"Maybe we should actually try hunting the Grimm." Blake thought aloud as she kept an eye on the syrup. They've been waiting for almost fifteen minutes now, and so far nothing had come. It was either that the Grimm weren't interested in the stuff, or they chose a bad place to set up.
"No, this is a perfect idea, I can feel it. There's a Grimm close by, I can tell." Ruby said, she had gone back to regular Ruby a few minutes ago.
"I don't know, Ruby, maybe we should start searching, this doesn't seem to be a hot spot." Weiss said, leaning against the tree much like Yang, and she was combating the erg to fall asleep.
Ruby leaned forwards, trying to get a better look at the sap or something, as if she could WILL a Grimm into existence. Unfortunately, she could see no living organisms besides the tree.
Unbeknown to her, a bright moron colored mouth on a tentacle slowly crept up the tree and bit on her cape.
"Ruby, I really do think we should have tried searching for the Grimm instead of this, this is taking forever, the other teams are probably done by now." Weiss said.
"Oh, come on Weiss, that can't be-" Ruby began before the tentacle yanked her away from her team, quickly and quietly.
"Ruby?" Weiss said as she looked over to where her partner should be, only to be met by a lack of. "Ruby, now's not the time to play a game of hide and seek! And I'm not in the mood."
"Wait, Weiss, I see something." Blake whispered over to Weiss.
"Wow, Ruby's plan actually worked, I need to stop being surprised by that." Weiss said as she readied Myrtenaster on the Ice Dust, completely forgetting about her missing leader.
Ruby hit a tree, hard.
Looking around the area, she found that the tree line had drastically changed from where she was at first. That confused her, she couldn't have been carried that quickly with distance put between start and end unless something had such great speed and strength.
She heard a sharp growl come from behind her. She quickly jumped off of the tree and pulled out Crescent Rose, extending it to it's Scythe form. She saw the trademark red glow of the eyes of the Grimm. She spun her weapon beside her and impaled the blade of the great scythe into the ground, aiming her deadly tool at her foe.
"Show yourself!" The red haired girl ordered. The specimen didn't hesitate.
The creator looked like some sort of Ursa, but it was smaller and it's claws were longer, and it also had a different mask pattern and a hunch back. It had bone shoulder pads and a bone plate on it's lower back. Right above it's head(on the hunch) was a white bat symbol divided in half.
"That's a new one." Ruby said as she studied the Grimm. "Wait, a new Grimm, THAT'S BONUS POINTS, RIGHT?!"
The creator growled at the girl and then opened it's mouth for a small roar. It had no teeth except for the mouth in it's tongue, which was a light shade of moron.
"Well, I don't suppose you're gonna make this easy for me, are you?" Ruby asked. The Grimm growled again. "That's what I thought."
Ruby then pulled the trigger.
The Grimm seemed more than ready for that and instantly jumped out of the way. It seemed to be able to jump twelve feet in a signal leap. Interesting, Ruby would have to remember to ask Glynda how much points finding a new Grimm species was.
The Grimm opened it's mouth and it's tongue launched out at a high speed in an attempt to bite Ruby. She quickly lifted the scythe out of the ground and shot at the tongue, propelling herself backwards in the process.
"Inhanced agility, long tongue, pretty boring, that could cost me some points." Ruby said to herself. She inserted her thumb into the ring and pulled it, shifting Crescent Rose into Rifle mode. She then pointed it at the Grimm and began firing.
The Grimm quickly began dodging the shots as the came. It then jumped to the left, chaining one jump after the other, in order to make it to the tree line.
Ruby chuckled at this, the Grimm thought it could get away that easily.
She shifted Crescent Rose back into scythe form and chased after it.
Ruby was so going to enjoy this.
Glynda was genuinely surprised at how long the teams were taking.
She knew she told them to use strategy, but for Oum* sake, she never expected that they would listen to her THIS well.
She was expecting to see at least the bullet trails of Russel's ShotBar** because team CRDL went in for the kills, or Dove's Fire sword. Or hear Jaune's girlish scream.
Sometimes Glynda wondered if Jaune was even a boy.
Glynda wasn't liking the fact that it was so quiet, the one time she was annoyed that her student's listened to her. Where were these listening skills during the last project?
Glynda decided that it would be the perfect time for her to check up on the students, after all, it is her job. And it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Ruby's weapon hadn't been hear.
She's just going to check on team RWBY first because... They're her best students, well, except for Yang.
As soon as the image came on to screen Glynda was instantly hit with a wave of annoyance as she saw that Yang was sleeping, again. This was getting to be a bad habit of her's. If this keeps up, Glynda would have to suffer Summer School with Yang. A fate worse than death.
But as Glynda payed more attention to the image, Glynda saw that Ruby seems to have vanished. That was wrong, Ruby never disappears during an assignment. Unless it was to disappear, it which case she does so a lot.
Glynda stared at the screen for a moment before she decided to set her scroll to show her where Ruby was, did she forget to mention that the program she sent them would also allow her to find them at any point? They'll figure it out one way or another.
Glynda watched as the map for her scroll opened and quickly scrolled out to show her most of the forest. The red rose to represent Ruby was at the farther end.
Ruby wouldn't just run away from her team like that.
Her team would run away from her, but not the other way around.
Glynda stared at it considering running after her to see what was going on, but that wouldn't be all that wise. If Ruby was having trouble with her team then she would talk to them about it. And besides, Ruby knew what she was doing.
Glynda wanted so badly to close the scroll, but how could she just shut it off on Ruby? Glynda didn't even know why she wanted to know where Ruby was. She could handle herself.
Though, if she remembered those coordinates correctly, Ruby should be in an area with one of the cameras.
Well, what's a quick peek.
Glynda opened up the camera to see what was going on with the red girl.
She saw Ruby standing a few meters away from some unknown Grimm.
Unknown Grimm?
"Maybe I should give her some assistance." Glynda muttered to herself. "Although, Ruby is a capable girl, and that Grimm doesn't look vary lethal. How bad could it be?"
Glynda continued to watch as the battled unfolded up until the Grimm ran off into the forest. If the compass on the map and her knowledge of the landscape was right, it ran off into territory without cameras. That's what Ozpin's cheap budget gets them.
Ruby took a step forwards.
"No, Ruby." Glynda muttered. "No, don't run after it, I won't be able to see you."
Too bad Ruby can't hear her. The red girl disappeared in a red blur after the Grimm.
'You don't need to go after her, Glynda.' she thought. 'She can handle herself.'
Glynda couldn't argue with her ergs.
"If I get fired for this... At least Ruby would be save." Glynda said as she hopped up onto one of her Glyphs and fired up above the tree line. Creating a Glyph at an angle, she quickly launched herself in the direction that she remembered that Ruby was heading.
It's not that Glynda likes Ruby or anything, it's just that... She wanted to make sure that there wasn't any deaths on her hands.
Ruby was looking forwards to this.
She had just discovered an entirely new bread of Grimm living in the Emerald Forest. How often does that happen. There is no way she was passing up this opportunity.
The creator still lead Ruby at the moment, though Ruby planned for that. If her hunch was correct, the Grimm was currently leading her to it's nest, where she would find dozens of the things. She would hang back at a distance, take a few pictures of the things. Show her discovery to the rest of Beacon. Snipe one of them, take it's remains to Glynda, and claim her praise.
Well, it probably wouldn't be 'praise', but Glynda's bound to at least give her a pat on the head while she tells Ruby how much of a good job she did. The very thought made Ruby blush.
Ruby then saw specs of red leaves about a mile or two ahead, meaning that she was crossing over to Forever Falls.
Perhaps the Grimm lived between boarders.
Wait, where was the Grimm?
Ruby instantly cut her momentum and began looking around for her dark foe. It seems as if the Grimm had been plotting against Ruby, using the red leaves of the neighbor forest to distract Ruby long enough to disappear.
Must take note of that: specimen seems to possess enhanced intelligence by Grimm standards.
Ruby pulled up Crescent Rose and pulled out the standard Mag and reached into her pouch for her explosive rounds.
The Grimm tackled her before she could fully pull it out of the pouch, knocking it out of her hand and her onto the ground.
The Grimm stared strait at her and opened both of it's mouths in some sort of cross between a his and a roar, leaning in to devour it's prey.
So, this is how Ruby would die?
The tongue mouth positioned itself right above her forehead, it's teeth were clean, pure white. Ruby felt that they were about to become a dull crimson.
But just before the tongue could be able to bite down on her, a purple glow shined in front of Ruby's eyes as she felt the weight on her vanish and saw a black speck fly into the air.
Ruby looked around until she saw Glynda floating on her glyph, her hand extended to create a smaller one over Ruby, most likely the one that got rid of the Grimm.
"T-thanks Glynda." Ruby said as she got up and dusted herself off.
"You should know better than to run off to hunt some new Grimm." Glynda told her as she walked down to the girl. "Do you know how much trouble you could have gotten into?"
"Sorry." Ruby said as she looked down, trying to avoid eye contact.
*Growl*
Ruby and Glynda instantly swung their heads in the direction of the sound to find that the new Grimm had come back, licking it's lips with it's tentacle mouth.
"So, you got a plan?" Ruby asked as she pulled the thumb ring to shift Crescent Rose back into Rifle form.
"Easy, kill the thing." Glynda said as she charged her wand with purple energy.
"Better than nothing." Ruby said. "Let's do this Team HoodWitch!"
"HoodWitch?" Glynda asked.
The Grimm quickly charged Glynda in her moment of confusion and punched the blonde against the ground, putting her into a similar position it had Ruby in. Ruby quickly pointed Crescent Rose at the creator and pulled the trigger.
Click, click, click, click.
That's the sound of NO BULLETS PEOPLE!
Ruby looked at Crescent Rose to see that it had not Magazine. She never finished reloading it.
The Grimm began to glow purple as Glynda lifted it off of herself and threw it at a tree.
The Grimm looked up at them, with what Glynda believed to be anger in it's eyes. It quickly jumped up into the trees and began to move behind them.
Ruby began to look around for her magazine, her explosive bullets could be able to give them an advantage in this battle. Unfortunately, her mag was red, just like the grass. For once, Ruby regretted her color scheme.
Glynda, however, was focusing more on her opponent. The Grimm seemed to have disappeared into the tree line, most likely waiting to strike them. Glynda slowly walked forwards.
Ruby brushed her hand around the ground till it came in contact with the shape of her magazine. She quickly input the mag and looked at Glynda. She saw through the trees the faint red glow of the Grimm's eyes. But something else.
The holes in the Grimm's back were glowing red.
"Glynda!" Ruby yelled as she ran to move her teacher out of the way.
The red glow on the Grimm launched off of it at Glynda in the shape of rings connected by a cable the same color, at a speed that Glynda wasn't ready for, and the fact that she didn't see the glow do to the fact that is blended into the leaves so well didn't help. The blonde girl was startled to feel something make contact with her left side. Though she caught a quick glance of red hair.
One ring looped around Ruby's right wrist, the other around Glynda's left.
Once Ruby stopped pushing her, she and Glynda looked down at the new wait around their wrists to see white bat-wing shaped cuffs of some sort with the red pattern of a Grimm mask around them connected to with a short cable.
They were linked together with Grimm handcuffs.
"This is not good." Ruby said. The linked duo looked back at the Grimm to see that it had begun to do some sort of spin dash at them. The two of them attempted to jump out of the way of its attack...
... In opposite directions.
The two were stopped dead in their tracks buy the link around them. They made enough space between them, however, for the Grimm to fly between them.
The two of them then turned around to face the Grimm, their linked arms crossing over their stomachs. Ruby pulled Crescent Rose up so that it was under the links, lifting their arms up slightly. Glynda, also on the offensive, pointed her crop at the Grimm to attempt to launch another attack.
Nothing happened.
"What the..." Glynda muttered as she looked at her crop. Ruby, not bothering to think about it right now, choose this time to fire at it.
It either avoided all of her shots or ate them.
"This is not working." Ruby said. The Grimm was beginning to rev up it's roll out attack. This time, however, Ruby and Glynda got the idea and both moved to the left. The Grimm's attack just barely missed them.
"Ruby, my crop doesn't seem to be working right now, we need to think of some way to beat this thing fast." Glynda told her.
"Well, we could try texting my team." Ruby said as she reached for her scroll. Glynda glanced at their opponent to see that it was using it's spin dash again. The teacher had to rely primarily on her physical strength in order to move them out of the way as she was linked to Ruby who had started texting, and teens tend to stop responding when they're texting.
"Tell them to hurry!" Glynda told Ruby as she put her back against Ruby's and grabbed the hand that was rapped around Crescent Rose's trigger. Glynda lifted up the Rifle and began firing at the Grimm while Ruby proceeded to text her team with one hand.
Help. Me and Glynda are handcuffed together and fighting a new brand of Grimm. Glynda can't use her crop. Hurry.
~Ruby
"They should be here soon." Ruby said as Glynda tried to push the Grimm back.
"So how long exactly 'til you're team gets here?" Glynda asked.
Buzz-Buzz. Buzz-Buzz.
"I got a text from Ruby guys." Blake said, staring at her scroll.
"That can wait, Blake." Weiss said as she carved an X into the frozen Ursa, right in front of its neck. "We worked hard to get this thing, if Ruby wants to run off, let her. Now, just stab it right here."
"Maybe I should give Jaune a call." Ruby said as she considered her teammates.
"How dependable is your team even?" Glynda asked.
"Wel-DUCK!" Ruby said once she turned her head towards the Grimm to see that is was rolling at them. Ruby consider that Glynda's reflects wouldn't be fast enough, however, and pushed her to the ground.
"Ruby, we're gonna need a new strategy." Glynda said.
"Use your glyphs or something." Ruby told her as she tried to shot the Grimm again.
"Those are working as well as my crop." Glynda said.
"The heck's going on here?" Ruby asked no one in particular as she got up.
"Do you have any plans here?" Glynda asked Ruby.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking." Ruby said as she continued to shot the Grimm. Glynda couldn't be able to do anything at the moment do to the problems with her semblance. And Ruby couldn't just shot the thing forever, it was two fast. Ruby's best option would be to get close to the Grimm, but she couldn't do that attached to Glynda.
Right?
"Glynda, I got an idea. Hug me!" Ruby ordered.
"What?" Glynda asked.
"Just do it, have some faith in me." Ruby said as she turned around to face Glynda.
"Fine, you better know what you're doing." Glynda said as she rapped her free arm around Ruby, as well as putting her chained hand on Ruby's side.
Ruby put her arms past Glynda and unfolded Crescent Rose into Scythe form behind the blonde girl.
"Uh, Ruby?" Glynda asked nervously before Ruby pulled the trigger, launching them at the Grimm, much to Glynda's horror.
The Grimm attempted to dodge the first attack, only to be slightly grazed by the slash. The Grimm once again attempted to use its spin dash, only for Ruby to begin spinning herself and Glynda to slash the Grimm away. Ruby then positioned Crescent Rose at an angle to launch themselves at the Grimm. Ruby, during the launch, tilted them vertically and fired of a shot to put them into rotation. The Grimm had just got to it's feet from the last attack, only for the blade of Crescent Rose to impale it through the back of the neck.
The Grimm hunched forwards as a hissing noise came from it, indication that the last of the air in it's body had just exited.
They win.
"Well Glynda, that went better than expected, right?" Ruby said slowly as she looked at her 'partner.'
Glynda's face turned as green as her eyes.
"Glynda?" Ruby asked before Glynda scum-bled to one of the red bushes of the forest, untangling herself from Ruby.
Apparently, Glynda gets motion sick.
Glynda began to let all the bio out into the shrub, Ruby was surprised. Glynda never mentioned anything about motion sickness before. The red haired girl began using her free hand to rub the sick girl's back.
"Maybe that wasn't such a good idea." Ruby said. After a few moments Glynda pulled herself back up.
"Why... Would you do that?" Glynda asked as she pulled out her handkerchief to wipe her mouth.
"I didn't know you get motion sick." Ruby tried to defend herself.
"Motion sickness is more common than people give it credit for." Glynda told her.
"So I've heard." Ruby said. The red haired girl glanced over at the dead Grimm and asked the obvious question.
"So, how many points is a New Grimm Species worth?"
Yes, Glynda can get motion sick in this timeline, and I tried to the best of my ability to remember what Jaune said about motion sickness from the second episode. NO, I'M NOT GOING BACK TO ANY EPISODE OF THAT TRAIN WRECK.
Why am I even typing this? I'm not even sure that I'm going to post this thing.
For those of you who are wondering:
*Oum is basically the RWBY word for God, after the last name of the lead animator, Monty Oum.
**A ShotBar is a Shotgun that has the features of a Crowbar like weapon.
