RWBY: Team VIDH

by For We Are Dust

Team VIDH (Video), Composed by VanossGaming, I AM WILDCAT, Daithi de Nogla and H2O Delirious have entered the world of remnant. And things escalate quickly! Oddly, these characters fit into the world of Remnant and act as if everything is just a game! These characters are alternate versions of themselves designed to fit in this universe obviously. Can there even be any plot?

3. Chapter 3

"Oh my god can we keep it?!"

Blake stepped in front of her. "Ruby, it's a wild animal. You know we can't take it back to Beacon."

"But it's acting like a dog!"

"It probably EATS dogs!"

"Well we can't just leave it here? Do you really think it can survive off the wildlife out here?"

"You mean the grimm?", Delirious asked.

"Exactly!", Ruby threw her arms in exaggeration. Blake narrowed her eyes toward delirious. He wasn't helping.

"Come on Blake, if we leave it here it'll either die or become a grimm", Ruby pleaded.

"If we take it back it'll be captured. Scientists will want to study it. Maybe even kill it with whatever intention they have. That's no way for an animal to live. Especially this one. Putting it in captivity is probably the most ironic thing possible! Most of the world probably doesn't know it exists! It's not supposed to be real! It shouldn't be a part of the real world", Blake explained.

Vanoss started screaming in the background. "Get this goddamned thing OFF MY FACE!"

Ruby, Blake and Delirious payed him no mind. His constant struggling continued in the background however. "Come on Blake, my dog can be set on fire!"

"HOW DID YOU FIGURE THAT OUT?!", Delirious yelled in her ear.

"Never mind that! Look, Blake my point is if a creature like this was able to survive in the wild this long, and still be secluded until now, I think it can survive domestically with humans just fine. Besides, look at how much it loves you and Evan. It doesn't want to stop playing with him!", Ruby pointed.

"Put. Me. DOWN"

'THUNMP'

"OW! Hey give me back my weapon!"

Thumpthumpthumpthumpthump

'Tink'

"Oh my god it knows how to play fetch", Evan said amazed. Blake turned around and sighed. She didn't think she was going to get through to Ruby. "What if it doesn't come back with us anyway? We can't just make it leave- aaaaand it's licking my head", Blake said uncomfortably. The creature stopped and reared on it's hind legs like a startled animal. Which it was. Blake moved away in hopes of not being crushed under its other legs.

"Guys I got on its back!", Evan said leaning around its head. They looked scared. "What's wrong?"

"Evan I would get off now!", Blake said. Nervousness was clearly present in her voice.

"No it's okay guys, I think it's gonna-"

"SCREEEE!", the creature called taking off into the air.

"HAAAAAA! This thing is gonna KILL ME!", Vanoss yelled holding on for dear life.

Blake and company watched as it took off giving Evan a ride for his money. It flipped and spun and dived however it could. It certainly was fast for such a big creature. Evan's screaming almost lasted as long as the creatures.

"I warned him", Blake said. She did. She warned him.

The day before :D

"Students of Beacon, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Beacons newest team, composed of Vanoss, I am Wildcat, Daithi De Nogla and H2O Delirious. They will make team VIDH (pronounced 'video'). Lead by Vanoss!", Ozpin said. With the team announced the room filled with enthusiastic cheers and clapping just as they had for the other teams. They still didn't know their particular partners, but assumed they would just find out later. Wildcat nudged Vanoss with his elbow.

"Why do you think they made our name from our aliases? Aren't the other team names made from actual names?", he asked.

"I don't know. But I'm not gonna complain. He let us off the hook with the giant ass. What more can we ask for?", Evan said.

"With that their initiation has ended. Gentlemen", Ozpin said turning to the four of them. "Tomorrow will be your first assignment. Seeing as though it's Monday, you will have to make up for the a usual missions. They are given to the students periodically. Usually around every quarter. And seeing as though you all have come into the school late, I expect quite the result from you all. You can now return to your day.", Ozpin said casually walking off stage. The student began leaving too as there was really no purpose. Team RWBY stayed however and wanted to talk with them. And another team they had yet to meet with them. Team VIDH followed Ozpin quickly.

"Wait! Mr. Ozpin, who are our partners?", Delirious asked. Ozpin turned around.

"Oh! Let's see. Eenie meenie miney: Vanoss and Wildcat, Nogla and Delirious. Sound good? Any questions?", Ozpin said casually. They once more all raised their hands. "Good. See you tomorrow."

"Wait!", Nogla shouted.

"I thought there was no questions", Ozpin said.

"What is our mission gonna be?", Nogla asked disregarding that last statement.

"Oh, your team will be split into halves and assigned reconnaissance of a specific grimm infested area. You'd better prepare too, depending on where you're assigned you may have to leave early. You'll be with another half of a team as well. You'll also be assigned with defeating a certain quota of grimm. I believe that covers it all.", Ozpin finished.

"So we're going with our partners, and other teams partners?", Vanoss asked.

"Nope."

"Nope?!"

"Nope. Actually the opposite in fact. Vanoss will go with Delirious, and Nogla with Wildcat."

"Wait, if we haven't been assigned the mission yet how were we assigned-"

"No more questions", Ozpin said taking off rater fast. It was like he completely was evading Evans questions.

The other two teams came up to team VIDH. "Hey guys! You haven't gotten the chance to meet team JNPR. This is-"

"Hey you were the team that caused all the screaming!", Pyrrha cut Ruby off.

"Hey you're the red headed lady that's screaming right now!", Delirious yelled back.

"She's also on a cereal box", Ruby threw in.

"Cool. I'm Evan, that's Jon who just yelled at you with the hockey mask, David with the mic on his head for some reason, and Tyler with the pig mask and helmet", Evan introduced. He took off his helmet as a gesture of goodwill. Jaune walked up and offered a handshake. Taking his hand Jaune decided to introduce his team.

"I'm Jaune, leader of team JNPR, that's my partner Pyrrha, and those two are Ren and Nora. Although Ren's last name makes up the R of our team. His first is Lie", He explained. "So, why do you guys wear masks?"

"We just get used to it after hiding for so long. It's like another face", Delirious said. He didn't speak for Nogla, because he just didn't have a mask in particular.

"Aren't you worried they'll break?", Jaune asked.

"Why? It's not like your clothes break whenever something attacks any of you", Wildcat said.

"He's got a point", Yang said. "Although things are still able to cut my hair in combat. It's like a huge plot hole if you ask me. Especially since it can light on fi-"

"So what are you guys doing tomorrow? Classes already figured out?", Ruby asked.

"Well, yeah but we're going on a mission", Evan said.

"A missions? This late in the quarter? Why not just wait till the next one?", Weiss asked.

"I don't know. Why wouldn't he send us as a whole team with our partners, after he just assigned us as a whole team and with our partners?", Wildcat asked sarcastically.

"Wait, you're not going with your team or your partners? Then who else are you going with? You have to have four people for a mission", Blake said. Ruby's scroll went off.

Zzzt Zzzt

"Oh, SON OF A BIT-"

"RUBY!", Yang said covering her mouth. Then Ruby bit her fingers.

"Ow!"

"BITCH!, Ruby finished.

Linebreak彡ﾟ◉ω◉ )つー *

"I shouldn't have asked", Blake said. Ruby only sighed.

"It's not like it would make a difference. Ozpin picked us for some reason and I doubt you not asking would have stopped it", Ruby said gripping onto her bag straps. They both had their usual bags. The mission in particular wasn't supposed to be a long one, but they had them anyway. You never know when an emergency would need it.

"Hey guys", they heard Delirious say. Vanoss was right behind them.

"Sup."

They also had on their bags. Blake made sure to check Ruby's bag before they left. "You didn't bring the dog, right Ruby?"

"Nope."

"Are you sure?", Blake asked again.

"Yes Blake, you can check my bag yourself!"

"I did. But last time you brought Zwei you also managed to bring a whole cooked chicken. I don't know how, but if your bag is still even half the size, that means Zwei could still be in there", Blake said seriously. "But I don't sense him, so I'll take your word for it."

"I don't sense a dog either", Vanoss said.

"See?",said Ruby reassuringly. "With you and Evan using both your combined hearing and seeing We don't even need Zwei. The only thing he could outclass us in is smell."

"Good", Blake said a little more relaxed.

"Besides, Yang has him!"

"RUBY!"

"Wait, Vanoss you have better seeing? Is that from your Owl faunas side?", Delirious asked.

"Yup. I'm better than the average owl", he said proudly.

"But dumber than the average person?", Delirious said.

"Shut up!"

"Good morning everyone!", Oobleck said in a cheery voice with a rather large bag again.

"Oh no, not him again", Ruby said quietly to himself.

"Alright! Glad to be back out in the field today. Are we ready for our expedition today?", Oobleck said.

"Um, Mr. Oobleck, who is teaching your class today if you're coming with us again?", Blake asked.

"Why how observant of you! Looking out for your classmates education I see. But today the class will be learning from Professor Peach as it turns out. Now who do we have here?", Oobleck said zipping over to Vanoss and Delirious.

"Hey you're the guy who was explaining the rules for our initiation match!", Delirious said.

"Ah, yes. Quite the interesting match I must say. But Mr. Vanoss, please refrain from turning into a bus a crushing your teammates today please?"

"I-"

"Great! Let's get going!", he said already on the airship. The four of them began loading onto the airship before it took off to wherever it was they were going.

"Do you think Yang and Weiss are doing any better with their mission?", Ruby asked Blake.

'I don't know. We'll have to ask when we get back.", Blake said.

With the other squad

"Nogla how the fuck did the giant pancake ass get covered in THAT much maple syrup? I think there's more syrup than pancakes now!", Wildcat said looking at their food statue still there.

"Well ya see I guess that Nora chick was planning on eating it a some point, so she covered it in the syrup. But she was pretty upset when I told her there were explosives in it. At least the sugar will preserve the pancakes until we get rid of it", Nogla said crossing his arms.

"What? When the fuck did you put an explosive in it? And WHY?", Wildcat asked.

"Well I was planning to test my new explosives", Nogla said reaching into his bag. He pulled out a disk shaped device the size of a pancake. It had a black metallic look to it and a red light in the center. It almost looked like a landmine.

"What the fuck is that?!"

"This is the Puncake Mk. IV. It explodes with the force of four C4 detonations", he said proudly.

"Why the hell did you put it in there?"

"It was going to be an explosion of comedy", Nogla punned.

"Dude, seriously?", Wildcat asked deadpanning.

"YOU MAKE PUNS TOO?!", Yang yelled running over.

"Oh jesus fucking christ not two horrible pun enthusiasts...", Wildcat said facepalming his pig mask.

"Believe me it's only going to get worse", Weiss said standing beside him.

Back with the other four

The airship had just taken off. The briefing was taking place immediately as they had no briefing prior to this.

"Alright everyone, listen up. The area we will be arriving is at the farthest end know of the Emerald forest. There lies a pass there which leads to a very high summit of cliff and Rocks and what have you", Oobleck explained. (Prepare for self inserted area)

Ruby's hand raised. "You mean the Scott Peaks?"

"Precisely Ruby", Oobleck said. (A/N: I needed some place with a very high altitude, and mount Glen was apparently apparently low enough for people to actually make construction on. So I wanted an area rather natural and that didn't include mount, or mountain in the name. Believe it or not all three are different classes geographically. Anyway just deal with it for now there's a reason why.)

"Now you will not be going above a certain pass here, so at most the issue of running into Nevermores is minimal. However the pass is where you will all be meeting your quota for killing the Grimm. You will also be providing data on the sufficient types of Grimm you encounter and how many as well, as we need to ensure anyone near the pass has the appropriate information as to what they'll run into. Any questions?", Oobleck asked.

"What is our quota?", Delirious asked not bothering to raise his hand. They always got ignored when they raised their hand.

"I will inform you, when the quota is met.", Oobleck said. "Any more questions?"

"What kind of Grimm are we expected to encounter here?", Blake asked.

'Excellent question! It's a good idea to prepare ahead of time. The pass is rocky and until we reach the clearing, it's also covered by forest. Closer to the clearing is a usual concentration of Beowolf, and deeper into the forest is a smaller concentration of Ursa. However the farther the pass we go up, the rockier it gets. So land dwelling Grimm will be scarce. Nevermore are rare but more occasionally there will be Gri-"

'THUD' The airship landed.

"Ah, it appears we have arrived", Oobleck said stepping off this ship. Everyone stepped out of the small ship along with him.

"That was fast", Delirious said surprised.

"We only went over the other end of the forest. You know we had to do this on foot once", Ruby said.

"Yeah but we only went so far. We stopped at the cliffs remember? Where you cut off the Nevermore's head?", Blake said.

"Oh yeah that's true. We went another way. Ooh, do you think there will be any caves along the way?", Ruby said curiously.

"Caves? Like with bats?", Delirious said suddenly

"No like wi-"

"So there's no bats?"

"Well I-"

"Oh good for a second I thought there would be bats. Not that I have a problem with bats. Because there's no bats right?"

"Delirious are you afraid of bats?", Blake asked.

"What? No. Why would you ask something like that? Why would I be afraid of bats? It's not like there's any bats around here. There's no bats right?"

"NO. THERE ARE NO BATS!", Ruby said. "What I was trying to say is sometimes there are some archeological caves around here. Jaune and Pyrrha found one in initiation once. They said they have cave paintings on the walls and other kinds of interesting stuff."

"Yeah besides Delirious, the Grimm would probably kill the bats", Blake said.

Delirious sighed relieved. "Oh cool. Wait, are they bat Grimm?"

"No. Just the usual Deathstalker if it's a really big one. I doubt we'll find one around here though. We're up pretty high. I doubt many ancient humans could thrive up here. But if we do we should definitely check it out", Blake said.

"Hey Delirious, you have something on back", Vanoss said.

"What like a BAT?! *BOOM* GET IT OFF! *BOOM* AH HELP ME! *BOOM*"

Delirious wildly fired his shotgun into the air trying to get the imaginary bat off his back. Vanoss grabbed his shotgun mid panic before he hurt anyone.

"Easy Easy! Relax Delirious it's not a bat!", he said calming Delirious down.

"It's not?"

"No it's just feather. Jeez dude calm down", He said holding up the feather. Blake looked at it interestingly.

"Can I see that?", Blake asked.

Vanoss nodded and handed it to her gently. "Besides. We're kickass huntsmen now. A little bats not gonna be threat. It's not like a bat's anything that can seriously hurt us. Not like a snake."

(A/N: If you get the reference tell and I will love you forever. Seriously like I will take a request for anything if you are the first to tell me what that reference was from. Anything at all. I'll make a new story if need be).

"Hey Vanoss", Blake said butting in to the next possible panic attack.

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Where did you find this feather?", She asked looking at it still.

"I just said where. On Delirious' back", he said pointing to the now jittery Delirious. "Why?"

"Take a look at this feather. What do you notice?", she said holding it up.

"Its…. brown?"

"And?"

"... A light brown?"

"Evan it's huge!", she said seriously.

"So? I have lots of huge feathers. Do you want one?", he asked sarcastically.

"Is it yours? It doesn't look like yours. It's like a brown and red", she said looking into the feather.

"No. Why? What's so important? It's a feather", he said uninterestedly.

"Evan it's huge! It's bigger than your feathers and you're part bird the size of a human. What other kind of bird could drop this feather?", Blake challenged.

"So maybe it came from a small nevermore", he said still uninterested. He seriously didn't see the point in investigating a big feather.

"All grimm with feathers are completely black. This came from a living bird!", Blake finally got to the point.

"What do you think, an ostrich?", he asked.

…

…

…

"What?", Evan asked serious.

"No. An ostrich would never live on a mountain pass. And it's still too big", she said making Vanoss feel stupid.

"Well, I don't know, maybe there's like a Falcon faunus around here. Who can actually fly! You know the feathers get bigger the healthier the wings. Mine aren't too big because I neglected them. I still can't fly remember?", he explained.

"Hm. Maybe you're right", Blake said. "But we should ask Professor. Oobleck."

"Why?"

"Because if there is a bird, a LIVING bird that can survive in these conditions with the grimm, and this high up shouldn't that be noteworthy? What if it's in trouble? Or lost up here? Shouldn't we keep it in mind that it could need help?", Blake said with care in her voice.

Evan wasn't one for a lot of animal rights movements. He had himself to worry about growing up. But he did have sympathy for the animals. If they were treated anywhere near as bad as faunus were he would still stop it without a doubt.

"Okay. I understand that you're a faunus and that you have the passion to help every side. So would I", Evan said in an understanding tone. Blake's eyes widened. He knew? How had he figured it out. Oh, that's right. Ruby had mentioned her heightened hearing. She looked down. Her identity was at stake already. Evan put a hand on her shoulder.

"Relax", he said. "Delirious doesn't know."

"But he heard what Ruby said remember? He even asked about your sight", Blake said.

"Yeah, but Delirious doesn't put things together very fast. But when he does find out, he's a trustworthy guy. You know we all come from a place where all we want is to help people", Evan said reassuringly. Blake looked over his shoulder to see Ruby and Delirious. He got spooked again and swinging his weapon around while Ruby tried to calm him down in her high pitched voice. She giggled at the sight.

"I don't even think he can help himself", she said. Vanoss grabbed her hand. She was surprised but saw he was just grabbing the feather. She had forgot she still was even holding it.

"We can ask Oobleck about this though. If there is any animal that has survived out here against the grimm, it definitely worth looking into. Not a lot of animals can survive like that. Maybe if we find it, we can study it and use that science to improve how wildlife can live with grimm. Or something", Evan said letting go of her. Blake lost her train of thought.

"And I can talk with Delirious", he said walking over to Oobleck.

"Yeah", Blake replied. She looked over to Ruby and Delirious. Ruby was hanging Delirious by his hoodie with the dull end of her scythe while he screamed something about how the bats could still get him up there. She looked at her hand.

Or something… she thought to herself.

With Ruby

"Delirious I can't let you down from there unless you calm down!"

"I'm not safe!", he yelled squirming.

"Yes you are! I AM RIGHT HERE!"

"THEN YOU'RE NOT SAFE EITHER! THE BATS ARE GONNA KILL US!", he yelled still squirming. "YOU HAVE TO RUN! LEAVE ME BEHIND! THEY WON'T CATCH YOU! YOU'RE TOO FAST JUST GO!"

"I can't take you seriously while you're wearing clown makeup under a mask…", Ruby muttered to herself.

"Ruby! I swear on my mother's grave I am terrified of bats I know what they can-"

*BANG*

Ruby shot a round from her scythe while it still held him off the ground. The sound was loud enough to get him to stop.

"Your mother's grave...?", Ruby asked quietly.

His arms flopped down by his side and his legs stopped squirming and kicking around.

"Yeah. Uh… Yeah. Hey? Can-Can I come down now? I think I'm ok", he asked. The scythe folded down back into it's sniper rifle form and he landed on his feet and crouched. He grabbed his weapon he somehow managed to drop and slung it on his back. He stood back up and managed to find Ruby in front of him again.

"Hey uhh, thanks. Can we not talk about this to anyone?", he asked.

"Yeah. It's ok. I get it", she said understandingly. "My mom is gone too."

Delirious' eyes widened slightly. "Oh."

"Yeah. And Yang's. We have different mothers if you couldn't tell. I guess not a lot of people really can, but after the shape of our head we kinda get the rest from the other half. Yang's mom never really died as far as we know, but we've both pretty much lost her too. So yeah. We get it. Just try not to bring it up ok? And I'll do the same do the same thing", Ruby said.

"Yeah. Thanks by the way. I'm uh- I'm-I'm-I'm afraid of-of bats. In case you couldn't tell", he whispered that last part.

Ruby tried to hide a laugh. But it came out anyway. Delirious laughed nervously along with her.

"I think the whole pass already knows you're afraid of bats. But I won't tell anyone. Wanna know a secret?", Ruby whispered.

"WHAT?", Delirious shout whispered.

"Everyone on my team thinks Weiss is a bitch", Ruby said chuckling. Delirious was chuckling too.

"Wanna know another one of mine?", Delirious asked.

"What?"

"Nogla, told us about this one time he shit himself!", Delirious laugh whispered again. The two were done trying to hold back and just started laughing. "What'd I miss?", Evan asked.

"Nothing", they said straightening up immediately.

"Oh", Evan said. Apparently he bought it. "Well, according to Blake's amazing detective skills, she suggested that there might be some really, really big bird that actually survived around here. And according to professor Oobleck, uh he actually spoke so fast I didn't catch most of it. But he said we should most definitely look out for a really giant bird", Vanoss said pointing over to Oobleck. "Also does he do this every time an animal comes up?"

They looked at Oobleck who was moving around very fast examining the feather whilst talking to himself. Also very fast. A table appeared out of nowhere along with a tape measure, some chemical tubes, a directable lamp, various glass vials, instruments of unknown origin and other things. He began taking lots of pictures, writing stuff down, constantly running his hand along the feather as if feeling it's viscosity, dropping it and timing it to see how long it would take to fall to the ground, writing more stuff down. He was having a field day.

"That guy is really interested in that feather", Blake said.

"He wasn't even this interested in my dog. An my dog is alive! It's like the whole thing! What's so important about a stupid feather?", Ruby asked tilting her head at the sight.

"I don't know. But he said we should definitely keep an eye out for it", Evan said.

"For what? What is 'It' ?", Ruby asked.

"We don't know", Blake said.

"Well then how are we supposed to keep an eye out for it?", Ruby said.

"I don't know. Look we don't know what it is we're looking for but it's huge and something feather bearing. Most likely bird like. And it's not a grimm", Evan explained.

"Well there's not a lot here that that could specify as so just look out for anything unusual okay?", Blake added.

"Okay. Sweet. So where are we head? We gonna kick some grimm ass or what?", Delirious said replacing the shells he randomly fired off.

"I'd say we split up to cover more ground, but the terrain here is dangerous. We should group together in case someone gets hurt", Vanoss said.

"That's a good idea. Two of us can head south, and two of us can move up the path. Blake, you should probably go with Evan. You two are more… capable. It's rocky up there. And I'm short and fast and Delirious is… Delirious. No offense", Ruby said.

"No it's ok I get. I'm clumsy not flexible. Besides, Vanoss can fly", Delirious said.

"No I can't. I can hover and glide at most", Vanoss countered.

"That's better than what I can do. I can fall. And Ruby can run really fast. We shouldn't be near rocks. Especially high up rocks.", Delirious said. "Or bats. Especially ba-"

"Okay we'll go up. Good luck you guys", Vanoss said cutting him off walking toward Oobleck. The two split off in opposite directions.

"Hey professor Oobleck, we're heading off now. Where are you gonna go?", Evan said.

"I will be staying here. I must examine this specimen! It's very quite interesting you see!", Oobleck replied excitedly.

"What have you found out so far?", Blake asked keeping close, but not close enough to be whacked by Oobleck moving round so fast. He probably carried the force of a train at his top speed. Ruby could move fast, but this guys just moved fast as a lifestyle.

"It, is very, BIG", he said stopping all of a sudden.

"Well yeah the feather is big. We already-", Vanoss was cut off.

"Not the feather! The animal! You see, birds of prey must have a certain weight to their feathers to be able to function as predators. If it is too light, the bird will not be able drop from higher places fast enough to catch its prey. If it is too heavy, the bird will consume too much energy during flight, and won't be able to chase, or glide, or even ascend heights efficiently", he explained.

"Well what if it's not a bird of prey?", Blake asked.

"Then it wouldn't survive up here. Now would it?", he said seriously.

"Let me make this very clear children. This bird, this animal, or creature or whatever it is cannot literally have feathers this size unless its body meats it's wingspan at a certain ratio" He extended his mug into its weapon form and dragged the stick end along the ground awkwardly. "So what this means is that this bird is very", he kept dragging. "Very", he kept dragging. "VERY", he was still dragging! When was he going to stop dragging?! Finally, he stopped. He stopped about 20' or 30' apart(6 to 9 meters if I'm rounding, or 60 to 90 decimeters. You're welcome metric people(I can't believe I ran actual numbers on a fictional creature. That was annoying. So yes, if we find one of these in real life it should be right in between there)). They were only eyeballing it but they knew even Vanoss' wingspan wasn't that big. And he was a human size bird faunus.

"BIG."

"That's a big bird", Vanoss said.

"Precisely", Oobleck said with a smirk.

With group DR

"Do you see anything? Like besides trees? And pine leaves?", Delirious asked bored.

"No nothing. Although the forest is unusually denes. I usually find Beowolves around areas with trails or clearings. That way when someone walks into an opening, they always keep an eye on them waiting to strike. Ursa however just kind of go where they want", Ruby said leading the way.

"Oh. See I don't know a lot about grimm. Our team is pretty much used to fighting people at this point", Delirious said.

"Yeah. It doesn't make sense to me that we train against other students more than we do with the actual grimm, but that's too broad a plot hole for me to figure out", Ruby said bushing a branch out of her way. Delirious followed close behind.

'WHACK'

Ruby turned to see that when she let go of the branch it hit Delirious right in the face. Or mask rather. "Ow. Plugh", he said spitting the pine leaves out of his mouth. When he moved the branch himself Ruby could see all the pine needles sticking into the tiny holes in his mask by the mouth. Ruby laughed at how weird he looked.

"What's so funny?"

"You look like a brush used to clean a grill", she said chuckling.

Suddenly a huge gust of wind came from above. Along with two heavy wings. Their flap almost sounded like thunder. A large shadow flew overhead at incredible speed even Ruby couldn't chase it in this forest. The wind carried her small red cap horizontally in the direction the huge shadow moved, then fell back in place as the wind left with it.

"Whoa", Ruby said looking up through the trees.

"What was that? Are we getting a storm?", Delirious asked finished cleaning out his mask. Ruby looked at him. Her hair was blown slightly back from whatever just flew by so close. Her look said it all.

"What'd I miss?"

"I think we found what we were supposed to be keeping an eye out for", she said slowly.

"Really? Was it big? Where'd it come from? What was it?", Delirious asked rapidly.

Ruby shook her head and fixed her hair before answering. "Yes. It was huge. It came from the way we are heading, and I don't know it was moving too fast. I'm surprised it didn't take off all the pines from the trees it was going so fast!"

"Well let's go see where it came from! Maybe it left some clues!", Delirious said excitedly.

"Good idea. But we should tell professor Oobleck first. He's gonna wanna know. He can tell the other Blake and Evan", Ruby said pulling out her scroll. She sent a quick message saying what they experienced and that they were pursuing any clues. This was now way more interesting than there mission.

"Alright. It was moving pretty fast so who knows how far away it started. It could have changed directions too", she said to Delirious.

"But this forest is huge. How are we gonna track anything down with so much ground to cover?", Delirious said. He had a point. But Ruby had a plan.

"We're not covering the ground!", she said cutting through the stump of a tree. The giant tree fell over at an angle and crashed onto the branches and stopped. It was basically a ramp.

"Oh you are so mean to trees", Delirious said without realizing what was about to happen.

"Say Delirious, do you happen to have a landing strategy?"

She could see the eyes widening behind the mask. They had only been out here no more than twenty minutes and they're already trying something crazy.

With group BV

Although Vanoss didn't want to admit it, Delirious was intelligent in his decision not to come up further along the pass. Blake and her weapon mad for easy grappling, and Vanoss' crowbar made it easy to create holes or stick blots anywhere they couldn't grapple. Blake was fast, and Vanoss was adaptable. He could only see Delirious falling and screaming no so many times.

"NO

No!

Noooo

NOOOOOO!"

God it would be funny to listen too though. They climbed pillar after pillar of sloped and vertical rocks. They were gaining height relatively quick, but still had a ways to go.

"You see anything yet?", Vanoss asked down below. Blake quickly hopped up onto the rock he just stood on.

"No. Nothing at all actually. At this point I'm actually surprised. I'd expect to see something by now. Not even the smaller nevermore are around. You think something is wrong?", she asked.

"I don't know. I spend most of my time dealing with people. For such a people person I sure kick a lot of ass", he said thinking it was ironic.

"Don't get overconfident", she replied.

"Well it's true! I'm a social guy. It's like people just view me, and then they drawn in for some reason! I still have no idea how Ozpin found where I was living", Evan explained.

'"The coffee shop? I think Ruby was the one who recorded you. I just happen to go there every once in awhile. My team comes with sometimes but we usually don't go there. I'm a tea person", Blake said throwing her weapon above. It stabbed into the vertical flat rock overhead and she simply yanked herself up with a huge jump. Evan followed after. One by one, they would keep going until they found something.

"It looks like you're my opposite", Evan said coming to that conclusion.

"How so?"

"You're an introvert, I'm a social bird."

"Hmm."

"You're a reader, I'm a gamer."

"I guess."

"You're a tea person, I'm a coffee person."

"Uhuh."

"You're a cat, I'm a bird."

"That's less accurate."

"I hear no evil, you see no evil."

"What?"

"You're quiet, I'm loud."

"Vanoss."

"You're rainy, I'm sunny."

"Vanoss!"

"You're a pervert, and I'm bored with chicks."

"EVAN!"

"Huh?", he looked up making it on top of the rock. Blake was looking at him flustered.

"First of all, I'm not a perv. Don't judge me because of what I read. And second", she said pointing over to the forest. Vanoss stood up to see what she was pointing at. "I think Ruby and Delirious found something."

Vanoss could just barely make out a blur jumping from seemingly nowhere. He had better sight than everyone else on the mission at the moment so he was sure Blake probably just heard Delirious screaming.

"What's he saying?"

"He keeps screaming no over and over again, something about being mean to trees, then it sounds like his mouth was full of something so it stopped after that", she said.

'I knew it', Vanoss thought.

"Why are they going that way?", Evan asked.

"What way?", Blake asked.

"Let's see", Vanoss said squinting. "We're heading north, soooooo south east of here?", he said.

"That's where the peaks tend to get steeper"

"Steeper than rocks that go straight up vertically?"

"The cliffs. They're headed to the cliffs end. There's no way to get up unless they literally go straight up the side of the cliff. I don't even think we could do that", Blake suggested.

"Maybe they're chasing something. Could be grimm", Vanoss said. Just then his scroll went off.

Zzzt-Zzzt

"Oh! They found something!", Vanoss said excitedly.

"What? What'd they find?"

"Oobleck says they're chasing after the direction it came from", he said putting his scroll away.

"What was it?", Blake asked curiously. "If it's headed away from where they were going, that means it's headed North West. That means he should have seen something by now", Blake said.

"Or it's going around the other side of the mountain to where it's less steep. We're basically rock climbing at this point so it'd be less tiresome to just fly up that way", Evan explained.

"What makes you say that?"

"One, If it was moving up this way, we would have seen it cross over the clearing. Two, if it's going around the other way, it'd probably stay low to the forest until it found it's way up. It the only way I wouldn't have seen it. Also", Evan said pointing to his extended wings, "Part bird. Flying straight up takes a lot. Especially if you're a predatory bird. They're heavy."

"Do you think it's gonna make it all the way top before we do?", Blake asked.

"I don't know. But it'd need to be pretty fast", he replied.

"Well come on. Maybe we can catch it before it arrives. Or at least leaves", Blake said throwing her weapon once again.

"Blake, we're looking for grimm. Not tracking a bird we've never seen before", Vanoss said.

"Have you gotten any signs of grimm?", Blake asked.

"No."

"Have we gotten any signs of the bird?"

"Well yeah but-"

"Then we're looking for the bird", she said ascending the rock.

"Besides! I have a feeling this bird is why we haven't seen any more grimm around here!", she shouted back down to Vanoss. Vanoss spread his wings and thrusted himself up with incredible speed up to the rock above Blake. "You think it it scared them off?!"

"I think it killed them!", Blake said surprised he was now above her. "And I thought you couldn't fly?!"

"This isn't flying this is jumping! Also I have this thing on my back!", he said turning and pointing to the small circular disk on between his shoulder blades. It was his dust cartridge that used gravity dust. No wonder he he jumped so high so fast. "I'm coming my bird brotha'!", he said about to take off again.

"Wait for me!", Blake shouted. They were supposed to keep close in case someone needed help. Vanoss had a better idea. He jumped down next to her with a thud. He grabbed her and pulled her close to his side. She was surprised but didn't have time to say anything before he took off faster than she liked.

"Don't drop me!"

"Why the HELL would I drop you?!"

"Don't put the idea in my head and just DON'T DROP ME!"

"You have good balance though right?"

"Yeah why?!"

"Because I'm gonna have to drop you!"

"EVAN!", she yelled holding on like she was going to die if she let go.

"When we get to the top!"

"I am NOT letting go until we are on SOLID GROUND!"

Back with group DR

"Well darn there's nothing here", Ruby said disappointed.

"I think I should be more scared of you than I am bats", Delirious said.

"Maybe if we follow along the edge of the cliff…", Ruby was about to start walking before she realized Delirious was still gripping her cape.

"Delirious you have to let go of my cape now", she said turning to Delirious staring off into the cliff wall.

"I am not letting go until I am on solid ground", he said slowly.

"But we are on solid ground!"

"Oh then we should get off this elevator"

"We're not on an elevator."

"Oh. Someone should tell that to the bat standing in the elevator then. It's not going anywhere. Hey Bat. Did you know this isn't an elevator?", Delirious said being delirious.

"Alright Jon, you talk to the bat about the elevator", Ruby said now carrying delirious on the end of her scythe like sack.

"It's- It's not an elevator right Ruby?"

"That's right Jon. It's not an elevator", she said calmly. She didn't think calling him Delirious at the moment would be appropriate. He needed to re familiarize himself with the world. He was traumatized.

"Is the Bat your friend Jon?"

"No, he's just on the elevator. But it's not an elevator."

"That's right. It's not an elevator."

"His name is Batt Daymon. He's going to see his friend Batt Lauer. And his friend Bat-thew McConaughey. And Turn Reynolds."

"Uhuh. Are they bats too?"

"No turn Reynolds is a turtle. He's on an elevator though", Delirious kept talking. Ruby could only imagine where he came up with this stuff.

"Hey Delirious, I found a cave!", Ruby said excitedly. It was a big cave. It's mouth was maybe big enough to fit Vanoss in bus form. But not very far.

"Bats live in caves. That's where the moma bats have baby bats. GIVE BIRTH!"

*BANG*

"OW WHAT THE FUCK MY EARS!", he said falling off of Ruby's scythe. "Ruby? Ruby is that you? Say my name!"

"Jon?"

"My other name!"

"Delirious?", she said tilting her head.

"Oh thank god", Delirious said getting up. "I had the weirdest dream! My name was-"

"Was it Batt?"

"What- No it was… Um… I don't know", he said calming down. "Where are we? This isn't zooming above trees at a dangerous speed. This is a cliff!", he said. "And that's a cave!"

"Yup. And guess what I found delirious?"

"...A cave?"

"Well, yeah bu-"

"It's not bats is it?"

"Shut up. Look.", Ruby said pointing to the cave entrance. There were more feathers. Some tinier, some around the same size. Then, there was an absolutely HUGE feather. It was about as thick as Delirious' entire Machete blade in width, and around Ruby's height in length.

"What the hell?"

"I know right!"

"You fired a sniper shot and no bats flew out?!"

"Oh my god SHUT UP about the bats! What kind of bird lives in a giant cave?", Ruby said picking up the large feather. "I don't know, but it looks way bigger that I thought it would be. That thing is bigger than you! And the wings have the largest feathers right?"

"Yeah I would think so", Ruby said.

"Then how the hell does it fly in there?!", Delirious shouted. His voice echoed through the cave repeating what he just said.

"You hear that Delirious?", Ruby said.

"What?", he asked back.

"That's the sound of you being stupid!", Ruby shouted like she was irritated. Then she started laughing. "I think- I think you're rubbing off on me", she said calming down. "Okay come on we need to get going. This cave might have some clues-", she dropped the feather at the sound of Delirious shotgun going off. He was holding a stick, or a thin log rather, whose end was now on fire. Ruby looked at him with a 'really' kind of fce.

"What? We're gonna need light", Delirious said holding up his torch he just lit with fire dust shells. Ruby held up her scroll as the magical device produced a flash light.

"... I'm still taking it with me", he said defensively.

"Okay. It actually might do us better to have natural light. It might keep away anything that's alive in there", she said. She put her scroll away and let delirious light the path.

"So you think we'll find any eggs or something?", Ruby asked. The tunnel got a little narrower, but still let plenty of room inside. "I don't know. I would start making egg puns but my brain is a little fried", Delirious said.

"Oh come on, the joke was over easy"

"Nice one."

"Thanks. I learned most from Yang. She's like the queen of puns", Ruby said.

The cave eventually grew lopsided. The side leaning in toward them had something on it. The side leaning away looked like right around the corner was where it ended.

"Oh no way!", Ruby said rushing to the cave wall. Delirious followed her quickly. The wall leaned over against them and stretched overhead until it curved over to the otherside. Ruby ran her hand along the wall and felt it was rather smooth. It was flat. Perfect for a canvas for cave painting. Hence why there was one. Ruby looked closely at the small pictures on the wall.

"What is it?" Delirious asked.

"I don't know. Come closer. It's hard to see", she said as Delirious held the makeshift torch up high.

"It's stick figures!", Delirious said.

"No those are just drawings of sharp sticks", Ruby said.

"Oh."

Ruby examined the wall with deep interest. She could make out people. They held spears or simple weapons of some kind. Then there was the cliff wall behind them to the right.

"There's the grimm!", Ruby said excitedly. Over to the left she could see the branches of the trees holding red eyes. Eventually the more she moved right, the more and more grimm appear to be forming closer to the people.

"There were ancient people who lived here. They would hide in the caves and stay out of the forest.", she said describing their story.

"But the grimm watched them. And soon the grimm left the forest to attack them", she said moving further right. Eventually the people were backed up along the rock wall of the cliff. They were holding fire against them, but the picture told it didn't work on the animals like it did the grimm.

"They used fire to scare them away, but it stopped working. Then they…", she stopped as the painting stopped.

"They what?" Delirious asked.

"I don't know! The painting just stops", she said disappointed. "Oh man. I wanted to figure out how it ends. But it's still amazing! It's so beautiful too. I mean for ancient humanity to be able to paint, and tell a story like this? This is incredible! I never thought I'd get to see one. We should take a picture!", Ruby said pulling out her scroll. She and Delirious moved back and watched as the flash captured quickly what Ruby had seen.

"Oh man this is gonna be so cool to show everyone! Wait until professor Oobleck here's about-"

"Ruby wait! I saw something! There was more to the painting!", Delirious said looking at her scroll closely.

"What, no see? It stops on the far right!", she said showing him the picture.

"No not on the right", delirious said zooming in on a certain spot on her scroll. "On the top!", he said. He was right. It looked like the picture of the cliff and the cave continued upward. It was above them.

"It's above them!", he said holding the torch up. The natural light only went so far however and only showed the bottom part of the rest of the picture. "What is that? It looks like uh-uh-uh a cat hand!"

"What? You mean a paw?", Ruby asked squinting her eyes. "Hold the torch higher. I can't see it!", she said. Delirious stretched on his tiptoes and held it just a bit higher.

"Look, I think I can see claws!"

"Duh, cats have claws", Ruby responded not recognising it yet.

"No! Bird claws!", Delirious said. "Get on my shoulders!", Delirious said suddenly.

"What?", Ruby asked nervously. "Hold the torch and get on my shoulders! We can see it better!", he said obviously not seeing the awkwardness.

"Uhh, I dont uh-"

"You want to see the rest of it don't you?", Delirious asked. He wanted to see it just as much as she did. She sighed. "Okay…", she said. Delirious got on knees while Ruby quickly jumped on fixing her skirt for obvious reasons. He held up the torch so Ruby could grab it and stood up completely. He held onto her knees so she wouldn't fall off.

"What do you see?", Delirious asked. Ruby's eyes widened. A gasp and the sound of the torch burning were the only things Delirious heard.

"Oh my god…", Ruby said barely above a whisper.

"What is it?", Delirious asked. He wanted to know.

"Oh my god!" Jon put me down! I just remembered, I have my flashlight!", Ruby said fumbling around trying to turn on the light.

"Oh good idea!"

Delirious crouched down and let Ruby hop off. He was really anxious to see what she was gasping on about. "Come on come on!", Delirious said impatiently.

"Okay, hold on, GOT IT!", Ruby said finished fumbling with the device in her hand. The flashlight came to life and Ruby stepped back to illuminate the whole wall leaning in toward them. It could finally tell the whole story.

"No… no way! Is that what I think it is?", Delirious said. Ruby didn't answer. She just looked at the whole painting once more. "They lived along the wall because that it saved them", she finished the story. "It's- it's a-", Delirious struggled to find his words.

"It's a Griffin!", Ruby finished for him.

"Ruby we have to tell the others!"

"What?", Ruby said lost in the story of the cave wall.

"Ruby, the feathers, the grimm not here, that huge thing that flew over us! It's the griffin! It's here, and it's headed to the mountain. We gotta tell Vanoss, an-an-and Blake!", Delirious said. Ruby gasped. "And Oobleck!", She said turning back to the wall and snapping another picture.

"Okay let's go!", Delirious said about to book it out of the cave.

"Wait!"

Delirious stopped in his tracks. "What?"

"What if there's more? This is only one side of the wall. There could be more back there!", Ruby said pointing her light into the back where the cave came to a close. There was still an odd corner shape they hadn't checked the other side of.

"Okay, you go check. I'll see if I can get hold of anyone in here", he said pulling out his scroll. Ruby walked briskly toward the back. Around that corner she did in fact find something. It was a nest. A bird nest in fact. It was made out of huge twisted branches and large enough to fit the beast. She approached carefully. There were feathers strewn about everywhere. But nothing else. No sign of eggs. Nothing else was here. Not even a bat. She turned around and was about to head out when she got to see the other side of the corner that was hiding the giant nest.

"Jon! Get over here!", she yelled over. A few heavy steps later she saw him arrive.

"Any hold of Vanoss or Blake?"

"No not Oobleck either HOLY SHIT!", he yelled seeing the nest. "That's huge!", he yelled.

"I know but look there's more right here", she said gesturing to the small corner of wall in front of her. On the wall were the creatures from the last. The half eagle half lion was accompanied by another one. But the second one was differently colored. It was black and gold and was appearing to be in battle with a giant nevermore. The second, which matched the first was near the ground helping the people with the grimm on the ground.

"What happened to the other one? Is there more?", Delirious asked confused.

"No…", Ruby said. Below the painting was a single, dark black feather. She picked it up and held it up against this wall. It had to have been. "I think it died."

With BV

"Hubada!", Vanoss said hopping atop a flat slope. With nowhere higher up to go Vanoss stopped jumping. "We're here", he said. Blake held on for a few seconds longer to make sure some cruel twist of fate wasn't going to have her fall off of a really high cliff. She did NOT feel like falling at terminal velocity today! They were almost at a Peak for god's sakes.

She abruptly let go and practically ejected herself off of him. She finally caught her breath.

"Are you insane!", she turned around and started yelling at him.

"Just the usual amount."

"The one thing that could risk your life the most at steep edge of a fucking mountain is JUMPING!"

"Blake-"

"And you just grab onto me like I'd just be okay with that!?"

"Blake."

"How would you like it if I just wrapped you up in my weapon and just held you upside down off the cliff of this peak?! Because I have half a mind to do it!"

'BLAKE!"

"WHAT?!"

"I DIDN'T DROP YOU!"

…

Blake didn't realize it but she had drawn her weapon and was probably about to follow up with the actions of her last statement. She tensed, then sighed. She needed to relax.

"Thank you…"

"It's alright. It was scary. I didn't know if it was gonna work all the way up", he said understanding.

"You didn't? Then why the hell did-"

"Because you wanted to go up. So we went up. And it's not like I'm gonna ditch you on the side of a cliff. What if something happened to you? I am never going to have friends again! That's what!", he said. Blake wasn't sure how much of that was looking out for her safety or just him being stupid and bad at apologizing. She was gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. It was a rash decision, but they both got what they wanted. She wanted to reach the cliff side, and he wanted to help.

"Sorry", he said.

"Just don't do it again. Or if you have to, at least let me know so I don't become afraid of death in the process. I know we both would have survived the fall, but seriously, that scared me", she said putting her weapons away.

"Actually, there's lots of rocks and slopes and stuff, so we'd hit a lot of stuff on the way down", he said casually.

"Oh boy Evan you sure know how to make a woman feel better", she said with both sarcasm and a slight hint of anger. Evan bust out laughing. Blake didn't understand why.

"Oh man. I suck with girls. I wouldn't have a chance if I-"

Evans scroll was going off. Ruby was calling him There was also an attachment file coming with the call.

"Hello? Ruby?"

"E-n, we're comin-f a cave below the cli-"

"What? Ruby I can't hear you! You're patchy. Are you in a tunnel?"

"WHERE THE FUCK WOULD I BE IN A TUNNEL?!", he heard Ruby scream loud as day.

"Uh, nevermind you're clear now. Where are you? What's happening?", he asked putting a finger to his ear. Evan walked toward the cliff edge. He last saw them in a forest. Maybe if got closer to the edge he could see them.

"Me and Delirious just got out of a cave! It's below the cliff. And Evan, you and Blake need to get down here now!"

"Why are you in trouble?1"

"No you are!", Ruby shouted.

"Wait, was that supposed to be like a bad comeback or something? Because I never insulted you", Evan said confused.

"NOT LIKE THAT YOU IDIOT! There is a Griffin coming up there to kill you! It's gonna kill you until you're dead and that's why you need to get the hell down here! Now HURRY!"

Evan looked to his phone and lost connection. They must be getting close to a storm. The wind was getting loud. Almost like a roaring. And it was getting louder. He turned to see Blake looking concerned. "What did she say? Are they being attacked?", Blake asked quickly.

"No she said we were gonna be attacked by a griffin. That's a kind of grim right?", Evan asked.

"Yeah. Professor Oobleck forgot to mention that before we landed. I should have guess they could be around here. But where the hell are the other ones then? They travel in groups. Or where are any grimm for that matter? There's been nothing the entire time we were here", she said. Her voice was getting louder. She was trying to keep up with the wind. It was like the sound of a subway speeding through a subway.

"SCREEE!"

"Holy shit!", was the only thing he shouted as he was carried off the cliff with Blake in massive claws.

Down below

"Hello?!", Ruby shouted into the tiny device. The call failed. "Dammit!"

"What do we do?", Delirious asked.

"Call Oobleck! I'll keep trying to call them back!"

Delirious took out his scroll and did as instructed. Ruby couldn't get an answer. "Dammit! I tried calling Blake too, it just failed instantly. Delirious was hearing ringing on his end. "Try texting! Sometimes when the signal is shit, you can still send messages!", Delirious shouted over to Ruby.

"Okay…", she said. She rapidly pulled up Evan's contact and sent him a message.

Are you guys okay? Please respond!

Suddenly a small object bounced off the ground in front of her. It was a scroll. It just fell out of the sky like magic.

''HOO-DINI!'', it sounded. Delirious ran over. "Was that Evan's notification?", he asked confused. They looked at screen. It read: 1 New message from Ru-

CRASH
BANG
BOOM

Shit tons of dust was kicked up as they hit the ground with so much force Ruby and Delirious were knocked off their feet and hit the ground before they could even THINK.

"SCREEEE!"

The dust cleared and Evan was the only one left standing before the beast. It screeched an ear piercing screech toward Evan. Blake was behind him thrown to the ground as were Ruby and Delirious painfully slowly getting up. It only gave another screech and spread its wings in an attempt to threaten them. Dear god the creature was huge. It had the same red/brown color their first feather had also been colored. Underneath its wings was a dull brown/orange mix a tiny feathers that transitioned from the others on it's wint and head. Vanoss could see its lion like tail accompanied by it's claws and actual paws of the lion, which were the appropriate brown color of a lion. And in the front were its predatory bird claws that it had slammed Vanoss and Blake into the dirt with. They matched the yellow of it beak. And even its huge bird eyes.

"Get behind me!", Evan shouted. He spread his wings to hide his friends behind them. He succeeded in getting its attention. It gave one shorter bird screech before backing up and stopping. It constantly kept shifting its head position and adjusting its view of Vanoss. BLake rolled over and coughed. That fall had been absorbed by most of her aura, but unfortunately the crashing into the ground still hurt a great deal. She didn't know how Evan was standing.

"What is it doing?", she asked slowly getting up. "Blake!", Ruby shouted from behind. She rushed over and helped move away from the huge creature analyzing Vanoss. "No sudden movements!", Vanoss shouted. He slowly backed away from the Griffin holding his crowbar in hand, before falling to one knee. That fall was too much to bare. He dropped his crowbar with a 'thunk'.

He grabbed his chest in pain as the Griffin walked near. It looked at the weapon sideways, before picking it up in its beak, and throwing it aside. It made it way back to Vanoss, who let his wings down by now. It did all but attack his however. It came really close to his mask. And it's eyes seemed to widen. Suddenly it nudged him forward so that Vanoss was on his back facing up looking at its face. It gave another screech as if to see if he would do something.

"Evan!", Delirious said from behind where Vanoss fell. He raised his shotgun ready to fire.

"Wait! No sudden movements!", he said again. The rest of his friends watched in anticipation just hoping it wouldn't hurt him. The beast finally seemed to stop sniffing and looked at him with one eye. Then, it uttered some low pitch bird noise and began licking his mask with it's long bird like tongue (Use your imagination I'm not describing it). The it gave several short tiny screeches and a few sqwauks before repeatedly pecking at his face.

"Ew gross!", Vanoss yelled at the licking. "Get off me!" He tried to use his hands to push the giant bird head away, but every time it did he kept forcing his arms back down under the claws, and pecking them. It was like it was telling him to stop.

"Aww, it's adorable!", Ruby said completely forgetting the fact it just tried to kill them. Blake only stared in disbelief. Her eyes were wide with the expression she had no idea what was going on. "Can someone tell me what's happening?", she asked.

"That's what made the feather! That's why theres no grimm around here! It was killing them all off. And now it, it uh it-it uhhhh", Ruby was lost at what else to say.

"It's licking Evan!", Delirious said putting his gun away.

"GET IT OFF!"

Blake found the courage to approach it next. She walked toward it quick with the intent of helping Vanoss, but it quickly looked up a screeched at her. She kept her hands in front of her to show she wasn't a threat, just like Evan. The creature inched it's head closer to her hand before smelling it. Then it did something unexpected. It rubbed against the palm of her hands like a cat that wanted attention. It gave whatever the Eagle equivalent of a pigeon cooing was. Then it went right back to pecking and licking Evan's owl mask.

"GOD DAMMIT!"

Blake just stood up and backed away rather relaxed now. It was friendly. A big friendly giant hybrid creature meant for killing. Then it grabbed Blake's bow really quick.

"Hey!", she said rubbing her head. It was ripped out fast. Her ears now exposed seemed to give something away.

"Whoa, you're a faunus too? Cool! It all makes sense now! It's like it sensed both of your cat parts and bird parts, and then came right towards you! It's like it thinks you're one of them!", Delirious said.

Blake looked back to Delirious. "Delirious, please, it's really important people don't know about this. Also can you not tell anyone?", she asked.

"Sure. I don't see why not", he shrugged.

"And two, it's part Eagle and part Lion. It's above our predatory level. If it knew that, it should have killed us as competition", Blake explained. "And give me back my bow!"

The creature coughed and hacked violently until it coughed up the now spit covered bow. "Eww", Ruby said behind her.

"Uhmm", she said picking up the bow pinching it with two fingers keeping it from touching her. "Thank you…"

It screeched again and went back to annoying the shit out of Evan. He said something along the lines of why me, but nobody heard it. Ruby walked forward.

"Oh my god can we keep it?!"

Blake stepped in front of her. "Ruby, it's a wild animal. You know we can't take it back to Beacon."

"But it's acting like a dog!"

"It probably EATS dogs!"

"Well we can't just leave it here? Do you really think it can survive off the wildlife out here?"

"You mean the grimm?", Delirious asked.

"Exactly!", Ruby threw her arms in exaggeration. Blake narrowed her eyes toward delirious. He wasn't helping.

"Come on Blake, if we leave it here it'll either die or become a grimm", Ruby pleaded.

"If we take it back it'll be captured. Scientists will want to study it. Maybe even kill it with whatever intention they have. That's no way for an animal to live. Especially this one. Putting it in captivity is probably the most ironic thing possible! Most of the world probably doesn't know it exists! It's not supposed to be real! It shouldn't be a part of the real world", Blake explained.

Vanoss started screaming in the background. "Get this goddamned thing OFF MY FACE!"

Ruby, Blake and Delirious payed him no mind. His constant struggling continued in the background however. "Come on Blake, my dog can be set on fire!"

"HOW DID YOU FIGURE THAT OUT?!", Delirious yelled in her ear.

"Never mind that! Look, Blake my point is if a creature like this was able to survive in the wild this long, and still be secluded until now, I think it can survive domestically with humans just fine. Besides, look at how much it loves you and Evan. It doesn't want to stop playing with him!", Ruby pointed.

"Put. Me. DOWN"

'THUNMP'

"OW! Hey give me back my weapon!"

Thumpthumpthumpthumpthump

'Tink'

"Oh my god it knows how to play fetch", Evan said amazed. Blake turned around and sighed. She didn't think she was going to get through to Ruby. "What if it doesn't come back with us anyway? We can't just make it leave- aaaaand it's licking my head", Blake said uncomfortably. The creature stopped and reared on it's hind legs like a startled animal. Which it was. Blake moved away in hopes of not being crushed under its other legs.

"Guys I got on its back!", Evan said leaning around its head. They looked scared. "What's wrong?"

"Evan I would get off now!", Blake said. Nervousness was clearly present in her voice.

"No it's okay guys, I think it's gonna-"

"SCREEEE!", the creature called taking off into the air.

"HAAAAAA! This thing is gonna KILL ME!", Vanoss yelled holding on for dear life.

Blake and company watched as it took off giving Evan a ride for his money. It flipped and spun and dived however it could. It certainly was fast for such a big creature. Evan's screaming almost lasted as long as the creatures.

"I warned him", Blake said. She did. She warned him.

Evan fell from the sky. And the Griffin landed next to him. It shook the ground with it's impact. Evan slowly got up. "Okay, round two WHOA-"

The creature picked him up and shook him around by his head in it's mouth until his head popped out of his mask, and he fell over. The bird then tried to eat the mask, failed and spat it back at Evan's feet. Evan held out his hand obviously tired from the head trauma.

"Pretty birdy", he said holding out his hand. The creature quickly eyes his face again, and then rubbed against him.

"See?", Ruby said. "It's a total dog!"

"I think I get it", Delirious said. Ruby and Blake turned to face him. "The other one, was black and gold right? So when it sees Evan and Blake, and it sensed their faunus parts, it must have been reminded of its lost friend", He concluded.

"Oh that's so sad", Ruby said.

"Why?" Blake asked.

"I'll explain on the way back", she said pulling out her phone. She looked at the Bird. "You commin little fellah?", she said in a cute voice. Evan passed out and was picked up and hefted onto it's back by the Griffin's giant beak. It intently followed Ruby.

"Ruby we can't-"

"Silence! The bird has spoken!", Ruby cut Blake off.

"I'd just like to point out, that is not a little fella! That is a BIG GUY!", Delirious said picking up the remainder of Vanoss' scroll pieces. Delirious noticed his scroll was also damaged too. Last he checked he was calling Oobleck.

"Just wait till Oobleck see this!", Ruby said excitedly.

About ten minutes later

"Hi professor Oobleck!", ruby shouted excitedly. Surprisingly he never stopped running his experiments. "Ruby! Good to see you're back", he said still not facing her. "I've gathered some information on this feath-", he stopped entirely. The Bird was now resting his head on professor Oobleck's shoulder.

"Sqawk"

"Uh Ruby? What might this be?", he said too afraid to move.

"Sqwak"

"This is our newest friend! It's a griffin! But don't tell any sciency people because they'll wanna capture it", Ruby quickly explained shortly. Oobleck looked in his giant Coffee mug.

"I did not have enough coffee this morning for this", he said scratching the Griffins head which was still on his shoulder.

"Can we keep it?"

"No."

"Tell that to the bird!", Ruby said.

"SQWAK"

Oobleck sighed. This wasn't going to be easy.

Ten minutes later

The airship came took off with all their passengers on board.

…

All of them.

"Sqwak."

"So, what does this thing eat Ruby?", Oobleck said rather bluntly.

"We don't know. But it tried to eat Evan's mask and Blake's bow. So I think it's hungry", Ruby said.

"Ah", was all he said. "Do you know why it refuses to leave our side?"

"Not really but we have some theories", Ruby said pulling out her scroll. While she gave her tale of the cave discovery and the paintings and their meanings, Delirious was pitching in the parts Ruby missed, And Blake was pretty much alone watching Evan to make sure the bird didn't eat him. It was currently laying down like an actual lion might and rested against an unconscious Evan, who was sleeping on his bag.

Blake was standing by it's head just looking outside trying to get back as fast as possible.

*Peck*

Blake looked at her foot to see the bird's head looked like it it hadn't moved. Blake resumed looking outside.

*Peck*

…

*Peck Peck*

…

*Peck Peck Peck*

"What?", she looked down at the bird to see it looking up at her. It looked at her, then pecked the floor. Then back, at her, and pecked the floor again. Then it just stared at her. She sighed as she knew it wasn't going to leave her alone. She sat down next to the bird and let it lay it's head in her lap… It seemed to relax after that. She gently touched the feathers on its head.

"I'm not feeding you."

…

…

…

*PECK*

Back at Beacon far later than they Should have returned

"We're back! Ruby said stepping off the airship running into her sister.

"Ruby! Where were you? You're way later than you we're supposed to get back. What happened?", Yang asked her little sister.

"What is that?", Weiss asked pointing to the Griffin. It stepped right out of the airship and started following Blake, who was currently trying to make it go away. It just made bird sounds at her remarks.

"That's our new friend. It's a griffin. Long story", Ruby said.

"What the hell?!", Yang yelled somehow not noticing it before. Ruby actually expected Weiss to be the one yelling this time. "How can you just bring a mythical creature here and say LONG STORY?! Look at that thing! It's head is the size of my body! It could probably eat the giant pancake butt!", Yang said. Almost as if on que, the Griffin took Evan Off his back, dropped him right next to Ruby, and attacked the gaint pancake butt's left ass cheek leaving a huge a huge bite mark in it's path.

Blake walked over to the rest of her team. "Thank god it finally left me alone. Looks like we figured out what it eats finally", she said tired of the creature. Oddly enough, it came back to Blake, and dropped a huge chunk of pancake for her. It looked up at her keeping its head level with its body. It just stared at her.

"Thanks", Blake said. The creature then began to walk back to the pancake butt to take a giant bite out of its ass. Thank god the courtyard didn't have a lot of people outside during classes. Causing a scene would be the last thing Blake needed right now.

"What was that about?", Yang asked curiously.

"Professor Oobleck says that some animals, usually birds, will bond for life. And it's not uncommon for them to always stay by each others side", Ruby said as it came back and placed another pancake chunk by Vanoss on the ground, who still didn't wake up. The bird must have really knocked him out.

"Thanks", Blake said again. Then it went back to The giant pancake butt.

"So why both of you?", Weiss asked.

"Half cat, half bird. One Griffon. Do the math", Blake said bluntly.

"Uhuh", Yang said.

"Oh my god it's eating ass!", Nogla shouted from nowhere.

"Good one", Yang yelled over to him.

"Hey PUT THAT DOWN! That's my PUNCAKE!", he yelled running over to the Griffin. Apparently he was unphased by the giant beast capable of eating him. He was more worried about his Puncakes.

"Nogla those aren't active right?", Yang said being warry of the worst. Now Nogla was in a tug of war with The small broken explosive disk in his mouth.

"YEAH WELL THE DO'"T FUCKING WORK ANYMORE! THIS FUCKING THIS CHEWED THROUGH THEM ALL!", he continued screaming but Yang stopped listening.

"So", Ruby said breaking the ice. "What'd you guys do on your mission?", she asked curiously.

"We found this guy", Yang said pointing to the guy leaning on a lamp post.

"Why is his face half metal?", Blake asked.

"Hey Brian(HIS NAME IS FUCKING BRIAN! UGH!)! Come over and meet my team!", Yang called over. He sighed and walked over. He looked like he'd had about enough of all of this too. He had a black leather jacket, Black glasses, some jeans and boots, and a hairstyle that would never look bad.

"Sup", he said. He obviously didn't care about the cybernetic part of his appearance taking some of his face. Just then there was a fucking massive explosion in the background.

"MY PUNCAKES!", Nogla yelled defeated.

Brian didn't even look at the explosion. The griffin just walked out of the fire completely unharmed and came over to sit down next to blake. It also then looked at him.

"Brian, you gotta do the voice!", Yang said all of a sudden. Apparently this was more important than the explosion.

"Nope."

AND THAT'S CHAPTER 3. It was slightly longer than the last two. Hope you enjoyed it. I had to flip a coin to decide on this one. Either this chapter was going to one mission, or the other. Remember when I said I want to include a little of everything in this story? Well there's your fantasy side of the story for now. The next is gonna be about Terroriser obviously. And his arc will focus the chapter to the more science fiction plot for this story. As for the guy seriously worried about the crossover romance: I can see where you're coming from. It's overwhelming at some points in crossovers. If it's honestly that big a concern, I could just tell you when the chapter is going to focus on romance in particular. Or I could avoid it and just space it out. I don't know which method would be more bearable in particular, but try to understand. I want to cover this whole genre spectrum with this story. The only permanent thing constant to this story is going to be humor. So even if it does turn, to that at one point in the future, rest assured it is ABSOLUTELY NOT going to be the entire plot of the story. So, there was a reference in there too. I'll be taking a request for just about anything (within reason you fucks) if you can guess where it came from. I would give you a hint, but that'd just give it away. But the more important question for now is, do they keep the bird? I thought it was a creative arc for ramming something fantasy based into this shitstrom. Right after playing Ark. It just kinda clicked after that. But seriously do they keep it? I know it was good for this chapter, but I could see how that is kind of a giant step into the uncomfortable random zone for some readers. But anyway, it's daytime now, and I don't sleep here :D

Can't wait for the next chapter everyone. Later-

Post edit note: I don't know how but after making some corrections in the story, thank you by the way for letting me know, some how the word count jumped from 12k+ to 13k+. I honestly sat at my screen for about an hour thinking I must have done some kind of copy and paste error using my laptop sensor, but seriously I couldn't find what changed beside the corrections. If you know why this is, please let me know, it's making me paranoid.

Ps. HIS NAME IS FUCKING BRIAN. FUCK! THANK YOU REVIEWER FOR LETTING ME KNOW I CALLED HIM BRIAN. I gotta own up to it, I made SO MANY mistakes making this chapter. I need to not stay up so late while writing these but I want what I can't have... Still thank you everyone who let's me know. You help improve the story.