Alright now that chapter is done, I should be back in the swing of things, now there should be 2-3 more chapter let in this arc, I still don't know if I'm going to have the double round be together or their own, I need to see how long they are.
Chapter cover- A clear crystal apple on a table with a bite taken out of it.
Ch.17- Lifeline
"The third match of Weiss Schee versus Peace Miglow shall begin." Once again the area changes as the referee slams scythe down.
I'm afraid about this match, Peace is a powerhouse if Weiss can't block or dodge then she's a goner also two of her dust are useless against Peace due to her being immune to fire.
"Come on Weiss, you got this!" Ruby cheers on her teammate.
"Does she?" Nora asks to which Ruby slowly brings her attention back to the fight showing that this will be an uphill battle for Weiss.
The area is now an abandoned warehouse, seeing as it's been tagged with spray paint and how none of the lights are on, only leaving the light coming from the windows. Weiss is looking for Peace and trying not to get ambushed, for once our school is the one to make first contact. Weiss finds Peace in an off-shoot room with her back exposed, leaving herself wide open. Weiss grabs her weapon spins around and plunges it the ground sending a trail of ice at Peace, who notices too late as she's turned a living ice cube.
"I really hope for your sake, that you have something up your sleeves." Peace has almost completely melted the ice containing her. Once she's out, she spins her shoulders, and takes a stance, Weiss does the same. Peace cracks a smile before holding out her right arm, where her gauntlet expands now covering her whole arm then spinning up.
Weiss takes caution by leaving the room, shutting the door behind her and runs for cover behind a shipping crate. A massive trail of fire and explosions consumes the door and anything else caught in the way. Shocking all of us by using a big attack without giving it a second thought.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL WEISS?!"
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME!?"
"What? I was sure you were going to live." Peace rebuffs to which the refe appears from a portal and hits Peace over the head with her scythe.
"Peace if you use that attack again I will disqualify you and give the win to Weiss, got it?!" Peace nods, "Alright continue."
The match resumes by Weiss creating a glyph, skating on it while also slashing at Peace as she passes by, Peace uses her gauntlets to defend herself. Weiss keeps up the pressure before changing the glyph under Peace to a blue one, flinging her into the air. Peace recovers and starts flying by using her flames to keep herself up.
Peace fires a few shots from her gauntlets, having Weiss block it by making a glyph to defend herself. Peace drops down and punches the glyph while firing her gauntlets at the same time, Weiss attempts to keep the glyph up but Peace assault on it prove too much. Peace shatters the glyph and grabs Weiss by her ponytail.
"You know, you and me have very similar backgrounds, but yet, are so very different." Peace pulls Weiss in closer, and grabs her by the throat, "But we don't have time for this." Peace starts to lift Weiss and lights her arm ablaze, "Now surrender, so I won't have to hurt you."
Weiss points Myrtenaster to the side and creates a push glyph sending herself and Peace flying. Weiss creates a few glyphs to slow herself down while Peace crashes into some wooden crates. As Weiss is fixing herself, she spots something bizarre just on the edge of her sight, a diamond in the shape of an apple or is it the other way around? Whatever it is Weiss all of a sudden has a sudden need to eat it.
"I'm eighty percent sure that if I tried to eat that, I would lose a tooth. And I shouldn't be eating random food just lying around." Weiss reasons to herself but the more that she tries to focus, the more she hungers, "I'm sure a bite won't hurt."
Weiss had forgotten that people are watching, "At least clean it off you before it. -I thought I had a problem with fish." Team RWBY comments about the situation, meanwhile, Pony is drooling over herself.
But we know that isn't just an apple, "How did a mana fruit end up there?!" We question what such a powerful item from our world is doing there.
"Mana Fruit? I assume you know what that is?" Pyrrha wants us to explain.
Medi fixes her glasses before going, "A mana fruit is a very rare item that exponentially increases one's mana production, it can give a simple farmhand magical power equal to a master mage. However, since your world lack magic and mana, the effects are going to be unknown. Wait I should write what happens this could be world-changing." Medi pulls out a book and starts logging what is going on.
"Alright, I'm not holding back anymore." Peace pushes the crates off of her before banging her fist together and becoming a living fireball, meanwhile, Weiss went on a little lunch break and ate the whole apple right down to the core. Weiss wipes her mouth clean before getting in position.
Peace gets angry and her fire gets bigger, "I was that pathetic of an opponent, that you snacked off mid-fight?! Then burn in hell! Fire Dragon Roar!" Peace bellows out a massive wave of fire from her mouth, torching anything it touches, Weiss creates a glyph under herself in preparation to defend her but this glyph is much bigger, so big in fact that it's taking up the floor.
This catches even Weiss off guard, "What's going on, I could never do this before, that apple has to be the cause of this." Weiss suspects she ate something with very magical properties. As soon Myrtenaster touches the ground, the warehouse becomes a walk-in snow globe.
"I see," Medi says while jogging down her notes.
"It would be great if you would share your notes with the class." Deandra states.
Medi looks up from her notes and looks a bit embarrassed after hyper-focusing on her notes, before fixing her glasses and clearing her throat, "Well, it seems that the mana fruit powered up Weiss's semblance ten-fold, based on the increased size and power of her glyph. However-" Medi notes, "I fear that the power boost Weiss's received might have a drawback. We'll need to see if my theory is true."
"Drawback or not. Weiss will be able to win now." Ruby retorts, "Come on Weiss you can do this!" Ruby cheers as long as can in the hope that Weiss will hear her.
Peace melts the snow covering her, the flame still going on strong, "I produce fire dumbass, don't think your ice will win you the fight." Peace pulls down the zipper on her jacket melting more of the snow around her. Weiss raises her weapon over her head, creating four pillars of ice around Peace before creating a gold glyph below herself, seeming a bit similar to our time powers. Weiss charges forward creating a bunch of glyphs surrounding Peace, before bouncing off them and slicing Peace all over her body, causing her flames to die down.
Weiss puts Myrtenaster away to check that Peace is ok, "H-hold i-it." Peace gets up to a kneeling position, "As long as I have to power stand up," Peace gets up to her feet, "Then my flames never be snuffed!" Peace's fire comes back to life, now burning a bright blue.
Peace unzips her jacket all the down causing the air to shimmer and melting all the ice as well, Weiss trying making a glyph but fail halfway through.
"What's going on? Why isn't my semblance working?" Weiss wonders what happened to her powers.
"This heat is making me dizzy." Weiss is left helpless under the furnace that is Peace, she attempts to stab one of the many Peace but swings wide.
On the display screen of Weiss, she pretty much no aura left, "So the drawback to that powered up state is that it burns through Weiss's aura like no one business. Fascinating." Medi's theory is proven correct and more so.
Peace is towering over Weiss and her blue flames are proving too much, "I-I c-concede. Just kill your fire."
"Weiss has surrendered, scoring two points for U.A making the score one to three." The refe calls the match, while Peace turns off her flames, Weiss looks up and sees Peace was nearly her limit as well based on her famous burned-out face.
"Good job." Peace mutters before biting down on her zipper.
Peace and Weiss return to the stands as the five-minute break begins, Weiss looks disappointed and doesn't want to look at us.
"Sorry for giving those points to U.A." Weiss looks depressed over, but Ersa gives her a pat on the back.
"To be so sad about that losing Weiss, we still have a bunch of opportunities to make those points back," Ersa says before turning her gaze away and scratching her cheek, "And to be honest, we all saw that lost coming from a mile away, but you actually managed to hold your own there."
"Speaking of which." Medi chimes in, "Weiss, after we're done here, I'd like to run some tests on you and Yang to see what's going on in your body. I'll explain in detail later, but to summarize that apple you ate, it seems to have given your semblance a massive power increase, at the cost of leaving you crippled afterward. I can't wait to start gathering results." Medi starts rubbing her hands and has an evil look on her face.
"That's the first time I've seen her in little scientist mode since we've arrived at Beacon." The sisters don't look fazed by Medi's evil persona but everyone else is slowly backing away.
"Don't worry we can snap her out of it." Ersa mentions.
"Please do, for my safety," Weiss asks nicely.
Ersa rolls her before giving Medi, a quick chop the forehead, "Eh sis, you're freaking everyone out." Medi looks around before fixing her glasses again.
"Sorry about everyone, I get a little over-excited when something peaks my mind."
Five minutes later
"The final round of the single portion is here! Ruby Rose versus Axel Gallavancer, starts right now." The refe taps her scythe down changing the area.
This match is taking place in a very generic street with a dust shop, the lights are on but a sign says they're closed. Axel walks past the shop before stopping to take a look inside, meanwhile, Ruby is on the roof of a building down the street and is getting to snipe with Crescent Rose. Ruby is getting Axel in her sight and fires a shot.
Axel reaches down to pick up something letting the shot fly right past him and shatter the window instead, Ruby corrects her sight and fire another shot. Axel bends backward while yawning, after that he looks over to where Ruby is sniping from.
"He might know where I am, but he still has to come to me." Ruby mentally notes but then Axel disappears, she frantically looks to see where Axel may be, but is unable to see him.
A pink rope wraps around Ruby's arm, it's warm and slimy, "EEEWW, what type of rope is this!?" Ruby tries to get the rope off but she's being dragged.
"Tha-at's not rop-e," Axel decloaks showing he's already made it to her but Ruby is so freaked out about that is about to cut his tongue off. Axel slurps his tongue up before it's gone.
"OK, on my part, I didn't see that through," Axel admits some of the blame is on him before spitting out something.
"That's her magazine, isn't it," I ask hoping I'm wrong.
"-Yep. -Mmmh. -Yep." My sisters answer for me.
"Wait, when did you-?" Ruby just notices that Axel stole the magazine inside her gun. She loads in some gravity dust and propels herself towards Axel, he stays put and holds out his right arm, stopping the attack dead in its tracks. Ruby fires another shot in an attempt to break through but Axel holds his ground.
"You're going to have to change your tactics if you're going to beat me," Axel tells Ruby before grabbing the blade, pulling Ruby into his fist and knocking her off the building, ripping Crescent Rose out of Ruby's hands.
Ruby falls to the street below, now without her weapon and leaving her to fend for herself, Axel tosses Crescent to the side before leaping off the building.
Just then Yang and Cortney finally reappear, "Hey guys, what happened while I was out?" Yang asks.
Deandra quickly brings Yang and Cortney up to speed, "After your fight, Blake and Pony fought which ended with knocking out Pony, then Weiss and Peace fought and Peace made Weiss surrender making the score one to three, now Ruby is fighting against Axel."
I butt in quickly, "Yang, how well can Ruby fight without her weapon?"
"Terrible, a street cat could beat her." Yang doesn't hold back on telling us just how good Ruby melee skills are without Crescent Rose.
The fight is telling us that Yang's words are true, as Ruby is getting tossed around like a chew toy by Axel. All Ruby is trying to do is get back to her weapon but Axel is stopping her every chance he gets.
"Don't tell me you rely solely on your weapon when you fight. A true fighter can fight with or without a weapon or powers. But you're proving me wrong, I'll be ending this fight now." Axel throws out his scarf to grab Ruby but jumps out the way making Axel wrap his scarf around a lampost, while Ruby lands perfectly on it.
"Son Of," Axel tries to unwrap his scarf but Ruby is making that hard, taking advantage of this Ruby starts performing some acrobatic maneuvers making Axel into a tightrope act, Ruby runs towards and uses Axel as a springboard and gets back to her weapon. Axel pulls out a knife and cuts his scarf now looking angry, before summoning two giant red wings out from his back and flying up to Ruby.
Ruby is checking on her weapon just before Axel appears, Ruby loads up some fire rounds and fires, shooting flames out the muzzle of Crescent Rose. Axel flies over the fire and grabs Ruby by her face while snatching her weapon out of her hands, Axel's wings disappear and in its stead, his skin turns to steel.
Axel takes a running jump off the building before they start falling Axel points Ruby towards the ground and burying her head into the concrete.
"Ruby Rose has been knocked out making Axel the winner, making the score one for Beacon, and four for U.A." The refe announces the end of the single round.
Ruby wakes up shortly after and Axel checks to make sure he didn't hurt Ruby too bad, the refe steps in, "After the five-minute break the double rounds will begin, Beacon give up hope yet, you can still win. Now let me explain the rules for these next matches as they are a little different. If a teammate is knocked out or unable to continue they will be forced to sit out for the rest of the match, they can still communicate with their teammates, however. Points are worth the same, however, the winners of the 4v4 will be awarded two extra points, that's all I have to say." The refe leaves us to ourselves
"Good job their guys." Cortney gives Team RWBY some praise for their fights.
"Keep training and you'll become unstoppable." Pony adds.
"Thank you, can I get your autographs now?" Ruby pulls a book and pen for Cortney and the gang to sign, and so do I.
"Sure, I don't see any harm." The Breakers sign to which me and Ruby squeals in glee.
Writer: Alright, that's all for now, I'll be explaining what going with Weiss and Yang later down the road. Now on to other news, for my readers, you may have noticed that I've gotten rid of the crossover part of the story, the reason why is because I wasn't quite happy with the views this story was getting and I wanted more people to read. Ao3 readers ignore this.