Yang sat in the chair, facing Ruby. The younger sibling was looking out the window of the train, chewing gum. Yes, Yang had suggested that team RWBY needed a vacation, and yes she WAS excited about the trip. But she could not stand the train ride. Yang didn't like being cooped up. She didn't like not doing anything. Which was what was happening right then. Blake had taken to reading her novel (obviously), Weiss was napping, and Ruby had taken to just admiring the view. This was boring. Nobody was doing anything, nothing was happening. Yang could only sit and wait.

...pop

...pop

...pop

Yang felt her eye twitch. Ruby was popping her gum. She didn't notice her older sister slowly having a mental breakdown. Yang gritted her teeth, patience draining fast.

...pop

"Alright, that's it! I'm gonna go talk a walk," Yang got up and quickly left the team's cabin, not wanting to blow up on her sister. Ruby watched her walk out and gave Blake a quizzical look. Blake 'hmm'd in agreement. Ruby shrugged and went back to looking out the window.

Yang stalked the corridors of the there had to be something to do! She was getting antsy and pacing the halls weren't helping. Yang moved from traincar to traincar, aimlessly wandering. She stepped into a cart filled with cargo, and felt that that something was wrong. She had a gut feeling, like something bad was about to happen. The only illumination in the cart was a lamp swinging wildly from the ceiling. Yang frowned. She could have sworn she saw someone. Moving further into the car, Yang tried to make out anybody in there. Did it just get colder?

"Hello?" she called out. "Is anybody there?"

Then the lamp swung as the train rattled, and briefly illuminated someone in a black cloak. Yang gasped. Who was that? The lamp arced once more, but the man was gone. Yang furrowed her brow. What the hell just happened? Was that a ghost? What was he doing? Yang shook her head and decided that the best course of action was to leave. She turned and exited the cart. She was halfway along the next cart, when there was a loud bang and Yang was thrown onto the floor.

"Woah!" That was unexpected, to say the least. She quickly got up and looked behind her. Did that train cart just explode?! She had to get back to her team. Yang bolted through the cart. She sprinted through the cars. By now the whole train was violently shaking. Suddenly the train came to a grinding halt. Yang stumbled and recovered. She had to get back. If anything had happened to her team, she would have never been able to forgive herself.

Once Yang reached the compartment, she immediately threw open the door.

"Yang?! What happened?!" Ruby questioned her sister. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, sis," Yang replied, relieved that her team was safe. "I don't think it's safe to be here, though."

Ruby nodded and looked to her other teammates.

"Let's get out of here." With that, team RWBY exited the compartment. They barely got five feet away when they felt another explosion. All of them were knocked down. Weiss was the first to recover. She pulled Ruby to her feet, when she heard a groan of metal. She slowly the cart of the train tipping downwards. She stumbled and slid downwards as the cart continued titanic-ing. She slid down to the door of the train and collided with a yelp. She heard the cracking of glass as her head connected to a window. Weiss quickly got up and looked up towards the rest of team RWBY. Ruby and Blake had stuck their blades into walls of the train and Yang was hanging onto Blake. Weiss prepared to leap up to help her team, when she heard more groaning of metal.

"Weiss!" Ruby shrieked at her, before Weiss felt her ground give way. The door had swung open under her. She wildly shot her hand out, trying to find purchase. She gave a yelp as she grabbed onto the handle of the door. That was close. Weiss looked down. It was a chasm. The train had been on a bridge when it blew up. The cart that they were on was hanging off the edge of the cliff, which explained the sudden shift in gravity.

"Weiss, can you get up here?" Ruby asked her friend. Weiss looked up at Ruby and frowned. What were they still doing here?

"What are you guys doing? Get up there before the trains goes over the edge!" Even when hanging off a train that was hanging off a cliff, Weiss could still find a reason to get mad.

"We're not gonna just leave you!" Yang yelled at her.

"Just go on! I'll catch up, don't worry about me!"

"Weiss..." Ruby looked at her.

"Just go! I'll be fine. Trust me," Weiss said to her companions.

She watched them clamber up towards the top and withdrew her rapier. She took a breath, counted to three, and summoned a rune underneath herself. She propelled herself upwards and grabbed onto a lamp on the ceiling. She jumped up towards the door, grabbing the handle and pulling herself up the doorway. Weiss then summoned another rune and jumped up onto the cliff edge. She landed gracefully, holstered her weapon before dusting herself off. She then felt a heavy weight at her side squeezing her.

"Weiss!" Ruby hugged her. "So glad you're okay!"

Weiss blushed a bit, before she pushed Ruby back. Biting back a smile, she responded,

"Was there any doubt?" Ruby was about to respond with a quip, whenBlake interrupted the two.

"Look," she pointed to the roof the train. Two small, shadowy figures appeared out of nowhere. They were both literally shrouded in shadows, giving them an unnatural feel. Their yellow orbs trained in on the girls, before the seemingly shrunk into the ground.

"Huh?" Yang had already powered her weapons. Two shadows travelled down the side of the train and onto the ground in front of the girls. The two shadows took form again, expanding back into the two small creatures. Yang immediately threw out a punch to one of the creatures. It stumbled, fell down, and immediately got back up as if nothing happened. Yang smiled. It seemed that her boredom problem had been solved. Then, again out of nowhere, more of the creatures appeared. Everyone unholstered their weapons as they faced the swarm of shadows.

"Uh oh," Ruby spoke. If one of them wasn't even affected by Yang's ferocious punch, what were they going to do against ten of them?

Sora supposed that picking up the star shard wasn't a very bright idea. But it wasn't his fault that the moment he picked it up, it immediately activated and whisked him away. He had just found it the mansion in twilight town. Sora mentally smacked himself. He really didn't want to do this.

The star shard flew around some more, seemingly of its own accord. Sora really had no idea how the thing worked. It just went off whenever. Suddenly, he felt the star shard diving. The ground was coming up dangerously fast, and Sora screamed. This was not his day.

A brilliant flash of light went off in front of the girls. The swarm on enemies surrounding them leapt back a few feet.

"What the hell was that?! Guys?"

"Who-"

"I can't see! Yang it's happening again!"

"Ow! Ruby was that you?"

"I think that was me, sorry."

"Ohhh man..."

Slowly, Ruby's vision recovered. She blinked furiously, attempting to quicken the process. As she came to, she saw somebody lying face down on the ground in front of her. He was a teen, about her age, and had spiky brown hair. He was just lying there groaning. Where did he come from? Ruby looked around to the rest of the team. Yang was sitting on the ground, feeling around for something. Blake and Weiss were tangled in heap, the latter desperately trying to untangle herself unconciously making the problem worse.

"Come on, get up guys!" Ruby helped Yang up and untangled her other two swarm around them were closing in, having recovered much faster than the four of them.

"Just- just give me a sec. I think my sight's coming back..." Yang rubbed her eyes. Ruby turned to the new guy.

"Hey, guy! Are you okay? Can you get up?" Ruby kneeled over him and attempted to get him up. He groaned again, shrugging Ruby off of him

"They're getting closer..." Weiss said. Ruby looked around at the shadows. She got up in front of the mysterious new guy.

"Stand back, we got this," Ruby told him. Sora rubbed, then opened his eyes and saw their problem. They were surrounded by heartless.

"Are you kidding me?" Sora summoned his keyblade, Oathkeeper, and poised in his fighting stance. Ruby looked at him, suddenly fully aware and in posession of a weapon (where did it come from?).

"You can fight? I think we're gonna need the help," Ruby said to him. Sora grunted in agreement. The swarm was almost upon them. Then Sora charge forward into the frey. He attacked fast and hard. There were Heartless in this world, too. Did that mean the nobodies weren't far behind? As Sora hacked and slashed, he caught a glimpse of the others fighting. They didn't seem to be doing too bad. They must have been trained, he mused. There was the one with the red cloak. She fought with blinding speed. It looked like a blur of red, rose petals, and what Sora thought looked like an oversized scythe. A Heartless took advantage of his lapse in attentiob and lashed out at him. Sora side stepped and slashed at it. He could almost hear Riku's voice in his head. Focus, Sora! Sora almost intinctively grimaced at that.

Yang was having fun. She laughed as a creature leaping towards her was asily destroyed by a stray shot from Blake. The raven haired girl moved with grace and speed, decimating any enemy that came in contact with her. As Gambol Shroud had long reach, she was carving out enemies with ease. Yang smiled and leapt over to her partner's side, hitting one of the creatures creeping up behind Blake. Blake almost gave a small smile as she felt the familiar feeling of her partner fighting with her. Yang was ferocious,, her attacks knocking enemies down, and out. Blake wouldn't have the fight any other way.

Weiss froze a group of enemies before lunging, breaking the ice and subsequently killing the creatures incased in them. They certainly weren't Grimm, or at least any Grimm she had ever seen. As she was about to slash at a too close, Ruby appeared and slashed at it, before disappearing back into the fray. Weiss furrowed her brows and attacked one to the side. Weiss reared back, noticing that much of the crowd had thinned. She stabbed one last stray one, and that was it. She guessed that the rest must have retreated.

Sora lunged at the heartless, but his keyblade found no connection. The Heartles had disappeared. Huh. He looked around the field. The Heartless had all but gone, leaving the cliffside entirely. He was sure they hadn't killed them all. It all felt... wrong.

"Aww. Where'd the party go? I wasnt done," Yang looked around the cliffside, dissapointed at the lack of monsters. "Ah, well. Good fight while it lasted, I guess."

Ruby hesitently holstered her weapon. Surely that wasn't it? She looked at Sora.

"Hey, new guy! You fight pretty well. What's your name?" She walked towards Sora. After the rush of the battle, Sora had time to take stock at the situation. He was on a cliffside, there were four girls probably about his age, and they all fought really well. There was the red cloaked one, the blonde one, the white haired one and a girl with the bowtie on her head. How cute.

"I'm Sora. Nice to meet you!" Sora extended a hand towards Ruby. She smiled and shook it. She seemed nice, he thought.

"Well Sora, I'm Ruby. This is my team. That's Yang, my sister. That's Weiss, and that's Blake." Ruby pointed to each member. "We're team RWBY."

Sora gave her a quizzical look. Team Ruby? That was kind of vain. Ruby noticed his look and quickly clarified,

"Ruby. Weiss. Blake. Yang." she pointed out. "R. W. B. Y. RWBY. Get it?"

Sora gave a small and a nod. Now he had some questions to answer.

"So Sora, wanna explain what the hell just happened?"