The fight. Nothing fancy, just the fight. Enjoy.

"BEGIN!"

Immediately, he pulled his guns out, opening fire on me. I pulled my sheath to my side, shooting one of my swords at him. The sound of metal meeting metal filled the air as I quickly teleported to my sword, sprinting towards him to close the distance. Slingshot immediately pulled his weapons down, using the bladed edges to deflect my sword strike. I then pulled out my second sword, the sound of our blades meeting and echoing through the air.

"C'mon," he mocked, "you've got more than this, don't you!?"

…a perfect match.

I backed off, suddenly hearing bullets filling the air. I rolled to my right, then got up as he fired on where I was standing behind every stride I took. I then dropped one of my swords, cutting on the dime and ran headlong straight towards him. Holding my sword up, I could feel the bullets whizz past me, a few tagging me here and there as I prepared to lock weapons with him again. Only this time, I did a baseball slide beneath him, catching him off guard as I bounced back to my feet, sheathing my sword. He turned around, only to get blasted backwards as I drew my sword at lightning speed.

Slingshot scraped against the ground as his aura dropped some to the amount mine was at. He kick jumped back to his feet, pointing his weapons at me. I reacted, reaching out for my sword, teleporting behind him as he opened fire. I swung my sword at him, only to see a flash of light, as well as a beam of aura fire straight at me.

I flew backwards, hitting the wall painfully as my aura dropped down to the halfway mark. I coughed, feeling the air rush back into my lungs as he smirked, turning back to me while reloading his weapons.

"What the hell was that," Sierra asked.

"That," Hotel answered, "is Sling's semblance."

Sierra and Lima turned to him as he said, "Sling has the ability to manifest his aura so that he can create a beam. The more digits he puts in it, he stronger it is. That time, he hit Delta with two fingers."

"So then," Sierra said, "if he were hit with hands…."

"Delta's done for," Hotel answered.

Sierra then turned to her right, where team RWBY was seated next to them. Magnum was talking with Ruby, who looked less than impressed. In fact, if Sierra didn't know better, she would've thought Ruby was almost worried. Like she was scared.

"Is she scared of Magnum?"

It then occurred to her that Ruby wasn't listening to Magnum. But rather, she was looking at Delta. Ruby's eyes seemed watery as Sierra could hear Yang talking with Hotel the next row up.

"Ruby," Sierra thought to herself, "you did lie to Delta."

I narrowly avoided another aura blast, only to cut back and run from the barrage of bullets as I felt something cut through my cheek. My eyes widened in surprise as another aura blast headed towards me. Instinctively, I threw a sword several feet in front of me, teleporting to it and avoiding the blast.

Slingshot raised an eyebrow in curiosity as I reached up for my cheek, touching the liquid trickling down from it.

Blood….

I sighed, looking right back at him as he pointed his guns at me again. I sheathed my weapons as he pulled the triggers on his pistols. However, I reflexively fired one of my swords to my left, then fired another right at him. My sword met several bullets again as I teleported to it once more, our weapons clashing yet again as I saw him maneuver one of his pistols so that it was pointing at me. I teleported to my second sword just as he pulled the trigger, throwing my first sword right at him again.

However, he shot the sword midflight, only covering half the distance it was supposed to go.

Better than nothing…!

With that, I teleported to my sword, throwing the second on the spot. He appeared surprised as I teleported straight to him, my sword in hand, ready to cut down on him.

Got him!

The finish horn filled the air as I landed on my feet. I could hear the silence of the crowd as I looked up, seeing the rest of my aura gone. I dropped my swords and sighed, hearing Ms. Goodwitch announce, "Delta Ordance's aura has dropped to zero. Slingshot Gunter is the winner."

The crowd roared.

I could hear "good fight" here and "nice try Delta" there, as well as "that Gunter is really strong."

I sighed, only to hear a click, causing me to look up and see Slinshot with his weapon pointed at me. I raised an eyebrow in confusion as he said, "What a waste of time."

I could faintly hear Magnum in the background yell, "SLING STOP!"

A gunshot filled the air as I flew backwards. My breathing hitched as I could feel my chest begin to burn up. I could feel my heart beating faster and faster as I began to hear voices. Then shadows. Then blackness.