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Gareth had followed silently, disappointed that they had not met anything more challenging.

He had approached the Grave of the King expecting nothing...but then the monstrosity appeared.

And it tried to dictate what he would do.

Gareth's face split into a feral grin.

"Listen well, beast. I am Gareth Silvarius Vale. I am a prince of the kingdom. I am a warrior of my house. I am a huntsman of Remnant. No one gives me orders, Evil One. Specially those who threaten my comrades!"

He spat on the thing's face, drew his sword....and turned his back to it.

"Vlad, my friend! We shall break through the monsters and come back to Beacon with our comrades!'

He charged towards the Mistrali besieged by monsters.

"Hail, brother! Let us help!"

Vasilos spat blood onto the ground and pushed himself into a standing position. Retrieving the Phoenix he stared down Kraken and the wall of Grimm.

They would all die today. He saw someone heading towards him - one of the two that the beast had called for.

"What matters not are our countries, what matters is our victory. Let us smite the enemy."

Gareth laughed. This man was a true warrior! He would enjoy fighting by the side of someone such as this.

Flaring his Semblance, the prince used the increased power to cut a bloody swathe through the Grimm, making a path towards the Mistrali.

"Well said, brother. Mine name is Gareth. Tis an honor to fight with you."

...No. We're getting out of here. I'll make sure of it.

His eyes began to glow fuchsia as he prepared to command the beast — only for them to return to their purple hue as his partner insulted, then spat at it and ran to help another student.

"That we shall, Lord Gareth," Vladimir responded. Impaler in hand, he ran towards his comrade.

edited 31st Jul '15 10:23:15 PM by Aquatica1000

Vasilos let off a battle-crazed smile as Gareth complimented him. "Vasilos. But there is no time to talk. Grab your quill and etch your name into history!"

He lit the Phoenix, spotted the nearest Grimm, and swung the massive greatsword with relative ease. On impact, the flaming sword would likely slice the Grimm in half, the superheated blade cutting through flesh easily.

edited 31st Jul '15 10:32:49 PM by SpartyMcFly

I will not forget this.

Thought the words were not spoken, the glare the twisted figure gave the nobles as they turned away spoke plenty as it spread its wings and ascended, as if its very presence would blot out the sun. At its command the Grimm surged forward, intending to hunt down everything in the Emerald Forest that bore an Aura. With their master in the sky, the Grimm's enemies below would feel something strange. If they tried to use their Semblance from now on, they would find their unique power rendered ineffective against the abomination's power. The dark being observed the initiates' struggle against its horde, waiting to watch them fall.

Meanwhile, making their way west, Wayne gave a somewhat hypocritical glare at Reymond as he blasted an Ursa with a lightning bolt so he and Tempestas could keep moving.

"You left Kraken behind?" He interrogated her as a wall of ice came between Tempestas and a rolling Boarbatusk. "Hmph, of course you would..."

Tempestas slashed through both the ice wall and the Borbatusk as he ran with Wayne.

"As bothersome as Kraken may be, it may be best if we go back for him. We should not leave a fellow countryman behind."

Vasilos continued to rage against the Emerald Forest. With his companions besides him, any Grimm that dared to approach were cut down by his sword; he barely even felt the scratches and claws as he cleaved a path through the endless hordes. Even in the sea of darkness the Phoenix's flame burned brightly.

edited 31st Jul '15 10:48:10 PM by SpartyMcFly

Nonie began to stir a bit. "What happened...?" she muttered.

Vasilos, as he swung his sword through another Grimm, noted that Nonie was starting to wake up. Not wanting to die in battle having spurned a woman into action, he responded with a clipped and harsh "Grimm are attacking, stand and fight!"

Nonie launched herself off Robert's back and took out her Spadespear looking for the approrpriate seeds for the situation.

edited 31st Jul '15 11:37:52 PM by RhymeBeat

"No retreat! No surrender!" roared Gareth. He felt himself getting weaker, but he did not care! He was a warrior! He will fight until he fell! He would keep winning until he died!

Sword in on hand, crossbow in the other, The Silver Lion took on the horde. He was battered and bloody, and yet his still fought. Slash the Beowulf, shooy the Ursa-!

At that moment...

A voice. A woman's voice. Heard to everyone, clear and serene.

This is against the rules, Claw. My father instructed me...to even the odds.

Then, she appeared.

Floating in midair, a goddess-!

She waved her hand. And then...

Come forth, my children. You are chosen.

Anomalies.

I bless you.

Gareth. Vasilos. Nonie. Tempestas. Rey. Bao. (Whoever Imuka's New Character Is).

They would feel an overwheliming warmth. They would glow with a bright light.

Their injuries healed, their Semblances returned, and stronger than ever.

Gareth laughed. "Thank you, Lady Goddess! I will smite these monsters in thy name!'

Tempestas then heard the words of a goddess echo in his head as he was filled with renewed strength. With his semblance back, he was ready to even things up,

"Thank you, goddess, for this most gracious blessing. I shall use it with great care and respect."

He got up, held his swords out, and rushed over to get Kraken.

The dark figure was for a moment a blot against an inextinguishable light, its intensity causing it to avert its eyes as The Lady bestowed her father's blessing upon the mere mortals it had intended to feast on. Feeling weakened and seeing the seven new players in the greater game on Remnant, the black being let out an unearthly cry before retreating east.

It matters not what they do. You will learn true despair...

The Grimm began swarming harder, focusing on those near the new Anomalies. This prevented Wayne from rebuking Tempestas' notion of saving Kraken, who wasn't the Aurion's armor-clad partner.

"Gah, damn!" He yelled out as he obliterated several Creeps assaulting him and Reymond with blazing fire. "Just stay close and out of my way! Tempestas is going to clean up your mess..." Gritting his teeth at the distance he could feel between them and Beacon Cliifs, which was quickly cluttering with Grimm, Wayne pushed forward as the swaying of leaves was drowned out by the clamor for the initiates' blood.

Grave of the King

"Er, thank you, goddess," Bao said. Bao wasn't at all injured before the goddess arrived and blessed her, but felt the momentary increase in power regardless. When she turned back to the bridge leading into the forest, Grimm seemed to be coming for her. "You've made my work more difficult."

Without looking back, she called out.

"Schehe—Shahz—" Bao paused, taking a moment to calm herself, "Ahyan. We're going."

She took a step onto the bridge.

"We'll break through. Will you two be coming with us?" she said, indicating to the two other Vacuonese companions. "I suspect given that our group is conveniently made up of four sets of each nationality, we'll be placed into a team."

This, this was not good.

There was no way that Gerhart and Ovid could stand against this many. Their deaths would no doubt be glorious and worthy of a damn fine tale, however, Gerhart wasn't too keen on leaving this world just yet.

Growing more and more desperate by the second, Gerhart kept hacking and slashing at every beast that stepped within reach. His blows getting weaker and more sluggish with each swing, Gerhart was slowly starting to believe that this was it.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, Gerhart spotted an incredibly bright light. This wasn't the sun, it was far too close to be. Despite not knowing just what it was, Gerhart took it as a sign that someone was smiling on him. Raising his shield once again, Gerhart dove into the sea of Grimm around him.

Filled with a righteous zeal unlike any he'd ever felt before, Gerhart began cleaving through the Grimm around him like a man possessed. With a roar of "IN SIEGFRIED'S NAME!" Gerhart's semblance activated for the first time, covering him from head to toe in blinding light.

Nonie tried scattering grape seeds everywhere, trying to bind as many as she could. She flew at the nearest on Spadespear in hand.

"Yes, I would!" Rey shot back, keeping the Beowolves at distance with methodical buzzes from The Spinner. "I'm not going to show some kind of colonial fealty to some bastard who's been nothing but stupid and useless!" She ducked under one Beowolf and sliced upwards, cleanly bisecting it. "Two out of four isn't half bad anyway. For now we're going to ignore those horrible creatures and get home—one's a Grimm and the other's a Human, so I doubt we can trust either."

Vasilos felt his strength rise as the Grimm were temporarily blotted out by the light of what seemed to be their polar opposite. The Phoenix seemed to blaze even brighter in the darkness as the Grimm swarmed forwards, hate in their minds.

"I will learn how to win a war, and you will know eternity!" His resolve continued to bolster as he tore through Grimm with the same relatively slow, precise, heavy strokes of his greatsword, bisecting and slashing with absolute fury.

"Come on! To Beacon!"

Tempestas rushes over to Kraken, hoists the unconscious pirate and his weapon on his shoulders, and quickly runs back to where Wayne and Rey are.

"Do not leave your partner behind, Reymond.", he said as he set Kraken down on the ground next to Rey before once again taking out Sol Divider to face the oncoming horde of Grimm.

And now a goddess shows up? How delightfully interesting. He'd have to write this down later, when there wasn't that great of a threat of a quick death. He rushed over to where Bao was quickly, since he wasn't the sort of person who fought best alone.

"Sha-Ra-Zad" Ahyan said with a rather earnest smile, "but Ahyan is fine, it's what I prefer anyway."

He spun his blade around easily, then looked at the pair who would be his companions. His smile was still on his face, but on the inside, he shivered a bit with some apprehension. The faunus would be joining them, apparently. He would have vastly preferred otherwise.

"Do any of you have earth or fire dust to spare?" He asked, bringing his mind away from the subject. "I can help us break through if any of you do."

"He is not my partner!" Rey ground through a charging Grimm with a few forward steps, splitting it in half around her. "He's an idiot! Ignorant garbage!" She grabbed Kraken's trident. "You want to carry him, be my damn guest."

"Ugggh...." Kraken stirs. He sits up, rubbing his head. "That beak-faced cockbite has a trident with his name on it!!"

"I-I only have ice" Tsukiko nervously replied to Ahyan, before digging through her clothes and holding out one of the large slugs that her siege bow fires, "Y-You can have it if it would be of any use?"

edited 2nd Aug '15 12:18:50 AM by Imca

Oddly enough, Nemesis' presence was strangely weak during all this commotion. Perhaps it was her dedication to not involve herself in any of the nonsense that took place.

Now she reemerged, her crimson armor covered in Grimm blood. She watched the whole situation unfold from the sidelines and although just abandoning the group and escaping on her own seemed like a tempting prospect, there would be questions. Not even the relic would provide her enough security to not be given askew glances.

Plus, for all it was worth, Tsukiko grew on her.

"Nothing other than brute force to provide." She replied, cutting down another Ursa.