"Move move move!"

"Holy shit!"

"Argh!"

Cerulean frowned, but didn't bother to open his eyes. His whole body ached. What had happened? He remembered being at the Beacon Campus buying some food, deciding not to watch the Penny vs Pyrrha battle, he was paying for something and he saw through the vendors TV Pyrrha had…killed the other girl? Someone gave a speech and the TV went off, after that a loud noise was behind him and something slammed into him, knocking him out.

"We need to evacuate! We need to-AHHH!"

"No!" A series of gun blasts was heard, and a heavy thump. A big body falling?

This, was not a tragedy. This, was not an accident. This is what happens when you handle your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians but are, in reality, nothing more than men.

Cerulean frowned, trying to open his eyes. But his body felt heavy, he wanted some rest. This voice…what had happened? It had come on right after Penny was killed. The speech had finished and…

What, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First a dismemberment now this? Hunters and huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy…yet I have witnessed neither.

Why had she said that? What was she hoping to accomplish? Why would she speak so badly about hunters? Cerulean frowned, his hands gripped the sides of something and he tried to pull himself up, he opened his eyes and his vision was too blurred to make out much.

Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets.

Cerulean remembered that day, his team had been one of many sent to fight the hordes of Grimm which had somehow broken in, but in the end it was Atlas and its robots which had saved the people, killing all the Grimm before they could spread to far and do much more damage. Still, Cerulean and all the other hunters of Vale had done their best and saved countless lives.

Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue as to who is right and who is wrong. But I know that the existence of peace is fragile.

Cerulean hauled himself to his feet, anger coursing through his veins. Why was the person, the women, saying such things about the kingdoms and their leaders? About the peace? He shook his head, trying to clear it, but he still felt heavy and couldn't see straight.

Our kingdoms are at the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark. So, I ask you, when the first shots are fired, who do you think you can trust?

"No! No please stop!" A girls voice said somewhere to Cerulean's left, he heard a roar and everything dissipated, the blurry vision, the heavy feeling, replaced by boiling anger. The Grimm were attacking, that was what had followed the women's speech. And it was her fault. Cerulean unsheathed his weapons, two samurai like swords called Pain and Justice, their difference from an actual samurai sword was that they were shorter and a bit straighter, plus they fired dust rounds from the bottom of the hilts. Cerulean spun, hilts aimed behind him, he used wind dust to blast himself forward and slice through the Ursa who was about to kill the girl.

"I trust the kingdoms." He said to himself. "I fight for them, for humanity." He turned to take in the gravity of the situation. Grimm were all over the campus and people were running around in panic, some hunters were here and there fighting them off alongside soldiers, but they were depressingly few compared to the Grimm. Cerulean suspected that the city and the school itself were already under attack, or about to be, the borders had been overrun. He saw two lockers fall down and two huntresses, Blake and Weiss? Take their weapons and leave. What should he do? There were people here…but there were more in the city and the school was more important. He sighed, as much as he wanted to stay here it just wasn't smart. He pulled out his scroll to quickly check the status of his teammates, all alive and with their aura in the green. Good.

"Ok…Beacon here I come." He muttered, running off in the same direction Blake and Weiss had run off to, heading towards Beacon Academy. He didn't stop for anything, whenever he saw an easy kill or someone in danger he'd fire a regular round and keep going. He had last seen the two huntresses a while back but knew his way back to Beacon without following them. Without much interference he made it after a long run, no worse for wear. He smiled at what he saw, soldiers were already grouped up and fighting Grimm, almost no hunters but he saw here or there a hunter doing what he could.

"What the?" He muttered, turning to the sound of something crashing. He saw a bullhead had crashed down, a few White Fang members laid by it, dead, and a pair of Ursai came out. "The White Fang are here…and they're the ones bringing more Grimm in." He tightened his grip on his swords and did the obvious thing, joined the battle. He ran towards them unopposed and blasted himself forward with wind dust, slicing through the left ones arm. He spun and blasting himself onto its back, his swords going through its back. The Ursa roared and began shaking around like a mechanical bull, trying to shake him off.

"Why. Won't. You. Die. Yet." Cerulean said after each shake, his knuckles white as he tried to stay on. He twisted his blades and heard another roar of pain from the Ursa, but it didn't die. This was taking too long. He sighed and let go of the swords, flying backwards but landing on his feet, he ran back at the beast as it turned and jumped, both his feet smashing into the Ursa's head, knocking him down. He didn't wait, getting on the Ursa, pulling out his swords and stabbing one through its head, he threw the other sword which flew into the seconds Ursa's head before it could react, although with one arm down it couldn't have done much.

"Cerulean? Yo Cerulean!" A gruff voice yelled. He looked up to see Denver running to him. Denver was tall, 6'0", he was buff, wore a green tank top and green jeans. He also had green hair and a couple green tattoos on his arms. In each hand he carried a small sledgehammer with intricate designs which Cerulean could not appreciate right now.

"What's going on Denver?" He asked. "Make it quick we need to help the others."

"Grimm all over, Fang all over. I'm taking my team to the city, to save as many citizens as we can. I saw Glynda going there with that old guy, Qrow? Anyway, your team needs you at the training grounds. Good luck."

"Same to you, go save some lives. Maybe we'll join you later." The two nodded at each other and went their separate ways, Denver to his team and Cerulean across the school. He ran across the entrance, seeing Weiss mowing down through several…Atlas security bots? Was Atlas attacking? He sighed with frustration and focused on his objective. He needed to get to his teammates. He ducked under a Fang member's legs, tripping him in the process, jumped over a couple others in a fast series of kicks knocked them both out and then, continuing his run, mowed through a small contingent of security bots. He was close to the training grounds now, but froze as he heard something to his left. He groaned as he saw several men fighting a losing battle against an Atlas security Mech. After a few moments he mentally cursed and ran off to help them.

"Where the hell is Cerulean?"

"I don't know!"

"Didn't you tell Denver to get him?!"

"No I said IF he saw Cerulean to bring him here!"

"Well then why isn't he-"

"I DON'T KNOW NOW CAN YOU SHUT THE HELL UP AND FIGHT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD."

"Ok ok! Not like I haven't."

Yuki sighed, slicing through another Beowulf. She had been stuck with Nerium for at least an hour fighting Grimm while Cerulean and Agyris didn't answer there scrolls. The training grounds were near the entrance to Emerald Forest, the Grimm living there were getting riled up and so the two had stayed with some soldiers to guard what was literally the rear of Beacon. If the Grimm breached this defense they would have the school surrounded.

"Did you have to yell so loud? I think you killed a man with that." Nerium said. She turned to give him a glare and then ducked under a Beowulf, who had jumped at her and sailed over her, hitting a wall. Nerium was an odd guy, he had pink messy hair, pink eyes and most of his outfit was pink. He was wearing his usual outfit, pink chinos with streaks of black swirling around the pant legs, a pink t shirt with his symbol plastered in the middle in black, black and pink boots and over his shirt a black leather jacket. In his hands were his two weapons, a pair of combat tomahawks which had the blades and the bottom of the handles sharpened, and the weapon was also a mix of black and pink. He used incredible agility weaving around enemies and their attacks, slicing at them and apparent random blasts of dust coming from his weapons. In reality tiny buttons covered the handles of his weapons, he pressed different ones as needed to use different types of dust in his weapons at a moment's notice, so when he fought he was a tornado of spinning axes and dust.

"Nerium! The soldiers!" Yuki yelled, nodding to her right. They were having a tough time holding their own, although they had already surprised Yuki with how well they had done so far.

"What about you?" He yelled back, throwing an axe which passed right next to her and took off an androids head.

"I'll be fine! If anything I'll use my semblance!" Yuki answered. "Now go!" He nodded, running past her and picking up his weapon as he joined the out-numbered soldiers. Yuki focused back on her objective. "Khione, Ullr, I really need you to do your best now." She mumbled to her weapons. On her arms were two armbands which went from her wrists almost to her elbows, pure white which intricate carvings that indicated light exploding, when she flicked her wrists two blades came out, going over her fist and with a length of about thirty centimeters. The blades were pure white and had her symbol on them which went from the bottom of the blade to the tip, getting smaller and smaller. Yuki stared at them and once again thought of how beautiful they were.

"Yuki stop swooning over your weapons!" Nerium scolded. "I swear to god one day you're gonna-"

"SHUT UP NERIUM BEFORE I KILL YOU TO." She yelled, jumping high above a couple Beowulf's that rushed her and landing on them, each blade going into one's head. She smiled widely and charged the rest, slicing through limbs and stabbing fatal points. Despite the seriousness of the situation she couldn't stop smiling, fighting was so thrilling she couldn't help it. She ducked under a claw, flipped backwards several times then jumped over her attackers. They looked around dizzy and confused and Yuki's blades pierced their chests…from ten feet away. She flicked her wrists and the chains attaching the blades to the armbands pulled the blades back to her. She spun and shot out a dagger, slicing clean through a Beowulf's head.

"I always thought that weapon design was a surprise!" Nerium yelled. "Blades attached to chains so you could shoot them out and bring them back? Pretty damn original!" He laughed, flipping backwards to avoid an Ursa.

"Thanks!" She answered, firing her blades into the eyes of an Ursa and pulling them back to herself.

"So where's Cerulean?"

"I swear to god Nerium if you continue asking me!" She didn't finish her threat, deflecting a couple shots from Atlas androids. She felt a little better seeing that although the Atlas bots were fighting them they were also still fighting the Grimm.

"Should we call him?" He asked again.

"He might be too busy to answer! Rather not distract him." She answered, spinning into a crouch and slicing the legs off of several Grimm around her.

This is bad. Agyris thought to herself, remaining calmly in her seat as most of the audience ran to the exits. She did see a few other hunters staying here as well. A pang of sadness hit her as she saw the girl, Penny, in pieces on the floor and the other girl Pyrrha still in shock looking at what she had done. Her attention returned to the Nethermore that was trying to break the aura field around the stadium.

Plenty of hunters are staying, I'm not needed here. Time to move. With this thought she got up, calmly walking out of the bleachers and through the hallways. Everyone else ran but she simply unsheathed her weapon and walked as if she had all the time in the world. As far as she could tell nothing else was attacking the stadium, not yet at least. She needed to grab a ship and head to her teammates at Beacon Academy but when she exited the hallway she saw that things had gotten worse. Atlas androids were fighting Grimm being brought her by the White Fang. She sighed and spun her spear around, preparing to fight. Her spear, La Sorcellerie, had a spear-tip on each end of the shaft, the blades silver on the edges and black filling the middle with the shaft of the spear itself being silver. She propped it in one hand and took aim, throwing it to the nearest White Fang bullhead. The spear hit the cockpit and the ship blew up, but Agyris simply extended her hand and her weapon returned to her. She smirked, running towards a small group of Grimm that had been dropped off. She broke into a run and heard a roar from the first Ursa, she slid under its claws and in between its legs, getting up on the other side and slashing at its back. As it fell she jumped onto its back and back flipped off of it going over a pair of Beowulf's. They turned but in a quick series of spins she gave them a few serious cuts then sliced off their heads.

"RAAAAAAAGH!" She turned to the voice, seeing it was General Ironwood running toward an Alpha Beowulf. They jumped at each other but he pulled his handgun out, sliding under its legs like Agyris had done and firing a couple rounds. The monster turned and ran to him again but Ironwood duck under its attack and stopped the next one with his arm, quite literally. He spun the beast in the air and smashed it into the ground then lifted it at an awkward angle, firing a final round into its head. Agyris saw the other hunters run out from the hallway she had come from. Good, they had taken care of the Nethermore. She ran to join them by Ironwoods ship.

"What's going on?" The younger one, Ruby, asked.

"Grimm are crawling all over the city." Ironwood said. "The White Fang has invaded Beacon and to make matters worse some…vagabond has seized one of my ships. Until we regain command the skies are out of our control. So I'm-"He suddenly raised his gun and fired at a monster that had jumped behind them. He probably saved a few of their lives with that. "Going to take it back."

"What should we do?" The blonde one, Jaune, asked.

"You have to choices, defend your kingdom and your school or save yourselves." Ironwood answered, looking back at them. The hunters in training, including Agyris, looked at each other with confusion. Save themselves? They didn't even see that as an option. "No one will fault you if you leave. Let's move out!" Ironwood added before boarding his ship, the last line directed to his androids.

"I mean…come on." The monkey Faunus, Sun, said.

"We can take a ship to Beacon." Jaune said and everyone followed him aboard the ship.

"HIYAAH!" Cerulean yelled, punching an androids head off. He did a complete circle, looking for anymore enemies but apparently he had cleared this little sector all by himself. It was a small victory in this huge defeat. He was about to move on when someone dropped down from a tree.

"Hello." She said, smiling widely. It was a young women, about twenty two years old. She was wearing jeans, a purple tank top and around her waist bandages. But for some odd reasons the bandages had drawings in red, making it look like she drew blood drawings on them. Her eyes were purple and her short purple hair swept over her left eye. A confident smirk appeared on her lips.

"No time for introductions. This sector is clear we need to move on." Cerulean said, picking up his swords. "We should head to Beacon, the Fang, droids and Grimm are all attacking there." He began walking in her direction, but she held up a hand.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." She said. Cerulean narrowed his eyes, studying her a bit better. She had tan skin and a beautiful face, but it was the cold hard beauty of a statue. She grabbed two daggers out of thin air, both pretty ordinary. She was taller than him, slim, but had nothing that indicated she was an enemy. She wasn't part of the White Fang, she must be something else.

"I heard rumors of some humans working with the Fang, didn't think they were true." Cerulean said, getting into his fighting stance.

"Yes well, it is. And I am so glad to finally meet you Cerulean. Adam truly hates you after last time." She giggled like she had made a funny comment. "It's my job to collect your head."

"Adam, eh? Long time since I saw that mutt. I'd tell you to say hello to him but you certainly won't live that long."

"We shall see."

The two fighters slowly circled each other, getting closer and closer with each step. Finally Cerulean spun, his foot raised to deliver a roundhouse kick but it hit her daggers which she had raised in time to block the attack. He flipped back as she attacked but then ran to meet her, the two turned into a flurry of slashes and kicks and apparently they were equally matched. Cerulean swept low but she flipped backwards, he jumped at her but she kicked him in the stomach sending him back. She ran to him but he let go of his swords and spun on his hands, one foot hitting her in the jaw as he spun around and then got back on his feet and continued fighting without his swords. Her smile was gone as he got in close and personal and but he couldn't land much blows. An uppercut, a roundhouse, a butterfly kick. She dodged or blocked them all. Cerulean spun again and the women smiled widely. His foot went right through her and she put her fist and blade against his chest, blasting him backwards and against a wall.

"Very well done, Cerulean." She said with a laugh, walking towards him. "Better than I expected, maybe if you knew of my power you would've done better. I suppose it doesn't matter now, since you are dead." She put on blade against his neck. "If only you hadn't chosen the losing side."

"Go…to hell." He murmured, spitting at her but to pained to get up immediately. She sighed and lifted her sword, but never managed to get the killing blow.

As soon as the ship had landed Agyris had left the group, they seemed to be able to handle themselves anyway. She was intent on finding her teammates. She entered Beacon and ran through the hallways, not sure where she should go until she heard her scroll ring. She grabbed it and answered.

"Hello?"

"Agyris? Agyris thank Oum! Me and Nerium are behind Beacon, the closest point to the Emerald Forest."

It was Yuki, and from the sound of it she wasn't alone.

"Yuki, are Nerium and Cerulean with you?"

"Nerium is but Cerulean isn't. Nerium just got hit and landed in the building, when he came back out he told me that someone is still running the video feed of the battle. He saw Cerulean fighting by himself in downtown Vale. Meet with us at the air docks we need to go help him!" Agyris flinched hearing a couple explosions and a few yells. "We're almost done here and the soldiers just got reinforcements. We'll meet you there in a few minutes and head to Vale! Stay safe, gotta go."

"Yuki? Yuki?!" Agyris sighed, putting her scroll away. At least now she had an objective, get to the air docks and take a ship back down to Vale to go help Cerulean with whatever mess he was in.

A pink and black tomahawk flew between Cerulean and the women but as it passed in front of them it blew up into wind. The weapon impaled itself in the wall by Cerulean while the women took the full blast of the wind and flew several feet backwards.

Wait…pink and black?

Cerulean looked to his right to see Nerium running towards him with his always mischievous smile. He heard a battle cry and turned his head just in time to see Yuki fall from the air toward their enemy. The women flipped backwards and out of the way and Yuki made two holes in the ground, but she immediately charged the women and the two were quick blur of punches and kicks until the women blasted Yuki back with the same power she used against Cerulean.

"AAAA-uff." Yuki landed next to him, dazed. The women turned to see Agyris running towards her, Agyris's weapon sheathed, she also began to fight hand on hand but Agyris had an advantage. Cerulean smiled watching her fight. Agyris always hit with her palms open because when her blows connected they used aura. Each hit was reinforced with aura and dealt more damage than anyone liked to deal with. Agyris punched her in the stomach with a flash of silver, then did an uppercut then hit her in the middle of the chest sending her backwards again. The women rolled sideways as Nerium's second tomahawk hit the place she was a moment before.

"Wait for it." Nerium said. A moment later the tomahawk blew fire at the women, sending her through the brick wall of a shop. Cerulean stood up and helped Yuki get up, Agyris had entered the shop and exited it a minute later.

"Where is she?" Cerulean asked.

"Gone, she managed to escape." Agyris answered, grabbing Nerium's tomahawk and tossing it to him.

"What now Ceru?" Yuki asked, turning to him. His three partners turned towards him. He felt that usual jittery sensation in his stomach he always felt when he was about to give an order. When he was about to lead his team. But as always he ignored it, he couldn't let himself be nervous. They needed him.

"Now, we keep fighting. I'm pretty sure the local huntsmen are forming up nearby, let's go with them and establish a safe zone. We'll have to leave Beacon and its defense to the others." He turned to each one and received a nod as he met their eyes.

"Time to kick some butt." Nerium said as the three ran to find the huntsmen and continue the fight.

Team Canary was on the move.