Arslan let out a savage grin as she backed up a few paces and assumed her stance. I noticed the flint hiding in her sleeve, her weapon is a rope and dagger so she is probably like myself. She prefers close combat~
As I think that she stomps down on the ground and blasts herself towards me. Compared to Pistachio she's much faster and out much more power into her step. I opened my palms and braces myself for her hit, when she swung her arm i sweeped it up in my grasp and threw her over my shoulder.
She rolled into it and touched down with no issue, she spun around and tried to deliver an uppercut. Two can play at her game, I rolled into her attack and slammed my forehead into her knuckle. A crackle was heard and she grimaced. I smirked and shot a palm strike to her gut winding her.
She guffawed as the air was knocked out of her, she fell to her knees struggling to catch her breath so I tried to axe kick her! Only to find it was an act as she pulled her dagger, only for her to to roll back and wrap my leg with the rope.
As she got to her feet she smirked as a knot formed around my leg, "got you~" then she tried to yank me of my feet only for the rope to be strained. She had a look of confusion before looking back at my foot. I was barefooted so she got to see my toes digging into the flooring of the dojo.
I watched sweat form on her face as she realised she may have underestimated how physically strong I am. The rope was tied around her wrist so I swung my leg back hard. She was yanked towards me, before she knew it the world began to spin. I decided to show off and use the rope to my advantage.
Anyone ever heard of capoeira? It's the art of dance fighting. Mercury uses a little of it when he spins his kicks in the air with his hands on the ground supporting it. The martial arts is all about movement and rotation. So that's what I did~ I spun around her and used the rotation of my legs to wrap her her up with her own weapon.
When I finished she looked like Retsu Kaioh when Musashi showed him how to use a rope. Her eyes were dinner plates as she tried to process what was happening to her whilst I look around. A glance at the ceiling revealed a hook which is used to attack punching bags to, so I untied the rope from my leg and attached the rope to the hook.
One yank put her in the air causing her to scream "kyaaaahhhh" like a girl, I don't know if it was the feeling of being airborne or the rope digging into some places that caused it. She turned to me and threatened "Jaune put me down right now!!"
"Nah you pulled a weapon during an unarmed spar, in my house that means punishment." So I walked over to my bag that had my lunch in it. Inside was a crisp red apple that I took a chomp out of. I then walked back over to Arslan and held her nose. When she opened her mouth to shout or breathe again I shoved the apple in.
When she realised she couldn't bite through because of how much I put in her mouth her eyes got awful dangerous. So with a smile on my face I gripped one of the ropes..... and spun her around as hard as I could.
As I laughed at the sight I clicked a few photos on my scroll before the dojo door slid open. Our fathers walked in and froze at the sight of Arslan being suspended in the air like a pig about to be out on a spit. Aero rose an eyebrow "ally, don't tell me you taught your son all that rope stuff you do with Chiffon?"
My dad practically spit blood at the accusation, what made it worse was the child like look I gave as I asked "what rope stuff? Mommy always says the it harder at night but my sisters never tell me what it means". My father took critical damage, Arslan was either blushing or just incredibly angry while Aero dropped to his knees in laughter.
When he got up he gestured to his daughter "what'd she do to end up like that?" "Pulled her weapon during a spar" he just nodded before stroking his chin "maybe I could use her to teach the younglings, with how tough she is she could be an excellent piñata".
The rage built up enough for Arslan to bite clean through the apple "You wouldn't dare!!! I'll tell mom!!!" She hisses and Aero stopped his joke as he walked over and used the dagger to cut her loose. He looked at her "why didn't you use the dagger?" And then she blushed and stormed out of the room. Aero looked at me "please tell me you have pictures!"
"800 lien for the video of her being spun around at top speed". "Deal!" And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between me and Arslan....s father. Also Arslan but only when she realised that I'm a tricky son of a bitch to screw with. Still we became best friends, over the next five years when she would visit mistral she would be with me having fun.
Her family travels between Vacuo and Mistral because of their business. The five years with her let me experience a lot. I learned Bajiquan and how to make explosive air hits.
I also learned the necessity of guns, it's because they're more cost effective. The arrows cost more than a magazine and the string of Atreus is hard to replace. So I started making a high power revolver/ hand cannon which I called Cayde-6. Progress has been slow, I was working off of Ironwoods model but Atlas aren't exactly frivolous with weapon designs. So I needed a quick scheme to make cash to buy the blue prints.
I then used my man of culture skills to check for what is present in remnant. Manga is a no go because I'm shit at drawing. However what I do have is seven super sisters with various talents.
Jade has musical talent and Aqua is amazing at art, Rosemary is also good at programming. So it hit him, remnant doesn't have any games besides fighting games. So he went and recreated two of the most profitable he could remember and used his sisters to help him.
We recreated Pokemon and the Halo series, rooster teeth made rvb after all so how could they not have had halo in their fictions. Jaune has to poke rap memorised from his first life so they got the first 151 created with no issue.
Halo was an excellent way to introduce guns to the populace without them using them on each other. So within five years they'd produce several Pokemon games, every Halo that Jaune had played and several songs he could remember. The money began pouring in from the revenue and the checks for merch. Aura helped with keeping us productive and the fact that it was taken as family bonding just led to our parents encouraging us. I think my mother just wanted us to see that a career outside of hunting could be profitable.
Now Jaune walks around with an eevee hoodie instead of a pumpkin Pete one and doesn't get judged for it. Even adults love Pokemon, playing games with wild creatures that won't kill them! Revolutionary. Of course there were slags complaints such as people wanting their cut or Karen's complaining about the violence.
When one actually stopped me in public and tried to berate me my big sister Bianca said "bitch please, there's dogs with aura out there that make pokemon look like what they are, toys. Get a life outside of your kids". I broke down laughing at how angry that poor woman got because she was trying to film us live when she began complaining to us.
She became remnants Karen meme, there always will be at least one. On another note we made Halo comp a thing and I top the leader boards with my squad. I'm Jaune-117 and I play with slaughterSunadae, snipeaschnee and chamellya. Care to guess who those three are, the anonymity of the game let's you meet some real interesting people. Sundae only uses voice chat so we designed a text to speech app for her and let her pick the voices we synthesised using various female singers.
Over the five years my training only increased, with the money I could buy better training tools such as aura restraining weights that made a workout much harder. Taking the weights off and feeling the aura flood into the damaged areas repairing them feels amazing. Without Aura I can lift just short of 800 pounds and I'm only 13! Which means the figure can increase beyond what captain America was capable off. With aura I can lift several tonnes wouthout issue meaning I could match Nora Valkyrie in strength when she's charged up.
My aura and semblance multiply that easily putting me at Spider-Man's level instead. My speed clocks in at 80 miles per hour without aura but with it and aura amp I can go past 100 miles per hours meaning I can match Ruby's speed temporarily. Naturally boosting myself like that takes a huge toll but it's lessening every day I train.
Essentially I'm a beast with aura, after I learned how to amplify one aspect of my aura I was basically a monster. I'm trying to learn how to amplify two things at once but my semblance works better on other people. I amplified my sisters semblances and their aura with much less difficult than when I do mine.
Arslan is currently back in Vacuo so I'm bored, Bianca is bow driving me on her motor cycle to the Mistral regional tournament so I can't enter the junior division. The earliest one can join is 12 and it takes place yearly. Pyrrha Nikos made her debut last year and won the tournament. So I figured I could join this year and get some fighting experience.
Winning the tournament even just once will get me a free pass into any huntsmen academy. So I'm decked out in my Cap armour which resembles the one from end game except I have the Arc family symbol instead of a star and I lack a helmet. On my back is Atreus painted silver with neon gold lines running along the circumference of it and through the folds of the mecha shift.
My back conceals the arrows so no one knows what I'm packing. Sapphron and Rosemary have tech talents so they helped me make the arrows like Hawkeyes. Strapped to my hip is Cayde-6 which is a six shit revolver that I made look like the ace of spades with a white and gold shader.
Bianca dropped me off and gave me a hug for good luck. Today is the prelims to earn a spot in the tournament where I will be fighting in a free for all. Last five standing in each division earn a spot and there's about 80 other fighters by my count. I didn't spit anyone I'd know among the crowd of teens though I was getting some looks for the shield on my back.
I walked towards reception to get my participant number. The nice lady gave me number 69! Nice~ I'm guaranteed to win now. After an hour of waiting which I think is just to build up the fighters anxiousness we were all escorted into a massive arena.
Some people aimed to stand in the center of the platform whilst others stood at the rim. We were all given a badge to wear that measures aura amount. When it hits red we are out of the competition. I placed mine under the Arc symbol and put my shield on my wrist while I waited for the buzzer.
The announcer riled up the crowd and informed the viewers watching at home at who the top contenders should he and who looks interesting. Experts were evaluating people's weapons and armour while gamblers were looking for their lucky number to see who is representing them.
Back at home most of my family was cheering after they spotted me put Atreus on. Arslan was sitting in her house shaking her mother and pointing me out in the crowd while Aero nodded at my actions. Some of my guild members who knew my identity because I didn't really hide it were watching from where they are. So I had sundae watching from her gangs hideout, snipeaschnee watching from her barracks and chamillya was watching from a cafe in kuo kanna.
When the buzzer started I felt some guy jumping towards me with a war hammer type weapon. He had a manic grin on his face and I noticed his weapon was vibrating slightly. I raised my shield and braces for his hit. *GGOOoOoOoOoNNNnnNNGGGG!!!!*.
The announcers voices echoed out "incredible!!! We kicked off with a large attack that put ten people out immediately. Anyone who was near number 69 and 42 is currently KO'd because of the shockwave and number 13 passed out, her faunus traits amplified her hearing so that bang would have blown her away." And the crowd cheered while the dust cleared revealing me having not moved an inch.
I grabbed number 42 who was still airborne because I was supporting his weight. When I grabbed him I slammed him into the ground and bashed his head with Atreus. His aura shattered and the announcer spoke of his disqualification.
I more preoccupied by the guy who pulled out what looks like gun tonfa and then pointed a barrel at me. This is really fun~