Mavi...

"Wait, he took your backpack, and you took his?"

"Yes, exactly!" Lloyd yelled. "I don't know how you can stand that guy, Mavi. He is such an idiot."

Mavi shrugged. "If you're so smart, why didn't you check the backpack?" Mavi asked.

Lloyd muttered something under his breath, but said nothing.

"Exactly," Mavi told him. "Whatever man, you'll get over it."

"Yeah," he said, "after I'm done killing him. Anyways, see you."

Mavi waved as Lloyd walked off and smiled to himself. He chuckled and continued walking forward.

He wasn't surprised at a by Conaire. This was like him, mixing things up and screwing things up. He remembered the time Conaire had to do a project on weapons and ended up talking about food and drinks somehow.

Mavi took a left turn and walked towards the door. He clenched the grip of his sheathed blade with his hand but let it go. He walked out the door and saw everyone was waiting for him.

"Ah, so you're here," A voice spoke. Mavi recognized it as Coach Zule. "Right on time Mavi. Your match is just about to start."

"Isn't it surprising he isn't late?" Someone asked.

"There's a first time for everything," Someone answered.

Mavi closed his eyes and laughed, scratching the back of his head. "Guys..." He complained. "I'm not always late. Only most of the times."

"Yeah sure," Someone else said sarcastically. "And Conaire always comes to school."

Mavi and others started getting into an argument/conversation that was pointless. They were just talking about how Mavi is late a lot, and conversation was starting to annoy the coach, so he decided to do what he always did.

Coach Zul reaches into his pocket and pulled out a small cylinder. It expanded into a staff and he hit it into the ground. It took several times to get everyone's attention, but it finally worked.

"Everyone shut up!" Coach Zule yelled out. "If you don't, I'll make you all do a fifteen page report on the history of grimm!"

Everyone shut up. They didn't make a sound. It was obvious nobody wanted to do something like that. Well, at least not twice. Once was enough.

"Good," Coach Zule said, smiling and laughing to himself. "Now next up, Mavi himself, and Anani."

Mavi took his place, just as Anani did. He looked at her as she unsheathed a small dagger, then it expanded into a spear. He unsheathed his own sword and held it up at about the center of her face.

Mavi did as he did before a fight, analyze the opponent to know how to block and defend. He saw it was a spear, so it was good at range, but bad at close range, which was why it could become a dagger. Mid range was his best option.

"Ready..." The coach called out, "fight!"

Mavi waited as Anani charged. She stabbed, and Mavi parried it away. He moved quickly, then stabbing, but missed as she moved back.

To Mavi's surprise, she jumped in the air with her spear and brought it downwards. From two sides of the spears, two more sharp pointed heads came out, making it look like a trident.

Mavi held his blade forwards as it changed. The sword became a shield, blocking the blow from the trident. Mavi hit the trident with his shield to the side, then used the bottom of the shield and smashed it into Anani's gut.

Anani moved back and changed her trident back into a dagger. She charged and lunged, and Mavi changed his shield back into a sword and parried. She was quick, and they soon got into an exchange of stabs, slashes, and parries.

Mizu seemed to be having the upper hand, but it quickly changed. Anani parried a slash from Mavi's sword, then let go of her dagger, catching it quickly, this time upsidedown. She hit the bottom side into Mavi's stomach, then let it rip.

Mavi was shot back by the shot. He now had another thing to defend against. That thing was combined with a shotgun. Now he knew everything, or at least he hoped he did.

Anani came at him quickly. This time she wasn't messing around. She was quickly switching between weapons, stabbing, slashing, and shooting. Mavi was blocking, but became slow. He couldn't react fast enough.

Anani changed her weapon to a trident and jabbed. Mavi stopped it by putting his sword between one of the sharp heads.

"B-Be careful," He warned her through grunts.

"For what?" She asked.

"Careful you don't get caught," Mavi began, pushing the weapon back, "in a tsunami!"

A blue glow came off of Mavi. Anani stabbed again, but Mavi deflected it with his shield with ease.

Anani began rushing at Mavi, nonstop. She slashed, stabbed, and shot, hut couldn't break his defense. Mavi was effortlessly blocking her quick attacks.

Mavi kept blocking. He wasn't changing from the offensive. He continuously blocked her hits and moved back. She kept on charging, trying to land a hit on him.

Mavi took another step back after she stabbed again. He could see she was worn out, and extremely tired. This was his chance.

The moment Anani stabbed with her spear, Mavi effortlessly knocked it aside with his shield. He made the shield into his blade and started fighting on the offensive. He slashed and stabbed, parrying away some hits, but continuing to hit Anani.

Mavi finally parried away a blow, then kicked Anani. She was sent stumbling back.

Coach Zule blew the whistle and raised his hands. "That's game," he announced. "Anani's aura has dropped to the red, so Mavi will be moving on to the semifinals in the mini tournament. Give it up for your classmates."

People began clapping and cheering loudly. The sound could probably be heard all across the school, but it didn't matter. They all kept on cheering.