Honestly, today's chapter only had one motivating factor...How do you block Yatsuhashi's Sword?

Ruby frowned as she walked through the halls of Beacon, looking high and low for her fellow Leader. Ruby and Jaune had decided to go off to look for the boy after the meeting was over, Jaune taking one half while Ruby looked over the other. The Crimson Reaper was passing one of the battle arena's when she heard a loud clang and the sound of something metal breaking.

Being the Engineering prodigy she was, she was quickly distracted from the task at hand to see what poor weapon had broke...only to find the target she had been searching for.

Tai was in the middle of the arena, with broken practice blades laying around him, the remains of one still in his grasp. He was laying on his back, his chest heaving with heavy breathing. He had removed his coat in favor of the tight body suit that clung to his torso. He was also sporting the pants and boots he was wearing at the meeting, along with those clawed gloves of his. His mask had also seemed to come off when he hit the floor, having skid a few feet away.

Ruby blinked and turned away from the small graveyard of broken blades to see who had been doing this to Tai, only to see the giant of Team CFVY standing there in training sweats, a large training blade resting on his shoulder. Yatsuhashi didn't seem to be having that hard of a time, though he was starting to show some sighs of a light sweat building...and by the amount of broken swords laying around...these two must of been at it for a good 45 minutes to a hour.

Ruby now kinda regretted that cookie break while she was looking for Tai.

"Hey little Rosebud!"

Ruby blinked and turned to see the Fashionista of CFVY waving at her, Coco looking quite comfortable in her seat. She then pointed to the arena "I am guessing you are looking for him?"

Ruby nods and decided to take a seat next to the girl "What have they been doing?"

Coco sighed and stretched "Well, about a hour ago...Tall, Dark and currently on the floor waltzed in here during our Teams training times, asked if he could do a few matches with the big lug. He also seemed keen on sword fighting, but by the looks of it, he is not very good at it...then again...the way he looked when he came in he might be working out some aggression."

Ruby nods "I guess that makes sense...but you said team training..where are the others?"

Coco raised a gloved hand and pointed in the direction of the Armory, "He broke all the swords he brought the first time so Fox and Bun Bun went to get more."

Ruby blinked "Do you have a nick name for everyone? And why doesn't Fox have one?"

Coco smiled "Because...Anything that had to do with the word "Foxy" was shot down instantly...I even tried Butt Bongos"

"...Really?"

"It's hard to come up with a nickname for Him that he does not just glare at me for." Coco sighed and looked back up "Oh they are back!"

True to Coco's word, Fox and Velvet were coming back, Fox with his arms cradling an assortment of practice blades, while Velvet was rushing one out to Tai.

Tai groaned as he heard feet pad towards him, his eyes rolling to the side to see Velvet come up and offer him a new blade, a simple Long Sword, handed to him handle first. Tai sat up, tossing the broken one over his shoulder and grasped the new one, muttering a quick thank you before standing, Velvet hurrying over to Fox as the next round started.

Tai slowly stood up and raised the blade up in one hand, not being a very proficient sword fighter without King but be could hold the weapon correctly...so that was a start. He held the sword in his grip before charging ahead at the larger male, swinging the blade up to cut across his torso. Yatsuhashi moved his tors, twisting to the side and lowering his arm, blocking the attack with his own blade without really needing to move himself or the blade.

Tai's ability with a blade really showed when that simple block caused him to reel back, having swung hard enough for his blade to bounce off the larger and sent him back. He was able to recover in time to see Yatsuhashi heft up his blade and bring it down hard on Tai, who tried to block, only to end up with yet another broken sword and his face smashed into the floor as the large blade slammed into his shoulder and sent him face first into said floor.

Both Ruby and Coco sucked in a breath at the sight of what just happened.

"Yup, that one takes the cake for most painful lose yet." Coco squirmed in her seat.

"I think I saw the floor crack..." Ruby grimaced a bit.

Tai groaned into the floor, picking himself up only to see the red droplet fall onto the floor, it seemed the attack had finally shattered his aura barrier and he had earned a bloodied nose and busted lip from it. He sighed, tossing yet another broken blade away and sat up, letting his minor injuries bleed.

Velvet was coming over to offer him another blade but he shook his head "Nah...I'm done" he coughed a bit and rubbed his head "Might of knocked some sense into me..." He chuckled, only to see Velvet run off with the sword and come back with a med kit. "I'm fine I don't need..." He saw her puff up her cheeks in stubbornness...he forgot she was on a team with Coco... "Okay...fine" He sighed and let her clean him up.

Yatsuhashi just gave a apologetic smile and bowed, leaving his partner alone with Tai to make sure he was fine.

Coco and Ruby walked down, the more senior of the two slapping Tai on the back. "Now see, what did I tell you?" She grinned, eyes sparkling behind her sunglasses.

Tai grumbled, not wanting to hear the 'I told you so' speech from her.

"Um..." Ruby spoke up, Tai just now noticing her. "You broke like...30 swords...did you get permission from Morhan to use these?"

At the sound of the Blacksmith's name, everyone kind stopped...and then scattered. CFVY zipped off towards their dorms, while Tai scooped up both his mask and Ruby, dashing out of the room with hos mask in his hand and Ruby over his shoulder.

Jaune frowned as he rounded the corner, only to find the battle arena empty, and a pile of broken swords in the middle. Being one to have a healthy dose of curiosity, he went to check out the broken blades. Looking over them, he noticed they were all Beacon Forged, each baring Morhan's mark...who could break all these?

"You think breaking my blades is fun Lad?"

Jaune froze, turning to see the large man over top of him, glancing from Jaune to the broken blades.

"N-no Sir,, it was not..." He made a fearful noise as the large Blacksmith hefted the lad up by his hood and began to carry him off "I don't want to here it Lad..you are helping me make replacements..and replacements for the replacements!"

Jaune could only hang from the mans grip, knowing full well the smithing adventure would equal out to 10 times what Pyrrha put him through...he could only do one thing.

"...eep"

Well...that was a thing. I'm sure it is seen is a filler chapter, but I am trying to flesh out character interaction and such, something that was a little lacking in the last story. Anyways, this authors note will be short so do what you do and until next time, Arrix out!