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Chapter 9

The airship landed and the side doors opened to let the passengers off.

"Thank you for flying Air Joker, where it's always a funny flight. I hope you enjoyed the flight and wish to fly with us again" Joker said to Max, since Sarah and Ashley were still sleeping.

Max chuckled and said "I would love to, but right now I have to get these two to bed."

"How are you going to do that with just one arm" Joker asked.

Max thought about it and realized Joker was right. Max's aura was too low at this point to have Shadow make the whole trip. Max sighed and said "Help."

Joker smiled and said "Sure, should I get Sarah or the VIP."

"Get Sarah, I'll get the VIP" Max said and picked Ashley up like he was giving her a piggy back ride.

Joker nodded and walked over to Sarah and scooped her up in his arms. "Lead the way."

They walked to Max's dorm and he used Shadow to open the door. They lied Sarah and Ashley down onto two of the vacant beds.

"They looks so peaceful" Joker said looking at the two sleeping girls.

"Yeah it's as if they didn't just come from a Grimm attack" Max said.

"So when do your classes start" Joker asked.

Max checked his scroll and said "In about an hour. I'm going to take a shower and grab some breakfast."

"Ok and those two" Joker said gesturing to the girls with his head.

"I'll talk to Ozpin about it, but unless Sara has other living family members, she'll end up in foster care" Max replied.

"If she does end up in foster care call me. My wife and I are looking to adopt a kid." Joker said.

"Ok I'll give you a call if she does" Max said.

After a quick shower and some breakfast Max was on his way to combat training with his cowl hood up, and a coffee with four sugars and four creams (truly Ruby's kid). When he arrived at combat training he chugged the rest of his coffee and ditched the cup in a nearby trash can and sat down. Ruby and Yang waved at Max who waved back.

Glynda walked in and said "Good morning students."

Several students replied back with their own 'good mornings'.

"Who would like to start today's training" Glynda asked.

Several students raised their hands including Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha, Nora, and Team CRDL. Max sighed and put his head in his hand and thought "It's going to be one of those days" to himself.

"Miss Xiao Long who would you like to fight" Glynda asked.

Yang smiled, stood up and turned pointing a finger at Max and said "Ma-"

"No" Max said interrupting her.

"Why" Yang asked.

"I didn't get any sleep last night and I'm too tired to fight" Max said. Even though he could still fight and beat Yang if he had to.

"Well you should have thought about that before you stayed up all night, so get into the arena" Glynda said.

Max sighed and walked down to the arena.

Max and Yang got into position and Yang said "You better not hold back just because your tired Marky."

Max yawned and said "Whatever."

That pissed Yang off and she charged Max when Glynda signaled the match to begin. Max didn't bother moving, he just braced himself for the punch Yang was about to deliver.

Yang's punched connected with Max's face. Max's head turned a bit and he moved back about half an inch from the punch, Yang's fist was stopped on Max's face. That stunned everybody, including Glynda. Max cracked a smile after the punch for two reasons. The first one was that he was now fully awake; be it from the coffee or the punch, possible both. The second was that Yang's punch compared to Yin's was 33% weaker and 10% weaker than his own.

Yang got slightly worried when Max smiled. Max brought his fist up and punched her in the face knocking her back 8 feet, but she managed to stay on her feet. "Ok now I'm awake" Max said still smiling.

Yang smiled and said "Are you finally going to take this match seriously?"

Max drew Reaper from his back and said "Do try to keep up."

Max rushed Yang and swung down with Reaper. Yang blocked it with one of her gauntlets. She then tried to punch Max in the stomach, but Max turned his body to the side causing the punch to miss. Because Yang's punch miss it gave Max an opening to knee her in the stomach. When he did it knocked the air out of Yang a bit and caused her to stagger back a bit. Max tried to strike with Reaper, but Yang managed to block it. He then tried to kick Yang, but she blocked it as well. She pushed Reaper and Max's leg away hard knocking him off balance and leaving him wide open. Yang lunged forward planning to give Max an uppercut to the jaw. During Yang's lunge Shadow shot out and gave her an uppercut of his own. Shadow then grabbed Max's foot that he used to kick with, and brought it back to the ground, rebalancing Max. The uppercut Shadow had given Yang had left an opening to strike, so Max delivered a powerful blow with Reaper to her stomach. Yang's aura took the blow, but it still knocked the wind out of her. The blow also knocked her aura down to the red ending the match.

Max Sheathed Reaper and offer a hand to Yang, who was laying on the ground grabbing her stomach. Yang accepted the hand and he pulled her up to her feet.

"Damn I thought I had you there" Yang said pouting slightly.

Max smiled and said "Most do. Besides when it's a one on one against me I almost always have the upper hand."

"Arrogant much" Yang said putting her hands on her hands on her hips.

"What are you my mother" Max asked, but felt sad after saying it.

"No" Yang replied.

"Good mine's causes me enough trouble" Max said and went to sit down.

Yang sat down and Weiss said "I guess you couldn't beat him either, huh."

Yang sighed and said "No and I really thought I had him too, but that damn shadow stopped me."

"That shadow seems to be his key to winning" Blake said.

"The only problem is how to stop the shadow. Max isn't foolish enough to get his shadow caught, not even with my holding glyphs" Weiss said.

"He did say that he had an advantage when it comes to one on one fights. Which is true since his shadow can act like another person" Blake said thinking of how to beat Max.

"I think Mark just became the person to beat" Ruby said thinking aloud.

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