Final chapter coming at you guys now and I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you guys at the other author's note.
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Chapter 10
No one on our team slept that night, not out of fear or anything but out of tradition. Niall stayed awake sharpening his butter knife, not like it need it but it kept him relaxed. Fionn after he finished putting more dust into his bokken sat and meditated so he can seek wisdom from those long since passed. Micah sat looking over who we would need to fight and forming a strategy that would give us best results with minimum effort. And me well, all I did was stare at the celling enjoying the quite. As a team we rarely have a nice quite time long before dusk takes over and we need to leave and meet outside the tournament grounds.
We got startled by Little Red's alarm. "AH Sweet Honey Iced Tea." We could hear her mutter to herself. "What's the matter Little Red? We have already been up, well to be more exact we haven't even gone to sleep yet." I say causing her to jump a bit at the sound of us at this time of the morning.
"Plus it isn't funny when you say that when we all know you mean shit." Niall says never lifting his gaze from his precious blade. "Sorry for assuming you guys would be asleep because there will be a tournament today and team RWBY plans to win it and beat you guys in the process." She says with a straight face looking at each and every one of us as she said it. This caused the only reaction that could be sparked from us hearing that same line so many times… laughter.
"Sorry Ruby but we have heard that line so much just with different teams and we still remain victorious, but good luck. Oh and tell princess that trying to fake sleeping isn't going to help her anxiety." Micah says putting the papers for the tournament away and standing up and beginning to make a short trip to get the last thing he has before he fights… his father's coat.
"Right well because we are already in the second round we will be pit against JNPR or CRDL apparently they got discharged a few days ago and have just been trying to catch up so they could participate in this." Micah said snapping all three of us from what we were doing to listen. "CRDL revolve around close range tactics so if we are put up against them they are beyond doomed because we also have that field covered." He began telling us about the plan which I'll admit it was somewhat boring but I'm pretty sure if they do beat JNPR and they see who they are against they will jump out and accept the forfeit.
"JNPR is a much harder team. They are diverse in all fields. Niall will go for Nora your speed should cancel out her raw strength. Fionn go for Ren from watching his previous fights he never really expects dust to be used plus he doesn't have the stamina to go for long bouts. Michael you go for Pyrrha, she is the life blood of the team, take her out and their power is drastically reduced. I'm not going to sugar coat it she will be the hardest person they have so be careful and don't use too much strength. I'll go after Jaune only after one of you has defeated their opponent because that will be the best time to strike, he will be too devastated that his plan has failed so make sure you guys get it done fast. Also I don't want any deaths so be very careful." He said causing me to think that they would most likely be the group we will fight because I once saw footage of Pyrrha alone defeating CRDL by herself.
"Right so if we are going to fight them I might as well make some food as a way to apologise in advance." I say standing up and making my way over to our kitchen and began the process of making breakfast.
Somewhere while I was doing that the rest of team RWBY was up and patiently sitting waiting for some. "You guys are lucky I already assumed you were coming over otherwise I would tell you simply no. no someone go get JNPR." I say starting to plate up the food. When I poke my head back in I just see a small pile of rose petals building and after a few more seconds I see Ruby and JNPR sitting down. I walk over and placed the food in front of people and the start to devour it.
"Jaune don't disappoint, if you guys lose to CRDL I will be pissed because that means we got into the third round with nothing but forfeits and that sucks." Niall says with a normal pout.
"Hey did you guys hear about the final round? There is meant to be a five alpha Grimm and two teams it is going to be cool!" Nora says with a massive smirk on her face. "Nora, don't get too excited because we would have to get past them first." Ren says in his normal monotone fashion pointing to us.
The rest of breakfast was filled with normal talk how both teams wanted to defeat me and my friends so they can claim to be better than the rest, and truth be told out of the other teams in Vale I think they are better, but Jaune if he trained a bit more he could probably give Micah a run for his money at planning strategies. Unfortunately he doesn't have real life or death experiences like Micah does so he will always come up short and Pyrrha well she clearly has a thing for Jaune but he doesn't notice it all that well so I may need to drop a few hints to him later.
Once breakfast was done we all made our way to the grounds and me, Micah and Fionn found seats Niall was too busy looking for Tami so they could talk a bit. We watched the fights with great glee. RWBY won by shrouding the field in a mist so that they could remain undetected easily. Their opponents never saw it coming. JNPR won with careful strategy by in raging CRDL's heavy hitting ones and at the last second side stepping the fast hitters to score hits on their aura easily. Micah leans over to me and Fionn.
"We will be fitting JNPR then. The plan stays the same. I'll tell Niall when we have to meet up." He says in his normal strategist mind-set that he is in right now. We begin our descent down into the arena after almost another complete round of fights it started with 16 teams after most quite after they watched that video Micah got Fionn to put on it was reduced to nine right now soon to be eight after our fight. We stepped into the arena and Micah walked over to Niall and told him how the plan is still the same. We enter the arena and a very unamused Glynda introduced JNPR for the second time today and then they entered. She than mentioned us slightly under her breath barely loud enough for the microphone to hear her.
"Jaune last chance because as soon as Glynda says for us to start we cannot guarantee your safety." Micah said to try and offer a way out for them. "No we need to win so RWBY doesn't get a chance to fight you." Jaune said well getting into a fighting stance as well as the rest of his team. Before Micah could reply Glynda simply said "Now both teams are ready… Start!"
We jump into fighting Niall dodging Magnhild's grenades to try and close the distance to force her into his ground. The distance was closed in a few seconds and Nora was forced to turn Magnhild into its hammer form to try and keep Niall out of her territory but it was too late Niall brought down the blunt side of the butter knife onto her wrists causing her to drop it. That action brought her aura down to a half and it was already Niall's match because Nora couldn't defend herself he swung one last time with the blunt side into Nora's ribs dropping her aura into the danger zone.
Fionn was easily dodging the slashes from Storm Flowers, the damage to his bokken was minimal because he was using minimal amounts of dust to deflect the hits a small portion. For Fionn it was just a game of waiting and trying to keep the damage to himself to a minimum. It wasn't long at all until Ren ran out of steam and tried to retreat so he could fire the SMG part of Storm Flowers to take Fionn's aura down to the red but it was too late once Fionn saw him starting to slow down he struck straight into Ren's shoulder and let enough dust into him to make him unable to fight.
Pyrrha runs up to Micah but I quickly intercepted her. "Sorry there love but I'm going to need to cut in here your leader has to deal with him. I get to deal with you." I say throwing a punch straight into her shield. Before she could recover I throw a kick into her breastplate. She starts to slash at me with a short sword unluckily for her I have more than enough experience dealing with people with that. She quickly catches onto that and switches to a javelin type of weapon. I weave my way to get up close to her and hit her in the shoulder that holds the weapon with me elbow forcing her to drop it. She swings her shield for my neck but I just step backwards a bit and kick her in the back sending her a few feet away with her aura dangerously depleted.
Micah took out his sword and brought it down to the ground near Jaune the shockwave blew him away from the falling rocks and send his shield flying in a random direction. Once the recoil of him being sent flying was dealt with he got ready to get up but Micah's sword was placed flush against his neck. "I would suggest quitting now. You are the last one of your team and your aura is near enough to the danger zone, you put up a good fight but you lack real battle field experience to make counter strategies on the fly. Unlike me and my team, I would gladly fight you anytime again, just say the word and I would be happy to oblige." Micah said not out of hatred but more so of the fact he enjoyed the fight and in fairness so did I, and from the look of it so did the others.
"I forfeit the match!" Jaune shouts so Glynda could hear it. "Match win to Vollen and team MMFN" Glynda announces so that everyone knew the match was over I look into the stand and I see a calculating look inside Little Red's eyes like she is trying to figure out a counter strategy so if we do get pit against her she could win. We help the other members of team JNPR up. "Wow that was amazing, but how did you stop my semblance from working?" Pyrrha asked me.
"Well I don't use any weapons to add to my destructive hits. So there was no metal on me for you to bend out of the way." I say to her and she gives me a look of utter clarity. We walk back to our seats to watch Little Red's match being given an easy victory from Weiss' combination of force glyphs and speed glyphs on all of team RWBY. Little Red didn't need any help with the speed but she was able to easily get past her opponents and set up a safety zone in enemy territory as Weiss and Blake swap hitting different members of the other team. While Yang just punched with what I assume to be explosive rounds in her Ember Celica to cause max damage when she got up close and punched a guy straight into his friends while Blake was doing an area of effect attack and Weiss was channelling all her attention on one guy at a time.
"Match win, Team RWBY." Glynda called out in an almost calm tone, but the stress of the fact they might fight us is too great for her but they have a level of confidence to them that says bring it on. The rest of the matches continued on without hitch until it came to us. "Team MMFN advances due to their opponents pulling out early." Glynda calls making all of us deflate slightly, because let's face it getting to the final with only one fight thus far sucks.
We trudge back to our seats to watch the semi-final round Team Ruby was fighting some team from Mistral and won using the strategy from their first match which was surprising because they should know the more Micah sees something the better plan he can forge, but right now we are going up against a third year group who should know use pretty well. Team CFVY, if memory serves right they haven't fought against us but they must have seen enough to know our strength.
We walk down expecting for them to forfeit but we became overjoyed when Glynda announced CFVY as our opponent. Micah quickly tells us the plan. "Michael go for Fox he is fast and uses picat shilack. Niall go for Yatsuhashi, your speed will easily get past his strength just avoid that massive sword. Fionn you get Velvet I'm not sure what her weapon is exactly but don't give her a chance to use it. I'll go after Coco if she deploys her weapon from its travel form get behind cover fast I'll try and take her out first." We step into the arena and ready our fighting stance to show them there is no extra chance for them to quite because we need this fight to warm ourselves up before we fight RWBY.
"Match start!" Glynda says loudly and we break into our individual fights. Before Coco even had a chance to dodge Micah swung quickly at the ground just at her feet forcing her into a wall that was just behind her. Her aura control must be very bad because that hit was enough to bring her into the danger zone.
Fionn going on Micah's instruction doesn't want to give Velvet a chance to use her weapon so he quickly disarms her with a hit to her forearms and uses enough dust to force her to drop it he pushes his advance and before she could recover Fionn continued to strike her once more just with a lot more dust causing all her muscles to contract and her aura dropped fast because of needing to repair the damage that was causing her.
Niall quickly got behind Yatsuhashi and into a big blind spot and before he could react to block or even turn around Niall got a strong hit on the back of his neck forcing him down onto one knee, but that hit was enough to drop his aura fast into the danger zone. All that was left was me fighting against a man with one of the singular most annoying fighting styles on the face of the earth, Picat Shilack. He was able to avoid most of the hits I was delivering but the hits I did get in dropped his aura majorly. I know as well as he does he can't take another hit even if he deflects most of it. We both pull back a punch and realise it at the same time mine being just a slight bit faster and connects with the side of his head and he is sent flying. The victory was ours.
We stepped out of the arena to let the medical staff quickly check the members of Team CFVY. Shortly after they were removed from the arena Glynda announces the final match. "Team RWBY vs Team MMFN vs 5 Alpha Grimm. Those of you who don't know an alpha Grimm is the leader of a group of that kind of Grimm that numbers at least five hundred. For this match we got a Beowolf, an Ursa, a Boarbatusk, a death stalker and finally a king taijitu." Glynda announces causing us to all smile.
We walk into the arena and see RWBY on the other side and five cages each one holding on of the Grimm and when the feel our Auras they begin to panic. "Match is to start once the cage doors are open. The way you guys want to deal with your opponents is up to you." Glynda continues but we already know we are taking the Grimm out first.
Micah turns to us, "The Grimms are to go first, and after they are dealt with Niall takes Ruby it is going to be a match of speed. Fionn go for Blake let her get under your skin with her clone semblance. Michael go for Yang you both use a hand to hand style but it looks like she can't defend too well against kicks. I'll go after Weiss because she can't stop easily so I'll set up some dangers for her to run into." We nod letting him know we understand his plan.
After Micah's little planning session we heard the cage doors slam open and the Grimm stay inside clearly hoping that the cage could soften the blow. I use my semblance and punch the King Taijitu and before it could even hit a wall it began to deteriorate. Micah brought down his Family sword squarely into the Death Stalker's head making the death stalker explode leaving small chunks. Fionn electrocutes two of the cages with one strike crushing the Boarbatusk and the Ursa. Niall quickly deals with the Beowolf who tried to make a run for it. All this happened so fast before RWBY could even bring up their guard.
Once we were done we lunged straight into the battle at hand Niall quickly starts a barrage of slashes forcing Ruby onto her back foot. Fionn quickly with total serenity started his attacks on Blake forcing her on the retreat back to regroup with the others. Weiss flung herself at us and before she could stop Micah brought down his sword setting up a massive rock for her to slam into draining her aura fast but not enough to put her in the danger zone. Meanwhile me and Yang are exchanging hits her hits causing minimal damage to me but a lot more since the last time we fought. After another hit from me she quickly retreats to regroup.
"Yang, Weiss Freezer Burn!" Ruby shouts out. Micah turns to us. "Screen coming check your blind spots." He shouts at us. Just like he said a thick mist covers us. We quickly backed up, and Micah looks at his scroll. "Yang needs another hit, Ruby lost about a quarter, Blake has about a quarter left and Weiss needs just a small push." Micah again shouts letting us know how close we are to victory. The problem is they are just affected by this screen just like us.
We see a flurry of petals and Niall quickly disappears as well and when Micah looks at his scroll he sees Ruby's aura go down into the red but Niall's is getting lower as well, but stops just outside the danger zone. "The screen is to keep us inside and contained not so the can abuse the blindness the screen causes." Niall says with a laugh, this fight is clearly fun but their team is now down a member. "Michael get out there and take Yang out then get back into here the wont venture in because they know if they do we would be guaranteed to win." Micah says and before he finishes I'm already on my way out.
As soon as I step outside of it I am met with a flurry of explosive rounds causing me to dodge them in a weaving like motion. I quickly meet Yang and give her that last punch that was needed to put her into the danger zone. I quickly than ran back as Blake and Weiss came flying towards were I was and slam into each other. I quickly met up with the others again. "Yang is dealt with. The other two should come into here now after they recover from slamming into each other." I say to Micah and you can see him quickly form a strategy. Fionn, use the Grimm ichor to give them the last push the need to lose I'll draw them to it." Micah says as we all quickly scattered to not stay in the same place to give them a bit of an edge. As me and Niall left we could see Micah getting the black and white of Ruby's team to chase him into the ichor and as the stepped into in Micah jumped and Fionn brought his bokken down into the ichor electrocuting them.
Five years later…
"Hey Little Red how have you been?" I ask as Ruby walks towards us walking next to here is Weiss and she is holding a baby. "And whose baby did you steal?" I ask causing her to pout a bit. She may be twenty but she can still pull of a convincing pout.
"I'm twenty years old stop calling me Little Red please and he is mine and Weiss' his name is Sanguine." Ruby said with no irritation in her voice but more so like she was kept up late by the baby. "Not gonna happen but I suppose you could always try." I say and turned around to Niall and Fionn. "Sooo what do you think took so long for Micah and Rose to actually get married because we had the country in order in a few months after we got back from our last Vytal festival." I say walking with them into the church just as the ceremony started.
I look around and I see all the friends we made from before we over threw the tyrannical rain of a corrupt council, to the ones we made during our rule as a council that brought the kingdom of Vollen to become one of the great kingdoms and finally the friends we made during our last fight in the Vytal tournament despite the fact it was just two teams of four but they slowly had become great friends and got invited to Micah and Rose's wedding, and I realised I couldn't want it any other way as I look next to me I see my date for this and Winter looked back and smiled sweetly.
Author's Note:
I personally enjoyed writing this but the ending to the story I find is nice and sweet but it is actually the second ending I wrote because I couldn't see the first one working too well but it was still fun to write. Right you guys know the drift by now do all that good stuff and I'll catch you guys later,
Timmydog Out :3