I know that I leave a cliffhanger in the last chapter, so, let's start with this.

After failing to chase down Mia and Silver, and with the light of the day almost gone, team RWBY decided to return to their room. It was just one of many empty room that they randomly picked. Since there were only two beds, they had decided to do the same thing that they did in Beacon, share them. Ruby shared with Yang and Weiss with Blake. Weiss had been the one who came up with the idea of that combination. After she finding out that Yang and Blake had become a couple, the last think that she wanted was to let them sleep together. Okay, Weiss knew that they were a pair of responsible seventeen year old girls, but still… you could never be sure.

The first thing that they did was climb into bed, they were incredibly tired, but Yang asked Ruby about the picture that Silver had taken. It had been the reason why she and Weiss were chasing her, but instead of answering, Ruby face turned completely red, and she quickly covered it with the bed sheet and said. "I won't talk about it!" Weiss' face was also red and in, as revenge, she asked about what Mia had said to make Yang and Blake chase her. The couple felt embarrassed thinking about what transpired, and their faces turned just as red. After that no one dared to talk, not a single word, and they quickly fell asleep, but, without any reason in particular, Yang woke up in the middle of the night.

There wasn't a reason for it, she didn't had have a nightmare nor did she need to go to the bathroom. She was just awake at was the 6:30 a.m., according to her Scroll, so she decided to try to go back to sleep. It was too early and she didn't have anything important to do but, she couldn't, something would not let her sleep. It was a thought, a thought that Yang had tried very hard to ignore, a thought about the maidens' story. Her mother had told her that the story was real and, of course after the things that recently happened, Yang didn't doubt it. The four maidens, the silver-eyed people, Salem, and last but not least, the hermit who was now known as Exitium. According to the story, he will awaken five days after Salem's death. Since the maidens and Salem turned out to be real, so, he should be real too. But, there was another thing in her head and this time it was a question about Rae. How do she know about Salem? Not only Rae, but also the whole team SSMR; Summer, Silver, even Mia had a lot of secrets. Yang tried, she tried very hard to forget those thoughts and sleep again, but she couldn't, she just couldn't.

"Can't sleep?" Ruby asked "Neither can I."

"How long have you been awake?" Yang replied, looking at her sister, she really hadn't noticed that Ruby was awake.

"About half an hour, you?"

"Like twenty minutes. Did you have a nightmare?"

"No, I just… just was asking to myself something about Summer… and Silver… and Mia… and Raven. Those four are full of riddles, like, how did Summer learn to use her eyes' powers? Or, how and why do they know us? Why do they look like us? How did Summer and Silver know Roman and Neo? Or…"

"How did Summer know how to train someone with a summoning semblance? Why did Summer and Silver seem to know my sister? Why do they seem to know everything about us?"

"How and why do Raven and Mia know Adam? How did Mia know about Heaven academy's secrets room How do they seem to know things that a normal person shouldn't know?"

That was the moment when Ruby and Yang noticed that Weiss and Blake were also awake. Weiss said that she had woken up around forty minutes ago and Blake said that had been awake since five o'clock. Seems that everyone had woken up for the same reason, questions about team SSMR. Raven and Mia were one year younger than Yang, Weiss, and Blake, and Summer had to be the same age as Ruby. Silver was the youngest of them, but even she seemed to know too many things. All four of them were full of mysteries and questions, questions that they wouldn't answer, but that wasn't all. Every member of team SSMR looked exactly like one of them; Summer looked like Ruby, Silver looked like Weiss, Raven looked like Blake, and Mia looked like Yang. That just can't be normal, they were like combinations, Summer and Silver were like a combination of Ruby and Weiss, and Raven and Mia were like a combination of Yang and Blake.

"And that isn't all." Yang said, winning her friends attention before she turned to look at her little sister. "Remember what I said about the dream in which I talked to my mother? Well, now I know that that wasn't a dream, it was real and what she told me…"

Yang began to tell them about her 'dream'. She spoke about every single thing her mother had told her, the maidens, Salem, the silver-eyed people, Exitium, why she had leave and… what had really happened to Summer Rose on her last mission. In the beginning, it was very hard to believe but, for Blake, the story made a lot of sense. The Brown shine that had appeared on Cinder Fall's body when Mia put a crystal ball on her back, that shine must had been the maidens powers. The place she and Mia went after Mia opened a portal… everything made sense. Everything made sense for Ruby too, though she had some doubts about the maidens. She quickly remembered that Summer had tried to make her awaken the silver-eyed powers and Cinder's strange "semblance". As for Weiss, everything was very hard to believe, but, for some reason, she couldn't doubt what she was hearing, something inside of told her that she must believe everything.

"So, Salem was the one who killed my mom and your mom." Ruby said, mostly for her own benefit, but everyone heard her. "But… How did Rae know about her?"

"I'm asking myself the same thing." Yang answered "Supposedly, knowledge of Salem was a very well kept secret and very few people know about her, but Rae, even Mia, knew about her. Why? How?"

"Don't forget that Raven and Mia knew Adam." Blake said. "And I'm pretty sure that they weren't members of the White Fang. How do they know him?"

"Also." Ruby began. "Summer and Silver know Weiss' sister, Roman, Neo, they even know an Atlas army general, that just can't be normal."

"I've had enough." Weiss said while she sat up on the bed. "I have had enough of asking question and getting 'classified' as the only answer."

"Yeah." Ruby said. "Okay team, I made up my mind. We are going ask Summer, Silver, Mia and Raven our questions and we won't accept 'classified' as an answer. We will get real answers! Team SSMR is full of mysteries but that ends today, let's go find them."

After everyone got dressed they made their way to team SSMR's bedroom. It was already 9:15 a.m. since they had talked for a very long time. When they reached the girls' room, the door was open and there were no one in there, the room was totally empty.

"Don't tell me that they ran away." Ruby said.

It looked like that was what actually happened, until they heard someone scream "WHO CARES IF WE DIE?" from the next room. The voice was unmistakable, it was Silver's voice. They decided to keep quiet and listen to what was going on in the other room. Although the walls were only made of wood, it was difficult to hear what was being said. All they could understand was that Summer and Raven were blaming themselves for something that neither of them had wanted to do and how they had decided to go after someone who was very powerful. Team RWBY was also able to hear how Mia talked about something that her Grunkle had told her, but since Ruby, and the others, couldn't her very well thanks to the walls, they didn't catch the entirety of what was being said about the people from whom Summer and Raven were named after. Then they heard a crash, as if someone had fallen to the floor, and, after that, they heard someone open the door to the next room. When they peered out of their own door, they saw Mia and Silver running to who-knows-where and, without thinking twice, team RWBY decided to follow them. Thank Oum Silver didn't use her semblance. Ruby and the others raced down the hall, completely focused on getting answers to their questions.

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Our true surnames are, Mia Xiao Long-Belladonna and Silver Rose-Schnee

There was total silence after those words. Mia and Silver's true surnames were Xiao Long-Belladonna and Rose-Schnee respectively.

"S-so you two are like, long-lost relatives of us?" Yang had said, maybe the rest were thinking the same thing, but there was one problem, why were Ruby and Weiss' surnames together? Why were Yang and Blake's surnames together? More importantly, Mia had said that she and Silver, and consequently Summer and Raven, came from twenty years in the future. Was that even possible? In response to the silence, Mia and Silver turned to look at each other and they both nodded. The two of them then pulled out their respective wallets and took out a picture.

"This is the last picture that we took together with our parents." Mia said while she gave her picture to Yang and Blake. Silver was doing the same with Ruby and Weiss.

"Neither of us is good with words, so, we think that the picture can help make the four of you understand what we are trying to say." Silver said.

Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang began to inspect the pictures and… they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

In Silver's picture, she and Summer seemed to have been seven and eight years old respectively. Silver was wearing her sister's red-hood and Summer was wearing her little sister's sweatshirt. Summer was sitting on her mother's shoulders and Silver was being embraced by her mom, or better said, Summer was sitting on Weiss' shoulders and Silver was being embraced by Ruby, at least an older version of them. Ruby was wearing a white sweatshirt and she looked much taller, her hair was a little longer. What was more noticeable on her was the big scar on the right side of her face, her right eyelid was completely shut. Weiss also looked a little taller and her hair was much longer. She was wearing Ruby's red-hood and she looked very embarrassed, but she also looked happy. On the back of the photo was the next sentence "The hood-family!" By the handwriting, it seemed as though Ruby had been the one to write it.

In Mia's picture, she and Raven seemed to be about nine years old. The both were sitting on their parents shoulders, Raven was sitting on her mama's and Mia on her dad's. Yang didn't look very different from what she looked like now, though her right arm was covered with bandages. She looked a little taller and her hair was the same still the same length. She and Mia were wearing fake cat ears, yellow for Mia and black for Yang. Blake also didn't seem very different in the photo. The only difference was that Blake's hair was short, only a little longer than her shoulders. On the back of the photo there was written "Cat pack!" in Yang's unmistakable handwriting.

The four looked, and felt, very surprised and confused. Those photos, those family photos, not could be… they turned to look at Mia and Silver.

"Ruby and Weiss, you two are… you two are…" Silver said with a few tears coming out of her eyes "My parents."

"Yang and Blake." Mia said, trying very hard to not start crying like Silver. "I think that I don't need to say it."

Each member of team RWBY was experiencing a lot of mixed emotions but, for some reason, no one could doubt about what Silver and Mia had said. If that was true, then a lot of things made sense. Like how team SSMR seemed to know that something would happen before it actually happened. It was because they already knew it, they knew things that they shouldn't know at that moment because it was information from the future. Summer, Silver, Mia and Raven came from the future to prevent a lot of things. While that was awesome, what made team RWBY feel the biggest surprise was the girls' parents' identities. Ruby and Weiss were Summer and Silver parents, Yang and Blake were Raven and Mia parents, learning something like that would be shocking for anyone.

Ruby was still staring at the picture in her hands, Summer and Silver looked very happy, Weiss looked embarrassed but happy at the same time. Ruby had never thought about getting married or having kids before, but that changed when she realized her feelings for Weiss. She loved her and had thought about marrying her in the near future. Although she hadn't told her "I love you" yet, and now… she didn't know what to think. Summer and Silver, Silver and Summer, they were her kids, the kids that her futureself had with Weiss. Now the resemblance that Summer had with her made far more sense. "Summer", of course Ruby would name one of her kids after her own mother, and then there was Silver. Silver's personality was just like Ruby's own personality; the love for fairy tales, the weapons, and the cookies. Now Ruby could understand why Silver wanted to spend a lot of time with her and Weiss, because they were her parents. Ruby turned to look at Weiss and her cheeks turned pink with the thought of marrying her. Turning back towards Silver, Ruby saw that she was crying. Now that Ruby knew the truth, she didn't think twice and threw herself at Silver, at her daughter, and she began to hug her. She was more than certain that Silver had wanted to tell the truth a long time ago.

Weiss felt her head get a little dizzy. She had always seen herself as the SDC, as the boss, and end up getting married to a person her father picked for her, or something like that. Until a couple of days ago, the day that she had confronted her father, the day Ruby had help her see what she really wanted for her future, the day that she realized her feelings. When Summer was teaching her how to use her semblance, Summer must have been using the same methods that her futureself used to teach Summer about summoning. Now Weiss could understand why Silver wanted to get her and Ruby together, because they were her parents. Summer and Silver were her daughters, the kids who born of her relationship with Ruby, and she couldn't feel more happy. Although she hadn't said "I love you" yet, but Silver had made her and Ruby kiss. Maybe she could use that when she felt ready to talk about her feelings but, suddenly, Weiss' happiness disappeared. She remembered what Summer said a month ago about her parents. "Our parents died six years ago," If Summer and Silver came from twenty years in the future, that meant that she and Ruby died fourteen years from now. She turned to look at Silver and quickly saw how Ruby was hugging her. Weiss sighed, it was hard to think about how she and Ruby would die and leave Summer and Silver alone but, at least right now, they were with Silver.

Blake was looking at her own family picture. Of course she was happy to know that her relationship with Yang grow, even to the point of getting married. She really was happy to know that, but having a family was strange. Blake had been an orphan since ever, well she knew her parents, but the time that they had spent with her was pretty short, so she had very blurred memories of them. She had never thought about forming a family with anyone. Things changed when she and Yang become an official couple. That day had been the happiest day in her whole life, she was loved by someone. Something that she had never felt before, and now, Blake knew that she have daughters. A beautiful pair of twin nonetheless. Now she understood why she felt a special connection with them; it was her motherhood trying to tell her that Raven and Mia were her kids. They were the kids that she had with Yang. Blake quickly notice that her futureself wasn't wearing a bow. That make her feel happy too, she had lost the fear of showing her faunus ears. She got married to the person she really loved, she had had a little pair of twins, she had formed the family that she never had when she was a kid. She turn to look Mia and noticed how she was trying not to cry. That made Blake remember that, in the future, she and Yang would have early deaths. The girls came from twenty years in the future and Raven said that their parents die six years ago. That meant that Raven and Mia become orphans when they were only ten years old, Blake approached Mia and, without a single word, she began to pet her head. Mia began to cry and threw herself to Blake crying "Mama!" Blake hugged her as tightly as she could, it was the only thing that she cared about at that moment.

Yang was probably the one with the most mixed feelings. She was happy to see how her relationship with Blake would end and the idea of getting married to the one she loved was something wonderful. Now Mia's resemblance to her make sense, it was because she was her daughter. Then there was Raven, Even if you can't see me, I'll watching you. Yang's mom's last words began to resound in her head. Her futureself had named one of her daughters "Raven" and curiously was the one who inherited the redeyes. Yang knew that her own eyes changed to red when she was mad, but this was different. Rae's eyes didn't look liker her eyes or like Blake's, Rae's eyes looked like Raven's. Rae had inherited her grandma eyes, Yang felt as though she would start to cry at any moment. She was happy, so happy, she will get married to the person she loved the most, she will form her own family, Raven and Mia will be part of her life in the future. She had never thought about naming one of her kids after her mother but, right now, she began to love that idea. She turned to see how Blake was hugging Mia and began to feel a very kind and warm feeling in her chest. The strange connection that she felt she had with Raven and Mia now made a lot of sense. Thinking about getting married to Blake and forming a little, but happy, family make her feel happy, so happy, Yang had never felt so happy.

"M-mommy…" Silver sobbed breaking Ruby's hug.

"Y-yes" Ruby said, she felt really weird. Hearing Silver calling her mommy was strange right now since Silver was only one year younger than her. "What happened?"

"I'm really happy to finally tell the truth but…" Silver was cleaning her eyes and then began to look up at her parents. "We need to help Summer and Raven."

Hearing that made Mia break her mama's hug and clean the tears off her face as well. That was right, Summer and Raven still needed help, how much time they had wasted? They were running out of time, she turned to look back at her parents and aunts.

"We will answer whatever, but I can't talk about the details right now. We are wasting time, hurry up and follow us."

Ruby turned to look at Weiss, Weiss at Ruby, Blake looked at Yang, Yang at Blake, Summer and Raven were in danger. They couldn't have a family reunion without them and they WILL ensure they had one, their kids needed them.

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Raven was lying on the ground and Summer was sitting next to her. Ever since they arrived to the "Dark Zone" they reviewed what they would do and, after that, they began to wait. They had to wait until eleven o'clock. Summer glanced at her Scroll, 10:57, the time was near. Raven was looking at the "Sky", if she could use that word to describe it, but she was also feeling bad with herself. Being here made her remember what had happen to her grandma, and she couldn't feel worse, if only she had been faster and stronger…

"It's almost time." Summer said, standing up and helping her cousin for do the same.

"What?" Raven asked when she realize that Summer was looking at her bandaged arm.

"Nothing… I was just remembering…" She answered while she unzipped part of her dress so Raven saw a little part of her chest, the small part of a big scar was what Raven could see. "The promise that we made in the name of our wounds."

Summer was looking at her scar, Raven was looking at her right arm. Six years ago, after the grimm incident, they had sworn in the name of their respective wounds. They had sworn that, no matter what happened in the future, they will protect their sisters. But, in the end, they had broken that promise and, making things worse, they had been the ones who hurt the people they swore to protect no matter what.

"We're a pair of terrible sisters." Raven said.

"And a pair of horrible daughters." Summer responded as she look at the time on her Scroll. "But doing this is the only thing that we can do to redeem ourselves."

"You said it." The blonde said and then she held up her right fist. "Partners…"

"…in crime…" Summer said while she was raised her left fist.

Until the end, the two said hitting their fists, the hour was, 10:59.57…58…59….00.

Some cracks began to appear on the ground and the black clouds began to move, leaving a red circle in the sky. The ground began to move as an earthquake started, and Summer and Raven could not say a single word, the two were totally focused on the ground which had begun to shine. Thunders began to sound and the clouds around the red circle had began to shine thanks to lightning accompanying the thunder. More cracks appeared on the ground, and this time it was looked like the ground was opening itself. Summer and Raven were using each other for support so they wouldn't fall to the ground due the earthquake and then, everything stopped; the earthquake, the cracks, the thunders. The ground and the circle on the sky were still shining and then, a huge pillar of light came down from the sky and hit the ground. Summer and Raven closed their eyes, the light was too much for them. Although they couldn't see anything, they could still hear, and it sounded like the ground was breaking. They didn't open their eyes until the sound and the light stopped. When Summer and Raven opened their eyes, a huge amount of rage awoke inside of them. Rage, hate, fury, the "person" who had appear in front of them made all of those feeling awaken.

It was a man of around two meters in height with short, messy white hair. His skin was pale and he had a pair of red eyes with black sclerotic and he was wearing black robes. It was Exitium, he began to look around the place in which he had appeared and quickly turned to look at Summer and Raven. The girls were sweating and breathing hard. They looked nervous but they were still smiling. "It has been a while, old friend." Summer said, but Exitium quickly turn to look at Raven.

"Aren't you the one who killed Salem?" He asked. Raven just laughed and nodded. "Then I must say thank you. Without you I would have not awoken."

"Well." Raven said. "Enjoy it while you can."

The flames began to come out of Raven's body and a glyph appear behind her. Red and white petals came out of the glyph and, when they passed by Raven, they began to burn. Now a huge amount of flaming petals were being hurled in Exitium's direction, but he didn't look worried about it. He put his right hand out in front of him and the petals collided against an invisible wall protecting Exitium. After the attacked had ceased he noticed that one petal was on his cheek, burning him. He quickly wiped the petal off of him and made the fire disappear.

"As I expected, my strength isn't at 100%." He said to himself. With his whole power making those petals disappear would have been easy, but he didn't have his whole power. He needed to get out of that place and steal the maidens powers. He looked around and noticed how the girls who attacked him disappeared. "The girl with the red hood is a silver-eyed warrior. I must end her before I get out of here or I'll be in trouble… but first, let's see how powerful her eyes are."

Meanwhile, Summer and Raven were hidden behind a rock, they had specifically done the previous attack in order to judge how much time Exitium was able to protect himself. They were more than happy to see that their enemy was able to protect himself for only about five seconds at a time. Now they only had to make a more longer version of the previous attack and Exitium would be too busy taking care of the flames to stop Summer from using her eyes' power to purify him.

"This will be easier than I thought I would be." Raven said.

"Yeah." Summer responded, but her voice sounded a little sad. "But that means that we will face Silver and Mia sooner... they must be angry with us."

"We knocked them out and made them believe that we won't come back, they are certain angry with us."

"True... but now that they know what we did to our parents. They should understand why we are doing this."

Raven was going to say "Yeah" but she couldn't. She had begun to feel an invisible pressure on her body and, to Summer surprise, Raven began to float in the air before being violently thrown into the rock in front of them. Whatever force slammed Raven into the rock repeatedly, until it broke, and the invisible force threw Raven in Exitium's direction. Summer tried to stop her, but could not. The only thing that she could do was yell her cousin's name and, before Raven could realize what was happening, she had Exitium's left hand wrapped around her neck. Summer and Raven didn't know that Exitium could do that, but now, Raven could barely think. The pressure on her neck, and the lack of air, would leave her unconscious at any moment. Despite that, she had Exitium right in front of her. This was a chance that she probably would never get again. Grabbing Exitium's arm, she activated her semblance, but Exitium's face was remained stoic. It was as if he didn't care about his arm being burnt. Instead of that, he was looking at Raven with interest.

"You aren't from this age, are you?" Raven couldn't respond, but he was able to notice the surprise in her eyes. "Certainly interesting, but I can't care about that now."

He put his right hand in front of Raven and the blonde could see a small black ball. Raven began to sweat, she knew that ball, she knew what was about to happen to her. Summer knew it too but, before the silver-eyed girl could do anything, she watched the black ball get thrusted into Raven's left eye. Exitium then released her and kicked her in Summer's direction with a small smile on his face. If Summer couldn't help her friend, then he wouldn't need to move a single finger for finish her off. Summer's whole body started shaking as she watched Raven was cover her left eye and scream. Black veins began to appear on her left arm and her teeth grew into fangs. When she removed her hands from her eye, Summer could see how Raven's eye sclerotic was becoming black. Raven had begun to transform into a Grimm. Several flashbacks of the day when the same thing happened to her parents appeared in Summer's mind; it was happening again and this time Raven was the one in trouble. She touched her own eyes. She didn't know if what she was thinking was actually possible, but at least she should had try. Summer wasn't going to let Raven die in that horrible way. She placed her hands on Raven's face and forced the blonde to stare into her silver eyes.

"I will save you!" Summer cried and her eyes began to shine.

Raven's screams stopped. She had began to clenched her teeth and her left arm was shaking. The little black point in Raven's eye sclerotic began to disappear, as did the black veins. Her fangs shrunk back into normal teeth before black smoke began to seep out of Raven's body. Summer let go her cousin's face and sat herself on the ground as Raven collapsed next to her, the two were breathing hard. Raven remembered the things that she had felt only a few seconds ago, the despair, the negative thoughts in her head, the pain, losing the control of half of her body, feeling that she would lose herself at any second. She was still feeling shocked, but she turned to look at Summer. Summer's body was shaking, she was breathing hard, and she was touching her eyes with her right hand. She couldn't believe what she had done. She had saved Raven, she had stopped her transformation, but then Summer clenched her teeth, if she only had that power six years ago.

"Hey." Raven said, putting her right arm on one of Summer's shoulders. "I know what you're thinking, but right now we need to focus on this fight. You already saved me and I could not feel more grateful with you."

Summer sighed, Raven was right. This wasn't the moment to think about the past. They were on the battlefield but, before Summer could say anything, she began to feel a strange pressure on her chest and eventually her whole body. Raven seemed to have noticed it as well because she quickly hugged Summer's waist. The two flew in a random direction and otherwise seemed fine, but that was until Summer noticed a pressure on her neck and found herself lacking air; Exitium was strangling her.

"You're in my way." He said to Raven. Exitium applied the invisible force to Raven's head and threw her with all his force. Raven collided with several rocks before her body hit the ground. Quickly realizing that she was several meters away from Summer and Exitium, she tried to stand up, but couldn't. Her body was still weak for almost transforming into a Grimm only a minute ago. All she could do now she was watch what was happening to her cousin. As for Summer, she couldn't feel any more useless, she had the enemy right in front of her. Using her eyes at that moment would defeat him but, unfortunately due the lack of air, Summer was barely able to keep herself conscious.

"Your eyes turn to be more powerful than I thought." He said. "Now, I know that you won't survive this day, but first, let's take care of those eyes."

With his left hand, Exitium began to touch Summer's right eye. She could feel how her enemy's fingers brushed across her eyelid as she closed it. Exitium could kill Summer at any time, but until that happened, he couldn't let her use her silver eyes. The easiest way to do that was to leave her her without any eyes at all. Summer continued to fight to free herself, but the only thing that she could do was hit Exitium's left arm without success. She quickly began to feel pressure around right eye, she need help and fast. Then a portal appeared behind Exitium and the person who exited the portal was Raven. She was holding her Bumblebee and looked more than ready to cut Exitium's head from his body. He noticed her approach and released Summer before disappearing in front of the girls' eyes only to reappear a few meters away. It looked like Silver wasn't the only person with "super-speed", but right now, Raven was more focused on Summer. Summer's hands were covering the right side of her face and, when she remove them, Raven relieved to see that Summer hadn't lost her eye.

"You two had begun to upset me." Exitium said as he snapped the fingers on his right hand.

Raven already know what that meant, Exitium had began to summon grimm. Raven began to look around waiting to see a beowolf, a nevermore, or even a goliath, and then she heard Summer shout her name. Raven saw Summer's White Rose and hear the roar of the weapon firing in Raven's direction. That was the moment when the blonde noticed that there was a beowolf near her.

"What happened!? Didn't see it? Did you not notice it at all?!" Summer yelled looking at her partner but saw how Raven began to look in another direction. Something was wrong, and Summer quickly figured out what, Raven's left eye didn't reflect any light. "Raven… don't tell me that…"

"I almost turned into a Grimm." Raven said looking at her partner's eyes. "It seems that I have lost the sight and hearing on my left side. But that was the least that it could have taken from me."

Summer bit her lip, if Raven had only lost her sight in her left eye, then there would not be any problem because her ears would help her. But Raven had lost her hearing in that side as well, so now Raven's had a huge blind spot. There were no time to think about it though as the girls quickly found themselves surrounded by beowolves, goliaths, and beringels, and Summer could also see some nevermores in the air. She quickly moved over to Raven's left side while Raven activated her semblance. Summer began to shoot at the nevermores and Raven began to kick, punch, and burn the grimm who were trying to attack them. There were just too many of them and they started to become overwhelmed, but Raven noticed a glyph by her right side. She turned to look at Summer and smiled, petals were floating out of the glyph and began to burn once they passed close Raven's body. The stream of petals then transformed into a huge pillar of fire that started to incinerate the grimm. Summer and Raven stood back to back, waiting for the burning petals to disappear. When the flames finally subsided, the only thing that they could see was powder on the ground, all the grimm were gone.

"You two are really pissing me off." Exitium said, sounding angry. He snapped his fingers again.

Summer and Raven began to look around waiting to see more grimm. But, instead of that, the ground under them began to shake and huge mouth with a lot of sharp fangs erupted out of the ground. It was a dinosaur looking grimm and, before Summer or Raven could react, they were swallowed.

Exitium sighed. "Now it's time for me to leave." He said to himself, but quickly turn to look the grimm. It was howling in pain as the blade of a scythe cut through its stomach and then, in a matter of seconds, began to burn of the inside out. Summer and Raven fell to the ground, trying to catch the breath.

"Gross." Summer said while she tried to dump the spittle out of her hood.

"Well." Raven said while she was trying to clean her clothes. "Now we know what Roman felt when that griffon "ate" him."

"That's enough!" Exitium said, Summer and Raven looked up at him, he was clenching his fists and looked very angry. "I've had enough of playing around with you."

The ground around Exitium began to shake, and rocks of different sizes came out and then began to burn. Exitium pointed at Summer and Raven and the molten rock flew in their direction. Most of them were small balls, but there were some that were huge. Summer knew that she would be able to break the small ones with her weapon, but the problem was the big ones. Summer and Raven prepared themselves for the worst and they tried to protect each other at much at they could, but suddenly a black wall appeared in front of them. They quickly realized that they were inside some kind of black dome.

"Someone in here smells like grimm spittle!"

Summer and Raven looked behind them and found Silver and Mia covered their noses. Raven had destroyed the black crystal that Mia used to have, so Bumblebee was the only thing which was able to open a portal. Of course, Raven Branwen's weapon could do that too, but Summer and Raven had left the ship without any fuel in order to prevent that Mia and Silver from reaching Patch. How did they get there? There was another important question, why was Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang with Mia and Silver?

"What is everyone doing here?" Summer asked.

"We can leave that question for another time." Ruby replied.

She had walked in front of Summer, and they were staring each other in the eyes, silver matching silver.

"Team RWBY's leader, Ruby Rose, requests permission from Team SSMR's leader, Summer Rose-Schnee to assist in this fight"

After hearing that, Summer and Raven glanced at each other before turning to look at their sisters.

"Eh… Long story." Mia and Silver said.

Next chapter: An unexpected event.

Who want a family team-up? Because I want it, anyway Ruby and the other know the true and both families are together so, let's wait to se the outgoing of this battle, as always I hope everyone had enjoyed, leave a review, fav or follow and see you next time.

Atte. Kaze-chan.