The Blood Runs Green:I

R.H.: Look alive my fellow zombies, its combat time!

That's right, time for some combat! I'll try to not go overboard.

Sarah: Whelp, Rotter here doesn't own none of that fancy RWBY stuff. That belongs ta Rooster Teeth. I on the other hand am an OC of his, so's the rest of the non-cannon members of th' series. Enjoy the show, folks.

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

John Muir

3rd POV

Peace and quiet was a commodity of the Emerald Forest. Sure it may be teeming with giant monsters that are more than willing to tear a person in half without a second thought, but it's so peaceful. Oh, there's a non-Grimm member of the habitat flying through the air right now, a lone crow. Such a majestic, beautiful bird; wanting nothing but its life, and the open air! The Emerald forest would have continued its beauty and peace for eons if it wasn't for one thing. One, particular time of year where people fight for their lives to gain access to the large building next to the forest…initiation day.

Just as the bird reached the apex of his flight, a speeding, red and black object hit it in mid-air.

"Birdie, no!" Ruby yelled as she and several others fell from the cliffs of Beacon and into the Forest.

Each of the students-to-be had their own way to land, naturally; Ickarus switched the ammo in Plink from fire to ice and fired off a few bursts that made contact with some of the branches on the trees, he continued his fire onto the ice patches to form an ice slide of sorts, he slid down the icy pathway to about ten feet off the ground before he rolled onto it to ease the impact, and started a full on sprint to his objective; Echo sheathed her blades and landed onto one of the branches, using her semblance to get control of the momentum and all movement was stopped from her fall, she then started to jump from branch to branch to get to the ruins; Jeremy formed into goo before he came into contact with the trees, he reformed on the ground, dusted himself off, and started to run; Sarah fired a few rockets to slow her decent, and landed in the middle of a clearing.

1st POV: Sarah Lancaster

'A warning would've been nice before I was launched into god-knows-where, but other th'n that, the landin' woulda made Gramps proud.'

I looked around to find myself near a small pond of sorts, with a few large rocks scattered around it. Just as I was about to go check it out, I hear rustlin' comin' from the bushes. I turn to it with the barrel of Tindy in its direction, but pointed down just to make sure I wasn't hittin' any people.

"'Ello? Is anybody there?" I start to back up a bit, raising the barrel to point a bit higher.

Then, two solid red orbs began ta' glare at me, I return the glare and aim Tindy at 'em "You first…"

A flash of black appears as a beowolf lunges out at me, only for me to roll back and shoot it in the gut while it passes over me. The impact causes it to fly and land in the pond as I land on my feet and turn towards it "Hope ya can swim, furball!" I yell at it, just to see more beowolves come outta the bushes around the area.

"…Well crap" I scratch my head with my left hand and throw Tindy into the air with my right, only to catch him by the air compressor and shift him to hammer. I wipe my forehead, put both hands on the grip, and take an offensive stance.

'Alright, twenty beowolves, three of 'em are alphas; alphas have thick plating on the chest, head, tails and arms, legs seem to be best the best to incapacitate them, then try to crush their heads as they have the least amount of armor there; the rest are slightly armored on shoulders, head, and arms; chest and legs seem to be the areas of most effectiveness for them, do the same as them with the alphas, but aim for the chest' I put my finger on the trigger, and wait for the padding of a few beowolves to run behind me.

With a grin, I pull the trigger and launch a rocket propelled hammer swing that crushes two of the beowolves heads and sends a third one into the tree line. A fourth got lucky and tackled into me, sending me flying near the boulders.

I stand back up and look around to see that they have me surrounded from all sides. I growl a bit and aim it up, looking at what targets I should be picking at first. Before I could think too much on it though, a shadow covered one of the beowolves. It started to get smaller and smaller, and as I looked up to see what it was.

1st POV: Jason Armstrong

"This is amazing!"

Other than jumping out of Bullheads, this is the most exciting aerial fiasco I've ever been in! Rushing through the air, the wind in my face, my gauntlets giving me more of a lift to go further and continue this amazing feeling; and apparently I'm not the only one getting a kick out of this.

"Woohoo!" Yang yelled as she kept flipping through the air, while I made sure not to make eye contact with her.

'Please don't see me…please don't notice me…' I think while I try to fire again and instead hear a 'click'.

'Shit!' I work fast to replace the dust crystal belts, falling closer and closer to the tree line. Just as I load in the new belts, I see an opening with a small pond, a few boulders, a group of beowolves, and one Sarah Lancaster seeming to be in a sticky situation.

'Time for a landing' I start to adjust my landing to land on the head of one of the beowolves, just as Sarah looks up, I'm right above the beowolf's head.

"Feel the might of Armstrong!" I yell out as I activated my shield to soften the fall on its head, crushing its entire body with a large 'crunch'. I then quickly push off to jump over Sarah and land a flying right jab into an alpha beowolf's face, making the mask crack into his skin. I use the momentum to jump off and send him flying into a tree while rolling back and jumping next to Sarah.

"Ma'am" I say to her while I nod my head.

She smiles back at me and tips her hat with her left hand "Howdy there, Jason."

"So, who are your friends here?" I ask jokingly while turning to face the second half of the circle.

"Eh, more of a few problems, no big deal" she says while loading another box of rockets into her weapon.

I nod and raise my fists while I take note of the area. When I see the small pond behind the group of beowolves, I get a great idea.

"Sarah, can you cover me while I head to the lake? I got an idea" I say while switching the firing mechanisms to 'ice'.

She looks to me and raises her eyebrows "Why, what'cha up to?" she asks.

I smirk and push my glasses up "I'm going to head over to the lake and make a block of ice, I'll throw it to you, you hit it, and the shards will fly into them, any stragglers leftover from that we'll deal with together."

She smirks and tips her hat down "Got'cha, on my mark" she says while raising the barrel. As soon as the beowolves began to run towards us, she flipped a switch on the right side of her rocket launcher, making the barrel expand slightly. When she pulled the trigger, a small cluster of rockets flew forward and hit the ground in front of them, making a small cloud of dirt and gravel "Now!"

"Roger, engaging!" I rushed forward, firing my gauntlets behind me to push me forward, jumping off of a beowolf's head to clear the way to the lake. Unfortunately, a beowolf jumped out of the lake and flew towards me, making me have to fight it "Get back in your hiding spot!" I yelled while moving towards him, pulling my right fist back and throwing it into a wild, airborne haymaker, launching him back into the water with a missing head.

After that small fight, I landed on the bank of the pond and stuck my hands in, overcharging a shot in each gauntlet to freeze a ten foot chunk of ice. I picked it up and looked back to see Sarah on top of one of the boulders, fighting off the demented wolves. I smirked and lifted the chunk of ice over my head. "Sarah, get ready!"

She looked up to me and nodded with a grin, shifting her weapon to hammer she readied herself. "Take this!" I yelled as I stomped on the ground and sent the piece of ice hurdling in the air above the wolves as they all watched it fly. Then, with a grunt, Sarah brought her hammer down in an overhead arc, shattering the ice and sending the shards forward to pierce through bone and flesh, ending the lives of however many beowolves were left.

She smiled and jumped down, putting her large cannon on her shoulder mount and walking towards me, I retracting my gauntlets and walked over to her. "That went well" I say while taking out my butane lighter and Rentor brand cigarettes. I flicked my wrist up and pulled out the exposed cigarette end with my lips, putting the pack into my left coat pocket. I flicked my lighter top open and pushed down on the cog, making a small flame and lighting the end of the paper rolled cancer stick. I flicked the lighter closed, put it into my right pocket, and took a breath of smoke filled air, puffing it away from Sarah to make sure I didn't get any near her. "Want one?" I asked her while looking back at her

She shook her head and pulled her hat off "And get the risk of gettin' what my Gramps has? Nah, I'll pass" she said with a wave while whipping her forehead, shaking her head a bit making her braided ponytail wave a bit.

I shrug and walk past her "Alright, well, we might as well get moving before more Grimm show u-…do you hear that?" I ask a bit panicked. She looks around while putting her hat back on and raises an eyebrow at me "You jokin' with me?" she asks while putting her hands on her hips. I shake my head and put out my cigarette before flicking it away "no, it's like a…buzzing sound…" I say while looking behind Sarah. I shrug and look to her "Never mind, let's just get moving" I say before turning around and walking to the objective.

1st POV: Ickarus Tesla

I slunk in the shadows, Plink in my hands, passing by several open areas. A few minutes ago I saw a green dressed man with a streak of pink in his hair kill a King Taijitu, which then an pink haired girl came out of the trees and poked his nose '…some kids are just too weird…'. Then I saw blonde and boisterous fight a couple of Ursai only to run into Miss Mysterio 'that bow on her head can't be a coincidence…can it?' Now I'm walking past an area filled with more Ursai. 'I hate bears…' it's always been a personal thing for me, don't know why other than they're the ones responsible for one of the most annoying conspiracy theories to ever exist.

"'Hey, guys, here's an amazing question! 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' of course it fucking does, it's a living thing! All sentient living things do five things: eat, drink, sleep, shit, and piss! Whoever made that stupid question better pray that they don't meet me!" I say to myself while I walk near the edge of a small clearing. After glancing over it with my rifle I wander into it.

I sigh and put Plink on my back, walking over to a tall willow tree in the middle. I shrug and walk over to it, looking around and putting my left hand onto it, leaning on it and rubbing the bridge of my nose with my right hand. "God, I'm only seventeen years old and I feel like I'm fifty…" I say to myself before looking up and to my right, only to see a small silhouette of a White Fang member oddly enough.

'What in the…how and why?' I start to stand straight up, pulling Boom off my chest and aiming towards it with both hands. But the moment I blinked, the silhouette disappeared. I stared at the area for a bit before I shook my head and was about to put Boom away until I turned around and visibly shuddered at the sight of which I saw.

There, about fifteen feet away from me, was a White Fang member; about eighteen years old, a lizard tail behind him, wearing the usual black hoodie and blue jeans with a white mask covering his face…or at least…most of it…

My eyes widened and I took aim yet again. His head…half of it was blown off…the left side of his face was almost entirely gone…but it felt like he stared me down with both eyes. "Y…you're…" I tried to make words, but they couldn't come to me. He looked at me with his one eye, the left side of his head bleeding from the areas not castrated by burn scars "Some hero you are" he said calmly.

I frowned and pulled the hammer back on Boom "Shut up! You were going to blow my head off with that shotgun you had in your hands!" I said, looking down next to him to see the very object I spoke of: a red and black pump-action shotgun, the stock-grip still slightly in his right hand.

"I was eighteen…" he said as he began to walk towards me

"I was fucking twelve!"

"You didn't need to kill me."

"You would have killed me!" I yelled while pushing Boom forward a bit more.

"And you decided to continue our reign of terror when you blew my head off, you could have been dead, and the world would have been in a better state!"

"I was following orders!" I yelled as I heard a rustling from a nearby bush to see a few Ursai pop out. I turned back to see that the W.F. grunt was gone, but I had no time to dwell on it as I rolled to the side and flipped Boom's cylinder out to replace it with HE .45 magnum rounds, only for armored vehicles, heavily armored W.F. soldiers, and Grimm.

I grunted and began to fan the hammer on the small group of Ursai facing off against me, using Marksman Eye for increased precision. After disposing them, I reloaded and holstered Boom, only to hear thumping behind me and turn around to see an Ursa Major pack right into me and send me flying into a few trees. I let out a grunt of pain, pounded my fist into the ground and pulled Reserved from its sheathe in a back handed grip, charging forward. The oversized, armored bear charged towards me as well, standing on its hind legs at the last second to slash at me. I took this opportunity to slide on my knees between his legs, turn around and jump on his back, stabbing my knife into his neck and reaching for Zap with my left hand while he shook around violently.

The shaking was enough for me to make me drop Zap and lose the grip I had on Reserved, making me roll back to draw Zip and aim it with both hands. It stood back up and turned to face me as I flipped the switch on Zip from 'single shot' to 'triple burst' to 'unload' and with one squeeze of the trigger began to empty out the entire fifteen round magazine, the shots scattering around its torso and face.

As I was dropping the empty mag and reached down to grab a fresh one, a purple and black blur flew from the tree line behind it and with a single motion, cut off its head with a blade of electricity. The figure rolled to soften the landing and stood up in front of me, the blade in their right hand continued to spark, then with one fluid motion sheathed it.

I blinked a few times and sighed "Hey again, Ec" I said as I holstered Zip, walking past the bat ninja. Her ears flicked and she turned to watch me as I grabbed Zap off the ground and holstered it, along with pulling Reserved out of the Ursa's neck and sheathing it.

She crossed her arms and looked at me with her whitish-blue eyes piercing through me "First off: don't ever call me that again; second off: you're welcome; third off: what in the living hell was with the screaming? Were you really that scared of an Ursa?" she asked while lowering her arms.

I narrowed my eyes, curved my lips into a small frown, and lowered my eyebrows "Personal issues…PTSD" I said simply while pulling Plink off my back and swapping the rounds from ice to fire.

She raised an eyebrow at me and threw her hands up "Yes, because this is the best place for a mentally unstable soldier to be" she said while looking at me. She then sighed and put her hands on her hips "Sorry, didn't mean to get like that. I just find it a bit odd that a kid with military experience would be at a Hunter academy."

"One: it's fine, I know it seems a bit odd for someone like me to be here but I owe it to someone; and two: I'm not crazy, I'm perfectly sane…now if you'll excuse me I need to blow up a body" I said while walking over to the dead Ursai.

"No need, it'll dissipate, remember?" she says while I walk up to it. I stop and look over to her, then put my rifle on my back.

"Yeah, good point. Forgot about that."

"Why, too many dead bodies?" she asked before thinking about what she said "Goddamn it, sorry..."

"Why? You're right on too many dead people…I guess I've been fighting people more than I have Grimm…"

Echo raised her eyebrows and let her hands fall to her sides while she walked to me and pat my shoulder "Meh, it'll get better…let's get moving."

I nodded and turned the other way to continue on route to the temple ruins with my new…partner '…god this is going to get awkward…'

Once we reached the tree line, Echo turned to me and rubbed the back of her head "Mind if I ask a favor from you?"

I shrugged and looked to her "Surprise me."

She pointed up to the branches "I usually travel in forests by jumping from branch to branch, gives me a vantage point and takes you further with less effort" she said while looking into my eyes and drawing her left wakizashi in a lose grip, the air chilling around it and emitting frost.

I shook my head and pinched the bridge of my nose with my right hand, my left going on my hip "What is this, a ninja movie?"

She bumped her right shoulder into my left one and glared at me "Just trust me" she said while jumping up to a sturdy branch. I shook my head and jumped up to grab the branch, after which I swung up and steadied myself. 'Okay…easy does it, Ick…easy does it…the last time you tried something like this you had a broken leg for a week…damn you Aryc!'

I shook my head and looked over to Echo, who was changing the frost crystals in her sword while leaning on the tree, looking at me the entire time. "Good job, you made it up here" she chuckled "Now, push off with your dominate foot and land on that branch" she said then while pointing her sword to a sturdy branch about ten feet away.

I looked at her dryly and shook my head "This is going to suck all kinds of nut…" I said before pushing off and barely landing on the branch with my heels, circling my arms backwards to try and balance myself. I then felt a hand grab the back of my armor and pull me back to get my balance, not having to look who it was I slumped my shoulders slightly when I heard slow clapping "Not bad for a first time, soldier boy" Echo said with an amused huff.

I covered my face with my right hand and slid it down "Don't ever call me that again."

She rolled her eyes and jumped to the next branch "Fine, just remember to keep up the momentum. The more time you spend jumping from branch to branch, the less you have to worry about slipping up. Just remember to plan out where you're going to land" she said while sheathing her sword and putting her hands on her hips.

I shook my head and pushed off, then immediately pushed off the next branch, Echo right next to me, taking longer strides due to her lighter frame and more experience on doing this kind of stuff.

'This is going to be an ass-blasting-bitchloid…'

Bang! I'm once again sorry for the delay! Life, y'know!

So, two Tesla members, the ninja, and the cowgirl. Now who next? Ah yes! The other Captains and the twins, but that is for later!

Sorry for being cryptic about the drama in the forest, not trying to be Wash but that'll be important down the line ^^'!

Anyways, I'm out my fellow zombies, BRAAAAAAINS!