CH2: Sword of the Defending Knight
AN: Hi guys! I'm back! On the point of updates, expect them to be a bit more sparse after chapter 10 I'd already written up to chapter 10, but I needed to do some rework on the chapters spell checking and making sure I was consistent with the writing style that I was aiming for.
Now, for hints and things on this chapter. We finally get to some action, hooray! The title suggests who's gonna be the one stomping a mudhole into the collective asses of team CRDL. Also, I would like to state that team CHAL is gonna be overpowered, but take solace in the fact that their enemies will be ridiculously powerful as well. Afterall, Jaune's and his team are based off of both Arthurian legend and Tsukihime franchise, both are famous/infamous for how bullshit and terrifyingly powerful their characters are. Like, seriously Saber kills a damned kaiju in fate/zero, and Lancelot is equally bullshit both in legend and fate. I mean who the fuck goes and beats king Arthur in a spar* in legend and kicks the ass of Archer in fate/zero he is absolute bullshit! But, I love him anyway. Jaune/Arthur will not be revealed til much later in the story, but the image I'm painting in my head for his reveal will hopefully be suitably epic for the majority of us. And, on the character of Jaune/Arthur he is a mix of both Jaune and Saber from fate/prototype. So, Arthur of Fate/Prototype is very different from Arturia, because the authors initially planned on him being a mix of the Lancer's from Zero and Fate. He has the Knight in Shining armor thing down pat, but is much more mischievous and playful than Arturia from Fate. And, on Lancelot think of Frederick from the FE franchise and Walter from Hellsing just tone down the Frederick and turn up the Walter. Gawain is based off of a mix of Kenshin and Allen Walker except he's not the little deviant that Allen is. Hector is based off of EMIYA, Todoroki, and Ryu. Just imagine the snark of EMIYA, the rather ridiculous loyalty of Todoroki, and seriousness of Ryu all mixed into a pretty boy package; and you have a scarily protective and vindictive knight, on par with Lancelot's level of devotion but just more subtle. Anyway pairing requests guys?
"Begin!" The two teams initially didn't make a move studying one another attempt of figuring out how the other side would fight. Unfortunately for team CRDL the leader of the other side had already seen how they fight and was already coming up with a counter plan for the opposition. Arthur always told them watching the Vytal festival was a handy thing to do.
"Cardin uses that mace of his and his bulk as the tank and heavy hitter of the group, his mace has a high quality fire dust in the center that he uses to attack at a range via explosions. He's skilled, but cocky use that against him. Russel uses a pair of daggers that uses dusk cartridges in the form of revolvers. He's the fastest of the group, but he is also the frailest due to his lack of armor and aura. Sky uses a Halberd so he has the most reach out of the entirety of his team. He's good offensively with it, but lacks coordination with his team due to said range he also isn't too good with it defensively. Dove is uses a sword with a submachine gun attachment he works well in coordination with Russel due to the two of them having the shortest weapons out of the team. He's good, but has the unlucky tendency of getting hit by Cardin's mace, other than that he's likely to be the most well rounded out of all them. He's the Jack of All Trades, but most definitely the master of none. Use Cardin to beat him out-" Arthur quietly commanded them til he was interrupted by a rather snide and cocky voice taunting them.
"So, are we gonna fight or are you group of pretty boys just gonna stand around and get your asses beaten in by us? Especially you Mr. Mysterious, you ever gonna take off that hood? Why are you hiding underneath that? Got something to hide? Maybe a scar that jacked up your at first pretty face?" The leader of team CRDL taunted the team to the snickers of the rest of the team. The spectators watched as the entirety of team CHAL tensed save for the leader of said team. If you look closely you'd see a that a certain paladin's fists were shaking in anger, and the others of the team were eyeing said paladin with a rather wary eye and in an impressive display of defying physics sweatdrops were traveling down the back of their heads.
"Oohh shit, he didn't just say that did he Hector?" Gawain questioned. His usually warm smile was decidedly nervous as he looked over to the red haired archer of their group.
"He did Gawain he did," Hector affirmed with his hands in his face in a rather exasperated expression as he subtly glared at team CRDL. Their eyes both went over to the Paladin in question to see that his head was down shadowing his face, his fists and shoulders shaking, in a rather intimidating display of anger much to the ignorance of the opposing team.
"Gawain? Hector? They're Mine." Lancelot hissed quietly. Composing himself into a neutral stance. He confidently strode out to the team. CRDL looked incredulously at the Paladin making his way to the middle of the arena by himself.
"You're gonna fight us by yourself? You?" Cardin guffawed as the rest of his team followed in his actions laughing. Lancelot "calmly" waited for them to stop laughing. The laughter wasn't entirely undeserved team CRDL despite their rather disgusting personalities were one of the best teams that Beacon had to offer. Sure, they weren't on the level of RWBY or PARN, but they weren't one's to be taken lightly at all.
"Yes, I am. I'm more than enough for a group of worms like you," Lancelot bit back in a mocking tone. That comment was more than enough sober up the team of delinquents. The "apparent" arrogance of that comment was enough to irritate the team into stop their laughter and get into their ready stances, eager to put the arrogant pretty boy in his place.
"Your funeral, guys? Get him!" and they all leapt as one at the purple haired Paladin.
(Pyrrha POV)
Sublime. was the only word that came to mind as she watched Lancelot dismantle the entirety of team CRDL. Graceful wasn't on the mind of Pyrrha Nikos when she observed Lancelot at the beginning of the fight, but she was proven wholeheartedly wrong. Lancelot seemed to dance circles around them. Cardinal's first strike with his mace missed by a mile as Lancelot rotated lightly to the side. Russell came next, his daggers at the ready to stab into the back of the seemingly unaware knight. A quick pivot of his foot, and Russell was sent past him and into Dove who was charging into the front of the knight in a vain attempt of distracting him. Sky capitalized on the seeming distracted knight as he swung his halberd in a powerful downward arc, only for Lancelot to calmly sidestep and then stomp and the halberd so hard that it sunk into the ground. Struggling futilely in an attempt to regain his weapon Lancelot spoke.
"You're using that wrong, would you like to see how a weapon like that is supposed to be used?" before Sky could even answer Lancelot spun and lashed out with his leg in a picture perfect execution of a spinning heel kick sending Sky flying backwards. He then picked up the halberd spinning it in graceful circles around his body to get a feel for the weight of the weapon it finally settled as he held the halberd in the center with the head of the weapon pointed at the ground and the pole of the weapon pointing upwards behind him. "Watch and Learn,". He disappeared in a burst of speed appearing in front of a recovering Sky being picked up by his team. He then stabbed the spearpoint of the halberd into Dove then, slamming the butt of his recently acquired weapon in a wide arc sending Russell flying back into Cardin, who was rushing to the aid of his team. He then spun the weapon in an upwards arc slamming into Dove's chin sending him straight up. He waited for Dove's descent before unleashing a punishing combo of consisting of stabs, diagonal slashes, and crushing stave attacks. He then finished with a horizontal slam that launched Dove out of bounds slamming into the wall. He then pinned Dove to the wall with Sky's halberd via a javelin throw.
He casually picked up Dove's fallen sword holding it by his side "And, that. Is how you handle a halberd. Now, since Dove so graciously offered to be an example for you to witness how to use a halberd. How about you do the same for his weapon?" Sky didn't have the chance to answer yet again as Lancelot appeared before him sword held in one hand in a thrusting motion stabbing Sky in his abdomen pushing him back a couple of feet and stunning him. Lancelot moved forwards throwing a series of slashes and punches and kicks peppering the hapless halberdier with blow after punishing blow til he grabbed Sky by his chestpiece and slammed him down on the floor stabbing the sword into the ground right next to Sky's head. "Stay. Down," the Paladin stated calmly as he stood to his full height as the last two members of team CRDL managed to untangle themselves. The entire classroom had gone absolutely silent as two members of a highly skilled team were just beaten into submission as if they were simply first years that had just joined Beacon.
"Holy shit," Pyrrha heard Yang breathe out. Despite it being a whisper the entire class had heard it.
"Language Yang," Weiss stated on reflex despite not meaning it, still trying to wrap her mind around the fact the two members were defeated so handily.
"Makes you wonder, if he's that strong, how strong is the rest of the team?" Alistair muttered out, accidentally making everyone shiver thinking of facing the newly arrived team of knights.
"Well, are we going to fight or not? I hope you're stronger than your teammates, because if you aren't this was a huge waste of time." Lancelot stated loudly.
"Russell! Get him from behind!" Cardin ordered then charged towards Lancelot with a roar his mace high in the air.
Lancelot just gave a sigh and said "None of you know how to use your weapons after all. It's fine though, not to worry. I can educate you all in the proper way of using your weapons," He calmly kicked behind him nailing Russell behind him with enough force that Russell let go of his daggers which Lancelot quickly grabbed. Parrying Cardin's strike he used both daggers putting Cardin into an armbar trapping him. Lancelot capitalized by throwing powerful continuous knee strikes into Cardin's face til he was on the brink of unconsciousness he then let go of Cardin pushing him back. As Cardin tried to regain his bearings Lancelot quickly slashed at Cardins biceps, thighs, and joints. Finishing him by spartan kicking him towards the edge of the arena, dropping Russells knives he picked up Cardin's mace and strode over to where Russell was slowly getting up. He didn't get a chance to, as Lancelot brought the mace down to Russell's face knocking him out. He hefted Cardin's mace on his shoulder as he walked over to a barely conscious Cardin picking him up by the collar of his shirt.
"Apologize." Was all he stated.
"I-I'm sorry man, it was all just a j-" He was then hit in the stomach with the head of his mace.
"Not to me you idiot, to the Captain," He then dragged him towards the group of three that were simply just watching the entire fight with an exasperated gaze. He threw him at the feet of the hooded leader dropping the mace as he did so and stated "Now, Apologize".
"L-look I'm sorry man, I-it was just a joke and I'm deeply sorry for whatever I said," The leader team CRDL managed to stutter out.
"It's fine I wasn't angry at all. Besides, taunting an opponent is a perfectly viable way of fighting. Just, be very careful of when you decide to taunt an opponent. You never know who you're gonna get," The leader kindly advised. Cardin started nodding rapidly and seemed relieved til he got a mace to the head knocking him out. All three of them looked towards the red haired member of the team in a rather deadpan manner.
"Oops, I meant to give him back the mace. Clumsy me." The red haired male drawled in an all too innocent manner.
"Must you guys do this every time I get an insult?" Arthur stated as he reached a hand into his hood to presumably stave off the headache that seemed to be forming.
"Yes/ Of course Captain," The two in question stated, much to Arthur's chagrin. Gawain just shook his head and started laughing at the devotion the two knights offered their leader. He knew his leader could take care of himself which was why he didn't leap to avenge his leader's honor like Lancelot did, or Hector's admittedly funny way of knocking Cardin out by accident.
"It's fine Captain, they're just showing their loyalty to you," Gawain tried to placate the exasperation of his leader.
"Fine, what's done is done. Let's go," Arthur finally stated as he walked towards where Goodwitch was waiting.
(POV No One)
Ms. Goodwitch awaited as the two teams gathered up before her before giving her criticisms. "Mr. Du Lac, Please refrain from facing a team on your own. No matter how skilled you are this was supposed to be a test to see the strength of your team as a whole, and Mr. De Maris do try not to be so clumsy when handing a comrade his weapon back," she gave a sharp look at the two in question causing them to shift slightly.
"Of Course Professor/ Yes Professor," the two answered her.
"Good, now for team CRDL. I think this was a very good lesson on not insulting your opponents especially if you don't know their capabilities,"
"Yes Ma'am," the four of them manage to groan out.
"Now all of you back to your seats, team CHAL please make your way behind RWBY and PARN," No one noticed how the team tensed up as the rest of the class was preoccupied with talking about the fighting abilities of the purple haired paladin.
(With RWBY and PARN)
"Omygosh! Did you see that Weiss? He was like "That's not how you use it" then he went Pow! Bang! Wachaa! That's how you use it," Ruby squealed out with stars in her eyes.
"I saw Ruby, I'm actually kind of in shock how he didn't even use his own weapon," Weiss muttered out still in a daze after seeing that display of skill.
"Pft, who cares? That dude kicked major ass. Which is a plus in my book," Yang said with a wide and excited grin.
"But, that things to brings to questions. Is everyone on that team as skilled as he is? He obviously is very skilled with various weapons not to mention his knowledge of hand to hand." Ren mused staring intently at the victorious team.
"I certainly hope not, can you imagine having to face four of those guys?" Alistair said with a bead of sweat going down his head Damnit, this makes my plans much much more difficult.
"I for one actually look forward to facing them in battle," Pyrrha stated as she focused in on the new team. More specifically the leader of the team Who are you, and why do you feel so familiar? She continued to stare at them having more and more questions that appeared in her head.
AN: And finished! You get a glimpse of Pyrrha beginning to piece things together. Guys don't worry guys I'll show off the others pretty soon, but know that they're all on a similar level! Next I hope you guys liked the fighting scene! See you next time!
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