Cassiel POV
If I'm being honest, I've been looking forward to the tournament. I don't really care for the purpose behind it, just that I'm hoping for a good fight. It's round one in this giant coliseum in the sky, and I'm currently fighting with Blake against Reese who's using a new bull shit weapon, bladed hover board that turnes into automatic pistols. Yang is fighting some Xiaolin monk knock off or whatever named Arslan, Weiss is fighting Bolin who's like the monk and using a staff, and Ruby is Nadir who's using an assault rifle with a bayonet. RWBY+1 VS ABRN. Well, I'm not just helping Blake, I'm also supporting the others whenever I can. Fun fact about Cure, it also restores aura so the others are also keeping ABRN off me, and the biomes can be annoying so there's that.
"O-HO! It seems we have another astonishing bout ahead of us!" Port said into the microphone. "Wouldn't you agree, professor?" He asked Oobleck.
"Doctor." Oobleck said in annoyance. "And yes, Peter, I think it's safe to say: This match may be one of the closest we've seen in the four-and-four round of the tournament! Or it would be if Cassiel wasn't able to restore the aura of his teammates!" Reese jumped over me, but face planted into my Barrier. Also, Oobleck, when have I ever played fair?
"For those of you just now joining us. Welcome to the Vytal Festival Tournament! Broadcast live from the Amity Coliseum!" Port greeted the viewers. I saw Yang slipping on the ice a little and used Aero to launch her back onto the burning(?) biome. "If this is your first time watching, allow us to break the rules."
"The tournament is divided into three distinctive rounds." Oobleck began to explain. "Teams, doubles, and singles. If a team has five members, their aura is shared with a random teammate. If one goes down, so will the other." Guess who I'm with? "Age and school are irrelevant." Reese got close to me, Lionheart was more than adequate in my defense. When she almost hit me, I blasted her back with Fire and let Blake press the attack. "In this tournament, the only attribute being tested... Is skill."
"Correct!" Port continued. I saw Yang having a bit of trouble.
"Be right back." I entered the SR.
"The winners of this round 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 again." I exited the SR and surprised Arslan who was giving Yang trouble by airstepping to her and knocking her back to the center before casting Barrier behind her and casting the shotgun varient of Blizzara at her. "The remaining members will fight their way through the final bracket in the hope of achieving victory for their kingdom!"
"And yes, Peter, these are certainly some spectacular spectacles on which to spectate on." Oobleck continued. After making sure Yang had her target handled, I jumped back into the SR and checked on the others, everything appeared to be under control so I went back to Blake. "And I don't think anyone tuning in around the world is going to disagree with me on that."
"Ah, and why would they?" Port asked. "Now let's get back to the match between team RWBY of Beacon, and team ABRN of Haven." No sooner did he say that did Reese launch her weapon at Blake. Remember when I said I don't play fair? I meant it.
"Nope!" I opened the SR in front of Blake and the hover board flew right into it before I closed it, leaving the enemy without a weapon.
"Uuuuuuhhhhhmmmm... Is he-... Is he even allowed to do that?" Port asked with uncertainty. I airstepped to her and knocked her out of the ring.
"Let's see...*paper noises* He is actually, and that's a ring out against team ABRN!" Oobleck answered.
"You'll get it back later, Reese." I said loud enough to be heard by her before turning to Blake who wore a look of disbelief. "Oh come on! You can't honestly tell me you didn't see that coming?" After a few seconds she shook like she was laughing a little, but no sound came out.
"Let's just finish this." She said as we made our way to the others. Again, I cheat, but not really. Yang got pushed to the frozen biome again and was knocked down, Nadir was about to shoot her, but Ruby froze him in place and disarmed him. Bolin was about to attack Ruby from behind, but was launched to the side by Weiss. Having decided my target, I summoned Dawn as wingblades and airstepped to him before repeatedly slashing at him, causing his aura to drop quickly, I dismissed Dawn afterward. I turned to the others and saw they had already taken out Nadir, leaving Arslan the last one standing.
"I'll make this easy on you." I handed Lionheart to Weiss and stepped forward. "I won't use either of my hands or my weapon." She accepted the challenge and leaped at me.
"Reflect." She was blasted back.
"Stop." She was stuck in mid air, I got up close to her with Nightfall in hand.
"I never said which weapon, and I'm technically not using my hands. Bye bye!" I struck her once with an Aerora powered swing and after a few seconds she was launched out of the ring.
"And that's the match! Team RWBY is victorious!" Port announced.
"*huff* That took more out of me than I thought it would." I said before I fell foward a little. Yang was quick to react, but I caught myself with Nightfall.
"You okay?" She asked.
"Heh, I'm fine, just winded is all." I answered.
(At the campus below the coliseum)
"Is anyone else starving?" Ruby asked in a weakened voice.
"I may have worked up an appetite." Blake answered before we heard her stomach growling loudly.
"Gee, if only there were somewhere on campus to get food around here." Weiss said.
"It's okay, Weiss. I forget about the fairgrounds too." Ruby said, placing a hand on Weiss's shoulder.
"I was being facetious."
"Wh- well if you were hungry, why didn't you say so?"
"C'mon! I know just the place." Yang said. After she started leading the way, we heard a voice behind us.
"Hey! Might be hard to eat without this!" Turning around, it was Emerald. I really don't trust her or her team, too friendly, she wasn't there half a second ago, and now a likely pickpocket too. The way she talks, the way she acts, it just screams 'stab you in the back'.
"I'll be back." I said and entered the SR. After a minute or two, Emerald and my team went their separate ways. I lingered around Emerald for a bit until she called Yang a bimbo. Exiting from around a corner, I had 1 very important thing to say to her. "You show show off more skin and chest than that so called 'bimbo', bitch!" I re-entered the SR and went back to my team before she could try anything.
"I'll have a bowl of the regular, please." Yang ordered from the cook, who just so happens to be the owner of that one Dust shop Torchwich robbed on my first night here. He must also be the world's fastest chef because he didn't even take two seconds to slide a fresh bowl of noodles (ramen I'm assuming) twice the size of her head to her.
"Ooooh. I'll take the same." Ruby ordered. Same time. Why does he deal in Dust?
"Hmm... Do you have anything with a low salt-" Weiss tried to say, but was interrupted by a bowl the same size as the last two sliding to her. "Ah! Uuumm, okay."
Blake just smiled lightly and nodded her head. The cook nodded too and took three seconds to prepare a bowl of noodles for her, but there was cooked fish on top. I'm not joking, her eyes became stars, and she was drooling. I swear, if she loves boxes and purrs too, I don't know what I'll do actually. It's kind of cute, funny in a way. He looked to me.
"Cheeseburger, lettuce and tomato, fries or macaroni. If you can't, I'll settle for a smaller bowl of what they got." It took him two seconds for my order. He could one-man a kitchen, and he sells elemental crystals, why? Weiss handed him a card.
"Aww! Weiss, what's the occasion?" Yang asked.
"Consider it thanks for sending me to the doubles round." Immediately after Weiss said that, her card was thrown at the counter hard enough to imbed it and leave a 5 or 6 inch crack in the wood. Her card was declined. I didn't pay attention to Weiss's reaction, but Blake's caught my attention quickly. She slowly pulled her bowl back, smiling sheepishly, but it was snatched from her.
"Nooo..." Blake said in a... I want to say she said it like she was heartbroken(?) before she fell forward onto the counter. I actually felt bad, so I reached into my wallet for some money. Apparently even being a Huntsman in training pays decently.
"Is this enough for her meal? Mine too?" I asked. He took the money, nodded, and gave back Blake's food.
"THANK YOU, CASSIEL!" She said loudly, latching onto me and...
*purring noises*
"Are y- nevermind..." I stopped myself and just let it go. Besides, as unlike me as it is for me to say this about anyone, this is fucking adorable.
"Are we interrupting something?" We turned left and saw team JNPR, Pyrrha being the one to ask.
"Not really." I answered, slowly wrapping an arm around Blake's shoulder who after a few more seconds, pulled away, straightened herself out, and started eating.
"Mind if we join you then?"
As a means of congratulating us, she payed for her team as well as the rest of our team. They talked about the tournament, Nora went on about... I have no fucking idea... I stopped paying attention when she quite literally started turning grey.
Still waiting for something to happen. If nothing happens during the doubles round, it will definitely happen during the singles. I think I'll stay in the SR for those rounds, get a closer view without anyone knowing.