Hey Everybody, sorry for the long wait, with Thanksgiving coming up, my teachers decided to give me a shit-ton of work to do and I haven't been able to get back on the line. Don't worry though, I'm going to be with my family over this week, and I am going to use this as much as possible to get away from them. NOW, ON WITH THE STORY!111!1111!
Chapter 5: The Relics
Man, Aries moves fast! The two of us have been searching the woods for about an hour and even with that huge shotgun, she has been moving at top speed. She really seemed to want to find those relics first. Every Grimm that we come up against get quickly killed by blasts from her shotgun. I'm basically just following her around, and it's getting rather frustrating. "Aries, slow down, we have been going in this direction for, like, an hour!"
"Well, we don't have any other leads so, unless you have a better idea, we're going this way."
"Hey, we're partners. Cut it out!"
She then turned on me. "Really!? Are we partners!? Because you were not who I was planning to be with on this Trial! We don't even know if Virgo and Ryon got together! For all we know, I'm going to be stuck on a team with you and two people I don't know!"
I was speechless. Aries was always one to be sarcastic, but she never really yelled at people, she never gets seriously pissed at people, just really annoyed. "Look, I'm sorry that you don't want to be on a team with me. It's not like we have been friends since we were children or anything. You just keep on holding a grudge on me for no reason!"
"I'm not pissed at you!" She suddenly looked surprised and looked down.
"Well, what's going on then? Is there something else bothering you? You know you can tell me, it's not like you haven't ever told me your secrets before." I was really concerned about her now. When Aries gets like this, it's usually quick and subsides quickly, but I have noticed something off about her since we had gotten to Beacon.
"Look, i'm fine. I'm sorry I said all that, I do want to be on your team, you are a really good fighter. Can we just move on?"
I studied her face for a moment before resigning to talk to her about it later. "Okay, yeah, sure, let's keep moving." We started walking again. She had slowed down her pace significantly since the fight. When we came across a couple of Beowulf's, she hung back and aimed her shotgun at them. When she noticed that they hadn't seen them yet, she pulled me down. "Hey, look if I shoot those two, it's going to call the rest of the pack over here, can you take them out stealthily?"
"Yeah, of course." I got into position a couple of feet from the Beowulves, I got ready to strike…. and they just died on the spot. I looked at Aries and she had the same idea as me. "Hey, Ryon, that was my kill!" The two of us came out of our hiding space and into the small clearing just as Ryon's Camouflage Semblance wore off.
"Hey, guys, you two got together after the fall?"
"Yeah, there's been some bumps so far but things are going pretty well." I looked back to catch Aries' eye, when I noticed her smiling much more than before, mostly at Ryon. Why would she be so ha….. Oh, I'm stupid.
"LEO, ARIES!" I turned around to see Virgo running out into the clearing. She smashed into us with a huge hug. "I thought we weren't going to get together after all this, thank god you two found each other!"
"Yeah, if we work together to get to the relics, then we should be put on a team together."
"Let's go then, I think I see a meadow over through these trees" I looked over to Aries to see her right on the edge of the clearing next to Ryon.
"All right then, thats probably where the Ruins are." We walked through the trees until it opened up into A huge clearing. We could clearly see a small ruins on the other side, with black and gold objects lined up. We all looked at each other, then started sprinting towards the Relics. We got there and found a bunch of figures lined up, and I caught on pretty quick to the "Matching Relics" thing. "These are chess pieces. Professor Ozpin has good taste in hobbies." I heard Aries grunt behind me. "Pssshhhh, Nerd."
"Really, Aries? Not the time!" We decided to take the bishops, they were my favorite pieces. "Okay, let's head back to the cliff,okay guys, ROLL OUT!" We didn't make it three feet before a Trio of Death Stalkers came out of the east forest, A pack of Beowulf's in the North, Two Giant Grimm Snakes from the West forest, and to top it all off, there were four Elder Ursas coming from the south. We were surrounded by armies of Grimm, and we did the only thing we could think to do. Aries pumped her shotgun once, Ryon crouched next to her ready to attack any foe, Virgo and I stood back to back, swords at the ready. We were going to defend this point from a Hopeless amount of Grimm. They seemed to notice the power that we held together, and stayed their ground for a moment. Then all at once, we took the offense.