Here we are at Chapter 25. First off, for the one who answered my question on the last scene from the previous chapter, yes it was from Infinite Stratos (good anime). Anyway, time for more matches and more fun. I do not own RWBY. They belong to roosterteeth. I only own my OCs. Here's chapter 25. Enjoy.
Chapter 25: Never Miss a Beat
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.
"Penny was awesome out there. Oh, I'll be right back!" Ruby gets out of her seat to go down and congratulate her friend.
"Penny is certainly strong. The way she uses those swords is so unique," Voshkie'ahk notes.
"Looks like she'll be one of the top contenders for the finals. Of course, we plan on winning the whole thing. Starting with our next match. Right, Weiss?" Yang playfully nudges Weiss' shoulder.
Weiss has been silent pretty much since her big declaration last night. And her face was red for a long while before she finally fell asleep. She didn't give the others much time to ask about the matter before she went to bed. Honestly, the group didn't know what to say. Blake was just going with it, as was Voshkie'ahk, Ruby gave no reaction, and Yang... well.
"Well, while we have this chance, let's chat for a moment. I'll be right back guys," Yang says and pulls Weiss out of the room, only to slam her against a wall, scaring Weiss out of her stupor now. "Now then, Weiss Schnee, let me make myself clear. I'm actually a little glad that it was you and not some perverted guy that wanted to date my little sister. That's a few less problems for me to deal with. Plus, I know you and trust you, so you have my blessing to date Ruby... That being said," she leans in real close, making Weiss even more scared. "You break my sister's heart, and I'll break every last one of your bones, starting with your toes and working my way up to your skull. Got it?" she asks the last question with a sweat smile and innocent voice, but the dark aura she exudes is anything but innocent. Weiss meekly nods her head fast as her only reply. "Great, then it's settled. Come on, we should get ready. I think our match is up next," Yang walks away, leaving Weiss to slide down the wall to the floor.
"Hey, Yang!" Yang looks back as she's walking down the hall to find Voshkie'ahk catching up to her. "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah, just had to have a little chat with Weiss. Don't worry, she's fine," Yang waves it off.
"You didn't threaten her because she asked your sister out on a date, did you?" Voshkie'ahk eyes her accusingly.
"Well... I won't deny it," Yang replies.
Voshkie'ahk sighs, "Well, if your team ends up losing, then you won't have to worry about that,"
"Oh, I'm gonna worry about it, because we're going to win," Yang smacks her fists together.
"Oh, good, just know that if you lose, I'm breaking up with you," Voshkie'ahk says, half-jokingly of course.
But, Yang doesn't take it that way, "WHAT?! Voshkie, you can't be serious! Please, don't break up with me! I win. I promise I'll win the next match!" Yang is actually freaking out a little bit.
"Easy Yang, calm down! It was just a joke," Voshkie'ahk tries to placate her.
Yang starts to calm down, "That was so not cool,"
"Now you know how Weiss feels when threatened in such a manner," Voshkie'ahk retorts.
"Okay, fine... but, if we win, then I want a reward," Yang smirks as she starts to turn the tables.
Voshkie'ahk starts to blush, "What? A reward? Well, um, I guess a date would be fine,"
Yang shakes her head, "Ah, ah, we've already had a few semi-dates, kisses, and we even had our first time. I want something more. Got any ideas?" she wiggles her eyebrows as she leans closer to her girlfriend.
"W-Well, um, maybe we could... um, I guess I would be willing to..." Voshkie'ahk trails off.
"Willing to what, my dear little Voshkie?" Yang seductively coaxes Voshkie'ahk up against the wall, holding her chin in her hand.
Voshkie'ahk can't hold out long against Yang's wiles, "I... well... Alright, if you win your next match... then just for one night...," Voshkie'ahk builds up her courage to look Yang in the eye. "...You can do whatever you want to me."
Honestly, Yang wasn't expecting Voshkie'ahk to actually answer her request. Heck, she expected Voshkie'ahk to either say something else or make a break for it out of embarrassment. She stares at Voshkie'ahk for what feels like an eternity.
"...Are you serious?" Yang asks slowly.
"Please... don't make this any more embarrassing than it already is," now a blushing Voshkie'ahk looks away.
"Alright then, I was already going to win so you wouldn't break up with me, but now I have twice as much motivation. I'll be sure to give you a really good show," Yang then kisses Voshkie'ahk tenderly on the cheek. "Wish me luck," and then walks away.
Voshkie'ahk can hear her heart beating out her chest, "What the Hell did I just say? I can't believe I said that, but now I have to live up to it! Someone, please just kill me now!" she screams in her mind. Voshkie'ahk shakes her head to refocus. "No, I said it, so I have to keep my word. I was never going to break up with Yang anyway, but if she does win... Then I'll do whatever she wants for one night... I just hope it's nothing too embarrassing or humiliating and something that no one else but her will see," and she's back to freaking out in her blushing mind.
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Back in the arena, everyone gets set for the next match. Ruby, Blake, and Voshkie'ahk are back in their box seats for Yang and Weiss' next match. Down in the arena, both teammates get their heads in the game as they wait for their opponents.
"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. Flynt Coal and Neon Katt from Team FNKI of Atlas Academy.
"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.
"Heh-heh-heh, maybe I should go down there and skin that annoying, colorful bug alive. No one talks to my Yang that way," a dark aura forms around Voshkie'ahk as she shows a slightly crazed look in her eyes, spooking Ruby and Blake a bit.
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.
"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.
"Break her stupid face, Yang!" Voshkie'ahk yells.
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.
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 their 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.
Up in their box seats, Ruby and Blake get increasingly worried about Voshkie'ahk... especially after she just crushed her tea cup into pieces with her bare hand.
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.
"Oh no," Voshkie'ahk mutters.
"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 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. "Oh, by the way Weiss,"
"Yes?" Weiss asks.
"I don't mind going out on a date with you," Ruby says.
"W-What? Really?" Weiss is astounded.
"Yeah, I mean, it's just shopping. We've gone out together plenty of times before," and the innocent Ruby still doesn't get it.
Weiss does an anime fall onto the ground, "You've got to be kidding me," she mutters with waterfall tears.
It seems its back to the drawing board for Weiss on getting Ruby to understand the situation.
Meanwhile, Yang looks up as Voshkie'ahk approaches them and leaves Weiss to her teammates.
"Welp, looks like we won," Yang notes.
"Yeah, you did," Voshkie'ahk knows what's coming next.
"So... what now?" Yang asks with a knowing smirk.
Voshkie'ahk sighs, "I'm a woman of my word. So, what should I expect?"
Yang holds her chin in her hand, "Meet me at your hotel room tonight. I'll have some surprises for you,"
Voshkie'ahk doesn't yet know that Yang has no intention of letting her sleep tonight.
And that's the chapter. Another match, another win for Team RWBY. Just so you know, Yang won't be fighting Mercury in the finals, but she will fight someone else. Wait and see. What does Yang have in store for Voshkie'ahk? Until then, please Read and Review.