Kintin23: HELLO PEOPLES OF THE INTERNET! It's time for chapter 7! Big fight time. yay! Let's hope I don't screw it up.
To the chapter!
Ruby P.O.V.
"OK, so there are about 15 Beowolves here," I say to Weiss as we stand back to back, surrounded by them. "Shouldn't be hard, wanna see who can take out the most?"
I can just hear her smirk.
"Sure, sounds fun."
"OK. We start when the first one charges." I say before getting serious as they get ready to move.
*GRRRRRR*
They charge.
I speed forward with my semblance, Idly noticing Weiss doing the same. Coming up to the first one, I swing Crescent Rose in an overhead arc, impaling its head, *Bang* before firing a round which simultaneously dislodges Crescent Rose and caves in the face of the Beowolf that was behind it. The shot doesn't just dislodge Crescent rose, though. It full out launches me too, sending me flying to the other side of the clearing we were in.
This would probably hinder Weiss were she a less mobile fighter. As she is, though? She just uses this as an opportunity to launch to the side of the clearing I was on, gaining momentum all the way before using it to her advantage to pierce through two Beowolves completely.
Flying through the air, I aim towards a Beowolf before spinning Crescent Rose overhead in a way that turns me into a massive spinning blade of death and awesomeness. I slice completely through it and I stop spinning so I can land on my feet and keep my momentum.
As I land, I switch Crescent Rose's blade to point upwards so I can slash easier and continue running towards the next Grimm. As I run past it, I swing Crescent Rose at its head, decapitating it.
While I do this, one of the beowolves finally gets a chance to attack me, and it doesn't waste it.
It charges at me from the front but the beast is predictable, and I quickly return Crescent Rose to it's normal Scythe form before pulling off one of my absolute favourite techniques. Pointing the barrel of Crescent Rose at the ground, I jump and use the recoil to launch me even higher up. I just pulled off a rocket jump.
"WOOHOO!" I yell with glee. I've been waiting for a chance to let loose for ever.
I switch Crescent Rose into its rifle form and do the same move canon Ruby did at the beginning of the red trailer.
*BANG*
Basically, I shoot it in the face.
I land and turn Crescent rose back into its scythe form.
About half of the grimm are dead now, so I probably have enough room to gain enough momentum to pull off this move.
Chambering Crescent Rose behind me, I get into a stance to start off a quick sprint, and using my semblance, I do just that and as I pass by a beowolf I fire Crescent Rose, giving my blade just enough force to slice clean through the thing. I do the same with two more, and then all thats left in the clearing is me, Weiss, and a few piles of Grimm dust.
I turn to Weiss as I stow Crescent Rose away on its magnetic holster on my back.
I tilt my head to the side in a cute way.
"So how many did you get?"
A Few Minutes Later
"Ruby!" Weiss shouts at me, thought even then I barely hear her over the wind.
"Yeah!" I call back.
"Are you insane!? Why in the world would you think that this was a good idea?!"
"It's getting us to the temple faster isn't it?" I call back to her.
"Yes, but that won't matter IF WE DIE BEFORE WE GET THERE!" She screams at me again.
Now let me explain the situation. Right now Weiss and I are clinging onto the back of a giant Nevermore. I thought it would be a good idea to get us to the forest temple faster and I was right... in a way. I don't even get why she's so scared I'm the one looking over the edge for the forest temple, she has a better hold on the Nevermore than I do.
"Don't worry Weiss, I have good news!"
"What could possibly be good news right now!" She snarks at me.
"I can see the temple!"
"That's great, there's just one problem," Weiss tells me, though I certainly don't see how there's an issue. We're there, aren't we?
Then she explodes.
"HOW IN THE FOUR KINGDOMS ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET DOWN!" Aha! I have already thought through that one.
"Well, why don't we just jump?" I suggest. Weiss looks at me like I just grew a second head.
"What are you? Insane?!" I barely hear that last part though. Not because of the wind though, it's because I have already jumped.
"WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!" The wind blowing through my hair is exhilarating, but I don't let that distract me from preparing my landing. I aim myself to land a little to the left of Yang but I overcorrect luckily I'm still pretty far up. 8 seconds. Just a little more to the right... 6 seconds. A little more... aaaaaand there! 4 seconds. Perfect now I just need to time my usage of my lightning boots so I don't crash.
3 seconds...
2 seconds...
Time for a witty one liner for a cool entrance.
"DYNAMIC ENTR-"
*BAM*
And right out of left field I'm completely blindsided by something slamming into me at high speeds sending both me and the object crashing into a tree.
I shake my head to get the cobwebs out so I can think straight.
Looking around to see what smashed into me, I see Jaune hanging upside down in the tree branch above me. Of course! How did I forget about this? I must be losing my edge.
"Hey... Ruby," He says to me awkwardly. He probably thinks that I'm pissed at him for that, but I do shit like this on a daily basis. I like the surprises.
Down on the ground, I see that so far the only people gathered so far are Yang, and Blake, who stare at us incredulously for a few moments before Blake pipes up.
"Did you sister just fall from the sky?" She asks Yang.
"Y-" my sister begins before being cut off by several crashing sounds in the forest before an Ursa emerges, clearly ready for a fight, but before Yang and Blake can get there weapons out the Ursa gets hit by a large explosion of pink energy. It falls to the ground, dead and starts to disintegrate, revealing the fact the someone was riding it. Namely Nora.
"YEEEEEHAAAAAAW!" She yells out in excitement. How someone could possibly think riding a Grimm is a good idea, I will never know.
...
Wait.
Never mind.
"Nora... haaa... haaa... please... haaa... don't do that again. haaa..." Says Ren as he also comes out of the forest, panting, and then leans on the monster for as much time as the body has left. He is clearly exhausted.
Poor guy. I can't imagine what having to deal with Nora on a daily basis for who knows how many years would be like.
Actually, it might be similar to having to deal with me.
Ren doesn't get a break now, though, because as he looks up to where Nora was he notices that she isn't there anymore. I am also wondering how the hell she got away from that location without me noticing. I was watching her the whole time.
Ren and I notice where she went to at the same time. She's at one of the pedestals of the temple, dancing around and singing "I'm the queen of the castle! I'm the queen of the castle!" over and over again with a white rook chess piece balanced on her head.
"NORA!" Ren calls out to her, clearly exasperated at her antics.
In response, Nora stops dancing before turning to Ren and giving him an exaggerated salute, which allows the chess piece that is still balanced on her head to slide off, right into her waiting hand.
"Coming Ren!" She responds to him before skipping off past the duo of Yang and Blake (of which Blake is suffering from a heroic blue screen of death) to her friend.
Yang and Blake are just staring at the odd pair for a few seconds. Yang because she's probably thinking the same thing about having to deal with Nora being similar to dealing with me and Blake because she has no prior experience with pure insanity and thus needs to reboot her brain.
"Did that girl just ride her on an Ursa?" Blake questions Yang.
"Yep," Yang responds in a tone that conveys that this is just another Sunday for her.
"How are you not more affected by this," Blake asks Yang with a note of curiosity in her voice. Shouldn't the Deathstalker have shown up by now?
"My sister is worse," Yang deadpans at Blake.
"Your sister is worse?" Blake questions.
"My sister is worse," Yang confirms in a way that leaves no room for argument.
"How can your sister be worse?" Blake asks Yang, dumbfounded at the thought.
"Like that," Yang says before pointing at me.
I haven't been doing nothing this entire time. It hasn't been anything important, or even useful for that matter, I have just been screwing around while waiting for the Deathstalker to show up, but with me that can end up being some crazy stuff. Like what I am doing now for example. I am standing on the side of the tree that I landed in. Not climbing, not olding onto, just standing. Right on the trunk as though it were solid ground. Noticing that they have now turned their attention towards me, I decide to do the polite thing and wave hello.
Blake's eyes widen and her eyebrows shoot up before she blinks a few times, probably to confirm that what she is seeing is actually happening and not just some trick of the light, before a few seconds later she adjusts her face into a carefully neutral expression before replying back to Yang.
"Your sister is worse," Blake agreed.
*SCREEEEEEE* *CRASH* *BANG*
Before they can continue their conversation on my insanity though, they are interrupted by a loud screeching sound coming from the forest followed by the sounds of trees being smashed before Pyrrha emerges from the forest, running as though the denizens of hell itself were chasing her... which now that I think about it isn't all that inaccurate what with the whole soulless monster hell bent on destroying humanity thing and all.
Only a short two seconds after Pyrrha appeared from the forest she was followed by a Deathstalker, and WOW those things are huge. You can not get an accurate portrayal of the true size of an object on a show, even more so an animated one.
The Deathstalker is absolutely massive! It's as though it has its own ... presence maybe? It's hard to describe but the Nevermore had it, too, even worse than the Deathstalker does. These giant Grimm are incredible, really. Anyways, I guess it's time to get down to where everyone else is.
I start heading down the tree.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha calls, seeing him hanging in the tree.
"Pyrrha!" He replies.
Getting to the bottom of the tree, I start running to the rest of the group.
"Ruby..." Jaune whines at me for leaving him there.
"Ruby!" Yang calls out to me as we meet up again.
"Yang!" I exclaim before out right glomping her. I do this whenever I can just for the comedic value.
"Nora!" Nora calls out, suddenly appearing right next to Yang and I. She does this for no apparent reason other than that her name has not yet been called out. That sounds like something I would do.
I must test something.
I slowly turn my head towards Nora. She notices me doing this and, noticing that I am about to do something interesting, her smile widens before suddenly...
"EXPLOSIONS AND AWESOMENESS!" I scream at the top of my lungs, startling everyone but Nora herself leading to Yang dropping me and forcing me to catch myself and stand up quickly before I fall down.
"HAMMERS AND CRAZINESS!" She replies in the same manner.
We both get the same look on our faces and I assume the same thought as well.
This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Kintin23: Sorry about the few weeks that I missed but I had some issues that I had to deal with. I even had to cut this chapter short. I'll try to be better next week but I'm not to sure that I will be able to make it but you never know. Till next time. Kintin23 out!
