A/N: Another chapter, seems like this story has enough fuel to dish out one or two more chapters without writer's block from interfering. Who knows, maybe even more? Anyway hope you enjoy this chapter.

Anyway, story related stuff: Since Yang is currently trekking to Patch, it's gonna take a while before she gets there. Don't worry the next chapter will be about her discovering something about her "arm". But for now… character filler!

Specifically… where are they now! :D

"Ren! Ren! Ren! Please, stay awake!"

Jaune could only stand there and watch the scene before him. Although silent, his shoulders were shaking as silent tears ran down his face. Just a short distance to the entrance of Atlas, they had encountered another small pack of Grimm just before the group could actually enter.

Despite this, there was nothing significant going on during the fight. However, when Nora was fighting against a Nevermore, it just took one single event to make this situation from normal to bad. That single event was a single stray feather from an attack managed to pierce an unsuspecting Lie Ren's heart. So here the group was, watching Ren slowly die from a fatal wound as Nora was crying and pleading uncontrollably for him to not die.

"Sorry Nora…" Ren tried to comfort his childhood friend and partner as he coughed up blood "But it looks like I'm not going to make it"

Nora shook her head in denial "We're near Atlas… maybe they can … (sniffle) maybe they can…"

Jaune slowly trudged to Nora's side and calmly placed a hand on her shoulder. This only caused her to cry even harder "NOOOO! We-we just lost Pyrrha, not you too!" With that Nora placed her head face down into Ren's bloody chest, while Ren and Jaune tried to comfort the emotionally heartbroken girl.

Ruby's mind finally came back in action as she realized something. Summoning the golden man to her side, she looked at him with desperation "Can you heal his wound? You could heal all of my wounds with no problems, so can you heal Ren!?"

While Nora was too heartbroken to notice, Jaune looked at Ruby with concern "Ruby… are you alright? Who're you talking to?"

The golden man didn't answer, however it began to fly to Ren's body as Ruby's heart flew with the man 'Maybe he can! Maybe he can help Ren survive!' Then the man suddenly stopped just mere inches away from Ren.

"What are you doing…?" Ruby looked in disbelief as the golden figure stopped and turned towards her direction "What are you doing! You can heal me, so why can't you can help Ren!" In that moment, she took another step toward the man in anger, only for him to move another inch toward Ren.

'Huh?' Ruby stared at the man as she took another step forward, only to see the same result "Do… you have a range limit? Is that why you stopped?" The man didn't answer, but when she took more steps forward, he reached Ren's location and hovered over the body of the martial artist.

'He does! He somehow has a range limit! But that means he can still help Ren!' Ruby ran and crouched next to Ren's side as the man inspected the wound.

"Ruby…? What's going on, who are you talking to?" Jaune was now worried

"I'll explain later, but I think I have a way to let Ren live!" At her words, Nora's head whipped up and she looked at Ruby with desperation.

"Really!?" Ruby gave a hesitant nod and then found Nora on her side as she fiercely hugged Ruby "Oh thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"N…Nora! I need air and all of my focus to do this!" With that Ruby was released from Nora's hug and she turned to the man "Ok… try your best…"

The golden man reached into her pocket and pulled out a bullet. However from Jaune, Nora, and Ren's fading perspective her pouch suddenly opened on its own and a bullet hovered out of it.

'What is that bullet doing?' All three members thought while Ruby's thought was more like 'What is he going to do?'

Suddenly there was a blur as the bullet disappeared and then reemerged in Ren's heart…

"WHAT!?"

Ren coughed up more blood as a more foreign and bigger injury entered his heart. Nora screamed and buried her head in Jaune's shoulder, who was shell shocked at the sudden cruel attack. Ruby whipped her head to the man "What are you doing!" However before something else could happen, Ren's body jolted suddenly.

"AGH!" Ren suddenly began to writhe in pain while the bullet began to stretch and transform into Ren's own skin and flesh.

The others looked in shock as Ren finally settled down and was panting from the painful treatment. Despite the pain Ren went through, the hole was mysteriously gone.

"It's healed…?" Nora hesitantly brushed her finger over Ren's skin as she inspected where the wound was. To her surprise and relief, it felt as if the flesh was never harmed in the first place. Instead of cheering, she started to cry again as she hugged her friend gently.

"…" Ren didn't say anything as he allowed Nora to recover from the shock of almost losing her childhood friend. However he did do something to cheer her up, he lifted a finger and…

"Boop."

"… (Giggle)... Boop…"

Jaune placed a hand to his face and rubbed it, letting out a relieved sigh at the fact that his friend was going to survive. He then turned to Ruby "So… explanation? Who were you talking to?"

Ruby fidgeted as she tried to find the right words to describe her situation without seeming crazy "Well… you see, three days ago I… lost my semblance for speed and instead of my Aura… I have this golden man appear whenever I flare my Aura… that's the best explanation I can give."

Ren looked in Ruby's direction and seemed to freeze, Nora noticed this and looked in Ruby's direction but she couldn't see anything else out of the ordinary.

"Ruby… this gold man… is he right next to you…?" Ren cautiously decided to ask Ruby.

Ruby had a shocked expression as she tried to look for any abnormal figures near Ren, but she couldn't find any. "So, Ren…" She silently pleaded the gold man to do something, in which it decided to pose (the classic hands on legs pose), "Can you see this man?"

"Yes…" Ren nodded "So, what does this mean?"

Ruby rubbed her head awkwardly "Well, I guess this means you have something like my condition…but I don't see anything out of the ordinary…"

Jaune decided to break the two's analysis "Look, I know this is a bit important to figure out. But a lot has happened today…" Jaune trailed off after remembering the aspect that one of their friends almost died. "…So let's just retire for the night." Everybody decided to agree and tried to relax tonight before they reach Atlas. However what Ruby didn't notice was that in one of her pockets, there was a sharp point coming out of the tiny hole it made. In addition, nobody noticed the strange tiny scratch on Ren's hand, which wasn't here before.

As the group slept, Ren groaned and turned to the other side before remaining still. A small patch of yellow slime crawled from the back of Ren's collar and started to inch itself toward the remains of the deer the group managed to hunt for dinner. It slowly consumed bones as the bones were assimilated into the slime's body and then it proceeded to crawl back to Ren as it settled itself back into the back of the martial artist. The only response from its user was just a groan from the sudden feeling of something on his back.

"We're going to lose her! Don't let that traitor get away!"

Blake turned a corner just in time for a hail of bullets to whiz by her. When Blake had run away, somehow Adam had been informed of her current actions and this decided to create an agenda to capture her. Unfortunately, the other members were not so fond of traitors especially a certain maiden. In addition, she had witnessed to actually help defend Beacon as well as try to stop some of their schemes earlier. So now any White Fang member who saw her was happy to take her down with bullets, despite the request of Blake to be brought to Adam.

Turning another corner she cursed her luck as it turned out to be a dead end. Looking back she could she the flashlight beams coming closer as they closed in on her location.

'You're going to need to help me again. Let's do this.' She took a few steps back and then she started to take a running start just as the White Fang grunts spotted her. As she jumped and kicked off the wall towards the right wall, numerous beams of light illuminated the dead end.

"Stop! You have nowhere to go!" Despite this warning they opened fire, willing to cripple her instead of asking her to surrender first.

Suddenly, an arm emerged from the wall and she took it in stride as she grabbed it and used it to throw her momentum upwards. Then another arm appeared where gravity was going to take hold and she grabbed it and swung her body upward again. Then both arms disappeared, replaced with legs that created a makeshift platform to land and then she used it to jump onto the roof.

The White Fang members could only stare in confusion at the former White Fang member's stylish but bizarre escape. "Hey… wasn't her semblance shadow clones?" One of the members decided to ask the other dazed members.

"Yeah… but now… I'm not sure what happened, but… I think we need to update our data." The entire team could only continue to stare at the spot where they saw Blake disappear.

Blake collapsed to collect her breath after she made a significant distance away from the group that spotted her. She felt something inside her shift until someone emerged from her body. The figure was in a fully clad scuba gear with the letter D all over its body. The figure had appeared when a member had found her sleeping in a supposedly hidden spot. Just before the member could actually call out, a leg had emerged from Blake's stomach and knocked the member out cold with a kick. Ever since, Blake had gotten used to the man's presence and its abilities.

"Thanks once again…" She thanked the man despite the fact that he never responded to her verbally. "You know at first I thought my semblance disappearing was another mistake. A mistake I made after I allowed Yang to be hurt and bringing him and the entire White Fang here. But now, I'm getting used to the coordination between two of us…" The man did nothing except once again "dived down" into her skin. She sighed once again as she looked at the ruins of Beacon "I wonder what the others are doing…" She decided to think about her friends later as she decided to close her eyes and go into the realm of sleep.

A/N: So… two new stand users has emerged in this story! Tune in next story when we cut back to Yang as she meets a face from another world (No it's not Diego… or AW Diego… or Funny Valentine). Like always if you have any comments or criticism then just say it.