Disclaimer: RWBY and its characters belong to Rooster Teeth of Austin, Texas. The OCs however are mine.

Quick Note: I changed Juniper Arc's weapon Os Conlidam to a pair of black leather Cestus with silver spikes in between each knuckle. I felt that the clawed gauntlets just didn't fit as well with the brutal brawling style of fighting she uses. The description in chapter 5 will be changed to reflect this once I get the chance to reformat it. Also, just a heads up, Juniper's fighting style tends to be very brutal. If you don't like gore, you might want to be careful reading her first section here. Be careful with the first part of the story too as there is a bit of gore there.

Chapter 10

Firestorm's POV

A massive surge of pain jolts through Firestorm's body, causing her to turn around. When she sees Adam Taurus' impaling her daughter Raven through the stomach with Wilt's blade the entire world freezes around her.

Badump, the only thing she can hear as she watches in horror is the sound of her heart beating. Badump, Badump, her heart beat accelerates as her mind struggles to comprehend what she is seeing. The remaining White Fang soldiers head over to the edge as well to see what grabbed her attention. Badump, Badump, Badump her now red eyes narrow to needle points as she focuses on the leader of the White Fang.

Pump, Pump, Pump, Pump, her heart beat is nearing Staccato pacing as the air around her begins to burn. Pa, Pa, Pa, Pa, Pa, she begins to growl, causing the White Fang members she is fighting to backpedal in fear. Eventually, even the sound of her beating heart fades as she lets loose an inhuman roar which shakes the City of Vale like an earthquake.

A massive blast of bright yellow flames erupts around her, forming the shape of a yellow dragon around her body. The heat is so intense that the White Fang soldiers closest to her are vaporized instantly, leaving behind permanent shadows in their shape on the walls and ground. She jumps through a group of Paladins, sending the machines flying across the horizon as she leaves a trail of fire so hot that the concrete begins to liquefy.

Across the road, a large and incredibly stupid White Fang soldier tries to intercept her. He is briefly shocked by the power she possesses as she punches him in the chest, but that surprise quickly turns to oblivion as the force of the impact sprays the entire upper half of his body around the street in a fantastic display of viscera before burning to ashes as the trail of flames catches up with her.

She soon notices a barricade made of destroyed cars, with a dozen Famg soldier and a pair of Paladins behind it. She doesn't even stop charging as the dragon surrounding Firestorm's body opens its mouth and releases a stream of fire. The flames reduce the Paladins and the cars to half molten slag as the soldiers are transformed into carbonized statues. She plows through the makeshift blockade like a sports team through a paper banner as Adam's eyes widen in fear.

He withdraws his blade and leaps to a nearby roof top as Violette pulls her twin sister away. Just as Adam leaps to the roof of a third building, the first building he jumped on erupts in a violent explosion of steel, wood and concrete under the pressure of Firestorm's Aura. Adam continues running for his life as Firestorm pursues him, leveling every structure that gets in her way as she practically flies through the city in a stream of flames. As he begins to leap toward the next building, his leg is caught by a segmented white bone tail. He is violently slammed into the street before he turns to see his attacker, only to whimper in fear as he sees the enraged woman he once called his partner in her true form.

Shadow's POV

Shadow glares at Adam in disgust with her now glowing red eyes as she displays the full extent of her transformation. Her bone tail has extended to a length of nearly 16 feet with four 4 foot long segments which are covered in small hook like blades. Despite its immense length, she seems to be able to hold it up with no issues, allowing her to use it as an extra ribbon. A pair of 12 foot long bat like wings spread fully from her back.

The top half of her face is covered in a white bone mask and her upper fangs seem to have doubled in length. Her shins and forearms are covered in white bone armor with three 8 inch long blade like spikes facing away from her body and her fingernails have transformed into 6 inch long claws.

An explosion goes off as Firestorm barrels through the last building and lands in a crater behind Adam. Absolute terror consumes the once proud man as he stands between the two enraged women. He tries to run again, only to find his legs wrapped by Shadow's tail. Firestorm slowly walks toward Adam, willing the flames to cool down as she approaches the man. "You tried to kill my baby girl." She says in a booming voice with a level of malice that even unnerved the bull faunus. She grins maniacally before she grabs the man's arms and rips them off of his body.

He screams in pain as Firestorm leans in toward the White Fang leader. "Do you know what they do to bulls in order to keep them from fighting with each other?" She whispers before she grabs Adam where the sun don't shine. His eyes widen as he realizes what is about to happen, but he is powerless to stop her. She yanks hard on his man parts, turning the bull into a steer.

Three massive red portals open in the distance as large swarms of Grimm come pouring through. A loud beep goes off as the women's scrolls spring to life. "We need some help over here at the Emerald Forest, there's way more Grimm than we initially thought there would be." Snow says over the radio.

She pulls away from the whimpering man and looks at Shadow. "I'll go on ahead, you can handle the rest." She says before blasting off toward Beacon. Shadow's tail slowly winds its way up to Adam's neck as the man looks at the Grimm like woman. Without uttering a word, she violently yanks her tail, twisting his neck a full 360 degrees and ripping through flesh and bone before pulling his head off his body. She tosses the head into an open dumpster before she flies after Firestorm.

The moment she vanishes, a monkey like figure appears from a nearby alley. He walks into the scene and begins to gather the stray parts. He comes across the Faunus' man bits and snickers before kicking them toward a pack of hungry dogs hiding feasting on the flesh of a White Fang soldier.

Jaune's POV

The group of hunters look on in fear as thousands of creatures of Grimm pour out of a gigantic red portal. "Hoo boy! Looks like we gotta real fight on our hands now. Just how Mama likes it." Marcella says over the radio.

She flies toward the battle, but she is forced to go into evasive maneuvers as several Menuras emerge from the Portal and begin firing eye lasers at her. "Ahh, crap! What are those things doin here?! They ain't supposed to leave the Black Zone! I'm gonna have ta pull back and let the Atlesians deal with this, there's no way I can stay up here alone!" She says before turning around and heading toward the city.

"Just a heads up, those Menura critters aint the only Black Zone Grimm out here. Saw a whole buncha weird lookin Grimm. Alotta the smaller Grimm seem to be hiding under some critter that looks kinda like a cross between a spider, an upside down flounder and one of those SAT -AT Walker from that Space Wars movie. I imagine Artillery won't be as much use with them around." Marcella adds before going silent. The artillery roars back to life, but it doesn't seem to do nearly as much, just like Marcella predicted.

Snow grunts in annoyance as Ruby look at her inquisitively. "A SAT-AT walker and a flounder? What the heck would that be?" She asks. "Irritating is what it is... They're called Plate Walkers. They don't move very fast, but the armor on the top of their bodies is the closest thing to invulnerable on Remnant, and the lower body isn't exactly soft either." Snow responds.

"They aren't from the Black Zone though, Salem made those things herself as an answer to the threat of artillery fire. Their weak point is part of the leg joints underneath the armor. Cut the tendons holding up the leg, it takes a lot of muscle for them to hold their bodies up. Just make sure you aren't under it when they collapse, they weigh a lot so anything it lands on is going to be flattened." Snow continues until the sound of trees crashing into the ground interrupts her, as the very creature in question breaks into the clearing.

The Plate Walker has eight 30 feet long, 12 feet thick legs with 3 segments of white bone armor, one on the lower leg, one on the knee and one on the upper leg. The legs also have 3 feet wide red stripes on the left and right sides. It has a 120 feet long, 80 feet wide, 20 feet thick rectangular shaped white shell on top of its body. The body itself is roughly 80 foot long, 50 feet wide and 15 feet tall. It has no discernible face, but it does have 4 ten foot long bone covered stalks hanging from each corner of its body that hold red crystal like orbs which look like eyes. Everybody except Roland, Juniper, Oobleck, Snow and Valkyrie stare at the bizarre creature as they try to comprehend exactly what they are seeing.

"Yeah, it's definitely one of the weirder looking Grimm out there. Careful with the eyes, they shoot lasers." Roland says, having encountered these creatures before. A large pack of Beowolves which had been taking shelter underneath the creature charge into the clearing as a dozen more Platewalkers burst into the clearing with hundreds of smaller Grimm underneath them. "Alright everybody, looks like you get to fight today after all. Just be careful out there and make sure to stay in the line of sight of a professional Hunter at all times." Snow says as the Arcs collide with the bulk of the Grimm.

Yang's POV

As the fighting picks up again, the students scatter throughout the battlefield. Teams RWBY gets the pleasure of facing off against one of the largest Beowolf packs they have ever seen, with well over 600 of the creatures charging straight for them.

Just as they prepare to engage the pack, a massive dragon shaped fireball slams into the ground in front of them. The smoke clears and Firestorm appears in front of the girls, taking the time to give Yang a quick wink before inhaling sharply. She releases her breath and releases two massive streams of fire, one from the aura dragon's mouth and one from her own. A winged black monster appears in the sky just as Firestorm releases the flames and rains down waves of black energy from her sword as well. The few Beowolves that manage to survive Firestorm's attack are quickly cut to pieces by Shadow as the four teens look on in absolute shock.

Yang in particular seems almost ecstatic as she looks at her older self with stars in her eyes. "I can breathe fire?! THAT'S AWESOME!" She screams. Firestorm grins at the stunned girls, but she quickly ruins the moment by saying "Yup, I'm just too hot to handle." Eliciting three pained groans and a laugh from the team.

Their joy/misery is quickly dashed when Shadow hits the ground. The four girls get ready for a fight before Firestorm appears in front of them with her hands waving in front. "Calm down girls, Shadow's not gonna hurt you." The girls are confused briefly until they look closer and recognize that the monster really is the older version of their team mate.

"Holy crap! What happened to her!" Yang yells. Shadow sighs before turning to the group to see the fearful expression on her younger self's face. "Calm down mini me, this is just what happens when me and my partner get really pissed off. I get the cool Aura Dragon and Shadow turns into an awesome angel of darkness." Firestorm says.

Shadows face contorts to one of intense emotional pain as she turns to Firestorm. "Of course I'm pissed! I screwed up bad!" Shadow screams as she starts to cry tears of blood, not helping to put the girls at ease. "I was so busy trying to get revenge on Adam for all the crap he put us through that I didn't notice them until it was too late." She says, eliciting a worried look from the others as the reality of the situation seems to hit Firestorm like a ton of bricks. "If I hadn't been so busy toying with Adam *sob*, then Raven... I'm a terrible Godmother..." She continues before beginning to cry uncontrollably.

Firestorm walks up to her with tears in her eyes as well and hugs the weeping woman. "It's not your fault Blake. I should have known the girls would have followed us, they did inherit my stubbornness after all." Firestorm says.

"We all screwed up." A male voice says from behind. The group turns to see the Knight, who has wispy white smoke coming off of his body and glowing blue eyes. "I was even worse with Cinder. I wasn't satisfied with just beating her, I had to humiliate her as well. If I had taken the fight seriously, maybe I would have been there in time to stop the girls. It doesn't matter now though. What matters is that we do what we must to ensure that no one else has to suffer for our mistakes." He says before a beep from his scroll interrupts them. He opens his scroll and sees what is likely the most relieving image he has ever seen in his life.

Raven and Violette's POV

"Mama... Daddy... Are you there?" Raven says weakly as she lies in a bed next to Violette. There aunt Violette Arc is standing in the background, clearly watching over the two girls. Firestorm rushes over to the Knight, with the others quickly following suit. "OHMYMONTY! RAVEN! Are you okay?!" Firestorm asks in a panicked tone. "Whoa, calm d'wn mama 'm all gud. Th' doc zays I'm gunna be fine." Raven says with a slur. Violette grabs the phone and says "She's fine mom, the sword didn't hit anything major, she's just hopped up on morphine." The Knight, Firestorm and Shadow release a breath they didn't even realize they were holding when they hear that.

They are interrupted by the sound of medical instruments hitting the floor before a very loopy Violette Arc pulls the scroll out of her hands. She leans on her niece, who struggles to support the large woman's weight. "'Ey izat m' baby bruder? Hiya Jauney! Howzit goin?" She asks. "Uhh... is she alright?" The Knight asks his only sober daughter.

"Yeah," Violette says in a strained voice. "The doctors didn't know how much morphine to use on her because of her size and stamina, so they might have overdone it a bit." She continues. Aunt Violette looked down at her niece and says "Whoa! A talking 'nd table! Tha'so cool!" Violette just stares at her aunt in annoyance. "Is she really the person you named me after?" The young girl asks as the Knight chuckles.

A male doctor walks into the room and spots the woman leaning on her niece. "Ms. Arc! You should still be in bed!" He says. He walks up to the woman and grabs her under the arm to pull the weight off of Violette. "Whoo boy, 'm feelin kinda sleepy now." The older woman says. She falls asleep on the spot, collapsing on the shorter doctor. Their bodies shift in the middle of the fall and the Doctor manages to get a face full of Violette's bosom as they both hit the ground. The doctor flails comically under the woman, although it seems slightly half hearted as he must be enjoying his position at least a little.

"Ugh," Violette says as she retrieves the phone. "I gotta go, can't let the doctor suffocate on Aunty Vi's boobs." She says before turning the camera to the scene. She turns the camera back to herself and sees her father smirking while her mother is rolling on the ground laughing

"Alright honey, just be careful. Your aunt can get a little cranky when you wake her up suddenly." He says before he ends the call. Violette looks over at the woman she was named after, who is snoring contently. She notices that the doctor is no longer struggling, so she decides that she should probably act before the man dies. Even if death by boobs sounds like a great way to go, she didn't want her Aunt to be traumatized like that.

Yang's POV

"Wouldn't be the fi-first time she d-did that! It's actually a pretty easy way to kill someone if you wanna keep em quiet." Firestorm says as she begins to calm down. Weiss quirks an eyebrow at the woman. She knows that she'll probably regret it, but she asks "How do you know that?" Firestorm just grins widely. "I've done it before, so has Valkyrie and Shadow. Heck, even my baby sister did it a couple of times when she finally filled out." She says. Shadow's face turns red under the bone mask as she holds her forehead with her palm. Ruby and Blake turn red at the idea killing somebody like that, but Yang just burst out laughing. She turns to Yang and adds, "I'll teach you and Nora how to do it later. Might even see if Pyrrha or Blake wants to learn.", fully anticipating her younger self's request.

Weiss, however, looks absolutely scandalized after hearing about Yang's killing strategy. "Well at least I would never resort to such perverted tactics." She says haughtily after she recomposes herself. She starts to worry when she notices Firestorm's grin just grows wider in response. She pulls out her scroll in a panic and calls Snow as fast as she can. When the older woman picks up, Weiss quickly blurts out "Please tell me you've never smothered anybody to death with your breasts!" Snow's eyes go wide and her face turns bright red as she has no idea where this came from. "Umm... Well... He didn't die immediately... he was brain dead for a few months before he finally passed." Weiss turns as red as her older counterpart as Yang starts even louder. She ends the call before burying her face in her hands.

Snow's POV

Snow puts her phone away as she watches Summer Rose-Arc and Valkyrie bring down another Plate Walker from a nearby rock she is sitting on. Summer seems to be particularly angry as she leaps toward a pack of Beowolves. She charges her sword with Fire dust and spins around like a ballerina, sending waves of fire that rip the creatures of darkness to shreds. "Summer, calm down. Your father said Raven's fine." Snow says. Summer grunts as she blocks a punch from a large Beringel, freezing its fist to her shield before she drives her sword through its head. "I don't care! I should have been there! What kind of big sister can't even protect her younger siblings." She says as she leaps out of the way of a Goliath charging toward Snow.

She sighs as she summons another Knight to intercept the creature, driving its sword through the creatures skull before heading to the line to join its brothers fighting a large horde of smaller Grimm. "You can't always be there for them Summer, they have to be able to make their own mistakes." She says as she creates a glyph to boost Valkyrie into the air. The woman cackles like crazy as lightning strikes her hammer. She uses her new found power to send a powerful bolt jumping through a group of Ursa, Beringel and Deathstalkers, frying them all in a flash of light as it jumps from Grimm to Grimm. Snow dismisses her Knights as the last Grimm falls in order to conserve energy as Summer looks at her with concern on her face.

"I know that," Summer says, "but I still can't help myself. They're my little sisters after all. I'm already nervous about having to leave Vyra behind." Valkyrie walks up behind Summer and says, "Well stop worrying about her! She'd be fine even without Coco watching her. She's got Arc and Valkyrie blood running through her veins, which makes her an unstoppable force of destruction. Plus, she's almost as smart as you, so she can probably cook up all kinds of explosives if anything dangerous gets in the way." "That's why I'm worried." Summer mutters under her breath.

Their brief respite ends as dozens of Plate Walkers make their way into the battlefield, with hundreds of Grimm taking shelter under them. She looks to the left to see team JNPR arrive on the scene. Pyrrha fires her rifle at a wave of approaching Beowolves as the rest of her team heads for Snow's position. Jaune slices a Beowolf that was charging at Snow before landing in front of her. "The lines starting to fall apart. My family is falling back to the secondary line of defense as we speak. Can you walk Snow?" He asks. She tries to get up before she falls back down, grunting in pain. "No, my legs took a lot of damage when I crashed into the ground with the Dragon." She says.

Jaune sighs and without thinking, he picks the older woman up bridal style and says "Come on everybody, we need to fall back now, this place is about to be overrun in a few minutes." He says in a commanding voice. "Put me down you dolt!" Snow says, but she is silenced by a serious look from Jaune. "Look Snow, I know this might be awkward, but we both know I'm the weakest fighter here. The Grimm have this place surrounded already so we're going need every fighter we can get to escape. So sit still, stay quiet and focus on your summons and glyphs so we can get out of here in one piece." He says in an authoritative voice. Snow begins to blush heavily and she gives the man a meek nod and mutters something under her breath. She completely misses the huge smirk on Valkyrie's face as the group begins to retreat.

Weiss' POV

"I don't get it!" Weiss yells as she sends a fireball at a group of charging Beowolves. "How are they getting the Grimm to stay under the Plate Walkers? Grimm aren't supposed to be smart enough to think strategically like this." She continues. Firestorm flashes up beside Weiss, punching a Goliath that was attempting to blind side her in the face hard enough to collapse it's skull as it flies into a group of charging Boarbatusks. "They aren't." Firestorm says. "Plate Walkers emit a chemical that simulates Forever Falls tree sap. The Grimm are attracted to this, putting them in a trance like state as they walk under the Plate Walker's shell. They release the Grimm by cutting off the scent." Weiss makes an "ohh" face as she understands what Firestorm says.

"Then can't we try releasing something to cover that scent so the artillery can pick off the little guys again?" Ruby asks as she appears next to her partner before firing a few Gravity rounds into a horde of charging Borbatusks, slowing them down dramatically as they hit the intense gravity fields created. "There's only one substance that can do that, and its toxic to humans. Marcella has something cooked up, but it's only going to be useful toward the center of the charging horde all the way to the back. We'll still have to hold off some of them." The three are silenced as they notice several missiles flying over head. "Speaking of which, looks like Marcy just let loose." Firestorm says.

"One order of Fart Bombs, hold the Mayo." Marcella announces over the radio. A few seconds later, a series of large blue clouds engulf the forest in the distance. After a few seconds, the hailstorm of artillery fire starts up again. This time though, it seems like it's much more effective.

An Omega Menura dives down, intent on firing a laser on the three, but it is blasted to bits by an energy beam from an Atlesian Cruiser. They look into the distance and see Atlesian Warships on the horizon. "Looks like the party in Vale just wrapped up. Now we can start pushing back." Firestorm says. A group of bullheads appears overhead, blasting the Grimm to pieces to give the huntsmen a brief respite. Blake, Yang, Shadow and the Knight catch up with the rest of the girls just as Team JNPR burst into the clearing with Valkyrie, Snow and Summer. The arrival of the group elicits many different reactions from the group.

The Knight and Shadow's eyes widen in fear as they see Valkyrie's glowing blue body, fully understanding that it means the volatile woman is now a Grimmsbane. Firestorm smirks when she sees Snow in Jaune's arms and the four members of Team RWBY feel a pang of jealousy toward the woman, eliciting different reactions from each girl.

Ruby turns bright red and she pulls her hood over her face, hoping to hide her embarrassment as she fantasizes about Jaune being her fairy tale knight in shining armor. Weiss also turns red as she puts herself in Snow's position, which isn't hard to do since they are essentially the same person. Blake fantasizes as well, but her nose bleed indicates that her fantasies are much lewder than Ruby's and Yang chuckles nervously as she struggles to deal with her confusing emotions.

Firestorm walks up to Snow and says "Wow, you couldn't get with our Jaune so you decided to seduce theirs instead huh? I never would of guessed you could be such a cougar." The white haired woman's face turns as red as the cape she wears when she realizes the position she's in. Jaune's face turns even redder and he lets out an embarrassed yelp before unceremoniously dropping the woman. "AHH!" Snow yelps in response as she hits the ground. She glares up at Jaune and yells "Watch what you're doing you oaf! I'm an injured woman not a sack of potatoes!"

Jaune just chuckles nervously as Firestorm throws Snow over her shoulder. The woman lets out an indignant squawk, but before she can say anything, the older brawler drops her on a stretcher in front of a bullhead landing pad. "Alright Snow, you've done good for today, but the next part of this shindig requires a lot of mobility. We've pretty much got this under control now, so you'll be heading back to Vale with the hunters in training." The Knight says.

The teens look like they are about to object, but the Knight silences them with a single no non-sense glare. After a few tense seconds, he sighs before he says "Look, you all have done far better than anyone could have expected out here, but we're approaching the end game." The Knight says. A black bird flies into the clearing, landing behind the Knight before transforming into Qrow Branwen. A bullhead lands in the clearing as he walks toward the group. "He's right kids. We got Salem on the fence now that the Atlesian fleet is backing us up. Thing is, Salem isn't exactly a graceful loser. She's liable to do something crazy in the hopes of turning things around. I don't know what she'll do, but I do know that it'll be too much for you all to hand-" Qrow says before he is cut off by the appearance of a massive red portal.

Salem's POV

Salem and her cohorts look on in concern as they watch the Atlesian Fleet tear the approaching Grimm to shreds. "Hmm, this definitely doesn't look good. The Grimm might have been able to overrun them before, but those missiles seem to have rendered the Plate Walkers useless." Hazel says. "Yes, not to mention the Atlesians Cruisers are tearing the stronger Grimm apart before they can even reach the front line. I think it might be a good idea to release our large friend out there if we want to turn this around." Arthur Watts added.

Salem remains silent for a few seconds, but she eventually lets out an annoyed sigh. "I suppose your right Arthur. If we can get it to distract the Atlesians, we might be able to sneak some Menuras past them to deal with the artillery. Not to mention it should be able to take out a few of the Cruisers in the process. It just pains me to put so many of my forces into this one fight. It may be years before we can recover from this. I suppose it's better than the alternative though, besides, I've still got an ace should I need it." She says as she looks over to a cabinet near the window. She waves her hand and a massive red portal appears in front of the massive creature still waiting in the distance.

The Knight's POV

The group stares at the tear in space, only to hear an extremely deep guttural roar which shakes the world around them, followed by a series of loud snapping noises. The eyes of the Knight, Snow, Firestorm, Valkyrie, Summer and Shadow go wide in fear as they clearly recognize the sounds. "J-j-jaune? Please tell me that's not what I think it is." Valkyrie asks nervously. Ruby looks at the woman before looking over at the Knight's terrified expression. "What's she talking about? What's that?" "A Grimm that I hoped to never see in the four Kingdoms again... How in Monty's name did she find that thing!" He says.

Without warning, a massive black spike covered ball comes flying out of the portal. It slams into an Atlesian Cruiser, reducing the thing to a heap of scrap metal as the Warship explodes from the violent impact. "What the heck was that?!" General Ironwood yells over the radio. The creature slowly lumbers out of the portal, as if to answer the Generals question. "A Colossus..." Firestorm says quietly.

The Knight quickly shifts gears as he turns to the bull head. "Get in the Bull Head." He tells the students, but they seem to be frozen in fear of the massive creature. "NOW!" He yells, snapping them out of their stupor.

The Knight turns around and grabs his radio as the students quickly board the air craft. "Listen up, that thing is a Grimm Colossus, a class 2 Grimm Titan. I want all the Hunters in training out of these woods as soon as humanly possible. We need to evacuate Beacon and bring any forces we might have in reserve to the Emerald Forest. James I need you to set up a defensive line at the cliffs to hold off the Grimm that come with it while I lead a small team to take down the Colossus itself. Back your cruisers up to maximum range and focus the biggest guns on the center of its body to slow it down. Raven, I need you to teleport to my mother and bring her to me. If that thing makes it to Vale, thousands of people are going to die before we'll be able to stop it. Don't forget to use sound nullifiers, especially if your Faunus. The Shriekers that come with this thing can seriously damage your hearing if you're not careful." He says before he puts his radio away and turns to Qrow as the Bullhead takes off.

"Qrow, take Summer and rally as many hunters as you can to the cliffs, this is going to get ugly." He says. Qrow nods before turning into his bird form again and taking off. A portal opens nearby and Juniper Arc enters the area, followed by Raven Branwen. Both women have serious looks on their face as they look at the Knight expectantly. "Alright everybody, we got a tough fight ahead of us, but we got four Grimmsbanes and a pair of Maidens, so I think we can get this done. The only way I know of to kill these things is to go inside of its body and destroy the heart or the brain. It's usually easier to take out the heart, so we'll do it that way. I'll send you all a map in case we get split up, but it's probably best to stay together. There's no time to waste so let's go." He says.

Juniper Arc's POV

Juniper Arc leaps out of a tall tree and shoots a stream of fire from her palms to boost her about 350 feet above the ground. She repositions herself midair and lets a large burst of flames out of her feet, sending her rocketing toward the ground at near supersonic speed. She slams into the top of an 80 foot tall Goliath Matriarch's skull fist first, driving the creature's head into the ground with enough force to sever the connection between its neck and the rest of its spine, killing it instantly.

Then she leaps off the creatures shattered body and charges toward a massive pack with her right fist cocked. She slams her fist into the first Beowolf's skull, obliterating the creatures entire upper body with the force of her punch. She continues flying through the air, annihilating at least four more Beowolves in the same way before landing on the ground. She flips back to avoid a swipe from an Ursa Major, using her legs to grab the creature by the neck and pull it along with her. The beast slams into the ground on its back with enough force to shatter the ground below it and Juniper shoves her open palm fingers first into its chest cavity and pulls out its heart.

She charges the organ with her aura and throws it back at the Beowolf pack. The now glowing body part explodes in the middle of the pack, ripping the creatures apart with the sheer explosive force of the blast. A large Griffon hits the ground behind her and attempts to swallow her whole, but she effortlessly twists the creature's neck 180 degrees and rips its head off before tossing it to the side.

A Deathstalker rushes toward her and throws its stinger at her. She responds by jumping to the side, grabbing onto the creature's tail and letting streams of fire shoot from her legs and the back of her hands to enhance her strength as she throws the bus sized Grimm over her body and slams it into the ground on its back. She rides the momentum of the throw while still holding its tail, and drives the stinger through its exposed underbelly right where its heart is.

A Nevermore the size of a small plane swoops in just above her and shoots a barrage of feathers at her, but she opens her mouth and releases a burst of arctic wind, freezing the projectiles and slowing them down. She then leaps from feather to feather in order to get right into the shocked creatures face. She wraps her arms around its neck, twists hard and releases another stream of fire from her legs to send the now paralyzed creature hurdling toward the ground like a meteor. She jumps away from the creature seconds before impact and lands on a nearby tree branch, completely unaffected by the sickening crunch that comes as the monster slams into the ground. She takes a few seconds to look around and sees that the fighting has ended for the most part.

Firestorm looks at her mother in law in absolute awe. "Holy crap! Sometimes I forget just how brutal you are in a fight." Juniper smirks at the younger woman as she wipes the Grimm blood off her face. She looks over to where Firestorm was and sees bits and pieces of Grimm lying everywhere. "Looks like you aren't much better on that front." Juniper snarks. Firestorm just grins and says "I learned from the best, still you just literally ripped a Grimm's head off with your bare hands. Not to mention what you did with the Deathstalker and the Nevermore." Before they can continue their conversation, they are caught by surprise as the Grimm Colossus begins to fall forward. "TIMBER!" Valkyrie screams in the distance as they two women watch the monster collapse to the ground dead.

They look at the scene in confusion as Firestorm grabs her radio. "Uhh... was that our doing?" Firestorm asks. "Nope," Valkyrie says over the radio "Looks like Mr. Horseyman beat us to the punch." Firestorms eyes widen in shock. "Wait, you mean Zanus?! What the heck is he doing here?!" Juniper looks at Firestorm in confusion. "Zanus?" She asks. Firestorm turns to her and says "You'll have to see for yourself, pretty sure you wouldn't believe me otherwise. Just don't attack him. He's not an ally, but he's not hostile either, we'd rather keep it that way."

The Knight's POV

The Knight, Valkyrie, Raven and Shadow look on in shock as Firestorm and Juniper enter the clearing. They are met with the sight of one of the most bizarre looking Grimm they had ever seen. The creatures lower body is like that of a black horse with spiked white bone armor. Instead of a normal head though, the lower body has the head of a male lion, complete with a large black mane. It's face has a bone mask and it had 4 eyes, two normal red Grimm eyes and a smaller pair of black eyes above the rear corner of the creatures normal red eyes. It has a massive pair of Sabretooth fangs as well. There also seems to be smoke coming out of the creatures mouth. Overall this part of the creature is about 20 feet long (minus the tail), 12 feet tall and 7.5 feet wide.

Instead of a tail, it has a black cobra with white bone armor covering it's body. The Cobra has large glowing red gems for eyes and its fangs are almost as large as the lion's fangs. The Cobra is about 20 feet long and it's hood starts about 5 feet from the head and stretches about 4 feet wide at the middle.

The upper body is a humanoid shape which seems to be fused to the beast at the waist much like a Nucklevee. Unlike the Nucklevee though, this creature has a thick, muscular frame. It's bone plated armor resembles that of a demonic knight. It has long bone spikes on its back and the front of its chest is covered in bright red, dark blue and sulfurous yellow markings. The creature's head is almost human underneath the bone like mask which covers the top of its head. It has a dark black beard which dominates the lower half of its face and reaches down to the top of its chest. The body is around eight feet tall and its six foot long arms are as thick as tree trunks.

Salem's POV

Salem's eyes go wide in fear as she sees the creature that killed her mighty Colossus. "No... not here... not now!" Tyrian, Arthur and Hazel look at Salem in concern. "Is everything okay Mistress? It looks as if you've seen a ghost." Dr. Watts says. Salem rises from her seat without a word and moves toward the window. "You haven't won yet you smug bastard. I've still got plenty of fight left in me." She says. She reaches into a cabinet resting to the side of the window and pulls out a large ram's horn.

The three cohorts eyes widen as they recognize the relic she holds. They all seem to realize how grave the situation truly is if she is willing to play that card."Let's see how these people handle my greatest asset." Salem says before blowing the horn. The dark clouds above her castle scatter ominously as a massive shadow appears over the structure. She grins maniacally as she sees one of her most dangerous monsters descend from the heavens. It's massive snake like body winds through the sky as the creature brings its head to Salem's level. "Hello old friend... I have need of your services yet again." She says as the creature stares at her.

The Knight's POV

"Zanus..." The Knight says, drawing the creatures attention. "Hmm, so you know who I am... How intriguing." The creature says in a deep, rumbling growl. Raven and Juniper's eyes pop open in surprise as they have never come across a Grimm that could talk. "Why are you here? The Black Zone barrier is nowhere near failing right now." The Knight continues. Zanus stares him down, but he doesn't even flinch.

The creature grins, showing its razor sharp teeth in the process. "So you know of that too... Nevertheless, you are correct, the barrier that protects these Kingdoms is indeed intact. I am just here because my father detected a tear in the fabric of our reality. I can tell you are not of this world. You seem to have come from a world where my darling sister has won." He says, sneering at the word sister. Juniper and Raven stare at the Knight in confusion. "What's going on here Arc? What the heck are we looking at?" Ironwood says over the radio as he, Ozpin and Roland Arc watch on from a camera in the Atlesian Capital Ship.

The Knight continues to glare at the creature as he says, "This is Zanus, one of the 5 Grimm Lords of Reality. He and his four brothers serve an interdimensional being known as Kaross. You are probably more familiar with him as the younger of the two brothers. They also have a sixth sibling, one that seeks to destroy their father and take his power, we know her as the Grimm Queen." Ironwood, Ozpin and Roland stiffen upon hearing this.

"Yes, our sister has been fighting us for a very long time now. She escaped our father by splintering herself into dozens of parasitic creatures and distributing them throughout multiple realities. Only two of them remain, the one from your old reality, and this one." Zanus says before turning to his side. "Speaking of which." He says as he grabs at the air, managing to capture an invisible Seer in the process. "Father grows tired of your games dear sister. We both know that you don't have much left. You need two worlds in order to regenerate yourself, and while you have been victorious in one, I'd have to say that these children have managed to best you in this world." He says to the creature.

Before Zanus can continue, an ominous feeling hangs in the air. All throughout Vale, the creatures of Grimm are filled with dread. Even the most powerful creatures begin to flee, hoping to escape the coming beast. Zanus smirks evilly as he watches the sky turn a sickly green color. "And it would appear you agree with me." He says before he crushes the Seer in his hands.

He looks back to the group in front of him and says "I'll let you handle this one. If you can defeat this creature, Salem should be no threat to you at all. Who knows? My father might even agree to spare this world if you manage to end her. Farewell for now young ones." Zanus says as he disappears in a flash of red light.

James Ironwood's POV

Ironwood, Ozpin and Roland Arc are standing on the bridge, trying to process this new information when the radio springs to life. "Sir, the Grimm appear to be on the run, but we're picking up a massive disturbance in the upper atmosphere above us. Something huge is on the way." One of the ship's officer's says. Ironwood walks over to a monitor and pulls up the screen, only to be shaken to his core by what appears. "No... Monty help us all." He says as the three men quickly recognize the falling object.

Juniper Arc's POV

Juniper looks at the older version of her son, who seems to have a grim expression on his face. "Sweetie, do you happen to know what's going on?" She asks her son as the group prepares for anything. "I think I do, but I seriously hope I'm wrong." After a few tense seconds, the clouds above begin to open and a massive, high pitched scream shakes the world around them. "Kuh-Kuh-Kuh KRYAAAUGH!" The Knight's eyes widen in terror as he recognizes the sound. People all over Vale look into the sky as they behold a great monster not seen in Remnant since the fall of the world before them.

A/N: There we go, another chapter completed. Sorry if this one's a little short, I just think I already put enough into this part of the story already. That being said, dang Mama Arc, you scary. As I said, I went ahead and ditched the old version of Os Conlidam in favor of a more subtle weapon because I wanted the emphasis to be on her extremely brutal, mostly weaponless, fighting style. I wanted to show a different way for a maiden to fight. Rather than firing off elemental energy from a range, Juniper mostly uses it to enhance her physical power and create openings so she can get close to her foes. Of course Firestorm and Shadow weren't much better. With Cinder and Adam both dead, Emerald captured and Mercury MIA, I'd say Salem's original plan is pretty much done now.

Chapter 11 is where the battle of Beacon will end and I begin to get away from cannon. Also, don't worry about the lack of an omake this chapter, I haven't forgotten our mustachioed hero yet. I just wanted to wait until next chapter to finish it. I may think about spinning it off into its own separate story at some point in the future depending on how well it's received.

I'm still in the process of reformatting my old chapters as well. I have already posted chapter one and I should be able to add chapters two and three later on.

Just as a heads up, I modified the story of Neptune, Scarlet and Sage's deaths in chapter 3. It wasn't much in terms of wording, but it does have an impact on the story as a whole. Potential Spoiler Alert! I basically removed the ambiguity in the identity of Neptune's wife. He ended up marrying Reese Chloris, a character I plan on using more after I finish volume 1. I did that to avoid any confusion about Weiss' miscarriage as I never intended to make Neptune the father.

With my work schedule stabilized, I should be able to commit to a more defined schedule now. I'll most likely end up uploading something every 2 to 3 weeks on Monday depending on how fast I write.

I hope you guys enjoyed my little sneak peak at the true enemy for this fanfic. As I've said before, one of the biggest issues I have with cannon is the prevalence of human/ faunus being the main enemy. You could argue that Salem is Grimm based on her appearance, but she's just too human for me in both appearance and mindset. I wanted to retain a sentient enemy while at the same time making it absolutely clear that they are not human. Zanus is just one of several major foes we will see.

The main influence behind Zanus' design is actually from the Bible. Specifically, from Revelations 9:17-19. The others will likely be influenced by the Bible as well so if you want any ideas of what else I might come up with, you'll have to look for yourself. Just keep in mind that they won't look exactly like they are described their as I like to make the design my own.

That being said, thank you for reading and as always, please feel free to leave a review if you liked it or you have any advice as I am always hoping to learn from past mistakes. Until next time.