The Experiment

The bell sounded for the match yet neither party moved. Zelle sat there casually with Raiden hanging down to his side and Mune on his shoulder. Jaune had his shield up and sword up by his ear pointed towards Zelle. Cardin had his mace in both hand out in front of him, eyes narrowed.

"Um, what are they doing?" Yang asked. She would have already charged Zelle and beaten the snot of him. Completely forgetting the fact last time sparred, Zelle wiped the floor with her.

"Jaune and Cardin are being wary, sizing up their opponent. They are both aware that Zelle could easily take them on. There is a reason Zelle referred to this more as a test than an actual spar. He is evaluating them, that is the reason he has yet to do anything. By his smile, I'm assuming he approves of their caution." Blake summarised her thoughts on the current state of the duel. Yang nodded. That made sense. With the exception of Ruby and Pyrrha, Zelle had beaten everyone here in combat class at some point or another. Oh yeah, and Ren. She always forgot about the quiet boy of team JNPR. Her attention was taken as she heard the first signs of movement.

Jaune was slowly inching his way around Zelle as Cardin did the same but the other way. Zelle let them, content to sit there and do what they wanted. Finally, they had him flanked. Jaune nodded toward Cardin and they both charged with a battle cry. They approached Zelle at full speed. Jaune made a wide sweeping arc hoping to hit him as Cardin lifted his mace up, intending to crush Zelle. They saw their weapons inch towards him and then Zelle moved. Without moving his sword, he took a step forward and allowed the mace to connect with the middle of his blade, using the leverage of the mace, he jumped over the swing and flipped over the mace. Jaune proceeded to get a face full of lightning rounds while Cardin was kicked in the stomach, sending him sprawling away.

Jaune quickly brought his shield up but the damage was done, his jaw was numb and he was having trouble articulating words, they were coming out as gibberish as he attempted to ask if Cardin was OK. Zelle stood there with that infuriating smile. "Surely that's not it from two team leaders. I mean, I'm just the worker drone." Zelle's smile dropped. "Though I'm awful at reactionary planning, so maybe that's for the better." His words made quite a few people upset, not just Jaune and Cardin. Ruby was upset for him thinking of himself like that, not knowing he was goading them and Weiss felt the bitter pang of anger, before pushing it down. She understood the Ozpin's decision and she was going to do her best to play her role.

Zelle got the desired reaction out of Cardin who charged Zelle. Zelle's smile grew. Jaune realized what was happening too late. "Carbin wae!" Cardin didn't stop and attempted another overhead swing. Zelle easily dodged it but didn't expect the ground to explode. Zelle jumped back and checked the damage. A sweat drop formed, two percent, really? That was like a grenade going off!

"Well look at you and your bag of tricks. I'm going to assume that was your semblance? An explosion semblance of some sort perhaps?" Zelle asked conversationally, as if he hasn't been nearly blown up. Cardin grit his teeth. "Shut up!" He came at him again, moving the Mace to one hand attempting a wide swing. Zelle merely bent back, avoiding the mace by mere inches. This went on for another minute as Cardin desperately attempted to hit Zelle, with each swing getting more wild than the last. Having enough, Zelle got in Cardin's guard. Cardin was so focused on Zelle, he didn't have time to react to his presence.

Zelle fired Raiden at the shoulder carrying the mace. While unloading the clip, Zelle struck his leg. Forcing Cardin onto one knee. Once he was down and Raiden had successfully numbed that arm, Zelle flipped Raiden around and pistol whipped Cardin in the face causing him to fall back. Everyone in the audience winced at the sound of pistol cracking Cardin over the head. Jaune watched all of this with despair. He could not move into help Cardin as his attacks were too wild and wide to offer any assistance without a ranged weapon.

Zelle looked down at Cardin and back at the board. He still had 50% aura, good. The pistol whip was supposed to disorient and look badass, not eliminate the student. He had lessons to teach, not knock them out… though that is also fun, not going to lie. Stepping away from Cardin, he let him stand. Jaune went over and helped him all the while Cardin glared at Zelle.

"Lesson one!" Zelle had everyone's undivided attention. "Do not let anger cloud your judgement. If an enemy is taunting you or insulting your skills, he or she is more than likely goading you to be more reckless. It makes your much more predictable and easy."

"But we aren't going to have to fight other humans so it shouldn't be an issue." Zelle looked over to Ruby, poor naive Ruby.

"Sorry to break it to you this way Little Red, but you are. As defenders of man we also must protect man from each other." Ruby looked confused. "Bandits, thieves, criminals, soldiers, White Fang, and even other hunters. You are expected to defend Vale from all threats. Even those that threaten themselves." Ruby looked perturbed but nodded. Seeing that she got the point. Zelle turned his attention to Pyrrha and gave her a grin. She leaned back at the playfulness of the smile, as if all of this was a game and he was talking to children. To be fair, he was basically re-teaching the same lessons he got from Glynda when he got here, though some of this was based off of personal experience.

"Lesson two, always be prepared." Zelle reared back and threw his sword. Pyrrha yelled at Jaune who saw the sword coming and barely got his shield up as the sword deflected off and sailed into the air. What Jaune wasn't prepared for was the fingers gripping the edges of his shield and everything being turned upside down. He certainly wasn't ready for the ground that knocked the wind out of him. He blearily noticed Cardin get thrown outside of the arena.

Jaune watched satisfied as Cardin slammed against the arena wall. He got his message across. Hopefully they took it to heart. Hearing feet shuffling, Zelle turned around and saw Jaune getting up. That was quick. He cracked the floor with that throw. He had been attempting to keep him down for a while but this was fine too. Coating his fist with aura, Zelle punched the shield with enough force for Jaune's arm to go numb at the impact and send him skidding a few feet back. Jaune retaliated surprisingly quickly and took Zelle by surprise. He almost managed to knick Zelle, almost. Zelle spun out of the way and did a spin kick to Jaune's torso causing him to go sprawling. Just like before he got up, determination and wariness in equal parts in his eyes.

Zelle snorted, that grit would only get him so far, but he liked the look in the eyes. Jaune had one glaring issue though. "Jaune, where is your anger?" Jaune looked confused as did everyone else in the arena. His first lesson was not to angry wasn't it?

"Don't get me wrong, acting on your anger is incorrect most of the time, but you have never been angry. Upset, yes. Distraught, sure. Sad, most certainly. But for all of that, never once have I seen you angry." Jaune thought about it and sure enough, since coming to Beacon, he had not been really and truly angry.

"So here's what I'm going to do". Zelle took a step and disappeared in a burst of sound. Jaune felt his hair painfully grabbed and his sword arm painfully twisted causing him to drop it. Zelle whispered into his ear. "Look towards Pyrrha." Zelle demanded. Jaune's stomach dropped. He tried to keep his head away from her direction. Zelle pulled his hair and turned his head back towards her. Jaune's stomach dropped. Behind Pyrrha, just a foot away Ryo stood there in his beowolf form, fangs bared. Jaune wanted to yell but was stopped with a jerk of his hair.

"Don't say anything or Ryo will attack and mangle her." In truth, the rest of Jaune's team was in on this though they didn't realize he would be so rough with their leader. Pyrrha's face was scrunched up with worry, while Nora was threatening to break his knees and Ren was attempting to calm Nora down. They were so caught up in the fight, the actually forgot about Ryo. It was making for a very believable scene. "I want you to get angry, hate me, rage. Come at me with the intent to kill.

Zelle pushed forward causing Jaune to stumble. He immediately turned around and quickly picked his sword up and charged, swinging angrily. Zelle easily dodged and kicked out at Jaune. Jaune brought his shield up and blocked the kick. He felt his arm numb but that wasn't good enough to push him away this time. Zelle blocked the sword aimed at him by grabbing Jaune's wrist and throwing him away. Jaune slammed into the ground but quickly righted himself and skidded to a stop. Anger was plastered across his face.

"That's it Jaune. Get angry!" Zelle yelled. He reached into his pocket and a yellow glyph appeared and fired a blast of lightning at Jaune. Jaune merely held his shield up and charged through the blast. Zelle was caught off guard by the unexpected move and almost got a sword to the face. Quickly ducking, he spun and knocked Jaune's feet from under him. Standing up, he proceeded to axe kick causing the ground to crater once more. Zelle took a leap back once he finished and glanced at the Aura levels. He was still sitting comfortably at 94% and Jaune was at 37%.

"I severely underestimated the amount of aura he has. He has taken several strong and well placed blows that would knock most other out. I'm not sure if Yang would be able to tank that much damage. Wow, he's getting up again."

Zelle returned his attention to Jaune who had his sword tip down and was using it to help pick himself up. Zelle could see the pure rage on his face. But that's not what mattered. White wisps were coming out in spurts all across his body. Zelle resisted the smile that threatened to split his face. Good, his plan was working. Jaune got up and with greater speed than he showed previously, he covered the few feet between them in a matter of moments. He made a lunge with two hands towards Zelle's torso. Zelle sidestepped it quickly and clotheslined Jaune causing him to go on his back. Zelle noticed how the wisps concentrated where he hit and actually felt like he was pushed away from the point of impact. Zelle jumped back and glanced back up and saw something that stunned him. Jaune's aura was slowly increasing. So stunned that Jaune landed a clean hit on Zelle causing him to get pushed back. Zelle stared hard at Jaune, but he didn't flinch, but it was clear he was calming down. The white wisps were still present. Flickering on and off around his body. Jaune got prepared to attack again when the sound of clapping stopped him dead in his tracks.

Zelle's hands clapping resounded around the dead silent room. No one had said a word since Jaune's brutal handling, too engrossed in the one-sided match to say anything. Jaune was so startled that he brought his weapons down, the wisps disappearing in the process. Everyone stared at Zelle who had a wide smile on his face full of sincerity.

"Congratulations Jaune, you have unlocked your Semblance." Zelle declared. Everyone else was stunned. That thrashing all to unlock his Semblance? Jaune was having trouble articulating his words.

"I'm sorry, what?" Zelle simply summoned Mune and Raiden back to his hands as he began his explanation.

"Semblances are very fickle things. They manifest differently in everyone differently. For some, they are unlocked when their aura is unlocked." Nods came from Pyrrha and Ruby as they remember being able to use their Semblance as soon as they had their aura unlocked. "For others, theirs unlocked during a time of great adversity, like a breakthrough of sorts." Nora and Yang nodded this time. "For even fewer, it's hereditary and will show up whenever it does." Weiss looked uncomfortable at these words. "But for the vast majority, it shows up during instances of extreme stress or emotional distress." Now it was Blake's turn to look uncomfortable and while most didn't notice, Ren was visibly troubled by those words.

"Your semblance is not hereditary after looking into your family history."

"You did what?" Jaune shouted back.

Zelle simply continued on as if he didn't hear the outburst. "It was most certainly not unlocked when I unlocked it the first time and your time of adversity came during our trip to Forever Fall according to Pyrrha. Which means you fall under the last category. This was meant to bring out the easiest emotion, anger. I wanted you to feel desperate, hopeless, angry and my hypothesis was right. We managed to get your semblance to emerge. Oh, I should mention that Pyrrha was never in any real danger. She was in on the, I will totally kill her thing." Jaune's mouth dropped open and he stared at Pyrrha as if she was insane. She gave him a small wave, a small smile on her face and a quiet sorry.

However, although I have an idea of what your semblance is, I'm trying to figure out what it does precisely. Everyone looked at Zelle curiously.

"What do you mean Zelle?" Ruby decided to voice her confusion.

Well for one look at the board. Everyone did and saw that Jaune's aura was sitting pretty at precisely 50%. A few got what he meant, but there were quite a few confused stares.

"His aura levels increased rapidly. Typically we replenish aura by resting, eating, and staying hydrated. His were increasing in the midst of combat. Though, that's not the only thing and this is why I'm confused." Zelle summoned Mune back to his hand and quickly swung Mune and Jaune had no time to react. Closing his eyes, he waited for the strike to connect. Instead of feeling the weightlessness that typically comes from Zelle's strikes. Jaune just felt a little more tired. When he opened his eyes, he noticed white wisps that covered his body. Zelle's arm was pulled back. Zelle swung again. This time Jaune watched the sword, about two inches from his body, a white wisp appeared and created what appeared to create a miniature explosion which pushed back his the blade.

"It appears that you have a shield of sorts. Right now it seems quite passive, work with Pyrrha more and you should be able to will it on and off, right now it appears that it completely negates kinetic energy basically making you a juggernaut though it appears to eat your aura. Nora should be able to help you figure out it's limits." Jaune nodded as he processed all of this information.

"Jaune." Jaune looked at Zelle who still retained a small smile on his face. Zelle had his hand out. "Great job." Jaune reached out, a smile also reaching his face and they shook hands.

"Thanks, but you know, you can be a real douchebag." Zelle just laughed. Everyone had smiles.

"Well team CRDN I really have nothing to teach you all as I don't know you all well enough yet. If I figure out any other information to help you all train I'll let you all know. Tell Cardin to think on what happened during the fight and why he lost and come find me when he has the answer." The team exhaled a breath of relief. They quickly gathered their leader and began to drag him away, probably the medic wing.

"All right now that is out of the way. Let's get our next contestant under way. Yang it's your turn girl, get on down here." Seeing he was done, Jaune headed back up to his team where Pyrrha began fussing over him. Zelle smiled, damn they were so cute together. He shipped them hard.

Yang made her way down and got onto the arena and put her hands on her hips. "So what's the lesson today professor?" Zelle merely dismissed his weapons and walked up to her. He made sure to keep direct eye contact as he did so. He eventually got to where he was directly in front of her to where their torsos were nearly touching. Yang merely raised an eyebrow as she looked up at him. "What, is there something on my face?" Then he did something unexpected. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. The reaction around the room was instantaneous. Blake looked furious, Ruby's expression became a little downtrodden but went back to normal very quickly, Weiss face had turn neon red. Pyrrha and Jaune also were blushing, Ren was doing his best to keep his face neutral and Nora whistled.

The whistle brought Yang out of her startled trance, she then proceeded to knee Zelle in every man's sacred area. Zelle fell down, whimpering and quietly said "Yeah, I deserved that." They all noticed that there was something now on Yang's forehead. Ruby being the voice of all things obvious decided to point it out. "Yang, there's something on your-" She was cut off as she saw Zelle put his finger to his lips before grimacing.

"What was that Rubes?"

"Oh nothing, nevermind!" Ruby quickly called back. Yang was going to say something but was stopped as she saw Zelle getting up very slowly. "Damn, do you kick every guy in the balls when they show you affection." Yang put a finger to her chin and nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

Zelle's eye twitched. Aura was awesome, that would have hurt infinitely worse had he not have it. "Other than your aversion to men despite your… appearance, let's get down to business." Yang grit her teeth as she bit back a retort. "The rules are simple, hand to hand combat. No weapons." Loser is decided by knockout or Aura reaching 75%. Yang nodded and took off Ember Cecilia and walked over and handed them to Ruby for safe keeping. As she got closer. Team JNPR and RWB got to see what was on Yang's forehead. It was a dark green design of a flower. However Weiss noticed the little symbols hidden among the lines and quickly took out a pad and pen and began attempting to sketch the design.

Once Yang got into the ring, Zelle started the timer. Once it hit 0, she immediately charged and swung a right straight at him. Zelle blocked it and retaliated with a left hook. Yang ducked it and attempted to knee him in the stomach, Zelle leapt back. The two then began a close up fist brawl. A solid two minutes of the two going at it before Yang leapt back with a grin on her face. She had taken quite a few hits and decided it was time to get serious. She smashed her fists together and Zelle merely raised an eyebrow. Yang's smile faltered and she tried again and nothing happened. Apparently that didn't stop her eyes from turning from lilac to crimson.

"What did you do? she growled.

She was actually answered by Weiss. "He took away your semblance." Her voice was laced with awe. On the notepad, she had drawn a blowup version of the symbol on Yang's head and had deciphered what it could do.

"One point for Snow White. Today's lesson Goldilocks is to learn to fight without your semblance." Yang growled.

"You have no right to do that!"

"That's where you are wrong." Yang continued glowering.

"As you are right now, you are a hindrance to the team and yourself." Yang charged and attempted a leaping punch which completely missed as Zelle merely sidestepped the telegraphed attack.

"Remember rule one? This applies to you more heavily than anyone else. However, your semblance-" He was forced to stop to duck and roll past a series of punches and kicks thrown his way. "Relies way too heavily on taking hits and your anger. Which is all fine and dandy, with the exception you lose a lot of your common sense." Yang attempted to roundhouse kick him and he ducked under it, she then proceeded to throw several more rapid punches his way, all of which he dodged. "You-" He said grabbing the last fist. "Need to calm the fuck down." With that, he grabbed her and lifted her over his head and slammed her into the ground, cratering the arena and causing several pieces to splinter completely off.

Zelle hopped a few feet back from the impact zone and thrust his hands in his pockets. Not too long Yang was seen getting out of the crater. "Listen, getting angry is helping no one. You need to learn to control it. Temper it. Find an outlet, something. All your doing now is charging in and hoping to overpower whoever you fight, which I'm sure would work in most cases. But what if you fight someone you can't hit like Ruby or someone who hits harder like myself? What then?" Yang's eyes were back to their Lilac color and she was breathing heavy.

"You're… You're right." Zelle nodded his head. "That is the lesson, so you're good to head back up."

Yang nodded, her head down. She began to trudge back to the stands, her energetic persona no longer in place.

"Yang." Zelle called out. Yang stopped. "Don't get me wrong, you are an awesome fighter and I wouldn't prefer to have anyone else on the front lines with me." A few seconds passed before Yang turned back with a cheeky grin on her face. "Damn straight!" With that, she headed back up.

Zelle was about to call the next people down when a thought occurred to him. "Oh, by the way Yang. You should get your semblance back in about five minutes.

"All right, Nora and Ren, your turn." Nora gave a big grin and jumped down into the arena. Ren merely sighed. With the way things have been going, he didn't share Nora's enthusiasm. He took the stairs and was met with a passive Zelle and the energetic Nora. Taking a deep breath, Ren focused and prepared for the fight. Zelle didn't say anything, merely summoning a glyph and pulling out his greatsword from the glyph and starting the timer.

The timer started and Ren pulled out Stormflower and clenched and unclenched his hand. Nora turned Magnhild into hammer form. Zelle merely sat there, a serious look on his face. The timer hit zero and the battle commenced. However, RWBY wasn't paying much attention to the fight, instead engrossed in their own conversation.

"He did what!?" Yang was pissed. She didn't want some mark on her head!

"Just as I said you brute, he gave you a glyph that seals your semblance. I'm not exactly sure of the details yet. This glyph is much more complex than anything I've seen so just hold still so I can finish getting all of the details." Weiss said as she attempted to get Yang to get look at her.

"How did he manage to cut off just her semblance. Isn't a person's semblance directly attached to a person's aura? I would figure that to cut off one, you would need to cut off the other. Kind of like those aura dampening cuffs that hunters use." Blake asked.

Weiss took a deep breath. "Look I'm not sure. As I said, this is outside my knowledge. From what I know, Zelle was apprenticed by Glynda Goodwitch. She is renowned as one of the best glyph users outside the Schnee's. This is possibly something he picked up from her, though there is one detail that keeps bugging me."

"What is that?" Ruby asked as she turned away from the fight to listen. Zelle had just attempted to scorch Ren with his weapon's cannon mode.

"This detail here." Weiss pointed at a some of the symbols. "And here." She said pointing at a different group of symbols. "From what I can tell, one of these has to deal with pain receptors in the body and the other has to deal with detailed information on either Zelle's or Yang's aura." Weiss informed.

"What do you think that means?" Blake asked.

Weiss shook her head. "I have a few ideas but I'm not sure if we should test it."

Ruby tilted her head. "Why not?"

Weiss looked up into the arena to see Zelle having his sword locked with Nora's and Ren slowly picking himself up. Everyone else turned to look at the ensuing battle. "I'm not sure if I want to know the results."

"I mean you aren't going to get a better chance to prove if your hypothesis is right Snow Princess. Zelle said it should be gone here in the next minute." Weiss eye twitched. How she despised that nickname.

"You know what, fine. Everyone else watch Zelle. Yang attempt to activate your semblance." Everyone turned back to see Zelle fighting off both Ren and Nora. Wielding the massive sword as if it was a toy to fend off the two fighters. Zelle summoned a red glyph and fired a torrent of fire at Ren forcing him to retreat and fainted at Nora who fell for it, resulting in her feet being sweeped and getting kicked away. Ren charged back again.

"Yang, now." Weiss demanded. Yang smashed her fists together to see what would happen. They weren't disappointed. Zelle's face scrunched up and his down swing froze and fell heavily much sooner than it should, allowing Ren to get a series of cuts and shots off before Zelle recovered and proceeded to spin with his sword in a three hundred sixty degree turn forcing Ren back. Zelle glared over at the rest of his team before he called the match.

Weiss breathed deeply. Her brain was going several miles a minute at what she saw. Her thoughts were interrupted by Blake. "What just happened? Why did he stop like that?"

"He just suffered aura backlash." Weiss answered plainly, attempting to keep her voice steady.

Ruby winced and Blake cringed while Yang just looked confused. "I don't get it." Everyone turned to her and noticed the mark was gone.

Blake picked up the slack where Weiss left off. "Aura backlash is a serious, yet rare condition that some hunters and huntress contract. Something will disturb the normal composition of their aura making it hard for it to use, if they can use it at all. Anytime they would call upon their semblance or use aura in anything other than it's passive use, it causes extreme to the affected. The best example is a martial art known as Au Shou. It uses the aura of the user to invade their opponents system. It is largely unused by hunters as it only works against others who have their aura unlocked and is not a very good combat style against Grimm."

"What the glyph does is that whenever you try to actively use your semblance, all of your aura that is being used for the activation is being directed into Zelle's system. He gave himself small amounts of aura backlash." Weiss finished her hypothesis.

"That is correct."

Zelle stood there with his greatsword on his shoulder looking at the rest of his team. "I'm actually quite impressed Weiss. That is a level eight glyph of my own personal design. For you to decipher it in five minutes is quite impressive."

"Hmph, who do you take me for, some dimwit who just uses glyphs to look special?"

Zelle snorted. "No, while summoning is your semblance, glyphs can take years to learn. Though it seems I'm an exception." Zelle smiled as he remembered Glynda's face when he finished getting to the eighth level of glyphs within a matter of a few months. She could only do level nine glyphs. Apparently the ability to use level ten glyphs had been lost to history. Zelle had to thank Ash for his knowledge beforehand. That was still trippy to think about. Time to focus again.

"All right, to be honest I don't have anything else to teach so if anyone else wants to spar, we can do that." Immedieatly, Ruby and Pyrrha's hand shot up. Zelle shook his head. Well I'm a little over sixty percent aura right now, so I can only fight one of you."

The two looked over to each other and silence reigned for a good minute before a silent agreement seemed to be made as Pyrrha stepped down into the arena. Zelle's face scrunched up into confusion. "What just happened?"

Pyrrha merely shrugged with a small smile while pulling out her weapons. Zelle just sighed. Crazy women and their mind powers. "All right Pyrrha, here are the rules. First one to-" Zelle was cut off as the door slammed open and a brown haired girl wearing a brown long sleeve shirt, a black scarf and black beaded necklace, and black corset walked in. Anger felt in her every step. As he approached they saw she was wearing black combat pants and a bandoiler of ammunition on her hip and clenching a black handbag.

Zelle looked over to see who had interrupted his training session and felt his blood freeze. No, no, not now! Coco stomped her way down the aisle towards the arena, eyes never leaving Zelle's form. Her sunglasses were off allowing everyone to see the anger in her eyes.

"Zelle!" Zelle visibly flinched and smiled awkwardly and gave a small wave.

"H-hey Coco, funny seeing you here at Beacon right?" Zelle gave a nervous chuckle.

Coco got onto the arena not saying a word, moving past the armed Pyrrha as if she didn't exist and go right in his face. "You. Me. Shopping. Now." Her voice was firm leaving no room for argument. Zelle whimpered and sadly nodded his head. His collar was grabbed and he let himself be dragged out of the arena. Everyone else stayed silent until the door closed again and the girl and Zelle were gone.

"What now?" Jaune voice his question. Everyone looked around each other before Blake voiced her opinion.

"Should, should we help him?"

"Nah, that girl looked pissed. We would probably be making things worse." Yang said as she crossed her arms with a contemplative look.

They all heard beeping and they looked to see that one of the bars on the graph was red. As everyone crowded around Ruby to see what was going on, they all saw the bar said stress and it was reaching near the max it could reach. This resulted in a round of laughter at Zelle's expense.

"Well since Zelle is gone, I think we are good to enjoy our weekend now." Jaune said.

Yang got up stretched, pushing out her chest. "Well I for one am going to head out into Vale. Anyone else in?"

"I need to rest, I'm still hurting a bit." Jaune groaned.

"I agree with Jaune, my aura is quite low still." Ren agreed

"Where Renny goes, I go!" Nora declared cheerfully

"Sorry, maybe next time." Pyrrha apologized with her small smile.

"I'm up for it." Blake said.

"Let's do it!" Ruby called cheerfully.

Weiss sighed. "Someone has to keep you all out of trouble."

"All right it is decided then. See you guys later."

With that, the two teams departed, but for two girls there was one thought swimming through their mind.

"Who was that girl?"

A/N: Not much to say this time around. Hopefully you all enjoyed the chapter and see you next time!