Author's Note

I'm still alive! After few weeks of writers block I finally brought this alive! I'm not in my comfort zone yet so forgive me if it's not the best.

Chapter 7

Team RWBY were assigned to Mushy Mangroove. The population of Crogall increased and some reported there are new Grimm appeared recently. Charles couldn't land the helicopter due to lack of spaces. The girls dropped themselves by the rope ladder.

"Not much changes since last time I've been here..." Ruby muttered.

"Wait, you've been here too?" Yang asked.

"Been here, stayed here. Oh, watch out for quicksand."

"Quick what?" Yang found out she stepped into a quicksand after a moment of struggling. Weiss and Blake went to help her but they got themselves stuck in the quicksand. Ruby stood on the other side, watching her team mates struggling themselves to get out and giggled. "Don't just stand there, help us, you dolt!"

"Geez, didn't I told you to be careful? Here, hold onto this vine." Ruby threw a vine to her team mates. As the three of them grab onto the vine, the white girl pulled them out with a strong force, "Heave ho!" Blake safely landed on her feet but Weiss landed on Yang, crushing her, "Get off me, woman!" Yang exclaimed and pushed her away.

"Ugh, I'm covered in mud!" Weiss brushed off some mud from her skirt. Blake and Yang did the same thing. Ruby snickered on her friends. "There's bound to be more up ahead. Follow my footprints if you don't want to drown..." She said. They walked deeper into the swamp while avoiding quicksand. Few minutes passed and there were no sign of the Grimm till they reached the river. Weiss started to complain, "Are you sure the Crogalls' are here? We've been walking all along and we didn't even see it!"

"Hush, princess! It's been 15 minutes passed and you started to complain." Weiss sighed. Ruby smiled, "Just a bit more. If we don't see it, we'll go home, okay?" She said. The heiress had no choice but to agree. But suddenly Yang said, "Is it just me or the ground is kinda...hard..."

Ruby turned around and about to open her mouth but her eyes widened in shock as a Crogall emerged behind her friends. She activated Eclipse Rosé and lunged herself to the reptile. She punched it's jaw, caused it to fall backwards. Yang, Blake and Weiss were startled but they snapped to their senses as Ruby shouted, "Run!" Crogalls emerged from the water and attempted to trap them in their jaws. The white girl ran ahead of her team mates and constantly distracted the reptiles. "What are you doing, Ruby?!" Yang called out her sister.

"I'll try to distract them! You guys keep running!" Yang hesitated but Blake grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the river. Ruby punched her way through the horde of Crogall and ended up stranded on a rock, "Alright, pip squeaks! Where's your leader?!" She shouted. Suddenly, the ground beneath her rise. She released an exasperated sigh, "I'm standing on him, right?" She mumbled.

Yang looked around for her sister but since few moments ago, there's no sign of her anywhere. She panicked, however, Blake and Weiss managed to calm her down. "If she's not here by 5 minutes, we're going to find her!" The blonde said.

Right on cue, they saw a white Beowolf sprinted towards them, grabbed them in her paws and threw them to her back. The trees behind them were falling and a gigantic Crogall chased upon them. Blake, Weiss and Yang panicked, "Faster, Ruby! He's gaining on us!" Weiss shouted.

"I'm running as fast as I can and don't shout to my ears!" Yang turned around and look at the angry Crogall. "Why it look so angry?!" Yang shouted.

"Oh, you know. I was startled and strike one of his eyes and messed around for a bit. And now he's mad and wants to kill me..." Weiss groaned. Ruby sprinted deeper into the swamps, not noticing where they were heading. The Crogall chased them to King Taijitu's nest. The white Grimm caught the scent of the serpents immediately formed a plan in her head. As they got nearer to the nest, Ruby climbed up a tree and leapt from tree to tree.

Right on cue, a pair of King Taijitu appeared and wrapped themselves around the Crogall. The

larger Grimm struggled to escape. Ruby and her friends watched the Grimms' fight with each other. "Quick thinking, Ruby. The Taijitu's attacked the Crogall for intruding their nest while the Crogall thought they're hid you in their nest," Weiss said.

"But I don't think the Taijitu's would survive..." Blake muttered. The white serpent had fallen victim to the giant reptile. The black Taijitu was about to retreat when suddenly the Crogall swung it's tail to it and threw it few feet away. Ruby carefully placed her friends on the branch and lunged herself at the reptile. The white Grimm leapt onto it's head and plunged her claw into its second eye, caused it to blind. The reptile roared in pain.

Ruby grabbed it's tail and flipped it over before she clawed it's gut out. After a few strikes on it's gut, it lay lifeless on the ground with its body evaporated into the air. She turned to look at the black Taijitu. The Grimm stared at her and slithered away into its nest. The white Grimm walked to the tree where her team mates perched. Weiss, Yang and Blake dropped themselves from the branch onto her head.

"Well, our work here is done!" Yang said in her cheery tone.

"Good, now let's get out of here! I don't like the swamps!" Weiss exclaimed.

"Hey, Ruby's the one who's walking AND fighting, princess! So stop complaining already!"

"I got to say what I want, Blondie!" Blake shifted away from her two team mates and lay down onto her leader's head. Ruby sighed, "Oh, Blake. Did we picked the wrong girlfriend?" She muttered. The Faunus girl giggled.

"Wrong or not they're still our girlfriends. I guess we should just go on with it." Ruby chuckled, "You're right, Blake. You're right..."

From a tree not far from them, a woman in red dress watched them through her binoculars. She took out her cell and contacted a person, "She managed to obliterate CRO L30. Is there anything you want me to do?" She said. The person in the line chuckled.

"For now, let her taste her victory. Besides, she doesn't know what she actually killed anyway..."

Author's Note

Well, that's the best I could do. I understand if it's kinda disappointing but as I said, I need to keep this story alive. Well said, Au Revoir~!