A/N: I am so sorry I'm late with this chapter. It was kicking my butt for a good while and many other distractions happened at the same time. Anyway here is the new chapter and the end of season one of RWBY. Enjoy.

[...]

Vale, Friday 5:23 Pm.

The streets of Downtown Vale were rather busy today as many volunteers were decorating the streets in preparation for the upcoming Vytal Festival. Balloons and small flags danced above the streets. There was even the old shopkeeper hanging a banner saying 'Welcome To Vale!' above one of the small crowds.

A certain group of young girls stopped in front of the new sign as they were showing a young Claymore around town.

"The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss announced joyfully.

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss. It's kinda weirding me out." Ruby said uncomfortably.

"How could you not smile?" Weiss asked. "A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances, parades, A tournament!"

"Reminds me of some of the celebrations back home," Elena said joyfully.

"Exactly!" Weiss said agreeing with Elena. "Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking."

"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." Yang sighed.

"Quiet you"

"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks instead of showing Elena here the better parts of Vale?" Yang asked.

"Ugh, they smell like fish," Ruby said trying to plug her nose.

"Well, professor Goodwitch told me that I was to meet someone here today who is supposed to make sure nothing goes wrong when my Aura is unlocked," Elena answered with a bit of hope in her eyes.

"Why would something go wrong if your Aura is unlocked?" Ruby asked. "Isn't it supposed to heal and protect you, not harm you?"

"Not the Aura itself but an injury I received when I was nine could cause some problems," Elena explained.

"Oh."

"Well, I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today," Weiss said while watching a boat full into port. "And as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom."

"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake translated for everyone.

"Ah! You can't prove that!" Weiss responded.

"Woah," Ruby said as she saw a shop that was broken into with police tape covering the area.

"This brings back some unpleasant memories," Elena said as the five of them walked up to the crime scene.

"What happened here?" Ruby asked one of the detectives on the scene.

"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week," he said looking over his notes. "This place is turning into a jungle."

"That's terrible." Yang scoffed.

"At least no one is dead this time," Elena added as she looked at the store.

"Why would you say something like that?" Weiss asked.

"Do you guys know what both me and Teresa did before we arrived here?" Elena asked.

"You both went out and hunted down creatures known as yoma and Awakened Beings," Yang responded.

"Well, I've never fought an Awakened before, but yes, for a year I was tasked to hunt down yoma. After my second job, I ended up at this inn that also held a small store inside and I just wanted to get out of the rain that night." She said with a sigh. "That week was the worst."

"Oh, it couldn't have been that bad." Yang teased.

"Try running into a yoma when it was eating with little sleep, soaked to the bone, then get thrown through a wall and land in the last spot you ever want to be inside a stable," Elena remarked grumpily.

"Ouch, and I thought I had bad days," Yang said as she winced.

"They left all the money again." a second detective called out sounding clearly annoyed.

"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick a' sense. Who needs that much Dust?" the first detective asked his partner.

"I dunno, ya know what I mean?"

"You thinking the uh, White Fang?" the first detective asked throwing out theories.

"Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."

"White Fang?" Elena asked.

"The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates." Weiss huffed.

"What's your problem?" Blake asked Weiss.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."

"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided Faunus." Blake said with a slight bit of tension in her voice.

"Misguided?!" Weiss questioned. "They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet!"

"So then they're 'very' misguided," Blake affirmed. "Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale."

"Blake's got a point," Ruby added. "Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy me, Shade, Hunter, and Teresa ran into about a month ago. Maybe it was him."

"That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal." Weiss said trying to prove her point.

"That's not entirely true." A voice said behind the group.

The five girls turned to see another young woman around their age. She had medium length, slightly curly, wild dark brown hair that hung in front of her face in frazzled locks. A short ponytail that ended at her shoulders kept her hair neat in the back. Two dark brown Grizzly bear ears sat atop her head. She was wearing a red t-shirt with a gray stripe that ran across her shoulders. A grayish-white stab-proof vest covered her torso. Her hands were covered with a pair of red and gray fingerless gloves. She was also wearing a pair of combat jeans that matched in color to her shirt with black and red knee pads. A crimson belt that held three small pouches on her right side and a large pouch with two weapon holsters on her lower back. A pair of black knee-high combat boots with red laces covered her lower legs and feet. A high tech arm brace covered the lower part of her left arm. Lastly, her emblem, which was over her heart on her vest, was that of Remnant's shattered moon turned a deep blood red with a golden line that represented a heartbeat on medical equipment.

At seeing her, Blake visibly relaxed, her shoulders dropping as a small smile crawled onto her face.

"Only the ones that act out like that are the anarchist of the White Fang. The others just want to be treated equal with humans and joined the White Fang for that purpose." the young Faunus said to Weiss.

"Let me guess, are you a member of the White Fang?" Weiss hissed.

"Nope. I've been too busy helping my mom out at hospitals around Remnant to care about that stuff. I did date a guy once that was part of the White Fang though." She said before turning her attention to Blake. "Hey Blake, it's been a while. You going to introduce me to your friends?"

"Blake? Who is she?" Ruby asked.

"Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Elena. Meet my childhood friend Dahlia Bloodmoon." Blake said introducing her friend to the group.

"Hello." Both the sisters and Elena said.

"'Bloodmoon?' Wait! As in Dr. Autumn Bloodmoon? The best medical doctor on Remnant!?" Weiss asked in shock.

"Yeah, that's my mom," Dahlia said proudly.

"So where is Jad?" Blake asked changing the subject.

"Oh, he is trying to get us a couple of rooms to stay at near Beacon till our Initiation day happens. After that, he said he was going to do his usual self taught training regimen and try to get a nearby Grimm count before dinner." Dahlia said as she began to fiddle with the screen on her arm brace.

"So the usual. Although, why aren't you with him?" Blake asked.

"Mom called me this morning and told me that there was a person I needed to meet around here who would need my help and this was a high priority request from the top." She explained.

"That would be me," Elena said with a small wave.

"Hello, there my new pati-..." Dahlia paused as she looked at the girl. "What are you?"

"Huh?"

"You're not Faunus or Human, and my sense of smell doesn't lie. So what are you?" Dahlia asked again.

Weiss's eyes widened a bit. "Dahlia do you have a knife on you?" She asked.

Elena quickly caught on to what Weiss was thinking. Yoma inspection check, she thought. Might as well get this over with and then explain everything.

Dahlia pulled out a scalpel from her larger pouch and before anyone could do anything with it Elena snatched it away. Team RWBY immediately had their hands on their weapons ready for a fight, only to see Elena cut herself on the hand with the scalpel. Crimson blood began to pool in her hand as she showed it to everyone.

"Well, I'm not a yoma if that was what you were thinking." She said with a smile before handing the scalpel back to Dahlia.

Team RWBY relaxed and tried to gather their thoughts. Dahlia, on the other hand, was confused as to what was going on.

"I would like an explanation from all of you," Dahlia said before grabbing Elena's bleeding hand. "But first, let me fix this." at that moment she activated her semblance and wisps of Aura left her hand and entered Elena's wound. After a few seconds, the bleeding stopped and the cut completely sealed itself without leaving any trace of an injury.

"Did Jad tell you what happened during my team's Initiation?" Blake asked.

"No, he didn't. What happened?"

"We were attacked by something called an Awakened. They aren't Grimm, but they're something much worse." Blake shuddered from the memory.

"They are a much stronger version of a creature known as a yoma," Elena explained. "Yoma tend to disguise themselves as either humans or faunus then when they grow hungry they attack, for their food of choice is the internal flesh of both humans and faunus."

"That doesn't explain why you don't smell like a human should," Dahlia said.

"Where I'm from, there is no such thing as Aura, Semblance, Huntsmen, or even Dust for that matter. We didn't have to worry about the Grimm either because there were none. But we still lived in fear of becoming the next meal of the creatures known as yoma." Elena said sadly. "A long time ago there was this group that was created known only as The Organization. They took orphaned young girls and implanted the flesh and blood of a yoma into their bodies to create a warrior race known as Claymores to fight and kill the yoma."

"I highly doubt that is entirely true." Weiss scoffed. "There is no way any of the kingdoms would allow something like that to happen."

"Well Weiss, I doubt any of the kingdoms could do anything about it since it happens on another world," Elena explained. "There was this man that sent me here whose Semblance allows him to open gateways to other worlds for himself and others to travel through. He sent me here to escape from the Organization and start a new life."

"Another world!? If that was even remotely true, I would go and take all of team CRDL out on a date at the same time. Even then I still wouldn't do that." Weiss ridiculed.

"Come on Weiss, you know there are people out there who can create portals to other places on Remnant with their Semblance. Can't someone else with a similar Semblance be able to go to other worlds." Yang said trying to reason with the heiress.

"Yang does have a point," Blake added.

"Look, all I want is some sort of evidence before someone starts saying they are from another world," Weiss said before turning her attention back to the young Claymore. "Do you have any proof of what you said is even real?"

Elena said nothing. Instead, she lifted her shirt enough to show all of them the stigma. Weiss and Blake had horrified looks on their faces. Ruby felt very queasy and Yang looked like she wanted to hit something. Dahlia, on the other hand, looked at the stigma with pure interest.

"Fascinating! Mind if I can do a scan?" Dahlia asked.

"Dahlia, what are you up to?" Blake asked.

"Mom wanted me to test out some new equipment out in the field and this gives me the chance to do so." She said as she messed with the screen on her arm. After a few seconds, two small drones ejected themselves from the bottom of her arm brace and flew over to Elena. Two lights swept over Elena as the drones flew back and forth, scanning her. After a minute or so, the drones flew back to Dahlia and injected themselves back into her arm brace, uploading their data.

"Well now, this is definitely interesting," Dahlia said as she looked at the results. "So you're a Claymore I take it?"

Elena simply nodded.

"That explains why a few of your internal organs aren't yours or even remotely human or faunus at all," Dahlia said trying to hold back her excitement.

"Why the name Claymore?" Yang asked.

"If we survive our training and transformation, the Organization gives us our claymores and we carry them for the rest of our lives. It is these swords we are named after and represent who we are in a sense," she said tapping the grip of her claymore.

"Wait a sec. Blake isn't that… ?"

"Yes, it is. Jad's claymore is the exact same as Elena's. Just the emblems and grip color is different." Blake explained.

"My grandma had one just like it as well," Ruby added. "But it was lost when she died and we have no clue where it is."

"That may explain a few things. Well, Blake, it was good seeing you again." Dahlia said. "Elena, mind heading to Beacon with me so we can heal that stigma of yours?"

"The sooner the better actually. I don't want my guts to fall out if something bad were to happen in a fight." Elena joked.

"Somebody stop that Faunus!" Someone shouted from the docks.

"Ruby, I'll meet up with you and your team later, okay?" Elena said with a smile.

"Catch up with us after you get your Aura unlocked!" Ruby called as she chased after her team towards the entrance to the Vale docks.

"Come on little miss Franklynda Stein's monster, let's get that stigma of your's healed," Dahlia said jokingly.

"Who's Franklynda?" Elena asked.

"Oh Dust! You really are from another world." Dahlia said as she burst out into laughter. "I'll tell you on the way. It's my favorite story."

[...]

Later that night, Elena was walking towards her new dorm room after being released from Beacon's medical ward. Like Robona had said, unlocking her Aura healed her stigma. Under the watchful eyes of Beacon's female medical staff, Teresa and Dahlia, professor Goodwitch unlocked her Aura. As per Teresa's request, Ozpin was absent from the procedure due to where parts of the stigma were located. Everything went well and now she was enjoying how everything felt so different around herself.

She began to walk past a statue of a young huntsman and huntress standing on a large stone rock with a Beowolf statue next to the stone. Elena wondered how long it took for someone to carve the statue before a sad sniff interrupted her train of thought. She looked around the statue to find Blake standing in front of it while she held the ribbon that she used for her bow.

Why did she take off her bow? Elena asked herself. She looked up to where the bow usually was and saw what Blake was hiding. A pair of cat ears rested on top of her head.

"Blake are you alright?" she called out.

Blake turned to see Elena standing nearby. "Elena?" she asked trying to wipe a tear from her eye.

"Are you hurt? Did something happen?"

"No, it's just." Blake paused. She was unsure of what to say.

Elena looked back at Blake's cat ears and something clicked in her head. "Was it something Weiss said?" she asked.

"How did you know?"

"I remember how both you and Weiss were arguing earlier and I don't think you both calmed down about it," Elena explained.

"She just doesn't understand what it's like to be a Faunus. To be mistreated and feared just because you are different." Blake said sadly as more tears ran down her cheeks.

"Well, I believe I know what it's like," Elena said as she hung her head.

"How?! How could you of all people understand what it's like?!" Blake nearly shouted.

"After my parents died, I was taken to the Organization where they cut me open and replaced my organs while I was still awake and they did nothing to relieve the pain. After that, I was thrown into a cage with another person who went through the same treatment. That person was Teresa's adopted daughter Clare. That is when the transformations really began." She explained with tears forming in her eyes. "The pain was unbearable, our hair lost its color and our eyes turned silver. When it was all over, they took me and forced me to train and fight using this claymore. They didn't care if I either lived or died. In their eyes, I was just a tool for them to use and could be very easily replaced if they saw fit. After I completed my training I was sent out to hunt yoma with a man always watching my every move. The people I met instantly were afraid of me and a few of them outright verbally attacked me in public. The church I used to go to with my family, excommunicated me saying that no monster like me was welcome anywhere near their churches."

"I may not know the exact pain you are feeling but I can say what I've experienced is close enough," she said with her voice full of empathy.

Blake stood there stunned. This person who wasn't even a faunus truly understood the pain every faunus faced. "Elena, thank you for telling me this, but for now I would like to be away from my team for the weekend."

"I'd recommend visiting some family members if you're going to be gone the whole weekend. Dahlia told me that your brother is here in town and you both haven't seen each other in two years," she said before pulling out a piece of paper and handing it to Blake. "Dahlia told me to give this to you after she got a call from your brother. It's the place where they're staying."

"Thank you. Though would you like to meet my little brother? I'm sure he has some questions for you especially about your claymore." Blake asked.

"Why not. I don't have anything important to do for a few weeks."

"I knew you looked better without the bow." A nearby voice said.

[...]

Two days later, Blake, Elena and a blonde guy with a long monkey tail were gathered at a small little cafe in downtown Vale. The monkey faunus was the same person who ran into both Blake and Elena last Friday evening and ended up sticking around. Elena explained to him that she was a Claymore and what Claymore's were when he sensed she wasn't human.

"So Sun, Elena, you two wanna know more about me," Blake said breaking the long silence between the three of them.

"Finally, she speaks!" Sun said sarcastically as he raised his hands in the air. "Nearly two days and you've given me nothing but small talk and weird looks."

Blake just glared at him.

"Yeah, like that."

"Sun… are you familiar with the White Fang?" Blake asked.

"Of course! I don't think there's a faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier-than-thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me." Sun remarked.

"I was… once a member of the White Fang." Blake said calmly.

Sun, for a moment, began choking and coughing on the tea he was drinking.

"Wait, you were a member of the White Fang? That's almost as unbelievable as this girl here being from another world," he said as he pointed his thumb at Elena.

"I do have a name you know," Elena said before taking a bite of the cheesecake slice she bought.

Blake sighed before continuing. "I was a member for most of my life actually. You could say I was born into it. Back then, things were different. In the ashes of war, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between humans and the faunus. Of course, despite being promised equality, the faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate."

Elena frowned at this as it reminded her of many things that happened to her as she worked for the Organization.

"Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. And so, the White Fang rose up as the voice of our people. And I was there. I was at the front of every rally. I took part in every boycott. And I thought we were making a difference… but I was just a youthful optimist. Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down and a new one took his place. A new leader, with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protests were being replaced with organized attacks. We were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us. Hijacking cargo from companies that used faunus labor. And the worst part was? It was working. We were being treated as equals. But not out of respect… out of fear." Blake said disappointedly.

"So I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence and instead, I would dedicate my life to become a Huntress. So here I am. A criminal hiding in plain view. All with the help of a little, black bow." She said as she wiggled her cat ears, making the bow move.

"Have you told your friends any of this?" Sun asked a hint of concern in his voice.

"No, I haven't." She said sadly.

"Well, telling me now counts I think," Elena added.

Both Blake and Sun held back a small chuckle. After a few minutes all three of them the little cafe and began walking down one of the streets of downtown Vale.

"So, what's the plan now?" Sun asked.

"I still don't believe the White Fang is behind these robberies. They've never needed that much Dust before." Blake said with some worry leaking into her voice.

"But what if they did?" Elena asked.

"She has a point," Sun said in deep thought before an idea hit him. "Look, if the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go if they were to do it, and not find them there."

"The only thing is, I doubt any of us would know where that would be." Elena sighed. "Or do we?"

"While I was on the ship that brought me here, I heard some guys talking about offloading a 'huge' shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas," Sun said confidently.

"How huge?" Blake asked.

"Huge. Big Schnee Company freighter."

"You sure?"

"Positive," Sun said without missing a beat.

"Let's go and see for ourselves then," Elena stated.

Both Blake and Sun nodded as the three of them hurried towards the shipping warehouses.

[...]

A couple of hours after the sunset in the city of Vale. Blake and Elena were laying down on one of the roofs of the warehouse in Vale's shipping port. Multiple large containers with the Schnee Dust company logo were stacked nearby.

"Did I miss anything?" Sun asked quietly as he landed on the roof with an arm full of green apples.

"Not really. They've offloaded all the containers from the boat. Now they're just sitting there." Blake said calmly.

"I'm afraid to ask what would happen if someone got a hold of all that Dust for the wrong reasons," Elena said eyeing the containers.

"I stole you both some food if you're hungry." Sun offered.

"Do you always break the law without a second thought?" Blake asked feeling slightly annoyed at the monkey faunus.

"Hey, weren't you both in a cult or something?" Sun asked idiotically.

Both girls looked at Sun and just glared angrily at him.

"Okay, too soon," Sun said realizing his mistake.

Not a moment later, loud turbine engines roared overhead as a Bullhead flew over them and landed next to the shipping containers while kicking up a lot of dust. The moment the dust cleared members of the White Fang began disembarking from the Bullhead.

"Oh no," Blake said with regret.

"Is that them?" Sun asked.

"Yes. It's them." Blake looked over to Elena and saw she had focused on one singular member of the White Fang. She was slowly reaching for her claymore all the while never letting the man leave her sight.

"Elena? What's wrong?" Blake asked a bit confused as to why she was singling out that one person.

"He isn't a faunus. If I don't deal with him soon they all will be in trouble." She said as she grabbed her claymore and pulled it out of its scabbard.

"What do you mean he's not a faunus?" Sun asked a bit confused. "That makes him human right?"

"No. Not human."

Blake quickly caught on to what Elena was saying. "Yoma or Awakened?"

"Yoma, definitely a Yoma," Elena said coldly.

A light breeze washed over them from past the group of White Fang members.

"And I don't smell any blood from him so he hasn't eaten in some time. That's more bad news."

"Let me get this straight. The White Fang is stealing Dust and among them is a monster?" Sun asked quietly.

Both Blake and Elena nodded.

"Hey! What's the hold-up?" a voice yelled from the Bullhead. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try and pick up the pace."

Roman Torchwich walked out of the Bullhead with another man dressed in a gray suit and pants with crimson trimming. His shoes and tie were a deep crimson blood red. He had short neat black hair and a matching hat to Roman's. His right hand was a bionic one instead of it being normal. The man pushed one of the members of the White Fang down the ramp he was standing on.

"This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a human. Especially not ones like that." Blake said as she stood up and drew Gambol Shroud. Elena stood up with her and they both exchanged a nod.

"Hey! What are you two doing!?" Sun asked as they jumped off the roof and ran towards their targets. As they rounded a shipping container they saw Roman yell at a member of the White Fang.

"No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!"

Once his back was to Blake, she snuck up behind him and held her weapon to his throat.

"What the-? Oh for f-" Roman said when he realized he was caught.

"Nobody move!" Blake ordered as a few White Fang members drew their weapons.

"Whoa! Take it easy there little lady." Roman said trying to worm his way out. Some of the White Fang members got closer and one of them was the disguised yoma. Blake could now sense that he wasn't a faunus but she wondered why the other faunus couldn't sense it. She reached for her bow and quickly pulled it off to reveal her cat ears.

"Brothers of the White Fang. Why are you aiding this scum?" she demanded an answer.

Roman began to laugh. "Heh, oh kid. Didn't you get the memo?"

"What are you talking about?" Blake snapped.

"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together," Roman explained.

"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation," Blake demanded further as she moved the blade of Gambol Shroud closer to Roman's neck.

"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation," Roman said as two more Bullheads flew overhead and began circling them.

Elena took her chance and attempted a lethal strike on the hidden yoma only for it to notice her and back flipped over her. Once it landed, it kicked Elena so hard she flew into one of the shipping containers, leaving a sizable crater in the side.

"Elena!" Blake shouted.

"You Damn Witch. Your kind can't just leave me alone now can you?" the hidden yoma yelled. It tore off its mask and revealed the same monstrous eyes that the Awakened Rosemary had. Some of the White Fang turned their weapons at the hidden yoma. It noticed and began to laugh. "You fools! You don't know what you are dealing with. Now I'm hungry. Now it's time to feast!" it roared as it began to transform. Thick muscles grew all around its body destroying most of its clothing. The arms and legs got longer. Sharp claws formed on the fingers and toes. The hidden yoma's teeth turned sharp and pointed. Its head distorted a bit gaining a monstrous appearance. Its skin color turned from tan to reddish-gray. Once the transformation ended, a seven-foot-tall monster stood in front of them.

Roman took his chance with everyone distracted and fired a dust round at Blake's feet throwing her back a few meters. He quickly fired a few more rounds at Blake before firing some more at the yoma. None of the rounds struck their target as both of them dodged fairly easily.

Elena managed to finally get up and back into the fight. She slammed her fist into the yoma's chest, throwing it back a bit. The yoma recovered and fired its lance-like fingers at the young Claymore. Elena managed to duck under the attack and brought her claymore to sever four of the five fingers. The yoma screamed in pain as it struck another blow with its right foot and sent her into the group of White Fang members.

"Sorry!" She apologized to the faunus she knocked over. She turned and raised her claymore in time to catch a claw strike from the yoma. "Get out of here all of you!" She yelled at the group of faunus.

At the same time Blake and Sun, who finally joined them after the fighting started, were fighting both Roman and the White Fang that wasn't focused on the yoma. Sun was keeping Roman at bay as he fired his twin nun-chuck-shotguns until Blake landed a clean blow to Roman's face. He flew back a few feet and landed on his back, only for him to spot something that could help him. He fired a Dust round from his cane at a shipping crane that was holding one of the containers above both Blake and Sun. They both noticed the container and jumped out of the was as it fell and landed where they were a few moments ago.

Elena managed to sever the yoma's left arm and land a few good blows as well. If anything it only made it angrier. It turned and saw Sun on the ground recovering from Roman's attack. The yoma smiled and charged toward Sun intent on using him as a shield. "Oh no, you don't!" Elena yelled as she caught up and slammed her claymore into the yoma's torso, sending it flying into the same shipping container.

A familiar voice called out and everyone turned to face it. On a nearby roof, Ruby Rose stood with Crescent Rose fully extended in its scythe form.

"Oh, hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" Roman remarked before firing a shot at her and hitting home.

"RUBY!" Elena shouted before she was attacked again by the yoma. The yoma managed to strike her from underneath and send her flying into the air. For a moment, Elena felt weightless before she was caught by an orange-haired girl wearing green and tan colors.

"Thank you," she said to the girl as they landed safely.

"Oh, you're very much welcome." the girl said with a smile that just felt weird to the young Claymore. "My name is Penny. What's yours?"

"Elena." She said introducing herself with a warm smile.

Three armed Bullheads flew towards the two and fired their heavy dust rounds. Penny managed to block the rounds aimed at her with her swords. Elena tried to do the same but a few of the rounds managed to get past, shattering her Aura and then severing the lower part of her left arm. Elena screamed in pain as she clutched her bloody arm and focused on stopping the bleeding with her claymore abilities. Penny jumped back and charged up a laser beam and aimed at the Bullheads. Once the laser fired, it sliced the Bullheads in half.

Down to one good arm, Elena knew she had to end this fight here and now. She activated her Claymore powers to fifteen percent and her eyes changed from silver to the same color and shape as the yoma's, gold with vertical pupils. She rushed the yoma dodging under another claw strike and delivered a horizontal strike with her claymore to its legs, severing them. She then went for the arm and removed it by spinning around and slicing in a left to right downward motion. With the yoma disarmed and immobilized, Elena raised her claymore.

"Damn you witch!" It managed to yell before she decapitated its head.

Elena turned to see the man in gray pull Roman into a smaller Bullhead before it took off to somewhere unknown.

"ELENA!" Blake shouted. "Are you alright? Oh, my Dust! Elena you arm!"

Elena just laughed. "Oh, this? This is nothing. Now, where is my arm... I would like to reattach...it…" Her mood tanked the moment she saw her severed arm. It was blasted, mangled, and all-round destroyed.

"Elena? Are you going to be okay?" Blake asked very worriedly for the young Claymore.

Elena sighed. "Give me a week or two and ill be good as new. I'm a defensive type after all."

"A defensive-whosa-whatsa-it-now?" Sun asked before noticing Elena's missing arm. "Oh my god! Elena how are you fine after taking that much damage!"

"We Claymores can be placed in two groups. Offensive and Defensive types. Mom is an Offensive type who specializes in all things combat. Me, I'm a Defensive type which means I have a better ability with healing and regeneration."

"Wait, does that mean?"

"Yes, in two weeks' time at most, I will have a new arm fully regenerated," she said with a laugh.

[...]

A few hours later Elena, Blake, and Ruby reunited with Yang and Weiss. Both Blake and Weiss talked it out and forgave each other. After a quick freak-out session about Elena's missing arm and Elena convincing Weiss to use Fire Dust to incinerate the yoma's body, they headed back to Beacon only to find Teresa and Professor Port waiting for them at the front gates.

"HAHA! Welcome back team RWBY! I heard that your weekend was an exciting one!" Professor Port boomed.

"Elena. What happened to your arm?" Teresa asked with concern dripping from her voice.

"A yoma attacked me and Blake. I managed to fight it on even ground but those dang Bullheads fired upon me and destroyed my arm. I managed to kill the yoma a bit after that. Also, don't worry about my arm, it will be back to normal in a few weeks." She said humbly as she raised her stumpy left arm.

"You should have told me you were a Defensive type a lot sooner."

Elena laughed. "I was going to tell you tonight anyway."

Professor Port cleared his throat to get everyone's attention. "Well let's get on with business then shall we? Team RWBY In a couple of days I need you four to go out and track down a pack of Beowolves for me and tag them. No need to bag them this time, miss Xiao Long." Professor Port said. "Once a month, I have each of the first-year teams do this and it is your team's turn."

"As said, Ruby, you will be given an extra assignment of only tracking this pack using your ability to sense Yoki," Teresa added. "I was going to send Elena with you but," She looked at her second adopted daughter, "after you received that injury it will need time to heal."

"When do we start?" Ruby asked.

"Tomorrow after classes end." Professor Port boasted.

[...]

Somewhere on another world, a young man was exploring a cave he had discovered and now was using to hide.

Be careful down there. I don't want to have to rescue you if you were to get caught in something. His soulmate told him with a mild chuckle.

"Don't worry, as long we are not found we will be fine." the young man said before he slipped on a wet stone and grabbed the nearest piece of solid wall to stabilize himself. Unfortunately, the rock he grabbed onto easily broke off and he fell onto his back.

I told you to be careful.

"Yes, you did." He responded. He looked at the rock in his hand and saw that part of it was carved out by unnatural means. He looked up and saw something he didn't expect to find at all. A hidebound scroll neatly tucked away in the side of the wall.

"I think I found something."

What is it?

The young man picked up the scroll and began to read what was on it. His eyes widened and new hope filled his soul.

"It's a way to get help without them catching us!"

Bring it to me. I need to see this for myself, and be careful, you don't want to slip again.

The young man laughed and hurried as fast as he dared.

[...]

A/N: so lots of stuff happened first off some good news. One of the artworks I commissioned for my beta reader Pokeman1280's story is completed and online for everyone to see. Be sure to look up Yang and Halcyon by Manu-chann on deviantart to see it. A few birthdays happened as well.

Now some bad news. Today one of my family members has to go into surgery and I hope it goes well for him. Later this month I will have to as well so that the docs can attach a metal plate to my skull. Thank you cancer, I really needed this. Yea, I'm not happy about it at all.

Now back to some really good news. Pokeman1280's story joins the crossover next chapter and I'm so excited to start writing it. And again thank you Pokeman1280 for letting me crossover your story and becoming my second beta reader.

B/N: Mostly a bunch of grammar edits, but I also helped with the tone of the chapter, as there were a few bits that were a bit off-key. Fixed now though.