Hello my friends, I am back with another chapter of Black Roses. I apologize for the many errors and mistakes I had in the previous chapter, I pretty much skimmed through it cause I was really tired and just wanted to post it before going to bed. I'll reread the chapter carefully this time and fix those mistakes.
Now as some of you guys saw the cover for the story has been updated. Thank you for Rin Bloodedge the reaper for making this wonderful edit. Really love it! Gets me so excited to write more of this story.
Now last chapter Jaune fought team CRDL, while Black had a duel the invincible girl Pyrrha Nikos. Oh that was really nice, of course, Black held back but even holding back he was still too much for Pyrrha to handle. The chapter ended with Ruby choosing Yang as her opponent. The battle between sisters who will win? Find out…Right now!
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"I choose Yang." The words that came from Ruby's mouth shocked everyone present in the room. "M-Me?!" Yang pointed at herself. Ruby gave no response but only nodded.
"Ms. Xaio Long if you will, please ready yourself for combat." Glynda said. Still in shock Yang hesitantly complied. As she made her way to the locker room Yang glanced at her sister. Ruby still stood there in the center of the arena staring at the floor. Her usual cheery expression wasn't there instead it was replaced with a serious look.
Entering the locker room Yang made her way to her locker. Changing into her combat clothes and equipping Ember Celica. As she checked over her gauntlets she still wondered why Ruby wanted to fight her. They have sparred a couple times before coming to Beacon and she doesn't mind sparring again but the seriousness on her face…
Turning to the door Yang walked. She wasn't going to find out by guessing. She'll just have to ask. Opening the door she walked out of the locker room and made her way to the arena.
The others watched as Yang walked onto the arena. They also wondered why she chose to fight her teammate much less Yang. "Yang is far more superior than Ruby in terms of up-close combat, but Ruby's speed is something she can use to avoid any hits from her and her semblance is far more creative than Yang's." Gohan stated.
"That may be true but Yang has gotten pretty used to Ruby's speed so I don't see that as much of an advantage. Besides Ruby's Crescent Rose is big compared to Ember Celica, it'll be harder for to maneuver it when they fight up close, giving her openings for Yang to land." Ren added.
"Ruby does have the one advantage, combining her semblance and Crescent Rose's sniper mode makes her a tricky opponent for Yang if she keeps her distance." Weiss added in her part of the analysis. They stared below at the two sisters as they faced each other for combat.
"Two sisters that have completely different fighting styles that give them an advantage and disadvantage to one another. The outcome of this is quite hazy." Pyrrha said. The others agreed. They'll have to just see who wins.
Both Ruby and Yang stared at one another waiting for Professor Glynda to commence the spar. Their faces appeared on the screen as well as their Aura levels. Yang was about to activate Ember Celica till what she saw next surprised her and everyone else.
Ruby stabbed Crescent Rose to the floor next to her. She took a breath in before breathing out as she raised her fists in front of her. Glynda was also surprised by this. "Ruby are you intending to spar without your weapon?"
"Yea, there's no rule here and in the tournament that says I can't fight without my weapon." Again she was correct. Indeed there are no rules that deny a student from fighting without their weapon. In fact, it's encouraged for students to learn how to fight in situations where they don't possess one.
"I must make it clear to you that you'll be fighting at your own risk." Glynda reminded.
Ruby nodded. "I understand." Her eyes still on Yang who was still puzzled by all this. "Yang please fight me seriously." Her request yet again surprised the brawler.
What's going on? This isn't like Ruby. "Rubes, what's going on? What's with all the requests? I can understand you wanting to spar with me and all but fighting me without Crescent Rose and asking me to fight you seriously…this isn't like you."
"I…I have my own reasons, reasons that I can't tell you." Ruby said back. This only added more to Yang's confusion. Glynda stared at Ruby for a moment. She had to agree this was unlike her normal happy aura she would emanate.
The countdown on the screen began. 3…2…1…BEGIN with a buzzer going off. The two stood still as they. Then suddenly Ruby skipped forward with incredible speed. Yang barely managed to cross her arms as she blocked Ruby's knee. Stunned not only by her speed but the power behind her attack caused Yang to stumble back. Ruby wasted no time ran at her and sent a right hook. Yang tilted her head to side barely in time again. She couldn't even recover as she had to lean back from an uppercut cut Ruby sent. Continuing to throw fist after fist with amazing speed Yang was forced to only block and dodge. She then saw an opportunity and went for a roundhouse kick. She was surprised that Ruby blocked it with her forearm. She quickly dismissed her surprise when saw another fist being sent to her.
Thinking quick Yang hopped a couple steps back in order for her to stabilize herself. Ruby was already on her throwing more blows to which Yang either blocked her dodged. Yang began to see a pattern and began throwing her own attacks.
Thinking she was beginning to get the upper hand Yang was once again was proven wrong as Ruby jumped over her when she threw her own attack. Ruby twisted in the air several times before sending a kick. Quickly turning around Yang readied herself but was not expecting a strong kick. Her arm was knocked away and her body sent flying back. Her back hit the floor and rolled across the floor before stopping herself with her hand and foot.
Looking back up she saw Ruby standing there ready to attack again. The determination in Ruby's eyes showed that she was really serious about this fight. Their friends were also shocked by the level of combat Ruby was displaying. "Okay, whoa. When did Ruby learn to fight like that?!" Nora asked.
Blake and Weiss were at a loss for words. They have never seen their leader fight like this before. "I-I don't know, but it's certainly giving Yang some trouble." Weiss said.
Gohan was amazed by Ruby's hand to hand combat. She didn't waste a single throw and seemed to carefully analysis Yang's next movement. But for some reason, her movements seemed repressed. They all continued to watch as the two sisters skipped around blocking, dodging, and counter ones attack.
Black observed each of Ruby's movements and hummed in thought.
In their exchanges, Yang managed to land a right hook and followed it up with an uppercut. The hits stunned Ruby a bit and Yang continued her assault landing blow after blow Ruby's head snapping one direction to the other, her body feeling all the blows that land. A punch to the face caused her to stagger back but Yang wasn't done, she grabbed Ruby by the arm and pulled her back and then kicking her in the chest. Ruby's back hit the floor and Yang quickly turned around for another assault only to see that she was gone.
Shocked by her disappearance Yang looked over her shoulder to see Ruby behind her with her fist pulled back. Not being fast enough to block this, the blow landed hitting her straight in the cheek. The punch sent her flying back, her back skidding along the floor before coming to a halt.
Ruby remained where she was and stood straight up. Yang pushed herself back up rubbing her cheek. She defiantly felt that one. When did she get so strong?
"Yang, I know you're not taking this serious."
"What're you talking about; of course I'm taking this serious." Yang retorted standing back up.
"No you're not. I've seen you fight before. You're way faster than that and you punch much harder than what you're letting out." She should have known she wouldn't be able to fool her.
Letting out a sigh Yang rubbed her head. "Hey let's just called this match a draw and head to the cafeteria I hear there's a fresh batch of cookies being baked~." Yang teased.
"Yang I'm serious!" Ruby shouted stunning both her and everyone else including Black. "One day I'll be in a situation where I won't have Crescent Rose with me and I'll have to fight someone with my bare hands. Maybe I'll win, who knows. But what I do know is that if I fight someone far more experienced in that field than me, someone like you, I'll know where I stand and push myself further. Not just as a student, but as a Huntress."
Everyone remained quiet. Professor Glynda was quite impressed by the little red head's speech. Yang's eyes remained glued to her sister before traveling down to her hand.
She always tried to be a good sister and protect her from harm's way. Unlike that one time. Yang's hand turned into a fist as she tightly clenched the air remembering that night. She finally realizes that she won't always be around to protect her. She needs to grow…so what gives her the right to deny her little sister growth.
Raising her other fist in front she quickly got into her fighting stance while activating Ember Celica. "Alright Ruby, I'll take you seriously."
A smirk formed on Ruby's lips as she got into her own stance. Black's eyebrows rose a bit when he noticed her trying to mimic his own fighting stance or rather Son Goku's fighting stance. The only difference was that her hands were clenched in fists and her footing was kinda out of place. Other than that, it almost looked like it.
Gohan also noticed the stance. "That almost looks like dad's turtle hermit stance. Can't be a coincidence," His eyes traveling to Black. "Can it?"
Back to the arena, the two sisters stared down at one another. Finally, Yang made the first move firing two fire dust rounds. Ruby ran at her skipping side to side evading the dust rounds. Her eyes then widen when Yang was already in front of her with her fist aimed at her. Crossing her arms she blocked the punch and was pushed back. Yang ran at her throwing punch after punch. Ruby blocked and countered Yang's attacks and threw her own as well.
The two continued to exchanges blows. Ruby was punched in the face then in the rib, the assault continued as Ruby tried to block the attacks. Yang went for a kick but missed as Ruby leaned back. She continued to spin around before switching to her other foot and side kicking Ruby in the stomach.
Ruby gasped as she was caught off guard from the second kick and staggering back a bit. Yang fired fire dust rounds forcing Ruby to flip backwards several times. "Watch out you dolt you're about to ring out!" Weiss shouted.
Hearing this Ruby stopped immediately. Her eyes widen when a dust round impacted her causing a small explosion. Smoke covered the place where she stood.
"Ruby!" Her friends shouted. "Don't you think Yang might be taking this too seriously?" Alli said.
"Yang doesn't seem to be holding back anymore. She's fighting just aggressively as she would towards an enemy." Blake stated.
"All of you quiet." The sudden voice from Black had them all turn to him. "Just watch." They wondered what he meant and looked back at the arena.
From the smoke, Ruby dash out at incredible speed and aimed a punch to Yang's face. This time Yang was ready as she lifted her arm and blocked the hit. Yang then threw her own hit but missed as Ruby tilted her head to the side. Ruby then aimed a kick to rib but was blocked by Yang's knee.
Yang followed up and threw another punch. Ruby rose her hand up and caught her fist. Ruby used her free hand to aim another punch to Yang's face. The brawler seeing this leaned to the side and took a step back. Ruby's body still going forward she twisted around and aimed a kick to her face. Yang parried the kick. From the parry, Ruby place both feet on the ground and pushed herself forward for another punch.
Yang had to cross her other arm and catch the fist. She then used her knee to hit Ruby in the abdomen but was surprisingly caught by her other hand. Seeing both of her sister's hands were in use, Yang used this opportunity to use her free hand and fire a shotgun round to Ruby's front. The blast surprised Ruby. Her body hit the floor, quickly flipping herself back to her feet and she twisted her body evading Yang's fist. She aimed for an uppercut but yet again Yang caught it. The bawler tried elbowing Ruby's temple but her attack was also caught. Ruby then head-butted Yang staggering her back a couple steps.
The redhead rushed at her sister and delivered a hard blow to Yang's face following it up with a punch to the gut then a kick to the head. Ruby repeated this process putting Yang at her mercy. She was then shocked when Yang caught her wrist and pulled her forward before pushing her back and punching her in the cheek and then punching her in the gut. The hit caused Ruby to gasp in pain.
Yang skipped forward and gave a heavy blow to Ruby's cheek snapping her head to the side. Raising her other fist she hit slammed her fist snapping her head the other direction. She punched her a couple time in the chest.
Ruby managed to cross her arms and withstood the abuse. The redhead finally evaded Yang's fist by ducking under. She then quickly appeared behind the blond and aimed a kick to her head; unfortunately, Yang caught her by the ankle. Ruby expression showed she didn't expect Yang to react that quickly.
Pulling her over Yang slammed her to the floor. Ruby gasped for air as she felt the air leave her body. Small cracks formed beneath her from the impact. Yang pulled her again and began spinning her around. After several spins, the brawler released the redhead sending her flying back.
Ruby managed to flip herself onto her feet and stop herself from ringing out. Yang raised her gauntlets and fired three dust rounds. Seeing the incoming dust rounds Ruby raised her hands. She deflected the first round to the left then the second to the right, the last round impacted and caused a small explosion. Yang's breathing was a bit heavy. Her eyes widen when the smoke began to clear up. Ruby stood there with her left arm out, her held burn marks and half of her sleeve was burned away. Ruby narrowed eyes, she lowered her hand while shaking it in an attempt to rid the burning sensation away. Her breathing was also a bit heavy.
She then skipped forward to restart the fight. Yang raised her fist and threw a punch. Ruby kept going forward, the fist mere inches of her face before ducking under it surprising Yang. Ruby raised her own fist and delivered an uppercut. She followed it up with and below to the gut then turning to the other side and punching her in the gut again. Crouching down and swiped Yang off her feet before jumping back up and side kicking her away.
Yang fired her gauntlets at the floor to stop herself and then fired them again to send her flying back at Ruby. Ruby rushed at as well. Their forearms clashed and they began trading blows. Skipping around the stage they contained to fight, blocking, evading and countering while letting out their own attacks. Ruby felt harder blows than Yang due to her sister's gauntlets fire rounds firing with every blow she landed. But even then that didn't stop Ruby from pushing forward.
"Man what to do what to do." Mercury said out loud, lying on his bed as he bounced a ball on the wall. He was completely bored. He thought school was going to fun; he was extremely disappointed when it wasn't like what he thought it would be. The only exciting class was combat class. But even then he mostly just watched others fight.
"Ugh!" He groaned.
"Stop your whining. If you're bored then go to the city and steal someone's wallet or something." Emerald said her eyes on her scroll.
"They're too easy to steal. Plus I've done it like a hundred times already." Mercury bounced the ball again.
"Can you quit that, it's getting annoying." Emerald said.
"How, you're not even doing anything."
"I'm researching the students here for Cinder," Emerald retorted. "She wants to know as much information about them as possible. We could probably blackmail someone into doing something for us, but that's up to Cinder to decide."
"Oh yeah, we gotta get permission from your mommy." Mercury teased. Emerald growled as she glared at her partner. Suddenly from the window, Neo flipped inside with Atlesian officer uniform. Landing on her feet together she posed as if she were a gymnast.
"Nice landing." Mercury commented with a smirk. Neo winked at him before reverting back to normal disguise. As if on cue Cinder also walked in. "Ah, there you are Neo. How was the reconnaissance?"
Neo gave a thumbs up. "Did you gather information about the CCT security?" Neo held up a flash drive answering her question. "Well done, now all we need to do is time the infiltration perfectly with the dance." Cinder said, she then noticed Emerald still researching the students of Beacon.
"Any students that might catch our interest?" She asked.
"No, they all seem nor- wait. Gohan Pelondina." Emerald announced.
Mercury snorted. "Polendina, that's his last name?" He laughed.
Ignoring him Emerald continued. "He's from Atlas, received perfect scores from his written test. Experience in hand to hand combat and duel weapons mainly his two batons, Muffle and Ruffle."
"So what, he sounds like a normal student to me." Mercury said.
"He doesn't have a semblance." This surprised them.
"You're kidding, right? The guy fights like a season huntsmen, not to mention he's fast and strong as hell." Mercury said still not believing that one of the best students he's seen so far doesn't even a semblance.
"May I." Cinder asked.
"Of course," Emerald handed the scroll to her. Reading the description of Gohan see was indeed surprised that the boy has not discovered his semblance. "He just had his aura unlocked when he was accepted as well." Mercury fell from his bed and Neo just rose a brow.
"It took Goodwitch several attempts to unlock it as well." That part intrigued her a bit. For it to take a seasoned huntress several attempts to unlock one's aura was something that rarely happens. Especially if that Huntress is Glynda Goodwitch. What so different about Gohan that would cause her some trouble to unlock his aura. Looking back at scroll she saw that he also had a sister named Penny Polendina. Seeing the picture of his sister she noticed that they looked nothing alike. Maybe he was adopted?
"Cinder?" Emerald spoke when she saw the gears in Cinder head start to turn. "It would seem that we stumbled upon quite the enigma. Put him on the list and try to find more information about him." Cinder ordered.
"Yes, mam."
Cinder walked up to the window and stared out. More surprises seem to just keep popping. First, it was Saiyaman's appearance and those girls that keep interfering with Roman's operation and now this mystery boy Gohan. She wonders if she should inform this to her.
Back in the arena, everyone stared worriedly for their two friends on the stage. The two sisters were badly bruised and heavily breathing. Their clothes were also in bad condition. The right of Ruby's stocking was ripped halfway while the other had holes in them. Her blouse had rips and burn marks as well as her skirt. Bruises and burn marks were seen in the places where her skin wasn't covered. Blood seemed to drip down her lip as well.
Yang on the other hand barely had her jacket hanging on to her since part of it was burned away; bruises on her arms and legs as well on her abdomen. Her face seemed to also have some faint bruises as well.
"Ms. Glynda don't you think this is too much?!" Pyrrha asked They all thought the same. The two were just beating each other up without any repercussion of what might happen to one or the other.
Glynda glanced at Nikos and the other students before turning to her scroll. She wanted to stop the match as well but both of their Aura's were halfway through the orange yet they look like their Auras have already been depleted. Are they purposely stopping their Aura's from healing them?
Yang gave a faint smile. "I was hoping that I could have ended this quickly but looks like that's not gonna happen."
"I was hoping for the same." Ruby responded with a smile of her own. "I thought I could beat you with my new strength but it looks like I was wrong."
"Even so, you've gotten a lot stronger since the last time we sparred. Heh, even now I'm still having trouble keeping up with that semblance of yours." Yang said.
Ruby went wide eye. Yang was confused by the expression and took her a few seconds to realize why. "Y-You have been using your semblance, right?"
"AHHH! I totally forgot about my semblance!" Rubbing her own head. How could she forget! She practically uses it every day before she started training with Black that is.
From the spectators' seats, Black sweatdropped upon hearing this. For her to forget her own semblance is just idiotic.
Glynda glanced at the timer. "Five minute and thirty seconds left."
Hearing this Ruby shook her head to get her mind back into the fight. "Now," She crouched down a bit her hands spread to her sides. Taking a deep breath she exhaled relaxing her body a bit.
Yang readied herself. A bead of sweat dripped down her temple. Was she nervous? Ruby speed was already amazing without her semblance, so of course, she would a bit timid to see what she would be like if she used her semblance now.
A small gust of wind with rose petals began to slowly circle around Ruby. The wind in the arena began to pick up a bit. Blowing the hairs of the students' presents a bit. Yang clenched her fists readying herself. The wind around Ruby began picking up a bit more. Weiss and several others had to shield their eyes. A curious expression formed on Black's face. "Her semblance was speed wonder how much it'll increase it now." He thought.
"Woah, this is new." Lewis said.
"It almost looks like she's powering up or something." Gohan thought.
Yang kept her arms in front of her. "Hey what's with the wind?"
As if she heard her the wind surrounding Ruby stopped. Ruby closed her eyes taking in one last breathe before exhaling out. Opening up her eyes she looked towards her sister.
Yang was unsure what just happened since it was the first time she ever seen Ruby's semblance do that. "Huh, what was all that abo-." In a blink of an eye Ruby's fist connected with her gut. A small gust of wind exploded from the impact. Everyone in the room was absolutely shocked by the speed Ruby just displayed. They didn't even see her move! Glynda was speechless in all her years she never seen speed like that before. Black was also surprised, he knew that her semblance would boost her speed by a great margin but this…this is astonishing. Not even realizing that a grin with excitement written on his face was showing.
Yang's eyes were wide open as her body shook with pain. Her Aura glowed, the part surrounding her abdomen shattered. Yang took several steps back as she clutched her stomach. With wobbly legs, she managed to take a few more steps back before falling to her hand and knees. She then coughed up blood as she tried to regain her breathing and control the pain.
Ruby flinched a bit when she saw her sister cough up blood. Did she hit her too hard? No, Yang is strong; she's taken on worse hits before. This is just caught her by surprise that's all.
"That was the strongest punch I ever felt!" Yang screamed in her mind. Feeling her strength coming back to her Yang lifted her head up. Ruby stood there looking down at her and for some reason, it ticked her off a bit.
Yang gritted her teeth as she clenched her fists and began to rise up. Fire emanated from her body. Then finally her eyes turned red. The sight made Ruby smirk, now she knew Yang was going to go all out, just like she will.
Yang fired her gauntlets sending her flying forward. She aimed for a punch but missed as Ruby simply twisted her body a bit. She threw another one but missed again, then another, then another, and another. She continued to relentlessly attack but could not land a single blow. Ruby continued to move her head and body away from Yang's fists and block several of her kicks.
Ruby then caught her fist with her right hand and pulled her forward. With her left, she punched her in the cheek. She released her grip on Yang's fist then caught her by the wrist with her other hand. Ruby gave a kick to Yang's chin then bringing it down to hit her on the head, followed up with a side kick to her rib and then another kick to her back before moving to her leg.
Ruby released her grip again then jumped and spun around to hit her with her leg, knocking Yang down to the floor. She reached down and grabbed her by the foot and threw her over.
Yang landed on her feet skidding back. She fired several rounds while Ruby rushed at her. The redhead burst in petals as she easily evaded the dust rounds. She circled around Yang while the brawler continued to fire more rounds. Then Ruby stopped in her tracks before speeding forward and punching Yang in the face. With no time to worry about how much that hurt Yang stood straight up only to be hit in the face again. Next, it was the back, then her rib, and then her leg. Using her semblance Ruby continued to land quick yet hard blows to her sister.
The others watched as Yang's body staggered in one direction then to another only seeing petals fly past her whenever she gets hit. The attacks continued on till finally flames burst from Yang's body. "ENOUGH!" She punched the ground causing an explosion of fire to explode around her.
Not expect that Ruby was blown back from it. Her body skipped across the floor before flipping back to her feet. She quickly crossed her arms and blocked an incoming punch. Ruby hissed in pain from the attack.
Yang then went for an uppercut but Ruby raised her knee on time and stopped it from hitting her. She flinched in pain from the blow. Yang's attacks were indeed getting stronger. Skidding back Ruby dodged Yang's attacks only blocking a few of them due to stinging she feels whenever she blocks her attacks.
Having enough of running Ruby went for a punch using her semblance to enhance her speed. To her shock, Yang tilted her head the other direction causing her to miss. A grin formed on Yang's mouth as he gave a heavy blow to Ruby's side. "GAH!" The color in Ruby's faded for second before she regained her senses and gave a hard kick to Yang's stomach. Coughing up saliva Yang gritted her teeth and gave a strong blow to the face. Ruby staggered back but caught herself and threw herself forward and gave her own punch.
Yang's head snapped to left before facing back and landing a hard stomach punch. Ruby cheeks puffed up a bit before coughing up blood. Her body lifted a bit from the punch. Immense pain shot throughout her body. Collecting herself once more she grabbed Yang by the face and pushed back before slamming her to the floor. Yang gritted her teeth.
Ruby pushed herself off and flipped forward. Landing, she twisted around and leaned to the side dodging Yang's fist. With Ruby's left fist she aimed a punch to Yang's but was blocked by her forearm. Yang went for a stomach punch; Ruby caught it with her right. Raising her leg she kicked the brawler's chin. As Yang fell backwards she grabbed Ruby's leg and threw her to the other side of the arena.
Ruby's feet skidding across the floor. Slowing down she then dashed towards her sister. Yang fired several rounds. Using her speed he dodged past each one of the fire dust rounds. Going for punch Ruby to towards Yang's head, but was blocked by her forearm.
The two re-engaged in fast combat trading blow after blow. Their fight moved throughout the stage, Ruby leaving a trail of roses while Yang left small explosions from her firing her gauntlets.
Ruby received a hard blow to the cheek. Yang was nailed good in the face. Ruby was punched in the stomach. Yang was kicked in the rib. The others just watched as the two sisters pretty much destroyed themselves in the fight. Their hits becoming harsher by the second. None of them were sure who was going to give out first.
Finally, in the mist of the fast movements, Yang caught Ruby fist in her hand. Ruby also caught Yang's fist in her hand. They gritted their teeth as they locked to one another trying to push the other back. Yang's red eyes glared at Ruby silver ones as she used all her might to push her sister back. Flames erupted from Yang as she began to gain the upper hand pushing Ruby back. Ruby feet skid across the floor, shutting her eyes to concentrate on her strength. Her back to arch back a bit as Yang continued to push her down now. Ruby could feel it her arms and leg beginning to give out slowly. "N-No, I…I can't keep this up!" She weakly opened her eyes and glanced towards the spectators. Her friends sat there all wearing worried faces. "Don't you dare lose." A familiar voice rang in her head. With a surprised look, she glanced towards Black who was stared at her. She then remembered something, her promise.
"I'll continue to train and get stronger so that one day I'll be kicking your butt and not the other way around."
"Very well Ruby Rose, I'll hold you to that. You better not disappoint."
The memories of that night, her promise she made to beat him played in her mind. She can't lose here. Ruby turned back to Yang with a new fire in her eyes that surprised her sister. Ruby growled and grunted as she slowly began to push back.
Yang was shocked by this new strength as Ruby continued to push her back. Ruby took a step forward forcing Yang to take a step back. "GGRRAAAAAH!" Ruby took more steps her strength overwhelming Yang who was forced to take more steps back. Then Rub made her move, headbutting Yang in the face before punching her away.
Yang's body bounced off the floor before flipping back to her feet. Her breathing was heavy as well as was Ruby's. They knew they couldn't keep this up any longer.
Yang slammed her knuckles together causing flames to burst from body. Ruby crouched down a bit rose petals swirling around her. Yang fired her gauntlets launching her forward. Ruby used her semblance and skipped forward rose petals trailing behind her. With their fists pulled they aimed to hit each other. "RAAAAGH." Their fists collided causing a small shockwave and spider-web cracks to form below them. Some of the students were blown back to their seats from the shockwave.
Gohan and the others watched in awe at the power the two sisters displayed. "Incredible, this would most defiantly impress even Piccolo." Gohan muttered.
"Who?" Pyyrha asked.
"Ah, n-no one!" He nervously smiled while waving his hands in front of him.
Yang and Ruby fists still in collision tired pushing the other. Then suddenly Ruby relaxed, letting Yang weight to fall forward. Ruby disappeared out of sight. Yang almost tripping over herself, then after regaining her momentum, she turned around only to see Ruby leg being swung at her.
Shockingly for Ruby, Yang rose her arm just in time to block it. Then grabbing the same leg Yang pulled her forward and aimed a punch with her other fist. Using her semblance she made sure to add the extra power into this one. The hit made a direct impact on Ruby's stomach "GWOOHOOCK!" Her eyes widen as the impact sent her flying back.
Ruby skidded across the floor and then… falling off the stage. "The winner is Yang Xiao Long." Glynda announced. The students in the class all cheered except for Weiss, Blake, Team JNPR and BAGL. They all looked in concern for both of their friend's well-being.
Ruby laid there, still trying to regain her breathing. She laid a hand on her abdomen as the pain was still present. She weakly opened her eyes to stare at the ceiling in disappointment and shame. "I lost."
Footsteps made their way towards her. Moving her head a little to the right she saw Yang stand over her. Her serious expression turned into a smile and then offered a hand. Ruby stared at the hand before reaching up and accepting it. Pulling her up to her feet the two sisters smiled at each other. "Are you two insane?!" Weiss shouted causing them to flinch a bit.
"Fighting so brutally and not to mention denying your Aura's from healing you is completely stupid and dangerous! You both could've taken permanent injuries!" The ice continued to shout.
The two sisters stared at the ice queen as if she just grew a second head. "Uh,"
"We never denied our Aura's from healing us." Ruby was the first to say.
"Yea, in fact, we don't have any right now." Yang finished.
The others blinked a couple of times. "Wha-What do you mean you both don't have any Aura left?" Jaune asked.
Glynda heard this and was shocked. Looking at the main screen she saw that Yang only had a smidge of Aura left in orange and Ruby's Aura was in the red. "That doesn't make sense." She checked her scrolled and had them scanned again. The main screen changed and now it showed that both combatants had no Aura remaining. "A glitch?" She said to herself. It had to be, but still, she should've stopped them even without the need for the gauging system. Her irresponsibility caused two of her students to get severely hurt.
"When did you two run out of Aura?" She asked.
"Umm, I think mines was somewhere in the middle of our fight." Ruby said.
"Ruby shattered the rest of mines when she used her Semblance." Yang said.
"She shattered yours?" Blake said in a surprised tone.
"Hey her punches are no joke, especially when she's using her Semblance to add more velocity to her hits." Yang explained. "Which leads me to ask, where on earth did you learn to fight like that. I know dad and I taught you a few moves and all, but nothing on that caliber. Not to mention your strength was something else." The others eyed the redhead as they also wanted to know.
"I…umm…kinda…learned them through…actions movies and games." She hesitantly responded.
Yang blinked a couple of times while the rest just stared in disbelief. "Really?" Yang asked, to which Ruby responded with a nod.
"Do you really expect us to believe that?" Weiss said. "Learning to fight like that from action movies and games is completely preposterous and-."
"I believe her." Yang cut in.
"Wait you what now?" Weiss said.
"I mean it wouldn't be the first time Ruby learned something through movies and games. Some of her moves with Crescent Rose are actually from them. Heck, even my uncle ended up buying her a video game where she can learn a few moves." Yang says.
"So she's a visual learner, huh, that's quite impressive. Though that's a first I'm hearing about someone learning how to fight by watching movies and playing games." Gohan says while scratching his head.
"Everyone has their own way of learning. While it is quite a unique way it shows that you can easily learn how to improve by just watching others fights." Pyrrha placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder. The others smiled in agreement except for Weiss who was still having a hard time believing all this.
"Hey, Ren we should do the same and watch some action movies too." Nora suggested.
"Oh oh, me too, me too I wanna watch a movie too." Lewis raised his hand while jumping so he could be noticed.
"I'm pretty you both will most likely enjoy the movie instead of observing." Ren replied.
Ruby smiled at all this. "Thank you guys." She said in a saddened tone, which didn't go unnoticed by Yang.
"Hey what's wrong?" She asked.
"It's just that…I still lost even after all I did to become this strong." Ruby eyes fell to the floor as a sad expression took over.
Then an unexpected snort came from Yang. "Who cares! Did you not see yourself in there? Ruby, you were unbelievable! You had me on the run most of the time and you actually overpowered me at one point too."
"She's right you know," Blake joined in, "While I still don't accept how you both were relentlessly beating each other up in there it still showed how much you've improved since day one. You kept a focus head and analyzed Yang fighting patterns."
"Your attacks were fast and well-coordinated, but you lacked some balance and wasted time when thinking on your next move. You need to be more creative in your fighting and be harder to predict or you'll have a hard time against a more experienced opponent." Gohan joined in; he felt like he was giving a lesson to Trunks again. The memory of his friend made him smiled. "I hope he put an end to those androids."
"Oh, Ren and Pyrrha can help you." Nora suggested.
"I wouldn't mind offering you a few lessons." Ren said.
"I would be happy to help." Pyrrha said next.
Yang wrapped an arm around Ruby's neck. "Don't forget about me. There are still a couple of pointers I can still give you." Ruby looked at all her friends who all smiled at her. "Thanks, you guys."
"Hey what are friends for?" Gohan said causing the redhead to smile. But behind that smile still hid some sadness and Jaune was only one who knew the reason why.
Ruby glanced at the specters seats hoping to see Black there, but to her disappointment, he wasn't. She mentally sighed knowing full well of what's to come.
The two sisters were sent to the infirmary to have wounds checked out and patched up a bit. Yang left the infirmary a couple minutes later to grab a few snacks from the cafeteria leaving Ruby alone in the room. She sighed and tried turning to her side but flinched when pain shot through her body. "Who knew fighting like that would hurt this much."
"Well, you were fighting Yang." Looking towards the door she saw Jaune walk in. "Hey, how you holding up?"
"Besides the bruises and fractured bones I'm doing pretty okay." She grinned.
"Man I think I would've come out with a lot more bruises if I fought Yang. Thank god my opponents were team CRDL." Hey said, realizing what he said he immediately apologized. "S-Sorry."
"It's alright…have you seen him?" Ruby asked.
"Oh, that's why I came here. He wants us to meet him by this café." Jaune held up his scroll to show which café he was talking about.
"Whelp, shouldn't keep him waiting then." Ruby proceeded to remove herself from the bed flinching a bit.
"Maybe you should rest a bit. Your Aura hasn't fully recovered yet." Jaune said when he noticed Ruby her side.
"It's okay, I'm fine." She walked up to a chair that sat in the corner which held some fresh clothes. "Hey, Jaune you think you give me a minute."
"Oh sure." He walked out of the room leaving her free to change. As Ruby removed her stockings, blouse, and boots she thought about Black and what she was going to say to him. What can she say? He was strict and losing today was the end of her training. She placed her normal ware onto the bed. "Looks like I'm gonna have to get a new set. I knew I should've gotten one before the fight." She sighed and went to grab her spare clothes.
Ruby now wore a light gray shirt, a black hoodie with red inside, blue Bermuda shorts, and red sneakers. She looked at herself in the mirror. The hoodie helped cover most of her bruises on her arms and abdomen. There were a few minor burns and scratch marks on her legs though. She grabbed her cloak and placed it on the bed along with her usual ware. "I'll come back for you." Patting her red cloak.
Walking out the infirmary room she saw Jaune waiting by the window. Jaune pushed himself from the window when he saw Ruby approach. "Ready to go?" Ruby gave a nod. The two walked through the halls till they were out of the building. They caught a ride in an airship that took them to the city. After landing in Vale's docking bay the two teens made their way the Café. The whole trip was quiet, neither one of them said anything.
Jaune glance at Ruby who was looking at the ground with downcast eyes. She's always smiled and cheerful about anything, so seeing her like this wasn't something he liked to see. He had to do something. She trained just as hard as he did. She was his partner; he can't just let her be dismissed from training because she failed a test. Her opponent was Yang Xiao Long for crying out loud. It wasn't really fair compared to the opponents he had. He frowned at the unfairness.
"It's okay Jaune." Ruby said, catching Jaune attentions. "I know you want to do something to convince Black from dismissing me but a test is a test. In truth I'm kind of happy with myself," She said with a smile. Her smile surprised him a bit.
Finally reaching the café the two entered and asked the clerk if they have seen their friend. The clerk pointed out that he was on the second floor outside. They thanked her and made their way up. Making their way up they saw Black outside leaning over a railing.
Black gazed at the city and its inhabitants while enjoying his tea. He watched the humans and faunas walk by talking to one another, some with a smile on their faces and others with less delightful expressions. Hearing the door leading outside opened he figured it was Jaune and Ruby. Turning towards the two he set his cup down on the table. "You both took your time."
"Well the café is pretty far from the docking bay and we don't exactly have a car." Jaune explained, emanating a hum from Black.
"Now onto the matter of why I had you two come her-."
"Before you say anything I just want to say, if it wasn't for you Black I would never have reached this level of strength," Black stared at her with his usual expression. "I mean before I was pretty clumsy and ignorant, but you helped me improve so much and for that, I want to than-."
"You pass."
"..."
"…Eh…could you repeat that again?" Ruby asked.
"You…Pass." He slowly said again. The two teens were surprised and confused by his answer. "H-Huh, but how?! I mean I lost?!" She replied.
"When did I ever say you had to win in order to pass?" Both Ruby and Jaune looked at him confused as they thought back only to realize that he was right. He never mentioned that winning was the key to passing. Black sighed when he saw their expression. "I even explained to you both the point of these tests yesterday. It's to test yourselves against harder opponents and for me to observe what you need to improve on."
Black looked towards Ruby. "I purposely had you fight a much difficult opponent. The reason for it was to show you where you stand and how much you need to push yourself in order to win next time." Black explained. "So do you know where you stand?"
Ruby's eyes widen, upon hearing her own words said right back to her. She looked down at her hand before clenching it. Looking back up with a smile she responded. "I do."
"Good."
"Hey Black," The false Saiyan turned towards the blondie. "What about my opponents? I mean compared to Ruby's it feels like you took it easy on me."
"Because they were close to your level of combat as a team. While your strength and speed have improved greatly you still never really fought before. It's true that you're the strategist for your team and you come up with impressive tactics in order to take down your opponents I'll give you that, but that's all you are, a strategist." Black's claim hit Jaune pretty hard. "You never really actually fought, so that's why I chose team CRDL, so you can use that brain of yours in a fight of your own. You said it yourself did you not, that most of the time you were on the defensive? That's because you weren't used to thinking of a tactic to bring down your opponent down while fighting at the same time especially four at a time."
Jaune looked down giving what Black said some thought. "He's right."
"Now that you know why I chose team CRDL do you know where you need to improve?" Jaune looked up and nodded.
"Good," He picked up the cup and sipped his tea. "Now, tomorrow we will begin the next step of your training."
Ruby eyes held nothing but excitement in them as she smiled in glee. Jaune held a worried look though. "Don't you think it's a bit too early to start training?" The false Saiyan and redhead gave him a questioning look. "I mean Ruby is still pretty beat up from her fight with Yang so I just don't think that it would right for her to undergo your training tomorrow."
Ruby quickly looked back at the two in a panic manner. "Wait no, I'm okay. I can take your training no problem." Raising her arm to show off her muscle. Black rose a brow at this. Ruby quickly ran over to Jaune and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt then proceeded to shake him. "Jaune don't do this to me! I can't stray behind!"
Jaune tried saying something back through the violent shakes. "I'm sorry, I was just thinking about your health that's all!"
"Both of you calm down." Black said, stopping both of them. "You have nothing to worry about Arc. Tomorrow's training doesn't require much physical effort, but more mental training." Pointing to his head, which had them tilt their heads to the side. "I'll explain more tomorrow." His eyes moved to Ruby. "Same place as always."
"Got it." Ruby and Jaune nodded with a grin. Black continued to stare at the redhead making feel a bit uncomfortable. "Umm Black is something wrong? You're staring." Ruby said.
Black blinked before responding. "No, it just…it's a bit strange seeing you wear something else than your usual ware."
Ruby looked down at herself before looking back up. "Is that...a bad thing?" She hesitantly asked.
"…No, it's not, it suits you actually." Black said while looking away. Ruby was surprised by his answer. Her surprise then quickly turned to a smile and a blush spread across her cheeks as she unconsciously placed some of her hair behind her ear. Jaune rose a brow at the scene before him. "Umm, I think we should get going before Yang and the others start to wonder where you went off to."
"Huh," striping Ruby from her trance. "Oh…yea, umm…well we'll see you tomorrow then Black, seya." She waved. The false Saiyan waved her off as he turned back to the city.
As the two went back inside the café and made their way out Jaune noticed Ruby still with that same smile from what he saw upstairs. Then a question came to his head. "Hey, Ruby."
"Yea."
"Do you like Black?"
Ruby froze in place and felt like the whole place went silent for her. Her face then turned extremely red as she frantically waved her hands. "Whe-Whe-Where did that come?!" She shouted.
"It's just you did the same thing that my sisters do whenever a guy flirts with them or when they receive compliments from them. Moving some of your hair behind your ear." Ruby stood there shocked. Clutching her head she began to panic. She had no clue what to say! She didn't even realize she did that! Did Black see it too?! Does he know!?
Jaune nervously smiled. "I think I'll take that as a yes."
"AHHHH WHAT DO I DO! IF YOU NOTICED HE PROBABLY DID TOO!" She violently shook her head. Some of the people in the café looked at her as if she was crazy. Jaune noticed the looks they were getting and tried calming the red head down. "H-Hey calm down. Black isn't one to notice that kind of stuff."
Ruby looked at her friend in hope. "Yo-You think so?" Jaune quickly nodded his head. Ruby let some breath out as she relaxed a bit. Jaune was right, Black isn't the type of guy to notice those kinds of signals. "Though…that kind of disappoints me a bit as well." She hunched down.
Jaune smiled and gave her a comforting pat on the back. "Yang mentioned that there was a fresh batch of cookies being baked. If we hurry you could have some straight from the oven." Ruby lifted her head with a smile at his attempt to liven her up a bit.
"Alright, let's get going then! Those cookies aren't going to eat themselves!" She ran out the door and headed straight back to the docking bay with Jaune trying to catch up.
Back on the balcony, Black watched Ruby form disappear in the distance. "What a strange girl." His usual expression turned into a scowl. "You can come out now." He called out.
From the rooftop, Neo jumped down. "How long did you know I was there?" She asked with her hands.
"Since I arrived here." He responded fully turning towards the ice cream haired girl.
Neo smirked and grabbed an empty cup and poured herself some lemonade she found on one of the tables. "I was confused at first as to why you wanted me to hack into the combat arena main frame but now I understand why." Black scowl turned into a glare. "Who knew that you would be training red and that blond kid." She drank some of the lemonade.
"What do you want?" He asked with some annoyance in his tone.
"Oh just came here to receive my thank you from my little "brother"." Black let out a "tch" and turned his head to the side. "What? No thank you for your big sister? Even after all the trouble she went through to help you." Neo faked a hurt expression which annoyed Black. She let out a breath and shrugged. "I guess I'll go tell Cinder about this. I'm sure I'll receive a thank you from her for this…unexpected update." She smirked when his glare turned back to her.
"Say, who else knows you're here?" Black asked, his hands placed to his sides.
"No one." Neo moved her hands behind her.
"No one knows huh? And Roman isn't here either." Black's right hand began to form into a ki blade.
Neo's smirk turned into a grin as she slowly unsheathed her blade. Neo slowly shook her head. Black knew what her response was. "No, he isn't"
The two were about to rush each other before a red portal tore opened between them. The people inside the café jumped in surprise at the sudden appearance of the portal. A girl limped out of the portal. She had short brown hair, icy blue eyes, and tan colored skin. She wore a pretty damaged brown vest and torn white shirt. Her maroon pants held holes in them as well as burn marks. One of her knee guards seemed to have a deep scratch mark with blood leaking down her leg. The girl could barely hold her eyes open as drips of blood rolled down her cheek. She looked at Black and said. "Ra…ven...she needs." The girl fell on to the ground before she could finish her sentence.
One question rose between the two "siblings". "Who the hell is she?"
And done holy moly I enjoyed writing this one. Hope you guys like it. I know I did. I tried my best to keep Ruby and Yang's fight more of a RWBY fight in terms of speed and ferocity and not like DBZ. The story is still kinda in the beginning so stuff like that aren't going to happen…yet. Oh I revisited chapter 16 and fixed it up a bit more. So if you want you can reread that chapter.
Whelp with nothing else to say I hope you all have a splendid day and I'll catch you all next time PEACE!