Chapter 2: Into the cave
Lavern drew her weapons right as the dream strider, a spider grim leaped at her, she swung at its stomach avoiding its blood for it is a minor toxic to revealed skin. She cut the dream striders stomach open just enough to cause it to crawl away letting her put on the gloves she always had prepared for situations like this. She remembered learning about how once a dream strider was hurt it would close more of its eyes giving more strength to its attack, the more eyes closed the deadlier the attack.
Lavern saw the creators red eye's, only 2 not 8 this time she knew this meant it was going to kill, she prepared to strike but just noticed that the red eyes circled her more and more before going for her back, to which she swung her weapons that were immediately stopped. "I'm not a creature of grim." Lavern looked at her torch and dived for it lighting it quickly only to see the tiger faunus from back at the school. "The name is Vince Valentine, sorry if I scared you, I sensed you in the distance and noticed that a dream strider was after you" Lavern looked worried. "Did you kill it?" Vince threw the dream strider's metallic heart towards her. "From what I can tell, it's dead."
Lavern and Vince walked on, Vince without a torch for he was able to see and sense things very well. "So tell me, where do you think this grimite stuff will be?" Lavern asked as Vince looked around at the cave walls. "From what I learned, grimite is usually found in the nests of the dream strider's queen, the Deathwidow." Lavern looked at Vince slightly confused; she had always heard that deathwidow's were extinct; she heard that a young huntress had sacrificed herself to kill the last of them years before.
Lavern and Vince had continued deeper into the cave when she heard what she thought was Alvaro in the distance. "Alvaro is that you?" Lavern screamed before having her mouth covered by Vince. "I heard the voice to, but I heard a different person." Vince removed his hand and reached for his weapon which was a large machete. "We are nearing the Deathwidow, they mimic people's voices which means…." Vince took off sprinting as Lavern realized what he meant.
*before*
Alvaro woke up in a dimly lit room, he could tell it was night for only the shattered moon gave light, Alvaro started to rise as his leg was grabbed and he was pulled away before a dream strider came crashing down with two of its sharp legs where Alvaro use to be resting. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Alvaro looked up to see a small rabbit faunus with pink hair. "This cave is infested with dream striders and you just lay there?" Alvaro looked confused, why had he been thrown in a cave and why was it infested with a deadly kind of grim? Before he could get these answered the rabbit faunus took off with him on her back. "The name is Rosalva Raye by the way, and don't worry about giving me your name Alvaro, I snooped around your stuff while you slept." Rosalva jumped over a small ledge landing safely below before putting Alvaro down, leaving Alvaro with more questions. "Hold up, you snooped through my stuff while I was knocked out in a cave?" Rosalva laughed as she heard a dream strider behind them and brought her war hammer down upon it with a loud crash and the sound of a crunch from the spider grim. "You were asleep and I kind of, well, left what we were supposed to do back where I was dropped off and couldn't find it again…" Rosalva gave an awkward laugh as she put the war hammer on her back showing that it was almost twice the size of her. "But other than that, we now have two torch…" Rosalva realized she forgot the torches. "Okay, never mind, seems were blind for now." Alvaro sighed as he saw 4 pairs of eight eyes in the distance. "Things are getting worse before they get better!" Alvaro screamed as he pulled his weapons out, a pair of combat knives that he quickly turned into duel pistols and shot at the eye's, while he did this Rosalva was concentrating on them while holding her hammer in one hand.
Alvaro started to fire at the eyes for he did not know the attack ways of dream strider's, Rosalva sat there and waited as he shot there eye's before the room became dark again. "What the hell are you doing Rosalva?" Alvaro screamed as four of the dream striders jumped to attack, Rosalva started to glow and brought her hammer down in a single swing hitting all 4 of them and turning them to ash, Rosalva's skin and hammer glowed red and emitted both light and heat. "My semblance was charging." Rosalva said as her skin and hammer became normal again. "My semblance is the power to create magma within myself and my weapon." Alvaro stood in shock as he looked upon her before he was stabbed in the leg by what they presumed was a remaining dream strider. Alvaro turned one of his weapons back to normal and stabbed the claw hearing a loud snap releasing tiny dream striders. "Uh, Alvaro, you have found the grimite." There in front of them stood the Deathwidow.