A/N: This chapter might not be the greatest as I have not changed anything since I first made it over 3 months ago, hopefully the chapter after is fine but I wanted to point out I have had this chapter in waiting for way too long...
"Hey Ruby. we should-"
BANG CLAK-CLAK
My words died out immediately as Ruby just shot herself into the pack, using her weapon's recoil to make herself spin and immediately decapitate an unlucky wolf while she went to work swinging at the next. While she did that I released my bowstring as my arrow pierced through the mask of one before also going through the unlucky beowolf right behind it.
While shooting an arrow at the approaching targets was doable even for me, my movement was atrocious. With no formal training after every arrow I shot I took a few steps back if it'd be enough and if not, I would jump back and dive away from the swinging claws.
Thankfully these beowolves were really dumb, they were just bigger wolves and while fast, I can still manage rather well and even if I miss a shot or they get too close.
__Abilities__
--Active(1/1)--
[Uncommon - Holy Weapon]
I would use the bow like a club and swing at the grimm, easily batting them aside as a quick arrow dispatched them right after. While my fighting was rather simple, a quick glance to my side showed Ruby easily dispatching the grimm with ease and flourish.
She was either purposefully, or instinctively making a show with her exaggerated spins and use of the sniper's recoil to continue her movement, coupled with her semblance, I watched as a breeze of rose petals wrap by the remaining beowolves as a loud SCHLINK, announced their decapitated corpses as they began to disappear into nothingness.
"That was awesome! I was like schlink! And you were all THWOP and WHOOSH with your arrows!" Ruby's enthusiasm made me smile even as I remembered that I really only killed about 3 while the rest were dispatched by her, but it was a good experience at least as I would say I learned a bit from that fight.
Feat Achieved! Survive a Beowolf pack and not be useless.
+1 Bronze Trait Ticket
The "not be useless" part made my brow twitch for a moment but it was expected. Ruby took care of most of them, and only a few had even paid me any attention. As I mentally rolled the ticket, Ruby and I continued heading north.
Rolling Bronze Trait Gacha...
A Common Trait.
[Blood Pack]
[Rarity: Common]
Your body holds inordinate amounts of blood, approximately 5 times the average person, this does not affect your body in any noticeable way... somehow.
That was nice. As the trait was pulled I felt a warm feeling run through my entire body, almost like a massage hitting every vein in my body before I let out a breath and continued.
While we continued to walk I soon felt something soft fall against my shoulder, making me reach up as I picked up the almost pitch black feather, making me glance up to see a large flying bird grimm directly above us.
"Oh shit."
~General~
At the relic site, Blake had grabbed a white knight piece, carefully tucking it away before looking back to her partner. "So, think we need to wait for the others?"
Her partner, glanced around while in thought before giving a small nod. "I think it would be wise to do so, just in case anything were to happen." Blake gave a small nod, shrugging as the two had only conversed very briefly, on account of her rather silent personality, though it wasn't as if her partner hadn't attempted to chat a little bit, but she realized that it wasn't really working and swiftly gave up and focused on the object, which Blake could appreciate Pyrrha for.
Blake leaned against a pillar, her heightened senses easily able to pick up whenever someone would find this location before she looked up to the sky, hearing a girl's scream as she watched the overly friendly girl from the night before falling while a boy she half recognized fell just next to her, rapidly approaching the ground.
"Horus!" She heard the boy yell as she watched as a weird ice skeletal bird appeared behind him as he held the girl's arm before shifting it into a carry, the girl quickly hugging him as ice began to rapidly form slabs for the boy to slide and step from before he finally landed with the girl on flat ground.
"Ruby, please never have an idea again." He spoke as Ruby quickly got up and pouted.
"Hey my idea was flawless! Until the landing part..." She at least had the decency to look away in embarrassment before the boy walked past to the pieces.
Looking at them all, he decided on the other white knight piece as he tossed it and caught it a few times before putting it away. "So, is it only us four?" As Pyrrha went to answer, a sudden roar took their attention as an Ursa came crashing out the forest, taking a tree with it before a loud boom sounded and it fell as an orange-haired girl fell into a roll right in front of it. "Aww, it's broken."
"Did she just ride in on an Ursa..?" Blake found herself muttering, watching the girl casually pass by to grab one of the pieces.
"She just rode in on an Ursa." The boy confirmed before a loud crash in the forest tore their attention away as they watched a pair of girls run away from a Death Stalker chasing them, the blonde girl throwing out a punch as an explosion blasted the Death Stalker's face and was used to shoot the girl away as the white haired girl grabbed her hand and was pulled with the force before eventually letting go and gracefully landing next to them while the blonde did a backwards roll before settling behind them as she quickly grabbed a relic at random.
"Yang?"
"Ruby?"
The two sister's quickly embraced before a cough from the black haired boy as he glanced over to the still very angry Death Stalker that was shaking off Yang's explosion before beginning to settle onto them. "Any reason why the big guy was chasing you two?"
All eyes fell to Yang and Weiss as the latter huffed as Yang jabbed her thumb towards her. "Miss prim and proper over here got us lost and we found it's cave and may have accidentally woke it up and it chased us."
"I did NOT get us lost, if you had just been more cooperative we wouldn't have gotten near it's cave." The two began to bicker for a bit before a loud screech tore their attention to the sky as Blake's bow twitched as she heard the boy mutter a "fuck" under his breath.
"Why is it still here?" He questioned before realizing the Death Stalker had began a slow approach towards Nora and Ren as he clicked his tongue and aimed his bow. "You two! Move!"
The two jumped away as he shot an arrow towards the Death Stalker's feet, the skeletal bird appearing beside him once more as his arrow began to brightly glow blue as it struck the ground and encased the Death Stalker's entire lower half in ice as he let out a soft breath.
"The objective was to get the relic's right?" A few nods rippled through them. "Then we don't need to fight these things we can just leave." Realizing he was right, they all began to run off after the remaining pairs had gotten their relics.
As they ran, they soon came upon ruins as the Nevermore let out a loud screech, signaling it was following them as they also began to hear rumbling of the Death Stalker angrily following after them.
"These things are so damn persistent." Yang spoke, frustrated as they all continued to run.
Realizing they wouldn't be able to fully escape the two grimm, Myst stopped as he began to catch his breath and summoned Horus to his side as he readied his bow and checked his quiver, realizing he had almost completely run out of arrows as he had five left.
"What are you doing?" Ruby asked Myst as the rest of the group began to stop as he gestured towards the approaching Death Stalker. "These two really do not want to let us leave without a fight, so unless you want to leave since you're the fastest. we'd have to fight them now."
Realizing he was right, Ruby readied Crescent Rose as she stood next to him. "No way would I leave you behind." As the two readied themselves so did the rest of the group, all of them now prepared to face the two approaching grimm.
"Guess we're in for a, grimm time eh?"
"Yang not now please..."