A pained cry of a dying Beowolf filled the sky's as the Huntresses in training carved a path of destruction through the Grimm ridden forest. Team RWBY had been assigned a mission to clear out the potential threat. There wasn't that many. In all honesty, have all four of the team members working on this seemed like it was too much. But better safe than sorry.

"This is too easy!" Shouted Yang. The boisterous blonde had a fun time with the few poor Grimm that were caught in her way. Punching one, sending it flying back to crash into its brothers in a fiery display of dominance. "I wish Ozpin would have given us a challenge."

"Shut up, Yang!" Shouted Weiss, "He's probably watching. If he is and heard that then we will get something much harder!" She wasn't wrong, their Headmaster, Professor Ozpin, who sent them into the forest, was watching from afar. As he did with all missions. He chuckled in his chair, but knew that the next challenge he had for them wouldn't come instantly.

"Cut the chatter you two, we've still got Grimm to clear out." Called their team leader, Ruby. Ruby was younger than the rest of her team. The rest of her class, actually. She was bumped up two years and put into a leadership position over her team. But she didn't let that go to her head. She worked harder than ever, with her team and herself. "Yang, Blake, go check east. Go out by half a kilometer and come back. Weiss, you and I will check west by the same distance. Meet back here when you've gone your distance." She ordered. "Oh, you know what to do if you find any Grimm." The rest of her team nodded and they went their separate ways.

"You really think we'll run into anything?" Weiss asked, "We've kinda been decimating them. if any Grimm saw or heard what we were doing, they'd probably run for it."

"Some," Ruby said, "But not all." Ruby knew what most Beowolves would do. There was always a plethora near her house on her home island of Patch. Whenever there was one she would be the one to take it down. She knew most were smart enough to flee to live and fight another day. But some were young, and those young ones were the foolish ones.

And the foolish ones were the easiest prey.

After a few minutes of walking, Ruby and Weiss looked to each other and nodded. They didn't know how far they went, but they took an estimated guess at half a kilometer. "Yang, Blake, we're on our way back." Ruby spoke into her scroll, which maintained contact with her team and the school. "How are you two doing?"

Silence.

"Yang probably forgot to turn it on again." Weiss said bluntly.

"No, I saw her and Blake turn theirs on." Ruby said with a shaky voice, "Yang? Blake? Come in." Still nothing. "I've got a fix on their location. Come on, Weiss." The two pushed it into high gear. It was one thing for Yang not to respond right away unless she was alone. But if someone else could do it for her, she would leave the radio to them. To have Blake not respond meant something went down.

After another moment of running, they finally heard gunshots and explosions. Breaking through the tree line they found their teammates to be under attack by a large pack of Ursi and Beowolves. Ruby and Weiss drew their weapons and jumped into the frey.

"Hey sis!" Yang called out, "Glad you could join us!" She said as she buried her fist into an Ursa minor.

"Well we couldn't leave you and Blake to have all of the fun." Ruby shot back, "Speaking of which, where is-" Before she could finish a shadow appeared right before her and on top of an unsuspecting Beowolf. The shadow shot a ribbon around the wolf's neck and shot it back, sending it crashing to the Grimm behind. "Oh, well that answers that."

"Hey Ruby." Her cat Faunus teammate shot a smile to her. "Glad to see you and Weiss show up."

"Thanks, glad we could make it." Ruby shot back. The rest of the team regrouped and formed up. The Grimm's numbers were large, but still posed little threat. At least until they heard a roar from behind the pack.

"Oh no." On cue, a massive Deathstalker broke through the tree line. "Yang," Ruby said, looking to her sister, "You said you wanted a challenge. Well THERE it is!" As she finished her sentence she drew out her Scythe. The rest of the team prepared their weapons. Once again on cue, the Grimm charged, and so did Team RWBY.

Shot after shot Ruby sliced her way through the Grimm before her. If they didn't die by her wild-yet-controlled swings, they died by the guns high powered sniper rifle. She didn't relent, moved back for nothing and stood her ground. Using the force of the guns recoil and her speed semblance to her advantage, it was easy for her to move effectively. Her fighting skill was one of the reasons why Ozpin bumped her up by two years.

Weiss was deadly accurate. Using her rapier fueled by dust she plunged fire and ice into the chest cavities of the Grimm. Any that weren't destroyed by her directly faced her Glyphs. Sometimes people didn't know which was worse; dying by the glyph or by the blade.

Blake moved swiftly and accurately without mercy. Using her shadow semblance to her advantage she fooled many Ursa that dared to charge her. Avoiding direct attacks she slipped her way behind the great beats, turning her blades sideways and spinning around, creating a flurry of death and destruction.

Yang had shown her dominance once to these beasts and was doing so again. She used her shotgun gauntlets and brute force to dispatch her foes. The scary thing was, that wasn't the worst thing about her. No, it was her semblance. Whenever she took a hit, she could turn the force of that hit, and any other, against her foe in a burning fury. A high risk, high reward semblance. Tough to use, but she made it work.

The team cut down everything in their way. Professor Ozpin watched on, slightly awestruck. It wasn't every day where a first year team could show this much potential during a simple 'clear-out' mission.

As team RWBY finished the last of the smaller Grimm, the bigger ones; Ursa majors, Alpha Beowolves and, of course, the oversized Deathstalker. RWBY reloaded and prepared for a bigger fight.

"Well team," Ruby began, "It's been an honor-"

"Ruby Rose don't you think about dying on us." Weiss interrupted.

"Oh, I have no plans on it. I just thought you'd like to know." She and Yang smiled while Blake chuckled. Ruby had a way to lighten the mood, yet be serious at the same time.

With a roar the Alpha Beowolves charged first. Team RWBY stayed on the defense, however. Letting the fight come to them. Shortly after the Beowolves, the Ursi decided to join. This still posed little threat. It was the big boy behind everything that Team RWBY was afraid of.

The team dispatched their foes quickly and moved to their final target. This was their true test. This was what Ozpin was hoping for; to see them fight off a massive beast.

"Ladybug!" Ruby called out. Her and Blake ran in first, assaulting the scorpion head-on, while avoiding its massive stinger. "Freezerburn!" Was her next order. Yang and Weiss both jumped back and started providing a storm of fire and ice from afar. They were beating the beast back but didn't have it close to dead.

Ruby and Blake jumped back so Yang and Weiss could unleash their full potential. When Yang paused to reload, Ruby ordered a regroup.

"Iceflower!" With that, Ruby set up her Scythe to start sniping the Deathstalker. Weiss put up a few glyphs in front of the gun to increase the power of the rounds. Still, the beast went unfazed and charged the team. "Scatter!"

The team did as they were ordered, sticking by their respective partners. "None of this is working." Weiss said. Ruby couldn't deny it, she was right. Everything they threw at this monstrosity failed to have any effect. But they couldn't stop.

Yang and Blake were currently keeping the beast distracted, which left Weiss and Ruby to a perfect ambush. They were right behind, out of sight from the Deathstalker. Weiss looked to Ruby who met her glance and prepared a glyph.

"I hope you know what you're doing."

"Nope." Ruby smiled to her partner and jumped back into the glyph. Weiss gave it an extra boost to let Ruby fly a bit higher.

Their timing was impeccable, as Blake had been down and Yang smacked away with the beasts massive claw. Before the stinger could come down on Ruby's Faunus teammate, she turned her scythe skyward and shot out, sending herself down upon the unsuspecting below. She made a good hit, and cut the stinger off of its tail before the damage could be done. Ruby found herself on top of the Deathstalker's back, which had cried out in pain from having part of its tail cut off.

Before Ruby had time to react she was shaken off and grabbed by the beasts claw. Her weapon was sent flying away from her. Now she was at the massive beasts mercy; which it had none of. Throwing the 15 year old skyward, the Grimm smacked her down with what was left of its tail. Ruby was sent flying into the trees, leaving a horrified and angered team behind.

The angered one, was of course Ruby's older sister, Yang. If there was one thing you didn't mess with, aside for Yang's hair, it was her family.

And no one hurt her family.

Unleashing all of her fury at once, Yang glowed with the intensity of a thousand suns, her eyes turned as red as her sisters cloak. Rage fueling her, she charged at the beast, intent and obliterating it. Killing it wouldn't be enough. She had to send a message to all. Hurt her sister, and be turned to ash.

Punch after punch, neither shot losing its intensity, she kept at the Deathstalker. It's cry of pain roared throughout the forest, until there was nothing. Yang had killed it. She did more than that, she burned away over half of the Deathstalker's body. It's entire right half was gone.

"Let that be a lesson, bitch." Yang said, towering over the burning ash. She turned to her stunned teammate. Blake had watched in awe and horror. "What?" Yang asked, "You've seen me mad before." The fire on her body had diminished and her eyes returned to their lilac color. She walked over to Blake and offered a hand. Blake accepted and smiled.

"Thanks." She said. "We need to find Ruby now." She pulled out her scroll, "Weiss, did you find her?"

"Did Yang kill that thing?"

"What do you think?" Yang called through her scroll, "Now did you find my sister or not?!" Yang was still mad. Or irritated. It was tough to tell sometimes.

"Yeah, I found her and her weapon. She's unconscious though. She got sent through a few trees and had a pretty hard landing."

Now was the time for Ozpin to intervene. "Alright Team RWBY, you've done better than we could expect. Regroup with your fallen leader and teammate and we will pick you up. Medics will be with them."

With that Yang and Blake began moving to Weiss. They both saw what Weiss was talking about. Ruby was shot down with such force that she went through three trees. It wasn't clear if she had hit her head or not, but the team didn't want to risk moving her. After a moment the rescue had arrived with medics in tow. Luckily they were already in a clearing, which meant the crew didn't have to worry about finding an alternative landing site.

The medics quickly looked over Ruby and prepared her for the ride back. The rest of the team had followed suit. They all knew one thing:

It was going to be a long night.