"Aaaaahhhhhhh" was the collective thought on everybody's mind as they down towards the ground. Everybody same priority,which was landing in one piece ( everyone does the same landing as they did in canon except for Juane).
Dustin quickly used the hook blade attachment on Deadly Coward to zipline down on a vine he passed. As he reached down he released his hold on the vine a right In front of a very angry Deathstalker.
"Oh shit"!
Juane's landing was quite different.
"Aaaaahhhhh" he said as he fell towards the cold, hard, unforgiving earth. He remembered something that he read in a book once. 'If theres a will, there's a way'. And right now Juane could use all the will he could get. As he neared the ground Juane hoped that he wouldn't die on impact. Inches from the ground the air hummed as a white energy enveloped Juane, it took the shape of a ball, and rolled down the hill. Once his white energy ball stopped bouncing it deposited him face first in mud. He groaned and looked up to see a green flag. He pulled his sword out and kissed the flat edge. "Mom was right, you will bring me luck. He crawled over to the flag and thought' 'I'll be lookout' before passing out.
Ren was walking through a bush when he landed in a clearing. "Dang it" he said out loud "only I can walk right into a pack of Beowolfs". The Beowolfs quickly circled around Ren and started to charge him one by one. A young one by the looks of it charged first. Ren jumped up and stabbed Stormflower into both of the Beowolfs eyes. It howled in pain as both of its retinas were destroyed. Ren landed on its back and viciously pulled up on Stormflower. The mother Beowolf howled as bits of her son rained down on Ren. Ren disengaged the safety on his weapon and opened fire on the other six Beowolfs. He got one in the head and he went down quickly. The other five ran off into the cover of them woods, but Ren still knew they were.
All the Beowolfs blitz him, Ren jumped high in the air and all the Beowolfs stopped in a tight circle and waited until he started to fall. Once Ren almost hit the ground he manipulated his aura so that it formed a sphere around him. Once he hit the ground the sphere exploded launching everything in its wake. Once the sphere hit the first Beowolf he was obliterated on impact.
Another Beowolf was launched into a tree limb. The tree limb pierced him through the torso and he died easily. With three Beowolfs left Ren let out a breath he was holding. He fired the last rounds in his gun before swapping the ammo. Three of the bullets clipped the mother Beowolf and the other two charged.
The first Beowolf swiped at Ren who ducked the attack. Then Ren was forced to cartwheel out of the way as the second Beowolf lunged for him Ren let loose his gun and peppered the second Beowolf with bullets. He was dead before he hit the floor.
The other Beowolf just howled and jumped high in the air. Because Beowolfs were not good fighters in the air Ren wondered why it jumped.
His question was soon answered as the mother Beowolf viciously backhanded Ren towards the skyward Beowolf. Using his aura to propel him further, Ren quickly invaded the Beowolfs personal space. The Beowolf to shocked to react could do nothing as Ren plunged both of his weapon into his paw. Ren pulled fiercely and bisected the beast's paw.
Quickly grabbing the paw, Ren clambered onto the Beowolf's back and plunged the paw into the its skull. Ren then used his aura to shoot it through the monsters head towards the Mother Beowolf. The mother Beowolfs eyes widened as the paw came rocketing toward her. She was too slow do anything as the paw tore through her cerebral hemisphere and embedded itself into the rock behind it.
Ren silently landed and took a deep breath before surveying the carnage. Blood and monster parts littered the clearing. Ren dusted his clothes off and walked away.
Weiss Schnee was a lot of things but she wasn't a cry baby. So why was she hiding in a tree crying? "How did this all happen", she sobbed to her self. "Everything was perfect, I was suppose to have tons of friends and admired by all". Weiss was really hating her reasons for not going to Signal. She looked to the sky as she reminisced on her reasons why.
Weiss and Dustin were best friend at an early age. When Dustin decided to be a hunter Weiss decided to be one too. But where Dustin was content to just be a hunter. Weiss was determined to be the best. So when Weiss saw the abysmal curriculum at Signal she begged her father to give her private tutors. For two years Weiss studied her butt off. For years she dreamed of being the best first year student at Beacon. Admired and loved by all. She wanted people to beg her to be on their team.
For two years she would wipe the floor with Dustin when they sparred. But that all change when Signal hired a new teacher. Professor Qrow redid the entire curriculum of Signal for all the teachers. Little by little she could see the changes. At first it would take more effort to beat him. Then there was a 50/50 chance of him winning. Them she was starting to lose more and more. Until one day he decimated her, unintentionally embarrassed her in front of her father.
"One year", she moaned that day. Dustin admitted to her that him and his other friends were getting after school instructions by Qrow. He asked if she would join them, but she said no. She accepted the fact that Dustin was better than her, but she knew she was better than all his other she isn't so sure.
So she decided to act as if she was better than them. "Am I really that weak"? She asked herself. She just watched that kid~Ren was it?~ just watched him take down a pack of Beowolfs in less than five minutes. The same pack of Beowolfs that made her lose Myternaster, and sent her running away.
Thankfully she found it but the shame still lingered. Now she was hiding up in a tree wallowing in self pity. Soon she dozed off dreaming of the life she wished she had. Weiss woke up hours later and noticed how dark it was out. She scrambled out of the tree she slept in and continued her trek towards a flag she saw earlier. She didn't get a good look at it from the tree's, but by the looks of it, it was a green flag.
Boom, Chink, Boom, Chink, these were the sounds that followed Yang as she flew over the tree tops. (Picture what she did after jumping into the forest in canon). This was about her third hour of continuous flying, so she decided to take a break. She sniggerd at a memory she recalled earlier in the day. The sight of Weiss Schnee running away from a pack of Beowolfs, weaponless. She rested for about twenty minutes, just enough time to dodge the hurling petals coming behind her.
"Yang"! Ruby called.
"Shouldn't you be in bed", Yang joked. She looked up at the permanently crescent moon and said, "its almost 9 o'clock".
"The Gold zone is left of here", was all Ruby said before running off, a faint smile on her lips.
"How did she know"? Yang asked herself. She just shrugged her shoulders and activated Blaze Cecilia and started flying again.
As she was flying she turned her head as she heard fighting. She let out a gasp as she saw her boyfriend fighting off three Deatstalkers. The carcasses of eight more surrounding him. She flew down to assist him.
"God damn it", Dustin swore, expertly twirling Bloody Nightmare. Speaking of his blade it was really owning up to its namesake. The crimson blood staining his blade shined in the moonlight, giving it a sinister look. He saw one of the Deathstalkers eye his blade warily. Dustin smirked as he channeled his aura into his weapon.
Every single person's aura had a peculiar effect. For instance Yang's aura gave of a feeling of rage. This made sense since her semblance was fueled by her rage. Dustins aura had a malevolent feel to it. Dustin speculated that it had something to do with Night.
As Dustin channels aura into his weapon it gains a red hue. He felt all three Deathstalkers shiver as they sensed the malevolent aura. He charged the Deathstalker in front of him, but was forced to jump to the side as the second Deathstalker tried to swipe him with its pincer. 'Behind you'' Night said calmly in his mind. Dustin snarled angrily as he dodged the third Deathstalkers tail. This had been going on for the last three hours.
For some reason these three Deathstalkers were working together. Maybe because they understood Dustin could kill them easily if they didn't. Whatever the reason was it was starting to piss Dustin off. He had been fight for eight hours and it was starting to show. He was really thankful that Qrow forced him to train in aura manipulation.
Dustin had huge aura reserves. Not as big as Juane Ark who he sensed had massive aura reserves. Qrow showed him how to use his aura to dull his senses. This meant he wouldn't feel as much pain, or feel as tired. Unfortunately this came with the price of slower synapses. In other words, Dustin now had severely slow reflexes.
Qrow taught him this because as heir to the Steslicki Forge Company, Dustin could be kidnapped and interrogated on their special forge techniques.(which are really valuable. his father has already been tortured once). But thanks to Night, Dustin didn't have to worry about the effects of using aura to dull his senses. Due to Dustin's Attunity Night was in tune to Dustins aura. By having this Night could expanded his senses to warn Dustin of any attacks. Right now Night could sense up to thirty yards away.
'To the left', Night warned him, shocking Dustin out of his momentary lapse in concentration. Dustin raised his left hand and revealed Deadly Coward. The Deathstalker clamped both of its pincers on Dustin's left hand. Dustin smirked as he knew that Deadly Coward could withstand the Deathstalkers crushing force. (Deadly Coward covers Dustin's entire arm).
He clenched his left fist two times as he swung his scythe towards the monsters head. Two bangs were heard as bullets pierced the Deathstalker. This was followed by a sickening squelch as Bloody Nightmare went through the Deathstalkers head. 'Right'! Night screamed in his head. Dustin jumped to the right as a Giant tail came crashing down. Dustin was too slow and groaned as he felt the stinger leave a gash on his side.
'Night'!
'On it'! Night said as he manipulated Dustin's aura to purge himself of the Deathstalkers poison.
Dustin bit back the pain as he reached into his many pockets and drew out a green vial. A hatch on the side of Deadly Coward opened up and Dustin placed the vial inside it. A moment later the vial popped out empty as Deadly Coward turned turn green.
Dustin quickly jumped up and stabbed Deadly Coward into the tail that injured him. He clenched his fist and half of the green liquid disappears into the monster. 'Was that what I think that is'? Night asked. 'Yep', Dustin thought, 'one of my concentrated vials of Basilica poison'.
(Basilica poison is the most dangerous poison in all of Remnant. It comes from the Basilica, a very small Grimm about the size of a cantaloupe. It has the deadliest poison in the world. Though it is very territorial, it's the only Grimm that won't attack unless provoked. )
Dustin knew that it would only take minutes for him to die, so he turned his attention to the other Deathstalker; a very bad mistake. The forgotten Deathstalker quickly pounced on Dustin. Dustin injected the rest of the poison into it, but he knew it wouldn't kill it fast enough. Dustin screwed his eyes in fear as the Deathstalker bared its mandibles.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM", an angry voice yelled.
The Deathstalker let out a raspy clicking noise as it died. The now dead Deathstalker disappeared into smoke and Dustin got up with a groan. He looked up to see a blonde with a very curvy figure battling the last Deathstalker. "Yang"? He asked in surprise.
He rushed off to help her but stumbled and fell, as he ran out of aura. The toll of eight hours of battle finally caught up to him as he got up on one knee. He watched as Yang gave a punishing blow to the Deathstalkers head, then did a backflip and landed right in front of Dustin.
"Thanks", Dustin said gratefully as Yang helped him up. He leaned up against his scythe as he told her his plan. "You grab a hold of its tail and I'll cut it off", he said. "Got it", Yang said.
As Yang rushed off to battle Dustin reached in his pocket and grabbed a pink dust crystal. He used Deadly Deadly coward to smash it into pebble sized bits.
"You know that isn't healthy", Night said in his mind.
"Yea, well it will have to do".
Dustin then started to eat the pebble sized crystals. As Dustin ate the Adrenaline crystal he watche Yang. He widened his eyes as he saw Yang stop both of the Deathstalkers pincers with her bare hands! With all its might the Deathstalker plunged its tail trying to stab Yang. Yang used Blaze Cecilia
to escape. "Dustin"! She yelled.
"On it", Dustin replied racing toward the monster. Dustin dodged both pincers and swung Bloody Nightmare, separating the monster and its stinger. Yang quickly jumped in, grabbing the stinger and shoved it right through its mandibles. Dustin fell on his butt as they watched the Deathstalker die.
"Thanks", he panted.
Yang smiled and said,"wait ten minutes as I go look for the gold zone, if I fire Ember Cecilia then I found it okay"?
"How do you know its over hear"? He asked.
"A little rose told me", she said.
Dustin nodded in understanding.
As Yang ran off Dustin started to count. Five minutes later Dustin saw Yangs signal from half a mile away. "She must have ran the whole way", he grumbled as he started to jog. Halfway there he saw Yangs signal again. Thinking that they were running out of spots in the gold zone Dustin ignored the pain as he double timed it over there.
As he was running he saw another kid rushing in the same direction. Fearing the worse he let a shot out with Deadly Coward aimed at his feet. The bullet tore through the earth tripping him. "Sorry", he yelled as he crossed the border into the gold zone. It was a clearing with no grass and four people surrounding a small fire.
"Well how bout that" Dustin said.
"Gotta find a zone, gotta find a zone", was the mantra playing in Rubys head for the last ten minutes. Ruby looked up at the moon and noticed that it was only a couple more minutes till midnight. 'I only have a couple more minutes until the next day starts', Ruby said in her head. Using her semblance she rushed off in a random direction. "Why didn't I stay at the first place I saw", she moaned.
Rubys plan was to use her semblance to find the red zone as fast as she could. She wanted to be in the red zone because red zone formed red team. The same team her mother had been on. As she was running she stumbled right into a clearing where a boy was sleeping up against a flag. 'A flag', she thought happily sitting down right in the middle of the clearing.
Hearing a rustling noise Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose and pointed it where she assumed the noise came from. "Come out", she commanded. A girl with black hair with a bow in it came out with her hands up. "Relax" she said as she brought some berries out. "I'm Blake Belladonna", she said offering her some of the food.
"Crap"! Weiss cried as she tripped over a root. She landed in a clearing with a green flag on it. She looked below it and saw a kid passed out leaning against it. Looking further she saw a black haired teen with a bow in her hair. "Hey Weiss", a voice said from behind the black haired girl. Said girl moved out the way, revealing the figure wore a red hood and a combat skirt. "Oh no", Weiss moaned "I'm on a team with the kid"!
AN: Hey everybody its Kitsuneknight09. I'm having a litle trouble figuring out the pairings so I decided to leave that up to you. The poll is on my Profile. Please pick one option per character. The pairings are all about three , Ren, And Juane. I hope you all like my story so far and please review. It gets lonely when it feels like your writing to no one.