Team RGLA

Oooooh, Cliff hanger from last time, eh? Yeah. Now you get to see what it is! And hopefully an even better fight than the beowolf fight.

Whatever was rustling in the bushes leapt out towards Azure. All that could be heard was her scream as Rusty closed his eyes, not wanting to see the girl get torn apart by whatever grimm leapt from the greenery. As it stopped, he opened his eyes, expecting some monstrous grimm to come at him. Instead, he was met with the bright eyes of a girl with striking red hair. He had almost thought it was Pyrrha at first, but as he stumbled back and tripped, he saw that it most certainly was not Pyrrha, but someone else. A huge lance was slung across her back, the handle extending way past her head, and the tip just inches off the ground. "Um..h-hey. Who're you?" Rusty asked, hoping to get a name, and perhaps even directions from the girl.

"I'm Garnet!" The girl exclaimed excitedly, bouncing up and down on the spot. "My friend over there is Lapis." She knelt down towards him, placing her head next to his, before whispering, "she's a little mean." Rusty looked past her hair to see a short, almost child-like girl with white-blue hair kneeling over Azure. She certainly looked mean, at least. "Hey, Lapis, right? Do you two know where the relic is?"

The girl looked up from Azure, still lying on the ground breathing heavily. Lapis hopped over her, making her way to Rusty as he stood up. Her eyes drilled into his. If it weren't for the fact that they had never met before, at least as far as he could remember, he would suspect that she loathed him with a passion, though the way she looked at Azure said she thought that way about everyone. "That way, you moron. At least we know where we're going." Lapis spoke in a monotone voice, almost robotic, as she pointed towards her right, over a hill.

Rusty ran to Azure, wrapping his hand around her wrist and pulling her up, before cresting the hill that Lapis had pointed to. As his view went over, he saw a small ruin, pedestals around it holding chest pieces of Gold and Black. Azure came up behind him, letting out a small exclamation as she saw the ruin for herself. Lapis hopped down to the ground below, landing carefully on her feet. Garnet followed after her, though much more excitedly and with much less grace. Azure and Rusty shared a look before leaping down themselves. The 4 all made their way to the pedestals holding what appeared to be the relics.

"What one should we take? Is there a right answer?" Azure asked, scanning over all the pieces. Well, the 2 pieces. The only ones left were white kings. "We're the last ones? Awwww." Garnet whispered the last part, as everyone look around properly for the first time, noticing at once the veritable circle of grimm around them. Apparently this was a hot-spot for Grimm.

Rusty and Garnet both grabbed pieces for their pairs. "We should probably leave. Grimm will likely be here soon." Lapis looked around at the trees circling the area. Some of the trees were knocked down, and there were a bunch of nevermore feathers and signs of a large battle around them. Some of the grimm corpses even seemed chewed on, and for some reason had not dissipated into the air. Why were they there?

A loud, blood curdling, scream-like roar shook the area, sending branches and leaves from the trees around the 4 to the ground, along with the group themselves. The ground shook under them like an earthquake, heralding the sign of something. That something being very large, and potentially very dangerous.

Rusty, Garnet, Azure and Lapis all stood from the floor as trees began to fall in front of them. The counter rod in Rusty's quiver began to glow and vibrate. They were in danger.

A black flash came from the trees, sending the group flying from each other and into the ground. The relic pantheon disappeared under it, bricks scattering along the ground as another roar loosed from its mouth, sending the 4 rolling along the ground a short distance. Garnet and Azure were the first to stand, their aura barely depleted, though Rusty and Lapis took longer to stand.

Terror filled all of their eyes as they looked towards the grimm before them. Rows of bloody teeth filled its maw, the bony white highlighting the blood of the grimm in its mouth. 6 eyes blinked separately along its mask, all glowing a deep, malevolent red, their large shape staring back at them all. 6 legs touched the ground, digging in, the talons of the beast gouging dirt from the ground. Its body was covered in bone plating, the visible skin a pitch black colour. 6 tails stretched from its back, slamming the ground. And finally, one pair of pitch black wings with a blood red membrane giving them their use. If they weren't scared for their lives, they might be in awe of it.

As they all finished assessing the creature, one of its tails sped around from its back, stretching towards them and seemingly extending like elastic, going straight for Garnet. Her hand went over her shoulder, pulling her lance from its holster and pinning the tail to the ground. She hit a switch in the hood of the lance, making barrels spring around it. Shots fired from them, hitting the ground in single, explosive bullets. The ring of barrels rotated, shredding the tail and blowing it up at the same time. Before long, it was obliterated.

She didn't count on a second tail coming for her though, which sent her skidding along the ground, depleting her aura a good amount. As it came for her again, Rusty inserted the counter rod into the pommel of his sword, dashing towards her and raising his blade to the pointed tail. It it hit the edge of the weapon, an entire section of the tail disappeared into the air in a purple flash, leaving two of its long appendages writhing.

The beast didn't bother using its tails anymore, instead opting to let out a wave of roaring fire towards Rusty and Garnet. Azure saw the grimm rear its head, ready to bathe them in fire, and unholstered her weapon, flipping the switches on it. 3 shots screamed from the barrel of her weapon, sending Rusty and Garnet flying out of the way of the roaring flames that blackened the ground where they were a second ago. Lapis unholstered her weapons, firing shots towards the creature's armoured hide, drawing its attention to her and Azure for the moment.

Rusty stood, Garnet propped on his shoulder as Lapis and Azure fired on the creature. Azure's shots bounced mostly off the creature's armour plating, but Lapis fired around them instead, sending exploding dust into the gaps between the bone. Her eyes almost seemed to glow a little. Perhaps this was her semblance? Either way, now was not the time to wonder.

As Garnet pushed herself off Rusty's shoulder, she placed her other hand on him, and gave him more strength, filling his aura beyond what he normally was able. Reddened aura flowed from him in a bathing glow, painting the immediate area around him a bright red as his and Garnet's auras mixed. Even the purple dust rod inside his blade began to glow brighter, filled to saturation with the overpowering strength of Garnet's immense aural presence.

The moment Rusty drew his sword again, a large plate of bone fell from the creature's stomach, exposing it to attack. As soon as that fell, Lapis shifted her aim to the edges of the next segment, seemingly intent on making that fall as well. The dragon grimm realised what she was attempting to do, and sent the remainder of its tails at her, intent on keeping itself protected as possible. That was the first mistake.

The tails disappeared in their entirety, vanishing in a purple haze as Rusty's sword cut through them, the absolute power of the dust in his weapon and the combined power of two auras filling his body, making him able to move much faster. He knew, that if he and Garnet were to end up on the same time, this would be their absolute, end all trump card.

Blood sprayed from the grimm's bloody stumps of tails, gore dripping from the place where it once had limbs, staining the ground with its blood. The second they disappeared, Rusty went with them. The red streak of a hunter-in-training criss-crossed between the trees as he bounced between them, slashing the enemy each time. Blood flew from the ripped, sinewy skin of the beast, thick from the rippled muscle and once-taut black hide, the blade of Rusty's sword tearing through even the thick, bone plating of the demon.

Another plate fell from the chest of the grimm, the largest on its body. It landed with a heavy thud on the ground, kicking up dirt around it. The dragon reared from the plating, wanting to get away from it, but Garnet and Azure took the opportunity, sending a barrage of rounds into their enemy's chest, spouting blood from the gaping crater they left. It's muscly forearms hit the ground again, kicking up more dirt, before the monster took a flying leap towards the pair, ignoring the exploding rounds embedded in its side as it flew towards the pair, arms outstretched to claw them to ribbons. That was its second mistake.

Even though Rusty couldn't make it from the other end of the makeshift arena in time to defend them, it mattered little. Azure switched her blade to its sword form and pushed Garnet out of the way. Her sword was embedded in the ground for a moment, before both her eyes and her assailant's lit up like the night sky. Half of its hand disappeared, falling to the ground as the rest flailed past, hitting the ground and skidding towards the cliffside as its legs searched for purchase against the ground.

One of its back legs caught against the very edge of the cliff, stopping it from careening over into the abyss below, although the abyss seemed to be its origin. Azure's eyes let up their glow, her sword now in the air as she turned to the ghastly, dragon-like foe ahead of her. Her weapon switched again to its railgun mode, sending two more shots towards their enemy. They mattered little.

A hellish scream erupted from the grimm's mouth, and it's skin flared up with black fire, black flames shooting from it's mouth in a long, wide cone. The others were able to get out of the way, but the shadowy fire came towards Rusty. He pulled the purple rod of dust from his sword and replaced it with one that was icy-blue. He planted his sword in the ground as walls of ice shot up ahead of him, blocking the roaring fire and uppercutting the grimm, stunning it. Rusty switched rods again, changing instead to a bright orange rod. Then he brought the sword above his head and took a step forward before slamming it to the ground, shooting a wave of his own fire from the now burning sword, sending the demon back.

Finally, he switched one more time, to a darker blue rod. Lightning swirled around his sword, crackling with the still overflowing energy from Garnet. He flitted down the gap created in the ice by the fire, feet not even touching the ground, sword trailing below and behind him. As he neared the grimm, he flipped, feet and blade up towards the grimm. As he spun, his feet found themselves against the enemy's chest, as did his sword. The bright blade of thunder bit into the grimm's chest, and towards his stomach as Rusty's speed carried the blade through the enemy.

Black blood, once red, sprayed the ground in a uniform line as the dragon toppled, Rusty still clinging to the sword hanging from it's chest. He removed the weapon from the beast, which was a difficulty within itself, as the blood and skin attempted to suck it in. Eventually it found its way out, with a large squirt of blood. The blade was coated in the creature's black blood.

Rusty removed the lightning rod and placed the fire into it again, wanting to use its range attack to hit any grimm that they might see on the way back. But instead of red and orange fire spouting from the crossguard to the tip, it was black, exactly like that of the grimm he had just felled. Rusty could feel the heat from it, much more intense that before, and the end that stuck from the bottom of the handle immediately turned black along with it. He was surprised by the strange flames that coated his weapon, but quickly reasserted himself, removing the warm, black rod from the base of his weapon and placing in the quiver where the old flame rod once was.

Azure, Garnet and Lapis all crowded around Rusty. Lapis was no worse for wear, but Garnet hung off Azure, clearly drained by giving her aura to Rusty. He immediately moved to weary girl, propping her up on his shoulder along with Azure as the both of them beamed at Rusty, either impressed or ecstatic from his defeat of the large, powerful grimm. In sharp contrast to Lapis apparent lack of the ability to smile, although the corner of her lips curled very slightly at him when she ran over to him. "What now," Azure asked, puzzled as to what to do next, "head back to Beacon? How?"

The return to the academy was uneventful, save for a pack of beowolves that Azure and Lapis very quickly dispatched from range. When they returned, they were greeted by what seemed to be the entirety of the first year. Seems that they were the last back. Glynda explained that when half of the first years returned, they had turned on the large screen in the main hall and displayed the remaining students, save for the few that had died. As more and more students returned, of course more eyes came to Rusty's group, and they had all seen the fight with the dragon grimm. The resounding cheer made it clear they were impressed.

"Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiaolong. You are now known as Team RWBY. Led by...Ruby Rose." The crowd outside the preparation room cheered to Team RWBY, clearly impressed by their fight with the Nevermore that people had not stopped chatting about, alongside the Amaterasu dragon, which was the name of the grimm that Rusty's team had defeated. Glynda called to the group to move out onto the stage and receive their team name and reveal their leader.

The four walked out onto the stage in unison, all in a perfect line. Rusty on the right, towards the crowd, then Garnet, Lapis and finally Azure. They stopped at the designated spots ahead of Ozpin as he spoke. "Rusty King, Garnet Fir, Lapis, Azure Meridan. You are now known as Team RGLA. Led by...Rusty King." Ozpin smiled a warm smile to the group, no doubt as he did to the other teams, but it still reassured the lot of them. The crowd erupted into cheers, the final team named. Rusty looked to his left as the rest of the team looked back at their leader. Even Lapis had a small, wry smile.

The team looked back to Ozpin, nodded and took their leave from the stage, going down to greet Team RWBY. Another team that had caught peoples eyes were Team JNPR, who had defeated the Deathstalker while RWBY took on the Nevermore. All three of the big fights were screened before the ceremony for all who had missed them to see, and Teams RWBY and JNPR certainly did well.

All teams returned to their dorms, far too tired from the days trials to bother personalising the spaces just yet, thought it mattered little. The beds were still comfortable.

Gosh damn, that took a damn long time to write. Finally finished though. I don't think I've written this much in all of my english exams and coursework. It was damn worth it though.