Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-74.64.52.26-20130903033331

74.64.52.26 wrote:

(Continuation)

When the team enters through the door, it's so old that it makes a shrill metallic shriek through the warehouse. They tense up, expecting a fight, but there's no Grim confronting them.

Ruby, being the leader, decides to search the first floor if its filled with the dangerous explosives that the policemen mentioned about; the area is littered with wooden boxes of Dust crytals, and they shift through until Blake confirms that the place is a house of matchsticks.

Yang suggests searching the adjoining room, and Weiss disagrees, insisting that they check the second floor.

Ruby makes the choice to go with Weiss' plan, and they end up going upstairs to find a nest of Grim. Instinctually, Yang shotguns one of the larger monsters, and leaps into the fray. The sudden noise of her gauntlets awakens the other monsters and puts them in an uproar, and the whole floor is lit up with pairs of red eyes.

It catches the other three off guard, and the next second, Ruby is screaming "battle formation" and leaping after her sister with her scythe. What Yang initiates puts Team RWBY in a clumsy beginning, forcing everyone to slice everything apart while avoiding crates of Dust.

Blake saves Ruby from near-death and pairs up, taking down the Grim with ease, while Yang and Weiss aren't even cooperating; they're getting in each other's way, and it looks like they're even yelling at each other.

Ruby can tell her sister is growing frustrated not using her unique firepowers, and tries to warn her across the battlefield, but she witnesses a chimera-like monster, the one Yang woke up, shoots a stream of fire at Weiss, and boom, a bonfire is started.

From the panic of the other Grim, Blake and Ruby take down a large section of the horde, and go after the chimera one, who is still blasting down Weiss and Blake. Everything is lighting up, the floor is burning and filling with smoke.

Blake expresses her worries to leave, and Ruby agrees, running ahead to Yang and Weiss, ordering a retreat. Her voice catches the attention of the chimera, and it charges toward her.

Its weight breaks apart the floor because it's weakened by the fire, and it brings down everyone except Blake, who finds latches onto the wall, and her view is obscured by the fire and the chimera falling.

When everything settles down, Blake mentally freaks out and lands, checking everything among the debris. She finds out the chimera monster is dead, but everything is so hazy, her search across the room is difficult.

To her relief, she finds Ruby calling out, and finds the younger girl unhurt, but worried for Yang and Weiss. The call out the pair's names, and follow the source of Weiss' voice.

They discover her lying among the rubble, bruised with a broken leg, but it's a miracle she's alive. Ruby asks where's her missing sister.

Pulling up her older sister, Ruby and Blake are alarmed to find Yang was like a cushion to Weiss, severely injured but barely breathing. They manage to drag her out before the firemen arrive to put out the fire. Yang and Weiss are brought to a hospital, before being placed in Beacon's infirmary.

They next day, the three get debriefed from Professor Ozpin, apologizing for their failure, but the headmaster is oddly satisfied, confusing them. He explains that missions are conducted through the cooperation of teams.

It prompts Ruby to ask, "But what does that mean?"

The headmaster then replies with words of wisdom: "While it is essential to complete the mission, your teammates are your friends.  I know how even the slightest chance you fail, it's the lives you save that counts." He continues with a smile. "As you bond and grow together as Huntresses, it is important to bond together with the people who are fighting for the same cause alongside you."

After this, the three return to Yang's infirmary. Weiss apologizes for her lack of trust with her teammate, and she accepts that Yang is Yang, and she does what she does best.

Yang comforts her, saying that while they might not get along at times, she'll listen to what Weiss has to say, adding her thanks on saving Ruby from falling.

It ends with the team RWBY glad that they all live for another day to becoming Huntresses, and that their bonds are growing stronger.

(I feel more into making my point through typing it with a story in Blake's PoV)

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Ruby started towards Yang and Weiss, the blade of her scythe poised behind her. It was a familiar position that signalled she was going to use her recoil. "Everybody, we need to leave!" she yelled, dashing across pillars of fire and the bodies of the Grim.

I felt helpless, watching as the chimera rounded on Ruby. It broke into a charge, smoke pouring out of its nose as it went towards her.

And then everything crumbled. The age of the floor had left it brittle, and with the additional weight of monsters had weakened it further. The fire just broke it apart.

The ground splintered beneath the chimera, spreading across the floor like cracks in ice, and I vaulted off, thrusting Gambol Shroud's tip into the wall.

My fall slowed as my blade dug into the brick, until my feet scrambled for purchase. One of my boots nicked into a loosened stone, bringing me to a complete stop, just as I heard the second floor shatter to pieces.

It let loose a cloud of dust, filliing my nostrils and bringing me to choke. Keeping my grip on my sword, I craned my neck look below.

The sight made my stomach drop, and I followed. Jerking Gambol Shroud out of the wall, I leapt down, landing in a roll, feeling my back and hair matted with dust as I searched through the inferno, coughing as it became harder to breath. "Ruby!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, holding my weapon at ready, if the chimera was still alive. ''The fall should have killed it. ''"Ruby, can you hear me?"

"Blake!" a hand landed on my shoulder, and I spun, to find the tip of my blade on Ruby's neck. Her silver eyes blinked back at me. She was covered in soot, appeared unhurt.

"Where are the others?" I yelled over the roar of the fire, sheathing my sword and squinting through the smoke behind her. "How aren't you hurt?"

Ruby had wrapped her cloak around the lower part of her face like a breathing mask, and her words came out muffled. "Weiss...Weiss' gylph caught me."

I pulled the collar of my vest to my nose. "We find them now.  Come on!" We struggled through the debris and the heat, stepping over bodies of Grim as we called out for Weiss and Yang. The longer we persisted, a dry feeling had settled into the back of my throat, but I battered it away. As high-strung as the two were, the situations we'd already faced as a team involved taking force of hits, and they'd survived.

"Yang!" Ruby's voice was shrill, gradually getting high-pitched as we avoided the burning remains of a crate. "Weiss?"

A loud yell of "Over here!" came from nearby, and we bolted. The voice came underneath a layer of debris, and we clawed through, throwing aside pieces of rubble until we came face to face of Weiss.

The heiress was kicking at a large mass of wood that had fallen over her left leg, presumably broken, and she didn't seem to notice our presence. Her clothes were ripped in places, with the bloody right sleeve of her jacket barely holding as she grunted, pressing her free leg against the wood, to no avail. Ruby and I exchanged a knowing look, and we bent over, slowly lifting the heavy piece, long enough for her to force her leg away, before it fell with a thud.

"Thanks," she gasped, using her hands to lift herself into a kneeling position.

"Where's my sister?" Ruby spoke briskly, offering Weiss a hand to tug her up, wrapping an arm around her shoulder as the older girl leaned for support. "Is she...fine?"

A loud groan came behind Weiss, and I searched the ground with my eyes, until I picked out a tangle of blonde hair. Yang curled up in a fetal position, with her body lined with gashes, and one of her arms twisted in an odd angle. My breath hitched, and I bent beside her. It took some straining before I was able to lift her in a bridal position. "Yang, move as little as you can." I said under her ear. I got no reply. I only had to stagger as she suddenly slumped, unconscious.

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