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.)
Maize dodged a slash from Raven before kicking her back. he turned to fire at Sal who wrapped one of his swords around Raven's arm.
Maize went to shoot Raven before Tai punched him and sent him sliding across the floor, his Aura crackling a darkish shade of blue.
"Damn it." Maize flipped to his feet as Raven spun around and ducked a punch from Tai before tangling his arm in Night Bane's chain.
She was cut off as an Ice Dust round flew by her and froze Sal's arm to his weapon.
"There, now all that's left is to…" Maize stated as he aimed Vindicta and Retribution at the group.
He was cut off as Raven quick-fired Omen from its sheath and spun, using the momentum to throw both Tai and Sal away from her as Maize sighed.
"Clever." Maize muttered before Raven went after him, he transformed his weapon into their knife forms.
Tai and Sal continued their battle as Maize and Raven dueled, he parried Omen and swung Vindicta at her ribs while aiming Retribution at her neck. Raven spun and kicked Retribution out of his hand.
Maize sighed and backpedaled as Raven sliced at him, he backflipped away before twirling his blade to deflect a stab that would have taken his head off.
He stopped her hand as Raven blinked before grunting as she started to feel her energy slip away.
Her semblance glitched red before Maize's flashed a shade of blue for a second as his eyes turned from blue to a shade of red.
Maize booted Raven back as he smirked and waved his free hand.
"That's my semblance, Rav. 'Drain gain' I heard it called. I suck up to someone's Aura, it comes back to me and refills mine." Maize stated before grabbing his other weapon.
They turned to look at Sal and Tai as the duo continued their battle with each other at the moment. Raven put Omen back on her hip.
Sal dodged a swing from Tai. Sal was sent back by a rocket from Punchline as Tai pressed in with a variety of punches at his head and torso.
It surprised both Maize and Raven how fast Sal could be as Tai tried once again to get a punch on him only to be sent flying as Night bane slammed hilt first into him.
"So, are we done?" Maize transformed his weapons back into their gun forms and put them in their holsters on his thighs as Raven brushed off her thigh armor and considered the idea.
"This fight is done for now… You didn't tell me before your semblance was energy absorption." Raven stated, crossing her arms over her chest as Maize hummed.
"To be fair? We've only had a few fights; I haven't had an excuse to use it. I don't think it would have done much against the croc lady if her semblance is invulnerability. You didn't tell me your semblance was being able to control the weather." Maize didn't notice Raven's eyes widen as she considered telling him the truth.
Even if Maize and Raven weren't best friends at the moment? they were close enough not to be enemies. They were rivals at best, it helped that they had fought someone trying to kill them and made a good team fighting at the very least.
"Yeah, weather manipulation," Raven muttered, deciding to tell Maize later on.
Right before Tai could swing a haymaker at Sal, the buzzer for the match dinged, and the pretend fight ended.
It made Maize chuckle seeing the duo paused in the frame before Maize turned to see Raven leaning on his shoulder in amusement.
Maize was about to tell her to get off him before deciding it wasn't worth it at the moment.
"Ok, time to go back to our dorm, pretend we're going to study, and then pass out after slurping down enough junk food to kill a small army." Maize stated as Raven walked toward the door, he followed his leader out the door.
Maize turned to see the other slowly follow them out the doorway. He had nothing but curiosity about what the crocodile Faunus was doing at the moment.
He sighed, they would come back, and Maize promised to be ready for the next time, whenever that was.
Still, they needed answers, Raven was a first-year student, and they had gone after her entirely while treating him and the others of team RUST as nothing more than meat for a grinder.
Maize questioned what happened next if they found the group again? She was going down, she was a dangerous enemy and ergo, one that needed to be taken down a peg before she caused any other harm to the world.
"He was joking about that, right?" Tai asked only for Sal to shake his head with frustration at his partner.
Author notes
Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out that Maize and Raven are going to get together by their next fight with Tock. The next chapter is going to end up being in a week and will end up showing RUST at lunch and their next mission along with them deciding to visit Ozpin. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: Tock is on Tuesday or so.
