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Hello again, like I promised this is another chapter of Remnant's Grey Knight.

After this I'll be working on my other story Remnant of the Swarm.

I want to thank you readers for supporting this story and I'll try to meet all your expectations with this story.

Now without further ado here is the story.

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I did some editing on this chapter to better fit the canon.

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I don't own RWBY or Warhammer 40k, they're owned by Rooster Teeth and Gaming Workshop respectively.

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Chapter 1: In Unknown Lands

Julius's eyes shot open waking up from unconsciousness, however, all he could see was the inside of his own helmet, the HUD and visors were shut off. Julius tried to move but he soon realized his dilemma, his Aegis Armor is drained of power and thus he could barely move his arms and legs at it is.

After realizing the problem, he concentrated, pushing the power of his soul into his armor. Soon he was awarded when his power armor and HUD hummed to life as the personal power generator incorporated into his armor fed off his own energy.

When Julius was just a Battle Brother, during one of his many trails the Ecclesiarchy examined his unnatural power over his soul. From their experiments and findings, they discovered that Julius's very soul could power most known machinery and devices within the Imperium, something that baffled the Ecclesiarchs. Soon the Adeptus Mechanicus got involved and did their own research on this strange ability and confirmed the Ecclesiarchy's findings, however, even the most skilled of Techpriests couldn't find the answer to this strange phenomenon.

When Julius became the Brotherhood Champion, he was given his own personal Aegis Terminator Armor from the forges of Mars, capable of being powered by Julius's own soul if needed. This greatly increases the efficiency of his armor's generator, however, it does require a good amount of his power to recharge it.

As soon as the generator was mostly charged, Julius did a scan of both his armor and life support systems for any damages, there were none.

With this conformation, Julius immediately stood up from the blood red grass he was laying on just moments ago.

Wait… blood red grass?

When Julius finally stood on his own two feet, he did a quick scan of the area as well as physically observed his surroundings.

He expected to see many things, the heroes of the Imperium's past welcoming him to their ranks by the God-Emperors side, the dreaded Warp and all its deamons, a wasteland ravaged by war, or his Brothers surrounding him when they retrieved his body for burial.

But not what he is currently seeing.

In the middle of a clearing where he is currently standing, Julius saw that he was surrounded by a dense red forest. Everywhere he looked, there was ash grey trees with blood red leaves and equally red grass beneath his feet. His scanners picked up no signs of life nearby, showing him that he was in fact alone in this unknown forest.

Julius was confused. It wasn't the fact that somehow he's still alive, nor the fact that he may be on some unknown planet and possibly light years away from any Imperial contact.

No, it was the fact that this very forest seemed familiar to him, as if he has been here before.

Julius shook the thoughts from his head, that was impossible. In all his life he has never been to a world with a forest such as this. Besides, he has more important things to worry about, like finding a possible Imperial settlement and contact any of his Brothers or the Inquisition.

Julius knew his chances of returning to his Chapter were slim at best, but he shall not falter for he believed the Emperor will surely show him the way.

After making his decision, Julius then did a quick equipment check.

His wrist mounted Storm Bolter is functioning properly, he currently has 40 Psybolt's in the 60 round magazine with another spare magazine attached to his belt, leaving him with 100 precious Psybolts left.

Julius frowned, he would have to use his ammo sparingly since he doesn't know how long it will take for him to return to his chapter. The same could be said with his grenades, specifically his precious Psyk-out grenade.

He currently has two Frag grenades, a Melta grenade, and a single holy Psy-out grenade. What makes the Psy-out grenade special is that it's filled with the very dust from the Emperor's Golden Throne, making the grenade extremely potent, able to hurt and even kill the Greater Deamons of Chaos.

As Julius inspected his equipment he soon realized he was missing his most important weapon, his Nemesis Force Sword.

After looking around the clearing he soon found his sword laying on the ground besides him. Julius quickly picked up his weapon and did a quick inspection over the blade. Once he was satisfied that there were no damages on the blade, he held the weapon in his right hand and subconsciously sheathed the blade in a faint white aura, ready to fight any possible threats on this unknown planet.

But before Julius set out into the unknown forest, he knelt down on one knee and held his sword in front of him with both hands. He then bowed his head in prayer.

'I tread the path of Righteousness. Though it be paved with broken glass, I will walk it barefoot; though it cross rivers of fire, I will pass over them; though it wanders wide, the light of the Emperor guides my step.'

After the short prayer, Julius stood from his kneeled position.

All of a sudden his scanners blared as it showed several hostile life signs rapidly approaching his position on all sides. Julius immediately readied himself for a conflict as he sheathed his blade in a faint white aura and charged his wards.

After a brief moment, numerous bipedal wolves with fur black as the void, bone white spikes protruding from their bodies, and the most noticeable feature was the bone white mask with red markings and burning red eyes, filled with a bestial hunger for blood.

Julius's eyes widened slightly. 'These creatures- no, deamons. I recognize them from my past memories. But how is that possible? Could this planet be…?' Julius quickly purged those thoughts from his head. 'There is no time for that right now. Right now I'll smite these deamons before me!'

With his scanners, Julius counted fifteen deamons in total surrounding him at all sides. However, none of the deamons tried to approach him, in fact Julius could see some of the deamons are in pain. Black smoke started emanating off the nearest ones, further proving that these beasts are in fact deamons if his very presence alone can harm them.

However, Julius also sensed that these deamons surrounding him aren't like the deamons he slain in the past. These deamons have no souls, something he never encountered before, but he can still sense that these deamons were created through some form of foul sorcery. Unfortunately, Julius cannot pinpoint the whereabouts of the sorcerer that created these deamons, their location is unknown to him.

After a brief standoff Julius charged the nearest deamon, sword held at the ready.

"FOR THE EMPEROR!" Julius roared as he quickly closed the distance between him and the deamon. Said deamon roared in defiance and charged the Grey Knight in return, soon it leaped towards Julius, teeth and claws ready to kill.

However, the deamon came face to face with a blade as Julius swung his sword, cleaving the deamon in half. As the two freshly cut halves of the deamon landed behind him, the rest of the deamons roared as they immediately charged the Grey Knight.

A deamon neared and went for an overhead strike towards Julius, but Julius simply grabbed the offending arm and plunged his sword through its chest. He then pulled his blade out and use the momentum to bisect three deamons charging him from behind. He then cut another deamon vertically in half and decapitated another as he quickly grabbed a charging deamon by the throat, threw on the ground, and stomped its head, easily crushing it.

Julius, without stopping, cut down six deamons one after another with brutal force and deadly precision. As Julius cleaved the fourteenth deamon, he surveyed the area and soon saw the recent bodies of deamons starting to evaporate, returning to whatever foul realm they spawned from.

Julius frowned underneath his helmet, he found these deamons to be absolutely pathetic, not even bothering to block any of their attacks driven by the sheer instinct to kill. The attacks that do land didn't even leave a scratch on his armor, for their pitiful claws and teeth had no hope of cutting through his Aegis Terminator Armor.

As the bodies of the deamons slowly dissipated, he turned towards where the last deamon was hiding.

Julius raised his sword towards the deamon's location. "Show yourself spawn of darkness! You cannot hide from me!" Julius yelled, calling the deamon out. After a brief moment, Julius saw movement between the ash grey trees as a large shadowy form started to approach Julius. Soon the large form revealed itself to a large deamon, similar to the ones Julius just slain but with noticeable differences.

This deamon before him was as tall as Julius at 8 feet, it was covered in a bone like carapace with larger spikes covering its body. But the main difference Julius saw in this deamon was unlike the rest, this deamon has some form of intelligence within those burning red eyes. However, compared to the various deamons Julius had slain in the past, it was still an instinctual beast.

The deamon roared, trying to intimidate the Grey Knight. However, it's a wasted effort against a warrior bred and trained for the sole purpose to fight the unimaginable horrors of Man.

Julius scoffed, he had enough.

Julius held his sword at the ready as the deamon also prepared itself for the ensuing fight. Soon the Grey Knight charged as the deamon did the same. The deamon went for a horizontal slash, faster than the eye could see. However, Julius is a Grey Knight Champion, he easily saw the strike as he simply brought his blade up to meet the attack.

BZZZTSH!

"ROOOOOAAR!" The deamon roared in pain as its clawed hand met the blade, sliced off by its own momentum. But before the deamon could regain its composure, Julius mercilessly cut the rest of the injured arm off and sliced off its legs, causing the deamon's body to crash on the ground.

The deamon tried to desperately crawl away with its remaining arm while whimpering in both pain and fear. Julius's expression underneath his helmet betrayed no emotion as he walked over to the crawling deamon and placed an armored boot on its back, halting its desperate crawl. Julius then slowly started putting pressure on the deamon's back as it tried desperately to escape but to no avail. Soon the sounds of bones cracking and popping resounded through the air as Julius exerted more force on the deamons back.

With a last bit of force, Julius crushed the entire torso of the pathetic deamon as its torso exploded from the pressure.

Julius then removed his boot from the disgusting remains of the deamon, as said remains started to slowly evaporate. As all the bodies of the recently killed deamons slowly disappeared, Julius pondered about his new predicament.

'These deamons… there is no mistaking it. These demons are the exact same ones I saw through my memories. If that's the case, then this planet should have human civilizations, especially the Huntsmen Schola, Beacon Academy. If I can find this schola, then I might be able to find my way back to the Imperium and back to my Chapter. And if possible, finally find the answers that I have been looking for all this time.' Julius thought, making his decision.

However, before he could leave, his scanners once again blared and showed hundreds of hostile life signs rapidly approaching his position. Julius could hear the roars of numerous deamons from the far distance, he could also sense these deamons were similar but at the same time different to the ones he recently killed. Julius was soon proven right when the horde arrived.

Surrounding him on all sides was a foul horde of deamons of various shape and sizes. Though they all retain some semblance of the same physical traits with one another, such as the bone armor and black colored fur and scales, they are also all soulless constructs created by some form of dark sorcery.

However, that's where the similarities ended. Julius could see the different types of deamonswithin this large horde, all reminiscent to the animals that Holy Terra once had in the far past.

There were more bi-pedal wolves, boars, bears, large two headed snakes, and man sized ravens flying above.

Just like the last group, these deamons didn't approach as his wards are deterring them from approaching.

Julius expression hardened underneath his helmet, steeled his resolve, and brandished his sword towards the deamonic horde surrounding him.

"It matters not how many of you there are! For I am an Adeptus Astartes! AND I SHALL KNOW NO FEAR!" Julius roared as he immediately teleported into the midst of the deamon horde, his blade and the roars of deamons echoing throughout the forest.


It has been a year and a half since the last Vital Festival.

A year and a half since the attack on Vale.

A year and a half since Jaune died, saving the kingdom.

On that day, when Jaune locked Pyrrha in that locker and launched her into Vale, Pyrrha used every means to try and save Jaune, to try and stop him. After she landed in Vale she immediately called Ruby and begged her to find Jaune and save him, after hanging up Pyrrha managed to find a White Fang pilot and his Bullhead and forced him at knife point to take her back to Beacon.

However, when she arrived at Beacon Academy, it was already too late. After rushing to Beacon Tower, she found Ruby in tears on the ground, holding a sword.

Jaune's sword.

Pyrrha didn't want to believe it, she wanted to deny it, but Ruby said with a teary face. "Jaune saved us… He died saving us all…"

And that was the day Pyrrha broke down and collapsed, the pain of losing Jaune was too much for her.

When she woke up, Ren and Nora surrounded her, sharing her grief with the loss of their dear friend.

After that fateful day, time seemed to fly by for Pyrrha. Many things happened in the world while Pyrrha tried to get over her grief.

After the death of the Dragon Grimm, the Grimm invading the Kingdom and the academy quickly retreated back into the forests where they originally came from. This gave the surviving Huntsmen, Huntresses, and soldiers of Atlas a chance to secure the city and send relief forces all throughout Vale.

During the numerous search and rescue missions into Vale, Professor Ozpin was found deep underneath Beacon Tower critically wounded. He survived and healed in time, however, he is now permanently confined to a wheel chair, paralyzed from the hip down.

With relief and supplies coming in from the other kingdoms, Vale and Beacon Academy was quickly rebuilt within seven months of constant hard work and effort.

Due to the constant efforts of Ozpin, the Council of Vale, and General Ironwood, the animosity between Atlas and the rest of the kingdoms soon died down after given proof that the attack on Vale was orchestrated by a powerful person named Cinder Fall, who was scheming from the shadows.

The White Fang went dark after the attack on Vale. Supposedly during the attack, Cinder was killed and thus the terrorist group went into hiding.

And finally, Beacon Academy re-opened and thus the previous students of Beacon came back to continue their training. The school more or less looked the same before the attack, but with one noticeable difference.

The statue that once stood in the court yard was replaced with a new statue. A statue of a boy holding a kite shield in one hand and his sword raised high in the other, with an expression that show both courage and determination.

This statue was built to commemorate the hero of Vale, Jaune Arc.

Long after the attack, many wondered who was the brave Huntsman or Huntress that slain the Dragon Grimm, thus causing the other Grimm to rout from the Kingdom. Ruby, with the support of her friends, told everyone that Jaune Arc died facing against both the perpetrator of the attack and the legendary Grimm. However, due to the blonde's previous history and the absurdity of her claims, no one really believed what she said, saying it was impossible. Until Ozpin himself got involved.

Ozpin's office had multiple hidden cameras that Ozpin himself installed in order to record anything that went on inside his office. Most of the cameras were destroyed when the Dragon Grimm destroyed the office, however, a clear footage of Jaune killing both Cinder and the Grimm was found.

With the salvaged footage, Ozpin convinced the Vale Council to broadcast the fight saying it would boost the morale of the people and to lay their questions at rest. It worked spectacularly, Jaune Arc was seen as a hero among the people of Vale, and the friends and family that knew Jaune felt proud for the blonde's sacrifice.

To commemorate the death of Vale's savior, a statue was erected in Beacon's court yard in his memory. Symbolizing that even the most insignificant of individuals can become legends.

Jaune's heroic sacrifice inspired many of Beacon's students previous to the attack to return, to strive to become legends themselves. Now Beacon is once again lively as ever, with new students eager to become Huntsmen and Huntresses.

Pyrrha herself came back to Beacon having gotten over her grief and with a new resolve. In memory of the one she loved with all her heart, she will become a Huntress and protect those in need.

For that's what Jaune would've wanted.


Location: Beacon Academy, Courtyard

A lone girl can be seen standing in Beacon's Courtyard in front of the Academy's statue.

She has long vibrant red hair, fashioned into a single ponytail. She also has vivid green eyes, a pale white complexion and a tall and muscular physique. Her attire consists of a brown leather armor that encompasses her entire torso with small bronze shoulder plates, brown opera-length gloves with bronze bracers on both arms. She also is wearing a red cape-like kilt around her waist, elaborate bronze greaves that start below her mid-thigh, continuing downwards into her high-heeled boots and a pair of cuisses that begin mid-thigh and end slightly above her knees. On her head is a bronze circlet with bronze cheek armor attached to the sides, making the headpiece vaguely reminiscent to a galea helmet. Holstered on her back is a noticeably round bronze shield and a red and bronze colored spear underneath it.

This lone girl is none other than Pyrrha Nikos.

Pyrrha looked up at the statue of Jaune, reminiscing the past year and a half.

She returned to Beacon when it was re-opened six months ago like many of the other returning students. Pyrrha is now half way through her second year after finishing the last half of her first year like many of the students in Beacon.

However, even if she had gotten over her grief for her deceased partner, Jaune's death created a void in her heart, one that cannot so easily be filled.

Every day, for the past year and a half, Pyrrha wondered what would've happened if she was the one who faced Cinder instead of Jaune. Would she have won? Would she have failed? Would she have died? Would Jaune try to save her? Would Jaune grieve over her death?

These questions haunted her every day for the past year and a half, she felt solely responsible for her partner's death. After all, he died for her sake.

"Goodbye Pyrrha. I love you."

She would never forget those words. The last words Jaune said before launching her into Vale.

Pyrrha closed her eyes as a single tear trailed down her face and onto the ground. The pain of losing Jaune will always linger in her heart, for as long as she lived.

"Hey Pyrrha. Are you okay?" Pyrrha wiped her face as she turned to see the person who is speaking to her.

It was Ruby.

Ruby has changed since the attack. Her hair has grown slightly longer while her outfit retains the black and red skirt from her default clothing, she is now sporting a white high-neck décolletage blouse and her waist cincher has been replaced with an overbust corset. A black belt bordered in red holds the magnetic clip for Crescent Rose and its ammunition, and she also has brown straps on her blouse that allow her to wear a small brown backpack. Ruby wears leggings that show part of her thighs and contain an image of a long-stemmed rose. Her red-soled black boots contain four straps and buckles apiece and may be slightly taller than her previous boots.

She retains her signature cloak as it now has a singular clip on the right shoulder in the shape of her emblem, replacing the cross shaped clips from her default attire. However, both her cloak and her stockings show wear and tear from many fights against the Grimm.

She was not alone however, accompanying her is the rest of her team, Weiss, Yang, and Blake. And like Ruby, they all have changed.

Weiss is now sporting a blue, glittering mini-skirted dress with a sweetheart neckline on top of a white, tulle petticoat. A white ribbon ties at the waist, and over the outfit is worn a long-sleeved blue shrug. The shrug is slightly sheer and is fastened at the collar with a large sapphire broach that has three pendants dangling from it. Completing her attire are dark blue platform heels.

After the attack on Vale, Weiss's father took her back to Atlas for her own safety. Weiss relunctatnly returned home and stayed for a year, however, when she seen the video of Jaune's fight and heard that Beacon Academy was reopening, she argued with her father to let her go back to Beacon. However, the Schnee patriarch forbade her from returning, going as far as to take away her title as heiress and detaining her in her own room.

But Weiss secretly left the next day. It was a great surprise to Ruby and Yang when she later showed up on their front door step.

Speaking of Yang, the teen hadn't changed much physically, she still has her long blonde hair and impressive physique much like Pyrrha's, but more so in some "areas."

However, she is now wearing a gray jacket, with the left sleeve rolled up, underneath is an orange sports bra that bears her midriff. Completing her attire are gray cargo pants, which show the rim of her dark undergarments, black gloves, left hand fingerless while the right is not, Ember Celica on her left arm, and white sneakers. Additionally, patches can be seen on her clothes, including a bumblebee symbol on the right leg of her pants and her emblem on the left sleeve of her jacket.

Even though it's hidden, her right arm is a military grade prosthetic, courtesy of the Atlas Military. From what Yang and Ruby had told Pyrrha, Yang lost her right arm trying to fight and defend Blake against her old mentor and White Fang leader, Adam Taurus. After losing her arm and Blake abandoning the team, Yang went into a self-depression and refused to leave her house.

Fortunately, Ruby quickly brought the blond brawler out of her misery by, in Yang's words, "Literally BEATING some sense into her." Yang got out of her depression and in turn their father, a man named Taiyang, asked General Ironwood for a favor and got Yang a new arm. Free of charge.

At first the new military-grade prosthetic had no deeming qualities, that is until Ruby got her hands on it. Much like her Ember Celica, the newly upgraded prosthetic can partially transform into a shotgun gauntlet and it has the added bonus of giving Yang's already monstrous strength a significant boost for her right arm. Plus, it's colored yellow to match her theme.

However, even with this new arm, Yang sometimes goes over board and breaks her prosthetic in a few occasions in the past several months, Pyrrha should know, she herself broke it once during Combat Class against her. Luckily for Yang, Ruby always managed to fix her arm after these incidents, each time nagging Yang's ears off about taking more care of her arm.

Then finally, Blake, the last member of Team RWBY.

Like Yang, she didn't change physically and still wears her usual bow, however, she is now wearing a large white coat and a black crop top, with rectangular and diamond shaped holes surrounding her neck that exposes her midriff. She also wearing a diagonal strap that contains a smaller magnetic clip used to sheathe Gambol Shroud. Additionally, she wears a white belt and pouch over dark, tight stretchy pants and thigh-high heeled boots.

After the attack on Vale, Blake abandoned her team and returned to her home in Menagrie. However, after five months of searching in her free time, Yang found Blake and the two had a heated argument.

Long story short, Yang beat Blake and soon after forgave her for running away and convinced her to return back to Beacon.

And right now each member of Team RWBY are giving Pyrrha looks of pity, understanding her loss.

Pyrrha nodded as she gave Ruby a fake smile. "Yes Ruby. I'm fine." Pyrrha calmly answered, however, none of the girls were convinced.

Weiss stepped forward. "Look Pyrrha, we all know you miss him. We miss him too, but you shouldn't be blaming yourself for his death, he made his choice, and he wouldn't want to see yo-"

"I know!" Pyrrha exclaimed angrily, cutting off Weiss as she and her team recoiled from Pyrrha's outburst. She then took a deep breath before calming her anger. "I know Weiss. But, I can't just forget what happened to him, the reason why he died." Pyrrha then looked back towards the statue. "He died for my sake, he died because he loved me, and that is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life."

Pyrrha then looked towards the ground with an expression of shame, guilt, and regret.

The members of Team RWBY gave each other somber looks, sad for the once proud Champion of Mistral. Any conversation or discussions about Jaune is a sore subject for Pyrrha, especially bad mouthing the deceased knight in her presence.

The last poor sap that did that found himself in the hospital with all his limbs broken, a cracked skull, and a severe concussion. Since then, other than her friends, no one dared to talk about Jaune in her presence.

After a brief moment of silence, Blake approached the miserable spartan. "Pyrrha, listen. We're not telling you to forget him, we're telling you not to take Jaune's death in vain. He did what he did in order for you to live on. That's why you're here aren't you? To live on for his sake." Blake said with a tone full of conviction.

Pyrrha raised her head as she turned towards Team RWBY once again, only this time with a genuine smile on her face. "Thank you Blake, and to all of you. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you girls." Pyrrha said in a genuinely thankful tone.

All of Team RWBY smiled, happy to see Pyrrha's smile once more. Yang then asked. "Alright! Now with all the dark mushy stuff out of the way, where is the rest of your team Pyrrha? Weren't you guys called up to Ozpin's office for a mission?"

Pyrrha nodded her head in reply. "I told Ren and Nora to go on ahead without me. In fact, I should be going now, I'm already late as it is. Bye everyone, and thank you for everything." Pyrrha said as she turned to leave.

"Bye Pyrrha! Good luck on your mission!" Ruby yelled as she and the rest of her team waved Pyrrha off.

Pyrrha smiled as she quickly made her way towards Ozpin's office. She was happy that she has such great friends to support her through these sad and tough times. They have brought her out of her depression and reminded her about one important thing.

To live on, because that's what Jaune would've wanted.


Location: Beacon Academy, Ozpin's Office

"Miss Nikos. You're late."

"I'm sorry! I promise it won't happen again!" Pyrrha said apologetically as she rushed into Ozpin's Office. In front of her stood her two teammates, Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie.

Like Team RWBY, both teen in front of her changed their attire.

Ren wears his hair down, and it has grown to hip-length. His attire is similar to before in color. He has a longer, sleeveless tailcoat. Under it he wears a black, sleeveless turtleneck with red, tasseled ropes over the hips, shorter pants, and calf-high open-toed sandals. From his middle finger to his biceps run gradient pink-to-black detached sleeves ending in metal armbands.

Nora retains her gloves and white top, though the heart cut-out on the top now has a diagonal cut through it. Over the shirt she wears a zippered blue-black bomber jacket with a damaged print of her emblem visible on the back and pink stripes along the sleeves. The pink bands of the jacket tighten on her upper arms. Her skirt is slightly longer with pleats that create some flair and two wide belt loops at the waist for her matching belt. She wears knee-high pink socks just visible above her calf-length boots, which are white with pink laces.

Ever since Team JNPR was reformed six months ago, the team adamantly refused to have a new team member, and even less a new leader. So in the end Pyrrha was chosen as the team's new leader and the team has always been a three-man group ever since. Even with one less member, Team JNPR has proven time and time again that they can handle any mission as well as any full team, and in some cases even excel above some of the other teams.

Pyrrha now stood with her team as she took notice of the other occupants in the room.

Sitting in his wheelchair behind his desk is the headmaster of Beacon, Ozpin. Standing beside him is his secretary/combat professor Glynda Goodwitch, and standing beside her is surprisingly General Ironwood himself.

The General stands at 6'6" tall with greying black hair that is slightly messy, a stubble, a white complexion, and blue eyes. He wears a white military overcoat, a black collar shirt underneath, a red tie, and white gloves.

The reason for the General's continued presence in Vale is because after the attack, his newly reinforced army is now acting as a temporary defense force for Vale until the Kingdom is deemed able to defend itself once again.

After taking a sip from his signature mug, Ozpin then looked directly at the three teens in front of him. "Team JNPR. Now that your leader has arrived, I can now tell you the details of your new mission." Ozpin said as he took another sip from his mug. "There has been a large concentration of Grimm detected in the Forever Fall Forest, specifically this area." Ozpin then brought up a holo-screen showing an overview map of the forest. The map showed a large area filled with numerous black dots, representing the Grimm, as more dots started converging.

Ozpin continues. "We also detected a powerful signature drawing in the Grimm, however, we don't know what it is exactly. General." Ozpin said as he looked over to Ironwood.

The General nodded in reply before looking directly at Team JNPR. "Your mission is to clear out the Grimm and find the source of the unknown signature and bring it back for us to study. But if it's deemed impossible to bring back, then destroy it." Ironwood explained in a serious tone.

"Since you three have proven time and time again that you can handle any mission given to you thus far, the General and I had decided to assign this mission to you. But do not worry, you won't be going in alone." Ozpin said as he nodded towards Ironwood.

The General spoke once more. "You will be accompanied by a contingent of Atlesian Knights, also I have assigned one of my Specialists for this mission. You will meet her at the docks when you depart. Follow her every orders and you should complete this mission unscathed." Ironwood then looked back at Ozpin, taking this as a sign to take over.

"Any questions before you depart?"

Pyrrha was the first to speak. "Who is the Specialist that will be accompanying us to this mission?" Pyrrha asked in a serious tone. Ironwood answered. "The specialist is Winter Schnee. Someone you may already know about."

Pyrrha nodded, she knew this person, she is Weiss's older sister but Pyrrha never met her personally.

"Any more questions?" Ozpin asked once more to the team. Nora raised her hand like an excited child.

Ozpin smiled. "Yes Miss Valkyrie?"

"Can we get jars!? I really want to eat more of that sap in those trees!" Nora asked in an excited tone.

Ozpin chuckled as Glynda sighed at the girl's question. "After you have completed your mission then you can collect all the sap you want." Ozpin said.

"Yes! More sauce for the Pancake Gods!" Nora yelled in excitement.

Ozpin chuckled. "Now that you have been briefed, I suggest you head down to the docks as soon as possible. Good luck and keep each other safe." Ozpin said in a calm tone laced with caution. Pyrrha and the rest of her team nodded. "We will professor." Pyrrha replied as she and her team left to prepare for another mission.


One hour later…

Pyrrha looked outside the Bullhead's opened side doors, seeing the famed forest of red rushing past bellow. She is currently standing inside a Bullhead with Ren, Nora, and their mission leader Winter Schnee.

Surrounding the Bullhead are five Atlesian VTOL jets carrying the Atlesian Knights accompanying them on this mission. Ever since the attack on Vale, the Atlas Military revamped their entire security networks for their Atlesian Technology in order to prevent another hacking incident. Now they claim to have an impenetrable security network once again, but that is yet to be proven.

Pyrrha, her team, and the Atlas forces accompanying them have been flying towards the concentration of Grimm. In the far distance Pyrrha could see a flock of Nevermores of various sizes flying around to where there headed.

"Arewethereyet?"

"No."

"Arewethereyet?"

"No."

"Arewethereyet?"

"No!"

"Arewethereyet?"

"For the last time, NO! WE ARE NOT THERE YET!"

"Arewethereyet?"

"Miss Valkyrie! I WILL kick you off this plane!"

Nora, ever so impatient, constantly asked Winter the same question throughout the entire trip, earning the ire of the older Schnee. So far Ren is the only person with the patience and ability to calm Nora down… most of the time.

"Nora."

"Yes Ren?"

"We're almost there, so be ready for anything."

"Alright! Time to break some legs!"

True to Ren's words, the Bullhead's intercoms turned on.

KRRT! "All passengers prepare to depart. Due to the concentration of Grimm, this is the closest I can get you guys." Said the pilot, Winter then brought a finger up to her ear's intercom. "That's alright pilot, this should be a good enough distance. Once we have departed, drop the Atlesian Knights around us and depart back to Vale."

"Understood." Soon the Bullhead stopped and slowly hovered over an open clearing.

As soon as the Bullhead was close enough to the ground, Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, and Winter jumped out of the Bulllhead and landed in the clearing. Soon numerous Atlesian Knights started landing all around them and started creating a perimeter around the group.

As soon as the last Atlesian Knight departed, the Bullhead and its VTOL escorts flew back towards Vale, leaving the group.

As the Atlesian Knights scanned the area, Winter turned towards Pyrrha and her team. "You three have already been debriefed of your mission, so I'm going to remind you again. We're here to clear out any Grimm we see and find the source of the strange energy signature, and if so, bring it back to Vale for study. Do you three understand?" Winter asked as she was met with silent nods from Pyrrha and Ren, Nora on the other hand is simply giving her a beaming smile, excited for the upcoming fight.

Winter nodded. "Good, we're heading out!" Winter ordered and immediately the Atlesian Knights started marching through the forest, their rifles at the ready.

Nora gave a happy squeal.

"That is so cool! Ren, we should totally buy or own army of robots and order them to do stuff for us!" Nora happily suggested.

"Then we have to use your pancake money in order to afford such an army." Ren calmly said as Nora's expression did a complete 180.

"On second thought never mind." Nora said, not wanting to sacrifice her pancake money.

Pyrrha chuckled, Nora always know how to bring life to the team.

"Hurry up you three! We have a mission to finish!" Yelled Winter who is now far ahead. Soon Pyrrha and her team manage to catch up to the Specialist.

The group and the contingent of Atlesian Knights transverse their way through the forest. So far they haven't encountered any Grimm, something that put the group on edge.

After ten minutes of walking, Winter suddenly stopped as did the droids.

"Whats wrong?" Pyrrha asked in a concerned tone as she and her team stopped beside Winter. "The knights are picking up movement up ahead, get your weapons ready." Winter explained as she drew her sword.

Pyrrha nodded as she transformed Milo into a rifle and holstered Akouo onto her back. Soon Ren pulled out his two gun blades from his sleeves while Nora transformed her weapon into a grenade launcher.

Soon all the Atlesian Knights formed up in two ranks, the front crouching while the back stood, and pointed their rifles directly in front of them, ready to fire on Winter's command.

For a brief moment there was only silence. Suddenly the ground started shaking as the group could hear in the distance, the sound of a hundred feet pounding the ground.

The Grimm were coming.

The sound grew louder with every second, soon through her rifle's iron sights Pyrrha saw the first Grimm, followed by a large horde.

"OPEN FIRE!" Winter exclaimed, soon the Atlesian Knights started firing into the stampede of Grimm in front of the group. Pyrrha fired her rifle with deadly accuracy, earning kills with every shot.

Ren fired into the horde not caring for accuracy, his weapon more suited for close range combat. Nora on the other hand was a living artillery gun as she started firing her grenades into the horde, killing small groups of Grimm with each shot.

Winter herself stood at the ready, ready to face the Grimm if they get too close.

The Grimm horde was being slowly gunned down, however, their numbers still outmatched theirs by a large margin. As the first Beowolf neared Pyrrha, close enough for close combat, Pyrrha shifted her weapon back into a sword and grabbed Akouo from her back, ready to kill the Grimm in front of her.

However, to her surprise, instead of fighting her, the Grimm ran right past her, seemly ignoring her. This happened all around as the stampede of Grimm simply ran past the group, even as the Knights continued to fire at the passing Grimm.

This greatly confused the entire group, including Winter.

"CEASE FIRE!" Winter yelled as the Knights immediately stopped firing, letting the horde past.

After the last Grimm pasted, the group looked towards one another for answers to what just happened.

"What just happened?" Nora asked the one question that is pertaining in everyone's thoughts.

Winter shook her head. "I-I don't know. This has never happened before. The only time this happened is when the Grimm retreated from Vale after the Dragon was slain." Winter said in a confused tone.

"Maybe it had something to do with the strange energy signature. What if that is what caused the Grimm to run past us?" Ren suggested, Winter nodded with a pondering expression. "Yes that maybe it… we shall see soon enough. Let us continue onwards." Winter ordered as the group resumed their trek through the forest.

As they neared their destination, the group can faintly hear the pained roars of Grimm and the clash of metal. The sound of battle, something that all members of the group are all too familiar with.

"That sound like…"

"… Someone fighting the Grimm?" Pyrrha finished Nora's statement. Winter started running towards the sound. "We must hurry! All units! We must reach the destination and assist whoever is fighting the Grimm!" Winter ordered as Team JNPR as well as all the Knights started running towards the sound.

As they quickly approached, the sounds of battle grew more prominent, however, due to the countless trees surrounding them, the group couldn't clearly see the battle. Soon the group came upon a clearing and were shocked at what they saw.

All over the clearing were evaporating bodies of numerous dead Grimm of all shapes, sizes, and known species. But that is not what caught the group's attention.

In the middle of the clearing stood what can be described as a large robotic knight. It's 8-feet-tall, it's strong looking armor is silvery grey with huge shoulder pauldrons, the left pauldron has an opened book with a sword stabbing through the spine of the book, a white robe attached to the front and back of its waist, and a knight like helm with glowing blue eyes. Its armor is also adorned with wax seals attached with ribbons with written inscriptions, the armor is also engraved with numerous gold runes, and near between its left pauldron and chest is a white and red kite shield with a symbol of a white sword on the red side and a black skull on the white side.

It's also carrying two different weapons. Attached to its left forearm is what appears to be a red boxy double short-barreled cannon with a large magazine attached to the side of it. On it's right hand is a huge great sword with a golden cross hilt, It's sword is as tall as a fully grown man, sheathed in what appears to be a glowing white aura. The sword alone looked to be heavy enough for three people to carry it, but this knight is holding the sword one handed as if it weighted lighter than that.

This unknown android is currently face to face with what appears to be a wounded Deathstalker. The Deathstalker is missing its large stinger, deep slash marks adorned its thick bone armor, and one of its legs are missing as well as half of its right claw.

The large robotic knight pointed its sword towards the Grimm. "Come! Foul deamon of darkness! Come and meet your end by my blade!" The knight exclaimed, its voice was strong and intimidating, reinforced by the metallic tone of its speakers.

The Deathstalker roared as it charged the android. Pyrrha was about to go in and assist the knight, but Winter held out a hand in front of her, stopping her in her tracks.

The knight, without an ounce of hesitation, met the Deathstalker with a charge of its own, sword held at the ready. As the two neared to one another, the Deathstalker swung its remaining claw at the knight, however, the knight's sword glowed and swung it towards the offending claw, cutting it horizontally in half.

The Deathstalker shrieked in pain but was soon abruptly cut off when the knight stabbed its sword straight through the Grimm's head, completely cutting through its thick armor like wet paper. Soon the Grimm's entire body collapsed onto the ground and started smoking, dead.

The knight pulled its blade out of the now dead Grimm as it seemed to be observing the evaporating body, seemly unaware of Pyrrha and the rest of her group.

"I know you are all there! Come out of hiding and face me! Or I'll hunt you all down myself!" The knight threatened in a stern tone as it turned to face their direction, surprising the group.

Winter, regaining her composure, stepped out of hiding as Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, and the rest of the Atlesian Knights followed, weapons at the ready.

The Atlesian Knights started to surround the unknown knight on all sides, gun trained on the knight. However, the unknown knight didn't seem fazed, instead it exuded an aura of confidence, power, and intimidation the likes that Pyrrha has never felt from anyone, not even Ozpin.

As the lasts of the Atlesian Knights took position around the unknown knight, Winter then approached the knight, her sword held to her side at the ready. It wasn't until Winter got closer did Pyrrha realized how truly large the knight really was, both its height and large armor made Winter looked small in comparison.

Winter soon stopped just fifteen feet away as she stared upwards at the large knight with a stern expression, trying to size up the large knight.

After a brief moment of silence Winter spoke. "I'm Specialist Winter Schnee of the Atlas Military, and I demand to know where you came from and who designed and created you." Winter demanded in a strict tone.

The knight spoke. "Where I come from is of no importance human. And the question of who created me is deemed classified, however, I will tell you that I am not a mechanical construct, but a living being."

Pyrrha's eyes widened, the being that she thought was a robotic android is in fact a living, breathing being wearing the large bulky looking armor.

The knight continued. "But that does not matter. What matters right now is that you are in strict violation of Imperial Law laid down by the God-Emperor of Mankind." The knight replied.

Pyrrha was now confused, Imperial Law? God-Emperor of Mankind? Just who is this person?

If Winter was confused, then she didn't show it as she kept her stern expression. "And what law will that be?" Winter asked in a strict tone.

The knight simply pointed his sword towards an Atlesian Knight. "The construction and use of abominable intelligence is heresy of the highest order, punishable by death. However, I will overlook this for now and leave the fate of you and this world to the Inquisition. Now lead me to the nearest Imperial settlement so I may contact them." Explained the knight, ordering Winter.

Winter gritted her teeth. "I think not! You are in no position to make such demands from me! Who do you think you are!?" Winter challenged in an angry tone, however, Pyrrha could tell that the large knight wasn't intimidated in the least.

"That is classified, heretic." It replied in a dangerous tone.

Winter pointed her sword towards the knight. "Then by my authority as a Specialist of the Atlas Military, you are hereby under arrest and will be taken into custody! Surrender your weapons and armor and come with us peacefully, or we will use force." Winter ordered in a commanding tone. Pyrrha gave a concerned look towards her teammates as they did the same to her, an uneasy feeling settled within Pyrrha's mind.

"Then so be it."

The knight, with surprising speed, went for a horizontal slash towards Winter. Fortunately, Winter barely managed to jump back in time, dodging the attack. When Winter landed on her feet, Pyrrha and her team readied their weapons for the oncoming fight.

"Miss Nikos! You and your team are not to interfere no matter what! I will handle this criminal myself!" Winter ordered, but before Pyrrha could object Winter pointed her blade towards the knight.

"OPEN FIRE!"

Soon all the Atlesian Knights started firing their rifles at the large Knight, however, their weapons had absolutely no affect against the knight's armor as the bullets simply bounced off his armor, not even leaving a scratch.

The knight gave out a battle cry as he charged Winter, completely ignoring the fire from the Atlesian Knights. Winter dodged to the side as the knight's sword cleaved an Atlesian Knight vertically in half, bright molten metal lined where it was cut.

Pyrrha's eyes widened, whatever aura is sheathing the blade of its sword, it can cut through any metal with ease, including their weapons. She and her team needed to be careful, however, Pyrrha nor her teammates could find an opening to assist Winter as she dueled with the large knight.

Winter dodged the knight's attacks with trained agility. As she dodged the knights last attack, she immediately saw an opening and stabbed her blade towards the knight's waist between the armor plating, where she believed the armor is most vulnerable. However, she was proven wrong as her blade merely bounced off, Winter then had to dodge another slash as she tried to stab the knight's armpit, that too didn't work.

As the two dueled, Winter then used her semblance and created a white glyph underneath her and shot backwards away from the knight. The Atlesian Knights surrounding them then started approaching the large knight as they were firing aimlessly at his armor.

The knight then shifted his focus from Winter to the numerous battle droids around him.

"You think your Men of Iron can stop me! I AM AN ADEPTUS ASTARTES!" The knight roared as he charged straight towards the nearest group of droids.

To say the ensuing fight was one sided is putting it lightly. From the side lines, Pyrrha witnessed as the knight was absolutely decimating the Atlesian Knights. The knight displayed such brutal and precise martial skill with a sword that with every swing it strikes down at least three droids.

As the Atlesian Knights were preoccupying the large knight, Winter summoned two white glyphs besides her and in a flash of bright light the glyphs were soon replaced by two large white Ursas.

As the knight cut down the last Atlesian Knight, he turned his attention back towards Winter now standing with her two summons. "I see now. You're the corrupted witch that summoned these deamons into this world! I shall slay you in the name of the Emperor!" The knight yelled in fury as it charged Winter once again, but with a new fervor.

The two Ursas immediately charged the knight from both the left and the right each while Winter summoned another glyph behind her. The two Ursas went for a horizontal slash each, however, both Ursas missed as the knight ducked, and with a spin, bisected both Ursas at the waist.

However, the Ursas were merely a distraction as Winter finished powering her glyph. Soon the glyph flashed as a bright light covered the area, blinding Pyrrha and her team. After the light died down, Pyrrha saw what Winter summoned and gasped.

Winter summoned a Grimm that is known and feared across Remnant.

The Goliath.

The massive summon stood behind Winter as she herself looked winded, but none the less gave a smirk of victory. The knight stared at the Goliath, but from his posture Pyrrha could see that he wasn't afraid, but instead ready to face the Grimm, as if he was already used to fighting such a monster.

"GRROOOAAAARR!" The summon roared as it stepped over Winter and charged straight at the knight, shaking the very earth with each step. The knight, however, didn't move an inch from his spot, he merely gripped his sword with both hands and held it in front of him at the ready.

Pyrrha's eye widened. 'He's going to fight!? If he doesn't dodge, then he will surely be crushed by the Goliath, no matter how strong his armor maybe!' Pyrrha thought in horror. No one on Remnant has ever faced a Goliath in single combat and came out unscathed, these Grimm were known for their almost impenetrable armor and hides, and are vastly more intelligent than the rest of their kind.

As the large Grimm neared the large knight, the knight's sword started to glow even brighter as the runes on his armor glowed as well. He then raised his sword, now glowing bright with power.

"I AM THE HAMMER!" The knight roared as he brought down his blade, firing off a large white blade of pure white energy towards the charging Grimm. The blade of energy sliced straight through the Goliath, bisecting the large Grimm vertically in half as it is now rapidly approaching a horrified Winter.

In a desperate attempt, Winter haphazardly summoned three black glyphs in a row in front of her in order to block the incoming attack. However, the blade of energy smashed through all three glyphs and hits Winter, sending her flying backwards as the blade dissipated soon after.

Winter then smashed into a tree as her aura flared and shattered, the force of the impact breaking her aura. However, Winter wasn't unscathed as the blade of energy grazed her left shoulder, leaving a large gash as the wound bled profusely.

The knight then started to move towards Winter, ready to end her life. Winter stared at the approaching knight in defiance as she tried to get up but fails, her wound and exhausted state was preventing her.

However, Pyrrha had enough as she quickly moved herself between Winter and the large knight, Milo and Akouo at the ready. Soon Ren and Nora joined her by her side, ready to face against their new opponent.

"What are you doing!? I ordered you not to interfere!" Winter exclaimed, her voice laced with pain. Pyrrha, without taking her eyes off of her opponent, replied. "Sorry, but I can't just stand by and let someone die. Not again…"

"That goes same with me." Ren said as he got into his stance with StormFlower held in both hands, ready to fight.

"And me too!" Nora exclaimed with an excited smile, gripping Magnhild at the ready.

As the three teens readied themselves, the knight stopped in his tracks as he looked down at the teens in front of him.

Pyrrha gave the knight a stern glare, forcefully shrugging off her fears and doubts about this fight. The knight glowing blue visors seemly staring right through them, as if he was studying them.

After a brief moment of silence, the knight spoke. "Out of my way heretics, I shall deal with you three after I dispatched the corrupted witch behind you." Ordered the knight, however, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora didn't budge.

"Then so be it. By the Emperor's holy light, I shall smite you where you stand!" The knight exclaimed as he swung his sword. Pyrrha immediately ducked the blade as the rest of her team dodged also, while crouching Pyrrha slammed her shield into the knight's knee and with Ren started slashing/bashing the knight while dodging his attacks, they couldn't afford to get hit by his blade. While Ren and Pyrrha was distracting the large knight, Nora twirled her hammer above her head as pink electricity started gathering around the head of her hammer.

Once she finished charging her weapon, she then charged towards the large knight, hammer now crackling with pink electricity. Both Pyrrha and Ren immediately backed off from the knight as Nora rapidly approached the knight.

"RRAAAAAAAAAAH! SMASH!" Nora yelled as she spun on her heel, using the momentum to swing her charged hammer towards the knight's chest.

BOOOM!

With a sound of thunder, the hammer landed, creating a large explosion of electricity. However, Other than taking a single step back, the knight didn't seem affected at all by the powerful strike.

The knight quickly brought down his sword towards the surprised Nora, ready to cleave her in half. Fortunately, Nora quickly pulled the trigger on her hammer, firing a grenade directly into the knight's chest, creating another explosion. Using the recoil of the blast, she managed to dodge the strike and land beside her teammates once again.

"That armor is WAY too strong! Not even Super Duper Charged Magnhild can smash it!" Nora exclaimed, raising her weapon to emphasize her point.

"What should we do Pyrrha!?" Ren asked in a serious tone. Pyrrha pondered on what to do next, until it clicked.

"Ren! Nora! Flower Power!" Pyrrha exclaimed as both Ren and Nora smiled, knowing exactly what she said.

As the knight charged towards them, Nora and Ren got into position as Pyrrha holstered both her weapons and brought her hands up towards the knight, concentrating her semblance. Her hands glowed black as the knight's armor was soon covered in the same black aura, halting his advance.

The knight looked directly at Pyrrha. "You think your foul sorcery can stop ME!" The knight yelled and as to prove his point he continued his advance towards Pyrrha, albeit at a walking pace. Pyrrha started profusely sweating as she gritted her teeth in concentration, trying to hold the large knight. However, even exerting the full might of her semblance the knight was walking towards her at a steady pace, seemly unaffected by her semblance.

Soon the knight was upon her, his sheer size towered over Pyrrha as she stared directly towards the knights glowing visors. The knight then raised his sword, ready to strike Pyrrha down.

"FLOWER POWER!"

Hearing Nora's yell, Pyrrha immediately broke her concentration and backed off, barely dodging the sword strike. Then like lighting, Ren shot past Pyrrha, shrouded in pink electricity, and strikes the knight with an aura enhanced punch, discharging both his aura and the pink electricity shrouding him right through the knight and out his back, creating a powerful shockwave behind him.

This was Flower Power, with Ren's expert training in aura control he can use his aura to send devastating force of aura enhanced punches, able to ignore armor and devastate the insides of his enemies. He can also take the energy of others, whether is his allies or his opponents, to enhance his blows, however, it takes time to charge up such an attack.

While Pyrrha distracts the target, Ren gathers his aura as Nora charges her own semblance. Once complete, Nora channels her energy into Ren as he uses it for one devastating attack. The first time they used this was against an Elder Deathstalker that was attacking a village they were sent to. The technique worked perfectly against the Deathstalker's thick armor as it was charred from the inside out from the attack.

After defeating the large Grimm, Pyrrha aptly named the technique Flower Power, in memory of the one who originally came up with the name for the Ren and Nora combo.

Ren stood still in his stance absolutely winded, the devastating technique draining most of his aura and stamina. The knight in the other hand stood absolutely still, pink sparks of electricity danced around his armor until dissipating completely as the spot where Ren hit was smoking.

All of Team JNPR smiled, they did it, they won.

Ren finally relaxed his tense form as he brought back his fist.

"I had enough of this."

Before Ren or any of the others could react, the knight grabbed Ren's outstretched arm and swung him over his head and smashed him hard on the ground behind him.

"GAH!" Ren yelped in pain as he was smashed onto the ground. Due to his tired and dazed state, Ren couldn't react in time when the knight brought up a single armored boot and smashed Ren's chest.

CRACK!

"GAAAAAAH!" Ren screamed as the remainder of his aura flared and broke, causing the force of the stomp to shatter his rib cage. The knight then started putting pressure on the teen as blood started pouring from Ren's mouth.

"GET OFF OF REN!" Nora roared as she quickly leaped towards the knight with an expression of pure fury. However, when she brought down her hammer towards the knight's head, the knight simply raised his sword in the hammers trajectory.

BZZTSH!

Nora landed in front of the knight, however, to her horror her weapon, Magnhild, was now a handle as the head of the hammer was sliced off by the sword. In her shock, the knight smashed an aura enhanced fist directly into Nora's face, breaking her aura and sending her crashing through the trees.

Pyrrha stood with an expression of horror while all this has happening, however, after seeing Nora failed to save Ren, Pyrrha immediately pushed her fears and horrors aside as she used her semblance to force the knight back.

It worked as the knight was once again shrouded in black aura and was forcefully pushed off the unconscious boy. Pyrrha then charged the knight with Milo and Akouo at the ready, putting herself between the knight and the unconscious Ren. Pyrrha dodged a slash from the knight as she went behind and slashed his legs and waist to no effect. The knight spun and swung his sword horizontally to bisect her, however, Pyrrha ducked backwards as she pushed the sword away with her semblance.

Pyrrha then flipped backwards away from the knight as her back soon hit a tree, blocking her retreat. The knight immediately charged, but Pyrrha jumped over the knight as he slashed the tree instead, cutting the tree down. Once landing behind the large knight, Pyrrha immediately jumped on his back and transformed her sword into a rifle. While on his back she then started shooting directly into its helmet, however, due to the armored hood covering the back of his head, Pyrrha couldn't get a clear shot.

Unfortunately for her, the knight reached behind him and grabbed Pyrrha by the head and smashed her on the ground in front of him. Pyrrha was stunned for just a moment but immediately rolled to the right, barely dodging the knight's armored boot that was meant to crush her head. She then rolled into a standing position but was immediately met with a sword coming directly at her. By sheer instinct she brought up her shield to block the attack, however, the knight's sword sliced her shield in half as she was then hit by an armored punch from the knight, sending her crashing into another tree.

The punch winded her as her collision with the tree stunned her, the knight was soon upon her as she tried desperately to strike back with her remaining weapon, extending it into a spear. However, the knight simply grabbed her weapon by the blade and crushed it in his hand, before wresting it from her hands and throwing it aside.

The knight then raised his blade in the air, ready to cleave her head off.

"Any last words heretic." The knight growled as he raised his sword.

Many things flashed before Pyrrha's eyes, her most fond memories, the moments of sadness, the moments of joy, the faces of her friends. However, there was one person that she thought in her final moments before death takes her.

"Jaune… I'm so sorry…" Pyrrha whispered as she closed her eyes as the blade descended.

However, Pyrrha didn't feel pain, only the wind blowing through the trees of the forest. Seconds past as Pyrrha wondered if she was dead. Curious, she slowly opened her eyes and gasped.

The blade that was supposed to end her life stopped just before cutting her neck, the knight in question stood stock still as his glowing blue visors stared directly towards Pyrrha.

"That name… how do you know that name?" The knight questioned in a quiet voice. Pyrrha's eyes widened in shock, speechless to say anything.

The knight turned his head to the side, as if he was contemplating about something. "That name sound so familiar? As if I-" The knight abruptly let go of his sword as he clutched his helmet in pain. The knight took a few steps back in obvious pain as he then fell to his knees, still clutching his head.

"rrrrrRRAAAAAAAAHH!" The knight screamed in pain, soon his whole body glowed bright white as his aura intensified as well as his pain. His aura spread throughout the clearing, engulfing Pyrrha as well as Ren and a dazed Winter.

Pyrrha felt warm as a white aura surrounded her, rejuvenating and healing her recent injuries. The same happened with both Ren and Winter as their wounds seemed to heal at a rapid rate. Winter's gash was soon healed with no sign of scarring and Ren was still unconscious but was now breathing normally.

However, it wasn't the fact that the knight's mysterious aura was healing them, but it felt strangely familiar to Pyrrha, as if she felt it once before.

Soon the white aura surrounding the knight dimmed and vanished as the knight himself stopped screaming, but was now gasping for air, winded. Then after a brief moment of silence, the large knight that almost killed them, collapsed forward onto the ground.

"Pyrrha…" The knight whispered as he went quiet, the sound of his armor shutting down permeated the air.

Pyrrha sat stock still, shocked and speechless of what happened.

The knight recognized Jaune's name.

The knight's aura felt strangely familiar.

The knight… said her name.

Pyrrha didn't want to believe it, but the fact was there. This knight… might possibly be Jaune.

But before Pyrrha could ponder any further, a hand grabbed her shoulder as Pyrrha looked towards the person.

It was Winter, now standing and healed from her grievous wound.

"Miss Nikos, I don't know what you did but you possibly saved my life and that of your team's. I called for reinforcements to take us and this assailant back to Beacon. Gather your team and we shall wait for retrieval, you did good today." Winter said in a calm tired tone. Pyrrha simply nodded as she went to find Nora, questions burning through her mind.

Pyrrha then took one look back at the unconscious knight before going back to the task at hand.

If this knight was really the same Jaune Arc that she knew and loved, then what in the world has happened to him?

AN:

And that's a wrap. Thank you all for reading another chapter, now like I promised, I'm going to write another chapter of Remnant of the Swarm.

Now to answer some questions you all maybe asking.

For those who are wondering what Team RWBY looks like, I'm using their new attire from the upcoming season 4. Now with that being said Ren's and Nora's attire are completely made up by me and is not canon, once Rooster Teeth release the attire for Ren and Nora, then I will come back to this chapter and change them.

Will there be romance? Maybe or maybe not, we'll see.

Now as the issue with updating chapters for both of my stories this is how it will work from now on:

I'll alternate writing chapters for this and Remnant of the Swarm, two chapters each time.

I think this is pretty fair in my opinion.

Leave a comment, review, suggestion or question in the comments below and I will see you all next time.

*NEW*

I hope you like the re-edit. Now you can go on and read the newest chapter. But before that I need to answer this question.

Many of you pointed out how cliché Julius's defeat was. I agree, it was cliché but I could not find any other way for Julius to be defeated without nerfing the HELL out of Julius, some outside force coming in to defeat him, or making the characters of RWBY grossly overpowered to the point where they can fight a veteran Space Marine in Terminator Armor. If I did any of these, my story will become dull or make no sense and you readers will no doubt flame me for doing any of this.

I hope you all now understand.