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

Orx of Twinleaf · Sep 4, 2017

Team FEAR
(condensed for reduction of clutter and broken in the middle for your convenience)

Spoiler:

"It was my cross to bear. I had made the stuff; it didn't matter that I'd voted against using it. It's just … So. A lot of the students were scared to fight. They didn't want to go to war. Why would they? They were still children, really, and had spent all their training and education coming up to be Grimm-fighters, to be protectors. They didn't want to be soldiers. So, they had me working in the lab down there for months. They knew that war was coming, or they wouldn't have had me start so early. They told me it was just going to help shy students embrace Grimm combat. I should've known better. I called it 'liquid courage,' this fluid that erased someone's fear and put them into a sort of combat high. No sooner had I tested it with Team JONT's Dracruela hunt than did I catch wind of war in the air. The faculty all got together with some generals and we put it to a vote. Myself and two others were the only ones opposed. I did everything in my power to draft teams for lesser patrols and hunts, to get as many of them as I could out of deployment, because I knew what they were going to do. They drugged the first few shiploads of kids that reached the ambush point to make them fight the Faunus. No matter how many kids I managed to keep from going, I know a lot of them died because of what I made. They ran into fights they didn't need to fight, pissed off the Faunus, made the battlefield a slaughtering block. If this is the way Beacon works, if this is the way the world works, I want no part of it. We're doomed to the Grimm now, and I'm going out on my own terms."
—Excerpt from the suicide note of Dr. Swanni Podegard, quoted from Cage Cast Open: The Revolution of the Faunus

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Foxrally · Sep 5, 2017

Jairo ~~& Sahn~~ Xill

Team JSMN & ABAK
Not-so-royal Escort

Bea put up her hand to maybe stop Nina from hurrying off, but she was already gone, with Mira and Nel in tow. The boy, Jairo, was left behind on the ground.

"Well that must be useful for trips to the store," Agurolishi remarked.

Antonio, less keen on being so nonchalant on a battlefield, huffed disappointedly, appearing with his small frame like a chicken with particularly-ruffled feathers. "Not even so much as a 'zank you,' " he muttered. "She might have saved ze rest of us ze trouble of valking back."

"Well, are we supposed to go after Archer then?" Agurolishi asked, smiling at the thought and showing off the large point that her front teeth were fused into.

Antonio shook his head, though, and rummaged in his pocket to bring out his compass and check it. "Zat is not our job."

"Well, what is our job? Cuz I sorta think we should pay those humans back for what they did to JSMN's mate." She smiled evilly and drummed her fingers on her sickle.

Kab palmed his fist, too. "Yeah, that bird bitch'd be one thing, but this dude's sister coulda been any one of ours, or any one of us!" He knocked back a swig from one of the three huge jugs he had strung to his belt. "If ya ask me, Tony, we ought to sniff out some of the fuckers and–"

"Zen it is a good thing I didn't ask you!" the rooster Faunus snapped, quite uncharacteristically. Kab clapped his mouth shut abashedly and Agurolishi frowned in surprise. Antonio took a deep breath and put his compass away, bringing out instead a small booklet stuffed full of handwritten notes and directives and rifling through them with a purpose. "Zis isn't some game, zis is war. Ve all have orders and roles to play, and zat does not include looking around for people to kill. War is more zan pointless murder, and I am not going to have any team of mine vunning around like … like–"

"A chicken with its head cut off?" Agurolishi suggested. Antonio glared at her until her giggling subsided.

"It must be nice to be so unconcerned vith ze greater scheme of things," he said dryly.

"Tony, I didn't come out here to be an errand boy," Kab started. Antonio grabbed Kab's scarf and pulled the big viper Faunus down to look him in the face.

"Zere are people dying here, Kabrok," Antonio said quietly. "You might not have come here to vun errands, but I did not come here to see my friends go home in body bags." He let the man go. He turned to Agurolishi. "And you can put your veapon avay for now; ve're not going after Archer. Zat man is a demon; he has already wounded or killed too many people. Let zat murid girl try vhat she vill vith him, I'm not risking any of you near him again vizout a full multi-team squad behind us."

He found something in his note pad and removed it, transferring it to his front pocket before tucking the rest away to its own pocket. "For now ve vill return to camp vith Jairo. Bea, vill he move?"

Bea, who had been absorbed by her soft-spoken and timid leader's show of resolve, started at being addressed, and turned to look at the spider Faunus Nina had left with them. "Jairo? Jairo, can you stand?"

The spider Faunus stared blankly into her face for a few moments. Suddenly, for the first time in hours, his unnervingly jet-black eyes blinked at her. Some color in the center faded, revealing a faint outline of where his iris would have been. "Where's Mira…?" he muttered, squinting into Bea's unfamiliar face.

"Oh, Nina took her and Nel back to the camp, they were …" Bea trailed off.

"I think she said Mira was poisoned or something," Agurolishi said.

"Right," Bea said. She looked at Jairo gingerly, taken aback by the state of his eyes. "Are you alright enough to walk? We're heading back to camp, too."

"Ve can have Kab carry you if needed," Antonio added, now fumbling with some manner of walkie-talkie and inputting a number sequence from the note he had dug out earlier.

"Do I have to, Tony?" Kab protested. "I don't want to be reduced to a pack mule out here, I wanna bust some damned heads!"

"He'll veigh nothing on you: he is only as big as I am, maybe smaller," Antonio answered impatiently. He was turning knobs on the walkie-talkie now.

"Here," Bea said, holding a hand out to Jairo, "I'll help you up."

Unblinking, the spider Faunus silently took her hand, shakily getting to his feet. He squinted momentarily at all four members of ABAK, confused as to who these Faunus were. "Wh-Who the hell are you people?" he muttered, his eyes now fixed on the girl who had helped him up. "Where are you going?"

"Dude," Agurolishi said, a little offended, "I sat behind you in Human Anatomy. FaunAc isn't that big."

"We're Team ABAK," Bea said, riding over the octopus girl. "I'm Bea and that's Agurolishi. The guy in the eyepatch is Kab and the short one is Tony." Kab lifted his hand in a sort of half-wave and then hid his face behind his jug.

Antonio's brow twitched at being called short and at being introduced as Tony. "I vould prefer 'Antonio,' actually." He finished typing something else into his walkie-talkie and it started whining quietly as it calibrated. "Ve're heading back to ze camp now, and you can meet up vith your team zere. Somezing about needing immediate medical attention; I suppose you vere vell enough zat she decided you could come in vith us."

The walkie-talkie clicked on in time to hear the tail end of some kind of affirmation: "–at. We'll meet you there. KLAW out."

Jairo looked at the device, then the one-eyed snake Faunus, quickly recognizing him from one of Nel's earliest encounters. Having gotten his bearings, he nervously checked behind his back to check if his violin was there–it was, though the holster felt heavier than normal. The spider Faunus looked around, his memory still fuzzy and his legs still weak. His obvious reference point was Mira, and the latter was in camp.

"... Right," he muttered. "I'm, ah, Jairo, my si-" he stopped and exhaled. "Yeah. I can walk, let's go." He crossed his arms to signal he was ready.

They strolled a neat distance through the ruins in relative silence. Before long, Antonio got into a conversation with his radio. The latest response now came through. "That's a negative, Tony ol' pal," the walkie-talkie answered. A short burst of static followed, and then "Not unless you wanna be Roc food, ya feelin' me?"

Antonio frowned a moment and responded into the communicator, "Copy zat, Connor, ve'll find anozer vay through. ABAK out." They had been walking a few minutes already, but had slowed down when they heard a gurgling sound from up ahead.

"What the hell's a Roc?" Kab asked, revealing his lack of dedication to his Grimm Studies class.

"You know how a Nevermore can get really big?" Agurolishi said, spreading her arms for effect. "Well imagine if another Grimm saw that and decided 'I can be bigger than that'. Then imagine that it overdid it by two or three stories."

"Betcha I could take it," Kab said, drinking from one of his jugs.

"Maybe," Bea said, giving her teammate the benefit of the doubt. "With our help, anyway." She turned to Antonio. "I thought Rocs were only aggressive toward fliers?"

"I thought zey stayed in ze stratosphere unless provoked," Antonio answered. "Ze fighting must have aggravated it. Ve're going around for now to deliver Jairo back to camp. CURR and WNDR can handle it zemselves for now."

"But Tonyyyyyy," Agurolishi started.

"Ve can come help zem after," he acquiesced.

"Nice," Kab said, taking the lead and heading the group in a wide arc around the Roc's part of the village. "Let's get the little dude back to his team, then."

Antonio fiddled with his pockets as they walked and the girls dropped back to walk alongside Jairo.

"How you holding up, Jay-Jay?" Agurolishi asked, although more as if simply making small talk than really hoping to provide comfort.

Bea was a touch softer with her own words. "You doing alright?"

"Yeah … doing … good …" the spider Faunus mumbled, blinking slowly. The pair noticed he was sweating profusely, with a slight limp in his step. His eyes were still startlingly black, and his breaths came in short, delayed wheezes.

Agurolishi snorted. "If that's your 'good,' what's your 'bad' look like?"

Bea was a little less rough. "Are you hurt or is that just stress?"

"F-Fuck you!" Jairo blurted out, pointing at Bea and stomping his foot. "Don't give me that t-tone! I'm in fighting shape and I just need to get to camp!"

At that, there was a distant boom and a deep, rumbling croak. A simply gargantuan Grimm blasted through the building directly ahead, scattering the Faunus as it crashed to the ground, its immense wings smashing ruin into the streets. It was almost three hundred feet long from beak to legs, and it was flopping and croaking angrily as three of CURR's dog Faunus members beat at its face and back.

As ABAK and their charge scrambled for cover, WNDR's leader came bounding through the wreckage of the building the Grimm had crashed through, rotund and four stories tall, bristling with the steel spikes of her pufferfish phenotype. The Roc rose to its feet on car-sized red talons, standing straight like an owl while the lilliputian Faunus clinging to it continued to dig at its body. It clattered its beak and whipped a mess of hundred-foot-long arrowheaded tails out to catch the giant fish Faunus's charge, and she was sent bouncing back the way she'd come.

The remainder of team WNDR could be seen hopping rooftops to assist CURR when CURR's leader came by and helped Antonio up. "Well howdy Tony! I thought you was gonna go around?" Even in the midst of battle, the terrier Faunus's tail wagged as if it were just another day in the park.

Antonio dusted himself off angrily. "Connor, you're going to level ze city fighting it like zat." And then, ever the mission-minded leader, Antonio changed gears, his eyes open in surprise. "Jairo!" He turned and called. "Jairo, vhere have you gone?" He shook his fist at the undaunted Connor. "Zat better not have killed him!"

While Connor laughed off this extremely well-placed concern and the Roc stomped about trying to throw off the bulldog Faunus shotgunning its face, Bea got up and scanned the area, her eyes flashing with her Semblance as she looked for the spider Faunus they had been escorting. "Jairo?! Jairo!" She scanned frantically but turned to her leader. "I don't see him."

Antonio frowned a moment. His walkie-talkie clicked on and a young, distressed voice came through. "This is Rolph for Team TRAP; we're out in the grassland east of the town. Uh we're by a crashed flier about two miles out." Connor's radio was echoing this thought, though he clapped his hand over it so he could better hear Antonio's without interference. "We're fighting humans and Andrew's hurt real bad; we need help."

As Antonio turned this over in his head, the walkie-talkie filled with a few other voices responding. "Mick Ozzay of MEEM here; we can't help you. We're pinned down by humans with CRNR in the old market district and can't disengage."

"Widjurat with KLAW; we can't make it to your location. Some of the town came down in an explosion and we're heading to camp to be patched up."

"John with … Just John. I'm sorry Rolph, we … I'm out of the fight. They're all dead. I can't leave Zoey here. I need to be with her."

"Chrissakes John, stop being so fucking melodramatic. This is Idipixizi: me and the rest of LIFE are on the way. Sorry Rolph, JAZZ is closer."

Antonio paused a moment as the responses came to an end. He looked at Connor, who took his own radio and said, "Connor with CURR giving you a negatory, Rolphy. Us and WNDR got our hands full with this here Roc; can't let the big birdie find the camp." He was about to add on that ABAK was with them too, but Antonio stopped him.

Antonio passed one more look over the wreckage, the Roc now stomping through it as it wrestled with a giant pufferfish Faunus. He looked at Bea. She glanced over her shoulder and shook her head unhappily. Antonio sighed.

He clicked on his radio. "Antonio vith ABAK; ve're in your quadrant. Hang in zere, Rolph, ve're coming."

"What about Jay-Jay?" Agurolishi asked, though she was grinning and obviously rather pleased with the chance for combat.

Antonio rubbed his eyes tiredly and ignored her. "Connor."

"Yeah?" Connor was eyeing him thoughtfully. One of his teammates rocketed away behind him, crashing into the street. She got up and hopped back toward the Roc. Connor didn't do more than glance over his shoulder.

"If Jairo is still here, can I ask you or Wilma to make sure he gets to camp?"

Connor rubbed his scruffy chin. "Jairo … Little spider dude, yeah? Of course, Tony, we'll take care of him if we see him." The Roc clapped its wings together and sent three Faunus out of sight into an alley along with about a load-and-a-half of debris carried on the gust. Connor saw it, shaking his head. "If he's still got his head on, he'll have probably snuck off by now though."

Antonio nodded and waved his team onward toward the grasslands outside the town. Kab unhappily disengaged, Big Wilma coming in to take his place grappling the giant's legs. Antonio followed after them, waving back to Connor. "Ve owe you one, Connor!"

Connor waved goodbye, spinning up his minigun and turning back towards the Roc. "Keep at it, guys!" he called to his fellows over the roar of the gun. "If we live through this, drinks are on Tony!"

A joint post of Orx of Twinleaf and Foxrally

Khawill · Sep 6, 2017

Ilexa
GAIN/Outskirts

Ilexa and Her Prisoner

Ilexa was frustrated, the boy that she found at Isa's hideout was more than a small burden, and when she returned to where she was watching Archer, she found that he had been captured not once, but twice. The second time she recognized the people though, and the two of them hoofed it through the wilderness towards the area she knew that Nilya would be.

As they approached the town, Ilexa could feel her semblance get stronger, a sign her sister was in there, and her heart leaped, although she had more pressing issue than a reunion. The boy walked behind her quietly, afraid of her ever since they left and he explained what he had done. They tried desperately to avoid any and all fights.

Suddenly she encountered a strange sight the ground had been warped and changed, the grass and earth were colored unnaturally in shades of blue and purple. There seemed to be a path made by the mutated ground. A tree found directly along this path had taken on a nightmarish form. Its vibrant gloss black bark twisted into scaled blue skin in the upper parts of the tree. More disturbing was the various eyes that looked around looking bewildered as they seemed to be taking in the world for the first time.

Ilexa frowned, undisturbed from what she had seen over the last few months, but the faunus boy was terrified as they walked, yanking on the rope, "No this is unnatural, let's go a different way." He pleaded.

"No, I think I know what kind of sicko would do something like this." Ilexa replied with a disgusted sigh.

The unnatural silence was suddenly broken by a scream then silence returned, clearly Gareth was not done with his work here yet. The scream was not far from the pair's current position.

Ilexa pulled her prisoner towards the screaming, causing more resistance from the faunus, who was much to weak for Ilexa to even be annoyed by it. "Quit your whining, if you annoy him he might rearrange your face." Ilexa said nonchalantly and coldly.

As Ilexa and her prisoner moved past the tree it let out a strange hissing sound as it stared at them, but it did not move otherwise. It did not take them long to find Gareth, whose large form towered over Ilexa as it seemed initially distracted by something in the opposite direction as them. Suddenly it shifted turning to face the new comers. Both of its bird like heads focused on Ilexa each with a different smile as they spoke in unison.

"O look another human to play with and look it brought a pet," said the one with a wicked smile.

"Aaaa it is the one I turned into a Faunus' twin. Are you here seeking information on Archer?" asked the other whose smile was more of a satisfied one.

The ground around him was changed to an alien landscape and shimmered like glass. The twisted forms of three beings could be found amidst the monster. Twisted forms of mutated flesh and bone. The only hint these were once hunters was their weapons still spread around the surrounding area.

The faunus was crying and had stuck himself behind Ilexa in pure fear, Ilexa on the other hand sighed, mostly just because it was starting to smell bad. "No actually, I'm looking for Nilya." She replied curtly. "This worthless person has a lot of explanation to do about Archer, and I know she had something to do with the people that took him prisoner."

"Always about Archer with you two. Are you more curious in what I did to your sister?" replied the more sadistic looking head.

The more neutral head spoke at the same time and focused on what Ilexa's question, "So the answer is yes, you are seeking information on Archer. Just I am not the one you want answers from. I know where Nilya is, but why should I tell you?"

"You don't have to tell me." Ilexa replied, frowning and ignoring the part about her sister, "Although you might get the chance to work on Archer again." She replied, crossing her arms, "We recently found something out about his heritage, that's your line of work is it not?"

"I do not want to work on him. Even to torture and twist him would be a waste of my talents, he is better at doing it to himself," replied one head.

"You fail to understand me, now my next question you should answer carefully. Why should I allow you to live?" said the calmer looking head as it seemed to be sizing Ilexa up.

Ilexa pulled out her communication device to check the time and sighed, "What, do you think you're scary?" She asked, crossing her arms, standing on alert, "The last few months, I've watched a seemingly normal person commit serious atrocities. Meanwhile you are a literal monster, no scarier than the grimm." Ilexa held the faunus up by his collar, showing his sobbing, pathetic face, "And this one has a little something that I distinctly remember Nina telling me that Nilya wants." She dropped him on the ground.

Suddenly the air around Ilexa began to change, movement began more difficult as the air hardened around her. The head with a wicked smile seemed amused, "I am much scarier than any grimm, and if you were intelligent you would understand that. In your case the lack of fear comes from stupidity. You should always fear what can destroy you."

The other head seemed less interested overall with Ilexa and the boy. "You clearly do not understand. You are no threat to me. Defiant and brave perhaps, but no reason we should bother each other. You have your own mission with this pawn. Any ways I just remembered I wanted you to relay a message to your sister."

The air returned to normal around Ilexa and the wicked head suddenly glared at the other one. This time only the calmer head spoke, "I decided she is better off not just looking like a faunus, but being one as well. Strange I wonder if changing her genetic code like that makes her still your twin or not. A question to ponder at another time." Gareth's own train of thought seemed to distract him as he talked to the human.

"Stay away from my sister." Ilexa replied with a frown, picking up the faunus who had at this point passed out in fear. "And don't bother doing anything to me if she's in your sights, we're still linked." Ilexa said in a sour tone.

"Begs the question, if you two are linked can you feel it? My power that flows in her blood like poison? I do as I will and your sister's life is in the palm of my hand. The price she paid for my help," replied one of Gareth's heads.

"I have no use for either of you at this time. You are less amusing than I hoped you would be, and I grow bored of your presence. The one you seek is in that direction," added the other head suddenly seeming more friendly than it had before. It reached out with one of its long arms and pointed in a direction behind it, but at the same time motioned in a different direction with its staff.

Ilexa sighed, picking up the passed out faunus and slinging him over her shoulder and walking in the direction past the monstrous faunus, "No I don't feel it." Ilexa said, stopping for a moment and turning to Gareth, "It feels like one of us has been dead for a hole now." She adjusted the faunus and continued on past the repulsive scene.

"Why do we not destroyer her like the others?" hissed one head.

"Like she said she is linked to her twin, and I do not desire to destroy one of our tools. It could come into use later, " explained the other head as Ilexa walked away. The two halves of Gareth continued their debate as he began walking off in the opposite direction as Ilexa.

Ilexa listened for combat and did her best to avoid it as she hoped she took the right direction to finding Nilya. The faunus on her shoulder shook in fear, even though he had passed out, and Ilexa sighed with disappointment.

Nilya led Lauren's team away from the Grimm they had evaded that were closing in on the faunus and humans fighting. She was uncertain where to go as the humans and faunus fighting were in one direction and the grimm were closing in from the others. She had intentionally headed in the direction Gareth had flown off toward in the hopes he would provide a massive distraction so they would be less likely to encounter any humans.

Doubt about her decision to go alone began to form in her mind as they walked. Should she have told Varik? He would have insisted on helping, and right now perhaps he could have. Guilt began to burn in her heart because she did not want him to help because she thought she would be better off alone. The more power she gained the more she seemed inclined to do everything herself. She glanced back at Nara and her mind began to form thoughts and doubts about her reclusive nature. This train of thought ended when she looked ahead again and spotted someone approaching them.

Nilya drew her sword as the person approached. Her stance relaxed a little when she saw it was Ilexa, but the fact she was carrying a faunus made her ears perk up in an alert state. Nilya heard Nara mumble from behind her, "O great one of them…"

Ilexa put the faunus on the ground and put her hands up, "Hey Nilya, hey Nara." She said, showing no signs of a will to fight, "I just need to talk."

Nilya replied in a neutral tone, forsaking her fake friendly persona she often used, "What do you want to talk about?"

Nara stared at the faunus and quickly added, "Why were you carrying that faunus?"

"Because Gareth made him pass out." Ilexa replied, "If you're asking why he is with me, well first, I couldn't let him burn alive in Gaige and Isa's hideout." Ilexa was both tired and sore, and Gareth's encounter had left a bad taste in her mouth. "I just need to know what ha been going on is all."

"If you have something specific you need to ask about then ask. This is not the time or place for a drawn out conversation," replied Nilya.

"Why is this fight breaking out?" Ilexa asked, "And do you know where Nina could be?" She had so many questions, and there was the relief of finally encountering people who weren't trying to kill her after months of solitude, a part of her wanted to just hug Nilya there, but the rest of her was cautious and couldn't muster the trust.

Nilya's right eye raised and one of her ears cocked off to the side as she stared at Ilexa confused. She then sighed and replied, "Faunus finally got fed up with being treated like animals by humans and rebelled. I am sorry I have not seen Nina lately, but I did see Archer rather recently. He was a captive of a faunus team, but I left the location he was being held right before the violence started."

Nara spoke after Nilya, "Considering Nina looks like a faunus you two should be very careful. Most faunus will try to kill you on sight, and most humans will try to kill her. If it is discovered she is a human with the appearance of a faunus, she will be executed by the faunus. The humans knew we were here so they would jump to the conclusion that she is a spy who tipped the humans off."

Nilya frowned and nodded at Nara's words. She was glad Varik had a plan for them to be able to live in peace together. She forced down her feelings of fear and uncertainty of the future so she could remain strong for Nara.

Ilexa rubbed her neck, to humans the both of them were worse than spies anyways, "To be honest, when I saw Archer get shot by his dad, I hoped he had died." Ilexa admitted with a sigh. "I just wanted to get my sister and leave this mess." She kneeled down and lifted the passed out faunus up over her shoulder again, "Do you guys have something I can make a couple calls on?"

Nilya reached into her short kimono and pulled out a scroll, and did something on it before handing it to Ilexa. She had wiped most of the information off of it so Ilexa could keep it if she needed to. "Be careful some people can track transmissions and discover your location using it. I wish I could help you find your sister, but I have not seen her in a while," calmly said Nilya.

One of my Varik's co workers, the energetic faunus, interacted with your sister several times perhaps she would know more," suddenly added Nara.

Ilexa took the phone and dialed a number, "Archer is still alive." She said, pausing a moment, "Yeah, I don't think Isa or Gaige have found him yet, yeah the place I sent you is definitely right, it's a battlefield here." She paused to listen a bit and sighed, "Will she be alright if we kill him? We'll take care of that if it comes up then." Ilexa said, hanging up and giving the phone back.

"Thanks for your help Nilya, especially with not outing my sister." Ilexa said gratefully, "I can find Nina when it's all over."

Nilya raised an eyebrow as she listened to Ilexa talk on the phone. "I have no reason to out her she has done nothing to me that would cause me to take such actions. However I must ask what is with the faunus you are carrying around?" replied Nilya looking at the knocked out faunus Ilexa had been hauling all over the place.

"This kid was working with Isa and Gaige, his semblance is much more effective at making Archer worse." Ilexa felt sick remembering the things Archer did over the months, and she held back anger, "After I burned down their hideout, I was kind of forced to take him with me."

"What is his semblance?" asked Nilya curious how the faunus made Archer worse.

"He says he can make mental traits stronger or weaker I guess." Ilexa replied with a sigh, "Apparently a part of Archer is really just like that."

"Interesting," replied Nilya before asking, "Did you need anything else? We best be proceeding on our separate paths. Our proximity to each other is dangerous considering we are faunus and you are human. I am sure both sides would jump to dangerous conclusions if they saw us in this "casual" conversation."

"Thanks again, hopefully this won't be the last time I see you guys." Ilexa says with a little laugh. "Oh and, don't tell anyone I wished Archer was dead… Nina especially would be angry."

"I do not think…" started to reply Nilya before she was interrupted by her scroll making a noise. Looking at it she seemed a little startled before quickly typing out a message.

Nara quickly asked, "Who was that?"

"Varik," replied Nilya softly as she started to look around as if searching for something in the distance.

Ilexa smiled, and took a deep breath, "Alright, I'll see you guys later." She tried to say casually. She felt like she had just gotten out of hell, and now she was going back as she started to walk.

THE END

Foxrally · Sep 8, 2017

PART 3 - GRIMM RUSH

Following the ambush, the humans and faunus fought tooth and nail in the ravaged city, casualties and injuries rising on both sides. But inevitably, this brawl would not last without the grimm.

Attracted by the death, destruction and hatred emanating from the ruins like a giant beacon, every single Grimm in a five-mile radius has been swarming towards the battle, causing hordes of beowolves, creepers and other lesser grimm to storm through the streets while larger grimm ravage through the skies and tear down buildings. Unprotected camps will be overtaken by the grimm soon, and evacuation (or fighting them off) is the only solution.

At the front lines of the battlefield at point C, the situation has gone from bad to worse. Grimm have also began swarming the trenches, coastlines and no man's land, including reports of gigantic, bipedal grimm. All hunstmen from the human and faunus forces have been ordered to retreat to point C to assist with the Grimm invasion.

Humans & Faunus:

Grimm have swarmed the city streets! Find a safe place to hide or be trampled and devoured by the monsters.
The higher-ups have called for all huntsmen and huntresses to go to point C - that is, if you can escape.
If you are in a camp, it will be overtaken soon. Make arrangements for your character to get out, or protect the camp long enough for everyone in it (sick people, injured people, medics) to get out.
Going to point C is optional. If you want to finish up your character's story in the ruins, or elsewhere, feel free to do so. Point C is basically a chance for people to have an epic Titan fight if they want to.

Khawill · Sep 19, 2017

GAIN
Archer gives up his mind for a chance to live.

Archer found an old cart that had been abandoned and was halfway in the ground. A tattered cloth on the back was all that separated him from the sounds of fighting and screaming. A pack of grimm had ambushed him as he left the town, and although he managed to take care of them, his arm was bleeding from bites, and all he could do was sit against the inside wall of the cart and hope he wasn't found by more.

After what felt like hours, he heard voices outside, familiar, enraging ones, mixed with strangers. "Have you seen a human with red hair?." The female voice asked with her usual polite and deceptive tone.

"No, we haven't seen any of those." A boy's voice replied, tired and filled with relief from finding some peace, "Why are you looking for a specific human? We have orders to kill or capture any and all of them."

"I'm part of a special team, this human is expressly supposed to be captured." Isa replied.

"We would've been briefed on this if it that was the case." The boy replied, "I'll call the teachers to see if they know anything."

"Where is the rest of your team? Why are there only two of you?" Isa asked suddenly.

"They… we had to leave them behind…" The boy said sorrowfully. Archer could hear him starting to punch in the number.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Isa said, Archer could hear her moving, and he felt anger as the next sound he heard was the bloody gurgle of the boy as he attempted to breath. His teammate screamed in horror and Archer didn't hesitate to slam his back against the cart's wooden wall and tackle Isa. The boy laid face down on the ground in a pool of blood with a knife in his heart., and Archer saw Gaige approaching the fleeing girl with one of his dragons. Archer tried to get up, but Isa held his arm. "So you weren't killed after all." She said happily, as if her pet had come home, "Although it seems they managed to fix you, mostly." Archer tried to pull away but she injected something into his neck. His vision began to rapidly fade as she laughed, "Don't worry, I'll take care of you Archer."

Nina heard the scream and sprinted towards the source, she saw the girl running and immediately recognized Gaige. She intercepted the dragon and with enough speed to make it hard to detect her, she kicked Gaige away. He flew into a crumbling wall and she saw as Isa held Archer, his body convulsing as he cried out in pain. Nina sprinted towards Isa, but she was grabbed by one of her grimm images, "I heard some faunus calling this field hell, I laughed at first, but I certainly am seeing a lot of dead people." She smiled as she looked at the struggling Nina. "This is good though, if I kill you when his eyes open, I'm sure there will be no way that he'll come back."

"And when I kill you, the world will dance on your grave." Nina spat at her, "You and the traitor."

-----

Painfully charging up another leap, Nel used her semblance again to jump to the next rooftop. Her decision to leave camp again hadn't been easy. She tried her best to trust Nina, but it was Archer who she couldn't trust on remaining normal. What if he had relapsed in her absence? Could she have possibly been the reason for a relapse? "I just can't afford to lose anyone else… no more." she thought to herself, feeling a sudden pang of guilt for her teammate's fate. She knew the general direction Nina had gone in, but finding Archer was just a matter of luck now.

As if to answer her prayers, the sound of a familiar voice screaming called out from below. Fearing the worst, her heart sank - it was Archer. She leaped down, slowing her descent with her semblance and gliding down to where she had heard the voices. As she turned the corner and entered the destroyed ground floor of a building, she saw two individuals, a man and a woman, standing next to a writhing, screaming Archer. The woman had somehow summoned a grimm-like creature in front of her, and it had grabbed Nina, with the mouse faunus seemingly unable to escape.

Instinctively, Nel took a step towards them, swinging her arm forward and shooting an airblade at the grimm's arm. The blade cut through its flesh with ease, and its forearms fell along with Nina, prompting it to reel back in pain.

Nina dropped to the ground and immediately went for Isa, though she was quickly flung into the air by one of Gaige's earth dragons. Isa looked over to Nel with a frown, "That wasn't very nice, I'm just taking care of some traitors." Isa looked at her and tried to remember who she was exactly, petting Archer's hair as he thrashed around violently.

"Let go of him!" Nel screamed, her rage growing as she saw the woman toying with the flailing Archer. She couldn't tell what was going on or why the two of them were fighting Nina, but all she wanted was to get Archer away. "What did you do to him?!"

"I just gave him his medicine, he wasn't acting right." Isa replied with a smile. Nel was suddenly flung to the side by one of Isa's Grimm, an oversized beowulf. Meanwhile, Nina was doing her best to not be consumed by Gaige's dragons.

Before she had a chance to recover, Nel was pinned to the ground by the beowulf. She kept the Grimm's jaws away from her face as it snapped viciously at her, before pushing it to the side with a spinning kick. Using the momentum to conjure a whirlwind, it was tossed up into the air along with the first Grimm the woman had summoned. Quickly, Nel drew her guns, firing off at the flailing Grimm and killing them in midair. Turning to Nina and Gaige, she threw out a wide, arching airblade, slicing through the dragon that the human had thrown at Nina.

"Nina! Come help me get Archer, so we can get out of here!" she called out to the girl, readying another airblade to knock out the grimm-summoning lady.

Isa smiled as she stood up, a nevermore landing behind her and picking Archer up in its beak, tossing him at Nel, "Go ahead and take him." Isa replied as both she and Gaige retreated upwards.

A panic in Nina began to rise as she felt something that she hadn't in almost a year. Her body began to feel subtly heavier, and Nel began to feel it as well. Archer didn't move, nor did he make any sound, although tears streamed down his blank face.

Nel hurried over to Archer, kneeling down to pick him up. "Archer! Archer! What did they-"

The ground began to get wet as water vapor became heavy enough to drop to the ground. It felt like every second, both Nel and Nina were being pushed down with more and more weight, until even moving was hard. Air began to rush into the now expanding dome of gravity, and both Isa and Gaige found that they were being pulled in without the ability to resist. Nel was violently slammed against the ground as her arms gave out, the gravity becoming too strong to resist. She gasped for air as Archer's semblance pressed her body against the ground, slowly crushing her.

She was in the verge of passing out, when she suddenly realized the massive amount of air that was being sucked into Archer's dome. Grunting, she concentrated her semblance momentarily before violently expulsing all of it from Archer's dome, blasting herself, Nina, and the two kidnappers away from it.

Nel got to her knees, coughing and wheezing as air filled her lungs again. She looked over at Nina. "Talk about… being grounded…" she muttered to herself compulsively, letting out a nervous cough-laugh.

The buildings in the dome began to creak and eventually crumble under their own weights as Archer himself began to noticeably be affected. The circle was only widening and Archer could be heard weeping at the center.

Nina seemed to be in a panic, wanting to go in but unable to muster up the courage. She knew he would die before he hurt anyone, but she didn't want him to die like that. Just as she was starting to give up, six pods landed in the dirt nearby, five of them opening to reveal two familiar humans, and three familiar faunus. Lucina was there, along with a younger boy. The faunus trio, Ciena, Zierra, and Esraella were next to them, sporting their lavish capes with the latter two grinning ear to ear. "Good eye Ciena, that is definitely Archer in there." Esraella said as she approached Nina and gave her a tight hug.

"What are you guys doing here?" Nina asked, staring in confusion.

Lucina stepped forward first, shaking Nina's hand and looking over at Nel, extending a hand out to her. "Your sister called us over the last few weeks and set up a plan to get Archer back." She said seriously, looking into the circle, "We were hoping we wouldn't have to deal with his semblance though."

Nel's eyes grew wide at Lucina's statement. She was slightly concerned by the words "get back", but getting the human out of his pain was her priority. Grabbing her hand, she panickedly pointed at Archer. "You can help him?! Please, I don't know what they did to him, but he's- HEY!"

The falcon girl had looked up and seen two silhouettes vanish around a corner, to the neighboring building. "Please help him." Nel begged, looking into the newcomer's eyes. "I'm gonna do something Archer really isn't gonna like."

Letting go, she powered up her wind semblance, before shooting off in Isa and Gaige's direction.

Lucina looked at Nina, "I need you to be away from here… our method isn't going to be clean." Nina nodded, looking towards Nel.

"Just don't die for our sake." Nina said sprinting off, feeling stronger.

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The five newcomers each hit a button to open the sixth capsule, and out stepped Lull, looking much healthier and much more angry. Vigor stretched out and then wrapped himself around her, "Did you have to lock us both in?"

Ciena frowned, uncomfortable around the two of them, stepping slightly behind Zierra. "You were the one who went crazy before we left…"

"I read… the reports." Lull said quietly with her soft voice. "It made me angry."

Lucina stepped forward and took her hand, "We have him this time, but you're the only one who can get to him without getting killed."

She nodded and grabbed her cello out of her pod, sitting on a rock and starting to play. Vigor danced for a bit as he grew to an enormous size, darting into the field completely unaffected.

Archer laid blank at the center, his mind broken. "Just let me take control, then neither of us will die." His beastly self stated.

"You'll cause trouble." Archer said angrily, accepting that he may have to die here to end things.

"Maybe if I wasn't imprisoned in your mind, you wouldn't have such an unruly ability." It said angrily, "Didn't it feel good to be sad or angry and not have your bones crack?" Archer stayed quiet as he heard the familiar cello. "See, now we have to be killed, and they'll make her do it."

Archer gripped his fist, "Why did you say you were imprisoned?" He asked with uncertainty, "Don't you mean trapped?"

"No I was imprisoned!" It snapped angrily, "Your worthless father tried to cut me off, but all he did was prevent me from having a body."

"My body." Archer stated.

"No my body." It snapped, "I still can't fathom how after all these years, you haven't figured out who your mother was."

Archer was quiet as the cello got louder, "If it's Dad, then it would be some kind of device." Archer said, thinking, "But I won't be able to move if our body is this out of control. Let me take control of the body, stop fighting it." He said.

"That won't do, if Lull is going to kill us, I'm the only one who can keep us alive." It said smugly, "You'll be able to figure things out while I'm in control won't you?"

Archer frowned and then nodded, "Show some restraint. If anyone dies because of you, I'll make sure the two of us are either dead or in a coma forever."

It cheered and walked out the metaphorical door with glee, as the monster took over Archer's body, causing the gravity to weaken more and more as the feral side of him took control.

Foxrally · Sep 25, 2017

Jairo ~~& Sahn~~ Xill

Team JSMN
Grief

"Oh, I know I'm not the only one seeing this!" Sal exclaimed, sporting his usual grin at the sight of the colossal Grimm. He and Brooke had emerged from the trees just as the Roc made its dramatic arrival, making him forget about his earlier exhaustion. Brooke took a moment to check her ammo, making sure her weapons were all fully loaded.

"Stay sharp, Sal. This could be the biggest threat we've ever faced." She put on her leader voice, her bravado masking her dread. Sal shattered that with a nonchalant snort. "Nah. We've fought bigger. Remember the Kraken?"

Brooke shook her head, holding back a sigh. Sal was always one to jump the gun, and being with him required a less delicate leadership approach. "First off, we had our whole team that time, plus Team BOMB. Secondly, this is much bigger than that, Sal! There are undoubtedly several teams fighting that thing, so get over your ego and let's go kick some ass!" Sal saluted, grinning wickedly. "Yes, ma'am!"

The pair rushed back into the town, Brooke putting aside her concern for the absent members of her team while she focused on the challenge at hand. She would caution finesse, but Sal was all brute force and rage, a gun in need of pointing. "Sal, circle around and attack from behind. We only get one chance at a surprise attack." She sent him one way while she went another, looking for an elevated position to shoot from. There were other teams, as she had surmised, but little time to coordinate with them, especially with Sal doing his thing.

Sal rushed straight in, launching a fireball as soon as he got a clear view of the Roc's legs. The cannon shot exploded on impact, the heat bloom scorching the scales on the Grimm's legs. It squawked as it spun in place, smacking Sal with one of its massive tail feathers. The impact knocked him through a wall, out a window on the opposite wall, and in through another window before he stopped. He groaned as he stood up, grabbing a handful of vines and draining the energy from them. "Sorry, Ozzy. But I need the pick-me-up."

Suddenly, a bullet whizzed past the croc faunus' ear, burying itself into the wood behind him. The building he had landed in was all but collapsed, with large chunks of the walls missing, rubble and furniture scattered around the hall, and vines growing over the debris. A hoarse but visibly exhausted voice called out from where the shot had come.

"Die, you- oh." Jairo stopped as he noticed Sal's scales. The spider faunus was battered and bruised all over from the Roc's previous attack, which had thrown him out of ABAK's reach and into this large school-like building. Unapologetically, he lowered his weapon and hopped over to Sal. "I'm heading to camp. Wheres the rest of the faunus?" he asked.

"Oh, you know." Sal replied cryptically, still hearing a ringing in his ears. "Here, and there, and by the bird, and probably some at camp." He looked over the Ozzy-sized spider, noticing how battered he was. "What's a little guy like you doing in a warzone like this?"

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After seeing Sal get knocked away by the Roc, Brooke put her own assault on hold to go after him. Even amongst all the destruction, it was hard to miss the holes Sal had punched through the buildings. She gracefully leapt through the window Sal had "opened" for her, pointing her gun at Jairo. She immediately lowered it when she noticed his extra arms, relieved that Sal was okay, but angry that he'd disobeyed her. "Damn it, Sal! What the hell were you thinking?!"

Jairo squinted. "Wait, I recognize you two. Team, uh, SOBR, ROBS, whatever Mira's friends with you, yeah?" he asked, addressing Brooke. "You seen her anywhere?"

"Team BROS." Brooke corrected, Sal's unapologetic smile telling her she wouldn't get a satisfactory answer from the croc. It took her a moment to remember Mira. "I haven't seen Mira in a while, let alone around here. With all the action around here, though, we're trying to meet up with our own teammates. Why don't you come with us, and we'll look for them? There's safety in numbers, after all."

"Yeah!" Sal chimed in. "Especially when your numbers are as big as me! Stick with us, Jared!" Brooke sighed, shaking her head. "Jairo. His name is Jairo. Forgive him, he takes time to learn new things."

The boy momentarily considered the offer, wondering if he was better off finding ABAK again before realizing they were probably busy fighting the Roc. "Yeah, sure." he said, holstering his gun. Almost instinctively, and without realizing it, he slung himself over the croc faunus' shoulder and onto his back. To his credit, Sal accepted Jairo's actions without complaint. The spider Faunus was surprisingly light, and Sal barely noticed his presence.

Brooke looked on, baffled, but shrugged it off. There were more pressing matters, and it was slightly heartwarming to see Sal's fraternal side. "Alright, let's move out!" She ordered.

Sal followed Brooke's lead, starting to enjoy giving Jairo a ride. "So what're you doing all the way out here? Shouldn't the rest of your team be with you?"

The boy took a while to answer, still trying to get comfortable on Sal's rough skin before muttering out a reply. "We got separated. The other two are in camp."

"Well, that's funny! We got separated from our team, too! They should be at camp. Or they're still out there, one of the two." Sal pondered that for a moment, losing his cheer as he did. "I hope they're doing okay. I'd hate for either of them to be out there, still fighting. Mostly 'cause I don't want them getting a higher body count than me. Mostly." He perked back up by the end of his thought process, as though he was forcing himself to be in a good mood. His last statement did give Jairo some perspective - as far as he knew, Mira and Nel were worried sick about him, and still couldn't case less. As he shuffled around some more on Sal, the violin case on his back bumped into Sal's head, with more weight that he had expected.

"Hey!" Sal complained, a low growl bubbling in his chest. The impact snapped him out of his introspective funk, and he finally got to a point he should've reached minutes earlier. "Wait a minute, don't you mean other three? Brooke and I have two team mates in camp, but you should have three, right?"

"No. Three." Jairo snapped, finally deciding to check what had weighed down his case the whole time. He opened it up, finding a set of vaguely familiar brass gloves. He looked at them for a moment in confusion, before realizing who they were for - Sahn.

"Hey, take these." he motioned to Brooke, tossing over the pair. "You made 'em last winter. We don't need them anymore."

Brooke caught the gloves, taking only a moment to recognize them. Being much quicker on the draw than her teammate, she reached the logical conclusion almost instantly. "Oh, Jairo... I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. What... do you need to talk about it?" She held onto the gloves, unsure with what to do with them just yet.

Sal didn't quite get it. "You guys okay? There a problem with the gloves? I mean, they're not your size, obviously, but..." Seeing Brooke's face helped him understand the gravity of the situation, if not the context. She wasn't glaring at him, instead giving Jairo her attention. "Someone gonna fill me in?"

"It was... because of me." Jairo uttered. "Sahn died. Because of me." he said, his eyes turning black as he fought back the dark tears welling in them. "That's what happened. I should've stayed back, but I... i didn't, man, fuck, I didn't!"

"Oh..." Was all Sal could think to say. He hadn't known Sahn, and he'd never really lost anyone before, so this was new to him. "You can't blame yourself, man. What good is beating yourself up gonna do? I think you need to find someone else to beat up. Turn your anger into something useful!"

"That's enough, Sal." Brooke ordered quietly. "That might work for you, but Jairo isn't you. You can't just punch a loss like this away." She stepped closer, but let Jairo have his space. "While I agree that you'll need to channel your emotions into something, that can wait. I've been there before, I know how much it hurts. You're going to be going over everything that happened, wondering what you could have done wrong, what you should have changed. But you know you can't change it, it's already done, and that knowledge, that helpless, hopeless feeling, hurts more than anything else. And this is gonna sound strange, but you need to hold on to that hurt, you need to embrace it, because that's what's going to make you strong, that's what's going to get you out of here. That's how you know who you're going to be."

Jairo frowned, initially confused by Brooke's cold 'consolation', but his expression softening as he took in what she meant to say. In a way, it was nice having someone who'd gone through this before. Clearing his throat, he replied a word he hadn't uttered in ages till now:

"...thanks."

Brooke nodded, offering a small smile as she did. "Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together. Now let's move out!" She turned back toward camp, eyes on the sky in case the Roc came back.

Sal had nothing to add, so he just followed Brooke, carrying Jairo as comfortably as he could.

A joint post of Godzil and Foxrally

StingrayP226 · Sep 26, 2017

Walking out of Hell... Part 1

?You killed them all! I had friends on that ship!? exclaimed the faunus as she pointed her submachine gun at Varik.

?It was us or them. The Brackmans would not allow me to survive if I would no longer stay under their thumbs, and you coming with me meant they would have ended you a well. I wish I did not have to take such drastic measures but I had to do it to protect my family,? replied Varik calmly despite Blair pointing her gun at his head.

?But? you could have gotten Nilya and returned to the ship,? replied Blair tears falling from her eyes.

?They would see Nilya and her family as a liability or as bargaining chips to use against me. People are tools to them Blair. Remember how Gustaf offered you up as a replacement? He was not joking. Do you really want such soulless disconnected people having as much power as they were working toward? Especially after this war concludes?? asked Varik.

?And you would be different?? spat Blair.

?I don?t want to be a leader. I used to, but I saw what that power can do to people,? replied Varik his voice filled with conviction.

?Then what do you want?? asked a confused Blair.

?Right now to be there for my wife. Perhaps one day I would like to be a father as well? For now that is it. However I have an obligation to those we already promised safety from the coming storm. I will put my gifts to fulfilling that promise, but I do not want to be the one in control,? replied Varik.

Blair stared at Varik her mouth hanging open, ?So the man who invented teleportation like it was nothing, a man who could likely just blow up this planet if he so desired with some crazy device, or could take over the world just wants to be a ordinary husband.?

?Being Nilya?s husband is anything but ordinary. I am a human and she is a faunus in a world that our two races are so unaccepting of each other we are going to war. As far as letting my gift ?go to waste? I feel like many of my decisions made in the name of good intentions have caused more pain. This world is not ready for the massive technology boost I could evoke. People would just use it to solidify power and create tyrants, and in the process of doing so create untold bloodshed,? replied Varik softly.

?Why are you giving up on our kinds?? asked Blair.

?I am not, but now is not the time for an era of great technological advancement,? stated Varik. ?Either way I must focus on saving Nilya,? added Varik.
Blair sighed and asked, ?Why are you so obsessed with Nilya??

Varik was silent for a moment before he responded ?We are both flawed, but she completes and grounds me. She is my soul?s anchor to this world? She is the reason my soul has not been replaced with cold logical processes or fiery destructive anger. She questions me and helps guide me so I do not lose myself to my intelligence or passionate whims. I can be an unbalanced monster that fluxuates between pure cold logic or unchecked emotions, but when Nilya is with me I am more at peace. She is my shield against myself,? replied Varik calmly. ?If I am to apply my gift approately I need her help.?

?While this conversation is a good one to decide where we stand, I fear it needs to end. It appears the emotional events of the day have attracted the Grimm,? remarked Cadivus as he looked off in the distance with his artificial eyes.

?We have to get to Nilya now? strength in numbers,? replied Blair as she lowered the weapon from Varik?s head.

Varik nodded and motioned for the other two to followed him to Nilya?s location, using her scroll as a tracking device.

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Nilya watched silently as the Nara said her goodbyes to her former team. When Nara walked back to Nilya?s side the white haired faunus said, ?Nilya we might have our differences, but we are family. In this craziness and hate I think it's best we stick together. Let us go find your husband and get out of here.?

Nilya smiled and nodded before sprinting off with Nara not far behind her. Varik had teleported pretty close by, but their movements had brought them further away from him so they had a little ground to cover. As they approached, the air suddenly filled with the sounds of weapons fire. Nilya knew that had to be Varik with some allies as most of the weapon fire did not sound like normal weapons. ?That doesn?t sound good,? remarked Nara as they sprinted toward the fight.

Nilya drew her blade and held it with the blade heading toward her elbow and the blade pointed to the ground as she charged toward her husband?s position. It did not take her and Nara long to reach Varik?s group and Nilya immediately rushed toward one of the ursa grimm. The bear like grimm was too focused on Varik?s group to notice the fox faunus attacking it from behind. Nilya focused and encased her blade in solid darkness before striking. She closed into point blank range and struck with her blade that cut through the back of creature?s left leg with ease. Just as the blade completed its swipe through the creature, Nilya spun the blade using its momentum to change her grip to the sword forward of her body and brought the blade back toward the the ursa delivering a second strike to its right leg. The monster roared in pain as Nilya pressing her attack by hopping on its back. The fox eared faunus used her weight to force the ursa to collapse forward while launching herself into the air. Coming down with her blade striking the back of the grimm?s neck before she landed on its shoulders insuring most of her momentum was devoted to the blade. The blade drove straight through the creature?s neck slicing through its spine and throat, killing it.

As the grimm faded into black dust, Nilya launched herself forward toward her husband, but she suddenly stopped and looked back to make sure Nara was still behind her. Just as she looked back, Nara ran past her and quickly moved to join the trio unleashing gunfire into the approaching grimm. The three had clearly been expecting Nilya as the appearance of the fox twins did not seem to shift their focus on their targets. Nilya followed after her sister and they quickly joined the other three. Blair was unleashing a hail of bullets surrounded in energy fields from twin submachine guns. The additional mechanical arms seamlessly reloading clips as she ejected depleted ones, and allowed her to easily kill off the large number of creeps and occasional beowulf. Meanwhile Cadivus used a powerful pistol to help kill off any tougher grimm that Blair was unable to kill quickly.Varik used his rail rifle to kill rare tough grimm that appeared.

?Good to see your okay Nilly,? said Cadivus as he glanced at his wife. Nilya stopped next to her husband and was about to say something when a roar interrupted her thoughts.

Looking in the direction of the sound Nilya saw a large winged Grimm heading toward them. ?Dragon,? said Nilya a chill going down her spine.

The massive creature?s body was producing a large amount of icor that fell to the ground as it moved toward the group. This black substance was spawning large numbers of weaker grimm that pressed the group. These smaller grimm upon spawning charged ahead of the dragon to engage the five hunters.

?Cover me, I will deal with the dragon,? said Varik as he ejected the half full clip of solid metal rods from his rifle, and replaced it with a special clip that carried a single round. Once the clip placed in the rifle a small circular design right above the magazine holder began to rotate as the edges emitted a faint glow.

Nilya nodded at her husband?s command and charged at a pair of charging beowolves while creating a shadow clone of herself. The two struck down the weak grimm as Blair dropped her current submachine guns whose barrels glowed white hot, and grabbed a second pair to continue unleashing a storm of bullets. Varik then began to take careful aim at the dragon, who realized that Varik was the immediate threat. As it sped up and headed directly for Varik. The smaller grimm began to ignore Nilya, who was out front and all of them made a straight line for Varik.

The human focused, as he stared down the scope and patiently waited for to make the shot. Slowly pulling the trigger he phased out all other noise as all attention went into this one vital shot.

A boarbatusk rolled past Nilya and headed straight for Varik as a spray of energy enhanced projectiles sprayed across its body, not stopping its relentless advance. Nilya called out to Varik, but he was zoned in on his shot. A mere second before the boar like grimm struck Varik the sound of the Varik?s rifle?s magnetic rails discharging a round filled the air. The dragon had no time to react and Varik had calculated where its momentum would place it. In the middle of the creature?s head a burst of energy formed as the specialized rail gun round?s unique payload created a tear in reality that quickly collapsed. The portion of the grimm?s head caught in the energy was completely removed and left inside the other side of the rift. This specialized ?distortion? bypassed all the creatures defenses and teleported a portion of its head away its body started to crash to the ground, but as it impacted the hard earth it was nothing more than black dust.

Varik however was hit directly by the rolling boarbatusk with a bone shattering impact that launched him backwards. ?Varik!? screamed Nilya who was trying to fight her way back to her husband, while Cadivus leveled this weapon to the boaratusk?s head. The grimm was recovering to its normal standing position after its powerful attack. Cadivus fired three times into the Grimm?s head at point blank range quickly killing it.

Varik laid on the ground struggling to breathe with multiple broken ribs. Nara rushed to his side and without hesitation began to heal him. Nilya was still desperately trying to fight her way to her wounded husband, but without the dragon commanding them, the grimm lost all sense of order and most decided to attack the closest hunter: Nilya. Surrounded, but not alone due to the supporting fire of Blair and Cadivus picking off many of the grimm trying to get to her. To Nilya the grimm seemed endless, and they were preventing her from getting to her badly wounded husband transforming her fear into anger.

Fear and anger flowed through her as she struck down a beowolf only to get scratched in the back by a glancing blow from a ursa. Nilya had no reason to hold her emotions and she let it flow through her veins like a poison. Looking back at the ursa with a piercing gaze Nilya?s additional tails began to dissipate. Slowly the area around her took on an aura of darkness, and her power turned the area into one of purel darkness. She charged the ursa enveloping both of them in her darkness. The unnatural darkness spread around her and created an area of solid black that enveloped. Mere seconds later the orb of darkness shrunk back into the faunus, leaving her standing there alone looking like a form of pure black until the darkness collected behind her as additional tails. The dozen weaker grimm that had been around before the darkness consumed them. If it was the darkness or Nilya that killed them no one knew. Nilya quickly ran over to her husband as Blair and Cadivus finished off the last of the grimm.

?Varik! Are you okay? talk to me!? exclaimed Nilya as she kneeled next to him fearing the worst.

?Settle down, Nilya? Do not force him to speak as he is in a lot of pain, and breathing is hard for him right now,? calmly remarked Nara as she healed the wounded human.

Looking over at Nara with a look of worry in her eyes, Nilya asked, ?Is he going to survive??

?Yes? I might be a coward but I do have good healing skills,? replied Nara with a sigh.

?You?re not a coward. You are here and not hiding under some rock,? remarked Cadivus as he inspected his pistol. ?Not all of us are cut out to fight,? he added as he holstered the weapon.

?Once he can move we need to get moving? things are only going to get worse and we are mostly blind. We need a plan,? added Blair as she picked up her previously discarded weapons and began the process of replacing the barrels with a set of spares she carried.

?I thought you would be evacuating us,? remarked Nilya her focus still on Varik.

?Your husband insured that wasn?t happening,? muttered Blair.

?What do you?? started to ask Nilya before Cadivus interrupted her.

?We can discuss that later, for now let us focus on survival. I suggest we ?acquire? an aircraft and get out of here,? said the pilot as he looked over at Blair.

The faunus was already working on hologram screen being projected from her right wrist. ?Okay there is a nearby human supply base that we spotted WHEN I had connection to the drone. Maybe the grimm will have the defending hunters distracted, but honestly everything is a calculated risk at this time,? said Blair before she got quiet while staring at something.

?Its the best chance we have right now,? said Cadivus.

?Well here goes nothing,? remarked Blair. ?Just so you know I HATE the feeling of being blind.?

?Honestly it's a little exciting,? replied Cadivus who received a glare from Blair.

?We need to get going,? gasped Varik as he reached over and squeezed Nilya?s hand.

?Rik please be careful you are badly wounded,? pleaded Nilya as she ran her right hand through his hair while squeezing her husband?s hand with her left.

?Don?t worry about me Nilya. Your sister is doing a great job, and we cannot stay here long so I will have to start moving soon regardless of my condition,? said Varik his words coming out easier than before.

In a few minutes, Varik was able to stand up with help and the five moved toward the small human base with Blair and Cadivus leading the way. Nilya held onto her husband as they walked together as Nara walked behind the two, still healing Varik. The small group of five trying to find a way out of the hell that is this battlefield.

Groc · Sep 27, 2017

Oswald Carotene and Mira Cullous
Vale

[h1][/h1]
Mira sighed in frustration as the nurses finally left her. She glanced at the bandages around her waist before slipping her vest back on. The medics had given her a few nondescript pills to 'ease the pain?, which seemed to do their job so far. Her vision was still blurry without her glasses though, and the medics hadn't gotten anything for that. ?Dammit, I knew I should've packed my other pair.? she thought to herself, strapping on her boots.

She exited the tent and looked around. The hastily-set up faunus camp was full of hunters, medics and their superiors running around barking orders, all the while gunshots and screams echoing in the distance from the battle. Mira breathed and tried to remember which tent Nel and Nina had been sent to, so she could at least regroup with one of her teammates. Jairo was still with ABAK, but she trusted the team would bring him to camp safely, if faunus camaraderie was anything to go by. The plan would be to stick together for the rest of the battle, stay out of danger, then leave when evac was ordered. She found the tent after a few minutes, labeled 'level 2 injuries?.

Many patients were inside the tent, most of them either complaining about their wounds or how they were still fit to fight, but neither Nel or Nina could be seen anywhere. Mira got the attention of one nurse, a rather portly elephant faunus. ?Hey, did you have a falcon and mouse faunus carried in here earlier? I'm looking for them.? she asked.

?Oh, those two girls? Yes, and they didn't stay long. The poor mouse darling left as soon as she woke up, and her friend just flew off a few minutes ago. They frankly didn't look in a fighting state at all, but you know the youth. Poor, unfortunate souls.? she shook her head solemnly.

Gritting her teeth, Mira hastily thanked the lady before storming out of the tent. She threw her weapon on the ground in rage. In one day, she'd let one of her teammates be stranded with another team, another run off on her own, and another?

She had no time to contemplate her failures, however. Out of nowhere, a blaring alarm sounded around the camp, as lights near the tents began to flash red. Mira looked around, confused. ?Wha???

~~Meanwhile?~~

Ozzy made his way back to the camp, but he was concerned that he hadn't met up with his team yet. Reese had told him they'd rendezvous back at camp, but he'd hoped not to have to make the trip alone. He hefted the heavy spear back up onto his shoulder as he walked, once again debating the logic of keeping it. It made no sense, but he couldn't bring himself to get rid of it.

As he walked, he passed by dozens of other Faunus, all of them in worse shape than him. It made him feel a little guilty, and again like they shouldn't be here. ?This whole plan was a mistake?? he muttered to himself, avoiding the medical tent. He could hear what was going on in there, and didn't want to see it.

With his head down and his ears laid flat, he was taken by surprise by the lights and alarm. He leapt about ten feet into the air, landing in a terrified crouch. Faunus were running everywhere, and he quickly ran to get out of the way, almost tripping over a girl as he turned a corner. ?I'm sorry!? He blurted out instinctively. ?What's going on?!?

The owl faunus had caught him mid-fall and seemed just as panicked as he was. ?I don?t know! Maybe the humans are att- oh, crap!?

Her sentence was cut short as she suddenly felt the ground underneath them tremble. Leaping to the side, she grabbed ahold of Ozzy?s jacket, pulling him with her. Instants later, the earth below them cracked open, letting loose a swarm of Creeps who had chewed through the dirt. She barely had the time to go for her weapon as one of the Grimm jumped at her.

Ozzy fell gracefully from her arms as she went for her weapon, landing on the ground with his feet under him and his spear pointing toward the Creep. Too clumsy and stupid to change course, the Grimm managed to impale itself on the sharp end, gasping for air before falling to ash and mist. Ozzy dropped the spear and grabbed his shovel, firing shotgun shells into the swarm until it clicked empty. He focused his Semblance on the Creeps, thorny vines sprouting from their skin. His breath came quick and ragged, still tired from the skirmish in the town. ?We're not safe here.? He panted, looking at the camp as more Grimm started showing up. ?We gotta get out of here!?

A loud, gruff voice called out from behind them. ?SOLDIERS! EVAC ORDERED, GET THESE PEOPLE BACK TO THE AIRSHIPS!? The man looked like an eagle faunus in a military outfit, with feathers jutting out of his hair as he spoke. ?HOLD THE GRIMM BACK!?

Mira turned to Ozzy, unsure of what to do. ?We- we can?t just run!? she stammered. ?We need to help the people out of the tents!?

As the words left her mouth, the earth shook as a massive Roc landed on one of the tents, crushing everything and everyone inside. The Grimm let out a loud squawk of aggression and glee, relishing in the pain and fear. Ozzy went pale, but grabbed his oversized spear from the ground. Terror and duty battled for control of his mind, but his better nature won out in the end. ?O-o-okay? let's get these people out of here!? He pointed to the main medical tent with the spear, grabbing Mira?s hand with his free hand. ?Stick close? We'll be safer together.?

Mira nodded, squinting at Ozzy?s face. She could?ve sworn she knew him, but without her glasses, it was hard to figure out details.The Roc in front of them squawked again before taking off, the gust from its wings nearly knocking the two hunters over. ?We need to take this thing out of the skies before it crushes any more of the tents!? Mira said, looking at Ozzy. ?I?ve dealt with something like this before! You got any way of piercing its eyes?? she asked.

Ozzy looked at the spear in his hand, remembering how he had used it to pierce the Death Stalker?s eye. Unwieldy as it was, it had proven effective. ?I have a couple. I could use this spear, or I could grow a vine, give it some thorns, something like that?? he trailed off into uncertainty. Sensing a difficult fight ahead, he let go of Mira?s hand to dig through his seed pouch. He produced a small bean that looked and smelled like a coffee bean. He popped it in his mouth, grimacing as he chewed and swallowed. He felt instantly rejuvenated, his fight or flight instincts on high alert. He didn't even notice his body was pushed to it's limits, but he would when the effects wore off.

?Whoo, okay?? he breathed, hopping from one foot to the other. ?I'm ready for this. Terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought, but ready. You know a way to get up to it? This thing doubles as a sniper rifle, but I don't think I can handle the recoil. Not as I am, anyway.?

Mira could clearly sense he was nervous. ?Where you?re going, you won?t be needing the rifle part.? she said. Grabbing Ozzy?s hand, she concentrated for a moment before encasing him in her Semblance?s blue aura. ?Sorry about this!?

Before the rabbit faunus had a chance to reply, he was launched forward like a rocket, straight towards the low-flying Roc. His first reaction was surprise, followed by terror, which seemed to catch the Grimm's attention. Hopped up on his super bean like he was, Ozzy recovered his wits quickly, holding onto the spear for dear life. Without taking his eyes off the Roc, he rummaged in his seed pouch until he found what he needed, just in time for the Grimm to snap at him with its vicious beak. He twisted his body, spinning in midair and dodging the attack, driving his spear into the Roc?s eye like a Tactical Rabbit Strike.

The bird shrieked in pain, giving Ozzy the opening he needed: an open mouth. He threw the acorn in his hand down the massive throat, vines extending from his armor to anchor him to the colossal bird. His hands glowed green, accelerating the acorn's growth, making the Roc spasm in pain as a live tree started growing in its chest. Flapping the massive wings became laborious as the chest began to swell and stretch, until massive roots began tearing their way free. The Roc had to tilt its head back as the upper branches forced their way out of the throat, green leaves stained with black blood as the mighty oak sprouted from the beak like an overgrown vegetable. The tree shuddered as it split, the two halves continuing to grow up and out, forcing the beak open farther and farther until the jaw broke with a terrible snap. The red glow faded from the eyes as the Grimm died, falling clumsily out of the air toward the camp. It dissolved into black mist before it hit, but that left Ozzy without anything to hold onto.

His vines trailed from his armor as he fell, his immediate thought being What would a brave Faunus like Reese do? With a flash of inspiration, he grappled onto the tree falling beside him, using his Semblance to reverse the growth, turning sturdy wood into a massive pile of red and orange leaves. The leaves surrounded him as he hit the ground, absorbing the impact and leaving him dazed but alive as leaves scattered everywhere. His spear hit the ground with a clatter not far away, but he didn't want to go after it just yet.

?Holy crap!? Mira exclaimed as she zoomed over to Ozzy on her staff, helping the faunus up. ?You really pack a punch, Ozzy! That?s your name, right? I remember Brooke telling me-? She stopped mid-sentence to stab a creeper that had snuck up behind her, ?-about her team. I figured the little guy with the plants must be you.?

Ozzy graciously accepted Mira?s hand, a vine snaking off his armor to grab his spear and return it to his hand. ?Yeah, that's me.? He grabbed his shovel and blasted a Creep that thought to sneak up on Mira again. ?It's actually Oswald, but everyone calls me Ozzy. I like it. I'm really wired right now, what do you say we get these people out of here??

?Yeah. We can't let anyone else die on our watch!? she said, nodding.

A joint post of Foxrally and Godzil

Foxrally · Oct 6, 2017

Jairo & Sahn Xill

Mira Cullous Nel Phelia

Team JSMN
Takeover

?Evac plan is all good, right Gaige?? Isa casually asked, checking her watch as the two entered the decrepit but quite large building. The walls and ground were lined with plantlife that had taken over and rubble across the entire room. In the corner, a long staircase led to the high roof of the building, meaning this was probably some sort of industrial place.

?Yes, Isa. We should be getting the signal soon, hopefully, so I doubt that little interaction did much in terms of delay.? Gaige nodded.

?RRRAAAAAHHH!!?

An enraged scream came from the corner they had just turned. Before she could react, Isa was tackled by the immense force of Nel?s wind charge, sending the two shooting across the room and crashing through the wall. Nel got up from the rubble, her clothes torn and fist bleeding from the impact, wind blowing around her. ?PEOPLE LIKE YOU?? she screamed, breathing heavily. ?...ARE WHY THIS WAR IS HAPPENING!

Nina arrived just in time to see Gaige, who had dodged the charge, raise his arm to conjure a dragon at Nel. ?Oh no, you don't!? she called, dashing over to him and delivering a swift kick to his head. His aura took most of the hit as he fell backwards to face his former teammate. ?Time to settle some old grudges.? Nina said, cracking her knuckles.

Gaige stood up and rolled his shoulders, ?Don't worry, I don't hold any grudge.? He squatting down to touch the ground and getting swallowed up by his own earth dragon. It lashed it's tail out at both Nel and Nina away from Isa.

Isa conjured up a large Ursa Grimm, her own injuries slowing her down. The Grimm huddled over her defensively as Gaige?s dragon allowed her to climb onto its tail. Her breathing was heavy as she spoke, ?You don't need to flatter us that much.? She said with a grin, ?There's no way I can take all of the credit for this war, no matter how much I want to.?

Nel gritted her teeth and hopped into the air to avoid the thrashing dragon. She threw out an airblast towards Isa, the woman dodging all her shots as she stayed on the tail with surprising balance. Nel hadn?t paid attention to the Ursa behind her though, and was met with a sharp set of claws to the back of the head. Yelping out in pain, she fell forward, nearly faceplanting in the process before pushing herself back up with her semblance.

?Gah!? Nel reeled back as she touched the wound on her head. The blow had gone right through her aura, which she hadn't expected from a regular Grimm.

Dodging a second slash by the Ursa, Nel retaliated by conjuring a whirlwind underneath it, sweeping it off its legs and spinning it midair. Then, at the right moment, she jumped forward, kicking the monster in its bony face with an airblade connected to her foot.

She fell back to the ground, panting. She had no time to react to the the thrashing tail of the monster, which came straight for her. Nina quickly reacted to this, dashing over to her and stopping the tail right in its path. Using the leftover momentum, she pulled the tail up then slammed it down, releasing a shockwave along the dragon and knocking Isa off.

Before Nel or Nina could get an attack in on Isa, two more dragon sprung up from the ground, attacking with much more ferocity.

Nina looked over at Nel who was about to get bit, and gave up her opportunity to kill Isa, instead putting everything she could into closing the distance and pushing Nel away. The speed was so fast that nobody was able to perceive it, and Nina stood there holding open the jaws of the dragon, feet dug into the dirt. The second dragon went for her back, while the third came at Nel from an angle that would make it difficult to protect herself and Nina.

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Meanwhile, Vigor creeped through the weakening field of gravity, making his way towards the source. When he finally came across Archer?s body, he opened his jaws, deciding on whether it was better to kill or save here. Finally he settled on going for Archer's throat with a solemn apology.

Archer came to his sense and gripped open the maw of the monster. ?Finally I get to come out with a clear mind.? Archer said with an animalistic grin. He slammed Vigor into the dirt, held it by the neck, and stretched his body, filled with a level of excitement. The field of gravity diminished, until it was completely under control. The team of five quickly moved in to surround him. ?All my friends are here.? He said loudly with a grin.

?He's not supposed to be talking right? Not if he's out of control?? Lucina asked, pulling a chain from her right arm.

?I don't know, I've never seen him smile like that before.? Niko responded with a high degree of fear and courage.

Archer made the first move, picking up a rock and slinging it at a high speed directly into the body of Lull?s cello, causing a hole that greatly reduction the sound. ?Alright then, let's get this settled, are you going to kill both of us or lock me away again?? Archer asked as his excitement grew, ?Because I can tell you right now I'd rather die than be repressed again.?

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A loud slam echoed through the building as Nel was smacked with the earth dragon?s body and thrown into the wall, the stone cracking with the force of the impact. The other dragon, which Nina had successfully parried with a kick, charged instead at the falcon faunus, jabbing it's horns into her stomach before she could fully recover.

?Gah!? Nel screamed as the horns managed to pierce through her aura, stabbing her in the gut and dropping her to the ground. ?I'll? KILL YOU!? As she got to one knee, the air around her began turning thicker and foggier, the humidity quickly increasing. Before the two dragons could attack her again, Nel threw her cloud forward, cloaking the dragons and dodging their charge.

Nina noticed what she was doing, and realized what her plan was. Still holding Gaige's dragon by the jaw, she called out, ?Nel! Get down!?

Just as Nel ducked down, Nina hurled the dragon at its twins, the humidity-weakened earth creatures colliding into each other in an explosion of dirt and mud. The two faunus both fell to their knees, panting.

Gaige, who had used the distraction to help Isa up, winced as all three of his creations were destroyed. ?Isa, they're out of action. Let's get out of here- before the Grimm arrive.?

?No. I want to make sure they?re dead first.? she snapped, wiping the blood off her mouth and glaring at Nel. ?I?d especially like to make sure they can?t identify that one when the fight is over.?

Suddenly, a rumbling noise which had been echoing in the distance for the past few minutes suddenly got louder. ?Sounds like a thunderstorm, or some kind of earthquake?? Nina thought, slowly getting up.

Nel coughed, also getting up. Suddenly her eyes grew wide, as her enhanced hearing kicked in. ?It's? hundreds! No, thousands... Thousands of footsteps? What?? she muttered, concentrating despite her injuries.

Gaige sighed, grabbing Isa?s shoulder and motioning upwards. The rabbit faunus nodded, releasing five creeps at Nel and Nina before stepping backwards towards Gaige. The human crouched down and summon a large dragon directly beneath them, swallowing the pair as it rose and crashed through the ceiling.

?Where are they going?? Nina asked, backing up as the creeps got closer. ?The roof??

?We need to get to higher ground!? Nel exclaimed, clutching her bleeding stomach. ?A Grimm-? she stopped as she dodge rolled away from a leaping creep, ?A Grimm horde is coming! Like, a lot!?

Nina nodded, charging forward to kick one of the creeps in its bony face, the force instantly turning it to smoke. She grabbed the tail of another and ran at the wall, stopping right before collision to slam the creep into it. As a third one charged behind her, a large ball of wind collided with its side, followed by a second, larger one.

Nina turned and let go of the creep in her hand as it faded away just in time to see the ambusher die. ?Phew, thanks.? she said, grinning at Nel. Suddenly, a loud bark sounded from the next room in the building, followed by dozens more and the sound of running steps.

?Don't- mention it!? Nel replied. She kicked up a gust underneath another Creep, sending it flying towards her before cutting through its body with her blades. ?Come on, the horde is here! Let's go!? she yelled, motioning towards the staircase. Nina nodded, instantly running over to the fourth Grimm to finish the kill and and zooming past Nel to the staircase. She could feel her semblance weakening the more she used it, worsened by Grimm interaction.

Just as she did, the door which they had come in from exploded behind them. The sound of hundreds of Grimm echoed through the streets and building as beowolves began flooding in from all entrances.

?Nel, come on!? Nina urged, her focus on both the fleeing Isa and Gaige as well as the Grimm.

?Coming, coming!? The hawk faunus looked behind her in panic as the horde approached. ?Man, that is a lot of -oof!?

Her sentence was cut short as a black claw grabbed her leg and tripped her, dropping her to the ground. ?Wha?!? Nel turned around and saw the fifth creep which Isa had summoned clamp down on her ankle, snapping viciously at her.

?Nel, hurry!? Nina screamed. The horde was mere inches from the hawk faunus now. Nel took out her guns and unloaded them in the Grimm?s face, killing it and loosening the grip on her leg.

?Alright, I'm free! On my w-?

Those were the last words Nina heard before Nel?s voice was drowned out by the Grimm and the ravenous pack of Beowolves jumped on top of her, burying her in the black and white mass. She looked on in horror as even more Grimm rushed to where she was, blood splattering over the walls as they mailed her.

?NEL!? she screamed, her eyes wide with panic. Mortified, she slowly stepped backwards up the stairs, before being forced to run as more the Grimm got closer.

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The beast within Archer, was finally free, and unlike his out of control outbreaks, his mind was clear. His first instinct was to escape, even as the five former friends and Lull circled around him. He charged immediately at Lull and her broken cello, intending to break through, although a wall of flame formed in front of him and then rapidly crept around him. Lull looked Archer in the eyes, ?Archer come home.? She said quietly, starting to reach through the flames, which lowered for her.

The bestial Archer backed up suspiciously, ?We?re not going to just make it easier for him to try and kill us again.? Archer dashed aside as Vigor lashed out from his side. He was at a severe disadvantage, but a fallen Nevermore served as a possible way to even the fight. Archer moved towards the wounded bird-like grimm and gathered the feathers around him, letting fifteen circle around him for use as a weapon.

?Archer, quit being such a pain.? Esraella yelled as spikes of earth shot up from under him. A faunus girl he?d never seen was looking at him with her hands on the ground, ?We can take you somewhere to get you fixed.?

Lucina hopped into the circle with her chain shot gloves on. Vigor snapped at Archer who kicked him away desperately and used his feathers to inflict a bit of damage. Archer made himself lighter and attempted to leap over the wall of fire, but Lucina?s chain latched onto his ankle and slammed him directly into the ground, which began to swallow him up. She walked up and grabbed his hair while her boot kept him down, ?The reports stated you would be out of control.? She said with a frown, ?You seem to be thinking alright to me.? Archer struggled as Lucina pulled her phone out. Archer noticed a familiar canister that he had used to recover before, and realized that their intention was never to kill him. ?I think we have him?? She said as they all felt a rumbling on the ground.

Ciena, Zierra, and Esraella were quick to react, and the area around them was soon enclosed in a massive wall of stone. Lucina was distracted enough for Archer to get loose, swipe the canister, and escape as she had no choice but to help Ciena keep the wall up as grimm swarmed into it. He quickly climbed up to the top of the wall and looked out at the mass of grimm. The bestial Archer looked out at it all and saw Nina and Nel climbing up to higher ground before Nel began to get swallowed up.

Even this side of Archer felt it?s heart drop, and with a bit of hesitation, looking out towards freedom, he leaped out towards the building, making himself lighter at the jump and then making himself heavier as he crashed into one of the grimm, using his feathers to kill of two more. One of the grimm latched onto his arm and he grit his teeth as it failed to sink its own into his metal bones. Archer focused on the area around him and collapsed roof above the stairs at both the top and bottom, blocking them and killing some of the grimm. The one on his arm was easy enough to kill as he grabbed its neck and squeezed until it disappeared, leaving the two of them in. The two of them set, bloodied, in a staircase overlooking the swarm of grimm who were unable to climb through the hole in the wall due to Archer.

He took a deep breath and looked over to Nel. While this side of Archer had watched second hand everything that the true Archer did, he was still perplexed at his own need to take action. He looked at his arm, which wasn?t bad enough to cause him to die, but definitely enough to make it hard to escape from all the people, then he looked at Nel who was covered in injuries. He took out the canister and injected Nel, angry as her wounds began to recover while he was sure to get captured.

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The true Archer walked through his own memories and tried to process the words of the beast in his mind. He was sure he knew who his mother was, and in his memories he could clearly see her in his mind, but the more he remembered the more he realized how little he could remember. She had sung to him, but he barely remembered her voice, he remembered her face, but the last time he saw her was so long ago. Archer looked through his own eyes, this time as a secondary observer as the beast fought in his stead. The beast looked directly into Lulls eyes, and Archer began to put the pieces together.

Archer began to think of the possibility that Lull was his mother. A technopath like his father could definitely restrict any sort of ties relating to her if that was the case, and a psychopath like him would certainly feel the need to do it. Archer frowned, the easiest way was to induce a current and short out any sort of electronics, but there was no way for him to easily do that. He sighed and went through his research on the brain he had to do to help make Nina and his eyes.

A joint post of Foxrally and Khawill

Groc · Oct 6, 2017

Team CAOX - Cassandra Alexandra, Azrael Marjorie, Orion Romanov, and Xyra Coronis
Vale

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Xyra lead Cass, Orion and Azrael through the ravaged town. She had scouted the place out before the fighting started with the help of her Chrominions, so she had a fairly good idea of the town's layout. She led her team on a winding path she had assured them would avoid the worst of the fighting. Azrael grumbled at one point that they were going in circles. Xyra notably didn't comment on that. Cass sighed, once again annoyed by her airheaded underling. "Enough, Azrael. We'll follow Xyra. She knows where to go."

Xyra grinned at the compliment, turning a corner and stopping dead in her tracks as she saw a group of Faunus searching bodies. Her team cautiously peered around the building, wondering why she'd stopped. Cass frowned, shaking her head. "No she doesn't."

Azrael nervously drew his pistols. "Uh... or she'll lead us straight into a warzone." Cass glared at him before quietly and sarcastically clapping. "Good job, Xyra."

Xyra let out a nervous, apologetic laugh as she snuck forward, hiding behind a beat up old truck. Cass and Azrael followed, with Orion hanging back by the building.

A particularly ripped Faunus, some kind of ape, perhaps, was looting some human bodies for Dust or other supplies, when the human groaned and reached for a weapon. The Faunus jumped in surprise, punching the human in the face, again and again. "Get some, motherfucker!" He yelled, his eyes wide with rage. Cass clenched her fists at the display, getting angry herself. Xyra covered her mouth as she watched, seeing the ferocity of the Faunus. Azrael slunk down behind the truck, leaving only his eyes above the truck bed.

"I'm gonna smash your damn skull!" The Faunus yelled, delivering one final punch. The human lay dead at his feet, and he was panting heavily from exertion, looking disturbed as he stared at his blood-soaked hands. "Oh, gods... I don't know what came over me... what the hell did I do to him?"

Another Faunus came up to him, putting her hand on his shoulder. "Don't think about it. You did what you had to do. You don't wanna attract any Grimm, so just stay calm."

While the three in hiding looked on in horror, anger, and disgust, Orion noticed some Faunus looking in their direction. "Cass!" He whispered, leaning out from cover. "Pull back before you are spotted!"

Azrael glanced back at Orion, then at the pair of Faunus talking to each other. "Maybe they don't see us?" He whispered to Cass hopefully.

"Hey! You shouldn't be here!" One called out. The Faunus started shooting at CAOX, making them duck behind the truck for cover. Orion sprinted over, creating a shield by the tires. Azrael winced, trying to sound hopeful still. "Maybe we can still sneak away?"

"HEY!" A loud voice rang out. "What's with all the gunfire? WE'RE TRYING TO BE INCOGNITO HERE!" A large bull Faunus came running down the street, carrying a metal club. "Humans, sir!" One Faunus replied. Bullrush stopped when he saw Orion peering up over the truck, remembering his last encounter with CAOX. "Oh, you're goin' nowhere, humans!" He transformed his club into a rocket launcher. "Say hello to my Boom Tube!" He shouted, firing a rocket straight at the truck.

Cass popped up to see what was going on, her eyes widening when she saw the rocket launcher. "Fuck!" She yelled, bracing for impact. Azrael teleported away, while Orion grabbed Xyra and surrounded her with a spherical shield. The truck exploded, sending Cass and Orion tumbling. Xyra's shield shattered, but she remained standing.

Azrael appeared in one of the buildings, going to the window and looking outside. He saw the truck explode, wincing at the carnage. He saw his team scramble for cover after the explosion, glad for his mobility. He heard a low chittering sound behind him, turning to see several Grimm roaches emerge from the shadows and rubble. Each roach was roughly 2-3 feet long, with sharp pincers and mandibles. One leapt for him, its wings buzzing as it flew toward his face.

"Oh, shit!" He cried out, drawing his pistols and blasting the bug out of the air. The other bugs rushed him, and he was forced to shoot and slash his way through the swarm, teleporting around the enclosed space rather than head back out onto the streets.

Bullrush took aim at Xyra, exposed and alone as she was. "You die now, human! This is for smearing paint on my face!" He fired a rocket at her, but Xyra dropped low to avoid it. She rushed forward, swinging Painbrush to throw a spurt of white Dustpaint at Bullrush. The paint formed into a large, muscular humanoid form between her and Bullrush. He fired another rocket, blowing up the Chrominion and splattering white paint everywhere, including over several Faunus. Xyra slid across the ground, taking cover behind another truck. She flipped a switch on Painbrush, rotating to red paint, then popped up to take aim at Bullrush. She launched a glob of paint at him, striking him in the face just as he took aim for her. His face started to sizzle and smoke as the Dustpaint started burning him. Bullrush shouted in pain and rage, furious that Xyra hit his face with paint again.

Bullrush tried to wipe the burning paint off his face, when a small amount of it formed into a blob with two legs and an arm. It scurried down his arm, pulling the trigger on his gun and firing a rocket into the ground at his feet. Unbeknownst to Xyra, Bullrush often used his rockets to aid in his jumps, and the explosion was strong enough the send him flying into a nearby building. The explosion and subsequent crash dazed Bullrush, temporarily taking him out of the fight.

Xyra stared at what she'd done, the Faunus that had been hit with her white Dustpaint encased in ice where the paint had hit. The explosion had shattered one, leaving frozen body parts strewn across the street. She could hear the sad piano piece from "Mad World" playing as she looked on with horror and sadness. Suddenly, Cass slid in next to her, grinning proudly. "Nice! You're a hero, Xyra!"

Somehow, there were even more Faunus, who opened fire on the truck. Cass hauled Xyra down, starting to get mad. "Alright, fuck these people!" She snarled, punching a hole in the side of the truck. She rummaged around in the engine, pulling the power core out. "I think I can make a grenade out of this."

Xyra looked at Cass, unsure if that would work. "I don't think it has any power, Boss..." Cass shushed her, fiddling with wires and connections. "Give me a minute..."

A Faunus leapt over the truck, swinging and embedding a machete into the side of the truck right next to Xyra's head. She let out a surprised yelp as she fell on her butt, holding Painbrush like a shield. The Faunus pulled a second machete, ignoring Xyra in favor of Cass. "Time's up, bitch!"

Orion charged in outta nowhere, smacking the Faunus with his hammer and knocking him away. He stepped on the Faunus' chest, smashing his head with an overhand swing as bullets flew past him, a couple bouncing off his armor.

Xyra stared, slackjawed, disturbed by the change in her friend. Cass, getting annoyed, continued working. "I have no idea how to fix this stupid fucking... is there even any power in this thing? You're right. Hang on..." Cass used her Semblance to charge the power core, which started to hum and glow. "Alright, there we go! I feel really good now."

Xyra rolled her eyes, muttering sarcastically under her breath. "Yeah, true fear is known when you hold a car battery in your hands, Boss."

Cass ignored Xyra, throwing the battery with all her might, which landed at the feet of the Faunus. It took them a moment to realize what was happening, but when the battery started glowing brightly and emitting a high pitched whine, one helpfully shouted, "Look out!"

The battery exploded, lighting one Faunus completely on fire and slightly igniting the other, catching just his arm. The second one tried patting the flames out, but bullets rained from above, Azrael shooting him in the arm and head from the second story window. The first one staggered about, screaming, until a shot from Azrael hit him in the throat, dropping him to the ground.

A trio of Faunus were taking cover across the street in an old diner. One of them seperated her rifle into a pair of pistols, getting frustrated. "Shit... We're losing people!"

Her partner grabbed grenades from his bandolier, gauging the distance to the truck. "I got this, keep shooting! Give me cover fire!" The third, who was trying to defrost his frozen arm, was starting to panic. "We should run! It's game over, man!"

Behind the truck, Cass grabbed the machete, ripping it free and charging it with electricity, grinning as she stood.

Grenade Faunus pulled the pin, nodding to his partner, who popped up to shoot at Cass. "Flush 'em out!" She yelled. He pulled back his arm, calling out, "Eat this!"

Cass threw the machete like a throwing knife, the blade embedding itself in Grenade Faunus' forehead. He fell to his knees, eyes wide, dropping the grenade as he slumped to the ground. Gun Faunus looked at the sight in bewilderment, when Frozen Faunus grabbed her shoulder. "Let's get the hell out of he-"

BOOM

Gun Faunus found herself on the ground, coughing, injured but alive. "Ugh, what the fu- " She was interrupted by Orion, swinging his hammer like a golf club and swatting her aside. Frozen Faunus struggled to rise, when Cass came and uppercut him, knocking him onto his back. She fired a shell from her gauntlet into his face, blowing a good chunk of it off. Suddenly, Bullrush appeared, grabbing her by the head.

"End of the line!" He growled, one hand on her face and the other on the back of her head, slowly making his fingers meet. Cass struggled, in intense pain as her skull was being compressed. "No, no no no!"

Azrael teleported in, shooting Bullrush in the face. Bullrush dropped Cass, staggering back. Azrael pumped his fist, grinning proudly. "Nailed it!"

Bullrush roared in annoyance and pain, glaring at Azrael. "You zippy little bastard! You're gonna pay for that!" He charged forward, aiming to trample Azrael. Azrael fired more shots into Bullrush's chest, until his guns clicked empty. Just before Bullrush overran him, he teleported behind the truck with Xyra, who was hugging Painbrush close to her chest as she rocked back and forth.

"Cass!" Azrael yelped. "I need help!"

Orion transformed his hammer to rifle mode, opening fire on Bullrush. Cass started punching shotguns shells into him, staggering him. He summoned more force armor onto himself, taking fire from two sides. Seeing that he was the only Faunus left, Bullrush decided to fall back. He turned to run, his force field at his back as Orion kept shooting. One lucky round hit Bullrush in the back of the leg, blowing out his knee. He tripped, hitting the ground hard.

Cass smiled at Orion, a genuine, proud smile. "Good job, Orion." Orion nodded grimly, returning his rifle to hammer mode.

Bullrush struggled to stand, angrily muttering to himself. "Are you kidding? Bullet in the knee?" He was knocked down as Orion hit him in the back of the head with his hammer. Cass called out to him from across the street. "Take that, you shit!" Her voice dropped to a low whisper. "I'm the strongest now."

Cass lifted up the truck, exposing Xyra and Azrael. "Whoa, what?!" Azrael exclaimed, stumbling back. Xyra looked up, stunned. "Boss?"

Cass walked over to Bullrush, lifting the truck over her head. She looked down at the Bull, her voice low. "Look how strong I am." Orion stepped forward, reaching out to her. "Cassandra, wait!"

"Wait just a second!" Bullrush protested, trying to get up. Unable to stand, he formed a barrier over his head. Cass slammed the truck down, grill first, compacting the front end. The glass and Bullrush's barrier both shattered, and a spray of blood burst from under the smashed vehicle.

Cass turned to Azrael, breathing heavily. "And where the hell were you this whole time?" Orion went to Xyra, but she remained catatonic, staring at the truck in shock. Azrael shrugged, reloading his guns. "I portal'd myself into that building, trying to get a vantage point, but it was full of bugs. Grimm bugs, specifically! Can you believe that? I mean, you'd think trained Huntsmen would've noticed if there were Grimm nearby!"

From a nearby building, a 15 foot tall Grimm leapt down, landing behind Azrael. CAOX turned to look at it in surprise, with Azrael stumbling back in terror. "Oh shit!"

The large Grimm was roughly humanoid, covered in reptilian scales, with two forward pointing horns on its head. Its arms reached nearly to the ground, with massive claws each roughly the size of a human torso. It had a long, thick tail, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. It roared at the group, who clustered together, except Xyra, who Orion quickly put inside an overturned car.

Cass pumped her fists to reload her guns. "Hold on, no, hold on!" Azrael hid behind her, fully aware that he had tempted fate. "Where did that...?!" Orion interrupted Azrael's panic. "Cassandra! I do not think we can fight a Diablo!"

Cass took that as a challenge, suddenly filled with determination. "We're gonna have to fight a Diablo." She rushed in, shooting shells into the Diablo's face. It snarled, swiping at her and pinning her to the ground with a hand on her chest. It raised the other hand, claws blinding in the sun, but rifle shots pinged against the back of its head.

Its eyes went wide, and it turned its head toward Orion, who slowly backed up as he fired on the Grimm. The Diablo swung its tail, clobbering Orion and making him stumble. It struck him again making him drop his gun, then smashed its tail down on his head, pinning him and leaving him in a small crater. Orion groaned in pain, reaching for his weapon.

Azrael teleported beside Cass, trying to lift the heavy claw. The Diablo turned back toward her, seeing Azrael and growling. He fired his guns until they clicked empty, which did little but annoy the Diablo. He scrambled to reload as it slowly leaned toward him, opening its mouth while keeping the other two pinned.

A glob of red paint splattered against its face, making everyone freeze. The Diablo looked up sharply, roaring in anger. Xyra stood beside the car, various colors of paint swirling over her body, granting her wings and large muscles. She gripped Painbrush, glaring angrily at the Diablo. "Get away from them, you bitch!"

The Diablo stared, confused. Cass also stared, dumbfounded. "Xyra?"

The Diablo slowly glared, shifting its weight as it crouched low. Xyra copied it, paint wings flaring behind her, then leapt into the air, brandishing Painbrush as she flipped gracefully through the air, rushing the Diablo. It charged, letting out a loud roar. The others watched as the two drew closer, Xyra winding up for a swing as the Diablo raised one claw. She spun in midair, swinging Painbrush and knocking its claw aside. It kept running, chomping down on her, its jaws snapping shut with just her legs hanging out, her entire upper body inside the Grimm's mouth.

"NOOOO!" Cass screamed, reaching out toward Xyra, watching her severed legs hit the ground, splattering into red paste.

The Diablo turned back, its white mask smeared red around its mouth. The remaining members of CAOX leapt to their feet, fury and vengeance in their eyes. They all took aim at the Diablo, Cass shooting solid slugs from her guantlets that caused it to cover its eyes with one arm, Azrael teleporting in to shoot into its open mouth, and Orion slamming sniper rounds into the exposed belly. The Diablo snarled, slowly forcing its way forward through the barrage of bullets. One slug hit it in the eye, causing it to throw its head back in pain.

"Yeah!" Azrael cheered. "It doesn't like getting shot in the face!" The team fired on the exposed neck, the Diablo recoiling from the hits. Even the relatively softer underside was still armored, and the Grimm tried to take cover behind a building, attempting to get around the team and attack from cover.

Orion charged up his Semblance, forming a large spherical force field in front of the Diablo, making it solid, and striking the Diablo in the face, breaking several teeth. The force field shattered, slicing into the Grimm as Orion charged forward. He formed a staircase of force fields, running up and swinging his hammer, which glowed as the head was encased in a force field stronger than diamond. The hammer slammed into the Diablo's jae, sending it reeling as Orion jumped back.

Azrael stepped up, black smoke and turquoise energy leaking from him as he charged his Semblance. He teleported above the Diablo, firing a rapid fire stream of blue plasma from his guns, appearing to hover as he continuously teleported to the same spot in midair. Small wormholes opened, depositing several bundles of grenades at the Diablo's feet. Azrael took careful aim and fired, blowing up one grenade and setting off a chain reaction of explosions, making the Diablo roar in pain. Finally, he teleported back to the ground, leaving a bus in midair. The bus smashed into the Diablo's spine, knocking it to the ground. It stumbled back upright, shaking the bits of bus off it.

Cass was next, unleashing a bolt of electricity from her palms that struck the Diablo, shocking it and creating shackles of lightning that bound its arms and legs together. She rushed forward, propelled by lightning, kicking it in the face with the lightning bolt and leaping upward. Lightning surrounded her hand and formed a massive fist the size of her torso, which she slammed into the Grimm's skull as she landed. She jumped clear, looking into the beast's eyes as it died, dissolving into ash and mist.

As the dust settled, the team was shocked to see Xyra laying where the Diablo died, no longer in her Rainbow Huntress form. Orion rushed forward, helping her sit up as he cradled her in his arms. Cass ran up, dropping to her knees in front of her wounded teammate. "Xyra! What the hell were you thinking?!"

"Heh... yeah, that was kinda dumb, wasn't it? But hey, look on the bright side! Think of all the money I'll save on shoes!" Xyra laughed, which made her cough and since in pain. "I guess that'll be my legacy... I lived making boneheaded decisions, I'll d-d-die making boneheaded decisions."

"Xyra..." Orion gently chided, struggling to maintain his composure. "Shut up." Cass snapped, trembling. "Talking is using up your strength. You don't get to come into my life, annoy the hell out me, make me care about you, then die on me! We're getting you back to Beacon, and you're gonna be fine! That is an order!"

Xyra chuckled weakly, nestling against Orion. "Whatever you say... Boss..." Orion stood, picking Xyra up. Cass ordered them to move, double time, grabbing Orion's hammer as she did. Azrael picked up Xyra's Painbrush, noticing the smashed truck had been tipped over. "Hey, where's that bull Faunus?" Cass pushed past him, grabbing him and dragging him along. "Fuck him. He can crawl off and die for all I care."

The team tried to make their way back through town, Cass and Azrael dealing with any Grimm they encountered. They made their way back to the extraction point, Cass shoving her way to the front of the line. "Out of my way! We've got wounded over here! We need a medic!"

"Cass..." Orion softly intoned, catching her attention. She whirled around, looking at Xyra clutched in his arms. She lay totally still, having succumbed to her wounds on the way back.

"Uh, excuse me..." One of the medics stepped forward. "Do you still need a medic?" Cass turned away, trudging toward the airship. "No. We don't. We need to go back, and bury our friend."

Orx of Twinleaf · Oct 15, 2017

Team FEAR
(condensed for reduction of clutter and broken in the middle for your convenience)

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?The Focused Aura Beacon of Light and Energy (or FABLE) was at the time a relatively recent invention and it was in this conflict that it saw its first use, mostly by advance human forces. The FABLE was a large metal box constructed of Dusted steel and mithril that contained an Auric mechanism that could be fashioned from copper and stone by any person with a creation-type Semblance by following the guidelines set up in the FABLE?s schematics. When any Aura-trained individual fed their Aura into the device, it opened up and extended a long spire upward that emitted a bright beam of light, visible from a great distance. The FABLE?s operator could not use their Semblance during this time and had to pay close attention to the attached input panel to keep the beacon in the correct color pattern, a list of which was drilled into every pilot?s memory and also provided in the signal book every pilot carried. The most used sequence by the FABLE was red-white-blue-yellow, otherwise called the ?rwby? sequence. Flashing this sequence requested convergence of all units that could see it onto its point. This was pivotal in uniting scattered forces to defend against Grimm scavengers while awaiting rescue fliers. The FABLE has in modern times been replaced by the Laser-Emitting Gearbox of Energy-Nullifying Discs (or LEGEND), but its contribution to the reduction of lives lost is forever remembered through the development of the laserbox, a light-making children?s toy designed around the FABLE."
?from Cage Cast Open: The Revolution of the Faunus

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StingrayP226 · Oct 23, 2017

Walking out of Hell, Part 2

The small mixed group of humans and faunus approached the location where the human camp had been. The ground shifted to a strange rock like substance that was various twisting shades of purples, blues, and greens. What plant life that remained moved unnaturally on its own like tendrils seeking the grasp at anything that got close. The camp soon came into view and the scene was horrific, what had been human hunters and soldiers were twisted spots of fleshy material that have integrated into the strange mix of living and nonliving ground that twitched and moved. A few victims of change still stood and moved around aimlessly hissing or screamed in torment. In the middle of the camp stood the massive demon responsible for the scene. In its hands was once a hunter that it was carefully molding into a monster that would be pleasing to its twisted mind.

"What the hell happened here?" asked Blair staring at the scene in front of her.

"Blair and Cadivus go around the edge of the camp and locate one of the ships we can use to escape. I will talk to Gareth. Varik dear, stay back and be prepared to give us cover fire, and Nara I need you..." ordered Nilya her expression stern.

"I am going with you," announced Nara.

"Are you sure? It is no telling what he will do," said Nilya her face betraying her concern for her twin.

"I know him better than you," replied Nara. Nilya gave her sister a reluctant nod and started toward the monster while Blair and Cadivus moved around the outside of the nightmare to see if there was still a functioning airship.

"Gareth!" yelled Nara as they approached.

The two head monster turned and faced the two fox faunus as his hands continued to mold a twisted beast from the flesh and bones of his victims. "Why do you seek me out?" asked one head as the other asked, "Are you here to serve a god?"

"A god? No, sorry we stumbled upon you here. We are trying to leave the battle so decided to steal a human transport aircraft. You seem to have beaten us here so here we all are. I and Nilya thought it would be impolite to walk past without saying proper farewells," responded Nara calmly.

"O I see I am in your way. You already said your rude farewell when you told me to leave," replied one head. "Why should I let you pass?" asked the other. Both heads sounding equally hostile.

"I am sorry Gareth but there is so much going on. Your transformation was shocking, and you have always been a little strange which doesn't help. We just got freaked out by your new form," replied Nara.

"Regardless you are not here as an ally or a servant. You came here because you see me as a potential threat," said one head thoughtfully. The other head sudden hissed, "You could be an enemy. Perhaps they would end us if they found a weakness or discovered a method to destroy us."

Nara shook her head and said, "No we are not here to attack you! We just want to make sure you knew we were not enemies so you did not attack us while we flee this battlefield."

"And that is why one of you watches from a distance in cover with a weapon easily able to reach me? Or why you sent two around the camp toward the transport while you distract me?" asked Gareth as one of his spindly arms reached out and pointed a finger at Nara as he spoke.

Nilya's ears shot up as she grabbed her sister's arm. Nara remained calm as she could, "Gareth we did not know how you would react so we wanted to be careful. You have changed a significant amount and while I am glad you have met your goal it takes a lot to get used to. Your new form is just…"

Nara was interrupted by Gareth unleashing a bolt of energy at her. Nilya grabbed her sister and yanked her out of the way of the bolt. The sound of Varik's rifle discharging filled the air and one of the heads jerked back as a hole was blown through its eye and out the back of his head. "How dare you attack my sister when we came to you in peace," hissed Nilya as she drew her blade.

Gareth laughed as the damaged head quickly reformed to its original shape. The monster summoned a vast amount of energy around itself as its faces smiled in unison. "I dare to do what I want worm," replied one head, while the regenerated one added, "I will turn you into my little toy." Gareth then launched the ball of energy at Nilya, who dashed out of the way and moved toward Gareth quickly as she drew energy into her blade. The bolt impacted the ground turning the earth instantly into a twisting mesh of liquid that solidified with the appearance of dried blood that spread toward Nilya but failed to reach her as she sprinted toward Gareth..

Gareth stomped the ground with his right leg that sent a shockwave of energy, that Nilya easily lepted over. Gareth summoned another burst of energy to hit Nilya in mid air, but a slug of metal crashed into his hand with incredible kinetic force ruining the limb and dispersing the energy gathered in it. One of Gareth's heads looked over at Varik with a look of contempt as the hand regenerated. Gareth motioned his hand toward Varik and unleashed a sudden burst of energy after a quick focus that struck the human's rocky cover. The rock instantly grew vine like tendrils that reached around and wrapped around the human before turning black and hard like a stone again, pinning him in place. "Watch as I torment your wife in ways neither of you could imagine," mocked Gareth as Nilya leapt toward him her blade brisling with dark energy. Gareth's one head just smirked at her as he swept his other arm toward her. Striking the incoming arm, Nilya removed the limb with her dark semblance, but she did not expect one of the head's to attack with its long sharp beak. Holding up her blade, Nilya barely blocked the attack with her blade, but the impact sent her flying backward and she impacted hard into the earth. She started to stand as she saw Gareth blast her nearby blade with a casual flick of his fingers that sent several tiny crystals of energy into it. The blade twisted and shattered into tiny glass like fragments. He held out one hand that gathered energy as if to taunt Nilya with her coming death, but as he began to unleash the bolt a bright flash blinded him, and Nilya rolled to the side so he would miss.

Nara held her right arm at her wrist with her left as her palm dimmed from her attack. Gareth's bolt missed due to Nara's blinding blast, but it suddenly changed direction as it arced around to toward Nilya again. Nilya stood up as quick as she could and dove forward, barely avoiding the bolt. However Gareth unleashed another attack at Nilya as she tried to recover from her hasty dodge, but before it struck her Nara stepped in front of her sister holding up a shield of light. The shield quickly failed against Gareth's power and it struck the white haired faunus.

The faunus fell to the ground screaming in pain as her body began to twist unnaturally. Nilya screamed for her sister as she held her hand to her dying sister. Nara looked over to her twin and fought through the pain, "Nilya… I love you… live for both… be the legend." Nara took all her energy and forced it into her sister with a bright blinding light. As Nara did this Nilya with a heavy heart unleashed her own energy to destroy her sister's body, end her suffering, and prevent her from being completely twisted into a monster.

The suddenly bloom of powerful light that made Gareth step back and cover his eyes with a hideous laugh. "That was easy, not for the oth…" started Gareth as the light dimmed.

"Silence demon," spoke a ethereal voice. As the light faded ashes of Nara's remains floated around her now standing sister. Reaching up toward the sun, Nilya looked as if she was trying to grab it.

"Awww acting all powerful and threatening... " started to mock Gareth as his eyes grew big as the light in the sky began to dim. A ball of darkness formed in Nilya's hand that suddenly shot toward her the sun and suddenly the world changed around them. Everything took on hues of white, black, and grey, and forms of everything seemed to become more like shadows than actual physical forms.

"What is this?!" asked Gareth unsure of his new environment, the amount of power create something like this was immense, and Nilya seemed to do it effortlessly. Looking down at the faunus Gareth noticed she was holding a long thin bladed sword as she stared up at the demon.

Slowly she lifted the blade to her face as Gareth reached out with his right arm and unleashed a powerful blast of energy at her, but instantly he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Looking down, he saw the blade sticking out of his chest. Then another pain in his back, "This is where light and darkness meet, demon." Gareth tried to defend himself but Nilya seemed to just dissappeared and reappear all around him, each time thrusting a different blade into his body. Suddenly he saw a chance, and he grabbed the faunus from mid air when she appeared in front of him.

"Now I will kill you like your sister," gloated Gareth and he clenched his fist to crush the faunus. Her body offered no resistance as it turned into a black mist. His eyes showed pure fear for the first time as the illusion faded from his hand. The feeling of another blade stabbed into the back of one of his necks. "How?" hissed Gareth as he began to summon all his energy to strike out at the faunus. With one burst he unleashed a giant blast of power clearing all the blades from his body and shattering the shadow clones, but not the strange twilight realm.

Nilya stood in front of Gareth her nine black large fox like tails swaying in an invisible wind as they glowed with a white light like the moon does on an eclipse in unnatural power. Nilya slowly walked toward Gareth as a blade of twisting light and darkness formed in her hand. Her silence torturing Gareth's thirst for knowledge.

"I am a god you cannot defeat me," screeched Gareth's heads as he powered up an attack with both hands. Before he could attack Nilya charged forward and slashed upward with her blade unleashing a massive wave of dark energy that leapt up like a wave hitting a rocky shoreline. The energy cascaded through Gareth's hands, erasing his building power then smashed into his chest, devouring most of it with the corrosive dark energy. Depleted of dark energy, Nilya's blade burned brightly with pure light as the pressed the attack on the stumbling enemy. Nilya delivered a series of of burning blows to the monster's chest, scorching away his unnatural flesh with ease. She then focused her power as Gareth's bleeding body tried to stay standing. His ability to regenerate was severely reduced by her blows and his body was failing to regenerate quicker than Nilya was destroying it. Once again she held the blade up to her face for a second before her form dissolved into the shadows of the world around her. Once again her strikes came from all angles without warning, and without mercy. Each stab leaving behind alternating blades of light and darkness. Suddenly Nilya reformed behind Gareth from the darkness of this world.

"Goodbye," said Nilya as she condensed all the power down on Gareth. The blades drove themselves deep into Gareth as the sky fell into him. His large form was simultaneously dissolved and burned away as a small raven tore itself from the beast's body and fled into the sky.

Nilya's head lowered as her anger faded as the world and her own form turned normal. With Gareth destroyed her mind turned to sorrow. Tears began to pour from her eyes as she cried out, "Varik?!"

"I am still over here," he yelled back from his pinned position.

Nilya started to stumble in his direction her hands waving around as she called out his name again.

"Nilya I am here, keep coming this way, keep coming," yelled Varik back as he realized his wife was using his voice to find him. After several minutes she got to him and used what strength she had to dissolve the pieces of stone holding him down.

"Rik, she is gone, Nara is gone. I finally reunite with her and she is gone. I never got a chance to show her how much I loved and missed her. I never got to make up for all those lost years I hide from her," cried Nilya as soon as Varik sat up. The blind faunus collapsed in her husband's arms her eyes producing twin waterfalls of grief. Varik squeezed his weeping wife. Varik only let go of his wife long enough to grab his rifle and put it over his shoulder. He then cradled his wife in his arms as he stood up, and slowly carried her to the waiting transport.

Climbing onboard no one spoke as Varik non verbally communicated to Blair and Cadivus it was time to leave. Only the sounds of the airship's engines and Nilya crying could be heard as the crafted lifted off from the ground and slowly spun as it climbed into the air before its engines swung forward giving it forward momentum. As the airship flew off, Blair looked down at the war below. Hordes of grimm supported by massive monsters that towered over the battlefield. "It looks bad down there," muttered Blair with a frown.

"That is someone else's war. We need to focus on our own battles. We still have to find a way to create that haven and create a better future," replied Cadivus calmly.

"Why?" asked Blair looking over at Cadivus.

"I want more than a life of killing or delivering people to kill others for someone's often secret agenda. I've seen enough death without understanding the full story. I still believe in Varik and Nilya's dream, and while they might not be the most noble of people their dream is rather noble," replied Cadivus as he piloted the craft away from the fight.

Blair looked over at Cadivus and said, "Fair enough, I hope this means your not going to settle down and become boring."

"Nope… I will just use my skills for goals and aims of my own choosing," replied Cadivus.

"Good because if I am coming with you I don't want it to be boring," replied Blair.

"What if I want to go it alone?" asked Cadivus.

"I'm not giving you the option and I know you want me to come along so you don't get lonely," replied Blair looking over at Cadivus with an uncharastic serious face.

Cadivus nodded and said, "I would have it no other way."

Orx of Twinleaf · Dec 8, 2017

Team FEAR
(condensed for reduction of clutter and broken in the middle for your convenience)

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"It was this conflict that lead to the signing into law the Student Soldier Prohibition Act. The law prohibits any hunstman academy from drafting its students as psuedosoldiers and separates the military from huntsman affairs. The wreck of the Faunus and human huntsman forces in the first anti-ambush of the conflict lead to many grieving families to push for this law to pass. Many such families were armed with wealth and prestige, being as they were those who sent children to Beacon or other academies, and the law was one of the first acts by the reformed government once peacetime was attained. The movement was headed by Timereaux Tranxerton III, whose grandson Timereaux Tranxerton V was killed in a medical tent when the first and only ever recorded instance of what has since been named an 'Antigod' Grimm struck the human encampment. Since Timereaux Tranxerton IV was also killed in the war, in the trenches of the front, the Tranxerton line would die with Tranxerton III. Aged 76 when peacetime came, he liquidated the entire generations-old Tranxerton estate to lobby the governments to pass the Student Soldier Prohibition Act. Afterward, before dying due to cancers he no longer cared to treat, he gave his thoughts on the matter to press: 'So ends the House of Tranxerton, and with it, I hope, the chance any other poor old man has to live through losing his son and grandson to a war with our brothers and sisters across the pond.' Tranxerton's will left what money was left to his name to Nungerfaldt 'Mr. Mammoth' Ixis to fund the Faunus Housing Program that helped Faunus immigrate to human lands after peace was established."
—quoted from Cage Cast Open: the Revolution of the Faunus

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Foxrally · Feb 15, 2021

EPILOGUE

Following the disastrous failure of the the ambush plans for both the Human and Faunus camps, both sides desperately tried to recoup their losses and retreat from the destroyed battlefield once the grimm horde had arrived. Despite their best efforts, the swathes of monsters and giant grimm that came with them took countless lives that day as the newly-graduated hunters bravely fought them off. Some chose to save themselves, others defended their fellow hunters, and even unlikely alliances were formed against the Grimm. History has dubbed the horrific event 'The Battle of Asani', named after the ruined village it took place in.

The battle became a catalyst for the war as both sides blamed the other for the arrival of the grimm and the subsequent disaster. Many more battles were fought, with faunus revolutionaries gaining ground. However, the war eventually reached a stalemate as both sides became entrenched and no battles seemed to give any decisive advantage to either side. All the while, strengthened by the hatred, grimm forces continued to attack both camps indiscriminately, weakening the resolve and resources of their armies.

In the months that followed, conflict between humans and faunus began to die down. Some say this was spurred by both sides realizing their common grimm enemy in war, others say the rising economic potential of Menagerie and faunus innovation led humans to take on a more diplomatic approach. A historic peace treaty was then signed between humans and faunus, allowing faunus to freely travel to and reside on human-controlled settlements once more and ending the forced relocation of the long-oppressed group.

It has now been many years since this treaty has been signed, and though many characters were lost along the way, the world must move on. In the interest of unity and involvement, the government has absorbed a number of the Faunus hunter teams for the same kinds of employment the human teams would have, and efforts to rebuild the trust between the two communities have been promising. The survivors of the battle of Asani carry the weight of their memories with them every day... but those who made it through do their best to find a better life on the other side of it. These are their stories.

We can now safely say... the Dust has settled.

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TEAM JSMN

Jairo Xill (Foxrally)
After many months of soul-searching following the war and his sister's death, Jairo decided to remain a hunter alongside Nel. When not on mission, he has been a strong activist for reuniting lost faunus families and hopes to one day meet another spider faunus like him. His musical career has also picked up considerably, playing violin for high-society audiences around Remnant, and his listeners often describe his performances as 'otherworldly'.

Sahn Xill (Foxrally)
Sahn's memory lived on in her brother and her teammates, who continued her legacy both during the war and after it. For a brief time after the war, Jairo sought out the members of team NCKL to avenge the death of his sister, but was eventually talked by Mira, saying that more senseless violence was not what Sahn would have wanted. Her weapons are now in possession of her brother.

Mira Cullous (Foxrally)
Mira's severe mercury poisoning worsened over time and she was eventually forced to give up on being a hunter entirely. After Oswald helped her recover from the near-fatal poison, the two began dating and eventually settled down together, with Mira taking up the job of architect to rebuild the damage caused by the war. She remains in close contact with Jairo and Nel.

Nel Phelia (Stinging Bea)
After spending months on end trying to contact Archer, Nel eventually gave up on ever seeing him alive and dedicated herself to fighting for the faunus. After the war, she remained a hunter alongside Jairo, as part of an elite team for high-level grimm threats, and still relishes in the fun of combat. She has also begun seeking counseling and mental health services to help with her instability.

TEAM BROS

Brooke Webster (Geras)
Seeing the pain that befell the faunus at the humans' hands during the war served as fuel for Brooke's zealotry, and she led a relentless assault on their forces. She fought them without rest until she finally fell in battle. She left nothing behind except her father, who soon passed as well.

Reese Kells (Geras)
Reese dedicated himself to saving as many lives as he could during the war, on either side. When tensions rose, this became more difficult as he began to draw the ire of faunus and human both. But the nimble monkey couldn't be caught, and continued his quest until the end. He had the help of his teammates to thank in part for this, even if they didn't share his ideals. After the war he took to wandering, doing whatever he felt like as he went. Grimm populations mysteriously disappeared wherever he traveled, before he too disappeared from each place.

Oswald Carotene (Groc)
Tired of fighting, Ozzy became a healer after the war. His first patient was Mira, who he helped recover from the poisoning she'd endured during their final mission. They now live together on Menagerie, and Ozzy is quite content with his garden.

Salazar Jones (Groc)
Sal kept fighting, even after the war. After his teammates fell, retired, or simply wandered, Sal was left alone, and vanished without a trace. Crocodiles live for a long time, and never stop growing... they say he's still out there, haunting the swamps of Vale, the stuff of folklore and legends.

TEAM GAIN

Gaige Decan (Khawill)
Gaige was killed by the hordes of grimm during the battle of Asani, after failing to capture Archer. His legacy lives on in the form of his semblance research, which has been used to further understand the strange powers of aura.

Archer Ines (Khawill)
After his escape from captivity both from the faunus and human forces, Archer used the remaining bits of his semblance to escape during the battle of Asani and fled into the wilderness nearby, killing anyone who tried to stop him in a mad rampage. His whereabouts are unknown and he is still a wanted man, though he is largely assumed to be dead by now by both the public and government.

Ilexa & Nina Fiola (Khawill)
The two sisters fought bravely during the battle of Asani , making their retreat after failing to capture Archer and eventually making it to safety. The energetic pair decided to continue being hunters, and were placed in an elite team with Jairo & Nel from the faunus. They are training under professors Brass & Brass to become teachers themselves.

TEAM SHLD

Lars Berrardi & Harley Barrett (Shak)
Team SHLD fought valiantly to bring a conclusive resolution to the war. An eventful night of rash decision making and faux heroism saw the travelling troops at the heart of a faunus ambush. At the dawn of the conflict, every member of the team returned with their lives, although not unscathed.

Lars Berrardi suffered irreparable damage to his legs and has been constrained to a wheelchair, while Harley Barrett has recorded impaired vision since the event. There's little record of what either of them have gone on to do since, though both are in touch with their Team SHLD classmates.

Selena Harter (Shak)
Selena Harter has gone on to restructure the company she inherited from her father, spearheading charitable investments into faunus communities.

Dylan Arrianou (SkyIsUmbreon)
Dylan Arrianou has since went on to open his own inclusive advancement school for both future faunus and Human huntsman alike.

TEAM FEAR

Fajio Rekstum, Evegy Weqq, Azoo Rah & Rimer Reezin
(Orx of Twinleaf)
In the time since the war, Fajio often found himself remembering that fateful day besieged by Grimm, and how lucky FEAR had been to have those Faunus at their backs. As an interrogator, he now helps to curb plots by hateful terrorists intent on dividing human and Faunus anew. He works with several policing teams, among them the new Team AKBAR, an experimental five-man team comprised of the Faunus Team ABAK and the recent husband of one of its members: FEAR's own Rimer. Fajio always looks forward to their reports, and hearing Rimer's laugh again just like in the old days. Fajio even manages to deal with working with SAWW, and has armored himself against Widao's advances.

At the end of each of his busy days, Fajio hobbles on his cane back into the woods, where Azoo has taken over Simon's little farm. On some days though, Fajio makes sure to stop and drop off a letter at the mailbox. Elsewhere in the world, Mr. Mammoth, Faunus businessman, receives this letter and passes it on to his private bodyguard for her to read.

My dearest Evegy,

It seems every day I am surprised anew at just how much time has passed. How are you? I hope you do well. Rimer and Agurolishi say their next kid will be a girl and Rimer wanted to name her after you, but he wasn't sure if you would like that. I told him to ask you when you come back around again. Azoo thinks he's managed to figure out the trick to brewing this time so maybe we can all come together for a drink then. Things have finally started to wind down here, it feels like it's been more than just a few years.

You're due back in another couple months right? I'm looking forward to being with you, when the dust finally settles.

TEAM LGNT

Lauren Baxiao (Fen-Fen)
After the conclusion of the war, Lauren was out there looking for ways to deal with the pains that war had brought. War had the unfortunate consequences of making someone as carefree as Lauren grow up hard and fast. She was never quite the same after all that had happened to her, but one thing that did stick with her was how the war had started in the first place. Hatred, ignorance, deceit, despair, oppression. It was a battle within herself that waged for several years after the war's conclusion, but ultimately, hope won out. All her suffering would have been in vain if it had won and consumed her life. It started with slow steps, like resuming her long swims on the beach and rediscovering the joys of the water. She worked her way up from there, confiding with other war veterans, human and faunus alike, about her experiences and forming connections that lasted well into her adulthood.

Lauren followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming a combat instructor at Beacon Academy after the war. She didn't quite have the soft, kind touch of her mother - especially after the war - but having her students as her light in the darkness of post war life made sure she still retained some of her happiness. As one of the many prominent faunus instructors at Beacon, she was among one of its fiercest advocates for faunus and human cooperation. She knew that it wasn't going to be solved overnight with the centuries of animosity between the two groups, but she contributed her part in fighting for faunus rights and reconciliation.

Tilki Kato (Fen-Fen)
Tilki perished during the battle of Asani at the hands of the grimm horde.

Gareth Dameron (Stingray)
Gareth perished during the battle of Asani during the human ambush.

Nara Inar(Stingray)
Nara was rescued by her sister Nilya during the conflict and escaped with them to their safe haven in a remote part of Remnant. Over the years she began bringing more people into their community, believing that the world still holds a grudge against the faunus.

TEAM NAFV

Varik & Nilya Umbra (Stingray)
Soon after the battle turned sour Varik and Nilya escaped to their personal hidden airship to flee the conflict. Torn between helping the fighters below or saving their own lives, they eventually decided to use their resources to help both sides, a principle which continued for the rest of the war. After it ended, the two along with Nilya's sister settled in a remote part of Remnant and created a small community where faunus and humans can live freely without persecution.

Amane Levi (shinydiamond)
Amane perished during the battle of Asani to human forces.

Fei Zero (shinydiamond)
Fei perished during the battle of Asani at the hands of a titan-sized grimm.

TEAM STLL

Tenerus Stone (Jay)

Tenerus Stone fought tirelessly and without break throughout the war, forming a hopeless crusade with the help of his team, a small mercenary militia known as the Steel Will Initiative. The purpose of the organization was to protect those that sought an end to conflict on both sides of the war, it protected innocents of both the humans and faunus who simply wanted the fighting to stop... and for everyone to be free and equal.

During the war Tenerus was seen as a reclusive leader at best and a terrifying beast at worst. He killed many people, radicals who attacked those he protected, humans and faunus both. In the end, he had one of the highest recorded kill counts of the conflict, a fact that tormented him... and as the other members of Team STLL died in the conflicts that followed them, Tenerus lost himself, becoming nothing more than a sword and shield. In the final battle of the war, Tenerus was described by soldiers on both sides as a monster who slaughtered anyone holding a weapon nigh indiscriminately.

When the fighting finally ended, Tenerus was found dead in front of a lone shack with a smile on his face, his sword broken in two... and two dozen faunus bodies surrounding his. Relief workers reported the retrieval of three human children, found cowering underneath a bed inside of the shack itself.

Sullivan Kruxheart (Jay)
Sullivan sacrificed himself to save his teammates during the war, after both governments labeled the Steel Will initiative as a rogue terrorist organization.

Liara Daphone (Jay)
Liara was killed during the war by faunus soldiers while on a recon mission.

Lucinda Tera (Jay)
Lucinda was executed by human forces for allying herself with the Steel Will initiative.

TEAM CLVL

Caroline Bjork (aeternum)
Caroline saw the events of the the entire war unfold in her mind far before it even began, due to her semblance. After desperately trying to warn her team of the dangers ahead, she swiftly left the faunus army and chose to help innocents instead. After the war, she continued to help people rebuild, and has been approached many times by the government for her clairvoyance ability, though she has made it clear that she does not intend to use it for political gain.

Luna Niemansluft (aeternum)
Ignoring Caroline's words, Luna charged into battle and perished during the battle of Asani to human forces. She is, however, known as the faunus to have killed the most humans on record in a single battle - a grim but impressive title.

Victor Strossen (Sephear)
Victor had no need of any warning, by the time the war blossomed in earnest he was long tired of the fighting and the hatred between human and Faunus. The discovery that his sister's human kidnappers had been working with Fanus was the last straw and after ruthlessly dismantling their organization, he abandoned the fighting and settled down to begin mending the rift between the races as a sort of self-appointed ambassador. Victor became known for his flexibility in disputes and commitment to understanding between Human and Faunus, as well as terrifying efficiency when forced to fight for that goal.

Lana (Sephear)
Heeding Caroline's warning, Lana chose to stay at her side and left the faunus army before the war began, where she used her abilities to help the people of Menagerie. After the war, she became a growing musical sensation, dubbed "one-woman-band" due to her semblance.

TEAM NCKL

Niklas Brudheim (Ice)
Niklas continued to fight for the human side in the war, his honour and discipline helping him rise up the military command chain. Now that the war is over he still works for the military, but has been working to reform training programs to incorporate more 'honour' in them (and a better uniform, courtesy of his wife Katharina).

Chloe Quick (Ice)
Chloe's body was recovered from the ruins of Asani many weeks after the battle, though identifying her took even longer than that, due to the brutality of her murder at the hands of Nel Phelia and Archer Ines. Her ex-team members do not speak of her memory fondly.

Katharina Keshina (Winter)
After the war, Katharina confessed her love for Niklas and the two got married, with Kathy choosing to help with Niklas' job in the human military. She is known to be the only person who can draw out Niklas' soft side, though many say she is more fearsome than him in terms of power.

Ludger Demaine (Winter)
Ludger left the hunter life behind after the war, instead fully dedicating himself to his card shark skills. After a few years of winning regional tournaments, he opened the first human-faunus-friendly casino in Remnant.

TEAM SNAP

Sacha Abramovich (Kitty)
After being cut off from her team at the start of the battle, Sacha fought bravely against faunus forces despite the disadvantage. She was eventually overwhelmed by the Grimm horde that followed and was killed by one of the rampaging titans. Her last social media post sent moments before her death was a selfie of her and Paxton together.

Nakahiro Omori (Kitty)
Traumatized by the death of his teammates and the brutality of war, Naka quit being a hunter when the war ended. He chose to settle down in a small, remote village far from the mainland, and dedicated himself to toymaking for peace rather than combat.

Artemis Gale (Grey Bidoof)
Artemis remained a hunter after fighting valiantly against the faunus in the war, eventually rising up the military command chain to the rank of general. She does not speak often about the faunus war and still holds much of her prejudice from the time, but she is still in contact with her sole surviving team member Naka.

Paxton Wayne (Grey Bidoof)
Paxton attempted a rescue mission for Sacha when she was cut off from them, against their team leader's orders. A mission that would be a suicide one, as he eventually succumbed to his injuries at the hands of the grimm. Judging by Sacha's final social media post, he at least succeeded in getting to her.

TEAM TITS

Trance Payne (gimmepie)
The unfortunately named Team TITS was the first group deployed to Asani Village in response to a large grim invasion. They arrived and quickly sprung into action, using their highly effective teamwork to liberate the area around the church. Everything looked fine... then everything went wrong. The arrival of the titan-sized grimm overwhelmed the team, leaving Asani town in the ruins we know today.

They radioed in for support, but reinforcements arrived too late. Teema and Solomon found dead at the scene. There was no sign of Trance or Imad.

Imad Ingliss (gimmepie)
Imad disappeared during his team's failed mission at Asani Village.

Teema Ingliss (Quest)
Teema perished at the hands of the titan grimm during his team's failed mission at Asani Village.

Solomon Kenworth (Ozymandias)
Solomon perished at the hands of the titan grimm during his team's failed mission at Asani Village.

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These souls lost their lives or disappeared during the Battle of Asani.

Nord Hvitur (Nagi) was slain in battle after sacrificing himself to save his teammate Gwen.
Gwen Bugail (Nagi) died in battle while avenging her fallen teammate, Nord.
Ninanza Cerebros (Jay) was executed after being unmasked as a spy by faunus officials.
Colelle Cab (Ihsaan) disappeared during the battle. Her body was never recovered.
Hamos Carcol (Ech) fell in battle alongside two unidentified faunus hunters.
Xyra Coronis (Astromancer) succumbed to her injuries after fighting a formidable grimm.
Cassandra Alexandra (Legend) perished in battle.
Orion Augustus (Legend) perished in battle.
Azrael Corin (Astromancer) perished in battle.
Alexandria Tobin (Yukari) perished in battle.
Dylan Enaid (SkyisUmbreon) perished in battle.
Elke Tegeler (Circuit) perished in battle.
Alice Hughes (Yukari) perished in battle.
Rollen Hugo (jombii) perished in battle.
Leon Brask (???) perished in battle.
Loth Griever (???) perished in battle.
Pastel Canvas (strange) perished in battle.
Raina Valentine (Zatanna) perished in battle.
Cinna Taupe (shadderedxfrost) perished in battle.
Titus Timber (IcyIce) perished in battle.
Robin Ivory (shatteredxfrost) perished in battle.
Grey Platamol (Light & Darkness Dragon) perished in battle.
Ruski Reznov (killer-curry) perished in battle.
Leon Ven Neku (Oddball_) perished in battle.
Umbra Swan (Oddball_) perished in battle.
Shawn Mephitis (Strange) perished in battle.
Tahu Swan (Strange) perished in battle.
Navar Mongrue (Junier) perished in battle.
Tulile Capet (Junier) perished in battle.
Hermes Swiftwing (SparrowMouse) perished in battle.
David Humara (MiloXyunto) perished in battle.
Zorox (dud190) perished in battle.
Alex Iv (Khawill) perished in battle.
Bradley Stashin (dud190) perished in battle.
Rashad Boot (dud190) perished in battle.
Ariel Chornae (dud190) perished in battle.
Kiro Irakuza (Drakath) perished in battle.
Kaylee Akua (Kaylee Akua) perished in battle.
Natalie Star (Crow) perished in battle.
Black Gil (jombii) perished in battle.

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

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