And here's the next chapter of this story. sorry about the wait but life gets in the way as College start entering my life again.
I got not much to say about this other than the fact that one of the reviewers complained about how weak Ophis in this story. I understand how you're feeling seeing such an OP character turned into a... less capable... than the original but I have reasons for why Ophis acting like that -and other stuff that maybe not-so-DxD like the supernaturals using firearms- and I already have the background story for this
Also, I'm aware of my grammar and after posting this chapter I will check any grammar mistakes before going back writing the next chapter
that being said let's on to the chapter
Info:
"Kunou: Konnichiwa Minna-san, Kunou desu" - people talking
"Ophis: Deutschland über alles!... wait, why am I speaking German?" - people talking in different language/implication
[Ravel: 'Merica! FUCK YEAH!] - speaking through the scroll, communication circle, or other comm. devices
'Lilith: Bozhe Moi... BLIN! Will you shut up cyka! I'm playing CSGO here!' - thoughts
(P.S. I'm considering about asking for help from Beta-reader but I need to read the terms about Beta-reader first before I choose to decide to choose one)
Ruined temple
Blake's POV
Is this place really hard to find? We spent at least 20 minutes here waiting for another initiate to arrive, and no one –except the one who already took the relics- come here nor at least passing by
"Man, where are they? Is this place really hard to find?"
My partner here, the blonde Goldilocks Yang Xiao-Long was the one who suggested me to wait for the other initiates because it will easy for us to bust through Grimm with more manpower. Though knowing our interaction with certain sexy raven-haired girl last night, I think she's waiting for her sister
We should've moved back to the cliff right now, but understand her reason I just go along with her 'I should've brought one of my books with me if I know I will be waiting like this'
"I'm sure they're on their way" I assured her
But on the inside, I'm also wondering where they are
I took a walk around the ruin looking around just to ease my boredom. I look at the pedestals and I saw multiple chess pieces which are the relic of this initiation
Around me, I only found the green view of trees, bushes, and Yang stretching her hand
Looking up in the sky I saw a blue sky decorated with white cloud
And looking down I saw strange symbol with trace of strong Aura linger on it
Wait what?
I stop my walk and quickly kneel on the ground and inspect it
A strange symbol carved into the ground
The symbol looks like a family crest belongs to an aristocratic noble of every kingdom in Remnant yet I never saw nor recognized this one. But what made me curious is the Aura lingers in air it's a strong one I can tell but it seems dormant
"You found something, Blake?" I turn around and saw my partner approaching me. Seems she's curious too
"Yang, do you know what this symbol is?" she leans over and looks at it
"Nope, I saw a lot of gangster syndicate symbol but never saw one like but I think it's a big shot symbol"
That's not what I'm talking about Yang… but with that answer, I guess you don't even know
I let out a sigh and decide to inspect it even further, but as I touch the crest a sudden burst of energy flow from it. The energy gradually getting stronger and it keeps goes on that my senses started blaring again.
It's the same feeling when I fought Lilith and Ophis's Aura leak
But it emitting different feel.
Lilith's Aura is like a predator hunting its prey and giving sense of insecurity
Ophis's Aura feels like an apex predator showing its dominance
But this one is disorienting and to be honest the Aura give me a nauseous feeling and I think it's messing with my senses even further even suffocates me a little
The crest now started glowing brightly that I had to shield my eyes "Blake! What did you do?!"
"I don't know! I didn't even do anything!" now around the crest, an orange energy flow around the crest and started forming a lot of unknown letters arranged in circular motion now it's starting to look like a Glyph. Then the next scene will be forever burned in my mind from center of the circle, I saw four figures slowly coming up
I saw the multi-drill haired girl, a fox faunus wearing some sort of uniform, and the twin Raven-haired beauty emerging from the circle.
And that's when I realize, it's Ophis and her associates
Their faces look tense yet somewhat relief, sweat rolling on their cheeks and their hands tightly grip their respective weapons
The circular glyph glows again before completely disappear and those four start scanning their surrounding
'uhh… my head…' I quickly fall to the ground as I put a hand on my temple as I got a serious headache
There's clearly something not right here, I've met a lot of experienced huntsman or huntress some of them are quite strong and yet their Aura didn't emit this kind of side effects and these four… no, three… I don't know which one but I'm guessing it's either the fox's Aura or the multi-drill haired girl's Aura
"W-what? How? Ophis, how can you do that?" my partner asked
Ophis and her associates snap their attention at us and brought their weapons train on us "Wait, Wait! It's me, Yang!"
Ophis seem to notice us and move her finger from the trigger "Yang?" Ophis gesture her friends and sister to lower their weapons before casually spin her large machine gun before it turns into her Greatsword and casually put it on her back "Sorry, I thought you're something else"
"Nah it's fine, just don't do that again" Yang wave her hand at her "what happened to you? It seems you've been through hell?"
"You bet I was, we met a lot of Grimm and my friend here…" she gestured the multi-drill haired blonde to which she returns the gesture with a wave "… use her Semblance to transport us here to get away from them"
So it's the blonde on her team that gives me this feeling. Now that I think about it, she did emit a strong killing intent when she's emerging from the Glyph
Even though the Aura from the glyph is gone, the effect on my body still linger and I'm still trying to control my breathing and regain my senses again
"…oh I almost forgot, let me introduce you Kunou Inari, Lilith my sister, and this is Ravel Phenex" she gestured at each of them "and guys this is Yang Xiao-Long I met her last night
"Nice to meet you" The fox faunus greet
"Hey" her sister followed
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Yang" and lastly the blonde
"Good to see you too, my name's Yang Xiao-Long and the black-haired babe behind me is Blake" Yang Introduce ourselves to Kunou and Ravel "Wait, Phenex? As in Ravel Phenex the owner of Phoenix's Tear Bar and Lounge?" Yang seems to widen her eyes when she heard the Ravel's name
"It seems my reputation precedes me, yes I am"
"Oh man, I never thought I'm going to meet you!" Yang said giddily before grabbing her hand and shake it "I've been dying to try the drinks in your bar but I never had the time, I heard you sold great stuff"
"Well, I do personally choose my suppliers and I have a lot of experience in recognizing good liquor so-"
And so Yang and Ravel exchanges word casually while I'm here dealing with a headache and breathing trouble. How can she shrug that aura off? Even the smallest amount of such Aura could put Hunter trainees to edge even knock them up cold or at very least affect their body like I do
Why didn't it affect Yang?
Is she strong enough to stand against such aura or maybe… because I'm a Faunus with an enhanced sense that only I or my brethren that could only detect such aura?
"Hey, you okay?" I look up to see the fox Faunus came up to me and give a concerned look
"N-no I'm not, I got a massive headache" I'm not going to sugar coat it because this is really hurting me
"Hang on" she went behind me and kneels as I felt her hands gently touch my temples and faintly I could hear her muttering something
Suddenly, I could feel my Aura flaring beyond my control, I start to panic but I couldn't do anything as a flow of Aura entering my body it went from the head before spreading all across my body. At first, I thought it's worsening my condition but as seconds passed I could feel my headache slowly dissipating and there's a warm comforting aura "There" she said as she removes her hands from my temples "I ease your pain and recharged your body"
True to her word the splitting headache is gone and my body feels… invigorated
I turn around facing her who now had a wide smile while her tail sway slowly "so how do you feel?"
"I feel great" no headache, no tense muscle, and my body feel lighter "What did you do?"
"It's a family technique that has been passed down from my mother, keep in mind this is not a Semblance, but an advance Aura manipulation where I could stimulate your Aura with mine and then I can manipulate your Aura to not only ease up your pain but also enhance your body for a period of time"
So she can do that
"I see… thank you, Kunou"
"Your welcome, Blake!" she cheerfully replied
I'm not going to question any further about her abilities or her associate's abilities, but even though I'm grateful for her aid I'm still wondering about these new two individual
Ravel emitting a -literally- disorienting Aura
And Kunou, even though it's not a killing intent, she emitted a calm soothing Aura yet I could feel a hint of mischief in it
Those four are something different from the rest of initiates, they're stronger than meets the eyes.
~oOo~
Third Person POV
A minute later
"Chess pieces?" Ophis raise an eyebrow when her eyes met with said relic.
When the headmaster said the 'relic' word, she imagined that she and her partner would get an idol statue artifact and maybe a… trap-activating relic that would lead her running away from a large boulder –or Grimm in this case- but no, the relic is simply chess pieces
'Meh… it could be something much worse'
"I was hoping something else when headmaster said relic" Ravel walk toward Ophis as she looks over the chess pieces "but I stop complaining because he uses chess pieces for the relic because that's the basic idea for Evil Pieces," she said beaming with a pride on her face
"You and your Devilish pride"
"That's what I am Ophis" Ravel reply with a smile "so which pieces should we take?"
Ophis put her hand on her chin as she looks over the relic. There's plenty to choose though but something caught her attention when she's looking for a certain piece. It's a Queen piece. Unlike the other pieces, the Queen piece donned in silvery-white color.
'too bad it's not black,' Ophis thought, but she can understand that. In a world where her favorite color was actually the color of a disgusting creature of Grimm, the Huntsman need a color that represents hope and dream of humanity to be free from the clutches of darkness
Ophis inspect the Queen piece before she clutches it in her hand 'oh well, beggar can be chooser'
"Let's take the strongest piece" it's a simple yet symbolic statement.
In Chess, Queen is the second-most valuable piece after the king. It's also the strongest piece since it more mobile than Rook and Bishop with the ability to move vertically, horizontally, and diagonally with no restriction. Same traits also applied in Devil peerage. While in Rating Game. The Queen piece is the strongest piece in a Devil peerage. They got the strength of a Rook, Speed of a knight and a magic boost of a Bishop.
Overall, the Queen chess piece act as an elite unit to eliminate other pieces or act as the last bastion to protect the king should the other piece fail
"Why not take the pawn piece?" Ophis give a thought about the pawn but quickly dismiss it. It's good to take consideration of pawn pieces since they have the ability to promote into stronger pieces like Knight or Queen
However,
"Despite the usefulness of 'Promote' ability…" Ophis look at Ravel with a serious look "did you really want to become a pawn in someone's game? Or become an expendable asset?" Either in Chess or Rating Game, Pawn is nothing more than weak pieces an expandable asset. What they lack in power department they compensated it with numbers and the ability to promote into another type of chess piece when they reach enemy or inside hostile territory in Rating Game increasing their value/power in the process.
Although there is a certain statement in regarding 'pawn takes the Queen/King' and Devils who held the title as strongest Pawn back then including certain Boosted Gear wielder, Beowulf descendant and Diehauser Belial, no matter how valuable the person is (i.e. Sacred Gear wielder, ancient magic user, OP Sacred Gear, etc) it doesn't change the fact that Pawn is still –and always be- an expandable piece
Besides, why do you want to become a pawn when you can immediately be a Queen?
"Hey, it's just a piece of initiation's props, nothing too serious" Ravel shrug at her statement
"Maybe… but I rather choose the strongest piece which represent our power from the start" Ophis knew that the chess pieces is just a prop, but in a school to train a warrior even a small aspect like a prop sometimes will affect the judge's judgment on the initiates, usually as a method to determined which team is ready for action or for a trivial thing like a team placement
"Okay fair enough" and with that Ravel grab the other queen piece
After picking up their pieces both Ophis and Ravel step away from the pedestals and walk back toward their other companions. Both of them saw Lilith and Kunou exchange words with Yang and Blake
Yang was complimenting and comparing her gauntlets with Lilith's Void Charger ignoring Lilith's predatory eyes while Kunou has a friendly chat the cat Faunus in disguise
"Oi Kunou, Lilith! Go grab your relic we're leaving after you're done"
Both Lilith and Kunou look at Ophis and nod at her before excusing themselves from Blake and Yang to get their own pieces
"So, I assume you already collected your pieces?"
"We did and we should go back to the cliff but I'm waiting for my-"
* KYYYYYYAAAAAAA!*
"Some girl's in trouble!" yang exclaimed
Meanwhile, Ophis palm her face knowing exactly who own that voice 'Damnit Jaune, what are you getting into now?' but despite hearing the shrill shriek of Jaune, Ophis also heard something else coming from the sky, Ophis look up to the sky searching for the source and immediately found it. Ravel and Blake also notice this and quite dumbfound at the sight
"Guys, do you hear that? What should we do? Guys?" Yang was ignored by Ophis and Ravel as their eyes still looking at incoming object
Blake, however, simply pointing upward prompting the blonde brawler to look up in the sky at the same direction Ophis and Ravel looking and were greet by the sight of her sister falling down from the sky
"Heads uuuuuup!"
"Should I?" Ravel asked without averting her gaze
Ophis briefly look to her side before looking back at falling Ruby "no need, I'll do it" Ophis raise one of her hand and immediately a small magic circle with purple serpent biting its tail stylized in Infinite-shaped crest hover on her palm. She created a simple magic circle containing a small amount of her power which upon activation whoever/whatever come through the circle will be cover in her magic and stop them in mid-air by erasing the gravity around them
Out of nowhere, Jaune suddenly flew into Ruby changing their collision course to a nearby tree causing Ophis to quickly react and throw the circle right in front of their collision course. The circle expands wide enough for both Ruby and Jaune to pass through the circle. As their body pass the circle, they immediately stop and literally floating in mid-air preventing them from crashing into the tree
Both Ruby and Jaune look surprised but mesmerize and confused respectively
"Whoa! This is cool!" Ruby said as she moves her body around
"Wait, what happen? Why am I floating?" Jaune said as he tried to comprehend what just happened
Ophis snap her fingers and make the circle disappear and in the process as well as the energy covering both Ruby to disappear letting the gravity do their job again
"Oop!"
"Omph!"
Ruby land perfectly on her two feet while the casual knight land on his face
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?"
"I..."
"YEEEE-HAAAWWW!"
Before Yang could answer her partner, she was interrupted by several crashing noises coming from the forest with an Ursa coming out flailing its arms as it knocked out several trees. Then, a pink bolt of energy blasted on its back making the bear-looking Grimm collapse and reveal a girl with orange hair and white suit
"awww… it's broken" Nora said as she observes the Grimm as another appearing behind her
Lie Ren breathed heavily as though he's been marathon while in reality he's been following Nora around while said girl rampaging through the forest "Nora… Please… don't ever do that again" he wheezed out before looking up at his partner only to find out his partner was gone
Said girl now in the temple balling her eyes at gold-colored Rook piece "oooooh…" she whistled as she grabs the relic hold it close to her chest before singing "I'm Queen of the Castle! I'm Queen of the Castle!"
"NORA!"
"Hee Hee Hee! Coming Ren!" she called out as she skipping back to her partner
Meanwhile, Kunou and Lilith who standing nearby -with Queen pieces in their hands- sweatdropped at the scene that just occurred
"That's… not the weirdest thing we ever saw right?" Lilith whispered to the fox youkai
Kunou shivered as certain memory flashing inside her mind "yes, but to be honest, her oddity put me on edge" she whispered back
Eventually, they drop the issue and walk back to Ophis
Back with Yang and Blake they still dumbfound at the sight of the girl riding an Ursa
"Did that girl just ride in on Ursa?" Blake asked once again
"uh..." Yang was interrupted again as a shrill screech can be heard. All of the initiates look upon the tree line and they can see Phyrra Nikos running away from a Deathstalker as she jumping and dodging its massive claws
the Faunus girl who's left dumbstruck utter the only word she can think of with her monotone voice "Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?"
with all her partner's remarks and the odd occurrences Yang -literally- explodes "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! COULD EVERYONE CHILL OUT BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?!"
As the chaotic -yet humorous- situation developed Ophis and the other supernatural beings couldn't help but watch them from afar with a small smile on her face
"I don't know why, but seeing this situation odd situation bring some memories back" Ophis commented as she leans on the hilt of her sword which embeds on the ground
"Well we did a lot of stupid but fun together back then" Ravel stated with hands on her hips
"Good times" Kunou added as she closes her eyes and reminisces with a smile on her face
"hmm..." Lilith hummed at it
Back with the other initiates, Ruby look at the sky with a worried look before tugging Yang's sleeve like a child "umm... Yang?"
Yang let a frustrated sigh as she knew what's going to happened, as she looks at the sky she's put in shock again
There's the Schnee heiress flying... by hanging by the talon of a Nevermore... a very large Nevermore
"How could you leave me?" The heiress managed to shout amidst the howling wind
"I said jump!" Ruby shrugged at her response
"She's going to fall" Blake chimed in
"She'll be fiiiiiine" Ruby wave it off though her face shows different reaction than her words
All of the initiates -except Phyrra who's still trying to shake off the Deathstalker- watches as the heiress lose her grip on the Nevermore and start falling to the ground
"She's falling" Ren join in stating the Obvious
'thanks a lot, Captain Obvious' were the majority thoughts of the initiates
Ophis POV
I watch the heiress slowly falling to the ground helplessly as she's busy panicking to the point she forgot to do any attempt to slow her down to slow her fall and not to mention that the other initiates don't make any attempt to help her, just staring at the heiress
"hold on Weiss, I'm coming!"
Except for Jaune who's now moving to the position where the heiress would land trying to catch her
"guys, simple question, why the lots of you don't make any attempt to save the Schnee?" I asked for everyone present including my peers
"well, um... she claimed she's leagues above me so..." Ruby trailed off
"I kinda dislike her for dissin' my sister so..." Yang replied while shrugging
"..." Blake just keeps the word to herself
"I... have other matter that requires my utmost attention" Ren, you're just standing there watching her falling to the ground not saving a village from evil monster
"Hehe Pancake for dinner" really Nora? REALLY!?
"I don't have a problem with her, I just want to see how she handles the situation," Kunou said while fidgeting
"I kinda have a problem with the Schnee so... I don't want to involve myself with her, thank you very much" Ravel said normally. I thought you said you saw her as a rival? but then again a lot of things must've happened so I will hold that thought
"100 Lien for autopsy report stating that she had multiple broken bones, cracked skull, and multiple organs turned to mush" at her remarks all of the initiates turn their attention toward Lilith who's sporting a bored look on her face
"Really Lilith?"
"What? That's possibility and this is my way to say 'I don't to help her' she's her own woman and soon-to-be huntress, if she can't survive this then there's no point of her becoming a huntress" she calmly stated while the other -except our kind- looks disturbed at her
I don't what's gotten into you Lilith, but it seems you don't like the Schnee for whatever reason or just a plain sadist where you enjoy people suffering, I hope it's the former because you're my clone and your actions also my responsibility.
Seeing that most of us don't have any intention to save her, it's to me now to help her now. Jaune alone didn't have enough strength to stop her fall. Say whatever you want about catching princess falling from the sky but if physics works here, then Jaune's physique alone is not enough to catch the heiress who's now speeding into the ground at alarming rate
I let out a sigh, before quickly create the same magic circle from before, and throw it below the heiress
a large magic with my crest appear beneath her and as she passes through the circle she gradually slowing down until she stops completely into Jaune's arms as my power dissipates
"What? How? Who did this?" She questioned but stop completely when she notice where she landed
"Hey, Weiss…" Jaune greeted sheepishly
"Let me go!" the heiress start thrashing around in his arms. Due to the wild movement, she caused, Jaune was forced to let her go and let the heiress fall on her butt. The heiress sent an icy cold at the poor boy for letting her fell to the ground –though it's her fault for trashing around- and Jaune just smiles sheepishly at her
"Umm… sorry?"
"Forget it," Weiss said as she stood up and regain her composure before walk away from the knight while sulking
Geez… if I know she will give him such cold reaction I wouldn't bother put her down on his arm
What a waste of effort
"tch… there goes my money" Lilith clicked her tongue while she handed a single piece of 100 Lien money to… Kunou?!
What? Why? Kunou you're the kindest soul I've ever met centuries ago how could you…
You know what? I'm going to pretend I didn't hear my sister remark on her nor notice the fact that Kunou and Lilith betting on something. Nope, didn't hear anything about their betting money on the Schnee
On to another matter, I saw the red-haired Spartan girl Phyrra knocked away by the Deathstalker and land on her side in front of us
"Welp, the gang's all here! Now we can die together" Yang Jokingly declared
"Not if I can help it" and with that with a loud battle cry Ruby charge at the Deathstalker
"Ruby, wait!" Yang tried to stop her but to no avail, it's too late. Using the recoil generated from Crescent Rose, Ruby propel herself toward the massive scorpion
Is she out of her mind?! That's a high-tier Grimm and an old one too, charging alone means suicide!
And to further approve my point on the Grimm, the scorpion Grimm knocked Ruby away with its pincer-claw
"D-Don-Don't worry… totally fine" Ruby struggle to get up she turn around to realize that the Grimm took a chance to get close to her, now staring at her with its hungry eyes. Panic got the better of her, she fired several rounds at the Grimm –only to irritate it- and quickly turn away from the Grimm using her legs to run as fast as she could
Yang who realized the danger her sister was in begin to sprint to rescue her sister. But at this moment, my ears picked disturbance in the air and notice the large avian Grimm circling back aiming its body at Ruby and soon, it flaps its massive wings downward unleashing rain of its feathers, the points were sharp as any blade ever exist. The rain of sharp feathers embedded deep onto the ground. Ruby, being the unfortunate victim, got one of the feathers run straight through her cloak pinning her down
Several more of the feathers manage to find their way to Yang causing her to stumble backward barely avoid being skewered to death
Then the Nevermore reposition itself in the air before sending another barrage of feathers at our posi…tion
SHIT!
"SCATTER!"
Needless, to say everyone in the group quickly responds to my warning and rolled out of the way avoid being skewered by the massive feathers as it embedded deep where we situated before
I don't like being separated like this. Because this a moment of weakness where the enemy could pick us off one by one
"HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!"
…curse you Murphy's Law
I snap my attention to where the cry of help and I saw the Schnee heiress in its Talon before taking off into the sky again. It seems that the Nevermore use its feather barrage to separate as well to distract us before dive bombing to grab its distracted prey. Weiss also couldn't do anything as I saw her stricken by its claw and her weapon lay harmlessly on the ground meaning she lost it when the Nevermore catches her
"Crap" I quickly grab my weapon and change it to the second form and quickly channel my Nothingness power to the barrel ready to obliterate the Grimm
But just as I was about to fire, another desperate plea came to my ears
"Ruby! Get out of there!"
"I'm trying!"
I saw Ruby panicking as she tried to break free while the older sister could only watch in desperation as the Deathstalker getting closer prepping its massive stinger to skewer its target
Curse it! I'm not letting my friend die!
"Ravel! Kunou! Get the Schnee back to the Ground! Lilith, come with me!" and with that, I blink away
~oOo~
Third Person POV
Ruby couldn't feel so stupid in her life. What was she thinking? charging with reckless abandon at an old experienced Grimm alone? Is it because she wanted to prove something? Or she really thought she can take the challenge to defeat it alone?
'Silly me' she weakly thought
As the Deathstalker bring down its stinger upon her, she could only close her eyes hoping for the worst to happen
*CLANG!*
Instead of stinger meeting flesh sound, ruby can hear a strange noise, it seems like someone swing a sword slammed to a shield. Opening her eyes, Ruby could see Ophis standing in front of her with Ophis's hand outstretch creating a large magic circle in front of her while trapping the massive scorpion's stinger stuck into the magic circle
"O-Ophis"
"You alright Ruby?" Ophis asked without looking at the young reaper
"I'm fine… just a bit dizzy from the impact"
"That's good to hear" Ophis replied "now I want you to retreat to the temple and let me handle this"
"B-but-"
"No butts Ruby! I wouldn't tell you to retreat if I didn't know how to handle this Grimm" Ophis barked
Ruby don't know why, but Ophis's statement give her certainty that Ophis could handle this Grimm but then again, the fact that she could trap and make the Grimm start thrashing around to get its stinger free is enough for the young Reaper to believe that Ophis is strong enough to fight the old Grimm
Just as she thought about it another figure appears beside her, she looks like Ophis but with a ponytail, side bangs, gray zip-down Jumpsuit, black tank top, Cool looking gray gauntlets, and red predatory eyes. The new girl surprised her a bit if not scared her with her red eyes
"w-who are you" Ruby stammered
"I'm Lilith, Ophis's relatives and I'm going to get you out of here" without any more words, Lilith pluck the large feather pinning Ruby and grab her by the shoulder
"Hey, put me-" her protest was cut short as Lilith 'blink' away taking Ruby with her before re-appearing beside Yang and grab her by the waist and blink away again from the premise
Back with Ophis who's now sending death glare at the massive scorpion
"You tried to kill her" Ophis began as her eyes grow colder
"I'm going to make you pay just for that" Ophis dismiss the magic circle letting the stinger go
Noticing that its stinger finally free, the massive scorpion waste no time and pull its stinger backward before launch it forward again to skewer its prey
Ophis just standing with a blank expression on her face as the stinger come closer, Ophis right hand quickly covered with leaking purple aura. She reared her hand before sending a sharp punch at the stinger
*BOOM! CRACK! SQUELCH!*
A purple blast erupted as Ophis fist meets with the stinger, normally the result would be a destroyed arm but that's only happened to human. Instead of deformed arm, the sheer force Ophis let out through her fist is devastating as the Grimm's orange-yellow Stinger shatter to pieces but it didn't stop there as the explosion also produced a force-blast from her fist that forcefully rip a huge chunk of the Deathstalker's tail leaving a large stump on it
The Deathstalker roar in agony but despite being injured, the Deathstalker didn't back off and charging Ophis while lifting one of its massive pincers to clench its prey to death. Ophis is not going to let that happen, she simply clicks her finger another magic circle appears just as the claw few inch close to her, trapping and stopping the pincer dead in its tracks. Ophis quickly use this moment to draw her large blade and speed through the Grimm's connecting joint and cut it clean with her blade letting the drop to the ground harmlessly. The massive scorpion roar in pain again, it tried to locate its prey again but it can see anything but purple blur speeding around. And before it could react, The Grimm lost another pincer as a blur went past its joint leaving the Grimm with no means to defend itself
Ophis cease her movement and stop in front of the Grimm. Her eyes still show the same level of coldness she showed before
And she's is not done with the scorpion
Ophis casually walk approach the Grimm –which is now to distracted with the pain- when she got close enough, she curls her unoccupied hand to a fist and send an uppercut to its jaws making the massive scorpion thrown backward and forced to stand with its rearmost legs leaving it open to attack. And Ophis quickly use the opportunity to change Tranquila Oblivia to the gun-sword form and quickly channel her Nothingness power to the barrel and create another magic circle at the tip. Ophis fired and as the energy bullet glows brighter as it passes through the magic circle and speeding to the Grimm unprotected belly. Upon contact with the Grimm, it explodes in a violent manner. Since the explosion didn't create a smoke upon detonation, she could see large gaping hole on the Grimm before the corpse of the Grimm fall backward and slowly evaporates
"Serves you right, bastard…" Ophis, change back her weapon back to normal before she put back on her back "Now… back to the other"
~oOo~
Earlier with Kunou and Ravel
"… This is a crazy idea"
"Come on, this is the only way to catch the Grimm off guard"
"But really? We're going to risk Weiss's life just to save her! Couldn't you just fly to her?" Kunou let out a sigh at the crazy idea Ravel just proposed that might just work. During the course of the post-apocalypse years, Ravel has developed… unique fondness to unusual combat tactics. One of them ambushing her enemy and obliterate them with serious firepower without leaving a room for the enemy to counter-attack albeit some methods made everyone -who knew her- to questioned her sanity because her method could risk the –supposed to be- VIP or her own life. The latter were justified. though, because the fact that she's an immortal
And she took a joy in doing it
"Now where's the fun in that?" Ravel smiled devilishly at the fox Youkai
"You know what?" as she rubs her head, Kunou lets out a defeated sigh as she conceded to Ravel's plan knowing the She-Devil wouldn't give up the plan easily "Screw this…" and with that reply, Kunou turn Tsume into its rifle form and pull the bolt of her rifle ejecting all of the bullets inside the rifle before she pulls a single round from her pocket and loads it into the chamber "…let's do it"
"Yes! If this going smoothly, this might perform flawlessly just like my calculation" again Kunou just let a big sigh at her sister figure expense
Kuno slung her rifle back as Ravel took a few steps back
Kunou activates her Senjutsu mode as her body covered with white glowing aura thanks to it, she could feel exact location of the heiress and her intended target through the wind current
Kunou gives Ravel a thumb, signaling the phoenix devil to begin
Ravel waste no time as she made a mad dash at Kunou. Kunou spins her body counter-clockwise while stretching her right leg outward, and in a split of the second Ravel jump onto Kunou's leg and balance herself on it. And when Kunou saw her target, she sent a senjutsu-powered kick to the avian Grimm launching Ravel in the process with high-speed
Not stopping there Kunou quickly grab her rifle and aim at the Nevermore. Thanks to the Senjutsu augmentation and her physical abilities she could see clearly and closer to her target. Through the iron sight of her rifle, she quickly acquired her target and pulled the trigger
*BANG!*
Unlike her normal bullet, this one was enchanted with wind magic. But it's not a normal wind magic, this one is a high-tier wind magic designed to create an extremely strong gust of that can cut through flesh
Basically, she's firing a bullet capable of generating wind blade
As the world fell into slow motion, the wind blade bullet passes Ravel by and continue speeding toward the Grimm. The bullet hit its target, the Nevermore's leg holding the heiress. It cleaved through the leg easily like a hot knife through butter
Kunou smile at her work as the Nevermore let a loud shriek lose its leg "I've done my part, now it's yours"
With Ravel
As Ravel witnesses Kunou's enchanted bullet severed one of the Nevermore's leg, Ravel quickly summons her fiery wings to fly herself to the falling heiress who's now free falling toward the ground, unable to move since she's still trapped inside the claw
"Help me! I can't move!"
"Hold on Weiss! I'm coming" Ravel waste no time as she flaps her wings propelling herself toward the severed leg. Ravel quickly latch herself to the leg and start prying the claws open
"Quick! Free me!" Weiss cried as they got closer toward the ground
"I'm trying here!"
Ravel forcefully pull the talon one by one with her hands until the heiress can move her arms and the grip on her lower body loosen
Wasting no time Ravel pull the heiress out and wrap her arm around Weiss' waist "grab on to something!" needless to say, due to reflex and fear, Weiss wrap her hands around Ravel's neck. Once she felt Weiss is holding on to her, she quickly flew off as the severed leg plummet to the ground
Now with the heiress safe in her hand, the only problem now is bringing the heiress back to the ground safely
"PHENEX! THE NEVERMORE!" … and kill the avian Grimm that still around
"I got it…" Ravel waste no time to dodge the incoming Grimm. Barrel rolling out of the way, narrowly escape the gaping maw of the Nevermore Ravel quickly gain her composure in the air while her hand reach out for the Seventh Circle and transform her baton to its massive rifle form. From her shoulder, yellowish-orange magical energy snake around her arm before slowly moving toward her rifle and slowly coat the rifle with said energy. Ravel keep channeling more and more energy to the rifle until it's starting to leaking fiery aura
"This should be enough to kill that thing" Ravel look through her rifle sight and aim it at the Nevermore which now circles around to make another pass
But before that "Weiss, I think you better cover your ears"
"are you crazy? I'm not letting my hands go"
"Well if you want to be deaf, be my guest… just don't say I didn't warn you" Weiss wondered what she means by that but upon noticing the massive rifle –bigger than Ruby's crescent rose in rifle mode- on Ravel's hand with leaking fiery aura Weiss immediately understand and quickly cover her ears… while still wrapping her hands around Ravel's neck
'I swear, she's kinda adorable when scared'
Putting that thought aside, Ravel back aiming her weapon at the Nevermore who's now open its massive beak letting a loud shriek
"Mahalo motherf-"
*KA-BLAM!*
The rifle let out a loud deafening roar as a beam orange light leave the muzzle at blinding speed slamming through the Nevermore right in the face. The Nevermore let out a painful shriek as energy explodes and as if it's alive, the flame didn't dissipate instead, it engulf the avian Grimm with wild torrential flame. Ravel lower her rifle as she watches the Grimm flailing in the air, not long after that the avian Grimm gives out and start falling to the ground as the Grimm slowly turns into ashes
Satisfied with her work, Ravel let out a smirk start flying toward the ruined temple
'heh… no Grimm could withstand the power of demonic-phoenix fire'
AN:
Anyway, that's the end of this of chapter follow and fav the story if like it and I'll see you in the next chapter.
Constructive criticism is acceptable for me, RR but please no flame.
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