HI READERS! This is my first input and briefing for u guys. I shud've done this already in CH1 but I didn't, and a fellow reader of mine made me realize why I shud. So here we go! First off, I don't own RWBY or anything from RWBY (y'all should atleast know what that entails to), but I do own the OC characters of mine which are the quadruplets as of now. Also fun fact for u guys…if any of u have watched the fanimations of RWBY by Mark Zhang, I have gotten permission from him via comments on one of his videos (I don't remember which one) to intertwine his current characters and mine in this story…though they will not be used right away because I have awesome plans for our characters in the future…also I'm sorry if im posting at a slow pace. Life is getting in the way lol, but I'll do my best to work faster for u guys.
CH7 – Rigorous Exams
While hovering in mid-air and some little ways away from the temple, as well as pretending to be lying down on his back with his hands behind his head, Kluá feels a slight change in the wind which makes the Elementist turn his head towards the source of the disturbance.
As the Elementist discovered the source of the disturbance, his eyes go wide as an all too familiar person falls from the sky like a cannonball.
"OH SH—" Was all Kluá could muster to say before his muscular brother crashes into him at high enough speed for the two to make a small crater in the ground.
Shieri, who was quietly leaning against one of the standing pillars with his arms folded, quickly removes himself and leaps into a battle stance, facing the small crater that was not there before. The Atlesian's stance consisted of the boy standing with his feet spread and his hands at his sides where he tilted his large dual-pistols in their holsters forward. And his fingers on both triggers, ready to fire.
As quickly as Shieri jumped into one of his battle stances, his Faunus brother, Fang, lands gracefully and quietly next to the top of the small crater.
Watching his brother slowly rise to a stand, after landing into a crouching position, Shieri tilts his pistols back down towards the ground and then recompose himself.
"Was that Ritsu?" Shieri asks his Faunus brother.
Fang averts his gaze towards the bottom of the small crater.
"Yes." Fang says, "It also appears that he has landed on Kluá."
Shieri snorts, "Is he alright?"
Fang glances back at his Atlesian brother in time to see him walk towards the small crater made by their brothers.
"I would assume he is." The Faunus boy replies as his gaze follows Shieri's towards the bottom of the crater.
From where they stand, the retired assassins watch Ritsu roll off of his brother and slowly rise up into a sitting position, while their Mistralian brother groans and twitches, showing signs of life obviously.
"Damn," Ritsu groans, "it feels like I hit something."
"Yeah, our brother." Shieri says.
At that, the Atlesian boy activates his HUD and quickly monitors Kluá's bio-signs.
"And he appears to be find…so he should stop faking now."
At that, Kluá opens his eyes and glares at his two brothers who stand before him at the top of the small crater momentarily, before feeling the quick shock of pain from Ritsu's body making hard contact with him.
"But it…HURTS, DAMN IT!." The Elementist cries.
Feeling annoyed, Fang frowns down at his Mistralian brother.
"Your Aura took the brunt of Ritsu's careless landing. The pain will subside."
Just then the Faunus boy turns and walks away from the small crater. Shieri only glances at the boy for a quick second, which was enough time to let his thoughts fade away before looking back down the crater.
"Ritsu, hurry up and get Kluá outta there," the Atlesian takes a step behind himself and turns his body half-way, "we're just about done here."
Looking up at his Atlesian brother, the muscular boy couldn't help but sighs to replace a casual remark he had ready in mind.
"Yeah-yeah." Ritsu replies nonchalantly.
The Titanist then grabs his Mistralian brother and throws him onto his shoulder, as the boy groans and whines in pain.
"Ah, shut up you wuss." Just then, Ritsu starts climbing up and out of the crater. "You wouldn't be acting like this if Ruby was here."
"And this wouldn't have happened if you looked before you leaped, idiot." Kluá says sharply.
"Says the one who was taking a beauty nap."
"I didn't leap, moron." Kluá retorts.
"But you didn't look either, stupid." Ritsu replies back.
At that, the Titanist drops his brother at the top of the crater and makes his way towards his other two brothers, leaving the Elementist to pick himself up.
"Ow!" the Elementist cries as he lands face first into the ground. "That hurt, you ass!"
"Get over it!" Ritsu says loudly over his shoulder.
Just then, as Kluá picked himself up off the ground, he couldn't help but think of how much of a jerk his Titan brother can be.
Man, if I had one lien for every time he dropped me. Kluá thought, I wouldn't have to deal with this crap.
At that last thought, the Elementist dusts off his battle gear and readjusts his arcane armbands so that they fit tightly on his biceps again before moving again.
Atop the hill from where Fang and Ritsu have leaped such a long distance to reach the derelict meditation circle where the Headmaster said the relics would be at, two girls stand there with observant gazes.
"You think this is it?" Yang asks her partner.
Unbeknownst to her partner's lack of knowledge, Blake regards the blonde-haired girl in silence and makes her way down the hill. Leaving the blonde girl only to follow suit a few seconds later.
As the girls make their way down the hill casually, they both notice four figures—two standing by what looks like a pedestal; one moving away from a small crater, and the last one standing by it.
Noticing the muscular build of the four figures and their girly long, shiny, jet-black hair, Yang was the first to say something.
"Hey, check it out!" Yang says, "It's the brothers!"
For reasons she doesn't understand yet, Yang sounded a little too happy when she noticed the quadruplets. Especially Ritsu.
God, I hope he hasn't done anything crazy yet. Or I'm in trouble.
"Wait, did you just say those four are brothers?" Blake couldn't help ask, breaking Yang out of her reverie.
The blonde girl turns her head to look at her partner as the two continue to walk.
"Yeah." Yang starts, "They're quadruplets. One from each Kingdom."
At that, Blake raises an eyebrow at Yang. "I'm gonna guess that you've already met them before?"
"Yeah, not that long ago actually…Look, I'll break'em down for you. You can easily tell who's who once you remember which Academy symbol they have. That's how I was able to remember three out of the four, at first."
"Only three?" Blake asks, "What about the last guy?"
"He's bigger than the rest, so you can't get him mixed up."
At that last part, Yang points a finger at each brother—starting from the left to the right—as their figures come closer and clearer for the blonde-haired to see.
"This one here, with the Atlas Academy symbol on his back, that's Shieri—I'm assuming he's the oldest, because of how the other three follow him around and practically do what he says…then next to him, is Fang. He's mostly quiet all the time, except when he argues with the other two brothers. Oh, and strange enough, he's the only one who looks like a Faunus."
That's actually really strange, Blake thought
Hearing that one of the quadruplets is a Faunus put Blake in a little bit of a turmoil inside her head. Only because she has never heard of any family just having one blood-related Faunus sibling. Especially in the case of that one sibling being a twin—or in this case a quadruplet. Usually, from what the Faunus girl has seen, is that the other twins' sibling(s) will also have some resemblance of Faunus heritage. But apparently not the case of these four brothers.
"Okay," Blake says confirming the information she learned about the first two brothers. "So what about the other two?"
"Oh, yeah. The big guy is Ritsu, he's obviously the strongest one, out of the four. And he's got the hots for me."
Blake snorts, "why's that?"
"Because he keeps calling me, Goldilocks a lot, or even Little Lady…and I don't see what's so little about me…"
By this point, Blake glances at Yang, but more intently at her large breasts.
Well those are definitely not the reason why.
"…and he comes on a little too strong, so I keep pushing him away." Yang rants, "I think he's obsessed with me…I mean I did tell him that he can't date me until he does something crazy."
"Has he already?"
"Gee, I hope not."
"So, I'm going to assume he's trying?" Blake asks, looking at her partner more intently than when she learned that one of the boys is a Faunus.
Yang shrugs, "Probably, but I won't let him win that easily."
"Well if he's trying," Blake starts, "then I think he's more determined than obsessed. I mean, you did offer him a challenge…and boy's like a challenge."
"Yeah, don't remind me." The blonde-haired girl retorts.
Shieri casually tosses the black knight chess piece to his brother, Fang.
"Take this," Shieri starts, "I have the other black knight piece."
Catching it with one hand, the Faunus boy observes the chess piece before nodding to his Atlesian brother.
With that response from his brother, Shieri turns and starts to walk in the direction of where Beacon Cliff would be.
"Come on let's—"
"Hey, Shieri!"
Interrupting him in mid-sentence, the Atlesian boy and his Faunus brother both turn in the direction of the large open-field from where the Faunus boy and the Titanist came from, only to see two all-too familiar faces. One that they don't mind seeing, and the other they do somewhat.
"Yang." Shieri pauses for a moment as he watches the blonde-haired girl and the black-haired Faunus girl walk up to him and his brother, "I see you've acquainted yourself with someone."
"Uh, yeah." Yang says, as a puzzled expression moves across her face as her and her partner both stop in front of the two brothers.
Gee, the way he talks is gonna take some time getting used to, the blonde-haired girl thought.
As Yang's thought went away, she moved on to introducing her partner.
"Say, Shieri. Fang. This is Blake." The blonde girl says, pointing a thumb at the Faunus girl who's arms are crossed over her chest. "She's my partner."
"Hi." Blake says, with a small wave of her tucked hand.
"Hey." Shieri says.
"Nice to meet you." Fang says, following suit.
By this time, the Atlesian boy has his arms folded across his chest as well, and just as his Faunus brother moves to stand next to him, with a rested hand on hilt of his dai-katana.
With a careful gaze, both Shieri and Fang look at the Faunus girl with hidden recognition, and both also notice how the girl still continues to disguise her Faunus heritage with a bow on her head.
Surprisingly, yet unbeknownst to the brothers, they had thought the same thing.
Why still hide who she is?
As their similar thought went away, two more familiar voices chimed in.
"Hey, Yang!" Kluá says happily.
At sound of his voice, the two girls, and the twin assassins, both turn to see Kluá and Ritsu make their way to them.
"Kluá! What's up." The blonde girl replies.
At that, a thought pops up into Yang's mind.
"Oh yeah I forgot," Yang says with an ah-ha look on her face as she turns to her partner. "Blake. This is Kluá. The other brother I forgot to mention."
Right before Blake could respond, the Titanist's voice chimes in first.
"What," Ritsu says while holding out his hands has at his side, "did you forget me too, little lady?"
"Please—" Yang rolls her eyes and puts her hands on her hips, "—you're like an incurable disease I can't get rid of."
With a feigning hurtful look, Ritsu replies back. "Well that hurts."
"But don't you worry girl," Ritsu then adds as his fake expression disappears, "I'll get you that cure. So you'll learn to live with me and not fear me."
At that, without missing a beat, Blake replies to Ritsu's comment, though what she says is aimed towards her partner.
"I told you he's more determined than obsessed."
Just then, Ritsu winks at the blonde girl.
"Hell yeah I'm determined." Ritsu then says, catching the Faunus girl and her partner's attention, as well as his three brothers. "What's the point of not doing a challenge if it's only gonna make you stronger and smarter."
For Yang, her only response to Ritsus' and her partner's statement was just a sigh in disbelief.
"Anyways…" Yang starts, hoping that she can change the topic that's at hand. "Blake and I are looking for relics. You guys find any?"
At that, the Titanist and the Elementist both turn to their assassin twins, thus diverting the attention of both girls to other brothers.
Feeling all eyes on them, Fang was the first to speak.
"Yes." Fang says, "You would be quite surprised as to what the relics are."
After noticing how the Faunus boy put emphasis on the word, relics, the two girls now stare at him with puzzled expressions.
"Uhh…" Was all Yang could say before Shieri spoke.
"What my brother means…is this."
Just then the Silver Knight showed the girls the black knight chess that he had taken from the pedestal.
"A pony?" Yang asks, her face full of confusion.
"No," Blake starts, "it's a chess piece."
At that, the Faunus girl moves to get a closer look at the pedestals, while leaving her partner behind with the four brothers. With whom—including Yang—all watch her intently.
With her gaze scanning across the pedestals and chess pieces, she notices two missing black chess pieces, and none from the gold chess pieces.
"It looks like you four were here before anyone else." Blake says, turning to the Atlesian boy.
"Until we showed up." Yang then adds.
Shieri nods in response.
"Might as well take the best one while the pickings are good." Kluá says, his eyes on Yang.
At that, the blonde girl makes her way to the pedestals as well…and without a second thought grabs a golden knight chess piece.
"How 'bout we get a cute little pony too, Blake?"
Oh boy.
Just then, Blake looks to her partner with a small smile and shrugs. "Sure," she says.
At that the two girls walk to each other.
"That wasn't too hard." Yang says.
"Well, it's not like this place is very difficult to find." Blake replies, first looking at the open-field and then the quadruplets.
At that, Shieri activated his HUD-monocle and started thinking up the waypoint back to Beacon Cliff. Once the location was on his HUD, Shieri then turned away from everyone and then started walking towards the direction of the waypoint, which was towards a much narrower end of the open-field.
Just then as the Atlesian started walking, a loud scream filled the air for few seconds. Causing the boy to stop momentarily in time to hear Ritsu and Yang speak behind him.
"Dude, some girl's in trouble." the Titanist says looking around.
"Blake" Yang says aloud, while looking around too, for the source of the voice. "did you here that?"
"Yeah, I heard." The Mistralian boy replies absent-mindedly.
Although Kluá did hear a girl scream bloody-murder, the Mistralian boy at the moment is more focused on the sky. Yet, Kluá is not the only one staring up into the sky…the two Faunus are as well.
"Man," Ritsu says sharply, "you're not even paying attention…what the hell are you looking at anyways—oh"
Just as Shieri turned to look at his brothers and the two girls, he notices that everyone, except Yang, are looking up at the sky. Instead the Silver Knight sees Yang continuing to say her partner's name, as well as wave a hand in front of the girl's face.
What the—
The Atlesian boy couldn't finish his thought as s sound from a familiar voice interrupts Shieri, causing the boy to look up into the sky as.
Just then, the Atlesian boy finishes his thought, with a curse under his breath.
"Blake didn't you hear that?" Yang asks, while still waving a hand in front of her partner's face "What do you think we should do?"
Instead of getting an answer to her questions, the Faunus girl responds to her partner by looking at her, as well as making a gesture of pointing up into the sky. With which seemed to work, because the blonde-haired girl finally decided to look up into the sky and notice a very familiar person falling from the sky, giving the blonde girl a shocking facial expression.
"HEADS UP!" was all Ruby shouted as she continued to fall from the sky.
Now's my chance!
Having notice that Ruby Rose is falling out of the sky, Kluá couldn't help but think of what the rewards might be if he rescues her from free falling. As such, the Elementist's thoughts revolved around the idea that the little red-hooded girl would fall in love with him and be his girlfriend for however long they can be together. Now with that mentality in mind, Kluá then bends low at his knees before leaping into air by using his semblance to make himself fly at high speeds to catch the young girl.
Noticing that the Mistralian boy took flight, both girls stare with mouths gaped open, while the boy's brothers watch with intent. Except Shieri who power's up his jetpack, in case his brother needs aerial support for when the Giant Nevermore in the sky decides to attack them.
Once the boy reached a good enough height to catch the fast falling girl, Kluá stops and grins, as well as gawks at the young girl while holding out his arms, indicating that he's ready to catch her.
This is it. The Elementist thought ecstatically, The moment of truth and destiny!
Seeing that one of the brothers has come to her rescue, Ruby grins on the inside as she struggles against the wind to out both hands in front of her so she could wrap her arms around the Elementist when he catches her.
…
…Though Ruby never got the chance to wrap herself around the boy. And the Elementist's dreams were to never come true, for everything happened in an instant.
Having been trained with heightened perception skills and eye-tracking coordination, once the red-hooded girl was a good 20 feet above the smiling quadruplet brother, everything appeared to have happened in slow-motion. For the young girl was watching in shock as the Elementist's—who hovered firmly in the air and completely poised to catch her—body and facial expression became completely distorted as a person flying and yelling in the air had suddenly blind-sided the boy…. As such, the plan to be rescued was a complete failure, and the young girl still continued to fall, with only hundreds of feet in the air left to go.
Seeing Blake and Yang stand frozen with facial expressions shocked with fear, Fang and Ritsu quickly turn to each other before glancing in front of them to see their Atlesian brother staring back.
"Dude!" Ritsu says aloud sharply.
With a quick nod to his Titan brother, Shieri looks up into the sky with a serious facial expression.
Now with his muscles tense and his legs bent at the knee, the Atlesian boy activates his Over-boost system in his jetpack before leaping into air to finish what his other brother started.
Should have known. Was all the Silver Knight could think of, as he broke the sound barrier and catching the other girls' surprised looks, and then catching an even more shocked look from the young girl falling from the sky.
As Shieri wraps one arm around the small of Ruby's back and the other behind the girl's shoulder blades, the Atlesian boy angle's himself and the girl to fly straight forward, instead of up, and make a very wide turn-around to head back to where everyone waits for them.
Though as Shieri makes the turn-around, while carrying Ruby, they both disappear over the tree-line off to the side of where two of the four brothers wait, as well as Ruby's sister, and her sister's partner.
"Dammit," Kluá manages to groan. "not again."
While resting atop of a thick tree branch, the Elementist slowly regains consciousness and reopens his eyes to get a good look at his surroundings. Though, the first thing the Mistralian boy sees, is that Jaune guy who was trying to flirt with Weiss Schnee in the armory. Except when Kluá looks at the boy with slight confusion, he then notices that the boy is hanging upside down from a tree branch higher up.
"Uh. Hey, dude." Jaune says nervously. "What's up?"
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asks while leaning forward to look past her partner, that stands to the left of her.
"I—" Was all the blonde-haired girl could muster before the sound of tree branches ruffling in front of them caught everyone's attention.
As the ruffling of the branches continued, Fang stood poise, waiting to draw out his dai-katana, while his brother Ritsu took an offensive stance—which practically looked like the Titanist was getting ready to charge at whatever was coming out of the forest.
Come on! Ritsu thought. Let it be a Grimm. I'll tear its limbs off!
As if his wish was granted, a creature of Grimm—a large bear type called an Ursa—came roaring out of the trees. Though just the Titanist took a step to charge the beast, his Faunus brother unsheathed his sword and held it in front of the muscular boy.
"Wait!" Fang says sharply.
Before the Titanist could protest his brother's action to prevent him from charging the Grimm creature, a sound of a girl shouting "Yee-haw!" and a loud pink explosion from behind the Ursa caught the muscular boy's attention.
Just then, as quickly as the Ursa roared on its hind legs, it doubled over as an overly ecstatic young girl with ginger hair came rolling off the head of the now deceased creature.
What the hell!
The two brothers and the two girls couldn't help but stare with dumbfounded expressions as the young ginger-haired girl quickly rose up on two feet.
"Aww, it's broken." The girl says, while feeling disappointed for killing the creature of Grimm.
Just then, the four hunters-in-training watch the girl run energetically back to the beast and stand on top of it, only to inspect the dead body. Though, as the girl inspects the dead body, a random exhausted boy appears out of the forest, next to the dead Grimm creature, and leans on it for support.
This boy has black long hair—like the quadruplets, yet in a long pony tail and with a magenta colored streak; and has magenta colored pupils; and wears a Mistralian cultural-mixed style, composed of a dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat that is red on the inside, with black and gold trimming and pink cuffs—the trimming goes down the right side of his torso and forms a black collar; and a pair of white slacks, and solid black shoes.
"Nora." The young boy manages say, "please…don't ever do that again."
Instead of getting a response from the hyperactive girl, the boy looks up and realizes that his partner had quickly disappeared from where she stood on top of the dead Grimm creature. This causes the boy to almost frantically gaze around at his surroundings for the girl. Yet little did the boy know, the young girl ran passed the two brothers and the two girls who stood by watching with their long-lasting confused looks.
As the ginger-haired girl ran pass her four spectators, she manages to stop in front of a golden chess piece…a rook.
Being completely fascinated by the golden chess piece, the ginger-haired girl makes an Ooh sound, before taking the piece and balancing it on her body while she sings and makes poses.
"I'm queen of the castle. I'm queen of the castle…"
"NORA!" the magenta eyed boy shouts.
Just then, the young ginger-haired girl stopped singing and completely froze in mid pose, which composed of her standing on one leg and with both of her arms spread out, while balancing the chess piece on the top of her head. Though, realizing that it was her partner who said her name, Nora stands again on both feet, yet she mocks a salute to her partner before skipping along to her partner, with the chess piece in hand.
As the girl started to trot back to her partner, Fang couldn't help but state the obvious to everyone.
"I would assume that girl rode the Ursa, if I am not mistaken."
"I—" was all Yang could muster again before more trees started to ruffle again…though much harder than when Nora came into the clearing while riding an Ursa.
As a girl—this one being Pyrrha Nikos—came sprinting out of the forest, a giant scorpion type creature of Grimm—the Death Stalker—thrashed its way through the trees, completely knocking them over, while roaring, and violently making sweeping attacks at the red-haired warrior.
The red-haired warrior managed to dodge two sweeps of the Death Stalker's before calling out for her partner's name.
"Jaune!" the girl shouts.
While still hanging upside down, and with shocked eyes, Jaune looks out into the clearing and sees that the same Grimm creature they found earlier, in a cave, is chasing after his partner.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune says aloud.
Once the Elementist regained his bearings, he then stood up and looked in the same direction that Jaune was looking, and saw a giant Death Stalker chasing someone.
"Woah!"
At that, the Elementist leaped out of the tree and landed a couple of feet next to his brothers.
"Kluá!?" Ritsu asks feigning astonishment to see that his brother is still alive.
"Ritsu!" Kluá replies back happily, while looking at the muscular boy.
Though his attention was diverted to something else when he saw passed Ritsu that someone just landed next to Yang.
"Ruby?!" Yang asks feeling shocked to see her sister.
At that, Shieri let go of the red-hooded girl and stood to the side for the young girl to see her older sister.
"Yang!" Ruby says ecstatically.
The two sisters were about to hug one another, but they couldn't since the hyperactive girl, Nora randomly popped up between them.
"Nora!" the ginger-haired girl says aloud, while causing the sister's make surprised disapproval-like sounds.
Just as this moment between the three girls ended, Kluá, Fang, and Ritsu all moved closer to stand next near the Faunus girl, Blake.
"Hey, Kluá" Ritsu starts, getting his brother's attention, "is that Death Stalker really chasing that hot babe?"
"Uhh—" was all the Mistralian boy could manage to say before getting cut off.
Just then—not knowing if it's because of Ritsu's interest in another girl or because that annoying ginger-haired got between her and her sister—Yang finally couldn't keep her cool.
Letting her frustration spark her reserved energy assembled as her Semblance, Yang finally sets off her ability, allowing her pupils to change to color red, and letting her Aura become physical in the form of flames that engulfs her hair. By doing this, the blonde-haired girl caught everyone's attention.
"I can't take it anymore!" Yang shouts while looking around almost frantically, "Can everyone just chill for two seconds before something crazy happens again!?"
At that—unbeknownst to each other—both Fang and Shieri couldn't help but count down the two seconds.
One…two…
Once everyone was quiet for two seconds, Ruby then remembered something important, which made the young girl to look up into the sky. Though she couldn't help but try to get her sister's attention to remind her that the craziness is not over.
"Um…Yang." Ruby says while pointing up into the sky.
Noticing the young red-hooded girl looking up into the sky, Shieri ignored the magenta-eyed boy who arrived next to his partner looking exhausted, and couldn't help but follow her gaze.
Damn it, Shieri thought, not another one.
Up in the sky, everyone couldn't help but notice a Giant Nevermore circling above…but more importantly, they couldn't help but see a small figure in white gripping its talon.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss shouts down.
"I said jump!" Ruby shouts back.
"Ruby," Shieri says while getting the girl's attention. "Is that your partner?"
"Yeah," the young girl replies.
Before the Silver Knight could question the young red-hooded girl, she spoke again.
"We couldn't figure out where to go, so I thought it'd be a good idea to ride a Nevermore to, you know, get a bird's eye view."
Shieri couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the girl.
I can't believe you said that, Shieri wanted to say, but instead he says:
"And the danger of being so close to a Creature of Grimm did not concern you?"
"Well it didn't see us when we grabbed on."
"But it definitely sees us now."
At that, other voices chimed in.
"She's gonna fall," Blake says aloud.
"Nah!" Ritsu replies, "She'll be fine."
"She's falling," Ren says, correcting the Titanist.
Just then both Ruby and Shieri follow everyone's gazes and look to the sky to see Ruby's partner fall. Though when the young girl in white reached a certain distance, a figure dove out of the trees, while surprising everyone, before catching the girl in his arms.
It was then, Shieri realized that what the boy did was an impulsive action because the two continued to fall while curled into each other. Yet, somewhere closer to the ground the boy had fallen faster than the girl, which resulted in the boy landing on the ground face first, and the girl landing hard and fast on the boy's back.
Everyone—except Ritsu who was laughing hard—winced once they heard the boy's back crack in multiple places.
"I believe we've witnessed a murder." Fang says aloud with wide-eyes.
Just then, the girl—Pyrrha Nikos, who was being chased by the giant Death Stalker, took a hard hit from a swing of its giant pincer, which launched the girl directly towards the group of students who are all in close-proximity of one another. Though, more accurately, right in front of Ruby and Shieri.
The Atlesian looks down at the young red-head and couldn't help but add onto his Faunus brothers' earlier comment.
"Make that two, Fang." Shieri says aloud.
Though, the only responses given to the Silver Knight's comment, was his brother—Ritsu, who only laughed even harder, while leaning on his Mistralian brother for support; and Yang saying something about everyone dying together.
Hearing her sister's comment, Ruby's heart couldn't stop racing as her adrenaline started to pick up like crazy.
The young red-hooded girl then turns to her sister. "Not if I can help it," Ruby replies.
At that, the young would-be huntress impulsively charges head on at the giant Death Stalker, while yelling a cute little battle cry.
"Ruby," Yang shouts, "wait!"
Realizing what her sister just did, Yang couldn't help but try to grab her sister, though she was already out of reach.
Hearing Yang call out to her sister, Kluá stopped focusing on trying to get his brother, Ritsu, off him and couldn't help but gawk at his crush who charging at the Death Stalker, for a one-on-one death-match.
"Ritsu," Kluá says while shoving his brother to the side, "knock it off! We gotta help Ruby!"
While sitting on the ground, Ritsu only gazed up and stared at his brother in disbelief.
"Didn't we already help her before?" Ritsu asks.
"Look," the Elementist says sharply, "you idiot!"
The muscular boy only sighs in response before looking at what's about to happen in front of him.
Wait, what!
Just then, Ritsu's whole demeanor changed as he quickly rose to his feet.
"HEY!" Ritsu shouts, "I SAW IT FIRST!"
Feeling the adrenaline rush and the excitement he's always felt when he's about to fight creatures of Grimm, the muscular boy raises his hands above his head, and then thrusts them down at his side with his arms curling in; which allowed him to spark up his Semblance and Aura.
Everyone watched as Ritsu's Aura gave a physical form that outlined his body, in the same way solar flares rise off the sun, for a short period before completely fading away.
"Woah," Blake uttered, "did his Aura just take form?"
Without a response to her question, everyone watched as Ritsu charged after the Death Stalker as well.
"Aren't you going to stop your brother, Shieri?" Yang asks as she watches the Titanist run surprisingly fast after the Grimm creature and Ruby.
Shieri shrugs. "Too late now," he says without looking at the blonde-haired girl.
Just then, a beep coming from the Silver Knight's HUD monocle grabs his attention.
Shieri notices that the Aura level reader built into his HUD monocle fills his screen as the reticule hovers around Ritsu's entire body has he continues to run down the field.
Seeing the Aura level spark high, the Atlesian boy couldn't help but raise his eyebrows for a split-second before gazing at the screen with the one eye that the monocle is over.
That Aura level, Shieri thinks, has got to be higher than everyone's here put together! Not even I have that amount of power stored in me...
Another thought occurs to the Atlesian boy. And What's more surprising than that…his little display did not even show a minor glimpse of his power.
With that last thought Shieri couldn't help gaze upon his muscular brother in the distance as he utters something so quiet, that only he could hear himself say it aloud.
"Is that…the power of a Titan."
Once done with his quiet outer-thought, a loud shout pulled Shieri out of his reverie.
"Ruby!" Yang shouts.
Now this time, everyone—including Pyrrha, who just rose to her feet—watch as the sister of the young red-hooded girl started sprinting after her little sister.
It was then Shieri soon realized that, as quickly as Ruby charged after the giant Death Stalker, she started to turn-tail and run from it. Except Ritsu of course, who was already halfway to meeting the young girl. Yet something in the sky catches the Silver Knight's eye.
Damn, Shieri thought.
Shieri watches as the giant Nevermore flew at a lower altitude than it did before, after Ruby. Yet this time, it stopped and gave a huge thrust of its wings towards the young red-hooded…and fired its feathers at her.
The Atlesian boy almost went wide-eyed as he saw the large feathers rain down from the sky directly in the path that Ruby, Ritsu, and Yang were running on.
Just then Shieri quickly turns to his brothers with a hardened look on his face.
"Kluá! Fang!" the Silver Knight shouts sharply.
With only a nod, both the Elementist and the Black Fang took action.
The other four remaining students gawked in astonishment as Kluá took to the skies to distract the Giant Nevermore, while Fang moved to stand ten feet in front of his Atlesian brother and unsheathe his dai-katana.
The Black Fang took his weapon by the hilt of the little hook-blade and started to swing the dai-katana in a super-fast circular motion above his head.
Once he realized what his brother was doing, Shieri swiftly drew out his dual pistols and held them up in the direction of the falling feathers.
"Ready, brother?" Fang asks, while still swinging his dai-katana.
Shieri nods. "Do it," he says coldly.
At that, Fang leaps high into the air while performing a complete spin before swinging out his dai-katana in the direction of the falling feathers. With which he could release a storm of electricity that would completely obliterate the feathers as they fell from the sky.
When his brother landed back onto the ground in a low crouching stance, the Atlesian boy followed suit by firing a barrage of powerful dust bullets before overheating his weapons.
With the barrage of dust bullets and lightning, both Kluá and Shieri managed to destroy much of the falling feathers, except for the ones that have already fallen too fast and the few that had already struck the ground here and there.
Unbeknownst to the two brothers and the other remaining students who stood by watching the two work as a team, many of the fallen feathers have struck the ground around Ritsu—with which he was completely unfazed by; while others landed in front of Yang, causing her to stop and fall back on her butt; and as this was happening, a lucky feather found its mark and struck Ruby's cloak, pinning her to the ground.
"Ruby!" Yang shouts while seeing the Death Stalker getting closer, "Get outta there!"
The blonde-haired girl could only watch helplessly as her sister continued to struggle with her pinned cloak.
"I'm trying!" Ruby shouts back in reply.
Still struggling with her cloak, it was then that the Death Stalker loomed over the young red-hooded girl.
The young girl couldn't help but close her eyes as one of her worst fears were coming to reality, when the Death Stalker thrusted its giant barbed tail down at her.
"GRR-AHH!"
Hearing Ritsu's battle cry, Ruby opened her eyes to see the most epic, yet very unreal thing she has ever seen. And not even the cartoons she's watched as a little kid could match this.
Before the young red-hooded girl's eyes, the Titanist stood with his back to her and has apparently caught the Death Stalker's tail…though not with his hands, since each one was occupied with holding both creatures' pincers at full arms-length. Rather—from a better angle to lean from—Ruby could see with wide eyes that Ritsu was holding the barbed tail…with his teeth. She also noticed that the rocky-texture skin that the boy had when they first met has appeared on his neck, face, and arms.
"Uh—Ritsu?" Ruby utters with a shocked expression. Mostly because of his surreal skin.
In response, Ritsu groans as he does another thing that completely shocks the red-hooded girl, as well as everyone else who's watching from the distance.
"Holy crap!" Kluá says aloud with a wide-eyed expression, "He's not really….!?"
Without even having to finish his response, Blake spoke up in reply.
"Oh my god he is." She says in disbelief.
Ruby watches in amazement as Ritsu's groans get louder while lifting the entire Death Stalker up high into the air, before slamming it back down hard on the ground.
With the creature completely stunned by the attack, the muscular boy the let's go of its pincers and the barbed tail while gazing up into the sky.
"Now!" he shouts, before leaping back to where Ruby was.
Just then Ruby's partner, Weiss Schnee, glides gracefully through the air before landing in front of the giant Death Stalker and pinning the tip of the barbed tail with a giant ice crystal that she made with a combination of her semblance and the dust in her rapier sword.
"You are so childish."
With her trap complete, Weiss stands up and turns to her partner while continuing to criticize her.
"And dim-witted, and hyper-active—" the heiress then makes a gesture with her hand, "—and don't get me started with your fighting style…"
"And I suppose," Weiss then adds before Ruby could reply, "I can be a bit…difficult," the white-haired girl emphasizes the word. "But if we're going to do this. We're going to have to do this together…" At this point, the young girl bends down towards her partner. "So if you quit showing off. I'll be…nicer."
At that, Ritsu only snorts in response to the heiress' speech, which only got him a small glare from the girl.
"I'm not trying to show off." Ruby starts, "I want you to know, I can do this."
"You're fine." Weiss replies, before walking away from her partner and the Titanist.
Once her partner was out of hearing range, Ruby lets out a sigh of relief while quietly saying "normal knees."
"Pfft," Ritsu says while looking at the Schnee girl, "I'm glad she's not my partner…the way she talks would have knocked me out."
Not even paying attention to the Titanist's comment, Ruby realizes that her red cloak is still pinned to the ground.
"Um…Ritsu?" Ruby says.
"What's up, red-hood?" Ritsu replies while gazing down at the girl.
"Could you get rid of the feather…I'm kinda stuck."
"Oh." Ritsu starts, "Right, I forgot."
At that, Ritsu moves closer and reaches down to grab the base of the feather that sticks out of the ground. Once his hand was around the base—with complete ease—the muscular boy then pulls the feather free and tosses it aside.
With her cloak free from the ground, Ruby reaches out and grasps Ritsu's hand and allows the boy to hoist her up off the ground.
"Thanks, Ritsu." Ruby says, "If it weren't for you, I'd—"
The young red-hooded girl was cut off in mid-sentence when the voice her sister caught her attention.
"Ruby!" Yang exclaims.
Just then, the blonde-haired girl glomps her sister.
"I'm so happy you're okay!" Yang cries.
"Hey," Ritsu exclaims, "what about me?"
Yang turns her gaze to Ritsu for a moment. "You're not my sister. So, you don't count Muscles."
"Well…does saving your sister from a giant Death Stalker count towards doing something crazy for you?"
Yang makes a disapproval noise before saying, "no."
"What!?" Ritsu exclaims, "little lady...I just lifted a five-and-a-half-ton creature and slammed it back down…just to save your sister."
"Yeah…but Ruby's partner is the one who trapped it. So, what you did doesn't count."
At that, the muscular boy throws his hands up in the air for a second, as the blonde-haired girl releases her sister.
"You're really gonna make me run for my money aren't you, princess?"
"Yup!" Yang replies happily. "and stop calling me nicknames, we're not even dating."
"Might as well be." Ruby murmurs quietly.
Though, what the red-hooded girl said wasn't silent enough, since her older sister scowled her for a short moment.
Just then, the sound of a giant creature roaring makes the three students look up at the giant Nevermore.
"Um, guys!" Jaune shouts aloud to Ritsu, Ruby, Weiss, and Yang while pointing to the sky. "That thing is circling back!"
"Come on! We gotta go!" Kluá shouts to the four as he quickly and swiftly lands next to the blonde-haired boy.
"Okay!" Ritsu shouts in reply. "So god damn bossy," he then utters quietly.
At that, the muscular boy and the Schnee heiress make their way back to the main group, with Yang at tow. Ruby then lags behind only for a brief moment when her curiosity got the best of her, causing the young girl to peek around the cluster of ice crystals to see what happened to the Death Stalker.
In full view, Ruby could see that the Death Stalker was not stunned anymore and was starting the struggle to free its tail…and with each tug, the ice crystals began to crack.
Uh-oh. Was all that came to the young red-hooded girl's mind before turning back around and darting after her sister and friends.
"Umm…guys?" Jaune exclaims while pointing up into the sky. "That thing is circling back…What're we gonna do?"
In response to wimpy boy's question, Ritsu pounds his fists together.
"I'd say, we fight 'til it dies." The muscular boy says with a wryly grin.
At that, Kluá gawks at his brother in disbelief before speaking up sarcastically.
"Yeah, and let's everyone who hasn't fought a Nevermore before, die right in front of us. All because you wanna go head on with this thing."
Before Ritsu could mock a reply, another voice chimes into the conversation.
"Enough!" Shieri says sharply.
The Atlesian's terse voice was enough to suddenly grab everyone's attention, causing them to all stare in disbelief.
"We need to leave now." The Silver Knight says aloud, "Remember, we only came here for the relics."
By gazing in astonishment at the young Atlesian boy, the young red-hooded girl found a chance for an opportunity to speak up without missing a beat.
"He's right," Ruby says aloud. By this point, the young girl has everyone's attention, including the Atlesian boy that she has begun to admire.
Seemingly, it looks as though the Silver Knight is watching her with close intent…which is exactly what she expected to happen.
"There's no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live." Jaune chimes in, "That is an idea I can get behind."
At that, the blonde-haired boy and the red-hooded girl both move to grab their own relics.
"Ruby" Yang says aloud, "get the last pony!"
"Ooh!" Nora, "Jaune, grab the castle! We can rule like kings and queens!"
Just then, everyone couldn't help but give Nora a weird look as she starts to let out an evil laugh.
As everyone was still running to keep a good distance away from the Giant Nevermore in the sky, Kluá looked back over his shoulder one more time to see how far back his muscular brother was. Which, as it turns out, his brother was some little ways behind.
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT, RITSU!" Kluá shouts over his shoulder, to his brother.
"WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!" Ritsu shouts back.
God. Ritsu thought, Isn't there anyone else he can blame! It's not my fault we ran pass a Boarbatusk!
After that last thought, the muscular boy had a quick flashback of that moment with the Giant Boartusk…which ended with the large group of students running across the Creature of Grimm's path and with Ritsu back-handing it to the side while shouting insults.
This wouldn't be happening if it wasn't there in the first place.
At that last thought, Ritsu watches his brother turn his head to look over his shoulder again.
"I WILL!" the Elementist shouts.
Just then Kluá skids to a stop as his brother passes by.
It was then that it became Ritsu's turn to look over his shoulder to see what his brother was going to do with the Giant Boarbatusk that is currently chasing them.
As Kluá turns to face the giant Grimm creature, the young boy closes his eyes before taking a deep breath, with which he exhales slowly. When the Elementist opens his eyes, he sees the giant creature charging straight for him before it leaped into the air and started rolling at a speed that could match a bullet train.
With only seconds to think, the young Elementist puts his hands on his hips and starts to kick the tip of his shoe into the ground three times. While doing this, the young boy summons his aura and activates his semblance.
Come on now. Kluá thought as the creature started to close in. One…two…
On two, the Boarbatusk became as close as ten feet.
Three…
At the end of his counting, Kluá blows at the air in front of him, creating a gale force wind that became strong enough halt the beast in its tracks, while spinning only inches from himself.
Gotcha! The young boy thought ecstatically.
Just then, Kluá uses his semblance to control the air around the creature to push it back a good ten feet before kicking his foot into the ground and out at the creature. By kicking the ground, the young boy created a ripple through the ground and a small tremor in the area before a huge chunk of the ground came loose; and with his kick, the huge piece of dirt and grass flew up into the air.
Once he had the piece of Remnant hovering in the air, Kluá reaches out his hands—one at the creature, and the other at the dirt— and then uses his semblance to control the wind to lift the Boarbatusk up into the air, just under the floating chunk of dirt.
Finally realizing what's going on, the Boarbatusk suddenly stopped its roll attack and only started to frantically move about in the air while squealing in fear.
"Sorry!" Kluá says loudly. "But you have to die!"
At that, the Elementist slams the Boarbatusk into the shallow hole he created, that was surprisingly big enough for it, causing the creature to be completely stunned for a short time. Now, while the creature remained stunned, the young boy uses this chance to slam down the hovering piece of Remnant with a hundred times more force than gravity itself. Thus completely killing the giant creature in its shallow grave.
"Damn," Kluá breathes a sigh of relief, "that fat pig was pretty heavy."
Just then Kluá looks up into the sky in the direction of his brothers, and the other students, and sees the Nevermore is still chasing them.
Ah, crap!
Just then Kluá dives into the air and flies after his brothers and rest of the students that were with him. And with a quick glance at the shallow grave he made for the dead Boarbatusk, Kluá notices that the big pile of dirt is slowly shrinking. Since due to the fact that the bodies of Grimm slowly fade over time.
Eh. Kluá thought, at least it got to rest in peace.
"Aw crap!" Jaune says aloud.
As he said that, everyone came to a halt at the edge of the tree line and in front of a large ancient stone structure that looks like a settlement built with surrounding pillars and bridges that connect it between the giant cliff face ahead and the current one they are getting close to.
With his HUD, Shieri thinks to his device to scan the area around him and the other students. Although nothing unusual alerts the young boy, except the waypoint icon that points up into the sky. Thus, meaning that the giant Nevermore is still in the sky above them. As the young boy moves his gaze from left to right like an Atlesian Knight drone, a tremble occurs below his feet, causing him to look down at the ground, though he then realizes that the trembling was too feint for it to be coming from underground.
As quickly as he turned a whole one-eighty degree: Shieri, his brothers, and the other students saw the giant Deathstalker from earlier come charging through the trees, clearing its own path towards them.
"AW MAN," Jaune shouts. "RUN!"
"Nora," Ren says aloud to his partner, "distract it!"
At that, all the students make their way towards the ancient structure to keep a good distance away from the Deathstalker. Though in the same instance that the students started to run, the giant Nevermore—which now hovers above the structure that's between the cliffs—now rains a small barrage of feathers at them, but sadly all had miss.
Now noticing a break in the creature's attack, Nora vaults over a giant feather before pulling out her weapon, a grenade launcher, and firing flak rounds up into the sky. The flak rounds managed to scare the crow-like creature into veering off out of site of the bombardment. With which mainly put it out of site for everyone, momentarily.
Yet, with being so focused on the counter-attack, the young ginger-haired girl completely forgot about the Deathstalker that soon found its way to her, and closing the distance between the two, fast.
Looking like a deer caught in headlights, Nora only watched as the Deathstalker was about to start an attack, until it was struck with a surprise attack by Blake and Ren who formed an "X" formation when striking the creature with their bladed weapons.
As soon as the Deathstalker was stunned, Kluá surprised the ginger-haired girl by flying pass the Grimm creature and landing closely in front of her. Once he landed, the Mistralian boy wrapped both arms around the young girl—which took her by surprise—and with his semblance, launched the two into the air, towards the beginning of the bridge.
Once at the entrance of the bridge, both Shieri and Pyrrha both stop and turn back to face the direction of the forest, with weapons ready at their sides, and waiting for the other half of the group to cross.
As the two students stood guard, Kluá and Nora both landed in front of them before taking off across the bridge.
Though, before he could make his way across, Shieri plants a hand on his brother's shoulder.
"You took care of the Boarbatusk?" the Silver Knight asks.
A grin splays across the Elementist's face. "Of course." he says, "I also made sure it had a proper burial."
Shieri snorts. "How respectful of you."
At that, the Atlesian boy removes his hand from his brother's shoulder, and pulls out his second pistol once again.
"Now go cover the other end." Shieri says, nodding his head in the direction behind him.
Kluá nods his head in response; though before he was about to take off another familiar hand is planted on his shoulder. This time the young boy turns to his right and sees his childhood friend once again.
"Thank you, Kluá. I'm glad you're safe." Pyrrha says most earnestly.
Just then, the Elementist's face starts to blush. "Hey, anytime best friend." Kluá replies.
In the instant that the two locked eyes, Shieri clears his throat, causing the two friends to break out of their reverie and go back to what they were supposed to do, before their little moment.
Now as his brother was making his way across the bridge, Shieri lifted his weapons and started to fire at the Deathstalker once it came into view. Though as him and Pyrrha were shooting the Grimm creature, they had to be careful with their aim since Blake and Ren were still running in front of the thing.
Once Blake and Ren made it onto the bridge, the Deathstalker halted in its tracks and only roared a screech.
Seeing that the Grimm creature is too big for the bridge to move across, both Pyrrha and Shieri stopped firing, and then tuned to run in the direction of the other students.
As the distance started to close between the two groups of students, the sound of a loud screech grabs Shieri's attention, which causes the young boy to look to his left.
Out in the distance—and closing fast—the giant Nevermore from earlier screeches once more.
Damn that things' persistent.
As if to prove his point, the Nevermore crashes through the entire center of the bridge, causing debris and the students to fly in all directions.
"HOLY—" Was all the Titanist could let out before something snatched him out of the sky as he was falling with limbs flailing about.
Looking up, Ritsu relaxes as he realizes that his brother, Kluá, had grabbed his hand. Though from the looks of it, the Elementist is having a tough time holding his brother in mid-air.
"God you're a heavy Titan!" Kluá groans.
"If you can't carry me!" Ritsu shouts while looking up at his brother. "Then you're the weakest Titan I've ever met!"
"Whatever!"
At that, Kluá carries his brother over to the central part of the ancient structure that resembles a tower-like design with pillars that stand in a circle to hold the ceiling up; and then lands in the center. From there the young Mistralian drops his brother—who lands firmly on his feet, while he slowly descends and lands gracefully. Upon landing, the Mistralian boy then arches his back to stretch out his muscles and to relieve himself the pain he started to develop by carrying his brother.
"You know." Kluá starts, "I'm from Mistral…or did that go in one ear and out the other?"
"No." Ritsu replies, "I just know that you're wrong, stupid."
"My god, Ritsu. I swear—"
"ENOUGH!" a familiar voice shouts.
Just then Shieri hovers high in the air in front of his infuriating brothers, with a look of annoyance and anger. And with his jetpack activated, the Silver Knight looks like a vengeful angel with his wings protruding from the pack.
"Now help the others!" the Silver Knight shouts.
At that, the two brothers sigh in sync—both showing a sign of frustration before taking off to help the other students.
As Ritsu and Kluá both dispersed, Fang—who had leaped up from the side of the tower-like structure, lands down in front of his Atlesian brother.
"Shieri!" Fang shouts, as he turns around to face up at his brother. "You must keep the Nevermore distracted, for I cannot fly!"
"Why not use your Semblance!?" Shieri replies.
"The debris falls too quickly!"
Looking at his immediate surroundings for a moment, Shieri quickly realizes the truth in his brother's words. For the large chunks of the bridge have already fallen to the abyss of the narrow valley the ancient structure is built over.
"Ok! I'll distract it!" Shieri shouts. "But you gotta help those on this side!"
"As well as the others!?"
"No! Ritsu and Kluá will give them support!"
At that last sentence, Fang did not continue the conversation any further because the sound of a loud screech caught their attention.
In the instance that the giant Nevermore screeched, Shieri left his Faunus brother at supersonic speed to meet the creature in mere seconds.
As his brother sped off into the sky, Fang turns his body in the direction of the Emerald Forest just in time to see Jaune and Nora do something completely risky…and outright ridiculous, according to the Faunus boy.
"I don't think these students realize how escalated this danger has just become." The Faunus boy says aloud to himself.
Just then, Nora slams down her hammer on the broken bridge, sending a large chunk of it into the air and having it tilt in a way that would send Jaune flying towards the Deathstalker.
Fang sighs. "I have spoken too soon."
While being chased by the Nevermore, Shieri couldn't help but groan in disbelief over the fact that the headmaster of Beacon Academy made a request for him and his brothers to fight on a similar level to the other students. Thus, only making it difficult for him to not get things done as soon as possible, as per the young Atlesian boy is used to, when he undergoes a mission.
Ozpin, this is a terrible plan! The Silver Knight thinks to himself. Fighting mediocrely is not, in any way, part of my skill set. Especially when I take on high-risk missions such as this.
As the young Atlesian finishes his thought, his HUD makes a notification beep in his ear, with which he quickly realizes that it's the anomaly detector only to see a gaping mouth closing in on him fast. Now, even at the speed that the two are going, the Atlesian boy could smell the lingering bad breath of the giant creature; which—even under his mask—almost made the boy gag. Though, just before the Nevermore could close its beak, Shieri side-boosts away from the creature, causing it to bite down on nothing but air.
Seeing how he's not in any danger anymore, Shieri flaps his wings forward once to come to a complete stop, only to hover in mid-air and watch the Grimm creature speed past him.
Shieri snorts, "That Grimm is too big for its own good."
At that, Shieri watches the Nevermore try to make its way below and around the ancient stone structure since it can't turn as easily as he can, though it continues to destroy even more of the structures that surround the center building. Also in the same instant, the young Atlesian boy's HUD monocle notifies him of another anomaly; one that appears to be closing in on the Nevermore from farther below.
Using his mind to manipulate the HUD monocle some more, Shieri was able to set up a flight path, as well as make the screen zoom-in; in time to watch Yang's partner, Blake, to fly over the Nevermore.
As she lands gracefully on top of the giant crow-like creature of Grimm, Blake swiftly removes her weapon from its magnetic sheath and begins to swing side-to-side rapidly across and down the creature's back.
In only a matter of seconds, the young Faunus girl made it to the tip of the Nevermore's tail, where she then decides to take a leap of faith.
It was then, in that instant Shieri quickly realizes that Blake is making eye contact with him from the distance as she jumps off the back of the creature of Grimm.
Shieri chuckles to himself, feeling slightly amused the by current situation.
"The irony of this situation."
At that, Shieri uses his jetpack to beeline towards the falling Faunus girl.
Once he got close enough to the girl, the young Atlesian reaches out to grasp firmly the Faunus girl's hand. Who then, he flies back to the central structure where Ruby, her partner, and her sister were.
"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake says loudly over the sound of the rushing wind.
You have yet to see the worse, Shieri wanted to say. But instead he says…
"Then we need to attack with a combined strike!"
At that, Shieri lets go of Blake's hand, letting her touch down on top of the roof wall of the ancient structure where, Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Fang stand.
As the group stand and watch the Nevermore make a giant U-Turn, Yang turns to Shieri with a questionable look on her face.
"Hey!" she says aloud, "Let's hit it with everything we got!"
Without a reply, the Silver Knight and the Black Fang both ready their weapons the same way as they did when the Nevermore first attacked. Yet, this time, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang follow suit.
Using his HUD monocle, Shieri aims his weapons a keen precision while watching the giant crow-like Grimm creature finish its turn through the air.
Once it started to beeline towards the students, the Nevermore makes another loud shriek before increasing its speed.
Shieri—who's been waiting patiently for the giant bird to get into accurate range for his pistols—slowly squeezes the triggers in both of his hand-cannon pistols causing the hammers behind the chambers to come back in full extension.
3…2…Shieri thinks to himself, …1
On his final countdown, the Nevermore lets out another deep screech.
"Open fire!" Shieri shouts.
The Atlesian fires both pistols simultaneously, before switching to an A-B pattern to match the fire rate of Yang's hard jabs that allow her to fire combustions of dust-like fireballs. This is all along with Blake's small combat pistols; Weiss's Dust projectiles; Ruby's high-impact sniper rounds; and Fang's lighting projectiles.
Although, unbeknownst to the four girls, the two assassin brothers' attacks appear to lack the amount of power that they had used when the two fought each other…to the death.