Chapter 20 – Battle of Mistral – Pt. 1
Ruby
The teams all reunite after the tragedy of Sage's death, the Grimm have breached Mistral and they are wreaking havoc, killing everything that has a pulse inside, wiping all life out if they can. Sun and Scarlet and Neptune are utterly broken at the moment, but still fuelled with rage over the death of their close friend. The loss of Team A.B.R.N makes things much harder as well, knowing that it is only them who can defend the civilians in here and the few surviving soldiers that are not possessed by Fury's rage cloud that has infecting the populous. But they have numbers and through that they have strength. Team R.W.B.Y, Team J.N.R, Team S.S.N, Oscar, Qrow, Kassius and Winter are here altogether, standing in the circle with their weapons at the ready. Winter looks around and then at the body of Sage which a tarp has been thrown over his body, along with the bodies of Team A.B.R.N. Ruby exhales, she knows what's at stake, and she knows that they need to get the people out, the Relic is out of their reach, but they still have Ozpin's...so that's something. Ruby opens the silver plains of her eyes as she looks to them all, holding Crescent Rose in her closed form as she turns to them. "I know that we are all hurt right now...but we have to push on." Ruby explains to them. Sun and Neptune grit their teeth in anger, because they want to take their anger out on something, and what's better than a horde of Grimm in the city?
"Damn right." Sun snarls. Blake and Weiss look at the men that they love with concern in their eyes, Qrow is still recovering mentally from his encounter with the Knight of Fear. But Winter is fully operational once more, spinning his sword through her fingers and her clothes have been cleaned up and her hair is pearly white. Weiss has her long white hair pulled back into an off-centre bun tail and pinned with an icicle shaped tiara. Just like before, she has kept her Schnee Tiara after all this time, and she looks just like the old Weiss Schnee again, her large blue eyes narrowing when she sees the Grimm attacking the city. Leant against the wall is Pyrrha's mother, still alive but wounded.
"We need to focus on getting the civilians out." Ruby states, looking at Thara Nikos who is holding her stomach, she has bruises and silt on her face from the possessed civilians that burned her beautiful home to the ground, the only memories of her daughter reduced to dust. Jaune nods at her.
"I will do that." He promises, holding Crocea Mors in his hand.
"I will gladly assist." Ren promises.
"So will I." Nora says. "When the civvies are safe in the woods we will come back, leave some soldiers with them and we will help you finish up here." Nora concludes as she stands there, wielding Magnhild in her hands, the pink dust flowing through the metal weapon. A little smile beams across the Rose's face.
"We will all help gather the people of Mistral to get them out, we can only hope that whatever it was that Fury did to them can fade soon." Blake adds, looking around every time there is an explosion. Qrow stands back up and his eyes look to the city. The soldiers are all fighting the Grimm as they speak, holding them back for now which is giving them time. They all help round up the civilians to get them into an orderly line. Nora busts through a door and she sees a bunch of terrifies teenagers hiding under the table. Nora smirks.
"Hi." She greets.
"You know this might be a one-way trip for some of us?" Ren warns with his arms crossed as he listens to Ruby.
Kassius smirks. "I've got no plans tomorrow night." He says as he flicks Lash Equinox up, his blade emerging from it as he stands there.
"Try and stay alive, but remember, the priority are the people. The Relic is gone, nothing we can do about that, but we can save these people from the Grimm. If we get them in the woods, we can get back to them and find a safe haven somewhere." Ruby explains, ironic considering the circumstances with the word haven. There was nothing safe about it, it was all a trap laid out by the mastermind: Doctor Arthur Watts. Jaune holds the blade of Crocea Mors in the air to guide the travelling civilians in the direction that they need to go. The soldiers are still holding them back but they are running out of time, the Nevermores are being held back for now, but all it takes is one to get through to mess this all up. Ren presses his hand to the floor, pink waves of energy pulsating across his body as he directs his semblance towards the afraid civilians as a Grimm Beowulf that managed to get past the defences attacks them. The civilians are shrouded in the grey field, concealing them from the eyes of the Grimm beast. Monstrous growls emerge from its jaws as it looks around. Winter stands on the building, forming one of her Glyphs behind her to launch a dust icicle straight at the beast, hitting it in the head and killing it. The family look at Ren and he smiles. They continue on the path. "Keep the fight between us." She narrates.
Ruby stands at the head of the line with rose petals dancing from her red cape as she walks, the people still twitch from the toxic effect that Fury's gas had on them all. "The Knights of Grimm...Death...he believes that all life belongs to him...maybe he's right." Ruby narrates as they all guide the civilians away from the battle. "But we will have no intention of letting him take our lives. No more people will die today." Ruby says with anger in her voice. Jaune looks at the Nikos Crown on his heat shield and he presses his forehead against it, he misses her painfully but he knows he must go on. For her. Ren grabs his father's knife, pulling it from the sheathe and spinning it through his fingers, the howl of the Nuckelavee still echoes through his memory even after it fell. Qrow flies across the sky in his Crow form, observing the battle at the fallen walls of Mistral, and it is truly terrible. The amount of dead soldiers there, valiantly sacrificing themselves so then the civilians could live to tell the tale.
Ruby continues to walk...but all halts when a dark shadow passes over the crowd. They all look up when they hear the roar of a Nevermore, banking around as it flies towards them. "Nevermore!" Scarlet calls out, spinning his sword through his fingers as the Nevermore circles them. It continues to glide across the night sky of Mistral, the black hue of smoke trailing from its black feathered body. The red eyes remain fixed with them as it glides, each brawl sends shivers down their spines. They keep their eyes on it and the civilians start to panic, moving faster and faster because the Nevermore is getting closer to the ground.
"Do not panic, that will just get its attention." Ren says.
"Can't you calm them?" Neptune asks him.
"Not this many people." Ren says, their plan is going to come apart if this Nevermore attacks right now, it could kill hundreds of civilians in one attack if it does. But Ruby watches the creature as it glides as she watches carefully...and her eyes widen when she realises as it passes a tree.
The tree dies and crumbles down as it passes by it, and it has no bone crests like they normally do. And before she can say it, Qrow lands, shifting back into human form with his sword in his hand. "It's Death!" Qrow yells. The Nevermore dives down and starts soaring straight across the city towards them, the beaks open and it roars aggressively at them. The crowd screams in terror as the Nevermore nears, the massive wings blocking the light of the Fractured Moon out from them all as it gets closer and closer. Qrow looks around as he sheathes his sword. "Everyone! Take cover!" Qrow yells. Qrow connects to Neptune when he sees an abandoned truck in the road. "Neptune!" He calls, and Neptune instantly nods, joining his side as Death gets closer and closer to their position. Qrow and Neptune sprint through the crowd to get to the vehicle, and they both put their hands underneath it to lift it up. Neptune activates his Trident and he uses it to push it upwards to act as a shield against Death in case he attacks them. Jaune's eyes widen in fear.
"No, no, no...move!" He yells in horror when he sees the fatal feathers on the wings of the Nevermore folding out as it gets closer and closer.
"Back up! Back up!" Qrow shouts to the cowering civilians. Death's Nevermore Form bellows extremely loudly and it starts spinning round in a corkscrew attack, throwing massive spear-like feathers across the street, stabbing into buildings. "Incoming!" He yells. Three of them are thrown straight into the truck, stabbing straight through, launching both Huntsmen across the street and into the ground. Neptune crashes down as a feather hits the building above him, tearing the floor apart, sending debris plummeting down towards him. He yells as it falls onto him, burying him in it. The feathers crash into the ground, knocking everyone on the floor, even killing a few civilians, one of them has been completely impaled by the feather, blood everywhere...Ruby stammers in horror at what has just transpired, their plan has completely fallen apart from the one attack that Death has thrown upon them.
Bad Luck Charm...
Blake groans in pain, grime and lint covering her face as she lays there, a couple of cuts and bruises but her Aura repairs the damage as she lays there. Her large cat-like amber eyes focus on Sun beside her who turns to her and he reaches his hand over to her through the crumbling rubble that has just been fallen around them. The constant screams of the terrified civilians is muffled from the shell-shock that is pulsating in their heads. Sun holds her hand affectionately and she smiles as she looks at him, personally happy to see the Monkey Man is okay. Sun looks through the cloud of dust that has been formed from his attack, seeing the dead and injured civilians on the road. It was all going according to plan...and Death completely ruined it. Weiss looks around for Neptune, concerned for his safety. "Neptune?" She cries out. She then sees where he is and horror passes over her. He is crawling from the rubble that collapsed on him and his aura has been completely depleted, the blue flicker across his body revealing his weakness. Blood leaks from many wounds across his body and as he drags himself out, shuddering and grunting in agony, his legs have suffered major lacerations, rendering his legs useless as he cannot stand up. Qrow gets back to his feet, looking across the way to see the crippled Neptune as he crawls out, being helped out with the help of Weiss and Sun. Weiss wraps her hands around him, his trousers tearing as she pulls him out from the concrete chunks that hit him. He screams in agony and she whimpers. "Oh my god...Neptune...your legs!" She weeps as she holds him gently. She looks at the wounds and they are seriously bad, deep wounds with blood practically pouring out. The bone in his legs can be seen at some points of his wounds, but she only looks at his cut and bruised face. "You're okay...it's fine..." Weiss assures for him, despite that they both know that it is not the case, he cannot stand up with his legs being in that condition. She holds him by his face and Sun stands there, looking at his best friend in complete agony, hyperventilating from the super-heated suffering in him right now and the tears gushing from his squinting eyes.
"Not again..." Sun stammers. Blake holds his hand as they look at Neptune as Weiss holds the boy she loves with all her heart and Winter reaches out to her, seeing the blood and silt in his blue hair, he has also suffered a concussion by the looks of it as well. Scarlet turns when he hears the sound of a loud explosion right by his feet. He jumps aside as it explodes and then Weiss and Neptune both turn when they hear it. Another fireball comes flying across the street at them, exploding against the building, throwing chunks of burning debris down into the street below, shattering the glass, clouds of fire and smoke rising into the sky. Two more fireballs come darting out, exploding in the road, leaving craters in the ground where they land. That's when Sun sees the shooter and he grits his teeth in anger when he sees it.
Fury walks towards them, the massive fire coated magma being with the glowing red eyes and the lava filled smirk of sharp teeth across his face, shaped like the face-guard of an old Knight. Fury clenches his scorching hand into a fist, bringing it across his front and then thrashing his arm into a parked car, flipping it in the air from the impact to get out of his way. The car completely disintegrates into ashes and embers as he walks towards them. Fire ignites in the palm of his hand, forming a fireball that he throws straight at them like a grenade, exploding upon contact with anything it touches. His jaws stretch down as he bawls at them, smoke and cinders trail from the beast's mouth. Sun grits his teeth, spinning Ruyi Jingu Bang through his fingers as he runs towards him with Blake, both out for vengeance against this Knight of Grimm. Scarlet runs with them with his sword and Flintlock Pistol in hand.
Weiss holds Neptune's hand as she looks at him, putting Myrtenaster down by her feet, looking into his blue eyes as he laments in pain from his injuries. "I'm not leaving you." Weiss says to him, warmly holding him. But Neptune weakly grasps Myrtenaster by the hilt with his bloodied hand, placing it into hers with a smile.
"You...have...to..." He weakly states, blood leaking from his lips as he looks right back into her eyes. She sniffles as she looks at him.
Yang and Kassius both sprint towards Fury with anger in their own eyes as Sun, Blake and Scarlet flank him. Yang keeps her lilac eyes fixed on the Knight of Fury as she runs and she jumps straight into the air when she sees the bright orange glow in his hand as he forms a fireball in his hand and launches it straight at her. The explosion creates a shockwave that launches her further into the sky, enabling a front flip to be performed by the skilful blonde. She drops down and points both Ember Celicas at the ground, launching rockets into the floor, using the explosions to send her further in the air as she does usually to jump higher with the recoil. As she travels across, a terrified civilian is hiding behind a lamppost when she drops down. Yang winks at the civilian before entering a roll afterwards, smirking as she lands it. Fury continues to launch his artillery strikes on the street to kill them, the fire around his body not entirely burning bright yet. Sun charges at Fury from behind and he jumps onto his back, pulling his stuff up against his neck. "Come on Fury, you punk!" Sun shouts in anger.
Fury suddenly erupts into full blown rage, his eyes explode in anger with fire jettisoning from their sockets and the flames fully ignite around his body. But then, the cape of flames forms into the wings of a burning Wyvern, stretching out as he stands there, but it does not end there. The Knight's form mutates, the arms extend into wings themselves with three clawed talons of magma and fire digging into the tarmac and the body completely shape-shifts into the serpent like form of a Wyvern itself. Spines of fire covering its body and glowing gold eyes, the air rippling around his monstrous form due to the sheer heat resonating from his form. His tail lashes across one of the buildings, smashing and burning right through, melting the metal rebar down inside into lava. The teeth are made out of obsidian that still has fresh magma glowing inside of it. Sun rides the Wyvern that Fury has transformed into and the neck bends back as the head snaps its jaws right at him. "Oh god!" Sun yelps. The Wyvern bites onto his leg and swings its head round with force and he screams as it launches him across the street, Sun yells as the window explodes that he is thrown into, landing onto the sofa. He lands there and he crosses one leg over the other. "How about that?" He scoffs.
The Wyvern snarls with rage, turning to Blake as she retreats from him. Fury stridently howls at her, the reptilian, flaming scaled head opens, a cloud of fire erupting from its jaws and the pyre chases after her. She throws her grappling scythe and she swings round the street corner to avoid the fire that burns the ground. But Fury returns to his Knight form soon after, the flames still burning just as hot. The wings retract backwards into the arms of the Knight that wield the two Berserker Axes, encased in fire and magma. Fury's eyes of fire twitch uncontrollably as he stands there. He turns and sees Kassius running right at him. Fury growls in anger. "Die!" Fury bellows, launching a fireball right at him. Kassius uses the thrusters in his power suit to throw his body into the air. He jumps and spins through the air, dodging the fireballs that explode behind him. He aims both of Vulcan Nox at Fury, launching rounds straight at him, firing both once before he lands onto the floor with a grunt. The two rounds impact his chest, making Fury stagger back from the impact. Yang slides across the road and she fires Ember Celica right at him, firing rockets into his chest, further making him recoil from the firepower being thrown upon him. Fury roars in rage as he staggers, the demonic bellows echoing across the street, people flee in terror as they see the Huntresses and Huntsmen fight the beast. Blake swings round the corner once more, and she flies right over Fury's head, flipping over and slashing the blade of Gambol Shroud across one of his arms, cutting it clean off and making him roar in agony. His burning hand lands onto the floor with force, scorching the ground and the flames extinguish eventually, leaving a crumbling pumice hand on the road. Nora and Ren both see the battle against Fury and they join in to help. Blake, Yang and Kassius continuously shoot him with their weapons, each impact makes him stagger slightly which prevents him from going full berserk on them. Ren shoots at him as well, but Nora has a better plan. She runs straight at him with Magnhild, laughing maniacally as she brings the hammer upwards with force, smashing the head of the hammer right against his head. Fury creates a deafeningly loud outcry from the impact, being launched into a back-flip and smashing his head into the ground. He is riddled in bullet holes and the flames begin to go out around his body as he lays there.
They all turn to see Scarlet and Sun turn the corner. "Aw...I missed it." Scarlet groans.
Kassius turns when he hears the gates collapse and a horde of Grimm come charging through. "We'll have plenty more to come." Kassius promises.
On the other side of the battle,
Ruby zooms across the street, slashing her scythe aggressively at the Beowulves and Creepers that are showing up to attack the civilians in the area, beheading them and cutting them into little pieces as she darts across them. Jaune stands there, blocking the attack from an Ursa with his shield and he remembers everything that Pyrrha taught him. He swings the upgraded Crocea Mors up the black furry chest of the bear, carving the blade straight through the flesh, revealing the glowing red internals. He finally swings Crocea across the neck of the beast, beheading it like he did to the Ursa back in Forever Fall. The Ursa collapses and he sighs with relief. "Hey, did ya see that?" He asks Ruby. But he is completely shown up as he sees Qrow jumping down and swinging his sword across an entire pack of Beowulves, wiping them out and blocking every attack from the beasts that attack him, jumping in the air to not get slashed by the claws of an Alpha. Winter also fights with him, this time they are on the same side instead of fighting each other on the Beacon Courtyard. She forms her Summoned Beowulf and points at the Grimm with her sword. The Beowulf howls, sprinting directly at them and attacking them, cutting them down like an Alpha would. She spins round and she takes the smaller blade from her main sword, leaping at the Alpha that is fighting Qrow and she stabs both blades into it and forms a Glyph underneath it. She kicks against it, creating a pulse that sends only her body up that cuts the Grimm clean in half.
Qrow stands ready, his sword held out to launch Winter towards a Griffon that has arrived at the battle. She drives the blade of her sword straight into the stomach of the beast, pulling it down onto the ground. She lands gracefully, perfect form as she stands there, looking at the dead Griffon behind her and then at the stunned Jaune Arc stood there. He then sighs, seeing his moment of triumph stolen by two awesome warriors. But the jokes end when the massive Nevermore returns, diving into the city and the form shifts again in black smoke. The wings fold into his cape and the Nevermore's body shrinks down into the form of the knight. The wings drag across the buildings to slow his descent, tearing the walls down, crumbling down entire walls of brick and ripping catwalks from houses. He lands down as the rubble crashes around him, the face plates not yet closed, showing the mad burning skull inside. "Perniciem!" He roars as he lands, speaking ancient tongue as he stands there, the Nevermore Wings retracting into the black cape's form. Death stands tall, the darkness of the Grimm leaking from the armour plating that makes his body up, the red light bleeding from his eyes as he walks. He creates a deep snarl as he walks through the alleyway, his sword in his hand. Ren backs up when he sees him emerging from the shadows.
"It's Death! Run!" Ren yells. Scarlet turns around when he sees the monster stepping out from the building, the red eyes fixing with his. Scarlet aims his Flintlock Pistol right at him and pulls the trigger as he stands there, The bullet hardly even scratches the armour, just makes a spark upon contact. Scarlet swings his sword right at Death to fight him, but he is no match. Death catches Scarlet's hand, breaking it and crushing the hilt of his sword from the strength of his metal hand. Scarlet cries out in agony as Death lifts him off the floor. Sun looks right at Scarlet.
"Scarlet!" He yells in fear. Death looks right at Sun. Death creates a deep snarl and he goes to skewer Scarlet with his blade, but Winter throws herself at Death, using her Glyph to zoom towards him. The huge Knight is thrown from Scarlet, and he luckily drops him instead of carrying him with him. Scarlet falls onto the floor and he groans in agony, looking at his broken hand and shattered sword on the floor. Winter spins her sword through her fingers and she slams the blade of her sword into the floor, forming a glyph underneath herself. The glyph forms a swarm of tiny Nevermores that start to attack Death rapidly.
"Just get him to safety!" Winter yells as she keeps Death back as best as she can. Sun reaches out to him to get him out of there, helping him back up. Death spreads his massive wings out, tearing the entire floor down and he steps out from the building, his red eyes glaring into her blue ones. Winter stares straight at him. "I heard the stories...but I never believed they were true." Winter states as she looks at the Knight as he emerges. Death's wings spread outwards like the Angel of Death.
"And do you know?" He asks, with a booming voice. But Winter smirks.
"I don't care, I only want to know if can kill you." Winter says. Death chuckles menacingly.
"Why don't we find out?" Death asks, launching straight at her with his sword held tight.
Sun and Blake help carry Scarlet to safety, safety is ironically where Neptune and Weiss are, along with Oscar who is helping with the wounds that Neptune has suffered. Neptune is on the back of a truck and Oscar patches up his wounds with the things that they have found. Blake and Sun help get Scarlet on there as well and Neptune looks at his hand and the pained expression on his face, they are both in agony. "I need to help the others." Sun says to Scarlet and he nods. Sun turns around and approaches Jaune who looks down the battlefield with disbelief in his eyes. "What is it?" Sun asks.
"Sun...Fury's getting back up." Jaune says to him. Sun looks in the direction he is looking and fear pulsates into his body. Fear rises back up, the wounds he suffered repair themselves with the fire that begins to ignite across his body, the magma glowing brighter as he stands up. An infernal blast of fire erupts in his hand, forming the two Axes that he carries and he snarls in rage.
"Why can't these guys just die?" Sun questions, actually sounding hopeless. Ruby drives Crescent Rose into the chest of a Boarbatusk that she managed to take down but her attention turns when she hears something landing on Haven itself, standing tall and roaring demonically as he stands there, laughing and causing their hairs to stand on end. His Bat Wings spread out wide, the holes in the membranes showing the starts through them. "You've gotta be kidding me..." Sun stammers. Loss is here as well, emerging from the fallen walls, aiming her bow at one of the fleeing civilians who is heading down the path that they were heading beforehand. The arrow sinks into his spine and he collapses, killed from the attack. Loss lowers the bow, her face concealed by the black veil, only her glowing blue eyes can be seen through it. Qrow looks at Sun.
"We can't let them take Ozpin's cane. It holds the Relic, Oscar needs to get to the forest." Qrow orders. Sun and Kassius look at each other and they nod. They are two of the most capable warriors who could help him here. They both run over to Oscar's side, since he is the person that needs to be escorted out of there.
"Oscar!" Sun calls to him as he runs over to the vehicle which they are using to patch the wounded up. Weiss still has not left Neptune's side, holding his hand. Oscar looks at him.
"Yeah?" Oscar replies.
"Where's his cane?" He asks. Oscar holds it up, filling him with some relief. "Thank god for that." He says with relief. Sun looks around and he examines the battlefield, him and Kassius could easily get Oscar to the forest before the Knights get close enough to him, because if they want the Relics, then it is him that they are gonna come after. And they need to keep him and that cane safe. Sun looks at Kassius. "You with me?" Sun asks him.
"You got it." Kassius promises. Sun nods and he jogs back over to Oscar. "Alright..." Sun begins.
"What?" Oscar asks him.
"The Knights didn't come here for a good fight, they're here for that cane." Sun explains to him. "We need you to get to the woods, where it is safe." Sun says to him.
"What?"
"We'll have your back." Sun promises.
"No, I can't do that!" Oscar argues, his fear taking him over because he is not cut out for this kind of work, he is no Huntsman, at least not yet. But Sun grabs him by the collar, yanking him down to look him in the eyes.
"Listen Oscar, you're one of us, you're a Huntsman now!" Sun says, which makes Oscar look utterly confused. Sun turns to the cane on the bed of the truck and he puts it in his hand. "Now look, I need you to take that damn Cane, and run as fast as you can to the Forest. Otherwise in the wrong hands we may as well all be dead." Sun explains to her. "We've got your back." Sun says to him. Kassius turns to Oscar, looking down at the boy.
"Oscar, we will protect you." Kassius assures with a nod. Oscar closes his eyes to gather his bravery and he nods.
"Okay." He says, understanding how important it is. Yang walks over to Kassius, her hand clutching to his and she smiles at him.
"Come back to me." She begs. Kassius smirks at her, and he gently moves his hand across her cheek and through her blonde hair, around the back of her head as he gently holds her.
"Come here." He says. She wraps her arms round him, kissing him right on the lips, they both close their eyes as they share this little moment together. In the background, Death throws Winter straight through the building and he transforms into Nevermore form, flying around with a roar, but the two of them break their kiss gently, pressing their foreheads together as she holds him. Kassius smiles. "I'll always come back for you." He says, stepping away from Yang. Yang exhales, smiling as she has finally had her moment with him, she thrusts her fists down to activate Ember Celica in combat. Kassius looks down the path, it is clear but Loss is down one of the paths and she will be a problem. Oscar starts to walk forward and Sun goes with him.
Blake closes her eyes, and now she knows what she wants. "Sun!" She calls, making him stop to turn to the black haired Faunus Girl. Blake holds onto his white shirt collars gently, looking up in his eyes. Sun looks into her eyes as well, as this will be the perfect moment. "No matter what...I will never regret seeing you on that boat with me." Blake reveals. She and him share a long and devoted kiss with each other, her cat ears gently curve down affectionately as she holds him and he pushes his hand through her hair, his other round her waist. He nearly lifts her off the floor as he holds her. They break the kiss and they look longingly at each other's eyes.
"You have no idea of how long I've wanted to do that." Sun confesses which makes her blush a giggle nervously. Oscar smiles as he stands there, but Kassius stands there and he knows that they need to get him and Ozpin to safety.
"Oscar! Get to the Forest!" Kassius shouts to get his attention. He thrusts his fists downwards, engaging Vulcan Nox to activate and he wields both Lash Equinox Swords in his hands. Blake and Sun still hold each other's hands but they step away from one another, their hands part and they turn away from each other. Blake draws Gambol Shroud and she returns to combat mode, joining in with Yang as she runs at Fury. Sun runs over to Oscar as well.
"Move!" Sun pushes. The three of them start running down the street as fast as they can to get to the forest, Loss turning to glare at them. Back at the main battle, Fury stands there and he roars in rage, throwing a fireball straight at Team Bumblebee.
Oscar sprints at full speed, holding the staff in his hand, not looking back as Loss launches arrow after arrow at his two Guardians who are keeping him safe. "Cover fire!" Kassius calls out, firing his weapons back at Loss who moves around swiftly across the street from them. The arrows dart straight past them as they move aside. Sun holds both Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang, firing them both back at her as well, crouching down behind a torn up piece of road that Oscar runs past, his eyes widen as an arrow narrowly misses him from her Bow. Kassius rolls backwards to stay nearly to Oscar as he runs, firing Vulcan Nox every now and then. Oscar looks back but when he looks forward, the Nevermore glides round the corner, dragging his claws into the building to turn sharply and transforms back into his Knight form, the wings folding away into his cape. The black blade charges black lightning across the blade. "Look out!" Kassius warns, running up to a parked car and he lifts it up with his cybernetic arm to shield Oscar from the attack that Death is about to fire. The black lightning blasts straight into the car, blowing it apart and throwing Kassius back from the explosion, causing Oscar to stumble as he runs past Kassius. The wings of the Nevermore emerge from Death's back and he leaps forward. The black smoke forms around his body and he morphs into the Nevermore, gliding straight over Oscar's head, the down-draft of the wings nearly makes him fall over. The Nevermore lunges his talons at Oscar as he runs and just misses as the Nevermore flies over his head.
Fury grabs Yang and throws her straight into a truck, laughing with rage. The Nevermore of Death flies over Fury and drags his claws into Haven Academy's roof, transforming back into the form of Death who looks down on the battlefield. But when he stands there, Qrow's eyes focus on him, and the hate he has for the Knight fills him with rage. What Death took from him...He grits his teeth and he engaged the sword to transform into Scythe Mode. The cogs in the blade start to click and rotate round, the blade extends and the handle does as well. The blade curves and arches down, the light from the moon shines upon it and he slams it down into the ground behind him, staring straight at Death.
"Death!" Qrow yells. Death turns round and locks eye contact with Qrow.
"Corvus!" Death roars back. He leaps off the roof of Haven, transforming into Nevermore Form once more, soaring straight at him, roaring monstrously. Qrow runs at him and leaps right at him with the Scythe held back to dig into the body of the beast.
Qrow yells in rage, slamming it into the body of the Nevermore.
Qrow is ready for Round Two.