Tsuruya looked up from her breakfast, speaking quietly over to Pyrrha. "You said Roman Torchwick was the guy who almost started a war before the Grimm attacked, right?"

Pyrrha nodded. "If his plans had gone through, we'd all be at each other's throats."

Tsuruya glanced over to the redhead. "You could have stopped him, right? Someone could have stopped him."

Pyrrha shook her head. "Miss Goodwitch has fought against Roman's associates, so she might have had a clue what to do. But her responsibilities at Beacon would have kept her from it until it was too late."

On the other side of Pyrrha, a scruffy blond boy who looked like he hadn't cut his hair in years spoke up. "There was someone else who took on Roman."

Pyrrha raised her hand to stop him. "Jaune, it's best we don't bring that up. What could have been is something we shouldn't dwell on." She shook her head and smiled to Tsuruya. "Why do you ask about Roman, though?"

Tsuruya shrugged. "Well, maybe I missed something, but isn't that him right there?"

Pyrrha and Jaune looked to where she was looking. Pyrrha sighed. "Yes, that's him. Everyone else that was working with him offered to help when the Grimm attacked. He just sort of leeches off everyone else. He doesn't help in any way at all."

Tsuruya looked back to Pyrrha. "Well, has anyone asked him to help out?"

Pyrrha looked back to her food. "If he hasn't offered, then he wouldn't help even if we asked." There was a short silence before Pyrrha answered again. "We don't... this goes unsaid most of the time, but we don't ask him because nobody wants his help. You're right, we don't know if he would help or not, but we would all rather just not have him around."

Jaune lowered his head, his blond bangs covering his eyes. "I know someone else who would have been a great help fighting back against the Grimm."

Pyrrha turned on him, lowering her voice. "I said stop it. They're gone, and there's nothing we can do about it. It's best to just focus on what we have and what we can do now."

Tsuruya leaned across towards Ren and Nora, who had so far kept quiet. "Who are they talking about?"

Nora was right in, answering before Pyrrha could stop her. "Team RWBY. Their leader took on Roman before she even finished at Signal." Tsuruya shook her head, not picking up on what that meant. Nora explained. "Oh, well, Signal is the academy a lot of students go to before Beacon. It's your basic combat school, whereas Beacon is for advanced training specifically designed for creating Huntsmen and Huntresses. Anyways, her name was Ruby Rose. She was moved up two years, so she was only fifteen when she took on a capable and ruthless fighter like Roman Torchwick, which is pretty impressive."

Ren picked it up while Nora was taking a breath. "The other girls on the team were also prodigies on their own. Jaune and Nora think we'd be far better off if they were still around. Personally, I think it would have been nice, but I don't see that just four people could have changed the way things happened. Pyrrha..."

Pyrrha spoke for herself. "I think we should stop dwelling on the past and things that might have been."

Tsuruya prodded Pyrrha for answers. "Wait, so, what happened to them?"

Pyrrha was quiet for a moment, trying to decide if she should give her the answer. Eventually, she gave in. "They just vanished in the middle of the year. Right before the Vytal festival and all Roman's plans were about to come together. No one knows what happened to them, really. They went down to the docks to greet new arrivals from Vacuo, and then no one ever saw them again."

Tsuruya had to think about that for a moment. "Wait... four prodigy fighters went missing in the middle of the city... before the Grimm attacked?"

Pyrrha just nodded. "Yup." And the conversation was over just like that.

A few minutes passed in silence until the awkwardness started to get to Tsuruya. She stood up. "Well, I'm going to see if there's anyone who doesn't want the rest of their breakfast." She turned and bumped into someone's back. The young man turned and promptly apologized, seemingly uninterested in laying the blame on her. Tsuruya looked up at him. "You know... you're really tall."

He smiled, offering his hand. "I'm Neptune. You must be the foreign girl Sun told me about."

Looking way up, she realized he had bright blue hair. "Ah..." She straightened up, taking his hand and shaking it firmly, as she had learned was the normal customary greeting on other planets. "I'm Tsuruya. You must be the colossal god of the oceans Sun told me about."

Neptune gave a confused look. "I'm sorry, I... don't understand what you mean."

Tsuruya waved and walked away. "Catch you later, fish boy!"

Just as she was walking away, a siren blared overhead. Several people around the large dining hall jumped up and rushed for the exit. Not really thinking, Tsuruya ran to catch up with them. They ran outside of the building, all eyes turning to the sky. Glancing back, Tsuruya saw a lot of faces pressed up against the windows to see what was happening. She looked up.

Clouds blocked out the giant whale Grimm, but there was something else a lot closer. It was like a great black worm, a nightmarish maw where a face might have been. Three pairs of huge leathery black wings positioned along its body kept it aloft, sending huge gusts of wind down towards the academy grounds with every beat.

Adam rushed out of the main building, waving everyone away. He shouted over the siren and the sweeping sounds of the giant Grimm. "Coco! Oobleck! Everyone else back inside!"

Tsuruya, however, missed it. As everyone moved back indoors, she found herself with a front row seat. Running to meet Adam was a man wearing a brown coat and sporting a great hair color. Strolling behind him was a tall stylish girl, toting a handbag along with her.

Adam ran across the grassy expanse between the main building and the outer perimeter. Tsuruya looked where he was headed and saw that several smaller Grimm had climbed over the wall. Beowolves mostly, like the one that had invaded her bedroom, along with an Ursa or two.

Coco positioned herself under the giant flying worm, waiting for her weapon to finish switching modes. Once it was done she held an overlarge gatling gun. She aimed up at the worm and opened fire. A spray of rapid-fire bullets tore through the massive beast, sending pieces of black hide flying through the air and disintegrating as they fell towards the ground. As awesome and destructive as the weapon's effects were, it didn't seem to cause the worm anything more than annoyance. They were huge chunks being shot off, but mere flakes off the creature's skin.

Beside her, Doctor Oobleck began launching blasts of fire from his weapon. They impacted the body of the beast, but also seemed to do little more than knock flakes off the flying mass. Tsuruya saw what was happening, and that the creature was unaffected. She ran to join the two, stopping right in front of them.

"You're not doing anything! It's too big! You..." She looked up at it. "You have to aim for the wings! Destroy it's wings! They're smaller and weaker!" She noticed something else. "But not while it's-"

Coco finished for her. "Not while it's still flying over the school! But we're hurting it first!"

Tsuruya watched where the two were firing their weapons, and how the worm reacted. They shot at its tail mostly, and it reacted by moving its head as far away from its tail as it could. Then they fired at the empty air, and it moved away from that spot entirely. They were leading it away from the school... until... its head was no longer over anything important.

Several blasts of fire launched towards one of the front wings, a stream of bullets striking at the opposite wing. The most fragile parts of the monster shattered, and the wings fell to the ground in a growing mess of black smoke. No longer supported, the head fell as well. It crashed down, shaking the ground and making a crater, then continued moving around and trying to fly. The back two pairs of wings kept the rest of the body in the air, flying forward and away from the school until they had passed over the fallen head and started dragging it along the ground.

Carrying her weapon, Coco ran ahead. She stopped in front of the Grimm's mouth. It saw her, and the head started crawling along the ground towards her. She turned and ran towards the outer wall, guiding the worm farther away from the school. Once she was sure it had enough space to fall without harming anyone, she aimed her weapon and fired right down its throat. The back of its head exploded in a shower of dark fragments, causing visible jolts of pain to shoot through the length of its body.

Oobleck fired up at the remaining wings, blasting them off one by one, causing the tail end to fall to the ground. When it finally collapsed entirely, sending up a cloud of dust and dirt into the air, Tsuruya finally let herself breath easy. She looked over to the green-haired man, seeing his cocky smile.

Tsuruya slumped over sheepishly. "You guys knew what you were doing the whole time, didn't you."

He nodded. "Yes, but the fact that you were able to deduce the same strategy indicates a keen mind necessary for becoming a Huntress. You, I believe, have what it takes even at your young age to become a great Huntress. Tell me, do you have an interest in joining us in the defense of the innocent from the ravages of the dark forces that inhabit our world?"

He spoke in such rapid fire manner that she barely understood what he was saying, but she caught the gist of it. She was about to decline, thinking that it wasn't her fight, but then the giant worm's tail started moving again. She jumped back. "It's still alive!"

Oobleck seemed not to mind. "Alive and writhing in pain as our friend shreds its insides with her weapon. She knows where the brain is on these things. It'll be dead in a few moments."

Calming down, she looked over the length of the thing. It was unbelievable in size, and yet these people fought them just to survive. Adam wasn't far off, tearing through Beowolves like they were nothing. She had already taken out one Beowolf all on her own. Perhaps, she thought, with training she could be as powerful as them.

Smoke started coming off the body of the now dead worm. Coco walked over to join them. The siren stopped blaring, and Tsuruya saw Adam standing on the wall and looking out over the landscape beyond. She turned to Oobleck, feeling her hand moving towards her sword and gripping the handle.

She nodded. "I think... I think I do want to help."

Coco stood behind Tsuruya, placing her hand on her hip. "From what Sun told me, you'll probably need your aura activated before you'll be much use in a fight, girl from another world."

Tsuruya's face turned red. "He told everyone?" She turned around to face Coco. "Wait a minute. Aura?"

Coco nodded, reaching up and flicking some hair over her shoulder. "Well, anyway, if you need your aura unlocked, you can talk to Pyrrha. She's good with that. I mean, I could, but Pyrrha can explain it to you at the same time. She loves to explain aura, so I couldn't let her miss another opportunity."

Author's note: What do you think about my giant Grimm fight? Oh, don't worry, there'll be more awesome fights than that later on. Anyways, the new Grimm is called a Doom Worm. They are... pretty ugly. That's about it.

Oh yes, and team RWBY is MISSING!