Grimm Hunter [HUNT](Closed)

Snow is good for camouflage… unless your whole body is black. Luckily, the King Taijitu has half its body being white, so it’s at the very least half hidden. Then it’s all a question of using the environment to keep it’s black body out of view while the white one goes first, blending quite splendidly in the snow. If it wasn’t for the globulous red eyes, it would be virtually impossible to see. It was all a question of perspective. The Yin Yang snake had heard the airship then sensed the landing of the human not too far away. Since he knew where the human was, it was only a question of keeping the white body in front and avoiding passing in front of a tree. Now it is still hard to miss considering the size of the thing, as if a small snowy hill was moving. But so long as it moved slowly, it was confident that it would be stealthy enough to sneak on one measly human if the bipedal being didn’t bother to look too hard in his peripheral vision.

There wasn’t much distance left so it stopped to observe a bit. The human smelled powerful, more than the average human and faunus it smelled before. But then again, the snake wasn’t average either.

The black head was getting antsy and impatient a bit and couldn’t wait anymore. They either had the element of surprise or they didn’t, the longer they waited, the more chances the human had of spotting them which was only a matter of time. With barely a hiss being heard, it lifted its head and charged, using it’s bony mask to ram into the human as hard as it could.

Spoiler:

The white head was mad. It was certain that they had the drop on the human yet the black one charged first, the visible one. Though it couldn’t be too mad since the attack landed, it was just annoyed because it’s second half attacked out of turn. Luckily, the human hadn’t looked its way yet, only concentrated with the black head, so this was good for it. Waiting for its chance, the white head saw it after feeling the electricity course through its shared body. The black head was caught off guard by the speed of the human and couldn’t avoid the initial attack. The human didn’t look like it was going to stop attacking, so the white head took its chance and charged in, mouth open, trying to bite the fleshy bipedal head off from the black head’s … head.

The black head jerked away the moment its white half attack came in range. It didn’t register if the attack hit but hit or not, the human wasn’t on its head anymore so it was either mid-air from dodging or mid-air after taking the hit. Conclusion, the pesky human was mid-air and unless it suddenly learned to fly, it couldn’t dodge now. With an angry hiss, the wounded black head took this opportunity to charge with as much force as it could into the hunter in training. It didn’t plan to stop even if it hit, its goal was to use the biggest tree in that direction as a mortar and grind the flesh and bone of the human to fine paste. Screw eating it, that annoying fleshbag dared hurt it, it was going to pay. Unfortunately for its plan, the tree, while pretty big, couldn’t handle the charge and broke in half.

Rearing back quickly, both heads on each side of the human, they waited for its next move, studying him. They were caught off guard by the speed of the bipedal, but now that they knew what he could do, they would be ready to deal with it.

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The two headed snake was only somewhat surprised by the move used by the human to launch him at them. They had misjudged him at first but were now ready for his speed. They didn’t know about the wire-thingy he used to spin around the branch but they were expecting him to turn back on them so they were ready. As fast as the move was, the black head understood what was happening the moment the human’s trajectory began to shift from centrifugal force. While the human was mid-spin around the branch, the black head shifted backward to place one of the multiple trees between them. The white head had also started to move toward their opponent and was glad the black part of him avoided that attack since it was charged with electricity like the one that had hit them before.

The momentum and power of the human let it break through the tree and still land on the black head to attack it. Trashing around, the black head tried to dislodge the human from its body which had the added benefit of preventing him from landing a clean blow on the hard mask from the second and third attack, taking no damage from these hits. His eye didn’t fare as good since even a graze was enough to wound and hurt it and the last attack did much more than graze it. Hissing and trashing even more from the pain, it suddenly reversed its head to slam it on the ground while the human was still on it, trying to crush him. After that, the black head retreated to keep its distance from the human while the white head occupied the human.

As fast as it could, the white head trampled over the human barely a second after the black head retreated. Placing itself between the human and the wounded black head, it readied itself to fight more actively the bipedal being. It was warry of those metal pointy things and the electricity they sometimes were charged with. The wire was also something it was watching for; the slightly calmer white head had a picture in its mind of its neck being tangled with the wire instead of the branch from before and had no intention of letting that happen.

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Typical tactics when one person in a duo is injured is to have the injured party stand back and provide long range support while the healthy party runs interferences. For the King Taijitu, it is slightly more difficult to accomplish since they have a limit as to how far from each other they can go, seeing as they share the same body. It has the added advantage of having both heads close enough to protect each other, but unfortunately in this situation, the black head wasn’t far enough to really prevent the human from reaching it. The snake king knew that the bipedal had access to wires, but didn’t really know that he could pull himself that way with it. As intelligent as they could be, for beings without a soul, they couldn’t really know about technology that they never witnessed. Their intelligence is more of a very high sense of observation. They can see something opera and immediately guess at its uses, but if they have never seen it before, it is impossible to take into account in their thinking. Had they faced another wire user before, they might have known that sometimes, the mechanism allow the user to be actually pulled by the wire instead of only using it to change course using momentum. That being said, there was no way they could have guessed he could use the cable to move like this.

The white head had actually followed the movements behind the trees easily, making it look almost trivial in fact. Speed variation wasn’t out of the parameters of what it could predict, so it wasn’t even phased by it. It still lost sight of the human a few times but that was always easily corrected by strafing to the side so it could see him. Still, the human always moved just as it was able to see it again, irritating the snake a bit. Until he disappeared. The white head immediately guessed he got up in the tree, but didn’t see it happen. It followed the human through it movements, getting ready to intercept him when he got in range. When the Grimm saw the harpoon being launched, it got a bit confused, wondering why he aimed so far from them. While the snake guessed the wire would help him travel in some way, it didn’t expect the movement being that immediate and straight forward. It watched helplessly as the human, out of reach, flew past it toward the wounded black half. Without waiting though, the white head rushed toward the tree the harpoon was embedded into.

On his side, the black head was concentrating more on ignoring the pain. It felt more than it saw the human pass by since it took a slash from him. Before the hunter could jump from the tree, the white head tried to bite him, but even if he dodged, the head was going to crush the tree he was standing on before he could jump.

The black head on its part retracted behind the white head, grabbed a piece of the tree that was just destroyed and flung it at the human, more of a desperate attack than anything, but it suddenly stopped moving, dying from its wounds. The white head was now alone and angry. While they shared the same body, joined by the tail, they were still two separate beings in a sense. It’s like they had two lives, even if the black half was essentially dead, the white one was still somewhat in perfect health. They did share the same life force in a way though, and even thought the white head was unhurt, it could feel that it’s life was only hanging by a thread. It was angry but still thinking clearly. It was pretty sure it had seen all the human’s tricks and was ready for anything.

Tidbits:

The white head thought it was ready for anything, but there was no way it could have foreseen this outcome. It was wary of the human’s lightning powers and was looking for them, but no one really expect someone to take a hit in order to strike back. Especially not a bite from a snake that could eat you whole and call it a light snack. That is the kind of action that this Grimm, with all its relatively high intelligence, could never in a million year imagine. Grimms, those that are old enough at least, have a survival instinct that makes it that they can’t fathom risking permanent damage only for a bite of food they don’t even really need.

What Kei did was a total surprise for the white head, so surprising that it didn’t even register the move before its head exploded from the lightning surge. Now some people would wonder how simple lightning would make a Grimm head explode. The reason comes from the peculiar traits of Grimm’s body, specifically what happens to the body of a Grimm as it dies. Most of it is just theory, but a lot think the Grimm don’t have actual bodies, their physical form simply exist thanks to the life force that keeps it cohesive, keeps it tangible. This explains why when their life force fade, their body start disappearing, the very existence of the flesh and bone of the Grimm gradually rendered null by the absence of the metaphorical glue that kept it together. So it could be understandable that the Grimm’s body would be uncharacteristically fragile in that state. Thus, even the smallest of hits could sever the head of the biggest snake one could imagine. A semblance hit that emits energy? Well, let’s say that it’s like using a battering ram to topple a house of cards. Unfortunately for the human, being at ground zero, he took a face-full of the Grimm’s fleshy bits before they had the time to even start to fade to nothingness. Real body or not, those are still stinky and slimy.

Now that the life force was extinguished though, the combined body of the white and black heads started to dissolve in the air slowly.

Paraphernalia:

2500 exp and 1000 lien rewarded ^^