RWBY: BLSM (Hiatus)

Chapter 5: You Can't Keep Us Apart

The wind rattled my blonde hair over my eyes non-stop, only allowing me to see in front of me for split-second intervals. Each time I got a flash of vision I could see the tree tops getting closer. I flew into the green brush floor of trees and held my halberd out, waiting for my curved, axe like blade to catch the limb of a tree. It didn't even take a full second before I began slowing down, as the blade tore through wood. I must've cut over fifteen branches before a sturdy one didn't give in. My hands slid down the staff of the halberd, forced by the sudden stop. I hung from the branch, holding on tight to the halberd. 

I pushed my arms up and moved them back, unhooking the axe blade from the branch and letting myself fall the short distance to the ground. Students that still soared through the sky yelled in either fear or excitement as they zoomed over me. 

Magenta was launched right after me, so she's probably already landed. I've got to find her before anybody else does. I folded my weapon into rifle mode and slung it over my shoulder, keeping it on my back and began walking speedily straight ahead.

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Branches and limbs of trees exploded into bits and splinters as I descended into the floor of trees. I reached randomly with my right arm until my hand grazed the sturdy branch. I closed my hand quickly to grab on, and slowed down. The tree was easily pulled from the ground, and started tipping over. I held on to the branch, waiting for the tree to fall. It hit the ground with a loud abundance of crackling and a large thud. I let go of the branch and briefly looked around my landing site. Not a single person, but... some distant Grimm. An Ursa roaming the forest, sensed me, and turned it's head. The entire thing's face started glowing red once it noticed me standing here, and started running toward me. Not even a full minute since launch and I already get to pummel an Ursa.

With my right hand I reached over my shoulder to grip the bottom of my mace's staff, and effortlessly hoisted Rogue Spirit from my back and into both hands. The Ursa had cleared the distance between us in under ten seconds and was diving with it's claws outstretched in front of it's massive body. I removed my left hand from Rogue Spirit's staff and moved it up toward the airborne monster. I gripped it's beefy fur coated arm and threw the entire beast away, forcing it to crash into two trees. The Ursa had actually provided some difficulty in lifting. 

I returned my left hand to the mace and looked over to where I'd tossed the Ursa. It was in the midst of regaining itself, climbing to it's feet. An angry roar escaped it's mouth as it broke out of recovery and charged me again. I winded my arms back and swung upward as the Ursa came down onto me. The bladed edge of the mace collided with the side of the Ursa's head, bursting the had like a melon and brutally decapitating the body that now tumbled to the ground, dissolving into the air. 

Now if I were Sapphire... where would I land in an almost completely uncharted forest full of Grimm? 

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The back-paw of the Beowolf smacked me directly on the cheek and sent me into the grass. Three more Beowolves were watching as their pack leader preyed on me. The alpha pounced for me, hoping to impress the onlookers. I shot up off of the ground, spinning my body as I jabbed upward with my right foot. The heel of my boot connected with the snout of the alpha and caught it off guard. It took two steps back as it tried to shake off the pain. It's three followers stood by and kept spectating, awaiting a signal from their leader, but nothing came of it, and the alpha persisted on taking me down on his lonesome. I picked up Vlad Dracul and got to my feet. 

The alpha gave his snout one last twitch before resuming his attack. He took two large strides to reach me and swung downward with his right set of claws. I moved the metal staff of Dracul above my head and caught the deadly paw before it hit me. The staff had gotten lodged between two of the claws, with one claw being under, and one on top of the staff. I activated the transformation, changing the spear blade into a gun barrel. The alpha pushed harder, forcing it's claws closer to my head. I pulled the trigger on Vlad and pushed with my other hand to twirl the weapon clockwise. With the force I put behind my push, the claw stuck underneath the staff was severed, and my weapon was freed from the claws. The alpha's injured paw trembled from it's loss. I gave the creature no time to recover this time and swung up at it with with axe blade. The silver blade sliced clean through the snout, cutting it from the head, and ending the life of the monster.