Third Person POV

As they left the ruins of the town behind, the group of hunters and huntresses began to relax. Not long after the nuckelavee was killed, the lingering negative emotions that had been sticking around had begun to dissipate. Even now the group could feel the anger, sorrow, and fear fading away just as the grimms body had when it had finally been slayed.

After finally killing the grimm, Ren could feel his own anger beginning to fade away for good. The sorrow was still there, and the truth of the matter was that it would still most likely be there for a long time to come, he wouldn't just stop feeling sadness for the loss of his parents. However he could now at least find some peace, knowing that the monster that caused so much pain, so much death, was dead.

Nora's sadness had begun to fade away as well, though that was mostly due to the fact that Ren was acting more like himself once more. She could see he was still a little sad, but that was much better than what he was before. She hated seeing him so enraged, to see him literally shaking with anger, to see him act extremely reckless for the sake of revenge. It bothered her because that had not been the Ren she knew. Now he was more or less back to normal, and that was enough to bring Nora happiness.

Of course, there were a few certain members of the group who were feeling much worse than they did before they ended up fighting the nuckelavee. These certain few were none other than Pyrrha Nikos, Ruby Rose, and of course Jaune Arc.

The destruction they had seen had bothered them, to say the least. Ruby had been thinking about professor Ooblecks words, about what he had said to her when she and her team had gone to Mount Glenn along with the hyperactive professor.

"Doctor Oobleck?" Ruby got the energetic professors attention, curiosity bubbling to the surface as she thought about how Oobleck had been talking to all her team mates about why they wanted to do what they were doing.

"Hmm?" He said in response, waiting for her question.

Ruby began to play around with her hands as she asked her question, "I was wondering..."

Oobleck stopped walking and turned back to the young reaper, "Wondering why I've been interrogating your teammates all day?"

Ruby however just shook her head before she finished her question, "A-Actually, I was wondering... Why did you want to become a huntsman?"

"Look around and tell me what you see." He told her.

Ruby looked around at the ruined city, not really seeing anything of great importance or interest. As far as she could tell, the only things there was some old buildings and a few empty streets, "Lots of old buildings, uh, empty streets..."

Oobleck shook his head a little bit however and began walking again, Ruby and Zwei going after him, "I see lives that could have been saved." He continued to walk, Ruby walking beside him and Zwei at their heels, "As a huntsman, it is my job to protect the people, and although I am capable of doing it with traditional weaponry, I believe I can make a much larger impact if I do it with my mind. As a teacher, I'm able to take knowledge, the most powerful weapon of them all, and place it in the hands of every student that passes through my classroom. I look at this wasteland, and I see lives that could have been saved, but I also see an opportunity; an opportunity to study these ruins and learn from this tragedy, and therefore become stronger." He stopped walking and turned to Ruby, "I am a huntsman, Ruby, because there is nothing else in this world I would rather be." He finished, turning away and continuing to walk.

Ruby clenched her fist as she thought about what he said, "If we're supposed to learn from these tragedies, to stop them and save lives... then how come we keep allowing things like this to happen? How come things like what happened at Beacon and Rens home keep happening, if we're learning from past tragedies? How can we save lives if we just act like we learn from our mistakes?"

While Ruby contemplated the purpose of a huntsman, Jaune began to think about why he had come to Beacon. Everyone in his family had been a hero, his father, his grand father and his father before him. He wanted to be a hero too, to live up to the Arc name. Heroes helped people, they saved lives and prevented tragedies from ever happening. Other huntsman and huntresses were heroes. But...

He thought of what had happened at Beacon. Penny had been killed because of an accident, Yang had lost her right arm, Ozpin was killed in his fight against Cinder and if it hadn't been for Natsu than Pyrrha would've been among the dead too. He knew there was more casualties, soldiers who had tried to defend the campus, as well as other students who weren't as strong as teams JNPR and RWBY, or as strong as the teams in the tournaments; teams that would've tried to fight back.

He closed his eyes and clenched his fists as he thought about it. He knew there was nothing he could've done, but he also knew they could've been saved. He knew there wasn't enough huntsman for such a large scale attack. He knew there should've been more heroes but there weren't. And that made him question why he should be a hero, why he should be a huntsman.

He knows hes been getting better when it comes to combat, that much was obvious, but he also knew he wasn't anywhere near everyone else's skill level. Pyrrha was a world renowned champion combatant, Ruby was a child prodigy who had gotten into Beacon two years early, Ren was an expert user of his weapons and aura, while Nora was just a plain ole powerhouse.

Yet he wasn't like them. He didn't work to get where he got, he cheated his way in. He wasn't some extremely skilled warrior who you would fear on the battlefield. However he did know where his strengths were, and that was in his mind. Jaune knows he's smart, hes a good strategist. His strength lies not in fighting, but in supporting his team, so that just left one question. Was he meant to be a hero, or was he meant to be something else?

Pyrrha was thinking about something else however; a lesson.

Her hand was surrounded in a black aura as she lifted a few small gears using her semblance, before she sent them flying at a target. They went through the target, making small holes where they had punched through.

Pyrrha sighed as she practiced with her semblance, getting ready for her fourth tournament. It got repetitive, training for these tournaments over and over again, and it wasn't even what she wanted to do. She didn't want to be some world-renown tournament champion, that wasn't how she wanted to do things, and that isn't what she wanted to be known for.

"Hey, hows my favorite red head doing?" Natsu asked as he walked up to her, a small smile on her face. The smile on her fathers face made her feel a bit happier, a bit more relaxed. His smile was so infectious that even though she was feeling a bit down, she began to smile.

Natsu's smile got a bit bigger once he noticed his daughter smiling, "There's that beautiful smile. Looks better than that brooding look, now why don't you tell me whats bothering you?" He asked, grabbing a log and bringing it over with little difficulty. He sat down and pat the spot next to him, "Come on, take a seat and tell me about it."

Pyrrha's shoulders slumped a little bit, the red head sighing as she went and sat down on the log, sitting close to her father, "It's the tournament..."

Natsu raised an eyebrow at her and wrapped an arm around her, "What about it? At this point you've got pretty much no chance of losing, you have the experience, the power and skill, my training, and not to mention you've got the fear factor. The rest of the competition is gonna be afraid of you, so what's wrong?"

Pyrrha looked a little to the right, away from her father, "The problem is that I don't even want to be a part of the tournament... being a tournament champion is not what I want to do. I'm blessed with an awesome power, and yet all I'm doing with it is fighting for peoples entertainment and for my own personal gain... I want to fight to help others..."

Natsu's eyes lit up in understanding as he nodded his head, "Ah, I understand now. You don't like what your doing, because your not doing what you think you should do, you want to be a huntress, a hero. You know what a hero does?"

Pyrrha nodded with a serious look on her face, "Yeah, they fight for whats right and help everyone. They think of others instead of themselves, shine as a beacon of hope to those who can't defend themselves, and-"

Natsu raised his hand to stop her, the dragon slayer now looking serious, "Your partially right, however your wrong on a few things. First of all, people who are heroes don't help everyone, they help everyone they can. I know it sounds like a small difference, but sometimes you can't save everyone. Not even if they are right in front of you. And as for thinking of others, that's kinda wrong to. Just by being a hero, your doing what YOU want to do. But even more than that, for someone like me, a hero can do what they want simply as a way to do what they think is fun. Being the good guy, a hero, it let me fight tons of strong opponents. Its one of the reasons I do what I do. Its a bit selfish, but its also the truth. Not to mention not all people look up to those with more power than themselves, some will resent you. In other cases heroes can harm people more than they help when they die, that sudden beacon of hope being snuffed out."

Natsu sighed and shook his head, "Look, what I'm basically trying to get at is the fact that you shouldn't try to be a hero because you think it's what you SHOULD do, you should try to be one because it's what you WANT to do. You should do it not because you think its right and that you have an obligation to help people just because you got power, do it because you want to help people and because you won't be miserable in the process. You think I would've been a mage of Fairy Tail if it was just gonna be work that would make me miserable? Hell no. I expect the same from you."

Pyrrha looked at her father with slightly wide eyes before she relaxed and leaned into his side, "Thank you, dad. I know what I'm going to do now after this tournament. This LAST tournament."

Natsu simply had a look of pride on his face as he looked at his daughter, "Now that's my girl."

Pyrrha looked down at her hand and clenched her fist. She knew that everyone couldn't be saved, both because of what her father had taught her and the experience she had gained at Beacon. She now had a better understanding of what her father had said. She was given a lesson the others hadn't been given, the others didn't exactly know that as heroes and huntsman, or huntresses in Ruby's and her own case, that while they could save people they couldn't save everyone. They had a bit of a more, naive view on things.

She looked back at her father, 'Thank you, for giving me that lesson before something like this or what happened at Beacon happened. At least now I know a bit of what to expect.' She thought before she turned her head back around, paying attention to the road.

As the group of hunters and huntresses continued on they had no idea of the surprise that lay on the horizon ahead of them.