The two teams of students ran, led by Ruby. Her red cape flapping behind her. Yang couldn't help but swell with pride.
"Yang?" The blondes' new partner questioned.
"It's nothing…" The brawler spoke and shook her head with a smile, almost forgetting the certain death circling above them.
The group all ran toward the mountain, expecting a path or an obvious way up to safety, no such luck. Ruby was the first to get to the old ruin and the looming cliff face stretching to the sky above her. "Damn" She muttered soon joined by the groans of her team mates.
"Now what?" Jaune spoke, heaving breathlessly from running.
"I am officially open to ideas!" The youngest spoke, staring at the ruin, desperately clinging to any hope that they had a way out. They all scanned the landscape, it was eerie without the impending doom scuttling not far behind. It was then that Yang made a decision and turned round to face the forest they had just run from. Her features hardened and her gauntlets unfolded their gold surface glinting in determination to match her. She bought up her guard and stood ready to face anything to protect her sister and her new friends. "Yang, this is not the time to mess around!" The youngest sister shouted.
"Find a way out, I'll hold them as long as I can" The blonde did not turn to address the worried faces instead she began walking forward slowly.
"Pyrrah, you're the best fighter I know, I hate to ask…" Jaune began
"I'll go with her, you guys put your thinking caps on" The red head smiled knowingly and placed a hand of support on the scrawny boy's shoulder.
"Right, well let's not waste time trying to persuade them otherwise" Weiss interjected with a clap of her hands. "We don't have the luxury of time right now."
"Right, Nora get ready for ranged attacks" The perky pinkette saluted and giggled. "Jaune, Ren you will be front line, spotting and trying to buy more time. Weiss, I hope you have enough dust on you"
"Of course I do you dolt! I am the heiress of the Schnee dust company!"
"Oh, yeah right" Ruby looked away for a second. "Anyway you will be supporting with glyphs. Me and Blake will take higher positions and handle long range and air cover. Ready?"
Just before anyone could respond Blake snapped her head to the forest. "Get up the tower, NOW their coming."
The Forest
"Well…You're bigger up close" Yang smiled weakly backing away from the giant golden tail that had just dug into the ground before her. She fired some shots whilst retreating. "Pyrrha? Where's the over grown budgie?"
Pyrrha had lodged her shield in a branch and was crouched behind it taking shots when she could. "It's coming toward us, the screams from your friend down there are drawing it in!" Three more shots were heard before a feather, as sharp as a katana sliced the branch the warrior was perched on.
"Fall back, we just have to hope they came up with something" The taller of the two had landed from her fall and began running backwards covering her temporary partner.
"Of course they will have!" Yang let off a few shots into the dry ground to kick up some dust while she ran. "My sister will have thought of something" The two began running, Pyrrha darting in and out of tree cover, only looking forward. Yang was using her recoil to propel her faster and get anything out of her way if needed, at this point she did not care about the noise besides her little bullets were nothing compared to the frustrated screech of the Grimm behind her.
A stray feather caught Pyrrha's shield, pinging off it and she silently thanked the gods, the trees ahead of her were thinning, and not because of the shotgun lumberjack next to her. "There's the clearing!" She pointed, the rumbling of Grimm behind her was closer than ever. The red head kept her breathing steady, she needed to run slightly further. Her teeth were gritted as she pushed herself harder than she had ever done. The sunlight pierced the trees as they began to emerge from the clearing.
"There!" Ren pointed and readied himself, as did a worried looking Jaune. Ruby scanned in the direction of Ren's finger she saw fiery red hair and blonde that would rival the sun. She scoped in, the tree's falling at the retreating pair's heels. The first bit of bone white she saw she began firing, followed by her defence team. As Yang and Pyrrah got on the bridge Yang fell back to high ground whilst the red head turned to face her enemies.
"About time!" Ruby stated to her big sister.
"Next time" She puffed "You can hold off the big scary death machine, okay?" Yang smiled and reloaded her gauntlets. Weiss and Blake shared a confused look at the two sisters, who appeared to be treating this as some sort of trivial task. A scream from above shook the ruins.
"I see a birdy!" Nora screeched and opened fire with a battle cry, her love heart pink grenades exploded like flak shells in the air. The Nevermore stopped but not before flexing is wings and throwing them downward at the bridge, releasing deadly razor feathers that whistled toward the bridge. The bridge crumbled, the teams separated. Battling an epic Grimm each. The Nevermore resumed its attack on the ruined tower, flying straight at it brandishing its piercing beak. "FIRE" Weiss yelled and the girls on the tower began their barrage of long range attacks. Each bullet or glyph barley scratched the surface. They couldn't slow the beast down! Ruby and Weiss fell back whilst Yang and Blake jumped as the tower fell beneath them.
"Hmm" Blake grunted as she shadow cloned to reach the Nevermore's back, she ran down its spinal cord, slicing downward as many times as she could. If she could make a weak point this battle might not be a disaster. As she reached the tail she prayed to whatever powers in Remnant that she had damaged the beast slightly.
Yang had jumped, but where was she? Ruby looked on in horror as the tower collapsed and her sister was not out. She narrowed her eyes in a futile attempt to see through the dust. The heiress placed a hand on the red hooded girls shoulder. "She'll get out, she looks like a tough brute. Come on we need to help" Ruby nodded and turned her attention to bigger problems right now.
Yang growled and extended her legs. "Oh you did not just try to eat me!" She said, her eyes flaring red. "Do you know how hard Grimm spit is to get out of my hair?!" She spoke, her aura activating giving her legs that extra push. The Nevermore screeched as its beak was over extended, the brawler pushed up so her body was locked straight, snapping the muscle in the Nevermore's jaw. "How do you like me now?" She bellowed into the creatures gullet, holding the snapped jaw with one hand and firing rounds into the creatures throat with the other. As the assassin landed the screech bought her attention upward, her partner was stood in the mouth of a Grimm holding its jaw with one hand, impressive. She couldn't help but wonder if Yang planned anything during battle, if not this would be a long few years.
As the other team fought Blake managed to see Pyrrha launch Nora high into the air. She stared at the beast, its own stinger was embedded in its thick skull. Nora's weapon became a Warhammer as she flipped in the air, gaining momentum. Her last flip almost happened in slow motion, as she righted in the air, her arms extended and forward, bringing the hammer in an arc over her body. Powered by all that momentum she slammed her hulking hammer into the stinger. Like hitting a nail into butter, it shot through the skull and the creature stiffened, expelling one more terrifying scream before collapsing.
The giant bird had shut its eyes, pain ricocheting through its body, desperately trying to stop the pain in its beak. Its momentum carried it forward before it collided with the cliff side, head first forcing it to land briefly. Yang managed to slip out into a tuck roll when the bird got close to the ground. "Ruby!"
"I have a plan!" Silver eyes shimmered and hardened in a moment. "Guys!" Yang and Blake stood on the side of crumbling towers holding Gambol Shrouds ribbon tightly. Ruby twirled in the air unfolding Crescent Rose landing on the wire facing the bird. Weiss took her cue and summed a pulling glyph, pulling her partner toward her. "Are you sure"
"Yes, think you can make the shot?"
"Can I" Weiss humphed.
"Can you?!
"OF COURSE I CAN" The heiress snapped before letting the glyph go. Firing Ruby with her scythe drawn. Everyone looked on as her boots connected with the cliff the blade of Crescent Rose hooked around the creatures smoking throat. Weiss adjusted her stance, her dust wheel span as she did after a full 360 degree turn the rapier fired a glyph that duplicated up the cliff. Ruby smiled and used what was left of her aura and her guns recoil to dart straight up the cliff, dragging the Nevermore with her. She could feel the curved blade slowly cutting through each layer of flesh, slicing through the creatures weakened neck. As she reached the peak, she tensed pushing herself that little more, her foot pushed off the end of the cliff propelling her into the air she began to feel the weight of the giant creature on the end of her scythe. She grunted in and fired the last few shots, before the weight disappeared. She landed on the cliff face and looked down. The two new teams had defeated two of the most dangerous Grimm known. They had not even started training yet, Ruby grinned.
Yang began whistling with her two fingers and whooping energetically, well as energetic as one could be after being in a Nevermore waiting to be swallowed whole. Blake smirked and clapped a little. The other team was cheering and clapping as they all crossed a makeshift bridge to the, now even more ruined, ruin.
Back at Beacon after team announcements:
Team RWBY, as they were now known, entered their dormitory. Four bed lined a wall, very close together. The girls looked around at one another. How would the fit all their stuff in here? Ruby suddenly grinned and clapped her hands together. Yang eventually caught on, when they were growing up in Patch Ruby had only ever wanted one thing for their room, besides an armoury equipped with upgrades and machines, and that one desire was. "BUNK BEDS! I always wanted bunk beds!" She squealed and the shinobi covered her mouth to hide a giggle.
"I refuse, its too childish" Weiss crossed her arms turning away from her team.
"I propose a vote" Ruby spoke confidently looking at her team. Yang placed her thumbs up, she too had also wanted bunk beds but it was not practical in there room at their home. Blake rationalised for a moment, calculating the space and its entrance points.
"It would be more efficient" She nodded.
"Three to one Ice Queen! Bring on the bunk beds!" Yang laughed and walked to a bed lifting it above her head.
"Hey!" Weiss protested at the nickname.
"Team RWBY! Our first mission, Bunk beds is go!" Ruby yelled and began calculating exactly how to balance the beds.
Blake began selecting books that she would likely never read, placing them in a pile. Yang added magazines of various natures onto the pile which soon towered over both girls' heads. "We can use the books to balance a bed. Yang would you mind lifting it?" Blake spoke, in a serious yet soft one.
"Sure" Yang said brushing her hair out of the way before lifting the spare bed into position. Ruby looked at her sister and turned to her own partner, rolling up her sleeves. Weiss cocked her eyebrow and looked at her captain, whilst the activity's outcome was childish she must admit it was good team building.
"We don't have that many books, what about your suitcases?" Ruby spoke, genuinely.
"Absolutely not, you dolt! These suitcases could probably pay for 3 holidays around Remnant!"
Ruby hummed in thought, tapping her chin. Before the white haired girl could say anything Ruby sped off, covering the room in petals. "This better not be a frequent occurrence your aura makes a mess."
The captain returned with a mass of rope. "Think that's messy, you should see Yang's, little tip do not ever touch the hair." Weiss stepped away from her leader and eyed the girl in yellow curiously. "Anyway we can tie the bed and suspend it from the ceiling." Weiss, of course, refused profusely until the group pointed out that the room would be to messy without her and Ruby setting her bunk bed up.
Eventually the girls had done their beds and successfully unpacked. Yang had stripped of her jacket, her toned midriff on show as well as her larger than average muscular arms. As she turned to pull herself up to her bed, Blake noticed a large scar at the base of the blondes spine, shaped a little like an 8 pointed star with little wiggly off branches. "Yang…" She mumbled, unable to control her curiosity.
"Hmm?" The blonde turned letting go of the bed above. "What's up?"
"Oh….Umm…I don't" The ninja shied away.
"The scar right? Don't be embarrassed, you're my partner we should be asking each other questions. I mean I can't fight at my best next to you unless we bond a little." She offered a toothy smile it made Blake relax and re-think her attitude. She decided to soften with the girl just a little.
"Yeah, what causes something like that?" She remained calm and her nerves hidden beneath a serious exterior. Yang chuckled and breathed out for before adjusting her scarf in a nervous way.
"A scythe" The blonde spoke so casually. Blake however felt as if a bullet had gone through her brain. "An early version of Crescent Rose actually." Blake gasped. Ruby would never damage her sister, they loved each other. The ninja could not fathom any situation, aside from having to get something out of Yang quickly, that would enable Ruby to do that to her big sister. Ruby idolised Yang and to her credit the blonde was the ultimate big sister.
"Chill, it wasn't Ruby." The blonde smiled. "I did it. I mean I don't remember it all actually." She sighed and looked toward the window. "I was very young." Yang sat on Blake's bed patting the space next to her, Blake joined her. "I was testing a scythe, like Ruby's, the sniper mechanism was in trial at that period. I remember spinning it, trying to tame the recoil when the hammer set off a bullet as it was folding into its sniper form." Yang sighed. "My dad tells me the mechanism's in the blade locked leaving the blade exposed, the recoil forced the blade to fold away open at such speed it cut through itself, into my back almost through my spinal cord."
"Yang, I'm sorry" The assassin girl attempted to comfort her friend.
"No need, it was an accident. Dad blamed himself, he still does to this day. He stopped making weapons until Ruby."
Ruby coughed noticing how Blake's face was deadpan but her eyes portrayed something else. "Now I have adjusted all the recoil settings and there are way more safety features on my baby now." Ruby interjected. "Don't feel bad Blake, Yang got away mostly unharmed and it taught us a valuable lesson about the mechanism's in a sniper-scythe." Blake nodded and found herself starting to care about the three girls around her, she smiled to herself she was always told near death experiences either tear people apart or bring them together. She couldn't help wonder which it would be.
A/N: Hey guys. I have been super busy as usual but I have a new laptop and what better way to test it than to put Youtube on and write some Bumblebee!
I am not fond of this chapter and I am guilty of using this as a sort of filler. As you noticed I am still following season one with this but hopefully I will catch up. However, I am making changes here and there that, while not necessary sometimes, I feel it diverts so you don't get to bored reading it.
I write for fun so grammar and spelling may be off but I had fun writing it and I hope you have some entertainment reading it.
Zilla.