The orange light moved farther away, then it zipped toward Coco. She was mesmerized by it, enough that she didn’t move, until someone pushed her aside and she fell into the cavern wall.

Linus grunted and cursed. The Grimm scorpion’s tail had pierced his leg, pinning him to the ground. Rhea grabbed his arm and pulled as the Death Stalker advanced, claws clacking.

“Damn,” Coco said as she opened up her gun and tracked the Death Stalker. Then she fired.

The gunshots were deafening. The tunnels shook, dirt and stone raining down around them.

“Stop!” Rhea shrieked. “You’ll bring it all down on top of us!”

A rock slab fell a foot in front of Coco. She stopped firing and stumbled backward, coughing. If she had boosted the impact of their bullets, they would probably all be dead. She didn’t even think she’d hit the Death Stalker—she had been firing blindly out of panic.

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.

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 11