Rising Tensions [Private/Hunt]

"So you're telling me there's an influx of grimms on the beach and an identified ship, and you think it's not a terrorist attack? What is this, some kind of camp movie or something?" Avery said casually on her earpiece as she continued to fire bullets at the training dummies. She had just started her after school training routine only to receive a call from her friend informing her of the academy's message for available hunters to provide aid against a large grimm attack on the beach. You'd think there won't be much people there considering this time of the day and year.

"Anyway, sure I'll go. Just give me a sec change to my swimsuit." She stated before wincing as she heard her friend raging on the other side of the line. "But but... it's the beach..." Avy whined and grumbled, left with no choice but to leave her swimwear and head straight to the beach asap.

It was a good thing the academy's training arena was packed that day and she resulted to moving to her residence in town, bringing her closer to the destination. In no time she arrived on the beach in her black motorbike dressed in her combat clothes - black off-shoulder top, 'battle skirt' and shin boots. She could see from afar the crowd of grimms and hunters clashing. Nothing new. What did catch her attention though was a familiar person who had just jumped off a ship.

"Is that...?" Avery's eyebrows raised in recognition. Her bike skidded into a halt beside the man and she removed her helmet. "Kei~! Wow, long time no see!" she beamed, paying no attention whatsoever to the chaos around them. "What a weird way to meet again, right? How's life?"

It had been dark in the large metal floating thing, very dark, and there was not much room to move, lots of others packed in there, lots of others. Eventually the floating thing stopped and light came in from the forward. Unfortunately the Borbatusk was in the back and had to wait until the others went out first.  It was a long wait, but eventually the Grimm was able to exit onto the beach. Many others were fighting the two legged standing things.

It was total chaos, and the Boarbatusk loved it. The despair coming from the two legged standing things made it want to kill them, to rip them to shreds, to give more despair. The Grimm charged a nearby two legged thing that didn't seem to have any of the sharp metal things on it or a loud one either. The two legged thing was trampled under the feet of the Boarbatusk.

The Boarbatusk noticed a loud thing with one of the standing things was on. It stopped near another and got off of the loud thing. Those two standing things didn't have any of the others attacking them. This was the chance, attack while the standing things were distracted with each other. The Boarbatusk charged full force at the one that had arrived on the loud thing, making sure to go for it's legs. Then the Grimm turned to attack the other standing thing, also going for it's legs.

[Barbatusk HP: 160]

[Boarbatusk attacks Avery's legs 45 dmg]
[Baorbatusk attacks Kei's legs 45 dmg]

Avery hopped off her bike and pressed a button on the key to send it on autopilot mode away from the battlefield. "Hmm. Something like that," she responded to Kei's inquiry of her staying out of trouble. When he talked about his struggles though, she couldn't help but chuckle. This was why he was her favourite person.

"See, your problems are related. You're in this chaos because you don't have your harem to keep you busy. And you don't have them chicks because you're broke as hell! Just solve problem one and you'll be fine." Avy nodded and gave him a short pat on the shoulder. She paused and looked at him playfully. "Or maybe I can help with your problem number two~"
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Oh boo, just as she was having fun, an approaching movement from her side caught her attention and she turned to see a pig in armour charging towards them. With a click of her tongue, she let the boar close in before stepping on its head and hopping over in one fluid motion like it was nothing. Immediately, Avy spun on her heel unsheathing her guns from their holsters and taking the opportunity to fire bullets at its exposed backside while Kei was bombarding it with rockets from the front.

The distance was too close for her liking so she morphed her guns to their flamethrower gauntlet form and triggered blue flames on the entirety of the boar. The recoil sent her propelling back a good distance away. That's when she realised what she just saw. Kei was firing rockets?!

"Wait, you changed your weapon?" She asked with much enthusiasm. "That or you added a second form. I'd be impressed if it's the latter." Avy grinned. She lowered down and slammed both hands on the ground, lighting up the sands with the blue glow of her circular insignia before multiple pillars rose from underneath a good ten metres all around her. Once they reached the maximum height, branches protruded from along its top. The pillars were thin, able to support only one person at the top thus were evenly spaced to move around.

One of the pillars were aimed to hit the boar under its front half in hopes of flipping it over on its back. Avery shifted her weapon back to their guns and rained bullets on its belly, spawning more pillars to expand the area as she ran around to its right side and continued to fire bullets on its exposed parts.

Battle Log:

As the Boarbatusk charged the two legged beast who had come on the loud thing it felt a large imprint on it's face. The thing had stepped on it and jumped off. Suddenly there was a distinct crack of pain on the creatures back the two legged beast had used some form of loud popping thing that made the Grimm's back hurt. Followed by that there was the distinct feeling of warmth. For less than a second it was quite nice, almost massaging the pain away, that was before it became far too hot and began to hurt.

The two legged thing that had jumped over the Boarbatusk had used fire on it. It's attack on the second two legged beast was far more successful. A solid hit. Though the two legged beast seemed to be barely inconvenienced by the attack. It raised one of it's non walking legs and two other things flew off of it. Both hit the Boarbatusk in the face stunning it and blinding it for a few seconds. A few seconds was all it took however. The Grimm felt two more of the fiery things it had felt on it's face, and with it felt the life draining from its body. Everything began to fade just as the creatures vision returned. It started at the side slowly working its way in until everything was black. Why? Why did it have to die now? It hadn't even killed any of the two legged things that were invading this world. It hadn't even...

[Boarbatusk HP]

[Bullets hit 45 dmg]
[Fire hits 45 dmg]
[Rocket 1 hit 25 dmg]
[Rocket 2 hit 25 dmg]
[Rocket 3 hit 25 dmg]
[Rocket hit 25 dmg]

"I'm not talking about just myself, silly." Avery rolled her eyes. She found his rather innocent response adorable. "I'm talking about a couple of friends who would be more than interested in... playing around with that mysterious guy in all-black attire and mask. After all, nothing screams exciting more than a man with a sense of danger." She shrugged. "But since you declined, I guess I'll just find someone else to take up the offer~"

At his comment about being born in a rich family though, Avy froze and looked away while scratching her cheek awkwardly. "I know right? Those kids have it so easy it's borderline annoying. But hey, most rich people started from scratch so who knows, maybe you'll be the next billionaire if you learn the 'art of getting filthy rich'."

Awkwardness aside, that pig didn't last long from the combination of her bullets and flames, and Kei's rockets. And apparently the latter's weapon was actually its second form. Avy wasn't surprised; she didn't expect less from him.

"Funny. My doctor said the same. Except, I kinda took the 'firepower' literally." Avy responded in the same joking tone to his inquiry of her flamethrowers. While she would have been enthusiastic to look at his weapon since she's both a tech noob and enthusiast, she had to walk away from him while still spawning new pillars to expand the area.

After about 70m around full of ice pillars, she finally walked back to him. "Hmm, this good enough for you or you want more? Higher maybe? Or more branches?"

Battle Log:

Avery couldn't help a snicker at her enigmatic-looking friend's image-ruining responses. She could definitely see him being popular with girls which made the blonde wonder why he was having all these harem problems in the first place. He could pass off as that cheesy campus lone wolf slash heartthrob if he felt like it.

“Maybe some shaved ice?”

Her eyebrow twitched. Oh that's why. Avery shifted her weight onto one leg and folded her arms. "You do realise I made those so you can use your string thingy right? Yes yes, I am trying my hand on this teamwork thing. But gee you're one hell of an insensitive guy," she teased, feigning a hurt expression. Yet all too soon their conversation was cut short, again, by a rain of pillar-like bone projectiles.

Avery was still in the process of wondering why Kei wanted the shaved ice later that it only registered a grimm had arrived when she felt a sudden pain on back of her left shoulder. The projectile would have pierced through hadn't it been for her armour and she cursed under her breath at her lack of awareness of her surroundings. Avery swiftly took cover on one of the ice pillars as she awaited for the rain of bones to end. Once it did, she coated the bottom of her shoes in a thin layer of ice and proceeded to run up her ice pillar, until she was nestled at the top.

From this she had a clear view of everything including those of the griffons. Taking out her guns, she went down on one knee for a more stable form and proceeded to fire piercing bullets at the second griffon's front body, legs and the feather part of its wings avoiding the bony plate covering.

Battle Log:

From her position atop the pillar Avery could clearly see the aftermath of the griffons' projectile rain. The beach had already been evacuated of civilians earlier as per standard drill so the casualties were all hunters. Because of this, Avy felt no sympathy. All's fair in love and war as they say, and these hunters were simply fallen warriors who were unfortunate enough to be weaker than their opponent. If you can't as much as survive something like this, you're bound to end up dead sooner or later. She thought nonchalantly and hopped off the pillar as she followed behind Kei.

"Oh? A compliment on my teamwork skills? I should record this historical day." Avery said, and at his admission of being worse at it, she snickered. "Yes, I can tell."

The blonde proceeded to reload her guns as she realised they're heading towards the freighter ship. A small smile curved on her lips hearing him talk about insensitivity. She holstered both guns and walked beside him.

"Careful now. I might fall too hard and keep you all to myself. What's gonna happen to your harem then?" she responded in the same light tone.