Chapter 3: Through the woods, what's his power?
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JAGR
Flying through the air tends to make people think, such as, how will I land, who will be my partner, or how to drown their headmaster in his own coffee, though I'm pretty sure that's how Ozpin would want to go. As I looked around, I saw my fellow students either using their weapons to propel themselves forward, or their aura to soften their descent. Flying past Jaune I saw that Pyrrah's lance had pinned him by his hoodie to a tree. Giving her a look that said, 'we will discuss this later.' I continued on my way.
I decided to use Savage Mauls secondary form in order to land. Pulling out my large axe, I twisted the handle in order for the chain to emerge and giving it a good few spins I launched it at a thick tree. The axe head dug into the tree with a heavy thud, and I began to use the retraction function of the chain to pull myself to the rest of my weapon. Landing on the ground, I took note of my surroundings, and I began to make my way towards the temple. I hadn't even made it a mile before I was surrounded by beowolves, "Are you kidding me right now?" I asked, irritated at the arrival of these pests. The beasts howled and rushed me as I pulled out my hatchets and begun to tear into them, one came at my right as I rolled to evade it only to have another pounce on me, thinking fast I gathered aura to feet and rammed them into the Grimm's lower jaw shattering it.
Their numbers began to dwindle as I hacked and slashed my way through them. The Alpha of the pack who had stayed behind as the grunts did the dirty work decided to join the fray when the last of the small fry were dealt with. Seeing it approaching I decided to combine Chaos and Order into their double bladed/barreled shotgun form and began firing off my custom-made dust ammo, which was a combination of fire and wind dust, causing a large explosion that forced the Alpha off balance. I rushed the beast and leapt up, slamming the axe blades into the back of its neck and stared into its eyes, "See you in hell." I whispered pulling the trigger causing me to propel backwards, the twin blades were pulled through the beast's skull causing it to split into thirds. Getting up off the ground I dusted(hah, get it?)myself off and ran off towards the temple again.
A half hour passed by before I heard the sounds of a fight towards my right. Peering through the bushes I saw the wolf Faunus girl I saw on the bullhead earlier fighting with a King Taiju, a large two-headed cobra. Her weapons consisted of three-bladed claw gauntlets on both hands that were coated in fire dust. She was able to blind the eyes of the black head when the white one swung and hit her away. Grabbing my axe, I rushed in to help. "Hey, you, okay?" I asked as I helped to her feet. "I'm fine." She said curtly as she prepared to fight again. She rushed towards the Grimm and once again began to claw at the black head. Seeing as the white half tried to slam her again, I decided to take action by activating Savage Maul's buzz saw mode. I swung the chain and let hurl through the air, "Look out!" I shouted towards the girl. She twirled around fast enough to see my blade coming at the Grimm and leapt out of the way. The blade whirled towards the beast and struck it in the center where black met white, cleaving it in two.
"Hey! That was my kill!" the girl griped at me as I retracted the axe's chain and stowed it away. "Don't worry there's plenty more where that came from, the name is Jacob Blackwood, yours?" The Faunus composed herself and said, "Anna Lupin, and I suppose this means we're partners now?" "I believe so, I hope we can get along these next four years." I said as we continued on our way. It had been an hour now when we heard some rustling in the bushes.
"Who goes there?" I said as Anna, and I prepped our weapons. That was when two of our fellow students came out of the foliage. "Hey, take it easy we come in peace!" The tall male spoke with a heavy accent, probably from the southern parts of the world. Seeing the x shaped scar on his chin caused me to remember him from the plane as well as his partner who was the tanned skinned red-headed girl, "The names Gregory Rook" "And I'm Rosa Thorn" they introduced themselves as we lowered our weapons. "Sorry about that, the names Jacob Blackwood, and this is Anna Lupin, we're …" I was interrupted by a thundering crash, a sudden roar, and a girl's cheerful cry? We whip our heads around to see some orange haired girl riding on an Ursa barreling past us with a black-haired boy running after her shouting something I couldn't hear.
As they went past us, we blinked once, twice, then thrice before I finally spoke up. "All in favor for pretending that never happened, say aye." With three calls of "aye" I said "motion passes". Since the beast made a large path, we followed it until we finally reached the temple. There we met up with Jaune and what looked like his team which was made up of Pyrrah and the other two whom after overhearing their conversation their names were Ren, and Nora. Yang was there along with little miss ninja. "Hey Jacob, there you are, good to see you made it here." Jaune said as my group went to grab the relics which were shaped like chess pieces, after Gregory and I picked up the black knight pieces we soon heard a scream and what sounded like a caw from a Nevermore. Looking up we saw a red blur falling from said Grimm. "RUBY!" Yang screamed in fear and worry. Jaune immediately rushed forward and jumped, catching her in midair and landed with a thump on his back. Jaune groaned as Ruby blushed and squeaked, scrambling off of him muttering apologies about a mile a minute. Yang soon tackled her in a bear hug and went into what is known as mother hen mode.
After she was done with her and Jaune got up off the ground she turned around and hugged him into her chest saying thank you over and over again. While this all went down, I couldn't help but feel a chill and I looked to where it was coming from, only to find Pyrrah smiling with her eyes closed.'Once again, warn Jaune',I thought as Ruby suddenly perked up remembering, "Oh, right where's Weiss?" Weiss, guess Ruby was the unlucky soul to be paired with her,'Oh well, better her than me', I thought once again. "HEY! HOW COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT ME!" looking up again we saw her clinging to the leg of the large bird, with it trying to shake her off. "She going to fall." They said, "She'll be fine." I said, "She's falling" they said, "She'll be fine." I repeated, "She's getting too close to the ground!" they screamed and Jaune once again rushed to catch her. "Meh." I said dismissingly as he caught her and once again crashed to earth. "Told you she'll be fine." I said as she got up, curtly thanked him and then began to tear into Ruby for leaving her behind like that.
Once we were all situated, we began to focus on the Grimm above us when a giant Deathstalker came out of the trees followed by a legion of smaller Grimm behind it. "We can't catch a break, can we?" I muttered as all began to run towards open ground. We soon came towards a stone bridge where we halted. "Alright here's what we do, Ruby, you and your group will handle the Nevermore, Jaune, you and yours will handle the Deathstalker, and me and my group will handle the others." I said as we all readied our weapon and split off to take on our targets. "I want you three to stay behind me." I said as we faced the horde. "Oh, and what will you do?" Rosa said as she and the others frowned as we stopped. "I'm going to use my Semblance."
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