The Grimm Huntress

Never Miss a Beat

"Well, now it's our turn!" Yang exclaimed, stretching her arms.

She and Eclipse stood in the center of the field waiting for the fight to start.

"Yep. Woo." Eclipse replied tiredly. She yawned as shadows danced around her fingertips, an extension of her Semblance.

"What's got you so exhausted? Been out on the town again?" Yang wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"Dreams, nightmares, memories. Y'know the usual." Eclipse shrugged.

"Hmm. So you lived in Atlas before right?" Eclipse nodded shortly. "What should we expect?"

"It depends."

"On what?"

"Look at it this way. Me and Weiss are both from Atlas, however we act, dress, and fight much differently." Eclipse explained. "She's more disciplined whereas I tend to just go with the flow and make up strategies based on the circumstances. We can't assume or lose our heads in this fight."

"Got it." Yang grinned.

At that very moment, a rainbow zoomed past the two slightly surprised Huntresses-in-training, coming to a stop opposite them, revealing a pigtailed Faunus girl with roller blades and a cat tail swishing around her weapon next to a young man wearing a fedora and sunglasses, holding a trumpet in one hand.

"Well this just got a lot more interesting." Eclipse commented. "And here I was thinking I was the only noteworthy person from Atlas."

"Excuse me?!" They heard Weiss yell.

"Sorry to break it to you. Tooru-Sai right?" Flynt asked rhetorically.

"That's me. Do you know one of my exes or something?" Eclipse joked.

Flynt pointed to her black ring. "I've seen that ring before but never met you. Weird, huh?"

"Yeah," Eclipse agreed after a small pause.

"Uh..." Yang muttered, not sure how to react.

"Hey! Where'd you get your hair extensions?" Neon asked.

"This is just my normal hair."

"Ooh, really?"

"Yeah! Is that a prob-" Yang was annoyed.

"You should try rollerblading sometime! It's super fun!" Neon cut her off and started spinning in place as she continued rapidly. "It'd probably take you a while, though, since you're so... you know, top-heavy."

Yang looked down at herself as the holographic roulette began. "Excuse me!?"

"Oh, here we go." Ruby rolled her eyes.

"I'm surprised Eclipse didn't say anything."

The field opened around the four combatants, and up rose the volcanic area, sandy desert, steaming geysers, and ruined buildings.

"Three! Two! One! Begin!"

Right as it started, Flynt raised the instrument to his lips and blew, issuing forth a sound wave that blew both Eclipse and Yang back from the force. Eclipse was able to quickly summon a shadowed Ursa which kept her in place, but didn't see Neon spinning into the attack and using it to push herself forward so she could charge at Yang in a rainbow burst of speed and push her into the city portion.

Flynt stopped blowing for a second giving Eclipse a chance to dismiss the Ursa and quickly check on Yang who was quickly losing her temper.

"I said 'we cant assume or lose our heads in this fight', she said 'got it' but she's literally ignoring everything I said and going batshit. Not like I give a damn." Eclipse huffed and promptly stepped back into the shadows.