Sorry for my bad English.
I got it that exclude chapters and put it together with another may cause problems in the reviews. I was doing that to make the chapters longer and not have too much chapters. Since this lack reviews for being an OC fiction, I thought that some would not give a try in reading this story because of that. I don't know for sure if having too many chapters and just a few reviews may be a bad thing, but considering this is a fiction based on OCs I don't know for sure.
But I received messages about the chapters I uploaded. Since the reviews were posted in deleted chapters, some readers could not give another review. Seeing that the experiment went wrong, I will stop deleting and putting chapters together.
Dust can be found anywhere, even in underground.
Sally wondered how come dust can grow down there. She knew that is natural source of energy for everyone, but how come it went on under the floor?
Speaking of energy, Ryan and Koro were out make a while now. She was about to ask Unicorn if she received any news from their teammates but when she turns around to talk with her partner, she finds Goodwitch yelling at her and Valkyrie, meaning they must have fought again.
For her surprise, instead of seems uninterested, Unicorn's focus seemed to be in something else. It seems she also notices.
-Ms. Unicorn, are you listening to me?
-Ms. Goodwitch! –Sally called before Unicorn could answer.
-I'm busy right now Ms. Highwind.
-It is important.
-It will have to wait.
-No, it will not! –Sally shouts surprising the teacher. Seeing that she got Glynda's attention, she continued. -Ryan went after Koro and they still not come back.
Now that she remembers, Koro walked away from the group and Sally sends his partner after him. At this point is it better checks them out.
-All the scrolls have a tracking device installed inside them. –Glynda said pulling her own scroll. -If nothing happened to them you must be able to track them.
The device activated and showed two signs. One was bigger than the other, showing the group together and the second one what were Ryan and Koro was trembling, showing they were in movement, a lot of movement. Unicorn just starts to walk to the direction where Ryan went after his partner, probably to look for them. Sally was about to join her when Glynda spoke.
-You both will wait with the rest of your classmates on the bullhead.
Unicorn raised an eyebrow and felt her leader's hand on her shoulders.
-She will look for them. –Sally said.
-Now she does something. -Glynda decides to ignore Unicorn's statement for know and go after her missing students.
For some reason, all the movement on their signs was worrying her.
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Ryan was having a bad day.
At the moment he was in the middle of only god knows and running away from a humanoid grimm. Professor Port spoke a lot about grimms while not talking about his own tales but he never mentioned about a humanoid grimm.
This grimm was able to remove pieces of his own bones and throw like were flying sharp discs. A proof of that is that Ryan had to duck to not be decapitated and the flying white disc easily cut the rock pillar in front of him.
Still on the floor, Ryan watches with his eye wide open the pillar be cut in two with no problem, meaning that if one of those be able to reach him, will be very problematic.
Turning around he saw more of those discs coming, so he took both his revolvers and shoot each one in midair, getting by surprise even more seeing the discs exploded upon being hit by his bullets.
-Those things can explode?! –He asked and then notices that the grimm was gone. –Wha-where did he go?
After the question was made, Ryan felt a chill in his spine telling him that something was coming from above, urging him to side step before the bone blade could make a number on his aura. Ryan kicked the blade hoping to make the grimm lost its balance but it was able to spin in midair and give a kick to Ryan's face.
The gunslinger was able to block in time and hold his revolver like a tomahawk to give a cut on the grimm's leg, but one of the roots moved to block the blade of his revolver. The grimm used the blade to push itself and jump in midair, attacking twice with the root around its neck and Ryan used both tomahawks to block each strike.
Once on the ground, the grimm gave a quickly spin aiming to decapitated his human opponent but Ryan was not the type to be caught in such easy move. He ducked the attack and kicked the grimm in the stomach, making it stumble back allowing to Ryan to attack him with his tomahawks.
Ryan was not so surprise to see that the root like flesh served as an armor for the grimm, protecting its body from any mortal wound, but how much this armor can withstand?
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Koro had to admit that this grimm was pretty thought itself.
The kick he just received shows that it had a great physical strength, but for some reason it moves like it has two left feet, this would be an advantage for Koro.
Dodging its next attack, the ninja rolled away and once he got up, did not waste time throwing more explosive shurikens against the monster. Pointing at the shurikens, the grimm shot small projectiles made of bones from its fingers.
Creating a smoke screen, Koro snuck behind the grimm for a surprise attack. The grimm did not notice the ninja behind him and received a cut from the red blade, burning a bit its back. Turning around the grimm start to use the blades that came from it wrist to block and counter Koro's strikes. In the tenth strike, Koro disappeared in another smoke screen, reappearing behind the grimm what this time, saw the attack coming and blocked the katana with its own blade.
The blade came down and Koro had to use his scarf to hold the attack but forgot about the grimm's strength, what proved to be colossal. It easily pushed away the scarf and gave a cut on the right side of Koro's right leg, making him lost the balance and fall on his back.
The grimm raised its arm and brought down to the ninja's stomach, only to explode in another smoke screen. Looking behind, the grimm not saw Koro but raised its arms like an X above his head to stop the blade of the katana.
Koro leaped away and threw blue shurikens against it. The grimm had to block the incoming projectiles with both its arms, freezing it a bit. Koro was surprise to not see its entire body covered in ice as he expected. Changing the color of the blade, Koro swung the yellow blade hoping that the yellow arc of electricity incapacitates the grimm a bit, only for the yellow arc be absorbed by its body.
-What in the actual hell?! –Koro shouted.
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The grimm roared.
Whatever was that yellow arc, it was not happy to see that Ryan was able to absorb it, not that matter at the moment.
The grimm somehow was able to use dust and this worried Ryan. He already used fire before, and if he notices that Ryan is afraid of fire, then the battle will become problematic for him.
The grimm disappeared in a smoke screen, surprising the gunslinger with the fact that grimms use this type of strategy. Looking around, he searched for the monster but found nothing. When Ryan felt the floor shake below his feet instead of his own feet shaking, he knew that the monster was going to appear where he not expected.
Pointing his gun to below, he was ready to blow the grimm's brain, but was shocked to see that was part of the root that covered its face. Ryan was able to shot the root before it could do any harm, but then it exploded in front of him.
He stumbled back screaming and barely felt the gust of wind behind him. Moving by instinct he dodges the first attack but was caught with a cut in his legs. The root wrapped around his neck and he was thrown to the floor. The root burn his neck, it was practically on fire. Ryan drew one of his revolvers and shot at the root, breaking it and freeing himself.
Back at his feet, Ryan was shocked to see the root regenerating with the part which was separated from the shot. The root moved like a whip, and while Ryan was dodging and blocking, he could swear that the grimm was with his arms closed. It was hard to tell with a body like this.
It proved to be his mistake when Ryan was able to point his revolver while dodging and pulled the trigger.
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Koro barely saw the projectile coming but was able to pull his katana in time to parry the shot, sending the flying bone to a different direction. The grimm was back in its feet and shot more bone projectiles against Koro who parried each shot, sending to the nearest trees, opening holes in some and making it fall down as well.
Koro was able to send the last shot back against the grimm what received the projectile straight on the chest. The grimm rolled back and put itself back in its feet.
Seeing that sneak attacks were not working, Koro decide to go with a straight attack. Going in high speed, he moved like a blur with his katana prepared to cut the monster in half. The katana made contact with it skin but received no cut though. The grimm turn around only to receive another cut in its face, followed by another on his back, Koro then jumped and gave a vertical slash with his blade on the grimm's shoulder.
The demon-looking grimm was on its knee and Koro decide to finish it with decapitation, moving his katana for the final slash only to felt a electric chain run through his body. Temporally paralyzed, the grimm brought it bladed wrist and hit Koro's stomach with a punch.
The young ninja never felt a punch so strong in his life and fortunately he had his aura to protect his belly from the blade, but it not meant the attack did not hurt.
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The grimm was able to hold itself when its feet touch the floor and moved again in blind speed to finish Ryan. This time he was able to hold the attack with one tomahawk and cut his opponent's face with his second small axe.
The bone blade come from below and Ryan tilted his body back to dodge the slash, then spun around and gave a cut on the back of the grimm's left leg making it fall on its knee. Ryan brought his tomahawk down but before the blade could connect to the monster's skin, the grimm rolled away and then, quickly sits up and threw more of those bone discs. Deciding to guard some ammunition, Ryan dodges the flying cutters. Once he was inches from the grimm, it drew a strange symbol on the floor. From it came a pillar of fire surrounding the monster, and scaring the hell of Ryan.
He stumbled back as the pillar start to come down like a tree falling and the gunslinger rolled away as the pillar of fire covered the floor in ashes. The grimm start to spin around making a small whirlwind of fire.
-As if a pillar wasn't enough! –Ryan complained as the whirlwind of fire approached him.
He gave a jump back but the whirlwind keep following him, forcing Ryan to roll back and then, he had to jump back again, the whirlwind still following him wherever he go. Changing tactics, Ryan used the earth dust he absorbed before the trip and covered his body with his earth armor.
With his legs trembling, he braced himself as the whirlwind crashed at him with full force. It was not only fire but also cuts from the grimm's blade.
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Koro trained this whirlwind of fire for a while and was glad he could finally test against an opponent who is not one of the losers from Beacon. Unfortunately for him, his new move was not enough to deal with the grimm, what covered itself with move bone armor for protection. Even also attacking with his katana, the defense proved to be too much for the ninja's move.
Koro pulled out of the whirlwind and made a motion with his fingers, making the fire whirlwind explode in the grimm's face. It sends the monster high above. Koro watched satisfied the monster fall hard on the floor with force enough to make crater.
He slowly approached the crater to see if the job was finish, only to a clawed arm get hold of his ankle. He was pushed down as the grimm came from the ground, hitting him straight on the chin with a closed fist.
Koro was sent flying but was able to recover in midair, unfortunately for him the grimm jump after him with his blades ready to attack. Koro blocked the attack with his katana but was send down in high speed by the force of the attack.
He fall hard on his back and saw the grimm coming with its blade coming for a vertical slash. Putting his fingers together, the ninja summoned a tornado. The grimm was caught in the violent wind, spinning like a kite in a hurricane. Burn and freeze was not working against him so Koro decide to try a different approach, making another motion with his fingers and shoving his hand on the floor, Koro summoned from the floor the same ice spikes he used in his fight with Ryan against the Mandragora.
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Ryan saw spiky roots coming from the floor and going to his direction, and his armor was nearly destroyed in the small explosion, and had to use all the dust he had to make the armor. Using his tomahawks and was able to break each one what tried to open holes in his body. The last one came and he stuck the blade of his weapon in it, and used to hold himself while the tornado continued.
As Ryan hold himself in the root, he saw the grimm coming to his direction for a close fight.
As the grimm's approached each other, they knew that their battles would not be easy to win.
End of the chapter.
From now on, no more deleting and fusing chapters.
This proved to be a mistake when it comes to the reviews. Fortunately I tried this only with this fic but unfortunately, I was going to receive just one review for the chapter, meaning that still is small the number of readers interested in this story, with his a blow to my self-esteem.
Well, I will survive.
See you next time!