as he was underneath him and then head-butted him. He then managed to kick him off of him and stood back up.

Daman jumped back up to his feet and popped his neck. He then detatched the two blades from one another on Bloodletter and readied to attack once more.

Dove picked his blade up off of the ground, and then motioned with his left hand for Daman to bring it.

Daman then charged at Dove and unleashed a barrage of attacks down upon him. Daman pushed Doves back up against a large rock. He forced Dove to let go of his blade by bashing Dove hand with the guard of his blade in his right hand into the giant rock. He then raised the blade in his left hand and began to bring it down upon Dove.

Daman's blade was stopped short as it came into contact with Doves shoulder that was now made of solid rock. Dove then punched Daman in the face, sending him flying back through a large rock and skidding across the arena floor. Daman then watched as Dove walked closer to him, his entire body now made of stone.

"What the hell? Is that your semblance or something?" Daman asked aloud as he stood back up.

"What do you think?" Dove said as he got into a fighting stance.

"Okay asshole. I'm gonna enjoy smashing you into rubble." Daman said as he readied his two blades.

The two of them then charged one another and began to clash again. Dove stabbed at Daman, and Daman blocked it by placing the blade in his left hand in the chamber of the gun of Doves sword.

Daman then swung his blade down on Doves left shoulder only for his blade to be stopped once more.

Dove smirked as he tried to punch Daman again with his, and got his left arm caught under Daman's left arm. Dove then began to feel a pain in his left shoulder and found Daman's blade sinking deeper into his shoulder.

Daman began to enhance his blades with his aura and he managed to pierce Dove's armor. He was also cutting Dove's sword as well and once Dove finally realized it he cut one of the blade tips off, and damaged the barrel of the gun.

Dove jumped back and then up onto a rock formation. He healed his wound on his shoulder and watched as Daman jumped up onto another rock formation across from Dove.

"Your semblance is impressive, but I've never met anyone who couldn't be cut by my aura infused blade. You might want to take this fight more seriously, because if you don't I will break you." Daman said as he charged Dove again.

Dove panicked a little as Daman charged him. Dove tried to fire off a few shots from his sword, but it jammed from Daman cutting into the blade earlier. Dove then held up his blade and used it to block both of Daman's blades at once.

Daman slammed both his blades down upon Doves sword, coming close to snapping it in two. He then raised both of them at once and began to continuously slam both of his blades down upon him one after the other in an attempt to get Dove to give up.

Dove was in trouble. He knew that he could keep up with Daman's speed or the force he was putting behind his strikes. He then suddenly thought up a way to both stop Daman and win the match.

As Daman continued to unload on Dove he decided to end it before this went on any longer. He held up both his blades as he infused them with aura. As he brought them back down he suddenly felt something jam into his stomach and exit out of his back. He looked down and found Doves hand, now coated in metal, rammed into his gut.

Dove smiled slightly as he yanked out his hand and Daman stumbled back with his hand over the new hole in his stomach. Daman stumbled back so much he fell off the rock formation and fell to the ground. Dove followed him down, his body now fully coated in his new metal shell, and began to walk to Daman as he writhed on the ground in pain.

"It seems Dove Bronzewing has gotten the upper hand over Daman Heolstor! This is getting exciting!" Port said over the loudspeakers.

"Heolstor? I thought that name sounded familiar. Your that bitch Ailie's brother aren't you?" Dove said as he looked down at Daman.

Daman felt a fury like never before begin to stir within him. He felt his more bestial side begin to rear its head as his left arm began to twitch uncontrollably.

"She always seemed like a stuck up bitch to me, but then I realized all she really was was a girl who's been given everything she's ever wanted and has no right to be here." Dove said as he walked over to Daman and raised up his sword. "And neither do you."

Dove then swung his sword down at Daman, but to his shock and surprise Daman caught the blade with his bare right hand. He then began to stand up before he made a fist with his left hand and punched Dove in his chest.

Dove flies back into a large boulder, with the air knocked out of him, and the metal that covered his body was slightly cracked now. Dove looked up to see Daman walking towards him with his arms now completely transformed. His right arm took the form of a Beowolfs arm, and his left took the form of an Ursa's arm.

"What? What are you?!" Dove yelled.

"I'd like to know that myself sometimes. But that's not your concern right. You should be worried about what I'm about to do to you for insulting my sister. And since your made of metal that means I can beat you til you start to bend and break." Daman said as he walked up and stood over Dove.

Dove then reacted out of fear stabbed Daman in his gut with his sword. He smiled as he let go of his blade and Daman stepped back a bit.

Daman grabbed the blade from his stomach, held it up to look at it, then snapped in two. His stomach then healed once more as he dropped the blade to the ground, and picked up Dove by his neck.

"I'm gonna make you regret ever opening your mouth and talking about my sister." Daman said as he then began to repeatedly punch Dove in the stomach.

He then threw him down to the ground and began to slam his left hand into Doves chest.

Dove began to cough up blood as he felt his bones begin to snap and crack from Daman's assault.

Daman then picked Dove up by grabbing his armor and threw him into a giant rock pillar.

Dove manages to get back up to his feet but as he he does so he tackles Dove and uses him as a battering ram to crash through the rock pillar.

Daman smashed through the rock pillar using Dove as a shield and then threw him into the air.

As Dove spun in the air he felt something wrap around his waist and begin to bring him back down. He looked down and saw Daman's arm in the form of the whip arm he had used earlier. Dove then crashed into the arena floor and made a human shaped hole in the ground.

Doves metal form then went away as it showed his normal self once more. He had cuts and bruises all over his body as Daman stood over him.

Daman then raised his foot and stomped down on Doves chest hard enough to send him even further into the ground, an send his aura into the red zone.

"Doves aura has entered the red zone, therefore he is no longer in the match! Cardin Winchester is now the only person on his team remaining!" Port said over the loud speakers.

"Damn." Daman said under his breath as he picked Dove up out of the ground and dragged his broken and battered body to the center of the arena.

Daman could hear a collective gasp as he dropped the broken body down into the tiled arena floor. He then walked over to a nearby rock in the desert terrain and sat down on it as he watched Jaune and Cardin fight.


~To Jaune~


Jaune ran towards the pile of rubble that Cardin had gotten buried under and smashed the rubble in an attempt to quickly end the match. He then leaned back in order to dodge Cardin's mace and back flipped away from him.

"Maybe you and your team isn't as worthless as I originally thought. But still you won't go any farther in this tournament." Cardin said as he lunged forward and swung his mace at Jaune face.

Jaune hit the mace down with his shield and kicked Cardin in his stomach. He then stabbed at Cardin, only for him to move to the right to dodge it.

Cardin slammed his mace down upon Jaune's shield and then pressed the button on his mace to cause an explosion.

Jaune brought up his shield to take the brunt of the explosion as he slammed the ponnel of his blade into Cardin's thigh.

Cardin stepped back as the pain shot up from his leg, but he was able to use his aura to suppress the pain. Cardin then charged and pushed Jaune back, smashing him into a ruined building.

Cardin was then tackled by an aura soldier Jaune had summoned and was then thrown into another building. Jaune got out of the rubble and unsummoned the aura soldier.

Cardin burst out of the rubble with blood streaming down his face from a shallow cut on his forehead. Cardin then charged at Jaune once more, slamming his mace down onto Jaune shield once more. He then headbutted Jaune, and knocked the shield from his hand.

Jaune's head ached a bit from Cardin's head butt, but he managed to recover quickly. He then punched Cardin in the face with his left hand, and then kicked him into a pile of rubble with an aura infused kick.

"You had enough yet Winchester? Because I can do this all day." Jaune said.

"Not for much longer you won't." Cardin said as he drug himself out of the rubble.

Before Jaune could retort something on his right side exploded, sending him to the ground in the process. As he picked himself up off of the ground he felt unbelievable pain shoot out from his right arm. He looked over and found that a huge chunk of his arm and shoulder was now gone, replaced by nothing but a crator in his arm.

Jaune gripped his arm as blood pored down it and stained his shirt. He felt his sword leave his hand as his entire arm went numb from the pain.

Cardin then began to laugh as Jaune held his arm in pain.

"What did you do?!" Jaune yelled.

Cardin just continued to laugh as held out his hand and a sphere of energy formed in his hand. "My semblance allows me to form explosive out of my aura. As you can see you have already felt the power of my semblance, and that was nowhere near my strongest explosive." Cardin then threw another bomb at Jaune.

Jaune ducked and rolled out of the way, picking up his sword in the process with his left hand.

Cardin then threw another bomb at Jaune, but Jaune managed to slice the bomb in half by enhancing his blade with his aura.

"Impressive, but you won't be able to do that for much longer." Cardin said as he crossed his arms and five bombs flew towards Jaune.

Jaune ran and ducked behind a large collapsed building, unfortunately the bombs began to follow him like heat seekers. Jaune began to run again, but as he began to do so he was hit in both of his legs by the bombs, causing him to fall to the ground.

As the other three bombs came towards Jaune three aura soldiers formed a shield wall to protect him from the explosion.

Cardin then charged forward, mace in hand, and lunged at Jaune as he still layed on the ground. As he brought his mace down chains wrapped around the mace and stopped it dead in its tracks.

As Cardin looked up to see what was happening he found two fists coming towards his face that sent him flying back into a pile of rubble.

"Jaune, your gonna be alright man." Vince said as he helped Jaune up off of the ground.

"Thanks guys, I mean it. But I don't want you to interfere again." Jaune said as he stood upright again.

"What are you talking about?! You can''t even walk!" Daegan yelled.

"I need to do this on my own. If I don't I have no right to be here, or call myself a horseman!" Jaune yelled back.

"Fine, I won't interfere, but I'm not leaving this place." Daegan said as he walked past him and sat on top of a pile of rubble.

"Yeah, in your condition its a good idea that we stay close by." Vince said as he did the same.

"Try not to kill yourself." Daman said as he followed the other.

Jaune chuckled as he summoned five aura soldiers and surrounded himself with them, as Cardin began to dig himself out of the rubble.

Cardin yelled out as he began to form a massive bomb in his left hand. He began to run at Jaune, bomb in hand and detonated it as he got close to the aura soldiers.

The explosion caused a nearby building to fall on top of them both, send the other into the center of the arena, and caused the aura soldiers to disappear.

Cardin pulled himself out f the rubble once more, ripped off his battered and damaged armor, and began to walk over to where Jaune supposedly was under all the rubble.

Cardin moved the rubble from where he thought Jaune was and found nothing. Several aura soldiers then burst out of the rubble, sending Cardin away.

Jaune then emerged from the rubble covered in his own blood, and his shirt ripped apart. He then rose his hand towards his aura soldiers and they began to transform into energy which flowed towards Jaune's open hand.

As the energy flowed into Jaune's hand his entire body began to shine with a golden light. Jaune's right shoulder, and both of his legs, began to heal as the golden light shined all over his body. Jaune then stood up from the rubble, pulling his sword out of the rubble with him, and began to walk towards Cardin.

"What the...what the hell are you?!" Cardin yelled out as he ran and swung his mace at Jaune.

Jaune grabbed Cardin's mace at the haft, enhanced his blade with his aura, and then sliced the mace in two.

"I am a horseman." Jaune said as he punched Cardin in the face, sending him flying out of the arena.

"Every member of CRDL has bee eliminated, team DAVH has won!" Oobleck said over the intercoms as the crowd cheered.

Jaune then went over to his shield, changed it back into his sheath, and put his sword back into it. As he did so his shirt began to reform and cover up his bloody chest.

The others soon came over to him and the four of them then proceeded to leave the arena.

"Jaune are you sure your alright? You took a bit of a beating out there." Vince said.

"I'm gonna need some time to rest after all that, but most of the damage is healed." Jaune said as he sat down on the floor.

"I can agree to that. That Russel guys poison is still effecting me. Good to see my shirts still work." Vince said as he joined him on the floor.

"Yeah, clothes with aura woven into the fibers themselves. Still a bit surprised no one else ever thought about making these." Jaune said as he tugged at his shirt.

"Thanks Jaune. Good to see some people value my creations." Vince said as he began to rub his eyes.

"You alright man?" Daman asked.

"No, my eyes are getting irritated by these damn contacts!" Vince said as he took out his contacts, revealing his green cat like eyes, and then undid a ribbon under his hair that allowed his ears to come out of his hair. "Feels good to let the ears out."

"Good to see you stop hiding who you really are." Daegan said.

"I'm tired of hiding what I am. Might as well show the world now." Vince said.

They all then heard a commotion down the hallway and before they could say anything else Ruby was standing in front of Jaune with a worried look on her face.

"Jaune! Are you okay?! Are you hurt?! How did you heal so fast?! What's up with your shirt?! How'd you do that?!" Ruby said as she began quickly move around and examine him while he still say on the floor.

Daegan walked over as she continued to question Jaune, grabbed the young girl by her hood, and picked her up with his right hand to stop her from interrogating Jaune.

"I think you might want to slow down, his brain can't comprehend all of that at once." Daegan said getting a laugh from both Vince and Daman.

"Shut up, Daegan." Jaune said.

"Hey, put me down!" Ruby said as she struggled in the air to get free.

"Calm down, I'll put you down if you stop squirming." Daegan said.

"No, you'll put her down right now." some one said from behind Daegan.

As Daegan turned to see who it was he found the fist of Yang Xiao Long coming straight towards his face. He had no time to move as Yang's fist connected with his left cheek.

Yang thought that he would have at least be sent to the ground from the force she put behind her punch, but to her shock Daegan didn't move. He didn't even flinch.

Daegan then placed Ruby back down on the ground, and comtinued to look at Yang out of the corner of his eye.

"There, happy? Now get your fist off my face." Daegan said.

Yang slowly moved her fist off of Daegan's face, leaving a large red mark on his face. She then began to move back, until she bumped into someone behind her.

"Yang, what are you doing?! Move!" the familiar voice of an heiress yelled.

Yang moved over, letting the others into the hallway. Pyrrha went over to Jaune to examine his wounds, as Ailie and Dea went over to their brothers to do the same.

"Daman, are you going to be okay?" Ailie asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay Ailie. That guy made me mad is all, no need to worry about me." Daman said.

As everyone continued on talking Daegan began to move others out of his way.

"Daegan, what's up?" Jaune asked.

"It's too cramped in here. I'm going up to the festival grounds, you can find me there if you want." Daegan said as he continued towards the exit, with Dea following after him.

"He's got a point, there's too many people down here. Let's take this somewhere else." Jaune said as he stood up and followed them.

They all followed Jaune up to the fiar grounds and found Daegan and Dea waiting for them.

"Soooo what now?" Yang asked aloud.

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"Could we get a tour of Beacon?" Daman asked.

"Yeah, I've always wanted to see the school." Vince said.

"Last time we were here we only got to see it for about five minutes." Daegan said.

"It would be nice to see the school again." Jaune said.

"Very well then, follow me!" Ruby said as she began to walk pointing in the direction she was going.

"Ruby, the schools that way." Jaune said pointing in the opposite direction with his thumb.

Ruby became stiff at the realization. She then felt Daegan pick her up by her cloak again and turned her around.

"R..Right! This way guys! My bad." Ruby said as she led the others towards Beacon.

The group followed the small girl through the festival grounds towards Beacon. Along the way the group watched as Daegan drag Vince over to a food stand and demanded he buy him, and the others all food because of the bet he made with Daman in their first match. Everyone enjoyed the food aside from Vince who was busy crying at the death of his wallet.

"The hell's going on?" Jaune asked aloud.

"Looks like a fight." Daegan said.

"We should check it out." Vince said.

"Agreed, lets go." Daman said.

The four of them left the group and maneuvered through the crowd to get to see the fight. Once they finally got to center they saw a man in his thirties fighting with a gorgeous woman who had to be in her early to mid twenties.

"Had enough yet, Ice Queen?!" Qrow yelled as he brought his blade down upon her.

"Shut up you drunk!" Winter yelled back as she pushed him away from her.

The two of them continued to fight at near inhuman speed as everyone watched on in awe.

"Should we...I don't know, stop them?" Daman asked as he watched.

"I kinda wanna watch for a little bit." Vince said.

Daegan then punched Vince on the top of his head.

"Alright fine." Vince said as he readied his chains.

The four of them waited for the two of them to separate once more before they were going to jump in.

Qrow and Winter then locked up again and continued to fight. In the commotion they managed to cut down a light, a mech soldier, and even destroy part of the sidewalk.

As the fight progressed Qrow grew impatient and finally decided to wrap things up. His blade began to transform into its scythe form while Winter was beginning to gather up her aura.

That's when the four of them decided to intervene.

Daegan drew his blade and punched Qrow down into the sidewalk, as Vince at the same time wrapped his daggers around the blade, stopping the blades transformation.

Daman and Jaune sped towards Winter to stop her as the others took care of Qrow. Jaune surrounded Winter with his soldiers as Daman changes his arm into a whip, and wraps it around Winter.

"Damn brats. You ever heard of minding your own business? The ice queen and I have some business to finish if you don't mind. Now leave." Qrow said as he retracted his blade, releasing it from the chains.

He then extended the blade again and smacked the blunt side of the blade into the bottom of Daegan's jaw, and then pulled Vince close by grabbing one of him chains and pulling him towards him. But before he could hit Vince he was blocked By Daegans blade.

"Resilient one aren't you?" Qrow said.

"You ain't seen nothing yet, old man." Daegan said as a little blood came out of his mouth.

The two then lifter their blades up to hit them against one another again, but as they did so their swords became surrounded in a purple energy and lifted above their reach.

"Now I do believe that is enough!" Glynda Goodwitch said with glare.

"Long time no see, Glynda." Qrow said.

"Save it Qrow. Now all of you will follow me to the headmasters office. He wishes to speak to you." Glynda said as she returned their swords to them.

"Thanks for the offer, but no." Qrow said as he began to walk away.

"What?! Qrow where do you think your going?!" Glynda yelled angrily.

"To get a drink, I'm thirsty." Qrow said as he walked through the crowd, and disappeared in the distance.

"Forget about the drunk, lets just go see what the headmaster wants." Winter said as Jaune and Daman released her.

They followed the two women to the main building, they allowed Winter and Goodwitch to enter the elevator first so it wouldn't be crowded and waited for it to be sent back down.

"Why do you think Ozpin wants to see us?" Vince asked.

"He probably wants to talk about us interfering in that fight." Daegan said.

"I doubt that." Jaune said.

"Then what do you think he wants to see us about?" Daman asked.

"I honestly don't know. You can never tell with that man." Jaune said as they reached the top floor.

The four of them exited the elevator and found Ozpin, Glynda, Ironwood, Winter, and another man whom none of them had ever seen before waiting for them.

"Jaune, its good to see you again." Ozpin said.

"The feelings mutual, Ozpin. So why did you ask us to come here?" Jaune asked.

"We want to know why the horseman are here at the Yytal festival." James said.

"Isn't it obvious, were here to win the tournament." Vince said.

"Forgive me general but, am I to believe these four are the real four horseman of legend?" the other man questioned.

"Who are you?" Daegan questioned.

"Names Abaddon, the generals second in command. And you four are a disapointment as the horseman." Abaddon declared.

"I suggest you hold your tongue, before I rip it out of your skull." Daegan said in an angry tone.

"You, a pathetic half breed son of a failed huntsman and an animal. I'd love to see you try." Abaddon said.

Daegan clenches his right hand so tightly the gauntlet he is wearing to begin to crack.

"And lets see, who else do we have here. A dropout from a forgotten and useless clan." Abaddon said as he looked at Jaune.

Jaune bit his bottom lip so hard it began to bleed.

"A disappointing runaway, who is as much a failure as his sister, and is more beast then man." Abaddon said as he looked at Daman.

"Come over here, and I'll show you what this beast is capable of." Daman said as his right arm twitched uncontrollably.

"And lastly, a worthless animal orphaned by his pathetic parents bet you wish you could go cry to your mother but you killed her." Abaddon finished as he looked at Vince.

Vince seethed with anger, he was so close to making this eat his words and choke on his blood.

"Abaddon, that's enough! Report to my ship with Winter at once, we will speak of this later." Ironwood said in an angered tone.

"Very well then." Abaddon said as he exited the room with Winter.

"I apologize for that, he does not speak for us." Ironwood said.

"Whether you agree with him or not matter little, what I want to know is why you summoned my team here?" someone asked.

"Who is that? Show yourself!" Ironwood said as he began to draw his pistol.

Someone then walked out of the shadows from the corner of the room, walked over to the four, and stood in front of them.

"Who are you?" Ironwood questioned with his gun drawn.

"I am the rider of death, leader of this team, and strongest of the horseman. Now I would advise you to put that gun away before you regret it." Death said.

Ironwood put his gun back in its holster and went and stood next to Ozpin's desk.

"Now then, why have you summoned my team here Ozpin?" Death asked.

"Well it was more James who wanted to talk. He wanted to kno..."

"Why are the horseman here at the festival?" Ironwood questioned.

"We are here to accomplish the same goal you are. We are here to protect the people of Vale, and stop the queen." Death said.

"How do you know about the queen?" Ironwood asked.

"It matters little how I know. We are here to help you, that is all you need to know." Death said.

"I think it matters a great deal. How are we suppose to trust five people who come from no where in a time like this?" Ironwood questioned.

"Because whether you trust us or not, we aren't leaving. Not until our business is concluded." Jaune said.

"Very well then. I do believe this meeting has concluded. You five are free to go." Ozpin said.

"What?! Ozpin are you suggesting we allow them free reign while there here?!" Ironwood yelled.

"We have no jurisdiction to make them leave, or any to make them do what we want. Better to have them on our side, rather then be against us." Ozpin said.

"Smart, you should take notes general. Now if you'll excuse us, we'll be on our way." Death said as he wrapped himself in his cloak and he disappeared as the others headed for the elevator, and left in it.

"Was that wise headmaster?" Glynda asked.

"Only time will tell. However, I do know one thing." Ozpin said as he got from his chair and looked out of the window in his office.

"And what might that be Oz?" Ironwood asked.

"Things are about to get interesting." Ozpin said as he watched the guys meet back up with the others, and walk off.


AN: Hey guys! Sorry this has taken a while to get up but I am currently trying to find a job, along with trying to get some stuff sorted out for me to head to film school. I hope it doesn't cut into my writing all that much, but only time can really tell.

If you want to help me I would ask you to go to mypaetreon and donate. This will hopefully help me get content out faster, with better grammar and spelling since I'll have more time to focus on it. Well now that that's out of the way time to start on the next story.

Next up, Ravens Knight.

Til next time guys. Later!


BN: If some are wondering about the aura fibers, it is basically unlocking the aura of a silkworm, all living things have aura so it should be theoretically possible to do, and when they make the silk the fibers are also infused with aura. This allows them to be comfortable and still protect you while also repairing from damage.