KRWN Part 6

Captives Part 2
“Y’know, Cerise, I never thought of it that way. We do make a good team even with all the fighting.” D.L. agreed. He looked at the rest of KRWN then suddenly his face lit up, “Cerise, you just solved our problem. Or at least found a loophole.”

“How so?”

“Goodwitch said it herself. Our team kinda sucks as people, but as Hunters we rock,” He explained, “Grun, can than shovel of yours, say, I don’t know, break a wall?”

Grun grinned as he swung out The Gravekeeper and said, “Well, there’s only one way to find out!”

“The one opposite the door.”

Grun then happily started swinging his spade at the wall for about a minute and a half before stopping to say, “Whoo. I could get through it, but it would take me a few hours, maybe days.”

“Okay, well we’ll just have to help.” D.L. looked to his partner and gestured to her spinner, “How fast can you get that thing going?”

Stella answered a bit confused, “Pretty fast, why?”

“Because. Now show me.” She shrugged and granted his request. The disk spun faster and faster until the pointed edges couldn’t be seen, “That should work. Use it like a circular saw and cut into the wall. Make a door shape.” She began to understand and did as he instructed.

“Ok,” D.L. warned, “Now back up.” He then pulled out his revolvers and unloaded all twelve rounds into the rectangular piece of wall Stella just marked. “Okay, Grun, me and you are gonna hit this thing with all we got at the same time.”

Grun nodded with that grin of his and said, “Gotcha.”

D.L. transformed his guns into their knuckle mode, “One… Two… Three!”

D.L. and Grun both threw themselves at the wall and caused more and more cracks to form. After about five minutes of beating on the wall all the material on the inside of the rectangle crumbled and fell outwards.

The group cheered and looked through the new doorway. The only problem was that they were staring out over all of Beacon. They apparently had been called to the highest point of the school for their test.

“Uh, guys,” Grun commented, “I don’t think we can make that jump. It looks a bit higher than even the cliffs.”

“Crap,” D.L. sighed and fell to the floor sitting, “Well now we’re trapped with a hole in the wall. That was kinda pointless, huh?”        `

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Well,” Cerise began to say, “I think I could help…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Really? That’d be great but how?” D.L. asked her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“My whips. They’re pretty long when fully extended and they’re a bit elastic. I bet I could lower you down low enough that you could land without hurting yourselves.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“That’s genius!”

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">About ten minutes later Grun and D.L. were attached to one set of Cerise’s whips and the other was tied to the table as a makeshift anchor.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">D.L. went over the plan one more time, “Okay, so you’ll extend our end as far as possible then you’ll let the other end out and me and Grun will jump. When we land you pull yourself back up and then we’ll get you two.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Stella was a little unclear on the second part of the plan, “Um, how exactly do Cerise and I get down?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“I’ve got it all covered,” Grun assured them all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Okay here we go.” Cerise lowered the boys down first then slipped off the ledge herself and lowered all three of them down the rest of the way. When both sets of whips were fully extended she shouted to the guys, “That’s all of it!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Grun and D.L. unfastened their makeshift harnesses and dropped to the ground. They had a rough landing but they weren’t injured by any means.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Cerise pulled herself up and retracted all of her whips only to be lost as to what she and Stella were to do next. They two girls heard faint shouting from below. They looked down to see Grun and D.L. yelling up to them.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Oh no. They have got to be kidding!” Stella exclaimed.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Cerise was worried, “What? You can hear them?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“I think they want us to jump. They must intend to catch us.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“You don’t trust them, Stella?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“No. Not particularly.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Then I’m really sorry about this.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Cerise, what do you m— eeeeeeeeeeeee!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Cerise pushed Stella out the hole before she could finish her question then jumped after her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Much to Stella’s disbelief D.L. caught her safely, and Grun easily caught Cerise as well. Cerise was giggling like a little girl and Stella just stared with a dazed look in her eyes. As she stared being held in D.L.’s arms he said, “What? You didn’t think I’d let you fall did you? Catching you was easy. I mean you are just a little girl.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Stella finally realized she was in D.L.’s arms bridal style and blushed… hard. She flailed about and screamed at him, “Put me down! Now!”

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Goodwitch walked to the room where Team KRWN was being tested by Ozpin to check on their progress but when she arrived she opened the door to find an empty room and a hole in the opposite wall. She immediately rushed to Ozpin to alert him.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Sir, Team KRWN has escaped from the room. They broke through the wall and must have climbed down the school.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Ozpin merely replied, “I know. They forced their way out about twenty minutes after we locked them in the room.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“And what do you plan on doing about it, Professor? “

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Congratulating them.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“But why? They have destroyed school property and blatantly disregarded your authority.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“Because they have proved us wrong. They do not, in fact, need to have conventional or even good personal relationships with one another. They work well together even under the pressure of being captives, and they may just surprise you yet, Glynda.”

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