Akashic

"Good morning students" Glynda took her spot atop a centre stage of the combat hall just behind her Winter was standing, arms behind her back legs together and c.h.e.s.t puffed out in a displaying her military demeanor in full, "As I'm sure you are all aware, today you will be moving onto the second round of our pseudo tournament the duo rounds, I hope you spent the last two weeks deciding on who will be taking part, you will not have the same luxury once the real Vytal tournament comes around in May next year" she announced to them, chattering filling the hall with excitement for the tournament.

"But, not all teams will be allowed to take part" the hall went dead silent as confusion and slight amount of irritancy popped up in some specific… two specific teams, "This tournament I have had put together is not just a simple game for you to practice and continue these pointless feuds of yours, this, is also a test to determine which teams I will recommend to take part in the tournament of which only two teams from each year will participate"

"That's bullshit! Why do we need you to tell us who can go to the tournie! We f.u.c.k.i.n.g decide that!" Trill shouted out, infuriated at her words, his two team mates along with Cardin's team all began to nod.

"We practice our asses off and we can't even fight in the tournie!? Hows that f.u.c.k.i.n.g fair!" he screamed, only earning him a glare from Glynda.

"Mr. Greene I will ask you to keep you're child in check, I do not appreciate getting interrupted and once again, you are the leader of your team, keep him in check, I have already gotten my fair share of colourful letters from your sister stating that I am free to do as I wish should you continue remaining so lax with your team" she disregarded Trill's entire existence, whilst Ginger snorted and muttered "Like the coward would say that"

"Don't ignore me you bi-!" Trill tried to shout but was interrupted as a metal 'snake' coiled around his entire body and created a muzzle over his mouth preventing him from speaking further.

"Watch you're language" she growled, "I am teaching the future protectors of Remnant, I have no time nor want to deal with a foulmouthed barbarian" she silenced him and turned to the rest of the class.

"Now where was I… Right, like all the previous Vytal tournaments there will be a total of thirty two competing teams, eight from each of the Academies, and two from each year, currently, I already have two teams on my mind that I may recommend to take part in the tournament, but, I will not be saying which those are"

"You may change my mind on who I recommend, but you will need to show me your resolution and training, show me you are worthy, but I will say this, mr. Fielder, I will not be recommending you to take part in the tournament, I have spoken with faculty members within the Vytal organization aswell as the other academies and all deemed it unfair for an entire team to lose their position for a single fighter that may or may not even get through the first round" she looked to Arthur and told him, who seemed unfazed by it as he just shrugged.

"Good, keep your level head and you will become a fine huntsman" she gave him a nod.

"No point in arguing anyway, I wasn't expecting to get in anyway" he explained, "That reason just makes a lot more sense"

"Yes, but I also have a few more announcements" she turned back to the class, "For those of you who are displeased by this news, do not worry, hope is not lost, you may still take part in exhibition matches outside of the tournament, all of which will be held within the Amity coliseum during the entirety of the festival" chattering returned but much less as some were still disappointed that they might be unable to properly take part in the tournament.

"Now, as you all have seen late last week, we have several new guests from the Atlas military, one of which you will be meeting today, an active member of the Atlas Special Operatives Unit and graduate of Atlas Academy, Winter Schnee" Glynda introduced Winter as she took a step to the side to allow her to step forward and commence her own speech.

"Greeting students, as you have been told, I, am Winter Schnee, a Specialist, from this day forth I will be assisting in teaching you how to properly deal with combat scenarios, I will also be assessing and ensuring that each individual within this class remains as spotless as possible. I am sure you have all been laying around, lazily swinging your weapons like gibbons, but I will not tolerate that" she sent an icy glare towards the entire crowd, slightly lingering on Arthur with a squint.

"At the end of today's lesson I will be selecting a few of you who I will take the role of personally teaching outside of regular lessons, I do not deal with gibbons, I deal with potential, that is all" she turned on her spot returning to where she was just a second before, turning around on a dime once again.

"Good, that is all announcements for today, first up, team MNDR versus team SPHR, send up your selected combatants you have five minutes to decide if you haven't already" Glynda walked to the edge of the field where the referee stood, Winter taking the spot opposite her, letting them have two different perspectives of the fight.

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"Pyrrha Nikos and Nora Valkyrie versus Cardin Winc.h.e.s.ter and Russel Thrush" Glynda announced, the four headshots of them appearing on the screen above the ring.

"Begin" she calmly stated as Cardin and Russel charged forward, Carding gritting his teeth whilst Russel had already given up on winning this fight.

"Idiotic" Winter mumbled disappointed at Cardin and Russels actions whilst also silently praising Pyrrha and Nora, Pyrrha for her steadfast and analytical gaze and Nora for her interesting display that could make any professional underestimate her sanity and abilities, but knowing full while the Nora was much stronger that anyone in her team possibly only being beat by the exquisite techniques of Pyrrha who could use them to challenge her brute power.

The fight ended relatively quickly after that, Pyrrha barely having done anything as the moment Cardin and Russel got near Nora raised Magnholdr her giant hammer above her head like a baseball bat and easily punted the two of them out of the ring and through the wall.

"Hmm… has potential… to excitable" Winter muttered crossing Nora, Cardin and Russel along with the rest of their team off the list whilst pondering if she should teach Pyrrha a bit more, and get her out of her tournament fighting mentality, but soon coming to the decision she would learn that through experience.

"Winner, Pyrrha Nikos and Nora Valkyrie" Glynda announced, "Arthur Fielder enter the field, team GNMT send your fighters up" she called out.

Winter immediately began to focus once again on Arthur, analysing every part of him for the potential threat she had been told he may be.

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"Tch, course it's the loner" Trill grumbled as he and Ginger enter the field directly opposite Arthur, Ginger wielding a long, much longer than his own body Zeihander that doubled as a shotgun whilst Trill wore two massive beasts of gauntlets, each covering the entirety of his arms and with added jets on the elbow and his back, each much to bulky to add any reliable movement.

"Overconfidence…" Winter sighed, crossing both Ginger and Trill off her list, while immediately circling Arthur, not due to potential but due to her task to keep an eye on him, what better way than to teach him herself? Her eyes also immediately wandering over another row which held the members of team RWBY and FSBT, specifically on Weiss, squinting Winter looked over to Weiss who was smiling and waved to her, bringing a small smile to her face before she returned to looking at her scroll which she quickly circled her.

"We'll make this quick" Ginger snorted, staring at Arthur in disdain, all whilst Arthur was double checking his equipment, ensuring that everything was fully loaded, soon clenching his fist and transforming his weapon into its main short spear form, excitement building at his first actual fight using it.

"Begin" Glynda said after seeing both of the 'teams' had gotten into their positions.

The moment she said that the engines on Trills back fired up, launching him towards Arthur, his feet barely touching the ground while Ginger followed behind his zweihander gripped in one hand like some discount Darksouls character.

The moment Trill threw his first jet powered punch to Arthur's face was when Arthur raised his left hand, sending his aura into the gauntlet and halting the momentum of Trill's attack by catching his fist, directly behind Trill, Ginger had raised his zweihander over his head, swinging it down after using Trill as a springboard.

Seeing this Arthur brought his spear outside of Trill's leg, quickly sweeping them out from underhim as he leaned forward and pushed into Trills belly with his shoulder causing Trill to fall over his back, into the line of Ginger's swing, whilst also throwing him off and away against Ginger after the swing connected.

"Gah! You bastard! What was that for!" Trill growled as he pushed himself off the ground, his eyes trailing over the board where he saw his aura had already decreased by ten percent.

"Was your own fault, you shouldn't have let him catch you" Ginger answered as he fired his shotgun at Arthur, who found them to only be a nuisance as he batted the ones he could see out of the air with his spear whilst those he couldn't he stopped mid-air with the third of gravity dust that remained in his gauntlet soon sending the pellets flying back at the two.

"I am loving this gauntlet" Arthur chuckled and he plucked a bullet out of the air, lightly knocking it away with a flick, "Though, this diluted stuff really disappears quite quickly" he mumbled as he swapped the empty cylinders out for another of the dilute gravity dust cylinders, having opted to go for a dilute mix instead of what Professor Mulberry had given him the first time which was pure gravity dust.

Suddenly an idea came to his mind as he looked between his hand and Trill and Greene who were still bickering between each other whilst taking pot-shots at Arthur. Grinning Arthur activated his semblance filling the dust in his gauntlet with his two aura's, something inside him saying that this would be the most valuable combination and that just a single one of them would just alter how the gravity dust worked.

Once his aura filled the black dust it immediately began to swirl as a white began to appear in it, regularly flickering away only to reappear in the place of another of the small powdered dust crystals. Raising his palm up to them Arthur sent a dust fuelled surge towards them, only for… nothing to happen.

Or so he had thought as seconds later he felt his body shiver as his eyes locked with a student, one of the members of MDRN as far as he knew, not Ginger or Trill. This student had also gone wide eyed at the sudden appearance of Arthur out of no where.

"Where the f.u.c.k?" He heard Trill grumble behind him, turning Around Arthur found himself staring at Trill and Ginger's backs, both looking around the field for him after he suddenly disappeared from in front of them, not even leaving a spark of light or dust where he stood.

Looking to the cylinder on his gauntlet Arthur saw it had been emptied completely, 'Did I just make teleportation dust?' he gawked silently, his eyes trailing over the vulnerable backs of Trill and Ginger, a cruel idea forming in his head as he swapped the cylinder out again and transformed his spear into its blast form, pointing it directly at their backs, his aura filling both the javelins turning the previously red dust black.

"Ahem!" Arthur coughed, causing both Trill and Ginger to freeze in realization, Trill quickly trying to turn around with his fist ready to punch while Ginger swung his zweihander in and arc around him, uncaring that Trill was going to be an acceptable casualty in his attack.

"If you melt, it's not my fault" Arthur chuckled as he pulled on a small lever connected to the hinge of the blade, causing a cl.i.c.k.i.n.g sound as the two disintegration dust javelins launched their contents into a mist that encapsulated the both of Trill and Ginger, the dust turned into a black flame, spraying out of the front of the spear as if it were a flame thrower, the dark flames clinging onto both Trill and Ginger slowly but surely working their way through their Aura's.

The moment they realized what was coming Trill covered his face with his two metal arms and Ginger changed his form from a swing to bringing his zweihander in front of him to block the incoming flames.

The jet of flames lasting all of a a second before ending, realizing this both Trill and Ginger snorted as they returned to their poses, as if staring down on Arthur, who could only snicker as he looked at the two of them.

"What's so funny jackass!" Trill shouted throwing a punch to Arthur, which was intercepted much easier as Arthur only needed to use a third of the dust in hus gauntlet to halt it's momentum, the moment he did the large mechanical hand began to fall off in chunks, each still covered in the black flames that disintegrated it into nothingness.

"We forfeit" Ginger grumbled, throwing his now blade less zweihander to the ground, whilst also looking over the aura gauge at the top of the stage, seeing both his and Trill's Aura's were constantly going down as the seconds passed by, looking at his shoulder he could see the black flame eating at his aura, not letting up for even a second, sighing Ginger deactivated his aura letting it break itself and nolonger provide the flame any food to eat.

Luckily when Arthur had filled the blast dust with Aura he also made sure to ensure to think that it wouldn't harm their bodies, and just melted through their aura's.

"The hell do you mean! This f.u.c.ker just destroyed my weapons!" Trill shouted launching another punch Arthur's way with his free hand, only to be blocked as Arthur changed his spear into its storage form, placing the barrel that appeared from it against Trill's stomach, shooting three large BMG rounds into his c.h.e.s.t in quick succession, immediately destroying Trill's aura and sending him flying backwards.

"Winner, Arthur Fielder" Glynda announced officially ending the fight "Team RWBY versus Team FSBT" she called, not giving any commentary on the fights just yet instead opting to note things in her scroll, which she would later deal with.

"Interesting Dust…" Winter squinted, the reason for her warning of Arthur being a threat becoming readily apparent within the last ten short minutes, "Does father have anything to do with this?" she muttered to herself

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Alternate Chapter names: [FlammenSpearWerfer] [Discovery of teleportation]

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