Taboo | How To slay A Kishin IC (PROLOG MODE)

Balefire Academy Forest - White Area

Lu fired a few air bullets at the kishin and they hit from the head to shoulder area miltiple times and knocked it out. Lu then jumped down and put the right pistol away and took the tag.

"One down. But guessing I need to go deeper for that red tag." She says as she puts the tag around her neck and heads to the yellow area.

Balefire Academy Forest - Yellow Area

After getting her white tag, Yuuki went deeper into the forest.

"Where is the next tag?" She asks herself as she looks around.

After a few minutes, She found a group of yellow tag kishin. Yuuki hid behind a tree with her rifle pointed down. She tought on what to do and got an idea. She pressed on her left ear and the object that was wrapped up cut open the wrapping and exposed itself in its yellow coloring with a red orb on it. Yellow transparent blades on the sides with the tip opened for firing support. The bit went and hovered in front of Yuuki and she jumped on. The bit was just big enough for her to ride on. She rid away from the group and then turned around to face them.

"Let's get the next tag." She says smirking and then the bit rushed towards the kishin group at a fast speed, about 40 mph. Yuuki weved in and out of the trees and as she got close, the kishins spotted her and rushed towards her. Yuuki aimed her rifle and set it to burst fire and fired shots of 3 lasers at a time at the group's feet, knocking soem over. Yuuki then used her aura to make her bit lighter and it went up more, just enough for her to spin around and take a yellow tag from one and quickly leave.

"Tag two down." Yuuki says placing it in her hoodie.

Balefire Academy | Forest (Orange)

When Asura had left them, Miu and Raiko continued through the forest, straight for the red tags. Along the way, they were met with a large amount of kishin, which had come out to ambush them. They swiftly made their way past them without a scratch and kept running, now with kishin on their trails. Occasionally, more kishin would find them, causing them to have to dodge.

"Where the hell are these things coming from?" Raiko dove over a claw swipe and rolled back into a sprint.

Miu slowed down slightly so Raiko could catch up. "We have no idea, but we have more coming up."

Feeling rested enough to bring her aura back up to full power, Miu scanned the forest ahead and identified anything around them through sound before making her report as she landed next to Raiko, who had dodged yet another attack. "More are closing in around us, it looks like we've entered the orange zone. There are some white and yellow tags around here too."

"This is starting to piss me off, how are they even finding us? Their senses couldn't be that good yet, right?" Raiko took the opportunity of a dip in the forest floor to smash a kishin with an electrically charged roundhouse kick to the head. She just barely grabbed the tag off it as she ran past its unconscious body.

"It would appear that they're finding us through scent, but I couldn't think of any particular thing that would make us-" Rosa stopped herself as Miu realized it.

"Ah" Miu said as she awkwardly opened the suitcase on her back and fished out the second box of chocolate strawberries - the box that Raiko prevented her from eating. Deciding that late was a better time than never, she began furiously eating her sweets.

"Miu, now is NOT the time!" Raiko shouted at her, but already knew that stopping her now would be out the the question. "Dear gods. Fine, give me some of those."

Balefire Academy ~ Forest(Yellow)

Azur stood in the bushes, before being interrupted by Asura coming in shortly after. He saw the two in the clearing get distracted, finally making him able to get out of the bushes.

Asura immediately spoke with Azur, shortly before being interrupted by a large, hulking Kishin. "Hey, don't waste too much ammo on the small fries, we might need it la-" Azur quickly got out his weapon in blade mode, looking intently at the bear Kishin, deliberately making eye contact with them. The two boys backed up on each other, surrounded by approximately 15 of the Kishin. Azur saw the yellow tags, and smirked a bit, knowing that he and Asura were making progress.

Hmm, these are nothing compared to huge ass cobras, Azur thought, thinking back to his time in Sentrios, Asura better know what he's doing.

After a moment, Asura spoke, "...On second thought, fire away." Quickly, both of the boys bolted for different targets, with Asura going for the alpha and Azur going for the rest en masse.

"Aight, Asura, I'll take the rest of them on," Azur said as he loosened the cable on his blade, "These worms are about to get what's coming for them!" Azur lunged at one of the bear Kishin, making a direct stab on it's torso, piercing through, albeit not completely. The bear Kishin flinched, but snarled back at Azur; however, Azur smirked back, pressing down on a trigger of his weapon's blade handle. A loud gunshot can be heard, completing the impalement, as Azur pulled back and sliced the Kishin's head off, while it was off guard.

The rest of the beta Kishin circled Azur as he decapitated their ally. Reloading quickly, Azur loosened the cable up a bit more. This only worked in short range back in Sentrios, Azur thought, But with this cable, I can... The bear Kishin snarled at Azur, beginning to take lunges. This better work..! Azur thought, quickly spinning around, as his blade made decent-sized slashes on each of the six Kishin that lunged at him. They fell back, weakened, but not dead. Shortly after, Azur quickly switched back to blade mode, shooting each of them right in the head individually.

The seven remaining Kishin stood their ground, staring intently with pure malice in their eyes at Azur. Switching back to blade mode, Azur murmured, "Seven down... Is this good enough, Dad?"

Balefire Academy | Forest(Yellow)

After Asura pissed off the alpha bear, it raised up on it's hind legs to make itself as big as possible before pouncing on the human male. However Asura knew all too well that the belly was the weak spot on the bear. The moment it stood up, Asura punched at the beast's belly with all his might and sent it flying back towards a tree. It had flown a few yards from where it had been sent air born which showed just how much physical strength Asura had.

When the bear crashed into the tree, Asura was already upon him again, trying to finish him off. The bear managed to roll out of the way which caused Asura to kick the tree behinde him instead, nearly snapping it apart. The bear wasted no time on it's counter attack as it swiped back at Asura with his mighty claws. Asura evaded them once again, this time by crouching low. He tried to stop the bear by kicking upwards towards it's face only to have part of his lowe leg caught in it's mouth.

It was at this moment that Azur called out to him again and for some reason called him 'Dad'. Perhaps he had sounded more bossy than he intended too when he warned him about preserving ammo, but that was never his intention. Despite having his leg in the bear's mouth, Asura didn't seem to alarmed. The moment the bear tried to chomp of his leg, it's teath were broken. While they may have been sharp and as strong as iron, it couldnt' compare to this military grade prostetic leg.

The bear took a step back from the nexpected pain and that's when it all ended. Asura quickly spun and landed a round house kick right in the bear's gut, sending him flying into one of the remaining bears that Azur had been dealing with. This left both the Alpha and it's underling knocked out cold. With their leader defeated, the remaining bears ran off to avoid them. There were already more than enough yellow tags for all of them however and one orange tag as well.

"Good work son." Asura said back to his new friend as he walked over to collect their bounty. There was now a small tear in the boy's pants that would allow Azura to see his metal leg. "But seriously good work back there."

Meanwhile in another part of the forest, Lucy and her brother had managed to get the drop on some of the yellow tag Kishin thanks to the viking's distraction. Because of this both of them were packing one white and one yellow tag each. But Lucy seemed intent on going a bit farther anyway to help the viking girl. They had only met shortly but that didnt' mean they couldn't still be friends right? There were alo strength in numbers and maybe she would be willing to travel with them.

Balefire Academy | Forest (Orange)

Miu and Raiko would find themselves facing off against several heavenly armored kishin. http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/f/fb/Rwby_grimm_boarbatusk_by_dustiniz117-d6myy1k.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140126021930

These kishin seemed to move slow at first but could turn their bodies into a wheal and then shoot themselves at the huntresses at a high speed. the only pside was that they would be dizzy after doing this and that woudl leave them open to an attack. although with the huge number of them that had been attracted by Miu's leftover food... that might not be enough.

Balefire Academy ~ Forest (Yellow)

Azur heard Asura reply to his murmuring, as the rest of the Kishin were finished off. Azur picked up a few tags, saving them for later whenever he or Asura needed to negotiate with a hostile group. "Asura, not funny," Azur stoicly stated, while picking up the rest of the tags, "My father died a few years back due to a Kishin attack... He sacrificed himself for his entire squadron. How he sacrificed himself? Explosives." Azur stabbed one of the fainted but not yet dead bears to vent out his feelings. Azur stated afterwards, "that's why I only use high-caliber bullets and plasma-melee. Nothing else." Sighing a bit, Azur finished up picking up the rest of the tags, some of them being blood-soaked. Before he could babble more about making jokes "respectful," Azur noticed Miu and Raiko missing.

"Come to think of it... Where did the girls go?" Azur exclaimed.

Balefire Academy ~ Forest (Yellow)

Asura felt slightly bad for misunderstanding Azur's words and taking it as a joke. As someone who had lost both his parents, he knew all to well how it felt. It didn't help that the only thing on his mind was an older version of Azur screaming ("ALOHA SNACK BAR") and blowing up. Ridicules imagery aside, he held back the urge to grin or laugh. "I think they went ahead to get a head start on the red tags. If my suspicions are correct there probably isn't' a red sector to the forest at all. I bet my right arm the red tags are all held by the alpha kishin at the center of the forest.... Come on, there gonna need our help."

Balefire Academy | Forest (Orange)

With the delicious sweets finished, a trail of strawberry tops left behind them, and the box itself discarded somewhere, Miu and Raiko breathed a sigh of relief that they wouldn't be attracting any new kishin. The problem of the orange tag kishin still remained however. They were fast enough to keep up and caused the girls to have to dodge quite frequently. They eventually decided that it would be safer to travel along the higher branches on the trees. It was in fact safer, but the kishin kept rolling into the trees in an attempt to knock them down.

One of the kishin had rolled all the way forward, past the girls and had dizzied itself, ending up lying with its soft underbelly exposed. Miu wasted no time, launching herself down to it, piercing it with Rosa's scythe and taking the tag. With a full turn of her body, she catapulted the skewered thing at another of its comrades, halting its progress. She jumped back up to the high branches, just barely making it using Rosa's vines as an extension to her own arm and launching herself back to be even with Raiko.

Balefire Academy ~ Forest (Orange)

After a bit of running, Azur made it to the orange section of the forest, seeing a bunch of armored boar Kishin chase down what seems to be a trail of... strawberry tops? "Oh shit!" Azur exclaimed, "Did those bastards kill Miu and Raiko!?" Running a bit more, he saw the discarded box of chocolate tops. At that moment, he assumed that they were ambushed after taking a break in the middle of the forest. Idiots... Azur thought. Quickly, Azur switched to his assault rifle, aiming at the crowd of boar Kishin, attempting to divert attention just in case Miu or Raiko are running away from them.

Shooting the highly armored Kishin, he saw his high-caliber bullets deflect off of them, seeing that these are formidable opponents. Before I can actually kill them... Azur thought, I need to identify their weak spots! Azur then emptied his magazine on the boars, seeing them charge. "Come and get it, bastards!" Azur yelled.

Balefire Academy ~ Forest (Yellow)


The kishin fell as the flat side of the ax knocked it out, the weapon was moving on a fatal arc to kill it, but it was moved to hit the ground just some inches to the right of the creature´s head. This action was made by a slightly trembling Diana, but she wasn´t exhausted, but the opposite, the blonde was trembling with excitement. "Got to stay calm, keep your cool or bad stuff happens." Diana spoke to herself almost in a mantra, her face showed a conflict between a frown and a smirk.

The viking roared to the sky as she kneeled and punched the ground, her breaths were strong as she picked up another yellow tag and looked at the other two soon to be hunters "Want to tag along? we still got orange and red tags to obtain." she spoke with a smirk, but it wasn´t the one that either of them would have seen before the test, this smirk was of a warrior wishing for the blood of her enemies. "The others might get there first so we need to be fast." she looked at Lucy, who was the closer of the two. The blonde ax user´s armbrace was now having a faint beeping as her right hand opened and closed, soon, the beeping and light on the armbrace´s talisman deemed to a less degree, and her face relaxed at some degree too while she headed deeper into the forest.

Balefire Academy | Forest

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As Cecilia was just about to find her first target, one of the drones she had sent out to scout went out. She looked over the footage and and quickly spotted the cause of the sudden outage. "Analyse person" she commanded, as the image of the one that had brought down the drone was sent to the main control case and quickly matched against any possible person that might be behind the attack. At the same time Cecilia also issued another command, "Begin setup ... with previous build ... train using recording 480d6d6 ... optimize for @main.lastAnalyze ... iterations 750 ... Initialize ... begin recording". For a few seconds all the drones deactivated, but soon after they activated with the newly built training. It would me much harder to pull of the same trick on one of the drones now. Once that was done she issued a final command "@main.deploy analyst ... target @main.lastAnalyze ... location @drone2.location". As soon as she issued the command, a new type of drone came out of the main case. This one was much bigger than the other ones. Around 35 cm instead if the 10 cm that the normal drones were. A bit of that size came from more armor. It also had fine tuned sensors 360 degrees around so it would be much harder to sneak up on. Lastly it also seemed like it had some sort of gun mounted on it. It was headed right towards where the drone that had been struck down was last know to be at.

Now, it wasn't exactly like Cecilia had anticipated any of this. A more appropriate way to put it was to simply say that she was prepared for such an outcome. Normally she started a recording when she went into battle, and if it contained useful data she would keep it after the battle to train drones with later. Some times however, like this time, one of the drones would be struck down be something unknown. In those situations she could use the recording as it was right there and then to prepare the remaining drones against the danger the lied ahead. The first drone was definitively not a trap, the analyst drone that she just sent out tough, that was definitively a trap. If the opponent took the bait, they wouldn't be able to destroy the drone without making herself more known. If the opponent didn't take the bait, the drone would scout the rest of the area that was assigned to it, although a bit slower as it wasn't as fast as the normal drones.

At the same time as the drone went back to it's designated area, Cecilia found her first target, a small kishin that probably held a white tag. She took aim with her sniper rifle and fired. Using the help of all the drones, she was able to take out the kishin from quite some distance away. There wasn't any sound from the sniper rifle either that could alert others in the area about her presence. A perfect silent kill. Cecilia then went over to the kishin and collected the tag, before beginning to scout for her next target.