Another week, and another chapter. Not much to say here, so I'll just say what I usually do. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 16: Two Souls, One Body
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July 10th
Wednesday
Sunny
Azura enjoyed being able to move around, and enjoyed being around his friends even more. But, it felt like he skipped more than just a few days while he slept. The dynamic between the group had changed, and it made him feel out of place.
"Like some sort of alternate universe? Tell me about it." Summer said.
The echo from her sigh showed that she felt the same way about it all. Azura had to agree with the sentiment. His team had been the same for the most part, even if Pyrrha was being all jittery and nervous over him. But, on the other hand, team RWBY had been almost flip flopped.
Ruby was the same for the most part, but seemed to like his company more than before. Weiss was a little less cold than before, her emotions more open and her smiles a little wider. Though, that came with the downside of Jaune practically blushing every second. Azura rolled his eyes at the image.
"If you were like that, I would stop you with just my will alone."
Blake and Yang were easily the most changed since he woke up. Yang wouldn't even spare him more than a glance or a simple sentence. It got worse with Ruby around, but he's been able to ignore it for now. Not even Summer had commented on it yet.
Such as now, everyone was sitting in different positions than he could remember. Before, Pyra was next to him and Ruby was across from him, but now Ruby was next to him and Weiss was across from him.
"Are you sure this isn't an alternate universe?" Azura asked mentally.
"I'm sure. It really is weird though. And don't get me started on Blake." Summer replied.
"With her whole hide and seek act?"
"Yes."
Blake was the same as Yang with the whole flip flop, alternate universe game. She went from being slightly open with him to looking away from him all the time.
"I would say that she feels like she led you to get hurt. I would talk to her soon." Summer suggested.
"Yeah, you're right."
He just wished he could get some time to be alone and have any private conversations. And he wasn't even talking about Luna and Summer, he was talking about the students of Beacon. He couldn't go down a hall or sit on a bench outside without getting looks or hearing any whispers. About his hair, the eyes, or the way his voice has an underlying second voice. It was honestly beginning to annoy him.
"Is a public school education always like this?"
"Compared to what Luna gave you, it must feel drastic. Trust me, rumors will always come and go. If you just ignore it, it should pass."
Azura never got a chance to respond to her, feeling a weight drop onto his shoulder. He looked to the side, snapped out of his thoughts, seeing Weiss looking at him.
"Are you going to join us or are you going to eventually turn to stone as you think?" She asked, her blue eyes as icy as ever.
"As if you would let me turn to stone. You'd probably do anything to make sure we do our school work. Where did everyone go?" Azura said as he stood up out of his seat.
"They left without you, as surprising as that is. Now, let's go. I don't want to be late for combat class."
As they walked off together, Weiss pulled out her famous scoff.
"As if I would waste the chance to boss you around. Not my fault that I am the only one who desires to finish their work as soon as possible." She said.
Azura laughed. "You are certainly a piece of work, you know that?""
Weiss rolled her eyes. "If you say so. I like to think that you are all lazy."
"Can people who exercise every single day to be Grimm killing machines be called lazy?" He asked.
"If I wasn't trained to be good at social cues, it would have been hard to notice that you were joking. That double voice is going to take time to get used to." Weiss said.
"Is it really that bad? It doesn't feel like my voice is very different."
She rolled her eyes. "Well, do you have to get used to a more feminine voice lining your own voice? It can be hard to hear it correctly when that is the case."
Azura shrugged. "Fair enough."
He was glad to have fully started over with Weiss, now that they were on speaking terms beyond a few conversations. She had an air of being able to carry a conversation, and he was more than fine for her to control it. It was fun to see her do it, at least to him.
"Oh, you have to be kidding me. You remember those rumors going around?" Weiss asked.
Azura sighed. "How could I forget."
"Well, here they come."
"They?" He asked.
"They?" Summer echoed.
"There's been a group of...undesirables who wouldn't stop bugging us about you. Now that you're out, they want to be able to ask their questions and set up the next chain of gossip talk."
"You seem to know a lot about this."
"I'm a Schnee, Azura. Just keep walking, hopefully they'll leave us alone." She said.
Unfortunately, that was not the case. Eventually, the group of ten or so students had them surrounded. Just as Azura was about to force his way through while bringing Weiss with him, she stopped him with a glare.
"Why did you change so much after leaving the med bay?" One student asked.
Another followed up. "Does it have anything to do with what headmaster Ozpin was doing there?"
One after another kept coming, and Weiss eventually had enough. "Excuse me, but we have to get to class! Please get out of our way."
Despite her louder tone of voice, she was unable to stop the non-stop questions. Azura wondered if he was starting to get some sort of fanclub.
Weiss sighed in annoyance. "You are all so persistent about this! Let us go!"
Seeming to want to push her patience to the limit, they pushed in. When she was about to go and hit someone, she was pushed into Azura's body from them. He caught her with ease as she tripped.
"Such a gentleman." Summer said teasingly.
"Shush."
Just as Azura himself was about to reach his limit, a loud voice rang out across the group.
"Can you get off of them, you vultures? Honestly, is that any way to show dedication to being huntsmen?"
Looking beyond the people in front of him, who were not scattering, he could see Cardin standing there, a frown on his face as he watched them leave. The larger boy walked up to him swiftly and held a hand out to Azura, who was caught by surprise by the action. He let go of Weiss's shoulders, who stepped away from him, before shaking Cardin's hand.
"Wait, why am I shaking your hand?" Azura asked midway through.
Cardin retracted his hand as he responded. "Think of it like an apology. And so, I apologize for what I said to you about Jaune and Ruby. When Jaune saved my life, I realized that I was kind of an asshole. So, I wanted to change that. To better myself. I...hm, no matter. If those fakers want anything from you like that again, I'll stop them. Damn rumors."
Cardin walked off, leaving Azura to call out as he walked away. "I think you'll get there, Cardin. Good luck."
He waved his hand back towards them, continuing to walk off. Weiss stepped up towards him as they watched him go.
"Well, this is some sort of equilibrium, isn't it?"
"I suppose it is. First, we get swarmed by...uh…"
"Rumor vultures?"
Azura laughed. "That works. Not a fan of them?"
Weiss rolled her eyes. "I'll let you figure that one out."
"You can be rather dull."
Azura winced. "Ouch, two cold responses."
He heard Weiss gasp and suddenly grab his wrist. "Oh no! I refuse for those people to be the reason we are late to combat class!"
He could break out of her surprisingly strong grip, but he couldn't help but smile as he got dragged along.
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They were late by only a few seconds, but they still felt uncomfortable under the glare that Goodwitch was giving them. It was hard not to, the woman was terrifying. Luckily, she was busy with another group, so they took the chance to split off towards their teams.
"Late with Weiss? Well, that's certainly odd." Pyra said, a smirk on her face.
Nora bounded over. "Do ya think they are together-together, Renny?"
Ren sighed, but otherwise did not move. "No, Nora, I do not think that they are together-together."
"Guys, we're fine. Just had a run-in with...never mind, it's nothing major. Weiss might be having a nervous breakdown from being five seconds late, but we're here now." Azura ignored Pyrrha's worried look, instead looking to Jaune. "I assume we're doing the usual?"
Jaune ran a hand through his hair. "I mean, we are. But, we don't know about you."
It took a moment for Azura to understand what he was saying, but it made a lot of sense.
"Maybe professor Goodwitch will say something?" Pyrrha asked.
"Indeed I will. Mister Heart, if I can have a moment?" Goodwitch said, looking up at them on the elevated arena.
Azura stepped down the stairs, stopping in front of Goodwitch. Clearly, whatever was being said would be heard by anyone nearby. Most of the other students had already started their exercises, but team JNPR and RWBY were clearly paying attention. It was hard to ignore the feeling of Weiss and Ruby staring at him.
"Well, you are certainly in a unique situation. One that is rather unheard of. Do you feel up to experimenting for me right now?"
Azura nodded. "What did you have in mind?"
Goodwitch brought up her frown and crossed her arms. "I want you to try to activate your semblance. Your semblance, no one else's. Is Luna there?"
Azura nodded again. "Of course. I'll try it right now."
He looked to Luna, who was waiting patiently behind him. She nodded, and once she did, Azura closed his eyes. Focusing upon his aura, he activated his semblance, but upon doing so, found himself sliding backwards on his back. Sitting back up and looking around wildly, he found that the white cloak that had vanished for the past few days was back, and he was surrounded by white and red rose petals.
Luna was in front of him, clearly visible, but almost like it was slower than normal. In fact, it was like everything was moving slower for him. His body was vibrating like a magnet attracted to metal, and it was like he was shaking from being cold.
"You're just moving faster. Calm down, Azura. You need to deactivate your semblance, it should shut mine down as well."
Azura heard her words, but he couldn't process them. A few moments later, Ruby was back to speed, and in front of him.
"Calm down."
Like her mother, Ruby would know what to do. Azura finally felt like he knew what they meant, closing his eyes and trying to focus on his semblance again. A moment later, and everything was back to speed. He had slid back about ten feet, but everything seemed to go back to normal. Even the cloak had vanished.
"That was a close one, how do you feel?"
"How do you feel?" Ruby asked.
Azura felt like he was having deja vu, hearing both Summer and Ruby ask the same questions.
"I feel...fine. Confused, but fine. What happened? What was that slow down effect?"
Ruby sighed. "I'll explain later."
Goodwitch watched them get back up, waiting patiently before explaining herself.
"That went as expected. Your semblance is now tied to the one within you, so you cannot activate one without setting the other one off at the moment. Any and all semblance training for you should not happen while you are in this state. Miss Rose, I want you to take the time now to explain the semblance and how he could control it."
She turned around, looking at the remains of team JNPR and RWBY. "Get back to training." She said, walking off back towards the other side of the room. As everyone reluctantly went back to training, Ruby was left to sigh and look at him. He could do nothing but shrug as she looked at him.
"Let's take the last empty arena by the door. We can talk there." She said.
Following her to the arena and sitting over the edge of it as they looked out over everyone, Ruby began with a question.
"So, let's start with this. What did it feel like? To be using the Rose family semblance?"
"Weird. Very weird. It was like time had slowed, but I assume it really is just moving faster?"
Ruby rolled her eyes. "If I had the power to slow time, I would probably be unstoppable. No, I really do just move faster with it. Your mind just wasn't used to it, I'd say."
Azura laughed lightly. "That makes sense. How long did it take you to get used to it?"
"To the feeling? Only a few weeks. To get used to how it works? A few months. I still learn more about it as I go, even to this day."
"Well, it's also your actual semblance. It's hard to say if I would ever get used to it."
Ruby lightly hit him on his shoulder. "It's technically your semblance now. It might be true that you have two souls or something, but you are still one body."
"Almost like it's an equilibrium or something. We just need to make adjustments."
"So, I should focus on making adjustments to it or something?"
Ruby shrugged. "I don't have an answer for that. I had trouble with controlling my speed at first, but I still had some way to stop it. You didn't even seem to be able to move without flying around."
"Not to mention the years of training I have. It's around triple of Ruby's."
"Well, it might have to do with experience. I'm brand new to this, and as far as I know, I'm working with a very strong version of it right from the start." Azura said.
"Well, that is true. I'll be honest, I don't have a lot of ideas for what I can do to help you." Ruby said, a frown on her face.
Azura laughed. "Don't worry about it, Ruby. What you told me will be plenty enough for now. We can take care of the rest."
"Right! Well, I have to get back to training. I'll see you later, alright?" Ruby said as she got back up.
"Yeah. Have fun out there." Azura said, smiling as he watched her leave.
As he looked out and continued to watch everyone else practicing with their own semblances, he had to wonder if this would prove to be his hardest challenge yet.
"Well, this will certainly be interesting. We need to figure out what the main issues are first." Summer said.
Azura sighed as he responded. "Yeah. Obviously, my lack of experience is the main problem."
"Not to mention how strong of a shift it is. If you had the base form of my semblance, then it wouldn't be a problem. To you, it probably feels like you just jumped out of a speeding car."
"That is a bad combination right off the bat. At least motion sickness isn't going to be the end of me."
"Doesn't mean you won't get vertigo. I'm surprised you didn't almost collapse just from using it as suddenly as you did." Summer reminded.
"At least most of the problems are things that mostly just need a lot of practice."
"But how would we practice it if you can barely control it? I'm sure Ruby could help, but she could only do so much. She's never had to try to control it at this level." Summer said, her sigh loud in his mind.
That gave Azura an idea, one that he voiced quickly. "What if we tried to find a way to curb the speed? Lower it to a level that even I could control?"
"Are you suggesting that we try to cap the speed of my semblance? If so...hm. How would we do that?"
"Well, that's where I am stuck. I assume that you can't really do anything to do that?"
"No. Not on my own."
Azura frowned. "Well, I know Weiss has been waiting to ask about experimenting with it. Should we talk to her about it?"
"That is probably for the best. Let's wait for the end of combat class."
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As it turned out, Azura didn't even need to ask Weiss anything. The girl, despite her cold exterior, had almost excitedly walked to him when they were done. All he could do was smile at her once she got close.
"Hey, Weiss. You did good out there."
A hand fell on her waist. "You sound like a suitor. I do hope that isn't the case."
He shook his head. "Says the girl that looked rather excited to talk to me."
"I did no such thing."
"If you say so."
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I guess you know what I want to ask you, then?"
"Well...no. I actually wanted to ask you for your help."
"Yes."
Azura blinked. "Oh."
Weiss smirked. "What do you mean?"
That was fast. Do you even know what I want to ask?"
"That I do. You think I can find a way to stop your semblances from freaking out."
Azura laughed. "You might be too smart for your own good."
"But I'm not too smart for your own good. Someone has to be the brains." Weiss said, an air of pride in her tone.
"Doesn't that just make you a nerd?"
Weiss made a sound that was similar to choking. "I am not a nerd!"
Azura laughed again. "You are too easy to tease, you know that?"
"Hmph." She said, turning her head to the side and closing her eyes.
"So, how about it? Want to test your crazy theories on me?"
She opened her eyes and looked at him from the side. "Well, I won't say no. How about you leave me to my ideas, and I'll get back to you."
"Sounds good. Now, let's go catch up to everyone, you little nerd."
"I am not a nerd!"
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July 13th
Saturday
Clear
"This is your private training area? I'm not quite sure what I should have expected." Weiss said.
Azura shrugged. "It was useful for what I needed. And it should work for what we need at the moment, right?"
Weiss sighed, but nodded. "Yes, it should be fine. I was just expecting you to just have us go to the training halls."
"I could have done that, but if I accidentally destroy something because I'm too fast, I wouldn't want it to be school property."
This time, Weiss shrugged. "Fair enough, I guess."
Azura looked out beyond the foliage and trees, taking a moment to think. He spun around, asking Weiss the question he had been waiting to ask. "So, what do you have in mind for me? Nothing crazy, I would hope. Not sure if I could handle crazy at the moment."
"Well, I have a few ideas, but they aren't fully concrete and probably land somewhere in the area of theory. I can't say that I understand the soul, or even when you have two in one body." Weiss said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, tell me what you're thinking. What would you try first?"
She was silent for a moment before answering. "Just a simple test. Do you think...that maybe you could stop the semblance on your own? That would help with what I am thinking."
"I can try."
Azura closed his eyes as he breathed in and out deeply. Focusing once more on his semblance, he called out to Summer.
"You think you could help me? I wonder if you could be the one who triggers the semblance, and have it go from there."
"It's worth a shot. Alright, you ready?
"Go for it."
Within an instant, Azura sped forward and slammed into the stone wall in front of him. He groaned, but he could have sworn he heard laughter.
"Are you...laughing at me?"
"...No. Maybe."
Azura let out a small laugh. "It was pretty funny. Did you slam into walls when you first got your semblance?"
"All the time."
As he stood up, he saw Weiss nearby. He shook his head at her worried glance.
"Apparently it's pretty common to run into walls with a speed semblance."
Weiss laughed lightly. "Ruby says the same thing."
'It runs in the family." Summer said.
"Well, I would say that went pretty horribly. Don't tell me you want me to try it again."
Weiss just stared at him.
"Weiss."
She smiled sheepishly.
"Of course." He said, sighing.
And so, for the next hour, Azura was tossed and turned as Summer continued to trigger her semblance, with the intention of finding out if Azura could try and stop it. At the beginning, Azura could do nothing but slam into the cliff wall over and over again. And by the end, the most that they had managed to accomplish was Azura managing to only lightly hit the cliff wall.
"Even with aura, this sucks. A lot."
"Well, it's how I learned."
"Ruby might as well just be you. You know that?"
"I don't see the problem."
Weiss was giving him a look, one that said that she might have conjured up an idea.
"Did you finally think of a way to end my suffering?"
"Oh shush. You have aura for a reason." Weiss said.
"Doesn't mean it stops pain." Azura complained.
He sat down, taking the moment of peace for what it was worth. It was better to stay quiet while Weiss did her thing, which was being very smart. Much too smart for someone her age, if he had any say. She had taken a small notebook out and was currently looking at an open page, and he could only assume that she had been taking notes or something while he threw himself at a wall.
A few minutes passed, and Weiss had yet to do anything but read through the pages she had. Azura began to wonder if he should do something about it.
"I don't think that she will even consider your existence until you bring her back to reality." Summer commented.
"I'm telling you, she is much too smart for her own good." Azura said.
A moment later, she suddenly blushed, like she had uncovered some dirty secret.
"Weiss? You okay there?"
She looked at him, looked away, muttered something, then turned back to look at him.
"So, I have an idea." She said, almost hesitantly.
He tilted his head. "Okay. What is it?"
She coughed into her hand, her cheeks returning to their normal complexion. "It requires something with my glyphs. They can do many things, including having things slow down. I was wondering if I could make it so that it might slow down your semblance."
"Then why the blush? That doesn't sound that bad." Azura said, still confused by her initial reaction.
"Well, if I want this to work as something that can remain once I deactivate my semblance, it requires it to be done like a tattoo. I would have to…" Weiss said, trailing off.
"You would have to what?" Azura said, trying to coax it out of her.
"I would have to basically draw the glyph on your body."
"That was what she was blushing for?"
Azura almost couldn't believe it. That wasn't nearly as bad as what he thought it could have been. He started to laugh, finding it to be hilarious.
"What do you find so funny?!" Weiss said, annoyed by his reaction.
"Weiss, that isn't that bad. Couldn't you just put it on my cheek or something, and have it be good?"
Weiss sighed. "Of course you would think it works like that. No, I would have to balance it."
"How so?"
"I would need to place one on each of your wrists, one on each of your ankles, one just somewhere on your face, and the central one on...your chest."
Azura almost laughed once more, but decided to help salvage her dignity. He personally didn't have a problem with it, given his past history with the daughter of the Blue family, Lucina. She had patched him up before when he had depleted his aura and hurt himself several times, so he was used to being seen shirtless.
"Weiss, we both know why you would be doing this. It's not anything beyond that. You don't even have to do it."
Weiss shook her head. "No, I have to. I owe it to you for helping to keep Blake alive when she ran away."
"Well, should we get started, if you want to do this? It would be better to test this as soon as possible, right?"
Weiss sighed. "I hate you."
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"It's pretty weird to be feeling this in a body that I can't even control." Summer said for the fifth time.
"It isn't that bad. She already did most of the glyphs on my wrists and ankles. Just one more." Azura responded.
"Not my fault that I am ticklish. And she has soft fingers!" Summer cried out as Weiss dragged her index and middle finger across his wrist.
Azura laughed out loud at that, drawing a complaint from Weiss.
"No sudden movements! Why are you laughing in the first place?"
Azura smirked as he sat still, his arm extended across Weiss. "Summer said that you had soft fingers. She might be ticklish, but I agree with her."
"Sh-shut up. It isn't my fault that my hands are soft."
She put her hands away, allowing him to drop his arm. He stretched it to not make it feel as stiff as it was, looking down at his wrist. It was almost exactly as Weiss said, a black tattoo of her glyph that was simply imprinted on his skin. It wasn't moving, just sitting there like it wasn't some semblance.
"Hey Weiss. Do you know how these things will work?"
"For the most part. I have one more to place before I can create the centerpiece, which is what is going to keep it working. In theory, it should only activate once Summer's semblance is triggered." She said.
Azura blinked. "In theory."
"Yes. Now, lay down. This one needs to be on your cheek."
He looked behind him, seeing that Weiss was sitting behind him. She rolled her eyes at his hesitance, grabbing his shoulder and bringing him down to rest his head in her lap.
"Honestly. After teasing me so much, you're the one to hesitate."
Azura rolled his eyes as he got comfortable, letting out a sigh as he did so.
"I wouldn't talk at all if I was you, otherwise I can't get a perfect glyph."
A few moments of silence later, once Weiss got started, she spoke.
"You know, you are probably the oddest person I know. Ruby already attracts enough attention with the way that she is, but then you go and do something that just blows it out of the water. Ruby makes a million splashes, and you just go and make a big one every now and then. It's almost like fate just wants to play a game and decided that you and Ruby would be its playthings." She laughed lightly. "It really makes you wonder what will happen next. I mean, we have an heiress, a champion warrior, a runaway, a young prodigy, and some crazy ghost guy who is now fused with an older prodigy. It's like we have a sign painted on us, just asking for trouble to find us."
Weiss shook her head as she finished a stroke, the humming of her semblance close to his ears. It was weird to know that Weiss had a semblance that actually made noise, but he had to admit that it was a comforting one.
"I just hope that everything will be calmer in the next few months. I mean, it shouldn't get that much crazier compared to the stunt that Blake made, right? I would certainly hope not. If the oddest thing that I see in my life is a boy having the soul of someone's mother in his body, then I will be quite happy with that."
Weiss continued on silently after that, quickly finishing with the glyph on his cheek. He raised his head, putting his hand to the cheek that she had put the glyph on, finding that he couldn't even feel that.
"If you're looking for it, it's pretty small and towards the back of your jaw. Also, you won't be able to feel it, since it technically wasn't made out of ink, like a normal tattoo."
"Then, how would it work?" He asked.
"It has to do with how my semblance functions. The last one will be the battery that charges the rest of the glyphs, and it will only show up like how my semblance usually does. I just hope this won't cost me for training...I've had to use about fifty percent of my aura to make sure your glyphs are going to function." Weiss complained softly.
Azura shrugged. "I'm sorry. I appreciate what you're doing, Weiss. Just thought that I would tell you."
"Whatever, just lay back down. I have to do the one on your chest."
Azura smirked. "You get to see me half-naked. I didn't expect you to be the one to do it, weiss."
The glare she sent his way almost stopped him in his tracks. "Not. A. Word."
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About ten minutes of awkward silence later, they were done. Weiss got up off of the ground, and Azura followed, putting his shirt and sweatshirt back on. As Weiss had said, he felt like nothing had changed at all with having the glyphs on his skin.
"And that's that done. Now, we just need to test it. The way I set it should cap you to just above Ruby with her current speed, somewhere between forty and fifty miles per hour, if I had to say." Weiss said, once more scribbling in that notebook she had.
"That's about forty percent of what I can do. I was able to hit 110 before. You think you could reach that?"
"Right now? How about no."
"Should we try it with the same test we have been trying?" Azura asked.
"Yes, that should be good enough. You can go whenever you're ready."
Azura lined himself with where he was originally throwing himself at the wall. He could even see the beginnings of a crack from where he was throwing himself to.
"You ready?" Summer asked.
Azura breathed in, hoping for the best, then exhaled. "Do it."
Feeling the familiar rush of Summer's semblance starting to propel him forward as he ran, he felt that this was much more controllable than normal. The glyphs that Weiss put on him felt alive, buzzing softly as they fought Summer's semblance. This time, it was like there was a second pair of arms and legs running with his own, much more confident than his own. If this is what it felt like to run with Summer, then he felt like he might have found a new addiction.
Rushing up to the cliff wall, he leapt towards it, and that was when he had finally realized the joy of this semblance. He was running up the cliff, like he wasn't going up at all, but instead running down a hill, building up momentum.
"You trust me, Azura?"
"Yes. Are we doing something crazy?"
"Jump off the cliffside."
Without a second thought, Azura jumped, allowing himself to fall down with his back turned to the ground. Having the same phantom feeling of Summer's legs and arms, he followed her movement of twisting his body around and face towards the ground.
"Use the momentum of activating the semblance to counter gravity. Go and push your arms forward once I trigger it. Just in case, brace your aura."
Once more following her lead, he allowed her to trigger her semblance, and pushed his arms out towards the ground. He slowed down, bracing his aura as he hit the ground, rolling a few times before landing unsteadily on his feet.
His arms hurt, and he probably would regret doing that soon, but he was too busy laughing in excitement. He could feel Summer doing the same, the echoes of her laughter running through his mind. The adrenalin rush of the entire thing was starting to end, and once the world came back to him, he saw Weiss staring at him. The large smile and look of excitement on her face said more than enough.
"I can't believe I managed to fix your semblance."
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July 15th
Monday
Clear
"Okay, if you get called up for a fight...well, it would be weird, first of all. And second of all, you'll be able to actually fight."
Weiss was sitting next to him, fidgeting like she was about to have a nervous breakdown. They had kept quiet about what exactly they had managed to do, but they were running out of excuses to use about why he had a glyph on his cheek. They had managed to get them to stop asking questions, even if Ruby was persistent on wanting to know why it was there.
Sitting and waiting for Goodwitch to call the first two students down was painful to Azura, and he couldn't help but be excited for the chance to try it out.
"You're getting me all caught up in your excitement. You like my semblance that much?"
"I can't help it. I want to see how I do with it in combat."
"Well, pay attention, kid. She's calling the first people down."
He looked up, finding that Goodwitch was indeed standing out and looking at everyone. Her eyes, analytical as ever, looking over and landing on Azura himself. She looked away, sighed, then spoke up.
"The first match will begin in one minute. The opponents...Azura Heart and Ruby Rose."
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And there we are. Another cliffhanger, but I promise that these will become a bit less common than it looks like it will be. Next chapter will be fun, I promise that. Or, at least, I hope you are excited for the fight that is coming up.
I hope you have a good day/evening!