'Just keep going,' thought Cassandra Shiro as she raced towards Beacon's tower. 'That Wyvern needs to be taken down and fast'
Trained under Raver Branwen, Cassandra was a prodigy with the Katana and it showed by how masterfully she was taking down Grimm as she rushed to her destination.
"Shit!" she cursed as a Griffon tried to grab at her. Using her shuriken to slay the creature before it could lay a claw on her.
"There it is!" She exclaimed as she reached the tower. A loud grinding noise was heard as an elevator was being lifted by a red haired individual that Cassandra just happened to see before the elevator disappeared. "This is gonna be a long climb," groaning as she began to climb the elevator shaft.
After three minutes of speed climbing a crash was felt through out the tower. "Holy Shit!" Cassandra shrieked as she almost lost her hold on the wall. She was nearly at the top when she heard someone's aura break.
Hoping it was Cinder's she climbed out and hid. Peeking she saw the red haired girl throw her shield as Cinder let an arrow lose. Judging by the flight paths of both objects Cassandra knew they would collide, but right before they did, the arrow shattered and its remnants flew over and under the shield reforming and piercing the red haired girl's ankle.
'This isn't good' Cassandra though to herself as the girl struggled. Hearing conversation only able to make out one sentence and response. "Do you believe in destiny?" asked the red haired girl. "Yes," replied Cinder. As Cinder released her arrow, Cassandra uttered "Hansha no Jutsu (The art of reflection)," as she rolled out of her cover and in front of the injured girl.
The arrow was met by a Katana reflecting the arrow in the opposite direction, right at Cinder. The arrow lodged itself in Cinder's abdomen which was accompanied by a cry of anguish from Cinder and the shout "Pyrrha!" from a new voice.
"Get this girl out of here!" cried Cassandra, turning in the direction of the shout to see a girl with a red cloak complying and taking the red haired girl "Pyrrha" out of the way.
"You dare stand in opposition of me!" said Cinder.
"You bet your ass I do!" said Cassandra.
"First I will maim you to the point of no resistance and force you to watch as a kill those you just defended," replied Cinder
"Lets cut the chatter and get this over with... Bitch!" stated Cassandra.
Cinder struck first with her dual arming swords. Cassandra knew that technique was only for show as Cinder displayed a Mistralian fighting style, Cassandra drew her Katana. The blades clashed Cassandra and Cinder studying each others moves noting how both had excellent sword form. Both pushed off each other and they clashed again. Fighting to see who was the better combatant.
Pyrrha and the cloaked girl could only watch in awe as both fought incredibly.
Cinder eventually realized that Cassandra was the better sword wielder as she was starting to lose her ground even with her maiden powers. Suddenly Cinder kicked up into the air off of Cassandra's Katana letting loose a barrage of arrows. One plunged through Cassandra's left shoulder and remained there as her aura and defense broke, Cassandra letting loose a cry of pain as she dropped her Katana.
Cinder landed and grabbed the injured girl's throat and left arm. "This arm, it faired quite well against me, well it will be of no use to you now," stated Cinder as the hand holding Cassandra's arm and the arrow both started to glow. Cassandra screamed in pure agony as she felt as though her arm was ablaze.
Cinder smiled as she melted through Cassadra's arm and threw the girl aside. "You're next," she said as she stared in the direction of Pyrrha and her companion as they watched on in pure horror. The cloaked girl screamed in pure anguish as nothing could be done to help, but her eyes began to glow and a large silver light engulfed all atop the tower.
A crow landed at the last known site of Cinder Fall, Ozpin's office. It then transformed into a man, known as Qrow Branwen. "Oh shit" he exclaimed as he saw three teenagers, one that he didn't recognize. "Ruby!?" he said as he went to check to see if any of them were alive. He was glad to find out they were but found the one clad in blue missing their left arm. "Goodwitch, Ironwood, I need your help."
"Is she gonna live" - "Relax kid, she'll pull through" - "Cassie wake up please..." - "Just be alright..."
Cassandra gasped as she awoke. "Cassie! You're awake" said a familiar voice.
"Nate?" said Cassie
"Yes Cass, I'm here for ya," he said as he hugged his sister.
"Are the other girls alright, and where am I?"
"Well they're fine both alive, well one's in a coma..."
"I failed them," Cassie said glumly.
"What do you mean, you saved them, well one of them. The red haired one, Pyrrha, said that if it weren't for you she'd be dead,"
"But I couldn't beat Cinder,"
"Cinder's a maiden now Cass, up until she pulled the bow on you Pyrrha said you were kicking her ass!"
"Fine, anyway's where are we?"
"On an Island called Patch, we were brought here after the fight. Which reminds me this is Taiyang Xiao Long's place. Oh now that you're up, I think we should speak to Ironwood about your arm, or new arm rather, and meet the others"
"Yeah well at least I'm alive,"
"Don't go doubting yourself now, your the best sword wielder in all of Remnant."
"Alright Nate. I suppose I should get up,"
"Time to meet my new friends!"
The siblings exited the room that they were sharing and went downstairs. There they saw two teens a blonde and a ravenette with a bow in her hair. "Hi Yang. Hi Blake," Nate greeted respectively. "Hello," said Cassandra. "So that's your sister, she's cute" said Yang. Cassandra was shocked to here this especially after losing an arm. She didn't consider herself cute, or beautiful. She stood at 5'5 with a fair skin and neon blue eyes with her platinum blonde hair in a twisting braid over the rest of her hair. Her brother stood at 5'10 with the same skin, eyes and hair color, but that's where the resemblance ends. Cassandra has a lean build and Nate has a fit and built structure.
"Thanks," Cassie replied.
"So... you gonna put some clothes on," Yang bluntly stated.
Cassie looked down horrified to see she was only in her undergarments and asked where she could get some clothes. Yang directed her to her room leaving Blake and Nate behind.
As Cassie was pulling on a tank top and shorts Yang asked, "So what happened up there at the tower?"
"Well when I reached the top Pyrrha was about to be shot down..." said Cassie as she began to recall the events of that night.
"...she burned of my arm and tossed me away, then all I could see was a silver light coming from the red cloaked girl, then I woke up here,"
"That was Ruby but still. My Oum, Cassie..."
"Its fine, apparently I'm getting a new arm,"
"Awesome!"
"Guys Ruby's up," shouted Qrow.
"Time to meet my savior," said Cassie