Fated Team
A tiny mouse Faunus scurries around the busy market weaving between merchants and the occasional fellow Faunus. Tugging on her cloak the meek mouse's nose pokes upward sniffing the air. Where are they? Arth and Martel? They said we could go watch the final round today. Carefully walking around Yuki slyly picks a few pockets along the way to the bell tower in the center of the town. Lining her money pouch with a few extra coin, she hopes her companions will be willing to go to the local tavern for their evening meal.
"YUKI OVER HERE!" A husky and deep voice roars beside the bell tower. Next to the burly bear Faunus is a slim figure with her hand on her hips impatiently waiting.
"Come on Yuki, hurry else Ilia will leave us behind again." Martel hisses at the mouse causing Yuki's head to shrink as she scurries quickly to her companions. As the meek woman approached the slim woman she sticks her forked tongue seductively at the mouse. Yuki doesn't notice the action but Arth just grunts in response seeing his small friend is out of breath.
"Sorry hope you weren't waiting too long, but I managed to get some coin for dinner as an apology." Yuki adds softly catching her breath as she shakes her coin pouch.
Ilia steps out from behind a tree nearby as the three friends laugh about the meek mouse pickpocketing so many people on the way here. "You three know we are here to observe the people will have to fight in order to kill the Princess, right?" Ilia scoffs "This isn't a team bonding venture. Be sure to carefully watch the fighting styles, Blake will want all the information we can gather." The redhead starts walking towards the Arena entrance as the tournament is said to start shortly, her three companions follow the agitated woman.
"How much longer do you think Blake will be gone for Ilia?" Yuki squeaks quickly becoming small next to Arth as if to hide from prying eyes.
"She did say she would be back before the tournaments end. Seeing as today is supposed to the last day of the fights I would think she will be back tonight or early in the morrow." Ilia responds as the four of them walk towards the irritable handsome lion Faunus waving erratically at them. "Oh no what is he doing here…."
Noticing that Ilia isn't very excited to see Ying, Arth takes the lead shaking his head the energetic blonde. "Ying what are you doing here?" The hulking Arth asks in deep slightly angered tone as he looks down at the tone lion Faunus.
Ying side steps to look around the burly bear, and see that the meek Yuki and oddly seductive Martel are accompanying the hotheaded Ilia. "Well of course I am here for the ladi…." Before Ying can finish his sentence Ilia swiftly knocks Ying off his feet with a low sweeping kick. She exhales quickly brushing the dirt off her skirt and motions for her teammates to follow her in.
"Come now let's hurry in before all the good seats are taken, Ying it would be in your best interest to keep your distance. As you have been since Blake left, I don't want to see your face until she returns." Ilia snaps as she walks off, Yuki and Martel follow suit but Arth stays to help the blond up.
"Hey thanks Arth. Mind telling Ilia, that I'm not as bad as she thinks I am?" Ying chuckles as he brushes the dirt off the bottom of his trousers. The blond scratches the back of his neck as he hears the giggles of maidens near him turning his head towards them he flashes his signature smile.
"I would if I believed you weren't that bad." The muscular man responds noticing Ying flirting at a distance causing Arth to scoff. "Just don't come around the safe house until Blake returns, Ilia will surely kill you if you return now seeing as you have been missing for nearly two weeks."
"Huh…yeah whatever you say Arth." Ying slowly walks past Arth, slicking his hair back as the blonde approaches the maidens who are still giggling.
"ARTH!" Martel hisses loudly at the bear. "Would you hurry up? I don't want Yuki to leave; we both know how she gets when you're not around." The slits in her eyes roll around her skull.
"Yeah, I'll be right there." Arth turns to see that Ying is nowhere to be seen. "Well I guess that's one problem solved." The bear turns around quickly and starts to saunter towards his two companions.
"Okay now that Arth has finally decided to join us…." Ilia grunts as Yuki reaches her hand outward towards the bearded man.
"Arth!" The meek woman squeaks as the man places his arm around her neck, Yuki's face holds a large grin as she feels safe with the man. The grin suddenly departs her face as Martel snakes her arms around the small woman.
"Pay attention lil' one. Else Ilia will get mad." Martel's forked tongue grazes the mouse's ear causing Yuki to jump into Arth's arms.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Ilia exclaims as she watches the so-called group of assassins acting like children in the bodies of killers. The show of emotion causes the three to stop as if time itself-had stopped.
Yuki was half way on Arth's back with Martel slithering after the meek woman. The three of them stopped completely their mouths gaping wide open, and eyes locked on their temporary leader. Slowly the two women got off the burly man though Yuki made it a point to keep Arth between her and Martel.
"NOW listen you three. Let's get inside and find some decent seats to get the best view of fighting. Blake will want as much information as we can get." Ilia's voice goes from aggravated to calm, she exhales slowly as she turns towards entrance to the Arena.
As the four assassins make their way to the middle of the Arena, though there are hundreds of people in the crowd it seems that Arth's demeanor scares away anyone near them. Many of the people do not simply move aside, snarky comments and hateful eyes follow group as they slide into the dark stained wooden pews.
"Filthy Faunus…how dare they come here….even fight in the tournament! The Princess is mad for allowing those animals to even participate." Various people comment as the group finally settles into their seats.
Yuki raises her shoulders and ducks her head. Martel glances over and places her pale scaly hand on the rodents shoulder. "Don't listen to them, Yuki." The pale woman adds as her forked tongue slithers out as she mentions the smaller woman.
Arth places his large clawed hand on top of Yuki's head. "She's right Yuki. Worry not no one will bother us, their words are their only weapons against us."
Ilia huffs as the two larger Faunus comfort the meek woman. "Now, now Yuki we don't have time to worry about these peasants" She adds extra emphasizes on the last word turning and scaring a few spectators behind the group. "Let's just focus on today's match." Turning to face the Arena floor, her three comrades follow Ilia's orders and focus on the Arena. These three are so easily distracted. How in all of Remnant did I get stuck with them? The redhead shakes her head.
As the last few spectators slowly trickle into the few remaining seats to completely fill the Arena to the brim. The thousands of people, human and Faunus alike all wait in anticipation for the final round to commence.
From atop the large pearl white marble balcony emerges King James, Princess Weiss and their usual entourage of Klein and Arthur as well Sir Winchester and two of his knights. Everyone in the Arena quiets their conversations, as the King takes his seat; the Princess takes long strides towards the handrail.
"Welcome back, Good People of Staub." The Princess announces as she tilts her head upwards as the crowd cheer and shout incoherent phrases. As she waits for the droves of people to hush enough for her voice to cut through and be heard easily, "Today marks the end of five people's ordinary lives but also the beginning of a whole new journey for not only me but the Kingdom." With the crowd beneath her cheering, the surge of energy uplifts the not only the Princess' spirits but also corners of her lips revealing a genuine smile.
Without noticing the smile the Princess continues her speech. "Today ten people have risen from the ashes of their fallen competitors, but only five will have the opportunity to become Knights." Upon finishing her speech the Princess raises her arms upward. Slowly slits appear all across the floor of the Arena. Sand and gravel fall into the dark abyss, from each hole ascends a warrior.
"Here we go!" Nora shouts as her head rises just above the Arena floor just loud enough for her fellow teammates to hear her. Ren shakes his head as he rises.
As each warrior ascends up to the Arena floor they hold their weapons upward to the sky. The crowd continues their uproar as they see their favorite fighters from previous bouts, weapons in hand the fighters turn to the shouting spectators. The Princess allows the warriors to bask in the admiration for a few moments, she watches as the fighters spread themselves out and slowly come back together.
Though Ruby and her companions were brought up into the Arena meters away from each other as they rally the crowd they begin to group together as does the opposite team on the far side of the Arena.
On the other side of the Arena Coco's team form a semi-circle around their leader with Velvet on her right side.
"Alright guys don't do anything drastic. From what I saw yesterday the Red Reaper is full of surprises, the Brawler is strong but hot-headed and of course Pyrrha is not to be underestimated." Coco says as she unhooks her crossbow from her hip and checks her quiver.
"Coco you don't have anything to worry about, we're the best team in all of Mistral. There's no way we can lose!" Sun shouts as he slings his arm around Velvet. "Oumph!" The blonde cries as Coco elbows him quickly taking Velvet away from the flirtatious man.
Seeing as the warriors are beginning to realize the battle will soon ensue. Weiss raises her right hand to signal to the crowd to hush their cheering, to which the Arena goes from a chaotic roar of cheers and insults to mummer of hushed comments. As the crowds quiets down King James gets up from his throne and throws his arms upwards as he stands next to his daughter.
"People of Staub, I, King James am ready to see who will stand victorious and become part of the Royal Guard. Though I personally was not keen on how my daughter decided on the method to pick her guard. But I am a man who is always ready for a good battle. Who will emerge as worthy enough to stand by Princess Weiss? Well let's find out, shall we!?" The King proclaims, causing the crowd to go back into an uproar.
Weiss grunts in protest to her Father's actions, looking over shoulder towards her Father "Was that necessary Father?" she murmurs distastefully.
"Was what necessary Weiss?" Her Father hums as he waves to the adoring crowd. As the King notices that his daughter is shooting him glares, his smile only grows. "Weiss, dear let's pretend to be a family for the people in the crowd?" James adds as his blue eyes glimmer in the sun as he slings his arm around his daughter's waist. Pulling her into a hug, though reluctant Weiss allows her Father to hold her in a semi-embrace. A fake smile appears on her face as she waves graciously to her people.
Pushing her Father away she shudders to think that at one point she used to adore this man, Weiss raises her arm upward to calm the crowd once again. But she notices that the crowd isn't responding to her actions as quickly as they did before her Father's announcement.
"Ruby, Yang we should stick together I think the battle will be starting soon." Pyrrha calls to the pair who are several meters away. "Ren can you get Nora, she seems a bit excited…" The redhead's voice drifts as she motions for Ruby and Yang to huddle close to her. "Ok…when the round starts…"
The dark haired man jogs to a whooping orange haired woman. "WHOOO! HOW ABOUT WE BREAK SOME LEGS!" The crowd near the woman cheers louder hearing her hollering. Nora showboating in front of the crowd a bit by raising her massive hammer above her head with one hand. Ren tries to get Nora's attention but every time, he attempts to place his hand on her she magically shifts to the opposite side of him. They dance around each other for quite a few times before the dark-haired man becomes visually upset.
"NORA!" The man shouts agitatedly as he clasps both his hands on his partner's shoulders from behind.
"Oh hey there…Ren…" Nora turns her head slightly away from the crowd of adoring people.
Ren inhales sharply and exhales slowly as he loosens his grip on his partner. "Nora. Please Pyrrha is requesting that we gather by her." His eyes have an urgent look to them that the orange haired woman recognizes.
"Alright Ren." Nora turns to the crowd and grabs her hammer handle with both hands and pumps it above her head a few times before waving to her adoring fans. After riling the crowd up so more the energetic woman turns to her partner. She turns to notice that Ren has already turned reunite with the rest of the team. "Ren wait up!" She goes chasing the man, her hammer swings about in her hands.
The odd pair regroups where their three friends. On the other side of the Arena their competition begins forming a half crescent around their leader Coco and Velvet. With Sun, Fox and Yatsuhashi in the crescent they space themselves out just enough that they can easily defend her leader but also fight without harming each other. Each of them seems to know exactly where to go without any instruction. As the opposite gets into formation Pyrrha tries to rally her comrades into any shape. Yang and Ruby stand at one ends,Pyrrha has taken the middle position so that she can command her friends, Nora right beside her and Ren rounds off the other end of their nearly linear formation.
"It would appear that the time for battle is upon us." Weiss declares as she sees the fighters taking up positions on either side of the Arena. It would seem that team CVFYS is more organized, and experienced, she lets out long sigh, I just want PRYNR to win, and I want the Reaper at my side. "One the far side of the Arena we have team CVFYS (coffees)," she motions to the earth toned group "and the team before me is team PRYNR (priner)."
Each fighter readies their weapon as they hear the Princess coming close to announcing the battles beginning. "Fighters, people of Staub, let's see who will be the victorious." The Princess throws an arm upward and then downwards sharply to indicate the start of the battle.
As she announces the start the fighters simple stand waiting for the person to make a move. Naturally Yang and Nora are overly amped up from the cheering crowd. Both were itching to just charge right up the opposing team and pummel them into the dust.
After a few exchanges of tense looks, Sun suddenly breaking from formation charges straight at the Golden Brawler. "Sorry Coco, I'm not one to play the waiting game." The blonde shouts as he sprints away from his leader.
"SUN. Dang it Fox, Yatsuhashi." Coco exhales, grabbing her crossbow and quick loading a bolt into it firing at Pyrrha. Thanks to the design of her crossbow not having a locking mechanism the tall brunette can fire shots faster than most archers. She begins firing dozens of arrows in rapid succession of each other towards the fighter she thinks will be the biggest threat in the battle.
"This is going to be FUN!" Yang shouts to meet the brave man. As arrows fly just pass the woman.
"Yang. WAIT." Pyrrha shouts holding her shield up deflecting the barrage of arrows. Ruby takes a defensive position behind the Spartan as a flurry of arrows splinter upon impact with shield.
"Fox! Go." The brunette orders as she loads three bolts into her crossbow and turns her focus momentarily to her give her advancing teammate cover fire. Squinting her dark brown eyes towards the dark haired man, she releases the taut string. Coco hopes that by firing multiple bolts at him she can distract the man long enough for Fox to get the upper hand in battle.
As soon as Coco's bolts go flying towards their target, Fox breaks from formation his body, low to the ground as he runs in a large arch towards the dark-haired man. Swooph Swooph Ren unsheathes his twin daggers and uses them to deflect the bolts as he tries to keep an eye on the approaching man. Slicing through all of the bolts Ren, becomes so focused on defending himself he fails to see Fox is only a few feet away from him.
Yang throws a jab at the blonde man, WHAM WHAM WHAM who blocks it with his nunchucks. Sun jumps backwards to get some distance from the bruting brawler. As they exchanges blows, Nora rushes towards the towering man wielding a colossal great sword with a hooked tip. Holding her hammer barely off the ground as she charges when she closes the distance, Nora swings her hammer as she jumps into the air. Slamming her hammer towards the man, he quickly holds his greatsword flat so that the hammer head hits the width of his weapon. CLANK. THOOOM. As the weapons meet any dust near the two warriors gets blown away from them.
The loud clash of the two massive weapons causes a few fighters to pauses as their hearing is more sensitive. In the few moments that arrows were not bombarding Pyrrha, the redhead gets up and charges around Yang and her opponent towards the ranger. Ruby stays in place observing battle unfold; out of the corner of her eye she notices that the rabbit Faunus next to the ranger is coming around to meet Pyrrha. Noticing rabbit Faunus coming around to flank Pyrrha, Ruby tightens her grip on her scythe and dashes after her red-haired friend.
Once Fox was next to the dark-haired man Coco fires one last shot at him, which Ren deflects causing this shot to ricochet off his jade daggers. The rogue shot now sailing directly towards the Royal Balcony. The red warrior hears the rogue bolt whistling through the air towards the Princess. VWOOSH
The red warrior plants her right foot, vaulting upwards towards the stray bolt leaning forward the cloaked fighter holds her scythe close to her. As the Reaper continues on her deadly spin the bolt disintegrates on contact falling to the ground. KHWAM. Landing on a knee Ruby takes a quick glance upwards to see the Princess is unharmed and has a slight smile on her face. The crimson fighter nods her helmet at the Princess before continuing after her companion.
"Did you see that?!" Weiss exhales, as the shock of nearly getting hit had finally hit her. "The Reaper saved me…" She whispers the last phrase to herself, squeezing her hand over her heart. Her cerulean eyes follow the cloaked warrior as they make their way towards the Ranger and the surprising calm rabbit Faunus.
"Reaper! PRNYR! PRNYR" The crowd roars.
As Pyrrha closes the distance to the tall archer, a chain shoots straight at her. Pushing off her left foot the Spartan narrowly dodges the projectile. SWOOPH The redhead watches as Ruby swings around her following the chain back to its owner.
"Pyrrha focus on archer, I'll handle her friend." Ruby shouts as she dodges incoming bolts weaving closer to the archer. As Ruby draws the fire of the archer off her, Pyrrha tightens the straps on her shield and charging at the distracted archer. As the Spartan rushes towards the rapid firing archer who begins to back paddle to keep distance between her and the redhead.
Ruby continues to avoid abrupt string of chain shoots thrown from the Faunus' hands. CLANK SHING. Looking down at her greaves sees a metal chain spinning around, suddenly Ruby falls backwards on the ground crescent rose goes scraping across the floor. Velvet continues to tug on the chain wrapped around Ruby's right leg. Velvet notices that her partner is struggling to keep the Spartan at a good distance for the archer to shot sufficient bolts. Flicking her wrist the chain that unlatches from the disarmed fighter, looking over the Faunus uses her chain to drag the Reaper's scythe to her.
"Hmpth, heavier than I expected," The rabbit Faunus grunts as she loops the chains around her whiten knuckles. "But I can't wait to get my hands on this scythe."
Ruby groans, places her leather covered palms into the gravel and sand to raise from her hunched state. Blinking her eyes to refocus them on foe ahead, the crimson fighter quickly checks on her team to make sure no one has been knocked out of the fight yet. Alright if I can get those chains off this woman she shouldn't be hard to beat. Dashing towards her scythe, Ruby yanks on it as the chain tightens causing the pair into a standoff.
These blades how can he be so agile…he is moving to swiftly for me land a blow. Ren struggles to block the red-haired man's smooth movement. Using his daggers Ren tries to keep up with the agile man's movements. Easily throwing dozens of punches accompanied with his blades attached to his arms, Fox uses his speed to overwhelm Ren. Clang Clang the two men's weapons clash the impact from the harden steel of Fox's arm blades causes the Jade to chip shards fall into the sand and gravel beneath them. Feeling that his daggers will not make out of this bout in one piece, Ren decides to try to defeat the skilled blade dancer with his bare hands. Fox swings his right arm towards the black haired and while his right arm was recoiling back his left arm comes upwards for a bone breaking jab. Ren dodges the right swing with little effort but crosses his arms to try to absorb the hit from the left jab. In his attempt to block the hit Ren drops his daggers and is lifted from the ground. As Ren is lifted up his arms uncross, suddenly Fox uses his forward momentum to kick the dark haired man straight into the Arena walls with an audible crack. Ren rolls off the wall and lays in a lifeless lump, thud Fox cracks his neck ready to help his companion.
Nora slams her hammer into the giant greatsword in quick succession. Each of the powerful fighters simply exchanges hits that the other blocks with little to no effort. "Come on big guy. Let a lady get a hit in." Nora grunts as she pushes off Yatsuhashi's sword.
"I don't think so." The man scoffs back swinging his sword and out of the corner of his eye sees Fox getting ready to help him defeat the orange-haired woman. "Looks like your partner didn't fare as well as you are in this battle." Yatsuhashi adds as he swings his sword behind his back ready to end the fight with a single bow. Tightening the grip on his hilt, the towering man exhales ready to strike as he looks up, Yatsuhashi sees an enraged Nora before him.
"Ren? REN? REN!?" Nora shouts at her motionless partner, seeing Ren in that state causes something inside the woman to snap. She rushes straight at the towering man, seeing that her emotions are now fueling the fighter's movements, Yatsuhashi swings his sword horizontally. The orange-haired woman slides under the blade at the last second and bashes the man's legs. Yatsuhashi is thrown backwards as Nora gets to her feet and charges full speed at her real target, the man who injured her longtime friend. Fox smirks rising his arms and dashes to meet the hot headed woman. "You'll pay for what you did to REN!" Nora screams as she plants her left foot and uses the momentum to spin her hammer completely around her. Seeing the raging woman become a deadly tornado Fox puts his bladed arms up to defend himself. As hammer makes contact with the blades, they shatter. In the brief second before the hammer made contact with Fox's bare arms, he sees the woman smirk at him. After breaking his weapons Fox knew he was done for as he flew backwards getting hit again square in the back. In her rage she managed to land two solid strikes on the man causing him to fall lifeless near Ren. Yatsuhashi stands gawking at the woman's feat.
"Now than…" The orange-haired woman growls turning slowly back around glaring at the sword wielder. Her knuckles turn white from how tightly she grips her hammer. Her eyes seems as though sparks of lightning are flashing across them.
Yang chuckles as she effortless dodges the monkey's nunchucks as they sail throw the air nearly hitting the cocky woman a few times. "This all you got?" The brawler scoffs as she takes a hold of the blonde man's nunchucks due to his predictable moves, Yang rips them from his hands tossing them to the side. "Now let's see what you're made of, without your little toys to help you." The brawler chuckles, landing a solid right hook to the man's chin. The Faunus' head snaps backwards, though his body remains still.
As the blonde man's chin collapses forward his body drops like a sack of potatoes to the ground. The stars visible in his partially open eyes, a goofy smile is on his face and he mumbles incoherently.
"Tsk tsk, and here I thought you would be a challenge…." Yang shakes her injured hand and sees that Nora is going berserk on a calm giant, as Ruby and Pyrrha seem to have their fights in control. Nora is going to wear herself out at the rate she is going… but even with my injury I think we can take that man out. With that the brawler cracks her neck and bolts to her orange-haired friend.
"I have had enough of this." The dark haired man snorts as he takes a reverse grip on his great sword. Deflecting Nora's flurry of hits, Yatsuhashi throws his armored left arm towards the woman. Grabbing a handful of her hair he throws her towards her companion.
As Nora comes crashing towards the brawler, who halts her sprint and braces to catch her flying friend. WHAM the lightly armored woman, shakes her head realizing she is Yang's arms though the landing was not as soft as she would have wanted. Nora is glad to have help defeating the warrior before them.
"You ok?" Yang asks placing her friend down as she takes her battle stance.
"I'm fine." Nora spits and wipes the corner of her lip that has split open. "Let's take this guy down and help the others." Without a second thought Nora charges straight at the Yatsuhashi her hammer sparking against the man's sword as they clash. In Nora's emotional state, left herself open during one of her downswings just long enough for the Yatsuhashi to land a metal bending punch to her gut. "GAHH…." Nora cries as she is thrown towards Ren, she struggles to get up but falls flat against the gravel.
Well that was a thing. Yang shakes out her wrists, and closes the distance between her and the towering man. Yatsuhashi slices the air in front of Yang, causes her to slide towards him kicking his legs out from underneath him. The swordsman uses his great sword to stop himself from falling completely to the ground, Yang springs up from the gravel and lands a few punches on the man. As he swings his sword as well as some of the gravel and sand towards the woman, some of the small projectiles pass through the slits in her face guard. Instantly feeling the sand enter her eyes she raises her hands in a defensive position in front of her face and concentrates on drowning out the crowd's hoots and hollers. Yatsuhashi takes the opportunity to circle behind the blinded brawler, hoping to land the finishing blow. Yang hears the large man's heavy boots behind her. Yang ducks down, as she raises she hope a solid right hook with defeat the man, while Yatsuhashi throws his left hand down hoping the same. As both hits land square on the jawline of each other the crowd gasps.
"Hey that was a goo…." Yang drops to the ground her arm extended outwards at Yatsuhashi. The towering man takes a step forward, as he does he too drops to the ground with no sign of getting up. The display catches the attention of the crimson warrior who continues to struggle to free her weapon.
Yang! NO! I have to win for her. If I could just free my scythe, I could end this fight in one swing. Ruby slides her right hand down towards the spiked tip of her scythe, keeping her left as close to the blade as possible. With her hands as far apart as she can get them on the handle Ruby twists her body around causing the chain to jerk and pull, right off her weapon.
"TSK." Velvet scoffs as she reels in her chain. "I guess I will have to look at your scythe once you're out of the picture." Flicking her wrist, Velvet, causes her chain to whip towards her fallen companion and scoops up their nunchucks. As the nunchucks are tossed into the air Velvet whips around wrapping her chain around her waist and catches the weapons one in each hand spinning them around her wrists.
Why did she grab those? Isn't her weapon that chain? "What you think those will help you defeat me?" Ruby mumbles as she watches Velvet masterfully twirl the nun chucks around her body.
As Ruby narrows her eyes as the sweat drips down her brow, she is careful to keep circle her enemy, keeping the distance between them just enough so that Ruby can strike if she needs to. Velvet watches every movement as she keeps the nunchucks spinning around her body, the dark haired woman takes small calculated steps towards the scythe wielding warrior. With each step forward Ruby feels the slight gusts of wind caused by the speed in which the nunchucks are spinning around.
I can't let her get too close; my scythe will not be effective against those nunchucks in close quarters. Have to keep her at least a Crescent Rose length away if I want….
As the two warriors continue to dance around each other, Ruby leans towards her right side than quickly changes direction. Quickly darting behind the rabbit Faunus, Ruby slides both of her hands towards the bottom of her handle. Swinging her scythe in a large arc from the ground to towards Velvet, as Ruby uses all of her body weight in the swing. Velvet spins around with the nunchucks clamped together to block the blow. Though Velvet stopped from getting hit her companion's nunchucks were hooked by the scythe and thrown clear to the other side of the Arena. Ruby uses the momentum from the swing to land a few feet away from Velvet, using her scythe as an anchor to sling herself upright. Yanking her scythe out from the ground, shaking it enough that the dirt and gravel fall from the blade.
Ruby smirks as she watches her opponent unwrap the chain from her body. Dropping one end of her chain midway down her body before Velvet begins swinging it in a circle beside her. Ruby's eyes have a hard time following the exact movements of the chain as it thrown at her. Velvet slings her chain at the reaper, but quickly realizes that she will not be able to rip the scythe out of the reaper's hands. Ruby easily deflects the chain throws, spinning her scythe so that the chain cannot wrap around it.
"Tsk! Getting smart there Reaper." Velvet scoffs as she pulls her chain back to her and launches it towards Ren's jade daggers. "Let's just see how effective these are. Shall we?" Quickly catching a dagger in each hand and rewrapping the chain about her body once more. Velvet exhales and takes the exact same battle stance Ren does while wielding his daggers.
She mimics the other's fighting styles. The chain isn't her main weapon…it is just a means to obtain other's weapons. How is it she is mimicking Ren so flawlessly?! Ruby inhales as Velvet uses her natural speed to quickly close the gap between her and Ruby. Velvet slices and slashes near Ruby, while trying to throw her off balance with quick kicks to the shin and ankles as Ren does. Velvet holsters the daggers in her belt and begins to slam her palms into Ruby's chest plate. Pushing her backwards, and her scythe flings forward, feeling her precious Crescent Rose slipping out of her fingers, Ruby digs her heels into the ground and charges toward Velvet.
"You will not have. CRESCENT ROSE!" Ruby shouts at Velvet catching her off guard for just a moment causing her hands to drop. In the split second Velvet was distracted Ruby shoved her scythe between the two fighters, running full speed with Velvet struggling to escape from the angered warrior's assault. The pair get slammed into the Arena wall Velvet desperately tries to pry the scythe off her throat, to no avail.
"Yo-You're a-a- woman?" Velvet huffs with Ruby's scythe pressing against her throat cutting off all oxygen flow. As Velvet begins to lose consciousness, Ruby watches as Velvet gradually closes her eyes and her body goes limp.
Ruby leans over Velvet's unmoving body and whispers, "Yes. Everyone calls me the Red Reaper but you-you can call me Ruby Rose…" the crimson warrior looks around to see that all that remains is Pyrrha and Coco the leader of team CFVYS. Standing her scythe on the ground Ruby quickly shakes her hands out, as they have gone stiff from the last few hours of battle. After her fingers feel nimble she grabs her scythe and zips towards the two. She watches as Coco fires dozens of bolts at the immobile Spartan. Pyrrha can feel each shot hitting the same small area in her shield, causing the metal to bow from the force of each hit. The bolts splinter or bounce as they impact the bronze shield.
Each time Pyrrha tries to get up from her crouched position Coco moves her volley of bolts to any exposed armor to keep the warrior from getting to close. Ruby dashes around the archer trying to flank her while her attention is solely on Pyrrha.
"Nice try Reaper." Coco chuckles at the basic maneuver used on her many a time before. As Ruby changes directions to make a b-line straight for the archer. Coco loads three bolts with cloth wrapped around the tips. Coco snaps her torso ninety degrees she fires directly at Ruby before resuming her assault on Pyrrha.
The bolts hit the ground right in front of Ruby causing her to pause. Did she miss? Before Ruby could finish her thought a loud bang disoriented her followed by a flash of light blinding the Reaper. What was that?! Ruby drops her scythe instantly. The crowd gasps as the single archer seems to be holding her own against two fierce competitors.
In the few moments that Coco's attention was averted Pyrrha managed to get closer to the archer. With her spear in hand Pyrrha peeks up over her shield just long enough to see that Coco had reset the distance between them. Just as the top of her head ducks down below the shield three bolts whistle just where her head used to be. She isn't playing any games. Not that I can blame her, she is the last member of her team left.
Ruby grips the sides of her helmet as her ears ring, everything she sees a blur swirl of colors. Her scythe trips the confused woman.
"Looks like the Reaper is no more. I am surprised that all it took was one shot." Coco says as she loads the last few bolts into her crossbow. She stops her volley on Pyrrha hoping she will expose herself thinking that the archer ran out of bolts.
Is she out? This could be a trap. Tightening the grip on her spear as she slow rises from her prone position. Careful not to have her head exposed knowing that the archer has deadly accuracy with each bolt fired. Stealing quick glances at the backtracking archer Pyrrha begins to charge towards her opponent with her spear held off to the side of her shield.
"That's it, just a bit closer now…" Coco mumbles to herself as she aims one of her last three shots at the charging Spartan's greaves.
Now that the ringing has stopped and her vision begins to focus Ruby looks up to see Pyrrha charging towards Coco. In a split second Pyrrha goes from charging right to the archer to sliding on the ground, Coco shot a bolt at her greaves downing the Spartan.
Coco saunters towards the downed foe, ready to claim victory for her team. Right as she is about to end the fight Pyrrha slams her spear into the back of the archers knees. Ruby was already running towards the two. Pyrrha puts her hands on the ground and leaps out of the way of Ruby who leaped into the air to slam the blunt end of her scythe into the archer knocking her out instantly.
Coco drops to the ground like a sack of flour. And with that the two remaining fighters sweaty and exhausted sling their arms around each other and jump in joy. Planting their weapons into the sand and gravel beneath them, the two warriors stand in awe.
"We did it Pyrrha! We won!" Ruby shouts in glee as the crowd erupts, flowers petals rain into the Arena floor. The exhausted fighters both lean on their weapons slightly as they slowly muster what little strength they have to go check on their teammates.
"Yes we did Ruby." Pyrrha exhales as they go to check on their companions. The first Ruby goes to check on is her partially awakened sister.
"Did we do it?" Yang asks in a daze, as Ruby helps her up. Pyrrha slowly approaches her two friends as they lay unconscious but breathing.
"Yeah we did Yang." Ruby squeals as she gives her big sister a hug.
The Princess jumped from her seat and hadn't stopped clapping and cheering since she watched Coco fall. There they are, the people who will help me finally break free of my Father's hold. A sly smirk grows into a proud smile from ear to ear. The Princess is beaming this is exactly who she wanted. So I'll finally meet the Red Reaper.
A/N Hello everyone, I am super excited to announce we have hit and EVEN passed 15K views. Guys I just have to say, I honestly never thought this would ever happen. This story started as a great conversation between my waifu and I, but it's turned into so much more now. I am so glad everyone is enjoying this story, the comments, likes, and all the support means so much to me. To everyone out there still following the story thank you from the bottom of my heart. See you all in the next chapter. ^,.,^