Gras
Chapter 6
The team is formed
"Help! I'm a lil stuck here!" Gray shouted to no one in particular.
He was upside and stuck in vines, he had tried to wriggle out of it, but it just made his vines tangle even more.
Just then he heard the bushes rustle ahead of him, he couldn't see what was there, but then he heard Scarlett voice.
"Gray! Where are you? You ok, i saw you fall!" Scarlett shouted, but still couldn't be seen.
"Up here!" Gray called out.
Scarlett then revealed herself.
"Ah using your semblace were you?" Gray asked calmly, which only made the situation more funny.
"Well be able to camoflauge does help finding the right person." Scarlett replied, again this normal conversation just made the situation more funny.
"Can you get me down?"
"Not with my weapon, it'll just hurt you. Rockets generally don't help with the whole explosion thing. And throwing Sweet Death up to you could result again in hurting you, chainsaws can be dangerous." Scarlett said knowinly.
"So guessing we wait for someone else then?"
"Yep"
They then just started to talk about where Lwaxana was.
Meanwhile Lox was walking around aimlessly, trying to gain her bearings and find Gray and Scarlett, she headed the way Gray was falling, already knowing that Scarlett would've found her brother, she still can't believe that he went ahead with his jetpack idea again, though she did admire that he tried it again. Her thoughts were disrupted as she heard rustling, activating her semblace, she then hid in a bush, knowing she wouldn't make any noise, (her semblace cancels all noise she makes), but it didn't matter as she heard music blaring, peaking out, she saw it was Reolin walking aimlessly around but still heading towards Gray, as Ray went past her, she noticed something odd, on the back of his neack she could make out a tattoo, it was in a dead language, but she had studied dead languages as part of her final grade, and could see it was a prayre type passgae.
"Forgive my sins, for what i have done
I must atone, for what I have done
For what I have done, there is no forgivness
Amara guide my path, upon my redemption
We shall meet again"
Now Lox was even more cautious and currious of Ray, who was he? What had he done? Where did he come from? And who was Amara?
"I know your there. You can come out now."
Lox almost fell out of her bush, as Ray looked at her.
"How could he know i was there? My semblace was in effect!" Lox thought to herself.
She walked out of the bush and looked at Ray's eyes. Determination in her face.
"Just who are you?"
"Simply? A ghost, i know you saw my tattoo. But that is a story for another time, but i will tell you this, don't tell anyone else, untill i tell them. But Ozpin knows who i am, and he understands a person trying to undoe his past wrong doings. And being a Hunter will do that, as to how i knew you were there? No noise is a good semblance, but you accidently cut noise to the bush and there's a breeze, so the leaves didn't rustle. But you do have a good mastery over it." Ray admitted, but Lox could see there was sadness in his face, but relief there too, as if saying this lifted a weight from his shoulders.
"Ok, well you best talk to Gray then, he's the one who really doesn't trust you, and now i know why, he will be hard to convince, but i'll be there to help. Anyway, i need your help, Gray fell not far from here i think, and looked like he was in trouble." Lox said cautiously, this new revelation disturbed her thought for Ray, while she knew she was getting attracted to him. she just couldn't get past this new information.
"Yeah? What did he do? Fly into trouble?" Ray joked.
"Actually yes," Lox replied, Ray raising an eyebrow, "Ever since he was a kid, he wanted to fly, then one day when he was in the garden, he saw birds flying, he ran after them, and next thing he knew he was walking in the air, though when he noticed, he fell straight to the ground and broke his leg. See his semblace turn out is to controll air density. He normally uses this to make small platforms to walk on, jump off etc, or he can make "air balls" to kick usually to knock people over and stuff. Though what he has done is make a jet pack, its very dangerous, as each time he has used it, he has ended up in hospital. Seems like this time it halfway worked, he just probably put too much power into it."
Ray took this information in, like Lox it turns out he does have a powerful semblace. This could be interesting.
"Well lets go find them," Ray then walked to where Gray was.
"Well i'm feeling sick now, alot of blood is going to my head." Gray said sickingly, he was almost about to puke, when once again he heard rustling. "Scarlett hide!"
Scarlett activated her semblance and went behind a few branches, enought to block people from possibly getting a view on her, and so she could attack what ever was coming if it was dangerous.
"Gray! You idiot! I told you it wouldn't work!" Lox shouted at her brother as she entered the clearing with Ray, Gray scowled at him. "Also where's Scarlett?"
It was Ray that answered, "Over there behind the branches,"He pointed to Scarlett, "Sorry, but my glasses have thermo vision. But if i didn't have it, i wouldn't have known where you were." Ray admitted.
"Ok. I have had enough of this!" Gray told Ray, "Just who are you? How can you be so calm, dress like that, have no armour, and have thermo vision glasses?" His anger rising, eyes becoming catlike with streaks of amber coming through.
With a smirk, Ray answered,
"Thats a story for another time, mate."
This just angered Gray more, but he bit down on it, and focused on getting out of this situation.
"Now that we have that out of the way for now, could someone help me down?" Gray asked the mottley group.
Ray too quick to be seen, quickdrawed one of his pistols, shot the vines holding Gray in his prison, and returned it back to his right holster, all before anyone noticed what had happened. Gray fell to the floor with a crash and an ouch, as no one saw what Ray did, and he still looked the same as he did when he came into the clearing, everyone assumed that the vines had just broke at last.
"Ouch, well that bruised my ego abit, well what are standing around here for? Don't we have a temple to plunder?" Gray asked them, trying to regain his composure and control of thwe situation.
Lox pipped up with a suggestion,
"I know! Why don't we sync up our scrolls? So we can see each others aura levels and be able to co-ordinate better."
Gray admitted that this was a good idea, and after syncing up they carried on walking north to the temple.
"Gray! Your Aura level! Its depleted alot! You really shouldn't have tried the jetpack again." Scarlett scoulded her boyfriend, showing who wore the trousers in the relationship, but also showing worry at the same time.
"It should've worked!" Gray exclaimed "It was the best one to date, the data was perfect."
Ray couldn't help but antagonise him,
"Wow(!) If an exploding jetpack is perfect," Ray said sarcastically, "I'd hate to see what a failure is."
Gray by now was seriously having problems controlling his anger, his normal jokey, happy self was dissapearing very quickly, and only keeping his hands balled in fists in his pockets kept him from drawing his swords to attack Ray.
Instead, Gray went with another tactic.
"How can you hear us? Your music is blaring stupidly loud, and yet you talk to us normally, and hear us just fine?"
"I'm used to louder noises." Ray answered somberly, sadly, this shocked Gray a little bit.
"Well that was odd, from cocky and arrogent, to sad and somber, must've hit a nerve by accident, eek. Normally i would appologise, but he is still being a dick." Gray thought to himself, feeling he had made a bad judgement on Ray.
Gray let Lox and Ray walk abit further ahead, so he could talk to Scarlett without being heard,
"I feel bad now, well nearly bad for him, but i still really don't trust him, but i feel slight empathy for him, maybe he isn't so bad, but i do want to know his 'story' before i make a full judgement."
"Wow Gray, you sure seem different now, your not normally doubtful, i like it though, you can be a little arrogant though. Well i am curious about him too, let me be with you when he tells his 'story'?" Scarlett said to Gray quietly.
Unbeknownst to Gray, Ray heard the conversation and smiled to himself.
"I'm beginning to understand why Ozpin suggested these three to be my team mates, Gray is confident and brave, and seems to have alot of empathy to people who he accidently hurts and understands what he should do. Scarlett is his rock, his emotionally tether to stop him from getting angry, but shows care to everyone, bit like a mother. And Lwaxana is the heart and soul it seems, happy, friendly and willing to be friends with everyone, she is also the brains it seems, I mean not many people can read the language of my tattoo. I think i might be happy with them. Might be."
The group made their way north again, only stopping to make sure there were no Grimm around, Ray seemed especially aware where they were and which way to avoid them, it took a while, but eventually they found the temple, it seemed there was a fight here recently, giant feathers were everywhere and a lot of them were stuck in the ground, and there was an ice structure near them, possibly to defend from the feather attack.
"Lox, Scarlett, go to the temple and get a relic, me and Ray will try to find outwhat happedned." Gray instructed.
Lox and Scarlett went to the temple, while Ray and Gray went right.
They noticed alot of footprints near the temple and Grimm foot prints too.
"Seems we have a Nevermore and a Deathstalker near by," Ray noted, "seems that eight students were here when they attacked. The Deathstalker got frozen and then they left, having got there relics."
They jerked their heads up as they heard a blood curling scream, it was Gray who spoke now
"Thats a Nevermore, its close by."
Gunshots were heard to, as well as crumbling buildings.
"That sounds expensive," Ray joked, "We best get moving soon."
Gray nodded, as Lox and Scarlett came up to them, "What did you find?"
"Chess pieces," Scarlett said,"We both picked them same one, feeling they neede to be pairs."
They both held out ther hands to which they held Black Knight Pieces.
"Nice pick." Both Gray and Ray say.
They turn their backs on the temple and were about to go back to the laucking cliff.
Gray then noticed something, tail standing straight.
"Gray? You alright?" Scarlett asked, already fearing the answer.
"No, I feel like we being hunted... We need to move now!" Gray ordered, starting to run back the way they came. But two steps into the run, howls greeted them. Alot of them.
"Beowolves," Ray said, "A large pack of them."
Beowolves then burst out of the forrest, surrounding them, led by a very large Alpha. There were at least 50 of them. And more Grimm seemed to be appearing with each second.
Gray, Lox, Scarlett and Ray all went back to back, weapons drawn. Gray had his swords in a lose en garde, he switched them to shooting mode, the blades parted, giving them a forked appearence, Lox held Vulcan Gore infront of her, the butt of the weapon facing the enemy, Scarlett had her weapon on her shoulder, readying a rocket. Ray looked impassive as usual, but had twin pistols out loosely hanging them by his legs, they looked very customised, and were far larger than most pistols.
"Well," Gray said, "Here we go."
Then the Beowolves attacked.
