When they entered the forest Chase noticed a surprising lack of grimm. -Aww, I was expecting more if this place was so restricted- Ruby had grabbed hold of his hand which she seemingly didn't even realise she had done. She began to lead him through the forest.-I forgot she was here earlier in the year- After a while of just walking through the forest Chase stopped, Ruby gave a tug but then realised why he had stopped.

All around them red circles were glowing in the dark areas. Chase smiled as he pulled out Gelida Furore in it's bow form, loading three arrows and firing them into the area where he could see the most eyes. His explosive shots went off causing some satisfying growls of pain, he could hear Ruby firing shots off on Crescent Rose. The beasts finally jumped out of hiding and Chase jumped up switching Gelida Furore to it's short swords and slicing a Beowulf in half, Ruby had charged in and was slicing through a group which had surrounded her. Chase focused on thinning the herds which were getting close so that Ruby didn't get overwhelmed. When Beowulves finally stopped appearing they walked a little farther and into an opening beside a cliff.

"A perfect place for a picnic"

"Speaking of which what sorts of food did you bring?"

"Well, since we had food in Beacon not too long ago I just brought something small" he said bringing out a medium sized box filled with cookies, Ruby's eyes lit up when she saw the label on the top.

"Aurora's bakery, that place is really expensive, how could you afford this"

"They gave me a big discount for having saved them during the breach" Chase lied, it had taken up most of the money he had earned from being a student to pay for them.

She immediately opened the box and started eating them at an incredible speed. Chase was going to tell her to slow down but about halfway through the box she stopped and motioned the box towards him.

"Did you want some?"

"No, I'm still full from earlier"

"You sure?" she said with a suspicious face

"Yes, it's fine I bought the box for you to eat, I just expected them to last longer"

She gave a laugh which made Chase smile "You underestimate my love for cookies"

"Obviously" he gave off a short laugh

Ruby finished the rest of the cookies within seconds and rested her head on Chase's shoulder. They sat in silence staring at the view from the cliff. Watching as the sun fell down over the horizon. Their silence was broke by the growl of an ursa. Chase and Ruby prepared their weapons as they heard it run towards them, each step causing trembles in the ground. When the monster finally emerged it looked more tough than the average grimm, it was taller and it's entire body was covered in the bone-like armour with spikes protruding from it's shoulders and back.

"I don't see any gaps in it's armour"

They both assessed the area while the beast gave off a loud roar, Ruby looked at the cliff and then grinned and looked to Chase. He realised what she had planned and nodded. The beast swung it's arm at Chase who ducked under it and fired an explosive arrow which caused the beast to sway towards the cliff before it regained its footing, after which the monster jumped up, slamming it's feet on the ground which caused Chase to fall backwards. The monster was following up with another swipe when Chase saw roses appear in front of him and the beast fell backwards, he jumped up and grabbed a gravity arrow, shooting it at the cliff edge so that the beast couldn't recover his footing. After it gave a struggle the monster finally fell off the cliff.

"Thanks, that thing was a step up from what we're used to."

"Maybe that was why we're not supposed to come here" Ruby said, hiding her anger at Chase

"Yeah… maybe this would be a good time to leave"

They got the airship back to Beacon and by the time they had got back everyone else was asleep so Chase walked Ruby to her room before finding a place to sleep for the night. The next morning he had a match early so he got his breakfast before everyone else woke up and headed to the arena to look up previous matched from his opponent.

From what he could tell his opponent was new to these tournaments as well, this one being only her second. Though in the last one she had done well enough to get to the quarter finals. She was equipped with a rifle which also acted as a double bladed sword, she was agile in the way she moved, though it seemed she used his semblance as Pyrrha did, meaning that he was unable to figure it out from the footage.

He could hear the speakers in the preparation room announce that the match was about to begin. Chase took his place at the door and walked through it into the arena where his opponent, Angeline Onyx was standing with her weapon behind her. The bell went off telling both of them the match had begun. Unlike his previous opponent she lunged at him immediately, attempting to stab him as she caught him off guard. Her blade just managed to slice him in the side as he tried to dodge. Chase was trying to bring out his short swords but she kept pressure on him, forcing him to dodge as she was aggressive with her moves. He shielded his arm and knocked her weapon aside as his icy arm grabbed one of his short swords and swung at her she bent backwards to avoid his blade but while she was flipping backwards kicked Chase. While she had knocked him near to the yellow Chase finally had a moment to breath and take out his weapons.

From then on he was able to block each of her attacks well and the fight became one of attrition, neither of them giving the other an opportunity to attack. -I need to think of someway to catch her off guard, if I want to use any dust then I'll need to gain some space however she's keen to stay close to me.- He lifted his foot and stood on hers, it was a dirty trick but it stopped her onslaught temporarily, he took out and energy crystal and made an outburst which gave him some distance. He then switched Gelida Furore to it's bow and shot an electric arrow to stun her for a few more precious moments. He switched it back to short swords and dashed in swinging his swords at her, suddenly his movements slowed and she was able to move her dual blades to parry him. -So she uses dust as well, this makes the fight a little more interesting- He went to dash backwards but noticed that his feet started to burn. He looked down to see fire sprouting from the ground. He narrowly avoided it but the damage the fire did to his feet knocked his aura further into the yellow while hers remained green.

He went straight for her, this time leaving her no time to react with dust as he forced her to block his attacks, he used some of the ice dust infused in him to create a spike of ice behind her the force pushed her closer to him and he used her momentum against her by focusing some aura into his sword and slicing her in the stomach which knocked her aura down to just above red.-Just as I thought, she doesn't have much aura so she can't last a long match- Her attacks became much slower and Chase was able to dodge them with ease, though he didn't play about for long and ended the match with a punch from his right arm. He reached out an arm to help her up, his hit had done more than he had intended and she was almost out of aura. He placed her arm around him and helped her to the medical team.

When he got back up to the seating area he could see Yang was disappointed and Blake and Ruby were comforting her.

"She get put out?"

"Yeah, Pyrrha was also put out, she wasn't able to do anything to Flash."

"Yeah, he had some pretty heavy armour. Only reason I could beat him was that I could keep track of him without the armour."

"As soon as he got rid of it Pyrrha didn't even get to move, she was knocked out on seconds. It was so close up to that point."

"Well, that's the whole of JNPR out and one of RWBY as well."

"What about the mercenaries. How have they been doing?"

Chase checked his scroll to see that Shu was the only one left, he and Cinder had made it past the qualifying match but Cinder was put out this match. Shu's match had only lasted 20 seconds.

"Shu's the only one left, if his last match has anything to say about it" he said showing them his scroll "He shouldn't have any problems"