The towering shadow that had appeared before Ruby, Pyrrha, Weiss, and Blake brought its fist down with such tremendous speed that Blake barely avoided being pancaked against the dirt. She rolled out of the way, coming to a stand and fired her evoker against her temple in one smooth motion. Freya appeared, her cat ears twitching as she launched a wave of fire over the fist that was colliding with the ground. The giant shadow simply lifted its hands and shook off the flames, seemingly unaffected.
Pyrrha rushed between the shadows legs, launching a series of thrusts at the monster's right calf. After her rapid series of thrusts, she pulled her evoker to her head and called Baldr. Her massive glowing persona charged forward, shield-bashing the same spot that Pyrrha had been striking against in the shadow's black, seemingly muscular form. Pyrrha noted, grimly, that the shadow was not recoiling from her strikes.
"Are we even hurting this thing?" Ruby called out as the green crystal on the shadow's left leg began to glow. A small green burst of light appeared under Weiss's feet, and she danced out of the way barely in time to avoid being flung asunder by the spinning torrent of wind that appeared where she had just been standing. Ruby and Weiss looked at one another, and Weiss nodded to herself.
"Idunne!" She called, and her fashion model persona appeared next to her in the low cut dress that she wore. "Let's see here…" Weiss reached out to the persona, who handed Weiss the pair of heart-shaped glasses that Idunne always wore. Weiss put the glasses on her head and tried to focus her mind. Much like Jaune and Hodr, through Idunne Weiss could make out certain pieces of data by using her persona to scan the enemy.
As Weiss tried to examine the massive shadow, the blue crystal on the shadow's arm began to glow, launching a giant shard of ice right toward Weiss. Before Weiss could react, a giant wolf intercepted the shard, crushing it in its giant maw. The wolf vanished, and Ruby gave Weiss a wink as she ran forward to join Pyrrha in striking at the creature's legs, scythe in hand.
"I can't… I can't see anything." Weiss called after a few moments as she squinted through Idunne's glasses. When she had done this before, the images were mostly clear and decipherable. Now, as she tried to examine this new threat, she found herself with the sensation of looking through a thick fog. She couldn't tell it had any weak points, whether certain attacks were effective, or even if they were wounding the giant creature. Weiss bit her lip as the giant shadow swung its massive fist down on Pyrrha, just in time for Pyrrha to call upon Baldr. Where the shadow's fist collided, it met only Baldr's shining shield. The fist bounced back into the air it met the force of Baldr's shield.
Blake had joined the other girls in their assault on this giant formidable persona, but even through the fog Weiss couldn't shake the feeling that nothing they were doing was working. A small circle of light appeared under Blake's feet, but she spun out of the way just before it erupted into a luminous explosion. This shadow's abilities seemed limitless. It had struck at them with ice, light, wind, and thunder abilities and didn't seem to be running out of juice any time soon.
Ruby suddenly stopped in the middle of her strikes, tilting her head slightly to the right as though she was hearing something. "Loud and clear, Juane!" She said as she barely dodged the way of the creature's incoming fist. "Are you o-Pyrrha, watch out!" Pyrrha, who had stopped and looked at Ruby at the mention of Jaune, didn't see the incoming ball of fire until it was too late. She rushed to bring her shield up, but took the full brunt of the attack in the chest, flying backwards and going head-over-feet in mid-air before she collided with the ground. "Sorry Jaune," Ruby called as she rushed to her friend, "we're kind of busy!"
Weiss gritted her teeth as she continued to focus. She saw Pyrrha flying backwards and, though she couldn't identify the enemy's stats, she could see Pyrrha's just fine – and they did not look good. They needed a miracle, or this monster was going to utterly destroy them. Weiss looked down at her rapier and pressed a small, hidden switch right where the hilt met the cross guard. The bottom of the hilt slid open, and inside was a very small vial with a tiny lancet, and the vial was filled with a glowing orange liquid.
Weiss dropped the vial into her hands and looked up at the scene before her. A giant shard of ice was billowing straight for Blake. Freya stood in front of Blake, tome outstretched, launching a blast of fire that seemed to be intercepting the ice shard. Ruby was narrowly avoiding being struck by lightning coming from the sky as Pixie tended to Pyrrha's wounds. Weiss had the solution right there in her hand. She looked at the Dust and back up at the shadow once more, and felt her decision was made – or so she thought.
The roar of an engine interrupted her thought process. She looked over to see a bright orange motorcycle heading straight for them, a stream of yellow light flying behind the helmet like a flag in the wind. As the motorcycle headed closer and closer, Weiss let out a sigh of relief. She tossed the glasses back to her Persona, who vanished, and then placed the vial of dust back into her sword. She wouldn't need it now – a miracle had, in fact, arrived.
Ruby turned her head to see the source of the noise, just as another giant shard of ice came out of the creature and toward her face. Pyrrha, who had been trying to sit up while Ruby tended her wounds, launched herself from the ground to stand in front of Ruby. Her evoker triggered, and Baldr appeared just in time to have the shard of ice collide with Baldr's shield. Baldr subsequently vanished, and Pyrrha started to fall – but Ruby grabbed her under the arm just in time. The two shared a wary look, then they heard the engine revving as well.
They looked up to see that behind the shadow was a woman with long yellow hair, wearing brown shorts, brown boots, a white blouse, and orange aviators was on a stationary orange motorcycle, revving the engine. The front of the bike was pointed right at the shadow.
"I-is she planning on ramming that thing?" Pyrrha gasped.
"Probably!" Ruby said with uncontrolled glee. She smiled, and her previous beating was washed away by pure enthusiasm. The motorcycle rushed toward the shadow, engine roaring as the blonde piloted the vehicle straight ahead. Her right hand stayed on the handlebar, her left went to a gun holster at her hip. "Sif!" She called as she pulled the trigger.
The woman's persona appeared.
A large woman made of solid gold manifested, or so it appeared at first. On inspection, her body was just wreathed in so much long, vibrant, golden hair that it was nearly impossible to glimpse underneath save where it framed a statuesque face that had red eyes and bright red lips poking out. A hand, also seemingly made of marble, stretched out of the mass of hair, which was apparently a giant mass of braids. The persona grasped one long braid – tied with metal bands at the end – in one hand and began to spin it in circles. The end of the braid had a metallic shining protrusion, like a dagger had been tied to it. The persona flew alongside the motorcycle, hair flying back to reveal the cracked, statuesque marble figure underneath. The braid spun faster and faster, and then the persona launched it at the shadow.
The braid shot out like a spear, growing impossibly longer as it travelled from the persona's body. The shadow turned to see the incoming assault, having something of a dumbstruck look on its 'face' that sat on its chest as the motorcycle continued to rush at it. Then, the shadow casually sidestepped in incoming spear.
The braid shot right past it, missing the massive shadow's form by more than a foot.
Suddenly, the braid of gold snapped around one of the shadow's legs, tying itself in a knot firmly. The persona stopped flying and planted its feet in the ground, kicking up dirt as it did so, skidding to a stop as it dug itself into the earth. The persona gripped the braid that was tied to the shadow with both hands, and planting both feet, she pulled.
The shadow's leg came out from under it, causing it to fall to one knee. The shadow's center of gravity lowered as the motorcycle skidded hard onto its side in a sharp one-eighty turn. Popping a wheelie, the blonde revved her engine once more and rushed toward the shadow that was now struggling to regain balance on its feet.
Weiss looked at the scene and saw what needed to be done. She rushed forward and pulled the trigger on her evoker. "Idunne!" She cried, and her persona manifested in front of her. Idunne, with her apple in front of her, blew an icy kiss that turned into a small flurry in front of the girl's motorcycle. After an instant, a slope of ice appeared before her. A ramp with which to launch herself into the air and directly at the shadow.
Just as the shadow seemed to almost be capable of standing, the woman hit the ramp on her bike – headed straight for the head of the shadow. It looked, for a moment, as though she was just going to fall short of her jump and instead just collide with the spiky crystal on the shadow's knee – but at the last moment, the pilot kicked herself off of the motorcycle into the air and pulled her fist back. Shame came straight at the gargantuan shadow's face, golden hair flying all around her face and neck and shoulders.
When her fist came down, Weiss was certain that people on the other side of the world heard the crash.
The moment froze. The blonde's fist was in the shadow's face. Then, the blonde drove the shadow down onto its back, fist still planted in the center of its chest between its 'eyes'. A dust storm kicked into the air as the massive enemy hit the ground. Before the dust could clear, Weiss, Ruby, Blake, and Pyrrha all saw their chance. Four evokers went off, and four personas launched into a flurry of attacks against the massive shadow.
As they did so, the dust storm rose higher in the air as the giant shadow disappeared underneath the fearsome assault. When the dust cleared, the four girls stood amidst the disappearing particles of the shadow's body. The girls' personas all began to vanish – and as they did so, the blonde stuck out her fist. Her giant persona, whose body seemed to be made of cracked marble, whose hair was made of solid gold, reached out a fist and bumped the blonde's before disappearing.
"Yaaaaang!" Ruby called. She dropped her weapon and rushed, nearly stumbling over herself, into her sister's embrace. Yang hugged her sister back, pulling her in with both arms and squeezing her tight.
As they embraced and the last of the shadow dissipated into the air, the world around them began to change. The grass went from pitch black to green, and the strange sky above them began to look normal. It seemed that the strangely timed Grimm Hour had ended.
"Hey little sis." Yang smiled softly, increasing just a bit before letting go.
"Showoff." Weiss smirked, somehow giving a posh and poised appearance despite the clear stress on her face just moments ago.
"Heya there Weiss, Pyrrha, and hey new girl." Yang said with a wave towards Blake. Blake sheepishly waved back, dropping her fighting stick as she did so. She coughed and snatched it back up in a 'let's-pretend-that-didn't-happen' manner.
"Well, looks like we're done here." Weiss smiled to see Pyrrha was joining them, though she had a bit of a slow cautiousness to her from her wounds.
"It is good you could join us." Pyrrha spun her spear and put it behind her. "A very timely appearance indeed."
"Glad to hear it." Yang smiled. "Would hate to be late to the party over some toy."
"Toy?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.
"So, just where have you been anyway?" Ruby said she stood beside her sister.
"Well," Yang began, "It's kinda a long story…"