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Jeremie couldn't help the myriad of emotions raging inside him about what Qrow told him of his fight with the Grimm General. It wasn't something he could give a definite answer on either.
Shadow Sickness.
He knows that Neio wasn't the one to create it. The thing just happened when he awoke. The stupid disease was extremely dangerous as well, seeing as that as far as he knows, he was the only one to ever create a cure.
Jeremie looked to Qrow who was walking a few steps ahead of him towards the forest. The amount of sympathy he felt towards him at that moment was exobertant, and he knew exactly why. He just hoped he was wrong about it.
It was about a 20 minute walk before the two encountered any Grimm. Qrow was obviously annoyed that Jeremie was hiding something from him, but that wasn't the only thing that was annoying about this trip.
The Grimm General.
It still looked as ugly and as unsettling as it did all those years ago. He was wary though, seeing as the thing didn't seem to summon endless hordes of Grimm like it did the last time. In all honesty, Qrow thought it seemed to be glaring towards him and Jeremie.
He heard Jeremie shuffle his feet before speaking, "Well well." The frown and the digust was almost palpable from his words. "I see that you have formed yourself into that of a true Chimera!"
Qrow didn't know what to expect, and he sure didn't know what Jeremie meant by "True Chimera." Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't for it to give an angry hiss.
All Qrow did was blink before the thing was across the clearing and the snake-tail striking at him. While Qrow managed to dodge the attack and unsheath his sword, Jeremie seemed to attack the beast head on with his spear. The shocking thing for Qrow is that the attack didn't go through the snake looking appendage, and none of the creature bore the white armor that any Grimm that has lived for a long time has.
"Tch. Such a weak material if it couldn't pierce that hide alone." Jeremie jumped back glaring at the Grimm in front of him, which had taken to try and circle them to try and find an opening.
Qrow decided to take a potshots at the things legs as Jeremie leapt for it again. It seemed to shrug off the dust rounds before the lion head opened its mouth and fire spewed out. This was, while shocking, not a problem as Qrow was easily able to side step the attack.
Jeremie however seemed to just speed through the flames with minor burn marks on his skin. Qrow shook his head as he rushed forth and took a hack at the creature as it defended itself from Jeremie's onslaught.
Seeing the opening, Qrow struck at its exposed flank making scratchs on its still surprising thick hide. Qrow had little time to dodge the snake-tail as it began to retaliate independant of the rest of the creature.
As Jeremie disengaged, a lull in the battle seemed to occur, as if the forest was waiting for something to happen.
Jeremie really hated the fact that he couldn't use his haki to its fullest extent. He examined all the growing cracks on his new weapon, and felt sorely disappointed by its state. If only he was able to use his armament hardening currently, he knew that he'd have dealt more damage to the Chimera.
He glared back at the creature, and saw all the small cuts and marks that the little scuffle had formed on its body and faces. He could feel himself start to get desperate, as he knew that if the current conditions held up, that one of the two would get hurt by the creature.
'High Shadow potency'
Without a doubt he knew that he didn't have the resources currently to prevent the spread of the shadows or to cure someone that was infected. If he knew who Yoe's successor was then he probably could have gotten some of their energy or blood, but he knew that his blood could fight shadow sickness to an extent alone.
His grip on his breaking spear increased as he spun the weapon into its rod form. The plan forming in his head was highly risky, and could easily lead to his or Qrow's death. It was insane and dangerous enough to work though.
"QROW! Occupy it!"
Jeremie didn't see if Qrow was occupying it as he began to gather all the energy in his body and in the air, and began to channel it into the rod was holding. As he felt the energy take hold, he spun the rod faster and faster causing it to form a disk. With a grin, he looked towards Qrow and the Grimm General.
"Qrow, dodge now!" As Qrow moved the rod, currently a disk of energy, was thrown at the Grimm at atleast 100 MPHs. "DESTRUCTO DISK!"
The Grimm had little chance at reacting to the razor sharp disk hitting it and tearing completely through it. Jeremie smirked as the thing collapsed and began to disappate, before looking over to Qrow to do a quick visual scan for any woundings.
Qrow looked at Jeremie with a surprised look. "What was that?"
Jeremie staggered a few steps to retrieve the, now charred, rod from the ground. "A beautiful technique a friend of mine taught me a long time ago. It's a shame that I never really get the chance to use the technique."
Jeremie felt a pressure that he didn't notice before lighten. He gave a soft smile at the howling he heard in the back of his head along with the rush of energy at his disposal.
Qrow looked from Jeremie to the deep gash in the earth where the Grimm General was standing. "It seems like one powerful trump card."
Shaking his head, Jeremie begins to make the trek back to the village. "In all honesty? I'm not sure you could call that his trump card. His most powerful attack, arguable. Most dangerous attack, definetely."
Qrow looked confused as he followed Jeremie. "That sounds like a trump card to me."
"Well, no." Jeremie looked up through the foliage of the trees. "Just becuase it was his strongest or most dangerous attack, didn't make it his trump card. Really none of us had trump cards, we typically just used our attacks in surprising ways. I know my friend nearly took out threats that were easily almost 10x stronger than him by catching them off guard with the technique."
"You make it sound like he was really weak or something." Qrow couldn't help but retort.
Jeremie sighed and shook his head. "Well he was only a human, and most of the threats that we fought were not."
The way Jeremie had spoken had caused to Qrow to become thoughtful. Jeremie didn't mind or care seeing as on of the four Generals were now dead. He smirked. 'Lunavos, your move.'
Heyo guys, Zombiehunter here. So I've finally finished writing the newest installment of Rose of Time. Not much here, just the fight between Qrow and Jeremie vs the first Grimm General. What do you guys think? This chapter was a pain to write as nothing would come to me.
Anyways, I'll try to get the next Chapter out sooner, and look out for an upcoming side story I'm working on for Rose of Time.