If there was one thing that Ray Star loved as much as Harry Ozpin, then it would be sparring. Training and honing your skills against an opponent, different in fighting style and weapon, and just as unpredictable as yourself.
At least, that's what Ray kept telling himself. His current opponent was one Cardin Winchester. Big, strong, carried a wicked looking mace and looked at you as if you were a bug that needed to be squashed. Cardin was anything but unpredictable. An overhead swing, and underarm swing. Sometimes a hit to your head, or neck to try and incapacitate you. Fighting Cardin Winchester was anything but fun. Ray jumped several times away from Cardin's swings as he looked around. Nova had easily dealt with Russell, freezing him in a block of Ice. She now helping Angel with Dove Bronzewing, who put up a decent fight. Vixen was laughing at Sky Lark as he tried and failed to keep his halberd with him. It always slipped out of his hands.
'Time to end this' Ray thought as he raised both Hope and Deliverance towards Cardin.
The large boy smiled at him, and ran towards Ray, his mace held up high to add extra momentum. Just as Cardin was about to swing the mace down, Ray stepped in Cardin's opening and placed Hope and Deliverance in his stomach. A continuous blast was heard as Ray shot Cardin in the stomach. Bang, Bang, Bang. The force of the Dust bullets hitting Cardin was enough to launch him away far enough for Ray to deflect a swing of Dove's sword. Ray retaliated with the bladed ends of his weapons, and brought Dove's aura to the red, signaling his defeat.
A multitude of blasts caught Ray's attention, and the buzzer went, signaling that Sky Lark was below the required twenty percent of aura, and thus out of the match.
Vixen smiled as she aimed her weapon, arrow loaded on her bow and ready at Cardin. "Firing" Vixen said as the arrow was released from the bow and traveled faster than the eyes could see towards Cardin. Cardin could only watch with shock as the arrow hit him right in the chest, and exploded, encasing him in a sea of red Fire Dust.
"Fire in the hole" Ray said as he pointed both the barrels of Hope and Deliverance towards the cloud of red Fire Dust. "No" Cardin shouted as Ray fired.
Ray's bullets, infused with yellow Dust, connected with the red Fire Dust could and ignited the entire cloud, creating a large explosion.
As the smoke cleared, team RAVN could see that Cardin was out for the count. His aura level had dropped to a dangerously close three percent.
"And the match goes to Team RAVN." Called professor Goodwitch, who increased the volume of the lights in the auditorium. "Now, before I start with the obvious analysis of the match, maybe one of the students could tell me where Team CRDL went wrong. Miss Schnee?" Goodwitch asked as she looked as Weiss.
Weiss cleared her throat. "Team CRDL went at it as four separate units, where Team RAVN worked as one cohesive unit. This gave them the advantage they needed to win from a team that could have easily beaten them."
"Is that so, Sugar Queen?" a voice came from behind Goodwitch, who turned around to see Ray Star looking at the Schnee Heiress. "If you're so confident in your own skills, why don't you choose one of us for a combat lesson." Ray said as he pointed to his teammates. "Surely the heiress of the largest Dust company in the world, wouldn't mind to," Here Ray started to brawl as a baby. ", show poor whittle childwen how to pwoperly fight."
"Fine. You, Star are going down." Weiss said in a rage as she pointed her finger at Ray. Ray just smiled.
"Bring it on, baby" Ray said as he smirked towards Weiss.
Weiss turned around and made her way to the floor of the auditorium, where she saw Ray talking with Professor Goodwitch.
"Fine, I agree to the match, but if you go out of line, I will place you in detention." said Goodwitch to Ray who nodded in agreement.
"He won't be able to walk, let alone serve detentions when I'm done with him, Professor." Weiss said as she glared at Ray, who just waved happily to the Schnee heiress. Weiss Snarled at Ray. How did he dare to behave in such a way. Didn't he know who he was dealing with? How dangerous she could be?
"Very well. A match between Ray Star and Weiss Schnee. This match is without semblance." Announced Professor Goodwitch, causing Weiss to gulp slightly. She must have ignored the part where Ray challenged her to a duel without semblance. 'Don't worry Weiss.' she thought. 'It will be okay'.
Ray smiled as he nodded to Angel. She nodded back. Ray turned his attention back to the White themed girl. 'She's got a rapier. That means that she prefers to attack with speed and get the fight over as soon as possible. I'll just need to prolong the fight'.
"Are you ready?" Goodwitch asked to both fighters. Ray nodded and so did Weiss. "Then Begin"
The moment that they were allowed to begin, Weiss started to run forward, her rapier posed to strike. If they were fighting with semblance, then she would have striked Ray down already. She trusted forward, her rapier aimed directly as Ray's chest.
With reflexes that were almost faster than her sisters own, Ray blocked her blade and grabbed her arm, before he gave another pull on it. The movement that he made, caused Weiss to be thrown in the air for a short time and she fell down on her face. Feeling the burn of the friction of the mat on her face, Weiss turned around and jumped back up, before she unleashed a flame of Fire Dust. Ray jumped out of the way, and landed out of reach of Weiss flame.
Ray smiled as he started to see the practiced movement of Weiss beginning an attack. Focusing his aura on her feet Ray jumped towards Weiss, and knocked her prepared attack back, forcing Weiss to fall back on parrying Ray's continuous attacks. Ray switched from his normal grip to the grip on the barrels of his Tonfa's, giving him two short swords to attack Weiss. "Damn, he's good." Yang commented as she looked at the match between Ray and Weiss.
"No, he's not good. He's very good." Said Ruby as she watched the match. "Come on, Weiss. You can do it." Ruby mumbled softly. It might have been a few weeks after the start of term for them, but she still remembered what she said before and during the first class with Professor Port and the Boarbatusks.
"Are you watching, Jaune?" Pyrrha Nikos asked as she watched the fight between Ray and Weiss, understanding what Ray was doing.
"Eh, yeah. It's kinda hard not to." Said Jaune softly as he watched the movements of Weiss and Ray, fighting each other. 'I wish I could fight like that' Jaune thought as his respect for Ray grew more and more. Ray had just dodged a vicious attack of Weiss, leaving her wide open for a counter.
While Ray countered, and forced Weiss back in a defensive mode, Pyrrha looked at the blond haired boy who was the team-leader of Team JNPR.
"Jaune, look at the scoreboard." Pyrrha said and as Jaune looked at the scoreboard, he noticed that both Weiss and Ray had seventy percent aura reserve left.
"How is that possible, they have been fighting for about ten minutes." Jaune said as he looked in Pyrrha's green eyes, before looking away.
"That's because Ray isn't trying to win. He's trying to teach Weiss a lesson. Look at how he attacks, he's not aiming to hurt her, but he's trying to get Weiss to adapt to the constantly attacks of him." A voice said. Pyrrha, Jaune and the rest who was watching turned around, and saw a girl with purple hair looking at them. "Nova Heart, right?" Asked Pyrrha. She got a nod back in response.
"And that's the match" Professor Goodwitch called out as Ray disarmed Weiss, by hitting her hand that held her rapier, with a Tonfa that had it's blade retracted. Her rapier lay several feet away, with Ray holding his other Tonfa, blade extended, to Weiss throat. Both were panting hard from the fight and the energy that they had to give to get this far.
"Nice job, Weiss" Ray said as he pulled back his Tonfa and retracted the blade, before he placed both of them on his hips. "Well done."
Ray held out his hand to Weiss, who looked at it for a few seconds and shook Ray's hand.
"It was fun." Weiss said, panting from the exercise. "Let's do it again some day."
"Trust me, we will." Said Ray as he nodded to Angel, who nodded back.
Before anyone could say anything else, they heard the tell-tale signal that carried Professor Ozpin's voice through the auditorium.
"Team RAVN. Please report to the headmasters office. Team RAVN. Report to the headmasters office. Thank you."
Ray looked at the benches where his teammates were sitting. They all started to stand up and made their way to the headmasters office. Ray nodded politely to professor Goodwitch, before he exited the auditorium and met with his team at the elevator to the headmasters office.
"Why are they always called on a Friday, after classes?" Ruby asked her sister, who looked at the retreating backs of team RAVN.
"Who knows sis. Maybe it's because they need some extra training, or perhaps the headmaster wants to know how they are doing at Beacon." Yang lifted her shoulders, before she stood up. "Well, I'm going to our dorm. See you soon Rubes."
Ray, Angel, Vixen and Nova all stood in the elevator, riding it in silence to Professor Ozpin's office. As they reached the top of the elevator, Team RAVN stepped out of it, to be greeted by Professor Ozpin, and two cloaked figures.
"It's time again?" Ray asked as he looked at the cloaked figures. They nodded and pointed towards the other elevator, the one who would lead them to the vault, and Amber.
Stepping in the elevator with Ozpin and the two cloaked men, Ray started to think back to the day that the two cloaked men first appeared. They called themselves 'Unspeakables'. Agents of a world wide organization that followed one important rule above all rules.
They were tasked with preserving magic in all of it's creations. These two, Unspeakable Volker and Unspeakable Bakker, came from a country on the east side of Great Britain, called the Netherlands.
Thanks to Dumbledore, who gave word to the ministry of magic of the existence of Remnant, the Unspeakables found out about Remnant, and quickly sent in a team to investigate the place. Arriving at Beacon Academy after several days of travel by broomstick, they were detained by Professor Glynda Goodwitch, a powerful Dust Mage. It took three hours to convince Glynda that the Unspeakables were not here to cause trouble, but here to find out about this new world that had been discovered. Unlike the British wizards that Glynda had met, these wizards were of a more kinder and gentler character, answering questions and asking questions of their own, hoping to get a better picture of this new world. They also didn't showed any discrimination towards those who were born differently, another difference between them and British wizards and witches.
As the elevator doors opened, and the group walked into the vault, Ozpin and one of the Unspeakables walked towards Amber's pod, while the other Unspeakable turned his attention to the four students in front of him.
Ozpin looked over his shoulder as the four students started to receive another lesson in the magical arts. According to what Ray had told him, they were learning what was taught at Hogwarts in the fifth year of a magicals education.
The unspeakables had come with a deal for Professor Ozpin. Team RAVN would receive a fast tracked magical education, meaning that they would work on their OWL´s and NEWT´s before the year was over. With those headbands that they wore, they would absorb information at a faster pace, meaning that they could be ready with the wizarding world teachings when Amity Colosseum would arrive at Beacon. Shaking his head, Ozpin turned his attention to the stasis pod in front of him, holding the current fall Maiden, Amber, alive, while she was in a forcefully induced coma.
Ozpin looked at the Unspeakable that had traveled with him. Unspeakable Volker was a man that Ozpin respected, and while belonging to a different world that the Unspeakable, Ozpin enjoyed the conversations that he had with Volker about magic. Finding out how strong the Fall maiden was in terms of magical strength, was his current assignment.
Holding out a crystal on a small chain ten meters of the pod, containing the Fall Maiden, Unspeakable Volker touched the crystal with his wand, causing it to glow softly. Casting a levitation charm on the crystal, Volker slowly started to levitate the crystal towards the pod where the Fall Maiden was laying. With each passing second, the crystal came closer to the pod, and with each passing second, the glow from the crystal intensified, until with a loud 'BANG' the crystal shattered, causing both Ozpin and Unspeakable Volker to be blown back by the blast of the crystal. "Impossible." Muttered Volker as he looked at the remands of the crystal that was only three meters away from the pod.
"Volker, what happened?" Unspeakable Bakker asked, as he came running from the other side, with team RAVN running behind him.
"Dad. Are you okay?" Ray asked as he knelled down next to Professor Ozpin. Ozpin shook his head, trying to clear it before he looked at his son. "I'm fine, just a bit shocked." Ozpin said as he stood up again. "What happened?" Ray asked as he looked around. Everywhere small segments of the crystal lay scattered, as if an explosion had been set off.
"It's impossible. Those crystals have been used even since the time of Merlin. There is no way that she's more powerful than THE Merlin." Said Unspeakable Volker as he looked at the scattered crystal.
"What were you doing, anyway?" Angel asked as she picked up a small shard of the crystal. It was very thin, and is she wasn't careful, she would cut herself thanks to the sharpness of the edges.
"These crystals have been used since the days of Merlin, the wizard at King Arthur's court." Explained Unspeakable Bakker as he looked around. "In those days, he took upon himself four students and started to teach them a grand array of magical studies. The four students decided that they would continue the teachings of Merlin and started a school up high in the now Scottish highlands."
"Hogwarts" Angel said.
"That's right." Bakker said as he nodded to Angel. "Hogwarts was one of the first schools of magic. In that time, there was no enchanted quill or magical book that showed each and every magical child born, like it is now. No, in that time, the four founders of Hogwarts had to venture out of the castle and search for students. Each one carried a crystal with them, attuned to the magic that flowed around any young magical child. The reason why Hogwarts, and other magical school start for magical students at age eleven, is when the magic around a child is stable enough to be measured in a number between the ten and hundred. Under the ten, you have a squib, like the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch. Above the hundred on the scale, we are dealing with a possible magical superpower. Dumbledore, for instance, was ranged around the sixty when he started Hogwarts, but was estimated to be around the ninety-seven three years ago. The one who calls himself Lord Voldemort, was ranged around the sixty to, and before he died, was guessed to be around Dumbledore's level." Bakker explained as he looked at the shards of the crystal that Ray had gathered around them."
"But what happened here, is something that has happened only one time before. Six hundred years ago, according to the records, a young girl of a muggle family was visited by the then headmaster of Beauxbatons. She accepted the invitation to attend the school, but when the headmaster of Beauxbatons wanted to make a scan of the young girl, the crystal exploded, it's shards killing the girl, younger brother, her parents and severely injuring the headmaster." Gasps were heard when Team RAVN and Ozpin learned about the incident.
"The only recorded piece of the girls power, was that a piece of parchment was charmed to record the reading on the girl. The parchment only had one number written on it. Two. Four. Two." Again gasps were heard. Two-hundred and forty-two. A massive magical power had been housed inside that girl.
"When the Unspeakables of that time found out, they panicked. Each and everyone of the Unspeakables offered theories about it, but only one theory proved to be somewhat correct. When an Unspeakable started to wave his wand over the body of the little girl, they found traces of magic, not of the normal kind that they expected, but that of a rare and unusual kind. Magic, that seemed to jump around, choosing host after host."
Bakker was about to continue with his story, but Ozpin jumped in.
"The magic your predecessors were chasing was the magic of a maiden who had just died. The girl, who died because of the shards of the crystal, had been chosen to be the next carrier of one of the Maidens powers." Ozpin said as he had their attention.
"So, what are her readings?" Asked Angel as she pointed at Amber, still in her pod. Both Unspeakables looked at the blond haired girl, before Volker carefully took out a piece of parchment. He looked at it, and his face turned into shock. His shock was so great that he dropped the piece of parchment. It fluttered slowly to the ground with the written side up. Team RAVN, Professor Ozpin and the Unspeakables looked at the number written upon the parchment. Five. Zero. Zero.
"So, if Dumbledore is around the hundred, does that mean that Amber is five times stronger than the old man?" Ray asked. His voice echoed in the mostly empty vault.
"No." Unspeakable Volker said softly. "No, her powers are so much more. Compare it to a scale. The higher you go, the powerful you get. What this parchment is saying is that Amber is five-hundred times more powerful that Albus Dumbledore."
Silence reigned in the vault, as each human being tried and failed to absorb that information.
Finally, it was Ray who spoke. "If Amber is five-hundred times as powerful as Dumbledore as he is now. What is the power of a full powered maiden? And what about the person who took half of Amber's powers?"
Somewhere around the continent of Vale, a young woman with black hair and orange glowing eyes looked up. Her lips curled in satisfaction, as she felt a feeling of fear passing through her.
"Soon. Soon I will have it all, and Remnant will be mine"
A/N: Vixen Jones/Nymphadora Tonks has the semblance of Friction. This allows her to influence the resistance that objects have to each other. For instance, Sky wasn't able to hold up his halberd as Vixen influences the halberd to be as slippery as oil.
Also, what do you think is Angel Star's Semblance? Remember, she is Hermione Granger.
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