A/N: FINALLY! After months of painstakingly preparing this chapter's fight and working on the chapter itself these past few weeks, IT'S FINISHED! For Kami's sake, you guys have no idea how painful it was. Manami's big fight scene was being developed way back in the days of chapters two and three. I kept combing it over for sentences that had grammar errors and sentences that I felt that needed to be reworded; it was a very painful yet rewarding experience. Anyways I did say that I would update you guys on my uploading schedule in the Ch. 4 author's notes so I'll say it right now. I am gonna need time to work on future chapters and keep myself at least three or four chapters or maybe even five chapters ahead so that means you guys are gonna have to wait until late July to August sadly. Luckily for you guys, it's summer break for me and I am out of school and I have all the time I need to work on them. I apologize that you guys will have to wait another month or so for another chapter but I need the time to keep myself ahead so it needs to be done.
On the plus side, this chapter is over +6k words which is my longest chapter yet. My previous chapters ranged from nearly 4k to 5k words, so you guys have a chapter that's a bit longer. Besides this is the Players and Pieces chapter, how could I not make it longer than my usual average?
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8/31/17 - Minor updates, grammar fixes, and so on.
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Chapter 5: Demigra's Move! Players and Pieces.
The skies above the Emerald Forest
Two initiates were hanging on to something for dear life, something that was flying at fast speeds, just enough for winds to be roaring in one's ears; these two initiates were none other than Ruby and Weiss.
"RUBY!" Weiss yelled over the roaring winds, "I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA!"
"WE'RE FINE! STOP WORRYING!" Ruby yelled back.
"I AM SO FAR BEYOND WORRYING!" Weiss responded, dripping with sarcasm.
"IN A GOOD WAY?!" Ruby asked, missing Weiss's tone.
"IN A BAD WAY! IN A VERY BAD WAY!"
"WELL, WHY DON'T WE JUST JUMP!"
"WHAT ARE YOU, INSANE?!"
Weiss looked to her side to see that Ruby was no longer there; it only took her a second to realize that Ruby actually jumped.
"OH, YOU INSUFFERABLE LITTLE RED-"
Minutes Earlier: The Forest Temple, The Emerald Forest
Aside from their run-in with three Ursai when they became partners, Blake and Yang had a surprisingly quiet journey through the forest. Nonetheless, they exited the forest onto a hilltop overlooking a clearing, one that had ruins of a "temple." They stopped for a few moments gazing at the sight before Yang broke the silence.
"Think this is it?"
Blake simply gave her partner a deadpan look, one that went unnoticed, and then started walking to the temple with Yang not too far behind. When they reached the temple, the two looked around to find that the relics were…
"Chess pieces?" Blake wondered aloud.
Yang gave the temple a once over before stating, "Some of them are missing. Looks like we weren't the first ones here."
Blake looked at Yang and said, "Well… I guess we should pick one."
Yang eyed a white knight piece then grabbed it as she rhetorically asked, "How about a cute little pony?"
Blake, who was looking at one of the other pieces, simply rolled her eyes and grinned, answering "Sure."
The two met in the middle of the temple as Yang cheerfully announced, "That wasn't too hard."
"Well, it's not like this place is very hard to find," Blake responded.
Suddenly the two heard a very girly scream. Yang turned around and said, "Some girl's in trouble. Blake, did you hear that?"
Blake couldn't respond as she looked to the sky and grew a bit worried, Yang turned back to her and asked, "What should we d-"
Yang, stopping in the middle of her question, then saw her point to the sky. She looked up then went into panic mode for a split-second; the reason for her panic being a split-second was because Ruby was falling from the sky but she never hit the ground because Jaune, out of nowhere, had slammed into her, and in turn both landed roughly but safely in a nearby tree. Yang and Blake shook their heads in pure shock at what unfolded in front of them, or rather above them. Ruby on the other hand was dazed; she asked no one in particular while recovering, "What was that?"
Finally recovering, she shook her head before hearing someone clearing their throat. Ruby looked up to see Jaune dangling upside down on one of the upper branches. He greeted, "Hey Ruby."
Meanwhile, a certain Saiyan had hidden in the nearby trees but close enough to the temple for her heightened sense of hearing for her to hear Blake ask Yang, "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"
"I-" was all said blonde could say before hearing the sounds of trees falling and a Grimm growling. The source was from the tree line where an Ursa came out swinging before it was hit by what looked like to be pink lightning followed by a "YEEHAW!" as the Ursa fell on its belly and a girl that was riding it rolled off. The girl happens to be the hyperactive, happy-go-lucky, orange-haired girl from before. She groaned as she stood up, "Aw. It's Broken."
She dashes onto the back of the Ursa and further inspects it as her raven-haired partner catches up to her trying to catch his breath. He asks in between his heavy breaths, "Nora? Please… don't ever do that again."
Unfortunately, his words didn't even reach her because the now-named Nora was no longer beside him and he even visually made an outline of where she stood. Nora, at the moment, was eyeing a white rook piece for about 3 seconds. Nora grabbed it and did a few poses as she sang, "I'm Queen of the castle. I'm Queen of the castle."
"NORA!" the boy yelled, to which she abruptly stopped and dropped the piece into her left hand while doing a mock salute and giggled while responding with, "Coming, Ren!"
Blake and Yang just watched before the former asked, "Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?"
Yang was about to answer but is interrupted once again by another crazy situation. On the other side of the clearing, an initiate in Amazon-like armor came out of the tree line followed by a massive Deathstalker. Jaune cried out, "Pyrrha!"
Ruby on the other hand saw the Deathstalker and jumped down next to her sister; they were about to hug but of course, they were interrupted again… by Nora.
Meanwhile, Manami was just watching the craziness unfold before her very eyes. True that everything to her is slow because of what she went through in Universe 7 but that doesn't mean she is immune to weird and crazy at any speed; case in point, she was wondering what the hell was going on in front of her. Manami knew that Jaune was tossed by the Deathstalker since she witnessed it happen and knew that Ruby was on a flying Grimm but she didn't expect the two to find each other like that nor did she expect the two to collide mid-air. She also knew that Nora was hyperactive but didn't think that she would use an Ursa like a horse or some kind of mount. Unfortunately for her still-processing mind, Manami saw Yang explode and after two seconds noticed Ruby pointing to the sky and what she saw made her question what her family was teaching Ruby; she saw Weiss hanging on to one of the talons of a Giant Nevermore. Eventually, she lost her grip on the Nevermore and started to fall… only to be caught by Jaune … only to continue falling together; Manami's glad that Jaune did that because it slowed Weiss's fall enough for any damages to be negligible, but it's also the reason Manami made a mental note to tutor Jaune… a lot. Anyways Pyrrha, who was still being chased by the Deathstalker, got sent flying towards the temple and landed in front of the others.
"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang announced jokingly.
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby responded confidently before unfolding Crescent Rose into scythe mode and charging the Deathstalker with reckless abandon.
"Ruby, wait!" Yang called out futilely. Everyone, including Manami, watched in horror as Ruby attacked the massive armored arachnid, only to fail and get knocked back by its pincers.
"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally Fine!" Ruby announced as she got back up. She turned around to the Deathstalker before firing a single round at it with no effect before folding her weapon back into its compact form and began running back to rejoin the others. Yang decided to try and get Ruby away from it but unfortunately for them both, the Nevermore flew in and fired its "feather lances" at the two; granted the two barely avoided getting skewered, but one of the feathers snagged Ruby's cape and significantly slowed Yang down.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Ruby heard her sister yell as she tugged on her cape, hoping to pull it free.
"I'm trying!" Ruby responds. Sadly, it was too late as she looked up to see that the Deathstalker was looming over her and was about to stab Ruby with its stinger.
At this point, Manami was about to jump in but she saw a familiar white blur race toward Ruby and form a massive pillar of ice around the Deathstalker's tail, saving her at the last second. Granted, Manami's power allowed her to move a vast amount of distances in seconds, so she could save Ruby all in that very last second. However, since this is still an initiation, her job is to observe in secret and make sure they stay safe if the situation demands it; Weiss's actions proved that Ruby didn't need Manami's help. But it was when she saw Weiss working out her problems with Ruby that Manami smiled and had one thought, "There's hope for you yet, Ice Queen."
Soon the eight regrouped at the temple to figure out what to do and they all agreed that their objective was to grab their relic and run for Beacon cliff. Seeing them grab their respective relics and run, the Saiyan of Remnant watched proudly as she saw Ruby lead the others back to the cliff. Once they were gone, however, it was Manami's turn to find her relic and quickly arrived at the temple itself.
Manami walked around the temple, looking for anything that seemed out of place. What she knew was that her relic was hidden somewhere in the forest temple; it wouldn't be hidden in one of the pillars holding the relics, it's too obvious. She looked at the walls but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Manami sighed, turned to walk to the center of the temple, and thought, "At this rate, I won't find it before the Grimm catches up with them. I can at least keep my Ki sense on them thankfully, but I need to-"
*CLUNK!*
Well, that grabbed Manami's attention; she looked down to see that her foot was on a loose stone tile. Upon further inspection, Manami discovered that it covered a hole in the floor, and in that hole, was another chess piece; this was a queen chess piece, a golden one at that. She smiled as she picked up her relic knowing that this part of her initiation was complete. Manami muttered, "Well then I better get going and catch up to Ruby and the others."
The Saiyan of Remnant then races to Ruby and the others as she senses them confronting the Grimm; however, another sinister being watches closely from nearby.
Moments earlier…
Demigra was extremely patient considering that he was trapped in the Crack of Time for millions of years, so he can play the waiting game all day if he needed to. He watched as the Saiyan claim her relic at the temple and race toward the eight initiates. The Demon God smirked as he held up the Golden Scroll in his possession and thought "Time to see what the fabled 'Golden Scroll of Space and Time' is capable of."
Near the Cliffs of the Emerald Forest…
Manami materialized a mile high, above the deep chasm between the two cliffs, and certainly high enough for the Nevermore to not notice, hovering as she saw the eight initiates fight for their lives. Only time will tell if they need her help, but she had a feeling that they could handle the Grimm on their own.
Meanwhile, Blake had regrouped with Yang, Weiss, and Ruby on the ruins near the cliff after slashing the Nevermore several times. As the giant avian Grimm flew around for another attack, Blake announced, "It's tougher than it looks!"
"Then let's hit it with everything we've got!" Yang responded as she chambered another explosive shell into her gauntlets, the Ember Celica.
[Music Start - "Red Like Roses Part 2" RWBY Vol. 1 OST]
Ruby followed her sister's example by mecha-shifting Crescent Rose to its scythe mode for long-range shots. Blake did the same by unsheathing Gambol Shroud's katana and folding it into its handgun mode. Weiss on the other hand simply spun Myrtenaster's revolving dust chamber for a certain dust crystal before preparing a long-range glyph. All four of them soon began to fire everything they had at the Giant Nevermore as flew closer at ramming speed. However, their combined firepower still had no effect on it and the Nevermore just punched straight through the ruins. As most of the ruins fell into the abyss below, Ruby used her Crescent Rose's recoil to maneuver around the rubble and get back to the remainder of the ruins, Weiss used her glyphs to propel herself to do the same, Blake ran up one of the bridge supports, and Yang literally punched her way back up until all four were back on the ruins.
As she looked at the ongoing battle, Weiss announced, "None of this is working."
Ruby watched Blake land safely using Gambol Shroud's kusarigama function and then Yang as she was blasting explosive shells at the Nevermore. Ruby had a light bulb go off in her head as she took charge, "I have a plan cover! Cover me!"
While Ruby and the others are battling the Nevermore, Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora were still dealing with the Deathstalker. It had struggled for a bit to remove its stinger from what remained of their half of the bridge but when it did, the bridge slowly began wobbling. Jaune noticed this and announced, "We got to move!"
The four then charge at the Deathstalker in a last-ditch effort to escape the collapsing bridge. As they drew near the Deathstalker, it attacked with one of its pincers but Pyrrha blocks it with her shield, Akoúō, before slashing it with her Xiphos sword, Miló. The Deathstalker repeats with its other pincer only for Jaune to block it with his shield, half of Crocea Mor, while Pyrrha leaped over him to attack the other pincer before Jaune turned to attack the pincer behind him. While they kept its pincers occupied, Ren ran up the middle firing his twin machine pistols, StormFlower, to attack. The Deathstalker retaliated trying to stab him with its stinger but Ren dodged and grabbed it before the arachnid Grimm pulled its stinger back; once the stinger was back up, Ren climbed around and started blasting away at the armor-less tail that held the stinger. Meanwhile, Nora shifted her war hammer, Magnhild, to its grenade launcher form and fired two grenades at the Deathstalker; the massive scorpion moved its pincers to block the projectiles, knocking back Jaune and Pyrrha. The former of the two was knocked down while the latter shifted Miló to spear form and used the rifle component to launch it at the Grimm. The Deathstalker tried to block but the spear slipped past its pincers impaling one of its many eyes causing it to recoil in pain and swing its tail around, tossing Ren into a wall and dazing him for a bit. As he was getting up, Jaune noticed the Deathstalker's stinger was now hanging loosely over its head.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune yelled.
As if she knew what he was thinking, Pyrrha tossed Akoúō at the stinger as she said, "Done."
The shield cut the stinger off the Deathstalker's tail and landed on its head while Akoúō ricocheted twice before perfectly landing back on Pyrrha's arm. Jaune then commanded, "Nora, nail it!"
"Heads up!" Nora yelled as she was given a boost by Pyrrha via her shield and Magnhild's grenades which launched her a tenth of a mile high before she propelled herself back down, spinning and slamming onto the stinger and breaking what was left of their half of the bridge. Nora's attack sent Jaune and Pyrrha flying over her, the latter grabbed Miló in the process, while Nora fires a grenade one last time and launches herself over the Deathstalker while sending it to its doom in the abyss. Jaune landed relatively safe on his back, Nora landed butt first, Pyrrha did a three-point hero landing, and Ren just walked over, tired, and fell over face first. Everyone however still had enough energy to turn around and watch the battle against the Giant Nevermore.
Yang was firing explosive shells at the Nevermore, but kept on missing until she took a second to aim before firing again; this time the shot hit the Nevermore directly in its face and it was angry. The avian Grimm recovered quickly from the blast and turned to charge Yang in an attempt to eat her. Yang, however, just jumped into its beak and held it open while firing explosive shells down the Nevermore's throat and yelling out, "I! Hope! You're! Hung-ry!"
She then turned around to see where the Nevermore was flying before backflipping out of its beak and onto a bridge while the Nevermore itself crashed into the cliff, landing on another ruin. Yang looked up to see Ruby and Blake getting into position for their plan while Weiss was rushing past her toward the Nevermore before Yang joined the former two. The Nevermore was about to take off but Weiss jumped up onto the ruin and stabbed the area of the Nevermore's tail feathers, trapping it in ice and keeping the Nevermore grounded; she backflipped off the ruin and moved to regroup with the other three. Blake, who was on one pillar, tossed Gambol Shroud in kusarigama mode to Yang, who was on the other, to create a slingshot. Ruby propelled herself onto it, pulling back on Blake's ribbon, while Weiss held it in place with a glyph to line up a shot.
"Of course, you would come up with this idea," Weiss noted.
"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked.
"Hmph. Can I?" Weiss joked.
Ruby missed the tone of her voice, "…Can-"
"Of course, I can!"
Ruby looked back at the trapped Nevermore with fire in her eyes, as she chambered another round into Crescent Rose. After a few seconds, Weiss launched Ruby toward the Nevermore while at the same time Ruby fired Crescent Rose to boost the initial launch. After a second, Ruby fired Crescent Rose rapidly to keep up her momentum until her scythe caught the Nevermore in the neck, pulling the massive Grimm with her onto the face of the cliff. Weiss used her glyphs to allow Ruby to run up the cliff's surface; the latter used all her strength and every single round she had in Crescent Rose to run up the cliff's face, dragging the Nevermore with her until she reached the top and completely decapitated the damn thing with its body slowly falling into the abyss and disintegrating to nothing.
[Music End]
"Wow," Jaune said while the others watched in awe as Ruby walked to the edge of the cliff with rose petals flying in the wind. A moment passes before Yang breaks the silence, "Well… that was a thing…"
High in the skies, Manami Aoi saw the battle below clearly; simply put she could not be more proud of her sisters and the initiates with them. She began to turn toward Beacon when suddenly she sensed a massive spike of sinister ki nearby… and it was headed for the eight initiates…
The ground began to shake around Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren while Ruby and the others heard the noise of the rumble. They all looked around the clearing to find the source of the rumble but found nothing. However, the rumbling noises kept getting closer and closer until…
"What the hell!?" Jaune yelled.
The rumbling noise was a horde of massive boulders which were heading toward the center of the clearing where a ghost-like creature with the markings and the bone mask of a Grimm had appeared out of nowhere.
"A Geist? Why is one here now?" Ren asked.
The Geist then possessed the largest boulder as the body the smaller boulders made up the legs and the arms. Once the Geist created a massive body for itself its only eye glowed a brighter red and unleashed the power given to it and was now generating a sinister aura around its body.
"What!? It's generating an Aura!?" Weiss yelled from the ruins.
"That shouldn't be possible," Blake stated the obvious.
"Who cares about that right now, we've got to help them!" Yang announced.
Blake however pointed out, "Well Ruby just beat us to the punch because she is now with the others."
Weiss and Yang looked back at the others to see that Ruby did in fact join them already.
"Not surprising since her semblance is speed; she must have made a running start and used Crescent Rose to give her a boost to cross the gap," Yang stated.
Weiss rolled her eyes and said, "Come on, let's go!"
Meanwhile...
Demigra was happy with the initial results of his plan. Phase one was to use the Golden Scroll of Space and Time to comb the timeline to find the perfect, expendable attack dog and create a clone of it using his magic. He had found the perfect candidate in the Geist as it had given the silver-eyed girl and her friends a difficult fight in the near future. After creating the clone, he gave it a massive power boost to rival that of Vegeta in his Great Ape form, instantly making it smarter and, as a bonus, he gave it access to Ki manipulation, effectively turning it into a Super Geist. Phase two was to send it to attack the initiates in order to draw out the Saiyan, which is its real target. The Super Geist was doing its job beautifully and all Demigra has to do is wait. He thought, "Your move, Saiyan monkey."
Beacon Cliff, The Emerald Forest
Ozpin and Glynda were watching in shock and horror; the live feed is showing that the eight initiates that had beaten the Deathstalker and the Giant Nevermore were getting thrashed by the new threat. The two professors never expected a Super Grimm to show up at the initiation, let alone a Super Geist; worse the Super Geist is much more powerful than the previous Super Grimm three months back.
"We have to get those eight out of there!" Glynda said.
"True, but we would not make it in time," Ozpin said calmly.
"Are you suggesting that we leave them to die!?" Glynda glowered.
"No, I'm suggesting that we leave this to a certain Saiyan that we've hired," Ozpin answered.
Glynda Goodwitch took a second to process what he said before calming down and hoping that Manami can eliminate the Super Geist.
The skies above the Emerald Forest
Manami watched in anger at what was happening as she thought, "Why now? Why is a Super Grimm attacking now?"
Right now, she was mostly angry at herself for not acting as soon as she sensed the threat, but self-loathing and mystery-solving could wait until later; she had a job to do and she'll be damned if she let her sisters and other innocents die on her watch. She powered up to match the Super Geist and charged in to end the threat.
Emerald Forest cliffs, Beacon initiation grounds
The eight initiates were on the ground, battered and beaten; the Super Geist was several meters away from them but closing in quickly for the finishing blow. The eight each had one thought before the end.
Jaune thought, "Why is this happening? What is going on?"
Pyrrha thought, "Is this my destiny? To fall before I even begin training to become a Huntress?"
"Is this how it ends? After all we've been through?" thought Nora and Ren.
Weiss and Blake thought, "Where are the instructors? Why aren't they intervening? This is going way too far!"
Ruby's and Yang's were, "Manami, where are you?"
The Super Geist was now looming over the eight. It raised its right arm to smash the eight out of existence. They closed their eyes as they accepted their fate only to hear a battle cry, one that was familiar to Ruby and Yang. They opened their eyes to see a young girl, about 17 years of age, wearing a blue and black, accented with white, luxurious martial arts gi with a four-star emblem, hitting the massive stone golem in the face with a hurricane of punches and kicks and, to six of the eight's surprise, actually forcing it back halfway into the massive clearing. The mystery girl threw a powerful right hook, pushing the Super Geist back several meters, before lifting her right arm behind her; a yellow light built up in her hand almost blindingly bright. The massive Grimm regained its balance and saw the mystery girl building energy in her right hand. She smiled as she thrust her right arm forward, palm wide open, to unleash a Full-Power Energy Wave. The attack slammed into the Grimm's chest, exploding on impact, pushing it back further, and left behind a cloud of smoke.
"MANAMI!" shouted a relieved Yang and Ruby.
"Don't celebrate just yet, that thing's still alive!" Manami shouted back.
[Music Start - "Challenger" Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 OST]
Just as she said, the smoke cleared to reveal that the Geist was still standing. It spun around to toss parts of its rocky arms as a volley of boulders at Manami. She vanished only to appear in the middle of the volley then vanish once more and repeated the process a few more times. Luckily for the initiates, the boulders missed them by a mile. When that was done, the Geist simply summoned more boulders to rebuild its arms.
Manami spoke two simple words, "My turn."
She raised her arms slightly above her head and concentrated Ki into her hands; azure energy engulfed them. Manami shouted the callout of Gotenks's famous attack as she unleashed it…
"DIE DIE MISSILE BARRAGE!"
About 20 or so Azure Ki blasts raced toward the stone golem's face; unfortunately, it raised its arms to protect it. The blasts mostly impacted the arms and chest, barely even scratching it. When Manami's attack finished, the Geist suddenly dashed forward, extremely fast for its size, and slammed Manami back. Manami willed herself to stop midair, just over the eight initiates, but when she did she noticed that the massive Grimm's only eye began glowing. Realizing what it was preparing to do, Manami twisted her body to her left and brought her right hand beneath her left, preparing Vegeta's signature move. The Geist finished charging its attack and a second passed before it fired a dark violet energy beam at Manami. The Saiyan Warrior answered with her own violet energy beam as she called out…
"GALICK GUN!"
The beams collided in a power struggle… if you can even call it a struggle. After a few seconds of a stalemate, Manami suddenly unleashed a burst of power and overcame the Geist's attack. The violet energy wave slammed into the Geist's face before it could even block, sending it stumbling.
The others were watching in awe of Manami's fight. Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren were simply speechless at the raw power the girl displayed while Jaune could not believe that this was the very same girl he met yesterday once he heard her name. Weiss and Blake on the other hand were more fearful that someone with such power exists. Yang and Ruby, however, were cheering Manami on, wanting to see more of the power that she only gave a glimpse of in the months before.
"How is this possible? Who is that girl?" Weiss asked, worried that their savior might turn on them.
"That is my sister, Weiss," Ruby announced, incidentally attracting the attention of the 5 initiates who didn't know Manami.
"What!?" screamed everyone, save for Yang and Jaune.
"As for how she can do everything we're seeing, well a girl's gotta have some secrets," Yang added.
This only made Weiss grow more worried and annoyed; she knew that the two were hiding something about their sister if they were to answer casually like that. But for now, she just watched the battle unfold before her eyes since she could not do much more than that. As for Blake, she silently listened to the conversation and prayed that the girl wasn't against Faunus's kind.
The eight initiates all saw that the Geist was now on its knees; the Super Grimm was actually damaged by someone. The power it was given made sure that no ordinary Huntsman or Huntress could take it down, not even in a team. Manami however, was not an ordinary Huntress; no, she was a full-fledged warrior, trained by the greatest fighters in Universe 7. She was a Saiyan and in the heat of battle, she was like a mix of Vegeta and Goku. Manami had Vegeta's superior keen eyes and senses to see the attack patterns, openings, and weaknesses of the opponent; she also had Goku's fighting smarts, being able to come up with answers to tackle the problem at hand. In this case, Manami knew that the Geist's weakness was the face, everything else it had can and will be replaced. Seeing that she would need to use attacks that can punch through the Possessive Grimm's defense, she came up with a plan.
Manami smiled, showing her inner Saiyan a bit, and announced, "This fight was fun for me, but all good things must come to an end."
The Geist slowly got up to its feet for one last stand. Unfortunately for the massive stone golem, Manami wasn't planning on letting it do anything at all. She raised her right hand over her head and concentrated Ki slightly over it. Yellow energy started forming and growing into one of Krillin's signature attacks. Once completed, Manami called out…
"DESTRUCTO DISK!"
She tossed the sawblade-like Ki blast at the Geist which tried to block with its left arm, something that Manami wanted it to do. When the Destructo Disk came in contact with the rocky arm, it was cleaved into two pieces then it completely cut off what remained of the arm, separating it from the shoulder. Even though the massive Grimm lost half its ability to attack or guard, Manami wasn't finished yet; she unleashed a volley of Destructo Disks at key points of its legs, crippling them but not completely cutting them off, bringing the monster to its knees one last time. Even with all the damage, she did to the Geist, the Saiyan girl wasn't finished until the damn thing was dead. Finally bringing the fight to a close, she brought her right hand to the front of her face, index and middle fingers extended and concentrated her Ki into her extended fingertips. For one last time, Manami aimed the Ki blast at the Geist's face, calling out Piccolo's ultimate technique.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"
The drill-like Ki blast raced toward the Geist's weakness; the creature in question raised its remaining arm to protect its face, an act that was futile. The attack collided with its dense arm only for the attack to punch straight through it and still find its mark, killing the Grimm, and then continue to drill through the stone body it had possessed. Once the Ki blast faded, the stone body crumbled into dozens of pieces.
[Music End]
Manami smiled; she knew that the eight below her were safe. She faced them, but stayed in the air, and announced, "Alright you guys you have an initiation to complete; I suggest you get moving!"
Before any of the six, surprised initiates could say anything, they all witnessed her vanish into thin air, leaving them even more shocked. They all turned to the Red Rose and the Blonde Bombshell with looks that screamed: "Answers, now!"
Yang simply said, "If you want straight answers, the best person to ask is our sister, because Ruby and I are still finding surprising things about her."
"Besides what we do know about our own sister and the things we've seen her done is too much to explain," Ruby added.
"And we barely have a basic understanding of her abilities," Yang finished.
They all nodded at their request, some more reluctantly than others, and went to go complete their objective.
Main Hall, Beacon Academy, Remnant
The final ceremony was the formation of the teams and Ozpin was announcing the formation of one while the holovision above him had the pictures of the individuals that stood in front of him.
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as… Team CRDL (Cardinal). Lead by… Cardin Winchester."
The crowd applauded Team CRDL as they then turned left the stage allowing the next group to have their team formed. The next group stood tall with their arms behind their back as Ozpin made the announcement.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as… Team JNPR (Juniper). Lead by… Jaune Arc!"
The crowd clapped for the new team and its leader while Jaune was surprised while Pyrrha smiled at her partner.
"Huh? L-Lead by…?" the boy asked.
"Congratulations, young man," Ozpin answered.
Pyrrha then gave Jaune a friendly punch in the shoulder but the former did not expect it and fell on his butt; the crowd laughed at this. Once JNPR left the stage, the next group stepped into the spotlight so to speak.
"Blake Belladona, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as… Team RWBY (Ruby). Lead by… Ruby Rose."
The crowd applauded once more and the newly formed Team RWBY had different reactions. Ruby was surprised, Weiss felt disappointed about the results, Blake simply smiled out of respect, and Yang…
"I'm so proud of you!" Yang yelled as she hugged her sister.
As Team RWBY got off the stage, Ozpin announced, "Before we end initiation, we have one more student to introduce... one who was accepted under special circumstances. That being said, will that student please come forth?"
To everyone's shock, the student in question materialized out of nowhere onto the stage facing Professor Ozpin; she stood tall in her blue and black gi, arms crossed. The student was none other than Manami Aoi, the very same student who saved the now formed Teams of RWBY and JNPR from the Super Geist.
"Manami Aoi, you have retrieved the Gold Queen piece and have successfully ensured that the initiates were safe from any and all insurmountable danger. As a solo act, you are part of all the teams here in Beacon, yet you are not; you will act as an Honorary Huntress and will help students, no matter their year, on their missions should they decide to procure your services. Inside the school, however, you will serve as a student counselor should the students have a need for guidance in their spare time as well as a TA for the combat classes you attend. Other than that, you will be a regular student in all other classes."
The crowd roared with thunderous applause; to be given such a high position by the headmaster meant that you were a force to be reckoned with, though a certain individual was too arrogant to see that (A/N: *Cough* Cardin! *Cough*). Teams RWBY and JNPR however, completely agreed with Professor Ozpin's decision since they've seen first-hand what she was capable of. However, Manami looked at the crowd with dejection, specifically team RWBY, mainly Weiss and Blake, and team JNPR; she knew that she had a lot of explaining to do very soon. She thought, "This should be an interesting year…"
Meanwhile at Demigra's Meditation chambers…
Demigra was seething with rage; the results of his "test" for the Saiyan made it more likely that the Saiyan was indeed Manami Aoi. This did not bode well for him and the others; if his final test for the Saiyan yields similar results in the near future, then the plans would need to be considerably altered to fit this new threat. "This better be a fluke otherwise this will be a massive problem for us all."
Unknown Warehouse, Vale
Hidden in a warehouse in Vale, wanted criminal Roman Torchwick was listening to radio chatter before eventually putting the radio down. He sighed and lit his cigar before a man in a black and white uniform complete with a mask pushed a cart that held a case up to him. The man was given several cards of Lien and was asked to open the case. Upon doing so, he revealed multiple dust crystals before Torchwick picked one up and said, "We're gonna need more men."
A/N: So I'll apologize right now if anything in the Super Geist fight scene was a little bit "meh" or a bit weird; I can somewhat write fight scenes but the "man vs giant" type of fight scenes kinda take me out of my comfort zone, hence why I prepared the fight months before.
Also, I know these questions will pop up eventually so might as well get 'em out of the way.
Q: "Are you just gonna keep adding the word 'Super' in front of the names of the Grimm? If so that's kind of cheesy. Why not change the name instead of adding a single word?"
A: In that order? Yes, I will keep adding the word "Super" in front of the names of the Grimm. Yes I know it's cheesy. I won't do name changes for the Grimm, at least until the near future volumes, because in Dragon Ball fashion, name changes are kind of related to transformations. It's kind of like how "Super Vegeta" was just a slightly buffed-up Super Saiyan, aka Ascended Super Saiyan Grade 2, and not a full-on transformation into Super Saiyan 2 Grade 5. If you don't understand what I'm talking about search up "Grades of Super Saiyan," but for those that do understand I'm gonna assume we're on the same page, okay? Great!
Anyways, things are getting really interesting! Stay tuned to find out what happens next on Dragon Ball RWBYverse and remember to leave a review of what you guys think so I can continue to keep improving on my story. Thanks, everyone for your support!
Next Chapter: Tensions Within RWBY! The Badge and the Burden