Chapter 7: Savior
"Ruby!" Weiss screamed. The young girl had gotten beowolf guts all over the heiress' new skirt.
"It isn't my fault you wore your nice clothes into combat."
"You deliberately swung the blood at me!"
"I was just folding up my scythe!"
"Quiet."
"What you want to insult me some more?"
"No, I think I heard something." Both girls kept silence for about thirty seconds. They were on a combat mission to destroy a Grimm nest, it had been almost two days since they began their training mission, and the partners had been at each other's throats sun up to sun down. "I guess it was nothing after all." Just when Weiss finished talking, a large beowolf lunged from the bushes.
The monster was bigger than normal, it was almost as tall as Ruby, the dark attacker was clearly a full grown male. It flew through the air with incredible speed, neither of the girls had time to react, they were sure to shredded by the monstrosity's teeth and claws. Before the teammates were even fully aware of what was going on, another figure appeared from behind, charging the beowolf head on. Tackling the beast back to the ground, Rikov put two arrows in its chest.
"Are y'all alright?" The redheaded boy asked.
"Just fine, thanks to you." Ruby said with upmost affection.
"Good, because we could use a hand." The rest of Team VRGO appeared from the bushes, all backing into a defensive position.
"Wow, Team Vertigo!" Weiss caught herself acting like a fanatic. Shut it you idiot, how could you act so 'fangirly'? Weiss thought to herself.
"Head in the game Weissy." Ruby said, pulling Crescent Rose off her back. A large pack of beowolves surrounded them.
"Team, defense pattern four, keep a tight form." Velvet said, she, along with her team, obviously had plenty of combat experience. They moved in closer together, Rikov and Velvet standing a little more forward, facing the main threat. The others two protected the sides and rear from stragglers. Velvet drew her bow and shot the first at tater two merge from the brush, the next, she dispatched with the sharp blades on the ends of the bow. Rikov reached for his pickaxe, a thick, black, steel blade on a thin, long, aluminum hilt, and ran at three beowolves clustered together. He jumped up and landed right on top of one of them, then raised his weapon, and let it fall, smashing right into the creature's spine, then pulled back, tearing a large gash in its back, killing it.
"Gar! Cover those two!" Rikov yelled as he pulled his bow off his back and sent an arrow into both of the remaining beowolves, then he jumped off, using another Grimm corpse as a blast shield and pulled Velvet down with him.
Boom!
The arrows in the monster's backs exploded, reducing them, and the others around them to bloody pulps.
"Disgusting." Weiss exclaimed as a bit of blood landed on her shoes.
"Sorry, I guess we'll just let you save yourselves next time." Rikov said, walking off.
"No, no. It's quite alright."
"Yeah. We owe y'all one." Ruby said, stopping the older huntsman.
"You owe us a lot more than one, but we can talk that over later. We have company." An ursa call tore through the forest, the echoes alone were loud enough to hurt everyone's ears. "Let's go." Rikov walked in the direction from which the roar came.
"You're going to the monster?" Weiss stopped him.
"Isn't it our job to clear the area of monsters?"
"Well, yes, but-"
"No buts, we shall slay that beast!" Rikov said proudly as he placed one foot up on a beowolf corpse.
"Fine." With that, they were off to find the Ursa.