Chapter 28
Team RWBY are given a ride on the helicopter along with Acacia to Rumble Mountains. There, they will meet the gym leader of the Makoto City Gym. They ride northeast past the Stormwall Mountains all the way to the Rumble Mountains. "So who is this gym leader?" Yang says over the headphone mic in anticipation. "Her name is Satoko." Acacia answers, "She's not only a gym leader, she is a successor to a dojo. Basically, her gym is a dojo." "That's not surprising for a fighting-type gym leader." Weiss says to Acacia. "So what she like?" Blake asks out of curiosity. "You're gonna have to see for yourself."
Ruby is too busy looking out the window to admire the view. She sees a flock of flying-type pokemon under the helicopter, a herd of Taurus stampeding through a wide open field below, and a massive jungle with rivers intertwining with water-type pokemon either playing or lazying above the water. It is hard to see through the dense canopy, but she manage to see a few Mankey and Primeapes swinging through the trees. "Whatcha' looking at?" Yang asks as she sits next to her sister to see what is out the window. Ruby turns her head towards her sister, "Oh. Just admiring this awesome view."
After an hour or two, they arrived at Rumble Mountains.
The helicopter lands in the open area in the mountains. With the engine still running, Team RWBY got off while Acacia shouts through the sound of the spinning propellers, "This is where you four get off! Her training area is somewhere close by! I have to get back to work! See you soon!" The helicopter takes off as Team RWBY waves goodbye and the Professor waves back. "Okay team," Ruby says to her team as she tightens the straps of her backpack, "let's go!" "Yeah!" Weiss, Blake, and Yang say in unison. So they start hoofing it across the many shattered peaks of the mountains.
They then start to break for a late lunch along with their pokemon. "This is good mushroom stew, Blake." Ruby says after sampling her meal. "You like it? I managed to get some at the market in Unova City." "This is really good." Yang says after a few bites before turning to Weiss. "Don't you agree, Weiss?" "At least one of us knows how to cook that doesn't include cookies." Everyone stares at Ruby. "What? What's wrong with cookies?" After an awkward moment of silence, they started to laugh.
After that, they started to hear stomping sounds that quakes the ground. Blake looks behind her to where the source of the stomping is coming from. "What's that?" Ruby asks as she leans back to see what is behind Blake. "Is it a pokemon?" Yang says as she does the same as Weiss just leans to the side. Before they know it, something jumped up into the air and came crashing down some feet close to them. Once the dust settles, they see a hulking figure with extremely buff muscles with a blue headband, black spiky hair with a ponytail on the back, a sleeveless blue gi, brown eyes, tan complexion, and the figure is a woman. Everyone just completely froze as the giant muscular woman stares at them with a blank expression.
"Excuse me." the hulking woman says with a gentle tone, "Can I have something to eat?" Then her stomach starts to growl, much to her embarrassment.
Blake just gave her a bowl of soup with some bread and the mysterious woman happily accepts it. She sits down with Team RWBY to eat with everyone wondering who she is. But Ruby may have an idea on who she is. "Um...excuse me?" Ruby hesitated, "Are you the gym leader of the Makoto City Gym, Satoko?" The rest of the team wince at what Ruby just asked. The woman just laughs before explaining to them. "No, no, no. I'm Mikoto. Satoko is my older sister." "Older sister?!" the four say in unison. They are shocked to hear that and start to think what Satoko looks like. The four think that Satoko is as big as a skyscrapper and twice as muscular with an angry face with glowing red eyes.
"HEY!" Mikoto shouts to then to snap them out of it. "My sister isn't some terrifying monster! She's better looking than me!" Yang whispers to Blake, "But I do have an idea why she keeps on getting dump." Blake nods in agreement. "I HEARD THAT!" Mikoto then sighs, "Guess I have to introduce you four to her myself." After lunch, Team RWBY calls back their pokemon, clean up, and follow Mikoto.
The five soon arrive at a special spot that isn't too far from Makoto City. They approach a spot that is filled with ancient trees that stand abnormally tall, the air is clear and clean in abundance, and there are many plants that grow more widely than anything the four has ever seen. It is almost as if it is primordial despite the rugged terrain. Then they approach a waterfall with a little spring at the bottom, there they see a woman that is similar to Mikoto except more normal with her body not too muscular, her hair is down but a bit messy with a ponytail, and wearing white gi with sleeves and headband. She is sitting under the waterfall meditating.
"She actually looks normal." Weiss says. "But I do see a bit of a resemblance." Yang says after comparing both sisters. "Well they are sisters after all." Ruby added. "But something tells me that there is more to this then meets the eye." Blake says with some suspicion. Sakoto then turns to Team RWBY, "Yeah, but don't mention the fact she got dumped. Alright?" The four huntresses nodded. "Good." Mikoto then looks at her meditating sister, "HEY SIS!" Sakoto opens her eyes and sees Mikoto waving with four girls she doesn't recognize. She got up and approaches towards them.
"She looks normal," Yang whispers to Blake, "but why would anyone-" She stops as Sakoto gets taller and taller for every step she takes. When she is just a few inches away from them, turns out Sakoto is extremely tall. Taller than Mikoto. The four just stare at her out of both intimidation and astonishment. "Everyone," Mikoto introduces her sister, "this is my big sister. Satoko, these are my new friends that I found." Ruby gulped as she tries to introduce herself, "Hel-Hello...m-m-m-my name is Ruby Rose." "I'm Blake." Blake says as calmly as she can. Weiss does her best to remain calm and elegant despite being intimidated, "My name is Weiss Schnee," she tries her courtesy bow, "please to meet you." Yang then tries to be herself, smile and everything, "Hello there! My name is Yang Xiao Long. Man, you're even bigger than Yatsuhashi."
"Achoo!" Yatsuhashi sneezes inside the tent. "Dude," Fox speaks, "vampire sneeze will you?"
"And I am Sakoto. Gym leader of the Makoto City Gym." she says with an emotionless, yet gentle and calm tone. Then she starts to smile and changes tone, "Now who is this Yatsuhashi? Is he cute?"
"Achoo!" Yatsuhashi sneezes again. "Who's talking about me?"
The girls laughed at Satoko's questions before Ruby answers, "Just a friend of ours." "Very well then. I'm guessing one of you is here for a gym challenge, correct?" Yang then steps up then says, "I'm the challenger." "All righty then." Satoko says with confidence in her voice and a cynical grin, "But before I accept your challenge. You have to prove yourself if you are worth my time." Yang slams her fists together, "Bring it on!" "Then follow me."
Everyone follows Satoko towards Makoto City to see what challenges that Yang has to go through. "By the way," Blake whispers to Mikoto, "why did your sister get dumped?" "I think it is kinda obvious." Mikoto whispered back, "Don't you think?"
What are these challenges that Satoko has in mind? Will Yang succeed? Tune in next time!