Hey Pyrrha!? you good to go?" Herald shouted across the training field. After gearing up for 4 days and settling into Beacon Herald had finally made good on his promise to show off his Abilities with his aura. After making the final chart of who went when, they set up a mini tournament field in a monitored section of Forever Fall near Beacon and went about training and sparring. Pyrrha grabbed her weapon and got into a ready stance. Herald did the same and the tendrils began spreading from his back and over his arms.
"Listen, Herald, I won't go easy on you. I'll only force myself to stop if it becomes clear I'm going to kill you." Pyrrha jokingly shouted to Herald.
"Ha. That's what I'm hoping for! I will hope you actually have good enough luck to get that far though." Herald charged first and the tendrils around his arms hardened. He struck with his right hand/claw first, Pyrrha blocking it with her shield before slashing in four quick motions with her weapon, which was then in the double blade form. Each swipe was parried by Herald's left hand/claw and then pushed back. Herald jumped backwards when Pyrrha threw her Shield towards him and in a quick decision he flung a tendril at it and caught it like a Frisbee. In a split second her threw it back towards her but had copied it moments before so two of them, one real and one made of Aura, flew at Pyrrha. As this session was going on the rest of Team JNPR could only look on in amazement. They had all been interested in Herald's ability but now they were stunned to see it's power.
Pyrrha caught her shield and used it to destroy the aura duplicate before changing her weapon into it's carbine form and taking shots at Herald.
"Only cowards kill from a distance, Pyrrha!" Herald shouted over the sound of bullets ricocheting against his shield of aura. Pyrrha smirked at his comment knowing he wasn't truly calling her a coward and changed her weapon into it's javelin form and hurled it towards Herald. Herald dodged it and it stuck into the ground next to him. He grabbed it and employed the same tactic of throwing both the real and the copy version at Pyrrha. Pyrrha dodged both of them and Herald and Pyrrha both went head first towards each other. Herald's Aura sword ended against Pyrrha's neck and Pyrrha's weapon was pointed at the jugular of Herald's.
"Well it's a tie then." Pyrrha moved away from Herald and smiled.
"Yes it...ugh" Herald slumped a little and then dropped on one knee. "Just, Jaune, come here a bit." Jaune walked over to Herald and he placed a hand on his arm. Jaune started looking tired and then stumbled back and sat down. Herald got up and shook off some dirt from his pants before helping Jaune to his feet.. "Sorry. I needed to recharge, and you have a lot of Aura so you were a better source. You alright?”
"Nah, I'm good." Jaune said "Just let me go last in our sparring."
"Alright then. Ren? you good to go?" Herald looked over to him to see him pulling Nora off of him.
"Yeah. let's go." Ren got up and took his stance on the opposite side of the field.
"Alright, no weapons this time, just Aura and our own Martial Arts." Herald Said taking his own stance. Nora somehow found a large metal object and swung her hammer at it making a gong noise. Herald and Ren started strong with both of them trading blows equally and blocking successfully. Herald swung low and hit Ren in his stomach while Ren punched straight and smacked Herald's forehead. The two continued smashing each other with punches and kicks and before each of them knew it they were both running low on aura. Nora began cheering enthusiastically for Ren to win and Pyrrha and Jaune sat by eating the lunches they packed.
Ren suddenly jumped over Herald and tried to land a hit from above but Herald jumped to meet him and they fought in the air. Herald dodged over Ren’s kick before catching the leg and throwing him higher. While falling back down Ren seemed to push himself and readied a fist to attack. Herald brought his own punch to meet Ren and they collided. Continuously trading kicks and punches seemed to keep them floating in the air before Herald kicked down Ren and landed near him. As both were getting up to fight again they both became light headed and fell on one knee from the exhaustion. Herald got a slight advantage by getting up and knocking Ren over.
"And I believe I win." Herald said laughing. He helped Ren up and while grabbing his wrist copied down the weapons he hides in his sleeves. "I see you kept your weapons on you."
"Didn't feel right leaving them when you always have yours on you." Ren smiled and returned to the area where everyone else was.
"Fair enough. Jaune, are you ready or do you need a minute?" Herald looked over to see Jaune already making his way to the field.
"I'm ready to go. We’re going to have a good old fashioned sword fight?" Jaune questioned pointing around with his sword to emphasize his point.
"Yup. let's go." Herald formed his Aura copy of Jaune's sword and took a defensive stance. Jaune charged forward and swung rapidly at Herald and Herald brought up the shield to defend. He pushed the shield up before swinging outward and slashed at Jaune causing him to stumble back. Jaune went to do a downward strike and Herald blocked it with the sword.
"Jaune, stop attacking. Try to stabilize your defense so that you can attack properly!" Herald shouted and broke through Jaunes weak defense. Herald parried Jaune's stabbing strike and swung the sword around, knocking it from Jaune's hand and then point his sword at his neck.
"This battle, if you want to call it that, was short, blunt, and one sided. You have no defense so your offense suffers as well. I can't really tell why you're in Beacon but unfortunately it isn't from your combat abilities. Don't get me wrong, you're good with strategy and non combat positions but how can you wield a sword if you can't strike correctly." Herald didn't help Jaune up and just walked back to the rest of team JNPR. Jaune seemed extremely upset but just sat down near Pyrrha and continued to eat. The rest of Team JNPR simply watched the two, unsure of what to make of Herald’s sudden change of tone.
"I told you, stop going for a blind attack. you need to focus on defense. Nora? let's go." Herald collected himself and motioned to Nora and she skipped over to her side of the field. "Remember Nora, no unfair horseplay!" Herald took his ready stance.
"Tee hee, Alright Herald. I'll play nice" Nora pulled out her grenade launcher and began firing at Herald. Herald dodged and rolled out of every shot and used a tendril to grab a grenade and lobbed it back to Nora but she jumped over it. Nora's launcher turned into its hammer form and she slammed down next to Herald, you jumped away from the impact. Herald started to spread his tendrils outward towards Nora to hold her hammer at bay and began forming crystal like spears around his body.
"Only cowards kill from a distance Herald!" Pyrrha yelled sarcastically. Herald smirked and ran forward towards Nora and crashed the crystal pieces into her. Nora flew back and slid to a stop by the edge of the forest. She smirked happily and rocketed off of her hammer towards Herald landing a blow to his torso and sending him into the air. Aura wrapped around his body like armor as he flew through the air. Herald brought himself back towards the ground with incredible speed and, just before landing, slid around nora and kicked her in her back. As Nora recovered Herald dashed forward and grabbed onto her hammer to lock them into a stalemate.
"You know Nora, this is a pretty impressive weapon." Herald laughed and pushed harder against Nora's hammer.
"Thanks Herald, I happen to think your Aura abilities are cool as well." Nora giggled and moved to press the trigger on the handle. Herald's Aura started wrapping around Nora's hammer and created a full copy right before Nora used the propulsion of her shot to swing the hammer at Herald and backed off.
"This is it!" Herald screamed. Nora and Herald both ran at each other and swung their hammers at the same time colliding with each other to create a large crater filled with dust. The rest of JNPR began hacking and wheezing while the dust enveloped them and tried to see who the winner of the fight was. The dust began to settle and Ren looked over the side of the crater and saw Nora and Herald both completely knocked out lying in the bottom of the crater.
"Heh, looks like they went a bit overboard." Pyrrha laughed a little as she, Jaune and Ren climbed down to help pull them out of the crater. They shook them awake gently before getting them to sit properly at the small picnic area everyone prepared.
"Well I'd say today was a very eventful and informative day." Herald said to everyone. "I personally feel like treating you all to some dinner to help you guys out so who's ready to go where?"
"Oh! Oh! Ren and I know this great place downtown that has so many good menu options!" Nora exclaimed happily. Ren sighed knowingly and Herald beamed with pleasure.
"Well then, I'd say we try it out." Herald said and began packing the few things they brought. Once in downtown Nora led them to the restaurant where they ate happily and chatted about how Beacon had been for them all. The topics over their dinners ranged from tactical, battle oriented speaking with Pyrrha, normal conversations between Herald and Jaune, Nora's over exaggeration and Herald playing along, and simple, mellow talk between Herald and Ren. As the night descended everyone walked back to Beacon and JNPR went back to their room.
*RING RING* *RING RING*
Herald picked his cell phone from his pocket and noticed whose name appeared on the caller ID. When he saw he quickly answered it.
"Hello? ....Yes.....Yes I know.....Olivia don't worry I-.....No Olivia it's fine....What? You're not joking are you? ....She actually talked with you? .....Alright, I'll be sure to remember....It's going to b
Hey Pyrrha!? you good to go?" Herald shouted across the training field. After gearing up for 4 days and settling into Beacon Herald had finally made good on his promise to show off his Abilities with his aura. After making the final chart of who went when, they set up a mini tournament field in a monitored section of Forever Fall near Beacon and went about training and sparring. Pyrrha grabbed her weapon and got into a ready stance. Herald did the same and the tendrils began spreading from his back and over his arms.
"Listen, Herald, I won't go easy on you. I'll only force myself to stop if it becomes clear I'm going to kill you." Pyrrha jokingly shouted to Herald.
"Ha. That's what I'm hoping for! I will hope you actually have good enough luck to get that far though." Herald charged first and the tendrils around his arms hardened. He struck with his right hand/claw first, Pyrrha blocking it with her shield before slashing in four quick motions with her weapon, which was then in the double blade form. Each swipe was parried by Herald's left hand/claw and then pushed back. Herald jumped backwards when Pyrrha threw her Shield towards him and in a quick decision he flung a tendril at it and caught it like a Frisbee. In a split second her threw it back towards her but had copied it moments before so two of them, one real and one made of Aura, flew at Pyrrha. As this session was going on the rest of Team JNPR could only look on in amazement. They had all been interested in Herald's ability but now they were stunned to see it's power.
Pyrrha caught her shield and used it to destroy the aura duplicate before changing her weapon into it's carbine form and taking shots at Herald.
"Only cowards kill from a distance, Pyrrha!" Herald shouted over the sound of bullets ricocheting against his shield of aura. Pyrrha smirked at his comment knowing he wasn't truly calling her a coward and changed her weapon into it's javelin form and hurled it towards Herald. Herald dodged it and it stuck into the ground next to him. He grabbed it and employed the same tactic of throwing both the real and the copy version at Pyrrha. Pyrrha dodged both of them and Herald and Pyrrha both went head first towards each other. Herald's Aura sword ended against Pyrrha's neck and Pyrrha's weapon was pointed at the jugular of Herald's.
"Well it's a tie then." Pyrrha moved away from Herald and smiled.
"Yes it...ugh" Herald slumped a little and then dropped on one knee. "Just, Jaune, come here a bit." Jaune walked over to Herald and he placed a hand on his arm. Jaune started looking tired and then stumbled back and sat down. Herald got up and shook off some dirt from his pants before helping Jaune to his feet.. "Sorry. I needed to recharge, and you have a lot of Aura so you were a better source. You alright?”
"Nah, I'm good." Jaune said "Just let me go last in our sparring."
"Alright then. Ren? you good to go?" Herald looked over to him to see him pulling Nora off of him.
"Yeah. let's go." Ren got up and took his stance on the opposite side of the field.
"Alright, no weapons this time, just Aura and our own Martial Arts." Herald Said taking his own stance. Nora somehow found a large metal object and swung her hammer at it making a gong noise. Herald and Ren started strong with both of them trading blows equally and blocking successfully. Herald swung low and hit Ren in his stomach while Ren punched straight and smacked Herald's forehead. The two continued smashing each other with punches and kicks and before each of them knew it they were both running low on aura. Nora began cheering enthusiastically for Ren to win and Pyrrha and Jaune sat by eating the lunches they packed.
Ren suddenly jumped over Herald and tried to land a hit from above but Herald jumped to meet him and they fought in the air. Herald dodged over Ren’s kick before catching the leg and throwing him higher. While falling back down Ren seemed to push himself and readied a fist to attack. Herald brought his own punch to meet Ren and they collided. Continuously trading kicks and punches seemed to keep them floating in the air before Herald kicked down Ren and landed near him. As both were getting up to fight again they both became light headed and fell on one knee from the exhaustion. Herald got a slight advantage by getting up and knocking Ren over.
"And I believe I win." Herald said laughing. He helped Ren up and while grabbing his wrist copied down the weapons he hides in his sleeves. "I see you kept your weapons on you."
"Didn't feel right leaving them when you always have yours on you." Ren smiled and returned to the area where everyone else was.
"Fair enough. Jaune, are you ready or do you need a minute?" Herald looked over to see Jaune already making his way to the field.
"I'm ready to go. We’re going to have a good old fashioned sword fight?" Jaune questioned pointing around with his sword to emphasize his point.
"Yup. let's go." Herald formed his Aura copy of Jaune's sword and took a defensive stance. Jaune charged forward and swung rapidly at Herald and Herald brought up the shield to defend. He pushed the shield up before swinging outward and slashed at Jaune causing him to stumble back. Jaune went to do a downward strike and Herald blocked it with the sword.
"Jaune, stop attacking. Try to stabilize your defense so that you can attack properly!" Herald shouted and broke through Jaunes weak defense. Herald parried Jaune's stabbing strike and swung the sword around, knocking it from Jaune's hand and then point his sword at his neck.
"This battle, if you want to call it that, was short, blunt, and one sided. You have no defense so your offense suffers as well. I can't really tell why you're in Beacon but unfortunately it isn't from your combat abilities. Don't get me wrong, you're good with strategy and non combat positions but how can you wield a sword if you can't strike correctly." Herald didn't help Jaune up and just walked back to the rest of team JNPR. Jaune seemed extremely upset but just sat down near Pyrrha and continued to eat. The rest of Team JNPR simply watched the two, unsure of what to make of Herald’s sudden change of tone.
"I told you, stop going for a blind attack. you need to focus on defense. Nora? let's go." Herald collected himself and motioned to Nora and she skipped over to her side of the field. "Remember Nora, no unfair horseplay!" Herald took his ready stance.
"Tee hee, Alright Herald. I'll play nice" Nora pulled out her grenade launcher and began firing at Herald. Herald dodged and rolled out of every shot and used a tendril to grab a grenade and lobbed it back to Nora but she jumped over it. Nora's launcher turned into its hammer form and she slammed down next to Herald, you jumped away from the impact. Herald started to spread his tendrils outward towards Nora to hold her hammer at bay and began forming crystal like spears around his body.
"Only cowards kill from a distance Herald!" Pyrrha yelled sarcastically. Herald smirked and ran forward towards Nora and crashed the crystal pieces into her. Nora flew back and slid to a stop by the edge of the forest. She smirked happily and rocketed off of her hammer towards Herald landing a blow to his torso and sending him into the air. Aura wrapped around his body like armor as he flew through the air. Herald brought himself back towards the ground with incredible speed and, just before landing, slid around nora and kicked her in her back. As Nora recovered Herald dashed forward and grabbed onto her hammer to lock them into a stalemate.
"You know Nora, this is a pretty impressive weapon." Herald laughed and pushed harder against Nora's hammer.
"Thanks Herald, I happen to think your Aura abilities are cool as well." Nora giggled and moved to press the trigger on the handle. Herald's Aura started wrapping around Nora's hammer and created a full copy right before Nora used the propulsion of her shot to swing the hammer at Herald and backed off.
"This is it!" Herald screamed. Nora and Herald both ran at each other and swung their hammers at the same time colliding with each other to create a large crater filled with dust. The rest of JNPR began hacking and wheezing while the dust enveloped them and tried to see who the winner of the fight was. The dust began to settle and Ren looked over the side of the crater and saw Nora and Herald both completely knocked out lying in the bottom of the crater.
"Heh, looks like they went a bit overboard." Pyrrha laughed a little as she, Jaune and Ren climbed down to help pull them out of the crater. They shook them awake gently before getting them to sit properly at the small picnic area everyone prepared.
"Well I'd say today was a very eventful and informative day." Herald said to everyone. "I personally feel like treating you all to some dinner to help you guys out so who's ready to go where?"
"Oh! Oh! Ren and I know this great place downtown that has so many good menu options!" Nora exclaimed happily. Ren sighed knowingly and Herald beamed with pleasure.
"Well then, I'd say we try it out." Herald said and began packing the few things they brought. Once in downtown Nora led them to the restaurant where they ate happily and chatted about how Beacon had been for them all. The topics over their dinners ranged from tactical, battle oriented speaking with Pyrrha, normal conversations between Herald and Jaune, Nora's over exaggeration and Herald playing along, and simple, mellow talk between Herald and Ren. As the night descended everyone walked back to Beacon and JNPR went back to their room.
*RING RING* *RING RING*
Herald picked his cell phone from his pocket and noticed whose name appeared on the caller ID. When he saw he quickly answered it.
"Hello? ....Yes.....Yes I know.....Olivia don't worry I-.....No Olivia it's fine....What? You're not joking are you? ....She actually talked with you? .....Alright, I'll be sure to remember....It's going to b
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