Here we are at Chapter 40. Let's get underway with the next part of the tournament. I do not own RWBY. They belong to Roosterteeth. I only own my OCs. Here's chapter 40. Enjoy.


Chapter 40: Dominance

In the Amnity Coliseum…

Explosions ring out around the arena as Russel Thrush of Team CRDL runs to a mountain section of the arena, jumping over some rocks before looking back and using them as cover. Apparently, he and Sky Lark have been matched to go up against Penny and her partner in the doubles round. Penny calmly stands in the center of the arena with her partner standing behind her. Her partner is a young girl with dark skin and short, navy blue hair, blue eyes, and a gold marking consisting of an oval shape surrounded by four smaller circles in the center of her forehead. She is wearing a blue beret, a plain gray buttoned-down shirt with an asymmetrical collar, a blue combat skirt, and fingerless elbow-length black gloves with a wristwatch on her left hand. Penny pulls out several of her floating blades, spinning them around before she throws them at Russel. Russel ducks behind a boulder for cover as the blades shoot over at him, impaling themselves into the rock. Penny pulls out a second set, spinning them around, and then doing a front flip as she throws this set, this time aimed at Sky Lark. As they shoot over to him, Sky uses is halberd as a jump pole to push him over a rock that the blades impale themselves in, with him landing behind the rock. Sky looks at Russel, worried, while Russel just looks back at Penny.

Penny smiles and looks to her partner, who just raises an eyebrow while pointing at her wristwatch, signaling her to finish the match. Penny looks back and raises her arms into the air, making the blades lift the boulders, and the two boys holding onto them, into the air. Then Penny smashes the boulders, and the two boys, into the ground, breaking them apart and taking out the rest of Sky's and Russel's aura levels. The buzzer goes off as Penny retracts her swords back into her backpack.

"And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!" Oobleck announces while Penny gives a martial artist bow to her opponents, and her partner has her hands on her hips.

"Thank you for a wonderful time," Penny happily says to her opponents.

Russel raises his head while still on the ground and reaches out to them, only for a rock to land on his head, knocking him out as Penny and her partner walk away.

Back in the stands, Teams RWBY and KEPL watch Penny's victory, and Ruby and Khazhak go to congratulate their friend. As Penny and her partner walk through the stands, Ruby and Khazhak appear behind them.

"Penny!" Ruby happily calls out.

"Ruby, Khazhak!" Penny says, happy to see them, and runs to them.

Khazhak quickly pushes Ruby in front of him, only for Penny to tackle her to the ground in a bone-crushing hug.

"Whhyyyyyyy," Ruby painfully mutters.

"Good to see you too, Penny," Khazhak greets them.

"Ruby, Khazhak, this is my teammate," Penny motions to her partner as she quickly gets back up, with Ruby slowly rising in pain.

"Ciel Soleil," Ciel introduces herself.

"Hi, I'm Ru-," Ruby begins.

"Ruby Rose, 15, hails from Patch, leader of Team RWBY. Status…questionable," Ciel speaks about Ruby, eliciting a frown from Khazhak.

"And I'm-," Khazhak begins.

"Khazhak Rairyu, 17, home unknown, leader of Team KEPL. Status…even more questionable," Ciel interrupts him, earning a low growl from Khazhak.

"Sooooo, Penny, you two were incredible out there. How do you keep control of those swords? It's so cool-," Ruby says.

"Penny, I believe it is best if we move on to our next location," Ciel tells her while pointing at her wristwatch.

Penny looks at Ruby and Khazhak before speaking to Ciel, "Could we have just a minute to talk?" Penny suggests.

Ciel looks at her wristwatch for a moment before she steps back and nods her head at her. Penny, Ruby, and Khazhak turn away to talk more privately.

"So, is she your friend, or…" Ruby trails off.

"Doesn't look that way to me. More like an emotionless soldier ordered to be here," Khazhak notes bitterly.

"Well, in a way…she's like Blake, but if Blake was ordered to spend time with you," Penny replies.

"Oh, so basically Weiss," Khazhak says.

"Precisely," Penny replies.

"Does she know about…you know, beep-boop-bop, does not compute," Ruby says, making robot moves with her arms, dangling her right arm with a creaking noise coming from it.

Penny shakes her head, "Oh no, General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know. There was an incident with a magnet, but I was able to play it off," Penny says.

Flashback…

Sometime earlier, back in the fairgrounds, Penny is wearing a wide-rimed hat on her head while standing next to Ciel, who is looking away. A gust of wind blows by, making the hat float up, revealing a circle-shaped magnet on her head. However, Penny quickly pulls the hat back down just as Ciel looks back at her, giving her an innocent smile.

Flashback end…

Ruby and Penny laugh while Khazhak just chuckles at that story.

"Ruby, there's something I've been wanting to talk to you about," Penny says as they stop laughing and looks back to Ciel, who is busy watching her wristwatch. Penny looks back to them, "I want to stay at Beacon," she confesses.

"Penny, they'll never let you do that," Ruby says, losing her smile.

"Yeah, you may be a friend and a normal girl to us, but to them, you're just a tool," Khazhak sadly adds.

"I know, but I have a plan," Penny reassures them as Ciel steps up to them.

"It's been precisely ONE minute, ma'am," Ciel reminds her, pointing at her wristwatch.

"I'll talk to you more soon, Ruby, Khazhak," Penny says before she and Ciel turn to leave, but Penny turns and waves back to them with a smile, which Ruby and Khazhak return.

"Our next match will begin in fifteen minutes," Port announces over the speakers.

"Time for me to go," Khazhak says as he turns to leave.

"Oh yeah, you're match is up next. I'll be cheering for you, Khazhak," Ruby excitedly says.

Khazhak then pets her head, making her smile even more.

"If that's the case, then I guess I have no choice but to win," he says and walks to the arena.

With their two teams, Porphyrius stands up to go join up with Khazhak since him and Khazhak will be fighting in their doubles round. As Porphyrius walks away, Yang quickly catches up to him.

"Hey, Porphyrius," she calls out.

Porphyrius turns to her, "What's up Yang?" he asks.

Yang then leans in to his ear, "You win this match, and you'll get a special reward from me~," she whispers, making him blush.

"Um, uh, y-yeah, sure, I-I'll be sure to do that," Porphyrius stutters, quickly walking away while Yang giggles at his reaction.

Porphyrius joins up with Khazhak, who smirks at him.

"You're looking a little red, Porphyrius," he teases him.

Porphyrius covers his cheeks with his collar, "No, I'm not…Shut up," he retorts.

They step into the center of the arena and look ahead to see their opponents. The first opponent is a young girl with shoulder-length black hair, a fair complexion, and light green eyes. She is wearing a light green tunic of sorts with brown edging, with the tunic mainly covering the left side of her torso diagonally and having only a left sleeve, and then covering only a little of her right side. Under the tunic is a tight-fitting sleeveless brown shirt with light green edging. She has on a brown shoulder guard on her right shoulder, over a detached light green sleeve with brown edging. Around the tunic is a brown belt with a silver buckle. She is wearing brown pants with a light green belt, a pouch on her left hip, and brown and light green shoes. In her right hand, is a glaive with a light green edged blade, a brown staff with a few light green segments on it, a light green gun handle at the center, and a light green gun barrel at the end of the staff.

The second opponent is a tall, young man with a fair complexion, short spikey brown hair, blue eyes, and a noticeable scar in between his eyebrows. He is wearing a tight-fitting sleeveless brown shirt with sliver studs on the shoulders, and gray lines going down vertically and diagonally on the shirt. He is wearing brown shoulder pads with gray metal edging, with a small metal shoulder shield attached to the left shoulder pad. He has on a pair of brown fingerless gloves with metal studs at the wrists, a brown belt with a silver buckle, white pants with gray lines on the slides, and brown boots. Resting on his right shoulder is a battle axe with the blades having a brown edging, and a spiked end at the end of the staff part of the axe. They have been registered as Midori Kaze and Bruno Zerstorer, respectively, part of Team UMBR (Umber) from Atlas Academy.

"So, you're our opponents today?" Bruno says, emitting a slight German accent.

"Is that going to be a problem for you? I know you wanted to win this tournament, but sadly that dream is gonna have to come crashing down," Porphyrius taunts him.

"Actually no, I'm glad you're fighting us. Because now I can show that hot blonde you were talking to earlier what a real man looks like. Who knows, maybe after the tournament, we can go somewhere for a 'private' training lesson," Bruno mocks them, before looking at Yang and winking at her.

The gesture makes Yang shudder in disgust, with the rest of Teams RWBY and KEPL looking on wide-eyed to the arena. Khazhak looks at Porphyrius and can see him grinding his teeth, seething with anger.

"Khazhak, PLEASE let me have that one!" Porphyrius growls, eyeing Bruno.

"He's ALL yours, Porphyrius. Personally, I'm more interested in his partner," Khazhak says as he stares down Midori, who is shaking her head at her partner's antics.

Midori looks back at Khazhak, "I saw your match in the team rounds. For half of it, you practically danced around all four of your opponents by yourself without any issue. I must admit, I was hoping to fight you one-on-one," Midori says.

"Trust me, you're going to wish you WEREN'T fighting me today. Prepare to be judged," Khazhak taunts as the arena roulettes begin spinning.

A moment later, the arena changes, with one section being a desert with rock formations, a ruined city, a grassland, and an ice section. The four fighters prepare their weapons as they wait for the match to begin.

"3, 2, 1…Begin!" Oobleck announces and the match begins.

Khazhak jumps back while Porphyrius immediately rushes at Bruno, firing his rifles while Bruno blocks them with his axe as a shield. When he gets close, Bruno swings his axe at Porphyrius, but he jumps over him, firing his rifles which hit their mark, and then lands behind him to run to the ruined city section of the arena, with Bruno giving chase. Meanwhile, Midori follows Khazhak into the grasslands sections of the arena behind him, who patiently waits for her. Midori then runs at Khazhak, twirling her glaive until she gets close and swings downwards on him, only for Khazhak to deflect the strike with his left blade and then kick her in the stomach. Midori regains her footing and looks back to Khazhak, who just smirks at her. Midori growls and then swings her glaive around to point the gun barrel at him, firing off a few shots, but Khazhak blocks them by swinging his swords around at the bullets. Midori then switches back to the blade end of her weapon and charges at Khazhak again. When she gets close, Khazhak swings his right blade at her, colliding with her weapon, and then pushes her back with an upward slash of his left sword. As she stops skidding back, Khazhak combines his swords into their dual spear form, twirling it above him before resting it behind him and then jumping into the air. While in mid-air, Khazhak fires off the sword gun aimed behind him, shooting him towards Midori. Midori jumps back as he slams his dual spear into the ground, making a small crater. Midori retaliates by running at Khazhak again, the two of them clashing their weapons together.

Meanwhile, Porphyrius is running around pieces of destroyed buildings in the ruined city section, with Bruno trailing behind him as he smashes through the pieces by swinging his axe around. When the path is clear, Bruno aims his axe at Porphyrius, who takes cover inside what looks like a damaged gas station, and hits a button, firing off the bladed head of the axe towards the building. The axe head smashes through the gas station, making it fall part onto the ground. Bruno retracts his axe and walks up to the remains of the building as the smoke clears, only to see that Porphyrius is nowhere in sight. Bruno looks around, shocked, and then gets hit in the back of the head by a bullet. Bruno rubs his head as he looks back to see Porphyrius running at him from his rear. Bruno swings his axe sideways at him, but Porphyrius slides under the strike, slashing his right blade at Bruno's legs, making him fall to one knee. Bruno gets back up, only to see Porphyrius jump over him, land in front of him and then backflip kick him in the face. As Bruno lands, he rolls back onto his feet, only to get hit by a rain of bullets as Porphyrius fires his rifles at him. Getting mad, Bruno fires his axe head at Porphyrius again, but Porphyrius jumps over it and away from Bruno as he starts running away from him again, with Bruno chasing him.

Back with Khazhak, he spins his dual spear around before he deflects another strike from Midori, making her stumble back as he charges up his semblance.

"LIGHTNING OBLIVION!" he yells as he swings his weapon, sending out a swarm of lightning bolts that hit the ground and explode around Midori, disorienting her.

When the smoke clears, Midori looks to see Khazhak right in front of her, swinging his dual spear around to knock her weapon away and deal three strikes at her before side kicking her away next to her weapon. Midori picks up her weapon and fires more rounds at Khazhak, which he blocks by spinning his weapon in front of him as a shield. After the failed attack, Midori runs at Khazhak again, swinging low at his feet. Khazhak jumps over her swing and then blocks another strike from her weapon, which sends him backwards, but he easily lands back on his feet. Midori charges him again, twirling her weapon around before she spins her body around and then swings at Khazhak. However, Khazhak blocks the blade with his left gauntlet, then grabs her weapon and swings his upwards, nailing her into the air. In slow motion, Khazhak grabs her left ankle, and then in normal motion, slams her into the ground before swinging her around, and then throwing her into an ice rock in the ice section behind them. As she falls to the ground, Khazhak spins his weapon around as he charges up his semblance. Midori slowly gets back up, but it's too late.

"LIGHTNING DEVASTATION!" Khazhak yells as he swings his dual spear, sending out a buzzsaw of blue lighting that smashes into Midori in a big explosion.

The attack takes out the rest of her aura, eliminating her from the match as she lies on the ground, unconscious.

"Oooooh, and with that, Khazhak eliminates Midori in an overwhelming display!" Oobleck says as the buzzer goes off.

Meanwhile, Porphyrius continues to run away from Bruno, firing off shots at him, with only a few hitting their mark. Bruno deflects the rest with his axe, and gets increasingly agitated with Porphyrius.

"Stop running and fight me, you coward!" he yells before firing his axe head again at him.

Porphyrius rolls underneath the strike and then backflips out of the way as Bruno retracts his axe back to him. When Porphyrius lands, he sees Bruno make a swing at him, and jumps over the attack. As Bruno stops his attack, Porphyrius lands on the blade of his axe, making him look up only to get kicked in the face. As Bruno stumbles back, Porphyrius starts up his semblance, aiming his rifles at Bruno.

"Dark Void Anchor!" he yells, firing off his gravity shots that hit Bruno's axe, and then Bruno. Bruno kneels to the ground, unable to move or lift his weapon because of the gravity shots holding him down. He looks up to see Porphyrius walking up to him. "Now I really don't care about what you say about me, or my teammates," Porphyrius begins as he leans in with his face close to Bruno's, staring him down. "But you don't EVER say anything that disrespectful to Yang," he threatens him.

Porphyrius then swings his blades upwards, knocking Bruno into the air, simultaneously deactivating his semblance. Porphyrius then fires his rifles at Bruno in mid-air, hitting him with a storm of bullets, and taking out the rest of his aura. Bruno lands on the ground, unconscious, as the buzzer goes off, eliminating him and ending the match.

"And with, Khazhak and Porphyrius are victorious. The two members of Team KEPL move on to the singles round as Team KEPL completely dominates their opponents once again," Oobleck announces.

"Yes, I believe I can say that whoever has to face them in the singles matches, they are in for a world of hurt," Port adds.

Khazhak and Porphyrius leave the arena and join their other teammates in the stands. As they link up, Team RWBY joins them.

"Nice work guys," Blake congratulates them.

"Yeah, you did awesome! Those guys didn't stand a chance!" Ruby cheers.

"Thanks for the support, little rose," Khazhak says while affectionately petting her head, making her smile even more.

Porphyrius looks behind them to see Yang motioning with her right index finger for him to come to her. Porphyrius walks up to her.

"Um, hey Yang. We won," he says.

"Yep, you sure did. Now I believe I owe you a little something," she says and leans in to plant a kiss on his cheek, making him blush madly. She giggles, "That was for taking out that pervert who tried to hit on me," she says.

"So, that was my reward?" Porphyrius asks, hand on his left cheek, still blushing.

"No, that was a bonus. Your reward is going out with me on a date after the tournament. I mean, if you want too," Yang says, suddenly becoming a little bashful with her hands behind her back.

Porphyrius shakes his head out of his stupor, "Ah, uh, YES! Yes, I'll go out with you!" he quickly replies.

Yang's smile gets bigger, "Awesome! Just remember to take me to somewhere I'll like," she says while rubbing her right hand under his chin as she walks by him, making him melt to the ground.

The members of Team RWBY and Lloyd laugh while Khazhak and Reaper help Porphyrius get back on his feet. They try to get him to wake up as Yang and Weiss walk away.

"Wow," Porphyrius says, looking as if he's dreaming.

"Yep, he's out," Khazhak flatly says, smacking his face for good measure.

Yang and Weiss leave, getting ready for their match.


And that's the chapter. Once more, Team KEPL proves their dominance in the tournament, and Porphyrius gets the girl as a bonus. Next time, we'll have Yang and Weiss in their battle. Will Yang and Weiss win in their fight? Will Khazhak be able to wake Porphyrius up from La-La Land? What awaits our teams in the future? Until then, please Read and Review.