Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-739167-20150113031641/@comment-25464065-20150113041827

On an average school day, Elise was usually the third or fourth person in Team GREN to get up. Usually after Glaukos and Rosa, but before or tied with Chartreuse. Today, however, she found herself waking up much later - late enough that the room was completely void of her fellow teammates. The small girl hurried to the bathroom in order to make herself presentable enough to get to the cafeteria, adjusting her uniform just so, before heading back to her bed.

While refolding the covers, she finally noticed a small note on the desk. ''Oh. Right. Glaukos wants to duel us''. She had to admit she was a bit nervous, fighting someone who was obviously much bigger and likely stronger than her. Even if she was built something like a brick house according to Sialis, Elise could clearly replay the scene where Glaukos brutally beheaded a beowolf during their first meeting.

Still, she convinced herself as she exchanged her plaid skirt and blazer for the handsewn velvet skirts, one could be surprised by the effectiveness of walking in circles as a fighting style. She engaged her blades quickly and shifted between the ranged and ringed forms before turning them into bracelets and heading downstairs.

A granola bar later and Elise was on her way to the practice room. As her hand reached for the door however, someone brashly threw it open, and only Elise's quick reaction time stopped the door handle from smashing her hand into the wall. A tall girl with dark curled hair and gold eyes much like Elise's left, footfalls heavy as she headed toward the cafeteria. Following her was someone who was much smaller in comparison, blue hair with black tips, strange arm braces.....

"Sialis?" She questioned as he ignored her momentarily, staggering out the door and following the amazon's trail before evidently giving up, leaning over and placing his hands on his knees.

"Oh, hey Elise." He answered, sighing.

"Who was that woman?" She stepped away from the door, now swinging closed, and toward her friend, placing her hand on his back.

"We haven't talked in a while, see." He sighed again. "That would be my partner. Bruna Valentine. She's a senior."

"Why are you on her team then?"

"Well, everybody on my team is a freshman except her." He replied again, straightening himself up. "There was an incident, I guess. She was supposed to graduate with her old team last year, but Ozpin said she could make up her time with us this year." He shrugged. Before Elise could ask anything else, he quickly changed the subject.

"How've you been the past two weeks?"

"Fine, I suppose. I am actually going to meet my partner for a training match." She gestured back to the door. Sialis nodded, considering the occupants of the room.

"It was the taller fellow with the ponytail, right? Bruna said he looks like a punk." A pause. Elise cracked a small smile in the corner of her mouth and Sialis immediately picked up on it, noting her actual smile was rare. The two spent a moment quietly before Sialis elected to go find his perturbed partner and left, leaving Elise to her own devices.

She immediately entered the training and made a beeline for Glaukos, still well into practicing, and decided to join him on the floor. Elise started far enough away that she hoped he wouldn't notice, repeating some easy gliding and evasion techniques before activating her rings and repeating. It was all about footwork, Elise's fighting style, and she was eager to see how Glaukos' more tank-like style of fighting would match with her quick movements.

When she felt herself ready enough she danced over to her partner, continuing little movements with her feet as she circled him playfully, her face still calm and neutral.

"Whenever you are ready, Glaukos." And she danced away again on her dingy boots toward the proper starting distance from her partner.