A Drunken Skater Marriage

All the teens paled thinking that this was not going to be an easy fight. “Do we have a choice in this?” Reese asked.

“No,” the adults chorused.

“I’ll let the rest of my team know. We should head to a training hall,” Jaune said pulling out his scroll to call Ren, as he walked out the room. “Let’s go.”

Jaune gave Ren the short version of the story while Team ABRN, JP, and the adults made their way to the training halls and reserved one for a few hours. The group arrived at the training hall and waited for the rest of Team JNPR. All the teens were making sure to drink a lot of water because of alcohol they had drank the night before. Ren and Nora arrived a few minutes later. Ren looked around the training hall, when he noticed the group he began walking towards them. “Hello Jaune, so how are we going to do this?”

“No questions about what happened?” Jaune asked.

“You told me enough. Nora on the other hand,” Ren said motioning towards his partner who was bouncing up and down looking about to burst.

“Uh oh.”

“We should totally throw a party to celebrate,” Nora cheered excitedly.

“NO!!!” Jaune, Reese, Arslan, and Pyrrha yelled in response.

“I really don’t think I’ll be drinking again any time soon,” Jaune said rubbing his nose.

“Agreed,” Arslan said. The other girls nodded their heads.

“Well now that everyone is here, I guess we should talk strategy,” Jaune said looking to Arslan. “Come on we shouldn’t take to long.”

As the two leaders went to talk about strategies for the two teams, Gwendolyn turned to Ren and Nora, curious of what they thought of her son. “So, what do you think of Jaune as a leader?”

“He’s awesome!” came Nora’s enthusiastic reply. “He may not be the best fighter, but he can always tell who is best for what job, and has no problem jumping to the front when he has to. After all he’s the knight of the group.”

“He does his best to look after his team and always has our backs. I trust him,” Ren answered calmly.

‘It appears his team trusts him but is he really good enough to stay at Beacon?’ The mother thought to herself.

“Ok, well I think we should get ready ourselves. Come on, Gwen, Will,” Tobias said leading the other two adults to the training stage.

“We should join our leaders,” Bolin said walking towards Arslan and Jaune.

“Do you two have a plan?” Reese asked as the remaining teens joined the two leaders on the opposite side of the training stage.

“We do, but it is crazy,” Arslan said looking at the other leader.

“Guys, how much do you trust me?” Jaune said looking at the other teens.

The rest of team JNPR nodded ready for what their leader had planned. Reese looked at him and sighed, “We have to start working on that at some point. So, I trust you.” Bolin and Nadir looked to each other and shrugged, with Arslan just standing beside him waiting for him to explain the plan.

“Alright here is what we are going to do,” Jaune then explained the basics of the plan to them. He watched them for any objections as he finished laying out his plan. “Any questions?” he asked.

The rest of the group stayed silent for a moment. “That sounds crazy, but it might just work,” Bolin said.

“Take your positions, time to show them what we can do,” Jaune said his face taking on a serious look. The teens spread out team ABRN on the left, JNPR on the right.

“Are you kids ready?” Tobias asked standing in front of the other adults, with his wife to his left and Reese’s father to his right. When teens nodded their readiness, Reese’s mother entered the info into the computer and screens dropped down showing everyone’s Aura levels with Jaune’s mother, Arslan, and Pyrrha not being at one hundred percent due to their fight with Ozpin.

“We are ready,” Jaune said drawing his sword. The students took ready stances as the adults did the same. An automated voice came over the intercom.

“Spar starting in 3… 2… 1… Begin,” the voice announced.

Jaune and Arslan sprinted towards his father; as Pyrrha and Nora rushed Jaune’s mother, with Reese crossing the field on her board to join them. Nadir, Bolin and Ren moved to single out Reese’s father. As Jaune and Arslan got close to Tobias, Jaune raised his shield blocking an over-hand strike from his father. He angled his shield down and to the side deflecting the blow into the ground. He thrust his sword at his father’s chest. Tobias pulled his sword from the ground and blocked his son’s strike. Tobias pushed Jaune back as Arslan switched in, she pushed him back with a palm strike then kicking at his head. Her second attack missed as Tobias ducked spinning under her leg and backhanding Arslan forcing her back.

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Bolin blocked a few arrows from Will, as Ren and Nadir circled around and began to fire on the huntsman. The rounds from the two teens seemed pass through the cloaked huntsman. “What?” Bolin said as he noticed this. Then he watched as Reese’s father dissolved into a black mist.

“Bolin, behind you!” Nadir called. Bolin turned around to see the cloaked hunter thrusting a knife at his back. The staff user spun around trying to strike the older man’s arm away. Will let his arm get hit, the staff passed through his arm with out stopping his forward momentum. Bolin felt the knife bite into his aura and jumped back. “What is this guy?” He asked Ren and Nadir as they joined him facing the Ranger.

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Gwendolyn side stepped a downward slash from Pyrrha. Then used the stock of her rifle to push her back. As she did, the sniper leveled her barrel at Nora, who had run up behind her, and fired. The round slammed into Nora at close range throwing her back for a few seconds. Pyrrha and Reese moved in and attacked. Pyrrha slashed low from the right while Reese kicked her board up towards the huntress’ head from the left. Gwendolyn jumped over Pyrrha’s slash and blocked her daughter-in-law’s attack knocking the board up higher. Reese flipped over grabbing her board splitting it into her twin pistols.

“Gottcha!” Reese said as she fired twice at the huntress then rolled as she landed. When Reese looked up, she saw Jaune’s mother kick Pyrrha’s legs out from under her. Gwendolyn took quick aim at Reese and fired. Thinking quickly, she switched her pistols to her board to block the attack. When the round hit her board, she was thrown off her balance and stumbled back. Reese shook her head to clear it and looked around the room.

Ren, Nadir, and Bolin where struggling to land a solid hit on her father, as he used his semblance to phase through their attacks, or just dodged them entirely. Jaune an Arslan didn’t seem to be fairing much better, every attack was met with either the knight’s sword or his fist. ‘So, this is what it means to be hunters,’ Reese thought to herself turning back to her fight. Nora was doing her best to hit the evasive huntress. The orange haired girl jumped up and slammed her hammer down just to be blocked by the huntress. She fired a grenade down past the guard. It hit Gwendolyn in the head as Nora jumped away.

“Nice try, kiddo,” Gwendolyn’s voice came from the cloud of dust. As it cleared the sniper was still standing, her skin looked like stone when she moved the stone chipped away. “Let’s see if you can keep up.”

-

Jaune blocked a slash from his father, the fight had been going on for a good twenty minutes. He had realized that his father was a lot stronger than he had thought. Jaune and Arslan were barely able to keep up with the huntsman as he bared his strength and speed on the two teens. They were wearing down fast especially Arslan, Jaune had noticed that Pyrrha’s Aura was low as well. ‘They are still recovering from their fight with Ozpin. Ok, I hope this works.’ Jaune pushed his father back and readied himself. “EVERYONE, STAND GROUND!” He shouted getting team ABRN’s and the rest of his own’s attention.

The rest of the teens reacted to command disengaging from the hunters and forming up: Nora, Jaune, and Bolin in the front; Arslan, Reese, and Ren in the middle; Pyrrha and Nadir in the back taking aim with their rifles. “Are you sure this will work?” Reese asked from behind Jaune switching her back to her pistols again.

“No, but it is our best shot. My father’s semblance allows him to boost other people’s Auras. The draw back is his own Aura drains a lot faster and once he runs out his allies lose a portion of what they have left,” Jaune explained speaking quietly and raising his shield so that his mouth was covered but he could still keep an eye on their opponents. “We just need to force him to use it.”

“And how do we do that?” Bolin asked. As the adults all moved into t smaller formation themselves waiting on the teens next move.

“Open fire!” Jaune said taking a more defensive stance at the front of the formation. The teens with ranged weapons fired at the clustered adults. Just before the hail of bullets reached them Gwendolyn stepped in front of the two men hardening her body to repel the attacks. Sheathing his sword, Tobias grabbed Will by his cloak and pulled him behind the woman. He then rested his hand on her back channeling his aura and boosting her semblance. The three were wrapped in smoke and dust as the various rounds went off.

Jaune kept watch on the aura levels on the screens. ‘This doesn’t look good,’ Jaune thought to himself as his mother’s aura level seemed to stagnate at thirty percent, and his father’s Aura very slowly dropped to just below fifty percent. Mr. Chloris’ Aura was at about seventy-five percent. While most of the teens were at forty percent or lower. ‘How can we tip the scales?’ Jaune turned back to the fight, he noticed something that might just be what he needed. “Cease fire,” he called to the other teens. Once the firing stopped he started walking towards the adults. Once the dust cleared Tobias stepped forward again placing himself between his son and the other adults.

“Clever tactic Son, but it is not enough.”

“I know, but this might be,” Jaune said as he rushed his father again. The remaining adults and teens watched shock watched as Tobias brought his sword around to strike at Jaune. The younger knight slid under his father’s strike.

“What?” Tobias said confused. Jaune shooting back to his feet, took a few more steps and pivoted slamming his shield into his mother’s stomach as she was still shaking off the shell she had put up. He followed up with a flurry of slashes while she was still off balance, dropping her Aura into the red. Jaune backed up as quickly as he could once he heard the buzzer. Once he was far enough back he returned to his defensive stance waiting for the two older huntsmen to make their move.

“How did he just do that?” Will asked the Arcs had filled them in on their semblances when they were talking before the match. So, he understood that Gwendolyn’s Stone Shell allowed her to reduce all damage leveled at her. The only drawback is that it left her immobile while she used it. Thus, he was surprised when Jaune had just torn through the last bit of her Aura so easily.

“Mom’s Semblance leaves her motionless; however, when it gets boosted by my father it takes her longer to shake off the shell and while she does that she can’t move but she doesn’t have the protection from her semblance. That is the best moment to knock her off balance and is why Dad stepped up as soon as the firing stopped. That plus it helps that her and my sisters may yell at me, but they have never really been able to hurt me,” Jaune explained putting on an innocent look at the bit.

Tobias smirked, “That is genius Son.”

“And mean,” Gwendolyn said pouting, “No son should take advantage of their mother like that.”

“Well you were the one that suggested the spar, Mom. You brought it on yourself. Also, that you suggested an eight on three match.”

“Humph, well I’ll just go sit with Alyss then,” with that the Arc Matriarch walked out of the arena and up to the stands to sit next to Reese’s mother. Alyss waved a little from where she was sitting. The rest of the teen began to move to surround the two remaining adults

“Well, shall we finish this Son?”

“Yes.”

The two Arc men rushed each other sword meeting shield as the two clashed. The two teams then split off with team JNPR facing Tobias, and team ABRN going up against Will. With the odds stacked better in their favor the two teams slowly began to wear down the two huntsmen. After another ten minutes of fighting the two adults sat in the arena back to back having their auras depleted. Bolin Nadir, Pyrrha and Nora had been eliminated in the process, but it was still a victory for then teens. With the remaining teens having just over twenty percent Aura.

Reese rode over to Jaune who was laying on the ground breathing heavily. “That was crazy, and I think that was a lot better than someone who has only trained a few months,” she said smirking as she sat down on her board.

“I agree young man you show skill in planning and thinking under pressure,” Reese’s father chimed in.

“Jaune, I am impressed with what you have accomplished. I do think we still need to talk later about you running away, but that can wait. For now, though I think we should all go get some rest,” Tobias said as he stood up. “I’m going to head back to the hotel you kids have fun ok.”

“What, why?” Gwendolyn asked making her way down to the arena with Alyss right behind her.

“It has been a long day, so I think I’ll leave our conversation with Jaune till tomorrow.”

“Oh well it that is the case I guess I can go with it.”

“I agree with Tobias. All of you must be tired so I think we should all go home and get some rest,” Alyss said smiling at the teens and other adults. She walked over to her husband and helped him up, “Let us go dear. See you tomorrow Reese, and Jaune.”

“Yes mam.”

“We still need to have a chat about you and my daughter.”

“Understood mam,” Jaune said tensing up.

“Relax Jaune, I’m sure you will be fine. We will see you tomorrow son.” Tobias said as he and Jaune’s mother made their way out of the training room.

After the adults left Jaune stood up and stretched, “Well I guess we should all head back to the dorms and get some rest.”

“Um, Jaune,” Nora said looking at her leader curiously a smirk on her face.

“What Nora.”

“Which room are you and your wife going to sleep in,” Nora asked sporting a huge shit eating grin.

Jaune and Reese were blushing furiously as the rest of the teens started laughing at them.