Okay so after agonizing over it for a few days I think I've got everyones semblances set and we're ready to go. Enjoy.
"Why are we up here again?" Nyla asked from her spot in the tree next to Icarus.
Icarus adjusted his binoculars and zoomed in on the temple where the relics were located about five hundred yards from their current position. "I told you doll face, we're waiting to see if any of the other students end up needing any back up after they arrive at the temple." He told Nyla while never taking his eyes off the temple. It was a complete lie, but if he told her he was hoping to get a glimpse of his current targets fighting style so he could use it to build up a file on him to sell it on the black market later, there was a chance that she'd be a little perturbed.
"Don't call me doll face, my name is Nyla." Icarus ignored her as two people entered the temple, one which made his eyes widen in surprised before chuckling slightly. "Whats up?"
"Nothing important, just thinking about something." He said looking at the blonde girl who just entered the temple, he recognized her instantly as the same girl who wrecked his uncles club and smacked around his sisters. He didn't hold any grudge against her for destroying the club, that was Juniors problem not his. As for his sisters getting beat up, that was their fight not his. He loved his sister more than life itself sure, but when two grown girls get taken down by another girl then its the girls situation to handle. Though if on the other hand a guy were to ever lay a hand on his sisters then he wouldn't rest until they were chopped up into ting pieces and fed to stray dogs.
He watched as the blonde picked up the knight piece and showed it to her partner who he also recognized, from reports from an informant he had in the White Fang, as Blake Belladonna former partner to Adam Taurus. Ironically his informant was in fact a mole faunus. His attention was then caught by movement to the side of the temple where a girl riding on top of a large ursa entered the scene just as a girl wearing red fell from the sky. "I'm completely lost here." He mumbled to himself as he was trying to figure out what was going on at the temple.
He only became even more confused when the famous Pyrrha Nikos was chased to the temple by a deathstalker. "Whats going on?" Nyla asked.
"Im still trying to figure that out myself doll face." He said not noticing the glare she gave from him calling her that. He was to busy trying to understand why Weiss Schnee was also falling from the sky. Everything seemed to being calming down a bit until the girl in red charged straight towards the deathstalker only to have no affect on it. "She's fucked." He said in a calm voice as he saw her being chased.
Nyla getting frustrated snatched the binoculars away from him and looked through before nearly falling out of the tree they were in in surprise at the sight of Ruby getting pinned to the ground by a nevermore feather. "RUBY!" She shouted before jumping out of the tree and tossing the binoculars into the air.
Icarus caught the pair and looked through them as his teammate sprinted towards the scene. "If she'd of waited a minute then she'd see it's okay." He said as he watched a blur of white appear in front of the girl and protected her. As he looked through the binoculars he almost missed the low growl that was coming from behind him, he turned his head to the noise and quickly paled. Icarus let out a groan. "Oh fuck me."
A little earlier
King and Gul were walking in the direction they heard gunshots from. Eiko was trailing behind acting as a rear guard. As they approached the edge of the forest King stopped. "Hold a moment, theres something happening in the distance."
"Yeah I see it to." Eiko came up next to them and sniffed the ground briefly before looking up and turning to Gul who placed a hand on Eiko before he looked off in the direction of the temple where he saw several figures. "Your right she's over there." He said to the lion. His eye then widened as he saw the girl they were talking about charge a deathstalker.
Without really thinking Gul jumped onto Eikos back and the two took off towards the girl, Gul's instincts were telling him something really bad was gonna happen to her. King just stood and watched his partner take off before smiling and began walking towards the temple to collect their relic.
Eiko was running at top speed towards the girl who had now started running away from the two huge grimm chasing her. Gul drew his weapons and prepared to leap off his friend as they neared. As the deathstalker shot its stinger towards the pinned girl time seemed to slow and Eiko in a final burst of speed was able to slam into the side of the giant scorpion with the force of a speeding freight train sending it sliding across the ground, and Gul had jumped off the cat moments before and shot the feather holding Ruby before tackling her to the ground and out of the way of a second barrage of feathers.
All these events took place in the span of 1.62 seconds. Ruby had no idea what had hit her when she opened her eyes and found her face pressed into a red shirt and looked up to see a cloth covered face. "You okay?" Gul asked the girl who grew red in the face and shot to her feet.
"Yeah Im good, thank you!" She shouted as she helped him up.
"Good, I'd hate to see you hurt." He said making the girl blush deeper until he fell to one knee and hissed. Ruby looked down and saw blood dripping from his leg to the ground. "Shit."
"Your hurt!" Ruby shouted as she knelt down to look at the wound, as this was happening Yang and Weiss arrived and knelt down next to the boy as well.
Gul just grunted and with a little help from Ruby, forced himself to his feet. "Don't worry about it, it's barely an inch deep. I've handled worse. Eiko we're retreating to the temple!" He shouted to the lion who was watching the deathstalker that was still recovering. The lion grunted and walked over to it's friends and took a moment to sniff his wound before giving a slight whine. "Don't worry buddy, it's not that bad." Gul then climbed onto the back of Eiko who carried him to the temple where everyone gathered.
"Gul my boy, you seem to be a bit worse for ware." King said letting out a hearty laugh, this caused Ruby to become slightly angry at King for laughing at Gul getting hurt.
"This isn't funny! He could have died protecting me like that, this is serious!" She shouted with tears in her eyes at King. Ruby hated the idea of someone getting hurt or worse because of her.
King took on a more solemn look. "My apologies dear girl, I meant no offense. However I believe I can say that if Gul here had been more seriously injured or worse while protecting you, then it wouldn't have been your fault in the slightest. Gul was the one who made the choice to take action and he did it of his own free will, therefore any consequences of those action rest solely on his shoulders. Besides, no vassal of mine would fall to such a meager foe." King said all of this with an unshakable confidence.
Ruby looked ready to argue when Gul spoke up. "He's absolutely right, I am the one who decided to help you. By the way King, did you get the relic?"
"But of course!" He then pulled a golden king chess piece out of his pocket. Gul resisted the urge to roll his eyes at his partners choice in pieces.
"RUBY!" A loud cry came from a short distance away, everyone turned to see an orange haired girl wearing a green jacket and with breasts almost as big as Yang's charging the group. When she was within a few feet the girl dived through the air and tackled Rudy to the ground. "Oh Ruby, I saw you being chased and was so worried! Are you okay?"
"Nyla?" Both Ruby and Yang asked at the same time, surprised to see their long time Signal friend here. Nyla had been good friends with Yang since they both started at Signal and after Ruby started going Nyla became like a second older sister to the younger girl. "Don't worry she's fine. Our masked hero here saved her." Yang said gesturing to Gul.
"I hate to interrupt but I feel it would be best if we all cleared out and returned to the cliff seeing as we've accomplished our task." King stated getting everyones attention. After a few words of agreement everyone grabbed a relic and began running in the direction of the cliff.
As they were running Nyla gained a frown. "I can't get rid of the feeling that I'm forgetting something." As if on cue Icarus jumped out of the forest quickly catching up to the group and constantly repeating the word 'shit' over and over. "Icarus, there you are! Whats wrong?"
"THAT!" He screamed pointing to the forest as an enormous three headed dog looking grimm came barreling through the tree towards them alongside the other two grimm.
King saw the massive creature and looked ahead at the temple they were approaching. If that Cerberus were to make to those ruins then the whole thing would come tumbling down into the ravine, he had to separate the Cerberus from the other two and deal with it somewhere else. "Gul, Nyla, new guy! Follow me." He shouted as he took off to the left. Icarus was the last to follow the command but figured he had no real reason not to. Either way he still had a giant evil dog chasing him.
King led the three along the edge of the ravine a good distance and as he'd hoped the Cerberus had opted to follow its original target. King came to a halt and spun around before firing a few rounds at the beast though they mostly just bounced off the thick bone plating over its forehead. "Do any of you have any explosives?"
"I got a few, what kind ya need?" Icarus said catching his breath and holding up a grenade.
"Anything strong enough to blow through stone. Set them around the face of the cliff behind me while we keep this beast busy." Deciding not to argue or ask questions Icarus pulled out a pair of his machetes and jumped over the side of the cliff only to catch himself by sticking the blades into the cliff face and began planting the bombs. He had an idea of what King was planning and decided to go with it.
Back up top Gul and Eiko had gotten the beasts attention when Eiko jumped onto the creature back and sank his claws into its flesh while Gul began opening fire with his right gun into any wound he could create with his left which had shifted into a one handed sickle with a razor sharp blade. Nyla was doing her best to keep it confused by kicking her scillex orbs into small portals she would opened that would spit out the orbs around the beast and would give off a large explosion of varying elements. At the moment she was using three orbs at once and and was having a bit of trouble keeping track of them all but had managed to explode one of the creatures six eyes and shatter about twelve of its teeth.
King stood his ground in front of the creature and placed his on the handle of his blade before dropping into a lower stance. "They say every king has a dragon they must conquer. Are you mine?" King dashed towards the grimm at great speeds and in a blur drew and swung his blade, completely severing the Cerberus's left front leg. he jumped back as the creature howled in pain, Nyla pause for a second to marvel at King's blade.
The blade in total length was a full nine feet long and gleamed in the sunlight. She could see two creases where the blade would fold together in order to fit in the three foot long sheath. One would think wielding a blade this long would be impractical, but King didn't appear to have any trouble as he blocked the Cerberus's fangs when it lunged at him, though he was pushed back until he was less than to feet from the edge of the cliff. He was clearly struggling to hold the beast back.
"How are those charges coming?!" He shouted towards the cliff as he pushed one of the beasts heads away from him and jammed the barrel end of his sheath in another of its eyes and pulled to trigger.
Icarus pulled himself over the edge just as King blocked another bite. "There set!"
"Get back and blow them NOW!" He shouted.
"But you'll get caught in it!" Nyla interjected.
"JUST DO IT!" He screamed as he was being pushed off the cliff. Icarus did as he was told and and pressed the button setting them off an causing a large portion of the cliff face to crumble away and made the Cerberus along with King fall down into the ravine.
"KING!" Gul screamed as he saw his partner going down and out of sight. The Cerberus let out one last roar as it fell down into the darkness and then there was silence. The three student just sat there staring at the destroyed cliff face all trying to register what just happened in their own way. Icarus frowned and walked over to Nyla who was crying over the loss of another student while Gul let out a roar of anger and started punching the ground until blood was seeping out of his knuckles. Eiko started nuzzling him and Gul pressed his face into his mane.
Everybody was so caught up in grieving that they didn't notice a figure pulled themselves over the edge of the cliff. King stood up with his sheathed blade in hand and not a scratch on him and let out a loud hearty laugh getting everyones attention. "It seems you weren't my dragon after all!" He then looked over to the other three who were all staring at him with mixed emotions. Nyla looked estatic and Icarus just shook his head with a grin. Gul was a different story.
Gul stood up and walked over to his partner before cocking his arm back and planting his fist right into King's cheek sending him to the ground. King sat up holding his cheek and looked up to see an angry Gul holding out his hand. "Don't do shit like that you idiot."
King laughed and took his hand. "I shant make any promises."
Initiations over and to be honest I'm glad. It's always the most annoying to me so its good to get it out of the way. Tell me what you all thought in the reviews. LATER.