Relic of the Future: Chapter 142

Raven roared and flung herself forward. This time, she was prepared, swaying and ducking under a one-two and pulling across Jaune's body, driving her knee into his ribs. Before he could recover, she slapped both hands up to prevent him attacking her, then drove both fists into his stomach.

Having the air blown out of you would have staggered most people. Jaune brought his elbows down on her shoulders, driving them into her muscles to deaden them. Face scrunched up in pain, he tried to grapple and throw her – to use his height and weight against her – but Raven brought a knee up between his legs and her head up under his chin.

"Arghhh!" Jaune cried, and Cinder didn't know which hurt him more.

[...]

Raven's fist buried itself in his neck. Jaune choked and gasped for air. His fingers entwined in her hair and yanked her head back so hard he was giving her an amateur facelift. In answer, her fingernails scraped across his face, carving red lines down it and forcing him to let go.

[...]

Their fists met. Cinder had seen movies and shows where that would cause a shockwave as fist met fist, but here it brought agonised sounds from them both as bone and cartilage crunched together. They retracted their hands as one, faces pinched.

[...]

The crowd cheered as Raven tackled Jaune down, this time sitting on his stomach as she punched him once, twice, three and four times. Her fists worked like pistons. Up, down, up, down, up, down – grabbed, twisted. A yelp of pain and Raven rolling off to avoid her arm being pulled out its socket.

[...]

Summer was already waiting at the bottom of Ozpin's elevator and caught him with bruises across his face, dried blood beneath his nose and looking like he'd been dragged through a park attached to the back of a motorbike.

"Jaune!" she gasped. "What happened? Your face? I heard about Winter, how are you? Please tell me if you need anything-"

"I'm okay for now," he said tiredly, exhaustion setting in. "Is Ozpin available?"

"He's waiting upstairs for you. What happened? Who did this?"

"Raven."

—Relic of the Future: Chapter 142