Chapter 3: Enter Nightwing

Ruby, Weiss, and Blake walked into the forest as they proceed towards where they suppose to meet their first client. Blake looked around the area, as if she's looking for something.

"Is there something wrong?" Weiss asked, looking at the faunus. "You've been looking behind your shoulder a lot."

"Yeah, I can't shake this feeling like we're being watched." Blake answered. Then an explosion erupted in front of Ruby, making the huntresses to cover their faces from the dust.

"What the…" Ruby shouted. "What's going on?!"

"Oops, I missed." A voice said, surprising the members of Team RWBY. They turned around and saw a woman standing on a branch of a tree. She had jet black hair, brown eyes, and wearing a black short-sleeve shirt with a dark-blue vest and a short skirt. Imprinted on the woman's armwas a black circle with two bat wings going through it. "Oh well, not like it matters anyway."

"Who…who are you?!" Weiss asked, grabbing the hilt of Myrtenaster.

'That symbol…' Blake thought looking at the insignia imprinted of the woman's arm. 'That's the same symbol on the cover of that book Ruby opened up back at Beacon.'

"My name is Emi." The woman said. "And the insignia on my arm that your friend with the bow is starring at is the symbol of my guild, Nightwing."

"So, any clues on how to get Ruby and her friends back home?" Erza asked as Mirajane gives her a slice of her favorite strawberry cake.

"No, but Master Makarov did information about the insignia talk about yesterday." Mira said. "Do you remember the guild known as Nightwing?"

Erza stopped eating her cake and looked at Mira with a serious expression on her face. "Yes, I do. It's the guild that used to serve under the Oracion Seis until they disappeared 5 years ago, correct?" Mira nodded her head in agreement. Erza rubbed her chin in thought, thinking about the story that Ruby and her friends told when they arrived in Magnolia. "Thank you, Mira. I think that's just the lead we need to help Ruby and her team return to their world."

"So you're a wizard?" Ruby questioned. "Then why are you attacking us?"

"Let me guess, your friends from Fairy Tail haven't told you about guilds like mine, did they?" Emi said.

"What are you talking about?" Blake asked, narrowing her eyes.

"I knew it." Emi said. "You see my guild is what you can call a dark guild."

"A dark guild?" Weiss questioned. "What the heck is that?"

"What good would giving you any information do since you won't be alive long enough to remember it?" Emi asked.

Blake appeared behind Emi with her weapon, Gambol Shroud drawn. "We'll just see about it!" she said as swung her weapon toward the wizard.

"Too slow…" Emi said, dodging Blake's attack with ease. She stuck her hand out towards Blake's stomach and a silver circle appeared in front of Emi's hand. "Sound Burst!" Blake widens her eyes as she felt a huge amount of pressure hitting her stomach. She coughed up blood as she falls to the ground.

"Blake!" Weiss and Ruby shouted as the faunus crashed to the ground below. The smoke started to clear and revealed Blake lying on the ground with blood coming from her mouth. Emi jumped down from the tree, smirking at Ruby and Weiss.

"Damn you!" Weiss cursed. She charged towards Emi with Myrtenaster, trying to attack her with it but Emi easily avoided it. A silver circle appeared in front of Emi's hand and she did the same attack on Weiss, pushing her back as well. Weiss fell to the ground, skidding across it.

Emi looked behind her and saw Ruby with her Crescent Rose in its Scythe Mode. "Sound Wall…" A big silver circle appeared in front her as Ruby swung her scythe at the wizard. The blade stopped before it could reach Emi's body.

"What the…" Ruby said, trying to move her scythe but couldn't. "What's going on? I can't move it."

"…Repel!" Emi said as the force behind Ruby's attack pushes the red hooded girl back, causing her to hit the tree. Blood comes out of Ruby's mouth as she falls to the ground. Emi looked the members of Team RWBY and an evil smile appeared on her face.

Ruby, Blake, and Weiss struggle to get back to their feet after taking a hit from Emi's attacks. Emi looked at the three girls, impressed that they're getting back up.

"What was that just now?" Ruby asked, looking at the dark wizard. "What did she hit us with?"

"I take this is your first time fighting a wizard, is it?" Emi said. "That was my sound magic."

"Sound magic?" Blake questioned.

"That's correct." Emi said. "But that's all my magic can do." In a blink of an eye, Emi appeared behind the faunus.

'She's fast!' Blake thought, turning around to see Emi preparing to attack. A silver circle appeared in front of Emi's hand as she stuck it out toward Blake. Then Ruby appeared in front of Emi and swung her scythe at the wizard. Emi stopped and jumped back but her right leg got cut. Emi winced in pain when she landed on her cut leg.

"Blake, Weiss, go to the guild hall." Ruby said. "I'll catch up as I'm done with her."

"Are you nets?!" Weiss shouted. "You can't take her on all by yourself!"

"Weiss is right, Ruby." Blake said. "We can be able to defeat her if we fight together."

"I can handle it!" Ruby shouted. "Trust me!" Weiss and Blake looked at their leader with widen eyes. Blake closed her eyes and sighed.

"Alright, just be careful." Blake said. She looked to Weiss. "Come on Weiss, let's go."

Weiss sighed and said to Ruby, "Ok fine, try not to get yourself killed you dunce!" Ruby nodded as Weiss and Blake started to run out of the forest.

"Where do you two think you're going?" Emi said. Before she could go after them, Ruby appeared in front of her and points her scythe at her.

"I'm the one you're fighting, not them." Ruby said.

"Fine by me, it's not like any of you will make it out of this forest anyway." Emi said with a smirk.

"What are you talking about?!" Ruby asked, narrowing her eyes.

"There's no point of telling you since you won't live long enough to find out." Emi said, sticking her hand out. "Right now, I'm going to show how slim your chances are against me." An explosion erupted covering the area in smoke.

"It looks like it started." Blake said. "Let's hope Ruby will be ok."

"Should we turn back and help?" Weiss asked. "She'll have a better chance of winning if us there with her." Then the bow in Blake's hair twitched and Blake stopped running. Weiss stopped running and looked at her friend. "What's wrong?"

"We're not alone." Blake said, reaching for her weapon. Weiss narrowed her eyes reaching for her weapon as well.

"My, my, that Emi knows how to put on a show." A female voice said, as the owner stepped out of the shadows. It was a woman with brown shoulder-length hair, wearing black sleeveless shirt and a black long dress. Her name is Kotori. "Is that right, brother?"

"Yes, but I wish she didn't a circus of it." A male voice, as he came out of the shadows. He had blonde hair, wearing a red shirt, black jacket and black pants. He was Kono.

In Magnolia, Yang was standing on the roof of a building, looking at the smoke coming from the forest near her.

"They must be over there." She said to herself. "What the hell are they doing?"

"Well, well, who do we have here?" A new voice said, surprising the brawler. Yang turned around and saw a woman with long black hair, wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a black short skirt and black boots. On her shoulder was a circle with two bat wings going through it. Her name was Suzuki.

"My name is Yang." Yang said, cracking her knuckles. "I'm the one who's going to kick your ass!"

To be continued…