Eclipse - Act 1 - The Healing

Chapter 28 - Unveiled

Blake

A clap of thunder echoes and the Knight lunges out of the rubble, shrinking to human size and sliding under Blake's arms, turning on heel and raising a spear to her back. Ice engulfs his back and the Knight stands still, Weiss curtsying to the monster with a smirk. He slowly begins to crack the ice, staring at Blake as she turns and spins the Gun-chucks through her fingers.

The ice breaks apart and she lunges, twirling and cartwheeling, weapons slashing the defensive Knight, a loud bang echoing and a shotgun shell twirling away from one of the chucks. Blake spins up and over, heel knocking the Knight's raised weapons down and perfectly connecting the gun-chuck against his head, a muzzle flash and bang erupting.

She casts one of her Shadow Clones as he swings, leaping up from behind and Gun-Chucking him across the back, splitting some damaged plates. The Knight growls and tries to grow, groaning as it couldn't, still frozen from Weiss' dust.

Jaune studies the exchange, watching the Knight struggle to grow. His eyes widen and he hollers to Weiss.

"Rubber snaps when it's cold, right?!"

Weiss freezes, raising a brow. "Is now really the time for science questions?!" The look of total disbelief fills Weiss' eyes at the ridiculous idea of someone asking such a random question during such an intense confrontation against a Class-8 Grimm. But Jaune shakes his head, pointing at the ice that has condensed the black fog that comprises the Spirit that dominates its surroundings into the Knight form it stands in right now.

"No, look! The Praetorian Knight cannot grow with your ice keeping it frozen like that!" Jaune calls out, watching as it tries to walk towards her, limping on its frozen leg. The Praetorian Knight roars with rage as it points the Sceptre directly at the Schnee Heiress, blasting a bolt of red and black lightning right at her, but she performs a graceful backflip that avoids the entity's attack. The cobblestone ground ruptures from beneath, cracks spreading throughout and exploding up into the air. The dust billows across the floor, and the very action has also shattered the ice that bound it from being able to shift. It shatters its entire form, transforming into the swirling whirlwind of rubble, circling around them all with the crackling red lightning shown from within, certain sections of it more protected than others.

Weiss watches it and turns back to Jaune, seeing him nodding to her with his shield in his grasp, ready to fight whenever they need him. "Good catch!" Weiss replies, and turns to see the swarm of rubble and steel blasting towards her, suddenly transforming back into its Knight Form. It crashes down and punches her across the face with all its might, the impact creates one hell of a cataclysmic bang, throwing her across the floor. With her aura already at a low she groans, grabbing the side of her face with a groan.

"Weiss! Watch out!" Blake yells as she fires Ruyi Jingu Bang at the charging Knight, staring at it as it pushes its legs against the ground and jumps high in the air with the Sceptre held above its head. It goes to impale her with the blade, until Pyrrha shoots in from out of nowhere, slamming Akoúo into the side of the entity. They both crash down into the ground, and Pyrrha kicks herself off its huge body, flipping through the air and landing on her feet. She slides across the floor, with Crocea Mors held in her grasp, gritting her teeth together. The Praetorian Knight rises back to its feet and spins its Sceptre through its fingers, blasting a constant focused beam of energy towards her.

She pushes Akoúo upwards to stop the incoming energy, reflecting it up into the air, releasing one hell of a metallic screeching drone. She curves the laser round and blasts it right back into the Praetorian Knight. It grunts from the painful impact of all that energy colliding into the armour plating like that. It gets thrown back, burns shatter some of the cobblestone and concrete that comprise its physical form. It crashes against one of the collapsed Colonnades, some parts of it falling and it snarls, grabbing some rebar and with the black smoke it launches it straight at Pyrrha. She gasps and raises her shield, the impact sends her tumbling backwards, crashing through the silt and the dust that has settled from all the combat between the monsters and the heroes.