AN:
K: Hey guy's Team SKRB, M and G here, time for the extremely delayed chapter 4
B: good thing i removed the "publishes weekly" part
S: What are you talking about we totally didn't have a publishes weekly in our "about us." (sarcasm)
R: But it still says we upload a new chapter every saturday
K: Sssssh, they will never know.
R: Ummm you do realize you are writing this down right?
K,S&B: Dammit
R: (cough cough) Let's just start.
Italic = Weapons and sounds
'Italic' = thoughts
Normal = what's happening and actions
Bold = Flashbacks and A/Ns
(Last time)
Ramer was interrupted by a roar, followed by Silver and Bloodraven sprinting out of the dense forest.
"Hey guys-OH GOD!" Leo greeted them, but was petrified after seeing a grimm, and not just any grimm, it was a freaking Goliath, crashing through the trees right towards them.
"GOD, RUN!" Ramer screamed as loud as he can before getting on the Argen Luma to get away from the monster.
As everyone was running as fast as they could from the raging elephant grimm, Leo shouted out the question that was in all of their minds. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU GUYS GET INTO THIS MESS!"
(Silver POV)
"Weeeellll...It's a long story." Silver calmly stated as they were chased by an enraged Goliath.
Following Bloodraven, they walked in silence. Letting his mind drift off, Silver did not notice when he stopped and ended up bumping into his partner's back when he suddenly stopped.
"Hey, why have we-" Silver said before being cut off.
"Movement, 4 o'clock, 53 meters out. Seems big, recommend caution." Bloodraven replied quickly in his quiet, emotionless voice.
"Uhh… English please?" Silver asked, the gears in his head not turning.
"...Look that way at the strange, big, black, hairy monster over there…" Bloodraven replied, pointing in the direction the disturbance was.
Looking in that direction, Silver saw a strange, big, black and hairy thing. Squinting, he saw it move. Snapping out his weapon, he mecha-shifted it into a railgun sniper and shot at it.
Bloodraven's eyes widened behind his mask as he did this, and could only shout.
"No, don't!"
Too late, the shuriken left the barrel and covered the distance. Moving at lightning speeds and at complete accuracy it quickly and efficiently hit its mark, directly in the beast's eye. Seconds later, the two of them heard a loud roar. Standing rooted to the spot, they saw as the black figure rose, higher and higher, until it was the size of a 20-storey high building. It seemed as if Silver's shot did not even scratch the creature.
"...Goliath…" Bloodraven whispered. "One of the most deadly Grimm to kill, it takes a squad of S-class Huntsman to kill one-" Turning to face Silver, Bloodraven's emotionless eyes bored into Silver's soul. And as he stared into them, he saw an emotion. Fear. "-And you just managed to piss one off…"
"Hey, it's not my fault that when you see a grimm your first reaction is to shoot it… It's common sense." Silver tried to rebutt him.
They were shaken out of their reverie as the Grimm charged through the trees, rampaging towards them.
"Nevermind that, just run!" said Bloodraven as he turned on his heel and sprinted away. Silver didn't need any more convincing as he copied Bloodraven's actions.
Running through the trees, they jumped across logs and bushes and Grimm alike in their attempt to increase the distance between them and their certain doom. Along the way, they saw a Purple and Orange blur as they zoomed past.
"Hey guys-OH GOD!" shouted a familiar voice in surprise.
"GOD, RUN!" shouted another voice.
Turning his head, Silver saw that both Ramer and Leo were running alongside him and Bloodraven now.
And then Leo said the one thing on all their minds.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU GUYS GET INTO THIS MESS!?" he shouted loud enough that a certain red and white duo heard them from a few thousand meters in the air.
"-And that's how it happened." Silver finished his tale in a matter-of-fact tone as they still ran from the raging beast.
Unable to control themselves Ramer and Leo shouted as loud as they can. "Silver YOU BLOODY IDIOT!"
"I'M SORRY!" Silver apologised innocently.
Getting over it Leo noticed something that could be a safe haven. "Over there! A clearing!"
(Bloodraven POV)
Checking his minimap, Bloodraven saw that the clearing was the very same one that he and Mandeline were meant to rendezvous at.
Frowning at the lack of shadows in the clearing, Bloodraven knew that he had to use his semblance now.
Skidding to a halt, Bloodraven swiped his hand upwards. A huge spike of dark shadows shot upwards at the speed of light, towards the head of the Goliath-
-And proceeded to rebound off the thrice-damned beast with a light ping. Bloodraven's eye twitched in annoyance as he summoned more spikes to smite his foe. Each one proceeded to rebound off with a ping.
Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, pingpingpingpingpingping went the sounds of the spikes repeatedly rebounding off it's tough hide. And then when all seemed lost, Bloodraven summoned one last spike, 3 times larger than the ones before it, and-
PING
It rebounded off just like the rest of them.
'Well...sh*t…' he thought before a giant trunk slammed into him, throwing him towards the temple.
(Glacier POV)
After hearing the speech about being teammates, Glacier used his semblance to create a flying platform of ice that he used to float over to area he deemed a good place to start to create ice dust crystal and decided that it was too terribly humid in this forest for his likings.
So he created a ice dome to cool things off, as well as to keep out whatever grimm lurked in this forest…
He just started collecting ice dust crystals when suddenly he heard a crash as his ice dome broke and cracked into sharp shrapnel of shards. Quickly the snow that had been inside of the dome started to vaporize, the humid and noisy environment of the forest slowly penetrating into what used to be a quiet cold dome of solitude. A place Glacier liked to call, Sanctuary.
As he slowly turned around to see the source of the crash he turned around to see a girl looking at him with killer intent pouring out of her. He wondered what horrible things were going on in her head...
"So hi… what's your name?" Glacier hesitate but decided to break the silence.
"Mandeline… Mandeline Pyyrope." Mandeline bitterly uttered.
"Well, I'm Glacier Alceg." Introducing himself, he tried to help Mandeline up, which resulted in her slapping his hand forcefully away and getting up on her own.
"Well, tall, flat chested, moody and-" Glacier was interrupted by a dagger held dangerously close to his throat.
"What...did...you...just...say?" Mandeline asked slowly as she inched the blade closer and closer to Glacier's exposed neck, killing intent pouring out of her like a broken dam as she smiled sadistically.
"Nothing! Nothing at all!" said Glacier, sweating uncontrollably as he plead her to stop.
"I thought so…" Mandeline gave him a warning by punching him hard in the gut and gave him a kick so hard it could shatter rocks to his family jewels.
Glacier squealed like a girl as he clutched his sensitive place, rolling in the dirt, smothering his face. Mandeline ignored the fool and walked towards the clearing, her boots crunching the dirt below her.
Glacier slowly recovered and followed after her, grumbling about his misfortune the entire time.
(Mandeline POV)
As they reached the clearing edge, they saw the temple up ahead. Running over, Mandeline saw what they were looking for.
"Chess pieces? Fitting…" she observed as she picked one up. Twirling it around her finger, she pocketed the White Bishop piece and was about to leave the clearing, when she heard the sound of chattering people.
Turning around, she saw a black haired girl wearing a bow upon her head. Next to her she saw a… well endowed, blonde-haired girl.
Feeling a hint of jealousy, Mandeline touched the area where her chest should be.
"Hey you there." she was caught off guard by the blonde girl's words.
Swearing under her breath, Mandeline attempted to ignore her and continue their mission, but was grabbed by the collar and pulled back. Glacier sighed and walked towards them.
"Hi, who might you be?" the blonde haired girl asked Mandeline in a happy-go-lucky tone.
"...Mandeline… Mandeline Pyrrope." Mandeline, after a bit of stalling, introduced herself reluctantly.
"Well Mandeline, I'm Yang. And quiet and mysterious over here is Blake." Yang introduced herself along with her partner Blake.
"How about you?" Blake pointed to Glacier, who was standing there watching the conversation.
"I'm Glacier Alceg." Glacier barely introduced himself to the duo before…
"HEADS UP!" A short black and red-headed girl came falling from the sky.
A blonde boy came flying from the forest collided with the red head girl, sending them into a tree.
"..."
"Um.." everyone was somewhat silent after watching the fiasco until Blake broke the silence. "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"
"I-" before Yang could even start her sentence, explosions and grimm growls cut her off. and then an Ursa bursts through the forest.
"YEEEE-HAAAAW!" the Grimm soon fell to the ground after another explosion. It's rider rolled off the dead beast and spoke loud enough for Yang, Blake, Mandeline and Glacier to hear. "Aww, it's broken." Soon after a green clothed boy came from behind them.
With the rider, who was a girl with orange hair, on the grimms neck, the boy complained, "Nora, never do that again." but she promptly disappeared.
Appearing once again but next to the pedestals, she eyed the white rook piece, and took it, making weird poses while singing. "I'm queen of the castle, I'm queen of the castle!"
"NORA!" The black/pink haired boy called out to the pink and orange girl, who now identified as Nora.
"Coming Ren," skipping over to the now named, Ren. Blake spoke to everyone's thoughts.
"Did that girl just ride in on a Ursa?"
"Nooooo, she rode a walking pumpkin." Mandeline said sarcastically.
"I-" Once again Yang was interrupted by a screech and the invincible Pyrrha Nikos running out of the forest with a Deathstalker on her tail, uprooting any tree in its path.
Just barely dodging the claws of the scorpion grimm Pyrrha called out to someone. "JAUNE!" she seemed to have directed it to the blonde boy hanging in the tree.
"Pyrrha!" the blonde boy, Jaune called back to the red headed gladiator.
As a red and black blur jumped out of the trees, it tumbled and stopped revealing to be a black/red-headed girl wear a shirt and a long red cape with a hood, to Mandeline she looked like little red riding hood
"Yang!" 'red riding hood' called out to Yang.
"Ruby!" Yang responded to the girl, now named Ruby.
"Nora!" Nora jumped between the two causing them to lose balance.
With Pyrrha still being chased by the Deathstalker. Blake wondered.
"Did she just run here with Deathstalker on their tail?" Blake questioned. That sent Yang over the edge.
"I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill for 2 seconds before something crazy happens again!" small explosions erupted around Yang as she shouted.
After two seconds of peace, thing became hectic again.
"Umm…" tapping Yang on the shoulder Glacier pointed up.
"How could you leave me!?" a voice came from above them and they looked up to find a girl wearing white and blue on the talon of a Nevermore. but Mandeline knew who she was. Hell, everyone in Atlas knows who Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee dust company is.
"I said jump!" Ruby screamed at Miss Schnee.
"She's going to fall." Blake warned Ruby
"She'll be fine." Ruby reassured Blake nonchalantly.
"She's falling." Ren informed them as Weiss fell from the talon of the Nevermore.
Before she hit the ground a white and yellow blur came from the tree and caught her.
"Just… dropping in," facepalming at Jaune terrible pun, Mandeline smiled ever so slightly as he immediately face planted with Weiss landing on top of him.
Everyone was reminded of the danger when Pyrrha running away from the Deathstalker as it screeched. but at the same time a Giant Bear grimm (Ursa) Rushed out of the forest chasing a completely black silhouette and a… Bee girl.
Running away the black silhouette grabbed his partner and latched the tip of his whip blade to the pillar and pulled them closer to the temple.
(Yoshiaki POV)
Grabbing his partner, Honey Cedul, Yoshiaki Shinozaki pulled them closer to the temple.
Approaching the temple he let go of Honey and detached his weapon, Aki no Hebi , and grabbed a white bishop piece from one of the pillars
The other person who was running wasn't so lucky. She was hit and landed in front of the rest of the participants.
(Glacier POV)
When Pyrrha Nikos landed at their feet. and the other two joined up with them, Yang proceeded to say. "Great! The gang's all here, now we can die together."
Ruby looked around and noticed something was off. "Where are Silver, Leo, Ramer and Bloodra-"
She was interrupted when a black blur flew through the sky and hit...
'Me' that was Glacier last thoughts when he was knocked unconscious as the black blur smashed him into the pillar and a boulder land on his head.
(Mandeline POV)
As a black blur traveled through the sky Mandeline instantly knew who it was.
"Bloodraven-senpai?" she said uncertainly as he crashed into her partner, knocking Glacier into a pillar and making a boulder fall on his head, knocking him unconscious.
"Speak of the devil. Well, one of them's here." Ruby spoke to herself as she stared at the unconscious Glacier and Bloodraven.
"There now we can REALLY die together," said Yang but Mandeline was not sure whether she was sarcastic or really giving up hope.
"Not if I can help it." Ruby retorted as she dashed out at the Deathstalker. She launched herself forward by utilizing her weapon's recoil, covering the distance between her and her prey quickly.
"Ruby wait!" Yang shouted out to her but to no avail.
When Ruby came within range of the grimm, she was knocked away.
Standing up Ruby had shouted she was fine and tried to staul it before retreating from the Deathstalker.
"RUBY!" Yang chased after her to help but the Nevermore from above sent volleys of sharp feathers toward Yang and Ruby's direction. The feathers managed to stop Yang and trap Ruby's cloak on one of the feathers.
(Krimsun POV)
Reaching the end of the forest Leo, Silver and Ramer slowed down a little as Bloodraven flew over their heads at high speeds towards the temple, overtaking them within seconds.
"That was Bloodraven right?" Silver questioned what he saw and all he was met with nods.
"RUBY!" a familiar voice reached them as they moved into the clearing. Leo saw Ruby trapped on a feather and a Deathstalker approaching her.
Swearing under his breath. Leo charged up and ran at high speeds towards Ruby. However she was too far away.
'Dammit, faster!' thought Leo. But deep down, he knew that he wouldn't make it. Instead he tumbled to the ground and could only barely get up.
As the Deathstalker brought down it's gold stinger down, a miracle happened.
Weiss had stopped the Strike with a wall of ice.
Even though the two girls were quarreling he felt relieved… at least for a bit.
Leo had remembered what he was running from and boosted past the girls, towards the temple and grabbed 2 black knight pieces. Stuffing one into Bloodraven's pocket, he turned around to see Ruby and Yang waving at him.
"Umm, guys? Hate to be the bringer of bad news, but that thing is circling around. What are we going to do." Jaune had warned them about the nevermore that was coming back.
"Yeah, sure, but we have bigger things to worry about." A soon as Leo said that Ramer and Silver arrived, followed by the big, angry roar that only a Goliath can make was heard.
"You guys ran all the way here with a Goliath chasing you…Impressive." a girl with black hair and a red streak to the side wielding a crossbow said with an expression that read "Not bad.", but he knew it isn't the times for introductions.
"Who was the one who pissed that thing off!?" Yang shouted as she looked towards Leo's direction.
After the short pause as Bloodraven awoke to the land of consciousness and Leo explained the situation, the three looked at the one responsible, Silver Mageturn, with irritation and hate being the most obvious emotions in their eyes.
"Look, there is no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss had pointed out the obvious as she looked towards the chest pieces.
"She's right, our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs." Ruby had paused shortly to make sure everyone was on the same thought process as she was before continuing. "There is no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind." Jaune nodded in agreement and smiled.
"THAT'S WE HAVE BEEN DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Silver, Krimsun, Ramer and Bloodraven shouted (calmly replied in Bloodraven's case).
As everyone laughed a little (excluding Mandeline and Bloodraven), Ruby and Jaune went to grab chess pieces of their podiums.
'Time we left." as the Deathstalker was about to free itself and the Goliath reaching the edge of the forest, a black and purple haired boy warned everyone to leave and the heart to hearts stopped.
Ruby nodded before saying. "Let's go," calling for everyone to follow her.
Running back into the forest heading south this time, Leo heard both the distant screeches of the Deathstalker and the roars of the Goliath, instilling great fear into him.
(Silver POV)
Their time in the safety of the canopy was short lived as they ran out of the forest. Silver saw that the nevermore had already overtaken them, leaving a bad feeling in his stomach.
Ruby had noticed it too and signaled for everyone to take cover.
The Nevermore released a flurry of sharp feathers, each one speeding towards them. In response, Silver and the others shot at the feathers, knocking them off course. Unfortunately, there were too many projectiles, and some of them started to knick a few of them.
Silver grunted in annoyance as a feather came within inches of his neck, and kept on firing, until-
chk!
-he ran out of ammo.
Reaching into his pouch, he rummaged through it until his hands found purchase on the magazine. Looking down to confirm what type of shurikens he would be using, he found them to be the explosive type.
Slotting it into his weapon, he looked up and saw a giant feather slicing through the air towards his head. Eyes widening in surprise, he knew that this might be where he died. He couldn't lift his weapon fast enough to block it, and it was too close for him to dodge, so he closed his eyes, ready to accept death.
And then he opened them again seconds later.
He saw the sharp point of the feather mere centimeters away from his eye...being held back by a translucent black barrier.
In front of him stood Bloodraven, hand held out defensively. Feathers hit and rebounded off of the strange defense that protected them both. Eventually, the wave of feathers stopped as the barrier shattered and the Nevermore's feather floated to the ground.
Nodding to Bloodraven as a form of silent thanks, Silver aimed E.S.P.R at the screeching Grimm above him and pulled the trigger.
Shurikens burst from his weapon's barrel as they flew towards the Nevermore. The Nevermore screeched in rage as they exploded across its body, along with the rest of the projectiles from the other Huntsmen and Huntresses in training, the pain it experienced would be unbearable.
The Nevermore flew away as it took more damage, and finally escaped the range of the weaponry.
"Well, we better keep moving!" said Leo as the group kept on running towards Beacon's cliffs.
They almost made it, before they heard a loud roar coming from in front of them...followed by another roar to their right, and then behind them. They were surrounded.
"Quickly, to the ruins!" shouted Silver as he and the other rushed left to get to the ruins. Looking behind him as some of the others crossed the bridge, he saw the Goliath, the Deathstalker, the Nevermore, and a giant Ursa.
Before Silver and 6 others could cross the bridge they were intercepted by the Nevermore. Releasing another volley of feathers, the Nevermore destroyed the bridge, making 4 of them of them fall off.
The 3 of the 6, Ren, Blake and Pyrrha, were fighting the Deathstalker. Silver aimed his gun to assist but he stopped when he heard a metallic ping.
Looking at the source of the sound, he saw that a large, black and silver disk, with blades sticking out of it, had blocked an attack from the giant Ursa.
"No matter how annoying you are, no matter how absolutely irritating you are, just know I've always got your back." Ramer had spoke out as he tried to push the claw back with his telekinesis.
Soon after Leo ran up to the beast and slashed at it with a sword so large it covered his entire body, sending the Ursa near the edge of the cliff.
Suddenly Bloodraven had dashed out of Leo's shadow and gave it one last push to send it off the edge.
But their trouble had only just started.
(Krimsuns POV)
After kicking the Ursa off the cliff with the help of Bloodraven. Leo tried to lend a hand to Silver until…
He was grabbed by something, a long black trunk from the Goliath pick him up and threw him into the air.
'Crap, I let my guard down,' Leo begun skydiving from the air. Looking around he saw that the Ursa they had knocked down was not dead and that it was fighting the 4 that fell from the bridge. Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren had just killed the giant Deathstalker. And Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang fighting, and about to kill, the Nevermore. He also saw that Silver, Ramer and Bloodraven were running around trying to kill it. Observing his surroundings he noticed another bridge, and then it hit him.
'Who said we need to kill it!' Smiling from excitement Krimsun drew Leoheart from its holster and mecha shifted it into it's Katana.
Approaching the Beast, he knew a stab would destroy to blade and do nothing against the thick armour and hide the Goliath had. So he he got into a form to allow him to use one of his moves.
"Leonheart style 1st Offensive Strike." Leo whispered to himself.
"AKAGIRI!" Slicing down the Beast's flank, Leo landed on the ground and shortly after the place where the slice hit combusted.
Once the smoke cleared he saw that his attack had done little to no damage, just as he expected.
"Why the hell does nothing work against this thing?" Ramer complained at the top of his lungs.
"It's hide and armour is too thick, even my Jäger bolts just bounce off it." Bloodraven added calmly.
"I have an idea, get Silver!" Leo shouted back at 2 as he dodge the charge of the Goliath.
Ramer and Bloodraven found Silver in a tree sniping the Goliath trying to find weak points, or at least create some.
Running back with Silver, they found Leo blocking the trunk attacks of the beast with inhuman reflexes.
"I need a little help here!" Leo shouted at them as he he became a little slower with blocking each attack. Ramer covered Leo as he ran towards the other 3.
Leo discussed with Silver about their plan and Bloodraven and Ramer listening in.
"Perfect, this should work" yelled Silver as he signaled everyone to start the plan with an explosive Shuriken.
(Yoshiaki POV)
As Yoshiaki and 3 others fell from the destroyed bridge he grabbed Aki no Hebi and transformed it into it's whip blade mode he tried to grab a Root sticking out of the side of the chasm.
When his blade latched on the root he tried to stop his fall by pulling on it but…. He cut the root instead making him fall again.
He was sure his doom was imminent but the thought disappeared when his fall was stopped by a something… a giant pillow of snow had appeared below him and caught his fall.
"Is everyone okay?" a winter cloaked boy had called out to everyone. He was obviously the one who had created the ground below them as he was the only standing and he was in the start point of the ice.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Yoshiaki called out to the boy to assure him he was ok.
"You could have done it earlier. Idiot," a familiar voice said. Yoshiaki turned around and was face to face with Mandeline and instantly blood rose to his face.
"I'm fine Glace." Honey called out to blue-clad stranger, who Honey apparently knew.
"I said to call me Glacier," the boy, now named Glacier, told Honey.
"But Glace is cu-" She was cut off when a Giant Ursa fell right behind her.
"-teeeeerrrrrr…" Honey finished her sentence as the the beast slowly rose from behind her.
"Whoa!" Yoshiaki shouted, taking a step back and surveying the scene. The Ursa seemed to be tired out and looked like it had just been in a fight.
"That's huge!" Honey exclaimed, her eyes wide.
"Honey get back!" Glacier shouted, grabbing Honey by the arm and pulling her beside him before the Ursa decided to pursue them.
Honey stared at Glacier and said. "Can you drop it into the chasm!? "
"No, unless you want us to fall too." Glacier shouted, pushing Honey away from the danger.
Mandeline stepped forward, unclipped her crossbow from her back and divided it into her twin blades.
Yoshiaki watched Mandeline fight, marveling at her strength. He watched as she sliced and diced and when she bled, her blood morphed into armour which covered her arms and legs, protecting her.
Then, Yoshiaki decided to show Mandeline what he was capable of. He transformed his sword into a whip blade and jumped into the fight, cracking it, he whipped the Ursa but did no damage, the blade bounced of the armour of the Ursa.
"Idiot! Aim for unarmoured area!" Mandeline shouted at Yoshiaki and stabbed between the joints of the Ursa's amour with her blood morphed right blade.
The Ursa howled, moving about.
"Hold it down!" Mandeline shouted.
Yoshiaki twisted his weapon, wrapping it around the Ursa's neck and pulled, locking it's head in place, preventing it from moving.
Glacier and Honey stood aside, letting the two skilled fighters battle the Ursa.
"Can I help?" Honey asked tilting her head.
"No! Shut up and stay there!" Yoshiaki shouted, keeping the monster at bay while it squirmed as Mandeline cut through it's tender flesh.
Honey pouted. "Meanie!" She shouted at Yoshiaki.
Glacier patted Honey on the back and gently said. "I'm sure he didn't mean it. He's just distracted, don't worry." He assured her.
Yoshiaki, being momentarily distracted by Honey and Glacier's conversation, was thrown against the wall when the Ursa suddenly jerked its head to the left, the whip pulling Yoshiaki.
"Keep focused!" Mandeline barked at Yoshiaki as he stood up, dazed by the sudden attack.
Mandeline jumped on the Ursa's back and stabbed it through the upper back over and over, blood spewing everywhere.
Yoshiaki didn't know how Mandeline did it, but somehow Mandeline managed to avoid getting the Ursa's blood on her trench coat and seemed capable of morphing her blood onto her twin blades to make them longer and stronger.
When the Ursa was down, Mandeline had inflicted upon it's skin, she stood on it's head and glared down at Yoshiaki, who smiled unconsciously. He liked the way Mandeline was strong, but he didn't like being beaten in front of her, since after all, he was in love with her.
"Nice going Mande, I'm surprised you didn't stuff up." Glacier said walking towards the Yoshiaki and helping him to his feet.
"Don't call me Mande." Mandeline shouted, jumping off the Ursa and landing roughly in front of Glacier. "If you call me Mande one more time I swear to god I will knock you into next week," She threatened.
Glacier snorted and Yoshiaki put his hand up to stop him.
(Mandeline POV)
Mandeline despised being called Mande, she absolutely hated it. She hated Glacier too so it made being called Mande by Glacier made it even worse.
Luckily Yoshiaki seemed to silently tell Glacier to shut up so she was grateful. Mandeline didn't understand why Yoshiaki did things for her, and she guessed she never would. She didn't understand emotions very well.
Yoshiaki took Mandeline by the elbow and led her away from Glacier. "Don't lose your temper again. Last time you did you set a village on fire and bludgeoned their leader to death with a chair." Yoshiaki said calmly.
Mandeline rolled her eyes. "He deserved it," She said smiling at the memory.
"No, Mandeline. Come on, I thought you were trying to feel normal emotions again. This isn't normal emotions," He said.
Mandeline sighed and walked back to Honey and Glacier with Yoshiaki following behind.
"Glacier," She said when she reached them.
"What?" Glacier asked, frowning.
Then she punched him, her fist colliding with his face with a satisfying smack. She grinned down at Glacier when he fell to the floor, groaning.
"What was that for?" He asked, glaring and standing back up.
"For calling her Mande." Yoshiaki told him.
Mandeline nodded and fake smiled at Yoshiaki, but for some reason when they both locked eyes Yoshiaki blushed and looked away.
Yoshiaki had yet to teach her why people blushed.
(Honey POV)
Honey watched as the scenario unfolded watching Glacier piss someone off so easily was normal, but never has she seen someone actually punch him.
Looking around she waited for Glacier to get up to raise the platform when…
Just at the last second she saw a giant black object lunge at her.
she tried to grab her weapon to block the strike but it was to no avail, all she could do is scream.
"Eeek! Help!" the scream had alerted the trio to her situation the first person to take action was Glacier.
Pulling out weapon Permafrost and changed it into its shoulder mounted rocket launcher form and launched an loosely packed cluster of icicles at the creature, it was the Ursa they were fighting before.
the projectile exploded on impact send it flying towards the wall, but it still wasn't dead.
"Wait i didn't finish it off!" Mandeline was, for once, shocked. However due to the injuries Mandeline gave it had a hard time moving.
Honey had saw this opportunity, and grabbed Sting, that was in the sheath on her back, quickly running up to the Ursa she stabbed it in the exposed chest and shot a fireball at close range, sending her flying back.
Honey had noticed the hand sign that Glacier made, it was a sign from when they were on the same team back in Hiemak, which meant for a combo attack.
Switching her fire dust canister for an ice one, Honey had focused all power into converting the dust into energy, whiles Glacier was charging an attack to end this battle swiftly.
Since Mandeline and Yoshiaki had fought just mere minutes ago, they allowed Honey and Glacier to test their strength, letting them take over the fight while regaining their strength on the sidelines, but ready to fight if needed.
"GO HONEY!" Yoshiaki shouted, cheering Honey on. He wondered how strong Honey really was, for he had never seen her in combat before.
"Whoo…" Mandeline said in a monotone voice, trying to mimic Yoshiaki's enthusiasm.
When all the Ice dust in Honey's canister was transformed into pure ice energy and Glacier's weapon was on max power they shot it all at one target, the giant Ursa.
'Hail Blizzard' they thought in sync as Honey's strong icy winds and Glacier Ice shards slammed into the Ursa with so much force that, it looked more like swiss cheese than a bear.
"We haven't done that in a while." Glacier commented as the body of the ursa fell to the ground, definitely dead.
Mandeline waited for Glacier to catch his breath before walking up to him and punching him in the face.
Glacier fell backwards and shouted. "Hey! I just defeated this beast and this is what I get? What was that even for? I didn't even call you Mande!" He said scowling.
Mandeline shrugged. "I just felt like punching someone, and you were a good enough candidate," She said smirking.
Honey saw that behind Mandeline, Yoshiaki was grinning at Mandeline and she frowned. "Why are you staring at her like that?" She asked looking confused.
"Because he feels like it, you airhead." Glacier said holding out his arm.
Mandeline grabbed his hand and pulled him up in one swift motion.
Yoshiaki shrugged and stepped beside Mandeline. "I was just observing the odd and unique personality Mandeline has. One minute she can be brimming with anger and have this evil vibe, and the next minute she can be all sarcastic and happy," He explained.
Honey frowned. She didn't understand. "What do you mean? I don't get it. I don't see when Mandeline is happy. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen her genuinely smile," She said.
"She smiles on the inside." Yoshiaki whispered.
Mandeline punched Yoshiaki in the arm and rolled her eyes and smirked. "You only get to see me genuinely smile on rare occasions. Only Bloodraven and Yoshiaki has ever seen me smile genuinely," She said.
"It is a marvelous site." Yoshiaki said putting his arm around Mandeline but she shrugged it off.
(Mandeline POV)
Honey looked at Mandeline and smiled. "I have a joke for you," She said.
"What?" Mandeline asked not actually wanting to hear the answer, but asking for the sake of Yoshiaki, who wanted Mandeline to act like a normal teenage girl for once.
Honey looked at Glacier and smiled. "Why can't you trust atoms?" she asked glancing at Glacier again.
Mandeline frowned. "Uh, why?" She asked.
"Because they make up everything!" Honey exclaimed giggling.
"Nice." Glacier said and Honey beamed.
Mandeline looked at Yoshiaki and he nodded, he knew she was trying.
(Yoshiaki POV)
He knew Mandeline was trying to be normal in front of other people, and he knew it was hard for her. But he was proud that she was trying for him.
"Let's get out of here." Yoshiaki said and started walking, Mandeline walking beside him. He felt proud getting to lead the walk, even if it was something as small as that.
Glacier and Honey followed behind talking about weird jokes while Mandeline scowled and walked beside him in a suffocating silence.
"Good job," he whispered to Mandeline.
She shrugged. "I just don't get why I have to humor people when it's obvious I don't give a flying fish," She grumbled.
"Because it's normal teenage behaviour," He said shrugging. "Anyway, let's go find your brother." He said and as soon as he said that Mandeline cheered up and skipped ahead and started leading the walk.
"So much for being a leader…" He muttered to himself.
"But first we have to get out of here… Glacier, could you?" Honey had looked up and noticed that they fell a long ways, it was impossible to grapple on to anything because it was to far away and the walls were too steep to climb without special equipment.
"yeah, yeah" glacier grumbled as he walked into the center of the platform and raised his hand. soon after the platform started raise. Honey skipped around waiting to reach the top as Mandeline and Yoshiaki had a look of surprise plastered on their face.
(Silver POV)
Silver started Running and Gunning to draw the Goliaths attention. when it started charging at him Silver B-lined to the bridge and tested something.
As they predicted, the Goliath is smart enough to know that the collapsing stone bridge is not strong enough to support its weight, which meant their plan would work.
sprinting towards the Goliath, Silver waited for the perfect moment and jumped off the bridge. Changing E.S.P.R into its whip blade mode and latched onto the the stone pillar that was supporting the bridge and launched himself into the tree tops.
(Ramer's POV)
soon after Bloodraven and Ramer ran out of the trees weapons drawn and started slicing, shooting, and hitting the beast.
Running at the beast, Bloodraven touched the shadow of Ramer's Argen Luma, soon after Multiple Shadow spike launched out and rebounded off the beast.
then Ramer jumped, ducked and dodged several trunk attacks and followed by turning one of his weapons into its spike claw form and punching the beast repeatedly
Using his other other Argen luma as a shotgun, by grinding dust crystal then shooting it at the enemy.
all of his 'bullets' bounced off but brought enough time for Bloodraven to jump on Ramer's shoulder, spinning, he slashed at the Goliath. though all that happened was that he bounced off and lost balance.
However soon after Ramer had ran under the beast, and inserted a fire dust crystal into the Argen luma that was on his wrist.
using the other to launch himself up to the belly of the beast. He punch it with everything he got, soon after the impact an explosion happened around the area he punch.
Rolling to break his fall he looked at the spot he punch, and found there was little to no damage, Ramer clicked his tongue.
But in that moment Bloodraven saw an opening, jumping from the shadows Bloodraven Slashed at the spot with both sickles.
When he started falling he changed Blutsturm into its bow form. nocking an arrow, and was charging it, after about 10 seconds, before he reached the ground, he release the arrow accurately hitting the beast in same spot once again.
The beast roared, even though their attacks had no effect it served its purpose… to irritate it.
now that Ramer and Bloodraven had its attention, Bloodraven created a series of Shadow walls to block its charge.
after effortlessly smashing through every wall bloodraven had created.
Bloodraven and Ramer dodge its charge, and soon after ducked the trunk attack, making it hit a giant pillar, sending it flying.
'Leo was blocking that!?' Ramer wondered to himself as they dodged, and ducked away from each attack.
Ramer and Bloodraven were not fast enough the next trunk attack as they were both flung into a nearby pillar.
enough though they could not dodge all of the attack they had done their job… to buy time for Leo
With a grabbing motion, Leo absorbed all the heat in the bridge causing it to freeze to sub-zero temperatures. now everything was set up for the finale.
Signaling Everyone, Bloodraven and Ramer proceeded with making the beast go to the place they wanted it to be... directly in front of the bridge.
in the treetops Silver was charging his Railgun sniper with enough electricity to power Vale and half of Atlas. pulling the trigger the projectile moved at mach 10 shooting into the gap in the armour and through the thick hide embedding it in it's flesh, soon after the shuriken discharged a wave of electricity which stunned the Giant.
Leo released a wave of heat and before any knew it, he was behind the Goliath and was preparing to strike.
"Leonheart style 3rd Offensive Strike" Leo shouted in the heat off the battle. which surprised the other 3.
"Blast Furnace!" Leo shouted the attack he was doing, while doing so 3 slashes hit the the back of the beast in the blink of an eye, soon after the same 3 slashes that hit the Goliath exploded and sent it flying.
Usually the weight of the beast would ground it to Remnant but because of the ice, the explosion caused it slide across it at tremendous speeds, sending it off the frozen bridge, cracking it in the process, and to it's doom.
As they heard the Goliath crash to the ground sending tremors through the ground Leo sighed in relief ,"It's OVER!" soon after he fell to the ground from exhaustion, breathing heavily to take in as much oxygen as possible.
"good job kid, ya did good." Ramer had complimented Leo for his good work, whilst also transitioning to a strange accent.
"I'm only 1 year younger than you." Leo had complained in between breaths.
"Guy's hurry up we need to get to the cliff." Silver had reminded them that they still had to finish the test.
Loading Leo on to one of Ramer's disks, Silver climbed up the cliff ,while Ramer and an tried out Leo floated to the top. Bloodraven just vanished while they weren't looking.
(Ramer POV)
As Krimsun and Ramer reached the top they saw Bloodraven standing there, hand halfway into a small bag of...candy…
Staring at the strange sight of the unmasked assassin popping a lemon sherbet into his mouth and smiling in delight with his eyes closed, they nearly jumped out of their skin when Silver dropped between them.
Hearing the thud of a body, Bloodraven froze as his eyes snapped open to see the other 3.
"..." Bloodraven turned paler than he already was, before he cleared his throat and composed himself.
"...You didn't see anything…" he said as he gave a bone-chilling stare into each and every one of their eyes. Leo swore that he saw the pits of hell within those blood-red eyes, and felt that the grim reaper was about to claim his soul.
"But we just saw you ea-" was all Silver managed to get out before a throwing knife landed dangerously close to his...private part. Bloodraven smiled innocently, but they all knew how fake that it was, especially with the massive amounts of killing intent leaking out of him.
"Ok! I'll shut up now! Please don't hurt me!" Silver said, fear etched onto his face like a statue.
"Good." Bloodraven replied as the killing intent vanished instantly.
"Is he okay?" a cute blonde with twintails asked Ramer as she pointed to Krimsun.
"Yeah he is fine just exhausted, and who are you?" Ramer had told them about Krimsun's condition and asked the Blonde who she was.
"Oh I'm Honey nice to meet you." Honey greeted Ramer with her usual upbeat and happy tone.
"I'm Ramer and this is Leo." Ramer introduced himself and Leo.
"NICE TO MEET YOU RAMEY!" She said. "YOU TOO LO!" Honey said getting both of their names wrong, but not seeming to care.
"Um…" Ramer said not knowing whether he should correct her or not.
"Anyway i can help him recover." Honey had told them as she stretched out her arm to Leo, concentrating her aura on Leo.
In seconds Leo had felt rejuvenated. and got up full of energy. "Wow thanks!" Leo exclaimed, feeling refreshed.
"...water" Silver was still on the ground crawling and begging for water
No-one knew why but everyone started laughing, even Mandeline and Bloodraven laughed inside their heads.
-Later that night-
"Mandeline Pyrrope, Honey Cedul, Glacier Alceg and Yoshiaki Shinozaki," as Ozpin announced the name they came up one by one and stood to attention.
"You 4 have retrieved the white bishop pieces. From now on you will work together as team MHGY (Mahogany). lead by...Mandeline Pyyrope." Ozpin had assigned them the name in accordance to their initials.
Mandeline looked at somewhere in the room and put a thumbs up, when leo looked where she was staring at he found Bloodraven in the corner.
After a few teams Later, team RWBY, lead by Ruby, walked off the stage and finally Leo was called up.
"Silver Mageturn, Krimsun Leonheart, Ramer Thyst, and Bloodraven Corvus." As each name was called up Leo felt excitement for the days to come.
"The 4 of you retrieved the black knight pieces. from this day forward, you will work together as…" time around Leo seemed to slow down as the Ozpin was about to name their team.
"Team SKRB (Scarab)." Leo liked the name it wasn't to fancy and was simple and had a nice ring to it.
"Lead by Krimsun Leo-" Ozpin was cut off by Leo interrupting.
"Professor i don't think i'm suited to be a leader, well not alone at least, i would like to nominate Silver, he was the one who came up with the plan with me when we took on the Goliath." Whispers in the crowd filled the Arena with questions, but nothing phased Leo knew what he wanted.
"Whoo! Silver!" Someone shouted from the crowd.
"Are you sure?" Ozpin stared in Leo eye's and saw the determination in them.
"Alright then…" Ozpin cleared his throat. "Silver Mageturn shall lead SKRB" He announced.
(Mandeline POV)
She watched Bloodraven out of the corner of her eye and smiled inside when his name was called for his team.
"What are you thinking about?" Honey asked her, elbowing her in the ribs.
Mandeline shrugged. "I'm thinking about how annoying you are," She told her turning her back to Honey and facing Yoshiaki.
"Now I have to be in a team with someone who abuses me." Glacier muttered.
Yoshiaki grinned and Mandeline noticed and rolled her eyes and gave him one of her fake smiles.
"Come on, you can do better than that." He encouraged
She curved her mouth upwards more and Yoshiaki smiled. "You got it. Except next time make it so it doesn't look so fake. It's like someone attached string to your mouth and is pulling upwards." He said.
"You have a strange imagination." Mandeline said glancing over at Bloodraven, who was talking to Silver. She wondered what they were talking about.
She caught Bloodraven's eye and he gave a hint of a smile and resumed his conversation with Silver. Well, it wasn't much of a conversation. Bloodraven was doing a lot of listening and Silver was doing a lot of talking.
"Why do you always look at Bloodraven?" Honey asked.
"Because I do." She said with a scowl marring her normally perfect face.
Chapter 4 done.
AN:
K: Hey, I hope you enjoyed. We worked really hard on the fight scenes.
S: Why did it take so long?
K: Well...ummmmm...this is our longest chapter yet and at first I didn't know what to do for the fight scenes, so we had to discuss about a lot of things like...uhhhhh...
B:... Character designs? Weapon names? The small stuff?
K: Yeah! What he said.
R: You guy's just didn't know what to do half the time didn't you.
K: Well, it's not my fault that I was too busy watching anime… ok maybe it is my fault
B:...
K: and i didn't know what to do for the MHGY part
R: heheheh we took a long time to do this stuff
B: ...I really feel like adding an omake…
M: Right, well then. NEXT CHAPTER, HERE WE COME!