"Sorry!" Was heard from the distance.
Alabast shot off from branch to branch towards the voice that was still echoing and reaching his heightened sense of hearing. He wasn't too pleased and he recognized that voice.
In a minute of running he saw a red head below him. He took aim and threw the javelin ahead of her to not hit her at her current speed.
Pyrrha instead of just stopping. Put her hand back and the spear moved to her hand. Like it changed its trajectory to get to her hand and not hurt her. Weird.
He jumps down from the tree he's on and lands behind Pyrrha before she can turn around. "Care to explain why I was almost hanged by your magical Javelin?"
Pyrrha turns around and looks up at Alabast's face as she turns her javelin into its short sword form and puts it on her back where her shield is. "You looked like you were having difficulty with the landing strategy, so I thought to help you a bit. I didn't mean to do any harm" she sounded bad about almost hurting Alabast.
"I'm not so weak that I would die even if I landed at that speed on my neck. Whatever, at least you tried I guess. Well, partner. Lead the way"
Pyrrha found it a little difficult to talk with Alabast, but she knew that they would warm up to each other.
As Pyrrha was leading the way the two heard gunshots off in the distance. "It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy" Pyrrha turned her head to look at Alabast who was moving his wolf ears slightly. He didn't even acknowledge she had talked so she turned back around.
She moved a branch out of her way with her shield. After she moved past she let the branch go. It then smacked into his throat with a bit of force. This causes him to back up a step and cough a little as he grabbed his throat.
"Alabast, sorry!" Pyrrha turned around and saw Alabast holding his throat and she realized that she had let the branch whack him in the throat.
"Can you stop saying sorry every time we talk. You are starting to sound like a broken record! And while your at it, stop hurting me. I'm not a masochist! If anything I'd be a sadist!" Alabast wasn't too happy but knew he needed to work with his new teammate.
The fact he said this with a serious face made Pyrrha blush. She wasn't trying to hurt him and she was certainly not expect him to call himself a sadist.
"Well, let's move on then" She just turned around and kept walking.
Eventually she wanted to talk to Alabast again but didn't know what to talk about. Then she remembered Ruby liked weapons and had told her about Alabast's weapon. "Hey Alabast, this is Akouo" she lifts her shield into the air. "And this is Milo, it's able to become a sword and a rifle besides its javelin form" she lowered the shield then raised her sword.
Alabast looked at her but didn't respond. "I already heard about Nights Fall from Ruby so don't worry" Pyrrha is hurting her back trying to carry this conversation.
She gives up and just enjoys the silence of their walk through the Grimm infested forest. Yes, silence. Alabast doesn't like that, so he's been on alert and trying to pick up on any sounds of ambush.
Then they reach a cave. "Think this is it?" Pyrrha asks. Alabast looks into the cave for a second.
He reaches to his back and takes off the great sword blade and forms Dark Heart. He switches the rifle to fire dust and shoots into the cave.
Both Pyrrha and Alabast watch as it keeps going and eventually hits something.
That's when they hear and ear piercing screach. This causes Alabast to fall to his knees since he had his hearing on 10 trying to detect and ambush, let's say he is regretting his decision at the moment.
That's when they start feeling the ground rumble from the direction of the cave.
Alabast still holding his wolf ears stands up and shouts "Run!"
Him and Pyrrha start running through the forest as they hear something crash through the tiny opening of the cave entrance and send debris flying. They turn and see a Death Stalker chasing them now at full speed.
They don't need to say anything and just keep running. Alabast could run faster but doesn't want to leave Pyrrha alone to get killed by this thing. Luckily they are matching the speed of the scorpion Grimm.
After continually running they see a clearing through the trees ahead. They run and get to the clearing but now the Death Stalker doesn't lose speed by running through trees and is able to catch up and attack them now. Pyrrha jumps and dodges while Alabast draws Nights Fall and starts deflecting the pincers aiming at him without stopping. He eventually hit the death stalker hard enough to make its steps falter for a second to regain its balance and thats all him and Pyrrha needed to make it to Ruby, Yang, Blake, Nora, and Ren. Pyrrha trips in front of Alabast and he can't react in time and also falls. But he ends up falling from 6 foot 6 to the ground on his face. "Ow" he groans out.
Then Ruby decides it's a good idea to challenge the Death Stalker solo and is taught a lesson of why that was a bad idea. She is bailed out by Weiss who slowed her fall from the skies using her glyphs.
Then they all decide that they don't want to fight the Death Stalker and giant Nevermore. So they all run up the ruins and the groups grab a random relic from a podium. The relics are chess pieces. They don't even pay attention to which one they grab as they keep running and find more ruins and decide to find a place to hide.
As they ran through the ruins the group of 8 split into two groups of 4. The first went to the right which is Ruby, Yang, Blake and Weiss. The second went towards the left and was Alabast, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren.
Both groups get seen as the Nevermore and Death Stalker attack the groups. They work together to cover each other as they run towards an old tower. Then the Nevermore crashes into the bridge leading to the tower and separates the groups. It's Ren, Pyrrha and Blake on the other side of the bridge cornered by the Death Stalker. Nora looks to Alabast. Nora then shouts "Let's do this!" From behind Alabast as he hears her weapons gears turning. She turns her grenade launcher into its giant hammer form and runs forward. She smacks the end of the broken bridge launching Alabast forward towards the Death Stalker. Before Nora can fall she stands on her hammer and causes an explosion to propel herself forward through the air and also arrives near the Death Stalker and immediately swing at it. She has to dodge the telson on the end of the tail so she jumps backwards, it still hits her hammer pushing her farther back and into Blake.
Blake goes flying off the cliff but is able to save herself using the ribbon on the end of her sword and it's grappling hook.
Alabast picks himself up and wields Nights Fall in his right hand. That's when the Death Stalker breaks the bridge and they are forced to make a run for it or else they would fall. Ren speaks up "We gotta move!"
It didn't need to be said but whatever. The 4 of them run forward. Pyrrha and Alabast are blocking the Death stalkers pincers with the shield and the giant blade respectively. That's when Ren decides to jump on the tail and shoot the telson off with his green automatic pistols with collapsible blades.
As Pyrrha and Alabast are blocking the pincers Nora shoots grenade rounds at it and it has to defend so it stops attacking and block the blasts but it's pincers are knocked back so Pyrrha throws her Javelin at one of its eyes.
It recoils in pain and ends up throwing Ren off it's tail and he goes flying back first into a wall. Taking him out of the fight for now. Nora shouts "Ren!" In worry of her friend.
Alabast notices the telson barely hanging onto the tail. "Pyrrha, the telson!"
"Done!" Pyrrha winds back her shield and throws it forward. It goes flying through the air and eventually hits the connection between the telson and tail and disconnects the telson. It falls onto the Death Stalker piercing it's heavy armor.
Alabast knows that Nora can hit things hard. "Nora, nail it in!"
The shield somehow bounces back to Pyrrha how grabs it like Captain America. Nora shouts "Heads up!" And jumps on top of Pyrrha holding Akouo up. Nora lands and as she lands she crouches down and blasts a round off of the shield as Pyrrha jumps into the air. This causes Nora to be sent super high into the air.
Nora at the top of her jump sits on the hammer for fun and style points. As she starts her decent she changes her position and fires another round to propel herself faster towards the ground and starts spinning. She ends up hitting the telson heavily. It digs into the Death Stalker killing it and also destroying what's left of the bridge. Nora swings her body and shoots into the Death Stalker to propel herself off of it and land on the ground next to the others. Alabast lands on his feet and barely crouches down with his arms crossed. Nora lands on her butt. Pyrrha lands in a heavy super hero landing. And Ren walks over gasping for air then grunts as he collapses to the ground on his front. Everyone that can stand gets up and watches the other group fight the Nevermore.
They watch as Ruby runs up the mountain side and cuts the head off the Nevermore at the top and does a cool flip. The body falls and they got a great view for the fight.
Alabast whistles. "Didnt think they had it in them to pull off something like that". He even smiles a little, which Pyrrha notices.
The two groups meet up and make their way back to the cliff side since they already have their relics.
Ruby and Nora are talking non-stop the entire way. Ren and Alabast say very little the entire way back. They then head to the auditorium to get their teams and then they will be released to their dorms afterwards.