The Emerald Forest Pt 1

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The opening ends to an overhead view of the Emerald Forest as the camera pans down into the misty underbrush, where Yang Xiao Long is walking and looking around.

"Helloooooooo? Is anyone out there? Helloooo?" I'm getting bored here! Is someone there? Ruby, Rayelle, is that you?" Yang asks out after raising her arms.

A low, inhuman growl is heard, and Yang's head rises up as she stares at the creature.

"Nope!" Yang said she quickly rolls to the side as an Ursa charges out of the green. She gets up and activates her Ember Celica, staring at the monster before another Ursa runs out behind her. She leaps over it, and its companion runs at her again, only to get knocked back by a fiery punch. The other Ursa and Yang charge at each other, and Yang manages to get under it and deliver several punches and a kick to send the creature back.

"You guys wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red hood, or another girl with a long red scarf would you?" The Ursai merely growled at her, "You could just say"no "."

One of the Ursai stands on its legs and swipes at her twice, Yang barely dodging the attacks.

"Geeeez, you two couldn't hit the broad side of a ba..." Yang starts off laughing but before she can complete her insult, a single strand of her golden hair falls in front of her face and lands on the forest floor.

"You..." Yang closes her violet eyes, then opens them to reveal red, making the Ursai look at each other confusedly before Yang screams, "You monster!!!"

An inferno surrounds Yang for a moment, and she rockets forward, unleashing a devastating combo of flaming hits and blows on the offending Ursa, making it fly through several burning trees. The other monster runs over, but stops short at Yang's gaze while a tree falls to the ground behind her.

"What! You want some, too?!" Yang yelled

The Ursa rears up and prepares to strike... right when a whirling noise is heard and the monster makes a befuddled noise, falling down a second later to reveal Blake Belladonna with her Gambol Shroud in the beast's back.

Yang pants in exhaustion while Blake recalls the weapon back to her hand, sheathing it on her back and smiling to the side. Yang, now purple-eyed again, speaks to her new partner over the smoking remains of the monster.

"I could've taken him." Yang said

Weiss Schnee is deflecting the swipe from a Beowolf with her Myrtenaster and getting pushed back into the middle of the beastly circle. She holds out her sword as she goes through her dueling motions and practices.

"Remember your training, Weiss. Head up, shoulders back, right foot forward — not that forward! — slow your breathing, wait for the right time to strike, and... Now!" Weiss says in her head while getting into a stance.

Weiss dashes forward with her loaded weapon at the Beowolf in front of her, just when Ruby suddenly appears between the two in a blur of rose petals and a swipe of her Crescent Rose scythe, landing a hit on the monster.

"Gotcha!" Ruby said

Weiss widens her eyes and screams as she quickly has to stop, swinging the sword in a random direction and creating a line of fire that sets a nearby tree ablaze, followed quickly by the rest of the forest around the clearing.

Ruby, distracted by Weiss' mess-up, is barely defended when the same Beowolf scratches at her weapon, knocking the younger girl into the heiress.

"Hey, watch it!" Ruby yelled

"Excuse me! You attacked out of turn! I could have killed you!' Weiss said

"You'll have to try a lot harder than that..." Ruby said

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