Grimm flooded the city from the hole created by the exploding train car. Citizens ran around panicking, while Hunters and Huntresses fought off the grimm advance. Team RWBY helped citizens towards Beacon, one of the safest areas in Vale. Screams and crying filled the air as the battle raged on in the middle of town. Ruby and Weiss lead the group towards the front gates of Beacon, just as they opened. The four ushered the people inside, making sure every man, woman and child made it in safely. When the last person made it through the gates, they closed, leaving the team outside. The team rushed back towards the center of town, destroying every grimm in their way, but a few blocks away from the fight contained a large group of grimm attacking a small family. They were trapped in an alley, barely avoiding the onslaught on deathstalker tails. The team looked to each other and turned down the street, charging the death stalkers. Ruby stayed in back, firing her rifle with the help of Weiss's glyphs, while Blake and Yang crashed down on the deathstalkers, striking the beast's tails. As they fought, a group of Nevermores flew above, eyeing the battle, before launching their feathers towards Blake and Yang. Ruby yelled towards her two teammates, but it was too late, the feathers were to close for them to escape.
As they braced themselves, they went quiet. They stayed in that position for several seconds, until the realized the feathers never reached them. They looked up and noticed a ceiling appeared above them, a ceiling made up of thin grey cards. A man stood on top of a nearby building motioning for them to run. They obliged, running towards their teammates. The metal cards dispersed, the feathers falling slowly. The cards flew into a pouch on the man's side, He started to turn away, when the building he was standing on started to collapse. A deathstalker destroyed the final support of the building, and the man fell into the rubble. Blake and yang quickly ran to the destroyed building to find his cards blocking his body from the death-stalker's tail. One blow barely made it through, but a scream was heard from beneath the makeshift wall. The two members of team RWBY ran towards the creature, their weapons primed. Yang blasted the death-stalker off the ground into the air, while Blake Shot at the creature from the ground. Together they jumped at it as it landed, and they attacked its exposed belly. It writhed in pain for a few seconds, until it finally died. Yang rushed to the silver wall, calling Blake over. The wall slowly dissipated, showing the man with a large puncture in his side. Blake quickly picked him up, and ran outside, placing him on a bench. She called over her team to help her. The mother of the family that they saved before walked over, with a bag of medical supplies. She poured a liquid on the wound, and as she started to bandage it, she motioned for the four to continue on and help the other Hunters in the center of town. He started to stir as they tried to convince the woman that they should stay.
"We just can't leave you two here, it's still too dangerous," Yang argued, kneeling down next to the doctor.
"We'll be fine, I can take him and my family to the nearby hospital, it should be clear by now," said the doctor.
The 4 girls looked cross, but they sighed, "Alright, keep him safe, alright?" Said Blake, staring her in the eye. The doctor nodded to her, and tried to pick me up off the bench.
"No," I said, grunting. "I need to get out there, people are in danger." I pushed myself off of the bench, and I fell to the ground. The yellow haired one knelt down and pulled me back up to my feet.
"You can barely stand, how do you expect to fight in this condition?" She asked me, setting me back down on the bench, "Just go rest, we can handle the rest."
I sighed, and looked at the four of them, all fully equipped with well-maintained weapons, plus they were able to get me away from that Deathstalker. "Alright Fine, But please do something for me," they all looked at me questioningly, "Give em' hell." They smiled and rushed towards the center of Vale, towards the heat of battle. "Well, let's get going." I told my new field doctor, "Oh and thanks for the help."
She smiled, "Don't mention it, I couldn't leave someone as important as you just lying there, dying." I tensed up, which wasn't a good idea given my condition. My legs gave out beneath me and I fell to the floor. She quickly knelt down and grabbed me, stopping my head from slamming against the ground.
"You know who I am?" I asked, surprised. As she pulled me up she let out a laugh.
"I'm surprised those girls didn't know, you are really famous around here. The amount of people that would give anything to meet the young man who has saved Vale singlehandedly is more than I can count. You're a celebrity around here." She smiled, and I groaned. So much for laying low.
"How do they know, I'm not all that public about my identity." I asked, perplexed.
"Oh, people have their ways. I hope you didn't expect to stay anonymous, because stopping an army of grimm alone isn't the best way to do it."
"No, I supposed it wasn't."
"Don't be so worried, we owe our lives to you. Especially my family and I, as you have saved us twice now," she stopped and turned to face me "thank you. I owe you my life."
"Don't mention it, I was just doing what anyone would do." I turned away, and continued walking. After a few seconds, I heard her start walking again, but this time we walked in silence.
After a while we made it to the hotel, but it wasn't how she expected. The hospital was surrounded by Ursai and Beowolves, both trying to break their way in to the people cowering inside. "No…How do we get them out of there. We cant just wait for a hunter to randomly drop by."
I stepped forwards, and touched the pouch on my side. "Don't forget that I'm a hunter. I worked hard to get where I am." I focused my aura, and a rush of cards flew out, surrounding me. My aura radiated off of the cards as they flew forwards, cutting and bashing against the creatures. In less than ten seconds they were all dead, their corpses lining the streets. The people slowly walked to the windows, and they took in the spectacle around them, as I turned to leave, I heard cheering. I turned around and saw many of them running outside, kicking the corpses as they left. Before I could stop myself, I smiled, glad that they still had hope. I hid the cards back in the pouch before walking into the hospital to find some painkillers. As a few steps into the building, I felt myself start to slip out of consciousness, falling to the ground.
