Hello there!
Sorry it took two months to get this out, I had a dry spell where writing would not come to me at all. But I'm back and I hope to get more chapters out soon. But also, I have a request of you guys.
I am going to start a poll on my bio for a new story. I want to type a story about Robotech, more specifically, a story set after the Third Robotech War as I want to expand my horizons a bit and work in an area I have little knowledge about. However, I cannot stick with a story idea and I have gotten frustrated. So, now I am leaving it to you, my readers to determine what I should write about.
So, please go vote, it would mean a lot and might get me to start typing on that new story.
And here we are, the promised chapter, I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter Five: Roar of Fire
The eight students of Beacon looked onto the screen, wondering what new universe of wonders and horrors they shall be exposed to this time.
"The screen turned on and showed a massive white stadium. Upon the outer edges of the stadium stood several massive statues, each one holding a spectre. Inside the stadium, thousands of people stood cheering on with loud, thunderous voices."
"Oh, so this is a sport event? The Vytel festival perhaps?" Weiss asked.
"No, it something similar, but different at the same time. This world and yours are very similar in many ways, but there are key differences. You'll get some more information soon." Strike replied as the screen started again.
"It's the final day of the Grand Magic Games! Fiore's number one guild is about to decided!" An announcer cried out, drawing even greater cries from the crowd as the excitement on screen increased."
"What, Grand Magic Games? Guild?" Ruby asked, thoroughly confused.
"Yes. That world, which is called Earthland, never had it's magic wiped out and the gods still exist, but they don't interact with humanity all that much. A good thing because just like your world, the gods of Earthland are basically perpetual children who acted in the dumbest ways possible and got a lot of innocent people killed over the actions of a single person. But, back to question at hand, the inhabitants of Earthland can access and utilize magical power, which powers their technology and lends to them magical abilities." Strike said as he generated a holographic panel near himself and showed it to the Beacon students.
On the panel was a number of strange symbols that glowed in a variety of colors. Strike pointed to one which was glowing blue and had 12 rose vines all pointing towards the center of the magic symbol while a ring of archaic symbols flashed around the edge of the magic circle.
"An example of a magical power would be Ice Make Magic. It is a type of maker magic or magic that the user can use at any time, any place, that allows the user to make creations of ice according to the users will. There are two sub-types of Ice Make Magic: Dynamic and Static. Dynamic allows the user to create creatures of Ice that act like the real creatures while Static Ice Make Magic allows the user to create inanimate objects, such as swords, lances, spears, shields, etc of any size or shape as long as the user has the necessary magical energy to pull of the spell. This is just one kind of ice magic and there are many more as there are hundreds of different magical schools and discipline that a person can learn, if they have the time and energy. A person will have one magical type they are best at, but they are not limited to just one specific type of magic." Strike explained, moving past dozens of different magical symbols.
"Wow. There's so many." Nora said, awed by the magical symbols.
"Interesting. So, a person could learn a type of fire magic, but also learn a type of sensory magic as well?" Ren asked.
"Indeed. There really is no limit to how many magics a single person can learn, but some magic can take years if not decades to master and others are almost useless beyond a single, niche application. Not all magics are created equal, some are vastly more powerful then others if the right person pushes that magic to its limit." Strike said.
"So, what about Guilds, what are those?" Blake asked.
"Guilds are when a group of magically endowed people, usually called wizards, gather together into one group to eat together, live together and work together. These Guilds can be broken down into three differing groups: Light, Dark and Independant Guilds. A Light Guild is a guild that has been approved of by the Magic Council, a governing body that keeps order in the wizarding world. A Dark Guild is a Guild that is not approved of by the Magic Council and is treated like a criminal organization, usually because the members of that Guild have broken several laws. An Independant Guild is a Guild that is not approved of by the Magic Council, but at the same time it is not treated as a criminal organization." Strike explained as several Guild symbols appeared.
"So, how powerful are these wizards? Can we take them one?" Yang asked.
"Depends on the Wizard. A Wizard is ranked by a series of letters, starting at D, then C, then B, then A and then S. Beyond S is the rank of Wizard Saint, this ranks is given to the ten strongest wizards on the continent, starting from 10 and going up to 1. As for you taking a Wizard on, I cannot say. They might not have Aura, but Wizards are generally much tougher then a regular human naturally due to their magic and don;t suffer a decrease to defenses when they run out a magic like you guys do when you run out of Aura. Based on pure power, you don't stand a chance Yang. Wizards wield incredible power and even C class Wizards would be a challenge for you guys based on pure spell power. However, if you use teamwork and strategy, you might be able to beat a Wizard." Strike replied.
"Really? They can't be that powerful." Yang said.
"Just like there couldn't be anything worse then the Grimm? It's the multiverse Yang, anything that can happen, has already happened an infinite amount of times. Try not to push your conceptions of reality onto infinity, it generally doesn't end well." Strike said as the screen started once again.
"Cool! Cool! Cool!" A familiar face in the form of Lisa Lavender said. "This should make for an interesting article! Right Weiss?"
A different Weiss Schnee stood nearby, a bored look on her face. She was taller and more filled out then the Weiss sitting in the audience, also her hair is a bit long as well. She currently had her hair in a ponytail on the right side of her head, a media pass lanyard around her neck, and a white ribbon in her hair."
"Well well well. Looks like Weiss finally grew a couple of inches and not just vertically." Yang said with a wide smile on her face. as Blake just shook her head.
Weiss was too busy looking at her alternate to care much.
"Even other versions of me look more womanly." She cried internally.
"Wow Weiss, that version of you looks nice." Ruby said, while also internally disappointed at her own short stature.
Jaune was blushing slightly at the sight of a more endowed Weiss as Pyrrha silently fumed in jealousy.
Ren and Nora were scooting away from Pyrrha on the off chance she finally snapped and started strangling the blonde haired blockhead.
Not wanting to give her a chance, Strike started the viewing again.
"Certainly, Crexerc is strong. But from my memos and observations, the members of Skull Milione are stronger. From what I can tell, they got at least twice the magic power of Crexerc. They've just been hiding it." Weiss said monotonously, completely bored by the proceedings.
"C'mon, why would they do that?" Lisa asked.
"To churn the odds at the bookies, obviously." Weiss replied.
Skull Milione is going to win. There's no doubt about that." Weiss declared to her partner.
And Weiss was correct as the members of Skull Milione effortlessly crushed the members of Crexerc, much to the delight of the crowd as well as Lisa who shouted "Cool!" excitedly."
"So, looks like those Crexerc guys bit off more then they could chew. Would have liked to see the fight." Yang said.
"Sorry, but the fight wasn't anything special. The exciting bit is right around the corner." Strike said as the viewing started again.
"Overcoming incredible 100 to 1 odds, Skull Milione takes the gold at this years Grand Magic Games!" The announcer excitedly shouted as the view changed to one near Skull Milione.
"Worked like a charm boss." One of the members said to the fiery red haired leader.
"I can almost smell the money." The boss said, completely assured of his own position.
"You nailed it Weiss! Their best in the land!" Lisa said excitedly.
"I definitely never said that. They might have won the games this year, but still." Weiss said.
But before she could continue her train of thought, a single figure began to walk out of one of the tunnels leading to the arena.
Many in the crowd noticed the figure and turned to look, wondering who it was an what is going on.
"Who's that Strike?" Jaune asked, confused.
"Are random people allowed out onto the arena after the match? Weird, but it is another universe, so different rules. Maybe an official, but why would the dress in a tattered cloak?" Jaune thought.
"That is to be revealed very soon." Strike replied before the screen started once more.
"Weiss and Lisa both looked at the stranger in shock as the figure covered in a black cloak continued to walk farther into the arena.
"Ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious figure has walked onto the battlefield.
"Who in the hell are you?" The leader of Skull Milione asked.
"What's going on?" Weiss asked as she looked down at the arena.
Silently, the figure continued to walk closer to Skull Milione.
"Something's weird. So much magic power." Weiss said in awe before she said to Lisa, "Everyone needs to get out of here!"
Just as she said that, a violent gust of hot air blasted past Weiss, Lisa and the other spectators around the arena.
"You got guts man, but your short on brains." Skull Milione's leader arrogantly said.
"Wait, is this the woman in black people have been talking about?" Another member of Skull Milione asked, fear in his voice.
"No, there's no way." Another member said.
"So, you clowns think your Fiore's greatest guild do ya?" A slightly distorted voice said.
"Okay girl, who are you?" Skull Milione's leader asked.
"Who, me?" The figure said, right before she bent her left arm back as bright orange flames wrapped around her fist as she yelled out, "I'm a challenger!"
She threw her fist forwards, causing a massive jet of fire to erupt out of the closed fist, blasting into and then over Skull Milione in a second, causing the wizards to shout out in pain.
"She unleashed a brutal attack!" The announcer said, barely able to believe what was happening before him.
"We need to find some wizards who can fight him off!" Weiss said, determined to stop the unknown attacker.
Just as she said that, the unknown figure smashed her fist into the ground, causing a massive geyser of fire t erupt, heading into the sky as bright orange flames filled nearly every corner of the arena.
Many in the audience started to try and evacuate as the flames roared around them, the insane heat licking near them, but causing no harm beyond making them hot.
"Hold onto your horses and your clothes!" The announcer said as his clothes started melting off him. "The whole stadium is melting like butter!" The announcer said in shock as the concrete arena started melting all around them.
"Holy crap." Yang said in shock, completely in awe at the shear power being displayed here. While not on Rune King Jaune's level, the fire being shown here is by no means weak. No Semblance could match those flames, Yang is positive of that.
"Wow." Nora and Ruby both muttered at the same time, stars in their eyes as they looked at the pretty flames, completely mesmerized by their appearance.
"Weiss looked on in mounting horror as her shirt melted off, leaving her crossing her arms to cover her modesty.
"This heat is frickin insane!" Weiss said, unable to believe anyone could generate such fire.
The figure laughed, obviously enjoying themselves.
"This heat, fire." Weiss muttered, starting to figure who it was down in that arena.
The mysterious figure ignited both her hands bringing them to her sides as her cloak top flew off, revealing that it was Yang-Xiao Long who had attacked the Grand Magic Games. Her hair is longer and much more untamed then anyone had ever seen, and she had that same confident smile on her face.
"It's Yang!" Weiss said in shock.
"COOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!" Lisa shouted out as her favorite wizard had come back.
"It's Yang-Xiao Long!" The announcer said, his clothes and wig melted off.
"Holy smokes!" His fellow announcer said in awe.
"It's me?" Yang asked, shocked to see an alternative version of herself so strong.
"Yes, that is Yang-Xiao Long of Earthland. You wield the power of Fire Dragon Slayer magic, a magic type apart of a group of magics called Lost Magics, which were lost and forgotten due to their danger and their incredible power. Fire Dragon Slayer magic gives the user many abilities, such as increased strength, durability, speed, stamina, senses, the ability to wield flames of incredible furosity an the ability to consume fire to replenish their stamina." Strike said as he explained the powers of a Fire Dragon Slayer.
"Wow, are heir any other Dragon Slayers?" Nora asked.
"Yep, there are a lot of Dragon Slayer types, like Fire, Lightning, Light, Dark, Wing, Poison, etc. There are also various methods to become a Dragon Slayer. One way is to be taught by an actual Dragon, another is to have a magical device known as a Dragon Lacrima implanted into you and a few other ways. Yang was taught by the Fire Dragon King, Igneel who took her in after she was abandoned by her parents." Strike said, eyeing Yang for her reaction.
Yang stiffened and then quietly said, "Guess even in other worlds, I'm still not enough for my parents."
Strike said nothing, but vowed to keep an eye on her and try to show her happier universes soon. With nothing else to say as the others were trying to comfort yang, Strike restarted the viewing.
"A small black cat-like creature appeared behind Weiss and jumped into their air, a pair of white wings popping out of it's back as it happily waved towards Lucy with it's short arms while wearing a small gold and yellow jacket on it's chest. It's amber eyes looked to Weiss in happiness as it said in a oddly familiar voice, "Hey ya Weiss! It's been a while! How ya doing?"
"Blake!" Weiss said in shock as she turned around, still covering her chest. "You're back?!"
"Yeah, well Yang insisted on challenging whoever won this year's Grand Magic Games, so here we are I guess!" Blake said with a shrug.
Yang was silent for one second before she started laughing hard. She started pounding on her chair arms as tear started racing down her face due to the pain in her chest.
Blake was glaring murderously at Yang, a blush on her face from embarrassment.
"Oh god! Blakey is a real cat! I can't! I cant!" Yang said between laugh episodes.
Blake glared at the rest of the room and said, "Anyone else makes a single comment, I will end you."
JNPR moved away from Blake out of fear while Weiss and Ruby were both desperately trying to keep their laughter in while Strike simply gave a soft chuckle out of amusement.
It took five minutes for Yang to stop laughing enough for her to sit back in her chair and breath easily once again. She turned towards Blake, stared at her for a few seconds before she started laughing again.
Blake simply closed her eyes and counted to ten, desperately wishing for a bat so she could knock Yang unconscious.
Strike sighed and then put a transparent field around Yang, blocking her laughter from those in the room.
Once the field was up, Strike started the view once again.
"They don't seem to be putting up much of a fight." Weiss commented as she stared at the arena where the members of Skull Milione laid defeated, their clothes burnt from their bodies.
"Whoever wants a piece, come and get some!" Yang yelled out, a massive smile on her face as she faced various wizards coming to stop her.
"Now, we're talking!" She shouted as she turned and blasted a massive jet of flames from her left fist, taking down five wizards at once with no effort.
Weiss and Blake looked down in awe as Yang continued to dominate the fight, taking down several more groups of wizards.
One final rush of wizards charged at Yang, their leader roaring out, "Take her down!" with various other wizards also joining in.
However, Yang simply smiled and shouted out, "I'm all fired up now!"
She shot forth a ocean of flames, all of them wrapping around Yang in a tornado like fashion.
The wizards stopped their advance as they stared in shock.
The floor of the arena was glowing like lava now, the surface heated up to insane temperatures.
"This place is burning up!" One wizards shouted in fear.
"I feel like I'm on fire!" Another joined in.
"No, she's a monster!" A barely clothed wizard said before he and his friends all turned and ran out of the arena, not wanting to face such a powerhouse.
"She's crazy, but to her credit, she knows how to make an entrance." Blake said with a helpless shrug, appearing to be unbothered by the fire and heat like the others were.
"I have to agree with that Blake. That Yang is utterly insane." Weiss said, all of the Beacon students save for Yang nodding along with her.
"Yang stopped erupting with fire, calming down and allowing the arena to quickly loose it's heat, returning to its regular grey coloring. She then saw something out of the corner of her eye and saw Weiss.
The two stared at one another, unable to believe their eyes at the sight of their friend.
Yang was the one to break the staring contest first, smiling as she said, "Hey! Good to see ya Weiss! How's it going?"
Weiss looked down in with a look of melancholic happiness as she said, "Pretty good."
A voice that sounded like Weiss's then said, "It was at that moment I heard a voice inside my head. It said Fairy Tail is still alive and kicking!"
With that, the screen died down and turned off, returning to the book as said book closed and flew back to its position within the library.
"So, how did you guys like that?" Strike asked.
"It was awesome! Yang-Yang was so cool and powerful!" Nora said excitedly.
"It was nice to see a less serious world." Ren calmly said, a soft smile on his face and he brought Nora back down.
"I agree. It was a nice world and I hope to see more of it." Pyrrha supplied.
"It was short, but awesome!" Jaune said as he pumped his arms up.
"While my role was limited, I do have to agree that seeing a world were people are dying horribly is a breath of fresh air." Weiss said.
"Yeah! It was so cool to see Yang! She was unstoppable and she melted a whole arena!" Ruby said with stars in her eyes.
"It was so cool to see me being so badass and not just a single line telling how I died." Yang said as the barrier around her was lowered.
"It was an interesting world with all the different magics, but why was I a walking, talking cat that can grow wings?" Blake asked.
"Quirks of that universe. Trust me, there are things a whole lot weirder and stranger then that. The lesson for this viewing is that not all worlds are filled with pain and misery. There are good universes and there are bad universes. Nothing in life is black and white only. Now, I believe it is time we returned to the first world we saw, the world of Kaiju's and Jaegers." Strike said as he had a familiar book float off the shelf and fly into his hands.
But before he could get the next viewing started, the door from which Teams JNPR and RWBY walked came from opened up and four new figures stood at the door way.
One was a scruffy looking drink man who was confused while holding a flask. Another was an older man with greying hair, a pair of glasses, leaning on a cane and holding a cup of coffee. The third was a blonde haired woman with a riding crop and having a pair of glasses on her face as her emerald eyes looked around. The final figure was a blonde haired man with a vest and shorts as he looked at Ruby and Yang in joy and confusion.
"Yang! Ruby!" The blonde haired man said as he ran over.
"Dad?!" The two cried before they were bear hugged.
"That's your dad?" Weiss asked.
"What's Ozpin, Professor Goodwitch and a hobo doing in this library?" Jaune asked.
"Hey! Just because I smell and look like a hobo doesn't mean I am. I am Ruby's and Yang's uncle." The scruffy man said as he looked around.
"Really?" Blake asked, not really believing such a man was Yang's and Ruby's uncle.
"I can assure you Mrs. Belladonna, Mr. Brandwen is indeed Ruby Rose and Yang-Xiao Long's uncle." Ozpin said as calmly sipped from his coffee.
"Children! Just what is going on?" Professor Goodwitch asked as she looked at Strike in apprehension.
Strike slapped his right palm against his face as new information flowed into his head.
"Dammit boss. Why do you hate me so much?" Strike muttered as he prepared to get his library back in order.
And that is it for this chapter!
Again, sorry it took me far too long to get this chapter out. I really intended for it to be out earlier, but stuff happened and well, here we are.
So, yeah, I decided to show episode 276 of Fairy Tail, just after the One Year Timeskip as that was one of the first times I saw Natsu. I didn't watch Fairy Tail when it aired, I instead heard of it from my friends, went and saw a few clips on Youtube and then checked out the Fairy Tail collections at my local library. So this is a special moment to me as it helped sement me as a Fairy Tail fan and it is still one of my favorite moments in Fairy Tail, the moment Natsu really showed just how strong he could be.
And yeah, I brought in Qrow, Taiyang, Ozpin and Goodwitch to give a few more perspectives and views, especially since the next viewing directly shows Taiyang and his struggles in the Pacific Rim universe.
And that's it, so just a quick reminder to go and check out the poll and vote and maye tell me what kind of Robotech story you guys think I should type.
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And until next time, this is StrikeFreedom10, signing off.
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