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Chapter 5
Pyrrha ran out of the cave, her "plans" for Jaune temporarily forgotten. Just behind her, a huge Death Stalker smashed its way out of the aforementioned cave, pincers clacking eagerly. I thought there were only low-level Grimm here! Pyrrha thought as she came to stop and turned around, looking at the enormous Grimm. Hanging from its tail just behind the stinger was the source of the high-pitched screaming that was echoing throughout the forest: Pyrrha's new partner (and future bitch) Jaune.
"Pyrrha!" he shouted. "This isn't the relic!"
"No fucking shit!" Pyrrha replied. "Hold on and don't let-" Before she could finish, the Death Stalker reared its tail back and flung Jaune across the forest. "-go."
Having no illusions about her chances against such a powerful Grimm on her own, Pyrrha took off.
"What the fuck were you thinking?!" Weiss screamed at her new partner as they clung desperately to the talon of a gargantuan Nevermore as it soared through the sky. Fortunately, it didn't seem to notice them.
"I don't recall you having any better ideas!" Ruby screamed right back.
"Yes I did!" Weiss snarled. "I listed them over and over as we got on! I've been listing them!"
"Well I didn't listen! So why don't we just jump?"
"Are you insane?!"
"Little bit." With that, Ruby grabbed Weiss's hand and jumped off, taking the white haired girl with her. Weiss screamed as the two girls began to plummet, but they soon collided with an airborne Jaune, sending all three of them crashing into a nearby tree.
"What the fuck?" Blake said.
"Did my sister, the rich bitch, and Vomit Boy all smash into a tree?" Yang asked. Blake nodded. "Well, that just raises further questions." Before Blake could reply, she and Yang were distracted by the sight of a large Ursa staggering out of the forest, with what looked like pink explosions coming off of its back.
"YYEEEEHAAAAAHHH!" a familiar (to Yang, anyway) voice shouted out with glee. The Ursa collapsed, revealing the source of the cry, Nora, who tumbled onto the ground. Ren followed her. "Aww... it's broken," Nora said, pouting.
"Nora!" Ren said, panting heavily. Despite having grown up with her, every once in a while Nora still managed to catch even him off guard. "Please... never do that again." When he didn't receive any response, Ren noticed that Nora had already gone over to the ruined temple where the two girls were. "Dammit!"
"Ooooh..." Nora cooed as she admired one of the chess pieces: the gold rook. She snatched it up and began dancing with it. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora sang.
"Nora!" Ren's voice echoed throughout the clearing.
The orange-haired lunatic stopped dancing. "Coming, Ren!" Nora shouted before happily bounding back towards her partner, chess piece in hand.
"Ow..." Ruby groaned. "What was that?" She was still in the tree, draped across a sturdy limb. Weiss was on a nearby limb of her own, looking like she was struggling to get her bearings.
"That was me," Jaune moaned pitifully. He was hanging upside down, his pants snagged by various branches. Before either could ask him why he had been in the air like that, the branches holding him up broke, sending the wannabe huntsman plummeting to the ground below. Ruby and Weiss both winced when Jaune hit the ground.
"That looked like it hurt," Ruby said before leaping down, using shots from Crescent Rose to slow her fall. Weiss followed suit, using her glyphs in the same manner. She landed just a few seconds after Ruby... right on Jaune.
"Gah! My back!" Jaune screamed in a particularly girlish manner as Weiss's heels dug into his spine.
"Look at all these fucks I don't give!" Weiss replied in a seemingly cheerful manner before walking off of Jaune. (She made sure to take her time doing so.) Looking around for her partner, Weiss quickly discovered her with her face wedged firmly in her sister's chest. Ruby wasn't struggling much, simply letting Yang finish the hug on her own. Is it weird that I find that kind of hot?
"Oh, I'm so glad you're alright!" Yang said as she released Ruby, her libido forgotten for once. "So who's your partner?"
"That would be me," Weiss spoke up.
"Oh, sis, I'm so sorry," Yang said, hugging Ruby again.
"Two things," Weiss said, "One: What happened to your shirt; and two: What the fuck it THAT supposed to mean?!"
The impending argument was interrupted by the arrival of Pyrrha and the Death Stalker hot on her tail. "Oh, sweet!" Ruby shouted, miraculously breaking out of Yang's embrace. Switching Crescent Rose back to scythe form, the red reaper charged towards the huge Grimm... only to get knocked back with a sweep of its pincers.
"Ruby!" Yang yelled as she ran forward. Unfortunately, she didn't seem to notice the Nevermore circling overhead. It noticed them, however. With a sweep of its wings, the gigantic Grimm fired out a barrage of projectile feathers, forcing Yang to stop in order to avoid getting pin cushioned. As for Ruby, her attempts at avoiding the Death Stalker's claws became much harder once a feather pinned her cape to the ground.
"Crap!" Ruby snapped. As she struggle to free her cape from the giant feather she noticed the Death Stalker's stinger rearing up before striking down. Ruby closed her eyes, fully expecting to feel the arachnid Grimm's stinger impaling her any second. Only she didn't. Opening her eyes, Ruby discovered her would-be killer's stinger was trapped in ice, and looking at her was one annoyed heiress.
"Why didn't you just take your fucking cape off?!" Weiss demanded.
"Uh... because that didn't occur to me?" Ruby replied sheepishly.
"Unbe-fucking-lievable," Weiss grumbled.
"Uh... guys?" Jaune spoke up. "We've still got a Nevermore problem" He pointed upwards towards the aforementioned Grimm still circling above.
"Well, let's get going, then," Weiss said.
"She's right," Ruby said, "We can kill these things some other time." With that, she walked over to the temple and grabbed the gold knight piece while Jaune took the gold rook.
"Hey, that rhymed!" Nora spoke up. Everybody looked at her, confused.
"Don't even bother," Ren said.
As the eight teens headed out, they came across what looked like another ruined temple, only MUCH larger and in slightly better condition. (You know what it looks like, people.) The Nevermore chose that moment to launch another rain of feathers, which all the hunters in training managed to dodge.
"Nora! Distract it!" Ren called out.
"'Kay!" Nora replied, whipping out Magnhild in grenade launcher form and firing several grenades at the Nevermore, one of which hit it right in the face. As Nora continued to fire, however, the Death Stalker, now free, came charging out of the forest, heading straight for her. Before it could get at her, Ren and Blake leaped at it, slashing the huge Grimm with their respective weapons while Nora managed to get away. Once she was out of the Death Stalker's reach, Blake and Ren quickly retreated, heading after their companions towards the temple and the narrow bridge leading up to it. But as they did so, the Nevermore swooped down and smashed the bridge, leaving Pyrrha, Blake, and Ren on one side with the Death Stalker, and Ruby, Yang, Jaune, Weiss, and Nora on the other.
"We gotta get over there!" Jaune said. "They need help!"
"Hell yes!" Nora replied. "Let's do this!"
"Uh... I can't make that jump."
Nora didn't reply verbally, she simply switched Magnhild to hammer mode and smacked Jaune across the gap in the bridge like a human baseball. As the blond boy landed none too gently on the other side, Nora slammed Magnhild down on the bridge and pulled the trigger, using the momentum to launch herself over towards the Death Stalker before slamming her hammer down on the Grimm's thick cephalothorax. Angry, it lashed out with a claw, knocking Nora back and into Blake, who in turn was knocked off the bridge, where the Nevermore was still flying around.
However, the cat faunus wasn't concerned for a second; she simply switched Gambol Shroud to kusarigama form and threw it at a nearby pillar, using the momentum of her fall to swing towards the Nevermore. As the flying Grimm attempted to bite at her, Blake activated her semblance, leaving a shadow clone to take the hit from the Nevermore's beak while she jumped over its head, switching Gambol Shroud to sword form and swinging it and her sharpened sheath (which kind of defeats the whole purpose of a sheath, but whatever) at the enormous Grimm, to absolutely no affect.
"It's tougher than it looks!" Blake commented as she landed by Ruby, Weiss and Yang. "And it looks pretty fucking tough!"
"Then let's hit it with everything we've got!" Yang replied. With that the four teens faced the Nevermore, which was swooping towards them, while Ruby switched Crescent Rose to gun form while Blake switched her own weapon to pistol form. As one, they all began to fire at the diving Grimm, shooting a veritable shower of bullets, Dust rounds, and concussive blasts at it... to no avail. The Nevermore dived and smashed the tower they were standing on to pieces under them, forcing the four girls to jump, from one falling boulder-sized chunk to another, before they landed safely (for the moment) on another intact section of the temple.
"Well, that was fucking useless," Weiss snapped in frustration.
"Ooh ooh ooh!" Ruby spoke up. "I've got an idea!"
The battle against the Death Stalker wasn't going much better. The Grimm was too well-armored for any of their weapons to have any affect, and they kept having to dodge its pincers and stinger. At one point, the Death Stalker swung all three appendages at the four teens. Pyrrha and Jaune blocked its claws with their respective shields, while Nora leaped backwards, avoiding the stinger. Ren, however, jumped forwards, landing on the Grimm's tail. Before he could bring Storm Flower to bear, however, the Death Stalker swung its tail backwards, sending the green clad teen flying back and slamming onto a nearby pillar.
"REN!" Nora shouted, then charged at the Death Stalker. She was PISSED. The gigantic Grimm lifted up its claws to block the swing of Magnhild, but as Nora slammed her hammer down again and again, she activated her semblance with each hit. The Death Stalker's tough exoskeleton did absolutely nothing to protect it from blasts of electricity, each the equivalent of getting struck by lightning, surged through its body over and over again.
Seeing their opponent becoming weakened by Nora's electricity, Pyrrha took advantage of the opening the aforementioned girl's attack had created, switching Milo to javelin form and launching it at the Death Stalker. As always, her aim was perfect, and she got it right in the eye. The Death Stalker screeched in pain and rage, but Pyrrha wasn't done yet. Using her Semblance, Pyrrha pushed Milo further into the Grimm's head, reaching all the way into the brain. It collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.
Yang was standing atop a tall pillar, launching more concussive blasts at the Nevermore. As it dived down, opening its beak in an attempt to eat her, Yang jumped, holding its mouth open with one hand and punching down it's throat with the other.
"I! Hope! You're! Hungry!" Yang shouted with each punch, before jumping down and landing near the temple ruins. As she did so, the dazed Nevermore crashed into a nearby cliff, before landing on another part of the ruins. Before it could take off again, Weiss charged forward, freezing the Nevermore's tail feathers to the ground with Ice Dust. As the Grimm struggled to get free, Blake climbed up a nearby pillar, switched Gambol shroud back to kusarigama form and launched it at Yang, who had climbed up a pillar of her own. The promiscuous blonde caught it and pulled, stretching the ribbon between them and forming a giant slingshot.
Meanwhile, Ruby aimed Crescent Rose down and pulled the trigger, using the recoil to send herself flying into the ribbon, preparing to be the slingshot's "ammo". As she did so, Weiss summoned a black glyph, pulling Ruby and the ribbon back.
"Figures you'd come up with a plan this fucking crazy," Weiss said.
"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked.
"No, I'm pretty sure I'll miss completely and am preparing to fire anyway."
"What?"
"Of course I can make it dumbass!"
With that, Weiss switched the glyph from black to red, firing Ruby out at the still struggling Nevermore. It managed to get free just a spit second too late, as Ruby's scythe caught it around its neck and the little red reaper's feet connected with the cliff. As soon as that happened, Weiss summoned more glyphs up said cliff, enabling Ruby to run up it, pulling the trigger over and over again to increase her momentum and dragging the Nevermore behind her while screaming "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK..."
As she reached the top, she pulled the trigger one more time, decapitating the bird-like Grimm.
"-YOU!"
As the other three girls watched the Nevermore's headless body tumble to the ground, already dissolving, Yang commented: "Stupid bird should have quit while it was..." she flashed a shit-eating grin, "ahead."
Weiss groaned at the awful pun. Blake didn't reply; she was too busy frantically erasing Ruby's name from her Enemies List.
"Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Russel Thrush, and Sky Lark," Ozpin said to the crowd at the post-initiation ceremony. The named teens stood in front of him with their hands behind their backs. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL. Lead by... Cardin Winchester."
Ozpin then turned towards Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren, who were standing in the same manner, and announced: "Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, and Pyrrha Nikos. The four of you retrieved the gold rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team PNJR." (Pronounced "pincher".) "Lead by... Pyrrha Nikos."
At this, Pyrrha turned towards Jaune and leered at him with a look that said You Are Mine. The blond boy gulped nervously.
Ozpin turned to the last group of the day. "Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the gold knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Lead by... Ruby Rose."
The named girl looked astonished, before being wedged face first into her sister's chest. "I'm so proud of you!" Yang said.
Weiss, meanwhile, actually had a fuck to give for once. Are you fucking kidding me?!
"It looks like it will be an... interesting year." Ozpin commented. Or at least an amusing one, he mentally added.
Roman puffed on his cigar as he watched several of his new henchmen clean up what left of Junior. He hadn't been happy with the quality of his previous men, so he'd had Neo... punish him. The tri-colored little sadist had made sure Junior died screaming.
"A little overkill, don't you think?" Cinder Fall asked as she walked up to the crime boss.
Roman shrugged. "Junior's the one who said his boys some of the best. That's a pretty blatant lie."
Cinder kept the disgust off her face with practiced ease. She hated working with this vermin and his psycho sidekick, but desperate times and all that. She just hoped her nieces wouldn't get involved again.
End of Chapter 5