F3: Alright everyone welcome to chapter 4. As per usual RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I only own the OC characters and this plot. Beware that somethings are going to changed so you have been warned.
Volume 1-4: Temple Bound.
Rina wasn't having much of a good time. Not only she had to go through this initiation but she had to restrain from using her webs. While her outfit is still the same she now wears black fingerless gloves to cover her palms.
She was currently trying to locate a partner for herself but nobody had come up yet.
"This is a big waste of time. I mean I can handle myself without a partner but no Ozpin just had to make us all have a teammate. Yay me." Rina said as she walked through the forest.
However before she could get any further into the forest a low growl was heard but it wasn't a Beowolf or an Ursa. The ground shook underneath her as the the grimm got closer as a large ape like creature appeared before her.
The grimm has black fur as it not only walks on it back limbs and large forearms. It has a toned chest with ribs on the outside of its chest. A large bone mask with only one eye with red veins around the mask.
Rina just looked at the grimm with mild annoyance "Hey look pal I'm really not in the mood for this today. So why don't you do me a favor and go bug someone else." Rina replied.
The grimm ignored her protest as it bounded on its chest before roaring at its prey. Rina reached behind her to unsheath her sword and unholstered her pistol preparing to fight.
"Guess we're doing this now." She said pushing the hammer down on her pistol hearing a click.
The grimm charged at her bringing its giant arm up and brought it down on her. Luckily thanks to her quickness she was able to dodge the punch by jumping above the grimm. While in the air she took her pistol and fired at the grimm unloading fire and lightning at the grimm but all it did was agravaite the grimm.
The grimm changed tactics and used his other arm and swung at Rina who was still in mid air.
"Oh crud." Rina said seeing the other arm coming toward her as she braced for impact sending her toward a thick tree. Luckily her aura took the blunt of it but it still gave her some bruises since she is lacking any armor.
"Okay that one stung." She grunted and saw the grimm charge at her again.
"Oh not this time." She said as she hit a button on her sword. The sword suddenly went limp as segments of the sword shaped into arrowhead like shapes all connected by a single metal cord.
Once the grimm was close enough she rolled underneath it while wrapping her weapon around its leg. With a big tug on the weapon the grimm tripped and fell forward on its chest.
"That what you get for messing with me." Rina smirked. However the grimm got up and with a jerk of the leg that her weapon was wrapped around was strong enough to bring her forward as the grimm then reeled its fist and punched her directly in the face sending her flying through a tree and landing roughly losing her grip of her weapon.
She slowly got up from the sudden impact and realized that she was without her weapon.
"Great this certainly isn't good." She grunted but saw the grimm come charging and without her weapon she was good as dead as she closed her eyes bracing for the impact.
However as the grimm raised its fist something came between both of them as the fist was suddenly stopped.
Rina slightly peeked and noticed a girl had stopped the punch from reaching her. The two stuggled to gain an advantage over the other but the girl holding the grimm still.
"You okay?" The girl asked not taking her eyes off the grimm.
"Yeah. I'm good." Rina asked.
The girl glanced back at her as pale orange eyes met cyan colored eyes.
"Good I'm going to need a little bit of help here." The girl said.
"Okay... um what do I call you?" She asked.
"Introductions later. Grimm now." The girl said.
Rina nodded and noticed that her weapon was still wrapped around the grimms leg. She got up and dove underneath the grimm and grabbed her weapon unraveling it from the its leg. With a big push the girl shoved the grimm off and pressed a button inside her gauntlets which extended a short sword from each one.
"So you got a plan?" Rina asked.
"I'll keep it busy while you aim for its neck. Its weaker their." The girl answered as she proceed to slash at the grimm. Rina used her weapon to get to higher ground as she went to a nearby tree branch waiting to strike at the grimm. However due to the amount of movements she couldn't get a clear lock on the grimms neck.
"Can't you get it to hold still!?" She shouted.
"Trying not to get pummeled thank you." The girl called but the distraction gave the grimm a chance to strike at the girl as it backhanded her toward a nearby tree trunk. Rina had to act quickly or her new partner might end up as a punching bag for this grimm.
She look down below and saw that her pistol wasn't damaged she decided to take the chance to grab it. Luckily with the girls view obscured by the grimm she took off her left glove and shot out a web at her pistol and yanked it toward her. She immediately got rid of the webs that were on it as she check how much ammo she has left.
"Three shots. Better make them count." Rina said. The grimm reeled its fist back readying to pound its prey senseless until Rinas sword wrapped around its fist. With a tug Rina lunged herself at the grimm as she was able to get on its back. The grimm tried to shake her off but she took her pistol and pressed it to its neck.
"Bite on this." She said as she unloaded her remaining three shots as all three blew a hole in the grimms neck. The grimm went stiff as it collapsed on the ground motionless before finally evaporating into black smoke.
Rina wiped sweat off her brow in relief "Phew glad that's over and done." Rina said as she went to her partner.
"Hey you okay?" Rina asked as the girl got up seemingly unharmed.
"Yeah just got a little rattled that's all." She said.
"So do I get a name from you or what?" Rina asked.
"Pepper." She answered.
"Rina Trill. Nice to meet you Pepper." Rina said but then noticed Pepper was looking away with a slight blush.
"You sure your okay?" Rina asked.
Pepper cleared her throat before talking "I'm afraid your exposed." Pepper said.
"Huh?" Rina questioned then she noticed that her top had came off during their fight. She quickly used her arms to cover her chest before looking around for her top.
"It must've came off when I went through those trees." She said before she finally spotted her other half of her outfit. Using one arm to pick it she examined to making sure it wasn't damaged.
"This won't take but a minute." She said using a nearby bush as cover so she could get back into it. A minute later she was back with her top secured in place.
"Alright let's get moving partner." Rina said.
"You have a rather unique wardrobe but why that of all things?" Pepper asked giving the current event.
"Its rather comfy and its made out of one hundred percent silk. Not to compare, but most other fabric's annoy me a bit." Rina added as the two headed toward the direction of the temple.
=RWBY=
Meanwhile with Star and Iona the two of them were walking toward the temple but Star was looking at her partner with a curious look.
"Do I have something on my face?" Iona asked checking herself over.
"No... it just that... you didn't seem to mind that I'm a faunus despite you being well..." Star drifted off before Iona finished.
"A human." Iona added.
"Yeah. Honestly I expected you to hate me because of that, but you didn't. I'm rather curious." Star replied bringing a finger underneath her chin.
Iona simply smiled "I'll tell you once we complete the initiation first okay." Iona added.
"Yeah." Star said before looking above them and noticed the bird like grimm above them flying in an awkward pattern.
"Um... are Never-mores suppose to fly like that?" Star pointed out.
"No... I don't think so. It's almost like someones trying to steer it or something." Iona replied.
There heard a rustle in the bushes getting closer to them. Star brought out Kitsune while Iona prepared her duel pistols as the handles press upward extending two short swords.
The rustling got louder before coming into view which was Pyrrha running a full sprint past the two.
"Uh... Pyrrha what's..." Iona began before Pyrrha shouted back.
"Talk later! Run now!" She shouted back as she ran out of view.
"What's got into her?" Star asked before they heard another rustling sound but it was much louder.
What came out was a scorpion like creature with six large bone like legs with two large pincers and a stinger tail all covered in bone armor on the top half of its body making for an unbreakable defense. This particular grimm is called a Death Stalker and currently Jaune was hanging from its tail with a death grip.
The creature screeched as it saw the two girl standing in front of it. As for Star and Iona the same decision was both in their minds at the time. They both looked at each other, screamed, and ran away from the grimm as fast as they could with Iona picking up her smaller partner and running with her.
"Hey! I can run by my..." Star protested until noticing the grimm behind them was giving chase.
"Nevermind." She said nervously as Iona surprisingly caught up to Pyrrha.
"What happened this time?!" Iona asked while they were running.
"We went inside a cave that we thought was the temple only to find out it was that things home and now its chasing me cause we woke it up!" Pyrrha answered.
"How about less talk and more running?!" Star yelled as the two ran faster trying to escape the grimm.
=RWBY=
Meanwhile Yang and Weiss had managed to get to the temple after handling some more grimm on the way.
"Looks like the place." Yang said. They looked at the which was connected by an old stone bridge big enough to hold many people. Weiss took a look downward at the abyss below them seeing nothing but fog obscuring the bottom.
"We better be careful not to fall. A fall from this height will certainly kill us." Weiss warned.
"We can use that bridge over their. Its wide enough." Yang pointed out as the two headed toward the temple. Once they walked inside of what was left of the temple they noticed pillars with chess pieces on them but noticed that a good portion of them were missing.
"Seems like others have beat us here and claimed their relics." Weiss said.
Yang looked at each piece "Well we only need to take one right. So..." Yang began before selecting a piece.
"How 'bout a pony?" She said picking up the gold knight piece.
Weiss nodded in agreement.
Suddenly they heard a crowing sound above them and saw a Nevermore flying above.
"A grimm now of all times." Weiss said as she unsheathed her gunblade and Yang readied her weapon.
However something seemed to have jumped off the grimm's back and was heading directly toward them.
"What in the world?" Weiss questioned before a red petal seemed to float in front of her before vanishing. Yang noticed immediately and only sighed then chuckled a little.
"That has to be Rubes." Yang said shaking her head. Weiss was confused at first then noticed a red and black blur heading toward them in combination. Once it was near the ground the blur opened up revealing both Ruby and Blake as they fell directly to the ground in front of the two with dizzy looks on their faces.
"Okay... maybe should've done something else." Ruby said her head spinning.
"Lets... not do that... again." Blake said her head also spinning.
"Was that you two on that Nevermore?" Weiss asked.
"Ruby's idea. She thought it be better to try and steer a Nevermore to the temple." Blake answered.
"Hey it worked didn't it." Ruby protested.
Blake grew slightly frustrated "Still we could've been killed. Next time we should think before doing. Your recklessness could of killed us both." Blake told her.
Ruby rubbed her head "Sorry." She says nervously.
"Talk about an entrance huh Ruby." Yang said behind them.
"Yang!" Ruby cheered as she hugged her sister.
"Glad you could make it sis." Yang said returning the hug.
However the moment didn't last long as an Ursa came charging out of the woods in a wild manner until it feel on its chest sending a girl on top of it tumbling forward.
"Aw... its broken." The girl whined as said girl poked at the Ursa.
The girl is seventeen years old with fair skin along with short orange hair and turquoise eyes. The girls outfit consists of a collared black vest that ends at her waist. Her signature emblem, a hammer with a lightning bolt, can be found on its back. Under the vest are two layers of clothing, colored red and light-blue respectively.
She wears a white sleeveless top that forms a tiny heart shape cut out over her chest, with a white detached sleeve on each arm. She wears matching finger-less gloves on each hand. She sports a short pink skirt that starts at the waist and ends mid-thigh. Her shoes are a mix of pink and white with pink laces, displaying her emblem on their soles.
She also wears armor that begins in the middle of the shoulder and neck and ends by the waist.
Another person ran up next to the fallen grimm who is out of breath.
The boy is seventeen with fair skin with long black hair tied into a ponytail that ends midway down his back. A magenta colored streak is visible on the left side of his hair along with magenta colored eyes.
His outfit consists of a dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat that is red on the inside, with black and gold trimming and pink cuffs. The trimming goes down the right side of his torso and forms a black collar.
This color scheme seems to be influenced to some degree by the lotus flower, which is his emblem. He wears a black, long-sleeved shirt beneath the suit and light-tan pants with black shoes.
He was currently out of breath from chasing after the grimm riding girl who appears to be his partner.
"Nora... never do that again." He breathed but by the time he said that his partner wasn't in the same spot then he looked toward the temple.
Nora was eyeing the rook piece with excited look as she picked it up placing it on her head.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She sang.
"Nora!" Her partner called out.
"Coming Ren!" She called back tilting her head causing to the piece to fall into her left hand.
The group only stared at her as she skipped back to her partner.
"Okay how'd she get from their." Ruby pointed out to where Ren was then behind her.
"To their without us knowing." She asked.
"If her semblance is manipulating reality then we are all screwed." Weiss added causing them to laugh a little.
That is until they saw Pyrrha, and Iona who is still carrying Star run straight out of the woods.
"Oh hey their's the rest of the crew." Yang waved over to them but a moment later the Death-stalker appeared out of the woods uprooting any trees that were in the way with Jaune still hanging on by its tail.
"That doesn't look good." Weiss gulped as the Death-stalker slung its tail back then thrust it forward trying to sting them but in that action caused Jaunes grip to slip and launched him toward the group as he landed hard in front of them.
"That... could've gone... better." Jaune groan his aura taking some of the blow.
The Death-stalker tried again only to miss but it was getting close as it tried to thrust its tail one last time.
"Does this thing ever give up?!" Iona hollered.
"I don't think so!" Pyrrha added.
Just then the grimm suddenly started to slow down as it felt a great pressure trying to push it down.
The two stopped running as Iona finally put Star down carefully. "It stopped chasing us." Star pointed out.
"Its not going to stay like that for long!" Pepper called out.
"Huh?" Star said noticing Pepper and her partner coming out of the woods.
"My semblance won't keep it down long we gotta move." Pepper ordered as they went toward the temple and met up with others.
"You okay Jaune?" Pyrrha asked helping her partner up.
"Yeah... I think so. The ground broke my fall." Jaune said.
"How you doing Weiss?" Pepper asked.
"Just fine. We didn't have much trouble getting here." Weiss pointed out glancing toward her partner.
The Nevermore began to circle above them as it was still infiratied from the two unwanted passengers.
"Um guys that things coming back." Jaune warned pointing toward the grimm.
"There's no point in fighting them. Let's get the relic and get back to Ozpin." Star added as she headed into the temple to collect a relic.
Ruby grabbed the remaining knight piece while Jaune got the last rook piece. The only piece that was left is the pawns in which both Star and Pepper each grabbed.
"Okay I think now's the time that we leave." Star added as the other three agreed.
As the they regrouped with the others the Deathstalker managed to free itself from Pepper's semblance as it then began heading in their direction. The Nevermore began to swoop down lower before spreading its wings wide then with a single flap of its wings fire a barrage of feathers at them.
"Everybody move!" Weiss shouted as the group separated. Most of them avoided it but unfortunately Ruby's cloak got pinned to the ground which got her stuck.
"Ruby!" Yang shouted as she tried to go back for her sister. Ruby struggled trying to free her cloak but to no avail.
"C'mon you stupid thing." Ruby grunted trying to pull it free.
The Nevermore saw its prey trapped and flew in for the kill its talons extended.
Yang saw this and tried to get through the other feather that were lodged into the ground but they were stuck good.
Suddenly Blake zoomed past her and over the feather directly toward Ruby. The Nevermore drew closer to Ruby but before it could Blake managed to grab hold of Ruby and then triggered her semblance. The Nevermore slashed at the two cutting them both down.
"RUBY!" Yang bellowed fearing the worse but suddenly the two vanished confusing Yang.
"Huh? What was that?" She asked herself.
"That would be me." Blake answered who suddenly appeared next to her with Ruby in tow.
"Okay... that was terrifying." Ruby shivered.
"Hey are you done over their we got to move before the other one comes. We can make it to the bridge then its a straight shot back to the cliffs." Pepper replied.
"I think we're a little late on that one." Iona said pointing toward the Death-stalker in front of them.
"Great now what?" Rina questioned noticing the Nevermore coming back.
"Hate to say it but I think we'll have to take them out." Star said folding out Kitsune.
"Do we have to? I prefer if we didn't die today." Jaune complained.
"Their's twelve of us in total. If we split up into two groups of six we should be able to take them out. Those who have similar pieces should stay together." Star added.
"Okay so who splitting up?" Yang said as she readied her weapon.
"I'll split up the remaining group. Ruby, you and Blake should pair up with Yang and her partner. The same with Jaune and his partner. Me and Iona will help Jaune's group while the other help Ruby's group. That should give us an edge taking them down." Star explained.
"Sound fair to me." Rina said readying her weapon.
Jaune only sighed "Well I guess it was inevitable. Ready Pyrrha?" Jaune said bring out his sword as he extended his shield.
"Yes." She added as everyone else brought out theirs. Nora's looking similar to that of a grenade launcher and Ren's two pistol machine guns with blades going down.
"Alright then everybody. Lets take them out!" Star shouted as the group split up to take on the two giant grimms so that they could be done with the initiation.
F3: And cut! Sorry for leaving you hanging for the fight that's about to come up. The future teams are about to be assembled in the next chapter. Hope you all enjoyed it also make sure to leave a comment in the comment section. Also if you liked it that much please make sure to hit the follow or fav as well. With that said this has been Fireuser3 and I'm out.
