Quartz, with a sleeping bag under his arm and a small bag of toiletries in his free hand, sighed as he stood in front of the door to team RWBY's room. The nervousness that had filled him an hour ago had not ceased.

Why did Rey have to go and act so stupidly? He asked himself for the umpteenth time.

Now, here he was, about to switch places with the once his teammate had tried to kill. Not maim, not prank, not even seduce….kill. The younger Poe boy thanked Oum that Ozpin had been gracious enough not to expel Rey, and then cursed the Beacon headmaster for the punishment he'd decided to enact on Team QORK as a whole.

As if adjusting to a new team wouldn't be scary enough for him, Team RWBY was, prior to his Q replacing the B and turning it to Team RWQY (Rookie), was an all-girl team. And to make to add even more worry to the 14 year old boy, they were pretty girls. Beautiful, powerful and utterly fearless, girls.

Almost like SHE had been…

This is not Faye. He reminded himself. They are not Faye.

His ex-crush's image filled his mind, but he shook it away.

Don't think about that! Remember what Shamira and Kale said. Find stuff to keep you busy. Keep you busy, Keep you busy. Keep you busy…..And this? This whole thing Rey caused? Think of it as a training exercise. Yeah, that's it! A training exercise. After all, we can't always work with the team we start with once we go pro….and besides, there's a scythe wielder in this team!

Ruby Rose's image filled Quartz's mind, as did visions of the scythe he imagined she'd have; she hadn't had time to answer his questions at breakfast, so this left his mind open. The Poe boy then remembered she seemed like him a sense; her older sister, Yang if he recalled correctly, seemed to be very outgoing while she gave off the impression of keeping to herself.

He then reminded himself to mind his manner and not push the subject of weaponry beyond what it had to be.

With one more, this time cleansing, sigh, he gently rapped his knuckles on the door.

Okay Quartz…be ready for anything.

"It's open!" A cheerful voice beamed.

He slowly opened the door, to find it argueably organized and three of the four smiling at him.

"Hey there, Quartz." Yang smiled, tossing him a bottle of water.

"….Evening, team RWBY. I understand that I'm to switching places with Blake for a bit?" He asked weakly.

Weiss paid him no mind, but Yang pulled Quartz in and offered him a spot on a bunk bed.

"Yeah, Ozpin told us. Go ahead and get your stuff ready."

"You make it seem like you're in a hurt to be rid of me." Blake mused, picking up a duffel bag and looking at her replacement.

They stood there in silence for a few minutes, Blake a full head taller than Quartz, who suddenly got onto one knee and bowed.

"I...for what little worth it may be….apologize for my teammate's actions. On my family's crest, that of the tinkering raven Poe himself, I shall work towards rebuilding trust between our parties, Blake Belladona. Until then, I humbly take full responsibility for your team and trust you to do the same with mine."

"A vow from olden times." Weiss noted, surprised the boy knew such a custom; some of her father's business partners had acted in a similar manner whenever something had gone awry.

Blake had simply smiled and motioned the boy to return to his feet.

"I shall do as you do." She replied. "Please look after Ruby, Yang and Weiss."

Quartz nodded before saying, rather bluntly:

"You went easy on Rey, didn't you?"

Blake nodded, gaining her team-mates attention. She motioned the boy to lean in and whispered, gently yet with some pride in her voice:

"What gave me away?"

Quartz smirked slightly.

"It pains me to say, but as…passionate as he is, Rey is nowhere near ready to take on a real former member of White Fang and come out unscathed."

Sensing her sudden tension, he quickly whispered:

"Your secret is safe with me and you have my permission to remind him of that."

Blake then felt what seemed to be a scrap of paper being put into her free hand. Without breaking eye contact with the young boy, she glanced at it to spy a symbol that matched the one on Quartz's jacket.

"If he or any of my team causes a scene, show this to either them or Ozpin." Quartz explained.

The Faunus left with a slight smile on her face, the enjoyment of beating someone clear in her head.

Eventually making her way to the room of team QORK, now BORK, she didn't even have to knock the door for it to be opened

"Welcome to casa de ORK, milady." Ondreji smiled smoothly, a beer can in his hand. "Drink to wind you down? We got us water, booze, pop, booze…

"…Do you always drink in a school setting?" Blake asked

"Yep." Kale smiled. "Nice to see you again, Blake…though I'd have preferred under better circumstances."

Blake nodded and saw her attacker tied to his chair. Remembering Quartz's words, she handed Kale the paper he'd given her.

"What?" Kale asked. "What am I…?"

Blake's face blushed in embarrassment; forgetting the boy's lack of arms. Ondreji, his drink finished and the can now on the floor, took and unfolded it, showing it to Kale.

"Oh…." The older Poe brother realized.

"Quartz said it'd be alright to show Rey the difference in our skill levels." Blake explained.

Ondreji threw a boomerang that cut his teammate free. Rey growled, breaking from his bonds and readying Magician's Red in crossbow mode for battle….

Blake activated Gambol Shroud's pistol form and let a smirk cross her lips. She was not usually overly vindictive, but this time….she was going to enjoy herself.

(AN: You use your imagination to decide how that went)

XXX RWBY XXX

Meanwhile, back in Team now RWQY's room, the original members were re-introducing themselves to the boy who would be staying with them at least for a night or so.

"I'm fine sleeping on the floor." Quartz offered as confidently and politely as he could, trying to hide his shyness and discomfort at being in a room alone with three beautiful young women. He evidently failed, as Yang got a predatory smile on her face that filled him with dread. Luckily for the boy….

"No." Weiss announced to Yang.

"What?" The blonde asked cutely, as if denying something.

"Just…no." Weiss sighed. "We have a boy with class in this room, you will not corrupt him. Oh and Quartz, you do know you're not supposed to have your weapon with you, right?"

Yang (who was denying the prospect of 'corrupting' the poor boy) and Ruby's eyes shifted to the sheathed sword at the boy's side. The boy instantly reached to cover his weapon from their eyes, a worried and pouty look overtaking his face before he let out a breath.

"Cardin did inform me, but….well, it's kind of ingrained into me." The boy explained. "Our old school would have random fight drills, so you kind of needed to keep your weapon close by."

….

"Fight drills?" Yang asked, her interest peaked.

"Yep. Bell randomly rings, you have to fend off every single student in a battle-royale and get to the cafeteria before you're safe. And that was during class hours. If it was during lunch, you had to get to the lake. And if it was at the lake, you had to get to Shamira's office. And if you were already there you had to get to a randomly chosen classroom. And if it was afterhours, you had to last until dawn."

Yang smiled, her eyes dazzling at the prospect of fighting an entire school and getting marked on it.

"I think I'd have liked it at Platinum." She mused

"I don't know…." Quartz said, rubbing the back of his head. "Aside from that, it was…kind of stuffy."

Ruby's eyes hadn't moved from Quartz's sword; she saw that the sheath was decorated with the same symbol that the boy's clothes bore, with small scratches around it. These gave merit to Qaurtz's statement to Cardin about only drawing his weapon when he felt it nessacary or his foe deserved his respect

The memory of that fight was a pleasant one not only to Ruby herself, but a few others in Beacon. She had no doubt about that.

The girl could see it was held in a sheathe not unlike Weiss' Myrtenaster, but had a slight curve at the end, giving off an almost katana like look. She could also see that the handle, shaped very much like a roman chariot with no horses drawing it, had more of 'trigger' like look in its design than that of Myrtenaster, but judging by the size, unless they were in the sword itself, there was barely room for a single round.

Her interest peaked, she did something slightly out of character.

"How about we have a weapon show-off? I'll go get Crescent Rose!"

And with that, she bounded out of the room and dashed to her locker, not leaving any time to argue.

"Ruby!" Weiss admonished her friend as she was suddenly pulled aside by Yang. "Don't go…!"

"Oh lighten up, Weiss." Yang smiled. "Poor kids are opening up, best to keep that going. Sides, you remember what Kale said…"

"What did Kale say?" Quartz asked, getting worried and angry.

"Oh! Forgot you were actually here…"

"Story of my life back at Platinum." Quartz mused before returning to his angry glare. "Now, what did Kale tell you?"

"That you're usually not easy to get along with." Weiss said simply.

….

….

"Mental note." Quartz whispered. "Punish big brother. And thank you for being honest, Ms. Schnee,"

He then moved to drop his sleeping bag on to top of Blake's bed, unzipping it open before returning to his spot. While he did this, Weiss whispered to her teammate:

"You just want teasing material for Ruby."

"I neither confirm nor deny."

Ruby then returned with her 'baby' and handed it Quartz to inspect. The boy's eyes began to sparkle with anticipation and his hands twitched as he reached to take it. However, Ruby then pulled it behind her back and pointed to his weapon. With an understanding smile, Quartz went to his side and unsheathed his blade.

"Argentum Aliquam… or more simply, Silver Chariot."

It was indeed mostly a rapier in design, but the blade itself was, as Ruby had suspected, more like a katana. And the blade itself was in excellent condition; no scratches, glinting off the light in the room and just as its name implied, silver in tone.

"What's up with the fancy names?" Yang asked.

"Oh right! It's original Tarotian." Quartz explained. "We always address something in Tarotian before we translate. Sorry for the confusion, it's a weird little hobby of my dad's he passed onto me and Kale."

Ruby handled Silver Chariot with care, inspecting the blade and handle

"If you flick the left side of the handle, you'll see something cool." Quartz smiled, Crescent Rose at his side and unopened.

Ruby did as he suggested, and the blade fell off before the handle flipped onto itself, becoming a boxing glove.

"That is so cool!" She smiled, Yang sharing interest in this. Ruby then realized that Quartz hadn't opened Crescent Rose and showed him how to do so.

Instantly, the boy squealed in joy as he examined the scythe, leaping over the room to get better view

"The details!" Quartz beamed, gently lifting it to see the shifting mechanisms. "Ah, a rifle alternate mode..and some rapid fire ability, I see."

Ruby smiled at the praise Quartz was giving her baby, which promptly turned to annoyance when Yang and Weiss shoved their weapons into his face to examine. While interested, he clearly wasn't as enthralled.

"I like the gauntlet-design and applaud a fellow martial artist." He'd simply told Yang. "Have you ever considered adding tazers or some other additional feature?"

Yang, while happy with her weapon, had arguably NOT considered that, but gave it some thought.

For Weiss, he was strictly critiquing.

"A Dust-heavy weapon requires major maintence, and the single mode design does limit possibilities…"

"Well, we'd better get some sleep." Weiss noted, cutting him off. "Field trip tomorrow!"

The girls went to their respective beds, Quartz doing the same to his sleeping bag.

"Night, Quartz."

"Night Ruby, Yang, Ms. Schnee."

"It's Weiss."

….

….

"Oh come now, no one falls asleep that fast!"

XXX RWBY XXX

The next morning, teams RWQY, JNPR, CRDL and BORK followed Glynda to the forests behind Beacon; Forever Falls. They were each to retrieve a jar of syrup from the trees, which some where looking forward to more than others

"Alright! Finally, a field trip I can sink me teeth into!"

When no one was looking, Ondreji pulled out vials from his jacket he filled with syrup, giddiness clear in his form.

"Ondreji." Blake said once she noticed this.

"Please, call me On. And yes, cute kitty?"

"Do I need to ask?" She pointed to the vials.

"What?" He asked. "There's great booze to be made from this stuff, I ain't not taking advantage of that!"

"Ignore him, Blake." Kale said as he and Rey, who now sported a black eye and bruises, filled up their jars of syrup. "We're almost done."

"Excellent work."

"If Quartz was here, we'd already be home." Rey pouted, cringing from his bruises.

"What happened to him?" Pyrra asked in an attempt to take Juane's going off with Cardin off her mind…and after seeing how Nora kept downing the syrup she and Ren collected.

"We've traded members for a while." Yang explained. "We get Quartz, they get Blake as team leader."

"And apparently, someone didn't think her a worthy leader. On a related note, how's your pride, mate?" Ondreji asked, no shortage of snarkiness in his tone.

"Now On, be nice." Kale smiled, clearly holding in laughter. "There's no absolutely shame in losing to a girl like Blake…."

Rey smiled in hope of at least one teammate being supportive of him….only to realize Kale and Ondreji were getting close enough for the miner to hold onto the armless boy with devilish smiles on their faces.

"….but there is when you get your butt kicked and she's asleep!"

They burst into laughter, with Rey pouting as he pumped Syrup away, trying to ignore the memory of what had transpired the night before they went to bed…and before breakfast. And after breakfast. And weapon prep. And while following Glynda:

Blake had completely wrecked him.

Completely, utterly, no questions asked…beaten him. Not even breaking a sweat. Rey now knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Blake had been holding back when he attacked her. Considerably.

He looked over to Quartz, who was helping Ruby, the whole member of his temporary team he felt comfortable around since Miss Schnee glared at him and Yang was flirty, gather her syrup with a trick he'd picked up.

"If you tilt the jar ever so slightly against the hole…" He demonstrated, and to the amazement of many, the syrup gushed out quicker than usual, yet still cleanly. "There you go."

"Thanks!" Ruby smiled, not noticing the slightly jealous look on her teammates' faces.

The groups now had more than enough syrup and started to relax.

"So…how're things going?" Ren asked, breaking the silence.

"Yeah, I've been wondered about that." Kale added. "Has my baby bro been hounding you ladies for weapon details?"

"KALE!" Quartz shouted in embarrassment.

"Actually, he's made suggestions that I'm at least thinking about using." Yang admitted. "Though you weren't kidding when you said he was a scythe fanboy, he spent most of the night praising Ruby's; barley gave me and Weiss' weapons a second glance."

"Why're you so enthralled with the scythe anyway. Quartz?" Weiss asked suddenly, hoping to get some measure of 'revenge' on the boy who adored her partner's weapon but considered her's boring.

Quartz looked from side to side, embarrassment on his face.

"Promise you won't laugh."

"Of course!" Ruby quickly replied, glaring at her sister and Weiss to follow in suit before motioning Quartz to explain.

Kale was soon at his brother's side and offered a comforting look.

"Nothing to be worried about."

And with that, the younger Poe brother recounted his tale, not stopping to look at any reactions.

"Well…About four years ago, our family was out camping for a couple of months. Just me, Kale, mom and dad. One day, I got bored and went exploring. Walked for hours and hours….suddenly realized I was way too far gone. I wasn't worried too much at first though. I'd killed Grimm before, so when they showed up, it wasn't a big deal….until that dragon showed up. I was pretty much lunch; but suddenly, someone with a scythe showed up and sliced it in two. Never saw their face, barely remember the weapon itself; I was so exhausted from fighting I collapsed afterwards."

"Dad found him close to camp around dinner time." Kale finished. "And before anyone else asks…my little brother first killed a Grimm when he was 8."

The two brothers sighed away the memories before hugging, Kale nuzzling Quartz's hair against his cheek.

Ruby and Yang smiled at the scene after getting over the story, both making a point to ask their uncle at a later date if he he'd ever been in Tarot. Pyrra and Blake's respect for the younger Poe brother went up considerably, as did Weiss. Nora was in awe of the boy who'd killed a Grimm so young, and Ren silently observed.

"I'm going for a two minute walk overheard." Quartz announced quickly. "I'll stop wherever I am after that and stare at the sky for a while. Back in a half hour."

He paid no mind to Kale's requests he'd stay safe.

For the next few minutes, the teams relaxed…until they heard the thumping of feet and Russel shouting without stopping:

"URSA! URSA!"

…..

….

"Oi. Oi, mates!" Ondreji shouted. "Maybe it's the syrup getting to me, but… Ain't them blokes the lads whose arses we kicked yesterday?"

Kale strained his eyes

"Yeah…but the one Quartz fought isn't with them."

"And why would they be run…ning." Weiss and Ruby asked together.

They then heard a shrill scream

"That sounds like Juane!" Yang noted, her team raising to get ready.

"No, Juane's shrill is still somewhat male." Pyrra noted. "Not much, but somewhat. That was just pure cowardice."

"Well, now we know where Cardin is." Blake mused.

….

….

"We'd best hurry and save him." Pyrra sighed, the other getting up to follow.

"Should we?" Ondreji asked.

"Yes." The famous fighter sighed. "If we leave him to die, we're no better than him."

"Okay, but must we? I'm sorry love, but hear me out on this…. I'm a take a stab in the dark and call it; nobody here'd really mind if we never saw that arse-hole again."

No one confirmed or denied.

"As much as I actually want to agree with you on that…" Rey sighed

"That's disturbing, and I agree with you and know where you're going with this." Kale noted with a nod.

"There is one other reason we should head in that direction." Ren noted.

"And what's that's that?"

"Quartz is still out there." Kale mused.

"Yang, Blake. Go get Professor Goodwitch." Ruby ordered.

"You two go with them." Pyrra added to Nora and Ren, before turning her attention to the remaining members of team BORK. "Can any of you track him?"

Rey nodded and dashed off, the others following.

XXX RWBY XXX

Cardin fell on his face as the one eyed Ursa marched closer and closer to him.

This wasn't how it was supposed to go! He was going to prank that Quartz kid and Pyrra with the syrup he'd had Juane collect…and then Juane had to go and grow a spine, refusing to prank the kid.

His team had then moved to help him teach the upstart a lesson…but then the Ursa had shown up and they'd run for the hills.

The drawing of a blade and screaming of the Ursa informed him he was still alive, and he looked up in hope…only to see the face of the one person he hated most.

"Oh." Quartz mused as the creature in front of him. "You're still alive.''

The Ursa stopped roaring in pain and growled at the boy.

"You…know this thing?"

"I was talking to you, idiot." Quartz snapped at Cardin. "Why haven't you dealt with it? You made it to Beacon, show the skills! To answer your question…yes, I blinded it…."

He then spied Cardinal's armor with syrup on it.

"You. Are. An. Idiot."

The Ursa's one eye glowed with rage….this newcomer was the brat that had taken it's other eye and forced it to marched closer to the academy as a mule! It would not be humiliated a second time, and leapt toward to swallow him whole.

"QUARTZ, BEHIND….!" Ruby shouted, only to see her temporary team-mate leap over the Ursa and pressing the right side of Chariot's handle. The blade detached and vanished into the back of Quartz's jacket as the handle landed on his fist and made a clicking sound, opening the handle's bottom into a rifle.

The Ursa roared again as its prey flicked on some glasses before pressing the right side of his weapon again, unleashing a spray of bullets.

The creature moaned from the pain from the tiny holes in its arms and neck, glaring at its beater as he landed on his feet and reassembled his weapon.

"I'm in the middle of a conversation, teddy." He snapped. "Wait a minute, then I'll put you out of your misery."

….

…

"Did he seriously just tell an Ursa to wait?" Pyrra asked

"After pumping it full of bullets?" Ruby followed, her eyes glowing in awe at the third weapon mode Quartz had alluded too.

"That's my baby bro for you." Kale smirked.

As the others watched, Cardin made a dash to safety, no longer caring about anything else but his own safety.

"Coward." Rey and Weiss noted.

Quartz let out a sigh and then unsheathed Chariot in wind form.

"You have enjoyed a full life. Return from whence he you came…Grimm scum."

With a swing of the blade, the creature was split into two and dissipated. Quartz flicked the blood from the blade and resheathed his sword.

Kale turned to Pyrra.

"So….?"

Pyrra smiled

"I'll admit, I believe the stories now."

The youngest boy turned around and put away his glasses, looking around for the person he'd saved….who suddenly appeared and tossed a jar of syrup onto him.

"HA! Got you, brat!"

"…Really?" Quartz asked, not even offended or hurt. He just licked off as much syrup as he could.

"Hey!" Ruby snapped. "He just saved your life!"

"I could've…!" Cardin started, only for his mace to hit him in the side through Kale's careful maneuvering. The older Poe glared at Cardin.

Juane just got up and offered Quartz a rag, which the younger boy took. He then glared at Cardin

"Go ahead and blab my secret. I don't care anymore. If this is how you treat someone who saved your life…"

Pyrra made a note to inquire as to what was meant by this later, but helped Juane and Kale clean up Quartz as best as they could.

"You okay?" Ruby and Kale asked together, getting a sigh and slight smile.

"That was the best you could do huh?" The boy glared at his supposed senior/better. "Syrup? That's just….pathetic."

He didn't even look at the bully as he walked back to the others. Ondreji on the other hand, threw a boomerang that sent Cardin to the ground.

Just then another Ursa burst onto the scene and leapt towards Cardin.

Juane suddenly leapt in front of the Ursa's claw and used his shield to block the claws. Quartz, seeing this and ignoring the others, leapt over the Ursa in an attempt to distract it and then sliced it's legs, diverting its attention from Jaune.

He then stabbed the creature in the back while Juane delivered a slash to its mid-side, being sent away by a claw strike. Qaurtz leapt in front of the beast and stabbed it in the lung before jumping out of Juane's way. The blonde swordsman nodded his head to Quartz, who responded in kind.

The two swordsman then rushed at the Ursa from different angles, Juane cutting off its head while Quartz got its paw. Neither noticed Pyrra's hand glow black as Jaune's shield had apparently moved to block the Ursa's claw, but Ruby and Weiss did.

Kale, Nora and Yang whistled at the sight as the two swordsman shot each other a smile.

"Good moves." Quartz said.

"You too….kid." Juane smirked as he helped Cardin to his feet and growled; "Don't ever….mess with my team…my friends….ever again. Got it?"

Cardin said nothing as Juane walked away, Ondreji and Rey marching towards him.

"Quartz wanted us to tell you he doesn't consider you worthy of holding a grudge against." The fox Faunus explained through his teeth.

"Aye." Ondreji followed. "But we….on the other hand…"

They glared at the coward and cracked their knuckles, moving closer to him.

"Well, we'd best be getting back…" Pyrra started, only for a shockwave to rock the area and send everybody falling to the ground and into some odd places;

Rey and Kale managed to hold onto each other briefly before collapsing onto the ground…in a way they were glad no fan girls could see.

"Rey…." Kale grumbled.

"Yes, Kale?"

"Get off my face."

The fox Faunus did as he was asked and then froze at the sight in front of him. Kale tried to push himself back onto his feet, mentally squealing for joy when he saw Ruby and Quartz holding onto each other for support, the girl then breaking off with a blush on her face. His brother on the other hand, stood petrified, which when Kale looked forward, he followed in suit.

Had he not been pre-occupied, he would've spied Juane in Pyrra's arms and Weiss into Ondreji.

"Well hello, hello…." Ondreji flirtingly smiled to Weiss, who simply stood up and dusted herself off.

"What in remnant was…?" She started, only to freeze at the sight before her, as did the others:

Standing in front of the dead Ursa's body, clawing at its flesh and making the fallen beast gush out blood, was a black humanoid figure, its head currently ripping into the creature's flesh and judging by the sounds of it, very sloppily.

It then froze mid-chew and stood up, its back still to the students.

"Um…everybody sees that, right?" Ondreji asked, whispering. "Please tell me I ain't seeing that."

"…Wish we could, buddy." Kale whimpered. "Really, really, wish we could."

"What…is that?" Ruby asked, receiving no answer other than Quartz shaking.

"H-h-h-h-h-hi-him…." The boy managed.

Pyrra and Juane quickly readied for battle, but the famed fighter took note of the members of Team QORK:

They were terrified of this new presence, and the way their terror showed….they knew what it was.

It then jumped right in front of them from the Ursa's corpse and swallowed the flesh in it's mouth.

The creature's head then twisted like an owl before slinking onto its right shoulder; two blank eyes blinking and darting around the students. Its breathing was eractic, yet not in the way of a dying or worried creature. It's fingers cracked before it seemingly stopped moving.

Then a big toothy smile of razor sharp teeth overtook the lower part of it's face.

"Qu….artz…."

Flashes of memory filled Quartz's mind; Platinum in fire and chaos, screams of fear and pain….and this being, that had haunted his nightmare the night before last, marching towards him with obvious ill intent.

That was all the boy saw before his world went blank, courtesy of a chop to the neck by his Faunus teammate.

"Who is the fastest here?" Rey demanded.

"I am, why?" Ruby asked, only to have the boy tossed into her arms.

"Run." Kale demanded. "Fast. Far. Everyone."

The creature then caught a glimpse of Ruby and blinked twice before leaping off the blood from its mouth. It grabbed its head and twisted it back into place, blinking once again.

"Sil….ver…. eyes…."

"Wait a tic…" Ondreji said, tension filling his form. "Did he say Silver eye…?"

The conscious members of QORK looked at Ruby, paying close attention to her eyes…and then making a startling revalation.

"What?"

…

"Oh…."

"Shit." Kale and Rey cursed.

The creature then leapt forward, it's eyes focused solely on the silver eyed girl and the boy it'd addressed, only to be blocked by a mass of rock in a humanoid shape.

"On!" Rey snapped.

"WHY ARE YOU ALL STILL HERE?!" Ondreji screamed, trying in vain to halt the creature's advance. "RUN LIKE SALEM HERSELF IS AFTER YAS!"

"But…!" Ruby started.

"No one here can take that thing, but we can slow it down!" Kale snapped. "Just get my brother out of here and have Ozpin evacuate the school!"

The creature's eyes hardened at the sight of its targets getting away and it tossed Ondreji aside.

"Oh no, ya don't!"

The now desperate bogan unleashed every single boomerang he had on him, but the creature bobbed and weaved between them all, even as they came back. Kale activated Hermit Purple and wrapped up the creature in his wire, only for it to grab them and pull him close.

"Oh great." Kale groaned. "You've improved."

With a big smile, the creature threw Kale into Ondreji and began to move towards the other students. Pyrra activated her semblance and, with her hands at her side, commanded Ondreji's boomerangs to stab themselves into place.

The creature realized this and looked at Pyrra before flexing its form and shooting the boomerangs out. Rey, with Magician's Red in staff mode, deflected the boomerangs only to receive a punch to the stomach that sent him flying into a tree. Before losing consciousness, the Fox Faunus saw six familiar figures

"Please…" He begged. "Save…Quartz…"

His world went black.

XXX RWBY XXX

"Get going!" Juane ordered Ruby and Weiss, only to be grabbed and slammed into the ground repeatedly…but when lifted up, he was fine.

"Hrm?" The creature cooed, receiving a shield to the face which had it stagger, and then a mace to the neck. It turned and saw Cardin, who looked terrified and screamed as the monster swung it's fist to his head, only for Pyrra to block it with her javelin and send the creature back a step or two.

"MOVE IT!" She ordered, and Ruby, Weiss holding onto her, activated her semblance and ran as fast as she could.

The creature saw this and leapt skywards, then burst towards its prey.

"Ruby, I don't suppose you can go any faster…?" Weiss asked as she saw the black figure, only for her team leader to stumble and drop both her and Quartz. Weiss, still up, drew her blade and readied to fight as the creature got closer and closer. Ruby followed in suit after seeing Quartz was still unconscious.

"Back off!"

Yang's fist made contact with the creature as Nora slammed her hammer onto the creature's face, Ren fired bullets at it and Blake slashed its stomach. The creature seemingly groaned in pain before its smile returned and it grinned evilly. Its wounds instantly healed.

"Someone explain! Now!" Yang ordered.

"Get back."

Shamira suddenly blocked the creature's path to the students and glared at the monster in front of her.

Irritated by the consistant blockers, the creature then dashed forward, Grimm bone like extursione erupted from its' form:

"QUARTZ!"

A Nevermore suddenly flew by and entrapped it in its jaws, flying away as it did so.

Everyone was silent for a while, as the rustling of leaves they soon heard proved to be Juane, Pyrra and Cardin carrying the injured members of Team BORK as best they could. Shamira let out a sigh of relief at her students' safety, with turned to a groan when she saw Glynda and Ozpin catch up to her.

….

….

"We got some explainin' to do, don't we mates?" Ondreji joked.

XXXX RWBY XXX

The Nevermore flew on, away from Beacon, without a care in the world as its prey struggled against its jaws.

Then the prey stopped struggling. Assuming it had made peace and was ready to die, the Nevermore threw it skywards with the intention of swallowing it whole.

But instead of a tasty meal, the crow like Grimm found itself being pulled upwards. Panicking at this odd action, it had just enough time to see the prey now had a black hole in its chest that was sucking it in.

After completely absorbing the Nevermore, the creature grunted in pain as its shoulders stretched and ripped, eventually becoming wings just like those of the Nevermore. It glanced at them flapping and tried to return to Beacon, only to stumble in the air. Stopping itself, it glanced at its new wings.

It needed time to adjust and figure out how they worked.

That filled it with anger, which it channeled into a glare at the Academy, almost ignoring the airship that appeared behind it.

"Quartz…."

He'd be the creature's soon enough. It flew inside the airship, were it was greeted by a woman in a dress with a firey like design.

Read and Review, would ye kindly? Offer suggestions on where to go from here.

Tarotian will be based off of Latin.