#OC Ariah Mikari

[zwei-the-penguin-with-a-pen]

‘Titanium’

She stretched out her arms as she donned the last of her armor. Nora fiddled with Magnhild eagerly, spoiling for a good scrap. Nora was always armed and ready, never shy to display the power of her incredible hammer. Pyrrha could hardly wait for their Doubles Match to commence.

She was immensely proud to be fighting alongside Nora. It had been obvious which two of them would advance from the get-go. Since Nora had demolished the whole of Team BRNZ with a swift smash of Magnhild and Pyrrha had taken the brunt of the fight until then, the four of them had elected the two to advance.

That confusion in regards to their Team Attacks in the first round had finally been forgotten... Poor Jaune, he really tries. Well, most of the time. Anyway...

Pyrrha twirled Milo around on her arms, the javelin effortlessly bouncing off her wrists and forearms. Milo rested at her back; no need to practice with the shield with the fight so close at hand. Nora's body pulsed with electricity as her excitement flared ever higher. Ren and Jaune waited with the girls, giving encouraging words here and there.

Pyrrha pondered who they would be squaring off with this time around. She knew they would sortie with two members of Team DNCE ('Dance') from Shade. The four of them had made quick work of a crew from Haven in their Teams match. OBSN ('Obsidian'), Pyrrha seemed to remember. Three phenomenal fighters with a mediocre-at-best leader, they'd all had great skills and interesting Semblances.

Unfortunately, Danuba Pike's incredible tactics had taken them out. His weapon was an apparently endless supply of spiked metal spheres, with which he used his Aura to attack and defend. He didn't seem to have shown his Semblance in the fight, so that could be a hitch for them.

Then there was Wrench Nimbus, the feisty featherhead. Nimbus was an avian Faunus with patchy down on her arms. She was capable of forcing flurries of razor-sharp feathers at her foes, much like that boar Faunus from Haven. Ariah Mikari, a fellow Beacon student who was dating a member of that same team, had told Pyrrha that Lorelei Sienna's tusks were much more threatening than Wrench's feathers.

Chartreuse Toppsy boasted incredible speed, even on a level with Ruby, as well as a skull-shaped belt buckle that fired Dust rounds. She usually stuck to Fire Dust, but that wasn't all she used. Toppsy also sported a prosthetic leg that she could, in a pinch, take off and whack with or throw at a foe. This had gotten her free of a predicament in the fight with Team OBSN.

And finally, there was Amethyst Eatnahs. She had danced around her foes while making precise pricks and jabs with her scimitar. She also seemed to possess a transformation ability, but Pyrrha wasn't sure if that was true or just some illusion. Either way, all four of Team DNCE were skilled at dance battling, striking between steps and dominating all the while.

The PA finally called for their two teams to report to the arena's stage. Nora and Pyrrha hugged their boyfriends tightly, the two young men giving a few last encouraging words. The two women defiantly made their way toward the fight. The two of them arrived before their adversaries, so they flexed and stretched as they both waited.

The roaring crowd in Pyrrha's ears could not distract her. As a renowned fighter, she was used to crowds. However awful she was at social interaction, the battlefield was where she shone the brightest. The biggest thrill of her life was the arena.

With a thundering announcement and a ridiculous joke from Professor Port, Team DNCE lived up to their namesake, dancing across the floor toward the battle platform. Amity Coliseum sure was incredible; an arena in the sky that could be moved from kingdom to kingdom.

Once the dancers reached the platform, Nora and Pyrrha could finally see their foes. Chartreuse was given away by her green bob of hair and piercing red eyes. Amethyst's whipping long purple locks danced around her body even after she'd stopped dancing. Her hair seemed almost alive, thrashing about in Pyrrha's direction.

"Check it out, Topps! We get the goddesses!" Amethyst exclaimed. Her bright red getup consisted of a crop top under a half-jacket, denim pants and a killer pair of heels. Sharp and stabby, for good measure. Toppsy wore a green hoodie over a pink tank top, with short green denims and heavy brown boots.

"Well, they were the better two, certainly. The soldiers were pretty great, especially the dark-haired one, but we deserve to fight two goddesses, don't we Amy?" The green-haired girl replied. Pyrrha wasn't all the way sure what they meant, but she knew this would be quite the fight.

The platform creaked as the floor gave way to the simulated environment: JNPR was given a forest, while DNCE received a desert biome. The four of them took their positions and waited for Port or Oobleck to give the signal.

Once it came, Pyrrha shot forward and attacked Amethyst full on. The dancer stepped out of the path of each of Pyrrha's hits, whipping at Pyrrha with her purple hair. Pyrrha blocked most of Amethyst's strikes with her weapon or shield. The way this girl danced around Pyrrha's attacks was becoming more than Nikos could stomach.

Nora was having similar troubles with Toppsy, the green dancer sidestepping Nora's hammer. Toppsy was having fun with the hotheaded 'goddess' as she kept saying, not even drawing any rounds for her weapon. Finally, Nora morphed her weapon and fired a round at Chartreuse. Toppsy hopped a second too late, the round grazing her side and knocking her down.

"Ooh, she really is a Valkyrie!" She uttered, pleasantly surprised. Nora chortled.

"Nah, I think 'goddess' was more accurate." She hoisted Magnhild over her head and readied for a swing. CLANK!

Toppsy had taken off her prosthesis and blocked the hammer's haft with it. "Impressive, eh? The folks at Atlas really know what they're doing these days! If I knew the learning curve wouldn't be crazy steep, I might just part ways with my other leg. But Amy seems to like my leg skin quite a bit." Nora tried to wrest her hammer away, but the leg must have had powerful magnets inside.

Akouo slammed into Toppsy's leg, bouncing off for a hit at her chest before returning to Pyrrha. Nora yanked her hammer away and launched herself into the air with a blast. Pyrrha thrust Amethyst away from her and made for Toppsy. Chartreuse whacked at her with the metal leg, and with that Pyrrha had the upper hand.

Toppsy reattached her leg and moved to avoid the impending Nora that was careening toward her from the air. She took a step and could no longer move. Pyrrha had grounded her with her Semblance. Amethyst saw this and moved to counter, but caught another idea instead.

Amy threw her scimitar into the air. The sword shot toward Nora.

"Wrong answer, Hair-Whip!" Pyrrha fired her javelin at the scimitar. The blade lost its course and stabbed into the sand, and Pyrrha hopped out of the way just in time for Nora's impact. Toppsy and Amethyst were launched off the side of the battlefield, the screen showing their Auras had depleted.

"NORA AND PYRRHA WIN!! Explosive as ever, girls!" Dr. Oobleck cheered over the PA he was supposed to be as biased as possible, but he would cheer for Beacon and his students all the same.

Jaune and Ren made the scene to congratulate their teammates and girlfriends. Pyrrha ventured off to make sure their colorful adversaries were alright. Char and Amy congratulated them on their win, and the two teams met up for a well-earned meal to celebrate.

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Day One: Favorite Character

If anyone bothers to read these, they know Pyrrha’s my fave!

I remembered reading somewhere that Pyrrha and Nora fought in the Doubles round of the Vytal Festival, although that sequence was scrapped or something. So, I made them go toe-to-toe with a couple of my OCs from Team MZKL, the fanfic I still have not written a single line of...XD

Team DNCE are based on Shantae characters. Danuba Pike is Bolo, Wrench Nimbus is Sky, Chartreuse Toppsy is Rottytops, and Amethyst Eatnahs is Shantae with a little Risky thrown in.

OCs and OC teams shall be in bold type. All OCs are the property of ZweI, the penguin with a pen, the owner of this blog, unless otherwise mentioned.

So yeah, happy NaNoWriMo, folks! Enjoy my garbage, if you dare...

[zwei-the-penguin-with-a-pen]

‘Silver and Cold’

He blocked the swing of her sai with the handle of his purple ax, spinning it in his hand and thrusting the blade at her. She blocked with her second sai, going for a stab with the first one. Zwei spun the purple ax to block, knocking it from her hand. Ariah snatched the sai out of the air with her scaly tail, passing it back to her empty hand after blocking another attack.

"Enough with the damned parrying! Have a real fight or get out of my ring!" Elder Genkai shrieked at the two of them. Ariah rolled her eyes before looking at their village's surrogate grandmother.

"I swear, we're NOT parrying! We're just that evenly matched!" She protested. Zwei nodded at the clan elder. The old woman cackled as she shook her head.

"You just love looking at each other so much that you're playing around! Not that either of you is afraid to make a hit, but you're too busy gawking at each other to fight!" Genkai cackled. Zwei laughed loudly at that.

"Well, you know what the fight does for me, Elder Hag!" He joked, ensuring himself a snide comment or a beating. Either one would be fine with him.

"Don't call me that in front of people, Gray Matter! I don't care if you're shagging one of my baby-children!"

"The whole village does not need to know our business, Gran." Ariah rolled her eyes, mortified at Elder Kai's words. Genkai only cackled again.

"Well if you weren't so noisy, they might not know. Have you thought of it that way?" Genkai goaded her. Ariah rolled her eyes again, slashing at Zwei with a sai. She slashed at him hand over hand, Zwei blocking every hit with one of his axes. He spun the other one on his wrist and slashed downward at her. Ariah thrust both her sais up and caught the ax head between them, and with a pull, she'd wrenched it from his hand. The ax flew across the ring and fell to the ground.

"Oh, she's got some fight in her now, doesn't she?" Ototo, Ariah's father, mentioned as he appeared next to his mother. Elder Genkai chortled and watched on.

Zwei hacked away at his dear love, dealing hits on either side of her shoulders. She blocked his strikes hit for hit. Were they truly this evenly matched? Well, they had trained together for over a year, since Zwei had come to live with her family. Living among the Faunus had taught Zwei quite a lot. He already didn't like many humans. Atlas had given him a difficult childhood.

His father Eins had been a decorated general in the army of Atlas, but Eins had been taken down in battle, or so the army had told them. His mother had run a small bakery in the city beside their house, but some hooligans had set fire to it, burning the whole building and killing Azura. Zwei had found the arsonists and beaten them senseless, and he had nearly been arrested until a bystander recognized the fire starters.

He'd even been evicted from an apartment just because Ariah had visited him. The prejudiced landowner hadn't even given an excuse. "You're not bringing Faunus trash around my paying tenants! Pack your shit and get out!" So he'd moved with Ariah to her family's village a few miles out of the city. Faunus who had known nothing about him had taken him in, helped him refine his fighting prowess, and even helped him to forge his weapon.

Before them, he'd only had a guitar, a knapsack full of notebooks, and the clothes on his back. Now he was a warrior, and the Mikari clan was his family now. Rinku, Ariah's uncle, was an ingenious inventor who helped training fighters to forge their weapons. Now Zwei would be applying to Haven Academy soon. Ariah had another year before she could apply, but she was likely going to Beacon Academy in Vale.

The two fighters slashed and sliced relentlessly. Zwei knocked her back long enough to make for his second ax. Just as he grabbed it, his body froze. Ariah had captured him with her shadow. She smirked at the success of her Semblance. Zwei grinned at his love before screaming loudly, the sound increasing to a deafening shrill. The force of the sound knocked Ariah over.

By the time Ariah had collected herself, Zwei had pinned her to the floor of the ring. "Better luck next time, my dear." He told her, placing a kiss on her forehead. This was how they usually finished battles.

"Great work, both of you! Now go get some dinner before your kid brothers eat everything!" Genkai congratulated as she dismissed them. Zwei could hardly wait for whatever Juri had cooked.

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Day Eleven :RWBY OC

Zwei Silverstein of Team MZKL.

Yeah I’m a day late, and I’m still dealing with Kon stuff, but I’ll catch up as soon as I can.