She blinked her eyes clear of sweat and grit. She couldn’t see the Death Stalker. Her finger trembled on the trigger. She closed her weapon up into a handbag; it was going to have to be hand-to-hand combat.

She fought to control her breathing. Then something flickered in her peripheral vision. She jumped and whirled, bringing her bag around. A claw came at her from the darkness and she froze. At the last second she swung her bag up, whacking the claw out of the way. She spun away from it, losing track of the Death Stalker’s location again. She had to calm down and listen.

“Coco, we’re here,” Fox sent. “Don’t shoot us.”

“Are you okay?” Yatsuhashi asked. “We heard the gunfire.”

The rest of the team had arrived. And they had brought light. Coco flinched as a flashlight illuminated the space—

No, not a flashlight, but Velvet and a hard-light weapon, a copy of Yatsuhashi’s sword. That was better.

The cavern was wider than it had seemed, but there wasn’t a lot of room to maneuver. Fox hacked at the Death Stalker’s legs with his weapons, doing little more than distracting it. Yatsuhashi pulled the stinger out of Linus’s leg, and the man crawled away with his wife’s help. Velvet slashed at the Death Stalker’s tail with her glowing sword. It scraped against the Grimm’s hard exoskeleton, again doing little damage, but getting it to turn toward her.

Fox and Velvet traded off blows, keeping the Death Stalker moving back and forth between them.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 11