alrighty, the hiatus is over. I'm going back to weekly uploads starting now, I've just been very busy at work and also very lazy with this but we're here now, so enjoy.
Chapter 6
Falcon fetched his quiver from his locker and worked on preparing himself for his battle. He was quite proud of the craftsmanship of his quiver. It was designed to hold hundreds of pencil-thin arrows, each made in his home kingdom of Atlas. He extended his staff and stood ready, waiting, observing. Blake walked into the arena and they shared a bow, before they both stood in a fighting stance. After about 15 seconds of just circling each other, Falcon noticed a bored yawn from one of the spectators who had chosen to watch, probably Hayate. Tired of waiting, Falcon transformed Avery in its bow form and started shooting at Blake, who dodged and returned fire. Falcon also dodged and quickly turned Avery back to staff to catch Blake's sword attack and push her back, he then twisted the staff and opened a small dust chamber in the centre of the staff, selected lightning dust, and then closed the chamber. Falcon then leapt at Blake using his staff to propel himself as she kept moving backwards. As he swung his staff around, it connected with Blake's torso, electrocuting her and sending her flying. As Blake regained her bearings, Falcon took this opportunity to fire more arrows, the first one hit, and at first Falcon thought the second did too. But it turned out to be a shadow clone of Blake. She's using her semblance Falcon thought to himself, as will I. Falcon stomped his right foot on the ground, creating a 10 metre round golden glyph on the floor, with him in the middle. Hayate, and everyone else on the sidelines, had noticed that when Falcon lifted his head to put two arrows into his bow, his eyes were glowing fully golden. They watched as Falcon fired both arrows, the first causing Blake to use her semblance, and somehow Falcon had predicted where Blake would move to as the second arrow hit her right in the leg. Falcon kept firing arrows at Blake, some hitting her clones, some hitting her, all of them hitting something. Falcon quickly noticed that Blake was moving closer to him each time she used her semblance. Blake then got out Gambol Shroud and kept firing shots at Falcon. Using Avery he was able to block or dodge every shot, but this also prevented him from shooting, letting Blake get within melee range. He quickly switched Avery to staff form and blocked every single attack Blake threw at him. Despite his perfect blocking, he was still being pushed back without the chance to counter attack. It wasn't long before Blake had pushed him to the edge of the glyph and Falcon mentally swore. Falcon tried to move around Blake but she swung with her sword and pushed him out of the glyph, which vanished immediately, as did the golden glow of his eyes. She threw herself at him feet first and Falcon grunted in pain as her kick landed on his chest. He was too disorientated from being pushed out of the glyph to properly block, at least for now. Quickly getting to her feet, Blake then kicked him in the head, sending him stumbling again. Shaking his head to regain his bearings, he barely blocked her next attack, then jumped back a small distance to get breathing room. Falcon opened the chamber of his staff again and selected ice dust this time. He blocked Blake's attacks, landing some of his own, and then brought the staff down on her foot, freezing it in place. Blake threw a grappling hook over a pole in the roof and pulled herself up, smacking Falcon in the face with her frozen foot. Falcon rolled, steadied himself and then shot an arrow at Blake who made an ice clone of herself, and landed on the ground. Falcon then shot an arrow with a cord connected to it at the ice clone. It landed and he pulled the clone towards Blake, detached the cord and loaded another arrow. Blake dodged out of the way, then deflected the arrow using Gambol Shroud. However, Falcon had shot another arrow at her leg while she was distracted and the low shot knocked out the rest of her aura, bringing the match to an end. Falcon let out a breath of relief, Blake had been more challenging than he expected. He heard the applause from the spectating crowd and shook the tension out of his limbs. He walked over and helped Blake to her feet.
"That. Was. Amazing!" Ruby half-yelled. During the fight Ruby and Weiss had arrived at the arena and Iskandar and Yang had finished what they were doing.
"That was pretty impressive Falcon. You're getting good, we'll have to go a few rounds sometime. That semblance is a piece of work" added Hayate, eyeing Falcon up with new interest. Falcon put Avery on the hilt of his belt and adjusted his beret.
"Thanks guys, and if you were wondering Hayate, my semblance is Golden Eye. It allows me to hit almost any shot and block almost any attack." This got some awes from Yang and Ruby and a raised eyebrow from Hayate.
"I must say," began Weiss, "that glyph was quite remarkable." Falcon was a little shocked to hear what he assumed to be a compliment from a Schnee, but said nothing of it.
"I reckon you could stand your ground against Iskandar pretty well, come to think of it." said Yang. "I mean you did pretty well against me when we used to spar hand to hand." Falcon thought back to the few years prior to coming to Beacon. While his family was originally from Atlas, when he was 10 they decided Vale would be a better place to live due to… unforeseen events. So Falcon, his twin sister and his mother moved to Patch, where they met Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose and their father, Taiyang for the first time.
"We should hang out like that again sometime." replied Falcon.
"Speaking of hanging out," Ruby chimed in, "we were wondering if team FHSI would like to join us in going to Vale next week?" Falcon looked at two teammates, Hayate gave a thumbs up and Iskandar simply shrugged.
"Nothing better to do." he mumbled.
"Sure," Said Falcon, "Why not?"
"Then it's settled. Team FHSI will join team RWBY in Vale." said Weiss matter-of-factly. Falcon glanced at Hayate, who was now talking to Ruby. Everything will be fine, he thought. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm sorry for two fight chapters back to back but I needed some filler because the next few chapters will be the end of vol 1. I'll start on vol 2 straight away, so there won't be a gap for you, the reader. But these next few chapters... oh boy. Also some feedback on the fight scenes would be nice, I'm not sure if I'm being descriptive enough to put the images in your heads.