Team SLVR; Chapter 2
"Nice moves partner". I couldn't help but smile at his words. "So what's your name, oh silent one?"
"My name? Oh, right, sorry. I'm Sterling. And you are?"
"Lucas, but you can call me Luke. Nice to meet you, Ms. Sterling" he replied with a cocky but friendly grin. I blushed slightly at the formality, as I wasn't used to that sort of thing. "So, my new partner, where are we headed from here?"
"North obviously. However, I think it'd be wise to wait here for a minute. I heard some girl shout and I want to make sure she's okay. I'll be back in a jiffy"
"Oh no no no no. We're partners now so I'm coming with you, just in case". I blushed yet again from embarrassment, since I hadn't thought of the fact that I should stick with Luke, just in case.
"Right then. Let's go see"
We headed east a few yards and saw a blonde girl with seemingly flaming hair beating up an ursa.
"Holy crap!" Luke gasped with a whistle. "She's pretty strong!". As he said this, the girl yelled at another ursa.
"You want some too?!" She yelled, daring the other ursa to attack, when all the sudden it collapsed. Some sort of blade attached to a ribbon or something was sticking out of its back. The blade belonged to a girl with black hair with a bow.
"Huh. Well it looks like Blondie's okay. Time to head north" Luke chuckled, amused.
"You're right, time we left" I responded with a nod.
After walking a few miles and reaching the temple, we found there were very few pieces left. Luke and I decided on a black knight piece.
"I'm not sure where the hell Ozpin is from, but I wouldn't classify chess pieces as relics" Luke joked sardonicly.
"Perhaps, but 'run into dangerous woods to find common chess pieces' sounds much less epic, doesn't it?" I pointed out.
"Hmmm... good point" he stated simply. "By the way, did you notice the giant feathers?"
I nodded and replied "Yeah I did. They are from a Nevermore, of that there's no doubt. Question is, where's the Nevermore?"
Luke pointed wide eyed to an area over by the cliff side where a large group was fighting the Nevermore, as well as a death-stalker. "We need to help them or they're royally fucked"
"Look over there! Two others fighting beowolves! C'mon, they need help!"
"They'll be fine Sterling, the big group needs our help more!"
"Luke, those two are keeping the beowolves at bay so they don't attack the 3 fighting the death-stalker. Now come on!"
We ran into the fray, with me leading the charge, and I drew Quiksilver to shoot a few spikes at the beowolves. Luke had a similar idea: he pulled out his still sheathed sword, and the sheath...had a scope? It started firing off sniper rounds, which surprised me a bit more than it should've looking back. Anyways, it was certainly effective: the beowolves dropped one by one as their heads caught sniper rounds. One of the fighters took this opportunity to cut one of the creatures in half with a massive greatsword. The other disappeared for a moment, then reappeared behind the last beowolf in the pack, shoving two kodachi into its back. The creature dropped instantly with a dull thud. Luke and I finally caught up with the two strangers.
"Great fighting you two, thanks for the assist. Victoria and I weren't sure we could hold them back much longer" the boy with the greatsword stated, obviously relieved. The girl, I noticed for the first time, was a faunus with fox ears and tail, wearing a violet colored corset, purple leggings, and black thigh high boots. I also noted that her eyes matched her corset, as well as her black hair with purple streaks in it. The boy was a stark contrast to her; he was stockier, taller, and clearly stronger overall. He had red hair, with a hoodie to match. The hoodie itself looked to be re-enforced with some kind of armor-like padding, as well as dark grey pants, also re-enforced, and black steel toe boots. I looked back into his eyes, and noticed all three of my new companions were staring at me.
"Sorry, what?" I asked confused, causing Luke to chuckle.
"She's a little...up in the clouds, shall we say?"
This made the red haired boy laugh. "I said" he started slowly, "My name is Ryan. And you are?"
"Ah, sorry. My name is Sterling" I replied sheepishly.
"My apologies" Victoria chimed in, "but now doesn't seem like a good time to exchange pleasantries" she growled, gesturing to the group fighting the death-stalker.
"You're right, we should move. Victoria, take point, try to avoid conflict until I give the signal. Ryan, flank the stalker, Luke, stand back and snipe any weak spots. I'll distract it" I ordered. "Now let's go!"
My companions reacted beautifully! Victoria flashed onto the creature to deliver a few strikes, before disappearing again and repeating. Luke took out one of its back legs as Ryan cut one of the beasts' pincers off. And I...well I helped some girl get across a bridge, but to be fair if I hadn't grappled it as it crumbled, she would've never been able to explosive-jump to the other side. Besides, that same girl was the one who delivered the killing blow. After the stalker was dead, I looked up in time to see a girl in a red cloak of some sort run up a mountain with a nevermore in tow, and cut its head off. Little did I know, that same girl would become a best friend to me in later days.
