[jjb2158]

Watching as both sides prepared, Oberon took out his Scroll to take some notes down. Despite not being in his class anymore, this would be a chance for Savas to finally get his feet back into doing missions and, hopefully, finding a new team to be with. Suntalia, on the other hand, would be graded on her performance today and, depending how she does, would have her grade in his lecture affected by it. He had no doubt that she would do well, considering her experience and fighting capabilities. However, today she would be slightly out of her comfort zone in that she wouldn't be working with her teammates, but rather a friend. Seeing as how both sides looked ready, Oberon took another puff from his cigar and blew a couple smoke rings out. "Everyone ready? Very well, you may begin now" he yelled before continuing his observation.


Exhaling slowly, Savas calmed his mind and prepared himself for combat. He did not want to kill any of the first year students, but he also wanted to fulfill his objective. This is to educate the future so that they never face the horrors of watching their teammates die he thought, letting his mind wander over to Auburn as well as Vigdus. Opening his eyes as he watched each student get into a ready position, Savas pulled his necklace out and, kissing the ring that he was to give to Auburn, he hid it back under his armor before got into his ready position. "Actually, go and scatter them" he said quietly to his petite comrade. "I'll  follow behind and make sure none of them escape" he added, gripping both weapons in his hands as he went into his warriors stance that he learned back from home right as Oberon shouted that they may begin.


Hearing Savas change his plan a bit right before Obi shouted that they may begin, Suntalia smiled broadly. "Sending in a woman to do a man's job, eh?" she remarked, giving the giant a warm smile before laughing lightly. "Very well, I'll go, but I can use a boost" she said, cocking her head up to look inquiringly at Savas.


Taking the hint from Suntalia, Savas let out a soft chuckle before getting serious again. "Ngggrh...very well" he rumbled as the short girl proceeded to take a few steps forward. Using Metatron, he took a step forward, his arm raising Metatron to do a horizontal swing. Fully prepared, Suntalia jumped backwards straight on the head of Metatron as Savas swung it hard, hurling her straight towards the opponent.


Leaping as high as she could, Suntalia followed through by being hurled straight at Sherwood. Holding Firestorm in her left hand, she quickly drew Dynami with her right and proceeded by letting out four shots: two aimed at Sherwood, one at Noctis, and one at Persimmon as she quickly closed the distance between her and the others.


With Suntalia flying over at the others to distract them, Savas activated his semblance. As a deep crimson red aura slowly encompassed him, he continued to think through his options. For now, watching the first years take on Suntalia would allow him to gauge their fighting capabilities as well as if they would even survive an onslaught from the happy go lucky girl.

[willow_lark]

Sherwood shouts as he dives out of the way of the speeding upperclassman first, then twisting just enough to be only grazed by her two shots. When he felt forced back by the mere grazes, he wrote it off as impact when he had no contact with the ground. Thankfully, instinct took him towards the group, and not away from the party. Getting to his feet, now on the other side of ASPN, he sees Savas hasn't moved, but he only files that observation away for later.

Sherwood sets his feet and launches two arrows towards the upperclassman. Even without increasing the weight of the draw the arrows should still give her pause, given they're solid steel alloy.

"Noctis, go for it!" Sherwood says with urgency. Something in the back of his mind tells him they're flanked, but he can't be pressed for a plan with Suntalia so close. He shrugs it off and take a half second to aim instead, hoping for at least one hit.

[MissyMidna]

Noctis is a bit taken back by Suntalia's sudden aggressiveness, but nothing that would stun him from dodging the girl's bullets. His hand gripped Divine feeling the slight crack from the previous fight. He didn't really have time to dwell on how to fix it since his leader was urging him to go and keep Suntalia distracted.

"Let's go Foxy!" Noctis called after he drew his sword and began to go after the short upperclassmen.

Once near Suntalia Noctis gave a bit of a mocking yet gentlemen gesture. With his right arm, he draped it across his chest and bowed slightly as a sight of respect. He was fighting a lady, and she was far more skilled than he so might as well show the respect for her right?

"Hey there," Noctis smiled. "I'm ready for you to kick my ass."

[Flooberoid]

Persimmon was, simply put, troubled by the speed and efficiency at which Suntalia moved towards Sherwood. Her speed was impressive, and the quick communication between her and the quiet titan was surprising. While observing this, Persimmon almost forgot to dodge her bullet; it grazed by his ear and left a ringing noise behind. To track a target like this, Persimmon was going to need a good position. He was going to need to narrow the arc of her movement across his field of view... in other words, he would need distance.

He glanced over at Argent, remembering the first round, the instructions he had ignored, and the stunt his opponents had pulled. This wasn't going to be fun.

Sprinting towards Argent, Persimmon yelled, "Hey, hammer boy! I need vantage, now! You know what to do!" He pointed up at an angle towards one of the pillars as he ran.

[CptSteel]

"I..sadly do know what to do." With a sigh, Argent lowered his hammer and prepared to send the sniper flying. He began to lift his hammer up with great force, hoping that Persimmon could reach his destination safely enough, as the elephant faunus began to make his way over to Savas, as Argent wasn't occupied with the small warrior or her bullets. If he could hold Savas off his team might be able to get past Suntalia and make it to the exit together.

When he got behind Suntalia at a safe distance, he would prepare to face the hulking faunus, but he would have to be real lucky if he were to stand a decent chance against Savas.

Argent was surprised that he was not met with a bullet from Suntalia, though he guessed it was her wanting Savas to fight Argent. Suddenly, he had a worse feeling about this whole thing; and he hadn't even made it past Suntalia, yet.

[jjb2158]

Closing the distance quickly, Suntalia came to a halt only a few paces away from the group and quickly used her spear to swat one of Sherwood's arrows away while dodging the second. Looking over, she caught Noctis' attention as he bowed to her and made his quirky comment. Beaming a big smile at her opponent, she pointed Firestorm at him with her reply. "Hi!" she said cheerfully as she pressed the button on Firestorm, sending a large wave of flames directly at Noctis. Following through with it, she simply aimed Dynami at Noctis and fired two more shots at him, using the flames as a distraction.


Using Suntalia as a distraction, Savas was able to finish his charge. Glowing a deep crimson, he let out a huge roar as his semblance activated and his aura flared up around him. Watching Argent walk towards him, Savas grinned wickedly at the faunus. The poor lad won't even know what hit him he thought, feeling himself come to life as his semblance surged. Gripping Metatron in his hand, he slammed it full force onto the Arena ground, causing the ground around to crack and break as well as the entire Arena to shake as if an earthquake had struck. Letting out another roar, he lunged full force at Argent with an upward swing from Metatron.

[willow_lark]

Sherwood nods as the pairs split up. This wouldn't work if he and Persimmon got knocked out at the start by the melee capable upperclassmen, leaving Argent and Noctis alone to fight. Staying roughly behind Noctis, Sherwood trusts his teammates to warn him if Savas is approaching behind him and focuses entirely on the girl he's to face.

Sherwood sets up and draws the psuedo string back, watching Noctis and Suntalia with narrowed eyes. As soon as Suntalia tries to get around Noctis, or over him, he'd fire an arrow to force her back to the melee. He can cow her in by leading the shot in the direction she decides to dive around in; preventing her from dodging forward in that direction. She'd have to take the full force of the arrow or retreat back into Noctis's reach.

A few thoughts nag at Sherwood's mind, tactical information that seems to need attention. He doesn't dare divide his attention from covering Noctis in combat though; not until he has a better idea of Suntalia's combat skills or he gets more distance on her.

[MissyMidna]

"Trying to set my on fire already?" He teased jumping out of the way of the flame.

Escaping the flame was easy, but the bullets afterward wasn't that easy. Noctis blocked one with divine and the second made a hole his white hoodie. Well now I need to fix that, he tells himself. He needed to pay closer attention to Suntalia's movements, if he doesn't he could cost the team to fail. Noctis drew out his silver gun. Whatever dust he had it it would just need be used since he would not have time to switch clips out. His finger began to spam the tiger making note to shoot at the third year's feet since his flame dust exploded upon impact.

Once the gun let off the clicking sound of an empty magazine Noctis sprinted forward to Suntalia to attack her head on with Divine. This by far was a really bad idea, but he just needed to kill time.

[Flooberoid]

Persimmon braced himself just before being launched, and took off into the air as gracefully as a douchey teenage boy in a full body cloak can be expected to do. I sure have been in the air a lot lately... What am I, a circus act? he mused for the few seconds he was in the air. The force of a few impact shots fine-tuned his trajectory (though the shots themselves went nowhere useful) and he was soon atop the northeastern pillar, an excellent vantage point to see how fucked his teammates were.

Persimmon didn't know or want to know what Savas was doing. He came up here to deal with Suntalia more easily and that was what he would do. A series of light, silenced piercing shots came in turn with Noctis' gunshots, hoping at least a few of the shots from one of the boys would connect, until Noctis got bored and dashed forward. What a guy.

[CptSteel]

"Oh my---" Argent exclaims as the large faunus began his assualt. As soon as he saw the large warrior's aura flare, Argent began to prepare to swing his hammer, without using his Semblance. When Argent saw that Savas was lunging his strategy of hitting him went away, and Argent just tried to lessen the damage he would take from the blow he would surely not dodge.

The blow hit Argent hard in his side, and the faunus got knocked quite a few feet back, struggling to keep on his feet. His weapon immediately transformed, as Argent point the hand-cannon at the hulking faunus, not sure of the damage that had been done to him. He knew that he was probably low on dust, but Argent fired gravity dust, hoping it would throw the faunus off enough to give Argent a second to think of a plan.

His arm flew back, tired, as he pulled the trigger. 

[jjb2158]

Landing a clean blow on Argent, Savas quickly glanced over at Suntalia. "Stop fooling around!" he yelled at his comrade before proceeding to charge towards the other faunus. Watching as Argent transformed his weapon and fire a round at him, Savas raised Sandalphon to help block the shot, though was temporarily halted in his advance. "Ngggrh....not bad kid" he said as he lunged forward, holding Metatron behind him in a lowered stance. Once within range of Argent, Savas swung another upward swing. "This is how you hit someone!" he roared, putting every single ounce of his semblance enhanced strength into his swing at the boy.


Sliding Dynami back into its holster, Suntalia deftly dodged Noctis' shots by jumping backwards a few paces, only to take a shot to her side, her aura protecting her from any serious damage. Looking over and taking note of Persimmon on top of the pillar, Suntalia was slightly startled by Savas yelling at her. Play time is over, I guess she thought as she gave both Noctis and Persimmon a smile. Activating her semblance, she twisted Firestorm, causing it to come apart into two pieces, though attached by a chain. Continuing her steps backward, she watched as Noctis charged forward towards her. Pointing one spearhead towards the sky, she activated the lightning crystal in it as it was struck due to her semblance, while pointing the other straight at Noctis when he was only a pace or two away from her. Activating the fire crystal again, she sent a massive wave of lightning and fire directly at Noctis.

[willow_lark]

Sherwood winced as Suntalia shot fire at Noctis. At the very least, she seemed to be focused on him. Persimmon had setup to cover Noctis as well so the next thing would be to see how Argent is doing. Dropping his readied arrow, he spins to see Savas about to slam his teammate with that massive weapon of his.

Sherwood shoots out a snap shot arrow at Savas, with any luck it will distract Savas enough to give Argent time to dodge. Nocking another arrow he waits for Argent to get a bit of space from Savas before shooting again. 

[MissyMidna]

"Oh Fu-" Noctis began to say as he saw the flame and lightning coming straight for him.

If he didn't move he was going to have a hell of a burn mark, so he opted to just running around. Maybe playing cat and mouse with Suntailia was his best bet. He knew for a fact that eventually Suntalia would get frustrated with Noctis dodging and moving around. Noctis was trying his best to stay on his toes, but a little voice in the back of his skull was telling him to check up on Argent. He glanced over for a moment to the Faunus then back to the loli.

"Hey hey, missed me little lady," Noctis teased moving out of the lighting and flame. "I know you can do better then that!"

Noctis was digging his own grave.

[Flooberoid]

Persimmon rolled his eyes at Noctis and his blatant lack of any self-preservation instinct. Whatever Suntalia was doing with those, it couldn't be good for his teammate. Loading one of his four remaining ice shots, he took a shot at the ground in front of Suntalia right before Noctis could reach her. Not a moment too soon, either, as the resulting ice could only delay that deadly torrent of firepower for a fraction of a second, long enough for Noctis to move aside.

"Hey snowy, there's a time and a place for taunting. Maybe I'll give you lessons sometime, but for now just try not to die, eh?"

[CptSteel]

Argent tried his best to dodge the attack done by Savas, trying to get away whilst Sherwood attacked Savas himself, though the enemy's Semblance was proved to be much faster and stronger than Argent. After a large sidestep to the left, the faunus felt the hammer's head connect to his left arm. There was a sharp pain as Argent jolted his arm away as fast as he could, letting out a shout and stumbling away. "Sherwood, now, take the shot..!" Argent gasped, looking toward his leader with a smile, despite his pain. He really hoped Sherwood could distract Savas before the hulk could finish him off.

Argent continued to walk away from Savas, his weapon shifting in his right arm. He knew that if he had to, he could use his Semblance to get a decent amount of force into his shot; even with only one arm.