M.B.C.R says: There be blood ahead. And at the end a character vomits, but that's nothing too serious. No one dies.
Sun followed Coco's lead—she was the older student after all, and truthfully... she kinda scared him a bit. Okay, maybe a little more than a bit. "What kind of Grimm have you been having problems with?" the girl questioned, tablet open and the mission log open and ready for note taking.
It was just the two of them talking to, Sun could only assume they were talking to, the mayor. The man went on in a list like fashion of the type of Grimm that has been attacking the village. The list included three common types: Beowolf, Boarbatusk, and Ursa. Those three weren't the problem, "but there's this other creature," the man trailed off after that.
Sun gulped; that did not sound good. Uncommon and unknown Grimm were tricky, they didn't have chapters and chapters on them in textbooks and they weren't covered in lectures and classes. Those ones were all trial and error.
Coco nodded, "we'll take care of it." She sounded so calm and collected—like this was just a normal everyday mission for Team CFVY, and Sun figures that it must be. Dealing with unknown and/or uncommon Grimm must be the norm for these people and Sun couldn't help but realize just how outclassed his team was.
She seemed to know what to do, what to say, and just how to take care of the situation while looking so fucking cool while doing so. He wanted to be that awesome.
The two of them left the man after that, on the way back to their teams Sun leaned over to pose a question. "So how are we going to deal with this 'mystery Grimm' if we don't even have a description?" He paused, "or... y'know any other information about it?"
Coco grinned wrapping an arm around his shoulders and with the other she made a wide sweeping motion with her purse, "don't you worry your pretty blond locks." Sun merely raised a brow. She huffed, rolling her eyes and removing her arm from his person, "We have Fox hunting the thing."
The pair rounded the corner and found themselves in one of the entrances to the courtyard. The village was a pretty little thing; surrounded with trees with ruby red leaves, and buildings that most likely looked beautiful if not for all the attacks, and that courtyard. Sun was really loving the look of that fountain.
"Tell me you got something, Fox" she snapped her fingers in the seated male's direction. Fox sat hunched over on the lip of the fountain, the tips of his fingers drawing shapes in the water.
"It's reptilian," he began, flicking the water from his fingers. "Older Grimm too, has a lot of self control. It's most likely in a position of authority within the impromptu group." He stood, rolling his shoulders as he walked towards Sage who stood near the outside of the group. Velvet moved to follow him, knowing enough by now to follow close behind him when he got like that. He had the creature's scent memorized and now he was starting to truly track it.
He stopped in front of Sage, turning back around to face his leader and the remainder of the group. "It won't make its move until nightfall," he finished, fingers idly picking at his nails. Velvet pulled a face, smacking his hand—she hated it when he started the picking... it never stayed as picking, no no, it moved to biting and she spent too much time fixing those nail beds to have them ruined now.
Fox glowered at her before turning his attention back to Team CFVY's leader, "the scent is strong enough for me to track." He waited for the O.K from his leader—Coco stared at Sun in return.
The blond startled under Coco's expectant look, "a-alright let's do this!" Fox raised his brow at the blond's enthusiasm but nodded at the A-O.K, turning on his heel he began to follow the scent of this mysterious Grimm.
The group followed Fox out of the heart of the town, through town and into the heart of the forest. When they hit the wet lands Fox paused, forehead creased and head slowly rotating from left to right. He held up a hand and the remaining members of his group grabbed hold of the closest members of team SSSN that they could.
"Something's off," Fox sniffed at the air. He glanced back over his shoulder towards where Coco stood, "cover my ass."
She grinned, "Don't you worry about your ass, baby cakes, I've got my eyes peeled and I'll admire it while you trench through that water." Clicking her tongue against the back of her teeth she waved him off towards the edge where the water met land.
The orange haired teen huffed, stepping into the water and made his way in with the least amount of noise possible. The water rippled out and his splashing grew louder; he paused to take in the sounds.
"Why are we letting the near blind dude go out into a swamp by himself?" Scarlet hissed into Neptune's ear.
"He'll hear something before we could see it," Yatsuhashi replied just as quietly.
The water was creeping up towards Fox's knee; he paused again before taking his next step. Nose pointing upwards—he huffed and took another step forward. The orange haired teen disappeared, "Fox!" Velvet called out breaking out into a run towards the shore. Sage took a couple of steps after her—Scarlet grabbed at his arm, holding him back with a shake of their head.
Fox popped back out of the water, spiting water from his mouth and taking huge gulps of air. "I'm fine," he called back to her, dragging himself back to shallower waters. "It just drops suddenly—" he cut himself off, head snapping into the direction of the water in front of him.
"Get out of there," Yatushashi called out to him, pulling Velvet back from the water's edge. A huge black shape breached from the water; the creature's huge spike covered tail whipped out and connecting dead in the center of Fox's chest tearing at the fabric and slicing and stabbing deep grooves into his chest. Fox's body sailed back a few meters away from the group.
"Fuck!" Fox cursed loudly, pulling at his ruined vest and tearing the rest of the fabric from his body. He was left with a black tank top that had matching blood soaked holes through it. His aura was slowly starting to heal his injuries, but it wasn't going fast enough.
The remainder of Team CFVY readied themselves. "You ruined the vest that I bought him, how dare you!" Coco's purse transformed, the barrel of her Gatling gun whirling to life as she started firing rounds at the giant beast. "That was designer," she added in a snarl.
Velvet ran over to Fox's side, checking over his wounds. "You're lucky," she said turning her attention away from his blood soaked shirt and towards the battle raging just a ways away. It could've been worse was the silent message hanging over both of their heads. His wounds were already healing rapidly due to his aura, he'll be up and ready for combat in a few minutes. Now with a few more added scars—she hated that Fox did this, he didn't use his aura until after he got hurt and when he knew it'll scar.
Sage pulled back another arrow, firing towards the beast in mid-swipe. The explosive round of the arrow blew—the beast seemed to just shrug it off. The Grimm flicked its tail around, the spikes detaching and sailing towards the two teams. "Move!" Coco shouted jumping out of the way, her gun still whirling and firing an endless rain of dust charges and bullets.
It had no affect on its hide. The only thing that seemed to fall prey to her fire was the earth and water around the Grimm when the bullets came ricocheting off. The spikes on its tail re-grew quickly and the Grimm repeated the action. "I'm useless in a long distance fight," Scarlet hissed out knocking the spikes and ducking out of the way as Neptune fired off another volley of explosive charges from behind Scarlet. Neptune nor Sun's bullets weren't having much of an affect either.
Fox hissed, using Velvet's shoulder as a crutch. The danger that posed from his earlier wounds had passed, but the blood was still pumping out of his body. But even that slowed to a stop after Velvet and he began their trek back to the battlefield. She took her stance between Yatsuhashi and Coco—her weapon took time for her to set up and lots of concentration. She needed Yatsuhashi's help to fend off any attacks that came her way.
Fox snarled pressing his hand against the worst of his wounds, the one that dug deep in his gut, and clenched his fists. He took another sniff to check if this was the Grimm that he was tracking—it was. He opened his ears, focusing on the sound that the creature of darkness let out—the sound of each scale rubbing and shifting against each other as it move. The water was rippling; breaking around a couple of rocks to the beast's left side.
He broke out into a run towards the rocks, "what the hell?" Sun called out halting his fire. Fox continued, leaping onto the first rock and then to the next—Coco's cover fire stop then. He snarled, the sound rumbling low in his throat as he lunged. The blade extending from his gauntlet punctured through the scales of its neck. The dark blood seeping out around the blade, and Fox gathered as much aura as he could to his left hand.
He punched his glowing fist up against the scales covering the expansion of flesh under its bottom jaw—it did nothing but anger it more. The Grimm roared, shaking and grabbing at Fox's legs. The thing tossed him like a pebble, and the hunter-in-training went sailing back towards the group. He landed with a loud crack and a scream.
The Grimm surged up and out of the water—it was huge, gigantic—and twisted its body to send another volley of tail spikes. Coco dove towards her fallen team mate, using her giant weapon as an impromptu shield for both herself and Fox. A pain pierced her calf, and she hissed glancing down at the location.
She saw white and blood.
The creature stepped up and out of the water, opening its jaws and letting out a mighty roar that shook the ground under them. The forest behind the two teams answered back—roars and howls and happy animalistic chirps. The group glanced from the unknown Grimm and the ones emerging from the forest.
Coco hissed out a breath of pain, slapping Fox's ass harsher than normal to gain his attention. "Point me in the direction of the low-lives and I'll start shooting, you need to run Team SSSN down on that unknowns weaknesses. I know you've figured it out by now," she ignored both the sheering, tear inducing, pain that spiked up from her leg when he moved her and the image of extreme swelling of Fox's left arm between the bands of Fox's gauntlets.
He'll most likely have to re-break his arm if he fought (which he will have to) and healed it using his aura.
"Follow Dad's lead," she chuckled bitterly taking a rough aim and open firing at the line of Grimm—instantly decimating them. Fox nodded, slowing pushing himself up until he stood on quivering legs. Yatsuhashi and Velvet already focusing on the known Grimm, "point SSSN in the right direction and do what you think is right."
Fox nodded, patting her cheek—fingers slipping from her skin as he pushed forward. His gut was turning, not healed properly or completely at least. The first injury he had sustained had punctured organs and muscles... he wouldn't be surprised if a good piece of bone was cracked in his ribs, bruised at least.
Velvet dropped her tote—the box made a loud bangupon landing—the center breaking open with a pop as she gathered her aura to her fingertips. "Help SSSN with the unknown, Velvet and I will help Coco," Yatsuhashi called out to Fox who was already doing by Sage and Scarlet's side. Fox held up his right arm, fist clenched and smeared with blood, in confirmation.
An army of toys crawled from the box—little toy soldiers with rabbit ears and rifles—lining up and took aim. "Toys?" Sun whispered taking his eyes off the battle that he and his team were still engaged with. The toys fired, bullets hitting their targets... the Grimm went up in flames.
Velvet grinned back at him over her shoulder, her fingers wiggling out in front of her. "Let's go Nina, Liana, Val, Patty!" she called and out came four matching robotic female rabbit bots. The only difference between each fem!bunny bot was their hair colour. The fem!bunnies broke out into a run, the opening on the bottom of their paws opening up and onyx spikes almost as large as their body's appeared.
Yatsuhashi slashed forward, sending a wave of channelled aura from his blade and towards the creatures of darkness. He was torn between covering Velvet and wanting to go to Coco's side. He kept glancing over and each time he did so she hadn't changed in positioning; still firing off rounds and mowing down her targets.
Team SSSN (plus a woozy Fox) dodged another range of attacks—a swipe of a claw, a snap of teeth, and another volley of spikes. "I need to get close," Scarlet twirled the daggers in their hand, the clear blades glowing a bright red.
"I can get you there," Fox stepped forward. His arm swollen and dark—Sun couldn't help but grimace at the sight—but the pain wouldn't keep him fighting, he didn't have the luxury for that. Fox nodded towards Sage then to the other two members of the team that fought with a longer range option, "you need to channel your fire to that wound I made. I was able to get through its hide."
Sage nodded, pulling an explosive arrow head from his quiver. He and Scarlet's gaze locked, "go for the eyes." Scarlet gave him a mock solute. Sun and Neptune started up another wave of cover fire and both Fox and Scarlet raced forwards.
Fox hesitated with the first step, the second he caught his footing, by the fourth he was powering forward—breath puffing out of his mouth. Everything hurt. The firing stop, they couldn't risk either Scarlet or Fox getting (anymore) injured. The Grimm swung with its left arm, putting all its weight into the movement. Fox snarled barring his slightly red stained teeth and braced himself from impact.
The blade of his gauntlet successfully dug deep into its hide, rooting him into the creature's thick wrist. The impact knocked his breath out of his lungs.
Scarlet wasted no time in using the creature and Fox's back as a spring board and launching towards the Grimm's face. The beast shifted, maw opening to snap at them. Scarlet dug one blade into its nose, using that momentum to swing themselves over to dig the other blade into the creature's eyes.
Scarlet's blade emptied of colour, returning to its clear like state just as the creature's eye popped and bubbled. Steaming red liquid bubbled from the Grimm's snout and eye and Scarlet quickly pulled both blades from the creature and made a hasty retreat. Fox had a slight hiccup in un-anchoring himself from the beast—Sage fired his arrow then.
Lodging into the groove made earlier by Fox; the arrow ticked for a moment before blowing. Fox had just pulled his weapon out and took a step back when it went off, it sent him wobbling a few steps back as he caught his barring. Neptune fired one more explosive round in the, now much larger and gaping, wound.
The creature fell to darkness—pieces of it dissolving into ash, blowing away in the breeze that was starting to blow in. A breeze always ended up blowing away the dust when a Grimm died. No one knew why though.
The battle on team CFVY's end neared its completion and both Velvet and Yatsuhashi ran over to Coco's side. "I'll be fine, I'm not pulling this thing out until I have proper medical equipment to deal with all this damn blood," Sun could hear her from where he stood.
Fox collapsed, falling to the ground a lot more elegantly than expected. He was still sitting up—at least he had that going for him. Sage kneeled before him brushing burnt orange hair out of his face, "you need a lift?" Fox groaned, it was a sick and gross sounding groan that churned Sun's stomach, and lowering himself back into a laying position.
"Hey Fox!" Coco called from her little patch of land where she had fallen. "You remember enough to describe that shithead?!" Fox raised his good hand and held his thumb up. "Good 'cause when we get back to Beacon Velv and Yatsuhashi are drawing it up and we're reporting it to Ozpin."
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They stuffed Coco and Fox into the center of the Bullhead. The lines between Team CFVY and SSSN weren't consistent as everyone was just standing, sitting, or leading anywhere in the hold. Team SSSN took the outer sides seeing that they were in better shape.
Sage glanced down and over at Fox; he was looking extremely pale. Velvet glanced down at her partner beside her, away from Sun who was asking her questions about her weapon. "You're not looking too good—" her eyes went wide and Coco began yelling.
"Not in here! Not in here!"
Fox flopped down, pulling himself over Sage's shoes and sticking his head out the open doors. Sage closed his eyes at the first sounds of pile escaping the elder teen's mouth. He opened his golden eyes with a sigh, leaning over the fallen male and holding his hair back as he hurled up everything in his system.
Sage was willing to bet that his guts took quite the beating and all the added pain on top of that, as well as mixing with Fox's discomfort of flying, must not be helping anything in the slightest. "I feel so bad for whatever you're puking on," Coco snickered despite the pain, finding a sick sense of joy out of the thought. "Unless it's Grimm... then I just find it fitting." His puking continued until he couldn't heave anything else up—his shoulders fell slacked and his head went limp under Sage's hold of his hair.
He passed out.
Sage sighed again, man handling him as gently as he could back into his spot he began the flight in. He kept falling over—Sage was starting to get annoyed at the whole situation and the slight smell of vomit was not helping him keep a level head. So he did what anyone one would do; he took a seat right next to Fox and used his own shoulder he keep the orange haired male propped up.
"Well that was entertaining," Scarlet snickered from across the gap. Sage only tightened his hold that he had on Fox's shoulder; he would not fall into that trap.