RWBY: Fate and Destiny: Volume 1

Chapter 6: Players and Pieces

Jaune and Pyrrha ran out of the cave, Jaune was out of breath as they stood outside.

"What was that thing!?" he barely makes out.

"It was a creature of Grimm, but I'm not sure which-" Pyrrha was suddenly cut off as a large scorpion like creature came bursting out of the rocks, letting out a screech.

Jaune ran towards the Grimm as he attempted to deflect an incoming attack but it didn't go to plan, he was sent flying to another part of the forest by the Grimm swinging its glowing tail at him, Pyrrha followed his screams.

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Meanwhile Ruby and Weiss somehow got trapped in a whirlwind of black feathers, the heiress was annoyed at this "Ruby! I told you this was a terrible idea!"

"We're fine! Stop Worrying!" the scythe wielder shouted back, she had a plan.

"I am so far from worrying!"

"In a good way!?"

"In a bad way! A very bad way!"

Ruby then decided to reveal her plan "Well then why don't we just jump!?"

"What are you insane!?" but before she could finish the scythe wielder had disappeared.

Ruby fell from the sky like a bullet, she hit the ground hard, leaving a small crater, Jaune shortly landed next to her face first.

"Oh my god Ruby are you ok!?" Yang shouted as she helped her cousin up and hugged her.

"Yea I'm ok" the caped girl replied.

"How did she fall from the sky?" Blake asked.

"Beats me" they were interrupted by Nora riding on the back of a bear like grimm.

The Grimm fell, and Nora was disappointed. "aww, it's broken"

Ren shortly followed her as he was out of breath "Nora? Please… never do that again"

They walked over to the temple and Nora chose the queen piece. The ginger quickly burst into a song and dance to celebrate "I'm queen of the castle. I'm queen of the castle"

"Nora! not in front of the others please" Ren tried to calm her down.

"Sorry Ren"

Blake had many more questions "did that girl just ride in on an Ursa"

Suddenly Pyrrha was running away from the scorpion grimm as it destroyed the forest, she jumped inbetween the creature's pincers and rolled to avoid being hit, she eventually noticed her partner in a tree and called out "Jaune!"

"Pyrrha!" he responded.

Blake was even more puzzled by this "Did she just run all the way over here with a Deathstalker on her tail?"

Ruby, Blake and Yang then looked up to the sky as they saw Weiss hanging on of the Bird's claws "how could you leave me?" they couldn't hear her pleas.

"I said she should have jumped"

"She's definitely gonna fall"

"She'll be fine"

Weiss fell off the grimms claws and hurdled towards the ground and landed butt first, her aura absorbed the damage, however she still complained "could I at least have something more comfortable to fall on?"

As Jaune made his way down the branch Pyrrha got thrown towards the temple by the Deathstalker.

"Great! the gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said as she tried to lighten the mood.

"Not if I can help it" Ruby ran towards the Deathstalker and propelled herself with crescent rose as she tried to attack it but she got knocked back by one of its pincers "D-don't worry, totally fine" the girl picked herself up and tried to run away, Yang ran after her.

Then the giant grimm flung feathers at the hooded girl, catching her cape which rendered her unable to move "Ruby get out of there!" Yang shouted towards her cousin.

"I'm trying" Ruby began to pull on her cape but to no avail, the scorpion plunged it's stinger towards the girl but she was saved by Weiss as she summoned an ice wall around them.

"You are so childish and hyperactive" the Schnee reprimanded.

"Weiss?"

"And don't even get me started on your fighting style, And I suppose I can be a bit… difficult to work with, But if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So, if you stop showing off I'll be… nicer"

"I'm not trying to show off. I want you to know that I can do this" Ruby replied.

"You're fine" Weiss then headed back to the rest of the team, Ruby shortly followed as she whispered to herself "normal knees"

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The four groups discussed how to deal with the creatures as they looked for a way back to the cliff

"Guy's that things circling back" Jaune pointed towards the bird "what are we gonna do?"

"Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us" Weiss said

"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artefact and make it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things" Ruby added, facing them would be a suicide mission.

"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind" Jaune and Ruby then grabbed two chess pieces before returning to the rest of the group.

Ren noticed that the Deathstalker was freeing itself from the ice "It's time we left"

"Right"

The group ran through some ruins while being chased, splitting into pairs to spread themselves out, the bird blocked their path by nesting on a large pillar that led to the cliff as it let out a screech.

"Well that's great!" Yang shouted, then the Deathstalker came after them, they were inbetween a rock and a hard place, and they had no choice but to run.

"Nora, distract it" Ren said as he tried to buy more time for the others. Nora transformed her hammer into a grenade launcher and started firing at the bird, landing a shat at it which made it briefly fly away.

The scorpion came towards her but Ren and Bake slashed it to stop it and Weiss moved Nora to a safe distance with her glyph.

The group made it to the edge and Pyrrha tried to hold the Deathstalker back "go, go!" she began shooting the scorpion but she joined the others as it got too close.

They ran across a bridge that lead to the cliff but suddenly, the bird grimm swooped down to destroy it, splitting them in two on opposite ends with Pyrrha, Blake and Ren fighting the Deathstalker on one end and Ruby, Weiss, Yang Nora and Jaune on the other.

"Man, we gotta get over there! They need our help!" Jaune was worried about the others.

"Let's do this!" Nora exclaimed.

"Yea, but uh… I can't make that jump"

The ginger then knocked the blond back as she prepared her hammer, she jumped into the air and propelled him to the other side of the bridge and shot herself over. "Ah, smash!" she slammed the scorpion on its head once they reached the other side, knocking herself into Blake which caused her to fall.

As the catgirl fell she extended the ribbon on her weapon and threw it onto on of the pillars, she swung her way to the bird as she slashed its body as she ran on it. Blake then landed next to Ruby on a platform. "It's tougher than it looks!"

"Then lets hit it with everything we've got" Yang shouted.

The team drew their weapons and proceeded to fire upon the grimm with various dust bullets, however the bird still swooped towards them, destroying the top of the temple at the edge of the cliff, the girls lept from the debris, heading to a nearby bridge.

"None of this is working" Weiss noticed.

"I have a plan! Cover me!" Ruby flew away as Weiss tried to defend her.

Meanwhile Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren were backed at the edge of a cliff against the Deathstalker, Jaune ordered "We gotta move!" the bridge slowly crumbled as the ran towards the beast, it lanced towards Pyrrha with its right pincer, she blockd it with her shield and hit the unprotected part, then Jaune blocked an attack the left pincer and the redhead stabbed it.

Ren shot the creature with his pistols as he ran, the Deathstalker lunged him with its stinger, the ninja dodged and grabbed hold of it, Nora then shot its face and Jaune and Pyrrha got knocked back by the explosion, the redhead then used the opening to stab it in the eye, which caused ren to get flung back to the grass side.

Jaune noted an opportunity as its stinger was dangling "Pyrrha throw your shield at its tail!"

"Done!" The golden shield went flying into the weakpoint, severing the pincer and stabbing itself, the shield returned itself to Pyrrha.

"Nora, nail it!" the blond ordered again.

"Heads up!" she jumped on Pyrrha's shield and launched herself into the air, she slammed the grimm with heavy force which broke the remains of the bridge and sent the others flying to safe ground as the Deathstalker fell to its demise.

At the other side Yang kept shooting explosive projectiles towards the bird, once the other beast attacked she jumped onto its beak and shot into it a couple of times before returning into safety, the resulting force caused the beast to be slammed against the taller side of the cliff, it landed on a perch.

Weiss then used her glyphs to speed up and send herself and froze its tail as it tried to leave. She returned to Ruby Blake and Yang, who were ready to execute the next phase of the plan, Blake throw her ribbon at Yang, setting up a rope at each pillar, the scythe wielder jumped onto it and got ready to fling herself at the bird, Weiss prepared a black glyph as the rope extended itself.

"Of course you would come up with this idea" the Heiress said.

"Think you can make the shot?"

"Hmph. Can I?"

"… can-"

"Of course I can!"

Weiss then sent Ruby flying at fast speeds as she grabbed the creatures neck with her scythe, she landed at the edge of the cliff and ran to the top thanks to Weiss's glyphs she made, propelling the caped girl as she fired.

Once Ruby made it to the top. She incapacitated the beasts head off and landed on the top of the cliff. Both creatures were slain.

"Well, that was a thing" Yang said.

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Back at the main hall the new students were getting initiated and put into teams by Ozpin.

"Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing and Sky lark, the four of you retrieved the Black bishop pieces. From this day fourth, you will be working as team CRDL. Lead by… Cardin Winchester" the new team left the stage and the last two teams stepped on.

"Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR" Nora hugged Ren to celebrate, "Lead by… Jaune Arc!" Pyrrha smiled at her partner as he was confused. "Congratulations young man" Ozpin finished.

"Congrats on being our leader Jaune" she gave him a small friendly dig on his arm, knocking him back a bit.

"And finally, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as… Team RWBY led by Ruby Rose"

Yang hugged her cousin tightly "I'm so proud of you!"

"Looks like things are shaping up to be an… interesting year."

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Later that day at the headmaster's office at the top of the tower, Ozpin sat down at his desk as Glynda showed him some reports as well as live footage of a girl resting in a chamber.

"How is the girl doing currently?" Ozpin asked about the mysterious girl.

"She isn't doing well sir, we may not be able to make her regain consciousness, Qrow should have been quicker" the witch replied.

"Hmm, that is an issue, we may need to look at other candidates. I already have one in mind"

"Sir you don't mean-"

"Yes, however I need time to think about it, give me until the end of the school year and I'll have my answer"

"Yes sir" Glynda left the office and took the elevator down.

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At night, Torchwick stood in an abandoned warehouse as he looked at a map while smoking, then in came 2 masked people carrying crates, Roman gave some lien to the masked people and instructed "open it" the crates open, revealing stolen dust crystals he observed one of them before returning it.

"We're gonna need more men."

Author's notes

I'm sorry for the long wait, college got in the way. but i'm back and ready to write.

Wanted to add some forshadowing to this episode, not sure if it was needed though.

Other than that all is good. next chapter is soon.