Capítulo 13: Chapter 13 - Team's first training mission
(A/N: Sorry I uploaded this chapter late. I was in an amusement park and wrote this while in a car on a phone. So yeah...)
Team NNPR was currently in a bullhead with the ever so handsome professor.
Their mission was in the snowy mountains near Mt. Glenn. The great blunder of the Vale kingdom.
And now there is apparently a potential dust load nearby. Of course they are just going to secure the perimeter with other teams no less.
If there are no mishaps then not even the Schnee could get their hands on this.
But of course, would an angry ex-wife with a thousands of years old grudge let her ex-hubby get something for free?
Of course not...
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[Grimmlands POV]
"It seems that my little Cinder is struggling in Vale. Tyrian, go play with his puppies, I'll give you some Grimm that are roaming around..."
Said the Grimm Queen Salem as she was watching through the eye of a small Nevermore.
"I understand your majesty. HHAHAHHAH." Tyrian laughed maniacally just thinking about their inexperienced screams of pain.
"Oh? You are still alive little girl?" He asked a girl that was brutally cut up by Tyrian with her village on fire in the background.
She finally breathed her last breath.
"Aw you are no fun."
...
*Boom
"Whew there are quite a few of them." Said Nephrite as he finished a beowolf.
It was their second day on their first mission. The first day was a bit uneventful and there were barely a few.
But today there has been a noticeable spike in Grimm activity.
"Don't worry kids, you bunch are the more talented of the bunch otherwise you would be back at the Academy." Apollo commented from a tree he was laying on.
The Academy reacted quickly and withdrew the worst teams and substituted them with two years or even three year students in case of a mishap.
Even some extra professors were dispatched but so far nothing has been found except the increased Grimm activity.
"Everyone done?"
"Yup." "Yea" "All done."
"Let's move then."
They had slowly moved throughout the mountains and systematically took care of every Grimm they've seen.
It was a chore but they couldn't leave even the smallest beowolves alone.
Sometimes they had encountered a larger Grimm but they barely matched the Deathstalkers in their initiation.
It was an overall good experience and Apollo taught them the importance of pacing and saving energy.
Their teamwork improved rapidly and they could fight somewhat competently against a big Grimm together.
*Screech
"Ugh are these Nevermores suicidal that they keep appearing ?"
A huge Nevermore appeared and it was almost twice the size of the one they encountered in the initiation.
"Pyrrha, Nora bombard it!" Nephrite said as he took out his graphine bullets out.
Nora used her granade launcher and Pyrrha sprayed it with her garand.
Nora's granades barely made it react and it completely ignored Pyrrha's.
'I should prepare some graphine bullets in case of emergencies for Pyrrha.' Nephrite thought as he sprayed the Nevermore in graphine fire dust bullets.
Bullets suddenly riddled the Nevermore with holes and before it could react explosions destroyed it's entire wing and severely injured the other.
It screeched in pain and fell onto the ground. Ren took this opportunity and through it's eyes he ended it.
'Expensive but really effective.' Nephrite thought.
"Kids, few first year teams requested backup let's go." Apollo stood up, jumped in the air and shot few arrows before falling back down.
Team NNPR and their professor dashed to the nearest requested point.
Soon after they saw hordes of beowolves and ursais attacking team CRDL.
Even though Nephrite broke their aura and almost knees after they bullied Velvet, he couldn't just let them die here.
"From now on I am taking over and you'll listen to my commands. Nephrite you take care of beowolves with Ren and you Pyrrha with Nora are going to kill the Ursais."
Said Apollo as he began killing Grimm by dozens. Meanwhile Nephrite quickly arrived near Cardin and saved him from a beowolf that was about to strike him from his blindspot.
Ren on his side was helping Sky and Russel with Dove properly grouped up.
They slowly created a breathing room. Suddenly a professor's voice sounded from a scroll.
"Kids I'll leave it up to you a madman faunus took out three professors with his abilities and is currently threatening another team." By the time Apollo finished his sentence he was long gone.
Instantly the pressure increased two fold and the Grimm slowly encircled the two teams.
"We have to retreat otherwise we'll run out of energy." Yelled Pyrrha as she was starting to get tired.
Team CRDL had already used their semblance couple of times and their aura was well at yellow level.
Out of the team NNPR, Nephrite was at his peak as he levelled up and upgraded his vitality and physique couple of times.
(A/N: I'll drop the status things tmrw as I don't have my notes and copying is pain)
His skill mastery started to accelerate too as he killed beowolves and ursai with increasing proficiency.
"I'll take part of the aggro and Nora use your semblance to open a path!" Nephrite then started to cut Grimm like a madman as he jumped straight into their horde.
Nora was already supercharged and blew a huge group of Grimm apart before Pyrrha, Ren and team CRDL cut through the opening successfully, leaving the encirclement.
Nephrite then summoned his pillar for a brief second, using it as a foothold. Almost jumping out of the encirclement.
He then used his AK to blast any Grimm that stood in his way and left the encirclement too.
Seeing as he left the Grimm encirclement Pyrrha's chest suddenly felt lighter.
"Let's quickly shake off the Grimm before we try to find other teams." Nephrite took the leader position of both teams.
Cardin had no objections as he almost died and he was too mentally tired to argue.
Other members of his team were strangely quiet too but Nephrite was happy that he didn't need to waste his energy and time that could be used properly elsewhere.
The students were trained to restrain their negative emotions to a minimum so they can safely run.
Shaking them off took only ten or so minutes and they even thinned the horde considerably.
They got on a mountain peak that only Nevermores could access with ease and they recovered their energy.
They pulled out their scrolls and checked the map. Multiple teams had red but the Northen teams that were red started to become green again.
They were somewhere near the middle of North and South they were supposed to clear.
Seeing this Cardin wanted to head North to unite with what seemed to be reinforcements.
Nephrite had a different plan as Neo's and Ruby's teams were South and even though they were green for now, everything could suddenly change.
In the end Cardin's team decided to stay here and wait for others to pick them up. Their professor was also one of the three professors that Tyrian took down.
[Tyrian Battle POV]
When he heard battle sounds and the team there asking for reinforcements he told them to stay here before leaving.
And after he arrived the first professor was already downed and the second was currently fighting Tyrian.
After the third professor joined the fray they successfully reached a stalemate.
The second professor had a huge waraxe as his weapon and the third had a Zweihandler sword.
Both had their secondaries but both were essentially useless in this level of battle.
Tyrian expertly used his tail to fight the third professor
And used his blades and legs to battle the second.
Tyrian suddenly changed the flow of the battle as he forcefully knocked away the third professor and used his Semblance Aura disruption to give the second a fatal blow.
Though the second professor blocked the attack he didn't notice a stinger coming at him and was hit.
Not long after a *thud was heard as the third professor's head was rolling and the second was poisoned and deeply injured.
As he wanted to torture the second professor for his own pleasure before killing some students a looming dread filled his body.
*Swooosh
An invisible arrow had almost hit Tyrian but he dodged at the last moment.
What happened next shocked him as the ground had a clean hole and not long after he could feel the trembling ground.
"I'll make you wish you didn't exist for killing Terry." Said Apollo as he appeared. He was talking about the third professor.
The feeling of dread once again filled Tyrian and he quickly dodged.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
This time the arrow exploded upon impact sending Tyrian flying.
Tyrian quickly recovered and tried shooting at Apollo but his bullets stopped and fell down a meter away from him.
No matter what Tyrian did he couldn't get close and his long ranged weapon had no effect.
Apollo's eyes flashed for a second before a cyclone had appeared trapping Tyrian within.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
The cyclone amplified the speed of the arrow at the last second and a huge whirlwind appeared.
The ground cracked and everything in the radius of the cyclone got completely shredded.
As Apollo was getting ready to confirm his kill a huge Grimm bug crawled out of the ground.
It started to spawn hundreds of small Grimm bugs that self detonated in a huge chain reaction.
By the time Apollo could make it there the bug and Tyrian was gone.
"At least I took that bastard's arm." Muttered Apollo as he quickly pulled out a few antidotes and bandages to save the second and first professor.
In the end only the second survived and the first passed away as well.
"Dammit." Cursed Apollo as bloodlust appeared around his body in swaths.
He jumped away and then waited. Not long after huge hordes of Grimm appeared.
"Time to blow some steam off." Apollo said as he secured second professors life and a rescue team picked him up.
Soon huge booming sounds were heard across a large part of the mountain range.
Status de energia semanal
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