An Alpha Geist is unlike any creature of darkness. It is rawr, terrifying, and horrific. It is no doubt deadly in any form it is in. With its mask thickness doubled, the weak point on its body isn't so weak anymore. Even so, the mask was cracked and glowing red in each marking. The singular eye itself even had a glowing trail of red and yellow trailing behind.
It's ghostly bone like arms are gnarled and mangled, the right one nearly two feet longer than the left. The hands are huge, just as large as its head if not bigger. And the deadly white claws on the tips of its fingers are at least ten centimeters in length.
On its shoulders which were torn apart like clothing with holes, there were endless spikes ranging from small to large sticking out, trailing down its arms before disappearing at the elbows.
Down the Alpha Geist spine is a row of spikes as well. The tips glimmering in the lights from how incredibly sharp they are. Even without possessing, if the spikes on its back hit a tree, it would become one with the deadly beast.
Long skinny spikes came out from both sides of the creature, poking out and twisting around its gnarled body like ribs which protected its ghostly form from any kind of harm.
Its lower half dissipates into nothingness, no legs or anything as a black mist over takes the Alpha Geist. The same black mist which follows behind the creature with each movement of its limbs. The only thing that makes it even more terrifying is the bloody curdling screeching cry it gives off before attacking. And with years of experience, this monster is a professional at fighting.
Giving off a battle cry, Kris hurled herself through the air like a bullet. With her bladed candy cane weapons out, she spun around like a tornado in an attempt to strike the Alpha Geist before it had time to possess anything. Though her attack was for naught. The creature of darkness spun around itself, its right arm twirling like a rock on a rope.
It backhanded the young redhead, sending her through several branches and leaves into the ground. She grunted, shaking her head as she pushed herself up to her feet. "Damn..." She muttered, reaching down and picking up her red fedora as she placed it back on her head.
"I can't hit its eye!" Elise shouted, running while shooting up at the ghostly Grimm. She reloaded her air compressed rifle, taking aim once again at the glowing demonic eye. She fired, only to hiss as the black beast backhanded the dart away with its left hand.
She cursed at herself silently, holding her weapon by the back and the barrel as she slid underneath a fallen over tree which had fell over a ditch. Above, Thanaton jumped on top of the piece of wood, a wicked look in her purple eyes as her dark hair flew all around.
"Is that all you can do?!" She shouted up to the monster who had ruthlessly raised her while juggling several small stones. She pushed herself off the tree, jumping up and pushing off another that was upright.
As the dark haired young woman flew through the air, the Alpha Geist above turned in her direction. It screeched deeply, its single eye seeming to glare. It tossed out its arms, screeching louder as it tossed its head back.
"Just like old times, I say!" Thanaton snapped, chucking the several stones that she was holding at the creature of darkness. Each began to slowly flash a dark shade of purple before it began to speed up.
As she landed on her hands and knees, the Grimm above lashed out at the stones, only managing to shove a few aside before they exploded. As the did, it hissed, floating backwards as smoke wrapped around it.
It then roared, flying forward as a bright blue flash struck its back, causing ice to form over its fearsome spinal spikes.
"Bullseye." Cheyenne smiled to herself, changing the setting on her Atlas' rifle from ice Dust and back to normal. She was sitting in the treetops, her back resting against the trunk as she held her weapon steadily. Her eyes soon widened at the ghostly monster heading towards her.
"Shoot!" She shot to her feet, running across the branch before jumping down onto another on. She softly grunted, stumbling a bit as a demonic feel came from the tree and began to uproot.
"Oh man!" She swung her weapon over her back, jumping from branch to branch as she tried to get lower to the ground. Though, with the tree being pulled upward, there was little to no progress.
Suddenly, the deer Faunus found herself on her feet on the ground. She panted softly, looking over to see Nihilus whose eyes faded from their golden tint to a dark blue.
"You should be more careful." He muttered, though not a hint of worry or concern was in his voice and a blank stare was on his face. He glanced up, twirling his ice katana around while looking at the uprooted tree trunk which was now frozen into the ground.
Screeching, the Alpha Geist jerked its body around, its right limb possessing the tree below. It thrashed as much as it could, the ice simply cracking rather than shattering like glass. It cried out louder, its eye glowing in hatred and anger.
"If there is one thing I've learned from reading up on you," Kagami shouted from behind the beast, her sword high and raised above her head. As she fell through the air, she brought her sword down across the tree trunk. "It's not to let you possess anything!"
As the wood splintered and fell in half, the jade haired girl landed on her feet, tucking and rolling ahead as the tree collapsed onto the ground too close for comfort. She quickly stood back up, twirling her blade into a reverse grip.
Above, the Grimm cried out in a battle tone, its head leaning back as its limbs flailed. Without so much as a second to spare, it suddenly shot straight into the ground, its body going through and disappearing.
"What the?" Kris blinked rapidly, glancing around with wide eyes. "Hold on. Where did it go?" She looked over at her leader. "Is... that it?"
Blinking slowly, Kagami gritted her teeth while narrowing her eyes. "No..."
"This is just the beginning." Val muttered to herself, gulping some as she and Elise stepped out of the ditch underneath the fallen tree. "It is about to get a lot harder. So much harder..." She gulped, pulling the bow across her back to her front. She stared at it, clutching it tight.
Elise glanced up at the pink haired woman. She... really wasn't the same person who had beaten Kagami and herself. Those light blue eyes were filled with fear and pain. They were not the ruthless and sadistic gold she remembered. She WAS a completely different person.
"Hey," The brunet gulped some, raising a hand and gently putting it on the woman's shoulder. "It'll be alright. You shouldn't worry. I'm sure Kagami already has a plan. We'll win for sure. Right, Kagami?" She smiled shakily over at the jadette.
"Um..." The leader of team MACE gulped. "I uh, if I say yes, will that make you feel better?" She flashed a soft smile before chuckling.
"Oh hell... we're all going to die. Wonderful." Thanaton rolled her eyes, taking a deep breath with a heavy sigh. "Just wonderful."
"You do have a plan, don't you?" Nihilus glanced over at Kagami with an eyebrow raised ever so slightly.
"Besides fight and stay alive," The jade haired girl shook her head. "Nope."
He blinked slowly, taking a deep breath. "Well, if that is all we got." He twirled his katana, the ice blade disappearing as he placed a red Dust crystal in the handle. A second later, a red hot blade shot out. "Let's do that." He glanced back at Val before looking over at the jadette next to him with a smirk.
Kagami eyed him, smiling a bit back. What are you looking at?"
"Huh?" He blinked, quickly looking away and at the ground where the Alpha Geist had disappeared. "Nothing."
Kris blinked slowly, leaning over onto Cheyenne a bit. "Can I ship them too?" She smiled innocently.
The deer Faunus sighed, shaking her head as she reached up and grabbed the bridge of her nose. "Christmas, you can't just-" She was cut off, the ground trembling underneath their feet.
As the ground shook, it began to crack and fall apart until finally the ground where the Grimm had disappeared began to swell up. It it grew to enormous proportions, well over thirty meters high, before it burst. Rocks, dirt, and pieces of wood flew outward, a huge shockwave pushing the group back several feet.
"Holy mother of Oum..." Kagami's eyes widened as she looked up at the wicked and demonic creature before her. "That's... oh hell." She groaned, her shoulders dropping.
"Oh, yeah, we are definitely screwed." Kris muttered quietly to herself.
Standing up from the large mound, an Alpha Nadur Gigas rose to its feet, twice as high as the mound it was hiding in. This one though, this one was unlike any other. It was made of dirt and rocks, with roots from the trees. Even bedrock was twisted within this Alpha creature. That still was not it though. Rather than having two arms, this possession had six, each with roots, vines, and branches for fingers. And unlike other Gigas forms, this monstrosity had four legs with heavy stones for feet.
"Yeah... we're all going to die." Thanaton blinked rapidly, her arms hanging low. "We're all dead."
"Can't you be positive for five minutes?!" Elise snapped, glaring over at her with arms flailing.
"You got a problem with my dark nature?!" The purpled haired young woman glared over, her hand up and twitching as a dark aura sprang up around her body.
"I have a problem with your attitude! You're worse than Kris!" The brunet snapped.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Said redhead snapped back, glaring over at the young farm girl.
"You're always so dark and depressing! That's what I mean!" She shot back with a glare.
"We are honestly about to go into a death match... and you are arguing?" Val slowly raised and eyebrow in utter confusion.
"Yeah... this happens a lot." Cheyenne muttered with a sigh.
Kagami took a deep breath, looking up at the beast before gulping as she eyed those around her. She stopped on Nihilus, who for once, had emotions scattering throughout his eyes and face. Fearful emotions. "You... alright?" She quietly asked as the Nadur Gigas began to take steps, roots tearing up out of the ground.
"Let's see... about to face my tormentor as a child who ruthlessly beat me into submission while she... while it is a giant demic nature giant, so you know, everything is fine." He gulped, his knuckles white as he gripped his katana and softly trembled.
She blinked a few times, softly smiling. "You know, you get sarcastic when scared."
He quickly turned to face her, eye twitching a bit. His face was almost as pale as her skin. "And you pretend everything's fine when it isn't."
"Fair enough." The jade haired girl gave a nod, looking up at the possession Grimm as it charged forward. "And here we go." She darted forward.
"Wait!" Elise shouted, holding out her hands. "What's the plan?!"
"Fight, stay alive, and win!" Kagami shouted back, smiling at the group while jumping up into several trees to get to higher ground.
"Oum help us..." She trailed of, gulping as she swung her rifle onto her back as she too began to jump up into the trees for a sniper's eye view. "Come on, Chey!"
The Faunus gulped, biting her lip as she looked at the others with a nod. "Good luck." She softly smiled, pulling herself up by a branch as she started to climb upward.
"You'd probably be better up there and sniping." Kris eyed the trees while looking at Val. "Trust me. Snipers are heroes when it comes to Grimm." She gave a nod, tipping her fedora before running after Kagami.
"I... okay." The pink haired woman gave a slow nod, gripping her bow tight. She glanced between the two twins. You guys be careful, okay?"
Flashing a wicked smile before grinning, Thanaton picked up several small pebbles. "Hey, I kicked the witch's ass before. I'll just do it again." Her grin only grew. "I'm not going to let anyone hurt my brother. Even if that means bringing out the big guns." She chuckled, shoving the pebbles into her pocket.
With a racing heart and rapid breathing, Nihilus looked over at his sister. "Wait... are you bringing out your weapon...?" His brow rose.
"And I'm out on that remark." Val waved before quickly sprinting into the trees. "Stay safe! Please!" She shouted, climbing up a tree. She paused for a moment, gulping. "Please... I know how she is a monster even more than you guys..."
"You too, Val." The dark haired young man gulped, eyeing his sister. "You too." He actually smiled, running towards the Alpha Nadur Gigas with a firm grip on his katana as that smile faded.
Chuckling to herself, Thanaton stretched out her arms before popping her fingers. "It has been a while since I got to play with you." She reached up unzipping her purple leather jacket. She slid it off dropping it onto the ground. Staring at her black knee high socks and black spats that went down just above her knees, she licked her lips as she started to take off the black leather cuffs around her wrist. Underneath each was a bracelet. She tapped a button on each of them, small shields folding out and covering her forearms.
"Oh how I've missed you guys." She gently blew across the metal on her left arm, a soft shockwave pushing back against her and making her tight light purple shirt move a little. "Now it's play time." She looked up, chuckling as she ran forward.
From above, Elise, Cheyenne, and Val each jumped from one tree to another, hiding in the shadows as they fired away. With ice Dust dart, Elise shot as rapidly as she could at the two left feet of the creature. Meanwhile, Cheyenne had her Atlas rifle switched to its blue mode. With each blast, the back right foot was slowly being encased in ice. As the Nadur Gigas was being slowed, Val took aim at its front right foot, releasing ice Dust tipped arrows at the monster. The three would circle around it, dodging blows from one of its six arms as they fired away.
As the three of them did so, Kagami gave off a war cry, slashing downward from the upper left of the creature and diagonal. Once she fell, Nihilus came from the other side, grunting as he slashed diagonal from the right. As he pulled back and jumped away, Kris came in with both her candy cane weapons bladed. She stabbed them into the middle of the torso of the beast, sliding straight downwards. She quickly jumped back, dodging the middle left arm of the Gigas just in the knick of time. She stumbled back, standing with Kagami on her left and Nihilus on her right.
"That had to do something, right?" Kris panted a bit, looking between the two.
"Not even close." Nihilus muttered, pointing up at the Geist's possession. The four long gashes in its body healing over with new roots and dirt.
"Oh come on." Kagami moved her head around a bit with a groan. "Nothing harms it."
Before either of the other two could respond, Thanaton fell through the air. "Come here, mother-!" She was cut off, the shield on her right arm colliding with the ice on one of the Nadur Gigas' legs. It immediately exploded, sending off a huge shockwave.
"What the hell was...?" Kris trailed off, blinking rapidly.
Nihilus smirked, glancing over. "Explosive reactive armor."
"It's called ERA, Nilly!" Thanaton's voice echoed in the distance as her brother rolled his eyes.
"Well whatever it is, keep it up!" Elise shouted, calling out to the other two snipers. "Cover the front right leg in as much ice as you can, guys!" She shouted while taking aim.
Chuckling as another limb became engulfed in ice, the dark haired young woman charged forward, slamming her left shield into it as another large explosion sounded. Birds flying up in the distance and leaving the scene of the fight.
Stumbling now only on two legs, the Nadur Gigas let out a piercing screech, swinging its arms around towards Thanaton.
"Oh shit!" Said young woman shouted, holding her arms up in a cross shape. As she was hit, the force of the impact sent her stumbling back as the explosion of the arm sent her farther away.
Hissing, the beast turned around, new limbs growing out of it and replacing the ones broken off. Growling a bit back, Kagami bolted forward, lashing out at the legs with her sword while dodging the large and gruesome hands. Yet with each cut, it simply healed back over.
"This is impossible!" Kris shouted, letting the curves of her weapons pop out by chains. She spun them around, wrapping it around the monsters upper limbs. She grunted, pulling it tight. "Chey! Water!"
"Yes ma'am!" The deer FAunus shouted back, switching the mode on her rifle to a lighter blue before firing. This time, a scream of high powered water Dust shot out, soaking the Gigas.
Smirking, the redhead pulled harder on the chains. "Try this on for size!" She snapped, pressing a button on her weapons as electricity shot through the chains. As it did so, the Grimm groaned, not a painful groan, but an annoyed groan. It flexed all its arms at once, twisting around as the young redhead was sent flying.
"Christmas!" Elise shouted, jumping down from her spot to catch the young girl. As she did, she grunted, her feet skidding. She let out a heavy huff of air, looking up. Her eyes then widened at the two sets of demonic nature hands grabbing at them.
"Oh no..." Val's eyes widened as she took aim with her bow, only to grunt as a third hand wrapped around her body before she could. She gave off a scream, one which immediately snapped Nihilus' attention to her.
"No!" He roared, sprinting forward. He jumped up, running along the limb that held Val while cutting deep into it with his katana. "Damn you!" He launched himself upward, anger flickering in his eyes rather than logical thing. He then grunted deeply, another hand came from the side, slamming into his air borne body and snatching him away.
Cheyenne blinked several times, gulping as she jumped away in the trees, just barely missing a hand that went after her. She glanced back at it, gulping as she jumped forward. She hissed silently, her body hitting the palm of the sixth free hand. She grunted, it gripping her tight and pulling her out.
"Bloody hell..." Kagami muttered, slowly stepping back as she saw her three friends and two others being held up. She gulped, gripping her sword tight as she ran forward and slashed across its body with gritted teeth. She was barely able to dodge the last free hand. Well, at least dodge it a couple times.
She was not that lucky though. The large and mangled nature like hand eventually slammed into her, sending her crashing onto her back. The jade haired girl groaned, struggling underneath the hand. She grimaced, being picked up and brought close to the Alpha Geist's mask which was on the Gigas.
"Kagami!" Elise cried out, kicking her legs and thrashing a bit to no avail.
The leader of tem MACE gulped, staring into the single eye of the Grimm. Valentine said she would regret splitting the two. Maybe she was about to. She gulped again, shutting her eyes as the grip on her body slowly began to tighten.
"Shit." Nihilus muttered, his eyes flashing gold. Though when they faded back to blue, he was still in the same place. He was stuck.
Grinding her teeth together, Kagami rolled her head around. It wasn't until there was a crack in her ribs did she spit up blood, giving off a scream.
"No... Kagami!" Kris shouted, kicking her feet as Cheyenne and Val shut their eyes.
Stumbling up to her feet from earlier, Thanaton rubbed her head as she stepped forward. "Damn it..." She groaned, her eyes widening at the sight above. Her eyes locked on her brother and Val, she took a step forward only to freeze and pull back at Kagami's screams. It has always been about her, her brother, and Val. no one else mattered. Well, besides Maya, but she wasn't here. Either way, they were her family. She had to protect them at all cost.
She would protect them at any cost.
Kagami's screams echoed in distance, birds flying up and hurrying away. Elise gritted her teeth, lowering her head down as her body flexed, "D-Damn it!" She shouted, her jaw tightening. "Damn you!"
The Gigas shifted its head, glancing over at the brunet. Slowly, it lifted its arm that was holding Nihilus, bringing him eye level with its single eye right next to Kagami.
With one eye shut and her head leaning back, Kagami was breathing heavy as she softly chuckled with a groan. "Guess... Valentine... really doesn't like the two of us... eh?" She smiled ever so slightly, closing her other eye.
"Oh, not at all..." He said with a grimace, hardly fighting back at all as he took a deep breath. "She just wants us to have tea time with her... Guah!" He grunted slightly.
The Grimm brought the two closer, its eye glowing bright. It seemed like the end for these two former enemies, but as fate may have it, it was no one's time to die.
Falling down from the sky above, Thanaton gave off a warriors scream. The possession glanced up, the head of it tilted to the side. The purple haired young woman crashed down onto one of its raised arms, her feet skidding across it. "This is for everything you have ever put me through!" She shouted, slamming both her shields down onto the wrist of the abomination.
As an explosion erupted, smoke filled the air as the severed nature like hand crashed to the ground with a thud. Slowly, standing up from the rubble, Thanaton shook her head with an arm over her shoulder.
Blinking slowly with soft breathing, Kagami slowly raised an eyebrow at her while sliding her arm off the woman's shoulders. Her long green hair gently blew across her face as she went to speak only to be cut off.
"Shut up." Thanaton quickly snapped, looking away as she brushed her hair behind her ear. She quickly looked back over at her, her jaw tight. "This was best option strategy wise... that's it."
Half smirking, the jade haired girl took a deep breath and stood up straight with her arm wrapping around her torso. "Or deep down you actually care about other people..."
"Just shut up and go get my brother!" She snapped, her teeth razor sharp. She glared for a moment before quickly jumping up and heading towards Val.
Kagami took several deep breaths, trying to find her sword. When she couldn't, she brought her hands up and looked at the two black rings. "Let's hope you have enough Dust in you..." She muttered, taking another deep breath before running forward.
Up above, Nihilus gave off a heavy groan as did the rest of those held by the Nadur Gigas. He rolled his head around, one eye shut as he looked over at Val as Thanaton jumped on top of said limb. His brow rose just a bit before Kagami suddenly landed in front of him.
"Missed me?" She smiled, holding a large black rectangular sword over her shoulder. She swung it around, slicing off the monster's hand at the wrist. As Nihilus began to fall, the sword in her hand shattered like glass before disappearing in a faint mist. She reached down, grunting softly as she grabbed his hand.
"Get Chey, okay?" Kagami said just as one of Thanaton's explosion sounded off.
"Wait-" The dark haired young man started before groaning as she locked eyes with him. Her eyes flashing gold as his did so.
"Get Chey!" She shouted again, her shoulders rising and falling as the world around them froze and lost all color. She gripped his hand tight, throwing him in the direction of said Faunus.
Elise flinched greatly as her leader suddenly appeared before her. The shock quickly vanishing and turning to joy with a very faint smile. "Kagami!"
"Yeah, yea." She panted, her eyes reverting back to their pale green as she slashed away at the hand with black claws from her rings.
As she freed the brunet, Nihilus was suddenly holding onto Cheyenne. The fingers that were holding her having been pried free. "How did you do that?" She blinked slowly as he jumped off the monster with her.
"Is now really the time to ask?" He raised a brow, landing on the ground next to Val just as Kagami and Elise landed with a thud. He glanced up, inhaling deeply as one of his sister's explosions went off again. A moment later, the purple haired woman skidded across the ground with the redhead behind her.
As the Gigas began to reform its limbs, Kagami glanced around with gritted teeth. "Find your weapons now!" She shouted, looking over at Thanaton. "And you distract it!"
"Yes ma'am!" the woman gave a nod, saluting her before running off.
Taking a shaky breath, Elise glanced around. "You heard her. Find them!" She started to run off.
"Naughty and Nice should be pretty easy to find." Kris mumbled, heading back in the same direction.
"You named your weapons?" Val raised an eyebrow, digging through some debris to find her bow.
"Yeah. Don't you?" The redhead seemed confused.
"No! That's stupid" Elise snapped.
"It's not stupid!" She defended.
Sighing, Cheyenne shook her head as she picked up her rifle. "We almost died and they are still arguing."
"That's kinda their thing!" Kagami shouted back, sliding underneath one of the Gigas' arms. She quickly jumped to her feet, holding up her hands. Her black rings gave off a faint crackling sound, only a small mist coming from them before it faded away. She blinked once, her shoulders dropping. "Oh... we're out of black Dust..." She glanced up, seeing an arm heading her way. She quickly shut her eyes, only opening them to the sound of ice forming.
"Move!" Nihilus shouted, holding his katana handle in one hand as he threw an ice throwing star at the monster's arm again, it freezing over. As another limb swung around to strike Kagami, he jumped forward tackling her down a ditch.
"No luck for you!" Thanaton shouted as her shields rammed into the frozen limb with a large explosion.
Down in the ditch, small shards of ice gently fell down like sparkling snow. Nihilus was breathing heavily, kneeling over on his hands and knees on top of Kagami. "You... need to be more careful." He panted, sweat dripping down his face.
Blinking slowly, the jade haired girl laid across the ground while staring up at him. "Nihilus..." She muttered, reaching up slowly and putting her hands on his shoulders.
He blinked once, his face tinting just a bit. "Y-Yeah?"
"Get the hell off!" Kagami snapped, pushing him off before kicking him away and rolling over just as one of the Nadur Gigas' fist smashed into the ground where they once were. As she rolled over, she grunted softly as she hit metal. She blinked once, seeing her sword next to her.
"Of course." She smirked, snatching it up as she shot to her feet. She lunged forward, slicing away the hand while running over towards Nihilus. "Come on!" She shouted, pulling him up to his feet as she ran.
"I'm just saying if your rifle was named Evergreen, it would be really freaking cool!" Kris shouted, sliding under a leg of the monster while slicing at it with her bladed weapons.
"Why in Oum's name would I even consider that?!" Elise shouted, firing red darts at the creature. She then sighed, watching as its arm burst into flames. "Awww..."
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TWO STILL ARGUING OVER THIS?!" Thanaton snapped, driving her shields into the flaming limb before jumping back as it exploded into nothingness. "IT IS UTTERLY RIDICULOUS!"
"Because it would be so cool to call Chey's gun Australis!" The redhead demanded, twirling her weapons around before pressing a button as they started to shoot bullets at the Grimm.
Said deer Faunus sighed shaking her head as she pressed a button on her Atlas rifle, the larger barrel forming below the normal one. "We are about to die guys and you are arguing about weapon names!" She shouted, firing the large blast into the middle of the Gigas.
As it stumbled back Val shot several ice Dust tipped arrows at its feet, causing the beast to fall backwards onto its back. "How about we figure out a way to win then worry about weapon names!" She shouted as Nihilus and Kagami ran up.
"What in Remnant's name are you two going on about now...?" Kagami asked, stumbling a bit in exhaustion as she coughed into her arm.
"How we should name your sword Mugen." Kris smiled, twirling her weapons around as she stood on a rock.
The leader of team MACE blinked once, reaching up and rubbing her face with a deep breath. "Oh for the love of Oum..."
"Guys, it's getting back up." Cheyenne muttered, jumping down from the trees and landing next to the group. "And I don't feel like being picked up and crushed again."
"Attacking it and cutting off limbs and freezing them is clearly not working." Val added, stading on a fallen over tree.
"We need an actual plan to try and stop this thing." Thanaton gritted her teeth, looking around as the beast rose to its feet.
"Kagami?" Elise looked over, stepping besides the purpled haired woman. "You got anything in that creative mind of yours?"
"Not... not really. None that i can think of." The jadette gulped, licking her lips as she twirled her sword onto a reverse grip. "I honestly don't know." She stared up at the Nadur Gigas.
"What if... what if you know," Nihilus quietly spoke up. "How you split Val and Valentine? What if you do that with the Geist and what its possessing?
"I..." Kagami coughed a bit, running her hand through her hair. "I guess that could work. I would probably have to be right in front of the face if I was to do so."
"But can you do it?" Elise asked, eyebrows raised and her voice full of concern.
"Yeah." She gave a nod, brushing her nose as the Grimm began to run forward. "Yeah, I can. And I will." She took a deep breath, glancing back at the group. "Cover me."
"But Kagami, you're-" The brunet stopped herself, taking a deep breath as her head lowered. She glanced up, watching as her leader ran forward. "You're pushing yourself way too hard..." She sighed again.
"Come on!" Kris shouted, nudging the young farm girl forward before sprinting ahead. "Shoot the two front legs with ice darts too! I have a plan!" The young redhead looked back at Thanaton while running ahead. "Can you blow up the back legs near the top?"
"Sure can!" The purple haired woman smirked, darting ahead while hiding in the shadows of the trees.
"You follow me!" Kagami shouted back at Nihilus. "With a lightning blade in that katana of yours!" She quickly looked back at Val. "And you shoot as many water arrows you have when I say to!"
While Nihilus gave a nod, Val half smiled with a shrug. "It's kind of an archers thing to never run out of arrows in fights. Just saying. It would be really annoying if it happened to an archer when, I don't know, let's say aliens are attacking a main city?"
"Val that's ridiculous." Kris rolled her eyes. "Everyone knows aliens aren't real."
"You don't know!" Elise quickly snapped, running while loading her darts before jumping into the trees. "We never been to space!"
"Oh for the love of Oum..." Cheyenne took a deep breath, setting her modified Atlas rifle to its regular mode before shooting at the Nadur Gigas' arm.
Smiling as she slid underneath an arm as it was trying to strike her, Kagami quickly jumped back up to her feet. "Thanks Chey!"
"No problem!" The Faunus called back just as two darts struck each of the front feet of the beast. It stumbled a bit, its legs freezing over onto the ground.
Jumping up onto the frozen limb, Kagami grunted as Nihilus appeared beside her. "You know, stopping time is cheating." She pulled herself up, flipping over an arm that tried to wave her off.
"Who said we were racing?" He raised a brow, jabbing the yellow blade of his katana into its leg and spinning around to its back.
Popping her head around to his view, she smirked. "I just did." she back flipped, landing on top of another arm that was going at her. She squated down, gripping onto one of the roots to catch her balance before she started to run up it.
The dark haired young man blinked once lowering his head as he gently shook it. A very faint smile forming on his face.
"Move it or lose it!" Thanaton shouted from behind, driving her shield into its back left leg. As it exploded, a shockwave pushed her backwards. She spun around as she did so, slamming her shields into the other leg. As she was pushed back again, she smirked while brushing her hair back. "Guess you wanted to lose it." She shrugged.
"Hey! Elise!" Kagami shouted, dodging an arm before jumping onto another one. "Shoot the back legs before they can reform!"
"Got it!" The young farm girl shouted back, trailing the ground in her scope before locking on the small nubs it had for back legs. "Fire away!" She softly squeezed her trigger, sending ice darts into them as they froze over and became unable to reform.
The brunet blinked once, seeing a large hand heading her way. "Nope." She stood up on the branch she was on, vanishing in a cloud of smoke just as the root like fingers ran through the smoke. Appearing on the ground on the other side of the Grimm, she grunted softly while shooting new darts at the front feet as the ice began to crack.
"Hey! Chey!" Kagami shouted, running back across an arm as another came from her left behind her to strike. "Three o'clock!"
"Locked on!" The Faunus shouted back, firing a red Dust powered blast into the arm. Seeing it cause a wave a push Kagami off, she blinked. "Whoops! Sorry!"
"I got her! Don't worry!" Nihilus called out, reaching out to catch the jadette. He grunted softly, quickly tossing her up onto another arm as he jumped on top of one on the other side. "Zigzag?" He asked with raised eyebrows.
Kagami gave a nod, smiling as she watched Kris' weapons in chain form wrap around the beast arms.
"Come on!" The young redhead shouted, spinning around the Gigas with her chains wrapping around its limbs. She swung under one arm, wrapping around it a few times before spinning around the torso while running across it vertically.
Kris jerked downward on her weapons, the chains tightening around the Nadur Gigas' arms and bringing them close to its body. It thrashed, bringing the small girl up off her feet a bit.
"Here!" Thanaton jumped up, grabbing one of the candy cane weapons, She gave a smile, one which the younger girl gave a nod back and let go.
As the two landed back on their feet, they both pulled as hard as they possibly could while their feet dug into the ground.
"You know," Thanaton grunted, grinding her teeth together. "These are real nice weapons? You make them yourself?"
"You think a store would sell twin candy cane weapons called Naughty and Nice...?" Kris half chuckled before groaning as her small body was pulled forward a bit.
"Fair enough." She smirked back.
As Nihilus and Kagami jumped back and forth from opposite sides of the Gigas, the jade haired girl smiled as arms stopped trying to hit her. "Thanks, Kris!" She started to run up the slowly twisting around body. "Chey! Freeze the torso!"
"Sure thing!" Cheyenne shouted back, changing the setting on her rifle to dark blue Dust. "Ice away!" She chuckled some. "Get it? Like fire away but ice away?"
"JUST FREEZE IT!" Kris shouted, struggling against its strength even with Thanaton's help.
"R-Right, sorry." The Faunus smiled, holding up her weapon as she shot at the Grimm and froze its arms and torso together.
"Nihilus!" Kagami shouted, jumping over in his direction. "Boost me up!"
"Got ya." He muttered, stabbing his electric katana into the frozen monster as he interlocked his fingers. He grunted, her feet landing in his hands as he hauled her upwards. "Wait!" He pulled his weapon out of the creature. "Why did i need my lightning blade?!"
"I just thought it would be poetic if you used the same type of weapon that you used to first attack us with!" She smirked, tucking and rolling as she landed on the Nadur Gigas' head. "Miss me?" She smiled, her left hand wrapping around the Grimm mask as her arm gained their glowing markings.
Nihilus quickly slid down the side of the creature before landing next to his sister and Kris. he deactivated his blade, biting his lip. "Think this will work?" He asked.
"It has to." Kris mumbled.
As Elise lowered her weapon, she gulped and stared up at the head of the Geist which became engulfed by a bright light. "Come on Kagami, come on." She bit her lip. She then shielded her eyes, a huge shockwave pushing everyone back as Kris' weapons became unhinged and snapped back together.
For a moment, everything fell silent. Val groaned, rolling around as she sat up. Slowly, she stood up. As dust cleared in front of her, she could see Kagami heavily panting with her hands on her knees. "Chey! Decompose the body!" She panted heavier, looking back at Val. "Send... all you water arrows into the ground so it doesn't have anything hard to reform its body if it gets the chance!"
"Right!" Cheyenne swung her weapon onto her back, running forward. She skidded to a stop, kneeling down as she placed her hands on the ground and lowered her head. She took a deep breath, the body of the Nadur Gigas slowly decomposing into a pile of dirt.
Not wasting a second, Val loaded three arrows at a time, firing the water Dust tipped arrows at the pile as it became extremely moist.
Hovering above it, a dazed and confuzed Alpha Geist circled around a bit before its head shot up and it lt out a bloody roar cry.
"Nihilus!" Kagami shouted, drawing her sword as she ran forward towards it.
Without another word, the dark haired young man activated his yellow katana blade, running straight towards the Geist as well.
"For all the people you killed!" She shouted, pulling her arms back to her right.
"And for the hell you put me and everyone else through!" He snapped, pulling his blade down to his right.
"This is where you DIE!" The two both shouted, slicing their weapons at the same time through the air. From the naked eye, it seemed as if the two had just sliced each other in half as they skidded to a stop on the other sides of the Geist, their feet covered in mud. A second of silence fell before the mask of the Geist cracked directly over the single eye. The creature of darkness then let out a ghostly screech before its body collapsed onto the ground. The spikes scattering as the mask broke into three separate pieces onto the ground.
"Now... that's it, right?" Kris raised an eyebrow, looking over at Thanaton.
"I think... I think so." She nodded back, letting her shields collapse back into bracelets as she nodded.
"You know, we did good." Cheyenne smiled, walking over and putting her arm around Kris. "You did a real nice job."
"You too." The redhead smiled back before looking over at the purple haired young woman. "Same goes for you." She smiled as the elder nodded back.
"Let's never do that again... alright?" Nihilus panted, dropping his weapon after deactivating in, He took a few steps back, bumping into Kagami. The two both immediately fell onto the ground while leaning up against each other.
"Agreed..." Kagami muttered while sweat dripped down her face.
"I knew you had it in you." Val smiled, almost on the verge of tears as she placed her bow across her back. She smiled more, kneeling down infront of Nihilus as she rubbed her eyes. "I'm just... that monster is finally gone." She sniffed.
"Hey," He slowly reached out, putting a hand on her shoulder with a smile. "It's the least I could do with how much you have done for me." He smiled a bit more with a soft scoff. Seeing her eyes swell up with tears, he sighed and slowly pulled her close wrapping his arms around her. "Come on, Val, Valentine is finally gone for good. You're alright now." He gently patted her back.
"Hehe, your brother does have feelings." Kris chuckled softly before grunting as Cheyenne elbowed her in the ribs.
Thanaton eyed them, rolling her eyes as she crossed her arms with a faint smile. "Guess it comes with being human." She quietly muttered to herself.
"Hey, you alright there? Kagami?" Elise knelt down infront of her leader, pressing a hand against the jadette's forehead. "You have a fever..."
"I..." Kagami chuckled some. "I honestly feel pretty bad." She softly smiled, rolling her head back as she shut her eyes. "I think... that cut got infected and now I'm sick... from being so stressed too..."
"Oum damn it." The brunet shook her head, sighing as she rubbed her forehead. "Wait, Hey! Kagami!" She shouted, watching as her leader lowered her head and fell unconscious.
Days later, in their small little abandoned home, Val sat at the table while slowly rubbing her arms. She shifted in her chair a bit, smiling ever so slightly. "You know, with Valentine gone I've actually been able to sleep. I mean what I was forced to do still haunts me, but the past nights I was able to sleep without any nightmares of any sorts." She looked up at Thanaton. "I've been actually sleeping and staying asleep."
"Uh..." Even though it was late afternoon, Thanaton had just woken up. Along with her messy purple hair, she only had on a purple sports bra and a pair of black sweatpants. "What?" Her brows raised as she tilted her head.
"She's too dead tired to respond properly, Val." Nihilus muttered, still in his white zipper hoodie with red inside the hood and blue jeans. He glanced back, smiling. "You should know this by know." He chuckled, turning back to the counter as he prepared a heavy slab of deer meat for cooking.
Sighing, Val shook her head and leaned across the table. Rather than in her normal clothes, she had on a pink shirt which had a white cami underneath to block her cleavage from showing. A pair of dark pink bell bottom jeans over her legs and tucked into a pair of black boots with pink trimming. "Yeah, I guess you're right." She sighed before glancing up.
"You're really making Kagami some venison stew, aren't you?" She asked.
"Yep." He gave a nod. "Promised that hunter girl I would. I got everything for it." He pointed at ingrediants. "Venison, carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, garlic, some bay, oregano, salt, pepper, hoisin sauce, cumin, dill weed, and some soul seasoning." He nodded. "Yep, all here."
"Soul seasoning?" The pink haired woman raised an eyebrow. "What's that?"
"It's used to give the meat a little kick." He looked back at her. "Give it a good spice flavor. Should help her a lot."
"That's good, she deserves as much as she can get." Val smiled, rubbing her hands together. "She actually got rid of it..."
"Guess we owe her one, huh?" Nihilus went back to preparing the meat.
"A lot more than one." She sighed, shaking her head. "I owe her a lot more."
"Yeah..." He slowly nodded, waiting a few minutes before speaking again. "Hey, you remember Sanguine and her child, right?"
"Yeah." She looked up. "Literally the worst Vale has to offer crime was." She tilted her head, leaning back. "Why do you ask?"
"I've been hearing some rumors." He scratched his neck as he set the knife down. He slowly turned around, leaning up against the counter. "I heard she has a new girl, really young and blonde. Well apparently the Triple B was here earlier and one of their guys was killed by this new girl on Sanguine's side. Pretty sure the two groups are about to go all out on each other. And they are going to use Vale as their battle ground."
She blinked slowly, glancing down. "Oh... there would be massive bloodshed if Sanguine's crew and the BBB broke out into an all out war." She muttered, gulping some. She then started to faintly smile, looking up at him. "Let me guess, you want to help those girls stop them somehow?"
"Wh-What? No... no!" Nihilus quickly shook his head, waving his hands around. "That's not what I meant!"
"But it's what you thought." Thanaton spoke up with a chuckle, rolling her head around with a sleepy yawn. "Ya know it is..."
"Even I could see that." Val flashed a smile in his direction.
His face went red as he quickly looked away. "Both of you be quiet or else I won't cook anything for dinner." He muttered, picking up the knife.
"Nooo! Nilly!" The dark haired young lady groaned, shoving her face into the table. "I want food!"
"Then be good and don't aggravate me." Nihilus grumbled, taking a deep breath as he started to cut up the meat.
Meanwhile, Elise quietly sighed, placing a cool cloth across Kagami's forehead. The jadette sleeping deeply on a lower bunk. "You're an idiot, you know that?" The brunet muttered with a heavy sigh. "I can't even believe you sometimes." She slowly brushed her leader's hair back before stepping away and sitting in the ground with her two other teammates. "So what are we going to do before we wait to embark on our next adventure?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Well, Kris had an idea of what we could do while we wait." Cheyenne leaned back, pointing over at the redhead.
At that, the younger girl smiled from ear to ear. "Well since Kagami's most likely going I be sleeping for the next day, I thought we could binge watch the Rainbow Time Dancers movies."
"You already explained to Chey how the seven movies correspond to the seven original books and how the series is just a spin off in a way like the rest of the books?" Elise pointed over at said Faunus.
"Sure did." The redhead smiled, pulling out a DVD box set. "And I have all of RTD's movies here!"
"Whoa..." The young farm girl quickly snatched the box away. In big bold words, I said Rainbow Time Dancers: The Legacy Collection. "No way, where did you get this?" Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.
"Jess got it for me a long time ago." She smiled back, bouncing for joy. "I love the case so much! It's so beautiful!"
"You guys are really crazy about this thing, aren't you guys? Even after watching some of the series and watching you play the card game, I don't understand the relevance to this story." The Faunus glanced around with a raised eyebrow.
"RTD IS VERY IMPORTANT!" Kris flailed her arms back and forth in a chibi form. "IF OUR LIVES WERE A BOOK THE AUTHOR WOULD HAVE TO MAKE A SPIN OFF SERIES ABOUT RTD! THAT IS HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE!"
"Uh..." Blinking slowly, the deer Faunus gently pushed the redhead back down onto the ground. "But why-okay you know what, nevermind." She shook her head.
"Wait." Elise glanced up from the box set, looking over at her leader. "You think Kagami would like to watch these with us?"
"Probably not." Kris muttered. "She never took any interest in t before. Even after I tried so many times..." She grumbled.
"Besides, she needs her rest." Cheyenne smiled, stretching out her arms. "Now how about we start watching this already?"
"Yeah, guess so." Elise sighed, pulling off the case as she opened up the box. She grabbed a red disk labeled Rebirth and handed it over to Kris before freezing. "Wait... are we going to let Chey watch the movies before reading the books?! We can't let that happen! That's wrong!"
"Well I did it." Kris shrugged, putting the disk into a computer. "No harm really. Plus reading takes so looong..." She stuck her tongue out with a groan.
"B-But... but..." The brunet's eye twitched as Cheyenne slowly reached over and patted her back.
"Don't worry." The Faunus smiled. "It'll be fine. We all deserve a break from getting into trouble. Just relax."
Giving a sigh, Elise glanced up over at Kagami before she looked back at the screen. "Yeah, we all need a pretty serious break." She smiled some, wondering what exactly her leader would be dreaming about right now as the first movie in the Rainbow Time Dancers series started.