Forgeravin Productions short story
This story relates to RWBY Forge Remnant. It's connected to the story but not directly connected. This is purely a Side Story to the world of Remnant.
Craft Side: Man and Beast
Blue eyes gaze ahead, unmoving, stuck in place. His body covered in protective armor is frozen as he watches. Watching, as his team is being torn apart. Their bodies crushed, cut apart, or fung into the canyon walls. Feet are frozen in place, he can neither run in or run away. The Beast stomps the ground, it's body bloodied, bruised, and covered in the weapons of previous hunters.
"This… This Beast is a monster…" The man thinks to himself, watching as the Beast bites into one of his team, pulling at the body, after a few tugs the arm is torn off and the Beast consumes the flesh. He watches as his eyes begin to wander backwards. They fall upon the mining village behind me at the other end of the canyon, cars, trucks, bikes, and any other form of transportation is being gathered in front of the village.
"Nowhere to run." He said, looking back at the Beast as it began walking towards me. Biting down on his lip, he reaches down and picks up the sword mace and lifts it up and over his shoulder. With such weight to each step, I start walking towards the Beast.
"Heh, sorry for the wait guys… Help me with this thing alright?" The man said, closing his eyes. The world disappears form his view, yet the sound persists, the sound of stomping. Footsteps approaching.
"Because now… I have nothing left to lose." The man said, opening his eyes turning from bright blue to crimson red. Bending down, the man launches forwards at the Beast, it answers by opening its mouth screeching at the man as it's bone tongue launches straight at the man. The man lifts up his left arm, the tongue bounces off, the man continues ahead running faster and faster up to the creature. Coming close he raises his blade and swings.
"Rah!" His blade mace hits the right leg of the Beast, causing the Beast to lose balance. The Beast screeches as it crashes into the ground. It's body kicks up dust that hides its body, the Beast's tail launches out from the smoke chasing after the man. The tail rises to the sky and comes down at the man. The Man flips the grip on his blade swinging and knocking the tail back.
"Try this Beast!" The man said as the center of the Blade Mace opens down the center revealing a large barrel in the center. With the flipped grip the barrel points directly towards the dust smoke.
*Click* Gunpowder ignites as a large round launches out from the barrel into the smoke causing an explosion, the blast pushing away all the dust revealing the Beast now standing up. The round had hit the Beast's chest but did little to damage it's skin. The tail comes at the man again, but he quickly jumps to the side turning around and charging at the Beast.
"Hyup!" The Man said jumping up into the air and landing on the back of the Beast. He raises his blade to jam his blade into the back of the beast, when the tail flies in from the side knocking the Man off, his body crashes into the cliff side. Keeping his blade mace up the Man blocks against the tails continues attacks. One attack bounces off the blade and into the side of the Man's helmet, scratching up his face and breaking the side of his helmet. That moment let's the Beast swing it's arm like mass into the Man knocking him aside.
"I'm not done!" The man said getting back up, only for the Beast's tail to slither atop the sand then launch up into the man's shoulder bruising it. Moving around the Beast the Man makes some distance before jumping up onto the side of the cliff. The Beast turns it's head towards the man opening its mouth.
"Raaagh!" The Man shouts as he heaves his blade mace at the Beast smashing into the side of its face and tearing up half of the beast's face. The Beast continues it's attack launching both it's tongue and tail at the man.
"Nuuh!" The Man climbs and jumps across the cliff face dodging the tail and tongue at the same time, jumping down from the top of the cliff the Man then jumps and rolls right under the beast. Reaching out the man grabs a blade previously jammed into the Beasts leg.
*Screech~!* An ear piercing screech comes from the beast as the Man tears off a piece of the Beast's flesh. The Man jumps back dodging the tail and tongue attacks, his body moving faster and faster and faster. Even the Beast had trouble keeping up.
"RAAH!" The Man said, charging in once again his right fist raised, as he threw his fist the Beasts tail intercepted the fist. Upon impact steel, bone, and blood were broken. The Man jumps back, his right hand bloodies and broken but still clenched, he charges in again. With his left hand he blocks the tongue, and with his right hand throwing another punch only something to pass through it. Glancing down the man sees his right hand cut clean off.
"Don't tell me that's all you can DO!" The Man screams bringing his arms up in a blocking from as he speeds towards the Beast. In a flash the Man dodges another attack and jumps up onto the Beast's body tearing off more flesh from the beast.
"Is this all you have?!" The Man said, blood coming out his hand, arms, legs, body, and eyes. The Beast too bleeds from all parts of its body. Yet it attacks again with its tail, only for it to be caught by the Man. The Man raises his bloodied right hand, the gauntlet broken but it's pieces being sharp enough, the Man jams his arm into the Beasts right shoulder. The Beast's tail slips out of the man's grasp slapping him into the cliff. The Beast jumps back and then jumps onto the Man, pinning his right arm. The Man spies a broad sword in the Beast's right leg. Quickly grabbing it and pulling it out, the Man thrusts the tip of the blade into his right shoulder severing his right arm.
"Go ahead, take it!" The man said, stepping up to the Beast's face and swinging the flat side of the blade into the face of the Beast. The blade shatters upon impact, but disorentats the Beast. The Man jumps away, his feet landing next to his teammate's large blade.
"Gonna have to borrow this." The Man said, picking up the blade, looking back to the Beast which is still recovering, the Man charges in swinging his massive blade, cutting a mass off from the beast. The two monsters clash, the Beast's tongue and tail verses the Man and his blade, the two clashing in a ballet of blades. The Man blocks the Beasts blade and swings his blade down cutting into the Beasts head but not killing it. Pulling his blade out and pulling back it's tail, the Beast and the Man made some distance from each other. The two silently look at each other, one missing an arm and bleeding profusely, the other bleeding all over and beginning to lose strength. The two gasp for breath, their bodies pumping, their minds racing, the pain in the far back of their minds.
"Yeah, this is perfect. With this… I'll kill you." The man said looking down at his bloodied blade, the man swings the blade out to the side. Raising his blade up and pointing at the Beast the Man runs straight at the beast. The Beast charges in at the Man, the two fly straight towards each other. One thrusting his blade up, the other thrusting it's tail at the Man. The two edges meet their mark. The blade going straight through the beast's head, the tail stabbing straight though the Man's heart. The two fall to the ground onto their backs as they stare at the sky. A quiet silence echoes through the canyons.
*Clap* *Clap* *Clap* *Clap* Echoes through the canyon, as a figure watches from the top of the cliff. Stopping his clapping, the figure makes his way down the cliff and to the ground. The figure walks over to the man, his face lifeless and empty, the man leans forwards to take a good look at the man's face. Looking to his right, he spots the village now burning, all of the vehicles crushed and burning, bodies strewn across the open valley. The figure looks back to the Man and with a smile pats the Man on his lifeless shoulder before standing up straight and walking over to the beast, it's lifeless face twisted to the side its side facing eye pointing towards the sky. The figure pats the Beast on it's head before walking away from the battle as silence once again fills the canyons
Craft Side Complete.