Disclaimer: I own neither RWBY nor Fate/Extra, they belong to their respective owners. Also major spoilers for the Fate/Extra PSP game, spoilers for RWBY up to Volume 6, Fate/Extella and Fate/Extra Last Encore.
The lights that shined above the audience dimmed down as the large screen above the stage separated the pictures, a bar on the side of the two pictures sprang to life as they filled up.
"View Status" Hakuno mumbled quietly, Cardin seemed to be slowly inching his way towards her, not rushing ahead like she half expected as the information from the Code Cast quickly flowing into her brain.
[Human: Cardin Winchester
Aura:D
Strength: E-
Agility: F
Mana: N/A
Luck: F
Semblance: Weight Manipulation (Minor)
N.P: N/A]
'F? Going by how that status usually is… is it lower than E? Does that mean it's on the level of a human on Earth or on Remnant? And Weight Manipulation is his Semblance? Does-'
Hakuno's limited instincts flared as she spoke, "Barrier (20)" The light blue shield covered her vision instantly, as the mace came crashing down onto the light blue shield. Cardin began to exert his strength as he pushed the mace down, small cracks decorating around the digital shield.
'What do I do! What do I do!' The cracking intensified as a dull grey light surrounded the mace its weight increasing as Hakuno was sure he was using his semblance. Hakuno took a deep breath as a plan formed in her mind. The digital shield cracked a final time exploding with the sound of glass shattering.
"Hack (16)!" Hakuno held her hand out as a small eruption of data on his chest knocked the wind out of him sending him toppling backward by a few feet.
Hakuno took a deep breath as she took a step back, 'I have to stay calm. This is just practice, my life is not on the line.'
Hakuno pushed Od into Extella as she did she glanced up, the large screen showing a picture of both their faces, Hakuno had approximately lost around fifteen percent of her 'Aura' in that exchange while Cardin had only lost roughly five percent.
Cardin shook his head as the stun wore off as he muttered "Bitch." Hakuno knew she would not win solely by defending, she did not know if she could handle multiple different Code Casts at the same time so her options were limited. She did decide to make a mental note to experiment with Extella more.
"Lunar_Dust(16)" A single core flew in front of her outstretched hands as an iridescent beam of data fired towards the huntsman-in-training, hitting him on his chest piece, his Aura flashing dully as it with his armor blocked the beam.
He took a slow step forward, anger evident on his face as the digital energy attempted to push him back.
Hakuno took a step back 'Going by this… My Od most likely won't outlast his Aura,' A quick glance at the screen showed that Lunar_Dust was doing a great deal more damage than Hack but her 'Aura' bar was decreasing as well in a greater fashion.
70% vs 85%
Cardin took a step forward as he placed his mace forward to block the iridescent beam. Hakuno began to slowly back up while he slowly walked forward. For each step Cardin took forward Hakuno took a step back, if Cardin was in clear mind he might have noticed they were getting close to the edge of the stage.
Hakuno mentally commanded one of the idle cores off to follow from a distance off to the side.
60% vs 70%.
The original core for Lunar_Dust began to emit a dull shine as the beam began to become thinner Hakuno could see the smirk on Cardin's face as he began to walk faster through the beam the red crystal gleamed as the beam was forcefully stopped.
"Not so tough now are ya?"
Hakuno did not respond, concentrating on the movement of the distant core.
Cardin's eye twitched as the red crystal in the mace glowed ominously. "Now this is the part where you lose!" He brought his mace above his head and began to slam it downwards.
It wouldn't reach her; the distance between the two was greater than the length of the mace, but the red crystal glowed brightly as it began to emit red sparks, 'Dust!'
A quick mental command was sent, the one core that was separated from her rapidly fired aiming at the large gap in his armor on his leg.
Cardin fell over the digital energy tore into his leg, the force from the bolts knocking his leg to the side, making the huntsman-in-training misjudge his step. A slip-up that made him fall off the stage onto the floor below.
40% vs 45%
"That's the match! By ring out, is the victor." The lights surrounding the stage turned on as the Professor spoke.
"Mr. Winchester, do you understand why you lost today?" The teen stood up as Hakuno took a step back, Cardin looked for lack of a better word furious.
"You lost today because of your arrogance and your temper. Ms. Kishinami was personally invited to attend Beacon by Headmaster Ozpin," A gasp was heard from some members of the audience, "So it would stand to reckon she would be a strong opponent. I believe if you where to get your temper intact then you can become a model Huntsman."
Cardin just grunted as the rage had yet to leave his eyes as he walked towards the male locker room.
"Ms. Kishinami, you seem to have no close combat abilities is that right?" Hakuno nodded her head, Mystic Code: Extella had no melee abilities to her knowledge, perhaps if she added Dust to it that would change?
"I would recommend obtaining some form of melee component then. When Mr. Winchester broke your shield you seemed to panic, while you were able to fend him off this time, it might not work if they are prepared. But I do have to applaud your unique method of victory. Well done."
Hakuno nodded, while her Servants would protect her in melee distance, the drain of her Od by the Mystic Code is a lot more than she initially thought, perhaps a backup weapon of some kind would be beneficial? She hates fighting but if its to protect her Servants and herself…
"Thank you for your advice, Professor." Hakuno turned around and went back to change into her uniform.
"Next match… Lie Ren and Blake Belladonna!"
"Do not fret Maestro. You have the Knight Princess, a dastardly fox and myself to protect you, ignore the words stated by the Professor." Nero said, her normally loud in a whisper.
"I disagree." Tamamo said, her tail swishing, "I think we need to work on a more 'classic' weapon, your ...Aura isn't infinite my love."
Ruby Rose appeared in a flash of rose petals as she took the seat directly in front of Hakuno practically kneeling on the seat to face team HATN. "That was so cool! How does your weapon work!? Does it use Hard-light dust to fire those beams and stuff!?"
"Thank you," Hakuno believed it was a compliment and with a nod from Artoria she became sure it was, "My weapon converts my Aura into energy and manipulates it to a pre-programmed form."
"I never thought of that! Could you show me how it's able to do that? It would help my baby become even better!" A slight look of confusion appeared on Hakuno's face "Artoria?"
"She means her scythe she calls it her baby."
"Ah."
"I didn't create my weapon." Hakuno shook her head, "It was … a gift. I can't fully explain how it works." She could say it uses her magic circuits, the magical like veins running through her body, but she held her tongue.
"Ah, butterscotch," Ruby said, a pouting look on her face. "Anyway Arty, you have to practice with me! I need to get used to people as fast as me." Ruby said as Yang began to sneak up behind Ruby.
Artoria froze for a split second before she spoke a slight pink on her cheeks, "Alright, I've only ever been able to spar with Nero and my brother Kay that are my age, I bet it will be fun!"
"Umu! Seeing two flowers flirting is a sight for sore eyes, Maestro, should we get them together?"
Ruby's face turned the color of her namesake, "No no no, I mean not that I'm flattered but I and Artoria are just friends. We don't even know each other that well!"
"Oh come on sis!" Yang put her arm around Ruby, "You two are so cute together, and a danger to any cafe in Vale."
"Oh let the two girls alone, love is something that takes a loooong time to develop, love, at first sight, is rare, why I can only think of one couple that fell in love at first sight," Tamamo replied leaning against Hakuno.
Nero nodded, "Umu, Maestro's eyes lit up the moment my figure blessed her sight."
"No no no." Tamamo waved her hand, "Not a chance I bet you were imagining things again. I was talking about myself and my wife."
Hakuno sighed, her hands massaging her temples as the two began to argue. Hakuno heard Yang give a low whistle, "So you trying to make yourself a harem eh? It's always the plain ones, I guess you can say your name should be Hakduo eh?"
"Eh?" Nero and Tamamo froze, Ruby just shook her head at her sister's antics.
"Get it. Hakduo, two eh?"
"Boo." Ruby said, "No puns on names! Bad Yang!"
"That's the match! Blake Belladonna wins by Aura exhaustion." Hakuno glanced at the large screen, Blake's Aura was in the yellow while Ren's was in the early parts of red.
The teen in green laid on the floor as a girl with short orange hair jumped down from the stands to pick him up.
"Oh come on Renny! You were soooooo close!"
"Oh Blake good job!" Ruby yelled from the stands.
"That's all the time we have for class today. The arena is open at all hours of the day, though you must make an appointment with me in order to schedule a time for duels. The practice hall will be made open starting next week if you have any questions you may ask in the next class. Class Dismissed."
Hakuno felt herself floating down, her conscious slipping into her dreams a simple tug on her mind as the world filled out. Burning buildings slowly fading away to a boundless golden field, a large coliseum stood on the outskirts as a single trail led from the Coliseum to a stone pedestal that held a single sword.
"Oh? This is unexpected."
Hakuno's mind was in a haze as she watched a young woman walk up to the golden sword, a man in white with long flowing silver hair stood to the side. Hakuno couldn't see his face but she could feel he was not human, he was something ancient and young, part human and part other. One who leads Kings.
"Before you take hold of that, think properly of it… Once you take hold of it, that's it. You will no longer be human." The man in white tapped his staff, beautiful flowers began to bloom around him.
"No…" The girl held no hesitation as she stared at the man, the young king's green eyes stared at the Magus of Flowers.
"Is that alright?" Hakuno felt unnerved whenever the man spoke, she could feel the mana rolling off of him as he spoke calmly towards the blonde knight.
"Many people were smiling so… certainly this path… I don't think is the wrong one." The blond girl grabbed the golden sword that resided in the pedestal, a single tug was all it took for the sword to be free as she held it in the air.
"Ahh…" The man in white looked up, his face now visible underneath his hood. Hakuno felt her heart skip a beat as the man looked directly at her his eyes boring into the young magus. A small smile decorated his face as the grand magus winked at her.
"You have chosen the hard path. Even so, miracles have their necessary price. Are you prepared oh soon to be King?" Hakuno felt that he wasn't speaking to Artoria anymore… Isn't this a memory? A part of Artoria's memory?
"A dream can only last until the dreamer wakes up, be mindful of that my King."
Author's Note: Oof. Well, I personally learned I'm terrible at puns, not the terrible Yang is but, I can't think of any. Before anyone says, I know Yang isn't all about puns but still wanted at least a few. Also, the next chapter will probably be the last one before we do a mini-time skip to catch up to where we would be in Canon. Also, the whole F-Statistics will be more fleshed out in later chapters. Now time for some reviews/comments!
Samuelalpha86: I have no idea who you are referencing to but yes. Especially once Hakuno becomes more adept at combat, right now she is probably just above Cardin in combat ability but that is mostly due to her ability to plan, Cardin's ability is mostly through sheer strength.
Alias001: Sadly no crotch shot, Hakuno probably wouldn't know that would hurt a guy a lot tbh, her knowledge of things are strange.
Impstar: Personally? I seem him just a scummy person, a character designed to be an entry level bad guy, but he does hold the possibility to become an actual character as demonstrated in some fanfictions. So even though I think he is a terrible person, he has a chance to make things right with the right influences.
XenoBlaze: Yeah Extella Link was, interesting with the different paths. I do wonder the whole Extra/Extella timeline tbh, or is it all branch paths from each other? Eh, something will probably make more sense on the next game they release in the Extra timeline. Same here writing is a fun hobby, though I admit I play video games more then I write.
Redrangerlegacy: Your one of the few people who asked about him! The Nameless hero did, in fact, die in the Fate/Extella Zero timeline as a Servant of the Body of Hakuno Kishinami. Similar to Fate/Extella Hakuno was split into two parts, Mind/Soul and Body, the Body was contracted to Archer while Mind/Soul was originally contracted to Nero.
Sakaewmatsui: I do believe Cardin was embarrassed, though with another super powerful team at Beacon I doubt he will have as much confidence later down the line if he keeps acting as he does.
Sagicknight: Thank you! I don't plan to use many cliffhangers but I felt that was a good time to end the chapter.
TheLuckFateReviewer (Ao3):Thank you for your continued support! You would think that the one who reads all that, er literature she would understand that Master has multiple meanings, but she is still in the stage where she thinks almost all Faunus are being abused so she just isn't fully thinking straight. Yeah with Jekyll and Hyde being in Remnant it's not really known to what extent there is that our world has influenced Remnant, (other then it is a fictional world and all). Personally? I have no idea about coffee, tried it didn't like it and tried to read up on it for that scene but I got very confused so I just left it at black coffee. It is Chakravartin, memories are being gifted to her from multiple timelines mixed with the sleep-cycle is going to lead to some interesting developments down the road.
Yuyuy (Ao3): Yeah, Hakuno is not a fighter like, at all. She will probably become a decent fighter at the like end of the semester at Beacon but still have to work from the ground up with her skills cause she doesn't fully understand Mage-Craft, nor does she understand how to use the Regalia to its power, for the moment only being able to use it as a Scroll-like device. She is a bit similar to Jaune, but while he would focus on his close combat Hakuno has more long-range capabilities.
