Yellow Hope

V:4 C:12 The King of Nightmares

(... Sup.)

(3rd Person)

The sounds of thunder and gunfire are heard echoing through the forest, hell if the whole world heard, they would have just lost the will to go on. A billowing cloud of dust and pieces of wood rise in the distance around the top of a tree that is barely visible above the town rooftops. Jaune, Ruby, Ren and Nora all fall back by the dead cherry tree. is still unconscious and propped against it.

The Nuckelavee comes, twitching its various body parts. It sends out a shockwave roar that causes all four teenagers to flinch. The Grimm looks at the teenagers and turns its head to look at Qrow and begins running toward him, with its arms dragging behind it. Jaune sheaths his sword and makes a run for Qrow. The Nuckelavee lashes out with one of its arms, able to extend it at a far reach. Jaune avoids it and gets Qrow upright, but the Nuckelavee is heading right for them.

Ren uses his Semblance to hide Jaune and Qrow from the Grimm, which stops short and looks about in confusion. Jaune stands still, he felt oddly calm, staring at the Grimm.

"Just get him to safety!" Ren yell to him. Jaune walks away with Qrow while the battle resumes. He sets Qrow down behind a building and narrows his eyes at the wounded man before turning to leave. Qrow grabs him by the hand, but falls unconscious before he can say anything. Jaune gives Qrow another look before rejoining the fight.

The Grimm is using its arms to grab hold of each of Jaune's teammates, but is continually distracted by the fire of the next one. Jaune sees that, and in quick thinking.

"Guys, don't stop moving, go in a circle!" The team follows this plan, and Ruby gets distracted when Jaune sheaths his sword after landing a strike, but then smiles when she realizes that Jaune is using his upgraded Crocea Mors to land strikes on the beast, making the monster roar in pain.

The fight continues and Ren ends up pinned to a building by a Nuckelavee extended arm.

"Ruby!" Nora yelled at Ruby, she nods, and uses Crescent Rose to launch Nora in between Ren and the Nuckelavee's would-be fatal strike with its other hand. Magnhild is pinned to the building above Ren, with Nora dangling from it. Ren, wanting to check if Nora is okay, looked up. Nora pulling her skirt to hide herself. "Stop looking!"

"Ah-sorry." Ren said, Nora just grins to herself. The Nuckelavee flings Nora around until she is knocked to the ground with her depleted (Which took a while). Ren uses to give himself leverage to pull the Nuckelavee hand off of him. He repeatedly goes after the creature, exhibiting reckless behavior, his eyes wild.

"Ren! Knock it off!" Jaune yelling to his teammate. Ren ignores him and ends up on the ground beside Nora, separated from StormFlower. The two partners rise together, Nora first. Ren's eyes are only on the creature, and Nora tackles him and drags him under a building. The Nuckelavee advances, but Jaune blocks it with Crocea Mors. Ren attempts to rejoin the fight but Nora holds him back by the wrist, her head down.

"Nora, let go! Nora, they're going to get hurt if we don't—" Ren started without even looking up, Nora slaps Ren. He stops and turns to face her, and she finally lets go, putting her hands in her lap.

"No. I won't let you kill yourself like this. After everything we've been through, I won't let it end." She raises her head, but Ren sees his memory of Nora as a scared little girl before blinking and seeing her normally. Like back then, she has tears in her eyes. "Not like this." Ren sighs and pulls the knife his father gave him out of his boot. He holds it in both hands. Nora places her hand on the hilt with his and closes his fingers around it. She looks at him with a fierce, determined expression. "We can do this." Ren looks at her with big eyes before nodding in agreement. Together they step out from under the building. Nora picks up Magnhild and the two are promptly joined by Ruby and Jaune.