CH 4

3rd Person

"So, this doesn't look good, what do we do now," Rose asked?

Crystal just went into a deep fighting stance, her cannon at the ready. She moved fast, too fast to see. Her foot was slamming into Desmond, throwing him into a wall. Spinning she kicked Rose and threw her against the wall as well. Crystal managed to dodge her attack and shoot at her face. Her left blade came up and slammed into the round, slicing it in two. Desmond pulled his sword out of the wall and they suddenly began to shoot electricity from them which extended out of the blade a little. He charged and Kagami caught a hold of the large blade. Her arm began to spasm before she threw a punch at Desmond's face. Desmond blocked with his smaller sword, before it shattered under the impact. Desmond went flying again as bullets were thrown everywhere as they collided and deflected off of the almost living chains that spun and writhed through the air. She brought her blades up above her head and rested them against each other as she whispered, "Howling!"

A massive roar ripped through the arena, shattering the windows of the skylight above. Crystal was trying to blast her but wasn't having any luck as she struggled to fight through the pain. Rose ran at her, her fist clenched to deliver a massive blow as she seemed almost entirely unaffected by the sonic attack. Her fist tore the air but was stopped when Kagami said, "times two!"

She was thrown flying as the sonic blast doubled in strength. Then she felt a sharp pain in the back of her right arm, turning she saw Crystal holding her katana which was about halfway through her arm. Her white blood was spraying from the cut as she spun around and backhanded the girl across her face, causing her to real backwards. Kagami appeared in front of her and she barely had time to pull her cannon up to guard. The taller girl began to pound on the cannon repeatedly, pushing her back. Finally she got tired of the guarding and wrenched the cannon from Crystals hand, then broke it over her knee, shattering it into pieces. With her weapons gone Kagami began to pummel her, slamming her knee into the unfortunate girls stomach before kicking the side of her leghard enough to break the joint and finally throwing the unfortunate girl to the ground.

Kagami sheathed her swords and watched as the physically broken girl pulled herself up, gasping and falling several times from the pain. She kneeled down in front of the girl and gently removed the Grimm bone mask. The girl underneath was almost identical to Kagami save for her eye and hair color, which were blue and black respectively. Kagami held her hand out to the girl who struggled to take it. Once Crystal had taken her hand Kagami pulled her against herself, warmly embracing her smaller twin. It took a few seconds before Crystal returned the embrace. After a short time they separated and Kagami stood up, and promptly kicked her in the chest, sending Crystal flying through the doors and out into the hallway.

"I see you enjoyed yourself," Ozpin said as Kagami walked out into the hallway.

She brought her wrist sword up under his chin as she walked past him, a sharp glare in her eyes. Rose pulled herself up and ran over to Crystal.

"Are you alright?"

"*Cough* I'm fine, see to Desmond, he needs more attention than I do," Crystal replied as she tried to pull herself up.

She was coughing up blood and her left arm and right leg were mangled. Rose ran over to Desmond and who had passed out against the wall, blood flowing out of his ears. They were both hurt but nowhere near as badly as Crystal. It shocked Rose when she stood up with the help of a sword that had appeared out of nowhere. Crystal's armor had begun to fall apart to reveal her body underneath. She had a skinny athletic build and wore a black bikini top, short shorts, gloves that went up into her jacket, knee high boots, and a black trench coat, with white accents and a white five point star on the back. She began to limp off somewhere, probably to the nurses office and when people offered her help she bluntly refused it.

Rose was running hard to catch up to Kagami. She was going to make her pay for what she did to Crystal! Turning a corner she saw her leaning against one of the walls. As she ran up to her and took a deep breath before starting, then she froze. The sleeve of her right arm was stuck to her skin from blood dripping from her gash and she was coughing violently. With each cough more blood dripped from between the fingers of her right hand which she was using to cover his mouth. Her left hand was clasped tightly over the cut on her arm.

"Are you alright," Rose asked as she stopped coughing?

"I'm fine," Kagami said before another coughing fit brought her crashing to her knees.

"You need help, come on, let's get you to the nurse," Rose said as she kneeled down next to her.

"I don't need to go to the nurse," Kagami said, her voice getting a little slurred, "I just need to get back to our dorm."

"Alright, I'll help you, just put your weight on me and take it easy," she said as she pulled her right arm around her shoulders and helped her stand up.

As soon as they got to their dorm room Kagami lurched towards her nightstand and opened the bottom drawer. She opened a box in the very back and pulled a bottle filled with a white fluid out. She grabbed the cork in her teeth and yanked it open. Spitting out the cork she downed the whole bottle in one gulp. She shuddered a little before she stood up and began to pull off her jacket. Once it was off she opened the top drawer and pulled out a first aid kit. Grabbing a curved needle and some wire from the box she began to get everything ready to stitch the cut closed. When she was about to put the needle through her skin a small hand stopped her.

"Lie on the bed, stomach down, and keep your arm out, I'll stitch it shut," Rose said as she took the needle from her.

Kagami did as she said and she began to close the wound. She hadn't taken any pain killers but it didn't seem like she was hurting. She also seemed like she knew what she was doing. Rose wondered how often she had had to patch herself up, she had a scar on the right and left side of her stomach, and there was a small scare running from the bottom of the left side of her breast plate as well as several on her back. She began to ask her questions while she carefully closed her wound. She answered each one without much hesitation and, in spite of how much she came off as a rude, and arrogant bitch, she got the impression that she was actually not as bad as she seemed. As she wrapped her arm with bandages she realized she had stopped answering her questions. Glancing at her face she saw that Kagami had fallen asleep and even though she always looked serious, even cold, when awake, while asleep she looked peaceful and happy.