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Chapter cover- Deandra and Medi break-dancing with Issia and Ersa watching.
Ch.4- Meeting up
"Everyone is making great progress," Deandra says to herself while sitting on top of the temple and staring at her watch. It has some scratches and dents on it, showing it's been through some things.
Deandra didn't bother walking to the temple, instead, she created several pillars of dirt to springboard off of to the temple.
She starts whistling a little tune her mother sang to her and Issia since they were babies to pass the time.
Issia
As we're walking to the temple, I hear the song our mother sang to us. It makes me stop and brings me back to my childhood, the days of Mom and Dad reading me and Deandra bedtime stories or being there when we had a nightmare.
"Issia. Is something wrong?" Ruby pulls me from my memories of childhood.
"Ruby, did your mother even read bedtime stories to you?" I ask out of the blue.
"Yeah, my-" Ruby cuts herself off upon hearing something and pulls out Cresent Rose, "Issia, I think we're being surrounded."
I knew it couldn't be this simple, out of the brush jump out some Beowulves. One tries to cut us down with its claws, I jump back while Ruby dashes off to deal with the others.
I wait for the Beowulf to get in arm's length and I pull my gun, a silver revolver with a wooden stock, stick it in the Grimm's mouth and pull the trigger. The cylinder glows with red energy, supercharging the bullet, and allowing it to blow the head off of one Beowulf and punching through another three.
Ruby is using her speed and scythe to cut down the Grimm. She's moving so fast that she turns into a red trail being followed Rose petals, it's really pretty to see it.
"Issia, watch out!" Ruby shouts I look behind me to see a Beowulf about to bite my head off. I grab an arrow from my quiver and stab the Grimm in the neck, seeing it still has some fight in it, I pull out the arrow and grab the beowulf's leg, throwing it over to Ruby, who slices it in half in panic.
"Nice one Ruby." I'm glad Ruby was able to follow up. After Ruby kills the last Grimm, I take a breath.
"These Grimm are much lighter than they look," I comment after that tossing the Grimm, I thought they would weigh at least one hundred pounds at minimum, but it's more like they ten.
"Wow, Issia you're a really good fighter." Ruby compliments on my fighting.
"Thanks, I've been training all my life. But we should make haste the temple." I remind Ruby of our objective to which she grabs me and runs for the temple.
Medi
As Medi makes for the temple, she hears someone fighting, she peeks out some bushes to see the boy from earlier that morning fighting two giant snakes, one is black, and the other is white. Seeing the boy in danger she jumps on top of the white snake's head and pulls out her carving dagger out from her side and starts stabbing at the snack's eyes so the boy only has to fight one of the snakes.
"What are you doing?" The boy asks in a calm tone even through two giant snakes are trying to eat him.
"I got this one, you deal with the other!" Medi replies as the snake tries to shake her off, this nothing new to her and the snake is moving like any monster would do trying to get someone off of it. It moves violently to shake Medi off but she hangs on tight until it tires itself out, after which she stabs the snake, like crazy, rinse and repeat.
After weakening it enough, Medi summons her weapon, a lance as long as her with a firing system built-in and fires until she's empty before finishing with Wyvern Fire. She holds the trigger down causing blue flames to spew out the tip of the lance after a second of charging, Medi is blasted off the snake and sent flying by the force of her attack, as she flies, Medi thrust her lance into the ground stopping her.
She looks back at the Grimm and sees it's flailing around without its head, after a second the snake's body starts to disappears into nothing, Medi readjust her glasses and see that the boy also killed his snake.
"Medi Holdback." Medi gives the boy her name while holding her hand out.
"Lie Ren." The boy gives Medi his name, meaning that this was the boy they saw this morning, and wonders where the girl is then she sees pops out from the trees upside down, doing a bird call from a bird she never heard before.
"I'm not convinced Nora, that's what sound a sloth makes." Ren comments.
"I still have a lot to work on Nora, I thought you were trying to call some kind of rare species of bird," I tell Nora is wrong in every way possible.
Ersa
Ersa is now dragging her sword across the ground, bored, "Goddammit." Ersa stops and closes her eyes, focusing her mind, while taking a deep breath, she's able to find to someone without a teammate nearby and runs over to them.
"Be my teammate!" Ersa yells in urgency, scaring Weiss. It takes Weiss a second to gather herself, Ersa knows who Weiss is because Ersa met Weiss in the bathroom and heard her boasting about who she is.
"Who are you to scare to a Schnee-" Weiss is cut off by Ersa putting her sword up to Weiss's neck.
"I don't give a fuck WHO you are, but talking down to everyone is going to kill you." Ersa puts her sword on her back, "The name Ersa Holdback, you're my teammate now, don't like it? Kiss my ass, let's go." Ersa states, making her way to the temple.
"Wait!" Weiss takes a second to figure out what happened before chasing after Ersa.
A couple of minutes have passed and a few people have already made it to the temple and grabbed a relic but Deandra has stayed out of their sight. She wondered what taking her sisters so long and drops down in front of two girls about to enter the temple.
One girl has blonde hair, and she's wearing a tan jacket baring her midriff, with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons. Underneath this, she wears a low cut yellow crop top with a fire symbol on the left breast in black.
She is also wearing a brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching from hip to hip around the back of her waist, with her emblem emblazoned on the right-most pleat in gold. Underneath this is a long, white, asymmetrical piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. She wears a pair of brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, with the right sock pushed down just below the knee. A purplish-gray bandanna is tied around her left knee. An orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves complete her outfit.
The other girl is the girl Medi talked to in the ballroom she's wearing a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath this is a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt and white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg, emblazoned with the letters YKK in caps.
She also wears black low-heeled boots and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles. Her emblem is visible on the outside of both thighs just below her shorts in white. On her left arm is a detached sleeve with a silver cuff around her bicep, and black ribbons are wrapped around both forearms. A small, loose scarf is wrapped around her neck with a ribbon tied in a large bow on the top of her head.
"Hey, have you seen a girl with the same black hair and blue eyes like mine. She was wearing a black dress, dark blue pants, and black shoes. Probably carrying a giant green bow and has a quiver on her back?" Deandra gives a description of Issia, her clothing and weapon hoping the girls saw her.
The black-haired girl bow twitches, "Is that her?" The girl asks while pointing up and sure enough Issia is falling out of the sky with Ruby. Out from the jungle, Ersa sprints in while dragging her sword across the ground leaving sparks as she runs, before swinging her sword up and creating a whirlwind to break the fall of Ruby and Issia with Weiss showing up later far behind her and out of breath, however before Issia and Ruby can land Jaune Arc slams into them, sending them crashing into some trees.
"I take it that was your sister?" The black-haired girl asks.
"Y-" Before Deandra can answer she is cut off by an Ursa emerging from the forest and suddenly dying, revealing Nora was riding on its back with Medi and Ren in tow.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" The black-haired girl asks again.
"Y-" Deandra is once again interrupted by Pyrrha running out the forest and being chased a giant scorpion knocking down all the trees in its way before falling with the rest of the group.
"Deandra!"
"Ersa!"
"Medi!"
"Issia!"
"Jaune!"
"Pyrrha!"
"Ruby!"
"Yang!"
"Nora!" At this point Deandra has had enough, she summons her weapon, a giant double-sided broad ax and swings it around, while making sure not to hit anyone, yelling something that no one else understands at the top of her lungs before slamming her down, releasing an explosion of grayish energy.
"Shut UP! Everyone just shut up! I'm starting to get a headache." Ersa pats Deandra on the back after her meltdown.
"Ugh. Hey, girls I already got our pieces." Deandra tosses Ersa, Medi and Issia white Queen chess pieces as a giant bird and scorpion close in on them.
"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang jokes.
"Not if I can help it," Ruby replies before charging at the Death Stalker. Her attack doesn't even faze the Death Stalker and Ruby promptly runs away. Yang tries to rescue Ruby, but the Nevermore that Ruby and Issia were hanging on to earlier fires its feathers on them, stopping Yang from reaching as one of the feathers pins Ruby's cape to the ground.
The Death Stalker rises its stinger up to stab Ruby but it passes right through her. Issia is seen holding on to Ruby and they both look like ghosts, Issia retreats with Ruby back to the others.
"What was that Issia?" Ruby ask.
"She'll explain later, our goal is grabbing a relic and getting to the summit." Deandra reminds everyone what their goal is.
"Run and live - that's an idea I can get behind!" Jaune agrees with Deandra. And with that, everyone grabs a relic and run to the summit with the Death Stalker and Nevermore hot on their tails.
The group finds themselves in some ruins where upon reaching a bridge, Issia and her sisters are separated by the Nevermore flying through the bridge and cutting them off from the others.
"That's it!" Deandra has had enough for today she summons another weapon, a golden sword with a d-guard and a phial built in the blade with a shield sporting a clock on the face while the sides are thick and sharpened, before slashing the Death Stalker until her sword starts bouncing and then puts her sword in the bottom of her shield causing the shield to slide down and spread open to eject something out before pressing a button causing the shield slide up transform into ax mode. Deandra performs an overhead swing scraping the Death Stalker's mask and causing a huge explosion to go off making the Death Stalker stagger backward.
Issia then fires a few arrows at the Death stalker's stinger joints before firing an arrow with a rag attached up in the air, after a second the arrow drops its payload, a bunch of mini-bombs. After the bombardment is over, Medi comes in, blocking the Death Stalker's pincers with her shield and unleashing a Wyvern Fire right in its face blinding the creature.
"Now Ersa!" Medi calls out for Ersa to do her part where she appears under the Death Stalker via a portal and tossing the beast high into the air. They all bring out their pistols with a demonic rune appearing in front of them.
"Jackpot!" The sisters say while simultaneously firing, the four shots fuse into one and pierce the Death Stalker's belly, where it fades away begin to fade away as it falls.
At the same time, the Nevermore cry is heard, the sisters turn around to see Ruby dragging the Nevermore up the cliffside where at the top Ruby fires one more shot and decapitates the Nevermore.
After everything is over Ozpin is telling us who we'll be teams with.
"Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." Ozpin announces the teams and Jaune is surprised at being declared leader.
"Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long." Ozpin motions them to move closer, "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!" Ruby is shocked at being picked for leader and so is Weiss.
"And finally: Issia Holdback. Deandra Holdback. Ersa Holdback. Medi Holdback. The four of you retrieved the white queen pieces. From this day forward, you will be Team DEMI. And Deandra will be your leader." Ozpin calls us last but I'm glad to be working with my sisters. While we cheer for Deandra being leader, she's looking over to Ruby and Jaune
"Why did you pick them?" Deandra mutters to herself.
W- And with that, that's the end for now. I hope you enjoyed the fight scene. I wanted to show how Team DEMI fights. By the way, their pistols aren't really special.