'Thinking'

Time skip to Getting on the bullhead

Blake's POV

Ive spent slot of time with Max since we met and as much as I won't admit it to him I'm happy he helped me. I was reluctant at first to let him help. He went against everything that I've learnt throughout both my life and time in the white fang and keeps doing so. Heh. He's changed my life.. and me so much and now even though there are still so many mysteries surrounding him I trust him with all my heart and know that he will tell me everything when the time is right.

" hey Blake wake up from your catnap. We've arrived." Whispers Max whilst shaking me lightly.

Aww he's acting so cute.He must think I'm asleep...Wait did he just call me sleeping a cat nap. He's going to pay for that.

Getting up and glaring at him for his comment I decide to punish him later. I unbuckle the belt and follow him out of the bullhead. As he leads me around Mistral.

Not long after we started paying rent for the apartment that we share Max begun training. I still don't know how strong he actually is and every time I ask or go to follow him to watch him train he says the exact same thing ' just wait showing you my art now would ruin the surprise '. On the way here he was incessantly going on and on about his art which will blow the audiences' minds whether or not he meant that literally or not I haven't figured out.

Whilst I'm having my internal monologue Max has sped and is now running from me.

" hurry up Blake we can't keep my audience waiting" shouts back Max as he slows down and looks at me. " wait actually just give me the identification and all the stuff I need to enter the tournament and you can go find us a hotel "

" wow I'm amazed this is the first actually good idea you've ever had I'm proud of you" I say in my now much more common mocking tone.

" Why must you be so mean to me. " cries Max as a depressed aura surrounds him and tears fall from his face. Before he perks back up almost straight away " well since we are very good friends and you have given me your scroll number I'll message you the time which I'm set to fight "

I smile slightly just little enough most wouldn't notice as I walk away to find the hotel.

At the stadium after max has signed up

Max's POV

'Ahh now that I've messaged Blake I can go watch the other matches ' when I reach the arena the fight that is currently happening is between two people and the winner of their matchless will face the winner of my match. The fight from what I can tell is almost over it was pretty much il a one sided slaughter. The winning party was called Yo he had orange hair whiskers and an orange fox tail. He was absolutely the more skilled fighter but instead of just lowering his opponents aura he taunted and targeted spots that would cause the most pain as possible. It was quite lucky that the match ends when the aura gets into the red.

Since the match is over I walk over to the changing rooms I get into my customised hiruko puppet. All that I've actually changed was that it looked more like someone my age other than that he's the exact same including the akatsuki cloak that covered him.

3rd person POV

As the hiruko puppet walked onto the field the crowd was shocked after all he looks nothing like he does in the picture given but they writ it all off as a gimmick of his fighting style and ignored. The most shocked was Blake as she assumed that he would be wielding the shark skin sword from ages saw ages ago.

" HERE WE HAVE OUR NEXT MATCH MAX HOSHIGAKI VS KAZUTO ABSOL AS YOU NOW KAZUTO IS THE EXPECTED TO COME SECOND FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW SO THE NEW WILL BE IN FOR A CHALLENGE" shouts the commentator

As a gun shot goes off indicating the start of the match Kazuto runs towards Max with his weapon being two batons that are sparking with electricity Max's tail stabs comes out from behind his cloak and stabs towards Kazuto forcing him to jump to the left to dodge.

Seeing this Max moves his tail to whip Kazuto in the stomach which pushes him back. Using this time Max throws a scroll onto the ground which explode into smoke which when cleared revealed a human looking male puppet. It had a brown wood coloured skin and spiky red hair. On its face where it's mouth should be was partitions which showed it had the ability open like normal puppets. To cover its body it had black cloak with a fluffy hood. The black cloak had the word father written on it.

" we have quite the unusual and unique fighter here on my sheet it that describes the fighters he is said to be a master puppeteer with hundreds in his collection this will be hard for Kazuto a primarily close range fighter to over come !!" Shouts the commentated with enthusiasm. The audience cheers and shouts in response excited to see such a unique fighting style.

" this is my art " announces max loudly for all to hear.

" hmm your fighting with puppets?! What a joke your supposed to take the seriously. Ahh well I'm just gonna win all that easier. On top of that it's not even nice to look at how is this art." Says Kazuto smugly.

" you just don't understand its beauty is that it last forever and is eternal nothing about that is ugly it is perfection in its purist form." Replies Max as if he is a sage or Buddha bestowing knowledge upon a regular mortal.

" well let's see how that goes circus boy" insults Kazuto.

Kazuto runs around the side of Max and his puppet as the pair of twin batons transformed into guns which Kazuto fired towards Max trying to out speed his puppet.

In a impressive display of skill and reaction time Max moved his puppet in the way and triggered its firing mechanism. The father puppet opened its mouth and unleashed a hail of sen on which blocked the bullets.

After this exchange was going on The tail of hiruko burst from the ground and stabbed into Kazuto who was protected by his aura.

'He's not moved this entire time' thinks Kazuto in rage at being treated like nuisance instead of a threat. Deciding it would be better to engage the puppet firs and deal with the master next Kazuto transforms his guns back into batons that spark with electricity.

Not giving Kazuto time to rest the father puppet flies towards Kazuto at speeds he couldn't track with his eyes the puppet using the wooden whip that had kunai embedded into it the puppet whips it around slicing into Kazuto's aura from all sides with the kunai working like a saw.

Knowing that his aura will protect him Kazuto grabs the whip and uses it to pull the puppet in at high speeds. Seeing this Max makes the puppet drop the weapon but continue running towards Kazuto with balled fists the puppets punches Kazuto across the face causing Kazutos sight to blur as he fell over backwards, unconscious.

" THE WINNER IS MAX HOSHIGAKI"

This is a shorter chapter due to lack of inspiration. This might not be a common occurrence because right now I have tonnes of inspiration for future chapters but I still need to get round to writing it.

I still need to watch rwby but I keep getting distracted by other things.