Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. It belongs to RoosterTeeth and the late and still great Monty Oum. Kuro belongs to me and any other OCs and/or references included belong to their respective owners.

This one I wanted to do a fight between Kuro with the Invincible Girl. Honestly, I just winged it and didn't plan ahead. Hopefully, it'll be fine…

"Kuro Arc and Pyrrha Nikos, please step into the arena." Professor Goodwitch called the two of them for the final match of the day. Of course, everybody was expecting Pyrrha to win, but for some reason Jaune had placed his bet on Kuro. Pyrrha could understand, so could everyone else, since it was his brother and she knew how much of a family man her leader/not-so-secret crush was.

Of course, Pyrrha had been keeping tabs on the archer's fighting style. It was unpredictable. It seemed he always had a trick up his sleeve and that in of itself was somewhat promising, if she were honest. But there was also the matter that no one has ever seen him use his Semblance. As of right now, Jaune was the only one who knew, but he never said a word as Kuro made him swear not to say a word on the matter.

Headmaster Ozpin had actually left his office to watch each of the students' progress. For this match, Ozpin wanted to view Kuro's more as he was already aware of Pyrrha's overall prowess.

Kuro himself was giddy with excitement. He has seriously wanted to fight Pyrrha for a while now and has asked Professor Goodwitch to let him do so once. It seemed like that request was finally fulfilled. Although, some part of his mind told him that she only did this to shut him up…

He was also determined to win the contest between him and Yang to see who would be the first person to defeat Pyrrha.

"GO, KURO!" Ruby pumped get fists into the air while cheering Kuro on.

"GO KICK SOME BUTT! …But you better not win…" Yang shouted just as loudly, but mumbled that last part to herself.

"Fight well!" Even Blake cheered for him while waving a small flag with his name in gold letters on it with a small smile.

"You haven't a chance at winning, but… try your best, Arc!" Most surprising of all, Weiss gave him a vote of confidence with a flick of her ponytail.

"GET HIM, PYRRHA!" Nora cheered as loud as she could. Someone had to cheer for Pyrrha and Ren was not exactly a cheering type. Jaune gave her a thumbs up, but Pyrrha knew that it was for the both of them. And also noticed Ren give another supportive look towards both her and Kuro, probably because of that mysterious "Bro Code."

"Well, Pyr. What do ya say we give them a good one? I'm not gonna lie, though, I'm sure I'm gonna get my butt handed to me but I'll go down a warrior, not a coward!" he proposed and got into a battle stance with his bow in its dual blade mode.

"Very well. That's exactly what I'm going for." Pyrrha returned with a sort of competitive edge in her eyes and did the same just as two portraits appeared above the arena.

The match started with Kuro charging forward into a cross slash with both blades, but Pyrrha saw through this and raised her shield, deflecting the attack. Kuro twisted his left blade into a reverse grip and twisted his body, but Pyrrha stopped his incoming stab with her spear. He clicked his teeth and back flipped over her, landing right behind her and attempted another stab, but Pyrrha rotated and dodged. She put a distance between the two and changed her spear into its rifle form then opened fire on Kuro. He managed to either deflect or dodge each bullet before he noticed Pyrrha was beginning to run out of bullets.

He jumped at this chance and combined both blades into the bow again and counterattacked with his Aura-created arrows. But Pyrrha guarded against every hit with her shield.

'Women and their multitasking!' Kuro thought before his exasperated (and slightly sexist) deliberation was interrupted when Pyrrha was suddenly in front of him and thrusts Milo his way… repeatedly.

"Oh, jeez!"

Kuro barely dodged all of them until Pyrrha kicked his midsection, sending him away from her and he fell into his back.

"Ah, MAN! This is—" Kuro relied while clutching his stomach. "You and your mother… fudging HEELS!"

"Um… I'm sorry…?"

"Don't worry about it" he got up and dusted his shirt off. He looked at his aura gauge and saw his Aura at 66%. "DAMN! You kick that hard?! That's a clean 34%!"

"Eheheh… It's just… you know… training…" Pyrrha just shrugged and rubbed the back of her head.

"Well, it worked apparently. Good job." Kuro gave a thumbs up and Pyrrha was humbled but didn't show it. But then the moment of camaraderie became a moment of competition. Loud metallic clangs filled the room and Kuro's blades met Pyrrha's shield blow for blow.

It was until Pyrrha caught Kuro off guard by feigning another jab, but swept his feet and bashed him to the side with her shield. Although, she may have done it a little bit too hard as it sent him flying towards the barrier and he slumped over. She watched him slump over as well as checking his ashes gauge above her and saw him at 20%, the fight was almost over and the scale was tipped in her favor once again. However she knew better than to think that as a battle, no matter what kind it was, is never done until the enemy was dead or at the very least unable to battle. She moved in to land the ending blow when she saw that something was happening to her opponent.

Among the stands, the students were not surprised that Pyrrha mopped the floor with yet another one if her classmates. She was unbeatable: truly the Invincible Girl. And they thought that Kuro was an idiot to think that he had an inkling of a chance against her.

"Aw, man… He hardly got a single hit in…" Ruby said disappointedly.

"He wasn't taking this fight seriously. That was his problem." Weiss judged Kuro's performance professionally.

"You owe me twenty pancakes, Jaune-y!" Nora cheered, mouth nearly watering at her favorite thing in the world next to sloths and Ren.

"I don't think so." Jaune smiled coyly. Everyone looked at him. "I mean, he went down way too easily."

"Well, yeah, but come on! It's Pyrrha he's fighting." Ruby replied. Jaune's smile only grew.

"But! Even Pyrrha wouldn't be prepared for what's about to happen."

"Wha—?"

"Just watch." he interrupted just as Kuro slowly got up.

"Kuro? Are you okay? Should I ask Miss Goodwitch to end the match?" Pyrrha asked with concern, but concern turned into apprehension when she heard the boy mumble something incoherent.

"…ot… ne…" was what she made out.

"I'm sorry?"she asked and his head whipped upwards and she noticed that his eyes had changed color to a grassy green with an odd demonic looking pupil. And from what she knew of color changing eyes (from a certain blonde brawler), she knew that something big was going to happen.

"I said: I'm not DONE!" he angrily shouted and, with a howling battle cry, he became surrounded by an aura of green. Large, thick, thorned vines surrounded him in a circle and various sharp weapons made of grass, fire, ice, lightning, and other natural elements appeared in both hands with a throwing knife between his teeth.

He shot a predatory glare at Pyrrha before jumping up high and tossing the multitude of weapons in his hands all at once. Pyrrha guy ready to deflect them all, but noticed that Kuro had misaimed.

"He missed… How could he miss?!" Weiss asked incredulously.

"He did that on purpose…" Jaune commentated.

Pyrrha had a similar question as the heiress while she looked straight at Kuro. This was it. He had finally started using his Semblance. From what she could tell, it allowed him to create weapons out of natural elements. She knew that hers would do her no service against him in this fight so she had settled on Miló and Akóuo.

Pyrrha was ready to throw her spear when Kuro suddenly disappeared, surprising not only her but everyone else watching.

"He… vanished!" Ruby stated.

"No, he's just moving incredibly fast." Jaune corrected her.

"How do you know so much about this? It's almost as if you've… seen this before… Why didn't you tell us this before?!"

"Because Kuro made me swear to not tell a single person about his Semblance. My team included." Jaune revealed.

"This is his Semblance?"

"Yeah. It's nature. He can manipulate natural elements to his advantage. Fire, grass, water, electricity, heck even metal. But he knows Pyrrha's Semblance is polarity, so he chose not to use it."

"PYRRHA, BEHIND YOU!" Nora screamed despite knowing that Pyrrha can not hear her.

Back at the arena, Pyrrha was stunned to say the least. She had not known Kuro to be capable of such speed. If she was completely honest, that speed could very well be on par, if not greater than, Ruby's when using her Semblance.

'So he can not only manifest weaponry, but enhance his speed and most likely, his power.' she assessed, but that moment of rationalizing cost her when Kuro suddenly reappeared behind her…

…and then, the unthinkable happened: she was hit. Hard. Kuro sent a powerful kick, which felt like she was hit by a boulder. In actuality, Kuro used his Semblance to make his foot as hard as stone and kicked as hard as he could, which sent Pyrrha back a couple feet. Her Aura gauge went from its perfect state to the lower green, borderline yellow.

Everybody in the entire room froze. Pyrrha-Freaking-Nikos, one of—if not the—strongest girls of all the second year students, had finally been hit. They could not even think more into it when Kuro continued his attack on the Spartan.

"Round Two…" Kuro muttered darkly and charged. Right then, a sharp edged snowflake materialized in his hand and tossed it at Pyrrha, who simply moved out of the way, to which Kuro responded quickly by throwing the knife that was in his teeth as well as a few earth based projectiles. Pyrrha was about to raise her shield, but found her shield arm being tangled in vines, making it impossible.

'When did he—?' Pyrrha cut the vines with Miló and used her shield to deflect the projectile, but the minute it hit Akouó, it exploded into a cloud of black smoke. The next minute, could feel a presence behind her and swung.

"…Too slow…" she heard him say and he again attacked. To everyone else watching, they could not see the action but they could tell that Pyrrha had taken another hit judging by the fact that her aura gauge had gone down even more, to the yellow.

"No. Freaking. Way." Ruby says slowly.

"I know, right? Totally unexpected." Jaune's knowing smirk never left his face.

"He just might win this…" Weiss watched on in immense disbelief. Blake merely started waving her flag again with a small smile.

'Dammit… He's gonna win.' Yang cursed in her mind.

Pyrrha silently commended her opponent on scoring two hits on her. She was even having a bit of difficulty dodging single attack that Kuro threw her way. The smoke made it hard for her to see clearly, which she surmised was a part of his strategy.

'Apparently, strategic minds run in the family.' she thought while thinking of a certain blond knight.

The blinding smog was instantly cleared when Kuro suddenly appeared behind her and swung his arm at her. She ducked and attempted to hit him with the blunt end of Miló. Kuro moved again and laughed a straight kick, but hit her shield again. He back flipped to gain distance and tossed both blades at her. Pyrrha easily deflected them and fired at him using Miló's rifle mode once again.

Unyielding, Kuro slammed his fists into the ground and caused a dome of rocks to impede all of Pyrrha's shots. The dome eventually crumbled, but revealed that Kuro was gone again.

"Follow the birdie…" Kuro quipped and backhanded Pyrrha. She reeled a little but held her ground as always. He bore his demonic looking eyes on her without a word. After a few hand signs, he spat fire from his mouth. Pyrrha weaved and dodged each of them. At one point, Kuro shot at the floor, making more smoke appear. The redhead was ready for this repeat maneuver. Using the same tactic would not work twice against her. However, nothing happened as the smog dispersed, but she grunted and nearly gaped at what she saw.

Behind her opponent was a stream of fire in the shape of a dragon. He raised his arm, the dragon stood ready for his command.

"Can you dodge this?"

"Okay, I did NOT know that he could do that…" Jaune blanched.

"It looks like something out of an action movie…" Ruby commented while scratching her head.

"That looks AWESOME! …But I think that's a boo boo for Pyrrha…" Nora says as the stream came after her teammate.

Pyrrha jumped out of the way, making Kuro question how she could do that with all of that armor. But he noticed that her foot was on fire, but did not bring it up as he was pretty sure that she would have noticed.

(A/N: Spoilers! She didn't!)

"This next one I saw on TV." Kuro seemingly reverted back to his normal behavior and bound Pyrrha into the arena floor using well-hidden vines. Next, he channeled a large amount of lighting into his left hand. He then charged at Pyrrha at high speeds and after reaching her, he thrusts his palm towards her torso. It was such a brief flash that she did not have that much reaction time, so she weaved her body to the left and hit him on the back of his head with Miló.

…but then he exploded in a mass of leaves.

"What?"

"Right here!" she turned and felt a sharp hit on her head. Kuro was standing above her with a tiny mallet made of ice in his hand and a devilish smile on his roughed up and slightly bruised face.

"Gotcha. I win!" he then pointed towards their portraits and indeed, that last one did more damage to her aura meter than expected and she was in the red.

This was a first. She did not know how to react.

Pyrrha. Had lost.

Professor Goodwitch was a bit… fuck it… she was VERY surprised that someone had managed to best Pyrrha. Ozpin smirked at both this new development and at seeing Kuro's Semblance for the first time.

"So… um… Pyrrha?" Kuro grabbed the redhead's attention. "I… uh… *sigh* How do I say this without sounding pretentious?"

Pyrrha rose an inquisitive eyebrow at this.

"So, knowing your… reputation, how does it feel to… you know… lose for the first time?" he carefully asked, mindful of not to agitate her. Pyrrha smiled at his humility.

"Well, at first it's not exactly the greatest feeling in the world. But…" Pyrrha trailed off. Of course, like most people, she was upset at losing to Kuro. Yet, at the same time, she felt… lighter. Like a large weight had been lifted. She also felt a bit invigorated, she felt excitement at the prospect of finally finding another student that had proven themselves superior.

"But?"

"…but, I like it. It really let me see the limits of my abilities. It lets me know that I'm still lacking and not the Invincible Girl that everyone sees me as. That I'm not perfect. And I'm grateful to you for showing me that, Kuro. Thank you and well done."

Both fighters shook hands as the students erupted into cheers.

"Oh, and one more thing…" Pyrrha made a sign for him to go on, but he just pointed downwards.

"Your foot's on fire…"

"Hm? OH, GOODNESS!" the Spartan panicked and hastily put out her burning foot, Kuro laughing at her all the while.

For this fight I wanted the things:

• Practice writing fight scenes for future fan fics

• Give my interpretation of how Pyrrha would feel about her very first loss

• Go into further detail about both Kuro's fighting style and his Semblance

In fact, that's what I hope happens in Volume 3. Have Pyrrha experience defeat for the first time. Speaking of Volume 3:

ONE. MORE. DAY!

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~ Peace!