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Huntresses Versus the Hunter

Chapter 1: TOAN (Talons of a Nevermore)

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Gray skies, desolate lands and black animals strolling through a forest. A hunt for food among giant scorpions and bears on the ground and giant avian birds in the sky, all with white stone masks. Miles from the trees, a village within sight for those in the sky. One man stood in the middle of the village, glancing to the sky. Another man saw the first and walked over to the first one. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Those Grimm are almost here! You're dead meat if they see you!" The first man heard his neighbor, but these Grimm didn't seem to be his big concern.

"Sorry," he apologized. "I'm noticing something weird in the clouds." The second man looked up, only seeing the gray cloud cover.

"You sure it's not the clouds themselves?" He soon refocused on the problem oncoming. "Anyway, I received notice that Beacon's RWBY team is coming here. We should be safe when they arrive." The first man seemed skeptical about the team.

"Team RWBY? As in the one lead by Ruby?"

"It's not much of a choice in mind. All we can do is hide while they take out the Grimm-" They felt the ground rumbling. They turned to find bears and scorpions entering town. "Run!" The second man dashed into a house but the first man tripped as a bear bared down on him. He screamed in fear of mauling. The bear raised its paw. That's when a black ribbon wrapped the wrist. It couldn't move the arm downward, buying time for the man to run to safety.

"Not so fast, Ursa!" voiced by a young woman. Turning, the Ursa spun to see a raven-haired wearing a bow-tie on top of her head. She also wore a black vest over a white sleeveless midriff and white shorts fastened to black stockings, short boots and a black scarf that covered her neck. The Ursa roared to the young woman before a blond teen girl flipped over her and delivered a flying punch to the stone helmet. From the punch sounded a shotgun blast. The Ursa's head flew hard to the ground like a sledgehammer. The voluptuous blond teen wore a brown short-sleeve jacket over a yellow t-shirt while donning an orange scarf around her neck. A pair of dark-colored shorts under a partial brown skirt and leather boots over orange socks and golden bracelets.

"You good, Blake?" she asked. Blake nodded before turning to other creatures.

"Leave it to Professor Ozpin to know who or what's striking," she sighed. "More Ursa and Death Stalkers." The blond looked to find the flying animal above.

"Can't forget the Nevermore in the sky." Before long, two more girls entered the fray. One was a dark redhead girl wearing black while petting the mouse. She wore a black coat with a red hood and skirt underneath, black nylon pantyhose and black boots. She held a giant black scythe. The other was a ponytail white-haired wearing the brightest blue dress and skirt that leveled at her thighs, an open jacket and shin-high boots. She held a rapier stretching ahead. As they passed, stingers from the scorpion tails severed, falling to the ground harmlessly. They regrouped with Blake and the blond.

"Sorry, we're late," the redhead apologized. "Caught Weiss snacking!" The white-haired girl scowled to the redhead's allegation.

"Tattletale!" she snapped.

"Worry about arguing later," Blake urged. "We got a bunch of Grimm to deal with." Despite losing their stingers, the scorpions resumed their charge.

"I don't understand why Professor Ozpin wants us to protect a village?" the blond shrugged as she emptied spent shotgun shells from her bracelets.

"Didn't Ozpin say something about a Grimm breeding ground nearby that's been recently developed?" recalled Weiss. "Also, there's valuable meteorology equipment here, especially forecasting locations of Grimm activity."

"Either way, we need to dispatch these guys," the redhead briefed. "There's only that one Nevermore we can worry about last unless it's directing the Grimm's march. Blake, Yang, you got the Ursa. Weiss and I can handle the Death Stalkers."

"Understood, Ruby," Blake accepted. The girls rushed after their targets and the battle continued. Blake and Yang tailed the bears swiping as Blake changed her weapon from a whip to a sword. The Ursa couldn't compete with their speed. Blake sheered off the legs before Yang blasted it with an uppercut. The Ursa fell to the dirt, head nearly ripped from the shoulders. Weiss and Ruby felt confident after slicing the Death Stalkers' stingers. However, the Death Stalkers' tail was still a powerful weapon. It swung but Weiss rolled beneath. Ruby sliced the tail clean off.

"I got it!" shouted Weiss. She waived her hand before a circle emerged around the Death Stalker. Mysterious symbols emerged within. The Death Stalker couldn't move. "Ruby!"

"Got it!" replied Ruby as she leaped into the air. Flipping, her momentum smashed and sliced the scorpion's head in two. The circle vanished and the Death Stalker fell dead. The battle continued for a little while, Grimm strewn in whole bodies or scattered body parts. The girls started to show fatigue.

"How many more?" huffed Blake. Without warning, one Death Stalker, presumed deceased, swung its tail at Weiss, striking her in the torso and sending her flying. She screamed but the Nevermore in the sky caught her with its talons.

"Weiss!" Quickly, Ruby turned to her sister and Blake, both knowing her idea. Finding two strong trees, they swiftly worked on making a slingshot with Blake's ribbon. Both girls anchored with their bodies as Ruby jumped in the middle, stretching the fabric while standing on her scythe. She shot from the makeshift slingshot and flew, rifle shots propelling her higher and higher. With a flip and within reach, Ruby speared the Nevermore who cawed in pain. It didn't disrupt its flight as it flew into the clouds.

"Ruby!" cried Yang. "Weiss!" All Blake and Yang could do was watch helplessly. Through the skies above the clouds, Ruby clung onto the Nevermore while it clung to Weiss.

"Ruby, I could use some help!" complained Weiss.

"Just hang on, Weiss!" advised Ruby.

"In case you forgot, this fowl's hanging onto me!" Ruby gulped and shook her head.

"Well…! Just stay calm! I'll get us down from here!"

"I am so beyond staying calm!"

"Just do so! Leave it to me!" Ruby ascended to the Nevermore's head. She knelt and loaded a yellow shotgun shell after converting her scythe into a rifle. The click got the attention of the Nevermore to turn its head. "I hope this works..." She pulled the trigger and a blast of static energy caught the flying Grimm. It stopped flying and lost its grip on Weiss. She grabbed the talon before falling. She now believed Ruby wanted to do something risky as Ruby folded his weapon.

"Ruby! Don't!" Ruby grabbed a feather still attached to the Nevermore and swung down.

"I'm coming!" She reached the talon on the swing, but the momentum smashed her into Weiss, releasing her grip on the talon. Now both girls began to free fall. "Wrong feather!"

"I told you don't!" Ruby held Weiss but it probably wouldn't be enough. That's when a swarm of giant bees with spikes for arms flew up and used the spikes as a way to catch the two. The swarm gathered, trying their hardest to minimize the fall. Ruby and Weiss looked to the bees, befuddled.

"Okay, when I hear about bees, they're not usually good."

"Yeah, getting stung in the butt's not my cup of tea." The swarm lowered the girls through the trees below and released the girls. "I can say that's the first time a swarm of bugs helped out. You're alright in my book." The bees buzzed before flying away. Weiss breathed a sigh of relief. "Either you knew we'd be fine the whole time or this was just a lucky break for you."

"Hey, we're fine. Quit complaining."

"I… am… far beyond complaining!" That's when more creatures came out from bagworms covered in leaves, yellow worms with spike on their crowns, walking flowers, a smorgasbord of unusual creatures surrounding them.

"I think they want to hear about it." A honeycomb-shaped three-headed bee buzzed by.

"There's no way creatures like that exist around Vale."

"Yeah, no kidding. Some I might take some interests to." Weiss turned to Ruby as she knelt to a weeded pod with legs. "We'd rather not hurt you, okay?" The weeded pod awed the compassion. That's when a loud caw echoed through the trees. It frightened the creatures into hiding. Ruby and Weiss knew the caw.

"The Nevermore!" More caws.

"It's coming from that direction!" The two raced after the loud caws. "That shell was meant to stun the Grimm! Uncle Qrow wanted me to try it out!"

"Well, it did the job! Still, that was a bad idea doing it while we're still airborne!" They saw a clearing ahead. In reach, they found the Nevermore surrounded by men in gray light-armor uniforms.

"Man, this one's huge!" one of the group awed. "I wonder how much this one's gonna fetch in the black market?"

"What I wanna know is what kind of Pokémon it is," another man asked. The Nevermore flapped its wing, sending feathers at the men like darts. The men cleared the path before a feather pierced them.

"One thing's for sure," one more spoke out. "This one's feisty!" Without warning, a turquoise dragon with red wings emerged. Riding on top, a silver-haired woman wearing a long midnight gray trench coat and a visor across her eyes and ears.

"What have we here?" she wondered. "It's not a Pokémon… but I can see value in your worth." The Nevermore cawed in protest, which the dragon roared to intimidate.

"Hunter J, what should we do? You said it's not aPokémon."

"I did. But it's not like I can ignore a detail like this." J fitted an apparatus onto her arm, pointing it at the Nevermore. Weiss and Ruby weren't sure what to do. They could save the Grimm or let J do their work. With one more caw, J fired a bullet to the restrained Nevermore. Its body and feathers started to bronze and freeze.

"Wait, she's preserving that Grimm?" whispered Ruby.

"I don't know," replied Weiss. A massive airship arrived and opened. A saucer flew to the Nevermore and reached underneath. Ruby and Weiss looked inside where more creatures were in the same state as the Nevermore.

"I hate to end up like them." J decided to move.

"A little bonus…" she sneered. "Now where's the next target?"

"Camellia City," one of the men informed.

"Camellia City it is. Move out!" Ruby and Weiss watched helplessly to J and her men moving out with a Grimm on board. What could the girls do now?

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TO BE CONTINUED...