I Do Not Own RWBY

Fight Club Part 1

"Well that was fun." I exclaim as our small group exited the classroom. We had just finished with Prof. Port's class and were heading towards Prof. Oobleck's next. As we're walking to our next class Iris leans in closer to me.

"So does Weiss mellow out at all in the future, cause her ego was through the roof all during class. And that argument Ruby and her had just now doesn't exactly look like two main characters who are meant to be close partners."

"They just need some time to think, and a lecture from their teachers. The plot progresses pretty fast in the early seasons. "Accepting my reassurance Iris resumes her posture. I can tell that she seems a tad bit uneasy about the way everyone is acting so far. Maybe I should try to speed up some of the relationships a bit so they have more time to evolve before the fall? I almost get lost in my own thoughts when I feel a nudge from my right.

"Hey, so this might be a weird question, but do you see the shadow people too?" Lucas looks like he's about to jump out of his own skin. I look around and realize what he's talking about. Walking with us to our next class were several teams, but besides our team, JNPR, CRDL, Blake, Yang and Velvet everyone one else was a shadow person.

"Don't worry, they should be gone and replaced by actual people soon. I hope."

Needless to say, even with Joel, aka Oobleck, teaching us all about the past of Remnant, history was boring as all hell. Everyone was fuming over how horrible the pacing of the class was.

"Did you even write down any notes? I started getting writer's cramp and had to stop half way through." Lucas exclaimed.

"Nope, not a single word. I did however draw this portrait of your face while your trying to keep yourself awake. It's quiet impressive if I might say so myself." Iris taunted Lucas.

I was baffled at how much information I missed during the whole class. "If I had a laptop I could possibly keep up with his rambling with my typing speed, but with a simple pencil and paper I can't write shit."

"I got everything down."

We all turn towards Aiden. "What, our scrolls have holo keyboards to type with. You can all copy my notes later tonight if you want to."

Sighing we all thank him for saving our asses.

"Now that those two classes are out of the way, time for our most anticipated class of the day" I was so excited for sparring class with Professor Goodwitch that I was nearly ready to start running for the classroom.

Iris looks at me with a discerning look. "You mean your most anticipated class of the day. We haven't even technically used our weapons yet outside of our dorm room."

"You'll have muscle memory from when your body used them in the past. You should be good just so long as you don't get paired against any of the elite fighters in our year." I really hope I'm right in my assumption, because if I'm not then I know I'm going to get a punch to the face from all three of them once we're back behind closed doors.

Finally reaching the room we each take our seats. I take a deep breathe to try and quell the excitement building in my chest. Once everyone arrived Glynda started.

"Good evening students. My name is Professor Goodwitch, and I will be your instructor for these training sessions. For this first class I will randomly pair you up with another individual in the room. Each one will have a chance to come on stage and fight. Depending on your performance and fighting styles you will be grouped into different categories of who to spar and train with to better hone your skills as a huntsman or huntress." Displaying our aura bars on the screen behind her she continues. "Each match will be decided when either fighter's aura is depleted into the red, or if there is a ring out. Now then the pairs will be as followed." The screen behind her changes to display who will be fighting whom.

Ruby Rose vs. Jaune Arc

Drew Azzurum vs. Yang Xiao Long

Lucas Platina vs. Nora Valkyrie

Weiss Schnee vs. Russel Thrush

Iris Korzac vs. Blake Belladonna

Aiden Patriarch vs. Lie Ren

Pyrrha Nikos vs. Cardin Winchester

All of the other pairings faded as I focused on mine. Yang Xiao Long. This would indeed be interesting. Of course it would have been more exciting if I was matched up against Ruby or Pyrrha, but I suppose she will do.

Obviously the first match was over before it even began. Jaune's aura was in the red within the first ten seconds. As I walked to the stage Pyrrha had Jaune slung over her shoulders. "It's okay Jaune, you'll get her next time." Chuckling quietly to myself I reach the stage coming face to face with the dragon herself.

Looking her over I notice she's in a more aggressive stance than she usually is. I'm guessing she's hoping to end this quick so I don't get the better of her.

"Good luck"

"Likewise" she replied coldly.

I can feel every fiber of my being tense up, like my whole body is shouting at me to throw my everything into this. I clear my mind and wipe my face of any emotion. I can see that this unnerved Yang a bit.

"BEGIN!"

We launch at each other like two missiles aiming to impact the other. She goes for a heavy weighted right swing, while I move to counter. I transform my gauntlets into their piston form and our fists collide. The shear impact from hitting each other created a shock wave around us. Upon impact Yang shot her gauntlet giving her punch even more of a wallop. I dig my feet in and push my weight into my left fist using the piston to add more to my attack. She tries to hit me from my right but instead I counter that blow instead. She keeps punching relentlessly, each hit growing more and more powerful. I counter each one with a punch of my own. In my head I'm imagining we looked like All Might fighting the first Nomu while in reality I'm sure it looked much less impressive.

With my last punch I manage to push us both back to either side of the stage. I can't believe I managed to match every punch she threw at me. Feeling more confident in my fighting abilities I start to formulate a strategy that might work against her. On the other side of the stage I spot her preparing to launch at me again, so I had to end this quickly.

I disassemble the pistons and create another war hammer similar in design to Magnahild. Yang takes flight as I start gaining momentum in my swings. She hits me with a flurry of attacks. I try to counter most of them but a few manage to breach through my defenses. Whenever I didn't manage to hit her with the hammer I simply twirled it around to let it gain even more speed and swung it harder. After a brief dance between the two of us I manage to wing her in her side, sending her tumbling back and causing her aura to go into the yellow.

Twirling the hammer around the back of my head I let it rest on my shoulders. I try to mimic Ruby's pose whenever she has Crescent Rose over her shoulders, trying to taunt Yang into close combat again. I keep pressure on the end of the hammer, waiting for her to strike.

Seeing that I have the upper hand she activates her semblance, and like a roaring meteor she rains down upon me.

"Pretty cheap to fight when your weapon can do anything." I could tell she was trying to throw me off by getting under my skin. She shoots to my left and rushes me. I spin my war hammer, but she manages to dodge it. Getting too close for comfort I quickly spin it around and shorten the weapon into my right hand. Expecting to be too close to get hit, I catch Yang off guard and bash her head. She goes flying to the side. I dismantle the hammer, readying myself for what was inevitably going to be our last confrontation.

I motion at my gauntlets. "This isn't my weapon."

I rush her while she's still processing what I meant. I transfer all of my bots into my right fist, creating a massive impact piston. Yang throws her arms up to try and block it, but it hits twice. Wincing, her aura gets knocked into the red.

"Miss Xiao Long's aura is in the red. By tournament standards Mr. Azzurum is the winner of this fight."

I walk over and help Yang to her feet. She seems hesitant at first, but accepts my hand. Walking back to our seats she asks, "What do you mean, that isn't your weapon. Seems pretty powerful for something that isn't meant to be a tool of war."

Sighing I explain to her what I meant. "I meant it as this isn't my main weapon. My imagination is. Without it my bots would be useless, and my face would be a mold for your fists. That being said though, I mostly just said it to try and throw you off a bit."

Accepting my explanation Yang sits down with the rest of her team. I on the other hand had to deal with the onslaught of questions my fight brought about from my teammates.

"Dude, that was fucking awesome! Since when could you fight like that!?" Lucas seemed baffled that I not only held my own against the strongest brawler in the school, but managed to beat her at her own game.

"I dabbled a bit back in our old lives. Even if it is self taught, punching something is always a good stress reliever."

"But you seem almost too powerful. Almost as if you're the main character among us four." Iris began to wonder.

"Look, I'm sure you three are just as strong as I am. Speaking of which I believe you're up next Lucas."

"Welp, better wish me luck them."

I scooch over towards Aiden. "I'll pay you 20 lien if you record this match for me."

"Already rolling. I figured I could record all of the matches so we could find any weaknesses to fix in our fighting styles, or exploit in any of our classmates if need be in the future."

"You know, sometimes I think you're the only one in this group who gets me Aiden.". I lean back in my chair and pretend like I'm eating popcorn as the moment I've been waiting for finally arrives.

"You know you're most definitely going to lose, right?" Lucas kept thinking to himself as he walked on stage. He'd only fought a few people before, and those fights were nothing compared to the combat he'd have to fight through in this world. Readying his weapons he eyes up his competition.

"So, ready for more of what I gave you last time?" Nora taunted.

"Well, you see ginger, this time I have my weapons. So this is going to end a lot differently than how yesterday's beat down went." Lucas said sheepishly. He'd tried to wrangle together what little courage he had left, but seeing Drew's last fight didn't really help him in the slightest.

"BEGIN!"

Nora shot a few grenades before transforming the launcher into her prized war hammer. Lucas managed to just barely dodge the blasts before having to deflect the hammer coming straight for his face. Flipping backwards he tried to grab the hammer with his left sickle to try and pull it out of her grip, but to no avail. Nora's grip was iron. Instead she manages to pull him off balance, sending him tumbling through the air.

"God dammit. Why did I have to pull the short end of the stick when it came to cool weapons?"

Hitting the ground hard, Lucas straightened himself out and stabbed the floor with his sickles to slow himself down. He used his stuck weapons to fling himself at the battle fueled beast, trying to at least be faster than her to try and get a few hits in. Using his left sickle to block the hammer, he spun the right one using the chain to get some range on her. Lashing out at certain intervals so that the chain wouldn't get tangled around the hammer, Lucas finally felt like he had the upper hand. That is until Nora stopped pulling her punches.

Feeling like she'd let this drag on for too long, Nora decided to end this battle of theirs. Hitting the ground with Magnahild and pulling the trigger, she goes flying over Lucas' head. Not realizing what had happened until it was already to late, Lucas spun around only to be met with the blunt end of Nora's hammer. Knocking him down with a direct hit, Lucas' aura turned red.

"That's the match! Nora Valkyrie is the victor!" exclaimed Glynda.

Taking a mental note to help Lucas with his training after this, I walked down and helped him back up to our team's seats.

"Drew, I swear if you make fun of this situation then I will make you pay for it in the future."

"You're really going to threaten the person holding you up right now. I will drop you."

"Point taken."

I manage to drag him back up and start to go over a few things with him while the next fight occurs. It's pretty obvious that Weiss is going to win so I don't really pay too much attention to it.

"We definitely have to work on your weapon usage. You have to act like your weapon is an extension of your body. Move them like you would a limb. Also, you didn't use your semblance at all. I counted at least five instances where you could have had the upper hand if you'd just used it a bit to unbalance her."

Having voiced my opinions to him, Lucas took note and thought of a few ways to improve his training.

"Russel, your aura has been put into the red. The win goes to Miss Weiss Schnee." Glynda announces.

"I guess that means I'm up." Iris declares as she grabs her sheaths and walks down towards the stage.

I lean back again as I think to myself, now this could get interesting.

Sup? Sorry for ending it there. I felt if I put too much fighting in one chapter then it would make the other fights less exciting. Next week should be the conclusion to the sparring class, supper with all of the teams together and then leader class with Ozpin. Now, to address the last chapter. I did go back and fix it a few days ago, but in case anyone didn't reread it I did fix it so that it says that Yang files Lucas under her list of classmates to NOT take any shit from. Sorry about that mistake. I try to write these Saturday nights and then do a quick error check Sunday morning before uploading them.

So as always, thanks.

Adding this note as of October 25, 2020. Due to the recent news regarding the Achievement Hunter/voice actor of Professor Port, I have reworked a small portion of the beginning of this chapter to remove is name from the character that they voice. Since it is still a rough topic to discuss at the moment I will make this brief. I support Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter. The actions of Ryan and Adam are horrible and I hope that they never come back. I can't believe through all of the years of watching their content they were doing all of that behind everyone's back. It makes me feel betrayed. I can't even begin to think how their co-workers and former friends are feeling right now. I hope that everyone at Rooster Teeth is doing well, and I wish them the best.