*Welcome! You have joined chat as Azure_Grimoire
Azure_Grimoire: Hey! Anyone on this time of night?
The_Tragedy_of_L: Hey Azure! Long time no see!
Azure_Grimoire: Yeah, things have been pretty hectic as of late. Sorry I couldn't be online more often.
The_Tragedy_of_L: Hey, no worries, man! Stuff happens. If I may ask, what's been up lately?
*Kanra has joined chat
The_Tragedy_of_L: Oh, hey Kanra!
Azure_Grimoire: Yeah, greetings.
Kanra: Oh, Azure! How nice of you to grace us with your presence!
Azure_Grimoire: Yeah, yeah. Anyways, to answer your question L, I just moved to Vale today.
Kanra: Oh?
The_Tragedy_of_L: Really? What for?
Azure_Grimoire: School.
The_Tragedy_of_L: Huh?
Azure_Grimoire: I just arrived at Beacon Academy today. First years have initiation tomorrow.
The_Tragedy_of_L: A hunter academy? The best one?! Congratulations Azure! That's so cool!
Kanra: Not to sound uncaring, but shouldn't you be asleep?
Azure_Grimoire: Ah, a little lack of sleep won't be too much trouble for me!
Kanra: I wouldn't be so sure! I've heard a lot about Beacon's initiation from alumni and dropouts alike!
The_Tragedy_of_L: Kanra, you hear a lot of things from a lot of people.
Kanra: And is that information ever incorrect?
The_Tragedy_of_L: Uh, well…
Azure_Grimoire: What's the word on this initiation then, Kanra? That is, if you really know.
Kanra: Well, supposedly they put you on little platforms and launch you into the Emerald Forest!
The_Tragedy_of_L: WHAT?!
Kanra: And it doesn't stop there! They have you fight your way through all the Grimm in that place to get to some temple, where there are relics or something you have to pick up.
Azure_Grimoire: What's the point of the relics?
Kanra: Not entirely sure...my guess is that it has something to do with the formation of teams?
Azure_Grimoire: Teams?
Kanra: Yeah, supposedly they put all the students into teams of four.
Azure_Grimoire: Huh. I guess that means they throw four random students together, or two pairs come together if they get the same relic?
Kanra: That's about as good a guess as any, assuming there's two of every relic.
The_Tragedy_of_L: Hey, Azure! Don't die, okay?!
Azure_Grimoire: I'll be fine, don't worry L! It'll all be cool!
Azure_ Grimoire: Say, you guys all live in Vale, right?
Kanra: Yep!
The_Tragedy_of_L: Yeah.
Azure_Grimoire: Sweet! We should meet up in real life, whenever I get a break from classes.
The_Tragedy_of_L: Yeah, that sounds awesome! How about it, Kanra?
Kanra: I wouldn't be so hasty! Vale's a scary place right now!
Kanra: I could tell you about all the urban legends, like the headless rider that drives through the city at midnight, or the guy with inhuman strength that goes around town with a debt collector!
Kanra: Or maybe you wanna hear about something all-the-rage in the news, like the devious criminal, Roman Torchwick, still out and causing trouble as we speak!
Kanra: The White Fang is also becoming more active in Vale! Law enforcement's got their panties way up in a bunch about it!
Azure_Grimoire: On second thought, I think I'll just take your advice and get some shut-eye.
The_Tragedy_of_L: Yeah, I got work tomorrow. Don't want my scum-sucking superior giving me more hell than he usually does.
Kanra: Come on, guys! Let me play show and tell for a while!
The_Tragedy_of_L: Nah, don't really feel like it. Goodnight, guys!
*The_Tragedy_of_L has left chat
Kanra: No fun!
Azure_Grimoire: I have to agree with him, though. Night, Kanra.
Kanra: Booooring.
*Kanra has left chat
'Hurry up hurry up hurry the hell up! Dammit legs, move faster!'
Azure hadn't even been up for fifteen minutes before hearing about a girl who was conducting a purge on the pancakes in the mess hall. In record time, he managed to perform all the necessary personal hygiene procedures and throw all his clothes on before making a beeline to breakfast.
The pancakes specifically didn't bother him, he just hoped that with how late he'd woken up, he'd have any food at all.
As he threw open the doors to the mess hall in a sweat, Azure noticed a small line as the last of the students were receiving their breakfast. Seeing that these students were still getting actual food, he exhaled in relief and fell in line, not paying any mind to the now infamous pancake-purging girl a table over from the line.
What he did notice was falling into line with a familiar face.
"Oh, hey Ruby." Azure greeted his, erm, friend from behind. Hearing her name, the red girl spun around and smiled at him.
"Morning, Azure! Sleep well?" she responded.
Azure glanced to the side. "Eh, sorta. I kinda got on my scroll to talk to some online friends before bed. I guess I was up later than I thought."
Ruby nodded understandingly. "Same. I could hardly sleep after my second-no, third-episode with Weiss."
"Third?"
"Yeah! She walked up to me and my sister at the ceremony and started yelling again and I really just wanted her to stop so I tried to patch things up but she shot me down and then in the ballroom when everyone was sleeping-"
A blond girl in front of Ruby turned around and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Rubes, chill. Don't bombard the guy." After calming the rambling girl down, the blond looked up (or down, seeing as she was a bit taller.) at Azure.
"Sorry about my sister, she can get carried away sometimes." she said.
Azure smiled politely at his fellow blond. "No worries, I'm not a noob when it comes to sisters. Try growing up with two."
"Two? Wow, I can barely keep up with Ruby sometimes."
"You don't wanna know how fast I had to catch up."
The two shared a laugh at that before the blond girl spoke again. "Yang."
"Azure. Nice to meet you."
After receiving his food, Azure sat with Ruby and Yang and stuck up some simple banter with them. Breakfast was light for him, only taking a pancake, a muffin and some juice. If what Kanra told him was true, he didn't want to lose a hearty meal to the skies.
After breakfast, he headed with Ruby and Yang towards the locker rooms, where they would pick up their weapons and other supplies that they'd placed in their designated lockers, along with some of their other belongings.
Once arriving, Azure bid farewell to the sisters and went to find his locker. He caught glimpse of a couple familiar faces along the way; Jaune struggling to find his locker, Weiss chatting with whom Azure recognized as Pyrrha Nikos-the Pyrrha Nikos-as well as pancake girl and her much more mellow companion.
Coming to his locker, Azure typed in the code he set the night before and retrieved only one thing, Take-Mikazuchi. As he picked it up to place the sling around him, he felt noticeably more at ease with it in his hands and on his body. He'd always assumed that feeling had something to do with Agony, the bastard with the shit-eating grin that also resided in his body.
He just wasn't sure what Take did or why just having it on him seemed to lift a weight off his shoulders. Hell, he knew that lumping Agony in with it was a stretch all on it's own.
Shrugging the thought off, Azure closed his locker and started off to the cliffs at the entrance of the Emerald Forest, where an intercom had instructed the first-years to go. On his way, he accidentally bumped into a student wearing a full suit of silver armor.
"Oh, sorry." He said at the collision.
The other student didn't take it so well. "Watch where you're going, punk!"
Azure glanced back over his shoulder and snickered. He figured that wasn't the last time he'd have an encounter like that with that guy.
Azure one, random nimrod student zero.
Green trees. Blue sky. Some clouds.
From where Azure stood, atop the cliff on a gray panel in line with the other first-year students, everything was immaculately dull.
At the moment, he stood with Byakuya on his left, whom hadn't so much as spoken a word since he'd placed himself there, only responding to Azure's attempt at conversation with grunts and hums.
This guy was no fun.
Then, to his right was no one. The panel sat empty, as if waiting for someone to arrive.
As if to humorlessly cater to his thoughts, a boy about Azure's height with a mop of magenta hair and piercing, onyx eyes took his place on the empty panel.
At first, Azure payed no mind to his fellow initiate.
But, something shot through Azure's mind, causing him to turn back to the boy at his right.
Azure ignored the headmaster's instruction; Kanra's information wasn't false, and he caught the other bits about teams and partners without paying much attention. First person he made eye contact with, partners for the next four years, relics, yadda yadda yadda.
For what felt like hours, Azure was analyzing the magenta-haired teen next to him, trying to figure out what it was that made this boy so familiar to him.
He didn't even notice the other initiates being launched from their platforms.
All of a sudden, something clicked. Azure couldn't believe it.
"Ma...Micah-"
And with that, Azure was flying through the sky, unable to ask his question.
The first of many. Azure's mind was reeling with questions now, and how could anyone blame him? His beloved friend, his brother, whom he thought was dead for nine years was just next to him a moment ago.
What did that mean?
Was he the only other one alive? Was Rachel okay? What about Ken and his little squad?
Remembering that he was currently soaring through the open sky, Azure pushed all these questions to the back of his mind as he devised a landing strategy. Not seeing any other options, Azure fell back on his best bet:
Aiming for the ground directly below him.
Azure drew Take-Mikazuchi, aimed it towards the sky and started channeling his aura into the blade. In less than a second, an adequate amount was stored and he released it in a burst of black flames. Now plummeting towards the ground in a direct fall, Azure aimed the blade at the ground and channeled more aura to create another burst to break his fall.
Once he came level to the treetops, Azure leaped downwards from branch to branch before setting his feet on the ground.
Looking around, he saw that he'd set himself in the middle of a den of wolves. Well, Beowolves, that is. Five of them.
Feeling ready to blow off some steam, Azure assumed a combat stance, keeping his form wide and his sword poised to strike.
The first Beowolf that jumped to attack met a quick end at the blade of Azure's sword, slicing it cleanly in half in a seemingly time-shattering motion. The next two that rushed to strike met similar fates, as Azure beheaded one and dodged the other in a roll, bisecting it as he landed to the side.
Two left, and Azure was confident he wouldn't need to draw on his flames for these ones, either.
The remaining Beowolves separated and went to opposite sides, trying to get Azure to lower his guard, no doubt. Azure was able to grab the one to his left by the neck and use it to club the other one. Snapping the neck of the former, Azure made a quick jump to the other, disoriented Grimm and delivered a fatal strike through the top of it's head.
Feeling pretty good, but still a little miffed that the fight was no big deal, Azure stood up and dusted himself off, flicking the grimm blood off his sword in a single motion. Before he had any time to rest, he heard a rustling in some nearby bushes.
Falling back into his combat stance, Azure turned to the direction the rustling was coming from and found himself face-to-face with a fellow initiate, holding a black and a white dagger in each hand, ready to strike.
…
There was something familiar about this one, too…
…
Orange hair, blue eyes…
…
Fox ears.
…
"Rachel?"
"Azure?"
Micah's feet set softly on the ground with a sigh as he ceased his flight. As far as landing strategies go, having a wind semblance sure came in handy for him.
Upon landing, Micah readied his weapon, taking his LMG that had been hanging from his chest and changing it to it's zweihander form. His attire as of late was chosen because of his need to be combat-ready at most times, now sporting a white jacket with forest green highlights, black pants and black boots.
While on any other day he would be mentally praising himself for his stylish entrance, Micah only had one thing on his mind.
'He recognized me! Alright, so he knows I'm here, but he probably doesn't know about Rachel being here. With any luck, he's out there looking for me right now. Okay, okay, no big deal, just gotta find him...'
A slight noise behind him was all he needed to spin around, hoping to see his long-lost friend and mission.
"Azure, you-"
Instead, he found a very tall and muscular initiate with spiky hair looking back at him.
For a moment, they just stared. The tall one in apprehensive confusion, Micah in utter disappointment.
"Uh...sup, Wallflower. Name's Byakuya. I, uh, guess we're partners now, so don't be a bitch and we'll be cool. Let's get over to that temple and get the relic, or whatever."
As Byakuya walked calmly past a frozen Micah, the latter only dropped to his knees in shame.
"Rachel...don't screw this up."
"Listen I'm happy to see you, and I really want to know what happened, but, I move to save catching up for after this debacle." Azure suggested.
Rachel smiled in response. "Agreed, not like we won't have any time to talk later."
"True. We're partners, after all."
"Yup! Lets get to that temple, then!"
"Let's!"
And with that, the new partners were off to their objective. To Rachel's surprise, Azure was much easier to work with now. He barely even seemed like the Azure she knew when they were kids, the only thing proving that to her being the air about him. The entire time she knew Azure, he always had a kind of air to him; cold and antisocial outside, but deep down, loving and compassionate, always ready to give a hand to whoever needs it.
That same air was still around him now, but with the 'cold and antisocial' replaced with a 'calm and silent' vibe, something Rachel could get accustomed to.
Something she would have to get accustomed to. They were partners now, and something about that made Rachel even more happy than just knowing he was alive.
This was the best mission ever!
As the two waded through the brush and branches, Azure couldn't help but notice how grown-up his childhood friend now looked.
Sneaking a peek when she wasn't paying attention, Azure noticed her outfit wasn't too different from when they were children. She wore a blue-and white dress (combat skirt, Azure mused.) about the same length that Weiss' was, and it had two sheaths held in the back by a belt, where her daggers now sat. Her outfit was finished off by a pair of blue boots that came to her thigh with some black stockings peeking out of the top by a little. Height wise, while they had been around the same height as kids, Rachel now sat a few heads shorter than him, probably around Ruby's height but maybe a little taller.
When she finally did notice him looking, he quickly shot his gaze forward in a flush.
Finally reaching a break in the trees,, Azure and Rachel came out into a clearing with a structure at the center, Azure assuming it to be their objective. Squinting, Azure could make out two figures from atop the slope across from them, one yellow and another black.
As they made their way towards the temple, the figures became clearer.
"Hey, Azure! Glad to see you're doing okay." Yang greeted.
"Yeah, you too, Yang. And hello, uh, girl." Azure responded while giving a hesitant greeting to the girl in black, whom had so politely ignored him the night before. Not expecting her to respond, Azure beckoned Rachel with a hand and the two moved towards the center of the temple.
"My name's Blake."
…
Hearing that, Azure and Rachel stopped dead in their tracks.
"...Blake. Your name's Blake." Azure managed to get out, not turning to face her.
"...yes."
"...okay."
Azure continued his walk to the crumbling temple, slightly unnerved by the familiar name.
"So...you work out a lot?"
Byakuya turned to give a deadpan look at his partner, whom he was learning very quickly was just as much of an idiot as Kida. Hell, for all he knew, the guy was going to start boisterously announcing to the forest about how he was going to have mother nature falling into his arms at any moment.
Needless to say, Byakuya wasn't thrilled about his matchup.
"...hey man, I'm just asking. N-no need to hold that...b-boulder like you're gonna crush me...cool?" Micah managed to squeak out.
Byakuya snapped out of his mindless drone and noticed the boulder of considerable size he had been holding overhead. Now regaining his cool, he set it down gently where it rested just a moment ago.
His behavior warranted explanation. "Sorry, I have a kind of mindless temper. It kicks in whenever something pisses me off, and stupid questions piss me off real bad. Got it?" Byakuya informed his partner.
Micah only shrugged, seemingly accepting Byakuya's explanation.
It was then that a shrill scream pierced the air.
Micah glanced upwards. "Huh, some chick's having a hard time, from the sound of it."
Byakuya grunted in response. It wasn't long before the ground beneath them began to shake, and a hulking, black figure emerged from the woods in front of them.
"...was it something I said?"
"For your sake, Wallflower, you'd better hope it wasn't."
Rachel gazed mindlessly at the sky. "Azure...people are flying."
Azure averted his attention from trying to choose a relic to give Rachel an incredulous stare. "The hell? Are you losing it already?"
"No! Some girl came falling from the sky and another person slammed into her and they went into a tree!" Rachel defended as a blush built up in her cheeks.
Azure only deadpanned in silence before turning back to the relics. They were chess pieces, of all things. Azure wanted to analyze all the remaining pieces, taking into account their roles on the board and their meanings…
Truthfully, he didn't just pick up a random one because he didn't want to be the metaphorical laughing stock of anyone who was smart enough to think about it like he was.
Pick the pawn? Hell no.
His concentration on the task at hand wasn't broken for a second, not even by an abnormally large Ursa barreling through the trees and halting in the center of the clearing, with Byakuya stepping out in the wake of broken trees.
"Yo, you guys over there. Just stand back and leave this to me."
Micah popped out hesitantly from behind Byakuya's massive figure. "Yeah cool take him on you can do it!" he said quickly before rushing over to the temple to peruse relics alongside Azure.
"Hey, so, uh, long time no see?"
"Uh, yeah...hey, Rachel and I agreed to save catching up for afterwards. Cool?"
"Yeah man, cool. Decide on a relic?"
"Having trouble…"
Pancake girl riding in on an Ursa did nothing to break Azure and Mica's concentration.
"What's the trouble? Just pick a piece."
"Easy for you to say, you pick a piece."
"Fine, but you have to pick the same one."
"Fine, grab one."
"I'll let you decide."
"Dammit, Micah!"
Pyrrha Nikos leading a giant Deathstalker into the clearing was also unnoticed by the two bickering friends.
"Why not the king?"
"No way, I'm not that egotistic."
"What's so egotistic about grabbing the king?"
"I don't know, Micah, what's so-"
The one thing that could possibly break the two out of such an argument was Weiss' shrieks as she plummeted towards the ground from a Nevermore.
"Black rook!" Azure blurted out before jumping on a pillar and kicking himself off to retrieve his Schnee sister.
It was about halfway through his ascent that Azure realized that, without a boost, he wouldn't be able to catch Weiss before she hit the ground. Luckily for him, a proper boost presented itself in a moment's notice.
While he felt bad about taking it, Azure knew it needed to be done.
Using Jaune's face as a stepping stone, Azure lept up and caught his sister bridal style.
"You okay?" he asked calmly.
"Y-yeah." was Weiss' nervous response as she tried to fight the heat in her face.
As to ruin the moment as soon as they hit ground, Azure's brief chivalry was thrown out the window as he nonchalantly dropped Weiss on the ground. "Great, glad you're not hurt." was all he said before walking away as if nothing really important happened.
"Azure Schnee, the second this initiation is through, your head will be on a platter!" Everyone at the temple shrunk at Weiss' rage.
Everyone, aside from Azure, who was already over it and shifted his focus elsewhere.
Heading back towards the group, Azure noticed the new faces that had shown up, such as pancake girl and friend, Ruby, Jaune holding his face, and Pyrrha Nikos, standing alongside those whom he'd interacted with beforehand. He questioned why he hadn't noticed them showing up, but wrote it off when he remembered how invested he was in choosing the right relic.
"Great, the gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said with mock enthusiasm.
Before Azure had a chance to respond, Ruby burst from her place in a flurry of rose petals towards the Deathstalker. "Ruby, wait!" Azure ordered before getting plowed in the side by Byakuya.
Recovering from the blow, Azure flipped on his hand to see the intimidating form of an Ursa; one larger than any he'd seen before, even an Ursa Major.
Cursing his misfortune, Azure got ready to deal with this hindrance in as little time as possible.
As the Ursa came in for a swing, Azure decided not to dodge; instead, as the Grimm's left claw closed in, he shielded that side of his body in his flames. The Ursa stumbled back and roared in pain at contact with Azure's flame shield, as the barrier incinerated it's left paw.
Azure glanced back at Byakuya, who gaped at the sight.
Smirking, Azure turned front to face his opponent, who was slowly recovering from the pain of losing part of its limb. Deciding enough was enough, he drew his sword and made a dash towards the still half-disoriented Ursa. Channeling his flames into Take-Mikazuchi's blade, Azure enveloped the sword in flames that coated the blade exactly. Azure sliced as he passed the Ursa, the flames no longer present in that moment and exposing the bare silver of his sword.
Azure twirled the katana around and sheathed it on his back. As the last length of silver clicked into the scabbard, the flames that had previously sat on the blade of the sword released in a violent blaze on the Ursa's body.
"Solstice Form: Eternal Summer."
His battle finished, Azure glanced over at the Deathstalker to see that Weiss had intervened before Ruby could be hurt.
Good, she's not being totally heartless. Just difficult.
Azure only barely noticed Byakuya, Micah and Rachel walking towards him.
"So, did you name that move yourself?" Byakuya questioned.
Azure scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "Yeah, I know it's not the coolest name...my combat instructor is kinda nuts, so he gave a lot of my techniques names and drilled it into my head that I should say their names whenever I use them. No point, really, but years of training has pretty much made it a habit."
Rachel rebounded, "But I thought it was really cool! You should always say the names of your attacks, it makes you kinda like a hero in a comic book or something!"
"Yeah, exactly, it's stupid."
"No, it's not! Keep doing it, please?"
"I'm gonna put all my effort into not-ugh, you know what, forget it."
Years of living with Weiss Schnee had formed Azure into an expert on choosing his battles.
The plan was set in stone: everyone had their relics, and the exit was in sight. Deciding they didn't need to waste their time fighting the two large Grimm, the twelve initiates made a beeline towards the goal.
What they weren't expecting was a third, large, oh-so-scary Grimm to invite itself to the party.
Dodging in the nick of time, Azure, Rachel, Micah and Byakuya recovered from their dodge and found themselves separated from the others, and face-to-face with a Grimm none of them had ever seen before.
Before them was a Beowolf, the four assumed, although it was much larger than they knew one could be. Instead of just spikes on the arms and a spine on the back, full plates of bone had developed, the piercing red eyes burned with a much more murderous glow than any average Beowolf; any average Grimm, at that.
As the Grimm growled at the initiates, the four drew their weapons and took their fighting positions.
Rachel drew the daggers she had before, now putting the two together to make a staff of some sort. Azure noticed the midsection of the two daggers forming into a revolving dust chamber, and some glyphs not unlike Weiss' forming around the staff.
So, Rachel was a dust mage. She always had been kinda brainy.
Azure was more dumbfounded by Micah's sword/machine gun hybrid that he so casually lifted from his side and readied. The hell, had he turned into as much a brute as Byakuya?
His question was answered as Byakuya flicked his right arm, and a gauntlet of steel and spikes with what appeared to be a shotgun barrel at the top unfolded to fit his arm, with a row of shells around his upper arm and knuckles plated with extra-sharp looking spikes.
Well, he did say something about strength at the ceremony. So, Micah may have a bit of brute in him, but this muscle guy's a goddamned tank.
Snapping back to the conflict at hand, Azure dodged a left swing from the abominable Beowolf and proceeded to take up the side. Micah read his friend's movements, and did the same on the right side, ducking under another swing.
As the Beowolf was about to take one of them, Byakuya managed to catch its attention with a blow to the snout, and Rachel kept it with a barrage of ice spikes.
Taking the opportunity presented, Azure delivered a quick slice to the left side of the Grimm and left a decent sized gash, Micah doing the same on his end. Despite the frontal assault that Byakuya and Rachel were giving, the Beowolf quickly retaliated from its side wounds and swatted both of the teenagers at it's sides away, as well as ramming the unsuspecting teens at the front.
Recovering from their sudden blows, the four initiates glanced up to see that their attacks weren't for nothing; the abominable Grimm was staggering and acting sluggish.
This provided ample fuel for Azure's quick thinking. Analyzing the area around them, he noticed a cliff to their left that would provide him with the perfect finisher for this fight.
"Guys, we need to get this thing over that cliffside!" Azure directed.
While they all gave him questionable glances, the three decided that their best bet was to follow Azure's lead.
Spreading out for another plan of attack, the initiates managed to avoid another swipe of the Beowolf's claws. Noticing the Grimm favoring it's right side, Azure saw an opportunity present itself.
"Byakuya, Rachel, try and get it off it's feet! The left side's weaker than the right!"
Seeing what their fellow initiate meant, Rachel initiated a gravitational push on the Grimm's left side while Byakuya sealed the deal, delivering a monstrous punch to the gut and sending it flying towards the cliff.
However, Azure could see that it wasn't going to make it all the way.
"Micah, try and keep it going!" Azure shouted to his friend.
As he watched the Grimm fall towards the ground just a few feet away from the cliff, Micah devised the perfect way to keep it off it's feet.
Delivering a flurry of wind underneath the Beowolf's landing zone, he glanced at Byakuya, giving a silent order to his partner to give it the extra push it needed. Byakuya responded, and sprinted into a punch that sent the Grimm hovering above the chasm that the cliff led to.
The end in sight, Azure readied his final blow.
Coursing more aura into Take-Mikazuchi's blade than ever before, Azure's sword was soon enveloped in black flames that made it grow by twice it's original size.
Azure made a fateful leap towards the airborne Beowolf, with Micah ready to pull him back with his wind.
…
Azure raised his gargantuan flame sword.
…
He brought it down in one fell swoop, releasing the flames as they enveloped the abominable Grimm. As Micah pulled him back in, he unintentionally fueled the black flames that now covered the chasm like a blanket.
…
The four silently agreed nothing would survive that.
Rachel ran up to Azure all giddy. "Wow, was that one of your special attacks? Like in the movies where the hero always-"
"No, Rachel, it's not. That was actually the first time I'd ever used that."
Byakuya grunted. Micah finally asked, "So, got a name for it?"
Azure gave him a deadpan stare, before silently mulling it over in his head…
Before he came to a conclusion.
"Kubikiribocho: Executioner's Blade."
'Damn, some of the old dude's crazy is rubbing off on me.'
The four made their way back to the rest of their group and arrived just in time to watch Ruby run the Nevermore up a cliff wall, and finally behead it at the peak.
As Ruby emerged from the top of the cliff, rose petals danced in the wind while all the initiates stood in awe of the feat they all had witnessed.
Finally, Byakuya was the first to speak.
"Yeah, cool, can we just get the hell out of this damn emerald deathtrap?"
A/N: I hope my action wasn't too boring, seeing as this was the first time I'd written action scenes before. Also, you have full permission to diss the names I gave Azure's attacks, I don't think they're too bad but I know I'm painting a target on my back with those.
You honestly have no idea how long I've had the scene with Azure and Micah choosing relics playing in my head. While the original scene was different, with me kicking around the idea of a RWBYverse team of characters from different anime, it still kept the essence of the original.
Oh, and you guys probably noticed my lame attempts at skipping canon dialogue. You've probably watched the show if you're reading this, and besides, the story is less about the canon characters and more about this other team I'm building.
So, yeah, canon stuff happens, don't expect me to type it word for word every scene I throw in. That'd just be a hassle.
On another note, what do you guys think of the other OC's weapons? I kinda had it in mind that Rachel was gonna be a dust mage, feeling originally that she would be a physical fighter but then realized that Byakuya does that. Oops. Micah's just kinda came to me at one point when I knew I wanted him to have a big sword, and Byakuya's came about from an influence. Another buff dude with abnormal strength and a cool arm.
Props if you recognize the names from the chat, any of them. Extra props if you can guess Azure's team name before the next chapter.
And that's all I got! Cast goes to school next chapter.
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Later~!