I'm so sorry about the wait guys, I really am. I've had a lot of personal stuff going on right now and have had to deal with it. I will try my hardest to not take so long with the next chapter. But enough of that, onto the chapter.
The Vytal festival. A union of young men and women to test their skill and experience in a fight for dominance. From this festival legends have been born. Like those of the Great Bawrin, who stood nearly eight feet tall and considered by many to be the largest hunter to exist and the most dominant in tournament history winning three years in a row. Then there is the young huntress known only as The Sword. Masterful in her skills with her gun sword and as silent and stealthy as the night itself. And who can forget the huntress Summer Rose. Winning the tournament in her first year, something never done before and went on to win the next two years until her partner Taiyang Xiao Long dethroned her. Yes the Vytal festival is time of peace and union, and maybe this tournament will birth new legends.
The rest went as expected. The rest of team UNDD fought the rest of CRDL and won. A girl by the name of Emerald that Ruby had already meet before faced off against a boy by the name of Nadir and won as well as a women named Cinder easily won against one of Suns teammates Scarlet. Now it was the first fight out of the eight friends. The blonde knight sat and watched his partner ready herself. Her shining armour glazed in the lights and her red hair blazed in beauty. Her green eyes were closed in thought as she stretched her body. She had asked Jaune to come with her, thought he saw no reason to be there at all. None the less he smiled and spoke words of confidence to the Spartan women. Her toned body flexed and Jaune found himself unintentionally staring at her. The girl noticed this.
"Something wrong Jaune?" she asked.
He blushed. "No no, nothing. Anyway, you ready? It should be starting soon"
"As ready as I'll ever be. Thanks for coming with me" Pyrrha smiled to Jaune.
"Fighters ready yourselves. One minute to go" a voice over the intercom said.
"There's you call" Jaune said and stood up and walked over to the women.
"You'll be watching right?" Pyrrha asked.
"Duh, of course I will be" Jaune looked at her with a smile.
"Be the first back in here after I'm done. Can you do that?" she asked hopefully.
"I can do that. I should go to the seats. Good luck" the boy said and left.
Pyrrha stood alone. She breathed in and out. A minute passed and the call was given out. She marched with back straight and head looking ahead into the sunlight. The roar of the crowed nearly deafened her at the announcement at her name. Smile and put on a show Pyrrha she thought to herself.
"And her opponent. Hailing from Haven Academy. The B in team ABRN. Bolin Hori" the announcer called out.
Out walked a 17 year old boy with black hair, grey pants, navy vest with an orange sash going over his shoulder and around his waist. Pyrrha put herself in her usual phalanx pose. Bolin on the other hand was in a pose that remaindered her of Ren. Okay, by the looks of it he's a martial artist, what could his weapon be? Wait I know that pose, Sholen kung fu, this will be difficult. The bell rang and the fight began. However neither moved. The two fighters stared each other down. Pyrrha was the first to move and charged with her shield out front. Bolin remained still with his eyes closed. Now Pyrrha thought and her body followed. She thrust her spear forward into the still boy. Only the impact never happened. Instead Bolin had jumped right over her and landed behind her. Before she could react properly a quick leg sweep put her on the ground. A minor inconvenience, Pyrrah quickly stood back up into her stance. Bolin ran at her readied shield. The boy ran and jumped off the shield and launched himself high up. Pyrrha looked up and slashed her spear now turned sword at the fighter. She became doused in water. She looked around in confusion, wondering where the water had come from. Looking around for the source of the water and her opponent she didn't see the high kick hit her across the head. She ground as she slowly made her way back to her feet. She's usually much faster, only this attack took her completely by surprise. Pyrrha looked around and saw Bolin standing back in his ready pose. Changing up her tactics the girl warrior flung her shield like a frisbee at the waiting boy. Bolin kept a stoic face and easily jumped over it. Pyrrha thankful that he did what she thought he would do, she quickly threw her spear at him. However he saw it coming. The next second he was gone in water. That's it; he can turn himself to water to avoid attacks she thought to herself. Quickly using her own semblance to summon back her sword and shield Pyrrha quickly turned around and managed to block a powerful leg chop with Akoúo̱. The force caused her to stumble slightly but she quickly composed herself. Ok think Pyrrha, think. How do you beat someone who can turn to water to avoid being hit? Semblance uses up energy, ok, keep attacking him and force his semblance until he can't use it anymore. She smiled at her plan; it was the only one she could think of at the moment. Bolin charged her and jumped at her. Pyrrha became drenched as his body turned to liquid and fell on her. Sensing a presence behind her she quickly put her shield up to defend. Her arm shacked under the power of his kick, dammit. The fight carried on like this, with Pyrrha launching several skilled and powerful attacks only to have Bolin use his semblance to easily avoid, or the warrior women to have to block Bolins attacks. The change in this routine was when finally on of Pyrrhas attacks made contact. The boy was sent onto his side and took a moment to get back up. He's exhausted, he won't be able to keep his aura up for much longer. Pyrrha started to abuse this and kept slashing furiously at Bolin, the only thing he could do was dodge. The fight continued with both Pyrrha and Bolin getting in a few hits, eventually both of their aura meters where nearing the red. Time to finish this she thought. A confident smile spread across her face. Bolin made a simple mistake. He ran and jumped intent on doing a powerful kick. It never happened. Pyrrha quickly lined up and threw her spear, knocking him of balance and throwing him back. Before he could hit the ground she once again threw her shield, slamming into his gut and sending further across the field and hitting the ground harder. A buzzer went off and voice rung around the arena.
"Bolin's aura has now completely dropped. If he wishes he may continue otherwise the match is over".
The boy slowly made is way to his feet and let out a long breath. He raised his hands over his head and spoke.
"I submit" he announced with a smile.
Pyrrha dropped her stance and slouched over in exhaustion. Gods that what more difficult than I thought it would be. She looked up and saw her opponent standing in front of her with his hand outstretched. She gladly took it and shacked his hand.
"Thank you for the fight, and good luck with the rest of the tournament" he said in a calm voice, then bowed his head in respect.
Pyrrha returned the gesture then looked around at the cheering audience. Thousands upon thousands were cheering her name. Although she had been in similar situations before they were never on this scale. She put on a smile and waved to the cheering crowd before making her way back stout into the locker rooms. Sweaty and exhausted Pyrrha decided she had time to make use of the showers before the next fighter would need to use the room. Turning on the shower the girl undressed herself and let loose her red hair. She let the hot water rain down on her as she let out a sigh of contempt. She could feel her muscles relax and the sweat wash off her body. As she relaxed she let her mind wander a bit; more precisely she let it wander onto a certain dorky blonde team leader. God he can be so dense sometimes, well nearly all the time actually. Do I really just need to come right out and say I love him to make him realise? Actually knowing Jaune he would probably still not know even after telling him. Pyrrha laughed to herself and finished up washing herself. Wrapping a towel around herself she made her way to her clothing, deciding to wear more casual clothing since she wouldn't be fighting for the rest of the day. Thankful that no one was around she dropped her towel and began to get dressed. Just as she had put on her first layer the boy she was just thinking about walked in with a smile.
"Hey Pyrrha awesome fight out-"Jaune stopped midsentence, his eyes wide opened.
Pyrrha on the other hand stood there in nothing but her underwear with a massive blush and eyes open wide in horror and shock. There was silence as neither party knew what to do. Finally Pyrrha broke the tension by throwing a towel over Jaunes eyes and quickly putting on her red shirt and black jeans. Jaune, understanding what Pyrrha meant to do waited with towel on his head until his partner said it was safe. After about five minutes Jaune decided to ask.
"Can I look now?" he asked rather weakly.
"Uh, yea".
Jaune slowly removed the damp towel to see Pyrrha fully dressed. He put on a dorky smile, until he remembered what had just happened.
"Oh god, Pyrrha I'm so sorry I should of knocked, or said or some or, or, gah you probably hate me now" he threw up his arms in frustration at his dim-wittedness.
"No no no. I don't hate you Jaune, although I wish you had knocked before coming in, but what's done is done. Can we just forget this ever happened?" Pyrrha begged.
"Yea, that would be good. So as I was saying, nice fight out there. Be better than I'll do, I can't believe I even got into the tournament" Jaune said.
"Hey don't say that. I think you'll do great today" the spear maiden reassured.
"Yea, I don't think so" Jaune said then let out a nervous laugh.
Pyrrha frowned and put a hand on his shoulder. "I mean it Jaune; you've come a long way from when you got to Beacon. I think, no I know you deserve to be here. Take my word for it Jaune, you'll do great" she smiled.
Like a light in a dark room Pyrrha shined with kindness. Jaune couldn't help but smile along with her. "Thanks Pyrrha, not just for that, but for everything. I guess I couldn't ask for a better partner".
"Nor could I" Pyrrha said.
Saying that she wrapped her arms around him and pulled him into a small hug. Not one for a boyfriend but for a friend. After all, that's what he sees me as.
Nora sat silently. Something very rare for the hyper red head. But this was different. It wasn't the crowd or the actual tournament itself, it was her opponent. She hadn't bothered to look at who it was until she was in the locker room waiting to be called.'Wanting it to be a surprise' was how she put it. She took a deep breath. He won't be holding back, neither should I.
False wind blew through the arena. Small rolling hills was the ground. Nora stood with her beloved hammer at the ready. She looked at her opponent. The fight had already begun but neither had moved from their places. Her opponent, a young man with black hair and a pink highlight, dressed in green traditional garbs, Ren. He had Stormflower at the ready as well. He'll be waiting for me to make the first move. To both of them this was knew, they had never had a serious fight, only ever small play fights when they were young. They both knew each-others move near perfectly though. He's faster and his fighting style is more skilled than mine, man I really don't want to fight him. Hmm maybe after this I can finally tell him, forget that right now Nora, focus, he still hasn't moved, as always. She took a deep breath.
"I'm ready Ren, what about you?"
Ren didn't speak, only nodded with an emotionless face. Ok, let's go. Nora immediately launched herself into the air and slammed down her hammer close to Ren with all her strength. Nora knew though that he would have easily of dodged it and quickly got herself into a defensive stance, something she doesn't normally do. I hate defence. Magnhild across her chest she waited. The dust cleared and as soon as it did Rens attack came. He was quick and effective. A quick kick to her arm and one to the stomach sent Nora backwards onto her back. Not doing too much damage Nora quickly kicked back up and stood with Magnhild at the ready. Once again Ren stood completely still. Nora on the other hand quickly changed her hammer to its grenade launcher mode. Okay, time to get serious.
Oh. Well let's set up the betting stand again. Nora vs Ren who do you think will win? Once again thank you to everyone for reading, reviewing, following and favoriting, you're all awesome.
