Where is that girl? Panic spread through the man like wildfire. She was the only one still missing, Yang was fine (well as fine as someone who lost an arm can be...), so was the mini-ice-queen-look-alike and the emo-cat-girl. Where was his Red-clad niece? It felt like he'd searched the entire school, or ruins of the school, Qrow thought bitterly.

Running past a few Griffins, not even sparing them a glance when they growled and hissed at him as he passed. Gotta find Ruby, gotta find Ruby, gotta find Ruby, gotta find- oh no...

The top of the tower, in a way, exploded, oh no oh no oh no! She can't be up there, can she? the dragon was up there, Ozpin wasn't, that woman was up there, so was a flash of red, damnit, damnit, damnit! He was so far away, too far really, he always forgot how big Beacon really was. Emphasis on was.

For a moment he stopped running. White gliffs lined themselves up on the remnants of the tower, and a moment later, a more familiar blast of red shot up the tower, leaving behind a tell-tale trail of floating rose petals. If she wasn't up there before, she was now.

Well, I found her... Qrow thought with bitter sarcasm as he took off running again. He made it to the tower just as the gliffs diseapeared. Mini-ice-queen stood panting, leaning heavily on her rapier. Grimm were surrounding the girl, Grimm, the drunkard easily dispatched in seconds, "get out of here!" He yelled at the Snow-girl, Weiss, her name was.

The girl gave him a funny look, but obliged, and took off in the direction of the airship docks. But not before she yelled, "Pyrrah's up there too!"

Sighing he looked up at the top of the tower, only seconds had passed but he was just in time to see an explosion of white light, shit.

Not even caring about the disadvantages of being a defenseless crow during a battle anymore, Qrow took off up the side of the tower. He made it just in time to see Ruby, his beloved niece, fall from the air, silver whisps disappearing from around her eyes. The dragon, the dragon was frozen, petrified, separated from time itself.

Oz wasn't kidding...

"It's okay, I've got you." He stated as he gathered the fifteen year old into his arms, he'd have to take the long way down the tower, but it was worth it. The baby of the family, the silver eyed little angel, she looked just like her mother.

Summer...

Her power though, greatly outweighed that of her mother, and quite possibly dwarfed it. The only problem was that she didn't know about it. Ozpin planned on telling her after she finished a year or two of training at Beacon,

...Summer's Rose's daughter, the simple soul. The most powerful soul I've ever seen...

And that was saying something, Ozpin'd seen, and conversed with

her...

but did it matter? Ruby Rose, the baby of the family, Taiyang still sugar coated 'everything' for her.

And I mean everything,

Would his little Ruby even be able to handle the weight of that responsibility? Did it matter if she could? He came back to the docks just as the last evacuation airship began loading. Yang was hopefully already at a hospital,

How'll she cope with a loss like that?

Taiyang stood at the docks near the airship, looking around worriedly until he saw Qrow and his red/black burden. "I tried calling you, everything, it's all dark."

"it won't work, turn it off."

"Why not?"

"The tower fell" he turned to his old friend with a serious expression, shuffling Ruby's dead weight in his arms in the process. Taiyang simply stared at Qrow, "what?"

"Pyrrhaa Nikos is probably dead, Ozpin is missing, the top of the tower exploded, and Ruby went Silver-eyes on the Dragon."

Qrow mentally listed things out in his mind as he said them. It was a lot to take inTaiyang just stared at him for a moment, then two.

Wait for it...

"WHAT!?"

Qrow didn't need to be sober to know what the man needed to have repeated, "your fifteen year old daughter, Ruby Rose, went Silver-eyes, on the Grimm Dragon."

"What, why, how!?"

Qrow shrugged, "my best guess? She probably saw that Cinder chick kill Pyrrah Nickos, then she went over the edge."

"Ruby, Ruby woke up her power? It's too soon! I can't tell her yet!"

Qrow sighed, Honestly...

"Fine, I will. She has to know Tai."

I just wish it wasn't so soon.