Dove's pov

Flying lazily just bellow the cloud cover allowed me to keep a distant eye on team Ruby, Yang and JNPR as well as the members of my own group. Emerald said if we were going to stay together then we should come up with a group name, however the name was very much still in the works, as Mercury and Emerald kept fighting over who was going to be the leader.

A disturbance up a head caught my attention and I swooped over spotting team JNPR and co struggling with a large word of grim. Frowning I wondered if I would be able to control nature in this form, mentally shrugging I concentrated and suddenly grim started vanishing as the ground opened up and swallowed them whole. Soon though it wasn't enough. Calling on the vines I started tangling the grim up trying extra hard to catch more than one grim with the same vine if possible.

Spotting a large beowolf, possibly an alpha, creeping up on Yang I dropped into a steep dive morphing into my human form as I did. Spreading my wings just enough to slow my decent to a safe speed, I landed with a loud crunch and squelch onto of the beowolf's head. Freeing my blade rings from my staffs mini form I started fighting killing of as many grim as I could, completely unabashed using my maiden powers to help.

Relieving another beowolf of its head I paused to catch my breath and saw nearly all the grim were taken care of and the few remaining could be easily dealt with. Morphing back into my dove form I took to the sky watching from above as they started to asses damage done, when they saw just how many dead grim littered the ground they seemed surprised. Especially when they saw some of the grim that had been ripped apart by vines or half swallowed by the ground and then killed.

"What the hell happened to these grim?" Yang said as she kicked the quickly dissolving form of a beowolf.

"I don't know but this one looks like the ground just opened up and swallowed it" Jaune seemed unnaturally interested in the corpse.

"And who do we know that had control over nature?" Pyrrha was smirking as she spoke and when the others caught on they all spun around searching for me.

"Spring?!"

"Spring!"

"Spring?" and so on.

They continued shouting for several long moments before Ren called out "there!" Focusing my gaze on him I saw him staring directly back at me and pointing, 'oh for the love of...' whipping around I circled back to my new team mates.

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Landing lightly I morphed and greeted Mercury with a peck on the lips, Emerald with a grin and wave and Neo with a wink and salute. "So guys what did I miss while scouting?"

"Not much, what about you? Did you see anything interesting?" It took a minute for what Emerald said to sink in what with Mercury's fingers rubbing circles on my hip, which was very distracting I will have you know.

Sighing I replied "yeah, the others got caught up with a huge group of grim so I helped them out and then the ninja saw me so I had to beat a hasty retreat."

"Well crap!"

"Yeah, thats what I thought. Though at least they shouldn't be able to track me..." The sound of crackling undergrowth cut me off and the four of us turned to face the sound in time to come face to face with team JNPR, Ruby and Yang.

"Well crap!"

"Yeah, thats what I was thinking."

there was a brief uncomfortable pause and then "What the hell you're working with them!?"

Wincing slightly I opened my mouth to reply and defend my new team however Yang cut me off "I knew it! I knew you couldn't be trusted. Your with them, so your against us!"

Scowling I said "you don't know anything about me and my team, thank you very much. And how often do people who are against you save your lives?"

Emerald turned to look at me "wait your team?"

Grinning I said "yeah my team. Team DENM."

"Huh, that works."

"Yeah good for me too." Neo just nodded at me, which I took as her approval to lead the team as well as the name.

"Wha...do you mind we were discussing your treachery and how does Spring start with a 'D'?"

Rolling my eyes I said "I never said my name was Spring just that you could call me that, my actual name starts with 'D' and they all know what my name is. And what treachery?"

"The treachery where you're working with the bad guys!" apparently even Ruby was getting in on this action. I was surprised Nora hadn't gotten involved as she was normally a lot more outspoken however she seemed content to stand next to Ren and watch the drama unfold.

Growling I snapped "they are not the bad guys anymore, they've changed and they are helping me to help you."

"Oh yeah, like I'm going to believe that!"

"Frankly I don't much care what you believe, however we are leaving come on team DENM lets get out of here." Smiling up at Mercury I slipped my hand into his and our team started to leave the clearing. A soft whoosh was the only warning given. Spinning around while yanking out my staff out I lifted the wooden weapon while willing it to expand. I was just in time for a long red and gold blade to imbed itself in the end of the staff in front of Emerald. The rest of my team spun around at the loud thunk of metal embedding in wood.

Emerald stared wide eyed at the blade that would have pierced her chest, before glancing at me and muttering a shocked "thanks"

"Your welcome," looking up to meet Pyhrra's gaze I spoke coldly "you will regret that."

Pyrrha just scowled and said "you don't know what she has done, what she made me do..." she choked slightly at the end looking horrified, Jaune quickly comforted her. wrapping an arm around her and pressing a soft kiss to the side of her head.

"yes your match against penny," I flicked a glance at Emerald to find her looking down.

"I didn't know you would do that I just...we needed you to freak out, I didn't think you would...I...I'm sorry I didn't mean to...she's a robot right can't they fix her?" Emerald looked almost desperate.

"No, she was one of a kind and you can't just patch her back together again, it wouldn't work." Ruby seemed slightly less harsh than before, probably from seeing the distress on Emerald's face.

Sighing I rubbed Emerald's back softly and said "hey you're trying to make up for what you did, you can't really do more."

Peeking back up at the group before us I spoke quietly but firmly "we are leaving and you will let us. we are not hurting you, in fact you attacked us and we haven even retaliated, so you can just step back and let us go or else."

Yang looked ready to make me actually think up what we would actually do as and or else, as I didn't want to fight them. Not for real anyway. However Ruby held her hand up and said "okay."

"Wha...we're just letting them go?"

"yes"

Nodding at Ruby I turned and led my team away, keeping half an ear open for attacks until we were quite some distance away from team JNPR, Yang and Ruby. Needless to say no one really slept that night as we were all on watch for attacks.