Chapter 9: No Safe Haven

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(Alex POV)

Okay sooooooo far it isn't looking good for us. This thing seems to be stronger than the average Grimm in our defense. Since this... Nuckleave or whatever Ren told us it was called came into town the rest of the team and I got our weapons out and fought it. We went in blasting, punching and smashing, but nothing seemed to work.

I watched as Ruby and Jaune were thrown back so I flew towards them and grabbed one of their arms and stopped them from hitting the ground. "Thanks." Jaune said. "Don't mention it." I said as I landed them near Qrow. As we landed I saw Ren and Nora fall next to us with Ren on his feet standing and Nora falling on the ground.

Once she got up we all looked at the smoke created from the battles as the bottom horse part of the Nuckleave walks out of the smoke with its body doing all kinds of different disturbing stuff. It then raised its head and screamed so loud it was like a sonic boom causing all four of us to flinch from the noise.

The Nuckleave then lowered it's head with the sound of bones cracking soon heard as it looked at us. As we stood in position ready to attack the Nuckleave's head twitched towards where Qrow was. The others see this as Jaune is the first to react running towards Qrow to get him out of this danger zone.

The Nuckelavee lashes out with one of its arms, able to extend it at a far reach. It almost hit Jaune, but he jumped high enough to avoid it and got Qrow upright, but the Nuckelavee is heading right for them. "We got to do something!" I said.

I then looked at Qrow and Jaune as something flashy spread across their bodies until it was gone with the color making them look colorless. The Nuckleave then stopped right in front of them looking like they couldn't even see them anymore. "Just get him to safety!" Ren yelled. I looked at the usually stoic boy to see him placing a hand on the ground with the same flashing color surrounding his head that surrounded Qrow and Jaune earlier.

I look to see Jaune just walk away with Qrow then Nora used her missile launcher to shoot at it. I then turned to Ren to see him still on the ground. "What are you doing?" I asked. "It's my semblance. I can block out mine and other people's negative emotions making the Grimm not attack them." Ren said. Huh, so he is like Omar back when he was alive. "You are just full of surprises." I said.

That is when the damn Grim screamed again drawing attention back to the beast as the horse part of the body charged at us. The others then ran into different directions as I blasted into the air. Once it got close at us I blasted at him with both hand blasters to the face, but it didn't seem to affect it much as it used it's left hand to wrap it around my chest and shoved me back against the wall of a nearby building.

It then turned around and lifted me up in the air using it's hand then slammed me into the more center area of the town. I groaned and tried to get up as I saw the Nuckleave charges toward me until it was then blasted by bullets and grenades as I looked to see the others firing at it from different distances.

Ruby then stopped firing at it with Crescent Rose then charged at the Nuckleave. She dodged some of the hands and then used Crescent Rose to fire herself into the air and before she could shoot it the Nuckleave used a hand to slam her into the ground. Nora then ran past Ruby and got hit by the freaky Grimm's other hand.

I then started using my hand blasters and fired the arms making it let go of Nora and Ruby. It then started getting fired in the back by Ren making it extend its arms and grab Ren's hand and weapons in its palm. "Guys, keep moving, in a circle!" Jaune shouted. Before doing Jaune's plan I decided to help Ren free himself so I moved the shoulder plates of my armour of nanobots to fire multiple small missiles at it.

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