Ravage charged forward, his scythe gripped firmly in his right hand with his cape and skirt flowing behind him with his three tails as he rushed forward with incredible speed.
"Come on!" Yang rushed towards Ravage, shooting a couple of blasts behind her to propel herself straight at the kitsune.
"Yang!" Ruby exclaimed. Weiss and Blake set off after Yang. Ruby rolled her eyes and fired off a sniper shot behind her and flew after them. Ravage grinned and readied his scythe, skidding forwards as he took hold of the weapon with both hands. Yang was struck repeatedly with Ravage's copy of Crescent Rose before she could even get close to hitting him, Ravage using range to his advantage. One strike; two strike, spin attack, rising slice! Ravage dashed under Yang after knocking her into the air. Blake rushed around him and went in with a spin attack. Ravage stabbed his scythe into the ground and swung around it to kick Blake in the face before blasting her away with a sniper shot, sending him flying towards Weiss. Ravage curled up into a ball and spun through the air with his scythe stuck out: catching Weiss off guard and striking her with a mid-air pinwheel attack before smacking her aside with a single swing of the scythe afterwards. Ravage barely had time to block Ruby's strike from above. The ground cracked beneath Ravage as he and Ruby clashed. Ruby backflipped away and Ravage jumped back, swapping out scythe for rapier, folding it up and holstering it on his lower back, and assuming Weiss' battle stance as he landed. Ruby landed back down and was struck by a sword thrust from Ravage upon doing so, only for Yang to jump in and try and hit Ravage in the back. Ravage narrowly dodged her downwards punch and created a wall of ice between him and Yang immediately afterwards with his rapier, shivering a little just before turning to parry Blake's dashing attack. He retaliated with several quick stabs, comboing Blake before she used an afterimage to escape and Weiss came flying at him with a sword thrust. Ravage countered with his own and the tip of their rapiers collided: a shockwave bursting out from the collision. Ravage and Weiss proceeded to repeatedly clash blades with sword slice after slice and stab after stab countering one another. Weiss backdashed and stabbed her sword into the ground: a row of ice spikes bursting out and rushing towards Ravage, who used a demonic rune to quickly escape into the air. He swapped out his rapier for his copy of Gambol Shroud.
"Come here!" Ravage yanked Weiss into the air using his weapon's kusarigama form to grab Weiss. Yang punched through the ice wall Ravage had made previously with Ruby by her side. Ravage swung Weiss around before sending her flying at Ruby, Weiss smashing into her and the two flying back. Yang leapt up after Ravage only to be sent flying with severa lcrescent beams launched from Ravage's sword and sheath.
"Quick, get off!" Weiss exclaimed. Ruby stumbled back onto her feet, followed by Weiss only for Yang to smack into both of them. "Ahh!" All three flew back. Ravage landed on the ground and turned to block Blake's attack which he had predicted, only for Blake to trick him with an afterimage and reappear behind him. She swung both her sword and sheath. It was an afterimage of Ravage. Ravage dashed back and the two met head-on. Blake and Ravage repeatedly swung their blades and sheaths whilst dashing around the arena as Ruby, Weiss and Yang got back onto their feet. Ravage backflipped away from Blake's next attack and blasted her back with a shot from his Gambol Shroud's pistol form. She landed next to the others.
"We need a new plan... he's completely went against our previous one..." Ruby sighed. Yang cracked her knuckles.
"I have a plan. Attack!" Yang rushed in as Blake got back onto her feet. Ravage put Gambol Shroud away and bashed his fists together, activating the Ember Celica gauntlet on his left arm and letting an aura of flames erupt around him. Yang's eyes turned blood red and she grinned as flames trailed from her fists. Ravage sprinted forwards and sent a shotgun blast out from his gauntlet followed by an energy blast from demon arm. Yang dodged around both before spinning forward and hitting Ravage straight on with a left hook to the face. Ravage returned the favour with a right hook to Yang's face. They struggled against one other for a brief moment before blasting each other back with a shotgun blast from their free arms. Yang skidded backwards, stopping besides the rest of Team RWBY. "Alright..." Yang sighed. "New plan." Weiss folded her arms and gave Yang a stern glare. "What?" Yang asked. Blake facepalmed.
"Not half bad weapons..." Ravage pulled out his copy of Ruby's scythe again and twirled it around before resting it on his right shoulder. "Have I really thrown you all off that much with a bit of a mix-up?" He smirked. "Come on, surely you've all sparred against one another? Just combine that knowledge with good ol' teamwork. Nobody knows your weaknesses like you do... I hope..." Team RWBY looked amongst themselves, considering the kitsune's words. They silently formed plans amongst themselves before with nods
"Alright... here goes nothing." Ruby twirled her scythe around before pointing it at Ravage. Weiss pulled her rapier back and assumed her battle stance. Blake put her sword back in its sheath and holstered it on her back, keeping a firm grip on the hilt. Yang cracked her neck and smashed her fists together. "Team RWBY... divide and conquer." Ruby grinned.
"Wait... how do we divide and conquer if he's only one person?" Yang asked.
"Uhhh..." Ruby looked aside. "Look, just roll with it." She sighed.
"I'm just saying." Yang shrugged.
"I probably should learn mom's doppelganger/multi-form technique some time..." Ravage muttered to himself. "Some time..."
"Let's go." Ruby lead the charge. Ravage grinned as his right eye's pupil glowed with power. He ran his left hand through his head fur.
"Well then, let's go indeed." Ravage dashed forward. Mid-dash he disappeared from sight and reappeared behind Ruby. "Never see me coming, even if you got special eyes." He went to hit her in the back with his scythe.
"Huh?!" Ruby's eyes widened as she turned around. Yang struck Ravage with a flying kick as he went in for the attack, knocking him away just in time. "Wow, he is fast..." Ruby muttered. Weiss created an ice wall which Blake jumped onto and slided along so as to reach Ravage as he flew through the air. Blake leapt towards him but Ravage recovered in time to effortlessly block her strike. He was then hit with a sniper shot from Ruby, sending him flying away from Blake who then yanked him back to her and flung him into the ice wall Weiss had formed for her. Ravage smashed through the ice and Yang proceeded to fire explosive round after explosive round into the chaos. Ravage came dashing out of the smoke and knocked Yang back with a sword thrust with his rapier before turning to parry Ruby's spinning attack. Weiss and Blake rushed around him at the same time and went to strike him simultaneously only for the kitsune to backflip over them: causing them to crash into Ruby. As Ravage landed Yang came in with a downwards punch. The demon made a quick 180 degree turn and countered with a left hook, their fists colliding. Yang jumped back and skidded to a halt just as Ravage pulled out his copy of Gambol Shroud and dashed forward to strike her with its sheath, sword still inside: followed by dashing around Yang and sending her flying into the others with a crescent beam launched from the weapon.
"Damn..." Ravage holstered the weapon on his back. "This, this is too easy..." He muttered. "No fun like this. Guess I'll have to cut my power by at least half." Ravage looked over to the screen, he had barely taken any damage. Team RWBY were all close to around 50%. He hadn't even been hitting them seriously. "Yep... lowering my power. Wow... I feel kinda terrible... this is like taking the unguarded back door to a castle. I guess their power combined is too good to be used on them." He reached into his pouch and pulled out four more beans. "Hey..." He called out to Team RWBY as they stumbled back up onto their feet. Ruby; Weiss, Blake and Yang looked over to him. "Mid-match Senzus." He threw the beans to the girls, all of them catching one. "Lowering my power as well." Weiss looked over to the monitor.
"What?!" She exclaimed.
"And I was still pulling my punches." Ravage shrugged.
"Heh, we really are strong together." Yang chuckled before eating the bean in her right hand. The others followed her lead, their Aura metres returning to 100% afterwards. "Well, let's kick some." Team RWBY rushed forward.
"Hmm, ladies first" Ravage smirked. He twirled his copy of Crescent Rose around and beckoned Team RWBY to attack. Ruby swung her scythe downwards at him and Ravage sidestepped the blade. Ruby smirked as Yang jumped over her and flew at Ravage with her right arm pulled back and Weiss dashed to Ravage's right side, whilst Blake reappeared behind Ravage. The kitsune was ready for Weiss to rush at him. Ravage's right eye widened. Weiss stabbed her rapier into the floor and ice developed around Ravage's feet, trapping him in place. "Ahh! That stings! Wasn't..." Yang delivered a powerful punch to the kitsune's face and Blake immediately followed up by flying-kicking him in the back. "Gah, my spine!" Yang proceeded to uppercut Ravage into the air, the ice around his feet shattering as he flew upwards. Ruby twirled her scythe around before taking aim and firing off a sniper round. The bullet went straight through Ravage's chest and shredded up his heart. Ravage flipped backwards, losing his grip on his scythe and letting it fall down: spinning through the air before the blade was imbedded in the ground.
"Uhh... did..." Ruby cut herself off as Ravage smirked and chuckled, his heart healing back up as he flipped through the air. He landed on the handle of his scythe and rose back up, the magifibres of his tank top stitching themselves back together, his clothing repairing itself. Ravage was surrounded by Team RWBY. "You okay?" Ruby scratched her head. "Looked like that round actually hurt."
"Oh it did. Nothing serious though. You just caught me off guard is all. Would'a probably bounced off otherwise." Ravage shrugged. Blake reappeared directly above Ravage but the kitsune caught her blade in his right hand without even looking back. "I wasn't expecting the ice straight off the bat, sent me into a minor shock." Ravage threw Blake away, letting her crash into Weiss. In the blink of an eye he reappeared behind Ruby, the two now back to back, resting his scythe over his right shoulder. "It was a smart move." He and Ruby spun around and swung their scythes at one another, the two briefly clashing and then jumping back from each other. Ruby fired off another shot at Ravage and he jumped back again, only for Yang to hit him with an explosive round as he lande: launching him towards Weiss. Weiss rushed in with a sword thrust but Ravage recovered in time to land himself on her blade. He then leapt over Weiss and blasted her in the back with a round from his gauntlet before turning around to block Blake's leaping sword and sheath strike with his scythe. Blake backflipped and left behind an afterimage which Ravage sent his scythe spinning through with a throw as he spun around to block Ruby and Yang's joint strike with his demon arm and gauntlet.
"Blake!" Weiss called out to her teammate, proceeding to power the Faunus up with a speed glyph as she landed back on the ground.
"Gotta go fast it seems." Ravage chuckled. He pushed Ruby and Yang back before curling up into a ball and started spinning in place on the ground. Blake rushed at him at double speed. Ravage blasted forward and knocked Ruby off her feet before launching himself up into the air and turning around in place before curling up into a ball again, this time with the tips of his three tails sticking out, before flying towards Blake. Blake effortlessly blocked Ravage's homing attack, the kitsune's tail tips repeatedly striking her weapon as he spun around, sparks flying between the two. Blake knocked Ravage back, forcing him to uncurl, before striking him with a volley of sword beams: juggling him in the air as Weiss stabbed her rapier into the floor and a giant ice pillar broke out of the ground underneath Ravage and knocked him higher up. Yang leapt after Ravage, intending to punch him straight back down. Ravage recovered and drew his rapier from his side and parried Yang's attack, following up with a series of quick slashes with the blade before blasting Yang away with a round from his gauntlet. Ravage landed back on the ground and called his scythe back, the weapon flying into his right hand after he put his rapier back at his side. Ruby was charging at him from the front with Blake whilst Weiss rushed at him from the back. Ravage twirled around and launched a crimson crescent beam from his scythe's blade at Weiss before turning to block Ruby and Blake's joint strike. Ravage was forced back a little as Crescent Rose and Gambol Shroud struck the handle of his scythe. Weiss cut through the energy blast flying her way before creating a curved wall of ice which she ran up and along before going in for a downwards strike on Ravage. Just then Yang skidded past Blake and went in with a dashing punch on Ravage's left. Ravage quickly pulled his rapier from his side and threw it up behind him before grabbing Yang's fist with his left hand and wrapping his central tail around his rapier's hilt so he could block Weiss' attack from above. The ground cracked underneath Ravage as he fended off Team RWBY's team attack. "Getting better..." Ravage grinned as Team RWBY pushed the attack, Weiss dropping down behind him and continuing to struggle against his tail held rapier. Yang kept pushing forward, her fist igniting in flames as Ravage held her back. Sparks flew between Ravage and Ruby and Blake as their weapons clashed. The ground continued to crack up beneath Ravage as he held everyone off.
"Now!" Ruby gave it her all and broke through Ravage's defence with Blake, sending his scythe flying and spinning through the air. Weiss hit his rapier from his tail's grasp before pulling her rapier back and preparing to unleash a sword thrust on the kitsune's back. Yang punched Ravage's left arm back before going in with a left hook, her left arm igniting in flames like her right had previously. Ruby and Blake went in for another attack.
"Huh..." Ravage's fiery aura flared up as he regained his footing. "Come on!" He flew forward and delivered a punch straight to Ruby's gut, ducking under her scythe during his dash. The kitsune parried Blake's attack with his demon arm and kicked Yang back with his left foot before dashing around Ruby and roundhouse kicking her into Weiss. He pulled the sheathed sword holstered on his back out and then drew the blade from its sheath before twirling both around as Team RWBY got back up and banded together. Ravage turned to face them. His rapier and scythe, folded up, reappeared at his left side and on his lower back respectively.
"Well..." Ruby looked over to the monitor. "At least we're about even."
"Already?" Weiss looked to Ruby.
"Better hit him with everything we've got." Yang cracked her neck.
"Let's go for broke then." Ravage grinned, moving his right foot behind his left. Team RWBY dashed forward, charging as one towards the kitsune. "Heheh, Alright. Stepping it up." Ravage burst off at his current max speed, the ground where he once stood exploding from the force. Team RWBY leapt up into the air and went in for a combined attack. Ravage jumped up to meet them head-on, flying at the team with his copy of Gambol Shroud at the ready.