Asa seemed offended by the offered hand shake so Nico let it hang by his side as he walked off. Nico could feel the forest temple his tall was flicking wildly with anticipation. He had to wonder what was with Asa, the faunas was a little bit wild, weird, he fight the stenotype perfectly. But why would a faunas subject himself to such ridicule, but Nico shrugged it off and assumed that Asa had to have gone through something in his past. 

Nico's head then whipped around once he heard Asa's unusual question. " What?" Nico asked with a frown. What the hell was that supposed to mean, collar, why in hell would Nico even consider such a thing. But before Nico could answer the faunas, the wolf had already disappeared. "Are you serious." Nico mumbled to himself. Some team they were, Nico made his want to the sounds of a struggle, maybe Asa was stuck or something. Nico walked into a clearing and saw Asa fighting a single Grimm. The fight was impressive, but Ass was wounded twice by the time the fight had needed. Nico walked up to him and patted him on the back, "Nice job, next time, tell someone your running off before going." He said with a grin before turned back and walked back down the path that led to the temple.

Before long the path opened up into a cliff over looking a large field, a few feet away was the forest temple. Nico called back at Asa to get over to were he was, this was were they needed to be, and it looked like they were the first ones there. Nico was about to make his way over to the ruins, but he stood frozen solid when he heard the rustling of bushes. "Is that you Asa?" Nico said in a dark tone, making sure that if it was him, he knew Nico did not like what he was doing.  Before Nico could react a black figure came rushing out of the woods and collided with Nico, sending him off the cliff. Nico hit the ground on his back, all the air was blown out of his kinds and his was slightly dazed. Nico could barely see the wings of a large Grimm, Nico immediately knew that it was a Gryphix.