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)
The fights went like this, Emi defeated her opponent, Russel, I defeated rank 15, Flare defeated her opponent, showing off that her semblance has gotten stronger, and Lionel beat his opponent due to a bad matchup.
So the tournament goes something like this: Flare vs Lionel, Crystal vs some girl that I still don't know the name of, but it really doesn't matter because crystal is going to win, Emi vs Dove, Cardin vs Yang, A boy vs a girl, I don't know the names of either, Me vs one of Cardin's cronies, Sky, I think he was rank twelve or something, and finally, the last two matches are between people I really don't know of.
Basically meaning I have to fight through three battles where I know nearly nothing about the opponents- till I get a good look at them at least- then I fight Yang or Crystal...
Frankly, I am sort of lucky I was in the bottom half of the brackets while they are both in the top... if I had to burn my trump card before the final match, I probably would lose...
Flare beats Lionel because of her ranged attacks overwhelming him and burning through his shield, Crystal beats her opponent with little difficulty, Emi somehow beats Dove, and she seems to have changed her weapons from a mace to two wooden tonfas, Yang beats Cardin, obviously, blue haired boy defeats green haired girl, I beat my foe with little effort... I don't think he actually did any training during the summer... and finally, the last two fights ended with a black-haired girl as one victor, and a smug looking bronze-haired girl as the other.
I stare at a golden screen in front of me.
[If you place first in this tournament, ill give you 3 card packs of your choice and that rare card I was going to give you for being #1 in the class~ no pressure.]
It scatters into dust as I look on with determination. 'violence mode activate.'
Crystal beats Flare, Yang defeats Emi in a fairly close battle, I, now with my brutal determination, best blue haired boy, then finally, smug bronze haired girl wins against black haired girl, and I can tell from her previous fights that... she. is. fast.
Now it is the 'semi finals', Yang Xaio Long vs Crystal Flora, and myself vs Levi Bress, a name I just learned via looking towards the board... she was like #6 in the class last year, and looks to have at least kept up a little training during the summer.
Yang gets up and looks to her opponent and smirks, Crystal following along as they both walk towards the arena.
Yang crosses her arms over her chest and smiles. "I'm not going easy on you, Crystal."
Crystal scoffs. "even if you aren't you are still going to lose~ I got better over the summer!"
"OI! I did as well!" Yang exclaims.
Crystal sighs and shakes her head. "It's a shame that after I beat you, there will be no more challenging opponents for the final round."
'I am going to make you eat those words, bitch!'
"Begin."
As that single word leave Qrow's mouth, Yang dashes forwards as fast as she could, back-handing a stone slab out of her way as she near Crystal.
She draws one of her arms back- then gets launched to the side by a couple concrete slabs.
'you know... I bet the school spends most of its budget on slabs... well, I have started to notice they have been getting cheaper and cheaper, the first set barely chipped when struck, now Yang is able to utterly shatter them with simple swings.'
Yang hops to her feet and scowls as her eyes turn red, then, as she jumps over a couple slabs flying towards her, she lands a brutal uppercut on Crystal, knocking her aura down to seventy-ish percent in a single blow!
Then she gets swarmed by slabs and is basically cocooned... meaning she can't move... and then loses because she can't move.
"YES!" Crystal exclaims. "The number one spot is mine!"
The stone slabs fall away from Yang. "YOUR SEMBLANCE IS STUPID!"
Crystal scoffs and puts a hand over her mouth. "You mad that my semblance is better?"
Yang begins to open her mouth, probably to shout again.
"I will admit, your semblance is very strong, but you had a bad matchup." Crystal says. "The fact you took out thirty percent of my aura in a single hit proves this... had we faught last year, I would have lost."
Yang closes her mouth.
"Better luck next time?" Crystal asks.
Yang just smirks and holds out her fist. "I hope you don't get all that comfortable at number one, because I'm going to take it back sooner or later."
Crystal pushes her fist against Yang's and smiles. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
They both quietly leave the arena and sit back down at their table.
"Lucas, Levi, you are up"
We both slowly walk to the center of the arena; her eyes slowly trailing over me before she gives a slightly amused smirk.
"Begi-"
"I give up." She states.
"…"
"Wait, what?" Qrow asks.
"Third or fourth place is good enough for me." Levi shrugs. "I don't feel like getting thrashed by Crystal~"
She hops out of the arena.
And walks back to her seat.
"…"
"Well." Qrow coughs. "Lucas wins?"
"We will have the final match after we get back from lunch."
I stare dead ahead at Crystal with an unreadable expression on my face.
She shrugs. "I suppose you did well to come this far, but you were placed in the weaker bracket!"
"You might as well just give up. Save yourself the embarrassment." She smirks.
"No."
"Begin."
Immediately Crystal rips several tiles from the floor and sends them flying at me.
*THUNK* *THUNK* *THUNK* *THUNK*
Four large tree trunks appear in front of me, each having some sort of animal carved into them, two have hawks, one has a bear, and one has a boar.
"Fuse."
Each explode into a bunch of wood chips that float into the air as I sidestep the tiles.
The totems shards float together, closer, closer, and closer, till eventually, a humanoid form appears, it is roughly eight feet tall and has large broad shoulders, on each shoulder is the head of a hawk used sort of like shoulderpads, in the center of its chest is the face and tusks of a boar, and the head of that of a bear.
"W-WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Crystal asks, briefly forgetting where she is as she stares up at the new construct with awe.
The bear lifts a single hand into the air as I touch four cards in my pockets 'Strengthen Totem times two... Elemental Disaster times two.'
Three orbs of fire, roughly the size of a grapefruit appear above its hand, then it becomes six, then nine, then twelve, then it doubles to twenty-four.
I point dead ahead. "Fire."
It slings its hand downwards, launching the orbs one after the other, much like a machinegun.
Crystal quickly rips more slabs from the floor and uses them as a shield, but they are being quickly destroyed as the orbs crash against the improvised wall.
I dash forwards and around her barrier, her head slowly turning to follow me as I swap hands, putting my other one into my pocket where I have my next non-totem card prepared
I cock a fist back as her eyes widen slightly, the fireballs breaking their way through her barrier and starting to hit her aura.
'Lesser Power Smash'
My fist collides with her cheek and sends her flipping across the floor.
I glance to the side to see that her aura is at about thirty-percent, so I simply dash over to her prone form and kick her once in the ribs, lowering her aura to below 20 percent and hop away.
"Stop."
I look over to Qrow and cross my arms, the golem behind me mimicking the action.
"Lucas wins." He states. "Surprisingly... I thought your semblance was creating a sword? How did you get this?"
"You never asked if swords were all I could create." I deadpan.
"Fair enough." He shrugs as I hop off the broken stage and walk back to my seat, the golem on said stage falling into wood chips and disappearing as they touch the floor.
"I lost... to him..." Crystal quietly murmurs.
"I beat her" I scoff as I sit down, ignoring the gazes of my classmates.
Qrow rubs his forehead slightly and sighs. "Alright then. Lucas is the new number one, Time for the bronze match to see who is number three."
"I give." Levi deadpans from her spot in the front left of the classroom.
"Grand, Yang is third, Levi is fourth." Qrow states as he slowly crawls under his desk probably to nurse the hangover he most likely has or to get drunk from the flask the entire class knows he has at this point. "This year we are going to be building your signature weapons that you will take with you to fight the grimm, come up here and grab a piece of paper, then use your pencils to sketch out a basic design for the weapon you want, you have until next month, to finalize a design so you have a bit of time to perfect it."
'oh right, a weapon... nearly forgot we had to do that this year...'
"Class is so stressful!" I mutter into my bed with a frown.
I hop up. "Alright, give me my damn cards and packs!"
[Geez... fine... which ones do you want out of Totemic Terror, Weapons of the World, Tactical Techniques, Grimm Darkness, or Serious Summoning?]
[also, I might as well tell you, you basically have the best card out of totemic terror, the legendary card just summons all your totems at once for a reduced cost, so you might as well pick something else.]
'Alright, give me one Weapons of the World, one Serious Summoning and one Grimm Darkness.'
[alright.]
Three card packs and a card appear on my bed along with a single card that flutters down onto my bed.
"Sweet!"
[Have fun.]
I ignore the golden box's dramatic disintegration... it is the same thing over and over so I am kind of used to it now...
'And my rare card is... what the hell is this?'
Rubber Duck Grenade (2000)
{Rare}
*Squeak* *Squeak* (When squeezed twice, the duck is armed and its eyes glow ominously red, and in 20 seconds it will violently explode into a massive fireball that looks like a small nuclear blast that spews smaller ducks EVERYWHERE (please note that these additional ducks don't blow up and are permanent).)
It is just your classic... yellow rubber duck... like those you might get at in a fair game... or buy online... though this one appears to have a suicide vest and an army helmet.
"…"
In total silence, I put the card into my deck with a slight grimace, then I get to my first card pack, Serious Summoning, which has the image of some sort of green snake dragon... thing...
'Hm.' I hum nonchalantly as I slowly rip open the pack
And our first pack is...
A girl apparently...
She has light blue hair and has a blue ribbon tied in her hair, giving her the impression of dark blue cat ears, she wears a blue jumper dress with white triangles along the bottom, she also wears a little red bowtie and simple white socks, but probably the most shocking thing is the fact that she has six icicles floating around her, three on each side much like wings.
"what is-"
The Strongest! (100*)
{Dimensional}
Summons Cirno, the Ice Fairy... this is so cheap because you have little to no control over her. (Lasts 5 minutes for every 100 Mp you channel into the card.)
I abruptly pause
'Why is there a dimensional card in this card pack...'
The golden textbox of death returns to life beside me.
[Fufufu, it looks like you finally figured it out... Serious summoning ONLY has dimensional cards... each of the assorted strength of course! Please note that you won't be able to get another serious summoning until I decide to grant you one.]
"Huh... why didn't you tell me earlier?"
[Fuck you, thaz why~]
The box, this time, flies upwards and explodes like a firework, launching a wave of harmless golden sparks that pelt against my skin, the walls, and the floor.
"Huh, that was... different than what it normally does..."
I look to the next card.
It is just two earrings, each just an orange ball with a golden clasp at the top.
Potara (2500*)
{Dimensional}
Fuses two of your allies together, resulting in a new person with pieces of their personality combined, this fighter has the two fusee's power added together and multiplied several times. (The fusion only lasts a minute per 2500 Mp you place into it... you may target yourself as one of the selected allies for fusing) (Has a 7 day cooldown in between uses)
'… alright? That's pretty cheap... I'll keep it in mind if want to take down a pack of goliaths I guess...'
Gun Gun (15000*)
{Dimensional}
Allows you to summon an 'Eridian Fabricator', a gun that shoots guns! Each shot shoots out five guns of random rarity (Common-Effervescent) that function for one entire week before decaying! (Costs nothing to summon, but each shot costs 15000 MP)
'uuuuuhhhh-'
The next card is just like an orb of rainbow water.
Soul Punisher (10000)
{Dimensional}
Unleash the power of gay and harness the strength of sparkles to turn the evilness of a foe against them. (It's possible to use this to purify grimm into 'good' forms)
'grimm can be... purified?!'
Quest for the Dragon Balls: (25000)
Scatters 7 Mystical orbs across the globe, each with a number of stars on them... whoever gathers all seven is granted a wish. (and the balls turn back into a card and is shunted into your discard pile) (Please note that ANYONE can make a wish if they collect all seven... and it can be used for many things ranging from immortality, the genocide of a race, reviving someone who hasn't died more than once, and instantly becoming king of the entire world!)(This card takes a full year and a half to recharge.)
I stare in awe at the card for a while, then wisely place it in my deck where it will stay until I, one: am capable of using it, and two: can actually think of a wish.
I quickly open the next pack, Weapons of the World which seems to have a BADASS giant robot dinosaur mech on it, with two legs and large fin wing things.
'and my first card is... a random assault rifle'
Atlesian Ak 5 (500)
{Uncommon}
Your basic semi-automatic Atlesian Assault rifle with 3 full 15 round magazines with ice dust bullets. (Lasts for 1 hour, or until broken.)
The next card is just simply a knife.
Knife (50)
{Common}
Literally just a knife... good for stabbing stuff I guess? Maybe some cutting too... (Lasts for 1 hour, or until broken.)
The next is a landmine.
Minefield (2000)
{Uncommon}
A trap card that scatters 5-15 mines in your immediate vicinity, only visible to you and your allies in the form of a bright red glow just above and a small pillar of light leading to that. (Mines last up to 6 hours or until triggered)
The next is just a simple, red, crystal, six-sided dice with white dots on each side, each a different number than the last.
Die of Fate (10000)
{Epic}
A dice is rolled for you, your allies, and your enemies, on a roll of 6, you, or whoever rolled, gains +30% to Strength, Speed, and Vitality for the next 30 minutes, on a roll of 5, it is a +20%, on a roll of 4, +10%, on a roll of 3, +0%, on a roll of 2, -10%, and on a roll of 1, -20%.
In addition, if you and your foes/allies roll the same number, you deal more damage to them, but also take more damage from them, or in the case of allies, you both work together much better than you normally would have.
I get another copy of 'Reload' and the next is just a... white question mark?
Mecha-Shift Weapon (100)
{Legendary}
Craft a signature weapon, using up to four weapons/armor from a list that appears when you use this card, after casting this card, the card changes to 'Summon Mecha-Shift Weapon'.
[wait a minute... a legendary card? What the hell? Did I fuck up the Rng?]
[Hmm...]
My last cardpack starts floating and glows as the top rips off, the pack art seems to be of a giant grimm wyvern fighting a long flying snake-dragon grimm, so that is... neat... less so if they actually exist...
[DAMNIT! There is a legendary in here as well! What the hell?! Ugh, fine, keep it! I need to go fix this damn generator... apparently one out of ninety-seven was too high... lucky prick.]
The cards fall back onto my bed in a neat stack showing the one on top... an Adult Grey Beowolf with a black mask.
Summon Beowolf (300*)
{Uncommon}
Summons an allied beowolf that follows your commands (Cough Cough Meatshields) (Lasts for 1 minute for every 300 Mp placed into the card when summoning)
The next has a grey nevermore perched in a tree, looking down at a camp below.
Scouting Nevermore (200*)
{Common}
Summons a small nevermore that follows your commands, you can swap your perception with your summon whenever you wish while it is alive. (Lasts for 10 Minutes for ever 200 Mp invested in the card)
I gain a second Grimm Blade, then, my next card has the image of a dark and depressing wasteland with black wispy shadows flowing from the ground.
Terrain Card: Grimmlands (500*)
{Epic}
Strengthens any allied grimm within the area by 100%, and weakens any foes (Excluding Grimm) by 10% (Covers a 100 foot radius for every 500 mp placed into the card, or less depending on the wishes of the user) (Lasts for 5 Minutes for every 500 Mp channeled into the card)
And the last card- which is going to be the legendary card if you weren't keeping track- has the image of a broken city, with waves upon waves of grimm prowling through the street.
Grimm Pandemic (2000*)
{Legendary}
Summons waves upon waves of commandable grimm every minute, the grimm summoned getting stronger and stronger as this card stays in affect. (See Chart Below) (Costs 2000 for every minute active, or for x3 the cost, Everything is Replaced with the alpha or a stronger variant.) (All of these stack, so at 300 seconds, 2 Creeps, 3 beowolves, and 2 Ursa Minor will be summoned.) (Please note that while these grimm ARE permanent, multiple castings of Grimm Pandemic don't stack, all summoned grimm are dispelled upon another casting of this spell)
Chart:
Creep(Or Creep Alpha): 2 Every 30 Seconds
Beowolf (Or Beowolf Alpha): 3 Every 60 Seconds
Ursa Minor(Or Ursa Major): 2 Every 5 Minutes
King Taijitu (Or Hydranox King Taijitu): 1 (Technically 2) Every 10 Minutes
Deathstalker (Or World-Shaker Deathstalker) 1 Every 30 Minutes.
'two legendary cards and several dimensional in one day...'
I let out a content sigh as I sit on my bed 'time to make that mechashift weapon!'
This has been done for a while, and after a couple quick edits I decided to send it out, it's been a while, hm? aaanyways, i hope you like it.