A/N: Guess who's back? Back again? Draco's back! Tell a friend! Ya boy is back at it with another chapter of this fic. Without further ado, run that shizz!
A bird was flying peacefully through the sky, as calmly and happily as could be. But unfortunately, its life was ended upon a direct collision with a high-speed 15 year old(Press F to pay respects). "Birdie, no!" Ruby said sadly after she hit it as she descended towards the forest. She then pulled out Crescent Rose in its gun form and fire three times to slow her descent, then turned it into its scythe form, caught the branch of a tree, spun around it twice and flung herself off further into the forest. Not too so very far off, Weiss was beginning to descend and used a glyph as something of a double jump/speed decrease to land delicately on her feet. Next we see is Ren, who flipped once in midair and grabbed onto a tree, spinning around it as he came closer to the ground, also landing on his feet. He then brushed himself off and looked up to the sky after hearing what sounded like a gunshot, briefly seeing Yang fly above him.
"Woohoo!" She cheered, continuing her flight for as long as she could, pulling off tricks in midair as well, laughing the whole time. "Yeah! Alley-oop!" She said as she flipped and fired upside down to keep herself going, then flipped back right-side up, going through some trees. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" She said as she couldn't see going through the trees, but came out completely unscathed. "Yeah!" She said as she finally coming to the ground, bouncing off a couple of trees, landing on her feet, then rolling and getting back onto her feet. "Nailed it." She said.
Next was Pyrrha, who held her shield out in front of her, smashing through a couple of trees before landing on a long, sturdy tree branch, rolling and getting onto her feet right next to the tree body, turning her spear into what looked like a hunting rifle, flipping the scope on and finding Jaune spiraling out of control as he fell towards the ground. She then turned the gun into a spear, held her thumb up to feel for the wind direction and such, hurling the spear, the wind taking care of the rest to tack Jaune to another tree safely. "Thank you!" He called.
"I'm sorry!" She called, waving, in spite of him not being in line of sight.
Selene landed elegantly in the middle of the forest, Serena landing ninja-style on a branch directly above her. "Not bad, sexy." She said as she dropped down right beside Selene, who blushed.
"Serena... There might be other people around!" Selene said, embarrassed.
"Oh, well. At least we're partners now!" Serena said, hugging her.
Elsewhere, Nicolas now descended straight towards the ground, landing exactly like how Iron Man would. "I AM IRON MAN." He said as he landed, singing the rest of the song to himself as he walked along. He then snuck up on a lone beowolf, unsheathing his hammer and raising it above his head. "Surprise, motherfucker!" He said, smashing the unfortunate Grimm underneath it. "NICK SMASH!" He shouted triumphantly.
Soon after, Damion landed beside Nicolas like an acrobatic and both were greeted with high fives. "Sai and Draco won't be too far from us." Damo said as he led Nicolas to us.
Not too far from the two, I used blood powers to surf downward before sticking my landing. "Woo! Let's go again! Let's go again!" I cheered.
"Draco, up here!" I heard a familiar voice as I look up seeing a certain silver haired fire demon gently float down towards me with a demonic umbrella. "I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!" He shouted.
"Haha! Guardians of the Galaxy 2 reference!" I exclaimed.
Sai laughed at this. "Yep! I knew you'd like that one." He said as he landed, the two of us sharing a bro-hug.
Elsewhere, the twins, Brie was swinging around her axe like a helicopter before descending while her younger twin descending with his rocket boots.
With Ruby...
She quickly ran through the forest, hoping to find Yang and thinking about back-up options, when suddenly, she ran into someone I highly doubt she WANTED to run into: Weiss. Schnee. The two paused for a moment, before Weiss simply turned and left. "Where are you going?! We're supposed to be a team." Ruby said, looking down at the ground, sadly.
Weiss simply continued walking through the forest, getting caught on some branches and bushes, coming across Jaune, tacked to a tree a good distance up. He waved at her nervously and quickly weighing her options, turned back to where she came from. "Bu no means does this make us friends." She said as she grabbed Ruby by the hood and dragged her along with her.
"You came back!" Ruby said I THINK happily, raising her hands into the air.
"Hey, wait! Come back! Whose gonna get me down from here?!" Jaune asked, still in his predicament.
"NO ONE CARES!" Sai and I shouted from our neck of the woods.
"Jaune?" Pyrrha called, finding him hanging from the tree. "Do you... Have any spots left on your team?" She asked.
Back with us...
"Oh, DAAAAMN! That was smooth as shit, I can even hate on that!" Sai said, to me, while I laughed.
"At any rate, we should find either Nicolas and Vamps or our siblings" I said.
"I say Nicolas and Damion since they're not too far from us. Our siblings are about to run into the next to members of their respective team." Sai said, walking along.
Meanwhile with Brie and Brandyn...
The twins were running by foot until they ran into another duo of fellow students. One of them is a fair skinned male with a hoverboard strapped to his back, in a height of 5'8", slim built with slight muscle tone, blue spiky hair and green eyes. His clothes consist of blue sleeveless hoodie, red cargo shorts, red biker style gloves and black and white sneakers.
Next to him is a goth looking girl armed with a crossbow/sniperI rifle who stood 5'4", short dark silver hair, eyes completely black(Sclera include), pale skin and web markings above her eyes. She wears a gray tank top with a picture of a spider logo in the middle, fishnets arm sleeves, and torn navy blue jeans fellow by a pair of black combat boots.
"Sorry about it, dudes!" The boy chuckled nervously.
"Forgive my friend. He lacks the inability of slow down. Though his head might be." The girl spoked.
"Hey! Not cool, Ari!" He said, glaring at her.
Brandyn chuckled in amusement. "It's fine. It's fine. Names Brandyn and this my twin sister, Brie." He introduced.
"Sup." Brie waved with a smile.
"Names Azure Sky! You can call me the Blue Blitz!" The blue haired boy introduced.
"Why the Blue Blitz?" Brandyn asks.
"Let's just say, all the other huntsmen and huntresses will have a hard time keeping up!" Azure says with a cocky grin pointing his chest with his thumb.
"Well I'm Arianell Gray. But call me Ari." The goth introduced. "And I'm a Faunus." She adds.
"That explains your wicked cool eyes. I guess we're team now." Brie says.
"Looks that way." Ari confirmed with a nod.
Back with us...
"Look at that, the twins has made some friends! I'm so proud of them!" As I wiped my none existence tears from my eyes.
"Good for you, man. Now let's see what the girls are up too." Sai said.
With Serena and Selene...
"So, how exactly are we supposed to know where to go?" Serena asked.
"No, clue. I guess we're just gonna have to get lucky." Selene said, but then they heard a rustling in the nearby bushes.
"Who's there?!" They both demanded, readying their weapons.
"Wait, don't attack! We're fellow students!" A girl said as two stepped out. The first one was a tall girl around 5'9" in tight black leather pants and a purple tube top... or whatever those shirts are called that girls wear that don't have sleeves and reveal their midriff and for shoes she wore tough-looking black stilettos. She also had waist-length purple hair red eyes and carried a naginata with a ballistic knife launcher on the end, which fits, as she wore a belt lined with ballistic knives. Oh, one more crucial detail: She was also a faunus, having wolf ears and a tail. She had been the girl who had spoken.
The next one was a girl around Serena's height (5'4") in an all dark blue outfit consisting of combat boots, glossy leggings that could pretty much pass off for shiny, tight rubber pants and a top that matches the leggings, a belt across her upper body containing three kunai, fingerless gloves and her coolest feature was she wore a kabuto: one of those fancy helmets that samurai wear. She had orange eyes in a color the same as Nora's hair and long silver hair like Sephiroth. Her weapon was an enormous buster sword that quite obviously housed a minigun in the middle of the blade. "H-hello." She said shyly.
"She's just a little shy at first. She opens up pretty quick." The first girl said dismissively. "My name is Umbra Lupis." She said.
"I'm Naomi Azashi." The second girl said, less shyly now, bowing her head.
"Selene Castro." Selene said.
"Serena Blade." Serena said.
"Hey, why don't we all head to the shrine together. Strength in numbers and I heard you two were lost." Umbra said, pointing to her wolf ears, which she made twitch.
"Yeah. We know where we're going. And we could use people with faster weapons that ours. Two-handed weapons aren't very fast." Naomi said, confidently at first when she said they knew where they were going, but she became embarrassed at the last little bit.
"Speak for yourself! I can take on dozens of these monsters on my own." Umbra said, doing quick and flashy combos with her weapon.
"It sounds like a fair deal. Let's go." Serena said, leading the pack... after being told where to go of course.
Back with us...
"Your sister likes to be in charge, doesn't she?" I asked as we now united and were heading to the shrine.
"What can I say? We Blades are BORN leaders!" Sai said, sticking his chest out and pointing to it.
"Oh, brother..." We all said, deadpanning.
With Yang...
She was walking through the middle of the woods on her own. "Hello?! Is anyone out there?! HELLOOO?! Getting bored here." She said, annoyed. She then heard a noise in the bushes not too far off. "Is someone there? Ruby, is that you?" She asked, pushing the bushes aside, meeting an unfriendly face. "Nope." She said, popping her mouth when she made the 'p' noise, diving out of the way of an ursai that attacked her. She got to her feet and readied her gauntlets, then dodged an attack from another one. It ran next to the other one, which then charged her, but she punched it in the stomach, blasting it with the ammo in her gauntlets and easily sending it flying. The next one charged and she used the ammo to launch her fist as an uppercut, taking both her and the ursai into the air, then sticking her foot out and blasting with with the ammo on her other hand to deliver a powerful kick to the ursai's gut, sending it crashing next to its friend.
"You guys wouldn't have happened to see a girl in a red hood, would you? She asked. They roared at her and started barreling towards her after this. "You could just say no!" She said, easily dodge its attacks, laughing as she was unscathed. "Jeez, you guys couldn't hit the broad side of a buh-" She started, but then noticed a lock of her hair fell in front of her. "You..." She said in a growl, her eyes turning red and the ursai looking at each other in confusion. "YOU MONSTERS!" She shouted, fire bursting from her. She rushed in, slamming her fist into the first one's stomach, then sending it flying with a mighty uppercut, shooting it both times she punched it, also. She then rushed in and continued to shoot and pummel it, sending it flying through multiple trees. The next one rushed in and stopped a few feet from her. "What, you want some, too?!" She demanded. It stood up on its hind legs, but was then killed by by Blake, who launched the scythe of a kusari-gama like weapon into its back, then yanked it (the scythe) back to her. There was a small pause between the girls before Yang spoke again. "I could've taken him." She said.
Back with us...
"I think I'm in love." Damion and Nicolas both said after the display.
"Good grief..." Sai and I both said, deadpanning and sweatdropping, walking away, letting them catch up when they realized we were leaving.
Meanwhile...
Weiss was in the midst of a heated battle with a pack of beowulves, being forced back by one of them in spite of blocking, taking her stance again. 'Remember your training, Weiss: Head up, shoulders back, right foot forward- not that forward! Now slow your breathing, wait for the right time to strike and...! As she did this, the rotating thingy on her rapier rotated to red. 'Now!' She said, rushing in, but Ruby was in front of her target in an instant.
"Gotcha!" She said, slicing it. This caught Weiss off-guard, having to redirect her attack and causing her to light a tree on fire. Ruby then blocked an attack from another beowulf and was knocked back into Weiss, taking them both off-balance. "Hey, watch it!" She said.
"Excuse me! You attacked out of turn! I could've killed you!" Weiss scolded.
"THERE ARE NO TURNS IN A REAL FIGHT!" Sai shouted from far off.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, SOME TURN BASED JRPG LIKE PERSONA?!" I added.
"You'll have to try a lot harder than that." Ruby grumbled.
Then the biggest beowulf, so probably the leader, howled out. Weiss backed off and Ruby swapped her ammo out and got ready to attack, but then the tree Weiss roasted fell down behind the beowulf leader. "We have to go!" Weiss said, dragging the young girl away as the beowulves swarmed and panicked.
They cleared a safe distance and Weiss stopped for breath, but Ruby wasn't as relieved as she was. "What was that?! That should've been EASY!" She said.
"Well, perhaps if you had exercised even the SLIGHTEST amount of caution with the placement of your strike, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" Weiss scolded.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Ruby demanded.
"I'm just surprised that someone that talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter!"
"Well, I'm sorry that you need my help to win a fight! I'm just fine on my own!"
"Well, congratulations on being the strongest CHILD to SNEAK your way into Beacon. Bravo" Weiss finished, walking off.
Back with us...
"She needs some serious attitude adjustment. Deadass." I said, shaking my head.
"Yeah, let's see her handle the guys Ruby beat up and how she'd handle the encounter against that fire witch girl." Damion said, to which I nodded.
Back with them...
Ruby screamed and sliced a tree in half out of anger, causing it to fall, but then a giant black feather fell down beside it.
Back with us...
"That can't be good." We all said at once after seeing the feather fall as we continued to the shrine. Checking my map real quick on my Google Maps app, we were the closest to our destination, the next being Serena's team, follow by the twins' and after them...
Eslewhere...
Pyrrha led the way as her and Jaune continued through the forest, but he stopped when he heard a noise. "Did you hear that?" He asked.
"Gunfire. It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy." Pyrrha answered.
Back with us...
"Dakka! Dakka! Dakka! Dakka! Dakka!" I shouted as I fired two light machine guns at a large group of beowulves, chasing them as they tried to run away. "I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!" I shouted once more, mowing down the rest of them.
Back with them...
Pyrrha pushed a branch out of the way, which Jaune didn't pay attention to and got smacked in the face so hard it took him off his feet. And in the distance, we were laughing our asses off. "Jaune! I'm sorry!" Pyrrha apologized.
He chuckled nervously at this. "It's okay. Just a scratch." He said, getting up.
"Why didn't you activate your aura?" She asked.
"Huh?" He asked.
"Your aura." She said again.
"Gesundheit." He said. In the distance, you could now hear us groaning and face-palming.
"Jaune... Do you know what aura is?" She asked.
"No!" Sai shouted.
He scoffed at this as if it were a joke. "Of course I do!" He said.
"Why the fuck you lyin'~?" I sang.
"Do YOU know what aura is?" He asked, pointing at her.
"Aura is the manifestation of our soul." She started explaining, now we cut to where Ren is as she continues explaining. "It bears our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt like you were being watched without knowing someone was there?" She asked.
"Uh... Yeah." He said. The suddenly, the camera focuses on Ren's eyes as he narrows them, as if he's waiting for something, glancing to the left and right. Suddenly, a giant snake monster that has as of yet been unnamed rose up behind him, then moved in front of him and balled up as he took a fighting stance, then it lunged at him.
Back to them...
"With practice, our aura can become our shields. Everyone has it, even animals." She explained.
"But what about monsters?" Jaune asked.
"No." She said.
Back to Ren...
He jumped back as the monster just slammed its head down where he was, not particularly aiming or anything. It then lunged again and he jumped back, but when he was in the air, it managed to hit him as he blocked with his forearms and wrists, Wonder Woman style. He was fine, spinning backwards in midair and landing on his feet, perfectly fine. "The monsters we fight lack a soul. They're creatures of Grimm. The manifestation of unanimity" She continued to explain. It then began to curl around him like it was going to constrict and kill him, to which he drew his guns. "They are the darkness and we are the light." After this, he jumped out of its curls and fired at it.
"Right. That's why we fight them." Jaune said, finally understanding. At this moment, Ren had kicked the snake in the head and knocked it down, then ran up and slashed its throat, but not killing it somehow, causing it to recover and move out of harm's range, getting ready to strike again, which it did, smashing into the ground as he easily dodged, finally stabbing it in the head and killing it.
"It's not about why. It's about knowing. Understanding both dark and light helps us manifest our aura. Everyone has some of both." She said, at this moment, another snake monster, this time a white one, rising up from behind him, then striking at him, but once again, he dodged.
Back with us...
"This guy's good." Sai said as we watched the fight.
"Yeah, too bad it's only 4 members per team." Damion said.
"Oh well. Can't beat Immortal Badass, right?!" I said to bring up spirits.
"Here! Here!" Nicolas cheered
Back with Ren...
Oh, wait, nevermind. The black one wasn't dead yet. Now he has two of them to worry about. "By bearing your soul outward at the force, you can deflect harm." Pyrrha continued to explain as Ren hurdled over the black one's head, running down its back until he reach the curve in its back, sliding down it and the rest of its body, shooting at both of them. "All of our tools and equipment are conduits for aura." She explained. At this moment, during his attack, the whit snake knocked Ren out of the air and to the ground, the black one lunging at him now. "You project yourself and your soul when fighting." She continued to explain.
"No!" Ren said as it lunged at him and was about to hit him.
Back to Pyrrha and Jaune...
"It's like a forcefield!" He said, finally getting it. Slow, sarcastic clapping could finally be heard at this moment in the distance.
"Yes, if you look at it that way." She said.
Back to Ren...
He now held his hands open in front of the fangs of the snake, a small force projected from his hands preventing the snake from sinking its teeth into his hands and allowing him to push it back enough to get his hands out from under its teeth enough to grab the fangs and break them off.
Back with us...
"Holy shit, that dude's good!" We all said.
Back with him...
The snake lunged at him again, but he finally killed it by stabbing it in the eye with its on fang, then using his aura to push the fang deeper into its head and blowing its head up. He then rushed for the white one.
Back with us...
"DAAAAAAAMN!" We all said.
"OH MY GODS, HE'S SO GODS DAMN COOL!" I shouted.
Back with Jaune and Pyrrha...
"Now, close your eyes and concentrate." She said, putting a hand on his cheek.
"Uh, okay." He said awkwardly, doing so.
She closed her own eyes, then opened them really wide with her pupils shrinking a lot and now Jaune was glowing. "For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite and distant, unbound by death, I release your soul. And by my shoulder protect thee." She said, finishing and slumping down a bit from exhaustion.
"Pyrrha?!" He asked worriedly.
"It's alright. I used my aura to unlock yours, but the energy that protects you now is your own." She said, the cut on his cheek instantly healing. "You have a lot of it." She said.
Back with us...
"That's what she said!" Sai, Nicolas and I said together, laughing.
"I can't believe you did that." Damion said.
"That's what she said!" I said, laughing more.
"Stop it." He said.
"That's what she said!" I laughed.
"I don't like this." He said, annoyed.
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!" I said, my voice sounding like a scream from laughter and lack of oxygen.
"How long is this gonna go on?" He asked.
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!" I said, finally stopping so me and the guys that found it funny wouldn't die of laughter.
Back with them...
"Wow." Jaune said, looking down at his hands as he finally stopped glowing.
Back with Ren...
He put his guns away again, dusting himself off, looking around when he heard a weird noise sounding like it came from a bird, but then Nora dropped out of the branches enough for her to hang upside down at his face level. "I still don't think that's what a sloth sounds like." He said.
"Boop." She said, poking his nose.