Chapter 7 – Coco Adel

At the arena now, Mine and Tatsumi stand at one side of the battle field while Coco and Velvet were at the other side. They are surround by over two dozen students watching them, most of which are cheering for Team CFVY to win. Tatsumi looks on the crowd and sees all the people with a different types of weapon and armor than the one next to them. Mine notices her opponents carrying a box and a purse. The proctor of the fight now enters the room and looks at Coco. Mine and Tatsumi recognizes the proctor from the woman last night.

"Do you have an opponent ready to start like I told you to Coco?" The proctor says.

"Right there, Professor Goodwitch." Coco answerers, nonchalantly pointing to Mine and Tatsumi. Goodwitch see their opponents and recognizes them from last night as well. "Alright, this must be your first match here at Vale, so I need to register you both in our system. What are your names?" The two of them look at each other and realize there is no need to hide their names now.

"Mine."

"Tatsumi."

"Now then, the match will be over when the aura of both members on the team are broken." Glynda says.

"Aura?" Tatsumi says to Goodwitch before the match starts. To her confusion she dismiss this as a reason to stall the match and resumes her instruction. "You may now begin the fight."

As soon as she says this, Coco then activates her weapon to turn into a mini-gun and aims for both of her opponents. Mine and Tatsumi barley dodge if after their astonishment of watching a purse turn into a gun of that size. Tatsumi then draws his sword off his back ready to charge when he is distracted by a flash of light. He looks over to see that the flash came from the woman with rabbit ears. She was holding a brown camera and placed it back in the box she was holding. Tatsumi see the opponent has not shown her weapon and rushes in for a quick victory. Velvet sees this and puts her hand over the box. A blue light is coming from it, forming the same sword that Tatsumi is holding. She blocks his attack and pushes him back. Tatsumi is in shock as he sees a weapon the image of his own weapon replicated in blue light.

Coco looks to see her ally fighting Tatsumi. She decides to focuses on her own adversary. She fires her weapon toward the Mine, putting her on the run. Mine tries to evade the roulette of bullets that move closer to her. She then stops her running and turns her gun on its side. Using it as a shield, Mine blocks the bullets from hitting her. After a few seconds, she notices a sudden stop in the sound of gunfire.

"Out of ammo already?" Mine says in her sarcastically. Looking over her gun to see the woman in a beret rushing her with her mini-gun transforming back into a purse. She then swings it at Mine, slamming it against her weapon and sending the pink haired girl violently hitting the wall behind her. "No, but I like it a lot more up close and personal." She replies in the same sarcastic tone Mine repealed with. Mine looks at Coco angry, using her gun as a crutch.

"Just do not get blood on my outfit." Coco says as she swings her weapon again.

Tatsumi and Velvets fight continues with a mimicry of sword play. All attacks Tatsumi tries are parried by Velvet. He then goes for a sweep for Faunus's legs. Velvet jumps to dodge and swings her sword down at Tatsumi. He block this attack but is stunned in the proses. Taking advantage of this, Velvet kicks Tatsumi in the stomach. He has the wind knocked out of him for a second before realizing his opponent is going for another sword swipe. Tatsumi blocks the slash and pushes her back.

Realizing her weapon is not as effective anymore, Velvet looks at her weapon and sees the blue light around it change form into giant scythe. Tatsumi is more surprised than before at the sight of this new weapon.

"How can a weapon do that and not be an imperial arm?" He thinks while he studies his opponent.

"This weapon has the power to allow me to copy and use any weapon I have taken a picture of. I have trained in many variations of fighting style to accommodate that. You sadly do not have a chase against me with that basic weapon." Velvet says as she smiles and runs at Tatsumi.

Tatsumi's eyes fill with anger at her last remark. He remembers who gave him this weapon and how much that person valued it. He knows the true power his weapon has and was about to show her the full extent of it. "You call this a basic weapon! I will show you that this is nothing like you have seen before." Tatsumi says as he holds the blade facing the floor as if about to stab it. He screams, "INCUUURRRSS…," but is cut off by Mine, who is also blocking Coco's attacks.

"Idiot, do not use that now! If she takes a picture of that, you are going to lose." Tatsumi hears what she say and tries to block Velvets oncoming attacks instead of using Incursio. "Then what am I supposed to do now."

"Why do not we switch opponents then?" Mine says with a smile while she pushes Coco away. She aims and fires a shoot from Pumpkin at Velvet.

Coco in a worry shouts to her friend, "VELVET, DOGDE!" Velvet reacts to her ally's advice and the shot just misses her.

The shoot destroys a wall of the arena, creating a smoke cloud. Glynda looks in astonishment on the power of the weapon Mine had. Coco, now angry at the cheap shot, swings her weapon at Mine. Sprinting out from the smoke, Tatsumi intercepts the attack and pushes Coco back.

Velvet walks out the smoke cloud and coughs. She focuses her attention onto Mine.

"You got lucky dodging that attack, but I will not miss again." Mine says aiming at Velvet again.

"We will see about that." Velvet replies and holds the scythe to aim at the ground. She then fires a shot from the top of weapon and is sent into the air. She then fires the weapon from her side to send her flying in the opposite direction. She continues this over the entirety of the arena, moving closely to her enemy. Mine sees the sporadic movement and lowers her weapon as she giggles a little.

"Wow, you are a good shot for being able to do that. However, compared to me, that is nothing. Because I am…," before she can finish her last line, Velvet moves to a position to the right of Mine, ready to attack. Mine does not even look at her enemy as she lifts her weapon to aim. The weapon points directly between Velvet's eyes and a blast of energy sends the rabbit Faunus body back against then wall of the arena. Mine looks over the defeated victim and finishes her statement "…a genius sniper."

"She destroyed Velvet's aura in one shot, how is that possible?" A voice is heard from the crowd of students stating this. As well as whispers among the crowd over who this person was. Glynda looks on her scroll to see that Velvet's aura was gone, but what caught her attention more was that Mine's aura was not showing up at all.

Coco sees that her ally is now down and she is now outnumbered. She transforms her weapon back into a mini-gun again and aims at Tatsumi. She starts firing the weapon but he rushes her avoiding the volley of bullets. Now at closes range, he stabs his sword in between the barrels of the gun. This stopped the revolving gunfire and rendered both their weapons unusable. Coco, not wanting to give up, remove one of her hands from holding the gun and punches Tatsumi in the face. She continues this two more times until he catches one of punches in his other hand. Coco attempts to strike with the other hand, but as soon as Tatsumi sees she has let go of her weapon, he removes his sword from between the barrels and kicks the mini-gun away.

He the swipes his sword across Coco's striking arm. He notices slight flash of light as his sword bonuses off her arm. Tatsumi then strikes her on the forearm he was holding on to, with the same results. He then slashes over her stomach with all of his strength. The force has him release his grip on Coco and sent her flying back, hitting the ground and breaking her glasses. Her body is encompassed by a flash of light that last a second before fading away.

"So I guess that is what aura is." Tatsumi says this as he sheathes his sword.

"The match is decided, Mine and Tatsumi win." Glynda says as the crowd of students is in shock after the defeat of both Coco and Velvet. Coco struggles to get up over the pain of that last hit and is offered at hand by Mine. "I hope that good enough match for you, will you help us out now?" Coco takes her hand and sees that Mine's friend is helping up Velvet as well.

"Do not worry about her. That was not strong enough to be a kill shot from Pumpkin." Mine says to Coco as both look over to Velvet and Tatsumi. Coco shows a slight smile. She grabs Mine's hand and removing the broken sunglasses.

"You did your part, I am sure we got a good grade for that fight, regardless for not wining. I have a friend who will show you around town."

"So it is not you then who will show us around?" Mine says inquiring.

"No, I have more missions and classes today with my team. Being a second year student has a lot more work. However, first year students have a little more freedom, like my friend."

"Okay, hope to see you again, that was fun sparring with you." Mine says shaking Coco's hand. Coco replies, "Same here, I will call my friend right now for the both of you."

"Who is your friend anyway?" Mine asking another question. Coco starting to walk away and taking out her scroll to call her friend. Mine looks at the devise Coco was hold, but does not ask what it is to avoid asking to many questions.

"You will know her when you see her. She is dressed like you, except she has a cape and likes the color red. " Coco says as she looks back at Mine as she puts her scroll next to her ear.