Sans P.O.V
Huh? What is happening? Where am I? What position am I in, right now here? And most importantly...why is everything around me so...dark?
(Ignore part about nightmare's castle)
I kept on looking around. This...really is the Abyss from the stories, but why am I in here suddenly? I than tried to touch the water. Surprisingly, I can walk on it, without me sinking down under the liquid.
"Huh? Who is there? Show yourself, right here and now."
The figure can to my direction, and this is his appearance.
This being before me...it looks so...so godly. I have no way to describe it. But there is also...something strange about him...something about him...it's...familiar. I have no way to describe the being before me.
"Who...Who are you?"
I asked the being. He looked at me directly into my eyes and said this to me.
"My name...is Kyo. I am the embodiment and deity of the Evolutionary Power that is resting within you.
What the? What does he mean by the Evolutionary Power that is resting within myself.
"The Evolutionary Power? What is that?"
I ask the creature.
"It is the Power that you are given at birth. It is what has made you stronger in the first place. But let us not dwell on that for the time being. For now, we dwell on the Abyss itself."
Then, suddenly, a blinding light has came out of nowhere, and I ended up somewhere else. Huh? What is this?
"Wh...Where am I at?"
I spoke all around here. This place looks very dark. It has a black sky, the water has become a darker shade of Turqoise now, and there is Some strange mist around the place present.
"You are in the new part of the Abyss, Sans."
He turns to find Kyo here with him.
"When you obtained the 2 Elemental Orbs, you had accessed a new part of the Abyss. Here, you can see the most darkest of places through the entirety of Remnant. Each of them are filled with sin and evil from within them. Salem's is the most darkest."
He gestured to a Orb with a strange eye symbol. It is red, and has a rather nightmarish look there.
"Hold on a moment! Why are you showing me this?! What does the Abyss have to do with me?! What is the purpose of the Abyss itself, when nobody knows?! Answer me, Kyo! Please answer!"
I shouted to the being. He simply bowed his head, with his eyes closed.
"Alas, I can not tell you. Not yet, at least, Sans. However, I can say, that I am made to regulate the power of your Evolution. However, when you gather all of the a Elemental Orbs, 'mother' will tell you all that you must know. For now...you must be awakened."
He raised his arm to me, and a portal summoned behind me, and began to suck me into there! I tried to hold my ground, but the pressure is so much for even me to get away!"
"HOLD ON!! WAAAAAAAIIIIIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!"
I got sucked into the portal, and I was awake. I looked around the room, and saw that my team are still asleep. I have no idea what that was.
"It was not a dream. It felt to real. But...why would someone such as Kyo, or whatever name he is, show this to me?""
I spoke out very quietly. I have no idea what is happening. I looked at the time, and it is almost ready to get up. So I got up early, and made a quick start.
The Next Day...at Vytal Stadium
Third Person Point Of View
A falling petal shifts the view of the camera away from the sky and over the grassy mountains, where a stadium of epic proportions is seen. Crowds are cheering in the stands, visitors from all over the world. In the field of volcanic earth and icy glaciers below, Ruby fires and swings her Crescent Rose at an off-screen target as Blake Belladonna exchanges blows with Reese Chloris, the blades of her Gambol Shroud colliding with the hoverboard of her opponent until she flips away, readies herself, and charges in again. Behind her, Weiss Schnee waves her Myrtenaster as the sound of her mystical power is heard, and finally Yang Xiao Long dodges the explosive force of Arslan Altan's fist before returning fire with her own Ember Celica.
High above the action, two familiar teachers are sitting at a sportscaster's desk, with a microphone between them and the holographic image of the four kingdoms' symbols united as one.
Port: Hello! It seems that we have another astonishing bout ahead of us! Wouldn't you agree, Professor?
Oobleck is annoyed by the fact people say his occupation wrong again. "Doctor."
Oobleck's mood than brightens up excitedly again from matches.
"And yes Peter, I think it's safe to say this match may be the closest we've seen of the four-on-four round of the tournament!
Port: For those of you just now joining us, welcome to the Vytal Festival Tournament, broadcast live from the Amity Colosseum!
Port waves his arm to gesture at the entire event from his place on the gigantic screen over the crowds.
The Coliseum is shown in its full glory, as shuttle craft transport people to and from the various floors while the entire structure hovers around the airspace of Beacon Academy. Explosions are seen throughout the battlefield, but the view shifts back to the announcers as they begin speaking again.
Port: If this is your first time watching, allow us to break down the rules.
Oobleck holds up the appropriate number of fingers for each of his explanations as a hologram to his side illustrates the rules.
"The tournament is divided into three distinctive rounds; teams, doubles, and singles. Age and school year are irrelevant! In this tournament, your only attribute being tested... is skill."
Port nods as another hologram pops up to do the same thing
"Correct! The winners of this battle will elect two of their members to represent them in the doubles round, followed by the winners of that round choosing one member to advance once again. The remaining combatants will then fight their way through the final bracket in the hope of achieving victory for their kingdom!"
The hologram disappears with the image of a victorious figure, sword raised and wearing a crown.
Oobleck pushes up his own spectacles as he says this.
"And yes, Peter, these certainly are some spectacular spectacles on which to spectate on! I don't think anyone tuning in around the world is going to disagree with me on that! "
As they say this, the scene changes to their televised broadcasts all around the kingdoms, from a row of holographs above the patrons in the Mistral Distillery to an Atlas home with a group of friends seeing it together, a bar in Vale where everyone turns to view the screen, and outside a mobile home in Vacuo being watched by a few Faunus on a projection.
Port: "Ahh, and why would they? Now, let's get back to the match between Team RWBY of Beacon, and Team ABRN, of Haven."
The announcements cut back to the action, as Reese steers her board through the ice. She twirls herself until the board gets launched at Blake, but she's able to knock it away, only for Reese to direct it back at her opponent. Blake blocks it again, but the board rotates back to its wielder just in time to defend Reese as Blake delivers several slashes and kicks. Reese deflects each attack and spins her weapon around until she can flip away and ride it again, rushing towards a smirking Blake. She collides with the frozen shadow clone, and Blake uses his opportunity to slice the board in two, only for the halves to become dual katars that in turn fold up into bayonet-bladed revolvers. Reese manages to fire off a few green rounds before her tailbone collides painfully on the cold ground. Blake winces with sympathy.
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.
Ruby looks up from her sniper scope and points to Nadair.
"Got your back!"
Bolin than looks smug at the red hood, as he prepares to attack
Bolin: But who's got yours?
Ruby looks up behind her as Bolin twirls his staff, right when a black snowflake glyph appears to his left and Weiss kicks him through it into a rock.
Ruby: My BFF!
Weiss just did a deadpan expression.
"No."
She than runs off to fight someone.
Ruby just pumps her fist, whispering 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: "Whaaat!?"
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!
Oobleck: Oh, she really should've worn a helmet!
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, and when Arslan sees her team in this state, she 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.
Weiss: "Yang!"
Yang turns to look just as she creates a large frozen slide-like shape.
"NOW!"
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. The buzzer than makes sound and Ruby cheers "YAAAAAY!" in the background.
Yang: "Yes!"
Port: "And that's the match! Team RWBY is victorious!"
Weiss is looking around and sounding surprised.
"We... did it?"
Ruby is than looking at her sister for confirmation, she smiles and leaps into the air.
"WE DID IIIIII-.is anyone else starving?"
Ruby said, as she suddenly hunched over.
Blake is looking cool as ever, arms behind her head.
Blake: "I may have worked up an appetite"
The growling of an angry beast from her stomach proves her statement, much to its owner embarrassment.
Weiss is just sarcastically shrugging her arms.
"Gee, if only there was somewhere on campus to get food around here."
Sans than looks around, and saw a myriad of tents and small shops wreathed in colorful flags in a large forest clearing as people mill about to experience it all.
"There's one here."
She turns and sees what he is referring to here.
"Oh, wait."
Amber chuckled and Neo did a similar gesture.
Ruby is grabbing onto Weiss' shoulder.
"It's okay, Weiss, I forget about the fairgrounds, too."
Weiss than suddenly knocks Ruby's arm away.
"I was being facetious"
Ruby than freaks out
Ruby: "Gah! Well if you were hungry, why didn't you say so!?"
Yang: Come on! I know just the place.
Team RWBY starts to follow Yang, but 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.
Emerald is than seen holding a red wallet filled with Lien.
"Hey! Might be hard to eat without this."
Ruby than turns around and acted very frantic, as she grabbed onto the wallet.
"No, no, no, no!"
Emerald: (laughs) "Good to see you, Ruby."
Ruby: "Oh! Thanks, Emerald! Oh. Guess I dropped it. Girl pockets are the worst!"
Yang: "What's up, Em?"
Emerald: "Just left the stadium after your amazing fight! You guys were awesome!"
Ruby is Han blushing and mumbling out quietly.
"Oh, shut your stupid little face..."
Blake than looks over to Emerald, as she spoke.
I heard your team progressed to the next round too.
Weiss: You know, I feel that we haven't seen your other teammates.
Yang: How'd they do in the fight?
Emerald tilts her head up in thought, remembering how she blasted opponents with her revolvers, then slashed behind her as Ilia Amitola shocked her opponents while wrapped in her electrifying whip. Trifa fosses her opponent and used a fire slash from the fire dust in Moon Thread. The last flashback is of May shooting at a long distance, and winning it.
Emerald: (coming back to reality, nodding) Really well.
Ruby: "That's great. Uh. Why don't we all go and get a victory food together?"
Emerald: "Oh, gosh, that's so nice of you, but my teammates are all kind of..."
She turns to see that May and Ilia are fighting for her food, and Trifa is doing just fine without any interruption, although she does look perplexed at the situation behind her.
"...introverted. Really socially awkward."
Yang: "Ooh, yeah, I could see that."
Emerald: "Oh yeah, looks like Trif and I are going to move on to the doubles round. What about you guys?"
Ruby: "Well, as the leader of this team, I thought long and hard about this decision."
Weiss: "We put it to a vote."
Ruby looked nervous, but tried to speak more calmly.
"Yes, so, but I decided that we should put it to a vote.
Blake: "We voted for Weiss and Yang."
Weiss: "I will happily represent Team RWBY.
Yang is than pounding her fists together.
"Yeah, we're going to kick some butt!!"
Well, if Mercury and I see you down the line, don't think we'll go easy on ya.
Yang: (she and Weiss return Emerald's confident smirk with their own) Wouldn't have it any other way.
Emerald turns and walks away from them as they do the same.
"Alright, well we're going to catch some more fights."
Ruby: "Have fun!"
She said, as she waves her arms, excitingly.
Emerald cheerfully giving her own wave as she smiles towards them.
"See you later!"
She than goes to Trifa, Who is eating for her, as they both walk together.
Trifa: "So, how was the talk with the Team before?"
Emerald: "It was not bad. It was a bit strange, I admit, but not bad."
Trifa: "Well, it could have gone better."
Emerald: "How do they keep being positive, anyway?"
Trifa shrugged her shoulders, before looking at May and Ilia. They are still fighting childishly.
"Come on. Let's stop them before it gets really out of our hands."
Emerald: "Agreed."
Back with RWBY and SPAN...
At one of the unassuming huts set up in the fairgrounds stringed with paper lanterns with a sign overhead saying A Simple Wok, Team RWBY sits at the stools outside, ready to order. SPAN is doing the same, and Sans brought a card to pay.
Yang: "I'll have a bowl of the regular noodles, please."
Ruby: "I want the same!"
2 bowls of noodles slid in front of the sisters. Weiss is looking concerned somewhat.
Weiss: Do you have anything with a low-salt ...?
A bowl of low-salt appeared.
"Um... okay..."
Sans: "I would like to have some Sushi."
Amber: "Same for me."
Twin bowls of Sushi has slid to them.
Papyrus: "I would like to have Pad Thai."
A bowl of it slid to the Great Papyrus.
Neopolitan has a bowl of Ice Cream, filled with Strawberry, Vanilla, and Chocolate. Go figure.
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 noodles topped with fish in front of her.
Blake's eyes light up as she drools over her order. While Weiss looks strangely at her teammate, she gladly offers her Schnee Dust Company credit card to the Shopkeep.
Yang: "Aw, Weiss! What's the occasion!?"
Weiss: "Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round."
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!"
Sans looked confused at Weiss.
"Here, let me try my card, and see if the results are the same before."
Sans than took a try himself. The result was the same. Sans got frustrated, and shook the machine.
"Come on!"
He than did it again, and had put in another twist. He raised his fist and punched the machine
"HAAAA!!"
He punched and dented it, it made some electrical noises here, but than...
DING!
The machine accepted it, and flashed green. The Shopkeeper and the Others we're surprised at that thing. Sans turned and look confused.
"What's wrong? Are you all...'Shocked' at what I did?"
Yang snorted, and than laughed, while the others groaned at the pun.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha! Man, that was very 'Electrifying', Sans!"
"Well...given the 'Current' situation, I wouldn't be surprised at 'Watt' you are planning to do."
"Well, you just made me 'spark' in my entire life."
The others are getting annoyed that Yang and Sans are both doing terrible electricity jokes.
"Mind if we join you?"
The other teams turn to see JNPR coming towards them. They all have bowls in their hands, most with Noodles, but Nora herself...has Pancakes! And it is really tall. By about 6 feet more.
Many minutes later, after eating.
Everyone is finally done eating. Man, Blake and Nora has a lot. Their stomachs even bloated a bit to show how much.
Ren: "Are you sure it's wise to have eaten before a fight?"
Pyrrha: "Of course! It will give us energy!"
Nora simply gives a hearty belch.
Jaune is than splaying himself over the counter, sickly saying: "If I barf, I'm blaming you."
Nora: "Ooh! (grinning evilly) Aim at the enemy!"
Ren: "Nora, that's disgusting. But if you feel the urge..."
Jaune is than giving a weak thumbs-up
"Got it."
Pyrrha is now standing up from her stool getting ready for a fight.
"Well, we should be off."
Ruby: So, you think you guys are ready?
Nora: "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!"
Ren: "Are you gonna take that?"
Jaune: "She's not wrong."
Sans: "Unless you are counting team SPAN, if you are missing on us."
Nora: "I'm kidding, he knows I'm kidding."
As Nora begins to talk quickly, the color slowly draining away as she gets more worried.
"Don't be so nervous! The worst that can happen is we lose, that is just 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, we have no home left to go to, we'll be officially renamed Team Lose-iper!"
her mad laughter turns into sobs as she slams her head on the counter. Ren just looks unperturbed.
Ren: "So, yeah, we're feeling pretty good."
Pyrrha: "Don't fret. If anything, we should be looking forward to a fight with actual guidelines, and not, well, ...murderers."
Yang: "Yeah, don't sweat it, we've all faced way worse before."
Papyrus: lLet's see. Grimm invasions, violent extremists, a destructive sociopath..."
Amber: "Strange people that can steal powers."
Ruby: "And that's all while were still in training! Oh, imagine what it would be like to graduate!"
Maybe then I'll be able to pay for a meal.
Port's voice than began crackling in over the intercom system.
"Would Team JNPR please report to the battlegrounds immediately?"
Oobleck: "Yes! Like they were scheduled to, several minutes ago!"
Pyrrha: "Well, it looks like this is it.
Ruby than spoke to Team JNPR as they walk away, Nora still depressed and Jaune looking queasy.
"Go get 'em!"
Minutes later to the Stadium...
Team RWBY enter the Coliseum through one of its tunnels and head to their seats as Emerald and Mercury are seen walking behind them to do the same. Down in the field below, the scorched ground and cold plains are no more, and only a layer of white mechanics is left, with a central stage on which the two teams gather.
Mercury: "I wonder who's going to win in here."
Adam Taurus is looking on top of the stadium, and is not in anyone's sight. He is speaking to Mercury in a earpiece
Adam: "Tch. As if we didn't already know."
Cinder than shows up, but is wearing a new outfit in the stadium of jeans, an orange jacket, and sarashi bandages over her chest as she takes an unpopped kernel from Mercury's bucket.
Cinder: "Oh, come now. Even if you know how the story ends, that doesn't make it any less fun to watch."
Her fingers glow with her fingertips and the kernel finally pops, which she enjoys while sitting down as Mercury with a devious grin.
"Team JNPR of Beacon versus BRNZ."
As each team readies their poses, a circle of holographic roulettes start spinning frantically through various symbols and colors before finally landing on a green pine tree and gray thunderstruck mountain. With these random selections, half of the field opens to reveal a tree-filled forest, while the other raises a small rocky outcropping to fill in the circle. Jaune narrows his eyes in concentration; Ruby "WHO-HOOOO"s loudly from her seat.
Port: Three, two, one, begin!
As the start of the match, each team leaps forward at the other, ready to begin fighting.
(Okay, I will have to make a new character for BRNZ, but will have to be different than the canon member. After all, Zedong is the one that finishes the name.)