Chapter Four: Class
Professor Coventina didn't cover much on the topic of Grimm Studies in that first class, it was mostly an introductory day, she liked to get to know her students and have them get to know each other. After these introductions were finished, Professor Coventina gave a relatively brief overview of what would be covered in her class, since it was Grimm Studies most of the topics were theory based.
Professor Coventina was finishing up her introductory lecture as the clock approached the time for class to end.
"The fields of science and technology have come a long way in the past one-hundred and four years since the end of the Great War," Professor Coventina said and then began to pace back and forth.
"Many inventions, such as the airships you arrived on, your first day here, the mechs and robotic soldiers that defend our kingdom's borders, scientists have even discovered a way for two women to have a child without the need for a donor father," Professor Coventina paused and looked around the class for a moment.
"I'm sure a few of you here are the result of that particular discovery… But, with all this innovation, scientists still have no idea about the origins or inner workings of the Grimm, and we still only have a vague understanding of their habits, what we know is that they typically live in groups, and occasionally groups of different Grimm species will congregate together and form a horde," she stated as the bell rang for class to get out.
Team BLAC were some of the first students out of the classroom once the class was over.
"That was easy," Cyrus said to his teammates as they exited the room.
"It's the first day, it's supposed to be easy," Lucas replied.
As they were walking down the hall to their next class, Alyssa grabbed Bianca's arm causing her to stop suddenly.
"Hey guy's, we'll catch up in a minute, I need to discuss something with B for a sec," Alyssa said to the brothers.
"Okay, see you guys in class then," Lucas replied.
"We'll save you two some seats," Cyrus stated.
As Cyrus and Lucas headed off to their next class, Alyssa pulled Bianca around a nearby corner to talk to her.
"What's up Alyssa?" Bianca asked.
Alyssa boosted her semblance slightly to check if Cyrus and Lucas were nearby eavesdropping on them, when she realized they weren't she lowered her semblance's levels back to normal.
"I think the boys are hiding something from us," Alyssa said quietly to her cousin.
"What do you mean?" Bianca asked with a bewildered tone.
"Last night when we were talking, something about them… Cyrus especially, seemed a bit off when he was talking about their parents," Alyssa said.
"They seemed pretty sincere to me, I think you're just a bit confused," Bianca replied.
"No, think about it. They wouldn't tell us the name of their village and when you asked about both their parents being hunters, that laugh and 'yea' Cyrus gave off showed a bit of nervousness in it, you may not have been able to notice it, but I could," Alyssa stated.
"I don't know… Alyssa, I think you're just confusing grief for lying, after all they did say they lost both their parents, and unless you sensed that that was a lie, I don't think they're hiding anything." Bianca said.
"They weren't lying about their parents dying, that I could easily tell was the truth, bu…" Alyssa said but was cut off.
Bianca raised her hand to Alyssa for her to stop speaking, "then I don't want hear anymore of your accusations, you had a long day yesterday and were obviously just confused."
"…Whatever, but if they are hiding something, it'll come to light eventually," Alyssa replied in annoyance.
After their conversation, Alyssa and Bianca headed to their next class and to meet up with their teammates. The whole way there, the two of them didn't speak, Alyssa was a bit put off that her cousin wouldn't believe her word, and Bianca was a little angry at Alyssa for accusing their teammates of lying to them.
As they neared their next class Bianca began to ponder her cousin's accusation of their partners. 'Something did seem a bit off about them, maybe they were lying… no, they were just reliving a tough time in their lives, they wouldn't lie to us,' she thought to herself.
The whole way to class Bianca kept thinking to herself, trying to reassure herself that Cyrus and Lucas wouldn't lie to her and Alyssa. She had mostly convinced herself that they were being truthful, but it kept eating at the back of her mind and she would rather not think about it.
Alyssa and Bianca arrived at their next class, their teammates were sitting in the second row from the front. Cyrus was playing on his scroll, while Lucas was leaning back in his chair with his feet kicked up on the desk and his hands positioned behind his head. The two girls walked up to their partners and took their seats next to them.
The classroom they entered resembled the one they had just left, with one notable exception, in place of the chalk board was a large and very detailed map of remnant. It outlined the boarders of the Four Kingdoms and Menagerie, along with other large settlements outside the major nations, like the Southern Isle Chiefdoms off the south-western coast of Sanus. Another thing about this classroom was there was a large great-sword hanging on the wall, next to the world map of Remnant, it was noticeably larger than the ones used by the huntsmen, Sage Ayana and Yatsuhashi Daichi.
Cyrus put away his phone once Alyssa and Bianca sat down and turned to talk to them, "so what'd you two need to talk about?" He asked.
"Oh, you know, just girl stuff," Alyssa replied.
"Y... yeah, girl stuff," Bianca said nervously.
"Uh huh…" Cyrus replied skeptically.
Team BLAC along with a few other students had arrived at their class a bit early so they spent the time they had either relaxing or talking amongst themselves as they waited for their professor to arrive, more students continued to arrive in the class as they waited.
Whilst more students were entering the classroom, Alyssa's cat ears perked up like she was sensing something or someone she recognized, she soon realized who this presence was and the look on her face turned sour and her cat ears dropped in disappointment.
Walking through the door to the classroom was Scarlet Winchester, the fourth-year student she almost fought two days ago.
"Her Scar, wait up!" A woman's voice called from behind her.
"Why don't you catch up," Scarlet replied bluntly.
The woman who had called out for Scarlet then entered the room. She had short and straight blonde hair that hugged the contours of her face, shiny blue eyes, a fair complexion, and a petite figure. She was a few inches shorter than scarlet, so around the same height as Alyssa.
"You know, that's no way to talk to your partner, let alone your team leader," the woman said.
"Whatever Yaara…" Scarlet said, her voice then trailed off.
Scarlet looked to the students in the class, in the second row she noticed Alyssa and Bianca. When she saw them, she got a mischievous look on her face.
Scarlet and Yaara began to head towards their seats.
As they approached the seats, Alyssa got a fearful look on her face, 'don't sit near us, don't sit near us,' she thought to herself.
Scarlet and Yaara took their seats right behind the members of Team BLAC, Scarlet made sure to sit directly behind Alyssa, much to her annoyance.
Cyrus noticed the annoyed look on Alyssa's face, "Alyssa, you ok?" He asked.
Alyssa lightly shook her head and then motioned it towards Scarlet.
Bianca noticed her teammate's actions and turned to see who or what Alyssa was motioning to, she hadn't seen Scarlet walk into the classroom because she had her back turned towards the door she walked in from. When Bianca saw Scarlet, she got a nervous look on her face, she was worried if they would have another incident like the one two days ago.
Bianca turned to Cyrus and whispered to him, "that's the fourth-year Alyssa almost got into a fight with."
Cyrus took a quick glance at the two women sitting behind his teammates and then looked back to his partner.
"Which one, the blonde or the red-head?" He asked quietly.
"The red-head," Bianca replied in a whispered tone.
Cyrus then noticed the nervous look on Bianca's face and the annoyed look on Alyssa's, "don't worry, if anything happens, Lucas and I have your backs," he said.
The three of them then looked towards Lucas who had been leaning back in his chair, seemingly not paying attention, but when they looked at him, he gave them a reassuring nod, confirming his brother's promise.
The time for class to start was growing closer and closer, but the professor hadn't shown up yet. Some of the students hadn't noticed, and were still just chatting amongst themselves, while others were confused and wondering where their professor was at, normally they'd be in the classroom a few minutes early, but it was now five minutes past the class start time.
Another ten minutes passed and a few of the students had begun to pack up their school materials and began to head for the door.
Suddenly one of the doors to the classroom burst open, a man with was keeled over breathing heavily in the now open door.
The man had golden crew cut hair and a somewhat thick chinstrap beard to match, skin that was the color of sand, and was wearing a black and white three-piece suit. His suit lacked the jacket and tie, and the sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, showing off his forearms, his right arm was robotic, and his left arm had a very ornate Calavera Skull tattooed on the inside of the forearm. He was a couple of inches taller than Cyrus and possessed a similar, yet slightly larger build to him.
"¡Maldita Sea! S… sorry I'm late class…" he said as he tried to catch his breath, "I was talking with Professor Oobleck…" he continued to try and catch his breath, "and we… we lost track of the time."
"It's Doctor Oobleck!" A voice shouted from down the hall, startling some of the students in the room.
The man stood and composed himself, when he did so, his eyes were closed, the top left corner of his face was separated from the rest by a large scar that ran from the center of his hairline to the center of his left jaw. When his eyes opened, it was revealed that he had a cybernetic one. His right eye was normal, and dark gray in color, but his left eye glowed bright red.
"Anyway, welcome to History of Remnant, my name is Adrián Arenas, you may refer to me as Professor or Professor Arenas," he said as he walked over to the desk in the center of the room.
When he reached the desk, he took his seat behind it, intertwined his fingers, and stared out at his students whom were waiting for him to speak.
"Without using the words 'history' or 'historian' can any of you tell me the definition of history?" He asked the class.
Yaara raised her hand to answer the question.
"Ah, yes, Ms. Stallion, can you tell us the answer?" Professor Arenas asked.
"The study of the past," she said.
"That's a good one," he stated, "anyone else?"
Nobody else attempted to answer the question, much to the disappointment of Professor Arenas. He then stood from his seat and began pacing back and forth in front of the desk.
While he continued to pace, he began to speak, "there are many definitions for history, but I prefer this one; It is everything that has occurred or been thought from the beginning of time to the last elapsed moment."
Cyrus raised his hand to ask Professor Arenas a question.
"Yes, what is your name student and what do you have to say?" Professor Arenas asked.
"Name's Cyrus Grey, and I wanted to know, what does history have to do with killing Grimm?" Cyrus asked.
"Good question Mr. Grey, have you ever heard the term 'history repeats itself'?" Professor Arenas asked.
"Yea…" Cyrus said, but his voice trailed off slightly.
"It may not have much to do with improving your skills in physically fighting the Grimm, but it will help you choose your battles, so you don't make the same mistakes those in the past have made…" he said this as he looked down at his robotic arm and clenched it's fist lightly, "if you don't learn from the past, you're doomed to repeat it," he said somberly.
Cyrus nodded his head, accepting this answer from his Professor.
The rest of class was a brief introduction of the course, followed by a short lecture. Professor Arenas touched on the origins of man and the faunus, from the 'myth' of the two brothers, to their early conflicts with the Grimm. After briefly discussing their origins, he began to lecture on the first recorded civilization on Remnant. This early civilization was located on the western coast of Anima and flourished around five thousand years ago, its name has been lost to history and is just referred to as 'Civilization A' by those in the field of history. One interesting thing he said about this civilization is that settlements of similar style were found on the eastern coast of Sanus, possibly hinting at the fact they once colonized the area. However, a few hundred years into its existence, 'Civilization A' just disappeared, and no one knows why, a couple of theories are a huge spike in Grimm attacks, or a deadly civil war, as there were no other known civilizations at the time.
Once Professor Arenas finished his lecture he dismissed the students. Team BLAC were once again among the first out of the class, but Scarlet pursued them, once they were out of the room, she made her move.
"Hey Blondie!" Scarlet called out.
Alyssa turned to her, "oh my god, what do you want now?!" She asked in annoyance.
"We've got some unfinished business to settle," Scarlet replied while cracking her knuckles.
Lucas stepped between the two girls, "leave, now," he said sternly.
"This doesn't concern you, now get out of the way," Scarlet commanded.
"Scarlet stop this now!" Yaara yelled from behind her.
Scarlet ignored her and proceeded to throw a punch at Lucas' head.
Lucas quickly side stepped the punch and grabbed Scarlet's wrist and bicep.
Using her arm as a lever, his back as a pivot point and the moment of her punch, Lucas flung Scarlet over his shoulder and slammed her to the ground with quite a lot of force.
The wind shot from Scarlet's lungs as she hit the ground wide eyed and surprised at what had just happened to her.
Lucas was about to go for an incapacitating punch to Scarlet's face, but Yaara stepped between he and her.
"That's enough," Yaara said commandingly.
Lucas looked up from Scarlet to see Professor Arenas watching the whole scene, he just looked at Lucas and walked away, he wasn't about to punish a student for defending his teammate, or punish another more than they already had been.
"Come on guys, let's get out of here," Lucas said to his teammates.
"Thanks Luc, but I could've taken her," Alyssa said to her partner.
"No problem… by the way, why have you been calling me 'Luc'?" He asked.
"It's your new nickname," Alyssa replied.
"Okay…" Lucas said.
"Do I get a nickname?" Cyrus asked.
Alyssa thought to herself for a moment, "Nope," she replied.
"Oh… hey Bianca, you got a nickname for me?" Cyrus asked.
"N… no, I kinda just like calling you 'Cyrus', besides I was never good at coming up with nicknames, that was always Alyssa's thing," Bianca replied with a slight blush.
Cyrus' shoulders and head drooped in a bit of disappointment.
Team BLAC walked together for a time, until they came upon a stairwell, leading to the second story of the lecture building. Bianca and Cyrus said goodbye to Alyssa and Lucas and headed off to their Classical Literature Class, meanwhile Alyssa and Lucas headed to the cafeteria for lunch.
Alyssa and Lucas sat down to eat their lunch. Lucas got a burger with a side of fries, while Alyssa got a mixed bowl of chicken chow mein and fried rice.
"So, you wanna do anything after were done here?" Alyssa asked Lucas.
"Nothing in particular, why?" Lucas replied.
"I just wanted to head over to the CCT and make a quick call," Alyssa said.
"Ok, I'll follow you," Lucas replied.
Once the pair was finished eating they headed off to the CCT so Alyssa could make her call. Along the way, Lucas looked at his scroll, they had about forty-five minutes till class started, plenty of time to do this and then head to class.
They arrived at the CCT and entered the building. On the inside were several students using the terminals on the central pillar, and several others were slowly making their way out of the building.
Lucas and Alyssa entered the elevator in the back of the room and a voice greeted them.
"Hello, welcome to the CCT, how may I help you?" The voice asked.
"We'd like to head up to the communications room," Alyssa replied.
"Absolutely, could you please place your scroll on the terminal to verify your identity," the voice asked.
Both Alyssa and Lucas pulled out their scrolls and held them up to the terminal, which proceeded to scan both.
"Thank you, Ms. Xiao Long, and Mr. Grey," the voice said.
Alyssa and Lucas rode the elevator up to the communications room which was located a couple of floors below the headmaster's office. When they exited the elevator, they were greeted by an empty desk which was quickly filled by the CCT A.I. It was modelled after a young woman and had on a business suit.
"Welcome to the Cross-Continental Transmit Center, how may I help you," the A.I. said, it had the same voice as the one in the elevator.
"I'd like to make a call to Yang Xiao Long, I believe she is currently in Vacuo on a hunt," Alyssa stated.
"Absolutely, if you could head over to terminal seven I'll patch you through," The A.I said.
"Thank you," Alyssa replied as she began to head towards the terminal.
"I'm with her," Lucas told the A.I as he followed his partner.
Alyssa sat down at the assigned terminal and Lucas stood behind her as the call went through. After a few moments, the screen activated and revealed Yang on the other side of the call, she had on what looked like her 'huntress' outfit, but Alyssa and Lucas could only see her shoulders and upper chest. She looked like she was in a tavern somewhere in Vacuo.
"Hey baby, what's up?" Yang asked.
"Nothing mom, just wanted to call and say hi," Alyssa replied.
"Oh, ok, well it's good to see you again, so tell me, who's the scruffy lookin' guy behind you," Yang said.
"This is Lucas, my partner, I call him 'Luc', were on a team together with B and his brother Cyrus," Alyssa replied.
"Nice to meet you Mrs. Xiao Long," Lucas said as he leaned closer to the screen so Yang could see him better.
Yang paused for a moment and began inspecting Lucas' face, "hey, you're one of the guys who almost knocked me over at the Vale docks the other day," she said.
Alyssa looked at Lucas with slight confusion and concern.
"Oh yea, sorry about that," Lucas said apologetically.
"Oh, it's no big deal…" Yang said lightly, "just don't do it again," she said in a sterner voice, her lilac eyes began to turn red.
Lucas froze up slightly, he knew about Yang, as she was a famous huntress, he knew that if someone got on her bad side, it wouldn't end pretty for them.
Yang began to laugh a bit, "I had you going there didn't I," she said between laughs.
"Seriously mom," Alyssa said with a slightly annoyed tone.
Lucas took a breath, the concern and stiffness running through his body subsided.
Alyssa and Lucas could hear the door of the tavern Yang was in open.
Yang looked to someone off screen, "what's that?… Oh, okay," she said, responding to some mumbled speech in the background.
Yang looked back to the screen as she put on her aviator sunglasses, "hey baby, I gotta go, duty calls," she said.
"Ok, talk to you later," Alyssa said with a smile.
The screen went blank as both parties hung up the call.
"So, that was the famous Yang Xiao Long," Lucas stated as Alyssa got up from the terminal.
"Yup, that's my mom, I'm just happy we got spared from her infamous puns," Alyssa said.
"You know, if it wasn't for the white eyes and cat ears, I'd probably struggle to tell you two apart," Lucas stated.
"What are you saying… I look like I'm forty," Alyssa said sharply and her eyes began to turn red.
"No… uh, I was just…" Lucas was flustered at his partner's sudden anger.
Alyssa then began to laugh heartily and her eyes faded back to white, "I was just playing with you, come on, let's get to class," Alyssa said after composing herself from her laughter.
Lucas just stood there dumbstruck for a moment, he was just staring at his partner as she walked over to the elevator.
Alyssa turned to Lucas when she reached the elevator, "you coming?" she asked.
Lucas shook himself out of his daze, "like mother, like daughter," he said with a light laugh as he jogged over to his partner.
Alyssa and Lucas arrived at the training halls and quickly made their way to the locker room where they called in their RPLs for their gear. The new models of RPLs had landing sequences programmed in them so they wouldn't just crash in the ground and cause unwanted damage, they would land quickly and softly, however in a pinch, the landing sequence could be disabled for a quicker arrival.
They quickly got changed into their combat outfits, Alyssa with her formfitting black shirt and pants, along with her flowing golden tail-coat and Lucas with his gray track jacket, white t-shirt, blue jeans, and gray canvas shoes. After getting dressed they threw on their weapons, Shadow Celica and Hidden Flame, and Masamune and headed for the classroom.
Inside the classroom were their teammates who were sitting by the members of Team AYST, along with many other students, all of them were in their combat outfits. Bianca in her red corset, combat skirt, and laced boots along with her black leggings that extended three-quarters of the way up her thighs, her white blouse, and of course her trademark white hooded cloak. Cyrus was in his white collared shirt, with his breast plate over the top of it, and his dark gray pants and armored combat boots, he wasn't wearing his trench coat though, it was off and hanging on the back of his seat. Alani was in her orange tank top and matching slanted lavalava skirt, along with her black spandex pants and brown kukui nut lei. Yin had on his white changshan and black slacks with matching shoes. Roy had on his silver-blue imitation of an Atlesian military dress uniform, complete with military tail-coat, it was accented by his white belt and black patent leather dress boots. Ebony wore her unbuttoned blue suit vest over top a tie-dye shirt of various shades of blue, along with her navy blue skinny jeans and royal blue skate shoes, her sunglasses were positioned up on her forehead over her blue bandanna headband.
"Hey guys," Bianca called out as she saw Alyssa and Lucas enter the room.
Alyssa and Lucas headed over to sat with their teammates and the members of Team AYST.
"Ugh… we have a class with the army brat," Lucas complained.
"Hey, chill bro, the army brat is actually kind cool," Cyrus stated.
"Could you please stop calling me that," Roy stated with a slightly annoyed tone.
"Hey, you boys play nice now," Ebony stated.
"Anyway, Lucas, your brother and I were reconciling for what happened between us, and I wanted to offer the same apology I did him," Roy said as he held out his hand to shake Lucas'.
Lucas crossed his arms and got a skeptical look on his face "mhmm," was all he said.
"Come on bro, don't be like that," Cyrus said.
"Whatever, fine… apology accepted," Lucas said as he begrudgingly shook Roy's hand.
"And…" Cyrus said.
"And I'm sorry for calling you an 'army brat'," Lucas halfheartedly.
Their professor then entered the room. Her eyes were clenched shut and she was messaging her temple like she had a headache.
She didn't look much older than the fourth-year students here at Beacon, while Professors Coventina and Arenas looked to be in their early thirties, this professor looked like she was in her early or mid-twenties. She had short reddish brown hair and lightly tanned skin. She had on a formfitting sleeveless maroon changshan shirt, slate gray arm sleeves with slack pants and slip on shoes to match. Her figure was thin, but not petite, and semi-muscular. She looked to be as tall as Lucas. Strapped to her hip was a metal calabash drinking gourd.
"Ugh… sorry class, I've got a bit of a hangover, today, I'll keep this brief," she said.
She then slowly opened her eyes and let them adjust to the light of the room, when she did so she revealed her eyes to be Amber colored, much like Blake's.
"My name is Ember Haze… call me either Professor or Professor Haze, hell, call me Ember… I really don't care for formalities," she said.
The students began to look around at each other with skeptical looks, this couldn't really be their combat professor, this had to be some fourth-year pulling a prank on them.
Roy stood from his seat to ask the supposed professor a question.
"Are you really our combat instructor?" He asked.
"Yup," Ember replied confidently, yet still in a bit of pain from the hangover.
Roy still had the skeptical look on his face as he sat down, not really accepting her answer.
"I assure you this woman is indeed your combat instructor," a voice called from behind the students.
The students turned to see the acting headmaster, Lie Ren standing in the entrance of the classroom.
"She may be a bit unorthodox, but she's one of our best," Ren said with a reassuring tone.
"Ah, Professor Ren, what may I ask are you doing here?" Professor Haze asked.
"Just dropping in, thought I might catch a match or two since I have a bit of a break at the moment," he replied.
"Well, you're welcome to stay and watch… Alright, now that that's out of the way, why don't we cut to the chase," Professor Haze said.
Ren didn't enter the room to sit, he just leaned against the frame of the opened door he was standing in.
Professor Haze walked over to a small terminal on the wall of the combat stage and hit a button on it, when she did this a screen popped up on the back wall, the screen then began to cycle through the student's pictures before it finally landed on Roy and Bianca's pictures.
"Alright, first match of the year, Roy Stallion and Bianca Rose," Professor Haze announced.
Bianca and Roy stood from their seats and made their way to a small lift that would bring them down to the combat stage. The two took their positions at opposite ends of the stage and readied themselves, Bianca drew her sabers, Summer and Winter, while Roy tightened his gloves, Vulcan, and secured his saber, Ares, on left his side.
"Okay, here are the rules, anything goes, use all of your abilities and weapons if necessary, when your opponent's aura hits the red zone, the fight is over, got it," Professor Haze stated.
Both Roy and Bianca nodded in agreement.
As Professor Haze was about to start the fight, Roy pressed his hands together in a praying fashion and the seams of Vulcan began to glow light blue and the entirety of his hands became covered in ice.
Professor Haze signaled the start of the match and quickly vacated the stage.
Roy began to fire bullets of ice at Bianca from his ice-covered gloves, they shot from his hands almost as fast as bullets fired by a machine gun.
Bianca quickly dodged the incoming fire with her semblance and shot out a couple of blades of fire and ice dust at Roy, whom took the hits, but stood his ground.
Roy then covered his hands in Ice once again, but this time her shot the entire fist worth's of ice from both his hands.
Bianca knocked the first one away with a parry from Summer, but was hit in the stomach by the second.
Bianca then charged Roy with her semblance, as she did this he placed both his hands near his side and built up a ball of wind, which he then shot at Bianca, pushing her back.
The flurry of wind was incredibly strong, like that of a tornado.
Bianca stabbed one of her sabers into the ground to keep herself from being knocked back any further.
When the flurry of wind stopped, Bianca heard the sound of fingers snapping, when she looked up, Roy's fists were set aflame and he was about to plunge down on her and deliver a thunderous strike.
Bianca dodged Roy's strike, causing him to punch the ground and leave a scorch mark where he had hit.
Roy then shot fireballs from his hands, but they all missed as Bianca used her semblance to dodge them.
Bianca charged Roy once again, dodging more of his fireballs along the way.
She got in close and prepared to strike him with her sabers as Roy reached for Ares.
Time began to slow for Roy as he drew his saber and parried the first of Bianca's strikes.
The two began to exchange blows, however, not equally, Roy was somehow dodging or parrying most of Bianca's lighting fast strikes.
"How the hell is he keeping up with her?" Alyssa asked in astonishment.
"It's his semblance, it's called 'Focus', it slows his perception of time, so he can anticipate, and react to Bianca's strikes, effectively taking away her speed advantage," Ebony replied.
"Oh crap…" Alyssa said, still in astonishment.
Bianca's strikes began to grow slower as she began to tire, both her and Roy's auras were nearing the red zone, the next few strikes would decide the match.
Bianca took a few unwanted hits from Roy's saber, sending her dangerously close to the red zone, using her semblance her shot backwards to get away, but she tripped over her own heal.
Seeing his opportunity, Roy reared back and lunged forward for the final blow, he struck Bianca in the center of the chest with a powerful thrust from Ares, knocking her to the ground and sending her aura into the red zone.
"That's it, that's the match, the winner is Roy Stallion," Professor Haze announced as she walked to the center of the stage.
"CHEE-HOO! You go Roy!" Alani shouted.
Roy walked over to Bianca and helped her up, "you fight good," he said.
"Thanks, you too," Bianca replied.
"Okay, let's see who the next match will be," Professor Haze said.
Roy and Bianca took their seats among their teammates, Roy's were congratulating him, while Bianca's were telling her it was all good even though she lost.
Despite her teammate's reassurances, Bianca looked to be beating herself up mentally for the loss, she made a rookie mistake and literally tripped up, costing her the match.
The pictures on the screen which had been cycling, stopped on Alyssa and Yin's pictures, they would be the next match of the day.
"Alyssa Xiao Long and Yin Okami, you're next up," Professor Haze said.
As Bianca and Roy did, Alyssa and Yin made their way to the combat stage.
"Alright, you two understand the rules, right?" Professor Haze asked.
Both Alyssa and Yin nodded to her.
As Professor Haze was about to start the fight Yin placed his right fist into his left palm and bowed to Alyssa.
Alyssa returned a two-finger salute to Yin and then activated Shadow Celica and got into her combat stance.
Yin made himself ready to draw the revolvers on his hips.
Professor Haze signaled the start of the match and cleared the stage.
Alyssa fired off a volley of dust rounds from Shadow Celica at Yin, whom quickly dodged.
After he dodged Alyssa's shots, Yin quickdrew one of his revolvers, Chaos, a black revolver with a white handle and hammer, from his right hip.
He quickly fanned the hammer, firing a storm of dust rounds in the direction of Alyssa, as she dodged the volley, Yin drew his second revolver, Order, a white revolver with a black handle and hammer.
After drawing his second weapon, he opened fire on Alyssa again, this time with both revolvers.
Alyssa returned fire at Yin and the rounds from both their weapons collided in the air between them.
Both Alyssa and Yin then charged each other.
Yin shifted his revolvers into their second form, a pair of long daggers, a pair of blades shot forward from the under barrel of his weapons and the handles straightened out to form the grips.
The two engaged in melee, blocking, trading, and parrying each other's blows, lowering their auras in the process.
Alyssa caught Yin with a powerful roundhouse kick, that was accelerated by a shot fired form Hidden Flame, knocking Yin back and dropping his aura into the yellow.
Yin composed himself and readied for another attack.
"I sense much conflict within you," he said as he quickly shut and opened his eyes, his green eyes having turned into Taos.
He looked directly into Alyssa's eyes which had begun to fade from white to red.
Alyssa charged Yin and nearly hit him, which caught him by surprise, as he dodged he noticed Alyssa's eyes had turned red, indicating her semblance was on overdrive.
Yin charged in at Alyssa and hit her with a few well-placed strikes that put her on the ropes.
When he charged in again to try and end the match, Alyssa sensed the strike he was about to throw before he threw it, a slash to her right.
Alyssa blocked the strike and then hit Yin with a thunderous uppercut, sending his Aura into the red zone.
"And that's the match, Alyssa Xiao Long wins," Professor Haze announced.
Yin pulled himself from the ground and walked over to Alyssa.
"How were you not affected by my semblance? I looked you straight in the eyes," He stated.
"I'm blind, I couldn't see your eyes, I guess that's why," Alyssa replied.
"You are blind!?" Yin said in a surprised tone as Alyssa began walking back to the lift.
After the matches concluded, Professor Ren left the room, presumably to go do more work… the life of a headmaster, either interim or not, was always busy.
As Alyssa and Yin took their seats among their teammates, Professor Haze began to address the class.
"That's pretty much it, for the rest of the year we'll be doing exactly this, maybe a lecture or two here and there," she said.
Professor Haze walked over to the lift and took it up to where the students were sitting and continued to speak.
"This class is pretty simple, for those of you that attended a combat school you already know what to expect from this class, it's really no different," she said.
She looked around at the students in her class for a moment and then at a clock on the wall, which showed the time as four-fifteen.
"I'm gonna dismiss class early today, you're all free to go," she announced.
Her students looked around at each other, some were happy at this news, others were a bit surprised, but in the end, they left class and went on with their day.
Teams BLAC and AYST walked out the classroom together, they were some of the first students to leave. They began to talk amongst themselves as they walked down the hall to the locker room.
"Hey Yin, you said I wasn't affected by your semblance, what exactly is your semblance?" Alyssa asked.
"It is called 'Harmony and Discord', it grants my allies good fortune in battle and curses my opponents bad fortune, considering I must make eye contact for it to work though, so it must not work on people with your particular aliment," Yin replied.
After changing back into their school uniforms, Teams BLAC and AYST decided to look for a place to hang out for the rest of the day before they had to head back to their dorms for curfew. As they were leaving the building they were greeted by the sight of Yaara waiting for them outside.
"Hey sis, this is a pleasant surprise," Roy said.
"Wait just a second… Yaara is your sister!?" Bianca said in disbelief.
"Yeah," Roy said.
"You seriously didn't know? They have the same last name," Ebony stated.
"Anyway… hey lil' bro, sorry, but I'm not here for you, I'm here for… you two," Yaara stated and then pointed at Lucas and Alyssa.
"What do you want with my teammates?" Cyrus asked intimidatingly as he stepped between Yaara and them.
"Relax, I just want to talk to them… besides, if we were to fight I'd win in a heartbeat," Yaara said.
"Oh really, care to test th…" Cyrus said, but was cut off.
"Trust me, you don't wanna do that," Roy said as he placed his hand on Cyrus' shoulder.
"So, what did you want to talk to us about?" Lucas asked.
"As the leader of Team SSGE (Sage), I wanted to apologize for my partner's actions earlier today," Yaara stated.
"Well, we accept your apology, but I don't think we can forgive your partner," Alyssa stated.
"That's fine, just… just know that Scarlet is a good person, she's just going through some difficult times right now, she won't tell me or the team what it is though," Yaara said softly, "Anyway, I won't take up any more of your time," Yaara continued and then gave teams BLAC and AYST a wave as she walked off.
Teams BLAC and AYST headed off to hang out as they had planned before being stopped by Yaara, they found a cool spot under a tree in one of Beacon's many small parks. Their year was just getting started, little did they know however, they would get more than they bargained for in their first year at Beacon Academy.