One I have not deleted chapters, I just took the first twelve chapters and condensed them into three. I'm planning on going through chapters one through thirty-eight and run them through Grammarly and proofread them. Just to fix most of the spelling errors in a lot of these earlier chapters.
Two, this is coming out on a Tuesday, because of finals week for school. In my classes, we ended up doing most of our finals the week before. So I had a lot of time spent writing this on my phone. So I thought, hell why not?
I'm almost done with the next chapter too so expect that sometime Wednesday.
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Ozpin looked out the window to peer at the setting sun. He walked back to his desk and pouring himself a drink from his teapot as he watches the roulette system deciding the finals match.
"Ah, yes, yes! Now, let's see who our first match of the finals will be!" Oobleck spoke from the booth.
Weiss stood alongside the eight other contenders at the randomizer cycled through their images until it settled on.
"Weiss Schnee versus Mercury Black!" Port announced.
"Break a leg, Weiss!" Ruby cried cupping her hands to make sure her encouragement is heard from her spot alongside R(W)BY, (J)NPR, and SSSN.
The crowd is, to say the least.
"Kick that Schnee butt back to Atlas!"
"Take her down!"
"Show her what Mistral's made of!"
"Murder her!"
"Kill! Kill! KILL!"
Was still upset.
Cinder smiles while getting up from her place in the stands and begins to walk out. As entertaining as the fight would be, she had to be elsewhere.
"Would all other combatants please leave the stage!"
The rest of the lineup does so, and Weiss starts walking up to Mercury in the middle as the floor around them opens once more, with a ring of spotlights rising up to automatically fix their lights on the remaining two.
Weiss smilies. "You'd better be prepared for the fight of your life."
Mercury laughed darkly. "People will be talking about this for a long ass time. I know it."
Both competitors face the crowds one last time, then slowly start advancing on each other, arms raised defensively until their hands can almost touch, as the final countdown commences.
"Three! Two! One! Begin!"
Immediately, Weiss uses a glyph to launch her self forwards, and Mercury spins his foot to meet it, creating a shockwave between the weapons that launch Weiss back.
Weiss blocked another kick from Mercury with her rapier but a blast from his boot sent her skidding back.
She shrugged through the pain and swept Myrtenaster before her, coating the ground with ice. A glyph flashed into life beneath her as she gave chase, her feet finding easy purchase atop the ice. Thrust, stab, high and low, alternating direction and tempo as she drove him back, never once giving him a chance to recover or retaliate.
He slipped and nearly fell, but caught himself on one hand and flipped back. Sweat beaded on his face as he fought both to protect himself and regain his balance.
She would not let him. Her next thrust pierced towards his neck, but he leaned away. Her lips turned up, the barrel in her weapon's chamber clicking into place. Flames burst from the blade, flying off to the side behind him. They didn't catch him, but the heat singed his eyes and earned a curse.
Mercury uses the distance quickly and aims at her feet with his boot, but she leaps back it and fires off a fireball that he rotates to avoid. His fist came around and skimmed her face as she rolled down and under. His foot stamped down, however, and crushed her left hand.
"Argh!" Tears stung at her eyes. The pain lanced up her arm. She did her best to ignore it, gripping the hilt of her weapon with her right hand and tearing it free from his leg. She rolled away, dragging her hand out from under him and cradling it. Her aura had protected her skin but did little for the bones inside.
One or two of them were broken or fractured. No amount of aura could protect her from all his weight striking down on her. She eyed his leg.
"See something you like?" Mercury laughed. "How is your hand, by the way?"
Crippled until her aura could deal with it. She let it hang limply at her side. She didn't need it she could fence with one hand as easily as two.
Weiss, after a moment, launches fireball after ice sickle only for Mercury to dodge each of them, sliding around the stage on ice until he attempts to come down on her with his leg.
She blocks and pushes away the attack, but he goes under her rapier and manages to land a kick on her, though she still lands in a crouch, now grimacing.
She launches forward and continues landing blow after blazing blow on him, right up to when he roundhouse kicks her in the back and attempts to hit her with his heel.
Mercury closes the distance yet again getting a fiery blast on his opponent at the cost of her also landing a blow on her She falls back on her feet when Mercury shoots himself into the air to get farther away from her, looking up and smiling.
Weiss began to analyze her foe. Taking everything she had gathered from that engagement.
Attacks to his legs will be useless.
"Myrtenaster is a precision weapon. Unless I hit an important area, I won't do enough overall damage to make a difference." She thought.
Having no idea what his fighting style was, it would be dumb luck to fight at him in his element.
"If I go for his lower body, it makes blocking easier on his end. He knows roughly where I'm coming from.
Weiss gets out just in time for Mercury to slam into the ground trying to get at her, but he leaps out and twirls to get a hit on her.
One of his kicks seems to pass over her, but then he brings it down hard enough to shatter the ground underneath, which Weiss narrowly rolls backward to avoid. They exchange blows after this attack until Mercury hits her backward, and he rushes forward only to receive a cut to his chin, then his torso, forcing him back.
Weiss starts raining down ice sickles once again, causing him to somersault back until one causes him to get knocked off of the stage. He saves himself by firing his boots downward and flying back in front of his enemy, unleashing a series of kicks that she deflects with her rapier. She ducks under one attack only to receive another as Mercury jumps into the air to knock her back, and he follows it up with a shot from his boots. Weiss avoids it effortlessly.
Switching tactics, Mercury starts shooting his foot out in every direction, each kick into the air accompanied by a silvery blast that are barely even aimed at Weiss. She dodges each one coming her way and gets in close through the circling barrage of shots, fighting extremely close and giving him no time to adapt.
Mercury kicks her into the air and knocks her right back to the ground, followed by the dozens of swirling shots that now converge right onto Weiss.
She quickly slammed Myrtenaster and created an ice shell around her. The blasts stop coming down on his opponent, Mercury gets up from his crouch and looks to the shell until erupts into flames sending steam everywhere.
Beep*
A sound comes through his earpiece and his momentary shock settles into another smile.
He turns around a few moments later to see the Wiess flying towards him at blinding speeds and actually slams her fist into his face sending him flying a few feet back.
Weiss rushes up avoiding each kick and even taking one just to pound at him with an unrelenting bombardment of jabs from her Myrtenaster. He has enough time to let out a pained groan before she kicks him in the stomach, his Aura sparkling up to try and defend him from the last hit to the face by Weiss.
He lands on his back as the buzzer sounds over the angry roars of the audience.
"What a way to kick off the finals!" Port shouts.
"Weiss Schnee wins!" Oobleck says while the stage is enclosed by the stadium floor again.
"Fucking Schnee bitch!"
"She cheated! No doubt she gods-damned cheated!"
"Boo!"
"Audience members," Oobleck speaks, though he knows there is little point. "Please try to be civilized."
Sun spreads his arms in excitement. "Yeah! That's my girl everyone! That's my GIRL!"
"Damn!" Yang cries impressed. "That was one hell of a sucker punch!"
"Heh, didn't know Weiss had it in her." Blake added.
Ruby jumped up. "Yay! That's our Weiss-Cream!"
They all saw Wiess turning to leave as Mercury ran up, shouting her down. He stopped just behind her with a hand extended out. As to shake hers.
Weiss turns to regard him before slashing her rapier our and cutting a massive line across his flesh, blood spewing everywhere.
Back in the ring Weiss still holding her rapier, stood collecting her self as her hand healed.
"That, " She panted. "Was and a good match." Weiss does curtsy then turns to leave.
"Oh, it's not over yet ice queen!" He says menacingly.
She turned to see him charging and it a panic swung her blade to block but instead slashing something invisible before her.
Mercury seemingly appeared before her with most of his heart cut open and blood leaking out.
"No!" Port cried from the commentator's booth.
Weiss just stood there.
Staring at the boy's bleeding form.
"Broadcast what are you doing!" Oobleck yelled through his earpiece. "Don't zoom in on it! Kill the feed!"
"We can't!" Someone cried back. "We don't have control over the cameras! We can't even shut off the broadcast."
"What?! How is that possible?!" He asked before a chess piece replace the images on every screen.
"Well, would you look at that." A feminine voice came through.
"Yet another Atlas atrocity committed. First, they charge into The Breach and clam all the glory when it was Vales valiantly huntsmen and huntresses that were first to the scene and containing the situation. Then Atlas arrests Sienna Khan and Jaune Arc, burning down what should have been a grand bridge to peace and an end to the violence perpetrated by The White Fang. Then Atlas attempts to rig the Vytal Festival in their favor."
Everywhere in the stadium people looked, not just to Weiss, but to the Atlas Academy students section.
"Atlas with its corrupt bureaucracy, where one man can have control of the military, the impressional student body, and hold two seats on their council. Commit cruel and unusual punishments to prisoners and then be used as a petty scapegoat when his usefulness runs out."
At Beacon, Jaune watches through Ruby's scroll at the speech until sounds of gunfire and screams fill his ears.
Jaune runs to the window and sees as White Fang members landing at the docks, gunning down students on sight.
A rocket hits one of the dorm buildings and he grabs Zwei and rushes out.
"How much longer will the White Fang allow this to stand? How long will the Arc family stand for this? Just how long will you Vacouons, Mistrians, and Valerians stand by and allow these symbols of tyranny just sit there and mock you?"
The anger was so thick Blake was wondering if she could cut it with a knife. Many in the crowd had risen up and begun moving in on the Atlas students.
"We need to get Wiess and leave right now." Blake said while standing.
"On it!" Sun jumped and immediately slammed into the barrier. "You know what? I'll take the stares."
"Attention! Incoming Grimm attack! That level nine! All citizens report to your shelters immediately!"
The alarms and announcement had shaken everyone out of there anger as the entire stadium paused to acknowledge the message.
"Threat level nine?" Blake thought. "Why is there a-" She looked around at the crowd. "Oh shit!"
With that said, a Giant Nevermore appears atop the arena's domed force field, giving a series of deafening screeches as it claws and pecks at the defense with its beak.
In the headmaster's office, Ozpin is gripping his cane tight, watching the city and the school come under attack.
Glynda rushes in. "Ozpin the school!"
"Get to the city!" He orders
"But-"
"NOW! I'll deal with The White Fang!"
Glynda gave a grave look before going back into the elevator.
Meanwhile, Mountain Glenn roars to life as every Grimm lurking there from Beowolves to Boarbatusks, Ursas, Nevermores, and even lumbering Goliaths rush towards Vale's walls.
"Colonel Stubbs! Grimm and The White Fang are hitting us in droves and we're badly outnumbered! What are your orders!" There was static. "Colonel Stubbs?" More static. "Damn it is anyone there!"
He doesn't know that the bridge of the Chimera is wrecked, computers sparking and men down as Neo walks casually through the destruction. She makes her way to the prison section and opens the door of a cell with a devious grin.
"Ah! Neo is it that time already?" Roman asks.
Neo doesn't reply and instead throws him his hat and cane.
"Ah, perfect!" Roman walks over the opposing cell and Neo opens it.
Sienna looks surprised to see Torchwick of all people standing there. "How did-?"
"Doesn't matter Tiger lady. You're coming with us."
