Crimson Champion vs Golden Smiling Warrior!
"Yahoo! We survived the first two weeks of Beacon and none of us got kicked out!" Nora cheered as she and her team are walking together through the hallway.
"I'll admit, it has been a stressful first week with classes being tough to study." Jaune confessed, feeling his brain is about to give out at any second now.
"Now Jaune, I know things aren't easy like most things in life but just try to do your best and you'll be fine." Pyrrha advised.
"Pyrrha's right, we can't lose faith in ourselves just because a few subjects are hard to understand, and you won't have to face it alone when you got a team to back you up." Rushuna added, hoping to cheer Jaune up a bit.
As team JNPR just said, it as been two whole week since the initiation with them and team RWBY working together to fight their own Grimm and survived, the first day wasn't as bad as they thought although there was Professor Port's lecture on Grimm which was actually a long boring story about himself as a young man fighting a horde of Grimm. There was a demonstration during class and Weiss volunteered, she won but it looked like she was having trouble getting along with Ruby still not accepting her as leader until she started to be a little nicer to her.
Speaking of Ruby and Weiss, they and their team are catching up to JNPR from behind.
"Hey guys, are you excited that we made it through the first two weeks!" Ruby asked exciting.
"You bet we are!" Nora responded cheerfully.
"You never learn to keep your excitement under control." Ren commented.
"That's because we're badass of being awesome to be here!" Yang smirked.
"Oh, if you mean our years of training and strong that earned our place here then I have to agree." Blake said.
"How are you doing, Blake?" Rushuna asked moving close to her.
"Yeah, doing okay. Yang and Ruby can be a little difficult, but they're starting to mean well." Blake answered kind of her teammates.
"Aw, thanks Blake, even though you're mostly anti-social." Yang said.
"What about your… cat ears?" Rushune whispered, pointing her head as she is talking about Blake's bow.
"No, it's only been a week, but I promise I will tell them when the time is right." Blake whispered back.
"Okay, and I know for a fact that your team will understand." Rushuna smiled.
Blake and Rushuna had a private talk after they were assigned to their teams about Rushuna knowing about Blake being a cat-Faunus as she hides the cat ears behind the black bow she always wears for the past week. Rushuna tries to get Blake to stop hiding herself, but Blake made it clear that she wanted to get other accept her for "who" she is before worrying about the "what" part, they agree to not say any word about this and hope for the best when Blake will find the courage to tell her team about herself.
"Come everyone, we have Professor Goodwitch's Combat class next." Weiss reminded everyone as she walks ahead a little faster.
"Yeah, I hope get to break someone's leg today!" Nora excited for combat training.
"Nora, it's learning how to improve our fighting styles and being prepared to fight against other people when there aren't any Grimm involve." Ren reminded his orange-haired childhood friend the purpose of the class.
"I'm a little worried that Professor Goodwitch will strict on you again." Jaune worried.
"Yeah, mostly everyone here are starting to call you the "Smiling Pacifist" for not really hurting your opponent." Yang mentioned the nickname.
"But Rushune has proven to be more skilled than most of us despite refusing to hurt anyone, she is able to find the opponent's weaknesses in midbattle and has a fast analyzing skill that she can think of possible anyway to end the battle." Pyrrha praised, thinking back on seeing Rushuna's fighting skills in action while sitting on the bleachers with everyone else. She even admits that Rushuna could be more skillful than her and wishes to see that for herself in battle.
"Which is also why being known as the Golden Smiling Warrior." Blake mentioned about another nickname for Rushuna.
"But that's different when it comes to fighting Grimm, you don't hold yourself back against them." Weiss pointed out another fact about Rushuna.
"Yes, for you see I was only taught to only fight the Grimm because they are soulless creatures that we all know. However, when it comes to people like humans and Faunus, I rather stripe them of their armor and hope to find reason to convince them to stop fighting." Rushuna explained.
"That's very foolish, do you really think you can make the whole world just give up fight like that?" Weiss asked. No matter how skilled you are at fighting Grimm, if you don't fight against other people then that would be a way of getting yourself killed for being a pacifist.
"Yes, seeing the Grimm and people fighting among themselves have taught that life is always harsh to everyone, but I won't give up my way because I'll always remember the ultimate battle strategy my Master Tenshi taught me years ago." Rushuna determined.
"And what battle strategy is that?" Weiss asked.
"To eliminate the opponent's willingness to fight without fighting!" Rushuna phrased the beautiful and strong words her master taught her back in her old world with her usual bright gentle smile.
"Huh, I know we've only known each other for a week but I can tell your 'willpower' to end another's willingness it best for you!" Yang joked, earning a groan from both teams except Rushuna who is laughing from the joke.
"My god, will you ever stop with the puns?" Weiss asked angry.
"I've been asking her that for years and she still hasn't stop." Ruby exclaimed.
"That's because my funny bone will learn stop giving me awesome puns!" Yang proclaimed proudly.
"I fail to see how you guys have not found her jokes funny." Rushuna said, claiming herself down from the laughing.
"Yeah, at least Rushuna gets my jokes better than you party poopers. You're all like a boring 'blooper'." Yang punned again and Rushuna laughs again.
(Combat Class)
Alright everyone, today I've decided to let one of you volunteer to fight and the one who wish to fight will also be allowed to choose his or her opponent. Each match will end when either fighters are knocked down or surrender." Glynda announced today's activity for class.
"I would like to go first." Pyrrha raised her hand.
"Very well, and who would you like to be your opponent?" Glynda asked.
Pyrrha look toward her team, one person in partially and look back to the blonde teacher.
"I chose Rushuna Tendo as my opponent." Pyrrha announced and everyone minus team JNPR and RWBY started whispering to each other.
"I did not expect to fight you class, at least not so soon." Rushuna surprised.
"When I saw the way, you fight during the initiation and during this class, I was amazed of how graceful and fierce you fought as the fight barely lasted two minutes. I want to see the full extent of your strength in both heart and soul for I wish to truly understand your ways because I too believe about fighting for peace without the need of violence." Pyrrha explained her reason and felt the excitement in her body screaming to fight her right now.
This surprises most of the students and began to wonder if Rushuna could even beat THE Pyrrha Nikos herself, the four time champion of the Mistral Tournament and known to be the Invincible Girl, they also recall seeing how Rushuna fights for the past week and some are starting to believe she may have a chance.
"Very well, Pyrrha Nikos, I accept your challenge." Rushuna smiled exciting to see how strong Pyrrha is when she is pushed to a corner.
Rushuna and Pyrrha stand at the center of the arena as everyone wait, even though the fight hasn't even started they're already on the edge of their sits.
"You both understand the rules, are you ready?" Glynda asked.
(Music-Is She with You: Wonder Woman Theme)
"Yes!" Pyrrha answered with her spear and shield out.
"Ready!" Rushuna answered as she holds her gun close to her face.
"…FIGHT!" Glynda shouted, starting the fight.
The first five seconds they did was standing still until Pyrrha makes the first move by charging at Rushuna using her shield up front to bash with, Rushuna quickly step aside to her right to let the charging Pyrrha pass but her eyes widen to see Pyrrha's spear change into its rifle mode probably did it during the charge behind the shield. She fires the shot that is close-rang at the blonde Huntress-in-training as she reacted faster to dodge the bullet by leaning backward and quickly lean herself back up to fire her own shot at the red hair though she quickly ducks down. Turning her body around about 45 degrees and twists her side to begin firing at Rushuna who jumps back while dodging the bullets and fired three shots that collided with three of Pyrrha's causing the bullets to slam into each other and break as the pieces hit some of the other bullets and she twists her body around like a ballerina to avoid the other ones.
"Wow, Pyrrha is really putting some pressure on Rushuna." Ruby commented.
"The only ones I seen who can push Rushuna like was my dad and a few Grimm, against Pyrrha may be her toughest challenge." Jaune stated.
Back to the fight, Pyrrha got up and ran toward her blonde teammate while firing a few more shots before changing her rifle mode into Xiphos mode to attack Rushuna at close combat as she jumps over to her with a down-swing slash, but Rushuna saw this and blocks it with her gun.
"I always wonder how tough your gun is to withstand attacks like this." Pyrrha said.
"Well, my gun could only withstand standard weapons like swords and a few bullets before I had it upgrade to increase its durability." Rushuna explained before she backflip-kick Pyrrha up a little and elbow strike in the stomach that pushes the red hair champion twelve feet away.
Pyrrha quickly recovered from the strike and threw her shield strong and fast like a disc to her opponent/teammate then ran around on one side, Rushuna see what Pyrrha is up to as she changes to rifle mode again and fires a few bullets at her. The Smiling Warrior responded by fire two bullets at the shield as the first bullet was about to fly over the Akouo and the second bullet is behind it though slightly going up hitting the upper edge of the bullet which force it to change it's course to go downward and hitting the shield to flip it sideway as it still continues to fly. Rushuna rush to the shield as Pyrrha still fire her shots and made behind the flying shield, she aims her revolver at the center with one bullet left.
"They say, "a good defense is a good offense"." Rushuna phrased an old saying.
She fires her last shot that send the shield flying toward Pyrrha much to her surprise and hold out her hand as it faintly glows black as the shield which also faintly glow black seem to slow down a little though nobody could tell, except Rushuna.
"(She slowed down the speed my bullet gave to the shield, could that be her semblance?)" Rushuna thought asked herself.
Using that moment of distraction Rushuna bounce her breasts up to bring out six new bullets and reload them in her revolver in one spin then fire two shots at Pyrrha as she blocks them with her shield. Which is what the blonde gunner is counting on as the bullets hit at the upper right to force it to the side leaving a little opening for her. She fires one bullet going for the stripes of the shield to take away her means of defense, but she saw the bullet glowing black like what happened with the shield earlier moving to the right a little as Pyrrha reflected them on the shield sideway.
"(I see, so that's how she did it.)" Rushuna thought smirked, figuring out Pyrrha's semblance.
"Amazing, now it's Pyrrha's turn to be put under pressure." Weiss amazed of how well Rushuna is doing against the Mistral Champion.
"She definitely has the skills that would make her a second or third-year." Ren pointed out.
"Well, she is a year older than me, so she could've gone to Beacon ahead, but she chose not to because we promised that we go to Beacon together." Jaune explained.
"Wow, you two must've really hit it off together!" Ruby said, both happy with him and Rushuna and a bit jealous at the same time.
"It makes me wonder how you two ended up together." Weiss said curious, making Jaune chuckles wondering if he should tell them their first meet.
Rushuna rush to Pyrrha to right-swing her gun like a small baton to the face then she felt the gun moving a little up as Pyrrha leans back, she leans a little backward to the right and hold her gun with both hands aiming at Pyrrha's overbust corset to stripe the red hair of her armor like she always does. Fire two bullets at the weak spots of the brown chest armor only for the bullets to move slight to the left as Pyrrha bend her side back letting the bullets to fly pass her and hit the wall instead. Then the ladies enter close-rang combat as Pyrrha swings her spear at Rushuna as she dodges and blocks some with her gun, she counters by grabbing the spear to pull Pyrrha closer for a swing-kick to the side and another to the head though Pyrrha leans back to dodge it.
Pyrrha smirks and pulls the trigger making that forces herself closer to Rushuna as they go forward a little, but Rushuna use the momenta to high-kick Pyrrha in the chin though at the same time Pyrrha let go of her spear to throw a strong punch across the face. They're a few feet apart as they pants a little.
(Music End)
"You have an impressive semblance, being able to control magnetism. That would make it Polarity." Rushuna revealed that she found out Pyrrha's semblance.
"I kinda figure you would know that better than anyone." Pyrrha complimented on Rushuna's bright mind, also knowing why Rushuna suddenly went on the offensive too to test her theory.
"Being able to control through the course of the battle must take a concentration and fast reaction to make it look like your semblance is superfast reflex to fool your opponents while displaying your own skills and strength as well. Now I can see why you're the four-reigning champion." Rushuna complimented back.
Pyrrha change her weapon into Javelin mode and thrust at Rushuna as she moves her head aside and rolls away a foot before jumping herself up with her hands getting a little further away. Pyrrha didn't want Rushuna to recover as she throws both her shield and javelin to each side then using her polarity semblance to make them clash with Rushuna in the middle, the blonde huntress manage to jump above them but could dodge the next one when Pyrrha spins the javelin to smack the shield up to hit the stomach. Pyrrha keep the javelin float to walk up and jump toward her opponent with a punch, Rushuna quickly blocks it but gets grabbed and Pyrrha pulls her closer for a knee-kick then threw her over herself to the ground. The impact on her back was hurt though Rushuna's aura protect her from the full impact.
"I wonder how you'll stripe me of my armor now." Pyrrha said as her spear and shield return to her.
"(Her polarity is gonna be hard to get through, but I think I might have a way.)" Rushuna thought of one plan.
Rushuna fire three shots at Pyrrha while running around, Pyrrha blocks each one and threw her Javelin mode with a gunfire shot from the bottom of the handle as an extra boost of speed toward the Tenshi warrior not taking her eyes off her. Rushuna quickly jump over the Javelin as sideway, while doing her instant reload technique, but Pyrrha saw that coming and use her semblance to shatter the bullets away while throwing her shield at her again. This time the shield hit her on the side while Rushuna was shock the bullets float away and roll on the ground as she is protected by her aura.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot let you reload anymore!" Pyrrha charged at Rushuna while retrieving her Javelin with her semblance.
"Don't worry, because I only need one shot." Rushuna smiled as she aims her gun at her and fired
(Music-Grenadier Opening Theme)
"(What? But I thought I stopped her from reloading.)" Pyrrha thought shocked.
As soon as the Javelin return to Pyrrha's hand, she quickly changes it to the short sword mode and about to slashes at the incoming bullet.
"You are strong but being too focus can be a problem." Rushuna said confusing the red hair girl.
By the time Pyrrha realize this is a trap it was already too late when her sword made contact with the bullet, closer look to show there's a small black lightning symbol on the side of the bullet, and it send a strong electric current throughout her whole body as she screams in pain. Even with aura protecting her, the shock was still strong enough to break through some.
"(It's a good thing I stored some of my dust bullets in my bag.)" Rushuna thought. At the moment when Rushuna tried to bring out bullets from her breasts, she secretly reaches her hand into her bag.
Rushuna rush to the stun Pyrrha seeing throwing her Javelin despite the pain, she caught the flying javelin and directed back at its owner to knock away the shield from Pyrrha's arm forcing her down on one knee as Rushuna appears and grabs her by the arm and judo throw her hard enough to shatter her aura then points her gun at the fallen red hair
(Music End)
"Well Pyrrha, it looks like I win." Rushuna giggled.
"Yep, you win, Rushuna Tendo. I admit defeat." Pyrrha exclaimed chuckling.
"The winner is… Rushuna Tendo!" Glynda announced.
Everyone became complete shock that someone has actually defeated Pyrrha Nikos who was known to be the undefeated champion, guess the world is better than they imagined, and then they started cheering for what a great battle it was.
Rushuna helps Pyrrha up as they smile at each other almost like they can read each other's mind as Pyrrha is thanking her for the fight and glad to be her friend as Rushuna feels the same way.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
This was a bit longer to write than I thought, but it was still worth it to write the fight between Rushuna and Pyrrha as we and everyone in the combat class got to see how these two would fight and it was amazing! Rushuna won the battle much to everyone's surprises and Pyrrha have grown more respect for her fifth teammate as a great friend and maybe something more with a certain feeling for a certain knight.
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