In the locker room, Pyrrha was preparing for an upcoming battle in class against Team CRDL, putting on her armor and tiara thing and walking out. We now see little bits and pieces as she continues to walk out to battle, the first part where she rushed past Cardin and slashed his side, then turned and deflected his weapon while knocking him off-balance. Another where she sliced at another member's leg, but he managed to block it. As we see her walking, she drew her weapons. Another part where there were two opponents on each side, and she forced them back easily. We now see she's at the end of the hallway, about to walk into the classroom. Another clip where she uses her spear to knock down the punk with the Mohawk. We now see her rushing forward, turning her weapon into a full-sized spear, swinging at Cardin's waist, which he blocked and came down on her with his mace, but she blocked it with her shield on her back and spun the spear around for two upward strikes, which Cardin blocked, but it pushed him back, as which point she rushed forward with the spear outward, hitting his left shoulder and bringing him down on one knee. He looked at her, only to see she wasn't there, at which point he looked up to see her coming down on him with her spear, but he rolled out of the way.
"Man, it's a good thing these guys have armor on, or we'd be seeing some serious bloodshed." I said.
"Eh, what's the big deal? You're a surgeon, right?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, but I'm not gonna help team CRDL, fuck that. I'll let them die." I said, to which Damion fist bumped me.
"Yeah, screw those guys!" Nicolas said.
As she landed, Pyrrha flung her sword at another member of the team of cowards, who managed to block it, Pyrrha catching it in mid-air, spinning and crouching, kicking his feet out from under him. She then turned the spear into a rifle and fired at the guy with blue hair (I only know Cardin's name and I don't care about any of them, so I'm not gonna bother looking up their names), who blocked it with his halberd, then swinging it at her, but she blocked it with her shield and pushed him back, swinging her spear horizontally, then swinging it downward at him and spinning it for two hits, him blocking all of them, to which she spun, striking again before shooting at him, laying down a number of attacks which began to overwhelm him before she swung at his waist, taking him off-balance and sending him flying back past Cardin to land on his face.
She then rushed in at Cardin, who tried to attack, but she blocked his attacks and forced him back, at which point he swung his mace down at her, but she cartwheeled out of the way, causing him to slam his mace into the ground, making a small, fiery explosion and tearing up the floor a bit, but then he spun and swung backwards at her, which she blocked, sending her skidding back a ways across the field. She then looked to the side to see the blue-haired guy coming in and swinging at her legs, which she jumped with a small spin, looking to the left to see Cardin rushing in and swinging at her again, but she blocked it, sending her to the floor and allowing her to spin and take the blue-haired guy off his feet and Cardin onto one knee, trying to punch her as she went down, but failing to do so. She then rolled over his back and threw her shield at the back of his head, which bounced off it and sent it back into the blue-haired guy's head (damn, he gets up quick).
"This is why I love this girl, she's such a badass! She's Captain America with a spear and Magneto rolled into one!" I said, the guys nodding.
The shield went airborne after hitting the blue-haired guy, so Pyrrha did a backflip, jumping up high to grab it and landing on the guys back, knocking him out as the three other members of the pathetic team just now recovered, the two that weren't Cardin rushing in as he was still getting up. Pyrrha rushed forward and slammed her shield into the guy with the Mohawk's chest, sending him flying as the other guy came in and swung his sword, Pyrrha blocking it and spinning to attack, which he managed to block. She threw another attack and blocking the side of his sword before spinning and throwing a reverse round kick to the guy's head, sending him flying back, but impressively, he backflipped and managed to land in a crouching position as Cardin rushed in and leapt towards her, swinging her mace at her, but she jumped back, causing him to just smash the ground again. She also backflipped in mid-air, turning her spear into a rifle again and firing at him, but the Mohawk punk landed in front of him and blocked the bullets as the guy she kicked in the head did a side-twist thing to get out of the way of the bullets and rushed in at her along with the Mohawk guy, who jumped and did a bunch of forward flips in mid-air finishing with a drop kick aimed at her face, which she blocked with her shield, staggering her, then he came down with one of his swords, which she again blocked, then the two of them ganged up on her, attacking together, but she managed to defend herself perfectly against them, the two of them rushing past her.
Cardin rushed in again, swinging at her head, but she rolled under it and fired at him again with her spear as a rifle, but he spun his mace around and blocked the bullets, rushing in at her again. He prepared to swing his mace at her, but she reacted faster and jumped, bringing her knee into his chin, sending him into the air and knocking him back a bit. He threw a couple more attacks, but she blocked them and kicked him in the chest, staggering him more. He attacked again, the two of them exchanging blows, but Pyrrha actually landing a few of hers while blocking all of Cardin's, staggering him again, he swung back at her, but she ducked under it and struck again, the two of them throwing and blocking a few more attacks until Pyrrha managed to slash his back 3 times and sending him reeling back.
Mohawk guy rushed in again and attacked, Pyrrha dodging his first couple of strikes and extending her spear to full-length, the guy throwing one of his swords at her, which she dodged and threw her shield at him, hitting him in the face and knocking him back a bit before she swung her spear and knocked him onto his back, then used the gun part to launch the spear forward as the other guy with the sword rushed in. He blocked it, but Pyrrha caught it again, the two deflecting each other's attacks before the guy backed up as Pyrrha caught her shield, he shot at her a couple times, but she blocked them with her shield. She threw some more attacks, but once again impressively, he dodged her attacks with a couple of fancy flips and spinning back a bit, but at this point, Cardin got back up and pulled back his mace to wind up for a strong attack, knocking out his teammate in the process to which I burst out laughing.
He then swung his mace down and made a big, fiery explosion that Pyrrha jumped into the air to avoid, before unleashing a fierce onslaught of attacks Cardin couldn't defend against, sending him into the air. She jumped up after him, striking him a few times and sending him flying back, before she used her shield to push off and jump after him, grabbing him and spinning in the air to slam him into the ground, then backflipped and kicked him in the head, sending him into the air, then to the floor again, taking him down.
"YEEEAAAHHH!" I cheered as the crowd went wild.
"And that's the match." Ms. Goodwitch said as she walked up.
"Lucky shot." Cardin said, before collapsing and passing out.
"Yeah, lucky my ass, bitch." Damion said.
"He's just a punk who can't accept when he loses." Nicolas said.
"Amen." Draco said, pointing to him.
"Well done, Ms. Nikos. You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament." Goodwitch said, looking at Cardin as he passed out, then to her.
"Thank you, Professor." Pyrrha said with a bow.
"Alright. Now, I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more sparring match." Goodwitch said, typing things in on her scroll. "Any volunteers?" She asked. Nothing. "Ms. Belladonna, you've been rather docile for the past few classes. Why don't you-" She started asking Blake, before being interrupted.
"I'll do it." Mercury said, raising his hand.
"Mercury, is it? Very well, let's find you an opponent." She said, typing things in.
"Actually, I wanna fight her." He said, pointing at Pyrrha.
"Me?" Pyrrha asked.
"I'm afraid Ms. Nikos has just finished a match. I recommend you choose another partner." Goodwitch said.
"I'm up for a fight." I said, standing up, to which Mercury looked a little shocked, before glaring at me.
"Excellent. Good show, Sai." She said.
"Thank you. And thank you for not calling me Mr. Blade, that's what my father's called and it just doesn't sound right to me." I said as the two of us walked down to the arena.
"This will be good. The two albinos in dark clothing in a match-up." Damion said.
"I wouldn't exactly call Mercury an albino. His hair's more of a grayish silver, where is Sai's is more of a silvery whit like an actual albino. And Mercury's eyes aren't red. Also a symbol he's not an albino." Draco said matter-of-factly.
"You HAD to do it, didn't you?" Damion and Nicolas asked together.
Mercury and I walked onto the field, everyone on the edge of their seats in excitement, particularly Ruby. We walked to the opposite ends of the field from each other and turned to face each other. I don't know what he was up to challenging Pyrrha, but all I know was I didn't trust him or the two girls he was often with, so I couldn't let him pull something sneaky against Pyrrha.
Background music: "Kung Fu Fighting" By Cee Loo & Jack Black
We both rushed in and he threw a left round kick at my head, but I ducked under it and grabbed his other foot, flinging him over my shoulder and onto his back, quickly thrusting my shoulders back to take my trench coat off, holding it in my hands and turning just as he got up and spun to face me. At this point, I threw my coat at him, covering his face and taking him off-guard and off-balance allowing me to pepper his torso with a lightning-fast series of punches before delivering a strong palm strike to his face, staggering him back and giving me enough distance to throw a powerful side kick to his face, sending him flying into the back wall of the room. Amazingly, he threw my trench coat off his face and recovered in mid-air, getting his feet up against the wall and blasting himself towards me, throwing a round kick in mid-air, which I ducked under like the Matrix, but then I knew what would be coming next because this guy was clearly skilled enough and knew what he was doing. I jumped off the ground and did a backflip just before Mercury could throw a reverse round kick, landing and facing the way I previously was facing, but I landed behind him and delivered a powerful punch to the center of his back, sending him forward and onto the ground.
He got up one more time and came rushing at me, throwing another kick, but I caught his leg, spinning and throwing him a small distance away. He managed to land on his feet, but spun around a few times trying to right himself and now staggered around dizzily until he recovered just in time to turn and face me, receiving a punch to the head as I began one of the most basic warm-ups for Chinese Kenpo, yet at the same time I turned into an effective combo, the 20 "punch" series, I add quotations because there's more than punches: two reverse punches (your fist is horizontal) to the face, 2 straight punches (your fist is vertical, like a regular punch) to the face, two palm-heels to the face, two palm heels two the chest, two back knuckles (your hands are facing inward towards you, you hit your opponent with the knuckles on your hand where your fingers start) to the face, two back fists (you swing outward and inward towards your opponent, flicking your wrist to hit them with your fist) to the temples (one on each side), two knife hands (striking with your flat hand on the opposite side of your thumb) to the neck (one on each side), two ridge hands (the opposite of a knife hand, hit them with the thumb side of your hand) to the neck (one per side) and (there's two more, but this is all I did to Mercury) two hammer fists (striking with the bottom of your fist on the fleshy side opposite of your thumb. Like a knife hand version of a punch) to the top of your opponents head, right on the dome (for anyone wondering, the last two punches are hammer fists to the nuts... or vag). This dazed Mercury long enough for me to jump and do a drop kick to his face, taking us both to the ground and knocking him out as I did the badass martial arts get up thing.
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"Well done, Sai. You are the winner of the match. It was surprising to see you fight without a weapon, but clearly you're just as flashy without one." Goodwitch said.
"I can't QUITE say I didn't fight without a weapon. I DID throw my trench coat in his face." I said, pulling some smelling salts out of my pocket and throwing them at Mercury's face, just under his nose, jolting him up as I grabbed my trench coat and walked back up to my team.
The bell then rang and jolted Blake up after she passed out from lack of sleep, everyone starting to leave. "And remember: the dance is this weekend, but you all have your first mission this Monday. I will not accept ANY excuses." Goodwitch warned us.
"Well, guess we better take it easy with the drinking then." Draco said.
"Yeah, that could be a problem." I said as I rejoined my team.
"Neat trick with the coat." Damion said.
"Yep. It's more than just a nice accessory and my personal armory, it has some uses as a distraction for my opponents, too." I said.
"Either way, that was sweet!" Draco said, Nicolas nodding.
"Well, let's get going." I said. We then followed team RWBY out the door, where Emerald waited for Mercury, who walked up with a bit of a scowl.
"There goes a perfectly good learning experience." He said.
As we walked to our dorms, Nicolas decided to make his move. "Hey, Blake, you doing okay?" He asked.
"Fine." She said a bit angrily, looking at him.
"So, the dance is coming up. I figured maybe the two of us could have some fun there? Have a nice, relaxing night for once?" He asked.
"I don't have time for a stupid dance. You of all people should know that." She said as she stormed off.
"OH! REJECTED!" Draco laughed, even as Nicolas tackled him and began to disembowel him.
Damion and I had our own conversation as we looked on at the insanity of our teammates. "Hey, has Blake seemed a little off to you, lately?" He asked.
"If by off, you mean looking like a train wreck? Yes. I'm pretty sure that not too long from now, we're gonna need another-" I started, before our little message thing from team RWBY alerted us. "Intervention." I finished.
Later, in Team RWBY'S dorm...
"You what?" She asked.
"We want you to go to the dance." Ruby said.
"That's ridiculous!" She snapped.
"Come on, babe. You need a break. Look at you... You're falling apart." Nicolas said, more sincerely than I thought he was capable of.
"Exactly. We're worried about you, Blake. This investigation is starting to mess with your head." Yang agreed.
"You can't sleep-" Weiss started.
"I've been having to put sleeping pills in your drink at night and I'm running out." I threw in, pulling out a bottle of sleeping pills with only 2 left.
"You hardly eat-" Weiss continued.
"Your blood sugar and nutritional values are getting dangerously low." I added, pulling out a doctor's analysis from some tests Yang forced me to do while Blake was asleep.
"And to be honest, your grades are suffering." She finished.
"Pretty bad." I said, pulling out her report card, where the highest grade she had was a C-.
"You think I care about grades?!" She demanded.
"You should if you want to stay at this school. This school only takes the best and if you don't keep up to their standards, you're gonna get thrown out and you won't be able to continue this investigation that means so much to you." Damion said (seriously, anyone else wonder why she takes this so damn seriously? I get she used to work for an organization that has a hand in this, but it shouldn't be consuming her whole life.)
"People's lives are at stake!" She snapped.
"Well, it is a Wednesday." Draco said, getting a small chuckle from everyone except Blake.
"We know and we're all still trying to figure out what Torchwick is up to." Yang told Blake, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks to you and Sun, we know they're operating somewhere out of Southeast Vale." Ruby said.
"AND the Schnee company records singled out Vale as the primary target for dust robberies over the past few months." Weiss threw in.
"Don't forget about their missing military tech, too." Yang added.
"Which we managed to cripple after finding and destroying some of their back-up warehouses." I added.
"But there are still unanswered questions." Blake said.
"We're barely halfway through the season. You can't put all the pieces of a Kingdom Hearts game together pretty much until you reach the final boss." I said.
"Right?" The rest of my team agreed.
"Blake, you won't be able to find anything if you can't even keep your eyes open." Ruby threw in.
"All we're asking is that you take it easy for ONE DAY." Yang said.
"It will be fun! Yang and I will make sure of it." Weiss threw in.
"Yeah! We're planning the whole event!" Yang said excitedly, bouncing on the bed, startling Blake a bit.
"And we're bringing the food and drinks." I added.
"Excuse me?!" Blake demanded.
"Team CFVY'S (btw, it's pronounced "coffee") away mission lasted longer than expected." Weiss started.
"So Weiss and I were asked to pick up where they left off. And now we can make sure you have the perfect night!" Yang said.
"I know I will." Damion said.
"And after, we'll return to our search, rested and ready." Weiss said with a smile.
"Emphasis on RESTED." I said, pulling out a small hand mirror and holding it in front of Blake, showing her the dark bags under her eyes.
"So, what do you think?" Ruby asked.
Blake had her eyes closed in thought before looking up. "I think this is a COLOSSAL waste of time." She said, walking to the door. "I'll be in the library." She said as she left.
"Well, we tried." I said.
Yang sighed at this. "Great." She said annoyed.
"She CAN'T keep going like this." Weiss said.
"Yeah, she's already about to drop." Draco added.
"I'm REALLY worried about her." Nicolas said worriedly.
"Can't blame you there." I agreed.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Weiss walked over and opened it, looking in shock at what she was seeing Yang popping up on the right with a look of disbelief and Ruby on the left in a look of thought, her finger over her mouth as we hear the sound of a guitar. Meanwhile, team BDSS just deadpanned. "For real?" We asked.
The cause of this was Jaune, carrying an acoustic guitar, playing Mexican-sounding music. "WEEEEEIIIIISSSSS!" He sang as he strummed on the guitar. He paused and winked at her, to which she slammed the door in his face.
"Did he REALLY think that would work?" Damion asked.
"I honestly don't want to know what goes through that kid's mind." I said.
"Still better than Tsukune." Draco said.
"There's no one who ISN'T better than Tsukune." Nicolas added, to which we nodded.
He knocked on the door again. "Oh, come on." He said, knocking again, to which Weiss and team BDSS facepalmed. "Open the door." He said, knocking again. "I promise not to sing." He said.
She paused for a moment before reluctantly opening the door. "I liiieeed!" He sang, strumming again.
"Slam the door on him again." Damion and I said at the same time.
"Boo!" Draco and Nicolas said, throwing water bottles at him, which he managed to block with the guitar.
"Weiss Sch-nee~" He started.
"There's not that big of a gap between syllables. It's supposed to be fast and sound like one syllable." I interrupted.
"Will you accompany me~ to the dance on..." He continued singing, before pausing for a second, trying to think of what day the dance was on.
"Sun-" Nicolas started.
"Suuundaaaay? He sang to finish his question.
"Are you done?" She asked.
"Yes?" He asked questioningly.
"No." She said, closing the door on him, to which I laughed.