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Rwby

Origins Of LUNR

Chapter 11: The Date

The boys walked off the stage through a myriad of tents and small shops wreathed in colorful flags in a large forest clearing as people mill about to experience it all. Nolo was grinning widely still excited about winning their first match.

"Congratulations Guys!"

The group turned around to see Emerald standing before them. Nolo gazed at her for a moment before regaining himself and walking over to her.

"Thanks, Emerald. How about you and your team? How did you guys do?" Nolo asked.

Emerald smiled at him "We did well, we made it to the second round. I'm amazed at how quickly you guys took your opponents out though." She said which made Nolo scratch the back of his head.

"Those guys were weak, how they even made it in the tournament is beyond me," Uzziel stated.

Nolo nodded "Yeah he's right. So anyway what are you up to Emerald?" He asked.

"Well… seeing as we both finished our matches and got some spare time on our hands I was wondering if you would like to come hang out with me and visit a few of the stands?" She said which made him slightly blush.

"Sure! I-I would like that a lot. You guys don't mind right?" He asked looking at his team behind him.

Regulus shook his head "Go ahead we'll catch up with you later, we're going to go find Ruby and the others." He responded with a smile on his face, he was happy for his longtime friend.

Emerald shifted her gaze and looked at Regulus, "I just ran into them a moment ago they're just ahead getting something to eat." She informed them.

"Alright then, we'll leave you two be. Thanks for letting us know Emerald." Regulus thanked her sincerely as he and the other's started to walk away.

"No problem." She responded as she waved to them.

Once the team left Nolo looked at Emerald and smiled "So where should we go first?" He asked.

Emerald looked around at the few stands that were near them. She noticed one that was selling dumplings and another that was selling hot dogs.

She then looked to her left to see a game stand that had a lot of stuffed animals and other prizes in it. "Let's go there first." She said pointing at the stand.

"Okay!" Nolo responded as the two started to walk towards the stand.

Ten Minutes Later…

At one of the unassuming huts set up in the fairgrounds stringed with paper lanterns with a sign overhead saying 'A Simple Wok', Team RWBY sits at the stools outside, ready to order.

"I'll have a bowl of the regular, please," Yang said. A second later a large bowl of noodles slides in front of her.

Ruby who was staring at Yang's meal smiled and looked at the owner "Oohhh... I'll take the same." She said cheerfully. A large bowl of noodles slides in front of her, as she clasps her hands in excitement.

Weiss looked concerned as she saw the bowls that Yang and Ruby got "Do you have anything with a low-salt ...?" a large bowl of regular noodles instantly slides in front of her instead "Um... okay…" She finished.

Instead of saying anything, Blake merely gives a nod and smile to the Shopkeep, who returns the gesture as he rushes through one door of his shop and comes out the other to leave a large bowl of noodles topped with fish in front of her.

Blake's eyes light up as she drools over her order. While Weiss looks strangely at her teammate, she gladly offers her Schnee Dust Company credit card to the Shopkeep.

"Aw, Weiss! What's the occasion!?" Yang asked.

"Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round," Weiss replied as she smiled.

Her joy is ruined when the card is flung back at her, and the annoyed Shopkeep points to his register as it beeps "DECLINED."

"What?! How can my card be declined? I was barely into my monthly allowance!" Weiss exclaimed in shock.

Blake looking around panicked attempts to slowly slide her bowl closer to herself before the Shopkeep disappears with her food, causing the poor girl to slump over in defeat "Nooo!"

"Sir please give that bowl back, I'll pay for it."

The girls turned to see Uzziel holding out his credit card with Lance and Regulus standing beside him.

"Uzziel!" Ruby exclaimed

"Aw, you don't have to…" Yang said as she smiled. Weiss did the same as she looked at Uzziel who was walking towards them. "But he could!" Blake chimed in as she looked at Uzziel with pleading eyes.

Uzziel smiled and put a hand on Weiss and Yang's shoulders "Well, I think you all earned it after that battle."

Regulus nodded as he walked over to Blake "He's right, you guys put on quite the show."

Everybody sat down at the stand and got themselves comfortable. Regulus looked at shopkeeper "Give me something that includes beef." He said, which earned him a nod from the shopkeeper.

"I'll take a regular," Lance stated.

"I'll have a medium bowl," Uzziel added.

The shopkeeper nodded and ran back into the room and came back out with three bowls. Once Uzziel paid they group started to eat.

"Hey, guys! Where's Nolo?" Ruby asked

Lance looked at her and smiled "Our little Nolo is currently on a date." He said before pausing to eat his food.

"With Emerald," Regulus added.

Yang ate some of her food and smiled once she was done "They have been spending a lot of time with each other." She stated.

"Well he just needs to be careful, we don't know her that well," Uzziel said.

Weiss looked at him and shook her head "He's been spending enough time with her to at least get a feel for who she is, I'm sure he's fine Uzziel."

"Mind if we join you?"

Everyone turned to see team JNPR behind them. "We don't mind at all! Come join us!" Rwby exclaimed excitedly.

15 Minutes later...

The bowls were empty, and each student was either content with their meal or holding their stomachs sickly.

Ren looked at Pyrrha who pushed her bowl forward "Are you sure it's wise to have eaten before a fight?" He asked.

Pyrrha nodded as the Shopkeep quickly gathers the bowls and vanishes "Of course! It will give us energy!"

Nora simply gave a hearty belch as an answer as Jaune was laying himself over the counter, and groaned. "If I barf, I'm blaming you." He stated.

Nora started grinning evilly "Ooh! Aim at the enemy!" Nora yelled out.

"Nora, that's disgusting. But if you feel the urge …" Ren started to advise until Jaune gave him a weak thumbs up. "Got it…" He simply replied.

"Well, we should be off," Pyrrha said as she stood up and looked at her teammates.

Ruby shifted her sight towards Pyrrha and smiled "So, you think you guys are ready?" She asked.

Nora gestured to each of her teammates "Of course! We've got a world-renowned fighter on our team, Ren's basically a ninja, I can bench five of me, Jaune, we trained all year, our weapons are awesome, Glynda barely yells at us anymore, and uh... Jaune!"

Ren looked at Jaune "Are you gonna take that?" He asked questioningly.

"She's not wrong," Jaune said in a sickly tone.

"I'm kidding, he knows I'm kidding. Don't be so nervous! The worst that can happen is we lose, that is just a few more years of walking around school with everyone knowing we're failures, our friends will slowly abandon us to preserve their social status, we won't be able to show our faces in class, no one will sit with us in the cafeteria, Ren and I have no parents, we have no home left to go to, we'll be officially renamed Team Lose-iper!" She exclaimed as her mad laughter turns into sobs as she slams her head on the counter.

"So, yeah, we're feeling pretty good." Ren chimed in as he looked from Nora to Ruby and the others. Pyrrha shook her head "Don't fret. If anything, we should be looking forward to a fight with actual guidelines, and not, well, ...murderers." She stated.

Yang nodded "Yeah, don't sweat it, we've all faced way worse before."

"Let's see. Grimm invasions, violent extremists, a destructive sociopath…" Lance added as he looked at Yang who nodded at him.

"And that's all while we're still in training! Oh, imagine what it would be like to graduate!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Maybe then I'll be able to pay for a meal," Weiss mumbled which earned her a concerned look from Uzziel.

"Would Team JNPR please report to the battlegrounds immediately!"

" Yes! Like they were scheduled to, several minutes a minutes ago!"

Port and Oobleck's voice could be heard over the loudspeaker which made Pyrrha look towards a speaker that was attached to a pole that was near them "Well, it looks like this is it." She said.

Team JNPR started to walk away, as Nora was still depressed and Jaune was still looking queasy "Go get 'em!" Rwby said, which Pyrrha nodded in response.

Team RWBY and LUNR enter the Coliseum through one of its tunnels and head to their seats as Cinder and Mercury are seen walking behind them to do the same. Down in the field below, the scorched ground and cold plains are no more, and only a layer of white mechanics is left, with a central stage on which the two teams gathered.

"Oh boy, I wonder who will win," Mercury said in a sarcastic tone as he sat down in a seat while eating a bowl of popcorn

Cinder who sat behind Mercury showing off her new outfit of jeans, an orange jacket, and sarashi bandages over her chest. She takes an unpopped kernel from Mercury's bucket and smiles "Oh, come now. Even if you know how the story ends, that doesn't make it any less fun to watch." She said with a devious smile.

"Too bad Emerald isn't here to watch." He replied in a cocky tone.

Cinder took another piece of popcorn and smiled "Emerald is on a lovely date right now." Cinder said in a sweet but devious tone.

"Team JNPR of Beacon versus Team BRNZ of Shade!"

Ports voice could be heard as each team readies their poses, a circle of holographic roulettes starts spinning frantically through various symbols and colors before finally landing on a green pine tree and gray thunderstruck mountain.

With these random selections, half of the field opens to reveal a tree-filled forest, while the other raises a small rocky outcropping to fill in the circle. Jaune narrowed his eyes in concentration

"WHO-HOOOO!" Ruby exclaimed loudly from her seat.

"Three, two, one, begin!" Port Said

As the start of the match, each team leaps forward at the other, ready to begin fighting.

While this was going on…

Emerald and Nolo walked towards a stand that had lots of prizes. This stand had a game where you had to catch a fish with a plastic holder that had a paper base that was used to catch the fish.

Nolo looked at Emerald who smiled at him and nodded. Nolo paid the keeper and Emerald picked up the holder.

As she placed the holder in the tank full of goldfishes. She placed it under one fish and tried to pull it out, but once it came out of the water the paper ripped.

Emerald looked slightly disappointed which made him smile. He paid the man again but this time he picked up a holder.

Emerald watched him closely as he slowly moved his hand towards the tank. In a split second, Nolo pulled his holder out of the tank and smirked as the paper did not break.

He showed the keeper who smiled and nodded "Please take any prize you want." He said in a gentle tone.

Nolo looked at Emerald and motioned his head for her to choose a prize with a smile on his face. Emerald looked at the medium-sized stuffed brown bear on the shelf. She pointed at it and the keeper nodded and handed it to her. "Thanks, Nolo." She said sweetly.

Nolo blushed as she called him by his nickname. He nodded and extended his hand "shall we?" He asked. Emerald looked at him for a moment, she gazed into his eyes as she could see he was interested in her. She smiled and nodded placing her right hand in his.

The two walked around the stands having the time of their life, enjoying each others company. The two bought dumplings on a stick and ate together. Nolo looked at Emerald who was eating her dumpling with a smile on her face, showing that she was truly enjoying herself.

Nolo couldn't keep his eyes off her and he knew it. Emerald finished the dumpling, she then looked at Nolo who was still looking at her and blushed. Emerald noticed this and smiled, she could see clear as day that he was infatuated.

She was starting to slowly get used to this, being around Nolo felt right. They always had fun when they were hanging out and they always had things to talk about. But she knew… She knew that she had a mission and she needed to complete. As they continued to sit at the stand she took a deep breath and then spoke.

"Nolo…" She said as she looked down. Nolo took a bite of his dumpling and looked at her as he raised an eyebrow.

"Uzziel… what does his semblance do?" She asked frankly.

Nolo looked at her for the moment before grinning as an idea came to his mind "Trying to find out about your competition huh? I don't blame you, Uzziel is very skilled." He stated.

Emerald was shocked, she thought that he would surely feel upset that she asked that out so straightforward. But Nolo didn't suspect her at all, that struck Emerald in her heart. "I'm not trying to do that at all. It's just that, I've seen him use it before in class, I remember that it gave him some sort of power boost but I can't tell if that's exactly what it does." Emerald paused and then turned her head to look at him.

"Your semblance is multiplication, where any object you touch can get multiplied. Lance's semblance from what I gathered today, can boost his speed and power. I haven't seen Regulus's semblance but you pretty much gave it away by telling me what happened last week at that hideout you and your team found. He can create portals at will with no problem at all. Then there's Uzziel, all I know is that the red aura around him changes him." She explained.

Nolo was impressed she basically observed and figured out his team's semblances. "To figure all that out, that's truly amazing Emerald. You're right, Uzziel's semblance causes an aura to form around his body, but it doesn't just boost his speed and power like Lance's does…" He paused for a moment and looked towards the table.

"Uzziel has the power to do what any animal can do." He said.

"Wait, what?" She asked in confusion.

Nolo nodded "Yeah, that aura that you saw around him. It manifests into any animal he wants, and he gets any crazy ability or trait or whatever that animal has." He explained.

"Wow! So I'm guessing he can only do one animal at a time?" She asked being very interested.

"Bingo!" He answered.

"You guys are truly amazing, no wonder that team didn't stand a chance. But I noticed that you guys really didn't even use your semblances, the only one that did was Lance," she stated.

"Those guys were weak, you would've beaten them by yourself." He replied.

This made Emerald giggle and smile at Nolo. "Hey Nolo, what's your family like?" She asked wanting to learn more about him.

Nolo looked at the table and sighed as shook his head "To be honest… I don't know…" He replied.

Emerald gave him a worried look as she heard the tone of his voice, he sounded hurt. "Nolo?" She said worriedly.

"My parents were childhood friends with Regulus's parents, they all wanted to become huntsmen and Huntresses. One day a few months after I was born they were killed on a mission. So Regulus's parents raised me ever since and I owe them everything for that." He explained.

She could see that on the outside he was being strong but on the inside, it hurt him. She put a hand on his shoulder as she was feeling bad for him "I'm so sorry Nolo." she said.

Nolo smiled in response, putting on a brave face for her "Don't worry about it! Besides Regulus and his parents are my family now, he's my brother and they're my mom and dad, I love them a lot." He said brushing off the lonely thought.

"But anyway, you know about our semblances so what is your's Emerald?" He asked cheerfully.

Emerald chuckled nervously and looked away from him "I don't think I can tell you that." She said.

Nolo's face went from happy to pouty as he heard her reply "aww come on, I answered your questions about our semblances so why can't you tell me? Do you think I'll run and tell my teammates?" He asked.

"That's exactly what I think." She replied bluntly. "I would never do that Emerald, I told you what I know because I trust you. Is it really that hard to trust me?" He asked, in a slightly sad tone.

Emerald stayed silent for a moment as she closed her eyes. Nolo was slowly getting to her. The more she spent time with him, the closer she became with him, she was just supposed to gather information she didn't think her feelings would get involved.

"Tell me that I can trust you Nolo, I wanna know that your not gonna go tell everyone what my semblance is and how to counter it, I need you to promise me that if I"m going to say anything." She stated.

Nolo nodded "I won't tell a soul, no matter what." He responded in a genuine voice. Emerald could see that he was being truthful and she knew that he really wasn't that type of person, to begin with. But she was also extremely loyal to Cinder, which made her remember that she couldn't do anything that would hinder their plans whether she trusted Nolo or not. Cinder meant everything to her and she wasn't about to let her feelings get in the way of that.

"My semblance is… mind control… but I can only use it if the user is asleep…" She said in a low, with a bit of hesitation in her voice.

"Now that's one hell of a semblance, I mean you can literally take anyone out with that type of power." He stated not really catching the tone of her voice.

"Remember, what I said Nolo." She said.

Nolo nodded "I remember, I remember! I promise I'll keep it to myself, you have my word, beautiful." He said which earned him a smile from Emerald.

The two gazes at one another before Nolo stood up a minute later. "We still have time, let's go check out the other stands."

Emerald looked at him and nodded as she stood up "Okay.' She responded.

Meanwhile at the stadium...

Nora jumps over in front of Team BRNZ, then brings her hammer around to collide with all four screaming fighters as they soar straight into the force field surrounding the arena's rim, sliding down to the ground with arms and legs in bent positions they really shouldn't be.

"And with that, it appears Team JNPR wins by knockout, literally! ...Can someone go make sure they're okay?" Port said through the microphone.

"They did it!" Ruby exclaimed as she threw a fist into the air.

Uzziel who was sitting in between Weiss and Yang had his arms crossed. "Did you really think the outcome would be any different?" He asked.

Blake chuckled "He's got a point." She said.

"The next match will be between Team ARAM and Team SYRA!" Port exclaimed. The crowd cheered as the next match was about to get underway. Team LUNR sat in the stands watching every battle closely observing every fighter and coming up with plans to win.