Fandom RWBY Prequel: Pillars of Chaos (reboot)

[Quiet]

RASP B. DESMODO.


' No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart. '



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"There's something square under those roots!" Cinder called out, as if to give the other three an indication on where to push their fight towards. "That's our keyhole!" The way that Cinder fought was, although ineffective for the beast at hand, graceful and charged with elegance. If she too wasn't in the fray of danger and possible demise, it would most certainly enchant Rasp to gaze fondly upon her form. But there were different matters to attend to. Big, dangerous, onyx, carnivorous foliage matters to attend to. Firing the last bullet from her rifle, the empty clip ejected and rocketed behind from the Chainbreaker with a loud ping. Her trained hand pulled another eight round en bloc clip from her belt's bag and forced it into the receiver.


"Hold on, girl.. I've got yo--" Rasp cut off as she brought the scope to meet with her sight, her focus forced to move from Cinder to Azurra as the latter's pheromone-based semblance kicked in and the Grimm's attention turned slowly to the prissy pole-wielder. "Don't go taking all the glor--" She trailed off again as a fire ignited and made the Grimm's vines its hearth, blowing out Azurra's pheromones and causing the attention of the overgrown fly trap to refocus upon Cinder. "Good lord, I'm not made of rifles and arms." She sighed. "Pick one target and stick to her, damn it!"





The plant seemed to heed Rasp's advice as it charged Cinder with its gaping maw ready to devour the teen whole, who in turn was firing arrows from an ornately elegant daggerbow with apparently lethal accuracy to Mr. Aldrovanda vesiculosa there. But mistakes were bound to happen. The Grimm's massive head pounded into the ground with the force required to make the arena quake and break beneath their feet, almost pushing Rasp from her rocky vantage point. The beast's leafy skull skidded across the floor, closer and closer to Cinder.


"Just hold on!" Azurra cried out, vying for a way to save her partner from harm's way. From her staff, razor wires fired off in all directions to construct a lethal web of razor thread. ...But as the beast continued forward, it and its cohorts' vines did not deter from its assault. Thick stamens turned to sliced dust under Ochre's pen sword, draining his energy as he blocked another attack.


"Damned be my luck.." Rasp sneered, realizing that the time to take action for now. ....For her "partner", no less. The very same that'd been nothing but foul to her for her heritage. But if she didn't and it were to be ruled she could've saved him, that'd be very bad for her already sour reputation as a Desmodo. Pulling back the barrel of her rifle, she collapsed her Chainbreaker into its third Grappling hook form before pumping the trigger and launching the steel wire into the stone wall across from her. "I'm coming, you oaf!" Rasp yelled, not even hesitating before jumping into the fray, swinging from the line like Tarzan on a tree vine, and aiming to kick Ochre literally out of the way and behind a safe, secluded shelf to regain his vigor.

@Mollisol @Dendyne @Dream Killer

 

[Quincunx]

Afra's eyes displayed that she did not believe him in the slightest, but she didn't press him. "If you say so. Anyways, I'm in Dust Mechanics and Aura Development. You can probably guess at my semblance. I notice you chose Dueling. Why that? Something you're aspiring to in the Vytal Festival?" She crossed her arms behind her head and leaned against the wall.


Meanwhile, the brunette with the chainsaw-pistol approached Midnight, who appeared deep in thought. "Hi hi! I noticed you were thinking about something. I was thinking your weapon looks neat," she bubbled. "What exactly is it? What's it do?"


"Will you reign yourself in?!" the hazel-eyed girl suddenly snapped, taking her focus from Eminence to her teammate. "Delaney, if we have to go through what we did with the headmistress again..."


"Oh, fine," Delaney, the chainsaw-pistol-wielding brunette, said with a deep sigh. "Hi, my name is Delaney Duncan. Cordial to meet you. Can you tell me about your weapon?"


@InvaderTennTallest @AnimeNerd5678

 

[AnimeNerd5678]

"Well... yeah. You see... As I said earlier, I want to prove to my family that I'm strong. But... most of all, I want my father to be proud of me. He was one of the greatest Huntsman in the world. I... I want to be a great Huntsman, just like him. ... You see, that's why I chose Dueling. I want to show to my father that I can be just as strong as him..." Aqua explained, his ears twitching very slightly in his headband.


@Mollisol

 

[Quincunx]

Afra noticed his headband moving ever so slightly, confirming her suspicions. Her smile did not reach her eyes. "I see. You've revealed lots of personal information to me on our first meeting. Unfortunately, I don't believe we have any classes together, so we won't be interacting much. But don't worry - I won't reveal your... secrets." She mentally ran through her list of notable Hunters and Huntresses. "Are you a descendant of Rose? Emerald? Marble? Inferno?"


@AnimeNerd5678

 

[AnimeNerd5678]

"... Inferno." Aqua confirmed. ... Secrets? *gasp* Does she know!? Aqua thought.


@Mollisol

 

[Midnight2902]

Midnight turned to the girl " ...You want to know about my weapon...? Okay? uh.... what part of it do you want me to talk about?" She asked while putting a piece of her deep blue hair behind her ear. why did someone come up and talk to me? No one ever does that... this is obscured... or even a joke.... maybe... She thought to herself while trying to process why someone was talking to her. She didn't really know what to say about this situation. She was alway that one person that everyone avoided





@Mollisol

 

[GasMaskie]

"A fine specimen, wouldn't you agree ?????"

"-"

"Come now boy, I won't bite. I'll fix you."




Silence. A white hand emerged from the black void. The man's smile was a poor mask. The shark looked upon me with pitying eyes...


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My small hand slowly reached out in response...


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A dull, throbbing pain had roused the young man from his deep slumber. Instinctively, he brought a hand to the source of the soreness - his temple. His fingertips slowly crawled across the thin layer of gauze that had been wrapped around a head wound. When he tried to move his left arm, however, an intense pain assailed his muscles. What had happened...?


Ah, that's right. He was Pascal Nuage, a young hunter. And he had been trapped in an underground maze with his teammates. There was a colossal Grimm lurking about, and he had decided that the best course of action was to lure it away on his own. But after that, the memories had stopped. When he briefly came to, he was being transported somewhere and an object had been secured to his left arm.


Slowly, he stood up from the bed. It seemed that he had been placed into an air ship's infirmary. Pascal smiled softly, surely this meant that his team had managed to make it to the goal with him. He glanced down at his attire - it seemed that much of his coat had been torn to shreds by that Goliath. I'll need to visit a tailor the next chance I get. At least my hat is alright.


The young man removed his coat and put his hat back on. His cane/weapon had been resting against the side of his bed. For now, it seemed that he was the only one in the infirmary. His aura had slowly replenished to its naturally low capacity by now. The medic who had likely been attending to him had probably used a combination of modern dust-powered medical equipment and a specialized healing semblance to mend his broken arm and any of the other wounds he might have sustained. It was more likely, however, that the fix applied to his broken arm was a temporary fix - he didn't want to stress it with rigorous activity.


Brushing aside the strange memories that had resurfaced, Pascal looked around the air ship's small infirmary before noticing a nondescript white sheet. He scanned the sheet over twice. Electives? It'd be best that I discuss this with my team to coordinate our schedules and developments but...

"Opportunities for further assimilation. More worthy prey."



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He retrieved a pen from a nearby mug and slowly wrote out his two choices in his best handwriting.

Combat Focus - Grimm Physiology


Noncombat Focus - Grimm Geography

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...Something assured him that these were good choices. Besides, he was never one to seek a fight with his peers. From what he had gathered, sparring was a good way to hone one's fighting skills without the risk of death. But, an entire class with nothing but fighting against a fellow person - it just seemed too distasteful for the young man.


Pascal took a moment to adjust his hat before exiting the infirmary. The sway of the airship took a short while to adjust to but soon enough the young hunter was back on his feet and maneuvering around the vessel. Eventually, he had found the rest of Team PERL lounging around the aircraft's viewing area.


He simply offered a small smile as he entered the room. Cruor and Lapis had begun engaging in a conversation while Ebony was standing with her curious Semblance companion in her arms. Pascal was simply unable to find the words he had wanted to say. An apology? Or would praise be more suitable first?


(@Syrina, @Cruor Flumine, @Deltorian Nephran)

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[Aryel]

Eminence Faustine Yowlumne

“Grimm Physiology and Grimm Geography sound promising...” She blurted out at she checked them off her list, not bothering to face Obsidian as her squealing continued on. “I’m going for Grimm Physiology and Geography, so no.” She answered, looking up from her paper to see Obsidian jumping up and down like a child.


Moving a few steps away from her team, Eminence noticed the short girl still staring at her. She raised her brows as their staring contest continued. She didn’t bother listening to her team as their chatter continued on, aside from her noticing the leader failing at flirting with the girl with a huge gunblade from the other team. Eventually, she gave up with a sigh and scratched at the back of her head. “What do you want?” She muttered to the woman, crossing her arms in the process as she watched her introduce herself to the team.

@AnimeNerd5678 @InvaderTennTallest @Syrina @Mollisol

 

[sunnyday]

Ebony was a bit on edge, she tried to make herself calm and breath she stood by her team mates who were sitting, but by doing so she hadn't engaged with outhers. Her head turned towards the direction of the infirmary, every so often, wondering if her team mate was okay.


She made one of her head turns to see, and there Pascal was. She was over come, and burst out of her dark cloud to see him there. Giving him a long hug to know that he was physically there and she wasn't just going crazy; but abrubtly pulled away pressing her still torn skirt down, "Glad you're back.." She said with a small smile punching him in the shoulder.


@GasMaskie @Cruor Flumine @Deltorian Nephran

 

[Nexus Placater]

"I would have gone with Dueling as a second choice but, seeing as I don't have much time to lose, I wanted to know how to best beat the Grimm. I happened to see a rare species while I was traveling here." Lapis replied, noticing Pascal beginning to make his way towards them. It amused him when Ebony had jumped up from her seat to hug him. Although she shrugged it off like a worried team mate, Lapis couldn't help but think otherwise. "I'm going to say hi to Pascal. Do whatever you want." Lapis stated as he got up from his seat, making his way over to his leader, with two goals in mind.


"Good to see that you're up. Didn't waste too much time lying down." Lapis said, gently slapping the back of Pascal. "I did find it a bit strange that someone like you, Ebony, to hug a person that you only just met. But, what can I say, you blindly ran after him, and blindly referring to two things." Lapis chuckled, nudging a probably embarrassed Ebony closer to a probably embarrassed Pascal. "So, besides me wasting time making your faces turn red, what subjects did you pick?"


@GasMaskie, @Syrina, @Cruor Flumine

 

[Cruor Flumine]

Cruor nodded and turned, watching Lapis greet Pascal. "Good to see you well, the lord came through. So, what classes did you two pick?" He asked, curious. He hoped that one of the two were in at least one of his electives. Something that was still on his mind was that white clad girl's glancing. He glanced at Nila for a split second before turning back to his team.


@GasMaskie @Deltorian Nephran @Syrina @Mollisol

 

[sunnyday]

Ebony turned as her team mate walked over, her face had turned rather red in his attempt to embarass her, "I'm taking Aura Development and Fairytails and Lore, thank you very much.." She stated trying to cover her embarassment, "So we won't even have classes together." Nodding her head as if it proved a point.


She stuck her nose up a bit rather annoyed by such an accusation, but gave asmall smile to her team mates, glad they were together again.


@GasMaskie @Deltorian Nephran @Cruor Flumine

 

[Cruor Flumine]

He shook his head, sniling at her blush. "Not necessarily, I chose Fairy Tales as well." He stated. Thankfully he would have at least one member of his team with him during the class. Hopefully Pascal chose dueling. Even of he was teamless in that class, he wouldn't mind. After all, the focus is on fighting the other students, not teamwork. "In my opinion, Lore can be just as useful as any blade or gun, so I chose Lore and Fairy Tales along with Dueling."


@Deltorian Nephran @Syrina @GasMaskie

 

[GasMaskie]

His teammate had run up to embrace him. Well, that seemed like a logical progression of events - he had collapsed at their feet just a short while ago. Still, the blushing didn't seem to phase Pascal in slightest, rather, he gave a curt smile back towards Lapis almost as if to say 'What could you mean by that?'. Something seemed to have caught Cruor's attention as he glanced away just for a brief moment.


Pascal rubbed his shoulder as he cleared his throat. The back pat and the punch were light, but his body had still been sore from the underground labyrinth's trials. Just from a cursory look, the rest of his team looked alright - albeit still covered in a thin layer of dust from the collapsing walls and it seemed that Ebony's clothing had been the only other casualty.


"Grimm Physiology and Geography. Dueling didn't seem like a cohesive activity for me, and I'm terrible at fighting anyways."





(@Syrina, @Cruor Flumine, @Deltorian Nephran)

 

[Cruor Flumine]

"Practice makes perfect, Pascal, better to learn now while you still have the chance." Cruor said with a small laugh. He looked out over the Mistralian scenery, the swamps and city-scapes in the distance adding to the serenity of the place. But that's not where his gaze was focused. Beyond the swamps and cities was a mountain, home to the Pit, his home, his family. He missed it dearly but orders were orders, something he had to do.


@Syrina @Deltorian Nephran @GasMaskie

 

[Nexus Placater]

Lapis had noticed Cruor's odd behaviour. One was, after slowing down time, a short look at one of the girls from the all girl group and the other was a longing glare at a mountain in the distance. After this, Lapis could figure that Cruor was hiding something, making a note to ask him about it later. "I'll be seeing you in my classes then, Boss." Lapis remarked before disengaging from his team and heading towards the girl that had caught Cruor's attention.


"Is there a reason why you are looking at my team mate?" Lapis questioned as he approached the girl. "Sorry for being blunt but I don't really like to waste time. My name is Lapis by the way, if it makes it easier to refer to me."


@GasMaskie, @Syrina, @Cruor Flumine, @Mollisol

 

[Quincunx]

Nila raised an eyebrow at the boy who'd approached her. "My name is Nila. Your teammate has a fine way of carrying himself. And interesting clothes. Not that you don't! I just found your outfits interesting. My semblance is manipulating cloth, so I tend to notice the way everyone's looks." She giggled. "There's nothing wrong with either of you. Where did yours come from, by the way? Your tailoring intrigues me."


@Deltorian Nephran


(OOC: @Dendyne @Dream Killer, I think it'd be best if we wrapped up this battle quickly and with a bang so we can join the party on the airship.)

 

[AnimeNerd5678]

After talking with Afra for a few more minutes, Afra had left to talk with her team. Aqua stood there, his back against the wall. Heh... wonder what my parents are doing right now. *sigh* I miss them... Aqua thought. He looked at Obsidian and smiled to her.


@Syrina

 

[sunnyday]

Obsidian hadn't had much interaction with the people on the air ship. She had mostly been occupied with staring out the air ship onto the world below. They hadn't started moving yet, but her eyes glowed as she took in all the details.


Out of the corner of her eye she saw Aqua chit chatting with another girl, along with all her other team mates engaged in concersations. But she noticed the girl get up an leave, and tirned her head to see Aqua waving at her and she gave him a happy wave back before practically pressing her nose to the glass again to continue taking it all in.


@AnimeNerd5678

 

[AnimeNerd5678]

Aqua smiled. He remembered when he bumped into Obsidian...


(Flashback)


Aqua had been wandering around. He had no teammates yet, and he was freaking out. He didn't hear the sounds of footsteps from someone else, and he bumped into her. They both fell to the ground. "Oh! Oh, I am so sorry!" Aqua said, quickly getting up and helping her up. When he saw her... W-Wow... huh. ... She's really pretty... and cheery... Aqua thought. "Oh, hello there, pretty lady." Aqua flirted with the pretty black-haired lady.





@Syrina

 

[sunnyday]

Ebony watched her team mates slowly deplete back into the mingling of everyone on the air ship. Giving Pascal one last curt smile, "You should go make friends," she stated rather softly, "..or get some rest, we haven't even left yet." She continued before turning away from her team mate, her golden hair swaying as she turned, to go sit down in a seat by one of the airship windows.


Ebony took a seat, crossing one leg over the other and resting her chin in the palm of her hand to stare put the windows as her other hand ran along the back of her small companion. Simply waiting for them to return to Haven, where she had more questions. Like who was she going to room with, she was the only girl in her team, would she be alone?





@GasMaskie

 

[Midnight2902]

Midnight then looked at her weapon as it was quite shiny due to the sun reflecting off it. She stood in continuous silence while trying not to think about home and other small things that most people would mostly think about and care about. Midnight, being her mostly emotionless self, took her eyes off one of her arrows to the window next to her. She then sighed Well... this kinda go boring easily... I wonder where everyone else in the team went... She thought to her self while putting away her arrow.


She pulled back one of her blue hair's behind her ear and continued to look out the window blankly while folding her arms. she then day dreamed about home.

 

[Dendyne]

@Dream Killer @Quiet @Mollisol


Azurra let out a tense sigh when Cinder finally reappeared, regaining her bearings from the fall she took. Just another disaster averted, how long that was going to last was the real question on her mind.


"I'm okay," Cinder answer to a question that had never been asked, it was good to know she came out unscathed though, that would only work in Azurra's favor.


She hit the retract and her tethered spikes tore themselves free before reeling themselves.


"Thank you for helping me. I know I can rely on someone now."


'Great', thought Azurra while bringing up Cinder's right flank, 'Now i'm your keeper? Is that it?.. Well if that's how you want it..'


There were only a skeleton crew of Grimm in the back the Ochre cut through like butter until the inexperienced fool exhausted himself in the midst of battle. Azurra was just starting to make a move when she heard the sharp crunch of metal piercing rock and Rasp came sailing by not a moment, swinging from a steel cable shot into the ceiling.


"I'm coming, you oaf!"


Azurra had to stifle a chuckle at that battle cry before she could charge in behind their loudest team member as she came in hot, directly in-line with Ochre. Azurra wasn't quite sure how she felt about Rasp yet but in the very least she would be an entertaining person to have on their team.


With those two out of harm's way Azurra fired of a few of her spikes far into the Grimm's ranks, the spikes digging into the ceiling, wall and floor before diving a hand into her front pocket and retrieving a small vial of red dust. She really didn't expect to have to use something like this so soon into her career but this had gone on long enough and she was getting tired of this dingy battlefield.


Azurra popped the dust vial into a similarly shaped chamber midway up Thorne's shaft causing all of the razor-wire she had just let out to burst into flames.


"You want to eat something so badly, then you can eat fie-uuuh!," Azurra quipped as she span Thorne around in her hands, twisting the flaming wires that danced between the remaining Grimm. The ebony foliage tried to back off as much as they could from the flames but they were rooted in close proximity when the she stopped spinning her weapon and hit the retract trigger again.


This time when the anchoring spikes tore free, the flaming wires started unraveling from each other in a bid to disentangle themselves. The tethered spikes whipped around and around gaining more line as they unfurled and separated, crashing through charcoal plant matter and rending apart whatever remaining grim in a flaming steel cyclone turned on it's side.

 

[GasMaskie]

"You bring up a point Cruor, but I find it harder to fight others. It's just... surreal to fight your friends and peers even if it's in a controlled environment." Pascal replied before stumbling slightly. Some rest seemed like a good idea and Lapis had already gone off to socialize. He adjusted his hat once more and glanced briefly towards his other teammates before beginning the trek back to the ship's infirmary.


A view of the landscape of Mistral would have been nice, especially for someone who hailed from Atlas. Come to think of it, I know as much about Atlas as I do about Mistral... He sighed softly as he used his cane to steady himself. As far back as he could remember, he was always stuck indoors on his father's orders. The house he had lived in was mostly a sterile white and a view through the window had revealed nothing but dense forestry as far as the eye could see.


Pascal entered the small room once more and stretched his arms before returning to the bed. Hopefully, the rest of the teams would be able to finish their challenges soon.

 

[Nexus Placater]

"This... you like this? This is almost casual wear for me. Why would you want to know where I got this? I just bought it from a shop in Vale." Lapis replied, slightly amused at the girl's attention to clothes. This was almost the first time in a week that he had laughed at something, the last time he laughed probably being when his sister made one last, horrible but funny joke when he left. Lapis was about to barrel over with laughter at the thought when the phrase, "You don't have time for this." popped into his dead. Catching himself, slightly, he lightly shook his head to clear it.


Somewhat curious, Lapis couldn't help but ask about the girl's semblance. "Just saying, how does your semblance work? Warning, if you do try something weird, I am most probably going to dodge it. And I do mean dodge it."


@Mollisol