Chapter 18. Round One
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Dedicated to Braedey95 and CorJayNelson
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Opening - Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Theme
https://youtu.be/cxUbzV__dUI
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Cliffside Forest
A young girl with a cloak billowing petals in the breeze. Hands clasped and hood up, Ruby Rose stands over the white stone memorial.
"Hey mom." Ruby said as she looks at the inscription on the stone memorial: Summer Rose. "Sorry I haven't come by in a while. Things have been... well, things have been, pretty busy. Oh, Dad's here, too! He's, uh, you know... Dad." Ruby chuckles and shrugs. "But he told me that he's going to be on some mission soon. I think he misses adventuring with you."
Ruby then looks down. "I miss you too..." She then perks up again. " Haven't gotten kicked out of Beacon yet! So that's cool. I think being on a team with Yang helps. Keep her in line... That was a joke. She's actually a really great fighter! You can tell she's learned a lot from Dad! Oh, so are Weiss and Blake. Oh! They're my teammates! Together, we form Team RWBY! And yes, before you ask, that does cause a lot of confusion." She said, chuckling a little.
"Oh! And I almost forgot Jack and Emma! They're our allies and friends.Anyways, I made a bunch of new friends, and then I met some... let's just say, uh, odd teachers. Oh! We've also stopped some bad guys, too! I guess it's like they say: 'like mother, like daughter'!" Ruby chirps as she smiles. Then something crossed her mind. "I still wonder why Ozpin let me into the school early. But uh, I guess he'll tell me one day." She added. "It's funny, the more I get to know him, the more he's starting to sound like Uncle Qrow."
Suddenly, a bark caught her attention and she turns around to see Zwei and her father, Taiyang Xiao Long, his hands on his waists, waiting for her daughter.
"Oh! Looks like Dad's back! I gotta go! He's dropping me off at Beacon for the tournament match before he goes on his next mission. Wish me luck!" Ruby says and puts on her hood, heading back to her father and canine friend. However, before she leaves, she turned around one last time and smiles. "It was good to talk." She says and finally leaves.
As the family goes, a few crows fly into the distance. Looking closely, one would see that, with these crows in formation and the sun about to rise, it would seem the crows and the sun form some sort of name.
MONTY
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Ruby twirls her Crescent Rose, Blake takes out both versions of Gambol Shroud, Weiss prepares Myrtenaster and Yang cocks Ember Celica.
They all charge after their opponents in the arena.
At the hosts' area, we have Doctor Oobleck and Professor Port hosting the tournament live to audiences around the world.
"Hoho! Looks like we have ourselves another astonishing bout ahead of us! Wouldn't you agree, Professor?" Port says to Oobleck.
"Doctor." Oobleck corrected Port and continued. "And yes, I agree. This may be the closest match we've had in the four on four round of the tournament!"
"For those of you joining us just now, welcome to the Vytal Festival Tournament!" Port announced as the crowd in Amity Coliseum all cheered.
Amity Coliseum is a large technological marvel that is a literal floating arena in the sky. Airships carrying watchers and students alike are all headed to it so the people can watch and the wwarriors can fight.
"Now, let's get back to the match between team RWBY of Beacon and team ABRN from Haven." Port says and everyone kept watching.
Reese Chloris, a member of team ABRN, uses her hoverboard to charge at Blake. Reese then attempts to land on Blake with her hoverboard, but Blake managed to push her away. Reese then lands back at the ground and kicks her hoverboard at Blake, who swats the object back. The two continued passing and swatting each other the same board until Reese grabs her board and uses it as a melee weapon against Blake. The two engage in melee combat until Reese backflips and rides on her board. She then charges at Blake, who smirks as she gets an idea. Reese tries landing on Blake again, but Blake backs away while leaving an ice shadow, causing Reese to almost loose balance and prompts Blake to cut through the middle part of the board, seemingly slicing it in two.
However, Reese simply backflips so high and the two separated parts of her seemingly sliced board suddenly transform into dual pistols with two bayonets each. Reese grabs both guns and starts firing at Blake...only to slip and land on the ground with her rear, causing her to clutch it in pain as everyone gasped, even Blake. Butt slams. Reese's greatest weakness.
Meanwhile, Yang lands mere feet away from Arslan, who backs away before being pounded by a flurry of punches and kicks until she delivers her own hits, ending with the two smashing fists and creating a shockwave of force from the impact. Yang and Arslan are both thrown back, but Yang reaches her and tries delivering more blows before Arslan uses her rope dart to tangle up her blonde adversary and land a kick of her own to send Yang skidding on the ground. While Yang tries to get her balance back on the slippery surface, Arslan rushes forward and knocks her back even further.
Nearby, Nadir Shiko tries aiming with his assault rifle at Yang before a sudden burst of frosty blue explodes behind him and leaves the whimpering gunner in a block of ice up to his thighs. He looks to where whoever shot him and sees Ruby, looking through her scope.
"Got your back, sis!" Ruby says.
"Who's got yours?"
Ruby turns around to see Bolin Hori. Bolin twirls his staff, right when a black snowflake glyph appears to his left and Weiss kicks him through it into a rock.
"My BFF!" Ruby happily replied.
"No." Weiss said in a deadpan tone and zooms off.
Ruby, however, just pumps her fist and whispers to herself. "Yes!
Bolin crouches with his weapon as he sees a white glyph appear in front of him. A second later, Weiss dashes by and slashes at him, then leaps up and attempts an aerial attack, which he's able to block. She readies her sword while preparing a glyph behind her, and Ruby uses it to launch herself straight up and come down spinning on Bolin, who manages to block the curved blade. Ruby grimaces and blasts herself away to Weiss' side, and Bolin rushes at them, rolling away from the shards of ice that rain on him and jumping over Ruby's swing as he continues running.
Ruby is startled and confused as to why Bolin was suddenly just dodging her and Weiss. "Whaaaat?" Ruby exclaimed.
Bolin manages to reach an orange crystal deposit and slice off a shard, which he throws to Reese over in the icy half of the stadium. With Dust in hand, Reese fuses it with her board, turning the aqua lights to a crimson shade. She winks at Blake, then uses the board's heat to free Nadir from his icy snare.
She comes back to Blake and slams her board into her enemy's blade, but propels herself backwards and knocks Blake through a frozen pillar. Reese attempts to use her board to slam her foe into the ground, but when she dodges that, she spins around in a flaming arc that Blake narrowly misses thanks to her shadows. Changing tactics, Blake launches the pistol part of Gambol Shroud at a nearby glacier and launches herself behind it, as Reese follows her and sees Blake with her back turned to her under an arch. Reese grins before riding in to deliver a flaming spiral at the shadow clone, only to see the ribbon Blake is launching to trap her opponent a moment too late. She pulls tightly and causes Reese to slam body-first into the string, only to use a final kick to knock her out of the stage. Reese crashes into the wall of the stands before landing on the ground, defeated.
"Ooh, a double whammy! Reese Chloris is eliminated by ringout and Aura level!" Port announces as Reese's Aura level drops in the team display until her image is crossed out and she angrily slams her fist on the ground.
Back in the fight, Arslan uses her rope to swing around and avoid Yang right behind her, using shotgun blasts to propel herself forward. Nadir comes into the picture, aiming his rifle at Weiss as she summons another glyph and launches Bolin at him. The two teammates are helpless as Weiss creates a whirlwind from underneath them and slamming the two together until she forms a giant ice fist straight up from the ground to trap the two. It reforms itself into a ball that rolls around the field.
Arslan sees her team in this state and rolls her eyes, annoyed, before changing direction and sliding into the path of the ball. She readies her stance and drives her hand into the sphere, which cracks under her power and frees her allies.
Yang turns to look at Weiss and they nod at each other. Weiss creates a large frozen slide-like shape. Knowing what to do, Yang blasts herself forward and skims over the wall of ice, catching Blake's pistol as her teammate uses Ruby as a launch pad to jump off of towards the remaining members of ABRN. The three only have a second to look horrified as Blake whips a screaming Yang around to land a devastating punch that sends the trio flying into their elimination.
"And that's the match! Team RWBY is victorious!" Port announces as everyone cheered in the arena.
Weiss looks around, unsure. "We did it?"
Ruby looks at her sister for confirmation, she smiles and leaps into the air, screaming, "WE DID IIIII-"
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"-...is anyone else hungry?" Ruby says, hunched over.
The whole team is now at the fairgrounds. Blake puts her hands behind her head, trying to look cool and calm.
"I may have worked up an appetite." Blake says. And right on cue, her stomach growls very, very, VERY loud, much to her embarrassment.
"Gee, if only there was somewhere on campus to get food around here." Weiss said sarcastically. "Oh, wait." She says sarcastically again.
If one would notice, they're literally in the middle of a bunch of myriad of tents and small shops wreathed in colorful flags in a large forest clearing as people mill about to experience it all.
"It's okay, Weiss." Ruby said as she puts an arm on Weiss' shoulder. "I forget about the fairgrounds, too."
Weiss pushes Ruby away. "I was being facetious." She replied.
"Gah! If you were hungry, why didn't you say so!?" Ruby said, freaking out.
"Come on! I know just the place." Yang says.
As the girls head to the place Yang suggested, Weiss suddenly stops as she hears a ringtone on her Scroll. Pulling it out, she sees the caller ID labeled "FATHER", and glares at the device, putting it back from where she got it, unanswered.
As they kept walking, Ruby turned to her sister. "So, is this where we're supposed to meet Jack and Emma?" Ruby asked.
"That's a pretty safe assumption." Alex said as he and Emma approached RWBY from their right.
"Hey guys."
Ruby turned spotting a familiar green haired girl holding a small red wallet with a rose engravement on the outside. "Huh?" Ruby said as she began to rummage through her pockets."No!" Ruby said, frantically.
Emerald laughed at the red reaper's predicament. "Good to see you, Ruby!" She said. handing the wallet back to the red reaper.
"Thanks Emerald. I guess I dropped it. Ugh, Girl pockets are the worst!" Ruby said.
"What's up, Em?" Yang asked coming up beside her sister.
"Just left the stadium after your amazing fight. you guys were awesome." Emerald said, causing Ruby to stutter uncontrollably.
"I heard your team progressed to the next round too. " Blake noted.
"You know, I feel like we never get to see your other teammates." Weiss said.
"Yeah, you usually hang around those other three." Emma said in thought.
"Yeah, that hipster guy with silver hair, the other girl with green eyes and what was her name again... Cinder, yeah Cinder, Nyx and Mercury, where are they now?" Jack asked.
The green haired girl's eyes widened for a moment having to suppress a small laugh. 'Hipster that's actually a pretty good way to describe that idiot.' Emerald thought before shrugging "Cinder went back to the dorm, Mercury's checking out a few stalls and Nyx well..." Emerald said as she glanced around spotting a multicoloured girl in disguise indulging herself in one of her frozen treats.
"So, how'd they do in a fight?" Emerald looked away in thought, recalling the fight against one of the teams from Shade academy. "Really, well."
"That's great!" Ruby said. "Why don't we all go out and get some victor food together?"
"Oh, gosh that's so nice of you but, my teammates are all kind of...introverted." She said glancing back at Mercury, who was busy looking over a pair of boots and began to sniff them, pulling away in disgust. "Really socially awkward."
"Ohh yeah. I could see that." Yang said.
"So yeah. Looks like Merc and I will be moving on to the doubles round. What about you guys?" Emerald asked, crossing her arms behind her back.
"Well," Ruby began. "As the leader of team RWBY, I thought long and hard about this decision-"
"Ahem." Jack coughed, glancing to Ruby a wary look in his eye.
"Oh." Ruby said in realization. "Well sorry Emerald, we're keeping that a secret. You know can't give up the advantage." Ruby said shrugging.
"I guess." Emerald said with a smile while inwardly cursing. 'Of course it wouldn't be that easy.' She chuckled. "Well, if Mercury and I see you down the line, don't think we'll go easy on ya."
"Wouldn't have it any other way." Yang said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Alright. Well, gonna go catch some more fights." Emerald said as they parted ways.
"Have fun!" Ruby called back.
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"See you later!" Emerald said as she waves goodbye to team RWBBY and immediately drops the act as she walks with Mercury and looks disgusted.
"So, how are the new friends?" Mercury asked.
"I hate them." Emerald replied, scowling.
Mercury shrugged. "Orders are orders."
Emerald mashes her fingers together angrily. "I just... how can they be so happy all the time!?" Emerald angrily ranted.
"Did you at least get what we want?" Mercury asked.
Emerald growled. "No. that little red girl is about to tell me, then Andros stopped her. Apparently, they don't want to give away the advantage."
"Great. Cinder's not gonna be happy." Mercury said.
Emerald sighs. "I know. We should ask JNPR and CFVY. They seem to be close friends with them." She said. Mercury hummed in agreement.
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At one of the unassuming huts set up in the fairgrounds stringed with paper lanterns with a sign overhead saying A Simple Wok, Team RWBBY sits at the stools outside, ready to order.
"I'll have a bowl of the regular, please." Yang says to the Shopkeep. A large bowl of noodles slides in front of her.
Ruby stares at Yang's meal. "Oohhh... I'll take the same." A large bowl of noodles slides in front of her, as she clasps her hands in excitement.
"Do you have anything with a low-salt ...?" Weiss tries saying but was interrupted by a large bowl of regular noodles sliding immediately in front of her instead. "Um ... okay ..." she merely says.
"You don't happen to have chili fries, do you?" Ben asks but a bowl of noodles also slides in front of him. "Nevermind." Ben adds.
Instead of saying anything, Blake merely gives a nod and smile to the Shopkeep, who returns the gesture as he rushes through one door of his shop and comes out the other to leave a large bowl of fish in front of her. Blake's eyes light up as she drools over her order.
While Weiss looks strangely at Blake, she gladly offers her Schnee Dust Company credit card to the Shopkeep.
"Aw Weiss! What's the occasion?" Yang asks.
"Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round." Weiss says. However, her joy is ruined when the card is flung back at her, and the annoyed Shopkeep points to his register as it beeps 'DECLINED'. "What?! How can my card be declined? I was barely into my monthly allowance!" Weiss complains.
Blake, looking around panicked, she attempts to slowly slide her bowl closer to herself before the Shopkeep disappears with her food, causing the poor girl to slump over in defeat. "Nooo!" Blake whimpered.
"Maybe I could help?"
Ruby, Weiss, Jack, Emma and Yang all look at their left to see Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora approaching their stand.
"Pyrrha!" Ruby yelled happily, flinging her arms wide in delight.
"Aw, you don't have to." Yang says.
"But she could!" Blake pressed. Suddenly, her bowl slides back in front of her. "Huh?" The owner pointed at Jack and Emma, who sat next to them and are eating their own ramen. The others look at the scene in somewhat jealousy.
"Sorry," Jack shrugged. "That was all my money. Thought I could pay for everyone else."
"I think you all earned it after that battle." Pyrrha said.
"Mind if we join you?" Jaune adds.
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"So, you guys think you're ready?" Ruby asks Pyrrha after they all finish their bowls. Jaune seems to be clutching his belly in pain as he ate too much.
Nora starts to gesture to each of her teammates. "Of course! We've got a world-renowned fighter on our team, one's basically ninja, I can bench five of me, Jaune, we trained all year, our weapons are awesome, Glynda barely yells at us anymore, and uh... Jaune!" Nora said, frantically.
"Are you going to take that?" Ren asked Jaune.
"She's not wrong." Jaune replies, groaning in pain rather than in embarrassment.
Nora begins talking quickly, the color slowly draining away as she gets more worried. "I'm kidding, he knows I'm kidding. Don't be so nervous! The worst that can happen is that we lose, finish a few more years of walking around school with everyone knowing we're failures, our friends will slowly abandon us to preserve their social status, we won't be able to show our faces in class, no one will sit with us in the cafeteria, Ren and I have no parents, and we have no home left to go to, and we'll be renamed Team Lose-iper!" She ends, laughing madly but her mad laughter turns into sobs as she slams her head on the counter.
"Oooookay?" Emma said, watching the usual bubbly girl practically sobbing. It was weird and out of character..... even for Nora.
"So, yeah, we're feeling pretty good." Ren spoke up, unaffected by the ginger's actions.
"Don't fret. If anything, we should be looking forward to fight with actual guidelines, and not, well, ...murderers." Pyrrha pointed out.
"Don't sweat it, we've all faced worse before." Yang replied.
Blake counts off the threats on her fingers. "Let's see. Grimm invasions, violent extremists, two destructive sociopaths, one being a kid with the same powers as Jack and Emma..."
"Always hated that guy's guts." Jack scowled, crossing his arms.
"And that's all while were still in training! Oh, imagine what it would be like to graduate!" Ruby said, clasping her hands in excitement.
"Maybe then we'll be able to pay for a meal." Weiss mumbled sarcastically to herself.
"Would Team JNPR report to the battlegrounds immediately!" Port announced through the intercom systems.
"Yes! Like they were scheduled to, several minutes ago!" Oobleck added.
"Well, it looks like this is it." Pyrrha said.
"Go get em'!" Ruby said to Team JNPR as they walk away, Nora still depressed and Jaune looking uneasy.
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