Chapter 34: Let's Break the Ice

"Can I decline?" I really had to know if I at least could.

"Mister Sapphire, if you do not be ready in the next five minutes."

"Alright! Alright!" Man, it was just a question. There's no need to be upset about it. I got up and began to walk.

"Good luck!" "Fight well." Nora and Ren both say to me and I nod my head.

As I pass them I see Pyrrha also nod her head to me and I give her a thumbs up, but as I pass Jaune, I see him lost in his thoughts. Well so much for him.

"Don't worry John, I'll beat her quick." I tell him but he doesn't respond. Man, he is really out of it. Oh well, surely this is nothing.

As I entered the locker room I began to change to my combat attire. I zipped my jacket all the way up and grabbed my last three grenades left that I didn't use in initiation and placed them around my belt.

'Okay, so all I have left is Gravity, Wind, and Hardlight. That will be fine, I also have my secret weapon just in case things go badly.' I tap my pants pocket and feel it there. 'Good hopefully Sunday I can go to Vale and get more dust, so I can make more.' I then picked up my last few shotgun shells, seeing that I only had twelve left.

Great, there's a lot more shopping to do. Maybe we can all go to Vale and see the city.

I grabbed my weapon and reloaded it, once everything was set I placed it on my back, fixed my scarf well around my body, and put my gloves on. Soon I leave the locker room to go and fight the Ice Queen.

'I feel like this was meant to happen eventually. Well better get it over with now. I swear, am I a magnet for people who hate me or what?'

Stepping outside the locker room, I see the room actually change. The seats that we were all sitting on were now rising and the only thing in the center was the ring that we were going to fight.

'Well, at least I can shoot without actually hitting anyone.' I walk to the middle of the ring and wait for Weiss to come out.

Meanwhile in the stands.

"Drats! I can't believe Weiss beat me to it first." Yang said as she crossed her arms.

"It's strange that Weiss wants to fight first. But then again She and Seth haven't really gotten along too well." Blake said while reading a book.

"I hope those two at least get along after this. They are my friends so I really don't wish to choose sides now. Or worse." Ruby said with anticipation.

"Don't worry Rubes I'm sure they won't kill each other."

"Not helping Yang."

Close to them, the rest of Seth's team were also discussing on the matter.

"So what can we expect from him?" Ren said to Pyrrha.

"I'm hoping that Seth doesn't go overboard."

"Why?"

"Let's just say, he tends to follow in his Mom's footsteps when he fights. So I am praying right now that he at least takes it easy on Weiss."

"How bad can he be? We have seen him fight, he mostly dances around and strikes."

"That's him fighting Grimm. When he fights people..." Pyrrha looks in the center of the ring and sees Seth stretching around. "He tends to kick and grab a lot."

"Cool! Well, let's cheer for him no matter what!" Nora said with anticipation.

Meanwhile Jaune at the moment wasn't paying too much attention to the others, mostly he was looking around him trying to find someone. Once he spotted the person, he hoped that he would at least avoid him for now.


It took ruffly around another two minutes as Weiss began to walk out of her locker room. Seeing this Seth began to stand up as his opponent began to get close.

Both fighters met in the middle with the professor and waited for them to start.

"Now students, I hope both of you are ready to begin. I expect that the two of you will follow the rules that have been implemented here and follow every command that I give out." Professor Goodwitch looked at the two, seeing Weiss nod her head and Seth nod as well.

"Very well. At my signal, you two may begin. The match ends when one of the two Aura lands below fifteen percent, or when the other gives up. Understood?"

"Yes, Ma'am." "You got it."

"Very well get in positions."

Both fighters took out their weapons and looked at each other.

"Talk to me! Why fight now?" I ask her as I point Saltatio Favillae at her.

"The fact that you got accepted into this school was a mistake." Weiss said as she pointed her weapon at me.

"Sheesh, no need to be so cold."

"HA!"

As we both ignored that and got ready, we then heard Miss Goodwitch.

"Ready. You may begin."

A buzzer was heard and we began.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

I began by shooting at her to see what she would do. To my surprise, she avoids my shots by sliding to the side. I noticed something right away, a platform was below her. The same one I saw her use before.

'That platform is the one I saw back in the forest. Might need to be careful with that.'

Weiss then began to slide around the arena, almost like she was skating around on ice. With no time wasted, she charged at Seth aiming her weapon to his upper body.

Rolling out the way, Seth turned back to Weiss and shot once more but only to miss again.

'I'm wasting my ammo at this point, I need to keep some on hand.' I thought to myself as I added the last two shells onto my weapon. 'Seven shots left.'

Weiss doesn't let up and strikes again. Making Seth continue to dodge her. It got to the point where Weiss began to change her approach to the fight. Charging once more at Seth, he dodges her strike and Weiss takes the opportunity to bounce off one of her platforms and head straight for Seth's back.

Turning just in the nick of time, Seth raises his weapon at Weiss and both finally meet with a crash of weapons.

Weiss taking the lead began to stab at Seth's body at any opening that she saw. While Seth blocked and parried all of Weiss's pokes. Soon both weapons lock in place, making both meet face to face.

"I'm surprised you are good at this. The last time I saw you fight, a Boarbatusk was kicking your butt."

"Grr. Just shut up and fight." Weiss growls back.

"Okay, I'll take the lead then." Seth knees her in her stomach making her fall backwards. As she began to stand back up, Seth began to split his weapon in two. "Show me what you are made of Weiss." Seth points his sword at Weiss and charges at her.

As Seth got close, Weiss began to spin her chamber in her rapier making her blade begin to glow a red color and with a swing, she sent out a wave of fire. Making Seth jump back to avoid the fire heading his way. Taking the chance, Weiss began to send out Ice shards towards Seth.

As Seth destroyed any shard that was heading his way. Too focused on the shards, he didn't see Weiss begin to slide to his side and charge him. Taking the opportunity Weiss sends a massive strike on Seth's side, she then summoned more Glyphs around him jumping off one and jumping back at Seth attacking him from every direction.

With each strike, Seth began to notice her pattern of attack. 'Left, right, up, down, got it.' As Weiss went for another attack, Seth shot his weapon making him spin out of her way and having her miss. While she passed him, Seth sent a kick to her back that sends her to fall to the ground.

Seeing the opportunity Seth ran at her and as Weiss got up, Seth was already on her. Attacking from every angle made Weiss begin her defensive approach to the fight. Blocking each sword strike that Seth sent out and avoiding his strike with his shotgun. As both continued the move around each other trying to land a blow, the two were beginning to move in sync with eachother. Blocking, Dodging, Moving around almost...

Almost like a dance of swords.

As the people in the stand looked on at the two students fighting each other. Both respective teams cheered on, as the two were focused on the fight at hand.

"Go, Weiss! Kick his butt!" Yang yelled out cheering for her teammate.

"Yang!"

"Okay fine, Kick her butt Shades!"

"Ugh! You two are doing well!"

"YEAH SETH! Beat her to the ground!"

"Nora!"

"You can do it, Seth!" Pyrrha cheered as well. While Jaune just looked on.

As both once again locked weapons they were met once again face to face.

"You hear that. People are cheering for us."

"Do you ever shut up?"

"Only when I take the fight seriously."

That comment made Weiss mad and she tapped her rapier again spinning the chamber and making it land on a black color.

"Wait, that-"

A strong force sends Seth back making him fall on his back and making him lose grip on his shotgun. Lifting his head he saw his shotgun fall out of the ring, turning to face his opponent he saw Weiss stab the ground and soon a bunch of Ice pillars began to head his way.

Quick thinking Seth reaches for his belt and throws one of his grenades in front of him, as it explodes a shield made from hardlight dust is created, blocking him from the incoming pillars of Ice.

'Once again, thank you doc!'

"Where on Remnant did you acquire Hardlight dust!" From the other side of the ring, Weiss asked almost in an angry tone.

Getting back up and grabbing his sword Seth looks at Weiss. "What can I say... I know a guy." Or better yet a good grandfather.

"I doubt your family can acquire something like that."

"You are talking a lot of shit for someone who is losing the fight." I point at the screen that has our Aura levels. Weiss had just below 58%, still green but was soon about to fall down to the yellow. Meanwhile, I was still around 70%.

Angry at this Weiss once again spins her chamber and I see the ground below her glow.

'Wait is that a clock?'

She soon sprints at me with a speed that rivals Mom's.

Dodging on time I began to block her attacks once again. She attacked with such speeds that anyone would have lost the second she landed the hits. Blocking was getting me nowhere and as she continued to push forward I was beginning to move backwards, closer and closer to the end of the ring.

'Shit I need to move or else I might lose to a ring out. She's not giving me any other options."

Seth soon parried one of her attacks and as Weiss was about to send another one, she ducked under Seth.

Why you may ask, Seth raised one of his arms and was getting close to her. Seeing this she quickly ducked under the close line that Seth was going to deliver for her.

'A miss, but at least I'm out of the edge.' Reaching for my belt I grab another one of my grenades and throw it at her. It explodes sending a shock wave of gravity. Pushing me and pushing Weiss away from each other.

'My win!' I looked to see Weiss getting closer to the edge of the ring but she quickly flipped around and another platform formed from under her, there she pushed herself toward the ring again saving her from losing the match.

...

...

...

"Okay, hold up! What are those? You have been using those platforms to save you a bunch of times now!"

"Do you know who I am!"

"I know your name and what you do, but how does 'that' fit into all of this!" I point with my sword to the now disappearing platform.

I don't know if I broke her or something, but she was looking at me like I was an idiot. But that quickly changes to an irate look on her face.

"I am Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company-"

'Oh my god, she is monologing! This is what I get for asking a question.' I look at her as she continues to talk and blah about who she is and what she stands for. Ignoring most of it and just hearing the important parts.

"Blah blah blah pride, blah blah blah blah Heiress, blah blah blah blah..."

Yep, the important parts.

"And so, to even address my Glyphs as anything else is an insult to my family semblance."

"Semblance got it!" I rush her after getting the information and Weiss raises her rapier to block my attack.

"How rude of you to attack me as I was talking."

"In a fight, remember." I tell her this as I raise my fist to throw a punch at her. She quickly raised her hand as well and summoned a Glyph protecting her from the incoming attack.

"I will say this, it really comes in handy."

"Ugh, you are worse than Yang." Her Glyph turns black and she pushes me away from her, keeping her distance now. She then begins to send more Ice shards at me.

Dodging and breaking them, I begin to focus on her before she does any tricks like last time. Soon Weiss once again Slides toward me and I get prepared to do something this time.

As she got close I broke another Ice shard that was heading in my direction toward her, making the shrapnel hit her as she passed me. It had an effect on her, cause the next thing I saw was her sliding on the floor.

Her Aura flickered a little, indicating that she was on her last legs. I turned to the screen and saw her at 40%. While I was still above 50%.

I turn back to her and see her stand up again with heavy breathing.

"We can call the match now. You pulled a good fight, Weiss."

"I will never, give up. To someone like you." She tells me as she points her sword again.

"Ouch." I raised my sword once more and began to walk toward her.

"I will not lose to someone who is below my level."

Step... Step...

"Someone who has not earned his way into this school."

Step... Step...

"Someone with a worthless Semblance."

"..." I stop in my tracks and look at her. "My... 'Semblance'... Are my songs. If you insult them-."

"Songs, please. What you play is noise with no taste. My songs on the other hand are gorgeous and elegance pieces of art. My song 'Mirror Mirror' is listed in Atlas top 100s."

...

...

...

'That name...' I shook my head to get rid of the pain I was feeling.

"Hmm Well honey, this mirror isn't big enough for the two of us."

"Don't you dare call me that."

"Your right." I raise my hand to my heart. " Cause I am way better than you." I tap my heart.

Mega Man 11 OST – Tundra Man Stage Theme

As the music starts I raise my sword and point it at her. "Care to dance? Feel Freeze!"

"HA!"

I swing my sword at her while Weiss raises her rapier to block. However, her blade was glowing blue. As our blades connected a shock wave pushed me back, and taking the opportunity Weiss began to land blows on Seth's body.

As Weiss goes for another hit, Seth spins around her, grabs her by the back of her white coat, and delivers a kick to her back sending her away from him.

Seeing Weiss fall to the ground I run toward her and she raises her blade blocking my first strike. But I send another kick toward her stomach making her step back while holding it.

Weiss soon tapped her rapier again and the chamber spun, landing on a green color this time. As she pointed her rapier toward me a whirlwind was sent my way.

Avoiding it right before it made contact with me I began to run toward her trying to get close to Weiss. However, she kept pointing her sword in my direction, making the whirlwind follow.

'Need to get close.' I reached for my last grenade pulling the pin off and threw it at her.

As it landed on the ground next to her, she rolled out of its way only to get blown away sideways by the explosion, making her lose her weapon in the process. As she was trying to get back up with a tired look on her. Her back was facing Seth.

...

...

...

'My mind is telling me No!'

'But my Body! My body is telling me YES!'

I dropped my sword and began to run up to her.

'This is for talking shit about my songs.'

"Seth! Don't!" I heard Pyrrha scream at me, knowing too well what I was about to do.

But I ignore it and grab Weiss by her waist.

"What Are you-" She screamed at me but it was too late.

I begin to lift her up and fall backwards, making her fall on her head to the ring floor by the suplex that she deserves.

It felt like time slows down for me. I really don't know why but I turn to the others to see their reactions to my actions. I saw Ruby covering her mouth with wide eyes. Yang had her hand up looking like she was cheering. Blake just had wide eyes. I turned to my team and saw their reactions. Jaune looked like he was shocked by my actions, yeah not the best. Pyrrha just had her hand covering her eyes, like she knew this was going to happend, I mean she was not wrong. Ren also had wide eyes, man I feel like nothing shocks that guy. Nora on the other hand looked so happy with what I was doing she was standing on top of the seat, cheering for me.

Well at least a few of them were happy.

SLAM!

The sound of people wincing was heard all around.

"Holy!" "Is she good!?" "That got to hurt." "Dibs on not fighting that guy." "YEAH!"

The buzzer rang and the match was over.


Letting go of her waist I move to the side and let her body fully fall down. There I stand up and look at her down body.

"Ohh, I probably should have not done that." I wince at her seeing her eyes close and her body not moving. While tapping my heart to stop the song.

"Students as you can see here, Mister Sapphire was able to knock out Miss Schnee. In a tournament-style duel, Miss Schnee's teammates will have to take her to safety and remove her from the battlefield. We wouldn't want her to take any miss fire now do we." Miss Goodwitch said to the on-lookers. She then turns to Seth seeing him kneel down next to Weiss. "Mister Sapphire, as you did win this fight I would recommend you to not be fighting like this. You are to fight Grimm. I doubt you will do anything to them with those moves."

'Speak for yourself. I've seen Mom deal with way worse and she fights with her hands.'

"I'll keep that in mind. What about her." I said to her as I pointed to Weiss.

"Her team will take care of this."

"Yeah, shades no need to worry." I heard behind me and saw Yang and the rest of her team walking in the ring. "Sheesh, you really knocked her out."

"I know, I'm feeling bad now."

"Don't worry we will take it from here." Blake said as she walked towards Weiss but I could see her pull her scroll out for some reason.

SNAP!

"Alright." I was beginning to walk away and saw Ruby there. "Please tell her that I'm sorry." She nods and begins to walk toward Weiss and the rest. I see them beginning to carry her off the ring and take her to what assume is the nurse.

Picking up my weapon and walking back to my seat was awkward, to say the least. People around me were talking among themselves about what they had witnessed, I could have sworn I could hear them say my name a few times now. Honestly, if I had a nickel for every school I go to, where people begin to talk about me. I would have three nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happend thrice now.

Sitting back down I try to ignore the rest of the team's looks.

"Really?" I heard Pyrrha ask but I responded in a proper tone.

"I believe that this was a fight. Therefore, I did what I thought necessary."

"I don't think hitting her with a suplex was necessary, Seth." She said with a monotone voice.

"Yeah, you are right. But it was at the heat at the moment."

"I thought it was awesome!"

"Thank you, Nora."

"Sigh... You two." Ren began to rub his face in annoyance.

"Now class, Who else would like to have a match." Miss Goodwitch looked at the crowd and soon one student raised his hand.

"I will. And I would like to fight him."

I swear to Gods!

Turning my head I see the guy with orange hair stand up and point at someone in our team.

"Very well mister Arc, please prepare for combat."

"Can I decline?" Jaune asked.

"John don't copy me. Also, you know she will just say no."

"Aw, man." Jaune began to stand up and head toward the locker.

"You got this."

I mean he should have this in the bag. He can at least fight well enough. I mean we did take on the Deathstalker and a wave of Grimm. I'm sure Jaune can at least beat that guy.

Boy, I was so wrong about it.


POV Weiss

'Ow, why does my head hurt so much.'

"Look she is waking up." I could hear Ruby's voice.

"Wake up sleeping beauty." Yang's voice as well.

Opening my eyes I am met with a bright light.

"Gah, can someone please turn off the lights." I said to them as I covered my eyes.

"I got it." Blake is here too.

Sitting upright I look at my 'team' all looking at me with worried looks.

"What happened?"

"You don't remember?"

"The last thing I remember was fighting that idiot, and then blank."

They all looked at each other and Blake was the one who brought her scroll up and showed me her scroll.

There I saw a video of the fight that I was in, she skipped it to the final moments and there I saw what had happened.

The 'idiot' grabbed me by my waist, lifting me up and slamming me on my head toward the ground.

A lot of mixed feelings were now coming back. Anger, embarrassment, anger, annoyance, anger! So much anger that I wanted to scream.

"Where is he!?"

"Weiss calm down." Ruby tried her best to calm me but it was not helping.

"Where is he? Or better yet where am I right now."

"We brought you to the nurse's office. So that's where we are right now."

I tried to move and stand up but my legs gave out. "Woah there, calm down Ice Queen. You need to get some rest."

"What I need is to go and find that idiot and end him."

"Sure you will, but right now you need to get some rest it won't do you any good if you can't walk around."

I wanted to argue but at this point Yang was right, I needed to calm down and get my bearings in order. Taking a deep breath, I calmed down and sat back on the bed that I was on.

"Right. I will get some rest for now."

"That's better."

"By the way Blake where did you get that video?" I heard Ruby ask her, good point where did she get that.

"It's going around the school right now. Apparently, someone was recording the fight."

...

...

...

I stood back up and tried to run out the door.

"Weiss you need to calm down!" Yang and Ruby held me down as I tried to run out.

"He will suffer by my hands!" I scream out trying to move past them.

Back in the arena

Seth felt a shiver going down his spine.

"Are you alright?" Pyrrha asked Seth.

"I don't know, but I feel like someone is out to get me."

"That's all in your head Seth, don't worry about it."

"Right..." Seth looks back in the ring and yells out. "For fuck's sake, Jaune! Throw a fucking punch!"

"Mister Sapphire! Language! Your one and final warning!" Miss Goodwitch warned the boy.

"Sorry!" I see Jaune get punched instead and he goes down for the count.


POV Seth

I was sitting on my bed? Couch? Couch bed. Yeah, that. I looked over my notebook that I brought with me. The thing that Weiss said to me, her song. Has been bothering me since she told me.

'Mirror Mirror. I might need to listen to it. I'm sure it's nothing and people do name songs with similar names.

As I flip the pages I stop at the song and read over it. As I read over it I really wanted to play it, but Ren was already in bed with his eyes closed so I didn't want to blast the room with music.

As I Remember how it went, I got to the last part of the song.

I'm the loneliest of all

...

...

...

I'm sure this is just a coincidence. There is no way something like a song can hit so hard on a person.

Right?

"You brought your notebook with you." I hear Pyrrha ask and sits right next to me on my bed.

"Yeah, I wanted to bring it here with me. It's special to me so I just wanted to have it here."

"Do you still write on it?"

"Not anymore, all the pages are full, so I had to get a new one a few years back. But this one still has all the ones I wrote as a kid."

"Hmm." She leaned in and saw what I was reading. "Isn't that the song that played when we fought the Manticore?"

"Good memory, I'm surprised you remember."

"How can I forget the time we fought and fought a Grimm for the first time."

"Right, the time you were pushing yourself so much that I had to beat some sense into you."

"If I remember correctly, I was winning the match in the end." She shoves me on the shoulder.

"The fight never ended. So, I count that as a draw." I shove back.

We both laugh at that. Man, how time flies. Still, I'm surprised she remembers all that.

"Hey Seth, what's that?" I heard Nora ask me as she left the bathroom.

"This is my notebook that I store all of the lyrics of my songs. I had this since I was a kid."

"Ohhh! Can I see?" She gets close to me, and I back away a little.

"Sure, just be careful with it. It's kind of old and some of the pages are sensitive now." I hand her the book and she sits down on her bed to read it.

"I'm surprised you handed it to her."

"If I didn't she might have bothered me to no ends for it. Or take it when I'm not around." I look back at Nora and see her continue to read it. She then stands up.

"I love this song! Thunderstruck! Can you play it!"

"Maybe tomorrow, it's getting late now. We do have school tomorrow, ugh on a Saturday of all things."

"Aww, Can I continue to read it?"

"Sure, just promise me that you will please take care of it, Nora."

"Promise!" She tells me and goes to lie on her bed.

The door to our room opens up and in walks Jaune. Looking down in the dumps.

"Hey man, you good?" I ask him.

Jaune just goes to his bed and flops down on it.

"Jaune, I know today was not the best, but it's only one-" Pyrrha gets cut off by Jaune lifting his head and looking at us.

"No, it's fine, just one of those off days you know." He threw us a fake smile and began to cover himself in blankets. "Just really tired. Tomorrow will be a new day. Goodnight guys."

Nora, Pyrrha, and I all look at him.

Yeah, today was not his day. I'm sure tomorrow will be different for all of us.

"Right, well goodnight, guys." I lay down and began to close my eyes.

"Night."

As I was falling asleep, I could have sworn I heard Nora talking to herself going, 'Boop, Boop.' Maybe giving her my notebook was a mistake. Oh well, that's future me problem.


The next day.

I was sitting in History class listening to Professor(DOCTOR!) Right. Doctor Oobleck giving his lecture. But something was really wrong with the scenario for two reasons. Why you may ask, well. Behind me was team RWBY, and for some reason, I was getting the feeling that someone was looking at me with an intensity that was leaving me feeling dread all class.

Two, the person next to me was giving me a headache as well.

Looking to my side, I saw a girl with long brown hair, brown color eyes, and her most notable feature, her long brown rabbit ears. For some strange reason, I saw her getting picked on and seeing her take pictures of people with some strange camera.

Don't know what that means but the headaches were getting annoying fast. Well anyways, I need to get ready. I can't lose sight of what I was about to do.

As the bell rang. I quickly got up and ran out of the classroom.

"Get back here!"

"Run! Seth, Run!"

Man, talk about deja vu.


A/N: That's it for today chapter, a little earlier now. (Work and all) I hope you enjoy it.

Next week another fight. Versus whom, idk ;)

By the way Thank you Saber for the song recommendation, might use it next time. I did have one in mind, but it didn't flow well on the fight. Unless I do a remix version. Maybe I'll start adding them as well but not to much. Oh well.

So yeah see you all next week for. Fire & Wind.