A/N: What's up RWBY fans? Time for another chapter. But more importantly than that, RWBY Volume 3 has been officially announced to be released in four months! I can't wait! I need the trailer, or at least the new opening! The suspense is killing me!

Naomi groaned lightly as she awoke to the morning sunlight hitting her face, stretching her arms about her head as she did so. A week had passed ever since the showdown at the docks and Blake identity became now common knowledge within their friend group. Blake herself was rather shocked that no one thought any different of her for her hiding her true heritage.

Ovan himself was rather blunt about the whole situation saying "So what if you're a faunus? You're still the same anti-social book reader from before."

This statement had earned him a punch to the face from the black haired cat faunus in question but the rambunctious leader gave very little concern over the hit. Though him grasping his face in mild pain did satisfy Blake quite a bit.

Naomi glanced at the her digital clock and saw that the time was a 9:15 A.M. Good thing it was the weekend or else she would have freaked out for being late for class. Looking around, she saw that her friends wearing gearing up in their combat outfits. Turning around, Leon took notice of his girlfriend being awake and smiled at her. "Morning Naomi. Sleep well?"

"Yeah, nothing but blissful rest." she confirmed as she got up from her bed. "Why are you all getting dressed? We're free from classes today."

"What did you forget?" Ovan asked as he slipped on his right shoe. "Ozpin said we had that group field trip. Personally I think it's a pain in the ass that he's forcing all the first years on this trip when we could be relaxing!"

Iris walked up to her partner and gave him a comforting pat on the head. She had only the best intentions but it only served to agitate the orange haired teen further. "Don't worry Snugglebutt, the Professors said that this trip is going to be a test of our skills so you might get to blow something up!"

"Um Iris, I thought we agreed to keep the damage control high by not telling Ovan this fact?" Leon groaned from his dresser.

"What? He looked so agitated so I thought this could help give him some release of frustration."

Naomi couldn't help but notice the grin that graced her leader's face. Not from her unknown innuendo but from the destruction part. "Well at least that can guarantee that this trip won't be boring for me."

Leon sighed with a shake of his head as he clasped his weapon over his shoulders before looking at his faunus girlfriend. "You should probably shower now. We got to meet by the air docks at 10:00 A.M."

Realizing how little time she had, Naomi kicked her sheets off of her and gunned it for the shower.

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"Students!" Ozpin spoke into a microphone, gaining all the chatting students attentions. "Today all the first years are going on their first major group mission in Mistral. Take heed that this mission carries with it much danger and life threatening peril. Those of you who wish to step out please do so. I will not force any of you to be in a situation you feel uncomfortable in." Ozpin glanced around to see none of the students even wavering in their resolve. "Good. Now we shall be going to a village just south of the Ivory Jungle. The village of Granite is a small mining town who are experiencing a sudden uprise in Grimm activity. I think this will be a fantastic opportunity to test your skills as huntsmen and huntresses. The trip will take approximately take about two hours to reach so please keep yourselves entertained for the flight."

One by one, the teams started to pile in to the many Dustships docked at the station. Teams RWBY, JNPR, and LION all flowed into the same ship as it started it's engine.

"Oh crap…" Jaune groaned as he grasped his stomach in pain. "I can feel my food already revolting in my stomach…"

"We haven't even taken off yet you weenie." Iris started as she took one of the window seats. "You really are a hair trigger aren't you?" Jaune's face grew bright red as did his teammates while Ovan smacked the back of Iris's head. " Ouch! What was that for!?"

"Oh come on! You had to have heard the innuendo there!" Ovan yelled as the others averted their gaze to the white haired girl.

Iris gave a huff before putting her earbuds in and started looking out the window. It seemed like ninety percent of the time her friends were out to get her every time she opened her mouth.

Time passed by as the ship made it's way across the ocean. Ruby and Jaune chatted avidly about various geeky topics with Jaune having to occasionally give a few dry heaves into the nearby trash can. Nora was chatting Ren's ears off while the latter simply smiled and took his childhood friend's excitement in stride. Yang was having fun poking at Weiss's buttons with a variety of her infamous puns while Weiss grew more and more annoyed with the brawler's antics. Pyrrha simply spend her time examining her weapon, sharpening it and making sure the mechanisms were well lubricated to prevent a lock up. In the back seats sat Blake reading another one of her seemingly endless supply of novels. Leon and Naomi sat together side by side with the faunus girl slightly curled up to her boyfriend with a smile on her face. Ovan himself was surprisingly quiet as he sat in a seat to the front right section of the plane, eyes closed as he breathed in and out.

Soon enough the ship came to a slow stop as it reached it's destination along with the other ships as well. The students rushed out of the avian vehicle with excitement as they gazed at their new surroundings. Outside the port was a vast village that would be better described as a mini city. Numerous tall buildings were scattered as far as the eye could see, all of them made of a rather tough and smooth looking granite stone rather than conventional metal. Surrounding the 'village' was a large a lush jungle. True to it's name, the Ivory Jungle was a vast sea of white flora and fauna. Around it were small train rails that connected to different mines around the jungle.

"Whoa! So cool!" Jaune gushed as he and his equally enthusiastic friends Ruby and Nora began looking around the windows. "This is nothing like back in my town!"

"Not surprising." Ovan said as he looked around as well. "You seem more like a farm boy rather than a warrior. Try not to gawk too much, or else everyone's gonna think you're a loser… Well an even bigger loser than before."

Leon smacked the back of his friend's head. "Quit being a jackass Ovan. I know how hard that might be for you but at least try."

"Piss off!" the leader groaned as he rubbed the back of his head. "Least I'm not the one who's gawking around at everything like some sort of excited puppy!"

"For once and probably only once I am going to agree with the brute." Weiss said as she sighed at her leader's antics. "They're acting like children. That is not the behavior of a hunter or huntress."

Leon shook his head at that response. "There's nothing wrong for them to be curious. Plus Ruby is like fifteen, she still has a right to be a bit childish."

"Plus anyway ice queen, it's not like you can verbally attack them for being kids." Ovan remarked snidely. "Just because you didn't have a childhood doesn't mean you can whine and groan at others for being kids."

"Are you serious? You were just mocking Arc over there!"

"Cause he was being a total dip that looked like he never saw another city before, not because he was acting like a kid. Plus anyway we all have an inner kid in us all… Well most of us anyway…"

"Why you-!"

"Students!" Glynda called through and mic. "We will now being headed out to the outpost where you all will be dispatched into different parts of the Ivory Jungle. After your area is cleared you will all meet at the location we have reserved for us to rest at for the night before we return back to Beacon. The locations and coordinates have been sent to your Scroll. Teams, please stay together and follow me and other other members of the faculty."

"Alright Team RWBY!" the young leader yelled towards her sisters-in-arms. "Forward march! Those Grimm aren't going to kill themselves!"

"If they did we'd be out of a job." Yang joked as she put her hands behind her head in a carefree fashion.

Naomi walked next to her boyfriend and her other two members of their team. "So shall we get going?"

Ovan nodded as he cracked his knuckles. "Yeah, lets raise some hell!"

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One by one the many different first year teams left the large group each at a different section of the jungle. Team RWBY took the north end, Team JNPR took the west end and so on until it came down to the last few teams. LION was being guided by Glynda to their assigned location, the south end.

"Now students, this area has had a spike in Beowolves and Crypt Keepers. I trust you can handle them?"

Ovan scoffed at the teacher's question. "Please. A few overgrown puppies and spiders? It's gonna be easier than snapping a twig."

"Yeah!" Iris chanted. "We're gonna crush those bugs like expert exterminators!"

"Then I shall leave this in your capable hands Team LION. IF you encounter anything out of the ordinary please contact us immediately." With that being said, the teacher walked off, leaving the students by themselves at the entrance.

"So how are we gonna go about this Ovan?" Leon asked as he unclasped his weapon from his side.

Ovan gave a feral smirk as he cracked his knuckles. "Isn't it obvious? We're gonna go in there and kill every single one we can find!"

Naomi rolled her eyes as she drew her katana. "Of course that's the plan." she muttered.

"Hey don't knock it if it works! To quote a great woman, 'The most effective plans are often the most simple.' So there's no need for an intricate plan if all we are doing is hunting pond scum Grimm. Alright maggots, forward march!" Ovan yelled as he marched into the jungle.

The team trekked down the beaten path of the trail as they began their first search and destroy mission. True to the teacher's claim, the area was overrun with the howling demon wolves and giant spider Grimm. The team split apart as an Alpha Beowulf came barreling towards them.

Leon quickly shifted his scimitar into it's bow form and fired an explosive red arrow into it's side as Iris distracted the wolf. The Grimm made a fatal mistake by turning its attention away from the other hunters-in-training as Ovan had jumped upon its back. Before the Alpha could even react, the orange haired teen had grabbed hold of its neck and with a sickening snapping sound, had broken the monster's neck like a twig leaving the head snapped at an unnatural angle as its body fell limp. Naomi found herself dodging the long limbs of a large Crypt Keeper as it tried to impale the young faunus or tried to inject its fatal venom with its fangs. The fox faunus parried all the strikes from the monster with her sheathed blade and backpedaled when it tried to bite her. Growing angry at its prey's dodging prowess, the Crypt Keeper lunged forward and attempted to bite her head off with reckless abandon. Naomi quickly rolled under its slender limbs as the Grimm embedded its fangs into a tree's thick bark, leaving it defenseless. Naomi quickly unsheathed Kasumi Blossom and began hacking off the limbs of the monster with precision strikes. As the Crypt Keeper toppled over, Naomi had then jumped into the air and impaled the beast through the head with a swift strike. To make sure of her kill, the faunus lobbed off the demon spider's head and sliced the body in half making it slowly disintegrate into a misty smoke.

As Ovan and Leon worked together to kill the larger Grimm with a combination of the archer's stun arrows and Ovan's own terrifying strength, Iris laughed giddily as numerous Beowolves chased her in a frenzy. The white haired girl tuned and to face her stalkers as she reached an open clearing. As the flood of the demon wolves grew closer and closer the ninja girl began channeling her semblance with the air around her. As the Grimm had burst through into the clearing, a blast of wind shot the ten monsters into the air with a violent force. Smiling to herself, Iris used her semblance to chase after the Grimm with her tonfas bared. One by one the ninja girl smashed her wind augmented fist into the faces of the Beowolves, shattering their skulls as the crashed into the ground violently as well as leaving the lucky Grimm with only broken limbs. However the were not as lucky as they first thought. Before they could even attempt to limp away, Iris came crashing down on their bodies one by one, stomping the very life out of them with an unfading smile on her face. As she finished off the last one Iris turned back to her friends and waved to them.

"All done over here guys! All these Grimm were such a joke. They didn't have the strength to make me work my body!" she called to them.

"Goddamnit Iris!" Ovan yelled as he punched off a Crypt Keeper's head. "Don't distract me by opening your mouth!"

Iris pouted as she walked back to her friends. 'Everytime.' she thought to herself.

A few hours passed as Team LION continued their extermination task. The demon spawn in the surrounding area fell quickly to the group of teenagers. Within the hour, the team was having a hard time finding other Grimm in the area.

"So think we flushed them out of here?" Leon asked as he darted his eyes left and right in the surrounding area.

Ovan shrugged his shoulders as he left out a bored sigh. "Must be so. We haven't seen one of those bastards for over an hour now. Should we go report to Goodwitch?"

Naomi opened her mouth to agree but was stopped as the sounds of heavy rustling was heard a small distance away. The team turned to the direction of the noise and walked carefully towards it. As they moved past the bushes and thickets, they were greeted by a very strange looking Grimm. The Grimm itself was plant-like in nature with a long lanky body and black leafy appendages for arms. It had a round, cracked Grimm mask at where the flower and the stem meet. On its head was a huge honey yellow ball of a type of pollen that was giving off a pale yellow mist around it's body. The Grimm itself started to shake violently, letting the huge ball of pollen spread around the area.

"The hell is that Grimm." Ovan whispered to his teammates.

"I read about them before." Naomi said as she pulled out a small handbook from her satchel. She turned the pages until she found a picture that matched the Grimm in front of them. "It's called a Blight Pollen. It uses its large head of pollen called Chaos Pollen to attract a large amount of pack minded Grimm to itself. The book says humans who inhale the pollen directly suffer various sicknesses and in extreme cases, death."

"I bet that's the thing causing the Grimm influx." Iris said as she readied her weapon.

Naomi shook her head as she put a hand between her eccentric friend and the monster in front of them. "No Iris, that's an Threat Level A rank Grimm! That's beyond our skill level. We should go back and call the teachers to tell them about this so they can take care of it."

Ovan frowned at that statement. "To hell with that, I say we go ahead and kill the bastard! We have the element of surprise so if we get the jump on the Grimm we can kill it no problem!"

"Ovan, use your head for once!" Leon half whispered half yelled at him furiously. "This thing can call reinforcements at will! And you say we fight that thing!?"

"Hell yeah because I say we can take-"

A sudden screech sounded in front of them. Turning their attention to their front direction, they saw the Blight Pollen glaring directly at them as it started billowing out it's pollen. As it did so, the sounds of rustling was heard around them as Beowolves broke through the foliage and surrounded the plant monster.

Ovan got up from his prone position and cracked his knuckles threateningly. "Looks like we got no choice now. Bring it on you assholes!" he yelled as he broke through and started beating on the Grimm wolves.

Leon cursed under his breath as he and the two girls followed their impulsive leader into an upwards battle.

A/N: That's chapter 12 everyone. Hope you liked the design for the Blight Pollen. Look forward to the next chapter for the fight.