It's OK, Omega is here. With the next chapter of A Game Worth Dying For. . .You know, I really wish I had come up with a name that sounded good abreviated, like Twin Heroes of Remnant by Swift56. THOR is an awesome abreviation, AGWDF is not. Eh, at least it sounds good when you don't abreviate it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
"Team JNPR of Beacon," Port announces over the roaring crowd. The four teens were looking ready for the coming battle. Jaune's armor was covering his body, Nora's helmet was on her head, Pyrrha had her coins in a pouch at her waist, and Ren's palms were glowing with energy. "Versus Team BRNZ of Shade!"
I didn't have much to say about the Shade team. I like the Roy's saw gauntlets and May was kinda cute, but other than that, meh. I watched as the setting for the fight was set, a forest on one side and a mountain range on the other.
"3! . . 2! . . 1!" Both teams tensed as Port counted down. "BEGIN!"
The three male members of BRNZ charged JNPR, while May backed into the forest for a sniper perch. The two teams exchanged blows for a little while, until May started shooting from the trees.
Jaune saw where May was shooting from and seemed to come to a decision.
"Ren, Nora!" The green and pink teammates looked towards their leader. "Ragnarok!"
"You got it!" Nora grinned while flying straight up into the sky, meanwhile Ren put away his weapons and was getting into a Gentle Fist stance.
When Nora had gone as high as she could she stopped flying and used her hammer to speed up her descent with an explosion. Ren lined up his shot with where the sniper fire was coming from and right before Nora landed, his palms hit Nora's feet and sent her flying towards the trees.
"SMASH!" Using her grenades to increase the damage, Nora crashed into the trees and made the area explode.
We didn't give her One For All, right?
No, but she may have found Boku no Hero Academia in our library.
Is it bad that I forget that Nora could actually read a book?
You really wouldn't guess she would have the patience for it, would you?
No, no I would not.
Back to the fight, May was sent flying from her perch and out of the arena entirely.
"Ooh, May Zedong has just been launched out of the arena!" Oobleck announced to the crowd.
"Yes, a superb knockout from one of my favorite students!" Port exclaimed.
Looking somewhat pissed that their sniper had been taken out so early, Brawns, Roy, and Nolan re-started their attack. Jaune was already preparing his next move. With Nora recovering from her impact and Ren exhausting most of his energy with launching her, Jaune called out his next move.
"Pyrrha! Gyro Slash!" Jaune activates his spike defense mode turning the blonde knight into a metal pufferfish, then he starts to spin in a circle incredibly fast. I saw Pyrrha's hands glow black and then Jaune spun even faster.
Combining the Hurricane Slash and his Defense Mode Alpha with Pyrrha's semblance to be even faster and deadlier than with just the regular technique, very intersting.
The whirlwind of steel that Jaune had become was completly destroying the remaining members of Team BRNZ. By the time Jaune stopped his rotation, all of their aura's were done by at least 70%. With Jaune recovering from his spinning, Pyrrha decided to finish them off.
"Railgun Tri," taking out three coins from the pouch on her side, Pyrrha launched them at her opponents. Caught by surprise, they weren't able to dodge or block the coins and were knocked out.
"And that's the match!" Oobleck announces.
"Team JNPR advances to the next round!" Port exclaims loudly.
All the members of JNPR, after they regrouped, cheered loudly at their win. Except for Ren, who was merely smiling widely, although that is cheering loudly for him.
"Do you think they revealed their hand too early?" Weiss asks the group.
"Nah," Ruby tells her. "Even without all the training we've done with Cyan for this tournament, they would have won. They just did it a lot faster this way."
"Damn the consequences and wreak havoc," I grin feraly. "I approve whole-heartedly!"
"Aren't you guys next up?" Yang asks us.
"Yep, we're going against Sun's team," Alice answers with her own feral grin, although. . .that may just be her normal grin.
"Neptune's screwed isn't he?" Weiss deadpans.
"Oh, most certainly!" I cackle villainously.
With that, my team left the stands to get ready for our fight. We walked to the locker rooms and waited to be called out. Dante was sharpening his sword with his sheath. Raina was juggling balls of water, purely out of boredom. Alice and I were exchanging banter.
"So, you gonna use the thing?" Alice asks with a grin.
"I think so," I put my hand to my chin in thought. "It would be appropriate to use it against Sun with what it's origins are. I would save it for Bitch Cinder's team, but at the moment I have no idea if we're even going to face off."
It was at that point that I heard Port ask for the two teams to enter the arena. We exited the area somewhat slowly, I wanted to make an entrance and avoid the screeching of SSSN's fangirls. Just before we exited to the arena, Alice and I used our 'Shadow Step' skill to hit the floor in a big way.
"What is up, party people!?" I shout to the crowd as the darkness dispersed from our arrival.
"Entering the field is Team CARD of Beacon," Port announced. "Led by the incredibly powerful, and questionably sane, Cyan Matu-"
"F! It's Cyan F. Matu, goddammit!" I shouted at the announcers box. No one seems to learn around here, or they do and just want to piss me off. Which is understandable, not very smart, but understandable.
"One of the best and brightest at Beacon Academy," Port says, compeltly ignoring me. "I taught him everything he knows."
"THE FUCK YOU DID!" I was ready to attack Port instead of Team SSSN, but Alice grabbed me before I could.
"You can kill him later, now it's time to fight," Alice tells me with a scolding tone.
"Fine, fine," I mutter with annoyance.
"Alright girls," Neptune says with a flirting tone directed in Alice and Raina's direction. "Hands above the waist.
"Forgive him f-" Sun starts, before he just gives up. "Yeah, he's dumb."
"Oh, I am going to enjoy this!" Raina says threateningly.
With that, the randomizer for the field started whirring. As it did, I went over the plan with my team.
"I got Sun," I tell them, while keeping my eyes facing forward. "Raina, you're on Neptune, you know what to do. Alice, Dante, your pick."
"I want the green one," Dante growled lightly.
"Fine, pirate boy's mine then," Alice shrugged with a smile. She had already entered her combat mode and her tail was swinging around happily.
The randomizer for our side stopped on a picture of a snowy mountainside. From the ground came out a bunch of small mountains topped with a various amounts of snowfall.
"Oh goddamit," Alice cursed. As a dragon, she was cold-blooded and as such really didn't like the cold.
The randomizer for Sun's side stopped next, ending on a picture of a jungle. From there side sprouted a ton of trees that looked like they belonged in the rainforest. A mist started seeping from the treeline, making Neptune look uneasy.
"Dude, how do you bathe if you are this terrified of water?" It was a serious question, one that would go unanswered as Oobleck immediatly started the match.
"3, 2, 1, begin!"
Not wasting another moment, I equip my Izanagi armor. Few people, other than those who already knew about it, seemed to recognize the armor, but those who did were shocked. Cinder and her team though were absolutely pissed, except for the disguised Neo, who was grinning in my direction. Power and energy rolled off my body in waves, making Team SSSN pause in their attack. As more and more power gather, I began to chant.
"Thou art I, and I am thou. . .From the sea of thy soul, I come. . .From the very moment of my emergence, I have been a guiding light shed to illuminate thy path. . .I am the original god. . .Izangi no OKAMI!"
A burst of energy erupted my body as I fufilled the requirements of my armor equip. Once the energy faded, I was dressed in a new set of armor. White with gold accents combined with a kendo-like mask, while I held a large white spear with a golden ring in the middle of it's handle. As my previous chant had said, I was Izanagi no Okami.
This had been my gift from Izanagi. An extreme upgrade to my original Izanagi armor, only bad part was the requirments for weaing it. The first was to say that entire speech before I could wear it. I also needed to be extremely close with twelve different people, which I already was so a plus there. Finally, I needed to be at least Lvl.91, which I had hit just before the tournament started.
But, the requirements were definetly worth the use. The armor was practically indestructable. It boosted my lightning-based attacks by 200%, 250 if used in conjunction with my spear. Plus, it gave me the power of flight.
"Let's get this party started, eh?" My voice was electrified like it usually was when I went out as Izanagi. With that my team split into their various fights for the time being.
[Raina POV, 1st Person]
I won't lie and say I wasn't excited. The roaring crowd and the promise of a good fight was very thrilling. The only thing that was ruining it was my opponent. We were currently in the middle platform of the arena, close to the mountains rather than the rainforest and Net Ploon, or whatever his name was I personally just call him what Cyan does, was trying to flirt with me.
"Hey baby," Blueberry Boy tried to act flirty. "How about we go and do something after this? I'm sure you could use some comfort after you lose."
I could feel my eye twitching. I'm not so stupid to know that my choice of clothing would attract people's eye. I usually hope for the much smoother, pretty girls, but I know that guys were more likely to stare. But this one, this one was just, in my leader's words 'too fucking annoying'.
"You're going to be the one who needs comfort, Blueberry!" I snarl at him. "Plus, I'm gay."
"Oh come on, you too!?" He complained, but to which part I was unsure.
"Water Dragon," it brought me a certain sense of joy to see the look of absolute terror on his face. "ROOOOOAAAARRR!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The Blueberry's girlish scream as he flew out of the arena, made my ears ring.
"Neptune Vasillas has been launched out of the arena!" Port announces to the crowd.
"Pathetic," I mutter as I just sit down and wait for the other's matches to end.
[Dante POV, 1st Person]
My blade clashes with that of the green-haired swordsman in front of me. He was strong, that strength was making my blood boil. I could tell that my eyes unnerved him; I couldn't blame him on that front. Most people were wary of my eyes when I'm not fighting, when I am and there completly black made it even more so.
"You are strong," I growl out.
"As are you," the green one told me as we exchanged blows once more.
What was his name again? Barely? No. Wheat? No. Sage! That's it.
"Allow me to honor that strength by kicking it up a notch," I grin as I activate my semblance.
Sage drops to his knees out of surprise as an unseen force pushed down on him. The surrounding plants of the rainforest were lying flat against the ground and the mist had also fallen in a small area around us.
"What's this?" Port exclaims. "It seems Sage of Haven has fallen to his knees!"
"I can only assume that it is due to the semblance of Mr. Hikisu," Oobleck says in response.
"My semblance is pressure," I explain to both my opponent and the one's listening to the fight. "More specifically water pressure. Reminds me of home, to be honest, it's comforting. You, on the other hand, must hate this. You can barely move without extreme effot, while I can move just fine."
It wasn't like my semblance didn't affect me. It's just that with a home town on the bottom of the ocean, you can deal with pressure pretty easily. The misty air of the rainforest also aided in making it feel like home.
It was a true testament to the strength of my opponent that he stood back up with his blade at the ready.
"This all you got, scale face!" Sage shouts in a challenge, one that I am all too happy to except.
"Not in the slightest," I grin as we re-engage our fight.
We continue to clash with our blades, sparks flying everywhere. Despite my physique, I was a speed fighter rather than a power one. Sage, on the other hand, was a power fighter and where as I could hit him more often, he hit harder than I did most of the time.
All of a sudden, an extremely irritating signal went off.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Neptune Vasillas has been launched out of the arena!"
The blueberry was sent out of the arena by a large burst of water. While Sage took it as a sign to facepalm, I took it as a sign to finish the match.
"It was a good match while it lasted, my friend," before he could respond, I increased the pressure ten-fold. Sage was completly frozen as I charged one of my stronger attacks. "Fishman Kenpo: Leviathan!"
With a burst of speed I slashed and immediatly resheathed my blade. The green-haired swordsman falls to the floor as soon as the click of my blade hitting the scabbard sounded out. With my opponent defeated, I turned off my semblance.
"Sage has been eliminated!" Oobleck announces.
"4-on-2, not good odds for Team SSSN!" Port shouts to the crowd.
"Like we would ever consider teaming up on a single person," I mutter with annoyance. "That is a tactic to be reserved for the likes of monsters, not humans."
[Alice POV, 1st Person]
"Okay, I have to ask. . .Why do you have the coat?" I was trying to distract myself from the cold by satisfying my curiosity.
"What do you mean?" Scarlet asks, while stopping his attack for the moment.
"It just doesn't make sense to me," I tell him. "You just hang the thing on your shoulder. You don't even put it on, you just hang it there. I don't think you could even walk without it falling off, let alone fight. So why exactly do you have it?"
"It looks cool?" He asks, not seeming to believe his own answer.
"It's a pirates coat, of course, it looks cool," I roll my eyes at the response. "I'm just saying that your placement of it is ridiculous. It would even be effective in a combat situation if you actually wore it, the amount of things you could hind in the sleeves of it would be a definite help."
"Hmmm," Scarlet seems to consider my opinion for a couple seconds before he spoke again. "I'll consider it. Do you think I should get a hat too?"
"If you had shorter hair, then yes, that would be a nice addition," I nod as I spoke. "But, it doesn't really work if you want to keep the ponytail thing you have going."
"Fair enough," he tells with a small sigh. For a few seconds, all was quiet, until my ears started ringing from a very girly screech.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Neptune Vasillas has been launched out of the arena!"
Both Scarlet and I watched as Neptune was flung out of the arena by a large pillar of water.
"Oh yeah, we're supposed to be fighting," I note nonchalantly.
"Right," he states.
We went back to quiet for about three seconds, then we both attacked at the same time. I sent out a burst of fire that Scarlet ducked under, while the pirate slashed at me with his cutlass that I blocked with my scaled forearm.
We seperate and I sent out two more pillars of flame at Scarlet. I'll give the boy band pirate this, he can certainly dodge a punch. . .or, in this case, large bursts of death.
He shoots two bullets from his pistol, both of which I deflected with my scaled palm. Seeming to change his strategy, Scarlet detaches the handle from his pistol and throws it. The handle looped around my leg tight. Scarlet grins for a second, before seeing my own grin.
With a burst of flame from the heel that was currently wrapped up. I spun around in the air wrapping more and more of my leg in wire, before the cord ran out and Scarlet's gun was yanked out his hands. Taking advantage of his shock from being disarmed, I jumped into the air and start throwing out flame-propelled punches.
"Machine Gun BLOWS!" My punches blurred together due to how fast I was throwing them. With one final punch, Scarlet was out and sent flying.
"Scarlet has been eliminated as well!" Oobleck announces to the crowd. "Now it is just Sun Wukong against the enitrety of Team CARD."
"Huh, guess Dante won his fight and I didn't notice," I note nonchalantly. "Well, it's all you, Onii-chan. Take us home."
[Cyan POV, 1st Person]
"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Neptune Vasillas has been launched out of the arena!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The sound he made!" I continue to cackle as Sun just facepalmed.
"Goddamit, Neptune," he mutters.
"Anyway, let's get back to fighting," I get into a stance with my spear, while the misty of air of the rainforest became electrified. Sun grabs his staff and does the same.
It was an interesting thing to see, when two people who's weapons revolve around spinning clashed, pun intended. Each strike seem to knock back the other's attack, but it just curved around to being another swing.
"Sage has been eliminated!"
With the loss of his teammate, Sun seperates his staff into Ryuji Bang and Jingu Bang. Wielding the nunchuku with deadly precision, Sun unloads a barrage of strikes against me. I deflected all of them perfectly. My favorite scene from Volume 1 of RWBY was the Sun VS. Roman segment, since then I have completly memorized everything that happened during that fight.
"Come on, King," I goad the monkey faunus. "Keep it coming!"
Before he could do anything else, another announcement was made.
"Scarlet has been eliminated as well!" Oobleck announces to the crowd. "Now it is just Sun Wukong against the enitrety of Team CARD."
"You know," Sun starts without showing his eyes to me. "As soon as I found out the match-up, I knew we weren't going to the next round. I've seen you fight, Cy, you're beyond anyone else in this tournament. But, I decided that I would at least make it somewhat difficult for you."
Sun confuses me by crossing his legs and sitting on the forest floor. He put his weapons away on his back and continued to speak.
"My semblence is projection," Sun tells me still with his eyes shadowed. "I can usually only use it for making copies of myself, since that's what I see myself as physically. But, from your influence, I've managed to expand on that. Instead of projecting what I see myself as on the outside, what if I projected what I thought of myself on the inside."
All of a sudden, Sun whipped his head up and I saw his eyes. They were glowing a bright gold similar to what his projections look like. As soon as Sun put his hands together, a new projection started to come into being. It grew bigger and bigger, until it was twice as big that Beringal I fought during my initiation. Standing above my head in it's glowing, golden glory was a giant ape wielding a massive pillar in it's hands.
"ROOOOOOAAAAAARRR!"
"Well, that's new," I state simply.
With another roar, the giant ape swung it's pillar down at my head. I barely jump back in time to avoid the strike, although it hit with enough force to shake the ground beneath my feet. The gorilla chases me into the center platform, where it swings it's pillar once more.
"Come on then!" I shout in challenge. I block the pillar with the side of my spear, catching most of it with the large circle in the middle of the weapon. I struggle against the attack for a few seconds.
Maybe putting on those restraints before the tournament was bad idea.
"BOOST!" With electrified-energy coursing threw my veins, I throw off the ape's attack.
The beast recovers quickly and strikes again. Instead of meeting it head-on, I dodge the attack and slash at it.
"Mazio!" A lightning wave shoots from my spear towards it's face. I didn't stop there, with a downward slash of my spear, a bolt of lightning came from the sky and hit the gorilla on it's head. "Ziodyne!"
Sun's projection seems unaffected and swings at me, catching me by surprise. I was sent flying across the platform and into one of the snowy mountains on the other side of the arena. The sound of my bones breaking and then being put back together was an interesting thing to experience.
Damn, you're getting pretty beat up over there. Want us to help out?
NO! This is my fight! I'll be the one to finish it!
Then, stop talking about it and fucking do it! I can't believe I'm doing this, but. . . You need to reach out, reach out to the truth!
[Playing 'Reach out to the truth' from Persona 4]
No more words were said. I removed myself from the side of the mountain, then with a battle cry, I charged the giant ape.
I played smart and kept aiming at it's large feet. Swerving in and out of it's legs, while it tried to smash me with it's weapon. With one powerful swing, infused with electricity, the beast's legs were annihilated and it fell to it's knees.
This did nothing to stop it from attacking me, which I respected. Because of that respect, I decided to finish it with a bang. . .Who am I kidding? I was going to finish it that way, no matter what happened way; it's what I do.
I activated the armor's flight ability and rose high above the ape's head. As the energy gathers in my weapon, I spin it in a circle. The blade pointing towards the sky, as I held it tight.
"Thousands die, while a million are born," the energy makes the air around me crackle with electricity. "I will show you. . . the TRUTH!"
KA-KRACK!
Thunder struck. . .quite literally. Like an act of god, a giant bolt of lightning hit the ape projection, completly destorying it. The projection must have been tied to Sun's aura, because what was left of it completly drained away after the ape disappeared.
"What an amazing match from Team CARD!" Port announces.
Huh, I completly forgot we were in the middle of a tournament.
"Indeed," Oobleck speedily agreed. "Team CARD advances to the doubles round of the tournament."
I un-equiped my armor and went my team in the center arena. There were grins on all our faces as we cheered at winning the first round of the tournament. Once we took our proverbial bow, I raced back to where Sun had been back in the rainforest. The monkey faunus was unconcious and looked completly exhausted.
With a smile, I pulled a glowing purple bottle from my inventory. It was a little concoction I whipped up that combined the HP, MP, and SP potions. I gently poured the drink into Sun's mouth, he jolted up instantly. Then he groaned and went back down.
"Oww," he moans. I grin and help him to his feet, while keeping one of his arms slung over my shoulder. We walk towards the exit, where I saw medics getting the rest of Sun's team. "Guess we lost, huh?
"Yeah, but it was a good match," I tell him.
"Good," he says simply. I passed him off to the medics just as a rather unique bullhead passed over the arena.
Come on, Cy! We're going to miss the show!
Yeah, no way in hell I'm missing this!
I run after my familiar as we head towards the exit. As we were running, I could feel my scroll buzz in my pocket. Thankfully, with Alice in my head, I could text and run at the same time.
Neo: First round's over. What should I do now?
Me: You can head back to Babylon, although I would tell Cinder to piss off before you did.
Neo: I'm definetly doing that. Later.
Me: Later.
I put away my scroll and refocus on running towards the two newest characters in this crazy game that was my life.
[After CARD's match, Cinder and Co.'s dorm, 3rd Person]
"I am going to kill him!" After the events that happened during Team CARD's match, Cinder was very angry. The temperature noticeably increased as she continued to rant about how she would kill the blue-haired huntsman-in-training.
Meanwhile, Neo was typing away on her Scroll. She put it away with a grin as she had just finished her conversation with Cyan.
"Ahem," to the shock of everyone in the room, Neo began to speak. "I would just like to say that I will not be a part of this venture for of the forseeable future. I would also like to say one last thing to you, Cinder, before I go. You are a complete and total bitch and have as much a chance of taking over Vale as I have at making a harem out of all the girls in Beacon, including Goodwitch. So, yeah, go fuck yourself, seeing as that's probably the only way you would get any action anyway."
The room seemed to be frozen, while at the same time, the temperature seemed to be rising more and more.
"Oh, one last thing," Neo mentions. "Yes, I have been able to talk this whole time and, yes, I have been keeping quiet just to screw with you all. Later, dickheads!"
With that Neo teleported out of the room, never to return. Meanwhile, Emerald and Mercury were making the incredibly smart move of getting the hell out of the dorm before Cinder blew. They were just in time too.
"RrrraaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
BOOM
Smoke could be seen coming out from under the door in the hallway outside. Cinder would later be even more pissed that she incinerated pretty much everything in the dorm room.
So, what'd you think of Cinder's roast?
*Cricket noises ensue*
Yeah, that was a Yang-level pun right there and I regret nothing. Neo was originally going to do the 'Bitch' speech from Dragon Ball Z Abridged, but what I did was a lot easier to put together. Another thing is that I actually didn't plan the thing with Sun's semblance, it literally popped into my head just as I was writing the scene.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed and I will see you next time, OK is out!