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Ruby, Pyrrha, and Yang were all walking through the forest, Ruby leading the way. Pyrrha stayed behind Yang, in case the blonde should try anything.

"... so~, um, Ruby," Yang drawls out, trying to break the awkward tension. "How'd you get into Beacon?"

Pyrrha perks up as well, wonder how her friend got here as well.

"... Negotiations." The red head answered curtly.

"... negotiations?" the blonde parrots. "What do you mean?"

Ruby pushed away a branch in her way, before letting it smack Yang in the face. Pyrrha snickered at the blonde before she was smacked as well.

"I stopped Roman Torchwick from robbing a Dust store, the battle apparently caught the attention of the headmaster." Ruby walks over a stream.

"Wait, Roman Torchwick... as in the criminal mastermind Roman Torchwick!?" Yang steps over the stream.

"No, I mean his distant cousin."

Yang blinks at the sarcasm, before a grin appears. "Damn sis, look at you kicking mob boss ass!' she moves in for a slap on the back, but jerks back, garrote wires gleaming in the light.

Ruby merely ignores the blonde, focusing on maintaining her mask of apathy.

"Yang! I'm scared! Can i sleep with you?"

"Sure sis, you can sleep with me."

"Thanks... Yang?"

"Yeah Rubes?"

"Is Daddy okay?"

"... I don't know Ruby, I don't know..."

"Ruby?" Yang calls out.

The red head stops in her tracks, her hood lightly flapping in the wind. She looks up at the sky, the trees blocking the view. She reaches up and cluthes her left shoulder.

"Don't act as if I forgot or forgave everything you and those bastards did to me, Xiao Long." Ruby turns to give Yang, her dead look carrying a gleam of animosity.

"I've moved on, but the scars you left are still there. I won't dwell on this pain like a ghost would, but don't expect us to be like before." Ruby glares at the blonde. "You aren't my sister, you're simply another person who I won't hesitate to get rid of if you get in my way."

Ruby then walks away, leaving the blonde shock. Pyrrha passes by the blonde, giving her a look of disgust.

~ ~ ~

Blake flings Gambol Shroud at a Beowolf, the blade stabbing into the Grimm's shoulder. Blake yanks herself towards the Grimm and slashes at its head killing it.

She flips over the corpse, and ninja clones her away, dodging a paw swipe. She fires a burst of bullets into the Ursa's back, before skidding under the Grimm.

She flips onto her feet, and delivers a slash at the Grimm's throat, black blood spilling out.

She blocks a Beowolf's lunge, and shoves it back. She fires at its face at point blank range, the rounds tearing apart its head.

Blake jumps away, doing an unnecessary flashy backflip and sticks the landing. But she slips on something and falls to the ground.

The Grimm take the chance to lunge at her, but Blake dashes away, leaving a shadow clone. Frickin' narootoe.

With the Grimm all tangled around each other, Blake takes the chance to pull out two semi-automatic magnum Desert Eagles. She fires at the Grimm, the bullets dealing more damage than Gambol Shroud's glock 19 rounds.

The bullets tear through the Grimm, until an Ursa Major charges at the Faunus. Blake jumps away from the charging bear, and swaps out for Gambol Shroud. She pulls of the cleaver-like sheath and slashes at the monster.

The Major roars our in pain, before swiping away at Blake, sending the girl flying off.

Blake flys off her body about to crash into a tree until she crashes into something else.

"Watch out-" Blake crashes into a red head girl with an oversized war hammer pick.

"Ooooo~, ouch that hurts." Nora picks herself up, grabbing Magnhild. She shakes her head and see Blake staring at her in shock. "Oh! Hello~!" She greets as she pulls back her hammer.

Blake flinches at the sight, but Nora swings away at the Ursa knocking it away.

"Come on! Let's show these Grimm whose boss!" Nora gives a hand to Blake, who accepts the gesture.

"What's your name?" Blake asks, reloading Gambol Shroud.

"Nora Valkyrie! And you?" Nora replaces the grenades in her hammer.

Blake pauses, remembering how Ruby knew her name, but tells her anyway. "Belladonna, Blake Belladonna."

"Nice to MEET YA!" Nora slams her hammer at a Beowolf sending it fly off.

Blake fires at a Grimm, before dashing at it, slashing away at its body.

She jumps away from the Ursa Major, its body damaged.

She fires at the Grimm's face, blinding it in one eye.

"Nora!" The ninja calls out.

"You got it!" Nora charged forward and swing her pick at the Major destroying its head. In a swift motion, Nora transforms Magnhild into its grenade launcher form. She fires at another Ursa Major, its body blown apart from the explosives.

Several more Grimm charge at the two girls, murder in their eyes. The monsters all charge at the two, but the girls are ready.

"You go low, I go high!" Blake pulls out her ribbon, wrapping it around her arm.

"Got it!" Nora charged forward, Magnhild in its war hammer pick form.

She uppercuts an Ursa, sending its head flying up.

Blake jumps over the red head, and fires at the Grimm. She lands on its head, and slashes away.

Nora moves ahead and sends a Beowolf up into the air.

Blake leaps onto the monster and stabs Gambol Shroud's katana into it. She fires a burst of bullets, before jumping off.

Blake throws Gambol Shroud at a Grimm, impaling it. She jerks herself forward, and slashes at the Grimm with her sheath, cleaving right through it.

Blake in a quick burst of speed, begins to slash at the Grimm all around her. She becomes a whirlwind of death, as all the Grimm are cut to pieces.

Gambol Shroud's sheath cuts into a Grimm, but it's bone plates stop the sheath.

The Grimm rises up, a panther like Grimm with light bone armor covering it boy. It growls at the hidden Faunus, its four eyes burning with hatred. It jerks away from the ninja, yanking away Blake's sheath.

The Faunus curses under their break, before peppering the Grimm with bullets.

The Prowler dodges the shots, the few that do hit it, bouncing off its bone armor.

The Grimm lunges at Blake, who dashed away with a clone. It rolls across the ground, it ducks its head as bullets are shot at it.

"Okay, new plan." Blake transform Gambol Shroud into its ballistic scythe configuration, and pulls out one of her Desert Eagles. "Let's dance."

~ ~ ~

Nora swings away with reckless abandon, the Grimm all falling before the queen!

Finally she found someone! Sure they weren't Ren, no one could replace him, but she would do for now. Damn! She knew she should have used the parrot signal instead of the sloth one!

Nora rolls away from a Ursa's lunge. She fires a grenade at the Grimm.

The Ursa dies in a roar, before another takes its place.

She swing at it, the force breaking through its bones.

Nora back swings Magnhild, the pick stabbing the Ursa's skull.

She would have to find a way to make sure she was on Ren's team. This ninja girl was her partner now. She would have preferred Ren, but that won't stop her.

Nora crushes a Boarbatusk's spine, her strength easily breaking through its body.

Until then...

She fires a volley of grenades everywhere, the explosives killing most of the Grimm.

She would break anything's legs!

Nora swing her hammer in a low sweep, the weapons slams into a pair of legs. The bones break audibly, the sound making the surviving Grimm shiver.

~ ~ ~

Blake jumps away, leaving a clone.

The Prowler lunges at the clone, only for it to crash right through. More bullets hit its body, making it run off.

Blake aims her Desert Eagle, searching for the Grimm. Her amber eyes scan the underbrush, the forest a perfect place for the Prowler.

Her ears twitch under the bow, and she leaps away dodging the Prowler. She fires a burst of bullets, but she misses.

The Prowler stands on its hind legs, it's razor sharp claws stab out even more. The Grimm lunges at the Faunus again.

Blake leaves another clone, but the Prowler stops its lunge and slashes at the girl. The claws dig into her Aura, chipping away a great deal of it.

But the Prowler doesn't stop there as it continues to swipe at Faunus. Blake puts all her effort into dodging the claws, deflect any of them

The two looks as if they're dancing, Blake dodging and the Prowler attacking.

The Prowler then over extends an arm, an opportunity for Blake. The girl wraps around the Grimm, swing a slash at the Grimm.

The Prowler dodges the slash, the blade nearly cutting it.

But Blake then pulls out her Desert Eagle and fires at the Grimm point blank range.

The Grimm jerks it's head away, but the bullet tears off a part of its head. The Prowler roars before its tail wraps around Blake, and it delivers a punch at the girl.

Blake is sent flying off crashing into a tree, her Aura flickers as she groans in pain.

The Prowler approaches the Faunus, its tongue licking its teeth. It prepares to lunge at the girl, its claws out and ready to tear her apart.

"Watch out!" Nora shouts as a small boom is heard.

The Prowler turns to the red head, but is suddenly hit by a rocket. The Grimm is blown apart into tiny pieces as the rocket detonated.

Blake blinks at the carnage, before turning her head to see Nora kneeled down with a rocket launcher in her shoulder.

The red head gives a grin and a peace sign to the Faunus, before the RPG transforms back into its war hammer pick. She skips over to the girl before helping her up.

"Don't you think that's a bit overkill?" Blake groans as she stands up.

"Psh, there's no such thing as overkill! Besides it was that or let ya get chowed down on!" Nora slings Magnhild on her back.

"Well, thanks anyway." Blake walks over to pick up her sheath, she checks it, noting a few scratches here and there but it still works.

"I guess we're partners now, partner!" Nora walks over the the onyx hair colored girl.

"I guess we are." Blake smiles at the girl's enthusiasm.

"Well, let's go then! I think I saw the temple somewhere around here!"

Blake pops her back before following after the bubbly girl.

~ ~ ~

Three girls are seen walking through the forest. Ruby is leading the way, while Yang and Pyrrha are trying not to kill each other.

Ruby suddenly stops in her tracks. Pyrrha and Yang both stop as well, the Amazonian reaching for her weapon.

"Ruby? Is something wrong?" Yang calls out, her hand reaching for Ole' Reliable.

Ruby turns her head as if searching for something. She flinches in pain, before she raises a hand to clutch her shoulder. It hurts... really bad.

"Ruby-?"

"We need to move." Ruby orders, her mask long gone. She raises her rifle and fires at the underbrush. In the distance, a Grimm's head is blown apart, but more eyes glow in the darkness.

"Whoa, what's going on?! Ruby?" Yang sees a Grimm in the shrubs, she pulls out her sawed off and fires, killing the monster.

"Ruby, what going on?!" Pyrrha slashes down a Beowolf, but it gets back up, half of its face missing. It lunges at Pyrrha, but is shot down by Ruby.

"You need to lea-... we need to leave. Grimm are coming, lots and lots of them." Ruby begins running, Yang and Pyrrha following after her.

"What do you mean?! We can take them!" Yang punches a Grimm away, leaving it.

"We're low on Aura, ammunition, we're at a disadvantage deep in the forest, and in a few moments we'll be heavily outnumbered. Stay if you want Xiao Long, die a pointless death, but I will not allow my friends to die because of me."

Ruby turns to the champion whose running next to her. "If you meet anyone tell them to run, leave them if they don't. Find Jaune, and run. Don't fight, don't waste any time, just run." Seriousness present on her face.

The ground began shaking slightly, the booming sounds of stomping footsteps could be heard faintly behind them.

~ ~ ~

"Ozpin..." Glynda says her voice carrying a sense of fear. "You need to look at this." She hands her scroll to the headmaster.

Ozpin takes the scroll, noting the fear evident in Glynda's tone. He looks down at the scroll, it was a map of the Vale's region. But what made him drop his mug, was the large area of red moving towards the Emerald Forest.

The red representing Grimm.

Ozpin then recalls a question a student asked.

"So you guys will not intervene in any way, shape, or form?"

"Yes, unless the situation is so severe that all of the initiates would die, we will not intervene."

"Glynda we're canceling the initiation. Send a message out to all initiatives to meet at the temple." Ozpin orders, seriousness in his voice.

"Already on it." Glynda taps on her scroll, before holding it up to her head.

"This is an emergency message to all initiatives. The initiation is now canceled, there is a level two Grimm threat heading towards the Emerald Forest. I repeat the initiation is canceled, there is a level two Grimm threat heading towards the Emerald Forest. This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill. Everyone will meet at the ruined temple and wait for extraction, please stay together and hold out until then!"

Glynda puts her message on repeat, before she begins calling in Bullheads for extraction. Until she looks at the map again, the threat moved up to level three.

"Dear Oum, Ozpin!"

"Yes, I know!" Ozpin begins calling in the schools staff and other nearby huntsmen to aid them. They wouldn't be able to reach them in time, but they would try their damn best.

~ ~ ~

"Come on!"

Weiss chases after the Deathstalker and Jaune. She summons a glyph, before shooting herself across the forest.

She flys over the Grimm, before forming a wall of ice, blocking its path. It crashes into the wall of ice, sending Jaune flying off. The wall of ice breaks apart, but causes considerable damage to the Grimm.

The monstrous scorpion hisses in pain, before turning its ten eyes all into Weiss.

"Oh poop."

The scorpion shoots its stinger at the heiress, but Weiss backflips away, forming a glyph to impede the stinger.

The glyph shatters from the force and the stinger crashes into the ground. Bits of ground and rock is sent flying into the air, but they stop mid air.

Weiss' rapier glows a dull purple as she 'grabs' onto the rocks. She spins them around in a whirlwind before shooting them all at the Deathstalker.

The stones do nothing against the Grimm's armor, but it serves as a distraction as Weiss runs over to Jaune.

"Jaune! Jaune! Get up! We have to go!" Weiss struggles to lift the unconscious knight. Whether it's because of Jaune's fat ass or Weiss' scrawny stick arms.

"Ah, I'm up, I'm up." Jaune stumbles onto his feet, but has to lean into Weiss for support.

A shadow looms over them, the Deathstalker's attention on the two. They try to run off, but it slams its pincer blocking their escape. They try to run the other way, but the scorpion blocks that path too.

This is bad. Very very bad. Weiss and Jaune look up to see the Deathstalker had its stinger raised.

"Hey Weiss, sorry I got you into this mess." Jaune apologies. 'I'm sorry, Ruby guess I really am a weakling.'

"Jaune...," her voice sounds sincere, "this is all your fault." Weiss accuses the blond. "But it's okay."

The Deathstalker shoots its stinger at the two, and-

The Grimm stops dead in its tracks, its stinger right in front of the two humans. Hell, they could see the venom dripping from it.

The tail suddenly retracts as the Deathstalker raises its head. It's pincers click and clack, as it looks to be... tasting the air? The markings on its body glow red, bits of ash emitting from its body.

The Grimm scorpion then lets out an ear shattering screech as it leaves the two humans and sprints off into the forest. The two watch as it tears through any trees and rocks in its path seemingly in a hurry.

Jaune watches the Grimm run off, before he turns to Weiss. "What the what was that?"

"What makes you think I to know?! Weiss snapped her snarky attitude back. "Grimm never retreat or leave humans alive! Unless there was a greater source of negativity somewhere nearby, but who or what could ever release such intensity of negativity?!"

Jaune sits himself down, what little Aura he had healing his wounds and such. He began to think. What could release such negativity. From what he knew, Yang looked liked a girl that had fun, but he didn't have enough info. Pyrrha while her emotions could get rather intense, never really did reach some levels like this.

So that left...

Ruby.

Ruby suffered from PTSD.

"RUBY!" Jaune yells out, scaring Weiss.

"What is your problem?!"

"It's Ruby! She has PTSD! She must be attracting Grimm!" Jaune explains. He picks himself up, his panic numbing the pain.

"What?! Why would she... Jaune!" Weiss pulls back the blond, facing him.

"Weiss! We have to go! Ruby's in danger! I can't-" Weiss slaps the panicking boy, before grabbing his face and facing him to her.

"Jaune, what is Ruby's name. Her full name."

"R-Ruby C. Rose."

Weiss takes in the name, trying to compare it to what Yang told her.

"Here name is Ruby Rose! Named after our mom, Summer Rose."

"... shit." Weiss swears, as she lets go of Jaune.

"Weiss?"

"We may have a problem. You were looking for Ruby yesterday right? And Yang was helping you as well?"

"Y-Yeah."

"Jaune, you may not know this, but... Ruby and Yang are sisters. And they may have met, possibly triggering Ruby..."

"What?! But, that doesn't-!" Ruby never told her she had a sister, so what does Weiss mean?

"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." He recalls Ruby telling him that.

If Yang is Ruby's biological sister, then it would make sense why she wouldn't consider Yang her sister. Not after what she did.

"We have to go." Jaune states, he picks up Croceas Mors. "We have to move, if what you said is true, then Ruby's a beacon for the Grimm."

Suddenly several Grimm run by the two, Beowolves, Ursi, Boarbatusks, Taijitus, Nevermores, even Goliaths! After those came Grimm the huntsmen has never seen before, some looking like panthers, others like a quadrupedal Beowolf, bipedal bulls, and many more.

"What the hell was that?! I think you're right!" Weiss shouts as the Grimm continue to run by them, not even sparing the humans a single glance.

Weiss scroll began ringing, as Jaune's had broken. She pulled out her device, and plays a message from the school.

"It's from Professor Goodwitch, there's an emergency broadcast." She plays the message.

"This is an emergency message to all initiatives. The initiation is now canceled, there is a level two Grimm threat heading towards the Emerald Forest. I repeat the initiation is canceled, there is a level two Grimm threat heading towards the Emerald Forest. This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill. Everyone will meet at the ruined temple and wait for extraction, please stay together and hold out until then!"

"Dear Oum, a level two?" Weiss mumbles out in fear. "Jaune I don't know about Ruby, but we can't stay here! Do you know what going to happen?!"

But Jaune only stands still, his mind processing the situation. The Grimm in the Emerald were going after Ruby, but with the army of Grimm entering the area, nowhere would be safe.

He and Weiss will just have to move on and leave Ruby. He knows she'd probably smack him if he ran after her like an idiot.

"Let's go Weiss." Jaune begins running off towards the temple.

"Wait, we're not going after Ruby?" Weiss chases after the knight.

"If know Ruby, she'd kill me, bring me back, and kill me again for doing something stupid." Jaune ducks under a leaping Beowolf. The Grimm glances back at the two, before moving on.

"All we can do is head to the extraction point and wait for her." They jump over a stream. "Ruby's a big girl, and well, she's stronger than me. So I know she'll be okay."

~ ~ ~

Said big girl is sent flying off from an Ursa's punch. She twirls around, using her wires to catch herself, before she pulls out her .44 and fires at the Grimm.

The bullets explodes the Ursa's head, but two more replace the fallen Grimm. They charge at the silver eyed girl, but she pulls out her assault rifle and releases a volley of bullets.

The rounds easily tear through the Grimm, hitting even some behind them. A Beowolf lunges at the red head from behind, but a javelin stabs into its side.

Pyrrha dashes forward, knocking away another Beowolf with her shield. She yanks out Milò from the dying Grimm, and stabs it in its head.

The Grimm dies, and its body begins to fade, but at a much slower rate than usual.

"Raaaa!" Yang swings Dragkov in an arc, cutting Beowolves into halves. She raises her sword blocking an Ursa's paw, before throwing a punch at its stomach. She still has her specialized rounds, so the shells explode right through the bear's body.

"Why are there so many Grimm?!" Yang swings her sword again. She cleaves a Boarbatusk in half, before blasting a Beowolf's face off.

"If you can talk, use that energy to fight!" Ruby shouts as she slices several Grimm into pieces. She recalls her wires, the whiplash cutting more Grimm.

She then pulls out her wooden sword and slashes down a Grimm.

There were too many! They were caught in an ambush, and now they were slowly being overwhelmed. She needs to do something!

But she can't go all out with Pyrrha(and Yang) here!

Ruby notices how most of the Grimm all chase after her. There were still some that attacked the two girls, but only if they were in the way or attack them.

A murder of Scareqrows, a Grimm version of crows, then fly in from the trees. Their four eyes scan the environment, before zeroing in on Ruby.

They dive at the red head, but are all sliced to pieces by wires.

"Fuck off." Ruby finishes off the rest of the murder, black blood and ash filling the air.

"You guys need to leave!" Ruby shouts out, decapitating a beta Beowolf.

"What?!" Both girls shout out in sync. "I'm not leaving you here alone! You'll die!" The two turn to each other, their thoughts the same.

"It doesn't matter! The Grimm are after me! I'm going to lead them away!" Ruby dodges a Scareqrow, before shooting it down.

"That's suicide!" Yang shouts out as she cuts down a beta.

"The slut's right Ruby!" Pyrrha parries an attack, before jabbing forward. "You'll die out here! What happened to our promise-!"

Wires pull the girls away, before forming a makeshift slingshot. The two are pulled back, any Grimm approaching them are sliced down.

"I'm not trying to be a damn hero or anything!" Ruby ducks under a swipe, before it's sliced apart. "I just making sure that my friends safe, and I don't have another murder case in my hands!"

"What's the point? You'll die if you try fight all these Grimm!" Yang shouts out as she struggles against the binds.

Ruby pauses at the sentence, before a smirk appears on her face.

"That's nothing new."

"Ru-" the two are then launched off like pebbles, their bodies shoot through the forest.

Ruby huffs, her eyes and head aching at the amount of Blue Karma she's used. Using it so much after so long puts such a strain on the mind and for some reason the eyes.

Ruby recalls her garrote wires, the thin metal strings wrapping around her hands and fingers. Letting out a deep breath, the young girl pulls out her wooden sword, and her .44 magnum.

When she opens her eyes, they glow a silvery white, with the smallest wisps of red. She smirks at the Grimm before beckoning them.

"Come and get it." She dashes off into the forest, rose petals falling in her place. The Grimm all release a collective roar, before giving chase.

Ruby dashes through the forest, weaving through the trees and the underbrush. The passes into a clearing, where she spares a glance at the pig's corpse as Pyrrha calls it.

Ruby ignores the corpse as she continues to move on, the Grimm still giving chase.

A ghostly Grimm floats after the girl as well, but fails to keep us with its brethren. It's body it more gas than solid. It breathes in agitation, before noticing the corpse in the distance.

Ah, a human corpse. Devoid of any soul and Aura.

It wonders...

It flys into the corpses body, it's dark form corrupting the flesh. Parts of the skin turns deathly white, as some blood fades from red to black.

Despite the corpse not having a soul, the Grimm can see through the brain's memories. Synapses and brain cells all still active, if not a bit dead.

The Incubus shifts through the memories, the images it sees not important to it as it discards the memories. It continues to shift through the brain, until it comes across a particular negative memory.

Fear, hate, anger, envy, etc. all of these emotions were present in its last moments. The Grimm shifted through the memories searching for the most intense negativity.

"That damn brat, I'll kill her!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

"I'm a pig! I'm a pig! I'm a pi-iiiiiiggggg!"

Yes, these would do nicely. The Incubus then begins warping these memories, increasing its hate and fear. It's envy and loneliness.

Suddenly the corpse's arm snaps up, before a pair of golden red eyes reform of the remaining flesh. The Grimm uses its new found body to raises itself up.

It stumbles around, before noticing it severed head lying a few feet from it. It jerks its body over, before leaning down and reattaching its head.

The Grimm Pyg lets out an ear piercing screech, before following after it brethren. It's mind on one thing, and one thing only...

Kill Ruby C. Rose.

~ ~ ~

Pyrrha and Yang rolled across the ground, their little regrowing Aura protecting them. They had finally reached a clearing, but neither of them cared at the moment.

"Ruby!" Both girls pick themselves up and begin running back into the forest. But Pyrrha stops in her tracks, before running off in another direction.

Yang notices the champion and stops. "What are you doing?! Ruby's this way!" She isn't going to lose her sister right after she just found her.

"Ruby said to run and not fight. I have to find Jaune, and run. You can stay and die Yang Xiao Long, you'd be doing me and Ruby a favor, but I'm not gonna fight a pointless death." Pyrrha begins running off, but pauses to look back at the blonde.

"I trust Ruby with all my heart, soul, and mind. I have faith in her, faith that she'll live." Pyrrha then runs off towards the temple, knowing that the most likely point of Jaune appearing.

Yang takes a moment to process Pyrrha's words. The red head seemed to really value Ruby, to the point where she'd kill for her. But for her to just leave her with the Grimm?

Yang pauses for a moment, trying to decide on whether to go with Pyrrha or follow after Ruby.

In the end, she chooses.

'I just hope Ruby's okay.' Yang rushes through the forest, deciding to follow the red head.

~ ~ ~

Ren cuts down Grimm after hoards of Grimm. The monsters seemingly endless.

He had long ran out of bullets for his Storm Flower, so he opted to pull out his katana.

He slashes down another Grimm, an Ursa, his blade easily cutting down the monster.

After the nth Beowolf, Ren hears footsteps approaching from behind, followed by a shout.

"Hai yo!" Ren turns to see a red headed girl cutting down Grimm with a sword and a shield.

Ren cuts down a Ursa, before impaling its throat. He leaps back landing next to the warrior.

"Seems like we're partners." Ren blocks a Beowolf and shoves it back.

Pyrrha's javelin turns into a spear as she impales the Grimm. "Looks like it."

"I got a message from the school saying to head to the temple for extraction. A level two Grimm threat is approaching." The samurai deflects a small volley of iron feather. He pulls out a kunai and throws it at a young Nevermore.

"Lets move then, there's no reason to waste or energy here fighting." Pyrrha takes a charging Boarbatusk head on, she pushes against the Grimm before shoving it away. She throws her javelin at the Grimm's stomach killing it.

All the Grimm pause at the carnage the two are creating, but they move out of the way as one Grimm moves forward.

"Shit. You got ammo?" Pyrrha transforms Miló in its spear configuration.

"I'm all out." Ren pulls out his other katana. He skids them against each other, the blades giving off a hum.

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The Alpha Beowolf lets our a deafening roar before charging at the two huntsmen.

The two run at the Grimm, Pyrrha leading the charge.

The Alpha lunges at the spartan, its claws out.

Pyrrha skids under the Grimm, dodging a claw swipe. She swings her spear at the Grimm, but it jumps away, the spear only cutting off its ear.

Ren leaps from behind, both his swords out.

The Alpha turns around and raises its forearms. Its bone plates and spikes catch the swords, but Ren doesn't let up in his attack.

Faster than when he had one sword, Ren releases a flurry of slashes at the Alpha. The Grimm blocking or parrying the blades.

The Alpha shoves away a blade, and sends a foot crashing into the samurai. Ren is sent flying off, but he gets right back up and charges.

Pyrrha comes up from the side, she throws her spear at the Grimm. The weapon stabs into its back, making it roar out.

Pyrrha dodges a swipe, before slamming her shield in the Grimm's thighs. Akoúo cuts into the wolf's flesh, but it slaps away the shield.

Pyrrha recalls her shield, just in time to block a punch. She's sent flying off, but she uses her semblance to fix herself up.

The Alpha blocks Ren's slashes again, but this time it gets the upper hand. It pushes the samurai back, its markings on its bone plates glowing red.

The Grimm then feints a swipe, and catches Ren in the side with a swipe. Ren is sent rolling across the ground, but the Alpha takes the chance to pounce on him.

Only for a shield to knock it off course. The Alpha misses Ren, giving him the chance to roll away.

The shield, stuck in the Grimm's body, is yanked off. It flys around, before Pyrrha catches it. She recalls Miló too, transforming it into a javelin.

She charges forward, letting out a war cry.

She makes a move to roll to the left, but feints the dodge. The Beowolf falls for the feint, and Pyrrha thrusts Miló, catching the Grimm in the shoulder.

It roars in pain, before clamping its jaws at the human. But the warrior jumps away. Swinging her shield, the projectile crashes into the Grimm's head. It breaks away parts of its bone plates, black blood leaking out.

Blades slash at the Grimm's back. Ren delivers another slash, but the Alpha's outer rib cage blocks the blades.

The Alpha, peppered by the two, knocks the two away in frustration, letting out a roar.

The two huntsmen are sent rolling, when the Alpha lunges at the warrior and clamps its jaws on her shoulder.

Red blood spills out, and Pyrrha lets out a shout of pain. But she grits her teeth, and stabs the monstrous wolf, blinding it in one eye.

It lets out a bark of pain, letting go of the human, when Ren comes in from behind and impales both his sword into the Grimm's body. The blades cutting through the flesh and muscles.

The Alpha slaps away the samurai, but Ren stabs his swords into the ground stopping himself. He looks up, his eyes bearing a cold furious look.

Pushing through the pain, Pyrrha grabs Akoúo and swings it forward. The shield smacks into the mouth of the Grimm, breaking off its lower jaw.

The Grimm roars in pain, letting go the spartan.

Ren charges at the Grimm, his swords are glowing with a green and pink energy. He leaps up at the Alpha Beowolf and release and unholy amount of slashes at the Grimm.

Ren lands next to Pyrrha, his eyes shadowed. He slowly sheaths his katanas before closing them with a click.

The Alpha stays still for a small
moment before its body explodes into several pieces.

The Grimm, seeing the Alpha dead, all begin charging at the two huntsmen.

Pyrrha, with the help of Ren, picks herself up. The two decide to run, knowing they needed to move.

"Thanks for the help." Pyrrha uses what little Aura she has and stops the bleeding of her wound. "I appreciate it." She begins running on her own, pushing through the pain.

"Don't mention it, you'd do the same for me." Ren slashes down a Beowolf. But he doesn't notice the face Pyrrha makes.

"Yeah, of course." Pyrrha shoves away a Grimm, avoiding using her bad side.

~ ~ ~

Ruby sprints through the forest, weaving around trees and shrubs, the Grimm right on her tail. She leaves rose petals in her wake, doing her best to not lose the monsters, but not to get caught either.

She's been running for quite some time, and her Aura was running quite low. She only had half of the rounds in the assault rifle along with another belt. She had her sword, two grenades, her garrote wires, and her briefcase.

The old man really out did himself this time. She could say the same as well for herself.

Ruby leaps over a small stream, her hood flapping in the wind. The Grimm all chased after her, their eyes burning with murder.

Kill. Kill. Kill Ruby C. Rose.

This was the consequence of turning off her emotions. The longer she kept them off, the more intense they would become by the time she turned them back on. Coupled with the brand and her eyes, and she'd be a beacon for the Grimm.

Ruby ran up a slanted tree and leaped off of it like a ramp. She spun high through the air and could see a cave somewhere in the distance. She landed in a small clearing. There was a pond along with a river leading off a cliff.

The waterfall.

The red head huffed, before looking back. In the distance she could see the Grimm growing closer and closer. This should be a good ways away from the temple.

Ruby replaced the belt of bullets, before checking her .44. Everything was good, she had ammo, her wires were refurbished, thanks to her Karma, and she was alone.

Perfect.

She could go all out.

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Ruby grinned as the first of the Grimm approached. She grabbed her briefcase and pressed a button on the handle.

Gears and mechanical parts shifted and moved. The case opened and folded around itsself as a silver metallic liquid molded out. The metalloid shifted and moved as it took form. It extended out as the case thinned out and formed a hilt and finally forming.

When the first Grimm lunges at Ruby, an Alpha Beowolf, Ruby slashes down the monster. The weapon easily cutting through the Alpha Beowolf with ease.

It was beautiful. It was elegant. It was deadly. After having the old man fix it up for her, Ruby finally had her weapon back. The same weapon she would use to take down hoards of Grimm.

Silver's Edge.

As the Alpha Beowolf's bisected corpse flew past the young girl, an Ursa Major charges forward. It lunges intending on stomping the girl flat.

Ruby dashes away, before reappearing above the monster, her blade aimed at the bear. She thrusts down, her sword impaling through the Grimm's bone plates and thick hide. The blade stab through the Major's stomach poking out the other side.

Without wasting anytime, Ruby leaps off the Grimm, and moves into the next. She swings her blade and catches several Beowolves, bisecting them.

Black blood spills out like an oil rig, soaking the girl in the liquid. She raises Silver's Edge blocking a spinning Boarbatusk, before she shoves it away.

She applies Aura to her sword and slashes at the boar, but instead of the blade hitting the Grimm, a pressurized wave of Aura and air cuts through the Grimm and anything behind it.

Ruby grins at the carnage, before dashing off again. She slashes and cuts down any Grimm in her path, her blade slicing through both bone and flesh like butter.

A Nevermore soars through the sky before sending a volley of iron hard feathers at the girl.

Ruby dodges the projectiles and deflects any that hit her. She bursts through the air, before slamming her sword down. The blade doesn't cut through the bird's iron hard feathers, but the force sends the Grimm crashing down.

The avian Grimm tries to lift itself, but a Silver's Edge impales it through it head.

Ruby jerks her head up, her body just black and red, before she dashes at the next target.

The Grimm die left and right, their bodies torn apart by the black and red tornado of death. But the Grimm know no fear of humans, they know no retreat nor are they discouraged by the death of their brethren.

They will continue to fight, like they always have. And they will only stop until the branded silver eyed warrior is dead... or they are.

Ruby cuts down another Grimm, its body falls with the rest. But their bodies don't fade away immediately, a specialized evolution made to slow the Reaper. but it also serves as matter to heal other Grimm.

Several caws are heard as a large murder of Scareqrows fly towards Ruby.

The Reaper notices the Grimm and sheaths her blade. Her eyes glow blue as do her gloves do as well.

She leaps into the air, and in a swift motion, rapidly moves her arms. Several wires whip around as the Scareqrows and others are killed. They're sliced and diced into pieces, as the garrote wires create a bubble of death around her.

When the avian Grimm's numbers are reduced, Ruby stops her arms. She lands down on the ground, before jumping away.

A well aged, experienced Alpha Beowolf lands where the girl just was, its bone plates and spikes scarred and old. Without wasting anytime, the Old Alpha charged at the girl, its red markings glowing.

"Well, aren't you an old bastard?" Ruby mocks, her wires floating around her. She dodges the Grimm's attacks, her wires wrapping around the Grimm.

When she makes the move to kill, the Grimm leaps away, the wires only amputating it's arm. The Grimm barks in pain, before picking up a dying corpse. It chows down on the deceased Grimm, and its arm grows back, its bone spikes and plates new and reinforced.

"Someone knows how to recycle." Ruby wraps her right hand set wires on her hand. She reaches behind her back and pulls out the assault rifle she 'borrowed' from the corpse.

Immediately the Old Alpha lunges at the girl, a young Alpha and a Beta charging in behind it.

Ruby uses her wires to pull her back, she puppeteers herself dodging the Old Alpha's attack, its speed and skill greatly surpassing the girl's. But not by a lot.

The puppeteer yanks herself back, and releases a volley of bullets at the wolves. The Old Alpha dodges the projectiles, while the younger Alpha gets hit by a few. The Beta is torn apart by the bullets it blood spurting everywhere.

Ruby flips over the Old Alpha firing at its back, before landing. She creates a net blocking the younger Alpha, before firing at its face.

She yanks herself away, dodging the Old Alpha again. The monster roars at her, before raising its arms blocking  several bullets. It clamps its jaw on the younger Alpha and consumes its essence.

Newer, stronger plates and spikes replace the older ones. The Alpha charges at the young girl, its speed doubled. It slams its head into the girl, sending her flying off.

Ruby's Aura takes the hit, but is drained considerably. She flys through the air, but catches herself with her wires. She jerks her head up, her eyes burning with fury and wisps of red.

The Reaper sends her wires away, before pulling out Silver's edge. She coats it in an aura of Blue Karma. Blue symbols and glyphs covering the blade.

Her eyes burn with from strain, but Ruby pushes through it. Her eyes lose focus for a moment before holds herself back together. She turns off her emotions again, focusing on the Alpha.

This was the consequence of straining your Karma.

Letting out a war cry, Ruby charges at the Beowolf. The two clash against one another, bone against metal.

There is a reason it's called Karma.

Ruby ducks under a swipe and leaps up.

Blue Karma is the concept of your surroundings, not you.

The Alpha dodges the blade, and bites down on the girl's shoulder.

It is a sense of coming to a peace with your surroundings. Accepting that you are not the only thing that matters.

Ruby's Aura holds, but she's flung off to the side.

With this in mind, one may become one with their environment.

Ruby creates a transparent bubble, and somehow teleports behind the Grimm.

But this is a human mind, and, like all things, it's can become corrupted.

Ruby attacks the Alpha, but instead of using her sword, she shoves her fist down the Grimm's throat.

One may devalue themselves, branding themselves as worthless and such.

The Grimm, having no gag reflex, bits down on the arm, but has difficulty.

They may disregard their self preservation, and sacrifice their body.

Ruby grabs the Grimm's tongue and rips it out, the teeth ripping her arm.

They may also disregard their sanity, slowly but surely losing themselves and humanity.

Ruby grins maniacally as she tosses the tongue, she leaps off the Grimm, as it struggles to stop its bleeding mouth.

It claws at its throat, more and more blood spilling out, before finally it bleeds to death.

Red Karma on the other hand...

Ruby huffs in mental exhaustion. Unknowingly, the flesh wounds on her body slowly heal due to her Red Karma.

Works the opposite.

Relying mostly on the user's emotions, Red Karma focuses on a person's self. Making sure you care for yourself properly.

Ruby turns toward the Grimm noting how they all have stopped. She scans the board searching for any older and more experienced Grimm that out ranks the monsters.

Red Karma is about coming to peace with yourself, making sure you care for you, and what makes your emotions active.

A figure stumbles forward, it walks on two legs, and looks vaguely human. It has patches of white skin, veins bulge out grossly. Red and black blood spills out in fatal amounts, but does little to impede the humanoid.

But it also can become corrupted just like, if not even more than Blue Karma.

Stopping on the edge of the circle of Grimm, the mutilated corpse of the girl Pyrrha killed stands. A bloody sword in each of its hands, along with a corpse on one of the blades.

Envy, anger, loneliness, hatred, and more, Red Karma can make a person focus on themselves. Valuing their lives and interests more than others.

The Possessed Pyg turns its head slowly scanning the clearing. Until it sets it sight on the girl in red.

Eventually the person becomes a narcissistic sociopath, only valuing they're own life and what ever it obsesses over.

"R-Ruby... C.... Rose..." the Grimm Pyg groans out. It's clouded red eyes focusing onto the girl.

"What?" Ruby huffs, her emotions still locked. Her wounds were mostly healed. She tries to remember who the girl is, until she looks at the rifle on her back.

The Pyg's expression changes into anger, its red eyes glowing. "Y-you... take Pyrrha away... from me..." it groans out, its lower jaw missing. "You're... in. My. WAY!" The Grimm lets out an unholy screech, making Ruby cover her ears.

The Pyg charges at the reaper with incredible speed, that Ruby barely blocks with Silver's edge.

"MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!" The Pyg repeatedly shouts as it swings its dual blades with reckless abandon. It growls in frustration as it thrust forward.

Ruby does her best to block, dodge, and or parry the blades. The two clash against each other as one tries to overwhelm the other.

'What the hell is this?' Ruby ducks under a swing. She thrusts her blade forward, but the Grimm Pyg dodges the attack. 'I've never seen such a phenomenon like this.'

Ruby makes a horizontal swing, her blade catching several by standing Grimm, but missing the Pyg.

The Pyg thrusts forward with a blade, but Ruby barely dodges, the sword glancing off her Aura.

'What could have caused this?' Ruby sends a punch into the Grimm girl, her fist sending the monster back. 'And why do I antagonize her so much?'

The Pyg snarls like an animal. It throws one of its blade at the hooded girl, but it is deflected. The Grimm reaches behind her and pulls out a grenade.

'This is less than ideal.' Ruby thinks as the Grimm pulls the pin. 'Wait, she mentioned Pyrrha...'

Ruby summons her garrote wires again, but her eyes burn in pain. The blue energy no longer a soft glow, but a violent fire. But she pushes through the pain and raises her wires.

'I'm in their way? They want Pyrrha for themselves?!' Ruby's mask begins cracking, her emotions slipping out intensely.

The Grimm throws the grenade at the Huntress. Ruby dashes to the grenade, and right before she hits the explosive, her body fully transforms into a cloud of rose petals. The explosive flys right throw the girl, and continues to fly.

Ruby spins around and catches the grenade with her wires. She sling the explosive into her hand before shoving it inside the Grimm.

"PYRRHA IS MINE AND MINE ALONE!!!" Ruby growls out, before the grenade explodes.

KA-BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!

Both girls are sent fly away. Ruby's Aura shatters at the force of the explosion and she crashes into a tree. Pieces of shrapnel stick into her body, as other Grimm are caught in the crossfire.

The Grimm Pyg's body is torn apart from the frag grenade. Their body explodes outwards, black and red organs fly everywhere as blood spills everywhere.

When the smoke clears out, Ruby is seen stuck inside a tree, her weapons lying next to her.

As for the Pyg, its body is shredded into indistinguishable pieces. Gore and blood spills out of their stomach as their legs are gone.

The Pyg groans in pain as it tries to move, the Grimm inside of it trying to decide if it should abandon the corpse.

Until it sees the other human corpse along with the several other still fading bodies of its brethren. Yes, this would do. The Grimm began dragging itself towards the bodies, its skin flaking away.

Once it reaches the human corpse, it latches onto it, its dark decaying flesh fusing with the body. Its blood expanded out, before attaching onto the Grimm corpses, feeding its mass.

Ruby groaned out in pain, she begrudgingly opens her eyes. She saw that she was in a tree, and her weapons were lying about.

Her aura had broken with the explosion due to her reckless impulsiveness. But she should have broken her bones when she crashed into the tree.

Ruby removed herself from the tree despite the pain, she knew there were still Grimm out there. She fell forward onto her hands and widened her eyes at what she saw.

Her skin was a bright red, glowing symbols covering her arms. Her Red Karma must have activavted when her emotion broke loose like a dam.

Course, that didn't stop the pain though. Ruby reaches out and grabs Silver's edge and used it to support herself up. Blood was leaking out of her chest. She ripped off her shirt, leaving only her coat and hood on.

Her wound had reopened, the stitching had broken along with the still healing flesh. Fuck, this is a problem.

The sound of groaning caught the red head's attention. She looked up and what she saw horrified her.

A mass of black and white flesh wriggled around as several Grimm corpses were assimilated into the cesspool of meat.

Ruby watched in morbid fascination as the flesh then took form, a giant pair of wings formed on its back, along with several insect like legs. Many eyes formed on the sides of the body as spikes and plates formed.

Next a vaguely feminine torso was formed at the top of the thorax, when finally an all too familiar face formed from the dark flesh.

"AHAHAAHAHAA LOOK AT ME!!! I'M PYRRHA NIKOS! AHAHAHAHA!!!" the shoggoth of dark flesh laughed happily. Its voice was an amalgamation of several deformed voices. The Pyg's unconscious desires forming its physical appearance.

"Well, this certainly is new." Ruby reaches into her bag and pulled out two grenades. She pulls the pins and prepares to throw them.

"Hey bitch!" She taunts. The Grimm shoggoth turned it head towards the hooded reaper, their euphoric expression turning sour. "Shut the hell up."

Ruby throw the grenades at the mass of flesh, as she summons her wires, not aided with Karma.

The Pyg screeches before slapping away a grenade, but the other hits home and explodes right on its body. Fire and metal explode out as the amalgamation struggles to move. It lets out a pained scream as the trees catch fire.

Ruby doesn't stop there though as she begins firing all of her ammunition from her assault rifle. After all monsters don't need guns.

The incendiary rounds burn the flesh away, as the fires around grow stronger.

"PAIN! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN! STOP PAIN! KILL RUBY C. ROSE!!!" The Grimm shoggoth scrams our as it charges at the Reaper. It flaps its many wings sending a volley of iron hard feathers.

Ruby dodges the charge, but maneuvers her wires to block the feathers. The metal strings groan under the pressure of force, the material not strengthened by Karma.

The Pyg roared in frustration, as it sent out a whip like tendril at the young girl.

Ruby raises the flat of Silver's Edge, catching the offending appendage, but the force sends her flying off. She crashes into a tree. Her body rings in pain, but she ignores it. She's had worse.

"AHAHAHAHA PYRRHA IS MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! YOU CAN'T HAVE HER!" It screams out sending more tendrils at the girl.

Ruby, despite no Aura, heavily wounded, and tired, expertly weaves around the whips and appendages. She slices off the limbs and dodges around them.

"RUBY?!?" A voices shouts out. Yang then runs out of the burning underbrush, searching for her sister. The distraction costs Ruby.

A tendril grazes her, making her wince in pain, and the Shoggoth exploits the opportunity. It opens its 'human' mouth and a large pike like bone sticks out. It thrusts forward and impales Ruby in the stomach.

"RUBY!!!" Yang yells out, her eyes burn red.

Ruby screams in pain, the bone stabbing through her body and poking out of her. Luckily, if this counts as luck, the attack had missed any vital organs.

The amalgamation swings its head, flinging Ruby off its pike, and rolling into the smoke. It tries to chase down the silver eyed girl, but screeches in pain when a massive sword stabs into its body.

It jerks its head down to its side to see Yang and her Dragkov impaled. It tilts its head in confusion before remembering who the blonde was.

"Y-Yang Xiao Long... yes?" It speaks out, catching the blonde off guard.

"What the...?! It talks?!" Yang tries to pull out her weapon, but the dark flesh grips the metal.

"You... you smell odd?" The shoggoth mumbles out. The blonde's scent smelled so familiar yet different at the same time. It raises a tendril seeing Ruby's blood on the appendage. The flesh absorbs the blood, tasting it.

Ah... that why.

"You... YOU SHARE THE BLOOD OF RUBY C. ROSE!!!!" The Grimm screams as it sends a gorilla like fist at a Yang.

The fist knocks away the busty blonde and sends her flying off. The Pyg continues to attack the girl, with Yang doing her best to block or dodge.

'Black it out.'

Ruby groans as blood spills of her wound, but she pays no mind to it. She was still high from her emotions, the pain drowned out by her own voice.

'Black it out one more time...'

She reached into her bag and pulled out a syringe. She uncapped the tool and jabbed it into her leg. The adrenaline surging through her body, but making her emotions even wilder.

'I'll take my urge to kill...'

Ruby applies what little Aura she has to stop the bleeding.

'And black everything else out.'

'But how do I get close while I'm in this shape?' Ruby peeks over her cover.

'Even if I do get close I'm out of grenades, out of bullets, and Karma, I'll need...' she sees Yang getting pummeled out there. The blonde doing her best to block or dodge. 'A distraction...' she narrows her eyes.

She could let the monster kill Xiao Long, and no one would blame her. The Grimm killed her after all. Yes, it's the perfect opportunity.

But... she would miss her chance at killing the monster. Damn it! Either let Yang die and fight the monster head on or kill the monster by surprise and let Yang live? Fuck!

"AHAHAHAHA!!! KILL THE ROSE! KILL THE ROSE!" A tendril wraps around Yang's throat and raises her. "After I kill you and Ruby, I'll finally be able to be with my Pyrrha! AHAHAHAHAHA!"

Yang struggles to breathe, the tendril cutting off her air supply. She turns her head to see a figure in the distance, their red hood flapping in the wind and smoke. Why isn't Ruby helping her? Is this her punishment? Was this karma collecting her debt?

"And when I find Pyrrha, the two of us will go somewhere where no one can stop us. Some where far... far away."

"Ruby..." the dying blonde mumbles out, as she feels her life fading away.

Ruby waits in the smoke of the flames. Her eyes focusing on the monster before her. She grips her sword, her knuckles turning white. Her eye cackles with bursts of Red.

Then like a predator she lunges out of the fire!

Her giant blade stabs into the back of the monster. Black blood and gore spill out as the blade stabs through it the Grimm's body. The blade continues thrusting forward, just missing Yang's head.

The Pyg coughs out oily blood from it mouth, and by instinct begins to flap its wing. It drops Yang and flaps it wings harder and harder.

Gore and blood fall from the sky like rain as the two are sent skywards. Yang is dropped to the ground, she coughs for air as she watches Ruby fly off of the Grimm.

She knew...

She knew that the monster would try and kill her.

And she could have let her die, and she waited. She watched as the fire engulfs her.

Hiding herself...

Behind a curtain of flame and smoke.

~ ~ ~
The flying shoggoth twirls around through the air, trying to get its stowaway off its back.

But Ruby holds on, even when her hands bleed, she holds on.

"What are you?! Who are you?!" The Grimm shouts out, as it barrel rolls three times.

"You forgot me already?" Ruby bring her head forward a feral grin on her face. "I guess you wouldn't remember every human scum you chow down on!"

"You!" Anger takes over the Pyg's expression to the point where the face deforms itself. "ROSE!!!"

The Grimm's flight pattern becomes more erratic and violent as it does its best to knock off the girl. Its necks extends out further than it should, before knocking off the girl with its bone pike.

"YOU'RE IN MY WAY!!!" The Grimm screams as it thrusts its pike.

SLICK!

The Pyg's deformed face takes an expression of happiness as its bone pike impales Ruby right through the head.

"AHAHAHAHAHA!! YOU'RE DEAD!!!" the Grimm laughs as Ruby's body hangs limps off its pike.

"RUBY!!!" Yang shouts out from below.

"I'm in your way...?" Ruby's voice calls out.

The Pyg pauses at the voice as it hears a cracking noise.

Ruby jerks her head, the pike had only stabbed through her cheeks! She drives the pike further in her cheeks and bites down on the bone with her teeth.

A murderous expression takes Ruby's face as she breaks the bone pike with her teeth. Her eyes burn with Red Karma as she reels back her fist, thorns growing around her hand, and slams it into the Grimm's face.

"YOU'RE IN MY WAY!"

The two are sent flying off each other, but Ruby transforms her body into rose petals and dashes at the Grimm.

Her eyes glow with a silver energy as she slams down Silver's edge. The blades slices through the Grimm's flesh as blast of white energy explodes out. The amalgamation of flesh is burned into stone as it lets out a final death dry.

The two fall from the sky, Ruby's body beyond exhaustion. The stone Grimm crashes against the ground shattering, while Ruby crashes into the pond.

"Ruby!" Yang grabs Dragkov and leaps off the cliff. She rolls across the ground, and swings her blade, bisecting a Beowolf.

"Stay back!" She shouts as the Grimm oblige. She blinks at them, shocked at their command, until she notices them looking behind her.

She turns her head to see Ruby slowly stumbling out of the water, blood oozing out profusely. She's using her sword as a crutch. Her hair is soaked and damp covering her eyes as she walks out of the water.

Yang and the Grimm watch in shock as Ruby looks up, that same murderous glare in her eye.

"Whose... next?" She croaks our. She raises her revolver aiming at one of the Grimm. "Is it you?" She pulls the trigger, and the Grimm flinch, but there's only a click.

Regardless Ruby aims anyway. "Or is it you?" She pulls the trigger again, buts there only a click again. Regardless the Grimm whimper and flinch.

Ruby reaches behind her and throws something in front of the Grimm. It rolls slowly until it stops.

It was the stone head of the Pyg Grimm, an expression of pain and fear on her face. Just like when she died the first time.

"Ruby..." Yang's shocked at the distance she would go just to kill these monsters.

"Well?! Come on! Fight me! Kill me!" Ruby roars out, and the Grimm hesitate.

For once during these past ten years of trying to kill the silver eyed warrior they feel something well up inside of them. Something that they should never feel when battling the forces of light.

Fear.

The Grimm all whimper and let out barks of fear. Ruby aims her revolver again, and pulls the trigger.

This time a bullet does shoot out, and hits a Grimm right in the head, killing it.

At the shot, all of the Grimm run off in fear, for once valuing their dark lives. All of the Grimm run off clambering over each other, while the weak are trampled and killed.

Ruby huffs and she feels her legs buckle. She falls forward, but Yang catches her.

"Don't worry sis. I got you, I got you." Yang doesn't know what happening nor does she want to, but if it means she can help her sister.

She'll do it.

10,235 words, excluding disclaimer and Author's Note. I am open to criticism and opinions.

This chapter went over 10,000 words...

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But anyway, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, even if it was a bit tedious due to how long it is. I try to keep the chapter between 5,00 and 10,000 words, so that they aren't so long for the reader. Unless ya guys enjoy longer chapter, but even so they take time.

I've always wondered why does the brand of sacrifice from Berserk always look like two Bluetooth symbols together. That is what I used for Ruby's brand, except it attracts Grimm and Ruby's not a sacrifice. I'll describe what it looks like later, but some of ya may already have an idea.

Seems like Ruby's losing herself as her Karma grows. While this story may have been published in 2019, I've had the idea of Karma as a power since 2014, enough time for me to set out its limits and consequences.

Blue basically makes ya lose ya self, as red makes ya lose TO yourself. They act as test or obstacles to one's personality to either help ya grow as a person or kill your humanity. I've yet to explain where Karma came from, and how one gets Karma, but we'll get there.

As for the team formations, we got Blake and Nora, an odd combo, Weiss and Jaune, and we have Pyrrha and Ren, another weird combo. So that leaves Ruby and Yang...

*Distance snickering*

Tell me how the fight scenes are, I really want to know your opinions! Fights are supposed to be fast, quick, and tense. I really want to know if I'm doing them right. I write the sentences short and choppy, because over explaining something when you're supposed to be focused kinda dulls out the excitement. At least for me anyway.

Any who, there are probably other things I haven't covered, but meh, I get to those later.

Au revoir!