[Other FULL] [IC] As the Dust Settles; A RWBY RP [M] [EPILOGUE]

?Reaping Lariat!? Azoo roared as he spun around with his phantom arms out. They stretched with his momentum and the Seggnerlupes put up their armored forearms to receive the blunt assault. And then Rimer?s cackling played over the growl of his chainsaw as he ran a circle around Azoo, dragging the Gut-Grinder?s cruel chain through the Grimms? exposed bellies.

A full five of them fell backward in sprays of black dust and smoke as two more brought out their hook-clawed extra arms and leapt at Rimer. Rimer pedaled backward and caught their claws on the saw?s chain, and the assailing Grimm jerked away as their claws were torn apart against the Gut-Grinder?s unnatural cutting ability. Azoo loomed over them, asudden, and grabbed the sides of their heads in his hands.

?Cymbal Crash!? He smashed their faces together in a messy sputter of mask-bits and black fluids. He let their nearly-headless bodies crumple downward and flared his arms out threateningly, Rimer giggling and revving the Gut-Grinder.

The last remaining Seggnerlupe gave a sound like a dog having its tail run under a lawnmower and turned to flee into the woods. ?Coward?s Comeuppance!? Azoo threw four of his eight extra arms outward in a stretching multi-punch that caught the Grimm in its calves, and it stumbled to the ground in time for Rimer to jump onto it and bury the Gut-Grinder to the guard in the back of its neck. He dragged the chainsaw down its spine to the base of its tail as its squirming grew weaker.

?Hahahahahahaha! Deeper, GG! Deeper, ahahahaha!? Rimer sat down to start digging into the fading corpse, but Azoo grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and stood him up roughly. Rimer looked at him offended at first, but then laughed it off easily. ?Oh, haha, right. The others, haha.?

Meanwhile, Fajio had been backing clumsily away from the scything extra arms of the Seggnerlupe that was backing him against a tree. He felt the wood against his back and sighed in frustration as he put up his shackles and watched flakes of their leaden material flay out to either side as the Grimm dug in.

The Seggnerlupe shrieked out a sound like a fire alarm doing its best falsetto and retracted its extra arms as Fajio flinched away from the sonic assault. It reared back its arm proper and jerked it forward, splintering the tree in the same place Fajio?s face would have been had he not dropped to his rump just in time. The Seggnerlupe barked agitatedly and tried to stomp on him, but he rolled unevenly to the side and managed to get up into a kneeling position, breathing hard as the Grimm flexed its claws and smacked at the ground with its tail.

Fajio snaked a hand into one of his pockets to take out one of his flash blombs when another Seggnerlupe screamed and caught him on its shoulder, bucking him up and over like a bull throwing a too-slow matador. Fajio landed heavily on his back with a rough thump and then one of the Seggnerlupes was on top of him, pinning his arms down and chattering madly into his face.

Fajio managed to get his breath enough to say, ?When I was only fighting the one of you, you already had quite the unfair advantage, you know.? He got a hostile bark in response before the Seggnerlupe closed toothy jaws on his muzzle and started yanking about in attempt to pry it off. Fajio tried half-heartedly to break free before deciding it was futile to do so and instead focused on not letting his neck tear free of his body.

?Four-Armed Spear!? Four of Azoo?s arms held together and with palms straight flew into the Seggnerlupe?s ribs, knocking it off Fajio and sending it scrabbling into the bushes as Rimer went in after it and sent most of it up the sides of the trees.

Fajio got up and dusted himself off unconcernedly as Azoo wrestled the remaining Seggnerlupe up against the same tree it had backed Fajio against. Rimer came tearing out of the bushes and dove between Azoo?s legs, jerking the Gut-Grinder upward and through the pinned Grimm, cleaving it to the neck and leaving it to flop wetly to the ground.

Azoo?s arms retracted as he breathed deeply to steady himself. Rimer began rolling around in the mangled remains of his latest victim. Fajio smacked his torn-up shackle against the nearest tree and got their attention. He peered at them from behind his scratched glasses, the jagged tooth-marks on his muzzle giving him a startling visage. ?Where is Evegy?? he asked in a low metal growl, his dark shades doing little to buffer the intensity of his face. Azoo and Rimer looked surprised and then guiltily looked at each other. Fajio took a heavy step forward, like a metal hoof clanging against the ground. ?Find her.?

Evegy backed up and fired another cloud of darkness at the oncoming Seggnerlupe. It vanished into the dark and just as quickly reappeared, undeterred as it sent its fist into her gut and sent her backwards into the bushes. She brought up the New Moon and bounced away its follow-up attack before answering with a flurry of slashes that nicked uselessly into its bone-cased forearm. It gnashed its teeth at her and she stumbled backward and thrust her scimitar into its eye. The Grimm recoiled and backed away to let the other Seggnerlupe with it take its turn against the girl.

Evegy leapt upward and scaled the tree behind her as the fresh opponent struck it with denting fists. It looked up after her, snarling. Evegy crouched carefully on her perch, keeping a watch on the Grimm beneath her as she tried to catch her breath. ?They?ve separated us,? she said to herself, talking to try and keep her head on straight. ?Pretty smart for a bunch of Grimm.? She watched the Seggnerlupe below her start leaping upward, clawing madly with its hook-clawed extra arms. It was getting pretty high but she was still clear of it. ?At least they can?t climb.?

The other Seggnerlupe came screeching out of the branches above her, its one-eyed gaze adding more impact to the sonic assault it presented. Evegy turned to meet it, wincing from the sound as the second Seggnerlupe suddenly jumped clear to her level and landed astride her, pinning her arms down as the one-eyed Grimm ceased its screaming and pulled out its extra arms.

?Flying Fajio!? Something like a weighted, hooded ragdoll came soaring through the branches and into the one-eyed Grimm, carrying it with its momentum through some more branches and then down to the ground below. The Seggnerlupe holding Evegy looked after its companion and Evegy managed to wiggle out of its grip and turn about to send a slash from the New Moon into its chest.

It seemed more annoyed than wounded at the shallow attack and brought out its extra arms, chattering angrily. ?Flying Rimer!? A sort of growling grew steadily and the Seggnerlupe turned its head in the direction of the noise in time to meet the Gut-Grinder with its snout. The top of its head went flying haphazardly as Rimer caught himself against its neck with his arm, spinning about as he reversed his trajectory and dragging the Seggnerlupe?s body downward.

Evegy looked after him as he crashed into the ground in a great gushing cloud of black, the Grimm?s body splattering as Rimer landed on top of it with his chainsaw pointed downward. Evegy leapt down and caught herself easily as Azoo fell back onto his rump tiredly, his phantom arms withering away as the fatigue ate his Aura away.

?Hahahaha!? Rimer cackled as he carved into the black mess that might have once been a Grimm. ?Haha?GG?? The Gut-Grinder began sputtering out as it petered down. ?Hahaha .. Haha ?? Rimer started coughing raggedly and turned off the Gut-Grinder, sitting down in the evaporating muck and breathing heavily.

Evegy looked between them and was about to say something when she realized Fajio being throttled against a tree by the one-eyed Seggnerlupe. She did a double take and said, ?Ah! Hey, Fajio needs??

Rimer was still catching his breath, but Azoo got up and sort of jogged over to the Seggnerlupe. ?Sideswipe Elbow!? he wheezed, spinning an elbow thrust at the Grimm. The Seggnerlupe caught his arm in its own large clawed hand and turned to wrestle with Azoo, leaving Fajio to slump limply to the ground.

Evegy looked and saw Rimer wasn?t getting up any time soon and ran to Azoo?s aid in time to deflect the Seggnerlupe?s extra arms from where they tried to cut into the big man?s chest. The Seggnerlupe heaved and threw Azoo backwards before looming over Evegy with its four clawed hands flexing. Fajio reached up over its shoulder with a small round metal thing in his hand, right next to its eye.

?Evegy!? Azoo called. Evegy turned to look at where Azoo was on the ground behind her and putting his hand over his eyes and only just remembered to do the same as Fajio set off his flash bomb. The Seggnerlupe yelped in pain, a sound very much akin to the sort of noise a cat might make on discovering its litter box to be soaked through with flesh-eating acid.

A blinding flash of white light, wiping the world and all its colors away in an instant.

The Seggnerlupe fell to the ground, writhing, and Fajio held up his arm expectantly. Evegy watched as Azoo got up and went to him to pull a small bolt at the elbow of Fajio?s shackle. It popped open and fell off with a thud, and Fajio pulled free his other shackle with his free hand so that he could access his smaller pockets and pull out a long length of cord.

Fajio limped toward the crying Grimm and knelt beside it. It bit blindly at him and Fajio nodded at Azoo. Evegy flinched as the big man crunched his fist down and broke the thing?s jaw with a wet crack. Azoo pinned all four of its arms under his weight as Fajio worked the cord around its wrists, ignoring its gargling howls.

Rimer had managed to walk tiredly over to them, his chainsaw slung over his back on a bungee cord. ?Aw ? hahaha,? he panted a little, ?aren?t we killing it??

Fajio yanked the cord tighter and tied it before applying another layer to the wrists. ?As much as I?d like to watch you tear this thing to shreds,? Fajio said in a strange voice, as if he was talking around something, ?it has conveniently decided to present itself just as we were all wearing down.? He applied a third layer of cord for good measure before cutting it with his pocket knife and having Azoo bend the Grimm?s legs up. He began running cord around its calves and thighs in a figure-eight, to tie its legs up. The Seggnerlupe cried loudly and thrashed its tail about.

Fajio caught a hard whack across his shoulders and said, ?My dear, if you could relieve our friend of his latest object of rebellion??

Evegy looked blankly at him, still taken aback by their unnerving treatment of the Grimm. ?We?re taking it? But what will we??

Its tail caught Fajio in the side of the face with a crack, and dark liquid trickled out of the bottom of his muzzle. ?Cut off its tail,? he growled at her.

She took her scimitar and swiped it into the Grimm?s tail at the base, cutting halfway through it before she recoiled from its screaming. She hesitated as she watched its half-detached tail spasm and spew black fluids everywhere. Fajio snatched her weapon from her and unceremoniously hacked the tail the rest of the way off before tossing the New Moon back at her. She caught it abashedly as the Grimm?s tail writhed to the ground and thrashed its way towards Rimer, who stomped on it, laughing tiredly.

Evegy managed to find her voice again as the maimed, trussed Grimm was hauled up onto Azoo?s shoulder, its one eye darting about in animal panic. ?Wait, what are we going to do with it, shouldn?t we just kill it??

Fajio looked like he was about to answer but they all flinched when the Seggnerlupe screeched out with that same horrible sound it had hit Evegy with. Fajio looked at it, as if he was deeply offended, and brandished his pocket knife. He thrust it downward through the thing?s snout before taking the last of his cord and tying it around the knife?s handle and around the Seggnerlupe?s broken jaw, shutting its mouth tight on any further outbursts.

Fajio cleared his throat, a metal cough of white noise that sent flecks of dark out of the bottom of his mouth, like blood but almost unnaturally thin. ?The Academy is always happy to have a Grimm to look at. As many of these things as run around they still haven?t figured out too much about them, what with the whole evaporating corpse thing. Makes dissection difficult, you see. Although Rimer has made what I must say are alarming strides in that field regardless.? He nodded to Rimer as he held out his arms for Azoo to help lock his shackles into place with his free hand; the big man easily held the trussed Grimm with only one hand even though it was his size and perhaps a tad bigger, and squirming maddeningly.

Rimer laughed, having managed to get his breath back, now. ?Hahaha, I try, I try. The teachers like to take live ones for the new students to kill, right??

Evegy nodded, now, understanding the value in it. ?Yeah and can?t that old guy that teaches the older huntsmen read Grimm minds??

Fajio snorted amusedly, checking his shackles to make sure they were secure: they were raked horribly and would probably need replaced. ?That?s probably an exaggeration, my dear, I wouldn?t think Grimm have anything like a proper mind to read in the first place. He probably just has an understanding of their instincts or something. I very much doubt he?ll talk to this thing if we bring it in.? The Seggnerlupe growled through its bound mouth and Fajio looked at it and shook his head. ?Nothing personal, old fellow,? he said to it, ?but you did attack us first.?

It growled at him and Fajio shrugged. ?That doesn?t apply,? he said.

Evegy looked at him incredulously. ?Oh, you can?t understand it, Rectum.?

Fajio turned and began limping away toward town, prompting Azoo and Rimer to follow. ?Of course I can?t, my dear, but I?m quite certain that any possible argument it could have made very likely doesn?t apply.?

Evegy huffed and sheathed her scimitar before catching up to the group. ?How could you know that it doesn't apply??

Fajio didn?t look over his shoulder when he answered. ?Because we won,? he said darkly.

Azoo cleared his throat awkwardly and moved the Grimm to his other shoulder as Rimer cackled. Evegy shook her head. ?What?s that supposed to mean??

Fajio just laughed as he kept limping onward, the sound of it like crooked-toothed gears grinding against one another as it crawled throughout the trees.

?In time, my dear. In time.?