Chapter 21

Where we last left-off, Team RWBY finally arrived at the Onsen Resort for some rest and relaxation because they got passes to visit it anytime of the year. Once they were relaxing in a hot spring, the Resort was attacked by a swarm of bug-type Pokemon that are comprised of Harylect, Firoke, and Sponaree started taking all the food that they can find. The reason being, according to the manager, is because the queen of these insects have been awoken, known as Seikamater, in order to lay more eggs after consuming a large amount of food. The location of the nest is located in a place call, Hivehell. Team RWBY got up early and went over towards the place with a map in tow.

But once there, they see the gigantic mountain full of wide caves with some boulders covered in webbing form them. Not only that, there are some webs in areas that are sorta thick yet thin enough for light to enter in like some sort of window.

"This is it." Yang says as she looks at the mountain.

"That's kinda obvious." Ruby says while still feeling nervous.

Blake is looking at the ground, "That, and the tracks were easy to follow."

Weiss looks at Blake, "So Blake?"

Blake looks at Weiss, "Hmm?"

"Still want to obtain that royal jelly."

"I bet that queen has a royal...belly! Eh?" Yang tries to make another awful pun but no one reacted. "Oh come on!"

Song: Pokemon Theme (Version XY)

Artists: Ben Dixon and the Sad Truth, John Siegler, and John Loeffler

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause

(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
(Pokémon!)
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Yeah, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all)
Gotta catch 'em all
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokémon!

Team RWBY went to the entrance where the manager's grandfather once entered. Yang looks at the map to make sure they are in the right direction.

"Yep." Yang is assure. "This is the right way."

Ruby takes a big gulp and is a little frighten. She is still scare of anything that has eight legs or looks like a gross and icky bug.

Blake places her right hand on Ruby's left shoulder. "You alright?"

Ruby is still focus on the cave entrance while saying, "Yeah. Nothing's wrong." Ruby's tone doesn't match her confidence and it does make her more nervous.

Yang has her hand on Ruby's right shoulder, "Come on. Pretend that you are fighting against Grimm. Like Deathstalkers, Spider Grimm or Lancers."

"That's because I had Crescent Rose. We don't have our weapons."

"But you still have Aurum. Aurum's a flying-type." Yang says to boost Ruby's morale. "Bug-types are weak against flying-types."

"Oh right." Ruby realizes as she pulls out her Sports Ball. "But he can only use two flying-type moves and two psychic-type moves. Yet if I can remember about the exam back at the Prof.'s place, bug-types are resilient against psychic-type moves. Aurum can use hypnosis, but I'm not sure that's enough. However..." Ruby pulls out another Pokeball, "Poofy can use sing and it is a normal-type move."

Weiss pulls up her Cherish Ball and Pokeball. "I can have Nicolas transform into Flareon and use fire-type moves on most of them. He can turn into Jolteon to deal with the Sponaree with electric-type moves. Monarch has only one flying-type move. Kitty can use yawn but that takes some time to take effect."

Blake pulls up all of her Pokeballs and Sports Balls, "Frogadier and Magickarp can deal with the Firokes. Aveden can use flying-type moves and flash to help light the way. He did know sing but forgotten that move."

Yang pulls up all of her Pokeballs, Sports Ball, and Beast Ball; "Blazerina is a fire-type so she should be good against most of the bugs. Azul can use only one flying-type move. My Vert is both flying and grass-type moves but may not be effective against Firokes. Tiki is a grass-type so not sure I should be using him. As for Tai, he can use thunder punch and ice punch which should work."

"Then let's form a plan." Ruby suggests.

Blake asks, "Can we use our semblances? I mean, there won't be anyone else down there."

"I guess so."

Back on Remnant, Cinder and her team have arrived at the temple and have permission to investigate the area. Emerald is located at the front of the temple while admiring the statues made of precious metals and gems. Her 'inner-thief' is telling her to take those statues for herself and get rich off of it. However, her admiration for the statues got interrupted when Coco approach.

"Admiring the statues?" Coco asks.

Emerald snaps out of it, "Huh, what? Oh. Yeah. These are amazing statues. I wouldn't mind taking a few for myself to be honest."

Coco looks at the statues and admires them as well, "They are impressive. I wonder how did they make these. I mean, they look like they were made by machines and not human hands."

"Really?" Emerald's interest is piqued.

"Yeah. These things may look machine made but they are extremely old."

Emerald looks back at the statues, "Just how old are they?"

"The scientists say that these statues are over thousands of years old. Hundreds of thousands."

Emerald looks at Coco in surprise, "But how can that be?! Humans were never around at that time!"

"According to the eggheads, this is where the gods come from. And these statues depict the gods from whatever world these guys are from that gave the gods we know their power."

"Good to know."

Coco looks at Emerald, "By the way, love your outfit."

"Um...thank you?" Emerald is taken out of left field.

Over where Mercury is at, he is with the members of Team JNPR as they look over the tablets that the scientist excavated.

Mercury gave a bored sigh, "Just what I need: More homework." He just glances over at the tablets in his hands not giving a care.

"Oh come on!" Jaune is actually really excited. "These are artifacts of a long lost civilization and we are the first to discover it! Not only that, we may find treasure, long lost relics, and even find fossils of any of those creatures on the tablets!"

Nora stops looking over one of the tablets and says, "Sounds like someone is into archaeology."

Ren keeps on looking over the tablets, "If Yang was here, she would say a pun like O.K.-ology or something like that."

Yang sneezes while Team RWBY are in the cavernous labyrinth with Ruby and Weiss holding flashlights and Blake in the league.

"You okay, Yang?" Ruby asks.

Yang replies, "I think someone is talking about me. Must miss my puns."

Weiss rolls her eyes, "I highly doubt that."

"Keep it down please!" Blake says while using her Faunus eyes to keep an eye out for any trouble. Thank goodness for being part animal despite the...yeah...moving on. Blake speak silently to her teammates, "I need everyone to be silent. Need to keep an ear out for anything that might attack us."

Team RWBY continue down the cavern while following the map they got.

However, Weiss has an idea. "Hey, I got an idea." Weiss takes the map from Blake and look it over. "We're allow to use our semblances, right?"

"Yeah." Ruby says. But then she realizes, "Oh! I get it. You want to use your glyphs to create a pathway to our destination!"

"Close."

"Will it work though?" Yang asks with some doubt. "I mean it is a long way."

Weiss puts the map away and goes, "Watch me."

Weiss places her hand on the ground and creates a black glyph under everyone's feet that levitates them up in the air. What happens next is that a line of white glyphs light the way that leads part way towards their destination. The levitating glyph follows the white glyph with all the members of Team RWBY on it as if they are on some levitating platform.

Blake states, "Using your glyphs to create a floating platform to reach our destination faster. That's...a clever idea."

Ruby praises Weiss, "Wow, Weiss! You're awesome!"

"Please don't talk to me! I need to focus." Weiss is concentrating all of her power on her semblance in order to get to the Sekimatar faster.

The levitating glyph is going faster and faster the further they go down. However, Weiss is loosing her control as her aura is being depleted gradually the further they go. They get closer and closer the faster they go down and are getting close to their goal. Yet they did pass a few of the bug-types that they come across but they were wondering what just pass them. Which is good news for Ruby and the other girls that don't like creepy looking bug-type Pokemon.

But Yang asks, "Isn't this kinda cheating? I mean, it is cool that we get to get there faster but can't we get our Pokemon some experience fighting these guys."

Yang does have a point there. True that they are getting to their destination faster but they will miss the opportunity to have their Pokemon gain experience and leveling-up.

Ruby replies, "The less of them, the better."

Blake says, "But if we do fight them, it might alert any of the foragers outside of the hive and come to attack us from our six. Plus my two Pokemon will evolve before we get to the royal jelly."

Blake also make a good point. If they do fight, then the pheromones (which is one way for bugs to communicate) release from the attacked bugs will be send through the entire colony and they will release pheromones to all of the bug-types outside Hivehell and alert them. Which will cause Team RWBY to be overwhelm by their numbers. Since it is a gigantic bug colony, there has to be thousands (millions in real-life) of them. That and her Pokemon will evolve before becoming a Seikamater. However, Weiss' aura is getting pretty low and her glyphs are starting to fade out. She starts to get sweaty and having a difficult time breathing.

Ruby notices and says, "I think we should stop here."

Weiss is relieved, "Good idea." She lowers the black glyph on the final white glyph on the ground. She sits on a rock and uses her handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her head and drink a bottle of water. "This place is really deep." Weiss says after taking a few sips. "Glad we use my semblance to get this far."

Ruby peeking her head out from behind Yang, "Just make sure that there isn't anymore bugs." Then hides behind her.

Yang says, "Don't you already have a bug-type? Brownie, right?"

"I was actually caught in the moment during the tournament. Plus when I check the specs, I couldn't let something like that pass me by."

"Then pretend that it is the same situation that you are in right now. You know? In a tournament and want to catch something real bad to win. Or imagine them as Butterfree. Or all of them having a cute face."

Weiss and Blake think, 'That's stretching it a bit.'

Ruby takes a few deep breaths and thinks about it for a moment. "Okay. I got it." She takes a few deep breaths some more and calms down. "All the little bug-types are adorable, not terrifying. They are adorable, not terrifying. They are- COMING STRAIGHT AT US!" Ruby freaked out and pointed at the direction they were supposed to go that is now blocked by Firoke, Sponaree, Harylect and some other bug-type Pokemon that they never encounter before that look like dragonfly nymphs and some pretty looking dragonfly-like creatures.

Weiss pulls up the Megadex.

Unymph. The nymph Pokemon. Bug-type. They inhabit mucky bogs and swamps. Although they are somewhat slow and weak in battle, they can extend their jaws rapidly to deliver a powerful blow.

Harptera. The dragonfly Pokemon and the evolve form of Unymph. Bug and flying-type. A swift and fierce hunter. They can vibrate their wings at supersonic speeds in flight. They use their harpoon-shaped tails to skewer prey.

Ruby...passes out.

Weiss looks at her pass out teammate and goes, "Seriously!?"

"Dang!" Yang says out loud because of the situation. She tosses her Pokeball, "Come out, Blazerina!"

Blazerina comes out and is ready to fight.

Blake throws her Sports Ball, "Go, Aveden!"

Blake's Aveden comes out and is ready to fight as well.

Weiss tries to drag Ruby to get her out of the way.

Yang orders, "Blazerina, use flame wheel!"

Blazerina spins herself as she gets engulf in flames and starts punching a path through the non-water-type insects.

Blake orders, "Aveden, use air cutter!"

Aveden flaps his wings as buzzsaw-shape wind cuts through the non-electric-type insects. Blake focus on the bug-types that can use water-type moves while Yang focus on the bug-types that are also electric-type. Both of them are trying to cover both of their Pokemon's weaknesses to cut through the swarm.

"Let's go!" Yang says as she runs down the path both Pokemon made for them.

Weiss is giving the unconscious Ruby a piggy back ride, "Wait for me!"

They follow their Pokemon down the tunnel with many more bug-types chasing them and a few starting to pop-out. They ran as fast as they could until Weiss gets an idea.

Weiss pulls out one of Ruby's Pokeballs and says, "Go, Poofy!"

Poofy comes out and does a twirl. But gets frighten by the swarm coming at her.

"Poofy, use sing!" Then yells at everyone, "Quick! Cover your ears!"

Poofy then starts singing with colorful musical notes appearing in the air as they hit all the bug-types to the point that they fall asleep. Yang and Weiss try to cover their ears, but for Blake...that is a little difficult. She does have four ears and it is difficult to cover them. All the bug-types in the area start to fall asleep and since the tunnels carry echoes because of the enclosed space, many more start to fall asleep. Unfortunately, so did Ruby even though she is passed out. Poofy stops singing and is exhausted.

Weiss pulls out Poofy's Pokeball, "Thanks, Poofy. You deserve some rest." Poofy is returned to her Pokeball and the Pokeball goes back to Ruby.

Team RWBY keep on running down the cavern and passing by all the sleeping bug-types as they can in order to reach the queen's chamber. As they run as quick as they can, they come across what looks like a few bug-types sleeping while having a few eggs on them, which means that they are getting closer. At that time, Ruby snap out of it.

"What happened?" Ruby takes a good look at her surroundings and realized that Weiss is carrying her.

Weiss says, "About time." Then she drops Ruby on her butt.

"Ow!"

Yang says, "We're here." She looks at her teammates, "So, who is ready to see the... Hang on. I had something for this." Yang completely forgot about what kind of pun she is supposed to say.

"Not now." the three say to her.

"Let's get this done before the other bugs wake-up." Blake stated as she moves forward.

The four enter an extremely large chamber where they smell something sweet as they enter in along with the walls being slimy and covered in yellow jelly. The only source of light appear to be some strange fluorescent crystals that give off a certain amount of light yet most of it is covered in a layer of the royal jelly. Not only that, there are columns that are made of the same royal jelly that look as solid as honey after some aging. The gigantic chamber is glowing in yellow and blue lighting to show the gigantic Pokemon that is over 27 feet long from head to tail with the head and the top of her body resembling a moth that are yellow, blue and red; wings of a dragonfly, has the first pair of legs in the color of yellow with the second pair being blue and the last pair being red while resembling an ant, and the rest of the Pokemon looks like a mix between a bee and ant. This is a Seikamater. The four prepare for battle against the large creature...but that won't happen until the next chapter. See ya!

AN: Hey! Hope you enjoy this chapter.

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