XSRA's Flame Chapter 36: Skyla's Misadventures
3rd Person
Ashton stood with Glynda and Ozpin at his sides as he held the mic up for one final time today.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen, that is the end to the first bracket! I hope you had fun because it was a heck of a lot of fun to host this. Now, this isn't the end to the tournament! It's just the beginning. The second bracket will start in two days' time; all contestants will have a day of rest tomorrow before competing again." He exclaimed, feeling awkward for actually needing to be informative for once.
He cleared his throat as loud epic music started to play and the screen glowed with light again. On the giant flat image, was the lineup for the first bracket and who won each fight. Each winner will be moving onto the next bracket.
Ashton handed off the mic to Glynda as she called out each match as a recap for the end of the day.
"The first bracket has been fought and decided as follows." She gestured to the screen as it displayed the names of everyone who fought in the tournament and who they matched up against.
Gabriel Stryker vs Coco
Ruby Rose vs Rex Tyro
Melvin Longfellow vs (Mysterious Hooded Guy) no name given at entry
Allix Stowe vs Nora Valkyrie
Pyrrha Nikos vs Pantheon
Tai Blackthrone vs Blake Belladonna
Lie Ren vs Mordant Zurcader
Garren vs Destiny Echols
Patrick O'Harry vs Daemon Rasputin
Xera Stark vs Riggs
Jax Frost vs Jaune Arc
Selena vs Yang Xiao Long
Weiss Schnee vs Skyla Xerious
Green Tsukayoshi vs Zack Ikner
Baz vs Rideat Dente
Teemo vs Sun Wukong
Lockjaw vs Vice Cordik
Anna Clyde vs Zerath Stark
"Now, those who will be moving on into the second bracket will be the ones who were the victors in each match. Moving on in the competition are Gabriel Stryker, Ruby Rose, The Mysterious Guy…" She paused as she looked back at Ashton.
"What? He never gave us a name." He said, shrugging his shoulders and letting Glynda continue.
"Allix Stowe, Pyrrha Nikos, Tai Blackthorne, Mordant Zurcader, Destiny Echols, Patrick O'Harry, Xera Stark, Jax Frost, Yang Xiao Long, Skyla Xerious, Green Tsukayoshi, Rideat Dente, Sun Wukong, Lockjaw, and Zerath Stark." Glynda stepped back again, satisfied with her part and passed the mic off to Ozpin.
"Thank you all for coming today and I hope you'll come again for the second bracket of this competition. It's been interesting, to say the least, to watch all of you compete and fight in this tournament. Now, winning and losing will not affect whether or not I'll be accepting you into my Academy. Please keep that in mind as the competition continues. Try your hardest, and you will be rewarded." Ozpin announced stoically, taking a sip of his coffee as he finished.
Ashton snatched the mic and made the final call to end today. "Enjoy your day people! There will be more so make sure to catch us on the next one! I'll see ya there, and have a good one everyone! Go home, rest up, come back for the second round!"
Everyone cheered and applauded. Slowly, the arena's stands and competitors all filed out of the coliseum and went their separate ways.
Skyla POV
(Back at Beacon after the competitors were set free to enjoy the rest of their day)
I jumped up and down on my bed excited. I had just finished a new Anime and could not wait for the next season. Too bad the next season isn't dubbed.
I flopped down onto the bed with a sigh.
I miss it already.
We have off from classes. Xara's somewhere, most likely with Blakey Boo.
Rex took Anna for coffee, even though she works at a coffee shop.
Allix is off to the city with Ruby and Yang.
And here I am with Ice Queen.
"Will you stop sighing already?" Weiss said from her seat at the desk.
"I'm sorry I can't help it! I miss Sword Art Online!" I complained dramatically.
"Is that what's bothering you? A show?"
I jumped up and rushed towards her in a flash.
"It is not just a show! IT IS MY LIFE!" I shouted flopping back into my bed.
Weiss rolled her eyes.
"Alright, looks like you need to get out more. I think being locked away in your dorm just made you insane."
I let out a heavy breath, "Yeah, you're probably right. Besides, I need real food. I have been eating chocolate for about seven days."
"I don't think that's healthy…." Weiss said.
I shrugged and looked out the window, thinking of something I can eat.
Something yummy…
Something good…
Something like food.
Duh.
"I'm pretty sure you've only been here for two hours, Skyla. We came back after the tournament ended." Weiss explained, but it proved fruitless. I shall not answer it.
"SEVEN DAYSSS!"
"Okay, Skyla, we have to leave in five minutes to meet up with the group at Anna's café."
I huffed and picked myself up from the bed.
"I LIKE PINEAPPLES!" I shouted racing out the door leaving Weiss behind in a blur.
"My gosh, she's insane." I heard Weiss mutter on my way out.
I giggled and stopped abruptly once I made it into the café. Xera, Allix, Rex, Team RBY, Weiss had yet to leave the dorm still getting ready. JNPR and the two others were sitting there at a large table enjoying a cup of coffee.
"Whaddup people!" I shouted taking a seat beside Allix, who was currently engrossed in a book.
"Hey Skyla." Chorused through the group.
"So, what are we talking about?" I asked, snagging a muffin and taking a bite. A shower of crumbs fell onto the table.
"Skyla! Why must you be so messy?" Allix asked looking up from her book.
Xera had already reached over and cleared the mess meaning you can't blame me for a mess that isn't there.
"It's the muffin!" I argued holding up the muffin.
"Yeah surreee."
"It is! Look at Jaune!" I exclaimed pointing wildly at Jaune, who was frozen with a muffin stuffed in his face and crumbs all over the table.
Everyone laughed as he struggled to say something to defend himself. Pyrrha quickly grabbed a few napkins and began clearing some of the mess left behind by the messy muffin.
Pyrrha laughed and tossed out the napkins, "Maybe it is the muffins leaving behind the mess."
I grinned and motioned to her in victory.
"I was rigghhtt you were wrrooonngg." I thought.
"That tournament was awesome! Did you see some of those battles?" Nora gushed excitedly.
Everyone glanced at her confused due to her speed talking.
I grinned and nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah!"
"Wait, you understood her?" Xera whispered, his eyes still on the excited pink haired girl.
I nodded, "It's a hyper girl language."
Xera made a noise of understanding and returned back to his seat.
The bell rang indicating new guests as four familiar people entered the café with curiousity.
"Hey! Its color dude, Irish Rex, The mage, and Jack Frost!" I shouted pointing at them, successfully gaining their attention.
"You mean Green, Patrick, Melvin, and Daemon?" Xera asked.
"You still understood me though." I said as the four guys walked over and took a seat adding to the already crowded table.
"Sup." Patrick said, his voice heavy with his Irish accent.
"sup." I said mimicking his accent, terribly,
Patrick stared at me confused.
Weiss entered next, frowning as usual as she took her seat.
"Hey Weiss. Weiss so serious?" Yang asked erupting into laughter.
"That was TEARable!" I exclaimed grabbing a napkin and tearing it in half.
"Oh it is on!" Yang said slamming her hands onto the table.
"Oh no." Ruby muttered.
"A hero was needed to rise, so Ruby Rose." Yang said smiling.
"You must be a lion, cause you are lion!"
"Hey!" Ruby shouted.
"No offense." I added, smiling nervously.
"There will A-Pyrrha day where Jaune doesn't get injured." Yang challenged, raising an eyebrow.
This time, it was Jaune who shouted "Hey!"
"This is erELEPHANT to anything we're talking about."
"Well you ripped that napkin. You Blake it, you buy it."
Blake looked up at the mention of her name before shaking her head and returning back to her book that was more interesting than this Pun-Off.
"Then I'll alpaca my things."
"I'm just gonna go…" Melvin, Green, Patrick, and Ren said, disappearing towards the counter to order more food and drinks.
"Hey Allix, did you see the new collection of books they have at the bookstore?" Blake asked pointing to the store across the street from the café.
"No I haven't. Let's go check it out!" Allix said as the two teens departed.
"Well since everyone's gone now, truce?" I offered.
Yang smiled and shook hands on it as we calmed back down into our seats.
"So, now that that's over. How would you all like to die?" Daemon asked randomly.
Everyone stared at him shocked.
"What kind of question is that!?" Xera asked.
"Well I was just asking because when my team eventually does go out, I would like for my team and I to die by a meat grinder!" Daemon said.
"Ohhhh, a meat grinder! Sounds interesting!" Nora exclaimed.
"And painful." Jaune added.
"Are you sure you want to die that way?" Pyrrha asked hesitantly.
Daemon nodded, "It has to be a meat grinder!"
"And your team is okay with that?" Xera asked.
"Well they don't know yet." Daemon added.
I thought about the death. In my head I imagined Daemon teams either cannonballing into it or it chasing after them with sharp teeth and googly eyes saying "IM GONNA GETCHA NOM NOM NOM"
Ahahahahaha I'm crazy.
"Okay….Well I don't want to die so um thanks. Hey Xera! Did you want to get some ice cream?" I asked randomly.
"After talking about being grinded up in a meat grinder?" Xera asked skeptically.
I nodded, "Alright let's go!" I shouted running out the door.
"TO THE BATMOBILE!"
I ran off towards the ice cream parlor with Xera walking slowly behind me enjoying the scenery of Vale.
I, for one, would rather see the ice cream stacked to ten scoops in a chocolate covered cone covered in sprinkles.
Ohh! Or instead of that, soft served ice cream covered in sprinkles and a chocolate dipped cone!
OMG OR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR a giant cup of frozen yogurt buried inside a giant mountain of gummy bears!
Getting the gummy bears isn't hard. I mean Jacks Frost has a bowl of unlimited gummy bears. He did offer Jaune some so I'm sure he's willing to share with me. Right?
He's a nice person. He even has a flaming lamp post. He could just smash it on the ground and go rocketing into the sky leaving behind a trail of melted gummy bears.
I entered the sweet smelling shop and sighed happily.
"Finally. Paradise!" I exclaimed happily just as Xera walked in.
"Hey Xera! Get us a table! I'll get some ice cream!" I said rushing over and grabbing two sugary cones.
Xera nodded and turned his back to find the table.
I looked at the machine confused for a second.
There were some crashes and loud noises and when Xera turned around, the whole place looked as if a tornado passed through. The ice cream machines were crushed and had ice cream oozing out. The tables and chairs were over turned and all the toppings were spilled on the ground in a colorful mess. The cashier sat crouched behind the counter in fright while I stood in the center of it all smiling as I held two ice cream cones in both hands.
"Skyla…" Xera trailed off looking at the mess around us.
"I got you mint ice cream and I got Oreo!" I shouted.
"I wanted coffee though" Xera complained.
I looked around the crushed room curiously until I found the coffee ice cream machine. I wobbled over and bite into the mint one before grabbing another cone and filling it with light brown ice cream. After it was full I walked over towards Xera and handed it to him.
"Here's your ice cream!" I exclaimed.
Xera took it carefully, "Thanks."
"So you want to head back to the others?" I asked.
He nodded before taking another look at the destroyed room. He walked towards the cashier and handed him a bunch of lien before walking out. The one thing unnoticed to the two friends and team mates walking out of the now destroyed store, was two figures one girl with ice cream now on her glasses and her wolf ears twitching in annoyance, and a boy who should be black and white but now had some light green in some places on his outfit with puma claws extended expecting some sort of attack to befall them.
"I think I might give a call to Glynda." Xera said to me when we walked out.
"Why?"
"No reason…" He said walking away.
I shrugged and continued eating the ice cream happily. Oreeeooossss.
Aaaaannnnddd, this chapter breaks 100,000 words. That's pretty incredible, I had no idea we were going to reach that number so quickly. So, we plan to keep going if anyone's interested, I hope you've enjoyed the story thus far. Stick around for the rest of the tournament, the first and biggest bracket has officially ended and the second bracket is up next. Now however, will be a little cool off period. This marks the beginning of the day of break chapters. Favorite…Follow…REVIEW…have a good one guys!
Cya :D
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Thanks Sky for this chapter, she finally got her chance to step in now that the fighting is on halt.