SONG Chapter 4
The twelve students stood on the platforms ready to be launched, literally launched, into the forest. Grant was on the right side of Alex and the girl who Oliver had been talking to was on his left. Alex learned that her name was Naomi.
Ozpin said "your test starts now" and with that they were launched one by one starting with Yang on one end and a blonde guy with a sword a shield on the other.
"Easy launch, easy land" Alex saw where Grant landed and in an instant he had caught himself on a tree with his sword, then shot a round into the tree to get out.
Grant heard a deep thump on a tree behind him, without turning around he said "found me that fast huh, new record of about twelve seconds"
Jumping down from the tree, Alex replied "eh could've been faster if I didn't need to shoot to get out" he sheathed the katana and turned to meet Grants gaze.
Grant glanced right back him, walked up to him and grabbed his hand in a hard handshake "all we need is each other right bud?"
Alex shook his hand back and said it back in agreement "all we need is each other" they let go and looked around in an empty and seemingly quiet forest
"The relics are north at the edge of the forest." Grant looked at the compass he kept on him and pointed in the direction, Alex nodded in agreement as they headed out to get the task over with.
Alex stopped dead in his tracks after about five minutes of walking to where the relics were located. slowly he moved his hand toward the throwing knife on his belt line.
Grant caught on and stopped at his side, "what is it?" he readied his gauntlets for combat, and looked around "I don't see any Grimm"
Alex replied "exactly" in the blink of an eye, the katana user had thrown the knife from his belt into the eye of the Beowulf. "It's a whole pack"
Next thing they knew they were fighting and cutting down the pack one by one, but it wasn't an easy pack was bigger than a normal pack, there had to be at least twenty-five. usually there were eight, ten at most in a pack. They guessed that there had been two packs, now one big pack, working together to get a decent meal.
Grant was punching and throwing as many as he could handle before he had enough. He spinned the vial in one arm to use his fire dust, "outta the frying pan!", Grant threw a punch and an explosion of fire rang and charred any Grimm that didn't have a knife already in its face. "And into the fire!"
Alex was throwing his fan of knives, he used as back up, as fast as he could but it was still an overwhelming amount. He heard a metallic piston then a click,oh no, it's about to get hot. Alex put away the knives in his hand back in the holster for them on his belt and had ducked under Grant as he punched a massive fireball.
The Grimm had fallen and been finished with one blast, this was a good thing now that they had burned. However it wasn't a good thing that Grant had also set some of the forest on fire with that blast.
Alex got up and looked at the fire "we should probably get moving from, well this" he gestured to the fire burning around them
"Ummm yeah let's get going" they ran not knowing what direction they had been going. It was mainly north actually, but they went too far east then they wanted to.
They looked around the forest to a clearing, it was dark and empty yet something hadn't been right. Something definitely wasn't right. The two looked at each other and knew the same thing.
Grant readied his gauntlets "something big is here, do you think its a King Taijitu?" he wasn't scared but he definitely wasn't calm.
Alex responded with "no, it's presence is too big for it to be one. Even two wouldn't be this big" he knew he couldn't do this without Reapers Edge, but he didn't grab its hilt yet.
They glanced to look at each other and then they felt it. The ground trembled below them with each step the beast took. They darted their eyes around, neither of them were calm, neither of them were scared, both of them were ready.
"Alex" Grant said cautiously
"I know, I feel it too. It's got to be close" Alex was on edge, ready to fight whatever got in their way.
The stomping got louder and shook the ground more and more with each step. They both looked up from what had been nearby and they saw it.
The blood ran from Grant's eyes "oh no" was all he said
Alex had looked up and seen it, the beast that was there, shaking the ground and destroying the trees around it. Alex swallowed his breath and had spoken shallow "it's a Goliath"
The beast roared and then reared up to stomp on the two.
A flash of light happened, then there was a grip on both of their shoulders.
Alex looked at the direction and was just confused, it was Naomi, Oliver's Friend. He didn't know what she was doing or where she came from.
Grant tuned to his side to see her, he still didn't know her name, yet she still seemed to trust both of them, as she placed her hands on both of their shoulders.
"How did you find this" she shouted as a flash of light enveloped them, transporting them all the way to the trail at least thirty feet away, probably more. She had teleported them to find Oliver looking at them.
After wiping his eyes a few times, Alex saw Oliver and Naomi standing next to each other. He looked at Naomi "hey your semblance is a teleport isn't it?"
"Yes it is" she looked out of breath and tired "the more people I take the more Aura I use up"
Grant loosened his fists, as he saw he was safe "who are you?" he asked the girl.
She responded with "my name is Naomi Watts" she bowed as a courtesy.
"Well thanks for saving us back there" Alex lowered his head, "we're sorry we didn't pay much attention"
Oliver responded with "it's okay we're just glad you're safe"
Naomi nodded her head in agreement "yeah it's no big deal" she flashed a smile at Alex
Alex noticed but just turned around to look at the forest behind them, "it's not giving up, we better find the relic and get out of here"
"We already have ours, it's just up the road" Oliver stood up "we'll take you there"
"If you say so" Alex got up, tired of having to be saved by a person he's never met, He wasn't sure about Naomi but he trusted Oliver and He trusted her. Even though she did save his life and Grant's.
Grant followed behind the two, with Alex at his side. Grant didn't care he'd been saved, but he knew it would be hard to forge a team with other people. He did indeed like some people, but Alex didn't trust people that easily.
Alex saw the ruins along with a few pieces missing, he got the attention of Oliver and Naomi in front of them and said "you guys can head back now we have it from here'
Naomi simply responded with "we'll be seeing you around then as they turned around. Alex and Grant walked over to the relics.
They saw all the relics, it didn't matter which one they picked though. It was odd however because they had to take chess pieces as the relics.
Grant walked up and picked one up "we'll take this one" he picked up the black knight, there was the sound of an explosion, Grant stuffed it in his pocket and looked towards the source of the explosion
Out came flying, Yang, Ruby, a girl with long black hair and a bow they've never seen before. A girl with a hammer, a boy in green with two pistols, the same blonde guy with a sword and shield from the beginning, and the world renowned fighter everyone knew Pyrrha Nikos. They all fell onto the ground, glad no one else was there as there was already enough in danger as it was Grant and Alex ran towards the pile of people to help
Alex looked and he saw something that took away his calm, a Nevermore flew overhead. Something that made him stand his ground, a Death Stalker walked out of a brush of trees. Something that made him draw his sword. He saw Oliver and Naomi running away from the Goliath and brought it here of all places. Lastly he saw something that terrified him, and riddled his body with fear, he saw Weiss Schnee come running towards the heap of people too.
Grant gripped his nose and just mumbled two words "oh no" he readied his weapon as Alex had readied his.
