The Child of Grimm

Chapter 11: Treason and Plot

(Opening Theme: When It Falls Ft. Casey Lee Williams)

"It looks like our next match will be Penny Polendina from Atlas vs Pyrrha Nikos of Beacon!"

Pyrrha and Penny both stood on the opposite sides of the stage, prepared to face each other in this one on one match. Penny looked excited to be there; almost jumping for joy. While Pyrrha on the other hand seemed to have her mind on something else.

"Salutations Pyrrha Nikos!" Penny greeted, her usual smile plastered on her face, "It's an honor to finally meet you!"

Pyrrha had said nothing to her; her mind still on something else entirely; Her head was feeling a bit fuzzy. As she looked at her hands. She could've sworn that her vision had blurred for only but a second.

"This is going to be so much fun!" Penny said, still excited to be there.

Cristal stood on the other side of stadium, just below where the stage was and underneath where Emerald had sat. "Something doesn't feel right about this." Cristal said to herself, "Why pair Pyrrha up with a girl like her? Do they know something that others don't?" She looked to Emerald, seeing her eyes focused on Pyrrha in particular.

Cristal couldn't but glare at her, "What the hell are you up too?"

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Ruby couldn't believe who was standing in front of her right now. Mercury. Mercury Black. How was he even standing on his own two feet? He was injured for God's sake! He shouldn't be able to walk!

"Mercury?" Ruby said, "What are you doing here? You were hurt! They said you were in Haven! Why--!?"

Ruby turned to the door that he came out of, and saw that it was the hall that lead to the computer room. The very same place that Pyrrha had found Destiny in just yesterday. She eyed at him suspiciously.

"What were you doing in there?" Ruby asked him, almost demanding for an answer, "Did you do something?"

Mercury didn't answer her; all he did was stand there in silence with a smirk on his face. Ruby glared, "Fine. If you're not going to tell me than--"

Ruby stopped in mid-sentence; when she tried to walk away, Mercury blocked her path. It didn't matter if she had changed direction on where she walked, Mercury just kept on moving to where she was. Ruby bit her bottom lip, not sure how to get out of this exactly. She knew without her weapon, she couldn't fend herself if Mercury attacked. She could just use her semblance to get out, but she didn't know if she could since she saw how he fought.

They announcer just outside, "Fighters! Are you ready to begin?"

Ruby had a worried look on her face, "I've gotta get out of here!" Ruby thought, "I've gotta stop that fight! I've gotta save Penny!"

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Both Penny and Pyrrha stood in their fighting stance prepared to face one other in combat

Port began to countdown, "3... 2... 1... BEGIN!"

Penny had made her first move. All of her swords came out from her bag and with a simple movement, the swords circled and she had sent them flying in Pyrrha's direction. Pyrrha and jumped through the gap of the swords, blocking with her shield. Her feet landed on the ground and ran towards Penny.

Despite this however the swords turned and flew back towards Pyrrha.

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