The Apex Predator


Common : Sup guys it's me CommonWriter, I know this is a another late update from my promised schedule but the reason I didn't update the day I was suppose to was because I got sick and I still am now (only a bit better).

Ken : Maybe you should take a break with this creator, you're still looking rather pale.

Common : Nahhh I'm fine, anyway this chapter was written before I got sick so hope you all enjoy it.

Ken : Also we wanted to thank you all for something amazing, since Common is kinda not feeling well I'm going to do most of the talking for today.

Common : I'm going to go back to sleep back home, Ken I'll leave everything to you. See ya next week.

Ken : Alright see ya creator.

Common : Bye.

Ken : Anyway we wanted to thank everyone caused we just hit over 10000 views! I know this is another usual thank you but this is just amazing, we can't really think of anything funny on this section due to my creator's fever but thank you all once again. It's thanks to you all that out studio has evolve into much more professional studio.

Ken : And with that out of the way let's get this chapter started.

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Ken : So enjoy the chapter guys


Chapter 13: The Vytal Tournament

"Feel any better?" Asked David worriedly, he was standing by Ken's side while he sipped on a cup full of blood. Where David got the blood was beyond his knowledge and concern, all Ken worried about was keeping his lust for flesh in check.

After finishing the whole cup, he let the flavor of the red liquid flow through his tongue leaving a delicious strawberry like taste to it. Ken placed the cup on Ozpin's desk while he sat down to make the flavor last, "it won't help much but I'll be able to calm my senses for now" Ken informed.

"When exactly did you recall feasting on human or faunus remains?" Ozpin asked concerned, now exactly wasn't the right time for Ken to go crazy. Today was the first day of the Vytal festival, a day to celebrate and joyous wonders. And since Ken and his squad was going on security duty then he had to be in full alert with no defects or distractions, he hoped his grimm wouldn't go berserk today. "Years ago, I haven't eaten any human or faunus since then. I've only eaten creatures of grimm, it was about three months ago if that's what you're asking. But it seems my hunger is getting to me, meaning I'll have to eat another grimm soon" Ken explains.

"That last accident with Ruby caught me off guard, normally I would be able to sense their presence or hear their heartbeats with my grimm senses but no. Instead those four faunus caught me by surprise with a knockout dart, I hope it won't be the same today since it's the Vytal festival" he thought, his left eye had changed to it's grimm state as he finished his drink. But the thoughts that kept him wondered and worry of him going insane had plagued his head and made the soldier very skeptical if he should really be on guard duty today.

"I'll be on guard above the rooftops, I'll give me a better view of the arena. My team will be divided and will secure each corner of the stage, given by today's festival may be the perfect time to strike for the white fang since most of Vale will be occupied...I'll send my soldiers around Vale for security" Ken informs the three, judging from their situation may be a good call since it was good time for them to execute their plans for monty knows what. "Good idea Ken, all though Ironwood may get in the way" David frowns.

James Ironwood, a name David and Ken didn't like to hear. The two Mistral soldiers could never cooperate with the Atlas General, in the past David and him would always disagree in certain matters, he would always but in on certain missions Ken and the guardians would be assigned to. And other times Ken and James's soldiers would argue about their methods of completing the missions and the end result would only end with them working alone, they didn't hate him but nor did they like him.

"Do not worry you two, I haven't inform General Ironwood yet so he has no knowledge of the information we have just yet. I believe he doesn't even have any knowledge of the guardians presents here at Beacon either" Ozpin says, it was good that Ironwood didn't knew they were here at the academy. But the real question was, when will he found out? "Well he'll most likely found out today at the tournament" Ken replies standing up from his seat.

"Ken, ready you're squad. Have them ready before the tournament begins and for now just stay by your team, he may know about the guardians today, but he can't know the Apex Predator is here too" David advices Ken, problems would surely emerge if he does ever find out about the Apex Predator. James knew well enough that it was Ken's nickname but he didn't need to know about his attendance at Beacon academy, "Alright dad, I'll contact you as soon as I'm in position"

David nods as Ken walks towards the exit of the room with Goodwitch by his side, David being the typical guy he is tries to tilt his head to the side checking out Glynda's...assents from behind but ultimately fails as Ozpin notices his act and let's out a fake cough to grab his attention. He frowns and turns to the grey headmaster, "Do you have to be a party pooper?"

Ozpin takes a sip of his coffee with a visible smirk beneath his mug, "Let's try to keep things professional and talk about Ken's state"

David looks away, he knew well what he meant by that. Ken's state was very much something to worry about, and with Ironwood here...who knows when he'll lose control. "Yeah, alright..."


Ken was walking by the hallways, on his way towards his dorm by his teammates. Goodwitch was by his side walking towards her own office which was at the same hall where his room was. Both had been walking for awhile so Goodwitch decided to break a conversation with the young soldier, "Are you absolutely sure you can control it today? We don't want anything bad to happen to the students nor the civilians you know, especially since James will be attending this event"

"I don't know Glynda, as much a I want to believe I can control it for today...I'm just not sure if I'll stay sane. You and the others may have to get those Tootaxil injections ready when that time comes" Ken says, nobody was amongst the hallway as of current time. Most had already headed to the tournament arena and some stayed to train for the matches or relax for awhile, "The blood didn't help?" She asked worriedly.

"No no it did help, but not enough to guarantee my control. I need to eat soon or this may end up messy" Glynda stops mid tracks as she clenched her scroll looking down beneath her feet, after being told she though about the idea of Ken losing his sanity. The thought alone was too gruesome for her to think about, she couldn't imagine the horrible thinks Ken would do in his stages as an out of control grimm. Ken looks at her with a questioned look, "I can feel your worries, is there something wrong?"

"How could you stay so calm when you know you might lose control Ken?" She asked, all this time Ken's expression never changed. He always kept his blank look this entire time, even when he drank his cup of blood, it was one of the reasons she could barely read him. He was always good at hiding his emotions and intentions, "How did he know?" She thought.

Just then Ken's left eye had changed into it's first stage and eyed the blonde professor very attentively, "I don't see it much as a problem now but I merely see it as a defect, but yes I am but worried myself" He answers.

"Of course, I've forgotten that grimms are drawn to negative emotions. He must have sensed my worries for his state" she thought to herself, hiding secrets or lying to Ken was almost impossible. Thanks to his grimm senses he was able to sense negative emotions, with this he can easily read behind people's words of lies or find secrets hidden from them. "There is no need to worry Glynda, I promise I'll be careful" he shot a heart warming smile even men would faint for.

Glynda slightly blushes at the sight of his gentle smile and shrugs it off trying to walk forward ahead of him, Ken follows afterwards but Glynda was left in her thought. "I remembered that feeling I felt when I first met him, I think deep down I finally know what know what it is. Ken Markes, I know one day you'll be an inspiration to many huntsmen and huntress. I will do my absolute best to keep you safe as a teacher and friend"

In Glynda's eyes, she saw Ken as a capable student, a talented and smart young boy. Always trying his best, always putting others safety first then himself. The connection between a mother and a son. A bond very strong and unbreakable, both Ken and Glynda spent most of their time together discussing dust, the army and even school matters. He would even sometimes ask for Glynda's help on dust, he may be smart but he still had a lot to learn. Asking Goodwitch for help was pretty much a better option since some professors can act a bit...odd in some way, "Very well, I'll take your promise and leave things up to you Ken. I'll see you at the tournament" she says.

"The same can be said to you Glynda"

Both individuals parted ways as they reached their destination, Goodwitch having to arrive at her office and Ken departing from her and on his way towards his dorm. Not to long later he was met with the door of his room and turned to knob to open the entrance, as he enters the room he was met with a crushing hug by Krista. "Big brother Kenny! Big brother Kenny!"

Tries to free himself from her grasp but fails as her grip tightened around his chest, he may be a veteran but pretty much anyone can beat him when it came to hugs. "Krista, hey I'm back. Miss me?" He ruffles her hair.

She looks at him with the brightest of smiles, "Yesssss Andy and everyone els is boring me"

Ken chuckles at her comment about his brother and teammates, he sits by his bed and calls for their attention. "Rosa, Wade, I need you guys to listen. Come here" he signals them to cone closer to her which Wade immediately obeys, Rosa being a bit rebellious follows him and listens to her team leader.

"Alright, later I'll be going into guard duty with Wade and the other guardians. Rosa since you don't plan on participating I want you to keep a keen eye on the crowd, Andy will be by your side if you need any reinforcements" he informs the two, Rosa looks at Andy while he shot her a displeasuring look. She merely gives him a grin and turns back to Ken, "Come on Ken I'm sure nothing bad will happen, besides what makes you think they'll attack today? We've got huntsmen and huntress sitting amongst the crowd, I think it's stupid if them to attack the Vytal tournament" she comments, it's not like they've got an army to back up their forces against trained warriors.

"You're right, but let's not underestimate the white fang. They can pull out some crazy surprises when you least expect it" Wade advices Rosa, both him and Ken had faced countless battles against them before. They knew the enemy well enough to know they'll attack today.

She sighs as she sat up from her bed, "Alright then, I'll sit nearby and watch. You guys do your whatevers if danger comes"

"Okay good" Ken looks at his clock, reading it as it was about eleven in the morning. "I'll see you there at three, keep my brother and sister safe okay"

"Yeah yeah, don't worry about them. I'll keep them safe" Rosa answers him, he didn't like leaving his siblings like this but right now isn't the time for him to worry for such matters. "Big brother Ken? You're leaving again?" Krista asked shaking Ken's sleeves trying to grab his attention.

Ken looks at the young blonde and gently strokes her hair, "I'm sorry Krista, you're gonna have to stay with Rosa for awhile. She'll lead you to daddy and I promise I'll see you soon"

"O-Okay big brother Ken, you promise"

Both Ken and Wade hurried themselves out of the dorm and towards the black hawk at the landing port outside, it may still be early before the tournament starts but they had to be there early for meetings and preparation. "Captain? Did you have your grimm checked earlier?"

"Yup, it won't bother me today but I'm hoping it won't go berserk in any given moment"

"It's best we discuss this with the rest of the squad sir, we'll have Tootaxil injections ready when it happens" Wade informs Ken looking worried.

"Alright Wade, now let's hurry. We don't wanna be late on schedule"


"Captain this is a bad idea, why do you have to get hungry now" Misty complains, she never took Ken's hunger seriously. She always joked about it like he was really hungry for meals and desert, but right now this wasn't the time for jokes.

"I'll be fine Misty, alright we've got the plan ready right? Everyone stays at their post while I observe at higher ground, Understood?"

"Yes sir!" The guardians said.

Not to long ago they arrived at the tournament stadium, the black hawk was much faster then an average bullhead. The stadium was big and wide, all the seats were currently empty right now since it was early and the preparations were still taking place but the Royal Guardians were left at a room discussing certain matters. "Sir if I may ask? What do you think the white fang will go after if they choose to attack today?" Martin asked adjusting his glasses.

"Not sure Martin but they have to come, this is the perfect opportunity for them...or maybe unless it's a distraction" Ken began to puzzle about all this, if they were really going to attack then what is their goal?

"Let's not think too hard about it Captain, it's just like you taught us. We do our job and they'll do theirs" Lars comments, it was a lesson Ken taught to all his fellow teammates.

"You're right Lars, let's make sure this goes as smooth as possible. Alright, Guardians! Cease" just like that the other guardians ended their discussion and began walking around the stadium minding their own business, "Sakura! Can I have a moment" Ken calls out.

Sakura turns from Martin's side and hurries towards Ken, "Yes Captain?"

"Can I leave you with the other guardians for awhile, I need to be somewhere before the tournament starts" he instructed, she nods with determination and salutes her captain. "I will do my absolute best sir"

"Remember, you were recently promoted as Second Lieutenant. You're the highest ranked amongst my squad, when I'm absent, it is your job to step in and take over in my place"

"Yes sir, I'll do my best. I promise"

Ken strokes Sakura's hair gently as her cheeks had began to heat up slightly, "Didn't I told you all before, when the rest of my squad isn't here, you can all call me Ken"

"Yes...umm Yes Ken"

Ken gives her a gentle smile before she walks back to Martin's side, both soldiers walks together with hands bonded with one another, signaling any bystander that they were both in love. "Those two can never keep their hands from each other" he thought to himself.

Ken then hurries himself back towards the Black Hawk and pulls out his tablet. He then connects his scroll with his communication ear plug while Zina's voice was heard from it, "Master? Did you call for me?"

"Yes Zina, can you call Avery for me"

"Yes sir, calling Mister Cole"

"Hello? Ken? What do you want this time?"

"Avery, this is important. I need you to do me a small favor"

"What is it this time? Looking for more people you wanna take away from me?"

"Avery listen, the Vytal Tournament is about to take play and I need eyes everywhere to make sure nothing goes bad"

"Hmmmm let me guess, you want me to keep an eye on everyone while you sit back and relax? Aha hell no"

"Actually no, I'll discuss things with you back at the same cafe. Meet me there asap"

"Alright Ken, this better be worth my time"


Three hours later


The crowds were cheering and screaming, every individual from different academies, Vacuo, Atlas, Mistral and of course Vale were all gathered in one stadium. The Vytal Tournament was about to begin and everyone were just excited too keep their composure, Ozpin and Ironwood were both sitting at the top of the crowd's seat having their own special place to admire the matches. Goodwitch was at the bottom of the stadium on the stage arena ready to begin the matches, but before all of this could continue, a loud voice announces through the large speakers.

"Good Afternoon Vale! Welcome to The Vytal Tournament Of Campions! Who wants to see two people beat each other up!

The crowd's cheer grew bigger as Ken's squad grinned and shake their heads at the announcer's announcement.

"Wow you guys have weird taste in entertainment, anyway! Let's give a huge applause to all the other student from different academies attending today's tournament!"

The crowd did as they were told, they cheered and applauded the other combatants who were able to visit Vale and enter the tournament. Team RWBY and JNPR sat together as they as well cheered and applauded the other students.

"Alright then, if you guys can't wait any longer then let's get this tournament started!"

One last roaring cheer came from the crowd as they were all excited to see who would beat up who, okay maybe that was a bit too accurate. The ginormous screen above the crowd began shuffling through names picking randomly who would fight who, until finally the screen cease it's random shuffle and all the names were finally visible.

First Half :

Klyde Williams Vs Mark Tory

Grease Johnson Vs Grey Lester

Dan Luckson Vs Blake Belladonna

Jon Kransten Vs Brad Wesker

Second Half :

Ruby Rose Vs Andy Markes

Pyrrha Nikos Vs Stan Partsen

Greg Rayner Vs Dory Falco

Yang Xiao Long Vs Terry Jefferson

"Alright flocks, here on the screen are the first matches we'll be seeing. After all of these matches have finally ended then we'll be taking a short break then we'll random shuffle through the next contenders"

The crowd signaled they're approval through their joyous loud cheers while the announcer continues.

"Alright then, will the first half of the section please go to the entrance of the arena and prepare for battle. The rest of the other combatants will please wait by the entrance of the stage on your panels"

The first half competitors began walking towards the entrance including Blake herself bidding her goodbyes to the others while they gave their support to her, "Go for it Blake!" Ruby cheered.

"Give 'em hell" Yang said.

"Don't hold back" the white heiress said giving a thumbs up.

"Break his leg!" Nora let's out.

Ren calms the orange haired huntress gently pushing her back to her seat by her shoulders, "Nora calm down, stop encouraging people to break their legs"

"Thank guys" Blake began pacing towards the panel while Ken finally arrives by their side and sits by Ruby, "Hey guys, what I miss?"

Ruby immediately shakes her friend expressing her happiness of seeing her friend arriving, "Yeahhhh Ken, where have you been?" she asks puzzling.

"I was with my squad discussing something, was I too late?"

Yang turns to him and answered, "Nahhh we're just about to see the first match, Blake's match is the third"

"Oh okay"

Ken looks at the arena and back to Ruby who was carefully watching the two students standing by the arena as the match was about to begin, he decided to crack a bit of small talk with her since Goodwitch was still walking towards the arena. "Sooo Ruby, from what I've heard you're going to fight my little brother" he whispers to her closely.

Ruby eyes widened with cheeks heated, she backs away a bit surprised by his sudden closeness. "Kyaaaah! Ken don't do that"

He chuckles and sits back at his previous position, "I'm just messing with you, is it true though?"

She confirms this by nodding, "Yup, can't wait till it finally comes"

"Alright then, just be careful out there. I was the one who trained my brother"

Yang over hears their conversation and steps in to defend her sister's prowess, "Well Ruby's pretty hard to knockout too, let's just see who gets the win" she proudly says.

Ken raises a brow and grins, "Alright then, let's see"


Two matches later


Finally it was Blake's match, team RWBY, JNPR and even Ken cheered her on by the sidelines as she and her opponent walks up the stage and faces each other.

Later Rosa arrives at the scene and taps on Ken's shoulder, "He's here" she says.

"Good"

Without getting the attention of Team RWBY and JNPR, Ken quickly got up from his seat and Rosa was now seated on his place while Ken quietly dashes towards the stairs. He ends up on the upper floor from where he previously was and goes up a pillar to get to higher ground, he then uses his speed to dash jump far from the pillar and grabs the edge of the rooftop and lifts himself up giving him a better view of the stadium. He looks around to see if any trespassers were present but luckily nobody was here but him, he then looks down the stadium and watches the match. "Let's see what your made off Miss Belladonna"

Meanwhile as Ruby yelled out to Blake, she turns to Ken which resulted to her freaking out slightly. She expected for him to be there but Rosa was by his place now, "Rosa?! Where's Ken?" She asks.

"Oh he went to his security duties, he won't be back for awhile"

She felt slightly disappointed, it was fun having the soldier around. He never joked around much but he was fun to talk to, "Why? Am I not optional to communicate with?" Rosa teases her a bit.

Ruby shakes her hands, denying her assumption. "No no, it's just I thought he was still here. He left without saying a word, and we didn't even see him leave plus the-"

"Relax Ruby, I was just teasing you"

She gives a sigh of relief and awkwardly scratches the back of her head, "Hehehe, I-I-I knew that"

The two looks back at the match and goes back to cheering on their faunus friend, Goodwitch finally stands between the two students and explains the rules. "All form of combat is accepted here, there are to be no killing, the match is decided if one of the combatant's aura meter reaches the red zone. Semblance is allowed and I want a clean fair fight, if both students are ready then let this match...Begin!"

Glynda quickly backs away from her position as both students dash towards one another summoning their weapons, Blake's opponent Dan Luckson immediately switches his weapon into it's submachine gun form and began shooting at her in automatic fire. Blake easily dodges this by running at the side and with the help of her semblance to avoid his bullets and uses Gambol Shroud's pistol form and hurls it like throwing star towards Dan, he dodges this but Blake pulls the black ribbon connected to the gun's trigger and uses it's recoil to hurl it back towards the direction Dan was at. Dan was caught by surprise as the blade came hurling back to his side and lands a painful slash at his neck, he was saved thanks to his aura by being hit on the neck left a very painful damage to him which resulted to Dan losing twenty five percent of his aura meter.

Blake pulls once more on the ribbon a few more times making the gun go in all direction and trapping Dan around her ribbon, the blade then lands on the ground keeping him in place while Blake rushes in with Gambol Shroud's sheath in hand. Dan couldn't escape so he uses his semblance and escapes the ribbon around him and finally frees himself from it's grasp, his semblance was letting out a powerful air compressed blast from himself making nearby items and people being send flying away from his path. This happened earlier as the ribbons detaches itself from Dan giving him a perfect escape opportunity, thanks to him revealing his semblance this gave Blake the perfect idea of his semblance. She pulls Gambol Shroud back to her and switches it into it's blade form with it's sheath on the other hand and dashes towards him, Dan's weapon had changed into it's blade form of two large dark green knives and clashes a few slashes with Blake. She was able to block each of his strikes easily thanks to her training and years of expression, Dan however was having a bit of a difficult time blocking her slashes and backs away to have some distance. Blake was fast though, she quickly follows and began slashing her way through his defenses.

Dan tries to block her attempt but fails as it was too much for him making Dan lose his balance, Blake sees this and does a sweep kick making him fall to the ground. Dan couldn't think of a counter measure and chooses to use his semblance and sends a air compressed blast from him to send Blake away, however Blake could see flaws of his semblance. As he sends the blast towards her, she uses her semblance to let her previous image take the hit of his blast while she easily slips inside the blast. Since it was air which was blasted it meant she can still pull through inside, if it was another source of energy though may be a different case. She dashes towards Dan who was in panic uses the gun form of his weapon and hurriedly pulls the trigger, she easily anticipates this and uses Gambol Shroud's gun form and shoots him down. He was hit hard as bullets went flying towards him making him lose almost his entire aura leaving him on the yellow zone close to becoming red, Blake then throws Gambol Shroud and wraps him once more with her ribbon. He didn't have the time to react since he was in the middle of recovering from her shots, she then fasten her pace and delivers a finishing slash across his chest and pulls back Gambol Shroud into it's non lethal form putting the blade back into it's sheath. Dan's meter went down to red as he fell to the ground on his knees ashamed of his lost, "The winner is Blake Belladonna"

The crowd cheers her on while she walks towards Dan and hands him a hand, "You did great back there"

Dan looks up to her and smiles to her, "You were amazing yourself, you're very strong and fast. I hope to see you in the future fighting grimms by my side" Dan says as he accepts her offer and walks back to his panel.

Blake does the same as the announcer announces the next match "Alright next is Jon Kransten Vs Brad Wesker"

Ken admires Blake strength as he had never exactly seen her fight in all of his time at Beacon, she was certainly fast, strong and smart. She was not to be underestimated, she was a very skilled fighter. "Not bad, her reflexes are as fast as a cat" he thought to himself.

Suddenly he felt his chest make one hard thump as his left eye changed back to it's grimm eye, he grabbed the left side of his face as he tries to keep it under control. He tries to return back into his normal state but right now he couldn't hard to do so with the pain he was feeling, "Damn it, the side effects are starting to take effect...can't...concentrate"


Ken : Well that's that, thank you all so much for all you're support you've been giving us. This is an absolute best thing that's happened to my creator...well not really the best thing ever but it's one of them.

Rosa : So when we will Common be back?

Ken : No idea, he called me earlier during this chapter that he won't be on this section next week.

Ruby : Sounds like his really sick.

Ken : He is, you guys should have seen him when he was here earlier, He was so pale.

Blake : Let's just hope she comes back better then.

Yang : He'll well then let's just end this early the since he's not.

Ken : Nahhhh we can't really just end it here just because he isn't here.

(Phone rings)

(Ken picks it up)

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Blake : I wonder who's the next member for Team KRW.

(Someone magically appears)

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