Chapter I: Cobalt Trailer / The Simulation
Victor was hiding. He felt like a coward but knew he couldn't defeat this thing with brute force, he would have to outsmart it. Victor started listening. He heard nothing... Nothing... Nothing... Then, suddenly he heard a slight movement and then the wind whistling as something flew at him.
Victor jumped up and did a backwards handspring away from his hiding spot. WHAM! The Death Stalker's stinger impaled itself into the ground where Victor had been seconds before.
Victor landed on his feet and quickly drew Grimmbane, his combined shotgun katana, ready to strike.
As the Death Stalker struggled to free it's stinger, Victor pounced and started slicing with surgical precision in the weak spots of the Death Stalker's exoskeleton. Enraged by Victor's slicing, the Death Stalker tore it's stinger out of the dirt and swung around, looking for it's prey.
Victor stood in a tree contemplating his next move as the Death Stalker slowly searched for him. Satisfied with his plan, Victor leaped from the tree and landed in front of the Death Stalker's blood-red eyes. As the Death Stalker poised it's stinger over Victor, he focused his Aura, and as soon as the Death Stalker struck he jumped to the side, using his Semblance to leave a "shadow" of himself there.
As the stinger smashed the shadow, Victor was once again attacking the Death Stalker and although it was franticly trying to grab Victor with it's pincers, Victor nimbly dodged it's futile attempts.
Victor was ecstatic, all he had to do was finish it off! He looked over and saw a pincer flying at him, knowing he couldn't dodge it he activated his Aura and allowed it to smash into him. As he flew, Victor prepared to crash into a tree, but wasn't worried. He hadn't used all his Aura yet, so if he was careful he could land without being smashed into pieces. He landed on the side of the tree, feet-first, and launched himself towards the beast. The Death Stalker anticipated the move and raised it's giant pincers, ready to crush Victor.
Equally prepared, Victor slipped a vial of red dust into the hilt of his katana. As the blade started to glow red, he raised it defensively and met the full force of the Death Stalker.
Unsurprisingly he was able to block it with little effort and disengaged quickly. He then jumped forward and stabbed the sword right into the weakest spot of it's exoskeleton, one of it's eyes. It sunk into the eye and Victor's weapon quickly changes into a shotgun.
Feeling elated, Victor pulled the trigger and used the kick of the gun to fly away from the beast. He landed and sheathed his weapon. "Is that all?" He taunted as he walked away. He heard a rustling and quickly realized his mistake, he spun around and saw the stinger mere feet from his face. He raised his hands and focused his Aura in a feeble attempt to protect himself. Victor accomplished only subduing the impact, making a fatal blow a very painful one.
Victor smashed into a tree and laid there dazed. "SIMULATION ENDED!" The voice of the professor rang through the intercom and everything froze. "Victor! You had it right there! I can't say that you passed!" He began, Victor smashed his fist into the tree he had landed on. "You do realize this severely reduces your chance of making it into Beacon?" He continued, too tired to talk Victor just glared at the tree. "You are dismissed!" The professor finished. Victor headed to his dormitory and laid down on his bed, resting until his next class...