"Do any of you like… ssspiders?" Aura's voice took on a slight lisp as he left an emphasis on the 'S'. The team shared a look of slight dread as the fog began to dissipate, revealing what was inside it…
…A monster. No Grimm had ever been as intimidating as what was in front of the teens now. Aura had taken on a large form, at least twice as large as the average Ursa. The form had a giant skeletal torso and skeletal version of a spider's thorax and abdomen.
(Looks kinda like this: art/Skeleton-Spider-408793045 P.s: Image not by me)
"Aw… What'sss the matter? I guesss you don't like ssspidersss after all." Aura said in his new voice. It was a few octaves higher than his normal one, but it attained a small lisp and emphasis on 'S's. Surprisingly, it was Pyrrha that broke the silence.
"No, I don't! Someone, kill it!" Pyrrha exclaimed loudly as she held her shield; Akoúo̱ over her eyes, blocking Aura from her view. Everyone looked at her in shock. They were surprised to see anything truly get under Pyrrha's skin.
"I'm sorry. I just hate spiders." Pyrrha said with a shudder. Everyone recovered as more azure energy gathered in Aura's hands.
('Spider Dance Dual Mix' starts playing)
"Asss amusssing asss thisss isss, it'sss time to end thisss." Aura said before he slammed his hands to the ground. Suddenly, the ground seemed to glow a dim azure before glowing, azure webbing began emerging from Aura's hands and spreading along the ground. Weiss, Ruby, Blake, Ren and Pyrrha responded by leaping into the air and landing on a large glyph that Weiss formed under their feet. Yang, Jaune and Nora however, didn't react in time, causing the web to reach them and wrap around their feet, trapping them.
"Ah, Dust." Yang cursed as she tried to pull her feet out of the web, to no avail. Suddenly, Aura darted forward at incredible speeds and grabbed the three trapped teenagers in his right hand. He quickly jabbed the three of them with a small stinger on his finger on his left hand before dropping them again. When the three recovered, their vision began to blur and contort, leaving them incredibly dizzy and ready to vomit. Before they fainted on the spot.
"What was that?!" Ruby exclaimed.
"I think it was some kind of venom. We need to take his hands out first." Weiss said.
"But, how do we do that? We can't touch the ground! The web's adhesive is too strong!" Blake exclaimed.
"…That's why he walked into the field… He knew we'd beat him in his normal body. We've got no vantage points to work off of." Ruby said, slightly breathless at the realisation. There was a moment of silence before Ren stood and prepared StormFlower.
"Now isn't the time for that. We need to attack in quick succession." Ren said.
"Overwhelm him. Just like last time. There's no way he's as agile as his old body. Let's do it!" Ruby said as she prepared Crescent Rose. Suddenly, many glyphs appeared around the field at varying heights and locations, causing Aura to glance around, confused.
"Use them. Make sure you don't hit the web." Weiss said calmly as she returned her focus to the glyphs. Ruby, Blake and Ren leapt off of the glyph and began to hop from glyph to glyph, firing their weapons at Aura causing him to raise his hands and use them as shields against the shots. Aura couldn't draw his attention away from the constant attack, despite none of them hitting anything but his palms. With another flash of azure from his hands, streams of webbing began to shoot up from the ground, attaching to a number of the glyphs. The web slowly spread across the glyphs they'd managed to hit, until they were completely covered. Undeterred, Ruby, Blake and Ren continued to attack as they tried to keep track of the glyphs that were still uncovered. Weiss stood back up on the first glyph, Pyrrha still next to her.
"Ready?" Weiss asked, raising Myrtenster. Pyrrha nodded, still shaking slightly and she switched Miló into its rifle form and raised it to her eye. With a flick of Weiss' wrist the Dust cylinder spun in her sword and wave of Weiss' hand, streams of baby blue energy shot from the blade's tip. The streams of energy hit Aura right on his wrists and he was shocked to see a massive build-up of ice on his wrists. Pyrrha took a gentle, calming breath before making the shot. As she shot twice, the ice around Aura's wrists shattered. And so did the wrists themselves, causing his hands to fall to the ground. Aura screeched in pain as he stumbled backwards, looking to his handless arms in panic.
With a small, somewhat adorable yell from behind him, Aura tried to turn only to see a flash of red and black as Ruby and Blake rushed towards Aura's spine as a blur before striking it as hard as they could. With the combination of Gambol Shroud and Crescent Rose slashing his vertebrae, Aura's entire torso split from the rest of his body. With a final strike as Ren leapt from a glyph and kicked Aura in the forehead, Aura's torso fell to the ground, whereas the rest of his body just collapsed. In a flash of azure, all of the webbing vanished and Yang, Jaune and Nora began to stir.
"Yang!" Ruby exclaimed happily as she embraced her sister as she groggily tried to get up.
"Ugh… What hit me?" Yang asked, still slightly dizzy.
"It doesn't matter, we beat-… Uh…" Ruby's enthusiasm immediately vanished as she looked back at Aura. Everyone followed her gaze to see that the spider-like appendages had vanished and the black fog had returned and was now covering more of the battlefield. The students were suddenly at full attention with their weapons raised, although a few of them were breathing slightly heavily. The fog began to slowly dissipate as a voice cut through the darkness and any confidence the students had left.
"You're far more skilled than I thought." The voice was completely different from the previous voices. It was deeper than any voice they'd ever heard before and it caused everyone to freeze where they stood. They continued to stare into the darkness as something was beginning to stir within it. Something big…
I guess I've just got to get these ideas out of my head. I'll probably just collapse when I finish this battle.