Chapter 6: Huntresses vs. Nightwing

Blake slowly got back to her feet after the full force of Kono's attack. "Well can you feel it?" Kono questioned. "This is an S-Class wizard's magic energy. This is an S-Class wizard's power!" Kono and Blake crossed swords again but Kono getting the better of the exchange. "And this, my friend, is an S-Class wizard's…" Kono and Blake's blades crossed again with Kono's inching closer to Blake. "…blade." Kono lowered his sword and slashed Blake's shoulder. Kono started to rapidly thrust his sword towards Blake with Blake blocking each attack but continues to get pushed back. "What's the matter?! Come on!"

Blake blocked Kono's last attack but the force of it pushed her back several feet. Blake quickly rebounded and charged towards Kono. Kono smirked and pushed Blake away with his sword, sending her crashing into one of the trees behind her. Blake got out of the smoke and charged again. Kono widen his eyes when he saw Blake aiming towards his legs. He jumped in the air, avoiding the faunus' blade. Kono landed his feet with a smirk as he slashed Blake's back. Kono stuck his hand out and a light blue magic circle opened up. "Gale Force…Canon de Presion!" Blake quickly jumped out of the way as a large amount of pressurized air was shot towards her like a cannon.

"It's useless." Blake widens her eyes as she started to dodge a barrage of balls made from pressurized air that was being fired at her. "I wonder how long you will last." Blake continued to dodge Kono's attack until one of the air balls finally hit her. "Do you like it? Those were my Balas de Aire." Blake glared at Kono, trying to catch her breath. "So tell me, how are you holding there? You're looking a little tired, if you don't mind my saying." Kono walked towards Blake and raised his sword over his head. "Don't you think it's time for you to get serious?" Blake disappeared from Kono's sight. Kono smirked as the faunus appeared behind him and he grabbed her arm. Blake gritted her teeth in frustration as Kono looked at her. "Look at you, you're exhausted. Are you sure that you'll be ok? In a battle between equals, you wouldn't one of them be so worn out." Kono used some of his strength and threw Blake in front of him. A magic circle opened up and fired an air ball at the faunus, creating an explosion when it hit her.

Blake landed on her feet before falling to a knee. She got back to both of her feet, still breathing heavily from exhaustion. 'Something's not right here.' She thought. 'His attacks are getting stronger and stronger. But how? Unless…'

(Flashback)

Kono pushed up one of his shelves and revealed four metal bands on his arms. "So, I'll fight at the level of an S-Class wizard." Blake narrowed her eyes Kono as he charged towards her again. Kono pointed his blade at lowest metal band on his arm and cut the band off. He charged towards Blake and swung his sword at her. Blake blocked the attack as Kono went past her. Blake widens her eyes noticing the difference between this attack and his last one.

'Did his attack just get stronger?' The cat faunus thought. Kono smirked as cut off another metal band on his arm. He turned around and rushed towards Blake. They crossed blades and Blake started to get pushed back a little, feeling Kono's power still continuing to increase.

(End of Flashback)

Blake narrowed her eyes, figuring out how Kono's strength continued to increase. "What's that look?" Kono questioned, looking at the faunus.

"Those bands on your arms…they're some sort of limiters, aren't they?" Blake said. "I've noticed when you cut off one of them, the strength you put in your attack increases. At first, I wondered why you showed me the metal band when you declared that you'll fight with the strength of an S-Class Wizard. But now I know."

Kono smirked and said, "So you were paying attention. You're correct. The metal bands I had on were special weight that limits my magic energy I use in battle. I'm surprised that you were able to figure it out. But don't think that it'll give some sort an advantage. Right now, you're still at my mercy!" Kono fired another air ball at Blake, hitting her directly. Then Blake slowly stated to fade away. "What?!" Kono felt something slash his back. He turned around and saw Blake behind him with his blood dripping from her blade.

"It's true that my strength won't able to match as it is now." Blake said. "But I'm far from helpless. I will defeat you, one way or another."

Kotori put her hand close to her mouth and blew out a cloud of snow and ice at Weiss. Weiss jumped out of the way but one of her legs was caught and slowly started to freeze. She fell to the ground, looking at the ice covering her leg. Weiss narrowed her eyes as she broke the ice with Myrtenaster's hilt.

"What's wrong?" Kotori taunted, getting Weiss' attention. "You look like you got a lot on your mind. Or maybe it's the realization finally started to set in."

"What are you talking about?" Weiss said.

"I'm talking about the realization that you and your friends can't win. You could feel it, can't you? You can fell that we're overwhelming you. Compared to our power, you're completely helpless. Ice Dragon's Waxing Fang!" Weiss quickly jumped out of the way of Kotori's attack and charged towards the dragon slayer. "Charging towards me again? Not a smart move. But I won't give you the chance to regret that decision. Ice Dragon's Roar!" Weiss widen her eyes as she stopped and jumped out of the way of Kotori's blast. "Even if you try to attack like that, knowing what happened to your little weapon, I won't let you anywhere close to me."

Weiss narrowed her eyes, thinking of another form of attack. The dial on Myrtenaster turned and stopped at the blue crystal. Weiss fired icy projectiles at the dragon slayer. "My, my, that's no ordinary rapier, isn't it? But is that all you got?"

"Far from it!" Weiss shouted, creating a glyph below Kotori. At an incredible speed, a column of ice shot out of the ground as Kotori

'Now she's trying to be creative.' Kotori thought as she jumped out of the way of another ice column coming out of the ground. The dial turned toward a red crystal as with a whipping motion, Weiss lanced a line of fire towards Kotori. The dragon slayer smirked as she jumped away from the fire. She looked up and saw Weiss using a glyph to stand on the side of one of her ice columns. The blade turned cyan and electricity coursed through as Weiss charged towards Kotori. 'She must have a death wish if she think that is going to work.' Weiss let out a battle cry as she went pass Kotori, shattering her ice scales. 'No way…she broke through the scales?' Kotori thought in shock. Weiss landed gracefully on her feet as Kotori fell to the ground. Kotori looked up at Weiss with a murderous glare on her face.

Ruby skidded on the ground after dodging another of Emi's sound wave attacks. Emi looked over at the red-hooded girl with a smirk on her face. "You're very jumpy." She said. "I've noticed that you're starting to move a little faster than when we started. But how long do you plan to keep this up? I'm done playing this little game of cat and mouse." Ruby gritted her teeth as she turned Crescent Rose to its sniper rifle form and fire a round of bullets at Emi. Emi closed her eyes and sighed. "Sound Wall!" The bullets stopped in mid-air before they reached Emi and fell to the ground. She opened her eyes but Ruby was gone. Ruby appeared behind Emi with Crescent Rose in its scythe form. Ruby slashed Emi with her scythe but Emi started to fade.

'What the…' Ruby thought as she felt something hit her in the back again. She turned around to face the wizard but she wasn't there.

"Look behind you." Emi said, getting Ruby. Ruby turned towards Emi and charged towards her. Before she could attack, something tripped her up and made her fall to the ground. Ruby looked at what caused her to trip and saw Emi. "Did you like my little trick? Didn't it look like I was in two places at once? I called it my Twin Acceleration. I fused my speed and sound magic to create a duplicate of myself. Well you think that you were attacking me, I can appear from anything around you won't know it. Let's test it out, shall we?" Emi disappear again as Ruby got back to her feet, trying to find the wizard.

"Ok, where would she attack from?" Ruby said, looking around for Emi. Then Ruby felt something hit her in the back, "Behind…" Ruby looked behind her shoulder and hit something hit her right hip. "From the right…." She turned her right and something hit her back. "The left…" She turned to the left and felt something hitting her back again.

"It's useless. My speed can't be tracked by the human eye. Now take this, Twin Accel…Sound Palms!" Four magic circles opened up around Ruby and sound waves hit her all directions, creating an explosion. Emi appeared in front of the smoke with a smirk on her face. "Now do you see? There one man that can match speed. But from the look of things, I may have surpassed even him." The smoke cleared and revealed Ruby still on her feet but showing the damage that Emi's attack did on her. 'No way…she withstood all of that and is still standing?'

"I don't care how fast you are." Ruby said. "I don't care how strong to you are? I will defeat you. So until this battle is done, I won't fall until one of us is down for good."

To be continued…