Malcolm was looking at the scroll alongside Ozpin, looking at the two pairs at the temple already. Malcolm was not one to forget the events of his initiation alongside his partner and Ozpin, of course instead of chess pieces it was colour coded flags, and the head master at the time was very racist, but that was beside the point.
"Those four got to the relics easily enough," Malcolm said as he took a glance towards the forest below, "Who are they?"
"Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna, Peter Prince, and Steffen Were," Ozpin replied as he frowned at his scroll.
"Hmm," Malcolm thought as he flipped through the cameras, finding Pyrrha, Geraldine and Owen running away from a Deathstalker.
'Damn,' he thought, 'all I had to fight for my initiation was three Ursa majors.'
He went back to the temple cam, and saw a strange sight. "Why is there a girl falling from the sky?"
BACK AT THE TEMPLE
"HEADS UUUUUUUUP!"
It was Ruby falling towards the ground. Before she hit the ground however, Jaune crashed into her, forcing the two goofballs into a tree.
"Did your sister just fell out of the sky?" Blake asked Yang; while Peter and Steffen looked towards the tree Ruby and Jaune are in.
All of a sudden a loud explosion could be heard, and the group looked towards an Ursa, which then fell down, revealing a girl with orange hair rolling off its back.
"Aww," the girl said before going back to the Ursa, "It's broken."
Then an eastern cultured dude came from behind the Ursa, saying, "Nora, please, don't do that again."
The guy looked around for his partner, who seemed to have disappeared.
The girl, Nora, was looking at one of the chess pieces, more specifically, the white Rook.
Nora then put it on her head before saying, in a rather sing along voice, "I'm Queen of the Castle. I'm Queen of the Castle."
'"NORA!"
"Coming Ren," Nora said a she skipped to her friend.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked, with Steffen and Peter looking at Ren with sympathy, a look which Ren noticed.
And just to make matters worse. A loud crash and roar could be heard, showing Geraldine, Pyrrha and Owen running from a Deathstalker.
"Jaune!" the girl with red hair screamed.
"Pyrrha," said Jaune in the tree.
"STEFFEN!" both Geraldine and Owen screamed to their brother/childhood friend.
"Owen? Geraldine?" Steffen asked confused.
"Ruby!" Yang screamed to her sister, who is out of the tree now.
"Yang!" Ruby said back as the sisters rushed to hug each other.
"Nora!" Nora said as she jumped in the middle of the two girls.
'What the hell is going on?' Peter thought as he looked back to the Deathstalker chasing his partner's friends.
"Did those three run all the way with a Deathstalker on their tail?" Blake asked, causing Steffen to sigh.
"I can't take it anymore!" Yang yelled as she was literally exploded, "Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!"
TWO SECONDS LATER
"Umm…Yang?" Ruby said meekly as she tugged on her sister's sleeve and pointed up.
"Is that girl hanging onto a flying Nevermore?" Steffen asked as the rest of the group looked up, and saw Weiss hanging off the talon of a Nevermore.
"HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME?!" Weiss screamed at the red hooded teenager.
"I said jump," Ruby screamed back.
"She's gonna fall," Blake said to Ruby.
"She'll be fine," Ruby retorted.
"She's falling," Ren and Steffen deadpanned at the same time.
Weiss was indeed falling after letting go of the talon, however, it doesn't look like she would survive her fall. Peter ran out to the middle of the field…
…right beneath Jaune catching Weiss…
…in the middle of the air…
…before both of them landed on Peter.
"My hero," Weiss said sarcastically, inspecting her nails.
"My back," Jaune groaned out.
"My ribs," Peter groaned out as well, causing Weiss to jump up, push Jaune away and screamed to the young heir,
"Peter, are you all right?!"
"Yeah, I am fine."
During this, the Deathstalker attacked Owen, causing him to fly all the way to the group of hunter/huntresses in training. Geraldine teleported to the group while Pyrrha ran to Jaune to help him up.
"Great," Yang said sarcastically, "The gang's all here, now we can die together."
"Not if I can help it," Ruby said before giving out a war cry and, using her semblance, charged at the Deathstalker.
However before she could hit the Scorpion-like Grimm, the Deathstalker swiped with its claw at Ruby, knocking her back.
"D-Do-Don't worry!" Ruby said to the group as Yang and Peter ran after to help her, "Totally fine!"
She looked back at the Grimm before firing Crescent Rose at the Deathstalker before running back to the group.
The Nevermore angered about the ride the girl and her partner forced it into, fired its feathers at the young girl. One of its feathers got Ruby's cloak and also caused a large cut on the back of her leg, causing her to scream out in pain. Also many of the feathers stopped Yang and Peter on their way to save Ruby.
"Get back!" Peter yelled at the blonde girl before taking out Zeus. Charged with lightning, the weapon sliced through feather after feather, in a desperate attempt to save Ruby.
However it would have been too late for him save the girl, as the Deathstalker's stinger was about to hit Ruby.
"RUBY!" both Yang and Peter screamed, not noticing the white blur that raced past them.
The stinger was about to pierce Ruby and Ruby closed her eyes waiting to the inevitable…
"You are so childish."
…Only for the stinger to be caught in a solid wall of ice.
Peter sighed as he ran towards the two girls, cutting down the feather holding down Ruby's cloak.
"Are you okay?" Peter asked Ruby.
"N-no," Ruby said, "I-I think it got my leg."
Peter looked at Ruby's leg, finding a massive cut on the leg that is very deep and is drawing a lot of blood.
"Oh dear," Geraldine said, as she teleported to the scene, "this is bad, you are going to need a couple of stitches for that injury, if we get out of here and you don't die of blood loss."
"I can save her," Peter said firmly to the green haired Faunas.
"Well then do it already," Geraldine said in a commanding voice.
Peter nodded before putting his hands on the wound, before closing his eyes and breathed slowly. His hands started to glow purple, causing Ruby to yelp in pain. However that pain started to feel, very, relaxing for Ruby and even started to feel good.
When Peter removed his hands, he gasped as he fell to the ground for a second, however the wound on Ruby's leg was gone and not even a scar was left.
"Wow," Ruby said as she stood up, better than before, "What was that?"
"That is my Semblance," Peter said as he shakily got up, "healing."
Ruby blushed and said, "Thank you."
"No need to thank me," Peter said as he rubbed her head, causing Ruby to blush even more, and Weiss to drag Peter by the ear in anger.
"Ow, stop it Weiss."
LATER
The Nevermore was circling back to the temple with the group of now twelve teenagers.
"Guys?" Jaune said, getting the groups attention, "that thing is circling back! What are we gonna do?"
"Look," Weiss said to the group, "there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us."
"She's right," Ruby said as she nodded to Weiss, "Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things."
"Run and live," Jaune said with a grin, "That is an idea I can get behind."
"You three are right," Geraldine said as she runs to the artifacts, "We need to leave immediately!"
Ruby picked up the White Knight piece, similar to the one Yang and Blake got. Jaune picked up the White Rook piece, like Ren's and Nora's. And Geraldine got the Black Knight Piece, exactly like Steffen's and Peter's.
"Time we left," Ren said with urgency as he saw the ice containing the Deathstalker's stinger starting to crack.
Before they could leave however Steffen yelled, "RUBY! JAUNE! SIS! BEHIND YOU!"
All three looked behind them to see a giant spider nearly the size of the Deathstalker with white armour all over its legs and body, climbing over the temple.
"Beserkarn!" Peter yelled, "Get back now!"
Geraldine, Jaune and Ruby ran as fast as they can away from the giant spider as they run into the direction of some ruins.
MEANWHILE
Malcolm stood there unbelieving of what he saw. The twelve teenagers have a Deathstalker, a Beserkarn and a Nevermore after them. Even some of the most elite hunters would be scarred to see those three working together.
This is why Malcolm was walking towards the Launch pads to the Ruins.
"What are you doing?" Ozpin said as Malcolm stopped and looked towards his old friend.
"Those twelve are in danger Ozpin," Malcolm said as he showed him what was on his scroll, "We have to save them!"
"I know they are in danger," Ozpin said as he sipped his coffee, "but it is required for the students to not have any help with their initiation."
"So you are going to let twelve kids die?!" Malcolm screamed as the air around him started to get cold.
"Did I say that they will die?" Ozpin said as he looked at his scroll the twelve hunters/huntresses in training tunning away from the three massive Grimm.
"No," Malcolm said as he walked to the launch pad, before Ozpin threw his cup of coffee at his head, knocking him out. Somehow the cup stayed intact.
BACK TO THE HEROES
Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, Ren, Geraldine, Owen, Peter and Steffen (AN: Try saying that in one breath) were all running until they reached the ruins where the Nevermore was standing atop of, causing them to run behind pillars to hide from the flying Grimm.
"Great," Yang said annoyed, "Now what?"
Jaune looked back, to see the Deathstalker, obviously angry, smashing through the trees.
"Ah man run!" Jaune screamed as the twelve teenagers left their cover and ran towards the ruin.
"Nora distract it!" Ren said to his childhood friend.
"Owen," Geraldine ordered, "You do the same!"
Both Nora and Owen ran out of their cover, dodged the feathers from the Nevermore and then fired their Grenade Launcher and Bazooka respectively. This caused the Nevermore to retreat for the moment.
However the Deathstalker crept up on them and would have ended their life, if it weren't for Steffen, Ren and Blake with their respective weapons halting the giant scorpions charge. While the three were distracting the Deathstalker, Weiss created a glyph under the two, took a hold of Nora and leaped away.
The four ran across the bridge while the Deathstalker was stuck at the entrance. Unfortunately the Nevermore decided to return and crash into the bridge the group was on. Although none was fallen into the abyss below, it caused Ren, Pyrrha and Blake to be on one side while the rest was on the other.
"Man," Jaune said as he ran to the edge of the destroyed bridge alongside Nora, Steffen, Peter, Owen and Geraldine, "we gotta get over there. They need help!"
"Right," Peter said, "but we can't make that jump."
Geraldine teleported, but her coordination was a bit wrong and ended up on the other side of the Deathstalker.
"Cheater," Jaune said, but Jaune didn't notice the grin on Nora's face.
Owen on the other did and feared for his life so he tried to convince her "N-no Nora."
But it was too late; Nora transformed Magnhild into a giant hammer and brought it down on the piece of bridge the small group was on. This caused the group of guys to fly to the other bridge. Unfortunately, only Jaune, and eventually Nora made it to the right place. Steffen, Peter and Owen landed on the other side of the Deathstalker.
Owen landed on his rear, Peter landed on his feet, and Steffen landed on his face. All three landed next to Geraldine.
"Ow," Steffen said as he got up, and saw the Beserkarn charging the group of four.
"We need to kill this Grimm in order to help the others," Peter said as he readied Zeus.
(AN: RED LIKE ROSES PART II SONG STARTS PLAYING)
"Then let's hit it with everything we got," Geraldine commanded as she transformed Samurai's Punch into crossbow form.
Owen transformed Biggoron into its Bazooka form, Peter charged his sword and Steffen emptied the magazines from Thane and Krios, before putting in explosive ammunition.
The four stood their ground against the charging Grimm before firing explosive Dust bullets, rockets, charged Dust arrows and Lightning itself at the Grimm itself. Every shot was a direct hit but the Grimm just kept coming, its armour defending itself from the grave attacks.
The Beserkarn was getting too close now, causing the group of four to scatter away from the Arachnid. It stopped to a halt so as to not push the Deathstalker down into the abyss.
"Oh dear," Owen said as he saw the Beserkarn turn around to him.
It charged at him, making Owen run away from the creature.
Geraldine, as she sees Owen running, looked for its weak points, finding it to be weak in it's under belly and joints …
If only they could…
"Owen," Geraldine called out to Owen, "Distract it!"
Peter looked confused at Geraldine's orders, before looking at the Deathstalker, then back to the Beserkarn. He ran to Geraldine and asked, "What is your plan?"
Geraldine whispered her plan to Peter, causing his eyes to widen up in realisation.
"Steffen!" Peter yelled, gaining the silver hair Faunas' attention, "Help Owen with the Beserkarn!"
Steffen nodded before running next to Owen and both ran towards the Deathstalker. However, the Beserkarn had reached them, forcing Owen to push away Steffen to get hit by the charge. Owen was sent into one of the nearby pillars. Steffen looked at the Beserkarn for a second, before a lightning slash cut off four of its legs; the cut at its unprotected joint.
Steffen looked back at Peter, who nodded to the wolf Faunas. Steffen nodded back, before looking back at Owen, who is standing back up with a smirk on his face. He charged the Beserkarn with Biggoron, cutting off two of its legs, also at the joint. Steffen cut off the remaining legs. The Beserkarn squirmed with none of its legs, before Owen, with all of his strength, flipped it over with his bare hands.
The Spider, now on its back, could do nothing as Geraldine, who has teleported into the air, stabbed Samurai's Punch into its unprotected underside, piercing its black heart.
Geraldine, after getting off the spider, fell to the ground onto her back, the rest of the group doing the same. All four looked up just in time to see Ruby decapitate the Nevermore while also running up the cliff face.
"Wow," Peter said as he stared at Ruby.
"Now how is she able to get down now?" Owen asked the four, causing Peter to role his eyes, Steffen to chuckle and Geraldine to shake her head with a smile on her face.
MEANWHILE
Malcolm stared wide eyed at the fact that twelve initiates took down three of the strongest Grimm known. He was awake for the last five minutes of the fight. Then he remembered what he is here for, what his true purpose is.
"Those twelve," Malcolm said as he looked over to Ozpin, "Will do."
"A wise choice," Ozpin said as he looked at the group trying to get Ruby down safely, "they will help you indeed." Ozpin then said with a small smile, "Good thing I didn't need to knock you out again."
"Yeah, yeah," Malcolm deadpanned, "I always forget how skilled you are with the coffee cup of doom."
LATER
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester," Ozpin called out, "Dove Bronzewing and Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL (Cardinal), led by... Cardin Winchester!"
There was applause from the audience. So far other teams have been, one including a bunny Faunas, but nothing that our four heroes need to know.
"Jaune Arc," Ozpin called out as the screen showed the names being called, "Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos and Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR (Juniper), led by… Jaune Arc!"
Steffen and Owen whistled while Peter clapped enthusiastically at the young man.
"Geraldine Were," Ozpin called out, "Owen Grizzly, Steffen Were and Peter Prince. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forth, you will work together as Team GOSP (Gossip), led by… Geraldine Were!"
"Great job sis!" Steffen hugged his sister while both Owen and Peter smiled at the twins.
"And finally: Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!"
Both of Team JNPR and GOSP whistled at the announcement, expect for Peter, who noticed something wrong with Weiss.
"Things are shaping up to be," Ozpin said, "an interesting year."
IN ONE OF THE STANDS
Malcolm was clapping at the teams, eager to teach these fine recruits.
"So, my little nieces are growing up," said a voice next to him.
Malcolm looked to his side to find Qrow smiling.
"Well," Malcolm smiled, "they are some of the finest initiates I have ever seen so far. They have great potential."
"A shame Ruby will be forced into it though," Qrow said as his mood plummeted, "She is too young."
"I know," Malcolm said as he looked at the teams.
"By the way a warning," Qrow said as stood up, "The Queen has her Pawns."
Malcolm nodded before looking back at the teams. "But the King," Malcolm countered, "has found his Knights."
AN: Longest chapter ever. I created the Beserkarn because, why not.
Also, have you seen the new trailer for RWBY? I know I certainly have. Here's to Volume two!
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