'' Hello! '' Yang called out to anyone who could hear her. '' I'm getting bored here ! ''
She wasn't expecting to find her supposed team mate so early, but atleast there should be some grim she could blow some steam off.
'' At this rate, I better find Ruby. '' Just as she said that, she heard some bushes rustling behind her.
'' Ruby is that you? you do know your stealth skills sucks. '' She went to the bushes, moving some of the branches away, she called out to Ruby once again.
But instead of Ruby, then there were two Ursa growling at her. '' You're definitely not Ruby. ''
She flipped back dodging a swipe from one of the Ursa and activated her weapon. As her gauntlets encased her arms, she flipped back again dodging another swipe from another Ursa.
The other Ursa lunged at her, but she sent it flying by punching it away with Ember celia.
'' Man you guys suck. '' She smirked at how easy these grim are to handle.
'' Come at me at the same ti- '' she was stopped mid sentence as she saw a single strand of her golden mane.
No one messes up with her hair, and if they do, they are in a world of pain.
'' You. Are. '' Yang was pissed , but the clueless grim had no idea.
'' MONSTERS!!!'' Yang's eyes turned fiery red, her fist emitted flames and with rage she went straight to an Ursa, delivering a ferocious barrage of punching combos that spew fire with each strike, she punched the Ursa so hard it was sent flying towards some trees, that did offer it any help as the trees it self broke due to the shear force of Yang's punch.
The other Ursa stood up to intimidate Yang, with its height already at ten feet it raised it paws and roared at her.
'' You want a piece of me too?! '' Yang got ready with her stance.
The Ursa growled, then fell silent.
It fell to the ground with a thud.
'' Huh? '' Yang was confused, '' What just happened? ''
'' That would be me. '' out came a girl with black hair, and a bow on top with matching colour.
'' Oh. I could beat it too. '' Yang said, '' So... were teammates? ''
'' Yes. '' The girl replied.
'' Yang. '' she introduced herself as she extended her hand.
'' Blake. '' the girl introduced herself.
'' You do know where the temple is, right? '' Yang asked.
'' Yes. '' Blake replied.
'' Lead the way then. '' Yang said with a playful smirk.
Blake face then turned serious, which Yang thought she had offended her someway.
'' Sorry, I don't wanna sound like I'm ordering you. ''
'' It's not that. Something is watching us. '' Blake turned back facing the deep forest. With the sharp hearing ability of a '' cat '', she knew there were many grim watching them.
And by many, there came a pack of Beowulf, numbering to atleast fourty.
The two girls froze at the development. Two or three beowulf was not a problem, but fourty... that a whole different story.
'' I think we should run. '' Yang suggested.
'' We should. '' Blake responded.
And they ran, as fast as they could. The pack of beowulf roared and began chasing them.
More than five minutes had passed, the two girls were still being chased by the blood thirsty beowulf.
'' Those guys are still '' cumming '' at us. Hehe... Get it ? '' Even in such a perilous situation, she had time to make unnecessary puns.
'' Now, it's not the time to make such dirty puns, and it's not even that funny. ''
They ran while occassionally jumping over obstacles that hindered them. Black displayed her '' cat '' like agility to move around the forest.
As they ran from the Beowulf, for a while they forgot that they were not the only ones in the Emerald forest.
More specifically, Yang was the first to realise this. As she dashed through some tall bushes, she bumped into someone. She and that person crashed down and hit the ground real hard.
Blake stopped, she eyed the person her teammate bumped into, and she knew, he was going to pose some problems.
'' Get off me you stupid bitch ! '' Ragnar cursed, as he shoved Yang away from him. '' Are you fucking blind !? can't you even a person infront of you? ''
'' Well, fuck you! We were chased by fourty beowulf. '' Yang shot back at him with a counter.
'' What Beowulf? '' Ragnar questioned her.
Not moment later, he saw from the depths of the forest he saw a pack of Beowulf comming at them at full speed.
'' Darn it, they have already caught up to us. Let's go ! '' Yang called out. '' Ragnar, what are you doing? ''
Ragnar seemed to have frozen in place, not even moving a single muscle. This caused some concern to the two girls.
'' Um Ragnar? you good? '' Yang asked with concern.
To her surprise, he brandished his twin axes, spreading his arms wide as he embraced the arrival of the Beowulf.
With a unholy roar, he dashed forth at the pack of bloodthirsty grim. He kept his grip close to the axehead, using it as a improvised knuckle duster, he punched at the first grim infront of him.
The axehead split the bone plates that protected it's skull and went it burrowed itself deep inside the grim face. Ragnar roared as the axe head seemed to explode utterly destroying the grim's head.
The axe itself was ok and so was his hand. It was scorched a little, but he was mostly ok.
The axehead was made by the awesome blacksmith named Olaf, and unlike his elemental great axe, Ragnar's axe was an exploding elemental axe designed for maximum destruction. Its designed was simple, instead of the runic text for elemental manipulation, it was replaced with rune for elemental explosion. It was very easy actually... for Olaf that is.
He then threw both his axes at two different beowulf, landing at their head. A second later the two axehead exploded like two grenades destroying the two beowulf and burning any unlucky grim near them.
The axes, due to the explosion flew back to him and he caught them mid flight. There were some remaining flames on the axehead, but with a quick jerk it was put off.
'' That was preety cool, not gonna lie. '' Yang was impressed by how cool that explosion looked and the badassery he displayed by catching the two axes.
'' I'm not letting him have all the fun. '' Yang said as her gauntlets were ready for action. '' Hey Ragnar ! leave some for me ! ''
Blake tried to stop her partner, but the blonde brawler was already on her way.
She jumped into the pack of Beowulf, punching a beowulf while firing her weapon, it sent the beowulf flying hitting any of its brethren along the way.
'' See that! you're not the only one with a badass weapon. ''
Ragnar ignored her as with a grunt.
'' We'll see how long you can ignore me. '' Yang challenged. She thinks that he is to prideful to acknowledge her, but it will soon change.
Ragnar kicked a incoming beowulf, spinning his body like a beyblade, he hacked through any grim that was in his path, and not to mention the casual explosion he was causing a fiery massacre.
'' Damn! show off. '' Yang commented as she punched another beowulf. Blake eventually joined the fray helping out her teammate as much as she can.
As the fight continued, the girls realised that the number of grim they are fighting began to lessen. Not because they killed enough, bit it was because all of them were rushing towards Ragnar.
He was releasing too much negative energy, that he was in danger of becoming a bright beacon for every grim in the forest to follow.
'' Hey Ragnar ! '' Yang called out, '' Can you tone your negative energy a bit. It's getting out of hand !''
Ragnar chose to ignore her again. As he savagely hacked the grim infront of him. Despite being on the offensive, the grim also fought back. With their sheer numbers advantage, they landed an attack.
A beowulf managed to bit his leg, and it was not letting go. Ragnar lifted his axe to hack the beowulf, but another bit his arm, and then like a well laid out plan, he was bitten by almost ten beowulf who were trying to tear him into pieces and as he wore no body armour except for his helmet, he was not in a great position.
'' We should help him. '' Yang said to Blake as they rushed to help him.
But as they too not more than five steps, Ragnar activated his axes and they exploded sending shockwaves pushing back the two girls.
All the grim that had sunken their fangs onto him were dead and already started to disappear into black mist. Ragnar on the other hand was covered in second-degree burns and did not look any better than the dead grim.
'' Ragnar are you ok dude? '' Yang asked hoping that he was not dead.
Ragnar chose to ignore her again. He went to the nearest dead beowulf he could find and began to chop it into pieces.
The girls were disgusted by this act of savagery, '' Ok dude, you gotta stop now. They're dead already.''
But like always, he ignore her and minded his business and continued to chopped the next beowulf.
Yang could take it anymore, and she went and grabbed his arm stoping his butchering session.
'' Don't you ignore me you bastard! '' Yang raised her voice at him.
Ragnar tilted his head and looked at her. As his helmet covered his entire face, Yang could not tell what kind of face he's making.
He stood up, and Yang watched as he seemed to have grown taller by the second, he soon was facing her eye level. He was soo creepy, Yang let go of his arm. But he grabbed her's.
'' What are you doing asshole? let me go! '' Yang demanded but his grip increased.
'' Yang get away from him. '' Blake felt something bad was going to happen and they need to stay far way from him.
'' I'm trying ! '' Yang tried to pry his hand from her arm, '' But this asshole is not letting go ! ''
Left with no choice, she delivered a vicious hook to his head. The shot knocked his helmet away from is head. And there was silence.
Ragnar was foaming from his mouth like a rabid animal and his eyes turned red.
These were enough signs that showed that he was definitely not ok.
He released an unholy roar straight to her face, and some of the foam landed on her beautiful hair.
Yang's eyes turned red, '' Ok that's it. ''
What happened next was a beatdown Ragnar will never forget. With a devastating combo of fiery punches, Ragnar was brutally thrashed by Yang, which she ended with a vicious Uppercut.
Ragnar flew ten feet into the sky and landed on the ground with a painful thud.
'' That's what you get for touching my hair. Hmph! '' Yang huffed as she returned to normal.
'' I think you killed him. '' Blake was quite sure that the guy was not dead, but he sure will not feeling good after this.
'' Relax, I didn't hit him that hard... I think. '' Yang responded.
'' You think ? '' Blake was not even surprised.
'' Damn! this guy is tough. '' On cue, Ragnar slowly stood up, glaring at Yang with hatred. His body that was covered with second-degree burns recieved even worse injuries after the beat down.
'' Look dude, I know you're angry at me, but it was your fault in the first place. ''
Ragnar was growling like a rabid animal, his muscles began to bulge appearing more muscular than before. And to make things worse, all of his wounds were healing at an frightening rate.
'' I think he just used his semblance. '' Blake deduced, and she was right.
'' He's healing a little to fast don't you think. '' Yang commented. '' I guess his semblance is his super healing or something. ''
'' It looks like he's ready to fight. '' Blake said seeing that his wounds are all healed up, and was ready to pounce on them.
With a roar, he sprinted towards them.
The two girls got ready to fight the frenzied berserker. He jumped high and with his axe raised he was about to deliver his wrath. But was stopped mid flight.
An arm stretched out from the girl's blind spot, grabbing Ragnar's throat. He tried to pry the arm off he throat but it was fruitless.
'' I told you to stay out of trouble. '' An emotionless voice spoke that sent chills down both the girls spine. It was none other that Tor.
'' I hope you two are all right. '' Tor asked the two girls, hoping that his idiotic teammate caused no harm to them.
'' N-no ! not exactly. '' Yang responded.
'' Good. '' Tor then turned to his teammate what was still trying to escape his grasp, his eyes still red and his mouth was still foaming.
He watched at him with no hint of emotions in his face, as if a brick wall was staring at him. Ragnar responded to the brick wall by spitting at it.
Then with no hesitation whatsoever, Tor choke slammed to the ground creating a small crater.
'' Looks like I have to teach you some manners. '' Tor then released a Killing intent so dark and oppressive that Ragnar went stiff with fear.
'' YIELD!!! ''
Tor released his grip, and Ragnar slowly got back to his feet.
'' I did it again didn't I ? '' Ragnar face was filled with guilt and embarrassment.
'' Yes you did? '' Tor replied. '' Now, let's get going to the ruins. ''
Tor looked at the girls, who were frozen in place. '' You girls want to stay here or you what to go to the ruins? ''
His question seemed to have unfroze them, '' Y-yeah, were comming. '' Yang replied.
The two girls followed the two vikings, as Ragnar showed them the way to the ruins. Both girls were still shaken by the killing intent Tor released. Though it was not directed at them, they were still terrified at what it could do. Just looking a Ragnar's terrified face was enough to tell them that Tor was not someone you what to be enemies with.
As the continued to trek towards the ruins in silence, Yang decided to break the silence.
'' Hey Ragnar! what was that thing you did back when you fought those grim. You looked, like a rabid animal. ''
'' Can you shut up. '' Ragnar was clearly annoyed, '' I don't want to talk about it. ''
'' Hey! you tried to kill us ! ''
'' And that's why I don't want to talk about it. ''
'' Huh? ''
'' It's called '' Berserker's rage '' it is a condition that occurs only with my kind. And I hate it. ''
'' Why though? ''
'' It's simple, I don't want to fight as an animal, I want to fight as a warrior. Animals do not have honour, warriors do. ''
'' Honour and you don't really seem to go hand in hand. ''
'' Oh shut up bitch. We're already here. '' Ragnar pushed away some bushes to revealed a clearing where a large ruined temple laid.
There were many small pillars that had chess pieces placed on top of them.
'' Now we take one each. '' Tor said as he took a black pawn piece.
Yang looked around to find a chess piece that caught her attention, let's take this cute pony.
Yang obviously took the white knight piece and really looked content about it.
Blake giggled at her antics, '' Yeah right. ''
'' Now what are we supposed to do ? '' Ragnar asked more specifically to Tor.
'' Now we wait for Olaf and Havard. ''Tor replied as he sat down on the stone floor. '' After that we are leaving. ''
'' Ok. '' Ragnar agreed.
'' Yeah I better wait for my sister. '' Yang added.
And thus they waited. Only to see something wierd falling from the sky.
'' What in Odin's beard. ''
