33k views. 33,000 views. Thank you my readers, that you have taken the time out of your days to read my work. This has been a journey and a half, and that you have been here with me means so much to me. I want to thank you all for this. A lot in my life has happened since I started this account back in 2015, back when I was Badasswordwriter145 (I didn't think I was going to be on this site as long as I have), and my first story, Team RWBY, with a little acer notebook and hidding under my blankets while I wrote late into the night. I wrote such a horrible Mary sue.

But more then just name changes have happened since I started this... facet of my life. I gained step brothers who I love. Went to Uni, then failed uni.

But it hasn't been all good. If there is one thing I truly regret, it's not telling the girl I liked how I felt. If I have one word of advice, you'll fail at everything if you don't try, because your only able to take the chance for yourself. At worst your regected, at best you find the one you stay with for the rest of your life.

We walked a few dozen feet into the ancient structure, the sounds of our boots filling the ruined hall, at the end of the hall as a skeleton, bones broken and thrown against a wall, in it's had a staff with a crystal glowing on the end. as we walked to wards it, I felt the entire structure shudder.

"Salem... is that you?" A deep voice rumbled from below us.

"Ruby... what roars like that?" Kyoka asked.

"Roars? I heard a man." I turned to Kyoka.

"Ruby? So your not Salem. Your food." The ground gave way beneath.

We fell into the darkness below Helen. In to the pits of the forgotten past.

Chapter 60: Menzro's Depths

I fell with Kyoka down into the darkness, the wind screaming in my ears. I saw Kyoka's mouth move but the words didn't reach me. I tried to look back up but the hole we had fell through was a pinprick above us. 'I don't want to hear it Pyrrha.' I thought to my tenant who wasn't paying rent.

I TOLD YOU SO!

We hit something that gave out from under the weight of our bodies, then another layer, and another, thin strands sticking to our clothes as he tore through the material. By the time we reached the floor we had slowed down enough to not get hurt. "Is this webs?" Kyoka tore a handful of the silk from her chest.

"Two little morsels." I heard that voice again. "It's been so long since I had... company... no these dungeons have been empty since the traitor turn his back on my queen."

"Where are you!" I yelled as I tried to grab Crescent Rose, but with all the sticky silk it was stuck to my back.

"Ruby, that was a roar? Are you okay?" Kyoka looked at me with concern.

"No it's a voice. I keep hearing this man." I said as I activated my mothers cross bows, flames burning away the webbing.

"So you can understand me. Why is that? What makes you so special?" I turned to the sound of scuttling in the darkness, the flaming gauntlets illuminating the area around us. "I see... your like my deer sweet mother."

"What? Who was that?" Kyoka yelped as she kept her earphone jacks near her speakers.

"I am Menzro, the last Guardian of Helen." The... creature emerged from the darkness, a bulbus body with eight barbed legs clacked on the ground, a black torso met the hard armor in a grotesque fashion. White plates with red marking covered his upper chest and shoulders, his arms ended with white spikes. But his head... I had to force my self to look as the Grimm. His mouth was forcibly unhinged my two mandibles that dripped a green substance that hissed when it hit the stones, he had four large red eyes that looked down at us.

But the worst part was what I saw in them, he was intelligent. He new exactly what he was doing as slowly made his way towards us.

"Forty thousand years I have waited. Waited in my den for intruders, alone." His spike hands dragged on the ground. "Forty thousand years I have served my queen. And now my patience has been rewarded." His mouth twisted in disgusting ways as he formed the words, his voice as acidic as his venom.

Kyoka stumbled back as she tripped over a rock. That is when he struck. I couldn't see him move, his strike breaking Kyoka's Aura in a single hit and sent her into a web where she hung limply, blood dripping from her mouth.

"NOOO!" I pulled on the power of the silver eyes. The Shaft filled with light and shook as My body burned at it's own power.

After a few seconds the power receded as I looked at the stone statue of the monster. Was it really that easy?

As I took a step towards Kyoka, a crack ran through it, chips of stone flying off.

"You think you were the first silver eyed bitch to fall down here?!" He roared as the stone casing exploded. I was peppered with stone was he loomed over me. "You'll be so delicious."

"Impossible, you should..." I stepped back, my own fear overwhelming my senses.

"Once your dead, Salem will bring her back!" He snarled with glee. "I'll have Princess Corinthia BACK!" He slashed down at me with the spike, I barely dodged it, I heard my cape tearing as he cut through the fabric. "FORTY THOUSAND YEARS! I HAVE LOOKED OVER HER! PROTECTING HER FROM LOOTERS LIKE YOU! MY WEBS HAVE PRESEVERVED HER SO THAT SHE MAY SMILE AGAIN!" I looked at this grimm, he was fighting for someone else.

Someone that he loved.

I ran towards where the pillar of silver light and erupted from, it had washed over the entire area, turning all of the grimm into stone, Ruby was in danger again and I was no where near her. "DAMN IT!" I used my semblance and shot my self up into the air with a pillar of stone. The buildings under me raced by as I closed in on the square. Down below I could see the others trying to navigate the streets.

Ruby hang in there, I won't fail you again!

Short chapter to start today off with.