Eclipse - Act 1 - The Healing

Chapter 1 - Aftermath

Pyrrha

The darkness of the night sky watches over the school, the rumbling of crackling flames echoes for miles. The howls and roars of countless Grimm that have crashed into the school. Attacking everything that moves.

Atop Beacon Tower...

Akuou launches straight towards Cinder, and the new Fall Maiden deflects the round bronze shield with her hand. A flash of burning hot fire rebounds the effective shield and it bounces across the ground, whilst she extends her hands. Fire ignites around her body, amber eyes glowing fiercely with spectral flames crackling around both irises. With a deranged grin on her face, she blasts the flames towards her, but Pyrrha rolls out of the way, opening her palm to use her polarity.

Akuou flies right back towards her and clips Cinder in the side of the head upon its return. Cinder grunts with anger from the impact as it nearly knocks her out of her position in the air. The shield returns back to her hand, and Pyrrha paces back and forth, keeping her eyes focused on the Fall Maiden. "Why are you doing this?" Pyrrha yells with anger, but Cinder just snarls with anger.

The fact she managed to land a hit just enrages Cinder more and more – that rage acting as a catalyst for the powers that she wields. "I am worthy of the power! Not Amber! Not you!" Cinder screams as she channels fire into her fist and she blasts down towards her, thrusting her fist downwards and creating a powerful explosion. The shockwave knocks Pyrrha backwards, harming her aura a bit, but she still manages to pull off the landing. Pyrrha swiftly lifts her head, her long red wolf tail bouncing from the movement.

Cinder descends down towards Pyrrha with her fists clenched, teeth gritted together and more fire burning from her amber eyes that glow as bright as the stars themselves. The presence of Cinder Fall is intimidating right down to Pyrrha's core – yet she can sense weakness in her. Desperation...worth...

Like Cinder wants to prove she is worthy of something.

"Worthy? Worthy of what? What are you trying to prove?" Pyrrha questions, even after everything Cinder has done to the school and their friends, she is still trying to understand her enemy. But Cinder is not an idiot, she knows what Pyrrha is doing, and it angers her more that Pyrrha thinks she is weak-minded enough to fall for that.

She lets out a nightmarish roar as she lunges towards the Invincible Girl, forming a pair of swords forged of glass with magma glowing within. She spirals through the air and slashes both of her curved blades at Pyrrha, but the Spartan backs up, standing defiantly as she pushes her shield upwards to stop the blades. The impact of the two swords on her shield shatters both blades instantaneously, then Pyrrha ducks downwards so then Pyrrha stumbles over.

Then she arches upwards and clatters Akuou into Cinder's stomach to knock her back, using Cinder's rage to make her clumsy.

Remember...fury can force one into making mistakes...use that against her...

Pyrrha keeps her distance from Cinder, she may be learning a way to get the upper hand against the Fall Maiden – but she must remember – she is up against the Fall Maiden. Cinder is capable of feats that she might not even realise yet, and that makes the situation even more perilous when lacking Milo. Shattered like glass from the hands of her foe, molten down from the flames and discarded away.

But as she paces back and forth, she has to look up at the sky, hearing the whoosh of the wings, the wind passing through the holes in the jet black membrane. The demonic howling roar of the Grimm Dragon reverberates through the clouds around her, using the darkness to its advantage. It banks round and it suddenly erupts from the gloom, snapping its jaws down at where she was stood.