This is nothing more an attempt to improve my fighting scenes for my other stories; so don't expect much of a plot outside of the tournament.

Also, to avoid any bias, I'm leaving the outcome of each fight to the readers who vote on the polls on my profile page, the first fight however has been decided by my three brothers voting ahead of time.

Read, review, and give me any constructive criticism nicely; it would be much appreciated.

Quarter-Finals:

Pyrrha Nikos vs. Nora Valkyrie

"We should have a tournament," Ruby Rose said out of the blue as she lay atop her haphazardly made bunk bed, starring off into space.

"We already have a tournament planned you dunce," Ruby's partner, Weiss Schnee scolded, she did not bother to take her eyes from her homework assignment from Professor Oobleck's class as she added, "The Vytal Festival, any of this ringing a bell?"

"I mean a warm-up tournament, something to help pass the time while waiting for the Vytal Festival," The scythe-wielder then suddenly sat up straight, rocking the already unstable bed, "I know we'll invite Team JNPR to partake in it! Come on!"

"Wait wha-," The next thing Weiss knew, she wasn't sitting on her bed working on her homework, she was standing in the hallway with Ruby holding her shoulder while knocking feverishly on the door to team JNPR's dorm room.

"What is it- OW!" Juane Arc, Leader of Team JNPR and beacon's resident dork, tried to answer as he opened the door only to have Ruby's knocking hit him in the face.

"Oh, we're sorry Juane," Ruby apologized as the blonde haired teen used his aura to quickly patch up his nose.

"Just so you know, when she says we, she really means only her," Weiss said coldly as she brushed off Ruby's hand from her shoulder.

"It's okay, no harm done," Juane said modestly, "So, what's up?"

"Well Weiss and I were thinking-"

"Again, only her,"

"-That we should have a warm-up tournament in preparation for the Vytal Festival and we were wondering if you and your team would join us?" Ruby offered excitedly.

"Ahh, I don't know Ruby, me and my team have a lot of homework to finish up, so I don't think we can join your tournament," Juane reasoned, though in reality he still wasn't confident in his fighting skills and didn't want to embarrass himself in front of everyone again.

"Ooooooo, did I hear tournament?!" An excited voice came from behind Juane, shortly afterwards Nora Valkyrie, Team JNPR's resident 'wild child', appeared, "Can we join? Can we join? Can we join?"

"Of course!" Ruby replied, much to Weiss and Juane's disappointment.

"YAAAAAAYYYYYY!" Nora cheered.

"What's the commotion about?" Pyrrha Nikos asked as she poked her red haired head out the door.

"Ruby and Weiss invited us to partake in a tournament!" Nora shouted excited as she bounced up and down.

"Once again, I'm not associated in this whatsoever," Weiss insisted yet again.

"That would be interesting," Pyrrha stated as she turned to her leader, "It can give everyone a chance to see your new skills, Juane,"

"I don't know Pyrrha," Juane said worriedly as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Come on Juane, I bet you'll go far in the tournament," Ruby pleaded. Juane decided to concede, finding no point in arguing.

"Hey, Ren you want to join?" Nora called to her lifelong friend who was still inside their dorm room.

"Sure, why not," Ren's voice answered back from the room.

""Well, let me know how everything goes," Weiss said dismissively while walking back towards her dorm, only for Ruby to put her hand on her shoulder again.

'Oh no,' Weiss thought as she suddenly found herself in front of the entrance to the school library.

"Ruby, will you stop that!" Weiss complained about her partner's obsessive use of dragging her around with her semblance.

"Come on Weiss, it will be fun, besides we could use the practice," Ruby pleaded as she walked into the library to find Blake and Yang. Weiss silently conceded while knowing this was going to go wrong somehow.

V

Later that day, both Team RWBY and Team JNPR stood at one of the practice fields out in the fields around Beacon Academy. The arena was actually a dust powered environment generation field. One only had to input one of several preset environments, such as desert, forest, or urban, into the nearby computer terminal and an arena would be procedurally generated.

"Okay and welcome to the first ever warm up tournament!" Ruby shouted in an announcer like voice as she produced a small paper bag, In here you will draw a number from One to Four, merely find the opponent with the same number and that will be your opponent for the first round!"

"You're seriously going to determine who fights who through a stupid lottery?" Weiss questioned, heavily annoyed.

"It does seem fair," Blake Belladonna, Team RWBY's only Faunus, pointed out as she stepped forward as the first one to put her hand in the back and pulled out a piece of paper with a number written on it in red, "I got a four,"

Ruby gave the bag another shake as she offered to go next; she reached in and pulled out a three.

After everyone was finished drawing their numbers, Pyrrha and Nora each got a One; while Juane and Weiss drew the twos, and finally Ren and Yang drew the last three and four respectively.

"Okay now that you all know your first opponents, we can begin!" Ruby said cheerily, "Pyrrha, Nora, since you two each drew the ones; you get to fight first,"

"Sure,"

"Yay!"

With that everyone else went to the stands to observe the coming fight. Ruby went to the terminal and set the Environment Generation Field to 'Random' then headed to the stands to watch. Once the two fighters entered the arena; a holographic grid system appeared before solidifying into an ancient ruin setting. Tall stone pillars stood in columns along a grassy field; some were knocked down and damaged, while others were piled atop one another to form archways.

The two Girls synced up their scrolls to their respective auras, which in turn appeared on the big screen overlooking the arena, both huntresses' auras were in the green.

Ruby then stood up and started the countdown.

"Ready!" Pyrrha turned her weapon, milo, into its sword form and held her shield, Akoúo, in a defensive position as she expected an immediate grenade barrage from Nora.

"Set!" Nora turned her weapon Magnhild, into its hammer form and lazily held it with one hand while the mallet of the weapon laid on the ground behind her, much to Pyrrha's confusion.

"GO!" With that Nora pulled the trigger on Magnhild and propelled herself into the air with a beeline for Pyrrha, who had to dodge out of the way as the Hammer-wielder smashed into the ground.

Quickly shifting Milo into rifle mode, Pyrrha unloaded a few rounds into Nora, who quickly blocked or dodged most of the shots, but one of them managed to hit her in the shoulder. The onlookers noticed Nora's Aura dropping down a degree.

Valkyrie immediately retaliated with shifting Magnhild to its grenade-launcher form and began firing a barrage of missiles at the Spartan, who ducked and heaved through the stone pillars to avoid the fire, knocking down some of pillars in the process.

One of the missiles flew true however and hit Pyrrha square in the chest; sending her flying and landing on the ground slightly dazed. Nora wasn't done however as she unloaded another missile at Pyrrha, who quickly used her semblance to stop the grenade in midair, reversed it, and sent it flying at Nora. The wild child fired another grenade to intercept the one fired back, and the two collided in a large plume of pink smoke.

Nora tried to look through the smoke to no avail, then a shield cut through the smoke like a large copper Frisbee and smacked her in the face, stunning her, she managed to see Pyrrha jump out of the smoke several feet in the air while catching Akoúo on the rebound and swung Milo at Nora, hitting her in the side.

It became a melee at that point, Nora switching Magnhild back to hammer form to engage the Spartan who fought hard using Akoúo to block attacks and Milo to counter strike. While both were strong and fast, it was clear that Nora had the strength and Pyrrha the speed; as the hammer wielder's swings forced Pyrrha to give up ground, and Pyrrha's strikes were too quick and precise for Nora to properly block and parry.

Nora suddenly slammed Magnhild against Akoúo and fired a grenade to propel herself away from Pyrrha, shifting from hammer to launcher, Nora used the new distance to her advantage and unloaded grenade after grenade at Pyrrha.

Once the smoked cleared there was no sign of the Spartan, Nora looked around feverishly for her fellow teammate, only to suddenly get hit by a hail of rifle shots from atop the pillars. The hammer wielder fire a grenade shot at the pillar Pyrrha was situated at and knocked it down, the Spartan jumped into the air planning to land on the hammer-wielder, who propelled herself into the air as well, the two huntresses collided in midair and both landed hard and exhausted. When they looked at the board displaying their Auras, it was clear who had won.

"Victory goes to Nora!" Ruby shouted, unaware of the lien Weiss was begrudgingly handing over to Yang.

That was fun!" Nora cheered as she offered her hand to the kneeling Pyrrha, who graciously accepted.

"I thought you were an expert in tournaments Pyrrha," Juane questioned as he walked down to the arena to prepare for his fight with Weiss.

The Spartan merely shrugged as she said, "You win some, you lose some,"

Author's note:

Go to my profile page and vote who you think should win the next fight: Weiss or Juane?