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Chapter 23: The Evolution of Semblances

Everyone stared at Yang in awe standing on her two feet once again, golden flames dancing around her body. She looked brand new and invigorated when before she had been instantly disabled by Ruby at the start of the fight. There was a literal fire in her eyes. Her pupils did not take on the usual bleeding red from her anger, but now featured pupils of gold licking with embers of the fires of the sun itself. Sheer confidence was clear in Yang's eyes as if she fully believed to win no matter what. Even Ruby wasn't spared from the look, and she was the sole target of the stare from the newly transformed Yang.

Ruby did not deter from Yang while everyone else were pacing back from Yang's path. Their very instincts told them they were no equal to the walking powerhouse that approached the Dragon to Domination to challenge her, as crazy as it would seem given her feats. For Blake and Weiss they were in awe and shock at how Yang's very presence were shaking them to their core and despite their new dragon bodies can feel they were standing in the middle of an oven from the heat Yang was generating. Plastics were melting from the heat alone and Aura was the only thing protecting the humans from the ever-increasing heat.

They snapped their attention on Yang as soon as her footsteps that left burn marks stopped. The golden dragon wreathed in fire holding a golden axe stared back at Ruby's green eyes that did not betray her surprise of Yang's awakened power. In truth, it really did shock Ruby that her own sister held a Sacred Gear, and a powerful one that worked to continually increase her Yang's power output by the minute. There was no worry of defeat in the burning orbs of her cousin, only sheer confidence bordering on arrogance at the notion to compete with Ruby as a superior.

"Well, isn't this interesting." Muttered Ruby with clear surprise. "Too think you also had a Sacred Gear as well. Never expected to an axe kind of girl, Yang."

"And there's so much more." Yang replied, her voice distorted by whatever the strange power. "And with it, it's now my turn to win, Ruby!"

One moment, Ruby widened her eyes and hardly a millisecond later she was replaced by an explosion of wrended metal and dust when Yang's axe crashed down on her spot in a downward swing. Ruby had dodged at speeds faster than the eyes of JNPR could see and seemingly crouched several meters back in intimidation of teleportation. She just looked up to assess the situation only to find her cousin instantly upon her with her axe over her head for another blow. It took the extent of the enhancements of Senjutsu to clear away from the powerful blow unscathed and on her feet.

'She's getting stronger and faster!?' Thought Ruby. 'But how? Ddraig, do you know what this is?'

[First off, I am not a fucking encyclopedia!] Growled Ddraig. [Secondly, yes I do know this power. I've only seen it once, but I know enough that this Sacred Gear is gradually more powerful as the day goes by. Similar to you with my power in the Boosted Gear, yet entirely different and it isn't classed as a Longinus. I know I've seen this somewhere, but I can't remember, but I know that axe is named Divine Rhitta, once used by Escanor, the father of Gawain, who became one of the greatest knights of the Round Table.]

'At least that is some comfort.' Thought Ruby, the concept of Yang having a Longinus a bit too much. 'But still...'

The Red Dragon Empress was openly bewildered at this development. Never had Yang ever moved at such incredible speeds and the blonde bombshell wasn't exactly a speed-type fighter. Not to mention the overwhelming increase of Yang's power. The real problem of Yang awakening her Sacred Gear was the energy coursing through the Xiao Long, practically making her drunk off of it. A loony Yang with hulking strength was a very bad Yang and the cause of a lot of collateral damage if she doesn't get control of herself.

"Yang, listen to me," Ruby said. "You need to calm down and reign it in. You've just awakened your Sacred Gear, but the power is messing with your head. You are the wielder."

Yang did not respond back to Ruby, but her lips formed a mocking sneer. Ruby narrowed her eyes at the sight. Great, the Sacred Gear was giving her a boost to an already inflated ego. She won't listen to her words until she gets what she wants. Evidently, by the fist crashing into Ruby's left cheek with the force of an Atlas train at max speed. The spectators had to anchor themselves down to resist the whirlwinds caused by the strength in the blow while Ruby shot off like a bullet.

Yang had already crossed half the distance of the gym to intercept Ruby's path like a teleporting berserker with a fist aimed for the dragon's stomach. Acting more on instinct, Ruby crossed her arms together to guard herself while summoning the armored arms of the Boosted Gear to protect herself. On impact, it felt like Ruby was holding off a boulder that had rolled down a hill, enough that Ruby felt the blow rather than damaging her. Nevertheless, the power in it was enough to trap Ruby in a crater as Atlas alloy was forcibly bent apart into a crater from overpowered strength.

'I don't even want to know what she can do with the axe,' Ruby thought.

"Congrats," Ruby said, picking herself up from the crater and catching surprised looks from JNPR and (R)WB(Y) that the Dragon of Domination endured the blow unscathed. "You managed to knock me off my feet and onto the ground. This is your win."

"No." Said Yang, the golden axe brimming with golden flames. "This fight isn't over until I beat you."

Ruby rolled her eyes in exasperation. "Oh for the love of fuck."

(Cue "Here come the Jikkai" from Seven Deadly Sins)

Another punch from Yang crashed into Ruby's cheek, more powerful than the last. A shockwave reverberated through the air and the metal floor cracked at Ruby's feet. Yet, the Red Dragon Empress did not falter, and her right green eye peaked past the knuckles of Yang's fist to glare at the yellow dragon with a silver pupil frosted in cold fury. For a moment, the arrogance that overwhelmed Yang diminished for a lapse of fear.

[BOOST]

Ruby's right hand snapped up to impact Yang's chin in a vicious uppercut enough to draw blood. She felt weightless as her feet had long ago left the floor, carried by Ruby's strength in the blow. Her lavender eyes only blinked once to find Ruby right in front of her with her left arm forward, and the pain finally registered the fact of a fist in her gut. Yang crashed down to the ground, but when struggled to get up as she put her weight on one knee. The Red Dragon Empress, her superior, casually walked toward her older cousin.

"Had enough?" Ruby asked.

Her response was for Yang to let out a bellowing roar and swipe the hand with the golden axe for a desperate blow. To JNPR, they only saw a searing golden blur of Yang's arc of the swing. The sound of metal hitting metal filled the gym as the axe was stopped by Ruby's forearm guarded by the armor of the Boosted Gear. Yang put more pressure on the blow, but Ruby did not budge on the spot.

"You're strong, Yang, don't doubt yourself about that." Ruby said. "I have no doubt you can overwhelm most High-class devils. However, you have a very long way to go to defeat me."

The crack of a cannon sounded through the gym as Yang gagged from an elbow blow right below her chest. She valiantly tried to stay conscious, but the damage was too much from Ruby's blows and she blacked out. Yang would have fallen to the ground if Ruby didn't catch her on her right arm where the yellow dragon lay limp.

(End Ost)

"Rest easy, Yang," Ruby whispered soothingly into her cousin's ear as she set her down near the doors to the locker rooms. "Is everyone all right?"

She only met silence to her question. While Weiss and Blake were picking themselves up now that the situation had calmed down, JNPR were in morbid silence. Pyrrha kept an intrigued gaze at Ruby that was slightly off put by the lust of battle that she was getting in control of the Muramasa. Ren was trying to catch his breath due to his lack of stamina while Nora was looking between the members of RWBY with awe. But Jaune as he forgot the ability to speak because through the whole fight he had flashbacks of his entire life when he was sure he was going to die.

"YOU ARE ALL SO AWESOME!" Nora screeched, stepping forward before bowing on all fours before the dragons. "Everyone was like a blur and explosions were going on for no reason! Please teach me your ways!"

Ruby just stared at the orange-haired teen that had too much sugar in her system while a sweat drop ran down the back of her head. Even Ddraig was off put by how bizarre Nora was, producing his own sweat drop.

[Remind me again why you brought them here.] Ddraig asked.

'I know, but I don't why I did.' Ruby mentally replied back.

Ruby cleared her throat as she began speaking, excluding the knocked out Yang. "Now that our warm-up is over-"

'She calls that a warm-up!' Thought everyone in terror.

"-you are probably wondering why I made you endure through all that punishment." Ruby continued. "My only reason is to test what I am working with today so that we can make ourselves stronger together. That is why I brought you here, JNPR, in preparation for the future."

"Uhm, are you sure, Ruby?" Jaune said. "Because with you in the Vytal Tournament it's not much of a competition."

"Don't sell yourself short." Ruby encouraged, playfully punching Jaune in the shoulder that made him stagger. "I can see there's potential in all of you, and this isn't about the Vytal Tournament. We are expected to be humanity's next generation of guardians and I aim to us all become the strongest out of the academy."

"Are you going to make us dragons!?" Nora exclaimed in excitement now several inches in front of Ruby's face.

"Nora," Ren reprimanded as he pulled Nora back, "I am sure Ruby wouldn't call us here-"

Ruby chuckled in amusement, cutting off Ren. "Well, that is part of the reason."

Ruby held out her hand where her signature magic circle burned to life in neon green. From the center protruded the black box holding her own set of Wyvern Pieces. The circle dissipated as soon as Ruby held the box in her hands, and JNPR's attention went to the contents to find emerald green chess pieces brimming with energy. She pulled four of the remaining Pawns out and held them out for JNPR to see.

"These are Wyvern Pieces." Ruby briefed the sister team of RWBY. "When embedded into you, they rewrite body and DNA into that of a dragon, granting all of you the aspects of the dragons of legend including eternity."

'Eternity?' Pyrrha squeaked, glancing at her love interest, Jaune. 'Then that means, I could be with Jaune forever.'

'I could make so many explosions and bash Grimm forever.' Nora thought in glee. 'And if Ren agrees, that means pancakes forever together. I mean, not together-together like boyfriend or girlfriend... Or maybe so?'

Ruby, Ren, and Jaune suddenly felt a chill go down their spines. The two latter felt they were being looked at like a pieces of juicy steak while the Red Dragon Empress had the sensation she had created something terrifying.

'No going back I suppose.' Ruby thought, picking up one of the four Pawns.

"So here is my proposal." Ruby announced. "Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren, and Nora Valkyrie, would you will four become dragons and fly in the skies alongside me as part of my pride?"

To Weiss' surprise, the first to step up to the offer was Jaune. His nervousness was still evident by in his eyes, but it was mostly bottled down.

"I'm ready." Jaune said. "Made some really good friends here. Actually, the first friends I have."

Ruby nodded and pressed a Pawn to Jaune's chest. It sunk through fabric and flesh like a spectral object till it became one with his body. A green glow surrounded his body into an intense light that surrounded Jaune in a shell. When it dimmed down, Jaune's blue eyes had become reptilian slits. Claws of white diamond replaced his fingers and horns of grey topped his head. A pair of wings and a tail came forth breaking through the clothes on his back colored in dark grey scales. His muscles were also noticeably bigger and defined. Pyrrha couldn't help but stare at his back muscles that twitched ever so slightly.

'Ooh, seems kind Pyrrha has some perverted thoughts in her head.' Ruby mentally commented noticing the crimson blush on her face. 'And when she becomes a dragon, well someone is going to be very happy.'

"Oh dammit!" Cursed Jaune, his voice carrying a subtle growl. "That was my only hoodie! Mom is going to kill me!"

"Don't worry, Jaune!" Chirped Pyrrha, her voice more excited than usual. "I can help you find a new hoodie in Vale."

"Oh," Jaune responded, glancing at the redhead. "Thanks, Pyr."

"Me next!" Exclaimed Nora, shoving Jaune off to the side. "Make me a dragon, one that can make explosions."

"O... kay," Ruby said with a sweat drop.

Reluctantly, Ruby pressed the Pawn to Nora's chest, letting the piece sink to combine with her spirit. When the glow receded, Nora sported bright orange scales. Two dark blue horns grew above her ears pointing behind her head. Her wings and tail sported a dark blue color pallet, but Ruby noticed a brighter blue glow underneath the scales and lining the veins of her spines and wings. With her nose, Ruby picked up a strong scent of ozone, revealing Nora to be a lightning dragon.

'At least she's not a fire dragon.' Ruby thought. 'Don't know what I would have done with a dragon gone pyromaniac.'

The next one up was Ren, putting on a stoic face. Ruby could see his reasons. Wherever Nora will go, Ren was bound to follow if only to make sure the hyper teenager doesn't cause too much damage. Without a word, Ruby gave Ren the Wyvern Pawn Piece and watched as vine-green scales, wings, claws, and a spiny tail grew. His defining feature was the crown of horns Ren sported in a row of five on his head with four a dark green and the center one being a dark purple.

Last, but not least was Pyrrha herself. Ruby also expected this when she reincarnated Jaune. Practically everyone knew that the two were closest partners, but it was Ruby that can see the adoring affection Pyrrha had for the blonde. Jaune was Pyrrha's first real friend in a long time, and she did not afford to lose him ever. She can only imagine what Pyrrha will do with the instincts of a female dragon with Jaune in her sight.

When the Pawn was given to Pyrrha, it wasn't a surprise that her dragon features were red. Her spines were shorter than expected, only being an inch long, and were rounded to resemble dorsal fins. They shined with a metallic feel to them, and Pyrrha featured three short horns with one above her forehead and the other two on either side of her head.

"This feels amazing!" Nora yelled as she ran about in speeds beyond human to test out the new power of her body.

"I feel like I could lift all the metal in this entire building." Muttered Pyrrha, flexing her Aura to find it at such tremendous levels.

"Feels good doesn't it?" Ruby said with a smile, but her sweet tone carried an air of danger to it. "You may feel stronger, faster, and tougher than before, but starting from now, it will feel like hell. The training I will put through everyone can literally break a human body. I am going to put you through the same trials I had to make me what I am now. As dragons, we stand at the epitome of creation equal to the gods themselves. You will feel pain and at some point you will believe you cannot go forward."

'I am starting to regret this.' Jaune thought, gulping.

"However, there is one rule you must remember." Ruby said as she gazed over the small crowd of dragons that made up her pride. "You will never submit because in the end you submit to no one. If there are any questions, let's get started on strengthening our strengths so to say."

"Care to elaborate?" Weiss asked.

"I am glad you asked." Ruby said. "I can't teach you of the 'good' stuff, such as breathing your element, but I can improve on what we, as natives of Remnant, can do: our Semblance. On Earth, there is a similar power that is called Touki that coats a person in the same protective shield that we are familiar with, but there is nothing quite like our Semblances. Our way to get stronger is to take them to the next level. Weiss, you're familiar with how your Semblance works?"

Weiss huffed. "Of course. I've been training it for as long as I have discovered it with my big sister Winter. My family's Semblance specializes in the use of glyphs for wide variety of effects."

"Then what about summoning?" Ruby inquired.

Weiss wilted. "I... can't do that."

"Don't look so down; you actually confirmed something for me." Ruby comforted while continuing on with the explanation. "You can't do summoning yet because it is the next evolution of your Semblance. Every Semblance has the capability to evolve into more powerful versions as you exercise it, and I aim to get that evolution out of all of you."

"This seems quite advanced, and not something that we've yet to learn in class," Pyrrha noted.

Ruby nodded. "You are right about that. In truth, the topic of evolving one's Semblance isn't touched on until our late second years. But I believe I can push it into you to get ahead of everyone else. You'll need it as a dragon after all."

"If what you say is true, then that would mean you've evolved your Semblance?" Blake noted.

"Yes, I have," Ruby confirmed. "I can show you what you want."

Blake did as Ruby suggested and set her eyes on Ruby with absolute focus. As a Faunas, her senses were enhanced to be cat-like, and becoming a dragon increased her eyesight and other senses by a hundredfold. There was no detail that Blake will miss no matter how fast Ruby moved unless she went at the speed of light. On that thought, it wouldn't really surprise her actually after all the crazy feats she's seen from Ruby so far.

But her perfect eyesight can't explain the phenomena that happened. Ruby held up her arm and it suddenly broke apart into her rose petals which then surrounded her in a tornado. What was left of her arm was a stump where rose petals occasionally flaked off, but no blood or flesh was visible. Those same rose petals flew across the gym by Ruby's command, and eventually coalesced back to Ruby's stump to reform her arm.

"How did you do that?" Blake exclaimed.

"I once thought my Semblance is speed, but it's much more than that," Ruby explained. "In fact, I don't know what my Semblance exactly does. All I know is that I can take apart anything into formless matter that resembles 'petals' and reform them. I don't even need to touch anything; my rose petals can spread this breakdown effect wherever they touch. I could take away all the steel on the walls and floor into my Semblance. So far, I can only reform them back to their original shape, but my Semblance can also affect living things. Even you guys with all of your own Semblances would be helpless as soon as you dissipate into my formless matter."

"...Have I ever said that you are overpowered, Ruby?" Weiss said, getting agreeing nods from the rest of her pride.

"I have my limits." Ruby disagreed. "And there are forces far worse than myself out there. But that's a talk for another time, Weiss. Now it is the time to get you all started."

"And how are we supposed to do that?" Jaune asked.

He gulped seeing Ruby's predatory grin showing her sharp teeth for all of them to see. She reached into a pocket to fish out her Scroll and typed in a code. The roof of the gym opened up to the outside world. A rocket blast was coming closer until something crashed through the hole right behind Ruby's feet. It was her own locker that stored her weapons, each said locker having a rocket system to give a student his or her weapons when outside Beacon grounds.

The doors of the locker snapped open with a hiss to reveal her twin scythes, Crescent Rose and Moon Dragon. On the floor of the locker were her twin hand cannons, Ember and Diamond made respectively from the spare parts of her scythes. She grabbed a hold of both scythes by their extended hilts and turned back to her petrified, and one knocked out, dragons.

"You have one goal from now and every weekend." Ruby said sweetly, making her friends pale as she unveiled her weapons to their full scythe form. "Survive."

"Isn't there a safer way to go about this?" Jaune panicked.

Ruby shrugged. "Never said I was a good teacher. And thank you for volunteering to go first Jaune."

'I should probably remind Ruby that she is still boosted.' Ddraig thought. 'Eh, they can handle it.'

Scythes in hand, Ruby charged down Jaune only armed with his sword and shield. The next few hours or so were filled with the blonde's girly screams of terror and the yelps of pain for everyone else. Yet it was drowned out by Ruby's sinister chuckles.

(Yang's Mindscape)

"Ow, shit." Yang groaned, clutching her stomach and head that received the bluntest trauma. "I'm sorry Ruby, but you didn't have to hit me so hard - Okay, what the hell is this?"

Instead of waking in her dorm or in the medical wing at Beacon, Yang's vision was only greeted with an infinite blackness. The floor felt smooth at her feet, and the air was unnaturally still.

"Finally you have arrived, my host." The deep voice boomed throughout the dark space.

"Alright, who's the creep that's out there!?" Shouted Yang. "I may not have my weapons, but I can still kick your ass."

"Ha-ha-ha!" Boomed the voice in laughter. "Indeed you have quite the fire. As a reward, I shall reveal myself."

Yang's whole world erupted in golden fire eating away the darkness. The sky once a cold black burned white as a golden sun hung in the air to shine its unlimited heat and power below. The reincarnated dragon was just barely able to see through the golden flames to see a massive shadow approaching her with a golden axe in hand. Each footstep the giant took impacted the ground akin to a hammer striking an anvil.

The shadow soon revealed itself in the light, and all Yang could see was solid gold until she had to look up. Her jaw fell to the floor at how absolutely massive the man standing above her was. The absolute unit of a man towered so much that her head only reached just above her waist while his maximum height reached over ten feet. He had a head of blonde hair and blue eyes that looked to be burning fires themselves. And his skin was the most bizarre being a shade of fiery orange reflecting the flames that wrapped around his body.

His stare alone showcased unmatched confidence with overwhelming power to back it up. The look made Yang stagger back in a lapse of nervousness. The giant leaned down his head so that the two blondes were at eye level with each other.

"A warrior such as yourself need no fear to me." The man said that didn't hint at any malicious intent.

"Who are you?" Yang said barely above a whisper.

"Who am I, you say?" The man said, getting himself to stand straight and taking his pose with his finger in the air as though holding the sun itself. "I am the one who stands above all races of men, devil, and angel. My name is Escanor, the Lion Sin of Pride, and you, Yang Xiao Long, shall hold true to these titles as well."

'Seriously, what the fuck is happening?!' Yang screamed mentally. 'Am I on drugs?!'

Escanor smiled amusingly. "I can assure you are not under the influence of narcotics."

"It was a rhetorical question!" Yang exclaimed.

"Perhaps," Escanor replied, his mood going serious as he brandished his axe. "You have finally awoken my power so we may converse normally. Prepare yourself, Yang Xiao Long. I do not appreciate my host being lax in strength and I aim to rectify that."

"Are you saying I'm weak? Hey, what are you doing with that axe- AAAUGH!"

So yeah, I decided to give Yang the power of Sunshine to keep her theme of fire going on. There is a legitimate reason on the evolution of Semblances as it has been mentioned in the show. I've actually made a theory on what each individual's Semblance can possibly evolve into, such as Ruby's speed. Weiss' Semblance with summoning is an evolution of her family's Semblance as I believe from the original application to produce only certain affects. Blake's Semblance can evolve to create multiple clones or make them tangible. Pyrrha's magnetism can be evolved to affect more than just metal objects and potentially manipulate atoms to a agree, kind of like Magneto can do. You get the point now.

Up next is the start of the Phenex Arc after a short time-skip in Chapter 24.

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