RWBY: Strange Fate

Chapter 3: Conviction. Emiya vs RWBY

Team RWBY after equipping themselves with their armaments. Came face to face with Emiya who stood there looking at them, with nothing but his bare hands and his arms crossed. "Aren't you going to pull out a weapon? We aren't exactly pushovers."

"Why do you all want to be huntresses?" The simple question came out.

Perplexed at the question, they all nodded. "We want to help people who can't help themselves. To be there for those who need help. To be heroes," Ruby said.

Emiya looked at them, finding the words from Ruby being familiar. "Very well," Emiya conjured one sword which looked beautiful to the eyes of many. It was a white blade with a Yin-Yang design of the blade that was held with a copper handle that was wrapped with a black cloth. "Many people say that. Let's prove those convictions to be true."

In a burst of speed, Emiya appeared in front of Weiss who was not prepared and tried to pull up her weapon in an effort to defend however Emiya swipes up cause her weapon to be deflected upward leaving her wide open. Before Emiya could strike her however, Blake came to Weiss rescue as she fired multiple shots at him who jumped back as he deflected each one.

Yang decided to advance on him as she got in close range and began punching at him only for Emiya to display his extraordinary precision as he used his blade to deflect each attack by hitting his blade on her gauntlets and directing it away from him. With a straight arm coming at him Emiya directed her attack just past him leaving her open to which Emiya took the liberty of kicking her in the chest while backflipping away. From the corner of his side he saw Blake and Weiss coming at him from his right. With them both stabbing and slashing at Emiya from almost every angle the both of them can get at the same time, Emiya showed that it wasn't going to be that easy as he dodged and deflected all their attempts.

He jumped away from them only to find Ruby instantly on him to which he again as if seeing things two steps ahead deflected her strikes. With a wide swing that Ruby delivered, Emiya ducked under it and advanced past her guard. Ruby smirked as she fired her gun mechanism causing her scythe to come speeding towards Emiya's back. Ruby maneuvered so she wouldn't be hit by her speeding blade but at the same time she moved Emiya moved as well causing her scythe to miss him too. 'What?' She thought before Emiya kicked her away as he landed.

"Interesting maneuver," the girls looked at Emiya as they regrouped, "I haven't faced a scythe wielder with a weapon such as yours, however it'll take more than that, especially with the defense of my mind's eye."

Cu clicked his teeth at this, as Pyrrha turned to him, "What is this Mind's eye ability? Is it a semblance?"

Cu shook his head, "No, think of it like a sensor. When he's in combat he uses his aura to sense things that are around him. This was how he was able to dodge little Missy's scythe. It's to an aura move I have called Protection from Arrow, however mine works differently. Since I believe I can handle myself pretty well in a close quarters fight, getting to my opponent who deals solely on range is much more difficult thus I trained my body and aura to sense any projectile that is headed my way. Same concept but different uses."

Emiya within an instant releases his aura as it rages around like a small vortex until it subsided. "Now then it's my turn." And before those words fully registers to the girls Emiya disappeared and reappeared right in front of Ruby who was thankfully the first one he attacked since she was able to react and be fast enough to put up her scythe in an attempt to block both of Emiya's strikes from his blades. Ruby tried to hit him with the but of her scythe only for him to parry and then drag to deflect it out of the way. He was going to go for a strike with his sword however Blake appears between himself and Ruby as she blocks the strike. Emiya now with a new opponent in front him attacked her with speed and power that she was not prepared for however she blocked as best as she could. With Emiya throwing a downward strike so powerful, Blake guards it, forcing both of her weapons down due to the sheer strength of her opponent. Due to this fact she was unable to pick them back up so she uses her semblance to create a shadow in her place which was cut through.

He was going to pursue after her, but Yang intercepted him as she fights him trying to go on the offensive; however, after he deflects one of her attacks, he goes on the offensive which Yang very quickly thought 'Damn he's so fast, it's hard to defend'. Weiss helped out her teammate as she summoned glyphs that surrounds them and yelled to her teammate, "Yang!" To that call Yang jumps out as an array of ice shards fired from the glyphs at Emiya as snowy mist cleared up we saw Emiya standing there unharmed. Shocking the girls, "How?" Weiss asked, "I attack him from all angles, how did he block them all?"

Ruby looks to Emiya and sees another sword in his hand but it disappears too, making her question what she saw. "Freezerburn!" Weiss then makes an ice floor in order for Yang to punch it creating a mist around the battlefield. Emiya hears multiple footsteps around him until it then goes silent, only to have Blake jump out at him as she looks ready to strike on for her to use her semblance that Emiya cut through. She then runs to him with Ruby behind him, "Ladybug!"

With his hand that was currently above going down to block Blake, the other side of him was open, thinking that they had caught him, they heard him whisper quickly, "I am the bone of my sword." Another with a similar look but inverse of color as he wielded the two to deflect their attack over and over. The two looked as if they were made for each other. As if they were a pair and danced together in sync and symphony.

They all regrouped as they looked on at Emiya now wielding both of them with Ruby mesmerized by its beauty. "A dual wielder, this is going to be tougher than we thought," Blake said

"He was able to hold us off for so long with just one. With two it's definitely going to be a challenge," Yang said.

"I don't you all know what is truly going on." Emiya stated, as Kanshou and Bakuya dematerialized, "I'm not one to sugar coat so let me explain. This is a test to see if you are all strong enough to come on a mission with us. This is a mission of utmost importance so we do not have need for those that will slow us down. And I'm not just talking about how powerful you are. Your intelligence, strategies, conviction. Will we be able to count on you if the time comes?"

He held up his hand and with blue light he conjured up a black metal bow. He also made an arrow and fired at them, only for them to dodge. When they looked back they saw a small crater. "Woah that was close," Yang said.

"My semblance is projection," he said with his opponents looking at him, "I am able to look at a weapon and project my own variant of it." He decides to demonstrate it to them as he dematerializes the bow and then materializes Myrtenaster in his hand. He then stabs it to the ground as spikes of ice erupts from the floor to them.

Weiss thought quickly and past her shock of seeing her weapon, she stabs her Myrtenaster to the ground making an ice wall blocking the ice spikes. "That was my weapon and it has the same dust function and all."

Emiya summoned a bow once again and rained arrows at them. "Checkmate!" Weiss put her time dilating glyph to which Blake stood on and with swipes of her weapon multiple times over she destroyed all of the arrows.

Emiya dashes forward with Kanshou and Bakuya in hand as he strikes at Ruby first and quickly gets past her defenses and kicks her away. Blake and Weiss attack, both with their swords, and both yielding the same result with Emiya blocking, deflecting, and striking them with his blades. Yang went on the attack and tried to hit Emiya, however he dodged by jumping into the air. He quickly conjured up his bow firing multiple arrows at her to which she jumped back and deflected the other two with her Ember Celica. Ruby and Weiss charges at him, weapons prone at the ready as Ruby tries to strike first and swipes at him with Weiss attempting to stab him in the chest. First Emiya redirected Ruby's attack and narrowly dodges Weiss' attack. Ruby and Weiss began to attack in tandem, using their teamwork to their fullest. When one would attack the other would hang back slightly in order to protect the other. 'They decided to keep me on the defence. They figured they can't handle me attacking them so they are putting me on edge while covering the other. Smart.' He continued to stay on the defensive; however he remembered, 'Wait the other two!'

At that moment Weiss and Ruby, decided to pull back, "Now! Bumblebee!" Emiya saw with Blake swings Yang at Emiya and with an added push with her gauntlets she sped to him with outrageous speed.

'I can't dodge this.' Emiya thought leaving only one option he put up his hand in front of him, "Rho Aias…" a purple flower transparent shield made out of aura appeared in front of him with layers to meet Yang. Yang punched it as hard as she could breaking one barrier, to which Emiya reinforced his arm with the other. Yang then went all out with the accumulated damage done to her by Emiya, she activated her semblance as she broke through two more.she tried to get past the other two barriers; however she didn't get through and was pushed back with most of her aura gone.

"Yang!" Blake exclaimed looking back at Emiya to see him conjure a weapon that looked like a sword but a spear he grabbed the drill like weapon as all of RWBY regrouped to combat this new threat.

"With this, the match will be over." With his aura he shrunk the weapon to a skinny point sharp weapon and primed the newly made arrow.

"Weiss!"

"Right!" Weiss stuck her rapier into the ground and used most of her aura to conjure an ice barrier.

"Kaladbolg!" He fired the weapon a sped to its targets completely obliterating the barrier and hitting them all sending them flying with every single member of team RWBY having zero aura with the exception of Ruby, who still stood against Emiya.

(You don't have to but if you want to think of a song to go with this think of Believe in Myself- from Fairy Tail)

"Well then you're the last one standing with only 20% of your aura left. One more strike and this will be over." Ruby said nothing but stayed strong as she was shaking still recovering from the attack. "I suggest that you give up now. You don't have any hopes of beating me."

"I won't give up."

Emiya perked up at this, "What?"

"If I give up now, what that means to all of my friends, my team who fought so hard. I will beat you this I swear! You will take me and my team on this mission, and we will prove to you that we are ready! I will be a huntress. This I swear!" Ruby yelled.

Emiya looked on to Ruby and for what seemed like a couple of seconds, Emiya saw a kid with amber-like eyes and red hair with the same fierce face as she has. He smiled slightly but not enough for it to be known to everyone.

In the stands; however Karna saw this and he smiled, 'Emiya, she's a lot like your younger self.'

Charlemagne and Astolfo started to cheer, "You can do it Ruby!"

Cu decided to add on to this, "Go get him little red!"

"Yeah red!" Mordred yelled.

Gilgamesh smirked at the scene as everyone began to root for her, 'They are an entertaining little bunch.' Enkidu saw his smile and smiled as well.

"Ruby! Ruby! Ruby!"

"Go Ruby!" Weiss yelled.

"Get him Ruby!" Blake yelled.

"You can do it Ruby!" Yang yelled.

"Fine then show me what you can do." Emiya said with a little excitement in his voice.

Ruby feeling everyone's encouragement charged at Emiya to in turn Emiya charged as well. Ruby went for a slash at Emiya with Crescent Rose only to be deflected by Emiya's blades. Ruby thought quickly and fired her scythe's as a recoil and went back then forward at him again slashing at him only for him to parry it upwards. Ruby did what she could and maneuvered in the air as she came down on Emiya like a buzzsaw. Used a small Rho Aias to deflect her; however she didn't let up as she continued. They both attack each other with none having a clear advantage as they clashed again and again. Emiya at one point deflect an attack; however Ruby used her semblance to speed behind him and go for a strike, but Emiya saw this and backflipped over the strike and was about to strike at in the back only for Ruby to split between two with her semblance into the air. She then used a mix of her semblance and the recoil of crescent rose to propel towards Emiya in another buzzsaw motion.

Emiya who didn't expect this looked up to see Ruby coming at him, 'Damn a feint.' He quickly pulled out Rho Aias again however only had time to get one barrier up in time as Ruby slammed into it using Crescent Rose she tried to grind through it but Emiya held strong. Ruby instinctively to get more power she used the recoil of her shot that were placed perfectly behind her to propel her more into the shield making the barrier break. Emiya held on more not willing to lose in this battle, but when he felt his grip slipping he smiled as he looked at Ruby to see her silver eyes slightly glowing faintly. 'Ruby Rose huh? Not bad, not bad at all.' With a yell she broke through and slashed Emiya on the chest landing behind him.

(Stop music)

When she got to the ground she was panting hard and looked to see Emiya was still standing. She looked to the monitor to see that he still had 70% aura left, 'He still had that much left?!'

"Well done Ruby." Emiya turned around to see that there was a slash mark across his clothes, "You've managed to hit me." Ruby stepped back and put up a guard, only to have Emiya say, "Proctor I forfeit the match."

It took awhile for Ruby to process what he said but when she did, "What?!"

Emiya looked at her with a faint smile, "You all pass."

Semiramis with a smile on her face announced, "And the winner is Team RWBY!"

Karna looked down to see all of team RWBY berating him for forfeiting, with him being pressured, 'Ruby Rose.' He smiled, 'Interesting now I see why Ozpin brought you here early.'

And that's all for this chapter. Sorry for the extremely long wait. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Also for those wondering there is a reason that both Emiya and Mordred told them their semblance. This was a test so they wanted to see how they would respond. Not only that, they will possibly be teammates for their mission. With Emiya, I'm going for the Emiya (archer) that was at the end of UBW, who was content with how things ended up at the end. Well I'll see you all next chapter, so have a damned good one.