Alright ladies and Gentlemen. Humans, Faunus, Grimm-Hybrids, Aliens, Kamui (Talking to you Swift), Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, and other assorted races that happen to be reading this story.
It's finally time to see who this mystery challenger is going to be. Now I've received a lot of comment's and even a few PM's taking guesses at who it would be.
Tatewaki Kuno, Gilgamesh, Zoro, Sephiroth, Mihawk, Kamen Rider Decade, Hatachi.
Tell you what, pick one of these characters and when the opponent appears see if you were right. If you were, throw yourself a party. If not better luck next time [Upgrade your Luck stat too :)]
Welp, time to start the show.
Also for those who read Terror of Death yesterday and could not read Reading THOR, I'm sorry for lying and taking it down right after I posted the chapter, I had a hunch the CU would report me before I could take it down of my own volition.
Now I've said it twice and I'll say it once again, Reading THOR will come back as soon as the CU is gone, I just needed to get them off my ass before my other stories took a hit from those bullies.
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Welp, look's like Nora wasn't exactly too happy about me getting her knocked sky high.
So she challenged me, in front of all the Beacon students and visiting student's no less, to fight her and Ren to a match in Miss Goodwitch's class (Jaune was still recovering and Pyrrha didn't want to leave him alone).
She as okay with me having Tamamo and Blake assist me in the fight to keep things fair.
Speaking of Tamamo she had just returned from Vie with a few new prizes for us.
First off was a Grimm Blade, without the metal and wires on it I could see it had the same basic design as the prototype, only made completely of Grimm Bones.
Second was a Naginata, it had a simple design, made from a Dust infused metal pole for incredible durability, and a short, thin blade at the end. The pole is telescoping, allowing it to be easily collapsible and the blade to be flipped into the collapsed pole. furthermore the blade could even be partially folded and has a built in Dust infused ribbon so it can be used as a kusarigama.
I need to really get Tamamo a long range weapon sooner or later.
I quickly took the Grimm Blade and went to the arena with Nora. Along the way I noticed a crowd following us.
That crown included RWBY, Jaune, Pyrrha, Sun, Neptune, Team's NDGO, ABRN, CFVY, Flint and Neon from FNKI.
As well as Cinder, Mercury, Emerald and Neo.
[Tamamo, keep a lid on most of your abilities, Cinder's watching us.] I warned.
[Got it, I won't use The Okami Brush then, or my illusions.] Tamamo replied.
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"Okay." Professor Ozpin announce, apparently he felt like attending this, as well as Glynda, Port, Oobleck, even Ironwood showed up to watch, "You four will be fighting under standard tornament rules."
"Okie Dokie." Nora said getting Magnhild ready.
"Of course." Ren said.
"Naturally." Tamamo said pulling Kusanagi from her breasts.
"Let's try not to show our full hand here, we don't want other teams to figure out something they don't need to know." I said drawing my Dust Blade (Still one handing it), plus Team BRNZ isn't here so they can't watch and learn about team JNPR.
"That goes without saying." Ozpin said, "Now then, let's the battle begin in three, two, on-"
Ozpin was cut off by a black and purple sparking portal appeared in the middle of the arena.
"Incredible." Said a rather rough voice from the portal, "I can sense so many powerful warriors here!"
From out of the portal on the floor someone big and wearing red leapt out and landed on the ground.
'Oh shit.'I thought as the figure stood up.
It was male. He wore a large red cloak, his hair (At least I always thought it was his hair) was bound and pointed upward with a single white tuft popping free, his skin was cracked and seemed to be coated in white war paint, although that could always be his skin color, his his eyes and nose were visible from his cloak and the face around those areas to reveal, he wore a feudal themed samurai chestpiece that match his cloak and was twice the size of a normal man. But what stood out the most.
Was his six arms.
Gilgamesh- Lvl ?
Void Bound Swordsman.
HP ?, Mp ?
[Tamamo, it's Gilgamesh.] I warned in slight panic.
[Yeah, I see that.] Tamamo said.
"Hey we were just about to have a spar!" Nora whined.
Gilgamesh looked over to Nora, "A spar you say?" Gilgamesh said, then he turned to me and Tamamo, "Hmm, those two do seem like good opponents however."
Right then and there Gilgamesh pulled out six weapons from the void.
Four Assault rifles and two rocket launchers.
"I'd rather fight all of you myself!" Gilgamesh shouted firing his assault rifles into the ceiling.
"You'll have to talk with our headmaster about that." Ren said.
You could practically hear the record scratch when Ren said that as Gilgamesh ceased fire, "What?" He asked.
Ozpin then cleared his throat, "I would allow you to fight them under one condition." Ozpin said, "These are still my students, so do not go too hard on them. Once their Aura is depleted I'll have Glynda pulled them out of the ring okay?"
"I do not know what this 'Aura' is, but I will not go too hard on them." Gilgamesh said as the four of us regrouped in front of Gilgamesh, "But now, LET US FIGHT!"
A new Quest has been created.
The Greatest Swordsman
Objective- Defeat Gilgamesh
Reward- ?
[Gilgamesh battle- Battle on the Big Bridge] [AN: I don't care which version you listen to, pick your favorite.]
Gilgamesh immediately opened fire on us, with all four assault rifles. "Ren!" I called switching to the Title Devil May Cry and pulling out Luna and Sol and began firing.
"Right." Ren said opening fire with me, the two of us essentially blocking all the bullets.
"Nora, with me!" Tamamo said rushing up.
"Got it!" Nora called running up with her.
"Time for a Rocket Storm!" Gilgamesh shouted not letting up with the bullets, as his other two arms fired rockets at Nora and Tamamo.
"Nope!" Nora declared as she shifted Magnhild to it's grenade launcher form and fired a grenade from it, intercepting the rockets and blowing them up.
"Transforming weapons? Incredible!" Gilgamesh declared leaping away from Tamamo's slash, "I must have them!"
This shout left him open to a throw of Kusanagi that slashed past him once, then came back around for another slash. That in turn stunned him for a brief moment, and that meant he stopped firing, which meant he started taking a lot of Bullets.
"Ow ow ow ow ow OW!" Gilgamesh declared. Right before Nora gave a massive upward swing, Gilgamesh managed to block it using his guns, but he still got sent back a few feet.
"No, no, no! This is all wrong!" Gilgamesh shouted.
"Just because you got hit doesn't-" Weiss shouted from the stands.
"Now I remember why I don't use these stupid firearms! They're no fun!" Gilgamesh continued as if Weiss never said anything as tossed the guns away, rift's into the void opening to take them away. Another rift opened at Gilgamesh's feet and he reached in.
"Close combat is way more fun! Swords are the way to really fight!" Gilgamesh declared as he pulled out six simple looking katana.
"You got that right!" Yang called from the stands.
"Now you face the greatest swordsman in all of... what's this place called?" Gilgamesh asked, his boast dying into a question.
"Remnant!" Ruby cried out.
"Thank you little lady warrior!" Gilgamesh called out, "Ahem. Now you face the greatest swordsman in all of Remnant! Me! Gilgamesh!"
With that Gilgamesh charged right at us with all six swords raised.
I put aside Luna and Sol and drew my Dust Blade again and leapt at Gilgamesh, which quickly turned into me blocking six different swords in ten seconds.
Nora dashed up from behind Gilgamesh and struck his back, causing the six armed man to jump and spin around at an inhuman speed, "A true warrior never stike's people in the back!" Gilgamesh declared.
"That's usually reserved for duels, not four against one." Ren said jumping over and weaved through Gilgamesh's slashes and taking potshots when he could.
"Fair point." Gilgamesh said, right before he kicked Ren in the chest, causing him to go flying back.
'Aether!' I thought throwing my sword in the air, slamming back down then flip slashing back up to do some good damage to Gilgamesh.
"Smash!" Nora shouted jumping up and slamming her hammer down on Gilgamesh, who raised a sword to block it, only for the katana to shatter.
Seeing the loss of one of his weapon Gilgamesh tossed the weapon aside and reached toward his back.
"Not back woman warrior, but I've fought worse!" Gilgamesh declared as he pulled another katana from his back, this one much longer than the others, and I realized what this was. Masamune.
"Your weapons are forfiet!" And with the Gilgamesh charged again, this time he slashed with Muramasa, and the extra range caught Nora and Tamamo off guard, sending the two flying at Ren and me respectively.
"Tam, see if you can pickpocket something off of him." I said.
"What? Why?" Tamamo asked getting off me.
"I want to see if you can steal anything good from him. All I'd ever mug would be potions." I said.
"Keep him busy then." Tamamo said, I nodded and charged forward at Gilgamesh.
I ducked under Masamune and slashed at his legs, before spinning around to block a set of swords, then quickly slotting in the Dark Dust crystal and slashing once again, the low lighting of the sparring hall boosted the damage of the element and left a trail of darkness with each slash.
Gilgamesh raised a katana to slash, only to get hit in the back of the head by a Familiar (Heh) Red fox, I could also see the small glint of her impact that signified a combat steal.
"Ow!" Gilgamesh said dropping one of his katana into the void and rubbing the back of his head. "A tricky move, however I've fought trickier." Gilgamesh said reaching onto his back a pulling out a simple looking longsword with a rather regal looking grip, the whole thing was blue.
It was either Excalibur or Excalipoor, I forget which was which sometimes, especially because sometimes the two have switched colors in the games, in FF8 Excalibur is blue, but in other games it's red, making things a little confusing.
"Feel the power of the Legendary Sword Excalibur!" Gilgamesh shouted dashing forward once again to slash at Fox form Tamamo.
Fortunately Tamamo leapt out of the way and reverted back to her faunus form and pulling Kusanagi back out and slashing at Gilgamesh's exposed arm.
"Eat this!" I shouted lunging at Gilgamesh and slashed once again, only for Gilgamesh to use three of his katana to catch the blade and strike me with Excalibur.
But it didn't feel like I got hit by a Legendary Sword, more like a wooden sword, I then took this chance to break free, shattering another Katana.
"What!?" Gilgamesh exclaimed looking at his blue sword, "Wait, this isn't Excalibur! This is that cheap rip off Excalipoor!" Gilgamesh opened a rift and hurled Excalipoor and his broken katana down it before reaching back in with his two free hands.
First he pulled out a sword almost identical to Excalipoor, but was red, this WAS Excalibur.
Next he pulled out a sword that had sudden sharp curve in it, that made it look like someone took an axe head and fused it into the the blade of a sword, this was Odin's Zantetsuken, the Final Fantasy 8 model it seems.
"Here we go! THIS is Excalibur!" Gilgamesh declared, and ran back into the battle.
"Whoa!' Nora shouted as she leaned back from a swing from both Excalibur and Zantetsuken, which caused her to fall over when Gilgamesh swung Masamune and a Katana.
Nora took a good hit from those two swords, and Ren pushed Nora out of the way and took the brunt of the last two Katana.
"Ren!" Nora shouted, then she turned to Gilgamesh with a fire in her eyes, "You'll pay for that!" Nora then shifted Magnhild to it's grenade launcher form and started firing repeatedly.
"Ooh, Ow, Hot!" Gilgamesh shouted as he got hit by grenade after grenade, "Enough!" And with that Gilgamesh swung Zantetsuken, creating a powerful gust that cleaved the rest of Nora's grenade's in half.
However Ren took this chance to land a kick to the side of Gilgamesh's head, knocking him to the side.
"That was a good hit, but now it's time for you to be shocked by one of my newest weapons!" Gilgamesh declared tossing aside a katana and reaching to his back and pulled out another sword. Now I was out of idea's of what t could be because his four signature swords have already been shown.
It was a yellow and silver sword in the shape of a lightning bolt, and I recognized it. A Levin Sword from Fire Emblem Awakening, and I could faintly see the electrical charge coming from it.
"Nora, see if you can get hit by that lighting bolt shaped sword a couple of times." I whispered.
"You got it." Nora said with a grin charging forward.
"I don't think so!" Gilgamesh shouted pointing the Levin Sword at Nora, sending out a bolt of lightning, which served to only charge Nora.
"Awwwwwwwww YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!" Nora shouted.
"What!?" Gilgamesh shouted, "Why isn't it working!?" He shouted again zapping Nora twice more.
"NORA SMASH!" Nora shouted leaping forward and swinging her hammer at out of control speeds, but had perfect control thanks to her boosted muscles.
"Whoa!" Gilgamesh shouted backing up as Nora swung her hammer at crazy angles.
"Nora I'll boost you!" I shouted, 'Volt!' I thought afterwards, sending out a bolt of lightning to Nora to keep her charged.
"So that's what happened." Gilgamesh muttered before giving Nora the boot back to us, knocking her into all of us, which really hurt.
"This is the first time I've fought someone who could get physically stronger after getting electrocuted." Gilgamesh said tossing aside yet another Katana and reaching back for a fifth sword.
"But it won't be enough!" Gilgamesh declared pulling out a new sword.
A large, slightly curved silver blade attached to a blue hilt with what looked the symbol of the Zelda Goron tribe on the guard. Needless to say it was the Biggoron Sword, Hyrule Warriors model it looks like.
Gilgamesh jump at us once again and slammed down all his swords at the spot we piled.
That is if I hadn't conjured a Stalagmite to block him, "This guy is durable." Ren said panting.
"He's gotta fall at some point." Nora said looking like she was actually starting to tire.
'I wish I could summon an Elemental, but I don't want to give anyone a hint of what I can really do, especially Cinder.' I thought.
We didn't get any more time to talk as Gilgamesh shattered the stalagmite with Zantetsuken, "A clever move to buy yourself time, but it shall be for nothing!" Gilgamesh declared.
I then decided to try a new trick, I focused my mana into my muscles as best I could.
You've created a new skill!
Limit Break
At the cost of 500 MP Your Dexterity, Strength, and Defense are tripled for a short time. Continued you increases duration.
Current Duration 1 Minute
There was the effect of glass shattering from around my body as Limit Break took hold, I felt faster and stronger than I had before and I dashed over to Gilgamesh and let loose a wild flurry of slashes that not only deflected all his sword swings, but even landed a good number of slashes on him, and shattering his last katana
"This is why I fight!" Gilgamesh shouted pulling one last sword from his back.
A dark colored sword that had a circular gap near the tip at the front, and had the back halt of the tip missing that had a gold crown design above the Y-Shaped hilt and once again I recognized it.
Maelstrom from Fable 2, a weapon that you have to sacrifice a spouse to get, a very evil weapon that is used by Spire Captains and actually does more damage to lawful opponents. And me, Tamamo, Nora, and Ren definitely qualify as Lawful.
"I worked hard for this blade!" Gilgamesh shouted jumping at me once again.
Nora jumped in once more to block the slash from Maelstrom as Tamamo jumped in to keep Gilgamesh distracted from suing Masamune and Zantetsuken.
"Ren, let's go!" I shouted rushing in before Limit Break could wear off.
Ren and I alternated attack and defense as the four of us started to push Gilgamesh back step by step because of the pure ruthlessness of our onslaught.
All of a sudden Gilgamesh made a powerful slash with Zantetsuken that forced us all back, "That's enough!" He declared stabbing his weapon into the ground, "I concede."
[Music End]
Quest complete!
The Greatest Swordsman
Objective- Defeat Gilgamesh (Completed)
Reward- Gilgamesh Costume, +700,000 EXP
You've reached level 44
Tamamo has reached level 44
[Bonus] Tamamo has stolen Genji Armor x1
Tamamo shifted in between me, Nora and Ren as her third and fourth tails formed.
"What why? We're winning." Nora whined.
"Correction, you four have won." Gilgamesh said as his weapons sank into the Void, "The four of you are powerful warriors indeed, but you still have a lot to learn before you are truly great warriors!" as he said that he made his way to the door.
"Were are you going?" I asked.
"To find my next opponent." Gilgamesh said stopping then turning around to face us, "I hope to face you all again! That was a fun fight!"
With that he turned around again and continued his walk, but thanks to tapping into Tamamo's hearing I would hear him talk to himself.
"That is unless I fall back into a virtual limbo because no one is writing me into a good fight anymore." Gilgamesh muttered.
And he just broke the fourth wall, well I don't care, I've got 100 stat point's I need to figure out what to do with.
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Holy crap, I really had fun writing that.
3000+ Words, and the whole chapter was designated to fighting Gilgamesh.
I hope I did the guy some justice here.
Also because I haven't dug my way into a corner with my updates I can do a Halloween special ON Halloween!
And one more thing, I've got a new poll up on my page, go check it out when you have the time.
Anyway guys I'll see you next week, bye!