Pyrrha ducked and rolled across the ground out of shock when a quick beowolf rushed out of the woods and headed straight for Haru. Yang called out Haru's name, and Pyrrha looked in shock at how Haru had landed on the ground in front of the Grimm... unconscious and unable to defend himself. She got to her feet, and she wasn't the only person that was trying to run and save Haru.
Yang and Ruby both moved as quickly as they could given the small amount of time they had.
Blake switched her sword into gun form, and aimed at the arm of the Grimm as it swung a claw down at Haru. She blasted a few rounds into its arms, before she aimed at its main body. The Grimm paid her little mind, and turned its back so that her bullets bounced off of its bone spikes and slightly grazed the scarred creature.
It was an experienced Grimm... maybe one that had lived for hundreds of years, and mastered the art of killing people.
The Grimm was tackled to the ground by Yang, while Ruby picked up Haru and moved away from the Grimm. Yang slugged the creature of grimm in the face, and it growled at her and lunged to bite her. She was grabbed by the back of her jacket by Pyrrha, and yanked away from the fangs of the Grimm that had nearly bitten her neck out. She kicked the Grimm in the jaw even as she was being pulled away him it.
Weiss moved towards the Grimm, before she heard a howl behind her and turned to see a Grimm behind her as well. She stabbed the Grimm through the head, while the experienced Beowolf got up and growled towards Yang, before switching targets towards Ruby and Haru.
It is going after Haru because he is knocked out... Nora! Ren thought as he looked towards Blake holding Nora, who then turned around and sliced through another Grimm with ease. The larger, more experienced Beowolf chased after Ruby, who moved away from the Grimm. She grabbed her weapon, and switched it to scythe form and got prepared to use it with one hand instead of two.
The Grimm stopped charging at her and Haru when a stick impacted against its head.
"Hey, why such a Grimm outlook!" Yang shouted at the Grimm, getting a deep growl of hate from the creature that looked towards her.
"Hya!" Ruby cried out as she dealt a shallow wound to the Beowolf while it was distracted, and the creature howled loudly into the sky. Weiss and Jaune were dealing with a fourth Beowolf that was going after them, though Weiss was doing most of the fighting. Even Ren was now forced to fend off the attacks of a Beowolf that was going after Nora and Blake. He stabbed it in the eye though, and killed it rather brutally.
The Grimm Ruby wounded did not die though.
It was larger than normal Grimm, and the wound would leave a scar, but the creature did not die from what she did to it.
"Hey, look over here!" Pyrrha called out to the Grimm, getting its attention again before it could go after Haru and Ruby.
"Tasty breast meat right here! White meat and extra tender, want a leg! Come and get it!" Yang taunted the Grimm as she gestured to multiple parts of her body, and referenced them to chicken parts. She didn't have any ammo left, but she still activated her weapon and prepared to engage the grimm in hand to hand combat.
It charged at her, falling for the taunt, while also dodging another Ruby strike.
Pyrrha ran over towards the side, before she waved her shield arm around and got the attention of the Grimm.
"Over here! Way more meat on me than Yang, come and get it if you want it!" Pyrrha called out, taunting the now enraged Grimm as it charged towards her instead. Yang seemed to catch onto the plan when she noticed something on the ground that she had missed. There was a small place where the ground was recently dug up, and then placed back again.
They couldn't beat this Grimm.
Haru could... or rather, one of Haru's preset traps would be able to get rid of this Grimm. Because in the ground was one of his holes that he had created, and most likely at the bottom of that hole was something that would kill or trap the Grimm.
She loved her trap crazy brother right now, because if she hadn't noticed that she wouldn't have become caught up on the plan.
She sent a glance to Pyrrha, before she jumped up and down and ran counter-clockwise to try and move the Grimm to run into the hole. Then she jumped up and down and waved her arms around in a really distracting way, garnering the attention of the Grimm again.
"Hey Grimmy-kins, that girl doesn't taste nearly as good as me!" Yang called out as she hit the Grimm in the back of the head with a rock she grabbed from the ground. The grimm tripped on the ground, before it scrambled to its feet and started to rush towards her. Pyrrha immediately moved herself when she saw that the creature missed the hole again, and she hit the grimm in the back of the thigh with the same rock Yang threw and caused it to trip.
It looked back at her and growled.
It got back to its feet, before it was hit in the head by a piece of ice that was thrown by Weiss... the grimm she had Jaune had been fighting had died. Weiss waved her arms, guessing what the plan was, while Pyrrha pissed the grimm off even further by throwing another rock at it.
Then Jaune joined it and hit the Grimm in the chest with a rock.
"Come at me bro!" Jaune yelled, before he yelped in fright when the grimm actually DID charge at him with hate in his eyes. He had expected somebody else to draw its attention right away, and he almost sighed in relief when Blake threw a rock with her free hand, despite holding Nora over her shoulder with her other arm.
"Two for one special." Blake said in her normal monotone voice, but the Grimm seemed to take note of the fact that Nora was knocked out cold and made them its new target. The grimm tripped when it stepped onto the hole, which collapsed under the feet on the Grimm. The grimm managed to get a single swipe of its claws out, and Blake let out a yell of pain when she felt the claws slash at her stomach. The wound was shallow, but she collapsed backwards and covered her bleeding stomach while Jaune caught Nora before she could hit the ground.
Blake looked at the bleeding wound with a wince.
It was about 1/5 of an inch deep, and a few inches wide... and she had 2 cuts out of all of the claws that the grimm had. The wound wasn't that bad all things considered, but she still hissed in pain at how she had been wounded period. She was almost out of aura, so she hadn't been able to use her Semblance or activate the barrier that would have protected her from getting cut.
"Blake, are you okay?" Ruby asked as she moved towards Blake, and even with Haru over her shoulder she knelt down and looked at the wound.
"I'm going to be fine... this won't even leave a scar. Check Haru, when Pyrrha dropped him he might have snapped his ribs... they were already hurt before now." Blake said with a look towards Haru, and she had a good point... and Pyrrha winced, even though Blake meant NO offense against her for dropping Haru by complete accident. Yang went to Haru and took him from Ruby, noticing right away that he was bleeding from the mouth.
Yang glared for a moment at Pyrrha, before she placed her attention back on Haru.
"Come on, let's just go up the cliff and get Haru some medical attention... and Blake and Nora too." Yang said as she picked Haru up and placed him on her back, before there was a loud cough that got their attention. They looked around, and they were surprised when they saw Ozpin and Glynda standing in front of them... and that the cliff had a hidden door that had opened up and led to an elevator that would most likely take them to the top of the cliff.
"There will be no need for that, the test has officially ended... and I am extremely impressed with this fine group. Not only had you survived the entire night, but one of you had found the golden item." Ozpin told them, and they all blinked in surprise and looked at each other.
Did one of them have the item?
Glynda moved forward and stopped in front of Yang and Haru, before she waved her riding crop and they were all very surprised when a golden color came out of Haru's pocket and floated to her hand. She held up the collar, and confirmed that it was the real deal, before she walked back towards Ozpin and handed it over towards him.
"Haru Rose is confirmed to have obtained the golden collar." Glynda said and recorded her words into her scroll that she had switched on.
"Yes, and with the test ended your friends will get medical attention... but I would like to have Haru speak with somebody about the Grimm he encountered." Ozpin said as he remembered what the recording had shown. He had seen Haru encounter a never before seen Grimm, and he wanted a personal account from the man himself to decide how he should class this Grimm. That, and so that he could put it in the books so that future generations would know what to expect from it.
"What are you going to do about the people that died?" Pyrrha asked Opzin with a frown on her face.
"Sadly, death is a normal part of this test even before I made it more difficult. I will notify their families, and mourn the loss of good people." Ozpin said, and his tone didn't give off how sorry he really was for the loss of life, but his face showed his regret.
He only made the test harder this year... but even before this year people had died. This forest had always been the location of the test, and the forest was filled with grimm. There was always the chance of death, and this year had not been the first year with deaths... almost every year had at least 1 or 2 deaths. He was training warriors, and death was part of the job. Sadly, that meant that their training came with the risk of death as well.
"What about the velociraptor?" Ruby asked with a confused expression on her face.
"Ruby Rex has already been returned to the lab that created it." Ozpin informed them without hiding the truth, and Glynda waved her crop. Haru and Nora started to float, before she put her scroll up. She lifted up the two teens on her shoulders, before she started to walk away. Everyone else that was injured would have to walk themselves to get treated, though nobody else was as bad off as Haru and Nora were.
Everyone did collapse to their knees though and look at each other.
The test was over.
They were all Beacon students now.