9: Chasing Shadows

Weiss pushed past another bramble, and stumbled forward. She cursed and kept moving forward. Now she hated Lavender more than ever. She had never felt this sort of anger even at Ruby. She had lost Myrtednaster, and the only thing she had was the strange knife.

Weiss kept imagining what sort of crafting could produce such a weapon. IT would be either very advanced, or very skilled.

It was at this point that she began to realize that she had been walking for a little too long, and she should have reached camp by now. Then it hit her; she was going the wrong way. She could feel it. There were a pair of eyes everywhere.

Who were they, the answer came right smack in a second. A dart like thing flew out of a bush and missed her. Weiss spun around and saw a Grimm, but it was a shadow from the distance she was looking. But she could faintly make out its shape. Almost like a Beowolf, but smaller.

Weiss ran, knowing a knife ain't good enough to beat such things. She ran, her legs getting cut and scratched. Cloth getting torn. Then she tripped, and the shadow was on top of her. When a tendril knocked it away. Weiss looked at the source of the tendril, and saw it.

A skeletal being, looking like it's skin was made of cloth. Tendrils of cloth coming out of it's head and hands. Lightning flashed, and she saw it had no eyes. Just empty sockets.

It was the Stitch. And it had come for her.
The tendrils wrapped themselves around Weiss, and she felt their grip tighten, and knew what was going to happen. She closed her eyes, and prayed.

And then black.

Meanwhile, Noah snapped a branch out of the way, and pushed forward. Ren, Blake, Yang, Victor were behind him. Victor looked to his left and his right, and stopped. Yang looked at him, and said, "I know the dark can be un-"

"We're being watched."

Noah looks at him, asking, "Really?" Victors motions with his hands to stay quiet, and Blake asks, "What is it?"
"SHHH!"

A dart flew out of the air and thumped right on a tree, missing Victor by inches. The shadow quickly ran off.

Ren examined the dart. It appeared to be made of bone and had a, what looked like, a knife like shape. Victor looked amazed and said, "It's a Kitsuninja!"
"A what?"
NEXT CHAPTER: Some unknown Grimm, now known..

Oh, and thanks to LongSean22 from DeviantArt for the Kitsuninja idea.