With the dust settling and Remnant on the mend, the Kingdoms once again look for opportunities to expand. Team RWBY is called back together to tackle the first steps involved in scouting out the northwestern continent, a much needed breather from their daily trials as huntresses - after all, how much trouble can they get into on Remnant's frontier?

Creation is a remnant of what it once was, a world on the brink of ruin - unless someone intervenes. Ozpin hatches a convoluted scheme that will fling a few small, honest souls into a maelstrom of monsters, conspiracies, and lies. With so much lost and scattered, it should be hopeless... but some bonds are stronger than life and death, and not every hero stands alone. [Exalted AU]

Rangiku reads a copy of A Christmas Carol, and devises a grand prank to pull on her Captain. Hitsugaya is taken through his past, present, and future holidays, snarking the entire way, but something is a little off about this prank. Some HitsugayaXMomo.

A clerical error in the confusion following Aizen's rebellion launches Isane Kotetsu into the world of the living on someone else's mission. Unohana tries to find out what's wrong with her division.