Glynda Goodwitch sat on a rock in the forest with her usual expression. With her are Qrow Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long. The two men were making chit chat as Qrow took regular swigs from his flask of some foul smelling alcohol, Qrow had offered her some before; she never was much of a drinker.
"Would you two sit down and shut up for five minutes?' she whispered shouted at them.
The town of Whitehill was not very far away; this is where they were told they would meet the two that that old man was sending.
"Calm down Glynda, it's not like they can hear us" Taiyang said.
"They could have White Fang scouting the forest you idiot" she glared at him "You two are meant to be 42, and seasoned hunters and you're acting like you're 17 again".
Qrow laughed "Not true" she showed his flask "I wasn't drinking from one of these at 17" he then took a swig.
Glynda pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration, "Just shut up, they'll be here soon"
"Yes, we will be" a deep voice said behind them.
There stood two large men, both seven-foot-tall, both dressed in black, one with a red mask and one with a black mask.
Glynda stood up and looked at them "You two must be the ones that are helping us-"
"You will be assisting US" red mask said.
"Um, yes of course, so do you have a plan?" the witch asked and took a step back towards Tai and Qrow.
"Yes we do, our boss told us to tell you, inside the town of Whitehill are Adam Taurus, and if we're lucky, Cinder Fall" Black mas spoke in a deep voiced filled with cracks.
"So the plan right now is to go into the town and find them. There will be guards and they will be faunus; be silent and they won't hear you" Red mask said.
At this moment Tai stepped forward "And if we find either of these two?"
"Take them out, simple as that" Black mask said and started to head towards the town through the bushes.
Red mask nodded at them and followed his partner, leaving the three behind.
"What was that?" Qrow asked.
"Our mission" Glynda glared at the town "The woman who killed Ozpin is in there somewhere, we need to find her".
The two men nodded "Alright, let's split up and see what we can find, report every 10 minutes if you can" Qrow said and took one more swig before Tai took it from him.
"Hey, what the hell?" Qrow looked at him.
Tai took a swig and gave it back "I'm gonna need that" he said.
Taiyang stood behind a wall in what he guessed was the town square, he hadn't seen Qrow or Glynda since they had split up. Ok Tai, it's only one person, in a town full of Faunus that would gladly kill you without a second thought. Tai sighed and sneaked along a wall.
"Ok, if this Adam guy is high up, he would most likely be with the leader. The leader would most likely be at the city or hall, ok" happy he had some kind of plan Tai continued on his way.
The blonde carried on with his sneak down into an alley they would cut some time from his travel. He stifled a gasp as he two White Fang members wandered down.
They thankfully didn't see him, but stopped half way down as one grabbed the other.
"So, how have things been going?" one that sounded male asked the other and stroked their cheek.
Oh god, really? Tai thought.
The other noticed the action and placed a hand on the one on their face. "So far it's been ok, Adam's been training our group lately, he can be an ass sometimes" she snickered.
Ok, screw this Tai stood up and they near instantly noticed him.
"Hey what are you doing here" the male asked, obviously furious at being disturbed.
Tai smirked and started walking forward, putting on large knuckle dusters on his hands.
"Oh nothing, just making sure you children use PROTECTION" Tai gave a powerful punch to the male and knocked him out.
The blonde fighter quickly ducked under the leg kick of the female faunus and finished her off quickly.
He smiled, "You two sleep nicely now" he left the alley and stuck to the shadows.
The blonde brawler hid in the bushes near the steps to the city hall building. The clouds covered the moon giving no natural light at all. From the outside he could see a few lights from the inside. Tai opened the main door and thanked god that there was no one guarding it. Probably upstairs where the mayor's office would be. The silent fighter snuck his way upstairs, silently taking out the very few White Fang that stood in his way.
He stood in front of a large wooden door now. Tai cracked his neck and knuckles and smiled. A high ranking White Fang member, should be a good fight.
Tai brought his knee up and smashed in the door, sending the wood flying into a faunus on the other side and knocking them out. In the room stood two faunus dressed in reverse coloured White Fang attire, and Adam himself.
The tall red head already had his blade drawn as did the other two. "A human, what are you doing here?" he asked in his usual cold voice.
"Well, since you asked. I'm here looking for you, and if possible, I want the leader of the White Fang" Tai smirked a shit eating grin at him.
"The leader" Adam laughed "You're looking at him".
Tai only had a split second and quickly rolled out of the way of a sword swipe. "You're quick" he smiled.
Tai readied himself in a battle stance and charged into battle.
Team RWBY sat in one of the several lounge rooms in beacon. The four girls sat in a couch and chairs and watched the television, although none of them was paying attention. The girls were in deep thought, they had decided to not just simply sit by and let this Cinder woman get away with what she had done.
"Well" Yang spoke up, catching everyone's attention "Where do we even start?"
"The first thing we should do is find out where she's hiding I guess" Weiss said.
Ruby had nothing to add, as at this moment she was sleeping with her head on the shoulder of her white haired girlfriend.
"I, might know where she's hiding" Blake said.
The other two looked at her in surprise.
"And how would you know that?" Weiss said, serious eyes glaring at her.
The faunus sighed "You know how I said I was with the White Fang" the other two nodded.
"At some point we took over an entire town not too far from here, we kept it secret. It was a small town, just some houses a small city hall building and some stores" Blake explained.
"So you think she's hiding there with the White Fang?" the blonde asked.
Blake nodded "The town's called Whitehill and it's not that far from here. It would be heavily guarded and-"
"Wait wait" Weiss interrupted, stopping the faunus from talking. "You're not suggesting we infiltrate this place right?"
"We have to stop that woman Weiss" Yang said "She killed Ozpin and I bet she'll kill more".
"Once more I must be the voice of reason then" Weiss sighed. "We, are, just, in training. We souldn't stand a chance against a whole town of White Fang, and with their hearing the only person who would have any hope of sneaking in would be Blake" Weiss exclaimed, her movements rousing Ruby from her sleep.
"What's going on?" she asked, wiping the sleep from her eyes.
"Your sister and her girlfriend want us to invade a town full of White Fang" Weiss stated and pointed to them.
"What else can we do Weiss?" Blake stood up.
"We can let the actual huntsmen and huntresses handle it" Weiss also stood to make her point.
"STOP IT!" a voice shouted.
The four girls turned to the door to the room and saw Jaune standing there, with more authority than he usually has.
"What do you want Arc?" Weiss said in a cold tone.
"I overheard your plan" he smiled.
"Yea, and?" Yang rolled her eyes.
"Meet at the statue in an hour, then you'll see" he said and quickly left.
"What was that about?" Ruby asked.
"Haven't got a clue, but I think we should be at the statue in an hour to see" the faunus girl said.
Weiss sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance "Very well".
The office room furniture was in pieces as the fight between the two highly trained fighters raged on. If someone was watching on they wouldn't be able to tell who had the upper hand between the blonde brawler and faunus swordsman. Whenever Adam took a slice Tai would quickly get out of the way. The entire time the blonde had an annoying smirk on his face. This emotion finally got to Adam and was infuriated.
"WHY ARE YOU SMILING?" he shouted as he jumped back from a punch.
"Oh, you'll see" he said.
"Will he now" a male voice spoke up.
The two turned their heads and saw a boy with grey hair and girl with green hair and red eyes.
"You two, why are you here?" Adam asked and readied his sword to be safe.
"Put that down" Emerald commanded, Adam didn't do so.
"I'll ask again, why are you here?' the bull faunus was only getting madder.
"To clean up this mess" a smooth and cold voice said.
Following the voice a young woman strutted in wearing a red dress that was slightly torn and glass heels.
"Cinder Fall, the witch that killed Ozpin" Tai spat.
"And the killer of those two thugs that tried to attack me, they miscalculated" he smirked.
"So what now old man" Emerald walked forward "It's you against the four of us, you might as well lay down and let us finish you off, old yella style".
Qrow, Glynda, where the hell are you? Tau thought, he knew he couldn't take them all on.
Tai took in a deep breath, then another "Let me show you what this old man is capable of" Tai said unleashed his semblance.
Fire erupted from around him and pieces of the grounds started to crack. His eyes were pure red and he showed a grin intent on pain.
He let out a primal yell and charged forward, leaping high before reaching them. The four others had the sense to jump back, leaving a large hole where Tai had smashed through to the ground floor. The four villains jumped down laid eyes upon the man on fire. Tai unleased his rage and charged them, intent on ending them, with or without his two companions.
RWBY were silent as they made their way from their dorm. Following what Jaune had told them they made their way outside the large school and to the great stone statue. What they saw shocked them.
Before them stood teams JNPR, SSSN, CVFY, all with weapons drawn and with a feeling of readiness.
"Jaune, what is this?" Ruby stood forward and asked.
"Well, you said you were going to invade a town full of White Fang, I figured you would need some backup" the leader smiled at his deed and turned back to the other hunters.
"You're all willing to help us?' Yang asked.
"What Cinder did to Ozpin was unforgivable" Coco stepped forward "Now, we're gonna take her down" the rest of her team joined her.
"We can't just let her get away with her, so we're going to help as well" Sun and SSN stood forward.
"Well" Weiss said and smiled "Now we just need a ride there".
Coco smirked "Gotcha covered" she said.