A walk

In the woods

"Almost there Emma"

"I know"

"Would mistress like to walk now?"

"Getting tired already Jace?"

"Indeed"

the pair had been sprinting for the past few miles, Jace saving his aura so everyone had been going slowly compared to normal speeds, and Ruby going very slowly compared to her usual speed.

Within another ten minutes they were assaulted by rolling boarbatusks, so they reacted.

One went after Jace directly, and he used a glyph to redirect it into it's packmates, making most of them spiral out, which Ruby dealt with by shooting the ones with their belly exposed. A group that got up went after Jade, who used her knife's power to slice them in half, the arc wave of blood hardened with her aura easily crushing the plates of the boarbatusks. Emma made a mental note not to piss her off, and stabbed her spear into the ground when a boarbatusk got close, and it rolls up the shaft of the spear, making her move her hands to avoid them being squashed, but still keeping the spear up. The grimm went off onto the ground and into a tree, bouncing off, and being met with the upside down sight of Emma having Talon in carbine mode, and she pumps it like the shotgun it seems to be, a small red light clicking on the barrel. The boarbatusk was erased in a blazing bullet that made it dissolve into a black ash cloud.

"Fire?"

"You did ask why I bought the Dust crystals" Emma grins and pumps the carbine again, switching the barrel light to white, which increases impact and velocity, each shot chipping away the plating on the boar grimm, and carving holes in their unprotected bellies.

"Cool" The reaper grins and continues firing her beautiful scythe.

"May I take care of them all mistress?"

"you girls wanna keep fighting?" Jade has had Jace pin down two boarbatusks and she is using their blood to fund a brutal shockwave slice spree, but the boarbatusks just keep coming.

"Nah, I wanna see what Jace can do" Emma smiles and steps back, then aura jumps into a tree, and Ruby follows her, while Jade gets in the tree next to them smiling. The remainder of the boarbatusks regroup and rush at Jace, who separates his greatsword, and plunges the moon resonance blade into the ground and approaches them.

"Sol, scatter."

His other sword, glows brighter and he begins glowing with it, then vanishes into a statue of fire, which explodes when a boarbatusk hits it, while he reappears and stabs into a boarbatusk's mask while it's rolling, stopping it and cracking the mask, then incinerating it. He swings the sword at another boarbatusk rolling at him and it cleaves it apart, then both halves ignite. He continues stabbing and slicing through the plates of the boarbatusks, which are usually unchippable, each casualty being ignited and erased.

"Holy shit…"

"His semblance allows his body to resonate certain types of energy. He uses his body as the medium for the power contained within those ancient swords to activate their true power"

"They dont look ancient to me"

"That would be due to the fact he spent years cleaning, sharpening, and restoring them"

"Whats powering them?" Rub finally adds to the conversation.

"You couldn't tell this by looking, but they were carved from giant dust crystals. The crystals were special in the fact that human, nor faunus could use them, nor do they seem to disappear as used. Once they run out of energy they are rechargeable from aura, which he has plenty of"

"Is that why he didn't use any aura when we ran?"

"He is a bit overly cautious"

Emma rejoins the conversation. "What does the other one do?"

"Ice"

"And together?"

"They tend to…play rough together, they cause explosions if their energy crosses before manifesting as either fire or ice"

"Oh" Both Ruby and Emma nod slowly to show they understand, despite the fact Jade had a tree in between them and couldn't see.

Jace dashes back as his blade runs out of power and switches it with the moon blade. The boarbatusk horde has been replaced by charging beowolves and ursa, seemingly drawn by the squeals of the surviving boars who now watch.

Jace regards them and stares at the leader with a bored expression. "Luna, reap"

In a flash he is gone, leaving a mist of ice shards in his stead, each razor sharp. The unlucky beowolf who went into it and was cut all over. Though it lived it's body was covered in jagged scars.

Appearing ten feet away to the left of the now confused horde, he smiles and snaps, a few glyphs appear alongside him, firing five foot wide pillars of ice through the horde, killing some of them while disrupting the flow of the horde. With them isolated he creates ice clones at the start of each lane, and he and the clones sprint down them, slicing the grimm into fine pieces in seconds. The moment he makes it to the end of his lane he nearly collapses from aura use, dropping his sword as the ice clones and pillars dissipate.

"That, was, fun."

"Ok Jace?"

He nods weakly and falls on the ground, so Jade goes over and pulls him up.

"That was amazing"

"I'm still faster" Ruby grumbles, just barely enough for Emma to hear, and she giggles and falls into step beside the rose.

"Jace, where do you think my sister is right now?"

"I believe the princesses last known sighting came from Atlas, and involved her usual meals"

"How much time would it take us to get there?"

"if we travel at maximum speed and take an airship from Vale it will only take a few days"

"Well, thank you two for the travelling, if you see this girl, I want you to kill her on sight."

Jade hands Emma a picture of an identical looking girl, except her hair color is grey and a series of parallel scars are visible on her right cheek.

"Why?"

"My sister is a despicable monster, a scourge on this planet. She will be purged from all of Remnant before I die"

"Interesting…"

"Also this man is a close friend of hers" She hands Ruby the other picture, a man with a cheshire smile and brown eyes with black hair. He could be another face in the crowd for all Ruby could tell due to the lack of outstanding features. "He helped to make her a monster"

"...ok"

"Stay safe, and try not to get eaten" Jade makes a small laughing sound and carries off Jace.

"Those two did not stay long…"

"I have a feeling we'll meet again"