Dance against the Darkness [Hunt-Open to Three]

Sky grumbled to himself a little as he made his way to the entrance of the Skylight Woods. It was a bit earlier than he would have liked it to be. Still, he didn't mind that much. He looked up at the sky above him, little bits of blue flashing between the leaves. He breathed in the morning air, the residual heat turning his breath visible. He relished the way the cool air bit at his skin, waking him, refreshing him, and it was for this reason that he had his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He listened to the birds sing, and wondered who he would be teamed up with for this exercise. The school had the brilliant idea of letting the students take care of the increasing Grimm, citing teamwork as their reason. He drew in a cool breath as he arrived at the entrance. Upon seeing Kei, he would call out through the morning air, saying Splendid morning, isn't it? I don't believe we have met before, I'm Sky Richardson, as he approached the man, offering him his hand. He looked at the man somewhat curiously as he sized him up, wondering what the mans style was. Daggers, maybe? Hidden blade? He shrugged mentally, clearing his mind of the clutter of thoughts, returning his mind to silence.

Niraya got up early and did her usual morning routine. She hated mornings, but her body said to get up so she did. After she was cleaned up and had freash clothes on he grabs the drone remote before heading down to breakfast. she grabs a quick breakfast bar and a bottle of sweet tea. she heads outside and turns on the drone to follow her. she then heads over to board and examines whats there while she waits for the drone. she spots something about training and figured it would be best for her in two ways. one it would be able to test the drone's ability to scout things out, and at the same time it would help her get better at her spine whip. she goes to the meeting location only to see that there were already two others. "Hello...is this the training thing?" she had just missed there greetings so as she walked up her tail swaying back and forth a bit she smiles. "Hello my name is Niraya" its at the point the drone came in, and she turns towards it. "oh...bout time you showed up...maybe i need something to help you fly faster..." when she realizes she was talking to herself she jumps a bit her tail stands up before she turns around back to the two. "Sorry about that. im researching a drone for Police work and im suppose to test it out and improve it. I hope you dont mind?" she rubs the back of her head as her tail wrapped around her.

As if catching Kei's yawn, Sky yawns as well, his breath staining the air with its warmth. Oh, I wouldn't be up at this hour either, if I could help it, he says as he waves away a small bug flying about his face, saying Since I am up_ however, I figure that it us better to enjoy the morning for what it is rather then mire in negativity. He blinks as if in surprise at his own response. He wasn't yet fully awake, and in this half asleep state he always grew quiet, introspective and philosophical. He nods, confirming that he was indeed there for the training mission.
He turns as Niraya arrives, the crunch of her footsteps alerting him to her presence. He regards her casually, if staring a bit. She appeared to be a cat faunus, however, unlike other cat faunus Sky had met, Niraya moved normally, rather than with the preternatural grace and form the others had had, each movement smooth and perfectly efficient. He lets the feeling slip away as his eyes turn to the drone arriving late to the scene. He cocks an eyebrow at Niraya, saying You will, I hope, forgive me, but your drone doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in its combat readiness. I mean, if it cant keep up now, when it doesnt matter its kind of hard to believe it will be able to keep up when it does. That being said, however, i have no qualms with you bringing it, so long as it doesn't get in my way.
Although he hadn't exactly marked his calender, Sky knew a good idea when he heard one, amd Kei's plan to relax was one that Sky could agree with. He shakes his head, clearing it of thoughts as they begin to move. As they lope across the land, breathing easily, Sky turns his head to face the others. Well, we might as well try and familiarize ourselves while we can. I, as you have no doubt already noticed, wield twin blades, and my Semblance lets me generate and manipulate electricity.

Niraya nods at Kai when he introduced himself. she turns to Sky but was kinda bummed that he was more occupied with the drone than sharing his name. she pushes the thought to the back of her mind and addressed his comment. "Like I said im working on it. you should have seen it before i made the tweeks it couldn't even tell how far a wall was from it and kept running into them." she looks back at Kai. " i agree. the sooner we get this done the sooner i can get back to work" she pulls out her whip and looks over at Sky when he mentioned what his weapon and symbiance was. she smiles and holds up her spine whip. "i use a spinewhip and my symbiance is crystal shard. it coveres my whip in a crystal barrier that when i whip sends shards of it towards my enemies!" she gives a small example of her skills with the whip. The drone backed a way a bit before driving up a bit to scan the soroundings.

Creeps weren't particularly well known for their intelligence... but this one was bellow average, even for a mindless beast. To it's credit, it made up for that by being larger than most; standing at a good meter and a half tall with large powerful jaws... though it had no concept of size save for "Bigger than me," "Smaller than me," and "Same size as me." The talons on it's toes were sharp and the spines along it's back pointed.

Now... what was this silly beast to do, unaccompanied might I add, when it was wandering through a part of the forest it had never seen prior? More importantly, what was it to do when it saw a group of three hunters and a strangle flying thingy walking just a bit ahead of it? The creep's chain of thought, as it stood obscured in some bushes, went as follows.


With that logic in mind the beast shot out, not making a sound save for the light padding of it's footsteps as it approached the speed of a train. With a hop it dove straight through the walking group's unimpeded, assuming it whacked the flying baby with it's hard muzzle before even reaching them due to it's position above and behind them, before landing at the other-side of them and; using it's sharp clawed feet, running straight up a tree a bit ahead of the group. It made it to a branch overhanging the group and chirped ferociously. Certain the group would back down now and this would become it's new territory.

Niraya was shocked to see a grim attack them this close to the edge of the forest. but was more supprised that it didn't attack them but instead hit her drone. it lets out a whine as it spun out of control and hit a tree. then it just lays there silent. "You have got to be kidding me!" she watched her drone hit the tree and collapse to the ground. this filled her with rage and turns back to the grimm who was in a tree making noise. Niraya took this as it laughing and strikes first. she pulls out her whip and uses her symbance. her whip now covered in crystals and she whips the air between her and the grim sending shards of the crystals towards the grim. "You will pay for Damaging my Drone!"


HP: 150 / Aura: 130

The creep was pleased, bearing it's jagged mouth and those bellow; showing off it's shiny white helmeted head with it's pretty red stripes and generally making a fool of itself. Stupidity had made the beast cocky.


Look at them. Cowering in fear. Clearly they scared. One not moving, other just looking... other look upset at loss of it's offspring. All is well. They will soon be dealt with... now to scare them away. They regret messing with Creep. Creep is the strongest. Creep is the best. Creep is king. Creep is coolest. Creep has lots of friends in pack... totally why Creep is fighting alone.

The beast leapt over them, a good two meters above them, as the one with the hairy ears attacked, sending some mass of glassy rock pieces just short of the beast's feet. It bounced off the trunk of a tree behind them; launching itself cranium first toward the male hunter with the crimson face mask. Primed to hit the back of his head. It let out a vicious roar, truly more akin to an angry yelp, as it sped toward both him and the group. Hoping to split them up with it's devastating attack.

Niraya watches the Grim leap from the tree just before the crystal shards strike the tree where the grimm once stood. it charges head first into Kei's head. she watches it hit strike him as he barley was able to get his arms up to block. not wanting to miss a second time she quickly swings her whip at the grim while it was close before it lands behind them. "you do need to pay attention he could have broken something!" she readies herself for the next attack knowing full well it wasn't going to back down from a fight now. she takes a ready stance and focuses her on her symbiance again. she is not wanting to miss a second time, but at the same time she needs to take her time any rash moment and she might turn her allies into pincushions.

The Creep grinned before it grimaced, whip striking it's side. It was knocked back a bit, while a whip wasn't exactly the best weapon for knocking an opponent flying the beast was both light and airborne when it was struck. As lacking as the beast was in intelligence it was, two things were clear. The masked one was an easier target to beat on but the pointed eared one seemingly would try not to let him get injured too badly. She'd try to keep the beast at a distance, that was where her weapon worked best. At close range she'd struggle to use it. It'd have to scare her off first, get her out of the equation.

The beast zigzagged toward the masked one, mouth wide as if it were looking to take a large chunk out of his side; however... At the last second it pushed off it's far leg. Pouncing in a shoulder barge like charge toward the faunus woman. Primed to hit it with it's back, flying toward her legs at a high speed.

Niraya stands at the ready. she watches the grimms movement her whip covered in shards ready to go. she was waiting for an opertunity to strike, But the grimm charges at Kei moving rapidly left and right making it hard to predict when he would strike. then suddenly shifted direction towards her she barely had time to move just enough not to hit the mask but she gets clipped by the shoulder. she spins around when hit a few shards flying off of her whip. once she stopped her spinning she swings her whip towards the grim but being slightly dizzy her aim wasn't as precise as it should be. once the shards were expended she holds her sholder that got hit feeling for anything that was broken.

Hp 135 / Aura: 110

The beast was once again happy that it had landed a blow, this time injuring the female, but it had once again come at a cost. As it was rolling over the grass lands, post attack, some strange form of vines had ensnared it, wrapped tightly around it's neck; coming from the tall masked one. The beast had no idea what to make of them, nor how to shake them. The beast was whacked in head with the end of a whip, it would seem it's movement had been somewhat restricted. Dazed and confused it saw only one way it could truly move. It chose to take advantage of the man's occupied hands, it's not like he could idly toss it about with it running straight at him. Would only be easy to pull it toward him, the creature ran mouth open. Going to take a chunk out his side. Utterly terrified that this could be it's end. It hadn't even got to hurt the third person, it was only fortunate that they had been standing idle this entire time... otherwise this would have been far worse for the beast.

It let out a roar, feet ponding on the grassy land as it charged toward it's target. Ready for an all out final assault.

Niraya stands there the pain in her arm was quite strong. might even be dislocated, but she fights through the pain and gets ready again. Kei had managed to ensnare the beasts neck with what looked like wires. it helped as the beast quickly charged at Kei wanting to end the fight mouth open. Niraya takes a deep breath and focuces on her next attack dashing forward her injured arm dragging behind a bit. she swings the whip with her good arm aiming for the creatures legs. if she could trip up the beast then it should be easier to avoid the jaws. when her whip got near the Grimm some of the electricity arks across her spine whip and into her arm. her tail jolts up from the sensation of being eletrocuted.

HP: 110 / Aura:110

The beast collapsed as a searing pain surged through it's body, expanding from it's neck and coursing through it's body. The beast's rear was then thwacked with the woman's weapon, tearing a hole in it's already chard and broken body as if it were no more than cheap tissue paper or the wrapper keeping a man from the sweets held within a packet. It let out a guttural groan as it slowly began to turn to ash, flopping onto the slower crumbling of it's two sides. As it's mass began to turn to ash it was left only to ponder what it's life might have been had it not confronted this team. The beast's only regret was that it didn't get to take a chunk out of it's opponents succulent sides. It would not be missed by any, hunter or grimm. The beast let out one final croak, eyes fading as it finally died. A mere five minutes later nothing remained of it save for the marks it had left on the students and their environment.

Loot:

Niraya sighs happy to see the fight was over. she puts away her spine whip, and waves goodbye to Kei as he left. she holds her left shoulder using her aura to heal the wound as she goes to find the drone. once she finds it she picks it up and carries it back to campus

(exits)