New chapter! Took me a while to think up of some team names that would make sense! That and beating Destiny 2 raid in one breath with my clan! Now the next goal is to reach 305 light, but I'm being screwed around with that. They won't give me the gear I need T.T.


Haven

"Alright, let's do this!"

Sun charged in without his armor. He didn't want to always be reliant on it, as it did drain his Aura the longer he fought with it. Grimm Chimera roared against the newcomer and charged, its claws swiped at the Monkey Faunus, but Sun jumped above it, pointing his pole towards it.

"Extend!"

Sun's new weapon, Ruyi Jingu Bang, extended and slammed into the Grimm's back, roaring in pain. The serpent head hissed and tried to bite Sun, but he dodged it. Flipping in the air, he landed behind the Grimm and swung his extended pole at the back of its feet. It tripped and fell flat on its stomach, which Sage tried to take advantage of, roaring as he tried to slice off its head. The lion head roared and spat a fireball at Sage, who immediately put his sword in front of himself to defend. Suddenly, a stream of water slammed into the fireball and extinguished it.

Team JNPR looked to the source and were all surprised to see Neptune putting one hand into the river and pointing his Guandao, Shore Shocker, at the fireball. Tendrils of water wrapped around his arms until he stood back up, where the water wrapped around his arms and chest.

"Whoa," said Jaune, impressed, "You can control water?"

"Kinda. I can't make it myself, but as long I got a source, then I'm good. Though there's a limit." Neptune explained as they fought the beast. "I can control up to a half a gallon total, and I gotta touch the water first. Can't be steam or ice, got no control over that stuff. Nothing like what I've seen you do. And you look close enough you'll notice the water I'm controlling is completely clean. I can only control clean water. It's drinkable, but that means if you give me 3 gallons of murky water, I'm only going to be able to pull out whatever percentage of clean water is there. The rest stays, and it gets harder to filter if the water is dirtier than usual."

"Impressive," noted Ren, "Just how clean is your water, though. Pure?"

"Nope, that's way too hard," grinned Neptune, "It's still got some minerals in them, making it just potable water. Perfect for my weapon."

With that, he charged forward. Scarlet had managed to hook open the goat's mouth while Sage occupied the lion half. Neptune shot a ball of water towards the open mouth, and with the next second, transformed his weapon back to rifle mode and fired a bolt of electricity into the water. The electrified water went into the goat's mouth and shocked the Grimm, giving Sage a chance to land a good hit on it with an upwards swing of his sword.

"Gotta say, it's sweet to have your Semblance back," grinned Sage.

"Maybe our fights will be easier now," commented Scarlet as he began firing his bullets. They made no visible marks on its flank. "But this thing's got too much plating all over itself.

"How about under!?" shouted Sun as he slid under the Grimm with a shrunken pole.

He pointed it upwards, "Extend and Expand!"

The Grimm Chimera found itself being lifted up 30 feet into the air. However, the bottom side was also plated.

"Hmm. Sage, charge up. We're going to need your muscles for this one," ordered Sun.

Sage nodded and concentrated his Aura into his sword. Sun jumped into the air, switching to nunchucks and made a few clones. They came down and began to wail on the thick hide, after ten swings each, they all spun and swung their last attack downwards. As it went down, the Grimm spat a fireball at Scarlet, who dodged it by hooking himself away. Neptune came in with his weapon in trident mode and stabbed the falling Grimm. It managed to penetrate the hide a little, just enough to make it stuck. Then, he turned on the voltage to the max while he used the remaining water around him and fired it into the Grimm's flank. The water conducted the lightning, electrocuting the whole body once more. With a shout, Neptune swung it to Sage, who was chanting to himself.

"Always take a step forward towards your path. Never let anything block. Step forward and CUT THROUGH!"

Sage roared with a great burst of Aura and muscle, he sliced the Chimera in half. The Lion and serpent tail went to the right, while the goat head and other half of the body went left.

"Nice job," praised Sun, bumping forearms with Sage.

"Team SSSN got this in the bag!" bragged Neptune as the four of them turned to walk away, putting their weapons away. They didn't notice the serpent tail suddenly lash out towards Scarlet.

"Watch out!" shouted Nora as the four of them turned around in a panic as the serpent opened its mouth to bite Scarlet.

Pyrrha, however, reacted. She manipulated the sword in Scarlet's waistband and made the hilt go up right into the serpent's mouth. It bit down onto the hand guard instead of flesh.

"Oh Fuck!" swore Scarlet in surprise when he saw his hand guard melt in the serpent's mouth.

"How is it still alive?" shouted Sage, "I sliced it in half!"

"It can still move," stated Ren as the lion part stood up and growling. It morphed into a small body with four legs again, while the goat part also stood up to form a Grimm Aegagrus.

"Need help?" asked Pyrrha, grabbing her weapons.

"Umm, yeah, we gotta get back to the auditorium if we don't wanna miss out the team formations," stated Sun.

"Let's do this," grinned Nora as she lifted her hammer up.

"Scarlet, provide fire support. Same with you, Ren. Pyrrha, with Nora against the goat. Sun, Neptune, Sage, and I will take care of the lion and serpent head," commanded Jaune, already fully linked up with Lung Wang and Ryo-Wo.

"Go!"


The Grimm Aegagrus screamed loudly as it charged Pyrrha and Nora, who both flinched at the grating noise. Pyrrha held her shield it as it used its horn to bash into her shield. Scarlet helped out, firing at the Grimm's flank since it was no longer as armored as it used to be. The Grimm flicked its head, sending Pyrrha back a few feet. Nora came from the side and slammed down with her hammer, but the Grimm caught it with its horn. However, Nora smirked as she pulled the trigger, causing the Grimm to flinch down from the ensuing explosion. Scarlet jumped to a tree and shot his grappling hook at the horn of the Grimm, catching it perfectly before jumping down from the thick branch. It forced the Grimm's head up, and jerked its body up off its feet. Pyrrha took advantage of this and rushed underneath it to slash into the Grimm's underbelly a few times before spinning sideways, slashing and firing bullets into the Grimm. The Grimm brayed at the sudden damage and kicked its legs everywhere it could, trying to hit Pyrrha, but it was no use. Nora finished it off when she charged up her hammer with lightning Dust and ran forward as fast as she could and swung down into the Grimm's front knees. It yelled in pain as its legs were broken, but Nora wasn't done yet. She used the momentum of her first swing to spin before slamming the Grimm with a horizontal swing.

"YAAAA!" She cheered, as the Grimm burst into Ashes.

"Well done, Nora!" Pyrrha congratulated, but noticed that her partner was pouting.

"Awww, I wanted to break its other knees," the energetic redhead whined.

"Maybe next time," smiled Pyrrha, patting her partner on the back.


The fight against the newly formed Grim Chimera was harder. Since it was smaller it was now agiler, not to mention they had to dodge the serpent head trying to bite them. Sun was sure his armor could take the hit, but he didn't want to risk it.

"Gotta take that tail down," advised Jaune.

"On it!" replied Sun, try to get a good whack in. The serpent head was agile and dodged his thrusts easily. Suddenly, Ren came from above, deactivating his Semblance and pinned the serpent body with his chakrams.

"Now!" shouted Ren.

"Expand!" shouted Sun, pointed his pole down. The serpent head found itself being crushed under a giant and rather heavy pole, pinning the Grimm in the spot.

"Neptune, you're up!" shouted Jaune. Neptune transformed it into trident mode and pointed at the Grimm, ready to slam it down. Jaune manipulated the water at the river and formed a spinning drill right in front of Neptune's trident. Neptune added some of his water into it and maintained the drill when Jaune let go control. The drilling water was now completely in Neptune's control. He wasn't able to form it, but he could maintain it.

"This is going to be awesome," grinned Neptune as he positioned himself, right hand holding his trident near the end shaft. His left hand was in the front, almost touching the drill. He started to run forward with his weapon towards the Grimm.

The Grimm saw this and began to struggle to escape harder. It shot a ball of flame at Neptune, hoping to drive him away, but Sage stepped in front and with a roar, sliced the fireball in half. Jaune took control of the splitting flames and made them arc back into the Grimm, hitting it from both left and right. The Grimm froze after taking the hit, giving Neptune the perfect opportunity.

"I know this is going to be nerdy and stealing from a show, but no way am I not going to shout this one," shouted Neptune as he finally got close enough to the Grimm after running full speed.

"Giga!" The drill suddenly turned larger than normal. Neptune was straining his Aura, putting most of it into this one shot.

"Drill!" The drill suddenly had sparks of electricity around it. Neptune had activated the lightning function of his trident, and the water drill was spinning much faster.

"BREAKER!"

Neptune's speed seemed to increase at the last minute, and he forced his remaining Aura into his legs and jumped towards his target. Neptune thrust the drill into the Grimm Chimera, his own speed increasing, Aura blasting past him. It roared in pain as the drill pierced through the heavens... *cough* the armored plating of on the head. Not only that, it sent a large voltage running through its entire body. It collapsed and turned into ashes, vanquished by the mighty attack.

"Dude. That.. was... awesome!" praised Sun as he shrunk his weapon so he could put it behind his ear.

"I know, right!?" cheered Neptune.

"Umm, not to barge in on your victory, but we're going to be late if we dally too long," reminded Scarlet as he, Pyrrha, and Nora reunited with the rest of the group.

"Oh crap! Run!" shouted Sun as everyone took off to head towards the auditorium.


At Atlas

The Manticore roared and fired spines from its tail.

"Dodge!" shouted Ruby as they all scattered to dodge the spines.

"Careful, ma'am," said Ciel, "Those spines all have poison on them. Even if you are immune to it, it will still damage your body."

"Understood," replied Penny.

Ruby noticed a few stragglers still trying to get up the mountain. They were in danger since they were in the Dawning Manticore's path.

"Cardin! Can your team to take those people to safety?" shouted Ruby as she began firing at the Manticore, running at high speeds that she left rose petals behind. The others began to follow to when the Manticore roared and suddenly grew wings, taking to the air.

"Yeah, we can do that," said Cardin, motioning his team to fall back and try to redirect the late students. They would most likely not become students as the quota had almost been filled up, and there were likely students ahead of them. He silently cursed himself for not being useful against aerial enemies while he led the initiates away, and put it in a priority that he be able to get a ranged weapon or learn how to shoot out Aura attacks like he saw Blake and Jaune pull off before. Maybe he could get some notes and make his mace do something similar. That, or use his time in Atlas to get something that would do that job for him.

Penny's other two teammates had the typical Atlesian model guns and fired at the Manticore. It roared in annoyance and fire spines at them. Penny intercepted them with a few swings of her swords, knocking the spines away or cutting them into pieces.

"Penny! Jetpack up and try to see if you can force it down!" shouted Ruby.

" The best way to do that is to blast it right where the spine meets the wings," analyzed Ciel, who was using her Semblance Analysis to find the Grimm's key weak points.

Penny nodded and had her swords rotate around her back and flew into the air with a jetpack. She then transfigured the rest to try to hit with an Aura beam blast, but the Manticore was moving too fast for her to get a good aim. Not only that, it would try to eat her.

"Weiss, give me a boost," asked Blake as she saw Penny having trouble.

Weiss nodded and summoned the arm of her knight. Blake landed on its hand, and Weiss put another glyph under that hand. Then, with a swish of Myrtenmaster, she sent Blake flying into the air at very high speeds. Blake threw Gambit Shroud with her ribbon attached to it and manage to pin her weapon onto the few open flesh parts of the Grimm Manticore. She swung herself above the Manticore and summoned a shadow to boost herself down. As she dove down, she summoned two more clones. They each mimicked the original's movement and drew their swords.

"Wait, she can do that now?" gasped Yang, noticing her clones were also moving.

Blake smiled at Yang's surprise as she and her clones landed three huge slashes down across the Manticore's back, causing it to give momentarily freeze in the air.

"Target locked! Firing!" shouted Penny as she fired her huge blast beam into where Ciel recommended.

The Grimm Manticore shrieked as it went spiraling towards the ground but managed to spread its wings to prevent itself from slamming into the ground.

"Let's test out my new arm!" grinned Yang as she pointed her right arm at it.

"Yang, not here," scolded Weiss.

"Aww, why not?" pouted Yang.

"We haven't even fully tested it outside basic combat, this Grimm is far beyond basic." replied Weiss.

"Plus, I want to try out my power," said Ruby, her eyes closed. She opened them to reveal her silver eyes glowing brightly. The light exuded from her eyes first before it expanded into wings and shot towards the Grimm. The Grimm Manticore shrieked in panic before the light slammed into the whole body, petrifying it. It fell from the sky, crashing down into the snow.

"Huh. Petrified, just like the parasite," noted Ruby, "Guess my eyes really do petrify Grimm. Wonder if I could get more information about the Silver-eyed warrior from Andusk."

"It's not dead yet," examined Weiss, poking it with her summon, "We should kill it, otherwise it will attract more Grimm. I'd say we should take it for study as its rare we can even find an Alpha Grimm Manticore, but we don't have the proper equipment to transport it. Not to mention, it might be too dangerous for us."

Everyone agreed with the statement, making Weiss command her summon, which was now a set of arms, a sword, and a chest plate. She could actually equip it over herself if she needed to. With a swift command, the sword stabbed into the Grimm's brain, going from the back of it's head, where there was minimal protection. It was a weak point almost all the Grimm had. The only tricky part was actually landing it if the Grimm was alive, as they made sure not to expose that weak point easily. The Grimm Manticore dissolved into ashes.

"So, when were you going to tell us you could make solid shadows to attack?" asked Yang as she put her arms around Blake, who had rejoined them.

"Oh after Initiation." Said Blake's voice… from somewhere else.

They all looked to see another clone of Blake walking forward with a smirk.

"Wait.. what?!" stammered Yang, pointing to one copy that was under her arms and another one walking forward.

"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?" teased Blake that was under Yang's arm.

"You both can talk!?" exclaimed Weiss.

"And you're both solid! I thought your shadows disappear after getting hit or being used," said Ruby breathlessly as she ran around poking the other Blake.

"That was before I got marked," explained Blake as she grabbed a chibi Ruby up in the air to stop poking her, "I can make my shadows turn into copies of myself now with a bit of concentration and Aura, able to take a hit and fight harder, though their endurance is weaker, so three good hits or a vital shot will make them disappear. They don't transfer information to me when they die, but I'll still know if they're gone. Other than that, they're basically a copy of me with my abilities, minus the Semblance, both new and original, as that's still me only."

"So which one is the real one?" asked Yang.

"Can't you tell?" said both Blakes, "I thought I was your partner."

"Arghh!" shouted Yang, her hair flaming up in irritation, "You're both the same person. How am I supposed to tell? If there was an evil doppelganger, yeah sure, but this is an exact copy of you that you made!"

"My sensors indicate that the Blake under your arm is the fake one," stated Penny, looking at the two Blakes, "The other one has a higher Aura level."

Blake under the arm grinned and snapped her finger, causing other Blake to disappear, dropping Ruby.

"Did I forget to mention just like my original Semblance takes the hit for me, I can swap places with my clones if needed? Though it takes quite a bit of my Aura to do so, depending on distance."

"That's so cool!" shouted Ruby, ""I need to see what else my mark does."

"Damn, I'm tempted to just ask Jaune to give me the mark the next time I see him," said Yang, impressed. Even though she said this, she still wasn't sure she was ready to be bound to him only yet. She was still a bit afraid she might follow her mother's path and abandon Jaune and their potential child.

"Come on. The initiation should be over. I want to see the new team formations," interrupted Weiss. They all nodded their heads and left for the pickup point.

"Sooo... got some plans with those clones of yours?" whispered Yang, "Perhaps fulfill a twins fantasy?"

"Yang!" scolded Blake, blushing at the implications.

"I'm sure you've always wanted to taste your own pussy while being screwed by Jaune," teased Yang, "Or eating yourself out after Jaune already came inside."

"Shutupshutupshutup!" hissed Blake, already planning on doing that the next time she saw Jaune.


At Shade

"Die!"

"Kill it so we can eat it!"

Team NDGO and BRNZ were watching four rookies taking on the Grimm Genesis Sand Worm with surprising results. All the other students had fled as fast as they could while these four stayed behind to not only buy those initiates some more time, but to prove themselves. However, they were still new students, and couldn't take care of this Grimm. The Grimm spat out sand bullets as the black haired girl was about to fire some arrows, hitting her all over the place. Her boyfriend quickly moved in front of her and slashed the bullets away, but it grew too numerous that he also took hits. The strawhat boy landed a punch into its eye, causing it to wail in pain as his fist exploded on impact. The bo staff girl was using fire and water Dust to create clouds before firing a thunder crystal into the now formed cloud to zap it. However, the Grimm shook off the attacks easily. It was at this NDGO and BRNZ decided to intervene.

"We got this," stated Nebula, standing in front of the future students.

"You guys have a test to do. It'd be a shame not to have you guys as underclassmen," added Octavia.

The guys seemed to disagree, but their respective girlfriends had the final word and dragged them to where they needed to go.

"Take it down!" shouted Nebula as her team and team BRNZ charged forward. May began sniping, trying to hit its eyes. There was just so many of them. As team BRNZ chipped at any weak parts, Nebula had jumped on its back with Dew creating a whirlwind for them to ride up. They began to stab the head, trying to get it to go down.

"None of this is working!" shouted Octavia as she created a blade beam, barely cutting into its flesh.

"Try Blade Storm!" commanded Nebula, "Aim for its mouth, maybe it's weaker inside."

Dew and Gwen both jumped high into the air before turning towards the Grimm. Nebula and Branz managed to make it look up and roar.

"Ready?" Gwen asked her friend.

"Let's do this!"

Dew created a tornado in front of them while Gwen began to spin her whole body, firing countless knives into the tornado. Once the hit the tornado, the knives accelerated, and soon about a hundred dusts coated knives smacked into the insides of the Grimm and exploded. The Grimm roared in pain, but it wasn't out yet.

Dew quickly made a small tornado below them for a soft landing.

"Umm, I think you just made it angrier!" shouted Nolan as the Grimm began to thrash about furiously. It suddenly jumped into the air and slammed the ground with enough force that the sand shifted and cracked, making them all lose their balance. Then, before anyone could react, it picked Roy up by the collar of his shirt, tossed him into the air, and opened its mouth wide open.

"No! Not like this!" shouted Roy as he fruitlessly struggled in the air.

The Sand Worm rushed up, and in one bit, swallowed Roy whole.

Everyone froze in shock.

Roy was gone.

"BASTARD!" cried May, firing all her shots into its eyes, trying to kill it.

Branz and Nolan let out similar battle cries as they began hitting it with everything they had trying desperately to kill it. NDGO was shocked to see a classmate die.

"Coming through!"

They looked back to see the Faunus wield his falchion sword jumping into the air. The straw hat kid was next to him, grabbing his legs. He started to spin as fast as he could, rotating half-a-dozen times before flinging the student towards the Grimm. The Faunus himself started to spin forward until he was a blazing windmill.

"TES_A_GA!"

The blade cut through the Grim's head vertically but stopped just before hitting the flesh, cracking the mask. Suddenly, another student with slicked-back black hair with a tint of green jumped above the Faunus, pointing his index finger like a gun

"Eat this! AURA GUN!"

An Aura blast slammed into the Grimm's head. An orange haired girl with twin tails growing almost to her feet and with blue and green eyes wielding a giant steel harisen jumped onto the back of the Grimm, running up to its head and smashing her weapon with her mighty strength.

"What are you kids doing?" shouted Nebula, "You guys have an initiation to pass!"

"Like hell we're leaving you guys to deal with this!" shouted the kid who shot the aura blast, "We're trying to become Huntsmen and Huntresses! We can't just leave you guys to handle it yourself. It's just not in our nature to run if we can help!"

"What he said!" shouted the orange hair girl.

Another boy wielding a lance with a cloth at the end of it came charging in to stab. An ash blond female followed him wielding a scythe, trying to slice into the Grimm. However, for all their help, the Grimm shouted and shook them all off easily, despite the damage they were dealing it such as the cracked mask.

"There's gotta be something we can do!" shouted Octavia as she caught one of the kids.

Dew looked at her spear, an idea forming. She quickly stabbed the shaft part down, the spear pointing up. She gathered as much Aura and poured it into her Semblance. She slowly moved her hand over the tip, repeating the motion of gathering wind onto the spear's edge. Soon, ball of wind formed on the tip, raging like a small but fierce typhoon. This was an idea her Aunt suggested to her, but it was taxing on her mind and Aura. She could only do this once, and this was it, so she needed to make it count.

She quickly grabbed her spear, spinning it behind her before she ran towards the Grimm, the small typhoon ball still on the tip of her spear.

"Nebula! Arrow lift me up!" shouted Dew as she jumped as high as she could.

Nebula quickly shot her arrow, aiming it right at the peak of Dew's jump, under her foot. Dew's right foot stepped on the arrow and jumped even higher. She looked down and took a deep breath. She pulled her right arm, carrying the spear, as far back as she could and threw it down right at the crack on the Grimm's mask. The small typhoon suddenly expanded on impact, the winds howling as it drove the Grimm's head down into the ground. It kept going until it finally stopped to reveal the whole cranium of the Grimm to be gone. It started to fade into ashes.

"We did it!" heaved Octavia, falling to the floor.

"Yes, but at what cost?" said Gwen sadly, looking at the remains of team BRNZ.

May was crying, her head buried in her arms while Nolan and Brawnz slammed their fists into the ground in frustration at this feeling of helplessness and sadness.

BZZZZZTTTTT

They all looked to the source of the sound, which was coming the Grimm's fading body. The stomach part started to move when suddenly, yellow buzz saws stuck out. They kept rotating as it went from head height all the way down.

"OUM ABOVE THAT WAS DISGUSTING!"

Roy stepped out of the fading Grimm's body, covered in black slime.

"ROY!" shouted team BRNZ before tackling him into the ground, hugging him.

"Alright, alright!" chuckled Roy, "You guys know me. I'm stubborn. No way I'd die from getting eaten. Though I admit, the damn thing's digestive track almost burnt through me. Who knew Grimms even had those?"

"That was close," sighed Nebula in relief, "If you didn't get out in time, I fear that you would've gone with the ashes of the Grimm. Anything the Grimm eats usually goes with it when it does."

Roy turned his head to see the last remains of the Grimm turn to ashes and paled. It had been a really close call. After May and the others finally stopped their tears, they sniffed a bit and immediately backed from Roy.

"Whew you smell!" shouted May.

"Not my fault!" shouted Roy.

"We're getting you a bath right away," ordered Brawnz, "Nebula, think you can handle this?"

"Yea, we go it. Go get your bath and relax," waved Nebula. "You earned it."

Brawnz nodded and called in an airship for pickup. Nebula turned around to the 8 people prospective students that may had sacrificed their own careers to help them.

"What am I going to do?" groaned Nebula. She really liked these newcomers and wanted them to attend Shade.

"Easy. We take them to their destination," chirped Octavia, "We can't just leave them like this, plus I'm sure Headmistress Gale will understand."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can convince my aunt," said Dew, who had been laying on her back, "She'd understand. She'll see that they have a lot of potential since they helped us defeat that thing."

"Then it's settled," grinned Nebula, "You eight, follow us. We're take your location as fast as possible."

"Will there be meat?" asked the straw hat kid.

"I'll make sure you get some," chuckled Octavia as they all walked to their destination."

"YAAA!"


Back at Haven

"We made it in time!" cheered Sun as the new teams were being formed.

"Hey! You guys are here too!"

Team SSSN and JNPR looked to see Velvet waving at them. They quickly found some cushioned seats near team CFVY.

"You guys had babysitting duty?" asked Coco, "Anything exciting happen?"

"We got assaulted by a Grimm Chimera Primary," replied Jaune, causing team CFVY to stare at them.

"Damn, you guys had something. Last year, the most excitement we had for initiation was people failing to do their landing strategy, forcing us to intervene. I swear, one of them didn't even have one as he flailed his arms as he was falling and spinning. Yatsuhashi had to catch him." Coco elaborated.

'Wonder if that would've been me if I stayed in the Arc family,' thought Jaune. In the many other universes, the Jaune's sneezed as one.

"So what brings you guys to Haven?" asked Sun.

"Yatsuhashi and Fox are actually from Mistral," replied Coco, "So we decided to head here so they can have some more chance to hang with their family until Beacon's back up."

Meanwhile, Lionheart was announcing team formations. Apparently, he had use playing cards for this year's team formation, making any four of a kind.

"... you have all retrieved the Ace cards. From this day forward, you shall be known as team SKRZ".

"Dammit, I'm with moss head. Why couldn't I be with a lady?"

"Shut it, Ero-cook! The feelings mutual."

The two of them began fighting once more in front of the whole crowd, making them all sweatdrop. Their other two teammates just shrugged. Lionheart continued, awarding the leader position to the orange hair student with the giant khyber sword.

"Well, that's going to be an interesting team," commented Jaune.

Sun had been off discussing with some other team leaders before frowning and coming back.

"We weren't the only ones who get hit by the Grimm," said Sun, "Other teams also met random Grimm packs, including the Chimera versions. There were only two Alpha versions of it, and we took care of it. Two teams are injured from the pack, one of them from Beacon. The last Alpha took on another team, and forced three of the members into critical care while killing the last one."

"That's not good," frowned Ren, "Are we the only ones who got hit by Grimm?"

"Hope RWBY and NDGO are alright," stated Pyrrha, "This might not been a coincidence."


At Atlas Academy

RWBY and the others were watching the new students being welcomed. Penny had gone to report to a commanding officer about what had happened.

"...From this day forward, you shall be known as team CNDL."

"OW! SUPER cool!"

"Hey, they made it," commented Yang, "This school year should be interesting."

"That boy's lack of clothes are hurting my eyes," moaned Weiss.

"C'mon, we've already seen Jaune naked," chirped Ruby, "You should be used to it."

"Our boyfriend is pleasing to the eyes," snapped Weiss, "That man hurts my eyes."

"Lucky jerk," grumbled Russel, who had heard their comment.

"Salutations!" cheered Penny, appearing behind Russel, who jumped into the air and landed in Sky's arms.

"Better put a bell on her," Dove muttered.

"Penny! How'd it go!?" waved Ruby.

"Although we managed to kill our Grimm Dawning Manticore, reports say that there were other attacks at different places during initiation with a variety of Grimm," replied Penny.

"One team was injured, and another team completely wiped," finished Ciel.

"You mean...?" gasped Cardin.

"Yes. Dead. Death confirmed at estimated 1400 hours by impalement and poison by another Grimm Dawning Manticore. It was team BLUE of Beacon." Penny confirmed solemnly.

Ruby frowned, tightening her fist. She knew she couldn't be everywhere, but it hurt still. Not to mention, it was one from her year, too. Granted, she barely spoke with team BLUE, but it still hurt.

"General Ironwood is investigating these sudden attacks," added Penny, "He is contacting the other Academies to see if anything has happened."

"I hope nobody else got hurt badly," whispered Ruby. Her team nodded in agreement.

Shade Academy

"What?" said Headmistress Dory, "Repeat that to me again?"

"Six of the initiates are dead," repeated a faculty member, "And a team is heavily injured. Reports suggest that they were attacked by Grimm Genesis Sand Worms."

"This can't be a coincidence," murmured Dory, "We reduced the population of Grimm just two days ago with our third and fourth years to make sure it wasn't too dangerous. How did something that big get under our radar?"

"We will need to investigate a possible new point of entry. Meanwhile, team NDGO and BRNZ are recommending 8 initiates to join the Academy, regardless of their late arrival to the camp and being guided there. They state that these initiates were only late because they stopped to help them fight the Grimm with them."

"I'll take it under consideration," replied Dory, "For now, double the guards. I want third-year teams down there to make sure we don't suffer any more losses."

When the others left, Dory leaned back in her chair and turned to face the window. She closed her eyes, trying to replay through the events that happened today.

"I need to call Ozpin and the others," murmured Dory before standing up.

She clacked her heels three times together before disappearing in a red flash.


"So, Salem launched her strike," commented Ozpin, sipping his coffee. Glynda was sitting in the Headmistress' chair while Ozpin stood on the side as an adviser. On the screen was Lionheart, Ironwood, Dory, and Floyd, the latest addition to their group. They were using a high-security channel, courtesy of Lionheart. Ironwood twitched in anger when he found out Lionheart had a better security system than his own school.

"She is aiming to strike at the seeds of Light," commented Floyd, "Luckily, we had fast response teams on the go for us, but we still lost people."

"My school suffered a bit," remarked Lionheart, "Luckily, the strongest went against JNPR and SSSN. They defeated it without any serious injuries. But another annihilated another team. I do not think the surviving students will be able to continue as Huntress or Huntsman because of the injuries, as they are too crippling to heal."

"I suppose mine suffered the worst," sighed Dory, "Six initiates dead, and second year team heavily injured before finally taking out one of the Grimm Dawning Sand Worms. The four initiates had been traveling together when it just popped out from the sand and ate them in one bite. Another two were ripped to shreds by Deathstalkers and Beowolves. And the second year team had to be taken to emergency care after finally defeating the Sand Worm. Another one came out, but luckily, team NDGO and BRNZ, along with eight initiates, defeated it."

"If they managed to defeat it, then those initiates must be quite impressive," commented Ozpin, "But this shows that Salem is no longer hiding in the shadows as she used to, and is making even bolder steps, possibly more of them than before. I advise upping security and recalculating the difficulty of the missions. Some second year missions may be only suited for those who show they are above the usual curve or assigning a third year team to do it."

"Understood," replied all of them before signing off.

"Ozpin? What are we going to do?" asked Glynda, "Beacon repairs are going well, but I don't think we have the budget to get upgrades."

Ozpin sipped his coffee, trying to think before coming with an idea, "I'll need to talk with Mr. Xiong, and maybe have Roman and Neo released into our custody."

"Those two?" Glynda shouted in surprise, baffled, "Why?"

"They are trained fighters," replied Ozpin, "Mr. Xiong might be willing to lend some men to help protect Beacon if it's for Jaune. Plus, we cannot discount the fact that the newly formed Blood Fang will strike against us once more. With Adam Taurus free and under Salem's thumb, she will employ him as her rabid attack dog, unleashing him wherever she wants. A shame Roman and Neo are currently unavailable. According to the reports, they defected from Salem's faction and are now in hiding. They could prove useful if we can find them."

Glynda sighed and put her hands on her nose bridge to break off the headache she was having.

"Have no fear," said Ozpin softly as he put his hand on her shoulder, "I am sure you are capable of making the correct decisions. It's why I trusted you with this school."

With that, he slowly walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" asked Glynda.

"It has been some time since I practiced my forms and fought some Grimm," replied Ozpin, "I need to get back in good shape again. I'm too rusty, and I've rested long enough."

Back at Shade next day

Dory was announcing the formations of new teams. She had been impressed by the eight initiates that had been recommended by her niece, as they were the first ones to arrive back.

"... Due to recommendations as well as being the first teams to return even though you had a slight disadvantage, you shall be known as Team MNKI."

The straw hat kid cheered while having a piece of meat in his mouth still, courtesy of his girlfriend who gave it to him, knowing it would one of the only ways for him to behave properly. As it turned out, he was given the leadership role for his team. The reason why they managed to return so fast and taking first was that the orange hair girl memorized how to get back without even looking at the map for directions. The boyfriends picked up their girlfriends on their back and ran back, each being promised something. For the straw hat, it was lots of meat, while for the white-haired Faunus, it was instant noodles. They made it a race to see who would get back first. Needless to say, they outran many of the other initiates.

The second team came up to be introduced after the first team got off the stage. Off on the side, the new team MNKI met with team KASS, a fourth-year team. Apparently, by coincident, both boys had brothers on that team. Team KASS had opted to do missions instead of attending the Vytal Festival tournament last year.

"Due to recommendations as well being the second team, also taking a disadvantage, you shall be known as Team MAYA..."

The four of them grinned, and when the male teenager with the slick back hair was named leader, he put his hands up to cheer.

"Glad to see those guys made it," grinned Nebula.

"Those girls know how to whip their boyfriends into doing what they want," laughed Octavia.

"Just like we know how to?" grinned Dew.

"Yep," replied Gwen, causing all of NDGO to chuckle.

"I really need to find a boyfriend," sighed Nebula.

"Why not ask Gwen to join in for Sun's harem?" joked Octavia.

"I... wouldn't mind," blushed Gwen.

"Na, I admit that Sun's hot, but he's not my type," waved off Nebula.


Haven

Later that night, Jaune had his Scroll attached to a holo screen and called both team RWBY and NDGO to see how they were. His own team and Sun were waiting in the room, a bit anxious and praying they were all safe. A few seconds later, the screen popped up, revealing both teams.

"What up!" greeted Yang first. Everybody exchanged quick hellos before each of them went into detail what had happened during Initiation.

"This can't be a coincidence," murmured Jaune.

"Yeah, I thought so, too," piped Ruby.

"Someone's trying hard to get rid of potential Huntsmen and Huntresses," pondered Nebula.

"Think its... her?" asked Sun.

They all nodded in agreement. Team JNPR, RWBY, NDGO, and SSSN had all been told the dark secret that there was actually a Queen of Grimm who led the Grimm.

"Was anyone we know personally hurt?" asked Jaune.

RWBY and NDGO shook their head in response. After catching up on whatever happened, they all decided to call it a night and went to sleep.

"Remember. Go find Wong tomorrow morning," reminded Lung Wang, "He seems to be an excellent teacher for close quarters combat."

Jaune mentally nodded as he showered off the sweat he had accumulated in training today.

"Potentially, the last Dragon Mark has been found," murmured Ryo-Wo, "Neptune may be a good choice due to his Semblance in controlling water."

'Yeah, but we'll have to see if he wants it," thought Jaune back, 'If not, there are other candidates.'

The door opened and close quickly while Jaune was still bathing. The Haven dorm showers were a bit different from Beacon, where at Beacon, the shower was inside glass shower doors and a tub next to it. At Haven, the shower head was next to the bathtub with no doors, but in the middle of the room was the drainage pipe. He looked back to see Pyrrha with only a towel, blushing a bit.

"I figured since we're technically married, we could just shower together," explained Pyrrha before putting her towel to the side, hanging out on the towel rack. She stood naked before Jaune, allowing him to admire her body.

Jaune grinned and stood up, allowing her to get a good look at his body. "I don't mind," he said as he grabbed the bar of soap and tossed it to her, "You get my back, and I get yours?"

Pyrrha nodded and started to scrub his strong broad back. As she kept looking at his hardened, muscular body she could feel herself losing to lust before attempting something bold.

Jaune noticed Pyrrha stopped scrubbing his back and was about to turn around when her arms wrapped around him and her breasts pressed on his back. Then, she slowly moved up and down, using her breasts as wash pads, planting gentle kisses along the way. Jaune could feel two tips hardening behind him, while Pyrrha noticed something else hardening on Jaune.

"Is that for me?" cooed Pyrrha, "I'll take responsibility for it."

Without even waiting, Jaune turned around and kissed her hard. As they sunk into their emotions, Jaune though it was lucky that Ren and Nora already took their shower and went to sleep.

Jaune pinned Pyrrha against the side of the tub as they made out, he rubbed her back lovingly as he rubbed his chest against hers.

"I love you." He told her.

"And I love you. Always." She promised him as she hugged him tighter. A grin spread across her face as she suddenly realized something. "And I get to have you all to myself for now."

She brought her head forward and assaulted Jaune's face with a series of quick kisses.

"Hey! Hey! No fair, let me get some in!" Jaune laughed as he tried to kiss her back, which she was very happy to allow, sharing a deep, passionate kiss with the man she loved.


As usual, special thanks to UGX7, TheMischieviousPuppy, and Jauneforever for being my beta readers.

Hope you've enjoyed this chapter. New season of RWBY comes out soon, so that's going to be interesting on how they are going to swing this. I do have my plots charted out a bit, so if you see something that might coincide with the story, I will tell the truth on whether I had that idea first or I took it from them.

I'm slowly getting to the 2k mark C'mon! As a reminder, all those extra characters will not be part of the main story.

Oh, and extra cookies for those who can guess team KASS members are. Give you a hint, K and S go with Inuyasha, while A and S go with One piece. Should be good enough hints. I may put up names for those who get it in my story.

Come check out my other stories if you want something new!

Lastly, a small announcement. A fellow writer whom I bounce ideas with, LordHellPhoenix, has finished his story, Jaune Arc: The Elemental Swordsman. Funny how both of us published our stories on the same day with similar ideas of elements, though we both took different paths. So congratualtions to him for finishing his first story! One-shot not included.