RWBY: Remnants of Sin

Chapter 4

When we last left our heroes...

BIrds were taking off into the skies in panic as trees could be seen rustling violently before falling over. It was a pretty good enough reason for the rest of the group to take up their stances again as they tensed nervously.

They could all sense something was coming.

Something huge...

"Luke... what is that?!" Honey asked nervously as she gripped her weapons.

Luke kept his eyes focused. He could see a large silhouette fast approaching them.

"Lusy do your thing!"

Daedalus nodded as he pointed his sleeves to the ground as the curious black mass began to spill out of his clothes. As it did, some of the group noticed the clothes he wore under his jacket disappearing.

The black mass slipped itself under the groups' feet as they hopped in surprise until they were standing on a sort of platform of this shifting black mass.

At that moment there was a loud guttural hissing as a Gigantic black snake-like Grimm burst forth from the forest, lunging straight for them.

"LUSY TAKE US UP!" Luke ordered.

Everybody let out surprised cries as they found themselves suddenly flung high into the air, dodging the Grimm attack as it curled and hissed at them, spotting them in the air.

"What is that?! It doesn't look like any Taijitu I've seen before!" exclaimed Naranja as he flicked out his Hover Shield and grabbed Honey once more.

Luke had summoned a small Nevermore to capture himself and Taavi while Daedalus created a platform for himself and Tessa while Astrid flew around the group on her staff with Eric hanging on by one hand.

Eric smirked as he twirled Gentleman's Rose with one hand, activating Rifle mode.

"I got this folks!" he exclaimed as he let himself drop.

"Eric!! Don't, you Dumkoff!!!" yelled Luke in frustration as Eric fired off a few shots at the snake making it angrily writhe around as it opened its mouth.

Everybody watched in horror as the snake stretched out and swallowed Eric whole.

"NO!" cried out Luke at the sight of his best friend's demise.

"ERIC!!!" Astrid shrieked, ready to dive after him when she felt Honey hold her shoulder.

Honey smiled reassuringly. "Just watch."

As everyone looked down they began to see petals emerging out of the snake's as it swirled around and began to gather behind its head as a scythe blade was seen being brandished.

In a sudden burst, the petals blew apart revealing Eric, weapon raised.

"TAKE THIS!!!" he yelled as he swung his scythe with all his strength.

SCHIIIIINGCK!!!!!

The scythe sliced through the giant snake's head like a hot knife through butter as the head flew right off and bounced a bit with dull heavy thuds as the body itself writhed a bit more before falling.

"Ohmigods!!!" exclaimed Tessa and Astrid landing on the ground before tackling Eric in a big relieved hug.

"YOU IDIOT YOU HAD US SCARED THERE!!!" cried Tessa shaking Eric by the collar before Astrid took over.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU ACTIVATED YOUR SEMBLANCE ALREADY?!" Astrid wailed, shaking him harder.

"You bastard! You had that ace up your sleeve the whole time?!" snarled Luke in a mix of frustration and relief, yanking Eric away.