Juane and Pyrrha entered the clearing and saw the three figures, the two they recognized and the new one that they didn't. Nora bounded over and introduced all three of them, Ren saying, "Hi" as Nora introduced him, and H merely inclining his head. Pyrrha introduced herself and Juane, and asked where they were going. Nora replied,
"Well, we don't really know, but we were going to look around for the relics and we're not sure where they are and did you know H has a little glowing man inside his helmet?" Pyrrha, confused, answered,
"No, I didn't know that. What's she talking about H?"
"I have an AI programmed into my mind and my armor, and he can become a holographic projection temporarily. Don't worry about it, just know that when I give orders in combat that don't make sense to you, I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to him," replied H, pointing to his helmet on the word "him".
"Okay then, we should really get going then. Pyrrha and I think that the temple with the relics is just a little bit off that way," Juane interrupted, pointing off to the west. Ren nodded,
"Alright then, let's go." The five headed towards the west, and soon crested a hill, giving them a view of the temple and relics. Nora grabbed the white rook piece, gamboling about the whole time, and Juane was debating which one to pick until a deathstalker came out of the woods, when he grabbed the other white rook, and Pyrrha yelled,
"We just have to get to the cliffs, we don't have to fight it. Let's go!"
"Alright, I'll stay in the back, I have the heaviest armor!" H replied, and grabbed the black knight piece as he passed and the group ran off into the woods towards the cliffs.
As the group ran, they met a group of girls and both groups introduced themselves on the run. This gave the advantage of numbers, but the disadvantage of a Nevermore circling overhead, so both groups silently agreed to fight their Grimm alone. As both groups arrived at the base of the cliffs, the girls continued onto the bridges to the cliffs, the better for combat against an aerial foe, while the other group stayed behind to turn and engage their monster. H charged the scorpion Grimm, pulling out his weapon, transformed into a long sword, and engaged, slicing and hacking at its armor and eyes as his companions opened fire with their longer range weapons, besides Juane who joined H, but was knocked sideways into H soon into the battle, knocking him over. As the deathstalker drove its stinger tail towards the downed warrior, he yelled,
"Sigma, three tiles, now!" And just as the giant poisonous tail was about to hit him, he flung his left hand up towards the venomous spike and a shield appeared between his hand and the approaching enemy weapon. The shield was composed of three light blue, translucent, slightly glowing hexagonal tiles, each about a foot and a half across, in a triangular pattern. The deathstalker's stinger hit the shield and stopped dead. H stood up, keeping his hand pointing at the shield, then yelled,
"Full dome, Sigma, now!" and punched the ground with his right hand, his weapon now sheathed. A dome, 8 feet in radius, created entirely of the glowing panels of before, expanded rapidly from the point of his fist's impact, with H at the center. The force of the dome-shield expanding launched the Deathstalker back, and it crashed into a group of trees. As it recovered, the other four charged it, and used teamwork to kill the Grimm by severing its stinger, then using Nora's hammer to drive the spike into the scorpions head. They turned, seeing the dome-shield dissipate, and all five watched the four girls launch one of their team members at the Nevermore and decapitate it with a scythe against the top of cliff.