Hello people of planet Earth. This is another chapter from the superior race, the Martians. But in all seriousness, this chapter will have none of the book in here so if you want that you have to wait for me to finish the next chapter.
The eleven people who offered to actually do this, Team RWBY, Team JNPR minus Ren, Cordelia, Serana, Rock, and Dante, walked towards the arena. This was the first time they had seen it. Well, besides Jaune and Pyrrha. There were ropes on the sides of it and the arena was a whitish color all around it, almost looking as if the older paint was peeling from it. Dante jumped onto it and noticed that it was definitely sturdy which went against its initial appearance. "Great, this thing actually can support all of our weight. Good to know it won't crush us while we're fighting." Dante stated.
Weiss rolled her eyes. "Of course it would be able to support our weight, it would be a waste if it couldn't. Besides, I don't think we are all going to be on it at once anyway."
Dante turned his eyes and just glanced at her. "No one asked you, ice princess." After hearing that reply she settled to glare at him while the rest of Team RWBY tried to settle her down. "So what are we doing: one v. one, two v. two, three v. three…what?" Yang asked.
"Why not tournament style?" Rock questioned. The rest of them agreed to the suggestion. It would limit the time that it would take to have everyone fight each other and make it so that people like Jaune wouldn't have to hurt themselves from fatigue.
"Wait! Before we start, let me get something." Rock suddenly ran into the house and came out soon after. It was a suitcase that had a crescent moon on it. It had small red outlines and seemed to carry a small object.
"What's in there?" Blake inquired.
"Just my weapons." Rock replied. The rest of them realized that they had not seen his weapon as of yet. Now that they thought about it, they didn't even want to know, sans Ruby.
"So can we get this started yet or no?" Dante punched the air.
"Uh, sure, yeah, uh, let's just get this going" Ruby said.
"I guess Dante will be against Ruby for the first match." Cordelia commented. Dante groaned. Why did he open his mouth?
They soon got into their starting points. "Ready, kid?"
"Yes." Ruby answered nervously. She got out Crescent Rose and held it straight in front of her. Dante mirrored her movements. He pulled out Rebellion and with his other hand he taunted her. "Come on~!"
She charged at him, about halfway activated her semblance catching Dante off guard, and would have chopped him across the neck if he didn't jump back.
"Seems like I need to take you more seriously. How funny." Dante teased. He retaliated with a short downwards chop which she easily dodged. Ruby activated her semblance once again, but since Dante saw it coming, he activated Quicksilver and saw her moving at a normal speed. He grabbed her arm and threw her into one of the ropes. She uncontrollably came running back and Dante took out Gilgamesh and kicked her in the leg, causing her to fall.
"What happened?" Ruby asked in a dazed state. She quickly recovered and shot a few shots at him, which he quickly countered with Ebony and Ivory. He then switched to Rebellion, lunged forward, and somehow negated the laws of gravity to finally hit her with the sword tip. She was launched a few feet but thanks to her aura she was fine, albeit a little scratched but it was easily regenerated and then she stood up. Dante suddenly remembered something. He heard dialogue in the background, but it was heavily muffled. All he heard was "Aura and soul...Finally creatures of Grimm…". "What the hell?" he was wide-eyed. In fact, his expression was hilarious if you weren't worrying about why he did that in the first place.
She stopped dead in her tracks and asked "Are you okay?".
"Yeah… Yeah I should be fine." he replied.
The two continued their fight again. The fight was quickly ended when Dante started to take the offensive. Ruby could defend herself for a few minutes before he became faster as if he wasn't trying from the beginning. Dante quickly kicked her in the jaw and her body flew out of the arena, resulting in his win.
Dante got out of the arena and said "So I guess I win. Does that mean I get to select the next match?".
"I guess so." Cordelia replied.
"Okay, I select you and you." Dante pointed at both Cordelia and Jaune. Jaune just gave a gloomy look while Cordelia just gave him an annoyed face. "Of course you would pick me, because you know we are siblings."
The two got into the arena and Cordelia pulled out her spear off her back. The group (minus Dante) was surprised simply because they never got to see all of the weapon in its full glory. It had engravings reaching all the way down just before the bottom of it. In the middle of them it had a small crack that looked like magma coming out of the ground. The spear head had a small, demonic face that looked like a human's face mixed with a lizards. Down at the bottom, there was a firm piece of wood holding the thing together. Jaune was flabbergasted by her weapon. A spear was the furthest away from his mind, especially one so cool-looking. "So can you cut me some slack?" Jaune questioned. The rest of them sweat-dropped at his utter lack of confidence.
"Afraid I can't, and besides…" She put her hands around her spear. "I can't exactly not try now can I?"
The fight was a massacre for Jaune. Everything he did was easily blocked or swiped away by her. But what made it even worse was the fact that she would tell him what he was doing wrong by saying things like "Too slow." or, better yet, "Try harder with those swings." .
After ten minutes of playing around with him she booted him into the ropes and got him into a chokehold, knocking him out.
She got out of the arena and Pyrrha started panicking and yelling at Cordelia. She said coldly, "People won't be so nice to him in a real combat encounter." Pyrrha got afraid after that statement. Pyrrha felt sadness, self experience, and grief from what she said.
"Okay now it shall be Blake and her." Yang pointed at Serana. Both nodded and went into the arena. Blake took out Gambol Shroud while Serana summoned a lightning spell and drew her Elven Dagger.
"Why did we agree to this again?" Blake questioned.
"Probably because we didn't expect this of all things." she responded.
The two began their fight. It was a pretty even fight with Serana being able to rival Blake's speed with her lightning spells, and when she got close she managed to still keep up with her dagger. Blake went to stab Serana with Gambol Shroud when the unexpected happened. She grabbed the blade with her bare hand and before Blake hit the ground she hit her with a lightning spell, sending her across the arena, though not far enough that she would be sent out. Serana walked to her and she thrusted her dagger however, she stopped it just short of her jugular and said calmly "Yield." Blake got up, produced a smile, and replied with "I guess that is the end of my run, huh? But I guess I should say that it wasn't that bad of a match.".
The two got out of the ring and sat on benches around the ring and nearly passed out there. "We probably should have gotten water." Rock commented.
"Yeah, probably. Actually let me get some right now." Jaune responded and dashed towards the house to get water."
After Jaune returned with water, they continued through the brackets. Yang and Nora was coming up. Yang unleashed Ember Celica from her golden arm braces. "You really wanna do this?"
Across the ring was Nora, who swung her silver and pink hammer, Magnhild, into the ring as it transformed into a pink grenade launcher. "When DON'T I wanna!?" she grinned. Dante imitated a bell dinging. Almost prematurely, Nora shot a grenade into the middle of the arena, exploding on impact. Yang covered her face. Everybody watching, excluding Team RWBY, Jaune, and Pyrrha, was surprised at not only the screws Nora has loose, but the fact that the arena could handle such an explosion. "What the-!?" someone shouted.
"Nora, what is wrong with you?" Cordelia scolded. It seems her words were ignored not by negligence but the sheer volume of the explosion, as expected. Yang dashed and grabbed Nora's arm before she could fire another shot. Nora attempted to clock Yang but she dodged and quickly headbutted her. Nora returned the favor, knocking Yang back two feet. Yang stayed low as Nora laid out another grenade. Yang sweeped at Nora's feet, bringing her to her bottom. Yang rolled back, jumped up, and performed a dive kick. Nora parried using Magnhild and turned it back into a hammer. She pushed forward, getting Yang off of her as she attempted to hit her with the handle of the hammer. Yang extended her arm and fired her rounds. Nora seemed to ignore them as she rushed in and gave Yang a fast elbow.
Nora read Yang's attack as she blocked her next punch. She kicked her in the shin and kneed her in the teeth. Yang didn't like this one bit. Yang continued to fire rounds, but Nora was keeping up her defense, impressing Yang and every spectator. All of that with a hammer? I'm not messing with her, Rock thought. Yang was out of rounds so she did a front flip, kicking Nora downward in the process. Yang let out a battle cry as her eyes became red as beets and her hair glowed like the Sun.
She widened her stance and kicked Nora while she was down. Nora was kicked upward, though she made a smart move and dropped her hammer. Though it didn't hit Yang, it distracted her long enough for Nora to sock her in the chest. To Nora's surprise, she didn't even flinch or move a muscle to the punch. She cracked her knuckles and said, "Prepare to be amazed.". Nora couldn't let out a word as Yang hit her with a barrage of chain punches. Yang finished her flurry as she cocked her right fist back and rammed it into her abdomen. She uppercutted Nora with her left hand and then she jumped, carrying Nora with her.
Nora came crashing down, bouncing just a few inches from the floor. "That was corny." she muttered.
"Then allow me to correct myself." Yang responded. "Prepare to be a-maized!" The crowd cheered, though everyone died a little inside after hearing Yang's awful pun. Yang shook her head as her eyes and hair returned to their normal state. She held her hand out for Nora. Nora grabbed it, allowing her help. Both fighters laughed as they walked out of the arena.
"Okay, who wants to go against me? Because there is two of you." Rock questioned. Both Weiss and Pyrrha raised their hands as if Rock was a teacher asking a simple question. He sighed. "I guess this will be a coin toss." Rock pulled out a quarter and asked, "Who calls what?" Pyrrha replied with "Heads." Rock flipped it yet he still got tails. Rock jogged to the arena while Weiss walked. Rock opened up his suitcase, pulling out his weapons. Both Weiss and the spectators gasped. It was a short sword with red lines connecting at the sword tip. There was stainless steel on the outside of the sword while the hilt had dark leather complementing the metal part of it. The gun on the other hand was a completely colored black pistol. It had an automatic receiver. The grip was made for stability, seeming to be made for the auto-fire function. The stock was shorter. It had his symbol on the side of it, a crescent moon with a red outline.
"Like what you see?" Rock asked confidently.
Weiss got out of her trance. "It is quite beautiful, however, I still will not lose unlike two members of my team." She gave a glare at both Blake and Ruby. Both gave her a sheepish expression.
"I think you might just be wrong there, Snow White." Rock stared Weiss in the eye with the cockiest smirk on.
"But if you think you can do it, then come at me." He simply put his hand out and made his pointer finger wave. Weiss was the first one to attack with a lunge. She nearly hit Rock in his hand, however before she could do that he dodged out of the way all while keeping his hood up. Rock quickly countered with a sword swipe at her side, although, she used a glyph to defend herself.
"Hmm!" Rock hummed in surprise. He didn't expect her to see him coming, but then again he wasn't known for speed but more so for power.
Rock continued to go on the offensive while Weiss continuously blocked his attacks with her glyphs. After a while, Rock was starting to get annoyed, so what did he do? He just increased the power of his sword strikes. Funnily enough, it actually worked on her; after a few strikes, one of her glyphs broke. She gasped, but before she could actually think, Rock dropped down low and went for her legs with a sweeping kick. He actually managed to break one of my glyphs. But how? There is no way he could have exerted that much force to be able to break them. Weiss thought to herself.
Weiss got a few seconds of breathing time before she had to go back on the defensive. After two more minutes of enduring his attacks, Weiss decided to go on the offensive. She started swiping wildly at Rock so much that he was starting to have problems dodging. Weiss went for a stab with her sword, but when she finally made contact, the crowd was horrified. Blood splattered across the arena, a loud scream was heard, and finally Rock's body fell to the floor. That was until he got back up panting and picked up his sword and gun as if nothing happened.
"What's wrong?" Rock questioned. He stared at the crowd but focused more on Dante and Cordelia, who had their mouths agape.
"Well, kid, I think you already know what we are thinking." Dante responded.
"I can guess that you're both surprised that I am a demon, though only partly. You see, that was the only thing that I didn't tell you two because I know you would most likely kill me on the spot. Although, I do remember just a little bit about you knowing this, but again, you didn't kill me there so why would you now?" Both Dante and Rock just stared at each other for a while before Dante just shook his head with a smirk. "Well, kid, if you will continue on with this entertainment in the form of two people hitting each other."
The two continued their fight. Rock decided to be more defensive to avoid a situation like before. Rock went in for a few shots with his gun but all of them never got to their target as they were being shot down one by one by Weiss. But this was all a ploy. He dashed in, however, this was still not enough, as she still blocked the strike, but even still he grinned. He continued putting power into the strike until her guard broke from the sheer force. He continued to attack. I can't last for much longer, my aura reserves aren't nearly as large as most others'. Weiss thought to herself.
Weiss managed to disarm Rock. He still managed to hold himself with just his gun and his fists, not even attempting to get to his sword. Rock ran up to Weiss and instead of just going in for a superman punch like she thought, he went in for a drop kick, sending her flying and finally emptying her aura reserves causing her to lose to Rock. "I thought you said that you wouldn't lose like your other two teammates?" His face was still covered by the hood all she saw was a smirk. Weiss growled and sat down next to Blake outside of the arena.
This is the end of chapter 10. I know that I took a while to update this, but the reason was that I had school work and other things like the holidays so I couldn't really work on this much. The reason why I didn't include the full tournament is because I didn't want it to be 8k words or something. This will be another chapter long, though, so don't worry about that. I'm sorry for this, but at least you are getting something. Also vote. If you don't, then whatever happens happens.
(P.S The link is in chapter 9)
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