Authors Notes: ok, this chapter is going to have a bit of everything, fighting, time skips, classes, and more! I don't have a bad writer's block right now, so hopefully, this chapter will turn out a bit longer. Make sure to leave a review with your thoughts on the recent chapters. Like what do you think Denim and Ambers semblances are? What did Steel mean when she says that no one truly understands Aura or semblances? And when will they finally go on a real mission? Well, that last one isn't really for you to answer, anyway, ONTO THE CHAPTER! (ps, that whole "onto the chapter" bit is kinda annoying, don't you guys agree? Lol)

Chapter 11

X navigated the twists and turns of the hallways with his skates, making sure not to turn on their motors so he could keep himself at a controllable speed, not wanting to go too fast and run into anyone. Eventually, as the ivory colored walls rushed past him, he was able to make out the figure of Greene at the end of a hall, gripping the handle of a door, it wasn't exactly hard to spot him seeing as how he was nearly as tall as the door itself. Greene seemed to notice X as he released the handle and faced him, waiting for him to eventually come to a stop. X quickly sheathed his skate's mid-motion and began jogging with flat feet to keep the momentum and not lose footing. Greene nodded towards him without saying a word, which was his way of greeting his friends, at this point X had finally realized that his gauntlets were still on, and the looks of confused and scared students had made more sense to him now. X decided to sheath his gauntlets to not draw more attention, so he moved his arms close together and twisted them towards one another, the metal seemed to click into place and he quickly pulled his hands out as the gauntlets shifted back to their strange sheathed form, X caught them and hooked it onto the back of his pants, he wasn't wearing his combat gear so that was the best he could do.

Greene turned back towards the door and pushed it open, gripping the handle tightly, like he did most things. A new door of possibilities opened up to X, quite literally, as the door swung open, his mouth gaped wider and wider. The floor was outfitted with both tiling, and matted areas, right next to the door were two boxing rings, one on each side, both had a row of punching bags sitting next to them, and a few benches for those that eventually got tired. At this point he was walking into the room, observing everything his eyes could land on, never had he seen such a magnificent room, none of the smaller academies had anything like it, and it only confirmed the rumors of Beacons status as best. The roof reached high above them, well above anything within throwing distance. Past the rings, on the right was a series of weights, and muscle building machines; on the left, was a series of dummies, in various shapes and sizes, some had dozens of rotating arms, others looked like scarecrows, ready to be mutilated. A vending machine sat next to them on the tiled floor, and as he observed it more closely, he realized that the tiles outlined the area, anywhere that actual combat or training would ensue, padding and mats made up the floor, but anywhere that a student would walk to get to a destination, was outfitted with tiling, to help distinguish training from traveling.

Near the end of the room, a couple of doors led to various destinations, each labeled accordingly. The one on the far left read "RANGE" and was very obviously meant for ranged practice, so anyone could keep up on their sharpshooting skills. The next, read "LOCKERS" this less exciting sign was obviously pointing towards the locker-room, where students would keep spare clothes, or their weapons, before or after training. The third and fourth doors were both bathrooms. Nothing too exciting, but the one on the farthest right, immediately intrigued X, as it read "OPEN SPAR" which could only mean, one thing.

"Dude, let's spar, I've barely seen you fight, and I have to get used to Crescent Scar again" X begged Greene to spar against him, and at first Greene seemed reluctant to agree to his idea, but in the end, he decided there was no real point in refusing. After all, an actual fight is better than idle practice. When he came to an agreement, Greene nodded his head, confirming the idea. X fist pumped in excitement, quickly rushing through the door and down the hall it leads, Greene tried to reach out and stop him, but it was of no use. Although the rest of the Gym seemed to be nearly dead, as he approached the sparring area, he began to hear cheers and hollers. He opened the door and saw a mild sized crowd standing just beyond the door. They were all standing near the rail and peering down over it. He made his way around them and looked down below the railing as well, the arena wasn't much lower than them, about five or six feet lower than they were, and on the inside of the arena stood two girls, both of which he recognized. One was none other than Lox from team BLST, a second-year team, she was a dynamite blue haired girl that preferred energetic talking and excitement to things that moved slowly, like reading, or studies. It made a lot of sense as to why the others were excited about a fight with a second year, but what got X was that Denim was on the other side of the ring. He could see Amber along the railing on the other side, alone as always, but his attention was brought back to Denim, who was apparently going to fight the second year. X looked more closely and he saw that Lox was wielding her large scythe with both hands, getting into a fighting stance; meanwhile, Denim held her hand on her hip cocked slightly, her weapon still sheathed on her lower back, as if she had no intention of drawing it at all.

X glanced up at the board to his right, where a timer was counting down until the official start of the match began, it also held both the aura meters for Denim and Lox, both were nearly full, so it seemed like an even fight, other than Lox being a second year that is. X removed his gaze from the clock one it reached ten and watched as Lox got ready, and Denim, who had actually yawned in boredom. Suddenly a loud ring was heard and X saw Lox dash forward but almost at the same instant X was suddenly looking towards the board, he wasn't trying to on purpose, but he couldn't look towards the fight, he looked around and saw that no one was watching the fight, absolutely no one could look down towards the pit, all they could see was each other and the board as Lox's aura steadily dropped quickly. The sound of grunting and gun-shots rang through the room, but that was all that they knew of the fight, but they all watched as Lox's Aura quickly dropped to the red, ending the match, and at nearly the same moment everyone's heads snapped back towards the arena, as if the force that had forced them to look away had suddenly released them. X looked down to see Lox on her hands and knees, her weapon thrown to the side, Denim was casually walking away, her hand coming off of her weapon, as it shifted in place as if she had just sheathed it. The small groups of students were completely silent, just like X and Greene, they had no idea what to make of the situation, after all, they hadn't seen anything.

Denim strode through the door at the end of the arena and Amber had left her seat, heading towards the small locker-room just outside the arena where the students get ready. X quickly followed after her, walking briskly in an attempt to catch up without drawing any attention. X burst into the locker-room and saw near the opposite end that Amber was sitting on a bench and Denim was pulling a jacket over her arms, changing back into her casual clothing.

"Damn too late" X muttered to himself before approaching them both with a wave. "Hey, I saw your fight, well, I didn't see it, but I saw that you won," X spoke nonchalantly but Denim's face burst into flames.

"Jeez, how long were you in here!?" Denim's voice was filled with anger. X smirked and decided to use the opportunity to mess with her.

"Long enough and I must say… nice" X said with a wink to emphasize his toying and Denim growled, her face ripened to a crimson color.

"Why you! Amber. Now." Denim seemed more pissed than ever, but even X didn't know what she was talking about, He glanced over towards Amber who Denim gestured to and she simply glanced back.

Both team SAGE and team JADD were surrounded; they all stood back to back looking around at the horde of Grimm. Three Tajitu circled them, dozens of Creeps and Beowulves blotted out the forestry, and the ground shifted as Falek's burrowed beneath them. X looked on in horror as he knew no hunter could survive, he looked up to see a sea of black, Nevermore's hundreds of them, covered the sky. Suddenly, and without warning, his team-mates all charged the Grimm, leaving X to watch as their weapons broke into pieces; he couldn't move, he couldn't speak, all he could do was watch as his friends were caught by the monsters, he looked to his right to see that team JADD had done the same, all of them were trapped by the monsters and he couldn't do anything. He looked down to see his weapons suddenly crumble to pieces, all of his hard work for nothing, he looked back to team JADD only to not be able to look away, he saw Jaye, one of his newest friends, lying limply in the mouth of a Taijitu, its teeth dug into his flesh, only his arm, leg and head hung from its mouth, a fountain of red fell from him as his glassy eyes stared back at X. He could barely look away, but when he managed to, all he saw was Amber, and Daisy being ripped apart, Beowulves tore at their limbs and pulled their bodies apart as if they were pieces of a toy. He forced himself to look away, checking back onto his team where he saw his partner, Sky, or at least what was left of her. All he could see was her mangled corpse, as Creeps dug into her body, scraping her flesh from the bone, a sea of Crimson surrounded her and drew his attention to Greene and Ebony; Greene was being dragged under the earth, his neck snapped and dragging limply as the Falek drug him under. Ebony was nearly flattened, her bones stuck through her flesh as if the Falek had crushed her under its weight. He couldn't move, he couldn't utter a sound; all he could do is watch in horror. Turning away from what he thought couldn't get worse, he saw Denim, but she wasn't dead, not yet, she was calling out for him, her hand outstretched for him to help her as she was swept away into the veil of black her voice being drowned out in the ocean of roars and growls. He couldn't take it anymore; he fell to his knees as he watched all of his friends be torn apart.

And that's when he woke up. Suddenly his eyes were adjusting to the light of ceiling lights. They were bright and annoying to look at directly, but his mind was still hazy, all he could remember was the sight of his friends dying in front of him. He then saw Denim, in her casual clothing, and Amber bending over him, he then felt the ground beneath his body. And a sharp pain in his head as he heard Denim's voice.

"That's what you get, you fucking creep" Denim seemed angry for some reason, but he couldn't understand what was going on. He brought his hand up to hold his head and felt that his face was wet, a mix of sweat and tears had coated his face is a mess of wet skin. He immediately began wiping away at it all in an attempt to dry it before anyone noticed. It didn't seem to work as Denim began laughing "You should have seen your face, you cried like a little bitch! It was hilarious honestly" X sat up, his head still ringing, his mind still confused he felt as though he should have been relieved to see them both well again, but he also felt as though there was no need for concern. He glanced up at Amber and she held her head low

"Sorry" Amber whispered quietly and it only confirmed his thoughts on what he had just witnessed. That and the fact that he could feel his own semblance meant that he knew he could copy Ambers, and he knew from that, that what he had just spent what seemed like hours inside, was simply the effect of her Semblance.

"How long was I under?" He was sitting up at this point, not wanting to stand with the uneasiness. Amber lowered her head slightly, and Denim crossed her arms over her chest, having gotten over the situation.

"It was only a minute or two, serves you right for peeping." Denim answered making sure to dig at him again but he simply shook his head slightly.

"I didn't actually see anything… sheesh, I came in and you were already dressed" X tried to explain in his groggy state, his mind was still hazy and he wasn't in the mood to joke around, explaining it as it was. Denim and Amber both seemed surprised.

"Oh… Well, think before you say things like that" Denim said trying to assure what they did was still acceptable to her self.

"What did you see?" Amber asked quietly, trying to keep her voice as low and reserved as possible. X at this point was almost over it, but he was confused as to what she meant.

"You mean you don't know?" Amber shook her head at the question, she may have had control over how long he was under, but she apparently had no control over what he actually saw. "uh… Nothing… just some scary Grimm is all…" He decided it wasn't for the best to reveal that he had seen them die in front of his eyes, Amber seemed hesitant to accept the excuse, but she didn't push farther. X then stood up, still rubbing the sides of his head from the effects of her semblance, at this point Greene had entered the room, he was making his way towards them and his presence was hard to miss.

"Hey Greene, wait, what are you two doing here anyway? You didn't come just to see me fight did you?" Denim said slightly sarcastically, but also hoping they had, a small blush rising at the thought of them wanting to watch her.

"No, Spar ourselves" Greene answered with a firm shake of his head, instantly Denim's smile had dropped.

"Actually, we didn't know you were fighting anyone today, guess it wasn't that important" X explained for her as Greene finally made it next to him, she was the one that then felt betrayed as no one except her partner seemed to care about her fight.

"Well good luck you two, can't say I'll be watching though" Denim said as she motioned for Amber to follow, Amber wasn't exactly the most forward marching girl, so while others may have seen Denim as controlling when she told Amber where they were going, Amber actually felt a wave of relief as she wasn't in the spotlight where a mistake would come back to her. Somehow Denim had already figured out what Amber wants to do without needing to put her in control.

"Denim, let's be honest, we both know you're going to be watching me," X said with a wink, finally getting his head back in pieces, Denim rolled her eyes as neared the door.

"Greene, kick his ass" Denim commented as she left the room and Greene nodded in response, before walking towards his locker that he stored his weapon in earlier. Opening the larger door they both walked out into the arena pit, already some people were gone, presumably from having already 'Watched' the second year fight. X briskly walked over to the opposite end of the arena and grabbed Crescent scar from his back, quickly activating them and letting them grip onto his arms. At this point, they could both see a group of students crowd the railings to watch. It was unscheduled so no one knew what was going to happen, and that meant no holds barred. They both understood that full use of semblance and weapons were allowed, first to the fatal red 10% was out.

"Ok Greene, I'm going to warn you now, you're not going to want to go easy on me… without these on I'm an ant compared to when I have them." X taunted Greene but he didn't seem to care, his stoic nature giving him a natural defense against verbal confliction. Greene gripped the handle of his weapon, Wraith; it was a large pole-arm with a mallet-like hammer on one end and a long curved blade on the other. It didn't seem as though it had a second form, or that it had any range.

X then activated his Shadow-Gear, letting them fold out over his feet and form into the metal bladed skates that he knew and loved so much. X lowered his body, but Greene was immediately confused, unlike before, he didn't get into the same stance he normally would, now, with the large hooked blades attached to his gauntlets, it previous stance wouldn't work. Now X had folded his arms up, holding his elbows outward, the blades extended forward and stabbed into the ground, the hooked end digging into it. This new stance looked feral, almost like a Beowulf that was ready to pounce. Greene tightened his grip on his weapon and got ready, he raised it so the blade was behind him high, and the hammer was centered low, so he didn't have to spend more energy than necessary simply holding the weapon. X glanced down at his aura meter, which also held the rest of his team's on it, currently everyone's was empty, but his quickly filled once he flared his aura on, allowing it to take effect and protect his body, he immediately felt refreshed after having done so, the slight stinging on the back of his head ceased all at once, as if the injury from fall to the floor had been healed. He then noticed a similar flare coat Greene's body and he watched as his meter filled to green as well.

A familiar alarm of the bell sent both of them into motion, the wheels of X's skates rapidly spun as he revved the motors, he pulled his arms back so the blades dug into the ground and pulled him forwards to help gain speed. Greene took one bounding step forwards, before he began to spin with the motion, holding wraith tight, the blade scraped against the ground as he spun his back against towards X; who at this point dashed to Greene's right side, trying to avoid the hammer as it began its descent. All at once X tried to get past Greene, to use his large scythe-like blades to his advantage, but the moment he had gotten to his side, the hammer had managed to catch up to him and instead of striking the ground it continued it's spin around his body and slammed into his lower back. X's aura was chunked away at the impact. He gasped at the blow as the wind was nearly knocked out of him, but he was able to regain his footing and kept his stride up long enough to turn back around to face Greene. Greene had stopped spinning his weapon and now held it with one hand as if it were a common bo-staff, holding one hand out facing X. "What the fuck! I thought he was going to try to slam that thing, not swing it!" he thought to himself as he faced down his opponent. He glanced at his aura and he could already tell this wasn't going to be easy, a single strike having taken almost 10% of his aura definitely meant he couldn't afford any hits.

X began his charge again, pumping his arms to try and help speed up, Greene started spinning his weapon again, suddenly, without warning, Greene launched forwards towards X mid-charge, he swung his blade down at a diagonal arc. X quickly shot a kinetic round from the front of his right skate, as well as from the front of his right gauntlet, forcing his body to swivel with almost instant mobility, allowing him to narrowly dodge the blade's swing, but instead of Greene slashing at the ground, it swung back up away from X as it forced the hammer end to crash into X's side, throwing him away yet again. This time X fell to the floor and rolled back onto his knees, looking back towards Greene so he couldn't surprise him. "Damn! Anywhere the blade isn't that Hammer fills in, I can't even get close!" X thought to himself in his desperation to come up with a plan. He stood back up and Greene seemed to wait for him to do so, obviously wanting to fight on fair terms, X quickly spun around and jumped, he shot two kinetic rounds from the front of his gauntlets and the backs of his skates so he could perform a backflip with ease, in the middle of the air he shot an explosive round from the front of his skates, hurling two of them towards Greene with effective surprise. Greene quickly reacted by using his semblance to teleport a foot away letting the shots miss him, he began twisting his body and spinning his weapon to combat the projectiles. As X continued, landing on one foot and continuing the storm of acrobatics that shot a hailstorm of explosive rounds towards Greene, who began slicing them out of the air and forcing them away with the blade and the hammer end of his weapon. Suddenly Greene's blade didn't make contact with another round and he turned around to see that X was no longer there, feeling a sharp force against him, he looked down just in time to See X as he passed by, using the hooked end of his right Gauntlet to wrap around his abdomen, digging into his Aura before sending X around him, He quickly released Greene and sent a direct round into him as a parting gift.

Greene recoiled from the attack, taking a few steps back from the exiting explosion; X quickly came back for seconds, not wanting to waste any opportunity. Greene didn't want to give any openings so he spun around swinging his bladed end towards his side, but just before it made contact with X he disappeared, appearing just to Greene's left side, following close behind the Hammer, so Greene couldn't counter his move since he was following the rotation, but as X's blades got close to his skin he disappeared as well, appearing slightly above X slamming the hammer down towards him, it met nothing but floor as X managed to disappear just quick enough to avoid the strike. He appeared just in front of Greene, holding onto his shoulders as he flipped over him, preparing to strike the spike on the back end of his skates into Greene's back, but he disappeared just quick enough, appearing in front of X bringing the hammer upwards between his legs. X went wide-eyes making sure to disappear well before the hammer made any kind of contact. X appeared at the opposite end of the arena and gave them both space to think. Greene stood tall as if standing firm to his belief that he would win. X looked down at the scroll, both Ebony and Sky's meters were empty, neither one of them had activated their aura as of yet, Greene's was close to half, just slightly above, but X's was slightly below half, just below the yellow marker. X had managed to stay at pace, but he was steadily losing ground.

"You know Greene, if we keep at it like this, spending all of our Aura on your semblance… I'll win; after all… I'm the best Copy-Cat around" X said cockily, smirking at him, as if X knew he would be the victor of the fight. Greene didn't seem to enjoy the thought, gripping his weapon he growled lowly, barely audible to even X.

X charged, riding straight forward towards Greene, who swung his weapon heavily, but Greene didn't aim for his front, he knew that X's weapons were useless from a straight attack, preferring to out-maneuver and attack on the offhand. So he swung so his strike would hit stronger on his sides, twisting his head around to with his body to watch behind him. But no attack came, instead X screamed as he tackled Greene from the front. Greene didn't expect the move so his position didn't help him at all, X held onto his shoulders, even when Greene used his semblance to try and escape, X was latched on and went with him. Suddenly X shouted as if he were in an anime

"Hidden Move! Unloading Barrage!" X shouted as suddenly a series of explosive rounds rippled into Greene, all four of the front muzzles unloading their own rounds into him. After the series of explosions X used Greene's semblance to appear a dozen feet into the air, still gripping Greene tightly X began firing kinetic shots from the backs of all four muzzles, rocketing them both down towards the ground. The impact mixed with the close proximity explosions quickly shredded both of their aura, and yet, X stood firm. He stood up above Greene and glanced down at his meter; nearly 80% full. Greene's was almost completely depleted, only having a couple percentages left protecting his body. X took a few steps back and began sheathing his gauntlets, breathing heavily. Greene slowly sat up, barely wanting to move after such damage to his aura.

"Wha.. how?" Greene mustered the strength to breathe the words out between his panting. X grinned as he placed Crescent Scar onto the back of his pants.

"Simple really… the same way Jaye beat me, Recovery, it's the name of his semblance, sneaky little bastard" X explained, with a light chuckle, joyous about having defeated Greene. "C'mon, let me help you up Gigantor" He said holding out his hand, when Greene used it to pull himself up, he ended up just standing on his own and pulling X down onto the ground.

"Already used that one" Greene said sternly as If he wasn't offended by the name, but was instead, offended by the fact that he had already given him that name.

"Shit, sorry Grande" X retorted quickly, and it seemed to calm the friendly giant, as even though he had just lost the match, he smiled peacefully. "That was a fun fight, by the way, You're tough to deal with one on one." Greene simply nodded as they both walked to the door into the lockers. Once they entered they immediately saw Denim and Amber in the locker room rooting through an empty locker. "Denim? I thought you said you weren't going to watch my fight" X smirked at the thought that she did stay. She seemed to roll her entire head at the comment and turned around crossing her arms angrily.

"I didn't watch your stupid fight, I just had to come back and. Uh, find my scroll, I think I left it in here when I got ready" suddenly a ringing sound could be heard emanating from Denim's jacket. All four of them sat in silence until it eventually stopped ringing.

"I think you should have picked that up" X teased and Denim immediately went bright red with 'anger'

"Yeah, well if it wasn't for your stupid peeping, I wouldn't have been in a rush and thought I forgot my scroll!" She huffed and X could barely contain his laughter.

"I told you before I wasn't peeping, and you totally knew you had your scroll, admit it, you were watching the fight." Suddenly X's vision was that of the wall to his right, he tried pushing back to look over towards Denim, but some force prevented him from looking her way. "You know, I really don't like this semblance, and I normally like every semblance" X grunted out as he strained to look her way, but couldn't force it.

"And why is that? Because you can't copy it and be the best Copy Cat?" Denim teased since she seemed to have control of the situation.

"Of course not… It's because when you use it, I don't get to look at you anymore" X spoke softly, no longer struggling against the force, and just letting it do it's thing, staring sideways he smiled softly and waited for a response.

"Asshole" he barely heard her voice, not even his Faunus traits could hear what she practically didn't speak at all. Suddenly he felt the pressure release and he turned to face her once again, she was still puffing in annoyance and crossing her arms.

"Wait, how did you know about me being a 'Copy Cat'?" X questioned, now that he thought about the way she worded it, he had never mentioned his old name to her. She immediately started glancing around as if looking for inspiration for a lie.

"uh, well, Sky told me, we uh, we bumped into her in the halls and got to talking" Denim nodded agreeing with her own story as if it were a fact, but X didn't buy it for a second.

"I never told Sky about that, in fact, the only time I've mentioned that name was in my fight against Greene, you totally were watching!" X slightly cheered the thought and almost immediately his vision went to the wall again.

"I already told you I wasn't watching your stupid fight, sheesh, I've wasted so much time here, c'mon Amber let's get going" he could hear her start to leave and he slowly felt the pressure shifting, as if it acted like a bubble around her. "What are you giggling about?" was the last thing he heard Denim say before the door closed behind them both and the pressure released completely. Sighing relieved they both walked towards the lockers they used and began to rest after the fight.

"Called at perfect timing" Greene spoke, referring to how her scroll was called at the opportune moment to ruin Denim's excuse. X chuckled lightly before bringing up his scroll

"Yeah, almost as if I called her" His chuckling shifted into laughter and Greene began chuckling with him.

"You have her number? How?" X waved away the comment

"Please, I got methods man, but damn was that priceless" They both agreed on that and continued to laugh about it before getting ready to head back to the dorm room.

Authors Notes: Hey, it was really fun writing this chapter I didn't get to the time-skips and classes that I promised, but about three-quarters of the way through I felt that it was better I focused on this and made it better, rather than trying to squeeze too much in. I also didn't want to ruin what's next to come, since it's also pretty awesome. So we pretty much know all eight of the main characters semblances by now, of course, we could learn more later, but it's definitely a start. I want you guys to leave a review about what you think Ms. Steel's semblance is, and what kind of weapon she might use (after all, she is a Full-on Huntress) and make sure to share this around, don't be stingy and hide it away, let it flower and grow. I really appreciate any support or advice given, so don't be shy, anyway, I can't wait for next week's chapter. And neither should you, but until then, byeeee