The line of students drew out away from me on either side and the cliff ahead beckoned. "The first person you make eye contact with after you land will be your partner for the next 4 years. After you've partnered up make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will collect a relic from the temple and bring it to the top of this cliff. Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked and a boy piped up "Uh Yeah Sir." But he just ignored him. "Good now take your positions."
Around me everyone took battle stances readying weapons and I pulled out my katana, crouching down. One by one the people to my left were throw into the air and off the cliff. Next to me Horati muttered something with his palm held up to the sun, a red light on his gauntlet lit up and he balled up his fist as the platform underneath his popped up, flinging him away. As I heard the mechanism underneath me clicked into place I braced and pushed against the platform as it rose, giving me more momentum.
"Mýga!" I shouted and a blue mist surrounded me, holding me in the air and gently lowering me down. I was dazzled by a bright orange light which I had dropped into and when my own blue mist pulled me out the other side I looked back to see Horati balanced on a small platform made of sunlight. "Hey partner!" I shouted up to him and he nodded before quickly pointing forward looking quite scared. "River watch out!" I turned around too slow and bounced off a tree before hitting the floor and rolling back up to my feet on the mossy forest floor.
I pulled up my socks and brushed my tights off from leaves and looked up trying to find Horati. He gently landed next to me "Sorry I couldn't catch you. Usually I'd make a pun, but right now I'm stumped!" He laughed heartily and although it was funny I glared at him and stomped off towards the Northern side of the forest, using the morning sun to guide me in the right direction, Horati silently walking next to me, still smirking. I punched his arm and he laughed, leaping forward and pushing some leaves out of his way.
Twang! The branch smacked me in the face and I then ran into his back as he suddenly stopped. "Owwww! That hurt!" I moaned holding my eye but he didn't say anything in return only whispering for me to shut up. "Excuse me!" I exclaimed and pushed forward stopping suddenly when I saw the 2 Beowolfs in front of us, regarding us gently. I was face to face with one's red eyes and skull face. Unlike Horati's these red eyes did not invite friendship, rather fear and hatred. The creature had a thick coat of black fur, stark white claws and bones protruding from each forearm. I drew Rigormortis, my katana, as Horati brought out his sword, arming it, his finger resting on the trigger. "Left." He said and I nodded, jumping off to the right one and slicing on the back of its leg.
A bang rang out as a burst of light exploded on the others back from Horati's gun. I spun around and took out the other leg, my Beowolf falling into a kneel. I saw a weak spot in between its shoulder blade and I considered throwing a kunai at it just as Horati sped past in a flash of light, running almost vertically up his Beowolf's back as it shook trying to shake him off. Once he had made it to the beasts neck he pressed his gauntlet covered hand onto the gap in between its shoulder blades and a muffled scream was emitted from the Grimm's mouth as the bolt of energy rushed through its body and out the other side leaving a huge, smoking hole and a dead Beowolf.
I held my Kunai in my hand and threw it directly where I could see a weak spot. "Thýella" I screamed with as much force as I could muster and the blade was engulfed in green light as it entered the Grimm's back. The green light flowed outwards covering most of its back and faded away as the Beowolf fell forwards onto the grass.
Horati was stood next to the corpse of the Beowolf he had slain and I walked over to him. "Come on lets go get that relic shall we, we make a good team." He nodded and wiped some dirt off my face from where the branch had hit me earlier on. "I'm really sorry about that River." I hugged him before picking my way over the corpses, pulling my kunai out of ones back "Don't be, it was funny." I called back, walking back into the tree cover, sheathing my katana and kunai. I wanted to get to the temple as quickly as possible, without anymore fights if possible.
To the East a plume of smoke had begun to rise and we began running side by side, hoping not to get caught in the fire that was slowly spreading across the forest. One of our friends must have really gone wrong to have caused that and we didn't want to see what had caused it. A hill rose up in front of us and I stopped at the top, scanning the landscape before Horati pointed at a small stone ruin at the bottom. "That must be it, lets go!" He shouted and ran faster than I could down the slope and into the circular ruins.
As I reached the ruins too I picked up a black pawn and inspected it wondering what it would do. "Chess pieces huh? There's one missing over here already, which should we take?" He asked and I turned around guiltily, twisting a piece of hair around my finger and holding my hand out. Horati sighed but grinned at my guilty face. "Back to the cliff I guess?" I smiled back tucking the chess piece into my utility belt.
Before he could answer a black shadow appeared next to us and the girl from the bathroom, Noir, stepped out of them gracefully. The shadows started to dissipate but were completely removed from the area as a sharp wind hit us, causing me to fall over and Horati to stumble back a step. The boy from last night, Silver Cloud, rolled out of a small cloud that the wind had brought and tried to stand up before giving up and sitting opposite me dazed. "I have never used that much power before." He muttered before noticing me sat near him. "Was that my fault? So sorry." I waved him down and Horati gave me a hand up.
Noir walked towards us from the other side of the ruins holding a black pawn identical to ours. "I do not think we have met before." She said to Horati and he nodded introducing himself. "I'm Horati Diamond and this is my friend, and partner, River Zo." She laughed and nodded. "We have met." He looked quizzically at me but didn't say anything as Noir helped Silver up and began walking away, holding their chess piece in her hand.
"Hey wait up!" I shouted and jogged up to them, Horati falling in step next to us as we walked back towards the cliff. The fire still raged to the side of us and it had started to spread closer to the temple and we saw a nevermore glide past us. I started running but Noir instead disappeared into shadows, holding Silver in her arm who then disappeared with her. "Come on!" I shouted angrily wishing my powers worked that way but once we burst out into a small piece of uncovered forest Horati wrapped his arm around me and lifted us up on a platform of light, quickly gliding towards the now visible cliff where Noir and Silver stood waiting.
"There you go." We landed gently and I looked up to the cliff top which was bathed in sunlight. "Could you get us up there Noir, Horati?" Noir shook her head. "I can only travel from shadows to shadows and that is covered in sunlight." I looked over to Horati who just raised a finger up, leaning down on his bent knees and breathing heavily. "Not used to carrying people." He breathed out heavily. "Give me a minute." I sighed nodding, wishing I could think of a word that would aid us but none came to my overcrowded mind.
"Do you hear that?" Silver asked and I shut off the voices in my head listening intently. "No I can't hear anything." There were no birds, no wind, nothing, only Horati's breathing. "Exactly." Noir replied just as 5 Ursas exploded from the tree line and faced us.
Hope you enjoyed the fight! Prepare for another! Here's the translations; Mýga- Fly (only controls a fall cannot be used to fly from the ground). Thýella- Tempest (Name of the Kunai gives it power) -tschüß