Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of the Lion and the Elemental. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale.)

Lucas threw a punch at Arslan as she dodged it and kicked at him as he rolled under her foot as he turned and punched at her.

Reese and the others were watching the barefooted duo dueling, they were training for the tournament as Lucas cracked his neck and called for a time out.

"I can't believe we have the tournament coming up soon… As if we don't have enough to deal with…. That, and we still have a few years' worth of school left…"

Lucas said as he sat down in his bed and cracked his knuckles as Reese spoke up again.

"It depends entirely on what you mean…. But something feels wrong…. It feels like Headmaster Lionheart wants to rush us to the end of school…"

Reese said as she crossed her arms, Arslan cracked her neck like Lucas did before sitting down on her bed, the teams had to share a room due to the policy of the hotel, but the students of Shade didn't matter.

Lucas crossed his arms and turned to Arslan.

"I wouldn't say it like that, Reese…. The longer we are here, the longer we can train…. Besides, we only have 2 years' worth of school left… We already learned about fighting and some about weapon and aura… It's only some subjects that we haven't covered…"

Lucas said as Arslan rolled her eyes and smiled at this as she looked at her fellow team leader.

"Yeah, because your totally with the rest of the school with classes, Lucas…"

Arslan said as Lucas sighed and laid back on the bed in amusement as he looked around the room.

"The last thing I would talk about is that, Arslan…. You have a weapon and yet all you do is shoot fire balls and throw punches and kicks…. At least I actually use a weapon… Even Reese knows how to use a weapon and her hoverboard is only good at being shot and not used much in melee combat…."

Lucas said as he looked at the rest of her team in amusement. Arslan sighed and walked away.

"Or Nadir who's always the first to be taken out… Always, always the first to lose when it comes to teams…. And you know it… Besides, I'm not the one who lost our last team fight…. And you know it."

Lucas said as Nadir went to speak up and he gritted his teeth and turned away in sadness as Arslan walked back to the two groups.

"Hey, don't bring up that battle, I broke an arm from a mission before that and I had to deal with some stuff…. Some stuff before that…. And…"

Arslan lamely said as Lucas chuckled in amusement as he turned and sat up before putting his shoes on.

"I'm going for some air, the last time we fought though, we won fair and square, and you know that, nothing can change that…"

Lucas said as he turned and walked out of the room as Nadir looked from his spot in the room at the group.

"Do I really suck at fighting that much?"

Nadir asked as Reese chuckled as Nadir hung his head in amusement… At least, it was amusement to the rest of the group at the moment as they laughed at what the rest of the group had endured over the years.

(With Lucas.)

Lucas walked the halls of the hotel, bored and not sure where to go, he cracked his neck once more, it had been bothering him when he got punched on the side of it.

It didn't hurt a lot, but he was amused right now at what he was dealing with.

The rest of his team had a tournament to deal with in another day, and he had a lot to deal with in the meantime. He walked down the stairs and into the elevator, he chuckled and hit the button for the first floor

He crossed his arms as the elevator descended, he had taken his scroll with him, he remembered what had happened the last time he had given his scroll to his team.

He had just deleted the rest of the photos Red had taken…. He chuckled as the elevator descended down a floor.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! Yes, this chapter was a bit harder to write… And I didn't have many ideas as original chapters aren't my thing… As for when next chapter is… A few weeks, I do want to handle a few more RWBY stories and a few other stories. Next chapter be Lucas and his team watching the tournament. Next RWBY story will be Reese or Emerald… Until next chapter, Lighting Wolf out!

PS: I am rewriting my Ruby, Weiss and Yang stories.