Combat Room, Beacon Academy
A week later…
Rushing at the opposing Team, Pyrrha threw Milo in it's spear form at Sky Lark, however the slate-gray haired man dodged by jumping to the side of the thrown weapon before charging in with his halberd aimed at the huntress-in-training's head, but it was blocked with Akouo. Russel then rushed at Pyrrha, his twin daggers prepared to slash the redhead although it was also deflected by her shield. Rushing forward and grabbing Milo again before shifting it to it's xephos form before deflecting a sword strike made by Dove, while Sky rushed forward with his halberd again, but with a slight use of her semblance the weapon was just barely moved off course, sliding harmlessly over her head allowing her to dodge back for some minor breathing room, but Cardin then rushed in with his mace and attempted to smack her in the side, however Pyrrha threw Akouo at the tall man, stunning him as it ricocheted into his face before impacting his teammates as well. Continuing along it's path it ended up back in Pyrrha's hands, just in time to allow her to block another halberd strike from Sky. Retaliating with Milo, she knocked the grey haired man out of the arena, disqualifying him from the match. Not letting up on on her assault, Pyrrha rushed Dove and caused the light brown haired man to stumble backwards from the strength, but he recomposed himself before retaliating with his own sword. Pulling the small trigger on it's handle, Dove fired off some rounds from the barrel attached to the blade, earning a scowl from Sinikka at the fact that someone else took a similar design choice that she did. Back to the fight, Pyrrha took the shots like they were nothing, before striking Dove with her shield and knocking him further towards the edge of the arena. Russel then ran in with his twin daggers again, though they were blocked. Pushing with Akouo, Pyrrha knocked the green-haired man out of the arena due to the proximity of the edge. Turning around, the redhead blocked a glancing blow from Cardin's mace before it impacted the back of her skull before pushing forward with her shield again, knocking the auburn haired man back before switching Milo to its rifle form, taking some shots at Cardin, although they were blocked by his mace due to him swinging it. Pulling said weapon back, he hit Dove in the face causing the brunette boy to go flying back and to the ground with his Aura in the red. Slamming his mace into the ground, Cardin caused a chain of explosions toward Pyrrha, although the redhead just jumped back to avoid them further. Rushing forward again, Pyrrha knocked Cardin into the air before slamming him back down again, depleting his Aura completely.
"And that's the match." Goodwitch said, walking out to the stage with her usual scroll tablet in hand. "Well done Miss Nikos. You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament."
"Thank you Professor." The professional fighter replied, a small smile on her face.
"Now, I know that may be a tough act to follow, but we still have enough time for one more round. Do we have any volunteers?" The blonde professor asked, looking through the crowd. "How about you, Miss Belladonna? You seem to have been quick docile the last few classes." Shocking the black haired woman, Blake looked up from her book though the bags under her eyes betrayed her energy levels.
"I'll do it." Durane shouted, as well as a gray haired man opposite him, the two locking eyes at the same time.
"Mercury, was it? Very well. You and Mister Imravar will be up next. Be sure to retrieve your weapons." At that, Durane jumped down and went into the locker rooms emerging not much later with his double mace in his hands, a smirk on his face as he approached the stage in his trench coat. Looking at his opponent despite the severe height difference between the two, Durane noticed the guns attached to his boots and only increased his smirk as he knew what he would do. Waiting for the countdown, he balanced his double mace over his shoulders.
(A.N.: Play Gurren Lagaan OST: Nikopol)
Rushing forward at the end of the countdown, Durane swung his mace at Mercury, knocking the grey haired man back from the force behind it, as well as the speed the short Faunus displayed. Returning the assault, Mercury kicked at the Armadillo, the occasional gunshot going off at times. Blocking the shots, Durane then extended some spines on his arms towards Mercury and ended up clipping the side of the gun-function enough to cause sparks to fly off. Running forward again, Durane slammed his dual-ended mace into Mercury's side with a crushing blow, knocking off a good third of the boy's Aura. Extending more of his spines, Durance impaled the silverette arms enough to draw blood, a feral grin on his face as he continued his assault, though it didn't last much longer as Goodwitch called the match, sending Mercury to the infirmary due to the damage done to his arms while Durane was pulled to the side from his use of excessive force.
(AN: End OST.[that didn't last very long…])
"Well, that was brutal." Kaito observed, a hand to his chin in thought. "What do you think, Colys?" Looking at the ice user, he saw him on the ground sulking.
"I wanted to battle today…" He muttered out, drawing small circles with his index finger on the ground, causing Kaito, Dakura, and Nuada to sweatdrop.
"Anyways, what are your plans for the dance this weekend? I know Kaito over here has a certain someone in mind." Dakura joked, nudging the albino who gave a glare from underneath his aviators.
"Meh, I was gonna see if I could find someone there, I don't really care all that much for social events." Nuada responded, a sigh leaving his lips. "Colys, you okay there, buddy?"
"Huh? Oh yeah just… contemplating." Standing back up, the noirette looked around, noting the room was nearly deserted. "Where did everyone go, exactly?"
"While you were sulking down there class ended and everyone left. Why, looking for anyone special?" Kaito teased, causing the dark eyed man to blink rapidly.
"Wha- oh, right. I'll be back, catch you guys later!" Rushing off, Colys glanced around a few times, before noticing his goal walking a few paces behind her team, a drowsy look in her eyes. "Hey! Blake!"
"Huh? Oh hey Colys." The Faunus in disguise replied, the bags under her eyes looking quite dark.
"You, sure you're okay? I mean I'm not the vision of perfect health, but I can tell when sleep deprivation kicks in." The ice user inquired, remembering the fact that his current company was nearly asleep in the last class.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Blake blatantly lied, Colys deadpanning.
"Riiiiight. Anyways, I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go the dance Sunday? I mean if you have plans or something it's fine, I'll just go alone and probably hang out by the punch bowl or something." The dark grey eyed male asked, scratching the back of his head in slight trepidation.
"I don't have time for a dance. I know Sun's a little slow on the uptake, but I figured you would understand." Blake replied angrily, shocking Colys slightly at the edge to her tone.
"Come on, It's one night. You don't even have to stay the entire time, just one hour or so would be fine." The noirette retorted, an edge to his own tone slowly growing.
"We both know what they are planning. They won't wait so why should I?" The feline female rebutted, a look of annoyance crossing her features.
"Guess what? I know how they work. I may not be the brightest but I know that constantly overworking yourself won't yield results. Do you know how long I worked to find a way home during my time at Signal? Six whole fucking months. I refused to sleep or eat unless I needed to, resorting to caffeine to assure I stayed awake. Do you know what the results were? Nothing but pain and failing grades. Desperation isn't they way to go, Blake." Colys snapped back, his eyes beginning to water slightly. "I just don't want you to fall down a similar path I nearly took." Beginning to break down in sorrow, nearly falling to the ground but catching himself last minute on his knees. Slowly standing back up with a slight bit of trouble, the ice user wiped his eyes quickly before staring hard into Blake's yellow eyes. "Could you at least think about my offer?"
"...Ok, I will." Blake replied after a short pause, Colys giving a small smile at the response before walking to wherever he had to go...
Outside Beacon Ballroom
Saturday night…
"Man, I'm bored. What do you think we should do, Yardley?" Roxanne asked of the sleep-deprived man standing besides her, his emerald eyes having deep circles under them.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe sleep?" The undead-looking boy replied, looking just about ready to fall asleep then and there anyway.
"Is that all you ever think about Yardley?" The slate grey haired female retorted, an annoyed look on her face from his constant insistence on sleeping.
"Hey, you know how little sleep I can get at night." Yardley replied, referring to his severe insomnia that he suffers from.
"If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines." Was heard yelled through the door, causing Roxanne to perk up a bit.
"Fog machines? This sounds good." Walking to the door, she saw, although unknown to her, Sun and Neptune also enter.
"Your dance is going to have fog machines?" The blue haired man asked, garnering the attention of the three females gathered around the table, who also noticed the two newcomers walking in behind.
"Fog machines sound cool!" The monotone themed female shouted, drawing the attention to herself, though she just soaked it up.
"Do I… know you?" Weiss asked of her, the slate gray haired female shaking her head in response with a smile.
"Nope. Name's Roxanne. I was looking for this one guy that said he would guide me around Vale a few months back. I can't remember his name though. It was something like Colyn? Anyways I figured I'd search around for him a bit." Roxanne stated, with Ruby giving a look of recognition.
"You mean Colys? I have his Scroll Contact seeing as he and the rest of his team ended up living under the same roof as Yang and I for two years." The youngest Team Leader revealed, taking out the communication device before calling the ice user.
Team C.R.S.N.'s Dorm
At the exact same time…
"Ring ring ring…. Ring Ring Ring…. RIIING! IT'S YOUR OUM-DAMNED SCROLL! PICK ME UP!" was heard throughout the dorm as a groggy groan came from the only occupied bed, accompanied by the owner of the Scroll reaching his hand out and grabbing it.
"Moshimoshi, Colys-desu." The noirette answered, confusing those on the other end.
"What?" Ruby inquired of the team leader's strange response, considering it not being in the common language.
"Huh? Oh, sorry force of habit. What up?" Colys asked with a shrug, sitting up in his bed with his Scroll laptop in front of himself as he continued to work on the next part of his team's campaign.
"There's someone down here in the Ballroom that claims she knows you. She's been saying something of claiming a tour of Beacon you promised?" At that the Ice user shut the piece of equipment in front of himself before jumping out of the bed and grabbing his gauntlets, stored in their watch/wristband form and putting them on.
"I'll be there soon. I know what you are talking about." Panicking slightly as he searched his room for the physical map of Beacon he had, he then slapped his forehead before opening his laptop again and printing off a new one. Grabbing the freshly printed map he rushed to his window before opening it, creating an Ice platform, and riding to the ground. Running through the brief courtyard, Colys reached the doors that led into the Ballroom before heading through them. Barreling through the oaken double doors, he almost knocked Sun over in his mad dash.
"That was fast." Yang pointed out to Colys' sheer speed in arriving.
"I know, I know. I was just sleeping for a bit." The noirette replied, looking around a bit until his eyes landed on the familiar mop of grey hair off to the side. "Yo! Roxanne. I'm here. Who's your friend there?"
"Oh! This is Yardley, he's my Partner. Don't let his apathy get to you, he's always like that." The slate-haired female told him, earning a nod.
"Alright. Well Yardley, I'm Colys." The Ice user introduced, placing his hand out in front of the brunnette.
"Did someone say something?" Yardley asked, not even seeing the extended limb causing a tick mark form on Colys' forehead.
'Is this guy for real?' He thought to himself in annoyance "Yes, I did. I'm Colys." The boxer repeated, growing annoyed with the insomniac.
"Good to know." The falcata user replied, Colys growling at him as the dismissiveness of the statement only furthered his irritation.
"You know what? Let's just get going. Later guys." The Ice user stated, walking out of the room with a wave.
Team D.A.R.K.'s Dorm
"Man, I'm soooo bored. What should I do for some fun? I could think up some new formations for my Beetles, or work with some flags… Nah no need for any of that right now. What to do…" The resident Albino thought to himself while staring at the ceiling, painted with the Fairy Tail guild Mark meticulously done by Raiden. The entire room was design was done by the pseudo-albino, from the bed placement to the curtain coloration. "Well, no use sitting around doing nothing. Might as well head to the training grounds." Preparing to change to his Swarm Form, Kaito heard an odd, yet familiar noise emanate from his bed. "... the hell?" Walking over it only grew louder until the insect-like buzzing was near deafening.
(A.N.: Insert Linebeck's Theme Orchestrated here)
As he lifted the main sheets, the buzzing ceased as it source was revealed, a familiar, red and black cricket staring at him with it's beady black eyes.
"How did my specimen of Gryllus phyllodes get in here?" The albino thought to himself before grabbing the Violin Cricket. "Well, might as well show you around the campus, little guy." placing the bipedal insect onto his shoulder, he gave a quick nod to himself before opening the dorm window properly, forming a platform to hop onto which he soon rode on to reach his first stop, Beacon library.
(End OST)
Beacon Cafeteria
Dismounting the platform he had, Colys looked at his two current traveling companions.
"Our final stop: The cafeteria. I don't really need to explain what happens here considering you two came from Haven which no doubt also has a cafeteria." The ice user informed the two, the chunk of ice behind him slowly melting from the overall heat of the day. "Now I must get going as I have some more work to get done."
"Did you say something?" Yardley asked, a tired look in his sunken eyes like usual.
"Nevermind. I'll see you two around or something, alright?" Colys said, walking away to head back to his dorm, before bumping into someone he hadn't seen in two years.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" The irate blonde yelled, a look of rage in his teal eyes until he saw who it was that bumped into him. "Oh, wait. Colys, is that you?" The darker skinned male asked, getting into the noirette's face.
"... do I know you?" He asked, resulting in the scarfed male face-faulting from Colys' apparent bad memory.
"Dredark Hydrin? Best Basketball player at signal?" The blonde man asked, incredulous at Colys not remember him at all.
"Sort of. Last I remember of you was Nuada punching you into a wall after you insulted him." The noirette mused, a hand to his chin.
"I still need to get back at him for that." Dredark said with a dangerous glint in his eyes, which was not missed by Colys.
"Oh really? And you want to end up in a wall again?" The ice user deadpanned, a bit of a frost forming around himself causing the temperature to lower slowly.
"I-I wasn't expecting it that time. Besides, it's not like he could land a hit on me when I'm prepared." The blonde boasted, not noticing the dark look in Colys' eyes.
"You really ARE stupid, aren't you Dredark? Threatening my teammates when you don't even know their skills? You're either over confident or foolish." The noirette chuckled out, a few layers of frost coating his knuckles in preparation.
"Ha! Skill? You four are nothing compared to my team." Dredark mocked, Colys' expression slowly darkening. "If your team faced against us, your failure would be guaranteed."
"There are no guarantees in life Hydrin. Just remember that." The ice user mysteriously replied before forming a platform beneath himself and heading off.
Blueghast900: Well that was a bit ominous, wasn't it Tenebris?
Tenebris: Sure was. I almost expected Colys to fight Dredark.
Blueghast: That's for sure! Don't worry though because it will come soon enough. Now, there is a little bit after this author's note, so don't go away yet! Granted the following should not be treated as canon as it follows a similar vein to a side series RWBY has as well. Presenting: CRSN Chibi!
Team C.R.S.N.'s Dorm room, alternate reality…
A bit of an odd version of Colys sat on his scaled down bed, staring intently at the screen of the scroll laptop in front of himself, until Rhydwyn burst into the room, a similar appearance change having occurred to him as well.
"Colys! Something happened to the cafeteria, everything is oddly smaller…" Trailing off at the fact that the room, and essentially the rest of the school was under the same condition, including the inhabitants. "Oh dear lord what happened."
"Huh? What did you sa- RHYDWYN, EVERYTHING IS SMALLER!" The ice user exclaimed finally noticing the changes that happened.
"Do you think I know why?" The dirty blonde retorted, pulling out the smaller version of Lament he had on his back in preparation for any other strangeness in this odd version of reality.
"I figured you would have a better idea than I do." Colys responded, closing the laptop he held quickly before rushing over to his friend. "Come on, we need to see if anyone else can explain this strange phenomena!"
"It is unlikely, but fine." The spearman sighed, going along with his leader's antics as they stopped at Team VRDT's door.
"Geod! Are you in there?" Colys yelled out, no response coming through the door, prompting him to run to Team DARK next only for a similar result. This pattern continued for the next few room, until the duo reached Team CRDL's room.
"You seriously think they would know why?" Rhydwyn deadpanned out.
"Heh, you're right. They're absolute idiots. Let's check around the courtyard." The ice user replied, dragging his current partner to the double doors.
Blueghast: Well, that's the first bit of CRSN Chibi, which I decided to do mainly as a bit of comedic levity in comparison to the darker bits of the rest of A Dimensional Convergence. Anyways, as always, Read, Rate, Review, and Favorite.
*Blueghast900 has signed off.*