(sorry it took so long but here is the next chapter so ENJOY. Please give feedback)

“AND I THINK ITS THIS WAY!” Bastian yelled at Noir. The two had been wondering around the forest aimlessly. They had spent nearly two hours wandering around the forest looking for the stupid ruins but were having absolutely no luck.

“In that direction is the clifftop where we got launched from, so I highly doubt going that way,” Noir responded to his partner. Both boys kept arguing for a bit each yelling louder than the other trying to get their point across that the other was wrong. During the argument though Noir came up with an idea. “Okay since we aren’t getting anywhere by simply just wandering around I got an idea.”

“Let’s hear it then,” Bastian responded still very annoyed with the situation they had found themselves in.

“Since wandering around isn’t helping why don’t we try this; since I can pretty much float why don’t you throw me up there and I will see if I can find the ruins from the air,” Noir suggested. Bastian looked like he was going to argue but then paused to think about the strange idea. After a couple of seconds Bastian smiled slyly.

“Okay,” Bastian said grabbing the young swordsman’s shirt. “Up, up, and away,” Bastian said as he prepared to throw. As Bastian lifted Noir of the ground Noir activated his semblance giving him control of his gravity. As Bastian let go Noir soared into the sky high above the forest top. He then stopped and started floating in place and looked around. At first all he could see was a forest of emerald trees. However, when he looked towards the south he could see a crevice with what looked like ruins. He smiled feeling proud of himself. He then intensified his gravity so he started falling slowly to the ground. Once he landed he reported what he saw and Bastian smiled at the news.

“Okay south it is let’s go,” Bastian said. With a new direction to head in the two young huntsmen headed in the direction Noir had pointed out. After an hour of walking and Beowulf busting the young huntsman made it to the ruins.

“Finally, we made it,” Bastian and Noir said simultaneously in excitement. The ran down and went to an amphitheater. In the amphitheater they saw pedestals each with different chess pieces on them both gold and black.

“Well I guess the chess pieces are the artifacts,” Bastian said.

“I would assume so,” Noir responded. The two training huntsmen looked at the pieces on the pedestals. Noir then found the one he liked: a golden queen piece. “Save the queen,” Noir said holding the piece up.

“Why not,” Bastian responded shrugging “I’m all or saving the ladies.” Noir rolled his eyes and smiled. He then put the queen in his jacket pocket.

“Let’s head back to the cliffs,” Noir then said to Bastian. Bastian nodded in agreement. The two started heading back to the cliffs where they were launched from. After about an hour of silence Noir finally spoke “I wonder who our other team members are going to be.”

“I don’t particularly care, it really doesn’t matter in the end,” Bastian responded.

“Yeah it does,” Noir continued “I mean whoever has the other queen piece we are stuck with for the rest of our time at Beacon. I would like it if we could work with people.”

“I guess you’re right, it would suck if we ended getting someone incompetent,” Bastian started to say. Before he got a chance to say anything else he and Noir stepped onto a patch of dead sticks and leaves that then gave way leading thee two huntsmen in training down a dark cave.

“Oww,” Noir started to say getting up. “That hurt and what’s this sticky crap,” he said lifting his hand there was white crap on his hand and pants. He looked over at his giant of a partner who was also recovering from his fall as well.

“I don’t know,” Bastian said as he started to stand up. “but I don’t like it one bit.”

“Neither did we,” a familiar voice came from behind. Noir and Bastian quickly turned their attention to nearby wall of the cave. Stuck to the wall was Ivan and Onyx.

“What are you two doing down here?” Noir asked the two newcomers.

“After getting our artifact we started to head back, but ended falling down here,” Onyx replied. “I can normally teleport out but unfortunately I can’t teleport other people,” he then continued to explain pointing at the faunus.

“So we were waiting to see if someone would come look for us,” Ivan said continuing the conversation.

“I guess that makes a little sense,” Bastian then chimed. In Noir looked up they were at least twenty feet down if not more. Noir could fly up but in his head he couldn’t carry both Ivan and Bastian at the same time. Then he remembered something and came up with an idea.

“Hey Bastian, Are Nevermores on your list of things you can turn into?” Noir asked. The other three boys looked at him with shock. Onyx and Ivan were confused and Sebastian just cocked an eyebrow.

“Yeah but not a very big one,” Bastian replied “I can’t carry anyone in my Nevermore form.”

“That’s alright I’ll carry Ivan, You fly out, and Onyx could teleport out,” Noir suggested.

“Yeah,” Bastian and Onyx said simultaneously.

“One issue,” Ivan blurted. The other three then turned to the faunus.

“What’s that?” Noir asked.

“That evil hissing noise getting closer,” Ivan responded pointing to cavern right across from them.

“What hissing?” Bastian asked. Almost immediately a loud hiss came from down the cavern. At first all the young huntsmen could see eight red eyes approaching them. Once it came into view the huntsmen were all terrified. For they found themselves face to face with a spider the five time the size of an Ursa major.

“No sudden movements, we are in the presence of a Morbidantula,” Noir said. Noir got his sword handles ready. He watched as the other three got their weapons primed and ready for the fight. The spider screeched and prepared to attack. Noir recognized what the spider was about to do. “Disperse,” He managed to yell out. The spider shot a web blast. Bastian, Noir, and Onyx managed to dodge the blast Ivan wasn’t so lucky.

“IVAN,” Onyx yelled. The three free members watched as the trapped faunus struggled in the web. The Spider moved over towards Ivan in the web trapping. Before the spider could attack the faunus Onyx teleported and lashed one of its front legs. It screeched loudly and turned it’ attention to Onyx and started trying to thrust its fangs into him. Once it turned its back to Noir and Bastian, Noir thought of a crazy plan.

“Bastian use ice arrows at each legs to hold it in place,” Noir commanded.

“On it,” Bastian said as he quickly turned his spear into its bow form He quickly fired ice dust arrows at the large spider’s feet freezing them in place. Noir rushed towards the giant spider he quickly attached two fire blade to his handles as he jumped onto the spider’s back. He then thrust the two blades into the spider’s dark flesh.

“Onyx, go free Ivan,” Noir yelled. Onyx nodded and rushed to the still thrashing faunus. While Onyx used his weapon’s to slice the webbing trapping him the spider was more focused on trying to remove the pest that was on its back. With each thrash the spider broke its icy trapping. Bastian did his best to aid his partner by shooting ice arrows to try to refreeze the spider’s legs while Noir held on to his swords for dear life.

“That was rather disgusting,” Ivan said to Onyx once he was freed from his sticky imprisonment.

“We need you my friend, You said you had an Athenian Pointer on your weapon right?” Onyx asked. The faunus looked at him and nodded earnestly. “Well we kind of need it .”

“Alright I need a few minutes to charge,” Ivan said as he grabbed his cross and shifted it into its laser form and started charging. “While it’s charging up, help out Noir,” Ivan said. Onyx took off towards the spider. He shot his blade cables into the spider. He then activated his taser to shock the giant spider hissed in agony.

“Noir jump off,” Onyx yelled continue to shock the massive spider.

“Way ahead of you,” Noir yelled back. He let the blades go from his handles and jumped off the massive spider. Once he was clear he pushed the buttons on his handles that caused the blades to explode. The explosion didn’t hurt the spider, it seemed to just piss it off more. The spider trashed again breaking free from Bastian’s ice and Onyx cable. The spider then shot another web trap at Onyx, catching the young huntsman off guard and trapping him. Noir reattached blades to his handles this time bringing out both and ice dust blade and a lightning dust blade. Right as he was about to continue his onslaught he heard Ivan yelling.

“Charged and ready,” the faunus yelled. Noir quickly looked over and saw Ivan hoisting a large laser onto his shoulder. The laser was glowing a bright red. Noir instinctively put his blades back into his sheaths and signaled Bastian to come over. The two grabbed the web trapped Onyx and ran over behind Ivan. The two ducked for cover as the heard Ivan yelling out “May heaven have mercy on you,” as Ivan released the laser charge sending an enormous read beam at the Morbidantula. The resulting explosion caused part of the cave that had the giant spider to cave in.

When the dust settled the four boys could see daylight again. They were now free. Noir and Bastian helped remove the webbing off of Onyx while Ivan returned his weapon to its resting state.

“Wow that was bit more exciting than expected,” Onyx wheezed out once he was free.

“Just a bit,” Bastian said sarcastically.

“At least we are safe now,” Noir said as he stood helping Onyx up.

“I wouldn’t say that,” Ivan then said. The other three stared at the faunus who was staring at the rubble in front of them.

“What makes you that?” Bastian asked

“That,” Ivan then pointed to the rubble. The boys saw the rubble shifting. Within minutes they saw a swarm of spiders that were smaller than the one they had just fought but still very large, starting to come out of a hole where the rubble used to be.

“All in favor of running raise your hands,” Noir said nervously. All four huntsmen shot their hands up into the air.