Here we are at Chapter 44. We now have over 200 favorites! Thank you to all who have been following my story. Today marks the 3 year anniversary of Monty Oum-sama's (I address him as -sama because I respect him so much) unfortunate passing. He was truly an inspiring individual that we will all miss, and honor with our work. Now let's get on with the next stage of the tournament. I do not own RWBY or Tales of Berseria. They belong to their respective owners. Here's chapter 44. Enjoy. R.I.P. Monty Oum-sama.
Chapter 44: Cut the Beat
After all the chaos at the pavilion had been dealt with, Weiss and Yang returned to the dorm room (while making sure no one else saw Weiss in a maid outfit) and Weiss was finally able to change into her regular clothes (though Yang secretly kept the maid outfit…and smelled it too. LOL). While they were busy, Ruby and Blake had watched their friends from Team CFVY, Coco and Yatsuhashi, fight in the doubles round against Mercury and Emerald. Unfortunately, they lost the match. However, Team RWBY had to focus since they would be coming up soon, with Velvet and Weiss fighting in the doubles round this time. Currently, the team is watching as their friend, Penny Polendina, fights against two members of Team CRDL.
"I still can't believe that Team CRDL actually managed to make it to the doubles round," Velvet notes.
"You? I can't believe they even qualified for the tournament at all," Weiss adds.
"Well, with the way Penny's been fighting. They'll go down in no time," Ruby says as she cheers her friend on.
"I hear that," Yang notes.
Down in the arena, Penny, with her teammate who just stands there and does nothing, forces Sky Lark and Russell Thrush to hide behind some rocks. She then shoots her swords at the rocks, and then lifts them up with the two boys hanging on to them for dear life. Finally, Penny smashes the rocks, and her opponents, into the ground, taking out the rest of their auras and ending the match.
"And victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas," Oobleck announces.
Wanting to see Penny, Ruby gets out of her seat and runs to her, with Velvet in tow.
"Penny!" Ruby calls out to her.
"Ruby, Velvet!" Penny cheers, and runs to them.
Penny moves too fast for them to react, and painfully tackles the both of them to the ground.
"Whhyyyyyyy," Ruby painfully mutters.
"I think you broke a rib," Velvet groans.
"Ruby, Velvet, this is my teammate," Penny motions to her partner as she quickly gets back up, with Ruby and Velvet slowly, painfully, following her.
"Ciel Soleil," Ciel introduces herself.
"Hi, I'm Ru-," Ruby begins.
"Ruby Rose, 15, hails from Patch, leader of Team RVWBY. Status…questionable," Ciel speaks about Ruby, quickly getting on Velvet's bad side.
"And I'm-," Velvet says.
"Velvet Crowe, 19, lacks sufficient information on history, member of Team RVWBY. Status-," Ciel begins, until Velvet has her arm blade an inch away from her throat.
"I suggest you stop talking. NOW," Velvet threatens her, making Ciel nod her head in fear before Velvet steps back.
"Sooooo, Penny, you two were incredible out there. How do you keep control of those swords? It's so cool-," Ruby says.
"Penny, I believe it is best if we move on to our next location," Ciel tells her while pointing at her wristwatch, but quickly shrinks back when Velvet growls at her.
Penny thinks for a moment, "Could we have just a minute to talk?" Penny suggests.
Ciel looks at her wristwatch for a moment before she steps back and nods her head, wanting to stay away from Velvet.
"So, is she your friend, or…" Ruby trails off.
"I don't like her," Velvet says, crossing her arms.
"Well, in a way…she's like Blake, but if Blake was ordered to spend time with you," Penny replies.
"So, more like Weiss back in the first semester," Velvet says.
"Precisely," Penny replies.
"Does she know about…you know, beep-boop-bop, does not compute," Ruby says, making robot moves with her arms.
Penny shakes her head, "Oh no, General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know. There was an incident with a magnet, but I was able to play it off," Penny says.
Ruby and Penny laugh while Velvet smiles.
"Ruby, there's something I've been wanting to talk to you about," Penny says as they stop laughing and looks back to Ciel, who is busy watching her wristwatch. Penny looks back to them, "I want to stay at Beacon," she confesses.
"Penny, they'll never let you do that," Ruby says, worried.
"After what happened last semester, and a few months ago, they'll never let you out of their sight," Velvet adds.
"I know, but I have a plan," Penny reassures them as Ciel steps up to them.
"It's been precisely ONE minute, ma'am," Ciel reminds her, pointing at her wristwatch.
"I'll talk to you more soon, Ruby, Velvet," Penny says before she and Ciel turn to leave, but Penny turns and waves back to them with a smile, which Ruby returns.
"Our next match will begin in fifteen minutes," Port announces over the speakers.
"Oh yeah, this is our match. You and Weiss are next," Ruby says.
"Yep, I finally get to fight. I'll see you later," Velvet says as she begins to walk away.
"Velvet, wait!" Ruby says, making Velvet stop and turn to her, only to receive a peck on her lips from Ruby. "For good luck," Ruby says, blushing.
Velvte blushes a little bit, but smiles anyway, "Thanks. Now I know I'll win," Velvet says and walks into the arena to link up with Weiss.
"So, now it's our turn," Velvet notes as she checks her gauntlet.
"Just remember to keep your proper form," Weiss instructs her.
"Yeah, yeah. You're from Atlas, right? What can we expect?" Velvet asks.
"Well, seeing as their kingdom, academy, and armed forces are all merged as one, I think we can expect strict militant fighters with advanced technology and carefully rehearsed strategy," Weiss explains.
Suddenly, something races behind them, with a rainbow trailing behind the object, and spooks them as it moves around to be in front of them. They then get a good look at their opponents. The first one is named Flynt Coal, a young man with dark skin and brown eyes. He is wearing rectangular sunglasses and a dark fedora with a blue trim on his head, and an earring on his right ear. He is wearing a dark vest over an unbuttoned white and untucked dress shirt, with a loose tie wrapped around the collar, a pair of dark dress pants, silver dress shoes, and a dark glove on his left hand. He is holding a silver trumpet as his weapon. Next to him is Neon Katt, a young female feline Faunus with a light complexion, green eyes, and moderate-orange hair tied up in two ponytails with light blue streaks. On her rear waist is a long tail with pink fur, the pink becoming lighter towards the tip. She is wearing a light blue tank top on top of a dark purple bra, dark purple short shorts under a pink combat mini-skirt, and a white belt with a yellow winking smiley face on the buckle. She has two buttons fixed to her tank top above her right breast, one purple with a cat design and another green one with a heart. She also has on a white cat bell collar around her neck, a pair of bracers on her arms and pads on her shins and knees. She is wearing roller blades, and has a tattoo of a shooting star with a red, green, and yellow trail winds around her right arm. She is wielding a pair of nunchucks. She is the one that previously zoomed behind Weiss and Velvet.
"Ooor, whatever they are," Weiss ends while Yang is still jawstrucked.
"Hey," Flynt says, getting Weiss' attention. "You're Weiss Schnee right? The heiress," he says.
"I am," Weiss replies.
"I take it you're pretty good with dust then," Flynt says.
"I do my best," Weiss says humbly.
"Yeah, my dad was good too. Owned a little dust shop of his own..." Flynt says nicely before losing his nice demeanor, "Til your father's company ran him out of business," Flynt says coldly.
"Oh…I'm sorry to hear that," Weiss apologizes, feeling bad about that.
"Sure you are," Flynt sarcastically says, not buying it.
"Weiss isn't her father," Velvet says out of the blue.
"Huh?" Flynt replies, looking at Velvet.
"Simple. Don't every book by its cover. Personally, I don't like her father either, so we can agree on that much. However, Weiss seeks to make amends for HIS actions. You shouldn't focus on who she is simply by her last name," Velvet says.
Flynt grunts, "I'll believe that when I see it," he retorts.
"Hey, nice outfit you got there," Neon suddenly says to Velvet.
Velvet looks at her clothes, "Um…thanks" she says, confused.
"I bet guys are all over you when you're working late at night," Neon says.
"Wait, what?" Velvet asks, still confused.
"You know, when you're working at the strip club, servicing guys," Neon says, somewhat mocking Velvet.
Up in the stands, Ruby somehow hears this and tries to get into the arena to KILL Neon, hadn't Blake been there to hold her back.
"Why that little-No one talks to my girlfriend like that!" Ruby yells as now Yang joins in to hold her back.
Weiss looks wide-eyed and jawstruck before slowly looking over to Velvet.
Velvet deadpans and then glances at Weiss, "She's mine," she states. The arena opens up around them and a moment later, they are surrounded by four different sections: a geyser field behind Velvet and Weiss, a ruined city to their left, a lava field behind Flynt and Neon, and a desert field to Velvet and Weiss' right. "Weiss," Velvet says as she readies her arm blade, getting her teammate's attention. "Don't let him get to you, okay?" Velvet encourages her, to which Weiss nods in reply.
"3…2…1…"Port begins as Flynt and Neon take their positions, which confuse Velvet and Weiss. "…Begin!" Port announces and the battle begins.
Flynt plays his trumpet, sending out soundwaves at Velvet and Weiss. Weiss conjures up a black glyph to hold her in place while Velvet is slowly being pushed back. Neon rolls in, using the soundwaves to send her flying at Velvet. Velvet notices this and, thinking fast, jumps up to use the soundwaves to push her back towards the abandoned city section of the arena with Neon close behind her. When Neon gets close, she tries to knock Velvet off her feet, but Velvet jumps over Neon, causing her to nearly run into a broken wall that she narrowly avoids. Velvet looks back and calmly goes after her.
Meanwhile, Weiss and Flynt face off as he stops his first attack. Flynt plays his trumpet again, sending out more soundwaves, but Weiss uses one glyph to move to one side to avoid it and then creates more black glyphs as she walks towards Flynt, using them to keep her steady. However, Flynt stops his attack, causing Weiss to run forward because of her glyphs, and as she runs past him, he kicks her in the back, sending her crashing into some red dust crystals and onto the ground in the lava field section, with Flynt walking towards her as he continues to smirk at her.
Back with Velvet, Neon rolls around some debris with Velvet chasing after her, firing off a few gauntlet shots. Neon skids across a long thin pipe to dodge the bullets and then turns around some more debris to take the offensive to Velvet. However, Velvet flips over her first attack, and then proceeds to easily dodge, leap, and roll out of each of Neon's strikes. When Neon gets some distance, she actually gets a little annoyed that she couldn't land a hit on Velvet. Velvet just looks at her as if she's uninterested, and then gestures with her hand to come at her, taunting Neon. Neon bends her nun-chuks, making them glow light blue and comes at Velvet again. Velvet waits to see what it can do, and uses her left arm to block an incoming strike. When the attack hit, she finds her left arm incased in ice.
"Ice Dust, huh," Velvet notes.
"Just a little something to help you cool off since you look so angry," Neon tries taunting her again.
Velvet just grunts and activates her demon arm, breaking the ice off, and shocking Neon. Velvet takes out an ice Dust crystal and absorbs it into her claw. Not wanting to give her a chance, Neon rolls at her again. However, Velvet has ice flow around her arm and then slams her open claw onto the ground, encasing a large area in ice. Neon rolls onto the ice and starts losing her balance. When she gets close, Velvet swings her claw, sending Neon flying into the air, and then fires off a fire arte that hits her, sending her crashing into the ground. Neon staggers back to her feet to see Velvet activate her foot blades. She then takes out and absorbs a fire Dust crystal, encasing her claw in fire. Velvet then aims her claw behind her and fires off some flames, propelling her across the ice while using her foot blades to essentially skate across it.
Back with Weiss and Flynt, Weiss swings her rapier around as she makes four small glyphs around her, spinning her body around four times before shooting off four ice shards from the glyphs at Flynt. Flynt looks down and smiles, spins his body before back-flipping and sliding on the ground. He then plays his trumpet again as a fire plume explodes in front of him, and uses his soundwaves to push the plume forwards, melting the ice shards. Flynt gets back to his feet.
"Too bad all that money can't buy you skill," he taunts her, twirling his trumpet in his right hand.
Weiss starts to get angry, but then remembers what Velvet told her, and takes a deep breath to calm herself down. She then spins the revolving chamber in her rapier, landing on a silver dial. Weiss aims her rapier at Flynt and sends out a twister of wind, which he blocks with his soundwaves. As this occurs, Weiss conjures up several glyphs in a circle formation around them. Weiss then shoots around to each glyph, shooting ice shards that hit Flynt from different angles. After a few hits, Flynt stomps his right foot on the ground and prepares to play again. As Weiss moves around, suddenly one Flynt becomes four Flynts, each with a different colored tie and hat. The four Flynts play all their trumpets together, and the combined soundwaves hit and knock Weiss back.
"Woah," Jaune says, surprised at the attack.
"What's this?" Port asks.
"It appears young Flynt has just activated his semblance, and quite a remarkable one at that," Oobleck begins. "Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Flynt Coal's 'killer quartet," Oobleck says as the four Flynts spins the hats around in style.
The four Flynts go back to one as he calmly walks towards Weiss. Back with Velvet and Neon, Velvet fires off a few shots from her gauntlet that Neon blocks with her nun-chuk, but still has issue keeping her balance on the ice. Velvet uses the force from her claw flames to spin her around and smash her claw at Neon, sending her flying into some debris. While Neon finally managed to get off the ice, she took a lot of damage and only had enough energy left to get up on her feet, only to have her head grabbed by Velvet's demon claw.
"This is for that comment earlier. And for the record, I'm not interested in men. I already have a girlfriend," Velvet says before she throws Neon into the air.
She then fires off a fireball at Neon, exploding upon contact and taking out the rest of her aura, eliminating her from the match.
"Oh, and Velvet takes down Neon in a dominant display of power," Port announces.
This causes Flynt to look up at the screen, shocked to see his partner taken out so easily. Thinking fast, he prepares to finish off Weiss, who tries to get up back on her feet. However, before he can deal the winning blow, he's suddenly blown off his feet by a blast of fire. Weiss looks up to see Velvet as the culprit, demon arm stretched out before she deactivates it.
"Weiss. I know you can beat him. Show him the real Weiss Schnee," Velvet calls out.
Fueled by her words, Weiss grabs her rapier and gets back on her feet. She sees Flynt get back up, and conjures up more glyphs around the area and then conjures up one of her time glyphs under her feet. When Flynt sees this, he activates his semblance, and the four Flynts prepare to play their trumpets. Weiss flies around, using her enhanced speed and her glyphs to race around Flynt. The four Flynts play their trumpets, sending out soundwaves all over the place. Weiss gets a little blown back by some of them, but she forces her way through to deal a few sword strikes on each Flynt, eventually taking out the three fakes until only the real Flynt is left. She stops and switches to her ice Dust, stabbing her rapier into the ground and sending out a wave of ice spikes at Flynt. Flynt plays his trumpet to blow back the ice, but Weiss uses her wind Dust to blow the ice back towards Flynt. The two continue to blow the ice towards each other, and Weiss starts to get exhausted. However, she then conjures up a glyph behind her and across the floor from her to Flynt. She then shoots herself towards him, racing through his soundwaves and the ice, taking some damage along the way, until she finally gets up close enough to thrust her rapier into Flynt's trumpet. She switches her Dust to the fire vial, and immediately blowing Flynt and herself away. The bell rings out, and everyone looks up to see both Weiss and Flynt have their aura done to zero, eliminating both of them.
"And with an exciting display of courage and tenacity, Weiss Schnee ends up eliminating herself and Flynt Coal. With Velvet Crowe as the only survivor, victory goes to Team RVWBY of Vale!" Oobleck announces.
Velvet runs over to Weiss and helps her up, "That was a crazy stunt you pulled. You're lucky you didn't get too injured," Velvet says.
Weiss groans, "Oh, I may not be doing any training, or even studying, until after I rest…for the next five days straight," she says.
Velvet smirks, "Well, I don't think that was proper form," she notes.
"Oh ha-ha," Weiss sarcastically replies.
"WHAT?!" they hear some shrieking and look over to Neon, without her color, and Flynt struggling to get back on his feet. "We lost?! We lost?! Team FNKI LOST?!" That was…That was…AMAZING!" Neon says, getting her color back and rainbow stars in her eyes as she cheers. "Oh my gosh, you guys were super crazy awesome. We should definitely party together sometime. Right Flynt?" Neon says, then looks to Flynt.
Flynt stands up, "That was a gutsy move, Schnee…I dig it," he says, losing his anger towards her.
"I told you. She's not her father," Velvet notes.
"…Yep, I guess not. Hopefully the SDC will be better when she's in charge," Flynt says.
"It will. I'll make sure of it," Weiss replies, both of them smiling.
Velvet and Weiss smile at them and then look to see Ruby, Yang, and Blake running towards them.
"Good job you two!" Blake congratulates them as she, Yang, and Ruby sit down next to Weiss.
"Yeah!" Ruby adds as she wraps her arms around Weiss.
"Nice job, you guys!" Yang cheers.
…
In Ozpin's office, Ozpin sits in his chair, looking out his window. A moment later, Qrow comes out from the elevator, holding a mug in his hands with probably an alcoholic drink in it. Qrow walks up to Ozpin's desk.
"You know he's making you look like a fool," Qrow says, talking about Ironwood.
"His heart is in the right place…He's just…misguided," Ozpin replies.
"Sometimes I'm not even sure he HAS a heart," Qrow says before drinking his mug for a moment. "So, have you chosen your guardian yet?" Qrow asks.
"Maidens choose themselves," Ozpin begins as he turns his chair around to face Qrow. "I simply believe I've found the right candidate. Ever since the day I met her, I had a feeling she would be the one. She's strong, intelligent, caring, but most importantly…She's ready," Ozpin says while Pyrrha Nikos enters an elevator to take her to his office.
And that's the chapter. Since Velvet can hold her own against Winter Schnee and Qrow, I figured she wouldn't have any trouble against Neon. Now, things will begin to get serious, plus a little something extra that never got revealed from the Volume 2 finale of my story, until now. What awaits Team RVWBY in the future? Until then, please Read and Review. R.I.P. Monty Oum-sama.
