Protagonist notes:
Luna is tampering a computer while talking through her headphones:
"Here is Luna Lycaon, of the RWBY fandom, I have been informed there have been bad news on your side. Is the Zexal fandom okay?"
Tracy looks at Luna:
"What are you doing? We have to say something now, the chapter is about to start".
"It can wait..." Luna resumes her matters: "is Zexal fandom okay? Waiting for... Oh my..." Luna turns to Tracy: "Tracy, Zexal fandom is not okay!"
Tracy was already angry at Luna's lack of seriousness:
"Of course they are not okay! The writers already killed off more than half of the cast! For the purgatory's sake, they made one of the three main protagonists die of suffocation on the moon!"
"Yeeeeaaaahh... That was pretty cool!"
"Luna!"
"Okay... Cof cof. Alright guys, here it is! Team VLNT Onslaught arc finale. I have scattered a few links for OSTs across the chapter. So, be ready to stop when needed".
"Anyway" proceeded Tracy. "I am here to thank you for reading this far. And to assure you that it isn't the end of this fanfic... Yet. Anyway, let us start!"
Chapter 10: Full Power Battle Clash
Dove twisted his body in air in an attempt to hit Luna.
The armor clad girl was powerful. Dove knew that. Or rather, he knew it too well.
After the defeat at the hands of the purple-haired girl, team CRDL was approached by her days ago. And the encounter was enough to make sure they wouldn't ever spread information regarding the locker incident to anybody.
Tracy managed to defeat them all at once, but they were still recovering from a previous incident. Luna, however, was on another level.
He knew... Team CRDL knew. That was why Cardin sent two members to the dragon's nest. It wasn't because of the dragon, but because of her.
He never expected to fight the girl unarmed.
Four against one and the fight was too unbalanced.
The battlefield was frozen. Seconds were passing like minutes.
Pyrrha was holding Lark's hand, as for he was about to fall from the mountain. Ruby was being sent back by a powerful punch. And Dove, who was in air, was trying to land a hit on the armored girl.
All of that while a black dragon was circling the mountain.
After that punch Luna wouldn't be able to dodge. That kick full of aura had to do something!
"Woooaahhh!"
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Luna received an impact on the back of her head.
'Heh' she thought. 'They actually managed to land a hit on me. Fascinating. But still, not enough'.
The girl didn't even flinch at the kick. Dove fell to the ground.
Luna was the only member of team VLNT who technically didn't posess a weapon.
Her armor, however, was better than most weapons.
Harbinger in Berserk was the name. Just like the rest of her team, Luna's armor was based on ancient technology. HB (that's how she abreviated the armor) had many functions she didn't even know how worked or how she could unlock.
However, the few she had were more than enough. Far enough to make her able to beat Vlad, Tracy and Neo at the same time.
"Grwwwwooooaaaaahhh!"
The girl smiked from under the helmet and spoke:
"I suggest you to try something fast, guys. The dragon is coming".
But she didn't need to fear the creature.
'Hmm... I wonder how things are going on Tracy's side'.
Russel was observing everything carefully.
Tracy had immobilized them, and they should be unarmed.
Or rather, that was what she was thinking.
Punks always had some sort of hidden weapon. Russel was no different.
The swiss knife in his pocket should be able to cut through the black fabric, but he knew he couldn't fight Tracy.
Yes... He was weak... As much as he hated to admit it, the two girls near him were far more powerful than him.
And corageous... And with better personalities... And cute...
'What did Jaune do to get them?' Russel quickly shook his head. 'Focus, man! It's like... That big time for you to become a hero or something... You have to think!'
Enemy: Tracy Khufu.
Allies: Blake and Weiss.
'Okay... Tracy did say something about Blake... So... She must be the worst enemy for her. Also, she is a ninja... Ok... I need to free myself, then free her. Then I will think of what to do...'
Fight?
Never!
The enemy is a second year student that beat him up. Why fight when people can run away?
'That is it!' He realized. 'We don't need to fight! We just need to run back to Beacon and expose those people. They would for sure believe in Bookworm and Snobby Princess!'
The knife was set.
The punk grinned.
Ren's side...
Nero still continued talking about his story of one year ago:
"That was the time... When I was out of aura... When the rest of my teammates were defeated... Their leader, Vladimir, approached my leader on the ground..."
One year ago...
Nero was at the ground, wounded and powerless. Vlad was still on his feet and he approached a girl that had fainted due to the battles.
"That's the power of team MDNS? Such a disgrace... To think weaklings tried toyed with us and we went by those silly lies". Vlad turned his attention to Nero. "Luna said you were the one manipulating everything. Killing you now wouldn't make me happy. You have to suffer for breaking my pride!"
Vlad took out his spear and pointed at the girl. Nero shouted:
"No! Don't do anything to her!"
Vlad smiled.
"Very well, you will!" Vlad noticed Nero was too surprised to speak. "I give you ten seconds to state anything. If you state the truth, I shall decapitate her. If what you state is a lie, her death will be through strangling".
'What?!' Thought Nero. 'I... There isn't anything I can do?! Mary... You will die by my words? But I...'
Nero's thoughts were interrupted:
"Ten seconds have passed. This means you have given me the right to choose her death". Vlad smiled: "hahahaha! Do you know that most students call me 'The Impaler'? I want to know, Caesar. I want to see her blood after her heart is pierced"
Vlad prepared to attack. The spear was directed and was about to kill Nero's leader.
"No... STOP IIIIT!"
The spear stopped centimeters away from the back of the girl.
Vlad seemed to think for some seconds and then said:
"Who would have known? You have stated the truth, Caesar. Very well, I will gladly take her head!"
Ruby's side:
Ruby was with many problems at once. Fighting weaponless against an armored opponent wasn't easy.
If it wasn't bad enough, they could beneasily pushed away from the cliff and fall all the way down.
Also...
"GRWWWOOOOAAAAHH!"
A black dragon spitting fire at them and attacking with his claws frok time to time made things even more difficult.
Worse of all was that her opponent didn't even seem to care!
Pyrrha barely pulled Lark back and was kicked on her stomach by the berserk girl.
"Argh!"
Ruby quikly tried helping them, but Luna actually threw Dove on her direction and nearly knocked them off the cliff.
"Why are you doing this?!" She questioned the armored enemy.
"What? Just now you ask? Girl, I thought you had realized I wouldn't say anything by now".
Pyrrha got up:
"Whatever is the reason for this fight, it must stop. That dragon is a threat to all of us".
Luna shook her head:
"That dragon is, just like me, a problem for you. Forgot already? Flawless armor, spartan girl. And even if that failed, I can run away from a dragon".
Dove looked at her om the blue visor of her armor:
"What makes you so sure?"
"I already escaped from a dragon in my past" upon saying that, all other students got surprised. "Buuuut, since you people want to know a bit more of my reasons, think that: I am not the only member of my team".
"What do you..." Ruby started to realize what she was saying.
Sky Lark nodded:
"Cardin sent us to help teams RWBY and JNPR".
"No..." Muttered Pyrrha. "Jaune!"
"Yes yes yes" Luna nodded three times. "Tracy normally defeats by incapacitating, but Vlad prefers a hot blooded fight. If your friend doesn't respond with an equal battling spirit... Well, Vlad will not respond with a warrior's honor".
Ruby shouted to all allies present:
"We have to go! Our teams need help".
Luna nodded again:
"Yeeeeah... About that, I can't let you go until Vlad's fight is over".
"Then..." Pyrrha readied her battle stance. "I will make sure they will. I shall be your only opponent, Lycaon!"
Ruby looked at her:
"Pyrrha..."
"GRRWWWWWOOOAAAHH!"
The dragon was approaching again.
"Nope" Luna shook her head. "You people won't go anywhere".
1st OST, guys:
watch?v=tIyNAF5rgYk
"Rrryyyhaaaaahh!"
Jaune attacked with Crocea Mors.
Vlad defended with his spear. He turned it and, with the blade pointed at Jaune, the shot was made.
His shield was put up fast and blocked the bullet.
Vlad prepared to strike, but a mace came on his direction. Cardin wouldn't let him get any chances.
The spear twisted itself. The blade shifted into a smaller one and anothe grew at it's end.
The triple bar blocked the mace and the white sword's new attack simultaneously.
Vlad prepared to shoot simultaneously, widespread pellets at both of them, but they evaded by turning their bodies.
'Such reflexes!' Vlad noted mentally when his wings beat, starting to distance him.
However...
Jaune and Cardin didn't just evade, they were prepared to attack also!
A punch from Cardin and a kick from Jaune!
"Tarh!" Vlad felt both moves when the impact threw him back.
'They are serious' he thought. 'Underestimating them will be fatal to me'.
Another large arc from the mace came.
Dracungnir shifted into a three barrel shotgun with a wolf motif, Wulf mode. And he shot.
The larger bullet at Cardin, the widespread pellets at Jaune.
The blonde blocked with his shield and Cardin woth his mace.
'Finally they have become opponents worthy of my spear' Vlad looked at them again. Fighting at full synchro. 'It's a shame, however, that my victory is already guaranteed'.
"NOW!" Shouted Russel.
His bandages were ripped. Tracy was surprised.
The boy threw something on her direction. Tracy tried blocking with her bandages, but the thing spread.
"Argh!" She covered her eyes.
The thing Russel threw was dirt, earth from the ground.
When she cleaned her eyes, Tracy only saw the black blurr on her direction.
"MUMMY MAKER!" She shouted.
One of the bandages wrapped itself on her left arm and rightsode of the body, pulling it and augmenting her strength.
The black blade clashed against the bandage that covered the arm, but didn't seem to damage it.
Close to each other, Tracy recognized those yellow eyes.
"Thank you, Russel!" Shouted Blake while Russel freed Weiss. "I will take care of her".
"No" Tracy disagreed. "You shall be restricted again".
"Prepare yourselves" muttered Luna.
The girl turned her attention to dragon that was coming. Her silver armor acquired blue markings while she readied her aura.
"WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Ruby and co. covered their ears. The girl was howling like a wolf, but the soundwaves destructive power was way more dangerous.
"GRWWOOOAAHH!" Roared the dragon.
It's flight was affected. The dragon was coming crashing on them!
"We gotta move!" Shouted Lark.
Luna jumped back and so did her opponents.
The dragon destroyed the place they were in and they started to fall in the middle of the rocks.
Ruby felt it was similar to when her team foight the Nevermore, but they didn'thave weapons to propulse themselves this time.
'But...' She noticed the dragon falling too. 'I found a way to escape her!'
Weiss readied Myrtenaster and observed while Blake clashed against Tracy.
Everytime Blake would be hit or apparently restricted, she escaped leaving an afterimage behind.
But Tracy was still able of blocking all of her fast hits.
Weiss carved her sword on the ground as the wall of ice was launched on Tracy's direction.
The girl with purple hair was about to evade, but Blake appeared from the back and attacked, forcing her to stay.
'What the?!' Tracy was surprised. At that rate, both of them would be frozen.
"Grr..."
Two of her bandages extended and got energized when they pierced the ice. The explosion sent shards everywhere and liberated a dense fog.
"NOW!" Shouted Russel. "I initiated it, come!"
'Initiated?!' Tracy realized what they were doing. Tha last free bandage touched the ground and she felt two beings gaining distance. 'They are fleeing!'
"I will not let you!"
Ruby and Pyrrha jumped from rock to rock in the fall and reached the dragon.
Dove and Lark followed them, but when the dragon started to fly...
*STOMP*
A fifth person was also standing.
Luna turned her attention to them:
"Did ya really think it would be this easy?"
Lark and Dove looked at each other and smiled:
"Of course not" said Dove.
Lark turned to Ruby and Pyrrha:
"We are leaving the rest of our team to you guys. Don't screw that up!"
Both boys jumped at Luna and grabbed her.
"Wait, stop!" Shouted Pyrrha.
It was too late. The three of them were already falling in the air.
Blake and Weiss got in the boat amd Russel started accelerating.
Weiss noticed the cabled torn and connected:
"You stole a bost from school?!"
Russel couldn't believe her:
"I came to help you people! Shut up if you are going to question me!"
"Why you..."
"Guys..." Blake called them. "She is coming!"
Shot from the forest into the air, Tracy was approaching in high speed.
"I need to stay driving!" Said Russel.
Weiss looked at Blake and smiled:
"As Yang would say..."
Blake smiled back:
"Let's hit her with everything we got!"
Blue blasts and bullets were shot at Tracy.
The girl spun mid air and golden blasts came from her, clashing agains Blake's and Weiss' while causing small explosions.
One bandages reached her boat, the one he used to get to the island, and pulled her to it.
The boat started and a chase was initiated.
Blake continued to shoot, but her shots still got blocked.
"She is still coming!"
From her vision, she noticed Tracy's mouth was open. As if she was breathing heavily.
'I see... She is getting tired...'
Weiss stepped forward:
"I will handle her!"
Myrtenaster pierced the water and an ice wave started to freeze everything in it's path while being directioned at Tracy's boat.
She tried changing the direction, but the wave was spread.
Weiss thought: 'it doesn't matter if I can't freeze you. Not even you can pilot through ice!'
But she didn't evade anymore. The boat crashed against the ice and Tracy was sent flying due to the impact!
"Is she crazy?!" Shouted Weiss.
"Or a genius..." Muttered Blake. "She used the momentum to come at us! Russel, faster!"
"I can't!" He shouted back.
One of the bandages came from above and latched itself on the back of the boat.
Weiss started trying to slice it.
"It's useless" said Blake.
"Better than nothing!"
Russel looked back. To the two girls trying to free the boat.
"Blake, give me your sword".
"What?"
"Pilot the damn boat and give me your stupid sword!"
Blake didn't question him, after all, he was on her side. The girl changed places with her.
Russel got near Weiss:
"You are cutting the wrong place".
"You found a weak spot?"
"No" Russel sliced part of the boat. The bandage was holding that part, so it freed them from Tracy. "Heh, always works when I am chased".
Luna punched Lark against the ground and kicked Dove against a tree. Two powerfull moves that knocked them unconcious.
"Great" she muttered. "I can already hear Tracy saying 'for the purgatory, how could you, from all of us, let them escape? Vlad may be in danger, a danger you are incapable of sensing!' And blah blah blah! Aww c'mon, I didn't ask to be the strongest. And even so, it doesn't mean I am omnipotent".
She looked up. The dragon was flying away. She could follow, but...
She looked at Dove and Sky Lark. 'If I leave them here, they will die'.
Tracy fell at the water.
"So cold!" She looked at the boat getting away. "Grr..." Tracy got sad. "It's my own fault... I had them wrapped and still failed..."
She looked back. The island was beyomd her view already.
*sigh*
"It will be a long way back..."
2nd ost, gentlemen:
watch?v=GzwTgTDw6uM
The spear was swung and gained impulse when it hit Jaune's shield and sent him back.
'I... Can finally understand...' Thought Jaune.
The reason Vlad had such precision with a shotgun was because that wasn't just a shotgun. A magnum? A rifle? He still didn't know.
When the weapon had a wolf motif, there were the barrels. The ones of the eyes shot widespread pellets. The one of the mouth a powerful bullet.
When in spear mode, the blade somehow acquired the barrels. The main one was in top and the two smaller ones on the sides, to augment his swings.
Also... That unknown force in action on the forever fall... He finally understood...
"Cardin! He has teleknesis!"
Vlad opened his eyes wide 'what?! I still haven't used in battle!'
Vlad backed off:
"There goes my hidden ace..."
Extending his hand forward, a pulse in the air pushed Jaune and Cardin away.
"Very well... Time to get serious..."
The boys saw when he was activating his semblance full power.
The skin around his eyes got blood red, in an evil flame-like pattern. His pupils became vertical ones. His coat, wings and movements started to release a strange black smoke.
His wings beat and he shot at the ground, being propulsed into the air. He turned his body and kicked the roof, shooting again and flying in the direction of Cardin and Jaune.
"Watch out!" Shouted Cardin.
Jaune nodded:
"We will not fall, Vladimir!"
Jaune stepped forward and tried to block with his shield.
The impact was too great, he was threw away.
"Jaune!" Shouted Cardin.
The enemy spun mid-air, about to hit Cardin too. He hit the side of the spear, in order to not be thrown away but...
The spear twisted itself, becoming the double bladed triple bar. It sliced Cardins armor, throwing him away.
When he noticed Jaune coming, Vlad carved the spear on the ground and used it to support himself, kicking Jaune away.
When the blonde fell to the ground, he saw more of his enemy than he wanted:
He was standing on top of the spear, his eyes giving him fear and that black smoke of evil being released.
But the worse was what he noticed on Vlad's fighting style. That way of shooting to boost the attacks, to use the spear to move the body around...
It was...
"It's like Ruby's..."
Vlad gazed at him his eyes piercing Jaune's minds:
"You are reffering to the nephew of Qrow. It does not suit my tastes, but I admit it is a reliable style. Worthy and useful".
Ren's side...
Ren stopped Nero's talk before he could hear of the demise of his leader:
"Wait, team VLNT did all of this? How did they manage to get away?"
Nero looked at him in the eyes:
"You haven't noticed?"
"What?"
"I see..." Muttered Nora. "It all makes sense now! Wow... You mean all this time?"
Nero nodded.
"Wow..."
"What is going on?" Asked Ren.
Jaune looked at Cardin.
His condition wasn't any better. Both of them were already at their limits.
Cardin looked at him and opened his mouth:
"Jaune... Do you trust me?"
...
"Come again?"
"Do you trust me?"
Jaune closed his eyes. 'If I trust him? I don't even need to think the answer...'
"Yes. I do".
Cardin smiled and looked at Vlad, then to Jaune:
"We are already too tired. Fighting in sync isn't enough, but. Do you remember Oobleck's class?"
Final OST for the finale!
watch?v=X3yYGioc7cY
In the past...
For one of the few times, Oobleck spoke slow:
"There isn't something as singular triunph. Humans, faunus, even some of the grimm need to work together to survive. No matter how strong is the enemy, the power born of the bonds of the weak always have surpassed the singular power of the strong. However, this power is fragile. And one who doesn't care for another is fated to fall".
Jaune understood:
"Vlad is alone... We are together... But we are already weakened".
"It's better than nothing!"
"Very well... Let's do this..."
Jaune and Cardin got up.
Vlad held his spear with both hands. He was also tired. He had less than half of his aura remaining:
"Seems like you have manages to make your final decision".
Cardin nodded:
"For our victory".
Jaune stepped forward:
"This battle will end now!"
Vlad shook his head:
"My victory had already been decided. You gave me a splendid fight by the end, but underestimated me in the beginning. You shall take the toll of that decision now".
Jaune and Cardin noticed as Vlad's spear acquired red markings.
They looked at each other and nodded.
The sword was crossed with the mace.
Neo watched it from above. 'What is this?!'
Vlad was releasing power at dangerous levels, but from his opponents...
That power was outclassing his leader's.
'Impossible! I am without aura and am able to feel them!'
"Rwwwaaahhh!"
"Hhyaaaaahhh!"
Cardin and Jaune howled as they advanced together.
"It's useless!" Shouted Vlad.
The spear clashed against the sword and mace.
Static was released. It was if a storm was erupting between them.
'What...' Vlad's spear was shaking at the impact of energies. 'What is this power...'
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"Aaaargh!"
Vlad's glasses darkened out, protecting his sensitive eyes.
A blinding light was being released. He could feel it even if he had lost his vision. The light could be felt through his very soul.
'This... Is a blasphemy! Dracungnir can't be outclassed by them! Not after the power imput I used!"
''Cardin! It's working!''
''We will win, Jaune!''
On the ground he felt his feet being pushed back. He saw the cracks forming on the ground.
'This... Is impossible... This power is unnatural! It's exceeding the one they had individually!'
CRACK.
"Argh!"
His left hand, the closest to the explosion had fractured. The energies were still piercing the clash.
'Curses... It can't be... If I stay longer... I will lose?!'
He felt the power pushing back. He couldn't see anymore. Even using his semblance, he couldn't slow them or push them back.
"Raaaahhh!"
"Hyyaaaaahh!"
Their strength... He couldn't admit it. He didn't want to.
But the prince accepted it.
'They have empowered me'.
'It was a dangerous miscalculation. They are no different from my bond with Dracungnir. Their will to win surpassed mine...'
CRACK
The right len of his spectacles acquired a crack. Those glasses could withstand bullets and were being destroyed at that moment.
'Is it... My loss?'
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'I am going to lose?'
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"VLADIMIR!" Shouted Neo.
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Vlad opened his eyes. 'No!'
'As the leader, I can't fail! As a prince, I refuse to fail! As a warrior, I would rather die than lose in this fake fight!'
'If I am to lose...'
'It won't be alone!'
Vlad extended his left hand forward, feeling the energy of the draw burning it.
He couldn't affect Jaune and Cardin anymore, but...
'You are using the last drops of your auras. You can't withstand this anymore. In the end, you. No, we are still mortals'.
Jaune and Cardin felt a strong wind and their senses falling. The room got cold. The pressure was falling. A pain covering their bodies. A difficulty to breath starting
'What the?!'
At that moment, weakened, they lost control over their attacks.
The energies of the three warrior exploded, sending all of them back.
"Aaaaaaaarrrghh!"
Vlad felt the energy coursing through his body. The power he couldn't fight anymore. He was being blown back
'This is not over! This fight shall end...'
Cardin and Jaune were being thrown away by the explosion:
"Aaaargh!"
"Guaarrrgh!"
'... In a draw...'
"JAUNE" shouted Yang deeply concerned.
Cardin and Jaune were knocked out away from each other.
Vlad was on the opposite side of the room, on the same conditions.
The three of them had passed out...
Protagonist notes:
Luna was excited:
"Wow wow wow wow! Vlad didn't win! Oh my... Vlad didn't win, Tracy!"
Tracy looked at her angrily:
"I should kill you for treason! He might die now! Besides, stop trolling the readers, the chapter is still not over!"
"Oh yeah! Sorry, couldn't contain myself".
"Just... Continue it".
Ren's side...
"What's going on?"
Nora looked at him and spoke cheerfully:
"You still haven't got it, silly?"
Ren blushed when he got called 'silly':
"Got what?"
Nero spoke:
"What is happening to you. It happened to Team VLNT. It happened to my team. Team MDNS was in charge of VLNT. VLNT in charge of JNPR this year".
"In charge? In charge of what?"
"Of the test. The one known as 'Competition Moon', Lie Ren".
Protagonist notes:
Luna had an awkward face:
"Ugh... Nero told more than I expected... Well, I am going to play Donkey Kong now".
"You aren't going anywhere!"
Mummy Maker incapacitated Luna.
"Tracy, stop it! Donkey Kong Country 2, Tracy! Besides... This situation... All tied up... I am starting to like it..."
"You can't be serious. You are forbidden of playing videogames until you explain everything!"
"Whaaaaat?!"
"Our leader is unconcious while five students are coming to fight him! You are going to explain everything next chapter!"
"Noooooooo. Donkey Kong, Tracy! Donkey Kong Country 2! Twwwwooooooo!"
Tracy started pulling Luna around and muttered:
"Everything she makes us go through... Anyway, this was Team VLNT Onslaught arc finale. Rate and review as you wished. Hope you guys liked it. In the next chapter, she will explain it all".
"Noooooo..."