I said whenever I reach at least 100 views, I would release the next chapter early. Well, we hit over 100, so here is the next chapter. I will still release another chapter next Wednesday. Enjoy this early release chapter.

We open to the sight of Weiss and Ruby hanging on to something very feathery and very fast, as evidenced by the loud wind and the two being blown sideways. Weiss shouts to be heard, "Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!" Ruby also raises her voice, "We're fine! Stop worrying!" Weiss shouts, "I am so far beyond worrying!" Ruby asks, "In a good way?" Weiss replies, "In a bad way! In a very bad way!" Ruby asks, "Well, why don't we just jump?" Weiss replies, "What are you? Insane?!" She is met with silence; Ruby has already disappeared. "Oh, you insufferable little red-!"
Down on the ground in the Abandoned Temple, Blake's bow twitches and she and Rebel are still staring skyward and pointing for Yang, Ivory, Vanessa, and Yvette to look up. Yang asks, "Girls, did you hear that? What should we do?" Ruby shouts while falling right towards them, finally getting the girls' attention, "Heads uuuuuuuup!" Just as she's about to hit the ground panicking, Jaune Arc comes flying through the air and crashes into Ruby, knocking her off course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Ivory, Vanessa, Rebel, Yvette, Blake, and Yang are standing. Ivory asks, "What the heck?" Ruby is dazed by the rough landing, as evidenced by the cutesy Beowolves and stars circling her head.
Ruby asks herself, "Oohhhh...What was that?" The dizziness passes when she shakes her head. Jaune clears his throat to get Ruby's attention. Ruby looks up to see Jaune hanging upside-down in a tree branch above her and says, "Hey, Ruby…" Blake, back on the ground, looking at the tree, asks Yang, "Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Yang tries to answer, "I…"
Before she can continue, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them, and an Ursa comes out, claws swiping, just as a pink blast of energy hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground, depositing its rider. Nora yells, "YEEEE-HAAAAW!" She rolls off of the creature's back, then gets up and groans, saddened. "Awwww...It's broken." She dashes onto its neck and observes the carcass as Ren comes up behind her. Ren is panting and leaning on the monster and he says, "Nora! Please...Don't ever do that again." He looks up again and notices by the pink dotted outline of where his partner should be that Nora has run off again, and looks around frantically. Nora is now in the Temple, staring at a golden rook relic. She lets out an "Oooohh…" She suddenly grabs it, an animation of stars and her hammer symbol playing in the pink background as she dances and sings with the chess piece, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Ren yells, "Nora!" Nora stops dancing with the rook on her head, then salutes, dropping the relic into her hand and says, "Coming, Ren!" She skips off to her friend. Yvette says, "Well, that just happened." Blake asks Yang, "Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Yang tries to answer again, "I…"
She is interrupted once more as a screech is heard from their right, and Pyrrha Nikos comes onto the scene as the scorpion creature uproots entire trees in its chase after her. Pyrrha narrowly dodges its giant claws and keeps on running. Pyrrha yells, "Jaune!" Jaune shouts, "Pyrrha!" Ruby stands up, looking at the monster below and shouts, "Whoa!" She starts running off of the branch and landing in a roll. Jaune whines, "Ruby!" Yang says after Ruby stands up, back on the ground, "Ruby!" Ruby says excited, "Yang!" She raises her arms as if to give her sister a hug. Nora shouts, "Nora!" She comes between the two and knocking them off-balance in surprise. The scorpion Grimm continues to follow Pyrrha as she runs. Blake asks Yang, "Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Yang gets angrier until she growls and erupts in a small burst of fire, eyes flashing red and shouts, "I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" The tick-tock of a clock counts down the two seconds of Yang cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora, and Blake and Ruby looking up.

Ruby asks, "Umm...Yang?" Tugs on her sister's sleeve and points. Up above, Weiss is revealed to be hanging on a talon the size of her entire body that belongs to a gigantic bird Grimm, called a Nevermore. Weiss calls down to Ruby, "How could you leave me?!" Ruby shouts up at Weiss, "I said "jump"!" Blake says, "She's gonna fall." Ruby replies, "She'll be fine." Ren says, "She's falling." Rebel asks, "Is anyone gonna try to catch her?" Vanessa looks horrified as her sister comes closer to the ground. Jaune is finally out of the tree, panting until he looks up and grins at the sight of Weiss falling through the air, giving him the opportunity to jump off the branch with arms outstretched and catch her in a slowed-down moment. Jaune smiles at Weiss and asks, "Just...dropping in?" Weiss is speechless...and Jaune realizes why when they both look down. "Oh, God." They hang on to each other wide-eyed as their moment of suspension ends, their weapons flying behind them. "Oh, noooooooo-Oomph!" Jaune does a faceplant into the dirt, limbs splayed out, and serves as the perfect landing spot for Weiss as she falls into a seated position on his body. Weiss says mockingly, "My hero." Jaune says, groaning, "My back…"

The Death Stalker is still hunting Pyrrha, but she manages to land on her side at the feet of the heroes. Yang says, "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Ruby replies, "Not if I can help it!" She sounds a battle cry and rushes towards the Grimm. Yang yells, "Ruby, wait!" Ruby, still screaming, fires Crescent Rose and charges at the oncoming Death Stalker. When the two meet, the Grimm swipes Ruby away and she is knocked back. Ruby says while getting up slowly, "D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby turns back to the monster and shoots it in the skull, running away from it and sheathing her scythe as the Death Stalker now goes after her.

Yang says while running forward, "Ruby!" Ivory follows her. Ruby rushes towards Yang and Ivory, but the Nevermore caws above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that catch on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang and Ivory from reaching her. Ivory shouts, "Fatal Feathers!", for she knows it's a Nevermore's signature move. Yang shouts, "Ruby, get out of there!" Ruby says while struggling with the cloak, "I'm trying!" The Death Stalker approaches, raising its golden stinger above a scared Ruby and heading down on the helpless girl. Yang and Ivory reach out in vain and yell, "Ruby!" A white blur races past Yang and reaches the stinger just as it's about to pierce her.

Weiss says, "You are so childish!" Ruby opens her eyes to the sight of the stinger encased in ice and lowers her arms from their futile position over her head as she stares at her savior. Ruby asks, "Weiss...?" Weiss continues to berate Ruby as she removes Myrtenaster from the ice, "And dim-witted, and hyperactive, and don't even get me started on your fighting style. And I suppose I can be a bit...difficult...but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So if you quit trying to show off, I'll be...nicer." Ruby replies, "I'm not trying to show off. I want you to know I can do this." Weiss says, "You're fine." She walks away. Ruby breathes a sigh of relief, then closes her eyes and clasps her hands as she gratefully whispers, "Normal knees…" She gets up and stares at the Death Stalker as it struggles to escape with its tail trapped in the ice. "Whoa!" Yang and Ivory rush up to Ruby and gives her a hug, which Ruby grunts at upon receiving. Yang says, "So happy you're okay!" The three stare at each other for a moment, then look up at the Nevermore still flying overhead and roaring. Jaune is back with the group and he asks, "Guys? That thing's circling back! What are we gonna do?" Yvette says, "Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." The heroes stare at the relics. Rebel agrees, "She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs." She nods to Yvette. "There's no point in fighting these things." Jaune says, "Run and live-that's an idea I can get behind!" Ruby goes over and grabs a gold knight, identical to the one Yang picked out, and Jaune takes hold of a gold rook, similar to Nora and Ren's piece, smiling at each other. The Death Stalker continues to fight its bonds, cracking the ice a little in the process. Ren says, "Time we left!" Ruby says, "Right." She waves to the others. "Let's go!" Ivory does a similar action and says, "Come on, guys." They go forward with everyone following except for a smiling Yang and Blake as the latter approaches her partner. Blake asks, "What is it?" Yang stares proudly at Ruby and Ivory as they leap on a boulder and motion the group onward. Yang replies, "Nothing…" She moves on as Blake smiles in realization and leaves as well.
The group is heading out of the forest and into another abandoned series of structures as the Nevermore follows them from the air. They spread out when it passes above, concealing themselves behind some of the stone blocks with their allies as it perches on a high column and caws. Yang says, annoyed, "Well, that's great!" Jaune looks behind at the Death Stalker bursting onto the scene. He shouts, "Ah, man, run!" The group emerges from their hiding spots and causing the Nevermore to rise up into the air. Ren says, "Nora, distract it!" Nora obliges, running out from her block and jumping through the feather projectiles before reaching behind her and launching several heart-topped shells from her grenade launcher, bursting into pink electricity when they hit the Nevermore, and causing it to retreat. She is unaware of the Death Stalker rushing up behind her until Blake, Rebel and Ren perform a cross-slash with their Gambol Shroud, Howling Rebel and StormFlower against its shell. Weiss lands next to Nora so she can create a jumping platform beneath them and leap to safety while Blake, Rebel and Ren are now being chased. Pyrrha yells, "Go, go!" She stops running beside Jaune and gets out Miló, firing red shots along Ren's green blasts for a second until it reaches them and tries to swipe, prompting the group to run again. The twelve race over the ancient stone bridge, not noticing the Nevermore closing in on them until it uses its giant wings to shatter the path right in the middle, forcing Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Ivory, Vanessa, Rebel, Yvette, Nora, and Jaune closer to the central collection of columns and Blake, Rebel, Yvette, Ren, and Pyrrha on the other side with the Death Stalker. Ruby fires at the retreating Nevermore while Blake is beaten back by the scorpion. Vanessa tries her best to keep out of the action and stares at the Nevermore. Yvette and Ivory use their weapons to do long range attacks against the Nevermore. Rebel and Yvette combine their attacks against the Death Stalker. Jaune comes to the edge of the break in the bridge and says, "Man, we gotta get over there! They need help!" Nora runs up beside him and says, "Let's do this!" Jaune looks down at the misty abyss and says, "Yeah, but, uh...I can't make that jump." Nora smiles diabolically at him, laughing as she knocks him back, turns her weapon to its full-length hammer form, and jumps to the edge of the bridge.

Jaune sees what she's about to do and shouts, "Oh, wait!" Too late, she slams the hammer into the bridge and throws Jaune to the other side, constantly screaming, "No, no, no, no, no, no!"

Nora places one foot on the hammer and fires it off the collapsing section of bridge, launching her to slam its face right in the center of the Death Stalker's skull. She fires it just as the stinger comes down to get her, and blasts back again to avoid its reach, accidentally knocking into Blake and making her fall from the edge. She sees the Nevermore above her and launches her whip so the gun's blade sinks into the edge of the bridge, circling around and leaping onto the aerial Grimm's back. She dashes all over its body, slashing the entire time, before jumping off and landing on the ruined platform at the top of the columns next to Ruby, then going over to Yang and Weiss. Ivory uses her yo-yo to latch onto the Nevermore. When she gets up, Quarter Stone turns into its staff form, as she stabs the Nevermore multiple times and lands with the others. Yvette and Rebel use the other columns to launch themselves with the others. Vanessa grabs a light blue crystal and puts it in a cartridge in Icy Vengeance. She waves is below her as a huge gust of wind launches her to the others. When the others approach, Blake yells, "It's tougher than it looks!" Yang readies her Ember Celica and says, "Then let's hit it with everything we got!" The Nevermore approaching, Ruby, Blake, Weiss, and Yang set their weapons to fire a barrage of blasts at the bird, which it either dodges or takes harmlessly until it crashes through the columns and platform. The girls leap from one section of falling stone to the next until they reach the higher bridge on top, just below the cliffs. Weiss shouts, "None of this is working!" She looks over at Vanessa, who seems to be pointing at her neck. Weiss gets the message and says, "Vanessa says that we have to hit the neck!" Yvette asks, "How does she know that?" Weiss says, "It's her semblance. If she observes a person long enough, she can find their weak points." Ruby watches Blake whip over to another section of the area and Yang firing round after flaming round at the Grimm and says, "I have a plan! Cover me!" She blasts away as Weiss raises her blade and heads into the fray. Down below, the Death Stalker is still battling Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha. Rebel asks, "What about the Death Stalker?" Ivory replies, Vanessa and I will deal with the Nevermore, you and Yvette help with the Death Stalker!"

Rebel and Yvette jump down and join the four to help. Jaune yells, "We gotta move!" They all rush towards it. The Death Stalker aims a claw at Pyrrha, but she deflects it with her Akoúo shield and slashes it with her blade. The scorpion recoils and swipes at her with its other claw, but Jaune is there to deflect it with his shield, knocking it back so Pyrrha can leap over and attack its face. The Death Stalker tries again to attack with a claw, but Yvette catches it with Blazing Inferno's chains, as Rebel uses Howling Rebel to cut off the claw. Ren runs up firing and gets on the stinger when it tries to hit him, shooting at the base between it and the tail while Nora fires more grenades at the attacking claws. Pyrrha hurls her javelin straight into one of the monster's ten eyes, making it throw Ren to the side. Nora shouts, "Ren!" Ren hits the side of a stone block hard and falls to the ground, not getting back up. Jaune, though, manages to stand and notice the stinger is hanging limply. Jaune shouts, "Pyrrha!" Pyrrha says, "Done!" She raises the shield and hurls it like a discus, slicing the stinger off and causing it to fall into the Death Stalker's head as Pyrrha retrieves her rebounding shield. Jaune says, "Nora, nail it!" Nora shouts, "Heads up!" She jumps on Akoúo, Pyrrha leaps as Nora aims her blast down to give herself a maximum lift, and she smiles the entire way up before twirling down until her hammer slams its head into the stinger, driving the point through the Death Stalker's head and crushing the bridge beneath it. Rebel, Yvette, Jaune and Pyrrha bound over the monster to the land behind it, and Nora fires up and away behind them as the monster falls to its doom. Rebel lands on all fours, Yvette lands on her stomach, Jaune hits the ground on his back, Nora lands on her bottom, Pyrrha manages a crouched pose, and Ren simply walks over to them, panting and groaning until he just collapses. The other five get up and watch as the Nevermore is peppered with firepower.

Yang is still burning through her ammo on the beast, landing a blow at its face and causing it to head right towards her, but she leaps for its open maw and forces the beak wide as she attacks.

Yang screams and firing a round with each syllable, "I! Hope! You're! Hung-! ...-gry!" She looks behind her and jumps back from its mouth onto a ruin, causing the creature to crash into the cliffs. Despite Yang's and Ivory's attempts, the Nevermore recovers quickly, and Yang smiles as she spots Ivory, Ruby and Blake on the broken columns with Weiss and Vanessa rushing to the battle. Ivory uses Quarter Stone to wrap around Yang and bring her back to the group. Yang passes them while the Nevermore starts to fly back up, but Weiss and Vanessa hop over to the ruin it's lifting off of and freeze the tip of its feathery tail to the ground, leaving it stuck in the same spot despite its flapping. Weiss and Vanessa back-flip into two snowflake-circles jump and land on the other side, running to the group. Blake fires the pistol portion of Gambol Shroud over to Yang, and the two tighten it between the columns so Ruby can jump on the center with Crescent Rose and bend it back into Weiss' black sigil, right next to the caster. Weiss says, "Of course you would come up with this idea." Ruby asks, "Think you can make the shot?" Weiss says, confident, "Hmm! Can I!" A second passes. Ruby starts to doubt Weiss, "Can't?" Weiss replies, "Of course I can!"

Ruby looks forward and pumps Crescent Rose as Weiss turns the circle from black to red and releases Ruby at such a speed that the ground behind her launch cracks, rose petals flying from her ascent. With each new shot, she gets closer and closer to the trapped Grimm until her scythe catches the Nevermore's neck in its blade and causes them both to fall to the cliff wall. Weiss raises her sword and creates a series of white circles up the wall, which Ruby dashes through by firing the entire way up. Ivory, Vanessa, Yang, Blake, and an exhausted Weiss watch her climb up with the bird in her grasp until, both warrior and monster crying out, Ruby reaches the top of the cliff, circles up, fires one last shot, and rends the Nevermore's head from its shoulders in a shower of petals. She lands beside the severed head as the body of the giant Nevermore falls lifeless to the ruins and crevice below while the girls and, farther away, Rebel, Yvette, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren watch in amazement. Jaune says in awe, "Wow…" Ruby, her cape and petals flowing with the wind, looks down to her friends as they peer up. Yang says, "Well...That was a thing!" Ruby continues to smile as the faint sounds of an audience clapping are heard, growing louder and louder as a familiar voice is heard.
Ozpin is heard saying, "Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark." The screen of the auditorium shows each of their profiles as the boys are lined up for the applauding audience to see as Ozpin continues, "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, led by...Cardin Winchester!" The audience gives one more wave of ovation, while four students walk up to the stage to take their places in front of the headmaster as their faces fill the screen. "Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." Amid the clapping, Nora laughs and gives Ren a hug. "Led by...Jaune Arc!" Jaune asks in disbelief, "Huh? L-Led by...?" Ozpin says, "Congratulations, young man." A grinning Pyrrha offers a friendly shoulder bump to Jaune, but her "fine leader" is knocked over and falls to his butt in front of the laughing audience. Ozpin continues, Yvette Blaze, Ivory Rose, Vanessa Schnee, and Rebel Wolf. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team IVRY. Led by...Ivory Rose." Ivory asks, "Huh?" Rebel says, "Way to go Ivory." Yvette adds, "Congratulations." Vanessa raises her thumbs and smiles at Ivory. Ozpin continues, "And finally: Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long." He motions over the four as they stand before him. "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by...Ruby Rose!" Weiss looks to her right surprised, where Ruby is obviously in shock as Yang goes over to hug her sister. Yang says, "I'm so proud of you!" Ozpin says amid the last round of cheers, "It looks like things are shaping up to be an...interesting year." The camera pans over the auditorium's structure until it escapes into the open sky and shows the scattering crescent moon amid the day's clouds...
... before going into the night and seeing the moon through a window, providing a view to the outside for a shadowy room filled with shelves and a desk in the back, where Roman Torchwick is getting a call on his phone. The muffled conversation ends, and Roman angrily slams the phone down, sighing. He holds a cigar to his mouth and puts his symbolized lighter to the end, just as a man in a gray mask and black hood comes with a trolley. Roman holds out a collection of Lien, which he places on the table and the man takes. Roman says, "Open it." The masked man does so with a crowbar, revealing a large amount of Dust crystals of varying colors, orange, blue, white, red, green, cyan, gold, yellow, and more. Roman picks up a blue gem in his hand and looks at the loot. He then says, "We're gonna need more men…" The view zooms in on the map above the desk, showing Vale and various districts and areas of crossed-out locations, all leading into a specially-circled place: Beacon.