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Sunday was a very slow day for everyone at Beacon. Homework was done, there were no upcoming tests to study for. Teams RWBY, JNPR and LION were in the cafeteria eating lunch, boredom hovering over the group.

"Okay, I'm just gonna say this so it's out in the open." Ovan started as he pushed his tray in front of him. "I. Am. Bored."

"We all are Ovan." Pyrrha said as she continued to eat. "Today is a day for relaxation but it is unusually dull around here."

"Why don't you just go pick fights with the other meatheads?" Weiss said as she wiped her mouth after finishing her meal. "You know, go smash some stuff to relieve yourself of boredom like the ape you are."

Ovan growled at the heiress with a dark glare. "Careful princess! I just might get mad and do something we'll both regret."

"Hey, hey, hey!" Ruby shouted over her two friends staring each other with death in their eyes. "No fighting!"

They stared at each other for a bit more before breaking eye contact with Ovan muttering obscenities under his breath. Naomi's ears twitched as she picked up what he muttered. Something about a rusty chain and a crate of fire Dust. She really didn't want to know what he had planned if he was pushed that far by the heiress.

"Hey I got an idea." Yang said, gaining everyone's attention. "Why don't we head down to the city? You know, explore the place, find something fun to do?"

Jaune shook his head feverishly at that notion. "No thanks! I would prefer to keep my lunch in my stomach today."

"We really need to get you some medicine for that." Pyrrha said. "If you want to I can try to help you find something to help your motion sickness."

Jaune gave a small smile to his partner. "Thanks Pyrrha."

"I'm sorry but I can't come. My family have been sending numerous letters and I have to respond to them all." Ren said as he pulled out a large stack of notes from his backpack. "I was planning on writing them in the library."

"Well if Jauney, Pyrrha or Ren isn't going, then I'm not either!" Nora declared. It was both endearing and weird that she didn't want to leave her newfound and childhood friends behind for a venture to the city.

Blake got up from her seat next to Yang. "I can't go. I have some reading to catch up on."

"But you read everyday." Yang complained. Why was her simple plan for fun being shot down like a Dustship being pierced by Nevermore feathers?

"Well I have a collection that needs finishing and I just reached a real frustrating cliffhanger in my current book." she explained. "I swear it's like they WANT to kill off the main love interest or something." she mumbled as she made her way back to her room.

Ruby turned to her partner with expectant eyes. "Weiss, what about you?"

Weiss reeled her head towards the orange haired brawler and the fox faunus sitting in front of her. "Not so long as these two are coming."

"What? Why me?" Naomi questioned. "I mean, I can understand Ovan."

"HEY!"

"But why me?"

"SImple." she started as she began to stand up. "Because you're a faunus and as a proud Schnee, I shouldn't be seen hanging around with someone like you."

This got the whole groups attention as they turned to face her in shock.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Leon yelled at the heiress. "Just because she's a faunus doesn't mean she's evil or anything!"

"Wow and you call me a monster." Ovan said as he looked at her with disgust in his eyes.

Weiss rolled her eyes at the brawler's statement. "Oh, this coming from the guy who beat the tar out of several students and called it 'hunting free game'?"

"You guys, it doesn't matter." Naomi said suddenly. Leon couldn't help but notice the lair of ice around her words. "If little miss slave rider doesn't want to have fun then who cares?" she then got up and walked to Yang. "I for one would love to go to the city to get my mind off the boredom here."

"I'm going too." Leon said as he got up from his seat. "Ovan? Iris? You coming?"

Ovan shrugged his shoulders and got up as well. "I got nothing better to do."

"If Snugglebutt's going, then so am I!" Iris cheered before being scolded by her partner about calling him that. This little banter seemed to ease the tension after Weiss and her harsh words had left. However those words still ran around Naomi's head, hurting her in ways no human could understand.

"So it's settled!" Yang said with a smirk. "Let's meet up by the air docks in an hour alright?"

Team LION nodded their heads and made their way back to their room. They took their time getting dressed in their usual outfits.

"Why are you bringing your weapon Naomi?" Iris asked as the faunus attached the blade to her hip.

"Well you never know when trouble might happen." she said simply. "Better to be prepared then to regret not having something to defend yourself."

"Ah I get! Always carry protection with you!"

Everyone in the room blushed scarlet while Ovan yelled "Goddamn it Iris!"

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The city of Vale was as busy as ever. People mobbed the streets going from shop to shop in the bustling city. Team LION walked through the energetic town along with their friends Ruby and Yang.

"I just love the city!" Ruby exclaimed as she stretched her arms out wide. "So many great people. So many great shops. It's so peaceful."

"Maybe up here it is. But the part of the city I love goes downtown." Yang grinned. "There's some cool bars and plenty of idiots looking for a fight."

"Finally someone that I can relate to!" Ovan cheered. "I think my favorite place to use people as a punching bag is Demon's Lair."

"You've got good taste Ovan." Yang agreed. "A personal favorite of mine is Grimm's Bite."

"I don't think I've gone there before." Ovan said.

"You haven't been there?!" the blonde girl gasped. "Ovan my friend, we are going there right now! Follow me!" Yang grabbed the blood orange haired teen and sped off with him towards the shady downtown of Vale.

"They're gonna be ok… right?" Iris asked.

"Ovan and Yang against a swarm of drunken idiots? I'm pretty sure they'll be fine." Leon assured the girl.

"Never mind them. We're going to have some REAL fun! I know a place a few blocks from here that sells the best cookies EVER!" Ruby cheered. "Let's get going guys!"

"I'll catch up with you guys later." Leon said. "I've got somewhere I need to go first."

"Okay then. We'll meet up with you later then." Ruby said. The cookie glutton turned towards Iris and Naomi. "Let's move out you two. Those cookies aren't going to eat themselves."

"Actually… I think I'll go with Leon." Naomi offered.

"That's ok." the lavender haired archer replied. "You don't have to come."

"It's no problem." Naomi assured him. "I just ummm… don't want you to be lonely. Yeah… that's it."

"If you say so Naomi." Leon shrugged. "I guess we'll see you later Ruby… wait where'd Ruby and Iris go?"

"TO THE COOKIES!" a voice called out in the distance. Leon and Naomi looked over to see Ruby running towards her destination at full speed while dragging Iris along by the back of her shirt.

"Damn she's fast." Naomi said in awe. "So anyway, where are we going?"

"To the hospital." Leon replied.

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Vale Central Hospital was a huge building in the northern part of the city. There were a total of twenty-two floors in the structure. The hospital was the kingdom's main research institute for ways in using dust to treat diseases. Naomi didn't really know why Leon needed to come here. When the blue haired fanus asked him, he just said that she'd understand when she got there. However, she still had no clue when they entered the building. Naomi took a seat in the lobby while Leon headed over to the front desk. After a few minutes or so, he returned handing Naomi a card.

"I got us two visitor passes." Leon said.

"I still don't get why you wanted to come here." the fox girl said. "Mind filling me in?"

"It's this way." Leon explained. Naomi followed her teammate as they walked over to the elevator. Leon scanned his visitor pass on the screen and entered floor seventeen as the destination. When the elevator reached the floor, the doors opened up and an electronic voice reiterated their location. "Floor 17. Center for the Physically Disabled."

'Physically disabled?' Naomi thought in her mind. 'Why would he want to come here?' The blue haired fox continued to follow Leon as they walked down the hallway. The floors were so shiny that Naomi could clearly see her reflection as she looked down. It was amazing how well cleaned this hospital was. As she looked at the clear floor, she noticed something else. Leon's face looked so serious. Usually he seemed somewhat laid back. Naomi had never seen Leon be overly serious about anything except when he was fighting. What could possibly make him have that face now?

The pair took a right turn and entered a wide open space. When she heard "physically disabled", Naomi expected to see people with crutches or in wheelchairs. This went far beyond that. There were people with a missing arm or a leg. Others twitched their body as they walked around. One person even had two amputated legs. The sight made Naomi pity them. But why did Leon want to come here?

"Big brother!" a sudden voice called out. Naomi looked over to her left to see a young blonde girl in a wheelchair coming over towards them. Her hair was styled with two pigtails tied up with red bows. She seemed fine enough to Naomi. Just a regular girl in a wheelchair. Nothing that would make her need to be living in a hospital.

"Hey sis." Leon greeted with a smile. "You been doing alright?"

"Yup!" the girl blonde girl replied with a smile. "The people here are so nice!"

"That's good." Leon replied.

"So who's your friend?" the little girl asked.

"Oh right, let me introduce you." the archer replied. "Naomi, this is my little sister Terra. Terra, this is my friend from Beacon, Naomi."

"So you're a huntress in training?" Terra asked. "That's so cool!"

"It's nice to meet you Terra." Naomi replied with a bow. As she bowed down, her eyes caught something. Just above Terra's shoes, a small cut was visible. It seemed to go further up the girl's leg, but was hidden by her pants.

"I see you've noticed it." Terra said. "You're probably wondering why I'm here when there doesn't seem to be much wrong with me."

"N-No that's not it! It's nothing like that." Naomi lied.

"It's okay. I can see it in your eyes." Terra explained. "People's faces can hide things, but their eyes can't." She grabbed the end of one of the legs of her pants and pulled it up to her knee. The shock from what Naomi saw couldn't even be hidden by her face.

'Oh my god' Naomi thought. 'What in the world happened to her?'

Terra's lower leg seemed like something out of a horror movie. Multiple deep gashes covered the young girl's leg. One of the gashes was so deep, Naomi could even see a small part of the bone of Terra's leg. The gashes seemed to go up even further past her knee.

"My right leg is even worse." Terra explained, pulling her pants leg back down. "Sorry if that grossed you out a bit."

"N-No, don't worry about it." Naomi assured the girl. "It's not that bad."

"Terra, Dr. Archlight is ready for you." a nurse said, coming into the room.

"Coming." Terra called back. "Sorry. It's time for my weekly check-up. I'll be back in a little bit." Terra pushed herself over towards the nurse and the two headed off down the hall. Once Terra was out of sight, Naomi sped over towards a garbage can in the room and started vomiting.

"You okay, Naomi?" Leon asked as he walked over to the faunus.

"Dear god… Leon… what in the name of Remnant happened to her?" Naomi asked as she finally calmed herself down.

Leon sat down on the floor and leaned against the wall. Naomi sat down next to him as Leon began to explain.

"It all happened six years ago…"

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"Wow! The forest is so pretty!" Terra exclaimed as she rode on Leon's shoulders. The two siblings gazed at the breathtaking scenery as they walked through the woods on the mountain near their village to gather some herbs their mother asked them for. Usually, Leon did this on his own, but Terra had been so excited to see what the forest looked like that Leon decided to bring the young girl along.

"I guess so." Leon shrugged. "I've seen it so many times it's almost gotten boring."

"Well I'm never gonna get tired of this view." Terra told her brother. "Just look at it all. The blooming flowers. The tall trees. It's all so breathtaking."

"There's usually more wildlife around here though." Leon said. "I wonder why it seems so quiet."

"You probably scared them off with all your stomping around Leon." Terra teased. "If I don't get to see any deer or bunnies, I'm blaming it on you."

"Oh sure. That's fair." Leon chuckled. A sudden rustling was heard that grabbed the attention of the brother and sister.

"What was that?" Terra wondered.

"Dunno." Leon replied. "Could be some of the animals finally coming out."

"Really?! Let's go check it out!" Terra exclaimed. "I wanna see them. Please Leon. Pretty please."

"Alright, alright. We'll take a quick look." Leon surrendered. "But then we have to get back to gathering herbs. Got it?"

The young blonde girl nodded and Leon walked through the bushes towards the rustling sound they had heard. They exited the dense forest and found themselves on the edge of the steep mountain. Looking up the long slope, a large amount of goats that were common in the area were running along down the mountain slope.

"Wow! There's so many of them! This is so cool!" Terra cheered. She hopped off her big brother's shoulders to get a closer look. But what interested Leon wasn't the sight of them. It was how they were moving.

'Something's not right' Leon thought to himself. 'There's a lot more then there usually are. And that movement. It's like they're running away from something. But what?'

A loud and menacing roar answered Leon's question. The lavender haired boy looked up to the top of the mountain slope to see a terrifying beast. It was covered in pitch black fur and white bone-like armor on its head and back. Leon had never seen that type of creature before, but he had heard of only one thing that could look like that. Grimm.

"Wh-What is that thing Leon?" Terra shivered as she gazed at the terrifying beast. Several more appeared and the Grimm horde ran down the mountain, following the animals.

"Terra! Run!" Leon ordered as he grabbed the young girl's hand and dragged her along as they re-entered the trees. Leon took the shortest route they could back to the village, but within minutes he could hear the Grimm closely behind. Leon took a different route to try and elude their pursuers. He took Terra and hid behind a tree, covering her mouth with his hand. The Grimm soon emerged into eyesight of the two kids, a little further down the mountain than them. The savage beasts stopped, wondering where their targets had gone.

'Please don't let them notice us.' Leon silently begged.

No such luck existed though as one Grimm looked up towards Leon and Terra and let out an alerting howl to its friends. Leon grabbed Terra's hand once again and ran off. Leon moved through the trees and when they finally emerged out of the woods, the only thing greeting them was a cliff that was at least five stories high. At the bottom of the cliff were the woods at the base of the mountain, but the only way to get there would be to go back the way they came. And the Grimm slowly emerging from the trees behind them made that option impossible.

"L-Leon… I'm scared!" Terra cried as the Grimm skulked closer to them, ready to go for the killing blow. The two siblings dragged their feet back as far as they could until they were on the very edge of the cliff. One Grimm leaped forward at them with its claws ready to rip them apart.

'I've got no choice. Please let this work.' Leon grabbed his little sister and jumped off the cliff with her, wrapping himself around her like a cocoon as they hit the trees.

When Leon regained consciousness, he found him and Terra lying in the forest bellow. The young boy didn't even have the strength to get up. He quickly assessed his condition, judging most of his injuries to be nothing life threatening, although his left leg seemed to be broken and there was a long cut along his right arm.

'What about Terra?' Leon remembered. He looked over to see the young girl lying a few meters away from him. She was unconscious, but the sight of her breathing showed she was alive. Leon dragged himself over towards his sister. Her upper body was covered with scrapes and her shirt was torn in multiple areas. Her lower body was… horrifying would be an understatement. Serious cuts and gashes covered the blonde girl's legs. Those gashes couldn't have been from hitting the tree branches. That Grimm from before must have gotten a swipe at her legs right before they fell down the cliff. The other cuts covering her legs came when they hit the trees. Leon thought they could finally take a quick rest, address Terra's more serious injuries, and then hopefully make it to the next town over. By now their village was almost certainly infested with those horrifying Grimm. Leon tried to turn his head around to look for some leaves or something to cover Terra's wounds and stop the bleeding. But what he saw that grabbed his attention wasn't leaves or plant life. It was something far worse. The deep piercing red eyes of a Grimm. The beast emerged from the woods, glaring at the two beaten children in front of it.

'Is this how it ends? Are we really going to die here?' Leon thought to himself. The Grimm lunged at them to put them out of their misery, but the blow never came. It was interrupted as a woman emerged from the woods and blocked the incoming attack with a long thin rapier. The Grimm made another swipe at the woman, but she evaded it and stabbed her sword into the Grimm's shoulder. The dark beast leaped back to distance itself from its opponent, but its efforts were in vain as the woman's rapier extended and lost its solid steel form, turning into a whip. With one cast of her whip, she cut the beast's stomach, ripping it in half. Finally free from the danger, she rushed over to the two kids.

"You're going to be alright." she assured Leon. "I'm a huntress." She opened her scroll and spoke into it. "I've found two kids in the forest! Get the ship here immediately!" Within minutes, a large ship hovered over them. Leon lost consciousness after that.

When Leon awoke, he found himself in a hospital in Vale. The huntress who had saved him and his sister informed him about the details of what happened. The Grimm horde had ravaged and destroyed the village completely, but most of the villagers made it out alive once the huntress and her team arrived. Leon's mother had told them about her two kids still on the mountain and that was how she had found Leon and Terra in time. When Leon asked about Terra, the huntress's expression turned grim. Terra's life wasn't in any danger now that they were at the hospital, but she came unbelievably close to dying. The cuts on her upper body would heal just fine, but the injuries to her legs were far more severe. The doctors said she'd probably never walk again. In addition, Terra's legs were in such terrible shape, that they said it would take twelve years for them to recover well enough for her to live freely again. She would need constant drugs and medicine to keep her from dying of the extreme pain. As a result, she was administered into the hospital's physically disabled ward. The news hit Leon pretty hard.

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"I hated myself for not being able to protect Terra." Leon said, finishing his story. "I wanted to be stronger so I could protect her and make sure something like that never happens again. That's why I decided to become a hunter."

Naomi stared at her teammate in shock from his story. As a faunus, she had been discriminated upon by thousands of people so she knew what it felt like to suffer. But she had never heard of something like this happening. Her fox ears bent down to match the sadness and pity she felt in her heart for Leon and Terra. Twelve years… twelve years she would have to live like this. And even after that, she still would never be able to walk again.

"Leon… I'm so sorry you had to go through all that." Naomi said. "I can't imagine what that's like."

"It's not your fault Naomi." Leon replied. "But it has been hard these past six years."

"So you became a hunter in order to protect people?" Naomi asked.

"Yeah. I don't want anyone to have to go through what happened to Terra." Leon explained. "By the way, what's your reason?"

"Reason?" Naomi questioned.

"Yeah. Your reason for wanting to be a huntress." Leon asked. "What is it?"

Naomi was about to answer but was cut off by her scroll buzzing. She took it out and looked at the message quickly before putting it back into her pocket.

"Something up?" Leon asked.

"Sorry. I gotta go Leon." Naomi replied, getting up off the floor and heading for the elevator. She was stopped however when a sudden explosion was heard an an earthquake shook the hospital. The fanus tripped over the shaking and fell onto the floor.

"Naomi, are you ok?" Leon asked, rushing over to the girl's side.

"Yeah I'm fine. Don't worry." Naomi assured him.

"Look over there!" a sudden voice called out, pointing outside. People gathered over by the window and all gasped at what they saw. Leon and Naomi walked over to take a look as well, and their faces took on gasps of shock as well. The center of town seemed to be ravaged and destroyed. Smoke rose up into the sky.

"What is going on?" Leon wondered. Suddenly his scroll buzzed. He looked at it to see the one calling him was Ruby. He held the phone to his ear. "Ruby, what the heck is going on? What was that?"

"Leon it's terrible! It's horrifying!" Ruby cried through the scroll.

"What is it?"

"THE COOKIES ARE SOLD OUT!" the girl screamed. "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"

"Ruby! What about the explosion just now?!" Leon yelled.

"Explosion? What are you… wow, when did that happen? You'd think I would have noticed that." Ruby said in shock, just noticing the smoke from the center of town.

"We'll be there in ten minutes. Meet up with us there." Leon said, hanging up his scroll. "Let's go Naomi."

"Right." Naomi nodded. The pair ran out of the tall hospital and into the streets which were now filled with chaos as people ran in fear away from the center of town.

"I'll go from the roofs and see if I can get a better view." Naomi suggested. "I'll meet you there."

"Got it." Leon responded. The fox girl leaped up onto the roof of a building and started running across towards the site of the explosion. Leon headed there as well, running through the streets towards the chaos.

A/N: Phew, finally done. I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter. Please keep up the awesome feedback guys. Post any comments or suggestions you have.