A/N: so hopefully I will be able to have this chapter out sooner; cause man did my life speed up. But on the bright side I may be able to get those parts to build my pc soon! Then I can do stuff like editing, recording gameplay and doing commentary! Doubt anyone would watch me though, anyway enough of my rambling, as always please read and review to tell me how I'm doing. Enjoy
Man I wish I could own RWBY, but I don't
If there was one thing everyone could agree on at this one moment, it would be that the fall was exhilarating. Being so high in the air, the sound of the wind whipping past them, the feel of adrenaline coursing through their veins, sadly it would need to come to an end as they all began to employ their "landing strategies"
Nero pulled out his sword as he began descending; shooting small bursts of fire beneath him to slow his descent. When he got close enough to the trunk of a tree he was able to stick his sword in it and spin on the handle as if it was a bar, before jerking his body upwards and pulling it out of the tree, landing on a branch, looking up he could see some of the others above him
Orin was nervous as he began descending. He knew he had a single shot, or things wouldn't turn out well so he had to be careful. Seeing the area he was close so landing in was had a light layer of branches, he used his wrist mounted crossbow to fire a bolt at the thick branch, a wire connecting the two as he used it to swing down to the ground
"That was a close one" he said to himself
Morrigan was happily laughing as she was flying through the air, enjoying the wind against her face. On her descent she took out her second rod from her side and dropped it, not batting an eye as it disappeared below her. Suddenly she vanished from the sky. She was now where the rod that she dropped was, below the leaves and branched of the forest with the rod back in her hand, however she still had the same velocity as she neared a tree trunk. Throwing one of her rods past it, she suddenly appeared at that location once again, and repeated this process until she got close enough to the ground to roll and carry her momentum into a run
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" she yelled as she ran
Diana had a much more passive expression on her face as she flew through the air. She suddenly brought up her sniper and fired shots, using the heavy recoil to slow herself down. Now near the top layer of trees and below terminal velocity, she fired shots at the ground to bring herself high enough to grab onto a branch, taking time to survey the surrounding area before she dropped down to the ground
Unlike most people at the initiation, Nerva didn't have a way to slow his descent, but as he began to fall, he used what he did have, his durability. He activated his weapons, the metal on his boots enveloping them completely, even going up his leg, and covered his the top and sides of his feet, the back of it going halfway up his calf, while the front only went up to half of that, his gloves had expanded to cover most of his forearms, the top heavy "pad" of it supplied most of the metal for that expansion, so it thinned out enough to be a smaller layer of metal on the back of his hands, on his knuckles there was now spike like curves. His fingers became encased in a thin layer of metal that did not hamper their movement as the transformation of his gauntlets and greaves were now complete. In their activated form one could see faint tribal markings on them. He let out a slight smile as he approached the ground at full speed, and landed feet first, creating a small crater on the ground where he landed
"That went well" he said to himself as he did experimented moving around his limbs "and no damage…other than my aura anyway" he noted as he deactivated his weapons, opening and closing his hands as he started walking "I got some energy from that though, so it may have been a good tradeoff"
Trevas had a landing strategy much unlike the others, instead of using something to slow his descent; he shot with his weapon as a shotgun to increase his speed, and as he got to a particularly tall tree, he put out his left hand in its gauntlet, and the pointed top split and shot out, connecting to the tree as a grappling hook. He was then able to swing from one tree to another, shooting a hole in the trunk of the next tree and grabbing the inside of it with his armored hand. Looking down to see if it was safe, he then slid down the tree when he saw no Grimm in the area, his gauntlet leaving claw marks as he want down
Much like Morrigan, Ciro was also enjoying his time in the air, but oddly enough, he had control over his movements. He was doing such things as spins and other aerial maneuvers before somehow going to the ground, when he was a few feet from the ground he was able to straighten himself out before landing softly on his feet, and then began to casually walk forward
Carefully holding her notched arrow as she flew through the air, Cecilia was waiting for the moment when she would start to fall, scanning the area as she did so, and looking for areas that were not as dense. When she felt herself falling, she aimed carefully and aimed at where she felt she was going to land, and shot her arrow. Righting herself as she fell down, she passed the first layer of branches and saw that her shot had worked perfectly, the ice arrow she shot had detonated on the edge of a branch and still hit the ground, trailing the ice to effectively make a slide, which with great skill, she slid down and was on her feet when she hit the ground, unfortunately for her the slide had ended into the eyes of Grimm, a few beowolves to be exact
"Well….shit" she dryly said to herself as one lunged at her. She rolled under it and fired an arrow at the one behind it, hitting the beast in its chest, but that didn't kill it, just made it angry. She then turned her weapon, Isolato Cacciatore into its sword form. She then spun out of the way of a swipe from the third Beowolf, and cut off its arm, before sending it back with a kick. Quickly turning her weapon back into a bow she shot an arrow at the first one she avoided and shot it in the joint of the leg with her arrow, slowing it down enough to shoot another arrow in its eye, killing it. She then ran up and pulled the arrow out of the joint and jammed it in the throat of the Beowolf whose arm she cut off earlier as it tried to attack her from behind, but as she killed it, the one left alive charged at her. Turning around to deal with it, she used the sharp edges of the bow to cut it in half. Seeing the Grimm that attacked her all dead, she put her weapon away and turned to continue walking before suddenly stopping. She sniffed the air a few times before turning around and taking her weapon out of its standby form, to come face to face with an Ursa that had been attracted by the sounds of its fellow Grimm. It had attacked her, only for her to roll out of the way and fire a few arrows, but they bounced off of the armor on its face, and it charged her, but before it could get close enough, someone was suddenly leaping over it from behind. There was a flourish of a blade as the Ursa stopped in its tracks as the person landed with his head down, the sword being slowly put back into its sheath, and it was almost there as this new person paused in putting away his blade, before suddenly pushing it in all the way, and after the telltale sound of a sword being finished sheathing the head of the Ursa had suddenly began to slide off of the rest of its body as the person began to stand. She recognized him as the person who crashed into her on the airship yesterday
"Is this really the same babbling fool from yesterday?" she thought to herself as she watched him turn around to look at the dead Ursa her opinion of him changing for the better, until…
"Ha! I can't believe I finally pulled it off! Those style points are mine!" he cheered as he pumped his arms in the air in victory.
"Never mind, it's the same fool" she thought as she saw him turn around, their eyes locking. It took them both a second to realize what just happened. They just became partners.
"Well…..I guess we're partners huh" Nero awkwardly said to her, in an attempt to lighten the mood or get her to say something, or anything aside from just giving him bad looks. All she did was walk past him saying only four words
"Don't slow me down"
"H-hey can I at least have your name?" he asked "I'm Nero" she then turned her head to look at him and said curtly said
"Cecilia"
"That's a nice name" he said as he began to catch up to her
Orin was walking through the forest, careful for anything that might jump out at him. As he walked through some bushes he saw a small group of boarbatusks, with their tusks taken off and I other areas of the clearing
"Nero must have been here!" though Orin as he followed the trail, hoping to find his friend to team up with him. He heard the telltale noises of Grimm in the area, along with the sounds of someone fighting them. Poking his head through the next set of bushes, he saw someone with dark brown hair holding a boarbatusk by its tusks, being pushed back by its strength, the noise of the bushes caused him to turn his head at the source, locking eyes with Orin.
"I don't know who you are" he said, still struggling against the Grimm "but since we're partners now would you kindly pass me my gun over there?" Orin looked around and saw the ornate revolver, ran to it and threw it to him, in response he let go of the boarbatusk and rolled away from its charge, grabbing his gun out of the air and aiming it at the still charging Grimm, as it got close enough he shot it three times in the face, killing it
"Now that that's over with" he said putting his gun away and turning to face Orin "I guess we should begin with the introductions….and apologies. So on that note, I'm Trevas" he said
"Orin, and what did you mean by apologies?" he asked
"Oh yeah about that, well if you remember yesterday when someone stole that wallet you got blamed for" Trevas said, letting Orin draw his own conclusion
"That was YOU!"
"Yeah it was. Sorry about that, but it turned out well, for both of us. It looks like you made a friend, and I got some cash" he said as he continued walking
"Dick" Orin muttered under his breath as he followed Trevas
"Diaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnaaaaa" Morrigan yelled out as she was walking "Are there at least any Grimm who want to keep me from getting bored? Sorry to say you'll end up like that guy!" she yelled as she looked behind her and smiled, a dead Ursa on the ground with a large icicle in its chest
"I wish SOMETHING would happen" she whined as she continued walking, before suddenly stopping
"What is that smell?" she asked herself "Smoke?" before someone suddenly yelled
"LOOK OUT" and with that she was promptly tackled to the ground, a burning tree hitting the ground where she was let that a second ago.
"Hey get off me!" she said as she tried pushing the larger man off of her
"I'm trying to help you" he said in his defense before he got off and they locked eyes
"GOD DAMN IT! I WANTED DIANA NOT YOU!" she yelled as the guy started looking around nervously
"Well we have bigger problems right now" he said
"Like what?" she said mid rant and turning around to see what he was worried about….. A forest fire that had seemingly come out of nowhere
"I would say this fire" he told her
"Shut up Nerva" she said "and seriously, what kind of retard would light the forest on fire? Like really! Everyone knows you don't use fire in a forest, because this happens!"
"On the bright side we can just go the other way" Nerva said trying to be optimistic, seconds before another burning tree fell, cutting off their best path of escape
"OK well at least we don't need to worry about any Grimm right now" he said right before they heard the distinct howling of Beowolves…a lot of them. Morrigan just gave him a look that said "please shut up"
"They can be anywhere" he tried as one suddenly leaped out of the flames at them, he quickly activated his gauntlets and greaves and gave it a devastating punch, sending it back into the flames.
"I'm sure it's only one of-"
"Stop talking, you're only making things worse!" she said as they instinctively went back to back, Morrigan also taking out her two rods, on a closer look showed that they each had clear spot on the shaft that showed an ice blue substance, the were a decent length for her and the top seemed to be a little bit bulkier, and it had slits going along the outside of the top. Where she was holding it was a light blue wrapping, complementing the black that was the rest of the rod
"Escrima sticks huh? Not bad" Nerva complimented as he saw movement within the flames
"Flattery will get you nowhere, no matter how nice your muscles are" Morrigan said as she too saw movement, before suddenly another Beowolf leapt out at her, she then swung at it with both sticks, along with the ice dust, she was able to push it back before swinging one of the sticks in its direction, sending forth an icicle to impale it, then they both saw more and more Beowolves coming out of the fire into the large clearing they were in. circling their prey as the fire raged on, before one Beowolf, larger than all the other had perched itself on a large rock and howled
Diana was walking through the forest, using her sniper to scout ahead and make sure there were no Grimm, and also if she could see Morrigan. She knew she could trust Morrigan to take care of herself, but she knew that friend of hers always found herself in the middle of some trouble, causing her to think back to how she got her scars
"Don't think about that now" Diana said to herself "just find her" as she continued walking she heard movement in the tree behind her, she instantly turned around and fired twice into the tree, and something fell out that she was not expecting
"OW" someone said as they fell to the ground, then looking up and locking eyes with Diana "Hello! I'm Ciro" he said
"Diana" she said introducing herself, offering a hand to help him up, which he took.
"So I guess we are partners now" he said
"Yeah. Not good" she told him
"Oh I am sorry" he apologized
"It's not your fault" she assured him "it's just that there was someone else who might not take our partnership very well. She was looking forward to working together with me"
"Ok well maybe we can find her" he said
"Well it shouldn't be too hard, just find a trail of destruction or…that" she said as she pointed to a line of smoke in the air
"How do you know she is there?" he asked
"Well by one of three reasons" she started "first: she started that fire, I wouldn't put it past her. Two: it started up around her"
"Is she that unlucky?" Ciro asked
"Sometimes, yes. And the third reason is someone else started that fire and she went there because she thought it would be fun"
"She seems like a very interesting person" Ciro noted
"Trust me, this is just the tip of the iceberg" Diana told him
