Chapter 16

'Huh Some of that same green stuff just started glowing in between the clouds in here!' Pyrrha gasped, 'I think you managed to get some of its abilities.'

That, was very nice to know. You hadn't gotten any special abilities from Grimm since that little Nevermore you killed in your first few minutes out as a baby Griffon. Admittedly, most Grimm didn't have special abilities beyond being terrifyingly strong physical monsters, but still, it was a pretty long wait.

You wondered what ability you got. Oh, you really hoped for that crystal generation ability. That would be fucking sweet. You wondered if people would pay anything for some of that shit, because it was durable as all hell. A hit through you could tear through a boulder with ease, yet it hadn't even had a crack from you hitting it as hard as you could, twice!

Now, what to do? since you're already away from Ruby and her little posse of Pyrrha's former team, you suppose you could go try and find some more Grimm and get even stronger. You were feeling great now! You'd really love to go find a-

FEAR!FEAR!FEAR!FEAR!FEAR!FEAR!GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!GLEE!GLEE!GLEE!GLEE!GLEE!GLEE!l;ejgpoerkg;lrekgrelkh'rekh'rehl';rlh';telh't;lh't;lht';rlh;'rlh't;rlh't;rlh't;lh';rtlh'trt!

'-balt! -obalt! COBALT!' Pyrrha's voice shouted in your head. You found yourself shaking your head and trying to look around you. And that was when you realised, you were laying in the middle of a crater, a bunch of broken trees all around you.

..The hell?

What the fuck was that? It felt like a normal if pretty intense group of human fear transferring over to you. But then something else just zipped right over it and your world went white. Your head was fucking killing you.

'Cobalt! Those emotions!' Pyrrha's voice was panicked.

"Calm down Pyrrha." you hissed quietly, your head throbbing as you shakily pushed yourself up to your feet.

'...Those emotions came from Ruby and the others.' Pyrrha added, voice going quiet. You could practically feel the fear she felt.

Your eyes widened.

Before you even realised what you were doing, you were leaping into the air and tearing through the sky, beating your wings as hard as you could.

Sure, you weren't friends with Arc, Ruby, Nora and Ren. and your only interest in them was how much you'd love to bed the two girls of the four. But, they were still people, good people...stupid, good people in Arc's case.

But people all the same. And you weren't so much a pathetic cunt that you'd run away and leave them to face whatever caused that spike of craziness that made you black out and inspired so much damn fear in them that you could feel it miles away.

You flew as fast as you could in the direction you felt the emotions come from. And in the span of just two minutes, crossed the distance and shot over the town, gliding over the walls bordering it and heard the sounds of combat ringing throughout the town.

The buildings were half built...in some cases half destroyed. So locating them didn't take long at all.

And you stopped to gape for a moment at what you saw. Nora, sparking with electricity, meaning she was using that lightning absorption semblance to massively boost her physical abilities, with her massive warhammer positioned in a strike.

...Behind held back with ease, by a short, brown scorpion tail hanging from the rear end of an incredibly tall and reedy brown haired man.

That was actually quite horrifying. Since you were sure a strike like that, with an amped Nora would utterly overpower you in a contest of physical strength right now.