Here we are at Chapter 41. Time for Yang and Weiss to have their battle. Not much Team KEPL screen time in this one, just as a word of warning. I do not own RWBY. They belong to Roosterteeth. I only own my OCs. Here's chapter 41. Enjoy.
Chapter 41: Never Miss a Beat
…In the Amnity Coliseum…
A few minutes later, the announcements come on, "Our next match will begin in fifteen minutes," Port announces.
"Oh my gosh, that's right! It's time for-," Ruby energetically begins.
"Welp, now it's our turn," Yang says as she stretches her arms and stands next to Weiss in the arena.
"Just remember to keep proper form," Weiss reminds her.
"Alright," Yang reluctantly agrees. "You're from Atlas. What could we expect?" Yang asks as she continues stretching her limbs.
"Well, seeing as their kingdom, academy, and armed forces are all merged as one, I think we can expect strict militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategy," Weiss explains.
Suddenly, something races behind them, with a rainbow trailing behind the object, and spooks them as it moves around to be in front of them. They then get a good look at their opponents. The first one is named Flynt Coal, a young man with dark skin and brown eyes. He is wearing rectangular sunglasses and a dark fedora with a blue trim on his head, and an earring on his right ear. He is wearing a dark vest over an unbuttoned white and untucked dress shirt, with a loose tie wrapped around the collar, a pair of dark dress pants, silver dress shoes, and a dark glove on his left hand. He is holding a silver trumpet as his weapon. Next to him is Neon Katt, a young female feline Faunus with a light complexion, green eyes, and moderate-orange hair tied up in two ponytails with light blue streaks. On her rear waist is a long tail with pink fur, the pink becoming lighter towards the tip. She is wearing a light blue tank top on top of a dark purple bra, dark purple short shorts under a pink combat mini-skirt, and a white belt with a yellow winking smiley face on the buckle. She has two buttons fixed to her tank top above her right breast, one purple with a cat design and another green one with a heart. She also has on a white cat bell collar around her neck, a pair of bracers on her arms and pads on her shins and knees. She is wearing roller blades, and has a tattoo of a shooting star with a red, green, and yellow trail winds around her right arm. She is wielding a pair of nunchucks. She is the one that previously zoomed behind Weiss and Yang.
"Ooor, whatever they are," Weiss ends while Yang is still jawstrucked.
"Hey," Flynt says, getting Weiss' attention. "You're Weiss Schnee right? The heiress," he says.
"I am," Weiss replies.
"I take it you're pretty good with dust then," Flynt says.
"I do my best," Weiss says humbly.
"Yeah, my dad was good too. Owned a little dust shop of his own..." Flynt says nicely before losing his nice demeanor, "Til your father's company ran him out of business," Flynt says coldly.
"Oh…I'm sorry to hear that," Weiss apologizes, feeling bad about that.
"Sure you are," Flynt sarcastically says, not buying it.
Yang then defends Weiss, "Hey, why don't you-,"
"Hey, why don't you," Neon interrupts her. "That's what you sound like," Neon taunts her, making Yang stop.
"Uhhhh," Yang stutters, rubbing her head.
"Hey, where'd you get your hair extensions?" Neon asks.
"This is just my normal hair," Yang replies.
"Ooooh really?" Neon replies.
Yang gets irritated, "Yeah, is that a pro-," she begins.
"You should try roller blading sometime," Neon begins as she rolls around on her roller blades. "It's super fun. It'd probably take you a while though since your so, you know, TOP heavy," Neon mocks her.
Yang looks down at her chest before replying, "EXCUSE ME?!" She yells.
"Oh, here we go," Ruby mutters as she shakes her head and rolls her eyes in the stands.
"Why that little-let me at her! Let me at her!" Porphyrius angrily shouts as Reaper and Lloyd hold him back from jumping into the arena to defend Yang.
The arena opens up around them and a moment later, they are surrounded by four different sections: a geyser field behind Yang and Weiss, a ruined city to their left, a lava field behind Flynt and Neon, and a desert field to Yang and Weiss' right.
"Let's see how the girls handle themselves in this match," Reaper says, having let go of Porphyrius after he calmed down.
"3…2…1…"Port begins as Flynt and Neon take their positions, which confuse Yang and Weiss. "…Begin!" Port announces and the battle begins.
Immediately, Flynt plays his trumpet, which sends out soundwaves from the horn at Yang and Weiss, forcing them back a little. Neon moves in front of Flynt, riding along with the soundwaves towards Yang and Weiss. Weiss conjures a glyph under her to keep her from falling back from Flynt's attack. Meanwhile, Neon knocks Yang back and races past her into the ruined city section while Weiss and Flynt face off as he stops his first attack. Flynt plays his trumpet again, sending out more soundwaves, but Weiss uses one glyph to move to one side to avoid it and then creates more black glyphs as she walks towards Flynt, using them to keep her steady. However, Flynt stops his attack, causing Weiss to run forward because of her glyphs, and as she runs past him, he kicks her in the back, sending her crashing into some red dust crystals and onto the ground in the lava field section, with Flynt walking towards her as he continues to smirk at her.
Meanwhile, Neon races around on her roller blades in the ruined city section as Yang chases her, firing off shots from her shotgun gauntlets, but none of the rounds make a hit. Neon jumps up to avoid two more shots and skids across a railway, looking back and sticking her tongue at Yang like a child as she continues to taunt her. Yang growls and fires off more shots as Neon evades them by skating across more pieces of destroyed buildings.
"Never miss a beat. Never miss a beat…Never miss a beat. Never miss a beat," Neon ells herself as she continues to evade Yang's attacks and skids down an edge of a building rooftop.
Neon races down one part of a building, dodging another shot from Yang, before she lands on the ground and zig-zags towards Yang, swinging her nunchucks around as she hits Yang. Neon then makes a flurry of attacks with her nunchucks at Yang, coming in from different angles as she uses her speed to her advantage, dealing ten strikes. After the tenth strike, Yang gets angrier as she cocks her shotgun gauntlets and looks at Neon. Neon bends her nunchucks, making them glow a light blue before she comes at Yang again. As Yang throws a right punch, Neon ducks under her and hits her right leg. Yang feels something different and looks down to see her right leg encased in ice.
Neon giggles, "Look! Now you're bottom heavy too!" she mocks her, smacking her butt.
Yang growls and slams her right foot onto the ground, breaking the ice, but then looks back as Neon comes at her again, hitting her left arm and encasing it in ice as well. Neon then races around some parts of the ruined city, skidding across a railway before weaving around some building parts, and then races back at Yang before kicking her into a wall, cracking it.
"You should cool off," Neon mocks her as Yang gets back up. "Get it? Because you're angry," she mocks her again.
"Come on, Yang. Wipe that smile off her face!" Porphyrius cheers for her.
Yang growls, showing a very annoyed expression on her face as she frees her left arm from the ice by smashing it into the wall behind her, breaking both the ice AND the wall. Back with Weiss and Flynt, Weiss swings her rapier around as she makes four small glyphs around her, spinning her body around four times before shooting off four ice shards from the glyphs at Flynt. Flynt looks down and smiles, spins his body before back-flipping and sliding on the ground. He then plays his trumpet again as a fire plume explodes in front of him, and uses his soundwaves to push the plume forwards, melting the ice shards. Flynt gets back to his feet.
"Too bad all that money can't buy you skill," he taunts her, twirling his trumpet in his right hand.
Up in the stands, Khazhak crosses his arms and narrows his eyes, "Those two are letting their opponents get in their heads. A rookie mistake that may cost them dearly," he thinks.
Weiss gets aggravated and spins the revolving chamber in her rapier, landing on a silver dial. Weiss aims her rapier at Flynt and sends out a twister of wind, which he blocks with his soundwaves. As this occurs, Weiss conjures up several glyphs in a circle formation around them. Weiss then shoots around to each glyph, shooting ice shards that hit Flynt from different angles. After a few hits, Flynt stomps his right foot on the ground and prepares to play again. As Weiss moves around, suddenly one Flynt becomes four Flynts, each with a different colored tie and hat. The four Flynts play all their trumpets together, and the combined soundwaves hit and knock Weiss back.
"Woah," Jaune says, surprised at the attack.
"What's this?" Port asks.
"It appears young Flynt has just activated his semblance, and quite a remarkable one at that," Oobleck begins. "Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Flynt Coal's 'killer quartet," Oobleck says as the four Flynts spins the hats around in style.
The Flynts look to the big screen above them showing their aura levels, showing that he and Neon have a higher aura level than Weiss and Yang. Flynt calmly walks forward as the other three Flynts retreat back into him, stopping his semblance. Meanwhile, Neon races over another broken rooftop, flipping over it, with Yang trailing her, showing that her eyes have turned red from her anger.
"Oooh, flashy eyes. You know you're actually kind of pretty when you're angry," Neon continues to mock her as she looks back at Yang.
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Yang quickly yells, firing her shotguns behind her and propelling her forward at Neon as her eyes turn lilac purple again.
Back with Weiss, Weiss lays on the ground as she looks up to see Flynt step on her rapier, and reaches for it as he looks down on her.
"Get back here!" they here and look to Weiss' right to see Neon skating around Yang.
"I wasn't trying to say you SHOULD go on a diet. I was saying you really NEED to go on a diet," Neon mocks her again.
"THAT'S IT!" Yang angrily shouts.
"You're fat," Neon says.
Flynt looks at Weiss before turning to Yang and activates his killer quartet again, aimed at Yang. Weiss looks down to see a fire plume about to explode, and then makes a daring move. She tackles Flynt to the ground, deactivating his semblance as they are both caught in the fire plume explosion, and a buzzer sound is heard.
"What?" Yang looks back at them.
"WEISS!" Ruby and Blake yell, worried about Weiss.
"Damn," Khazhak swears as his team look on in shock.
"It appears we have a DOUBLE knock out on our hands!" Port announces.
"In fact, it looks as though Miss Schnee's completely depleted. She sacrificed herself to save to take out Flynt," Oobleck adds before they look back. "Wait a minute. What's this?" Oobleck says.
As the smoke clears, Flynt is seen staggering back to his feet, having not been eliminated yet.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Flynt Coal remains standing," Port announces as the big screen shows Weiss' aura level down to zero while Flynt's is just barely above the red zone at sixteen.
Yang looks back as Flynt walks away from a charred up unconscious Weiss laying on the ground, with Neon skating to him.
"You did it, Flynt! Don't worry about her, she's easy, but kind of annoying," Neon says, whispering the last part.
Yang starts to get REALLY angry at this point, cracking her knuckles as the ground around her and in the lava field shakes from her heat and anger.
"Ooh, it looks like Yang's angry, and you wouldn't like her when she's…" Port begins as Yang screams in complete rage. "…Upset," he ends as Yang explodes from her semblance, with six fire plumes exploding behind her and her eyes turning red.
Yang then fires off two powerful shots from her shotgun gauntlets at Flynt and Neon, the shots barely missing them and destroying the ground around them.
"Yo Neon, go!" Flynt says and plays his trumpet again, with Neon racing by him.
Yang jumps into the soundwaves, and fires her gauntlets behind her to propel her forward. Yang then throws a series of punches at neon, who dodges them, and then Yang jumps up into the air, firing off more shots that break apart the arena floor. As Yang fires off more shots, Flynt moves his trumpet left, casing Neon to move with his soundwaves. However, Neon begins to lose control of her movements as Yang's shots destroy and later the ground around her. One shot causes a large piece of the arena floor to bend upwards. Neon accidently rides the piece and ends up skating into the geyser section of the arena. Meanwhile, Yang lands back on the ground and starts running forward, then shoots her weapons behind her again, shooting herself into the air towards Flynt. Flynt activates his semblance again, with his three clones behind him, and they play their trumpets, aimed at Yang. Yang fires her gauntlets to propel her towards Flynt, screaming, and when she gets close, she crushes the windpipe of the trumpet with her hands. The action makes the soundwaves burst out backwards at Flynt, ending his semblance and knocking him onto the ground of the desert section or the arena as the buzzer goes off, signifying Flynt's elimination.
"Oh, sour note for Flynt," Oobleck says.
Yang slides back and then looks to her right to see Neon skating across the geyser field, but is having some trouble on the rough terrain.
"Never miss a beat. Never miss a beat. Never miss a…" Neon says until her left roller blade hits a rock and knocks her off balance," Beat!" Neon cries as she falls.
Neon starts tumbling around on the ground until she rolls into a geyser that explodes, sending her straight up into the air, screaming. Yang smiles and fires off a shot from her right gauntlet. The shot hits Neon in the air, exploding like a firework, and a buzzer sound goes off as Neon gets eliminated and the match ends. Yang pumps her right fist in victory and calms down as her semblance ends. She catches her breath as the crowd clap and cheer for her. But then she remembers something important.
"Weiss!" Yang says, her eyes returning to normal, and runs over to her teammate. Yang runs to Weiss and gets down as Weiss begins to sit up, pain etched on her soot covered face, along with the rest of her body covered in soot except for her eyes. "Weiss, are you okay?!" Yang asks, concerned as she helps Weiss sit up.
Weiss coughs three times, smoke coming out of her mouth, and looks at Yang.
"I may not be singing for a while," she weakly replies.
Happy to see she's okay, Yang smiles at Weiss, "You know, I'm not sure that was proper form," she teases her.
"Oh ha-ha," Weiss begins before she starts coughing again.
"WHAT?!" they hear some shrieking and look over to Neon, without her color, and Flynt struggling to get back on his feet. "We lost?! We lost?! Team FNKI (Funky) LOST?!" That was…That was…AMAZING!" Neon says, getting her color back and rainbow stars in her eyes as she cheers. "Oh my gosh, you guys were super crazy awesome. We should definitely party together sometime. Right Flynt?" Neon says, then looks to Flynt.
Flynt stands up, "That was a gutsy move, Schnee…I dig it," he says, losing his anger towards her.
Yang and Weiss smile at them and then look to see Ruby and Blake running towards them.
"Good job you two!" Blake congratulates them as she and Ruby sit down next to Weiss.
"Yeah!" Ruby adds as she wraps her arms around Weiss.
Up in the stands, Khazhak looks down before closing his eyes, smiling, and then he and his team leave the stands.
"Team KEPL, stay and congratulate the girls on their victory, then return to our dorm room and wait for me there," Khazhak says.
"Okay…but what are you gonne do, brother?" Lloyd asks.
"Something's been bothering me lately, and I'll bet Ozpin knows something about it. So, I'm going to have a little chat with our esteemed headmaster," Khazhak says before taking his leave.
…In Ozpin's office…
Ozpin sits in his chair, looking out his window. A moment later, Qrow comes out from the elevator, holding a mug in his hands with probably an alcoholic drink in it. Qrow walks up to Ozpin's desk.
"You know he's making you look like a fool," Qrow says, talking about Ironwood.
"His heart is in the right place…He's just…misguided," Ozpin replies.
"Sometimes I'm not even sure he HAS a heart," Qrow says before drinking his mug for a moment. "So, have you chosen your guardian yet?" Qrow asks.
"Maidens choose themselves," Ozpin begins as he turns his chair around to face Qrow. "I simply believe I've found the right candidate. Ever since the day I met her, I had a feeling she would be the one. She's strong, intelligent, caring, but most importantly…She's ready," Ozpin says while Pyrrha Nikos enters an elevator to take her to his office.
However, Pyrrha never notices Khazhak watching her from the shadows.
Khazhak thinks to himself, "What's Pyrrha doing here? Ozpin must have called her, but for what I don't know. Well then…Time to find out what's REALLY going on here…Once and for all."
And that's the chapter. Yang and Weiss move on to the one-on-one finals. And Khazhak goes to discover some truths from Ozpin, and they may involve Pyrrha. What secrets await Khazhak? What does Ozpin want with Pyrrha Nikos? Until then, please Read and Review.
