Sorry for having this take so long I got into MMOs recently so that what I was spending most of my time on. Also, you what I'm scraping the rest of this arc, I just need to shift gears and get back to writing the actual story, so sorry if you were waiting for the rest of this arc.

Chapter cover: Deandra standing proud with her weapon plated in front of her.

Ch.19- Learning experience

While the fights against U.A were awesome in their own right, there is just something so natural about being back home. Right now, we're in Ms. Goodwitch's class and Pyrrha is fighting against all of team CRDL by herself and winning.

Pyrrha is dominating throughout the entire fight and not taking a single hit from CRDL, the fight is over when Pyrrha chokeslams Cardin is against slammed the floor and punted up in the sky.

"Well done, Miss Nikos. You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament." Ms. Goodwitch compliments Pyrrha on her outstanding performance.

"Alright, now I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for one more sparring match. Any volunteers?" Ms. Goodwitch turns toward the exhausted Blake.

"Ms. Belladonna?" Blake stares at Ms. Goodwitch while closing the book she was reading, "You've been rather docile for the past few classes. Why don't you-"

Mercury raises his hand, "I'll do it."

"Mercury, is it? Very well, let's find you an opponent." Ms. Goodwitch taps on her scroll to find Mercury an opponent.

"Actually, I wanna fight... her." Mercury points to Pyrrha.

"Me?"

"Hahaha, that isn't gonna fly Mercury." Deandra interjects, "Pyrrha off the menu, so cut your luck with me."

"All right then, I'll go with that." Mercury accepts Deandra as a substitute.

Deandra summons her weapon and the fighters take their positions, Mercury charges in with a lunging kick but Deandra deflects it with her shield and sweeps his other leg. Mercury falls on his back and spins back up to his feet.

"Not so different you and I." Deandra tells Mercury before putting her shield behind herself, "I'll fight on an even level with you." Deandra gives Mercury the come at her gesture which he happily accepts.

Mercury leaps in the air and spins, bringing his foot down, Deandra stands her ground and defends herself against Mercury's onslaught using her hands before grabbing Mercury's foot and tossing him away. Deandra taps her foot against the floor and creates a shockwave under Mercury, leaving him open. He dodges by ducking underneath her leg and waits a second before getting up.

Mercury looks back to Ms. Goodwitch who's standing behind him, "I forfeit." Mercury says like it's no big deal, Deandra stops in her tracks.

"WHAT! You give up at the drop of a dime?! What type of warrior are you?" Deandra questions Mercury on his reasons for forfeiting.

"It is true what they say about you, you're a much better warrior than me. So what's the point?" Mercury replies before walking away, Deandra grabs Mercury by his collar she's very angry about giving up before giving her a good fight.

"Oh no, you aren't getting off that easy. As a result of losing you're taking me to the dance, no ifs, ands, or buts about it." Deandra lets Mercury go and leaves before problems can occur.

As we're walking to our dorm Sun approaches us, "Hey Ersa, you doing ok?"

"Yeah, I'm good what's up?" Ersa replies.

"So I hear there's this dance going on this weekend... ah, sounds pretty lame, but you and me, I'm thinking, not as lame, huh?" I don't know if Sun is trying to ask Ersa out or just failing with words.

"What?" Ersa says confused about what Sun asking her.

"The dance! This weekend! You wanna go, or what?" Sun bluntly replies.

"Oh that, of course, I would like that very much," Ersa says yes.

"When did Sun fall in love with you Ersa?" Medi asks to which Ersa puts her hand against her head.

"Um, give me a second, give a second… wait, it was about a week ago."

A week earlier

Sun is walking around the school and somehow finds himself in the gym, that always open, where he finds Ersa about to benchpress some weights.

"Oh hey Ersa, would you happen to know where Blake would be?" Sun asks hoping Ersa has the answer to his question.

Ersa turns around revealing that she's wearing a green vest to cover her chest and gray spats with footwraps and nothing else. The outfit clings tightly to her body showing all her curves which leaves nothing to the imagination, her stomach is exposed showing that Ersa has refined her body, yet it still retains its feminine qualities.

"Hey Sun while you're here, could you do me a favor and spot me, I'll tell you where Blake is." Ersa sees if Sun can help her.

"Sure." Sun gives Ersa a thumbs-up and Ersa gets in place, he gets behind her and helps lower the weights.

Sun looks to see how Ersa is benching and sees she's benching 1600 pounds, "That… a lot of weight Ersa, you sure you're gonna be alright?" Sun tries to see that Ersa doesn't hurt herself.

"Don't worry this is the max I can safely lift, but my record is 1800 pounds," Ersa assures Sun that she's not pushing herself, only to have her grip slip for a moment, Sun catches it but not without straining himself.

"Sorry sorry, let me get to this." Ersa focuses on her weights and gets in sixty raps before calling it quits. Sun helps put the barbells up.

"Thanks, it's rare that I have someone spot me, it's hard to lift that much much without someone to help me." Ersa thanks Sun for the help while her body glistens with sweat, Sun is speechless throughout the process, trying his hardest to stare at Ersa's body.

"Well, I'm gonna go shower, see you later Sun," Ersa leaves the gym but pokes her head back in, "Blake in the library, but you might want to deal with that banana in your pants first." She points to the giant bulge poking from Sun's pants.

Present

"So that what going on with me and Sun," Ersa explains the reason why Sun asked her to the dance.

At this point, we are in our dorm when Ersa is done explaining the story, "So we don't know if Sun is in love with you or your abs, plus we have had only one interaction with the guy." Medi states a bit jealous that Ersa got a date before her.

"Well we have three years to figure it out, so time is on our side." Ersa remarks.

Meanwhile, in Cinder's dorm, Cinder is sowing a black dress while sitting in her bed with Emerald is on the floor looking at her scroll, Mercury is on the ground reading a comic book and Indigo is cleaning her pistols.

"So did you figure out anything about Deandra?" Indigo asks Mercury to divulge any information he gained from their fight.

"After she tapped her foot against the ground, I felt the ground vibrate under me," Mercury tells the group.

"Earth magic? That's a surprise and from what you said Deandra is a very high-level user for her to do something like." Indigo notes.

"So you're going to the dance with Deandra?" Emerald asks Mercury not looking up from what she's doing.

"Seems like it," Mercury answers not really caring about the dance.

"This is perfect, we can use this opportunity to find out more about the sisters, so Mercury, get close to them and lull them into a false sense of security and make sure that Deandra falls in love with you, and not fall for her charm. Take out the leader and they all fall." Indigo orders Mercury to get with Deandra.

"Least I won't be bored," Mercury replies.

"Oh Mercury, we have quite the weekend up ahead." Cinder retorts.

The next day Mercury meets with Deandra to discuss some things, Mercury is wearing his normal get-up, a slate gray and black two-tone partial-zip jacket that covers his upper body, a single notched belt with what appears to be a sash or bandana draped over it and a set of rerebraces and vambraces.

"I'm here Deandra, what did you want to discuss?" Mercury rubs the back of his head.

Deandra is standing on top of a gray mat, "I wanted to see if you could dance Mercury, step on the mat." Deandra ushers Mercury to come up to her.

"Really? You already saw me fight, so you should already know how good I am with my legs." Mercury retorts that Deandra dragged him to the ballroom for this.

"Fighting and dancing are two different things Mercury, you should know that." Deandra counters to an annoyed Mercury, having no choice but to do as she says.

Mercury steps up and grabs Deandra's hand, "So are we startin' with?" He asks.

"Let's start off with slow dancing," Deandra recommends. Mercury holds out one hand and the other one on Deandra's shoulder. Mercury takes lead and quickly has Deandra following him.

"Hm, so you have some skills, but it'll take more than that to impress me." Deandra gives Mercury some credit before she is tilted backward, Mercury stops Deandra before she hits the ground.

"Impress yet?" Mercury says with a grin.

"Almost." Mercury helps Deandra back to her feet and then spins her around three times. "You've proven yourself Mercury, but I'm still bad about you quitting, so be a dear and put that mat back for me." Deandra waves goodbye to Mercury as she's leaving.

Once she's gone Mercury breaks down the event that just occurred, "Are women supposed to that soft?" Mercury asks himself, as that marks the very first time he's ever held a girl in a non-violent manner.

"Now I see why Indigo like girls so much. They're just so soft." Mercury comments before rolling up the mat.

Writer: Alright, that's where I end it here. Once again sorry for such a major gap in between chapters, I just had so much fun with MMOs lately, but promise the next one shouldn't take as long.