Hello everyone! And welcome to the next chapter of The Huntsmen and Huntress of the Sun and Stars! Now last chapter we finished up the second part of The Badge and the Burden. Now this chapter; I guess you could call a filler chapter of sorts, but Star will be getting her weapon in this chapter. Also; Glossaryrck will be making an appearance in this chapter, since I'm sure a lot of you have noticed he's been absent as of lately. Lastly; we may get a hint as to what Marco's semblance is.

Hint: Has anyone here who has a JP account for Fate Grand Order Cosmos in the Lostbelt played chapter 1? Or have played Dissidia Final Fantasy and seen a certain someone from FF12? If you have said yes to either one of these questions, then you should know that I'm going to be using how both those characters fight to create a unique semblance for Marco. since he is a pretty agile young teen and he literally punched a hole in lizard guy's chest and chopped off Tom's hand with no problem. Oh, but I'm going to be scaling down some of the abilities. Plus, he could finally live up to the "Wild Man" nickname Star called him when they first met.

But that's enough of that, Let's getting going with the chapter shall we?

A/N: Just a quick note, I changed the name of Star's weapon and its appearance a bit. Also her fighting still will be a mix between Mordred from FGO and Cloud from FF when she's using her sword.

Chapter 10: Rising Star Blade, Destruction & Vitality

It's been a couple of weeks since teams RWBY, STRM, and JNPR have started their first year at Beacon. After the little internal disagreement with team RWBY had passed, they've been doing relatively fine. Marco, Weiss, and Ryoko kind of had to be sure to keep their team's leaders Ruby Rosa and Star Butterfly from getting too out of hand as well as made sure that the two kept up with their studies. Which didn't seem to be a problem really; from the time when they first met, Star, Marco, Ruby were already on friendly terms with one another. The three's first encounter with Weiss at first was a bit… shake so to speak and Blake seemed to keep to herself. They then met Jaune Arc aka "Vomit Boy" and Tomoko Sasaki, followed shortly by Ruby's older sister Yang Xiao Long who just like her Ruby took a liking to the two as they were Ruby's first friends at Beacon. Later on before the day of their initiation as Star, Marco and Ruby Introduced Yang to Tomoko, they had another encounter with Blake and with a little 'encouragement' from Yang and Star, dragged Ruby and Marco over to speak with her with Tomoko following them. When they met Blake they saw that there was another person sitting next to her. A timid Fox Fauns girl named Ryoko Haan.

On the day of the initiation where all the first years were literally launched into a forest full of monsters known as the creatures of Grimm. The goal was to make to the ruins that were in the forest and retrieve a relic that was there. As for the forming of teams; if someone make eye contact with the first person they see after landing, they would be a team for the remainder of their time at the school. Star was paired with Tomoko while Marco was paired up with Ryoko after the two had their first encounter and fight with a few Grimm to which Star fought using her wand and Marco fought with a pair of shield gauntlets he received from Tomoko. As both pairs made it to the ruins, they found Yang who was paired up with Blake. They were soon joined by Lien Ren and Nora Valkyrie another pair, and Ruby who fell from the sky while Weiss her partner was dangling for her life since the two hitched a ride on a Nevermore. Jaune soon came flying in (Literally… he came flying out of the forest.) with his partner Pyrrha Nikos; but them came with a Death Stalker on their tail. At the same time the Nevermore that Ruby and Weiss appeared with had pinned down after she tried to fight it and the Death Stalker by herself. Thankfully Weiss, Marco, Star, Tomoko, and Ryoko managed to save her. After retrieving their relics, all pairs chose to make their way back to the cliff to finish their test. However, were forced to fight both the Nevermore and the Death Stalker. But with the combined efforts of everyone, they managed to defeat both Grimm and make back to pass and formed the three teams who are currently having a peaceful lunch time… or so they thought.

"WHY!? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO US!?" "THIS IS SO CUREL! HOW COULD FATE BE SO UNFAIR!" "THAT'S JUST THE COLD HARD TRUTH OF LIFE GIRLS, WE HAVE TO TRY AND HOLD OUT!" Star, Ruby and Nora wined loudly which basically brought Weiss to shout in annoyance.

"Could you all stop acting like 5 year olds who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas!?" Weiss shouted as she sighed in frustration. "I mean honestly; you three act as if it's the end of the world right now."

"Well can you blame them Weiss?" Tomoko said as she whipped her mouth with a napkin. "They were really looking forward to that weapons exhibition class and this is like the fourth time it's had to be rescheduled due to complications. So of course these guys are heartbroken about it."

"Only because of Ruby's obsession of weapons and Star and Nora's love desire to see which weapon can do the most damage or make the biggest explosion." Weiss said as she rubbed her temples.

"While I'm not as umm… passionate as Ruby, Star, Nora," Pyrrha said. "I can't say I'm not a little bit disappointed myself that the class had to be rescheduled so many time."

"So," Yang said as she took a bite out of her sandwich she was eating. "Do any of you guys know what this weapons exhibition is all about anyway?"

"Well according to what Professor Peach told us during class last Tuesday," Ryoko said. "It's special class event being hosted by another kingdom whose weapon research team wanted to display and show the progress of their weapon development. There's also said to be mock battles and their also reveling a new kind of weapon they've made."

"Now you've got my attention, sound like fun to me." Yang said.

"Well we better hope it's not canaled again, or there's going to be more crying from these three here over here." Weiss said as she pointed to Ruby, Star, and Nora. "Which kingdom was going to be hosting this even again anyway?"

"Uh… I may have forgotten that one part, sorry." Ryoko said.

"You don't have to apologies for not knowing Ryo, do any of you know the name of the kingdom who's doing this event?" Tomoko asked as she began to drink her milk.

"If I'm remembering right;" Ren said. "I believe the kingdom that's hosting the exhibition was…. Mistral."

The minute Ren said that, Tomoko spat her milk out which nearly hit Weiss if she didn't duck in time to avoid it.

"What in the world is wrong with you now!?" Weiss shouted.

"Whoa Weiss calm down for a second," Marco said as he passed Tomoko a napkin as she whipped her mouth. "Tomoko what's wrong?"

"Okay," Tomoko said as she whipped the last of the milk off her mouth. "first off sorry about that Weiss, I didn't mean to nearly get you cover in milk. Now secondly; Ren are you sure Mistral is the kingdom hosting this thing?" she asked.

"Well yes? If I'm correct in remembering. Why?" Ren said.

Tomoko then laughed a little before answering.

"You guys remember that I came to Beacon from Mistral, right?" Tomoko said. "So if Mistral is the one hosting the exhibition, who do you think might show up?"

"Wait, you mean… your dad will be coming here?" Marco said.

"Oh right, your dad's the one who gave Marco his gauntlets, isn't he?" Star said.

"That's right, and something tells me he'll be here if this event ever does happen." Tomoko said.

"Well I don't think we'll have to wait long for that to happen." Jaune said. "You guys might want to check your scrolls."

Confused by what Jaune was getting at, the others did as he asked and checked their scrolls. When they did, the first thing that was heard were Ruby, Star, and Nora's cries of joy and excitement which nearly made Weiss drop her scroll.

"YES! YES! YES! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING GUYS!" Ruby shouted in happiness.

"I ALMOST THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME, BUT IT COMING! IT'S REALLY COMING!" Star cheered loudly.

"HOORAY! OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!" Nora cheered.

"Guys, seriously." "Again can you three relax!" Marco and Weiss said trying to get the three to quiet down.

"Not happening Marco!" Star said. "Yeah! What Star said! We've been waiting too long for this!" Ruby said.

"It's only been a few weeks you two." Blake said.

"Never mind the small details; come on Ruby, with the promise day coming tomorrow we have to move onto the final stages of finishing project you-know-what." Star said.

"Then what are we sitting around here for? Let get to it right now!" Ruby said as she and Star bolted out of the cafeteria crating a back draft in the wake, leaving the rest of their team and friends confused.

"Do any of you guys know what that was all about?" Jaune asked. "Also what's project: you-know-what? That Star mentioned?"

"Oh that? That's the name Star and Ruby have use to "hide" the fact that they are working on Star's weapon." Marco said which surprised team JNPR.

"Those two are making a weapon and didn't invite me in on it? No fair." Nora said sulking.

"In fact the day after me and Ryoko were coming back from the school infirmary, we found those two had fallen asleep while studying. When we went to check on them we found a blueprint for a claymore type of weapon next to Star." Weiss said.

"That's right, they both looked to be working very hard on both their school and Star's weapon." Ryoko said.

"So that's why we've seen those two dart off every time we have a free period between classes." Yang said.

"It would also explain why Ruby sometimes comes back to the dorm looking exhausted." Blake added.

"Well I think after reading this notice that the event is happening tomorrow, I don't think we'll see those two until later tonight." Tomoko said. "Besides we don't have any more classes for the rest of the day, so their probably going to spend all day working on Star's weapon."

"Speaking of working on stuff," Yang said. "Marco you still up for me helping with your training after lunch today?"

"Yeah, of course." Marco said. "But are you sure that this will help me find out what my semblance is?"

"No doubt," Yang said assuredly. "I think we got pretty close the last time, I mean you did start to fight differently."

"You mean when I came at you like what did you say it was like again? A wild boar or something like that?" Marco asked.

"Umm, it was more like a wild boar that moved crazy fast. Not as fast as Ruby, but still pretty darn fast." Yang said. "Also your aura turned red and black, you also had a tail,"

"I grew a tail!?" Marco said surprised.

"Relax, you didn't actually grow a tail. Your aura kind of just… formed a tail I guess? I don't really know how to describe it." Yang said.

"Oh, Okay then." Marco said. "So what happened after that?"

"Yeah, you started going a bit berserk so I kind of had to knock you out before you wrecked the training room." Yang said as she saw the stunned look on Marco's face, followed by everyone else's. "Goodwitch was not happy when she saw the look of the place. Luckily; she said since you had just unlocked your semblance and didn't have a full grasp of it yet, she'd overlook the damages."

"So Marco's semblance is turning into super strong and super has wild pig?" Nora asked to which Marco groaned and covered his face in embarrassment.

"That's… not it Nora." Ren said. "I'd say it's more along the lines of increased strength and speed. Did you do anything that may have triggered his semblance Yang?" he asked the blonde.

"Let's see; I remember Marco starting off by firing a few ice shots, I blasted those away,"

"Then you launched yourself at me to which I blocked and pushed you back and started firing wind and lighting shots at you, which you tried to counter with shots of your own" Marco said.

"Yeah not my smartest move," Yang said as she remembered what had happened. "the wind shots repelled or just blocked most my shots, while the lighting ones tore through them and nearly hit me."

"Well my plan was to keep you at a distance then attack close up when it looked like you were getting tired." Marco explained. "Except when I tried doing that I didn't expect to get faked out." He said as he saw the smirk on Yang's face.

"I wasn't expecting you to fall for it so easily." Yang said. "You came charging in and right as your about to attack, I sweep kick you and – "

"And sent me flying into the wall." Marco finished. "Pretty sure I'd be in worse shape if it wasn't for my aura."

"So is this the part where Marco went beast mode on you Yang?" Tomoko asked.

"Yep; at first I thought I may have really hurt because he didn't immediately get back up, so I was going to see if he was okay. That when I saw his aura flare up as he started standing up. Also your eyes changed,"

"They did?" Marco asked.

"Yeah, they were red, that's also when you grew your "tail" and started coming at like crazy. I mean you came at me like a bullet train with fists, plus when you shot your arrows they it looked like you were enhancing them with your aura. You shot ice arrows at me and as I jumped out of the way, when they hit the ground they exploded into ice spikes." Yang said.

"It's seems there's more to your semblance than just increased strength and speed, Marco." Pyrrha said. "I think sparring with Yang would be a good idea, it could help you with learning to control your semblance."

"Good point." Marco said as the bell rang signaling the end of the school day. "Okay Yang, can you try and not send me into a wall this time?" he said.

"Depends; can you try and not get faked out again?" she shot back with a grin.

"Oh I can do better than try." Marco said with his own grin as the two exited the cafeteria.

"I really hope Yang is not starting to rub off on Marco." Weiss said as she sighed.

"If he starts making puns, I'll knock some sense back into him, kay Ice Queen?" Tomoko said.

"Do not call me that!" Weiss shouted.

Meanwhile Star and Ruby were in one of the empty classrooms, working on the final adjustments to Star's new weapon. They had actually gone through a couple of different ideas over the weeks that had passed by; one-day Star had said she wanted her weapon to be special in its own way, like how Ruby's weapon was speacil.

When Ruby heard this, she actually thought this might come up, so pulled out her scroll and showed Star a couple of different ideas for her sword. Star saw one design that instantly caught her eye, it was a design for a large buster sword composed of six other swords. Once Star decided that was the weapon she wanted, she and Ruby instantly got to work putting it together. Ruby had asked if Star wanted her weapon to have any functions that incorporated Dust? Star thought for minute before saying yes.

Between studying with their teammates and getting everything they needed to make the sword the two had a bit of a tough time. But it was well worth it as they looked at the six swords that were placed on the ground in front of them.

The first was a two-handed sword with a long hilt wrapped in a red material, a large handguard which the other swords would lock into, and a wide two-part blade, doubled sided blade. It also had two modes, in normal mode the blade is of solid length except for the transition between its wide and thin halves. In battle mode, the blade is pulled in two lengthwise; the edges are locked apart and the sword's complex inner portion is revealed.

The second sword looked more like a thick sheet of metal folded in a V-shape if you looked at it from above with the sword's edge being the bottom point of the "V", with the lower third of its length wrapping around a red double-hilt.

The next two swords were mirrored long swords with one straight edge and one saw-toothed edge, with a long black hilt. Star could almost see herself using these swords to tear through anything.

The last two swords were another identical pair, this time being dagger-like swords. They were single-edged, with a gear-like mechanism between the hilt and the blade that allows them to fold up like a switchblade. Star figured if she was fighting close up, she could use these swords close-quarters combat.

As for the color of each sword; Star had gone with a sky-blue color going along the blades and white highlights along their edges.

"Okay, looks like we have everything. All that's needed now is to put it all together." Star said excited.

"Yep, you remember which sword goes where right?" Ruby asked.

"Yes, you've only showed me like a 15 times Ruby, I think I've got it." Star said as she playfully rolled her eyes at her friend.

"Hey! Those three extra times were just to make sure." Ruby said in mock anger as she and Star kneeled down to start assembling the weapon.

"Okay; let's see here, now this V-shaped sword…" Star said before Ruby spoke.

"The Hollow blade?" "Huh?" "That's the name of the sword." Ruby said.

"Oh, okay." Star said. "So this Hollow blade goes… here."

Star then slide the Hollow blade onto the front side of the two-handed sword until she heard a click meaning the blade had locked onto the guard securely.

"Okay, that's done." Star said. "Next come the… oh right these two here," she said as she picked up the two long swords. "Ruby, can you hold this so I can put them on?"

"Yeah sure." Ruby said as Star handed her the sword to hold up, although Ruby had bit of a difficult time holding the sword up since she wasn't as physically strong as Star despite the one-year age difference.

"Um… maybe you could just lay it down so the back of it faces up?" Star said noticing Ruby straining to keep the sword up.

Ruby did as Star asked and placed the sword on the ground so the back of it faced up. Star then attached both swords to the main blade's sides with the saw-toothed edges facing the Hollow blade until she heard the familiar click sound meaning the blades were locked into place.

"Done," Star said absolutely giddy with excitement.

"Now all that's left are – " Ruby said before Star cut her off.

"These puppies right here!" Star said as she twirled the two dagger-like swords in here hands.

"Yeah, the Side blades." Ruby said. "You have to fold them up then lock them in place at the sword's front." Ruby said pointing to the gap in the middle of the blade.

"Got it." Star said. She then folded both sword's handles attached them to the front on both sides until she heard them lock into place. When the two heard that, they looked to each other with big smiles on their faces.

"We did it!" they both cheered as they did the double high-five.

"Lift it up! Lift it up! Let's see how it looks!" Ruby said eagerly.

"Okay! Okay!" Star said as she kneeled down and grasped the handle of the sword with both her hands. She took a deep breath before beginning to lift the sword off the ground. In no time at all, Star was holding the large sword up right with amazement in her eyes. "Wow, it's just… I don't even know how to describe how cool it turned out."

"Well actually, there's one more thing it needs." Ruby said getting Star attention.

"What do you mean?" Star asked confused. "I mean it looks like everything on it is in place, I don't see anything missing on it." She said as she lightly swung her new weapon.

"True; but it's actually missing two things." Ruby said. "First you have to give it a name, and second?" Ruby then took something out of the pouch on her belt. "You're going to need these." She said showing Star the items in her hand.

They were a pair of five-pointed stars that looked to be the about the same size as the brooch Ruby wears on her belt. Star noticed that each point of the stars was a different color.

"Remember when I asked if you wanted your weapon to be able to use Dust?" Ruby said to which Star with an "Mm-hm". "Well I made these so it can do just that."

"Wow!" Star said as rested the blade on her sword on the ground while Ruby handed here the two stars. "So these colored points are the Dust? I can't believe you made these Ruby."

"Well technically I did get a bit of help with them… from Weiss." Ruby said which surprised Star.

"Wait, Ice Queen helped you make these?" Star asked.

"Yeah, I was a bit surprised myself." Ruby said. "But one day when I was going to go out to get something we might need, I kind of left my scroll on the bed… with the screen showing the different weapon ideas I had."

"Hahahahaha! Oh Ruby! That is too funny! Hahahahaha!" Star said in between her laughing. "But how did Weiss see it? I thought you had the top bunk?"

"I do, it's just that I forgot I borrowed Weiss notes for this one class and left them on my bed and didn't give them back to her. So the day I left to get the stuff and forgot my scroll, Weiss was looking over her past notes and noticed I didn't give her back the ones I used. So when she went to go check my bed for them…"

"She saw that you left your scroll with the design for my weapon there for her to see." Star finished.

"Uh yeah," Ruby said. "I was so embarrassed when I got back I thought I was going to die."

"Well your lucky Weiss is starting to be nicer now or she would have chewed you out, Ruby." Star said as she was attaching the stars to the guard of her sword. "Okay, their on. So how do they work?"

"Oh, Weiss said that you only need to spin them and whichever point is facing up, shows which type of Dust is currently loaded in. she also said that the selected Dust type will be passed over to the other swords if their also in guard too." Ruby explained.

"Cool," Star said liking what she was hearing as she made sure both stars were secured to the guard. After seeing that they were, Star hoisted her sword up again.

"Now all that's left is figure out what to call it now." Ruby said. "Originally you wanted to call Pyro Helios, right"

"Yeah, but I don't think that name does this sword justice." Star said as she swung her sword down. "I want the name to be something that says who I really am."

"Hmm, well your kind and friendly, and have this happy go lucky attitude. You like to try and help others anyway you can, but you can be really brutally when it comes to a fight." Ruby said.

"Huh, you know that's exactly how Marco describes me too." Star says. "He said those traits are what make me special in my own way." She said as smile soon appeared on her face. "He even called this name one time that… wait a minute… that's it!"

"What!? what's it's!?" Ruby said caught off guard by Star's sudden shouting.

"I know exactly what I'll call it," Star said as she held her sword up high with one hand. "Ruby? Allow me to introduce you to Storm Queen, my new weapon." She said as she swung the newly named Storm Queen down, making Ruby's cape flutter a little.

"Storm… Queen?" Ruby said. "That. Sounds. AWESOME!" She said. "So is that the name Marco called?"

"Well not exactly;" Star said as she rested Storm Queen on her shoulder, "Marco called me the "Storm Princess". Since he said everywhere I go I cause a storm of excitement to appear. Which kind of makes sense given… well…"

Ruby noticed that Star was acting a strange, well more strange than usual.

"Star? Is something wrong?" Ruby asked.

"No, it just… Ruby, can you keep a secret? At least until I feel I can tell the others about and talk about it with Marco?" Star asked her.

"Well of course you can Star. You and me our friends, friends trust each other. So if there's something you don't feel comfortable sharing with everyone yet, I promise not to tell anyone." Ruby said.

"Thanks Ruby." Star said happy about what Ruby said. "Okay, so here's the thing;" She said as she whispered into Ruby's ear.

Ruby's eyes soon widened and she had to cover her mouth to make sure she didn't shout.

"Wait so you're really?"

"Yep."

"And you and Marco are?"

"Uh-huh."

"Does Professor Ozpin know?"

"My mom was the one who called him, so yeah pretty sure he knows. Which would explain why Janna is walking around here."

"Oh my God! This is so unreal!" Ruby said hardly believing what she heard.

"Okay, okay Ruby, now you have to promise not to tell anyone else. Not until I've gone over this with Marco and not until I feel I can tell the others, okay?" Star said pleadingly.

"Okay Star, I won't tell." Ruby said. "But… maybe after you talk this over with Marco, you should maybe consider telling Tomoko and Ryoko too. I mean you're entitled to keep personal secrets, but You trust Marco a lot right?"

"Well yeah, of course I trust Marco." Star said. "Since the first time we met, he's always looked out for and kept most of my mess ups secret."

"Then just put the same level of trust in the rest of your team like you do with Marco." Ruby said. "You trusted them during initiation, so why should this be any different?"

Star was really had to think on this one. Ruby made a really good point, she trusted Tomoko during the fight they all had with the Nevermore during their test. And even before she found out that Marco had paired up with Ryoko, Star felt like she could trust her Fauns teammate.

"I'll… think about." Star said. She then took her scroll out and noticed that it was about 45 minutes after 7. "Wow, it's already passed 7:00?"

"Whoa, I guess we were here longer than we thought." Ruby said as she also checked her scroll. "We should probably head back to the dorms and get to sleep, tomorrows the big day after all."

"Oh yeah, I can't wait to try Storm Queen out in the first mock battle I get into!" Star said excitedly as she and Ruby left the classroom.

As they exited and walked the down the hall, Ozpin walked out from behind the corner and watched as the two young girls left.

"Hmm, didn't think Star would tell Ms. Rose that she was a princess or that she, Marco and Janna came from another dimension." Glossaryrck said as he appeared on Ozpin's shoulder.

"You don't approve of it?" Ozpin asked.

"Well I don't see any real harm in Star letting some people know, those two girls on her team seem like trustworthy people. It just depends on who she tells really; aside from that, it's fine with me." Glossaryrck said as he shrugged.

"I've noticed that you've lacking a little when it comes to Star's magic lessons as of late," Ozpin said.

"Oh, you mean how I've only asked her to come see me once or twice a week since she's been here?" Glossaryrck said. "Well, hmm. The best I can explain for that, is well… a certain event may happen where…I may not be around anymore to teach Star anymore."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning that this is just a toss-up." Glossaryrck said. "If nothing happens I'll continue to train her. But if it does happen and I'm no longer here to guide her, I'm going to need you to keep an extra close eye on how she progresses from that point, Oz."

"…Very well." Ozpin said. "Should this event come to pass; should I inform Star's parents of it?"

"Might as well, though knowing Moon she'll most likely try to sort it out first before telling the rest High Commission." Glossaryrck said. "But when you do, I'd like to tell her something for me. Hopefully it has her not worry too much." He said as he spoke in a hushed tone to Ozpin.

The following day the air around Beacon was practically alight with excitement as the day everyone student at the school had been waiting for had finally come. The day of the special weapons exhibition class had finally come, and many of the students couldn't be any more excited. Especially a couple of individuals from three certain teams. For the event, students were allowed to wear their normal combat gear as well as have their weapons with them, obviously.

As such Teams RWBY and JNPR were in their regular clothes. Tomoko and Ryoko were also wearing their regular gear as well, while Star and Marco choice of clothing was defiantly new.

In place of his usual which featured his red hoodie, Marco was instead wearing a black jacket with grey pockets and a stripe of the same color on each sleeve. The hood, sleeves and jacket had a red lining, and six buttons could be seen on the front. Underneath, Marco was wearing a black tank top with a V-neck style collar and a white lining. On his hands were a pair of black fingerless gloves with a red line running around them, with a small magnetic plate on each glove that held his gauntlets in place. He wore a pair of shorts that were black and stopped a bit passed his knees, with several grey pockets and a red band that wraps around each pant leg. In place of is olive colored sneakers, Marco was wearing black-red shoes with black soles. Finally, he wore his eight-pointed red sun necklace around his neck. Marco had also made a design change to his weapon, they were now dark blue with a yellow eight pointed sun on the front face of each.

Star outfit was a blue dress that had many different intricate designs in the middle areas, connected to a bottom skirt that covers her entire lower body. The dress's blouse displayed a set of lighter colored edges on either side of the loose shoulder garments. The area around her stomach was covered by a slightly thicker adornment that sported a display of complex design. Star wore a thick, black belt across her chest that had a magnetic strip which held Storm Queen to her back. The bottom of the outfit that covered her lower region had two layers of clothing, resembling petals, and being of a light color. In place of her monster-like boots, Star wore knee high dark blue boots with black soles with white accents and zippers in place of straps and laces. She wore a blue version of her horned-headband and like Marco, wore her five pointed star necklace around her neck.

As the group walked around and observed the many different booths, displays and places where sit-in lectures and discussions were being held, Ruby could no longer hold in her utter joy at what was happening around her right now. The event was being held in a large open area on the school campus, with stalls and demonstrations set up. There were even some places to get food and medical tents in case someone got injured.

To be honest; it seemed more like a street fair than a class.

"Can you guys believe that this day is actually happening!?" Ruby said excitedly. "It's a piece of heaven came down to Remnant and allowed us to bear witness to what it has to offer."

"You don't think maybe your over-exaggerating just a tiny bit, Ruby?" Ryoko asked only to be ignored as the young scythe-wielder was too engrossed with all the many different weapons in her peripheral vision.

"I don't think she heard you, Ryoko." Marco said.

"Yeah, my little sister just might die of weapon obsession overload from all this." Yang said. "Or she could just pass out, either one or the other really,"

"Well you can't really expect Ruby to stay still when an event that involves weapons and everything about them comes to around can you?" Star said as she grasped the handle of her new weapon. "Speaking of which when do the mock battles start? I really want to try out Strom Queen!"

"I take it that's the name of the giant of a sword on your back then?" Weiss asked.

"Right the first time; and it's got a couple of surprise, but you already know that, huh Weiss?" Star said giving Weiss a knowing look.

"I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about." Weiss said.

"Star? Are you sure you'll be able to use that?" Blake said as she looked at the large blade.

"Yes, given the… size of the sword it must be very heavy." Pyrrha added.

"Thanks for your concern you two," Star said as she drew her massive sword from her back and held it up with no problem. "But as you can see when it comes to using weapons bigger than me, it's really not an issue."

"Well as the saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its cover"." Tomoko said as she saw her younger leader place weapon back on the belt she wore.

"That's defiantly saying much, for someone younger than us you are a lot stronger than you look Star." Jaune said honestly impressed.

"I'll say!" Nora said as she zoomed up next to Star. "You know they also say that, "Big things come in small packages"."

"Then wouldn't that also apply to Marco as well?" Ryoko said. "Marco also has good strength and speed, plus he and Star are the same age."

"Uh, I don't know if – " Marco started to say before Yang cut him off.

"Well of course Marco counts too! I mean he's been getting better during our training sessions, plus he's also got that crazy semblance of his."

"Which I', still learning to control by the way." Marco added.

"Wait Marco, you've…. Unlocked your semblance?" Star asked. "When did this happen?"

"Oh, it was during times when we had free periods in the day I would ask Yang to help me train. In our last session when Yang knocked me into a wall,"

"I said I was sorry about that," Yang said when she saw the unapproved look Star was giving her.

"Anyway, I passed out and as Yang was about to check to see if I was alright, she said my aura turned red and black before suddenly flaring up." Marco said.

"Flaring up?" Star asked.

"Yep, not to mention when it did he his eyes turned red and he also grew a tail." Yang said.

"Wait a tail! Marco you grew a tail!" Star said surprised.

"It was made of my aura Star; I don't actually have a tail." Marco said. "Anyway long story short, I went a bit berserk and nearly wrecked the training room. Thankfully Yang knocked me out before that happened. So right now I just have to learn how to control myself when I go into that state."

"Wow, I really missed a lot didn't I?" Star said as she and others continued walking and hoped they found Ruby before she passed out from over excitement. "So while me and Ruby were finishing up Storm Queen here, did you two train again that day?"

"Yeah we did," Yang answered. "But this time some… different happened."

"Saying "something different" would be an understatement at best Yang." Blake said.

"Wait, you were there with them Blake?" Star asked.

"Just to make sure Yang didn't put your teammate through the wall again." Blake said as Yang rolled her eyes. "Anyway, while training Marco did trigger his semblance again to try and get better control of it."

"Only his aura…. started to change again." Yang said.

"Wait, his aura changed again?" Weiss said. "How could it have changed again, what happened yesterday that was different from the last time?"

"Cool it Ice Queen, we're getting to that." Yang said. "So yesterday I wanted Marco to work on taking a hit when he knows it's coming and when he can least expect it. So we started trading blows; blocking, dodging, basic things. So when Marco tried aiming for a shot at my head, I caught it and hit him right in the chest. He took it pretty well even if I was holding back."

"Well Marco's taken his fair share of heavy hits before and gotten back up with no problem so it's not surprising." Star said.

"Half those times I felt like I almost coughed up my lunch, Star." Marco said before he continued where Yang left off. "So after I recovered from the hit, I managed to hit Yang with the back part of my gauntlets, pushing her back a bit."

"But Yang came right back him with barrage of punches augmented with blasts from her gauntlets." Blake said. "Thankfully you started blocking when she did it."

"Yeah, but the force of the punches started to wear down my guard." Marco said. "Seriously Yang, what kind of rounds do you use?"

"Come on Marco, you can't expect a girl to share all her secrets." Yang said jokingly as Marco and Weiss rolled her eyes.

"Can you please get to the part where Marco's aura changed please?" Weiss said in slight annoyance.

"We're getting to that now," Yang said. "Okay so I saw that Marco's guard looked about ready to drop, so right as I was about to break through, that's when his aura flare red and black again like last time. So I backed up and got ready for him to charge at me,"

"Only Marco didn't charge at Yang, he just stood there with his eyes closed." Blake said. "That's when his aura started to change color again, this time the red and black shifted to blue and white. And when he opened his eyes they were glowing blue."

"Oh my gosh!" Star said. "What happened next! What happened next!"

"What happened next is that for someone who is only a red belt in karate, I was basically fighting a guy who fought like he trained in the mountains and had three black belts." Yang said smirking as she pointed her thumb to Marco.

"That is the biggest exaggeration I have ever heard." Marco said. "But it did feel like I was more capable and had a calmer mindset."

"So this time you were aware of what you were doing?" Ren asked.

"Yeah I was," Marco said.

"Okay, so tell us how the fight went." Nora asked eagerly.

"Well despite what Yang said; the way I fought was more or less like a Monk."

"Hey, Ren fights a bit like that." Nora said.

"I can't really disagree with that fact," Ren said. "I will sometimes fight with a style similar to that of a monk. But that's more or less if I'm fighting someone one-on-one."

"So Yang with her hot-headiness was fighting Marco who had somehow, possible unlocked another part of his semblance which grants him clear thinking." Weiss said. "I think I have a good idea on how this ended, but I'd still like to hear it."

"Okay Ice Queen, don't milk it." Yang said. "So to begin the Ballad of Marco kicking my butt, he got into this crouching stance with his right arm gauntlet up and his left held lower down. He then dashes towards me, somehow completely blitzes pass my guard and hit me with three hard punches before getting behind me and blowing me back with an uppercut."

"Only when Marco performed that uppercut, these four glowing swords appeared and looked as if they came out just as Marco hit Yang." Blake added.

"So that's why it felt like I got hit harder? Geez Marco; next thing you know you'll be shooting lasers out of your eyes or something." Yang said jokingly.

"Ha-ha, very funny." Marco said. "Anyway, I've better control over that apparent part of my semblance than when my aura turns red and black. So I guess we could call my semblance Caos, Armonía."

"Cao what now?" Nora asked confused.

"It's Spanish for Chaos and Harmony; Caos is Chaos, while Armonía means Harmony." Marco explained.

"Oh okay, then what do you call your weapon then?"

"I think the name should have a correlation with what you've named your semblance," Ryoko said "Since it can allow you to either fight with the destructive force of a wild beast or the quick and powerful style of a monk."

"So something like… Calming Chaos?" Marco said.

"Oh that sounds like a great name Marco." Star said happily.

"It's does sound like a good fit," Tomoko said. "Plus next to Blake and Ren, you're the third calmest person we know."

"The name does fall in line with what your semblance is, I believe it's a good choice." Weiss said.

"Okay then," Marco said as he looked as his gauntlets. "From now on my weapons are known as Calming Chaos. So now that we have all that out of the way, maybe we should find Ruby before something happens?"

"That's a good idea," Weiss said in agreement. "The last thing I need is for her to embarrass our team with her obsession." she said as the others continued on and hoped they found the silver-eyed weapon fanatic.

It was a bit of a challenge since the exhibition was set up more like fair ground, with students going from one booth to another.

"Sheesh, this place seems more like a carnival than a weapons class." Jaune said as he avoids bumping into someone who was walking by him. "how are we supposed to find Ruby in this crowd?"

"OH MY GOD! THAT'S SO AMAIZING!" a very familiar and super excited voice shouted.

"How about we follow the sound of overly-excited shouting coming from our right?" Yang said as she leads the others to where they heard the shouting.

Sure enough, they found Ruby speaking excitedly to a man who had dark-brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing a white coat over a black dress shirt with a blue tie. Blue pants and black shoes. The two seemed to be having a very interesting conversation, no doubt the topic was concerning weapons and how to customize and improve them in different ways.

"Hey Ruby!" Yang said getting her little sister's attention.

"Yang, guys! There you are." Ruby said as she ran up to them. "What kept you? It feels like I've been having all the fun here."

"You ran off and left us, in your weapon-obsessed tunnel vision." Weiss said.

"Oh don't mind her Ruby, " Star said. "So who was the guy you were talking to just now?"

"Well I take that these are the friends you mentioned before miss Ruby?" the man said walking up to the group from behind.

"Yeah they are." Ruby said. "This Weiss, Blake, and my sister Yang. Over here we have Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren. And finally, this is Star, Marco, Ryoko and – "

"Well if it isn't my little sword angel herself," the man said which prompted Tomoko to cover her face in embarrassment.

"Oh my gosh; I told you not to call me that anymore, seriously." Tomoko said mortified.

"Wait, you already know Tomoko?" Ruby asked confused.

"Well I should; she is my daughter after all." The man said.

"WHHHHAAAAAATTT!?" the others said in surprise.

"Tomoko, this… this is your dad!?" Ruby asked.

"Yes; Yes, this is him." Tomoko said still covering her face while her father rubbed the back of his head modestly.

"Please allow me to formerly introduce myself; My name is Eric Sasaki, a researcher and developer of weapons and a proud father of this little girl here." Eric said proudly as he patted Tomoko on her head as she groaned while her cheeks were turning red.

"Dad please, for the love of all living things on Remnant, stop." She said as she could hear Ruby, Yang, Star, and Nora snickering from behind her.

"Okay, okay, sorry sweetie." Eric says as she takes his hand off his daughter's head. "So I see Beacon's been treating you well, seeing as you have so many friends. He said before looking to Star, Marco and Ryoko. "And you three must be Tomoko's teammates, correct?"

"Yes sir!" Star said. "Star butterfly; Leader of Team STRM and so super happy to meet my friend's dad!"

"Well you are defiantly just as super charged as Tomoko told said you were, it's very nice to meet you Star." Eric said.

"R-Ryoko Haan sir, i-it's a pleasure to meet you." Ryoko said nervously.

"Easy there; no need to be nervous, it's a pleasure to meet you, Ryoko." Eric said. "Well that's an impressive looking spear you have there."

"O-Oh yes!" Ryoko said as she took her weapon from off her back. "This is Ten no Kiba or Celestial Fang if you prefer. My mother and grandmother helped me make."

"Oh so this weapon has great sentimental value in addition to looking really interesting, two of my favorite traits when it comes to weapon creation." Eric said very impressed before looking over at Star and Marco's weapons. "Oh ho! So you're the young man Tomoko gave my latest creation too, huh?"

"Uh yes sir," Marco said.

"Hey, could you tell me how well they've been working out for you? I've begged Tomoko to give me an update, but she's been ignoring my calls for some reason."

"Maybe it's due to the fact that when you first helped me make my weapon and I went off to train, you called like every 10 minutes. So I didn't call you about how Marco was doing with the gauntlets; I wasn't about to endure that torture again." Tomoko said.

"I just wanted to make sure that you were alright and that nothing on the weapon malfunctioned," Eric said. "What do you think would become of me if you got hurt because I overlooked something in the design?"

"You'd cry your eyes out and literally beg for my forgiveness, which was not needed." Tomoko said as she shook her head. "Anyway, as you can see, Marco's doing fine with the gauntlets. He named them just, calls them Calming Chaos."

"Calming Chaos huh," Eric said. "I like it. A perfect name for one of my creations, glad to see it's working out for Marco."

"Yes, thank sir." Marco said.

"Now about the overall performance of it,"

"Dad," Tomoko said in a slight waring tone that said, "Don't start".

"Alright, alright, sheesh; you defiantly inherited your mother's scary side." Eric said before turning to Star and her weapon. "Now this miss Star, this weapon look like it was tailor made for you. I can defiantly see this sword has some tricks to it."

"Well thank you very much sir," Star said. "This is Storm Queen, I just recently finished having her made and I really want to try her out."

"Really? Then you all came just in time. We were just getting things ready to start the mock battles to show our newest weapon today." Eric said. "I was asking Miss Rose here if she would be the first person to fight, but the chance to have two new weapons have their debut. Miss Star, would you like to?"

"Yes! Yes! Thousand times yes!" Star said before Eric could even say the next word.

"Great! Oh this is going to be good, two weapons clashing for the first time."

"Dad, you're not the one using the weapons, so relax." Tomoko said, sighing.

"What? You know I can't help myself when it comes to weapons honey, it's just my passion for them." Eric said.

"I totally understand sir," Ruby said in agreement.

Soon a girl with light dark skin wearing a white lab coat with black hair that was done up in a braided pony tail came up to the group.

"Professor Sasaki, we're set for the demonstration now."

"Perfect Ada," Eric said. "I've just found our volunteer too. I'll show her to the arena, so could you please show her friends and my daughter a good place to watch from?"

"Of course sir." Ada said politely.

"Okay then, Star follow me this way please. Let's get ready and set for the match." Eric said.

"Alright, yes!" Star said excitedly as she followed behind Tomoko's dad. "Make sure you guys get a good spot so you can see how awesome I'm going to be."

"You better not act that over-confident during the fight, or you'll embarrass yourself and your team." Weiss shouted.

"That's what you call encouragement, Weiss?" Ruby asked

"What? Its sound advice," Weiss defended.

"Please excuse me for interrupting," Ada said getting the group's attention. "but if you all could please follow me? The demonstration will be starting soon." She said as she leads the group to the spectator's area.

Eric led Star to large open arena where she could already see a huge amount of students and school faculty had come to watch the match.

"Whoa, that a lot of people." Star said.

"Getting a little nervous?" Eric asked her.

"Nope, just want to make sure enough people came to see is all."

"Well still, don't let the crowd intimidate you. Just go out there and show them what you and your weapon can do. Now I have to go out and begin this whole thing, just wait for me to call you out, okay?"

"Got it."

As Eric left to greet the audience and start the event, Star was left to her thoughts.

"I can't believe this is really happening," Star said. She then placed a hand over where her heart was and could feel it beating quickly in her chest. "It's really been awhile since I fought by myself. Ever since I first met Marco, me and him have always just been me and him who fought together. Now we've got Tomoko and Ryoko along with us, and I'm the leader now." She said as she felt her heart beat faster. "Whoa, I wonder if this how mom feels when she has to make decisions for the kingdom?" Star then remembered what her mother told her one time.

"Star dear do try and remember this; Being Queen not only means you are responsible for the kingdom, but you are also responsible for those within it. Now I know that seems like a lot and people will be looking to you to guide them at times, but don't let that fluster you. The best way is to breath and stay positive, and Star dear you already know how to do that. A bit too well I think."

"Hehe, you weren't wrong about that, mom." Star said laughing a bit to herself as she felt her heart beat calm down. "Okay, now I'm a lot more relaxed. So…" Star then takes hold of Storm Queen's handle, "Let's see if he crowd is ready for this storm to hit?"

"Ladies and gentlemen! Students and teachers of Beacon Academy! Thank you all for coming out to this weapons exhibition event hosted by the kingdom of Mistral's weapons and research team." Eric said. "As many of you know Mistral's large areas allow its people to have a range of many different lifestyles and cultures within its borders. My name is Eric Sasaki; many of you may know my daughter Tomoko Sasaki, a very bright and talented huntress in training if I do say so myself."

"Oh my god, he did not just do that." Tomoko groaned as her face turned bright red.

"Believe me girl, Ruby and me can understand your pain." Yang said as she patted her friend's shoulder.

"That's for sure; our dad was a teacher when me and Yang went to Signal, I can't even count the times he embarrassed us back then." Ruby said as she tried not to recall the memories.

"But anyway; My passion lied in creating and developing new weapons for out brave Huntsmen and Huntresses who are fighting to protect us every day and maintain the peace we enjoy today." Eric said. "So I'm proud to announce that we have brought our newest developed weapon to show you all. And here to demonstrate it is Haven Academy's very own Tohka Yatogami!"

A girl with very long, dark-purple hair tied back with a white ribbon and matching dark purple eyes with white irises who was around Yang, Blake, and Weiss's age soon ran out wearing the Haven Academy uniform which was a black jacket with a light gray outline around the edges, a white undershirt, a white band around the student's left arm and a gray and black checkered skirt.

She quickly came to a stop and stood next to Eric with an excited look on her face.

"Allow me to introduce Tohka Yatogami, much like some of you here she is a first year at Haven Academy. But she has shown to be a more than capable huntress and a very eager volunteer for our demonstration today. Tohka would you like to say hello to everyone here?" Eric said as he passed Tohka the mic.

"Hello! Your school is very nice and your food is amazing! I hope you all enjoy the fight and I really hope we can get started soon!" she shouts as she passed the mic back Eric.

"Yeah! Start the fight! Let's go!" Nora shouts with a couple others joining in.

"Well she seems just as hyper as Star." Yang said.

"Yeah, that has me a bit worried for how this fight goes down." Marco said.

"Well Tohka, looks like you've really gotten this crowed energized. So let's not keep them waiting." Eric says as he pulls out a dark-purple crystal and hands it to a very excited Tohka. "Now Tohka, would you please?"

"Yes sir!" Tohka then encloses the crystal around her hand and closes her eyes. She's then enveloped in a purple aura. "Come! Adonai Melek!" she yells as she tosses the crystal up into the air. It then transforms into an orb of light that comes down and encases Tohka in a blinding light. It then soon disappears reveling Tohka with a different appearance.

She was now wearing a dress with a black, cream, and pink color scheme and a set of purple-and-cream plated armor which adorned her shoulders and waist. The dress was open at the back and made up into a black corset and a two-layered, knee-length skirt which has a pink-to-white gradient. Her hair ribbon was replaced with a butterfly-shaped hair accessory. She also wears a pair of gauntlets which have petal-like cuffs, both sharing the same color scheme as her attire, as well as a pair of armored boots.

The audience cheered like crazy when they saw Tohka's new appearance.

"Quite the spectacle am I right?" Eric said. "This is our latest achievement in combat armaments; we call it Soul Armor. Much like how our auras and semblances are linked to our very souls, Soul Armor takes on an appearance based on the person's soul itself." He explained.

"Oh my Gosh! It's even more incredible than I thought it would be!" Ruby cheered excitedly.

"Would you…. You know what? Forget it. I'd be wasting my breath telling you to calm down at this point." Weiss said. "And I will admit; a weapon that is based on the user's soul? I don't think that's ever been done before, not even the Atlas has something like that."

"Well Mistral is a place where our culture and tech is commonly linked by our respect for nature, so what's more in tune with nature than the human soul, right?" Tomoko said.

"That's very true," "Soul is said to be mankind's most reliable weapon," Ryoko and Ren said.

"Does that mean that armor is as strong at the person's soul then?" Marco wondered. "And I don't see anything else that looks like a weapon on her. Does that me she fights bare-handed?"

"That's a good question," Pyrrha said. "Maybe He'll explain shortly."

"Whaooo, that armor she's wearing looks so cool!" Star said in amazement.

"Now I bet your all wondering, "Yes Tohka has armor now, but where is her weapon? Or is she expected to fight without one?"" Eric said. "Well Tohka, could please show them your weapon please?"

"Gladly sir!" Tohka said. "Emerge, Sandalphon." She then stomps her foot on the ground which causes a gilded throne to rise from the ground. As everyone looked on in awe, Tohka jumps to the top of the throne and grabs what's looks to be a handle sticking out from the top. She then pulls the handle from the throne, reveling a large double-edged broadsword.

"As you've all just seen; the Soul Armor also does manifests the weapon that best fits the user." Eric said. "Now I could explain the rest of the armor's abilities to you all; but let's be honest, you all would prefer to see them in action right?" he asked to which the crowd answered by cheering and shouting. "Thought so, well then let's bring out our lucky participant. This young lady is also in her first year right here at Beacon, as well as also being made team leader. So please give a round of applause for Beacon's Star Butterfly!"

Soon after he announced her, Star came running out, an excited and eager smile on her face as she came to a stop in front of Eric and Tohka.

"Well as you can see, Miss Butterfly look very eager for the match." Eric said.

"Well yeah I am! I've been really looking forward to this day, since I get to try out my weapon against a really strong looking fighter." Star said.

"Same here;" Tohka said. "your sword looks it can really do a lot of damage, this is going to be such an exciting fight!"

"Alright, looks like you two are really raring to go," Eric said liking the energy he was feeling from the two. "now both of you get ready."

Star and Tohka stood a few feet away and faced each other. Tohka held her broadsword up and at the ready, as Star drew Storm Queen from her back and swung it around before holding it at the ready as well.

"For this match we'll be using tournament rules; that means the match is over when either opponent's aura level drops to zero, do you both understand?" Eric asked the two, to which nodded their heads showing that they understood the rules. "Okay then; when I give the word, you may begin."

As Eric backed up so he was out of the way, Tohka and Star did not take their eyes off of each other as they slightly adjusted their footing.

In the crowd, Marco and the others were a bit surprised with the focused looking they were seeing on Star's face.

"Whoa, I think that's the first time I've seen that kind of look on Star's face." Marco said.

"That's for sure, she defiantly wasn't kidding when she said she was looking forward to today." Yang said.

"I can hardly believe I'm looking at the same hyperactive 14-year-old girl right now." Weiss said amazed.

Back on the field, Eric raised his hand into the air.

"Fighters ready? And… begin!"

(Cue: Metal Gear Rising Revengeance OST - Collective Consciousness)

In the blink of an eye Tohka dashed at Star, releasing a burst of purple aura to further increase her speed. As she got close, Tohka swung her broadsword down at Star who quickly brought Storm Queen up to block. A massive shock wave was released as the two swords collided with each other and almost knocking a few people off their feet.

"Whoa! Just how much power was behind that swing of her's!?" Tomoko said in surprise. "I can believe Star actually managed to block that!"

"Do you think that armor may have increased her strength as well?" Ryoko wondered.

"It would appear so," Ren said. "Star will need to be careful here. Just one of those attacks look like it can do a lot of damage."

"Star! Watch yourself!" Marco shouted.

"You can do it Star!" "Show that girl what your made of!" Ruby and Nora shouted as well.

Back in the area, Star and Tohka were in a stalemate with blades locked until ended it by shoving Tohka's sword off of hers. She then quickly spun the stars on her sword until they stopped with the red points were pointing up on both of them and her sword had a red glow around it. Star then swung Storm Queen down firing a flaming slash wave at Tohka.

When Tohka saw the coming fire wave, she stuck her hand out as a purple wall appeared in front of her and blocked the attack. She then held her sword back with both hands and swung firing off a large purple slash wave. Star quickly jumped over the incoming wave, but failed to see Tohka had jumped right at the time she had. By the time Star took notice of this; Tohka was already in front of her, where she threw a strong aura-infused punch towards her stomach which sent her flying back.

"Star!" Marco and Ruby shouted.

Fighting through the pain, Star manages to right herself and slam her sword in the ground to stop her flit as she lands on the ground but drops to one knee. She looks up at the display screen and sees that her aura level had dropped by 1/3.

"I guessing she's holding back, since if she put everything into that punch I would have lost more than just 1/3 of my aura right now." Star said to herself as she got back up and raised her sword.

"Miss Star, are you alright to continue?" Eric asked.

"Yeah, I can keep going." Star said as rests the tip of her sword on the ground, slightly confusing Tohka. "In fact," she then unlatches the Hollow blade from Storm Queen and holds it in a reverse grip as she raises her sword back up. "I was just getting started over here."

"Did Star just take out another sword…. From off her first sword!?" Jaune said in surprise.

"Yes Jaune, I think she just did." Pyrrha said. "I surprised myself; I didn't think Star weapon would be storing another one within it."

"Oh that's not the only one Star has on Storm Queen." Ruby said knowingly.

"What do you mean Ruby?" Ryoko asked curiously.

"What I mean is that including the two swords she's holding now; Star has up to six swords she can use."

"Wait six swords!?" Nora said surprised. "That's… that's… Amazing!"

"But can Star handle using that many swords?" Blake asked.

"If it's Star, then I'm she'll be okay." Marco said. "Star already knew how to fight a couple different weapons before we met, so learning to use six swords should be no problem for her."

"I agree with Marco;" Tomoko said. "Star looks like the type to get use to a weapon the moment it's in her hand. This fight should be a good one."

"Come on Star! You can do it!" Yang cheered.

"Yeah! Show her what Storm Queen can really do!" Ruby cheered.

Back down at the fight, Tohka was really excited when she saw Star pull out another sword from her bigger one.

"Wow! You had another sword on your bigger one!? That's so cool!" Tohka said excitedly.

"I've actually got four more sword store in Storm Queen here." Star said.

"Really!? Four more!?"

"Yep, but if you want to see them, you'll have to try and force me to use them."

"Then that's exactly what I'll do then!"

Tohka then bolts towards Star with her sword ready while Star respond in kind and also charges at Tohka. When the two meet in the middle, Tohka swings her broadsword as Star matches it with her hollow blade. As the two swords locked with each, Star swings Storm Queen forward forcing Tohka to jump back to dodge. Star then throws the hollow blade at Tohka who knocks it away with her arm.

"Got you!" Star shouts and she quickly dashes towards Tohka while her guard is down. As she does, Storm Queen begins to glow. When Star was close enough, she raised her sword and swung in down on Tohka's front stunning her, before quickly striking her again from the right and finally sending her flying backward with a powerful slash from the left.

"Way to go Star! Nice one!" Marco cheered.

"Whoa, look at the screen." Someone from the crowd said.

As everyone look, their eyes widen when they saw that Tohka's aura had dropped by almost half from Star's attack on her.

"Whoa! That little girl did that much damage? She must be crazy strong!" one guy said.

"She has to be if she can use a sword that big. Plus, it has more than one!?" another voice said.

Marco and the others began to hear more people in the crowd speaking.

"Hey' isn't there another person around her age that also came to Beacon with her?"

"Yeah, I heard he's really strong himself. I mean did you see the condition of the training after he and the blonde from team RWBY were in there?"

"He did that!? You sure?"

"Positive, trust me, those two are defiantly something else."

"Hey what about their other teammates? One of them is a Faunus, right?"

"Yeah so what? Didn't you see in Port's class when she fought with Weiss Schnee, how she flung that Boarbatusk like it was nothing?"

"That was so cool, make me wish she was on my team."

"Something tells me; you guys are going to be the talk of the school for while I think." Yang said. Nudging Ryoko's shoulder.

"I think that due to how well Star is performing right now." Pyrrha said as she and the others looked as Star placed her hollow blade back on Storm Queen and unlatched her two back blades while placing her main blade on her belt and charging at Tohka again.

"Look at Star go," Tomoko said as she watched Star hammer away at Tohka with her two long swords, forcing the other girl to mostly block or dodge. "she not giving this girl a chance to breath, with each hit Star chips more and more of Tohka's aura away."

"Go Star!" "Keep the pressure on! Don't' let up!" Ruby and Yang cheered.

Star continued to attacking with her twin long blades as Tohka was being forced to dodge and block against the seemingly unending attacks. Tohka glanced at the screen and could see every hit from Star lowered her aura more.

'She's really pushing me back here; she really has a lot of strength. With every swing of her swords, I can actually feel my aura getting weaker.' Tohka thought as she blocked another strike from Star's swords, forcing the two to lock blades. 'She really is a great person to fight, but I also really want to win too. Hmm… I guess I'll have to use it then; Professor Eric did say he wanted everyone to see all the cool things this armor can do.' She thought.

"Hey Star?" Tohka called.

"Yeah?"

"Do you think you could block anything I throw at this point? Even though your down to almost half your aura?"

"Are you kidding?" Star said as she smirked. "You can throw everything including the kitchen sink, me and Storm Queen will send it all flying away."

"Okay then; in that case!"

Tohka then pushed Star away with her sword and jumped back until she was back near the gilded throne she pulled her sword out from.

"Uh, is there a reason you jumped back over there?" Star asked confused.

"Just to show you THIS!"

Tohka then turns to the throne and using her sword, slices the it in half.

"What!?" Star said in surprise as was the rest of the crowd.

Their surprise soon turned into shock as they saw the thrown shatter into glass-like pieces before beginning to form around Tohka's broadsword causing it to glow and change. When Tohka spun around Star saw that her sword was now much larger and bigger. It was now a massive single-edge sword with a purple glow emanating from it and Tohka.

"This is Halvanhelev, my weapon's full power form." Tohka said. "So Star, do you think Storm Queen can take on the Sword of the End?"

Star grins as she takes Storm Queen on her back and locks her long blades back into place on it before heaving her sword up and twirling it over her head before reading herself.

"Let's go!"

(Song swap: Metal Gear Rising Revengeance OST - It Has to Be This Way)

Star and Tohka instantly charge at each other and clash their swords against one another, creating an air ripping shockwave which forces some of the crowd to be knocked off their feet. As the two jump back from each other, Tohka fires off a massive cross "X" slash wave towards Star. Star spins the Dust revolvers on Storm Queen until the green points face upward, as she swings her sword firing a glowing green slash wave that collides with the purple wave, canceling each other out. Star then rushes forward towards Tohka while firing off more slash waves as she closes in.

Not allowing herself to be pressured again, Tohka also charges at Star while also cutting through the slash waves coming at her. When there almost close to each other again, Tohka swings her sword from the right at Star, only for the young Huntress to jump over the attack and raised her sword up over her head, prepared to swing down.

Tohka quickly swings her sword upward as Star brings Storm Queen down to meet Tohka's strike head on, causing sparks to fly as the two blades collided again. Tohka then flung Star off her sword and chased after her, hoping to strike her as she landed.

"She's going to get hit!" Jaune said. "She can't block while in that position."

"Oh, she not looking to block that attack." Weiss said which confused Jaune. "Just watch,"

As Star was falling, she twisted her body around while also spinning her sword's Dust revolvers. As she neared the ground and saw Tohka coming closer, she quickly pointed Storm Queen downward and as it impaled the ground, causing ice crystals to emerge from the ground that hit Tohka and pushed her back.

"Whoa! Way to go Star!" "Well done!" Marco and Ryoko shouted.

"Did she plan that…. while she was falling?" Jaune asked.

"Look like it," Blake said. "But how did she know she had loaded ice dust into her sword?"

"She didn't," Weiss said. "She just guessed and hoped for something that could counter and push her opponent back. Which was risky I may add,"

"Hey you know that saying; "Some risk has reward", and Star got a good one here." Yang said. "She and this Tohka girl are really not holding anything back."

"That's saying something alright," Tomoko said as she looked at the screen. "but both of their auras are getting really low now. By the looks of things, this fight will be decided with these next attacks."

"Come on Star!" 'You can win this!" Marco and Ruby cheered.

Back in the arena, both Star and Tohka were breathing really hard and starting to feel the fatigue. But the two huntresses both had smile on their faces as they faced each other.

"I gotta say; I've been in a lot fights before coming here to Beacon, but this fight is one of the best ones I've ever had in a really long time." Star said smiling. "And it's even better that I got the chance to fight a really strong person like you Tohka."

"Yeah, same here Star." Tohka said as she smiled back. "I can't believe you're this strong already and your younger than me. I'm really glad I got to meet a person this strong."

"Thanks." Star said. "So as much fun as this has been; I think it's time – "

"We ended this?" Tohka said as she swung her sword and held it behind.

"Yep!" Star said as she spun both dust revolvers on Storm Queen before mimicking Tohka's action and holding her blade behind her.

The crowd waited anxiously as the two huntresses stared each other down with their swords ready, no one making a move or blinking, fearing they would miss something.

Just as the revolvers on Storm Queen stopped; Star and Tohka then instantly dashed towards each other. Tohka's sword brightly glowing purple, while Star's sword blazed with fire, lighting, ice, and wind surging along it's blade.

When the two neared each other, they let loose a might cry and swung their swords with everything they had left at each other. When the two blades clashed, an immense back draft was created nearly sending a couple people flying out of their seats while a few others shielded themselves. Eric was blown off the arena by the force of the collision.

(Song End)

"Miss Butterfly? Miss Yatogami?" Eric shouted with the mic. "Are you both alright? Please say something."

As Eric climbed back into the arena; he saw found Star and Tohka on their backs breathing heavily. Tohka's sword had reverted back to its normal state and was lying next to Star's sword.

"Hey, are you both okay?" Eric asked the two.

"I'm… good." Star said with a tired smile on her face. "But that fight… really made me hungry."

"Me too," Tohka said followed by the sound on her stomach growling. "Professor? Can I get something to eat now, please?"

Eric just laughed a bit before speaking.

"How about we see which of you two won this amazing battle first?" he said. "Can either of you stand up?"

"I think I can sit up right now." Star said as Tohka soon did the same.

"Okay," Eric said as turned to the crowd. "They're both alright everyone, just a tired. But that's to be expected after such an amazing fight, right?"

The crowd then came alive with a round of applause for the two huntresses.

"Now then let's look at the screen and see which one of them won out?"

As everyone looked to the screen, their eyes instantly when they saw the results. The screen showed that both Star and Tohka's auras had both dropped to zero.

"Wow! It seems that both our competitors managed to bring each other's aura down to zero at the same time." Eric said.

The crowd then cheered loudly for the amazing fight the two put on.

"Hey Tohka?" Star called.

"Yeah?"

"This really was a great fright I had with you." Star said smiling. "So when's the next you and me can have a rematch? Because I plan on winning the next one."

Tohka only smiled back with a bit competitive spirit in it.

"Well I don't you'd have long to wait; you'll see me again at the Vytal Festival."

"Vytal Festival?" Star asked confused. "I'm not sure what that is, but I'll see you there then."

"You're on then." Tohka said.

Meanwhile, Ozpin was sitting in his office with Glossaryck and Janna after having watched the match between Star and Tohka from Haven Academy.

"Man, that was one crazy fight. I thought for a second Star and that other girl would have torn the whole place apart." Janna said.

"Well not surprising," Glossaryck said. "Star has always had a knack for adapting to things during fights."

"Indeed," Ozpin said. "her battle prowess before coming to Beacon does show. Not to mention how quickly she's gotten used to her weapon now."

"Plus there's Marco and his crazy semblance too." Janna said. "Dude can switch from fighting like a wild animal to fighting like a kung-Fu master. After today, those two are going to be talk of the school for a while." Janna then got up from her seat and headed for the elevator. "I'm going to go and see what's what down there, catch you guys later." She said as the elevator door closed.

"Miss Ordonia seems to have adjusted quickly to Beacon and the Remnant." Ozpin said.

"You could throw that girl into a hostile environment and she'll have it under her thumb in less than half an hour." Glossaryck commented with a joking grin. "At any rate, if Star capable of this much already then if I do end up leaving her I won't have much to worry about."

"So it would appear," Ozpin said as the room fell silent for a bit.

"Sigh; Oz?" Glossaryck said.

"Yes?"

"How is… that girl… that bird boy brought here doing?"

Ozpin sighed before answering.

"Amber is still stable, keeping her alive is… really all I can do for her right now."

"I see. And the others?"

"Qrow hasn't reported anything new about the others, so it's most likely "She" hasn't found them yet." Ozpin said. "James said he'll be coming to Vale at the beginning of the second semester."

"I know I've asked this a couple times already," Glossaryck said. "but are you sure… it was a good idea to let him in on this? Letting him know about…. You-know-who?"

"James can be a bit… headstrong at times, but the safety and well-being of the people are his main goals. Just as they are mine."

"Okay," Glossaryck said. "But if it's alright, kindly don't tell him about Star, Marco, and Janna. The last thing I need is to know that he has those three locked up for "Protection"." Glossaryck said doing air quotes before vanishing out of the office.

Now alone, Ozpin was left to his thoughts as he pulled up Star and Marco's files.

"My apologize James, but it seems this will have to be on secret I leave you out of."

A/N: Well that was one hell of a chapter am I right? But anyway, can any of you guess the characters Marco's semblance was based off of from the hints I left? You all already know where I got the idea for Star's weapon and you all better know where I pulled Tohka from If not then... oh boy. Any who, leave your questions and comments in the reviews and I'll see you all next chapter, later ;)