Jaune looked up in surprise as he suddenly heard the sudden sound of a chain being dragged against metal. He was nearly shocked to see the last person he expected blocking Chains' strike.
"If anyone's gonna beat on this guy, it's gonna be me." Cardin growled as he shoved Chains off his mace.
Across the room, Pyrrha suddenly came to as Russel and Dove helped her up. "Huh? What are you doing here?" she asked, more so out of surprise than disdain towards the bullies.
"Like we were gonna let you and RWBY have all the glory?" Sky called as he finished wrapping a large coil of bandages over Nora's gash in her leg, Ren watching them over her like a hawk.
"Besides, those jerks up top are done." Russel boasted. "We took care of them already."
Back on the center platform, Cardin just helped up the downed victim of his bullying. "You good with just your sword?" he asked.
"I can manage. And...thanks." he said, giving a smirk while Cardin nodded as the two charged Chains.
Yang focused her sight on what was in front of her vision now. Whatever it was, it had blocked the shot intended for her. Upon further focus, it appeared to be the back of somebody's guitar.
"If that's the way you win your fights, you've got to be the dirtiest asshole I've ever met." Rocco glared as he swung his axe back over his shoulder, pushing Mercury's foot off the blade.
"What are...you...doing here, Rock Star?" Yang groaned, trying to lean up.
"Rock Star...How have I never called you that?!" Mei cried out from above Yang as she rubbed a sort of gel across one of her senbon needles.
"Not the time, Mei!" Rocco called back.
The blonde turned her head back to see Mei and Snow kneeling over her. "What about-"
"They've been taken care of." Snow answered calmly. "Stay still. Ve're going to get zat mercury out of your system."
"Turk got me this antidote when I was exposed in alchemy class once." Mei explained, positioning the needle just above the base of Yang's neck.
"We have an alchemy class?" she asked, trying to crane her neck back.
"Not anymore thanks to zis one." Snow said, staring unapprovingly at his only female teammate.
"Hey, that accident wasn't the reason they cut the class' funding!" Mei said, as she jabbed the boxer in between the vertebrae in her neck, causing Yang to gasp out and suddenly jump to her feet.
"Woah, what was that?" she asked, rubbing the back of her neck.
"Turk can explain it better, but since he's awkward with the ladies, he'd probably throw in a few unintended double entendres." Mei said as her albino team leader rolled his eyes.
"So, you four just gonna stand there and talk, or are we fighting?" Mercury asked, snapping everyone back to the matter at hand.
Yang cracked her neck as she rearmed Ember Cilica, the rest of Team STRM readying their weapons as well. "You're about to regret asking that." she grinned as she lead the charge.
Blake could almost do a double take. One second, she could see her life flashing before her eyes, and the next, Sun is standing over her, using his staff to counter one of the Emeralds' strikes while behind her, Adam had slashed the second in half, the clone dissipating into nothingness .
"Two on one's not exactly a fair fight." Sun commented to the real Emerald.
"And three on one is?" Emerald asked, reactivating her semblance so that now three thieves stood around them.
"Blake, you alright?" Adam asked, helping her up.
Blake straightened up, using her Aura to numb the pain around where she was shot while also trying her best to heal it manually. "I can fight." she said, recollecting both sides of Gambol Shroud.
"You sure? That looks pretty-" Sun commented.
"It didn't connect with anything important. I'll be fine." she said, glaring Emerald down the entire time.
"I'll make sure the next one does." all three Emeralds promised before all six combatants charged one another.
Ruby winced as she prepared for the final blow, only for Cinder's eyes suddenly dart up towards the way they came from, saving her swords to block a multitude of shots and a set of arrows fired her way.
Across the bridge, Timber stopped from walking menacingly towards an incapacitated Weiss as his pickaxe suddenly fell away from him...along with his hand.
"Consider that a warning if you touch another hair on her head." Neptune warned as he retracted his glaive, shaking the residual blood from it slicing through his wrist.
Timber snarled in fury and pain as he grabbed his stump. "Why you-" he snapped before a knife behind him poked him in the back.
"Just give up. You two are outnumbered." Robbie threatened, not moving his wrist blade an inch.
"Do what he says, Cinder." Silver said, him, Sark and SABR walking forward, Neo running past him, through the pendulums and up to Roman. All six focused on either of the two while Neo wasted no time in removing the glass spikes in Roman's back, then fumbling out of panic to get her voicebox to her throat.
"Roman, please, stay with me!" she pleaded, trying to stop the bleeding.
"Neo...you...you're still..." Roman coughed out.
"Don't try to talk." Neo ordered, looking for some way to help before her savior bled out.
"You're wasting your time. All of you." Cinder announced, not caring of Rowan and Silver aiming their guns at her and her only other associate this far into the trap-laden tomb. She looked back at the door her two sacrifices were chained to, her eyes resting on a blood red jewel starting to emit a glow as a hazy dark cloud, not unlike the one who's tendrils dug into Taiyang and Ironwood to absorb their auras, starting to form around it. "The Alpha Grimm has already been awoken. Stopping me won't stop the oncoming rampage." she smiled, her eyes fixating on SABR's leader.
"Just watch us." Ruby promised, standing up with Bai's help.
"Ruby, be careful. You look like you just took quite the beating." Sark commented.
"I'll be fine once she's taken down." Ruby nodded, reloading Crescent Rose with a fresh magazine.
"Perseverance...That's something else you got from your mother." Cinder said in faux intrigue as she adjusted the grip on her twin obsidian blades and repurposed them into their bow. Summoning three arrows out of thin air, she immediately drew back and let them fly towards Ruby and SABR. The five scattered as the arrows exploded, the blast damaging the pendulum as it swung across behind them sending the giant blade into the magma below.
Behind them, Weiss let out a meek grunt as she came to, rubbing the back of her head where underneath her hair, a decent bruise had formed. Looking up, she found one of the last people she'd expect to come to their rescue. Neptune stood with his back to her, his weapon pointed at Timber, who had inexplicably, or at least in her case, lost his hand.
"N-Neptune?" Weiss gasped, not expecting to find him being the first person she saw upon awakening.
"Weiss, stay down. We got this." Neptune calmly ordered. A snicker from under the breath of his, Robbie's and Sark's captive drew his attention back to the now one-handed White Fang member in front of him. "What's so funny?"
"I'm not sure which is funnier: That you and the birdbrains think you are actually intimidating, or you think I'm already down and out!" Timber roared as he used his foot to kick Umbral Claw into his right hand, immediately whipping it back and clocking Robbie in the face before the wrist-dagger wielder could react. Choking up on the handle to the point his finger latched on to the trigger of the submachine gun that made up half of his weapon, aiming it at Ruby while she had her back turned and was focusing on protecting her front from Cinder's attacks. Instead, his bullets harmlessly clattered against a large white snowflake glyph that formed in front of her.
"What the-?" Ruby and Timber gasped in synch as they looked at the source of the glyph. Weiss had risen back to her feet, Myrtenaster poised to aim in between Ruby and Timber's line of fire.
"You are not harming another hair on her or her child's head." the heiress said coldly, and with a flick of the wrist, turned the glyph around so that the other side faced Timber, changing color from white to icy blue as it shot a wave of ice at him. The lieutenant did his best to block the hailfire (AN: I'm so sorry for the horrid pun.), but a few icicles got through and pummeled against him. "Ruby, I feel like you of all people should get some shots in on him!" she called.
"Switch on my mark!" Ruby called back as her eyes flashed towards Silver for a moment, silently giving him a message to distract the head of the operation long enough for the two to switch out. With a nod, the leader of SABR whipped out his revolvers and fired off a volley of rounds at Cinder, all of them being blocked as she created a shield of flames to defend herself. As she was busy, Weiss dashed forward, ducking under a swing of Timber's pickaxe as Ruby caught it on the backswing with Crescent Rose, her scythe's blade clashing against the aura blade.
Cardin and Chains broke off from their deadlock as his mace caught the teeth of the chainsword, Jaune switching out with him and knocking him further back with a heavy blow from his sword. He almost couldn't react in time as the Faunus changed his grip on the massive buzzsaw, driving it down towards the knight's chest. Blocking it, barring the blade of his sword in his left hand, Jaune caught the attack halfway up the blade, sparks shooting from the teeth cutting against the iron sword. As the two broke off, Cardin reentered the frey, trying an overhead swing before quickly changing it up as Chains went for a sweeping slash horizontally across his breastplate.
"Stand still already!" Cardin grumbled as he tried to use the special ability of his mace, smashing it against the ground and sending a line of explosions towards he lieutenant which nobody in their square could dodge. It knocked him backwards into the side of a spike below them. As Jaune takes a step forward to check on their opponent, he feels the floor beneath them lurch.
"Uh, that was probably a bad idea." Jaune pointed out.
"What are you-" Cardin retorted before the stone tiles between them and the floor below that held the spikes in place gave way, sending both team leaders to the floor below.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha gasped as she and Russel ran foward, taking any safe platforms they could to get close enough to check on their leaders.
"You guys okay?" Russel called, looking down into the area they fell into. Down below, they found Cardin pinned under the rubble of the tiles they were once on, the spikes falling over after the explosion knocked them loose, creating a small foothill of debris that separated the three. Jaune was slowly getting up, only to realize his sword was no longer in his grasp.
"Oh crud, where is-" Jaune asked, visibly panicked.
"Looking for this?" Chains asked as the knight looked up to see the lieutenant holding his missing sword by the blade in one hand, before watching in horror as the brute smashed his chainsword through the antique blade just between the hilt and halfway up the shaft. "Whoops. Hand slipped."
Jaune gritted his teeth as he watched his family heirloom get broken and tossed aside like a chunk of scrapmetal, not moving as Chains revved his chainsword while stepping up to the trapped macewielder. Cardin was grunting as he tried to push the heavy stone off of him, only to groan as Chains planted a foot heavily on top of him, adding to the pressure crushing the bully's chest.
"Now you two are finished." Chains said coldly as he raised his weapon, ready to saw Cardin's head off his shoulders while he couldn't do a thing about it.
"Here!" Pyrrha exclaimed as she hurled Milo towards Chains in its javelin form, almost too loosely as Chains could merely tilt his head to the side, which is exactly what he did
"What a brilliant throw from Mistral's four time champion." Chains sarcastically commented.
"I wasn't aiming for you." she replied, causing the saw-bladed swordsman.
Chains whipped his head back towards Jaune. He quickly tried to pull his weapon into a defensive stance as Jaune switched Milo back to its form as a shortsword, driving it upwards and chopping the saw band in half and sending the sword out of Chains' hand. Knowing he wouldn't have the time to bring the sword back before Chains could recover from the strike and protect himself, Jaune channeled every last bit of strength he had into a left hook he was ready to bring across their opponent's face, surprising himself and everyone else as his fist began to glow with a bright white light. The glow around his arm began to manifest itself, becoming a shield a time and a half larger than the damaged shield of Crocea Mors. Letting out a battle cry, Jaune bashed the aura shield into the lieutenant's face with such force, it send the man almost twice his size through one of the cast iron spikes lining the floor, rendering him unconscious and defeated.
"Holy crap, Jaune..." Cardin gaped as Jaune said nothing as he could only stare at the arm his shield formed on, watching as it faded away and the glow died down. "How come you've never used that before?"
"...Because I've never had a semblance before.." Jaune said, dumbfounded with himself, only to be snapped out of it as his champion partner jumped down and pulled him into a hug.
"You did it, Jaune! I'm so proud you finally discovered your semblance!" she cheered, tightening her hug.
"Yeah, that's great. Now can you get off and help me?" Cardin asked as the two awkwardly chuckled, realizing they were standing on top of the stone pinning Cardin down.
Mercury ran in a curved pattern around the room as he dodged a combination of Yang's shots and Mei's senbon, taking occasional breaks to kick off a shot back at either of them to try and throw them off. While attempting to do so to strike his original opponent, he nearly had his leg taken off as Snow's weapon, in its massive shuriken form, flew past him a bit too close for comfort.
"You all know you're wasting your time, right?" Mercury asked, using his semblance to escape what would've been a critical hit from Snow's weapon on the rebound, whipping his arm across to try and splatter the albino with his namesake liquid metal.
"Why are you even helping someone that wants to destroy an entire kingdom for her own pleasure?" Yang asked as she reloaded her gauntlets.
"I have my reasons." Mercury answered, shrugging off her nosiness. "Even if you do beat me, stopping Cinder is entirely impossible at this point. Those friends of yours that already went past are just gonna add to the casualty count." he sneered as he ran straight at Yang, vaulting over Rocco as he tried to block his path to her. As she readied a haymaker for him, he took advantage of the opening and got her with a couple palm strikes sped up with his semblance, hitting her straight at her throat, then her torso as she tried to gasp out for air.
"Get off her!" Mei ordered as she ran up to slash at Mercury with her iron claws, only for him to dodge her strikes and get in his own shot as he drove his heel into the side of her head, a shot grazing her cheek and the bottom of her ear lobe as she was knocked to the floor.
"Mei!" Rocco gasped as he and his team's leader ran forward, double teaming the kickboxer with a flurry of strikes that either gave knicks and cuts or missed completely thanks to his agility. Finding an opening between their strikes, he kicked off a shot, catching Snow in the side, then knocking him in the side of the head while he recoiled. He then turned to Rocco, ready to knock him senseless as well, only for an extremely strong punch to be driven into his cheek from the side.
"What?" Mercury gasped as he rolled across the floor from the blindsided smack to his head. Looking up, he saw Yang, her hair shining more than usual and her eyes glowing light orange.
"You 're named Mercury for your semblance, right? There's a reason why they call me Xiao Long too." Yang glared as her eyes turned fully red, heat visibly coming off of her gauntlets.
Mercury grumbled as he fired a volley of shots, as many as he had left in his gun greaves, back at Yang. She seemed to just brush them off with her Aura as she charged Mercury, ducking or batting a few away with her gauntlets as she got up close intothe kickboxer's personal space. He tried to kick off a shot dead center into her chest, only for her to catch him by his ankle as the firing mechaism clicked harmlessly.
"You need your semblance and your greaves to do actual damage." Yang said almost emotionlessly as her hair started to grow bright white. "I don't."
With that said, she whipped Mercury by his leg against the ground, him cursing as he rebounded against the hard floor. Before he could land, he looked up to find the enraged boxer lunging on top of him, the outline of a dragon's head forming around her fist in the fire engulfing it, smashing her left arm in between Mercury's neck and right shoulder, feeling the clavicle shatter under her punch as he was driven into the floor a few inches. She stood over him for a moment as she calmed down, not taking her eyes off him as he writhed in pain on the floor.
"Damn, Yang." Rocco whistled as he and Mei walked over to inspect her handiwork.
"He said something about others running past, but I didn't see anybody go past us." Yang remembered, looking to the two third year students.
"You were still out of it from the poison. A few ran ahead to help your other teammates." Mei mentioned.
"You go on ahead. We've gotta get Snow some help, then deal with this guy." Rocco said as he slung Cadillac Custom into its case and over his back.
With a nod, Yang left the team to their own devices as she dashed into the next room.
Swords clashed against scythes as Emerald and her clones battled against the trio of Faunus, Blake attempting to use her semblance as much as possible to avoid being hit by a trick shot from thief's revolvers a second time. She had already healed it enough to numb most of the pain, but tilting the wrong way sent a twinge of it across her stomach and made her wince, leaving an opening that the real Emerald almost took advantage of. Both were surprised as an aura clone of Sun's suddenly blocked her strike and fended her off. Looking back, she saw the real monkey boy keeping his hand sign formed, as he had to stay still in order for his semblance to work. While he kept it going, Adam stood behind him, holding off another Emerald as it tried to attack him from behind, his horns and sword starting to glow red as he channeled his own.
Snapping back to the matter at hand, she felt herself get thrown back by the pulse of Sun's clone in front of her going off and pushing both her and Emerald back, the clone attacking Adam vaulting over him to try and attack her while she was down, only for her to shadow sneak behind her and try and slash at her from behind with her cleaver. As the doppelganger retreated, Sun ducked as Adam unleashed his withering semblance towards all three of the Emeralds, one getting hit by the strike, along with three of the iron spikes that had already fallen from their arena's trap. While the clone dissipated into green smoke upon impact, the spikes disappeared in a flurry of wilting petals.
"Okay...now we have to do that two more times." Sun said, clearly exasperated already.
"We can still take her." The raven haired cat Faunus said, reloading the pistol built into Gambol Shroud. "Holding up that many clones for so long had to deplete her aura substantially."
"Or so you think." the Emeralds said in perfect synchronization as they split from two to four and then again to eight, all of them readying their weapons as they cockily walked towards the three.
"Dammit, outnumbered." Sun said as he readied his weapons.
"Then I guess you could use all the help you can get?"
All eyes turned to watch Yang enter the arena, Ember Cilica clicking into place on her fists as she did so.
"Yang?" Blake gasped, looking at the bruises all over her, especially the burn marks from Mercury's poisoning attempt on her arm. "Is Mercury-"
"Dealt with. STRM's taking him topside." Yang finished, smirking to herself as she watched all eight versions of the mint-haired thief seething.
"And that White Fang lieutenant that JNPR had to deal with?" Sun asked.
"Oh, him? He went down easy." Jaune said nonchalantly as he and JNPR walked in.
"Barely got a scratch on us while we beat 'em!" Nora cheered as she limped in.
"You have a gash in your leg, and Jaune's weapon was broken." Ren pointed out, before turning to the group fighting Emerald. "CRDL's dealing with taking him into custody."
Adam nodded as he turned back to face the Emeralds. "Can you all still fight?" he asked, not taking his eyes off her.
"I've still got some shells I can spend." Yang grinned as she reloaded her gauntlets with a new band of shotgun shells.
"I can still fight, even without my sword." Jaune spoke up.
"I've seen you spar, Arc. You couldn't fight if you had a sword that swings itself." Emerald teased, the real one walking out from her group of clones.
"You'd be surprised." Jaune smirked as he reactivated his semblance, the bright white aura shield forming on his forearm. There was no time for praise or words of amazement for those who hadn't seen it yet as the thief and her clones charged the group, each of the eight combatants taking them one on one. With both sides working in tandem with each other, some joining forces to take on two or more opponents at once, the fight began to be evenly matched. Injured parties such as Blake or Nora could feel their auras draining as they focused them on healing their wounds, however Emerald was feeling it most of all. Blake was right: holding up that many clones at once and controlling non-synchronized actions were beginning to take their toll on her energy. While the clones were still fighting with full strength, the one Blake was fighting she noticed was slowing down, hesitating at some strikes even.
"This has to be the real one." she thought to herself as she pressed her attack, each strike from her katana adding a pistol shot immediately after to try and open her up as they fought between a group of fallen spikes. It began to work slowly but surely. With each successful hit being defended by Emerald's aura, more of her aura was taken from controlling her clones' actions to keeping the real one protected. Adam was the first to notice this as the clone he was fighting froze midstrike, allowing him to easily defeat it by cutting it in half along its midsection, the fake disappearing in a wisp of green smoke. Jaune was the next to finish his, bashing it to the ground and curbstomping its head, followed by Sun, Nora and Pyrrha beating theirs with a flurry of blows from their signature weapons. Yang and Ren actually teamed together as they were backed against each other by the remaining two. With their combined firepower, both fell and vaporized as all eyes then turned to the White Fang deserter finishing the real one.
"There's no way! How can you keep fighting with that gunshot wound I gave you?" Emerald asked, dumbfounded as she caught her opponents cleaver strike with her scythes.
"I'm not stopping until those who turned my family into a pack of criminals are brought to justice. My willpower is what's keeping me going!" Blake roared as she pushed her forward. "I don't need to hide behind copies like you."
In a desperate move, knowing she was out of ammunition, Emerald lunged forward, ready to strike at the cat Faunus who easily sidestepped as the thief landed flat on her stomach on a tile whose spike had yet to fall. Getting up slowly as the wind was knocked out of her, she forgot too little too late as the tip of the spike drove through her bicep, wedging through the bone and skin as it separated her lower part of her arm from her body, and causing her to let out a bloodcurdling scream from the pain, which she passed out from immediately after.
All eyes could only look down upon her unconscious maimed form, almost feeling sorry for the red-eyed criminal. "Wow, um...Congrats, you beat her?" Sun announced, not exactly sure how else to interpret the feel of the room.
"I don't think Sky has enough bandages to fix that." Nora assumed, looking at the severed right arm.
"We can't worry about that. Ruby and Weiss are still probably fighting Cinder with the others!" Blake remembered, reloading Gambol Shroud with a fresh magazine. "Adam, can you make sure she doesn't put up a fight whenever she comes to?"
The bull Faunus silently nodded as he picked up the thief and started making his way towards the exit to the surface. "Good luck to you all." he called as the group of first years started running into the final chamber.
Ruby retreated backwards, swinging her massive scythe in a circular motion in front of her to protect herself from a flurry of sub-machine gun fire from Timber's weapon in its firearm form. Even only to use one of the guns now that he was one-handed, the amount of bullets pouring out of it were much faster and more numerous than her own signature weapon. Once he took a break from the onslaught to reload, that was when Ruby found her opening. Dashing forward, she brought Crescent Rose across Timber's chest, only for him to drop his weapon and grab her scythe just below the blade, catching her off guard and forcefully stopping her momentum towards him.
"You actually think just cuz that blue-haired little shit cut off one of my hands means you have the high ground in this?" Timber sneered, before the young reaper flipped over the handle of Crescent Rose and kicked him square in his already broken nose.
"I know I have the high ground because I don't rely on strength and power like you!" Ruby spat back, switching Crescent Rose into its more compact rifle form, firing off a shot that caught her former attacker just below his left shoulder. As he recoiled backwards from the shot, Robbie caught him as he backed up into the wrist blade user, slashing at him with an X-shaped motion across his chest before pushing him backwards again towards Sark.
"You ready? Do it!" Robbie called.
"Here goes nothing!" Sark replied as he drew his katana, the blade glowing a bright orange as he used his semblance in the attack that slashed diagonally across the vicious Faunus' front. Immediately, the two suddenly began to feel weaker. Sark's attack had worked.
"What did you do to me?" Timber growled as he felt himself growing weaker.
"My semblance...cuts the aura of anyone it touches...in half." Sark panted as he tried to stand back up, only to fall back to one knee as Robbie ran over to help him. "You're even more...vulnerable now...than Ruby is."
"And I don't need to protect myself with an aura shield." Ruby said, driving her boot against where she shot him earlier, feeling his collarbone crack under her foot. "I drink milk."
Roaring in pain, Timber shot out his good arm, fist balled, using the last of his strength to deliver the strongest punch he could muster straight to Ruby's stomach. She felt a jolt of pain that knocked the wind out of her. Falling back, she clutched her midsection in pain, retching as she gagged onto the floor, some specks of blood coming out with the vomit. As she lay on the ground, gasping for air, Timber got up from laying on his back and ready to finish what he started.
"That's one mistake taken care of. Now for the other one." he growled, ready to drive his foot down on Ruby's head, only for the sound of something whistling towards him to turn to look behind him. A firecracker-sized dust round exploded across the side of his face upon impact, and knocked him back down, completely unconscious.
Ruby looked up to see something she wasn't expecting. Across the bridge, leaned up against the right edge of the structure was Roman, shakily holding up his cane as smoke billowed out the end, a determined look on his face while Neo just looked at him in surprise. "You owe me one for that, Little Red." he groaned as he let his cane fall back, all his strength used up to fire off that one shot from Melodic Cudgel.
"Roman..." Ruby gasped, walking towards him before a fireball nearly incinerating her as it slammed into the ground in front of her. She then remembered how Weiss, Neptune and SABR were holding their own against Cinder. Even outnumbered six on one, the seductress barely broke a sweat as she fought them off. She suddenly snapped back to reality as she retrieved her scythe from the floor and checked the ammo. She bit her lip as she realized she was down to her last magazine, the one loaded into the chamber already spent. As she reloaded, she looked over the flames in front of her to the multi-color haired girl tending to her mentor's wounds. "Neo, is he okay to move?" she called, getting a nod in response as her hands were full at the moment , and could not retrieve her voicebox. "Okay, get Robbie to help him and Sark up top to recover!" The girl replied with a look that Ruby could tell she was asking "What about you?"
She turned to hear another group of footsteps heading their way, looking back to see the rest of her team, JNPR, and Sun running into the room.
"Woah, what the hell went on in here?" Sun asked, looking around at the giant black cloud of smoke starting to take the shape of something.
Yang's eyes circled their surroundings, then resting on her sister, who's new combat outfit looked scuffed and torn. "Ruby?"
She turned to face her older sister, who was already right behind her and ready to wrap her into a bear hug. "You guys already beat the others?" she asked.
"Never mind that." Yang answered, glaring at the unconscious rapist lying a few feet away. "Did Timber hurt you."
"That's not important right now. Dad and Weiss need our help." Ruby replied, gesturing to the battle unfolding in front of them, then to Taiyang and Ironwood chained to the door in front of them, the smoky tendrils they were attached to starting to shape into the Alpha Grimm's true form. It started forming a snout, ears, and two piercing red eyes that seemed to illuminate from beams of light coming from the crystal in the center of the cloud, all signs pointing to the fact it was forming the largest Beowulf anyone had ever seen.
"Not that I'm not glad to see you guys, but I could use some help here!" Weiss snapped as she retreated back to speak with the others.
"Right." Ruby nodded as she reloaded Crescent Rose and took a stand among her team. "Let's finish this."
Thank God I finally finished this chapter. I apologize for the delay, as this took much longer to complete than I expected. Admittedly, I kinda wrote myself into a corner with the beginning of these fights. Luckily, I found some outs to them and was able to get this chapter done with.
Since we're nearing the end here, I just want to extend my thanks for all the support you guys have sent my way for this fic. You guys have given me alot of praise for it so far.
"This is probably one of the best RWBY fics on this site, just saying." -Henta1Rampag3
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This next part is going to be big. We're about to see if Remnant survives or falls. Until then, I'll see you lads and lasses next time!