Chapter 8
Elsewhere…
Team JNPR held off a small horde of Grimm while some civilians ran towards a city, which was coming into view. Their mission was to escort some citizens from the wilderness into Oasis, a city somewhere in the southern regions of Hyr. They were doing fine, until a Death Stalker showed up.
Jaune saw the Death Stalker first, and nodded to Pyrrha. The two of them ran towards the Death stalker, shields ready, and stood about 5 feet away. The Death Stalker's pincers came a few seconds later, and Jaune and Pyrrha braced themselves against it. Then Pyrrha threw her shield, severing the stinger on its tail, and Nora smashed the stinger into its head, killing it and dissipating the smoke that it turned into. Ren was busy keeping the Beowulfs away, and they three of them jumped back into the fray.
A bit later, the citizens arrived in Oasis, without a scratch, if not a little scared. Team JNPR handed in their mission, grabbed their reward, and sat down in a local restaurant. They placed their orders, and then Pyrrha opened up with a question.
"Say, where's team RWBY?" Pyrrha asked, worried about her friends.
"Eh, they'll be fine. They've got Yang to cover the toughies, Weiss is rich enough to get them anything, Blake can handle the shadier things, and Ruby, well, she's fast. They'll be fiiiiine." Nora dragged out the last word, and promptly leaned onto Ren, who shrugged and said nothing else.
Elsewhere…
"So, you guys haven't formed a team yet?" Yang asked Wisty.
"Yeah. I know that we think Leilah is our leader cuz she's the most mature of all of us, but we've just been hanging together, I guess." Wisty replied.
"I mean, we also haven't been able to come up with a good team name." Leilah supplied.
"Oh, that's easy, just use WMBL." Ruby said.
"But Rubes, WMBL sounds lame. It's a tool, and that's also slightly offensive, isn't it?" Weiss said.
"I guess…" Ruby got back to thinking.
"What about LMBW (Limbo)?" Blake offered.
"Ooh, that sounds cool!" Ruby and Wisty both got starry-eyed.
"I mean, it does sound pretty sweet." Maddy said.
"Let's go with it pwease? Pweeeeaaaaase?" Wisty started to OwO.
"Okay, okay. Wisty, now can you stop OwO-ing? It's getting too cute for this fanf- I mean, moment. You're breaking the mood." Leilah said.
"It is a serious topic, I mean, if we're going to live here for pretty much the rest of our lives, we might as well live it with a good name." Maddy didn't notice how Leilah just cracked the fourth wall.
In fact, no one but Leilah noticed a crack in the fourth wall. Well, there was one more person, but he only sensed a disturbance in the For- I mean, in the dimensional barrier around the world.
To be continued…