In the hive crowned trees above, rumbling insects rapidly nibble their way through rich and divine leaves that glowed like wind dust. Their eating pathway was the opposite of unique as most to all of them squeezed their oval-line like bodies feeding on the paws of the leaves. The insects are long, leafs long and larger, in with the forest being large and taller. Every rustle that the insects made caused a sky-colored bird to hop from branch to branch and back again, playful looking for prey.
The grease tinted eyes reflected the leaves and stems, memorizing there flow in the wind to pursue the plant's parasites. The height of the bird exceeded a standing fifty-pound dumbbell at most, as it used its towering speed and vanity, instead of patience and accuracy. From jumping and lunging itself across the arms of the crown, it successful caught an insect.
Frcc!
This sudden noise mimicked a child feasting upon an apple while the fainted sound screeched the hair of the trees, losing its sound as it reached its ankles. This also encouraged a flock of similar birds to scatter to feast as well, yet this event didn't provoke the insects to retreat. Some we're in a gluttony state while others were skinny but continuously ate at a similar pace. The sky-colored birds all got their fair share, but for some reason, the insects had more slimy goo than meat, as if the insects can out juice an orange.
The flock of birds all showed a heat stroke affect, with their heads twitching like hanging earphones. Their toothpick colored beaks dripped bleeding snot from their crater of a nose, like thick honey. The majority of the flock retired to the skies as if clouds would cure them. Ironically enough, the ones that stayed behind were the youngest of the flock, as three of the sky-colored birds had a reedy look in their eyes. One of them flew to the closest position to the village, spotting Blake and Professor Goodwitch walking back to the elephant-sized roots. The reedy eyed bird watched over them, deaf as the shadow it stood over, it waited patiently.
Unknown Village
Blake and Goodwitch started to hustle back as one of the voices had in spite of aggravation that was uncommon for the quiet environment. When they arrived, a new face unfamiliar to Blake, but to Goodwitch, it was like looking at an old pen with no ink.
"Get your hands off her!" The girl with the brown chocolate-like outfit screamed in protest. From this information alone, this has to be Coco.
"You. You really want to resist!"
The man sounds like he had a drizzle of mucus in his throat, or maybe he just woke up. His light peachy skinned hand forced Velvet to crack her eyes slightly as their aura fought for space. His hollow brown sleeveless garb started to glow in night purple with his whole body shivering in it.
"She said, let her go."
He was forced to release Velvet's hand.
"Now… back up."
He did.
"Velvet our you okay?!"
The girl with the cocoa-colored waist cincher started to hold Velvet's hand looking for any unusual coloring. While Fox, Yang, and Yatsuhashi formed a wall, Ruby, Weiss, and Blake ready their weapons.
"Students… That goes for you all too."
Both team RWBY and CFVY back stepped during her order, being controlled without her semblance. Everyone looked a little confused until the man started to move his hand with his furry ears glowing from red velvet to yellow velvet. While he made a fist, he took a deep breath like he was preparing to play the trombone. Kai laughed as he looked away, the Professor noticed this and quickly took action.
"Cover your eyes!"
Everyone took the order without a thought. As if protecting their eyes from a flock of eye pickers. From first glance, you would think he was about to scream, but you would be decades from the truth. His hair, his ears, and even his eyes created an enormous amount of light, creating a line of laser-like radiation that disguises itself as fire. Goodwitch released her hold so the light wouldn't score her.
When Weiss opened her eyes, she was expecting to see smoke or steam, while Ruby expected to see a spiky-haired version of the man. (referring to a comic she read) But instead, he rose up from the boiled grass as he stared at the Professor.
"Oh. Look. Look, I thought you said you will never come back."
"That's not my decision."
"Nothing is." Kai interrupted.
Goodwitch shook her head while pushing her glasses back.
"No. No, don't say that she just told a fish story… Everyone. Everyone has those."
This red-velvet haired man spoke again while stuttering his first words. Repeating like a necessity to communicate.
"I didn't lie, nor did I make any promises. The people in this village are what I'm here for."
Kai chuckled.
"Yeah, we're just here to help!" Ruby said.
The Professor showed a sign, a message, violent as the warning signs on bitter medicine. The way she glowed at Ruby, made the little rose rethink for speaking out of term.
"Ms. Adel... Stay. Everyone else, go on guard... By that tree line."
"By that tree line." Yang replaced every thought, like making a playlist with one short song. She knew everyone knew that Goodwitch was just trying to get rid of them.
"Yes, ma'am," Ruby responded, covering her black-red hair with her hoodie as she sprints to her bag, then the so-called tree line. Blake did the same as others followed.
"So, what's the problem?" Goodwitch spoke.
"Well. Well... you see this "human female" decided to walk all over our village."
Goodwitch stared down, Coco for a second.
"Professor, I can..."
"I apologize..." The professor didn't care for Velvet's excuse; she just went on to apologize for her and Coco.
"Wow, an apology...Okay." The repeating man broke his pattern showing his disbelief; I mean, who wouldn't. An apology from Professor Goodwitch, a rare sight indeed. Although Kai didn't care for this, keeping his awareness.
"No...To make it even tell me." (He points to the others.)
"Is she a Schnee."
Professor Goodwitch paused for a minute or two.
"So, you're not going to respond." Kai playful lowered his left eye.
"There's no need, you already know the answer."
"Well, guess we're not even then."
"Look… I want to finish this before the night catches us."
"Night… Right."
While Kai was speaking, the repeating-man looks up to the massive branches that linked together like steel cables. The same bird, pecking itself to the bloody bone, stands with no shadow. His eyes opened widely, revealing his mossy-navy orbs as the bird stopped to stare for a brief moment to peck itself again. Kai notices the expressions on the young girls' faces. Ending his nagging, he clawed his companion's shoulder to no resolve. Without overseeing the repeating-man range of view, he just shoved him, brushed him, like he was preparing to punch him.
Kai eventually cast his companions' eyes on the shadowless bird. To see the bird-eating away at his crowded infected flesh not seen by Kai but he saw a glimpse of the glimmery pot. Like mint in a chocolate delight, spoiled not fresh. Kai's hair flickered… no, his aura flickered as he grabbed the repeating man rushing through the grainy mud.
"We can't let the night catch us."
"I.I know."
The two faunus showed nothing but motivation… caffeine motivation at that, as they shot away like timid weasels while one shouted.
"Stoven will meet you humans in a jiffy…" Kai said.
A hatch opens from the knee of the tree.
"What…!"
The hatch closed.
"Wait… What?" Velvet's eyes showed a plank slate.
"I can't believe this," Goodwitch spoke to herself.
"Who's Stoven?" Coco asked.
"Not their leader." Professor Goodwitch tore bluntly.
"Professor, I'm sorry... If I could of..."
"Don't worry."
"But..."
"She gets it Velvet, we're good," Coco said as she continued to speak. Goodwitch started to relax a little more even if the archers or "Gerber" (from what the hunters call them) were pointing their worm-like weapons towards the girls. She didn't worry about them, not at the slightest. Because if they hold the same weapons, they either haven't unlocked their aura or have and just never unlocked their semblance.
"Hell even then." She said to herself while ignoring her students like mir rent collectors, but one word caught her rent in the end.
"It's unusual… a horde of snakes covered the pathway that we used. So I took it upon myself to walk through the village."
"Oh. Those things."
"There were so many." Velvet said.
"Yes, I know."
"Professor? You say that as if that's a common thing around here.
She didn't respond to Coco with words, but with the walk of a soccer mom in heels. I promise you if the Gerbers didn't put their weapons down before, they did then. Even if she was human, the back of a woman is all the same. But never mind them… Coco, on the other hand, didn't care for all the silence that infected her teacher all of a sudden. She just took it as a way for the Professor to be two places at once, so the solution is to multitask.
"So they most have snake pits lying around." Even after her silence, she knew Goodwitch better than Fox at this point; she knew if she were right, she'd stay silent because even out in the field, a professor needs to correct someone or something. And with her luck, she hears...
"Not pits…"
The Village Tree Line
"Snake farms!" As if the little rose would stay upset for a minute after hearing these and especially seeing this. Her heart... No... her whole well-being had a pulse of a hundred.
"Sadly, yes." Blake never cared about snakes, thinking that messing with them only gives them unneeded attention. And know that she sees a whole river of these things hissing like a classic scroll, disgusted no doubt abiding by her emotionless habits.
"Well, quoting from the novel, at least." Blake jumped a little realizing what she was doing. Lucky, everyone (Minus Fox) watched the snakes like crows, eyeing a dying animal.
"What's the need for farming snakes like cattle. Is it some kind of financial need." Weiss with her father cap on. (She hates saying that.)
Silent, she stayed.
"Let me see..." The muscular blonde started looking through Weiss's bag during the time that the owner was vividly gazing down her neck.
"Page number… Chapter…(She looks at Blake) Where is it?"
"Well, you see… Weiss is interested in the story I don't wanna spoil it."
Blake looked over Yang's shoulders with intentions to guard her, with Yang rolling her eyes.
"She'll get over it."
"So that's your excuse... I'll get over it."
"Look, don't start."
(Weiss breathes in deeply into her core)
"You right." The Ice Queen embarked her way to the other side of the wood line, not too far and not to close with Ruby tailing her nonexistent shadow. Yang, mounted as if to worry… that the next inconsistent movement would ignite the Ice Queen's emotions… that the next crackle in her voice would kindle the Ice Queen's expressions. She last spoke when Blake grabbed the novel with Yatsuhashi closing in.
"Yep."
"You could've done better." (Blake flips through the bleeding Friesian colored book.)
"I know Blake...I know."
Yatsuhashi came in between the girls with Blake looking at the giant.
"I'm sorry, Yatsuhashi… This isn't the norm.
"And if this isn't normal, then what is it?"
"Well..."
"Growing… To become greater, in massive size, extend shortly or having a life to show. When growing on your own, you have a lot of room to extend your roots or branches. Well in our position we have less room just like this...Forest."
"But unlike this forest, we have to spare… No shared space. And as a warrior, you will learn that bickering will take up space."
He looks at Fox.
"But aren't you worried about Grimm."
"Grimm are cowards, there are not enough groups out there for them to get boiled to attack us all. Unless we separate."
"Yeah, but still."
"If it makes you feel any better, Fox and Coco had more than enough scuffles in our first year."
"Ohh, that's interesting, Fox and Coco couldn't see eye to eye."
Yang was smiling at Fox while he tilts his head.
"Oh, I'm s… Spiced with puns."
"That's definitely not the word." She said to herself.
Fox just smiled and shrugged his shoulders with Yatsuhashi holding his chin.
"Well puns aside, Professor Goodwitch is coming… With three others."
Blake keened her cat-like eyes to watched her teacher with the other hunters.
Coco and Velvet were in front of the Professor, and the man named Kai was behind the Professor with the other one that was attacking Velvet on the right. He had a straight pitchfork in his hand that made sounds of rattling chains.
The one to the left had jet-brown hair that soaked into its peach skinned. His tail was small and short with a black hunter knife tip. He held a double-headed sickle with a dime-sized hole in its center. His garb was like the rest but cleaner and shaped to his body. Something was on his back but wasn't seeable.
"Ms. Rose… Weiss."
"O boy, it's starting." Ruby said.
"Yes… Now, you all know the original plan right."
"Yes, ma'am."
"I'm going to have to make an adjustment to..."
"That will not be welcomed." The jet-brown haired man spoke.
"I told you it's not going to work without him."
"You see, you didn't change the plan when I was away. Now that he's gone, you getting a little moonstruck." He held his chest.
"Because he's never gone, plus there will be an opened gap."
Kai laughs.
"We can three-man this. You have faith in mere children, (he laughs) at less show some false faith to us. May call it even."
"Professor, we can do this. Where just drawing them out, right." Ruby said.
"And then some. (Yang cracks her knuckles) Will show them want mere children can do."
"Predictable, predictable response… If you stop my stutter, then and only then will I be surprised." His mucus still persists as he held his chest with his bow tie, cleaner then his voice.
Professor Goodwitch released her tightened lungs as in seconds, she tightened them up again.
"Weiss… A word with you."
Weiss walks up as Ruby trails her.
"Only Weiss, Rose"
"Fine, yes, ma'am."
Ruby ran back to the others as the hunters smirk at her. Ruby didn't mind them as she got a glimpse of what's on the new hunters back.
A prism-shaped crystallized by dust, yellow-sunnish dust hand-made at that.
She also saw the Repeating man's weapon as he scratches the rust of the forks while gazing around.
"I see it, Ms. Schnee."
"It's not what you think it is, Professor.
"Look, being nervous brings…"
"Let me guard the opening!"
Goodwitch adjusted her glasses.
"Are you positive, Ms. Schnee."
"Doubtless."
The Professor nods her head as she started to lose her positive emotions when she thought of the hunter's name. Like a Sergeant that thinks about a shitty detail. Vastly shitty.
"Stoven."
"Yes, Professor Witch"
She rolled her eyes.
"One of my students is going to form up at the gap."
"Oh, really... Hey old sports, get a kick out of this."
His voice didn't waver in pitch, but it had a sneezy feeling to it that called up the two other hunters with their bill collector smirks. The teens watched out of ear distance.
Professor Goodwitch explains the situation to them. They understood, but like children, they had to mock the situation with drunken laughter, especially Kai.
"Yeah to easy."
"Old sports…(he rubbed his has like a dictator) Trivium?"
The two, with their seaweeded eyes and navy-turfed eyes, choked a look.
"Trivium!"
"Alright, Professor Witch, I'll take her there; you just follow the others."
"Not at all... I'm going with you."
"Professor… Why?"
Weiss unfolded her arms, showing a hint of "I can go to school by myself mom." vibe that the hunters noticed.
"It's not what you think."
"Aww, still no faith in us. Alright, still too easy."
With all this happening, the other teens started walking a little closer. The rest of team RWBY overheard the conversation like teachers listening to the queen bee and her drones.
"Weiss… Defending a whole section." Ruby said to herself.
"Well, well, how are you getting back? One, one who doesn't know nothing of the forest can't understand the forest."
"I know that the serpent walks from deadlight to sunlight."
They stayed quiet while Kai smiled, and that smile moved up a little as he licked the bottom of his upper lip. "The serpent walks from deadlight to sunlight." Went from ear to ear during the teens eavesdropping; however, Blake hid her nostalgic shock like she hid her cat ears.
"Team leaders a word with you also."
Goodwitch moved closer to the edge where Weiss and Ruby were standing. The leaders felt a shiver of tickling ants that infected the wind, with the hissing of the snakes caring the wind religiously.
"Ms. Adel, I want you to take in command within my absence."
"How long will you be gone," Ruby asked.
"I'm getting there… My absence will be brief, but an obstacle can be even more flitting, so stay on your guard."
Coco nods.
"Ms. Rose, your task is to start Phase 1 and Phase 2."
"Yes, ma'am."
"The rain clouds... (she points through the huge gap between the trees showing the light grey blankets that paces ahead.) Once they cover the sun, that's when you start Phase 1."
"Right!"
"Then, after your exit, your scroll will have a signal. You will receive a message from me; that's your indication to start Phase 2, so hold the position until then."
"Yes, ma'am, I won't let you down, Professor."
"Don't worry about letting me down; just be careful."
Ruby didn't expect those words. Something from that tone showed hits of not wanting to separate. But she didn't say anything because Ruby knew the hunters had something planned. They plan to attack the Schnee. Her partner. She had to say something.
"What about the..."
The experienced huntress placed her fingers in between Ruby's lips.
"That's why we have scrolls. I've already added you two to my group chat."
She could have said more, but the hunters looked impatient with smirks that would keep the Grimm away.
Ruby watches Weiss and the Professor walk of with the strange jet-brown man while the two other strange men started running the opposite way as Fox began running with them while she and the rest started trailing them. Professor was right. While they were running, they were following the river of snakes, as she looked back, she saw Coco running faster than even her sister. She couldn't believe the speed she had even with her handbag that hid her heavy weapon. She also noticed the Yatsuhashi talking to her, wondering about the topic.
"I think a flaw has been found." Yatsuhashi said.
"What are you talking about."
"You… Weiss… A proper plea…You failed to put them in one sentence."
Yang knew precisely what he was talking about; as they were running, she slowed down a little thinking… Thinking about her, her way of making up to her, she really didn't like the "I'm sorry" way of approach… but was it really that obvious?
"We stop here, Velvet… and humans."
From the perspective of everyone they knew, that they connected to the same road from earlier as for Blake, she gazed down, not for the road. But to see if she would get the same feeling of worry…
She did.
As always, she kept the emotions to herself, shaming any evidence of having more than a care.
"Velvet this way, To your position… tell you're humans to follow." Kai said.
"Fox, Yatsu…"
They ran out of sight with Coco and the rest of team RWBY moving with duty in mind. No guides, no Professor, and no Hunters to nag them on, they kept the scent behind them.
As time moved on with the clouds, Coco and Yang jogged to a walking pace to regenerate their aura. They left Ruby and Blake for their part of the mission. Yang started a conversation like normal, with neither of them talking about the task at hand. Ignoring the timid birds and ghastly tree noises that came. The road was steady, smooth steady, as the silver path made way to a joyful walk.
Phase 1
During this point of dimming sunlight, the young huntsmen and huntresses where all in position. Well, to Ruby's knowledge.
She had her weapon drawn fully, as it's scythe. With her scope glaring in the decaying sunlight. The scopes red glare looked unusual as it soaked in the forest around it, like a doll with bleeding stuffed bird eyes gazing under a child's bed. Usually, this eye would be staring at her targets, often she would be playing with its modded visions if she was godly bored. But it was more like the scope was bored. Staring at her. Like she was the next target. She looked away from the scope, thinking of something to kill the sounds of nature.
"You think everyone's okay?"
Blake walks up to her while she thought, carefully picking words for her response.
"And I'm not talking about Yang and Coco. The others in the forest."
"Yes, if your thinking about the hunters? Professor Goodwitch… All of us can take them on."
"Yes, together… But apart?"
Blake unfolded her hands.
"Starting a fight with us will not end well for them or their village."
"Yeah, that makes sense."
"Hopefully, they have some." Blake added, followed by a chuckle from Ruby.
"I'm pretty sure they do. For one, the guy attack Velvet instead of Coco. I don't know if it was because she never uses her weapon or because she was another faunus. Two, their weapons are designed with unique thought. Even with the fact of using farming tools, they had dust infused in their weapons instead of ballistic weaponry like ours. With the limitations of just using tools, I wouldn't expect such tasty looking weapons."
She continued her tangent.
"Like, I know a scythe is a form of a garden tool, but my Uncle and I increased the size for better off. But for them to just extend their weapons with dust alone, makes me think there might be more creative weapons in that book."
"...Yes."
"Speaking of." Ruby said joyfully, "I have a feeling I know what Professor Goodwitch told you."
Blake wasn't looking at Ruby as she scans the silver road that could fool a kingdom dweller into believing that wet paper covered the way. She continued her look, thinking once again, an answer for her leader. She always had her questioning herself, like a lawyer talking to an underpaid jury, while defending a psychopath. Making them believe it's the government's fault. Ruby didn't know it yet, but she'll probably be a well-liked Headmaster in theory. For her defending her students, that is.
"Well, you see…"
"You made a promise to us, Blake." Ruby interrupted.
"Better off… To yourself."
She was spot on. More precise than what she referenced her. As if she read her leader's diary with the diary reading back the cat's thoughts.
"Your right Ruby." Blake looked up to her bow.
"She wanted me to withhold information on the forest. Well, until we leave, of course."
Ruby didn't want to fool with Professor's orders, but in her mind, "My absence will be brief, but an obstacle can be even more flitting..." stroke her brain numb. Her hungry for the unknown cried out as if it would make the numbness go away.
"Well, you know you're not doing a good job on that." Ruby said with her smile ear to cheek, making Blake smile back.
"Funny." Blake chuckled as the silver-eyed rose, transformed her weapon, and applied the safety.
With minutes passing slower than the clouds. Blake answered her leader's questions, not spoiling the story but giving enough with less information. She knew Ruby didn't care much for the book's story. But she talked to her like she would want someone who was eight chapters in to tell her. With all that, the shadows grey blankets covered them turning the wet paper off the road to a child's skin that stayed in the tube for too damn long. The smell even changed with its feeling of walking from room to room. As if the area was constructed in a maple covered bedroom to a broken-in laundry room with no scent of cleaning agents.
"Phase 1" is starting.
Ruby and Blake had no more words to share, not even a cringy line from the rose or a quotable reference from the cat. All weapons were hot, but the barrels were cold as an arm with frostbite. Ruby aimed her weapon to the blanket of the clouds, with her heart rate even higher, she pulled the trigger releasing the firing pin. She rapidly fired three shots that caused no clamor. Only the smell of sweet mud that gave way to the infectiousness of goosebumps. Blake, with her four ears, was able to hear the small group of Grimm from the north... wait for even the west.
"They're coming…"
"Great!"
Flair!
A Beowolf trailed the tree line like new-made gum that uprooted dirty and bugs alike. Blake wasn't surprised as she shot the dirt and roots that flared in the air. As the Beowolf clawed through sobbing and grunting. The rocked formed roots fail on the belt of its waist, making a puppy jealous of its painful weep. Its weep didn't even have a chance to echo, as other Beowolves ran, tripped, and torn right through the praying Grimm.
Ruby just smiled as she quickly went to business, noticing the number of them. Ruby flipped her weapon in position as two Beowolves dodged Blake and her stone dust. The length of the scythe was not judged by one of the mindless creatures, impaled by mere circumstance. The beast had no logic but knew that its legs weren't moving, and yet it kept up its attack without the feeling of its legs. Ruby saw this and flipped backward while she shot a round downrange, cutting the rest of the beast in the air. The second beast jumped back with Ruby still spinning with her dangers scythe. The demonic wolf couldn't find any opening… Well, that's what fear wanted it to believe.
Blake had five to seven on her at once. Her shadow was anonymous to some extent as the quickness of her strikes made it unreadable. She landed on a tree branch with cracked moss in it. With this, she used her semblance to bounce her higher, leaving the rabid creatures to fall together. Another bone-cracking sound shaped her reaction to jump without seeing the cause. With luck, the Alpha missed and started falling with the bruised branches. As the Alpha fail, it was swinging its claws like a broken fish. The nails shaved the scalp of another, drawing noddle Grimm blood from the canyon of claw marks while another had a jacked-up brush of branches grilled into its jawline. Blake poised on a harshly small branch that gave her view of the coming Grimm. The grunts of the Grimm while in groups sounded like victims of bloodsuckers. Trees were still, but tweaks of birds showed the Grimm moving into hoards.
"Ruby, we have more."
Ruby backpedals.
"Good!"
She transformers her weapon into its gun form as she fires aimlessly.
"Let's go!"
Blake swooped down, using one of the creatures to stop her fall. Her blades drove its teeth, smoothly into its crown, akin to dreadlocks. After it's evaporation, she started to follow her leader's route, they knew the plan.
Phase 2
This area felt opened with an old burnt oil scent that simulated the breach awhile back. The sand was grey in ash lighter than the trees but darker as you draw closer to the canyon. The canyon's opening began on a falling hill that would be a breath taker if trying to run back up the mountain of a hill. The walls edge gapped in like a bent decade leg in a dresser with its rocks like toes barely clutching on. The tree line above had birds leaving their homes because of the upcoming noises. Yang stood in her stance while Coco held her hip.
A speed of roses set the trees to bloom as the launch of momentum brought more than plants. Yang knew that wind.
"There!"
Our chocolate fitted friend swung her purse to the right of her side at the time of Yang bursting forward with her gauntlets. A rotary machine gun that looks to hold a hell of lot dust rounds made its transformation from the purse as the glare of her shades hid her eyes.
Yang was burning for action, while her clothing never charred and never scorched, her hair was the timber of energy. If you would tell a false tale to a child below ten, that her hair was the sun's incarnation.. they'll believe it… hell, Yang guards it as such.
"I'm getting in position."
"Right, Sis."
While the sisters turned away from each other, the brunette showed no fatigue or imperfections. Her gravity slash soaked the area with damped goo that quickly faded with the red roses. Flames followed as shells filled the mud like a drop of red pills in an overflowing sink. The victim's grunts started its height in pitch as more bodies melt and fade. Within seconds seven to ten Beowolves fail to the flaming void in that area, as fourteen to twenty replicas took the victim's grunts with no pitch or falter. They started their version of backpedaling as more and more Grimm took the wood line. They knew the plain.
"Ruby, you good?" Coco asked.
Ruby used her weapon to end her momentum, she stared back to watch the Grimm be torn and boiled as they grouped up for another attack.
"Better than them."
"Tell me when you get the text from P.G."
Ruby started looking for her scroll.
"Yep."
As Ruby continued her search, Coco and her shades made contact with the Grimm line that broke the air with their victimized criers.
"Yang! Blake! Behind me!"
Yang burst her body towards the canyon as Blake shredded her weapon to pounce off a shadow, leaving the Grimm to fight thin air. This made some of them slam into each other creating saliva that drugged the firm dirt to form spurts of mud that, in return, rained 7.62x51 dust rounds through their slim throats. She sprayed the Grimm line like a weed eater on the edge of a drug house, but this drug house expended as the weeds crawled and even dug to stay clear from the weed eater rounds.
Yang and Blake gave support from the sides as they took on the stragglers that devoid the need for caution in this encounter. The stragglers where more bony, tanned ash, and wined eyes than most. They showed hatefulness, but with a plan like the girls.
"Old Beowolves and an Alpha!"
Blake screamed as she throws her weapon towards the enemy with her long ribbon still attached to her fired it once, making the weapon fling in a circular motion, cutting into the Grimm with no resolve. The Grimm throws its body weight (an animal's way for a counter.) towards the girls, severing their joined power.
"No! I said behind me!"
Blake and Yang withhold their loaded rounds as they saw the incoming wave.
The gash of rusted flesh turned to shredded weaved hair, turned to peppered smogged odor. The Alphas' and old Beowolves' actions were short-lived.
Blake watched, noting that Coco was in control. The way the Grimm scattered away from each other, trying to find an opening instead of retreating. A few were able to rush her, yet they didn't even pass the roses left from Ruby. You can tell by the grip of her weapon that she was used to the chaos, the senior leader, the leader of CFVY, knew the plan.
"Sis, what you looking for?"
"My… My scroll."
"You have it, right?"
"I… I…"
"Left it…" Blake responded.
The girls started a daze of common knowledge. With Ruby drawing her actions in her skull. Carving it as if she would use it later, whittling the walls of her skull as she thought rashly. And yet she knew the reason; however, she shocks it off.
"Yang, your scroll!" Ruby said forcefully.
She gives her sister her scroll in a pitch after the sirens of the minigun stopped. Coco had to reload!
"Ruby, I don't have her scroll number."
"It's in the mission files! Just help, Coco!"
Yang nodded with Blake launching another gravity slash towards the Grimm line. With Coco slaving her belt of rounds into her weapon, she started to step back for more support. Coco knew they denied the inevitable. The grass will grow without the weed eater, scissors, and matchsticks that were never made for a grass line. (Well in her head.) She threw her criticism aside and focused on the mission.
"Did you get that text!" Coco screamed back.
"Well… No, we have a problem!"
"What?"
An alpha jumps for its score to lose its right side to the flames.
"Ruby?"
An old Beowolf ran for the score, yet it was closer than most it's lower half didn't make it.
Coco was staring at Ruby, trying to see the problem. A problem that could cost them their young lives. Young lives that the grunting victims wanted to take, the shivery of life, make them grunt less. Causing pain to take away their pain is the goal, and Coco didn't want their lives to be the score.
She wasn't panicking, but her backbone was shaking in. She wasn't scared, but her sweat damped her outfit. She didn't hear the Grimm's howls, but she heard a gunshot from the distance as it echoes through twice. She didn't imagine things, but she saw it… Green… Reflecting off the Grimm from the sky.
"What?" Coco pulled down her shades mind boggled like the Grimm. They poked their ears up like a curious house dog hearing their master's magical box opening. That magic box that keeps that godly greasy meat that will spoil the average human, these held the tips of the towering trees with priority. Being the limbo for the heavens of the steel grey clouds and the ever so tall forest that hid its hellish soil. The stain sprouted with the sunlight growing in centimeters pace, mocking a sponge that hangs under a leaking shower.
"Ruby!"
Coco screamed again only for an echo of gunshots to mask her voice.
The shots came from the forest!
"Ruby, is that the Professor?" Yang said.
"A green flair… It has to be…"
"No… that was a round... A shotgun round."
Blake wasn't following, but Yang knew her sister. She studied all kinds of weapons. She never mentions shotguns unless it's about their Uncle or Yang herself. She believed her sister's knowledge as she eyeballed the Grimm line that continued their grunts. They began their assault, the painful creatures howling dried the sweat off of Coco's body...
The creatures, the grass line, the grunting victims, the Grimm of mutts...
Assaulted the forest!
"They're going back to the forest!" Coco started firing again, trying to rage them to attack her.
"They're ignoring us?"
Ruby found the scroll number awhile ago, but after the green flair, the scroll stopped working as if the flair drained the scroll's soul. She started speculating. Yes, she was thinking of Fox, who is the closest to the east wood line and how he would be outnumbered. Him being torn apart to even him out with the herd f Grimm, seeing his white eyes on the muddy ground like a pearl. Seeing Velvet running as she holds her bleeding intestate. Feeling Yatsuhashi's rage as he fights for revenge to only lose to the swarm.
"Ruby!" We have to go after them."
The little rose's eyes lit up with her weapon. As her sister saved her from her nightmarish daydream, she started thinking about her partner. But not in a daydream but with action.
Her speed and roses took the lead, and the others trailed her roses, all loaded for a rescue. They all knew... but who else… The hunters didn't have guns to their knowledge… So who else knew the plan?
The timing for this chapter has passed its due. However, I'll continue the story with the best of my free time. Please give feedback for I can better my writing ability.