...Still feeling lazy...

My eyes fluttered open.

My head throbbed as I rolled over, feeling an uneven surface, causing me to look up and see Ruby looking down on me.

"Good evening," she said to me, stroking my hair. I sighed, relaxing a bit as I heard Sierra say, "So we're going to need to be on high alert for when we face them in duels, then."

"Sounds about right," Hotel replied. I heard something along the lines of a "k-CHK" fill the room, then the sound of his lance dropping onto the floor.

"I still can't believe whatshisface tried getting at Yang, though," he continued, followed by what sounded like him punching his own palm. I could hear Sierra laugh afterwards and say, "And would you believe it? You actually stood up for someone for once!"

"Anyone touches my girl," he replied, "they're gonna go through a world of hell."

"Thanks, babe," I heard Yang's voice say.

"…head…hurts…," I muttered out, flipping over onto my stomach, putting my face between Ruby's thighs. I could hear her giggle, then roll away, causing me to groan in disagreement. Only to feel my blanket open up, welcoming the cool air, then her body entering as she snuggled up next to me. I wrapped my arms around her, not even bothering to open my eyes as Sierra said, "Aww! How cute!"

Before they knew it, both of them were asleep. Lima walked over to Delta's bed, giving both him and Ruby a kiss on the cheek. Yang leaned back into Hotel's embrace from behind as Sierra said, "I'd say let's call it a night, but…."

Suddenly, a knock at the door caught their attention. Sierra waltzed over, swinging it open to see Weiss.

"The others aren't back at our room yet, so I was wondering it…you…knew…."

Weiss took a moment to interpret what she was seeing on Delta's bed as Sierra put a finger on her lips and said, "Shh…they're sleeping…."

"I…I…see that…," Weiss replied, clearly flustered. Sierra suppressed a laugh as Hotel said, "Well…I feel like knocking out."

"How about I join you?"

Yang shot glance back at him as he replied, "Do whatever you want, hun."

Weiss's mouth dropped open as Sierra fought as hard as she could against the laughter that was clearly winning. Hotel quickly threw his blanket over Yang and himself as Sierra said, "…If you want to go get Blake, we're practically having a sleepover tonight."

"Umm…sure…," Weiss said, slowly turning around.

Sierra walked out with her, finally letting loose her laughter.

Lima stared after them, but then picked up her knitting materials and started knitting again as the moon slowly made its way up from the horizon.

Sierra threw another set of knives at her Saber as she made for a flanking maneuver to her right. The swordsman quickly deflected the attack, going right after her as his weapon began to glow menacingly. Sierra grimaced, her eyes turning red for a moment as he swung his weapon, only to freeze in time as she rolled forward, unfreezing time as she stuck a knife to his neck. Saber grunted, narrowly avoiding the attack as he swung his weapon at her back.

With her semblance, she quickly set up a row of knives side by side, using her arms to keep them together as she was blown backwards by the blow. Her aura bar dropped a bit as she took a moment to recover, seeing him prepare a ranged attack. She immediately went into observatory mode, watching how the runes on his sword began to glow as he let out a shout, swinging his sword as a huge shockwave headed head long for her.

"Can't freeze it…slow it down…," she quickly thought to herself as the wave made its way towards her at a surprising speed. Her eyes turned red as the wave slowed down some, but still had surprising velocity on it. Her eyes widened as she quickly leaned backwards, a bit of her bangs getting clipped as she fell on the ground, quickly kick jumping herself back to her feet, only to see Saver right in her face. He grinned, swinging at her for a kill shot.

"Now's as good a time as any!"

With that, she disappeared, reappearing behind him with a dome of knives surrounding him. With a snap of the fingers, the knives all flew towards him. Sierra glanced back, expecting him to give in. Only to hear metal meet metal.

Her eyes widened in sheer surprise as she suddenly felt what seemed like a hard chop on her shoulder, as well as him standing in front of her as her aura dropped to zero.

Blinking in surprise, she could hear Ms. Goodwitch say, "Sierra Hawthorne's aura has dropped to zero; Saber Steelcore is the winner."

The class let out their applauses as Ruby yelled out, "Yeah! Good fight!"

"I must admit," Pyrrha said next to her, "that was a good fight."

Hotel, however, wasn't very impressed. In fact, he seemed more disappointed than anything as Sierra made her way up to where they were seated. With a sigh, she dropped down to her seat as Ruby quickly ran over and began talking about how she fought.

"Of all days that our swordsman is sick, too," Hotel thought to himself as the next two people walked down to the arena. Ruby gave a little bow, running over to where team SWRD was as Hotel turned to Sierra and asked, "You let him win?"

With a grunt, Sierra replied, "No…he deflected all my knives."

Hotel's eyes widened in surprise and disbelief as Sierra continued, "I couldn't see it clearly, but his attacks were throwing off my timing…that aura wave he fired was moving fast, despite the slowdown…his sword was moving faster than the eye could see…."

"So are you saying…," Hotel said in disbelief. Sierra shook her head and replied, "I'm not ruling it out…whether it was luck or not…he might be better than Delta…."

Hotel let out a whistle as Yang walked over and asked, "Hey, what's up, babe?"

Hotel turned to her and said, "Sierra reckons that Saber's a better swordsman than Delta."

"What?"

Yang turned to Sierra, who nodded and explained the details of her fight. Yang's eyes widened in surprise as Lima, who had been concentrating, finally perked her ears. She turned in the direction of team SWRD, where Ruby was still talking to Saber. She could see that Windsickle was getting rather uncomfortable as Saber began getting, in her opinion, a little too friendly with the leader of team RWBY.

Sierra caught her growl, turning to face her.

"What's up, Lima?"

Lima didn't answer, but kept growling. Sierra followed the direction Lima's eyes were facing, seeing Ruby and Saber getting close. Awfully close.

However, right as she was about to make her move, Ms. Goodwitch said, "Ruby Rose, since you're standing, please step down to the arena."

"Huh? O-okay."

Sierra's eyes narrowed. Something about this Saber guy didn't feel right. It might've been just a hunch, but it was something that she had to go on. Just then, Saber glanced at her, shooting a smile.

"This guy…who is he…?"