[h3]Silus[/h3]Silus listened intently to his new partner. A teleporting semblance. He wondered idly if it was akin to speed or actual teleportation. She had continued talking as he was lost in idle contemplation. He needed to stop spacing out. He scratched the back of his neck and grinned "yeah..should be simple" the crashing noise cut his sentence short as he spun on his heel to face the sound. It had to be big to bring down a tree like that. Silus looked at Nahbi and the good natured smile and warmth in his eyes were replaced with a wild energy that sparked off him. He bounced on his toes in anticipation "Well...lets see how well we fight together" he grinned, lips extending wider into that predatory scar once more. He brought his fists together as the King Taijitu rushed from the tree line toward him "A snake takes on a dragon!" Silus shouted "sounds like and old wives tale!" Silus brought his fist back, Rush firing a short forward for momentum. Silus dashed towards the mammoth snake, adrenaline and Rush's momentum fueling shots firing him towards the reptile. 
[h3]Nahbi[/h3]Nahbi… didn't know what to do. At seeing the giant snake come slithering past the trees, she found herself frozen to the ground. Actually, frozen seemed inaccurate. Nahbi was melting. Her knees were turning to jelly and her hands were limp at her sides. You see, Nahbi had never actually [i]seen[/i] a real Grimm before. She'd fought angry bears and had tried her hand at vigilantism against the odd robber in her home town, but seeing such a massive nightmare in front of her…

She was snapped out of her thoughts when Silus charged forward, a carrying with him a look of mania. Right. Fighting. She could do this.

Nahbi glanced up to find a branch above her and teleported up to it, dashing across the forest canopy towards the… snake monster. [i]The Grimm.[/i] Remembering her hours of training in the forest near her house, Nahbi launched off a branch in front of the snake. She jumped in a twisting motion, hoping to get as much momentum as possible when she drew her twin blades and sliced one of them, Scatter, in an arc. Sickles of Nahbi's pink aura flew forward, heading for the King Taijitu. In the next moment, she teleported back to the ground and stabbed her other blade, Flare, into the soil. A row of pink spikes shot up from the ground, mirroring the arcs flying through the air towards the Grimm. Nahbi jumped so she was below another branch and teleported up again, hoping she'd aimed well enough so as not to slice up her new partner.
[h3]Silus[/h3]Silus spun his body in a ferocious twist that allowed his fist to slam head on into the King Taijitu. Grinning wildly, the Lizard twisted his body again. The barrels of Rush working overtime flipping and twisting to allow the best momentum for him. He looked back, watching as vicious looking pink blades of aura hurtled towards the snake. Silus taking in stock of their direction and speed, knew they were hurtling towards him. He body gave a brief shudder Rush reallocated its barrels he attempted to dash away from the snake and the oncoming blasts. Silus had forgotten the Grimm was smarter than he gave it credit for. A thick white tail had wrapped around the Faunus’ arm and held him in place. The Taijitu was going to get hit…but so was he.
“Fuck”

Silus felt the blades of aura slice into him and he growled. He could feel the wild instincts rushing through his mind. The feral anger that he had always attempted to keep contained. He growled and hissed again, noises more animal than human as Rush fired off more rounds into the snake that held him captive. Silus reached into his pocket and pulled a crystal, white and glowing, and placed it into his mouth. Crunching it under his teeth he finally got loose of the Taijitu. He grinned. That wasn’t a smart thing for the snake to do. Silus once again grew to his full height, breathing in deep through his nose before letting loose another blast of Aura infused breath. The white crystal had become a frigid wind full of jagged crystalline ice that was below the flash freeze point of water. The air grew cold. The grass and the leaves snap freezing under the sudden drop in temperature. The wind died down and Silus fell to one knee panting “god…damn…” he muttered before looking up at the Taijitu that was half frozen “NAHBI” he shouted “You better be able to finish that!”
[h3]Nahbi[/h3]Nahbi's eyes widened when she saw that her attacks had in fact gone straight for Silus. The Grimm curled around her partner, forcing him to take her onslaught.

[i]Oops…[/i]

She dashed through the treetops again, trying to get a better angle to maybe cut Silus free. Instead, Silus surprised her by getting free breathing an icy gust on the Grimm, half-freezing it in place. Nahbi heard him shouting at her to finish the job. Not needing to be asked twice, Nahbi's flashier nature got ahead of her. She launched herself forward, twisting as she went. She waited until she was directly above the snake and then teleported down. For a moment it seemed that Nahbi had disappeared entirely. That is, until the snake's neck bulged. From inside the King Taijitu, Nahbi spun, her blades flowing in a deadly circle, decapitating the snake. 

Nahbi fell and landed on the ground. To her disgust, she was covered in the Grimm's blood.

"Oh my god ok ew." She'd impulsively pulled the move off thinking it'd be cool… and it had been. Just… [i]wow, ew.[/i] It was then that Nahbi remembered her injured partner. "Silus!" Sheathing Scatter and Flare, Nahbi dashed towards where he was kneeling on the ground (sure to teleport herself a few feet up mid-run and leave the Taijitu's blood behind her) and almost stumbled in an attempt to not collide with him. "Oooooh my gosh oh my gosh I'm so sorry are you ok that was so sick that you can breathe ice oh my god I killed a Grimm did you see me are you ok oh my god I'm gonna be sick –" The words came flying out of her like a train going full speed as she fluttered around the faunus. Again, Nahbi had never actually [i]seen[/i] a Grimm before, let alone [i]killed one[/i]. The adrenaline coursing through her was making her bounce around more than usual, torn between guilt at possibly killing her partner, ecstasy at killing a Grimm, and terror at everything else.
[h3]Silus[/h3]Silus grinned, his aura flaring up around him gently like a bronze flame, as Nahbi bounced on her toes and walked around him. He figured the girl hadn’t killed a Grimm from her hesitation when the fight had started. He stood slowly, his aura stitched his wounds together. He put a hand on her shoulder and gave her a smile “hey, good job” he nodded slowly before tenderly touching where the pink aura blades had sliced through him “but you gotta know something” he began slowly as they walked “You saw how I looked didn’t you…” he shook his head “If you see my aura flare up and I suddenly start growling…Don’t hesitate to knock me out” He nodded before pulling up to his full height to stretch the new skin that had formed over the wound “deal?”
[h3]Nahbi[/h3]Nahbi stared up at Silus as she tried to comprehend. "Wait… why?" she asked hesitantly. "I mean, I'm pretty great and all, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to take on both a Grimm and someone who [i]breathes fire[/i] at the same time. I mean did you see me back there? I can barely take on a Grimm with a [i]partner[/i] without screwing that up!" Nahbi's voice rose as her worries caught up with her. Maybe running away and coming here… hadn't been the best idea. Playing with her brothers and practicing with Scatter and Flare was fun, and she'd been dreaming about finally becoming a Huntress – but as Nahbi looked at the drying blood still smeared across Silus' new skin, she wondered what she was really doing here. 

Nahbi looked around as the forest opened up and a crumbling stone temple came into view. "I guess that's probably where we're supposed to go." Get a partner, get a relic, get back to base. Then she would officially start her training… but now Nahbi questioned whether or not that was really what she should be doing.
[h3]Silus[/h3]Silus smiled at Nahbi "hey hey...you did good" he laughed before tapping gently against the scales that grew over his cheeks "I'm just saying...sometimes I'm not always Silus the Faunus" he sighed "sometimes we Kuroi go into a bloodlust and that puts people in danger" he sighed "that is usually shown by our Aura flaring wildly and a loss of our way with words." He stretched again before nodding "yeah...let's go"