Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24828824-20180226234231/@comment-25169271-20180701075805

Darian and Alice paused as they heard Helena firing her weapons and the screeching of the wounded Nevermore. "Damn that's loud," Darian muttered, the noise from the Grimm echoing through the building. The noise was so loud and pervasive that Darian was having trouble hearing anything over it. Darian was about to speak when Alice shouted.

"Darian, we have something gathering below us, probably Grimm," she said as she looked at the floor, her gaze staring through the concrete surface. "There's...a dozen of them, Creeps I think. There are a few bigger ones with them," she stated watching their movements. "Looks like they're trying to get to us somehow. Below that is..hell if I can tell. Looks like a massive swarm a somehwere around the ground floor. Too many bodies for me to make out. Just looks ike one writhing mass."

The pinned Nevermore let out another screech. This time however the sound the beast was emitting sounded different from before. "I think it's calling for help Helena," the lynx faunus said. "Any chance of..." The man was inturrupted when a strong vibration could be felt through the floor. "What the hell?!"

"They're doing something...I can't tell. They're running up and then just stopping dead..." Alice said as she analized their movements. "Every time they stop....they're ramming the support beam!" As she had this revelation she sensed one of the Grimm go straight though the seemingly invisible object they had been ramming against. As the support beam gave way the floor they were standing on followed after.

Darian and Alice cursed as they fell along with the collapsing floor. The two tumbled down to the next floor along with the rubble. As the falling debris impacted the floor below them it smashed through the weakened structure, creating a hole through to the next floor. This destruction continued down for two more floors, the pair slamming down into the broken concrete and rebar three floors below where they started.

Darian groaned as he lifted himself up, his aura shield shimmering around him. "Alice are you okay?" he called out, feeling his shields stabilize and begin to rebuild.

"I'm fine," the dark skinned woman stated as she pushed a large chunk of concrete off of her, her shields shimmering and fluctuating as well. "But we're getting company. Incoming from the floors above." As she spoke the woman readied her weapon, aiming at the whole above them.

Creeps began pouring through the hole at them, Alice rapidly firing on them. Darian drew his sword and went to hacking at the Grimm that were making it through his wife's hail of bullets. The two were making fast work of the monsters, the bottle neck caused by the collapsing floors working in their favor. "Reloading!" Alice called out as the bolt on her rifle locked back. In a movment that was born from years of practice and training, Alice quickly ejected the magazine with a sideways flick of her rifle. While the magazine was ejected from the weapon she reached down with her off hand and pulled a fresh magazine from the pouch on her leg and reloaded the rifle.

Darian continued to cut through the thronge of Grimm spilling through the hole as Alice reloaded her weapon, using his semblance to quickly bounce between the Grimm. Alice was about to return to firing on the Grimm running through the hole when sudden movement behind them caught her attention. "Incoming from below. Looks like we got that swarm's attention. It's coming up the stairwell, I can't tell how many, just looks like a giant blob moving up."

"How long until it gets here?" Darian asked as he cleaved a Creep in half from head to tail. As if to respond to him the door to that lead to the stairwell was broken through. Alice quickly pivoted and turned her light to its brightest setting, illiminating the black head of a massive King Taijutu breaking its way through the doorway. Its head was covered in large bone plates and its mouth filled with razor sharp fangs. "Oh hell, Helena we've got one hell of a King Tajutu in here!" Darian called out narrowly dodging a Creep jumping at him from a floor above.