This is ch.8. Lets do this.
Down in the vault, flashes of orange, green, and blue can be seen in the distance. Those flashes belong to Cinder, Ozpin, and Artanis. Both Artanis and Ozpin strike Cinder with great power, but Ozpin's speed gives him a slight advantage. After Ozpin knocks Cinder back, she recovers midair and uses her new found power to float above Ozpin and Artanis. Ozpin activates a shield to protect him from the upcoming attack. As Ozpin jumps in, Cinder shoots out a massive stream of fire, destroying to shield, and causing a large explosion knocking Artanis in the walls of the vault.
Back on the surface, and evacuation is being starting to get everyone out of their. The Protoss in that area also help with the evacuation. At this moment, Ruby is scene running towards Weiss, telling her that she is fine.
"What's going on?" Ruby asked.
Weiss looks down in sadness, as it is to hard to tell her what has happened.
"Weiss? What is it," Ruby asked noticing Weiss's sadness.
Weiss moves out of the way for Ruby to see what is going on. She looks in shock as she sees Blake, Ren, and Nora hurt, and Yang missing her right arm.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Blake says as she holds Yang's hand.
After seeing that Ruby is approached by Sun, telling her she will be ok. Sun explains that the soldiers have a ship ready to take them to Vale, but Nora replies saying, "But Jaune and Pyrrha are still missing." Ruby takes notice of this, but Sun says "That giant Grimm keeps circling the school. Even the White fang are pulling out."
"We're not leaving," Ren says as he tries to stand up.
"I'll find them. I'll find them, and I'll bring them back," Ruby says.
"No, we will find them," Weiss replies.
"A sound plan," Talandar says as Alarak joins them.
"Watch after Blake and Yang. We'll be back," Weiss says.
As Weiss, Ruby, Talandar, and Alarak leaves, Sun yells "You better be!' followed by him calling them idiots.
At the entrance of the tower, Pyrrha and Jaune have finally gotten out of the vault. As Jaune tries to find Glynnda's number, a rumbling shakes the ground as Cinder flies to the top portion of the tower. Pyrrha knows that Cinder is too powerful, but she has to try stopping her.
"There's no time. Go! Get to Vale and call for help," Pyrrha says
"What are you going to do?" Jaune replies as he notices what Pyrrha is going to do.
"No. No Pyrrha you can't. You saw how powerful she is. Pyrrha I won't let you do.." Jaune says as he is interrupted by Pyrrha kissing him.
"I'm sorry," Pyrrha says as she pushes Jaune into the locker behind them.
Jaune begs Pyrrha to stop, but she needs to stop Cinder. As she sees Jaune fly of in the distance, she hears a voice stating that "We will help you." Pyrrha looks back and sees two High Templars standing right behind her.
"Our leader Artanis was also in that tower. We will fight with you in order to stop this Cinder from hurting anyone else, "one of the high Templar's says.
"But you will die. She is to powerful," Pyrrha replies.
"Do not worry about us Pyrrha, worry about the mission at hand," a high templar states.
With that, Pyrrha and the two high Templars go inside the tower to stop Cinder. In the courtyard section of the school, Ruby, Weiss, Talandar, and Alarak are trying to find Jaune and Pyrrha, until Weiss sees that Jaune is contacting them through her scroll. Jaune says that they need to stop Pyrrha because she is trying to fight Cinder. As Weiss asked Jaune, he yells "Don't worry about me!" As Weiss is telling Jaune that we will find them, Jaune throws down his scroll in anger and despair. The four look up and see the Grimm dragon landing on the side of the tower.
"I have a plan," Ruby says.
"You always do,' Weiss replies.
"Ha, this will be a glorious battle!," Talandar yells.
"Let us show these creatures our true strength!" Alarak yell.
With that, the four charge at the Grimm, with the purpose of taking them down, and to help Pyrrha before it is too late.
At the top of the tower, Cinder walks out of smoke and heads toward the window. At this point the dragon climbs further up until it reaches the window Cinder is looking through. As the dragon roars, Cinder says, "Shhh, this is your home now." Cinder steps back and creates fire in her hand, but is interrupted when she hears the elevator coming up. Pyrrha use her semblance to take her and the two templar to the top to fight Cinder.
As the door opens, Pyrrha throws her spear at Cinder. Cinder easily dodges spear, and blocks Pyrrha's shield attack. As Pyrrha uses her semblance to recover her weapon, the two high templar enter the room while shooting psychic bolt at Cinder. Cinder absorbs the attack with her maiden powers as she begins to float. Cinder launches a volley of fire based attacks at the three. Cinder then launches a stream of fire at Pyrrha. Her shield blocks the fire as she moves towards Cinder. Once getting to her, Pyrrha tries to strike Cinder, but she catches the attack and pushes Pyrrha back against the wall. The one of the templar tries using a psionic storm on Cinder, but the attack fails and Cinder throws a fire ball at the templar, wounding him. The other templar quickly rushes towards his templar ally trying to get him up.
"Are you ok?" Pyrrha asked.
"He his fine, but Pyrrha you need to stall Cinder. Keep her off of us," the first templar replies.
"I'll do my best," Pyrrha replies.
As Cinder starts to fight Pyrrha again, the two templar begin to charge up their psionics. The fight gets to the point where Pyrrha gets Cinder in a chokehold with her spear. As Cinder grabs onto the spear, the dragon detaches itself from the tower and starts to head right towards them. Pyrrha looks on in shock, but before she could even react, Cinder breaks her spear and pushes her back at the exact moment the dragon tears off the very top of the room. Weaponless, Pyrrha looks at Cinder and notices that there are metals objects littered around them. Pyrrha uses her semblance to throw debris at Cinder. She is caught off guard and is actually hit by the attack. Cinder recovers and starts throwing fire blast at Pyrrha, creating a fire wall. Pyrrha throws her shield at Cinder, causing her to block it, but that is what Pyrrha wanted as she lifts up multiple giant metal cogs with her semblance. While Cinder looks on, Pyrrha uses her shield to trip Cinder, at the same time slamming all the cogs down on Cinder. Cinder uses her power to cause a repulse sending all the cogs back and launching Pyrrha at a wall, destroying her aura. Cinder notices the two templar almost completing there charge. Cinder launches a fire ball at them, stating that "I won't be interrupted by your kind again.
Back on the ground, Weiss, Ruby, Talandar, and Alarak are still fighting the remaining grimm in the area.
"We've got to hurry!" Ruby yells.
As a reply, Weiss uses her semblance to make glyphs on the side of the tower.
"You can do this," Weiss replies.
With that, Ruby jumps on the side of the tower and runs towards the upper level to save Pyrrha.
On the top, Cinder prepares her bow and arrow while Pyrrha throws her shield at the arrow. The shield and the arrow hit but the arrow takes itself apart to go through the shield and hit Pyrrha in the heel.
"It's unfortunate you where promised a power that was never truly yours. But take comfort in knowing, that I will use it in ways you could never have imagined," Cinder says as she walks over to Pyrrha and lifts her head up.
"Do you believe in destiny?" Pyrrha asked.
"Yes," Cinder replies as she stands up and forms her bow and arrow.
Ruby finally makes it to the top, but before Cinder could finish off Pyrrha, a large blue light appears behind her. As she looks back, Cinder sees a large blue orb right behind her. The orb then starts to form into a large being of psionic power known as an archon.
"POWER OVERWHELMING!"
The archon attacks Cinder with powerful energy blast, trying to defend Pyrrha. As Ruby sees that Pyrrha was on the brink of death, Ruby yells as a white light emits from her eyes. The blast first hits the dragon and makes its way towards Cinder.
"What!?" Cinder yells as she is consumed by the light.
The only thing Ruby sees in white, but she does hear Qrow and Taiyang talking. Then Ruby slowly wakes up in her own room with Taiyang sitting next to her. Taiyang tells Ruby that Qrow found her unconscious and got her home safe. He also tell Ruby that Yang is ok. While talking, Qrow interrupts Taiyang and ask him if he could talk to Ruby. Taiyang leaves the room for Qrow to talk to Ruby. While talking, Qrow asked "What is the last thing you remember?"
"I ran up the side of the tower, and when I got to the top, I... Pyrrha! Is she..." Ruby says.
"I have no idea what happened to her exactly, but she is alive, just missing," Qrow replies.
As Ruby continues, she mentions that everything went white.
"The night you meet Ozpin, what was the first thing he said to you?" Qrow asked.
Ruby was about to answer, but Qrow interrupts saying, "Silver eyes." Qrow says that there was one tale that Ozpin used to tell him about people with silver eyes. Qrow mentions that those born with silver eyes where destined to lead the life of warrior, and states that a singe glance from them can strike a Grimm down. As they finish their conversation, Ruby asked what can she do to help, which Qrow replies, "You really want to help? Get some rest. You are in no condition to go anywhere right now. Besides, our enemies' trail leads all the way to Haven. That'll be quite a trip for a pipsqueak like you." With that, Qrow leaves the room for Ruby to get rest.
Ruby gets up out of bed to check on Yang. When she gets to her room, Yang is seen looking out her window. Ruby tries to get her attention, but doesn't work. As she is leaving Yang calls for Ruby. Ruby walks over and hugs her sister telling her that she is glad she's ok. Yang tells Ruby where Weiss and Blake went. Weiss was taken back to Atlas by her father, and Blake ran away.
"Sometimes bad things just happen Ruby," Yang says.
"So what do we do now?" Ruby asked.
"You can do whatever you want. I'm gonna lie hear," Yang says.
"Yang," Ruby replies.
"Just leave me alone," says Yang.
As she is leaving Ruby says, "I love you."
As Yang sits there, out her window, a leaf falls down on the ground signifying the end of fall. An unknown amount of time passes by and it is somewhere during winter. Ruby exits out of her house to hear Jaune say, "Hey."
"Hey, Jaune," Ruby says.
"Haven's a long way to go," says Ruby.
"I know, but it's the only way we have," Jaune replies.
"And your sure you want to came along?" Ruby asked.
"The journey will be peerless. And whether we'll find answerers at the end is entirely uncertain," Ren replies.
"But we wouldn't be hear if we weren't up for it," Nora says.
"Then lets get started," Ruby replies.
With that, the team heads out on their trail to Haven. Back at Ruby's house, Taiyang is bringing food to Ruby, but is shocked to find her not their and in her place, a message. Taiyang runs out of Ruby's room, passing Yang's room. Yang is looking out her window and sees a crow on a branch, fly away in the distance.
At Beacon, the dragon is frozen in place on top of the tower. Despite it being frozen, it is still attracting Grimm to the school.
In Vale, Glynda is trying to repair the damage of the city, but she is failing.
In the far distance, Blake is jumping across building, and stops to look at the dragon. She then continues on her own travel.
Weiss is in a ship, traveling to Atlas. She looks at her side and sees her father right beside her.
In the underground, Karax, and Talandar are making their base for future uses. Right beside Karax, their is a Protoss table that holds the remains of Penny.
Vorazun, and the dark templar are in the forest. They all look at the dragon, and then continue traveling.
Back in Vale, Alarak and the Tal'darim are clearing out the remaining grimm in Vale.
Ruby, Nora, Jaune, and Ren are visiting Summer Rose's grave to say goodbye.
Looking down at the four, Qrow lifts up Ozpin's cane and looks at it. Behind him is Artanis.
"Tell me, is Pyrrha ok?' Qrow asked.
"Yes, she is recovery is going smoothly," Artanis replies.
"You know, when I first saw you, I thought I was crazy. I thought you were working for them, but you helped us," Qrow says.
"You remind me of a person back in my place, a soldier named James Raynor," Artanis replies.
"Well, I'll be going now. I will see you later on Artanis," says Qrow.
"Indeed Qrow. En taro Zeratul,' Artanis says as he warps out.
Qrow jumps down the cliff and emerges as a crow, to make shure that Ruby and her friend's travel will be safe.
In an unknown location, filled with darkness, a female figure is looking out in the distance of this dark world. Down on the ground though, their is a single stone, not belonging to the world of Remnant. The stone then glows red, as an evil, male laugh can be heard very faintly.
Next episode, 2/28/16. See you next time.
