This chapter is dedicated to the man who is the reason this fic or RWBY in general existed in the first place. You were an inspiration to us all, you will not be forgotten, Rest In Peace, Monty Oum.
Please leave your thoughts and prayers with his family and friends, and always remember, keep moving forward. Thank you.
Team RWBY ran out of Cinder's hideout and headed for the tree line where Siena was waiting. They made it there just in time as the base exploded, sending pieces everywhere and causing the building to collapse.
Weiss turned around as the explosion went off, looking at the rubble with horrified eyes "Odell!" She yelled, falling to her knees she broke down, tears streaming down her face.
Ruby instantly went to comfort, tears also forming in her eyes. Holding Weiss close she spoke weakly through her sobs "He did it for us Weiss, he sacrificed himself for us, it's okay."
Siena stood silently with her fists clenched, nails digging into her palms, drawing blood. She looked at Team RWBY comforting each other, and turned to leave them to their mourning. She had some other things to take care of.
Earlier
Odell was the first one awake and he immediately got out of bed and headed outside, upon leaving he woke up Siena, who followed him out, knowing full well why he was up so early.
Odell sat down next to the statue in the courtyard and let out a deep sigh, looking up into the sky at the shattered moon. "Can we really do this? Do we actually have a chance at taking Cinder out and stopping the White Fang?" He looked back at Siena, knowing she was there "Well? Do you think we can?"
"Of course we can." Siena said as she walked over to him, she sat next to him "You are much stronger than the last time you fought her, and RWBY is the best team at this school, no way we can lose." She smirked and looked at Odell "I'm also quite the badass myself."
Odell chuckled "Always one of modesty aren't you?" they both laughed for a little while before Odell looked over at Siena with a straight face. "Siena, if anything happens to me."
"Don't start with that shit, nothing is going to happen to you."
"No, this is serious." Siena went to protest again but Odell stopped her "If anything happens to me, I want you to watch over them for me." He gestured to Beacon, towards Team RWBY's dorm. "I want you to keep them safe, and to protect them if need be. Can you do that for me?"
"Of course, anything for my partner." Siena said nodding, she would not allow him to die if at all possible though, she would sooner see herself die before she watched him die.
"Thank you." He stood up and stretched "We should probably wake them up, we have a long walk ahead of us." Siena stood up and followed Odell into Beacon to wake up the Sleeping Beauties.
Odell walked into RWBY's dorm and yelled "Rise and shine ladies we have a crime organization to takedown!" All four of the girls were startled by this and fell out of their bunks, Blake landing on Yang, and Ruby landing on Weiss.
The four of them groaned loudly as Blake and Ruby rolled off of their partners and they all slowly got to their feet "What time is it?" Ruby asked, wanting to just go back to bed.
"Almost 4 in the morning." Odell said with a big shit-eating smile, getting another loud moan from the exhausted team.
"Hey, we have a long walk to the hideout, and we need to get there before nightfall." Siena said as she stepped into the dorm next to Odell.
"How long of a walk?" Yang asked as she got dressed.
"If we started right now, we'd make it there by noon." Odell answered almost instantly "So hurry it up, we have no time to waste!" He turned and left the dorm and Siena followed.
"He's oddly motivated today." Blake observed as she finished tying up her bow.
"Well, we are about to take Cinder Fall head on, and he has lost to her twice, so it's no surprise he's so motivated to get there as fast as possible." Weiss responded with as she finished tying her boots.
"All too true, everyone ready?" Ruby asked as she grabbed Crescent Rose from her dresser and turned to face her team. Everyone nodded and they headed out to meet Odell and Siena outside.
"You girls ready for the most dangerous battle of your life?" Odell asked as they exited Beacon.
"You betcha." Ruby answered for her team with a nod and a determined smile.
"Then let us begin, we'll be walking for a while, but be on the lookout for scouts or Grimm." Odell turned and headed towards Forever Fall, it was the fastest way into the woods and the fastest way towards Cinder's hideout.
After what seemed like ages Odell stopped "What it is?" Siena asked as she drew Shadowsteel.
"I think there's someone, there!" Odell disappeared and a few moments later a wolf faunus fell out of the tree she had been hiding in. Odell landed on top of her, putting Crescent Ballista, in dagger form, up to her throat. "Scouts, I knew they'd be here."
"Do you think they know we are coming?" Yang asked, a small hint of worry in her eyes. If Cinder knew they were coming, that could mean trouble for them, who were going for a sneaky approach.
"Of course we do, you're all dead once you get there." The wolf faunus spit in Odell's face and he immediately responded with slitting her throat.
Odell stood up and brushed the blood of his face and dagger before putting his weapon away. "Well, they know we're coming apparently, so be ready for one helluva battle once we get there."
"How much longer do you think?" Ruby asked as they started walking again, the sun was almost at it's highest point, indicating it was nearly noon now.
"I'd say about twenty minutes to half an hour left, then we should be there." Siena answered as she looked down from the sky, getting a sigh of relief from Ruby as they continued on their journey to the end of the White Fang once and for all.
Exactly like Odell had predicted, there was an unbelievable amount of White Fang guarding the base, they were definitely expecting them to attack today. "Should we just try and attack tomorrow?" Weiss asked, unsure of their chance at victory with the base this heavily fortified.
"Are you crazy? We've come much to far to wait another day, we take them out today, regardless if we die, we'll have saved Vale, and that's what matters here." Siena said as she threw several explosive Deathraze's towards the base before pulling out Shadowsteel and starting the attack.
Once every knife had exploded, and the enemy was preparing to fight back Siena charged in and Odell disappeared, leaving RWBY to figure out what to do on there own.
"Weiss, IceFlower!" Ruby yelled and set up Crescent Rose, Weiss activated the glyph infront of the gun and Ruby fired, giving Siena support as she approached the base.
"Yang, Blake, go help Siena!" They nodded and charged the base as well as Ruby continued to fire, keeping as many foes pinned down as possible.
Odell appeared behind one of the guards, he had just taken aim at Ruby, but was cut off from the shot by a scythe removing his head from his body, Odell took his position and placed Crescent Ballista in rocket from where the man's sniper once stood, and began firing on the men trying desperately to drive back the forces of Yang, Blake, and Siena. Their speed and strength far too much for the faunus.
Through all the fighting, Neo stepped out of the base, Cinder had sent her in to take care of the three killing the majority of the guards, the moment Siena saw her, she charged and tackled her back inside. Odell jumped down from his spot "That's my cue, keep taking out these guys, then head in when they're taken care of." With that, Odell ran inside.
Neo flipped Siena off of her after they rolled a little bit into the base, and they both stood up quickly, but Siena instantly charged again, this time Neo was a little bit more prepared and swung her umbrella at her, Siena rolled under it and popped up with an uppercut, it connected and sent Neo in the air.
At this point Cinder had shown herself and saw what was going on, angered she fired a shard aimed where Siena, which was very close to Neo as she hit the ground from Siena's katana hitting her, Siena landed and saw the shard, with almost no time to react she thought she was a goner. But Odell appeared at the last second, blocking the shard with Crescent Ballista.
"You're mine Cinder, this ends here!" Odell yelled as Cinder came into full view of him. Odell charged, swatting away Cinder's shards with his scythe as he closed the gap, he hit her directly with the top of his weapon, knocking the wind out of her and sending her into the wall.
Odell didn't let his assault slow down, he charged again immediately, this time lunging with the blade of the scythe, Cinder barely avoided it and summoned her twin swords, beginning her attack now. Her and Odell blocked and countered back and forth, looking for an opening, unfortunately Cinder found one first, she swept out Odell's legs and hit him into the air with her swords, she fired a shard at him and it connected, sending him flying across the room. Odell fired a rocket at her just before hitting a wall, in exploded in front of her and it launched her into the next room.
Team RWBY ran inside, having just finished off the White Fang, they saw Odell and Cinder on the ground and Siena and Neo going at it intensely, Blake and Yang went to help Siena and Ruby and Weiss went to assist Odell.
"Are you okay?!" Weiss asked as she saw Cinder begin to stand "Ruby, take care of him, I'm going to finish her off." Ruby nodded and Weiss charged, using a glyph to increase her speed, she caught Cinder off guard and hit her with a powerful stab with Myrtenaster, sending her back a little bit and back onto the ground. Cinder got back up and looked around, seeing the room she was in she smirked "You're finished dear." Cinder kicked open one of the many boxes and lifted several dust crystals and hurled them at Weiss.
Weiss narrowly avoided them, but was unable to dodge the second set, every crystal connected, each one hurting more and more as she hit the wall and fell to her knees. She looked up and Cinder had formed a fire-looking ball and held it above her head as she moved towards Weiss. Odell slowly shook off the pain and looked into the room where Weiss and Cinder were fighting, he saw the ball "Who's in there?"
"Weiss and Cinder." Ruby said, checking Odell for any injuries.
"No!" Odell gathered up all his strength and disappeared.
Weiss lunged one more time but Cinder easily dodged her and Weiss fell the the floor again, in view of Ruby. Once Ruby saw her, she immediately dashed in anger, using her semblance to get there faster, but she stopped in her tracks when something happened.
Yang and Blake caught Neo off guard and knocked her into the air with a double kick to the jaw, Siena jumped up and attacked with multiple slices with Shadowsteel, she flipped and kicked her down into a powerful punch from Yang, sending Neo flying. Blake used Gambol Shroud to pull her back in and kicked her in the face, sending her flying again. Siena threw four Deathrazes into her, pinning her to the wall by her hands and feet, causing the normally mute girl to scream in pain.
Siena walked up to her and smirked "Who's number one now, bitch?" She punched Neo in the face and placed her katana right above the girl's head. "Welcome to your grave." Siena brought the katana down and cut Neo in two, vertical pieces, and then walked out.
"What about Odell?" Yang asked looking at Siena as she walked away.
"Cinder is all his, that was the deal." Was all Yang got back in response.
Yang and Blake turned and saw Weiss in trouble, they took off once they saw Ruby dash, and stopped next to her to see what she saw.
They saw Odell holding Crescent Ballista to stop the fireball that Cinder had in her hand, he was using all of his strength to hold it back. To save Weiss, and his friends from the destruction that ball was going to bring if it connected with the ground or anything else explosive. "Weiss, get you and your team out of here, now!" Weiss tried to protest but Odell cut her off "Now! Or we are all going to die here!" She tried to protest but Ruby came in and grabbed her and took off running for the exit. Odell felt his strength weaken as he felt the ball grow closer and closer to him, he thought about everything that happened when he first arrived in Vale. The friends he had made, the experiences he had, Weiss. His eyes turned to maroon and he found his true strength. He began pushing the fireball back up, and smirked at Cinder. "This ends here! Arrgghh!" He fired a rocket at one of the boxes of dust crystals, and a series of explosions followed.
Team RWBY ran out of Cinder's hideout and headed for the tree line where Siena was waiting. They made it there just in time as the base exploded, sending pieces everywhere and causing the building to collapse.
Weiss turned around as the explosion went off, looking at the rubble with horrified eyes "Odell!" She yelled, falling to her knees she broke down, tears streaming down her face.
Ruby instantly went to comfort, tears also forming in her eyes. Holding Weiss close she spoke weakly through her sobs "He did it for us Weiss, he sacrificed himself for us, it's okay."
Siena stood silently with her fists clenched, nails digging into her palms, drawing blood. She looked at Team RWBY comforting each other, and turned to leave them to their mourning. She had some other things to take care of.
Yang saw Siena leave and stood up "I can't believe her, she was never his friend. She just used him so she could get revenge, pathetic."
Siena stopped in her tracks, and slowly turned around and looked Yang dead in the eyes "You don't think I cared?! I should cut your head off right now! He was my only friend in this place, and you're going to say that all I did was use him! He sacrificed his life to save all of us, he's saved my ass countless times while fighting the White Fang. I would have much rather have put myself in his position right now than it be how it is now! He has much more to live for than I do here. It shouldn't have been him." She dropped to her knees and punched the ground relentlessly, blooding her knuckles.
Yang ran over and hugged her "I'm sorry, I didn't know how much he meant to you. I shouldn't have been so quick to judge, I'm just...angry. Why did he have to die?"
Yang brought Siena over to the rest of her team and they all sat there, in a group hug, and cried for what seemed like an eternity. Eventually, night fell, and they had to return to Beacon. Siena decided to come with them, and stay one more night. They would hold a service in the morning, and she would say her goodbyes to the girls, and leave on her own, at least to their knowledge.
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