Chapter 1

Snowfall

It was the middle of winter and snow was falling as impartial as it always does. It falls and thus makes people happy on one side of the kingdom, while on another side a person may be fighting to stay alive. When this story takes place, a messy battle raged in a forest while the snow fell.

"HIIIIYYA!" a girl screamed, plunging her scythe into the body of an attacking Beowolf, "Take that, and that, and this, and…," she continued as more and more Beowolves continued to attack.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" a guy, this time, screamed while running from an Ursa that had the guy's shield in its jaw and the guy's sword in its side.

"I've got this," bellowed another girl who swung her hammer into the guy's sword that was in the Ursa's neck, killing the Ursa in one hit, "WOOHOO! Yeah!" she roared in her own triumph only to be cut off in her self-applause by a King Tijitu.

With this new arrival, the group stopped what they were doing. The other Grimm around them even showed intimidation to the King Tijitu that had appeared. The Grimm struck out at the group with a lightening quick attack. If it wasn't for the fact that these teenagers were battle ready, this attack would have finished anyone. The girl with the hammer and the girl with the scythe easily dodged the Grimm's attack, but the boy who was still fumbling on the ground only escaped from harm by luckily dislodging his shield from the dead Ursa's disintegrating jaw as the attack struck. Despite living the attack, he was hurled against a nearby tree and failed to get up after the attack.

"Jaune!" the two female members of his group screamed his name as it appeared that he was helpless before the Grimm.

The Grimm looked as though it was about to strike again when the fourth and final member of the group showed up cutting behind the Grimm's head to get its attention with his twin machine guns/knives. With that distraction, the timing was perfect as the two other members of the group finished it off.

The rest of the Grimm that been attacking seemed to start to leave. Possibly, the fact that the four of them being able to defeat the King Tijitu was enough for them to know that they should leave. The battle, which had been raging for what seemed like an hour, had finally finished.

They may seem like a group of extraordinary teenagers, if they were in any other world, but in this world where a select few become Hunters/Huntresses to push back the forces of Grimm that threatened to destroy humanity, they are just that, a group of teenagers. They had discovered that fact just earlier that year when a fellow student and friend of theirs, Pyrrha, was killed at their academy. In fact, she was once a part of this team too. It was because of her death that they were going to another kingdom named Haven. One of them was told that all of this, that which led to their friend's death and the destruction of their academy to be exact, was originating from Haven. Thus Team JNPR was now JNRR; for their friend, Phyrra, had been replaced with Ruby.

"I can't believe that another group of Grimm attacked today," said Nora (the girl with the hammer), "What does that make for today? Four? Five?"

"Seven," said Ren (the guy with the dual machine guns).

"SEVEN!?" yelled Nora, "I can't believe those Grimm. Next time that I see them I'll.…"

"It might be from what Cinder was trying to do," said Ruby (the girl with the big scythe), "And Ozpin did say that the Grimm have been becoming more active lately," she said this with sadness inside her. The same time that their friend died, their headmaster, Ozpin, disappeared and nobody has seen him since, "Maybe we should just rest here for today instead of trying to push ourselves."

"GREAT!" Nora squealed, "We can have a fire, and a picnic, and we can roast marshmallows. REN! You can help with the tents, and Jaune can get the firewood, and I can…"

At this Ruby looked back at their team leader, Jaune, but he was nowhere to be found right now. The spot where he had been thrown had the marks of him leaving into the forest. Taking into account that Nora would still be talking about what they could be doing by the time she got back, she followed after Jaune.

"ACK! AACK!" came from around a tree. On the other side was Jaune oddly attacking a tree with his sword.

"I think you have won this battle, Jaune," Ruby said to get his attention.

"Huh? Oh!" he said in surprise, "I…uh…I'm just trying to…um…cut down this tree for some firewood. Didn't Nora say something about a fire?"

"Yeah," Ruby replied, "But I doubt your sword is going to cut down that tree any time soon."

She said this while looking at the tall oak tree that Jean had been attacking just a moment before.

"Oh okay. You got me," he said dejectedly as though something was troubling him, "I came out here alone to try to practice with my sword."

"Then why don't you spare with any of us? I want to try out this little thing I had been working on."

"I've been trying," he replied, "I have been for months now…with Pyrrha."

With this she felt pain again. She was there at the time of her death, but Jaune had been set away in a rocket-powered locker by Pyrrha. No one knew what this could have meant to Jaune. After some hesitation, she tried again.

"Oh," was all she was able to say.

"No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to learn to fight well," he said seeming to become mad at himself, "Every time that we fight Grimm, I just end up getting beaten or running from them in the fight. I don't want to be this weak. If I was better, maybe I could have her from…."

"Well, maybe you weren't ready yet," said Ruby bring her odd cheer back to turn the conversation around, "Maybe you have some other kind of thing ahead. Maybe it's your destiny to be strong tomorrow."

Jaune's talk with Pyrrha about destiny resurfaced in his mind. At the time he said that if you believed it was your destiny, you shouldn't let anything stand against you, but he also thought about what happened to her in the end.

"I don't know," he said.

"Then why don't we go back and help Nora? She said there would be marshmallows!"

With a slight pause he finally agreed.

Meanwhile in the ruins around Beacon academy, a shadow was crossing the rooftops while Grimm below were unaware of its presence. The shadow flew into a nearby building. From inside a head poked out. The head belonged to one by the name of Blake, a former member of team RWBY which was once lead by Ruby. She was not alone in the building either. Inside there was a person whom she had the 'pleasure' of meeting. He was a blind old man who was the sole reason that she had not left yet.

…To Be Continued?