Capítulo 32: Its all about Technique
Before this chapter starts...
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"Being that there are no proper standings to begin with in order to meter out fair match-ups, we will commence our first sparring match arrangements of the day based solely on our standard again. And..."
Glynda then paused as she unexpectedly received a message on her Scroll from sender 'OzzieP'.
She was strongly resisting the urge to roll her eyes and groan at the short blurb, which ended with the emoji of the popular 'troll-face' meme.
The students were even weirded out, wondering on why their Combat Instructor would suddenly stopped speaking mid-way, and their heads were now full of assuming thoughts before murmuring to each other.
"Nevermind, we will have a completely random match-up simulator today. So, to begin our first match, we have..." Glynda announced before typing a storm into her Scroll in front of the whole class.
"Well that's new," Weiss commented, not sure on what to think about the new arrangement.
"But it makes sense though..." Pyrrha said.
"Uuuhh, Prof's typing quite a bit for it to be a random simulation, dont'cha think?" Yang noted as the said person was still busy fiddling on her Scroll.
"Maybe she's busy puting up the codes or something..." Nora wondered.
Ruby, whose eyes were getting more and more narrow by the second at the all-too-busy Goodwitch, shook her head in denial of her own possible answer.
But she couldn't resist the urge, so she still spoke her opinion out to her companions anyway, "Hey guys...Do you think the random match-ups are going to be rigged?"
"Nah," Jaune suddenly gritted out with a strained tone and an even more strained fake smile, drawing the concerned glances of his friends as they saw some multiple beads of sweat rolling down his face.
"That's just, your imagination. Heh-Heh...Heh..." He continued.
"Um, Jaune. Are...you alright? You're panting a little heavy there," Ren noted helpfully.
"Never better, bro-Acho! Yeah, never better."
His strange answer just made the people outside and inside team RWBY and JNPR, wonder at his reaction.
And with that, Jaune proceeded to mentally pray, 'Lord Monty, please no. Please, not today.'
"Well, I'm actually pretty ok with it if its rigged. I think it'll be more fun that way.~" Jin said with a smirk.
"Yep!" Yang suddenly beamed with a thumbs up, popping the 'p' at her brother.
Other than Jin, she was confident on besting the rest of her classmates here. Afterall, her sparring sessions with Jin over the years, really made her stronger than she originally was in this point of the series.
She knew a Martial Art that suited her style of combat, and guess who taught her that...
Though she wasn't sure on how to feel if ever she meets the four-time Mistral Tournament Champion in the ring, Pyrrha. But, she was still on to give it a go if they ever did. She wanted to compare her skills with the Invincible Girl herself.
"Ah yes, there we are," Glynda noted oh so professionally before looking up at the two red and green banners, which has a holo-screen at the near bottom, hanged high up on the wall besides the sparring ring.
She was just following instructions from 'OzzieP', so she just ran the simulator anyway. And then, two faces appeared on the screens, as well as their names.
Many of the students aw-ed in disappointment, as they saw two faces that had already taken the world by storm a few hours ago with their internet video views numbering in the hundred-thousands.
They could even already tell on who would lose, even though the two were quite famous.
With that, Glynda turned to the students in display with a smile, "Miss Nora Valkyrie...and Mister Jin Rose. If you could both please come to the sparring ring."
Smirking in both anticipation...and slight boredom, Jin stood up, "How interesting, hehe. Well, I accept." He said in an amused tone.
"Yahoo!~" Nora leapt up with a whoop of excitement before detaching herself from her group with an eager smile.
"Good Luck, Nora!" Ruby fared in a sincere wish of proper well being.
"Awww, Rubes. How about me?" The man in a Kung Fu outfit 'whined', which just made the girl herself scoff dismissively.
She already knew who the winner was. It was always like that everytime her twin brother's name was called for a sparring with someone else.
Though, she did not worry that Jin would seriously hurt Nora, as he has the habit of stopping his attacks mid-way and saying 'hit' in sparring matches.
Afterall, just one hit from Jin and his opponent's Aura would immediately plummet, due to the fact that his strikes was too strong. But, he knew how to hold back though...
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Arena in Combat Class Image:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby-roleplay/images/f/f5/Arena.png/revision/latest?cb=20161016124015
Or just search 'Beacon Academy Arena'.
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As both contenders made their way towards the arena, Jin spared a glance at the Combat Instructor with her Scroll.
On her Scroll, was Jin and Nora's electronic visual display of 'Aura Gauge', and the same can be said for the two big banners on top of the arena, which can clearly be seen by the spectating students.
Aura can be electronically monitored and displayed on Scrolls and other kinds devices. When digitally displayed through electronics, they are similar to that of Health Bars in games.
It is pretty much one of the reason for the development of sparring and tournaments among hunters with the use of their weapons in its entirety, or without holding back.
"Excellent, you both seem to be at optimum health," Glynda noted, as the two went to their places on arena.
"The fight will go on until one side is unable to continue, or if your Aura has been reduced into the red. Any attempts to continue afterwards will result in swift and firm intervention." She continued, and the way she smiled and flicked her crop suggested they didn't want to test her on that one.
Sure, Goodwitch seemed harmless enough, but Jin has a feeling.....His instincts were telling him about the presence of a fierce tigeress prowling underneath that ambiguously-submissive librarian outfit.
It can already be assumed from just judging in how she made the class forcefully comply on her order earlier.
'How scary..." Jin thought sarcastically, completely feeling the other way around.
Afterall, he already figured out how her Semblance worked.
Aura control...It all boiled down to that. Using the energy within you to manipulate the objects around you with your 'mind'.
Aura is the fuel of Semblances, afterall - and Telekinesis was a simple thing. Any schmuck who'd ever read a comic book would know that the easiest way to stall the unstoppable power -telekinesis- would be to present it with an immovable force.
And what kind of force was that? Well, it only took one dose of Glynda's Semblance being inflicted on him for Jin to figure it out, and the answer was obviously Aura.
All he had to do was know when it was coming and he could cancel it out with a pulse of his own! Funny thing was, any student present in the room would've been able to do the exact same thing...That is, if they were good of controlling their Aura, and if it weren't for their fear.
It made sense as ultimately, as it was fear that paralyzed Aura. Once afraid, you couldn't act. And with you unable to act, you couldn't defend; and unable to defend, well...might as well stick a label on yourself for the Grimms to read 'Free Food.'
"Now both of you, get ready for your bout and focus." Glynda said with her well-meaning teacher demeanor.
"Okie-dokie!" Nora affirmed cheerily, and then was followed up with Jin's own words as he slowly nodded, "Sure..."
"Alright, contenders," Glynda stated, her voice being louder and was amplified with a device so that all the spectators in the area could hear.
"Now, begin!"
"Alright, Sparky! Ready for the Legion of Boom!?" Nora beamed out with growing excitement, readying her weapon, Magnhild.
Magnhild was a large platinum-colored Warhammer. Like all the weapons of hunters, it was able to transform into a gun, but in Magnhild's case, a grenade launcher. It could even fire grenades while it was in its hammer form, through the small hole of the hammer's face.
Her pink Dust grenades also have a proximity or remote detonator, allowing Nora to make the grenades she launches explode anytime. Or, making them explode mid launch or when they're in the air, similar to that of a flak cannon or air burst explosive.
"Sure..." Jin grinned, "I bet you five Pancakes you can't hit me hard enough to make me take a step back."
"Hehe...Wrong bet to make," Nora noted aloud with a ear to ear grin as she stepped forth and charged the Tiger, "Good thing you got the Aura to handle what's coming! I'll have you eat some maple flapjacks tonight!"
"I'm sure you will." Jin smilingly noted while narrowing his eyes, analyzing on how Nora was moving.
'Let's see how you fight, Nora...'
While in the middle of her charge, Nora suddenly jumped into the air mid-way and she fired a blast from her hammer. The recoil from the hammer accelerated her falling momentum towards Jin as she performed a downwards hammer strike.
"Heeeeeere's, NORA!"
*Bam!*
"OOOOOOOHHH!" The audience all yelled in unison as Nora's first hammer-swing made full-on contact with Jin, covering both of the contenders with pink smoke that came from Nora's grenade.
"Not bad..."
"Huh?" Nora comically blurted out, her crazed smile disappearing.
*Woosh!*
The smoke was then suddenly cleared up by a strong gust of wind, revealing Jin stopping Nora's hammer swing with only one hand.
"The way how you attacked me was good. You were using your own strength and your grenade's recoil momentum, as well as the hammer's weight to increase the power of that strike, how brilliant..." Jin pointed out.
Nora visibly faltered at the remark, not sure whether to be more surprised at his comment in the middle of fighting, or at the fact that he just blocked one of her most powerful attack without breaking a sweat.
And he didn't take a step back.....The bet.....She owned him pancakes now...
Nora blinked before cocking a brow in thought.....Yep, Sparky is truly indeed a fearless dude!
'And weird...And Insane...'
Her kinds of peeps! YEAH!
But still...She'd ensure that the students of Beacon had to be utterly convinced that she was the maddest and craziest of them all...Period.
And as for the spectators. They all looked at the holo-screens on the banners and saw that Jin's 'health bar' didn't even flicker. This just made their mouth agape with incredulity.
If they were in Jin's shoes - a strike that powerful strike from the bubbly girl would've definitely made their HP drastically plummet to the danger zone.
"Oh, I'm not finished yet, Sparky! Nora still has a few flapjacks up her sleeve!"
With that, Nora backed off from Jin and she did a horizontal hammer-swing, launched at full speed. But Jin just dodged it with a minimal duck.
Nora didn't waste the momentum of her missed swing and she turned around before facing back and whacking at Sparky with a vertical swing. And again, Jin just dodged with a minimal side-step.
'Yeah, her weapon and her movements is making her attacks so predictable...' He thought.
"Giddy Up!" Nora did a battle cry as she quickly swinged her hammer around in a circular motion, but Jin just dodged it again with some minimal movement.
He gotta hand it to her though. Her swings were quite fast even though her hammer seemed to he heavy, but her huge fault was that she didn't have any proper techniques with her weapon.
'Well, lets keep the battle going on for awhile. She may have some actual techniques that I can replicate as long as I check it out.' Jin thought while having a dark grin.
The fight then proceeded on Nora having a crazed smile while doing her multiple devastating hammer attacks, but Jin was easily dodging them with some minimal movement.
Nora may seem to be just attacking on a whim, but she was actually also checking Jin's reaction time, which proved to be quite difficult to do as he was truly too fast.
But a grin suddenly grew from her face as she saw from the corner of her eye on where he'd moved off to after the last dodge.
Not letting the momentum from the missed swing go to waste, Nora spun Magnhild over her head with the skill that only she could muster before bringing it down full force right where Jin was dashing off to.
If he was able to dodge this, then she was prepared to do an advanced follow up attack on all angles to maybe finally get a hit on him.
But unexpectedly, Jin charged forward with the speed of lightning, dodging her attack again, but it seemed that Jin was finally going to retaliate!
Nora didn't expect this at all! She thought that he just wanted to play some diffcult human wack-a-mole for awhile, but no!
'Crapbaskets!'
*Phug!*
Jin swinged his arms at her legs, tripping her forcefully to fall down. The sudden unexpected method of attack surprised Nora and she accidentally lost her grip on her weapon.
"You've finally showed me a decent technique. Very good, Nora! Now, how about I show you one of mine..."
[Silver Tiger: Banishing Chop!]
Jin proceeded to do a quick chain combo at the still mid-air downed Nora by doing a powerful hand-chop down at her stomach.
*BOOM!*
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