Chapter 4
Well, I would ask why I'm here but with how Beacon has been so far I shouldn't really be surprised. Karma was at the edge of the cliffs that Beacon sat upon, it overlooked a sprawling forest and he thinks he could see some structures in it but he wasn't sure.
"Hunters, this is the initiation, t be honest most of you won't make it," gulp, "but those of you that do will become the best of the best, ok, partners work in a really well thought out way," well that makes sense, we will be with them for the next 4 years. "First person you make eye contact with." Fuck, "Alrighty grabs some relics and shit, BYE." Ozpin finished his grand speech with gusto as he pressed a button, Karma was on the end and was launched first.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
Karma held his hands out to stabilize himself in midair and try to lose as much speed as possible, he flew over the trees far faster than he would have liked and when he saw an especially tall tree he reinforced himself with Aura and braced for impact.
It never came as he felt some arms push him aside and link around his body. Karma opened his eyes slowly and saw Emma in his arms, well he was really in hers, but he liked to think it the other way around. She wasn't actually falling though, she was running on the air.
"Emma, are you Jesus?!"
"My semblance is to make myself weightless and these bad boys," Emma nods to her boots with various valves and canisters filled with air dust, "Allow me to control myself."
"Huh, pretty nifty."
"Please never say that again, ok, we're going down."
Emma guided him to the ground with him being carried bridal style, she went down faster than she would have liked as he weighed the boots down more than hey were used to which was no weight at all, so there aura's suffered some but they were mostly fine.
"So partners huh," Karma said awkwardly.
"Yeah, ok, let's go."
"Fine jeez."
Karma pushed through some brush and a huge black wolf dove through and knocked him aside, Karma and the beast looked at eachother confusedly for a second then had reacted.
The wolf charged him.
Karma ran screaming, "What the FUCK is that?!"
"It's a beowulf dipshit," Emma shouldered her rifle and shot the beast clean through the head, "Have you never seen one before?" Emma sounded disbelieving.
"I've never left this city in my entire life, but we have to fight those shits, I quit."
"C'mon don't be a pussy, we got this." Emma looked up into his eyes reassuringly.
"OK, fine, we got this."
Karma saw a second beowulf come through the parting in the foliage and got into a fighting stance, right foot forward, bent knees, hands in front of face, not in fists. The problem with Karma having never fought or studied grimm is that he didn't know there joints, how they bent, how they could break. He knew humans and could manipulate arms and necks to bend to his will, but now he would just have to strike it and couldn't really grapple. He was no slouch at striking, but it wasn't his forte.
The beowulf charged low and Karma leaped into the air, delivering an axe kick to the top of its head as it passed underneath him, crushing bone and killing the monstrosity instantly.
"Hey, that wasn't too hard."
"Yeah, you've got it," Emma said while sitting comfortably on a rock watching the little display, eating her popcorn, "vamos."
-10 Minutes Later-
"Kill me."
"Only after we get the relics."
"Fine, deal." Karma fell on his ass in front of the ruins and cried a little.
During their little trek Emma would opt out of the fights by running 5 meters into the air and critiquing Karma's fights with the grimm, she called it his 'tutoring' for all things grimm, occasionally she would take a pop shot at a grimm but that was about all she contributed. Karma hadn't actually taken that much damage as he was able to dodge almost all of there attacks with big leaps out of the way but that wore down his stamina a lot which left him in the sore and cramped position he was in now.
"Hey look at this," Emma's voice tore Karma out of his little thoughts and he saw a bunch of brightly painted, or at least not decayed, chess pieces.
"Those stand out some. Take 'em?"
"Yeah sure let's take them, if we are wrong we ca just blame it on Ozpin giving too litte instructions."
"Smart."
Karma scanned the land around the ruins and in the direction where they had come from it was cleared a little of trees to make some open ground and in the opposite direction was a bridge with some more ruins that lead to a cliffside which he assumed might be where they were headed, they were never told what to do after getting relics.
"Hiyah," A blonde waved really excitedly in Karma's direction and he realized it was Alex and a taller figure was next to her.
The figure next to her was a girl that was taller than Karma by a lot, a single tear rolled down his cheek at being short, she had muscle, long flowing black hair and tanned skin with a flial in one hand although Karma doubted that is all it was.
"Hi I'm Rebecca, nice to meet you."
"Hi nice to meet you, I'm Karma," Karma shook her hand.
"Sup, I go by Emma, but you can call me Eagle 5."
"What?"
"FIne call me Emma... buzzkill." Emma whispered the last part.
Alex grabbed a piece, "Alright, let's get a move on peeps."
Alex boldly led them to the bridge and made one step onto it and then heard a skittering noise, turned around, and pushed Emma in front of her.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"I have nominated you to go first," Alex replied quickly.
"Alrighty, what evs."
Emma walked down the bridge and was promptly surrounded by 20 huge black spiders with white bone structure on parts of their bodies. Alex screamed and started throwing pods of what seemed to be dust that exploded or sent out bolts of electricity, Karma pulled out his pistol and started firing shots in the spiders direction. In all honesty he missed a lot of his shots or they hit bone plate and were harmless, he was unused to firearms at all as he had never wielded one before, hell his brother should have given him some time to practice. Whatever, what was done is done, he emptied his mag and loaded another one, Alex called Rebecca to take on the spiders that turned in her and Karma's direction and Rebecca pulled out her Flail and pressed a button that made it give off a blue hue and she started spinning it and bashing away spiders that went too close, Emma shrieked when they emerged and ran up into the air and started blasting away at the spider's legs that tried to knock her out of the air. All in all, it went pretty well, Emma was a good bait.
