Sorry for the late update, got caught up in some personal stuff and lost track of time. Time for some action!

Chapter 7: Dark forest: part 2

Blake awoke to the sound of howling Grimm. She sat up from her slouched state and popped her back then looked to the other trees to see if her team was ok. As she scanned the trees Blake was met with a flash of yellow in the midst of green. Yang was waving to her while her hair shifted back and forth in the wind. Blake gave a small wave and saw Ruby and Weiss were near Yang, fortunately no one fell out of their perch in the trees. As she stood up her back ached from the position she was in for so long. 'I guess sleeping in a tree wasn't a good idea after all.'

Blake threw another glance to Yang who was typing on her scroll. After she finished Blake's rang indicating a message. She pulled it out and read the message from Yang.

The extraction point is still a little ways away, We are going to head out in a few so get ready to run." After reading the message Blake pocketed her scroll and readied herself to move.

After 5 minutes of preparation RWBY was ready. Each kept to the trees as long as they could but the forest was getting thicker and thicker so staying up high was becoming difficult. Each of them met up and continued running with the small horde of Grimm behind them. As they ran they were forced to fight beowolves and ursa. The first 15 minutes were a breeze, but after that it started to get harder. Each of them were taking small scratches that were starting to add up. Blake at least had half of her aura left but Weiss wasn't doing so well. Between her glyphs and the attacks she was starting to get sluggish. Fortunately Ruby took notice and helped with her defense, but that was wearing her down too.

Yang was holding on surprisingly well, taking down two or three beowolves with each hit. She continued to cover Ruby when a ursa would get by, but even she was getting tired. Blake was trying harder and harder not to use her semblance but with the amount of Grimm it was becoming difficult. 'If I keep this up I wont be lasting much longer.' Yang called out to her just before an ursa almost took her head off. She slide under the huge paw and sliced its head off. 'Definitely wont last long..' She trailed off to herself.

Blake sliced and cut every Grimm that came into view but even that wasn't enough, others were still breaking through her defense and kept picking away at her aura. In between encounters she stole a glance to the rest of her team. Weiss was bleeding from her side and left arm. Yang had a few cuts but was relatively fine. Ruby had a large bruise on her cheek as well as a cut down her thigh. Blake cut through an ursa just about to claw Ruby but wasn't fast enough to dodge a slash from a beowolf. She was able to move just enough so her entire arm wasn't taken off, but it still cut her regardless. She stumbled and crashed into a tree, leaves fell from the branches because of the impact.

A familiar arm wrapped itself around her waist and hoisted her up. The next thing she knew was that they were in a clearing and she was laying against a wall. As she looked around she noticed they were at what looked like a small outpost with antennae every where. Gunshots were being rang out, Blake turned and saw the rest of team RBWY fighting the Grimm. Dozens of them were pouring out of the trees. Each of them looked worse and tired. Blake tried to stand up but collapsed back down after a sharp pain was sent through her body. She looked down and saw her arm was severely cut as well as her leg. Someone screamed and she looked up to see Weiss was thrown from where she was and landed with an audible crack ringing from her body. As she slid closer Blake grabbed her before any more damage could be done, she then rested Weiss' head on her good thigh.

Yang and ruby were holding the Grimm at bay but were slowly loosing ground. Yang was fighting at least two dozen beowolves while Ruby was fighting five ursa. More and more Grimm closed in from the tree line but were stopped dead in their tracks when a loud roar shook the trees. Every single Grimm near them turned tail and ran from the beast that created such a horrendous noise. Ruby and Yang just held their ground and scanned the trees. The ground started to shake from another roar that sounded closer. Ruby started to walk towards Blake scythe in hand when A huge deathstalker rose from the ground sending chunks of dirt and rock flying in every direction.

Blake stared in horror along with Ruby and Yang. This deathstalker was at least twice as big as a normal one, its tail split into two. But the most horrifying part of it was that it had two king tijitu head protruding from its body. White bone covered every inch of its body, even the joints were covered. Before anyone could move it struck Ruby with one of its stingers. She was thrown back from the force meanwhile blood poured from the new wound in her stomach. yang attempted to get closer but the two heads went to intercept her. The deathstalker slowly inched towards Ruby while its poison worked its self through her petite frame. Blake attempted to move to intercept the next stinger but was immobilized by her injuries. She stared in horror as the stinger made its way to her again. Before it could hit her a fiery explosion coated the tail making it back away in pain. A kunai landed in front of Blake which scared her expecting a similar explosion. But instead of an explosion, Alec appeared before her with Ruby in his arms bridal style.

He slowly laid her down and pulled out the anti venom from his pocket. Blake just watched as he injected her with it. After he was done he looked to Blake who had a mixed look of horror and surprise. He checked every inch of Blake's body with his eyes checking her injuries. Alec pulled out bandages from his pouch and handed them to her. "Patch yourself and both of them up, I'm going to distract that thing until you guys can get out of here." He indicated to Weiss and Ruby. Yang came running over and gave Alec a small smile. "Well glad we got back up, but I totally had it." He just looked at her with a stern expression. "Like I told Blake, patch yourself up I'm going to distract that thing until you guys can get out of here." The deathstalker roared again causing him to look away. Blake snapped out of her stupor and spoke up finally. "If you help us then you will get suspended!" He smiled and turned to her. "I know, but I would rather have my comrades survive and me get in trouble then you die and I live on."

Blake was surprised by his loyalty. He had never showed a hint of it back at beacon. She just figured there was more to him than she thought. Yang sat down next to her and cradled Ruby in her arms. "Ya know, I could see myself falling for a strong guy like him." Blake looked over at Yang to see her have a huge grin on her face despite everything that is happening. Blake let a small smile come to her lips and thought 'me too'.

Alec slowly pulled a katana from its sheathe on his belt And swiped through the air. He rushed forward and was met with the two snake heads. He dodged the white head and sliced diagonally through its eye. The black head went to bite hit but he grabbed its fang and stopped it dead in its tracks. Before he could do anything to it a green gas started to pour out of its mouth. He jumped away before it reached him but he caught a faint smell from it. 'Poison? You've got to be joking..' While he was thinking he completely forgot there was two heads. The white head tried to bite his side but was stopped when his katana sliced through its head again. It struck again but he was too slow too dodge one of its fangs. It put a small gash on his left bicep, tearing off most of his sleeve in the process.

Alec slid back on his feet and readied himself fro another attack. He stabbed his sword into the ground and intertwined his fingers with his index fingers pointing upward. He breathed in as much air as he could and forced aura into the finger tips of his index fingers. Red dust particles appeared and he blew it away towards the deathstalker. It ignited as soon as his breath touched it causing a huge fireball to form hurling towards the beast. It impacted with the stalker and a huge explosion shook the trees. Next he pulled out six kunai, three in each hand and waited for the smoke to clear. The stalker roared when Alec came into its view. All of its frontal armor was singed from the flames and the white snake head was burned badly. Alec then proceeded to throw his kunai all at once each one ricocheting off each other, landing in a semi circle around it.

Alec pulled his sword from the ground and teleported to the nearest kunai and slashed at its armor. To his displeasure it didn't even mark it. Before it could hit him he teleported to another kunai and tried again but came up with the same result. One of its tails came towards him. He waited for the last second and teleported to the kunai behind it. Its tailed crashed into the ground leaving a huge crater. Alec proceeded to make the same hand sign from earlier but this time light blue dust appeared on his finger tips. He slowly rubbed them across the blade. With a small spark he ignited it, causing lighting to cover his blade. As he did this the blade stared to make a sound like chirping birds. After the blade was fully coated he teleported in front of it again.

He went for a overhead swing right into its pincher. This time a large gash was left in the armor, also a loud scream came from the deathstalker causing Alec to hold his ears in pain. His wolf ears were flat against his head trying to block out the sound. He became nauseous and almost fell over. The deathstalker used his disoriented state to its advantage and swiped it him with its pincher in an uppercut fashion. Alec was too dazed to dodge and was cut from his waist to his shoulder by the pincher. He flipped in mid air and blocked another pincher with his katana. Unfortunately it was caught in the middle of the two claws. When the stalker added pressure his blade snapped in half. Alec went wide eyed in realization and back flipped away to a safe distance.

He slowly pulled out his scroll not taking an eye off of his opponent. He slowly typed in his location then replaced it back into his pouch. He turned his head to check on team RWBY, luckily they were still ok. Ruby and Weiss were bandaged up along with Blake. He turned back to the deathstalker as it screamed. The black head of the duo started to breath the poison out again. Alec just smirked and pulled out his mask. It was similar to the one he had as the blue swordsmen, but it was tweaked to be a gas mask. As he placed it on his face he could already tell its air was pure. Another bonus was it only covered half of his face, leaving his eyes unrestricted. Alec squinted slightly and sprinted forward into the gas cloud. As he grew closer to the stalker he brought his right arm back, infusing it with his blue aura. He slammed his charged fist into the middle of its eyes. It screeched out in pain as its bone armor collapsed under the pressure of his fist. The beast went sliding backwards, cracks webbing its armor from the punch.

As it was recovering Alec saw something out of the corner of his eye. He ran backwards away from the deathstalker and waited for his locker to land. Another familiar thing came into view. The extraction bullhead was finally here. Alec smirked under his mask. 'Finally I can go all out and kill this thing.' His locker landed with a loud thud, making the ground beneath it crack from the impact. He slowly opened the door and pulled out his real sword. Alec tossed the old sheathe away and clipped this one his belt. He rested his left hand on the hilt of his blade. He then proceeded to press a button near the dust chamber. It spun cycling through the dust variations. The deathstalker still hadn't recovered by the time the bullhead landed. Alec just kept watching it as team RWBY was loaded on to the airship.

Blake had her eyes glued to Alec the whole time. She was surprised at his skill and dust manipulation and how he was taking on this beast by himself. Yang was in a similar state as Ruby and Weiss were being put on the Bullhead. Everything that was happening, he was risking his life for people he barely knew for a week. Blake was about to turn away to leave until she saw Alec look over to her. She saw something she wasn't expecting. He was wearing a black Grimm mask. She froze in place. 'T-the last time I saw that mask, was when-' Yang grabbed her shoulder. "Hey, you ok?" Blake shook her head erasing the thoughts for the time being. She looked to Yang. "Yeah, lets go."

Alec watched them until they got into the air. By now the deathstalker was up and recovered. He closed his eyes and focused his aura activating the second part of his semblance. When he reopened his eyes a clone version of him appeared next to him. If you weren't paying attention then you would think it was an allusion, but there was a slight blue glow to the clones eyes. other than that they were identical.

Alec slowly unsheathed his blue sword and swung it through the air a few times before getting comfortable. His clone did the exact same thing. The two snake heads attempted to take them both down with one strike. Alec and his clone just did a 360 spin fazing through each other and slicing the head off of each snake. Both falling limp along with a pained scream for the host. The Alec's rushed the main body, spinning between the pinchers and slicing them off of it completely. The tails attempted to strike them but missed as they jumped away. Both Alec's jumped forward slicing the tails off. The clone jumped back over and began slicing at the stalkers eyes cutting them light watermelons. Alec slid underneath it and sliced the underside of its body open. As he reemerged in front of it he sheathed his sword as his clone was slicing away at the eyes.

Alec placed his left hand on the pistol like grip of his sheathe. The dust chamber cycled to a white dust then stopped. Alec hunched over and placed his right hand on the hilt of his sword. The Deathstalker looked toward the real Alec and screamed. It charged at him for a final attack. Alec just smirked and pulled the trigger on his sheathe. With a loud bang and the sound of metal scratching against metal Alec ripped his sword from its sheathe and swung in a diagonal fashion, A white arc came followed his swords path slicing the deathstalker in half. Alec spun his sword in his hand and sheathed his sword again. The deathstalker's halves started to decay.

Alec went to walk away until something sharp grabbed onto his right thigh and yanked him to the ground, then proceeded to drag him around until it threw him into the air. Before he could get his bearings he was slammed into the ground causing dirt and dust to rise into the sky. The thing on his leg tried to pull him away again but he was able to rip it off in time. What he didn't expect was a small king taijitu in his hand. He crushed its neck killing it. A loud roar could be heard from a few feet away. A huge paw came crashing down into the ground next to him. He tried to roll away but was met with a large sharp paw to his back sending him flying while cutting his back in the process.

After he landed he got to his knees and looked over to see a huge Ursa major. Like the deathstalker, it was covered in armor from head to toe. Its dead taijitu tell dangled behind it. It snarled at his and charged. He tried to move but fell onto his ass. He looked down to his leg and saw it was mutilated from the taijitu. "Fuck.." was all he could get out before it closed in on him. He gripped his sheathe and pulled the trigger sending his sword into its face making its head reel back. When it did Alec saw its neck was exposed and had no armor. He took advantage of its dazed state and leaped forward grabbing his sword in the process. He took it in a off hand grip and stabbed it through the ursa's throat. The sword continued through its throat and out the back of its neck. Alec ripped the sword out as it collapsed. He let out a breathe he didn't know he was holding and sheathed his sword. He pulled out some bandages and covered his leg. He winced when he stood from both his leg and his back which was most likely cut from the last attack. He turned and headed towards the badlands where his extraction was. Unaware of the four sets of eyes watching him.

Chapter end

man cliffhangers are just such a good way to end a chapter right? Anyways these next few will have a lot of story stuff in them and I will explain each and every aspect, when I feel the time is right. Also I apologize again for not updating sooner, a lot of family stuff but I will try to update when I get the chance before next Saturday, I hate getting stuck on cliff hangers so I will try and update tomorrow, but no promises.

Anyways, see you later. Yukas out.