[collab with Forsythe]

Coral wasn’t a slow runner, at least. Not that she was top of her class or anything (hypothetically, of course: she’d never been part of a class), but she wasn’t unfit or anything, and if she were in the mood to waste her Aura, then she could have used her Semblance to go even faster. But with the threat of monsters attacking her randomly, she didn’t feel safe enough for that. So normal running speed it was!
 
She’d kept her senses alert in case anything decided to jump out at her, her Semblance on a hair trigger, but nothing had gotten in her way yet. The stupid Grimm were probably all too scared to try anything: after all, a tentacled monstrosity such as herself was not a common sight, and she’d probably give them indigestion if they ate her, anyway. Just to spite them.
 
And then she heard screaming and explosions and death above, and she slowed herself to a bewildered stall as a huge bird thing fell out of the sky, followed shortly by something that she could only assume was one of their classmates. Grimm didn’t use weapons, right? It was hard to tell, though, as the thing engaged in mortal combat had the same color scheme as that which she was mercilessly slaughtering. But it was yelling in rage things that sounded a bit like words, so, yeah, probably a person. She was certainly doing a piece on it, and apparently with no care for her surroundings: Coral stood just two yards away, and didn’t seem to have been noticed by either of them. Or maybe it was a Grimm, and didn’t think that her intense pleasure at watching something get torn apart before her was a delicious emotion. They only ate negative emotions, right, and joy was a positive one. She was so untasty right now.
 
It took the berserker a few minutes to realize that her target was dead, and when she did, she returned to normal-people mode and almost instantly noticed Coral. Their eyes locked, and the team was sealed. Well, at least it was a cool-as-heck Faunus who was fun to watch. She could have ended up with a worse teammate.
 
“Well! Did that thing call your mother a whore or something?” She smiled aggressively and kicked at the quickly-disappearing body.

"If it did I'd give it a medal, not a beating." Schwarz rolled her eyes, approaching the other student. Of course, she meant her step-mother. She has seen Faunus of many shapes and considered herself to be one that stood out the most, but this one was an entire league higher. Of course, being stuck home for most of her later years didn't give her much opportunity to see the world, but even among whom she saw on the airship...

Shaking her head to end her inner ramble, she offered her hand: "Looks like we'll be teammates. Schwarz Nacht, a pleasure," she introduced herself with a slight headnod.

"You too, eh? Though I'd probably just ask for directions. I don't have any medals on me." Coral had never actually met her parents, but her mother certainly had some explaining to do. Obviously there was some beastiality going on somewhere down the line, and someone needed a good talking-to about not screwing with future generations' genetics like that. Not cool, ancestor, not cool.

"And I'm Coral. And yes, a pleasure. I like your work!" She looked her new partner up and down, noting the wings and the weapon and the odd uniform. Were those initials on the collar? A rich family, then. The weapon didn't look cheap, either. Well, she supposed that that might not be a bad thing, since she'd come with no money herself. Maybe having a partner with some would be useful.

"So... was that your Semblance? You become a Grimm?"

"Coral." she tried how the name flowed off of her tongue, "Short enough to call out in battle, good. You get off without a nickname." Schwarz grinned, knowing well what terrible nicknames she could give. "Work?" She said quizzicaly before realizing she was talking about her violent murder of the nevermore. "Oh, oh no I just got angry and... wait, did you say like?" her eyebrows shot up. She withdrew her hand as it was still ignored, checking it was actually still there and not lying in a pool of her blood on the ground.

"And don't call me that! Or I'll get angry again." she said, her eyes gaining a strangely hollow look. "And sort of..." she said, breathing out to focus. Now with focus and control outside of a fight, it was easy enough to activate the semblence within a second. "I may look like a Grimm, but I'm not really one." she said, swinging her arm and making it pass through a nearby tree. She felt as if the log bumped into her, but the shadow that made her didn't even deform. "I'm intangible to anything that is not a grimm, and, well, I melt them away." she shrugged and dropped back to her usual form. "What about you?"

Haha she'd made Birdy uncomfortable. Coral watched Schwarz' expression turn and her hand retract, and it only made her smile wider. A hypocrite, then? That worked just as well, though Coral admitted to herself that she would have prefered someone just like her, someone who wouldn't look down on her for actually enjoying such glorious art. But at least she'd still see something often enough, and she could deflect criticism with this fun little incident.

Oh, but now it was time to show off Semblances! Coral activated hers, approaching in stealth right next to Schwarz as she showed off her interesting little trick. She could wave her arm through the tree? Interesting, indeed. Did that then mean that Coral's knives would go through her? Time to test it.

The knives rotated in their holster until they silently unlocked. Coral's clone continued standing by, acting interested in Schwarz' demonstration. The knives rose to her hands, and Coral was about to take a swipe with them when her new partner returned to normal form. She stopped herself in time, and instead decided to have fun showing off, herself. She brought one of her knife claws up right under Schwarz' chin and let her clone speak.

"Oh, well I was already using my Semblance." The clone disappeared into smoke, and Coral appeared at the same time.

"Boo."

"That's handy. And so not fun to be a target of." the swan hissed, glaring it's bretheren at the dagger pressed to her chin. "By the way, I can still feel everything as the shadow, so don't even think about it." she warned, even though she probably wouldn't be able to retaliate at all if Coral went through with what Schwarz thought she was doing. Unless one could call agonized gasps fighting back.

She slapped the hand holding the weapon away from her. "Anyway, relics. I was heading north when that thing spotted me, I think I saw some old buildings there. It could be it." she shrugged, waiting for Inksac to take the lead. She wasn't certain how to handle this person. Coral seemed like the kind that didn't care for refined behavior and if anything might make fun of her for it. 

"Just a fair warning, my defense is to kill them all before they kill me. I'm a sort of a mix between a mage and swordswoman so I can support your charge, as long as you don't expect me to take a hit for you." she shared how her fighting style was, not feeling the necessity to share much more about herself for now.

"Awwww, that's not too useful then, is it?" The knives returned to their sheathe and Coral took the lead in the direction she'd been heading before. "You just get all monochrome and glowy? Lame." There had to be something more to the semblance than that, right? Sure, phasing through things might be nice (but if she could feel it, what would that be like?), but Coral couldn't really see the use of a Semblance that did nothing but make you look scary. Maybe she intimidated that bird to death.

But that sounded like a good defense. Killing things first... well it had always worked for Coral. She withdrew the little computer thingy that they'd given her last night and glanced at the information shown there. Already hers had linked up with her partner's, showing their respective aura. It looked like Schwarz was, regardless of what she said, probably the less fragile of the two. "We'll have to duel some time to see each other's strengths and weaknesses."

"Did you miss the part where I said it melts Grimm away?" Schwarz rolled her eyes. "You could take a swing and it would leave a gash, I could take a swing and wipe out half of an ursa or mroe if I put my mind to it." she said, keeping to herself that putting her mind into it seemed to be a very difficult thing to do in an actual fight. "At least it's not wussing out and hiding in a shadow." she shot back, her eyebrows quirking in a challenging expression.

Then Coral suggested they spar later. "Oh you're on, but first things first. Shall we?" she asked, nodding deeper into the forest.