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Chapter 19: Paleblood Moon
Despite being a lord, Scythe was never the kind of person to make those that served clean up his messes. Nevertheless, cleaning the ash and soot from the courtyard took longer than he would have liked. Being as it was evening when he began, night had soon fallen. And with the rising of the moon, came a tiredness that Scythe had not expected.
The night was uneventful, and Scythe slept rather well. His morning was a different story. Waking up, he noticed that the world was covered in a dull red light. A light he knew all too well. Looking out the window, his suspicions were confirmed. The moon had not set, it was larger, and it was crimson in color. A Paleblood moon. Others around the campus were noticing the dimmer lighting as well. That wasn't the problem. Scythe could hear screaming coming from the courtyard.
It didn't take him long to reach the courtyard and find out why. They were seeing eldritch truths of the world, and as such could see the Greater Amygdala clinging to the side of the tower, as well as the other Amygdalas in Vale itself. From the courtyard Scythe could see people mobilizing to take the monsters down. Ironwood's fleet was slowly getting in position to fire on the eldritch monsters.
"General Ironwood. I would advise against firing on my subjects." Scythe heard the loud regal voice of the Keeper of Space call out.
Turning to his right, Scythe saw Crane, in his eldritch form, with a one of the serrated bone spikes that equated to feet at Ironwood's throat. The atlesians around the General were all aiming their weapons Crane, waiting for an order. Scythe made his way over.
"General, I suggest you listen to the King of the Great Ones here. He doesn't make empty threat, and you probably wouldn't be able to hurt him anyway." Scythe interjected.
Before Ironwood could speak, the Amygdala that was clinging to the side of the tower landed behind Crane. The sight of the monstrosity was enough to make the General begrudgingly agree.
The Greater Amygdala walked in its strange lumbering way toward the city.
"Crane, why is there a Paleblood moon?" Scythe asked, a little too calmly.
"I was just on my way to inform you of that. It is set up for a disaster scenario. When Icosa attacks, we need an escape. Hence the Paleblood moon and Amygdalas. We plan on teleporting civilians to the Deam." Crane answered. "Actually that reminds me, I need to go and prepare the Dream."
Crane disappeared in the eldritch mist that was so commonly associated with someone entering the Dream or returning to the waking world. Scythe decided that the Paleblood moon was a matter to be dealt with later. The singles rounds of the Vytal Tournament would be occurring soon and he was not going to miss it. Perhaps, the tournament would cause some of the uproar around the Paleblood and the Amygdala's to die down a little.
Ozpin watched as the moon rose higher into the sky. The crimson color and size difference from what the moon usually looked like were quite worrying. The appearance of more Amygdalas did nothing to ease said fears.
"You know lad, this is necessary."
Ozpin turned around. Standing behind his desk was Energon.
"How do you mean?"
"The Paleblood moon. It's a bridge. Allows the Amygdalas through."
"But why is it necessary?"
Energon took a seat and stared out the window.
"Do you want my answer or Jack's?"
"Yours will do." Ozpin responded as he sat across from Energon.
"You and Ironwood are being stubborn idiots so we are going to make the citizens panic by preparing for a complete disaster scenario." Energon responded.
"A bit harsh don't you think?"
"No, we don't take kindly to stubborn idiocy. However, we needed a way to save as many people as possible for when Icosa attacks, and this was the best option."
"Can you explain the moon?"
"Paleblood. It will allow for easier transportation of the citizens to the dream for safety. Any more questions. I was told to come and explain the moon to you, Ironwood didn't take too kindly to it."
"Yes actually. If you want the tournament postponed or shut down, why do you participate?"
"Jack's idea. He figured it would relieve some of his stress. And it has. Farewell Ozpin." And Energon left as quickly as he appeared.
To say she was nervous would be a bit of an understatement. In a strange turn of events, Ruby had been chosen to represent her team in the singles round of the Vytal Festival. It was a unanimous vote. When asked why, her team responded that her skill with Crescent Rose would give them an advantage against any opponent. A message to the people of Vale that the Amygdalas weren't dangerous and the moon was nothing to worry about would be a good idea.
Her training with Reaper had been going quite well. She had finally summoned protection. However, it was weak and took a lot of energy to sustain her hold on it. But Reaper was ecstatic. The summoning of the dead was apparently supposed to take much longer. She was told that she was not to use, unless the need was truly dire.
She entered the arena, blade in hand. Her opponent, the TimeKeeper. She was going to struggle. When he saw her, Jack bowed to Ruby.
"Ms. Rose, I wish you luck." Jack said with a small smile on his face.
Ruby reciprocated the bow and got into a battle stance. Jack removed his eyes and drew forth his blade. Remembering the fight with team CFVY, Ruby knew not to underestimate the blind swordmaster. A wicked smile appeared on his face. The call to begin was heard and Jack started pacing.
"You know, it has been a while since I've fought a Reaper." Jack said as he continued circling Ruby.
Without warning, Ruby rushed forward. Her precious ready to strike. Jack sidestepped the strike and Ruby soared past him. Firing the rifle in her blade, Ruby was able to slow down and reverse her momentum. Jack kept smiling. He brought his blade up to block the strike. With deft movements, and insane reaction speed, Jack parried the strike and threw Ruby off balance.
"Come now, Reaper should have taught you better than that." Jack taunted her as he walked toward her.
Ruby stood back up, thinking how she could beat him. Remembering something important from training usually comes at crucial time. This was a good time for her to remember something important. During their sparring sessions, Reaper would always focus on building up speed. A spinning scythe could essentially become a guillotine.
With no time to lose, Ruby started spinning her blade. As the blade sped up, Ruby started advancing. It was difficult to keep her scythe spinning, but it was working. The momentum could easily be transferred into other movements. Ruby slowly advanced on Jack. His smile had finally disappeared.
Ruby shifted the positioning of her hands to the base of scythe. The shift resulted in her spinning with her blade. The spin brought her into contact with Jack, and launched him to the side of the arena. The impact knocked out a good twenty five percent of his aura. Ruby was feeling pretty good about that. Then he stood up. The look he gave said that he would end her. Made all the more worse by the fact he had no eyes.
He moved fast. Faster than she had yet seen him move. Upon closing the distance, he delivered a flurry of blows that Ruby had trouble blocking or dodging. The power behind each strike she did successfully block still stripped away at her aura. With no better options. Ruby decided her semblance would be a good thing to use. She rushed to other end of the arena and opened fire.
Jack raised his right arm. Somehow, the machine that was his right arm was not even marked by her high caliber bullets. Even under fire he kept advancing. Each bullet, little more than a nuisance. As he got close , Ruby again sped off to the other end of the arena.
When she turned around to open fire on him again, he was not to be found.
"The same trick won't work twice Ms. Rose." Jack said from behind her.
Ruby didn't have time to turn around as Jack smashed the flat of his blade into Ruby's side. Ruby was thrown to the center of the arena and her weapon thrown out of it. The crowd was hushed. Ruby was now disarmed, giving Jack the upper hand. She was slowly getting up, but felt a sword point at her neck.
"It seems I have taken victory Ms. Rose." Jack said. A small smile playing at his lips.
"I was taught, victory is not achieved until one opponent is dead or down for the count." Ruby said.
She surprised Jack by smacking his blade away with her hand. With a little help from her semblance she tackled him. Despite being the Keeper of Time, the move still surprised Jack. He was thrown toward the edge of the arena. Wasting no time, Ruby grabbed Jack's fallen blade and ran at him.
He had gotten back to his feet, but was still in a daze. He looked up in time to see Ruby slam the flat of his blade into the side of his head. The impact threw him out of the arena and gave Ruby the victory. The crowd went wild. Above it all she could hear two very loud voices, bellowing in laughter. Next to her team, she saw Reaper and Crane, holding each other for support as they laughed at their fallen teammate.
Thinking about it though, who wouldn't? After all, one of the most powerful beings in the universe was just beaten in a duel by a little girl. The other Keepers found the situation to be more than a little amusing. If only it wasn't could have lasted.
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