Chapter 2: I Still Don't think...
A/N: Well, I hadn't expected to gain so many followers and favorites on my first chapter, so I consider myself lucky. So thank you guys.
Guest: Thanks, I try my best.
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Shiranai Atsune: You'll see.
Theonekidnobodylikes: Yeah, I didn't like how there's only ever Ruby x Weiss, so I thought I'd break the chain. And by the way, I like you.
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Ren sighed and walked forward as the three girls ran towards one another. Ren still couldn't believe his luck. Whether it was good luck, or bad luck was yet to be decided. While Ruby and Yang embraced happily, Nora continued towards him. As she did so, she made a weird sound that Ren automatically recognized from their chat earlier.
"You know, Nora, I still don't think-" Before he could finish his sentence, she tackled him.
"Ren!" She cheered, wrapping her arms around his neck, "We have so much to talk about!" Ren wasn't too excited about that. When Nora would talk to you, it would be nearly impossible to understand what she was saying. But fortunately, it hadn't been too long a day for her to do too much. Or so he thought.
"So, Ren! First, I was launched through the forest and I was all, wooshoo!" She began, "And then I thought 'Well, I'm flying through the air! Why not have fun?' So I did a bunch of back flips and front flips and side flips and-"
"Are there any more types of flips past back flips?" He asked, showing a smile. She tilted her head in thought, her arms still around his neck. By now, her feet were off the ground, and he was lifting her.
"Hmm... Yes! There's-"
"It was a rhetorical question, Nora." Ren stated.
"Oh!" She giggled, uncoiling her arms from around him. She dropped to the ground, and looked up at him.
"You know, Ren. It's a shame we're not partners, but it's cool that you are with Ruby!" Nora cheered, getting all giddy. Ren looked her in the eye, confused.
"How did you know-?"
"Her name? Oh, Yang told me about her!" Nora said, pointing at Yang. Yang and Ruby were now talking, and Ren smiled as he unknowingly looked Ruby up and down. Nora, however, saw him doing so.
"So, you have a crush on Ruby?" Her question took him completely by surprise, and he began to blush as he looked down at her.
"Why are you so content on finding me a girlfriend, Nora?" He asked her. She shrugged.
"Because, Ren, I am!" She said, giving a small laugh. "You deserve a girlfriend, you know?"
Suddenly, her laughing was cut short by a loud high pitched scream.
"Did you hear that, Ruby? Some girl is in trouble!" Yang shouted to her little sister.
A distance away, Weiss had a problem of her own. Her partner, for the next four years, was Jaune Arc. And since he insisted on being the leader of their partnership, she had to let him. Otherwise it would be him hitting on her twice as much as he was already doing. And his 'survival instinct' told him to head straight for the cave...
Of course, Jaune's survival instinct was terrible and he lead himself and Weiss directly into a Death Stalker nest. Jaune, had so foolishly grabbed the stinger of the Stalker and forced Weiss to flee. She ran out of the cave, faster than she ever had. Well, not faster than she ever had but... You get the point.
"Weiss! Weiss, don't leave me, please!" Jaune screamed. She groaned, finding it hard not to leave him.
"Whatever you do Jaune, don't-!" But her comment came too late, as the Death Stalker flung him across the sky, and off into the distance.
"Let go." Weiss groaned yet again, getting into her pre-battle stance.
"Stay calm, Weiss... Even breaths." She inhaled deeply, and exhale.
"Foot forward." She put a foot forward, but made a sound of disgust.
"Ugh, not that forward." She moved it a tad backwards. Her stance, however, was disrupted as the Stalker jabbed it's stinger at her. She fortunately flipped away. The Stalker repositioned itself as Weiss' rapier changed its Dust element automatically, switching it to ice. She waited for it to jab again, and when it did she stabbed the rapier into the ground. Ice formed out of the ground in front of her, keeping the stinger in place.
She remained emotionless as she paced her breaths again, flying forward and jumping upwards as she sliced at the hide between the stinger and the tail. The Stalker roared out in pain, and it smacked Weiss away with a claw. She flew through the air, smashing into trees as she went.
She screamed in pain and agony as her dress got caught on a branch.
Pyrrha raised her rifle as she ran alongside Blake, hearing yet another scream.
"Somebody really needs our help, Blake!" Pyrrha shouted to her partner as they came to a
clearing. The came to a stop. Pyrrha scanned the area for anything while Blake listened intensely.
"I can't hear anything else..." Blake stated, as Pyrrha lowered her rifle.
Suddenly, a large feather dropped from the sky, directly in front of them. Pyrrha looked shocked, but Blake knew exactly what it was.
"Nevermore... Pyrrha, we have to find the temple. Now." Blake said, looking upwards. Perched on the giant tree above them, a Nevermore scanned the landscape. Pyrrha also looked up, and would have gasped if Blake hadn't put her hand over Pyrrha's mouth.
"Quiet. We'd need a full team to take that thing down." Blake whispered, as she slowly crept away with Pyrrha.
Ren, Ruby, Yang and Nora all looked at one another as there was another scream.
"Someone is definitely in trouble out there!" Yang shouted, pointing in the direction of the scream.
"Agreed..." Ren said, pulling out his Jade Dragons. Nora pulled out her hammer, maybe a bit too excitedly. Yang's gauntlets reformed over her hands, and Ruby grabbed her scythe. Yang, actually, was the one to lead the charge as she ran forward.
Behind her, Ruby followed, then Ren and then Nora.
"Hmm, it seems the last partnership has been formed..." Ozpin said, sipping his coffee. Glinda watched the tablet over his shoulder. She saw Blake and Pyrrha, slowly walking through the forest.
"Blake Belladonna and Pyrrha Nikos? I wonder how they'll work out." Glinda commented. Ozpin swiped his hand across the screen, and the image changed to Weiss, who was still stuck in the tree.
"Where is Weiss Schnee's partner?" Glinda asked. Suddenly, the screen showed a Death Stalker crashing through the trees. Glind gasped, and watched in horror as it grabbed Weiss with a pincer.
"Ozpin..." She warned. He nodded, knowing the dangers if they didn't somehow get involved.
They weren't supposed to, but they would anyway to ensure that they didn't lose a student. And to make sure some kids lost a friend. Ozpin set his coffee down, handed the tablet to Glinda and drew his sword.
"Wait! Something's happening!" Glinda said, turning the tablet towards him. He turned his head to look at the tablet, and witness as Yang, Ruby, Ren and Nora came from the woods, and began attacking it. Yang jumped from the ground and punched the pincer holding Weiss, and it dropped the girl.
"Well, that's certainly an unseen output." Ozpin said, sheathing his sword, and grabbing his coffee. The two watched on, Ozpin slowly drinking it.
"Give it everything you've got!" Ruby shouted, mounting the front end of the scythe into the ground and firing round after round into the Stalker's thick shell. Nora's hammer quickly transformed into a grenade launcher, and she smiled as she pulled the trigger over and over. Yang stood on top of the Stalker, avoiding it's jabs and smacks of it's claws, drawing it's attention from the others. Weiss, however, had nearly been snapped in half, and was lying on her front, adrenaline pumping through her veins.
"Get up!" She heard a voice. She shook her head, as tears and sweat dripped from her face.
"What are you doing? Get up!" She slowly looked up to see Ren, looking in her direction, firing his pistols at the Stalker. She shook her head again, wondering if she was actually dead and imagining this all.
"Weiss! Get up!" Another voice yelled, before she was suddenly swept up. For a second, there was nothing underneath her, then she felt ground again. Weiss immediately collapsed, and fell onto her back. She looked upwards and saw Ruby staring down at her. Weiss would've spat something, but she fully blacked out.
