Chapter 10

Zander POV:

It's Saturday. Weiss and I actually managed to finish our project for Professor Port's class in time. I told her we would finish in time. I'm currently watching a match between Echo and Yang. Yang wanted a rematch from last Friday. As I continued to watch the match I saw Yang punch him and sent him flying back. Echo's aura fell into the red, ending the match with a win for Yang. As her team went up to the stage to congratulate her I went up to help Echo up to his feet. "Got your ass handed to you didn't you."

"Yeah I sure did." He said as I grabbed his arm and picked him up. Everyone was already heading to the cafeteria for lunch. We quickly caught up to the group and started eating.

As I arrived I heard Nora talking about something. "Did you guys here that there's a new team coming to Beacon?"

"Nora where did you here that?" Ren asked her.

"I heard it from one of the professors when I was eavesdropping." She said with a smile like there was nothing wrong with that.

"Do you know where from?"

"I think it was Atlas." At that my blood ran cold. That's where I came from, Atlas. I just hope it wasn't who I thought it was.

People noticed the look on my face. "What's wrong Zander?" Thad asked me.

"Oh nothing, just that I came from Atlas."

"Wow really, maybe we could meet some of your old friends."

"Yeah maybe." In truth I was excited. Maybe my friends would come, but I was worried that a certain someone would come. "So when are they coming to Beacon Nora?"

"I think in like two weeks. I'm not sure." Nora answered cheerfully. Everyone returned to their conversations and finished their lunches. We decided that we would be a good idea for us to have another duel to help us train. We drew straws on who would be the next people to fight. The two people who draw the shortest straws would fight, pretty simple. As I picked my straw, I noticed that Pyrrha and I had picked the smallest straws. I grinned at my chance to be able to fight Pyrrha. She's one of the few people in the school to have gone undefeated in fights, me being one of the other few people. Blake and Yang were part of that group until their match with Thad and Echo. At the end of today there would be one less person in that list.

We made our way back to the arena. I walked up to stage taking out my bow, Artemis's Narcissus, ready for our fight. Pyrrha took out Miló and Akoúo̱ and prepared for combat. "You know Pyrrha it's not too late to back down now."

"As if I'd back down. Are you afraid of losing?"

"Nah, I'm not afraid. I never lose." I told her confidently. The lights turned on and a timer started to count down from 5. We made our way back to the arena. I hovered my hand over my quiver, deciding which arrow I would start off with.

Once the timer hit 0 I took out my arrow my hand was over and pulled it up to my bow. Before Pyrrha could even move more than a few steps I let my arrow fly. Pyrrha raised her shield to block my arrow. Good, because as soon as the arrow hit her shield, she was immediately got shocked. This was because the arrow I used had an electric charge. I got a couple of those arrows after seeing Echo use his semblance. However before I could celebrate, Pyrrha quickly recovered and charged again. I fired three other arrows that she easily dodged. When she too close for comfort I changed tactics and split my bow into my two swords. She change Miló into its sword form and we clashed with our blades. I had the advantage of having two swords but she had a shield. That would allow her take a defensive stand.

She raised her sword and swung down. I raised both my swords and crossed them, blocking her strike. She then hit me with her shield in the side. I immediately jumped back after taking the hit. She pressed on with her attack, with her slashing and me dodging and blocking. She thrust Milo in its spear form at me. I side stepped the strike to the left and rolled away. I quickly took out an explosive arrow and shot it. The arrow landed just in front of Pyrrha's feet and exploded. After landing several feet away she got back up to her feet. Before I could fire another arrow she raised her hand. I noticed a dark glow surround my bow. Before I realized what was happening Pyrrha used her semblance and pulled away by weapon from me and brought it to her feet. Really, her semblance was polarity. How does that help her at all when fighting the Grimm. Well it surely was helping her in this fight. I couldn't just rush for it since she was practically standing over it. I pulled out my knife I had sheathed on my leg.

Pyrrha changed Milo into its rifle form. She started firing several rounds at me I did my best to dodge but a few rounds hit me in my chest. Thank goodness for Kevlar vests. A round grazed my arm, drawing blood. My aura was going down. What was I going to do? I only had a knife to go up against a fully equipped opponent. At least I still had my arrows. Just then an idea popped into my head.

I took out one of my smoke arrows and struck the ground with it. I was now completely surrounded by smoke, meaning that Pyrrha couldn't see me. I then activated my semblance and waited for the smoke to clear. Once the smoke cleared I saw that Pyrrha was completely surprised. Why wouldn't she be, after all I'm invisible. That's right my semblance is invisibility. Taking advantage of Pyrrha's confusion I rushed up to her. She still hasn't noticed me and began looking around for me. After a few moments I decided to attack with my knife. I slashed at her arm which completely surprised her. I slashed, kicked, and punched her and she couldn't defend from an enemy she couldn't see. She raised her shield to try to defend herself. I built up as much strength I had left and kicked her back, sending her flying back a few meters. I grabbed my bow off the ground and revealed myself. I shot a fire arrow towards Milo, the heat from it causing Pyrrha to drop it. I fired an arrow with ice dust at her shield, forming ice on it and making it too heavy for Pyrrha to use efficiently. I fired another explosive arrow, exploding right in front of her. This caused her aura to fall into the red, ending the match.

I looked over at the others in the audience to see a look of shock. Of course, I mean I was losing until I turned it around and beat one of the best huntress-in-training in this school. I looked back over at Pyrrha and offered her my hand, "Hey good match. Let's not do that again shall we."

"Yes I agree. Let's not do it again." She took my hand and got up. She went off with her team while I went with mine.

I was congratulated by my team when I meet up with them. They said things like great fight, you cut it pretty close, cheap trick. While I talked with my team about the match I noticed Weiss walk up to us. She stopped right in front of me. "I came over to say that you fought well, even though you fought a bit dirty." And after that she walked away back to her team.

"Any idea what that was about?" Thad asked me.

"No idea."