Chapter 2: Settling down

(Day two)

"Good morning, Team RWBY!" Ruby yawned. Her pet had cuddled up next to her, and it looked like she was the second one to wake up, seeing how Blake and Yang were still sleeping. She got up and left the shack.

Ruby saw Weiss, who was sitting in the sand, looking out on the ocean. Giant pelicans were flying over the ocean, accompanied by loud, smaller seagulls. Occasionally, one swept down into the water, and came back up with a fish in his beak. Ruby walked over to her partner, and sat down next to her.

"Oh, you're awake." Weiss said, still watching the birds.

"Are you alright?" The team leader asked.

Weiss sighed. "How are we supposed to get home?"

Ruby was taken aback by this question. That was something she didn't think about until now. "Well, maybe we don't. Maybe we do find a way." She said. "But I don't think we can find an answer by watching out on the ocean. We've just got to try to survive, and maybe the answer will come along the way."

Weiss looked at her. "You think?"

"Of course. We are Team RWBY afterall. Also, it isn't the first time we are on an unknown place and came out on top. Remember Merlot?"

Weiss smiled. "You're right. We can do this." She pointed at the smaller birds. "Also, look out for these things. One of them stole my hatchet."

The leader didn't even try to question what a bird would do with a hatchet. "I'll try."

"By the way." Weiss stood up, and looked around to face the jungle up on the cliff. "I think I found a good place to set up a camp."

"Don't we already have one?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah, but what if a storm hits the shore? We'd just be washed away." Ruby thought about it for a moment. Weiss was right. A tsunami or a hurricane would wipe them out in an instant. "See there." Weiss pointed to the left, into the direction of the obelisk. "I did a little morning walk, and I think over there would be a good position. It has a mountain to one side and a river on the other one. There are trees to get wood, stones and we could fish in the river."

Ruby had to think about all of this. It indeed sounded great. She clapped her hands together. "Okay then. As soon as Blake and Yang are awake, we'll move there."


Roughly an hour later, Team RWBY had packed their stuff and started the hike to their new home. They left the small hut behind, as a fallback plan.

Walking along the beach, they noticed that the birds were getting more and more scarce, and guessed that they preffered to hunt in the morning. After a short walk, they encountered a new problem though. The only thing standing between them and their destination was a river.

"So, how are we going to cross the river?" Blake asked.

"Swimming?" Yang shrugged. Weiss looked into the water, searching for any dangerous animals. The only thing she could see were different fish, looking like Salmon and Coelacanth.

Ruby looked along the shore in the meantime. There were rocks sticking out of the water a bit down the stream. If they'd be carful, it could work. Ruby explained her plan. Her friends agreed, and some of them took of their shoes. Heels aren't very good for jumping afterall. Meanwhile, Ruby picked up her Lystrosaurus, and put it into her hood. A couple of jumps, and a slip up by Yang later, they reached the other side.

"Okay. Is this the place?" Yang asked Weiss.

She nodded "Yeah, it is."

"I'll start building a shelter then." Blake told them, and walked over to the woods.

Yang looked towards the river and grabbed a spear. "I'm going to catch us lunch."

Ruby let Puffy out of her hood, and helped Blake with chopping down some trees.

"And… Gotcha!" Yang yelled and thrusted the spear into the water. As she pulled it out again, one of the salmons was impaled on it. The fish was still twitching. "I've got lunch!" She was quiet happy that hey had something else to eat then berries. Especially Blake would be excited. Suddenly, she felt something nibble on her ankle. And then a pain, as if someone stabbed two needles into her veins. The blonde lifted her leg, and saw two smaller salmons hanging on it. It looked like they sucked her blood. Yang pulled them away from her leg, and threw the fish on the beach. The wounds were bleeding. Not to much, but still. The worst thing about that fact: The fish bypassed her Aura. She slowly made her way back to the camp, where Blake had already finished the foundations. Yang stuck the spear into the sand, and sat down, holding her leg.

"Yang! What happened?" Weiss yelled.

"That Salmon bit me." She gestured to the, still impaled, fish. "They got pretty aggressive once I catched their buddy here."

Weiss looked closer at the wounds. Four small, round bitemarks. "Sabertooth Salmon." The heiress muttered.

Yang looked at her in confusion "What?"

"A prehistoric fish. Seems like this world really is full of extinct animals." Weiss said.

Yang took a piece of a plant, and wrapped it around the wound. Luckily, her Aura seemed to heal it already. "Does this also explain how they got through my Aura?"

"Not really. Maybe it's their teeth. I wonder why they are carnivores though. It's believed that they ate plankton."

"Tell that to them." Yang said. "I hope there aren't any other creatures that can do this."

"I mean, I'm pretty sure that your Aura won't help you when something big eats you." Weiss stood up. "Honestly, Aura makes it more horrifying. Imagine a Tyrannosaurus swallowing you in one bite, then you'd have to watch yourself dissolve."

"Thanks for the nightmare fuel, Weiss. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to cook some fish." In the distance, Blake was instantly turning around and starred at them.


"This. This is perfect." Jaune yelled.

He and his team decided to move a bit into the island, and after walking through a small trench, they found themselves in a peaceful, green valley. It was surrounded by high cliffs, had a small lake in the middle and trees everywhere. Most of them were small, but some groups of tall trees formed little jungles at the cliffs. The main jungle on top of the cliffs threw some shade into the valley. A big turtle was swimming through the lake, and three Parasaurolophus, accompanied by some Iguanodon, ate plants in the back. They even saw a group of little monkeys climbing and jumping through the woods. The dinosaurs didn't surprise them anymore. Not only was there the Trilobite last evening, they already saw a herd of Stegosaurus walking along the beach.

Ren noticed a ruin in front of them. This meant someone was here a long time before. The only thing left of the building were some broken down walls, covered by moss and vines.

This morning, everyone of them also received a level up, but decided to save their points.

"And this is where we'll settle down?" Pyrrha asked the blonde haired boy.

"Why not? It's easily defendable, has wood, water and fish to catch." He explained.

Pyrrha nodded, and they all set out to prepare stuff. Ren started building a new shack on a little hill overlooking the lake. Pyrrha picked berries, and tried to catch one of the bigger fish.

Jaune scouted the other trenches that let in and out of the valley, and started to plan some defenses like walls. Of course, they didn't know if there still were other people here, but a pissed off tyrannosaurus could pose just as big of a problem. He then proceeded to inspect the ruin. Jaune heard something in a bush, and looked into the direction. A splat of green goo flew out of the plant and hit Arc in the face. It blocked his vision, and burned horribly.

"GUYS! HELP!" Pyrrha, Ren and Nora ran to their leader as fast as they could, and saw a small, bipedal dinosaur coming out of the bushes. It had quills along its back and two crests on its head. And it approached Jaune, who layed on the ground and tried to get the venom of his face.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha screamed and ran to his aid.

Ren and Nora took on the dinosaur. It turned around and tried to spit at the two, but they dodged the attack and Ren threw a spear after the animal. It impaled the creature on the start of its tail, and the dilophosaur screamed in pain. Angered, it ran at them, but was taken out by a club hitting its head.

"And another one down!" Nora said and pulled the club out of the dinosaurs skull. Pyrrha had already cleaned the spit from Jaune's face using a peice of a plant.

The sound indicating a level-up was heard, but they ignored it for now, and helped their leader up.

"Everything alright?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yeah. Don't worry about me." Jaune said and smiled. They looked at the corpse. "And what are we going to do with that?"

"We could get some hide." Ren suggested.

"Ew. I'm not going to skin an animal." Jaune said.

"Alright then. I'll do it." Ren deapanned, and earned some weirded-out looks.

Jaune and Pyrrha walked over to the lake, and began to make a fire. An hour later, Ren brought the hide and meat to them. While the food was cooking, the four opened their engram list. Everyone was Level five by now, and unlocked a lot new stuff to learn. Namely a slingshot, storage boxes, a bed, mortar and pestle, spark powder, syringes, narcotics, standing torches, a paintbrush, advanced thatch buildings and walls and foundations made out of wood. The cost of them has also increased pretty much. And the wooden buildings needed to have thatch unlocked.

"Interesting. So for some stuff you need to have bought older engrams." Pyrrha muttered.

"Like a Tech-tree." Jaune exclaimed. "I'd say that Ren takes the wooden foundation and wall, right?"

Ren nodded and bought the two recipes. He also chose the sloped thatch roof, just because it would look good.

"Pyrrha? Any wishes?" She thought for a moment, and then chose the storage box and the slingshot. Nora took the bed, since it needed the sleeping bag, and the saddle. She was quite excited about the last one. Riding a dinosaur was one of the coolest things she could imagine. Jaune then chose the remaining engrams.

With their new equipment learned, they started gathering more ressources. At the end of the day, Ren had finished the building for the most part. The roof was made out of thatch, but the walls and ground of wood. He used the sloped roof for the top, so that rainwater could flow down the side and not collect on the roof. The inside was roughly four square meters, with four beds on the left side and storage boxes on the right. Jaune put down a mortar and pestle between two boxes, and Pyrrha handed out slingshots to everyone. The boxes had already been sorted into 'berries', 'toxic berries', 'materials' and 'other stuff'.

The four were happy with their new home. Of course, it wasn't something luxurious like Beacon, but nonetheless, it was theirs.


"And there we go!" Blake said. She had finally finished RWBY's home, and everyone earned a level up. The house was build at the cliff, and the door let to the river. The design was only temporary though, as it was just a big block as of now.

Blake learned more building stuff, which meant wooden walls and the paintbrush. Yang took the saddle and saved the last points. Thanks to Weiss, they knew that a Phiomia was some kind of prehistoric elephant, and could make a great pack animal. Weiss herself chose the storage box, mortar and pestle and the sparkpowder. Ruby had learned the Syringe, the slingshot and the flag, which she wanted to use to create a logo for her Team.

Blake walked over to the rest of her team, who were sitting around the campfire. Yang fished the entire day, and Blake had to admit that the quality of the salmon was very good. Especially with some berries on top of it.

She noticed that Ruby put some black berries on her fish. After the first bite, she immediatly fell over.

"RUBY!" Yang yelled and jumped to her, and felt her pulse. "She's unconscius."

Ruby opened her eyes again. "I think the black berries might be toxic." She said and got up, holding her head.

Weiss took one of them between her fingers. "Yeah. Maybe we could use that for something though." With that, she threw the berry away. Puffy came out of his shelter, and ate it.

Weiss used the day to walk along the beach, and found a dead Carbonemys. Since they needed some hide, she had overcome herself and skinned the corpse, with the help of Blake. The hide was surprisingly smooth for a reptile. It had the perfect quality to use for things like bags and slingshots.

Ruby already used the hide to make slingshots for everyone, while the rest of it went into the mortar and pestle. She then washed out the hollow shell, and put it down as a shelter for her Lystrosaurus. Blake, however, told her that they could need the keratin at one point, and thus the animal shouldn't get too comfortable in it.

They heard a deep roar. It sounded like a crocodile, mixed with a bird. Everyone looked around, but the only thing Team RWBY saw was the sand, the jungle that went up a hill next to the cliff, and the glowing Obelisk. The jungle was the only bad thing about their position. Sure, it provided wood and food, but was also a great hiding place for animals.

Blake narrowed her eyes. Her Faunus heritage enabled her too see in the dark, but if the source would be in the jungle, it could already be too late. Luckily, the deeper it went into the Island, the jungle was getting lighter and lighter. Ruby guessed that this was due to the mountain behind them and the resulting rockier ground.

The Faunus noticed some moving Bambus, which was growing in large numbers here. Before she could do anything, something jumped out. It was roughly the size of a human, and had feathers on his arms, tail and head. The mouth featured dozens of razorsharp teeth, and a giant claw was on each foot.

She jumped to the side, and the dinosaur bit into the ground. Everyone grabbed their spears and prepared for battle. The animal jumped at Yang, but she uppercutted its jaw, causing it to fly through the air. It got up again, and shook itself. The bottom jaw of the animal was shattered, and was loosely hanging down.

Enraged, the dinosaur charged at the huntresses, but was taken out by three spears, impaling its head, abdomen and throat. It fell down again and blood stained the ground around it.

The four walked up next to the animal. Ruby looked at Weiss. "What was that thing?"

Weiss pointed at the feet. "You see the claws?"

Ruby looked at them. "Oh, a Raptor."

Weiss nodded. "Judging by its size and stature, I would say a Deinonychus, although it spots some-"

"It's a Raptor, Weiss." Yang stopped her.

"Okay. This 'Raptor' lacks feathers however. Normally it should look like a big turkey."

"Maybe because of the island?" Blake guessed. "Don't animals change in new enviromnents?"

"That's a possibility." The heiress agreed. "Could be the same with the Ichtyornis."

Yang raised an eyebrow. "Ichty-what?"

"Seagull-like birds. They appear to steal stuff. Little shits." Weiss explained.

"I'm sorry for laughing at you for taking paleontology" Yang said.

"Thank you. I knew it would come in handy."

"You knew that we would be stranded on an island full of prehistoric animals?"

Ruby coughed in her fist. Every head turned toward her. "What should we do with the corpse?"

They decided to skin it, and cook the meat. Weiss and Blake lifted the corpse up, and put it down on a flat stone. They used sharp stones to get the hide off. Yang and Ruby tried not to look, and continued eating. Now they knew that there was the possibility to survive. And as long as they held together, they could do it, and maybe even find a way to escape.


Roman and Neo were out in the jungle, searching for more Dodos. Neo appreciated for the little birds, and wanted as much as possible. Although the others were sceptical at first, they later liked the idea. The birds could provide a food source for emergencys. As a pracitcal addition, the birds layed eggs, which could be cooked and eaten.

A couple of hours ago, all of them reached Level five, and chose their stuff. Roman had chosen the mortar, sparkpowder and narcotics. He hoped that something could be used as alcohol, or anything else to make the time around Adam and Cinder more bearable. He never liked the two, but he wanted to be on the winning side, once Beacon would fall. Not that this would happen now.

Even now, they managed to annoy him. Adam said that it would be better to search at night, as there would be less predators around. Sadly, Neo agreed with that. After an hour of searching, they finally heard the bushes rustling. However, instead of the anticipated Dodo, a dog sized, flying ant came out. Before it could reach them, Neo threw a spear and impaled it. Two ground dwelling ants came out of the bushes and attacked them, but dealt with quickly.

"This are big ants." Roman deadpanned. He saw how Neo picked the carcasses up and inspected them. She gave Roman one of the three ants, and began to walk back home. It seemed like the hunt for Dodos was over. He sighed and followed. At least they had something other to eat than berries and an egg.

"You really had to draw the White Fang logo?" Mercury asked Adam, and crossed his arms.

The Faunus had build a Multipanel flag, and asked Cinder for a Paintbrush. He then used some berries to make color and drew the logo of the White Fang on the flag. Mercury had to admit that Adam was at least crafty. "Yes. We are a force of revolution, and no Island can hold us down."

Mercury facepalmed. "Still a nutjob, I see."

"Nutjob? We fight for-"

"Yes, I know. I just don't think it was as bad as you made it out to be. Also, as far as we know, you're the only Faunus here. And I doubt that an dinosaur gives a shit about a beowolf on a flag."

"It's about the principle. Also, it's a wolf." Adam said, and stuck the flag into the ground, so that it was visible from the ocean.

"Huh. Always thought it was a grimm." Mercury shrugged, and went back to the campfire. Their camp had made a lot of progress. Their plan was to build a small village, and then put defenses around. At this point, there was one house ready, which they had to share. And everyone hated it. Especially since, to everyone's surprise, Neo was a heavy snorer.

Roman and Neo came back some time ago, with some giant ants. Neo was already cooking the last one over the fire. He sat down.

"Want one?" He looked over to Emerald, who had ripped out a leg of an ant and offered it to him.

He looked at the meat, and tried not to puke. "No. I'm good."

Emerald shrugged. "More for me."


Alright, Chapter 2.

Since someone asked how far away frome each other they are, here are their coordinates, although it should be possible to find out where they are either way: (I won't try to find out how far away they are exactly, since the only way to do that would be foundations, and I have no idea how big one is.)

RWBY: lat: 83; long: 47

JNPR: lat: 22; long: 69

CRMEN + Adam: lat: 49; long: 19

Another question was about mods. No, I'm not planning on including mods.

Then there's something about the level ups: There will be a maximum of three levels per day, since it'd go fast otherwise. Ark is a slow paced game afterall. I think the story should somewhat reflect that.

Also, in case someone wonders, special effects, like the bleeding of the Salmons or the poison of the Titanoboas, go through Aura. I made it that way, so that it gets harder for them.

Lastly, I also have a document were I write down everyone's EP and their learned engrams, so there shouldn't be any mistakes there later down the line.

RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth; Ark: Survival Evloved belongs to Wildcard Studios