A/N: Hello again RWBY fans. Time for another chapter of LION. Unfortunately, college is starting Monday for me, so updates will be less frequent now. Deviljho's Hatred and I will try to get chapters up as often as we can.

Leon and Naomi walked through the dense forest, slowly getting closer to the site of the explosion they heard earlier. Naomi was stunned at how calm Leon could be near that crazy psychopath he called his friend.

"Hey Leon, this Ovan guy… exactly how are you friends with him?" Naomi asked. "I mean he doesn't exactly seem like the friendly type."

"It's a long and very complicated story." Leon told the girl. "We were friends back when we were kids, but then he moved to Vaccuo and I didn't see him again until yesterday."

"I see. So what's his fighting style like? What kind of weapon did he use to make that explosion before?"

"Actually he did that with his bare hands." the lavender haired teen explained.

"What?!" Naomi exclaimed. "He can cause explosions with his bare hands?!"

"Well to be more precise, that jacket he wears helps him." Leon clarified. "It's infused with a huge amount of dust. He can channel that dust into energy for his attacks."

As Naomi shivered at the thought of such a powerful person, the pair finally arrived at the area that the explosion had happened. Leon and Naomi walked into the huge clearing, where only a huge crater was present. Trees were blown away, stripped from their footing in the ground. Leon looked like this was nothing new to him while Naomi couldn't believe that all this damage to the forest was done by just one guy. As the pair examined the area, a sudden yell caught their attention.

"DIE YOU MONSTERS!"

Leon and Naomi looked towards the edge of the clearing as a figure leaped up and came charging down at them from above.

"Move!" Leon quickly warned. Naomi didn't need to be told twice as she and Leon jumped back towards the destroyed trees at the back of the clearing as the destructive force came crashing down, causing cracks in the already destroyed land to form. When the dust settled, standing in the center of the wreckage was a blood orange haired teen with a Dust jacket on.

"Ovan you idiot! It's me!" Leon yelled down at the psychotic teen. "The hell was that for?!"

Ovan suddenly looked up towards Leon and Naomi in shock. "Oops. Sorry man." he apologized. "I thought you were another Grimm."

"Seriously, think before you go doing something like that! That could have killed us!"

"Hey I said I'm sorry. What more do you want from me?"

"Again, HOW are you friends with this guy?" Naomi asked Leon.

"It's times like these that I begin to question that myself." Leon admitted.

"I see you found a teammate as well." Ovan yelled up to his friend, looking at the blue haired fox fanus beside him.

"Wait, you found a teammate?" Leon questioned. "Where?"

Ovan rubbed the back of his orange hair in response. "Well, you see-"

"Hey guys!" a voice called out. Leon and Naomi looked over to see the white haired girl that Ovan had "allegedly" snuggled or not snuggled with last night. "Isn't this great snugglebutt? That friend of yours is here too. Now we can all travel together."

"I told you to stop calling me that!" Ovan yelled at the girl as Leon laughed at his friends predicament.

"Wow. This is just too funny." the archer chuckled as he and his fanus teammate slid down towards the center of the crater.

"Whatever. Anyway Iris, did you see where the temple is?" Ovan asked the white haired girl.

"Yep!" Iris grinned as she pointed north. "It's a short walk over that way. I'll ride you all the way there."

"EXCUSE ME?!" the orange haired teen exclaimed as Leon and Naomi did their best to keep their laughter as quiet as possible.

"What? You made us walk all over, because of your crappy sense of direction. The least you could do is carry me on your back till we get to the temple." Iris explained.

Ovan ignored the girl's plea and marched on towards the direction that she pointed in. Iris skipped along after her little snugglebutt and Leon and Naomi followed after them. It only took a few minutes before they reached the temple the headmaster had spoken of. Small pillars surrounded the temple. A few had various chess pieces on them. Most however had nothing on them. Leon grabbed a black king piece while Iris grabbed a similar piece but of the opposite color.

"Ok." Ovan smirked. "Now that we've got our relics, let's get going and-"

The teen was interrupted as a terrifying roar echoed throughout the woods. The group of four ran towards the cliffs, where the sound originated. In the distance, they could see a group of eight fighting an intense battle against not only a Death Stalker, but also a Nevermore as well.

"They're in trouble!" Leon exclaimed. "We've gotta help them!"

"Are you nuts?!" Ovan asked. "Fight a Death Stalker AND a Nevermore? No thank you. We'll go through the woods and circle around them."

"We can't just leave them there!" Naomi argued.

"I'm sure they'll be fine." Ovan assured the others, running off into the trees. Iris ran after her teammate in pursuit, leaving Leon and Naomi there.

"So what do we do?" Naomi asked Leon. "Should we follow Ovan or-"

Another echoing roar interrupted the faunus as the pair covered their ears from the deafening sound. Whatever it was, it was close. Very close. Definitely not the two large Grimm they saw in the distance. But where could it be? Leon suddenly realized the answer and ran in the direction Ovan and Iris had gone. They quickly caught up with them as they stood perplexed in the middle of the forest, near the rocky cliffs.

"Ovan, what was that?" Leon asked his friend.

"I don't know." Ovan replied. "I just ran into some invisible wall or something and then that roar happened."

"Invisible wall?" Naomi questioned.

"Yeah, watch." Ovan said as he poked the seemingly empty space right in front of him, except a small color distortion was seen in the spot he poked.

'What the heck?' Leon wondered at the peculiar event in front of him. 'It's like there's some invisible… wait a second!'

"Ovan move back." Leon warned as he switched his weapon into a bow and charged up a crimson red arrow from his aura. Ovan moved away from the spot where he was standing, and Leon fired the energy arrow at the spot Ovan poked at. The arrow collided with the invisible wall, creating a small explosion. A much larger color distortion occurred this time, and a large rustling sound could be heard. The seemingly invisible wall became completely visible, although the group soon wished it wasn't.

"What IS that thing?!" Naomi exclaimed.

The invisible wall turned out to be a very large chameleon like Grimm. The mask that covered its face had a large, pointed snout as most chameleon's have along with two horns, red tribal markings all over the mask and a pair of piercing, stygian black and blood red eyes looking at the pair of hunters. Along it's back there were several large spines with rib-like bone appendages covering it's sides with a very boney tail sticking out from its lower back. The creature stared at the students with its bizarre eyes, staring into their very souls.

The four hunters-to-be didn't say a words as they took in the Grimm staring at them. First to recover from the shock, Ovan responded with what everyone was thinking.

"Balls!"

The Grimm then screeched a horrifying yell at them and began charging at them, seemingly none too pleased that it's sleep was interrupted. As it came forward, Ovan quickly delivered a fierce right hook to the beast and backflipped out of the way of its long, scaled tongue.

"Leon! Smoke arrow!" Ovan called out

Snapping out of his stupor, Leon pulled out his weapon and fired a violet colored aura arrow at the beast's face, causing a large smokescreen to cover the area.

"Over here!" Naomi called out to their right. The group followed her into a small cave. Small enough to make sure the beast couldn't reach them. Once they entered the cave, the smoke surrounding the monster cleared, leaving it bewildered. Thinking it's prey moved to a different area, the Grimm left in search of them.

"So." Leon started when the sounds of heavy footsteps stopped. "Still think that not helping the others was a good idea?"

"Shut it!" Ovan yelled as he sat down. "Now isn't the time to be pointing fingers! Let me think on a way to get out of here without running into that thing again."

Leon rolled his eyes as he sat down on the ground as well. Naomi and Iris soon joined them as well, though Iris took to sitting closer to Ovan than expected making the teen growl until she scooted away from him. Several minutes passed began Ovan opened his eyes again and stood up suddenly. "I got it!"

"An escape plan?" Naomi asked as she got up as well.

Ovan nodded his head as he pointed to the exit. "We just have to storm out of there while having us facing different directions so we can move and spot the Grimm if it gets near."

"That's good and all but remember, it's a chameleon Grimm." Leon stated. "It can just blend in with the environment."

"True but remember this, it's very large. Meaning it can't sneak up on us without making noise." Ovan countered. "And since we have a faunus here, she can use her sensitive ears to hear if something is coming."

Leon pondered this for a moment before standing up as well. "That's actually pretty clever of you Ovan. Didn't think you could come up with that. Normally you're so gung ho that plans don't really matter for you."

"And just for that comment you are on point for front watch!"

"Oh come on!"

Ovan ignored his friends yell and turned to the other two girls. "Okay so it's gonna go like this. First Leon, then fox girl follows you, then me."

"And I'll handle your rear!" Iris chipped in cheerfully.

"Okay new plan!" Ovan yelled out while blushing. "Leon, you're still out front."

Leon groaned as he walked out of the cave. "Of course I am."

"Fox girl, you and me will be in the back while Iris is in the middle. Got it?"

Naomi nodded her head. "Right, and my name is Naomi by the way."

Iris skipped to her middle position behind Leon. "It's like an Iris sandwich!"

Ovan groaned as he punched a rock next to him. "Goddamn it Iris! You can ruin anything! Let's just go already!"

The group of four ran out of the cave and stood in the formation Ovan had constructed. They each had their eyes peeled for any slight color distortions while Naomi had her ears perked for the sound of the gigantic Grimm stalking them. No sounds were heard and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

"Can you hear anything fox girl?" Ovan asked.

"I told you it's Naomi. And no, I can't hear it yet." Naomi responded.

The team continued to stand there, waiting for their opponent to make its move. The chameleon Grimm was undoubtedly doing the same. Both sides continued to stay frozen, deadlocked in this stalemate of patience. Tired of waiting for its prey to make a move, the chameleon Grimm prepared to attack, revealing its presence. Naomi's ears picked up on the sound immediately.

"Over there!" the blue haired fanus yelled, pointing towards the 10 o'clock direction of the group's formation. The four of them all turned their eyes towards where Naomi pointed, just in time to see the Grimm's long tongue stretch towards them and jump out of the way. Leon fired a red arrow in the direction of the tongue. The explosive arrow detonated on impact, forcing the beast to unmask its presence. As the Grimm stuck out it's tongue again, Ovan rushed forward and grabbed it and with a great show of might, lifted the Grimm off the ground by its slimy appendage and slammed it to the ground.

The beast slowly got up from its recent crash and jumped out of the way of an incoming slug from the blood orange brawler. The Grimm attached itself to a tree and began to blend in with the environment.

"Oh no you don't!" Leon said as he fired another red arrow at the Grimm's body.

The beast roared in pain as it's body returned to normal and leaped forward at the hunters, sending them all in different directions. The chameleon Grimm shot out the spikes on it's back towards Iris in an attempt to skewer her. The ivory haired girl quickly backflipped out of the way to dodge the deadly spikes and landed on the trunk of a tree. Giggling to herself, Iris leapt forward and activated her Semblance. With the wind behind her she flew forward and landed on the Grimm's back

"Hehehe! Try to catch me!"

The demon lizard started to flail around it's body to shake off the nuisance from it. Naomi unsheathed her katana and charged at the beast. Distracted by the jubilant girl on its back, the Grimm didn't see the fox faunus slide behind it and slash her blade into its hind legs and drag the blade through its tail. Feeling the sting of the slash, the Grimm gave a sharp turn in Naomi's direction, throwing Iris off his back and whipping the faunus in the face with its tail. Naomi cried out in pain as she slammed into the ground, her weapon falling out of her hands as she painfully landed on the floor, unable to do anything as the Grimm quickly jumped forward and opened its mouth over her head. Naomi shut her eyes as the beast drew closer, not wanting to see the inside of the monster's mouth. Before she could become a midday snack, Leon jumped in front of the Grimm's maw and forced it back by slamming his blade in it's mouth.

"Naomi! Move!" Leon said as he struggled to hold the Grimm away from the both of them.

The faunus girl got back up on her feet and rolled out of the way, picking up her katana in the process. As the Grimm began to bite down harder on Leon's scimitar, Ovan jumped on its head and grabbed the monsters mouth and pried it open. "Go on man!" Ovan grunted out. "Give a good shot to the throat!"

Leon nodded as he changed his weapon to its bow form and brought back the arrow string while charging up a blue aura arrow and fired it dead straight into it's mouth. Ovan jumped off the Grimm's mouth as the arrow pierced through the back of its neck. Ovan and Iris looked at each other and grinned, as if knowing what to do next. Iris, with the help of her Semblance jumped high into the air while Ovan tossed the Grimm into the air.

"Hiyah!" Iris delivered a devastating punch to the Grimm's face, sending it rocketing downwards towards the blood orange haired teen who was channeling his Aura into his right leg.

Ovan gave a frenzied look at the beast as their eyes met. "When you see a mutilated Ursa in Hell, tell him Ovan says hello!" he yelled as he slammed his foot into the Grimm, sending a huge shockwave though it before it exploded in a violent mess.

Leon and Naomi put their weapons away as they gazed at the mess Ovan made. "Geez Ovan. Overkill much?"

"I'm the definition of overkill!"

"Whatever, now let's go help the others."

Leon made a move to start running in his friends direction but Ovan grabbed his shoulder. He was about to yell at him before he pointed towards a cliff to see Ruby running up it with a Nevermore hooked on her scythe before she pulled the trigger on her weapon and sliced the Grimm's head off.

"Nah man. I think they're juuuuust fine."

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"Cardin Windchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark. You have brought back the black bishop relics. I now pronounce you all as Team CRDL, led by Cardin." Ozpin addressed the all male team.

The headmaster walked up to the next four students. Ovan recognized Pyrrha and the scrawny blonde but not the orange haired girl or the guy with the pink strand of hair. "Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, and Lie Ren. You have brought back the white rook relics. I now pronounce you as Team JNPR, led by Jaune Arc."

The blonde now known as Jaune looked up in shock and surprise at this info. Pyrrha smiled at him and gave him a playful slug on the shoulder, causing the new leader to fall on the floor from the hit.

Ozpin gave a faint smile before walking up to Leon and his group. "Leon Vance, Iris Shinagami, Ovan Stryker, and Naomi Suniku. You have brought back the black king relics. I now pronounce you as Team LION, led by Ovan Stryker."

"What!?"

"Yay! Snugglebutt's the leader!"

"As if there was any doubt!"

"Please god no…"

A small chuckle escaped the headmaster's lips as he walked to the final ground of people, Ruby with her sister and two others girls. "Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long. You have brought back the white knight relics. I now pronounce you as Team RWBY, led by Ruby Rose."

Ruby smiled as Yang came over and gave her a congratulatory hug while Blake smiled and Weiss gave a slight scowl, clearly not happy with the chosen leader.

"You have all passed initiation with flying colors. I hope you all enjoy your stay here at Beacon Academy. Dismissed."

As everyone was exiting the room, Ovan raised his fist into the air with satisfaction. "Alright Team LION, to the dorms!"

"This is gonna be a LONG four years." Leon sighed quietly as they followed their new leader.

A/N: And thus, Team LION was formed. I hope you are all enjoying the story so far. Please feel free to post any comments or suggestions you have.