Sorry for the long delay. A month and a half for a new chapter. And the quality... well, my apology first.

Thank you Trayers16 for your compliment.

Not going to say much. Enjoy mission 7!


The cutscene starts with the Knights of the Order discussing about the current situation. With Credo ending it: "That's the situation so far."

Just in time as he sits down, Agnes bursts through the door while shouting to the person: "Credo! You knew it all along!"

Standing up again, Credo scolds his 'comrade': "How dare you raise your voice in the presence of His Holiness!"

Pointing towards... somewhere, Agnes shouts again: "That arrogant kid possesses d-d-d-d..." After the stuttering, he manages to say out the words: "Demonic power!"

Credo retorts back: "Absurd."

"ABSURD!?" Agnes is not buying that, one bit.

"Yeah, nobody's going to believe that, mister Credo." Ruby says, understanding Agnes' outburst.

"The question just crossed my mind." Pyrrha speaks up. "But how long has Nero gotten that arm cast?"

"I think it's just recently." Qrow theorizes. "Everyone would be suspicious if someone cast their arm for too long."

Ren follows: "Also, the voice in that flashback wasn't too young."

"DON'T PLAY ME A FOOL!" Agnes is definitely not in the good mood, and to make the matter worse, Credo doesn't look into his eyes once. "Is he not your subordinate?" Running to the commander's left, he reveals a shock truth: "He resurrected Yamato!" Again, Credo avoids the look from Agnes. The scientist fixes his goggle before continuing: "It's your fault! It's your responsibility! It-t-t-t-t-t..."

"Credo..." Before Agnes could negotiate Credo any further, Sanctus calls out for the latter.

This time, the commander responds, as Agnes steps back: "Yes, Your Holiness."

"Can you apprehend this boy?" The revived priest asks, almost an order with his low tone of voice.

"If that is your wish..." Credo, of course, doesn't want to oppose him. But, he brings up another matter: "Though who will then track Dante?"

"So... both sides are looking for each other?" Ruby asks. "I mean, Nero is heading to Headquarter, and Dante's popping up now and then."

"Could be. Though, the guy's motivation is unknown." Blake analyzes.

"It... might sound ridiculous. But do you think Dante is helping Nero?" Yang is a little curious.

"I don't think so. Both of them are strangers, given the fact Nero was willingly killing Dante." Weiss throws the theory away.

"But Dante can't be killed... normally, right?" Jaune takes it back. "Kinda like T.O when he was helping us."

"... Now that's some points I could take." Weiss has no choice but to accept it.

"I will find Dante." The one answering is Gloria.

Everyone focuses on her, as Sanctus asks: "You can guarantee his capture then?"

"Absolutely." With that she pushes the chair back, stands up, and walks out of the table, turns back a bit and bows lightly to the Head of the Order. "It's good to see Your Holiness has recovered." After that, she leaves for real...

"Is she reliable?" Credo asks His Holiness.

"She once brought to us the sword 'Sparda' and hastened the completion of our Savior." Sanctus replies back.

"But she remains almost a stranger to us all..." Credo says, suspicion full in his voice.

Nora: "Yeah... it's a little weird. She came out of nowhere, gave them a sword, and then became them?"

Qrow: "Sounds like an infiltration. I did have to do so one time."

"Oh? The bribing incident, father?"

Jaune asks curiously: "What's that about?"

"Ah, just us trying to get into one of Cinder's subordinates' base. Ironwood gave us a fake prototype so we could give them, thus gaining their trust. But... the drunk-old-me busted the operation. Luckily no Hunters were killed." Qrow takes another sip, before continuing: "Though, Summer kicked me out of the house for a week because of that."

"Serve you right, uncle."

Unknown to them all, Gloria merely hides behind a pillar, eavesdropping them for a few seconds before truly leaving the place.

The priest doesn't mind that much. "Which will only concern us should a situation arise. As for her identity, I have already investigated..." That somewhat gives a mixed signal to Credo and Agnus. "Now Credo..." The person in question looks down to see His Holiness placing his right hand on his left one. "Find us Nero and Yamato and bring them back to me."

After that, Credo stands straight up and replies: "As your wish, Your Holiness." With that out, he leaves the table and starts his search for his subordinate.

Blake raises her eyebrow. "Is this guy blind, or didn't he see that he's fighting for the bad ones here? Did he even know that form of Agnus?"

Yang: "I think he did. He didn't react too much to that old man's revival, right?"

Meanwhile, Agnes whispers to Sanctus: "That menace Nero appears to be quite close to Credo's sister, Kyrie. More than once he called out her name..."

Before the black screen appears, everyone could see Sanctus' lips curling up into a smile. An evil smile.

"Oh don't you dare think of that..." Weiss immediately threatens.

"He totally did." Qrow says.

"So we agree that this is the exception case of 'no bullying old men'? Because I want to punch him in the face." Nora suggests, which earns her thumb-ups from everyone.


Mission 7: The She-Viper

Proceed through the Forest of Ruin!

"Power up time!" Ruby exclaims.

The first thing to check is obviously the Skill Up. 'Yamato' is now able to upgrade, and she immediately checks what's new. The first one is 'Trigger Heart', which reduces the depletion of Devil Trigger Gauge.

"We should buy it now." Weiss immediately says. "We don't have enough to buy the others even if we don't buy that." Ruby complies.

The second one is 'Maximum Bet', which Nero and his D.T friend create a X-cross energy slash and send it forward. The third one is 'Showdown', this time Nero and the D.T release their maximum power and send out an omnipotent barrage of slashes to the enemy, which kills the enemy instantly after the last hit.

'By the way, it's not an instant kill move.' T.O warns.

"Aw. I thought it is." Ruby is a little disappointed.

'If that's the case, people would just spam it to the victory.'

Exiting 'Yamato', Ruby rechecks to see if she could buy anything else with the left Proud Souls, and she decides to take Red Queen Combo C.

Changing to 'Item', there's a new item called Purple Orbs, which increases D.T gauge's length. With the current Red Orbs, Ruby can buy four of them.

"Worth saving up to this point." Yang comments.

"Yep." Ruby agrees.

With the shopping being done, Ruby returns back to the main game...

Nothing much can be explored in the first area, which is Forest Entrance. Except now they know that the egg-like objects laying around hold Red Orbs. And a free Red Orb Crystal at the back of the map. Though Ruby does test the Combo C, and feels that the last three hits are harder to Act than the others.

Heading into Windswept Valley and reaching the cliff, the battle music suddenly kicks in, causing the players to be a little confused. Though, when the camera changes, everyone sees something moving underneath. During the time Ruby reaches to the Holy Water, they can see the demons... being some kinds of walking bushes. Qrow raises his eyebrow in curiosity. "Never seen something like that before. Grimm or normal."

Ruby turns to look at Zwei and Zergling, which tails are waging left-to-right slowly instinctively. "Yeah... even Zergling looks like a dog, if he doesn't attack anyone."

Although, Ren notices something else: gates that CLEARLY need Gyro Blade to destroy. Though, he does spot that one, which is behind the gates. Checking with the map, he concludes: "We're going to need to take a long road. Two out of three are blocked."

All agrees, as Ruby jumps down and Snatch one of the demons to her and Buster it... only to kill it in one shot. "... That's easy." And they're down few seconds after that, each by a Buster.


Reaching Ruined Church, Nero immediately sees Scarecrows in front of him, with a bunch of those bush demons. Then, those bush demons suddenly lash on the Scarecrows, one of which forcing a Scarecrow to nearly fly towards the Hunter, causing him to take a few steps back. The bush the wraps itself around the other demon, and once the Scarecrow manages to stand up, Nero could clearly see the flower blooming on its body, with two blades swinging around unpredictably.

"Uh..." Ruby starts, with the word being lengthened for a few seconds without stopping, indicating her confusion.

"Effectively Geist." Qrow can only think of one Grimm that could do this. "With some additions."

With the Charged Shot ready, Ruby immediately blasts the nearest demon out so she could keep a distance and watch what has changed. The result: Scarecrow's main attacks are basically the same, while the additional blades could swing any moment with no warnings. Though, it seems to have a cooldown of sort, so the moment the blades stop moving, Ruby immediately goes in and combos, and one more detail to note: They're even weaker than the one not being possessed. Although, during the fight, Ruby miscalculates and gets hit by the new blade, but she kills it with a Charged Shot right after.

"So basically they just now gained a cheap way to hurt us. Not cool." Ruby pouts, disappointed that the new demon doesn't do much.

There are two areas being blocked by glasses. Ruby destroys the first one and earns herself a ground full of Red Orbs in the form of eggs. And one statue that can't be hit for now. The second one has two layers of glasses... and some kind of red tree blocking the way. Giving up on that road, she heads to the second floor, and with the previous cutscene, she sees another wheel puzzle. Hitting it until it's fully charged, blue temporal platforms appear and she quickly walks on them to reach to the other door...

That leads to Ruined Valley, where she could see man-made structures being built in it, which are somewhat destroyed since there are a lot of gaps between one platform to the other. Quickly using Hell Bound...

"Hey, would you die if you fall?" Nora suddenly speaks up.

"I... don't know. And I don't want to test that." The platforms reappear, although when she walks on them, two of the smokey demons from the Graveyard appear. She decides to fight one first... and forgets about the platform below her that could disappear at any moments. After slamming the demon down to the floor, the platform immediately disappears, letting her fall down... to the Ruined Lowlands, where a bunch of demons are waiting for her. "...Huh, what do you know? I don't die, immediately." The ones waiting for her are just Scarecrows. "Welp, free Red Orbs!"

After clearing them out, Devil Bringer glows up at a corner of the map, indicating the hidden Red Orbs being there. After taking that, Ruby walks into the newly appeared glyph that leads her back to the place before she walks on the platforms. Activating them again, she carefully looks at the platforms to check how much time is left before one disappears, while trying to kill the demons at the same time. However, while jumping to dodge the attacks, Ruby notices a Blue Orb Fragment that's too high to reach with just jumping. She tries to get it, but no avail since the only platform underneath it just disappears. Pouting, she destroys the last demon, before deciding to observe the area first... before deciding to jump down again.

Yang chuckles. "You don't want to miss that, huh?"

"Nope."

"But, how are you planning to reach that?" Jaune asks.

"With the third level of High Roller." Weiss explains. "We tested it before, and it could reach places where normal jump couldn't."

The second time, she kills the demons as fast as possible, and uses said skill to get it, and her reward is a completed Blue Orb. "Worth it!"

Getting to the new door, Ruby walks into the Lapis River... which the sound of a waterfall can clearly be heard. And no demons on sight, which is a bit strange to everyone. A bridge is connecting two parts of the places, though she doesn't walk through it immediately, and instead heads to the other side of the map. One of the ways is blocked by the same kind of red tree from before, so no go to that. Jumping to the opposite side, Devil Bringer glows, and Ruby starts checking around and then finds out a secret mission behind a tree...


Secret Mission 05: Sky Scraper

Reach the goal by rising on the top!

"Huh, another easy one..." Ruby says, as she sees the background being Nero jumping on a red glyph with a Grim Grip next to her.

The mission starts with the camera going for the overview of the course, which happens in the entrance that leads to the secret laboratory. And... Ruby regrets saying it being easy.

Pyrrha giggles upon seeing Ruby's shocked expression. "I think you jinxed it, Ruby."

"I think so..."

"Can I try?" Ren suddenly asks.

Ruby tilts her head curiously, since she doesn't think that he would ask to play, but then happily gives the controller to him.

Ren steps on the glyph and bounces up to the air, before Snatching the Grim Grips and...

"... Have we fully upgraded Snatch?" Blake suddenly asks.

"...Oops." The rest of team RWBY say at the same time.

"Doesn't matter." Ren ignores it. "I'm sure it would be hard, but not impossible."

"Do your best, Ren!" Nora cheers for her friend.

Of course he would do his best, but...

First try: he loses quite a lot of time with the second pair of Grips since the Snatch isn't fully upgraded, but he finds the way to fix it. But, he only has the time to cut down the fence before time runs out.

Second try: he doesn't expect the next glyph after the one surrounded by glyph having only one Grip that's positioned in a way that forces him to move before reaching the highest height.

Third try: Game decides to troll him by miscalculating nearly every Hell Bound.

"Guess the third time is not a charm anymore." Yang says jokingly, causing everyone to groan.

Fourth try: Wrong direction.

Fifth try: Wrong Charged Shot in the air.

Sixth: This time, he lands on a platform after bouncing from the glyph with half of the time left. He then quickly aims and pulls himself right at the last glyph, which sends him to the destination, where the reward is taken as he falls on it.

"GREAT JOB REN!" Nora shouts again, congratulating her friend, which everyone follows after immediately.

"Thanks everyone." He then gives the controller back to Ruby. "It's yours."


Returning to the main game, and after cracking some eggs, Ruby reaches Ancient Plaza, which is a ruined one. And... no new demons. Nothing new as well.

Returning back to the Windswept Valley, she's now where the Gyro Blade is located. Using it to break down the two walls blocking the way, new demons start to appear to 'welcome' her. Well, the Gyro Blade now has a new objective: Wreck the demons.

After the demon-slaughter, Ruby breaks the last wall and walks into the new area...

Walking on the metal floor, Nero feels something hissing behind his back. He immediately turns around, only to see a head of a huge serpent flying up in the air, and with its mouth open wide, it slams down and bites, trying to get the hunter. The result: Nero manages to escape, but he loses his way to return.

Seeing the danger, Ruby has no other choice but to run forward. She attempts to Streak away, however, the Lock-on has targeted the demon, which causes her to use High Roller instead, and because of it, the serpent has a free shot on her. "That's cheap! Who designed it this way?"

Qrow chuckles. "The developers, obviously."

After the long run, Nero manages to reach a stable road, and for some reasons the serpent just gives up and flies away.

"Wait, that's it? Just a little jump-scare?"

"At least we're not fighting it in that tight place, dad."

Getting through the door that leads to Forgotten Ruins, there's the Combat Adjudicator, that Ruby's able to break it. Another free Blue Orb Fragment, and Red Orbs as well.

"It's a little contrast that Ruby is able to hit it, despite her theme color being red." Yang says jokingly, which earns her a playful punch from the leader.

"I certainly can see why." That earns Weiss a pout.

After a few steps, demons raise up, and Ruby immediately Buster any bush demons that's too close to the Scarecrows, before dealing with them later on.

"Oh, boss time!" The sight of the Divinity Statue gives out the obvious event Ruby's about to face. Though, she does stop by and get another Purple Orb before heading in.


Looking up at the opened Hell Gate, which has a green background, Nero senses something familiar again, and he turns back to see the previous serpent aiming at him. Jumping up to avoid the bite, he then uses Devil Bringer to grab on its scales, Nero holds on the demon as it flies straight towards the forest...

"You know, it's a little weird seeing snakes flying around." Jaune comments.

"So you want it as a Dragon, kid?"

"Yeah, although I think a serpent is already too much."

The snake tries to shake him off by thrashing and slamming itself through several trees, but none reaches Nero. Once he's on the right position, he starts punching its scales with no success, and then he's rewarded by a tree branch that knocks him several meters back to the tail before he could stop himself. He starts running up through its body, and jumps over another tree branch that's on his way, then ducks under once. He then stands up, jumps off the demon's back, lands on a rock, and pushes himself back to it and plans to land a right punch to its head... only for some kind of seed to hit him midair.

"Try some seeds on for size!" A woman's scream comes from the serpent, as more seeds is shot from... wherever on its body. Responding to that while still on the air during the fall, Nero pulls out Blue Rose and shoots down the seeds. Then, he lands perfectly on the ground, as he looks up to the serpent and hears the screaming again: "My children! You bastard!"

"Yeah... that's not a way to treat your 'child', you sneaky snake." Yang retorts, remembering how Raven abandoned her before.

"Still having a grudge against that?"

"Hey, don't blame me for remembering the past, uncle."

The serpent then opens its mouth, which is like a four-petal blooming flower, and reveals a woman in it... with her head having the tongue of the serpent. She then flies herself towards Nero...

Who jumps up to the ruined gate to avoid getting slammed. He then replies: "Sorry, but having you around is more than enough."

"No wonder the title of the mission is 'The She-Viper'." Ren remembers.

"Um, out of topic, but how does this... demon eat, if... the demon has two mouths?" Jaune doesn't know how to address the 'serpent' properly.

... He does bring up a good question.

"Why not both?" Nora asks back.

"How? That woman's body is the only accessible..." Weiss plans to reply back, but she decides to hold back and changes: "You know, how about we ask that to either Professor Port or Professor Peach?"

"I don't think Port would know things like digest system." Qrow doesn't think it as good idea. "And Peach is only good with plants."

"Dad, that demon shot PLANT seeds. And there are flesh-eating plants."

"... Does she know any Grimm that could be plants?"

"If Salem is crazy enough..." Pyrrha says, though she feels it being ridiculous even to herself.

"Your insignificant insults have no effect on me." The demon, despite saying so, is clearly a bit offended, because: "Though I will tear your body to shreds!"

With that, Nero jumps down to the ground level and prepares himself to fight the demon...

"You know what, Pyrrha. It's your turn."

"I would love to, but I decline this time. I'm not very good at video games. Maybe another mission."

"Oh, okay. If you like it."

The demon herself floats closer to her, so Ruby jumps up and sends a MAX-Calibur straight at the demon's face, causing it to be staggered for a second for Ruby to use Roulette Spin and nearly drop one bar of the demon's health. The demon then flies away out of Red Queen's reach, straight up in the air, before spreading its tail and body, and stabs the end of the now-eight-splitting-legs on the ground, revealing its...sac, to say at best, under her 'human' body.

"...That's just like a spider." Ren notes, as he feels Nora hugging closer to him. "Discomforting much?" He earns a nod from the hammer-wielder of team JNPR.

Though, that sac tempts Ruby to Buster it...

Nero sends a barrage of punches and kicks right at the sac, lowering the demon's health to another bar. Though, he hasn't managed to stop it from shooting a seed down to the ground, which then cracks and reveals the bush demon in it.

The serpent demon flies away, as Ruby immediately kills the small demon with a Buster. Once the demon lowers down, Ruby walks to it, and then jumps immediately as the demon whips her tail towards her. Though the demon doesn't attack often until the second tail whip and keeps backing away, Ruby has a hard time keeping herself on the air. But she's still able to follow the demon with Snatch and Calibur. Then, the demon whips her tongue (the larger one), forcing Ruby to jump away to dodge it. When she Snatch back and does a Roulette Spin, the demon whips the tongue, causing damage and flings her away...

'A small tip.' T.O's voice suddenly speaks up in their mind, causing Ruby to press Pause in surprise. 'DT has small invulnerable time during the activation, that blocks all damages and deals damage to anything around Nero.'

"Oh really?"

'And Combo interruption, too. Also, this is from a reviewer named Phoenix Champion. Some Busters can be extended by spamming Buster or Exceed button.'

"OH! Like the time I did to that knight armor?"

'Yep.'

Ruby Calibur back to the demon, and this time, when the demon swings the tongue, Ruby activates DT, completely blocking both hits from the tongue, and she starts attacking normally. Then, with an Exceed-Split, the demon is staggered again with half of its health left, but this time she's seemed to be vulnerable to Buster, because she's putting her hand on her head while groaning dizzily. Attacking some more, Ruby Buster...

Nero, with his demon buddy, uses his right hand to grab on the demon's head, before stabbing Red Queen/Yamato straight through the human body part, causing the serpent to scream and fly around. During that, Nero spins the revving handle, causing Fire damage to the demon. In the end, Nero pulls out the sword forcefully and vertically, ending the sequence that leaves the demon with only one bar of health left.

"That's neat." Qrow comments. "I need to think twice about that rev thing."

"YES!" Ruby shouts while throwing her arms on the air. Qrow immediately chuckles, knowing that Ruby's not going to let the weapon customization slip past her.

"Hey! The boss is not dead yet!" Weiss scowls, causing Ruby's hype to cool down, but she immediately sends a pouty glare towards the heiress before returning to the game.

The moment the demon recovers, she glows up in anger, and all of Ruby's attack damages are mitigated. The demon flies up again, but this time it digs the whole body through the ground, leaving only the 'head' of the serpent over the surface. The demon then thrusts its tail tendrils through the earth and tries to hit her. However, that's all she could do, because she's squishy in Normal difficulty.

The demon flies straight into the forest, causing earthquakes and knocking down everything, throwing dust into the air, while screaming loudly. Nero just stands in the battlefield, as he looks at it patiently. The demon then flies past him and plans to go into the Hell Gate, but it's stopped as Nero calls out the Spectral Arm of Devil Bringer and grabs its tail. "Don't even think about it."

The demon, upon being stopped, turns back to see the reason for her abrupt stop. "How shameful to be beaten by a human!" It then turns its body, causing Nero to lose his grab on it, and it runs away... dropping something on the ground.

When the gate shuts, Nero mocks: "Hey, don't step up if you're not going to put up a decent fight."

"Well, to be fair, we're on normal level." Blake defends the demon, or in another way, counters Nero's logic.

He then notices something on the ground. He picks it up and scowls the not-there-anymore demon: "Didn't your mom ever tell you not to litter?" He says that, but the Devil Bringer already absorbs the thing. Even though he doesn't know what it does yet, he knows it could be in good use.

"So we have a new thing. Probably to deal with those trees." Yang says, already guess what it could do.

The item's name is 'Sephirothic Fruit', and its description... "Do we agree to not comment on it?" Everyone immediately nods, agreeing with Qrow's order.

Since the gate is blocked by the red strings, and the camera has focused on the red tree once, Ruby heads to there...

With a single touch, the red trees wither and fall to the ground, giving Nero a way ahead. And thus, the end of the mission is there.


Chapter 7 end!

Lack of actions, I know. However, I think it's better for you to imagine the fight by yourself. I don't want to hinder your imagination and bind it to my own.

Skill added

Trigger Heart

Red Queen Combo C

Well... see you all in the next chapters!

P/S: Just a prediction for myself: The next mission is going to be hard.