Well I am now working on three things at once. The Reading of Team Monochrome, this fic, and my secret project. Anyway I want to address some things first. I want to apologize if I sounded harsh or brutal in my last A/N regarding sparing Pyrrha. I just wanted to make sure my message and point got across. If, and that's a big IF I did decide to kill Pyrrha, I didn't want to get angry reviewers complaining about it, especially, ESPECIALLY if I was never asked to spare her. I did say I would spare her if I got enough reviews asking me to do so. So if nobody tells me to spare her, how am I supposed to know you want her to live. I'd like to thank the reviewer who actually contributed. You know what maybe I should start a poll.
Next thing to address, Getsuga actually has zero connection to the Companions. Kyr meant something else when he referred to Getsuga being a beast. I do like what it made you think of though and I may use the idea for a future fic. However you do need to remember that the only companions who wanted to keep their beast blood were Skioor and Aela. Skiior was killed by the Silver Hand and Aela died in the same airship that Kyr crashed into the Sea of Ghosts. Farkas and Vilkas would have wanted to be cured and in this reality they were. I do like how you were able recognize what Kyr's glowing eyes meant. Kudos for that you get an internet cookie.
Anyway we are now entering the Jaunedice Arc as I'm calling it. This arc will last either one or 2 chapters. Then we will be entering Kyr's character Arc. Where Serana will be making her debut in this story, hence why I made it the deadline for Kyr's pairing.
Here are the Pairings so far:
Kyr x Seranna (4 votes)
Getsuga x Weiss
Kuyou x Velvet
Blake x Sun
Jaune x Pyrrha
Ren x Nora
Silver x Coco (1 vote)
Pairings for Silver have the deadline of right before the dance.
Kyr's pairing has the deadline of his character arc which is right after this arc. I do have a default pairing for Silver to fall back on if nobody votes. I just like the idea of interacting with my readers.
Also I will not pair Silver with Ruby, you find out the reasons eventually.
Anyway Disclaimer: I do not own Skyrim or RWBY, if I did, Balgruff would have remained Jarl of Whiterun no matter which side you picked.
Chapter 5: Jaunedice part 1: Petty Squabbles
Everyone was preparing for Combat class.
Teams SVGD, RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL among others including that Rabbit Faunus Girl Kuyou seemed to be enamored by.
Glynda cleared her throat to get everyone's attention.
"Now we will be having one on one fights today. The combatants will be selected randomly."
She mad a motion on her scroll and a giant screen appeared.
Two images were changing roulette style before they stopped.
"Well this is interesting," said Glynda looking at the result of the random selection.
"Our first fight today is Pyrrha Nikos vs Kyr Stormblade."
All the students began whispering.
"Who do you think is going to win?" asked Ruby as Kyr and Pyrrha went to the locker rooms to get their gear.
"Obviously Pyrrha's going to win," said Nora.
"I'm actually not sure," confessed Weiss remembering Kyr's various scars. She didn't know much about Kyr but she could tell he had experience. How much was the real question.
"I'm going for Kyr," said Getsuga.
He knew about Silver's defeat over Pyrrha last Mistral tournament, and judging from Kyr's own bestial nature, he clearly has quite a few tricks up his sleeve that he hasn't revealed yet.
"I'm betting on Kyr," said Silver.
Everyone looked at him.
"Why Pyrrha's a long running tournament Champion," Jaune stated.
"Who Silver beat," said Ren having a look of realization in his eyes.
"Wait," said Yang getting wide eyed "Are you saying that Kyr is…?"
"Stronger than me? You bet I am!" said Silver grinning.
"I was mainly able to defeat Pyrrha cause I had a powerful semblance of my own to counteract hers. But Kyr is a force of nature, he's a friggin master of the Thu'um."
"Just how great is his mastery over the Thu'um?" said a big guy on the Rabbit Faunus girl's team.
"Well," said Silver, "I may be Kyr's partner, and know more about him than anybody else, but even I don't know what he's fully capable of," said Silver grinning.
"I'm Silver Draconis by the way," said Silver to the big guy.
"Yatsuhashi Daichi," he said then gestured to his team, "over there Fox Alistair, Velvet Scarlentina, and our leader Coco Adel, we are Team CFVY, a second year team," Kuyou grinned that one of them was called Fox, then Getsuga just said, "So Kuyou you finally learned the name of your crush, have fun with Velvet."
At that Kuyou and Velvet just turned a deep shade of red as Coco just laughed "Oh I love this guy," she said as she gave Getsuga a high five.
"Getsuga," Getsuga added introducing himself.
(A/N I will not be doing all the introductions as that would just take too long.)
It was at that moment that Kyr and Pyrrha got onto the battlefield with their armor, although Kyr was sans his helmet.
(Megolovania intensifies…. No not really lol I couldn't resist)
Kyr had his Storm Blade out of its sheathe already and was charging it with electricity while Pyrrha was in combat stance.
"If you are both ready, then begin," said Goodwitch before deciding to vault out of the arena.
Kyr and Pyrrha rushed at each other and clashed.
"Yol Toor Shul," shouted Kyr breathing fire at Pyrrha who dodged.
Kyr then raised his left hand and fired ice shards at Pyrrha who dodged them.
She then changed Milo into rifle form and started shooting at Kyr who dodged out of the way of the bullets.
He then switched Storm Blade to his left hand as he used his right hand, to fire lightning.
Pyrrha blocked with her shield as her Aura took a hit.
"Zun Haal Viik!" shouted Kyr causing Pyrrha to drop her weapons.
"Was that?" Yatsuhashi began to ask
"Yes the Disarm shout," confirmed Silver.
Meanwhile Kyr took the chance while Pyrrha was disarmed to rush at her but he suddenly felt resistance on his armor.
Nothing he could handle though, but it was enough for Pyrrha to have time to make a grab for her weapons and meet his attack.
She did have genuine shock on her face for some reason, and Silver was smirking.
"Well I think it's about time we end this," said Kyr.
"Ven Gaar Nos!" he shouted creating a Cyclone that sent Pyrrha flying out of the arena.
"And the winner of this match is Kyr Stormblade," said Goodwitch who decided it would now be safe to come back onto the stage.
"As you can see Ms. Nikos was sent out of the arena. In a tournament style duel this would mark her as defeated."
"You alright Pyrrha?" Kyr asked.
Pyrrha gave a thumbs up to show she was alright.
(later)
Kyr had sighed at seeing this "fight."
"What's wrong?" Pyrrha asked.
"He has so much untapped potential yet…" Kyr began but Pyrrha understood and nodded.
They were watching Jaune's fight with Cardin.
"This is the part where you lose," said Cardin.
He kicked Jaune in the gut as he was saying something and raised his mace.
"That is enough," said Glynda.
"As you can see Mr. Arc's aura is in the red, that means he is now unfit for combat and an official may call the match."
As Glynda was lecturing Cardin on his aura and talking about the Vytal festival, unbeknownst to everyone Getsuga hid a grin.
(lunch)
"So there we were, in the middle of the night," said Nora.
"It was Day," corrected Ren.
Nora was telling a story while some people were listening while Kyr was the only one multi-tasking. Reading his Book of the Dragonborn, and listening at the same time.
"We were surrounded by Ursai," said Nora.
"They were Beowolves," corrected Ren.
"Dozens of them!" shouted Nora.
"Two of them" corrected Ren.
"But in the end they were no match and we took them down and Ren and I made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs," Nora finished.
"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now," said Ren sighing.
Now that the story was over, Kyr felt it was on to more important matters.
"Jaune are you okay?" Pyrrha asked Jaune. Kyr was about to ask the same thing even going so far as to close his book.
"Huh?" asked Jaune, "Oh yeah sure why?"
"It's just you seem a little… not… okay," said Ruby.
"Guys look I'm okay look see?" said Jaune trying and failing to give a convincing smile.
They heard the laughter of Cardin as his team was mocking Velvet.
Kyr clenched his fist.
It reminded him of how some the people back at Windhelm treated the Dark Elves until Kyr convinced Ulfric to do something about it after the civil war.
Needless to say Rolff Stone-Fist wasn't walking right for a while once he got tag teamed by Kyr and his own brother Galmar.
But preparation for the fight with the Thalmor taught Kyr that he can't simply solve every kind of dispute with violence as he was told by a Stormcloak officer when he had to deal with an issue in Dawnstar.
All of Tamriel was watching Skyrim and they could not afford to be seen as the barbarians they were often perceived as.
Back to the matter at hand.
"Cardin has been picking on you since the first week of school," said Pyrrha.
"Who Cardin Winchester? Nah he just likes to mess around, practical jokes," said Jaune.
"He's a bully," said Ruby.
"Please name one time he's bullied me," said Jaune.
*several instances later*
"I didn't land that far from the school," said Jaune after the locker incident was brought up.
"Jaune if you ever need help you can just ask," said Pyrrha.
"Oh I know we'll break his legs," said Nora.
"Guys its fine, besides it's not like he's a jerk to me. He's a jerk to everyone," said Jaune.
"Ow that hurts," said Velvet's voice.
Everyone looked to see Cardin pulling on Velvet's ear.
"See a told you those were real," said Cardin.
"Please stop," pleaded Velvet.
"What a freak," said one of Cardin's team mates.
Kyr had brought the Blade of Woe from his sleeve, Silver gave a serious glare, Kuyou was about to use his semblance to burn them alive, but before any of them could do anything team CRDL was suddenly on the ground with Getsuga standing over them.
"What?" said Kuyou looking to where Getsuga was sitting only to find he was no longer there, "When did he?" he asked as Silver just shrugged. Teams RWBY and JNPR looked surprised.
Kyr simply looked intrigued.
"You're gonna pay for that you mutt!" shouted Cardin as he rushed at Getsuga only to be sent flying by a single punch from Getsuga's left hand.
"That is enough!" shouted Professor Goodwitch.
"With all due respect professor, if you had intervened sooner, it wouldn't have come to this," said Getsuga.
"Needless to say, this behavior is unwarranted," declared Goodwitch.
"You will be serving-" "If I may," interrupted Ozpin who showed up.
"I think this issue is best settled in an arena fight. Getsuga vs Cardin. Winner goes free, loser gets detention."
"Sounds fair," said Getsuga.
Cardin just grunted.
His team left as Coco Yatsuhashi, and Fox came running.
"Velvet you alright?" asked Coco.
"I am thanks to Getsuga," said Velvet as Kuyou, Kyr and Silver approached.
"My whole team wanted to help, I just felt my method was the best. Kyr wanted to gut them, Kuyou wanted to burn them alive, and I'm not really sure what Silver was doing. I think he thought that if he stared at them hard enough they would die," said Getsuga.
Silver scratched his head sheepishly.
He sometimes forgets that particular Silver Eye ability only really works on grimm.
"I'm just glad you're alright Velvet," said Kuyou concerned.
Coco just smiled at that.
*time skip to the fight*
Getsuga and Cardin were standing in the arena facing each other.
Cardin had his mace yet for some reason, Getsuga decided not to bring Tengoku.
"Mr. Kuroyin where is you're weapon?" asked Goodwitch who was refereeing the fight.
"I will not be using it," said Getsuga.
"You dare to underestimate me you mutt!" shouted Cardin.
"You misunderstand Cardin Winchester," said Getsuga not losing his cool.
"My desire to not use my weapon has NOTHING to do with your skill level. I simply do not believe in using my weapon for petty squabbles."
Getsuga then shifted into a combat stance, "Besides true warriors fight with their fists."
"Very well then let the match between Cardin Winchester and Getsuga Kuroyin begin."
Cardin rushed at Getsuga who began dodging his attacks at first before catching Cardin's mace with his left hand shocking everyone.
In the stands Weiss remembered how Getsuga used his left hand to send her flying, but she swore it was his right arm that was modified.
Then Getsuga sent Cardin flying with a kick, and faster than people could blink he appeared behind Cardin and back-handed him into the ground.
"How are you doing this?" asked Cardin.
"Impressive isn't it?" said Getsuga.
"You wanna know the best part look at our respective auras."
Everyone did so, and they were shocked at what they saw.
Getsuga's Aura hadn't budged at all.
"No semblance, no aura boost, this is just my natural speed and strength."
Cardin's eyes widened as did Goodwitch's.
Goodwitch then thought it made sense given what kind of faunus he was.
Cardin then rushed at Getsuga who rushed at him quickly and punched with his right hand screaming "SPEED PLUS POWER EQUALS MASS SUCKER!"
Cardin was sent flying into the wall.
"Not… bad…" said Cardin before passing out.
Many people were surprised but Kyr wasn't.
As Goodwitch was having Cardin sent to the nurse while Getsuga was apologizing for going overboard, Kyr was thinking about the read he got on Cardin during the fight.
Cardin, despite how he appeared at first, was not truly racist.
He was simply an arrogant asshole who liked to pick fights with everyone he met.
His racial comments would be meant to try to provoke faunus into fighting him.
He was ignorant to the point where he took their refusal to fight back as a sign of weakness.
And he was under the line of thinking that only the strong should survive.
But overall he did respect strength, and Getsuga had shown to have it in spades.
But still, someone needed to teach Cardin some humility.
*later*
Everyone was sitting in history class as was Vevlet.
Dr. Oobleck was talking about the faunus war but when he got to the point where he brought up the human population wanting to centralize the faunus population in Menagerie, Kyr unable to contain himself once he realized what Menagerie was in his time screamed "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"
"Is there a problem Mr. Stormblade?" asked Dr. Oobleck.
"Did the humans really hate the Faunus that much?" asked Kyr.
Oobleck was barely able to conceal his grin.
"Care to enlighten us?" he asked.
"Well besides the fact the menagerie is very crammed, back in the days of Nirn, it was known as the Summerset Isles, the Capital of the Aldmeri Dominion and the homeland of the Thalmor," Kyr explained clenching his fist.
People who knew this info beforehand suddenly widened their eyes at the implications it meant.
"I'm afraid that your fears are correct Mr. Stormblade," said Oobleck sipping his coffee, "The faunus were intentionally crammed into the homeland of the most hated enemies of the Nirn Era."
"Now to many of you this may seem like ancient history, but these are still fairly recent events. The effects of the uprising can still be seen to this day."
Oobleck took another sip of his coffee.
"Now tell me, have any of been subjected to discrimination do to your faunus heritage?"
Velvet who was in the class raised her hand, Getsuga and Kuyou just gave a sort of hand motion.
Hey when one was constantly seen assisting the Shnee dust company against the white fang, and the other is a legendary bounty hunter, you don't get discriminated as much.
"Dreadful simply dreadful, remember students it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence," said Oobleck taking another sip of his coffee, "I mean just look at the White Fang, and even more so, their most brutal member The Red Fang."
At the mention of the Red Fang Getsuga clenched his fists, which did not go unnoticed by Weiss, although she didn't know Getsuga was once again imaging that laughing face with the Grimm mask, the flames everywhere, and the red blade.
"Now which one of you youngsters can tell me what was the turning point in the third year of the war?"
"The battle of Fort Castle," said Weiss after being called on.
"Precisely, and who can tell me the advantage the faunus had over General Lagoon's forces?"
Cardin meanwhile was flicking a paper football at Jaune.
Causing Jaune to yell and make Oobleck think he was contributing to class, which led to Jaune making an awkward comment about binoculars.
Cardin just made a comment about the Faunus attacking more like wild beasts.
He would have made a comment about it easier to train an animal, but he didn't want to get pounded by Getsuga again.
"You're not the most open minded of individuals are you Cardin?" asked Pyrrha.
"What you got a problem?" asked Cardin.
"No I have the answer," declared Pyrrha, "It's night vision, many faunus are known to have nearly perfect sight in the dark."
"General Lagoon made the mistake of trying to ambush the faunus in their sleep," added Blake, "his massive army was outmatched and the general was captured, perhaps if he paid attention in class, he wouldn't have been remembered as a failure."
After class Pyrrha waited for Jaune and Kyr felt the need to follow having a gut instinct he should.
Chapter End
I am so sorry this took so long. The poll for sparing Pyrrha is already up. Well now I'm working on 4 fics at once (NEVER AGAIN!) my brother is visiting from college, I had to get through my semester at college, Occupational therapy, farm work, and there is hardly any peace and quiet at my house. But now I'm at a house sitting job and can concentrate easier.
Also if any of you are Fairy Tail fans, LONE RANGER 97 is putting his fic SOUL DOVAH SLAYER, a Skyrim and Fairy Tail crossover, up for adoption.
He initially contacted me asking me if I wanted to do it but unfortunately I don't like Fairy Tail (sorry to the Fairy Tail fans).
So I decided to do him a favor and advertise the adoption.
Also Zero Period Productions has finished his playthrough of the Skyrim Mod Maids II Deception. A mod that I plan to take ideas from for this story especially with that ending. As well as several other mods.
I may even take ideas from the mod Zero Period Productions is currently doing for Skyrim M'rissi's Tails of Trouble.
Anyway in case if you couldn't tell, I'm planning on going for a different approach for Cardin then most RWBY fic writers.
Most make him the series punching bag, I intend to go for a route few have gone for.
I plan to redeem Cardin as he looked grateful at the end Jaune's Arc (no pun intended)
Also Getsuga's comment at the end of his fight with Cardin, was a joke a friend and mine came up with about Speedster heroes like Quicksilver and the Flash.
Anway after I finish next chapter, it will be the Arc you've all been waiting for. Kyr's character arc where Serana will finally enter the story.
Now if you have any questions, comments, concerns, predictions, suggestions, constructive criticism, or you just want to say hi, please leave a review.
Also the make your Dragonborn contest is still happening if anyone is curious. But please send those suggestions via PM, unless you're a guest, in which case I'll make an exception.
Also I want to test something… how many of you actually read these A/N, if you do read these A/N leave a review even if it's something like "cheese" or something cuz I'm legit curious.
Anyway Rio out.