Chapter Two:

"Jackie. Jackie. Jackie… *sigh* WAKE UP!" Exclaimed a familiar voice gently at first, before sighing and shouting at the top of their lungs. Something that causes the girl who's name is apparently Jackie to wake up with a startle. Upon opening her eyes she was met by the face of someone she thought she would never see again, in any animate state at least. The girl that Jackie had an obvious crush (and maybe something more) on. Io. As light blue and faded white eyes met golden amber colored eyes, the partially blind girl couldn't help but stare at the girl she wouldn't mind calling her girlfriend (if given the opportunity). "Good morning Jackie, slept well?"

"Yup and I wouldn't have minded in the slightest if I could have been doing it with you in a lot more comfortable position." Replied Jackie rather absentmindedly as she didn't seem to realize what she just said.

"Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but I think we have bigger concerns." Stated Io while blushing slightly, not that said blush was visible due to Io's gas mask. Said gas mask was, unlike Jackie's which only covered the lower half of her face, a full-face gas mask that was missing the left half of its broken eye shield.

"Bigger concerns?" Asked Jackie as the half-blind girl rose to her feet, having been sitting on the ground when Io woke her up. Instead of answering immediately, Io simply pointed upwards towards the moonlit night sky, more specifically the moon itself. Following the direction where Io was pointing, Jackie's eyes widened at what she saw. The moon was scattered and for some reason she couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia. After staring at the scattered moon for about a minute or so, the half-blind girl was brought out of her trance by Io putting on the other girl's cap over her eyes. "Io!" Despite the shout, there wasn't any heat in it as Jackie corrected her cap into the position that she usually had it on her head, slightly tilted upwards but still secure enough that it wouldn't fall off her head easily. Based on the look the half-blind girl was sending the amber eyed one, she was probably pouting behind her mask, which prompted Io to release a giggle at Jackie's expense. "Meanie."

"Come on. Stop pouting and let us get moving. Who knows what can sneak up on us." Stated Io as she picked up her weapon from the ground. The massive halberd named Dammerung.

"*sigh* agreed. Let's get going, but I can't help but feel a bit nostalgic about seeing the moon." Replied Jackie as she picked up her own weapon from the ground. A highly customized and modified version of an Argent Wolf Blade she had affectionately named Lupin. The extensive customization and many modifications to the one-handed sword somehow turned the golden metal of the blade pitch black with a crimson edge, not that Jackie was complaining as she was very comfortable wielding Lupin, and she liked the colors.

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After simply wandering through the moonlit forest for about an hour or two, the two Revenants entered an opening in the forest, and both of them were singing a song in a duet together back and forth between each other.

"He said, there ain't no rest for the wicked…"

"Money don't grow on trees…"

"I got bills to pay…"

"I got mouths to feed…"

"There ain't nothing in this world for free…"

"I know I can't slow down…"

"I can't hold back…"

"Though you know I wish I could…"

"Oh no there ain't no rest for the wicked…"

"Till' we close our eyes for good…"

"*snarl**growl*" the sudden sound of… something snarling and growling from within the forest surrounding the opening made the two Revenants stop dead in their tracks… and stop their singing.

"Io."

"Yes?"

"Do you hear something in the woods, or is it just me?"

"It's not just you, I hear it two."

"Son of a bitch. Which means we have company."

"… I'm just gonna trust you on that but did you seriously have to swear?"

"Hey! We're most likely gonna have the odds stacked against us, which admittedly isn't new, and we don't know what we're up against. So yes. I believe I'm allowed to swear."

"Fair enough."

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Elsewhere, a grey haired yet young man was watching the two girls stand back to back as the two were starting to get surrounded by a massive hoard of Grimm on a monitor in his office. Said hoard consisted mainly of Beowolves, and a few Ursai. What surprised the man watching was the surveillance footage was that the two girls weren't the ones who made the first move. They let their opponents, the Grimm, make the first move. Big mistake as the girl wearing the tattered cloak entered a stance that turned out to be the finishing stance of an unperceivably fast sword-technique of whatever style she had been taught, evidenced by the five Beowolves getting cut into mincemeat, quite literally, before finally disintegrating upon death.

Apparently that was the signal for the other girl, who managed to eliminate two Beowolves and an Ursa with what appeared to be a special technique with her massive halberd. A rapid thrust forward followed by a sweeping swing, which was followed by another, seemingly stronger, thrust, finishing the technique. Killing the two Beowolves with the first two strikes and the Ursa with the third and final strike.

After finishing their respective techniques, the two girls seemed to have found what could be described as a groove between themselves and the Grimm as the fight quickly turned, from an outsider's perspective, into something reminiscent of a deadly dance. And the two girls were each other's dance partner. Effortlessly weaving around each other and covering each other's backs simultaneously. The Grimm didn't stand the slightest of a chance, no matter how many of them joined the fray.

That is until the bigger ones started to get involved. Namely a quartet of Deathstalkers. A quartet of really old and therefore big Deathstalkers. It was upon the arrival of the massive scorpion-like Grimm that the man's assistant entered his office, looking rather tired and upset about something. Whatever she was going to say died down with the man giving her an order.

"There's a situation in the Emerald Forest." Stated the man, turning the monitor towards his assistant. "Get Team RWBY and JNPR ready for deployment ASAP."

"Understood Professor Ozpin." Replied the assistant before turning on her heel and leaving the office.