Fipp: This is the last chapter of this short story. I took nearly a month in writing it, but I had lots of fun with it regardless, so I hope that you readers got at least some enjoyment out of this. I will say though that I feel that this fight may be a bit weak when compared to the other two since I really just wanted to make something up for SSSN because they kind of got the short end of the stick in terms of use this volume (to the point where I wonder why they were even there.)
Anyway, on this goes.
Doubles III: Final Round
"THIS IS IT LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, THE FINAL MATCH OF THE DOUBLES FIGHTS, WE'VE SEEN PLENTY OF BATTLES UP UNTIL THIS POINT, AND AFTER THIS WE ENTER SINGLES ROUNDS, WHERE SEVEN CONTESTANTS HAVE ALREADY HAVE ALREADY MADE IT, BUT WHO WILL BE OUT EIGHTH AND FINAL?" Port's voiced echoed through the entire arena, rising above the cheers of the crowds.
"It's totally going to be us, you know?" Nora asked, a wide grin on her face. "Well, you actually, because I really don't see how anyone can beat us. Seriously, anyone who saw out last match should be wetting their pants!"
"I think we should wait to see what our opponents are capable of before we make any judgments," Pyrrha said sincerely, hands folded in front of her. "With that in mind, I must admit that I've not taken taken the time to look up all the other teams before we made it to the doubles, so I don't know what sort of skill sets they may possess."
Nora rolled her eyes. "Probably just some scrubs. Like I said, there's no way we can lose!" she cheered, arms pumped into the air. "Unless-" She froze. "You know, unless we do, and it ends up being real bad on our end." Her arms dropped, curling up to her chest. "It ends up being utterly humiliating, and everyone will laugh at us, and then it'll be uploaded to the internet where it will be shown to people for generations to come." She swallowed her own tongue. "No worries, huh?"
Pyrrha raised a hand, aiming to put it on her shoulder in a comforting manner, but hesitated in doing so. She worried about what would be an appropriate amount of contact to help her worrying friend, her hand hovering over Nora's shoulders, hoping she didn't notice how long it was taking for her to do something. That would be a terribly awkward, and she didn't want to have to deal with that. Though, the longer she held it there, she began to worry about that looking awkward, but didn't know if she should put it down.
"THE FINAL FIGHT TODAY WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN PYRRHA NIKOS AND NORA VALKYRIE, REPRESENTING TEAM JNPR OF BEACON!" Oobleck's voice called out, causing both of them to sigh in relief. "AND THEIR OPPONENTS WILL BE ORSTON LEO AND SMOFF TABERU OF TEAM GOSP (Gospel), FROM VACUO!"
Pyrrha and Nora looked across the field to their two opponents.
Both opponents towered over Pyrrha, making Nora seem insignificantly sized in comparison.
The first one, Orston Leo, wore tarnished silver leggings and matching arm guards, a torn leather coat with draping armored tailcoat hanging low behind him. His face was deeply tanned and marred with scars, his hair was a deep crimson, thick and red, trailing down his back, to the point where Pyrrha wondered if he wasn't human, but rather a faunas. Lion, maybe? In his hand was a long spear ending in a sharp blade.
Even though Orston was taller then either of them, Smoff Taberu managed to easily one-up him. He was a mountain of a person, with a massive belly, wearing bronzed pants and no shirt, sans the spiked pauldrons on his shoulders and biceps. On his face was a large predatory grin beneath a bald head, and sharp eyes that bore right down onto him. The most eye-catching thing however was colossal hammer he held, the head of it easily the size of his own body.
"You think they heard me talking smack about them?" Nora leaned over, whispering to Pyrrha. "I mean, I'd hate if it someone called me a scrub right in front of my face."
Pyrrha glanced over over to their opponents. "I wouldn't certainly hope not."
"Good, because that would mean that they heard me crying too."
"Um, hello there!" Pyrrha gave a nervous, albeit friendly wave to Orston and Smoff. "I certainly hope that regardless of the outcome to this battle, we each give this everything he have and try and make it a good fight."
Neither one responded, only glared, and Pyrrha was left wondering if she had offended them somehow.
"Hey! You gonna answer or stand there and act like rude idiots!" Nora shouted loudly.
"Nora!" Pyrrha gasped.
"What?"
Still, there was no response from either of them.
Nora blew a raspberry in response, while Pyrrha resisted the urge to shift her weight between her feet.
Random biome selection then began.
000
"YEAH! C'MON PYRRHA! C'MON NORA!" Jaune shouted, clapping as hard as he could before turning to his side. "Hey, Ren, can you do that whistle thing? You know, that people do with their fingers?"
Ren paused from his own slow series of claps, and shook his head. "Sorry, I can't."
To the other side a sharp whistle pierce the air, almost making them jump in their seats. "Uh, thanks Yang."
"No problem," Yang said, casually waving him off. "Anything to support our girls."
Between them, Ruby bounced excitedly in her seat. "I can't wait for this to start! It's going to be so great!" She settled down just enough to turn around to Jaune. "Hey, what made you guys decide to send Pyrrha and Nora into the doubles?"
"Hm?" Jaune leaned back in his seat. "Well, Pyrrha was the obvious choice, since tournaments are her kind of thing, she's been doing them since she was a freshman in Sanctum and ended up beating down seniors. As for who her partner was going to be, at first we considered me to go with her and-" He then suddenly burst out in uncontrollable laughter, almost doubling over in his seat, causing Ruby confusion until he eventually stopped. "Oh man, I really wanted to get through that without laughing. Like I could fight in something like this, I'd get tossed out in a second." Ruby sent disproving look his way, not liking the self-deprecating comment. "But yeah, we weighted the pros and cons between Nora and Ren, looking at it from every angle, looking at past battles and-"
"Nora kept pushing for it, and I really didn't," Ren said simply, glancing over to them.
"Well, yeah there's that too..." Jaune replied, a bit too lowly.
From her seat, Yang leaned forward, looking over to the other blonde. "Why do I feel like there's a 'but' at the end of that?"
"Well, Nora's the second strongest person on our team, and she has one of the highest grimm kill counts out of everyone in our year. It's just, hmm, how do I put this?" Jaune anxiously scratched the backside of his head.
"Nora needs to be babysat sometimes," Ren added.
"Exactly!"
"What do you mean she needs to be babysat?" Ruby asked, briefly looking back down to the arena.
"Nora can sometimes get overexcited in a fight," Ren answered. "On a few occasions this ended up with her not really paying attention to her surroundings, so when she lets loose it tends to end poorly. There was a reason Goodwitch yelled at us so much."
"There were a lot of smashed up walls and trees," Jaune said absentmindedly. "Normally, Ren's mostly on top of her, and I've gotten a good hold of her, the problem is that Pyrrha is a bit too passive. If she sees Nora about to do something that might not be a good idea, I'm afraid she might not tell her "No Nora, don't do that thing you're about to do". She has trouble when it comes to being direct with people."
"WOW!" Yang gave an over over-exaggerated gasp. "Are you saying Pyrrha, our Pyrrha, has trouble telling people how she feels even though it's obvious to everyone else except the person she want to tell it to? Oh my god! Who would have known?"
"Uh, yeah?" Jaune looked over to Ruby, shooting her a curious look. Ruby's answer was to look equally confused and give him a unknowing shrug.
000
The stages rose up from beneath the arena, forming the battle grounds that they would fight on. There was the icy biome, covered in sheets of icy and giant frozen boulders, then the grassland, the grass having regrown from the previous fight on it, and the desert biome, the sandstone mountain standing tall. The fourth one to appear was one filled with tall stone pillars, wide enough to hide behind and lose opponents in them, Pyrrha remembered how in a previous battle someone was able to dart between them and eliminated two members of the other team.
"I say we do the thing."
"What? What 'thing' are you talking about?" Pyrrha asked, looking down to Nora.
"You know, our team-attack-thing! What was it called again?" Nora mumbled to herself. "Spartan Thunder or something like that?"
"I'm not too certain about this Nora," Pyrrha offered, thinking back to previous attempts. "We haven't really found a right balance between what we put into that, it's tricky for me to apply the right force, and Jaune says that we shouldn't try it in an actual fight until we figure out how to do it properly-"
"Yeah, yeah, but it'll be cool though right?" Nora eagerly began to bounce on her feet. "They'll never expect us to come right out of the gates swinging!"
"I don't know..."
"Please!"
"...Fine. Let's set it up." Pyrrha looked down to her weapon uncertainly.
Nora pumped a fist. "Yes!" Nora unfolded Magnhild and placed the barrel on the round while she hoped on top on it quickly, and gave Pyrrha a nod.
Returning a nod of her own, though without the confidence Nora had shown, Pyrrha held up Miló and Akoúo in defensive positions.
"AND THE MATCH BEGINS IN 3... 2... 1... GO!"
Pyrrha put focus onto Nora's hammer, on the metal of the weapon and shot Nora forward, aiming her directly at Orston and Smoff. Nora gripped the handle tightly as she soared through the air, the ideas of how this was going to happen running through her head.
The idea of this attack was for Pyrrha to aim her for the opposition, and Nora to fire off Magnhild, boosting her at and even quicker, and launching her into an even faster, more forceful speed, and she would fire again, sending her into a spiral, aiming the head of her hammer right down onto someone. That was how Jaune had explained it to them, and during training they had come close so many times to do it right that she could almost taste it! If they managed to pull this off they could easily take out either one of them, or at the very least cripple their aura. There was no way this could fail.
Nora pressed the trigger to fire off the grenade, but nothing happened as the trigger refused to budge, she tried to maneuver her weapon in some way, but it was stiff beneath her hands. This was the main problem with this plan, she remembered, that it was difficult for her to really control her weapon while it was under Pyrrha's influence, giving her no room to act under her own accord. She tried to fiddle with it more, working frantically, but the moment she was out of Pyrrha's range, and control shifted back to her, she ended up overcompensating and ended up spinning out of control when she fired. Tumbling through the air was was unable to stop herself from slamming right into Smoff's hammer, before being struck by Orston's spear. To her delight however, lightning poured from the spear and into her and she felt the power flow through her, and it was great. She'd not started out well, but even as she was thrown further back she knew she could turn this around, bounce back and-
She then hit a wall and fell to the ground, then a loud blaring horn sounded through the air. When she looked up, she saw that to her horror she was outside the ring.
"I HAVE TO SAY, THAT MUST BE THE QUICKEST RING OUT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN ALL THE YEARS I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS TOURNAMENT!"
"MOST CERTATINLY A NEW RECORD IF I HAD TO SAY SO MYSELF!"
Laying her head down, Nora wondered if it was possible for her to bury straight through the concrete and bury herself.
"I think I'm actually going to die of embarrassment."
000
"Wow," Yang said, her mouth open in shock. "That, that was certainly a thing."
"I'll go get Nora and see if she's okay," Ren said, getting up from his seat and making a quick exit.
"You do that Ren," Jaune replied, head in his hand, even though Ren had already left hearing range. "You know, I was actually worried that exact thing would happen."
"Pyrrha's still in though," Ruby interjected, hopefully. "She can still pull this off."
"I know she can." Jaune pushed himself up from his slouch to sit up straight. "If anyone's going to be able to do this, it's her."
000
"THIS IS GOING TO BE A FIGHT TO SEE, DON'T YOU AGREE BARTY?"
"YES IT IS! WITH MISS VALKYRIE OUT OF THE MATCH, MISS NIKOS NOW FINDS HERSELF ALONE AGAINST TWO OPPONENTS."
"CAN THE FOUR TIME WINNER OF THE MISTRAL REGIONAL TOURNAMENT BE ABLE TO HOLD HER OWN HERE?"
"WE'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT!"
Orston and Smoff looked away from the direction Nora fell and turned back to Pyrrha, standing alone.
"Hello..." She gave a small wave, giving off a nervous smile.
Orston merely stared her down, a deep frown etched onto his face, while the toothy grin on Smoff's face only seemed to widen.
The spear-wielder was the first to act, dashing right towards her, spear aiming right for her.
Pyrrha's expression shifted instantly, changing from uncertain to sharp determination as she pulled up both of her weapons.
Her shield went up, stopping Orston's blade and grazing it off to the side, as she shifted Miló into its spear form and made to stab at him, but Orston pulled his weapon back and blocked the blow, sending it down and to the side, but Pyrrha shifted back to the sword, shortening the length of the blade and freeing it from its position and tried to attack him again. Orston jumped back before the blade could connect and rebounded back at her, swing his spear in the blink of an eye and stabbed forward, but Pyrrha narrowly dodged the lunge, the spear going between the space her torso and her arm. For a moment she had prepared to go on the offensive, but a bright yellow crackling energy began to surround the spear, and fearing what it might do she tightly gripped her shield and used her semblance on it, pulling her away from the spear just as it exploded in a burst of lightning.
She landed a fair distance from Orston, out of the range of his spear, but before she could collect herself she heard a deep laugh and a shadow growing over her. Jumping to the side and landing in a roll, she had just avoided just as Smoff's hammer came down on her, crushing the ground beneath the force behind its immense weight. It then began to shift and pushed towards her as the giant pushed forwards with the intent to steam roll her down, the act caught her by surprise so she dropped her shield to the ground before jumping onto it, and crouching using her semblance to push her back and away from the hammer, before it came to a sudden stop and raise into the air. As it was lifted up, Pyrrha saw Orston standing beside Smoff, his spear wrapped in lightning, and with a sudden thrust the bolt shot from the sharp blade, aiming directly for her. Kicking off her shield, Pyrrha flipped backwards, avoiding the strike and landed on her feet, pulling her shield up to her arm, just in time to to block another blow from Orston, the force behind it enough to push her back slightly.
"ALREADY WE SEE THAT PYRRHA IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH DEALING WITH BOTH ORSTON AND SMOFF."
"FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAW GOSP'S TEAM MATCHES, THE TEAM WORK THESE TWO HAVE WERE ABLE TO MAKE QUICK WORK OF TWO OF THE OPPOSING TEAM, BARELY GIVING EITHER OF THEM TIME TO CATCH THEIR BREATH OR COUNTER IN ANY MATTER."
"BUT PYRRHA HERE IS NOW FACING THEM ALONE, HOW MUCH WILL SHE BE ABLE TO FAIR AGAINST THEM? WILL SHE SOMEONE BE ABLE TO PULL OUT A VICTORY, OR DOES THE INVINCIBLE GIRL FALL HERE?"
Gripping her equipment tightly in her hands, Pyrrha looked between Orston and Smoff, both of whom were charging her directly, and instead of fighting them directly, she chose to turn around and run away from them, heading directly for the ice biome, with the two right on her tail. She rolled out of the way of an oncoming bolt of lightning and landed on the ice, sliding down the field before she stabbed the end of her spear into the surface, as she scrapped to a stop. Careful to keep her balance, she applied her semblance to the metal in her boots and securing herself to the ground and she applied downward pressure, this sort of thing would cost her mobility, but it would keep her grounded and secured on the slippery surface. Orston and Smoff stood at the edge of the stage, carefully looking around where they could safely enter and fight her, before giving a brief look to the other.
Smoff raised his hammer and slammed it down on the ice, shattering the ground and sending large boulder-sized chunks into the air, before grabbing one with his free hand and setting it down in front of him. Orston then jumped onto the top of it and stabbed his spear into it, while Smoff gave a swift kick that sent the shard sliding right at her. Standing her ground, Pyrrha shifted the spear to the rifle and took aiming, firing several rounds of fire-based Dust at the ice, just as Orston jumped backwards off of it. The shots as managed to several damage it, creating fiery explosions upon impact, and it was shifted back to the spear. Holding her arm back she threw the spear, boosting its speed and power as it shot forward, embedding itself into the surface before continuing on, splitting it in half, having both ends slide past her on either side, sending a chill down her spine.
Through the parting of the ice, Orston charged right at her, spear aiming right for her, but without her sword all she could do was raise her shield to block the blow, taking it full on. Unlike last time, she was not pushed back, her boots weighting her down nicely, then caught the cross-guard on the spear in the indent on her shield, forcing it down and too the ice. Now with Orston open, Pyrrha undid the magnetism on her boots and used the momentum of the shove to twist her body up and into the air, sending her legs crashing into the side Orston's head, and her crashed to the ground as Pyrrha managed to land on both her feet. Orston was quick to roll to his feet and faced Pyrrha, his spear crackling with lighting that arced along the weapon, and made for another go at Pyrrha, but was slashed along the side by her sword, shooting through midair to return to her hand. Before Pyrrha could launch another attack, Smoff suddenly came into view, swinging his hammer down, breaking the ice in large uneven slabs, causing Pyrrha to lose her balance and fall to the ground, sliding to the back of the area before she slammed right into the larger glaciers. As she managed to push herself up, Smoff came at her, hammer poised right at her.
The entire glacier broke apart as Smoff widely swung, but as he looked around he could not see Pyrrha anywhere. Orston ran up to him, carefully looking around for her, but neither one was able to find her.
If they had looked more closely, instead of all around, they would have seen Pyrrha, curled up, attached to the flat head of Smoff's massive hammer, having magnetized her boots and arm bracer to his weapon. Smoff turned around, looking for her, and as Pyrrha was hovered above Orston she let herself go, dropping down on him and slashing her spear down his back.
The spear-wielder grunted as he fell to his knees, and Pyrrha looped her spear around his neck and used that to throw herself over his body, which in turn threw him over her body, just as Smoff swung at her. Spinning to her side, she loaded up her rifle and shot at Smoff's face, causing him to recoil back momentarily, allowing her time get a few good hits in on his belly. She then dashed to the side as Orston jumped at her, skewering the ice at her feet, but she jumped back at him, kicking both feet to the face before launching herself at Smoff, shield first with enough force to cause him to stumble back, and upon landing she parried a blow from Orston and knocked him in the face with the butt of her gun before firing it at his chest.
Recovering, Smoff swung his hammer low, tearing up the ice as he aimed for Pyrrha, sending shards into the air and Pyrrha was forced to leap back and into the air, but she was caught by Orston, who had leaped into the air and struck Pyrrha with a lightning-infused thrust. Before it connected, Pyrrha had blocked with her shield and was thrown back to one of the larger glaciers, and stabbed her weapon into the ice, hanging their for a brief moment before pulling herself up and digging her shield into the side of the wall, and standing atop it. Looking down she saw Orston and Smoff charge at her, so she readied her rifle and began to fire down at them, first at Smoff, but as he charged forward the shots seemed to do little to deter him, so she turned her aim towards Orston. However the spear-wielder had already made it to the base of the glacier and stuck his spear into ice, and with an added burst of lightning the crack extended upward, splitting the wall in an instant.
Nearly stumbled off her shield, Pyrrha magnetized her boots to her shield to keep her steady, but the shield nearly wobbled loose from where it was embedded. Below her Orston jumped to the side as Smoff ran up, hammer raised above his head before slamming it downward, right atop where Orston made the crack. The entire glacier shattered and broke apart, boulder-sized slabs collapsing to the ground, throwing thick clouds of ice into the air, obscuring the view from the audience. Pyrrha managed to land on the ground, but quickly rolled out of the way as a slab nearly came down on her, and was instantly assaulted by Orston, the blow enough to send her back, and he was on her again by the time she got back up. She intercepted the next swing with the end of her own spear, but a burst of lightning came from his weapon, blowing her weapon away while sending a nasty shock down her arm. Nearly hissing Pyrrha shifted Miló into its sword form as she readied herself against another thrust, using her shield to block off the strike, sliding the blade off and allowing her to make several quick strikes against his chest, but he spun around, swinging his spear widely and knocking her back and made for another attack.
With a slight movement of her hand, Pyrrha focused her semblance on the spearhead, and pushed it away from the direction of her body. With the spear going past her she elbowed Orston in the face before making a stab with her own spear, pushing him backwards, then shifted Miló back to its rifle form and shot at him right in the chest, the force of the round enough to send him flying back, to the end of the biome and landing on his back. Seeing her moment, Pyrrha sprinted forward, running up a collapsed slab of ice and jumped into the air and soared towards Orston, and as she came down she slammed the shaft of her spear right onto him and flung herself forward where she landed safely on her feet.
"AND THAT IS THE ELIMINATION OF ORSTON LEO! HIS AURA HAS DIPPED INTO THE RED, TURNING THIS MATCH INTO A ONE-ON-ONE!"
Giving herself a moment to breath, Pyrrha turned around to see Orston laying on the ground, turning himself over to his stomach, and struggling to push himself further up, but he seemed to lack the strength to do so.
"I suggest that you surrender," Pyrrha then said, straight and to the point. "You are in no shape to continue on, you have been eliminated, and trying to push yourself would only cause you harm."
Orston seemed to ignore her, and tried to reach forward, to his grip his spear-
Suddenly he was kicked, sending him across the biome and Pyrrha was shocked to see that his own partner had done that. Smoff loomed over where Orston had been, a wide, hungry grin on his face, and a deep chuckle coming from his belly.
The audience around them was booing at the sight.
"You attacked your own partner?" Pyrrha asked, glaring at her massive opponent, disgust seeping into her voice. "He was already down, there was no reason for that!"
Smoff looked down at his feat, to Orston's spear and reached down, placing on foot on the shaft while his hand grasped at the mechanism at the side, before pulling it off. Grabbing it tightly in his hand, he glanced at Pyrrha for a brief moment before slapping the device onto base of his hammer. The box flashed a bright light and the whole weapon began to crackle with electricity, and he gave a wide swing, sending arcs of lighting off his entire body. Gripping his weapon in both hands, he held the massive hammer in front of him and charged right at her, the crackling snaps of electricity snappy to life around him.
Pyrrha turned around ran from him, heading to the pillar biome, but Smoff was quick on her tail, and just as she breached the line of tower he swung at him, but she rolled out of the way of the swing, and pillar was smashed to pieces. Rolling to her feet, Pyrrha raised her shield up defensively, but Smoff swung down at her, forcing her to further retreat, and as the hammer struck the ground a wave of lightning came off of it, nearly making it past her shield.
Whilst Orston had been precise in his control of his lightning dust, Smoff was happily using with with reckless abandon. The giant laughed as he swung again, taking out another pillar, sending pieces of rubble across the field, forcing Pyrrha to take cover another pillar, but he merely plowed through that as well. Pyrrha attempted to block a blow, but the power behind the next swing nearly knocked her down, but she was able to recover enough to point her rifle at him and shoot him in the face. Grunting loudly he swung wildly, aiming for something, but hitting nothing, and when he was able to open his eyes, he could not see Pyrrha anywhere around her. Gripping his weapon in his hands he slowly turned on his feet, looking around for the girl, hoping to catch a glimmer of red dashing between the pillars, but there was nothing to be seen.
Something then caught his eye; Pyrrha's shield flew through the air and bounced off a pillar before ricocheting towards him, striking him square in the face. He tripped backwards, bumping into a pillar, which he quickly destroyed with a spin of his weapon, and he sought out her more, but the shield had vanished, leaving him with nothing.
Behind him, Pyrrha had climbed the top of a pillar, crouching down and readied her weapon. With his back turned to her, she took her chance and jumped off the top of the pillar and struck him in the back, causing him to stumble forward as she jumped off of him, just in time to avoid the electrical surge. He swung again, but she was able to jump back enough to avoid the strike and closed in again, hitting him in the belly three times, before shooting him in the leg, causing it to buckle under him. Smoff reached out with his free hand and attempted to grab at her neck, but she was able to knock it out of the way and jabbed at him, forcing him back a few steps.
Lightning burst around him as he swung over head down on her, but she back away, jumping off a nearby pillar and landing on the upwards flat head of the hammer, standing on her she separated herself from the weapon itself. Smoff looked up and hatefully glared at her, but she could only return the same fierce and determined expression that she had held for the entire fight, and he threw his hammer up, sending lightning through it, but as the hammer was thrown up, Pyrrha used her semblance on her shield to launch herself before the swing, avoiding the lightning. As she flew through the air she willed her shield back into her hand before throwing it back down at Smoff, again hitting his face, before she fell herself. With that he had tried to hit her, but she manipulated the hammer to move slowly, easily moving past it, striking at him one last time.
She landed in front of him in a three-point position, while behind her Smoff dropped his hammer, it landing on the ground with a heavy thud, as he himself fell backwards, causing the ground the slightly shake.
The buzzer sounded, signaling the end of the match.
"AMAZING! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! PYRRHA NIKOS HAS DEFEATED BOTH OF HER OPPONENTS ON HER VERY OWN! CLEARLY THIS GIRL'S REPUTATION STANDS TRUE!"
"AND WITH THAT FINAL BLOW, SHE WINS THE FINAL DOUBLES MATCH FOR TEAM JNPR, GAINING THEM A SPOT IN THE FINALS!"
The cloud began to cheer wildly as Pyrrha stood up, letting go of a breath she didn't know she was holding, and looked around the field; the ice and pillar biomes were each damaged, Orston still consciousness not too far away while Smoff laid behind her. She stood alone, having earned this victory by herself.
Honestly, she wasn't too thrilled about this. She would have preferred it if someone was here with her, to share this victory.
000
Taking a deep breath, Pyrrha made her way down the hallway, taking in and going over the recent victory, around her various people milled out of the stadium, the final match done for the say.
"Pyrrha!" a cry sounded out, causing her to snap her head to the side, and was relieved to see Jaune, Nora and Ren making their way to her, and she happily went to meet them.
"That was amazing!" Jaune cheered, running a bit ahead of the other two. "You certainly took those guys down a peg or two."
"Oh, that wasn't all that impressive," Pyrrha said, trying to suppress a blush. "I mean, they certainly proved a challenge, but I don't think it was that much of a spectacular."
"Your performance was phenomenal, Pyrrha," replied Ren as he and Nora caught. "You shouldn't be so modest about it."
"Oh no but, um..." Glancing over, Pyrrha noticed the soured look on the ginger's face. "Oh, Nora!" she gasped, remembering the start of the match. "I'm so sorry about what happened!"
"Yeah, yeah..." Nora muttered to herself. "I get it, I blew it."
"Don't be like that, Nora." Ren placed a reassuring hand on Nora's shoulder, which seemed to do her a world of good as her expression became much more relaxed.
"Hey guys! Guys! Guys! Over here!"
Team JNPR looked around for the source of the high-pitched cries amongst the crowd, and through the parting of people they could see who was calling them over; It was Ruby, and with her was the rest of her team, as well as Sun and his team.
"Ruby!" Jaune called, leading his own team over to the others.
"I can't believe that we all made it to the finals!" Ruby excitedly cheered, nearly jumping on her feet. "This is so cool!"
"Oh man, I can't wait for the fights!" Sun seemed to be sharing her enthusiasm.
Sage then spoke up. "Each school has two teams representing them, right? That's eight people for the finals."
Weiss nodded, folding her arms over her chest and holding her head high. "I think we should use this time to try and find out who the other teams are are going to send, so that we can attempt to figure out what would be the best way for our chosen participants to combat them."
"Or, we could go out and party?" Yang offered. "You know, celebrate or something?"
"I like the sound of that," Blake agreed.
The general consensus was of similar thought, and even Weiss had to agree in the end.
"Well, does anyone know a good place to go then?" Scarlet asked as the group began to follow behind the rest of the crowd, heading for the shuttles.
"Yeah, there's a pizza place in downtown Vale that makes pies so big and thick you could use them as sled no problem," Yang offered. "Oh! And there's good arcade right across the street from them! They even recently installed a Castle Super Beast machine."
Neptune gasped. "Dude, shut up! Castle Super Beast! I love that game!"
"Hey, first one to kill the Skeleton Ball has to buy a round of drinks for everyone here!"
"Well, your wallet is going to hurt!"
"Come on Nora, let's get you something to eat there," Ren said, a hand still on her back.
"Fine," Nora answered, somewhat reluctantly. "Fine, but I want something big and greasy, and very bad for my heart."
At the very back of the group, Pyrrha gave a small smile. After a fight like that it would be good to have a nice night out.
There was then a loud buzzing from the pouch on her side and she stopped in her tracks. Reaching in she pulled out her scroll and saw that she had a new message, but what really caught her attention was who it was from. Slowing in her steps and falling away from her friends, Pyrrha pressed a finger to the holographic screen and opened up the message.
Dear Miss Nikos,
First of all I want to congratulate you on your impressive victory today, you certainly proved your skills in such unfavorable odds. However, I must be brief here, there is something very important that I wish to discuss with you in my office. I'm sure that you wish to celebrate your victory with your friends, and please do so, I do not wish to hurry you, but it is important that we speak at some point before the finals.
-Professor Ozpin
Pyrrha looked at the text worriedly before placing it back in her pouch. What could he possibly want?
"Hey, Pyrrha!" Jaune called out to her, trailing from the group and back to her.
"Huh?" Pyrrha snapped from her thoughts and looked back to her partner. "Oh, I'm sorry, I was just checking something out on my scroll."
"Coming?" He gestured back to the group. "Ruby and Yang are trying to get Weiss to buy dinner for everyone, but really they're just trying to see if they can make her admit she's broke."
Pyrrha gave a chuckle. The message could wait for now, right now it was time to be with her friends.
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