Hey guys sorry for being so late, there were finals this week, I actually have some next week too, and so I… I shouldn't lie. I did and do have finals but that's not really the reason. I've been trying to get a new fanfiction running and I haven't gotten any traction when starting to write the first chapter. Also, I like video games. A little too much. Hope you like the chapter!

Marco grabbed a chess piece when a scream echoed through the forest. "Some girl's in trouble, did you guys hear that?" Yang said. I had to cover my mouth to hide my smile. "What should we do?" Yang asked.

I opened my mouth, but was interrupted by Ruby falling from the sky yelling, "HEADS UPPPPPP!" She was intercepted mid-air by Jaune, and they both crashed into a tree. That has to hurt.

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked, looking up at the tree. She was crouched down, something I hadn't noticed before.

"I…"

"YEEHAAAWWWW!" There was an explosion, and an ursa fell down on the edge of the forest. Well, Nora's here now. Who else? Nora ran over grabbing a rook singing, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"

"Nora!" Ren yelled.

"Coming Ren!" Nora dropped the rook from her head into her hand in a movement that was pretty impressive. She ran over to Ren right as Pyrrha burst through the forest with the deathstalker on her tail. She expertly dodged a claw as she ran towards us.

"Jaune!" she yelled. Ruby jumped out of the tree rolling and jumped up.

"Ruby?" Yang asked surprised. I'm not sure why she was surprised, but she was.

"Yang!" Ruby said, excited. They threw up their arms and they were about to hug, but Nora jumped in between them, shouting out her own name.

"Did she just run here with a deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked.

"I can't take it anymore!" Yang screamed, her hair bursting into flames. "Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?"

Roughly two second passed before Ruby patted her arm and pointed up at the nevermore. "Yang?" Yang just slumped over in defeat. Weiss was hanging by one hand on the end of one of it's talons.

"How could you leave me!" Weiss yelled.

"I said jump."

"She's gonna fall.

"She'll be fine."

"She's falling." I just stood there silently watching this insanity from behind the line of people. While Weiss was falling Jaune jumped out to try and catch her, but ultimately ended lying face down on the ground when Weiss landed on his back. Pyrrha, engaged in her battle with the deathstalker, was hit in front of us. Before that, there was an awkward silence where everyone seemed to jump back in time for a second. Weird.

"Great, the gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said happily.

"Yay!" I cheered. Ren hadn't noticed me being here before, so he turned around in surprise. I guess I was being a little silent.

"Not if I can help it!" Ruby said. She pulled out her weapon and started running towards the deathstalker. She screamed a battle cry and used the recoil to propel her further . She slashed at the deathstalker, but her attack bounced off the claw. She yelled something, and folded her weapon up to store it on her back.

"RUBY!" Yang and I yelled at the same time. We started running. I used my semblance in small bursts to conserve what aura I had. The nevermore shot out feathers and I dodged a few, but on turn was too sharp and I slipped on the grass. "RUBY!" We yelled again. I heard a shing and a white blur blew past Yang. But Weiss' heel got caught in my green cape. She stumbled and the cape was pulled over my head. I tried to get to Ruby, but wasn't able to get there in time. Luckily Ruby was able to dodge the stinger almost completely. It left a small scratch on her cheek. "RUBY!" I yelled. I suddenly felt light. I flew through the feathers in a flurry of green petals and appeared on the deathstalker's tail. "Seven!" The claws appeared on my hands and I thrusted my hand through the base of the stinger. My hand got stuck almost all the way through. The deathstalker tried to fling me off but because of my hand I rotated around and the stinger left a gash in my side. I was vaguely aware of someone wrenching my hand out and felt a gust of air. I was hit by a sudden wall of drowsiness. I fought hard to stay awake. I heard someone's voice as I was propped up against a tree.

"Thank you Weiss, Jade are you okay?"

"I-is R-R-Rub…"

"Yes Ruby's fine. She's just feeling tired, the dolt." A colder voice said.

I sighed. "G-Good n-night." Then I was no longer tired.

One thing, everybody always has deathstalker venom being a fast-acting and extremely deadly. I don't think It would be that way. The deathstalker usually kills with its claws or it stabs with its stinger. If the stinger only has a glancing hit the venom would make it drowsy, or in larger amounts would put the victim to sleep. If you're feeling sleepy you're movements are slower. If you fall asleep you're going to die. That's just going to happen. I feel like an extremely deadly poison would be more complex and harder to make which would be a disadvantage. It would take longer to make, not that I'm an expert on venom. Or grimm. Whatever, I might be wrong.

Also, the reason Jade is a faunus and Ruby isn't, also the reason he doesn't have a right leg, is a mutation. I think that is how faunus originally evolved and it just happened a long time ago so faunus have become more common. The loss of the right leg was just a side effect. Hope you liked the chapter!