Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Wolf and Reaper. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.
(Vale, Mt. Glenn.)
Azul sniffed the air while he and Ruby walked through the cavern. He continued to look around, looking for a way to escape.
"You think those bombs caused a lot of damage down here?" Ruby asked, Azul hummed and then continued walking, pausing only to shoot at a Beowolf.
"I don't think so, these tunnels were already collapsed before when the Grimm invaded, we don't know what tunnel we're in and we also don't know how many Grimm are down here… I want to get above ground, I can see here well and smell my way around… But the Grimm has miles of tunnels to try and ambush us, we don't know where they will come from, and we don't have a lot of room to go." Azul said while he sniffed the air and then his eyebrows raised.
"Dust? I smell Dust down here, and concentrated dust at that… Which means one of two things." Azul stated Ruby was about to answer before a Creep tried to pounce on her.
She stabbed Crescent Rose into the Grimm's head and then split it in half by firing her scythe which caused a spray of Rose Petals and then she brushed off her cloak.
"Which is? I don't know what kind of Dust is down here." Ruby said before Azul turned to her and nodded.
"Dust Crystals aren't easy to smell unless they're just forming, crystal Dust doesn't have much of a smell… Those bombs we ended up dealing with have a very distinct smell which I ended up getting a whiff of every time they fell off the train and blew up." Azul said and then slid down a slope onto the tracks which Ruby followed him to.
"You mean there are more bombs down here?" Ruby asked, Azul nodded and turned to look down the tunnel to get a look at what was behind them before he started walking forward.
"Yes. We found you while Roman was busy attacking Vale so it also makes sense that he would have more bombs down here." Azul said before he drew Violet Overdrive and spun it in one hand.
"That means they can still go off and kill us or cause a bigger cave in… But they could be used to get out of here if we manage to set one off somewhere, we can take cover from the blast." Azul said and then he turned to Ruby before he looked down the tunnel.
"I think we might have to look for the bombs alone… Either that or search both ways which would take more time." Azul stated before he heard growling in one direction and then sniffed the air.
The bombs had a very distinct smell, Azul knew that, but the smell continued to bounce around because of the variety of different smells down in the tunnels. Azul was put off by the smell of rusting metal, various dust clouds from recent cave-ins, and the sounds of growls, rocks cracking and water dripping down.
"Damn it, all these smells and sounds are bouncing around and making my brain hurt… I can't entirely tell where the bombs are, I can only guess." Azul muttered in annoyance and then he started walking down the tunnel in one direction.
"We're going this way; I'll tell if we're close by how strong the smell is at the end of the tunnel," Azul said and then ran down the tunnel with Ruby following him.
"You sure?" Azul heard Ruby ask, he hummed and turned to her while nodding before he rushed down the tunnel, he already heard the Pack of Beowolves before they rushed out of the shadows before they showed up, and then Azul stopped.
"Yep, I can see we've been heading the right way, this many Grimm? They've been gathered around a bomb waiting for it to go off… We're getting out sooner or later…" Azul said before he slid to a halt and chopped a Beowolf who charged at him in half and then watched Ruby drop kick another Beowolf to the side and watched it slide along the ground before it stopped at Azul's feet.
"Showoff," Azul said before he stabbed the Beowolf in the head and then rushed into the fray with the rest of the pack, climbing up one Beowolf and then he stabbed through its chest and fired before he rolled to the ground. He slashed the leg of the Beowolf before he watched it collapse to the ground.
"You guys never learn, do you?" Azul asked before he was slammed to the ground with another Beowolf raising its claw to strike him before Ruby shot it through the head and watched its body collapse to the ground.
"Thank you…" Azul muttered as he climbed to his feet and faced the pack before he cracked his neck and sighed one last time.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter is done! Yes, I know the chapter is short, the rest of the story after this arc will be longer. The next chapter will be showing Azul with Ruby fighting the rest of the pack of Beowolves and then will show them escaping the tunnels and finding out who was behind the attacks on Vale. Until next, next Monday. Lighting Wolf out!