The five Ursas stood, bent down, preparing to attack, Horati sighed loudly to my left side "The situation was Grimm enough without you lot here!" He shouted, I let out a repressed laugh and the Ursas looked confused by the statement "I've had enough of this!" Horati shouted whilst drawing his sword from his belt. "Let's go." He pointed his sword towards Silver "Silver, keep them two occupied, preventing their number advantage," Silver nodded "No problem." He summoning a large gale towards the two Ursas on his side who had to bury their claws into the ground to avoid being blown away by the gale. Now with his sword pointed at Noir he took on a very leader-like stance, the sunlight framing his face and throwing shaows over it. "Noir, use your semblance, get behind these guys and help Silver get rid of them" She stepped back into the shows of some trees and disappeared, reappearing behind the 2 Ursas, her presence was obvious due to the sudden screams. "and River…" I snapped back, looking in his direction. "Yep?" "We have the fun job"
Before I could respond Horati bolted towards the two Ursas nearest to him. I ran toward the one near me, drawing my katana, it swung its huge paw at me, I ran under the Ursas attack and sliced through the side of its abdomen causing it to keel over in pain. As the Ursa was temporarily incapacitated I ran around it's back and ran up its hide, "Laví." My boots gripped to the Ursa's back and I pushed my katana straight into the Ursa's head pulling it down to the ground in tandem with myself, using gravity to fully skewer it like a Kebab. I looked over at Horati as he jumped over the two Ursas' simultaneous claw swipes, whilst in the air he punched the second Ursa with a swift jab into its temple, the gauntlet on his hand glowing as he connected and a large chunk of its face came off. The Ursa stumbled backwards and fell to the ground. Horati now only had to look after the last Ursa which swung at him with its left arm and in the blink of an eye Horati severed the left arm of the Ursa. I ran over to help as the Ursa retaliated with a right claw swipe and Horati once again severed the arm so quickly all I saw was a golden blur of light, he plunged his sword into the Ursa's chest with the blade pointed skyward and then pulled his sword up through the Ursa, nearly slicing it in two, its body barely keeping together as the Ursa's dying corpse fell to the ground. One of the Ursas had recovered from where Noir and Silver had been fighting began charging on all fours towards Horati "Horati!" I screamed, knowing that I couldn't get there in time. He turned his head and simply stared at the incoming Ursa which dived towards him, then suddenly, as if out of nowhere, Noir appeared and slashed across the Ursas face knocking it to the ground Just as he flew towards me due to my semblance. "Travó!"
I breathed a sigh of relief feeling as if the fight was over before Horati slammed into the ground next to me, the Ursa lay close by, briefly forgetting about the final Ursa being pinned down by Silvers wind, we looked around and Horati clambered up nodded at Silver who responded by stopping the wind allowing it to regain its stance he then blew a powerful gale from behind it, lifting it from the ground and towards himself. With perfect timing Silver smacked the Ursa with the blunt end of his staff into the air, he then spun his staff around himself to position his staff and himself to stab the Ursa in the stomach, mustering all the strength he could Silver then lifted the stabbed Ursa up again and slammed it into the ground. Me, Noir and Silver then converged on the injured Ursa, but I then noticed Horati flying through the air toward us, once above the Ursa he pointed the end of his sword towards it, the tip of his sword then seemingly disappeared and the barrel of a musket was revealed to be within, with a loud bang he fired his musket causing the Ursa to fade away.
"Well, that was intense" Silver said, Horati landed a slight distance away from us he held himself off the ground for a while, probably showing off a little, just before landing onto his backside. "Dammit, I never stick the landings…" He mumbled trying to heal the injury to his pride. I giggled quietly at his mistake, once he stood up brushing his coat we all walked towards him. "Whilst that was an impressive feat we still have a problem" Noir explained softly "a problem?" I inquired. "We still don't have any way of getting up to the cliff, unless you fancy a climb?" Silver described with a sense of annoyance in his words. We stood for a moment wondering what to do until Horati suddenly spouted "don't worry guys because I…" as he was speaking he held his gauntlet in the air and as he finished the red light illuminated on his gauntlet "… May have just found the solution" he knelt down and held a clenched fist just above the ground, he then expanded his hand and a large platform of light emerged underneath us all. "All aboard!" he shouted "We already are…" I said sarcastically, he smirked as the platform began to shake before lifting from the ground and moving quickly towards the cliff top.
We soared through the air towards the cliff, I was worried at first as I wasn't sure if Horati could carry us all after his previous struggle which just me but the sunlit platform was working very well indeed "wow, this is really cool Horati!" Silver gleefully expressed. "Actually Silver, it's sunlight so it's actually really hot" Horati explained sarcastically, Silver laughed and held his hand up asking for a hi-five, Horati smiled and hi-fived Silver, they seemed to bond pretty quickly.
We reached the top of the cliff and it appeared as if all of the students had found their pair and friend groups, "Thank you for flying air Diamond, hope you have a safe journey onwards" Horati declared laughing at his own joke, we disembarked from the sunlit platform wondering what to do next "it seems most of the students are already here, I hope we don't lose marks for being late" Silver said worryingly. "This wasn't a race, position should not matter" Noir calmly uttered. I scanned the crowd to determine just how many student pairs there were until I noticed some familiar looking figures, it was the two black haired girls and the blonde girl I saw the other night they were stood with some other students I didn't recognise although I was sure I had seen the tall, armoured, red haired girl before.
I loudly spoke "Look Horati!" he turned to face me "hm?" "It's your girlfriend!" I laughed, pointing towards the blonde haired girl he complimented the previous day, he looked over and his face immediately lit up red like a match "Stop that will you!" he whispered furiously through gritted teeth staring intently at me but I couldn't help myself but laugh loudly. "Wow, are you serious? Nice job Hor…" Silver began to say but before he could finish "SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" Horati shouted infuriated, I was laughing so hard I didn't notice that the blonde girl in question had walked up to us looking confused and annoyed at the same time "Are you talking about me? You were pointing." She questioned standing arms crossed, Horati spun around noticing her in front of him he suddenly stood bolt upright and his eyes widened "Er… nope! Definitely wasn't talking about someone as pret… I mean yellow as you, um." He scratched his head awkwardly, she stood for a moment and I was trying to contain my laughter but I couldn't help myself and I began to say "I said you were his g…" Horati slung his hand over my mouth before I could finish "Just ignore her" He said smiling strangely at the blonde girl who sighed and then placed her hands on her hips "Okaayyy just don't do it again ok?" She asked "No problem ma'am, erm… I'm Horati Diamond and you are?" Horati asked holding out his hand as if to request a hand shake he was trembling and I felt bad for putting him in this position but I had never seen Horati so vulnerable before "Oh, im…" The young black haired girl shouted from afar "Yang! Come on were heading back to beacon!" "That's my cue, and my name, nice to meet you I guess," she ran back to her friends and multiple airships appeared at the nearby cliff edge "River?" Horati asked, "Yeah?" I replied after peeling his hand off my mouth. "Never do that again." I laughed once more expelling the rest of my amusement and tenseness from the fight. "Let's go the ships won't wait forever." Noir quickly announced and so we ran towards the nearest airship ready to head back to beacon.
Thanks to my Co-Writer and inspiration for Horati! I couldn't have got this out without you. FIGHT SCENE! Everyone loves em! Here's your translations Laví- Grip, Travó- Pull - Tschüss
