"What do you mean a Grimm that isn't supposed to be here is here!? How did it get here then!?" I exclaimed as I looked at the group of people. Yang was already ready for a fight, Ruby looked slightly panicked, Weiss kept her hand on her Rapier, Blake stood with Yang while looking around for the sign of the beast, Pyrrha looked genuinely calm as she brought out her weapons, and Nora and Ren?
"Ooooooo~ I wonder what type of Grimm it is? This is gonna be fun." She said as she brought her hammer out. Ren facepalmed and shook his head. "Please don't run ahead."
"The guy in the green is right. None of us should run ahead. If we do that makes it easier to kill us." I said simply. Never split the party I guess.
"Um… Robin?" Pyrrha spoke up as she pointed to the sky.
"Yes Pyr- OH FUCK!" I exclaimed as the Nevermore began circling back towards us. I hate this STUPID BIRD.
"Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying." Weiss said.
"She's right." Ruby agreed. "Our mission is to grab an artifact and get it back to the cliff. There's no point in fighting them."
"Well, looks who's using brains." The Heiress said sarcastically.
"Says the girl that tried to be smart instead of admitting that she got lost in the woods," Ruby reply back, causing the heiress to blush in embarrassed. I looked at the two and brought out hunter's mark. "Ok! Little time for banter. I suggest we all grab one who hadn't grabbed one and get the hell out of here." I said as the group nodded.
With that, Ruby walked up to the artifacts and grabbed a white knight.
"Ok! Let's go now!" Ruby said in a small bit of worry as our entire group started to sprint away from the giant bird
Yang couldn't help but smile at her sister. Something that Blake noticed. "Is something wrong?" Blake asked.
"No, it's nothing." Yang said.
ROOOOOOOOOOAR!
A booming roar that echoed through the forest made us pause for a moment. The roar was absolutely horrifying, sounding like something MUCH bigger than a Beowolf and an Ursa. I quickly looked at Ruby and Yang.
"Any idea what that was!?" I exclaimed. The two sisters shook her head as I sighed in worry. "Let's Rin now!" I exclaimed as we began running again.
"Guys…Look!" Nora shouted as she pointed at the bushes behind us.
It was some sort of lion, bigger than a Death Stalker. It had a white mask, red dots in it as eyes. Two long saber teeth coming out of his mouth, bone-like armor around his side, its claws were sharp and buff. Where the usual mane of a lion would be it was a mane made out of bones the jutted outwards. It's red, glowing eyes stared at us with rage and hunger.
"What the fuck is that…" I said in a horrified whisper. Everyone in our group looked horrified as Pyrrha answered my question.
"That's a Bonemane!?" Pyrrha couldn't help express her shock.
"What?! That kind of Grimm is supposed to be in the deadlands of Vacuo!" Blake shouts in disbelief, making some of the others tremble a bit.
"What is a Bonemane doing in the Emerald Forests?!" Weiss yelled in shock as well.
[Quest Gained: Beacon Initiation]
Description: This is the Beacon Initiation. This will determine wether or not you will get into the academy. However you can, you MUST succeed in all of these objectives.
Objective 1: Find a Partner [Completed]
Objective 2: Make Your Way to the Temple [Completed]
Objective 3: Survive the Nevermore
Objective 4: Survive the Bonemane and make it back to the cliff
"This is bad, we have to go now!" I exclaimed as I started to bolt it out of there. Soon, the rest began to follow my example; running to the rendezvous point. We sprinted through the forest as the same horrifying roar echoed through the forest. The sound of giant feet sprinting towards us could be heard as the Bonemane sprinted after us.
Nononononononononono! What the hell is happening!? Why is a giant lion thing coming after us and how did this even get here!? I swear if Ozpin put it here I'm killing him. Well… if I survive this, that is. We kept running for what seemed for a long while before I took one look behind me….
This thing was right behind us.
I gave a horrified scream as I tried to run faster but my legs could only run so fast. Thank god for a great agility. But then the something bad happened.
I'm pretty fast. Faster than most of the people in this group. But Nora… not so much. The Bloodfang caught up with her hit her with its head, not doing the most damage to her but shooting her off into the forest in the opposite direction. The Bonemane ignored us for the moment and walked where Nora was thrown.
Me and Ren paused real quickly and looked where Nora was thrown. Ren quickly dashed to save his friend as I turned to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha! We gotta help!" I exclaimed as I began to run in the direction of Nora and Ren. Thankfully Pyrrha followed me as we ran deeper into the forest to help Ren and Nora.
The trees made the forest a bit darker as we ran to find Nora. We eventually did find her. She looked ok, probably just hitting a tree in her landing but aura seemed to heal her up. The Bonemane steeped closer to her, snarling at her. She got back to her feet and wielded her hammer. "C'mon kitty cat." She said with a small smirk.
As the Grimm went to pounce, Ren sprang from the tree and shot at the Grimm's head. Because it had the bone mask it bounced off of it but it opened a hole into the mask. Ren landed on the back of the beasts neck and sliced in a spot where there was no bone armor. The beast roared and through Ren off its back and into Nora.
I looked at Pyrrha and gave a nod as I put Hunter's Mark into its Bow form and knocked an arrow. I pulled back and fired at the head of the beast. The Ice Dust arrow froze a bit of the mask on impact and Pyrrha threw her shield, colliding with the frozen bit and cracking some of the mask, then the shield came back to Pyrrha like Captain America.
[15+13 Ice Dust Damage]
The beast looked at us and roared as it charged.
Me and Pyrrha ducked and rolled out of the way and the Beasts head collided with the tree. The Bonemane instantly recovered and rose a claw, swiping at me with vicious intent. The claws swiped across my skin and launched me away from it.
[-49 HP]
Dear Christ! With just one hit!? I held the wound in my chest that was slowly healing because of Aura as the beast turned it's head towards me. With a hungry glare it charged. I reached for my bow but before I could reach it a giant Pink grenade nailed it in the side of the head. Nora had her weapon in it's launcher form and began firing at the beast. The grenades nailed it in the body and head, but still didn't do much damage.
It shook off the blows as Pyrrha and Ren both jumped on it's back, and began shooting in the places where there was no Bone armor. The beast seemed to be getting sick and tired of this and launched Ren and Pyrrha off. As they were launched off the bones of the mane scraped across Ren's leg. It roared at Ren and Nora but looked at me. I knocked another arrow and shot but it moved it's head so it bounced off the bone armor.
I quickly turned my weapon into short swords and as it opened its mouth to bite down I stabbed it in the tongue.
[22 damage*3 CRIT!]
I gave a confident smirk as I saw that damage pop up on the screen but it was quickly turned into a look of pain as the beast bit down on my arm.
[-64 Damage*2 CRIT. WARNING! AURA BROKEN! WARNING]
I gave a loud yell in pain as the beast lifted me into the air and threw me into the into the distance. I held the bleeding arm as I looked around. Pyrrha looked at the beast and heard a yell of rage as she shot at its head and threw her shield. The shield hit the fang of the beast and cut it from its mouth. The beast gave a yell of pain as it tried to ignore Pyrrha and sprinted towards Nora with incredible speed. It rammed her with its head and knocked her through a tree
Then it slowly turned to Pyrrha, a large glare in its eyes as it sprinted forward. She turned her weapon into a spear and went to throw it when the beast just stopped. It fell to her feet. A look of confusion spread across her face as Nora slowly walked back near Pyrrha, looking mad as all hell.
Lodged into the neck of the beast was the fang of the Bonemane. The fang was surrounded with a purple glow as the one and only Glynda Goodwitch stood behind it. She looked at me and saw my injury, then looked to Ren. He was ok, just his leg was in pain.
We lived…. Yaaaay!
[Quickly losing blood. Entering Rest Mode]
What…
And then everything went black.
A bright light shown in my eyes as quickly tried to move myself away from the light. I snuggled up into my covers and- wait what?
I quickly shot up to see a cozy looking room. It was pretty messy and clothes were scattered around. Posters of various Video Games were hung on the wall and a PC was in the corner of my room. It seemed to be early morning and the sunlight just rose so it went through my blinds. I blinked in confusion as I looked around.
The door opened to reveal a woman with long brown hair, tan skin, and a happy smile spread across her face. It was my mom….
She poked her head in my room. "Good morning! Breakfast is ready downstairs." She said as she closed the door. I looked around as I held my head, wondering what had happened…
"Do you miss this?"
I jumped out of my bed and looked around. Sitting in my gaming chair was a woman with long white hair, black eyes, and pale white skin that had was probably more pale than Weiss. She had a big smirk on her face as she stood up. "I could bring her back."
I took a step back as I glared at the woman. I had no weapon, no form of defense, nothing. "Who are you…?" I asked, my back pressing against the closet. She gave a laugh and snapped her fingers.
The light in the room disappeared as I was brought back to the same room that I've seen countless times in my dreams. The dripping blood, the cold touch of death, and the quiet sound of failure. The woman was sitting in front of the door. "I could bring her back." She repeated.
I glared at her as tears began to swell up in my eyes. "WHO ARE YOU!?" I said with a scream of desperation. I began to cry as my hands were covered in blood. I rested my head on the shoulder of the body as I tears dropped down my face. The woman drifted in my direction and rose my chin up. She gave a creepy yet warming smile. "I can relieve you of this burden. This power that you don't know well… I can bring her back."
She reached her hand out for me to grab. I stared down to the hand and slowly went to reach for it in desperation. But just before my hand would grab hers, I saw a flash of something different. Black veins scattered her body like cracks and her eyes had a horrifying red glow to them. I immediately pulled my hand back and backed away. "WHO ARE YOU!?" I exclaimed, running my head through my hair. "WHY ARE YOU HERE!?"
The woman turned back to the first form and glared. Black smoke rose from the floor as it incased everything. She rose up to the sky as two colossal beasts rose beside her. The beasts each reached down a clawed hand in order to grab me, but then everything disappeared.
A small voice broke me out of my fears.
"Please be ok… Please be ok…."
I slowly opened my eyes, and the light broke me out of the nightmare.
When my eyes opened I saw the worried face of Ruby, Yang, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren. When she saw that my eyes were open both Yang and Ruby hugged me tightly.
"ROBIN! YOU'RE ALIVE!" Ruby exclaimed as Yang didn't say anything. She just sat there and hugged me. I looked around in my surroundings and blinked in confusion. I was in a hospital room, my arm bandaged and hooked up to one of those blood thingies they have in hospitals. I slowly moved my arm, which still hurt like a bitch.
Yang shook me a bit and stared into my eyes. "ARE YOU INSANE!? YOU COULD HAVE DIED!?" I gave a small smile and just hugged her. I looked to the three members of the would be Team JNPR and smiled. Nora gave me a happy wave, Ren gave a thankful nod, and Pyrrha reached out and put a hand on my shoulder.
I was just about to speak when the door opened, revealing Professor Ozpin. He had a cup of coffee in his hand and smiled. "Hello there, Mr. Redwood."
Yang and Ruby immediately let go of the hug and laughed slightly. He looked to the two sisters and smiled. "May you two step out of the room? I wish to speak to the four of them alone."
Ruby was about to speak before Yang slowly nodded and took Ruby out of the room. Ozpin looked at me and sighed, then to the other three people in the room. "You four fought a Bonemane by yourselves even when we said to evacuate." He said, sitting down in a nearby chair.
"Sir. Please. Nora got attacked and we couldn't leave her and Ren to fight it alone." I said, trying to reason with him. He sighed and nodded, taking a sip of his drink. "While I do admire your reasoning this can not go unpunished."
I looked down and sighed but then I remembered something. I dug into my pocket and showed a White Rook piece. The three members looked at me with wide eyes as Nora started to give a excited chuckle.I don't know what but being near them felt like it gave me Confidence.
"Before that. You said that we must collect the relics and make it back to the cliff. You also said to destroy everything in our path or we would die, and we did that. We did get our asses kicked but we still did what you said. And since this tiny chess piece is not still in the forest, we passed the entrance exam." I said with a tired smile.
Ozpin blinked at the chess piece and took it out of my hand. He gave a small smile and a chuckle before slowly nodding. "It seems so. I guess I'll let you all off the hook this time."
Ren gave a warm smile and a nod to Ozpin. "You won't regret this."
"Hopefully I won't. Welcome to Beacon, Team RRNN (Rune). It will be led by Mr. Redwood."
"Yaaaaay." I said tiredly as Pyrrha gave a small laugh. I'm leader? This is either gonna go very good or very bad. Hopefully the former, not the latter.
"Now. You three should leave and let Mr. Redwood rest." Ozpin said. Pyrrha nodded and looked to me. "Rest well Robin." She walked out of the room, Nora skipped out while waving me goodbye and Ren gave a small nod. "Thank you."
[Quest Completed: Beacon Initiation]
Description: This is the Beacon Initiation. This will determine wether or not you will get into the academy. However you can, you MUST succeed in all of these objectives.
Objective 1: Find a Partner [Completed]
Objective 2: Make Your Way to the Temple [Completed]
Objective 3: Survive the Nevermore [Completed]
Objective 4: Survive The Bonemane and make it back to the cliff [Completed]
[New titles gained: Beacon Student, Team Leader, Team RRNN]
[LV UP! LEVEL 14!]
I smiled and waved them off as my eyelids felt heavy. I snuggled into my blanket and rested peacefully for a long while.
Well that was fun. Almost dying, getting introduced to a spooky person, and finally getting into Beacon as Team RRNN (Rune)! Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter as much as I did making it. I'm still working on my fights, hopefully I get better as we progress. Now! On too the Reviews!
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