AN- As always, Reviewers first

Soda-fiedPyscho- You wrote a Mini chibi fanfiction about my fanfiction with the ship of the story, I enjoyed getting a good laugh out of that. Thanks for enjoying my story so much and I am sorry that Mercury is not going to die anytime soon, his character arc is not finished. As for a new cover art I will look into trying to hone the drawing skills that I never had and try to draw at least Hector. Now for the ship name… Geez I never even started thinking about that... uhh we'll go with uhhhh Red Rivers? Cuz you know… Ruby is red, and Hector's last name is Rivers... Well now onto the actual response to your review, thank you very much for the compliment, people like you are what keeps making me want to write this story literally every day. Qrow, Mercurys, and Marcus' fight was hard to write, not gonna lie. I'm sure I'll get better in the future and when they meet again I can make sure that they will have a better quality fight. Thanks for the review!

Astra- Thank you for that laugh, I am very original right? Sarcasm btw. Thank you for your input about the lemons, I needed that advice. Honestly I don't even know what the gun mode of Qrow's gun is, but it sounds like a shotgun, so I just made it a shotgun, at least in my opinion. I mean when he shoots it shit gets destroyed and Grimm gets torn apart. But I could be easily wrong. I believe that Qrow's semblance effects everybody around him, including himself, and if he wants in this story he can amplify that, and things that wouldn't normally happen would happen. Now about Qrow being able to finish Marcus off, I'll explain that in this chapter, about why he didn't go and finish him off that is. I'm gonna skip a bit and get straight to the part of Hell's name but I'll get back to the other stuff later, I know it doesn't exactly roll of the tongue but this is how I saw it, when Hector uses his semblance he goes all red and Blazing, now at least some iterations of Hell in a religious standpoint would be all red and blazing, and also causing eternal torment to whatever poor souls get caught up in Hell. Now Hell is basically what Hector should have been when Salem summoned or ripped him from the real world, he is basically the opposite of all the good Hector has in him, and is the manifestation of all the evils Hector has locked away inside of him, I'll explain his origins more this story since last chapter was very fast paced. Honestly I always forget that the kingdoms names aren't the continent names, you're not the only one. Oh yeah, Winters "Retirement." was only know by Ironwood and a select few of higher ups, just to clear that up to you, so no, the grunts don't know the truth about what is going on. And finally thanks for that compliment about the Grimm hybrids and his evil twins, Im glad I was able to change your mood toward the Hybrid thing I got going on. Don't worry, the reunion will be coming soon, with how fast I pump these out It will be about maybe another half a week or two. I look forward to your next review!

Kage-kitsune9001- Something like that… I can finally say to you that a dragon ball moment like that is in the making for this story.

Zeldawolffang- PM covered your review but I thank you for the review anyway.

Tigervolcano5000- Thanks for enjoying the fight! And you'd be right to assume that the next time they meet is going to be quite eventful to say the least. Winter needed a pretty good explanation and excuse for not going after Weiss after she ran away or even seeing her after Beacon fell, so I decided to put her on a Maiden hunt just cut it short and bring her back so she can work as an undercover agent against her own father. Quite interesting now that I think about it, and yeah Whitley and Jacques are dickhead and I think that is exactly how they would react to Winter "retiring" from her huntress career. To answer your question, You'll see;), but yes, Hell is a character that has been in the works for quite some time now, and boy oh boy I am excited to write out his scenes. He is going to be in this story for a long time so get ready to see more of him. Now about the Grimm Hybrids, there are different kinds of Hybrids: There's the animalistic zombielike version, which is basically a Grimm Human that is basically fodder but can be overwhelming in numbers, there is the kind that Tyrian is that is exclusive to Faunus, where they keep some of their sanity but they do not have aura or a semblance, but they make up for it in a massive boost of strength, speed, and agility, and some of them have the ability to suppress semblances, and then there's Hell… who is the strongest one and only one of his kind besides Salem, he has a semblance but no aura due to the amount of dark magic Salem put into him, only Salem herself can create creatures like this. He was basically created to be the downfall of Hector and be the one to go after the Maidens himself to bring him in, if there was a pecking order it'd go like this. Salem, Hell/Maidens, Faunus hybrids, then human hybrids. He also feels no pain, near limitless stamina, a mild regenerative healing factor, and of course is powerful as fuck, you'll see more of him soon. Lastly I'll explain in this chapter how Jacques was able to do that, I was going to put it in last chapter but I needed the surprise factor to get you guys hyped for this chapter ;). Thanks for the review!

If you guys want to know more about Hector's evil twin Hell, read the response right above this text. Seriously, it's like eight lines above this one.

Now let's get right into this!


Chapter 28- Reunion cut short.

Solitas, RNJRR, RWBY, Tai, and Raven.

Right back where we left off, we are all left thinking about the information we have been told and what we should do with it. Everything's happening so fast I can barely keep up with it. So I come up with something to calm my nerves, as well as my own tream's.

"How long until we get to your house?" I break the silence with a question directed towards Winter.

"In a advanced class Bullhead such as this I estimate-"

"English please." I interrupt, I was never a fan of Military talk. It was too confusing for my small brain to handle.

"Urgh, apporximately one-two days. But we will make it into the kingdom in much less time, about a couple of hours maybe." Winter simply answers. Not without giving me a good-ol death stare of course.

"Alright, well if that's the case then we have plenty of time to plan this later, I believe we have time to make up for." I say as I flick my head toward RWBY. Who are actually looking at me with lots of concern in their eyes now that the serious things are out of the way. Most likely because of my less happy demeanor and the obvious missing eye on the left side of my face.

The first thing that Winter noticed about me was the cyclops state that I am rocking. She herself is curious about how I lost my eye. But she keeps herself professional and uptight as she usually is and well… attempts to lay down the law.

"I propose that we should make a plan as soon as possible. We don't know what exactly my father is planning, and we should be prepared for anything."

No one really listens to her, and an imaginary sad cloud appears over her head as an anime like drop of sweat drops from the back of her head.

"I'll go with the wing it sort of approach." I say as I plop down on one of the seats and let my body relax. Naturally, RWBY closes in on me with the intention of asking me how RNJR's part of the mission went. Since obviously we found the Fall Maiden and they assume that Raven helped us since she is not trying to kill me at the moment. But what is on all of their minds now that they actually have time to think is about my missing eye, they know how powerful I can be, so how did I end up losing an eye, of course Ruby is the most worried, she has come to accept her feelings toward me after a talk with her team.


During RWBY's journey to Atlas.

Finally, after waiting so long to question her about it, Yang as decided to confront Ruby about her pretty obvious affections toward me. In all honesty she thought that her younger sister was gay, not that it would affect anything, but after seeing her interact and just the way she smiles around me just gave it away. So she puts on her best big sister shoes and sits next to her younger sister on the same log while everyone else is asleep.

"Hey sis." Ruby greets with a small smile before she returns her gaze back to the flames that light up the darkness around them.

"I'm going to get straight to the point Lil sis. Do you Liiiike Hector?" Yang asks as she wiggles her eyebrows and give her her signature smirk.

Ruby immediately heats up to the color of her hood and tries to hide her face, she didn't think she was being that obvious. Was she? In truth she has been trying to figure out how she feels herself for quite some time now. She has never felt anything like this for anyone, especially for a boy. "I uh… don't know what you're talking about!" Ruby exclaims as she tries to dash away with her semblance. Yang prepared for this highly likely turn of events and already had one of her hands on her hood. Before Ruby can even stand up she is pulled back down to her sitting position.

"I found the Rose he gave you, pretty sweet of him not gonna lie, but it makes me wonder. Why did he get you one? I know you two already said your goodbyes already but he got one anyway. Pretty suspicious if you ask me." Yang wonders out loud in a teasing tone, hinting to Ruby that her feelings are indeed mutual.

If it was possible to be redder than red then Ruby has achieved such a state after hearing that, but knowing that there is no point in running from this any longer, she gives in and opens up to Yang. "He… is just so cool, and strong, and just easy to talk to all the time. There isn't many people out there who actually attempt to understand what I am saying when I am geeking over weapons, even when I knew he had no idea what I was talking about he still listened and wore a smile on his face. He also gives really great hugs." Ruby lists off with an adorable little smile on her face. "And that's without him saving all of our lives."

"I get it, not gonna lie to you sis but even I was attracted to him for a time. But not in the way you are if you catch my drift, I mean who wouldn't be with that bod." Yang says with a wink.

"Ew Yang!" Ruby exclaims, nudging her sister playfully.

"Im teasing! Im teasing! Alright in all seriousness, I'm happy for you. I thought you were gay at first but-"

"What?! Why would you think that?!" Ruby asks with a pouty face.

"Well… you were never really into boys before, up until now you gave off no signs of even being attracted to one." Yang explains with a nervous smile.

"Hmph." is all Ruby responds with.

"Sooo... Want some big sister advice for boys?" Yang asks with a sparkle in her eyes. She has been waiting so long to be able to do this for her little sister.

"... Sure." Ruby says as she exhales as her face goes red again.

"I'm glad you asked! Okay, I have a whole mental list just for this moment, here is how you do it…"

The older sister then went on to explain multiple ways of how to attract a guy for an unspecified amount of time, most of which making Ruby gag when she pictures it but even so she puts it into her memory banks for safekeeping just in case.

"...but since he is a little older than you it should make it easier overall. But as a warning, he makes you cry I am going to castrate him, even if he is stronger than a Maiden I don't care." Yang finally finishes.

"How do you know about all this?" Ruby asks as she rubs her temples, her brain still processing the influx of information her sister just gave her.

"Girl, I have plenty of experience. I remember one time this guy-"

"I don't need to know!"

"But you've come so far already! What's one story going to do to you? Besides you are going to need to know how to satisfy a MMPH." Yang is cut off when Ruby sticks part of her hood into her mouth to get her to stop talking.

"I know enough! Blake always left her books out when she thought that she was the only one there while taking a shower…" Ruby reveals, getting red once again out of embarrassment.

"*GASP* I knew there was porn in those books!" Yang exclaims, ignoring the fact that her younger sister has known about the birds and the bees for quite some time already.

"Ehe yeah…"


And now Ruby can see the difference in my demeanor as compared to how I was before, I don't give off the same happy vibe as before, and of course there is the missing eye, something happened to me and she aims to find out what it was. But first…

I feel a gust of wind to my right, I crack open my eye just a bit to see Ruby happily sitting next to me, which is the only spot open around me since Rhea has the other side covered. Yang and Blake both give us some space, and instead go to speak to the other members of RNJR first. While Weiss stays with her sister for obvious reasons. Tai and Raven are off to themselves, but Tai keeps an eye on me and Ruby because of fatherly reasons.

I smile and return to the happy vibe that Ruby is giving off. "Good morning." I greet, not really knowing if it is actually morning or not, at least it was morning in Patch when we left.

"Silly, it's way past morning over here." Ruby points out, pointing to the window that shows the broken moon in the sky.

"Oh… Well it was morning like an hour ago for me." I say as I lean my head back up against the wall. Not noticing that Ruby is sitting awfully close to me. Rhea of course just has to fall asleep on my other shoulder at the perfect time so she does not see this unfold. Don't ask me how she managed that.

"How did everything go on your end?" I ask, genuinely curious with how her mission went, everyone looks relatively unscathed so it must have been either pretty boring or they all got much better at fighting.

"Well for starters Mercury is a good guy now." Ruby mentions.

"... Are we talking about the same Mercury here? The one with the edgy personality and the grey hair?"

"The one and only!"

"Oh you gotta tell me that story sometime."

"It's only natural."

We share a laugh for the first time in what feels like ages. It's nice not having to worry constantly about every little thing, being back with all the girls puts me at ease, even if it's just been like an hour so far since we reunited. If I wasn't exhausted as all living Hell then I probably would be enjoying this moment even more.

Ruby suddenly and hesitantly raises her left hand to my face, I at first am reluctant to let her see the side of my face that doesn't have an eye and is still slightly scarred despite Rhea's attempt at healing me, but when I look into her eyes with my own I relax, and let her move my head with little to no resistance. Ruby observes my face for a couple of moments before she realizes how close she actually is, and in a small flurry of rose petals moves her hand away and she scoots away ever so slightly. I chuckle at her antics and lean back, preparing for the imminent question that is bound to come next.

"What happened?" Ruby asks, referring to the very obvious elephant in the room.

"I-"

CRASH

Any thought I had to share with Ruby and any eavesdroppers cease when the Bullhead shakes violently, and long Black claws stab into the hull, before ripping them out and make a large hole in the hull. Rhea wakes up with a scream and almost flies out of the hole that was made in the hull, but I grab her wrist just in time to keep her safe, I do the same to Ruby and I dig my feet into the metal beneath me.

"What the hell happened?!" I ask everyone in the aircraft, I notice that we are already missing people, Tai, Raven Jaune, Yang and Blake are all missing from the aircraft, since they were all standing up and too far from anything to hold on to. I see Nora and Ren holding on the one of the seats, and Weiss and Winter with a black glyph beneath them to stop them for getting pulled out.

"Nevermore!" Winter shouts back at me over the ripping winds that are now going throughout the Bullhead.

Before I can respond a second pair of talons rips through the Bullhead, and the two Nevermore rip the Bullhead in half, leaving Me, Ruby and Rhea on one side while Weiss and Winter fly off on the other part.

"Fucking christ! I just can't get a break!" I exclaim as I hold the two smaller girls to my chest and tell Ozpin to use his bubble shield.

'Already on it!' Ozpin says as the magical green bubble forms around me and the girls.

Within seconds we plummet down the the ground, the explosion of the part of the Bullhead we were in was so bright that it nearly blinded me, then after that, darkness...


The Schnee's

Winter and Weiss both jump out of their part of the Bullhead a few seconds before it crashes down to the ground, and then use their glyphs to safely jump down to the ground themselves.

"How could there be not one but TWO fully grown Nevermores this far into Atlas territory? They should have been brought down miles before they even made it close." Winter says as they touch down on the ground.

Weiss on the other hand has come to a terrifying realization, if there are Nevermores this far into Atlas territory.. Then that means that they needed all troops nearby to go to Atlas, and if they need all troops back in Atlas…

"Winter we need to get to Atlas now!" Weiss exclaims, running up to Winter.

"Already on it." Winter says as she looks at the holographic map coming from her scroll. "Okay, we need to go North, we can use our glyphs to multiply our speeds, contact the others and tell them what is going on. We have to get there as fast as possible and assist with the defence. Luckily I still have this." Winter opens her coat to reveal that she still has her sword with her. With a nod the Schnee sisters start heading to the kingdom that is fighting desperately to not fall…


Raven and Yang.

Raven easily recovered after being blown out of the Bullhead, due to her ability to turn into a bird, she can safely fly down to the ground. As she is flying down she looks around for anyone that might be in a bit of trouble as they fall. She spots and unmistakable head of long blonde hair, and sees that she doesn't have any control toward her decent, she transforms back into a human and uses her Maiden power to fly toward Yang to catch her. She makes it just in time before Yang hits the trees, and slowly floats back down toward the ground. Where Yang jumps off of her mothers hold.

"Thanks." Yang bitterly shows gratitude in her own way as she dusts herself off.

Raven's eyes go back to normal as she examines her surroundings, she's been in these woods before, and knows how to get to the kingdom from here, which is most likely where everyone else is going to be heading.

"I can't see anyone else, we're on our on for now." Raven points out.

"Oh so it's "We" Now? Never thought I'd hear you say that." Yang bitterly says as she storms off, not happy with her situation and desperate to find Ruby.

"As much as I deserved that, we need to prioritize getting to Atlas." Raven says while looking into the direction that they need to go in.

"Why do we need to go to Atlas? What's the point of we're the only ones there?" Yang questions, now she is starting to get on Raven's nerves but she is keeping it together for now.

"Because if anyone else from our little group is smart then they would do the same. Not one, but two fully grown and aged Nevermores broke through Atlas' perimeter quite easily, what does that say for the kingdom itself?" Raven asks, making Yang work her brain.

Yang widens her eyes in the sudden realization. "Atlas is being overrun… it's just like what happened at Beacon…"

"Precisely, so as much as I'd like to stick around and listen to your complaining we should get moving as soon as possible." Raven says as she begins to lightly jog toward Atlas.

Yang mentally scolds herself for letting her personal feelings get in the way of saving people, she is a huntress after all, and so is Ruby. She saw her get grabbed by me right as the hull breached open, and she knows that she is safe with me. After a moment of thinking Yang jogs after her mother. When they catch up they don't say a word. They can catch up and settle things once and for all once this whole thing is over.


Blake

Blake landed catlike and quite safely, the furthest away from anyone else and the last to touchdown. She quickly realizes that she is by herself and readies a plan with her quick thinking. Her thinking is cut off as she feels her scroll vibrate.

"Huh? My scroll hasn't given me any notifications since we were in Mistral." Blake says to herself as she quickly takes it out.

The message is from Weiss:

Atlas is in trouble, head there and we'll all regroup to help defend it!- Weiss

"Well that explains that." Blake says as she begins running toward the smoke in the sky, she assumes that it is coming from the kingdom since the only other smoke is probably from the Bullhead. "I won't run away this time." Blake promises herself as she runs toward Atlas, but soon she runs into Human Grimm hybrids, the same ones that she and RWBBY fought against before. She growls to herself and unsheathes her blade, ready to spill some blood.

"Out of my way!" She exclaims as she charges toward the pack of Hybrids.

Of course the pack is easily dispatched in a matter of seconds, Blake is not toying around this time and is determined to get back to her teammates that are no doubt heading to Atlas themselves judging from the message that she had just received. After slaying the last hybrid she believes that she is done, and wipes off the black blood on her blade on a tree as she goes back on the path to Atlas, that is until she hears one more growl. She spins around with her weapon at the ready right away, but the sight of the new creature horrified her… It's a Faunus, a panther Faunus to be precise. The creature that used to be a regular Faunus is now on all fours, it's hands now contorted and malformed to act as paws, and generally every body part is bent in some way to imitate an actual Panther, the teeth even got much longer and sharper, the hair that is growing on every inch of its body is as black as the night just like a Grimms, and the eyes are of course the same as any normal Grimm creature, Red with no pupils, literally only seeing red as it charges toward Blake at a surprising speed. Blake was barely able to use her semblance to fake her own death as she rolls out of the way. She jumps back up and wipes a tear from her face.

"Damn you Salem… we'll make you pay for what you have done to these people one day." She swears to herself as she prepares to take on this new creature


Tai, Jaune, Ren, and Nora

Tai used his gauntlets to slow his fall similar to how Yang did during the initiation that feels so long ago. It's actually how he landed when he was in the initiation himself, Nora safely landed in a similar fashion by using her hammer explosions to slow her descent. Ren uses his blades to slow his momentum dramatically by spiralling around tree, and Jaune… is not so lucky. He falls right on his face after hitting the branches, but luckily minimal damage is done since he landed on his shield and his massive amount of aura blocked pretty much all of the damage, although it does take a decent chunk out of his aura, leaving him at approximately 60%.

"Ow… well at least it's not a Deathstalker." Jaune says in a raspy voice since all the air was knocked out of his lungs. Surprisingly, the four managed to land pretty close with each other, so close in fact that they can actually all see each other. Since Jaune is in the middle of the group they all converge on him.

"What happened?" Nora asked in a frantic voice, worried about everyone else.

"A Nevermore surprise attack happened." Tai answers as he helps Jaune up, as does Ren.

"A coordinated attack between two Nevermores is unprecedented, this is bad. They are evolving, and that means Salem is improving them." Ren thinks out loud intentionally. No one can deny this logic.

"Huh? My scroll just ringed." Nora points out, gesturing to her pocket.

"Really? Mine did to. Which is weird since the last time we had a signal was in Mistral." Jaune adds, holding out his own scroll that hasn't been out of his pocket in quite some time.

"It's a message from Weiss… We have to get to Atlas as soon as possible!" Jaune exclaims, forgetting the pain he has just been feeling as he jumps up to a standing position.

"Why what's wrong?" Tai asks seriously.

"We all got a message from Weiss, she says that Atlas is in major trouble as of this moment, we need to all regroup there and help defend." Ren explains for him just as he jumps up into a branch and starts jumping from tree to tree on the way to Atlas, with Jaune and Nora close behind him on the ground with their weapons at the ready.

Tai is left talking to himself as he starts to run after the kids. "Suuure just forget about the actual fully trained Huntsman, not like I have any skills at all." He says sarcastically as he closes in on the younger Huntsman.


Hector, Rhea, and Ruby

My vision is slowly coming back to me, and my sense of feeling slowly returns to me as well, apparently the bubble around us broke just before we hit the ground, causing me to violently hit my head against the combined power of metal and rock. I was too focused on keeping the bubble up to worry about my own aura being up, and ended up getting knocked out because of it, luckily Ruby and Rhea landed on top of me so they were cushioned and protected from the fall. I can feel my body being shaken as I slowly crack my eyes open. I can only hear ringing in my ears but a soft voice just barely makes it through,

"... ector… hector… HECTOR!" All at once I am able to hear and see again, and consciousness returns to me I prop myself on my elbows and grab my head that is throbbing with pain. I activate my aura which soothes the pain a decent amount and gets to work on healing the gash on the back of my head. "What's going on?" I say as I look into the teary eyes of Rhea.

"It's the Grimm! We're surrounded!" Rhea exclaims as she pulls me to my feet. Apparently, out part of the Bullhead landed pretty close to the kingdom, which is good, but bad at the same time since the incoming Grimm have to run by us to get to the city, and trust me when I say that there are LOTS of Grimm…

"Where's Ruby?" I ask as I stand up, worried for her safety.

"Right here!" Ruby calls out to me as she runs back into the Bullhead. A little messy but more or less unscathed, which brings relief to my body.

Seeing me awake, Ruby jumps into me for a hug, pressing her face into my chest out of relief that I am okay, once she saw me unconscious and Rhea healing me her heart nearly dropped out of her chest, I hug her back tightly out of relief but knowing that we are basically surrounded still I had to break it apart. I lightly push Ruby off and looking into her eyes. "We're going to have to catch up another time. For now we have Grimm to slay and a kingdom to save." I say before I look down to Rhea beside me.

"Rhea, stick close to me and call out when you need me, if you are attacked do NOT hesitate to destroy your enemy." I instruct sternly.

"O-okay!" Rhea says, getting closer to me.

"Ruby, how many are out there?" I ask, my gaze directed toward the opening she came through.

"I lost count." Ruby answers as she makes sure she has a full clip. As if on cue a small Beowolf peeks it's head into the Bullhead, but right away it's head is shot off and it explodes into a puddle of black blood and guck. I look to my left and see the barrel of Crescent Rose smoking.

"Alright so that many… and we're in a wide open snowy field. Alright well this is gonna be fun." I say as I begin to power up just enough so that my punches would be hard enough to kill any small creature in one hit, while the larger ones would take a considerable amount more. At the Kaioken times 5 state I can maintain this for a very long amount of time, and the pain I feel is basically nonexistent now that I have trained in Times 20 more than a couple times to start getting used to that pinnacle of power.

"So what's the plan?" Rhea asks, really hoping that we have one.

"We can't really make a plan with that many out there, it's already a miracle that they haven't attacked us already." Just as I say that a small glow of blue shines in my eye, and a flood of knowledge enters my mind.

"Uh… What was that?" Ruby asks, unsure of what just happened to me.

"I think that's his magical Knolly person that is in his head." Rhea answers for her.

What Knolly showed me was the reason why the Grimm aren't tearing this ship apart trying to kill me, they've been given strict orders to not attack me by some unknown entity. I couldn't quite grasp what I was looking at but it basically looked like my reflection when I had both eyes. Now that I know this Knolly turns off its own power and I regain sight of what is going on around me. "Well that's weird." I say as I am brought back.

"Since when did you have two magical people in your head?" Ruby asks, in a mixture of surprise and confusion.

"Relic of Knowledge is apparently sentient, go figure." I explain simply. "Apparently the Grimm are being ordered to stay away from me, for what reason I don't know but something or someone is here calling the shots."

"Why away from you specifically?" Rhea asks.

"No idea, maybe because I'm strong as shit, or Ruby's silver eyes. Those are the only reasons I can think of."

"By the way I have a little control over them now."

"That is fantastic, just don't literally knock yourself out."

"What are silver eyes special for?"

"TL:DR, Magic."

As we cautiously approach the opening in the Bullhead, we can begin to see what is outside, and feel the vibrations of so many Grimm of all kinds running past us, actually creating an oval shape of free space around the Bullhead, seeing this I get an Idea, if they are not even wanting to get close to me, then I could try something that I was a pretty long time ago from a certain Web show.

"Ruby, remember initiation when you were riding a Nevermore?"

"...Yes."

"Think you could get her up there?" I ask, pointing to Rhea with my thumb, who in turn widens her eyes comically, not liking the idea already. "Get to Atlas, and I'll be close close behind."

"How are you going to keep up with a Nevermore?" Rhea protests, not wanting to leave my side.

"I got the hops." I answer with a amused smile.

Before anyone can respond to the little joke I made, a Goliath of all things charges right through the crashed Bullhead, forcing us all the jump out before we can put the plan into action. "Well the element of surprise is ruined!" I point out the obvious as I pull Rhea to my side. Her eyes flame up and her hands both hold fireballs ready to be thrown at any Grimm that gets a little too close.

My aura flares up as I get ready to push anything back, we are literally surrounded by all sides, some Grimm stay around, curious to see what could be in the middle of all of them, when they see me they back off but when they see Ruby and Rhea they snarl and snap at us.


Hell, and Tyrian.

"Brother, it seems like your counterpart is surrounded, along with the Maiden and the Silver eyed girl. I I'd like to see the man who killed me quite brutally get torn apart." Tyrian sasy with a psychotic grin on his face.

"Even if we did Tyrian, none of them would stand a chance, you don't stand a chance either now that he is much more powerful than the last time you two fought. Especially since the Silver eyed girl is there, one glance and hundreds of them would be ashes in an instant. And stop calling me Brother, you weren't created, you were augmented and copied." Hell replies, annoyed with him.

"But no one else is deserving as such a title! By the by, how exactly did you manage to get all of this beauty to happen? Surely the Schnee doesn't have THAT much power."

"I found my ways…" Hell vaguely answers.

"Such as?"

"Lets just say that I can be pretty convincing as I am cutting off the toes and nipples of a Atlas computer tech expert."

"Amazing work, so the virus DID work again, you'd think that they would have bolstered their security systems after what happened at Beacon."

"Humans are unsurprisingly unintelligent and mostly unable to learn from past mistakes, especially massive ones such as Beacon. Remember, we need the Fall and Spring Maidens alive, we need them to get the Relics, I'll deal with Spring first, you go after Fall. If the Silver eyed girl gets in your way remember what you were told." Hell instructs, standing up from his sitting position from atop the highest building in Atlas, which is the comm tower that gives a signal to all of Atlas.

"Ah, so we do let them attack." Tyrian says from a floor beneath him.

"Ugh, fine. It won't do much other than a distraction." Hell relents, tired of telling him no.

"Yes! Finally some blood!" Tyrian exclaims as he jumps down to the ground, despite the height that would kill any normal huntsman even with a proper landing strategy.

After a couple of moments Hell takes a deep breath, he opens his eyes and a shine of red comes from the middle of them. "Mother you know he is just going to get himself killed again right?"

"Of course I do son, he is nothing but a distraction at this point, as Hector is now he doesn't stand a chance, even if he did infect him with his venom."

"You're calling my counterpart by his name now?"

"He has earned the honor of being called as such, he has earned my respect from how long he has been pushing back against me and my forces."

"Hmm, what would you have me do with him when we encounter each other? You know that something inside me is driving me to end his life."

"As much as you would hate to admit it, he is your brother by blood, try to bring him in for subjugation if you can."

"Very well… I'll do as you say." Hell obediently says with a bow of his head.

"Good child, now go hunt the Spring Maiden, my sources say that she is only with her daughter and she won't be a problem for you."

"Yes mother." And with that Hell blinks his eyes, cutting off the connection and returning his eyes to their usual Grimm state. He looks into the distance and focuses his vision on the traces of Spring's magic. He then crouches down to a leaping position, his body gains a deep small Black and Red aura. "Kaioken." in the next second he leaps so fast and far horizontally, breaking the speed of sound and breaking the windows of the buildings he flies past, his hair whips around with the wind. He truly doesn't know why he has kept the name the same as his counterpart, but he decided that it would be too much of a hassle to try to change it. He shifts his mindset back to the Spring Maiden, who he will be closing in now within the minute…


Qrow and Mercury

After running for what feels like hours, Mercury finally stirs from his little nap. Qrow notices this and stops on one of the trees, setting the young Black on his back.

"Did you get him?" Is the first thing he asks Qrow.

Qrow exhales through his nose and stands back up. "No kid, he kept going after you while you were asleep and I couldn't protect you and fight him at the same time. I think something happened to him, he was augmented or something. That last attack you landed on him would've killed any other Huntsman, yet he got back up with just a couple of gashes and bruises and still put up a decent fight."

"How… I failed… again." Mercury says in shame, pulling his knees up to his chest and hanging his head in shame.

"Kid, it's not your fault, you did great." Qrow attempts to comfort the younger Black. Although Mercury has done terrible things in the past, including helping bring down Amber, the Fall Maiden before Cinder, but now that he sees that he is trying to better himself and even earned the trust of RWBY, including Yang, who is probably the one he hurt the most personally, just makes him forgive what he has done. It's not going to stop him from kicking the shit out of him once everything is over, but it does help him keep his life.

"Wasn't great enough, now we're out here, alone in the freezing woods of the asshole of Atlas, and who knows what the others are doing right now.

"We'll find them. Geez kid your personality really has taken a 180, didn't think you could become and even bigger bitch then you were before." Qrow sayas as he pulls the stunned Mercury to his feet. "Listen kid, it doesn't matter what mistakes you made in the past right now, all that matters is fixing what you can right here and now. So are you to keep being a little bitch? Or are you going to help me kill that son of a bitch the next time you see him?"

Mercury widens his eyes at the less than professional inspirational speech, but he wipes his eyes with a smile and looks back at him with his usual Cocky grin.

"Fuck yes I am."

"Good man, now let's get to Atlas, Im sure the girls are terribly missing you right about now."

"I don't know about that first part but other then that it sounds like a plan."


Ruby, Rhea, and Hector

We are all standing with our backs together, Rhea has already taken a frew down quite easily by burning them with her white fireballs, Ruby has cleaved many in two as the jumped at her. The Grimm try to avoid me the best they can but I keep catching them right as they begin to leap and kill them with a single powerful punch. But then they all stop, in fact hundreds of Grimm of all kinds stop all around us, and all stare out way, drooling from the mouth.

"Uuuh, what's going on?" I think out loud.

'Prepare yourselves." is all Ozpin can say to me.

All at once, a mixture of Beowolves, Ursai, and smaller Deathstalkers and Beringels charge at us all at once. I widen my eyes and grab the girls next to me with both arms, and jump high into the air. I point Ruby toward the ground, "Ruby if you can use those eyes now would be a great time!" I say as we begin to fall back down.

Ruby focuses the strange energy she has been feeling since the Fall of Beacon into her eyes, and they begin to glow a silver shine, she widens her eyes and lets her power run wild, the few dozen creatures below us burn away into ash, I land on my feet first and put down Ruby and Rhea, who are uninjured except for Ruby who seems to be a bit worn out after pulling that off.

"Whew, that's the first time I was able to do that." Ruby says as her eyes go back to their normal darker silver color.

"Oh of course it was, we don't have much time and OH SHIT." I yell as I get block the massive stinger of a larger Deathstalker from impaling Rhea. "I'll deal with the bigger Grimm! You two take care of each other!" I shout as I push back the stinger violently so hard that the stinger part actually flies off into the air and stabs a poor unsuspecting Griffon.

"Yeah Im not even going to pretend that was intentional." I say as I charge into the horde of Grimm creatures.

"Alright Rhea, you ready?" Ruby asks as they stand back to back. While I take on the more dangerous creatures, Ruby and Rhea are going to have to face off against the smaller ones, such as the hybrids, weaker Beowolves, and creeps.

"I uuh, I don't know…" Rhea replies as she shivers, she is afraid at the mere sight of the overwhelming amount of Grimm surrounding them both. Ruby places a hand on her shoulder to get her attention.

"I'm sure Hector taught you something right? I have a feeling I know what one of those things was." Ruby says as he silver eyes shine a small amount.

Rhea remembers one thing I said that she has kept to heart, it was one of my memories that she saw when I was unlocking her aura.

"No matter how many enemies I face, even if it's all of them at once, I will not go down without at least putting up a fight that would be written down in history!" I yell as I charge at Tyrian. It was one of the things I said to him while Salem was trying to take over my body and nearly succeeded. This is also the moment when Salem decided that it was a great idea to just recreate me using my DNA.

Rhea's eye flames burn even hotter and larger as she fills herself with as much courage that she can muster up. "I remember something like that." She declares, her white flames growing hotter, so hot in fact that Ruby can't stand too close to her without her aura beginning to literally melt away.

"That's the spirit!" Ruby exclaims happily despite the situation they're in. Without waiting for the creatures to come to them, they both dash off in the same direction, but away from each other, silently agreeing to take on half and half, with both of them still facing around a hundred. Rhea has an easier time, since her magical power is giving her a pretty big edge over her enemies, she conjures up her fire whip that she used against me in her training, but since these creatures are nowhere near as strong as I am and have no aura, she has very little trouble dealing with them. She whips an incoming charging Beowolf, and it catches aflame right away, burning away in mere seconds after being put on fire with the magical flames. She cringes when her next enemy is a human Grimm hybrid, she gets a flash of memories to just a few days ago when her village was wiped out by the creatures, but instead of being afraid, she just feels angry. She whips in a horizontal arc, the whips grows longer and larger in size so much so that she surprises herself when about a twenty foot cone of black soot is all that is left in front of her. Before she can fully process what she has just done, she gets hit in the back by an older Beowolf, not an alpha just yet but getting there. Luckily her aura protected her from basically all of the damage, and she uses the momentum of her fall to roll and get back on her feet. She then finds herself surrounded once again. Almost like the creatures of Grimm she had just slain just respawned.

"Hah… Hah… I won't be able to hold out on my own for much longer." Rhea says to herself, hoping that either me or Ruby comes to help her once either of us get the chance.

Ruby on the other hand is fighting pretty expertly, the training she has done and her semblance evolving to make her even faster is making her seem like an actual fully trained Huntress now. She dances around her enemies as she uses her scythe to cleave and cut the heads off of her enemies, her silver eyes glowing more and more after each successful kill. Making her even faster and stronger by the second, it is a passive ability that she doesn't even realize is happening to her right now. She fits her scythe from behind her, killing a Beowolf while also launching her toward about a dozen of Hybrids. She swings Crescent Rose in an arc and slays about half of them, before pointing it toward the ground and firing herself into the air, she shines her eyes at the creatures looking up at her. But this time focuses on the more powerful Grimm creatures so that she would not tire herself out. Burning an Ursa Major to ash before she hits the ground. Just as she hits the ground she activates a burst of her semblance and dashes through three Beowolves, when she appears again on the other side, a shockwave forms behind her, and the Beowolves all fall down into several pieces. She herself doesn't know where this power is coming from. But she is excited that she has improved this much in such a short amount of time. However her excitement is cut short as she hears familiar psychotic giggling behind her. She turns around in a burst of rose petals and fires her sniper at the giggling creature, but instead of the creature exploding into a black mist, it is deflected away by a long glowing yellow scorpion tail, she widens her eyes as she realizes who this is right away.

"Heh heh, the rose has grown!" Tyrian exclaims, extending his arms out in excitement. "And she has gotten MUCH stronger! Maybe you will actually be a challenge this time."

"Tyrian…" Ruby says as she narrows her eyes at him, it is true that she got her ass kicked the last time they met, but now she is much stronger, and unlocked some of her Silver eyed power. Since Tyrian is now part Grimm as Mercury told her before, she assumes that her eyes should be able to bring him down. That is if she wasn't already straining.

"I won't lose this time." Ruby declares, getting in a fighting stance with her scythe behind her back.

"Hehe… for your sake I hope you don't lose either, I'd hate to take your eye to." Tyrian says as he goes on all fours.

Ruby widens her eyes and gets filled with anger that she didn't know she was capable of. That's how I lost my eye, this creature took it! At least that is what she thinks.

"HA!" The two rivals dash toward each other, one leaving behind Rose petals while the other giggles maniacally.

Back with me, I am biting off more than I can chew with the amount of Large Grimm around me. My Kaioken times five state is more than enough for a couple of them, but against nearly a hundred can be a bit overwhelming. I dodge under a claw from a Deathstalker and slide across the ground, ending up under the Deathstalker and launch my fist into its soft underbelly, the Deathstalker goes into the air several of meters up, I jump into the air and grab it's tail, I use the gravity as a weapon and slam the Deathstalker into another one, killing the one beneath it, I then use it to swing in a large arc and hit dozens of Beowolves and Ursai alike, killing most of them. Finally the stinger of the Deathstalker I was using pops off, and the Deathstalker dissipates away, along with the stinger in my hands. I toss the useless body part to the ground and get ready to take on any other creature. I am covered in black blood and Ebony and Ivory are sparking with Black and Red electricity, my eye is also glowing a bright red glow along with my aura. This is enough to instill fear into the Grimm around me, causing most of them to whimper and run away, but one stays back to face up against me. A very large and powerful looking Beowolf that is even larger than an ancient Goliath by a lot. I look up at the creature and smile when I crack my neck.

"So what are you? A super Beowolf?" I taunt as I get into my fighting stance.

This is the same Super Beowolf that RWBBY fought against and drove off about one or two months ago. The same one that is immune to almost every form of attack due to its age and experience. It charges at me without a second thought, as do I. We clash in the middle and push against each other, surprisingly the Super Beowolf easily throws me back and knocks me on my back. I barely roll out of the way in time to dodge a crushing attack from it's paw and it creates a small crater in the ground. I flip away and power up even more, getting more serious with a creature that can push me back.

"Kaioken times TEN!" I scream as the area we are fighting in glows with red, the snow on the field actually melts away in a five foot radius to me. I dash toward the creature and with a roar, jab my fist into its snout, but surprisingly it doesn't die right away, far from it, it just recoils back and shakes its head like it has a insect in its fur. I dodge the counter and grab it's paw, lifting it into the air and throwing it toward some of the Grimm bystanders, they all get crushed under its weight. But once again it gets back up and is unscathed.

"Okay Oz, what is going on here?" I ask him as I take a more defensive stance.

'This creature is ancient, possibly thousands of years old, it is immune to physical attacks, even if you go times twenty you wouldn't be able to dent it.'

"Oh well that's just great. What do I do then?"

'Let me take this one.'

"What? Why?"

'Unlike you, I can use magical attacks, and luckily you have kept my cane with you all this time.'

"Alright go for it." I say as I power down.

I close my eye and my body transforms to look more like Ozpin, white hair, pale skin, and a slightly different facial structure, Ozpin opens his eye and it shines green, and he actually gains a green flaming aura, similar to my own when I power up.

"It has been quite some time since I used magic in a fight." Ozpin says as he flexes his arms.

"Geez Ozpin, since when can you get this strong?"

"You really think I was just sitting idly in your head? I have trained, after my defeat at Beacon I can not afford to be that weak anymore." Ozpin explains.

"Heh, well then I'll just sit back and enjoy the show. Sic em Oz."


Raven and Yang

Raven and Yang are closing in on the snowy field, they were the second closest to Atlas, but are nowhere near me, Ruby, and Rhea in the slightest, but they can see the carnage in between them and Atlas themselves. But before they can begin charging through the Snowy field of Grimm, something lands right in front of them, creating a shockwave that nearly knocks the two off their feet. As the dust fades they can see… Me?

"Hector?" Yang calls out to the silhouette that can be seen through the dust and snow cloud.

"No." Raven states, unsheathing her sword and her eyes flame a powerful red.

"Not quite Xiao Long." Hell speaks as his deep Black and Red aura blasts away the dust cloud. To reveal himself to be the spitting image of me, but with snow white skin, purple veins, and Grimm colored eyes.

"Who? What are you!?" Yang shouts in a mixture of confusion and anger.

Hell just smirks cockily at the two, and slowly begins to step toward them, the snow around him moves away as he walks, and he answers Yang's question with a single word,

"Hell."


AN- I did say that this was going to be a doozy right guys? So many arcs and stories all going on at the same time that I can barely keep up with it, but it is so fun to write all of this, SIX groups I have to cover every chapter for this arc SIX every chapter. But boy oh boy you guys are going to love the upcoming chapters that are going to be PACKED with action.

Please leave a review and tell me what you think! Any questions? Concerns? Advice? I am open to any and all!

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