The Knights of Grimm - Act 3 - Shattered Memory

Chapter 18 - Doctor Merlot

Qrow

The massive mutated Beowulf throws its arms back, roaring to the sky, the eyes glow fierce green as it howls. The green crystalline spines protrude out from its spines as it howls furiously. It twitches and glares at them, growling as it charges straight at them. The Mutant Beowulf clenches its huge clawed hands into fists, and green energy charges through its arms into the fists, slamming them straight into the soil. Suddenly glowing green spikes protrude from the ground towards them. "Whoa!" Taiyang exclaims, leaping out of the way, whilst the Branwen Sisters step aside, not as close to it as he was.

"Well this is new." Qrow chuckles when he glares at the Mutant Grimm that are before them. There are Creeps, a couple of Beowulves and what appears to be an Ursa as well. The Ursa is one that Team R.W.B.Y did not come across on his island when they were being unleashed. The Beowulf snarls, foaming at the mouth from its almost skeletal head, arms twitching as it stares directly at them. It leaps directly at Qrow, and he jumps back, bringing his sword round to deflect the impact of those sword-like claws that it just attacked him with. The Mutant growls, slashing over and over again. Qrow gets hit in the chest from the huge hands of the Beowulf, thrown back from the impact; he slides across the floor with an audible groan. The Beowulf's eyes glow stridently as it roars at them, staring straight at Taiyang as it charges towards him. It leaps and grapples onto him, throwing him through one of the trees. Taiyang grunts and tumbles into the sludge.

He looks up, wiping the mud off his face, staring at the Mutant Beowulf. It throws its arms back and roars with anger, these Grimm seem to be fuelled by rage, more than what usually drives them. It grits its jagged white teeth, and Taiyang clenches his hand into a fist. His hand glows orange as he stands up, and he winds his fist back as the Beowulf goes to attack him again. He strikes the Beowulf, punching it across the head with all his might. The Beowulf barks, staggering back from the impact of his fist, it feels the serum that courses through its veils trickling down from an open wound made by him. It licks the serum and it seems to infuriate the creature even more. It slashes aggressively towards him, until a red Odachi stops the claws in its tracks. Raven jumps high, kicking the Beowulf up the jaw, making it stagger back as she stands beside her lover.

Qrow pushes his hands against the mud to get back up, the mud drips from his face and his clothes. His red eyes focus on the Mutated Creeps that charge towards him. Their six glowing green eyes seem to have hot green steam trailing from their sockets. Heads like Rhinos and the beast roars at him, rolling directly at him. The Creep spins round to hit Qrow with its spiky tail. Qrow jumps over the tail, swinging his sword round to sever the tail from its body. The green serum pours out from its body, the creature howls with pain, and then he slashes across its head. The Creep collapses to the ground, and he thinks that it is dead. Until he hears the sound of the body beginning to explode, but he does not know that these Grimm are capable of exploding like this. He looks at it, the body is writhing around as it cracks and erodes, glowing green light emits from the fissures in its body. The light glows brighter and brighter from the body, and Qrow's eyes widen. He jumps out of the way to avoid the coming detonation of the Grimm. The corpse of the Creep bursts into green flames, chunks of Grimm are thrown everywhere from the pulse that is set off. Qrow lands on the ground, observing the damage that thing's death did. "That's not normal." He says to himself after realising that these mutated Grimm are highly volatile when killed.

Qrow hears more of them roaring, charging towards him with their heads held down. He narrows his eyes when he sees them, holding the blade of his sword forward. He spins the sword through his fingers and runs at them to kill them.

Taiyang uppercuts the Beowulf with his glowing fists, bone fragments are thrown into the air as it staggers away. The Mutated Monster roars at him, swinging directly at him, the claws cut through the air like knives through butter. Taiyang ducks down and rolls with the attack of the creature. The Beowulf goes to plunge its claws down onto his back, but Raven slashes across the creature's wrist, cutting clean through the armour and severing the hand from its arm. The Beowulf roars with pain, smoke and green serum pouring from its stump. The Beowulf then growls, gritting its teeth tight as it spins round to slash at them once more with its other arm. Raven yells, lifting the blade to guard herself against the creature. Taiyang jumps up behind the beast, punching down into the back of its head to make it stumble. Raven takes her chance, spinning her Odachi skilfully through her fingers, and plunges the long blade into the chest of the Beowulf. It groans with pain, and reaches for her to kill her, until she quickly removes the blade from its ribs, and swings it across its neck, beheading it skilfully.