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Also, some may think that this chapter perhaps skirts the edge of the 'T' rating, fair warning. It does not however, in any way deserve an 'M' definitely not.
Yang stepped carefully across a branch on the ground and spun slowly on her heel, letting her field of vision drift across the forest floor, scanning for any sign of movement. She raised one arm to her side, lightly pushing the edge of a bush out of her way with Ember Celica so it didn't interfere with her vision. She put her back to the bush and let her vision drift sideways to ensure that Nora still had the lead. The redhead was indeed still at the point of their two woman party, Magnhild collapsed into it's ranged combat form and held defensively in front of her. The girl may be an over-excitable, powerhouse of energy but when it came to hunting Grimm she was as confident and capable as the rest of her friends.
Yang heard a snapping sound off in the distance and swung her attention towards it, dropping low and scanning for any indication of what had caused it. Nora dropped by her side, shouldered her dust powered grenade launcher and covered Yang's back.
"I've got movement about a hundred yards out, non-Grimm." Yang whispered in a hoarse voice back to Nora.
"We're clear on this side." Nora chimed and Yang stood, confident that they weren't in any danger yet. She swung a hand down and patted Nora on the shoulder, letting her know she could stand as well. Nora eased out of her crouch and began moving forward again, slowly making her way across the dense forest floor.
They were out here hunting an unknown number and type of Grimm, if they believed it was something they couldn't handle they were supposed to head back and return with a larger team. But, what could possibly be out here that Yang and Nora couldn't handle together. They continued forward through the undergrowth, wary of every noise and on the lookout for anything that might indicate the presence of Grimm. Yang was sure it was just a bunch or Ursa or a nest of Creeps that had popped up and would be no problem to exterminate. She hoped however that it was at least a Death Stalker or two so they at least got some fun out of the journey. They emerged from the forest and came to a cliff edge and Nora stopped walking, scanning out over the edge to see what lay in the valley below. Yang kept her back to the cliff and her eyes on the treeline behind them.
"Alright, looks like the cave entrance is just down there on the other side." Yang spared a quick glance over her shoulder to follow Nora's hand down to the valley floor where there was indeed a rather large cave opening and then snapped her attention back to the tree line.
"Well ladies first." Yang smiled, knowing Nora loved that line and then braced herself, bending her knees slightly. There was a resounding bang that echoed off the canyon walls and sent dozens of birds flapping away from the trees. A small pink cloud of dust enveloped Yang for a moment before dissipating and she knew Nora was hurtling across the gap, riding Magnhild like a demented scooter. Well, they had been going for the subtle approach for once but it looked like Nora had gotten bored with that. Yang shook her head and let a sloppy grin spread across her lips. She reached down to her waist and grabbed the sunglasses she kept there for just such occasions. Once they were firmly on her face she jumped and fired both arms of Ember Celica directly at the ground, launching herself backwards and towards her flying girlfriend.
A few more blasts from her gauntlets and a neat flip carried Yang to the redhead's side. She fired both arms straight down again as she landed to dampen the impact and reserve her aura for the certain fight ahead. A quick scan of the clearing showed that they were rather alone, although honestly, between the combined sounds of Yang and Nora's weapons going off it wasn't a surprise. Yang felt a warm pair of lips against her cheek.
"You ready?" Nora asked and Yang turned to meet her eyes.
"As long as I'm with you." She gave the smaller girl a quick kiss on the lips and turned to face the cave opening, "So what do you wanna-" The booming thuds of Magnhild's launcher mode cut Yang off as Nora repeatedly fired into the cave. Yang watched as the pink shells carried deep into the entrance, taking the chance to remove her sunglasses, and saw the grenades fly over an invisible cliff inside. Nora kept firing until they heard the first round find purchase in the darkness. The resulting cacophony of explosions shook the ground around them, that cave network must extend fairly extensively through the mountains. Clouds of pink dust rose up in the cave in front of them, illuminated by the fiery explosions they came from.
"I think that should get their attention." Nora cackled and rolled Magnhild over her wrist, sliding the long handle out and letting the mighty hammer's head fall against the floor.
"That's one way," Yang flicked both wrists outward, discarding the shells she had used to cross the gap and fitted a few more shells in place, preparing for an extended conflict. As the deafening sound of the explosions and clouds of pink explosive faded away Yang could see a huge number of red eyes slowly growing larger in the darkness of the cave, "Oh boy, that's either a bunch of little guys or a couple real big ones."
"Oh I hope it's big ones. I really really hope it's big ones." Nora brought the hammer up into both hands and crouched in anticipation. The sound of scuttling feet began to echo out of the hole in the side of the mountain and Nora squealed, "Yes yes YES. It is big ones!" Several injured Death Stalkers emerged into the midday sun, scuttling along with broken limbs and one even missing it's stinger completely. Nora charged forward, hammer held high and battle cry sounding loud in the forest whose peace she had ruined.
"Hey leave some for me," Yang went charging after her but she knew Nora was faster and she had gotten a headstart. The redhead reached the giant scorpion like Grimm first and planted the face of her hammer directly against the frontmost Death Stalker's face. The running start combined with Nora's strength and the explosion weakened armor meant that it went down with a single blow. Nora whooped in victory as the mighty beast collapsed and disintegrated to dust around her. Yang leapt over her head and let loose a volley of shells at the next opponent. The small rounds bounced harmlessly off its thick faceplate but caused it to stutter and shut its eyes to avoid being blinded. Yang landed on it's massive back with a thud and ran directly at the base of the monstrosity's tail. As she sprinted along its spine she fired her gauntlets repeatedly at the curved mass holding it's stinger aloft in the air, each blow took another chunk of the thinner flexible armor off until Yang could see the exposed flesh beneath. She leapt forward, firing both her arms downwards to propel herself and keep the beast stunned, wrapped her arms around the tail and pulled hard until she heard a tearing noise. The tail came off in a solid piece, separating where she had been shooting. The beast screamed in agony as it collapsed and faded slowly away. Yang swung the tail around as she fell through the air where the Death Stalker had been and brought the stinger down on the head of the next Grimm approaching her which just happened to be the one without a stinger. "Here I think you're missing this," The stinger sank through the armor, razor sharp blade piercing through the thick bone and both it and the third Death Stalker faded away.
Yang spun around to see Nora running along the side of the final enemy, breaking its legs with Magnhild. She smashed through the final leg on that side and the beast tilted to one side, falling heavily on it's now useless appendages. Yang laughed as she watched the beast spin in a stationary circle, trying desperately to keep the cackling redhead in its field of vision. Nora made her way quickly behind the injured creature and swung her hammer up under it's backside with such force that the beast flipped over and landed on its back, tail, pincers and remaining legs thrashing about, trying to find purchase on the empty air. Nora continued the swing over her head and behind her and fired a round of dust into the ground which propelled her up into air, then brought all that force down on the Grimm's soft, exposed underbelly. There was a crack as it struck straight through their foe and made contact with the inside of it's back armor on the other side. Black ooze poured out of the gaping hole and then it too faded away into nothing.
"Dust that was a fun one." Nora lifted her mighty hammer above her head in both hands and cheered. Yang flicked her gauntlets away, sprinted over to her girlfriend and put a big kiss right on her lips. Nora laughed at first but Yang kept pressing, walking her backwards until she had her pressed against a tree. When Nora's back hit the tree she made a pleased grunting noise and dropped her hammer to her side, subconsciously folding it back into a grenade launcher and clipping it on her hip. She threw her arms around Yang's waist and pulled the blonde onto her. Yang lifted a leg against Nora's side and pressed her pelvis against the girl's torso. She put her opposite hand against the tree to pin Nora between it and her and tangled her other set of fingers in that lovely mop of red hair. Yang pulled away and could hear Nora gasp for air.
"That was the sexiest thing I've ever seen you do." Yang slid her hand out of Nora's hair and down to the base of her skull, pulling her into another deep kiss without giving her a chance to respond. She felt Nora let one hand slide up her back and the other down over her waist to grab her butt. Yang moaned and leaned into the grope, flexing her thigh just enough so that Nora could feel her firm muscles. She pulled away again, letting a small string of saliva hang in the small gap between their lips. Yang could feel her chest heaving, not from the battle but from the excitement she was feeling now. Her cheeks were hot and red and her legs ached like she couldn't believe.
"Wow Yang," Nora panted for breath, "That was just incredible," Nora leaned in to continue making out with the big blonde but both of their bodies tensed hard as another presence entered the clearing. Yang yanked herself away from Nora and spun around to face the new threat, throwing her arms forward and re-equipping her Ember Celica. A massive King Taijitu slithered out of the cave, dragging rocks and foliage along with its enormous body. Yang bellowed at the beast, allowing her Aura to rush to her extremities and flood her vision with red anger.
"No." she screamed at the top of her lungs, "You do not get to interrupt us." she took a single step forward, searing the grass around her with the intense heat her body was radiating. The massive serpent coiled into a pool and hissed at her, the long noise seeming to hang in the air. Yang let out a scream and charged forward, propelled through the gap by her intense energy. The snake lunged down at her, attempting to swallow her whole but Yang tucked and rolled under the massive fangs and they sank into the ground, lodging the King Taijitu into the forest floor and anchoring it's head down. Yang smirked as she came out of the roll and planted a heavy punch directly against its lower jaw. The sound of cracking bone accompanied the explosive bang of Ember Celica's firing and the black snake's head was no longer attached to it's body. Yang spun around just in time to physically catch the fang's of the white snake as it tried to impale her with its venomous teeth. She yelled in fury as she pulled outwards on the fangs until they snapped off. The gleaming white serpent recoiled back in pain, thrashing its head about to no avail. Yang hefted one fang like a spear and launched it towards the beast's head with her powerful arm. Her timing was true and the tooth sank deep into its eye, making contact with the thrashing beast. Yang hefted the other in her off hand and fired it as well. The beast had stopped thrashing due to the impact of the first tooth and it was all the time Yang needed to ensure that the second one found purchase as well. It sank deep into the snake's skull and the beast nearly exploded in a cloud of black powder, quickly drifting away on the scattered breeze. Yang took a deep breath and slowly exhaled as she let her eyes fade back to their brilliant purple.
She felt a hard tackle against her back and went sprawling into the ground. Yang quickly spun around under the new assault, ready for whatever faced her, only to find a brilliant pair of pale blue eyes beaming down at her.
"Oh no, you win. That was the sexiest thing ever." Nora collapsed onto Yang, letting her lips fall hard against her big blonde girlfriend's. Yang threw her arms around the petite girl, letting herself fall backwards hard against the ground and held her tight. She kept one hand against the square of her back, balancing the redhead on top of her and let the other slide up to her head, cupping her ear and applying pressure from behind with her wrist. Yang felt Nora's lip part and slid her tongue hungrily inside the smaller girl's mouth. Nora moaned against Yang, relishing in the feel of her tongue darting around inside her.
Yang rolled her over, putting Nora on the bottom and pulled up and away. A wall of blonde hair fell around their heads, curtaining them off from the outside world and casting their faces in a gentle yellow light. Yang smiled greedily down at Nora and was happier than she could put into words to see Nora blushing and smiling back up, breaths coming as ragged as her own.
"I think, maybe we shouldn't do this in the forest." Nora said quietly after a moment of hungry staring, almost afraid to stop what was happening. Yang breathed deeply and exhaled slowly, trying to calm herself without seeming disappointed, even though she was.
"You're right. You're totally right." Yang opened her eyes and found Nora's again, pleading her not to be upset, "That doesn't mean we can't roll around and make out some more though right?"
"Oh definitely not," Nora lunged up and tangled her fingers behind Yang's neck, pulling her face back down to hers and resuming their previous kiss. Though this time with a lot less passion and even less groping.
A/N - Keep it short and sexy and leave them wanting more right? Right. So, Nora isn't trying to tease Yang she just didn't want them to get caught up in the moment and do something in the middle of the woods that probably shouldn't happen there. They're both right on that edge of doing more with each other, just you wait. But do remember this is rated 'T' so there won't be much explicitly explained. Whether you prefer that or not, that's just the way it's gonna be for this one.
I hope you enjoyed the combat scenes as well. I really really enjoy writing out combat and I like to think it comes out believable (for RWBY combat obviously) and easy to follow. "Friends and Loved Ones" has some much longer fight scenes, Hunter v Hunter/humanoids as well as Hunters and Grimm so please let me know what you thought of this fight scene so it can influence my other work.
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There's part one of the weekend double feature, I hope you enjoyed it and please stay tuned for tomorrow's post. Thanks so much for reading.
-Zach