Once through the portal Lynx saw himself standing in the church hall of a discarded village with supplies lining the pews. The room was crumbling and as Qrow stepped into the room he actually had to dodge some debris that was falling from the collapsed ceiling. The walls had wooden supports in them and maggots in the wood. Several people were filing in and out of different doors leading from the main hall and some were setting up the altar at the head of the room for a buffet.
He suddenly felt himself be dragged from behind outside of the church and a familiar sickle wielder was staring him in the face. The buildings surrounding the church were destroyed and devoid of life, as if this building had been specifically chosen to house the criminals. "What is this about Qrow?"
The boy looked thoughtfully at Lynx before lunging. The sickle appeared from nowhere and was swinging at his neck. The movement was faster than any human could have seen but there was a reason that he was a faunus. He calmly raised his hand and clutched the blade, wrenching it out of the boy's hands and making Qrow stumble as he was expecting his momentum to carry him onward. He quickly corrected himself and swung a leg at Lynx and watched as the boy lifted his leg up and stepped on Qrow's, not stomping, not breaking any bones, but gently stopping his movement. Qrow fell indignantly as the only thing holding him up was swiped from under him by an unforeseen force.
Lynx heard something behind him and tried to stop his ears reacting to the noise and waited before ducking just low enough to dodge the swipe of the girl's sword. He stepped forwards to avoid the jab at his back and looked behind him, feeling sorry for the girl before locking her feet into place and pushing her over with shadows. She narrowly avoided hitting her head on the steps and was holding herself in an awkward position with her feet stuck to the ground and her arms trying desperately to push herself back into an upright position.
Lynx stepped towards his assailant and she stared at him failing to keep the fear off of her face as he walks the few steps that she had managed to push herself up the stairs. His face had no emotion and in the dark of night the shadows seemed to coil around him. He stopped moving and held his hand out. She whimpered as she watched shadows pool into his hand and slowly moved into the air, creating a sword that seemed longer than the faunus himself. He moved the sword behind him and was about to start swinging when bandits surrounded him and aimed.
Qrow watched the sword dissipate into nothingness as he stood behind the cat, his scrapes healing. He had no idea how Lynx was that strong and quite frankly didn't care, he just wanted to know how to defend himself in case he couldn't be trusted. The boy was quiet and cocky, he knew that he couldn't be touched. Not by any man, faunus, or grimm.
The bandits lowered their weapons as the leader stepped through the church door, seeing his twin children not willing to attack the cat. "So Raven, how did he fare?"
The girl on the stairs stood up and looked down. "We didn't land a hit." She whispered after a while. "The entire altercation lasted ten seconds. He has extremely fast reflexes, faster than most faunus and he can, uhh…" She didn't know what to say.
"Shadows." Lynx said. Shadows clung to his legs and slowly climbed up them. He was eventually covered head to toe in darkness and was admiring the stares from all of the lowlifes around him. "As it would seem." Stated the leader. "Ten seconds?"
"Yes sir." Replied Lynx, the shadows coiled as he spoke and seemed to want to lash out at anything near it.
"That could be useful. Just how much I don't know."
On cue the twins rolled out of the way and the bandits fired at the boy in the centre of them. Rounds launched at Lynx until all of the magazines were empty. The shadows lashed out and swallowed all of the bullets, hungry for more. When the last echo had died down the shadows on Lynx's skin were writhing with bullets travelling beneath them. Lynx turned his head to all of the people and sighed. He hoped that this was the last test.
He crouched down and merged all of his armour into one, becoming a ball on the floor. Silence. The bandits stared at the ball, shocked at how strong he was. One bandit stepped forward reaching his hand out to the darkness before him.
Lynx jumped ten feet into the air and stretched his arms and legs out as violently as he could, the bullets exploded from him and rained down on the unsuspecting bandits, he made sure that every bullet went back to its original owner and forced each of them as hard as he could into their bodies. Once every bullet but one was gone from his arsenal he lowered himself to the ground and poured the last bullet into his hand. He walked up to the leader and handed him his bullet, the one that he had fired from his handgun and went back into the circle of wounded. He had made sure to miss all of their vital organs but they were all on the floor, trying to stem the flow of blood. The twins were standing either side of Lynx with Raven standing next to her father and Qrow standing in a circle of bullets.
The leader stepped forward and drew his katana.
"You are a clever boy, you know what we have been doing, final task, you don't have to beat this one, defeat me."