RWBYond Vale
AN: So here's the final battle of this arc. I'm trying to fit in as many of the logically available characters as I can for this fight. Hopefully it'll be awesome but honestly I have no idea how this is going to turn out except how it ends.
Chapter 25: Do you think this changes anything?
Ruby's heart was racing. She couldn't hardly move, and she was watching her uncle fall towards his death. "UNCLE QROW!" She screamed. She saw Raven and August both ready to jump. But then her father leaped into the arena and caught him.
"Ruby." He said.
"Dad?"
"Where's the councilman?"
"He managed to escape." Raven said. "I found him on my way to Ruby and sent him to safety." Ruby had nearly forgotten about him during the fight. She was glad he was safe. Everyone was arriving at the arena as the behemoth freed one its legs from the wooden cocoon. Team FNKI and Rubrum arrived with Yang, Natalie arrived with Weiss, and Team SSSN arrived with Tai.
"Guy's that behemoth is coming out of the tree." Sun said.
"How do we beat something like that." Blake said.
"We focus on the legs, cut it down to size." Jaune said. He charged up his aura for a moon beam but then Tobi dropped down in front of him.
"I don't think so." He said punching Jaune into the wall. Blake followed up with an attack on Tobi but went right through him. Tobi went to grab her but Weiss reached him with a stab that went right through him but forced him to stay intangible as he slipped through Blake and Weiss fired a glyph that passed through him. Yang stepped where the glyph landed and was launched in the air and slammed down on Tobi to no avail. Raven and August double teamed him to back him off until he leaped up and landed on the behemoths head.
"This isn't going to do us any good if he keeps getting in the way." August said. "Anybody who uses rock or ice dust, focus on immobilizing the legs. Anybody with rapid fire weapons come with me to deal with Tobi. Everyone else wait for the opportunity to strike."
Rubrum turned the dial on his goggles and his flame thrower, which was glowing red, started glowing blue instead. Tai threw some ammo into the air and slapped it around his wrist. "Been awhile since I've used these." He said cocking his gauntlets back. Natalie fired an arrow and disappeared, reappearing behind Tobi and engaging him. Ren, August, and Sun began making their way up to Tobi to assault him. The behemoth lifted its leg and Nora attacked trying to slam it down. Sage, Yang, Raven and Tai joined her and with their combined strength they were able to keep the behemoth from lifting its leg further. Flynt and his teammates went all out blasting the leg that was emerging from the splintered tree. Weiss and Rubrum cast ice as the massive foot landed. Tai, Neon, and Ruby then took shots at the foot further entrapping it in ice. Ruby dashed forward and was joined by her team, along with Jaune Nora, Raven, Scarlet, Sage, Rubrum and her dad in attacking the immobilized limb. But the behemoth broke free with only a couple deep gashes in its leg. Neptune was with Flynt blasting the other leg to no avail.
"This is bad!" Scarlet said. The other leg emerged and threatened to crush Neptune and three quarters of team FNKI, but Weiss, Neon and, Ruby were able to get them out of the way. The behemoth started moving forward, pulling the rest of its body out of the ground. As its tail was free Ruby could see something on it. Rather someone, or a pair of persons. Head masters Felix and April, who had been battling the behemoth before. Felix slid along the tail, batons in hand, and leaped towards the group as April spit an acidic web along its tail and swung from it.
"So this is where it took us." April said.
"Yep." Felix responded. "Hey Ruby, you said you wanted to see my weapon, how about you see it in action." He waved to her. Ruby was awe struck for a moment before pulling herself back to reality. Tobi was heading straight for her with Ren right behind him firing.
She got a good look at his face for the first time. The twisted form and growths covering his features. One purple eye looking at her. He wasn't a man; he was a monster. Her instincts took over as everything went bright but not blinding. She could see everything now. But that didn't matter, what mattered is that there were now two monsters before her and she had the power to stop them. She swung her scythe but didn't stop. She spun it and kept flipping it as she moved towards Tobi. Tobi slipped behind her and grunted. Ruby heard a sickening crunch behind her and an audible flash of aura. Jaune was behind Tobi, sword, shield and aura striking the villain all at once. Tobi bounced off the ground a couple of times before regaining posture. Ruby dashed forward towards the behemoth. She swung hard adding to the deepest gash as the beast dropped to its knee. She saw Weiss' glyphs appear in front of her and she ran along them, cutting a shallow gash along the behemoth's neck as she did so. The last glyph she could see was a time dilation glyph. As she stepped on it she felt her whole body become weightless as everything went in slow motion. She spun several times cutting a gash through the behemoth's jaw. She looked in the monster's eyes and the only emotion it showed was fear.
She spun vertically building up momentum as Crescent Rose embedded itself in the grimm's skull. She fired trying to pull it out and it barely budged. She heard Nora's battle cry and saw her doing the same, ready to smash the scythe in further. Blue bolts were hitting her body and Ruby glanced down seeing Neptune charging her up. As Nora landed, smashing the scythe in further, Rubrum and Natalie appeared and the former hit Nora with yellow arcs of lightning and she went to town on the beast's head. Ruby saw Tobi standing precariously on the monster's now horizontal neck. Ruby charged him without her weapon, and Tobi summoned vines and roots to stop her. But the nature dust weapons went right around her and Ruby began seeing green and white all at once. "NO!" Tobi screamed as Ruby landed a punch. It was a certified clean hit. The tangles of nature Tobi had summoned disappeared as Ruby bolted as fast as she could through his body as he became intangible. But everything not planted to a solid surface flew behind her, Tobi included. Ruby leaped up and saw Yang swinging from Blake's weapon. As Tobi hit the back of the behemoth hard, Yang blasted him with fireballs and Blake successfully hit him with a moon beam. The fireballs broke his aura as they exploded and Blake's strike cut his right arm off. Tobi landed on the wall away from the others. His arm lied on the ground oozing white bubbling goo and started disintegrating. Tobi squeezed his wound tight.
"Do you think this changes anything?" Tobi said with a grunt and a cough. "The seeds of war have been planted."
"Pack it in you daft bastard." Raven said charging him.
"I'm afraid I can't." Tobi said smiling. Raven's sword was intercepted by the girl from before, Akagi. Tobi slammed his hand to the ground creating a wooden shell around him and Akagi. Jaune stepped in and sliced through it but they were gone.
"Damn." Raven said. Ruby turned around and saw her friends fighting against the behemoth and numerous other Grimm that were swarming the area. Nora, Rubrum and Neptune were still going to town on the monster's head. Weiss summoned half of a massive suit of armor and slammed down on its leg finishing it off. The behemoth fell to the ground exposing its stomach. April, Tai, Felix and Yang blasting it there. Ruby dashed forward grabbing her scythe and violently ripping it from the monster's head and swung again, this time cutting its other jaw line. She turned around and saw a group of beowolves coming for her. She cut three of them in half in one swing and the others stopped. Her eyes were burning again. This time the beowolves and the other Grimm turned tail and ran.
A minute later all the Grimm were dead and the behemoth was slowly disappearing. The whole sector of the city was practically a parking lot. Everybody left was exhausted and weary. They had won. And now it was time to clean up. Ruby's mind began racing as her body calmed. Was Penny ok? She was still on the ship so far as Ruby knew and that ship was floating in the harbor. Where's Rio? She hadn't seen him since they parted ways back in the forest. That would be her first two orders of business. She couldn't afford to pass out now. Not when she knew that if she was done for even a moment, there wouldn't be anything she could do for the rest of the night, or next few weeks. Not with her leg in its current state. So she went to her team, her friends and rallied them to come with her. RWBY/RNJR along with team ARRN agreed. They had a lot of cleaning up to do before they can rest.
AN: Well that was pretty short. I guess that happens when you pick one character and tell something like this from their perspective. Ruby wouldn't have been able to see everything. Next chapter is sort of an epilogue as everyone gets together and deals with how much damage was done. Then it will be off to the next arc. I'm probably going to take a break from this for a while after next chapter and focus in more on my other story for a bit. Make sure to follow and favorite if you want to stay up to date with this story. And also review because I like reading and responding to people's reactions.