RWBY: The Chronicles of Beacon Academy - chapter 6, Power, wisdom and courage.
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Jaune's screams didn't stop whilst he was flying. He was feeling a slight hint of Déjà vu but was too pre occupied with flailing his arms and sounding a lot like a prepubescent girl to think twice about it. As he entered the forest from above his belt strap just so happened to snag on one of the branches of a rather tall tree, slowing him down and spinning him around. Until the belt got free and Jaune landed perfectly on his feet. After a few seconds of shock, he stood up straight and brushed himself off.
"I meant that..." He whispered to himself with a smile. Before heading off deeper into the woodland.
After a half hour of walking encountering absolutely nothing even slightly Grimm related Jaune sat down on a nearby log and rested.
"This isn't so bad" He said "I have a chance to be alone with my thoughts and a chance to train, or at least I would if my enemies would hurry the hell up." Right on cue, he heard a low, coarse, growl behind him. Slowly he stood up and turned around, finding himself face to face with his first beowolf.
"Okay, you heard me, you didn't have to come so soon but. Well.." He stood up straight and looked the beast directly in the eyes "I'm ready for you"
The Grimm lunged at Jaune with speed he didn't expect, causing him to be flung backwards into a tree.
"Ow!" He stood up, swaying slightly, stunned by the force of the beowolfs hit. The beast gave him no time to recover as it lunged again, Jaune only just managed to raise his shield to block it, then sliced directly through it's neck with Crocea mors, it's head slowly rolled off and the body slumped down, dead.
Jaune slowly laughed to himself before walking away with a smile on his face, filled with new-found confidence.
As the day progressed he fought many a Beowolf, even defeating an Ursa at one point, thankfully never having to fight any more than one at a time, however no amount of battling minor Grimm could ever prepare him for the next battle he faced. As he walked into a clearing in the woods he saw a large coiled object in the middle, laying down. Their were two visible heads, one white and one black, only sharing the same blood red coloured eyes, he racked his brains for the name of this creature. Wishing he had paid more attention in Mr Ports Grimm studies lessons. The two heads had seen him and were slowly rising. Jaune backed away slowly, trying not to make any sudden movements.
"Come on you idiot, you know this things name!" Suddenly it came to him, "King Taijitu!" he shouted, beaming to himself. However his smile soon faded.
"Oh crap, a King Taijitu.." He said again, with a lot less confidence. The giant two headed snake had now seen Jaune, and was slowly uncoiling, preparing for a fight. Jaune knew he had no chance of beating a Grimm such as this and so turned quickly and went to run away, not getting very far at all before he was face to face with an Ursa major. He heard a crash to his right and witnessed trees giving way to the power of a Deathstalker.
Finally he heard a shrill, ear splitting shriek above him and looked up to see a Nevermore circling above the clearing.
"This is not fun in any way!" Jaune shouted as he started sprinting to his left. The only direction with no Grimm present. As he was running he heard the familiar sound of trees being snapped underneath the sheer power of the deathstalker's claws. The ear splitting shrieks from the nevermore's beaks, and the deafening roars of ursa and ursa major alike. Jaune didn't know what to do except run. Run faster than he ever had in his life. Although, impressively, not screaming his head off. As he began running out of stamina he started panicking, it was clear the masses of Grimm behind him were encountering no such issue and soon he would have no choice but to stop running to prevent himself from blacking out. Franticly searching for somewhere to hide throughout the woods, still running, Jaune failed to notice the rather small hole situated in front of him. So he was rather confused when he suddenly started falling. His confusion was soon replaced with even more fear as he fell.
He landed square on his back with a 'thump' on top of a rather soft material. It was clear the Grimm were not following him down here. Jaune continued laying down, staring up at the rays of light filtering through the hole he fell in and breathed a sigh of relief. As normal, his peace didn't last long. His eyes widened as he heard a low growl, and the ground started shifting beneath him.
"Oh give me break." He muttered under his breath before slowly standing up and jumping off this soft material which he now realised looked suspiciously life like. As the creature started rising Jaunes stomach started flipping every which way, and he slowly trod backwards, making as little noise as possible. The creature was massive, it was jet black and had typical Grimm markings but was like nothing this leader had ever encountered. It stood on four legs, with extremely sharp looking blades sticking out of it's front two. Blades that seemed to be made of bone. Just like an Ursa major's spikes. It's tail stretched out behind it, looking impressive with the red marks all down it. Also looking like a very effective weapon. But by far the most intimidating part of this particular Grimm was it's face. It's ears stood straight up on it's head, similar to a cats, It had what seemed like small spikes running down the length of it's cheeks. It's eyes,they were bluer then Weiss's, It was as if they were made entirely of ice, completely clear and unbelievably chilling. Finally it's teeth. It had spiked teeth running through it's mouth until the edges. Where two massive Tusks jutted out, Like a sabre tooth tiger's. They looked as sharp as a well looked after Katana. When it was stood up in it's full glory, it let out an intense Roar, one like no other could ever hope to match. Before it looked Jaune directly in the eyes, bared it's teeth and prepared to fight the intruder to it's territory.
It was at this point Jaune finally let out a scream.