Alex was in a partly crouched position, ready to jump out of the way of an attack, start running, or charge forwards to strike at the flying Grimm, is weapon rapidly rotating on his right, ready to strike anything dead. However all Alex had to do was stand down. The Nevermore had been struck not only by his attacks, but by the strikes of a nearby student's semblance as well. The foul beast fell to it's death, landing nearby but not on any of the students. Alexander relaxed as he sighed, his aura still glowing brightly. He turned around to see one student carrying another one away. Good, they were looking after each other, as they should.
However before Alex could walk over to another student and ask him if he was unharmed, Captain Misandra Enniga showed up.
"Impeccable timing captain!" Alex called out. He knew who she was, he had been told about her and given her picture when he had been hired but they had never met. He guessed that she was informed about him as well. If he had been more confidant in himself before joining the academy staff he would've joined the security team instead of becoming the grounds keeper. He would've been one of her officers doing what he did best; protecting the academy while mentoring the students on a one-to-one basis, as he was experienced in. However when the Grimm showed up and the captain continued to speak, Alex's jaw dropped.
"Wait, what?!" he exclaimed in shock. He couldn't believe his ears, or his eyes... but they both told the same story so it had to be the truth; the one in charge of Syne's safety was trying to engineer it's downfall.
Alex was about to yell when he noticed a student had tossed something towards the traitorous captain and Alex caught sight of what it was; a dust crystal. Without thinking Alex use his semblance to make a purple and golden seed to sprout purple vines that grew along his body and along his left arm, which he was stretching out towards the flying dust crystal. It was out of his reach, and one would think that he was trying to stop it. However as the crystal passed by him the tips of the purple flowers had bloomed with what looked like purple moon lilies and they started to spray some sort of pollen onto the flying dust crystal. The crystal absorbed the pollen and grew even more potent. Alex hadn't tried to stop the attack, he had enhanced it.
Afterwards he smashed his wrecking ball weapon into the ground, cracking the sidewalk he was standing on into fragments, giving the levitating student more ammo to play with, then charged towards the captain just as the dust crystal exploded, if it hit the captain or not was unknown to Alex but it didn't matter.
"Traitor! You're responsibility is to protect these students, not end them!" Alex roared as he swung his weapon in a low arc at the captain's legs, trying to break her legs off at the knees or at the least the spikes on the weapon would leave a gash in her leg to make her bleed. If she had to fight standing in her own pool of blood, she wouldn't have any good footing. However just as the weapon passed by the captain's legs, Alex swung the weapon around in a round-house motion while bringing it above his head and then brought it down towards the captain, intending to flatten her. He then jumped backwards while recalling his weapon, hoping to give the students a clear shot. Some might call his charge at her suicidal because she was backed up by several Grimm, but that was the point; if they targeted him, they wouldn't be targeting the students.
"Why?! Tell me why you've done this! You're betraying your own people!" Alex yelled. In the back of his mind Alex was glad he didn't the academy's guard under her command. She might of brainwashed him into joining her... in which case he would've attacked the academy from below with his plants and simply buried the entire castle into the mountain it stood on, and only the Headmistress would've had a chance to stop him. Either that or he would've had to face both her, that lunatic that had rode in on the deathstalker, and the young man with the exploding dust paper along with all the Grimm they could've mustered at him all at once... in which case he would've died since he was only a shadow of what he once was.
However he hadn't joined the security force. He had become the grounds keeper because of his lack of confidence... and as a result he was now in a position to stop her. Apparently a coward
could be a hero after all. At least she didn't know about his past. Considering that General Ironwood was the one that classified it, there was no way she could find out unless Leena had granted her permission to know.
- ooc:
Aura active +5 aura
Semblance buff used -10 aura
Semblance buff to Richard's dust attack. For that attack Richard's spirit goes up 2 points... that dust gem is gonna leave a mark!
Weapon strike
Weapon strike
total possible damage from Alex; 70
Aura: 100/120 Health: 180/180
Battle takes place before weapon rank up, so weapon damage remains at +10