Hahahahaha SURPRISE you beautiful readers. I did say that the next chapter would come out on the 12th, but I got really excited and finished up this chapter really quick. I mean I wrote the majority of this chapter the night I released the first. So, from now on my chapters can be released up to a certain deadline. Anywhoozers I do not own RWBY or Overwatch characters that I tie in to this fic. If I did, it would be a nightmare.

Chapter 2

Anguish of the breaking dawn

The morning glare broke through the blinds of Team RWBY's room as they woke up. Yawns could be heard throughout the room as they all stretched to get on with the activities of the day. Mostly encompassing the dull but necessary classes and the needed combat training. The leader of the four huntresses was the one to break the silence in the room.

"Well another day. Let's get it over with." The rose said with a monotone voice as she grabbed her cloak and uniform. The other three only looked onto their leader with some concern as she walked to the shower with her toiletries. She had been like this since that day on their first mission as a team and it was becoming a problem. All she would do now according to her team and sister, is fight, eat, and sleep. It had been three months since she became like this and the rest all honestly had no idea what to do to fix it.

"Attention all Beacon students." The three of them looked up to hear the intercom installed into every room sound off. "Due to recent events, you will all meet in the auditorium. This is not a drill of any kind and we expect you all to come no later than nine, thank you." Confusion was amongst the huntresses and before one could speak out Ruby exited the shower ready for the day.

"I'll meet you all there." Ruby said as she was walking out the door. The door shut behind her and the three looked at each other. They were all concerned about her wellbeing and before Yang could stand up Weiss spoke up.

"You know why we did it and why this needs to be kept to ourselves." She reminded the brawler. Blake looked at the two and saw while one was being calm and collected, the other was starting to lose her patience.

"I didn't know it would cause my sister to be like that!" yang shouted back. her eyes were red with anger but mostly just frustration. "If I knew what we did turned Ruby into that I wouldn't have been a part of it in the first place!" Weiss was about to retort until Blake became the voice of reason.

"Yang, even if we regret what happened we can't tell her. If this hadn't already broken her, the truth definitely will. I'm not saying what we did was justified. I admit I have some regrets." She got off her bed and walked to her partner. "But we can't let that regret overwhelm us. We just have to accept what occurred and try to be there for our leader and your sister." Yang became silent when she said that. Blake smiled at this because it meant Yang was processing and accepting her words. The faunus grabbed her uniform and began walking to the bathroom. "When I'm done, I'll go and find Ruby. I'll message you all when I do." They nodded at this and all went back to what they were doing.

Beacon Auditorium:

Weiss and Yang found the remainder of their team standing in the back of the hall that was now crowded with every student. This was a bit concerning to everyone due to the fact that they had never had to meet up like this. Worries about a big emergency was on everyone's minds as they waited for the reason why they were there in the first place. The commotion died down as they saw Headmaster Ozpin walk up to the podium. His expression on his face was emotionless as he adjusted his glasses. Goodwitch at his side looked a little worried on the other hand.

"Students." He started with the same tone he would use in all of his speeches. "Last night an unfortunate event transpired. At around 9:30 team JZZY were found dead in the outskirts of the Emerald Forrest." Gasps and small murmuring could be heard as they learned the news of the team's demise. Ozpin then held up his hand to quiet down the students. "I cannot tell you all the details but I am able to tell you that this wasn't a grim attack or an accident. Someone is responsible for their deaths. I am informing you all of this because we have no leads on the assailant as of yet. In response to this tragic event, students are permitted to carry their weapons on them at all times when they are not on Beacon grounds and will be accompanied with a trained huntsman or huntress on missions no matter how minuscule it is. I will also remind you the regulation on weapons is not a privilege. You are NOT allowed to use them unless if there is a threat on your or your team's life. Am I understood?" he said and the audience nodded their heads at his regulations. "Last night was a truly tragic event. News has already gone out to the families and I hope this will all help you realize how precious life truly is. Classes will be cancelled for the week for the mourning. With that you are all dismissed." He then exited as fast as he came, leaving dumbfounded and concerned students.

Beacon Cafeteria:

"Well that was a thing." Yang said trying to break the silence among her team. They were all quiet after what happened at the assembly. The entire school was after a bomb like that was dropped on them.

"What worries me is that they were on a very simple mission." Weiss said earning the attention of the other teams. "I talked to Zelda sometimes during out grim studies class and she told me before they left that it was a simple search and destroy mission in outer parts of the Emerald forest. Basic grim training at most. Who or what could do that? I mean whoever did this, attacked students in a place where they could easily get help from people training to be HUNTSMEN." She said and saw the others in deep thought.

"Either a really stupid person," Blake said, letting the heiress's words sink in. "or a professional. Judging that the whole team…. Is no longer with us, I'm assuming the latter." The others nodded at this. They were about to back to eating their lunch until the door to the mess hall burst open. The noise of the door breaking off its hinges caused everyone to look at the source of the noise. Surprisingly they all saw the support team NPR who all had very livid expressions on their faces. Even the stoic Ren had a subtle, but furious look.

They all saw the leader of the team Pyrrha Nikos, scan the room with a sharp intensity. She looked over all of the students and her eyes widened a bit until they narrowed in almost a primal look. She and her team made their way to their intended target that was an unaware team CRDL. Before anyone could process what happened, Pyrrha yanked their leader by the back of his collar and slammed him into the ground. Cardin's team was about to react until Nora and Ren started to attack the other three. Ren had Russel pinned to the wall by his foot slowly crushing his windpipe and Nora was in the process of breaking Skye's and Dove's legs. What everyone was so shocked by wasn't the sudden act of violence, but the malicious intent that they all had. It looked as if they truly wanted to harm them and even go further.

"What the hell Nikos!" Cardin shouted. His only response was a straight punch to the face.

"You just can't get enough can't you?! You make him the black sheep of this school and he's now gone! So, you go on and desecrate his GRAVE?!" Pyrrha shrieked. The students watching this unfold go wide eyed at her claim. They all knew who she was talking about and slightly hung their heads at remembering him. Yang saw her sister immediately stand up from her seat, seeing the same look dawning on her face. Before any of her teammates could react, their leader used her semblance to get to her sister team. She appeared behind the champion and looked down at the bruised bully.

"Explain." She said. Her voice was monotone like before but was now dripping with venom. Cardin had a look of confusion written all over his face as he looked at the two women that would probably put him in the infirmary very soon.

"What the hell are you talking about! I haven't even to been to his grave! I don't even know what you're accusing me of!" He shouted in protest only to have the champion slam something very hard in his face. He recoiled and yelped in pain. He then looked up to see her holding a piece of granite that had the engraving of the Arc symbol.

"THIS is what we find this morning when we went to visit his grave!" Pyrrha hissed at Cardin, pointing at the chunk of rock. Ruby went wide eyed at this and immediately grabbed at Cardin's hair. He screamed in pain as her nails dug into his scalp.

"Let go! Please I honestly had no idea that happened!" he said. Tears were leaking down his face due to the pain flaring all over his head.

"How can we believe you?! After everything you did to him?! You honestly think we wouldn't suspect you for doing this?!" Pyrrha yelled back. she reeled her fist back to give the bully another punch until a loud slamming noise echoed over all the students. They all turned to see professor Ozpin standing at the entrance. His cane puncturing the hardwood floor.

"That is ENOUGH." His volume rose with his last word and it made the students shudder. "You four will all report to my office immediately. Just be lucky Ms. Goodwitch isn't the one here at the moment." Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren went to follow the headmaster until they noticed that Ruby still hadn't let go of Cardin. Ozpin noticed this too and calmly made his way to her. He was inches away now and about to put his hand on her shoulder.

"What did he ever do to you Cardin?" Ruby wispered just loud enough for the headmaster and Cardin to hear her words. Cardin gained a fearful look until Ozpin placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see him with his same neutral expression.

"Let's go Miss Rose." He said. She let out a small sigh at this and closed her eyes for a second. She wiped away some tears and nodded her head. She joined the others and headed out of the mess hall with the headmaster behind them. Ozpin then looked out into the crowd and spotted the area where the confrontation took place. He pinched the bridge of his nose and lightly shook his head before leaving the mess hall of now emotionally exhausted students.

"I'll wait for her." Yang said standing up from her bench. "Despite what we did, she needs me. She was like this when she lost her mom and I need to there for her again. I'll meet you two back at the room." she gave them a wink and headed in the direction her sister went. Weiss simply looked down at her food and silently squeezed her fork almost enough for her nails to draw blood. She obviously wasn't mad at Yang, but was mad at how badly her friends and partner were in shambles.

She didn't expect what they did to impact them this much.

Ozpin's office:

"Now please explain to me why you outright attacked students just now?" Ozpin asked as he propped his elbows on his desk, looking at the four in front of him. He saw Nora about to say something until Pyrrha walked up to the headmaster and placed the bloody piece of stone on his desk. He sighed as he gazed at the two crescents that were now laced with Cardin's blood.

"And you suspect the perpetrator would be Mr. Winchester and his team?" he asked and all Pyrrha did was nod. He nodded in return and leaned back a bit in his chair. "I understand things have not been well for you four as of late." There small gestures of discomfort only proved his claim true. "But in these situations, we need to think rationally about events like this. Did it occur to you that one of the four students that were murdered were in the cemetery when they met their unfortunate demise?" He then brought up a video on his scroll to show the confused students in front of him. "I won't show you the more disturbing parts, but this was caught on our school surveillance system last night." The four of them looked closer at the screen to see the back of a man standing over what seemed to be a corpse. They couldn't see the state of the person due to the man blocking him from the camera. The man was dawning a hood and the back of his cloak seemed to have a design of some skull. They became confused at the video due to him not doing anything but stand there. Out of nowhere the man pulled out two giant shotguns and obliterated a tombstone in the cemetery. They saw this go for a full minute until he turned into ashes and disappeared. Ozpin then shut off the video to see the four students, dawning looks of regret and some confusion on their faces. "As you can see that the ones you all attacked weren't responsible. But due to these troubling times for us all, I will let you all go with a warning. Be very grateful that Miss Goodwitch had decided to take the day off or this would have ended with a worse punishment. You are all dismissed." Ruby and NPR all filed out of his room and he began to sip some of his coffee until he received a message on his scroll. He saw it was from his deputy headmistress and he smirked a bit. He sent her off today to see if she could find some information in Vale about a suspicion he had. There were few things the headmaster would never forget, and those weapons the murderer used were one of the few.

He looked at the message and his smirk morphed into a frown at the message. He immediately got out of his seat and headed to the elevator, but not before grabbing his cane, gripping it tight. As he made it down the elevator, Ozpin looked at the message one last time.

'Head to these coordinates. There is someone you should meet.'

What made Ozpin on edge? What will Yang say to her sister when they meet up again? Where is Goodwitch? Why did I end on sort of a cliffhanger? Find out next time you beautiful people.

So, this fic has caught some attention on you readers and I am very surprised by the outcome. I'm happy I get to surprise you with this early chapter, but there are two things I need to discuss.

1.I saw a comment saying this should be in the crossover section and I am still debating on that. I honestly am wanting the go the same path as the fanfic The Black Swordsman of Vale by undaed15 in regards to crossover. It uses characters of RWBY but has the concepts, ideologies, and scenarios of Berserk, but not an official crossover. That's what I plan to do, but if I choose to go the other way and label it a crossover keep an eye out for that.

2.So the next thing to talk about is the next chapter. I like the six day gap in between deadlines so going off the 12ths deadline chapter three will be out no later than the 18th. I am taking a winter class that requires this dreadful thing called "effort" (shudders) but I assure you all that you will get your chapters.

Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this latest installment of Reaping with Sorrow and as always, Be fierce!

SparkyDapperDab19 signing off!