Hello hello hello, this is J.V.A. here with another installment of A BLZEing Remnant.
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"Just, just why?" Lapis asked the two girls while pinching the bridge of his nose between his thumb and index finger. Meanwhile Blaise was still tied to a chair in a corner of the room glaring at the two girls from behind his wayfarers, which looked like he was sleeping while making a few incoherent grunts.
"We wanted to see his eyes," Zaria said causing Lapis to look disappointed, then Zaria looked like her eyes were tearing up.
"I only did it out of curiosity," Eva explained then received the same disappointed look from Lapis making her look down in shame.
"Hppmph, grrph," Blaise said getting everyone's attention.
"Oh sorry, didn't notice you were there," Lapis said then walked over to Blaise and removed the restraints and gag.
"About freakin time, jeez," Blaise said then stretched his back. Walking over to the group of girls. "Don't do that," he said scolding them then he stood up straight the took off his jacket and placed it on the coat hanger, "I'm going to sleep." He then flopped down on his bed and passed out.
"We could check now," Zaria suggested.
"Or you both could do your homework," Lapis said pulling out a pencil and grabbing his homework from the classes.
"So where'd you disappear to last night Blaise?" Yang asked him at the table nudging him with her elbow while he was focusing on his eggs.
"What?" Blaise asked her looking away from the scrambled eggs.
"Come on? You went out to town then you returned late. You met somebody didn't you?"
"I did make some new friends, yes, but that isn't important. You guys do realize it is only the second day and Glynda's making us spar already?" he asked the group then an awkward silence fell over the table.
"She would go easy on us and at least make it team spars, right?" Jaune asked them.
"Not likely," Lapis said buttering some toast, "More than likely she will try to test our limits so she can figure out better sparring partners for the future."
"I'm actually curious about the other student's fighting styles," Eva said, "If we can observe then we can also probably figure out plans on how to beat them."
"Could it at least be partner spars?" Jaune asked nearly pouting.
"It'll be ok," Zaria said half excitedly, "Everyone here is very skilled in fighting, but we're only first years, everyone should be at about the same fighting level."
"Well…" Pyrrha said raising her finger then decided it wasn't a good idea to explain what she did before Beacon.
"Anyway," Blaise said standing up then started to leave, "I am going to class now. See you all on the battle field."
"Now class, I know there have been some rumors about who will be fighting who in today's sparring match. You will find out now," Glynda said then flicked her riding crop and everyone's scrolls beeped. Checking their scrolls all the students got was a message with a name in it. "The person whose name is on your scroll will be your opponent." Blaise heard several groans at this comment. "The first match will be," she said then looked at the board behind her, "Blaise Campione vs. Ruby Rose." Then both their names and faces appeared on the screen and underneath was their aura gauges.
"Wait, what?" Blaise asked then looked at his scroll to see Ruby's name on it. "Craaaaaaaap," he groaned then walked into the arena. Glancing back he made eye contact with Yang whose eyes turned red for a second as she gave Blaise a glare, then they turned back to a shade of lilac purple.
"So um, good luck," Ruby said to Blaise before she pulled out her scythe and aimed the barrel straight at Blaise.
"I actually might need luck here," he said then had his broadsword blade shoot out of his left sleeve and pulled out his railgun pistol with his right and aimed at at her.
The buzzer sounded off then both of the combatants fired off a round each. Just as each round made it to the center of the arena they connected causing a dust explosion that produced a shock wave throwing both of them into the walls. Ruby was thrown back a couple feet but in mid-air she pivoted and planted the tip of her scythe into the ground. Blaise was not so lucky, he was thrown full force into the wall making him let go of his pistol and cutting down his aura in half.
"That was interesting," Blaise noted out loud then extended his other broadsword out of his sleeve then jumped into the arena.
Ruby pulled her scythe out of the ground then aimed it behind her and fired off a round propelling her through the air. Just as she was about to hit Blaise, he shot out his right arm to the left then swatted Ruby out of the air throwing her into the wall cutting off a quarter of her aura.
"Ok, now that hurt," Ruby said stumbling away from the wall recomposing herself.
Blaise then ran towards Ruby who readied her scythe to attack. Blaise swung his right sword but Ruby then swung her scythe shoving the tip of the blade into the hole where the handle was then fired off a round ripping Blaise's broadsword contraption from his sleeve breaking several of the complicated mechanisms. She then pulled back her scythe and started to be on the offensive.
"They seem pretty equally matched," Lapis said writing down some notes on his scroll.
"What? Ruby is clearly winning," Yang practically yelled at him.
"Just keep watching," Eva said while tinkering with her spear.
Blaise then started to block Ruby's incoming attacks using his remaining broadsword. While he was doing this he was slowly walking back towards his pistol with Ruby not noticing what was happening. Just as he was about to reach his pistol Ruby changed the path her scythe was swinging to hook on to the broadsword's handle hole then she fired off another dust bullet hitting Blaise in the leg reducing his aura to yellow while ripping off his broadsword mechanism.
"Ok, now I don't have those," Blaise said then quickly took off his aviator trench coat and threw it at Ruby blinding her for a second. He then unsheathed his wrist blades and ran at Ruby who had thrown his coat away only to see Blaise running at her with his wrist blades right next to her face. Blaise then scratched Ruby's cheek and the board above them beeped showing that Ruby's aura immediately fell into the red zone meaning the battle was done.
"What was that?" Ruby asked him in between breaths.
"You have your tricks, I have mine," Blaise said then walked over to his broken broadswords and sighed, "I guess it's back to tinkering." He picked up the broken blades and walked out of the arena to the storage locker room.
"So are they really busted?" Ruby asked looking downward at the floor as if in shame, "Sorry, I sometimes get really carried away when it comes to fighting."
"It's alright," Blaise said turning to her, "We were in a competitive match and you didn't break any of the rules." He then sat down and stared at the broken mechanisms. "I just can't remember how these were made so I'll probably end up breaking the extension mechanism further." Then Ruby's eyes lit up practically shining, so Blaise was glad he was wearing his sunglasses.
"I could fix it!" she exclaimed then disappeared in a burst of rose petals and grabbed the broken blades out of Blaise's hands and started examining them. "Several of the gears are broken along with some of the support poles among other things so it will take some time to order the right sized pieces."
"So you'll be taking these for a while," Blaise guessed as Ruby got into examining the blades pulling out a screwdriver from one of her back pouches. "I guess I could manage with just my wrist blades and rail gun pistol for a while. So who is fighting next?"
"Lapis and Nora," Ruby said tightening a screw then pulled on a connecting part causing a loud snap to occur and three other parts broke in half. Blaise looked at what happened and smacked his forehead with his palm and slumped down in his spot."
"Jeez!" Lapis shouted as he dodged another hammer strike from the warhammer wielding woman trying to reach behind him and grab his battleaxe still attached to his back. "How can you have this much stamina!?" The only response he got was Nora's laugh and a hammer strike to his chest throwing him into the wall causing a large part of the wall to break behind him. "Ow," Lapis said standing up then he heard the sounds of a weapon turning into a gun looking up he saw a menacing girl holding a grenade launcher. "Oh dear," he said then pulled off his battle axe just in time to deflect the pink grenades just before they hit him.
He quickly flipped his axe around and turned it into the rifle then fired off a couple rounds missing Nora who had used her hammer to rocket upward away from the fight. As soon as Nora had made it to the apex of her ascent she fired off another round propelling herself back at Lapis. Lapis then tried to block only to have his battleaxe shot out of his hands and embedding itself into the wall.
"That was cool! I win!" Nora exclaimed jumping up and down.
"The fight's not over until our aura's are in the red!" Lapis shouted then uppercutted Nora with his gauntlet sending her flying. Then Lapis recognised his mistake. "Oh crap," he said then Nora fired off another round to increase her descent and spinning motion and then she swung her hammer. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck," Lapis said to himself then crossed his arms in an 'X' formation and activated his semblance and blocked the strike which caused a shockwave breaking the floor beneath Lapis who was struggling to keep his footing. After the attack was over Lapis jumped out of the hole and Nora landed on the ground.
"He's doomed," Zaria said then slumped down in her seat, "at least when Blaise lost his weapon he still won."
"I wouldn't say he lost," Ren said pointing to the board, "Anyone who can take the full force of one of Nora's hammer strikes and only lose a little amount of aura has a chance."
"That's because he activated his aura," Eva said alerting everyone that she was sitting in the middle of the group but they didn't notice her move from the back. "Lapis can increase his strength and sharpen his blades for a short period of time, and it get's even more powerful the madder he gets. Now since his armor has some pointed edges what I'm guessing is that his whole body can be a weapon."
"Nora," Lapis said panting as he regained his footing, "That was one hell of a hit. But that still won't beat me." He then ran straight at her with his fist raised, and she readied her hammer to strike. Just as she swung her hammer Lapis then changed the direction of his fist, right for the hammer. As soon as his fist connected with the hammer a smaller shockwave was created for a split second, then Lapis' fist entered the hammer's grenade barrel and connected with the waiting grenade causing the hammer to be blown out of the wielder's hands and imbedded in the wall next to Lapis' battleaxe. "Try me," Lapis said getting into a regular fist fighting stance.
Nora then pulled back her fist and landed a punch on Lapis' head making him crouch over, so he then tackled her throwing her to the ground. Lapis then jumped on her and started to repeatedly punch her in the face until her aura was in the red.
"Ow," Nora said wiping some blood from her nose in the crater Lapis caused then she flopped down.
"That was interesting," Lapis said then he left the crater and walked over to the wall then he pulled out his battleaxe and Nora's warhammer from the wall.
"So what are your thoughts so far Ozpin?" Glynda asked him from their spot next to the door.
"I really don't need to see any more," Ozpin said then sipped his coffee, "When the class is over send team BLZE to my office."
"You can't be serious? You've only seen two matches. That is not enough information on whether or not to send in a team."
"I've actually been considering their team since the initiation, I just needed to confirm Lapis' combat skills," he said then left the classroom to his office.
"Yay, team BLZE is undefeated!" Zaria exclaimed as she jumped on Lapis' back. "That was awesome!"
"It actually got boring after Lapis was done," Eva said condensing her spear to a one foot pole with a spearhead, "Zaria just repeatedly hit Jaune with her dust swords and I only shot Cardin with five explosive dust arrows."
"Still, Lapis, you punched Nora's hammer!" Zaria practically yelled with glee as she used her weight to spin Lapis around.
"Hey, hey, it wasn't that impressive," Lapis said trying to grab at Zaria to get her off of him, "Anyway, Blaise and Ruby never came back during the rest of the class period."
"I noticed that too," Eva said reaching her locker and opening it, "Maybe they tried to repair Blaise's blades."
"Or maybe there's a somethin somethin going on between the-" Zaria was saying until they heard a loud crack in the distance.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" they could hear Ruby shout, "this is something I'm not that used to. The mechanisms are more complex and delicate than Crescent Rose's." Eva then looked at Zaria with a blank look.
"It's alright Ruby," they heard Blaise say trying to calm the girl down, "I wasn't expecting you to get this on the first try."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY SISTER!" they heard Yang shout then a shotgun blast, and then they saw a grey blur connect with a row of lockers.
"Dammit Yang!" Blaise said somewhere in the pile of wrecked lockers, "It's not what you're thinking!"
"That's what happens when you spend time alone with Ruby, Blaise," Lapis said as he walked over to the locker pile and pulled a locker off of Blaise who had a large red mark on his face.
"She offered," Blaise said trying to defend himself.
"That's not helping your case," Eva said facepalming.
"I don't understand what you're… talking about…" Blaise was saying getting quieter as he realized what they were saying sounded like, "Oh."
"Yeah, now you feel stupid," Lapis said helping up Blaise.
"Team BLZE," Glynda Goodwitch said as she approached the group causing Blaise and Zaria to jump behind Lapis. "The headmaster wishes to speak with you."
"We'll be right over," Eva said putting her compact spear into a holster.
"Good, and good luck, you'll need it," Glynda said then walked away and the two emerged from their hiding spot.
"What do you think is going on?" Blaise asked the rest of his team brushing some dust out of his coat's collar.
"If I had to guess," Lapis said then slouched over, "We're fucked."
"Thank you for coming," Ozpin said to the team as he turned around in his chair drinking a cup of coffee.
"No problem Professor Ozpin," Blaise said walking a little farther ahead of his team, "So why did you call us here?"
"I'm going to be blunt," Ozpin said setting down his mug on the desk and standing up, "We're streached thin on teams that are capable to survive dangerous missions at the moment. So I had Glynda hold a sparring class today to find the best candidates for this important mission, and it seems like your team is the most qualified."
"So you want us to go into the field with minimal training, team building, and survival skills because you're lacking qualified teams?" Blaise asked him getting closer to the headmaster.
"Essentially, yes."
"When do we start?" Lapis asked Ozpin.
"Today, if possible," Ozpin said then his expression changed to a serious look, "but before you go I'll have to warn you. This mission will be a constantly full of life or death situations, dangerous battles against more powerful grimm, and you may be forced to make the tough decision to kill another person. You can opt. out, but do you have any questions?"
The group of four then grew silent as they exchanged looks then looked at Blaise and nodded.
"Professor," Blaise said looking back at the headmaster, "I believe Lapis already asked our question."
So how was that? Tell me in the reviews.
In case you didn't notice, there were like two pairing teases. Although I probably won't do pairings until after the first mission arc.
Also the next few chapters will be mostly original content in the first mission arc.
And Blaise will be getting a new weapon next chapter. I was going to reference what it was going to be at the end of this chapter but the "I believe Lapis already asked our question." was a cooler way to end the chapter.
I'm open to suggestions about what Blaise's semblance should be. So send your suggestions in the review section.