Flying to
Falling
"So what now?"
"Return to civilization so I can contact Ozpin and let him know its done"
"Ok, there is a well developed town a bit to the east"
"Old Vale?"
"No, they renamed it once they managed to secure it again"
"They should really just abandon it"
"This time around they did get some defenses in place that seem to be doing a good job"
"Maybe, but when the Shrieker raids come I don't think those defenses will help"
"They did survive the last few, despite moderate damage to the town"
"So what's it going by?"
"Last Light"
"Doesn't sound like a great name"
"They say if it completely falls again they're gonna scrap the entire project"
"Well, onward then"
"Can we walk? Running is not really my thing"
"Sure"
While they walk through the forest towards Last Light, a few hydras follow them, leaving a noticeable trail from the spiked plates on their entire body, a sign that these one foot long snake/leech creeps have been alive for a very long time. One of them leaps at Ruby in an act of courage, to be met with Talon being fired into it with the White Dust crystal, but it does no damage, just knocks it a great distance away.
"I don't like those things" Emma looks over her shoulder to check if they are there still, they aren't
"Me neither"
The two take off in a sprint until they are out of the forest, then continue walking.
"Hydras, are they snakes, worms, or overgrown leeches?"
"They look a lot like a leech even though they classify it as a snake"
"So, hows school?"
"Graduated, you?"
"Hunted down"
The two laugh some, then Ruby stops Emma in her tracks and looks at a large nevermore that flies over them in the direction of the town.
"Shouldn't we kill it Ruby?"
Ruby nods and shoots the ground with Crescent Rose in scythe form to fly toward it, while Emma changes Dust types to blue and fires ice spikes at it, each one flying as straight as an arrow with the force of an olympic thrown javelin.
A flurry of feathers from a flock of nevermores half the size of the one Ruby is after splinter the ice spikes, so Emma resorts to cryo bullets, using more of the current Dust crystal than she wanted to. The bullets became highly inaccurate at that range with those types of bullets against that small of a target, however when the first one hit, it had a very good effect. It landed right where the wing and torso connected and froze it, causing the never more to only have one working wing. As a result it crashed and died quite painfully. Ruby had started firing on the flock, hitting several of the birds, placing wonderfully large holes in their chest.
Emma, being the lover of aerial combat she is, she fully extends her spear and uses it similar to how Ruby uses her scythe, the recoil sending her into the remaining two flock members as Ruby refocuses on the big mamma bird. Emma spins her spear around, smacking a nevermore in the chin with the blunt end as she sails past, then fires a round into one of it's eyes, then resets the dust usage to cryo and fires more shots, turning the bird into a falling chunk of ice. The other nevermore had a worse time. Emma moves around it with the recoil of her spear to avoid a few hastily fired feathers and gets on it's back, making small shallow cuts into it. Ruby blankets the mamma bird with bullet fire, earning her it's attention. Ruby uses the recoil to move higher up, then turns her scythe around and resumes firing to get closer to it. Upon reaching her target the grimm takes evasive action, so she fires at one of it's wings until it is sufficiently shredded. Watching the grimm fall to the ground she smiles and fires until she is out of ammo, decimating the already doomed grimm. What Ruby failed to notice, was that a luck shot from a feather had cut the ammo belt she had, and when she reached for another clip, she realized that. Now we have a grimm reaper, a very great distance from the ground, falling at a very fast speed. Survival was probably not an option. Thankfully she landed on a very distressed nevermore, with a girl on it's head steering it with her spear.
"Umm…"
"Fast track transportation" Emma laughs and keeps it heading to Last Light.
"Finally someone who thinks like me" Ruby giggles and thinks back to when her and Weiss were riding an angry nevermore.
"We should probably get off this before we get to the town Emm"
"But he's my pet now…"
"Emma"
"Fine…"
When they get within viewing range of the town they see what appears to be a small city surrounded by a giant brick wall, some sections seem recently repaired, and most buildings are made out of wood,brick ,or metal. Most of them seem to have some sort of injury, Jeff's Hunting Goods, for example, is missing the u, the e and both g's. Another place that seems to have once been a bank is missing the first floor wall at the entrance of it, and several housing areas have sustained injuries ranging from broken windows and roof tiles, to missing roofs and walls made into windows.
"well, time to put him down" Emma says with mock sadness and Ruby holds her hand.
"Dont you dare crash him on purpose."
Emma sets him down slowly, then fires her spear, and the spear darts through his head and into the ground. They jump off as it's body falls onto the spear and begins its decomposition cycle. Since Emma doesn't want to wait to retrieve Talon Ruby cuts a path to it so she can retrieve it, then they start on their way back to Last Light.