I have not watch the new episode yet and this was written a day ago.
So long story short we get to explore Cindy and Kelly's semblances.
"Ladies and gentleman, welcome Josh Nemean and Vilda Halse, the power duo!"
Cheers and roars erupted around the arena as they waved to the crowd.
Josh Nemean and Vilda Halsen are about the same height and are both third years. The boy had what seemed like a fur trimmed cuirass on that had an engraving of a lion on it. Both of his hands are covered in golden gauntlets with the fingertips extending into long, sharp dust coated claws. Not to mention the gold colored sabatons he wears looks like there are possible claws in there too judging by the four slits on the metal parallel to the foot.
Meanwhile Vilda Halsen, her gloved hand gripped a lance that glinted with an aura of its own. She was outfitted in a what seems to be thick leather armor, segmented and padded at vital areas. Over her right armpit held a steel triangular besagew. A steel bevor covered her neck and chin.
"Here comes the one and only powerhouse- Cindy Gare and Kelly Lernaean!"
Cindy and Kelly gave a slight bow before unsheathing their weapons.
The clock begins counting down.
They watched as the biome reader spin, ready to adapt into any given territory, be it something new or old.
The first one landed on Marshes.
Cindy can almost feel the excitement radiating off Kelly who has a natural advantage in this. The area became dense with murky water that went up to your hip (in some parts) or to your chest, depending. You can't even see past you kneecap or whatever in the water. Not to mention the mangroves that littered here and there, providing places to hide if you can breathe underwater.
The second landed on Mire.
The soft mud and grass formed in the other half of of the arena, letting off a tangy scent that makes their nose cringe. But she can see Josh give a grin, most likely meaning that he has a natural advantage in this biome.
Beep!
She can hear the clanking of Kelly's trenchcoat on the arena grounds before rushing forward suddenly with a burst of speed tackling Vilda into the murky water behind them. Kelly pulled a back flip into the high, murky waters with a splash behind her, disappearing the instant she touched the deep water leaving her opponent flailing in the waters as she tries to find footing and keep an eye out for her.
Cindy gives out a roar as she lunges at Josh, Mourning Dawn clashing against clawed hands. She swung again, only for him to slide back, delivering a clawed foot to her face in efforts to make her stumble. Cindy reeled back from the attack to give a roundhouse kick in counter which succeeded locked their legs together. Cindy gives a hard tug, sending the boy to the ground unceremoniously while dragging Mourning Dawn though the air to try and smash him while he is down.
Wham!
And that's the sound of someone's foot being kicked into her face. Hard.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt." Cindy heard as she reeled back, her jaw stinging as stars shot into her vision momentarily.
But Josh is proven to be a fast opponent as opposed to Kelly who is slower. Not bad for a third year.
She shook her head and swings again, her blade meeting Josh's dual claws in a shower of sparks. They exchanged blows, neither falling to the other and neither giving into the strong blows. She took noticed of how he would evade most central attacks and block almost all attacks that's aimed high- not so much on the low. His claws are in fact really painful when it collided with her arm, the dust coat is probably electric since it made her arm numb when it nicked her.
She grinned and slashed downwards- pulling the trigger on Mourning Dawn, giving her a boost in power as she quickly flicked her wrist- driving the ax into a powerful riposte. She scored across his cuirass and threw him back into his bottom.
Cindy pumped her gun once, loading a fresh cartridge into Mourning Dawn.
In front of her she can see Vilda looking frantically around in the murky waters for any of Kelly's movements. It's been minutes- but Kelly's mask has a water breathing feature installed so... Cindy snickered as a small ripple came from a few yards behind her.
Kelly breached the surface of the water like a Charodon Grimm (which is a very large shark). Her mask was already split open with the green markings glowing on her body and Ripple Corruption all armed as the girl turned to the sudden noise.
And screamed loud, trying to swing her lance in time to impale Kelly.
But Kelly was faster, her hand grasped the lance away from her before her gauntlet hand grabbed her by the face, her thumb cutting through the steel gorget from her locked grip. She flipped them both over into the waves, wrestling for control of each other.
"Vilda's struggling against Kelly in a deadlock in deep waters!"
And dragged them both beneath the waves in a mess of limbs and weapons.
She hopes Kelly won't actually drown her, but she trust that Kelly.
"Vilda!" She heard Josh scream before turning to block slash with her bracer.
"Take a look at that surprise attack pulled off by Kelly, it seems that Vilda is struggling."
Kelly cocked her armored arm back before smashing it back down hard enough to create a crater in the artificial flooring.
Cindy blocked his blow by step siding and kneeing him in the gut, before grabbing his wrist and pulling him over her head and onto the ground. He got back on his feet faster than she expected with a good fist to her chest, knocking the wind out of her.
Don't get cocky young man.
She swept his feet from under him, and rolled away without giving him an opening.
Cindy jumped back, distancing herself from him a good ten yards and stretch her arm out, her palm facing him. She knew Kelly knows what this means and she sure as hell knows that the faunus would take cover of some kind.
He lunged at her, his claws crackled with electricity. Then the air around her felt heavy as it condensed into a semi-translucent upper body of a skeleton, it's petrifying visage glaring down at her opponent before her. A battle ax made of fire materialized in its bony hand, mirroring Cindy. The eyes began glowing the same fire in it's hand, angry and eager to cause havoc at her command.
Josh very much stopped in his tracks as he made eye contact with the avatar.
"Cindy has released her semblance and Josh is petrified to even mov-" One can see Professor Ports excitement or hear.
"Yes, Cindy- like Kelly, has trained enough to manifest their semblance to the physical plane which is very hard to do as to most it is only a ability enhancer." Oobleck interrupted suddenly. "And obviously, Cindy has called forth her own to aid her."
Beside her, she can see Kelly throwing Vilda out of the water before lunging after her, exchanging blows of fist to lance.
"And that is one way to end the fight for Josh Nemean." Oobleck's voice rang up as they both raised up their war axes' in unision. "And all inside there."
Destroy the heavens!
Cindy let out a shout and made a downward slashing motion towards the ground. Her avatar, the skeleton war god let out an inhuman screech that echoed around the entire dome and arena as the battle ax slammed into the ground, creating geysers of fire everywhere, enveloping the entire arena in a dome of red fire. The waters on both side evaporated, leaving scorched trees and dirt.
And everyone else outside the shield can feel the scorching heat wave.
The aura meter between Josh, Vilda and Kelly dropped drastically. Of course Josh was the first to reach a meager one percent and a knockout, Vilda, already with her aura dampened by Kelly while being underwater had it slowly ebbed away from the scorching heat.
And Kelly, a case of friendly fire she knows too well, had it slowly crawling down the meter into the orange a possible fifty-eight percent. Had she not been that durable and heat resistant, things would be a bit different. And she herself stands at a perfect sixty percent mark from the use of her semblance.
"A double knockout! Cindy is on a roll, never failing to strike fear into anyone."
The avatar raised its ax, the fire instantly stopped. The entire area was blackened with no recognition of what the biomes were before she materialised her semblance. The Skeleton disappeared with the smoke, leaving her and Kelly standing.
"Victory to Cindy Gare and Kelly Lernaean!"
Cindy walked up to a slightly smoking Kelly and gave her a slap on the back, promptly knocking her down to the ground.
"Whoops."
"I hate you." Came Kelly's muffled voice as she rolled over to lay on the soot covered ground.
"Love you too." Cindy nudged her with her boot.
Kelly pushed herself off the ground and brushed the soot from her armor. Cindy handed her her dirtied haori from the ground and patted her back.
"C'mon," She smiled at Kelly and began walking towards the exit. "We have a meeting in a few hours so we might as well freshen up before we go in looking like we just come out of a wildfire."
Annnd Cindy's semblance is revealed!
Her Semblance takes form of a giant translucent skeleton warrior that can take offensive and defensive at her will. And obviously has a great AoE (Area of Effect) damage.
And I'll e surprised if the new rwby episode talks about creating shapes with ones semblance...