103 Vytal Tournament And Festival

"So, that's the Amity Colosseum..." Raynor said, as his gaze was at the massive floating island in the sky.

This, gives him ideas to add something like this to his Holy Grounds.

"I am more interested in those cruisers, they look slighly similar to Turian ones from Mass Effect," Arno said next to him as they have finally returned to RWBY, more like Raynor did some time altering with his Planewalker, and they appeared around few weeks after the failed Breach and now Vytal Tournament has started.

He was slightly annoyed that he missed the Beacon dance! but at least there is that festival, and he can still watch people fight, he is interested in all the different semblances everyone has in this place.

He is slighly amused that Serah missed this one, again! but for now he has his Assistant and Dragon Empress to accompany him, and of course Arno.

"Still, such presence here by Atlas, I mean I saw these episodes but watching this in life, is something else, something like this can have a negative effect." The blonde commented.

"You mean attract the Grimm?" Raynor commented after realising what he meant.

"Yeah, that's how Beacon fall in first place, intimidation will lead to fear, and that is something the Grimm will use." The blonde said with a shrug.

"Hmm, we shall see, the Atlas already knows of our existence, they are extra careful." Raynor found about that no long ago after entering Remnant.

He could feel some faith flowing into him from as far away as icy shores of Atlas...

"Which means they brought more troops?" The blondie asked with a deadpan look.

"it's opposite, they brought half of force they intended, as they don't want me to feel annoyed." He found that out just by doing a simple scan in Atlas.

"...This is half?" The blondie said with shocked he looked at the cruisers which were blocking the sun in Vale!

"Well that's what the world told me, anyway let's go and get the tickets, I heard Weiss is fighting in this match." He shrugged at first, then motioned for them to follow him as they started to fly towards the Amity Coliseum.

Will they get tickets to the biggest event in Remnant?

Such thing never was an issue to him...

~~~

After 'persuading' some officials and making some space for themselves the group of four got comfortable in their seats.

Well more like Long Qing got comfortable as she was sitting in Raynor's lap and feeding him popcorn.

Popcorn is a universal thing, and it exists in many realities, and Raynor was pleasantly surprised when he saw it being a real thing in this place!

His gaze then went to the arena in the middle of the coliseum, the battle is about to start, there is a massive board showing combatant Aura levels.

This means that these battles are not deadly at all, instead they get eliminated once the aura bar hits the red or they are thrown out from the arena.

"Hmm, so the battles here are more technical, instead of raw power." Long Qing said as she was tasting the popcorn, they are quite nice, and slightly addictive.

"It is, semblances play a big part of the battles as well," Raynor said that as he was listening to the commentators, one of them is familiar individual which he had pleasure talking history with.

Now, that he is back here again he did his research, while he didn't watch the show, which has quite abysmal graphics, he instead prefers to come here in person where people look real.

He heard that after the team fights are over it will be two versus two, and then it will progress to one vs one final matches.

So, it will become much more 'personal' later on.

Once the battle started The blonde of Team RWBY went up close and personal as being brawler of the team, followed by Ruby who abused her Speed semblance.

This were Raynor learned Semblance of the catgirl who can created clones like after images.

"I wonder can she make them go boom? like explosive clones from Naruto?" Raynor asked the 'local' expert of RWBY.

"I think she does..." Arno said that barely paying attention to Raynor question, he was more interested in how the blondie was fighting a team from Haven Academy which comes from Mistral.

"Their martial arts are sloppy." Long Qing noticed that the team from Haven are using something similar to martial arts.

"Mistral creation is influenced by Chinese culture so martial arts are not unusual there," Raynor said whatever he remembered about continent to their East.

As Raynor continued to watch the match which RWBY started to dominate when Weiss started utilising her summoning glyph and summoning several Grimm's to help her.

Few minutes later, the primordial Dragon picket something interest on the corner of his vision, energy similar to Ozpin's...

His gaze went to the side and he saw a woman with black hair and striking amber eyes.

Raynor interest was peaked when he felt Fire laws around her.

'A semblance related to fire?' He asked that himself for second.

'This is amusing... is this natural thing when you attract villainous females to yourself." Restia said with amused voice.

The sword spirit noticed that quite quickly when she saw his harem, she like the rest was afraid of Xia Qingyue, but from there she noticed a pattern...

'Oh, you can tell that she is 'evil'?' Raynor was slighly interested, the only one who can casually tell such by glancing who is evil in his harem is Chu Yueli, and Xia Qingyue if she focuses on that.

But, for Restia to do that? they are many rows away from the people who participate in this tournament.

'I do share vision with you, when I am inside your inner world, and yes I am Darkness spirit and I can see the darkness inside people and she has quite a bit of that and very much ambition.' Restia said that with slight hum as she 'inspected' the woman.

Raynor slightly groaned now she knows why he has pull towards her...

He could work as natural evil detector, as they say, 'opposites attract' not that he is a 'good' guy, even if 'good' fall under his 'domain' even if it a minor affinity.

'We should pay attention to her, as she is a participant in this tournament, and the girl which you constantly been watching is part of it.' Restia made her point.

'Don't worry I will...' Raynor narrowed his eyes for second at the black-haired woman, before return to watch the 'soon to be ending' match.

~~~~~~Cinder Fall~~~~~~

Cinder felt someone was breathing behind her, which should be impossible because she is sitting in a comfortable seat with cushion and all, there is nothing behind her!

She quickly looked back and her surroundings turned black and a pair of crimson eyes with slits was looking at her.

Primal fear washed her up, whatever this being was it terrified her more then her mistress could ever do!

"Cinder!" She felt someone has put a hand on her and snapped her out from this.

The black-haired woman looked at whoever touched her she was about to burn to death, but she quickly realised that it was one of her concerned minions.

"Emerald..." She turned back to sitting properly without explaining what just happened.

That moment she heard someone whispering into her ear.

"I am watching you..."

~~~~~~Vytal Festival Fairgrounds~~~~~~

"Yes, what a nice place this is!" Raynor looked around to all the stands and food, they decided to visit this area after the match was over.

He then quickly snapped at Arno.

"And I am not listening to you this time!" He accused him, which slightly confused Long Qing and Mu Feixue.

Arno just rolled his eyes.

"That fine, we can all go our ways from here." the blonde said that as he went out on his own to check out Remnant's food.

Once he was away none of his two girls left Raynor side...

"Right, we should start with normal food or deserts from the very beginning?" He asked that himself than anyone else.

"I suggest some meat dishes? barbeque perhaps?" Long Qing words were like gospel to Raynor who instinctively nodded.

"Yes! you speak with wisdom Qing'er! vamos!(Vamos is 'Let's go' in Spanish)

Raynor motioned for them to follow him and find best smelling stand!

~~~

Team RWBY were sitting in a noodle stand, Weiss was pretty much forced to join this as she only eats healthy stuff, she even asked about details... like calories and stuff but the chief only shrugged at her.

Once she saw the size of the bowl she cringed.

"Who's paying?" The chief asked.

Yang shrugged, Ruby looked at Weiss, so did Blake.

Weiss just huffed and pulled out her wallet, and then took credit card out, it was with Schnee symbol and all.

She brushed it, moments later she saw red symbol with words on it saying 'denied'.

Her eyes widened, as she realised that her father has blocked her access to family accounts!

"Oh that's not good," Yang said that as she realised what this means.

Weiss tried several tries again but it was denied every single time.

The Chef has raised his eyebrow in question, he was waiting! before he can say anything, a certain hand has put some cash on the table.

"It's on me, chef!" Weiss eyes widened for second as she realised who it was, her cheeks started to get rosy, as she remembered how much time the Heiress has spend learning about 'dates'!

"That's fine! money is money." The chef took the cash, and RWBY turned around and saw Raynor, who had a skewer of barbeque in one of his hands.

"Yo!" He used his free hand to greet them.

Ruby's and Blake's eyes sparkled when they saw him.

"Oh, my gosh! you came here to watch the tournament?" Ruby quickly asked him with excitement.

"Yeah, I saw the battle ladies, not bad teamwork!" He praised them.

The 'little grim reaper' fist-bumped hearing that.

Weiss slighly huffed at the praise, trying to hide the fact that she liked the praise.

Blake simply nodded, as she already started to dig into the fish she got with noodles.

"We totally, beat their collective asses!" Yang said that with a proud grin, then she looked around she, obviously noticed another insanely beautiful woman next to Raynor.

She had similar aura of none-approachable, it's different from the cold woman, this one has feel to it... something like: if you approach me you will die and no one will find your body.

Raynor noticed that the girls were looking at his Dragon Empress.

"Oh, this is Long Qing, she is my bodyguard." He said that with shrug.

"Bodyguard? why you need bodyguard? I mean is there is someone in this world who can hurt you?" Weiss asked with disbelieve, this... Goddess looking woman is a bodyguard!?

"No, but she can deal with bothersome stuff for me." He said with shrug.

Weiss's mouth opened then closed, she then slighly leaned towards him and asked with quieter voice.

"...How strong is she?" The white-haired girl asked with a small gulp.

"Several hundred times then my assistant." He said with a smile, and Weiss had a large gulp this time.

Raynor continued to smile when he heard her gulp, he was lying quite a bit because Long Qing is several million times more powerful than his assistant who was in Divine Origin realm and quickly approaching Divine Soul...

"Ray! come join us here!" Ruby grabbed Raynor's freehand for the first time and her eyes slighly widened.

Weiss saw this and clicked her tongue, now she knows that!!!

Ruby pulled him next to her, as there was only seat available there, while Weiss had Blake and Yang to her sides.

The Heiress narrowed her eyes at her partner, who started to get closer to Raynor subconsciously.

"So, where is your blond friend?" Yang curiously asked the Primordial Dragon, she wants to test some new moves on him, since he is so durable, he can take her pounding.

"Arno, you mean?" Raynor asked back, Yang simply nodded at his question.

"Oh, he got lost in the road of life." He answered with a shrug and most of girls hearing that chocked on their food!