I couldn't wait to write this chapter out for the longest time! I had planned to make them through all the fourth year before Summer had to fight the bad guy but I don't think it will happen that way. To me it would be a lot of "fillers" and I don't want to bore anyone, know what I mean?

Summer sat at the table alone waiting for the rest of her team. Raven had been super made lately and she didn't want to directly be in the path of wrath. Even though Raven was nice most of the time, she had mean streak and it scared Summer. She didn't respect her much as a team leader and Summer could understand why: they hadn't really been on a dangerous mission. Now, Ozpin was sending out first years on little missions.

This mission would end up not being little.

Raven sat down and started going through her scroll ignoring Summer's presence at the table which Summer was secretly happy for. Qrow and Taiyang sat down next smiling at Summer and she returned a shy smile. Even though they were really nice, they had a lot problems with their team. No one wanted to listen and they were struggling even with all of the power they had.

"Team STRQ."

They looked up to see Professor Ozpin standing there with a stern look on his face.

"You will be going to Glenn Mountain."

Raven made a face but she stayed quiet.

"That's for today?" Summer asked.

"Yes, Miss Rose around three. Good luck. It should be a simple mission."

It should be but it wasn't going to be. Raven stood up still on her scroll, almost stomping away. Qrow watched his sister leave but he turned back around and sighed. He knew she was always in a bad mood and he had hoped her attitude would've changed with school but it hadn't. She was still the same since they came from that cult- she wasn't getting any nicer.

"Don't worry about her," Taiyang said and she looked up at him with a worried look.

"We'll do fine on this mission, right? We only have three more years."

"That doesn't make me feel any better."

How could they stand being around Raven three more years?

X

The ride there was as uncomfortable as it could be. Raven sat by herself in the corner of the Bullhead. She stared at Summer. She didn't understand how someone so timid wanted to be a huntress. She was quiet and never stood up for herself. Even Raven had tried to help build her up but she remained the same- she had no respect for Summer.

The Bullhead landed and allowed them off. It flew away leaving them behind and leaving them in an awkward silence. Summer played with her two-foot sword on her side because she was nervous. She had every right to be because she knew what was going to happen. There were going to be Grimm crawling out of the woodwork and there would be nothing anyone could do about it.

"What should we do first Summer?" Taiyang asked.

"Like she would know what to do," Raven snapped and started walking away.

Summer growled in her throat like an angry animal, "How about you give me a minute before you start judging me?! Do you even know how to get around in Grimm territory?"

Raven whipped around giving her a wicked grin, "Fine. We'll follow you since you're such a fearless leader and all. Be my guest Summer Rose."

"Even though you're being sarcastic, thanks."

Summer turned around to the guys, "There's Grimm everywhere. Those books at school don't mean anything if you aren't prepared to be attacked all times ok? They can come out of nowhere without warning. If you need help just call someone who isn't preoccupied and we'll save you ok?"

Both guys nodded.

"That's something we already know."

Summer ignored her tidbit of sarcasm, "If you corner a Grimm be careful. They will scream and call for more. They are like animals and they have no fear until they know they're going to die. Please be careful."

They walked for a good hour and didn't spot a single Grimm the whole time. This was enough to make Summer extremely worried. She felt like someone was watching them the whole time and the feeling was enough to give her a panic attack. She took a few deep breaths to keep herself calm but something just wasn't right. There had to be older Grimm there… waiting. They had the ability to think outside of their instincts if they lived long enough.

"Where are the Grimm?" Taiyang asked, "I feel like something isn't right."

"I've been feeling the same way," Summer said, "Something isn't right. They said we would be the only ones here. Even with travelers around here… we would've saw someone by now."

Summer glanced back at Raven to see she was just as nervous as they were, she was gripping the hilt of her sword pretty tight.

"Raven can take us home if you don't feel right with this," Qrow said, "I trust your instincts Summer."

"Thank you Qrow. I won't do that unless two of us are severely injured."

"You would risk two of us before you called us back?" Raven snapped, "What kind of leader are you?"

Summer rubbed her face, annoyed. She groaned and glared at the tall raven-haired girl before her.

"It's not a risk when I believe in everyone else."

Raven shut her mouth.

"I don't want anyone doing anything risky unless they have too ok?"

"What about you?" Qrow asked, "All you have is that sword."

Summer bit her lip, "I know but I'll be fine. I've been through worse than this. I'll be fine."

Just as she finished her sentence, there was howling. It made her blood run cold… who had a Grimm cornered in the middle of nowhere?

"Summer…"

"I heard it and that's what I was talking about…"

The ground started to shake some and Summer threw her arm in the air which meant get the hell out of there. They had barely moved an inch when Beowulves came out of the trees in front of them. Summer drew her sword first and attacked the Beowulves running out. Raven and Qrow looked at each other as she finished six of them without any problems.

Summer just barely turned around when another one came flying out. It landed on top of her and screamed. She made no sudden movements but it howled again and tried to bite her shoulder. She jerked out of the way, making it mad and it sliced open her stomach. She grinded her teeth and thrust the sword through its abdomen and tore it apart. She pushed it off to the side and groaned through clenched teeth.

"Summer!"

"Stay away!" she yelled and she placed her hands on her open stomach.

"Summer- Qrow started and Summer gave him a dirty look.

"I have it… I'm in pain ok?" she hissed and her hands started to glow white.

Her wound sealed up quicker than any of them had seen someone do but what they didn't realize was she forced almost all of her aura out healing her stomach. She laid there for five minutes before getting up. Healing with aura didn't take the pain away and she felt like she was wanted to vomit all over the place. Raven just stared at her with the same expressionless face she always had.

"We can go back!" Qrow said, "You look like you hurt…"

"I'm fine."

They walked around for thirty minutes before taking a break. Summer looked like she had been awake for days and she had run three marathons. Her body felt heavy and she was starting to feel dizzy. Qrow stood on her left side and Taiyang on her right. They were worried she was going to collapse but she insisted they keep going anyways.

"I'm hungry," Taiyang said.

Summer gave Taiyang a weird look.

"What? I'm a guy I want to eat."

"Ok, I can watch out while you eat then," Summer said, not fully convinced he wanted to actually eat, "Are you gonna eat too?"

Qrow shook his head, "I'm not hungry yet."

While they sat there, Summer couldn't shake the feeling they were being watched. She felt like what little aura she had was being disturbed by something unseen. Raven sat there too looking around seeing the look on Summer's face. She didn't like her much but her instincts were never wrong. Taiyang stood up and brushed the crumbs off his pants.

"Are we ready to go?" he asked flashing his team leader a smile.

Summer looked over at the red eyed girl across from her waiting for her to say something.

"I think it'll be fine if we go."

After a while of walking, Summer pulled out the sheet of paper. The directions were clear to make sure there weren't any stranded people who needed help. Students of Beacon did it once a month at the same time so if anyone needed help, they knew how long they would have to wait. Normally the fourth years did the mission but this time Ozpin had picked them of all people. Her gut told her to stop.

"Don't step any further."

The three of them turned around to face her.

"What happened? Did you see something?" Qrow asked as he looked around.

"I didn't but… I think we need to stop."

Summer walked pass them and pulled out her sword. The movement pulled on her stomach where it was injured, amplifying the pain tenfold. She flinched but swung it anyways and she cut through something. It glimmered in the sunlight as it stuck to the trees around. The four of them were thinking the same thing: there were Black Widows around and there was a lot of them. Raven started cutting in front of them too, seeing there were more webs everywhere.

"Fucking shit," Raven said and Summer looked mildly surprised to see the worried look on her face, "I didn't see this happening. This wasn't even a strong possibility."

"They have surrounded us," the silver-eyed girl said.

She was right. They started crawling out of the trees. They were unusually large meaning they had been alive for a long time.

"You three need to escape."

"Are you fucking dense?" Qrow asked angrily.

Summer smiled brightly, "I'm only going to bring more so it would be better if you guys left me behind."

"You're a horrible leader."

Summer said nothing.

"What do you get out of sacrificing yourself huh? You get to play the hero? Huh?" Raven yelled.

"Sis, stop it!"

"No! She always acts like she's so much better than us! She always acts high and mighty! What is her deal?! She can't lead a team and look where we are now! We are surrounded by Black Widows like a bunch of dumbasses! What is your deal Summer Rose?!" Raven screamed angrily grabbing the collar of Summer's grey dress.

"You're my first friends even if you don't like me."

Raven's mouth opened but no words came out.

"I know I may not look strong but I am. It's different for me to have to defend someone else than just myself. I would prefer if you ran so I didn't hurt you."

"You think your threats scare me?" Raven hissed.

"It's more of a warning. I can't always control it."

"What is it?" Raven asked flatly.

"The thing that kept me alive for all these years when I was a child."

"Girls!"

Raven let go of Summer and saw more spiders decided to drop in.

"We are going to die here," Qrow said rubbing his face.

"How can you think that?" Taiyang asked.

"Look at all of them!" he yelled, "No one is strong enough to defeat them!"

"I-

Some of the Black Widows swooped in after them hissing and screeching. Despite her previous injury, Summer cut through a few spiders and so did Raven but Taiyang being a hand to hand combatant, it was a lot harder for him to land a hit. Qrow got through a few but it was like the spiders themselves were multiplying. Summer fell to her knees. Her stomach was in so much pain it made her puke and then that made the pain worse.

"Arghhhh!" she cried heaving.

"Summer!" Qrow yelled but that was a fatal mistake.

Three spiders piled on top of him when his attention flickered to his leader. One of them slammed it's black leg against his ribs breaking through his defenses. It crushed his ribs on his left side and he screamed in terror and pain. He thought he was going to die until his sister come in killing everything on him with blinding fury.

The carcasses disappeared slowly. He was huffing trying to breathe but his lung seemed too damaged. Raven's eyes overflowed with scared and angry tears. Summer barely saw what happened since her vision was blurred by pain but she knew Taiyang grabbed her and pulled her away from her puke to Qrow's side.

"Breath Qrow, slowly," Taiyang said but he was panicking and making things worse for himself.

Raven's anger was wearing her out quickly but she couldn't control her emotions. She was scared… almost for a minute she thought she was going to lose everything she had fought to save- her brother. She turned to look behind her but that was big mistake. One of the spiders slammed its body into her right arm, breaking it upon impact, almost shattering it. She screamed angrily, scaring some of the Black Widows. She gasped and breathed out heavily glaring in pain.

Another one from behind the three of them, came up and slammed Taiyang into the ground breaking his left leg. He fell to the ground in agony. Summer was shaking with fear, they were toying with them. They were playing with them before they killed them. A few tears fell down her face and she became angry. Maybe they didn't like her that much, but she had friends and she wasn't about to lose any of them.

The ground shook violently making the Black Widows back off a bit. Vines shot out of the ground slamming some the spiders into the ground hard enough to kill them. Her three teammates were able to ignore their pain for the few minutes Summer was able to take out more the Grimm surrounding them. None of them would have guessed she was able to do something so… scary.

"Oh my god…" Raven whispered.

Summer's eyes glowed a bright white, almost like staring into the sun.

"Qrow!" Raven cried looking at her brother.

"He… he needs help."

"So do you!" Raven cried seeing the fear in their eyes.

They looked over at their leader. Summer didn't lie, she wasn't able to control her power that well. The vines swept the wooded area slamming trees into the ground killing whatever Grimm laid in that forest. She turned around and looked at them. She didn't expect them to understand and she knew they would be afraid of her but at least they would be safe.

Raven got up and pulled a red blade out. They had no time to waste. Qrow may had a collapsed lung and he wasn't going to make it.

"Summer!" Raven yelled and she looked at the black-haired girl with a blank look, "Let's go home."

Summer smiled and tears fell down her cheeks. Raven created a portal and Summer picked Qrow up ignoring the pain in her stomach. Taiyang grabbed onto Raven's left wrist and she pulled him through. She had created a way into the hospital in Vale. No one said a word when they came through, instead they rushed getting extra hands and rolling beds for all of them.

X

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The four of them were sharing a room. Qrow just got out of surgery and he was sedated for the extent of his injures. Summer laid in her bed staring at the ceiling without moving. It was almost odd since she hadn't moved since the doctors checked her three hours ago. Her stomach wound had ripped open internally but they were able to fix it before more damage was done.

"I'm sorry."

Summer blinked and turned her head to the side.

"Why are you sorry?"

Raven looked at her shamefully, "I doubted you. I was rude and mean. That was unfair to you."

Summer smiled, "I understand you aren't good with people so I understand."

"I hate you."

She giggled and sighed, "I'm glad we're ok."

"Me too."

They laid in silence for a few minutes.

"Teammates don't leave each other," Raven said.

"I know," Summer whispered.

"Did you really mean what you said?" Raven asked, "We mean that much to you, you would've stayed there by yourself to fight them all?"

Summer nodded.

"Your power scares me a little."

"I have a hard time controlling it. I never used it to that extent before. I feel… stronger."

"Thank you for saving my brother," Raven said looking away.

"Anytime."

X

X

"Wow."

Summer smiled.

"That was intense. I can't believe you made it through all that."

"I was scared… I think if I ended up hating everyone and not caring, they would've died."

"I couldn't see you any other way," Roman said kissing her forehead.

Summer nodded, "Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I ended up like everyone else… bitter and angry… but even those who hate everything, fear something. Want something or someone to protect. I guess it's just how people are. I could've ended up a lot worse. What if I ended up leading the Grimm to the city? Would I ever be beaten?"

Roman shuddered at the thought.

"I'm glad you aren't like that."

"Me too."

Hey everyone! Next weekend I won't be updating because on Friday I will be going to a concert with a friend to see In This Moment. Then the next day I'm taking my kids (they have no idea!) to see the dinosaur expo. I fucking love dinosaurs too so it's very exciting for me! I'm sorry but I'll update when I can!