Man oh man, my finals are finally over! Now as long as I passed all of my classes (which I am most certain I did), then I just have roughly one more semester left until graduation! It's been quite a ride here in college… even if all I really did was just go to campus and take my classes. Still quite tiring. Oh well.

That said, I'm also pretty excited now that Kadenz Fermata, Fortissomo's sequel, is now out! Hopefully it will receive an English patch from someone so that I can either experience it myself or watch a playthrough of it on Youtube. Of course, either way, it'll still take some time. But I'm willing to wait.

Now on yet another note, as stated in the previous chapter's AN, this current turn of events will definitely be the branching point as far as the RWBY canon goes. Already there's been a few changes on my part (Sun and Penny being nowhere to be seen last chapter amongst other things), but expect the story to really start building up momentum now!

And as this will most likely be the last chapter prior to Christmas, I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday!

Chapter 7

Ryuichi and Heracles eyed one another, the former doing so cautiously while the latter did so with much more glee, not unlike a kid just about to play with an awesome new toy.

Behind Ryuichi stood Blake, who also watched the behemoth of a Faunus before her with wide eyes. "A… Holy Knight?" she spoke, repeating what Ryuichi had just said. "Mr. Sumeragi, just what do you…?"

"Blake," said man interrupted suddenly and tersely. It was enough to nearly make the cat Faunus jump; his tone had changed that much. The fact that he was now addressing her by her first name rather than surname also hinted at the seriousness of this situation. "When he makes his move, I want you to get away from here. As fast as you possibly can."

Shifting into a defensive stance, Ryuichi prepared himself physically and mentally for anything, not even waiting for Blake to respond.

As for Heracles, the large man turned slightly towards Roman. "Your cane. You ought to grab it now and get out of here," he spoke with little tension, as if this wasn't a situation to worry about at all.

"Gee, I'll get right on that after I make sure my back isn't broken." Roman's comeback was as snarky as it could come. And with reason: although he was now back on his feet, the blow Ryuichi had dealt him barely a moment ago was still very much wracking his body with great pain, especially his back. The criminal considered it to be in his good fortune that his shoulders blades or spine weren't broken.

As the man began to hobble forward a bit to get Melodic Cudgel, Heracles then addressed the White Fang. "As for you lot, it'd be best for you to retreat with the Dust you already have on board." The man then flashed them a confident grin. "And don't worry about your escape; I'm here to cover for you."

Those words seemed to shake Blake out of her reverie and she narrowed her eyes. "No!" She wasn't about to let Roman nor the White Fang get away!

Instinctively, she rushed forward as fast as she could past Ryuichi and towards Roman, who had just barely grabbed ahold of his cane.

But just as she was halfway towards Roman, she found herself in shock as Heracles was suddenly in front of her, his right fist drawn back. "Oho, you're a quick little one," he commented before launching his fist at her.

Fast. It was the only word Blake could think of to describe the Holy Knight's sudden speed and swinging fist. He was far too fast for not only a man of his size and build, but for anyone in general. Dodging his fist was impossible for her. And now it was going to hit her.

Or so she thought.

The instant before Heracles' massive fist could make contact with her, Blake suddenly found herself whisked away from the fist's path. Now stumbling on her own feet several meters away from the man, Blake took note of the fact that someone had just been holding onto her.

"You alright?" Ryuichi asked her, still keeping an eye on Heracles and Roman, the latter of the two now rushing towards the Bullhead. The magus grunted in annoyance as he saw the Bullhead begin to take off once Roman and the White Fang boarded it.

"Y-Yes…" Blake muttered as Ryuichi let go of her. She eyed Heracles warily, more so than before at any rate.

"Please understand that this isn't something you can interfere in now," Ryuichi chided calmly, getting a wince out of Blake. "I can understand your desire to stop Torchwick and the White Fang, but things have changed now."

"Oi, magus," Heracles called out as he now took a few heavy steps forward. "Save for the girl there, we're finally on our own here. Shall we now dance?" Heracles smirked confidently and enthusiastically. Mana slowly began to surge out of his very body, making the very air quiver violently all around them. Even the ground itself began to crack a bit from the sheer pressure of it.

Even from a distance, Blake felt like passing out as the wave of mana seemed to smack her entire body. She only managed to stay conscious through sheer force of will. "Just what is he?" she asked of Ryuichi.

"That's a question that will have to wait until later." Ryuichi once again took up a fighting stance, staring straight into Heracles' eyes. "For now… just go and find some cover."

Blake bit her lip in equal parts frustration and worry. This was a day that was proving to be far from what she had ever expected. First the White Fang show up and working for a criminal like Roman of all people and now this mysterious 'Holy Knight' and the cook from Beacon Academy were about to fight it out. And there didn't seem to be anything she could do about it.

But alas, she could understand Ryuichi's point. All of the questions rushing through her mind could wait until a much more suitable time. "Just don't die," she said to him before running off.

Although she couldn't see it, Ryuichi smirked a bit. "Guess I can't go disappointing a student then…"

Sensing the slight shift in Ryuichi, Heracles chuckled heartily. "So can we finally begin?"

"Whenever you feel like it," Ryuichi now shot back.

"Ha! Then let's start!" With surprising speed, Heracles shot forth at Ryuichi, a fist reared back for an attack. "Show me what you're made of!"

And then he swung his fist.

All across the city, everyone felt it; a massive shockwave making itself known as it rocked everything in its path. Buildings shook and glass began to shatter. The streets themselves began to crack apart. People all got knocked onto the violently shaking ground while some of them even went sailing through the air from the shockwave. Even the clouds above seemed to part into smaller ones. All of this occurred just from a shockwave.

But it was the port that had taken the most damage. What was left of it anyway. Containers were blown apart into little more than miniscule pieces just from being near or at ground zero, while the ground had been utterly destroyed. Cranes used to lift and transport containers collapsed into the sea and Blake, who had taken cover on the very outskirts of the port had been blown back more than a hundred meters. Through sheer luck, she managed to avoid serious injury, but was still rather shook up.

And it was as she stood and looked at the remains of the port that she could simply utter a few words. "Oh my God…" she said in a voice hardly above that a whisper as she bore witness to a level of destruction that had never been achieved before by anything.

And it was with wide eyes still that she took note of the two combatants who now stood atop the water, as if it were solid ground.

Heracles stood where he was, his fist little more than a foot above the sea while Ryuichi stood just a few yards away from him, having avoided his blow. "You did well in avoiding that punch. Anyone else wouldn't have predicted the level of strength I possess, after all," the Holy Knight complimented, a grin upon his face.

Ryuichi looked to the city worriedly, taking note of the damage done. Thankfully, from what he could see, no one had died, though the hospitals would definitely have their hands full for a while. Turning his attention back to Heracles, he pointed towards the Faunus' feet. "So you're using mana like that too, huh…?"

Long ago, he and his wife and friends had learned how to utilize mana in a manner similar to chakra, allowing them to perform exercises such as treewalking and waterwalking with even less ease than if it had been chakra. Whereas chakra had to be carefully applied and regulated for shinobi to efficiently walk on water or up trees, for magi, mana simply had to be applied to the bottom of their feet and that was enough. It was a simple enough 'trick' to learn and master, though Ryuichi honestly hadn't been expecting a Holy Knight to be capable of it too.

That said, what truly shocked him was Heracles' strength, which was clearly at the same level as Miki of all people. And Miki was a very strong woman. If Heracles was as strong as her… "This isn't going to be easy," Ryuichi thought.

"Indeed I am," Heracles responded. As if to further compound the point, he took several steps forward atop the sea, cracking his knuckles. "It was one of the first things I and my fellow Holy Knights had to learn. All in order to better combat magi such as yourself, Ryuichi Sumeragi. Though I suppose I should call you by the codename we made for you… Thor."

"That so?" Ryuichi replied. "Then how about I show you what I can do?" He took up an attack stance.

This merely made Heracles laugh. "Then by all means, show me-!" He was cut off before he could finish and instead found himself making a choking noise as Ryuichi suddenly attacked, closing the distance between the two of them and kneeing the much larger man right in the throat.

Although not as physically strong as his longtime friend Miki or Naruto, Ryuichi's brute strength was still quite high for a magus, a result of him having been a shinobi prior to awakening as a magus. And he focused all of that strength into this one attack, which was supplemented by the momentum he had quickly built up.

And yet, Heracles still stood alive and very much conscious. Staggering back a few steps atop the sea, the Faunus' eyes seemed to just light up with glee. Even though he was still reeling from the hit, he began to raise his fist to attack…

…Only to stop when Ryuichi continued his offensive. With blinding speed that would put lightning to shame, he touched down on the sea and propelled himself around Heracles and unleashed a vicious assault of punches and kicks upon the Holy Knight's back and sides, peppering him relentlessly with blows that seemed to split the sea all around them.

Ryuichi aimed for the much larger man's kidneys and solar plexus and in general going for otherwise vital areas. It was his intention to make the man drop as soon as possible. He swung his fists with all of his might at Heracles' body, but to seemingly no avail for the man still stood.

What's more, the lion Faunus then performed a massive sweeping kick, hoping to take Ryuichi's legs off. Ryuichi saw it coming a mile away and leapt right over it, heading towards the city now. His feet briefly touching the wall of the building, he kicked right off of it and towards Heracles.

"Ha!" With a mighty swing, Ryuichi threw a punch directly at Heracles' midsection. However, to his surprise, the man now proved quick enough to block the punch with his own massive forearm, before twisting his body, causing Ryuichi to go somewhat stumbling past him atop the sea

His back now exposed to the Holy Knight, said Holy Knight brought down his elbow upon the very base of Ryuichi's neck. But Ryuichi recovered quickly and suddenly backpedaled, moving closer to Heracles. As a result, the elbow strike missed. Ignoring the sheer air pressure of the strike and the result of said air pressure, Ryuichi lashed out with both arms, gripping Heracles' massive arm and then proceeded to kick him in the legs, making him stumble.

Using the man's own body weight against him to build momentum, Ryuichi spun around several times and then threw him very far.

All of this happened in under a second. From afar, Blake was only barely able to glimpse a miniscule bit of the battle thus far. Indeed, the only part she really was Heracles sailing through the air now.

"J-Just what is…?" she began to mutter to herself, too captivated by the sight before her to even think of leaving, even if said sight was something she couldn't even keep track of. Never in a million years would she ever have imagined Ryuichi capable of such strength and speed. It was simply unreal. That applied even more so to Heracles, whose strength was the cause of all the damage around her.

But as shocked as she was, the cat Faunus was able to keep her wits about her enough to realize that these two fighters most definitely weren't hunters. No, it'd be far more accurate to say that they were most definitely not normal. On something of a whim, she recalled the 'strange phenomena' that had occurred in Atlas and had been reported in the news some time ago. "Is there some kind of connection here?" she inwardly entertained. Both that case and this case were definitely far from what could be labeled as typical, much less expected.

She was roused from her deepening thoughts when Heracles finally landed further out to sea, creating a massive splash that was both visible and audible even from this distance.

Ultimately, Blake decided that much like her questions, further thinking on this matter could wait until later. For now… for now, she had to continue keeping her eyes on this fight. No matter what.

Elsewhere in Vale, however, she wasn't the only one taking notice of all this.

"Just what in the world was that?!" Weiss, normally so proper, shouted as she dusted herself off.

"Owie…" Ruby muttered, rubbing her arm. It hurt from where she had landed on it, having been one of the many people thrown off their feet by the shockwave from just now.

"Urgh…" Yang looked little better than her two teammates, sporting a new dirty look to her. Her eyes briefly turned red in anger as she took of her now dirty hair, but managed to rein in it for the time being.

The three members of team RWBY had set out today to look for Blake. They had done so consistently ever since their teammate had first taken off. Although they had been shocked to learn she was a Faunus and apparently had ties to the White Fang at some point or another, none of this had deterred them for searching for her, if only to at least hear what she may have to say.

That being said, the last thing they had ever expected was some kind shockwave to knock them flat onto their butts.

"Just what happened?" Yang asked no one in particular as she tried to clean out her hair with her hands, but to no avail.

Suppressing a grimace, Weiss then pointed to the west. "Don't know," she said in a rather clipped voice. "But it seems like the source of… whatever hit us, came from there."

"The… port?" Ruby asked in confusion. She was trying to remember what exactly lied in that direction hence the pause. Still, it seemed like her answer miffed Weiss a bit.

"Yes…" the white haired huntress in training replied.

"Well, then what are we standing around for?" Yang said, lightly jogging ahead of her sister and Weiss. "Let's go check it out!" Then she took off in a genuine sprint, going as fast as she could.

"A-Ah! Sis! Wait up!" Ruby cried out, giving chase.

"Hey!" Weiss yelled after them. "What about Bla-! Oh, fine!" She too began to run towards the port.

And although none of them spoke it aloud, they sincerely hoped Blake wasn't caught up in this mess.

Back with Ryuichi and Heracles, the two were still doing battle further away from the destroyed port. The former was on the offensive as much as possible, attacking Heracles at every opening he saw. But the openings were far and few in between. Although the Holy Knight didn't quite look the part, it was clear from he moved to defend himself that he's had some serious combat training and was just as experienced as he was skilled.

"Ha ha ha! Now this is what I was looking for!" Heracles grinned madly as he moved with surprising flexibility and even grace as he kept on the moving, running across the water so fast he'd stay atop it even without mana.

Suddenly changing directions, he now headed directly for the lunging Ryuichi and tried to knee him. But his target lightly leapt up and over him, the ancient magus flipping a few times before trying to attack the Faunus at the back of the head with a kick.

Ryuichi lightly scowled when Heracles ducked his head forward, just narrowly avoiding his attack. Flipping around once more as to land on his feet, he immediately had to take several steps back to avoid a sudden elbow blow from Heracles, who then used the momentum of his failed attack to rush towards him.

"Come now, entertain me mo-!" Heracles stopped speaking when Ryuichi suddenly kicked some water into his eyes and open mouth, startling the man. He was further prevented from speaking when the ancient magus moved closer and kicked the inside part of his right thigh, causing him to nearly drop to his knees on the sea.

"Just what is it you guys are after?" Ryuichi now questioned as Heracles took a moment to regain himself. His voice was terse and commanding. If he had been speaking to anyone else, his voice combined with his no nonsense facial expression would've been enough to have them talking immediately.

But all it did was make Heracles flash a sedated smile. "Ah, it'd seem you don't quite share my joy. No matter…" He now stood up to his full height, looking down upon Ryuichi. "I can't exactly say I'm compelled to tell you what I know."

"Not even a little? Like why you Holy Knights are after us 'ancient magi?'" Ryuichi asked.

"Hrmm, so you've kept in contact…" Heracles pondered. He and his fellow knights had long since expected the ancient magi to get into contact with one another following Indra's battle with Daisuke. Still, that was all they had expected. They hadn't been sure just what would happen next if or when the ancient magi truly gathered.

"Did you really expect anything else after one of your comrades went after one of mine?" Ryuichi replied flatly, not dropping his guard at all as he talked. For now, he was simply waiting to see if the man before him would slip up while talking, giving away a potentially valuable bit of information. If that didn't work, then at least once the waves they've created here have subsided fully, he could go on the offensive again without having water splash into his face.

That got a little chuckle out of his opponent. "Not at all. And to be honest, I look forward to what you lot will do in response. Especially since the one of you I had fought had put up a rather disappointing fight…"

At that, Ryuichi's eyes narrowed dangerously. "One of us…? Who?" he demanded.

"Well, our codename for him was Jormungandr, but I believe his real name was Orochimaru," Heracles replied with little feeling, as if he was stating the night weather.

"…Ah!" Ryuichi then dropped his guard in shock. Although the 'ancient magi' as they were called did keep in touch with one another over the centuries, it was still done far enough apart that it'd be easy to think one of them simply forgot to call. But now it made sense why he nor anyone else had heard from Orochimaru recently at all.

This Holy Knight standing before him had killed the former sannin.

Seeing his lowered guard, Heracles wasted no time in taking advantage of it. He swung his fist in a mighty uppercut. Snapping back to his senses, Ryuichi saw it and tried to block as it was now too late for him to dodge it and parrying it was out of the question due to Heracles' sheer strength. The blow connected hard with his crossed arms. Ryuichi could literally feel his bones creak and fracture from the force of it.

He went flying upwards into the sky at an impossible speed. But he didn't fly for long; thanks to his equally powerful legs, Heracles jumped straight up after him and grabbed hold of Ryuichi's head.

"Now try to shrug off this!" The Holy Knight gloated as he shifted his position and threw Ryuichi back towards Vale.

Back at the port, Blake still remained where she was. Unable to progress anywhere near the battle field of Ryuichi and Heracles, all she could do now was to wait and hope for Ryuichi's return.

However, she was so focused on trying to see as far as she could that she didn't notice the new arrivals to the wrecked port.

"Blake, you're alright!" Ruby then cried as she was the first of the three arrivals. Her cry having gotten the cat Faunus to uncharacteristically jump from surprise and slight fright, Ruby then enveloped the older girl in a tight hug.

"There… you… are…!" Weiss muttered tiredly as she now arrived, wheezing a bit. It had been quite a distance they've had to cross and keeping up with Ruby had proven most tiresome. She made a note to improve her speed in the future.

"Glad to see you're alright," Yang said with a grin as she also showed up, watching in slight amusement as the Faunus girl tried to break free of Ruby's grasp, to little avail. "But just what happened here?!" The blond did a 180, going from cheerful to shocked and confused as she then motioned to the port before them all.

"Yes, what did happen here?" Weiss now asked, having regained her breath. She folded her arms across her chest and shot Blake a determined look. "And don't think we're not going to have a talk about your… heritage later…" she muttered too, making sure it was said loud enough for Blake to hear.

Said girl winced, but slightly nodded anyway. Indeed, this was a matter that had to be resolved one way or another. "Ruby…" She then said softly, patting the girl to make her let go of her, to which the younger girl obliged. Once she was free of Ruby's grasp, she motioned towards the destroyed port. "It's a long story, but right now, Mr. Sumeragi is fighting-."

She was interrupted by Yang, who held up a hand to stop her. "Whoa, whoa, wait there… Mr. Sumeragi?!"

"As in the cook from Beacon?!" Weiss now chipped in.

"Yeah and he's fighting someone that was working with the White Fang and Roman Torchwick…" Blake trailed off, her eyes narrowing as a grimace appeared on her face. The White Fang. Her old group. She vowed to look into this as soon as possible, especially since they're working with Torchwick of all people. God, how she hated that bastard. Though this had been the first time ever meeting him, his personality had more than rubbed her the wrong way, his criminal record aside.

"T-Torchick too?!" Ruby squeaked. "Wh-?!"

She didn't get to ask her question.

For right as she had been about to speak, something relatively small ended up sailing right over their heads. It flew at such speed, it almost literally lifted the members of team RWBY right off their feet. Said flying object continued onwards without slowing, smashing through more than a dozen buildings in the city before them all.

"W-What was that?!" Ruby now exclaimed as she regained her balance.

"That almost looked like a person…" Weiss was just as shocked as her team's leader. But it was Blake's reaction that then surprised her and the others more.

"That was… Mr. Sumeragi!" Blake then said.

"Oh? You actually saw that it was him? Good eyesight, girl…"

A large shadow fell over team RWBY and they immediately turned around to see Heracles all but literally standing right over them. Having gave chase just now after Ryuichi, he had spotted the four girls at the port and had decided to stop to see just what they were doing, snooping around the area.

"You…!" Blake growled out. She knew it was pointless to do so, but she couldn't help it. If this behemoth of a man could move so quickly, running away now wasn't going to do much of anything. So instead, she pulled out Gambol Shroud.

Her teammates, although taken aback greatly by Heracles' sudden appearance, proceeded to pull out their weapons as well.

"Hmm, you four certainly have spirit," Heracles commented. "But alas, you're not my targets. Now just stand aside so that-." He had begun to already walk towards the team, intent on lightly swatting them to the side so that he could continue onwards to where Ryuichi had crashed. He had expected the ancient magus' impromptu flight to have left him disoriented for a while. But if the sudden punch to his solar plexus was anything to go by, that was hardly the case. "Gah!"

"Mr. Sumeragi!" Ruby cried out as the man in question now stood in front of her and her sister, his fist having buried itself into Heracles' body just now.

The members of team RWBY watched in amazement as the devastating punch knocked the Holy Knight back several meters instantly, blood now beginning to dribble out of the man's mouth.

"Guah… heh…" Despite the pain, the lion Faunus grinned. "Truly, you are a wonderful opponent… and to think you've yet to use your magical weapon!"

"Magical weapon?" These two words shot through the minds of team RWBY as they watched.

As for Ryuichi, despite being covered in water and dirt, he appeared seemingly unfazed. "I suppose I ought to say the same to you, what with your comrade having a magical weapon too… though considering how 'artificial' your mana feels… maybe the term 'magical weapon' can't quite apply."

Heracles chuckled. "You make a good point. Indeed, we Holy Knights certainly don't have 'magical weapons' as they're called by you magi… but that doesn't mean that our weapons are inferior to yours." He cracked his knuckles and his mana began to violently flare. "In fact, now that our little warm up is done, how about we really get serious!"

He started to charge towards Ryuichi, the man's fists raised apart. A faint glow began to encompass his fists. Ryuichi knew right then and there the man was preparing to summon his weapon.

However.

"I think I'll pass on that," Ryuichi responded flatly to the charging man. "How about I just wait for my wife to give me a helping hand instead?"

"Wha-?" Heracles didn't finish. From seemingly out of nowhere, two red beams shot out and struck the Holy Knight in his knees with incredible power. In immediate response, the knees buckled and as he was charging, Heracles ended up stumbling almost comically at full speed instead.

Ryuichi was already moving by the time Heracles started to stumble. Getting too close to the man for him to properly try and attack him, Ryuichi took hold of Heracles' arm and proceeded to spin in place before leaping and throwing the man high into the sky.

Just as Heracles reached the very peak of the throw – which happened to be so high that even to Ryuichi's eyes, he was little more than a speck in sight – a more massive red beam made itself known and struck Heracles square in the back. Rather than explode like the first two did, it instead acted as something of a rocket or a drill, digging deep into the skin while blasting him off into the very far distance.

From very far away, Mari watched as Heracles disappeared even from her sight. "Hope you have a nice landing in the next continent," she quipped to herself.

Dressed in her casual clothes, she looked to what she held in her hands: a bow. More specifically, her magical weapon, Ichaival. Being a bow, it was naturally meant for long range combat. But it did more than simply fire random arrows. No, instead the arrows Mari utilized were formed directly from her own mana and in regards to this, she was capable of creating different 'types' of arrows. For example, the red ones she had fired just now could either have an exploding effect or a drilling effect or even both if she had really desired it.

But what really made the bow deadly was its more 'passive' ability, with her arrows being capable of tracking her targets. Once launched and within twenty meters of the target, it didn't matter if her aim was off or not; the arrow launched would follow the target until it hit.

Furthermore, this magical weapon only further played to her main 'strength': having always had incredibly good eyesight even before awakening as a magus so many centuries ago, her eyesight now was even better than Naruto's. On average, it was possible for magi to be capable of seeing or hearing or even smelling up to nearly a kilometer away. For magi of Ryuichi's or Miki's level, that range jumped up to roughly a kilometer and a half, though they'd have to focus in order to do so. And in Naruto's case, that range jumped up to nearly four kilometers for those three senses. But whereas her sense of hearing and smell was roughly at the same level as her husband's, Mari's eyesight was so great, she could see in perfect detail objects as small as cup from a little more than eleven kilometers away.

And so it was from her current spot, just north of the city's borders that she had safely sniped Heracles. It certainly was a good thing she had gone along with her husband's idea of keeping track of the rest of team RWBY while he had tailed Blake at first. And when the battle between him and Heracles broke out, she simply bade her time until she could truly ensure the most damage to Heracles' person.

That said, something felt off to her. "My arrow wasn't piercing his skin…" she thought in worry. She had kept a careful eye on Heracles as he had sailed off into the distance and she couldn't even remotely see the slightest drop of blood. Although her attacks had definitely done him some harm, his body remained in perfect condition.

Which raised the question of just how tough these Holy Knights could be. "Boy oh boy…" she muttered as she dismissed her magical weapon.

Watching silently as her husband tried to talk team RWBY into heading back to Beacon with him before answering their questions, Mari could only worry over what would happen next.

Because if the other Holy Knights were anything like this one… then they may very well be in a whole lot of trouble.

And I'm finally done! Hope I managed to live up to expectations for this chapter. It was my intention to keep the fight relatively short, yet exciting.

That said, I hope it will also serve a sign to you all for things to come. The intensity of the battles will only continue to ramp up overtime and it's also my intention to pretty much outdo the final battle of the God Slaying Wolf in intensity and length. So I hope to deliver on that front, though not for some time; things are still very much only at the 'opening' phase of it all.

Alas, the next chapter may not be out until Christmas or after it.

So as always, thanks for reading and I do hope you all have a wonderful holiday and New Year!