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Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

I grumbled a bit to myself and looked over, Yang gave me a wave as we stood around waiting. A few weeks had passed since the attack by Torchwick and me seeing Yang with that tribal woman, lately I found myself avoiding her more and more, something subconscious was uneasy around her. Nothing about Yang had changed and I knew that, but I still found myself feeling off about her.

The Vytal festival was about to start and we were competing in the first round, since our team had five members someone was going to be sitting out, I'm built to fight so I was out of the question, Yang too, Ruby was leader and Weiss was trying to impress anyone who might be watching so Blake was fine with volunteering.

The arena for the fights was split into various areas based on a random wheel and our area had a few, a hot zone, a cold zone stuff like that, and as soon as the bell rang I was ready to fight. The rules were simple, KO your opponent. First round was teams, second duos and last would be a one on one bracket.

"HRA!" I slammed my sword at the girl I was fighting, kicking up ice "SIT STILL!

The girl had short lime green hair and a ruffian look about her, the whole team we were fighting, Team ABRN, were all a little rough around the edges. My opponent, Reese, had a weapon that allowed her to hover and fly around.

"HYUP!" she jumped up and kicked her board at me.

"RAH!" I punched in back only to have it ollied back once more.

I growled when it bounced off my face "I'm not here to play games!"

I slammed my blade down to send a shockwave of ice out, knocking her up and making her fall on her ass.

"See now I'm having fun." I loaded my crossbow.

"HMPH!" she jumped back up when one of her teammates in the hot zone threw her a heated crystal that she used to free a frozen member.

"Clever." I yanked my sword out of the ice "I don't care how many there are I'll take you all down!"

I put my blade up to block when she jumped at me, an air blast puffed and melted the ice under me, making it even more slippery.

"TSK!" I planted Bloodsplitter to steady myself only to have Reese jump up and slam onto my back, scorching me with heat "I told you…"

She was coming in hot again.

"Stay still!" I roared loudly hefting up my blade and slamming the back into her "RAHH!"

I sent her flying with a powerful swing, scoring a ring out and getting out team an early lead.

Weiss and Yang had most of the fight under control but it didn't help that out fearless leader was on the back burner.

"Leona!" she yelled running towards me "Red Streak!"

"Let's go!" I laughed happily "This'll be fun!"

"Right!" she jumped up.

"HMMM." She landed on the edge of my blade "Here we go!"

I slammed my foot down into the ice and sent my monstrous strength into throwing her forward.

Yang and Ruby both collided with the other team and sent them flying out of the ring "Double Fastball!"

"The winner is Team RLWBY!"

"This was the best they had to offer." I growled "The later rounds better improve or this would have been a waste of time, I broke more of a sweat fighting those Grimm from the Train derailment."

"Only you would say a battle isn't enough for you." Weiss sighed.

"That's our Leona." Ruby laughed "But now I'm hungry."

"Let's go get something to eat then." Weiss sighed "I'm sure Blake will have plenty to add."

Later

With our first round in the bag we headed to the fairgrounds surrounding the festivities, we met up with Blake soon after.

"Nice job." She smiled.

"Some of us had it easier than others." I said smugly.

"You looked to be struggling yourself." Yang rolled her eyes.

"I got my job done first." I sneered at her "More than can be said for the rest of the team."

"I was just letting them fight back a bit so they didn't get embarrassed in front of everyone." She countered "Sides I took out three at once."

"Only after Ruby and I helped!" I spat back.

"Girls, girls." Weiss stepped between us "We won, who cares who did it faster or more efficient. Let's just find someplace to eat."

"Leona?" Ruby looked at me "Is everything alright? You and Yang have been acting a little off the last few weeks, arguing and stuff."

"It's fine." I stared down at her "Nothing you need to worry about, let's just go eat."

"You'll have trouble eating without this." Emerald suddenly appeared laughing and holding Ruby's wallet "Good to see ya."

"WAH!" Ruby realized what happened "Thanks Emerald, I must have dropped it."

"Awfully convenient to run into you here." I said.

At least it's just her and not that annoying boy that always follows her around…both of them annoy me to be honest.

"We just finished watching your match." She smiled "You guys were awesome."

"Oh stop it!" Ruby blushed and laughed.

"I heard your team moved on to the next round as well." Blake asked her.

"I feel like we never see anyone besides you and Mercury." Weiss added.

"How'd they do?" Yang asked.

"Hmm…really well." She smirked "But Mercury and I will be in the duos so you probably won't see them, what about you guys."

"As the leader I thought long and hard about it." Ruby hummed.

"We voted on it." Weiss explained.

"I decided to make it a vote!" Ruby tried to recover.

"We voted for Leona and Weiss." Blake told her.

"Hmph." Yang pouted.

"You lost fair and square." I growled at her "Don't be bitter Blondie. Sides I live for fighting, taking me out would be stupid. I don't care who moves on to fight them I'll beat the crap out of them."

"And I'll be there to keep things from being too…violent." Weiss sighed.

"Alright, well good luck, I'm gonna go catch more fights." Emerald headed out.

We stopped at a stall for lunch, there they served some sort of noodle soup dish, Ruby said it was called Ramen, I kinda wanted more meat with it but before we could eat it Weiss failed to pay because her magic money card got declined, thankfully Pyrrha saved our butts so we didn't starve.

"Too much…If I barf I blame you." Jaune groaned.

"Grow a backbone you weak man" I slapped him on the back.

"OW!" he groaned.

"Oh if your gonna do it aim at the enemy!" Nora yelled.

"That's the spirit, win at all costs!" I cheered with her.

"Nora…" Ren sighed.

"Well we best be off." Pyrrha said.

"Think you're ready?" Ruby asked.

"Well we've got a world renown fighter, a guy that's basically a ninja, I can bench like five Leona's and Jaune…our weapons are good and we've trained all year." Nora nodded "We'll be fine!"

"Are you gonna add anything?" Ren asked Jaune.

"I think my shoulder's dislocated from that pat." He whimpered.

"Weakling." I rolled my eyes.

"We really should be going." Pyrrha smiled "Wish us luck."

"Go!" Ruby cheered.

"Try not to barf." I laughed.

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