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Chapter 9: Ace of Roses
I had no idea where I was. All I knew was I was in a cage and my friends were in the same room, but they were trapped. My watch told me that I had been in the cage for a few days.
"How are you today Lily?" Vlad asked from his cage that was located right beside me.
"I've been better." I say
"Who's there?" Indigo ask
"INDIGO! You're up thank goodness." I say
"Lily where are you I can't see anything." She says
"I'm in my cage right beside yours." I inform her
"How can you see? All I can see is the small light in the room." Indigo says
"Vlad do we have night vision?" I ask
"Yeah we're Faunus. Why?" He asks
"I think it's too dark for others to see, but since I have your abilities I see as well as you." I say
"What Vlad is here to?" Indigo asked
"Yeah everyone from our team and team RWBY is here." Vlad informs her
"LET ME OUT! I NEED TO SEE EVAN!" She shouted as she punched the cage.
Right as she punched the cage it bent under her power, but it sent an electrical pulse through her causing her arms to deactivate.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" She shouted.
"Attempt to escape again and a loved one will be killed." Said a feminine voice in the darkness.
"Where are you?" I ask the voice
"Oh Lilith. I am everywhere." Said the voice from behind me, "But yet I am nowhere." This time the voice came from beside me.
I start to look into the darkness in search for the voice. As I am looking through the darkness I notice that there is several speakers mounted to the walls.
There is only one person in the world who calls me Lilith. I think
"Mother is that you?" I ask.
"I knew you were smart." Cinder says from the speaker.
"What is this?" Vlad asked.
"Easy I want everyone who is against my cause dead. Sadly that now includes my daughter." She says
"I AM NOT YOUR DAUGHTER!" I shout at her
"So you have learned your true heritage." She says. "You know what Lilith I will cut you a deal."
"What is it?" I ask
"The Vytal Festival just started above you. If you can beat every team I will let you go… If you can also beat me." She informs me. "But if you fail I will kill you and everyone else who dares to stand in my way."
"Fine my team will fight in the Vytal Festival for you on one condition." I say
"And what would that be?" She asked
"I want you to leave Beacon alone while the festival is going on." I tell her
"That can be arranged." She tells me.
"Thank you."
My team and I were released from our cages. I quickly ran over to Vlad and gave him a kiss, while Evan ran over to Indigo and gave her a kiss.
"Enough kissing." Cinder said through the speakers.
We then pulled away from our lovers.
"You are the first team to fight. The team you have to fight is team ACES, Watch out for them they are stealthy. Their semblances are telekinesis, climbing, illusions, and invisibility, so be on guard." Cinder informs us
"Can do." Evan says as he activates Blindstrike.
The roof began to open up and we were raised into the stadium.
"WELCOME ONE AND ALL TO THE VYTAL FESTIVAL'S FOUR ON FOUR. HERE WE HAVE ACE GEEL, CAMERON PAARS, EDWARD ALBA, AND SYDNEY ROZ FORMING TEAM ACES AND REPRESENTING SHADE ACADEMY! HERE WE HAVE EVAN AZUR, VLAD DUNKEL, INDIGO KNIGHT, AND LILY ROSE FORMING TEAM EVIL AND REPRESENTING BEACON ACADEMY!" Said the announcer. "TIME TO CHOSE AN ARENA!" When he says this holograms appear around us and start spinning half of them stop on a tornado symbol, while the other half stops at what looks like a building. "LOOKS LIKE THE BIOMES ARE GOING TO BE TORNADOES AND URBAN!"
When he is done saying this the ground us drops and half is replaced with a broken-down city while the other half is filled with tornadoes.
"This is going to be interesting." I say
"ACES IN THE HOUSE." Ace shouts and as he shouts this he points a finger at me and pretends to flick me. I don't know what he is doing, but I go flying into a tornado.
"HE HAS TELEKINESIS!" I shout to my team as I activate my wings and use the tornado to my advantage to get up higher really fast only to go into a dive aimed at Sydney. I then dive bomb Sydney, but as soon as I get close to her she suddenly disappears and reappears a short distance away.
So she's the one with invisibility. I think.
"EVAN NOW!" I shout and Evan jump out from behind her and he stabs her in the back and I see Blindstrike come out of her stomach. When Evan pulled Blindstrike out of Sydney's back yellow smoke started pouring out of the wound and little sparks flew off his blades.
"AND IT LOOKS LIKE SYDNEY IS OUT!" The announcer says.
"Oh you went with yellow dust, nice." I say
"Could I get some help over here?" Indigo asked as she punched nothing.
"You help her. I'll help Vlad." I say as Vlad gets launched into the air by Ace and then was shot by Edward.
"Stay away from him!" I shout as I activate my speed and rush Edward as black roses fall from my wings. As I rush him he points one of his guns at me and shoots. It hits me in my shoulder.
"Didn't hurt." I say as I grab Edward and drain his aura.
"WHAT'S THIS? LILY'S AURA IS INCREASING AND EDWARD'S IS DECREASING!" The announcer said.
"Now begone from me." I say as I throw him into the nearest tornado. He starts spinning and then the tornado sends him flying and he lands outside the stadium.
"OOHH! DOUBLE WHAMMY A RING OUT AND OUT OF AURA!"the announcer said.
Vlad then quickly rushed Ace, but Ace stopped him with his semblance and flung him into the air.
"Thank you!" Vlad said evilly as he activated his wings and dive bombed Ace. Sadly Ace once again stopped Vlad's attack.
I quietly snuck up behind Ace and drained his aura.
"WHAT'S UP WITH THESE NUMBERS?" The announcer said as my aura levels grew to 210%.
"You had a lot of aura, but now it's mine." I say as his aura drops to 1%.
"AND ACE IS OUT. TEAM ACES IS DOWN TO JUST ONE MEMBER LEFT IN THE GAME, WHILE TEAM EVIL STILL HAS ALL THEIR MEMBERS IN."
What is up with those two? I ask myself as I look over and see Evan and Indigo attacking nothing.
"It's that one girl's semblance." Vlad said.
"Yeah but where is she?" I ask
"Over there." He says pointing at a building.
"Let's go." I say as we activate our wings.
We fly over to the building and try to find her. I start to look around the broken down building when I see a figure quickly move in the shadows. I rush the shadow and with a puff of smoke Cameron vanished.
What the hell? I think as I look around the room and see five other Camerons and see that their scepters are slightly see through. None of these are the real Cameron. I need to find the real her. I think as I activate Ace's semblance of telekinesis and use it to find the real Cameron. I get a hit on the other side of a door.
"I know where you are." I say in a taunting manner as I slash the door open with Black Rose.
"Are you sure you have the right one?" Cameron asks as I see her split into three.
"YOUR ILLUSIONS WON'T WORK ON ME ANYMORE!" I shout as I rush the one on the right and make contact with the real Cameron.
"What the hell?" She asked weakly "How did you know?"
"The scepter you held wasn't see through. Your illusion Cameron's scepter is slightly see through in the right light." I inform her as I pull Black Rose out of her stomach.
"For figuring out my secret I want you to have my aura." She said
"I can't do that to you." I say as she passes out.
"AND CAMERON IS OUT OF THE GAME DUE TO AURA OUT! TEAM EVIL WINS!" The announcer said as the crowd erupted into cheers.
"We won." I say to Vlad as he hugs me.
"Congratulations you four." Cinder said as we were once again put in our cages.
"Can we go now?" Ruby asked
"No. You and your team are… collateral. To make sure that they do their best." Cinder said
"Next is the doubles. Who are we going to have fight?" Indigo asked
"I vote Lily and I should be the team for the doubles match." Vlad says
"I agree." I say.
"So it's settled Lily and Vlad will be the team you will use for the doubles." Cinder says, "Now until then you will stay here."
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