Fight scene may be bad. Skip to next chapter for interesting plot or stay for action. Your choice.


CLANG!

The sound of Team RWBY's weapons clashing echoed across the courtyard.

When the cloud of smoke that surrounded them cleared, Ruby saw that, separating her team's weapons and their challenger Kirito, was an ethereal sword. She also noticed that he was in a one-foot-forward stance, indicating that the simultaneous attack by her team did knock him back somewhat.

But it wasn't long until Kirito flicked his sword forward and sent Team RWBY flying back. With a quick glance across the four Huntresses, he then leapt toward…

"Weiss!" Ruby called out. Kirito had chosen to attack Weiss first because he was familiar with her weapon – a rapier, which Asuna also wielded.

Weiss only had just enough time to block Kirito's attack. She dashed backwards with the help of a glyph, Yang taking her place and almost managing to hit him. "Oh no you don't!"

But she hit nothing.

Because Kirito had already very quickly flung himself towards Weiss, in an attempt to apply constant pressure.

"Aah! Help!" She cried out.

"Checkmate!" Ruby exclaimed, referencing the team attack. Immediately Blake approached from around the side to support Weiss.

But even with two blades clashing against him, Kirito didn't show any signs of being overwhelmed whatsoever – in fact, he was either parrying or dodging all of their attacks. "Yang! Get him!" Ruby yelled to her sister.

Out of the corner of his eye, Kirito saw Yang moving towards him with speed, her eyes now the color of red. She was already close – less than a half second to impact.

But that was all the Black Swordsman needed.

More smoke erupted, then cleared to show…

"Weiss! No!" Blake cried at the sight of their teammate lying unconscious not far away from them. Kirito, meanwhile, had already jumped back a few feet to recover.

"Guys? Huddle up, quickly." Ruby said to Yang and Blake. " It doesn't look like we can get a hit on him. He's ridiculously fast."

"You're right. We might have underestimated him a little bit." Blake added. "Though he doesn't look like he has any ranged methods of offense."

"Great observation. OK, use our guns to harass him from afar, but continue to engage if he approaches. OK, go!" Ruby leapt back and slammed her scythe on the ground, pointing the barrel at Kirito. Blake and Yang jumped to the side.

Kirito quickly reacted by jumping towards Ruby – seemingly dodging Ruby's sniper bullets. "Bumblebee!" Ruby yelled when he was only a few feet away.

She quickly pulled her scythe up to block the incoming slash – but she guessed wrong. Kirito instead jumped and bounced himself off the handle of Ruby's scythe, slashing Blake and Yang's projectiles flying toward him in front of Ruby.

He landed and slashed Blake, who was in front of him – but she evaporated into black smoke, revealing the real Huntress behind her shadow clone. He lunged forward, dodging Yang's attack, and clashed with the cat Faunus for a while.

Blake soon hopped a distance backwards and leaving Kirito to hit a clone, tagging Ruby in.

The ethereal sword and the large scythe clashed. Kirito could see Ruby looking at him as the struggled over each other.

"Why?" She asked. "Why are you doing this?!"

The swordsman seemed to struggle in finding an answer. "Uhh…"

Ruby then shoved him, herself skidding backwards. Blake came in again and took her place.. Dodging several more of Yang's Ember Celica shots, he engaged Blake. Kirito quickly spotted an opening – a big one.

He brought his right elbow up to feint hitting her with it – then quickly stopping and slashing her across instead.

"Blake!" Ruby tried to shoot him.

Kirito didn't stop, immediately flanking and striking Blake from four sides and creating…

"A square of slash waves?!" Yang exclaimed. The light waves forming the square dissolved, followed by a flash on Blake's torso.

Kirito lunged backwards to distance himself from team RWBY. Blake staggered a bit – then collapsed.

"Blake!" Ruby cried out. But she was quickly targeted by Kirito again, the latter lunging toward her – but being punched off to his right by Yang.

"Gah…she's strong, I'll give it to her." The swordsman thought as he got up. He saw Ruby jump up and ready to slam her scythe down on him, but he quickly dodged and clashed with her.

Kirito noticed he was kind of having trouble dealing with multiple enemies of Team RWBY's skill level, having being hit quite a few times already. So when Ruby prepared an overhead slash, he had an idea.

He dodged, and saw Ruby's red cape floating in the air. He quickly stabbed the top of the cape and stuck his sword to a lamp pole – effectively rendering Ruby stuck.

"Ruby!" Yang exclaimed.

Her eyes suddenly turned red, her hair about to ignite. "Well now you've gone and DONE IT!" She then dashed towards Kirito, who now seemed defenseless as the sword in his hand was being used to trap Ruby. But she heard clanging when her fist hit him.

In Kirito's hand was… another ethereal sword!?

The swordsman quickly took advantage of Yang's surprise and slashed her several times before pushing her back. The enraged Yang quickly recovered and continued to attack.

Ruby could only watch the two fight as she unsuccessfully attempted to free herself. The only thing she could do was try and shoot Kirito with her Sniper-Scythe – if only she hadn't just dropped it.

Then Yang stumbled – and Kirito was quick to capitalize. He brought his knee up to kick Yang in the stomach – of course it didn't do much. Then he leapt back.

Ruby, still struggling, saw a hand pull the sword out.

She looked up. "Is he gonna use both swords to fight Yang?!" Ruby thought, urgently picking up her scythe.

Yang recovered saw Kirito lunging at her with his sword pointed forward, his other hand behind his back, and on instinct brought both her arms up to block.

Which was kind of a mistake. Her using both arms to block, not the blocking itself. Though come to think of it, that's already a big enough flaw on its own.

Kirito's attack is deflected, but before Yang could counter, she felt a cut from her unattended side. Reeling back, her eyes flashed the sight of Kirito holding… another sword?

"Yang!" Ruby cried out, and tried to cut him off from unleashing a combo on her sister, but it all happened too fast – Kirito's slashing, stabbing, sidestepping and leaping's speed was unreal, even for Ruby, who yet felt as if it was an eternity.

Leaping over Yang with overhead slashes, Kirito landed with a crouch behind her, finally stopping. The yellow-haired brawler fell on her knees, then lay there on the ground, unconscious as well.

Ruby felt her hands clenching into fists, gripping her scythe hard. She couldn't take this anymore.

"HEY!" She shouted with rage within her. Weiss and Blake had woken up, having just witnessed the last moment of Kirito's duel against Yang.

Ruby rushed to in front of him, her scythe transitioning into a sniper rifle. Kirito noticed the look of fury on her face.

"What is this all about?' Ruby pointed her rifle at him. "Why do you have to hurt my team like that?! What are you doing here anyway?!"

Kirito was silent. Maybe just walking straight into Beacon and challenging Team RWBY like that wasn't really that good of an idea.

"I…" She stuttered. "…you… I'll give you 3 seconds!"

"To do what?" He asked, surprised.

"3 seconds to… say you're sorry!"

"Is that it?" But Ruby was already aiming down Crescent Rose's scope, silently counting down. Her blood was still boiling.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry for wrecking your friends like that for no real reason!"

"Yang's my sister, not just a friend!"

"And your sisters! Whatever!" Kirito noticed Ruby's eye looking at his left shoulder through her scope. "Bottom line is, I'm sorry!"

"Apology…" She gritted her teeth. "DENIED!"

A flash and a bang signaled Ruby firing her sniper. But he brought his sword quickly to what was apparently her target, and just when Ruby thought Kirito would collapse, she heard the faint sound of metal clanging.

There were two objects glinting against the sun, lying on the floor in front of Kirito. The rest of Team RWBY gasped in surprise.

Because those two objects were a bullet. Or at least, what's left of it after getting sliced in half.

Ruby dropped her scythe, mouth open, eyes wide. "No…no way…how…you…"

Kirito's ethereal swords then dissolved in his hands, leaving him and Ruby facing each other in the countyard, just feet away from each other.


Took a bit longer than I thought. I need time to improve, okay? Okay. Got it.

Well, stay tuned!