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-"Are you okay?" - Illia asked the crounching Adam.
-"Do I look okay?" - Adam asked in an attempt to use a threatening voice, the effect was lost a little when he had do contain the gags in order to avoid barfing.
-"You shouldn't have made that bet." - Sienna chastited the bull faunus. - "Though I have to say I'm impressed. To eat you entire blade, sincerly I'm surprised you're alive."
-"Shut it." - Adam ordered, just to crounch a little in order to contain the puke.
Above them, Blake was having trouble containing herself. Right now she was shaking like crazy trying to contain her laughter, the sight of her pyschothic eating his own blade was incredibly amusing.
-"Not to be impolite, but are the celebrations done?" - Salt Frog asked the people in the room, while most of them seemed to wish for them to last a little longer the remider that there was more to see caused them to look at the screen once again.
A GOD HAS FALLEN TO HUMANITY...
-"Ah." - Salem sighed in satisfaction. - "It doesn't matter how many time I will hear that, it will never stop being satsfactory."
IN THE FACE OF THAT INCONCEIVABLE REALITY...
The faces of the all powerful deities were shown, the disbelief of Hei, the shock of Yang, the confusion of Willow and the horror of the gods at the stands.
THE GODS...
Oobeck's expression could not be read, Emerald was looking at the arena with wide open eyes and Qrow was displaying a violent yet silent rage.
The body of Neptune was still on the arena, breaking apart just like Sun's and Tai's had done.
-"Just look at their damn faces!" - Qrow laughed when the expressions of the gods were shown. - "Remember this moment for the rest of your inmortalities fuckers!"
-"Qrow, while I can understand the relief you feel." - Tai called the old bird out, halting his celebrations. - "We have to remember that right now they must be grieving their fallen comrade."
-"As if." - Raven said, laughing a little at the idea. - "They were terrified of him! If anything I'm sure more than one are glad he is dead."
SILENTLY GAZED DOWN.
-"W-WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS...? FINALLY..." - Port was simply at a loss of words, almost unable to express the his thoughts. - "IN THE THIRD BATTLE OF RAGNAROK... HUMANITY HAS STOLEN VICTORY FROM THE GRASP OF THE GODS!"
-"Ah, how much I wish those words had been uttered by my me." - Port said, repentat at the fact that even though he said them it wasn't "he" who said them.
His words simply made the alredy loud cheers of the humans even more powerful, the feelings of relief and happiness that the audience spilled were almost palpable.
-"Y-You're fucking kidding... that Neptune has..." - A god at the stand said in disbelief.
-"How... how could this happen?" - Another god said with pretty similar tone.
-"Hmph." - Hazel looked at the reactions of the gods, he didn't see a single semblance of sadness at the loss of the tyrant of the seas. - "That or they do not care if one of them dies."
-"I'm sure he would have loved this." - Neptune said creeped out a little, due to him understanding his original even if was only a bit. - "All that talk about gods not needing friends or emotions, he would have been a little proud at the attitude the gods are showing right now."
-"That really doesn't make it better." - Sun said with crossed arms. - "Now that I think about it, how do you think OG Ozpin is? He was his brother after all."
-"Probably mourning." - Ruby said with a bit of sorrow at the idea.
-"Yes... Yes..." - Velvet repested those words in silence, before finally letting her excitment explode. - "YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!"
-"Oh, you look adorable" - Coco said before pulling Velvet and ruffling her hair.
-"Coco! Stop!" - Velvet complained between laughs.
-"As long as she isn't bawling her eyes out." - Salem said with a bit of hostility, but unable to hide her small smile.
Back at the arena, Jaune noticed something. He turned to the place were his firends were at and gave a respectful bow. His thanks were met swings of the hand saying hello, thumb up and smiles of happiness.
-"JAUNE!" - The audience kept cheering on and on. - "JAUNE!"
-"I know those cheers aren't for me." - Jaune said while covering his face in embarrasment. - "But I cannot help but feel something similar butterflies in my stomach when hearing them chant my name."
-"Oh, stop being so bashful Vomit Boy, enjoy it even if it is for a little bit." - Yang said while patting Jaune's back.
"Phew... so damn loud." - Jaune "complained", he was smiling at all moments. - "It's my very first win... can't you let it soak a little first?"
-"Heh, typical geezer." - Cardin laughed in good faith. - "Alway complaining about soimething."
Among the cheeirng humans there was a single person refusing to join the party, and that was Salem.
-'O, gods... feast your eyes...' - Salem thought with a cocky smile. - 'This is... humanity's potentital!'
-"Oh no." - Ozpin suddenly said, pulling the teachers around him out of their happy stupor.
-"What's wrong sir?" - Oobleck asked Ozpin, just to be responded by someone he wasn't expecting.
-"This is no longer a game." - Salem said with a loud voice, almost as if wanting to announce it to everyone.
Back at the VIP stands of the gods.
-"No way..." - Hugging said, his beak wide open.
-"A god really lost to a..." - Mugging said with a similar tone to that of his brother.
Bit before the bird could finish that sentence, as if commanding Mugging to shut up, Qrow crushed the armrests of his chair, scaring the poor crow.
-"Aww man~" - Emerald said with an amused tone, while massing with her hair. Before her expression changed to an angry one, the first time in the whole tournament she showed any semblance of seriousness. - "This... is a really shitty excuse for a joke."
-"I see." - Ironwood whispered. - "Even after proving that we can harm them, even after Tai put such an incredible performance, the gods kept looking at this entire situation like it was nothing but a game."
-"Why wouldn't they?" - Clover commented with a venomous tone. - "This is the first time we win, and because of that... they will no longer accept losses."
Behind Jaune, a small rock path had been created over the water that was between him and the exit.
-"I gotta walk back, eh...?" - Jaune said with a tired tone. - "Guess it's better than rowing though..." - The moment Jaune tried to give single step forwards, he began to fall towards the ground. - "Damn that one really... took it's toll on me."
-"Jaune!" - Pyrrha exclaimed, she had been so distracted by the topic at hand that she had forgotten how tired her partner's orignal was.
-"That is going to hurt." - Mercury said while flinching, generally it wouldn't but the man right now was absolutely destryoed.
As Jaune fell to the ground the blades in his hands began to demateralized into frangments of light.
-"Ah!" - Velvet exclaimed the moment she noticed what was happening to Jaune.
The pieces of light that the swords had transformed into reunatied besides Jaune, combining to become Hrist.
-"Jaune... keep it together!" - Hrist said while catching the tired man. - "Are you alright?" - She asked with concern.
-"What do you want?" - Winter asked a staring Qrow, with a very "well" contained anger.
-"So you like them older?" - Qrow asked with a mocking smile. - "Or I guess that here it will younger right?"
-"I will hurt you." - Winter informed the man while sinking her finger into his chest.
-"Yeah..." - Jaune responded with a pained smile. - "Looks like I gotta relly on you for everything, Miss Monoshizao..."
-"Sister Hrist!" - Velvet screamed in relief at the sight of her sister.
Velvet smiled at her original's reaction, it was well justified as well, after all this was the first time a valkyrie and fighter came out of a fight alive.
The change was almost inmediate, a bunch of veins began to be marked sround Hrist's face.
-"Do you gotta squeal about every fuckin' thing!?" - Hrist's angry personality exclaimed while helping Jaune get back on his feet, scaring Velvet.
That made Velvet's smile dissapear, and for expression to change into a slightly terrified face.
-"Between the two I think I like the angry one the most." - Salem said with sincerity.
-"Of course you do." - Winter whispered in exasperation.
But even with the sudden outburst, Hrist couldn't help but smile and lift a thumb towards Velvet. - "I told ya before, Velvet. That we'd get 'em back for everythin'."
-"I'll admit... it was pretty cool." - Salem said with a quite whisper, not wanting the girl to hear the compliment.
-"Yes!" - Velvet screamed, having regained her smile.
With that final goodbye both Jaune and Hrist began their way out of the arena.
-'I'm so glad... She's the same as ever... She's alright.' - Velvet continued to think in relief at the sight of finally one of her sisters surviving the Ragnarok. - "With this humanity has beated the gods right?"
-"...No." - Salem responded with a serious tone. - "Still... six more to go..."
-"She is right." - Watts admitted, pleasing his misstres in the way. - "To sleep in our laurels would be a foolish mistake, in this race we have only given the first step forward."
-"It all depends on the next fighter." - Weiss said, reluctantly agreeing with the crimilan while doing so. - "If we lose we will be right where we were."
-"Then he or she better be a fucking unit of a warriror." - Roman added while taking a puff from his cigar.
That declaration left Velvet speechless, to the see the sister who she thought would be celebrating the most showing such a serious expression. - 'Dear Sister... you really intend to defeat the Gods don't you...?'
-"Did she think I was kidding?" - Salem asked with an offended tone.
-"No, I think she thought you were only intending to get a win." - Blake was the only one brave enough to answer. - "The fact that you want to win the full thing must have been quite the impossibility in her mind."
-"Of course I want to win the whole thing! Humanity depends on it." - Salem responded with a dignified tone.
After Salem admitted to wanting to protect humanity a smile appeared on Ozpin's face.
- "Well that is her reason, I just want to see the pride of the gods being shattered and then them groveling at my feet in distraught over losing against humanity."
Ozpin's smile dissapeared.
The scene changed once again, instead of showing the dark room where Salem chose her fighters it was showing a enormous palace where.
And in that palace, in one of the many rooms that it possesed, there was a bandaged hand gently picking up a cup of tea. The fool room was shown, in a gigantic couch was an still beaten up Ozpin, almost sinking on the piece of furniture. Besides him were Oobleck at the right and Hei at the left.
-"He doesn't seem to be sad." - Ruby said with a surprising quantity of agression. She really disliked this version of proffesor Ozpin, he was the one that basically started this whole mess, he was the one that killed her dad and now he was acting like the death of his brother was nothing, it was pissing her off!
-"Of course he wouldn't." - Raven told the girl like it was obvious. - "OG Neptune lost because he was weaker, nothing else, nothing more."
-"You look awfully sure of those words." - Qrow said with an enourmous quantity of venom in his words. - "Especially after that expression that you showed when OG Tai died."
-"I do not recall making any sort of expression, brother." - Raven said, not even bithering to look at Qrow's eyes.
-"So... what's with everyone's faces?" - Ozpin asked while gently drinking of his cup, cup that almost flew out of his hands the moment a very furious Yang hit the table infront of him. - "Oh my!"
-"This ain't the time to fuck around! Old Man!" - Yang snarled at the God, her face contorning in anger.
-"Your brother Neptune was just butchered." - Emerald said with an unusually serious tone. - "Pretty calm, aren't you?"
-"The fact that the crazy Em is saying it just proves how serious the situation is." - Mercury said while crossing his arms.
-"What?" - Emerald asked when she noticed that Illia was staring at her.
-"Aren't you going to insult him?" - The faunus asked in confusion, she thought the two if them had a bad relationship.
-"Well, generally I would but right now he is saying the truth, my original is demented." - Emerald said with difficulty not wanting to agree with Mercury but having to.
-"Hmm... well... that human was stronger than Neptune." - Ozpin answered after giving it some thought, he then began to slowly put the cup of tea back on the table. - "That's all there is to it."
-"Well ain't you proud sis?" - Qrow said with a voice overflowing with sarcasm. - "You're agreeing with the man that wants to kill us all."
Raven simply gave a response that could either be taken as, "shut up" or "fuck you".
-"Besides... you've all seen the fights. You should know..." - As Ozpin spoke, it was as if somekind of fire began to come out of his body. "What these battles entail."
-"Quiet anger." - Pyrrha said, she didn't recognize it by apperance but she could feel the chill on her body.
This words were the cause of the sudden silence in the room, a silence that spoke more than any word that could be ever spoken.
-"Phew... Let us first admit..." - Ozpin began to talk again after sitting on the couch. - "That humanity is strong." - After saying those words, silence was once again created not a single one of them denying those words. - "It seems that the little valkyrie girl inteds to overthrow us. Knowing this, we should respond."
-"Yeah, just as thought." - Ozpin said with a slight frown on his face. - "They are not planning on playing around anymore."
-"Or at least they understand that this situation is one where they need to go all out." - Oobleck reasoned as well. - "They now know that the main reason of why OG Neptune was killed was because of his arrogance, they would chastite any type of similar attitude."
-"Now that's been settled..." - Yang said while getting off her chair, and inmediatly an intense battle aura being emaneted from her body. - "I'm up next! I'm not gonna let those little shits get cocky!"
-"Ah... About that..." - Ozpin spoke up, runing Yang's moment.
-"Man, even I feel frustated." - Yang commented with a sigh of dissapointment.
-"You know you would be fighting for the gods instead of humanity right?" - Blake asked the blonde with an inquisitive look.
-"I know... but it would be so cool."
-"What now!? Another one of your selfish requests!?" - Yang screamed in frustation, two of her hands up on her head to show her annoyance and the other two being lifted in fists.
-"My most sincere... apologies, but..." - As he spoke various veins began to explode at the top if his bald head, making Emerald and Yang back away a little. - "Shouldn't we of the greek pantheon, repay this favor they've given us in kind?"
Ozpin's muscles began to grow, not to the extent of when he was fighting but grow enough that they began to destroy the bandages that covered his body. And he wasn't the only one mad, the previously useless Hei was now showing a face full of anger and the emotionless Oobleck had an expression that just like with Qrow promised silent anger.
-"So the reason to win is to regain their lost pride." - Salem commented at seeing the reaction of the members of said pantheon. - "Wonder if when that will ever happen."
-"Ever happen?" - Cardin asked in confusion.
-"Correct, because now that we are finally winning there is no way we will lose a single match from this point onwards." - Salem said with an extremily smug expression. - "You'll see, this tournament will be over once round nine takes place."
-"Magnificent my Queen!" - Tyrian exclaimed while clapping as the madman he was. - "You speak nothing but the truth!"
-"Just after I said not to be overconfident." - Oobleck commented with an exasperated sigh.
-"Hmm..." - Emerald hummed in interes at the reactions of the greeks.
-"Heh..." - Yang laughed a little in an attempt to relax. - "Damn... guess it can't be helped..." - She then sat down, but not before giving a final silent complaint. - "I swear, you greek gods..."
-"So this is a common occurance in the pantheon." - Weiss said.
We change the scene once again, instead of the interior of the palace the view that welcomed the viewers was the familiar white corridors that formed the interior of the stadium. And in said corridor was Salem walking through them with a fast pace.
-"The god's insufferable pride won't permit them to lose twice in a row..." - Salem told Velvet while the two kept walking. - "This next battle is one they cannot lose. They'll be giving their all..."
-"Who do you think they'll send?" - Velvet asked her sister.
-"Let's see.. we can discard that Buddha, Emerald, Qrow and Yang." - Weiss listed the name of the gods. - "None of them belongs to the greek pantheon for what we have seen, and the only remaining option is Heracles along with snother six gods."
-"Then I bet it will be Hracles." - Roman commented.
-"I bet it will be someone else." - Mercury said with a confident tone.
-'He is an idiot.' - Neo signed in Roman's direction. - 'Make it double.'
-"Me." - A pretty familiar voice said infront of the valkiries.
-"ISn't that voice familiar?" - Tai asked his drunk friend.
-"Yeah, just a bit..." - Qrow began to make gestures with his hands, as if trying to grasp the correct word. - "Kinder."
Suddenly an inmese pressure began to be emanated from the place the voice had come from stopping both valkiries right were they stood.
-"This preassure..." - Velvet commented with surprise.
-"Please don't be another case of Nora." - Ruby begged, she had to use all of her will power to contain her horror after NEptune's death, if she were to witness another eviseration like that she would be puking all over the place.
Infront of the two girls was a muscular figure, wielding a club on one of it's hands. The figure was incredibly tall, maybe a it was as tall as Nora herself.
-"Ah...!" - Velvet shouted when she recognized the identity of the figure.
Then something unvelivable happened, Velvet began to run towards the figure a look of seriousness never seen before imprinted on her face. She then began to prepare her fist raising it in order to crash, seeing this motion the figure began to smile and began ro rise the arm carrying the mace.
-"Velvet!?" - Yatsuhashi cried in horror.
-"She lost it!" - Fox exclaimed in shock.
-"What are you doing you dolt!?" - Winter exclaimed in a panick at the aparent sucidal march of the girl.
Without even herself knowing it, Salem's entire body tensed in worry.
-"Is she gonna be okay?" - Coco calmly asked the girl sitting besides her.
-"I don't know why, but I feel like she will be fine." - Velvet said with a confused tone, why would she feel like charging at the the next fighter would be good idea.
And then, both the now on the light woman and Velvet crossed their arms as a friendly geeting, smiling at each other. The figure was revealed to be none other than Raven Brawen, a muscular version of Raven by the way and with a hair red like fire.
-"Sister Heracles!" - Velvet exclaimed in happines the moment her and Heracle's arm clashed.
-"Haha, you've gotten big, Velvet!" - Heracles said happy as well.
-'I think awakened in me.' - Tai thought the moment he saw his ex-wife sporting those bulging muscles.
-"Eh?" - Yang Xiao Long looked at the original, muscular version of her mother with a confsed expression. Was it the change of hair that confused her? No. Was it the sudden gain in muscle? No. It was the fact that she was smiling in such a genuine way.
-"Huh." - Qrow commented while staring at he sister's original. - "She seems... like an actual human being."
-"What is that supposed to mean?" - Raven asked with a threatening tone.
-"That generally you act as a damn animal that scavanges, kills for food and abandons it's pups at an early age, rather than an actual human being who tries to connect with those he holds dear." - Blake answered the question the woman asked, just to be given the same glare Qrow would have recieved. - "Hey, you asked."
After that, Velvet simply held onto Heracles's arm, hanging from it, just like a little sibling would to to their father or older sibling. Infront of them, Salem gave a respectful bow before talking.
-"It has been a while..." - Salem said with respectful yet friendly tone. - "Sister Heracles."
-"Even she acts in a formal way." - Ozpin said surprised.
-"She used that tone with OG Nora as well." - Ironwood commented.
-"Yeah, but when she talked to me it was as if she was forced to treat me with respect." - Nora explained the general with her usual upbeat tone. - "In this case it feels genuine."
-"It sure has Salem." - Heracles said, her tone similar to the one Salem used yet her was more of the tone a member of your familiy would use. - "You're just as polite as ever, huh?"
-"I'm glad you're as healthy as ever too." - Salem decided to add.
-"Is that... friendly banter?" - Cinder asked in confusion, to think her misstress would act in this way was almost alien to her.
-"A god that does not fully despise me? What a shock." - Salem admitted.
-"Heh. Pretty sure you've gotten stronger, though." - Heracled added a smile still on her face.
-"...Speaking of which, that response earlier would imply..." - Salem said, there was somber tone in her voice that indicated she disliked the implications give.
-"Yeah..." - Heracles said with an extremily serious voice and face. - "I'm going to be the one appearing in the next fight."
-"Man this is some bullshit." - Yang commented in frustation. - "Why does the other version of my mother is an actual good person? I would have enjoyed this far mush if she was a bitch like here."
-"What!?" - Raven screamed in outraged at her own daughter's comment.
-"Don't be so shocked, she may have searched for you, but that does no imply she has any emotional connection to you." - Tai said with a sudden bitter tone.
The moment those word were uttered the whole ambiance of the scene changed, the smiles were replaced by eyes that refused to show any semblance of emotion. The only one worried was Velvet, who was looking at Salem with worry.
-"Although it is not my place to say this..." - Salem said while kneeling down. - "I wish you... good luck."
-"Yeah... you too." - Heracles said relieved that there would be no bad blood, but regretful at the fact she had to fight.
-"Man, now I feel bad for having to see her die." - Salem said, suddenly getting annoyed. - "Talk about a mood downer."
The scene changed once again, this time showing Heracles walking up a spiral staricase outside of a tower. Behind her, a sudden swirl began to generate in the middle of the air, catching her attention.
-"And of course she is here." - Roman said with a but of anger. - "I can admire the god of mischief, but to actually see her being this destructive towards us, it just pisses me off."
-"I think that's her intention." - Emerald said with a sweatdrop.
-"I saw that~" - Emerald said, floating in the air and using a teasing tone. - "You sure get along with the valkyries, don't cha? Heracles-chan.~"
Heracles simply looked at Emerald in silence, before continuing her walk towards the top of the tower.
-"That's the best way to deal with people like her, ignore her and she will go away." - Weiss said, she no longer wanted to see her.
-"What about Cardin?" - Ruby asked the heiress, ignoring Cardin's bullying towards Jaune had only made it worse.
-"A good kick to the groin." - Coco answered.
-"Then why didn't you used that?" - Blake asked with confusion. - "He was tormenting Velvet after all."
-"He bullied Velvet once, and guess the reason why he stopped." - Coco said while smiling confidently.
-"Oh I get it." - Emerald, floating above Heracles and appering right infron of his face. - "Though our pantheons may be far apart in geography... they're both full of half-assed demigods, huh?" - Emerald kept talking, trying to break Heracles's calm. She couped her face between her hands. - "Isn't this going to hard for you~?
-"So she is a demigod." - Clover said as if that answered everything.
-"That must be the reason she gets along with the valkyries." - Elm said with a smile.
This question simply made Heracles smirk, surprising even Emerald.
-"Humanity is a fearsome foe..." - Heracles said while looking Emerald straight at the eyes. - "As representative for the gods... and as a military man, I intend to have a fair fight."
-"Shit, she is self aware." - Salem muttered, she really was expecting that the she was as arrogant as the previous one, now the next fighter would need to have a good card under his sleeve.
-"Hmm... Hope that works for you." - Emerald said with a condecending tone.
-"Emerald... Let me just say one thing to you..." - Heracles said freeing herself from Emerald's hands. - "I'm opposed to ending humanity."
-"Huh?" - Ruby commented in suprise as the revelation. - "Then... why didn't she do anything to stop humanity's destruction!?"
-"...OG Emerald did say she was a demigoddess." - Winter answered. - "Like we know the valkyries are demigods as well, but they didn't have any voice in the council of the gods apart form invoking the Ragnarok."
-"Which means that demigods cannot vote for humanity's survival." - Ironwood summarized everthing that Winter just said, clearly frustated at the revelation.
-"Man, that is some bull." - Qrow said while crossing his arms in frustation.
When Heracles said those words, the entire face of Emerald darkened her expression showed that if Heracles were to said another word similat to it, the two women will fight.
-"Another situation similar to the one between OG Ozpin and OG Yang." - Sun commented, after recognizing the tension between the two.
-"Let's hope they kill each other in this case though." - Adam said, still holding his stomach in pain.
-"However... ever since Ragnarok started, I've had no intention of losing." - Heracles added to her explanation, before she began to exclaimed. - "As a representative of the gods, I will win without a shadow of doubt!" - She screamed with a such a loud voice Emerald was almost blown away.
-"So, while she does oppose our deads, she will follow the command of the gods." - Raven said with bitter tone. - "Damn dog."
-"...On top of that I will move to save humanity...!" - Heracles said with an unparalleled determination.
-"Heh." - Emerald laughed, a mocking smile on her face whn she heard Heracles's desire. - "You haven't changed a bit... you don't know whose side you're on."
Both of their expressions met, Emerald's smug and knowing expression against Heracles's angry and determinated one.
-"I'm always..." - Heracled began to talk again, this time while turning around in order to continue ascending the stairs. - "Always on the side of justice."
-"And she is also that type of person." - Raven said with an even more frustated tone, what was her original thinking?! The only way to become stronger was to ensure a life withouth distractions and joining the side that suits you better! Not all that damn talk about justice and the kind.
-"I have never been more jealous in my entire life." - Yang commented a little depressed, if this had been her mother she was sure she wouldn't have walked away.
As she saw the woman walk away, Emerald began to play with her hair. - "Justice, huh?" - She repeated with an unconvinced tone.
The scene changed one more time, this time it was showing the room were the fighters for humanity were chosen in. And not only that but the valkyries entering said room, Salem went to the lonely table inside of the room and began to make her desicion of which of the ten remaining fighters should go next.
-"I see... our fourth opponent will be sister Heracles..." - Salem said aloud, making the already worried expression that Velvet sported even more worried.
-"...That's right. I don't know which side... to cheer for." - Velvet admitted, ashamed at the fight she couldn't fully support humanity during this fight.
-"For us." - Salem said with a harsh tone. - "Are you having second thoughts or something?!"
-"No! But... she seems so kind, I don't want her to die." - Velvet said a little ashamed of herself.
-"Get rid of those doubts, we have a task at hand right now, after all even I do not like the idea of her dying here."
-"Yes..." - Salem said while sticking out her tongue almost as if she was tasting the words themselves. - "Troubling indeed..."
-"Ah." - Ozpin said with a frown. - "Yeah that's the Salem I remember."
-"That aside, who can even stand up to sister Heracles?" - Velvet asked her sister looking her straing to the eye, making Salem cover mouth in order to hide her expression.
-"Hmm..." - Salem hummed a little before revealing a little secret to Velvet. - "I had prepared the perfect opponent for him from the beginning."
-"So she had someone planned, just like with OG Nora." - Ren commented, he then began to think about it. - "The only fighters that I can remember are Raiden Tameemon, Qin Shi Huang and Jack the Ripper."
-"Hmmm, I bet that it's gonna be... Jack." - Qrow commented after putting some thought into it.
-"Oh that reminds me." - Roman said before looking at Mercury you owe us kid."
-"I didn't really bet anything, so no I owe you nothing." - Mercury said with a smile.
-"Kid that may work with me, but with her?" - Roman said before pointing at Neo, who was looking at him with threatining look. - "That isn't going to convince her at all, I bet for Qin by the way."
-"Raideen." - Yang said sure of her decision.
-"...Eh?" - Velvet said, looking at her sister in surprise. - "...Eh?"
-"Among all~ of humanity~ I chose~ the most~ despicable, scum on earth." - Salem began to sing a little while looking for the face of the fighter, just for her expression to turn into one full of anger the moment she saw the man's face.
-"Then it's Jack." - Weiss said, if the woman was calling him scum then it must be the person with Ripper in his name.
-"Drats." - Both Yang and Roman said in frustation.
-"Well would you look at that, guess do have some luck after all." - When he was about to celebrate, Qrow began to pull out his flask, just for not having a very good grip and causing the interior to spill over the floor. - "Fuck."
Just like with Sun the image began to load, the man wasn't shown to the audience but it was shown to Velvet who could simply give an answer.
-"Eh?" - Velvet worriedly said while looking at the man.
The stands were shown once again, some humans were discussing with excitment who the next fighter could be, some others were still talking about the victory they acomplushed during the fprevious round.
The talks were silenced once a sudden light was turned on in the middle of the arena, and being illuminated by it was none other than Port.
-"AND NOW FOR THE FOURTH BATTLE OF RAGNAROK!" - Port announced with an incredibly dramatic voice. - "THE GODS STAND AT TWO WINS... HUMANITY TRAILING AT ONE..." - More lights were turned on, now it was revealed that Port was standing on the middle of a street. - "AND NOW WE WELCOME THE TURNING POINT OF THE EARLY STAGES!"
-"We need Jack to be careful" - Ozpin comented. - "If the gods sent Heracles it must be because she in fairly powerful."
-"A street?" - Kali asked, this was a tremndous change from the typical arena were gladiators used to fight till one of the two collapses.
-"Another scenary change." - Guira said. - "Wonder how the arena looks like"
-"Also, how does she relate to streets, aren't god supposesed to be incredibly old?" - Whitley asked in confusion.
-"Maybe the arena isn't for her." - Marrow said with squinted eyes.
It wasn't just a streets, but lines of gigantic buildings were shown and standing between them was none other than Port himself. The screen panned out even more, and the revelation was made, it was not a simple street, but an quadrant of the city of London!
The Big Ben, streets lamps, coffee shops, tailors, bakeries, it was an scenary that showed just how inmense the coliseum actually was.
-"Wow." - Neptune said while the arena was being showed to them. - "They really outdid themselves."
-"How are they gonna watch the fight though?" - Penny asked in a curious tone. - "They covered the perimeter with walls.
-"Whoa it's huge!" - A human said, but due to the building now the fight was being shown to be transmitted to them by various screens. - "Looks like the largest so far."
-"So we'll be watching it on monitors this time..." - A memeber of the gods noted while looking at the multiple camera angles the screen provided.
-"...For a group of people that are suppossed to have existed during ancient tiomes, they are incredibly advanced." - Penny admitted.
-"Does this make the viewing experience better or worse?" - Oscar asked in confusion.
-"Well, we are watching it throught a screen and up until now it has been pretty awesome." - Mercury said. - "I guess that it depends on who the cameraman is."
-"There's a whole town in the stadium...!?" - Another human screamed in a shock. - "How are they gonna fight in there?"
-"THE CITY STANDING BEFORE YOU IS 19th CENTURY LONDON!" - The screen showed some crows carrying something using ropes. - "THIS FIELD WAS CHOSEN AT THE REQUEST OF HUMANITY'S REPRESENTATIVE... AND THE GODS, IN THEIR INFINITE COMPASSION, ACCEPTED!"
-"What?" - Whitley asked confused.
His words seemed to make the gods at the stands even more excited, maybe believing that because if the god gave the upper hand to the human that meant he was confident on winning the fight.
-"A HISTORY FIRST!" - The screen was now showing that the thing that the crows were carrying was Port, who was being transported by them while sitting on a simple piece of wood. - "THE FIRST STREET FIGHT BETWEEN GODS AND HUMANITY!"
-"Street fights." - Junior said with an almost nostalgic tone. - "Where everything is allowed and were lying and playing tricks against the opponent is the most import part."
Besides him the twins sighed in yearning for the good ol' simple times.
-"So he is saying that the gods just accepted a request from humanity...?" - A human asked summarizing the entirety of the situation.
-"Why?" - Another human asked confused, hadn't the gods lost the last fight?
-"Shut it lowly humans!" - A god shouted in order to save their pride. - "Consider this a fighting handicap, you fools!"
-"I mena, i'm sure she accpeted because she wanted fair fight." - Oscar said a little uncormftable at talking around so many strange people, that even though some had introduced themselves it was still weird. - "But the gods are misinterpreting her intentions."
-"Sincerly to give your oppnent an advantage." - Raven said even more angry than before. - "Is the original me braindead or something?"
The screen panned away from the complaining gods and now was showing the two valkyries that we are all familiar with.
-"Make sense that 'He' would request this... and that sister Heracles would accept..." - Velvet said with a bitter tone.
-'I knew she'd accept...' - Salem thought while giving an evil glare to the arena. - 'Oh, how naive.'
-"She is playing the fact that she trusts her." - Ruby realized before frowning at the version in the room. - "You're quite the meanie."
-"Kid, I have killed children." - Salem said, why did this child remind her of someone?
The new door for humanity's fighter was shown, an alleyway obscured by the shadows from where an incredible amount of mist coming out of it.
-"WELL THEN... I WONDER WHAT KIND OF BATTLE THEY'LL SHOW US IN THIS SPECIAL ARENA...?" - Port began to narrate once again, but some of the spectators were way to focus on the strange door to notice what was happening. - "REPRESENTING HUMANITY IN THE FOURTH BATTLE..."
Finally the first part of the fighter was shown, an elegant shoe walking though the corridor that the alleway created.
-"ON THE 31ST OF AUGUST, 1888AD..." - The man kept walking with an elegant and steady pace, the street lampst that paved his way doing little to nothing to show his features. - "THIS MONSTER EMERGED FROM THE DEPTHS OF SHADOW ENSHROUDING THE CITY..."
-"I already dislike him." - Weiss said, she was furstated why does a serial killer has to be the representative of humanity!?
-"I alredy like him." - Tyrian said with a maniacal grin. He felt like this jack fella and him would be great friends.
-"WHO WERE THE TRUE VICTIMS OF HIS SHARP FANGS? THE LIVES OF FIVE PROSTITUTES...? NAY!" - As Port kept talking various newspapers were thrown into the air, each of them talking a different crime commited by this horrible man. - "HUMAN SOCIETY AS A WHOLE...? NAY!" - Finally the face of the man was shown, or at least it would have been shown, had not been for the Guy Fawkes mask covering his face. - "IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THIS MAN CAST THE ENTIRETY OF LONDON INTO CHAOS... THE DARKEST OF EVILS..."
-"So his main victims were prostitutes." - Militai said, they were easy objectives really.
-"Those are apparently the ones they know he commited." - Roman said, he was trying to look at the man's outfit, he liked the shoes after all. - "IF he is anything as Neo his body count is something that you'll be unable to count withouth adding ten more hands."
When the good guys looked at Neo she simply responded with an innocent smile... and a kick to the back of Jaune's chair.
Part of the mist passed infront of him, the shadow that the light generated looked nothing akin to a human, but a demon. - "DEVOTED TO THE INSEPARABLE DARKNESS OF HIS SOUL. HE IS KNOWN AS..." - Every single human present was looking at the man, almost as they were hipnotized by the pressence of the man. - "HUMANITY'S MOST INFAMOUS SERIAL KILLER!"
Three crows flew over the man, each of them carrying a reflector that made the figure of the man almost shine. He was dressed up in a gabardine, he was using a pair gloves that holded a magnifcent cane, from his shoes to his hat every single bit of the man screamed elegance.
-"Phew." - Roman whistled at the sight of the outfil - "Finally someone who knows how to dres up."
-"What is that supposed to mean?" - Tai asked a little offended, Sun and Jaune were looking at him with similar faces.
-"You wnt wearing only a pair of pants." - Roman said while pointing a finger at Sun. - "You wen full commando." - He said while pointing at a slightly embarrassed Tai. - "And you... you were kinda okay, buy still nothing compared to the outfit this guy is wearing!"
-"JACK." - The man grabbed his mask. - "THE." - and threw it up into the air, the mask breaking into hundreds of little pieces the moment it crashed against the floor. - "RIPPER." - Finally the man looked up, his face being revealed to everyone.
-"Grandpa!?" - Weiss, Winter and Whitle exclaimed in shock. Infront of them was none other than Nicholas Schnee himself, a version that only had a moustache instead of the full on beard but still someone that could only be recognized as a Schnee.
-"Well that maked things easier." - Adam said before lifting a fist and shouting. - "Kill him slowly and brutally!"
In his chair Jaques began to practilcally crush his armrests, he feared no one and nothing. Why would the riched man in Remnant had to fear? The money was always on his side and even if he did something bad he could alway use his influence to escape. But ley Jaques admit something, the only thing he fears... is Nicholas Schnee the man that if he were to revive would not only throw him to the street, but also have him arrested and poor.
Willow stared at the man on the screen in confusion. That was Nicholas, that was her father, but there was something odd about him, something different, and it was not the fact that he was a serial killer.
Besides her, Whitley felt something. A void, a place were the little love he had recieved had simply dissapeared. Why?
And that was the moment in which the entirety of hell was let loose.
-"Jack the Ripper!?" - One of the poliece officers that investigated the case exclaimed.
-"The hell!?" - Another police officer wearing the same uniform screamed as well.
-"KYAAAAH!" - A woman screamed.
-"You serious!?" - A man that seemed to live during the time of Jack exclaimed. - "In the flesh!?"
-"History's greatest criminal mystery will finally be solved before our very eyes..." - One reporter began to scream, a camera on his hands and man besides him was taking notes. - "No... before that..."
-"Why is a cutthroat murderer!" - The police officer began before the reporter finished the sentence. - "Representing humanity!"
-"And jusdging by the exression of the various heroes here." - Salem said while looking around the room. - "It seems like there is somekind of internal conflict in here as well."
-"Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!"
-"Well not with him." - Salem said, not that the guy counted as a hero but still.
Back at the VIP section for the gods, Emerald was laying on a couch watching the fight through one of the monitors that appeared.
-"Oho..." - Emerald commented while eating some chips. - "I see... so this is how you want to play it..." - Emerald then put two chips on her mouth in order to make a suck face, still smiling in a sadisctic manner. - "...Just as always... you're an unpleasant woman."
*Gulp* - Emrald looked at Salem, who only gave a threatening glare in respose and causing the poor girl to hide deep into the chair.
-"Don't try to hide." - Cinder warned the girl - "It will only make it worse."
While Salem looked at the fight from an a place higher than any other member of the audience.
-"AND FACING HIM..." - From the gate of the godsm two horses began to come out. - "STANDS THIS WOMAN THAT INTENDS TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF RETAKING THE GOD'S FIRST LOSS." - The sound of the horse hooves resonated along with the sound of wheels. - "HERE SHE IS!"
-"Let's see if she can make an even better entrance than his." - Harriet said with a little but of an upbeat tone.
-"By the horses I believe she will run some laps around the city." - Clover said with a smile, after seeing that scary entrance he was sure something more epic would cheer part of the audience.
-"THIS GALLANT DEMIGODDESS FORCED BOTH THE NEMEAN LION... AND CERBERUS, THE HOUND OF *****... INTO SUBMISSION WITH HER BARE FISTS!" - As Port talked Heracles riding her chariot began to fully come out of the door, the preassure she was emitting began to give away her identity to those that knew her. - "AFTER CLEARING THE 12 LABORS ASSIGNED TO HER, SHE ASCENDED TO THE STEPS OF OLYMPUS!"
-"Twelve labors?" - Weiss reapeated confused. - "Also what was with the bleep?"
-"Information that still does not concern any of you." - Salt Frog informed the heiress.
Finally Heracles stopped her horses, which neighed in response. - "SHE SHINES LIGHT UPON BOTH GOD AND MAN, THE ENVOY OF JUSTICE!"
-"The superhero of the gods." - Nora realized while giving a big smile.
Under the attentive gaze of Jack, Heracles began to descend from her vehicle. And along with her, she pulled something out of the cerrige with so much force that most of the mist had been cleared. - "UNPARALLELED IN BRAVERY!" - The mace that she was wielding before was shown better, it's lion head design being in full view, and finanlly she clahsed the mace against the ground, adopting a royal posture. - "HERACLES."
-"That was..." - Vine tried to find the words to describe the entrace without being rude.
-"Shit compared to some of the ones before." - Roman said without any sense of tact.
Differently to the human who had been critiziced by the audience, the gods began to scream in joy at the sight of the goddess.
-"Heracles-sama!" - A god among the audience screamed at the top of his longs.
-"YEEEEAAAAAH!" - A group of gods exclaimed in unison.
-"Go, Heracles-sama!" - One of the children in the audience cheered, like she was somekind of heroine.
-"Don't give into evil!" - Another child screamed making a little dance out of joy at the sight of such a powerful warrior.
-"Our eternal hero!" - A chorus of voices shouted in happiness. - "Go for it!"
-"They really do love her, huh?" - Yang said with a smile. - "Wonder if I could cheer for her, even if just once." - She muttered to herself.
-"The villain against the hero, but in this it's the hero fighting for the destruction of humanity." - Wattsa cited before smiling. - "Let's see how the good cheers for the killer to win."
Finally the little bridge that Heracles used to cross to this side was lifted, clossing the means of escape for any of the fighters. Both of them looked at each other, the difference in height being clear, ans their expression marking their wills.
-"JUSTICE VS EVIL, EVIL VS JUSTICE." - Port narrated in order to increase the expectation for the battle. - "IN ALL THE BATTLES LEADING UP TO NOW, HAS THERE EVER BEEN ONE SO CLEAR OUT!?" - Finally both fighters adopted their fighting positions or in Jack's case a gentle bow. - "FIGHT!"
THE FOURTH BATTLE OF RAGNAROK... BEGINS NOW!