"Quick! Do that thing we planned out!"
"Which one!?"
"The one with the blade tornado thingy!"
"Ohhh, that one."
"Just do it!"
Violet and Tanya were surrounded at all angles by Ursai, who were looking at the girls like they were a meal.
Suddenly, Violet built up her storm and Tanya created a squad of clones. Tanyas then threw their chakrams into the whirlwind around Violet, creating a spinning tornado of death.
Tanyas returned to just one girl who hopped away to a safe place behind a tree, her chakrams still multiplied. She nodded to Violet, who nodded back.
Violet then extended her storm, sucking in all the Ursai around her and cutting them up in the tornado of blades. After the Ursai had been thrashed up enough, Violet shoved her hands out, sending their bloodied bodies flying all over the forest.
The storm died down, and Tanya came running out of her hiding spot.
"That was incredible Violet!" She cheered, "I would have never constructed a strategy along those lines of such brilliance."
Violet simply nodded as Tanya yammered on with her extensive vocabulary.
"Yeah, it was pretty cool, huh?"
Tanya retrieved her chakrams and Violet tried to guess their next direction.
"We gotta think of a name for that attack..." Violet said as they walked toward a ruin that was not too far away.
"I'm thinking 'Sandstorm'." Violet offered, getting a curious look from Tanya, "You know, 'cause the Sand is Tan, and my last name is Storm..." Tanya simply gave a dull nod.
The two continued to walk, while elsewhere Ross and Xavier were having a heated argument.
"C'mon! Just let me use it for a sec," Ross persisted, "I'm not gonna break your sword, I just wanna try it out."
Xavier sighed, then turned to his partner.
"Do you have any idea how to use it?" He questioned.
Ross pulled his own sword out quickly and demonstrated a few slashes and such.
"Swish, swish, stab dude. It's a sword, not a fighter jet."
This opted a groan from the taller of the two hunters.
"You'll be surprised..." Xavier replied.
The two of them continued to walk until they came to a clearing.
Before them was a small ruin, with pedestals, stone columns, and other broken things. Standing on top of each pedestal was a relic of sorts, each shaped like a chess piece.
"Chess pieces?" Xavier asked.
"Guess so." Ross said.
The two of them made their way down to the ruin and examined each of the relics.
Ross eyed the knight piece and a smile spread on his face. "Horse!" He exclaimed to his partner. Xavier looked at him and shook his head. Ross sighed and turned away from the piece and followed behind his friend
Xavier stood over a bishop piece at this time, looking down on it.
"It looks kinda like a frog." He stated to Ross, who was eying it alongside him.
"Nope." Was all Ross said before walking away from the piece with his hands behind his head.
Xavier looked disappointed. "Aww, come on." He followed behind Ross and the two stopped finally over a final piece.
It was a white pawn piece.
"Boooring!" Ross said loudly to his counterpart, receiving an annoyed glare from Xavier.
"We're taking this one." Xavier said adamantly.
"But why?" Ross complained.
"Because it's blank. That means it can be anything that you want it to be. No predetermined theme or information; a blank slate." Xavier explained, Ross nodding as he spoke.
"But still..." Ross groaned.
Xavier stuffed the piece into his jacket before the ground began to rumble.
The floor shook so hard that it threw Xavier and Ross off their feet, just before the earth cracked and burst open.
Out of the hole in the floor sprung a huge pitch black worm with bone white spikes and plates all over it! Riding on the back of it were two girls, both acquainted with the pair of boys.
"Tanya!?" Xavier questioned.
"Violet!" Ross cheered.
"Nidhogg!" The two girls yelled in unison before jumping off the huge worm Grimm, known as a Nidhogg!
"Quick! Grab a chess piece Tanya!" Violet ordered, receiving a determined nod. Tanya cloned herself and had one grab a King piece while the other stayed behind to continue fighting.
Violet turned to the two boys, "Alright! We can't kill this thing here-" The Nidhogg cut her off by slamming into the floor and writhing around. Violet turned to her fellow classmates, "We run for that ruin!" She ordered, pointing to the huge ruin lodged into the cliffside to the east.
All five of them nodded, "Got it!"
Tanya handed the chess piece to herself then turned back into one Tanya again. Ross lifted his fist, sealing up the hole in the ground with a subterranean column of earth.
Violet mentally jotted down notes on each of their semblance for later use.
As they ran, she turned to the wolf faunas boy. "Hey, scruffy, what's your semblance!?" She yelled as the ground shook behind them and the Nidhogg roared.
"Ha! Scruffy!" Ross cracked.
Xavier turned to the girl, "Uh, I can turn invisible, and my weapon is a jet sword." He explained as the giant worm Grimm twisted and followed right behind the four of them.
"Jet sword!? What!?" Violet questioned before the Nidhogg submerged itself into the ground.
Tanya turned to the other three, "The Nidhogg's travel speed increases drastically while submerged into the earth! It will probably attempt to intercept us momentarily!" She yelled.
Ross shook his head, "English, Four-eyes!" This earned a glare from Tanya and Violet, as well as a snicker from Xavier.
"It's faster while underground! We gotta get away before it-" The ground burst open before Violet could finish simplifying Tanya's words.
"Oh crap!" All four yelled in unison, as the Nidhogg writhed around between them.
"Ross! Do your earth-bendy thing!" Violet yelled, receiving a nod from the boy.
Ross pumped his fist and four columns of earth sprang beneath the four students, sending them flying into the air and out of the Nidhogg's reach.
"Excellent! The Nidhogg Grimm can only detect that which is touching the surface because it sees through vibrations! At this altitude we are virtually invisible!" Tanya yelled at her allies.
"What!?" They all cried, deafened by the speed they were ascending.
Violet opened her hands and channeled her aura, creating a vortex around the four of them in order to slow their ascent.
"Tanya! Clone yourself and cover us in a Tanya ball! We'll collide with the clifftop and make a break for the academy!" Violet ordered, receiving a nod from the intellectual.
"Got it!"
Tanya did as she was told and cloned herself to a ridiculous multitude. Hundreds of Tanyas latched onto each other and held the three teens in the core of the ball they formed.
Ross was sweating uncomfortably from all the physical female contact, while Xavier was fighting the instinct to start drooling.
"I've always wanted to be surrounded and grabbed by hundreds of cute girls." Xavier joked.
"Be quiet, canine!" All the Tanya's yelled in unison, creating an echoing effect throughout the whole Tanya ball.
"Oh, cool! Now say: 'it is inevitable, Mr. Amberson.'!" Violet cracked, receiving an annoyed grunt coursing throughout the whole ball.
The Tanya Ball collided with the cliffside and a few Tanyas dissipated on contact.
Violet channeled her semblance and the Tanya Ball began to spin and climb up the surface of the cliff.
"Wow! This plan is brilliant!" Ross stated in amazement, just before the cliffside began to rumble.
The Nidhogg burst from the cliffside, roaring, before it dove back in like a dolphin dives in and out of water.
"I think our friend wants to play a little longer." Xavier snarked.
"Of course..." Violet groaned.
The Nidhogg burst out again from the cliff, grazing off somewhere around twenty or so clones.
"Gaaaah!" All the Tanyas cried as pain shot through each of them. All the Tanyas broke loose, letting the three of them fall.
"Ross!" Violet cried.
Ross got the simple order and summoned four horizontal columns from the cliff face, creating surfaces for the four of them to land.
Each student landed on their respective platforms, while Tanya clones plummeted to the forest floor below.
The students took a moment to catch their breath before a loud roar and a pitch black worm broke their moment's peace.
Violet's column was destroyed and she was almost sent falling, if not for the quick reflexes and speed of Xavier and FLLFFL. Xavier caught his friend by her waist in his free arm, while holding on to his sword handle.
Xavier then looked down at Violet and the two of them shared an emotional moment...
"Well, sorry if I had to cut in, bu-"
Smack!
Xavier collided with the cliffside.
I really gotta stop staring at pretty girls while I'm flying...
Violet and Xavier were fine, as FLLFFL was stabbed into the cliff face and Xavier had vice grip on his sword handle, and Violet held onto him for dear life.
"You guys alri-" Ross was cut off by the Nidhogg, bursting from the cliffside once more. This time, Ross jumped on top of the beast, stabbing Bullet-breaker into its base and pulling the trigger to blow a hole open.
The beast roared in pain, writhing around and flinging Ross off.
Ross would have seen the end if not for the chain of Tanya clones, grappling onto each other like monkeys from a barrel.
"Thanks Tan'!" Ross exhaled, pronouncing Tan like "Tahn".
The Nidhogg slammed back into the cliffside, just before Xavier and Violet could stab into it.
"Dang it!" Xavier yelled, gritting his teeth.
Ross pulled another column from the wall for the two to land on, as well as one more for himself.
Tanyas were listening to the rumble meanwhile, waiting for-
Boom!
All of them sprang from the column and grappled onto the mighty worm, spinning their chakrams, firing bullets, throwing, and slicing at the Nidhogg. Each strike gained another pained roar and wiggle from the black worm of darkness.
Violet turned to her friend, Xavier, an idea sprouting in her head.
"Hey, Scruffy!" She commanded, receiving a glare from the wolf faunas.
"What is it, discount-goth!?" He shot back.
"Hey!"
"Don't call me Scruffy!"
"Whatever, Fluffy! I need you to get me to that thing's mouth!" Violet ordered.
"That's not any bett-! Wait, what!?" Xavier questioned
"You heard me! Get me to the Nidhogg's mouth!" Violet repeated.
Meanwhile, Ross was smashing the beast's base with his buster, opening its flesh and bleeding it.
"Taaaaah!" He screamed as he ripped a piece of bone-white armor from its skin.
He turned his head to the left to see Violet in Xavier's grasp again, jetting straight toward the spiky maw of the Nidhogg.
"What are you doing!?" Ross demanded as the monster slammed him into the cliffside and almost flattened him with its horrible black base.
Violet, without a word, jumped into the mouth of the giant black worm.
"Violet!" Tanyas and Ross cried as their friend threw herself into the beast's spiky maw.
Everything went quiet, and everyone was still...
Then, the beast jerked painfully, screeching and roaring as blades cut through its inner flesh and bullets penetrated it and tore from the inside out.
"Haaaah!" Violet screamed as her semblance span her around at supersonic speeds, her Spiral Songs ripping, cutting, and shooting through the mushy inner flesh of the great worm Grimm.
She finally stopped toward the middle, vertigo making her want to puke, before she put her semblance forwards. The torn up Nidhogg screamed as it was torn apart and flung about from the inside out, sending chunks of it flying everywhere.
Violet floated there for a short moment, her semblance keeping her airborne, before a column was extended before her feet, catching her before she could plummet to the forest below.
"That..." Tanya said, stuttering...
"Was..." Xavier said with an adrenaline amped vibe in his voice...
"Awesome!" Ross exclaimed, pumping his fist in the air, causing a column to sprout randomly at his side.
Violet collapsed to her knees, retching over the cliff.
"Grab her arms!" Xavier said quickly, he and Ross moving to grab the girl as she threw up off the cliff.
After Violet was done puking and the world stopped spinning for her, the four of them sat on their column... They sat in an exhausted silence, not saying anything...
Until...
"Well..." Ross began to state, catching the attention of his friends, "That sucked..."
The four of them began to smile, then Xavier began to laugh, and soon enough all four of them were laughing their heads off, thinking about how ridiculous the stunt they just pulled off had been!
When the laughter died down, Xavier pulled out his chess piece. A white pawn...
"Say, what piece did you two girls grab?" Ross asked.
Tanya tried to pull out the piece she took, but noticed it wasn't there! She patted herself down, trying to find it, before Violet chuckled and pulled out the object she was looking for.
"Huh..." Ross said simply as he stared at a white pawn identical to the one the two boys had grabbed.
"It's a good thing I grabbed an extra." Violet sighed.
"That's gonna suck for whoever was gonna grab that one." Xavier stated, gaining a guilty look from Violet.
"Yeah. I hope it was that Cardin-idiot." Ross added.
-meanwhile-
"Why are there no pieces left!?" Cardin yelled at his four allies.
Cardin then sighted a group of young and obviously inexperienced students.
"They took'm, didn't they?" He growled.
"Alright boys, lets get us a chess piece!"
"Yeah!" The team of bullies cheered, charging at the poor students holding Bishop pieces, weapons drawn.
-later-
"Ross Mayweather, Tanya Goldwin, Xavier Ray and Violet Storm..." Professor Ozpin stated as the icons of the four students aligned themselves.
"You four have shown that you are quite capable on the field, and equally as capable at thinking outside the box."
They were in the auditorium surrounded by other students, be they higher grade students, or failed contestants, they all watched as the four students were named...
"Team VRTX, lead by Violet Storm." Professor Ozpin announced, resulting in cheers throughout the auditorium and a nervous look on Violet's face.
"You're an exceptional student, young lady, don't forget that." He said to the girl, earning an embarrassed stutter.
The four of them rushed off the stage, Xavier waving wildly to the crowd, particularly the girls.
The next four to step up were...
"Amber Fall, Forest Goldwin, Lilac Spring and Robin Bluegg..." Ozpin said as their icons aligned as well.
"You four showed excellent teamwork and skill at holding your ground against oncoming danger." Ozpin threw a quick stare in the direction of Cardin and his boys.
"I pronounce you four: Team FLAR, lead by Forest Goldwin." Ozpin announced, he shared some short words with Forest before the four of them departed the stage.
The next two Teams before Cardin and his gang came were MOMO, lead by Momo Taro and MTLC, lead by Mang Anseum.
"Well, this should be a fun year." Ross stated as they watched Teams RWBY and JNPR get announced.
And it will be...
It will be...
For as bright as the day may seem, the darker the shadows grow...
I freaking did it! I got the chapter out!
Oh... This chapter was in development HELL! But I did it!
So, some quick things I wanna point out: MTLC is pronounced Metallic, FLAR is pronounced Flair, and MOMO is just as it looks. BTW, FLLFFL is an RHG fighter who I based the weapon of the same name off of.
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Hope I can get another chapter out!
Next up: What's up with Ross?