AN: Hey people, I have Harry's semblance shown for the first time in this chapter and I personally think it's boss but tell me what you think of it in a review.
A Grimm Huntsman
Chapter 4
-Harry-
A loud and rather feminine scream jolted him from his idle daydreams as he shot up, leaping down from the piece of stone he had been laying on and began looking around. "Did you guys hear that?" Yang asked in concern, the buxom blonde looking around in concern "Some girl's in trouble!".
Glancing at Blake he noticed that she was staring not at their surroundings but straight up with a stupefied expression as Yang turned towards her, "Blake, what do you think we should…huh?" the blonde trailed off when she noticed Blake jabbing her finger upwards as he looked up to see a wide eyed Ruby fulling from the sky causing him to sigh, knowing that what he was about to do would put a big dent in his anti-aura reserves.
Channeling his reverse soul he activated a rune array he had inscribed onto his boots, and charged with the help of his magical focus, that would allow them to act somewhat like a broom and give him flight but would drain energy at a ridiculous rate. Just before he shot skyward he heard Blake ask "Is that your sister falling from the sky?" before he blasted upward, intercepting Ruby and going back up, just as the blonde guy he knew threw up on the bullhead, flew past underneath them and into a tree.
"Did he just…fly?" Blake's confused question drifted up towards him as he used the boots to lower himself back down, panting at the drain on his anti-aura reserves as the short flight took a quarter of his power.
Yang looked like she was about to answer Blake's questions, and likely grab the still shell shocked Ruby to smother, when a roar drew their attention to the tree line where he saw a flailing Ursa which promptly collapsed to the ground dead as an orange haired girl climbed off its back with a pout, "Awww," she whined "it's broken." Making him smile slightly as she poked the creature with her foot, the girl reminding him a bit of Luna…if Luna enjoyed killing things.
"Did she just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked once again, the girl's expression growing more and more shocked with each passing moment as Yang seemed to grow more and more frustrated.
Ignoring his partner's growing irritation in favor of watching in amusement as the orange haired girl selected a golden rook while singing a song about being the queen of the castle, much to her partner's clear exasperation, he was caught off guard when yet another crash sounded as he looked to see a girl who honestly looked like a Spartan version of his mother…either the universe loved playing tricks on him or he had more Fire whiskey than he thought. Behind the girl that looked like Combat Lily Potter he saw a giant scorpion Grimm and heard Blake, once again, ask deadpan "Did she run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?".
This was clearly the last straw for Yang though as the blonde brawler yelled angrily, a burst of fire surrounding her as he took a safe step back, idly noting her now red eyes, and the girl began yelling "I can't take it anymore! Can every just chill the bloody hell out and shut up for two seconds before something ELSE crazy happens?!".
While Yang panted from her little rant, the happy orange haired girl who he believed was called Nora danced, and Nora's partner jogged over while out of breath he noted that both Ruby, who for some reason had a faint blush, and Blake were both staring skyward, their heads titled in confusion. "Um…Yang…" Ruby said hesitantly, smacking her sister on the arm and pointing skyward as he looked up to see the rude girl in white hanging onto the talon of a Nevermore, yelling loudly about Ruby 'leaving her'.
"Harry…can you?" Yang asked before he held up a hand to interrupt her.
"Just getting her," he jerked a thumb at Ruby "took up a solid quarter of my reserves using these things. They're emergency only and I don't have the energy to fly up and get her…that and I think the guy in the tree wants to save her.".
As the two sisters glanced at said blonde they both sighed in tandem, "I take it that this won't end well?" Blake asked the sisters.
"He tried to ask her out before we went to the cliffs and was…well she shot him down pretty brutally." Yang said with a wince as he sighed, not wanting to have to deal with romance drama as he fought the urge to avoid taking a sip from his flask of fire whiskey.
"But what was that about you leaving her?" he asked, wanting to change the topic from the guy in the tree's apparent lack of a love life.
"I said jump." Ruby said as if it justified everything.
"She's gonna fall." Blake said blandly although he could have sworn he saw a hint of amusement in her eyes.
"She'll be fine." Ruby said calmly.
"She's falling." He told her simply before watching to see what the guy in the tree would do and hoping he wouldn't have to use another quarter of his reserves to save the rude girl.
Watching he saw the blond guy leap out and catch the white haired girl bridal style with a smirk, faintly hearing the guy ask "Just…dropping in?" which he had to admit wasn't all that bad a line in that situation…until gravity clocked in and the two fell to the ground, the guy landing face first in the dirt and the girl on his back, idly looking at her nails as she disregarded her 'savior's' injuries.
Calmly stepping to the side to avoid being hit by the redhead's dive he heard Yang exclaim "Great, the gang's all here. Now we can all die together!".
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby declared confidently before the silver eyed girl shot forward towards the charging Death stalker only to get backhanded away. "D-don't worry," she called out as she got up shakily to her feet "totally fine!" before noticing the Death Stalker right behind her as she fired her scythe's gun and, when the bullet simply bounced off, turn and ran back towards them.
Seeing her run, seeing the fear in her eyes, those silver eyes that were so much like Luna's, he felt rage course through his veins. Rage at both the Grimm before him and the ones who had killed his precious sister. When the Nevermore fired its feathers, pinning the girl's hood to the ground…he let his rage out. Snarling angrily he shot forward, leaping in front of Ruby as he grabbed the pincers of the Death Stalker before they could stab Ruby, grunting in exertion as he felt himself be pushed back slowly towards the wide eyed Ruby. Hearing a gasp from behind him he glanced up to see the Grimm's stinger plunging downward towards him at a breakneck pace before there was a flash of white in the corner of his eye and a wall of ice grew in front of him, catching the Grimm's stinger and the claws as he let them go and dropped to the ground, his strength, while augmented by his 'semblance', not enough to use that kind of effort easily unless he used the full ability of his power.
Tuning out the two girl's 'bonding' moment he kept an eye on the ice to look for weak points when he hear the blond guy call out "Guys! That thing's circling back!" as he looked up to see the Nevermore turning to come back around for another pass at them.
"You lot aren't ready to take on Grimm of this level," he called out to them as he stood back up "to the teams that don't have a relic grab one and then we move out. There's no point in battling these things when the outcome is as up to chance as it is now. All we need is to get to the cliffs.".
"Run and live…that's an idea I can get behind." The blond guy, he probably should learn the man's name, said with a rapid nod while said blond and Ruby both ran over and grabbed their chess pieces, Ruby grabbing the Knight like Yang had guessed and the blond grabbing the other golden Rook.
He was just about to turn in the direction of the cliffs and head out with the others when he felt a hand grab his arm, as he froze, turning to see Ruby staring at him hesitantly while the others ran ahead. "I…I just wanted…" Ruby said nervously, the silver eyed girl biting her lip nervously as he sighed and realized what she was trying to say.
"it's alright," he said with a calm air "you'd have done the same for me.". That statement got him a full-fledged hug from the small girl as he froze, praying that she couldn't feel the multitude of scars that covered his body through his shirt before she let go and ran off after the others. Hearing the ice restraining the Death Stalker cracking he shook off his stupor and charged ahead with the others.
Quickly catching up with the others he took the lead, using his mask's HUD to guide them towards the Cliffs as they broke through the tree line and into some ruins, reaching the top of a large slope just as the Nevermore returned with a loud cry, perching on a ruined tower as it stared down at them hungrily. "Well this can't get any worse." The blond guy said morosely only for a loud crash to echo behind them as he spun around to see the Death Stalker burst through the trees. "And it just got worse!" The blond guy cried out in a panic.
Seeing the two Grimm that were immensely powerful for hunters with as little skill as they had he felt a dilemma rise, knowing he'd need the full power of his 'semblance' to beat them but it would bring up questions he couldn't easily answer. 'To hell with it all,' he thought with a growl 'I can always make up a story and if that doesn't work…well I lived for a year on the run, I guess I can do it again.'. Looking around he found a broken column that, thanks to the stone it rested upon, looked like it could work as a lever as he called out to the Orange haired girl "Nora! I need you to get me skyward!" before jumping on the high end of the column.
"Are you crazy?!" Pyrrah, Blake, and Weiss yelled out while Nora laughed happily and did as he asked, causing him to shoot through the air as he called upon the power of his reverse-soul and felt himself changing, his body shifting as he let loose a draconic roar. Inside his head he smirked at the fear he noticed in the Nevermore's eyes at his new form for if he was a Grimm in 'soul'…should he not be able to become one in body as well?
AN: To those of you who are confused Harry can turn into a dragon Grimm. I have all parts of this semblance mapped out, his powers, strengths, weaknesses, limits, the whole nine yards. I also made sure to make it so that he isn't OP…or at least not vastly OP…he might be a little OP but he does suffer from being the position of the main Character which entitles him to be slightly supped up.
