Ah, this is going to be a crazy chapter, I already know. You guys are going to find out quickly.

Masso2010: If you thought that was fun and emotional, just wait until the rest of the story.

Guest: Thank you for enjoying the story! I hope to keep up with your expectations!

Redvsblue123: Wow, that is strangely accurate even though Orchid wasn't really inspired by the Meta, it was sort of a on the spot idea. Then again a lot of my ideas are on the spot ideas.

Arctech: Orchid and Kai didn't really have a romantic moment, unless you count a mental breakdown and a proclamation of their friendship counts as a romantic interest. The Poll ends this chapter, so you'll get to see who wins.

Okay guys… the Poll ends now, lets see the FINAL results of what the majority of the followers of this story chose to vote for…

Ruby Rose- 83 !TIED! Yang Xiao Long- 83

Orchid Rosa- 33

Weiss Schnee- 30

Neo- 30

Blake Belladonna- 27

Pyrrha Nikos- 26

Jesus guys, this war between Yang and Ruby has exploded way out of proportions. So… a Tie eh? Well, we can't have that now can we!? I will be putting up a 24 hour Poll once this chapter is posted, which means as you are reading this, if this is the same day of the chapters debut, it is your only opportunity to vote!

Understand this, I will only be accepting votes THROUGH THE POLL. Which means that if you want to vote to break the tie breaker, YOU HAVE TO VOTE THROUGH THE POLL. VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO THAT.

I am so glad to be stirring this pot :)

You really shouldn't be. -CrowSkull.

Beta: CrowSkull

Now let's get right to the story!

The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 28- Volume 0, Episode 26

Beginning of the Beginning

Kai didn't even know what a reverse wink was, but that was the least of his problems as he leaned over a sink with both hands, his reclaimed black headband in one of his hands as he hangs his head and breaths coming out as heated pants. He completed his training after walking Orchid back to the hotel, and is washing his face to cool himself down faster. Today was semi finals day, and things are about to get a lot harder than before in his fights. The first one was still being talked about, he was told that the record he set will stay in place for years to come. Then the second one against Weiss Schnee made him amazingly popular with most of the faunus. Now it was time for his third, the one before the finals. It was safe to say that he was a little nervous to say the least.

With a determined grunt, he tied his old headband back around his eyes. Tightening it with a loud snap as he turned around and stepped out of the bathroom. His mother was more than happy to return his headband when she heard what happened. The dark fabric was warm as it wrapped around his face, and it fit against his face perfectly. Apparently his father was out on an investigation, though through the scroll Malikai told him that he would try to make it to his match if he could, but if he couldn't Marron would be recording it, and even if she weren't he could probably look to the internet.

He didn't even walk up with the rest of his friends into the stands like he normally did, even when Ruby and Yang asked him what was wrong. He simply waved them off and promised his mother that he wouldn't stray too far, Orchid didn't even question him when he walked off on his own. At this point, he had the competitors section of the stadium mostly memorized in his head during the few days that he has been living in Mistral. Kai kept walking around the circle shape of the stadium in the competitors only section, and then broke off into one of the random training rooms.

He waited there for a few moments, warming himself up with a few practice swings while also literally warming himself up with his the fire part of his semblance and with the help of Ruby's gift to him. She gladly named it for him since he didn't really know what to call it, and 'Sparks' was the lucky winner. Her only explanation was that 'Sparks' would actually create flaming sparks on the inside of Silver Protector, which he could and would absorb with his semblance and add it to his fuel reserves so that he could use the flame part of his semblance without actually needing fire to be around to absorb.

After a few minutes of that, and leaving focus mode. He heard and sensed a familiar swirl in the air behind him. With a kind smile on his lit up expression, he turned to regard his secret trainor.

"Hey Raven, here to wish me luck again?" Kai asked, waving at her with one hand as he sheathed Silver Ebony.

"Yup." Vernals voice answered instead as she too came through the portal.

"Vernal?" Kai called out, unsure. He knew that Vernal and Raven were from the same tribe, but he has never had them both come to him at the same time like this before. "Why are you here?"

"She is here because I see it necessary." Raven explained for her in her 'teacher' voice, which was mostly montone and critical, and if he made any mistake after that he would be thoroughly punished for it, and if he dared question her instructions he would pay dearly for it.

"Why is that? I might be having a match soon, so I don't think I'll be able to handle sparring with the Spring Maiden again." Kai said with a nervous half hearted chuckle. After that sparring match, he realized just how far he was from the power of the maidens, even with the power of his semblance. He could throw some attacks back at them, but he never gave lightning a shot besides with some light training with that element given to him by his father. It also took a lot out of him, he only fully recovered from that match the morning after.

"You know of the maidens?" Raven asked, eyes narrowed.

"His Dad told him." Vernal explained before Kai could open his mouth to explain.

"Tch, typical of Malikai to do something so stupid." Raven hissed with a shake of her head. "Knowledge like that is extremely dangerous for a child such as yourself, especially with the color eyes that you have."

"Yeah, believe me I get it." Kai said with a non committed shake of his head. His whole life got flipped upside down ever since he heard that message sent to him by his Dad. nothing has ever been the same since he found out he will always have a target on his back. "Why is Vernal here again?"

"Vernal will be standing on guard while you have your match in a few minutes." Raven said as she started to look around, eyes narrowed behind her Grimm mask as she looked for any possible threats.

Kai sensed the stress within her body, and her heart was beating uncharacteristically fast, like she was waiting for an attack. "I might not even be fighting in the first round today though…" He said hesitantly, slowing down with each word as he felt his custom scroll vibrate from within his pocket.

Kai took out the buttoned scroll, and held it out stupidly as he thought about the meaning of this. Vernal took the scroll from him and pressed a button, playing the usual message Kai got whenever he was going to be fighting in the next round, which in this case, was the first match of the semi finals, which was again, the first match of the round.

"First match, again." Vernal said with a shake of her head, tossing the scroll back to Kai. He fumbled to catch it when it hit his chest and only barely he did, only getting lucky at the last second, and catching it with his fingers before stuffing the mobile device back into his pants pocket.

"What's going on? How come you two are acting like we're about to be attacked so suddenly?" Kai asked the two older women.

"We might, we might not. But Raven is not one to take chances, especially when her Spring Maiden is involved." Vernal explained without really answering the question.

"Hmm." Raven hummed her agreement, not really caring for the light jab that was thrown her way.

"I… don't understand." Kai said softly, hanging his head slightly as he thought about any probable possibilities.

"You don't have too." Raven said as she took off her mask, more confident with her revealed face now that she knows no one else is around. "Just do what you do best, and win. I'll be watching, and you better not disappoint me."

"I will too, I even got a seat even better than the front row." Vernal said with a laugh.

Kai did feel a little relieved, but he could tell that it wasn't the whole truth. Even then, he simply smiled and shook his head. Believing in the possibility that it really was something not to worry about. Besides, if it was really serious, they would of told him what was happening. Right?

"Alright, I guess I'll go to my waiting room then." Kai said as he started making his way toward the exit, Vernal already in tow as Raven simply hummed her response, and cut another portal in the air for her to move on to a different part of the stadium.

"Follow me Kai, I'll take you there." Vernal said, not even waiting for him to respond as she took him by the arm and lead him to his waiting room.

Headmaster Ozpin and Albedo were both concerned. They haven't heard back from Malikai, and even Qrow was having trouble on his sides of things. The most disturbing thing about this was that nothing was going wrong visibly, which made it all the more terrifying when Kai Matsuoka was scheduled for a match when he wasn't supposed too.

"I scheduled Mister Matsuoka for a match later in this round." Ozpin said with a frown as his eyes narrowed sharply. "Albedo, see to it yourself that Malikai is brought back to the stadium."

"Already on it." The headmaster of Signal said as he threw on a thick pair of sunglasses on in a weak attempt to hide his identity, but sadly time was of the essence, and he couldn't afford to spend time thinking on a new disguise.

When the door shut behind him Ozpin moved over to his computer. To see if there was some way to override the controls, and make sure who he hoped wasn't going to be up against young Kai Matsuoka this early on in the tournament. His fingers moved as a green blur as he typed in all of his passwords and usernames before he made it to a specific page where he had control on when and who would be competing before the crowd.

He sighed a sigh of relief when he saw that Pyrrha Nikos was still set against that Orchid girl with the multiple personalities, later on in the semi finals round. It must have been an error then, an error someone would be losing their job over. That match later down the line would be very entertaining for even he to watch, it will be interesting to watch Pyrrha Nikos forced to adapt to so many fighting styles, and the very unique semblance that is within that girl.

The crowd roared their approval as Kai Matsuoka made his way out onto the arena, smile on his face and beautiful black shiny sword already drawn and on display for all who could see. The stadium was sold out today, not a single seat wasn't taken. Ozpin smiled as he stood back up, and headed back toward the glass panels overseeing the arena.

"And his opponent is… Pyrrha Nikos!"

The smile disappeared off of his face faster than the eye could see, and he slammed a fist angrily against the wall beside him, breaking right through it with his aura empowered fist. The anger festered as he realized that something was definitely very wrong, and that this was meant to happen. He had planned for Kai and Pyrrha to make it to the finals together, and to have their climatic battle then, but now, he was sure that It had to be some scheme of the White Fang… or worse.

He couldn't even stop this match from happening, the negativity it would draw forth would be tremendous on a global scale. Not only that but he may as well be giving Kai Matsuoka to a different school, and while he trusted those within his inner circle, he would prefer to keep any, and all silver eyed warriors within sight.

But at this point, it was the least of his worries.

Ozpin's hand dug into his pocket again, taking out his scroll and he paced around the office as he waited for Malikai to answer his scroll for once that morning, and thankfully his call was answered this time.

"Malikai, I need you back here now." Ozpin said before the person on the other side of the call could speak. "This is an emergency."

"Malikai Matsuoka is… unavailable at this time." Adam Taurus' tired voice spoke back to him, and sounds of fighting were heard through the scroll.

"Who is this?" Ozpin asked, stopping in his tracks and looking at the scroll in his hands, it was of a blue eyed man with a White Fang mask covering the left side of his face, the other part of it was destroyed and it must have fell off during whatever fight he is partaking in.

"You know who I am Headmaster." Adam said between heavy breaths. "Your agent here is putting up a much better fight then we ever could have anticipated, but as all humans will one day, he will fall." He hung up the scroll a second later

Ozpin cursed to himself mentally as he hit the emergency recall button, calling back all the Huntsman that are even near the kingdom of Mistral. If he couldn't stop the tournament itself, he would make sure they had the biggest fighting force that they could have.

Now all he could do… was wait.

Pyrrha was ecstatic, she was waiting for another person to be able to make her really go all out. She may be able to find that challenge in her opponent, who was now standing in the middle of the arena with his body turned into her direction. His sword and bracer shining in the sunlight as she gets closer. Taking each step with more haste then she ever had in her previous matches.

Kai Matsuoka was the one, the one that could beat her. Pyrrha relished in the challenge. She also had her weapons our already, Milo in it's spear form in her right hand, and Akouo in her left. The sound of her heels clicking against the tiled arena being sensed easily by her blind opponent. She could see by the way his head subtly twitched in her direction, and his tail wrapped around his waist as she got within arms distance.

"I hope we give the world a battle to remember." Pyrrha said with practiced politeness and with a bow of her head.

"I've heard a lot about you, I hope you don't disappoint." Kai said with a smile of his own, there was an obvious hint of competitiveness in his voice and with the way he smiled told her that he really didn't know just how much she was capable of. How could he anyway? He is blind, if anything all he has going for him is that he knows that she is a champion.

Nonetheless, Pyrrha's smiled widened with competitiveness in return, each of them no longer needing words to get their points across. She did wonder about the blindfold around his head, it was so black that even if it was see through it would have been hard to actually see. He was blind for sure, though that doesn't mean he can't pinpoint where she is. He was already doing that as they entered their own fighting stances just mere feet away from each other. Pyrrha changing Milo back into its sword form, as she entered a hybrid stance, one good for both defence and offence. While Kai entered a very unorthodox stance, his body was turned to its side toward her, and he had his braces red arm toward her direction. His face wasn't even pointed in her direction, and yet his sword was. She wouldn't be fooled by this, he could see her just as well if not more then she him.

The tips of their swords were almost touching, they didn't even hear the announcer in the background absolutely going crazy along with the entire crowd. All they could hear was the sound of both combatants inhaling, and exhaling. The hot sun as it beamed down on them. The way their fingers curled around their weapons and tightened as the one thing they did hear, which was the countdown, was getting closer and closer to zero.

There were cheers for both Pyrrha Nikos and Kai Matsuoka, it was almost perfectly mixed, almost as if to state how close in skill they are. Even the crowd was divided, and it was hard not to be. In his very first match, Kai beat both of his opponents in one swift move, and he is blind.

Black struck against red in a flurry of attacks right as the counter hit zero. Silver Ebony met Milo, steel just as strong as it self and as they struck each other sparks flew. Kai ducked underneath and in a quick three-sixty maneuver, attempted to sweep the legs out from underneath Pyrrha.

She didn't sense any metal in his foot, which was surprising given it's metallic look. But she was able to hop over it with a certain elegance that saved energy. Once her feet touched the ground, she tried to shove Kai with her shield to try and break his guard. But it was sidestepped and with a jump and a twirl, Silver Ebony just grazed her shoulder. Barely doing anything to bring down her aura, but it was still enough to just barely get her large reserves of aura to dip down a single percentage.

Surprisingly, Kai flipped backwards afterwards and dodged her counter attack by just a mere centimeter. She didn't get time to think about the bizarre spectacle that was her opponent as one of the tiles of the stone arena was lifted out of the ground, and launched like a bullet in her direction.

Pyrrha cut through the stone like butter with her sword, and charged at Kai before he could have time to lift another one out of the ground. She transformed her sword into a spear a second before she thrusted the tip toward his chest. Kai sensed this blade getting closer to his body by feeling the disturbance in the air just a few inches away from his chest. His bracer moved instinctively to parry, but that was just what Pyrrha wanted.

With a subtle wave of her shield hand, the silver metal was moved just low enough so that it missed its mark. From underneath his blindfold, Pyrrha could see that shock in his eyes as she landed a damaging blow against the left side of his chest, pushing him back and making him clutch his chest in pain.

Pyrrha took this opportunity to rush her opponent while he was stunned, but to her surprise he recovered very quickly, parrying without even aiming his face at her and with an aura empowered fist, punched in the stomach. Her widened eyes bulged out a tiny amount as she was launched backwards. She landed gracefully and rubbed her stomach.

So he wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty when it calls for it… for some reason, that made Pyrrha all the more excited. Kai stood back up, seemingly unaffected by the pain he once had before an rand at her. Pyrrha rose her shield up in defense, and the loud clang of metal slamming against metal nearly deafened her. Her ears were still ringing as she pushed through the strong overhead attack and pushed him away, opening him up again for her to bash her shield into his shoulder right as he tried to dodge. Pyrrha caught him right in the beginning of it.

Kai rolled with the bash and aimed his off hand to his side. Blasting air out of his palm to redirect himself and end up behind his opponent, who was just as surprised as the crowd was with the sudden turn of the tide of battle. Pyrrha, with how adept she was at using her polarity semblance wasn't fast enough to redirect the tip of Silver Ebony as it slashed down at her shoulder and ended at her hip.

Pyrrha did however push through the stinging pain, and turned around quickly enough to slap his sword away with her shield. Kai's wrist hurt as Pyrrha's blade now in sword form collided with his bracer, but with a flick of his wrist he managed to parry it just far enough for him to get away. He jumped back and inhaled deeply.

Pyrrha figured out what was going on when he thrusted a fist forward that was much too far for it to actually connect, and rolled to the side without really thinking about it right as the blast of air ripped by her. She in turn transformed her weapon into it's rifle form and fired back at Kai.

Kai, for how good he was, had a big weakness against firearms. For the obvious fact that he couldn't see the bullets coming at him nor from which direction. Not only that but the bullets was just too fast for him to keep up with. Not even with seismic sensing or with the new upgrade he got where he can sense what is in the air in his close vicinity.

Instead he brought Silver Protector and as fast as he could, flailed it around in front of his body. Actually deflecting some of them just out of pure luck as he used a rather childish technique. But after the third shot hit him in the leg he rose a stone wall out of the ground and used it as cover. The bullets were strong, but not strong enough to pierce through a foot of solid stone.

Pyrrha realized this and transformed her weapon back into it's spear form, and with her shield out in front of her, starting running in an arc around the stone wall. Just in case he would kick it out in front of him like she knew he could.

Kai struggled to think up something to do next, because he was planning to kick the stone wall out in front of him and hope that the rubble caused from the kick would hit and stagger Pyrrha Nikos. But she was way too smart for that. She wasn't a multi time champion of Mistral for no reason after all. He thought of something finally when Pyrrha threw her spear at him, and after sensing it at the last second, he grabbed the stone wall and ripped it out of the ground with his semblance enhanced strength.

He used the slab of stone to knock her spear out of the way, but strangely instead of falling out of bounds, it curved as it slid and ended up right in front of her feet while she was running. Kai noticed this and got a suspicion, but nothing could be confirmed until he tested it. He broke into a sprint so hard that it cracked the tile underneath his feet, and he abandoned his stone wall as he swung quickly and powerfully at Pyrrha, who used her newly recovered sword to block and parry his attack. For some reason, he felt like his attack should have been strong enough for that not to happen.

He didn't let up, and instead went all out as he threw his sword into his other hand in a reverse grip and slammed it into Pyrrha's shield. The whole area they were fighting in vibrated and he felt his bones shake and sting after slamming his sword down on her shield with all of his strength. He was doing more damage to himself then he was to her, but he needed to keep going if he wanted to make sure what he was thinking was actually happening at the moment.

Pyrrha started getting heated, being the defense like this was not something she was used to, it was out of her comfort zone. She subtly used her semblance to redirect his next attack to her sword, and started going all out herself. It was time for the world to really see what Pyrrha Nikos was made of.

Just like the fight began, their swords crossed and both of their sword arm's muscles tensed up and burned as they fought against each others strength. They grit their teeth as they pushed even harder into each other. Pyrrha tried to bring her shield up and bash his shoulder, but Kai used his bracer to block and hold it back. Pyrrha gritted her teeth harder as she struggled in a uncommon battle of strength, in which Kai barely had the edge in because of his extreme training regimen.

Pyrrha had no choice, she was losing ground, and soon Kai's black sword was going to start pushing her sword into her own body. Causing damage to herself was not how she wanted to lose. She used her semblance more obviously and pushed both of Kai's metal weapons away, she tried to rip his weapon out of his hand, but he had a tight grip on it. She let it go before he could tell what was going on.

Kai already knew what was going on, his sword just tried to fly out of his hands, and he could sense someone else's aura within it. Silver Protector also wanted to slip off his left wrist, but he had it clasped on tightly. It was all he needed to figure out what was going on.

"Your semblance is Magnetism, isn't it?" Kai accused her as they stood off from one another.

Pyrrha widened her eyes at the accusation, which was entirely true. No one was able to figure out what her semblance was, if they did they would have fought with weapons not made of metal. She thought that she was being very subtle about it until that moment. But if he figured it out, that means he must have been thinking about it for a while now, which means he figured her out about a minute ago. Not even a person who could see was able to figure it out, not even people from all over the world who saw her fight.

"I'm surprised that you were able to figure it out, I was certain I was being subtle about it." Pyrrha said with a grin as she got into a lower stance.

"You were, but after that last engagement, you might as well just screamed the answer at me." Kai said as he entered the same stance he had before, it was full of holes, but that was what he wanted her to think about. Aim for the weaknesses and he would counter you.

No more words needed to be spoke, because it wasn't needed. Pyrrha ran at him, engaging the fight before giving the other prodigy time to plan out any defense or offence. Since she was already found out, she waved her hand more violent and easily broke through his guard.

Kai winced as his sword arm was forced behind his back and his bracered arm was forced to aim at his left. Completely leaving himself open for Pyrrha to take advantage of. He was forced to let go of Silver Ebony and let it fly over to the side, disarming himself so that he was able to weave his head in time to dodge the shield that was thrown at him. But with his bracered arm still forcing him to stand still, he wasn't able to dodge the vicious cleave attack into his torso that made him spit out saliva and cause the air to blast out of his lungs.

Air… that was it! Kai used his mouth and his semblance to catch Pyrrha off guard before she could do any sort of combo on him. Blasting her away and himself back. He flipped in the air twice and landed, but his heel slipped and he landed hard on his butt. Still, it allowed him some time to untie the clasp keeping Silver Protector to his arm and toss it to the side. He had nothing else that was metal on him, but that just mean that he was now disarmed. He has a small amount of flames within him, but it wouldn't be enough for anything strong enough to deal any significant damage.

When Pyrrha was finished rolling on the ground, she pushed herself back up to her feet. She was a little dazed, but Kai was much too far to really do anything about it, even air attacks would just wither away before it could get close enough to her body. She checked her rifle to see if it had any bullets left in the clip, and scoffed when she saw that she only had one left. Reloading would take too long, because while Kai couldn't get air attacks closer to her, he still had long range stone attacks.

From within the ground came a stone pillar with a tip, it drove itself into Pyrrha's shield and shattered against it. He kept stomping on the ground and making gestures with his hands as he sensed her every movement with his focused seismic sensing. It was taking a lot of aura out of him to do something like while his opponent was so far, but without his weapons he didn't want to try his luck against her in a close quarters fight. They were just about equal, but even he could see that Pyrrha was the one with the slight edge. But when it came to semblances, he far surpassed her.

Pyrrha kept jumping from spot to spot to dodge the stone attacks. The ground itself was literally attacking her. Every time her foot would touch the ground stone would try to wrap itself around her foot to keep her in place. She was even running out of ground to get too, and opted for jumping from the sides of the pillars until she got to a relatively safer zone. But that came with its own set of problems. She was getting tired, for all the training that she has done throughout her entire life, she has never been this tired in a match before.

She landed with a roll on a more open side of the arena, and glanced at the aura gauges. She still had about sixty five percent left, but that meant nothing if she was too tired to use that aura. Kai had about the same amount, she didn't get a good look because she was now close enough for Kai to blast air at, but she did see that he was relatively in the same area.

With a silent prayer, she transformed her weapon into it's rifle form and took aim while running. Her arms were steady but the rest of her body was moving incredibly fast. Kai was forced to let himself relax a bit as he felt a headache coming alone, his muscles were getting tired, and he could literally feel his aura coming off of him as he kept going with his semblance, pushing through the exhaustion.

With a silent and calm exhale, Pyrrha pulled the trigger. The barrel of her gun flared brightly with red light, and the brass dust bullet was fired out of the tip of the muzzle. In almost slow motion she was actually able to see the bullet fly out and toward Kai Matsuoka, who heard the gun fire just a few milliseconds after she pulled the trigger. The bullet was already in his air sensing range before he was able to properly physically react.

He did the unthinkable, he brought his bare forearm up just a millisecond before the bullet could collide with his body. With the silver aura he brought up to his forearm the bullet exploded on contact, dealing a lot less damage to him then it would have done if the bullet hit him in the face like Pyrrha intended for it to do.

Time started flowing normally for Pyrrha once she saw Kai grip his forearm in pain, a bruise already forming even though his aura stopped the bullet. It was impressive to be able to block a bullet like that while blind, but that didn't mean that the bullet wasn't going to hurt.

Pyrrha snapped herself out of her own stupor and saw her chance, Kai wasn't focusing on his surroundings as much and was too busy shaking his arm of the stinging pain. She transformed Milo back into it's sword form, and ran at him. Prepared to dodge any air or rocks that may be thrown at her or block any projectiles with her shield.

Kai sensed her coming, the clicking of her heels were clicking as her she ran across the arena to get to him. He didn't have any weapons on him to counter, and even if he did she would just use her semblance to subtly or not so subtly move it out of the way of her weapon. He was disarmed at the moment, but then he realized that one of the old tricks he was told not to do was actually viable in this situation.

He smirked to himself and kept his face turned away as to fool her as he reached one hand to the ground, and when she was just a few steps away. He pulled a stone sword out of the ground and slammed it into her sword. Blowing it away to the side as the stone shattered into pieces, but with a lot of focus, he was able to keep the stone together with his semblance. Pyrrha was surprised by this sudden course of events and tried to use her semblance on the stone blade, but there just wasn't any metal inside of the stone, and so she was forced to dodge the stone blade before it could cut into her side.

Kai stepped forward, and got his leg in between Pyrrha's legs, he moved it behind one of her heels, and slammed his shoulder into her chest while also pulling back his leg. Tripping her and himself over. They landed with Kai on top, and he managed to pin one of her arms to the side with his left hand, but with his stone sword still in the other he wasn't able to pin her shield arm.

He predicted a shield bash to his collarbone and was rewarded with getting hit there anyway. His stone swords just wasn't hard enough to properly block the edge of the metal shield, but it was enough to cushion the blow enough so that he was still on top of her. Through the pain in his collar, he focused his semblance in his left hand and got the stone underneath Pyrrha's right arm to wrap around that wrist, pinning her arm there with him having to keep his hand there. However, she bucked her hips up and forced Kai higher onto her chest. She kicked her legs up from behind Kai and wrapped them around his head and one of his arms, locking them together on his right shoulder.

Pyrrha pulled with all of his might and threw Kai off of her. For as strong as Kai was, he wasn't stronger then both of her legs at the same time. He tried to land on his feet but he didn't know which side the ground was faced as he was flipping in the air. This happened three times before he landed on his back and coughed up air because of the hard impact. He sensed his sword and bracer lying not too far from where he was lying, and subtly he started moving the stone underneath them closer to is body.

Pyrrha rolled backwards onto one of her knees, and smashed her shield into the stone binding on her right wrist, breaking it easily and gripping her sword once again. Just in time to see Kai already back on his feet, a little shakily and while holding his neck. His senses must have been disoriented because of being flipped through the air several times. Truth was, he was just dizzy.

Pyrrha took another glance to the aura gauges, and saw that they were still even, both of them were in the high thirties each. Still relatively even. The thought of it brought a smile to her face, it has been so long since she was brought that low, and at that time she was training with her teacher at the time. She took a deep breath and got into a running stance, adamant to end the match here and now.

Kai also shook himself out of his stupor, and he subtly kneeled down and pretended that he hit his head, but in reality he was picking up Silver Ebony. He already had his bracer back on his forearm, but Pyrrha didn't know that yet. He could sense her getting ready to attack, and if she did notice, she would be using her semblance by now. He gripped Silver Ebony in a reverse grip, and wrapped stone around the blade. He hefted the now much heavier sword and positioned it defensively.

Pyrrha took that as a challenge, for as surprising as his stone weapons were, they might as well be paper mache when put up against her steelforged weapons. She broke off into a sprint and threw her shield at him first, which Kai dodged by leaning back and shoving his hand into the shield, pushing it down to the side and embedding it into the ground. Pyrrha smirked as she got within arms distance.

Kai smirked as he felt a familiar warmth in his sword, he felt his aura being absorbed and a heat behind his eyes. Pyrrha realized her mistake a second later when she saw the stone around Silver Ebony fall off to reveal a white shining blade. She picked up her sword to block the best she could, but she was already caught off guard.

With a scream, Kai allowed that warm feeling in his hand take control, his sword elongated, and it's edge sharpened. It bit into Milo and brushed it aside, Pyrrha tried using her semblance to soften the blow, and to her credit it did, incredibly so. The shining white blade buried itself in her aura and blasted her away. She fell backwards and onto her back and rolled that way several feet before skidding to a stop with her heels.

She tried pushing herself back onto her feet, but was only able to get back onto one knee. That attack took so much out of her aura.

Kai wanted to keep going, but he felt very tired after using yet another ability from his sword. He used his sword to keep himself up.

One more time… just one more time. Kai thought to himself as he thought back on how he just did what he did before. He hefted his sword out of the ground, and poured more of his aura into his sword. Once again, the sword shone a white light, and again like in his match against Weiss Schnee, something just told him to slash his sword through the air.

He smiled and let out a single chuckle as he prepared himself to slash his sword in front of him. Pyrrha Nikos smiled at the attack being prepared to be fired at her, she was defeated at this point, she didn't even have enough aura to redirect his blade. She was going to welcome the defeat.

Everything stopped when Kai instead slashed his sword behind him, just in time to stop a scorpion tail from stabbing into his back.

"YOW! That's hot!" Tyrian cried as he blew at his steaming tail.

The announcer didn't even get enough time to announce what happened, because an explosion took place in the center of one of the sections in the stadium. Killing dozens of people and injuring many more. Kai couldn't even question the man who just tried to attack him when another set of explosions sounded off from the other side of the stadium. Killing even more people.

Pyrrha looked around in horror as she saw the terrifying orange flames, and people running around in panic as they tried to escape the terrorist attack. Kai jumped backward and hooked his arm underneath her armpit and helped her back up to her feet.

"What is happening?" She asked as she looked around at the sudden terrorist attack.

"I don't know… but we need to stick together for now." Kai said with an equally terrified voice as he heard and sensed hundred of people screaming and rolling on the floor in agony. Some of them already dead.

"Ah! My favorite kind of surprise attack!" Tyrian Callows exclaimed as he activated his wrist blades. "The one where people constantly scream."

"Who are you? Why are you attacking this place!?" Kai asked, aiming his sword at the faunus.

"My oh my! Those are the same words your father said to me the first time we met, it must be in the genes." Tyrian cackled madly and got ready to lunge at them.

"Tyrian stop, we aren't here to kill them." A much larger, burly man with tan skin said as he strolled up beside his partner. Pyrrha narrowed her eyes at the man, and found herself rejuvenated enough to stand up with sword in hand.

"Pyrrha Nikos, if you turn back now, we won't go after you." Hazel said with a deep voice. "We are only here for the blind boy."

"Tch." Kai cursed his own silver eyes that he couldn't even use.

"No, I will not." Pyrrha said as she entered a stance beside Kai. "It is my duty as a Huntress to protect others, and I will not allow you to touch him."

"Thank you." Kai said grateful as he entered his own stance, once enemies turned allies in the span of about twenty minutes.

Where is Vernal? Kai asked within his mind, she should be seeing this by now.

"Damn it!" Vernal exclaimed as she used her maiden powers, lightning crackling within her fists as she fired a bolt out in front of her. But it was blocked by a wall of fire.

A masked woman with short black hair revealing nothing but a single flaming orange eye smiled at Vernal, taking each step with a certain amount of graces as she brushed aside her lightning attack.

"Found you, Spring." Cinder said, her voice changed by the mask she was wearing. It wouldn't do to have her face remembered now would it?

"Yeah? Well I'm glad honestly." Vernal said as both of her eyes flamed blue, and she levitated up in the air as lightning crackled on one side of her body and a frozen mist came off her other. The half Fall Maiden let her flames flare up in each hand in response, she didn't levitate, but she could still fight just as well. "I can finally get rid of one of the fuckers hunting me, honestly, do you think you can keep up with the Spring Maiden? Unlike you, I am actually whole." She smirked as she caused powerful currents of wind around her body, blowing Cinders hair back and blowing her away just a little bit.

"Soon, you will not have that power anymore." Cinder seethed as she prepared another attack.

Malikai was fighting for his life, he quickly found a lead to locate the White Fang. But it turned out to be an ambush the whole time. He was attacked by Adam Taurus along with his lieutenant and a girl with black hair. He managed to injure the lieutenant and escaped when the girl broke off from the fight to help him. By himself Adam couldn't beat him, and he knew that. So he let him get away.

He even ignored his scroll vibrating on the ground, running past it and into the streets of Mistral. He saw the stadium in his view already, but there was a small army of White Fang he needed to get through first.

"You're in my way." Malikai said, silver eyes shimmering in the night. "Move, or I will kill you all."

They didn't move.

"Kai!" Marron cried out to her son, still in the middle of the arena and standing alongside Pyrrha Nikos against the same two men she saw attacking her husband back in Vacuo. "Kai! Run away, please!" She knew that they couldn't win, they must have known it too, but still they stood up against them.

"Marron, we need to get you and the kids out of here." Qrow told her as he pulled her by the shoulder.

Taiyang, and the rest of the kids were already on the lower level, only Orchid's mom and Yang stayed up to try and convince Marron to follow them down to a safer level that wasn't on fire. But their pleas were ignored completely.

"Let go of me! Kai! Go help my son!" Marron begged as Qrow forced her down to the lower level, Orchid's mom and Yang helping him by grabbing her legs.

"I can't just leave the others alone Marron, and you're pregnant. The kids need someone to protect them." Qrow explained as he pulled Marron. "Besides, those two are going to get help, they're too popular for them not to get help."

"I can't lose my son… please Qrow, I'm begging you. Save him." Marron begged, her eyes tearing up at the thought of losing her son.

Qrow sighed and shook his head sadly. "I can't, not because I don't want too, but because I can't leave you all unprotected, I have my own family to protect too." He gestured to Yang and Ruby, and the rest of the group from Signal Academy. "Trust me Marron, Kai is going to get help. I promise you that."

Marron beat his chest and screamed at him, but once she was handed over to Taiyang, she got quieter.

Kai and Pyrrha kept taking steps back as the two older and stronger men kept coming towards them. They were still low on aura and tired after their match with each other, they were stalling for as much time as possible so that their aura can regenerate.

"I hoped we wouldn't have to resort to violence, but now you leave us no choice." Hazel said as he flexed his arm muscles, preparing himself to attack.

Eight feet made contact with the ground between both groups, a head of red hair, short black hair, brown hair with a yellow highlight, and unmistakable bunny ears that were erect and at attention. Team CFVY.

"Geez kid, you didn't even say hi to us the whole tournament and we're still coming here to save your ass." Coco quipped as she turned to look at him from the corner of her eye.

"Coco?" Kai called out, a relieved sigh leaving his mouth. "It's so good to see you again!"

"Ooo~ Yes! Even more children to kill!" Tyrian cackled and clapped his hands like a schoolgirl while Hazel just rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Yeah, and you're going to owe us after this one." Coco said as she adjusted herself so that she was in front of Kai and Pyrrha. "Run along kid, we'll deal with these two ourselves."

"We can't just leave you all here!" Pyrrha complained. "I can still fight!"

"I'm sure you can, but now you're tired and low on aura, you'd just get in the way." Yatsuhashi said with a wise, and angry tone. "Think to yourself; Can I truly keep up with them in the state that I am in?"

Kai and Pyrrha both thought about that, and they didn't like the answer that their minds gave them.

"Don't worry about us Kai." Velvet said with a kind smile, looking back at them.

"We are a team, we can deal with these two." Fox continued, not even turning to face them. "After this, we can continue our sense training, that's a promise."

Kai and Pyrrha choked up, they thanked Team CFVY for saving them and ran off without even looking back. Kai wanted to stay so badly, but he has his pregnant mother to find, and all of his friends. Pyrrha was still tired and low on aura, so it was also part of his duty to protect her.

"Kick their asses!" Kai exclaimed as he ran to the nearest open waiting room, which was blasted open during one of the explosions, he absorbed the fire and pushed through, Pyrrha behind him giving Team CFVY one lost nod before using her semblance to close the gate behind them.

Team CFVY got into their stances up against Tyrian and Hazel, who were both getting ready in their own stances.

"Team CFVY, your heard the kid." Coco said as she placed both hands on her handbag.

"Kick their asses."

WOO, another crazy chapter for me to write. This was fun as shit. Every moment here was hinted too in earlier chapters. This was a bit fast paced, but that is because it had to be. This attack was supposed to be sudden, there really weren't that many hints about a sudden explosion like that, or to Kai and Pyrrha's early match, but it is meant to feel that way. Not all terrorist attacks on tournaments need to be during the finals.

How does Cinder know about Vernal being the Spring Maiden? Well… that will be explained later on in the story. Like I said, everything in this chapter was MEANT to feel sudden, no one really expected a terrorist attack on a stadium filled with Huntsman and Huntsman in training.

Where is Raven? Well... again, later on in the story you'll find that out.

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