Spar! Magna vs Qrow

As the light from the sun slowly gained an orange glow, Magna sat outside as he waited for Qrow. Blowing a couple strands of loose hair from his face, Magna internally thought about getting a haircut when the sound of footsteps alerted him.

Magna swung around and yelled, "It's about time! What were you doing for the last 20 minutes!"

However, he froze when he got a good look at who was behind him. Basically everyone was following behind Qrow as he smirked, "I thought it'd be better if we had an audience."

Magna shrugged. He only wanted to test his current martial prowess against someone. It didn't matter if they had an audience or not.

Once everyone got comfortable, Magna stood a couple feet away from Qrow as he said, "I'm gonna be testing a new ability. I don't know what's gonna happen but you need to be prepared Qrow."

Remembering Magna's other abilities, Qrow adopted a semi-serious expression as he quietly muttered, "Thanks…"

Taking a deep breath, Magna calmly utilised the breathing technique of Ryūha Koei Sōgetsu. Sure, he was far too weak to use the actually combat techniques but this was a breathing technique. It was created to calm the users mind and body, allowing for quick and decisive reactions to any and all attacks.

Everyone watching could feel the air around Magna change as he slightly lowered his body into a loose stance. Qrow glared at Magna for a couple seconds before he turned to Taiyang and said, "Tai, could you count us down."

"Sure thing Qrow." Nodded Taiyang.

Raising three fingers, Taiyang looked towards both Magna and Qrow and yelled, "3… 2… 1… Fight!"

As soon as Taiyang yelled 'fight', Qrow and Magna took of towards each other.

Using his sword, Qrow slashed downwards only for his sword to cut right through him. Qrow's eyes widened as he silently muttered, "An after image?"

Suddenly, two Magna's appeared besides Qrow they both sent out an attack as they roared, "Thousand strikes of the Dragon claw!!!"

This technique relies on footwork as the user moves fluidly while tiptoeing, creating after images that can attack from all sides.

Sadly, this technique was still too difficult for Magna to use properly. However, making one after image was well within his current means.

Qrow managed to block the fist that was barreling towards his head but he couldn't block the second Magna's kick as he took a heavy blow to the ribs.

Releasing a low growl, Qrow jumped before quickly whipping his legs out, sending an attack towards both Magnas.

Obviously, only one was real. When Qrow's attack connected, one of the Magna's disappeared while the other was sent flying as Qrow's kick landed directly on his chest.

Magna flew backwards for a few feet before regaining his balance as he used the force from Qrow's kick to make some distance between them.

Once he stabilised himself, Magna kicked off the ground and zoomed towards Qrow before unleashing a fierce barrage of deadly punches and kicks as he yelled, "Sensen Renryūjin!"

Qrow dropped all ideas of counter attacking as he swiftly dodged. However, there were just too many attacks coming at once. Eventually, Qrow made a small mistake which left his body open for a second.

But that single second was all Magna needed. Magna's calm expression changed in a instant. Taking a very deep breath, a fierce light flickered in his eyes as he thrust his fist forward and roared, "Flash of the Star dragon, fist of light!"

In a meager attempt to cushion the blow, Qrow hastily raised his sword to try and receive Magna's fist.

This would prove to be the correct course of action as Magna's attack collided heavily with Qrow's sword.

Qrow was forced to use two hands to hold the attack back.

'Magna's strength is insane… he's exerting about half of Taiyang's full power… oh my Oum… he could help us win the war…'

Now more than ever, Qrow wished for nothing more than to train Magna so he could help them in their fight against 'The Queen'.

As the force pushing against him eased up, Qrow quickly made some distance between them as he said, "Hey kid! That was som-"

Qrow froze in shock and horror as he stared at Magna. Emily and Amber both became pale as Emily screamed, "MY BABY BOY!!!"

Magna gave everyone a confused look, wondering why they were looking at him like that when he felt a surge of pain burst from his arm.

A loud and painful shriek bellowed from his mouth as he looked at his arm in shock. His entire arm was a dark shade of red and purple as blood seeped out from under his finger nails. Or, at least what was left of his nails.

Suddenly, the world around Magna began to spin as he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

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(POV - Qrow)

As soon as Magna fell unconscious, Emily appeared by his side an held him in her arms. Tears poured from her face as she hoarsely screamed, "Magna! Wake up! Please!"

Yang, Ruby and the twins surrounded her as they cried. Ruby was actually crying the most as she glued herself to Magna's uninjured arm.

Being the adult, Taiyang calmly pulled out his scroll and called the paramedics.

Qrow, feeling like this was his fault, collapsed to his knees as she shakily said to Emily, "I-I didn't mean to hurt him…"

Even though she was still crying, Emily wiped the tears from her eyes as she muttered, "I know… He was testing something new. His body probably can't handle what ever it is, causing this to happen…"

This little bit of information made Qrow feel slightly better. He glanced at the unconscious Magna and, remembering all the time they've spent together, smiled. He didn't know when but Qrow found himself treating Magna like the son he never had.

A small smile appeared on Qrow's face for a second before it disappeared, being replaced by a serious expression as he vowed, "You best be ready, Magna. Cause when your healed and ready, I'm gonna be increasing the difficulty of your training. I swear that I'll help you get to the point that this never happens again…"

Emily stared at Qrow with wide eyes as she listened to his vow. However, her shock only lasted a second before being becoming a smile as she silently thought, 'Wake up quickly Magna…'

Meanwhile, Magna was currently inside the speck, watching in awe as a huge change occured.