“All right, let’s go,” she said.

Fox tucked the card into a pouch at his belt. Then he held up a hand. “We have incoming.” He pointed behind Coco.

Two people were heading toward them fast with a spinning black-andwhite ball chasing them. Velvet Scarlatina, whom Coco remembered from Pharos Combat School, and Yatsuhashi Daichi, who generally walked softly and carried a big sword. Only now he was running, waving his sword to get their attention, and shouting a warning.

“I guess we should help them,” Fox said.

“I guess we should.”

Coco calmly strode to the top of the temple steps and flicked open her Gatling gun. Then she opened fire on the rolling Boarbatusk. Yatsuhashi and Velvet veered out of the way while her bullets rained past them. As the rounds penetrated the Grimm’s tough hide, she used her Semblance to boost the volatility of the Dust inside the bullets to blow them up—and tear the creature apart from the inside out.

On her application to Beacon, Coco had named her Semblance “Hype.” Her three favorite things in life were fashion, explosions, and killing Grimm, and Beacon allowed her to combine all three.

“Nice hustle, Coco,” Fox said. “But heads up.”

Coco threw herself back as the Boarbatusk’s decapitated head crashed into the ring of stones above her and then onto the temple steps.

“How did you know—” She was cut off as one of the pillars fell to the side. She was getting an idea of how abandoned temples became temple ruins.

The Boarbatusk’s head rolled down the steps, and as the red glow in its four eyes dimmed, it evaporated into black smoke.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 2