Chapter 11- Backed into a corner.

The Grimm slowly emerged from the trees and paths, snarling and growling at the team as though they have been following them with their numbers seeming to total over a hundred.

The four looked at their surroundings, each with a similar expression showing that they are scared and nervous as they only had the lake behind them with no way of escape.

"Y-you reckon they followed us?" Sky gulped, pointing her Grind-blade at the horde, glancing at the others.

"If I had to guess, those beowolves earlier were scouting us out to warn the larger pack." Wave hypothesised, taking the wire out of his blade and get's 3 red tipped arrows out, ready to fire them at any moment.

"But they are all not just beowolves so that's impossible… R-right?" Ray said, shaking her weapon as she was clearly scared.

"Then something else is behind this." Sky concluded, pacing herself toward Ray and giving her a slight push, making the blonde girl shriek.

"Sky what was that for?!" She retaliated back but then covered her mouth, being mindful of Wave's condition.

"It's time to start your theatrical performance, let's say your debut as an Idol." Sky teased her, putting her arm around Ray's shoulders and pointed at the Grimm.

"…. You're kidding?"

"Nope"

"I will die."

"I'll cover you."

"You're taking responsibility."

Ray sighed because she had no choice at this point as she took a step forward and posed in front of the Grimm, pointing her swords in opposite directions across her body as a golden glow erupted from her in the shape of a growing carousel, spinning around in it's golden beauty with sparkles giving off just to emphasise its beauty although there was a statue of Ray on top, it may be a mirage, but it looked real enough.

"Sky, what now? She's distracting them but what next?" Wave grabbed Sky's shoulder and asked in panic.

"You go get the flowers Wave, Claus we are escaping so we have to clear a path." She responded, running to Claus, grabbing his hand and dragging him towards the side of the carousel.

But something felt odd, the Grimm looked to be too entranced by the mirage and there was a reason as the ground shook beneath the groups feet and Sky had realised it was something big running and had to react fast.

She let go of Claus and ran for Ray, spinning up her blade as she ran into the blinding mirage and in the middle way Ray doing a dance like a ballerina.

Sky kicked Ray away from her as the mirage became wiped and what was revealed was unimaginable but before she got any sight of it, a large white claw about the size of Sky came swooping down at her, she managed to twist her body and face her weapon to be able to block it.

It was in vain as the claw simply scooped her up and launched her a great distance away from the group, crashing to the ground, forced to let go of her weapon as she bounced and rolled on the ground.

Winded from the fall, Sky slowly got to her hands and knees coughing as she looked up and saw just how far she was from her team, there was a lip of the lake that separated her from the team, making getting back to them difficult but she was now far behind the horde of Grimm.

"Wave! Claus! Ray!" She screamed out their names but couldn't be heard, instead her focus turned to whatever sent her all this way.

It was big… a Grimm that she had never seen before, it had a long, thick tail, lined with bone spikes, the spines the lined it's back that stopped at the nape of it's long neck, it had two large arms, each with claws big enough to grab a large tree without effort, it's legs were covered in bone plating's and as it turned to face her, it's chest were covered in more cracked plates with its… skull, like a deer skull crossed with humans, it had barely any red in its eyes like a usual grimm… it was like looking at death itself, Sky deciding to name it Agari.

The Agari began stepping towards Sky, waving to the Grimm horde, them beginning to run towards the rest of SCRW while Sky scrambled to her legs and desperately ran for her blade, grabbing it and looked up to notice the Agari was already almost near her as it leaped over the body of water and landed on the land where she was, staring her down to show off its towering size of a common house.

Sky could only look up at it in blind fear as her jaw trembled and her hands shook while backing away slowly, knowing she can't take it on alone, knowing she's not as strong as Jet but… she couldn't abandon her team.

"W-what are… you planning?" She said without thinking but saying something allowed her to reclaim her thoughts and steady her blade to the Grimm.

The two stood in silence while hearing the battles from behind them until the Agari makes the first move, making a large swipe with one of it's claws, Sky jumps back to dodge it and another leap to dodge it's second strike.

She stands her ground and parry's it's next two attacks with her blade, creating sparks with each impact in which she lunges forward to stab into the Grimm's chest, seeming a bit too easily to accomplish early on but something was weird… there was blood.

Blood leaked out from its body which made Sky freak out as Grimm aren't supposed to have blood and this was unnatural but in the moment of confusion, the Agari's tail flew over and knocked her away with a powerful flick.

Sky quickly stood up and looked at the blood on her blade and then back to the Grimm as it walked slowly over to her, her breathing becoming unsteady as there was no way that Grimm could have blood and she knew from her past experiences with fight Grimm.

The Agari leaped at her with it's large claws, just missing Sky but follows up with another tail attack in which Sky managed to duck under it and jump back, keeping her blade against her in a defensive position as she continues to block its next claw attack although it felt like trying to stop a runaway truck.

Sky swung her blade at the Grimm, but it simply caught her blade with sparks flying off like some fuse has been lit as Sky desperately tried to cut through it's armour but with no luck as it picked her blade up with Sky long with it and swung her around until she let go of the blade, making hard contact with the ground as she gasped and laid there, looking at the Grimm as it examined her weapon like it was judging it which is odd for a Grimm.

Without a weapon and her teammates unable to help her, Sky was in trouble, she didn't know how long her aura would last and she doesn't know when or if she can get help with so many Grimm around.

She clapped her cheeks and took heavy breaths, taking advantage of the Agari being busy examining her weapon to calm herself down and think as she cannot fight while all tensed up.

"Okay me, analyse the situation, there is a large Grimm horde and my team is fighting them, If I believe in them I won't need to worry, there's a Grimm that we have not seen anywhere here, and it seems to display intelligence, something also not present in other Grimm along with the fact it bleeds." Sky collected her thoughts, taking more deep breaths that helps her keep calm and think but now her time is running out as the Agari has finished looking at her weapon and has thrown it away and focused back on her.

"Alright, this is my chance, I can use my semblance to bring the weapon back to me now that I don't need direct with objects anymore and I'll even use the environment around me, it will be taxing but worth it." Sky concluded her thoughts as now the Agari charges for Sky, it's arms outstretched and mouth wide open.

Knowing this could be the last stand off, Sky brought out a small army knife she always has on her as Jet always taught her to have a secondary weapon that's small and versatile on her at all times.

She stood firm, her resolve to bright to the best of her ability strengthened, she let out a battle cry and charged for the Agari.

The Grimm swooped down both of its arms at Sky with tremendous speed, but Sky was faster as she climbed onto it's left claw and ran up it's arm, slicing its arm along the way, getting the gaps between its armour, it was not deep, but it was something.

The Grimm launched its tail over its shoulder aiming for Sky's face, but she barely dodged it, barely scraping her face as she just barely deflected it with her knife then to grab its tail and let herself get flung backwards as that's what she wanted, landing on her hands and feet this time, she quickly got up and used her semblance, emitting a bright yellow glow on her weapon as it flies over to her and she catches it in her hand while the Agari turns around and makes another dash at Sky, large blade splitting out of its forearms as it ran at her with a roar.

Sky didn't let that faze her as the two clashed weapons a few times, sparks flying off and Sky's face of determination to struggle and to win showed as she went all out with every attack but her weapon couldn't handle the strain as it ripped apart on the next clash but soon went back to it's original shape as Sky permanently kept her Assemble Semblance on the blade so it wouldn't shatter, she won't be able to keep it on for long so she needs to finish this now for the strain of her having to keep rebuilding the blade adding to the weight of it caused large stress to her body.

Spinning the blade up to full speed she struck the Grimm's arm blade again but was kicked away that sent her towards the trees, she acted now on impulse, shooting 3 powerful shots from her weapon at the Grimm which it managed to cut through 2 of them but not the third as Sky rushed in with her blade for the final strike but was caught on the Agari's arm blade as it knew what she was doing and now it was a deadlock between the two.

The pushed each other but Sky wasn't going to get herself beaten now as she pushed back as hard as she could, focusing all of her energy on this final attack as she attempts to cut through the Grimm's blade while keeping her blade together as it was now a test of might between the two.

She pushed in this desperate situation as if she messes up now, she will likely die, and the rest of her team was next, the strain from keeping her weapon from breaking apart constantly was draining like she was doing a full sprint on a 100 meter constantly course and when she was about to drop down.

Break.

She broke through, the blade cleanly cut through now tumbling in the air as Sky's weapon shattered into many pieces, save for the handle as she stumbled through, her aura had shattered as she fell to the ground, gasping deeply for air as she laid there exhausted and unable to move or even open her eyes.

The Agari stood in its place for a moment in likely shock to look at it's severed blade and then looked down at the defenceless Sky, it growled and roared in frustration but stopped as it looked down next to it to see there is a Jellyfish like Grimm floating next to it.

"You have done enough, the girl shows promise, she will be of some use to us." A mysterious voice echoed from the Grimm and the Agari simply nodded and looked down at her, placing its severed blade next to her and let out a roar to let the surrounding Grimm leave the area.

Sky had passed out for the strain but on her body, was too much for her to handle, but she will somehow survive as it seems someone has taken an interest in her, sounding like they have been watching her for a while.

2 arrows flew out of the air at the Grimm and exploded on impact, barely fazing the Agari as it saw Wave stand there with his bow, now transformed into its double-edged self as he rushed over in an angry rage as he yells at the Grimm, coming in for a strike but it effortlessly dodged and kicks Wave back, snarling and grunting at him before taking it's leave.

"Wait!" Wave yelled, forgetting his own problems and prioritised the safety of Sky, he thought about chasing it but stopped to tend to Sky as dealing with her is more important right now, lifting her head and checked to see if she was breathing which she was luckily.

"Oh, thank goodness…" He said, relieved that she's going to be fine he hoped as Ray and Claus ran over with worry apparent on their faces.

"How's Sky?!" Ray squeaked out as she dropped down to take a closer look at her with Claus doing the same.

"She's going to fine… dammit if only if I managed to get to her sooner." Wave cursed himself as he held onto Sky tightly.

"Don't blame yourself, there was too many Grimm here today, it's as if the attack today was planned by something or someone." Claus told Wave to reassure him.

"But Grimm have no intelligence, right?!" Ray questioned.

"That's what we believed but that seems to not be the case." Claus yelled, looking up to an airship flying above them and landing next to the team.

"We will have to discuss this one we get home safely though, heads up." Wave told him, looking up at the ship.

"they got our distress call…" Ray fell to her knees giving out a sigh of relief.

"Wave, have you got the flowers?" Claus asked quickly.

"Yeah, they are in this bag I got." Wave told him, putting the unconscious Sky on his back and picking up the large blade the Grimm left behind and walked onto the airship as Vale security men rushed out to help the rest onto the airship.

"If Sky knows that all that effort she put in wasn't for nothing and you achieved your goal, that will help her feel better, no?" Claus made his point and Wave nodded slowly in agreement.

"That is true…but She held that thing off while we fought the Grimm… If that was me, I'd never be able to do it." Ray said sadly as the Airship took off.

"And we did our part with keeping the Grimm away from her, don't forget we all did our part to survive." Claus said, now at centre stage of the group.

"Well for now we will have to wait for her to wake up and somehow report this to Ozpin." Wave said, feeling frustrated with himself at his own weakness.

"Indeed, Wave we have a situation to sort too remember?" Claus reminded Wave of delivering the flowers to his sister again.

"Then I'll handle the report, you guys will be in my debt now so get ready to do whatever I wish for." Ray said with a giggle.

"I guess you're right, as much as I hate it, we are in your debt and looks like we will be looking after you too." Claus scorned as looked away from her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ray glared at him, keeping her voice down this time but suddenly clutching her arm in pain.

"Are you alright?" Wave asked, his face full of worry.

"I'll be fine I think; a Grimm caught my arm and it hurts a lot sometimes." She admitted taking deep breaths and tried to relax herself.

"Well we are being taken to the hospital anyway so make sure to get a doctor to look at it." Wave said, glancing over to Sky once again who was still unconscious and looked down as they were just about to enter Vale again.

"Don't mind me interrupting but what were you kids doing out here?" One of the security members asked.

"We were on a mission to help my sister's recovery and as you can see, we got unlucky." Wave answered, staring at the flowers he obtained.

"Well just learn to be more careful when there's Grimm around, they have been more active lately." The security officer scolded them, looking out the window.

"Will do, thanks." Wave cracked a forced smile.

Oh Boy what a chapter that was, I had quite a lot of difficulty imagining how this new Grimm would fight for I am using a theory of a whole new type of Grimm so I had to constantly go watch a load of fights and imagine how each scene would play out so I hope that all paid off and it gave you all that awesome fight vibe!

Next chapter will be the epilogue of Vol.1 of SCRW

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