Don't Own Rwby, Only The Oc

'thought'

"Speech"

[Semblance]

"Tvs, Radios, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."

(Mid Chapter Authors Notes)

I slowly open my eyes from my brief rest. 'it's Friday... once more...'

'Status'

Lucas Vermilion
60/60 Mp

'I am surprised I managed to increase it by this much...'

I wince at my slightly aching body. 'though... I suppose I have been training almost non-stop...'

I clench my fist with a once more resolute frown. 'this time... I am going to win... I am going to spend literally everything I have... and I am going to win.'

"Lucas fight Lionel, again..." Our teacher groans out from... under his desk?

…

We have long since accepted our teacher's eccentric traits... but, when you take a couple steps back and look at it... we might have a really shitty teacher... but I mean... he is like one of those wisemen in cartoons, he always gives good advice, always watches how a fight goes *SOMEHOW*, and I am fairly sure he is at least buzzed ninety-seven percent of the time... the three percent however... class gets a little hellish...

We both go over to the weapon wall, Lionel picking up his classic spear and shield, and I grab the broadsword I normally use.

I pause as I slip my hand in my pocket where three cards reside, the palm of my hand resting on the blade. 'sharpen, sharpen, sharpen.'

I pick the sword up and walk out to the arena.

"Begin."

I start off the fight much like our last battle, I instantly rush forwards, dodging slightly to the side to avoid a spear thrust, however, this time I do a horizontal slash which cuts cleanly about an inch into the wooden shield.

I move around his shield side much like last time, taking the time to tug my weapon out of Lionel's shield, and he, much like last time, blindly swings the side of his spear at me while hiding behind his shield.

But I am ready for it this time, I swing my sword in an upwards arc, the blade clashing against the wood of his spear, and with a *Crack* it cleaves the tip of the spear completely off.

I quickly swing the sword downwards as I take a step forwards, taking full advantage that my earlier slash left my sword high in the air, I land a brutal blow which chops through some of the shield and hits Lionel on top of the head.

The faunus boy instantly drops his broken spear and tries to lash out with a punch, but I shift my grip on the sword to my left hand and take a quick step to the right and land a brutal punch right to his jaw, then a second, then a third, then I have to quickly jump back out of his reach lessening the blow of a shield bash, but I make sure to pull the sword with me.

*Crack*

Or I would have if it didn't slip out of the hilt and break.

"…"

Lionel peeks out from behind his shield only to get hit in the face with the hilt and handguard of the sword as I throw it at him.

That brief flinch as a small T shaped object bounces off his face is more than enough to allow me to quickly dash forwards and- catch a fist right to the face, but I manage to land my own punch to his stomach.

"Stop."

We both freeze and take a quick moment to hop away from each other.

"Lucas wins, Lionel's aura is below twenty percent." Comes the echoed voice from below the desk.

I look to the side to see our aura values, mine is about sixty-five to seventy while Lionel's is about eighteen.

"Please just toss your broken weapons to the side and return to your seats." Our teacher slowly pokes his head out. "Damn, Lucas, where did you get this determination from?"

I let out a loud sigh and walk back to my seat, then just silently fold my hands in front of me and wait.

"Can anyone tell me why Lionel lost?"

"Shield, eyes, again." Yang deadpans. "His spear also broke."

"True, but Lucas' sword also broke, so why did he pull ahead so much?"

Dove speaks up. "He was the initiator, he was the first to strike, disarm, and took advantage of Lionel's own shield to protect him from counterattacks while launching attacks of his own."

"Correct, he used his opponent's own protection against them, a good tactic against anyone who uses a shield, remember that while a shield can protect you, it is also just a foot and a half wide circle of wood or steel and can hamper your movements quite a bit." Our teacher 'Professor Branwen' grunts from the floor. "Now, Cardin, Fight Crystal."

Cardin doesn't stand a chance... Crystal is the number two spot in the class, she has a pretty powerful earth control semblance, if we fought outside, there is no doubt she would be number one, but indoors, the most she can do is lift the stone tiles from the floor and launch them like Frisbees, still fairly strong, but nothing like Yang's semblance of 'retribution' that is good in all locations.

I prop my head up and watch as a tile smashes into Cardin's face and shatters.

Crystal is about the same height as Yang, she has pale skin, long silky brown hair that goes down to her waist, and piercing deep blue eyes, she raises a hand and clenches it, causing another tile to slowly rip itself out of the floor and start spinning, then she launches it at Cardin like the others, however he manages to smash it with his mace.

Crystal blinks and holds out both hands, causing two tiles to rip themselves out of floor of the battlefield.

She sends her hands forwards again.

I am now back home, resting on my couch.

[You did it, buddy!]

"AH-" I flinch back from the golden text box that flashes to life in front of me.

[I haven't got much time, so here, have a card pack!]

A physical pack of cards- like what you could buy at the supermarket for like five bucks, though it did have an image of some sort of mechanical dragon on the packaging, it seems to primarily silver, and its wings start out metal but the rest of the wings seem to be made of rainbow light, it only has two legs and wings, so I guess it is a wyvern instead of a dragon, but it has some sort of railgun-tipped tail which looks badass.

I slowly open the pack, pulling out five cards.

The first card has a picture of a gauntleted hand shooting out some sort of white orb.

Aura Blast (100)

{Common}

Uses 10% of your Aura to create a physical bolt of energy that damages Grimm and regenerates allies' aura when hit.

The next seems to be some sort of... totem of some kind... it is about two feet tall and looks to be carved out of oak, it has the face of a hawk on the top, two wings expanded outwards on the middle section. and clawed feet carved on the bottom section, making it look like the bird was sitting on a stump or a log.

Totem Of The Hawk (500)

{Uncommon}

Grants you and your allies in a 100 foot radius a 20% increase to speed and dexterity (Lasts for 10 minutes or until destroyed)

The next is another totem, it appears to be a short of stubby boar with two wooden tusks pointing out the front.

Totem Of The Boar (550)

{Uncommon}

Increases the effectiveness of you and your allies' aura by 20% in a 100 foot radius, allowing you to take up to 20% more hits! (Lasts for 10 minutes or until destroyed)

The next seems to be a picture of someone swinging a great sword really, really, hard.

Lesser Power Smash (50)

{Common]

Your next melee attack deals times two damage

And finally the last is a longsword with a deep black blade, a bone-white hilt and finally a large red ruby right in the center of the handguard, likely poking through on the other side as well.

Grim Blade (1000)

{Uncommon}

Sharper, lighter, and more durable than your average sword, this cursaid blade deals an additional 25% damage to Aura and increases your strength when held by 20%. (Lasts for 1 hour, or until broken.)

[Oho! Look at you! Three uncommon? You got fairly lucky! And one is powerful for an uncommon...]

'but... I can't use it... and at the rate I am growing, I won't be able to use it for like two entire years of training'

[have you considered a gym membership?]

'I- wha?'

[If you increased it by this much by just doing pushups, sit-ups, and regular jogs, what would happen if you actually go to a gym or got some weighted clothing? I mean, a fifteen-point increase is pretty good for your first week.]

'wait... fifteen?!'

'status.'

Lucas Vermilion
37.5/65 Mp

'wh-where did I get the extra five from?!'

[oh yeah, forgot to mention, your 'Mp' also increases through continuous use of your semblance, but now I have to go, but I am just going to say, if you come up with a kickass chant for the first time you publicly summon the Grim Blade I'll give you an extra card. Bye!]

The golden textbox shatters and disappears once more.

'a chant... you do know I am antisocial, right? And you are asking me to perform an edgy chant in front of my entire class...'

I scoff. 'do I really want to face public humiliation for a CARD?!'

'…'

'I guess I have a couple months at least to prepare for it.'

[Split]

For the past month, my ranking has sort of stayed the same, I increased it up to the number eighteen spot, two entire places, by using my 'sharpen times three then power smash' gimmick, but I have pretty much stagnated.

In combat class that is...

Lucas Vermilion
500/500 Mp

I AM SO STRONK NOW!

And also about half-way to death by public humiliation... I haven't even thought of a chant yet.

From my lazing position on my couch, I look up at a piece of paper I have been writing on.

"Demonic blade of the night-"

"no, that sounds dumb."

"Blade of shadow and darkness, hear my call:"

'That one is actually surprisingly good... huh...'

"Come forth and vanquish my enemies and destroy my foes."

"Kind of redundant... but the first bit is pretty good, so I might keep that..."

"hmmm."

Alright, I am going to fucking do it!

Lucas Vermilion
1100/1100 Mp

"Alright, Class, today we are doing something different."

Fuck.

"Grab a weapon and group up with two of your friends, then follow me, today, we are hunting grimm."

Double fuck.

I look around, Cardin and two of his friends immediately pair up, their names being Dove and Russel I believe, leaving the last friend, Sky, sadly out of their group.

"What? You think you can kill more grimm than me?" Yang asks Crystal.

Said brunette simply smirks as she tilts her head slightly to the side and nods.

"Alright, you are on!" Yang grins. "I'll even pick weak teammates as a handicap."

Crystal grins as well. "Fine, I guess I'll do that too."

"Who are you picking?" Crystal continues.

Yang pauses and slowly looks around the classroom. "hmmm..."

"Emi and Lucas."

Emi is actually rank seventeen, she is a short girl, probably the shortest in the class, and has long purple hair that goes to her shoulder blades, her semblance is 'Echoes' or something, basically meaning that when she hits something with a blunt object, they will actually feel another weaker hit a couple second later, and depending on how strong the original blow is, they might even feel a second echo even weaker than the first, I don't think she has ever managed to get a third echo though... she also appears to have a brief recharge time on her semblance, but it does seem to be getting shorter, so maybe eventually she might even be able to have more than one 'echo' out at one time.

Crystal smirks. "My semblance is better than yours outside, so I will take Lionel and Flare."

Flare, like her name sort of implies, can create small softball-sized balls of fire which she can throw, I barely managed to beat her earlier last month, and have been keeping my rank above her by knocking her aura extremely low with a single hit, using three sharpness and my 'Lesser Power Smash' all at once.

Yang walks over to me. "Hey, you want to team up?"

"Sure." I sigh.

Yang quickly moves over towards Emi. "What about you? Do you want to team up?"

"O-Okay..."

The groups quickly move outside, past the tall walls surrounding patch- Signal is actually on the outskirts of the city- then we get to a clearing with several large cages, and surprisingly another teacher there as well, Professor Xaio Long, he normally teaches the Sixteen year old's, but sometimes swaps it out for seventeen, much like how professor Branwen teaches us fourteen year old's, but sometimes swaps to fifteen... frankly, I think Professor Xaio Long is going to teach us for both of our last two years purely because his daughter is in my class...

"Thanks for coming out here, Tai." He whispers to the other teacher.

"Wouldn't miss my little girl's first grimm kill for the world." He whispers back as Qrow turns back to face us.

"Alright, here is how it's going to go" Professor Branwen says. "We are going to lock you one at a time inside a dust forcefield with some grimm, one of us will be in there to stop you from dying if it gets out of hand, but otherwise the grimm will pick the easier targets, all of you."

"Whoever does the best gets to do an additional bonus challenge for more points."

I raise my hand from the back of the group with Yang and Emi. "Mr. Branwen, how will points be calculated?"

"Depending on how fast you kill the grimm, your technique in doing so, how little damage you take, and teamwork"

A branch with a squirrel suddenly snaps and falls from a tree on the other side of the clearing causing our teacher to grimace slightly.

His face returns to normal. "Alright, who's first?"

Yang starts to raise her hand but I look over to her. "Why not wait until the end to see how perfectly we have to beat the grimm in order to win?"

She pauses briefly giving Cardin's ample time to raise his hand.

"There is also the saying 'save the best for last' you know?"

She slowly nods. "That is pretty smart, Lucas... I wonder how you don't do better in combat class..."

"Mn." I deadpan.

"You two just don't hold me back too much." Yang whispers at us.

"Begin." Qrow says in a monotone voice as four beowolves are released from a cage, it appears to be four 'Lesser's which just look like large bipedal dogs with red teeth and eyes, and one who is a bit older than the others and has actually grown a mask, it also appears to be about half a foot to a foot taller than the others and has white boney ribs surrounding the outside of its chest, bone spikes from its knees, elbows, and shoulders, so it has a bit of armor.

[Hey.]

I flinch slightly as a golden text box appears in front of me, quickly looking around at the two girls beside me.

[Don't worry, they can't see me... but I'll give you another card pack if you beat that 'bonus challenge' see ya!]

I watch as the box turns into dust and floats away in the wind.

Cardin brings his mace down on the head of one of the lesser beowolves, causing it to cave in as a second lands a slash on his shoulder, Dove seems to be holding off the 'adult' one by himself while Russel tries to help Cardin with the two-remaining lesser beowolves.

Russel lands a quick slash on the leg of one of the lessers with his knives, then hops up into the air, flying much farther than he should, then seemingly falls quickly onto the grimm he cut, driving both of his knives into its shoulders.

It slashes at his aura and causes him to lose grip on his knives and be launched away.

Cardin brings his mace down on one of the arms of the other lesser beowolf (the one that hit him after he killed the first one) and causes that limb to go limp, then he hits his mace on the grimm's other arm, causing it to lose function in that as well, he hits it in the chest causing it to stumble back and reveal its legs, so he takes the time to break both of them and walk over to its prone form and slam his mace down on its head.

While this is going on, Dove is barely holding his own with the adult beowolf, some of his blows being blocked by the grimm's bony ribs as they trade blows.

And Russel... is spending that time trying to get his knives back... as the grimm is taller than him... he isn't having a fun time as it just slaps him whenever he jumps into the air.

Dove quickly turns his body and cleaves the entire arm off the adult beowolf as it swings at him, Cardin runs over and shoulder tackles the lesser grimm Russel was fighting, uttering a "Get your head in the game, Russel!"

Cardin repeatedly slams his mace down on the chest of the lesser grimm, while Dove is still having to one vs one the adult grimm, although, now that its arm was cut off, he is having a noticeably easier time.

Cardin rushes over to Dove and smashes the ribs of the wounded beowolf, giving dove enough time to slide his blade in between its ribs as it stumbles back.

Overall at the end, Cardin's aura is at about eighty, Russel's is fairly low at sixty and Dove is at the lowest being at about forty.

"Your teamwork was garbage." Qrow deadpans.

"You allowed-" Taiyang begins.

"Dove" Qrow Interjects

"Dove- to fight a stronger grimm all on his own while you both goofed around with the lesser versions of them." He continues.

"Russel, you allowed yourself to be disarmed easily and clearly payed for it." Qrow states with a frown. "Next."

It is finally our turn, we watched the rest of the groups fight the beowolves, and Crystal's group did the best so far, only flare taking a single hit from the adult beowolf as it dodged Crystal's first barrage of earth spikes from the ground.

"Yang, it's your team's turn." Taiyang states.

We slowly walk forwards.

'its now or never I guess.'

We reach the center of the clearing, but before Professor Branwen can put the dust shield back up I command in a clear voice. "Blade of darkness and shadow, hear my call: Come forth and vanquish my enemies, Slay them all."

Yang and Emi look to me in confusion for a moment, as do the rest of the class.

*CRASH*

A sword lands in front of us, kicking up dirt as it sinks half of its blade into the ground.

I let out a long breath and grip the handle of the sword. "Let's begin, shall we?"

Hi, just wanted to get this next chapter out super-fast before I went to bed, See ya!

Guest Reviews:

Notice me sempai: "Can you please post of the same fanfiction every 3weekd or so ? Plz
Also RIP shota lightning cat god sama"

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That's... what I do? I release the stories on a rotation... so they have a chapter once every 3 weeks or so...

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Some bot Maybe: " Annnnnd card Hunter is back. Didn't expect that one. Gotta wonder what his growth rate will be tho, cuz he has 3 years if potential training time (if you take this that far), but that recharge rate is pitiful. Maybe he gets meditation as a card? Also does he consume aura with his semblance? Also if u implement dimensional cards that could summon things, will there be monster Hunter stuffs? Like summon a horde of kulu ya ku in remeberance of monster huntersman? Or THE LORDE from Terraria calamity cuz that debuff is instant anti everything, aka Salam is as strong as a baby now, because her immortality is basically a permanent buff, so a debuff that strips buffs ez win."

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His growth rate is pretty insane, but it is going to slow down after a while... I would say that he might be at around 20000 mp by the time Beacon rolls around? And, yes, I plan to implement dimensional cards that summon things, so maybe.

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Bye!