An incredible amount of energy beamed off of Kageyama. He slowly but surely grew in size, soon enough being as big as the room. He didn't stop growing though, and went straight through the ceiling. Bricks fell down and broke as soon as they made contact with the top of Jaune's bubble. Soon enough the entire train station was destroyed and Lullaby, three times the size of the train station, stood in its place. The wind wall Erigor had put up had been gone ever since Lullaby stripped him of his powers. Lullaby roared and fired a huge beam of energy from his mouth, destroying a huge chunk of the town.
"NO!" Jaune screeched. Who knew how many people died in that blast alone. Lullaby's attention went to Jaune, Coco and Sun. He had heard Jaune. The monster was mute. Jaune, Coco and Sun didn't know what his next move would be and waited anxiously. Lullaby then kicked the bubble without warning, sending it flying all the way out of sight. Sun, Jaune and Coco screamed the entire way. Lullaby continued rampaging all over town.
Ruby helped Miltia up. The entire train station had been destroyed and both of them had fell all the way down to the first floor. Debri was everywhere.
"Are you okay?" Ruby asked. Miltia winced as she moved her right arm.
"Not really." Miltia said. Ruby and Miltia watched Lullaby cause havoc around town.
"What are gonna do?" Ruby asked.
"All my magic energy is gone. And my magic doesn't work on demons." Miltia said. The two then heard a screech and turned to where it came from. A tower of ice sprouted from it, tossing some boulders away. Melanie stood next to the tower. She was panting.
"Melanie?" Miltia asked. Melanie turned to Miltia and went wide eyed. Miltia raised an eyebrow. "Are you okay?" Miltia asked. Melanie looked down. "Melanie?" Miltia asked again. Lullaby roared again and Ruby and Miltia turned to it for a split seconds. Miltia's attention went back to Melanie. "Melanie TALK to me!" Miltia demandend.
"Junior is dead!" Melanie yelled heartbroken. Miltia's expression dropped.
"W-what?" Miltia said, not being able to process what Melanie said.
"He's dead… He died to protect me." Melanie said. Tears rolled down her face. Ruby was sympathetic. Miltia didn't know how to feel. She didn't know what she was feeling. She dropped to her knees. It was silent for awhile, only Melanie's sniffling being heard. Melanie walked towards Miltia and hugged her. Full on tears streamed down Miltia's face.
"JUNIIIOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR!" Miltia cried out his name. She started sobbing uncontrollably. Ruby frowned. She felt bad for the twins. What were they going to do?
Yang slowly opened her eyes. There wasn't much sunlight with the sky filled with numerous clouds. She felt a stinging pain in her back. She tilted her head to the left and saw Lucy. She smiled at her.
"Hey." Lucy said.
"What has happened?" Yang asked.
"A lot. You got stabbed. The wound will heal. Lullaby is now a giant demon monster thing." Lucy said. She pointed at Lullaby. Yang turned to where Lucy was pointing and saw Lullaby.
"Why aren't we doing anything?!" Yang asked a bit angry.
"We're all weak. I can't use any of my offense keys. The others are all exhausted and out of magic energy." Lucy explained.
"We can't just let him destroy the town!" Yang said.
"We won't." Yang and Lucy then heard somebody say. They turned to where the voice came from and saw Taiyang and Torchwick standing there.
"Dad!" Yang said happily as she got up and hugged him.
"A hug? This is new." Taiyang stated. Yang stopped hugging him and punched him in the shoulder playfully.
"A lot has happened, okay?" Yang said.
"True." Taiyang agreed with his daughter.
"Why don't you guys seem drained?" Lucy asked.
"We never got the chance to fight. That stupid Erigor guy just kicked us out of the building." Torchwick said bitterly. Yang snickered.
"Karma." Yang said. Torchwick glared at her.
"But now that we're not forced to be sitting on the sidelines, it's time to take that demon down." Taiyang said determinedly.
"How? It destroyed a huge chunk of the town with one blow." Lucy said, feeling a bit hopeless. Taiyang smirked however.
"My dad isn't just any regular fire wizard." Yang said with a smirk. Lucy lifted an eyebrow while Torchwick rolled his eyes.
"I'm a Fire Devil Slayer." Taiyang said.
"I'm not letting you have ALL the fun though." Torchwick said. "Besides, I need some good credit after all the things that have happened."
"Yes you do." Yang said, glaring at Torchwick.
"Yang, you know what to do." Taiyang said. Yang grinned.
"Yes I do." Yang said confidently. She took a deep breath. 'MEGA PHOENIX ATTACK!" Yang yelled. She started charging up her power as a magic circle opened up underneath her. A fiery red aura came off of her which turned into a fire phoenix. She send it flying straight at Taiyang, who ATE the fire with no hesitation. Lucy's jaw dropped. A spark filled inside of Taiyang's.
"Did he just EAT fire?!" Lucy asked shocked. Yang nodded.
"Yang, create a flare." Taiyang commanded Yang.
"Sure." She said casually. She sent fire into the sky. Once high enough, it exploded. This caught Lullaby's attention. He turned to the four and roared.
"Show time." Torchwick said. He turned the ground underneath him into lava and then formed it into a wave. He started surfing the wave and headed towards Lullaby who was a good distance away.
"FLAME TWISTER!" Taiyang yelled. A magic circle opened underneath him and a fiery tornado sprouted from it. The tornado was incredibly tall and Taiyang was in the middle of it at the top, which was at the same level as Lullaby's face. Lullaby sent a blast from his mouth towards Taiyang which he easily dodged, the tornado moving along with him. Taiyang started sending fire blast towards Lullaby. Lullaby had a harder time dodging the attacks and screeched with every hit it got. The beast got more and more agitated and sent another beam of dark energy towards Taiyang, which he again dodged.
Meanwhile, Torchwick had finally arrived near Lullaby's left foot. He scanned the area for any people and once he was sure nobody was around, he opened a magic circle underneath Lullaby's foot.
"MAGMA FLOOR!" Torchwick yelled as he crouched down and placed his hands on the ground. The ground slowly but surely turned into lava and soon Lullaby's left foot was placed in a deep pool of lava. The beast again screeched in agony. It was like his leg was stuck in quicksand. Torchwick quickly created another lava tidal wave and started surfing it towards Lullaby's other leg. Once there he did the same thing. Lullaby screeched again as it was now standing in two pools of lava.
Taiyang saw what Torchwick had done and smiled. Taiyang surfed the fiery tornado towards Lullaby who again sent multiple blasts towards Taiyang. Taiyang easily dodged them all. Taiyang's fist caught fire and he readied the punch. A smirk grew on Taiyang's face and as soon as he came close enough to Lullaby's face, he punched him in the nose. An explosion occurred on impact and Lullaby was knocked over. The giant demon slowly tilted backwards and crashed into the mountains behind what was left of the town. The crash could be heard miles away. Taiyang exhaled. He waited for Lullaby to move but he never did. It was over. The fiery tornado slowly shrunk in size and soon enough Tai was standing back on the ground.
Moments later he had been joined by Yang, Lucy, Roman, Melanie, Miltia and Ruby. Ruby and Yang hugged their dad and slowly but surely people came out of hiding.
"You did it!" Ruby said happily.
"No. WE did it." Taiyang said with a smile. He turned to Roman who rolled his eyes.
"Guys… there's still one problem." Lucy said. Everyone turned to her. "How are we gonna get rid of Lullaby's corpse?" Lucy asked. Everybody scratched the back of their heads.
"The townspeople should be happy we defeated Lullaby for them. They can figure that out on their own." Torchwick said after a moment of silence. Lucy glared at him. Suddenly the ground started to glow green. Nobody knew what was happening. Along with the glowing, strange markings appeared on the ground as well.
"What is happening?!" Lucy asked freaked out.
"It looks like somebody opened a huge magic circle." Melanie said.
"How big?!" Lucy asked, still freaked out. Melanie shrugged.
"One as big as the town." Ruby concluded. She was right. The glow could be seen all over town. Within an instant all the destroyed buildings were fixed. It was as if the entirety of the town went back in time. That wasn't the only thing that happened though. Lullaby was shrinking and soon was so small that nobody had any idea where it was. After everything was back to normal the magic circle disappeared. Lucy was in awe. So were the others. They had never seen such magic before.
"Who did that?" Miltia asked.
"Green magic circle? Immense power? It could clearly only be one person." Torchwick said a bit disgusted. Ruby, Yang and Taiyang knew who it was. Lucy, Melanie and Miltia had no clue.
There was a lot of wind on top of one of the many mountains surrounding the town. It was kind of refreshing. Velvet stared in awe at the town. It looked like nothing had happened and as if it had just had been built.
"Master?" Velvet said to Ozpin. He was standing next to her.
"Yes, Velvet?" Ozpin asked.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Velvet asked.
"It's… a long story. I'll tell you another time." Ozpin simply said. Velvet nodded understandingly.
It was hours later and everybody had gathered at the restored train station. All the Eisenwald members had been arrested. The group just stood in the middle of the hall in silence.
"What now?" Ruby asked.
"I guess it's time to go home." Taiyang said.
"It's about time. I'm exhausted." Sun said while he stretched.
"What about me?" Jaune asked.
"What about them?" Yang said gesturing to the Malachite twins.
"We finished the job didn't we? We're gonna convince Ironwood to let you join Flameshard." Ruby said with a smile. Jaune returned the smile. Before anybody could answer Yang's question, a train that had just arrived honked. Lucy perked up.
"Welp, there's my train." Lucy suddenly said.
"Our train actually." Coco corrected her. "Flameshard is also in Magnolia, remember?" Lucy nodded.
"Let's go then." Lucy said. Lucy, Coco, Torchwick, Taiyang, Sun, Ruby and Jaune started walking towards the train. Yang didn't move.
"You two could join Flameshard you know?" Yang said. Melanie and Miltia seemed dismissive. "I'm assuming that's a no. You two are very gifted wizards though, there's no denying that. So please make some good use of it." Yang said. The Malachite twins nodded, turned around and strutted away. Yang smiled. Yang turned around and ran towards the others. She jumped into the train seconds before the doors slammed shut.
"What were you doing?" Taiyang asked her.
"Girl talk." Yang said. Taiyang smiled.
The train arrived in Magnolia and the doors slid open. The group of wizards exited along with others. Lucy turned to them all.
"I guess this is goodbye." Lucy said.
"I'm sure we'll see each other around. Especially if you're joining Fairy Tail." Sun said.
"Yeah. This isn't goodbye. We'll see you around." Jaune said with a smile. Torchwick gagged.
"Can you guys stop being so sappy?" Torchwick asked. Yang glared at him for ruining the moment.
"Good luck Jaune." Lucy said.
"Good luck to you as well." Jaune said. The two smiled at each other.
"Bye guys!" Lucy said as she waved and ran. Everyone smiled and/or waved at her. She was so close to joining Fairy Tail. It was finally going to happen. She was finally going to be a guild wizard. Lucy smiled.
Yang nudged Jaune. "You're a sly dog." Yang said. Jaune turned red.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Jaune asked. Yang just grinned. This caused Jaune to only turn more red.
"Stop bothering the boy Yang. Let's go." Taiyang said. Yang rolled her eyes.
"Such a party pooper." Yang said as she walked by her dad. Her dad created a flame in his hands and put his hand on Yang's shoulder, causing it to catch fire. Yang freaked out and started running in circles, hoping that the fire would go out. Ruby, Sun and Taiyang laughed. Jaune just smiled while Torchwick was unamused.
"I HATE YOU, DAD!" Yang said which caused everybody to laugh more. Even Torchwick cracked a smile. It was truly a good day.
Yang kicked the guild's front door open. Fox, Velvet, Ozpin, Ironwood and Neo were gathered in the main hall.
"Weeee'rreeee baaaack!" Yang said sing songy.
"Coco!" Velvet exclaimed happily. She ran towards Coco and hugged her.
"What is he doing here?" Ironwood asked, referring to Jaune.
"He is here because he is apart of this guild, Ironwood." Ozpin said. Everybody turned to Ozpin. He hadn't even met the guy yet and he has already accepted him into the guild.
"W-what?" Jaune asked.
"Jaune Arc is our newest member." Ozpin repeated. Jaune's faced expressed shock. It was completely silent in the room.
"...YAY!" Ruby suddenly exclaimed as she hugged Jaune.
"Nice man!" Yang said as she also hugged Jaune.
"It's a group hug then." Sun said as he shrugged and joined in.
"How amazing." Torchwick said unamused as he walked over to Neo. "Helleo Neo. Did you miss me?" Neo shook her head in response to the question. Torchwick didn't seem to happy about that but Neo cracked a smile, letting him know that she was only put his hand on her head, messing up her hair. "You being mute really makes it easy on you to mess with me." Torchwick said. Neo just smiled.
Ironwood joined Ozpin.
"Are you sure about this, master?" Ironwood asked. Ozpin nodded.
"He has potential. And I'm sure he'll be very useful in the future." Ozpin said. Ironwood didn't agree entirely but went along with it. This was the start of a long journey. A journey that would last years.