Two fighters stand apart in the middle of the forest. Spinning his long blue and orange sword in one hand while the other hand loosely holds his shield bearing the his emblem, Azure passes back in front 10 feet from Silvia

"Come on Silvia, you can do better!" Silvia skids back, flipping her ponytail and hair back away from her face. In her other hand is her claymore sword, glowing red from the fire dust at the bottom of its hilt

"You think I'm not trying?" She shoots back.

"Oh I do, that's the problem" Azure levels his sword at her, arm above his head and held back, he raises his shield just under his nose, his right foot slides back ready. She shakes her head, bringing up her sword to her right side, feet readjusting "My hardest is never enough for you Azure." Shaking his head he thinks to himself

"Hell my hardest isn't enough for me" then out loud "Let's change that uh?" He says to her. "How so?" She asks
"Fighting, duh. Come on get your head out of your ass Silvia," he laughs out. Chuckling she rolls her eyes.

"I think that's the first time I've ever heard you say that."
"Heh probably. I like it though. Might use it again," he responds.
"You won't be saying it again after I beat your ass!" She charges, sword at the ready.

"Alrighty then," he quips. He raises his shield and blocks her strike, then swings at her unarmed side, Silvia gets scraped just as she gets out of its path, she counter attacks by swinging upward. Azure is forced to dodge by doing a backflip, when he lands he throws his shield like a freeze-be at her. A thin blue tether can just barely be seen connecting it to him. She bends down just in the nick of time and slices up with the sword at the tether cutting it. The shield hits a tree and stays there. While Silvia was cutting the tether Azure had charged. He slices down at her sword hand with his own sword. she brings up her sword just in time to block it, locking their blades together. Using his far superior height Azure pushes her down to a knee, wincing Silvia grits her teeth. When she's on one knee Azure smiles, he suddenly lets up taking a step back removing the force from her causing her to fall forward a bit, as she falls forward Azure kicks out at her face, she's just able to dodge and roll back into a standing position. Taking a step back as well, Azure contemplates for a second then throws his sword down in front of him. It sticks straight out of the ground hilt up between them

"What's your move Silvia?" She stands up, looking from the sword to him in deep thought. Then, quickly, she takes the sword in her free hand. Azure smiles "Good. Well," he puts more distance between them "Come on then."

She smirks, then charges, both swords at both her sides, Azure runs forward as well, but jumps just as she would swing at him, flipping over her. Landing he uses his semblance to wrap a glowing rope around her ankles and tugs causing her to fall. He raises both hands one to the shield and one at the sword in her hand, magnets activate in his gloves pulling the weapons to him. The shield flies into his hand but she manages to hold onto the sword.

"Hm fine," He says as he releases the pull "Keep it. Let's see you use it against its partner," raises the shield up. She sheathes her own sword

"I only need to use that" He shakes his head

"You're so trusting."

"Oh you know me."

"I do" then, thinking to himself "I really do." Silvia charges and Azure raises the shield to block, but for some reason the sword and shield can't connect, behind the shield Azure smirks. In response she jumps up and tries to bring it down harder. Holding the shield in front of the sword, the blow gets sent away again

"Sorry Silvia. They're both built with the same magnetic sides. They'll never hit each other. No matter how hard you try." Azure laughs.

"God dammit," she curses.

"Never trust something given to by your enemy," he laughs. She brushes off dirt as she stands up

"Hard to trust someone who never opens up."

"Ouch that hurts. I open up," Then he moves back and slides the shield onto his back like a backpack. Stands ready for her to attack. She tosses the sword at his feet with a clang.

"You can count how many times you opened up on one hand." Azure uses the magnets in the glove to bring it to his hand. Then he sheaths it as well, silent. "Are you just gonna ignore that fact?" she asks.

"Mmmm probably. Sounds better than confronting it," he responds. "Sometimes confronting is better than bottling it up. I know." Silvia steps closer to him and he brings his hands up, eyes shift "So do I" he says and readies himself "Maybe some other time." Silvia pulls down on her black gloves, flexing the fingers.

"When's soon? When you leave again?" Azure clenches his teeth at that

"Oh come on now," he sighs.

"You know I'm right." She says.

"Maybe you're right. But is that really the point right now?"

"Trying to ignore it, like always." She replies, scoffing. Azure frowns slightly "Silvia I don't need to open up right now, I'm fine!" He laughs for emphasis and she crosses her arms. "You really think you're gonna fool me again?"

"Fool you? Again? Oh you mean with the sword and shield thing. Probably I always end up tricking you when we spar." He replies smirking.

"No, I mean with you masking your emotions!" She Jabs her finger at his chest.

"It's not important right now, we have to be ready, there's worse things out there right now than the Grimm." For the first time today there's something that resembles seriousness on his face."Like what?

""Oh you know, Noir again. Your brother. That crazy shadow guy. The shifter guy." He says then muttering "there's a lot of bad guys wow""Everything's coming back to haunt us, huh?"

"Mm yea."

"So right now it's not important that I'm a little sad or whatever, we have to be ready Silvia." He looks into her eyes Silvia forces herself to meet his eyes, and she immediately softens. "You're right," she says after a few moments of smiles and backs away putting 10 feet between them "Of course I am. Now if you can beat me I'll give you a cookie."

"What's so special about a cookie?"

"What's so special abo- it's a cookie Silvia! The heck is wrong with you?" He shakes his head

"Just not sweet enough for me." She smirks with a shrug.

"Wow. Spent my whole life fighting monsters and the real monster has been you this whole time."

"How about we change up the deal a bit?" She asks, unsheathing her sword and twirling it.

"Oh? How so?" He asks. "If I win," she points her sword at him. "you go on a date with me."Silvia smiles. "Mm alright fine." Azure moves arms behind back and smiles "Come on then. Earn your date."

She replies with a charge, boosting up the power in her fire dust. The sword lights up a bright red. Azure spins around using the shield on his back to block the blow, then continues to spin forcing her past him, then he draws the sword and slashes at her exposed back. She falls back, wincing as she stands back up. She drives her sword into the ground, causing a spire of fire to break the earth and propels itself towards him. He makes a hovering platform and jumps on it "It's over Silvia! I have the high ground!" Silvia looks up, her eyes glinting from the fire. "Oh, hell it isn't." She sheathes her sword, pulling a charm off of her bracelet. Suddenly, it transforms into her bow and arrow. She loads a grappling hook arrow and fires onto the platform."Ah so that's why Anakin lost. He didn't watch the Avengers," he jokes some more then slashes to cut the rope of the grappling hook. She's already halfway up by then. She grabs the end of the slashed rope, propelling her energy into swinging up on top of the platform. "Miss me?"

"What do you think?" He slashes at her while he speaks. She brings up her metal bow to block it, pushing back. She gives a single shove before sweeping out his feet from under him. As he falls the platform suddenly disappears giving him room to recover mid air and land safely using a complex back flip. Silvia loads an arrow mid air and fires at a tree trunk, reeling her in before she can get to the ground. Azure looks over at her thinking, then grabs his shield off his back. She yanks the arrow out of the trunk, sticking back in her quiver."You going to shoot me? I dare you to," he smiles. 'What does he have planned?' She thinks to herself. Her eyes narrow as she grips an arrow and loads it."If you can hit me once you can hit Noir. Think about it like that," She nods slightly, before turning invisible with her semblance."Mm. Forgot she could do that." He presses a button on the shield. No visible change is heard or seen. She lowers herself down to the ground, lightly pressing down with her feet. She paces herself to an uncovered part of his body and launches her arrow. The shield moves and his arm follows and blocks it shattering the point on contact. Her bow lowers as shock registers. 'Clever, Azure.'He turns looking for signs of movement. She stays invisible, thinking of a plan. She then grabs three arrows, launching them in quick succession of one another. He registers the movement, the shield already moving to block, the shield gets one he slashes one in half and the third dings off his shoulder. "Hey you got me, kinda." She smirks, bursting into a run while doing the same method. This time ready for it, not one lands, all being cut out of the air. "The only problem is it didn't do damage." She grits her teeth, dropping the charade.

"How do you expect me to get a shot in?"

"I don't, however you hit me with a weapon. Hasn't happened in a while so that's good. Silvia you can't always expect results. Your strategy is wonderful and it worked. Once. But when it stopped working you still kept trying, instead of coming up with something new." She runs through ideas in her head, converting her bow back to a charm on her bracelet. She unsheathes her sword, plugging in an ice crystal.

"There we go!" She charges it up, launching an ice blast at the shield. It gets knocked away and he smiles backing up. Some ice crystals start forming on the shield.

"Freezing my shield uh? Good idea" It spreads to the front and back of the shield, holding it in place. She runs in with her sword, dropping her semblance at the last second. Azure leans back and blocks it. Silvia pushes against him, the sword starting to frost over. Using one hand he holds the sword in place, he pulls out a knife with the other and presses it against her back

"Hello there," he smiles. She feels the cold point poke against her back, and she stops, glaring at him. Shrugs with his face "What can I say, it works"

"Do you always end battles like this?" Azure smiles knowing what she is referring to. In their very first sparing match 5 years ago that's how he beat her then as well. "This is only the second time!" She chuckles.

"Still." She unplugs the dust shard and the glow disappears, leaving her eyes their dull grey color. She sheathes her sword, tucking the shard into her quiver. "Guess you won that one."

"I guess so, but you did good soooo, I'll pick you up around 7?" Silvia looks up at him at surprise.

"But I lost."

"You have too strict a definition of loosing and winning Silvia. It's not always about who beats the other. Honestly you did better, thought outside the box. Bettered yourself as a fighter." A faint blush coats her face. "You better be one time, Blue."

"I'm always very punctual." He says smiling.

Author's Note: Yes a new story. Unlike my other one this is set right in line with the show. It takes place in Vale during the rebuild. Silvia is a character a friend of mine made and she's also helping me write this.