Cinder stared at the person in front of her. He wore a sleeveless brown high collared trench coat with a grey hoodie underneath, both had rips and tears in them. The forearm armor he wore had scratches in them. "Shall we begin?" he asked in a deadly serious tone while twirling his katana into a ready position. Cinder formed a sword and charged. And thus began a duel for the ages.
{RWBY Vol. 3 intro plays}
[red like roses part 1; RWBY ost plays]
Pyrrha and Ruby's eyes darted back and forth watching Krayix strike and parry. "I almost can't keep up with his strikes Pyrrha." Ruby said trying to get up, but failing. Pyrrha nodded. 'Is this Krayix when he takes a fight seriously." Suddenly Krayix and cinder entered a deadlock both trying to overpower the other.
"You're good." Cinder said. "you'd make a great ally." Krayix ground his teeth. "Like karzahni I'd join your cause." Breaking the deadlock, the human toa jumped back and form a sphere of energy (think of the rasengan from Naruto) "Energized crusher." He yelled dashing towards Cinder. With a battle cry he thrust the sphere of swirling energy forward.
[Red like roses part 1; RWBY ost ends]
Meanwhile in the beacon courtyard
Jaune removed his sword from his unconscious opponent and was about to head to the tower when he heard someone call his name. "Jaune, you ok." Turning Jaune saw Weiss and Neo rush up to him. "Is Vale secured?" he asked "Sure is luv. I had fun sending Grimm flying with my stone tsunami move." Neo said having enjoyed herself. Her cheerful attitude dropped into a state of shock. "Bloody hell. Yang, Blake." She said rushing to her fallen comrades
Weiss covered her mouth seeing Yang's condition. She was missing her lower right arm. Blake struggled to get up having come to at Neo's yell. "Luv, what happened" the ice cream themed woman asked as she place one of the cat faunas' arm over her shoulder. "I faced Adam. He's a member of the white fang and my ex. Yang attempted to punch him and he cut her arm off." Blake said tears in her eyes.
"How'd you get away?" Weiss asked as she wrapped some gauze around the stump of yang's right arm. "We didn't, Vakama saved us." Neo raised an eyebrow "who?" she asked. "Back up. You saw Krayix's deceased teammate who's supposed to be a Turaga. AS A TOA!?" Jaune exclaimed as Weiss' eyes widened
"I saw him for only a second before I passed out." Blake said as an explosion rocked the courtyard waking Yang. Weiss steadied the blonde Brawler. She looked up at the tower and her eyes widened. "RUUBYYY!" she yelled. Everyone looked up to see the scarlet reaper plummeting to the ground.
10 minutes earlier..
Krayix's attack struck cinder sending her into some rubble. "Krayix. Thank you for saving me" Pyrrha said. "We toa watch each other's backs." He said before kneeling over Ruby. As the toa offered a hand to the struggling girl whom smiled. However, before she took it out of the corner of her eye, Ruby saw Cinder throw a fireball aimed at her and Krayix
Time slowed as Ruby shoved Krayix out of the fireball's path as it struck the floor near her feet and sent her over the edge. "RUBY!" Krayix yelled rushing to the edge just in time to see her vanish into a plume of smoke. Pyrrha covered her mouth with both hands as time picked back. Cinder laughed as tears fell from Krayix's face. He formed a fist that dug into the floor.
"Now then lets finish what I…" Cinder's next words were caught in her throat as the wind picked up. Dirt, and pieces of rubble flew behind her. Daring to look, the half maiden turned around to see Krayix grip Crescent Rose and pull it loose.
"Cinder fall," the human toa looked over his left shoulder revealing a solid blue iris with its pupil in a weird design (A/N: think of Kakashi's mangekyou Sharingan) "You have just made a very grave mistake." Krayix said as lightning sparked from his left eye. The toa turned around completely before sending a gust of wind towards the evil maiden.
"Pyrrha, get out of here. Things are about to get ugly." Krayix said. Pyrrha nodded grabbing her shield and rushing to the elevator shaft. "I don't think so." Cinder said rushing towards her. However, cinder had to leap backwards when Krayix appeared in front of her swinging crescent rose's blade at her like an ax. Cinder grit her teeth as Krayix snarled. They glared at one another before charging blades clashing and sparks flying.
Pyrrha made it to the courtyard looking for Ruby's body when she spotted her fellow Toa Vale huddled around something or rather someone. "Pyrrha. You ok" Jaune asked. "I'm fine. Krayix is fighting Cinder. And he was pissed beyond belief when she blasted…" Pyrrha couldn't finish the sentence as coughing was heard.
"Yang," a weak voice said. "Rubes you're ok." The brawler said. "Not quite sis. I can't fell my arms or legs." Neo silently gasped. "You're paralyzed from the neck down luv." The ice cream themed girl said. "Neo lower me to my knees next to her." Blake said. "Why luv?" the cat faunas looked to her fellow toa in-training. "Krayix taught me something that could help." Neo did as she was asked
Meanwhile on the top of the tower
The sky darkened as Krayix and Cinder continued to clash. Neither showed signs of backing down. They entered a deadlock. "I will have the fall maiden's power and you can't stop me." Cinder said as she broke the deadlock and leapt backwards forming two swords. Krayix did the same before twirling crescent rose.
"You're tyranny ends now Cinder." Krayix yelled dragging crescent rose on the ground, sparks flying as he did. "You aren't strong enough to defeat a maiden Toa." Cinder snarled her swords ablaze. As they drew near Krayix twirled Crescent Rose into a reverse grip and the sound of metal piercing flesh was heard.
Cinder looked down to see the scythe's blade deep into her torso. Looking at Krayix she noticed tears falling from his left eye now looking normal. "You gave me no choice." He said. Cinder's grip on her swords loosened and they clattered onto the ground before turning to ash.
Krayix removed Crescent Rose's blade from Cinder's body and she fell to the ground dragging herself towards an intact wall and leaning against it. "I… probably…. would've… won…. if I hadn't…. blasted that girl off." The orange eyed woman said before going limp.
"Nice fight Cinder Fall, I just wish that it hadn't ended like this." Krayix said before leaving the headmaster's office.
A/N: And thus ends the battle of beacon. However, this book isn't done just yet. Still have one chapter left before book 2 begins. Read and review. That being said. peace.
