[IC] RWBY Saga: Generations After Us

[The Suspicious Eye]

Ophelia Shayma

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Phoenix, Jade
@Tags: xAlter [/USER]

Ophelia looked around and coughed as the trees above her were dropped over and over bringing the trees down closer to her. The ice melting constantly didn't help as the ash began to seep down and cover Ophelia. She did her best to shield the bodies, knowing that it wasn't much but she had to take care of them. As a opening was finally papered she looked at Orion as he spoke. Her eyes narrowed with rage as he said to leave them. "No! No one is ever dead! Freeze them and take them instead! I can get out on my own!" Shoving up the bodies one by one Ophelia was able to push out the, heaving amputated body of Autumn and the quivering body of Schaffer before the opening collapsed and Ophelia was crushed under the breaking trunks. The fire boomed to life growing in strength and pushing Orion back.

Wincing under the pain she let her back scar as she ignited the only fire dust she had on her. Letting the flames engulf her she began burning the wood from the bottom, hoping that she could burn brighter than this bonfire, before she ran out of air. She coughed as she tried to break the wood with her burning hands. Too afraid to merge her blood with anyone else she just did her best to pierce and claw at the piles of wood. It was growing hard to breathe and her vision was growing blurry. Her legs were growing weak as she whimpered but kept going doing her best to only breathe out.

 

[KarenAKAMint]

Summer Rose

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: First Years
@Tags: KingofCool xAlter The Prophet IG42 Hibiscus Brinni The Suspicious Eye

Everything was moving fasted then Summer can register. One moment she was having a conversation with Orion and Akashi as she stood beside Val, and then the sound of flames licking wood, the sound of things crashing onto each other, being pushed back behind Orion as he placed an ice wall up to protect us four. The one thing that kept replaying in my mind was what happened to Schaffer and Autumn. A brutal display of power, only making Summer scared to even move. The screams from Orion pulled Summer to the present. She noticed the ice melting away, allowing her to see Onyx challenge Io and Phoenix covering Jade's body where they were standing just a few minutes ago.

Summer ran after Orion as he entered the crater. She noticed the two dying students before she noticed Orion trying to get Ophelia out. The flaming tree that sat on top of Ophelia began to turn pink in color as Summer focused her semblance on it and picked up the tree off from on top of her. Furious, she chucked the tree toward the direction she noticed Io flee into the forest, maybe not flee, but Summer didn't care. Her family and friends need to get out of here safely. She recalled how Io had used her semblance at the sleepover which made her worried, to say the least. "We can't touch her..." Summer announced quietly but quickly turned to everyone in the party, recalling what she was able to do when she touched Cherry, "No one touches her! Her semblance will change your gravity!"

With that, she pulled out her pistols, ready to fight. She ran up to Onyx, taking her spot beside her teammate and friend. "We need to stop meeting like this," Summer tried to joke a bit but turned serious, "Have anything in mind?" Summer turned her attention to the forest, trying to see any movement that would give away Io. She noticed Phoenix getting his weapon ready, Titan stood beside Cirrus and Val still stood beside the melting ice. "Cirrus!" She called out to her cousin, "She's your teammate! What do you want us to do!?"

 

[Brinni]

Jade

@Tags: KarenAKAMint

"It's fine. People get busy. Just wish I'd had more time to work on this, it's not my best work. Titan bailing on me earlier this week helped give me a bit of leeway though, just wish I knew why." Jade smiled. "What are you-" she began as he dived and pulled her along. Hearing the crash she looked back to see the tree. "I'm fine, but what the fuck?"

She watched as a meteor hit the ground and carved up two of her classmates. After what she witnessed she knew there wasn't much she could do to take on her lavender haired classmate, she could barely stand from the shock. She watched as Ophelia into the crater only to be trapped inside. She heard Summers warning, solidifying her belief she couldn't help fight her. What do I do? I can't get close, my range isn't particularly strong...what do I do? Seeing the bodies pushed through, but not Ophelia's coming out she made her choice.

"Nix. See what you can do about Io. Thorn has way more power than my weapon, and if Summer's right it'd be pointless to get close since she'd just crush me under my own weight. I'll see if I can get those two out of here. And most importantly...try not to die. You still owe me an ice cream." With a half hearted chuckle she put her headphones in, set it on repeat and hit play. The song she chose was way faster than anything she had used during her time at Beacon, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I just hope I can carry them all to Beacon before my body gives out. She sent off a speed text to the first teacher she thought could help them, Professor Sharp. "911. Student on rampage, at least 2 critical. More may follow. Emerald Forest. Trying to carry some to safety."

Spoiler: song

As she let the music flow in she took a deep breath. "This is gonna hurt..." she said somberly, feeling her body begin to vibrate. Extending Buide she grasped it with her tail, intending to use it as a pole vault or battering ram, whichever was needed to She ran over towards Schaffer and Autumn's bodies. Picking up both and tucking them under each arm, groaning at the weight. She could do this, but barely. She bolted, heading off towards Beacon almost as fast as the mother of the birthday twins, a trail of embers and party supplies in her wake. Ten minutes. That's all I can do before my body gives out. I have to make it by then. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to be a Huntress after this. I may lose my arms and legs.... she looked at the two figures under her arms but if I save them it's worth it.

 

[Brinni]

Cherry

@Tags: Hibiscus

"Makes sense to me" she said, spinning her umbrella. "What parts did you hate doing once you came here? There's gotta be some stuff or it never would have bothered you. Don't do that stuff. What stuff did you do that was for you, not for whatever your mission was? Do more of that stuff. Eventually you'll figure it out. But just remember....you've got plenty of time to find out who you are at Beacon. You're here for four more years after all."
Forest

Tags: Hibiscus

Forest watched, passively during Io's attack. Internally he was freaking out a little, but on the outside he remained cool. He felt sick, watching his partner get mangled like that, but he had to stay in control. Right now the rest of his team needed him. Finally, he had a plan. "Zenith. We're gonna be playing support. Let's see if we can help them subdue Iola, preferably without killing her but if we have to we will. If you can, see if you can lock her down to an area with your Semblance. Be wary of getting too close, we don't want you to fall to her Chainsaw or her Semblance if Ms Rose is correct in what it is. I'll keep on her and harass her from some distance. Claire, notify teachers on what's going on and help get everyone incapable of fighting someone at the caliber back to the airship platforms." With that, Forest took off after his classmate, still unsure of just what to do if he caught her.

 

[xAlter]

Orion Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
@Tags: KarenAKAMint ChazGhost IG42 The Prophet The Suspicious Eye

Orion merely grimaced as the fire re-consumed the crater full of trees and Ophelia. Cursing to himself, Orion checked his scroll for his Aura level. Growling in frustration when he saw he was down to nearly a half left, Orion took Heart Pierce of his back and slammed the cannon into a tree resting in the crater. The tree exploded, in simple terms, sending shards of woods and flaming bits around. Orion could hear Ophelia whimpering. Smashing Heart Pierce into another tree, the tree once more exploded. Orion, finally seeing Ophelia's upper half, jumped into the crater, and pulled her out. The smoke was thick and heavy, and by the time he got her out, he was feeling light headed and dizzy.

Nearly falling to his knees, Orion turned to Schafer and Autumn. Looking at the two being carried of by Jade, Orion turned to the rest of the students gathered. The fires still raged all around, but Orion saw Forest head off into the forest. "I'm going after Io... or whatever she is right now." he said out loud to no one in particular. "I'll try to save her, but if I can't..." cocking Heart Pierce, the cannon hummed with purple light, ready to obliterate whatever it was pointed at. "I'll kill her myself." Running after Forest into the woods, Orion held Heart pierce in front of him, ready to use it on whatever came his way. His Aura was already at half, and anything more, one full shot of Heart pierce would either render himself unconscious, or kill himself.

"Let's go dance with the devil, DelTa." he said to no one. The 3D holographic image of a girl appeared in the HUD of the Heart Pierce and nodded. "Aura conversion system online. Weapon firing mode set to multi-target. Proceed when ready."

 

[IG42]

Cirrus Jay Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Still everyone?
@Tags: ChazGhost xAlter KarenAKAMint The Suspicious Eye

Cirrus remained frozen in horror until Io hid in the trees and Croc went to sneak off after her, shooting out a hand he gripped his partner's arm painfully tight. "Don't. If you go out there alone you'll get picked off, we have to stay together." As burning trees crashed down around them he released Croc and shielded the two of them from the flying splinters along with Bruno and Sage with an oversized summoned arm. Seeing Ophelia still lying in the burning crater he ran over and summoned another grimm arm, reaching in he used the massive hands to sweep away the remaining wood and helped Orion move her to relative safety.

Releasing his summons Cirrus stared wide-eyed at Summer when she asked him what they should do. "M-me?" He covered part of his face with a hand and tried to calm down. Come on everyone is counting on you now, Grey wouldn't flake out he'd focus and do something. Closing his eyes he opened them again as Orion took off on his own. "Orion wait!" Turning he called out to the others. "Come on we can't get separated!" Without waiting to see if anyone was following he went after his cousin.

Catching up to Orion as he aimed a massive cannon Cirrus shoved the weapon out of line. "Orion just stop, we can save Io but we need to do it together." He looked back and thought back to the moment Grey had called him a natural leader before he spoke to those who had followed him . "The truth is...Io has another personality, it's not really Io doing these things so we are not going to kill her. If we're going to stop her we'll need to deplete her aura before we can incapacitate her. We have to avoid getting hit by her semblance so we'll have to attack from a distance as much as we can, if you can't fight at range then try to keep her distracted and lead her away from those that can. If she touches anyone they'll be pretty much unable to move until the effect wears off, if that happens we'll all have to drive her back before she can do any harm and protect whoever is down." Grimly he drew his own weapon. "I'll take the lead, with my summoning I'm the only one that fight in close effectively." He placed a hand on Orion's shoulder. "I need you to use your Ice to restrict her movements, Summer can you use your semblance to deflect her attacks? If she makes herself lighter you'll be able to move her around much more easily." Raising his voice a little he spoke to everyone. "She can't stop all of us together, no one else has to d-has to die today."

 

[The Prophet]

Akashi Taurus

Location: Party
Mood: Surprisingly excited
Nearby: Everyone, more specifically Orion and Cirrus
@Tags: anyone

Well speak of the devil. Akashi was just about to joke about Orion’s girlfriend, and look who arrives. Akashi pushed of the tree he slid into. He wasn’t hurt, more so he was feeling pumped, like his blood was replaced with adrenaline. it was a weird feeling, watching the two students die, carried off to the school, seeing everyone in shock as lo came and then soon hid. But he was enjoying every second of it. ‘So cool!!! This is so exhilarating! I wonder what’s going to happen next! Maybe someone gets grabbed, or…’ Akashi let his mind trail off as he excitedly made sure Masamune was still there at the right side of his hip, the handle right next to the pouch full of vials of dust. He allowed himself a small smile as he got back into the fray, pulling out Truth and Deceit when he heard summer’s warning on her semblance. If that was the case, using his sword would be fruitless. Not only did she most likely have no problem overpowering him currently, the hooks in the chainsaw would prevent him from blocking; it would keep his blade from staying still. His best shot would be using his pistols until he could get around facing her head on. Suddenly he paused, thinking of something very big. “If I make mistakes here, I could die…” he murmured. Akashi dismissed the thought and laughed. This was going to be his greatest kill yet.

Akashi watched his team leader run off into the woods after helping the girl out. He never remembered her name. Or most people’s name for that matter. Whatever. He ran off after his leader, staying around five feet behind him, whilst smiling all the way. This girl, lo. She’s already killed two people, and going to injure and kill more. Who could blame him if he killed he ended the threat now? Well, everyone who she was friends with, especially Orion. Well then, he better get there first. Because he wasn’t going to pull any punches.

 

[LoneSniper87]

Onyx Belladonna
KarenAKAMint

Before Onyx could answer, Io was off again. "I've dealt with worse..." She grumbled before she heard Summer. A tree had crashed right in front of her, but she was too focused on Io to even have noticed. The flames were liking close to her feet, and she looked down to stamp out the flames in the grass before meeting Summer's eyes.

"Yeah..." She agreed quietly, nodding to her team leader. "But in our line of work we don't seem to be so lucky... Anyway, we need to box her in and safely knock her out, right? I say you and I distract her, maybe some others here depending... And we get someone like Pheonix who can take her down easily." She said, twirling her Kama around by rolling her wrist. She was itching for a good fight, it seemed.

"Sound good?" She then asked, a small grin forming as she was getting ready to dive Right back into the fray.​

 

[ChazGhost]

Bruno and Croc

Location: Forest
Nearby: Cirrus, Summer, Orion, and who ever else follows
@Tags: IG42 xAlter KarenAKAMint The Suspicious Eye

As Croc was about to sneak off after Io when Cirrus stopped him and talk sense into him. Cirrus was right going after Io alone would be idiotic. With a sigh Croc stayed with his team. "Okay then what your plan then?" Croc said looking to Cirrus. But as he asked flaming tree came at him and splintered apart. Croc dodge the piece quickly but Bruno...

Bruno was still stunned as the tree hit and he would been hit bad if it wasn't for Cirrus. Afterwards Bruno was able to get a hold of himself, be it he was breathing a little heavily and still quiet but now he was ready to do something and help. So when Cirrus ran off after Orion he followed right after, as did Croc. The two listened to Cirrus explanation of what's happening Io and what the plan was to deal with Io. Bruno nodded still being quiet and just following.

"Got it Ci, I'll go into the tree to get to higher ground." Croc said before aim his grappling hook to the trees and launched himself up. From there he was able to keep up with everyone by jumping and swinging from the trees quickly and easily.

 

[KingofCool]

Pyro Arc

Location: Party
Nearby: Others at the party
Tags: KarenAKAMint @TheSuspiciousEye xAlter LoneSniper87 Hibiscus

It all happened so fast...
Pyro was finished with his conversation with Onyx and was about to head over to Summer to give her his gift, when it happened. Autumn and Schafer... Both brutally murdered... by Io, someone he learned to trust...

Blood... There was so much blood... It was something he would never forget... “Oh god... Oh my god...” He covered his mouth in shock. When Io had made the crater, he quickly stabbed his sword into the ground and held on to avoid falling over. His mind was still unable to comprehend what has just happened...

For the first time in a long while... the PRWI leader had no idea what to do. When he heard Summer reveal Io’s semblance, he realized he couldn’t touch her or else he would regret it. He pulled his shield out. He wanted to fight, but he couldn’t bring himself to.

He was scared. Worried. And feeling helpless. But he tried his hardest to ignore these feelings as he slowly made his way towards Io, his sword and shield in hand.

Everyone there... Ophelia... Phoenix... Jade... Val... Orion...

Summer...

He would gladly die if it meant their safety.
Valentine Adel

Location: Party
Nearby: Others at the party
Tags: KarenAKAMint @TheSuspiciousEye xAlter LoneSniper87 Hibiscus

Val smiles and hugged her friend back. Deciding now was a good time, she brought out her present. “Here... I got this for you.” Inside the box was a set of kitchen utensils. She figured that Sum would need them, considering how much she cooks.

After she gave Sum her present, all hell broke loose. She watched as two classmates were suddenly murdered right in front of her...

To say that Val was in shock was an understatement. She was petrified. “What... What the fuck...?” The brunette could only mutter, too scared to speak louder. How could such a sweet girl kill people with such ease...?

Tears of fear were rolling down her cheeks. She backed away, not wanting to fight... She tried... She tried to convinced herself that she was strong. I’m strong... I’m strong... I’m strong... She thought, but it was no use. She was trembling, unsure of what to do... When suddenly, she remembered the words of her mother when she was younger and training with her.

“Val... I’m not gonna lie to you. You’re gonna see some scary stuff. And you’re gonna be scared. But if you have people there you will care about, because trust me, you will... You need to swallow that fear and protect your friends. Got it?”

Swallow my fear... and protect my friends... Val replayed her mother’s words in her head over and over. Yeah... Yeah, I gotta do it... I can’t just stand back in fear... I have to fight back! The look of fright and helplessness was soon replaced with a look of determination. She grabbed her purse as it turned into her mechanical bow, moving closer to Onyx and Summer. “You’re right. We gotta knock her out. No worries, I’ve got the distraction part handled.” She brought out an electric Dust capsule and inserts it into her bow. “I could shock her with this. It should be just enough to distract her. How does that sound, team?”

 

[xAlter]

Orion Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
@Tags: KarenAKAMint ChazGhost IG42 The Prophet The Suspicious Eye

Orion looked down as he lowered Heart Pierce to his side. His hair shadowed his eyes as his breathing grew heavier with each passing moment. Orion then grabbed Cirrus by his shirt and dragged him closer so they were face to face. "And you tell me this now?!" he shouted at his cousin, as the fire raged around and the air grew colder. He nearly headbutted Cirrus right then and there. "You tell me this now?!" he repeated again, his eyes angry and near insane. "You tell me now, when our friends may die, when my life seems stable?! What the fuck is wrong with you Cirrus?!" he shouted. "You decided to withhold this information from me until this moment?!"

Orion's life was now once more in shambles. He had finally found a stable footing in his own life, something to anchor himself to before he jumped off the damn cliff into insanity. Orion threw Cirrus to the ground and picked Heart Pierce back up. Spitting next to Cirrus, he once more looked in the direction Io went, before laughing a hollow laugh. "What the fuck is wrong with my life?" he asked no one as he covered his eyes with his hand. Shaking his head, he shouldered Heart Pierce before turning to Cirrus. "If this plan of yours doesn't work, you'll wish you were killed today. DelTa, set Heart pierce to stun." The 3D girl appeared again in front of him, in front of everyone. "Setting Heart Pierce firing mode to stun. Power capacity at 50%. Overcharge or a full charge blast will either render you unconscious or kill you, Orion."

 

[KarenAKAMint]

Rose Twins

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Some of the first years
@tags: Everyone

Phoenix watched Jade take the two Faunus out of the forest, as he began to look at the rest of the students. Seeing both his cousins run out toward the forest after Io, he exclaimed, "No! She's trying to pick us off in the forest!" He ran over to the crater as he saw Ophelia in there. "Ophelia!" he slides down the side and stopped beside her, "Are you okay?" He placed Thorn back on his back as he picked Ophelia up and began to get the both of them out.

Summer pulled out her scroll as someone was trying to reach her. Her heart sank to see her mother's face on the screen. She had missed her phone call yesterday and she was going to miss it again, putting her scroll back into her pouch. "I like what you are thinking, but we need to bring her back here," she looked at Onyx and then looked over to Cirrus as he explained his plan, "I think I can do that... We might need to have everyone use lightning dust to knock her out."

She looked over to the rest of the students and began to recall any information she might have gotten from them over the few months. Nix helped Ophelia to her feet once they were out of the crater. "Okay..." Summer said under breath trying to finalize her plan, "I think we can do this... It might be a stretch but it might work..." She took a step forward as she called out to the other students, "Alright, anyone that is fast and able to dodge we need to get Io's attention and bring her, as close as we can, back here. Everyone with great aim can cover different parts of the opening while being under Nix's cover."

Sage Auburn

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Some of the first years
@tags: Everyone

Sage's scroll went off, which he picked up without thinking. "Where are you!?" his mother's voice exclaimed. In the background, she could hear his uncle yelling at Skyler but he never heard her voice, thinking he was reaching her through their scroll. "Emerald Forest..." he said in a low voice. The call ended as soon as she told someone to go ahead with them. He was trying to figure out what to do. Everyone here had their leader, but he just watched his own be crushed under the Faunus.

 

[The Suspicious Eye]

The Executioner

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
@Tags: KarenAKAMint Hibiscus Brinni ChazGhost IG42 xAlter FireMaiden KingofCool LoneSniper87 Mistah Keidivh The Prophet

The sound of the chainsaw whirred loudly throughout the forest along with the whirring of wood being cut. The sound was near Croc and Bruno along with Akashi. The whirr was growing louder and louder as the three would approach the area. A lighter whine as the saw was almost done cutting the wood.

Once the group appeared in the area they would see a floating saw cutting through a large branch, a distraction. Before they could react the blade cut through the branch and shot up into the air.

Darting low to the ground Io moved fast and invisible, having spent years of her life training in stealth only those with special seeing abilities could find him as he darted across the planes. His body so light she didn't leave a single footprint. Wanting to do nothing but have fun with the kids he knew his next target all too well.

He was given a job after all.

And the ones protecting him had all gone to find him, the fools. Curling around back to the party site the Executioner crawled through the brush and grabbed Sage's leg. "Yum, venison." The two instantly shot up into the air as they became lighter than air. Shooting high up into the air the Executioner grabbed Sage's antler and laughed. His hand gently caressed his cheek and the two shot up higher and higher, the air getting cooler. "So cute." He leaned in closer. "Do you know I can change the weight of specific parts of someone's body. It's how I rip the skin off the most lovely of my victims. Should I do the same to you?"

Seeing the fear and anger on the boy's face he laughed and shook his head. "Oh Cirrus is so lucky!" He kissed Sage, a quick peck, his face a inch away from Sage's. "Jester and Trix say hello."

With that he let go of him letting him barrel to the ground at the weight of a truck.

Shooting over with her gravity boost she caught he saw as it floated in the air. Twirling it around, it returned to a axe, as he rested it on his shoulders and looked down at the scene. He wondered what would happen. Extending his hand, every step that he took through the forest the ground shook as small plots of earth rose up into the air above the forest. Wincing in pain, he adjusted the plots of ear to fall at varying weights from a car to a mountain. The clumps of dirt cratering the forest, as the flames grew closer and closer.

Ophelia Shayma

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
@Tags: KarenAKAMint IG42 xAlter

Flashing back to her childhood, when her mother would throw her in the fire, she tried to calm herself. You can do this. Fire won't hurt you. Her lugs were screaming for air, but she focused on her own intensity as she burned through the first log only to have it collapse against her. The fire shifting and dropping another trunk on her, the broken one pinning her leg.Cruising at the pain she lost her concentration, her flames dying down and she inhaled. Coughing violently she covered her mouth doing her best not to breathe anymore. She knew if she inhaled more her lungs would likely collapse.

Looking up at the shimmering pink of Summer's semblance she coughed as air flushed freely. Saving Ophelia from suffocating but also stirring the still remaining fire. Annoyingly pinned Ophelia wished her clothing was fire proof. Watching as Orion slammed the last of the trunks apart and freed her she felt Cirrus lift her up and into Nix's arms. Grateful for it all she couldn't stop herself from coughing. Tired and dizzy she rested against Nix, most of her clothing burned to shreds she shivered a bit feeling cold. The blood hardening on her skin, her own seeping from her back. "Ni...Two y...ago...I...seen...the proxys... he said...someone...played...with...them." Going into a coughing fit she winced and held onto him. Her lungs were on fire, but she had to tell him. "It...ha...Nix...don't...fight...him..."

 

[IG42]

Cirrus Jay Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: A whole lot of peeps
@Tags: xAlter KarenAKAMint

Not surprised by his cousin's fury Cirrus allowed Orion to yell in his face and dump him on his arse, as he picked himself up he snorted at Orion's threat. "If this doesn't work I doubt I'll be in a position to wish for anything." He said darkly.

Hearing the whirring sounds of Io's saw Cirrus followed the noise and saw the axe launch up into the air, following it with his eyes he spotted Io hanging in mid-air just as she let a familiar silhouette drop. "Sage!" His voice cracked as he launched himself to stand under Sage. Setting his feet Cirrus formed a series of dozens of propulsion glyphs below Sage and used them to push against the falling faunus' momentum as he passed through each one. "Come on!" He yelled while desperately creating more glyphs to bleed off more speed.

Despite the sheer number of glyphs Sage still hit with enough force to dig a shallow crater. "Sage?!" Stumbling forward into the crater he dropped to his knees next to the faunus and frantically checked him for injuries, after a few moments it became clear that the impact had been slow enough for Sage's aura to take the hit. All but sobbing in relief he reached out a trembling hand to gently touch Sage's face. "I'm...so glad you're okay. I promise I'll keep you safe." He whispered. Struggling to his feet he stood protectively over Sage and scanned the forest for any sign of Io or his allies, if she came after them Cirrus wouldn't be able to fight for long after using so many glyphs in succession. "Guys?" He called out to no one in particular. "Where are you?"

 

[LoneSniper87]

Onyx Belladonna
KarenAKAMint
Onyx looked around the area, scheming up a plan to catch Io. "How deep is the hole? I think I know a way to trap her... You following?" She asked Summer, proceeding to pace around the crater as she spoke. "Now I assume she has no control over the trees, and that soon she will have little aura to use her semblance with. So we lure her back her, then trap her in the crater with some trees. Sound good?" She asked Summer, turning to find her.​

 

[KarenAKAMint]

Sage Auburn

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: First Years
@Tags: IG42 The Suspicious Eye

Knowing in the back of his mind that the teachers have been informed, Sage made his way to Cirrus that was just a few feet in the forest. Something caught him, at first he thought it was his clothes being caught in a bush, but the right grip around his leg caused him to look down. His eyes went wide at the sight of Io, but before he would even call out to anyone, she launched them up to the sky. The air turned cold as he looked down below at the opening in the forest. His voice was caught in his throat, to shocked to even speak.

His world was straightened out as Io took a hold of his antlers and held him in place. Out of keeping of his antlers, he held onto Io's wrist. He wanted to push away from her when she leaned in to kiss him. "Don't you hurt him..." he whispered, finally finding his voice, but her next statement made his face turn white as she let him drop. He only stared up at her as he plummeted down to the ground. There was no way that he was going to survive the fall from this height.

Slowly his downfall began to slow down, noticing the familiar glyph from Cirrus. Sage continued to look up at Io, replaying the last statement she made, 'Jester and Trix say hello.' All of this was because of the mission. He let his eyes close, grateful that Skyler and Saffron were safe, as he reached the treetops. With a thud he laid there, paralyzed from both the impact and the weight he felt all over his body. Even as he laid there, he looked up at the small Faunus girl that still floated in the air. Tears began to brim in his eyes as Sage heard the familiar voice of Cirrus. Finally closing his eyes, allowing himself this moment of peace. His antlers were broken and cracked, but that was not as bad as his own body.

Summer Rose

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: First Years
@Tags: Everyone at the party

"The hole is pretty deep..." Summer answered Onyx. She tried to think about her plan as she looked up to the skies. She noticed two dots in the sky as one of them began to drop. She didn't think about it too much but she did when the sudden cry from Cirrus pulled Summer out of it. "Oh no!" She cried out, she was about to run into the forest when Phoenix stopped her. "Nix, We can't let her do this!" Summer cried out as she tried to fight his grasp, but she was an emotional wreck at the moment to think.

She looked toward the place she thought Cirrus might be. "We need to send help," Summer told Nix, "We can't let Cirrus get hurt or any of the other at that!" Nix held her shoulder before he told her, "Summer! Snap out of it! Keep Ophelia safe! I'll go and look for him and bring him back to the group. Even if I need to knock him out to do it." Summer nodded and allowed Nix to walk away, leaving Summer to be by Ophelia.

Phoenix Rose

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: First Years
@Tags: Everyone at the party

"Hey don't talk," Nix ordered Ophelia as he carried her away from the crater. He quickly took one of the many blankets and wrapped it around her. Grabbing one of the drinks still okay, and helped her drink, hoping it would help her coughing. He kissed her head, worried written on his face. "Whatever you need to talk to me about, we can talk about it later," he continued, "You need to recover from the fire."

He heard both Cirrus and Summer's cry, looking over at her twin who was starting to break under the pressure. Nix quickly grabbed her before she could even head into the forest and told her to calm down. "Sum- Will you- Summer!" he finally stopped her. He ordered her to stay with Ophelia as he got up and looked over at the others still at the forest opening. "Okay, whatever plan we have, we need to change it..." he announced, "Someone contact the teachers, if you go into the forest don't go alone. That said, I need someone to join me."

 

[The Suspicious Eye]

Rabbit Hunting Isn't Easy

Location: Emerald Forest (currently on fire)
Nearby: Orion, Bruno, Croc, Forest & Zenith
@: xAlter ChazGhost Brinni Hibiscus

Bruno and Croc were right on Io’s tail, till she reversed herself and ran over them and past them. Bruno only a blur for a second while Croc was able to see the blargh for while longer from up in the trees. From up there he saw the direction she went and yelled out “She headed back, back to the picnic!”. After calling that out Croc began running back himself as fast as he could, granted is was not near the speed as Io it seemed. Bruno looked up the Croc as called out and started running back as well, granted he was slower than Croc and Io as well.

Soon Croc caught up to the evil Io. He knew he couldn’t take it on one on one so Croc had to waiting, hiding in the trees, for Bruno to catch up so he can team up with him to attack. Once he did Croc throw a rock at Bruno to get his attention and then signaled with his hand for him to distract Io while he went around and attacked from the back. Bruno nodded slowly before beginning to walking into the evil Io’s view. “Io! I need you to calm down and get ahold of yourself!” Bruno said walking slowly as voiced sounded sad and unsure as he looked up to Io. “And… and if I need to I’ll take down the evil person using you” Bruno said quickly aim is weapon and fired three fire dust rounds in the air at Io.

Laughing darkly as the students on the ground were being pummeled by dirt with the weight of mountains. He watched as they scattered about, with the exception of Bruno who stepped out and aimed his weapon at him. Bruno words fell on deaf ears, the Executioner was too high up to truly understand what Bruno was saying. Raising his axe he blocked the first bullet, but the impact pushed her back and lead her trailing down deep into the forest.

Landing shakily the Executioner winced as he felt something beat inside him and dug his nails deep into his wounded ears. Tearing out pieces to let the blood seep down his face as control was returned. “Let’s have fun, before the finale girlie.” He ran his fingers through his hair and began to pace around the forest preparing for the finale.

Forest followed behind Bruno, waiting to see what would happen. Observe. Gather. Collect. Use. As Io was sent backwards from just a couple shots he came to his conclusion. She’s either running low on aura or the any pressure while floating has the effect on pushing her. Which means without the propulsion system she was using before, she’s pretty much a fish out of water. “Go for the belt” he said to Zenith. He followed her trajectory and moved through the trees towards it. Using Enigma to increase his own mobility he swung through the pines taking shots at Io’s belt, hoping to disable or at least slightly hinder her mobility.

The Executioner turned as he heard someone coming at him with serious intent. Dashing deeper into the forest he used the trees to block most of the bullets. However when he reached the end of the forest before the fire his left Bounding Base, the propulsion system, was shot and damaged. The piece cracked and the executioner's eyes widened as he quickly. Grabbed the device unlocked it from his waist and tossed it towards Forest.

The small piece cracked as the stored gravity dust began to seep and activate. Suddenly the device exploded and a gravity well expanded sucking everything around it in and up creating a blast radius of about twenty feet that crushed everything around it into a small ball leaving it in the center of the deep crater. If it has more than one use left the explosion would certainly be much larger. The Executioner cursed as he used the distraction to peel off of Forest's tail and make his way through the forest. Grabbing a tree he tore it from the roots and tossed it back toward Forest. Kid's got some brains. But… He smiled as he began tossing free after tree making his trail clear. As he did he makes himself a bit lighter as he reached a very tall tree and began to climb up.

Forest watched as the girl tossed her belt, he assumed now useless. A spark flew off and Forest’s eyes widened. Shifting course he watched as the area around the belt imploded. That was close he thought, wiping his brow. Where are the others? He looked around. He noticed the trees and narrowed his eyes. “Why so obvious?” he muttered. “It’s either desperation or a tra”

...Well that happened… Now she can’t fly and she on the run… this could be my chance… Croc thought to himself watching as Forest and Zenith took out Io’s belt. Croc followed behind Io as best he could, being again she was faster than him, but luckily she didn’t notice him as she tossed trees at Forest (ironic isn’t it?). As Io began climb a tall tree Croc went around to the other side of the tree and used his grappling hook to get to the top before Io. Once near the top Croc hide in the leafs and branches wait for Io and strike her from behind.

Bruno ran up to Forest soon after Io’s belt was taken care of and looked. “Good job on taking out her belt but we we still have more to do… She’s probably getting close draining all her aura at this point so if surround the tree and attack once we should be able to stop her” Bruno suggested to Forest.

The executioner didn’t climb the tree to the top. No, in fact he stayed low on the tree hiding on the first branch waiting till his victim fell into the line of fire. Heart racing he felt the soft vibration of someone climbing up the tree. A smile on his face he took the axe and spun around slicking through the truck at a angle right above her. The tree leaned over and began to collapse to the left side near the blazing fire. Taking the opportunity she slid down the remainder of the trunk and shot out toward Forest and Bruno. Destroying the trees beforehand gave Io a perfect straight shot to the two and like a bullet she screeched towards them. Her weight steadily increasing as her momentum stayed the same once she got close she planted her feet on the ground and swung at the two of them.

Crap Crap Crap Don’t have time to dodge to the side. Forest look briefly at Bruno. Hopefully he can move or block it himself he thought. With nowhere else to go, Forest tossed himself forward towards Io, rolling as he did so. With the swing already having been started he was sure she couldn’t change it so quickly. Making it under the swing he popped up on her other side. “You may be heavy, but I’m banking that your flesh is still flesh” he said cooly, flipping Skyfall around and extending it to it’s full sabre length. Grabbing her shoulder, he thrusted Skyfall through her upper arm.

The executioner watched as the boy surprisingly came towards him and jabbed the blade into his arm. The pain sent a shock throughout his entire body as he felt something worse than pain he felt someone invading his territory.

The instant Forest touched Io’s body the boy would find himself in a twisted black and white city. The ground waby and streaked with white jagged lines, walking around one would find small patches of red splattered every which way. Upon further inspection one would see what may be the remains of people, but so mangled it was impossible to say. Forest would be pulled through the city toward a park covered in red. In the center was a lake where a twisted dark figure was floating above his foot pushing a head down into the sticky red liquid. Flailing and bobbing Io coughed and screamed as tears erruped down her bloodsoaked cheeks before her head was submerged in the liquid by the foot. “Stay down, girlie. You know you need this.” The monster said as he suddenly stopped and looked up to see Forest standing there. The flailing continued for a moment more before it stopped and Io’s body floated in the red liquid, lifelessly bobbing on the surface. The figure shot over to Forest and grabbed his throat. “Get the fuck out of our head!!” Snapping Forests neck he pushed the boy out.

Smart. But not very smart. The executioner pulled Forest to him and slammed his forehead into Forest’s head with the weight of a semi truck colliding against him. He went to push Forest down onto the ground, with him on top. He was going to execute him, fuck the plan.

Forest gasped as he came out of their head. Whileit had been a new thing for him, being pulled into someone else's psyche he had no time to reflect on it as Io...or whatever this was, knocked him down.
“Thanks. I do fancy myself to be bright.” He said, knowing full well he might be dying here. “But I'm disappointed in you. You showed such promise. But you forgot something pretty important.” He smiled and laughed. “I'm not alone. And you've just turned your back on an enemy. Rookie mistake….right Zenith?”

Zenith had followed Forest, attempting to stay back from the fencer. Through their training the two had discovered a lot about one another. For one thing, one on one fights were Forest’s specialty. Having Zenith nearby allowed him to use his semblance to help Forest, either pushing or pulling the enemy into various attacks for the leader. This was no exception, Zenith learning to listen to Forest as he gave orders.

The trees, burning hellscape, even the murders committed didn’t phaze the man; or at least Zenith didn’t allow himself to show it as he followed Forest with little more than a nod. Seeing Autumn cut down was fuel for the man, a personal strike into a vendetta forming for the deranged student. It only pushed the boy to run faster, eyes trailing on the bullet as it moved towards his team.

Zenith didn’t wait for Forest’s line, instead moving the moment the blade etched into the woman’s arm. Placing a gravity well on a tree next to him, Zenith let the force expand to send him flying to the bunny. Seeing and hearing the large skull bashing sound, Zenith continued to place wells as he moved in the air. Leaving his sword sheathed, Zenith aimed his legs at the side of the woman. The feet would impact the girl, a moment later a well placed on his side to push her even more.

Zenith stopped himself over Forest, taking his katana out as he watched the girl (fly off of him, stop himself, something like that.) “You okay Forest?” Zenith didn’t take his eyes off the girl, but his voice was kinder than its usual monotone setting. It also seemed a bit stressed, possibly due to the trauma of Autumn or something else. I should’ve taken the head, shouldn’t I? She murdered, she doesn’t deserve anything more than the same. The conflict played on his face as he looked to Iola. The woman’s crime more complicated than the Grimm he thought he was going to face. “Stay down, next time I strike you won’t get up.”

Croc was not excepting for Io to cut the tree down, which of course ruined his sneak attack plans. “You gotta be kidding me” Croc said jumping off the falling tree and used his grappling hook and skills to swing into the tree and lower and landed, slightly ruffley, to the ground. “Days like this make me think twice as to why I came here” Croc said laying on the ground before getting up and heading back to current battlefield.

Iola was sent flying off into the treeline, her body collided hard against the tree, splintering it in pieces. The tree cracked and fell over the small girl, luckily she was small enough to fit under the small opening between the trunk and the forest floor. Jolting a bit at the sound of the colliding tree Io shakily looked around. Where...where am I? I...is this grass...where...what am I doing here? What happened? Her eyes wide and terrified as she had no idea where she was or how she got here. Suddenly the pain struck her like lightning, tears poured down her cheeks and she cried out and curled into a small ball under the trunk. Scared, injured and confused Iola gripped her injured arm and whimpered as she tried to figure out where she was and who was hurting her. Looking at the blood pooling from her arm she noticed more and more blood covering her. Is...is this all mine? Pain shattered her thoughts as he head was erupting with pain and confusion. Burying her face into the ground she focused on something anything else other than the pain she felt in her head and in her heart. Bracing against the fallen trunk she hid underneath it’s large trunk hardly anything visible of the tiny girl other than a faint cast of purple hair. Heart pounding, she didn’t want to feel like this, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts… Her mind began to clear and calm as she focused on the earth around her. The fire only a few feet behind her was quickly growing closer.

Bruno rolled out of Io way when she came at him and Forest. From there all he could really good was watched as he didn’t know he could help them in this fight. And seemed they didn’t as he watched Io crash into the tree line. Bruno ran quickly to Io, weapon ready if needed. Bruno saw Io’s purple hair from a tree trunk, as well as fire getting closer to the trunk fairly quickly. Bruno couldn’t figure out if this was trap or not. The only thing he cared about though was make sure Io was okay, the really Io. So with little care if this was a trap or not Bruno ran to the trunk where Io was. When he got there he saw Io, his Io, confused and in pain as well as the fire almost there. Making a quick choice Bruno picked up Io, and began taking her away from the mess of burning tree. “Io it’s going to be okay…” Bruno said with a fake confidence, as he knew things were not gonna be okay after this.

Bruno came a moment too late. Iola had vanished in the pain as the Executioner returned and he was annoyed. How dare he mess with my finale. He gripped onto Bruno and increased the weight on his legs to the weight of a oil rig holding him in place. The executioner glared at Bruno. “How dare you.” Sliding out of his grip he jumped off Bruno’s shoulder and shot back up into the air. His weapon shimmering and rising up into the air as well. Using his right bounding base he shot over and grabbed the axe. Pushing herself a bit further she moved past the fire and into the forest. Curing at the thought the Ex activated the fire dust in his axe and pressed it against his arm wound. Shouting out in pain he pulled it was and sighed. “I’m not getting paid enough for this." Twirling the axe in his working hand he whistled as he watched the fire spread inward. It was already spreading so much the 30 ft radius had slowly condensed to a 10 ft radius and was quickly closing the gap. Meanwhile in the other direction the fire had grown a good 40ft encasing quite a large portion of the Emerald Forest in fire.

Zenith watched Bruno walk towards the girl, shaking his head as he did so. Picking the girl out of the fire and cradling her seemed to be a scared girl, but Zenith’s burning stare didn’t stop. The moment the girl moved upwards Zenith followed. “Forest stay here. I can handle her.” With that Zenith moved past Bruno’s stuck body, heading into the forest.

Following the trail of fire, Zenith used a pulse to allow him entry through the wall of flames. “I told you, next time you’re not getting up.” The sword gleaned from the light of the fire, Zenith moving steadily to the girl.

Orion ran.

He ran faster than he had ever run. The flames were increasingly getting hotter and hotter, larger and larger, but Orion ran. He had seen Bruno, Croc, Zenith, and Forest run after the thing possessing Io. He had seen the damage she had done, and he knew that she would either live with the horrors she committed, or die a monster. Orion knew he had a small chance to succeed, but it was worth it. Running faster, he flipped Heart Pierce onto his back, the cannon ready to be fired. “I'm coming short stack.”

Summoning ice to quickly make an opening in the flame, Orion jumped through as the ice melted, overcome by the heat of the flame. He created and shot multiple spears of ice and shot them forward, with the plan of closing Io in a smaller, more controlled area. Running towards Io, he grabbed Heart Pierce and swing the BFG like a baseball bat at the girl’s torso.


“Is that so pretty boy?” The Executioner said as he stood stationary waiting for Zenith to step on a specific spot in his path. The twisted smile ever-present on his face.

Orion wasn’t quiet. As he blasted his way through the fire, and the executioner knew he was coming. Standing still he didn’t show his card until the very last moment. As the weapon was swung towards him, he flipped around the barrel of the gun. The second his feet reached the ground he grabbed for the weapon and made it lighter than helium shooting up into the air.

Bruno was stuck in place as everyone else it seemed continued after Io, even Croc. “I take she wet that way” Croc commented as he ran passed Bruno who was still stuck. Croc sigh slightly as it seemed every time he tried to do a sneak attack Io seemed to fail Croc decide this time to… Try to sneak attack again! Well he would of it if Io didn’t fly up into the air. Croc groaned as he looked up. “By the twins this is getting annoying.” Croc said as he caught up to the group. With a small growl Croc aimed his weapon at Io and shot three ice bullets at Io to try at least help in this fight.

“Not on your life Zenith. I'm finally starting to enjoy myself here.” Forest muttered, getting up. He watched at the sudden shift in Ios personality before it became what they were figuring again. Moving up to Zenith he said “I doubt know what's going on with her, some sort of personality split or perhaps some kind of possession Or hypnosis semblance maybe, but there here, for just a moment was the real girl. If we can Zenith I'd like to avoid killing her. But it's not a requirement, just a preference. She'd make an interesting study subject. I've got one more thing to try.” He loaded ice shots into his Skyfall pistol

Forest ran directly at Iola. He emptied the clip while she was occupied with Orion, the second she landed, encasing her feet in ice and securing her to the ground and preventing her from floating off. At this point, Forest was sure, she had no aura left, or close to it. “Come now Miss Sakra, I just told you not to look away from an enemy.” Making Enigma into its full whip form he wrapped it around the haft of the girl's weapon. This time he was prepared for a swing. If she cut vertically it'd be easy to dodge or use the whip to force it off course. If she cut horizontally he'd just step back. “Orion, if you could please spread this further to hamper her escape I'd be much obliged. You've lost now little one. I'd prefer to avoid killing you, but if i must i will. After all it's no less than a simple beast like you deserves.” he said steel in his eyes and voice.

“What did you just call me?” The executioner said as he looked over at Forest. A cruel smile grew on his face as he lowered his grip on the handle to touch Forest's whip. Then in a brisk movement he pulled his weapon and Forest closer to him till they were a breath away from each other. “Let me tell you a secret cutie.” He grabbed Forest’s head and pulled him into a deep and passionate kiss. Breaking it the executioner licked his lips and smiled. “I may be a beast but I'm certainly no miss. I'm a dude dumbass.” With a snap of his fingers he made Forest light as helium. Watching him float up she snapped her axe down, cracking the whip and sending forest towards the ground.

Zenith met with Forest at Iola’s landing spot, waiting for her to land as he spoke. “I warned it already.” His face broke from the stone mold, contemplating his words. “But, I’ve got your back.” Looking to Forest, nodding in agreement to his plan. With that he watched, waiting to see the action unfold. Last chance girl.

The three barrages of ice, from Croc, Forest, and Orion were enough to keep the girl contained. As Forest whip gripped her weapon Zenith didn’t like the distance between the two, steadily moving forward. It was the movement of Io’s hand that sent Zenith running, sword posed for an attack.

A kiss was not the attack he was expecting, but as Forest was sent upwards he knew he was free to act on his own. The axe came down, implanting into the ground beside Zenith and sending Forest down with it. Hopeful that Forest or the others would find him a safe landing, Zenith would attempt to cleave through the exposed neck of the girl.

Orion let go of Heart Pierce as it started to fly into the air. Letting it do this, he then encased it with ice, hoping the weight of the ice would slow down the vertical movement of the cannon. Turning back to the Executioner, he watched as Forest was sent into the air. He saw what Zenith was attempting to do. A killing blow, one swift cut to the neck, that would behead the beast they were currently fighting. “Zenith, no!” he shouted running into his path, creating a wall of ice to block the sword strike.

The sword cleaved through the ice with ease as Orion’s aura was low. He could feel the strain from a drained reserve as he blocked the strike with Broken Requiem. The blow was jarring, and to his back, he saw the Executioner. Summoning a cage of ice around the possessed girl, he hoped to save his girlfriend, not kill her. From the sword blow, Orion fell backwards onto his back, and hissed in pain when he landed, hitting his head on the hard ground.

Croc smirk as him and the other were able freeze Io but then things turned bad again as Zenith seemed to want to kill Io and Orion was defending her. But with both of them distracted Croc ran past them and ran to Io, reloading his weapons electric dust bullets this time. When he got up to her he aimed his weapon close and fired all three round quickly, hopping the shock would finish off her aura and knock her out.

The Executioner glared at the increase in gravity using what little he had on reserve to stay standing. His eyes shined with lust and hope as he saw the blade come for her neck. Maybe now it'll be over. Iola though as she waited for death to take her. However, Orion's voice shattered through her submittance to death. Watching as the ice wall formed she looked at Orion who was actually protecting her. Holding her hand close to her chest she jolted a bit as she saw the ice cage form around her before he fell and hit his head. “Orion!!” keeling down as best she could tears began to streak down her bloodstained cheeks as she looked over at the boy she'd begin to fall for, she was so confused she didn't know what was going on but she knew he had protected her when she certainly didn't deserve it. “I'm so sorry…I didn't… I don't know… I'm so sorry Orion...” Her whole body shaking as she sobbed, Io didn't pay attention to her surroundings as she heard a voice call out to her.

Forest wasn’t expecting the kiss. He also wasn’t expecting to be transported into that world again. This time he wasn’t as forcibly rejected. This time, he pulled himself out but he could feel the desperation in the Other’s thoughts. It, or he rather, knew it was beaten. The fact that They identified as a guy and kissed Forest didn’t bother him either at the moment. Right now he was in the middle of a fight. One thing he was practiced at was putting everything besides the fight to the back of his mind until it was over.. He began floating up. However, his whip was still around the axe’s haft which was thankfully buried in the ground serving as an anchor. He landed hard, but bent his knees to absorb most of the impact. “Zenith. They tried this once before, be on your guard. We don’t know if it’s her or the Other. Be ready to end it if you must. You’ve made contact with her, so you should be able to just crush her in your semblance.” He shifted his gaze to the girl on the ground. “Miss Sakra, or Mister whatever you call yourself. I’d prefer not to have you die and I doubt very much you wish to die here yourself. Especially not having succeeded in whatever plan you had since you stayed to fight instead of just leaving. So in everyone’s interest, please don’t do anything.”

Io looked up at Forest and finally took in her surroundings. As she began to hear other voices and the crackling of the forest fire growing around them. Confusion and fear was evident on her face as she spoke softly, “w-who a-” Iola was cut off as the electric shot from Croc's gun shot out and striked Iola right in her wounded rabbit ear. Everything went black and her control over herself vanished from existence. Collapsing to the ground the other two shots hitting her again in her small frame. She stopped moving aside from the small twitches from the shocks of electricity flowing through her.

Orion blinked as everything seemed to blur into one color, one shape. He noticed one constant though, the color pink currently above him. Orion slowly lifted a hand to wipe the blood of Io’s cheek when she suddenly went down. Three gunshots signaled the firing of a weapon, only for Orion to look towards the source of the sound. Noticing Croc holding his gun, Orion got to a kneeling position, rather shakily to, as he pulled Io towards his chest, cradling the girl, with one arm. “I got you Io.” he said in a shaky whisper. “Just don’t give up. Please…” Not noticing everything else going on, Orion could faintly hear DelTa complaining about how his aura was less than 25%. Anything more, Orion knew he would suffer from aura exhaustion, and maybe even death. Blinking the haze and tears from his eyes, Orion tried to lift his other arm to raise Broken Requiem, but he found he was unable to do so, the biting pain knifing through his arm.

 

[KarenAKAMint]

Teachers inboundAuburn was doing her walk around the campus when she noticed the smoke coming from Emerald Forest. It was normal for things to go about the forest with the grim around, but to see any trace of a fire was not a normal thing. She began to make her way over to the edge when she noticed someone coming out of the trees. "Jade! What happened!?" she exclaimed, recognizing the Faunus girl immediately but only gasped when she noticed the two girls in her arms, dying. Auburn didn't hesitate to dial the emergency medical team on campus as she listened to Jade explain briefly about what was going on.

As she waited for the Medical team, she laid the girls down as she called over her fellow teachers. Sharp was the first to arrive as he exclaimed, "What happened to the other students?" Auburn stood up and tried to calm down her teammate and colleague, "Larimar, you need to calm down, I called Sapphire and Robin as well, they are heading over to the forest as we speak. I'm trying to reach Sage. I recommend you do the same with Skyler."

Sharp looked over at the two young students laying on the floor, clearly dying from blood loss, but nodded and pulled out his scroll. The call quickly went to voice mail as he cursed under his breath, "Skyler Eden! You better have a good reason to not have your phone on! Please call me back!" He tried multiple times, leaving angrier and angrier messages with every call. Once the Medical team came, the two teachers made their way to the airships where Shamrock was waiting for them. Their airships were ready to go to pick up the students, as well as to stop the fire from spreading more than it already had.

Mean While back with Skyler and Saffron.

Skyler let out a yawn as she exclaimed, "That was such a boring movie Saff... why did I agree to watch that one?" She pulled out her scroll to find dozens of messages from both her parents. With a sigh and a roll at her eyes, she listened to the first three as she heard the increasing worry in her father's voice. She frowned as she looked over to Saffron as she continued to listen to the messages, it was until she heard that there was an attack at the Picnic party, she turned pale. Something in her heart feared the worst as she exclaimed, "We need to go back, NOW!"

She didn't wait as she began to run toward the airships. Her heart was pounding in her chest as she tried to keep positive. The airship that was scheduled to take off by the time she made it to the docks, was nowhere to be seen. The crowd of students showed that it hadn't even arrived at the docks. "No!" She exclaimed, her worry getting the best of her as he heart began to hurt, "What if something happened to Sage and I wasn't there to protect him!?"

Back to the teachers

Sharp's scroll finally went off as he quickly picked it up, "Skyler? Where are you?" The worry was still there in his voice, which was completely different from the usual stern one he always used. "I'm in Vale with Saffron! What is going on!? Is Sage okay?" he heard his daughter's voice call out, "We are stuck in Vale, no airships are coming..." He tried to calm her, worried about her health but relieved that she was nowhere near the attack, "Stay in Vale. We are about to get the others out of the forest, so I don't know what is going on. I'll have to call you back, dear. Everything will be okay." With that, he hung up as the three airships began to circle around the main area where most of the students were seen.

The sheer amount of damage around was enough to think the worst, especially when the lack of students was evident. "I don't see my son..." Auburn announced as she looked out the window, "Where is Sage?" Sharp looked over to his longtime friend and told her, "He'll be fine, we need to get the students out of here. Sapphire and Robin must be searching for them." The redhead nodded and looked over at Shamrock, who smiled and nodded before jumping out of the airship, landing on a vacant spot. The other two followed suit as Shamrock called out to the students, "Come along now, Students! Let's get you all back to Beacon. Anyone injured goes first." A set of rope of ladders was rolled out for everyone to use.

Robin AuburnDropping down to an empty part of the forest after hearing the call of his son's name. He began to run quickly as he came to find him laying on the ground with one of the other students. "Sage!" he called out to him as he ran over to his child, "What happened to him?" He could see the broken antlers on top of his head as the small Faunus boy breathed shallow breaths, clearly still alive. Robin was afraid to even touch him, not wanting to hurt him more then he was already hurt.

"Brother! I found the Faunus gi-" his twin sister stopped talking the moment she saw her nephew on the ground, unconscious. "I'll handle the Faunus girl..." she announced, clearly able to see that he is still breathing, picking her scroll she made the call to her husband to announced the location and state that Sage was in and headed back that she came from.

Sapphire SharpSapphire ran through the forest, getting to the other students that were able to stop the Faunus girl. She had gotten to meet her once, and even then she couldn't believe what larimar had told her about the girl. She looked so innocent to even think she could do all of this damage. "Please get away from the Faunus," she called out as she broke the clearing, "Airships are here to take you all back to Beacon. I will handle the girl."

She looked around to look at all the young men around her, all students, but with a lot of potentials to be able to go after a fellow classmate and stop her. Really it was idiotic in her mind, but then again she was an idiot as well when she was their age. "The faster we get you all to Beacon, the sooner we can get the injured medical help," Sapphire walked over to Io, as she placed a hand on the young man's shoulder, "I'm not here to hurt her. I'm here to help her. That has always been the planned."

 

[xAlter]

Orion Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
@Tags: KarenAKAMint The Suspicious Eye

Orion stared at Io in mute horror as she kept shaking due to the electrical shocks being sent through her system. He wanted, no, he needed to help her somehow. He was ignorant to the frantic running of the teachers who had just arrived on scene. He was unaware of the panicked looks of everyone as they assessed the damage that was caused by the girl in his arms. He didn't care at all as the tears fell from his eyes. Feeling a hand on his shoulder and someone telling him they were going to help, Orion almost lashed out. Reigning in whatever instinct he had left, Orion slowly looked towards the woman who's hand rested on his shoulder.

Orion's eyes were watery, as tears freely fell from them, yet he made no sound. His eyes were near empty, only a small spark of light left. Orion felt dead inside, and he almost looked it. Blood that covered Io now stained his white clothing, and his white hair. "Is..." the first word came out barely a whisper. "Is... is she going to be okay?" he asked hesitantly as he clutched the girl closer. He was afraid to let Io go, fearing he would never see her again, or maybe she would somehow disappear. "S-she's going to live... right?" he asked louder this time, a frantic and almost desperate edge to his voice.

 

[IG42]

Cirrus Jay Schnee

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Sage, Robin, Sapphire
@Tags: KarenAKAMint

Listening to the sounds of combat close by Cirrus ached to join the fight but he couldn't leave Sage alone in his current state and the effort of "catching" Sage had taken so much out of him that he could hardly keep his knees from shaking, he only stayed on his feet in the hope of deterring the Executioner from returning to finish the job.

When Robin showed up Cirrus sighed in relief and allowed his knees to give out, sitting heavily next to Sage he panted as the faunus' father demanded to know what had happened. "He...got dropped." He panted out. "I did all I could...but...I'm sorry." He looked down at Sage miserably until Sapphire arrived and declared that she would "handle" Iola. "Wait! What's happening? What happened to Io? Don't hurt her!"

 

[The Suspicious Eye]

Ophelia Shayma

Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
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Ophelia looked up at him worriedly as he sat her down and told her not to talk. She needed to warn him, but her lungs were on fire from smoke inhalation. Usually able to scream out the pain it was staying calm that ruined her lungs. Feeling the warm blanket around her was a comfort especially since, for the most part, her clothes were in complete ruin. Pulling the blanket closer to her she coughed violently as she tired to talk to him again. Her eyes didn't leave Nix's as she worriedly looked at him, afraid he was going to run off and get hurt. If she was right, then Iola is far more dangerous than they think and is only just playing with them all. If she wanted them dead, they'd be dead.

Smiling up at him as he helped her drink a glass of water she reached out and caressed his hand. Drinking the water she looked up at him as he kissed her head and looked at her with such worry in his eyes. "N...Nix..." She was able to utter out, before she noticed Summer and Cirrus begin to crack. She sighed, which lead her to cough as she nodded for Nix to go to them. Pulling the blanket closer to her she crossed her legs and looked at the disaster that was once the party she prepared.

As the fire grew Ophelia blocked out the teachers arriving and the students being taken to safety, Ophelia sat and pondered. She wanted to be emotional, she wanted to cry and be thankful for being alive, but all the years of torture of pain of watching the woman who caused that to her, taught Ophelia a few things. If she's who I think she is, then they all know. If they know then this...this wasn't a accident. This was on purpose. Her eyes narrowed, showing the same cruel look her mother carried as she slipped into her mother's persona. This was a distraction. But for what? For what Uncle made in that vial? Or something subtle? Whatever it is, we weren't the targets.

We weren't the targets.

 

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Onyx Belladonna
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"We can't just leave, can we?" She asled, looking to Summer and the others who were nearby. "We have to help, in one way or another." She said, then turned to the teachers. "I can't speak for everyone else here, but I am going to stay to help my friend! You are going to need all the hands you can get. You may be the professionals but all it takes is one slip up, one tiny crack in the wall. And she will kill more lives than she is worth." She finished, looking to Sharp specifically.

She, after a moment of recovering herself, walks next to Sharp and readies her Kama, glancing up at him. "Is something goes wrong I know better to get out of the fight." She said to him, seeing as he helped her out greatly in learning the new and completely different techniques of fighting she learnt.​

 

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Sapphire Sharp

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Sapphire looked down at Io, the small and young girl she had only met once in passing, but had heard so much from her husband. She felt almost sad to see her in this stated, but she nodded to the young man. "I have no control over what will happen to her, but the headmaster will not allow her to die," she announced, "She will be in good hands."

The older woman allowed her aura to cover over Io, stopping the girl's movements, almost as if she was dead. "She's under my dormant semblance, it should allow her a peaceful sleep for the travel back to the school," she announced as she began to pick the small girl up. Sapphire almost recalled the last time she had to do this, but for her own daughter. She looked over to the other students and motioned them to follow her.

Robin Auburn

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Robin took hold of the young man's shoulder and assured him, "My sister will not harm the girl. She's the best one to here to calm Io before either she hurts other or get's hurt by everyone. Do you know anyone that can pick Sage up without hurting him? I fear he might have broken several bones beside his antlers..." He gently picked up the broken antlers that have been Sage's pride and joy growing up.

"I should thank you for saving him," Robin continued as he placed the pieces into his pouch, "Sage is a delicate soul... I feared that him becoming a huntsman would have shaped him into something he would regret... I never expected this to happen so soon." Robin caressed his son's cheek, careful not to wake him.

Larimar Sharp

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"Miss Belladonna," Sharp turned to her, "I understand your drive, but-" He stopped talking as his scroll went off again and answered it. Putting it on spoken, allowing Onyx to listen in, "Can you repeat that, dear?" A female voice came through the scroll as she repeated what she had told her husband, "Iola has been stopped. The students are okay... Sage... Sage is hurt. It's pretty bad..." Sharp thanked his wife for the information and cut the call. Facing onyx once more he said, "Things seem to be under control thanks to your classmates. But we should find a way to get Sage to the airship."

He looked around the area as Summer came into view. He motioned her over and called out, "Miss Rose! By any change, do you still have enough aura?" The redhead nodded, a bit concerned, which made Sharp smiled in relief, "Good, I will need your assistance to get Sage into the airships. I will send you the coordinates of the location. I have to inform professor Auburn about her son."

 

[xAlter]

Orion Schnee

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Location: Emerald Forest
Nearby: Everyone
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Orion reluctantly let Io go as she went still. He heard Sapphire's explanation of her semblance, yet it was all too real for Orion to handle. His fragile mental state had stopped deteriorating, stopping a point between sane and insane. Any little thing could probably set him off, triggering an extreme response from the distressed boy. Struggling to his feet, Orion followed Sapphire and Io, his body shaking with sorrow. Using Broken Requiem as a cane, he grabbed Heart Pierce which had fallen down to the earth once Io went unconscious.

Coming behind Sapphire, Orion hugged himself to stop the shaking of his body. Walking besides the two, he finally noticed the destruction caused. He looked down and let out a growl, his hair shadowing his eyes. Nothing was right anymore, nothing was good. Orion could see that now. Even the singular light in his life was privy to darkness. "I'm... I'm staying by Io's side... if that's okay with you..." Orion said in a whisper to Sapphire as he looked to the burning flames. "Even after everything she's been through, everything she's done unwillingly, she's the only light I have left..."

 

[LoneSniper87]

Onyx Belladonna
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"I... Oh." She responded to Sharp with a nod. "Well that's good, perhaps I should pay a bit more attention. I-I'm sorry. I was just a little on edge after our first encounter... I'll be going..." She said in little more than a mumbled, turning and silently walking off to the airships, taking a seat as close to the cockpit as she could.​