Traveling to The Crystal Sea: Day 2 [Plot]

"Yeah, I agree we should just go to the cave before we speculate more about a plan." Then when Declan asked where Shard was Arthur replied; "I don't know where Shard is, and what does it matter, it's not like he wants to be here, or that he'll be of any use to us" Arthur turns to look over the frozen landscape. "We should just get going, and try not to waist any time out here"

"Forget him, he's an asshole anyway."  Isabelle drew a single blade from the sheaths on her back.  "Right, let's get started already."  She began walking towards the cave, gesturing for the others to follow her.

Stahl shrugged and started to follow Isabelle, "I think I saw Shard sleeping over there," He waved his arm towards where Shard had wandered off, "You think he'll catch frostbite over there?"

"Well, how are we meant to be able to get this out of here?" Arthur asks the others when they had all reached the bottom of the cave. The obviously solution would be to build a complex set of levers and pulleys. But I doubt that would ever happen.

Joking aside, Arthur would have to ponder a while before he would come up with a plan. So he'll just wait for someone else to come up with one.

IC:

"Hit him....then run."

Stahl thought for a moment, "Well, we need to drag this thing back to the hut, but we can't carry it all the way back. So, we need to find a way to either chase it to the Hut, or somehow ride it." He said, "But unless one of you brought a jet-ski when I wasn't looking, I think those might be our only two options."

IC:

"Lets assume it can climb stairs, and hit it. Then we'll run back towards the cell, and when it gets too close we attack it to keep our distance and keep it angry."

"It's just a pain in the arse, why does it have to be in the least convenient place possible? Why is nothing ever easy?" Arthur takes a step back to have a good look at the Grimm, "I have no idea, someone go wake it up or something." Arthur wasn't going to be foolish enough to try and go towards it by himself.

Isabelle, having gotten tired of waiting for something to happen, walked over to the sleeping Grimm. She inspected it for a moment, before swinging the dull end of her blade towards where she believed it's head would be located, hoping to wake it up or something like that because nobody else wants to, apparently.

"You sure that's a good ide-" Declan said a she say Isabelle approaching the mass of black fat that lay on the thick ice. Though it was too late to finish his thought before the flat of the blade connected with the Grimm.
(retconned)

There was a low groan as the Valross rolled around to face the group. It's long tusks gleaming from the reflected sunlight. It looked around at the five students briefly before swinging it's head sideways at Isabelle's rib cage.

Luckily, Isabelle had begun to step back as the Grimm turned towards them.  When it swung at her, she had enough made enough distance between it to jump back and out of it's way.  "See?  That wasn't such a horrible idea.  Let's get moving." she said, continuing to slowly back up towards the exit.

IC:

That was my idea.....

I sighed inwardly in acceptance as I turned as well, following Isabelle with my weapon now in hand.

Arthur shrugs and starts to move away from the grimm. This will probably take some time. "This might just be easier then we all expected" Arthur says to the group. ...Hopefully He adds to himself.

The students finally reached the mouth of the cave with the Valross in tow. It had taken them roughtly ten minutes in total. Tent grueling minutes of leading one of the slowest Grimm on the planet up an incline, but they made it. As they exited the icy cave they noticed Grinsley had been taking notes and uncovered more of the snow, revealing a large set of of teeth each the size of a man. They also noticed Shard, still lounging in the same spot, still not helping.

"Well, that was fun right?" Declan asked as he traveled a few feet ahead of the Valross and a few feet behind Isabelle. "This was a great trip idea, just great.....If we don't get A's for the year off of this Grinsley has to be fired or something..." He said as he walked forward toward the back of the research center.

(Retconned)

IC:

"Just A's? Quite the low expectations there."

Stahl crossed his arms, "Wells aren't...hey, isn't that Shard? What's he...." His widened as Shard fired something at the Valross.

"Oy Vey..." He muttered as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

IC:

Okay, excuse my language. (Actually, screw you. I don't care.)

Shard is a ####ing prick. He's a bucket of absolute trash, worth nothing other than what the local thieves can cough up. Even the stupid, fat, ugly, slow, slobby Grimm that we had spent so long trying to get it to play follow the groupie was more beneficial to society than one Shard Dayker, whose only contribution might've been to provide a piece of #### to the local farmers for fertilization.

Oh, wait. He IS the piece of ####. And the farm would immediately get sued and knocked off the market.

We'd been kiting (Gamer.) the blob of fat behind us for who knows how long, knowing full well from a talk that Shard had been forced to listen to that we had to get it back to the science and into the trap rooms ALIVE. Unfortunately, one of us was excruciatingly stupid (I believe he holds the Remnant Record for 'Lowest IQ possible' and 'Smallest brain mass within human or faunus'.) and so had, with a look as if he didn't care and also a notion to himself like the was the coolest guy ever (Note - Not. He looked so ugly, especially with how he'd been sitting with his fat ugly nostrils dangling bright red in the cold. Probably would look a bit better with a fist to the face and a kick in the arse), had fired off two darts towards the Grimm.

No.

I leapt forwards, reacting as humanly fast as possible as I drew my sword, almost as though I'd been prepared, even expecting something like this to happen. A white-blue glow emanated for my sword, followed up by a red/orange flared up the blade, travelling upon lines that, without the light, would have been invisible to the naked eye. With a yell at the idiot, "Shard!", I jabbed my blade forwards in the air and a blast of fire and electricity glazed off the blade with a burst of comforting heat. The darts were immediately whacked off course by the electricity, their metallic bodies now charred and bent beyond recognition.

Arthur turns to Stahl, whom he was standing near, "Did Shard just..? Now Lan is..?" For Pete's sake. Why does he have to do this? Why cant he just sit and leave us to do the work, I'd much rather it be like that, why is he even here? Arthur was clearly baffled by Shards actions, Surely he knows that we have to get these back alive? Why is he attacking it? Arthur just got more and more annoyed at the situation, but unlike Lan, he could control his temper, so he was prepared to wait and see how this played out.

In all honesty, Arthur didn't mind too much about the Valross, a dead grimm is a good grimm. But he was interested to see if Shard and Lan were to get into a fight, as that, would make the trip interesting.

"Yes. Yes he did." Stahl said, rubbing his forehead in annoyance. "Let them just fight it out. We can break Shard's legs when they're done."

Isabelle sighed, shaking her head.  Idiots will be idiots.  She decided to just stand back and watch, hoping that the teacher would get involved before one of the two ended up killing the Grimm.

"Oh good! Just what we need." Declan said as he crossed his arms as the two began fighting. 'Honestly, why did they even come here if all they're going to do is argue about each other and refuse to help?' He then looked over to where Grinsley had been  seconds before the fight, though now no where in site. (Retconned)

As the two the two bolts plunged into the Valross's blubber and spread its shrapnel even further into the fat that surrounded its vital organs it let out an extremely loud, low pitched, groan into the the air that could even be felt through the ice. It then simply slumped over on its side, still breathing and leaving a small dent in the ice. From where the rest of the students were standing on the ice they could see a dark shape quickly appeared, mere seconds after the strange noise, rising through the dark waters in something of a spinning motion. As its head neared the ice the surface layer punctured upward for an instant before exploding upward into the air between Lan and Shard. The Grimm that breached the surface was a huge beast, easily 30 ft. long as it flew vertical into the air. The bone like horns that it uses to drill through the ice shot out from its bone plate face armor in a double helix pattern out for 15 ft. As it began to descend back to the water it began to fall horizontally and the group could see the spikes protruding from its spine. It soon fell and landed flat on more of the ice, collapsing it into the sea along with the Grimm.

Shard is now separated from the rest of the group by a large hole, leading directly into the freezing sea.

IC:

There was a small wave of pressure that pressed against my feet before a massive beast appeared from the depths, shot upwards and drilled.

Heaven piercing punk Narwhal.

The spray of water through the air that had came with the Grimm crushing through the ice was immaculately beautiful. It sailed through the blue sky like snow, reflecting the light around us into an spectrum of aura, casting a rainbow around us. If it weren't for the idiot standing in the distance, this would have been a perfect picture moment and, though I'm lazy and really didn't care, definitely a worthwhile moment to have came on the trip from.

Still, I raised my weapon and gripped it tighter, slightly readjusting my hand upon the handle. This thing was still a Grimm, and throughout it's sole existence everything in it's mind had been to eat and kill mankind. Except this one.....considering the lack of humans to ever come here, furthered by the fact that we could easily fight back now........he's probably really hungry.

Well, shit.  Isabelle looked around, hoping to see Mr. Grinsley somewhere.  Of course, he was gone.  Now they would have to deal with this giant Grimm by themselves, and it didn't look like something that she would be able to get close to and not get killed immediately.