[The Mythic Scribe]

Aurora chuckled quietly at Tina, "Wow, comparing me to your mother, that's..." She clicked her tongue. "Don't know how to feel about that. I'm sure your mother's fantastic, but..." Aurora laughed softly again, shaking her head a bit. "Anyway, uh, yeah I guess, you stay back and assist Nero while we take care of the Ursa. When we're done, return to this very spot, alright?"

"And to answer your question Gwylan, I am very much up for it. I'm up for a lot of things actually." Smirking at him to show that she wasn't bothered by his, actually pretty unoffensive words, Aurora readjusted her straps, making sure they were all where they needed to be. "Oh wait, one last thing. Tina, could you do us a favor and point to the general area where the Ursa are? You said they weren't on the path we took, right? Might have to hack through some hedges if there isn't a way, then." During her musings, Aurora took out her scroll, opened the map image, and held it out one-handedly to Tina.

[MonsterManic]

Tina pulsed her semblance once more to redetermine the location. She then promptly did a remarkable impression of a ghost, turning ghostly pale. After mumbling something completely intelligible even to herself, she shakily lifted a hand and pointed the way they came, along with an equally shaky voice. "R...Right behind us. ETA, a-around 25 seconds. I d-don't know why, but they're headed right for this spot. They're bashing a path right to us." Her other revolver already drawn and pointed at the mouth of the passageway, she quickily recovered her resolve. "Aurora, Gwylan, ideas? Because my only one is shoot on sight."

[Dusty]

"Yeah, Tina. Stay back, and trust me to do my thing, alright. I got this" Gwylan chuckled before stepping forward. He began slowly twirling Irvine at his side, before picking up speed and beginning a set of full body rotations, spinning his trident above, beside and around him, ending with a pirouette, or at least, what he hoped was a manly pirouette, where he shot a wink at Aurora, and levelling his weapon at the bush that Tina indicated the Grimm would emerge from. That was, quite probably, the most showy thing he'd ever gone in his life. What was it about pretty girls that inspired such bravado, Gwylan would wonder if he was prone to such things. Instead, he had an enemy to deal with.

On second thoughts, a charging Ursa could probably knock Gwylan aside like he was nothing, so prepping a defence would be a bit silly. Instead, an immediate offence would be required, and there was nothing Gwylan Anwen did better than charging something that was charging him. Changing his stance into one more suited for sprinting, Gwylan let an arrogant smile grace his features as he said, "Hey, Aurora, wanna place a bet on who can kill their Ursa fastest?"

[The Mythic Scribe]

"Yeah, Tina, we can handle these." Aurora assured her teammate. "On second thought, as they're heading towards us and we don't have to move, just stay here and back us instead, alright? Do your thing, sweetheart, just try not to hit us." Seeing as combat would come a lot sooner than she thought, Aurora took hold of two of her knives from the strap on her midriff. That type she had the most of, they were her general go-to if Dust was needed. She wasn't really sure if she wanted to use Dust so early, knowing that all her knives were one-use only, but she could activate them or simply leave them be, that was the great thing about Dust and its trigger being Aura. "I would really hate to be shot before I show Gwylan who's boss. That's a yes to the bet by the way. Loser is at winner's mercy for one favor." Aurora sent a side-glance to Gwylan, a smirk on her face as well.

"Stay on guard," she warned them, herself waiting for any semblance of sound or movement from the direction Tina'd pointed in. "Ursa are big, but they're slow, as long as we strike first, there shouldn't be any problems."

[MonsterManic]

"Well, if the two of you are having a bet, am I supposed to support one or the other?" Tina asked bemusedly, entertained by the banter between the two even in a tense situation like this. Remembering that Ursa were much harder to kill than Beowolves even with headshots, she decided to snap open the chambers of both her revolvers and loaded them up with 3 rounds each of Fire, Electric, Ice and Kinetic Dust Rounds, in that order. This should create sufficient entertainment, she thought, smiling inwardly.

At this point, the amount of times she'd used her Semblance was starting to tire her, yet she had to pulse it one more time. A bolt of pain shot into her head, but it came with the information that the Ursa was literally seconds away from jumping on them. "They're right round the corner," she warned Gwylan, not entirely amazed by his obvious showing-off. Mostly aimed at Aurora, sure, but the one thing that would impress her would be a clean kill on the Ursa. "Heads up; I'm unloading on whichever one turns the corner first. I'm loaded with elemental Dust rounds, so stay clear of my line of fire." Of course, she'd make sure friendly fire wasn't a thing, but it would be fun to see them jump as a "stray" bullet "accidentally" whizzed past their ear.

[Pyro_Ferno]

Alas, the poor Beowolf stood little chance to the absolute flurry of blades Nero becomes when she doesn't worry about friendly fire. That extends even to Aurora, racist she may be. As a close family friend once said "Everyone deserves kindness, mercy, and a second chance." Time to rejoin the group, easily hearing the entire conversation over the course of the fight she just finished. It would take probably a full minute to be at max capacity, time any amount of Ursai would never allow her.

Thinking it would be funny to sneak up on the back of the group (probably Tina, it is hard to hear as a cloud of sentient smoke). This idea was instantly quenched the instance the words 'unload' and 'dust' were used in the fashion just said. Thinking back, neither Aurora nor Gwylan have fired a single bullet, and they didn't even show an alternate form other than creating less awkwardness. That is an atrocity to versatility that needs to be remedied ASAP. With consent, of course. Any proud weapon owner may want partial or even full credit for an improvement.

Remembering that Ursai were a part of the conflict and warning her team as to not shoot the Faunus the instance she stuck a pinkie toe around the corner, Nero Did a near instantaneous smoke shift to empty her shotguns, form shifting both, and loading custom ordered Dust rounds, Shaped LEAP rounds. These were amazing when it came to short ranged armored targets, completely wasted on Beos. They are basically standard fire dust that can be activated along the the path, acting like shaped charges. Hope this helps. The blast is shaped at bear-shaped death, but easily will spread back after damage to hit any close by entities.

[Dusty]

"Long as I don't take a bullet, then this bet'll be the easiest win ever. That said, Nero, on the off chance you hear me, please don't shoot a shotgun at anything. Revolvers are one thing, but a shotgun is an entirely different problem that I don't want to deal with", Gwylan called that last bit back over his shoulder as for the Grimm to come around what was essentially now a death corner. Wow, he was almost feeling bad for the monsters.

It wasn't that he didn't have any faith in Nero's, or even Tina's accuracy, it was just that, in what was essentially a corridor, firing a shotgun in his direction seemed a tad........ dangerous. Or stupid. At least a revolver didn't have spread.

"Hard and fast, Aurora you're just speaking my language. Say, if I kill both, does that get me a double win on the bet?". One last bit of teasing just before the fight started couldn't go astray.

[The Mythic Scribe]

"Sure," she replied, "but don't count on it." Looking back at Tina, she added, "I'd say you would have to, Tina, specifically, you'd have to root for me."

Tense silence followed that, the kind that Aurora hated.

It didn't last for long. Two Ursa lumbered around the corner, but this time, they didn't seem all that surprised by the team. Aurora assumed that meant they'd been following them or something like that, but she didn't have long to think. If she didn't attack first, the Ursa would have the upper hand. So, Aurora charged low at the second Ursa to round the corner, letting Tina do her thing with the first one. Halfway there, she stopped to throw both of her knives, only hitting just below the shoulder armor and the hedge behind in her haste. Cursing, she sprinted at them again, pulling the knife that missed back to her right hand and drawing her left machete. As soon as she reached it, Aurora stabbed her machete hard into the Ursa's upper arm, using that as a balancing point to lunge up and use her knife to stab the creature in the eye before getting shaken off and pawed away into a hedge and eventually the ground.

Not dead yet, unfortunately. Aurora took a moment to dart her eyes beside her to check on Gwylan's progress, then immediately got back up to finish the creature off.

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 Aura: 99%

[MonsterManic]

It was obvious that at this point even the two Ursa wouldn't be a problem, what with her firepower and two front-line fighters allowing her freedom to shoot whatever she wanted. Tina then treated this combat scenario as such, almost casually taking aim at the first Ursa to turn the corner, before firing Sunrise at its head. Frustratingly, it didn't manage to penetrate the white mask, and instead, ricocheted onto it's right arm, causing it to growl in pain. Before that arm's fur spontaneously combusted. Sorry Gwylan...looks like this one's got a burning arm now.

Not wanting to fire another Fire Dust round for fear of further ignition, she spun the chamber on Sunrise, randomly loading a new bullet into the firing system, before taking another shot at the burning Ursa, resulting in it's left shoulder being encumbered by ice. Tina then took aim at the Ursa Aurora was dealing with, waited for her to leap clear (which was sped along by the Ursa batting her onto the floor) before directly aiming at the already lost eye. The Kinetic Dust round that followed, unlike the former, directly pierced through the eyehole and through to the other side. At least I can still aim.

[Pyro_Ferno]

Nero moved quickly to be between Tina and the Ursai. Not particularly going for a spot that isn't a miss or Aurora, she fired one shot at each Bear. The shots were far more accurate than the shot fired earlier, actually being bullets instead of pellets. The shots hit both Ursa, one in the chest area, and the one fighting Aurora in the face plate. As the bullets hit, suddenly a loud explosion rang out, as the slugs exploded forward on impact, killing neither, but breaking some face armor on Aurora's and leaving a sizable mark on the other.

[Dusty]

Gwylan moved the second he heard Tina fire at the Ursa, taking off into a sprint that would allow him to, hopefully, bulldoze the Ursa while it was still recovering from that bullet and spear it through the throat and chest before it could react. At least, that was the plan.

What actually happened was probably the least graceful and stupidest series of event that a Beacon student had ever been involved in. Gwylan's original idea went out the window the second he got within reach of the Grimm, because his target was not stunned in the slightest, and was instead pissed off and swinging a flaming set of claws at the nearest target: him. Gwylan barely managed to get Irvine in front of him before he was disembowelled by the bear and still took a nasty slash along the arm, getting knocked off balance by a combination of sheer strength and his own momentum.

Swinging Irvine around to get himself back on track, Gwylan spun around and prepared to thrust his trident through the bear's gut, landing the blow at the same time as Nero's explosive round went off, once again knocking him back a step, and this time, his weapon was ripped out of his grip from the sheer force and shock of it.

Deciding to ditch the trident temporarily, Gwylan leaped forward and fired out a snap kick at the beast, drawing back at the same time to unleash a full force haymaker into it's chest, right where the explosion occurred, using the pain of this to force the Ursa away for a second, which he used to reacquire his weapon. Gwylan was gonna have to have words with Tina and Nero after they were done.

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Aura=95%

[The Mythic Scribe]

Aurora mentally thanked the Ursa for batting her away from Nero's... thingies... she wasn't an expert at ammunitions, but what could you expect? She didn't work with any. At least they weakened the Grimm, though it did look mighty angry right now.
 
First off, she activated both knives, setting off the Dust, which was more than enough to kill the creature. Well, that was one down then, and she supposed that she won the bet. She quickly took ahold of her two knives and machete, the former of which she re-placed in their straps, while the latter she kept in her hand along with the other machete.
 
Gwylan wasn't having such a great time, and Aurora could see why. Left arm frozen, which was okay, but meant that you couldn't strike there for fear of losing your advantage with it. Right arm on fire, which was not okay in any sense, except for that it hurt the Grimm.
 
Alright, helping hand on the way. As the beastie’s attention wasn’t particularly focused on her, Aurora ducked back behind the Grimm to climb a bit up onto the hedge wall, using the height to jump on the creature’s back. As expected, the Ursa wasn’t happy. As with earlier, Aurora stabbed a machete in to take hold of during the expected thrashing, one hand firmly grasping it as to not fall. As soon as she maneuvered herself properly, Aurora felt around for the trident, luckily not under Aura shielding, and pulled hard. It quickly impaled the creature, even piercing the skin on the other side of it, definitely killing the Ursa what with all of the other stuff already lobbed to it.
 
Relieved that it was over with, Aurora took her machete and jumped off the Grimm to land on the ground. No posing, but she had to admit that it was a pretty solid landing, both feet and all. “Well. I think I win, Gwylan.” Such liberal use of her semblance and such energy-sapping moves like jumping and staying on an Ursa probably didn’t bode well, but Aurora brushed it off, simply thinking to herself that she’d hold back a little later on.

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Permission granted from Dusty.

[MonsterManic]

Tina was going to fire off a few more shots to speed along the process, but seeing as she'd already caused enough trouble to Gwylan, she refrained from doing so, and moments later, saw Aurora hop off the back of the defeated Ursa. It was in pretty bad shape, with the burning arm and the frozen shoulder and the trident through it's chest and whatnot. Anyway, it would be fun to see what Aurora could come up with for the bet.

Oh, she almost forgot. How could she? "I'm so, so sorry, Gwylan!" she burst out. "I didn't know the face armor was so thick, and, well... She trailed off as she noticed the look on Gwylan's face. I'm so done for, aren't I?

[Pyro_Ferno]

After a quick shift to unload the LEAP rounds, Nero rushed over to Gwylan, completely flustered. "I am so sorry Gwylan. I didn't think before I fired. With my extremely isolated fighting style, my instincts were hoping on chance to minimize friendly fire. I am so sorry!" Nero's mind had been thinking up every point where she slipped up, whether real or not. Her face was showing fear at the response of the leader, the requested fire support and the victim of her rash action.

[Dusty]

Gwylan ripped his weapon out of the disintegrating corpse of the Ursa with more force than was strictly necessary, and spun around, prepared to march over and give Tina and Nero a good talking to about their less than appropriate use of explosives. Except he was met with a pair of very apologetic and nervous faces.

Closing his eyes and taking a few seconds to expel the fiery anger that had swelled inside him, Gwylan soon felt his shoulders slump in exasperation. Letting a tired smile grace his features, he glanced between the two girls. "It's..... it's okay. Just, please, give a guy some warning before the pair of you go fire starting, alright? Won't look good on our record if ya blow me up or something".

Gwylan then cocked his head at Aurora, giving her a playful smirk, "So, what did you have in mind for your win then? And don't forget to thank these two for giving you the edge". He gave the Tina and Nero a wink, just to show that he was just messing about.