Hello everyone and all, Melody here. Glad people liked the last chapter. Don't have much to say so let's just get on to the chapter. Also will be at the start of volume two.
Sincerely, Melody.
Normal P.O.V.
Currently Teams RWBY, JNPR, and FLME were all sitting in the cafeteria. Ruby had just walked over and dropped Weiss' binder on the table which was filled to the brim with papers. Mercury just raised his eyebrow to her. She simply cleared her throat.
"Sister, friends, Weiss-"
"Hey!" Weiss interrupted.
"Four score and seven minutes ago I had a dream of us all having the greatest day ever. We're going to start this semester off with a bang!" Ruby told them all.
"I like to start my semesters off with a Yang." Yang commented and everyone just turned to her in disappointment.
"You should be ashamed of yourself." Lothur said flatly which caused everyone to look at him then all burst into laughter.
"Anyway I've planned the perfect day for us." Ruby said after she stopped laughing.
"Well I think that since it is our last day before the semester starts we should be together as a team." Weiss told them as she took up but once she was standing a pie hit her in the face.
They all looked across the table at Nora who just pointed at Ren. Lothur picked up his carton of milk and threw it at them. He missed though and hit Jaune in the face. Then more food started to fly and hit people. This lead to people fleeing in terror, tables getting stacked on top of each other, and the three teams being divided.
"This is insane." Mercury said as he looked around, currently his team was stuck in the middle.
"Let's just have some fun." Lothur cackled as he dashed over to team RWBY while picking up a sandwich and throwing it at Weiss.
"I AM NOT PART OF THIS!" Faina screamed as she tried to take cover from the fight.
With that done they started the ultimate food fight. Food went everywhere, Yang got blasted through the ceiling, there was an explosion of soda cans, and a giant mess. It ended after a few minutes with Glynda putting all of the tables back in place, shouting at them, and everyone laughing except for Faina who got covered in food. She was furious which caused Lothur to flee out of the cafeteria in terror knocking Neptune over in the process. Everyone just looked over to Faina whose eyes were glowing blue. They all looked at her somewhat worried.
"H-Hey Faina? Are you okay?" Yang asked as she looked down at her.
"You are so lucky I don't have Belmont with me." Faina growled in response as she wiped some of the salad off her face. Everyone felt the temperature lower quite a bit. "Or else you would regret getting food all over me." She told them as she stomped off. "LOTHUR GET BACK HERE YOU BASTARD!" She shouted, completely ignoring Glynda, Ross, and Ozpin.
"Y'all might wanna get cleaned up." Ross suggested to them.
Later in the library
RWBY was sitting around a table playing a card game, JNPR was sitting at their own table, and Lothur was standing behind Weiss, holding an ice pack to his cheek. He was helping her with the game which the others were objecting to but he didn't really care. Currently they were all losing to the duo.
"See you use this card and you take down all of Yang's forces and even if she has a trap card or something like that she can't doing anything to stop it." Lothur explained to her which made Yang's eyes widen.
"You're cheating! How did you know I had a trap card?!" Yang exclaimed as she slammed her cards down on the table.
"I'm not, I was the junior champion in Atlas for three years. I'm just good at this game." Lothur replied.
"I'm done." Ruby told everyone as she set her cards down.
"Agreed." Blake said as she set her own cards down.
"Same, this is just unfair." Yang sighed as she set her cards down.
"Yes I won!" Weiss exclaimed in triumph.
"Hey! We won." Lothur corrected her.
After that Sun and Neptune walked into the library. They were talking about something but none of them paid attention to what they were saying. When Neptune looked at Weiss he appeared at her side and pushed Lothur out of the way.
"Hey Snow Angel, what's your name?" Neptune asked her then everyone scooted back a few feet.
"Ummmmm Neptune look beside you." Sun told his friend who turned just in time for Lothur to punch him square in the forehead as hard as he could which sent him flying onto his ass.
"Thank you Lothur, and the name is Weiss Schnee." Weiss said as she smiled at at Lothur who simply smiled back.
"Owowowow why did you hit me?" Neptune asked as he looked up at them.
"Cause you were flirting with my girlfriend, pretty standard reaction in my opinion. I could get a little more brutal though if ya'd like." Lothur replied as adjusted his ring a bit and flashed his canines. Then he turned to Weiss. "Wanna get dinner tonight?"
"Sure." Weiss replied.
"Great, I'll see you later then. The guys in MSTC wanted to spar against us so I have to go do that." Lothur told her as he leaned down and kissed her cheek then walked off, glaring at Neptune in the process.
"Sorry about him Lothur, forgot to mention him." Sun said as he helped Neptune up.
"It's all good. If he does anything like that again I'll just be scarier." Lothur chuckled darkly as he left.
Six/Ross' P.O.V.
"My head keeps spinning
I go to sleep and keep grinning
If this is just the beginning,
My life is gonna be beautiful," I sang softly as I walked around Beacon's courtyard. Right now I've really just been wandering around looking for the others.
"You should really sing more often Six." I heard Veronica say from behind me. "You're pretty good at it."
"Oh hey Veronica. So I got somethin to tell you and the others, where are they?" I asked as I turned to her.
"They're in the Emerald Forest. Why? What's up?" She asked as she raised her eyebrow and placed her hands on her hips.
"I know you guys want me to go back but I can't now. Glyn's pregnant so I won't leave no matter what. It'll take me gettin shot in the head again and it destroying my brain entirely for me to leave her." I answered which caused her to smile.
"Of course I wouldn't expect anything less from you." She told me. "So let's go let the others know."
Twenty minutes later
I was leaning against a tree as I watched the others walk over. When they got over to us Boone raised his eyebrow as he looked at us.
"I gotta talk to y'all about somethin'." I said as I pushed off the tree. "Now I know y'all want me to go back."
"Yeah we really do." Cass said as she sat down on a log.
"Well I can't go back now, other than the fact I got myself a pretty good job and a family I found out Glyn is pregnant so I'm not goin." I told them.
"Okay then we accept that. We've been thinking it over and we're all going to go back and figure out how mutants are getting to Remnant but Six you gotta promise me something." Boone said he walked over. "Make sure no matter what you stay who you are."
"Promise." I replied with a smile. "So when are y'all leavin?"
"Tomorrow." Ulysses answered.
"I'll miss you all." I said as I looked around at all of them.
"So will I." Veronica said as I looked over to her in confusion. "What? Did you think you'll get rid of me that easy? Come on it'll be like old times! Six and Veronica, saving the world."
"But there isn't much of a world threat at the moment other than the wasteland critters getting here." I said as I chuckled a bit.
"Who cares I'm not leaving." She told me as she crossed her arms.
"I think he knows that." Raul spoke up.
"Great." I said as I smiled at all of them.
Normal P.O.V.
"Okay so normal tournament rules then?" Lothur asked as he zipped up his boot.
"Yeah that's what they said." Mercury replied as he finished getting ready by hooking two metal things on his belt.
"Cool let's get going then. I wanna kick Merlin's ass." Lothur said as he stood up and grabbed his case.
Then they walked out of the locker room and entered the ring. The others were already there. Lothur raised his eyebrow to Senna. Out of all of MSTC's weapons her weapon was the most interesting to him. It was a large hammer that was even larger than Nora's. It was covered in the number sixteen. Onyx had the swords he used to fight Pyrrha out. Colleen though didn't appear to have her weapon out yet. Merlin sent him a grin which he replied by flashing his canines. Faina stepped forward though.
"Okay everyone, this will be like a standard tournament battle. You know the rules, start!" She ordered everyone.
Lothur's P.O.V.
"Activation Protocol: Silbermond." I ordered the bots and they crawled out then attached to my arms. Over the break in between semesters I was able to repair and rebuild the damaged and broken ones.
I rushed towards Merlin first off. Ignoring the others in the process. As I got closer I lunged at him and tried to get the claws into him. Now normal you aren't supposed to rend your opponent to nothing but…
He moved out of the way quickly and threw a card at me. I made sure to dodge this one instead of catching it like last time. This resulted in a large explosion. I flipped backwards and landed on my feet. Then I simply stared at him as he pulled out a few more cards.
"Don't tell me you're out of steam so quickly. Last time was a lot more fun." Merlin chuckled as he threw the cards at me.
"No not really just trying to calm myself down." I laughed as I moved out of the way and dashed at him.
Before I could get him I felt strings tug on me and rip me back. When I looked around I noticed transparent strings ripping me back. Guess he threw those out along with his cards earlier. Almost immediately I felt them dig into me and hold me up.
Faina's P.O.V.
As I fought with Senna I heard Lothur yelp. When I looked over to him I saw he was hanging up in the air like a puppet. Dumbass. Quickly I looked back over to Senna and thrashed my whip out at her again and knocked her back. This was really all I could do because she was stronger than me by a long shot. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
When I opened them again everything had a slight blue tint to it and I felt the temperature drop. I pulled my whip back as it wrapped around Senna's leg and tripped her. Then I waved a hand as a flurry of snow formed around the two of us and pushed the others away. I smirked at her as a small blizzard formed.
"So, now it's the two of us." I said as I ripped my whip back and wrapped it around my arm, leaving the blade sticking out.
"Guess so." Senna replied as she stood up. "But I'm gonna knock you down a bit." She said as she stomped on the ground.
Beneath our feet I could feel the ground moving. Like tremors. Before I knew it I had to create an ice construct beneath my feet to keep me stable. When I looked up she was getting ready to swing her hammer at me. I slid forward quickly and slashed at her with the spear head then pushed her down. With that done I waved my hand overtop and ice formed over her arms and legs.
"What kind of Semblance is causing earthquakes?!" I asked her as I looked down at her.
"What kind of Semblance is caused blizzards and freezing things?" She replied as she got up, the ice shattering into a thousand pieces in the process. "Plus it's not just earthquakes, it's more like tremor manipulation."
"Okay then." I reply as I shift Belmont into his spear form. "I can deal with this." I muttered to myself.
Mercury's P.O.V.
"You're pretty good." I told Onyx as I jumped back and bounced on my feet a little.
"So are you." He replied emotionlessly as he spun his swords around a little.
"Why don't you show some emotion man? It can get boring when you can't see your opponent's emotions." I told him as I dashed over and tried to drop kick him.
"That is why." He replied as he blocked my leg. "It is a weakness to show emotions during a fight." As he said that he pushed my leg back and I flipped back.
I had to stop quickly though so I wouldn't get caught up in that blizzard. Hell I even saw shards of ice circling around that tempest. When I looked back over to Onyx I saw him rushing towards me. I twirled around him as he slashed down. Then I brought my elbow down on his spine and slammed him into the ground.
As we fought I felt the temperature drop even more. I guess that's Faina's Semblance. Quickly, I moved back and slipped my hands onto my sides where I had two metal handgrips at. Then I ripped them back and they formed into a pair of gauntlets. Six told me that they were called Power Fists that could compact down a bit. Gave to me the other day actually to test out for him.
When Onyx got up I pulled back my fist then punched him square in the jaw. I felt the hydraulics move forward and it launched him forward. Then I punched him again and kicked at him. This pushed him back enough that when I hit him one more time I pushed him out of the ring. As I put the Power Fists away my hands and arms hurt quite a bit.
"Jeez these things need to recalibrated." I said as I looked down at Onyx and got out of the ring. Then I offered him a hand up. "Not bad."
"Seems like I have been beaten." He said as he took my hand and stood up.
"Eh you're still pretty good though." I told him as I patted his back.
"Those weapons though. Where did you get them?"
"Professor Ross gave'em to me to test out for him."
"They pack quite the punch."
"Yeah they do." I chuckled as I looked back at the others. "Wanna go sit at one of the benches?"
"That would be nice." He replied as we walked over to a bench and watched the others.
Emerald's P.O.V.
Okay so Colleen's weapon is grade A crazy. Didn't know where she was hiding the thing then it slipped out of the back of her jacket. It was just extremely long spiked chains that were thrashing around and trying to grab onto me. I mean taking her down was pretty simple, I just had to made her think she got me down then I took her down like that. The weapon was a little shocking though.
Normal P.O.V.
"Okay fuck this." Lothur growled as he cut the new set of cords that had grabbed onto him. Then he dropped onto the ground and his body started to change.
Merlin jumped back as he looked at Lothur. Lothur's body grew larger and dark red fur grew out of his body, his hands morphed into large claws, and generally he looked like a giant bear. Merlin looked up at him and smirked as he jumped back. The wolf boy quickly looked around and then whipped his arms out. This sent cards flying that all surged with electricity.
The cards impacted with Lothur which only caused him to roar as his eyes were glowing gold. His size was comparable to an Ursa Major but that was it. Quickly he ran at Merlin and swiped down at him only to come in contact with the ground. When he swiped around again he missed. He looked around and didn't see Merlin anywhere then roared again.
With that he felt a strong push as a card came into contact with his side. This sent him flying into the blizzard that Faina had created. He didn't go through it, the blizzard simply ripped into him. There wasn't any lasting damage though because he immediately jumped onto Merlin and roared into his face.
"I yield!" Merlin yelled loudly which caused Lothur to stop. "I yield, I yield just don't clobber me into the ground."
"Fine." Lothur replied as he started to shift back into his normal Faunus form.
"I thought your clothes ripped whenever you shift." Merlin commented as Lothur helped him up, Lothur's clothes being perfectly fine.
"Yeah well the Atlesian military got annoyed issuing my Dad more uniforms so they made some that he couldn't rip apart." Lothur answered as the blizzard dissipated revealing Faina standing over Senna. Both were breathing heavily.
"That… Was fun…" Faina panted as she fell over, her aura entering the red alongside Senna's.
"We… Need to… Fight again… Sometime." Senna panted which Faina replied by nodding.
"You two are insane." Lothur said as he looked down at them.
"Oh shut up… And go on your date…" Faina replied as she threw a snowball at him.
And that's a wrap. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter because it was slightly hard to write for me. I don't know why but it was just a little harder. Anyway let's reply to reviews.
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