Chapter 10- Battle of Beacon
(Ice's POV)
My throat hurts after shouting so loud but it seems I managed to get the crowd to their senses, for now it seems for what's to come next. The sirens were going off in the distance and I looked around to see that everyone was becoming frightened again and unsure what to do.
"Alert. Incoming Grimm attack. Threat level: Nine. Please seek shelter in a calm and orderly manner." The announcement was made yet it was from the outside since I destroyed all the speakers in the stadium but everyone heard it and began screaming and running out of the place through the exit tunnels as a giant Nevermore swoops in to the stadium above and starts attacking the protective barrier above us all.
At first I began to run to evacuate everyone but out of the corner of my eye I noticed something was wrong with Silver, there was a very dark aura coming off of her that felt familiar, I could only prepare for the worst that something is coming that is worse than the Grimm on our doorstep.
Silver stepped over to the broken Penny and knelt before her as she reached for the lifeless upper half of the poor girl and pulled her in for a hug while Silver sobs silently and softly while clutching onto her where the sound of her cries only grew the longer she held on with tears streaming down her face and onto Penny's lifeless and limp head, I could do nothing but stand and watch as the scene unfolds as something much worse was happening behind her.
Blood exploded from her back as if they were like wings coming out of her body which then a large backbone appeared behind her and was attached to her lower back as it rose up, I could only watch with a cold sweat as I had never seen this side of her.
The bones continued to develop until is became the top half of a Alpha Beowolf skeleton as it creaked forward and loomed over the suffering wolf Faunus as purple flames now started emerging, similar to Reaper's back at the festival which very quickly consumed the skeleton as it came to life right before my eyes. It raised it's claws and summoned a violent cyclone to encircle Silver as if it was to protect her. I could feel the heat from the flames and I feel like they could possibly be as hot as the blue flames or even more if even not to mention it will be too intense for me to jump through with my current situation, I will need help to solve this situation to try calm down Silver and be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice if I do.
Neo ran up to me furiously and signed to me to ask what the hell is going on, Naniele soon followed afterwards and got a glimpse of the raging Beowolf.
"Alright basically mission failure, what we need to save Silver and snap her the hell out of it." I informed them, Neo just put her hands over her mouth in disbelief but I knocked her on the head slightly to get some sense into herself.
"Listen, there is no time or room to grieve right now we have to focus on saving Silver right now and I will fulfil that duty... as a warrior." My flames flared up as Neo looked straight up at me and got some sense back into herself.
"But Ice... you're not a warrior though right?" Naniele asks me.
"Not exactly but we need to settle this once and for all." I said to her, now looking at the Beowolf, The Nevermore that was hitting the barrier finally broke through and aimed straight for the beast where it only snatched the Nevermore by the neck and began to chew down on it like it was supper time, the Nevermore resisted but it was for nought as it was now prey for the Beowolf and snack time for it too.
Neo comes and tugs on my shoulder and signs to me "So how will we break her out of this?"
"What else? We go in and knock the daylights out of her." I gave me answer but I only got a blank stare off Neo where she just chuckled slightly at me.
"Fine, just follow me." I scoffed and shot towards the enraged Beowolf making an explosion at the soles of my feel as I jump for extra speed, a chain suddenly flew at me and aimed at my neck, I heard the crack of a gun shot that struck the chains to move them out of the way to only just brush passed my head. When I landed I looked back to see Naniele aiming with her sniper rifle... I sure was lucky to have her here.
Neo jumped down and walked up besides me with shotguns drawn.
"You truly are an idiot, running in like that." She signed at me to scold me.
"Yeah, yeah we have to settle this now or never really so let's just go." I passed it over my head and turned my attention back to the Beowolf that stared back.
I drew my own gun that I barely use and charged it up with flame energy, switching it to short burst mode and with my sword ready, I charged at the Beowolf, dodging the frenzy of chains coming for me as I let off shots of fire at the beast that seems to not phase it at all, Neo ran in with her shotguns at close range what managed to stagger the wolf slightly but it launched a wave of fire towards her. In the time before the fire would hit her, I rapidly ran towards her, knocking away the chains around my with Hito and I shot a fireball at the purple flames that managed to push them back enough for me to grab Neo and move us both out of the way and out of range.
"We need a different plan." I growled, putting Neo down.
I stood up and called for Naniele to come to the stage where we will have to do a one shot attempt to get Silver out of there, which means going in the flaming cyclone.
"Alright, Naniele, Neo this is the plan, since I have the highest tolerance to fire, I will plunge myself into the cyclone, I need you two to cover me as much as you can till I can get close to the flames, I won't be able to protect myself much since I'm switching the pistol to a one shot powerful burst to make myself an opening." I told my plan and Neo just looked at me like I was stupid.
"But Ice won't this hurt you a lot?" Naniele asks out of concern.
I flare up to my blue flames and looked towards Naniele " Don't worry I got this to protect me." I reassured her with a smile before running off with pistol fully charged and Hito wrapped in flames.
Now running at full speed towards the beast, hitting away and dodging the increasing amount of chain attacks coming at me, Naniele was giving me cover by striking the chains using her sniper rifle and Neo followed close behind me, blasting at the purple flames that were now surrounding us. I fired a blue fireball at the cyclone which disturbs it to make it unstable and fired a powerful burst of flames from the pistol which was enough to blow a hole in the cyclone where Silver was at the centre sobbing with the broken Penny.
I leaped through the hole and dropped the pistol on the way, there was a large Beowolf hand reaching in to crush me but I simply cut it open with Hito and used a fireball to send it away from me as now I dropped Hito as I violently grabbed onto Silver, dragged her towards me and headbutted her before gripping tightly onto her arm.
The Beowolf beast cried out and stopped all attacks. "NEO, TAKE HEEEEEEEER!" I roared as I threw Silver out of the beast where Neo caught her in her arms.
I stepped out of the now dispersed cyclone as the Beowolf begins to fade away but just before it did, it managed to dig it's fangs into my arm before disappearing, I grunted and held my bitten arm but luckily it didn't go in too deep so I can still use it. I looked forward to see Neo cuddling Silver as she slowly wakes up to see Neo leaning over her.
"Is this... a dream?" She softly speaks.
"Yeah, rise and shine princess we've got some work to do." I say with sarcasm as I stand before the two.
"So Penny is truly gone?" Silver asks, welling up again into a sob.
"Unfortunately so, but there is no time to grieve right now, the Grimm are entering the city as we speak." I speak the truth , the harsh truth.
"I'm sorry, I failed you all." Silver now apologising to me and everyone else.
"Listen, we all make mistakes and it's important to fix what mistakes we've done right? We underestimated Cinder, she's more clever than we thought and now it's time for us to fix this once and for all." I almost give a speech and see that Silver now standing up, wiping away her tears and facing me with her eyes full of determination saying that she's ready.
"By the way, one thing..." I said.
"What?" Silver replies.
"Your bones are sticking out." I point out.
"They'll go back in." She tells me.
"….Really?" I question again.
"Really." Silver replies again, now her bones finally start to go back into her body.
"Eww." I cringe.
"I know, it's disgusting." She agrees with me.
"Well... nevermind that, let's go guys!" I now command the team and they just nod and follow on, to protect Beacon and Vale.