Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Fight or Flight. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale.)

Raven bounced off a tree while Tock pursued her through the forest.

"Running away, isn't you going to stand and fight me?" Tock grinned before Raven perched in a tree.

She counted 20 more seconds had passed. Sal shot her in the back before Raven vanished into the trees.

If Raven had to conjure a portal with her semblance? She almost wondered if Tock was worth the effort to fight really.

Still? Tock's semblance made her dangerous if Tock got her hands-on Raven? She could certainly take down the Maiden.

Raven wanted to know who hired Tock or where the Faunus came from.

"You're the one hiding behind an invincibility semblance, at least I don't shield myself with my Aura rather than take someone head-on like a coward." Raven hissed before she brushed off her armor and looked at the battlefield in the distance.

Maize shot down a soldier before looking at her as the Bullhead flew overhead and strafed them.

"I hate this! Tai, help me shoot that stupid thing out of the sky before it takes both of us out!" Maize yelled before running for cover.

Raven looked down to see Tock stab one of her swords into the tree, spin herself up, and cut at the branch holding Raven up.

Raven backflipped over Tock, dodging a snap of her jaws as she landed and took a mental count of how long it had been.

50 seconds, she could stall for 10 more.

"If you're so cocky?" Raven rushed to Tock, not bothering to draw her sword. It would shatter anyway.

Tock slashed at Raven who sidestepped. 9.

"You wouldn't hide behind your semblance," 8, a bite at her head countered by a palm strike that hurt her hand.

"Least I don't have to be a fancy dandy maiden." Tock watched Raven blink; she scored a punch which knocked Raven back.

7, a roll to avoid a bite, 6, a kick at the head with another aimed at her solar plexus.

Raven backflipped while wrapping her legs around Tock and throwing her towards the tree. she counted another second before a punch came at her head, Raven ducked it before another fist sent her flying backward.

Her aura flashed; she had no idea how low her aura was… but she knew she had about 4 more seconds.

Raven wiped the blood off her mouth as she heard the whine of the Bullhead while it crashed down.

Tock looked up at it… 2, she rushed at Raven before the craft smashed into a tree.

Raven climbed to her feet; Tock grinned.

"And Cinder told me you'd be tougher than this." Tock cocked her fist back.

Her arm whistled through the air; Tock grinned in all the satisfaction of overcoming a maiden. 0, her clock ran out just as her Aura shattered, she looked at Raven.

Her hand was wrapped around Tock's fist as her eyes blazed with crimson light. Raven gave a one-handed push which sent Tock flipping backward.

"You don't have any Aura left… yet you're cocky enough to insult a maiden… I'd be impressed if you weren't about to die." Raven fired Omen from its sheath at Tock.

Raven slowly started to gain the advantage with Tock after this, she blocked an overhead swing at her skull.

Raven then applied a push from her palm with wind, it sent the woman slamming into a tree.

"Where's the bravado you had about 20 seconds ago?" Raven asked as she floated off her feet and into the air.

Tock cursed and grabbed her swords; this wasn't going to end with her winning. She had given the girl too much mercy at the moment.

"You got lucky, girly… I'm not going to let you get off that easy next time." Tock rushed off into the forest with a few blasts of lightning chasing her.

Raven sighed and watched the other Bullhead start retreating as she floated down. someone had lured them here as a test. They had set up the test purely to find out how powerful Raven was.

Who would want to test a maiden? That meant the nest was just an excuse for luring them out to the middle of nowhere so they could try and get them alone.

And it failed, which meant someone was trying to get them away from Beacon. now Raven had a reason to be curious, nobody but a few knew that she was a Maiden, it was a secret that she kept guarded to her chest.

"Hmm… Cinder?" Raven walked back to the clearing where Maize threw an empty magazine to the side.

"Whoever the hell those guys were? They shouldn't come back, or I'll make sure their skulls set off metal detectors… ugh, Tai, you good?" Maize's arm hung to his side limply.

"Rav, you good? Where'd that girl go?" Maize asked while Raven sheathed Omen.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out that Raven will meet Cinder soon. The next chapter will be in a week or so and will show the trip back to Beacon and Raven telling the group about her fight with Tock. Until them Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Tock is maybe on Friday… and Cinder might be finally updated next week.