Grimm Tactics 101 [Private - Al Ciendra]

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Maria Ravenheart
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Loud scuffles and the clanging sounds of metal blades clashing resonated throughout the combat arena. It has only been 6:40 in the morning and yet the facility had already seemed bustling with activities, or one would have thought. Inside was a single student training by herself using the hardlight projection as practice dummies; the ones that fought back.

At first, Maria had thought it would be a piece of cake. She had previously dismantled a Beowolf in less than a few minutes. Thinking it wouldn't be much of an issue, Maria added a few more to balance the scale. A one on one fight against the a Beowolf suddenly turned into a six on one. Without ever knowing it, Maria had cranked the difficulty meter to a ten. When fighting one enemy head on, she was able to quickly assessed where to hit hard, which way to go, when to attack and when to disengage. Against a pack of Beowolves, keeping track of where the enemies, on top of where her teleportation points were at the same time is already causing a headache. Putting attacking enemy on top of that suddenly turned the fight from difficult to extremely difficult.

One of the Beowolves quickly lunged toward the redhead from the side. Timing their footsteps, Maria ducked under the swing before teleporting behind the Beowolf, readied to stab it in the back where it's more vulnerable. However, when she appeared, another attack swung at her direction, forcing the scarlette to raised her blade to deflect the attack. One more attack from another Beowolf tackled her to the ground, to which she was able to caught herself and flipped the Grimm on top of her away, rolling back to her feet. Maria quickly blink away to recovered herself, but it only lasted for a short moment before the girl was once again surrounded by Beowolves.

Waves after waves of attacks constantly piled on the scarlette, seemingly unending. She tried her best to deflect and dodge whatever attacks she could, barely able to get in a swing or two before she was once again forced to be on the backfoot and retreat. The fight lasted about ten minute of Maria being constantly bombarded with attacks until the scarlette finally tap out, throwing her dagger to the outer rim of the arena and teleport away from the fight. Maria was clearly ruffed up, huffing from the adrenaline high of constantly being rushed by Beowolves. She ended the simulation and slumped at one of the benches, completely spent after the fight.
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Al Ciendra
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The sounds of a fight reached Al's ears while she wasn't even close to the combat training room.
Someone was really going all out in their training, fighting against what sounded like multiple opponents at the same time.
OH! That must meant who ever was in there was an experienced fighter if they could handle that many enemies at the same time, she had to see this!
Al started sprinting down the halls, the sound of her heavy boots hitting the floor could be heard as Al entered the room, she could still hear the fight going on and quickly ran to the edge of the ring where she could look down.
What she could see were multiple Beowulf fighting a red-headed girl, the girl was also in full combat gear from what she could see, and she teleported! Wow, she teleported what a cool semblance!
Al continued watching but soon realized that this read-headed girl wasn't as experienced as she first thought, but it seemed much rather that she was in over her head, the hard light projections were keeping chase and she rarely ever had an opportunity to fight back and in an enclosed open space like this the group of Grimm had a very big advantage against her as she could only attack one of them at the time, it really was not looking good.
But luckily the girl knew when to quit and teleported out.

Al gave her a second, before she approached her.
"Hey that was a pretty impressive fight, are you okay though ?"
Al asked as she approached, yet staying a few feet away of the other girl.
She wanted to jump in the ring right now, but felt that it was polite to talk to her first before she just shoved herself between a girl and her fight against simulations.
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Maria Ravenheart
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Perhaps it was her heart thumping loudly in her chest, the adrenaline rush she's slowly recovering from or the flow of the fight going so fast her head is still spinning that Maria hadn't noticed the footsteps of a newcomer until their voice hit her ear. The redhead quickly snapped up right and turned toward the direction of where the voice came from, only to be greeted with a silvery steel mask.

The masked and hooded figure definitely had startled the scarlette. She didn't expect someone to come in the arena so early in the morning, so for one to show up behind her without her knowing, one whom she couldn't tell any characteristics of beside for the masked -one that hid her face rather well- is a little off putting. Is she a student? Staff? Or perhaps there's something else about her. Thankfully, whoever she is, the girl is keeping some distance away, which eased the redhead a little.

"Oh- yeah, thanks. I'm doing good. Just getting some trainings early in the morning done." Maria smiled rather sheepishly, sheathing her sword and dagger back in the scabbards. Quickly after, the scarlettedusted herself from all the sand and dirt that got on her during that massive tussle. "Sorry, I'm not as presentable as I usually am. You kinda caught me off guard a little. The arena is free to use however. I'm just taking my break at the moment." She said, jabbed a thumb back toward the open arena before settling back down the bench, leaning forward, her elbows rested against her knees for support.
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Al Ciendra
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Al couldn't help but smirk a little at the startled reaction the red-headed girl showed her, it was kind of funny at least.
She walked a bit closer to just look her up and down, this girl was about her height and really did look alright, even though she said she didn't look presentable her armor still looked super cool.
"Maybe not, but that armor is still super cool, sorry for startling you though I didn't mean to sneak up on you."
Al chuckled, yet piped up as Maria said that the arena was free for her to use, this was what she was here for after all, and now she had no real reason to wait any longer as the other girl had just given her the go.
"Oh well, if you don't mind I'm gonna train a bit then, maybe you can give me some pointers."
Al said as she headed over to the console, she fumbled with it a little as she had never used this thing before but quickly figured it out, it was rather user-friendly after all and so Al quickly spawned her first batch of Grimm.
Three Beowulf spawned in the arena and Al with a happy giggle she jumped down.
The three beast roared at her as all drew both of her weapons from her cloak with a resounding click she had transformed them into their blade form.
The beast charged at Al on all fours and one leaped into the air, his claws aiming for the masked girl, but she dodged under it, sliding under the Grimm, and two quick swings tore opened the Beowulf's chest, the other two Grimm were already right next to Al, and they were about to attack her, but Al went from her slide into a forward roll dodging their teeth and claws as she transformed her blades into their gun form.
The two Grimm were a bit disoriented but charged at Al again, the masked girl was already shooting down one of the Grimm which fell apart before it could reach her, but the other got her.
It pinned her on the arena floor and growled in her masked face, an orange glow could be seen from Al's masked face before with a loud flaming roar fire shot from the slits over her mouth right into the face of the Grimm which was quickly destroyed.
With all three Grimm destroyed Al got up, dusting herself of looking up to the red-head.
"Pfew that was fun, hey could you spawn me a few more Grimm ?"
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Maria Ravenheart
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Sitting in the sideline and watching the fight unfold, the redhead get to study how other students fight and cross notes with how her own fight went. For the most part, the girl fought well. She seemed pretty confident in how she charged head first into combat, and Maria even got a glimpse of her semblance when she spewed fire from the mouth slit of her mask. Quite a disturbing sight, but a fire breathing girl isn't quite that far off from the worst thing she had seen.

Maria got a moment to think while the other girl was out training, after using the console manual to spawn four more Beowolves on the battlefield, quite a distance away from the other student and start simulation. Maria exceled in fighting solo, dealing with a single monster. At most, she can juggle her attentions between two enemies at once. When there were six of them, they all overwhelmed the redhead with waves after waves of attack. Yet, when she's looking at the student while she's fighting, it didn't seem all that bad. Sure, the girl got pinned in an attack, and she left herself on the ground a few times -a rather bad position to be in in a fight, she was still able to quickly dispatched the holo-grimms.

Perhaps she was too sheepish in how she was fighting. Maria had to put her attention on a lot of things, and that made her hesitate in which target to strike or which point she should teleport too, leaving vulnerable gaps in between. The scarlette was letting the Grimms dictated the tempo of the fight, and thus was dragged along the floor with it. Perhaps a change in her game plan was in order.

Once Maria had figured things out, the only thing left is to wait for the other girl to finish her training, or at least finish the match so she can return to her own trainings.
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Al Ciendra
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Al saw the Beowulf's spawn a bit further away from her and immediately got into another fighting stance, yet she had put away her weapons mid-motion, which may confusing for the onlooking girl.
Hot air came out of the ring as suddenly with a loud flaming roar Al had set herself ablaze, the flames surrounding her where her a bright blue color almost transparent and with how the air flickered around Al, Maria could see that they were very hot, a bit of the sand under her feet had begun to melt.
Al dashed forward, her body still ablaze as she used a short of concentrated flame under the soles of her feet to blast herself forward.
The first Grimm was immediately disintegrated as Al impacted with him directly, punching through it like a cannonball, the second Beowulf followed suit as a stream of flame coming from Al's mask destroyed it and the last two were dispatched just as quickly with two thin blue beams piercing their chest.
Al grinned under her mask, she had practiced both tactical fighting and had allowed herself to go all out if just for a bit, with a deep breath the flames around Al disappeared, allowing the girl to just stand there panting for a bit, man she only had been using blue flames for a little, and she was already this winded, it really took a lot of out of her.

Al climbed back up, sitting down still panting slightly, looking at her gloved hand, she could have kept going but for a warm-up it was enough, and she didn't want to keep Maria from her own training especially since it looked like this red head had come to some sort of revelation.
"Phew, that was a good warm up, I'll let you have a turn again, don't wanna keep it occupied for ever."
Al said as she sat on the bench, rummaging around in one of her suits satchels and then pulling out a water bottle that had
ice-cube's swimming inside it, pulling up her mask a little to drink, not enough for Maria to see anything underneath.
"Haaaah, much better."
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Maria Ravenheart
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As Maria continued watching the girl training, her eyebrow risen when she got to see Al's full extent of her power. Not just her face, but now her entire power erupt in a burning flame as she flew toward the pack of Beowolves. Her fire attacks were almost too bright, prompting the redhead to raised her hand to shield her eyes. She couldn't make out much of Al's attack, but she know for sure the girl definitely got the upper hand on that fight against the 4 hologram Beowolves.

"So... a literal human torch." Maria quietly commented to herself as the Faunus girl returned to the bench and rest. She could see the girl was physically steaming, and from where she was, the area around her qwas scorching hot. Then the scarlette noticed the iced water bottle. So that must be the drawback. She need to cooldown after using her semblance due to the excessive amount of heat. That, or the girl just fancy a cold drink after morning workout. Either way, now that Al is done and the arena is freed up again, Maria got up from her bench to retried her attempt at fighting multiple enemy at once. She had a game plan readied, and hopefully, after seeing another student in action, she would be a little more confident. Sword gripped tight in her left hand, the redhead struck a readied pose and wait for Al to spawn in the Beowolves and started the simulation.

Like last time, when the fight started, the Grimms charged at the student and spread out to surround her. The first attack coming from one rushing at Maria from the side. The scarlette quickly raised her sword to block the first attack, quickly stabbing her dagger under the creature's arm before letting go. Without hesitation, she turned toward an open and throw out a metal pin-like dart. In a flash, Maria was gone, leaving the next Grimm coming her way to bite sand and dust. Maria appeared toward the opening area away from the surround, keeping herself in range with the one she had just stabbed the dagger into.

The red haired student started the wind up motion of a heavy attack, and in the next instance, she reached her right hand out and disappeared again in another red flash, appeared next to the Beowolf she marked. With her hand on the dagger, the scarlette wrench the creature's arm upward with all her might, aura flaring. Then, in one clean motion, Maria stabbed her sword into the creature's arm - the blade's tip coming out the other side, and wrench her sword free, severed the limb from the Grimm's body. Spinning around, using the attack's momentum to deliver the second downward strike and took off the Grimm's head next. The hologram image shattered and flickered out.

By now, Maria's game plan was apparent. Last fight, she was diverting her attentions too much between all the Grimms all at once, and such, it quickly fell apart. This time, she'll pick them off one after another.
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Al Ciendra
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Al was just sitting on the bench, taking a swig of her water a shiver ran down her back at the feeling of almost frozen liquid cooled her body.
She sighed in relief as the surrounding air stopped fluctuating due to the heat she was emanating, she really had to find a better way to cool herself down...maybe she could make friends with some sort of ice semblance user to just give her unlimited ice packs.
She giggled at the idea, but stopped as she saw Maria enter the arena again, she seemed to wait for Al to spawn more training dummies and Al of course obliged her.

"Hmm let's do more Beowulf, afterwards I'm gonna throw her something more challenging."
Al said as she watched the fight unfold, she was surprised at how well Maria adapted, she had almost instantly fixed the mistakes she was making before and a fight she was previously struggling with was now going really well.
"Woooh kick their butts!"
Al cheered as she let of a few celebratory sparks of fire launching of her hands as she trusted them into the air.

As the fight continued and Maria defeated more hologram's Al decieded to just spice things up a little, she really wanted to see Maria fight a bit more.

As Al typed into the console a new hologram appeared in the middle of the arena, as with a loud roar a Manticore formed in the arena, immediately locking eyes with Maria as it flew into the air, staying passive for a bit until it flew downwards trying to attack Maria.
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Maria Ravenheart
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Amidst the chaos, with some effort, Al could spot Maria's small form darting around the battle. Occasionally she would land a few chips at the Beowolves as she ran. That was until Maria found one moving away from the fray, an isolating target easy for picking. Readying her dagger, the scarlette quickly hurled it at the Grimm creature while dodging a swing from the other Beowolves. The dagger chipped at the bone plate and bounced off, and in red flash, Maria was standing in front of the holographic creature, her arm reaching far up with the dagger in a tight grip.

Her downward strike imbeded the dagger as far down the Beowolf's head as possible. While the creature was staggered from the blow, Maria thrust her sword up at its throat, and in a twisting motion, wrench both her weapons free and decapitated the Grimm hologram, turning around to face the rest. Each time she cut down a Beowolf, the fight got a little easier. Without so many of them dog-piling on the redhead, she would have a much easier time focusing down the Grimms one by one. A rather exhausting fight, since Maria lack any capability to hit multiple enemy at once with her short reaching weapon, but manageable.

As Maria struck down another holographic Beowolf, smashing it to bits with a heavy sideway swing, another blink of red flashing light later, Maria was already on the fourth Beowolf, pulling the dagger out from its chest and carrying forward the momentum to spin around and slice down onto the creature's arm with her rapier and sweep at its leg with the next cut, forcing the monster on the ground. With an executing blow, she would only have two left to deal with. However, perhaps due to Maria putting all her attention into the fight to almost tunneled degree, she didn't see the mischievous faunus tinkering with the console panel. A sudden roar behind her break the scarlette's concentration as when she turned to see, she was staring face to face with a Manticore. Maria had never even seen a creature as such outside of books about Grimms that they learn in class.

Her eyes widen, looking at the thing with a tinge of anxiety and a lot of shock, before she trailed to the side and found Al standing next to the console. Did she throw a Manticore in as a freak accident? Or was Al trying to hurt her for real? Either way, Maria wasn't going to get her answer any moment soon, as she only managed to dodge a swipe from the creature's sharp claws by blinking away to a hairpin laying on the ground from the fight. She need a new battle plan and she need it fast.
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Al Ciendra
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Yeah, now this looked more like a challenge!
Maria was just having a way to easy time with the Beowulf at this point to make for any real exercise, so yeah this should spice it up a bit and even if something should go wrong like Maria not being able to handle the Manticore Al could just jump in and kill the beast for her.
For now Al was just watching, her elbows were on the railing propping up her chin as she observed the ongoing fight.
Which was going very well in her opinion, Maria had adapted her fighting style super well to deal with the multiple enemies that were still attacking her.
Al was really impressed with her quick adaptation, she could really learn something from the read head knight, since she herself was lacking in the adaptation department, hell she could barely aim with her guns, though that was mostly due to an issue she really couldn't fix, Al sighed a little, it was a little frustrating to think of the fact that even after all her training she still had so many issues to fix, at least her semblance was pretty strong compared to most other students, of course their semblances are still super cool, but sensing emotion was probably less practical in combat than being able to incinerate a whole pack of Grimm.

Speaking of a pack of Grimm, Al wondered how Maria was going to handle both the pack of Beowulf and the Manticore ?
Hm, she was really looking forward to seeing how Maria would deal with a Grimm this big.
"Hey Maria, best of luck! And if you need help just tell me, and I'll shut down the simulation."
Al shouted, still lazily propped on the railing as before.
Hopefully Maria had actually heard her.
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