I realise that this chapter is a bit later than a week, however I've been really busy with moving to Europe at the moment. I'll make it up and upload three more chapters super fast for everyone.

Ruby

A loud shrieking sound filled the air from outside Beacon Academy, waking the young leader of team RWBY. Opening her silver eyes, Ruby yawned loudly and looked around confusedly in the darkness of the early morning to see what had woken her.

Quickly tapping the screen of her scroll she checked the time. It was 3am.

What woke me up so early? Ruby wondered to herself as she silently slipped off of her bed and landed quietly on the floor with a soft thud.

Opening the dark red curtains of Team RWBY's dorm room, she took a quick peak out of the window and across the courtyard of Beacon Academy.

Near the far end of the academy, by the landing pad was a small air carrier, which had landed in the closest space to the school. A group of three men poured out of the back of the carrier, two of them were both slim looking from where Ruby was, and the third looked very bulky around the torso.

Ruby continued to watch the figures as they came closer to the front of the school before realising that the figure who she thought was bigger than the other two, was actually carrying a fourth man in his arms.

Ruby was able to see that they were rushing to get inside the academy, and just before they reached the front door, Ruby realised that the man being carried had a gaping hole through his stomach, and there was blood all over him, and the person carrying him.

'What are you doing up Ruby?' asked a soft voice, which made Ruby jump.

Turning around, Ruby saw that Blake was staring at her with her bright, amber coloured eyes through the darkness with an inquisitive look.

'There are some people that just arrived in a carrier. One of them looked really badly hurt,' Ruby said, looking out the window again to try and catch another glimpse of the men, but they had already made their way inside.

'I'm sure that the Infirmary will be able to take care of him,' Blake said, closing her eyes again and burying her face deeper into her pillow. 'You should get back to sleep, we have that Combat Assessment for Professor Port tomorrow.'

'Yeah,' Ruby acknowledge, quietly climbing back up to her bed, trying desperately not to wake up Weiss who was still silently sleeping below her. When Ruby was back underneath the covers on her bed, she closed her eyes and quickly fell asleep, trying to forget about the man with the blood all over him.

Lupis

Nathan and Garris quickly opened the doors to the Infirmary and Lupis rushed inside, doing his best to keep Esh focused on him. Nurses quickly came rushing out of their office and told Lupis to place Eric on one of the empty beds.

Gently lowering Eric on the closest bed, Lupis stood back as the nurses gathered around Eric, checking his condition with medical equipment.

'Heart rate is extremely slow, blood levels are very low as well,' one nurse said after hooking Eric up to a heart rate monitor.

'Aura levels are completely gone, we need to prep him for surgery immediately,' another nurse said, indicating towards the monitor whilst inspecting and cleaning the wound.

'There isn't anything you can do to help us here,' the other nurse said, ushering them out of the way as they started wheeling Eric into the surgery room. 'We'll send you a message when we have finished the surgery and you can come see him, but it would probably be best that you see Professor Ozpin as soon as you have cleaned yourselves up a bit.'

The three students could do nothing but stand back as they watched their friend be wheeled away, his face unnaturally pale. Once the surgery doors swung shut, the three of them turned away and left the Infirmary, heading back to their dorm room.

Lupis let the warm water of the shower run across the top of his head and along his back. Supported by his two arms against the wall of the shower he stood still under the stream of water, and slowly banged his head gently against the wall so not to wake up any other students.

No matter how much training you get, you can never be prepared for moments where a teammate comes so close to death, and you can do nothing but blame yourself for what happened. Being the team leader, it was his responsibility to keep the rest of his teammates safe, and he had failed that when Eric took the hit from the Deathstalker.

After a few more minutes of letting anger at himself run through him, he turned off the water flow and stepped out of the shower. The steam hung in the air like fog in the early morning, and Lupis quickly dried himself off with a black towel on the rack.

He dressed himself in a fresh pair of his clothes as the other one was still being washed of all the blood that was left on it. When he left the restroom, he found the rest of his team waiting for him on their beds, heads in hands.

'Come on guys, we better go talk to Ozpin about this,' Lupis said, trying to sound upbeat but failing miserably.

Both Garris and Nathan sensed the guilt in his voice, but said nothing about it. It was his issue to deal with, even though they were his teammates, they could only help with so many issues.

Ozpin

He waited calmly behind his desk, waiting for the members of LEGN to arrive and explain to him what had happened. He already knew about the unfortunate fate of Eric Ibson, but was more curious in the events that had taken place over the last two months while he had sent the team away for their assignment.

When Ozpin took a sip of his coffee from his mug, there was a light knock on his office door. He put down his cup on the desk and clearly said, 'Come in.'

The door opened and he examined the three students as they entered. He assumed that they had cleaned themselves up before coming to see him, as they were all freshly shaven, and their clothes were free of any blood stains or rips.

'Please take a seat,' he said calmly, gesturing towards the three chairs that were laid out on the other side of his desk.

Lupis sat in the chair directly infront of Ozpin, whilst Narox sat to his left and Garris on his right.

Nobody said anything for a moment while Ozpin continued to examine them from over his glasses whilst taking another drink from his coffee. When he put the mug back down on the desk he began to speak to them.

'Lupis, tell me what took you so long to arrive back at Beacon. We have not heard anything from you in such a long time. I sent you out two months ago now. Why have you all only just returned?'

'We had to go searching for the pack again sir. The Huntsmen that we were originally there to aid didn't show in the town where we were meant to meet them. It wasn't until a week later that another group of Huntsmen turned up and informed us that the others had been killed by the pack of Grimm, but even they didn't know where the oack was because nobody gave exact coordinates to where the pack was hiding out. We spent most of the rest of the time trying to find where they all were.'

'I see, and why did you not report this back to me immediately after you learnt this?' Ozpin asked.

'Long range communications were down in the area,' Garris spoke up. 'I went to have a look at their communications tower not long after we got the news. It had been ruined by a storm a few weeks ago and the people living there still hadn't fixed it.'

'Why didn't you send the carrier back with a message?' Ozpin questioned, taking another sip from his coffee.

'We thought it would be best to keep the carrier nearby incase the Grimm attacked the town and we needed to get the citizens out in a hurry,' Lupis responded.

'Hmm,' Ozpin said. 'And what did you find when you eventually discovered the location of the Grimm?'

'It was unlike anything we've ever seen before sir,' Nathan blurted. 'There was an excessive amount of Grimm there, and that's why it took us so long to take them all down. There had to have been thousand of them there sir!'

'I do not need exaggerations here Mr Adon, I am merely looking for-'

'He isn't exaggerating sir, there actually were thousands of them there,' Lupis interrupted, bringing up a recording they had taken when scouting out the clearing that the Grimm were in.

Setting his scroll on the desk, he spun it around and pushed it towards Ozpin.

Ozpin quietly watched the recording and realised that his students were telling the truth. The clearing was not a small area and it was taken up completely with Grimm.

'This is very worrying news Mr Drake,' Ozpin said, returning the scroll to its owner. 'We definitely have never seen such movement from the Grimm like this before. I am not sure what this means, but I have theories.'

Ozpin began to think quietly to himself about what it could mean while the three students sat quietly in their seats, waiting for him to say something else.

'What of the Huntsmen that were aiding you? What happened to them?'

'They stayed at the village sir, to make sure it would not be attacked by any more Grimm. Although we took out most of them, there were still a lot of them that escaped into the woods and the mountains.' Lupis answered.

'Ok.' Ozpin curtly replied. He sat for a moment more before looking at the three again.

'You three must be tired. You should head back to your dorm and get some sleep. You have a lot of study to catch up with.'

'Yes sir,' the three of them answered simultaneously, standing and leaving together.

Ozpin watched the three of them leave the room before opening his own scroll and preparing a message for one of his contacts.

Team has returned. A member was fatally injured. Possiblility of Grimm movements confirmed.

Closing his scroll, Ozpin leaned back on his chair, pressing his fingertips closely together, he pondered what would happen in the future.

Sorry that this chapter is a bit less interesting that the last, but unfortunately not everything can be so action packed. Again, I would be extremely grateful for reviews to make these chapters as good as I can possibly make them.