Justin sat down in an arm chair and stared off into space. "Well I've run out of ideas for these types of author's notes. Also, I can see these getting old fast. So this will be the last one. So I guess this is goodbye to none story related author's notes and to me, the author where I can express emotion without using the story. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, for me at least. Also, I would like to give a shout out to Shadic1978 for taking interest in this story. He wrote a story that is in progress right now called a burning rose that deals with my second favourite pairing. I like it personally and I think you guys should check it out. And now, the story…

Dorm room hallway, one hour before the party…

Justin and Ricky were walking towards their dorm with bags in their hand when they heard a loud screech from Velvet's dorm room, but it wasn't Velvet. She went with Liam and Dustin to grab the cups and plates and stuff for the party which started at eleven, while the two who just got back were in charge of food and drinks. Yang said she would purchase some alcohol from a liquor store where they know her and allow her to buy certain products. Basically anything besides hard liquor.

Disclaimer: Only consume alcoholic beverages if you are of legal age, this is for entertainment purposes ONLY!

The scream was followed by none other than Cardin Winchester being thrown out of said room. "Creep!" The women inside yelled as she slammed the door. He was wearing nothing but boxers. "Hold this" Ricky commanded as he placed his bags in his brother's hands. Cardin looked confused until Ricky landed a hard right hook into the side of his head, knocking him to the ground. "That was for Yang!" He kicked the downed boy in the stomach. "That was for Liam!" Another kick, this one to the ribs. "That was for Justin!"

He turned to the other boy who was just plain laughing. "Am I missing anyone? Oh yeah!" His face got angry again as he kicked him in the side of the head. "That's for Ruby!" Cardin fell unconscious after that last blow. He never the less landed one last shot into his back. "And that's for me" He stated proudly as they left him and entered their room.

Beacon cliff, thirty minutes before the party…

Adam lifted his wrist to his mouth "Is you're inside source the whole team or just one member, Roman?" He asked his communicator. "Just on member sadly, but this will still work all the same" Roman answered on the other end. Adam pressed a button and the device and spoke again. "You remember the plan?" He asked. This time cinder's voice came out the speaker. "Yes, yes, I get the heiress, you get the faunus and Roman gets the one in the hood" She spoke in an exasperated tone. "Good" was his only reply before turning the speaker off.

Team JRLD room, five minutes before the party…

Dustin walked up to Justin and handed him a small flask of some beige liquid. "What's this?" He asked his brother. "The last part of my Christmas present to you besides the stuff I already got you. It's liquefied cat-nip" He said matter-of-factly. "You can give her this in a drink and find someplace secluded and, you know…" Justin's face turned nervous. "That doesn't seem right. I want her to want to do it on her own, not have something help her make that choice" He replied. "That's the beauty of this stuff, it's not making her make any decisions, it's just giving her some-what of an urge. It's not a brainwash potion, dude. If she doesn't want to, she won't" He explained. "Fine" Justin had conceded.

Ricky emerged from the bathroom, they were all in there at some point trying to look their best. Ricky had just been the unlucky one to be sent in last. Liam went to go fetch Velvet from her room a couple minutes ago. Justin and Ricky assumed that Cardin had been carried away by someone at some point. He came back with his girlfriend in tow. "Well since you are technically our guest even though you sleep here sometimes, I should probably turn the music on" Ricky suggested. He pressed play on a playlist Yang had given him as they waited for everyone else to arrive.

Outside, 11:07 PM

Roman sat outside in a shadowy section of the outside wall with his men. They just had to wait it out, the cold and new snow wasn't helping though. They stood there and shivered, except for Torchwick, who just kept his casual demeanour the whole time. 'Soon' He thought to himself. 'Soon'

Team JRLD's room, 11:13 PM

Yang was the last to arrive, even Sun had come before her. Most of them didn't have a lot of experience with Sun, but he seemed like a nice enough guy. "Do you know how hard it is to sneak this much of something through a populated campus? The answer is very hard" Yang said while placing a large amount of drinks down on the counter.

Most people had one except for certain people. They being Weiss, Velvet, Blake and Ruby, due to Weiss' orders. Although within a couple minutes she managed to get her sister to get her one and she snuck off to drink it. Justin walked over to Blake, the vile of liquid still on his mind. "Hey, Blake, do you want something to drink? Water, beer, anything?" She pondered the question for a second. "Yeah, I guess one beer can't hurt, right?" She asked nervously. "Yeah, you're fine. I'll be right back with it" He said before turning on his heel. When he reached the counter he grabbed one can and pulled out the flask.

He sighed before popping the top and quickly pouring all of the substance into the drink. He did a circular motion with his hand as to stir the newly added chemical in without having it foam over. He walked back to his love and handed her the drink with his insides feeling the utmost shame. She took the beverage and gingerly took a sip. She smacked her lips together to and grew a small smile. "Sweeter than I expected" She admitted. Now he just had to wait to see if it would work.

While on the other side of the party Ruby had convinced Weiss to at least try some alcohol. To Ruby's surprise, Weiss actually took a liking to it. In twenty minutes she was on her third can and started to not feel too great. Dustin noticed this and walked over. "Hey, are you feeling okay? If your head feels weird you should go step outside for a minute. You'll feel better, trust me" He said with a kind smile, something they had learned to be out of character for him. Still, she heeded his advice. "Ruby, can you step outside with me for a moment?" She asked. Ruby nodded and they stepped out the door and started walking down the hall.

Outside, 11:37 PM…

They sat there shivering and waiting, until Torchwicks wrist lit up. He looked at it and grew a smile. "We're a go, remember be do this quiet and we do this right. My contact will start this off" He explained. After another thirty seconds, two figures emerged from the doors that lead inside. They let them walk by as another figure came out a couple seconds later screwing a silencer onto a handgun. He raised his arm and pulled the trigger.

At the other end of the path, Weiss and Ruby…

The couple walked along in blissful silence until Ruby let out a scream as she collapsed to the ground. Weiss would have yelled something along the lines of "What's wrong" but didn't get the chance to. She was struck in the shoulder by something small and painful. She was confused until she realized what was happening. 'We're getting shot at!' She thought. Before she could move Ruby was in front of her and pulled her into a self-sacrificing embrace. She shook two more times with pain as bullets entered her back.

Ruby shook and sobbed with pain and defeat, but would not let Weiss go. She would let nothing harm her little snow angel. She pulled out crescent rose in one hand in an attempt to shoot the assailant, but it was blasted away. Her hands felt hot and burned as she looked at the culprit of the fireball. It was the girl she fought all those nights ago along with… "Torchwick" She growled as she saw the man in the bowler hat approaching. "You don't sound happy to see me, Red. I'm hurt!" He said in a fake voice of shock. "So I'm guessing you were the one shooting at us, then?" Ruby asked, the venom in her words evident. They were completely surrounded by his men at this point.

Torchwick laughed as he put his cigar out. "Oh no, that wasn't me" He admitted. He stepped aside to reveal none other than their ally, their friend, Dustin. "You traitor, you asshole! How could you?!" Ruby screamed at him. "Just give us the scythe, sweetheart. No one has to get hurt any more than they already are" Cinder said in an oddly soothing voice, or it would have been had Ruby not been full of bullets. "Ruby, just do what they say. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. I love you so much" Weiss said, cuddling closer to her precious rose while tears streamed down her face. Ruby hesitated, but tossed crescent rose to the henchman who had his arm outstretched. Weiss did the same with Myrtenaster.

"Oh, I didn't know you two were a thing. That's too cute" Roman stated laughing. "Shut it, you prick!" Ruby barked at him. At that Roman stopped laughing. "Now, now, don't be rude. Someone needs to teach you some MANNERS!" With the last word he struck her face with his cane. Blood splattered across the snowy walkway while she spat the remainder of the blood into snow below her. "Come now, Roman. We did promise them they wouldn't be hurt if they cooperated. Now you lot, load them into the van" Cinder spoke with a cold heartless voice of authority now.

The two were placed in the back of the van by the men in suits. "I'll go with them, to make sure they don't try anything. You take the men to the airship and meet me back at the warehouse" Roman said to Cinder before shutting the back of the van and driving off.

Five minutes later, beacon cliff…

Dustin walked to the edge of the cliff to talk to the man in the trench coat. "You the one I'm supposed to meet?" Dustin asked. "No, I'm just some guy standing in the snow on the edge of a cliff for no apparent reason" Adam retorted sarcastically. Dustin sighed and let it go. He knew he couldn't fight him man to man. "We're to move into position for faze two" He explained as he turned to walk away. "Finally" Adam muttered under his breath as he did the same.

Dorm room hallway, 12:05…

Justin was thrown into the wall and lifted back up and pulled by the hand down the hall. When they reached outside he was pressed against the wall and pinned. His eyes remained wide the whole time, he had never seen this side of Blake before. She pressed herself against him and kissed him intensely. Her eyes went very cat-like and narrow as they broke. She pressed her lips against his neck as he traced lines up and down her stomach. She stopped abruptly and reopened her eyes.

Justin stopped and looked down at her. "What's wrong?" He asked, concerned that he had done something wrong. She collapsed into his arms and let out loud, troubled breaths. He looked behind her to see two figures standing there. He was about to say something, anything, when a good amount of white fang soldiers appeared on either side of them. He looked down to the girl in his arms to see the hole in her back. 'They shot her!' he thought. "Get your hands off my girl, kid" one of the figures said. Blake knew that voice. "No" she said as she turned. "Adam" she spat. He paid no attention to her. Both raised their swords to each other. 'Good thing I forgot to take this off' Justin thought as he stepped in front of Blake.

She leaned against the wall to support herself while a million thoughts ran through her head. "What do you mean 'your girl' you asshole?" He asked, while taking a few steps forward. "You shot her!" Adam chuckled a little and stepped aside. "Oh no, mine would have left her with no chest left. I believe you two are acquainted" The other figure stepped forward. "Dustin" He Justin growled. He let out a small laugh. "I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch. I hope you know that" Dustin stared his brother down. "I'd like to see you try" He challenged. "Allright, enough! Grab the girl!" Adam ordered to his men. They moved forward, but Justin drew his other sword. "TAKE ANOTHER STEP AND I'LL KILL YOU!" He commanded.

Blake lifted herself from the wall and took a small step forward. "Adam, I don't know what you think, but we're through. I left you on that train never to see you again. You were turning into a monster and I wanted no part of it. That's the same reason I left the white fang" She explained. Adam shook his head. "Blake, you don't just leave the white fang. We're here to make you see why" He would have continued if one of his men didn't spontaneously fall to the ground, then two more, all with arrows in their backs. "There, up there!" One of the soldiers yelled.

It was Velvet.

"Liam, now!" She yelled as he jumped out from behind a corner. He had turned his two hammers into some sort of rocket launcher. He fired into the crowd and yelled "Go get the others!" While Justin was trying to comprehend the situation, Adam came up behind him and knocked him away. He picked up Blake and began to retreat towards their getaway vehicles. Justin began to rise and chase after them he felt bullets wiz past him. He stopped on the spot and began to deflect some of the oncoming barrage. Dustin switched his pistols to knives and jumped right into Justin's path.

"Get out of my way!" Justin yelled. "Why should I?" Dustin asked as he took a defensive stance. They both jerked their heads to the side as the doors burst open and Jaune, Ren, Ricky and Yang. Justin used this time to run past his brother and towards their enemy's parked vehicles. Ricky turned to Yang "Go get your bike and help Justin!" He ordered. Yang nodded and propelled herself towards the student garage.

Pyrrah and Nora burst onto the roof where they saw Velvet. "Open fire!" She ordered. They rained bullets, ice, grenades and arrows upon the white fang forces. They saw Justin sprinting through their ranks, not stopping to fight any of them. Anybody in front of him ended up missing some appendage. The getaway cars and vans started to drive off, leaving a lot of their men behind. Then Jaune started to follow Justin towards one of the cars. "I got this!" Pyrrah called to the other two as she jumped off the roof.

Justin combined both his swords into a sniper rifle and shot a driver through the passenger window before he could leave. The van which he wanted had already pulled away, which meant he would have to chase them. He ripped the driver out of his seat while Jaune and Pyrrah climbed in. They started to peel away and gain speed when they saw Yang on Bumblebee rapidly gaining speed. The car the other three were in wasn't bad either. It was gaining on the other vehicles quite fast since they were trying to stay as a convoy, for the time being anyway.

The group of vehicles split into two as they got onto an actual road and away from beacon. As they approached the highway that was near the school many drivers decided to get onto it while the rest took the road into the main city. Yang turned to gesture the others to get on the highway. She knew her bike was much better equipped to handle enclosed streets than their stolen vehicle. She continued to accelerate faster and faster until she had caught up to her apposing drivers.

Truth be told, she found the whole situation very invigorating. She couldn't legally reach half the speeds she was achieving right now. Although she did occasionally go over the speed limit, she had never pushed her baby to these limits before. She lifted her left arm up as she extended it's gauntlet. She fired at the first cars tire. The explosion blew the axle off the bottom of the car. The next one up was a van. 'Crap' she thought to herself. She didn't want to shoot any of the vans because she didn't know which one held her partner. She didn't know if any of them held her partner.

She rode up alongside the van and punched the back door until it opened while holding the edge of the door hinge for support. She looked inside to see nothing but confused white fang members. She peeled left to avoid the oncoming gunfire from within the van. She shot underneath the left side which threw it on it's side and into a light post. She continued up their ranks until there were only a couple left.

She drove next to one of them to look in the driver-side window. She looked to her right at the driver when a bright yellow light started to shine on the side of her face. She turned to face the headlights of an oncoming car. 'Oh God' was the only thing that ran through her mind as she hit it at astronomical speeds. She flew off her bike as her aura flared. Her fire spread of in an explosive manner. To anyone else it would seem like a bomb went off in the middle of the street.

She groaned and lifted herself off the road. If it weren't for her aura she would have been dead for sure. She looked around at the carnage her semblance had created. The middle of the street was scorched from everything from the walls of the buildings to the cars she was chasing. She turned to see the car she had crashed into. Her bike was sprawled across the street, but still intact and in one piece. She had needed it to be able to withstand crashes since she was training to be a huntress.

When her gaze moved to the other car in the collision her eyes went wide. It had a huge dent in the front and was ablaze. She ran over to the car and blew the door off it's hinges. The woman inside the car was bloody and groaning, but alive. She dragged her out and checked her injuries. She was bleeding out of her right arm and both her legs. Her arm appeared broken, but that was it. She was definitely a lucky person. She dragged her over to the sidewalk and checked her over one more time. "Can you hear me?" Yang waited for a response. The woman slowly nodded and looked up at her. "Good, now keep pressure on your wound, alright?" Yang instructed. The woman nodded again and hesitantly covered as many wounds as she could.

Yang got back up and walked over to the white fang vans which were toppled over and completely destroyed. As she walked over she went back to her previous mentality. 'Oh God! What if Blake was in one of those vans!? Nonononono…" Her mind raced as she ran over to the pile of scrap metal that could have held her friend. She opened the door to the first van and started rummaging through the weapons and bodies until there was no more for her to search through. "One down… one to go" Finding nothing helped her confidence, but not by much.

She approached the last van and opened it to find the same as the last. She checked and double checked and found nothing. She let out a long sigh and walked out and rested her back on the wall of the vehicle. 'I just hope the others are okay…'

Meanwhile on the Vale highway…

Pyrrah was on top of their Vehicle shooting the tires of the cars that were doing a much better job at protecting the vans up front. They had made a wall of cars that could surprisingly maneuver quite well through passing traffic. It stilled didn't matter since they were still getting destroyed by three people, one of which weren't even doing anything, not that Jaune could.

Adam looked out the back of the van to see his forces getting demolished. "Damn" He said to himself. Blake noticed this and looked up at him. "Aww, someone's plans not work out?" She asked in a voice of obvious fake sympathy. To that he growled. "You're lucky I love you…" He grumbled as he opened the back and climbed onto the roof.

Justin was watching the road when Jaune watched his eyes go wide, then very narrow. "Jaune, take the wheel" He ordered. "What?" He asked. "Grab the wheel and get me closer to that van" He repeated. Justin didn't give him a time to argue, as he opened his door and let go of the wheel. Jaune didn't want to let him know he didn't have his license.

Justin got to the roof and turned to Pyrrah. "We have to get on that van" He told her. "Why?" She asked. "Because that's where she's being held" He answered. "How can you tell?" She didn't want to jump into something if he wasn't sure. "That guy's the one who took her, any more questions?" He asked, slightly annoyed. She just shook her head and looked onto the man he was talking about.

Jaune was underneath him doing as instructed. He was a leader, but still very shy. Also he trusted that Justin had some sort of plan. He drove past the last few cars that were trying to protect the now identified van up front. After they made sure Blake was in that one specifically, the others could be seen as cannon fodder. They took down the last line of resistance with relative ease, them now being so close.

Pyrrah looked up and yelled "Down!" as she raised her shield to block the shots being fired at them from the man in the mask. She raised her hand and pulled the metal on the vehicle on the vehicle in an attempt to slow it down. Justin tried to cover her by shooting at Adam, but he only needed one hand to deflect the slow rate of fire that a sniper rifle had. After realizing she probably wasn't moving it much farther, Pyrrah jumped onto the top of the van and raised her shield to block Adam's swipes with his sword.

Justin did the same and rolled to the other side of him as to make it difficult to fight them both at once. This however wasn't the case. Adam didn't seem to flinch once as the two bombarded him with slashes. He used his sheath and sword to counter their blows on either side, he just needed one slip up from one of them. He saw his opportunity when Pyrrah swung too hard into a slash which Adam sidestepped, leaving her gut fully exposed.

He landed a blow there and then the side of her head, leaving her unconscious on the roof, sprawled out. He turned on the other who suffered a similar fate. He was knocked onto the hood where he looked into the van where he saw Blake for a couple seconds, before hearing a clicking and looking up into the barrel of Adam's sheath. He flinched causing the rather large bullet to miss his head, but blow him clean off the hood of the van and to hit the road hard.

He rolled and suddenly felt a grip on his arm. He looked up to see Jaune with the car door opened and his arm outstretched and grasping his. He saw him swerve and yell and then it all went black.

They had lost…

A/N: So four thousand words… wow. I just didn't know where to end this chapter. There was planned to be more, but that will be the beginning of next chapter. See you all later.