Edit (06/19/16): Changed some stuff and did grammar editing.
Vi blinked to the back of Peter and whipped her staff to her back. What she didn't expect was that Peter was nowhere in her line of sight when the staff had hit thin air. She had only heard a loud crash and the boy was gone. Vi took a couple steps back before seeing Peter up in midair with his battle axe in one hand and he flicked his wrist with the other.
Not anticipating his speed despite his heavy armor and two meter battle axe, Vi stood aghast as she failed to comprehend how a big guy like him was able to fly up in the air. With no time to react, boulders formed up all around the Vi except a vertical opening where Peter can slam his axe onto her. Vi looked around her seeing no chance to escape physically but she smiled at the boy anyway. In a split second, Vi placed her staff in front of her and prepared herself for another blink. Two seconds later, Peter's axe landed on the floor and Vi was behind him.
"Surprise!"
Vi hit Peter's back with a two quick blows and slammed the boy with her staff in the face with a severe force. Peter was taken aback with how fast she had reacted within seconds, probably milliseconds. Peter lifted up his axe and grunted, "You," he said, "I like you. Don't think I've ever seen anyone this fast befo-"
Vi saw the chance to hit him square in the face while he was talking and she held her staff at one end with two hands and swung them towards the arrogant boy's face like a wooden bat. If the boy didn't have aura, he'd probably be knocked out but sadly, he did have aura. Vi quickly glanced at the screen and Peter had at least sixty percent of aura left.
"You're feisty," Peter stated. He then flicked his wrist and boulders appeared from the floor, surrounding him and Vi jumped back defending herself for whatever was going to happen next.
The boulders levitated and spread out throughout the arena and after a couple seconds, every single boulder broke down into smaller and sharper fragments and Peter pointed the projectiles at the violet haired girl.
Vi saw this and prepared herself for multiple blinks. Peter didn't give her the chance and immediately grabbed a red powdered dust container from his back and crushed the vial with his gloved hand. He then flicked his wrist and the projectiles glowed red and flew at a straight path and Vi dodged and swerved around the projectiles and making sure that she was aware where Peter was in case he would attack her when she was caught off guard from the projectiles When one rock projectile had hit the floor, each would have a small explosion, not big enough to cause a huge tremor but big enough that Vi would have to move a little distance in order to get away from the explosion.
After the barrage of explosive projectiles was over, Vi took a single breath and Ruby in the seats below the arena cheered way too loudly which caught her attention. She then realized she had made a mistake of looking over to Ruby and smiling widely.
Vi turned around and saw the ceiling as she was smacked by a huge axe to her side with massive force enough to cause her aura to drop at least fifty percent. On the other hand, Peter still had sixty and Vi was left with forty percent.
In the seats, Ruby's eyes widened as she saw what she had done and guiltily sat down slowly and Yang sat next to her and put an arm to her shoulder and ruffled her hair.
"It's okay, baby sis," Yang assured, "Vi's going to push through."
Vi shakily stood up and grabbed the staff that landed to her right. She then rolled to the right to dodge the axe that swung down at her and Vi blinked behind Peter and struck a flurry of quick successive attacks which dropped his aura down to thirty percent. Peter fell down on the floor and Vi took this chance to get away from him since hitting an opponent while he laid down with his back facing up was an illegal move for most tournaments and sparring sessions.
Peter quickly stood up and Vi charged at the boy and blinked once in front of him catching him in surprise and Vi shoved the boy before hitting the boy with each end of the staff while making it look like Vi was dancing around the boy. She blinked again and again until Peter caught her arm and he tossed the violet haired girl to the side.
Vi recovered from the throw mid-air and he slammed his axe down at the floor and a line of sharp rocks rose from the ground and everyone was astonished at the display. Vi easily dodged the rock barrage and she blinked one more time and hit Peter's jaw and he was on the ground again. Vi took this chance to take the finishing blow, blinking above the boy and Vi pointed one end of her staff towards Peter and dropped down and landed but the staff was inches away from his face.
"The match has ended and I ask that both students please proceed back to their seats." Vi retracted her staff into a smaller compact and storable size and put it back to its holster on the side of her leg. Vi extended a hand to help Peter stand up but the boy slapped the hand away and stood up shakily by himself and headed down the arena. Vi shook it out of her head as she headed down the arena as well to where she sat next to Ruby.
"Good job out there," Ruby exclaimed, "You were like this," Ruby swung her hands around her to mimic Vi's fighting style, "and you like that! You were so cool when you were fighting that jerk! I mean, seriously? Who says 'I like you' during a fight? Psh. As if it could ever work!" Ruy was figuratively bouncing around filled with happiness but was physically jumping up and down on her seat.
Yang grabbed a single cookie from her pack and shoved it down Ruby's mouth which stopped the girl bouncing around like a crazed sugar-coated girl who has the need for sugar every other minute.
Ruby calmed down a little bit as she tried to savor every atom of the cookie. Vi laughed at her best friend and Ruby didn't mind them and was busy eating a cookie that Yang would probably never give another one since she would be busy with schoolwork along with her teammates.
The next couple fights were spectacular. Ruby was fascinated by the fights that had transpired. But what amazed Ruby the most was one fight where two girls were at a stalemate but the girl with gun-sword was able to achieve victory through her quick thinking and ability to spot an open and defenseless area within seconds. The other girl was tough to beat since her shield was almost impenetrable and she was able to cover herself exceptionally throughout the fight but the twin daggers girl pulled through using a distraction long enough to render the shield girl defenseless for a few seconds.
"Bruno Krieg from Team Blaze vs. Ruby Rose from Team Lavender," Branwen announced, "Please step up forward to begin you match.
When Ruby Rose heard her name, she stopped chewing on the scrumptious cookie and her jaw dropped in disbelief. Yang didn't expect Ruby to fight this early on but she pushed her baby sister forward and said, "I'll be here for you in case you get in trouble, okay? And remember to breath and relax. Also, don't think that everyone here is watching you. Just focus on your opponent, okay?"
"Ugh," Ruby groaned, "You're starting to sound dad." Ruby got up the arena and met the boy wearing very light armor, a gold-colored gauntlet, and casual clothing much like herself but she had a combat skirt of red and black instead of brown and silver.
"Fighters, please ready your equipment before I begin the sparring session," Professor Branwen stated. Ruby grabbed Crescent Rose from her back and put it in sniper mode and Bruno simply stood confidently with his gauntlet enlarged.
"Are the fighters ready?" Professor Branwen asked.
The two nodded and the screen above the two displayed their aura bar with their pictures below their aura bar.
"Begin."
Ruby rapidly took aim at the boy and shot three times, the recoil and knockback pushing Ruby back but she withstood the power of her weapon. Bruno plainly blocked the three shots that came his way and Ruby saw this as a good opportunity to use her "semblance a day" and shot through and got closer to the boy and transformed Crescent Rose into a scythe midway.
As Ruby was about to hit her opponent with her scythe, Bruno inserted a red dust vial into his gauntlet and punched the edge of the scythe without moving his body except his arms once. The tip of the scythe exploded and sent Ruby a couple meters back to where she came from.
Now that she can't use her semblance anymore her hope of winning had become slimmer since her only way of winning was through either a fast enough salvo that Bruno would get hit but that was out of the question when Crescent Rose was a bolt-action sniper rifle.
Come on, Ruby. Think. Think! Ruby stood up from where she laid on the ground and picked up Crescent Rose fully intact after the explosion. She observed anything that could help her. He has fast enough reflexes that can even get past through my semblance… His gauntlet probably only works as a force field without those vials inserted and that blast must've used an entire vial. Ruby looked at his body and he had a belt full of powdered dust vials that were collectively grouped based on their elements. I have to try something.
Ruby walked up a little closer but still far away from his reach and Ruby just circled around the boy and waited for him to make a move but as she walked around in circles, her chest began to hurt from her use of her semblance. Not now. You can do this Ruby. You can do this.
After a full revolution around Bruno, he turned around to face Ruby and instantaneously inserted another red vial into the gauntlet and slammed the floor with his fists which created small miniature pillars of fire that headed towards Ruby's direction.
Ruby didn't expect this but it was something nonetheless. The pillars of fires actually obstructed her view on Bruno and quickly turned around and aimed her gun to nowhere in particular, jumped, and began shooting repetitively which boosted the red-haired girl towards the raw dust user. Ruby swerved through the fire by firing shots in the opposite direction and Ruby soon found herself bumping into her opponent.
Bruno caught her arms and let her stand up before Ruby realized that he was just helped by someone who was supposed to be fighting her.
"Sorry!" Ruby shouted apologetically and swung Crescent Rose at the boy and the blade of the scythe hit the back of the boy and his aura dropped to eighty percent and Ruby had ninety left from the explosion earlier. Bruno instantly stood up and dusted off his clothes and said, "Don't feel too bad. I purposefully helped you out" Bruno smirked and Ruby got the meaning behind what he was trying to say and it somewhat angered the sugar infused girl. She ran, screaming a cute battle cry, and jumped up the air and boosted herself up with her own sniper rifle and once she was up in the air, she spun around vertically to create enough force and momentum and throw the raw dust user off balance. To her surprise, she landed next to Bruno and she kicked the boy right on his face.
Bruno stumbled back and grunted then aimed her gauntlet with a white dust vial inserted and shot ice shards towards Ruby. Without her semblance, she was incapable of evading them so instead, she immediately lifted Crescent Rose up in the air, aimed at the boy and shot until the magazine ran out. Of all the ice shards that were sent to Ruby's way, at least two or three had hit her once but they only hit the surface of Ruby's aura field. But the dust user wasn't as lucky as Ruby. He was hit by at least a dozen bullets and it dropped his aura levels down to a critical thirty percent which was enough to knock him out if Ruby had landed in another round into him.
Ruby leapt back in a safe distance and reloaded Crescent Rose at once. She wanted to use her dust rounds but those were expensive especially since buying them for Crescent Roes as custom orders made them two times more expensive than regular dust rounds that could be bought normally in a dust shop. But Ruby had to compromise for her safety. She allowed just ten rounds of the dust rounds to be shot before switching back to her normal custom fifty caliber rounds and they were still expensive.
Ruby wanted to end the bout really quickly as she was getting tired and her chest started hurting more and more but Ruby tried to hide the pain she was clearly in. Ruby shot twice at the boy and he was being cautious now that he actually started moving around to dodge and the confidence he had on his face earlier was entirely nonexistent by this point but it was replaced with fierce determination.
Ruby didn't want to fight any longer lest she passes out in the middle of their fight. So resolve this, Ruby shot three rounds at the boy as she charged forward towards Bruno and when one of them caught up to him, he tried blocking it and a yellow explosion followed after.
Stunned, Bruno was left with twenty-five percent of his aura left and Ruby had a ton more left. Ruby transformed her scythe into the war scythe mode and aimed for her body with enough force to leave the boy with enough aura to survive the blow.
As she was about to hit Bruno, immediately recovered his senses and ducked, making Ruby miss her chance into finishing the match and Bruno countered with a red dust infused punch which sent Ruby sprawling onto the other side of the arena. He looked up and saw the massive damage he had just dealt onto the girl and a pang of guilt welled up inside of him. He then inspected his gauntlet and saw that it had been bent from the force he had done and a few loose wires were exposed and he ignored it then approached Ruby to end the match quickly and apologize to the girl.
Meanwhile, on the seats, Yang didn't see anything out of the ordinary and got angry at the boy but she knew she couldn't do anything since the match still hasn't officially ended and she couldn't enter the arena unless something was happening deadly but Weiss saw otherwise. She noticed the loose wires that were hanging onto the gauntlet and she instantly stood up and unsheathed her rapier and headed for the arena, pushing people that were on their seats along the way.
Ruby rubbed her head and clutched at her chest and this time while she laid down on the floor. Yang saw this and followed after Weiss, speed walking, trying to beat Ruby's opponent from getting to her.
Ruby felt heavy and couldn't make her stand up and Crescent Rose was on top of her arm which was suddenly heavier than what she was usually used to. At this point, she wanted to give up but an inner voice saying that if she did, then she didn't deserve to become a hunter. Ruby's dream was to become one of Remnant's best huntress that would go down in history but if she knew if she gave up here, she might as well be sent home and farm or garden in Patch. Ruby pushed herself even though she was fully aware that she had passed her limit and shoved Crescent Rose to the side and stood up very slowly.
Ruby looked to where Bruno was and he was slowly getting closer to Ruby with an apologetic face but it didn't seem to her that she would let him go that easily. So she kneeled and slammed Crescent Rose on the floor and began shooting her rifle, with the blade of the scythe minimizing the knockback.
Bruno just blocked every single shot that Ruby fired with his gauntlets and inserted a green powdered dust vial and the entire gauntlet glowed green unlike that previous vials he had put in earlier. He jumped up high in the air with the help of his dust infused gauntlet and attempted to punch Ruby out of the arena.
When Bruno was halfway between Ruby and himself, everything seemed to slow down for Ruby when he suddenly crashed into a wall of ice and Ruby saw Weiss standing in front of her with her rapier pointed up into the sky where the ice wall had ended. Ruby was mesmerized at how Weiss had looked cool standing there like her very own hero in the books that she had read with Yang as a child growing up in Patch.
Yang grabbed her sister and away from the arena and Weiss, still on the arena, jumped to the side as Bruno smashed through the wall of ice and breaking the floor that his gauntlet had hit. Weiss then turned around and went down to help Yang with Ruby.
Vi, after seeing the events that had just unfolded, rushed to Ruby's side who was now unconscious as Yang carried her entire body with her arms and went out of the combat room and headed down the infirmary. This caused a little commotion when they saw the unconscious girl and the boy who almost killed the girl.
Qrow saw all of the things that had happened but had failed to realize that Bruno's gauntlet was defective which he was grateful for her third year students for and he ended the match abruptly and took Bruno Krieg off to the side and gave his scroll to one of his assistants to continue the matches between the first year students.