RWBY V4 C10

## Plot

Okay, so Oscar has finally decided to listen to Ozpin, and is leaving home to head to Haven. Along the way, he runs into Hazel. Wow, that is quite a coincidence. Ozpin tells him that Hazel is someone from his past, but sadly doesn't elaborate. Hazel doesn't realize who Oscar really is though, and gives him some advice on overcoming obstacles. Ruby and Jaune arrive in the titular Kuroyuri with Qrow. It's not hard for them to figure out that Ren didn't want to come because this was his home. And then we witness a flashback to Ren's childhood. First of all, child Ren is adorable! And I don't care what anyone else says, I like his voice too, courtesy of Apphia Yu. His mother is An Ren. She gives him some Lien to go buy something for his father, who has been hunting for awhile. While looking, he comes across three mean boys making fun of a child Nora, who is dirty and is forced to eat moldy bread that she fished out of the trash. Sadly, we learn nothing about Nora's past before this. When the boys notice Ren, he tries to run away instead of standing up for Nora. However, he literally bumps into his father, Hanzo–I mean, Li Ren. The other kids run away, including Nora. Li tells his son that sometimes the worst action to take is taking no action at all. He tells him to go home, because he has to talk to the mayor. Jaune and Ruby couldn't find any medicine. They hear a Grimm, but it's far off. Ren and Nora are still out there somewhere. Ruby apologizes for dragging them into this. Jaune tells her that they wanted to come. But they didn't know about Tyrian. To be fair, Ruby herself didn't know about that either. Jaune explains that they all lost Pyrrha. And so did Ruby. And she lost Penny, her team, and, in a way, her sister. But she's still here. Despite everything she's lost, and everything she could still lose, she chose to come out here, because she thought she could make a difference. Jaune explains that she didn't drag them along. She gave them the courage to follow her. Aw! It's so beautiful! We see another flashback to when Kuroyuri was destroyed by Grimm. For simplicity's sake, I'm just gonna assume that it happens on the same day as the other flashback. Ren and An try to leave, but run into Li. They can't go to the safe house. Li saw the beast, and says that they need a Huntsman. An tries to assure Ren that everything will be okay, but then the roof collapses on them. This knocks out Ren, injures Li, and *kills* An. Damn. When Ren wakes up, his injured father is carrying him and running from the Grimm, but he falls. He tells Lie to run, be brave, and take action. He gives him a knife. Ren runs while Li uses his last three arrows on a giant horse like Grimm. He hides and sees Nora across the road, hiding under a building. A Nevermore lands on the building, attracted by her fear. Ren sees the horse Grimm, and realizes that his father was killed by it and both his parents are dead. He cries, but also unlocks his Semblance, which is the ability to hide from the Grimm by masking negative emotions, which is what they're attracted to. Ren runs over to Nora and uses his Semblance to save them from the Nevermore. They see the horse Grimm leave a hoof print in the ground, the same one that was at Shion. Ren sees a toy hammer that he was offered earlier on the ground and gives it to Nora as an instrumental of the song "Boop" plays. They introduce themselves and promise to always keep each other safe. In the present, Nora and Ren are climbing the mountain. They find a cave with wind blowing out of it. A banner hits Ren in the face, and at this point, I'll take any joke to lighten the tension. However, Ren notices that the banner has the symbol of Shion village on it, even though it's weeks away from here. They go inside the cave, and discover a gruesome scene. There are weapons scattered everywhere, and pools of black, inky Grimm blood. And hoof prints. Ren even finds one of his father's arrows. They're in the den of the Nuckelavee Grimm. It's yet another mythology thing that I don't understand. And the Grimm is heading for Kuroyuri, where Jaune, Ruby, and Qrow are.