Salutations, fellow RWBY fans! This is my first time writing for this amazing series after recently finishing Volume 4. Just a heads up, this story may take long lengths of time to update, as I have many projects I need to work on. I hope to make each chapter worth your wait, however! Enjoy!

"I'm starting to think that this point, this was all just a rumor."

Ruby walked alongside Weiss in the empty wasteland of what used to be known as Kuroyuri, following the direction of what appeared to be a large Grimm. Its cry was heard a couple of hours ago, and since, Ruby, Weiss and Yang had decided to go after it, as many citizens were talking about the specific Grimm heading for the city of Mistral.

"Weiss, I heard that cry, it is not a rumor! I'm willing to bet my darling Crescent Rose on it." Ruby smirked.

"Are you really?" Weiss responded with some attitude in her voice. Ruby kept a smile up, but it quickly faded.

"No." She squeaked.

"Come on, guys! Less talking, more moving!" Yang called out from behind. Yang was particularly excited for the upcoming fight, as it would be the first big Grimm she fought in a while. Yang had reunited with Ruby only five days ago, and Weiss was three. However, there was still one more member missing…

Yang's thoughts of that member were abruptly cut when the same roar heard hours ago echoed throughout the land, slightly shaking the ground. "I think this confirms it as more than a rumor, Weiss!" Ruby cried out over the loud roar, resulting in a dirty look from the girl.

The next sound to follow was the loud stomping of multiple Grimm approaching the team's location. "We're gonna have company!" Yang grinned as her Ember Celica was activated, covering both arms and emitting the familiar and beautiful sound of locking and loading. Ruby activated her Crescent Rose, digging the scythe into the ground and looking through the scope, preparing for any incoming Grimm. Weiss spun the revolver in Myrtenaster, going with the power of ice for long range attacks. They aimed at the forest ahead of them, where Grimm would surely erupt from.

"I don't know about you guys," Ruby grinned as she cocked the Crescent Rose back. "But this brings back memories for me!"

"Yeah…" Yang trailed off. It does, but we're missing one person… Yang shook her head immediately, removing the thought from her mind. "Yeah, it sure does!"

The tension rose to incredible levels as the multiple steps of Grimm approached further and further, getting louder and louder, heavier and heavier… Ruby couldn't help but feel her heart rate pick up at a rapid pace, and her entire team went along with it.

Then, the first Grimm appeared from within the bushes. A basic Beowulf. However, many more started appearing alongside it, until Ruby counted a dozen. She fired her Crescent Rose, and the rest of the team followed, Yang punching multiple long range shots and Weiss firing a mix of fire and ice dust. The Grimm didn't stand a chance against the weapons, but of course, that wasn't all of them. Many more started showing up.

The girls kept firing, and for every one they killed, two more took its place. The girls could keep their defense up, but it wasn't going to last much longer. Tried as they might, the first Beowulf broke past their shots, and Ruby knew shooting was no longer going to work at this range.

She quickly transformed her weapon into its beautiful scythe, and spun, swinging and slicing straight through the first Grimm. She activated her semblance, speeding towards a group of Creeps and slicing one, before speeding towards the next slicing that one. She kept that pattern up, before backing away. The horde was too much for one huntress.

Then again, that's what teams are for, right?

Weiss held her sword up the side of her head, charging forward, and Ruby followed. Weiss and Ruby expertly took down enemy after enemy, with Ruby slicing each one and Weiss using her Glyphs and many Dust powers to take down the stronger opponents.

"Death Stalker!" Ruby called out as the scorpion looking Grimm emerged from the bushes. Weiss knew exactly what to do. She activated two Glyphs, one right in front of her and one behind her and high up. She jumped into the Glyph before her, and it launched her backwards and high into the air. She hit the second Glyph, and it shot her towards the stinger. She sliced through it enough to dangle it, and Weiss quickly shot ice dust into the Death Stalker's feet, freezing it in place. Weiss then summoned a Glyph right behind Ruby.

Ruby followed the plan, jumping back into the pattern and launching into the air, before slicing into the stinger with ease, dropping it straight onto the Grimm and killing it.

"Don't think I'm missing out on this one!" Ruby and Weiss heard Yang shout as she shot into the ground behind her, launching herself forward into the hoard of Ursa with a grin on her face. With a new right arm, her punches pack a lot more heat, and this proved obvious as the first Grimm was down in one hit by her right arm. Yang saw the group of Ursa around her, and shot into the ground, launching into the air. She spun around, and came down with a punch in the ground, creating a huge shockwave and obliterating all Grimm in the affected area.

All Grimm were killed, but the team was still uneasy. No way was that it, something big had to be a part of that pack. Ruby dropped a clip out of her Crescent Rose, and slammed a new one in, readying herself for any new enemies.

Sure enough, loud stomps were heard in the distance. They were… unrecognizable. These stomps didn't belong to any Grimm that the team had ever heard of before. Sure enough, trees fell in the distance as the stomps got louder and louder, heavier and heavier…

Before suddenly, the forest burst open and the largest Grimm the team has ever seen emerged from within. The Grimm was gigantic, almost representing a human but thirty times larger. The Grimm had white armor plating around its chest, back, front of its legs and all around its head. The only weak spot visible was its neck. The Grimm also carried a weapon, an overly large club that could crush anyone under its weight.

"Well, now we know for sure that wasn't just a rumor!" Yang called out.

"I'm starting to wish I paid more attention in class…" Ruby shuddered as the giant took another step, shattering the land before them. "Weiss, any idea what the heck this thing is?!"

"N-No… But from observing it, it seems the weak spot in the neck. Decapitation should finish it off." Weiss instructed as she faced Ruby, and the red colored girl nodded. "Get back to Kuroyuri, we can confuse it with the buildings there!"

The three girls pushed back into the village, and the giant followed at a walking pace. It certainly wasn't the fastest Grimm out there. They all got behind the tallest building, hiding from the giant. Its perception didn't seem good at all as it fumbled to search for the Huntresses. "When it goes past us, get behind it. I need you to launch us at its neck, Weiss. Yang will go first to do some damage, Weiss will go second to freeze it in place and land some more hits in, and I'll come and slice it off." Ruby instructed with a grin.

"Got it." Yang grinned as she reloaded her gauntlets, cocking them and readying them for action. The giant stomped around, smashing some buildings with its club, destroying them in one hit, proving the strength of the weapon. However, little to the Grimm's knowledge, the three girls had gotten behind it. Weiss summoned a Glyph behind Ruby, Yang and herself. She launched Yang first, and she flew through the air at a rapid speed, keeping up the airtime by firing her Ember Celica behind her, before landing on the monster's shoulder. She punched the neck as hard as possible multiple times in a row, causing the giant to roar in pain.

The giant raised a hand to squash Yang on its shoulder, and she quickly jumped to the other side. However, the giant rapidly shot the club up, smashing Yang in the air and shooting her back down into the ground. A crater formed where she hit, but both Ruby and Weiss knew she'd survive that hit. "It looks like it can accomplish bursts of speed at a time. Be careful." Ruby warned.

Weiss launched up, preparing her ice dust to freeze the giant's legs and neck. However, before she could even get a chance to land, the giant quickly spun around and grabbed the ice queen. Her Myrtenaster slipped out of her hand as she was grabbed, and she was now unarmed and terrified.

"WEISS!" Ruby cried out. Out of desperation, she sped forward and up, trying to go for the neck. Of course, the giant noticed this, and swung its club, smashing it straight into Ruby. She flew through the air and straight into the stone building. Yang saw the whole thing, her eyes completely widening in shock. R-Ruby?! That… That was so unlike you, to get so desperate like that…

Weiss couldn't even speak as she saw Ruby take a hit and be heavily injured. She soon couldn't speak for another reason: The giant was squeezing its hand, crushing her. She could make a sound however: She was screaming in utter pain. The giant threw Weiss up as if she were some sort of baseball, and as if playing the game, the giant batted Weiss with its club, knocking her into the ground where Ruby laid.

With both Ruby and Weiss out of fight, it was up to Yang to finish it. Without the strength of the giant itself, this fight was hopeless.

Lucky for Yang, she did have that strength.

She slowly stood up, her eyes closed. The giant looked down at the girl as she stood up. "You…" Yang opened her eyes and, as expected, they were hellish red. She smashed her two fists together as she erupted into flames, her hair glowing and blazing. "Don't you dare hurt my team, you BASTARD!"

The giant tried to stomp down on her, but she rolled out of the way, immediately going for its feet. Normally with a Grimm this size, a shot at the feet would do little damage to bring it down. But when Yang was pissed, it would hurt. She swung multiple burning blows into the giant's ankle, and it cried out in pain, kneeling and dropping its head. Yang shot up, upper cutting the neck and knocking it onto its back.

She jumped up, ready to drop a fist onto its neck, but the giant used its speed burst to swing the club at Yang, knocking her back down to the ground. She landed on her feet, slightly sliding back, looking up, angrier than ever. The giant quickly got up as Yang charged towards it, firing a shot into the ground behind her and launching at its ankle. The giant attempted to stop Yang in her path by swinging its club down, but all it took was for Yang to punch the swinging weapon and it backfired, stumbling the giant backwards. All the while, Yang kept going for the ankles.

She switched between both feet, trying to hopefully take off one of the limbs and cripple the beast. Yang charged all of her strength into her right arm, and with a scream, smashed it straight into the right foot, bringing the giant down again. Yang launched rapid punches at the giant's neck yet again, but the Grimm would not die. It grabbed Yang, but this was a huge mistake. Yang punched the hand squeezed around her, and the giant let go of her out of pain. As soon as Yang hit the ground, she jumped back to avoid the knee coming her way as the monster stood up.

Using its speed, the monster raised a foot and stomped it on Yang. She immediately raised her arms up to stop the crushing weight, but it was much stronger than she thought. She gritted her teeth, using every ounce of strength to push the foot away, but it was all hopeless.

The weight kept coming down and down, as hard as Yang tried, she just wasn't as strong as it. She was practically squatting with how low the foot was. This… This can't be it!

Just when the giant thought it had succeeded, it felt a sharp blade land in its neck. The Grimm roared, weakening itself enough for Yang to escape the stomp. She looked up to see the blade in the giant's neck. Who did that?

The blade had a black string connected to it, and controlling that black string was…

"Blake?!"

Blake stood atop one of the buildings, her Gambol Shroud blade sunken into the beast's neck. She yanked the weapon back, bringing the giant her way enough for her to jump up onto its shoulder. She used her cleaver sheath to slice at its neck yet again, doing even more damage. The beast attempted to grab her, but she back flipped out of the way, dragging her blade out of the Grimm's neck and bringing it back into her hand. She landed right next to Yang, who was still having trouble believing her eyes.

"I think you and I know that now is not the time to talk. Let's just take this thing down, fast." Blake instructed in a determined tone. "You know what to do right?"

"Bumblebee?" Yang asked. Blake nodded.

"Bumblebee."

The giant roared at the two girls as Yang started launching backwards. Blake fired her weapon at the beast's neck, weakening it just slightly, before suddenly throwing her blade at Yang. The blonde caught it, and started rapidly moving to the right as Blake spun her, attempting to tie the black string around the giant's ankles. The giant tried to hit Yang, but to no avail. In no time, it was strung up, and with no way to control its feet, it fell forward.

Yang threw the blade back at Blake, and she caught it, sheathing it. She ran forward, jumped up, and swiped her cleaver. The neck was like hot butter under the sharpness, and the Grimm's head fell off its neck, hitting the ground below. The Grimm soon dissolved into nothing as Blake landed next to Yang. Yang was panting from the exhaustion of the fight, and she caught Blake's worried gaze towards her.

"So…" Blake said awkwardly, trying to find something to say. Yang cut her off.

"So you've finally decided to show up, huh?! After months of being gone, you finally show your damn face!" Yang yelled. Blake expected this, and she winced. "Why did you run, Blake?!"

"It was Adam! If I stuck around with the team, who knows how long it would be before someone else was died or…" Blake trailed off as the memories of when Yang's arm was cut started flooding back.

"We are a team for a reason, Blake! Teams stick together! One incident doesn't mean he's invincible! If you thought you were being selfless, you were wrong. I had to suffer without you for so long!" Yang continued yelling, and Blake took every word of it. "But don't you dare blame yourself for what happened to me! If you have spent all these months thinking it was your fault that my arm got chopped, then you're more selfish than I thought! I made the choice to try and save you, and the stupid choice to charge head on. It was nobody's fault but my own. I just saw you hurt and… I lost control…"

Yang seemed to have finished her yelling, and Blake only responded with two words.

"Hit me."

Yang raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Wha?"

"Hit me! Don't hold a damn thing back, punch me with everything you've got! I won't block it, it's what I deserve!" Blake screamed. Yang's eyes widened slightly at her outburst, but she soon closed them tightly, and opened them to reveal her red pupils.

"GLADLY!" She screamed her lungs raw as she raised a fist up. She kept it there for some time, her teeth grit, and her eyes burning red, her hair blazing. But she wasn't swinging. She was just holding her arm up in the air, slightly shaking. Blake was utterly confused, until she saw the stinging tears forming in the corner of Yang's red eyes.

"Yang? Are you-"

"DON'T TALK! Don't make this any harder on me than it already has to be!" Yang screamed. One of the tears streaked down her cheek as her fist shook rapidly. Was she really going to punch Blake? Her partner? Her friend?

Her crush?

Her fist immediately dropped, and she sighed. "Blake, I… I can't hit you…"

Blake tried to stretch out an arm to help Yang, but the two girls immediately heard Ruby's cry from a distance. "Weiss? Weiss?!"

Yang and Blake looked at each other, before sprinting towards Ruby's voice. She was kneeling over Weiss' unconscious body, and while Ruby only had a few injuries on her arms and legs, Weiss looked heavily injured, some blood streaking down her forehead. With the way she was crushed, who knew what the internal injuries would be?

"She's… She's barely breathing!" Ruby called out. "We need to get her to Mistral, I… I don't know how long she can last!"

"Blake, pick her up, you're the least injured out of us! I'll call for someone to pick us up and take us to Mistral" Yang instructed. Blake immediately picked up Weiss, sprinting after Yang as she headed for an evacuation point. Ruby followed the team as desperately as she could, despite her injuries. Her legs stung from all the cuts, and her arms bled, but she kept pushing and pushing. All the while, one thought echoing in Ruby's head…

Weiss… Please don't go…