Caitlin Schnee
City Of Vale
January 29th

"Miss Schnee! What the hell are you doing?" Professor Goodwitch demands as I join the fight.

"Fighting! I -"

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"No, but I just want to get the grimm out of the city! I want to help -" I stop mid-thought to shoot down a geist flying overhead. "I'm going to fight!"

"As much as I'm impressed by this, this isn't the right time!" Qrow shouts at me as I continue to fight. Noticing my left arm, he pushes me out of the way to kill the grimm coming at me. "And what the hell happened to your arm?"

"I was pushed out of an Atlesian ship and fell ten feet to the ground, landing hard on this arm!" I shout back, not stopping. "Roman Torchwick took over the ship and -"

Both Professor Goodwitch and Qrow take a second to stare at me while the three of us are still fighting. "Roman Torchwick?" They say at the same time.

"And his sadistic wife - she was the one who pushed me out," I impale a boarbatusk as I try to explain. "She was the one who tried to kill Yang a few months ago."

Cardin Winchester knocks back an ursa while Qrow continues to fight back the infected Atlesian Knights along with me. I see Professor Goodwitch use her riding crop to knock back some advancing creeps and I fight off an incoming beowolf while the infected Atlesian Knights surround Cardin at gunpoint. He may be an ass but I move to save him anyways when, without warning, the heads of the Atlesian Knights are shot off. I rip my hair out of its messy-ass bun and shove my hair tie and jeweled comb into my back pocket and point my gun into the smoke that is starting to overtake me. My finger is lingering on the trigger as the smoke clears and I'm just about to shoot when I see the man walking out of the rubble.

"Dad!" I half-shout in shock, my voice slightly shrill.

"This area's secure!" He quickly informs us. "We need to -"

Qrow begins to look angry and his sword transforms into it's scythe form. He charges in the direction of my father, appearing like he's going to try and kill him.

"No!" I scream.

"Qrow! This isn't my doing!" My father tells him. Looking truly afraid but still determined he pulls out his gun, ready to fight Qrow. Shockingly, though, Qrow doesn't try to kill him. Rather, he lunges past him and my father turns around just in time to see the large griffon lunging at him. Qrow slices the griffon in half with ease and turns around to face all of us when he lands.

"You idiot," Qrow scoffs at my father. "I know you didn't do this."

My father relaxes and sighs, lowering his head as he places a hand to his forehead. Professor Goodwitch places a hand on his shoulder while I irritably rub my left arm. My eyes begin to tear up again from the pain but I wipe them away, trying to not appear weak.

"Caitlin," My father begins, noticing my arm. "What happened?"

"I…" I wince as he places a hand on my left shoulder. "I was pushed out of the ship by Neopolitan on Roman's orders. He… he took over the commands and tried to kill me, although clearly…" I laugh a little through the pain. "Clearly he didn't do it right. We were only about ten feet off of the ground and flying over downtown Vale… I landed… pretty hard on my… on my left arm."

"You're crazy, you know that," Qrow says, glancing at my arm and then back to me. "I mean what were you doing on that ship anyways?"

"Trying to shut down Penny before anything bad happened!" I scream at him. "I didn't want this to happen - this isn't my fault!"

"Miss Schnee," Professor Goodwitch says calmly, looking at me. "We know that this isn't your fault. But for Oum's sake, stop screaming. You're going to lose your voice and I can imagine that for you that might be a punishment worse than death."

I roll my eyes but nod. "I've actually lost my voice before and given how much I have to say, you're right that it would be a punishment worse than death."

Qrow glares at all of us briefly before trying to get back around to the point. "So what now, General?"

"Someone's done the impossible and gained control of my machines. And that enormous Grimm seems to be fixated on the school," He turns to Professor Goodwitch. "Glynda, form up the local Huntsmen and establish a safe zone here in Vale. We need to evacuate Beacon. Qrow, I'm leaving that to you and my men. I still need to get to my ship."

"What about me?" I ask, eagerly transforming Pale Shadow back into its sword form.

"You're staying with me - I'd rather not see you get yourself killed. Besides, your mother would probably kill me if you died."

I laugh a little at that. "She'd probably resurrect me just to kill me again for -" I stop hearing a loud noise and all of us turn to see the source of it. Slowly, the ship that I was pushed out of is nosediving towards the ground.

"Won't be much of a walk," Qrow says, turning back to my father. Just as I'm about to stab the infected Atlesian Knights that are making yet another attempt to harm all of us they shut down. I smirk at Qrow, and then laugh.

"Well, obviously!" I exclaim, looking at Qrow. "Damn it!" I stop laughing as I grab my arm again.

"You should probably get that looked at," Qrow tells me.

I'm instantly annoyed by him pointing that out. "No, I don't."

He smirks and lightly punches my arm, causing my eyes to tear up again from the pain. "If you're going to be stubborn I can always knock you unconscious -"

"Don't even think about it Qrow," My father says, glaring at him.

"Whatever you say Jimmy," Qrow responds. He then transforms into a bird and flies off towards Beacon while Professor Goodwitch heads further into the city.

I turn to my father. "I'm in a lot of trouble, aren't I?"

"Technically you should be, but in reality you aren't. We need to get out of here and start to take back Atlas's defenses. Then, you are going to get that arm looked at," My face falls slightly and he sends me a sharp look in return. "Qrow's right. It's probably broken and it will need to be set. You are going to stay in Vale for an extra day to have something done about that arm. I'm heading back to Atlas tomorrow after this is dealt with and I don't doubt that Jacques will insist that you and Weiss be brought back as soon as possible."

"Alright," I say, checking my scroll - it's restarted and is on low power. Six New Messages: Weiss Schnee. "Weiss," I mutter as I input her number. She answers almost immediately.

"Caitlin? Oh my god, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, I'm in the city and I'm with my father. I've probably shattered my left arm -"

"What?" She screams. "What do you mean you've probably shattered your left arm? What the hell happened to you?"

"When I left you and Ruby I was going back to my dorm to get something when I saw that Pyrrha and Penny were fighting. I freaked and changed my direction to the Atlesian ships. I got in and tried to shut down Penny remotely -"

"You knew that Penny was an android?"

"Yes, and then my scroll shut down just before the broadcast. Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan showed up shortly after the broadcast ended and Roman had Neopolitan try to kill me -"

"He tried to have her kill you?" Weiss's voice has gotten higher with every question. "Are you serious?"

"Yes - we were about ten feet off of the ground in the city of Vale and Neopolitan pushed me out of the ship. I tried to catch myself, but I landed really hard on my left arm -"

"I'm in Beacon's main grounds. Meet me here as soon as you can."

"Got it," I tell her, ending the call and shutting my scroll off. I wasn't lying when I told Weiss that I'd be there as soon as I can. Still, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to fight as much as I can. This is what it means to be a huntress. It means that you're a fighter. A fighter for what you believe in, a fighter for what you think is right. A fighter for those who can't or won't fight for themselves.