Four Hearts Of One Journey

by Owriush

Their life's were as normal as can be. The girls of team RWBY living day, by day and enjoying the life they had. Until they became wrapped up in a destiny none of them had any idea they were apart of. One that would send them on a journey unlike anything they could have expected. With friends, new allies and each other. They'll have to be the hero's, everyone needs...

17. Chapter 16

Hello my fellow readers, fist off I am extremely sorry for taking so long with writing this chapter. I've been busy with a lot of stuff in my life. Though even with all the stuff I've had to deal with for these past month or so, I still loved writing out this chapter. Oh yeah speaking of this chapter, this has got to be the longest one in this story so far. Like I didn't intend it to be this long, but it ended up being longer than usual. But in a way, this is a sort of extra treat for making you all wait for this next chapter. Also, I should say it took a few days to look over this chapter to make sure that I got as many possible grammar errors I could find. I may have not have gotten all of them, but I did my best to find as many as I could. Finally when it came to writing this chapter out, I had to make so changes to original story line for the Tarzan movie. Nothing too big or too drastic, just a few things to make this particular chapter work properly. Well there is one thing that's mildly different, but you'll see it when you get to said change. Anyway's enough of me squawking, I'm going to let you all get to reading and I do hope you love it as much I loved writing it out.

Onwards to reading!

I do NOT own anything in these two series RWBY which belongs to RT/ Mounty Oum and Kingdom Heart which belongs to Square Enix/Disney, along with any worlds including in this story be them cannon and added

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Four Hearts of one Journey

Ch. 16: The Jungle and ape man Pt.4-Final

-Happy Harbor: Down Town-

Mister David Leonard was a man with blue eyes, grey short hair/ mustache, tanned skin, wore a brown pants, black shoes and a blue shirt. He was a simple man who had been born to loving mother and father, fought in the Vietnam War. Meet a nice girl afterword's, along with avoiding the liquor and drugs that plagued many of his friends after said war. He had three kids, all girls who had graduated into the field of bio-mechanics and bought a flower shop with his loving wife. Today was a Saturday and on these days David ran the shop by himself, while his wife took the day off. Now David knew that Happy Harbor was a…hot spot for trouble. Not because of the citizen, oh no. But when your town was host to some of the younger hero's sides kicks, who formed their own group; a mini-justice league as some called it. There tended to be a lot of the super villains coming to fight said sides kicks. From simple gangs, to monster bent on humanities destruction. Happy Harbor seem to be the place these dangerous events took place oddly enough. So with that in mind, David kept a 12 gauge shotgun under the counter in his shop, but he had never needed to use it. He knew that if he did, it would probably be just be with some punk who was trying to rob him. He never expected to used it on what he was currently shooting at.

"Get back you dirty pest!" David yelled out as he fired another shot a group of three small creatures with black skin, yellow eyes, no mouth, clawed hands, stubby legs and two antennas on their heads. He missed his shots as the creature to his annoyance, as they fused into the ground yet again "Oh come on, I've already gone through a half a box just trying to kill you pests. Ammunition is not cheap you know!"

"Keep am it David!" An old Japanese lady who had medium length black hair, brown eyes, lightish skin, wore a simple summers dress and sandals outside of his shops door yelled out. This was Mrs. Yun, a nice old lady that visited David's shop once in a while with her husband. She had also been a feisty nurse back in the old days after World war 2 from what her husband had explained to David once. That showed as Mrs. Yun was bashing her purse against one of the dark creature's head and she was hitting hard "Back, back you foul beast!"

"I got ya granny!" A mid-twenties young woman yelled happily out, as she bashed the small creature in the head with a metal baseball bat. She had dark brown hair, tanned skin, amber eyes, wore a blue sweater, grey running shorts and back running shoes. This was Linda Young, the gym teacher at Happy Harbor High, along with being the youngest retired two-time Olympic champion. The dark creature she hit flung off from the hit to the face, landing on the ground as it screeched in pain, then disappeared into black smoke. Linda smiled at her handy work, as she turned her attention to Mrs. Yun "You okay?"

"Yes, thank you dear." Mrs. Yun replied kindly as David made his way out of his store and next to them

"Nice save kiddo." David said as he looked around to see a good amount of the civilians running away from the area, though others were fighting back. Like a few young punks that hung around his store sometimes, smoking despite him yelled at them. He saw a few of them throwing Molotov cocktails at a few of those dark creature, burning them alive while screeching in pain as they turned to black smoke. Then David looked to see a few of the cops standing their ground, two of the unloading their pistol and shotgun, while the other just bashed the dark creatures with their batons. Though now that David was looking around, he saw fire fighters, gang members, random civilians, store owners, even freaking kids from grade school and High school fighting against the dark creature with whatever they had in hand. It was oddly an inspiring sight of unity, despite the situation that they were all currently in "You know, got to say this is probably the most unified I've seen the city."

"Ye-…OH CRAP WATCH OUT!" Linda said in a panic as she, Mrs. Yun and David looked to see thirteen of those small dark creature; plus two extremely large bodied ones wearing odd outfits lunge at them. None of them could do anything since these things were coming in so fast. But as the dark creatures were inches away from them, the smaller ones were all impaled with thirteen bird shaped shuriken's that exploded seconds later. The two large bodies ones were punched out by a blur of red and yellow. Then before David, Linda or Mrs. Yun could figure out what just happened, the blur of red and yellow along with the one who threw the bird shaped shuriken's were gone

"What just happened?" Mrs. Yun asked as Linda shrugged

"Can't say, but let's get back in the shop. I got some more guns in the back just in case some sort of attack happened near my store." David stated as he, Mrs. Yun and Linda made their way into his shop. Meanwhile their two saviors were doing their best to make sure to help out as many civilians as they could around the down town area, while making their way back to the meet up point with the rest of their team and the league members

"Hey wasn't that your old gym teacher and flower shop guy your parents buy their flower from?" Robin asked as he was hitch a ride on Wally's back "Also can you slow it down a little, not all of us can handle this much speed!"

"Yeah, well try doing this speed while keeping a good pace and carrying someone on your back!" Wally responded back as he suckered punched one of the smaller dark creature trying to attack a school kid "Just to say Rob, you're a lot heavier than you look."

"It's all muscle buddy, oh give me a second." Robin proudly remarked with a smirk as he leaned to the left a little and punched two of the more armored dark creatures in the chest, flinging them off into a wall hard "Wow, thank to this speed I kind of can see how Conner feels when he punches someone."

"Well he's pretty strong anyways, being superman's clones and all." Wally replied back, but before either one of them could say anymore. Wally tipped over a rock that was pushed up a little too high from the attack on the city, as he and Robin rolled on the ground. Then once they stopped rolling, they groaned a bit in pain "Ugh… sorry about that dude. These things have messed the city up more than we thought."

"It's okay, neither one of us could have seen that piece of street." Robin said as he and Wally got back up, looking around to see they had made it to the rendezvous point; along with being the first ones to arrive

"So we're first. Good to know we're not late at least." Wally joked as Robin studied the area which had a few buildings crumbled around, expect for single wall to their left

"Yeah, true but no time for jokes. I think we're being watched." Robin responded back as readied a metal collapsible staff from his belt, while his gazed narrowed

"I know, but hey at least whatever these things are getting a good look at Wall-man." Wally remarked with a smirk as Robin rolled his eyes at his friend's lack of worry or at least lack of showing his worry

"Really dude, at a time like this. Your way too much sometimes." Robin said with a quick laugh, but that was cut short as a small group of sixty of the small dark creatures appeared in front of them. Robin and Wally quickly readied themselves for battle "Well speak of the devils, your admires are here."

"I can see that Rob, still you take the thirty on the right and I take the thirty on the left?" Wally asked smirking widely

"Oh you bet dude." Robin replied smirking back, but as he and Wally were about to commence the attack; suddenly the remaining standing wall to the left fell flat on the large group of heartless. Out from behind the rubble one of the larger bodied dark creature was flung hard against the ground, then suddenly Conner came in stomping down extremely hard on the large bodied dark creature as it turned into black smoke. Conner though didn't pay mind to this as he was currently flinging off some the small armored dark creature that had latched themselves onto him

"I THINK I FOUND SOMETHING MORE I HATE THAN MONKEYS!" Conner screamed out in rage as he flung off a few more, then grabbed the last one with his right hand. The armored dark creature tried to claw at him, but Conner scowled as he threw it into the air and out of sight seconds later "AHHHH, I HATE THESE THINGS!"

"Or we could just let Conner deal with it." Wally said with a calm tone as he rubbed his eyes a little "No shame in that, not one bit."

"Yep." Robin replied back, turning his attention toward Conner "Hey Super Boy, thanks!"

"Welcome." Conner said, calming himself down as he made his way up to Robin and Wally "So, you guys have any issues with these things like I've been having?"

"Can't say, but I'm gonna say yes anyways." Robin stated as suddenly footsteps could be heard coming from behind. He, Wally and Conner quickly turned around in battle-ready stances; only to see it was Megan, Artemis, Kaldur, Raquel and Zatanna making their way up quickly to them "You know, with all that's been happening to us today. Maybe a quick mind link would have helped Miss M. We thought you all were more those dark creatures."

"Oh sorry about that Robin, I would have. But I've been using all my stamina just pushing these things away from fleeing citizens." Megan replied back as she rubbed her forehead a little, much to the others worry "I'm fine, really."

"You say that Meg, but were still worried either way." Raquel stated kindly, but a stern look

"I know, thanks." Megan replied back with a small smile

"Anyways, how's it been with you three. Those things tear up the place like almost everywhere else in Happy Harbor?" Artemis asked as she shot a quick arrow through on of the big bodies dark creature that tried to sneak up on them

"Nice hit." Robin remarked smirking "Still yeah we have, a few civilians almost got killed before we saved them. Those things are fast, almost as fast a KF here. No offense."

"None taken dude." Wally replied back kindly, then turned his attention to Aqua lad "So Kaldur, what's the plan. Do we scout out the area here or stay?"

"Right now we should rest, take a breather and regain our strength. Well maybe not you, Robin or Super Boy. But me and the girls have too. Those things out in the city are a lot more frustrating than I'd like to admit." Kaldur explained as he took a few deep breaths and held his side in slight pain

"You okay?" Zatanna asked as she moved his hand to see a small, but deep three clawed cuts on his side "Kaldur, why didn't you tell us about this sooner. It's bleeding out still!"

"I didn't…ugh, I didn't want to slow us down. Especially with these things roaming around." Kaldur explained as he winced at his wound acting up, then summoned some water from a fire hydrant nearby; using the water to help sooth his wound

"Speaking of which, more are coming our way." Raquel stated as she and the rest looked ahead of them to see an extremely large horde of the dark creatures from the small ones, the armor ones, and the large ones too finally a fourth new kind that looked like aviators with wings on their backs

"And they have ones that can fly now, great just great and here I was hoping that we'd get an easy break." Artemis said in irritation as she readied her bow, Robin meanwhile readied his staff, Raquel readied her powers, Wally stretched his legs out to use his powers more effectively, Conner cracked his knuckles, Zatana readied her wand, then finally Megan decided to keep Kaldur safe as his wound was getting worse

"So, we all ready?" Wally asked as the heartless were coming closer

"Ready whenever Wally." Zatana responded back smirking

"Then let's get to it!" Conner screamed out charging back at the group, while the others followed behind. But as their group and the horde of dark creatures got closer to each other by the seconds. The front of the horde suddenly started to be obliterated by blazes of gun fire, that came from behind and over the group of young hero's

"Whoa, where did this come from?" Wally asked, but then got a tap on the shoulder from Kaldur who was being help up by Megan

"I think our friends behind us can answer that." Kaldur calmly stated, as the other looked to see military personal shooting at the horde, along with a few Humvee's with turrets built in shooting at the horde. Which by this point had dispersed into three separate parts so they could attack from the sides as best as they could, while dodging the gun fire from the soldiers

"Wait where do they come from, Happy harbor doesn't have a military base set up here?" Artemis asked in utter confusion, while the others didn't have an answer for her. But to their continued surprise Batman, Superman, The Flash, Martian Man Hunter, Green Arrow, Black Canary and Wonder Woman joined up with them quickly

"For one we found these soldiers at the border end of Happy Harbor, they had been stationed in New York. So it seems there's more that was brought here than any of us in the league originally believed." Batman quickly answered, in his ever so calm manner as he looked to Kaldur "Status report."

"Like always, all business." Wonder Woman muttered as she gave Batman a glare

"Right, well from what Robin, Kid Flash and Super Boy have explained along with rest of our experiences with the creatures today. They've taken over most of the down town area, though a good portion of the civilians are fighting back." Kaldur explained as he cringed once again from his wound

"Hey take it easy okay." Megan worriedly stated as she tried to position herself to give Kaldur some more comfort with his wound, to her relief Martian Man hunter came up to Kaldur's other side. Then helped Megan with holding him up "Thanks Uncle J'onn, really its appreciated."

"It's no problem Megan, your friend is hurt and you seem to be tiring. Must have had to lift up a lot of heavy object at once with your telekinesis." Martian Man hunter remarked with a smile, then frowned a bit as he looked ta Kaldur's wound "That looks bad, didn't know those things could do so much damage."

"Yeah it's a bad wound and not to rush us. But I think those creature are making their way up to us!" The Flash said as the others looked to see the solider back up while still firing, as the dark creature were closing in

"Well what are we waiting for?" Green arrow asked as he began shooting a his arrows at any of the dark creatures in his line of sight

With Green Arrow initiating the counter attack, the young band of heroes and the leaguers charged at the horde while being supported by the military personal firing from the back lines. Superman started off as he flew up in the air, then swooped back down ramming into a decent sized part of the horde of dark creatures to the left; with that a good two dozen were flung into the air. Though as that happened, Artemis and Green Arrow began shooting the flung up dark creatures, like clay plates being thrown up in the air. Each arrow hit their marks with deadly precision, meanwhile Flash and Kid Flash were dashing about; kicking or punching out the more armored dark creatures with deadly force from their enhanced speed. Each of the dark creatures hit, turned into black smoke as blurs of red along with red and yellow could be seen just barely. On the other side Rocket was firing off blasts of energy at a few of the larger bodied dark creatures that almost got past them and would have attack the soldiers, who for some of them were currently reloading new clips of ammo. Thankfully for her, she had back up from Zatanna who fired off chanted spells one after another; throwing large object at the dark creatures which took each them out easily by the half a dozen. Finally, Wonder Woman, Batman, Robin and Super Boy were pushing back the dark creatures that decided to switch back to attacking through the middle. The only one's not fight was Kaldur, as Megan and Martian man hunter used their telekinesis abilities to throw object at the dark creatures that came to close to them. Minuets, to half an hour of battle passed for the heroes as they began growing slightly fatigued and the soldiers started running out of ammo by the seconds.

"How much more longer?" Rocket asked as she blasted a few more of the flying dark creatures with her power, blasting them back into a some of the rubble "Like for real this is getting annoying!"

"I know what you mean." Conner muttered as he jumped into the air, then landed into some of the dark creatures; taking them out with the small shock wave that formed from his landing. Though as one of the flying dark creatures flew up behind him, it was cut in half by Superman who used his laser sight to cut up a few more of the dark creatures that were in the same line of sight. Then Superman moved up next to him, blast a few more with his laser vision, before turning his attention to Conner "Thanks I guess…"

"Welcome." Superman responded back in slight awkwardness, as he flew passed Conner trying to help out of some of the soldiers; who were starting to be flank out from the right side by the horde

"For real though, these things just keep coming." Robin stated through his teeth in slight irritation as he dodged two of the small dark creatures lunging at him, then rammed his staff against the face of a flying one that tried to do a sweeping attack. Then three of the armor ones got a hold of his legs as he struggled to kick them off. But thankfully Batman threw three of his Batarangs into the armored dark creatures head with deadly precision, as they turned into dark smoke. Robin sighed in relief, but nervously cringed a little when he saw Batman's scolding yet caring glare

"Focus Robin." Batman sternly said, but as he said that a few of larger bodied dark creatures came up from behind him. Batman could sense by pure instinct as he pivoted around to counter attack. But he could already see that he responded a little too late as the larger bodied dark creatures were already winding up for an attack. Though before that could happen, both larger bodied dark creatures were flung away by Black Canaries sonic screech while Robin and Batman covered their ears so they wouldn't be effected by the intense loudness of the attack. Once Black Canary was finished though, she took a deep breath as she looked to Batman with a small smirk

"Maybe you should take your own advice." Black Canary amusingly remarked, as she kicked one of the smaller dark creatures in the head hard. Then made her way off into the battle once more, as Wonder Woman followed her; but stopped to give Batman a mocking smirk and then continued her way off

"Hm…" Batman muttered in slight annoyance as Robin was trying not to snicker, both of them continuing fighting off more of the dark creatures that had their sights on them particularly

The battle kept on for a while longer, as the young heroes, leaguers and the soldiers kept on trying their best to push back the horde of dark creatures. But every time they'd take a two dozen, four dozen would take their place. The battle was frustrating as by this point the heroes were becoming extremely fatigue, even both Flash and Kid Flash who were starting to trip up once in a while from all the never-ending running and fighting along with some of the dark creatures having cut their calf's a bit with their claws. The others had their own cuts and bruise, other than Superman and Super Boy who were just becoming exhausted. The Solider meanwhile had mostly run out of ammo along with grenades, other than a good dozen who had shotguns with a little bit of ammo left. The only saving grace were the four Humvee's with the turrets still stocked pretty well with ammo. The other soldiers were just doing their best to slash at the dark creatures with their combat knifes. Though this proved somewhat fatal when some of the dark creatures killed the soldiers by slashing at their chest, as then a glowing hearts would pop out and disappeared much to the heroes anger at the loss of lives happening around them. On and on this keep going for another hour, nothing seeming to change as the heroes and slowly decreasing number of soldiers fought back the horde that was bent on killing them.

"My god, will these just back off!" Wonder Woman screamed in utter irritation as she was using all of her skills to kill these easy, yet troublesome enemies. She slashed the larger bodied dark creatures with ease, then would ram her shield against the armored ones; followed up with a few slashed from her sword. She also used her lasso on the flying's ones, pulling them down onto some of the smaller dark creatures that tried clawing at her as an improvised weapon

"Yeah I'm starting to ask that myself." Green Arrow responded back as he used his bow as a blunt force weapon, ramming it against one of the flying dark creatures coming in for an aerial attack

"Same!" Wally yelled out as he tripped over his own foot and began rolling towards the others. Thankfully Megan landed in front of him and was able to slow him down with the help of her telekinesis. Once they fully stopped, Wally looked up to Megan with a smile "You're a life saver."

"Thanks...ugh..." Megan responded kindly, but skunked down to her legs

"Hey Miss M, you okay?" Wally asked worriedly, but stopped as a sudden jolt of pain inflicted his lower calf "Ah man... not good."

"I'll say and I'm fine. But what about you though?" Megan asked back, as she took a good look at Wally's leg which was bleeding a lot from the left calf "Can you still move on it or what?"

"Can't, I kept on running because the adrenaline was keeping my left calf from well this." Wally answered in a pained tone "Sorry to say, but I think I'm out."

"Hey it's no problem. But we got to move you to where me and Uncle J'onn left Kaldur at." Megan stated as she sent a quick message to Conner, viva mind link. Second later Conner landing right in front of her and Wally

"You were not kidding, jeez man you gonna be okay to walk for while at all after this?" Conner asked as he quickly picked up a fist sized rock and chucked straight through three of the flying dark creatures that fell onto the ground, before truing into dark smoke

"Nice throw dude." Wally said in slight surprise "Still I don't think I'll be walking normally for a while. Those things claws are a lot sharper than I thought."

"Yah I can see that." Conner replied as he lifted Wally up over his shoulder

"Okay so how's this gonna work, because if I have to be your eyes then your gonna have to watch the front while I watch your back." Wally asked

"Nah, gonna have to jump again." Conner calmly explained, much to Wally's discomfort

"Oh no, no, no, NO!" Wally yelled out as Conner smirked, then seconds later jumped in the air to a very high degree; while Wally's screams could be heard. Meanwhile Artemis and Zatanna who were nearby chuckled for a moment as they continued fighting off the dark creatures

"That was pretty funny." Artemis stated as she fired an arrow through an armored dark creature, that almost gutted one of the soldiers

"Totally, still I hope we're close to fishing off the last remains forces here." Zatanna replied back as she chanted a few quick attack spells at the closer parts of the horde. But as she finished up her attack, suddenly the horde of dark creatures backed off and disappeared into the shadows around the area. The leaguers and young heroes were relieved, but cautious while the soldiers began chanting at their victory since they had run out of ammo for everything by this point. As Zatana looked around, she became very uneasy as it all seems so sudden to back off an attack when the dark creatures clearly were starting to overrun her and the others. She turned her attention to Artemis who seem to be getting the same uneasy feeling

"You're thinking the same thing, right Z?" Artemis asked taking in a few deep breaths "You know, you're wondering when those things are gonna do a surprise attack on us."

"Yeah, I may not be the most well versed in combat. But I even know that you don't back off of an attack like this was. Especially since as much as I hate to admit it, but we we're going to lose probably." Zatana replied, then looked to see the soldiers still chanting from the victory "Well at least they're happy. Good thing we had them along with us too, don't think we would have lasted as long without them."

"Yeah." Artemis said as she noticed the rest of her teammates along with the leaguers making their way over by a still intact fire hydrate, where Kaldur and Wally were laid up against "Seems like we're regrouping. Let's get over to them."

"Right." Zatanna responded back as she and Artemis made their way over to the others quickly. But as they made their way up next to them, it already seemed like a conversation was going on

"So, anyone else expecting a sneak attack?" Raquel asked as she helped Kaldur up, who's wound had at least stopped bleeding showing that the three-clawed cut was almost bone deep

"I suspect they will, seems like those little monster would pull something like that I…I apologize for not being an help during the battle." Kaldur stated as he winced from the lingering pain from his wound

"Kaldur you're lucky that your cut there didn't hit your lung, trust me when I say you were better off resting." Black Canary responded kindly, with a warm smile

"Yeah dude, I mean my leg's are pretty cut up. But its only slightly deep. Yours seems like something out of a horror show." Wally remarked as he was helped up by Robin, though got a quickly smack to the back of the head by Artemis who made her way over to him just to do that "Really woman, even when I'm injured you still have to hit me. Why?"

"Because you needed it kid mouth." Artemis explained with a small smirk as Wally rolled his eyes, though the little interaction didn't go unnoticed by their mentors Green Arrow and Flash

"Hey Oliver, see that?" Flash asked with a snicker, as Oliver looked at him confusingly

"See what, two teenagers poking fun at each other Barry?" Oliver asked as Barry eyes twitched

"Really Oliver, really?" Barry asked as everyone knew Oliver was currently dating Black Canary and he acted like such a flirt when they spent time together outside of work. So Oliver's blatant lack of seeing Wally and Artemis flirting in their own way, made him get slightly annoyed. But Barry took a deep breath before deciding to explain it to his oblivious friend "Okay, let me explain this much more simply. Those two are flirting."

"Oh." Oliver said simply, before suddenly realizing what had just been said "Wait what?"

"Yeah, looks like we may become relatives by law if this blossoms into more." Barry remarked, trying his absolute best not to laugh

"I will shoot a volley of arrows into your legs, I swear I will." Oliver responded back with a slight glare at his amused friend. Though the small banter between the two was put at a halt, by Batman

"Something funny?" Batman asked, donning on his famous Bat glare and made both heroes feel a slight shiver down their backs as they nodded no. Batman just sighed, then turned his attention back to the others "Good then, now back to what we were speaking about."

"Right, about what to do now. Since it seems those things are actually gone." Conner said as he looked around some more

"Yeah…gone." Megan said next, as she and the rest of her team looked around warily

"Anyways, I believe we should scout out the area. See if we can gather up all the survivor until this is over." Batman suggested as everyone else nodded in agreement

"Speaking of which, have you or J'onn spoken to Fate in some time?" Superman asked

"No, neither I or Batman have had contact with the good doctor since this all started." J'onn answered sighing a little "Whatever he is doing, I hope it's worth it. We could have used his help here."

"We really could have, still lets g-" Black Canary began to say, but was cut off as suddenly the sounds of screaming could be heard from where the soldiers were. The heroes turned quickly to them, only to see that the sneak attacked they feared to happen; had come true. The whole group saw most of the soldiers in their line of sight laying down dead with looks of horror and despair on their faces as the smallest of the dark creatures clawed at their chests; where the same floating glowing hearts appeared above their chests only to disappeared second later

"Oh god…" Megan muttered in horror, while the others readied for another fight. But their attention was turned to the probably last remaining solider as she was lifted up into the air, screaming in anger and slight fear

"Get off me you pest, let me go!" The soldier yelled out as she tried swiping at them with her knife. But to the heroes increased horror, the dark flying creature to the right let go of the woman; while the other one fused into her suddenly. Once the process was done, the possessed woman turned herself back up and cracked her neck. She then looked down to the heroes as her skin was pitch black, her eyes we're pitch yellow, her mouth was like a jacket lanterns, she had two antennas stick out from the tip of her skull and finally two wings sprouted from her back. The possessed woman stared at the heroes for a moment, before screaming a bit "RAWHHHHHHHHH!"

"Oh come on, really?" Robin, Zatanna, Jacqueline and Conner asked in disbelief as they along with the others readied themselves for another battle

"What other surprises are there gonna be?" Wally asked as even he and Kaldur got as ready as they could form the battle. But then turned his attention to Kaldur who had gently elbowed his side "What?"

"You had to ask, didn't you?" Kaldur stated as he pointed to the airborne soldier to show that a large new horde had formed up, all sharing similar appearances as the possessed woman. Though some had wings, while others didn't; but were wielding the emptied guns of the original soldiers

"At least they don't have ammo." Barry said in relief, only for the gun wielding possessed soldiers to summon clips of pure darkness and loaded them into the guns

"Well... that's new." Superman remarked as the possessed soldiers fired upon them heroes. Thought thankfully they all had enough stamina to dodged to the sides and behind some rubble

"Ugh!" Wally and Kaldur screamed as their pain flared up

"Suck it up boys, at least your alive." Wonder Woman stated with a small smirk, but almost was hit with by one of the stray bullets

"Stay down!" Batman yelled as he looked to the other people aside from Wally, Kaldur and Wonder Woman with him. Said people being Megan, Robin, J'onn and Zatanna "Are you all okay?"

"Me, Robin and Zatanna are, but..." Megan worriedly answered as she looked down at J'onn to his arm bleeding a little

"It seems those things can hurt me, even when I'm phasing." J'onn stated as Robin tied a small cloth around his arm

"I wonder if this effected Superman or Super Boy?" Zatanna asked as the others on her side frowned a little at that thought, that both man and boy of steel could actually be wounded by these things bullets

"That's a yes Z!" Raquel answered form the other side where she, Oliver, Black Canary, Barry, Superman who had a few bullet wounds on his right upper thigh and Conner who had bullet wounds in both of his lower calf's were trying their best to avoid getting hit

"How did this happen, I though me and you were… basically invulnerable to stuff like this?" Conner asked, as he cringed from this pain he had never felt before. Though as he looked at the others, he laughed a little "Y-You know, I get w… why you all try avoiding getting shot at. This is some pretty intense pain."

"Of all the times to make a joke, you pick now?" Artemis asked as a bullet bounced off "Seriously though, if it can shoot through you and Superman here. Then why haven't we been shot through the walls yet?"

"Maybe it effects flesh differently from non-living material." Black Canary suggested as she had found a metal pole, some rope and a broken off car mirror; then fixed them up to make a quick elongated mirror. She then slowly moved the mirror out to see none of the dark creatures in sight. But that was proven wrong quickly to her when the mirror was suddenly broke into multiple pieces, making Black Canary move quickly into cover once more as even more gun fire started

"Didn't go so well Dinah?" Oliver asked as Dinah huffed

"Well maybe you'd like to sleep on the couch tonight?" Dinah asked back with a small smirk

"I…I'll shut up now." Oliver responded nervously, while Megan and Raquel snickered a bit

"Jokes aside, I'm getting tired of just standing back here. I'm heading out and striking back before hey get the ideal to that themselves!" Artemis yelled impatiently as she moved out of cover

"NO WAIT!" Kaldur yelled, but couldn't do much as his wound acted up again making him clench his side in pain. When Artemis made her way out from cover, she had already readied an arrow and had the string pulled back. She was ready to shoot her arrow, but then realized two things. One the gun fire had stopped completely and two the possessed soldiers were all just staring at her

"Artemis get back here with us please!" Megan asked worriedly, as she along with everyone else could tell this wasn't on purpose; Artemis seemed to be the only one not catching onto that

"Why, they're just-" Artemis replied back, but stopped when suddenly one of the gun wielding possessed soldiers appeared in front of her from the ground with its gun aimed right at her face. The others only took notice seconds after the possessed soldiers finger was already pulling down on the trigger. Artemis at this point knew that the gun would go off before anyone could get to her, especially since the faster members had some bad wound that already were slowing them down. Artemis could only look in horror as she could see the possessed soldiers finger pull the trigger back quickly, then time slowed down for her as the barrel of the gun started to flash brightly "No…"

"RAWHH!" The possessed solider screamed out as it fully pulled the trigger back at this point and with that a hail of bullets fired upon Artemis. But both the possessed solider and Artemis didn't taken notice of the sudden blur of green that stopped right between the two. Once the bullets stopped, Artemis along with the others realized she was unharmed, but what caught hers, the teams and the possessed soldier's attention was the figure that had now appeared in between the two

"What in the world?" Wally asked as he along with the others looked to see a man, with a grey, light grey, neon green and bone white armor. But the amour looked more like a body, since it had dark reddish grey muscle like substance where the elbows, knees, ankles, neck and sides were. Finally the man wore a helmet with a single neon green visor with a glowing neon green hilt less sword that was sheathed, while the man held the small knife in reverse that seemed to be the weapon that had blocked all the bullets. The man didn't hesitate as he slashed the possessed soldiers throat, killing it as the body turned into dark smoke. Then he looked back to Artemis and the others, who were just staring along with analyzing him

"I take it you've never seen a person like me or it's a rarer sight." The man joked with a quick chuckled, as his tone he had a synthesized sound along with having a thick Japanese accent. The man then held his hand out for a shake "My name is Genji, who would you be miss along with your friends behind you?"

"Ah…well…ah…" Artemis tried to explained, but was still in slight shock from almost dying seconds ago. Along with facing this man or cyborg of sorts, sure he saved her but she still felt wary of the man since she didn't know where he even came from

"Actually, may you hold off on explaining. I believe these creatures are analyzing me." Genji calmly stated as he looked back to see that the dark creatures were just doing that, while still aiming their weapons at him. Though Genji just laughed in utter amusement "A foolish tactic to do, they won't be able to use the information their gathering. Not one bit."

"Wh-" Artemis was about to ask, getting out of her shock; but was cut off as suddenly the possessed aerial soldiers began die and burst into clouds of black smoke one by one

"Sniper." Batman stated as he along with the rest began looking around, wondering where the sniper was positioned at. Then once the shooting stopped, probably because the sniper had to reload. The possessed ground soldiers quickly aimed their guns at Genji, deciding to kill him first off, then the sniper; then finally the rest of the heroes. But as the possessed solider were about to shoot, another new figure appeared out of nowhere on the left side of them

"I wouldn't do that little monsters!" A very tall, buff, older man with a Swedish accent said joyfully. Though he wore a set of full grey metal futuristic like armor, with black and yellow highlights. The fully masked helmet had a yellow visor, while the top of it look like a crown; finally the behemoth of a man wielded a large two handed hammer. The leaguers at least remembered this was the Reinhart person from recording Batman presented them before he showed their younger counterparts the information. Though the younger heroes were having a loss of memory on that since the events that had just taken place made it hard for them to think straight. The remaining possessed soldiers began firing at Reinhart, but Reinhart suddenly summoned a wide rectangular blue holographic like shield. The possessed soldier's bullets bounce off like foam bullets against it, once their clips had run out. Reinhart laughed proudly and smashed his hammer against the first possessed solider nearest to him. Once he did that Reinhardt activated thrusters from the back of his armor and with that rammed into the reaming possessed soldiers, who were crushed against a broken wall; were they turned into dark smoke. Rinehart then moved away from the rumble as he laughed some more in a proud manner "Another successful rescue!"

"Good old Reinhart." Genji stated with a chuckled

"Okay wait a minute, who the heck are you people?" Zatana asked as she and the others made their way out. Though Wally was being helped up by Robin, Kaldur being helped up by Raquel, Conner being helped by Megan and Superman being helped by Wonder woman

"Yes, some clarification now." Batman sternly stated with a narrowed glare as he and the rest had made their way up to Genji, while Reinhart made his way up too. Artemis moved back to her teammates who were happy she made it out of this alive

"If you would please." Black Canary kindly said with a kinder tone, as she gave Batman a slight glare for his blunt approach

"Such nice manners, from such a nice young lady." Another person said, coming from the right of the area and turned out to be an older woman. Said woman wore a heavy set of dark grey modified leather attire around her whole body, with bits of blue armor, sandal like foot wear, a gauntlet with a syringe on the left arm, then finally a hooded long light grey coat over her body with some blue highlights. She also wore a blue scarf under her hood, which had small bits of her braided long grey hair poking out, while a blue/ black colored head band wrapped her around tanned skin had a unique tattoo under her left eye. Lastly, she wore a black eye patch over her right eye and wielded a futuristic like blue/black/ silver colored sniper rifle. Though from the recording a while ago, the heroes could tell this was Ana. Ana quickly made her way next to Reinhart and Genji, while glaring a little at Batman in disapproval "Word of advice young man, you'll get easier answers if you ask nicely."

"I like her already." Oliver stated to Wonder Woman and Dinah, as both women and he snickered a bit

"Anyways, jokes aside for once. Who are you people?" Robin asked, smirking at Ana's feisty comeback as Ana gave Robin a smile

"Oh you must be Robin, Batman protege correct?" Ana kindly asked with a warm smile, while Robin along with the rest of his team were a little surprised about that

"How did you know about Robin?" Megan asked worriedly as Reinhart laughed a little

"Do not worry young green miss, we along with our other friends know of you. We've been here for a while now." Rinehart answered kindly

"Indeed, the internet here is a little less advance then ours back home. But we still got the general information on you all." Genji explained as he rubbed the back of his head "Sombra was defiantly unhappy about being told not to hack. Head still Hurst from her nagging to me about it."

"Okay so your saying you know about us, but again like we keep asking. Who are you and what do mean by not as advance when it come to our internet?" Zatanna asked, just wanting answers since these three seemed to be dodging the question

"Zatanna I believe it's obvious." Batman responded back calmly as he narrowed his eyes at the three "You three are members of Overwatch, am I not correct?"

"Correct." Ana answered calmly, then narrowed her eyes back "Question is what now, are you going to try and take us three in or let us go as a thank you for helping you out?"

"As much as we'd like to let you go, we have to take you in." Superman answered, much to the younger hero's uneasiness as the information came back to them like a sudden jolted memory

"Whoa hold on there, look I know their members have been killing criminals. But they did just save Artemis life along with ours." Conner replied back, in defense of the three Overwatch members

"Still, the laws the law. We had hoped your team would come in contact with them beforehand." Batman said as he narrowed his eyes more at the three OverWatch members "But that will not be needed anymore, we'll take you three into custody and then ask where your friends are. We have question."

"Questions, you won't get much from us. Those creatures invaded our world, then took us from it." Rinehart sternly said, gripping his hammer slightly harder just in case this meeting went sour

"So you are from another world then?" Megan stated in shock as Genji, Rinehart and Ana nodded in agreement

"That only heightens the case for you to come with us, then we can see to bringing your friends in until this situation gets done with." Batman sternly said as the three Overwatch members suddenly got into defensive positions with their weapons ready. This prompt the hero's along with their injured to do the same, though Kaldur was the only one not to ready himself for a battle. The heroes of this world and the three Overwatch members stared down one another, hoping one side would back down even though it seems unlikely for that to happen

"Please let us be, we didn't ask to come here and we're not threat to you." Genji asked with a kind tone, while reading up a few throw stars if needed

"Sorry but we can't." Wonder Woman replied sternly as she readied her sword, pointing it towards Genji as she picked him to be her target

"What would you gain from taking us in?" Ana asked angrily as she glared at Batman even more intensely "You, you're just paranoid aren't you. Can't trust anyone is that it?"

"Whoa hey lady, look I know bats here can be a bit of a grim character. But lay off, you'd do the same if we showed up I your world probably." Barry stated as he was ready to attack, despite the gnawing pain on his cut up legs

"And if I tell you personally that we wouldn't?" Rinehart asked calmly

"We'd still have to take you in, sorry." Dinah answered with a frown as she didn't want to fight these people, she already could see they were friendlies. But its seemed a few of the others didn't, she knew the kids agreed with her; but this was technically a league mission so they didn't have much say in the final decision. She also could tell why none of them had opposed, seeing as they already sadly knew that

"Then it seems we're at a standstill then." Ana stated with a sadden tone as both groups were ready to fight, but as the tension was at its tipping point. Suddenly the tension was interrupted, by the sounds of foots steps…a lot of footsteps coming their way

"Um…. I think you might want to hold off on this little skirmish." Kaldur said with a slightly bewildered tone as he looked passed the OverWatch members who had turned their back to the group of heroes; seeing what Kaldur saw as well

"Whys that?" Oliver asked, but got a light smack to the back of his head by Dinah "Ow, what?"

"Look." Dinah stated as she along with the other heroes looked to where Kaldur, Ana, Genji and Rinehart were looking at. Oliver rubbed the back of his head some more, then took a look now himself to see a unsettling sight

"Oh… that's why." Oliver remarked nervously as he aimed his arrow at now a new horde of possessed individuals, expect these weren't the solider. But instead these were citizens from young teen, adult men, adult women all the way to older folks. All of them having been possessed by the dark creatures just like the soldiers, with the same blood thirsty looks on their faces "Well that's sick."

"You're telling us." Genji responded back, as the possessed civilians were closing in on them slowly; like they were mocking the group of heroes that they were going to be killed soon. Genji just quickly looked back at the leaguers and young heroes as he readied his throwing stars "We'll figure out our issues after we deal with these things, is that okay?"

"Fine, but don't think we're letting you go." Batman responded back as he and the others waited for the inevitable battle to start, but as the possessed civilians were mere inches to the group of heroes. Suddenly a new figure popped in, as a light appeared above the heroes

"Heartless, be gone or face the power of Doctor Fate!" A man wearing a black body suit, with golden boots, golden gauntlets, golden shoulder pads/ chest guard, a golden cape and finally a full covering golden helmet. He floated above the heroes, glaring down the now dubbed heartless with a deathly glare "What will it be, flee or face you end?"

"RAWHHH!" The possessed civilians roared in defiance as Doctor Fate scowled under his mask

"Then so be it, FACE THE MIGHT FROM A LORD OF ORDER!" Doctor Fate screamed as his hands glowed suddenly while the heartless tried leaping at him, though as they did Doctor Fate blasted off two beams of pure light. This decimated the heartless that had leaped at him, with that show of power the other heartless looked to one another; then quickly fled back into the shadows knowing that this battle would prove difficult with Doctor Fate there now

"Really, like really are you kidding me. We all fought those things for hours, then you come here for a not even a minuet and they retreat. What's up with that?" Wally asked angrily as he was happy to be saved, along with avoiding another fight since his leg was all bang up. But again he was somewhat frustrated how easily those things or heartless booked it when Fate came in "Speaking of which, where were you anyways all this time?"

"Yeah…we'd all like to know." Zatanna asked next, glaring at the entity that was currently holding her father's body in its grasp. She hated Fate, so being nice to the newly revived hero was hard to do. Fate sensing the angry from his younger companions sighed a little

"Doing important work, like for one learning more about the heartless our world is facing." Doctor Fate explained then looked at Ana, Genji and Rinehart "Along with telling you and your comrades a warning."

"A warning?" Ana asked as she was worried about having to fight this man, mostly because she could tell that the mystic arts in this world were very real and deadly

"Yes, you shall all be let go from being taken in by my friends here. But you are not to interfere anymore within this battle. You three and your other friends even being here has already shifted the balance of order. So I'm warning you to stay in where ever you're currently living at. If you try to help again, then next time none of us will be so… forgiving." Doctor Fate sternly answered

"I see, we'll be off then." Ana said as she Reinhart and Genji began making their way off to wherever they were staying at. But as the three members of Overwatch were five inches away from the group of heroes, Ana stopped in her tracks suddenly

"Ana?" Rinehart asked as Ana turned her gaze back towards the heroes, primarily Doctor Fate and Batman

"Just so you know, we'll be fighting and helping along with this battle against these so called Heartless despite your warning. So the next we meet you, don't think we'll go easy on any of you." Ana stated sternly as she made her way off passed both Genji and Rinehart who looked back at the heroes, then themselves, then finally followed behind Ana. After a few more moments all three members of Overwatch were gone from sight, leaving the heroes and Doctor Fate alone

"That was… interesting." Megan remarked looking back at Doctor Fate with a slightly worried tone "And ah… why did you call those things heartless."

"Be at ease young Martian, I called those things heartless because that is what they are called." Doctor Fate answered turned his attention to Wally "Which is the primary reason it took me so long, I had to… call a friend of mine."

"A friend?" Artemis asked in slight confusion

"Yes, believe or not I do know magic that enables me to communicate with being not of our world or our dimension you could say as well." Doctor Fate answered "Back when I was still had Kent as my host, I communicated with a good number of individuals with magic prowess par to mine and even greater than mine at points. One individual I spoke to many times was a wizard name Yen Sid, an expert on heartless you could say along with knowing of what can stop it… even if I'm not fond of it."

"That's pretty cool actually, the whole magic to talk to other people not of our world or dimension thing. Not the heartless." Zatanna stated with a sheepish smile

"Right, still what is that can help us?" Robin asked, hoping it wasn't anything to whelming

"You'll hate hearing me say this, but despite what we all shall be doing to quell these heartless. In the end it's up to four keyblade wielders to save us." Doctor fate explained with a slight hesitance in his tone

"Keyblade Wielders?" Robin, Wally, Artemis, Jacqueline, Megan, Conner, Zatanna and Kaldur asked. One because the weapons Fate just explained sounded ridiculous and two, the young heroes weren't too keen that four strangers were their only hope when it came to it

"Yes, these four individuals will come here sooner or later with their keyblades. Keyblades are weapons of pure light, look how about I explain the rest to you all some place safer?" Doctor Fate suggested as the rest of the heroes looked to one another, then looked back at Fate nodding in agreement

"Question is where?" Wonder Woman asked

"How about Mount Justice Diana, getting to the watch tower is probably a no go since it seems Happy Harbor is the only place left in our world in both land and space." Superman suggested as he winced a little as his wounds healed up now along with Connors from what he could see "At least the wounds are healing back up again."

"I guess that could work Clark." Diana responded back as she looked to Batman "Sound good to you?"

"Yes." Batman answered as he turned his attention back to Doctor Fate "Can you teleport is there, it might be the safest way to get there."

"I can, just stay still for a moment and then all will be explained." Doctor Fate said as he summoned a blue portal to the left of him and the others. With that they all made their way through the portal, but unknown to them the four keyblade wielders would visit their world when the time came

-Back at the camp with Ruby and Weiss-

It had been a peaceful night for Ruby and Weiss, as Jane along with her father had given them a tent of their own since it seemed there were enough tents for everyone; even if theirs was a little smaller. Still both Weiss and Ruby slept together happily in their tent, though they didn't decide to do any of the special stuff with each other until they found a more private place to do so. Both girls enjoyed cuddling with each other as they were only now waking up in the early morning, Weiss waking up first.

"Morning love." Weiss happily said sitting up in the bed, stretching her arms as she had slept in her skirt and corset. While placing her coat, sock and shoes next to her side of the bed. Ruby did the same, but took her cape off, along with her stockings and shoes placing them on her own side of the bed

"Morning…what time is it?" Ruby asked as she opened her eyes, smiling warmly at Weiss who kissed her on the lips

"From what I can guess, probably around seven o'clock." Weiss answered as she laid back down and nuzzled her nose against Ruby's, getting a quick giggle out of the couple "Hm, you know I could get use to sleeping with you like this."

"Same, hey maybe well have kids one day too. Then they can wake us up by jumping on our bed." Ruby responded back joyfully

"I'm taking a guess you and Yang did that with your parents then?" Weiss asked as Ruby nodded, making Weiss snicker a little at the thought of that, though she also felt even more happy that Ruby actually considered having kids with her. How they would have the kids, well she knew they'd think of something so they could make that child their genetically. Ruby taking notice of Weiss good mood, hugged her lovingly

"One yes me and Yang did this all the time. Two, I see my little kid comment got you to smile even more." Ruby stated as she kissed Weiss left cheek a few times "Glad you're happy to hear me suggest kids when we decided on it."

"I am happy really I am, I want to have kids with you now that I think it more but…well I'm just worried what kind of life we'd be getting them into." Weiss responded, frowning worriedly a little "I mean, were huntresses in training along with now being keyblade wielders. Both being jobs that can bring in a bundle of danger."

"I know what you mean Weiss, but I'm sure whenever we have kids. They'll love the type of life style we have, I mean look at where we're now. On another world, in the jungle and friends with ape man along with his animal's friends. While we look for the keyhole here and fighting off any heartless we find. If someone said you, me, Blake and Yang were gonna be in a situation like this one day. I'd just say that person is crazy. But here we are, in this exact sort of situation." Ruby explained as she snuggled with Weiss and smiled widely "So don't worry, we'll be giving our kids a good life. I know that for a fact snow flake!"

"Oh Ruby, you know just how to make me feel better. I love you so much!" Weiss responded overjoyed by Ruby's encouraging words. She and Ruby then kissed a bit more, before sitting back up "Now then, let's get our coats, socks and shoes on. Then see how the others are doing this morning."

"Okay!" Ruby said happily as she put her socks, shoes and cape on quickly; while Weiss did the same. Once both girls were fully dressed once more, they made their way out to see Goofy and Guin sitting with Archimedes as they spoke with him on well whatever the three men were speaking of "Oh how great, they're getting along more. Yay for friendship!"

"Hurray indeed Ruby." Weiss stated, giggling at her girlfriend's adorable childlike antics. Then looked over to see Jaune talking to Clayton much to her worry. Ruby took noticed of this as well, feeling the same worry too

"Oh man, Clayton's talking with Jaune again. We have enough to worry about with the Heartless here along with finding the keyhole. But now we got to worry about that creep possibly poisoning our friend's mind." Ruby angrily said as Weiss patted her shoulder, helping Ruby calm down as she gave Weiss and appreciative smile "Thanks hun."

"It's no problem, I feel the same way you do. So what do you say we cut in on Clayton's 'Subtle' act to try and brainwash our friend?" Weiss suggested smirking as Ruby smirked back, with that both woman began to make their way over to the two and once they finally made their way over they could somewhat hear what both men were speaking of

"So when that happens, well …" Clayton muttered as Jaune nodded in agreement

"Yeah, I get ya. I'll-" Jaune began to say, but stopped as he caught Ruby and Weiss behind them, then turned around quickly as he donned on the best non-nervous smile he could muster up "D-Did you just get here girls?"

"We did indeed… what we're you two talking about anyways?" Weiss asked as she could see past Jaune's nervousness, then suddenly the warning from Jungle Hunter came to her mind. But Weiss quickly shook it off as a low possibility – "No, No Weiss stop. Jaune's our friends, he wouldn't be one to commit murder… could he?"-

"Well ah... we-" Jaune replied, but was quickly cut off by Clayton

"Just man to man subject, nothing that would interest such two young ladies as yourselves." Clayton answered with a smile that was more creepy, than reassuring to Weiss and Ruby

"Oh, okay then. Still anyways do either one of you know where Jane is?" Ruby asked kindly, though narrowed her eyes a little a Clayton while ready to summon her keyblade since she had a gut feeling something bad was going to happen and that it would involve Clayton

"She's in her tent right now, I mean Jane did survive an attack from a gorilla so yeah." Jaune answered, as he internally sighed in relief that Ruby and Weiss hadn't overheard Clayton's plans once his friends came to the island. It would be a while longer, but Clayton had given Jaune the honors to commence with the plan for team RWBY along with their allies himself. But as Jaune said that, Jane came out of her tent, yawning a little as she stretched her arms out "Never mind, she's over there girls."

"Thanks Jaune, we'll see how she is." Weiss replied back as she and Ruby made their way up to Jane, who took notice of the them as she smiled

"Well I see you two are up early, along with two of your friends. Question is where did the others from you group go again?" Jane asked as she took a seat next to Goofy and her father. While Weiss and Ruby took a seat next to Guin

"Oh them, they went to find someone." Goofy explained kindly as he yawned himself

"Find someone…wait, would it be mister ape man that we saw yesterday?" Jane asked happily as she woke up much more quickly

"You could say that, hm is someone getting a little lovely dovey." Ruby said with a giggled, happy that Tarzan had gained a possible love interest since the man seemed interested in Jane. Jane meanwhile blushed a little from the sudden statement. Along with being happy that her father was too enthralled in a sudden case of self-thinking, probably about what to do about finding the gorillas

"What no, I mean he is a nice looking man despite his… wild appearance." Jane replied back as she smiled warmly about Tarzan, but snapped herself out of it quickly "Still, he is an interesting one and I would like to meet with him again."

"Sounds like a confession to me." Guin plainly stated as he ate a melon in his hand, while Jane just blushed once more in sudden embarrassment

"Guin that's not very nice you know." Ruby remarked as she gave Guin a friendly scolding stare

"Oh right, ah forget what I said. He probably is not interested in you anyways." Guin bluntly stated once more, making Jane frown as she slumped her head. Though Guin took notice of this as well, realizing his new answer wasn't really that great either. He looked at Weiss, Ruby and Goofy sighing "I am not great at this stuff when it involves feelings of love or infatuation."

"Trust me that's a good thing, love is something that tends to get in the way." Huang said as he made his way up from behind Guin and out of the jungle. Though as he took a seat next on the other side of Goofy, he glared a little at Ruby and Weiss "I really hate it that you both make me have to smoke outside the camp. I mean yeah I could have smoked while you both were still asleep, but I know you'd both would smell the smoke then nag me about it. So to save myself the trouble of having to listen to you ladies get on my case, along with saving my ears from how annoying your voices are. I decided to smoke outside, so that you two princesses could have fresh air to breath when you wake up."

"My, how… kind of you." Weiss responded back through her teeth as she was resisting the urge to hurt Huang again "Still how's your hand feeling, you know when I stomped on it?"

"Fine, little miss…" Huang said as his eye twitched a little, while also receiving a mocking snicker from Ruby

"Well now that we have our hellos out of the way, what's on the menus for activities today?" Ruby happily asked

"Huh what?" Archimedes asked as he snapped out of his train of thought "Oh miss Ruby, miss Weiss when did you both get here?"

"They got here when I did daddy." Jane explained kindly, then turned her attention back to the others "Sorry, daddy tends to forget when he preoccupied thinking."

"It's okay, still Ruby is right." Goofy replied back as she stretched his arms out a bit "What is the plan for today?"

"Well-" Archimedes started to say, but stopped when rustling from where Guin and Huang were, then jumped from his seat nervously

"Heartless?" Weiss said as she and Ruby readied their keyblades, while readied blizzard spells. Guin readied his sword, Goofy, readied his shield and Huang readied his pistol since he didn't know exactly what a heartless was; but it sounded bad. But as the bushes stopped rustling, instead of heartless Ikail, Dante, Donald, Blake and Yang came out

"Hey what's up!" Yang stated joyfully as she waved at the others, then noticed they had their weapons out "Um, something wrong?"

"No, we just thought you were heartless." Goofy answered as he and the other put weapons away, then looked to Archimedes "Nothing to worry about."

"Oh good, very good. Apologizes for getting startled, but I'd rather be safe then sorry." Professor Archimedes remarked as he turned his attention to Blake and Yang "Did you two or another of your party find any gorillas on your overnight expedition?"

"No…sorry, we thought we were close. But it was a no go, still I'm sure you'll find them sooner or later professor." Blake answered kindly

"Right oh then, Jane come with me. We need to talk to mister Clayton about today's schedule!" Archimedes said as he made his way over to Clayton who was still talking to Jaune still

"I'll talk to you all later." Jane happily stated as she followed her father behind, then Huang sighed

"I got to go then too. I am a part of Clayton's crew as he says…" Huang muttered loudly as he followed behind Jane while being to mumble angrily

"Well it's good to see you're all fine. Still where's Tarzan and did you find the Gorillas nest?" Weiss asked kindly

"We did find then nest, but we didn't tell the professor since we were worried that he'd tell Clayton." Ikail answered

"Yeah, besides if Clayton knew then he'd go after the gorillas." Dante said as he looked over to Clayton talking with Archimedes and Jane now. While Huang and Jaune stood on the side lines, waiting for whatever orders Clayton was probably going to give them to do for the day. Though it also look like Jane was trying to explain something important "Seems like Jane's trying to tell Clayton and her father something?"

"I wonder what it is?" Donald asked, then looked back at Ruby, Weiss, Guin and Goofy "Also Tarzan should be coming sooner or later."

"Cool, I just hope he doesn't swing down on in here. I'd rather not see Clayton try and shoot him." Ruby stated as Jane and her father moved a little closer to the group as they conversed. Jaune and Huang were having their own conversation; while Clayton was now shaving himself with a knife. Jane meanwhile moved to a chalkboard set up in the camp as her Father stood at the left side of her

"Well he didn't stand up right." Jane said as she picked up a piece of chalk a quickly drew a pretty accurate drawing of Tarzan crouching, but stopped before drawing his face "He sort of crouched like this on his knuckle."

"On his knuckles?" Archimedes muttered as he was processing what his daughter was explaining to him

"Yes, he also walked like a gorilla!" Jane happily said as her father was surprised at that

"Yeah and he walked like this!" Ruby stated joyfully as she, Yang, Goofy and Ikail motioned the way Tarzan walked

"Oh yes he did, he bent his legs a little and used his knuckles." Jane remarked as she began doing the same walk as Ruby, Weiss, Goofy and Ikail were doing. Then moments later it seemed that six were doing their best to impersonate Tarzan's walk. Though the others along with Huang and Jaune who'd moved made their way up to the them, just watched the scene unfold

"Is… is this really happening?" Huang asked in utter bewilderment

"Yes it is, yes it is." Guin replied as he face palmed his leopard mask, while sighing a bit at his friends lack of restraint when it came to acting weird

"Oh that's my Ruby!" Weiss joyfully stated as she was gushing quietly at how cute she found Ruby, who was making adorable monkey noises

"Jeez Weiss, you really are different now since you started going out with Ruby." Blake remarked amusingly, then faced palmed herself when she looked back at Yang rolling around on the ground; while making monkey noises like her little sister was

"Have to admit it is kind of funny." Huang muttered with a quick snicker

"Really Yang?" Blake asked, now planning on having a talk with Yang about acting more proper when in company or at least when in company of the worlds natives. Though as this happened, Clayton who was still shaving took noticed of them and sighed in annoyance as he continued shaving

"Oh Janey, Jane what a remarkable discovery. A man with no language, no behavior-" Archimedes said, counting off what he had gathered from his daughter's description of the ape man's personality; though he was cut off by Jane

"And NO respect for personal space." Jane stated as Ikail, Guin, Dante, Goofy and Donald nodded in complete agreement with that

"Yeah no kidding." Donald remarked with a chuckled as Ikail bopped him on the head

"Be nice Donald." Ikail sternly said while Ruby, Yang and Goofy moved back next to them

"Wasn't that the story you told us about what happen beforehand, when me, the girls and Jaune got back from out expedition?" Blake asked quietly as Ikail and the boys nodded

"Yep, thankfully Clayton bought the whole it was us that saved Jane part of it." Guin answered quietly back, meanwhile Jane and her father's conversation continued

"Really Jane, how so?" Archimedes asked curiously as Jane got right up to his face

"He was this close daddy." Jane explained, then got back up as she made her way to the chalk board again "He was staring right at me and he seemed…confused."

"Confused?" Jaune asked since he, Clayton and Archimedes were the only ones that didn't know about Tarzan's existence

"Yes, as if he's never seen another human before. His eyes were intense, focused and…" Jane began to explain, as she was finishing drawing Tarzan's face. But once she got around to finishing the eyes, she was at a slight loss of words on how to explain them as she smiled warmly at the memory of Tarzans eyes when they had stared into hers "I had never seen eyes like those before…"

"Hey, want us to leave you and the chalk board alone for a while Jane?" Yang asked with a smirk as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Ikail and Goofy laughed a bit. Meanwhile Jaune, Huang, Dante and Donald felt somewhat awkward from how Jane began acting; while Guin just shrugged not being weirded out by it at all

"Yang stop it." Jane responded back as she laughed a little herself, accepting that she had set herself up for that joke

"I know, I'm the joke master." Yang stated with a prideful smile as Blake gave her a quick kiss on the cheek

"I guess you are Yang. Anyways think of what we could learn from him, we must find him." Jane said excitedly, while Clayton had finished shaving and overheard what Jane had suggested. He wiped his face off with a towel, then threw it on the ground grunting in annoyance as he made his toward the group who took quick notice of him

"Professor, you're here to find gorillas. Not indulge some girlish fantasy." Clayton sternly said as he gave Jane a stern glare, then began making his way over to somewhere else in the camp site

"Fantasy." Jane replied with an angered tone as she followed behind Clayton quickly, who stopped and turned back around to confront her. But thankfully team RWBY followed behind Jane for support as they knew what she had seen was real, since they had hung out with Tarzan for the first part of their adventure here on this world

"Yeah, what do mean by fantasy meany!" Ruby yelled with a pouty lip and a narrowed glare

"Ruby, act your age please." Blake asked kindly, as she gave Clayton a glare too while Ruby kept her current pouty glare

"Hey if it helps, me and the girls saw this ape man too you know." Weiss said with a smug smirk as she wanted to see the stunned look on Clayton's face from that information. But instead Clayton laughed a little at that, much to the girls and Jane's slight irritation

"What's so funny, huh?" Yang asked as she clenched her fists

"What's funny, well why in the world would I believe any of you girls is what's funny." Clayton explained as he laughed a little more, before stopping "You four maybe Jaune here's supposed friends. But you all seem more like delusional mental ward escapees if you ask me."

"Now Mister Clayton that is extremely rude of you to say." Archimedes stated sternly as he gave Clayton a disapproving look. Ikail, Guin, Dante, Donald and even Goofy just kept quiet; giving Clayton threatening glares for insulting the girls

"You got anything to say Jaune, I mean aren't they supposed to be your friends or something?" Huang asked in slight boredom

"Yeah, but… might be a good idea to stay out of this one. I don't want their anger turned towards me you know." Jaune responded, while doing his best not to scowl from even being considered friends with team RWBY

"Smart move kid, smart move indeed." Huang replied back as he and Jaune went back to watching the tense confrontation between Clayton, Jane and the girls

Though Huang from the first day he was found by Clayton and Jaune, had gotten an odd feeling about the two. Clayton though was easy to read as he could already tell that guy was a back-stabbing snake that he'd be keeping an eye on and kill if needed. Jaune meanwhile seemed a lot nicer, but he also seemed to be… troubled. Maybe it was his years as an ex-cop and dealing with many cases, with some being those with teenagers around Jaune's age. But the boy seemed to have a hidden murderous side in him, like he was indoctrinated into that minds set. Either way Huang would keep an eye on Jaune, hopefully he wouldn't have to kill the kid either; Huang knew he wasn't the friendliest type. Especially since he was forced into the syndicate, he had killed many people for that group; but Huang still had a moral code. Though Huang already had decided, that he would leave this alone for now as he paid attention to the girls and Jane arguing a bit with Clayton

"That still isn't evidential proof you four aren't just some crazies." Clayton remarked with a smug smile as he was doing his best to get under the keyblade wielders skins, to mess with their minds before the time would come he'd let the plan commence

"Why you!" Yang screamed out, lunging at Clayton but was held back by Weiss, Ruby and Blake "Let me at him!"

"Big sis clam down please." Ruby pleaded as Yang look over to her. Then took a few deep breaths as she was able to thankfully calm herself down, while the girls let go of her. Yang smiled kindly at Ruby as she patted her head "Thanks baby sis."

"No problem, you're my big sister and I'll be here to help you when you're mad, sad or well feeling anything other than good feelings." Ruby replied back as both sisters hugged each other

"How sweet, still doesn't change what I think of you four." Clayton stated in a mocking tone as the Ruby and Yang let go of one another, glaring yet again at Clayton along. Weiss, Blake, Ikail, Guin, Dante, Donald and goofy were doing the same still

"Look Clayton, I vouch for them and just so you know the ape man is-" Jane began to explained sternly, but was cut off as Tarzan suddenly dropped right in between her and Clayton. Clayton was shocked that the ape man was real, while Jane and the others excluding Jaune along with Huang looked back at Clayton with smug looks "He's is real, see I was telling the truth."

"Oh, it's him, it's him, him, him. It's Tarzan!" Professor Archimedes yelled out in a sudden fit of excitement as he ran up to Tarzan, who moved his body back in slight wariness and curiosity

"PROFESSOR STAND BACK!" Clayton yelled out, pulling out his double barrel shotgun and aiming it straight at Tarzan

"WAIT!" TEAM RWBY yelled out as they tried a futile attempt to prevent Tarzan from getting shot

"Yes wait!" Professor Archimedes yelled next

"Stop!" Ikail, Guin and Dante yelled as they tried to sprint towards Clayton to prevent him from shooting. Donald was already getting a thunder spell ready and Goofy was aiming his shield to throw at the man

"NO!" Jane screamed, as she was the closest to Clayton and sprinted right at him to stop him, but tripped on her own foot; falling to ground as she groaned in pain. Clayton by this point pulled the trigger on his gun and shot off a round. But as he did this, Huang out of all people had gotten right up next to him and pulled his gun up seconds before the bullet fully shot out of the gun. So once the bullet came out of Clayton's gun, the bullet shot up a little into their air, where it would land somewhere in the jungle

"Huang?" Clayton asked as he glared at Huang, who just looked back at him with a calm look on his face

"Clayton." Tarzan said suddenly, getting Clayton's attention as he and the Professor look at him in even more shock

"Did he just…" Professor Archimedes asked in amazement

"Clayton." Tarzan stated in a more prouder tone as he pumped his chest up a little

"Oh, ha oh my!" Archimedes remarked, now very excited to meet Tarzan along with learning he could speak. Clayton just stared at Tarzan in utter bewilderment as team RWBY, Guin, Dante, Ikail, Donald and Goofy smiled at that

"Well it seems Clayton is at lost for words, how quaint." Ikail stated in an amused tone "Though his current face of utter amazement does make him look more decent as a human being."

"Wow Ikail, look at you with the insults." Yang responded back smirking as she clapped "Pretty good ones, props to you."

"Indeed, but in all honest I'd say he looks more like drowned rat; then again rats have more honestly that Clayton." Dante said smirking himself as the other looked at him in slight surprise

"Well Dante, I never thought we'd hear you say insults." Weiss remarked as she chuckled a little

"Oh yeah, but it was really funny." Ruby said as she chuckled along with her girlfriend, then once they stopped Ruby looked to Guin, Donald and Goofy "Any of you three got any insult to say about Clayton?"

"Nope, I'm not one for that stuff really Ruby." Goofy answered back kindly

"Well I am, but I got nothing right now." Donald answered next as he huffed, Blake then patted the top of his hat

"Don't worry Donald, the fact that you tried thinking of something is good enough." Blake stated kindly as Donald gave her an appreciative nod

"Compliments aside, I wonder what's going to happen now?" Guin asked as he along with rest looked back to see Clayton still looking at Tarzan in bewilderment, Jane who at gotten back up smirking at that, Huang moving back near Jaune who a still calm look; while Jaune seemed clam as well. Then finally they saw the professor still studying Tarzan who was letting him do so with a prideful smile. Though finally Clayton snapped out of his stupor as he now had a few questions for Tarzan

"Have we…have we met?" Clayton asked in slight wariness as he moved a little closer to Tarzan who turned his attention towards him "How does he know my name?"

"He thinks it's the sound of a gunshot." Jane answered in amusement as Tarzan moved away from Clayton and right up face to face with Jane who began blushing a bit from the closeness

"Jane." Tarzan happily said as he began playing with her hair while his face came closer to hers

"Our boy going for it." Ruby whispered happily as Weiss, Blake and Yang nodded in agreement

"Totally, now all they got to do is plant the kiss." Yang responded back as Tarzan looked back at her and the girls for a moment

"Go for it." Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang whispered as they gave him the thumbs up for encouragement

"I can see what you mean by personal boundaries." Professor Archimedes stated in amusement as Tarzan was very close to Janes face now, making the her blush a little more. Team RWBY watch as they wondered if their little romantic moment was going to happen. But it was cut off immediately by Clayton

"Ahem, Tarzan right. Mind if you-" Clayton asked, but stopped when Tarzan started to circle around and study him

"Look at him Jane." Professor Archimedes said, fascinated at what Tarzan was doing while Jane just chuckled

"Can someone please tell me what's happening right now?" Clayton asked once more, in growing annoyance. But turned his head back when he heard the girls of Team RWBY coming from behind him. Making Clayton internally scowl a little "Yes, do you have any answers…ladies?"

"Well it's obvious mister Clayton, Tarzan's trying to impersonate you." Blake explained kindly, then smirked "Though, a much better version of you I should say."

"That's my girl!" Yang happily said as she gave Blake a kiss on the cheek

"Thanks, hun." Blake responded back as she kissed Yang on the lips quickly

"My…how nice of a joke." Clayton stated as donned on the best fake smile, already telling he had just been insulted. But was not going to give those four keyblade wielding brats the satisfaction of knowing that they had gotten to him a little

"Joke right." Weiss replied back with mocking smile

"Jokes aside, but yes he is trying to imitate you." Jane said as Tarzan got back on all fours

"Remarkable, he talks like a man, walks like an ape and can walk like a man. He might just be the missing link." Professor Archimedes stated as he studied over Tarzan some more, though once he said that an idea popped up in Clayton's mind

"Or our link to the gorillas." Clayton suggested with a sly smile, while wrapping his right arm around the professor shoulders

"Ah yes, yes." Professor Archimedes responded as he began muttering to himself, while Clayton made his way up to Tarzan; much to the girls worries as they moved closer behind Tarzan

"Ahem, where are the gorillas?" Clayton asked in a more kinder tone with Tarzan, though to his slight annoyance Tarzan began playing with his mustache. Clayton then was able to push Tarzan back to the ground as he grabbed his wrist and glared at him "GORILLAS!"

"GORILLAS!" Tarzan yelled back, with a smirk as the others found this ever so amusing

"Clayton, he doesn't understand english." Jane stated

"But he does understand us." Ruby whispered to the others, who nodded in agreement

"Doesn't mean there can't be room for learning, right?" Jaune suggested as Clayton smiled at that

"Exactly, good on you Jaune my boy. If I can teach a parrot to sing god save the queen, then I can teach this savage to speak english." Clayton said as he made his way back over to the chalk board and erased the image Jane had drew of Tarzan. Then picked up the chalk and drew a not so well drawn gorilla "Gorilla."

"Hopefully Tarzan sees that how dangerous Clayton is." Blake whispered as Ruby, Weiss and Yang hoped that too. Since Tarzan already thought the man was decent from when they had meet up with him, Jane, Professor Archimedes, Jaune and Huang

"We all hope that Blake." Dante responded back as he and the rest watched to see what would happen next as Tarzan was currently inspecting the chalk, then moments later he smiled

"Gorilla." Tarzan happily said

"Oh ho, he's got it Jane. Look at that!" Professor Archimedes said next, getting more excited by the second

"Gorillas!" Tarzan chanted as he climbed on the left side of the chalkboard and began drawing lines all over Clayton's drawing

"Or maybe he's just an idiot." Huang bluntly stated as he looked bored with the situation at hand

"No, no stop that!" Clayton yelled as he quickly took the chalk away from Tarzan, only for Tarzan to take it back. Then Clayton and Tarzan began to have a little tussle for possession of the chalk, though Tarzan seemed to be enjoying it more as a game while Clayton was getting more annoyed since Tarzan was climbing on him to get the chalk "No, No, NO, NO, NO, NO!"

"Mister Clayton." Jane stated calmly as she snatched the chalk away from Clayton's hands "I think I'll take it from here."

"Fine, but Tarzan please do get off of me." Clayton said with the calmest tone he could muster up, while Tarzan got off him

"Oh now I wish I had a camera, that would have been a hilarious picture to take." Yang remarked

"Don't worry Yang, I got ya covered." Donald replied back with a devious chuckled, as he took out a small camera from his back-vest pocket

"Donald, you rock dude!" Yang joyfully stated as she and Donald gave each other a high five. Then turned their attention back to the rest

"Well now then, Miss Porter if you want to help this savage with our ways then do so…just be quick about it." Clayton sternly said as he made his way into his tent, once he was gone the others stood somewhat awkwardly around

"So… I think I'll go for a quick walk." Jaune remarked calmly as he quickly made his way out of the campsite, though he already was conversing with Ansem in his mind

"I think I'll take a nap personally, want to join me Dante?" Ikail asked as she wrapped her arms around his right arm

"Well I ah…" Dante began saying, but was way too flustered from the sudden question. But Ikail quickly pulled him over to another one of the unoccupied tents

"Oh don't worry, we're just friends so it's not like I'm gonna try anything!" Ikail joyfully remarked, though blushed a little as her heart began beating faster once again – "Just friends, just fiends, friends, friends, friends and that's all there is it to it Ikail. You're just going to have a friendly nap with your FRIEND… you're well-toned… cute friend. NO bad me, bad very bad. Just stop thinking about it."-

"Wait I...I ah…" Dante tried to say once again, but before he could finish his sentence he and Ikail had already made it inside the tent

"Did that just happen?" Weiss asked in sudden bewilderment

"Oh yeah it did Weiss, I wonder if they're going to do anything?" Yang replied back a little worriedly

"I don't think so, Dante is a faithful sort of guy and we all know that." Ruby happily answered

"She's right, besides Ikail's not that sort of woman to take advantage of another woman's man." Blake said kindly, which helped with her and the others worries

"I agree too, though if you girls don't mind I'll be doing my own thing. Mainly catching up with my sword practice." Guin responded, as he made his way out of the camp site like Jaune had

"If you girls don't mind either, me and Goofy will stick with you for now." Donald said, looking around the area in slight caution "Never know when heartless might show up."

"Yeah and because we just like hanging out with ya." Goofy said now, doing one of his trademark chuckles

"I think that be great, besides you guys are our friends and friends look out for each other." Ruby joyfully stated as she patted both Donald and Goofy's shoulders. Then she along with the others noticed Huang make his way by them "Hey Huang wait a minute."

"Yeah what you want girly?" Huang asked in slight irritation as he stopped, then turned his attention back towards Ruby and the others

"Well I think I can speak for all of us, but thanks for what you did. You know pulling Clayton's gun away from Tarzan before he got shot, which is kind of ironic since you almost shot him yourself when you first saw him. Still aside from that, thanks again Huang." Ruby kindly said, though Huang just shrugged

"Yeah whatever, I just didn't want to get tasked to clean up the idiot's brains when they got blow out is all. Now I'm going out for a smoke again." Huang responded in a bored tone, as he made his way out of the camp the opposite direction of Guin; but with the same direction as Jaune

"Well that was rude." Jane remarked angrily as she, Tarzan and Archimedes made their way up next to the them

"I think he was trying to act tough is all." Ruby replied back kindly

"Tough right, anyways professor are you doing alright. You seem pretty over excited right now?" Weiss asked, amused that the older man could still show so much energy at his age. Though she found it endearing to, she wished some of the older folks she was forced to converses with because of her father; had the same spark of youthful excitement the Professor was showing off

"I'm doing marvelous Miss Weiss, so very Marvelous!" Doctor Archimedes answered joyfully "Tarzan here is a find that I never would have imagined finding when we first got here."

"He is a unique one." Blake said kindly as she gave Tarzan a smile

"A little crazy too at times." Donald stated, but received unamused looks from the girls as he sheepish laughed "Sorry."

"It's okay Donald, we we're just teasing." Yang replied, lightly punching Donald's left arm

"Ow." Donald muttered rubbing his left arm as it still hurt, even if it was a friendly light punch

"Anyways, what now Miss Jane?" Goofy asked

"Now, now I believe me and Daddy will get a few things ready. I hate to trouble you all, but could you watch over Tarzan till we get everything set up?" Jane asked back

"Sure, besides I'm have a feeling Tarzan will like us." Ruby responded happily as the others nodded in agreement

"Thanks, now come on Daddy let's get the film reels ready." Jane said as she and her Father quickly made their way into one of the large tents leaving the group along with Tarzan alone

"Well now that their gone…" Weiss stated, as she quickly smacked Tarzan across the back of the head "That's for almost getting yourself killed again, what is with you and doing that?!"

"Well I'm a risk taker, can you blame me?" Tarzan responded back with a wide prideful grin, as Weiss sighed

"I guess not, but we're all glad your safe." Weiss stated with a small smile

"Side note, it seems you and Jane are getting a little closer huh?" Yang remarked amusingly as Ruby, Blake and Weiss teasingly giggled; making Tarzan blush a little

"Well I mean yeah, but I'm sure she just likes me a friend." Tarzan responded back shyly, while he awkwardly laughed

"Don't be so shy Tarzan, I'm sure Jane will come around sooner or later." Blake happily said as Tarzan gave her nod of appreciation. But before anyone could say something, Jane came back out towards them

"Alright, it was a lot quicker than I though. Tarzan come with me and we can start teaching you some of the basics first off." Jane stated as she began pulling Tarzan towards the tent she and her father had gone into. Though stopped and looked back at the girls, Donald and Goofy "You're all welcome to join too."

"We'd love too!" Ruby responded as others nodded in full agreement, then they followed Tarzan and Jane into the tent. Figuring out that this would be a long few days for Tarzan to learn more about the world of man. Though elsewhere, events were starting to rise more quickly than anticipated

-Meanwhile in Blood Gultch-

"Okay, so we have everything counted and checked for right?" Carolina asked as she, along with everyone else were standing around in a circle inside the armory "I mean we've had about two day's now to get everything counted for, aside from the first day beforehand where we we're exploring this base."

"Yes, we got everything counted for Carolina. So just take a breather." Washington replied, though could tell Carolina was a bit tense these past three days. Not that he blamed her, this whole set up was unnerving to say the least. Along with the fact that the other horror house of a base's residents still hadn't show themselves. Which got Washington thinking a lot more on what they could possibly be facing, though if their current ordnance was any indicator; then it probably was something terrifying as much as he hated to admit it to himself

"I'm fine, alright." Carolina replied back sternly

"Sounds more like you're having that special day of the month." Griff bluntly said, though Carolina quickly turned her attention to him with a glare or what Griff could guess was a glare since they all were still wearing their helmets. Though the helmet made Carolina's glare even more terrifying than he'd like "I…I'll shut up."

"You do that." Carolina stated with an underlying threat of unimaginable pain to come, if he made another comment like that again. She then calmed herself down a little, before now having to ask Griff another question even if she had a feeling he wouldn't have the answer "Griff, since you're the one who counted everything. How much is there in total for weapons, grenades, medical supplies, food supplies and finally vehicles?"

"Please, he ain't gonna know." Sarge bluntly remarked

"Really, well there's about twelve dozen assault rifles, battle rifles, pistols, chain guns, shotguns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, DMR's, sub-machine guns and grenades. Medical supplies are at a high, food supplies are good other than the junk food which has oddly dwindled a little. Then finally we have Warthogs, Mongooses, tanks and some aircraft's all in the dozens too." Griff answered calmly as Sarge, along with the rest other than Carolina were shocked; like really shocked

"What happen to the flanking shrapnel idiot I know?" Sarge asked in utter bewilderment as he pumped his shotgun "Are you a spore person, because if so then I'll shoot you!"

"You mean like you have almost every other time you feel like it?" Griff asked, but was…well shot in the foot by Sarge "OW, JUST LIKE THAT. HOLY FIZZLE THAT HURTS!"

"Oh suck it up you big baby, this is by far the least life threatening injury you've received." Sarge calmly stated

"That is true, still I want to know how in the flipping world you could keep count of everything?" Simmons asked in bewilderment as well

"Oh that, how the hell do you think I was able keep count of how many cookies were left for me when we we're last back in this place or anywhere else as a matter of fact." Griff explained with a smug tone as Simmons sighed in annoyance, while trying to get his foot to stop bleeding

"Santa metralla, su apetito voraz es útil por una vez! (Holy shrapnel, his gluttonous appetite is useful for once!)" Lopez said trying to wrap his circuit filled head on this "Muerto, de verdad estamos hemos muerto en el infierno supe? (Are we dead, for real are we dead in super hell?)"

"You got that right Lopez, I am awesome." Griff proudly remarked as he puffed up his chest

"Eres idiota… (You're and idiot…)" Lopez replied irritably as he face palmed himself

"Oh for the love of, ugh. Doc can you check to see if Griff is gonna make it?" Church asked as he was hoping today would be stress free, then again that was a lot for him to ask since everyday seemed to be stress inducing

"Sure can do, Caboose mind helping me move Griff to the clinic?" Doc asked now kindly

"Yeppers, let's get gold man to the patch up place." Caboose happily said, as he quickly picked up Griff with his right arm "I am helping!"

"More like hurting me more, oh god my foots killing me!" Griff yelled as the pain flared

"Don't be such a baby Griff, a few hints of aloe vera on that and you should be A-Okay." Doc responded back joyfully as he and Caboose made their way to the clinic

"In all seriousness, how the hell has he survived this long?" Tucker asked

"He's got a thicker side of him then we thought." Carolina simply answered

"Bow chika bow wow!" Tucker quickly remarked one more, but got a quick punched to the gut from Carolina "Ow, what the frizzle?"

"I am not in the mood right now!" Carolina yelled back, though noticed the others staring at her a little worriedly. She took a few more deeper breaths and was able to calm herself down some more "Look… Look I'm sorry if I'm a bit tense."

"That's a bit of an understatement, no offense." Donut replied back kindly

"It's fine…really. Still, it's none of you mostly; it's this whole situation were in." Carolina explained as she looked around "I'm one to get rarely unnerved, but this place and that other base just does not sit well with me at all."

"I hate to admit it also, but I kind of feel the same way too." Washington said tightening his grip around his gun

"Okay now I'm starting to freak out myself." Tucker replied back as he looked around nervously "Oh man, I'm gonna start getting all paranoid because of you two."

"Same…" Simmons stated as he was shaking a little in his armor

"Soy afortunada que no tengo ningún concepto de miedo, ya que soy un robot. (I'm lucky I have no concept of fear, since I'm a robot.)" Lopez said with the smallest hint of joy he could actually show

"It's alright Lopez, we're all scared. Even me." Sarge responded back, as Lopez just glared at him; not feeling like trying to correct the fool creator of his "Actually it's more of an unrelenting fear of inevitable death!"

"That's not helping…" Carolina, Church, Tucker, Simmons and Washington said in an unamused tone. Lopez still face palming, now was doubling face palming at the stupidly of Sarge. Though Donut was thinking to himself on a few things…well not very relevant things to be perfectly honest

"I wonder if I could place some designer curtains in this place, oh it would look so amazing!" Donut happily shouted, though it went unheard as the others were too much into their own conversations. Donut huffed in slight annoyance at this, but suddenly he noticed something at the corner of his eye near one of the Warthogs "What in the world?"

As Donut made his way over to the Warthog, the small thing he only caught a glimpse of move again quickly to one of the Mongooses to the far right. From what Donut could tell now, it seems to be a little dark blob or something. Still Donut made his way over quickly to the Mongoose the dark blob hid behind, but as he got closer like last time; the blob moved once more under one of the aircraft's they had. Donut by this point was getting more curious on what this thing was, he was hoping it was some black colored bunny or something that he could keep to snuggle with. Thankfully this time when he made his way over to the air craft the dark blob stayed under it, with to his surprise two yellow eyes stared back at him.

"Hey little buddy, what are you doing here?" Donut asked kindly, slowing his pacing so he wouldn't scare the poor little creature. Which seemed to tense up as he got closer "Come on, no need to get scared. I'm Donut and I'm a friend."

Though as Donut said this, the creature slowly made his way out from under the aircraft. The creature had its two yellow eyes, short with stubby arms, stubby legs, antennas, a short stubby body, clawed hands and no mouth. Donut was slightly taken back by the little creature appearance, but quickly warmed back up seeing the dark creature as cute.

"Oh aren't you the cutest little thing!" Donut shouted out, but unlike last time everyone from the group heard him

"What are you-… Donut what are doing over there?" Carolina asked as she and the other began making their way up to him

"I found something, it's really cute." Donut explained joyfully

"Cute, what in the darn hell could be cute in this-" Church asked as he and the others made in right next to Donut, but then noticed the dark little creature staring at them "HOLY FLAPPING, FUZZING, SIPPING HELL WHAT IS THAT THING?"

"WHO CARES SHOT IT!" Sarge screamed as he and the others aimed their weapons at the dark creature, but before they could shoot it Donut moved in their way

"Donut get out of the way." Simmons asked in slight annoyance "We'll shoot through you if you don't."

"I say we do, less mouths to fed." Griff suggested as Simmons and the others stared at him "Okay, okay I was joking. Can't blame a guy for joking right?"

"See now that's the moron I've come to know and hate." Sarge happily said, as it sounded like he teared up a bit under his helmet for a few moments "Such good times."

"Your definition of good times makes me sometimes question your sanity." Washington remarked, but then looked back at Donut standing in front of the dark creature in a protective manner. Washington Knowing that they needed numbers, along with still feeling a little bad about shooting Donut beforehand a while ago; just sighed lowering his gun down "Alright fine, we'll heard you out before we decided on shooting that thing… mostly likely shooting it I should say."

"Wash are you crazy, that thing looks like it could tear our faces off if it wanted to. I ain't taking that chance, I like my face as it is and the ladies love it too." Tucker responded back, as he had his sword out ready to impale the dark creature

"Oh Tucker don't worry, this little guy is our fr-" Donut began to say, as he turned back around to face his new adorable little buddy. But was quickly cut off as said quote on quote 'little buddy' pounced on his helmet and pushed him over onto his back; where the dark creature began to claw at his helmet viciously while Donut started freaking out "AH, AH, AH GET IT OFF. IT'S RUINING MY FABULOUS HELMET, I JUST WAXED THIS THING TOO AH!"

"Get it off him now!" Washington ordered as Simmons in an act of pure survival instinct, used his rifle as a club and bashed the dark creature off Donuts helmet with a lucky hit. Simmons along with Sarge then got him back up to his feet, as the Dark creature landed on the ground hard

"You were saying Donut?" Sarge asked, but only for him to be attacked now as the dark creature had somehow latched onto him despite the distance from where it had only seconds ago landed at. Sarge thankfully was able to keep his footing, while trying to pry the vicious creature off "Get off you annoying little pest, you're fizzling almost as bad as Griff the no good lazy sack of shrapnel!"

"Just stay still dude!" Tucker stated as he was trying to swipe the dark creature off of Sarge's helmet, though in all honest if he hit Sarge it wouldn't affect him much other than annoying Tucker at how bad his aim was suddenly

"I AM, NOW GET IT OFF!" Sarge replied back angrily as he was able to keep his footing still for a few moments, then Tucker quickly cut off the creature's arms making it fall to the ground as it screeched in agonizing pain even though it had no mouth

"Nice hit Tucker, now let's kill it." Carolina sternly said as she fired off a round at the dark creature, only for it to sink into the ground and make its way out quickly to the front entrance of the base

"Don't let it go, catch it!" Washington ordered as he and the others cased after the creature to the front entrance. But it was already too late as the creature had made its way into the open field of the base and before anyone could try to shoot at as it unfused with the ground. A much larger bipedal winged dark creature came and picked it up with its clawed hands. Then flew in extremes speeds back over to the other base of all places

"Well at least we know where they're coming from." Church stated

"Yeah, makes sense when you think about it too." Donut responded kindly, then touched hi helmet letting out a sad sigh "Aw, now I got to fix this…man tomorrow's gonna be a long day for me."

"Aside from Donuts helmet, what now?" Simmons asked worriedly

"Estamos todos vamos a morir es lo que, voy a empezar a cavar las tumbas... bueno odiar a todos. (We're all going to die is what, I'm gonna start digging the graves... nice hating you all.)" Lopez answered, quickly making his way back into the base to find a shovel

"Lopez is right, we're going to survive. First, we need to get some weaponry ready for future battles. Simmons, Donut let's get it done!" Sarge remarked proudly, as he ran back inside with Simmons and Donut right behind him

"I'll tag along with them, to make sure they don't screw anything up." Tucker stated reluctantly as he followed in behind the three Red's

"I'm gonna see what Doc, Griff and Caboose are up too." Church calmly said, making his way inside now; leaving Washington and Carolina alone as they stared at the other base which emitted so much of the wisp like darkness from it

"Things just got more complicated huh?" Washington asked "I mean what do we do against these things?"

"Heartless." Carolina answered calmly as she intense her stare on the base

"What, why Heartless?" Washington asked in confusion on where Carolina got that name from all of sudden

"Huh, oh well that's just what came to my mind is all." Carolina explained, through oddly enough didn't know herself on why she just blurted that out

"Be wary of the heartless…" A man's voice whispered, it sounded loud, booming, even god like to Carolina's internal confusion

"It just came to mind?" Washington asked, with a questioning tone

"Yeah…hey why don't you look around the base and see if any more of those things are in the base?" Carolina suggested kindly "I'll just keep an eye on the base for a while longer, beside I need some fresh air."

"Sure, just don't stay our too long alright." Washington joked, getting a quick laugh out of Carolina and him. Then once the quick laugh was over, Washington made his way in while Carolina continued staring at the base. Though once she knew she was alone, she turn off her helmets speakers "Alright, who are you. I've had enough A.I's in my head to know you're not one and I also know I'm not insane. So spill it."

"You're a perspective one mortal." The man replied back

"Thanks I guess, but who are you and why are you referring to me as mortal?" Carolina asked, not wanting to be referred to as mortal since she knew that would annoyed her very quickly

"Because I'm a god, aside from that though I've only awakened up in your mind about a minuet ago." The man explained, then sighed "Though I'm oddly still tethered to my body, so I can't say why I woke up in your mind."

"Okay wait a minute, so you're saying that you're an actually god…you know what if it weren't for the base on the opposite side of ours along with the dark creatures that tried attack us. I'd just accept I might be crazy, but I'm going to believe you on that. So mister god, can you explain at all what's going on if you know?" Carolina asked, hoping this so called god had answers or at least some hints on their situation at hand

"Well even though I have no idea on how I came up with the name heartless for those creatures. I still somewhat know that they are part of the reason for everything going on, but only that." The man stated, as Carolina huffed a bit in annoyance

"Care to tell me more or what?" Carolina asked as the man's voice this time huffed back in slight annoyance

"No, not now young lady. I need more information before I can give you a full explanation. So you will wait, understood?" The man sternly said and though Carolina wanted to argue back. She had a feeling that it wouldn't end well in her favor, she just sense this god in her mind could hurt her still despite the lack of a physical body

"Fine, but what now?" Carolina asked, as she didn't know where to go from here other than going back in the base soon since she felt tired suddenly. But that might be because of the lack of three days of sleep she had, since she had been busy scouting the borders around their base to make sure nothing was out there that could hurt them while they slept. Thankfully she had found nothing out of the ordinary around the base, until today's sudden encounter and the three day's lack of sleep was finally getting to her

"Now, well-" The man responded, but stopped making Carolina slightly worried of what just happened

"You okay, are you there?" Carolina asked, wondering what was up with this man in her head

"Yes, yes I am. But I believe that my mind is being called back to my body. I'm sorry I can't stay longer." The man explained

"Hey it's okay, not like you could do anything to stop this. Still where ever your body is. If they have people there that have knowledge of these heartless, mind asking them questions along relaying it to me…well if you can of course." Carolina asked, trying to keep her hopes up "By the way, I never got your name."

"First, I will see if I can come back to relay the information or even come back to you in the first place. Though I have a feeling I will be able to, can't say why but I believe I shall." The man kindly stated "For my name, most put the lord title in front. But since this is of different circumstances, call me just by my name, call me Raiden."

"Raiden, so your name plus your title would be Lord Raiden, let me guess are you a thunder god right?" Carolina asked with snicker

"Perceptive once again, but yes I am Lord Raiden, Thunder God and protector of Earth Realm or at least my Earth realm." Raiden explained as he felt his mind slipping more from Carolina's "I…I think I'm about gone from your mind, I shall see again one way or another…just stay safe until I come back."

"Sure thing and you stay safe too Raiden." Carolina responded back kindly, as she felt Raiden's presence disappeared finally, leaving her all alone once more in both mind and body. She took a deep breath, staring back at the base once more narrowing her gaze –"Well these heartless might be and I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but they might probably be magic based. Which means they'll work differently with attacks along with strategies, but they're in for a hell of times against me and my… my friends."-

"UM CAROLINA, CAN YOU HELP US. GRIFF SOMEHOW CAUGHT ON FIRE!" Tucker yelled out as the sounds of a panicking Griff could be heard, Carolina looked to see a normal situation that her friends tend to deal with on a weekly basis

"OH GOD HELP ME, HELP ME!" Griff yelled out as Church, Doc, Simmons and Caboose were trying to throw water on him which was only made it harder to do since well Griff was justifiably running around. Sarge was just laughing, while Lopez was recording it with his helmet cam

"WE'RE TRYING TO, CABOOSE WHAT THE FLOPPING DARN HELL DID YOU DO THIS TIME?" Church screamed in irritation

"Wasn't my fault, that lighter fluid and matches were already on his bedside before he caught on fire!" Caboose answered a little too quickly

"We could really use your help like now!" Tucker yelled "WILL YOU JUST STAND STILL GRIFF!?"

"Alright, I'm coming !" Carolina responded in an amused tone, as she quickly made her way into the base. She smirked a little suddenly out of the blue, seeing her friend's antics as she closed in to help – "Okay, maybe those heartless will have me to worry about more. But still these guys even Wash at times are lucky idiots… they're my lucky idiots."-

With that, Carolina made it up to the rest helping with putting Griff out before he roasted in his armor. Though she also had an odd feeling, that the days to come would be the start of something new and dangerous.

-Elsewhere in the Mojave wasteland-

"Find, feast, kill, infect…" The voice within the darkness infected enlarged Gecko repeated still. The Gecko had followed these orders to the letter, it knew to find creatures smaller or the same size as it first. Mainly so that it could have back up when it came to dealing with the bigger prey in the future. Which thankfully in only one day it had obtained three more Geckos of a smaller size, one dog, four enlarged roaches or as people in the wasteland called them Rad Roaches and finally a slightly larger Gecko. It had its reinforcements and it was currently stalking its newest prey with the dog as back up, with the rest of its infected troops moving around the sides. The target was a small band of humans making their way across the wasteland to who knows where. The Gecko listen in as it watched the merry band, which consisted of four men and five women wearing similar uniforms. Said outfits were all bulky, had baggy desert tan pants with dirty white cloth tied around the calf's, a pair of desert tan boots, a desert tanned long sleeved military vest with dirty white cloths tired around the forearms; with a pair of desert brown finger less gloves. The outfit also came with a circular visor helmet with goggles that only one of the humans didn't wear, two shoulder pads, a belt with a few pouches and finally a chest guard with a logo of a two head bear that had the letters NCR printed on the side, with a red star in between them. The all wielded rifles with a wooden stocks and grips, carrying them in a calmed caution since the Mojave Wasteland had dangerous almost around every corner. The Gecko and its group waited to find the right time to strike, while also listening to their preys conversing.

"So Sally, what's ya gonna do with all those caps once we get to New Vegas?" A man with tanned skin and blue eyes asked, fixing his helmets positioning with his left hand for a moment

"Danny boy, I'm going to buy as much booze as I can. I'll be living it up!" Sally answered, as she had dark skin and brown eyes. Both her and Danny high fived one another. She then looked to two of other men, both twins that had peach skin and green eyes "Larry, Johnny what are you both gonna do?"

"Well unlike my dope of a brother here, I'm gonna get me some lovely ladies." Johnny answered with a sly smirk, as he playfully punched Larry's right arm

"Right bro, but's let be real here. The only ladies you'd get is a feral ghoul, then again they'd probably run away after spending time with you." Larry remarked with a chuckle as he and Johnny playfully punched each other's arms a few times, laughing a bit louder

"Hey shut it you two, want to get every wasteland critters attention with that yelling?" An older man, with wrinkled tanned skin and brown eyes stated sternly

"Oh come on Ron, give those kiddos a break." An older woman with graying hair, light brown skin and green eyes responded back with a smirk "Besides me and Lilly here remember how you use to be when we all were in the same platoon starting out in the NCR. You were a wild one, right Lilly?"

"Right on that Briella, I even remember when you almost set one of the tents on fire." Lilly answered in amusement "So I think you can give the twins a little leverage."

"Wait did we just hear that right Sargent Lilly, was the Lieutenant really that crazy?" Sally asked as she along with the others smirked widely, much to Ron's slight annoyance

"Yeah, yeah laugh it up." Ron responded irritably, but smirk a little himself

"You all are just too much, you know that?" A woman a little younger than Lilly remarked in amusement as she had wrinkled dark skin and blue eyes, with short black hair as unlike the others she wore an olive green beret. The rest of her squad gave her sarcastically amused smiles from the comment. Though the woman than stopped for a moment, making the others stop in their tracks too

"Hey, Major Karen what's wrong?" Ron asked as he readied his rifle, but Karen gently forced his gun down

"No, not that. But I think the new girl is a bit a gazer." Karen explained as Ron along with the others in the group look back at the newest member of their platoon who was also straight out of boot camp only a week ago. She wore the armor like the rest, though her's was brand new and with her rifle being newly made. Though she also wore no helmet, the new girl had pale skin, black long raven hair and a rare set of orange eyes. She also wore a beret like Major Karen did, but unlike the majors; the girl's beret was red that had a bear skull with guns crossed and the motto 'The last thing you'll never see' stitched onto it. She was currently looking around the area, seeming to be in a state of curiosity

"Hey Major, isn't that a first recon beret?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow "I mean, she's just a private so how is she…"

"She's not. But I'm sure we're all curious, right?" Karen asked as the others nodded "Private get over here!"

"What… oh right ah coming miss, I mean ma'am!" The girl very nervously replied back, running up to them

"Kind of a jumpy one." Larry muttered as the girl made her way up to them, stopped and then straightened herself out

"Sorry ma'am I was too enthralled by our surroundings." The girl explained, trying to hide the nervousness in her tone while doing a quick salute with her right hand and holding her rifle in her left

"At ease Private…" Karen replied back, though was still having a hard time remembering her name even after a week of traveling with the kid

"Oh Dawn…Private Dawn I mean ma'am." Dawn answered with a sheepish smiled as she relaxed herself once more

"Right that's the name, well anyways what's with the Beret. Haven't seen you wear it till just now?" Karen asked in a more professional tone, making Dawn tense up a bit

"Oh this… well I just found it is all." Dawn explained

"You found it?" Lilly asked now, crossing her arms as she sheathed her rifle in the gun sling on her back "Where?"

"I found it in a crate, along with this." Dawn answered as she placed her rifle onto the ground gently, then pulled from the gun sling on her back a long object covered in a wrapped cloth

"How the heck did we not notice that before?" Sally asked in complete bewilderment

"Question is what she found." Ron responded back "So Private Dawn show us, then depending on what it is we'll figure out what to do with whatever it is."

"Right, give me a moment." Dawn calmly said as she began unwrapping the cloth. I took a minute or two since whoever had wrapped this thing up beforehand did a really good job at it, along with a series of knots after each layer was unwrapped. Once the knot's along with the unwrapping was done with, the gun underneath it was extremely unique rifle

"Wow." Larry and Johnny said as their eyes shined in amazement of the rifle

"Yeah wow." Sally stated as Lilly, Danny, Briella and Ron nodded in agreement

"Now I'm wondering why someone left a gun like this alone." Karen muttered, rubbing her chin thinking on an answer as she inspected the gun that had been revealed

"I… I can't say ma'am." Dawn nervously answered as the rifle she held was a hunting rifle. But unlike most which had the basic steal parts, wooden body and basic long-range scope. This one had a very rare black synthetic body, a silencer, polish titanium metal parts/barrel and a long range electronic scope. It looked so new, so well preserved that it didn't fit the horrid dirty world they lived in "Um… can, can I keep it ma'am?"

"Do you know how to handle that gun Private?" Karen asked, getting out of her daze

"No… honestly I only know how to use our service rifles and that was just against dummy targets." Dawn explained as she looked back at the rifle strapped to her back. She sighed, turning her attention back to the rest of her squad mates "Still if you allow me ma'am, I'll make sure to learn how to us this weapon to my fullest abilities."

"You know what, I'll let you keep it." Karen calmly answered, much to the others surprise. But before anyone could object, she continued with her explanation "But only after we get make it to Camp Forlorn Hope for a pit stop before we reach New Vegas, where we can get you some more training. Understood?"

"Yes ma'am!" Dawn happily replied back, giving Karen salute while holding the newly found sniper rifle in her other hand

"Good you're so agreeable Private." Karen remarked with a smile as she looked back at the others "Seems like we might just get ourselves a resident sniper soon, you all fine with it being the NFG?"

"Yes ma'am!" The others answered with a quick salute

"Nice to know, now let's-" Karen began to say, but stopped suddenly as she went a little wide eyed looking pass her squad mates. This concerned them all, even Dawn despite her being the newest in the group since Major Karen was one to never get wide eyed at anything

"Major, what's wrong?" Larry asked while the others aside from Dawn readied their rifles, Karen though didn't budge as she kept staring at whatever had caught her attention. So, Larry decided the best thing to do was to try shaking her out of it. Larry placed his rifle on the ground, then began shaking her by the shoulder with both of his hands "Major, come on snap out of it. What's got you so spooked?"

"T-T-T-That…." Karen whispered in sudden fear as she pointed at what she was looking at, the others turned their attention and what they saw was very strange; especially when it came to Mojave Wasteland standards of strange. It was a giant Gecko, but it's skin was pitch black with spike growing out certain areas, antennas sticking out of its head along with its eyes and mouth being pitch yellow. Finally wisps of what could only be describes as darkness came from its body. The Gecko was standing a few good feet away, just staring at them

"What's up with t-that?" Dawn asked as she nervously gripped the new rifle in her hands and unintentionally back up away from them a good foot

"Don't know, but sho-" Ron yelled out, as he had raised his rifle up and was about to fire off a round in the Geckos head. But before he could, a feral dog with the same appearance as the Gecko appeared in front of him from the ground of all places. Before anyone could shoot the feral dog, it lunged at Ron as it's yellowed fangs wrapped around his neck. Ron fell to the ground quickly, gargling blood out of his neck as the dog kept its jaw around his neck

"Lieutenant!" Johnny yelled out as he was about to shoot the dog, but was attack by four Rad Roaches with the same dark appearance as they had razor jaws now which dug deep into his legs. Johnny fell on the ground in pain, though one of the Rad Roaches let go of his leg, jumped on his back ripping through the back part of the chest guard and then finally proceeding to dig its jaw into his back eating the flesh out as Johnny screamed in utter agony while blood started to pour from his mouth "GET IT OFF, DEAR GOD GET IT OFF!"

"I got you Johnny!" Danny responded back as he was trying to get a clear shot on Johnny, without shooting and possibly killing him. But as he just got the perfect shot, a large Gecko looking as creepy as the others jumped on his back and rammed his claw straight through his armor. The geckos claw came out the front of his chest, with that Danny fell to the ground dead as the Gecko got back off and quickly latched onto a mortified Sally. Sally fell to the ground herself as she dropped her gun a few inches away from her while the thing began chewing her left arm which she was using the keep the Gecko away from her neck

"LARRY, BRIELLA HELP!" Sally screamed in fear, but to her horror she looked too see them being held by the neck on the ground by one Gecko each. Then two more Geckos climbed on their chest and of all things fused within them. The remaining two Geckos then released them as Larry and Briella began convulsing, then like how the creature attacking them looked. Both Larry and Briella transformed into those things, got back up and glared at her "L-Larry…B-Briella…."

"RRAWW!" The possessed Larry and Briella roared as they lunged at Sally, while the Gecko the had been attacking her jumped off. Sally didn't even get a chance to screamed before the possessed Larry and Briella began ripping her body apart limb from limb

"NO!" Karen screamed out as she began firing at her possessed squad mates, along with Lilly. But as they did, both the possessed Larry and Briella fused back into the ground. Meanwhile the feral dog, along with Rad Roach's did the same. Lilly and Karen quickly looked to see Johnny and Ron we're dead, though suddenly Lilly was impaled through the face by the possessed Larry's claw. Lilly's body fell to the ground dead much to Karen's horror "LILLY NO!"

"GRAWWHH!" The possessed Briella screeched as she appeared from the ground behind her, grabbed her arms and applied enough strength to make her drop her rifle. Karen tried to fight back, though suddenly she felt coldness in her chest as she looked down to see one of the Rad Roaches fusing in her chest. Once it was gone fully inside of her chest, the possessed Briella let go of her. Karen just stood there as she could feel the possession creeping up. She felt cold, so cold and her heart stopped beating. Her insides also felt like they were burning up in a cold frost along with the blood in her vein's. She was scared, so scared and tried to think of happy memories of when she was a child that spent every day with her loving parents. But those memories began to crumble in her mind, becoming more distant as faces from her past and people she had come to know were disappeared from her mind so quickly. Then as he transformation was almost complete, new words came to her mind.

"Welcome sister, welcome… now find, kill, feast, infect. Find, kill, feast, infect…" An eerier distorted voice stated as Karen felt the last of her true self disappeared. Then what took her place, was a possessed version of herself

"Grrr…." The Possessed Karen growled as she sniffed around, while the remaining Geckos, large Gecko, feral dog, reaming Rad Roaches and her possessed platoon mates appeared next to her. They all sniffed around for a few moments, then stopped and turned around to look at Dawn still a foot away from them standing in fear as she shakily aimed her new sniper rifle at them

"S-Stay back please…" Dawn said nervously as seeing this all happen had struck her with absolute fear, she knew she could have helped but the fear in her had paralyzed he up until now. Since she had only snapped out of her fear seconds ago, she aimed the sniper rifle at the monstrosities and shot off a round hitting the possessed Karen's right arm. Though that didn't do much as the possessed Karen, Larry, Lilly, Rad Roaches, feral dog and Geckos closed in on her; making Dawn shoot of more rounds until she was out. She tried to reload another clip in, but dropped it and fell on her butt. Dawn knew this was the end as they came in closer to her. She then placed her sniper rifle onto the ground to her right and tried to pull out her service rifle only to see that it was gone. Dawn looked to see that somehow, she had dropped her service rifle against a pointed rock and assumed it was when she fell down that this happened. The rock having been sharp enough to stab through the firing mechanism leaving the gun useless. Dawn looked back to see the monstrosities coming in closer to her and all she could do was close her eyes in increasing fear "No…No…No…"

"Grr…." The group of monstrosities growled with blood thirsty looks

"No…" Dawn muttered as she knew it was coming, her inevitable death. As they we're an inch away from killing her, suddenly the sounds of gun fire went off and the screams from the monstrosities accompanied it. It sounded like they quickly booked it from the area, and second later it was completely quite other than the echoes from the short battle that had taken place. Dawn still shook in fear and kept her eyes still closed, but then felt a cold metal claw gently pat her

"You okay little miss?" A robotic voice asked as Dawn opened her eyes and looked to see a securitron with the face of a cowboy on its screen instead of the grumpy looking security guard face most had

"Oh ah…y-yeah." Dawn responded back, calming herself down enough to get back up, pick back up her sniper rifle up and dust herself off "Thank you, but how did you know I was in danger?"

"I've been patrolling around here since those things showed up and it seems like you've met them." The Robot explained "Oh and the name is Victor."

"Well again thanks." Dawn said kindly, then sighed a bit as she looked at the dead bodies of Danny, Sally, Johnny, Ron and Lilly. She hadn't known them for long, but to see them dead like this was traumatizing "I can't believe their dead…"

"Mighty fine sorry about your friends here, look I can tell you're a NRC trooper. But I can also tell that maybe you may need some rest for a while after something like this. Why don't you come on back with me to the town not so far from here. It's called Good Springs." Victor kindly suggested "Besides, it probably wouldn't be wise to travel by yourself, especially with those things crawling around."

"Well…" Dawn muttered nervously, as she thought it over. She knew she should try to make it to the closet NCR outpost which was in a town called Primm not too far from here. But she also knew that even with all her training she had received in boot camp, nothing had prepared her for the creature she had just encountered. Seeing her options, Dawn knew which one was the more sensible choice for her. She took a deep breath before answering Victor with a small appreciate smile "Sure, I'll come with you."

"Good to hear, we'll try and come back for your friend's bodies when we can. Right now though just follow me little lady." Victor happily stated making his way back to Good Springs

"Right." Dawn muttered, as she followed behind the securitron knowing she'd have to deal with this trauma for a long while. Though she got a weird gut feeling things weren't going to get anymore simpler from here on out

-Back with team RWBY a week later outside the camp area-

"Well this has been an eventful week." Weiss said in amusement as through the whole week Tarzan along with the girls had learned a lot about this worlds current ear/ history. It was interesting, though what made team RWBY's and their friends days were seeing how frustrated Clayton became whenever it was his turn to teach Tarzan. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang could tell he was just having way too much fun learning all this new stuff to listen properly along with having a lot of time getting to Jane more

"True, hm did you girls also see how happy Tarzans been lately and I know it's not from the studying too." Yang asked, with a smirk as Tarzan and Jane had become very close

It was hard not to see it and it was very romantic too. She and the girls even secretly followed Tarzan and Jane one night when they went swinging on the vines, mainly to make sure no heartless came after them which only a few tried to do. But the girls took care of them quickly before that could happen. Heck even around the last part of their supposed friendly outing, both Tarzan and Jane had their vines intertwined with each other. Which made Tarzan and Jane's face close to one another's, as they had smiled then in a silent liking for each other. Team RWBY had awed at that, then went back to the camp quickly which surprised them that they hadn't gotten caught by Tarzan. Though Blake had made a comment that love could make people miss the smaller things around them.

"I think we all did dear, still have you girls taken a notice on how Jaune's been acting?" Blake asked as Jaune had become much quieter and distant from them the past few days of the week. He would say hi to them, but then would spend his days out in the jungle. It didn't help quell the girls growing worries since he would spend the rest of the time with Clayton

"We did Blake, we did and that's what has me worried. I know this is bad to think of our friends, but do you think he's… well how Jungle Hunter suggested he may be acting like." Ruby asked as Jungle hunters suggesting was sounding more possible, even if she hated to admit it and the others hated to that being a possibility as well

"I'm sure he ain't baby sis, trust me." Yang responded back, hugging Ruby and patting the top of her head

"Thanks, big sis." Ruby stated happily, though the moment was interrupted as Tarzan landed in front of them from the trees; startling the girls a bit

"AHHH!" Team RWBY screamed as Tarzan laughed a little

"You should see your faces right, priceless!" Tarzan remarked laughing as team RWBY clam themselves down

"Act you age please." Weiss stated with an unamused look

"Sorry, couldn't help it but you girls were such an easy target." Tarzan replied back as he stopped laughing, though the girls suddenly took notice of small handful of flowers he was holding

"Oh what's this, going to give those to Jane?" Weiss asked, smirking as Ruby, Blake and Yang did a teasing giggled

"What these, no I ah…was gonna them to plant them." Tarzan answered to quickly, sheepishly smiling

"Aw, you don't need to lie to us. You were gonna give them to your Jane, that's so cute." Ruby said kindly as she pinched Tarzans cheeks, then turned back to Weiss hugging her "They grow up so fast!"

"I know, too fast if you ask me!" Weiss replied as she hugged Ruby back

"Why me?" Tarzan asked out loud, as it seemed that the girls liked teasing him a lot when it came to him and Jane

"We just do because we care about you buddy." Yang explained kindly, patting Tarzans left shoulder "Still Jane will love those flowers, trust me on that Tarzan."

"Thanks Yang, I'm gonna go see her now." Tarzan responded happily as he made his way towards the camp

"My Yang, you're being the nicer one here. What has the world come to?" Ruby joked, getting a quickly sisterly nuggie from Yang

"Yeah laugh it up baby sis, but for real I'm just happy for those two." Yang stated with a smile

"We are too dear, we are too." Blake answered nuzzling her nose against Yang's "Oh and by the way, I think it's really cute on how much you care."

"Thanks kitten." Yang responded back, blushing at her girlfriend's praise

"Okay, complements aside let's see how the others are doing back at the camp. Besides I heard some rustling and loud noises coming from there." Weiss said

"Well now that you say it, I heard it too." Ruby stated as she gave her girlfriend a worried look "You think somethings bad happened?"

"I'm sure that's not the case…but let's make sure just in case." Weiss responded back as Ruby, Blake and Yang nodded in agreement. They then quickly made their way over to the camp site, though once they got there they saw Tarzan making his way over to Jane in confusion; since it seemed Clayton's friends had made it here at least and were taking down the camp site

"Oh no…" Ruby muttered with a sad tone as she could tell that this would make things difficult for Tarzan, especially since this meant that Jane was leaving as well

"Girls over here!' Donald yelled out as he, Ikail, Dante, Guin and Goofy were standing on at the side lines watching the camp being taken down for the soon to be departure

"Do any of you know why's this happening?" Blake asked as she and girls made their way up to the others

"Sadly Clayton is to blame." Ikail answered angrily as she glared back at Clayton who was angrily shouting about how this trip was a waste of time and other stuff he was irritated with. Jaune and Huang we're also helping out with moving the supplies back to the ship. Though the group then saw Tarzan and Jane talking, but it didn't seem to a happy conversation

"I wonder what they're talking about?" Dante asked, as the others wondered the same while seeing Tarzan trying to hand Jane over the flowers her had picked for her. But from the groups line of sight, Jane was trying her best too not start tearing up as she picked up a small crate herself and made her way off to the ships direction to help with the packing; even if she was reluctant to do so since that meant leaving Tarzan

"Oh, that's not good one bit." Goofy remarked sadly as they saw Clayton make his way up to Tarzan, talking with him along with slightly mocking the man. But then he donned on a devious smiled as he patted Tarzan on the shoulder, like he was trying to convince him of something

"Now what's that snake up to?" Blake asked angrily as she narrowed her eyes at Clayton

"I think it be best if we went over there, see for ourselves." Guin suggested

"I think that's a good idea, ladies we'll follow your lead." Dante kindly stated as team RWBY smiled in appreciation

"Alright then, come on." Ruby proudly said as she, the girls, Ikail, Guin, Dante, Donald and Goofy quickly made their way over to the two. Both Clayton and Tarzan seeming to be finishing up with whatever they were speaking about with each other, the group though overheard the last part of whatever Clayton had been saying

"Oh well, I best get Jane's things back to the ship." Clayton remarked as he picked up a suit case over his shoulders

"Hey, what are you going on about?" Donald asked angrily as Clayton took notice of them, smirking at the question

"I was just telling Tarzan here that we have to leave, along with giving him advice with women in the future. Only if there was a way to help keep us here longer, but nothing has given us reason to do so." Clayton explained calmly, but smirking even more now as he began to slowly make his way back to where the ship probably was

"I…" Tarzan whispered as he started to seem conflicted by something on his mind suddenly

"Tarzan?" Ruby asked as she, Weiss, Blake and Yang were getting more worried on what was going through Tarzan's mind

"Clayton." Tarzan said in a slight panic, making Clayton stopped while kept his back turned from him and the others; so they couldn't see his even wider grin

"If Jane see's gorilla's, she stays?" Tarzan asked as Clayton need to composure himself quickly, before answering. The others suddenly realized what this whole conversation was about

"Tarzan what are you-" Ikail asked, but was cut off by Clayton

"Yes, that's what Jane came to see isn't it." Clayton answered with a calmer tone and face that he could muster up. He then turned his back on Tarzan one more slowly, though kept his left eye slightly on him

"Tarzan you can't." Weiss whispered, though she felt bad having to say so since she knew how close Jane and him had become over this past days

"But…" Tarzan responded back, though didn't know how to reply back

"Look maybe we can find another way to get Jane to stay, but if you do this then think about what problems will come from it." Guin said as he could see Tarzan was in a state of confusion. Tarzan kept quiet which only got the group more worried

"Tarzan ar-" Ruby worriedly asked, but was cut off by Tarzan as he finally decided to give Clayton an answer

"I'll do it." Tarzan sternly said, though having a slight hint of sudden regret in his stomach as Clayton just smiled

"Good man!" Clayton joyfully stated as he patted Tarzans right shoulder, then he turned his attention to one of the members of the ship's crew who looked as sleazy as Clayton did and handed the man the luggage "Tell the boys to get together here, there's going to be a slight change of plans."

"Aye sir." The crew member responded back with a sly smirk as he quickly made his way to the ship with the luggage in hand. Clayton then turned his attention back to Tarzan, smiling with underlying tone of silent victory

"Now then, you get everything ready for our meeting with the Gorillas. I'll be getting myself ready in the meantime." Clayton stated as he looked at the girl and the others, though more primarily at the girls "You all can come too or not, it matters not to me. Just don't get in the way."

"Oh I'm sure we'll come and don't worry, we won't be a problem at all." Dante responded back as he and Clayton glared at each other. While Ikail, Guin, Donald and Goofy glared too nodding in agreement. Then Dante turned his attention to the girls "Ladies we won't be troublesome, right?"

"Oh yes, we'll be we'll behaved indeed Dante." Weiss answered kindly with an innocent smile

"You can count on us!" Ruby answered next joyfully as she did a very innocent smile as well, then look back at Clayton as she narrowed her eyes a little at him "Me and the girls are angels, well behaved angels."

"Good to know." Clayton replied calmly as his tone had an underlying threatening tone. He then made his way off to the ship as Tarzan sighed a bit in frustration

"Hey it's gonna be fine Tarzan." Goofy said kindly

"Yeah, we'll just have to figure out some way to make sure no issues come up with Kerchak." Blake stated as she tried thinking of a plan, but didn't come up with anything "Speaking of which, anyone got any ideas on how to deal with Kerchak. I can't come up with anything?"

"Um…" Donald said first, thinking about it for a few seconds before shrugging

"We could, we could... no never mind." Yang said next, though like Donald she came up with nothing or at least nothing that would be safe enough to do without causing minor injuries to Kerchak himself or them

"Oh maybe we could make a distraction?" Dante suggested, as the others thought on that and it actually seemed like a solid idea

"Okay so if we were to make a distraction, who would do it?" Weiss asked as she though on it some more, then smiled looking at Donald and Guin. The others wonder what she was smiling at, as it wasn't very clear on what Weiss was thinking of

"Um Guin, why do I got a bad feeling about this?" Donald asked as Guin patted him on the shoulder

"Donald, best to just go with it." Guin stated simply as Donald hug his head down knowing that would probably be the best course of action

"Hey, you mind if I get Tantor and Terk to help us out too?" Tarzan asked

"Sure, me and the girls can come with you too." Weiss happily replied back, as she turned her attention back to the rest of the group "Ikail, Dante, Goofy mind staying back here to help with what I've planned for Donald and Guin?'

"No problem Weiss, but mind telling us or at least me since I know the boys here won't remember well enough." Ikail said with a sheepish grin towards Dante and Goofy "No offense of course."

"None taken Ikail, I ain't got the best memory anyways." Goofy responded back with a quick chuckled

"Same, still could have been less blunt about it." Dante responded next, though was somewhat feeling awkward around her since they're friendly sleep together where Ikail had laid her head and arms on his chest. Thankfully for him nothing had happen then, but he wasn't able to move for three hours after that. Still even with the awkwardness, he was more entailed to be around her still since he did see her a good friend already like he did with the others

"Good to know no one here has been offended." Weiss remarked as she motioned Dante, Goofy and Ikail to lean their ears in closer. She then whispered into their ears, though unlike Ikail and Goofy who began snickering; Dante look at her quizzically

"For such a nice person, you're cruel." Dante remarked

"Well it will help, now please get to it." Weiss kindly responded back, giggling a little

"We're on it Weiss!" Goofy happily stated as Ikail was already moving Donald and Guin into the jungle while Dante began looking around the area for something that must have been part of what Weiss had suggested; Goofy followed behind him not shortly after

"We'll ask about what you suggested in a while." Yang amusingly said as she turned her attention to Tarzan "So anyways, who do have in mind to help out?"

"You'll see." Tarzan simply answered with a smirk, making his way in the jungle quickly followed by the girl's moments later

-One hour later-

"Terk come on, all you got to do is keep Kerchak out of the way for a bit." Tarzan explained with a sweetening tone, sliding down a spiral tree branch; while Terk was climbing down a few vines. He was trying to muster up Terk since she was a little peeved with him for not seeing her or Tantor in the past few days

"No." Terk bluntly answered as she landed onto of Tantor who had been listening on his friend's conversation

"We'll I'd like to help with-" Tantor began to say, but was interrupted by Terk who grabbed his trunk a little hard; making him gasp for air just for a few moments

"Okay, shut your trunk and get me out of here." Terk sternly said as Tantor just did what she asked and began making his way off, leaving Tarzan behind as he swung on one of the vines frowning a bit at Treks stubbornness

"Terk aren't you being a bit too mean?" Tantor asked calmly as Terk huffed

"No, I mean can you believe that guy. He drops us like a new born Giraffe and caplop. Now he expects us too-" Terk said, but was cut off as Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang surprisingly landed gently on top of Tantor's head from the trees above

"Man I hate climbing up these trees." Yang stated with a slight shiver down her back, then turned to her serious mode as she focused on Terk "Okay look I know you're a bit mad with Tarzan and that's understandable. But come on, just help us please."

"Yeah, besides you know if you made Tarzan more sadder than he already is. You'd hate yourself for it." Blake stated next as she could tell how much Terk cared for Tarzan, even with how tough she put herself out to be

"Hm…" Terk responded as she crossed her arms, making the girls sigh

"Terk can you please help us?" Weiss asked with a kind tone, though giving Terk a slightly stern look as well

"I don't know…" Terk responded back stubbornly still, though by this point Tarzan landed on top of Tantor's head as well as the girls moved a bit to make room for him

"Terk, I'm asking you as a friend." Tarzan calmly and sincerely said, with a kind look

"Yeah and friends help friends no matter what, so pretty please with sugar on top Terk?" Ruby asked as she did a puppy dog eye look, while Weiss, Blake and Yang did the same to the best of their abilities to do so. Though Blakes was more of a kitten eye look, while she also quivered her lip a little to add to the effect of the stares

"Oh… with the faces and the eyes, UGH. Fine I'll help." Terk replied back as she knew she couldn't say no to her friends, though the faces they were doing helped as well. The girls then smiled widely as they hugged Terk

"Thank you!" Team RWBY joyfully said as Terk smiled a little in a bashful manner

"Alright, alright you're welcome. You're lucky I like you girls already as much as I do Tarzan." Terk kindly replied as the girls let go of her, then she turned her attention back to Tarzan "You just don't make me do anything embarrassing got it?"

"Um, about that…" Ruby responded back with a sheepish smile, while Weiss, Blake and yang laughed awkwardly along with Tarzan. Terk just raised her eyebrow along with Tantor, both having an odd feeling about this plan now

-One hour and thirty minutes later around the Gorilla nests-

"I'M GONNA KILL THEM!" Terk screamed out in utter anger as she wore Jane's yellow dress that didn't fit well around her body, two coconuts strapped on the chest area, Jane's exploration hat with long leaf's poking out to simulate hair, then lastly well placed on lipstick thanks to Blake helping Terk out with that part

"I actually thought that dress is rather slimming on you." Tantor responded back kindly as his trunk had a makeshift outfit, hat and leaf mustache to fit the look of professor Archimedes

"Oh really, I thought it was a little revealing." Terk stated bashfully from Tantor's compliment, though the moment was abruptly interrupted by Guin and Donald who ran passed them in their outfits

"Less talking more running." Guin calmly said as he was out of his armor and only in a long cloth he wore under his armor. But his back, forearms and calves were covered by tied up pieces of leopard skins from one of crates Clayton kept with items of other expeditions he had done before this one

"WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?" Donald yelled out in regretful fear as he was wearing a spare jacket that Clayton wore, while he had a black mustache not very well painted on his beak and the feathers on the top of his head combed back

"Oh boy…" Tantor said nervously, but got the answer as an enraged Kerchak came running out of the bushes

"RAWR!" Kerchak roared as Terk along with Tantor quickly followed behind Donald and Guin screaming for their lives. Kerchak meanwhile took a few moments for a quick breather from all the running, then resumed his case while from a distance Tarzan along with the girls were leading Clayton, Professor Archimedes and Jane to the Gorillas nesting grounds

"Man, Kerchak is out for them huh?" Yang asked as she saw the trees moving slightly whenever Kerchak pass by them

"Yeah, but we'll make it up to them." Blake replied back as she worried for her friend's safety

"Totally, still Weiss I can't believe that was the plan you came up with." Ruby remarked in amusement as Weiss smiled amusingly herself

"I know, but we'll make it up to them when we get back to Traverse town. Oh we can buy them along with the others lunch." Weiss suggested happily

"Well see if we can, but it does sound like a good plan." Yang responded back as Tarzan, Clayton, Jane and Professor Archimedes passed by her

"Anyways, let's just hope this goes over well." Blake whispered loud enough for only the girls to hear

"Yeah." Ruby, Weiss and Yang responded as they along with Weiss quickly caught up with the others

Once they began making their way further in, the girls we're internally getting more nervous at how this was going to go. They knew that Clayton was here to hunt the gorillas, the crew he was working with showed that much along with just him being sleazy. But team RWBY was trying to figure out when he'd strike, thankfully Ikail and Dante decided to stay back at the camp to make sure none of the Clayton's friends would try to back stab them, along with having a clear counter strike plan just in case. Though Jaune and Huang also were back at the camp too. As much as the girls were hating to admit, but when it came down to it; they actually were now trusting Huang more than Jaune. Though Huang seemed to be much nicer in his own way, once you got use to how he acts. Jaune on the other hand kept exhibiting behavior that just made it hard for any of them to trust him. They hoped it was just Jaune trying to get through his internal worries, though as the girls thought through this; they realized they had arrived at the nest. The girls got up first to see Tarzans mother Kala sitting down picking at the leaf's, but she only turned around when Tarzan made his way up. Kala smiled a little a she got back up and began making her way over to them, though as she did Tarzan helped Jane up making Kala freeze suddenly in wariness. Jane got onto her feet while Ruby and Blake helped Professor Archimedes, though none of the others helped Clayton up much to his annoyance. Jane gave Tarzan a small smile of appreciation, until she finally laid her eyes on Kala.

"Daddy… look." Jane said in a mild whisper as she patted the top of his hat to get his attention

"Huh what dear?" Professors Archimedes asked as he looked around

"She means right in front of you dude." Yang answered with a smile as she turned his head towards Kala's direction, which then prompted him to start freaking out in a good way

"Oh…Oh my Jane, it's, it's, it's a Gorilla." Professor Archimedes stated trying to keep his excitement in as to not scare Kala away by accident

"Careful professor." Clayton whispered calmly as he patted the professor on the shoulder, though was smiling for other reasons as he stared at Kala as well now

"She's beautiful." Jane whispered as she studied Kala

"Yep and she's Tarzan's mother just to say." Ruby stated kindly "If you don't mind me saying that Tarzan."

"Not at all Ruby." Tarzan replied back as he looked back at Jane

"So this, this is your…" Jane began to say, but stopped when she realized that Tarzan and Ruby we're being serious. She smiled even wider now as she looked at Kala, feeling very honored to meet someone this close to Tarzan "This is your mother?"

"Yes." Tarzan answered as he looked back at his mother and began making gorilla sounds, Kala though seemed a bit hesitant. She looked at Jane, Professor Archimedes, then Clayton and finally team RWBY who gave her silent nods that it was okay. Though despite the votes of confidence, as Jane along with her father and Clayton tried to slowly get closer; Kala quickly moved back until she stopped in some of the shrubbery behind her

"No wait she's getting away!" Clayton yelled out as he pushed passed Tarzan, Jane and Professors Archimedes. But he was stopped by Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang who crossed their arms while glaring at him

"You know you're gonna scare her like that, right Clayton?" Ruby asked sternly

"Totally, so maybe notch down on the whole creeper vibe." Yang suggested angrily while Weiss and Blake nodded in agreement

"Exactly, you're only frightening her more with what you're doing." Jane remarked as she moved next to Tarzan and started making gorilla noise as well which made Tarzan join in once more. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang along with Professor Archimedes did so too, much to Clayton's rising annoyance

"What are you doing, do what to frighten them off. Get up, get… don't get up." Clayton said, though changed his annoyance quickly when he took notice of all the other gorillas coming in from the tree above the them; then the others took notice of this too

"It's, it's…" Professor Archimedes muttered in utter excitement as he fainted from all the excitement he was feeling, Clayton meanwhile smirked seeing that he had found what he needed to find. Jane was overjoyed along with Tarzan while the girls stood a bit back to let her and her father have this moment

"Well they sure are happy." Yang whispered happily as she saw some of the baby monkey's slowly make their way to Jane, though the lead one did a very cute roar while beating his chest which it made the little one cuter. Jane just laughed as she let said baby gorilla lay on her lap, while more began to come near Jane feeling more comfortable around her now "So cute!"

"Really cute, though I think the professor is going to get a surprising wake up call." Blake replied back in amusement as she and the girls looked to see Professor Archimedes waking up now from his sudden case of fainting. He also was surrounded by some of the older gorillas who were poking at him out of curiosity. Once the professor did wake up, he was pleasantly surprised by them as they poked at him more while one even picked him up by the left leg for a few moments before letting him down

"How funny." Weiss remarked laughing a little, but then took notice of Clayton writing on what she could guess a small map as he donned on an unsettling smirk "Girls, I think we have a problem."

"No kidding snowflake and I know just what to do." Ruby replied as she clenched her fists a little, about to her end's wits with Clayton. Though Weiss, Blake and Yang were confused on what she was going to do. But quickly understood when Ruby passed by them, not taking notice of the interaction with the gorillas, Jane, Professor Archimedes and Tarzan as she made her way right towards Clayton

"Yang your little sister can be a bit scary sometimes." Blake said with a bewildered tone, as Yang chuckled a bit

"True that Blakey, come on lets back her up." Yang stated as she made her way quickly behind Ruby along with Blake following in behind

"Well this will be good." Weiss muttered as she was going to love seeing what her girlfriend had in store as she made her way up to the others

"Hey what are doing Clayton?" Ruby asked sternly as Clayton turned his attention towards her and the girls

"Oh Miss Rose, what are you on about now?" Clayton asked back smirking smugly, knowing they couldn't do anything to him with their present company

"You heard me, what's with the map." Ruby angrily stated as she crossed her arms "Because I'm taking a guess you're marking this location for you and your… friends to come back to, right?"

"My oh my, what an imagination you have. Rest assure though, I'm only marking it for dear Jane and the Professor so they may come back here on a later date." Clayton answered calmly, while still smirking smugly

"Right, look what are you after and don't play coy with us alright?" Weiss asked very angrily, readying her keyblade from how annoyed she was with him

"Well then ladies, come closer and I'll tell you." Clayton replied back as the girls were hesitant at first, but they did as they moved closer so their conversation could be more private "Listen here brats, I know we're on opposing sides here so a far warning. If you try interfering with my plans, you four are going to pay dearly. I've come to far now for anything to be ruin by you four. So Stay out of my way, got it?"

"That's going to be a problem, a big problem Mister Clayton." Blake said sternly

"Why's that?" Clayton asked with a more threatening tone and thankfully he was able to keep his anger in with this private conversation of theirs

"Because, we like getting in the way of plans creeps like you make. So I guess you're out of luck." Ruby answered as she smirked and made a smug face "Just to say, I think you're making a few friends yourself."

"What are you… no wait give me those back. They aren't toys!" Clayton started to ask, but stopped when one gorilla took his map out of curiosity, another one took his machete and a third gorilla took his gun. He started to try and get all three away from the Gorillas with not much luck. The girls just walked away from him, laughing a bit at his current frustrations

"He got that coming I say." Weiss stated amusingly, while Blake and Ruby nodded in agreement

"Totally, I'd love it if one of the gorillas decided to eat the or tear up that little map of his." Yang remarked as she and the girls began laughing more, though they stopped seeing Tarzan and Jane looking at one another; while making more gorilla noises as their face became closer by the second

"Just kiss already…" Team RWBY muttered smiling at the cute scene, as they were waiting for the big kiss to happen. Mainly just because they could tell both Jane and Tarzan were deeply connected by this point, along with them just wanting two of their friends to be truly happy. Though it seemed that wasn't the case as a baby gorilla came in between getting a quick laugh out of the two, before they stopped and continued talking once more while Jane kept a hold on the baby gorilla

"Aw, the kiss didn't happen." Ruby remarked giggling a bit as the sight of seeing Tarzan and Jane playing with the baby gorillas was way to adorable

"True, but maybe if we listen in a bit closer. We can figure out what they're talking about." Weiss suggested as she, Ruby, Blake and Yang did so leaning in a bit. Then like Weiss had said would happen, they overheard Tarzan's and Jane's conversation

"So what was it I just said anyways in gorilla?" Jane asked as she played with the baby gorilla in her arms some more

"That Jane stays." Tarzan answered with a warm smile

"Aw." Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang whispered joyfully at Tarzan's answer

"Stay, Tarzan I…." Jane said, but was conflicted on what to say while she handed Tarzan the baby gorilla in her arms "Tarzan I though we already-"

"AHHHHH!" Terk, Tantor and Donald screamed out suddenly as they along with a silent Guin ran towards them out of the bushes. Though Tantor tripped on his face, followed by Terk landing on top of him in a bit of a daze. Donald tripped, then face planted against the ground next to Tantor, Guin even tripped and fell on his back in front of Tantor. It was amusing yet awkward also

"Is that my dress?" Jane asked in a sudden hint of confusion

"RAWR!" Kerchak roared in a rage from having to keep this chase up for so long, but as he finally was calming down he saw the girls, Tarzan, Clayton, Jane and Professor Archimedes in his nest; his home. Tarzan, the girls and their friends he knew already, but the other three did not sit well with him one bit

"Kerchak this is not what it looks like." Ruby quickly said as she held her arms out, hoping the gorilla would listen to reason

"Yeah, so before you flip or anything. Just breath." Yang said next, helping out her baby sister along with Tarzan making a few calm gorilla noises. Weiss and Blake meanwhile were motioning Jane along with Professor Archimedes to back up. Meanwhile at the same time they and their girlfriends were reading up Blizzard spells since it seemed that this possibly would get tense very soon. Though it would be for naught as Kerchak turned his attention towards Clayton of all people

"Clayton…" Ruby sternly screamed through her teeth as she saw Clayton had retrieved most of his stuff back other than his shotgun, which he was currently trying to pry out of the hands of the gorilla who took it in the first place

"Give me it, oh will just give me that back!" Clayton angrily yelled as he ripped his shotgun out of the gorilla's hands. The gorilla than ran away scared suddenly, though it didn't help as Clayton then aimed his gun right at the fleeing gorilla. Kerchak became enraged by his actions as he charged right at Clayton, knocking his gun out of hands; along with knocking Clayton to the ground

"NO!" Tarzan yelled out, charging at Kerchak who was about to ram down his fist onto Clayton. Tarzan got there just in time as Clayton got back up and moved next to the others, while Tarzan began to fight back Kerchak in a battle of strength. Though the girls weren't going to let him do this on his own, even if it was between father and son

"That idiot!" Weiss angrily screamed as she, Ruby, Blake and Yang summoned their keyblades. Then bashed them against Kerchak's back hard. Though that didn't do much as Kerchak just cringed a bit from the pain while trying to throw Tarzan to the side, so he could get to the three intruders and deal with them

"ARRGHHH!" Kerchak roared as the girls quickly latched themselves onto his arms and legs, hitting their keyblades against his limbs as to help Tarzan out

"Come on just calm down!" Blake yelled as she fired off a quickly fired off a few fire spells into his face, though that only made Kerchak more angry as he thrashed around some bit

"For real Blake come on?" Weiss asked as she had latched herself onto one of Kerchak's right arm, which was made harder to do now since the gorilla was much more enraged. She tried to shoot off a quick blizzard spell at the leg she was latched onto, but Kerchak thrashed a little too quickly at the moment she fired off the spell. Instead it did a direct hit on Donald who had only gotten back right up onto his feet. Which then hit Donald's feet and frozen them on the ground, much to Donald's unamusement

"WHY WEISS, WHY?" Donald asked as he tried to move, despite knowing his feet were frozen for the moment

"Sorry!" Weiss yelled back as she was flung off by Kerchak against a tree to the side

"Snowflake!" Ruby said in a sudden panic for Weiss well being, then out of her anger she hit Kerchak straight in the face with her Keyblade "NO ONE HURTS MY WEISS!"

"Nice hit Ruby! Blake stated with a smirk, as Yang nodded in agreement. Though by this point Kerchak was very angry and with all his might he used it to fling Ruby, Blake and Yang off right in the same direction Weiss was

"Ow, my-" Weiss began to say, but was cut off as Ruby, Blake and Yang crash into her and the tree "Ow…"

"You okay Weiss?" Yang asked in slight pain

"No Yang I'm not. But at least my Ruby is the one that crashed into me first." Weiss responded back as Ruby face was against her's, Ruby smiling a little as she had somehow gotten her arms wrapped around Weiss waist

"I ain't complaining either Weiss." Ruby remarked with a flirty tone as she and Weiss kissed a little

"Ladies please do the bedroom antics for later." Yang suggested kindly as Blake gave her a quizzical gaze

"Yang hunny, you don't have room to talk right now. I mean you have your hand with a firm grip on my butt right now." Blake explained as Yang did have a very… firm grasp on Blake's butt with her left hand

"I know, but can you blame me?" Yang asked as she smirked a little, making Blake blush a bit as she also squeezed just a bit

"Yang please we're in company right now!" Blake yelled in an increasing embarrassment, though the sudden silly moment from Team RWBY was abruptly cut short as they saw Tarzan being throw a few feet away to the side. Then before any of them could get back up to help, Tarzan quickly lunged onto Kerchak's back wrapping his arms around the gorilla's neck

"We got to get back up quickly!" Weiss said, but she was quickly lifted up by the arm by Guin who had gotten back up himself from his earlier fall. The girls quickly fell off of one another back onto the ground, though Weiss was the first one back onto her feet, followed by Ruby, then Blake and finally Yang

"Thanks Guin." Yang said kindly as she was about to charge in to help Tarzan, but she was quickly stopped by Guin who placed his hand in front of her and the girls "Guin what are you doing?"

"Trust me I want to help too, but this is between a father and his son. Your parts in the battle are done." Guin answered calmly as the girls looked to one another, not wanting to have to agree with Guin's reasoning. But in the end did, as they had a feeling if they interfere anymore; it may make things much worse for them with the gorillas even if they weren't a threat

"I guess so…" Ruby muttered sadly, as Guin gently patted her shoulder. Ruby looked up to his him as Guin gave her a quick nod of understanding. Ruby smiled a little at the kind gesture, but then quickly looked to the fight ensuing to see that Kerchak had fall over on his stomach while he tried to move closer to Jane, her father and Clayton who was aiming his gun at Kerchak. Tarzan meanwhile was doing his best to keep back Kerchak, though it was getting harder by the second

"Get out of here !" Tarzan screamed out, struggling with Kerchak as they did just that. Though Jane stopped mid-way and looked back at Tarzan with a very worried look

"Tarzan, I-" Jane began to say but was cut off by Donald who had gotten free from his ice encasement finally

"Go now!" Donald screeched out as he made his way next to the girls and Guin

"Jane lets go." Professor Archimedes stated as he pulled Jane to follow him, Clayton then followed while keeping his gun aimed at Kerchak in case he tried attacking. Though before he went out of sight, he gave the girls one last warning glare; the girls glared back and with that Clayton was gone from sight. The fight between went on for a few more moments between Tarzan and Kerchak, until Tarzan finally let go of Kerchak getting back on his feet realizing what he had just done

"Kerchak I-" Tarzan said, trying to explain what he just did. But he was cut off by an infuriated Kerchak

"I told you one thing, to protect this family and you betrayed us all." Kerchak responded with slightly hurt, but more stern tone. Tarzan started becoming confused and conflicted by this as his mind was going into a humble of emotions. Then he quickly made ran away into the jungle because of his increasing conflictions

"Tarzan wait!" Ruby yelled out, though it was too late as Tarzan was out of sight. Ruby then got angrier as she glared at Kerchak "What's your problem, he was just trying to get the gorillas use to Jane and her Father, aside from Clayton those two were harmless. But you're really, really stupid fear about anyone different blinded you to giving them a chance!"

"You and your friends are a part fault here, if none of you had come here. Then things would still be the same, but like Keyblade wielders; you can't help be meddle." Kerchak responded back angrily as he got back up

"So you know who the girls are then, how?" Guin asked as team RWBY was surprised by this along with Donald who seemed to be having a slight head ache. Kerchak then realized the little slip up, groaning in even more irritation

"I guess I did let that slip." Kerchak stated angrily as he looked back at the other gorillas and Kala "I'll be back, the rest of you get ready to turn in for then night. Kala?"

"Yes, come along let's get to it." Kala said as she and the other gorillas began making their way to the nests. Kerchak meanwhile motioned the girls and only the girls to follow him, as he made his way into the same area Tarzan had ran into

"I guess that mean we have to follow." Weiss remarked as she turned her attention to Guin and Donald "Sorry about that, but would mind actually head back to the camp. Make sure the others have some more back up. Not that I don't think they can handle any of Clayton's vile friends, but it's better to be safe than sorry as the old saying goes."

"No problem, well make our way there back quickly." Guin kindly responded back

"Just stay safe ladies, the heartless may have not shown themselves around here a lot. But they might still, at the worst of times." Donald said, as he tried to keep a strong face while hiding his nervousness. The girls just smiled giving him a group hug, as they appreciated his worry for them

"We will buddy, besides we're more worried about you and Guin getting back to the camp." Yang responded as she and the girls let go of Donald who was bashful at the girl's kind gesture

"It is appreciated, but we will be safe. Though it's unwise to keep Kerchak waiting, well see you back at the camp." Guin replied back, making his way to the camp along with Donald. The girls then quickly made their way over to Kerchak, who was glaring at them

"Okay so spill it, how do you know about us?" Blake asked sternly

"Yeah and don't think about lying to us anymore, we want the truth bub." Yang sternly remarked as she glared back at Kerchak while Ruby and Weiss nodded in agreement

"Fine, you see for years before I was born. My ancestors we're tasked with keeping the keyhole of this world hidden and safe. A keyblade wielder came to our worlds many years ago and made contact with my ancestor's band after saving them from heartless that we're trying to their spiritual hearts. He and my ancestors became well acquainted. So once said keyblade wielder left, he tasked my ancestor too keep watch on the keyhole in our world. With that generation after generation, my ancestors took on the task to keep the keyhole safe and hidden all the way up till now with me. But personally, I think it's all a big irritation just like you four."

"Hey, it ain't our fault that the heartless are here but we're trying to help so just help us!" Ruby yelled as she was really on the fence when it came to attacking Kerchak

"I won't, if I allow you to go near the keyhole it will only cause more of the heartless to come to stop you. I will not allow that, so just leave already." Kerchak answered stubbornly

"No!" Weiss screamed out, as she walked right up to Kerchak not caring that he was twice as big as her and beat her physical strength tenfold. It didn't help as she jabbed her finger into his chest "NOW LISTEN HERE YOU, WE ARE GOING TO FIND THAT KEYHOLE AND YOU ARE GOING TO LEADS US TO IT OF SO HELP ME WE'LL MAKE YOU!"

"No." Kerchak responded angrily in defiance as Weiss clenched her fist and was about to punch Kerchak across the face, even if the consequence for it would be an inevitable fight she didn't care. Though as she readied her fist for the hit, Ruby quickly came from behind and grabbed her in a restraining hold as she was trying her best to move her girlfriend back away from Kerchak

"Sweetie let me go, I want teach this fool a lesson!" Weiss yelled out, trying to break free from Ruby's surprisingly strong hold on her

"I know you do but please just calm down please!" Ruby replied back with a teary tone as Weiss looked back to see Ruby tear up a little "I just don't want you to get hurt…"

"Ruby…." Weiss said quietly as her heart always ached when she saw Ruby tear up, so taking in a few very deep breaths she was able to calm herself down kissing Ruby on the lips for quick moment "Okay, but only so I can see that lovely smile or yours again."

"Thanks Weiss, I love you." Ruby responded, feeling much better now as she released Weiss. Then did a complete turn on her mood as she looked back at Kerchak with disgust "You know what, we don't need your help finding the keyhole. We're going to find it one way or another without your persimmons to do so because that's our duties as keyblade wielders and huntresses; to keep the peace. We're also going to have Tarzan help us, so let's get to it ladies!"

"Right!" Weiss, Blake and Yang said proudly as they followed Ruby. Though Blake stopped as she glared at Kerchak in disgust

"Just to say, me and friends may have only Know Tarzan for over a week already. But at least we seemed to value him more than you do, you disgrace for a father." Blake stated bluntly, though before Kerchak could responded back; she quickly made her way back up with the others. Kerchak just sighed as he made his own back to the nests, wondering what other trouble those four keyblade wielders would cause

-In the Jungle one hour later-

"Tarzan!" Blake yelled out as she and the girls were sure Tarzan was in the area

"Tarzan, please come out it's us!" Weiss yelled next as she was worried how he must be doing with his current mind set

"Yeah, we're worried about you and you running into the jungle didn't helping much!" Yang yelled now as she was a bit peeved with Tarzan for making them have to go this far into this dangerous jungle to go find him. But she was more worried for his safety than she was peeved with him

"Please Tarzan, just tell us where-" Ruby yelled last, but stopped when she spotted Tarzan on the edge of a hill side facing towards the setting sun ahead of them "Girls I found him!"

"Finally!" Yang screamed in relief as she, Ruby, Weiss and Blake quickly made their way up the hill to the left of Tarzan. Though even with Tarzan taking notice of them, he was still silent and it became somewhat unnerving with how quiet he was being

"You want to talk about it?" Ruby asked kindly as Tarzan just nodded no, which made Ruby and the others sigh knowing this was getting to him a lot

"Mind if we still sit here with you though?" Weiss kindly asked next as Tarzan nodded, which made the girls smile in appreciation

"Thanks Tarzan, look we know that you're confused by all this. But we're here for you." Yang stated as Ruby, Weiss and Blake nodded in agreement. Though moments later, Blake with her cat ears still under her bow caught the sounds of someone coming in from behind them; she looked back slightly to see Kala. So she turned her attention back to the others, who hadn't noticed her do so

"Speaking of which, I think someone else is here to support you." Blake kindly remarked as she once more along with Ruby, Weiss and Yang looked back to see Kala. Though Tarzan was still look off into the horizon, still in a state of deep conflicted thoughts. Though once Kala made her way up behind to Tarzan, he finally acknowledged her presence there

"I'm so confused…." Tarzan said in the calmest, yet most uneasy tone the girls had ever heard from him. They frowned worriedly, wanting to help their new friend out with this but just didn't know how to; other than at least being there for him until he figured it out. Kala herself sighed, knowing this day would have come sooner or later. Kala also knew she would have to show him something; that she hoped she'd never had to show him in him life time; but that wasn't an option anymore

"Tarzan, come with me. They're something you and…and your friends here should see." Kala said as she looked to team RWBY with a kind smile. Team RWBY smiled back in appreciation as Kala and Tarzan made their way off, with the girls following behind

As the girls traversed through the jungle following Tarzan and Kala, for some reason they noticed pretty quickly that there were monkey heartless in the trees above them. That was the expected thing from for the creatures, what was surprising and unnerving was that the monkey heartless were just watching them. They could have attacked any moment, but they just kept watching them with those big yellow eyes of theirs. The girls made sure to keep a good pace with Tarzan and Kala who hadn't yet taken notice of the monkey heartless around them, while also keeping an eye on the monkey heartless above them. A few more minutes passed as the girls followed Tarzan and Kala, with no indication that the monkey heartless were going to leave them alone willing, so team RWBY quickly summoned their keyblades which to their slight surprise; made the monkey heartless back of as the scurried away into other parts of the jungle. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang sighed in relief as they unsummoned their keyblade. But they stopped once they looked back to see Kala and Tarzan look upon a large run-down tree house from what they could tell in the darkness of the night. The girls were confused a bit at what this place was, but followed behind Kala and Tarzan as they made their way up in the tree house; though once they made their way up into the large tree house team RWBY inspected the inside interior. From what they could tell, it had a few open aired windows, worn out tattered sheets everywhere and from what the girls could sense a haunting presence of past deaths. But they turned attention back to Tarzan who had looked around himself, since it seemed he had stepped on glass of all things. The girls quickly moved their way behind Tarzan to see him pick up a picture of lovely woman, a man that looked exactly like Tarzan but with shorter hair along with a mustache and finally a small baby that took team RWBY only a few seconds to piece together who it was.

"Aw, that's you Tarzan." Ruby said with a small smile

"Yeah, seems like though you got more of your…well your looks from you know." Yang said next as she didn't want to stir up too many possible emotions Tarzan might be experiencing from this. Blake just nodded in agreement, though had a feeling what happen to his parents wasn't a pretty story to tell and she had a feeling Kala knew. But decided it be best to let some things stay in the past, so she wouldn't ask Kala about it and knew the girls probably were thinking the same thing

"Tarzan, are you okay?" Weiss asked as she had a feeling on how Tarzan must be feeling right now, though from how her father was at least. She couldn't really understand, since her father wasn't what most would call fatherly or caring

"I…this is my mother and my father. I'm... I'm…" Tarzan said quietly as he inspected the picture in shock and awe, while Kala stood near the entrance of the tree house letting her son take this all in. Tarzan then looked back at Kala, who sighed sadly

"Now you know the truth, Tarzan I just want you to be happy with whatever you decided." Kala simply answered as she made her way out in the front of the tree house to wait. Team RWBY looked at where Kala had been at, then back at Tarzan

"Tarzan, look as your friends we care about you. Though personally for me I say do whatever you think will make you happy." Yang said happily

"You sure should buddy!" Ruby happily stated as she patted Tarzan on the back

"Also don't worry about your mother, you should know by this point she'll love you no matter what you pick." Weiss remarked kindly with a reassuring smile, Tarzan smiled a bit at the words of encouragement

"Tarzan, do you want us to wait outside while you figure this out?" Blake asked as Tarzan nodded "Okay then, ladies let's give Tarzan some space."

"Right." Ruby, Weiss and Yang responded back as they along with Blake made their way out next to Kala. Then they waited and waited, which felt like hours to them. But finally as the girls and Kala waited still outside the tree house, they heard foots steps from behind. They all turned back around to see Tarzan coming out, while fixing up a blue tail coat suit with a red vest, white collared undershirt, then lastly a pair of black and white toned shoes. Once Tarzan was done with fixing up his suit, he turned his attention to the girls and Kala

"So, how do I look?" Tarzan asked nervously

"Well if you cut you hair short, you'd look like more of a refined gentleman." Weiss explained kindly as the girls nodded in agreement

"Thanks." Tarzan replied, then notice Kala tearing up a bit; so he quickly made his way over and hugged her nuzzling his face against hers "No matter where I go, you will always be my mother."

"And you will always be my boy." Kala answered back with a sad, but loving tone as Tarzan and her let go of one another. Then Tarzan began making his way down the stair, to meet up with Jane, Professor Archimedes, Clayton, Jaune, Huang, Guin, Donald, Goofy, Ikail, Dante and the rest of the ship's crew. The girls followed soon by, though stopped before passing by Kala and looked at her with smiles of reassurance

"Kala, we'll keep an eye on him. We promise." Blake kindly said

"That's a double promise." Yang said next, with a fist pump

"I'd say it's more of a triple promise." Weiss said now, with a smirk of pride

"It's all those and a four-part promise!" Ruby happily said last, with a wide reassuring smile "Kala we will keep him safe, no matter what and stand by his side till we're not needed anymore."

"Thank you… I'm glad that my son made some more great friends." Kala responded back as the girls then made their way to catch up with Tarzan, Kala meanwhile watch them along with her son disappeared back into the jungle wishing them the best of luck

-The next day at the shore of the jungle-

"So it's okay for us to go right?" Ruby asked as she along with the girls were talking with Donald Ikail, Dante, Guin, Goofy and Guin. While Huang was waiting in the boat with Tarzan waiting for the girls along with Clayton, Jaune was already on the boat since Clayton had told him to get onto it earlier much to the girls slight worry since they had a private talk before Jaune had made his way onto the ship

"Yeah, don't worry girls. Bedsides the Gummi Ship will be able to find you in this world once the rest of get back on it. Then we'll just come back here and find the keyhole." Goofy responded happily

"That's good to know, I was kind of worried this would cause some complications." Weiss stated in relief "Still at least once we're on the ship we'll have Jaune, Tarzan, Jane and her father as friendly faces along with maybe Huang for however long this voyage will take."

"True, still keep your guard up the whole time on that ship. We wouldn't want any of you four to get hurt or killed somehow." Dante replied back, with a stern tone that was hiding a bit of worry in it. The girls just snickered a bit at how much Dante was trying to hide his obvious worry for their safety

"We will Dante, don't worry about that." Yang remarked in amusement, then turned her attention to Ikail "Have to say though, that we're sorry we got to leave you to keep an eye on the boys here."

"I have no issues at all with it, besides out of the rest of us. I'm the one that probably has the most sense or well at least wants to take charge." Ikail said laughing a bit a Donald and Dante sighed, knowing she'd be a crazy temporary leader. Goofy didn't mind it one bit, while Guin just shrugged not having issues with it either; though he was a little nervous himself too since Ikail was silly at points and that could come in play with some of the actions she did

"Good to know Ikail." Blake replied back kindly, then looked along with the girls to see Clayton next to the boat waiting for them with a slightly annoyed look

"Seems like we should get a move on." Ruby said, looking back at the others "You all stay safe too okay?"

"We shall Ruby, may you all have a good trip and we'll see you soon." Guin responded as the girls gave him, Dante, Ikail, Donald and Goofy a large group hug before letting go moments after. Then team RWBY made their way onto the boat, greeting Tarzan and a still slightly sleepy Huang as Clayton quickly pushed the rest of the boat into the water then got on himself. As the boat start to make its way to the ship a few good yards away from the island, once it was out of sight the rest of the group began making their way off; but then were slightly surprised when they saw Tantor and Terk come out of the bushes

"TARZAN!" Tantor yelled out as he tried catching his breath

"We're already too late…" Terk responded back with a sad tone as Ikail, Dante, Guin, Donald and Goofy made their way next to them

"Sorry about that you two, but I though you would have already said your goodbyes to him earlier." Ikail stated with a sympathetic tone, feeling bad for these two

"No…we didn't get a chance to say goodbye." Tantor responded back sadly, as Goofy and Donald patted his left side supportively

"Well I'm glad, besides I don't need him." Terk said angrily as she got off of Tantor glaring at the ship in the distance and threw some dirt and rocks as far as she could towards the ship "You hear that, I don't need you, so go on and get out of here you bald, rotten ingrate!"

"You know, I think she's playing tough." Dante sarcastically whispered to Guin who just silently nodded in agreement as it was pretty obvious. Terk meanwhile made her way back to Tantor as she was frowning at this point. She the noticed Tantor along with the others looking at her

"What are looking at?" Terk asked in a slightly defensive tone as Tantor sympathetically smiled

"I'm gonna miss him too." Tantor answered kindly, as Terk sighed a bit

"Oh…hm…" Terk tried to say, but was feeling too down to make a proper response. So she just punched his leg slightly hard, then began making her way off into the jungle once more while Tantor looked back at the ship sighing a bit

"Don't worry Tantor, Terk will get better soon. Still mind if we come back with you two, we're still needing to make sure you are safe from looming threats." Ikail asked kindly

"Sure, follow me and Terk." Tantor said as he and the others made their way into the jungle now, to catch up with Terk back to the gorilla's nest. Though Ikail, Dante, Guin, Goofy and Donald hoped that the girls trip would truly be a safe one

Meanwhile as the boat finally made its way to the ship, the girls were getting worried. They couldn't really figure out from what, but something in their gut instinct was screaming at them that something was going to happen. The girls even wondered if maybe it was not their own instinct, but their keyblades somehow telling them danger was near in an effort to keep them safe. Either way it was a rising feeling of uneasiness, but they decided to let it be since they were happier that Tarzan would be able to stay with Jane.

"Oh Tarzan what's in store for you, you're going to see the city, the people and everyone is going to want to meet you. Kings, scientist and famous writers." Jane happily explained as her father began climbing up the ladder to the ship next, but stopped to add in on his daughter's statement

"Yes like Darwin, Kipling, Queen Victoria!" Professor Archimedes happily said, then continued making his way up onto the ship

"I've never meet her, but I do hear she's nice." Jane remarked while Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang wondered if they'd meet some of these famous individuals too

"And I'll be with Jane?" Tarzan asked kindly, as the girls awed at how cute that moment was, meanwhile Jane began blushing a bit from the bold; but not unwelcomed statement

"Y-Yes, with Jane." Jane responded, trying to not to show how flustered she had become, though her overjoyed smile was making it hard. Jane then began making her way up the ladder, after missing latching onto it two times while still smiling bashfully. Though once she made her way up Tarzan began to do so as well along with a more awake Huang, then once they made their way up; Ruby was about to follow next though was stopped by Clayton

"Allow me to go first ladies, I've already fasten the boat down so there should be no worries of floating away." Clayton kindly suggested as the girls uneasy feeling became much more intense. But they kept it on the down low and just nodded. Clayton the made his way up and once he was out of sight, the girls looked to one another worriedly

"So I'm not the only one who's like really uneasy about this whole trip right?" Weiss asked as she was already planning up few attack plans in case this was a trap

"Weiss, I think we're all feeling the same way." Blake answered, as she sighed "Question is do we jump up there with our blades, climb the ladder to no bring sudden attention to us or what?"

"I'd say we just go in there and bring the pain to Clayton and his crew. Jaune, Jane, her dad, Tarzan and even Huang are the ones on our side anyways." Yang suggested with a confident look on her face

"As much as that would be fun, like really fun to do. Maybe we should keep our keyblades and magic ready just in case. But not take the ladder and just jump up, I mean this ship ain't that tall and we all do have the training to do the high jumps that most hunters and huntresses can do when needed. Sound good ladies?" Ruby stated kindly, as Weiss, Blake and Yang nodded in agreement seeing the logic in this plan

"We'll follow your lead baby sis." Yang responded back, with a quick thumbs up. Then she along with Ruby, Weiss and Blake prepared themselves for their high jump. Seconds later they took a deep breath and then jumped, thankfully the used enough power that the just barley landed over the guard railing of the ship. Though once they landed, suddenly a sword was pointed barley against Ruby's throat making her along with the girls stop in their tracks as they looked to see to their hurt shock Jaune glaring at them. Jane meanwhile was being held in place by some of the ship members along with her father, the captain of the ship, four of his crew mates and Tarzan. Ruby now kind of regret not going with Yang's plan, as she looked back at Jaune with a hurt look; figuring out that Jungle hunter was right on his assumption. Along with how Jaune's sword was pointed at her throat, she also assumed she along with the rest of the girls were the ones he wanted to kill. The question was why, though the answer Ruby could already tell wouldn't easy to accept

"Jaune, why…" Ruby asked with a hurt tone as Jaune kept glaring at her with a scowl

"Answer us damn you!" Yang yelled out angrily, but didn't move having a feeling Jaune could hurt Ruby pretty badly if she tried anything at this point. Though her sudden feelings of betrayal and rage towards Jaune weren't helping keep her any calmer then she was trying to be, but Jaune still kept quiet

"Back stabbing bastard…" Blake said with a venomous tone, as she was extremely angry with Jaune for backstabbing them. She had people back stab her in her days before she went to Beacon and she hated the feeling of betrayal deeply. So at this point because of Jaune's sudden betrayal of hers and the girls trust in him. Blake was completely fine with hurting him, if only to help Jaune get back to his senses. Jaune just smirked a bit, as a slight aura of darkness shrouded his body for a split second which shocked the girls a bit

"Jaune, please just… just tell is why." Weiss asked with the kindest tone she could muster up – "Now I wish Jungle hunter was here. As much as I'm wary of the beast. But we can't use our summons since Jaune could hurt Ruby if any of us tried too"-

"Actually ladies I think I'd be better with that explanation." Clayton smugly answered as he wielded his shotgun and walked up to the girls "You see let's just say an acquaintance of mine found dear old Jaune here all alone. She took him in and showed the lad the truth."

"What truth?" Ruby sternly asked as Jaune pushed his blade against Ruby's throat a bit more as her aura start to take measures to keep her safe from the possible attack. The girls along with Tarzan, Jane and her father flinched a little from the sudden aggressive act

"The truth about you four, how you all look down on me and how you all are just liars." Jaune explained scowling more intensely at team RWBY

"What, Jaune we're your fri-" Ruby said, but was cut off as Jaune quickly moved his sword from against her throat. Then punched her across the face hard with his other hand, making Ruby stumble back a bit as Weiss and Blake caught her from falling over; Yang meanwhile was very furious at Jaune

"YOU SON OF A-" Yang screamed out as she summoned her keyblade, but before she could even move near Jaune she stopped seeing the ship members holding, the captain, his remaining loyal shipmates, Jane and Professor Archimedes pressed pistols against the back of their heads

"Oh none of that now young lady, we wouldn't want the innocent members of this crew, the dear Professor or Miss Porter here to lose some of their brain matter now do we?" Clayton asked with a disturbingly amused tone as Yang narrowed her eyes and barred her teeth furiously at Clayton. But she looked back at the hostages, then de-summoned her keyblade as she knew Clayton was crazy enough by this point to do it "Good, now then Tarzan my boy I do hope you're not mad about this."

"Mad, no… I'm enraged." Tarzan answered angrily, glaring at Clayton even when he lifted his face up a bit with the end of his shotgun for a few moments; before moving his shotgun away. But Clayton smiled even more smugly now, chuckling a little even

"Of course you are, but you know what's even more funny. Thanks to you, your little gorilla friends are going to make me very rich. Along with these ladies here as that very same acquaintance I spoke of will want these girls from her own purposes. So Tarzan from one 'friend' to another, thank you. Because of you, this has all become possible. Now then men throw them into the hold down below!" Clayton yelled out with an extremely prideful tone

"Yes sir!" The crew members shouted out as they began moving the captain, his crewmates, Jane and Professor Archimedes into the ship. The others began moving the girls along with Tarzan the same way, but with more trouble since the girls along with Tarzan were giving them a hard time moving them. Jaune passed by the whole situation and entered the ship with a bored look, Huang was the only one who hadn't move yet to help as he watched the others get moved down to the holding cell

"Huang my boy, why don't you make yourself useful and help with our unruly guest hm?" Clayton suggested with a sly smirk, though to his surprised Huang glared at him a bit "What's the matter Huang, lost your spin for this sort of stuff?"

"Clayton I should have been straight with you much earlier. I don't like you, I don't like people in general and even can find most annoying at times. But what I do like are animals, excluding talking ones. At least they're honest with themselves unlike you Clayton, since you're a pompous moron. So jump of a cliff jack ass." Huang bluntly stated as Clayton chuckled some more

"So your against me then, boys please take Mister Huang here to join his little friends in the hold." Clayton stated as a few more of the ship members made their way up to him, but not before Clayton reaching into Huang's coat, taking his pistol out and throwing it into the ocean "Best not to have you armed."

"Yeah whatever." Huang grumbled back angrily as he was moved up to the others who we're still struggling a little, though Clayton walked up to them as this happened still smiling smugly as the group was being dragged into the ship now from how much of struggling they were giving

"You know ladies once you're in the holding cell I'll take great joy in having you hear the deaths of your little friends. I'll line them up and blow their heads off with great glee in doing so. Along with that brown Gorilla that you Tarzan seemed to be so fond of, you'll watch her die slowly as I skin her alive in front of you. So until then have a nice stay." Clayton stated happily, while hysterical laugh

"NOOOO!" Tarzan and team RWBY screamed out in horrified anger as they were dragged into ship finally, but unknown to them their screams echoed much louder than they had expected it too. The echoes of the screams reached all the way to back to the island, right in the direction that Tantor with Terk, Ikail, Donald, Goofy, Dante and Guin riding his back. They heard the screams and immediately looked back at the direction where the ship was at

"That's not good one bit." Ikail stated worriedly as she narrowed her gaze towards the ship

"Indeed and I have a feeling we should make haste back to them. Sounds like they need rescuing." Dante responded back while Guin, Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement getting their weapons ready

"Just leave it, they're all probably just having a flipping happy little party!" Terk yelled out annoyingly as she got off of Tantor and began making her way off still, but she was suddenly lifted up from her legs by Tantor's trunk. He then moved her close to his face, while Goofy and Donald looked at her too as the others just kept quiet

"Now you listen here good, we are going to go back and get Tarzan." Tantor said in a very uncharacteristic stern tone

"Yeah no if's and or but's!" Donald yelled out with a stern look of his own

"Yes sir-e we are, so you better get on this band wagon with us." Goofy stated very sternly, as he crossed his arms giving Terk a glare that actually made her nervous a bit as she just nodded in agreement back. Tantor then placed Terk back on him, while the others secured themselves

"Let's get our friends back!" Ikail shouted proudly as Tantor began charging back at the same direction, though suddenly something came to Guin's mind

"Wait are we even going-" Guin asked, but as he did suddenly he and the rest suddenly felt like they were falling. It turned out that Tantor had run them right off a cliff side, where they landed in the water thankfully "Going the right way."

"No we are not Guin." Ikail replied back amusingly as Guin looked at her unamused making Ikail laugh a little awkwardly "Yeah…sorry."

"Alright jokes aside, what now?" Terk asked as Tantor began moving towards the ship, only to see Clayton with Jaune and a good portion of his crewmen on one large boat heading their way

"Hold your breath for one, two Tantor dive!" Donald yelled out as Tantor quickly did so, the others thankfully took a quick breath. Once they were under, Claytons boat passed over them quickly. Then once it was far enough away Tantor popped back up, he used his trunk as a sort of underwater kaleidoscope while Ikail, Guin and Goofy helped keep an eye out. Donald and Dante just were trying their best to catch their breaths

"Oh god... why did you have to stay so long Tantor?" Dante asked taking in as much air as he needed

"Don't be such a drama queen Dante." Donald said with a snicker as Dante grumbled a bit

"Enough with the foolery boys, we got friends to save." Ikail sternly stated as she looked back at the ship, then gently patted the top of Tantor's head "Tantor if you would please?"

"Right!" Tantor responded back, continuing his way towards the ship. Though as he and the others did, the girls along with the rest with them we're dealing with their new living quarters

-Back on the ship-

"AHHH!" Tarzan, Yang and Ruby yelled out ramming against the one of the walls in the large holding cell which turned out to be just a large cage for the gorillas once Clayton had captured them. Though the attempted escape was for naught as Tarzan who was now only wearing his suits under shirt and pants, was flung back while Ruby along with Yang landed on their backs hard. Weiss and Blake quickly helped them up, while also giving them scolding looks

"Stop it, you're only going to hurt yourselves." Weiss sternly said to both Ruby and Yang, as she slapped the back of Ruby's head

"Ow, Weiss!" Ruby whined as she rubbed the back of her head

"Well you know how I am with you, just because we're in a relationship now doesn't mean I'll go easy on you. Besides I only do it because I love." Weiss answered with a small smile, as Ruby smiled back appreciatively

"You gonna scold me to?" Yang asked as Blake smacked her across the face, then kissed her a second later. Yang rubbed her face, laughing a bit "So… yes then, because you hit really hard for just a slap."

"I know, but I love you. So even if I have to smack you sometimes, then just know it's because I always care about you so much and when you do stuff that almost or does gets you hurt. It worries me." Blake explained kindly, though before Yang could respond back Tarzan rammed once again against the wall hard but with no obvious success

"COME ON!" Tarzan yelled out angrily as he continued on trying to ram against the walls

"Tarzan please just…ugh. That man." Weiss stated sighing from her friend's stubbornness before looking back at Huang who was just watching as well out of pure boredom "Huang I just wanted to say thanks you for standing up against Clayton. Didn't know you'd do that."

"Well to be honest I didn't like they guy anyways, besides he was the only one I knew could get me out of that jungle before you girls came along." Huang answered as team RWBY raised an eyebrow and smugly smirked "Enough being little smart asses, anyways if I had to pick between Clayton or you brats. You four are the better and more tolerable option, if barley."

"Thanks for the kind words Huang." Ruby responded back kindly, as she and the girls could tell he was being sincere with what he said and was hiding that he had become fonder of them over the day's

"Eh whatever." Huang replied shrugging a bit as Tarzan rammed very hard against the walls of their large holding cells

"Tarzan it's no use don't." Jane worriedly said as Tarzan kept jumping back, forth and side to side; but with no luck still. Jane got up, quickly making her way over to him as he stopped to catch his breath a bit. But as she got right behind him, he turned around aggressively growling a bit from the frustration of being stuck in the ship; which made her move back away as Tarzan finally began to calm himself down

"Clayton…" Tarzan stated, as that was really the only thing he could say from his slightly still lingering anger

"He betrayed us all Tarzan, ever last one of us and I'm so sorry about that." Jane explained, with an apologetic tone as she knew Clayton wasn't a good man the whole duration of this trip; but she hadn't actually expected him to go this far

"No, this is all my fault. I betrayed my family, Kerchak was right." Tarzan replied back, as he hunched a bit in slight sadness, the girls walked over to him and gently rubbed his back to help conform Tarzan in this time of need

"Those magnificent creatures, shivering in cages. What is the world coming to?!" Professor Archimedes said angrily as he hit his right hand against the wall of the ship he was next hard, though as he did the ship moved over to the far right. This threw the girls the captain, his cremates, Huang, Jane and Tarzan over to his side; before centering itself back fling the group into the center "By Jove, I guess I don't know my own strength."

"Guess so." Yang joked as she, Ruby, Weiss and Blake helped each other up. Jane along with Tarzan meanwhile helped up the captain and his crew mates back up to their feet

"Still what was that?" Jane asked as suddenly the sounds of battle could be heard above them, along with a loud sound of an elephant's trumpet

"Tantor?" The girls asked happily as Tantor's leg crashed through the gate above their holding cell and stopped right over Professor Archimedes head as he was still on the ground

"That sounded like an Elephant." Professor Archimedes stated, as the girls laughed a bit at how right he was even though Tantor was literally right above him

"Tantor!" Tarzan happily said as Tantor moved his head down and making another trumpet noise with is trunk

"Don't forget about us!" Ikail happily stated as she, Dante, Guin, Donald and Goofy looked down the on them to

"Thanks for the save." Blake happily responded back as the other nodded in agreement

"You're welcome, now just stay there and we'll get you out. Tantor mind moving out of the way please?" Dante asked as Tantor took a few moments before being able to get back up from the hole he had created. Dante then turned his attention to Ikail with a smile "Ikail would you kindly?'

"Oh ah s-sure." Ikail responded back blushing a little suddenly as she forced lifted Tarzan, the girls, Jane, her father, Huang, the ship's captain and his crewmates back onto the upper floor of the ship. Though once Ikail placed them down, Terk ran passed the and imminently hugged Tarzan tightly

"I thought I would never see you again!" Terk yelled out tearing up a bit, though she was then pulled off of Tarzan by Tantor's trunk as he lifted her up to his face

"You embarrassment sometimes." Tantor said with a cringed face, while the girls got a quick laughed out of that. Then he placed Terk back down, as team RWBY got serious again

"Alright Ikail, Guin, Donald, Goofy, Dante and even you Huang. You ready to take down that mean old Clayton?" Ruby asked proudly as they all nodded, ready for the battle that was to come while the Captain along with the remainder of his loyal crew had dispersed to see what they could do to start up the ship again; along with seeing if anymore loyal crewmates were hiding in the ship

"We are Ruby, just tell us what we got to do." Goofy asked

"What you got to do is while you all follow me, the girls and Tarzan to the gorilla's nest. See if you all can with Tantor and Treks help, get some of the other animals to aid us." Ruby suggested as she, the girls and Tarzan jumped into the water; then began making their way back to the island

"Well you heard them, let's get a move one." Jane stated as she, Professor Archimedes and Terk were already on Tantor. The others just nodded and made their way onto Tantor as well. Once secured on Tantor's back, the elephant leaped into the water to catch up with the girls and Tarzan. All of them wondering if they would make it time before it was too late and Clayton had capture or done worse to the gorillas

-Meanwhile back in the jungle-

It was later in the night now in the jungle, though unlike most nights where only some creatures roamed around. Tonight for the gorillas it had become quite active as they were trying their best to outrun Clayton and his goons from capturing them; where then they would caged them afterwards.

"Get them all, don't let a single one escape. The more we have, then more of cut of the payment you get!" Clayton yelled out as they had gotten a good amount of the gorillas, but more were still around trying to get away and he couldn't have that; especially since he was going to be pain a fortune for all the gorillas he brought back. He then looked over to Jaune who was acting as his guard of sorts, mainly because Clayton ordered him too "Boy, anything seem out of place?"

"Nope nothing, still wish you could have let me kill those four." Jaune responded back in slight annoyance

"I know Jaune, I know how you feel. I wanted to kill them too, but then I thought that maybe it would help us both gain more favor with Maleficent if we brought them back alive to her. So that she could decide how to get rid of them." Clayton explained as he looked around me to see his men capture more of the gorillas and firing off more flares so that they could see easily in the night

"Yeah I guess so, but I'm still going to ask her if I can kill them once we take them back to her. I've been wanting to for a while now and I already planned to cut their hearts out slowly." Jaune stated as he suddenly heard some commotion, then looked to see the large Gorilla name Kerchak from what he remembered overhearing from the girls when he was still acting like their friend. He looked to see Kerchak was being held down by rope thrown over him from the crew members, who themselves were having a lot of trouble keeping the large angry silver back down "Clayton, I think we got a trouble maker."

"A trouble maker?" Clayton asked as Jaune pointed to Kerchak, which made him smile as he began walking up to Kerchak loading his shotgun up. Kerchak mean kept trying to break free until he saw Clayton and Jaune coming up to him, making Kerchak snarl a bit at the two of them. Clayton meanwhile smiled a little sadistically "I remember you, I would say that you'd be better of stuffed. But I think Maleficent may have use for you, Jaune if you will?"

"Right, time to join our army big guy." Jaune stated with a smug smirk as Ansem from inside his mind chuckled, enjoying the look of uncertainty in Kerchak's face to sudden slight worry as three Monkey heartless appeared above. Though for the shipmates around, it startled them a bit

"Don't worry chaps, they're on our side." Clayton said as he pulled down the hammer of his shotgun and aimed it at Kerchak "Though now that I remember, I want to test out a theory. Mind that you may or may not understand me you dirty animal."

"What's the theory boss?" One of the shipmates asked as Clayton sighed for a moment

"I was getting to that. Anyway, you see I wanted to know if my theory on if it was possible for these heartless to take over a host body is possible and if so; then I wonder if they can also take over the bodies of the dead. So I'm going to shoot you my good gorilla, then see if my theory is right. Either way, if it does then I have something to brag to Praxis about so longs as he didn't find out the answer to this theory first. Though if it doesn't, I can always just stuff you like I had originally planned to." Clayton explained as he pulled the trigger of his gun ever so slightly, taking in the moment of the kill. But before he could fire off a round, as if an angel was watching over the gorillas; help came to them

"ERAHHHHHHHH!" Tarzan, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang who had their keyblades out swung down towards him on vines. They were followed by rest of the group still riding on Tantor's back, with a ton of the jungles inhabits joining in on the attack. Clayton, Jaune and his goons present quickly dodged out of the way to avoid getting trampled on. Clayton though landed by himself on the far left of his previous location

"AHHH!" Clayton screamed in uttered rage as he punched the ground hard from this new development. Meanwhile the girls quickly took out the three-monkey heartless with a four well placed fire spells, Tarzan then quickly ripped the ropes off of Kerchak

"You came back?" Kerchak asked surprised beyond belief

"I came home." Tarzan responded back proudly as Kerchak and Tarzan for a rare moment smiled at one another

"Aw." Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang muttered though was suddenly startled as Kerchak looked at them and charged with a narrow gaze flung his fist towards them. But to their relief, it turned out that Kerchak was actually aiming for a one Clayton's goons that was trying to do a sneak attack on them

"Wow thanks." Blake said kindly, with a wide eyed looked as she kind of regretted calling Kerchak the name she called him a while before

"You're welcome, want to repay me back. Help me keep my family safe." Kerchak responded as he charged at some more of Claytons goons trying to get away from the area

"Well you heard the gorilla girls, lets save Tarzan's family!" Ruby proudly yelled out, though turned her attention to Tarzan who chuckled a bit much to her confusion "What's funny buddy?"

"Because it's not my family." Tarzan explained as he gave the girls a kind smile "It's our family."

"Aw Tarzan!" Ruby joyfully responded back as she and the girls felt honored that Tarzan consider them part of his family. Though the moment yet again was cut short by Dante, coming in from the right as he punched out another of Clayton's goons

"Girls, Tarzan I think the kind words can wait until we are victorious." Dante stated as he quickly pivoted his foot, then used the blunt bone end of his scythe to bash it against another goon's face as the man fell to the ground out cold and in utter pain "These one's are almost as tricky as the heartless."

"No kidding, Tarzan do whatever you can to free the gorillas. Me, the girls and our friends will deal with these fools." Weiss ordered kindly as Tarzan nodded and made his way off quickly to find the other gorillas, with Dante following behind him

"Well now, since we got that covered. Let's get to some butt kicking." Yang remarked happily as she and the girls turned their attention to Clayton's goons still trying to get the gorillas, while others tried running away. But before any of them could make a move, Jaune jumped down from one of the trees ahead of them, quickly got back up and pulled his sword out towards them

"Going somewhere girls?" Jaune asked smirking a bit

- "Don't get prideful, keep your focus on them or else you might end up with some nasty wounds."- Ansem sternly said as Jaune saw the reasoning in it and readied himself to kill team RWBY the quickest way possible. Along with using the few spells Maleficent along with the rest back at the castle had taught him on their spare time

"Get out of the way Jaune, please we don't want to hurt you." Ruby asked with a stern, but kind tone as this sudden betrayal of Jaune's was heartbreak for her and the girls even if they weren't showing it as much

"Hurt me, like you could wench." Jaune responded back as Ruby was surprised by the name he had just called her

"What the heck is up with you Jaune, why are you doing this?" Weiss asked as she was trying her best not to lunge at him and tear the man's throat out for what he had just called her girlfriend; passed friendship be dammed

"Yeah and don't give us the lame excuses Clayton gave us!" Yang asked next, now really wanting to bash Jaune's teeth in if it meant getting her friends sense back to him while Blake stayed quiet glaring daggers at Jaune – "I don't want to have to explain to Pyrrha why Jaune's missing a few teeth when we get her, Nora and Ren back. So come Jaune, get your head straighten back on."-

"What excuse, Clayton was telling the truth and that' all there is to it. I've learn much, seen so much and now know much more than any of you. I even know your true personalities that I was to blind to see in the first place. But here let me show you a taste of want I know." Jaune answered with a smug tone as his sword suddenly began to be shrouded with darkness for a moment "DARK SHOT!"

"DODGE!" Ruby screamed out as she and Weiss dodged to the right. While Yang and Blake dodged to the left, all of then narrowly avoiding getting hit by a large triple arrow shaped shots of darkness that passed by them before disappearing into thin air seconds later

"Damn, I guess have to work on that." Jaune muttered angrily, but then by instinct dodged a fire spell shot from Ruby as she and the girls had gotten back up quickly with their keyblades ready at hand while also looking a bit more angry

"Jaune this is your last warning, as you're friends we don't want to hurt you. But if we have to then we will, so please if you can come to your senses then do so right now. Because I don't want to have to tell Pyrrha on how you're acting, because you're acting like a scum bag right now; not a father to be." Blake sternly said as she along with Ruby, Weiss and Yang waited to see what he was going to do

"What's it's going to be Jaune?" Ruby asked in a rare calming raged tone as Jaune actually hadn't expected them to have dodged his attack and now was starting to try to figure on what to do. Since he hadn't planned that far ahead when it came to battling team RWBY, but only on the ways to kill them

"Even though you may hate hearing this, but despite your training so far that you've been zealously learning. This place isn't the best to commence your dual with these four, but I can tell you sooner or later you will be able to kill them. So I suggested you do tactical retreat back to the castle and leave that Clayton fool to deal with this himself, besides he's sealed his fate already I can just tell." Ansem suggested as Jaune really did hate his suggestion, but as much as he hated to admit it. He also saw the sound reasoning behind it, so with a slight scowl he began backing up

"Hey where do you think you going?!" Yang yelled out angrily as she and the girls moved closer to him, while Jaune moved back a little

"I'm going away that's what girls, but don't worry…" Jaune answered as he fired a dark shot spell straight through one of the smaller trees next to him, which made it fall over to the ground in between the girls and him as Jaune himself was making a run for it "I'll find you girls again and when I do you're as good as dead!"

"JAUNE GET BACK HERE!" Yang yelled out, but was quickly stopped by Weiss "Weiss what are you doing?"

"I know you want to chase after him Yang, I do too but right now we have to help with the matters here." Weiss explained sternly as Yang took a few moments to think it through, before taking a deep breath

"You're right, we got to help the gorillas here." Yang stated, though suddenly caught the sight of Kala being taken away by two of Claytons goons in a cage as she freaked out looking for help of any kind "CRAP KALA!'

"Oh no we got to help her!" Ruby yelled out as she and the girls quickly ran towards Kala

But as they were inches away with both goons, suddenly Jane came in swinging down from a vine and kicking one of the goons in the face as she landed on an elevated branch. The second goon then let the cage down where it fell to its side, said goon then moved towards Jane only to stop to as he heard growl and looked to see a whole lot of baboons snarling at him. While a brown furred baby baboon holding what seemed to be Jane's umbrella and one of her boots on top of its head. The baby baboon then did a cute sounding war cry as the older adult baboons charged at the unfortunate goon, as the terrified man quickly ran away in fear. The baby baboon then landed on Jane's shoulder giving her a friendly kiss on the cheek before following the other baboons. Though as Jane chuckled a bit, the goon she had knocked out woke up and was about to attack Jane. But before he could, he got a tap on the shoulder as he looked only to be knocked out once more by a solid punch to the face from Huang of all people.

"That was easier than I expected." Huang calmly said as he cracked his knuckles. Jane gave him an appreciative smile and while this had happened in such a quick succession; team RWBY looked at the scene wide eyed a little

"Did…that just happen?" Yang asked, though was pretty proud of Jane for taking the initiative with her little ambush on the two goons

"Yeah, I think it did Yang." Weiss responded back as she was surprised how helpful Huang was being for their side of the battle – "Maybe the man isn't as crude as I had originally thought, blunt and grumpy yes. But at least he seems reliable when needed, still I'm not really that regretful for hurting him after he swatted my little Ruby's adorable nose. Then again, I guess I'd probably get that way with anyone who'd hurt Ruby."-

"Those we're a lot of baboons." Blake remarked as she wondered if that man was going to be ripped to shreds once the baboons caught up to him, though she knew it wouldn't be a pretty outcome either way

"Yep, now let's help Jane get Kala out." Ruby stated as she and the girls made their way over Jane who was trying to find a way to open the cage, while Huang was inspected the out cold goon to find a key or something "Hey need a little help Jane?"

"Yes please." Jane responded back, as she moved away from the cage to see how the girls were going to help as Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang aimed their keyblades right at the cage

"Don't worry Kala, just stay still and you'll be out soon." Blake said with a reassuring smile as they fire a few blizzard spells at the bars which now were frozen solid

"Good job girls, now let's finish the job!" Ruby yelled out happily as she and the girls lightly bashed the frozen bars which shattered into many small pieces of ice "Kala are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thank you girls." Kala answered back kindly as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jane and even Huang began helping out Kala. Though she was heavier than she looked as even with all their strength, they were having a hard time lifting her out

"No offense Kala, but you're heavier than you thought." Yang said as she was trying to use all her strength to lift Kala up, but she then noticed that bottom of the cage also had been frozen by accident around where the bars had been. This was what was making it harder from them, since Kala was slipping on the slightly frozen metal while trying to get out of the knocked over cage "Really?"

"Seems like it hun." Blake answered as she, Ruby and Weiss had taken notice of that as well. Thankfully though by this point Tarzan and Guin had arrived to help

"We got you mom." Tarzan stated pulling up Kala, though even with his added in strength it was only a minimum change. But finally Guin helped out as he easily lifted up Kala and even the others up, then placed them back down gently

"Wow, strong fellow." Huang remarked as he, Jane and the girls got back up. While Tarzan helped Kala back up, then gave her a quick hug of relief

"Thanks Guin, you're a life saver." Ruby joyfully said as Guin nodded, but then screamed a bit in utter pain as a bullet went straight through his right bicep

"Ah!" Guin yelled out as he clench the sudden and painful mood

"GUIN!" The girls yelled out in sudden shock as they ran up to him, checking to see how bad his arm was

"Holy crap, where's Donald. DONALD?" Yang screamed out, but then stopped as she along with the others looked to see Clayton glaring at them

"You know any other normal man would have had his arm blow clean off from that, but I guess a shot to the head would be better fitted to kill you masked man." Clayton smugly said as he quick aimed his rifle straight back at Guin's head

"NO!" Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang screamed out as they were about to activate their keyblades gun forms to shoot Clayton's gun and arms if needed. But before they could do so, Kerchak dashed passed them

"RAWR!" Kerchak roared out as he was closing in on Clayton extremely fast, though Clayton in a sudden fit of panic shoot a round hitting Kerchak straight in the heart as he fell over "UGH!"

"No…" Ruby muttered as she, Weiss, Blake and Yang saw the Tarzan looking at the now mortally wounded Kerchak. Even though they weren't so fond of Kerchak because of how he'd been behaving with them, they didn't hate him either as they could see his side as well even if it meant some intense xenophobia towards them. The girls though got mad as they could see Tarzan getting angry himself, they could see the pain in his eyes and that transferred to them

"NO!" Tarzan screamed out he, along with the girls charged at him with Tarzan only for them to be pushed back hard onto the ground suddenly by an invisible force

"What's going on here?" Ikail asked as she, Donald, Goofy and Dante came in now; having been able to free the rest of the gorillas. Though the Professor, Terk and Tantor were making sure just in case they missed a gorilla or two

"And what happen to you Guin?" Goofy asked next as he and Donald knelt down to Guin who was still clenching his wound, Donald did a quick heal spell which helped a bit while Goofy was looking around in his pockets to see if he had anything to help. While Goofy did that, Donald then took notice of Kerchak; doing a heal spell on him as well then examined his wound some more to see if he could do anything to stabilize him

"Clayton shot Guin, then he shot Kerchak as you can see." Yang responded back as she, the girls and Tarzan got back up

"Speaking of him, could Clayton levitate before?" Dante asked as he and Ikail had their weapons ready, staring at Clayton

"What, why would… ask… that…oh." Weiss replied back as she, along with everyone else noticed Clayton smirking at them while standing straight up a few feet up in air like it was nothing

"How in the world…" Blake asked, wondering how that was possible since Clayton seemed like any normal human with no powers one bit

"How you're asking, well that's an interesting story to tell. You see my acquaintance I spoke of earlier sent me a unique heartless of hers for me to use. Now at first I admired the beast, but then day's after I found a creature that was in pain, on the brink of death. I could have killed it, but I decided to heal it out of rare sense of curiosity. Once the creature was healed, it became attached to me; though that might be because of the similar form of darkness that laid dormant in me. So seeing as my new creature was so much more interesting, I got it to kill the heartless Maleficent had sent me. Then in the most miraculous feat of sudden evolution, my new beast actually absorbed the abilities of the dead heartless. It was spectacular to see and now you can meet my little friend, though he's… not so little as I call him." Clayton explained with a smirk, much to the others confusion even team RWBY's

"Okay what?" Ruby asked as she and the girls and the others readied themselves for whatever this beast was, which showed itself seconds later as it decloaked "Oh, I see now…"

Said creature was a very large gorilla with such a muscular build that some of its flesh ripped at certain areas of its body, showing off the pitch-black muscle underneath. It had white bone like armor all around it's body, with wisps of darkness coming off its skin like phantom like blades. It had a bone white mask, with sharp points at the ends and purple markings through the center. The girls at first thought this was some sort of twisted heartless as ironic as that sounded. But once they got a good look at it, they could see it was a Grimm or more simply a Beringel with the blood red eye that stared back at them with hatred and a want to kill them.

"Warlord Primal…." The voice from their dreams whispered in their minds

"Another Grimm, COME ON!" Yang screamed out in uttered annoyance as Clayton laughed hysterically, as only for a split second a dark aura covered his body before disappeared moments later

"MEET YOU'RE DOOM LADIES, MEET IT AND DIE LIKE THE VERMIN YOU ARE!" Clayton screamed out laughing even more hysterically

"GRRAAHH!" Warlord Primal roared as he slammed his arms extremely hard against the ground, sending a shock wave that pushed the group other than Ikail, Goofy, the girls and Tarzan back a few feet. Then as the shock wave seemed to stop moving, it suddenly retracted back to Warlord Primal; while forming a barrier around it, the girls, Ikail, Goofy and Tarzan

"For real, okay this is just getting ridiculous now!" Yang yelled out once more as, she, Ruby, Weiss, Ikail and Goofy readied their weapons for battle

"Donald, can you and the rest try to make your way to safer place?" Ruby asked quickly

"Sure can, just stay safe or I ain't gonna use my heal spell on any of you. So you can learn a lesson on how to stay safer." Donald responded back as he helped a standing, but also wobbling Guin who was helping a still mortally wounded Kerchak despite his own wounds. While Jane and Huang helped Kala off, with Dante following behind them slashing up monkey heartless that were now taking advantage of their situation

"We will." Ruby muttered with a small smile, while hoping that he and the rest got away safely from the heartless. Then she turned her attention back to Clayton, who was waiting for them to make the first move

"What's wrong, scared of us?" Yang asked with a smirk as Clayton chuckled

"No my dear blonde moron, just waiting for the reinforcements is all." Clayton answered as a group of nine monkey heartless appeared in front of him and Warlord Primal "Now please die with some dignity, I want to enjoy seeing you die."

"We aren't going to die Clayton. CHARGE!" Ruby yelled out as she, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Ikail and Goofy ran straight towards him. Though the girls took one of each of their summons gems out, to use as extra back up in this battle

"JUNGLE HUNTER!" Ruby yelled out as he summoned gem glowed

"ANNIE!" Yang yelled out next as her summoned gem glowed too, becoming brighter by the second

"ZILLA!" Blake yelled now, as the summons were almost out

"MEDABEE!" Weiss yelled last as the girls four secondary acquired summons appeared next to their respective summoner. Then the girls with Ikail, Tarzan and their summons clashed with the Clayton's forces

As the battle commenced, Annie immediately began firing off a barrage of fire balls at the monkey heartless making them scatter as Yang fired off fire spells. Though the monkey heartless were quicker than usual, making it harder to land precise shots and more of slight hits; making any monkey heartless skid a bit before continuing to run around the area. Blake and Zilla meanwhile were chasing around the heartless. Blake firing off a few blizzard spells from her keyblades gun form, while Zilla was trying to catch some of the Monkey heartless to kill and help out one of her mama's in this battle. Ikail, Tarzan and Goofy also help out with the heartless too. All three, stabbing and bashing any Monkey heartless in their range of attack. Ruby, Weiss, Jungle Hunter and Medabee themselves decided to deal with Warlord Primal along with dodging Clayton shooting at them with his gun. Warlord Primal was doing it's best to push back the girls and the others, swing it's arms around wildly in a blind rage as dark waves flung out after each attack. This only added to the difficulty of the battle, as everyone in the area had to dodge to the best to their abilities.

"Keep at it, this thing can't last for too long!" Ruby yelled out as she dodged another bullet from "Oh you are so going to get it!"

"Try it as you will brat, your deaths with be soon!" Clayton responded back, as he barley dodged a javelin being thrown by Jungle hunter

"RAWR!" Jungle hunter roared as he then did a high jumped and landed onto Warlord Primal's right arm. Where he then activated his wrist blades and started to jab them repeatedly into Warlord Primal arms. Thus made the large Grimm screeched in utter pain as it tried to fling off Jungle Hunter, while still trying to get rid of Ruby who was attacking his legs as Medabee and Weiss were now doing ranged attacks on Warlord Primal

"Take this gorilla freak!" Medabee yelled firing off a barrage of bullets at Warlord Primal's chest, then looked back too Weiss who was firing off thunder spells as best as she could without hitting Ruby or Jungle Hunter "Weiss, can you please try another command or something!?"

"Like what, I've only summoned you two times and one of those times was so you could relax!" Weiss responded back as she fired off another thunder spell which did hit Clayton on the left shoulder, making him shoot off a round into a nearby tree away from Jungle Hunter; who he had tried shooting

"The Metal man is like a little angry beetle." Annie joked as she threw fire balls into two of the monkey heartless, taking them out "Yay I got two!"

"Good job kiddo." Yang replied kindly as she quickly slashed her keyblade at a monkey heartless that had gotten behind Annie and was about to attack her, turning it into black smoke

"Thanks Yang!" Annie joyfully stated with a wide smile as Yang smiled back, appreciating her young summons positive attitude despite their current situation

Then suddenly Zilla appeared in front of them, ramming one Monkey heartless into the barrier around them hard as it turned into black smoke. Then quickly turned around, clawing another monkey heartless until it turned into black smoke as well. Blake came in seconds later, firing off a few rounds with her keyblades gun form taking out the last five Monkey heartless with head shots; before reverting back to her regular keyblade form.

"That was amazing kitten!" Yang said happily, with love struck eyes as Blake smile. But before anymore words could said, an extremely annoyed Clayton cut in

"That is it, I've had to deal with you brats and your irritating friends for almost two weeks now. I've had to deal with your insults, your constant interference in my plans which you ruined. SO JUST DIE!" Clayton yelled out as he was about to shoot at the group, along with Warlord Primal about to charge up another shockwave slam. But before that could happen, suddenly a large blast of blue plasma energy shot off and starting through Warlord Primal's chest leaving a large gaping hole "What in the world?"

"Been charging that one up since the battle started, you smug bastard!" Jungle Hunter yelled out as his shoulder mounted cannon was emitting extreme heat around the barrel before it collapsed back into it's concealed form

"Wow." Medabee and Annie muttered in utter amazement of the attack, along with the girls who were wide eyed at how powerful Jungle hunter's weapons could be. Though at the same time Warlord Primal had black blood pouring from its mouth as it's body began to fall back

"NO, NO, NO!" Clayton yelled out angrily as he jumped from Warlord Primal's back landing in front of the creature's body as it landed hard on the ground. It's body then began to dissolve with black smoke coming off it, before the body and the barrier finally disappeared from existence. Clayton meanwhile got back up on his feet, cracking his neck from a moment before feeling four separate pieces of metal push against his throat

"Feeling better now Clayton?" Weiss asked angrily as she and the girls had their keyblades pushed against his throat. While Goofy, Ikail, Tarzan and the summons glared at him; ready to attack if needed again

"You brats just had to get in the way, didn't you?" Clayton asked back, scowling at team RWBY

"Yes, we did and we all took immense joy in doing so." Ruby answered with a proud smile "You've lost Clayton, there's nothing else you can do now. So I suggested you get on your boat and leave this place alone for good."

"What makes you think I'll listen." Clayton asked with a defiant tone, but got his answer as Jungle hunter aimed his still cooling down cannon at him with the dotted triangular shaped red target appearing on his forehead

"Grrr…" Jungle hunter growled as even without his translator, it was clear Jungle Hunter would kill him right here and now with no hesitation

"Jungle Hunter." Ruby sternly said as she appreciated her summons efforts to help with their warning to Clayton, but didn't care that he was planning on killing him. Jungle Hunter turned his attention to Ruby for a few moments before collapsing his canon, knowing that it would cause more trouble for him if he did kill Clayton

"Thank you." Weiss said with a kind, but stern tone herself as she and Ruby turned their attention back to Clayton "Just give it Clayton, you've lost."

"No...no I HAVEN'T!" Clayton screamed out in utter rage as another, but smaller shock wave blasted from Clayton himself. This sent Ikail, Goofy and the summons away into some of the trees hard as they all fell to the ground out cold. The girls and Tarzan meanwhile were able to keep their footing, then once they looked back up at Clayton; they saw he had booked it into the denser areas of the jungle

"Quickly, before he gets away!" Tarzan yelled out, quickly following where Clayton had gone off too

"Tarzan wait!" Blake yelled out so she, Tarzan and the girls could make a plan. But he was already too far way

"Geez, well come on gals lets back him up." Yang said sighing as she and the girls followed behind Tarzan. Though as they went further down the same path Clayton and Tarzan had, it turned out that their tracks suddenly disappeared

"Wait what, where could they be?" Weiss asked as suddenly the sounds of gun fire echoed and saw the hanging vines, branches of trees rustles while it also began to rain suddenly with thunder starting up as well

"I think that's where they are sweetie." Ruby answered as she frowned "Great we got to do more climbing and during a thunder storm of all things."

"Trust us, we're not happy either about this too." Blake responded back as another gunshot echoed, though something else came to her mind "Hey you think the others are okay?"

"I'm sure they are Blake, but right now we need to get climbing!" Weiss answered with a proud tone, but sighed and slumped her head seconds later "Still… I hope this sort of climbing doesn't become a constant thing in the other worlds."

"Same..." Yang and Blake responded back, worried at that possible fact too

"BOOM, BOOM!" Two gunshots echoed this time, as it seemed Clayton was getting increasingly aggrieve with his attack towards Tarzan

"Okay enough chit chat, we got to move now!" Ruby stated as she and the girls began to climb up the tall trees as quickly as they could. It took three minutes or so, but that was only because of their increasing worry for Tarzan since the gunshots were becoming louder and more frequent ever second. Once they finally made it up onto one of the thicker branches in the trees, they couldn't see any sight of Clayton or Tarzan even with the gunshots echoing constantly

"Where couldn't he be?" Weiss asked worriedly looking around the area, only to see nothing. Meanwhile Blake's cat ears were wincing from the painful from under her bow, which didn't go unnoticed by the others

"Blake are you okay?" Ruby asked this time, frowning a bit

"Yeah, yeah I am. Just worried is all." Blake answered with the best reassuring smile she could give, while Yang knew the real reason why she was in pain

"Okay then, if-" Ruby responded back, but was cut off as a bullet from Clayton's gun blasted passed her face and into the wood of the tree behind her. The girls quickly moved around the tree to another branch, despite the gap between said branches

"Sweet mother of-" Yang started to yell out, but was cut off by Tarzan who landed quietly in front of her and the girls covering her mouth with his hand

"Shhh." Tarzan whispered, removing his hand from over Yang's mouth as more gunfire echoed; but not as fast as it was before

"Right sorry." Yang responded back, then noticed his right arm had been grazed a bit "Hey dude your arm, are you okay?"

"Yeah, oh my gosh Tarzan that looks bad even for a graze shot." Ruby whispered worriedly as she, Weiss and Blake now took notice of his wounds as well

"I'm find girls but we need to-" Tarzan responded back, but was interrupted for a few seconds by another shot echoing through the area "But we need to get to Clayton without getting spotted."

"Okay but how?" Weiss asked, knowing that Clayton in his current state of mind with his gun wasn't something they'd want to face in close parameters. Though as they began thinking over a quick plan, Clayton meanwhile was looking for them

"Oh ladies, I know you're here too. You know I've never had the chance to hunt actual human prey, especially children like you four but…" Clayton said with a slightly cracking tone and sadistic smile. As the dark aura around him also was slightly becoming visible, while he loaded up his gun again and thunder sparked in the sky for a moment "There's always a first for everything."

As Clayton was moving from one branch to another, looking for the girls and Tarzan; little did he know that they had already devised a plan. The girls hid behind four separate trees while Tarzan had quickly moved to another, almost being seen by Clayton but was quick enough that the man didn't take notice. Once in position, Tarzan quickly knocked against the tree bark with enough force that Clayton wouldn't take notice of it; but that the girls would. Thankfully for Tarzan he received four similar noise from the girls, then he instigated their plan.

"HEY!" Tarzan yelled out, then quickly moved to another tree as Clayton shot at the tree he had been at. The girls then took their part in the plan, smirking at how fun this was going to be

"NO HERE!" Yang yelled out first, loudly and in mocking tone as she moved quickly avoiding Clayton's gunshots

"OVER HERE NOW!" Weiss yelled out next, as she nearly dodged a round from Clayton's gun, quickly moving onto another nearby tree sighing in relief

"TO SLOW!" Blake yelled this time, moving to another tree quickly even before Clayton shot off a round at where she had been at

"YOU HAVE HORRIBLE AIM MEANY!" Ruby yelled out last as she dodged two simultaneous rounds that almost grazed her legs, as she made it behind a tree to her left

"How dare you toy with me brats. I'm the hunter here not you, you're my prey!" Clayton yelled out in boiling rage as the girls and Tarzan kept on mocking him. Making him shoot repeatedly as sometimes their mocking sounded further, sometimes closer and at some points right behind him. He kept firing continuously as Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang started to even mockingly laugh at him. The weather wasn't helping with his darkening mood either as his temper was starting to flare up to a point he hadn't experienced yet, which in turn made the dark aura around him grow a little more

"COME ON CLAYTON, I THOUGHT YOU WE'RE A PROUD HUNTER!" Ruby screamed at the top of her lungs as she and the girls were now hiding behind a tree that was right in Claytons field of vision

"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU BRATS!" Clayton as sudden his instincts were telling him that the girls were behind the tree in front of him, so he pulled his shotgun out and loaded two more rounds; but unlike his other rounds. These two rounds were shrouded in darkness and as Clayton aimed his gun at the tree the girls were behind, he slowly pulled the trigger back as the inside of the barrels began glowing brighter by the second. Clayton then started to smile sadistically, taking in every second of joy until he saw team RWBY's probably painful demise "So long brats."

"CLAYTON!" Tarzan screamed suddenly as Clayton quickly turned his attention to his left to see Tarzan quickly climbed up on the same branch he was on. Before he could fire off a round, Tarzan quickly grabbed his gun taking it way and then bashing him across his face. Clayton then fell on his butt, while his back was pushed against the trees trunk. Clayton rubbed his head from the attack, but only to notice Tarzan aiming his gun right in his face; though seemed hesitant to finishing him off which made Clayton smirk in amusement a bit "Come on then, shoot me. Like a man."

"Wait Tarzan no!" The girls yelled out suddenly to stop Tarzan from shooting Clayton. Even if they didn't like the man one bit, they didn't want him to die either and they especially didn't want Tarzan to be the one to kill him

"BOOM!" The echo of the gun blast went off as the girls flinched for just a moment, then they looked to see Tarzan hadn't actually shoot the gun; but instead had made a dead on mimicking noise of the gun going off

"Wow, nice mimicry." Weiss stated quietly as the girls nodded in agreement, while continuing to watch the scene in front of them unfold

"I'm not a man… NOT A MAN LIKE YOU!" Tarzan yelled out angrily, bashing his gun down against the tree branch as it broke into many pieces

"Foolish Savage." Clayton muttered smugly as he used the growing darkness inside of him to quickly summon two darkness made arms, tripping Tarzan who hit his head against the branch knocking him out cold while falling back down to the ground

"TARZAN!" Ruby yelled out as she and the girls looked on in fear for Tarzan, but they were suddenly pushed back against the tree they were on by the same dark hands as Clayton. But the darkness made hands disappeared second later, letting the girls get their keyblades out to fight; though before that could happen Clayton had made his way onto the same branch they were on. He then very quickly pulled out is machete as he swung it down towards the girls who all blocked it with their keyblades. Though the growing darkness inside Clayton enhanced his strength tenfold, as team RWBY was having a hard time pushing him back

"Oh I'm sure he's fine ladies, but I'll take care of him and the rest of your little friends after I'm done with you." Clayton sadistically said as he pushed his machete against the girls keyblades a bit more, created some sparks from how intense their battle of strength was getting "Once I kill you brats, I'll leave your bodies to rot and be eaten by the maggots and do the same with your friends. I AM GOING TO TAKE GREAT PLEASURE SEEING YOU FOUR DIE BY MY HANDS!"

"No…" Ruby and Weiss responded back with a sudden sharpened tone, while their eyes narrowed into a rage filled glare

"You…" Blake and Yang responded back next. As they along with Weiss and Ruby began to push Clayton back, much to his slight surprise

"WON'T!" Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang screamed out as they used all their strength to push Clayton back off of them

The attacked worked and as Clayton quickly passed through the pain, he then readied his machete once more for another attack. But before that could happen, he suddenly felt an extremely sharp pain in his stomach. Clayton looked down too see that girls keyblades in their spear forms were jabbed deep into his stomach, the girls then pulled the spears out as they stabbed once more. Clayton only could silently scream in pain as blood began to pour from his mouth a little, but the girls weren't done yet as they kicked Clayton hard in the chest with darkness enhanced kicks. The kicks made Clayton drop his Machete and he was flung off the branch straight into a large heap of hanging vines with one of the vines wrapping around his neck.

"W-W-What… just… happened. Those brats, those annoying brats… no mater though. I'll get back up from here and kill… kill…" Clayton muttered to himself, but stopped as to his horror he looked up to see team RWBY glaring back down at him. But what he took notice of was that the dark aura was slightly still around their bodies, the pupils in their eyes slit a bit giving off a predatory look and they we're smiling with blood thirsty grins

"Bye, bye Clayton." Ruby said in a very uncharacteristic tone of joy and sadistic happiness as she, Weiss, Blake and Yang threw their keyblades at the vines which cut a few of them. Then as the keyblades came back it cut the rest of the vines expect the one that was wrapped around Claytons neck as the he began falling downwards

"AHHHHH!" Clayton screamed out as he fell faster and faster down the trees. His life flashing before his eyes, his dreams for the rest of his life now put to an end, his fear taking over as the darkness inside of him disappeared. But as Clayton was inches away from the ground, the vine around his neck reach it end stopping abruptly though didn't break. What came next was that Claytons screaming stopped, though was accompanied seconds later by the sounds of his neck bones breaking. As this happened, the girls watched from above seeing the whole event take place, still smiling sadistically at his death. But moment after, as the dark auras disappeared from around their bodies and their eyes reverting back to normal; the sudden realization of what they had done came to them in full force

"Oh god…what… what did we just do…" Ruby stated in utter horror as she felt sick to her stomach, falling to her knees while her hands shook a bit; along with her and the girls unsummoning their keyblades

"We…we didn't do that. We weren't right in mind. So, so it wasn't our fault." Blake replied back, as she was outright refusing to even believe they had just sent a man to his death

"Yeah… yeah you're right Blake." Yang said, wanting to believe her girlfriends explanation while trying to calm herself down from throwing up

"Either way we'll deal with it later. We still have a job to do and friends to help out if their injured." Weiss stated as she knew her little Ruby was very effected by stuff like this. In all honesty she was having a hard time keeping it together, but she had too if it meant helping keep their minds on the more important matters at hand. She gently helped Ruby back up and gave her an understanding smile and a quick kiss on the lips "Ruby my love, you understand what I'm saying right. Please tell you do because we need to keep it together?"

"Yeah…yeah I do." Ruby responded, smiling a little as she stroked Weiss right cheek as a way of saying thank you. This made Weiss smile back, feeling good about helping with her girlfriend's understandable mood. Though the sweet moment was cut short as Jane suddenly shout out to them

"Girls, girls are you still up there and are you okay!" Jane yelled as the girls looked down to see Tarzan, Jane, Ikail, Dante and Jungle Hunter waiting for them down right next to Claytons hung dead body

"We are, we're coming down!" Blake answered as she and the girls quickly, though carefully made their way down. Once down they made their way up next to the others, who were looking at Claytons still hung body

"Girls what happened, how did it come to…this?" Ikail asked as she and Dante only turned their attention towards the girls, knowing for a fact they had something to do with Claytons death. The stab marks were indication enough, since the girls had showed them their keyblades spear forms; which from the wounds around Claytons stomach match in size of the spear tips. Jane and Tarzan meanwhile were still looking at the dead body in shock. Though Jungle hunter felt nothing, as other thoughts were coming to his mind

"He… he did it to himself." Weiss answered shyly

"How though, if you don't mind me asking." Dante asked, raising an eyebrow at her story though understood that the girls weren't still use to this stuff one bit and he hoped it stayed that way

"Well um…" Weiss tried to explain, but couldn't come up with anything. Thankfully Blake answered for her, with her own quickly thought up story

"We were fighting Clayton up in the trees, he got was cornered by Tarzan who destroyed his gun. Though Clayton knocked Tarzan off back down to here. Then Clayton tried killing us with his Machete, but we pushed him off into the vines. Clayton got angry as he then began cutting the vines which from how fast he was going at, caused the man to accident stab himself a few times. Then once he actually cut most of the vines… he started falling down with one vine still wrapped around his neck, which snapped and lead to this." Blake answered, trying to hold down the sickening feeling in her stomach that was rising up

"I see." Dante replied back, as he and Ikail looked to each other knowing the girls were lying. Though they could tell they weren't lying out of ill intent, but more of trying to keep down a truth they didn't want to face at all and pretend it didn't happen. Though before he or Ikail could ask more questions, Jane began moving Tarzan away to probably where Kerchak was

"Right, Kerchak got shot." Yang said as she had a feeling what the condition on him was "Girls I think Tarzan is gonna need us for some support."

"Yes I believe he will, let's not keep too long." Ikail replied as she began following Tarzan and Jane. Then the others did so as well, though Ruby followed last but stopped when she saw Jungle Hunter cutting down Claytons dead body which fell into his arms

"What are you doing Jungle Hunter?" Ruby asked sternly, but also with a friendly tone as Jungle hunter looked back at her

"I'm going to put the body somewhere where it can rot like the scum he was." Jungle hunter answered as Ruby narrowed her eyes a bit at him "What?"

"Nothing, just don't stay out here alone for too long okay. I'd rather not have one of my friends get mauled by some crazy animal in this place." Ruby said kindly with a weak smile as she continued following the others, though once she was out of sight Jungle hunter moved behind a tree; then placed Claytons body down

"She may not have wanted to kill you and seems to not be fond of killing. But you were barley a worthy kill, so I might as well take your skull as my trophy to signify her kill. Maybe one day she'll accept your skull as her rightful trophy, but for now I'll hold onto it for her until that day possibly will come." Jungle Hunter said calmly as he cracked his knuckles and readied himself along with getting out some of his basic needed equipment to make Claytons skull a trophy. He then activated his wrist blades and began cutting into Claytons flesh. Jungle Hunter was sure that this would be one of many kills his summoner would claim for her own. Even if she didn't mean to kill whoever she may have and with each kill she refused to accept she did, he'd take their skulls to give her once Ruby in his eyes grew a bit more of a spin

-Three minutes later with the gorillas hiding spot-

It only took the group five minutes of traversing through the jungle, before they made it to where Kerchak and the rest of the gorillas were. The girls took notice that the other summons waited by the side lines with Professor Archimedes Terk, Tantor, Kala, Goofy, Huang and a mostly healed up Guin; while Donald was doing his best to keep Kerchak alive long enough for him to have a talk with Tarzan. As the girls, Jane and Tarzan got closer; Kala took notice of them. She walked up to them motioning Tarzan to follow her. The girls and Jane then made their way too the others to see what would happen now, though their guts were telling them it wasn't going to be a happy moment but a bitter sweet one.

"T…Tarzan…" Kerchak muttered as he looked to see Tarzan walked up to him, who frowned at seeing him in this state while Donald moved back to the group to give Tarzan this time to talk with him

"Kerchak, forgive me." Tarzan said with a sadden tone as he placed his hands on Kerchak's left arm

"No… forgive me for not understanding. You have always been one of us and our family will look to you now." Kerchak replied, as he was staring to have a hard time keeping awake

"No Kerchak." Tarzan said as his heart dropped, knowing that Kerchak's times was coming very soon. Meanwhile the others watched in silence, though Annie was sniffling a bit

"The gorilla is gonna die, isn't he Yang?" Annie asked quietly as Yang gently patted the top of her head, while trying not to tear up herself since she and Ruby knew how losing a family member was like

"Yeah kiddo, he is." Yang answered as she let Annie cry a bit, since she could tell despite all the combat experience the little girl had showed; she was still just a child who still had the mid set of a child

"Man, this blows." Medabee remarked angrily as Weiss gave him an understanding frown

"I know, but sometimes things like this happen." Weiss responded back as she could tell Medabee had never experience seeing someone die. She had, but when she was younger and had to go to funerals for family and friends who were killed one way or another

"That's the sad truth really." Blake said as she agreed with Weiss on that statement, while petting Zilla's head as she could see that her summon was smart enough to tell what was happening "It's okay girl."

"Shame." Huang simply muttered as he tipped his hat respectfully

"I just hope this doesn't hurt Tarzan to deeply. I know how that can be." Ruby muttered also as this was bringing back bad memories from how it was when her and Yang's mother died. Though her mother died out in the field, Ruby remembers how crushed she felt; how much she found everything after that meaningless and how much she just wanted to die. Yang was honestly the only reason she's got through it and for that she'd never be able to repay Yang back for what she did for her. But Ruby, the girls and the others continued watching the scene at hand as they saw Kerchak starting to breath much slower

"Take care of them…my… my son." Kerchak said as he placed his right hand on Tarzan's shoulder, Tarzan took his hand and hugged it with both of his as Kerchak tried to say one more thing. But he couldn't as he took his last deep breath and took his last glimpse at the family he had for all these years. Then he finally closed his eyes for good, as Tarzan took a few moments to realize Kerchak had passed and with that he let Kerchak's hand go as it fell limp on the ground with nothing but silence taking place. Tarzan held back his tears, hugging Kerchak's body close to his as a form of grief and a final goodbye to his father

"Oh Tarzan…" Ruby muttered as she teared up a bit. Thankfully she got a supportive pat on her shoulders from the girls, who were tearing up a little too. Though Tarzan looked around him, to see the gorillas looking too him now. So Tarzan gently placed Kerchak's body back down and slowly moved to a slightly higher hill side giving off the look of a strong new leader. The gorillas along with the others looked at him, as he turned his body towards his band and simply pounded his chest before starting his way back to the nest. The rest of the gorillas along with Terk and even Tantor despite not being a gorilla followed soon enough as well. Jane tried to follow, but was stopped by her father who nodded his head no as a way of telling her to let him be for tonight

"So, I guess we'll ask Tarzan later on in the morning about the keyhole?" Donald asked

"Yes we will, it's best to let Tarzan to mourn for this night in his own way." Blake answered as she looked back at Jane and her father "You think we'd be able to set up tent for the tonight, so we can talk to Tarzan tomorrow in the early morning?"

"Yes, besides I think the captain will have to take a few hours to get the ship fully running again with the small crew he probably has." Jane answered frowning a bit

"And so you can leave then right?" Medabee asked crossing his arms, but got a slight slap on the back of his head from Weiss

"Medabee be nice, it's rude the way you're acting towards Jane." Weiss sternly said as Medabee rubbed the back of his head

"Ow, that hurt even for me being made out of metal." Medabee muttered annoyingly as Weiss sighed a bit

"Sorry about that Jane, but are you sure you want to… you know leave?" Weiss asked, while Jane frowned

"We have to, looks let's just get back to the camp sight and get the tents sent back up." Jane suggested as she and her father began making their way to their old camp site with Huang, Dante, Guin, Ikail, Goofy and Donald following behind moments later. Weiss, Blake and yang then called their summons back into their gems, while waiting with Ruby who was waiting for Jungle Hunter so she could unsummon him back into his gem

"It's weird." Ruby stated as the girls gave her a raised eyebrow

"What is dear?" Weiss asked as she noticed Ruby still staring at Kerchak's dead body

"Yeah what's is it?" Blake asked next, as she and Yang looked to one another worried about Ruby's mood currently

"It's just seeing Kerchak like this…. dead I mean, after we only saw him only a while ago alive and grumpy." Ruby explained as she took a deep shuttering breath

"Ruby, we know how you're feeling. But we need you in the this still despite how you're feeling." Yang responded back kindly, but with a slight stern sisterly tone as she gave Ruby a gently hug

"I know big sis…thanks." Ruby replied as Weiss and Blake came in on the hug too, all of them enjoying the moment of reassurance until Jungle Hunter landed in front of them startling the girls who took a few more moments to calm down; before giving Jungle Hunter unamused looks

"Dude, not cool!" Yang yelled out, though took notice that Jungle Hunter didn't even acknowledge them as he looked at Kerchak's dead body

"So he did die then." Jungle Hunter stated as the girls frowned once more

"Yes he did, we we're going to ask Tarzan if he like us to help him dig Kerchak a grave." Ruby replied back

"No, don't bury the body. He died a honorable warrior's death and meaning his body will be left here as it decomposes like any dead warriors body would in the battlefield." Jungle Hunter said much to team RWBY disgust

"What are you talking about, that's sick and besides what do you know about honor in the first place?!" Black yelled out clenching her fist angrily as Jungle hunter turned his gaze to her with the emotionless mask he wore. This made Blake flinch a bit, though it didn't help that he growled a bit too. Though his growl was less threatening and more of just annoyed, but before any more tensions could rise Ruby stepped in front of him

"Jungle Hunter, don't even think about harming Blake in any way. Even if what she said might have bothered you, you don't harm anyone in general for that. Understood?" Ruby sternly said, as Jungle Hunter growled lowly a little more

"Yes Ruby… understood." Jungle Hunter responded back as Ruby sighed in relief a little

"Good, now I'm going to put you back in the gem. You earned a good rest buddy." Ruby kindly said as Jungle Hunter just nodded back and with that Ruby took out her gem and unsummoned Jungle Hunter. Though moments before she had done the unsummoning, Ruby had taken notice of a skull tied to his waist. Ruby hadn't taken notice of it before and swore it hadn't been there before, but she had decided to ask him about later on whenever she got the chance to

"Sorry Ruby, I didn't help with the mood did I?" Blake asked as she felt bad for possibly having almost instigated a fight where none was needed

"Don't worry Blake." Ruby replied with a reassuring small smile, as she then looked back at Kerchak "We'll ask Tarzan if tomorrow morning he wants to give Kerchak a grave or not. Along with being there for Tarzan once Jane leaves. For right now, let's meet the others back at the camp."

"Right." Weiss, Blake and Yang responded back, as they and Ruby made their way off to the camp now. To get a good night's rest and too finally finish this part of their journey

-With Tarzan, the girls and their companions in the morning-

"So how much further Tarzan?" Ikail asked as she and the others had been following Tarzan for over a good half an hour through the jungle

"Yeah my feet are killing me." Donald groaned as he winced with every step he took currently

"Ditto on that." Weiss said as her feet were killing her again

"You two really need to get out more you know that?" Dante remarked with a smirk as Weiss and Donald glared a bit at him

"Shut up…" Weiss and Donald grumbled as their feet hurt even more with each step, while Dante chuckled

"Still, how much longer Tarzan?" Guin asked, bring the conversation back to main subject at hand

"Not too far off, from what you explained to me earlier this morning. I think I have a good idea where this Keyhole of yours is." Tarzan answered with a calm tone, though the others could tell he was still down in his mood

"Tarzan, about what we asked after we told you about the keyhole…" Yang said kindly, though frowning a bit as Tarzan stopped, still looking straight ahead and sighing

"The me and the others have already decided on what to do. But the offer to bury Kerchak in the way you'd probably do it usual is appreciated." Tarzan answered, truing his head back to them with a small smile; then continued leading the group to the keyholes possible location. It was a few more good minutes before they finally arrived at the destination Tarzan was leading them to, which turned out to be a large water fall/ lake that was surrounded by many trees. The sight was beautiful as the girls and the others took in the view, though the keyholes location was still a mystery to them

"Tarzan not that were ungrateful for you showing us this lovely scenery, but where's the keyhole at?" Goofy kindly asked as Tarzan chuckled a little more

"This is just the area it's in, where the keyhole is located at well we'll have to climb up the rocky path hidden behind the waterfall." Tarzan answered as he pointed to the right of the waterfall where the group look to barley see an entrance way leading behind it

"You're kidding, right?" Blake asked as Tarzan smirked, making Blake sigh in frustration since she wasn't the biggest fan of going into or even being near large bodies of water and the climbing wasn't helping either

"So more climbing then, thanks Tarzan. You're a real pal." Ruby responded back with a deadpanned tone as Tarzan laughed a little

"You're welcome, now come on; if I'm right then we're close to this keyhole of yours." Tarzan stated as he began making his way to the path way behind the waterfall

"Well you heard the man, let's go." Ruby said as she really didn't want to do anymore climbing for a bit. So she and the group quickly followed, once behind the water fall they followed Tarzan as they had trouble climbing up since some the rocks we slippery. Though after a few trial and errors they finally made it to the end of the hidden path way were Tarzan was waiting for them on a sturdy large flat rock that was covered a bit in grass, while a cave was to the right of them

"Tarzan you are so lucky you're our friend or I would have probably punched you right now for making us have to climb again." Yang remarked with a slightly irritated and slightly amused tone as Tarzan chuckled

"Well I'm glad then that's the case, still in here that Keyhole might resign in." Tarzan said as he began making his way through the small cave entrance, with the others following

"Where does this lead to anyways?" Ruby asked curiously as she, the others and Tarzan made it out of the other side of the cave where she got her answer "Wow…"

"Yeah…" Weiss, Blake, Yang, Ikail, Donald Goofy, Dante and even Guin stated as the area Tarzan had lead them into was a large; tall cave covered with overgrowth along with a single opening on the top that had a light shining down. Finally butterflies of different colors flew around the large cave, adding even more beauty then said cave already had

"This was a cave I use to go to a lot when I was younger, I always felt like they're was something magical about it along with the fact Kerchak came here too time from time. Never knew why, but from what I've been told it does make sense." Tarzan explained as the girls walked up ahead of him looking around the area, then suddenly their keyblades acted up and pointed straight ahead as beams of light fired out like before. Then the keyhole suddenly showed itself as the beams of lights interacted with it and the sounds of a lock closing could be heard. A few seconds more than the lights died down, as the girls unsummoned their keyblades and turned their attention back to Tarzan

"It worked, thank you so much Tarzan!" Ruby joyfully said as the girls nodded in absolute agreement, all of them smiling in relief and gratitude

"Welcome." Tarzan answered back, with the best smile he could muster up which the girls took notice of quickly as they knew what else this was about

"Tarzan, please don't lie to us but are you taking Jane's coming departure hard?" Weiss kindly asked as Tarzan tried to answer, but sighed knowing that they were right and saw through him

"Yeah…" Tarzan answered simply, not wanting to get into it since saying goodbye to her would only be harder if he began talking about it. But to his surprise, the girls hugged him

"It's okay, we don't have to talk about it. The girls, me and everyone else are here for you." Blake explained kindly as Ikail, Goofy and Donald joined in on the reassuring hug. Dante and Guin just stood at the side lines as the girls, Ikail, Goofy along with Donald kept hugging Tarzan who appreciated their continued kindness

-A few more hours later at the beachfront-

The group and Jane, were now at the beachfront of the jungle waiting for Tarzan to come if he did. With the Captain of the ship along with the Professor waiting for Jane to get abroad the row boat, while Guin, Huang, Yang and Dante helped finished packing up some of the reaming supplies they had brought with them.

"Were do want us to set these last bags down in the boat?" Yang asked as she, Huang, Guin and Dante were standing next to the row boat; waiting for last minuet instructions

"Just place them anywhere." Jane answered kindly as Yang nodded, Guin, Huang and Dante just shrugged as they made it to the row boat. All four trying to find good places to set the bags down, without making the boat heavy one side or another. Meanwhile the others were with Jane, talking to her and saying their goodbyes

"You sure you and your dad have to go?" Donald asked as Jane weakly smiled patting him on the head

"Yes, it's just were we belong." Jane answered, thought seemed to not be believe that herself much

"But you also belong here and I can say with full confidence, that you have someone who cares a lot for you in this place." Ikail responded kindly

"You mean love right Ikail?" Blake remarked as Jane blushed from the accurate statement

"Yes that's what I mean Blake." Ikail replied back with a quick chuckled

"Yeah, so please stay here. You and your dad would be so much more happier!" Ruby pleaded as she didn't want either of them to leave and didn't want Tarzan to be left heart broken

"Gawrsh, girls I agree with ya I do really. But this is her choice and we got to respect it." Goofy stated with a kind tone as the girls, Ikail and Donald looked to one another knowing Goofy had a point

"Indeed." Guin said calmly as he, Huang, Dante and Yang made their up to them now

"Just to say, your father and the captain are ready." Huang stated as he gave Jane a nod

"Thank you, Huang." Jane responded back as she wondered if Tarzan was coming to say goodbye as she and the others made their way to the row boat

"Jane are you sure?" Weiss asked one last time, trying her effort to change Jane's mind on this as they got to the row boat

"I…well I-" Jane began to respond back, but stopped as Tarzan appeared behind the group who all moved aside as he walked up to Jane, who herself was still trying to get her words out

"Jane." Tarzan calmly said as he stopped a good two inches from Jane who now had calmed herself enough to speak with him

"London will seem so small compared to all this, to you, to the girls, to our friends…all of it." Jane stated shyly as the girls frowned seeing what choice she had made

"I will miss you Jane." Tarzan simply replied back as the ship from the distance blew it's horn

"Miss Porter!" The ship's captain yelled out as that horn single was the sounding of the dead line they had, before making their way back to London

"I-I know I'm coming." Jane said as she turned her attention back to Tarzan, holding out her hand suddenly "I guess we should say goodbye."

"Yeah…" Tarzan muttered a little as he stared at Jane's hand with hesitance to shake it, because it would only add to the heartache he was feeling

"Oh Tarzan, hang in there buddy." Ruby muttered as she, the girls, Huang, Ikail, Donald, Goofy, Guin and Dante watched this saddening scene play out. Though she, Blake, Weiss and Yang were much sadder from this; as they didn't want to leave this world with their newest friend feeling so down. Though as they watched, Tarzan didn't shake Jane's hand. Instead he gently pushed his hand against Jane's hand, until both had their palms and fingers touching one another

"Goodbye." Tarzan said sadly, as Jane started to choke up along with the team RWBY seeing how much pain they were trying to keep in. Jane then quickly made her way into the row boat, as the captain then pushed the rest of the boat into the water and with that began rowing to the ship

"We asked Jane, but are you sure about this?" Weiss asked once more as she and the others looked too Tarzan

"I am, I want her to be happy and safe. If that means her going back to London then yes I am." Tarzan answered as his voice cracked just a little, the girls just gently patted him on the back. Meanwhile on the row boat Jane was trying to hide her rising heartache, though her father already could tell how she was feeling as he watched his daughter placed on her hat and then putting her left glove back on. Once she was done, she was about to put the other glove on, but stopped when her father placed his left hand over her left gloved hand

"Jane dear, I can't help but think you should stay." Professor Archimedes said kindly as Jane pulled her left gloved hand back, having an even harder time keeping her feelings in

"Daddy please, we've already been through this. I couldn't possibly stay… I… I… I belong in London with you and people; and-" Jane argued back, as she tried putting her other glove on, but the wind blew it all the way to right in front of Tarzan and the others as Tarzan picked it up looking at her once more

"But you love him." Professor Archimedes remarked kindly as Jane tried to argue, though he continued with his explanation "Jane, when I met your mother she captured my heart immediately. She was so beautiful and kind, which only made me love her more before she passed. I see that same love with you and Tarzan. So go dear, go back to him because if there is one thing me and your late mother always wanted you to be; it was to be happy no matter where that happiness is. So again, go on and be happy."

"Thank you daddy, I love you so much." Jane respond back smiling at him and giving her father a loving hug as Professor Archimedes hugged her back. Once they let go of one another, Jane then turned back towards Tarzan and the rest of the group, as they wondered what she was doing. To their surprise she jumped into the water which was still shallow enough for her to walk through; while holding up her dress. The girls quickly pushed Tarzan a little into the water to meet her, once Tarzan was ankle deep in the water the girls quickly moved back. Jane meanwhile came in running quick as she lunged at Tarzan, knocking herself and him onto the ground. Tarzan then got back on his feet in a crouched position, while Jane got back up on her knees and then proceeded to kiss him

"AW!" Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang and Ikail yelled out happily from the heartwarming moment. Jane meanwhile suddenly realized how forward she was being and retracted back, shyly looking at the ground as an overjoyed Tarzan handed her glove back

"Oh um, thank you for getting my glove and well ah-" Jane began rambling on about, as her heart raced in joy. Though she was cut off as Tarzan gently moved her face back towards his with his right hand and then proceeded to kiss her back. Then once they retracted from one another again, Jane looked to see they were being watched by the group

"Forget about us?" Yang asked with a wide smile, until she got a tap on her shoulder as she and the others looked to their right. Then saw that the gorillas, Terk, Tantor and kala were there now too. Tarzan and Jane chuckled a bit as they got back up, meanwhile back on the rowboat once more Professor Archimedes was looking back to see the happy moment unfold; then realized something

"Wait a minute, what am I doing?" Professor Archimedes asked himself out loud as he realized he wanted to stay on the island as well. He then looked back to the captain, who was confused on what was going on as the Professor took his tie off "Tell them we we're lost at sea, besides people get lost all the time!"

"Sure." The Captain muttered in slight bewilderment as Professor Archimedes jumped out of the boat and began making his way to the group who took notice of this in utter amusement, while being glad he was staying too. Once there the Professor made his way on shore, he then made his way to the others who were overjoyed to see a happy ending. But at this point the girls and the others aside from Huang knew it was their time to go, so Ruby decided to be the one to break the news

"Tarzan." Ruby kindly said as she and the girls walked up to him

"Yeah?" Tarzan asked with a wide smile

"Tarzan as much as we've loved being here and becoming your friends well…" Ruby began explain, but couldn't get the words out; thankfully Weiss took over

"What my little rose is saying is that we have to go now." Weiss finished explaining

"Go, go where?" Tantor asked as he, Kala, Terk and the other gorillas wondered what they meant by the having to go

"Somewhere else to help others, but don't worry. We won't forget you or anyone else here I promise." Blake kindly answered, while Goofy and Donald gave a thumbs up

"If that's the case then girls I…I want to ah…" Tarzan said, but stopped trying to word it right

"Take your time buddy." Yang joked as the girls giggled a bit at the joke

"I know, but what I'm trying to say is thank you. Thank you for everything you've done for me, my family and my friends here. You've been a great help and whenever you do come back, you'll always have a family here." Tarzan stated kindly as he gave the girls a great big hug, with the girls doing the hugging back this time

"Thanks Tarzan." Blake replied back first, with a kind tone

"Yeah and if you ever somehow end up out of this place, to where we might be staying at. Then you'll be welcomed with open arms." Yang replied next, as she was giving Tarzan a bit more of a bear hug

"We just hope you treat Jane right, because if you don't we'll come back and give you a smack to the back of a head to make sure you do." Weiss joked, getting a quick laugh out of Tarzan

"Yeah, but for real. We're glad we got to become your friend Tarzan. Stay safe and happy." Ruby said kindly as Tarzan released them from his hug, then Ruby looked over to the Jane, Terk, Tantor, Professor Archimedes and Kala "Same goes for the rest of you too, enjoy yourselves and be happy!"

"Don't worry Ruby we will and that's a promise." Jane responded back as the girls made their way back to the others who were waiting for them

"Donald?" Ruby asked as Donald nodded, pulling out the teleporter. Though Huang seemed a little nervous at what was about to happen

"Hey this isn't gonna hurt, right?" Huang asked as the girls smirked, along with Ikail and Donald

"No, but it will feel weird a little for your stomach." Donald answered with a quick chuckled as Huang sighed in annoyance

"Thanks… you over grown poultry." Huang muttered a little too loudly as the rest of the group got a quick laugh out of that

"Alright enough joking around, let's get going." Donald remarked as he activated the teleporter, within seconds just like before the group began to disappear. Though as they were, all of them other than Huang waved goodbye to Tarzan, Jane, The Professor, Kala, Tantor, Terk and the rest of the gorillas who waved goodbye back. Then they were gone and back to the Gummi Ship

-Back on the Gummi Ship-

"And we're back!" Yang joyfully yelled out as she and the others appeared in their seats

"Oh comfy ship, sweet ship." Ruby remarked as she rested on the seat, enjoying the feeling of a well-deserved rest "I never thought that laying on a against a chair could feel so relaxing."

"Speak for yourself kid." Huang responded as he popped out from behind Ikail, Guin's and Dante's seats

"Have a hard landing?" Dante joked as Ikail laughed at that

"Nice joke Dante." Ikail stated as she calmed herself down "Still you want to move up here, it can be a bit uncomfortable where you're currently sitting at."

"Nah, I've sat and even slept in worse conditions. Speaking of that, I'm going to take a nap now. After all the crap we just dealt with, I think I deserved one." Huang answered as he quickly laid down, pulling his hat over his face and immediately feel asleep

"He must have been more exhausted then we thought." Guin answered as he winced a bit from his healing wound

"You okay Guin?" Blake asked worriedly

"Yes, though this shot wound that went through my arm will have to take some time to heal. So don't be surprised if I'm a little slower with my attack for a while." Guin explained kindly "Still thank you for asking."

"Welcome." Blake replied back smiling

"Speaking of that, girls after that large gorilla-" Donald began saying, but was cut off by Weiss

"Beringel." Weiss simply answered

"What?" Donald, Goofy, Guin, Ikail and Dante asked in slight confusion

"It's a Grimm type back in our world, how that thing survived its way into Tarzan's world is a mystery to me. A very troubling one." Weiss explained as she frowned a bit, though stopped frowning and smiling a little when she noticed Ruby resting her head against her shoulder "Is my little Rose sleepy?"

"Yeah… mind if I use you shoulder as a pillow?" Ruby asked with sweet tone as Weiss heart melted a bit from how cute she sounded to her

"Of course dear." Weiss answered as she kissed the top of Ruby's head, then turned her attention back to Donald "Anyways, what were you going to say Donald?"

"Right, well after that battle with the 'Beringel' as you call it and ran after you ran into the trees. Me and the others came to back you up, on the way I found these." Donald answered as he pulled out four silverfish orbs and a small device in his hand

"What are they?" Yang asked

"Aero magic, four just for you ladies." Donald answered as the girls all raised their hands to the orbs, which then absorbed into their bodies making team RWBY shutter a bit from the sudden power coursing through their bodies

"Oh, that one was felt windy." Yang stated as she rubbed her eyes

"Yeah, oh can I try it maybe right now?" Ruby asked as she raised her head back up with an ecstatic wide smile

"Sorry but no." Donald answered as Ruby frowned a bit

"Aw no fair." Ruby replied back pouting a little, though began laughing a bit when Weiss, Blake and Yang tickled her sides "Girls stop it!"

"We will now baby sis." Yang said amusingly as she, Weiss and Blake stopped tickling Ruby's sides "Now that's the look that fits your face the most."

"Yep, smiling and being happy." Blake remarked as she began yawing herself now "I guess I'm a little tired myself."

"I think we are a bit Blake." Ruby responded as she turned her attention back to Donald "Just to ask, where we heading to now. Another world or back to our temporary home sweet home?"

"I'd say we go back to Traverse Town. We need to get a few things done like dropping Huang off and getting this Navi-G piece along with our other one inspected by Sid." Goofy answered as Donald flashed the device he had in his hand

"Oh that's what it is Donald?" Weiss asked

"Yep and from what I can tell, Sid's probably the best bet into knowing what these are for." Donald replied back

"So back to the homestead then, sweet and hey who knows; maybe we'll have some new people there." Ruby joyfully said as she rested her head back on Weiss shoulder "Still I think I can take a quick nap before we get back there."

"Hm, same here Ruby; same here." Weiss said next as she rested her head on top of Ruby's, both girls getting comfortable with each other

"Well Yang?" Blake asked as she offered her shoulder for Yang to rest against, Yang just smiled and did so with Blake resting her chin on Yang's head slipping into slumber as well. Though unknown to the others as Donald and Goofy began getting the ship ready to go back to Traverse Town. The girls had been wondering on how Tarzan and Jane would fair off, along with the others after what had happened. But as they slumbered a shared sort of vision came to their mind of the probable future

What they saw was the jungle brightly lit by the sun as it shinned through the trees, the gorillas were in their nest resting and doing whatever they did usually. Kala was enjoy some of the sun, though the trees then rustled as she looked up and simply smiled knowing why that was. Meanwhile the girls shared vision like dream panned a bit to the top of the trees as suddenly Tarzan and Jane who was now just wearing maroon cloth around her chest and a maroon short skirt around her waist; sliding across a thick spiral branch. Both of them in perfect synced unison as they moved on the branch, a one point as they continued down the said branch, Professor Archimedes pass them swing from a vine while wearing on a dark brown cloth around his waist. Then Terk joined in with skidding on the spiral branch, though tripped on her own foot and was flung off into the jungle. Tarzan and Jane continued still, though finally reached then end of the branches, as they jumped off where Tantor caught them with his trunk. Then Tantor quickly threw them back up in the air, as Tarzan grabbed a vine in front of him and proceeded to swing with it as he kept Jane in his grasp. Finally as the vision like dream panned out once more through the heavy jungle, Tarzan and Jane could be seen on the other side standing on a large branch over a cliffs edge with more of the jungle below them. Tarzan looked at Jane smiling as Jane smiled back, then he looked back towards the horizon taking in a deep breath before doing his signature cheer

"EEEEAAAUUHHHHHH, EEEEAAAUHHHH!" Tarzan roared out proudly as Jane watched from behind. Then as the vision like dream faded away from team RWBY's slumbering minds and the girls despite all the bad that had happened on this world smiled; happy that they were a part of helping with this happy ending for one of their newest friends. Meanwhile in the waking world as team RWBY continued slumbering, Donald moved the ship in through the gate way back to Traverse Town; where they're next visit to Traverse Town like the others so far would be an eventful one…

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Alright, so this the end of the chapter and the girls time in Tarzan's world. But yeah I hope you liked this, especially what I did around the end of this chapter. Also with some of the new characters I've introduced within the other worlds, will be explained once we get around to those particular worlds. I hope you also liked me showing more of what's going on around in the other worlds while team RWBY and friends do their jobs. Anyways until the next chapter, see you all then and I hope you have a spectacular day! : D