Ruby POV
I reached the designated area, a garden on beacon campus, and saw Nora.
"Hey, Ruby!" She said, waving.
"Hi, Nora." I said as I approached her. "Good to know I have someone on my team that I know. Do you know Sun or Coco?"
"I know Coco!" She said excitedly, as always. "She's sooo cool! She's got a giant mini gun that transforms into a heavy handbag that she bludgeons Grimm with!" I let out a squeal of excitement.
"That's awesome. I can't wait to see it!"
"Well, someone's excited." Said a voice from behind me.
"Hi Coco!" Nora said, waving.
"Hey, Nora." Coco said, pulling her glasses down a little. "And you must be Ruby."
"H-hi." I said nervously. She certainly looked cool. She had a fashionista look. It was sort of intimidating.
"So, am I late to the party?" Another voice said from behind us. I looked behind me to see a blond guy with an open shirt with nothing underneath and a monkey tail.
"You must be Sun." I said with a smile.
"Yep. And from what Blake's told me, you must be Ruby."
"Uh huh." I said. "So, Coco, since you're our leader, where is this mission?"
"We're going to a place in Vacuo, outside a desert town. A large amount of death stalkers have been attacking people who go outside the walls of the town." Coco said, nonchalantly.
"Well that's kinda...bad." I said with a frightened expression, remembering the death stalker we encountered during initiation.
"Oh, Ruby, don't worry!" Nora said, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. "Not all death stalkers are as big as the one we fought."
"If it's such a problem, I'm not sure that reassures me too much." I said. "Hey, I just got it!"
"Got what?" Asked Sun.
"The name for our team!"
"Why do we need a name?" Coco asked.
"Because...um...because I felt like making one!" I said.
"Okay, so what is it?" Asked Coco.
"Team CRSN (crimson)! Coco, Ruby, Sun, Nora, CRSN!" I exclaimed.
"I like it!" Nora said.
"Me too." Said sun.
"Alright, I guess." Coco said with a smile. "Well, let's go. I got a bullhead ready and I don't wanna keep him waiting."
"Alright, Team CRSN!" I said.
"Yeah!" Said Sun and Nora as Coco shook her head in amusement.
Weiss POV
I arrived at the restaurant and saw Jaune sitting at a table. I sat down across from him. "Hello, Jaune." I said with a smile.
"Hey, Weiss. What's up?"
"Nothing. Just thinking about what our teammates will be like."
"Well, we hung out with team CFVY a few times. Yatsuhashi is kinda the strong silent type."
"Well, that's good. Someone who's silent will be good for my sanity." I said.
"Oh, come on. You know you like your team. I know you like ruby." He said with an uncharacteristically sly smirk.
"Eh? How do you know about that?" I asked, red faced.
"Your room may be soundproof, but Vulcan's complaining is there for all to hear."
"Oh, dammit." I said, slamming my face against the table.
"Hey guys." Said a voice. We both looked to see a blue haired boy with a red jacket and goggles on his head.
"Um, who are you?" Asked Jaune.
"I'm Neptune, me and Yatsuhashi got temporarily mixed up in the system when they showed the teams. He and I got called into the headmaster's office, it was a whole thing." He said, scratching the back of his head.
"Oh, well welcome to the team." Jaune said as Neptune sat down next to him.
"Ok. Now we just have to wait for...Neon Katt." I said. As if on cue, a rainbow streak of light raced past us. "What was that?!" I nearly screamed as the light came back to us. Standing at our table was a red headed girl with pigtails. She had bracers on her arms, a light blue tank top, a pink skirt, a white collar with a bell, a pink tail, and roller skates.
"Hi guys! Are you my new team?" She asked excitedly.
"Depends. Are you Neon Katt?" Jaune asked.
"Yep!" She said as she sat down. "So is the ice queen, like, our leader or something? She looks really...um...strict."
"Why were you rollerskating in a restaurant?" I asked, barely holding in my anger.
"Oh, I go rollerskating everywhere." Neon responded with a smile.
"Why?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"Because I wanna. You need to lighten up." She gasps. "You should try rollerskating!"
"Excuse me?"
"C'mon, it'll be fun!" She says before attempting to drag me out of the booth.
"Neon, as funny as that will be...we do have a mission to get to." Jaune said.
"Oh, right." Neon said, finally letting me go.
"Alright, so I'm voting Jaune in as the leader. He's the only one here who's a team leader, anyway." said Neptune.
"I agree. Plus he's pretty cute." Neon said, winking at him. Jaune blushed and I almost threw up in my mouth.
"Alright, I guess I'm overruled." I said. "Let's get going. We have a mission in the mountains to get to."
Yang POV
"So, what do you guys think this May Zedong will be like?" I asked Blake and Laverna as we sat at the park.
"I dunno, but I hear she wears red." Lav replied.
"Maybe we should wait till she gets here." Blake said, turning a page in her book.
"Aww, Blake, stop being boring! I know you have it in you to be fun." I said.
"Your idea of fun is a danger to my health."
"You wound me, Blake." I replied. Suddenly, I saw a red clad girl walking toward us. "Ooh, the must be her!" I got a better look and saw she had a beanie on her head and over her right eye. She also had a red and white hoodie, a black scarf, a pair of blue track pants, and pinkish hair. Finally, she was holding a rifle.
"'Sup guys!" She said, walking toward us.
"Hi, you must be May. I'm Laverna." Lav said as she got up from the bench.
"Hi. And I'm gonna guess that you are Blake," she gestured to Blake. "And you are Yang." She gestured to me.
"Wow, you're good at that." I said.
"Not really. Blake, black. You have black hair. I dunno." She said scratching the back of her head.
"Okay, so let's get going, I wanna punch stuff." I said with a grin.
"Yeah!" Lav said.
"But, uh, shouldn't you get your weapon?" May asked, seeing Lav's apparent lack of a weapon.
"I already got it." She said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What do you me- holy shit!" She said as Lav let the invisibility on her weapons wear off. "What? How?"
"I have invisibility as my semblance, and I can make stuff invisible." She walked over to the oblivious Blake. "But the bigger the thing," she touched Blake, who then disappeared. "The more aura it takes." She released Blake.
"So I'm a thing?"
"Oh, you know that's not what I meant."
"Let's get going, guys. Y'know, before we get a fistfight. What are we doing?" May said.
"We're going to guard some girl from a village in the south." Lav said.
"Sweet!" I said. Let's get going!"
Ruby POV
3 hours later.
We stepped off of the bullhead and saw a small village.
"Hmm. Quaint." Said Coco.
"It's really quiet around here." Said Nora, loudly.
"It's like a ghost town." Sun added. He then walked up to the ever oblivious Nora, and yelled loudly, "Boo!" Nora screamed and jumped into Coco's arms.
"Not funny, Sun." I said as I began walking into town. We walked around for a while before we came across town hall. We walked inside and saw a blonde secretary.
"Hello there!" I said, cheerily. She looked up at us, and looked as if she was scanning us, like some kind of robot.
"I assume you're the hunters in training sent to help us with the Grimm."
"Uh, yeah." I said, creeped out.
"Well, the mayor is out right now. Just go do your huntsmen thing." She said passively.
"Well, we kinda need to know where to go, what to do, where is your boss?" Coco asked, aggressively.
"He's out. Why would I know where he is?"
"Look, you don't have to be a bitch, we just don't know where exactly the deathstalkers are." Coco said.
"They're up north. Now go away. I'm busy." She gestured to the door. We walked out the door.
"Well that went well." Sun said sarcastically.
"She was a bitch." Nora said. "I almost don't wanna kill all the Grimm if this is how the people act."
"I'm sure it was just her." I said quietly.
"Well just in case let's not talk to anyone else."
Yang POV
"Ugh! We've been walking for hours..." Lav complained.
"Suck it up. This is nothing!" I said back to her as she was lagging behind us three.
"I still don't know why they wouldn't let us land closer." May said.
"They said it was because whoever we're protecting is so valuable that the people there don't trust just anyone who strolls in in a bullhead. Ozpin told them we'd be walking so we're walking." Blake responded.
"But it's so boring!" Lav yelled back.
"May, see if you can see the town, I'm tired of her complaining." May groaned and took her rifle off of her shoulder and aimed it ahead.
"Oh, hey, I can see it!" May said, relieved.
"Thank god!" Lav said. We ran toward the front gates of the town. We got to the gate and saw two large men.
"Halt!" One of the men said. "State your purpose."
"Could you guys talk like you're in this century?" I asked before getting an elbow to the ribs by Blake.
"We're here on a mission to protect someone, but we weren't told who." Blake explained.
"You may enter. Go to the largest house and ask for Angela." The second man said. After that, we went in.
"That seemed a little easy..." May said.
"Hey, don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Lav responded. Soon, we made it to the largest house. It had a weird old fashioned vibe to it. We knocked on the door, and a woman came to the door.
"Hello! I assume you are the girls they sent from Beacon?"
"Yes, that's us." Blake said.
"Well, come in, come in!" She stepped to the side and let us in.
"This place looks a lot like the houses in menagerie," Blake whispered to me. We sat around a table in the dining room. After a lengthy silence, Angela spoke.
"So I assume you are all wondering why you are here."
"Well, we know we're protecting some girl but that's about it."
"Well, that girl is my daughter."
"I'm just gonna ask, what's so important about her that you would need four huntresses in training to defend her?" Lav asked bluntly.
"Right...I knew this would come up. Well, before I get into that...I have to tell you a story. Would anyone like to tell me...what's your favorite fairy tale?"
Ruby POV
I sliced the stinger off yet another Deathstalker, dropping it on its head.
"Alright, that seems to be all of them in this area, let's move on." Coco said. Suddenly, the ground began to shake. A small hill in the distance began to rise, and we saw the mask of a large Grimm come from the shadows underneath. The hill rose and rose until a giant tail stabbed at the air from under the hill. The form of a giant deathstalker rose from the hill.
"RUN!" I yelled.