The newly estabilished group had wandered for about thirty minutes without encountering much trouble, Jotaro was a little bit behind Ruby and Weiss, making them take the lead, there was a bit of awkwardness in the air, no one said anything to the other untill Ruby tried to break the ice, "Soo, Jotaro, where are you from?" she asked, looking at him, he didn't reply for a moment, but then simply said "Japan", of course both of them had no idea where that place could possibly be, so they just assumed it was a far away village "Well...Um, sounds like a nice place!" Ruby added, and then silence returned to the trio.
They couldn't see it, but Jotaro was lookin at Ruby's and Weiss's weapon, analyzing them, why were these little girls wielding such dangerous things? That scythe in particular looked extremely heavy, but in the earlier fight she handled it like it had no weight at all, it was also a gun too, making Jotaro wonder who the hell designed such a thing, but just as he was thinking that, Ruby started talking again, how annoying, "Y'know, you don't look like you're from Beacon, how did you end up here?", Jotaro sighed at the question, and didn't bother replying, he didn't know himself the answer to that question, out of all the bizzare situation he found himself in this one took the cake, he felt like he was in some sort of alien world that wasn't bound by the rules of his own.
"Hey! Look out!" Ruby called out to him as his face smacked against a high tree branch, he was so deep in his thoughts he didn't even bother seeing forward, this didn't happen to him a lot, Weiss sighed as Ruby kept a hand in front of her mouth in order to contain her laughter, before noticing that the branch left a very shallow cut on Jotaro's cheek, but he didnt' seem to notice or care "Hey, you don't have your Aura activated!" she said geniuenly surprised, resulting in a confused stare on Jotaro's part, to which Weiss added, "Come on, this guy does not even know what a Grimm is! how could he possibly have his Aura activated?" she said, almost as if trying to anger Jotaro, "Shut the hell up, both of you" he simply said, and once again silence returned, what an awkward situation
Weiss simply couldn't understand on why Ruby trusted this guy, he didn't know anything and almost seems like he's out of a different world entirely, and that...thing that he summons, that 'Stand', it was powerful and fast, if she tried to fight him head-on, she would probably lose, he was suspicious, extremely so. "Weiss? Weeeiss...?" Ruby said, waving her hand in front of her face as if to grab her attention, "Urgh, what?" Weiss said in an annoyed tone, then Ruby pointed right in front of her, and all of them could see that the forest ended there "I think I see the ruins! And there doesn't seem to be anyone there yet!"
As they exited the forest, they could see it clearer, in the middle of nowhere there was what looked like the ruins of a small building, but the only thing that remained now where a small bit of the floor and several small pillars, and as they noticed, there were four chess pieces, one on each pillar, Weiss flashed a smile for the first time since she entered the Forest, "Finally!" she said as she quickly approached the ruins, wait, there are more than four pillars, though those didn't have chess pieces on them, which could only mean one thing, "Wait, almost everyone already took their relics already!" she shouted, Ruby, who was right beside her, sighed and grabbed one of the chess pieces, a white pawn, while Weiss took a white horse, Jotaro looked at them without saying or touching anything, "Let's go back" Ruby simply said, pocketing the chess piece, but before they could even move, they heard something...From above?
All of them looked up at the sky, and what they saw bordered the line from awesome to stupid, a Nevermore, a gigantic crow Grimm, was flying low above them, but it was not flying normally, it was moving arround erratically like it was trying to shake off something from itself, and as it went lower and lower, they saw it, two girls, one with long yellow hair and one with black hair and a ribbon on top of it, Ruby recognized them both, it was her sister Yang, and the girl she met her first day at Beacon, Blake. "Wooohooo!" Yang shouted enthusiastically while on top of the Nevermore's back, she seemed like she was having the time of her life, meanwhile Blake looked petrified, gripping on one of the wings and trying to not get shaked off, "This was a really stupid idea!" she shouted back at Yang, but the blond girl didn't bother listening, she activated her gauntlets, pointing down at the Nevermore, she shot out two bullets at once, making the Grimm croak in pain as the recoil sends her flying, "Sorry to leave you hanging, Blake!" the cheerful blondie shouted as she went up and up, and then down, Blake groaned as she reluctantly grabbed Gambol Shroud and jumped off the Nevermore, just in time, since the Nevermore was quickly descending due to Yang's brutal hit.
There were few things that could leave Jotaro with wide eyes and an agape mouth, this...Came close to being one of those moments, even if not quite, "Good grief, another two of these?" He said as the black-haired girl and they blond girl landed on the ground. Normally a fall like that would have noticeable effect on a person, yet those two didn't have so much as a scratch on them, That girl, Ruby, mentioned something about "Aura" when I started bleeding, could that "Aura" be the reason on why they weren't hurt? He thought, the two girls started to rush towards the ruins, and Jotaro noticed something, the blond haired girl...Winked at him? No, not at him, she winked at Ruby, who was right beside him, "Good work, Yang!" Ruby shouted as Yang grabbed one of the chess pieces, the black haired girl grabbed one too just as the bird-like Grimm almost stopped itself from slamming into the ground, however, after a side glance at eachother, Weiss and Ruby pointed their weapons at the Nevermore, Jotaro stood back and observed them, Ruby looked through the scope of her Scythe gun, one hand on the trigger, and while looking at Weiss, he noticed that the rapier she was carrying had some sort of revolving chamber near the hilt with different colors on each slot of it.
Ruby's bullets pierced the Grimm's wings just as it was trying to gain altitude, then a symbol appeared on the tip of the blade, a blue one, and then multiple 'blasts' of blue energy were shot out from the tip, hitting the Grimm and wounding it further, it shrieked in pain as it went down unable to fly, it wasn't dead yet, but it couldn't fly properly anymore, it was a good thirty meters away from the group, croaking and trying to uselessly flap it's wings, the girl called Yang approached the three, having just pocketed the relic, "Good work, you two!" She said, before looking at jotaro, "Hmm, have I met you before? Don't think I did, in any case, thanks for...Standing around like a statue and doing nothing, I guess" she said with a smile, and then called out to the black haired girl "Blake! Get over here!", but Jotaro didn't look if she did get closer, he noticed something else instead, Weiss was looking wide-eyed at a certain point, what was it? It looked like the entrance of a cave, situated near a cliff, what was so surprising? But then he noticed after a second later, a dozens, no, about three dozen Grimm were crawling out of the cave, most of them looked like that werewolf Grimm he fought earlier, some of them looked like those bear Grimms, and more and more of them were exiting out of the cave, heading towards them.
All of them, excluding Jotaro, remained wide-eyed at the scene, it was an entire army of Grimm, stationed near the Ruins
[To Be Continued]-