New Chapter! Hope you enjoy this chapter, even if it's a bit shorter than the previous one. Anyone catch the connection I made with the Romee family? :)
Alright On with the story!
Team RWBY had finished up their food and was rushing to grab good seats to see team JNPR fight and support them. Team NDGO and SSSN were in the locker rooms getting ready, as their fights were next. They would be watching the television inside the locker rooms.
JNPR and BRNZ were at the center of the arena, facing each other and ready to fight.
Mercury and Emerald both found seats away from RWBY, with Mercury munching on a large tub of popcorn before asking sarcastically, "I wonder who's gonna win."
Emerald scoffed it off, saying it was already decided based on the teams that were fighting.
Cinder walked up from behind, wearing an orange jacket, tight gray jeans, and a sarashi bandage over her chest. She decided to wear this as her combat uniform instead of her usual red dress, as she was afraid she could be identified with it by Goodwitch. As she grabbed an unpopped kernel from Mercury's bucket, she chuckled, saying that even if they knew how it ended, it didn't make it any less fun to watch. Her hands glowed a bit before the kernel popped, to which she ate it as she sat down. Sure, JNPR would win, but she was interested in seeing team JNPR fight, especially Pyrrha and Jaune. There wasn't much to go off of, besides the video from Merlot. For Mercury, he was more interested in Ren and his hand to hand combat skills.
"Team JNPR of Beacon versus Team BRNZ of Shade!" announced Port. The crowds started cheering, a majority of them actually chanting Pyrrha's name, as she was famous. Around the two teams, a circle of holographic roulette appeared and spun frantically before stopping at two different symbols. They would be fighting in a forest and mountain setting. The ground shifted, and the fields were set in place.
"I'm still quite amazed at how far humanity has gotten," said Alaerth.
"To think they could simulate environments. It's very good for training and learning to fight in different areas," agreed Fafnir.
As Ruby cheered loudly for JNPR, the Romee family sat in the stadium, anxious to see how Jaune was now.
Port counted down and began the battle!
JNPR charged forward, as did BRN. May Zedong, the only female in the team BRNZ, was retreating backward with her axe. Jaune was immediately suspicious and decided that letting everyone know his 'earth' semblance wouldn't hurt. He stopped and stomped the ground with his right foot, forcing two tiles to rise before punching the air between them. Immediately, two tiles were sent flying towards May's unarmed back. Roy quickly reacted, sending his circular saws at the tiles. They cut through the first one, but the missed the second one.
"May! Watch your six!" shouted Brawnz.
May immediately swung her ax, destroying the other tile.
"That's going to be annoying," groaned Roy as his saws came back to him.
"Buy her some time then!" grunted Brawnz as he charged at Pyrrha. Roy and Nolan complied charging at the rest of JNPR.
"An Earth moving Semblance?" asked Emerald in surprise. She had been sure that the fire breath and wings were his Semblance.
"There is more than meets the eye," mused Cinder, "Perhaps the other abilities are part of something else."
"You could say the fire breath is him using Dust manipulation to another form, just like Cinder," said Mercury thoughtfully.
"We'll have to observe more," commented Cinder. She had attempted to do what Jaune did 3 weeks ago. That was a mistake, as it sent Mercury into a laughing fit when Cinder bit down on a small fire Dust crystal. She tried to manipulate it and managed to spit out a small flame out. However, her teeth felt cracked after biting down and her tongue was burnt. She decided to put that project on hold for now until she had more details about that attack.
Jaune shifted two more tiles towards May, but Roy took it upon himself to destroy them before moving in on Jaune, intent on stopping him. Jaune blocked his double saw slash before counterattacking.
'Why do I have to deal with two people?' thought Noland as he approached Nora and Ren. Still, he would rather take them on then Pyrrha freaking Nikos. Nora swung Magnhild towards his head, to which he ducked before trying to slash with his cattle prod. Nora used the momentum of her swing to carry her out, making the hit miss. Ren came in, guns ablazing. Nolan crossed his arms to block most of the bullets.
May had gotten enough time to reach the trees before hooking onto the branch, landing on another one. She quickly transformed her weapon to a sniper rifle and took aim at Ren and fired. Ren had noticed a glint in the trees and quickly moved, dodging a bullet that came screaming through, almost hitting him in the chest. May quickly fired another one to Jaune this time, as he had been overpowering Roy, slashing and forcing him in the defensive.
"A sniper, huh," thought Jaune as he raised his shield to block the shot, "Guess I'll have to answer her challenge. Been awhile since I've had to use my sniper." He slashed at Roy, forcing him back.
Jaune stomped the ground before raising his hands, causing the ground to move and rise, lifting him up into the air before he jumped to get higher.
"Ren, take care of Roy," shouted Jaune as he shifted his shield to sniper mode.
'What is he doing?' thought May, 'Oh well, he's merely making himself an easy target for me, being stuck in the air.'
She looked through her scope just to see Jaune pointing his sniper rifle right at May and fired. May kept her cool and fired, too. Both bullets went flying and hit each other on the sides, causing the bullets to spiral out of control and miss. Jaune fired again, and May had to jump to another tree to dodge, losing this sniper battle. Jaune landed behind his jutting rock pillar before punching it, causing it to fly towards May was. She looked up and gulped before quickly jumping to another tree to dodge. The pillar took out the tree and the ones behind it until it landed at the end of the arena, into the barrier.
Brawnz was getting his butt handed to him, he had to admit. He had hope that close range combat would help him, but soon found out that Pyrrha had quite the upper hand on that. After receiving a kick to the face, Roy decided to try to help him by a sneak attack. He shot his saw at Ren, who dodged it, before firing one at Pyrrha's back. Pyrrha noticed and dodged it. Brawnz kneed the saw, causing it to fly back at Pyrrha. Pyrrha performed a spinning air dodge, letting the saw fly back at Roy, who had run from Ren to try to attack Pyrrha. Pyrrha threw her spear at Roy, catching him on the shoulder before backflipping on to her hands and launching herself to kick Brawnz in the face.
Nolan raised his prod into the air and slammed it down at Nora, who dodged it. She noticed electricity seemed to come off it before grinning evilly. She swung her hammer towards his head, who he ducked and jammed his prod onto Nora's stomach and turned up the voltage, hoping to knock her out. What he saw instead was a smiling and giggling Nora as the electricity seemed to do nothing. He peeked at the screen to see in his shock that Nora's Aura level wasn't even moving.
"Oh-ho! Looks like one of my favorite students, Nora Valkyrie, is charging up to use her Semblance!" announced Port. Nolan looked quite panicked at this news, looking at the screen.
"Yes, Ms. Valkyrie's Semblance lets her produce, as well as channel, electrical energy straight to her muscles! This allows her to jump explosively into the air, wield her mighty hammer, or in this case, absorb Nolan's attacks and send the young man flying!"
"What!?" shouted Nolan.
Nolan turned back to his opponent, quickly withdrawing his prod, but it was too late. He could see electricity racing through Nora's body as she clenched her fists with power. She had baited him into attacking with his cattle prod.
'Oh crap,' thought Nolan as Nora rushed at him and thrust her hammer straight into his gut, sending him flying and tumbling on the floor four times before finally hitting a small boulder, crashing right through it but halting him.
Jaune noticed a thunderstorm building up into the mountains and quickly called Nora to climb up the mountain. He looked at Pyrrha and nodded, before engaging the rest of BRN.
The two worked seamlessly. No gaps in their defense, and fought together as if they were dancing. Roy was sending his saws, juggling them between his two teammates like a pinball, with Jaune and Pyrrha in the middle. And yet, not one of them hit, and the duo were still managing to attack them.
"Yea go get them!" shouted Ruby.
"Damn, those two work really well together," commented Sky.
"Wait a minute," said Coco, looking at the field, "I see three of JNPR. Where's the last member?"
RWBY, CRDL, and CFVY looked around the field and realized that Ren was indeed missing.
"He must've activated his Semblance," began Blake, "He really is a ninja."
Inside her mind, she had a stray thought if there was some alternate reality where they were a couple. It would've really been Ninjas of Love, considering both could be counted as ninjas.
"Those two really work well together," said Emerald, observing Jaune and Pyrrha, "We'll have to make sure to separate them if we somehow end up fighting them."
"Hey, where'd Ren go?" asked Mercury. He had taken his eyes off him when the trio charged at Pyrrha and Jaune. He tried to search for him again just to see him missing.
Cinder looked around in surprise, not seeing Ren at all.
'Could it be? Can he do the same as me, but hypnotize everyone on the field?' thought Emerald, 'Impossible! I can only do it to one person!'
'This isn't good,' thought May as she frowned, looking at two people beating the crap out of her teammates. Sure, there was the 'Goddess of Victory', but she thought with their teamwork, they could handle her first, and the rest would fall. They completely underestimated Jaune, though. How a person who seemed just as skilled as Pyrrha had gone unnoticed was a puzzle. She had been on supporting fire, trying to get a good shot in, but the two wouldn't even allow such a thing. May then noticed Nora trying to climb up some more cliffs to head up the mountain. She smiled as she quietly took aim at her. She was a sitting duck for her to snipe as Nora struggled to climb one part of the mountain.
"You're mine," whispered May as she lined up her sights. She exhaled, letting no oxygen in her body so she could keep her hands stable. Her trigger finger twitched and was about to pull the trigger. Then her world went dark.
There was a buzzer sound, signifying someone was out. Brawnz looked up, thinking it was Nora when he noticed in shock that May's Aura level had crossed the threshold.
"What?" he said in shock, receiving a shield bash to his face for his sudden realization they were a member down.
"And May Zedong is out for the count!" said Port.
'How?' thought Brawnz until he realized something vital. The green guy Nolan had been fighting had disappeared from their sights.
May's body landed onto the ground, and Ren hopped off the tree they had been on. He smiled before announcing, "And that's how you do it."
In the seats, Arslan and Reese were holding Bolin by both his ears on each side.
"You hear that?" lectured Arslan, "You knock them out when their back is turned, and then you can brag. Not before!"
"The match could've gone much differently if you had hit Ruby when you had the chance," said Reese, "Maybe we could've won! Though hard to tell, as I did also get knocked out by Blake, who handled me alone."
As Bolin was apologizing, Nadir stayed silent. Out of all of them, he had basically been useless. Not even as a cannon fodder. No need to have the ladies attention be turned to him.
"Damn, that was awesome!" shouted Octavia from the screen. She was cheering her boyfriend for taking one out. "Now do something big!"
"You're dating a ninja. They're supposed to be silent, like before," said Dew, grinning.
"And you're dating a dragon boy," replied Octavia offhandedly, "I'm surprised he hasn't ravished you yet."
As Dew and Octavia got into a friendly scuttle, Nebula and Gwen could only smile.
"Well, there's the boy," said Cinder, "Wonder how he managed to fool all of us? Emerald, does it seem like he has a Semblance similar to yours? If so, it could be a problem."
Emerald focused on Ren for a bit before shaking her head, "I don't know. I feel like he doesn't, but I can't be too sure. I'll try to find out more from team RWBY. They might know."
Mercury was still eating his popcorn, a bit bored from watching the action. He wanted to be in the action.
Nora had reached the top of the mountain. She looked down and grinned when she saw Ren had taken out May. Lifting her mighty hammer, the lightning struck her where she stood.
"I'm betting she's going to jump and smash her hammer down," commented Mercury.
"I'll take that on. I bet she'll spam her grenades. 100 Lien?" asked Emerald, taking out a white card
"No deal. The Lien probably isn't yours. I'd bet my whole wallet that you stole that," spat out Mercury.
To their surprise, both were wrong. Nora had been experimenting with what her Dragon's Mark had granted her, and was going to use it right on this stage. After letting the lightning strike her, she focused her Aura.
Seeing this, Jaune quickly stomped the ground and spun, creating an dome of earth to protect him and Pyrrha. BRN were surprised to see this, but what happened next shocked them. Literally. Nora roared out and thrusted her hammer forward, shooting out forked pink lightning right at them. It was pink due to her own Aura color. That, and she really like that color. The three of them were blasted off the arena and into the stadium walls, their Aura depleted.
"And that's the match!" shouted Oobleck, the crowd roaring in cheers. "It's very clear that Nora Valkyrie has taken her Semblance to a new level, to be able to do such a move."
"It appears team JNPR wins the match by knockout!... Can someone go check to make sure they're okay?" announced Port, a little concerned to see the half burnt bodies weren't moving. A few seconds later, the medics checked up on them before declaring that they were fine.
"Well, wasn't that a shocking win," said Yang, making her friends and sister groan.
"Please, Yang, don't ruin it," said Ruby.
"What? Ren had a sneaky win, while Nora blasted her competition out," grinned Yang, causing popcorn to be thrown at her. They were careful not to aim at her hair.
"Let's just watch the next match," suggested Velvet meekly, "It's our friends turn next to fight each other."
In the spectator stands, the Romee family was cheering.
"Dang! Didn't think Jaune was that good or so in sync with Pyrrha!" said Xanthe.
"Told you sis!" exclaimed Saffron, "I was the one who witnessed Jaune take out two guys and punch Raven without a weapon."
Cinder was watching Nora with a curious gaze. She had not expected someone's Semblance to evolve and be actually able to control lightning in its raw state without any Dust. Her weapon may have helped, but she couldn't shake off the feeling that it wasn't the case.
"Guess we both lose," said Mercury, "Quite surprising to see hammer girl do that. Wonder what else they have in store."
Vlad was looking at Jaune with disgust. How dare this boy become strong! He would have to rectify that mistake soon.
In a bar at Vale, a certain dusty old Qrow was knocking out some drinks, watching the matches. He saw the student he personally recommended do pretty well and was surprised to see him even engage and win a sniper battle.
"I knew there was a reason why I recommended you," smirked Qrow as he lifted his cup to Jaune before knocking back a drink.
"So you did recommend him," said a voice. Qrow turned around and saw his own sister, Raven Branwen, in the flesh. He blinked at this curveball that life had thrown at him before looking at his drink.
"I must've drunk too much that now I'm looking at a hallucination."
Raven slapped his little brother on the head, "I'm not one. And I told you to stop drinking so much, it's bad for you. No excuse. Not even for your Semblance."
Qrow just chuckled before ordering another drink, "What brings you here? Scouting the potential recruit you cougar?"
Raven glared at him, "You're lucky you're my brother, otherwise I'd kick you ass. Never mind, I'd still do it anyways. If you must know, I'm merely interested in Jaune's abilities, as well as Yang. I still have that one time rule for Yang anyways. Not to mention I want to see the man that's dating my daughter."
Qrow, who had been drinking, spat out his drink. Coughing and clearing his throat, he shook his head to clear his head.
"I want to withdraw my recommendation letter now," said Qrow seriously, "He's skilled, but no way I'm letting my niece date him!"
"Too late, Qrow," said Raven, ordering a drink.
"We'll see," huffed Qrow, "I can still bury his body before it's too late. Maybe get Taiyang on this plan."
Raven merely laughed as they both continued to watch the match. It was... good to see her blood family every now and then.
Port and Oobleck were busy introducing the next two teams, SSSN and NDGO. It would be an all girls team versus an all boys team, something that would be interesting. Port mentioned how both teams were crowd favorites. Looking at the crowd, fans could be seen carrying blown up photos of each fighter with hearts. Scarlet seemed to have attracted more men in his fan base, but according to rumors, he was homosexual. As for Sun, photos of his abs were more common.
As Neptune saw the ladies, he couldn't help but flirt. Sure, he saw them a couple of times, but SSSN never really hung out too much with them. It was mainly with RWBY or JNPR. All four girls looked at him in disgust. Sun had to stop himself from punching Neptune, telling him to stop flirting with his girlfriend. He looked at Gwen, and she nodded in reply. They really should tell their teammates and friends they were dating.
"Alright, girls, try and remember: Hands above the waist," said Neptune smartly before winking.
"Please, just ignore him. You know his personality by now," groaned Sun. He really needed to get Neptune a girlfriend or teach him to stop acting cool.
The holographic roulette spun, and soon, a desert terrain was chosen.
"Alright! Home field advantage!" chuckled Nebula, before Sun reminded them that he was from there, too.
"I hope I don't get sand in my shoes," said Scarlet, looking worried.
Neptune leaned over to whisper, "Be cool, man."
That was until Dew mentioned the other field was the ocean. Neptune turned around to see that the roulette had indeed chosen the ocean. His pupils dilated in fear as his goggles reflected the image of the ocean icon. He whimpered in fear.
Ruby was confused at why Neptune was acting so strange when Blake explained that Neptune was terrified of the water, her palm in her face.
"That makes no sense. His name alludes to being king of the sea. How is the king of the sea afraid of his own domain?" asked Coco.
"Perhaps something in his past has made him fear it," commented Yatsuhashi.
"Something like that. Sun wouldn't go into it," said Blake.
"Wonder how he takes showers?" asked Ruby.
"Like a normal person, you dolt," scolded Weiss.
"Actually... Sun told me he doesn't. Something about wearing his clothes while having floats," said Blake. Weiss had to facepalm. This was the person she had almost fallen for? Now she was glad Neptune said no.
Sun was busy poking the petrified Neptune, who would let out a squeak at every poke. A sandy beach with a wrecked pirate ship had risen up, with water everywhere.
As Port started the match, Neptune made a surprising move. It certainly surprised NDGO. He dashed right past them, into the desert, and scaled up the rocks in record time, all to get as far away from the water.
"Neptune, what are you doing?!" yelled Sage in frustration.
"Uh, you know, just gaining the higher ground!" replied Neptune, waving to his team.
"On the enemy's side?!" shouted Sun in exasperation. Scarlet took this time to shrug off the red pirate coat he had hanging off his shoulder.
"They would never expect it!" explained Neptune cheerfully.
Dew turned to her allies, shrugging, " He's not wrong."
"Open Fire!" yelled Neptune. The others nodded before charging to take out Neptune first, as he was alone.
The remaining members of SSSN quickly ran to help out, knowing that they would be at a slight disadvantage since they were fighting at NDGO's field. However, they couldn't do anything about it, because of Neptune's irrational fear of water.
As they were charging forward, Octavia jumped forward to fight Scarlet. She ducked under a swing from Scarlet's cutlass before sliding on the sand. Her Semblance allowed her to surf on any surface she wanted, allowing her to get to places quickly. She could even slide on top of the water.
Dew was dealing with Sage. Sage held his great sword up into the air, and with a great roar, slashed down at her. Dew smiled before spinning her spear and slamming it against Sage's great sword. The result was they were both pushed back, though Sage was surprised to see that he actually tied in terms power, as it was his specialty. Dew smirked as she channeled her Semblance to create whirlwinds. The green Dust crystal in the middle helped her channel her Semblance faster, and soon, three whirlwinds were surrounding Sage. Sage had to cover his eyes, as the winds was kicking up sand into his face when he noticed too late he was surrounded. The whirlwinds combined into one, with Sage in the middle, trapped helplessly. The winds gathered power, lifting Sage into the air, unable to control himself at all. Dew used the wind and threw Sage out of the arena, leaving it 3v4.
Sage could only blame himself for getting cocky as he looked at the screen. He still had 75% of his Aura and could've done more to help. Now, he just had to trust his teammates.
"That was a nice move by Dew," commented Jaune, leaning on a wall. JNPR were at an exit hall, just watching the match. They didn't want to go down to try to find seats.
"Indeed. To be able to disable someone so fast," nodded Pyrrha. She herself was rooting for NDGO, as it was an all female team, and she had bonded quite well with them.
"Yea, but Sun's not going to back down so easily," said Jaune, knowing the man he entrusted the Dragon's Mark would do something.
Octavia slid in front of Sun and Scarlet, who had just witnessed their powerhouse fly out. They got into their fighting poses. Octavia responded by slashing her kris dagger, causing a short-wave beam of fire to fire and kick up sand into their faces. Both boys had to cover their eyes, though Sun quickly jumped out of the cloud, already forming a plan. He quickly called Neptune, who nodded and jumped down from his position just as Octavia fired another slash at Scarlet. He dodged it, and found himself facing Dew just as she did an overhead slash down. He quickly blocked it with his cutlass, but felt his knees touch the ground.
'Geez, she's strong!' thought Scarlet, 'No wonder Sage looked surprised at her strength.'
Octavia, seeing the new threat, slashed again at Neptune, kicking up sand into his face. Neptune, however, was prepared as he put on his goggles and fired, unheeded by the sand. He fired a shot, to which Octavia blocked. She heard someone jumping in the air, and looked up just to see the fake sun into her eyes. She put her hand up to block out the light when Sun came in, landing a kick to her face. That attack alone made her Aura go down from 95 to 60, as it was a huge hit that actually made her neck almost snap off.
Furious, Octavia slashed downwards, but Sun was already spinning his staff around his body so fast that he deflected her attack, leaving her wide open. Taking advantage of this, he hit her on the right collarbone, followed to her left knee, followed by a hit on her chest, before ending it with a thrust into her face, pulling the trigger and causing a shotgun blast into Octavia's face. She was hit so hard that she actually did a flip in the air before landing on her back, rendering her unconscious.
"Oh! And we're down to 3-on-3!" yelled Port as the buzzer rang, signifying Octavia was out by Aura level. Sun took a look to see Neptune dealing with Gwen with Nebula backing her up. Dew was taking on Scarlet before quickly summoning another whirlwind in the middle of a close range combat, sending Scarlet flying off. Scarlet panicked at first before finding his balance, and landed on to the mast of the ship in the arena. Dew quickly distracted Neptune while Gwen and Nebula decided to chase after Scarlet. Sun was about to help Scarlet when another whirlwind from Dew came up, forcing him dodge. Dew wasn't going to let him go easily. However, when Dew was fighting two of them, they were getting closer to the ocean when Neptune stopped and backed away from the ocean. Shrugging, Dew accepted it. It would be easier to fight Sun one-on-one anyways, seeing that he was quite skilled.
Nebula quickly shot an arrow into the main mast before using the arrow as a jumping board, getting on top of the mast to fight with Scarlet. Her crossbow transformed into a sword before she went on the attack.
A few slashes, and Nebula was able get a bash into Scarlet's face, to which his reply was to do a heel roundhouse kick. Nebula stumbled back before jumping across the pole to recover. Scarlet went after her, slashing but missing her by an inch. Nebula took this chance to do an overhead two-handed slash, forcing Scarlet to block it. He blocked it with a one-handed defense stance, making it look like he was losing in power before grabbing the base of the sword, lifting it up to free his sword to slash at her legs. She lifted her leg to dodge it, but didn't expect Scarlet to immediately elbow her face. She fell down the ship from that attack.
Scarlet quickly looked to see Sun dodging Gwen's daggers and Dew's tornado. Quickly making a decision, he took out his pistol, activating the grappling hook function at the hilt guard of the gun, and shot it at Gwen's foot. She had been twirling and throwing daggers when she felt something grab her left ankle. Before she could do anything, she felt herself suddenly being hoisted into the air. Scarlet was using her as a counterbalance to land on the ground safely. Gwen, blushing for the fact she was wearing a dress, was trying to make sure her dress didn't fall and reveal her underwear. The knives that she had stored in her dress all fell down, right where Scarlet just so happened to be standing under her. He looked up to see lots of sharp knives coming straight him. Panicking, he quickly calculated the best position to stand still, letting all the knives past him harmlessly. Sighing in relief, he looked up just to see two flaming coconuts heading right towards him, with no time to react. The first one hit his face, causing him to spin from impact. The second one was the one that knocked him out. It had smacked him in his most vulnerable spot, causing him to black out from the pain.
About 10 seconds earlier, Gwen had jumped closer to fight Sun. Sun, looking around, saw some coconuts to use as projectiles. He hit the tree, letting the coconuts drop into his hands before throwing them at Dew. Dew had smacked the coconuts back at him, causing them to ignite after hitting her spear. Sun dodged it, but didn't know Scarlet had just landed. He witnessed the coconuts hit his teammates in the face and the balls.
"Aw nuts," cursed Sun, wincing at the pun he just made.
"Oooh, that's gotta hurt," said Dove as all the males winced at where Scarlet had been hit and instantly covered those areas plain on instinct.
"I guess you could say he couldn't do nutthing," said Yang with a wink.
"Just no, Yang," deadpanned Ruby, "That was just horrible, even for you."
Dew looked surprised before grinning, knowing her team now had the advantage. She summoned blue water tornadoes, trying to trap Sun, but he kept himself moving, making it hard to lock on him.
"Uh, Neptune? Could use some help, buddy!" yelled Sun as he did a cartwheel to dodge the tornadoes
Neptune called back to Sun, giving him random excuses, until Sun finally snapped, calling him out on being afraid of water. Nebula had gotten back up and freed Gwen from the air trap. Dew as in the air, about to stab Sun when Neptune shot Dew out of the sky.
"There! I helped! Are you happy now!?" shouted Neptune, before adding, "Also, I am not afraid of water, and I have no idea what you are talking about!"
Nebula and Gwen helped Dew back up before getting ready to fight.
"NEPTUNE!" shouted Sun in frustration.
"Okay, fine! Just get out of the water!" replied Neptune transforming his weapon into trident forming, lightning clearly seen on the tip. What happened next was one of the more hilarious scenes to happen during the tournament, as Neptune tiptoed towards the water, afraid to even touch it before plunging his trident into the water with his eyes closed. Sun had already landed next to him. As the lightning traveled in the water, Dew realized they were all in danger.
'Gotta thank Jaune for giving me this idea,' said Dew as she plunged her her spear into the ground. A whirlwind started to form, with her at the center. It drove the water away, and was almost clearing Nebula and Gwen from the danger when the electricity hit them. The two received quite a shock, driving their Aura past the threshold and disqualifying them from the match. Dew frowned before quickly jumping onto one of the island for safety. Now it was 1v2. Then she grinned as she got an idea. She quickly formed tornadoes again, taking the water into it and shot them towards Neptune. Neptune, who was still supplying electricity into the water, froze at the incoming water tornado. Sun had already moved out of the way, and was yelling Neptune to move. When he finally reacted, it was too late. The tornado hit him, and Neptune felt the shock of his own weapon hit him, draining his Aura levels to below threshold.
"Hoho! Now it's down to 1v1. Who will win?" announced Port.
Sun looked at Dew before grabbing his staff. He lifted his hand before making a gesture to Dew.
'Come at me,' grinned Sun.
Dew jumped to clear off from the water before charging at Sun. The two of them spun their weapons, clashing with each other. Dew was adding tornadoes to her attacks, but Sun kept dodging them before shifting his staff into nunchucks, adding more attacks into his assault. The two of them were getting a few hits on each other, lowering each other's Aura.
The crowds were cheering. They were standing. They were stomping at this close match.
Dew and Sun gave one last roar and their attacks intersected with a bright flash. As the flash ended, both of them had switch spots, their backs to each other. The crowds held their breath at who had won. The buzzer rang, signifying someone's Aura level had hit past threshold.
"And the match goes to...," announced Port, raising the tension, "Team SSSN!"
Dew collapsed on the ground, breathing hard. Sun was barely standing as he put his weapon away and stuck a hand to help Dew up.
'Thank god for the Dragon's Mark,' thought Sun, 'That might've been a tie. Or I would've been forced to show my new Semblance skills. Didn't want to reveal it so early.'
"And with that, Team SSSN moves on to the doubles round!" said Port before looking at Oobleck, "You know what I call that victory?"
"Flashy and shocking?" replied Oobleck.
"No, well earned. What you said is stupid," retorted Port, causing Oobleck to frown and turn his head away in irritation.
Qrow and Raven watched the match without much emotion. Qrow merely slurred his words, saying that the match was a mess. Raven merely shrugged. As the bartender asked why he was even here for, an aircraft with elegant ribbons flying from its wing flew behind him. Qrow finished his drink before saying the fight he wanted had arrived. Slightly weaving, Qrow tossed two white Lien cards to pay for his drinks and tips, leaving.
"Well that was that," said the bartender as he looked to Raven only to see she had disappeared, leaving Lien for her drinks. Shrugging, he put the cup he had been cleaning aside to grab Qrow's cup to clean. His hand accidentally hit his clean cup he had just done, making it fall to the floor. It shattered upon impact.
"Aww, gee darn it!" cursed the bartender, frowning at his bad luck. He put the cup down and grabbed broom and dustpan to clean it up. As he did, he noticed something shiny on the floor, just beneath the refrigeration unit he had. He picked up before realizing it was his watch he thought he had lost.
"Cool. Lucky me!" grinned the bartender at his sudden change of fortune.
Weiss was walking when she suddenly stopped, looking up into the air. Ruby bumped right into her, asking why she stopped. Weiss pointed to the ship bearing ribbons on its wings. She could recognize that ship anywhere.
"She's here," smiled Weiss before rushing off to the air docks. Ruby quickly followed her to see what was going on.
"Close match," said Sun to NDGO. They were all in the medical wing, healing from their fight. Scarlet was getting an ice pack for his genitals. Out of all of them, only Sage was the one who wasn't as injured as them all, considering he was tossed out of the arena. Though his pride was hurt massively.
"Yea, I managed to take out two. Impressed with me now ladies?" asked Neptune with a suave voice. This time, Sun really did slap him on the head.
"Ow! What was that for?" asked Neptune.
"For being an idiot," sighed Sun, "You didn't know but do realize that three of the four ladies are actually DATING someone. And all three of their boyfriends would likely kick your ass."
Neptune paled before apologizing to them. NDGO chuckled, knowing Neptune just liked to be cool but knew when to stop.
"Wait, three?" asked Octavia, her hand on her neck. That kick from Sun really did hurt a lot, "I must've misheard or you kicked me a lot harder than I thought. Me and Dew are dating, but who else?"
"I am," blushed Gwen, admitting to her team.
"What?" shouted Nebula, "I'm the only one that doesn't have a boyfriend!? Who are you dating, Gwen, I demand to know as your leader and friend!"
"I'll be a suitor if you want," winked Neptune, getting a pillow to his face from Nebula. "It wasn't a no."
"I'll answer for Gwen," grinned Sun before walking over to her, giving her a kiss on the lips, "That would be me."
"Details, Now!" said Octavia. Dew and Nebula nodded, crowding around Gwen and Sun. Sage and Neptune also crowded around them, while Scarlet just shrugged, but was paying attention. He didn't want to move and aggravate his tender injuries.
A short explanation later, their teams were filled in on how they met and how they were secretly dating for a while.
"Dang. Who else knew?" asked Scarlet.
"Jaune did, but he literally walked in on us by accident," admitted Sun.
'Oooh you had such a juicy secret, and you didn't tell me?' thought Dew, 'I'm going to punish you somehow, Jaune.'
Back in the fairgrounds, Jaune shivered but had no idea why. He shrugged before waving the rest of his family goodbye.
Next up, Winter comes back to play! Next chapter should be up soon! Review if you can, it's very appreciated. Motivates me even more.
Since I have some more free time for a bit, I might shoot out a few one shots here and there. If anyone wants to expand on any of my oneshots, they're welcome to do so. got a few stories in my mind.