Weiss
It looked like Blake really did have time to catch her breath, since in classic Professor Port style, the professor managed to find a way to relate this to one of his tall tales. "Sir?" Weiss said, speaking up more to end the horrid story then to get the Hunt started. "So as I swung the Beowulf by its nostrils… Oh, yes Ms. Schnee?" Port replied. "Shouldn't we begin the Hunt soon? And maybe an explanation of it?..." Weiss inwardly winced hoping she didn't sound too rude. "Why of course! My apologies young Hunters and Huntresses I may have wasted some of your time! Giving you all a lecture outside of the lecture hall!" Port declared everyone there visibly relaxed and most gave Weiss a brief look of gratitude. Hmm that may have made me a bit more popular among the rest of the students. I wonder if Ruby was glad that I did that? Weiss pondered. Then shook her heads slightly as if to clear her head of the thought.
"Now students, this Hunt will be conducted solely by you and your partner you are not aloud to fight with any other students you find and especially not the rest of your team. So if you do come across one another simply start to travel away from one another. Now the object of this Grimm Hunt is to kill as many Grimm as you can on your way back to this spot. Your grade will be based on the number of Grimm you can kill within the five hours of this assignment, use the regular scoring system for the Grimm you kill, You should get a score of 300 for full marks. Although you will get a failing grade if you do not return here on time. Otherwise good luck on your assignment. Prepare for your launch."
This should be an easy assignment between Ruby and I, we shouldn't have any problem with killing enough for a good mark. Lets see Beowolves are 2 points, Boarbatusks are 5 points, Ursas are 15 points, a pair of King taijitu are 50 points, a Deathstalker is 80 points and a nevermore is 120 points. So knowing that, we should be done with hours to spare. Really all we need to worry about is Ruby getting us lost!
"You ready Weiss?" Ruby asked with a closed eyed grin towards her partner. Which happened to give Weiss a small hidden chill when she saw it. "Of course I am you dolt, why wouldn't I be?" Weiss huffed "Well, you seemed a bit out of it and we're next to be launched." Ruby stated then quickly readied herself. Next?... Oh. Weiss jumped into position barely getting ready in time before they were launched into the air much farther than when they had been on that first day of initiation when they had become partners.
Deciding that the lake up ahead was a good spot to stop, Weiss grabbed onto Ruby, signaling for one of the entry maneuvers they had practiced. Ruby briefly nodded and drew Crescent Rose firing in front of them she slowed down their horizontal momentum, trusting Weiss to finish. My turn. Weiss started castng Glyphs below them making a set of platforms they could jump down to the ground from. Doing exactly that they safely landed to the ground and stopped, listening for any signs of movement, there were none.
"You think that entry of ours would have drawn some attention." Weiss muttered. "Well let's just start walking back to Beacon and keep an eye out for any Grimm." Ruby replied. "Sure, lets go" Weiss begrudgingly agreed as she walked in front and took the lead.
Ruby
The pair had been walking for a few hours, with nothing but their thoughts. So I'm pretty sure I like Weiss… At least I think so since when she calls me a "dolt" or a "dunce" I don't feel like she really means anything by it, when she does compliment me, it feels like nothing anyone could say would be better and when she touches me, It feels like lightning runs under my skin. So yeah I'm pretty sure I like her. Does that mean I'm a Lesbian? I guess so, but there's no way Weiss would ever like me that way. Ruby mentally sighed at her predicament.
"Do you hear anything, yet? We only have another two hours before we need to be back and we haven't seen a single Grimm!" Weiss huffed, quite cutely Ruby would say. Chuckling lightly Ruby said "I'm sure we'll be fine, the Grimm are probably all being drawn to the louder of the Hunter pairs, which means we should just make some noise to draw them to us instead of trying to creep around and not be seen like we are right now." Weiss paused, frowning slightly, deep in thought. "That might be a good idea, but lets save that as a plan B, what do you say, wait for another half an hour then try that idea?" Weiss suggested. "Sure!" chirped Ruby I wonder if I should tell Weiss about my feelings? No, she will marry some tall handsome heir that she deserves and not some doltish little girl who would be nothing but trouble to her. If I told her it would just lose her friendship. Saddened by her train of thoughts, Ruby continued to trek on towards Beacon, failing to notice Weiss stopping due to her sullenness. "Ruby! Stop I hear something!" Weiss hissed. Startled Ruby stopped and listened. She heard what she thought to be the telltale sounds of Ember Celica and Gambel Shroud in the distance. "It's Blake and Yang! We should go the other way." Ruby said, quickly remembering the rules Professor Port had given them all. "We can't, they are between us and Beacon and if we take a detour we won't be able to kill enough Grimm and make it back in time." Weiss responded. "Well then we can just say hi, then go past them." Ruby concluded, confident that was the right decision.
Making there way over towards Blake and Yang, the pair came upon a clearing, which looked only partly natural, the perimeter being just the stumps blasted, burned and hacked down. As they came upon the clearing the sounds of gunshots withered and died. Getting a better view they saw the Bumblebee pair Sheathing their weapons and nursing some minor wounds. Bursting out of cover Ruby dashed up to them "Are you ok, you guys?" Ruby asked, concern creasing her face. Weiss harrumphed one more time and walked out into the clearing after her partner. "Yeah, we're fine Ruby." Yang stated a grin plastered on her face. "We just got a few small scrapes and bruises, no big deal, don't worry I will make sure Yang gets them cleaned properly once we get back." Blake said. "So are you two done with the assignment then?" Weiss asked as she walked up to the rest of the team. "Yup, how about you guys?" chirped a thoroughly satisfied sounding Yang, now that she had gotten her daily punching things quotient in for the day. "Not, exactly…" Ruby said grimacing slightly. "What Ruby means to say is that, we haven't been able to find any Grimm since we came out here." Weiss explained. "Well there should be some more Grimm on their way after all the commotion we caused." Blake said "I'm sure it would be fine if when we left you two stuck around and killed what came here." "Sure, sounds like we will finally get some action today!" Ruby squealed, pumping her fists in the air. "Oh, I didn't know that was what you two love birds had planned when we came out here." Yang said chuckling. Ruby's eyes widened, horribly suppressing a blush; Weiss glowered while doing her best to hide a blush as well and Blake just rolled her eyes and sighed, as she started to drag Yang away. "Just remember Weiss, you hurt her, and I hurt you." A now serious Yang yelled as she was dragged away.
"She wasn't being serious, was she?" Weiss shakily scoffed turning to Ruby. Oh Weiss, if only you knew, Yang is always serious underneath it all. "Yeah she can get pretty protective of me, so yeah if you ever did hurt me, which I refuse to believe you ever will, she would probably hurt you." Ruby awkwardly explained. "No, if she thought we are a couple like that? Why would she imply that we are?" Weiss asked nervously, still blushing. "Oh, um…" Ruby started just to be interrupted by sounds of roaring coming from the tree line nearby.
Weiss jumped into her combat position, followed closely by Ruby. Let's get this over with I want to know what she was talking about.
A moderately sized group of Ursas and Beowolves ran out of the forest howling and baying for their blood. Jumping into action the pair started to slash and stab at the creatures of Grimm ending the lives of the any that came within their reach. Stopping for a moment the White rose duo grinned not having to even use their semblances they were merely toying with the Grimm at this point. Cleaving the Grimm in two in the case of Ruby and piercing hearts and skulls in the case of Weiss they cleanly and quickly took out the last remaining Beowolves and Ursas, barely having broken a sweat.
As the last of the Grimm bodies disappeared Weiss counted their points. "We should have about 140 points now just a little more and we can get back." Grinning slightly Ruby pointed to the other side of the clearing "I found our last 160 points!" Ruby stated. On the other side of the clearing two adult Deathstalkers fully emerged out of the foliage, trampling more of the trees as they entered the clearing.
The Grimm skittered towards Ruby and Weiss who likewise ran towards the Deathstalkers. Crescent Rose flashing swung behind Ruby and firing behind her to gain momentum, she sped ahead of Weiss ready to deal a killing blow into the Deathstalker to the lefts carapace, only to glance off as the Deathstalker managed to parry her strike with a flick of its stinger and sent her careening into a rock behind it. Crap was all Ruby thought before she careened into the large rock.
Weiss
Weiss having seen this on her attack run and thoroughly concerned for Ruby's safety and well being, wanted to end this fight to make sure Ruby was ok. She decided to pick a more careful approach of disabling the Deathstalker on the right first, The Deathstalker swiped its claws in a horizontal arc towards Weiss. When she jumped over the claws, Weiss barely managed to put up a glyph in time to stop the careening stinger that came her way, pushing her back into a crouch ten feet in front of the Deathstalker. Gritting her teeth Weiss stood up and launched herself forward into the fight once again. Casting a Glyph towards the other Deathstalker sending snowflakes towards its many limbs trapping them, forcing the Deathstalker still as Weiss focused on the original Deathstalker. As she jumped towards the Grimm she thought That snow can only hold it for a minute, I will have to finish this before then.
Ruby
Ruby blinked her eyes open to see Weiss fighting a Deathstalker while the other was breaking free of some bonds Weiss had seemed to put on it. All at once the Grimm smashed through its remaining bonds, immediately bounding towards Ruby's partner. "WEISS!" Ruby screamed, determined to make sure nothing happened to Weiss, Ruby pushed her semblance to the very limit, near teleporting across the clearing to cleave the claws and tail off the Deathstalker as it was distracted and attacked at Weiss' back. Weiss, not aware of Ruby's presence behind her, thinking that Ruby was still out of action from the hit she had sustained, Simply sidestepped the Deathstalkers left claw letting it soar past her as she cut the muscle and tendon of the stinger approaching her and smoothly continuing her motion spun her wrist and stabbed the joint of the claw on her left stopping it in its tracks as she let out a small burst of ice dust.
Trusting Weiss with the other Deathstalker Ruby finished off hers with a swift spin of her left wrist bringing her scythe down upon the Deathstalkers skull, then quickly jerking it out cleaving the front of its skull in two. Ruby's attack brought her arm out perpendicular to her body and right in the way of the advancing left claw that Weiss had dodged. Smiling as she finished her execution she didn't even feel the pain at first just the elation of a hard fought battle won at last, and the odd sensation of losing the feeling in her left arm just above the elbow, accompanied by a sickening snap and the rasping of a blade cutting through meat.