Chapter 27
Amity Coliseum, Above Beacon Academy Doubles Round 2: Russel Thrush and Sky Lark VS Penny Polendina and Ciel Soliel
The Amity Coliseum was busy as always as another match was underway. Crowds of spectators were on the edge of their seats, cheering at the top of their lungs.
Penny Polendina beamed with her ever-present smile, guiding her blades through the air with her hands, blocking her opponent's strikes. Russel had ran up to Penny, attempting to cut through her defense, but Penny's swords did not budge, causing him to grunt in annoyance.
But Russel was suddenly knocked back onto his back, causing him to drop his swords. Penny's teammate Ciel lowered her foot after the kick, and simply stood back so that Penny could leap in to finish it.
Russel's eyes widened to see Penny rushing towards him with her swords circling her body, trailing neon green arcs of light with every swing. Looking at the display above the arena, he saw that his and Sky's auras were already thinning down into the red, just several hits away from defeat.
Panicking, the mohawk-haired teen scrambled behind a boulder just before Penny's swords could hit him. Three blades sped through the air and drove into the boulder with an audible chunk, causing Sky to peer over another boulder in surprise.
Smiling a bit wider, Penny raised her arm and sent her remaining swords in her new target's direction. Three more swords were plunged into the boulder, firmly stuck into the rock.
Both members of Team CRDL looked at each other questioningly in fear, wondering what was going to happen next.
Penny smirked happily and turned to her partner for approval, only for the dark-skinned girl to flash a stern expression at Penny, tapping her finger against her watch. They were killing time.
Drooping slightly, Penny sighed and smiled once again as she raised both arms.
With that, the swords followed her movements, carrying both boulders into the air, leaving Russel clinging onto the boulder in fear, while Sky only stared from below in shock.
Russel could only whimper in fear as Penny slammed her hands down, causing both boulders to crash back down on the ground and crumble into hundreds of pieces against the two enemy fighters, depleting the last of their aura.
As the buzzer rang out, Oobleck announced the victory from the booth above. "Russel Thrush and Sky Lark: Knocked unconscious and unable to continue fighting! They retired!"
"Victory goes to Penny and Ciel of Atlas!" Ports said
"Thank you for a wonderful time!" Penny said, smiling brightly as the crowd cheered around her, while Ciel simply stands by, checking her watch frequently with a bored expression on her face.
Meanwhile in the terraces, Ruby watched the pair's victory and cheered as loud as she could, causing those surrounding her to stare at her or do the same. Once the two Atlas students turned to leave, Ruby decided to go and congratulate her friend.
"Oop! 'Scuse me! Sorry!" Ruby stammered awkwardly as she shuffled out of her seat row, accidentally stepping on spectators' things on the way.
Entrance D, Amity Coliseum
Penny and Ciel walked together out the entrance alongside various spectators, a few of them noticing who she was and congratulating them for their victory, to which Penny happily thanked them with a giggle.
"Penny!" Ruby called out, leading Penny to turn and grin upon seeing her friend.
"Ruby!" She called back happily, running toward Ruby to hug her, or rather… tackle Ruby to the floor, causing her to grunt from the impact.
"Whyyyy…" Ruby groaned in pain as she laid on the ground with Penny smothering her in her powerful arms.
Penny then instantly rose up and began introducing her new teammate to the red-hooded girl. "Ruby, this is my teammate!"
"Ciel Soliel." The girl introduced herself with a bow. Ciel wore a beret to match the blue of her eyes along with a similarly colored skirt with a gold trim. She also wore a white shirt with gold buttons, with short navy blue hair parted to the left in a fringe, revealing a golden mark on her forehead.
Smiling, Ruby waved her hand to introduce herself. "Hi! I'm R-"
However, Ciel quickly interrupted. "Ruby Rose, 15 years old, hails from Patch, leader of Team RWBY, status: questionable… , harbors an obsession for weap-"
"Anyways!" Ruby quickly cut Ciel off
"Penny, you two were incredible out there! How do you keep control of all those swords? It's so cool!" Ruby gushed in amazement at Penny, causing her to giggle.
"Penny?" Ciel then stepped in, raising her watch.
"I believe it is best to move on to our next objective. The lines will pile up at the stalls if we are not punctual." Ciel informed her, tapping her watch for emphasis.
Turning to Ciel, she raised a finger in question. "Could we just have a minute to talk?"
Looking down at her watch, Ciel said nothing, but then smiled and took a step back with her watch raised, tracking the seconds.
Immediately as this happened, Penny leaned in closer to Ruby in an attempt to pick up her words. "So… she your friend… or…."
Upon hearing her friend's assumption, Penny quickly replied with a stammer, "W-well… not exactly. She's like Blake! But if Blake was ordered to spend time with you." Penny explained to the girl, causing her face to clear of confusion.
"Oh. Then, Weiss."
"Precisely!" Penny chirped happily in response.
But then Ruby asked her another question as she leaned in close to Penny's ear. "Does she know about… y'know…"
" Beep boop bop, does not compute?" Ruby asked, doing a robot dance to emphasize her point.
"Oh, no! General Ironwood doesn't really want anyone to know!" Penny abruptly replied.
"There was an incident with a magnet, but I was able to play it off!" Penny added, laughing at the memory of her wearing a sunhat the entire day while she was out at the festival with Ciel.
The both of them laughed at the thought of the incident, clenching their stomachs and laughing together, when Penny tapped Ruby on the shoulder to add another piece of news.
"Ruby? There's something I've been meaning to talk to you about…" Penny stopped as she made a gesture with her finger, telling Ruby to lean in closer, which her friend did with curiosity.
Leaning in closely, Penny cupped a hand to her mouth as she whispered to Ruby. "I want to stay in Beacon!"
Ruby's first reaction to this news was understandably, joy. Her smile began to grow upon hearing that her best friend wanted to study with her, and her heart leapt at the thought of all the possible things they could do together.
Ruby was needlessly overjoyed at the possibilities, but her smile gradually ebbed away once a single glaring issue came to mind.
"P-Penny, they'll never let you do that…" Ruby said to her friend worriedly.
Just that moment, Ciel jumped in with her watch held up. "It's been precisely one minute, ma'am." She said monotonously, her finger tapping on her watch.
"Right! I'll talk to you more soon, Ruby! See you!" Penny bid her friend farewell as she moved to catch up with Ciel out the Coliseum's entrance, waving one last time to Ruby before exiting the area.
Ruby watched as her friend walked down the sunlit hallway, imagining all the fun times they could have together in Beacon. If Penny's plan worked, then she would be the happiest girl in Vale. At the thought of it, Ruby just couldn't help but smile cheerfully as she thought of the future.
"Ruby!"
Ruby turned at the sound of a voice calling her name, and turned to see none other than Smoke walking down the hallway with his hand raised, calling for her in an attempt to get her attention.
"Tomas!" Ruby responded to her friend, raising her own hand in the air above the crowd to reveal her location.
Smoke turned his head, scanning through the crowd until his eyes fell upon Ruby, causing him to break into a light jog to reach her in the crowd.
When he caught up to Ruby, he awkwardly broke his run and hunched over with his hands on his knees, panting heavily, as if he was running all day.
Ruby's brow quirked and she asked him, "H-hey, what's up?"
Smoke looked as if he were about to speak, until the jingle of the PA system rang throughout the coliseum, signaling the voices of one of the two announcers.
"Our next match will begin in less than 5 minutes, people! So get your fat arses outta the hot dog stands and get to your seats to catch the next doubles round!" Ports yelled over the mic.
Hearing this, Ruby's eyes suddenly lit up. She knew exactly who was next, and she couldn't be more excited. "Oh my gosh, right! It's time for-"
Arena, Amity Coliseum Doubles Round 3: Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long VS Flynt Coal and Neon Katt
"Well, now it's our turn!" Yang chirped cheerfully, stretching her arms in preparation for the match as she and Weiss stood at the center of the vast arena, awaiting their opponent's arrival.
Naturally, Weiss merely let out a tired sigh. "Just try to keep proper form. I'd hate to hear you lost us the match because you tripped over the weight of your b-"
"RIGHT!" Yang quickly interrupted, causing Weiss to yelp in surprise.
"So, Atlas, huh? You're the expert! Educate me!" Yang said with a snarky grin, flexing her biceps.
Weiss put a finger to her chin, racking her brilliant mind for everything she could recall from her time in Atlas. "Well, considering that their academy, government and military are all combined into one, we can expect strict, militant fighters with carefully rehearsed strategies!"
But just then, the two teens felt a gust of wind brush past them, blowing their hair into the air.
They then looked ahead of them to see two other teens around the same age as them. The first one to the left was Flynt Coal, a boy with dark skin, wearing a dark vest over a white dress shirt, an undone tie hung over his neck.. In his hand, he held what looked like a trumpet and he wore sunglasses and a fedora with a blue trim.
The other one to the right was Neon Katt. Her maroon hair was tied up in four pigtails, two large ones on top and two small ones below them. She wore a light blue tank top that exposed her bra, a pink mini-skirt and two bracers on each arm, twirling a pair of nunchaku sticks. She wore roller skates on her feet, and a swishing feline tail marked her as a faunus.
Needless to say, "strict militant fighter" would be a rather inaccurate description for their opponents at the moment.
"Or… whatever they are." Weiss added,
"Hey!"
Weiss then suddenly perked up at the foreign voice addressing her, turning her gaze to the boy.
"You're Weiss Schnee, right? The heiress?" He asked, pointing with his trumpet, smiling.
"I am!" Weiss answered with a polite curtsy. It shouldn't come as a surprise that someone recognized her, especially considering these kids were from Atlas, her own home kingdom.
"I take it you're pretty good with Dust, then?" He asked.
" He's probing, isn't he?" Weiss thought to herself. This guy was veering in a weird direction. It wasn't exactly natural for people to ask for a name, then their taste in weaponry.
"I try my best." Weiss replied casually, slightly confused at where this was going.
"Yeah! My dad was good too! Owned a little Dust shop of his own! …Until your father's company ran him out of business." The boy finished, venom dripping from his bitter voice at the last bit.
" Oh. Of course…" Weiss' smile sank twenty leagues under with her confidence. Of course this was the case. If she had a nickel for everyone of Remnant for everyone who sucked up to her just for her surname, she'd have enough to buy her own house. But if she had one for everyone who probably wanted her dead for the same reason, HELL, she'd be able to buy a house the size of Schnee Manor all for herself!
"Oh… I'm sorry to hear that…" Weiss said with guilt in her words and expression, trying to sound as sincere as possible, but the boy wasn't having any of it.
" Suuure you are…" He replied sarcastically, clearly too bitter to listen, which didn't rub Yang the right way. She didn't deserve hate for what her father's actions, and she wasn't about to let this prick get started with her friend.
"Hey! Why don't y-"
"Hey! Why don't you!" Yang was about to start berating the boy, but turned her head to his teammate, who interrupted her by repeating her words in a mocking tone.
"That's what you sound like!" She continued, her face bearing a mischievous expression as she waved a finger in Yang's direction, causing her to scratch her head in confusion.
"Hey, where'd you get your hair extensions?" She continued to ask in that annoying stereotypical "party girl" voice.
"This is just my normal hair…" Yang answered uncomfortably, stroking her golden hair.
"Oooh… Really?" The faunus girl chirped, clearly rather impressed.
"Y-yeah? Is that a prob-"
But before Yang could continue, she was interrupted again. "You should try rollerblading sometime! It's super fun! It'll probably take you a while though, since you're, y'know…'top heavy'!"
Yang perked up at the last part, glancing down at her chest, then back up at the girl. " Excuse me?!" Yang quite nearly yelled out loud angrily, her hair beginning to waft off smoke.
"Oh boy, here we go." Ruby muttered to herself in her seat, watching them from the terraces.
"By the way, you guys are from Beacon, right? You talk with those TSKK team right?" Neon asked her, causing Weiss and Yang to look to each other in confusion.
"Mind introducing me to them sometime? That Smoke guy looks kinda hot if you ask me!" Neon chirped.
With this, Yang only grinned evilly and gave her reply. "Alright, listen. Tomas? He's mine. Besides, you'll have to get in line! He won't be looking at you anytime soon, not when you're as flat as a valley!"
With that, Neon stopped to stare down at her own chest, then back up at Yang, finding herself smiling as well.
"Ooooh! I like you…" Neon purred, readying a battle pose as the roulette spun around them.
As they stopped, the floor opened up to reveal four new biomes, erecting the ruined town, the geyser field, the desert and the volcanic field.
As soon as this was done, the voices over the loudspeakers sounded once more, ready to kick off the match. "Alright! Looks like the field's set up! Let's get this party started!" Oobleck announced loudly over the mic.
"3!" Everyone got in ready positions, knees locked and bodies leaned forward to the ground.
"2!" As everyone stood ready, Yang and Weiss were confused to see Flynt standing upright, holding his trumpet above his chest.
"1!" Seeing Neon's wicked sneer, Yang and Weiss had only one thing to think at the same time.
"BEGIN!"
With that, their fears were confirmed as Flynt blew into the instrument, blaring powerful sound waves at the two girls, almost quite literally blowing them off their feet as they struggled to keep their feet on the ground,
" OH MY GOD HIS TRUMPET'S A FUCKING WEAPON", was the only thing both Yang and Weiss could think at the same time as they were forced to raise their arms over their faces to block out the force of the sound waves and the deafening noise of the trumpet.
But just then, Neon sped forward on her rollerblades, using Flynt's sound waves to propel her across the ground towards Yang.
Weiss managed to cast a glyph under her feet to keep her ground, but unfortunately, Yang was knocked off the ground once Neon managed to smack her across the face using her nunchaku, sending her tumbling across the gorund.
Flynt watched Neon deal with Yang, then turned his attention to his real competition. Staring down the heiress, Flynt unleashed another devastating blast of noise from his trumpet, prompting Weiss to summon more glyphs underneath her, anchoring her feet to the ground as she pushed against the tremendous force.
However, Flynt only smirked as he stopped playing, and as the sound waves disappeared, Weiss' momentum suddenly kicked in, pushing her too far ahead as she stumbled toward Flynt, who used this opportunity to strike her in the back as she stumbled past him, sending her sprawling across the volcanic rock of the lava biome.
Meanwhile, Yang wasn't doing as well with Neon. The girl was lightning fast on her roller blades, and she would dodge every single one of Yang's shots at her.
Running through the city ruins, Yang raised her fists and unleashed a volley of flares from her gauntlets, desperately attempting to hit the cat girl.
However, Neon sped across the floor, leaving a bright rainbow trail behind her as she leapt and dove, evading each shot skillfully.
What annoyed Yang the most, in fact was her mocking grin. Neon didn't appear to take this seriously and seemed to be toying with her. This made Yang grit her teeth. Nobody toyed with her.
She fired off another shot at Neon, causing the girl to leap up on an old building, flipping to evade the flare, then skidding along an old construction beam at high speed, making it impossible for Yang to land a shot.
"Never miss a beat! Never miss a beat!" Neon sang as she skated along, unclipping her nunchaku from her belt as she burst toward Yang at full speed.
Yang could do little as Neon slammed on end of her nunchaku against her face, before turning completely to hit her again and again. The faunus girl was moving far too quickly for her to track, leaving Yang confused and dazed as she was being beaten from all directions.
Neon dashed back and forth, landing one whack from her nunchaku after another, leaving Yang stunned. Looking up at her, Yang could then see Neon staring back with a smirk. Both hands on her weapon, she bent the sticks, causing them to snap and glow a bright blue like a glowstick.
Twirling her weapon in her hand, Neon moved once more toward the blonde, with the latter standing in position ready to fight back. Yang moved forward with an enraged cry, drawing back her fist to sock Neon in the face, but was immediately stopped once Neon sped past her, striking her leg with her nunchaku.
Yang could suddenly feel a great weight on her leg, holding her down. Looking down, she saw that her leg was encased in a block of ice, courtesy of the dust in Neon's weapon.
Looking back at her opponent who was laughing mockingly, Yang saw Neon skating around her, teasing her with her annoying giggle.
"Look! Now you're bottom heavy too!" Neon crowed, smacking her own bottom as a way to mock her enemy.
With this, Yang angrily stomped her foot on the ground, shattering the ice encasing her leg. But Neon didn't let her breathe as she brushed past Yang again, striking her arm with a nunchaku, freezing it completely.
Growling under her breath, Yang fired off another shot with her free hand at Neon, only for her to easily evade the shot, sliding under a low arc and spinning on her heel to turn back toward her enemy.
Locking on to her target, Neon rushed forward at blinding speed, leaping off of the ground, striking her legs against Yang's body and kicking off, sending her flying backwards into a wall, blowing a crater into the structure.
Beaten and battered, Yang raised a hand, noting the subtle heatwave wafting off of it. " Damn. Not enough. I need to take a bit more."
But that moment, Yang saw Neon skating to her, mischievously grinning. "You should cool off!"
Wait… what?
"Get it?"
" She did NOT-"
"Because you're angry."
" Oh, it's fucking on, bitch. " Yang thought to herself furiously, smashing her frozen arm against the wall behind her, shattering the ice and the wall itself.
Nobody outpuns Yang Xiao Long.
Meanwhile
Weiss faced down her opponent with her rapier in front of her, and Flynt did the same with his trumpet at his lips.
Casting three glyphs behind her, Weiss flicked the hammer on her rapier, releasing dust and causing the glyphs to glow even brighter with energy.
Weiss then thrust her rapier at Flynt with a battle cry, releasing shards of ice to bombard the trumpeter. However, Flynt only looked down to his feet and smirked.
Flipping himself backwards, Flynt inhaled and unleashed a blast of sound from his trumpet just as a lava geyser burst from the ground beneath him, blowing the molten rock in front of him and instantly melting the ice coming his way.
Weiss's eyes widened as she leapt back away from the magma spraying towards her. After hastily dodging a few stray droplets, she looked up to see Flynt straightening his fedora.
"Too bad all that money can't buy you skill." Flynt snarkily remarks, taunting Weiss.
Scowling in response, Weiss rose to her feet with an annoyed frown on her face. With that, Flynt brought his trumpet to his lips once more, and Weiss acted immediately, rolling Myrtenaster's barrel to a new blend of dust.
Flynt blew into his trumpet, and Weiss released a blast of wind dust, causing both gusts to clash with one another in equilibrium, neither blast of wind overpowering the other.
Seeing that Flynt was trying to blow harder into his instrument in an attempt to overpower her, Weiss used his distracted state to her advantage. Raising a free hand, she flicked a finger, summoning a number of glyphs to surround her opponent in a circle.
Timing her escape accurately, Weiss broke off from her clash with Flynt and sped off to the glyphs encircling the both of them, rebounding off of each glyph at rapid speed to attack Flynt from all angles.
For an added edge, Weiss charged up Myrtenaster to fire ice shards from glyphs as she bounced off each one. Attacked from all sides, Flynt could do little to nothing in response, feeling his aura deplete sharply with every strike.
Narrowing his gaze, Flynt gritted his teeth as he recovered from the assault, standing upright and blaring another song from his trumpet at full volume, drowning out the rising cheers of the crowd.
"The crowd is going wild! What could Flynt be up to?" Ports announced, exciting the audience even further.
Raising an eyebrow at the change of position, Weiss sped off, making ready to land another blow, passing in front of Flynt.
But it was then that Flynt revealed his trump card. Flynt's image then appeared to flash before duplicating itself again, and again, and again until a set of four Flynts was visible, each wearing a different color highlight.
Each Flynt blew into their trumpet, each gust appearing to glow a certain color and blending together to form a massive torrent of sound.
Managing to catch Weiss in the path of the wind, the four Flynts blew the heiress off her feet and sent her tumbling across the ground, disoriented and stunned.
"Oh, what do we have here, folks?" Ports announced over the mic.
"Looks like Flynt's showing off his Semblance! Quite the showstopper, too!" Oobleck continued over the loudspeaker, adjusting his glasses with his finger.
"Ladies and gentlemen; Flynt Coal's "Killer Quartet"!" Ports announced dramatically, peaking the volume of the audience's cheers as each Flynt tipped his hat to the audience.
Gazing up at the aura counter on the giant display screen overhead, Flynt could see that he and Neon were at an advantage. Weiss's aura was below the half mark, and while he was rather low on aura, he could see that it should be enough to take down Weiss, and Neon's aura had barely depleted. They had this in the bag.
Recalling his duplicates, Flynt advanced towards a weakened Weiss, his clones being pulled back into his body as he moved.
Weiss could barely muster the strength to stand after the massive blast she took head-on, so much that her ears were still ringing intensely. Weakly reaching for her rapier, Weiss's face fell once she saw Flynt walk up to her, kicking her sword aside and raising his trumpet, when he turned his head to Neon and Yang's struggle.
By now, Yang was panting heavily as she ran towards her teasing opponent, her eyes turning red from her anger.
Neon took notice of this and chirped, "Ooh! Flashy eyes! Y'know, you're actually kinda pretty when you're angry-"
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" Yang yelled at the cat girl, completely enraged at her antics. Yang then fired her gauntlets behind her, thrusting her forward towards Neon.
Throwing a rapid barrage of punches at the colorful girl, Yang swung her fists with every ounce of her rage, only for Neon to causally dodge each hit, but even worse, she didn't stop talking.
"I didn't say you should go on a diet, I'm saying you really need to go on a diet! How do you expect to impress a man if you crush him under your weight?"
"THAT'S IT! GET OVER HERE, YOU LITTLE-"
"You're fat."
Chuckling lightly at the legitimately humorous scuffle between the two, Flynt smirked and raised his trumpet in Yang's direction, summoning his quartet to strike at once.
However, Weiss was beginning to come to her senses and noticed lava bubbling just in front of Flynt's feet. Suddenly, she remembered him pulling the same tactic on her a few minutes before during their fight.
She looked at Yang, then up at the audience, keeping her eyes on a certain boy in the audience avidly cheering from his seat.
At that instant, Weiss acted. Lunging forward with the last of her strength, she caught Flynt by the legs, pushing both of them in the path of the lava geyser, the searing hot magma splashing over them at full force, scorching away at their aura as Weiss could feel herself losing her grip on her consciousness.
Terraces, Amity Coliseum
"WEISS!" Ruby and Blake yelled out for their friend, seeing her aura deplete to the bottom mark at 0.
Team RWBY and their friends were shocked to see Weiss put herself on the line to finish her enemy off.
Arena, Amity Coliseum
"What?" Yang then turned her attention to the blast, hearing Port's voice over the loudspeaker.
"Ouch! Looks like we got a double knockout on our hands! Weiss Schnee retires with a completely depleted aura level!"
But then, the smoke from the geyser cleared, revealing a figure standing. Dazed, but standing. "Look! What do we have here?" Oobleck announced.
The smoke then parted to reveal Flynt standing upright. He stumbled in his steps and appeared to be coming to his senses, but he was still equipped to fight.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Flynt Coal remains standing!" Ports announced, hyping the crowd's cheers to maximum volume, the voices of the audience echoing throughout the arena.
Flynt then shook off his daze and advanced toward the remaining opposition, Neon skating around him.
"You did it, Flynt! Don't worry about her, she's easy! But kinda annoying!" She sang, referring to Yang.
However, Yang's stature began to change. Her eye started to twitch reflexively and her fists clenched together, causing her fingers to crack audibly and smoke to seep out of her palms. What's more, the ground beneath her feet began to rumble violently and what appeared to be a heat haze was surrounding her body.
Pretty soon, the announcers took notice as well. "What's this? Looks like Yang's angry!" Ports announced, riling up the hype in the air.
"Oh shit, here we go." Smoke muttered to himself, with his friends silently agreeing as they could only await the inevitable.
Yang slammed a boot on the ground, cracking it beneath her as her eyes flashed a bloody red and her hair began to glow alight, resembling burning flames as it flared in the wind.
Bursting forward with a sprint, Yang moved toward Flynt with death in her eyes and flames trailing behind her.
"Go! Neon, go!" Flynt called to his partner, cueing her to rush toward the brawler on her skates as Flynt boosted her with his sound waves.
But as she neared Yang, Neon's faunus instincts kicked in, urging her to run away from the grave threat in front of her, far different from the girl that she played with by the beginning of the round.
Her eyes were filled with mad rage and her fists were quite literally smoking. Yang snapped her eyes toward Neon, letting her see exactly what she was dealing with. Yang's stare was scorching, making Neon swear she could burn holes through her skull if she kept eye contact.
All of a sudden, her body reacted on impulse, immediately dodging to the side as Neon attempted to retreat, then opting to try to flank the girl.
Yang then saw Flynt bring his trumpet to his lips once more, attempting to blast her away with his music. Growling, Yang jumped into the air, boosting herself with a shot from her gauntlets.
Noticing this, Flynt summoned his quartet behind him, all four of them blaring sound waves at their airborne target in an attempt to push her back.
Yang could feel her ears ringing, but her rage made her think little of it. As she drew closer, she yelled at the top of her lungs, and clapped her hands together right in front of Flynt's trumpet.
Suddenly, Flynt's sound waves were completely overpowered as he was hit with a blast of his own medicine, sending him flying backwards and knocking him out for good as the buzzer sounded his loss.
"Ooh! Sour note for Flynt! It's down to the last two!"
Rising to her feet, Yang turned her attention to her remaining opponent. Neon skated around the battlefield, but she didn't have the same control from the beginning of the round.
Her moves were unsteady as she struggled to weave her way through the geyser fields, the rocky and uneven terrain leaving her unstable as opposed to the smooth surfaces over at the ruins.
"Never miss a beat!"
"Never miss a beat!"
"Never miss a-"
One little wedge was all it took. Once her wheels tripped on that one wedge in the rocks, Neon's heart stopped for a horrifying second, because it was then that she knew she'd lost the match.
"-beat?" She managed to squeak, before tumbling down the rockface and colliding with an erupting geyser, shooting the cat girl into the air, shrieking in terror.
Neon then hit the ground like a brick, seeing stars as she came to her senses. But all she saw above her was Yang Xiao Long, literally flaming by the hair and her eyes colored a bright red and staring down at her with burning rage.
Slamming a boot down on Neon's stomach, the faunus girl grunted as she had the air knocked out of her. But then, Yang spoke with a deadly tone.
"Here's a question for you. Will I hit you with my right or my left?"
"P-please, I'm sorry! Just hit me with your right, please!" Neon squeaked, completely frightened, only for her terror to grow once she saw Yang's expression twist into a deeper glare, shaking her head to say no.
"Y-your left?" She meekly asked, sweating buckets, but the blonde girl still said nothing, shaking her head slowly.
"B-both?!"
With this, Yang's face slowly twisted into a sadistic grin as she brought both hands up to her chest, cracking her knuckles and leaving Neon to scream in terror as her painful judgment was dealt.
Everyone had their eyes glued to the scene below them, then looked up to the aura counter to see Neon's dropping sharply as Yang had her way with her.
Some parents covered their children's eyes, some spectators looked on frozen in shock, while a large amount continued to cheer Yang on.
Some time later, the buzzer sounded once Neon's aura was depleted, calling off the match and causing Yang to stop and calm down as her eyes returned to its normal lilac color.
"And with that brutal finish, Neon Katt is eliminated! Yang Xiao Long and Weiss Schnee are victorious!" Oobleck announced, causing the crowd to rise in unison and cheer loudly.
Panting heavily from the match, needless to say, Yang was incredibly exhausted. But she suddenly stood upright, remembering her defeated teammate.
"Weiss!"
Running back to the volcanic field, Yang could see Weiss's blackened body limp on the ground, coughing up soot and ash.
"Weiss, are you okay?" She asked worriedly.
Weiss coughed again, her voice weak and raspy from the ash. "I may not be singing for a while…"
Yang let out a sigh of relief once she knew her teammate was alright, and smiled warmly. "Y'know, I'm not sure that was proper form." Yang joked.
"Oh, ha-ha-" Weiss sarcastically replied with a smile for her own before erupting into another coughing fit.
Suddenly, they heard a loud gasp. "We lost?! Team FNKI lost?!" Neon cried, her face drained of the rainbow of color that once decorated her.
"That was…"
"That was…"
"AMAZING!" Neon finished, shining brighter than ever with sparkles in her eyes.
"Oh my gosh, you guys were super crazy awesome! We should definitely party together sometime! Right, Flynt?" Neon chirped, turning to her partner, who was recovering from their match.
The trumpeter turned his gaze to Weiss, who stared back. "That was a ballsy move you pulled there, Schnee."
"I dig it." Flynt said with a smile, expressing his newfound respect for the heiress. Weiss nodded to him in response, but soon began to cough some more.
"C'mon Weiss, let's get you fixed up." Yang said, reaching her hand out to Weiss.
Entrance G, Amity Coliseum
Yang and Weiss exited the infarmary with Weiss resting on Yang's shoulder with her arm around her neck as she limped out of the arena while her aura restored her wounds.
They were told that Weiss would be fine as long as her aura healed her, and this caused Yang to relax with relief.
The pair of them began to walk through the entrance where a crowd of spectators paced back and forth, in and out of the terraces.
"Yang! Weiss!" They heard a voice call out to them. Turning to the source, they saw Ruby and Blake alongside Teams JNPR, JKHL and several others.
They saw Sun's team, Teams TSKK, and CFVY standing close by, all of them waiting for the two of them to arrive.
Ruby then ran up to them with her super-speed, wrapping her arms around Yang with a loving hug as she squealed congratulations to the both of them, causing Yang to laugh and ruffle up her hair.
"So, what now?" Yang asked her friends.
"I think this calls for a celebration! Who's with me!" Johnny suggested, raising his fist in the air.
"YEAH!" Everyone voiced their agreement with spirit, with the group then walking off to catch an airship to ground level.
Meanwhile
Cinder and her team were in their dorm, thinking over the events of the day while going about their business.
Emerald fiddled with her scroll, Mercury was doing push-ups, Kabal was sharpening his blades and Cinder was scrolling through Ironwood's files which she gained access to.
Skimming through the data, one particular file caught her eye. Opening it up, Cinder's eyes widened slightly, before her lips curled into a smile.
Sensing the change in mood, Kabal turned to his colleague. "What is it? Find something interesting?"
"Oh, nothing. We'll just be making a few minor… alterations to the plan." Cinder hummed.
"What does that mean?" Mercury asked, looking up from a push-up.
"It means this will be even easier than we thought." Cinder answered with a flaring glint in her eye as she gazed over the file she opened.
It was a blueprint for a certain android Ironwood kept hidden. The title spelled out an acronym:
P.E.N.N.Y.