Disclaimer: Fate/Stay Night is property of Type-moon, RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. This work is purely fanfiction and as such earns me no income.

*May receive some edits in the future and maybe additional dialogue.

This chapter is almost exclusively just the cast from RWBY.

Pyrrha Nikos had a smile on her face as she looked over the selection of food in front of her. She was humming a happy tune whilst filling up her tray in the school cafeteria. This was all but obvious to her friends who were standing in line behind her.

"Someone's in a good mood today."

Turning back to look behind her, Pyrrha saw Yang grinning at her with the rest of Team RWBY behind her. "Why, yes. I suppose I am in a very good mood today," happily acknowledged Pyrrha.

Yang's grin turned slightly mischievous. "Does it happen to have something to do with Jaune, maybe?"

"He does look a lot better, now that he's stopped hanging around Cardin," said Ruby while looking at Jaune, who was sitting with the rest of his team.

"Looks like someone finally decided to grow a spine," commented Weiss. The Schnee heiress didn't even bother looking at the boy and was seriously picking out food into her tray.

Pyrrha's smile cramped a little, but she didn't bother letting that comment about their team's leader bother her. The abrupt change in Jaune's behavior made her too happy for anyone to dampen that joy. "I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I'm sure it's for the best."

It only happened a little while ago, but Pyrrha was certain that it would be something she would cherish in her memories. Jaune had just come back from whatever errand Cardin gave him when he suddenly told her and the rest of Team JNPR that he would no longer be hanging out with the school bully. He had also said he was sorry for not being such a good leader for the past few weeks.

In addition, Pyrrha had also begun training Jaune privately, once he apologized to her for the way he had acted to her help before, and asked if the offer was still available to him. She had felt angry and rejected before, but quickly forgave him right there and then when he had sincerely asked for it. That made her feel quite ecstatic at having to be able to be with Jaune, just the two of them.

"You coming, Pyrrha?"

That question from Blake, shook Prryha from her reminiscing, and she saw that the rest Team RWBY were already heading towards the table that Jaune and the others were at.

As they were coming closer towards their table, Pyrrha saw Nora playing around with her food by stacking them up into a meatball snowman. Ren and Jaune seemed to be talking while they waited for her before they began eating.

"It's nice to see you better now, Jaune," said Ren, who was slicing up his chicken on his plate into smaller pieces. "You seem to be a lot more upbeat now."

Jaune was bashful at that and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, I finally gave it a lot of thought after I got some pretty good advice from someone."

Ren looked at Jaune, curious. "Was it Professor Ozpin?"

"No," Jaune denied. "It was just some nice girl I met in Vale."

Team RWBY had taken their seats in front of Jaune and the others, but Pyrrha had stood frozen next to her seat at Jaune's words.

"Aren't you going to take a seat, Pyrrha?" said Ruby, tilting her head in question.

"O-Oh, of course…"

Pyrrha tried to sit down as normally as she could, but was a little too stiff at doing so. While the rest of the people around her only thought mildly about that, Yang did not fail to see just what had bothered the red-headed warrior.

Smirking to herself, Yang decided to further question Jaune's new acquaintance. "So what was this girl like?" she casually asked.

"Well…," Jaune was having trouble how to describe the girl. "She was really pretty…"

Pyrrha's eye twitched in response to that.

"B-But not as pretty as you, of course, my snow angel," quickly said Jaune towards Weiss, who just rolled her eyes at him.

"Go on," encouraged Yang, whose smile continued to widen at Pyrrha's forced smile. "Why don't you describe her to us and tell us what she was like."

"She had blonde hair just like me, and had soft green eyes…," said Jaune. "The type of girl who seemed kind and delicate at first glance."

Yang took a glimpse to her side, checking on Pyrrha's reaction to that comment, and determined to find any more amusing tells. To her surprise, she found that Pyrrha looked perfectly fine, who was eating her meatloaf contentedly while still listening attentively. That surprise only lasted about until she noticed the deep indentation of the girl's fingers on her fork due to how hard she was holding them. Definitely...not fine.

Deciding that maybe she'd gone too far, Yang interrupted Jaune and said, "Maybe you can tell us the rest about her some other time."

"No, no, please do go on and tell us as much as you can about this wonderful girl you've met," smiled Pyrrha dangerously.

Everyone felt chills, except for Jaune who was too dense to notice and continued. "I guess I would describe her as..."

Yang was mentally shaking her head at Jaune for being so dense about Pyrrha. She wondered just what it was about the boy that Pyrrha liked so much. If it was her, she would probably just have knocked him flat out by now.

"Stoic, stalwart, noble, and… manly?"

"…"

Everyone on the table with Jaune was left staring blankly at him in silence. They were trying to think if they heard him right. Even Pyrrha's worsened mood had evaporated into question marks above her head.

"You did say this was a girl, right?" questioned Blake.

"Maybe it was just a really pretty boy," quipped Nora.

"I'm pretty sure he said she was a girl, Nora," said Ren.

Jaune was flustered at everyone's confusion of his words just now. "She is a girl. It's just that… that was pretty much how it felt like when she was talking to me."

Pyrrha tried to suppress her giggling at him, but was failing terribly at it. "Yes, Jaune. I'm sure a kind and delicate girl like her would appreciate being called manly."

With Pyrrha's mood considerably happier now, everyone else joined in laughter at Jaune's description of his advisor. Jaune sulked and groaned for a moment before giving up and joining the others at laughing at his expense.

"It's good to see you back in the groove, Jaune," said Ruby. "Just in time for the field trip tomorrow."

"Oh, yeah," said Weiss. "I heard Professor Goodwitch was going to be supervising us."

Ruby nodded. "It's going to be all of us and Team CRDL tomorrow collecting some research samples for Professor Peach."

"Ooooh, I'd love me some of those research samples for my pancakes!" exclaimed Nora. She had stars in her eyes and drool dropping down her mouth as she thought excitedly about their trip.

"Easy there, Nora," chastised Ren. "We're supposed to be collecting, not eating them."

"Then we'll gather as much as we can!" declared Nora, who had now placed her right foot on the table while pointing her fork forward towards the scene of endless pancakes and syrup in her mind.

Ren sighed tiredly.

The students of Beacon Academy arrive early in the morning at Forever Fall Forest. Twelve students that make teams RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL can be seen walking behind their Professor Glynda Goodwitch, who was sent to supervise the students.

Professor Goodwitch was leading the students towards an area of the forest that had been determined to have relatively low amount of Grimm. There had been little to no sightings of the creatures in this part of the forest, which is why it was decided that the field trip could be done here.

The Professor explained to the teams there assignments, and cautioned them on the dangers of the forest before sending them on their way.

Teams RWBY and JNPR went in a separate direction together from Team CRDL.

"Isn't this fun, Jaune?" asked Pyrrha, as she collected red sap from a tree into her jar before handing it out to their team leader.

"Y-Yeah… fun…," said Jaune queezily.

Pyrrha noticed something off with the boy. "Jaune, are you okay?"

"I think I might be allergic to this stuff…," he said before falling flat on his back.

Pyrrha rushed to attend to the sickened boy, while everyone else continued on with gathering their own samples. They weren't too worried, considering they knew Jaune tended to get sick from the most inane things and still be reasonably fine.

"…Nora, please stop eating the sap," mumbled Ren after the 4th time his jar had been emptied by the voracious Valkyrie.

Nora just kept smiling at him, smudges of red sap on her mouth, as she handed him another empty jar to fill.

The two teams were gathering their samples peacefully, unaware of the presence of Team CRDL hiding in a hill above them, watching them closely. Cardin and his goons had 10 jars of red sap that they had gathered with them.

"Okay, you guys know the plan, right?" said Cardin to his teammates.

Sky and Dove both had 5 of the jars in their arms and nodded at him.

"We throw these jars at them and let the Rapier Wasps do the rest?" said Dove.

"That's right," nodded Cardin. "Jaune and his team won't know what hit them until they're stung all the way to their toes."

"What about the other team?" asked Sky uneasily.

Cardin just scoffed at that. "What about them? If they're hanging around those losers then It's not our fault if they get caught in the crossfire. Now get into position so we can get this over with. I wanna see Jauney boy's face once he see's what's coming for him."

Sky and Dove both tried to walk to their position. One of the jars in Sky's arms slipped out and caused him to trip on it, sending him forward into Dove's back, which caused the both of them to crash into Cardin. The crash broke all of the jars, causing the red sap to splatter all over the three students.

"Aaagh! You Idiots!" angrily yelled Cardin. "What do you think you're doing?!"

The three students untangled themselves from their messy pile up.

"Now we have to gather mo-,"

*ROAR!*

Cardin and his teammates saw a big Ursa Grimm come out of the trees, sniffing the air. It wasn't the only one, as more Ursa's of varying size appeared behind it. The smell from the red sap on their clothes seemed to have attracted a fair number of the creatures.

"Oh, crap…," mumbled Cardin.

Down below Cardin's team, the other students hear the roars of multiple Ursa's coming from the hill above them. The sound reverberating through the whole forest was hard not to notice.

"Well, that sounds bad," said Ruby.

"Should we maybe head back to Professor Goodwitch?" asked Jaune uncertainly.

Before anyone could respond, they started hearing shouts and screams from Team CRDL who were running down towards them. They ran frantically, speeding through as Cardin led in front of his team.

"Out of the way! Out of the way!" he shouted as he pushed pass Jaune.

"Run for your lives!" said Russel, who was not far behind Cardin. "Ursas incoming!"

"Say what?" said Jaune.

Multiple vicious roars sounded off from the hill Cardin and his group came from and the Ursas came charging down the hill. There were at least a hundred of the Grimm barreling down towards them. All of which looked extremely ready to tear them all apart.

Only one word came into mind for teams RWBY and JNPR... RUN!

Both teams went running after Cardin, determined to get away as fast as they can from the oncoming tidal wave of bearish nightmare that would come crashing down upon them.

After several minutes, they came upon Team CRDL who had stopped running because they were now facing a few more Ursas that they had ran into. Somehow, they were able to fight them back because these were regular sized Ursas and numbered only about a dozen or so.

"We gotta help them out," said Jaune.

While leaving them behind to distract the approaching horde would have given them enough time to escape, Jaune and the rest were not as cold-hearted as others to do so. Sacrificing someone else, even if they were a bully, was something they could not do. So they proceeded to help team CRDL take out the Grimm.

Cardin was surprised to see Jaune of all people helping him out against three Ursas. He saw that the rest of his team were also being helped out by their classmates, as he blocked an attack from the Ursa in front of him.

With all of the 1st years working together, they made short work of the Grimm. Blades sang through the air as they sliced through hide and mask, while sounds of shots from their Dust rounds peppered the Grimm.

"Well, that was easy," said Ruby.

The sounds of roars and pounding of paws behind them reminded the students that they had only dealt with part of their problem.

"You just had to say that, didn't you?" said Weiss icily, to which Ruby just shrugged embarrassedly.

"What do we do?" asked Blake.

"We run that's what," answered Cardin. He started to move away before Jaune grabbed his shoulder from behind him.

"No. If we run, we might end up running into more of them. And if that happens, we'll just get tired from running and fighting until the rest of them catch up to us to finish us off."

"Are we supposed to fight them then?!" said Cardin. "There's too many of them!"

Jaune thought hard about it. "Yeah, that's the only way we can make it out of here."

"Are you nuts? We can't take on that many!"

Everyone else was decidedly unsure of what to think of Jaune's plan. These were a good deal of Ursas to fight. If they were Beowolves, it would have been considerably easier on them to fight that many. Unfortunately, Ursas were far more powerful and some of them were even larger than the common ones.

"Jaune's right," agreed Ruby. "Running will just get us killed faster. We should hold them off here while we still have enough strength so that Professor Goodwitch can manage to reach us and help out. We maybe 1st years but we're all still trained to combat Grimm. This is the best chance that we have of making it out of here in one piece." She looked towards her own team, who all nodded in agreement at her judgement.

Jaune looked relieved at Ruby's approval of his plan. "It's settled then. We make a stand here until the Professor gets to us or we finish off the Grimm."

"We're with you, Jaune," said Pyrrha, as she held his shoulder in encouragement. Ren and Nora were also determined at backing him up in his plan.

Team CRDL was reluctant but agreed with it as well, considering they did not want to bump into any more Ursas when running away. They had also thought that having stained themselves in red sap would just likely attract any surrounding Ursas and end up getting themselves trapped.

Everyone had two from each of their team act as the vanguard to meet the rush of Grimm coming their way. Yang and Ruby from their team, Jaune and Pyrrha from theirs, and lastly Cardin and Dove. This was done so the rearguard can support or swap with the frontlines when they get too tired or overwhelmed.

Not long after they finished their formation, the Grimm finally appeared and went straight for them as soon as they saw the humans. The trees helped in filtering the number of Ursas from completely spilling onto them, however the horde was still plenty enough to turn it into only a minor advantage for them.

The Grimm charged forth with reckless abandon. They neither cared nor hesitated in their attack, even when their fellow Grimm kept getting put down in front of them.

Yang sent her punches through every single Grimm her way, blasting them with her Ember Celica each time. Ruby's scythe whirled in a deadly spin that cut apart any that went close enough for it to reach. The others were doing fairly much the same with their part, either killing or holding off any of the Ursas to maintain their formation.

The rearguard sent Dust rounds into the ranks of the Grimm that greatly prevented the creatures from all out swallowing them in their numbers. The heavy Dust rounds from Nora and the ice that Weiss created were especially useful in managing the mass of Grimm.

Soon though, Dove and Ruby had to switch with someone from the rear to reload their Dust rounds. The others would have to do the same later on.

Even though they were doing quite well against the horde, they found themselves pulling back further and further each time they slowed their pace to swap people. The Grimm were relentless in their assault, caring not for their injuries or downed comrades.

A charge from the largest of the Ursas finally broke through the formation. Cardin and Russel were both sent flying back when they'd tried to block it with their weapons.

Seeing what happened, Jaune moved to intercept the creature while shouting, "Everyone pull back towards Cardin! We have to get back in formation!"

Jaune didn't want the big Ursa to attack anyone else while they pulled back, so he made the decision to handle it.

The Ursa swiped its massive claws at Jaune, which caused the boy to duck underneath it and roll down to slice at its legs. The creature felt the pain and roared, but the damage did little but futher enrage the mad beast.

Before the creature could make another attack at Jaune, a flurry of Dust rounds hit it on its face, causing it to block the attacks with its arms. Seizing this chance, Jaune once again dashed forward with sword in hand to try and decapitate the monster.

The creature had regained its senses long enough to see Jaune coming up to attack him. It made a swipe with its paw at Jaune, but it was too late, as the sword cut through its neck cleanly. However, the attack from the Ursa did manage to send Jaune flying towards the rest of his teammates, which resulted in sending him, Ren, Blake, and Nora into the ground.

Their Aura were in the red now, the rest had been yellow for a while now. The situation wasn't looking good for them. Professor Goodwitch was still nowhere to be seen, as several dozen Ursas burst forth into a run at seeing their weakened prey.

As the downed students tried to stand up to meet the charge, they saw a peculiar behavior among the Grimm.

The creatures had stopped a few meters away from them.

"Huh?" said Yang, tired but still had her arms up, ready for another round. "Why'd they stop?"

Curiously, the creatures suddenly began pacing back and forth a certain distance away from them. They growled at the students but kept pawing at the air, as if a wall is blocking their way. It was akin to seeing animals at a zoo looking for a breach somewhere in the bars that prevented it from going outside.

Everyone relaxed a little at seeing this unexpected break, however, they still remained cautious about the situation. While it looked like they were safe for now, they weren't naïve enough to think that the creatures would keep standing by.

Helping out Jaune from the ground, Pyrrha said, "Let's pull ourselves together while we can. I'm not sure whatever it is that is holding them back will continue to do so. We should get ourselves ready just in case."

Everyone nodded their agreement at that.

For the first minute or two, they reloaded and readied themselves for the Grimm. But after seeing no difference in the behavior of the Ursas in front of them, they started to think that no further attacks were going to be happening.

"It doesn't look like they can get to us," observed Weiss. She noted that the constant pacing of the Grimm had made a definite boundary on the ground visible.

"Maybe they're finally too scared after we killed so much of them," offered Cardin haughtily.

"No," said Ren, who shook his head in denial. "It looks more like something is stopping them from getting to us."

"What in Remnant can do that?" asked Blake.

Ruby moved closer towards the gathered Ursas.

"H-Hey Ruby, get back here!" said Yang, running to intercept her sister.

Ruby looked back at her sister and said, "It's okay, Yang. Look, they can't get past a certain point." She was only a few inches away from the creatures.

The Grimm growled and roared at Ruby, but made no further actions that put them anywhere close towards the little red riding hood. They were clearly frustrated at not being able to reach their prey, however, they never stopped pacing back and forth from their current distance from the boundary between them and the students.

Confused, but certainly not unhappy with the current situation, the students holstered their weapons, once they made sure that there was no immediate danger.

"So what do we do now?" asked Nora.

"We should probably wait here till Professor Goodwitch finds us," insisted Jaune.

Cardin huffed at that. "You guys can wait here if you want, but I'm not gonna wait around here with those Grimm close by." He started walking further away from the Grimm with his teammates following him.

Team RWBY and JNPR watched as he and the rest of his team disappeared into the forest away from their view.

"Think we should follow them?" asked Ruby.

Suddenly, they heard Cardin shout of fear from where he had just gone to.

"I think that's a definite yes," said Jaune.

Together, both teams readied their weapons and ran past the trees to find Cardin sitting on his bum, staring at a massive Ursa like the one Jaune had just fought, while the rest of his teammates were just starting to bring their weapons out.

Everyone made ready to attack, but was suddenly interrupted as Ruby said, "Is that a statue?"

Looking carefully, everyone noticed that the clear definite form of the Grimm, was indeed made of stone. The physical characteristics were very realistic and even its stature made it clear that it was ready to attack, however, the color and texture was very much that of a stone statue. It was very life-like indeed, but a solid sculpture of stone was all that it was.

"Someone has really bad taste," commented Yang. "Who'd ever make a statue of a Grimm all the way out here?"

"Probably one of those urban modern age artists, who keep leaving their junks everywhere," angrily spat Cardin, who had recovered from his fear by now. "Stupid modern art loving junkies!" He shouted as he punched the stone statue, which caused it to crumble easily as his fist went through it.

"Geez Cardin, you didn't have to destroy it," sighed Pyrrha. "Someone probably put a lot of time and effort into that, seeing how realistic it looked. Getting all those details just right must have been a painstaking task."

"I don't think you have to worry about that," said Blake. The cat faunus was looking past the broken statue at the rest of the surroundings behind it. "There's plenty more of them."

Looking past the trees, all the students could make out the shapes of other Ursa statues littering the forest ahead of them. Each and every one looking like they were about ready to attack someone or something.

"Woooah, so cool!" shouted both Ruby and Nora in excitement.

Moving closer to check one of the statues, Pyrrha traced her hand along its mask. "Who would go through all the trouble to make these things out here?" she quietly asked. "In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by Grimm, no less."

"I'm not so sure these really are statues," answered Blake, who was also checking the stone art quite carefully. "The details are too perfect, down to even the minute features. Making one is still reasonable, but this much," she gestured at all of the statues. "It's just way too much. There's no way someone could make this many."

"Hey, hey, Ren! Quick, take a picture of me with Mr. Ursa here." Nora was grabbing on an Ursas neck and posed herself in a bridal carry with it.

Ren sighed. "Nora, please get down from there."

"Just a quick photo, c'mon."

Slumping in defeat, Ren took out his scroll to take the picture.

The rest of the students started exploring their surroundings, checking to see if there was anything else here that maybe out of place. They were starting to feel that there was something else to this place after encountering a 2nd unusual event. It would be safe for them to assume that there might be more surprises in store for them.

"Hey guys," called out Jaune. "I think I might have found something else."

Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL made their way towards the blond sword wielder. They found him standing on the edge of a small clearing in the forest.

"What do you guys think that is?" he asked, pointing at another stone object at the center of the clearing. It looked a lot like a table.

"Another sculpture, maybe?" offered Weiss.

"No," denied Blake. "It looks like some sort of stone pedestal." She narrowed her eyes to see better. "Looks like there's some Dust crystals on it," she said in a surprised voice.

"Let's get a closer look," said Ruby, who was already walking towards it.

Yang quickly grabbed her sister before she got away again. "Oh, no you don't," she said. "You're not going anywhere near there until we know for sure it's safe. Who knows, that thing might be booby trapped for all we know."

"Booby trapped?" said Ruby, giving her sister an incredulous look. "You've been seeing way too much movies lately, Yang."

"I certainly know more than a thing or two about boobys," smirked Yang, which just caused everyone to groan at her, including Team CRDL.

"Her puns aside," said Weiss.

"Hey!"

"I agree with Yang that it might be better if we left that thing alone."

Ruby thought briefly before accepting her teammate's opinions. She decided that it would probably be best for a leader to listen to her comrades. It most definitely was not because of that icy glare Weiss had sent her when she momentarily considered ignoring their request and just going for it.

"Okay, so we avoid the weird stone obj-,"

"NORA!" shouted Ren in a panic.

The Valkyrie was already halfway-through the clearing before she tilted her head in question at her name. "What?"

"Weren't you listening just now?" sighed Ren.

"Nope."

Team JNPR sighed at their teammate.

"Well, it doesn't look like it-,"

A pulsing red arrow had suddenly hit the stone pedestal, interrupting Ruby, and blowing up the object in flash of blue light. Smoke and debris scattered around the clearing, blocking their view.

In a moment, Ren was running towards the last place he saw his peppy friend. "Nora! Nora! Where are you?!" he shouted.

"I'm fine, Ren," said the orange haired girl. "I don't see you. It's kinda hard to see with all this stuff around us."

Ren and the others felt relieved at hearing that their friend was fine.

The air cleared up soon enough for all of them to see what had just happened.

At the center of the clearing, where the stone pedestal once stood, a small crater and some pieces of stone and Dust crystals were all that was left. It was clear to them that there would be no knowing for sure what the object was now.

"Told you it was booby trapped," smugly smiled Yang.

Weiss picked up an intact piece of Dust crystal on the ground, looking it over. "I'm not so sure."

Before they could investigate any further, the howls and roar of the Ursas from where they came from, entered their ears.

"Looks like we might have found what was holding them back!" stated Blake. She brought out her Gambol Shroud and took up a combat position.

Soon, the rest of her classmates followed her example, as they too started bringing out their weapons and faced the forest that the Grimm would soon appear from. They made their stand near the middle of the clearing, watching the treeline for any signs of movement.

Together, the three teams stood, ready to face the assaulting horde of Grimm once more. The thick tension hung in the atmosphere around them, as the sounds of the rampaging creatures got closer and closer towards them. Before the sounds slowly but surely died down, causing a small confusion among the students.

A sound of a tree branch breaking, alerted the students, and put their confusion away. The figure of an Ursa brushing out of the trees, made them all aim there weapons at it, prepared to punch it full of Dust rounds. That was until the Grimm flopped faced down on the ground, dead.

They all noticed that the creature was fatally wounded and had all sorts of damage already.

Another figure stepped forth from the trees beside the dead Ursa.

"I'm glad I finally found you, students."

Professor Goodwitch had appeared. She was visibly sweating as she made her way towards the students, her wand in hand.

"Once I get my breath back, I'm certain everyone is ready to go home?" she asked, as she tried to relax herself.

Seeing there Professor, all the students started cheering at being able to get back to Beacon in one piece.

"I knew we'd make it," declared Weiss happily.

Yang pulled the Ice Queen and the rest of her teammates into a hug. "There was never a shadow of a doubt of that in my mind," she grinned as she said so.

While everyone was celebrating and congratulating themselves on a job well done, Ren was looking around for Nora, as the energetic girl was once more out of his sight.

He found her kneeling beside a tree, a jar in her hand. It looked like she was trying to collect red sap once again before they left the forest. He wondered where she even got the jar, considering they all but dropped all of their stuff aside from their weapons when they ran from the Grimm.

"Nora, please tell me you're not trying to get more red sap again," he said.

"Yup," plainly answered Nora.

"Where did you even get the jar?" he asked curiously.

"I found it."

Ren furrowed his brow at the answer. After all, why would there be an empty jar lying around.

"Just be quick, Nora," he sighed, giving up on thinking too much. He knew there would be no meaning in thinking too deeply when it concerned the madness that was Nora Valkyrie. "We don't want to get left behind."

"I'm trying as fast as I can," complained Nora. "But this is like the 4th tree I've tried and they've all been pretty much empty."

"Really?"

That was certainly a curious thing. Finding an emptied tree of red sap was highly unlikely. To find 4 in a row? Now that was just something else entirely.

"Everyone get ready to move!" shouted Professor Goodwitch. "It's time we start heading back before we encounter any more problems."

"Looks like we have to go, Nora," said Ren.

"Awwww…" sighed Nora dejectedly.

Seeing Nora so down, Ren couldn't help but feel a little bad for her. "Why don't I treat you to that place Ruby and the others have been talking about during the weekend?" he suggested.

"Really?!" Nora beamed expectantly at him. "We can go?"

Ren nodded his head.

"So awesome~!" sang Nora.

And with that, Nora and Ren quickly trailed behind the others. They soon made their way through the forest in a tight group, cautious yet hopeful that they wouldn't encounter anymore Grimm along the way. The group was entirely unaware of the presence about a kilometer away from them.

The figure of a man wearing black body armor with a red overcoat, a sturdy black bow in his hand, was standing high above one particular large tree, and looked closely at the group that were moving back towards the city.

'They're gone,' said the Archer class Servant through his mental link with his Master.

A/N:

I'm tired. The 24th and 27th can't come soon enough for me. I'm too excited for Tree of Savior, planning my builds and whatnot.

Next chapter is going to be either more subdued or more action. Depends on what I see happening first.

I hope to one day take a fine tooth comb and go over the other chapters and fix up the story. Maybe once I actually finish this story.

As always, please read and review. It will help me if you can point out some mistakes in spelling and grammar as well.

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P.S.

If you all don't know "Mother of Learning," go and read it! Especially those who like the Harry Potter books. Pay the man on his account so I can read faster. This is mostly a selfish request. If you're dirt poor like me then you don't have to, but that story is still dang awesome.

P.P.S.

It looks like a lot of people are still confusing EMIYA with Shirou. So I'll be clarifying it here.

Due to the dimension testing in chapters 2 and 3, Shirou Emiya is now basically mixed with the Servant EMIYA. While it will be mostly Shirou with the memories of EMIYA, some parts of the Counter Guardian will still be showing up from time to time, probably the sarcasm and stuff regarding heroism, but it will still be Shirou Emiya. HF Shirou does not a have pronounced hero complex because that is how he is in that route (close to the end), and also since he mixed with EMIYA, who pretty much loathed becoming a hero due to what it turned him into.

Masters and Servants:

Rin Tohsaka - Arturia Pendragon (Saber class)

Sakura Matou - Medusa Gorgon (Rider class)

Illyasviel von Einzbern - Shirou Emiya (Archer class)