[IC] In the shadow of Beacon. (RWBY roleplay)

[Gamerdude369]

Watching Nahbi, he couldn't help but laugh. "Man, today seems to be one for the books for you. If this is an omen for the next four years, at least it won't be boring." The girl was obviously having a tough day, but it didn't get her down, Zee had the upmost respect for that. It was apparent that she could roll with the punches, a valuable skill for anyone, especially hunters. He would have to keep a close eye on her. From the bushes emerged the lizard Faunus, a sight for sore eyes. The man laid out his greeting and his proposal and extended his hand to Zee, which he gladly accepted, gripping it firmly, the scales digging into his skin a little. "A sound proposal. Don’t take this as an insult, but I will be happy to work with someone of your ancestry again. Don't disappoint me." He felt bad expecting something out of a person simply because of what race they were, but he knew what they were capable of. When he turned around, he saw that Yasuri was on the move to the ruins, he urged the others to follow suit. "Relax man," he called back as he was playing catch up. "You're still number one in my book." At their current pace it wouldn't take long for them to break the tree line.

[Eklispe]

Yasuri ignored Zee's attempt to calm his vexation. As he angrily strode across the field to the ruins to finish his mission his foot broke through the ground and he tumbled into an underground lair and bumped into something. Dazed he shook his head and looked down at what he had landed on, at first he thought it was a strange colored rock, but as yellow eyes appeared and a glistening yellow stinger rose up Yasuri realized he had landed on a Deathclaw. Somehow managing to keep a cool head in the dire situation he parry the incredibly fast stinger to the side and jumped out of the hole he had stumbled into and ran towards the ruins. He was going to get his gosh dang artifact, then he would deal with the stupid scorpion that was rapidly climbing out of its hole and chasing after him. What kinda beast made a lair that poorly constructed anyway, he thought to himself angrily. As he ran towards the ruins hoping Zee would follow and help him deal with the threat he noticed two other people also on their way there. It looked like the girl who thought he was a pervert and someone else, Nero if he remembered correctly. "HEY, MIGHT WANT TO START RUNNING!" he called out hopefully grabbing their attention

[SilverWolfAngel]

When Asa heard no reply from Nico, he took his eyes off the circling Grimm long enough to see Nico crumpled in a heap at the foot of the cliff. Asa snorted, so much for cats always landing on their feet. But then again Nico had fallen further than him and also without warning. Grumbling Asa headed over to where Nico lay, deactivated one clawed hand, and hauled him up. They had to get to the top of the cliff, and kill the Grimm in the process, but how? The cliff was far too steep to climb on his own, forget carrying Nico. Focusing his attention back on the Grimm Asa grinned wildly again, he had ridden the Grimm down the cliff, so why couldn’t he ride it up? For the first time Asa wished his weapon had a long range aspect to it, but he had to deal with what he had. Really, Asa knew little of the Grimm, he fought them, ripped them to pieces, and not much more. That was all he’d ever needed to know about them, he was let out to attack and when the Grimm were gone he was shackled again, but if there was one thing he had noticed it was that Grimm reacted to fear, it made them stronger, they congregated to where there was fear, and ……… nothing. Growling Asa wondered; if he felt fear, would it bring this Grimm down? Or just attract more? He shrugged, the more Grimm the better, in his opinion, he was rusty, hadn’t been in a proper fight for years, and what better way to get back into it than to fight? Summoning up all his fear, what fear he could find at any rate, Asa willed the Grimm to attack. Miraculously the Grimm did, diving straight at Asa, beak and claws out to gouge him. Stepping sideways at the last second Asa swept his claw into the Grimm’s path letting its momentum pull him along, and having pushed off the ground, he swung up and over till he was straddling it, right behind the lone spike jutting out or its back. Furious the Grimm ascended, trying to gain some room and shake him off. It rolled and dived but inevitably kept climbing. Soon they were higher than the cliff and looking down over the forest, cliff top, temple ruins, and other students. They were too high to safely jump. Luck had been in his favor so far but that was likely to change, and anyway Asa didn’t believe in luck. They needed to go lower, to pull the Grimm down. It was a task that would require two hands, and that would mean letting go of Nico, something Asa wouldn’t do. He had a length of rope hanging form his belt that he could use to secure Nico, but to do that he would have to let go of the Grimm, another thing Asa didn’t want to contemplate.

[Eklispe]

Yasurai frowned, Parsey wasn't moving at all. That left him no choice and he picked her up without missing a step, which would've been dangerous since the Deathclaw was starting to gain on him. "Hey mind giving me a hand with this beastie?" he said somewhat out of breath as he raced through the ruins barely ahead of the Deathclaw

[solokolos]

Parsey snapped out of her trance and started beating on Yasurai's back. "Put me down you pervert!" She cried indignantly, squirming out of his grasps. Once she escaped, she turned to the Deathclaw with rage filling her eyes. She let loose a storm of ice spikes, rising from the ground, and trapping it in place. She then formed ice into a spear, rising from the ground, and broke it off from its pedestal. She gave it a quick slash, before heaving it towards one of the Deathclaw's many eyes.

[Eklispe]

Yasuri sighed, it seemed he would never escape this stigma but he would rather be called a pervert then let someone get killed. He yelled at Parsey, "Follow me I have an idea!" as he quickly ran through the ruins across a long and narrow bridge. The Deathclaw sceamed furiously as Parsey's spear destroyed one of its eyes and spun with destructive destorying its icy prison. Its other eyes focused on Parsey and it charged foward attempting to crush her.