Mason put his fingers into the girl's soft, deep red hair as he pulled her closer. When they pulled away he looked into her blue slitted eyes and smiled.

"How did you get into my room, Luka?" Mason asked, his hands sliding down her body to grab her hands.

"Oh, I have my ways." Luka winked. Mason looked behind her and saw his window being held open by books she must have brought along with her. Mason Armali and Luka Vermilion shad been secretly seeing each other for over a month now. Luka didn't dare tell anyone in case Blanka had found out she had been seeing the person they were supposed to avoid.

Mason pulled Luka onto his lap and nuzzled his head in her neck. One day Mason had caught trying to get into his room but when confronted about it, she simply changed the subject to weaponry. The two talked then for hours; Luka, the usually soft spoken one, gushed over books she had read about the Armali history and he listened intently to her advice on weapon making.

"Jade and August should be back soon, I should probably go." Luka sighed, about to get off Masons lap but Mason clutched her close.

"Stay, I never have enough time with you." Mason mumbled into the crook of Lukas neck but all good things must come to an end as Luka gently pried mason's hands off of her " I can't, your teammates will be here any second and Blanka will start getting suspicious if I stay out too long." Letting out a sigh of defeat the leader of team MAJN let his secret lover go into the night.

Sneaking through the corridors at night was easy for luka because no one was awake at the time and it gave her a perfect opportunity to get back into her team's dorm room. Reaching her team's dorm, luka ever so slowly opened the door just enough to get her body through. Once inside and closing the door gently she let out a sigh of relief but her respite was short lived when the lights turned on and a cold yet familiar voice rang out through the room successfully dropping the temperature by a few degrees. Turning around and coming face to face with her displeased leader, luka opened her mouth to come up with a valid excuse as to why she was out late and sneaking into her dorm but her irritated leader just cuts her off with an order "Sit, we got much to talk about"

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Morgan was thrown off his feet and landed hard on the floor; as he was getting up he put a hand to his mouth to feel for blood, luckily there was none. The smoke started to clear in the sparring ring at the bottom of the classroom. Team PTFL stood confidently in front of Morgan and his team, their auras still in the green zone while team MSCV's aura was starting to get dangerously low.

The polar bear faunas from team PTFL leapt forward toward Copper, his giant battle axe arced and ready to slam into the mouse faunas but with a loud *clang* Sable jumped in front just in time to block the axe with her her own long ranged weapon. The polar bear was smaller than Sable, much smaller but he was able to keep his own and had an alarming amount of strength, Morgan noted. Copper took the distraction of Sable defending him to run and throw his boomerang. Seeing that he was now defenseless the leader of team PTFL, Peri Winkle, fired her sniper. The bullet was met by a bullet from Victor, who was finally getting up from the ground after team PTFL's last major attack. The boomerang came back, knocking the axe wielding faunas weapon out of his hands.

An idea sparked in Morgan and he used his staff to cause an explosion of dust, the color of the explosion was strange which caught their opponents off guard but to team MSCV, it meant be ready for a strategy. They all looked toward Morgan who quickly signed

Using their tactic against them

Morgans teammates nodded in understanding and leapt back. Morgan used his glyph semblance to summon walls surrounding team PTFL, then more dust exploded inside the walls. The smoke billowed over the stadium but team MSCV was prepared. The walls disappeared and they rushed in, Morgan went after Plum, Plums weak point was short range combat which gave Morgan the advantage. Gripping his staff, a blade slipped out at the end and he used it to slash the confused Plum from behind.

"Taru!" they heard Peri yell.

Morgan turned around just in time to see the small fox faunas appear seemingly out of nowhere to attack Sable. Sable swore loudly and turned to fight Taru who ducked out of the way of the hit and knocked Sable in the back of the legs. Morgan signed to Victor who nodded and put his arm out. The dust and smoke seemed to be absorbed into Victors skin, clearing the arena. Victor's eyes gleamed red now and he shot a fireball from his sword toward Plum, knocking him straight in the chest. His aura went dangerously low after the attack.

We are getting closer

Copper rushed forward with his boomerang that was now a dagger and attacked the fox faunas who blocked with her tonfa weapon. They began to brawl and just as Copper was about to get a blow in, he felt a sharp pain in his arm then felt his arm fly back. Morgan looked and finally saw what Plum could really do; A red tinged needle came flying back to Plum, and a string attached was barely noticeable. Copper flew back as Taru hit him in the stomach, giving the final blow to get his aura into the red.

Retaliation was quick though as Victor attacked Taru from behind before Plum could pull Taru away with his strings. Taru's aura fell into the red.

"Lav!" Peri yelled and the polar bear faunas rushed to Morgan, pure rage in his eyes. Morgan prepared himself to block but didn't need too as Sable came back for round two. The two fought relentlessly until they knocked each other into the red.

Close ranged vs. long ranged

Morgan signed to Victor who nodded. They both rushed Plum in Peri, dodging bullets and arrows as Peri switched her weapon back and forth. Plum blocked Victor's sword with his arm then smirked as he wrapped strings around Victor and jumped back, bringing Victor with him. As soon as they landed on the ground Victor tried to slash the strings but Plum was quicker and set off a dust explosion. Victor fell to the ground, his aura in the red and Plum's dangerously close, but he still stood as if nothing had happened.

Morgan used a glyph as a quick distraction while he stabbed Plum, delivering the final blow to knock him out of the match. The two team leaders looked at each other, strategy after strategy running through their minds. In one swift movement, Peri notched an arrow and aimed at Morgan. She let the arrow fly and it hit Morgan's staff with a *thud*.

"Good fight." Peri said, putting her bow down.

"Team PTFL is the winner of the match." Glenda announced, the crowd cheering. Morgan looked around confused then looked down and saw a dust arrow in his leg dissolve. She had fired two arrows but he was too focused on the arrow that looked to be coming at his head and missed the one aimed at his leg.

Plum picked Taru up and put her on his shoulders as he walked to MSCV to shake their hands.

"You guys really got us good, for a while I thought we were going to lose!" Plum exclaimed, smiling and shaking all of MSCV's hands.

"We should train sometime" Sable smiled as she looked over Peri. Peri was a girl of average height with a generous bust that was armored with a golden corset like top that ended just below her breasts and a garter belt under a sheer and high slit blue skirt. How she fought in something so...tight fit was a mystery to Sable but she certainly didn't mind.

Peri brushed a blue hair out of her face and smiled at Sable,

"You can see what's under the armor tonight if you want" Peri winked, making Sable blush.

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Blanka's head snapped up from her work.

"Who the fuck just flirted with my girl?" Blanka said aloud.

"What are you talking about?" Noir asked.

"I just got this weird feeling...never mind i'm sure its nothing." Blanka mumbled and looked back at her work.

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The polar bear faunas, Lav, seemed to have a completely different vibe now that the fight was over, he smiled and did a cartwheel towards Sable, almost landing directly in her cleavage which made him blush madly and run to hide behind Plum who laughed.