Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

"Uhh Professor Oobleck?" Weiss was a little confused.

"Might as well leave the bags at home girls, you'll be shadowing a huntsman on what is essentially a recon mission, we'll be making camp in whatever defensible positions we find." He told us "And it's Doctor Oobleck, I didn't earn my PHD for fun after all. Come now we're already three minutes behind!"

"It's fine guys." Ruby smiled "We'll just go save the world with Doctor Oobleck…okay it doesn't sound better out loud."

"I don't know what you're all so bothered about." I shrugged "We're going to the same place regardless of who it's with."

"You're going to save the world!" Nora yelled "Without me?! That makes me sad, and hungry but that last one's not your fault."

"Sounds exciting." Jaune smiled "Where are you going?"

"Outside the kingdom a bit." Ruby told them.

"Us too!" Nora smiled.

"We're going to shadow the sheriff of a nearby village Pyrrha explained.

"We don't leave till tomorrow." Ren explained.

"Then you can hang out with us tonight." Neptune said.

"Oh great, it's a party." I grumbled walking away a bit.

"We'll be shadowing a detective, we'll even get junior badges." Neptune said.

"Well wish us luck." Ruby sighed looking back at our plane out.

We jumped aboard and started to fly out of town.

"I guess we were just surprised is all." Yang said "I never saw you as much of a fighter."

"I fancy myself more of an intellectual but I've had my fair share of tussles." The Doctor told us.

"You look weak." I looked at him "Stick to teaching."

"Well given my experience with history and archeology the Headmaster thought it fit to assign this task to me." He said "Fighting skills being what they may be."

"What does history have to so with this?" Weiss asked.

"It's the backbone of society silly girl!" he told her "It's probably a few organs too!"

"And that means…?"

"The southeast sector is full of dense forests and deep caves." He continued "But also home to a great disaster."

"Mountain Glenn, right?" Ruby asked.

"Oh that's right, it was an expansion that got overrun by Grimm." Yang nodded.

"Correct, and now it stands abandoned and rundown." He said.

"Sounds like a good place for a hideout." Blake commented.

"Precisly." Doctor Oobleck adjusted his glasses.

We touched down a few minutes later and got out, although this abandoned cityscape was just that, run down buildings with nothing around.

"Your very first mission has begun, from this moment on you must do as I say." He told us.

"Hmm." We all nodded.

"Ruby, I thought I told you to leave your bags back at school?"

"Yes but you hadn't told us to listen to you yet." Ruby countered "So…I didn't."

"Hmm…well you're not wrong." Oobleck shrugged "Very well, leave it here and we'll pick it up upon our return."

"Umm, but…I…" Ruby shifted nervously.

"What could possibly be that important?" he asked.

"WOOF!" Ruby's dog jumped out of her bag.

"Hmm, that's kinda important." I blinked.

"Zwei…get back in the bag." Ruby whispered.

"We're here to investigate an abandoned urban jungle teeming with death and horror and you brought a dog…"

"I Uhh…"

"GENIUS!" he yelled.

"What?!" we all gasped.

"Canines are known for their keen senses, making them excellent companions for hunts like ours!" he lifted the dog up.

"Hear that, I'm a genius." Ruby smirked.

"Cool." I smirked at her.

"What are your orders?" Blake asked him.

"Initiative I like it!" he pointed "As you know this has been marked as hotspot for Grimm activity, now there are many possible explications one of which is Grimm."

"So do we get to exterminate them?" I asked eagerly "I wanna hunt them all."

"What?" Ruby asked.

"Grimm as in a creature of Grimm, there's about one a hundred yards from us at this very moment." He pointed.

"Wait what?!" the others turned around.

"Cool." I smiled "Let's kill it."

"Wait." He said "There are many reasons a Grimm could be attracted to this area, most notably their attracting to negativity,"

"So then what now?" Ruby asked.

"We wait and track it." He said.

"Tsk, the boring part of a hunt." I grumbled putting my blade back and twitching my fingers "And just after I got my adrenaline pumping."

"How long might that take?" Yang asked.

"Who knows could be hours, days, weeks, why Grimm have been known to stay isolated for-there's the whole pack." He pointed.

"Things got exciting real quick!" I smiled.

"What?" Wiess gasped.

"And now they see us." The teacher nodded.

"WHAT?!" Weiss yelled.

"I said now they've seen us!" he spoke louder.

"I heard you the first time!" Weiss groaned.

"So tracking is out, fighting is in?" I begged.

"An accurate assumption, especially since they appear to be charging us now."

"Alright!" I pulled out Bloodsplitter and slammed it into the ground "RAHHH!"

I ripped the blade up and swung out in front of me, slashing through a few in one broad stroke.

"More come on!" I roared at them "Fight me!"

The others were holding off some on their own but I could feel the rush of battle pumping through my veins.

"RAHH!" I slammed my blade down before running up the length and shooting my crossbow at another's head.

We continued on, I was having a great time killing tons of Grimm and raising my kill count again and again.

"Keep them coming!" I laughed.

"Miss Lionheart." Oobleck spoke to me "What interest's you so much about fighting?"

"It's fun." I laughed pulling my cleaver out of a Grimm "The blood pumping action, the adrenaline rush, I love every second of it."

"And why are you here?" he asked.

"Because the village said so, I'm here to learn first, fight second." I growled "I'm supposed to learn about your people, why your settlements like these fail while we succeed in the jungle."

"And why do you suppose that is?" he followed up.

"Because Amazons aren't weak like you, and we're not as selfish either." I said "You people depend on your huntsman to protect you, in my village everyone fights for each other, only the young are kept safe from fighting, but even they aren't coddled needlessly."

"I see…" he hummed a bit "And for you, besides your mission why are you here.

"GRR!" a Grimm growled at me.

"GRR!" I snarled back "ACK!"

I wiped my lips and ran back in to fight "Because there's more to fight, and as long as I stick with Ruby I can keep fighting strong things, that's all I really care about!"

We cleaned out the last area and made camp for the night. I set up with Yang, Blake and Weiss while Oobleck and Ruby did secure the perimeter.

AN

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