A/N: This chapter is up a little late, however I had a ton of work for school yesterday as well as having to study for the upcoming exams, I will try and get ahead in my writing so that I don't have to upload chapters late but anyway, enjoy this, the beginning of the Tournament

Chase stood still taking a moment to calm his thoughts and try and get any information he could about his opponent. He was wearing heavy armour but Chase made sure not to underestimate his maneuverability just in case it was a facade. His opponent made it very obvious he was heavy and slow by flaunting about his hammer.

*"Never dive straight into battle, you always want your opponent to make the first move" Pyrrha began

After Ruby suggested training with team JNPR Pyrrha offered to help everyone out by telling them how to handle someone who competes in a lot of tournaments.

"But you shouldn't give the opponent time to think"

"Your opponent doesn't need time to think, most professionals will know a lot about you simply from how you start a match, never let them know more than they need to"*

-From what I read on this guy he has won quite a few competitions, he obviously wants me to assume he's slow and heavy and that I should initiate. I don't believe he will start anything, if I let in a couple test hits to determine how he fights. Of course-

*"If the opponent will not make the first move then you'll have to take an action with little risk and try not to tell them anything, the lucky thing about you is that none of your fights are televised so few people know your fighting style"*

Chase broke into a sprint towards the enemy, creating an illusion just centimetres in front of him, whenever his opponent was within range he pulled a sword out of the hammer's handle and swung it at Chase, with what little time he had to react he got into a stance to make it look like he backstepped as soon as the illusion disappeared. He took out Gelida Furore in it's short sword form.

"I'm surprised, a lot of people don't make it this far"

"Well I wanted to have a little fun before I beat you" Chase replied with a grin

His opponent gave him a sly smirk in reply before charging him and switching his sword back into a hammer. Yet again Chase created an illusion that was only inches in front of him so that no one would notice when it dissipated. As his opponent recovered from the swing Chase switched Gelida Furore to it's bow form and fired an arrow with fire dust at the tip, it caused the handle of the hammer to heat up and his opponent to drop his hammer completely. Chase switched back to sword form and dashed in, comboing attacks with his dual, curved short swords, however his opponents armour tanked most of the damage to his aura and he was just able to shove Chase off. He looked to the board and saw he had knocked his aura just into the yellow.

"You can take a hit, just can't dish one"

*"Never get too cocky, this one is a given but if you are doing well in a match most people tend to forget this"*

-I have been doing the best so far but he hasn't shown me his semblance yet, if he has one, otherwise he will win in a fight of endurance if I don't remove the armour. I doubt he'll give away his semblance in the qualifying match-

"I love how confident you people are, it makes this a lot easier."

"I don't know what you're talking about"

"You are still calm even though you haven't landed a hit and other than your weapon you haven't revealed much about your fighting style"

"That's because I don't need to do so to some unnamed competitor"

-No, don't get angry… yet. If I can make him stumble backwards I should be able to knock him out for a bit- Chase waited for his opponent to make a move but he stood there, watching. Chase noticed his sly smirk then noticed the slight signs of fatigue fading, he positioned himself to where he could see the board without giving away the fact that he was looking and his fears were confirmed, his aura went back to the green. -But only while he's stood still-

Chase dashed in to attack his opponent who swung horizontally with his hammer, anticipating this he ducked under the hammer and focused his aura into his shoulder and shoved him, causing him to stumble a little. Chase took his opportunity and shot a fire arrow at his opponent's feet, using his aura to make it explode. He then quickly grabbed another arrow to shoot at his opponent but his heavy armour was lying like an empty shell. -Shit, he's gonna move a lot faster, aura sense would let me keep up with him but people would notice my eye go weird, unless.-

Chase was interrupted as a hit from the side knocked him to the ground, he turned to his opponent who drew his blade from his hammer.

"I've got to hand it to you, you made me get rid of the heavy armour"

-An illusion at this distance would be noticed easily, I'm going to have to take the hit- His opponent stabbed at Chase's face, Chase moved his head to the side slightly, his opponent's sword grazing his left eye. Not enough to do permanent damage, but the blood would render it useless for the match. Chase turned on his aura sense, and was suddenly able to keep up with his opponents movements, he was able to pick up on the fear that his opponent felt, not of him but of what would happen if he lost. A fear that was driving him.

Chase rolled right as his opponent brought his hammer down on him. He got back on his feet and with barely enough time to dodge the incoming attack. However he was able to make up for it by focusing aura into his blades and countering with enough force to knock his opponent into the red, winning the match.

Chase walked back to his side and into the preparation room, a medical team was waiting to examine his eye, he assured them that it was fine, the eye itself wasn't damaged. They agreed after checking him and simply patched up where the blade had made contact. Chase made his way into the audience to find where the rest of his team were sitting.

"Why didn't you block that attack, you had more than enough aura" Ruby shouted

"I needed to use my aura sense to keep up with that guy, if I made it look like I couldn't use my eye no one would notice when it went weird"

"What if something had went wrong?"

"I had enough aura around my actual eye to block a direct attack, besides against him I needed to take a risk if I were to get anywhere"

He could hear loud footsteps from behind him and his opponent stood before him, only without the armour or hammer. He placed his hand out and Chase returned the gesture with a friendly smile.

"That was a good match, sorry about the insult but usually mental games save me from having to reveal too much. May I ask how you won?"

"Well even though you can move really fast your reaction timing is horrendous, every time you take a swing it takes too long for you to recover"

"Thank you, I look forward to a rematch when I get better"

"As do I, hopefully next time you pose more of a challenge" he said with a slight mocking tone causing the boy to frown at him before smiling and leaving them to sit with his team."

"Where are team JNPR?"

"Well Pyrrha and Ren's fights are still on, Jaune was knocked out so badly that he is in the hospital and Nora is having a talk with the officiators about whether she went a little overboard"

"You use the terms talk and little very loosely"