On the island of Patch, there's a graveyard full of tombstones of all shapes and sizes. The emerald grass is fairly coating the ground appears fairly tame with a few exceptions near the steel gate surrounding the plot of land.
Near the center of this field of grief, a family dressed in all black watches over a coffin as a few men slowly lower the container into its grave. Within the crowd, a young girl, no older than five, with golden locks of hair tied up into twin ponytails holds her mother's hand as she hears the sound of the coffin hitting the ground. And as the men start covering the coffin in dirt, the young girl buries her face in her mother's black dress, hiding her tears as the loving mother holds her close to her side.
In the distance, far beyond the steel gate protecting the sacred ground, Yang Xiao Long watches over the depressing scene with a saddened expression. With a heavy sigh, Yang turns her gaze away from the scene and groans, "These things always bring me down. Why do we even have funerals, they only bring more Grimm..."
The blonde's train of though is cut off by a kind voice telling her, "Funerals are to help show our respects to those who've fallen and to put them to rest.", causing the blonde to jump a little as she hears the person call out to her from behind.
Yang turns to see a girl with long blue hair and fair skin dressed in mostly blue and black. As the blue haired girl approaches Yang, she flips her hair with one hand, revealing the eye patch over her right eye. "It's not like her to be this down, I guess even Yang can feel the dread in the air.", the azure warrior thinks as she stands by Yang's side.
The blonde returns her gaze back to the funeral, a slight frown coming across her face as she says, "Yeah, I know, but can't we find some other way to do this? Funerals always seem to bring all kinds of Grimm, no matter where they're held."
As she looks over to Yang, a slightly confident grin comes across the blue girl's face as she tell the blonde, "That's what they brought us for, remember? Your dad said that this is one of the kinds of jobs that Huntsmen take for some quick Lien. It shouldn't be too hard."
Turning to the blue girl with a slight pout, Yang let's out a tired groan and says, "I know we can handle it, but this mood really bums me out, ya know? Not to mention you've been dragging my butt all over Patch for these jobs."
The grinning warrior gently places her hands on Yang's tensed up shoulders, trying to ease the blonde's worries as she says, "It's this kind of stuff that'll help get both of us into Beacon. We might be at the top of our class, but that doesn't give us a VIP pass. We still need to keep working like hell to get where we wanna go in life."
As she hears her friend's kind tone, Yang smiles and her tense shoulders begin to relax before replying with, "You always seem to know what to say, Sapphire."
Sapphire just smiles back at the blond and replies with, "I try. Now you head over to the other side, I'll handle this side for now. That way we cover both sides of the graveyard better."
"What? Did you already use your semblance?", Yang asks with a raised eyebrow as she looks around for trouble.
Sapphire gives the blonde a cheeky grin as she says, "You'll find out when you get there. Trust me."
Yang, knowing there's no point in trying to question the azure warrior any further, nods before activating her Ember Celica with a flick of her wrists and rushing over to where Sapphire instructed her to go.
Sapphire lets out a sigh of relief before thinking, "Good, she'll be able to handle the Ursai coming from the East. I'll just have to hold off these guys." The azure huntress puts her right hand on the first of two katanas, Azure Drakes, on her left hip and draws it out, preparing for battle.
As she prepares for battle, Sapphire places her left foot forward and her right foot back with her sword held in both hands, her right being closer to the guard and the blade being held at an angle so that the razor sharp side is pointed to the sky. With the sound of the young widow's crying in the graveyard comes another sound, the roar of beasts from the nearby woods. The ground seems to tremble under Sapphire's feet as the beastly sounds draw closer and closer. "It's show time.", Sapphire says to herself as she rushes the incoming threat head-on.
As she rushes in, Sapphire is instantly greeted by a King Taijitu that comes slithering out from the forest. The beast is fairly large for a Grimm, but it appears to only be a fledgling as it lacks the classic Grimm masks on each head and only reaches half of the height of the nearby trees. Though it's only a child by Grimm standards, it's hardly a beast to underestimate.
Sapphire barely manages to dash around the beast, avoiding its darker head as it snaps at her. After avoiding the serpent's attack, Sapphire notices the Grimm isn't alone as a small hoard of fledgling Beowolves and a couple weaker Boarbatusks appear out of the forest behind the behemoth, lacking any bony armor due to their young age.
As she rushes past the hoard, Sapphire's blue aura radiates around her arms and legs, amplifying her speed tremendously. With a few quick slashes, she slices through ten Beowolves and as she comes to a stop, she buries her sword in a Boarbatusk's head, killing it as she removes the blade from the beast's skull.
Before she can continue her assault on the hoard, Sapphire's met with the white head of the King Taijitu, which tries to crush her with its giant body. With only a single sword, she manages to block the attack, but the force is enough to push her back into a tree.
As she slams into the tree back-first, Sapphire's aura activates, protecting her from any serious damage from the attack. Now with a fair amount of space between her and the Grimm, Sapphire quickly assesses the situation, thinking, "There's only a few of them left now, five not including the King Taijitu? And I have plenty of aura left... I should be able to go into the next stance and use my semblance to deal with them all at once." As Sapphire focuses on the hoard with her one eye, it begins to glow with an overwhelming amount of blue aura. With her eye glowing a bright blue, Sapphire quickly places the grip of her blade in her mouth before drawing two more of her swords, holding one in each hand. "Three sword style... Time to go on the offensive.", the azure warrior thinks to herself as she charges at the incoming Beowolves and Boarbatusk as the leave their King behind.
Pressing the buttons on the grips of her swords, Sapphire causes the blades glow with a bright blue light and lightning starts flowing through them, arcing to each of the blades as she cuts through her enemies. As Sapphire speeds past the small hoard of fledgling Grimm, her lightning coated blades leaving a long bolt of lightning behind her, she cuts and slashes her way through what's left of the hoard of Beowolves. And with a unified slash of her two blades, Sapphire sends a electrified slash at the Boarbatusk, engulfing the beast in a dragon-shaped bolt of lightning.
With the beasts' charred remains starting to evaporate, the King Taijitu is left standing in the wake of the one-eyed warrior's destruction.
Sapphire turns her attention back to the King Taijitu, crossing the two blades in her hands as she glares the serpent down. As its white head lunges at her, Sapphire's glowing eye widens and she sees the Grimm's white head crash into the ground in front of her, sending dirt into the air and blinding her as the black head lunges through the smoke and devours her in one bite. After seeing herself being devoured, the vision shatters and Sapphire finds herself back in the fight.
With the white head lunging at the her exactly how it did in her vision, Sapphire leaps on top of it as it crashes into the ground, avoiding the beast's trap. Instead of attacking the white head, Sapphire leaps straight at the incoming black head lunging at her. With all three of her swords, she slices through the black head's neck, decapitating it from it body and leaving only the white one to fend for itself.
Turning to face the other head, Sapphire's greeted by a agonized roar from the beast, its other end flailing wildly as it slowly starts to disintegrate. As the beast continues to reel back in pain, Sapphire pulls a trigger on her three Azure Drakes and as a quiet click sounds from their cylinders, their blades are ignite in blazing flames. With a quick swipe from all three of her blades, the remaining head is engulfed in her burning red flames. The flames quickly engulf the serpent's whole body, burning what's left of it until it finally succumbs to death.
As the beast's body crashes into the ground, Sapphire twirls the two blades in her hands before dramatically returning them to their sheaths. With two of her blades sheathed, Sapphire turns her attention back to the defeated King Taijitu's remains, watching as they begin to disintegrate like the other Grimm before it, leaving only a black sludge behind.
With a slightly disappointed look in her eyes, Sapphire takes the final sword out of her mouth before saying, "Child's play as always. I'd better check up on Yang. She's good and I doubt a few Ursai could overwhelm her, but it's better safe than sorry." There's a sudden shimmer in the warrior's eye and she lets out a slight chuckle. "You're standing right behind me, aren't you?", she asks with a slightly pleased grin as she sheaths her last sword.
Yang slugs Sapphire on the shoulder before saying, "You're such a showoff! What was with all that Dust? Did you really have to use that much on these weakling?"
Sapphire gives the blonde a slight snicker, laughing off the punch before saying, "Hey, sometimes you just have to go all out. It's been a while since I considered using my Three Swords Stance. Besides, if I didn't use that Dust it'd probably just go to waste. Now come on, we need to report back in with your Dad."