YOU WAKE UP FEELING WELL RESTED, HP AND AP FULLY RESTORED.
Well that was a great rest while it lasted, time to pack it up. I went over to the kitchen to pack any and all snack I could find in the cabinets and fridge, apparently they're already paid for in the rent. Some stirrings came from the couch and I look over to see Maria rubbing her eyes awake.
"*yawn* Morning Onyx…Where's Barry?" She asks me while scanning the room to which I point to the bathroom.
"Did you honestly forget what happened yesterday?" I ask.
"Um kinda? I remember buying some pastry in a bakery then everything else was a blur. What does it have to do with Barry sleeping in a bathroom?" She tilts her head confused.
"Last night you went on a sugar rampage and scared the entire town, us included, shitless." Barry himself replies walking out of the bathroom with a toothbrush in hand.
"Oh cmon I know I'm a bit handful if I'm over energized but surely it couldn't be that bad…right?" Her statement earns a deadpan from the both of us as I open the door and take in the daily newspaper. Maria reads the title and wince.
Potential serial killer at large
Last night a faunus family in the slum district reports to having be assaulted by a group of thugs and was saved by sheer luck of a monster scaring them away. It's not yet known whether our culprit is human or Grimm. Their description so far is bone chilling laughter, malicious behavior, bloodthirsty eyes…
"Please tell me I didn't kill anyone." Maria looks to me pleadingly.
"You didn't kill someone no. You did however maim 3 thugs and hospitalized and quite possibly gave them nightmares for the next few weeks but then again they're racist assholes so I don't mind." I reply, tossing the coffin into my inventory.
"Why are you guys packing up? Are we moving." Maria asks walking in the bathroom to freshen herself.
"Yup, we have a town to save to the uh…where was it again?" Barry asks me.
"Apparently northwest of Little Ivywood, passing a few rivers and a large hill before we reach it." I answer looking through Matt's map.
"*looks around* Hey Onyx don't you have like 3 beowolfs in the room? Where are they?" Barry asks me.
"Well it didn't sit right with me to leave Matt and Jane just like that soooo." I trail off and show him a recent receipt from the store.
Checkout
3 identity concealment hoodie – 3000 Lien
Lien: 10817 – 3000 = 7817
"Oh you did not just do that" Barry mutters in disbelief.
"You bet your sweet ass I did, plus I can just transfer my cooking knowledge to them so it's not like they'd be incompetent." I reply while making sure that we've fully packed up.
"Alright, I'm ready!" Maria exclaims jumping around excitedly.
"Well let's hit the roads then, say do we really have to walk there, could we ride on the beowolfs instead?" Barry asks.
"I don't see why not, come on we're burning daylight" I shrug
[6 hours later, Matt's café]
Matt was tending to his establishment as usual now with extra help despite how odd they were. Looking back he sees a large hunched figure wearing a blue hoodie under their waiter uniform running around delivering orders as well as 2 more of the same in the kitchen helping Jane. He admits that he was skeptical and even outright laughed at the idea at first but seeing how professional they were he really ate his words like Onyx said. Who would have thought Grimms of all things could make good food?
*ding* Matt finds it off that someone would enter at this time of the day, most residents of the town only goes to his café at morning and noon not the afternoon especially 30 minutes before closing. Nevertheless, he stops polishing the counter and greets the newcomer, a couple if his eyes are still perceptive, a woman in a black dress with white cloak dragging a man with tan skin and blond hair.
"Come on Tai, if we hurry we can have dinner before continuing the search." The woman urges the man.
"Alright alright, I guess a little pit stop couldn't hurt but do you really have to drag me like that Summer?" The now named Tai asks Summer.
"No offense Tai you're a great cook and all but if I have to taste another one of those improvised meals that taste even more bitter then Raven's first date I will kill you." Summer calmly states with actual killing intent leaking out making Tai pale and Matt to raise his eyebrows at this peculiar relationship.
"Ahem what would you like?" Matt asks in a professional tone.
"I think I'll just have a steak if you guys sell one if not a sandwich and Summer will have anything that is sweet especially cookies." Tai replies and they both take a seat at a table before discussing something over what's on their scrolls. Matt quickly takes the order to the back leaving Taj and Summer alone.
"So far of these trails seem to lead to Northwest of here, is there any settlements in that direction as far as we know?" Summer asks Tai.
"Yes and that's what bad about it, there's too many villages and towns in that direction for us to know which one is going to be attacked." Tai points to the map where there are indeed an abundance of towns laid across the region.
"*sigh* I have a bad feeling about this mission Tai." Summer mutters.
"I know how dangerous it is but we need to do this for Ruby and Yang Sum, the world's not safe with these titans around and if someone can take them down then it can only be an awesome silver eyes huntress like you." Tai cheers.
"Thanks Tai…*sniff* oh that smells delightful" Summer notes as the armoa of freshly baked cookies entice her. She turns around and whispers a quick thank you before quickly snatching the tray of cookies out of their hands. Summer was about to dig in before she notices how strange the waiter's hands felt, it was large not to mention hairy. Turning around once again she finds that the waiter was wearing gloves which couldn't have been there before and a blue hoodie. Where has she seen that posture before? Slowly but sure Summer connects the dots together and slowly reaches for her scythe.
"Summer is something wrong?" Tai asks, preparing to eat his steak. Without warning Summer leaps out of her seat and slams the pole of her twin scythes into the waiter abdomen sending them tumbling into a wall. She was about jump on top of the waiter but was held back by Tai.
"Dear Oum what's gotten into to you Summer?" Tai shouts.
"That thing isn't what it seems to be." Summer hisses.
Tai was about to question what that meant until the waiter stood up and the hood falls down after the impact. The darkness hiding their face fades away and Tai feels like he has just ate the wrong mushrooms as he stares at the head of a Beowolf. Before the situation could escalate any further both Summer and Tai froze to the sound of a gun cocking and turn towards the counter where Matt has just drawn and loaded his halberd.
"I would appreciate it if you don't assault my employees." Matt says.
"And I would appreciate it if you explain everything." Summer quips back still tightly clutching her scythe.
"Fine just holster your weapon and I'll tell you about it. You can rest now buddy." Matt sighs to Summer before letting the beowolf go back into the kitchen.
"Right, where should I start?" Matt asks, taking a seat next to Tai.
"Preferably the beginning." Tai answers.
"Well it all started about 4 to 5 days ago when I was hiring more staffs to help me run the place." Matt begins.
"You expect us to believe that a beowolf walked in with their resume and you gave it a job?" Summer deadpans.
"Oi patience lass let me tell the rest of this will you? Anyway it was around noon when someone applied, a guy named Barry and from his attire I thought he was a hunter but he was just there to apply for the waiter position and book the chef position for his friend Onyx as well. You see thing is, both of them weren't who they seemed to be. Turns out Barry was a unique octopus faunus that I didn't even know exist and Onyx is also special in his own ways being an entirely new species of Grimm." Matt continues prompting Summer and Tai to slacken their jaws at the information. Seeing as Summer was about to say something no doubt some accusations, Matt cuts her off stating his own opinion.
"Look, they may sound shady but the both of them have proven themselves to the people of this town. They were the one who stopped a group of racists harassing a little faunus girl, they were the one who helped with crimes around town and they were the one who…saved my daughter." Matt finishes.
"Oh…I'm sorry that I jumped to conclusions then." Summer apologizes.
"Well where are they now, we have some questions we need to ask them more specifically Onyx." Tai inquires.
"Kuroyuri, after giving me the 3 beowolfs to help with work, Onyx asked for directions to Kuroyuri and departed with Barry. What he said bothered me though, he stated something about a great tragedy about to befall that town and he had to stop it." Matt answers. Tai mulls over his words before frantically looking at the map again, sure enough Kuroyuri was in the area the titan was heading to.
"When was this?" Summer asks.
"About 6 hours ago if you're really really fast then maybe you two could catch them on the road." Matt says checking his watch.
"We must hurr-*growl* y up with our meals to catch them!" Summer says before inhaling all of the cookies at once much to Matt's surprise. Tai just cuts into his steak slowly while sending Ozpin a message to inform him of their findings.
[At night, with Onyx's group]
"How long is it until we reach the town Onyx?" Maria asks rolling out her sleeping roll.
"We just passed 2 rivers, there's only 1 more we have to cross and a hill to reach there so we'll be arrive around noon tomorrow." I reply shutting myself in the coffin.
"You sure it's fine for us to sleep out here in the open? Why not pick some cave?" Barry asks on his makeshift hammock.
"It's almost midnight and we're all tired plus I don't want to take my chances walking into what could potentially be a Deathstalkers burrow." I answer before trying to drift off to sleep. I wonder if I can modify the System to let me have dreams, all of these blank sleep aren't doing much for the mind. Everything should be ok considering that I haven't gotten a quest regarding Kuroyuri meaning it's not urgent that we need to get there. Hmm I wonder what Ruby and Yang will do in their Signal school years, maybe I can get a teaching position if there's really nothing to do…Then again having Qrow as a colleague can be a handful.
*Rustle* *Rustle* Weird, why would there be any wildlife out here, I thought I inustructed the beowolfs to scare any and all of them off. Wait a fucking minute! Breaking free of my musings I immediately leaps out of my coffin and fires Lunar Fang wildly. Out of the corner of my eyes near where Barry was sleeping I saw a large shadow growls before fading away. Jesus Christ that was a close one. What the hell could that ha-*SMACK*.
You suffered a hit 100 x 1.5 = 150 DMG
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Maria screeches at me clearly angered by my rude awakening.
"Oi Onyx did you try to shoot me?" Barry asks, shaken up with some bullet holes next to his head.
"Something big is hiding around here and it's not bigfoot. Grab your gear, we may have another boss fight on our hand." I warn Barry, rubbing the still sore spot on my mask from the recent slap. I call the beowolfs back to my side and reach into my essence pool to produce 5 creeps, we're going to need a lot of vision to fight whatever that was in the dead of night. Maria now less grumpy, more aware of the dire situation gathers her bearings and stands on guard.
We sit down silently keeping our watch on every bushes and trees as we wait for any signs of the monster while the creeps actively search for it. 5 minutes of bated breath later and I finally have something, one of the creeps saw a huge shadow entering approaching us from where we came. I aim carefully at that direction before taking a literal shot in the dark. Following the sound of the bullet whizzing through the air and into a tree was a deafening roar as the hostile entity forsakens stealth and leaps out before us. There in all of its raw glory stood a 7 feet tall Manticore with jet black bone plates instead of white ones, no wonder we couldn't see it at all. Its wings are outstretched like that of a Nevermore and it has 4 instead of 2. The thing roars before lifting off and stares down judgingly at us.
Damned Soul Of Pride
Level – 40
Hp – 6100/6100
Ap – 0/0
Atk – 542
Def – 150
"Alright any fucking clues on how to fight that Onyx?" Barry asks me anxiously.
"First thing first is to get rid of its wings we'll have to distract it while Maria flanks it." Barry gives Maria instructions as I give Barry his lines of insult to piss of the Grimm.
"You don't scare me you oversized cat, Mufasa wannabe piece of crap. Your Walmart grade fur ain't fooling anybody I know for a fact that you're more bald than Mr clean." Right as he finishes Barry looks at me incredulously silently asking where the hell I come up with these lines and to that I have no answers myself.
The damned soul bellows at us in fury which I doubt it even knew what Barry said and more of the tone he said it in. We have to roll to the sides as the Manticore dives at us with such a force creating a crater worthy of a napalm bomb with its tail lashing around wildly cutting down even the biggest of boulders around.
My bullets didn't even scratch its armor and ricochets at every shots. Barry wasn't faring much better, he doesn't have anything that can possibly harm it, the chain scythe was meant for non-armored opponents not this walking block of tungsten and throwing molotovs at something that breathes fire is the equivalent of drowning a fish.
"Barry focus on dodging we're only digging our graves pissing it off like this." I call Barry to stop attacking.
"Well what do you suggest then? It hits way too fast and too much for us to dodge them all." Barry snaps and true to his words both of us already have some cuts and scrapes though nothing serious but it was only a matter of time before it lands a solid hit. Having no other choice, I have the beowolfs charge head in to give us some breathing space and recuperate. To their credits they lasted for a full 3 minutes which is more than we could ever ask for as Maria finally finishes her flank landing from above with a battle cry , her blade tearing straight through one of its wings.
Successful hit (650 – 150)= 500 DMG
Damned Soul Of Pride – 5500/6100
Off-balance, it tumbles down to the ground trying to shake Maria off. Seeing our opportunity we make our ways to the still intact ones and get to work. I doubt my claws or Barry's for that matter would be enough to pierce its wings like Maria did so instead we turn to an alternative. I summon Misha and the 3 of us together hit the joint connecting the wing with as much force we could muster, a satisfying crunch told us the deed was done as said wing hangs limply from its spot.
Successful hit 600 DMG
Damned Soul Of Pride – 4900/6100
A wave of force emits from its body knocking all us back a good 20 feet, miasma rises from the ground surrounding it as its eyes glow even redder than before in rage. 2 disabled wings seem to do the trick as we watch it fails to lift off, unable to support its full weight in the air. A deafening roar sounded across the darkened woods and we soon find ourselves outnumbered by a horde of boarbatusks and beowolfs which I count a total 15 of the former and 5 of the latter. Normally this wouldn't be much of a bother to deal with but with us facing the damned soul right now having them ganging up on us is a death sentence.
"Misha hold them back!" I order summoning Misha from his amulet along 10 beowolfs and 3 boarbatusks of my own for support. Ignoring the clashing between minions I turn my attention back to the damned soul to see it fold its wings forward, covering its body and at the same a translucent white barrier manifests over it.
Damned Soul Of Pride – 4900 + 1000/6100
Well ain't that a bitch. Barry turns over to me worriedly frantically gesturing at the shift, his words failing to form a proper sentence. Maria is much more composed but I can feel a tinge of nervousness welling up in her.
"The only idea I have right now is to aggravate the massive lion monstrosity no matter how stupid of an idea that is, Barry this might go very wrong but in case it works be ready to pummel it." I signal to Barry.
"Onyx what the hell are you thinking?" Barry shouts in concern.
"Ole fucker!" I say flipping it off, taking my hoodie off and wave it in front of the damned soul like a matador, a very suicidal and idiotic matador that is. Safe to say that it didn't take kindly to such actions and launch itself at me with the speed of a ballistic missile. *BOOM* The impact shatters my sternum and quite possibly my spine as I scream in regret getting flung back through 3 trees before stopping.
You suffered a total of (700 x 1.5) = 1050 DMG
In a haze of agony and dizziness, I look up and smirk internally at something finally going my way. Above the damned soul right now is a massive hills with very unstable boulders positioned atop of it. I fight back the quivering of my hands and take a shot at the area causing a massive rockslide to take place.
The damned soul, perhaps still fatigued from using its charge, didn't move away in time and got buried underneath it. Of course that was nowhere near enough to finish it off but as it emerges from the rubbles, its shield was gone from sight. By now the fuzz behind me has stopped and I turn to see that my side has emerged victorious with 4 beowolfs and 1 boarbatusk along Misha still standing. *crack* *crack* Oh what now?
My attention turns back to the damned soul and lo and behold this thing also has a death ray for a final move. Maria tries to stop it from firing but as she moves closer she was immediately blown back by another fucking barrier wonderful. Where in Lord's name can I find something powerful enough to penetrate that? Hold up… Get over here boarbatusk, today you're going to have the honor of playing a certain blue hedgehog. Misha hold it in place and you start spinning.
"Barry I need you to hand me one of your Molotov and stand by that tiny ramp over there" Barry tosses me one on cue as I light up the boarbatusk with it.
"When I give the signal, Misha is going to let the boar loose and you're going to give it a final boost via kicking on that ramp, we only have one shot at this." I inform.
"ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK?" Barry shouts, distressed at ever growing ball of energy in the giant Manticore's mouth.
"I HAVE NO IDEA! NOW!" Misha stops holding back and the flaming fireball zooms towards the damned soul at breakneck speed. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as it approaches the slope and Barry takes a deep breath before delivering a kick worthy of Ronaldo's praise into the boarbatusk further accelerating it.
"SUPA KICKA!" And with that the boarbatusk seemingly breaks the sound barrier and crashes through the shield completely shattering it lodging itself inside the damned soul's mouth blocking the beam. The sounds that come next can only be described as akin to a grizzly bear choking on a soccer ball as the damned soul desperately tries to spit the boarbatusk out but it was already too late. *BOOM* The beast imploded from the blast lighting up the midnight sky.
Successful Execution 5900 DMG
Damned Soul Of Pride Defeated
You gained 9000 EXP
Barry gained 3000 EXP
You Gained:
-5000 Lien
-Sinful Soul Of Pride
-10 Grimm essences
-Lionheart: A Greatsword that symbolizes courage, strength and justice. This fine blade used to belong to a great knight from the dark age who excels in chivalry and dueling. Holding onto the blade you can almost feel his spirit blessing you. User gains +150 ATK, +30 DEF. Reduce damage taken by 20% when below 50% HP. Special ability Unyielding: 250 AP/Sec: Any damage taken during channeling will not be lethal.
Onyx
Title: Foolhardy, Onii chan
Level 29
Race: Grimm – Phantom
Exp: 7042/10000
Hp: 250/ 1300(+1.5/min)
AP: 0/1000 (+0.75/min)
Atk - 72 (+112) = 184
Def - 35 (+27)= 62
Str - 75
End - 35
Vit - 35
Dex - 68
Int - 17
Wis – 17
Luck - 17
Points – 20
Lien – 12817
Essence points – 98
Damn that took a lot out of us to take it down and-*thud* Oh Barry's out, exhaustion probably caught up. I drag myself over to Maria to see if she sustained any serious injuries but unlike us she has a few scrapes here and there.
"Maria can you grab Barry, we need to make our way back to camp before more Grimms show up." It was still dark so I have to hold my note pad right in front of Maria for her to know what I'm saying.
"Sure but I have to ask, what was that. I know the beasts of this land is different but that thing seemed out of place." Maria points to the steaming corpse of the Damned Soul still dissipating.
"Some of them are unique like that and are way stronger but I can't really expl-*clomp* *clomp* Shit someone's coming and I'm way too tired to stay awake deal with them. My Grimms will be nearby in case something goes wrong." And with that I hop into Lionheart and wait it out. Not much later and I can feel more soul signatures in the area as well as hearing a pair of footsteps approaching Maria.
"Are you okay miss? We heard that explosion from miles away." I hear a man's voice ask.
"I'm fine, I've already fended off the b-Grimms but my friend is hurt, we need to get him somewhere safe, do you know of anywhere we could go." Maria replies.
"Our village is nearby, we can have a doctor look at him there." A woman answers and I hear them help carry Barry.
"Thanks for your help, I'm Maria and you are…" Maria asks.
"I'm Li Ren and she's my wife, An Ren." That was the last thing I heard before finally losing consciousness from fatigue.
Author's notes: Sorry if this chapter is a little short compared to others but I couldn't really think of much for a chapter where it's mostly travelling. I'm still going to be busy for the rest of the schoolyear but nothing that urgent and hopefully I'd be able to post another chapter a week from now. Stay cheeki breeki comrades.