Chapter 14: The Power of Two

Team QUBE had won the match, but that wasn't saying much. Quentin and Ulfric had won over their teamates Barbara and Emily. It had been a very boring match, and most people in the stands seemed eager to see the next battle.

Krystal and Colton walked up on to the stage, each pulling out their respective weapons. Colton pulled out Amber and Ember, two tomahawks each charged with a different element, Amber with electricity and Ember with fire. Krystal unslung Toxid, a bow that had a swirling black and blue texture on it. She pulled back a section of her hoodie to reveal twenty-four arrows, all separated into different compartments based on effect.

Sun looked at the two approvingly, noticing that despite the racket the two had made, they were ready for the battle ahead. He sat back to watch the match, ready to evaluate his teamates' fighting styles.

Krystal had lost the nervousness and whiny attitude that she sometimes put on. Instead, she had turned to Colton to give him a reassuring smile. The recipient returned the gesture and looked back at the opponents when he heard the countdown start.

The timer hit zero, and Krystal brought her bow up and released a barrage of arrows at the two unfortunate enemies. Colton advanced slowly, waiting for the arrows to strike home before sprinting forward at the other team. He quickly slid between one's legs and sliced at the back of his ankles with Amber and Ember. When the retaliatory kick came, he caught it and threw it's owner at the other person.

Through all this, Krystal had been advancing slowly with three arrows ready on the string. When she saw the two go down, she launched another storm that brought both of the enemy's aura to the red.

The whole match had taken a total of twenty seconds, and it was obvious that the new recruits knew what they were doing.

Aurora slapped five with them both on her way up, and Sun congratulated them both on a well thought out match.

"Not really thought." Krystal replied with a smile.

"Yeah, it was more of knowing each other's fighting style and playing off of it." Colton added, before they both bade Sun good luck and returned to their seats.

"Well that wasn't so hard." Weiss remarked to Ruby, as the two were getting back from their mission.

"Not really, but we didn't even see a single monster." Ruby replied unhappily.

"Is that really a bad thing?"

"I wanted to fight, I was really excited to, but we never got the chance."

"It's fine," Weiss said. "Tell you what, we can go do something today."

"Are you saying a date?" Ruby grinned mischievously.

"Well, um, yes." Weiss looked at her shoes.

Ruby tilted her girlfriend's head up and kissed her.

"I would love to."

And with that, Ruby led the way back to the room.

"Why is it empty?" She asked Weiss.

"I don't know, what classes do they have today?"

"Uh, Port, Oobleck, and Goodwitch."

"Any idea which one they're in now?"

"They would be in Combat Training right now, do you want to go over there?"

"Sure, why not, I wonder what fighting they're doing today."

"I think today was tournament day."

"Well let's go see what's up."

Weiss took Ruby's hand and led her down the halls towards the auditorium. They burst through the doors to see Sun and Aurora on stage getting ready to go, they were fighting two representatives of Team BOLT. The timer above them said there were six seconds before the match started. The two rushed to their seats and sat down just as the clock reached zero and the match began.

"Go!" Sun yelled as he leapt forward with his staff.

Aurora pulled the pins on four grenades at once and threw them all around Blade and Lance. As they rolled out of the way, Sun tried to follow up with a sweep designed to take their feet from under them.

Blade and Lance were experienced fighters and they jumped over the staff before splitting up, each heading to a different person. Sun found himself trying to defend against Blade's two knives, which were slashing in and out of everywhere at once.

Sun backed up furiously, before using his tail to slap his assailant away. Blade recoiled for a second, and Sun took the opportunity to go on the offensive. Blade had a hard time deflecting all of the powerful blows with his knives, and soon tripped during his measured backpedal. Sun pounced but found himself sprawled out on the ground as his target rolled and flipped back up. Blade reversed his grip on the knives so he would strike with the hilt. He reared up, and just as he started to bring the knives down, he was rocketed across the arena.

Meanwhile, Aurora had her own battle going on.

She saw Blade and Lance split up, with Blade turning to fight Sun, and Lance sprinting towards her.

She quickly laid down a claymore in front of her and flipped backward as the explosion went off in Lance's face. She stayed on the attack, throwing C4 on the ground in a circle before landing in the middle.

Lance looked at the circle and smirked.

"You wouldn't blow yourself up like that, would you?" He asked mockingly.

"You could try me." She replied, bringing the detonator into view.

Lance took a small step forward before running when she didn't blow it up. He ran into the circle and started slashing at Aurora with his sword, with her dodging every blow.

Aurora shoved Lance back and stole a quick glance at Sun, who was now on the ground with Blade poised over him. She looked at Lance coming at her and hit the detonator, sending her into the air. She pulled out her signature weapon, a modified SCAR-H that fired explosive ammo, and shot Blade as he started his downstroke.

Blade was sent flying, his aura falling to the red from the single shot. Lance was just sitting a little ways away, trying to recover from the shellshock.

Sun stood up with a curious glance at Aurora, before walking over to her.

"Thank you."

"It was nothing, I owed you."

"What? We have never fought together, how could you owe me?"

"You comforted me back in the room, thank you."

"It was nothing, let's get some rest before tomorrow."

"You got it."

The rest of the tournament was planned for the following day, and the auditorium had cleared out. The only people remaining were Team RWBY, Team SCAR, Blade, and Lance.

"That was a good match." Blade said as he and Lance limped over. "I thought I had you beat before I was sent to the moon."

"You guys were tough, I was saved by Aurora." Sun replied with an easy smile.

"A shame we can't have a rematch, if I knew you could survive those explosions, then I wouldn't have charged you." Lance said to Aurora, who was looking at the two with a pleasant expression.

"I'm sure you would have," She replied. "Your anger was starting to take over for you."

"Yeah, I have a habit of that."

"Well, see you guys around!" Blade turned and started towards the door with Lance.

"They were nice." Yang came over with a sleeping Blake in her arms.

"Yes they were." Sun replied, before looking over and rolling his eyes at Blake. "Did she not wake with the explosions?"

"Nope, although I think she was conscious until a minute ago, she was playing around with me."

"Was not." Came the muffled reply from Blake, who was apparently still not asleep.

"Was too, I could feel you."

"No matter, it was fun."

It was Yang's turn to roll her eyes and she set off towards the door.

"Wait!" Ruby, who had said nothing so far, started to follow them.

"Sis, you might not want to come with us." Yang said over her shoulder.

"Why's that?"

"We both have a significant other to attend to, and I want the room for just us."

Ruby turned back to the group as the doors shut behind Yang.

"She's right about one thing." Ruby said.

"What's that?" Weiss asked.

"I have you to be with for the night." Ruby hugged her girlfriend tight and they set off for town, ready for a long night ahead.

"And so there were four." Colton remarked.

"Not for much longer." Krystal practically dragged Colton out of the room.

"Want some coffee?" Sun asked Aurora as he saw the two go.

"All for it."

"Let's go."

Author's Note:
So this is the first time I have been able to show off the rest of Team SCAR's weapons. Tell me what you think of them in the review section below. This also features six new original characters, and I still have no idea how important they will be in the future. I would like to announce my schedule for the future: I will continue to upload chapters normally until I get to Chapter 19 (The finale) which will be released on Sunday, March 16. I will then proceed to take a one month break from uploading to rest and recuperate. Don't worry, there might be one or two one-shots released during then if I have the time. I will return on Wednesday, April 16, with a new story. This will be the sequel to A Spark In The Darkness and is another story only because it is essentially Volume 2. I would like to thank everybody for your continued support and if you liked it, don't forget to follow, favorite, and review. Chas1881