Hello everyone! Ready for the beginning of the Vytal tournament.
Chapter 36
Hovering above the Kingdom of Vale is massive stadium can be seen, with many Bullheads going towards it, carrying visitors from all over the world.
In the stadium, the crowd is cheering as the watch a fight between team RWBY and team ABRN, a team from Haven Academy. The battleground that they are fighting on is split with a volcanic area on one side and the other is a icy glacier.
"Hello there, everyone! It looks like that we have a promising rounds this year!" Port's voice boomed across Remnant. Grimm studies teacher is speaking from a sportscaster's desk along with Doctor Oobeck.
"Wouldn't you agree, Professor?" Professor Port asked, causing Doctor Oobeck to become annoyed.
"It's Doctor Oobeck." The green hair teacher muttered before clearing his throat.
"Yes Peter. I think it's safe to say that this match may be the closest we seen of the four-on-four round of the tournament." Doctor Oobeck replied, referring to the match that is happening below them.
In the duel split battle area, Ruby is fighting against Bolin Hoei, a male with amber eyes and Black hair. His weapon consist of a staff which is brown in the middle and black at the two ends.
"Heh. For someone who entered Beacon Academy two years early, your pretty good." Bolin commented as he blocked a attack from Rose's Hope.
"Thanks." Ruby said before jumping over Bolin's weapon as he tried to sweep the silver eye girl off her feet. Ruby activated her Semblance, causing Bolin to become surprise at the sudden disappearance.
However, he sensed someone behind him, making Bolin spin around quickly and swing is staff, causing Ruby to use Calamity Rose to block the attack instead of attacking him.
Ruby push Bolin's staff off Calamity Rose and fired at him. The bullets connected with the member of team ABRN, causing his Aura to decrease. "Your full of surprises, aren't you?" Bolin asked, causing Ruby to grin.
"YeP." Ruby replied whilst still grinning. However, Bolin started to smirk.
"Well, your not the only one." Bolin said before 2 blades spring out off each end of his staff.
With Blake, the cat Faunus is facing a against Reese Chloris, a female with light green hair along with green eyes. Her weapon consist of a bladed hover-board.
Blake used both pieces of Gambol Shroud to fight her opponent, the blades colliding with Reese's hover-board, which the green hair student is using as a shield.
Reese then jumped back and got onto her hover-board and started to fly through the ice half of the battle area. As the cat Faunus chased Reese, the green hair girl spin around and launched her hover-board at Blake.
However, the cat Faunus knocked the hover-board back at Reese.
The member of team ABRN caught it just in time to defend herself as Blake attacked her using her Semblance to throw a barrage of attacks at her. Reese used her hover-board again as a shield to block the attacks until Blake cut the board in two.
However, the two pieces of Reese's hover-board folded into two bayonet-bladed revolvers which Reese used to attack Blake with.
Meanwhile with Yang, the golden hair girl is fighting against Arslan Altan. A female with platinum blond hair and olive green eyes. Her weapon of choice consist of a dagger that can turn into a rope.
Yang dodge a explosive attack from Arslan's fits before appearing in front of her.
However Yang was met with a flurry of punches and kicks from the member of team ABRN.
Yang dodged these attacks before throwing her own punches and kicks until the two of them ended in a stalemate. This resulted in a shock wave that caused Yang and Arslan to be thrown back. However, Yang dashed towards Arslan and tries to attack her with Ember Celica.
However, Arslan manage to dodge the shots before using her weapon to tangle the lilac eyed girl up before kicking her. Yang was knocked into the ice area and tried to get up, but the slippery surface made it difficult for her.
Arslan used the opportunity to attack Yang more. However, the golden hair used her weapon to get out of the way of a kick from Arslan before managing to get up.
With Weiss, the heiress is facing against Nadir Shoki. A male with long pink hair, and blue eyes. His weapon of choice consist of a gun that can transform into a sword.
Weiss used Myrtenaster to attack Nadir after he attempted to attack Yang with the gun part of the weapon.
Nadir was skilled with the sword part of the weapon but Weiss is far more skilled.
"Hmmm. I guess that he more used to fight with the gun part of his weapon. Meaning that he's a longed-ranged fighter. This will be easy for me." Weiss thought as she continue to attack Nadir with a small smirk on her face.
The member of team ABRN jumped back and tried to attack Weiss with gun part of his weapon. However, Weiss used some ice Dust in Myrtenaster to trap Nadir up to his thighs.
"Ready for some for some hot service?" Weiss asked, causing Nadir to become confuse a he tried to free himself from the ice. However, before Nadir could reply, Weiss created a glyph under him where flames spewed from.
Weiss looked around and decide to run towards Ruby, leaving Nadir who was surprised that the ice hadn't melted. With Ruby and Bolin, the student of Haven Academy is throwing a barrage of attacks with his bladed staff at the silver eye girl.
Ruby used Calamity Rose to block the attacks and this went on before Bolin kicked the shield, causing Ruby to be sent flying. Acting quickly, Ruby stabbed Rose's Hope into the volcanic ground, stopping herself.
However, when the silver eye girl looked up, Ruby became wide eyed when she saw Bolin dashing towards her.
As Bolin came close to hit Ruby, a black glyph appeared next to him and a few seconds later, Weiss kick through it, sending Bolin flying into a rock.
"Thanks, Weiss." Ruby said with a smile on her face. "Your welcome." Weiss replied before Ruby started to frown slightly.
"What about Nadir?" Ruby asked, glancing towards Weiss's opponent who was still stuck in the ice.
"Oh, him. He'll be stuck there for a while. The ice was your idea, remember." Weiss said, causing Ruby to smile sheepishly. Before the match, Ruby infused the ice dust inside Myrtenaster with her Maiden powers, making it stronger.
"Yeah. My idea." Ruby said, causing Weiss to roll her eyes whilst smiling slightly.
Bolin suddenly appeared with his staff at the ready, causing Ruby and Weiss to jumped to the sides.
The white hair heiress created a glyph beneath her, causing Weiss to lunch herself at the member of team ABRN and stabbed him before doing a aerial attack. However, Bolin managing to block the attack.
As Weiss landed on the ground, Ruby used her Semblance to quickly appear in front of Bolin. The member of team ABRN brought up his staff to defend himself, however, he became surprise when Ruby jumped high into the air.
As Ruby jumped into the air, Weiss created a glyph above the silver eye girl , allowing Ruby to lunch herself straight at Bolin.
"Oh come on!" Ruby exclaimed as Bolin managed to block the high speed attack which caused the ground beneath them to crack.
Ruby backed off to create some space. However, instead of attacking Ruby and Weiss, Bolin managed to obtain a orange Dust which he managed to throw at Reese.
When Reese caught the Dust, she infused it within her hover-board, making it glow a crimson shade. Quickly making her way over to Nadir, Reese attempted to free her fellow teammate.
After a few seconds, she could tell that something is wrong."Reese, could you please hurry up? We don't have all day, you know." Nadir asked, causing Reese to frown.
"I'm doing my best. It doesn't look that the ice won't melt." Reese explained, causing Nadir to become slightly agitated. Before Nadir could speak again, Blake started to attack Reese again.
"I'm sorry, Nadir. It look like that you have to say there!" Reese called as she transform her hover-board into the twin-bladed revolvers and started to defend herself against Blake.
The cat Faunus had the upper hand until Reese knocks Blake into a frozen pillar. Blake used the aid of her Semblance to help avoid being slammed into the ground, but narrowly missing being burnt by the flames that Reese's bladed revolvers produced due to the orange Dust.
Blake hid behind a glacier and used the other glacier close to it to knock Reese out of the battle with the aid of the ribbon part of Gambol Shroud.
Back with Yang and Arslan, the Haven student used her weapon to swing around, avoiding the golden hair girl who used Ember Celica to proper herself forward.
Weiss created a glyph underneath Bolin, causing him to be sent towards Nadir before creating a whirlwind underneath them, making them to become confuse.
The white hair heiress created a fist made out of ice which trapped the two. It then transformed into a ball and rolled around the battle area.
Arlan saw this and became annoyed before running in front of it and smashed it to pieces.
"Yang, Now!" Weiss shouted as she created a wall out of ice.
Yang knew what to do as she used Ember Celica again to blast herself forward and ride across the ice wall.
Blake used Ruby's shield as she got lunched into air and throw her pistol at Yang.
The 3 remaining members of team ABRN became wide eyed as they saw a screaming Yang heading straight towards them.
The lilac eyed girl landed a devastating punch which caused all 3 members of team ARBN to be eliminated.
"Yes!" Yang exclaimed as a buzzing sound can be heard.
"And that's the match! Team RWBY is victorious!" Port announced as the crowed broke out in applause.
"We...did it?" Weiss asked in surprise.
"YeP!" Ruby replied with a wide smile on her face.
"Ehr...is everyone else hungry?" Ruby asked her teammates, sounding as if she and her team didn't won the match.
"I may have worked up an appetite myself." Blake replied before a growling can be heard, causing the cat Faunus to blush.
"Well, it sounds like a cat is hungry." Yang said with a grin on her face, causing Ruby and Weiss to laugh whilst Blake rolled her eyes, but a smile was present on her lips.
"Well, it's a good thing we have plenty of places to choose from to eat." Weiss said, referring to numerous tents that surrounds them.
"Yeah so...which one are we choosing then?" Ruby asked as she started to looked around.
"I know a place where we can eat, follow me." Yang said before heading in a direction, causing the others to follow her.
"Ruby, did you remember to bring your wallet with you?" A voice asked, causing Ruby to look at Weiss.
"Of course I have, Weiss. It's...here?" Ruby replied as she place a hand in a pocket but realized that there's nothing in it.
"I didn't say anything, Ruby." Wiess said as she looked at Ruby, making Blake and Yang to stop walking and turn to face their fellow teammates.
However, the silver eye girl wasn't listing to Weiss as she frantically patted herself down.
"No, No, No." Ruby muttered in a panic tone of voice.
"Here, Ruby." The voice said again, causing Ruby to look up to see a smiling Sage with a red wallet in his hand.
"Oh thank you, Sage." Ruby said before taking her wallet from Sage. "Congrats on your win, you four." Sage said, causing the others to smile.
"Thanks, Sage. But it we still have the doubles match to do if we want to get into the finals." Weiss explained, causing Sage to nod his head. "
Yes. My team still have our four v four match to do yet." Sage said, causing Blake to look around.
"Where is your team anyway?" Blake asked, looking for the other members of team SSSN.
"Awww. Is Blake missing Sun that badly?" Yang asked with a smirk on her face, causing Ruby, Weiss and Sage to start laughing whilst Blake glared at Yang slightly.
"I was just wondering. That's all." Blake explained, causing Yang to shrug her shoulders.
"My teammates are...somewhere." Sage replied in a nervous tone of voice.
"Meaning?" Ruby asked, gaining the feeling that Sage isn't telling the whole truth. Sage started to sweat under the gaze of team RWBY.
"...I ran away from them, okay." Sage replied, causing the four girls to blink a few times.
"...Why?" Weiss asked, causing Sage to start scratching the back of his head nervously.
"Well...after your match, Sun started to tease me so I...ran away." Sage explained, causing Blake to give him a deadpan expression.
"Coward." Blake simply said, causing Sage to sigh. However, it was then that Ruby realized something.
"Did you said after our match?" Ruby asked, causing Sage to freeze.
"...Yes." Sage replied slowly, causing team RWBY to glance at each other.
"That interesting to know." Weiss said with interest. "Hmmmm." Yang hummed with a slight frown on her face.
"And why was Sun teasing you in the first place?" Blake asked with a hand on her hip.
"Well..." Sage began to say but trailed off as he began to blush slightly.
It was then that Ruby gained a idea in her head.
"Wait. Was Sun teasing Sage about me?" Ruby thought as as she started to feel her cheeks heating up slightly.
"...Is it okay if I can talk to Ruby?" Sage asked, making team RWBY to become surprise.
"S-sure!" Ruby replied in a high tone of voice, causing Weiss, Blake and Yang to stare at her.
"Ruby...are you okay?" Weiss asked, causing Ruby to nod her head as her cheeks started to heat up more.
"Yes! Absolutely fine." Ruby said before walking up to Sage and grabbed his hand.
"You three get something to eat, okay?" Ruby called over her shoulder as she drag Sage away with her.
"..." Weiss, Blake and Yang stayed silent, trying to process what happened.
"Does...anyone know what happened?" Blake asked, glancing at the other two.
"No idea." Weiss replied before looking at Yang who was frowning slightly.
"Yang? Are you okay?" Weiss replied, backing away slightly. Yang let out a sigh.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Come on, let get some ting to eat." Yang replied before heading in a direction.
With Ruby and Sage, the silver eye girl has drag the sword wielder to a safe distance away from the rest of her team.
"Ruby!? Are you okay?" Sage asked once Ruby stopped walking.
"Y-yeah. I'm okay." Ruby replied before she took a few deep breathes.
"Err...do you think its okay for you to suddenly drag me off? The others will become suspicious." Sage asked, causing Ruby to blink a few times.
"...Oh, yeah." Ruby said in a sheepish tone of voice, causing Sage to chuckle slightly. Ruby started to go into a huff.
"Well, you were the one who asked to talk to me." Ruby stated as she pouted.
"I didn't asked to get dragged away, didn't I?" Sage asked whilst smirking, causing Ruby to blush.
"...Yeah. Your right about that." Ruby admitted, causing Sage to smirk slightly.
"Exactly." Sage said, causing Ruby to punch him lightly.
"Okay, okay. I give in." Sage said with raised arms.
"Come on. Let go have some fun." Ruby said whilst smiling.
"Yeah. Sure." Sage said before the two of them started to walk around the fairground.
"Before your team's match, I heard a few rumors about...Rose Paladin." Sage said, causing Ruby to perk up at the name.
"And what sort of rumors did you heard of her?" Ruby asked, becoming interested.
"Well, one of them is that she will be making a surprise appearance in the tournament." Sage replied, causing Ruby to nod her head with interest.
"Do you think that Rose Paladin would make a appearance in the tournament?" Sage asked, but his eyes said Are you going to make a appearance?.
"Well, exciting as it sounds. I don't think that Rose Paladin will make a appearance. I think that she's more of a working in the shadows person." Ruby replied before an idea came into her head.
"If she would a appearance. It would probably be in the middle of a Grimm invasion or something." Ruby said, causing Sage to become surprise slightly.
"Yeah. That does sound like Rose Paladin." Sage muttered, being aware of the glances that a few people are giving them.
"We need to change topic." Sage whispered, causing Ruby to also become aware of the glances.
"Right." Ruby whispered back before trying to think of a subject to talk about.
"So, how do teams get sorted out at Haven?" Ruby asked as she suddenly feel curious.
"Well, it's similar to the initiation test you have at Beacon. Before going onto the test, the first year students receive a package that has a quarter of a stone slab with a picture on it. But we are not allowed to open it until the test begins." Sage began to explain, causing Ruby to become more curious.
"We are then transported by Bullhead to the wilderness and then jumped off the Bullhead. When safely land on the ground, we open our package and try to find the people that have the other pieces of the picture." Sage further explained, causing Ruby to gain a confuse look on her face.
"How do you safely land on the ground?" Ruby asked, thinking that Aura wouldn't be enough to protect a person from the impact.
"We have to make our own landing strategies...Which is kind of painful for some people." Sage said, saying the last part whilst wincing.
"That does sound like Beacon's initiation test. How long is the initiation test?" Ruby asked with curiously.
"The initiation test takes place over three days. You have to use your survival skills." Sage replied, causing Ruby to gain a shock expression on her face.
"Three days!?" Ruby shouted, causing a few heads to turn in their direction. Ruby gained a embarrassed look on her face.
"The initiation test does takes place over a large area and the students are widely spread out. Meaning that it will take time to find your future teammates." Sage explained, causing Ruby to nod her head.
"That does makes sense." Ruby said with a thoughtful look on her face.
"It must be difficult, suddenly having to go on a three day survival initiation test." Ruby said, causing Sage to nod his head.
"Well, it was difficult when you are by yourself. But when you find you teammates, things will become more easier for the rest of the initiation test." Sage said, causing Ruby to nod her head.
It was then that a thought entered the silver eye girl's head. "So what's the Headmaster of Haven Academy like?" Ruby asked, becoming curious.
"Professor Leonardo Lionheart? He's a understanding sort of person, always trying to help people with their problems." The green hair male explained, causing Ruby to become interested.
"I always sees him as scaredy cat myself." A voice said, causing both Ruby and Sage to turn their heads to see Sun approaching them.
"Hi Sun. how are you?" Ruby asked with a smile on her face.
"I'm good thanks. Well done on the match." Sun replied with a grin on his face. "So, what are you two doing?" Sun asked, causing Ruby and Sage to glance at each other.
"Just talking." Sage replied simply, but the monkey Faunus still have a grin on his face.
"Nothing...naughty I suppose?" Sun asked as his grin turned into a smirk, causing both Ruby and Sage to start blushing deeply.
"Sun!" Ruby and Sage exclaimed at the same time, causing the people to give them a few glances.
"Heh. I can't wait for all the opportunities for teasing the both of you." Sun said, causing Sage to sigh.
"Sun, can you please stop it? I'm trying to have a nice time with Ruby." Sage asked, causing Ruby to smile slightly.
"Such a gentlemen." Ruby thought before realizing what she thought and shaking her head.
"Okay, Okay, I'll stop. The others are getting a bite to eat so I was wondering if you want to get something to eat as well." Sun explained, causing Ruby and Sage to look at each other.
"Sure." The both of them said at the same time.
"Good!" Sun exclaimed with a big smile on his face. Ruby and Sage became surprise when Sun walked behind them and wrapped arm around their shoulders.
"I'll show your lover birds the way then." Sun said before leading the other two. Ruby's and Sage's blushes became deeper and the silver eye started to notice a few angry glares from a few females.
After Ruby, Sage and Sun met up with the other two members of team SSSN, they went to the stall that Scarlet has suggested. When they arrived at the stall, they became surprise that the rest of Ruby's team are there.
"Hey, guys!" Ruby called, causing Weiss, Blake and Yang to turn their heads.
"Hey Ru-!" Yang was about to greet Ruby but became wide eyed instead.
"...Yang. Is there something wrong?" Ruby asked with a questioning look on her face.
"Ruby, why Sun has a arm around you?" Weiss asked with a raise eye-brow. This made Ruby confuse before turning her head to the side to see that the Monkey Faunus still have a arm wrapped around her shoulder.
"...AAA!" Ruby exclaimed as she jumped away from a grinning Sun.
"Hehehe. Sorry, didn't realized that I still have arm around you, Ruby." Sun said, laughing slightly.
"I find that hard to believe." Scarlet whispered to Neptune, causing the light-blue haired teen to nod his head.
It was then that Ruby notice the depress look on Blake's face.
"Er...what's wrong with Blake?" Ruby asked, becoming worried about the cat Faunus. Weiss took a big sigh.
"We about to eat our meal, but the credit card I handed over got declined." Weiss explained, holding up a card that has Schnee Dust Company on it.
"Oh." Ruby said with a sympathetic look her face.
"I was looking forward to that fish." Blake muttered, causing everyone to laugh.
"I've got an idea, why don't we all chip in. We are planning to eat here as well." Neptune suggested, causing team RWBY to become surprise.
"Thanks for the offer. But you don't have to..." Yang said, getting over her surprise state.
"But they could." Blake pointed out with a hopeful tone of voice. After a few minutes, team RWBY and SSSN are sitting down and happily having their meals. Yang, however, is frowning because Ruby and Sage are sitting next to each other.
"So. What did the two of you talked about?" Yang asked, striking up a conversation.
"We talked about a rumor that my team overheard concerning Rose Paladin and Ruby was interested in Haven's initiation test." Sage replied, causing Weiss, Blake and Yang to perk up at the name.
"At what rumor is this?" Weiss asked with interest.
"The rumor was if Rose Paladin would make a surprise appearance." Scarlet replied, causing WBY to become surprise.
"But I said that there would be a low chance at Rose Paladin would make a appearance. She's more of a working in the shadows sort of person." Ruby commented, causing Weiss to nod her head.
"Yes. That sounds like Rose Paladin." Weiss said before giving Ruby a look that reads Your not going to that, are you?, causing Ruby to shake her head.
"And what about Haven's initiation test. Is it the same as Beacon's?" Blake asked after she cleared her bowl completely clean of any fish.
"Well, it consists of three day's surviving in the wilderness as you try to find your future teammates." Neptune replied, causing WBY to become surprise.
However, Yang began to smile slightly. "Well, Ruby will be good at the survival part. She been surviving in the wild for three years." Yang explained, causing team SSSN to become surprise.
"Why were you in the wild for three years?" Sage asked Ruby, causing the silver eye girl to look into her bowl.
"...It's complicated." Ruby replied, not making eye contact.
"Oh. Sorry for asking then." Sage replied, causing Ruby to look up at him.
"It's okay. I guess it's normal to become curious" Ruby replied whilst smiling.
"O-okay." Sage said, blushing slightly.
"So when's the wedding?" Sun asked whilst grinning, causing Ruby to start blushing as well. Yang began to frown again at this.
"Sun, it's not nice to tease your friends." Scarlet pointed out, causing Sun to shrug his shoulders.
"Meh. It just for fun." Sun said in a carefree tone of voice.
"Would team JNPR please make they way to the battlegrounds immediately." Professor Port's voice came over the intercom.
"Oh yeah. Pyrrha's team are next to fight." Ruby said in a excited tone of voice.
"Yes, like they were scheduled to...several minutes ago!" Doctor Oobeck's voice came over the intercom this time.
"..." Team RWBY and SSSN looked at each other before starting to laugh.
Back at the stadium, everyone is getting ready for the upcoming match.
"I hope that your ready for this match, people of Remnant! Team JNPR of Beacon vs team BRNZ of Shade!" Professor Port announced as the two named teams walked onto a blank battlegrounds.
As the two teams prepare themselves, holograph screens appeared with spinning symbols. After a few seconds, the two roulette stopped on a green pine tree and a grey mountain.
Suddenly, parts of the battlegrounds opened up and on one side of the battleground is a dense forest whilst the other half has a rocky outcrop.
"The stage has been set. Ready...fight!" Professor Port announced, causing the crowd to cheer as the two teams charge at each other.
However only three members of team BRNZ charge at team JNPR whilst May Zedong,a female student with dusty rose hair and grey blue eyes, jumped into the trees whilst getting her rifle at the ready.
The leader of team BRNZ, Branwz Ni, a male with dark purple eyes and black hair, charged at Pyrrha before delivering a kick at her. However, the Mistral champion blocked the kick with her shield, sending her skidding backwards.
Despite this, the red hair girl managed to block Branwz's weapon, which consist of claws, with Xiphos.
Pyrrha send a kick towards him, causing Branwz to leap backwards just as May jumped onto a branch. Ren got Storm Flower at the ready as Nora attacks Nolan Portfirio, a male student with messy dark red hair and pink eyes, nearly blindsiding him with Magnhild.
Nolan ducked under the hammer and attempted to hit Nora with his weapon of choise, a cattle prod.
May took aim and shot two rounds at Ren, destroying two rocks that were behind him. With Janue, the blond hair knight used his shield to block the buzzsaw gloves that are owned by Roy Stallion, a male with green eyes and brown hair.
However Jaune notice the glint of May's gun through the leaves as bullets fly through the air.
"Retreat!" Jaune called, causing the rest of his team to leave their own fight, making team BRNZ confused. Team JNPR leaped over a rocky outcrop to avoid being hit by bullets.
"What do we do?" Pyrrha asked Janue as projectiles can be heard. Jaune peeked over the rocky outcrop to see the melee fighters closing in.
"Spread out and try to keep moving." Jaune replied, causing Pyrrha, Ren and Nora to re-join the fight just as Branwz throw a punch at Janue, who managed to block the attack with his shield. May climbed higher up the tree as Pyrrha fought Branwz again and Nolan advances on Ren.
Nolan gave May a nod, causing the sniper to start shooting at Ren, causing him to jump about to avoid the bullets.
Nolan used the distraction to hit Ren with his weapon, causing electricity to run through Ren's body.
"Ren!" Nora shouted, seeing her childhood friend collapsing onto the ground. Noa charged at Nolan and swing Magnhild at him, who managed to dodge the hammer before jabbing his weapon into Nora's corset.
However, this cause Nora to start grinning, making Nolan confuse. "Hehehe. Thanks for the help. Now I'm charging up to use my Semblance." Nora said still grinning, causing Nolan to gain a panic look on his face.
"My Semblance allows me to channel and produce electrical energy straight to my muscles. Giving me a super power up." Nora explained whilst giggling slightly.
"What!?" Nolan exclaimed, backing away slightly as Nora starts to flex her arms as pink lighting course through her body.
Nolan attempted to raise his arms in surrender but Nora charged straight towards him as thunder starts sparking out of her Aura.
Swinging her hammer, Nora sent Nolan flying across the field, stopping by crashing through some rocks.
Jaune turned his head just in time to see dark thunder clouds appearing above the mountain top where lighting is sparking from. A idea formed in his head as he look over to his energized teammate.
"Nora! Get to the mountain top!" Janue shouted, causing Nora to look at the dark clouds.
"You got it!" Nora said whilst saluting before running up the mountain.
"Ren! Try and distract the sniper!" Janue called as a shot nearly misses his teammate's head.
"Sure...Why not." Ren replied sarcastically before he, Pyrrha and Janue ran forward. Roy throws the saws from his gloves at Jaune, managing to catch him off guard as Jaune's shield bashed the blond hair knight in the face.
Pyrrha took over as Janue backed off, causing Roy to do a series of spinning movements with his arms into Akouo. Branwz decided join Roy as the 2 of then fought Pyrrha as the Mistral champion dodges Branwz's claws and block disks from Roy.
With Ren and May, the member of team BRNZ repeatedly fired at Ren who was heading straight towards her.
Ren leaped out of the way of bullets, Roy's saws and sliding under Pyrrha before encountering Nolan who attempted to attack him with his cattle prod.
However, Ren used Storm Flower's blades to deflect the attacks before managing to place Nolan's weapon behind the owner's head, leaving him trapped.
May decided to switch targets as Nolan struggles to get free.
"Nora!" Ren called, causing Jaune to glance at the sniper who has her eyes on the hammer wielder.
"Pyrrha! Up!" Jaine called as he catches Branwz's claws with his sword, causing Pyrrha to run towards him. The Mistral champion jumped onto Janue's shield before using to lauch herself upwards.
Pyrrha then raised her own shield to block the shot that would have hit Nora. This gave Nora the opportunity to reach the peak of the mountain before raising Magnhild into the air.
Bolts of lighting came down from the clouds and hit Magnhild directly. Nora then changed her hammer into it's grenade launcher form and started to fire at May.
The sniper of team BRNZ just had time to jump onto a different tree as the one she been on went up in pink flames.
Nora came crashing back down onto the field and slammed her hammer onto the ground, sending the other members of team BRNZ flying backwards. As team BRNZ re-grouped, Janue gained a idea.
"Nora! Hit them with your hammer!" Jaune called, causing Nora to smirk.
"On it!" Nora called back before rushing towards team BRNZ. "
What-!" Branwz just had time to say before Nora swing her hammer, sending him and the rest of his team flying out of the battle area.
"And there we have it folks! Team JNRP wins by a knockout, literally!...Can someone go and make sure that team BRNZ are okay." Professor Port said in a slightly worrying tone of voice.
"Well. That was a interesting match. Janue's improve a lot." Ruby commented, causing Weiss and Blake to nod their heads.
"Yang, is there something wrong?" Blake asked, looking at her golden hair partner who was frowning slightly and having her arms cross.
"Nora did the same thing as me. I don't like it." Yang replied in a slightly annoyed tone of voice.
The other members of team RWBY glanced at each other. "It isn't that important, right?" Weiss asked, causing Yang to shrug her shoulders.
"So, which teams are next?" Ruby asked, causing Weiss to look at her Scroll.
"Well, according to the program. It's team NDGO from Shade Vs...team SSSN from Haven." Weiss replied, saying the last part in surprise.
"Really?!" Ruby exclaimed in a excite tone of voice, causing the rest of her team to look at the silver eye girl strangely.
"What are you excited about, Rubes?" Yang asked with a raise eye-brow.
"Nothing!" Ruby replied, blushing slightly.
"Sure it is." Blake said whilst rolling her eyes. Yang stared at Ruby suspiciously before shrugging her shoulders.
"This will be exciting. I can't wait to see Neptune fighting." Weiss said with a smile on her face, causing the rest of team RWBY to look at each other confusedly.
After a short break, the next match between team NDGO and team SSSN is about to start.
"Well after that last match, Vacuo fans will be hurting after that one. However, this next match will have them on their seats." Doctor Oobeck explained as holograph screen showed a picture of four new challengers appears.
"Team NDGO of Shade is certainly a crowd favorite, but these lovely ladies are going against one of the toughest teams in this tournament, team SSSN!" Professor Port announced as the two teams walked onto the battle area.
"Go Sage!" Ruby shouted above the crowd, causing the green hair male to turn his head and wave at the silver eye girl.
Ruby began to smile. "He heard me! He heard me!" Ruby exclaimed in her head as she blush slightly.
"Wow. Sis must be into Sage very much." Yang thought in her head as she observe her little sister.
"Good luck, Neptune!" Weiss called sweetly.
"How sweet." Blake thought in her head as she look at Weiss.
With Neptune, the light-blue hair teen was waving until he saw team NDGO.
"Ladies." Neptune said in a confident tone of voice. However, these comment made Weiss angry as she stood up from her seat.
"Break his stupid face, NDGO!" Weiss called, making Blake shook her head slightly with a small smirk.
"Alright, girls, try and remember to keep hands above the waist." Neptune said as the two teams stood on opposite sides of the battle area.
"Just ignore him. He's...dump." Sage said in apologetic tone of voice to disgusted female team. The holographic roulette spin around before landing on a image of a sunny dunes and stone formations.
Before long, the real thing appeared as it came from below the battle area along with a small circular sun.
"Alright! Home field advantage!" Nebular Vilolette, a female with indigo coloured hair and olive eyes, said with a smile on her face.
"Hey! Don't get cocky. That's my home turf too!" Sun called, since he was originally came from Vacuo.
Scarlet looked down at his attire and frowned slightly. "I hope I don't get sand in my shoes." Scarlet muttered as the second holographic roulette spins. After a few seconds, it stopped on a symbol of a blue tidal wave.
"Hey! The ocean!" Dew, a female student with dark blond hair and violet eyes, pointed out, causing Neptune to become confuse.
The light-blue haired teen looked at the holographic screen around and his expression turned into horror as he gazed at the image.
"Er...what's wrong with Neptune?" Weiss asked, glancing at her teammates.
"Neptune...is afraid of water." Blake replied, causing Weiss to become wide eyed as a sandy beach along with a pirate ship appears.
"3...2...1...Begin!" Doctor Oobeck shouted, causing the crowd to roar with approval.
However, Neptune suddenly zoom passed through the opposing team and stopped at the top of the mountain.
"Neptune, what are you doing?!" Sage called to his teammate in a confused tone of voice.
"Er...you know, just gaining the higher ground!" Neptune called back whilst laughing nervously.
"On the enemy's side?!" Sun asked, exasperating. "
They would never expect it!" Neptune explained, causing Sun to let out a deep sigh whilst dropping his shoulders.
"He's not wrong though." Dew said to her fellow teammates.
"Open fire!" Nebular called, causing her team to charge forward just as Sun, Sage and Scarlet did the same.
Scarlet ditched his coat as he encounter Octavia, a female with brick red hair and olive green eyes, and started to attack her with his cutlass.
Octavia ducked under the swing and continue to run.
With Sage and Dew, the member of team NDGO swing her spear, managing to knock Sage back before creating three small twisters that kick up dust into Sage's face. The green hair male eyed the twisters before realizing what is going to happen.
He managed to jump out of the way as the three twisters formed together into a tornado.
Dew smirked as she watch Sage running away from tornado.
"Grrr. How can I turn things around?" Sage thought as he notice the smirking Dew.
"Oh. I will wipe that smirk off your face." Sage thought as a idea came into his head. He changed directions, heading straight towards Dew, making her go wide eyed.
"Heh! Let see how you can deal with your own attack?!" Sage called whilst smirking as he reached Dew and swing his sword. Dew blocked the attack before immediately running away from the tornado.
"It's not fun isn't it? Being chased by your own attack?" Sage asked as he chase Dew.
"Shut up." Came Dew's only reply.
Back with Octavia, the member of team NDGO appeared in front of Sun and Scarlet and swing her sword, producing a wave of fire which cause dust to fly into the two team SSSN member's eyes.
However, Sun managed to jump out of the cloud "Neptune!" The monkey Fanuns called his teammate, causing him to notice his team leader running away from the duel.
Neptune jumped down from his position whilst getting his weapon at the ready. Octavia attempted to blind Neptune with the sand,however, Neptune covered his eyes with his goggles.
Neptune then fired a bolt at Octavia who blocked it with her sword just before Sun appeared in front of her and sending a kick towards her face.
Becoming furious, Octavia bring her sword down onto Sun, who managed to block the attack with his red-staff.
Sun spin around, hitting Octavia in different parts of her body. Sun's finishing blow is a jab that caused Octavia to be knocked onto the ground.
"And it look likes that team SSSN are in the lead." Professor Port announced as a picture of Octavia on a holographic screen got crossed out.
"Yes. We're in the lead." Sun thought whilst smiling before focusing his attention back onto the fight.
And there we have it, a very long chapter containing both battles of team RWBY and team JNPR along with the beginning of team SSSN's battle, hope you like how I changed it with Sage still being in it. I hope that you also enjoy the scene between Ruby and Sage. Please review and until next time everyone.
ReaperStride: I hope that I'll get the developing stage right.