I was really surprised when Ozpin appointed me leader. I know Ruby was leader

of team RWBY, but I didn't think I would be leader of team JMSN. I'm not the best in a leadership but I played a lot of strategy games. I mean, I wasn't very good at them, but I wasn't bad. I-

"Hey Jade." I looked up and saw Sapphire.

"Oh hi Sapphire."

"Could you follow me?" she asked. I narrowed my eyes, but I trusted her enough to

follow her, leaving Bloom. Very bad idea.

We went into the forest. I was slightly on my guard, but I didn't hear anything. Then, all at

once, Sapphire stopped. "I'm sorry Jade, I don't want to, but I have to do this." She said without turning around. My ears twitched and my eyes widened right before I felt something slam into my back, completely disabling my hard-light generator. Which is actually really hard, I made sure that it couldn't be damaged by just any attack. I was thrown to the ground. I turn around and saw Sapphire pull her weapon taut. I rolled to the side and her arrow hit beside my face. It exploded and the whole left side of my face and the back of my neck was suddenly in searing pain. I get up despite the pain. I try to sprint away, but slam into a glowing ice blue wall. I turn around and saw Sapphire pulling back an arrow with her dress glowing. She fires it at my feet. I then felt a cold pain in my gut. A spike of ice had burst from the ground and stabbed through my gut. My aura tried to heal me, but quickly depleted itself. The ice disintegrated and I fell to the ground.

"Let's finish him." A male voice says. I couldn't place it because I couldn't hold onto a thought for long. But I saw a… crow?

"No, Grimm will be attracted here. We need to leave, he will die soon. Let's just grab something off him and go." That's Sapphire… I think. I felt cold hands around my neck taking something and then I heard them leave. I don't now how long I lay there, teetering on the edge of a cliff, almost falling into dark unconsciousness… or death. Right before I did fall, I felt my limp, almost lifeless body, being pulled into a warm embrace. Then I felt nothing.

Ozpin POV

Sapphire ran into my office in hysterics. She started talking so fast I couldn't make it out. "Sapphire, calm down, this is very unlike you. Now, explain to me slowly what you want to say."

She gulped, breathing heavily for a second before explaining. "I wanted to train with Jade to find out his fighting style better, now that we are a full team. I didn't want to train in the gym or sparring stage, so we went into the forest. Then… then…" She started sobbing uncontrollably. It took a full minute for me to calm her down before she continued. "Then a giant pack of Beowolves attacked, with a bunch of Alphas. We tried to fight but… I barely got away."

This is troubling. This changes the whole chessboard. Taking away a piece and making others unable to move. It gives me many problems. I need some coffee. I sigh, "Go tell his sisters. They need to know."

"Okay." She sniffed and walked out. Still, something felt off about her story.

Sapphire POV

"YOU JUST LEFT HIM BEHIND?" Yang grabs the collar of my neck and slammed me against the wall. Ruby had curled into a ball, sobbing.

"Yang." Blake said warningly.

"No Blake, she just left him. She doesn't even care!"

"You don't think I care that my partner just died?" I say with fake sobs blanketing my voice. "I care! I've had people dying around all the time, and I thought, I dared to think, that I could finally be around people and they will be safe!"

"That's nothing! You don't know him at all!"

"I know that he loved you and your sister. I knew that he would do anything to protect you. He was able to throw me this just before he… he…" My body shakes as I pull out a pendant. There was a silver cross with a red gem in the middle. Then there were two others. On the right side there was a red rose and on the left there was a yellow burning heart. Yang let go of me and gently held the pendants in her hands. She sat down on the side of her bed and broke down in tears. That should keep them away from the truth for a while.