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"Ooh, ooh p-" Nora Valkyrie's words were cut off as Lie Ren leapt across the room, with more energy than Weiss ever thought he might have, to clamp his hand over his partner's mouth.

"Team Raven, thank you for volunteering," Glynda nodded as she gestured for the four teens to come up onto the stage. Nora cheered, even as the other three gave her baleful looks. Weiss was just thankful it wasn't them.

"Who are we supposed to cheer for?" Ruby asked from nearby, looking torn between her favourite Professor, and their new friends.

"Whoever keeps us from facing him next," Blake deadpanned, right as the bout started and the four teens charged the Professor. "Maybe Miss Goodwitch."

"I'd err on the side of complete silence," Weiss replied as she winced at the action happening on the stage, "that way she might not notice us."

Because frankly, Weiss Schnee did not want to be in the position Pyrrha Nikos was in right now, which was to say being strangled by her own spear – the shaft of which was locked around her neck. The Professor even turned her into the fire from Ren, using the championship fighter as a human shield to block the aura-infused bullets.

The fight never got any less one-sided from there…