Hey guys good news found out the last assignment has been delayed so expect another chapter relatively soon. Anyway I enjoyed writing this one for some reason so enjoy.
I don't own RWBY if I did I would make and sell that Risk cross Yu Gi Oh board game.
"What do you mean you can't find her?" screamed Yang.
"Exactly that Yang, we've looked everywhere," Blake calmly replied.
Shortly after the Rapier Wasps the teams had scattered in different directions and so far everyone had returned except for Ruby and that was over an hour ago. To say Yang was taking it well was to say that Grimm were friendly, a complete lie.
"Look I know you're worried about her but we need to wait for Ren and Pyrrha to get back with Prof. Goodwitch. We have a better chance of finding her if we co-ordinate together," reasoned Weiss.
"More importantly where did those Rapier Wasps come from and why'd they only go after Ruby?" questioned Jaune.
Everyone stopped to look at him. He was right that was not normal behaviour for them, to attack all of them sure but to single out one person and to pursue them afterwards. 'Something else is going on here and when I find out what there will be hell to pay.' Hearing noises behind her Yang turned to see team CRDL laughing as they came out of the woods.
"And where the hell have you been?" she demanded.
"Where me and MY team have been is no concern of yours Blondie," responded Cardin.
Yang growled as her eyes flashed red before feeling Blake grab her shoulder and shake her head. Taking deep breaths Yang lowered her fists and slowly her eyes returned to their normal colour. Cardin snorted at this display and began looking around, a frown growing on his face.
"Hey where's the shrimp?" he asked.
"Missing, a swarm of Rapier Wasps attacked and we were separated. That was over an hour ago," informed Blake. "You wouldn't know anything about that would you?" asked Blake, narrowing her eyes.
Cardin and his team briefly hesitated before sharing a glance between them. Unfortunately this didn't go unnoticed by Yang. Running up to them she grabbed Cardin's manhood, making a show of deploying Ember Celica in front of him.
"You bastards! If I find that even one hair is missing from her head you going to be known as Ms. Winchester got it?" she screamed into his face.
"Miss Xiao Long put him down!" ordered Goodwitch.
As Ren and Pyrrha rejoined their teams Prof. Goodwitch turned to address everyone. "We will get to the bottom of what happened later for now our primary focus is finding Miss Rose, understood?"
Receiving nods from everyone she took out her scroll, "according to this the last known position of Miss Rose's scroll is south from here. We will split into teams to cover more ground I will go with team RWBY," she paused before turning to Yang.
"If we haven't found her by the time it gets dark we'll call off the search and begin again in the morning with a proper search party. Is that understood Miss Xiao Long?" demanded Goodwitch.
Yang wanted to argue but knew there was no point, so she just kept her mouth shut and nodded. 'Hold on Ruby we'll find you.'
"Umm… Nice Ursa, friendly Ursa… you wouldn't hurt an innocent little girl now would you?" joked Red as she struggled to get up.
Her legs screamed in protest at this and she winced. The Ursa sensing an easy meal began to approach her growling and Red began backing up in fear. 'This is not good I can't fight it in this condition,' she thought panicky. She kept backing up until her foot hit water, taking a quick glance behind her revealed a large lake and flowing waterfall. 'That must have been how I washed up here,' she realized. It would have been rather beautiful if not for the current situation. Turning her attention back to the Ursa she saw that it was much closer than before. Roaring the Ursa charged Red who barely managed to dive to the side in time, the claws creating large tears in her cloak.
Cursing Red began looking for an escape route, her eyes rested on the same log she'd used before. Only problem, there was an angry giant bear between her and it. 'I have to get the timing exactly right,' frowned Red. Yelling at the top of her lungs Red charged the Ursa, who stood up to give her a very strong bear hug. Red smirked using the mud to her advantage she slid between the Ursa's hind legs, grabbed the log and pushed herself off the shore. Laughing that her stupid plan had worked she turned to look at the shore and the laughter died in her throat. The Ursa had jumped in and was dog paddling after her. Red began swimming to the other shore as fast as her broken body would allow, praying to reach it before the Ursa reached her.
"Hey Cardin, do think Ruby's ok?" asked Dove.
"I don't know man I hope so, the prank wasn't meant to go this far only get back at her," admitted Cardin.
"Somehow I don't think the Blonde Brawler will think the same," commented Sky.
All of them shuddered at that thought. Snapping out of it Cardin looked around, this was the last known location that Ruby's scroll had reported before the signal was lost. It didn't feel Cardin with great hope that it was at the waterfall that gave this place its name or that a storm was brewing above them. Looking down on the lake below Cardin blinked, 'was that a flash of red or are my eyes playing tricks on me?'
"Hey Dove pass me the binoculars," he ordered said teammate.
Looking through them Cardin's heart skipped several beat. There floating in the middle of the lake were large strips of a red material. 'Oh God, no no no! Please let me be wrong.'
Turning to his team he ordered, "We've got to get down there now! And one of you get ready to contact Prof. Goodwitch."
Sprinting as fast as they could team CRDL found themselves on the shore of the great lake. Spreading out they began their search, as the storm began to unleash a mighty downpour.
"Ruby! Where are you? We're so sorry, come on out everyone is worried!" called Cardin.
Hearing a sound coming from behind him he turned hoping to see Ruby. Instead the sight that greeted him was one of the biggest Ursas he'd ever seen, a strip of red cloth hanging out its mouth. Cardin felt a something wet run down his check and it wasn't from the rain.
Someone pointed out that I do a lot of cliff hanger endings for chapters. Believe it or not they are usually unintentional, this is the first that isn't. Anyway hope you enjoyed A Rose by Any Other Name brought to you by Dro... What?... We're not done?... I see...