Beta Reader: Champion of Fate

Jaune sat down in the locker room after he had just got his fighting gear on. She wore her new fighting gear and walked up to him as he tied his shoes onto his feet.

"You ready?" Cinder asked.

"Whenever kicking the shit out of Cardin is involved, I'm always ready." Jaune said as he finished tying his shoes and stood up.

"You seem to hate him a lot." Cinder said putting her right hand on her hip.

"You have no idea. He's the main reason how everyone found out about my fake transcripts two years ago and everyone shunned me for it." Jaune said as he strapped his sword onto his back.

"I'm sorry to hear that. I had no idea." Cinder said as she crossed her arms across her chest.

"Really? I thought everyone knew about that by now. But it doesn't really matter to me anymore. So how bout we go out there and kick some ass, what do you say partner?" Jaune asked with an outstretched hand.

"You have a deal." Cinder said as she drew her hand back.

Jaune then slipped his bow into his coat pocket and the two of them walked out into the arena together to find Cardin and Blake standing far away from one another. Jaune's went to straight to Cardin as he stood with his mace on his shoulder as he acted all high and mighty. Jaune couldn't wait to cut him down to size. Cinder looked at Blake and the two of them locked eyes. Cinder gave a sinister smile as Blake narrowed her eyes. The four of them were then focused on Glynda who motioned for them to come closer so they could hear her and they did so as she was about to tell them the rules of the match.

"Now allow me to explain the rules of these matches. The matches will be a tag team match, you must tag in your partner who will be awaiting you to tag them in while they wait on the outline of the arena. If your partner decides to jump in and help you your team will be disqualified and the other team will win by default. The way to win is if you knock your opponent unconscious, make them say they quit, their aura enters the low red, or they stay down on the ground for over ten seconds. This will be a fair competition so under no circumstance are you allowed to cheat in any way. Am I understood?" Glynda asked.

Both teams nodded in agreement as they readied themselves. Jaune stepped forward and drew his blade off of his back with a serious look upon his face. Cardin chuckled and pushed Blake out of his way as he walked up to Jaune with his mace still on his shoulder. Blake and Cinder went back and stood against the arenas walls as Glynda prepared to start the match.

Up in the stands a certain blonde haired faunus pulled out his scroll and began to record the fight so he could remember how badly Cardin was about to get whooped.

"If you are both ready then let the first match commence! Begin!" Glynda said as she chopped downward with her riding crop.

Jaune readied himself in a fighting stance as he awaited Cardin to charge him.

Cardin smirked as he ran at Jaune. He raised his mace over his head and aimed for Jaune.

Jaune quickly dodged to the side as Cardin's mace slammed into the floor of the arena. Cardin looked to his left and saw Jaune standing there looking down at him. Cardin then swung his mace at Jaune again only for Jaune to lean back and dodge it in the process.

Jaune then did a back flip and kicked Cardin in the chin, landing the first hit of the match, and making blood come out of Cardin's mouth. Jaune landed on his feet and then charged Cardin as he was still recovering from the kick.

Cardin was still in a daze as he saw Jaune charge at him. He held his mace in front of him to block and was barely able to hold off Jaune's strike.

Jaune continues to beat down on Cardin with his blade making him fall back more and more with every strike. He managed to get Cardin to back up against the wall as he continued to bring his sword down as hard as he could.

Cardin's body actually started to form a human sized dent in the arena wall and cracks began to form stretching outward from the dent in the wall. Cardin needed to think fast or else he would be forced into submitting in the first five minutes of the match. Cardin placed one hand on his maces grip and the other below the top of the mace. He then pushed back against Jaune as hard as he could giving him a bit of room to maneuver but that's all he needed.

Jaune managed to recover from being pushed back and swung his sword horizontally at Cardin only to have him roll out of the way just in the nick of time.

Cardin, despite having heavy armor on and a massive mace in hand, managed to move extremely fast and get up beside Jaune. He then lifted his mace up and then swung down at Jaune again only for the blonde knight to move faster then Cardin could see and get behind him.

Jaune waited for Cardin to turn around before he kicked Cardin in the breastplate, with an aura enhanced foot, sending him back and making him fall to the ground. Jaune then retracted his leg from where it stayed in mid-air and placed it back on the ground.

Cardin held the area where Jaune had kicked him as he writhed in pain. If it weren't for his armor he'd probably have more then a few broken ribs right about now. The armor took most of the blow but the kick dented it and it jabbed into Cardin's gut. With a bit of force he managed to put his armor back into place as he realized Jaune had already begun running at him once more.

Jaune rushed Cardin once more and just for safe measure he deployed his semblance nullifying field so if Cardin tried to use his he wouldn't be able do so. He swung his blade at Cardin once again only for it to be stopped by the end of Cardin's mace.

Cardin smirked and maneuvered his mace so as to try and snap Jaune's sword in half but found it did not work. He then tried to break it by exploding the fire dust crystal at the end of his mace but found that too did not work. Cardin then felt something slam into his gut and send him back. He looked down and found that the ens of Jaune's spear was what had slammed into him causing him to fly back.

Jaune retracted his spear and placed it back into his jacket as he stood waiting for Cardin to stand back up.

Cardin looked at his mace and found that the dust crystal that was embedded into the end of it had been cut off by Jaune's sword earlier in the fight and it was now on the arena floor. Right next to Jaune's foot...Shit.

Jaune noticed Cardin looking at the small crystal near his right foot and smiled a small smile. He then lifted his foot and stomped down on crushing it completely. He smiled as he looked back up at Cardin who's eyes were wide.

Cardin then rushed Jaune again with his mace raised above his head and and then brought it down upon him once more. Only for his mace to be directed to his right and slammed into the ground as Jaune's fist made contact with his chin.

Jaune enhanced his right hand with his aura and made Cardin fly through the air. He flipped backwards in the air as he flew through the air and the fell onto the floor straight on his face. Jaune figured Cardin was done right then and there so he sheathed his blade and began to walk away.

Cardin however was adamant however. He began to get up off the floor as his lip bleeds from the new cut that was made when he slammed onto the ground. The punch Jaune delivered seemed to take the energy out of him and he could barely move. He could barely make himself push himself up as far as he did which was only at least four to six inches off the ground with him upper body. He then began to try and crawl towards his mace. Blake at this point was quite pissed that he hadn't even tried to tag her in, she may not have her semblance to face Jaune but she sure as hell would have fought a lot better then Cardin had.

Jaune looked back at Cardin and let out a small chuckle as he watched him try to get back to his mace. Jaune then ran as fast as he could towards Cardin and as he got closer to him he punt kicks him in the side of his head. He then stops and then turned back around and crouched down and grabbed a handful of Cardins hair and tilted his head upwards so he would look at him.

"This is your one chance. Stay down and spare yourself from being embarrassed any further then you already have been." Jaune said as he then threw his head back down and it slams back into the tile floor of the arena.

Jaune then begins to walk back towards the middle of the arena as Glynda began to count up to ten starting from one. Jaune wore an emotionless expression on his face a he looked down at Cardin's body as blood began to stain the floor from his busted lip.

Glynda got up to seven before Cardin was finally able to reach his mace and use it to get himself back up to his feet.

Jaune let out a deep breathe as he reached for his bow in his jacket. He then clicked the button to the harness that held his swords sheathe and grabbed his still sheathed sword into his other hand.

Everyone watched as he does so wide eyed as he turned to his partner.

"Cinder! Catch!" Jaune yelled as he threw them both towards her and she caught them both.

Cinder at first looked at Jaune questioningly at first until she realized what he intended to do. She once more wore her sinister smile as she watched Jaune begin to take off his coat..

Jaune balled up his jacket and then threw it up to Daegan who caught it and held it for his friend. Jaune then popped his knuckles as he watched Cardin try and keep himself on his feet.

"You should have taken my advice Cardin. I wanted to end this quickly but you've forced my hand. Now I have to break you." Jaune said with a dangerous edge to his voice.

Before could Cardin could even register what Jaune had said he was already in front of and delivered another devastating blow to Cardin's face. As Cardin fell back he felt Jaune grab his breastplate.

Jaune brought Cardin back up began to unload a barrage of punched to Cardin's face with no remorse what so ever. He then stopped and threw Cardin up into the air ripping his breastplate off of him in the process. Jaune then jumped up and grabbed Cardin's head and began to headbutt him repeatedly until Cardin actually began to bleed and so did Jaune. As they neared the ground Jaune threw Cardin down towards the arena floor and when he hit it he actually bounced off of the arenas floor. Jaune then spun in the air and slammed the side of his foot into Cardin's mid section as he was still in the air and firmly slammed him into the floor leaving a human shaped hole in it.

Everyone watched wide eyed and mouths agape as it all transpired. The sheer brutality delivered just now was more shocking then anything they could have ever imagined.

Jaune then stood up with rapid breath over Cardin's broken and bloody body as once more Glynda began to count to ten. Jaune figured it was over as he began to walk over to Cinder to retrieve his things when he felt Cardin's hand wrap around his leg.

"You just don't know when to quit do you?" Jaune said without looking back at him.

Jaune could hear Cardin give a small but muffled laugh as a response. He then looked up and looked at Cardin's bar and found that it close to the red but wasn't there quite yet. He then walked over to Cardin and grabbed him him by the collar of his shirt. Jaune enhanced his arms with is aura and threw Cardin up into the air once more. As Cardin fell back down to he arena floor Jaune jumped up and spun around with his feet enhanced with aura and slammed his foot into the side of Cardin's face. The two fell back onto the arena floor. Cardin hit the floor with a thud as he was now effectively knocked out as Jaune landed on his feet.

"This match is over! The winners are Jaune Arc, and his partner Cinder Fall!" Glynda yelled.

Jaune walked back over to his partner and took his things back from her with a smile.

"You look happy." Cinder said.

"Always happy to put an asshole in his place. Thanks for holding my stuff for me." Jaune said as he caught his jacket that Daegan threw back own to him and put it on.

"It was my pleasure. Didn't know you could be so brutal." cinder said.

"Theres a lot of things you don't know about me Cinder." Jaune said as he strapped his sword back onto his back.

"A shame. Perhaps we should rectify that." Cinder said in a seductive voice as she placed a hand on Jaune's chest.

"Perhaps we should." Jaune said as he placed his bow back into his jacket.

"Alright you two hurry up and exit the arena! We still have more matches to get through today so hurry up!" Glynda yelled at them both.

The two of them looked at one another and left the arena as a medical unit came and took Cardin out on a stretcher as Blake just left and rejoined her team torn between being happy Cardin got destroyed and annoyed that she never got a chance to fight.

"Alright then let us proceed onto the next fight!" Glynda said as the names on the screen began to once again randomize the names.

The first team name that popped up was Vince Lusro and Weiss Schnee. Vince silently descended down into the arena as Weiss let out a huff of disappointment at who her partner was. The second team name was Russel and Sage. The two of them walked down to the locker room as well without another word to one another.

~To Vince~

Vince had just put his weapons in his coat and got done readying his combat gear as his partner came up to him.

"So your Ailies' partner huh? You don't look particularly strong, or smart for that matter but I guess you must be good for something for her to be so nice and act the way she does around you." Weiss said.

Vince pondered whether this was her trying to be nice or she was normally this rude, he also wondered if he could get away with murder, there was a slight chance that he could pass it off as a training accident. He shook his head dispelling those dark toughts then closed his locker and began to walk towards the arena.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Weiss yelled as he kept walking.

She fumed as she followed after him into the arena and they were met by Russel and Sage. Russel stood in the arenas center as Vince went up to meet him and Sage stood off to the side. Weiss went stood off as well as Glynda began to match.

"If you four are ready then let the second match begin!" Glynda said as she began the match.

Russel jumped back and drew her twin daggers as Vince drew his hammer out. Russel lunged forward with his daggers primed to rip into Vince as something slammed into his face.

The blow carried Russel upward and slammed him head first into the steel ceiling, he retracted his hammer and watched as Russel limp body fell and hit the ground leaving a few cracks. Vince slid his hammer into his coat pocket as everyone in the stands and the arena fell silent. Sun and the rest of team SSSN, including Sage, began to start laughing out loud.

"Well...okay then! The second match has officially ended! The winners are Vince Lusro and Weiss Schnee!" Glynda said.

Vince then left the arena as Weiss watched him mouth wide open in shock. It took him less then ten frickin seconds to take down his opponent when she has never been able to do so. She then followed after him and joined her team back in the stands as Vince did the same.

"Alright then now that we have a little bit more time with how fast that match was let us move onto the next match!" Glynda said as the names once more began to randomize.

The first team name that came up was Ailie and Ruby. The two of them waved at one another from across the stands as the second team name came on the screen. Yang and Nora. The two other contenders high fived and rushed down to the locker room along with Ailie and Ruby.

~To Ailie~

Ailie got her staff and extended it into its spear form as she checked the blade. She then transformed it into its sniper rifle form and checked her ammo. She then put her staff back into its original staff form and placed it on her shoulder as Ruby walked up with Crescent Rose.

"You ready? Ailie right?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah. You must be Ruby." Ailie said as she closed her locker.

"Yep! That's me! Nice to meet you!" Ruby said with an outstretched hand.

Ailie smiled as she reached and took her hand and shook it. she then let go and Ruby began to talk super fast. She began to ask her a whole bunch of questions pertaining to her weapon, how her teammates are, if she made her weapon herself or not and a whole bunch more.

Ailie couldn't even get a word out before Glynda yelled for them both to get to the arena or be disqualified. Ruby then grabbed Ailie and the two zoomed into the arenas center.

"Good now that you two are here we can begin the third match. So if you two are ready let us begin!" Glynda said as the match began.

Ruby deployed Crescent Rose into its gun form and fired five shots at Nora who stood in the middle on the ring.

Nora smiles and jumps up into the air to dodge the sniper rounds and fires several grenades at Ruby.

Ruby sped out of the way out of the grenades and jumped up to meet Nora. She extends her scythe and brings it down on Nora.

Nora quickly transformed her grenade launcher into her hammer and blocked Ruby's strike. The two of them then began to clash trying to hit the other but they kept getting blocked by the other.

Nora then slammed her hammer into the ground and caused a huge explosion that broke a huge section of the floor off and debree flew everywhere.

The explosion forces Ruby back and closer to Ailie. She then notices Ailie had an outstretched hand and she hit it with her own and Ailie was then officially tagged into the match.

Ailie began to spin her staff around as it surged with electricity and she rushed Nora with incredible speed. She slammed both sides of her staff into Noras hammer trying to keep her on the defensive and was succeeding since she knew from watching Nora, and from what Jaune had told her, she couldn't match Nora in terms of strength. So she decided to use her speed advantage and try and get the upper hand and so far it was working.

Nora was in trouble. She was getting pushed back and knew if she didn't do something soon she would be overwhelmed by how fast Ailie was striking her. Nora then channeled electricity to her muscles and slams her hammer down onto the ground and breaks even more of the arena away. She then sees Ailie out of the corner of her eye and goes to swing her hammer at Ailie with it coated with electric energy. She is then shocked as Ailie holds up her staff and blacks the strike with little to no budging whatsoever.

Ailie then places her hand on Nora's hammer and drains all the electricity out of it and absorbs it herself and amplifies her own power. She then rears her fist back and punches Nora in the face and sends her back a couple feet as electricity still shoots out from her hand.

Nora holds her cheek and rubs it as she gets up. Since the punch was infused with electricity she absorbed most of the damage by the punch but being that it was still a punch it still hurt. Nora then channeled more electricity into her hammer and charged Ailie.

Ailie channeled lightning into her staff and met Nora and the two then tried to push one another back when they were both sent back. Nora got sent back to the wall as Ailie was able to stop her going back any further by deploying her spear and stabbing it into the ground.

She then felt someone poke her on her back and she turned around and found Yang with an outstretched hand. She then smacked Yang's hand and tagged her in and Yang cracked her knuckles as she walked towards Ailie.

Ailie took her spear out of the arena floor and then began to spin it around and got into a defensive stance.

Yang then bolted forward with her fist drawn back and aimed for Ailie's midsection only for her to dodge to the right out of the way.

Ailie gripped her staff in both of her hands and swung it at Yang's back and made contact. She then channeled electricity through her staff and into Yang causing her to yell out in pain.

Yang's eyes turn blood red and her hair begins to surge with energy as she grabs the staff and begins to slowly move it away from her. She held the staff away from her as electricity still surged through her body and reared her fist back to hit Ailie and she made contact with Ailie's mid-section sending her flying into the wall behind her.

Ailie's entire body surged with pain as she pried herself from the arena wall. She then fell to her knees and hoisted herself up using her staff as she tried to heal herself using her aura.

Yang was still enraged. Her body was still reeling from being electrocuted and was determined to dish out much more pain then she had just received. Yang rushed forward with an aura infused fist and aimed right for Ailie's head.

Ailie managed to roll out of the way and Yang's fist hit the arenas wall causing it to crack and pieces of it to fall and shatter away from the wall and fall down into the arena. She gets back up to her feet just barely managing to dodge another potentially devastating punch and she finds herself looking up at the ceiling as Yang walks over to her.

Yang walks over to Ailie and puts her foot on her shoulder so she can't run or dodge out of the way this time. She then once again rears her fist back to punch Ailie in the face only for crescent rose to block her punch.

Ruby had ran out and placed her scythe in between Ailie and Yang so as to block the punch even though she knew what the consequences of doing this were.

"Stop the match! Ruby Rose has interfered in the match without being tagged in first, so as the rules say both Ruby Rose and Ailie Heolstor are disqualified!" Glynda yelled.

Ailie let a sigh of relief as Ruby offered her a hand. She gratefully took it and once she got up she found that she would need help to stand. That punch had taken more out of her then she thought it had. She found that Ruby had taken her arm and put it over her shoulders and was slowly helping her walk back into the locker room.

"Thanks Ruby. I'd probably be on a stretcher right now if not for you." Ailie said as she slightly limped into the locker room.

"Don't worry about it. We're partners right? You would have done the same for me." Ruby said as she helped sit down on one of the benches in the locker room.

"Yeah. You're right." Ailie said.

Ruby smiled as three people walked up and went to check on Ailie. It was the rest of her team. Daegan went to her side as Vince and Jaune stood and watched waiting to do whatever it is that they needed to do for their friend.

"You alright Ailie? You seriously hurt anywhere?" Daegan asked.

"I'm fine Daegan. Really I am. I'd probably be hurt worse if it wasn't for Ruby." Ailie said.

"Thanks Ruby. I mean it." Daegan said.

"Agreed." Jaune said.

Vince smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

Ruby smiled and then walked off back to the stands. The other two teams that consisted of Pyrrah and Dove and Neptune and Emerald came down to the locker room to get ready for their match.

Daegan, Vince and Jaune stayed with Ailie during the match so they did not get to see who was fighting but from what they could hear Glynda hear it sounded like Pyrrah and Dove won the fight. They then heard her begin to yell again.

"Given that we have three teams left we will have to have a compromise! This final match will be a fatal three way tag team match comprised of the final three teams! Whoever can get one of the other contendors in this fight to either be knocked into the red or knocked out will be the victor and that team will advance while the other two teams will be disqualified!" Glynda said.

Daegan got up and went and retrieved his things from his locker and put on his battle gear. He strapped his sword onto his back and put his pistol into his coat. He then went back to his team and they all wished him luck as he headed out to the arena and saw Mercury waiting for him at the door.

"You done trying to get into your teammates pants yet lover boy?" Mercury asked.

"Fuck off." Daegan said and walked past him into the arena.

Mercury soon followed after and stayed off to the side as Daegan went to the middle and met Ren and Sky Lark.

"Very well then if you are all ready let the final round of today will now begin!" Glynda said.

Ren pulled out his twin pistols, jumped back, and then began to open fire on both Daegan and Sky.

Daegan slammed his palm into the arena floor and an earth wall comes up and then jumped up and pulled out his pistol and fired five shots at both Ren and Sky.

Sky had to run for his life. He had no way to block the bullets so he just kept running around the ring. He then ran past Scarlet and tagged him in.

Scarlet drew his sword and his pistol and ran towards Ren. He began to attack and forced Ren to stop shooting and use the blade on his pistols.

Daegan saw this and decided to use the opportunity to his advantage while they were locked up with one another. He drew Blacklight and charged them both. Daegan then swung his sword only for Ren to block it with the blade on his gun and point his gun barrel at Daegan's head. But Daegan had the tip of his blade at Ren's neck, while he also had his pistol pointed at Scarlet.

Scarlet also had his blade at Ren's throat and his musket pistol pointed at Daegan. The three of them stood their in complete silence. Waiting for the one of the other two to make a move. They waited for what seemed to be an eternity.

Daegan then stomped his foot onto the arena floor causing the others to lose balance and concentration as he got his sword unlocked from Ren's gun. He then sweep kicked them both only to be met by an aura infused kick by Ren in the face as he fell.

Scarlet then entangled Daegan's leg with the rope that came from the handle and made him slip. He then pulls him towards him and slams the blunt side of his cutlass into Daegan's midsection and sends him reeling to the ground.

Daegan then pushed Scarlet back with a blast of wind and made him hit the wall as he got to his feet. He was then rushed by Ren who began to try and hit Daegan with the blades on his guns. Daegan defended himself and then swung his blade at Ren only for it to be caught by Ren and get locked into his own blade.

Ren then put his other gun blade on Daegans sword and yanked it away from him and threw it to the floor along with his own weapons. He then slammed his aura infused palms into Daegans ribs with a crack noise being heard by most everyone in the room.

Daegan coughs up blood as he hold his sides and pain surges throughout his body. He then manages to get up and limp over to Mercury and manages to tag him in.

"Do me a favor and try not to loose to fast alright?" Daegan said as he walked past him.

Mercury pops his neck then cracks his knuckles as he quickly turns around and kicks Daegan in the bottom half of his left leg as hard as he could while he fired a shot off from his right greave. Daegan yelled out in pain as he turned around and was kicked in his ribs by Mercury cracking them even more.

Daegan coughs up even more blood and it lands on both the ground and on Mercuries boots as he looked up only to see Mercury's other boot coming straight for his face.

Mercury kicks Daegan in the side of his head and sends him down to the floor and he doesn't move at all. Mercury then walks over to Daegan, tags him back into the match, and then walks out of the arena.

Everyone in the arena was silent. No one, not even Cinder and Emerald knew that that was about to happen. They then watched as Daegan desperately tried to get back up to his feet only for him to stumble and fall back onto his Jaune's fist clench and his teeth ground from the pure rage he feels at that moment. Vince breaks off part of the arena that he was leaning on from how tight he was gripping it. Ailie holds her hands over her mouth from absolute shock and prayed that her friend was going to be okay.

Ren walked over to Daegan and helped him onto his back to survey the damage and found that if Daegan didn't immediate medical treatment he was going to be in severe trouble. He then did the only thing he could. He reared his fist back and then brought it down upon Daegan's face as hard as he could knocking him out in the process.

Everyone was silent as Glynda announced that Ren and Sun were the official winners of the match and a medical team rushed out and put Daegan onto a stretcher. They then rushed out of the arena as Jaune, Ailie, and Vince ran as fast as they could from the stands to the infirmary to check on their friend.

AN: Damn that first was brutal wasn't it! And did anyone besides me see the bretrayal coming in that last fight? Anyway I wanted to thank you guys so much for all the reviews and the follows for this story because a couple days ago this story became my most popular one in terms of favorites. Fallen has the most views but not the most favs. It did until very recently though but now this story has 137 favorites. Again thank you guys so much for all the support you've given me and if you would want to see what I have out right now and what will come out in the near future go to my profile and read hat i've got coming out soon.

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