Please enjoy, and constructive criticism is appreciated. (I do not own RWBY, but I do own all the OCs except two. Those belong to my friend, although I did design them.)
Blood of Grimm: Chapter 2
Valke had been sneaking around the forest for about ten minutes, and had seen several Grimm, mainly Beowolves and Ursas, although there had been a few stronger ones, and a couple other students, including a girl in yellow flying through the air, and the orange-brown haired girl from the previous night, who had been swinging in the trees carrying a gigantic hammer, making weird almost bird-like trilling noises. Suddenly, he stops. Standing up slowly, he looks around seeing red eyes all around him. Using his left hand, he draws a long black knife, with no guard between the grip and blade, with the handle wrapped in white cloth. Entering a combat stance, crouching down a little, his left hand in front of him, he closes his eyes, breathes, and says to the Grimm: "Sorry, but I have to kill you. I'll make your deaths swift." With that, he dashes towards the nearest Grimm, weaving left and right. Once in range of the Beowolf, he swings his knife at the neck, nearly severing its head, then, using the momentum to twist around and kick the already dissipating Grimm corpse away, dashes off to the next Grimm. This one he circles around to its back, flips over it and stabs it in the skull, bringing it to the ground as he lands. Releasing the knife, he flips over the Grimm about to attack, dodging the assault and pulls out another identical knife, which he uses to jam into the neck of the Beowolf, pulling it down to open a huge gap in the Creature of Grimm. He releases the knife and pulls out a third identical one. He then dashes around fast enough to rip the grass, fatally cutting and stabbing the Beowolves, always releasing the current knife and grabbing one of the three knives on the ground. Eventually, the Grimm start to run away, and Valke retrieves his knives, sheathing them all. He then starts sneaking away. A few yards later, he sees a blond boy in armor struggling to unpin himself from a tree, a red spear stuck in the wood. Sighing, he just moves on, assuming the owner of the weapon will come to retrieve it; the boy had been carrying a sword.
Meanwhile, the pink haired girl now had her hair in a ponytail, except the front of it, which was still hanging down like bangs, and is struggling to fight a large Ursa, the bodies of a few smaller ursas evaporating around her. In her hands she holds a spear, which was the "axe" she had been carrying earlier, now extended. She's holding it in the traditional style, two hands gripping it, the blade angled up and towards the Ursa. She tries pulling a trigger located where the spear blade meets the shaft of the spear, but it only makes a clicking sound. "Dang it, I'm out of ammo. I need to work on my marksmanship. I spent way too many rounds." Crouching down, she prepares to charge at the final Grimm.
Valke had been sneaking when he heard several loud bangs, and saw some dust clouds in the distance. Deciding to check it out, he runs over there. There he saw a pink haired girl with a spear fighting an Ursa, but it was obvious she would lose. Deciding that the school was probably watching with cameras and that it would look bad if he let another student die, he draws a knife and dashes into the battle.
She sees a flash of black and suddenly the Ursa she was fighting is falling, disintegrating into little pieces. She looked in the direction the flash had gone and saw the cloaked boy from the airship looking at her. As they made eye contact, the two had very different thoughts. "Great, we made eye contact, now I've got to pair up with someone. This is what happens when I try to be a 'good Samaritan'."
She thought "Perfect, now I can watch this boy without seeming like a stalker. I wonder why I'm supposed to watch him. Is he dangerous? He certainly took out that Ursa quickly." Aloud she said: "Hello, I guess we're partners now. My name is Sarasvati, or Sara. It's nice to meet you." She then bowed.
Valke glances at her. "My name's Valke. The relics are this way." And he walked off in the direction he had seen several other students walk.
"Geez, what's wrong with him? He's so cold, and… grumpy." And then she follows him, because he is already a couple yards ahead. "Hey, wait up!" He just keeps walking.
Once there, they see another pair of students, holding a large chess piece: a black king. Valke looks past them and sees twenty pedestals, each holding a large chess piece, save for four of them. The pieces missing, he notices, are the black bishops, the king the other students had, and a white pawn. Sara walks over to say hello while Valke just keeps his distance, observing them while walking towards the pedestals.
"Hi, I'm Sara. And that loner over there says his name is Valke. We just met each other after he killed an Ursa I was fighting."
"You mean losing to." Valke mutters.
"What was that?" Sara asked, suspecting what he had said. Valke replied by ignoring her and sighing. "Well, anyways, I guess these are the relics?"
"Hey. I'm Isabel," said the female of the pair. Her hair is long and black, and has a ribbon tying it together at the end. Her eyes are hazel brown, and are accented by the red circlet with a black gem inlaid in it on her head. She wears red plate armor on her chest. On the right side of her chest is a black diamond-shaped dragon head with red wings. Her shoulder pads are blue and patterned like wings. She wears a red metal glove on the right hand, which has black metal dragon claws, and on her left forearm is a chainmail sleeve up to the elbow, also red. At her hip is a blue scarf hanging from her armor, and she wears black jeans with red metal plates at the outer thighs. She has red metal plate boots, attached to black leather, and the toes are claws as well as the slight high-heel. The knees have a large claw jutting from them pointing upwards. On her back is a red double bladed scythe, so it looks almost like an anchor, with a small axe-like blade at the end. "I assume these are the relics because there are some missing, and we followed some other students here."
"Correction. I tracked them here." The male of the pair interjects. He has a black vest with pockets over a dark blue long-sleeve shirt. The shirt has a yellow snake head split into two segments down the middle, with fangs and venom drops. He has goggles and a black mask like a bandana covering his mouth, with light blue eyes and white short hair. His left arm has a black glove and a yellow leather vambrace, his right arm has a yellow fingerless glove up to almost his elbow. He wears blue jeans with a brown leather belt and black boots. On his hip is a large karambit style knife. "I'm Nicholas. I hunted animals growing up, so teenagers in heavy armor are nothing. Isabel and I met earlier when she almost wandered into a Deathstalker den."
"Interesting. I'll have to keep my eye on him," Valke observed as he browses the relics while the other students keep chatting. He settles on the black queen, the most powerful piece in chess, but also the one most targeted. Picking it up, he turns rapidly when he hears movement in the forest. A large Goliath Grimm bursts from the tree lines. He yells at the other three to run, and climbs up the ruins and over the wall, then heads toward where he saw the others run.
The others run until they reach a large clearing, about a mile long and almost as wide. At about halfway across, they turn and draw their weapons, Sara prepping her spear while Isabel pulls a rifle from the bottom half of her scythe, and Nick flicks down needles attached to his left hand's vambrace. They split off, Sara running left and Nick right while Isabel runs straight backwards once again. Isabel turns and fires quick bursts at the Goliath, while Sara dashes under it and cuts its legs, slowing it down. Nick then jumps onto the Goliath's back, stabbing several green needles into it, injecting a deadly poison, which kills the Grimm slowly but surely. Sensing its end drawing near, it lets out one final trumpet call before dissipating into dust.
In the forest, Valke hears the call, and pales, not that anybody would see it, recognizing the cry as a juvenile Goliath's distress call. Which meant the others had likely killed it… And considering its size and yet still being a juvenile… Just then the ground shook, and an ear-shattering trumpet is heard. The Goliath's mother was close, and furious that its child was hurt.
Running at his top speed, he manages to catch up to the Goliath adult. It's easily as tall as a three story building, and big enough to camp on. He dashes past it and meets the other students. "Run! That's the Goliath's mother, and its-" just then, the Goliath bursts from the forest. As the other three stare in shock, Valke curses in his head and runs towards it. He pulls out one of his knives and dashes underneath it, cutting its legs, but to no avail, as his knife barely makes scrapes in the Grimm's tough, thick hide. He retreats, knocks the others out of their shock and tells them to run. "Oh, and I'm going to need this," he says, grabbing Sara's weapon. Protesting, she starts to grab him, but he's already dashing back. "Well, at least this isn't completely suicidal anymore." With that, he extends the spear, and pulls the clip out from the claw like structure at the bottom, putting it into his cloak, then pulls it out and loads it after a few seconds. "A railgun, huh? Well, at least it packs a punch." Then he weaves under the legs once again, slashing at the front legs, and then, stabbing the back left leg, pulled the trigger on the spear. This sent the Goliath on its knees. Valke the uses the spear to vault onto the Grimm's back. He runs forward, slashing randomly with the spear, before reaching the neck, where he throws the spear right into the neck. The air ripples from the force of the throw, and pierces the Goliath the entire way through. The Grimm starts disintegrating, and Valke jumps off and retrieves the spear. He looks in front of him. He had stopped the Grimm a foot from the tree line. Looking back, he closes his eyes and mutters: "Rest in peace." He then walks forward to the trees and meets the other three, who, of course, had stopped to watch. "Idiots." He gave the spear back.
"How did you do that? That was a huge Goliath! You shouldn't have been able to do that, especially with only one hand!" That was Isabel.
"I've hunted bigger ones." Valke says, then walks away, not saying anything further.
Suddenly, there comes a loud shriek. "That was the direction of the Deathstalker den. Think we should go check it out?" questions Nicholas.
"No. Let's just go back. They'll be fine without us. I think Pyrrha Nikos is with them, so they should be fine," replies Valke, who then walks off.
Later that day, the announcements for the teams are being made by Professor Ozpin. "Isabel Raven, Valke Itzal, Nicholas Rich, and Sarasvati Blume. The four of you retrieved the black monarch pieces. From this day forward you will work together as Team VNIS(Vanish). Lead by... Valke Itzal. Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL (Cardinal). Lead by... Cardin Winchester. Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, and Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward you will work together as Team JNPR (Juniper). Lead by... Jaune Arc." The blond boy from the tree looks surprised. "Congratulations, young man. And finally, Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward you will work together as Team RWBY (Ruby). Lead by... Ruby Rose. Looks like things are shaping up to be an… interesting year.
"You have no idea." Valke looks at Ozpin. His hand clenches into a fist. Then he turns to his new team. "I'll be outside." Then he simply walks away.