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Prologue

The Grimmlands the most dangerous place in all Remnant, a big forest situated in the middle of the continent of Sanus between Vale and Vacuo, the people said that the gigantic forest was home from countless horrors, creature of Grimm so weird and so ancient that even the most experienced hunters will have a hard time dealing with them, so that's why so little people enters more than a dozen of miles from the border where just regular and relatively young Grimm habited.

There was some small villages' close the border of the forest, and since the beginning they only had a little problem with Grimm due their territorial tendencies, just some of the youngest ones appeared there from time to time and the guard took care of them before they could cause trouble.

Team RWBY and JNPR where running for their lives they didn't know how something went so wrong it was supposed to be an easy mission, search and destroy in a small village close to the Grimmlands, a pack of around ten Beowolves was lurking and attacking people around the small settlement but the guard of the place couldn't get rid of them, in the report was stated that this was very rare and never saw in that village at least that a pack that big was lurking and attacking the villagers.

That is why they called for help to Beacon Academy, and team RWBY and JNPR jump to the chance from some field experience. All of them where exited Ruby was chatting very fast with Weiss talking about how awesome this mission was going to be and how much cookies she will eat when they get back to beacon, meanwhile the heiress was chastising her about her diet, Yang was chatting a little less exited with Nora about how much kick they were going to kick, Blake was just hearing them smiling exited too a very rare sight, Ren was sleeping yeah that's how he shows his enthusiasm, Pyrrha was besides Jaune smiling while rubbing his back and Jaune was using all his concentration to not vomit.

When they arrived they didn't lose time and after some words with the Chief of the town and the Guard they started searching for the pack, thanks to Ren with his amazing observation skills and Blake and her experience tracking they found a trail from the pack pretty quickly, the trail lead them to a mountain, that was something weird but they kept going around the mountain until they found a path that seemed to reach to the top.

It was a hard walk, the uneven ground and a lot of rocks blocking the path sometimes so they had to climb a little.

"This is weird, why they will have their den all the way up here but attack the village that is at least seven miles from here, they aren't supposed to be territorial?" the little reaper asked

"It certainly it's a weird behavior" Ren pointed out

"It doesn't matter! We'll kick their butts and get back to the village and ask for pancakes!" the energetic ginger said happily

"I'm with Ruby here guys, there is something weird happening here we should stop and think this more and look at all the possible things happening here before continue" Jaune suggested it was just a gut feeling, but he didn't said anything before thinking was his motion sickness still messing with him, but every step they took the feeling started to grow and grow.

"It'll be fine Jaune we are almost at the top" reassured Pyrrha and as they continue walking.

But Jaune felt something this was wrong, why the Grimm will travel all the way from this rocky mountain to the village it makes no sense, as ruby said the Grimm were very territorial, especially a large pack like the one that the guard had seen, then was the part of attacking the villagers if they were really trying to kill them, they were attacked by now with all the pack, why hit and run. Jaune was pondering a million ideas in his mind trying to make head or tails from the small amount of information he had and after pondering a bit more he thought of something.

"This is a trap! There are luring us to them. It makes no sense from the reports of the guards there is no alpha between them; they just saw younglings in the attacks." Jaune stopped using all his concentrationand all the information at hand, his eyes widened when realization hit him, remembering the las thing the little reaper said he got an idea of what was probably happening.

"Hey Guys! Stop!" he practically shouted at them but if he was right he needed to prepare all of them fast.

"What are you yelling for!?" the angry heiress sends him a glare that in other situation would affect him but not now.

"We need to get ready there is a possibility they are luring us to a trap!" he looked around with his sword and shield ready. This make all of them stop and stare at him like he was a mad man.

"What are you talking about?! The guards said that they were young Beowolves with no alpha" the still angry heiress asked him, but flinched a little when Jaune send her his own glare.

"Think about it! Why would they travel all the way to the village to attack one villager and then run? Why they don't use their numbers to attack like all the young and mindless Grimm? It so obvious they don't attack because they want us to locate them! They want us to come here!" Jaune said still looking around scrutinizing every shadow.

"Wait Jaune breath! That still doesn't make sense, why would they want us here?" his partner asked a little on edge, fearing for the answer he will give her, he never doubted Jaune, he might not be the best fighting yet even with his amazing progress, but he was smarter than he let see, if his mind has made something so complicated she will at least give him the benefit of doubt.

"Pyrrha think about what ruby said earlier, the Grimms are territorial and of all of them who is the most territorial of all?" Pyrrha still confused didn't answer so Jaune continued "The Alpha Pyrrha! He maybe is in the limit of his territory here but he can send the young and weak to scout, he knew that the Guards will eventually came here when the hit and runs of the scouts bother them enough, he knows that taking charge of the Guard the only defense of the town, it will be easy to reach the rest of the villagers without opposition, why you think he'll have his den in a mountain with no caves, no close water and no roof!"

"Ambush and vantage point!" Blake was the one to answer his questions "But that is impossible that will mean that the alpha is-"a loud howl pierced around the mountain.

"A very ancient one" Jaune said, suddenly from almost every rock and shadow Beowolves started to show themselves some growling others howling. "There is no time to go back to the ground we need to reach the top it seems like is less rocks and the ground is more even, let's go! Pyrrha, Ren, Ruby give us covering fire but don't stop running!" they all started running to the top.

Thankfully they were close to the top and when they reach it the battle started, bullets, ice, and fire and grenades flying to the countless mass of Grimm, this was the biggest pack of Beowolves they ever heard before at least two hundred of them. All of them where using all their ammunition before the Close combat started, even Jaune was trying to help throwing rocks big enough to delay them, at this point he had two thoughts in his mind.

"I really need a gun!" he screamed in his mind while throwing another rock "Oh god the alpha must be extremely ancient and powerful to control a pack like this! I need to think something if they round us we're doomed"

"Weiss i need you to make two big walls of ice and a small opening between them big enough two Beowolves at the time!" Weiss just nodded and started to make what he asked for "Ok guys i need you to hear me a little! Weiss is going to create to walls and an opening just enough to let some of them in at the time we are going to get close and personal really soon so get ready! Pyrrha and Ruby you are the best marksman of us gave us support fire and don't let any of them pass above the wall, if they round us we're done, prepare yourselves!" all of them nodded and accepted the plan of Jaune without doubt.

Weiss used the rest of her ice dust and created two big walls around twelve feet tall few seconds later they could hear some Grimm slamming against the walls, from the opening Beowolves started to pass and the Close combat started, they fought for what seems an eternity, there were too many Beowolves Pyrrha and Ruby ran out of ammo eventually and enter the fray with their melee weapons.

They didn't count how many Beowolves they killed but when less of them showed from the opening they knew the final battle was about to start, when the last member of the pack died he will enter the fight, the last ten Beowolves that went through the opening were the hardest one, they were the last piece of infantry the alpha had, his betas.

All of them where exhausted fighting so much Beowolves even if they were young and dumb ones was very tiring and the betas didn't make the things better, they were faster and stronger, but they didn't back out, they didn't have that luxury so the battle continued.

"Just die already you stupid Grimm" Yang shouted while punching repeatedly the Beowolf dealing with him with just blunt force after she ran of ammo long ago

"Come on guys! We're almost done" Jaune said to all of them while dodging a ferocious paw that tried to tore his chest, using his momentum to cut the arm of the beast and using his distraction of crying of pain to stab it in the chest. "These are stronger ones, and have more bone plates these are the betas" he looked around and saw Pyrrha decapitating another one with a fluid movement and Nora using his mighty hammer to kill the last two of them, he cringed a little looking all the exhausted faces of his friends. They needed time to catch their breath looking around he knew what his next move was.

"Nora, Yang i need your help fast, help me move this boulder!" he said signaling a significantly big rock beside them "let's put this in the opening for some reason the alpha hasn't appeared let's make it more difficult for him to reach us and take a breath before he shows up" the two girls nodded and the three of them pushed with all their might and aura the boulder to the opening after that the practically crawled next to their friends and sit on the floor still at full alert. He looked at his friends evaluating their status.

Ruby was laying on the floor beside Weiss she looked tired she didn't even have Crescent Rose in her hands, Weiss was seated in the floor her hair flowing in the wind maybe she loosed her tiara in the fight "What a weird sight" Jaune tough, he looked a little up to see Blake over a boulder breathing hard, he could see that she lost a large part of her left tight in the fight "her long leg looks ni-" he shook his head this was not the time for that.

Looking at the rest of his friends he could see yang mumbling something and caressing her hair, he knew that the best was not make eye contact with her when something happens to her hair, in the ground Ren and Nora were back to back Ren seemed to be… sleeping? And Nora was talking excitedly even with a fight of this magnitude she still had so much energy Jaune started to ponder a diet full of pancakes and syrup before every mission.

Beside him was his partner Pyrrha was looking at the wall, like a falcon that never lose sight of his prey, for the people that didn't know her as much as he does, she looked fine and fresh after the fight, but he knew that Pyrrha was in her last reserves, the way her breathing hasn't going back to a normal one, the little spasms in her arms reflecting the exhaustion she was having, "We need to make something fast, there is only about an hour before the night reach us and then the alpha will have all the vantages"

Jaune looked at his scroll again, no signal, after they sealed the path between the walls all of them started trying to get help from beacon but something was messing with the signal, after a little investigation they discovered what was doing it thanks to Pyrrha, it appears that in the ground of the mountain was a very strong and weird magnetic rocks powerful enough to mess with the signal thankfully it wasn't strong enough to mess with the device they just needed to get away from the mountain to get help, with that in mind Jaune walked to Ruby

"Hey Rubes, what do you think we should do know?" the little reaper still lying in the ground groaned a little and sat up before talking.

"I really don't know Jaune, why the alpha isn't here we're exhausted he should take the opportunity! If he is that smart, why he hadn't appeared yet?"

"My guess is that he is waiting for the night when he will have all the vantages at his side, the darkness of the night and all of us being tired." Again all of this was guessing but his gut didn't fail him last time, he was ready to hear it again.

"Well then we have three options" she said lifting three fingers of her right hand "First rest for another five minutes at most and start running to the village and came here tomorrow to end this well rested and energized this one is the most convenient for us but risking losing all the trails of him, the second one is rest again maybe ten minutes and start looking for him if you think he is waiting for the night he must be close enough to track him fast, but it will be a difficult fight, and the third option" Ruby sighed "This is the one i think we should take, we wait for him here make a fire to give us enough vision and rest a little more and then wait here for him to make his move"

All of them were pondering the options the little reaper gave them it was a hard decision but after a minute of thinking all of them take third option and decided to wait, Yang and Nora wanted to run back to the village, but quickly discarded that option after seeing some of them like Weiss and Ren with no energy enough to make that run so they started gathering all the small wooden stick they could and prepared themselves for the wait.

When the night reached them they didn't waited too long an hour after the sunset they started to hear rustling at the other side of the wall and all of them took their place besides the four bonfires they made with fire dust at hand ready to illuminate the place.

Suddenly Blake could see claws of the beast starting to reach the top of the wall. "He is here!" she whispered and as if that was his signal of entrance the Beowolf jumped to the other side of the wall and howled. They threw the fire dust to the ground igniting the bonfires and illuminating the entire battlefield, eight pairs of eyes widened at the sight of the beast.

It was at least nine feet tall and his body was almost completely covered in bone plates, only things like it elbows and knees didn't have bone on them, its claws where as big as Pyrrha sword and they looked very sharp, and the most terrible part was it jaws, they were massive! This was going to be a hard fight with only melee weapons even if they were eight against one.

The Beowolf recoiled a little at the light even with all his years of life and his intelligence he was caught off guard but it didn't matter he knew, they were exhausted this fight was his, so he leaped to the attack using his claws he tried to shred Weiss but a mighty shield appeared in front of him stopping his sudden attack.

"Snap it out guys! Let's go!" Jaune yelled at them, after blocking the hit of the alpha he understood some things like how thankful he was for his apparent massive reserves of aura, and if anyone of them he included took a hit like that without protection, they were dead. "Dodge every hit guys, he almost broke my arm with that one, he is ridiculously strong!"

"In and out teams, Jaune don't take the blunt hit again we need you and your shield! Deflect every hit come on lets end this!" the young leader slashed with her scythe at the side of the alpha and jumped back, not giving him chance to attack her because another mighty hit of a hammer reached his legs.

After taking more hits the alpha was getting angrier and angrier, they were taking too much hits against him if he continue he will lose, suddenly he jumped back and put his back against the wall, he inhaled hard and let out the most powerful howl any of them ever heard all of them covered their ears, but for a certain cat Faunus this was worst she couldn't handle the pain in her cat ears and kneeled down from the pain.

The alpha took advantage of this and leaped with his jaws open to rip Blake apart no one could do anything they all were still stunned from the powerful howl, all of the eyes widened.

"BLAKE!" Yang yelled in anguish seeing the powerful beast trying to rip her partner apart suddenly someone moved Blake out of the way and took the powerful bite in his side, it was so fast that she didn't manage to understand what happened until he heard his sister yell in horror.

"JAUNE NO!" the blonde knight was beside Blake after the howl and even in his stunned state he managed to move Blake out of the way, he tried to move away from the powerful jaws, he wasn't that crazy to take that hit, but he didn't calculate the strong leap the Beowolf took, and couldn't manage to get away taking the bite in his side. Blake couldn't move she just watched all completely numb and horrified.

He gritted his teeth using all his willpower to suppress a yell of pain, he used the pain to focus and he used where he was to make a move, Using all his might he managed to nail his sword in the right eye of the beast, making it howl in pain, with all the trash he made the beast end up throwing Jaune of the cliff of the mountain right into a river in the bottom.

"JAUNE!" Pyrrha yelled looking at the falling body of the blond she wanted to leap to the water to save him but a hand in her shoulder make her turn back "Pyrrha! Jaune give us a great chance to end this fight half blinded the alpha! lets end this here and then go to the bottom to find him" an emotional Ren was something they rarely saw, she could see in his eyes that he was very worried about Jaune too, she wanted to argue but he was right Jaune give them a better shot against the alpha.

Standing up and fueled by anger and hatred she leaped to attack the alpha again, all of them except for Blake that was still in the floor completely stunned, started the attack again, the alpha was receiving too much damage again he needed to do something he haven't done in long, very long time he prepared to run, he was about to howl again when a spear struck him below his jaw impeding him to howl, he lifted his paw to hit Pyrrha, but a hammer struck him in the back of his knees making it kneel and driving the spear further in his jaws and making it lift more his neck. Ruby used this opportunity to use her scythe to decapitate the alpha.

After some seconds of panting they all started to move to the wall without saying a word, this time not only Yang and Nora started moving the boulder, six pair of hands where moving it, all of them where exhausted but they needed to find the blonde knight. When they moved the boulder they were about to run down the mountain but looked back one more time just to see Blake still in the floor looking at the cliff where Jaune was thrown off.

"Blake we need to go let's go" Her partner said but Blake didn't move "Blake we need to go now we need to find Jaune!" Yang insisted again this time Blake turned at her and asked

"Why?" this time all of them were confused she could saw it in their faces so she decided to elaborate "Why would he do that?" her eyes were watering

"What kind of question is that? Because you're his friend Blake!" surprisingly Weiss told her with urgency in her voice she really wanted to start the searching for Jaune he needed to thank him for saving her from the fast attack of the alpha

"Exactly Blake what are you talking about?" the little reaper said

"We barely talked Ruby at most we were acquaintances, why would he throw his life for me?" she asked again this time Pyrrha decided to answer her

"Blake, for Jaune all of us here are his friends, even if you didn't consider him like that, he had told me how much he admire you for everything you had done and endured being a Faunus and how happy he was for the few times you recommended him a good book, Jaune is a simple man like that, so yeah Blake he consider you a friend worth putting his life on the line for, so please get up and move because i really want to start searching for my partner, our friend" she said the last part gritting her teeth, she really needed to start looking for Jaune

After few seconds of looking at the floor Blake nodded to herself and got up then looked at her friends and nodded again, without saying anything all of them were running to the bottom.

"When we reach the bottom of the mountain send the emergency signal to beacon! Ren how much aura Jaune has?" The young asked to her friends thinking for the first time of the aura lector that all the scrolls had.

All of them wanted to slap themselves of course that was the first thing they should do! Ren reached for his scroll and checked the app. He paled and his eyes widened completely he turned to ruby and said something that chilled the hearts of everyone there. "His aura lector reads cero percent" all of them stopped in their tracks. Did that means that he was?

"That doesn't mean anything maybe his scroll broke in the fall or-"The heiress cut herself

"Or what Weiss?" Nora asked with fear, the heiress cleared her throat and started again

"Or maybe he is too far for the signal of his scroll to reach yours" she said weakly "either way we need to reach the bottom and alert Beacon immediately" with that said all of them started to run again.

Meanwhile Pyrrha was mumbling to herself all the way back that Jaune was right that he had a gigantic pool of aura, that he was alive. When they reached the bottom and had signal in their scroll Ren made the call to beacon. Surprisingly Ozpin answered the call in the second ring.

"Mr. Ren what it is happening?" the calm voice of the headmaster sounded a little on edge.

"The mission got complicated headmaster, i'll give you the details later but we need help, Jaune got thrown off a cliff into a river and his aura lector reads cero, we need help to find him" The line went silent for two seconds before Ozpin talked again

"I'm sending help immediately" he said and started talking to Ms. Goodwitch "Glynda take Port and Oobleck go to the coordinates that Mr. Lie scroll signal is giving us, go!" he put his attention back in Ren "Mr. Lie i need you to tell me what is the direction the river is flowing to?" the way Ozpin asked this make Ren uneasy he took a look to the direction the river was flowing and almost dropped his scroll none of them have put attention to that.

"It goes right into the Grimmlands." Even if Ren whispered that he just wanted to scream his leader and self-appointed brother was probably in the most dangerous place in all Remnant.

"Don't move from your position Mr. Lie and put me in to speaker and group with your team and team RWBY please" Ren did as the headmaster asked and put his scroll in speaker and called the rest of them when they all were together the headmaster talked again.

"Students i know that all of you want to reach for Mr. Arc right now but i need you to listen very carefully what I'm about to say, do you understand?" everyone voiced their agreement "Alright, i need all of you to go back to the village right now" he said with a tone that said them it was an order. Pyrrha was the first to argue

"What are you talking about headmaster!? We need to find Jaune-" Ozpin cut her before she could say more

"I completely understand how you feel Miss Nikos but you need to understand one thing, if what Mr. Lie said to me and the river enters the Grimmlands i would not only have one missing student i will have eight, you don't have the experience to enter that place." The voice of the headmaster sounded powerful and full of command, when all of them looked at the river they saw he was right the river goes straight into the forest.

"But Jaune-" Pyrrha started crying she knew the headmaster was right but she needed to find her partner and now all the feelings were overwhelming her. Nora was fast at her side hugging her crying too.

"Yang we need to go find him" Ruby pleaded to her sister, Yang didn't know what to say so she just hugged ruby tightly.

"Miss Nikos, Miss Rose in this moment Professor Goodwitch, Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck are now in their way there, the pilot has instructions to fly there at full speed so they will arrive to that your location in an hour at most, so i recommend you to go back to the Village and wait for them"

"They are locating the signal in my scroll right? Maybe we could wait them here so they don't have to travel all the way from the village to this point" Ren suggested

"I recommend you to not do that you all sound exhausted and with all the emotions you feel right now you could draw Grimm to your position" The headmaster was right again but they wanted to help in some way

"We have been in a roller-coaster of emotions for about half an hour now and we haven't draw any Grimm to us, i can't hear or smell any Grimm in the proximity, so if we only calm ourselves a little we should be fine until the teachers get here, and what Ren said is the best course of action we will cut a lot the time if we the teachers start the search from here" Blake said leaving all of them a little surprised they never heard her talk that much so fast before. A loud sigh came from the other side of the line.

"Okay but you need to be alert if something appear run straight to the village and wait for the teachers there and that's final" Ozpin knew this could be bad but he also knew that he wouldn't convince them to leave the place. "I need to coordinate with the other Professors, stay alert and stay safe they will be arriving very soon" with that Ozpin cut the communication.

The hour of waiting felt like an eternity they all tried to do as Blake said and calm a little but it was hard for all of them but for Pyrrha and Ruby, the Spartan was about to crumble only the tight hug of Nora was keeping her from falling or going straight into the forest, Ruby was no different she wanted to run at full speed until founding Jaune, she was fast she could do it, but if what people said its true it was practically a suicidal mission, his first and best friend was inside the worst place in the planet and she couldn't do anything. All she could do now was hug her sister and wait.

When the teachers finally arrived they asked a few questions before tell them to wait and they took of inside the forest, again the teachers requested them to go the village and rest but none of them moved to do that, they wanted to receive Jaune when they came back with him.

Seven hours has passed and was almost sunrise only Blake, Yang, Pyrrha and surprisingly Ren were up still waiting Weiss was sleeping against a tree with Ruby's head in her shoulder and Nora sleeping in her lap, even in the situation they were, they had to admit that it was adorable Yang actually took a picture of the scene.

Suddenly Blake heard a rustle coming from the forest, they quickly awake the sleeping part of the group and prepared themselves, this could be an attack from grim or the teachers, they readied their weapons and waited, few minute later they relaxed their stand when Blake told them that it was sound of footsteps, they all got ready to greet their friend but after minutes of waiting when the three professors came on sight their smiles and positive attitude crumbled when no blonde goofy knight came with them, instead a very broken and dented white chest plate with signs of teeth at the side was the only thing the professors found.

No one said anything after the professors explained them where they found the chest plate, and that the river went far to the center of the forest, way too far for them to continue searching, if the big amount of Grimm they found in the few miles they traveled was any indicator of the quantity of monsters that habited that forest.

The travel back to beacon was silent and full of tears and sorrow.

Far inside the forest

When Jaune woke up, he had a massive headache and completely soaked, he also felt that his body was being beating around with Magnhild in a weird tennis play against Ember Celica, he could feel his aura working miracles to stop all the pain and when he felt a little less pain he finally sit up, he looked around and started to wonder where the hell he was.

"Okay Jaune think what happened you were fighting against the alpha, ok check, i remember the loud howl, then… he attacked Blake and i push her but i couldn't dodge the attack, oh man i need to work in my speed" instinctively he reached to touch his side only to wince a little when he looked down he could see a fain white glow and teeth marks in his skin "That is going to leave a scar, okay focus Jaune first of all where is your weapon!" a little feeling of panic came to him if he loses Crocea Mors he was doomed, the shield was still attached to his left gauntlet, so he looked around searching his blade, realizing after a few seconds that the mighty sword was still in his right hand, said hand was completely cramped for the strength he put to not lose his weapon.

"God that's embarrassing, i should be thankful none of my friends was close to see that, okay i got my weapon, next my scroll i need to call for help!" he reached his pocket and drew his scroll thankfully it was waterproof "okay let's see, Damn! No signal i need to go back on my own, now if the river brought me here i just need to follow it against the flow" he looked his surroundings he was in a lake that was from five different rivers that end right there.

"Of what river i came from?" he didn't have idea five options to take if he was lucky he would take a guess and find the right path but knowing his luck this was going to suck. Suddenly another though came to his mind, now that he was completely awake his brain could ask the right questions.

"Wait, this forest seems to be big, way too big, but that impossible the only forest close to where we were is-" the realization of where he was hit him like a truck he could feel cold sweat pouring from the back of his neck, his with skin turned a dead white the single word send chills to his spine "The Grimmlands".

A/N

Hey guys this history was inspired by "Survival of the fittest?" from AthanMortis, he inspired the idea and i needed to give it a shot obviously trying to not make a copy of his/her work, i really like his history and even if is a small and don't publish frequently he got me wrapped, so yeah if you ever read this history AthanMortis you inspired me thanks.

For the first time i have an end i want to reach with a history, i actually have other two in my laptop waiting for me, but this one it has been in my mind for a good time i hope you enjoy reading this one as much joy i had writing it.

As always sorry for the mistakes i made here English is not my language so i use FF to get better, reading and listening easy, try to write man is hard as hell. All of the guys that publish their histories here have my respect.

So yeah without more to say i hope you enjoy this one thanks :D