Qrow, still shivering, walks through the dark passageway, passing many soldiers. He emerges in the courtyard, which is full of activity in spite of the darkness. Men chatter as they prepare. He stops short, cut off by Atlas bots, marching double time.

"Look to the wall! Look to the wall!" Cried Ilia, Commanding some Southern Soldiers

Qrow walked past them and then looked to see Sage ready to lead soldiers in the charge of the dead.

"Get down to the Basement!" Cried a soldier

Carolina Church appears behind him, directing her men. He then walks past Cinder, then leaves. Arslan walks somberly through the busy courtyard. She picks up a bag and slings it over her shoulder. Oscar walks past with Velvet next to him. Arslan pushed by Neptune, who held a dust rifle in his hands and his sword to his side. Warmed by their fires, men stand in anticipation, eyes scanning the darkness. Ruby delivers a bucket of Clips and strings of bullets for guns. Joan stare's into the darkness. She looks worried. Her eyes turn upwards in response to hearing Raven's screech. The two Dragons fly overhead.

A company of Branwen warriors double march to join the formation. The entire Tribe stands at attention in disciplined rows and columns. Ahead of them stands a line of Dust Canons and mounted machine guns by their side. A large amount of Atlas Soldiers line up with warthogs, and Motor-cycle, they are now waiting, Guns aimed forward to the South.

The southern men also stand at the ready, fronted by Ilia and Oscar. Arslan stands in command of the Xiao-long army. Mercury and Sienna lead the White-Fang force. The Whitley and Penny push their way to the front to join them. Cinder readies her Maiden powers. A nervous Sun arrives next to Neptune. Winter looks over the walls of Arktown.

Neptune looks over to Sun, "You took your time" Neptune told him

Sun nodded, "Ruby made me promise to see this through alive, she wouldn't let me go until I did" Sun replied

Qrow mounted a motorcycle and waits, seasoned and determined. The wind blows and the darkness reveals nothing.

Jaune walks by Raven and Dia. They growl. He joins Yang to survey the great army that waits in front of Arktown. The moon shines through the clouds above.

Weiss joins Joan as they see the Branwen tribe in the warthogs and motorcycle, lead by Qrow, start their engines and begin to drive forward, yelling wildly. Weiss and Joan exchange a look.

Yang and Jaune watch the charge. The Branwen charge pulls far away from the rest of the forces. Atlas soldiers load the dust bullets into the Mounted machine guns and Dust canons. They shot the dust canons like meteors over the heads of the charging Branwen. Qrow rides among the Branwen. The snarls of the undead army precede them. Suddenly the two armies are upon one another, the ferocious undead emerging from the darkness, massive in size and in numbers. the Branwen tribe is surprised by their sudden confrontation with ghoulish Faunas elephant giants.

Yang and Jaune watch the Tribe swarm around their darkened foes. Giant shots of fire dust continue to rain down, landing just beyond the mounted fighters. Yang's eyes are wide in horror

Whitley looks to the soldier's firing the mounted guns, "Cease fire! Cease fire!" Whitley ordered

Slowly the guns and canons stop and the fire dwindles until most are extinguished. The distance sound of battle gives way to the whistling wind. Arslan, Neptune and Sun look on. The lights become sparser still. Penny squints to make out the movements in the dark. Then the last of the fires disappear. Ilia and Oscar exchange a worried look. Roman scans the horizon. An eerie quiet takes hold, save for the sound of the wind. Mercury ponders. Weiss and Joan watch silently. The wind carries the sound of a few motors. Arslan listens. Ilia watches for more signs of the Branwen tribe. Oscar looks on nervous. A warthog rides past them all with three men in it. Sun is beginning to feel scared as they begin t hear nothing again. Five Branwen women run past, retreating on foot, followed by Qrow rides from the darkness along with more Branwen soldiers. Sienna and Mercury looks carefully at Qrow for more information. He is exhausted and hopeless, eyes unfocussed.

Yang is horrified. She turns to find her dragons and help her people. Jaune grabs her arm and stops her, reminding her of the plan.

"The Dark Brother is coming. We need to wait, Yang" Jaune told her

Yang shrugs off his grip. She looks Jaune in the eye, "The dead are already here! we need to help now" Yang told him

She walks back to mount Raven. The dragon roars and take's off...


The army looks worried.

Ilia and Oscar listen to the whistling wind.

Sun is on edge.

Mercury and Sienna stand tense and ready.

Whitley grips his sword.

Roman takes a breath.

In front of the Xiao-Long army, Arslan's face twists in anger.

Neptune puts on his helmet.

The wind blows stronger...

A soft patter becomes a rumble of running feet as the undead army starts to boil forth the darkness, running at full tilt...

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Once visible, they come in like a tidal wave!

The army takes their braced battle stance, guns pointed forward. The army of Hybrids crashes over them, shrieking and snarling. They stab and slice the army as they barrel through. Mercury and the Sienna, stand just off to the side with the southern army. They marvel at the sheer force and number of the undead. Then undead wave reaches them as well. Ilia, Oscar and their company brace for the coming onslaught.

"Stand your ground!" Ilia cried

The undead crashes into them at full speed and the battle is joined. Oscar begins to fight, Cutting and killing some Hybrids with Ilia by his side. Lyanna swings her flaming sword. The undead land gruesome blows to the Army. Cinder begins to burn more hybrids and making glass weapons with fire spouting from them. Mercury shoots and kicks the hybrids as well as cutting hybrids all over the place. Ilia is knocked off her feet by a speeding Hybrids and is trapped in a crowd of the undead. Oscar notices her and leaps to help. He pieces the Hybrids that tackled Ilia and throws them aside. Just then, The dragons above shoot forth a wall of flame as they dive past, disintegrating the hoard of Hybrids. Oscar looks up at the dragons.

Yang, Riding Raven, ascend as the inferno below them burns. Yang surveys the battle from above as she looks for her next line of attack. However, the rush of Hybrids continues. Sienna dispatches some of them. Behind him, Raven and Dia breath crossing walls of fire. Jaune rides Dia above the devastation they have unleashed, taking stock of the battle

Neptune stabs a mouthless Hybrid. Raven then spews forth an arc of flame. Dia joins in. Weiss and Joan take in the power of the dragons, and the enormity of the undead army.

Jaune and Yang fly side-by-side, away from Arktown. When the plain meets the woods, Jaune sees the mounted hybrid Chieftains. He and Yang exchange a look and then dive towards their enemy.

The Chieftains notice the approaching dragons. Suddenly, a ferocious gale of blowing snow rolls out from the woods, enveloping Jaune and Yang. Jaune loses his bearings and flys to remain aloft, Yang, however, rips through the undead below with Raven's fire, then struggles against the great storm.

Weiss and Joan do not like the way the battle is going.

Sun grunts as he dispatches another hybrid. Behind him, Neptune and Arslan fight their own foes. The arctic blast from the woods reaches them, and visibility worsens. Sienna and Sage kill more hybrids but the blizzard hits them.

Ruby, Neo, team RNZ and NDGO with Maria guard the three relics. The snow blast reaches them and their company and creates a whiteout.

Qrow turns around and rides back through the ongoing fight, dismembering a hybrid with one great swing, then another.

Roman kills three hybrids and then gets sliced on the rib, he tunrs and kills the hybrid, his face is bloodied and he looks exhausted.

Qrow pivots but a hybrid tackled him from behind, and he falls off his motorcycle, He rolls to his feet and continues to battle.

Nearby, Ilia grunts as she cuts through her assailants. She tries to catch her breath, but a Hybrid attack before she can.

Sun's berserk attacks are brutal and effective, but he is also out of breath.

Whitley is overwhelmed by three hybrids and gets tackled but is saved by Mercury.

Oscar pushes away the Hybrid that tries to take him down.

Lyanna and Roman also fight in the fray.

A Hybrid leaps through the air and wraps itself around Oscar, he tries to shake it off, another Hybrids tackles him. He shouts and slays an undead fighter.

Whitley circles behind him, but is taken down by another leaping Hybrid.

"Help! Help!" Oscar cries as he struggles to push off the Hybrid.

another hybrid jumps on Oscar, pinning him to the ground on his back.

he fights with all he has to stop the undead's blade from forcing into his skull.

Penny saves Oscar by stabbing the hybrid through the back, his sense slow as exhaustion takes over.

"get up!" Penny cried, she grabs Oscar and pulls him to his feet.

"thank you," Oscar told her

Whitley kills the Hybrid on top of him and goes to Penny and Oscar

As Oscar regains his strength, Penny is stabbed from behind, a sword sticking out from her chest, Oil spews from her mouth as she gasps and staggers.

"No!" Whitley cried as he ran and kills more Hybrids around him

Oscar grabs Penny and slowly lowers her body to the ground.

Oscar gets up and slits open a Hybrids stomach.

The two boys kill more and more hybrids.

More Hybrids charge in and Sage kills four in a row with his sword. Cinder burns more and more, but she becomes exhausted.

Sun jumps off the heads of two hybrids and shoots four, killing them.

Soldiers begin firing the dust cannons and mounted guns, but they are quickly dragged away and killed...


Weiss walks down the steps to the Basement. Above her, the heavy door closes and is locked by a guard. She joins the crowd of women, children and elderly who are huddling in it, along with Nora.

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The wind howls.

The clouds of snow hanging in the air.

Dia with Jaune on her flies through.

Jaune holds on to the powerful dragon as they crash through snow-covered treetops. Dia regains control of her flight. Jaune gasps for breath. He looks behind him at the peril they escaped.

Suddenly, Raven with Yang on her, appears from the snow cloud in front of them, on a collision course. The dragons bank to avoid one another. Yang grunts as she is nearly thrown from her Dragon. Jaune strains to check that Yang is safe as the dragons pull side by side.

The dragons struggle to fly against the wind and snow.

The two dragon riders are constantly tested by the unpredictable and jerky flight. Once they have settled, Yang looks down through the blowing snow to take in the battle. The undead army continues to surge forward with inhuman stamina. she gasps in horror

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Mercury looked upon the battle as he finished killing a hybrid, another rushes him and he shoots it head off, He looks to see that they are being overwhelmed

"Fall back!" He cried "Fall back!"

A Hybrids stumbles as it tries to attack Mercury from behind. He raises his weapon and delivers a powerful overhead strike. Sienna saw almost most of her White-Fang soldiers be slaughtered. Oscar and Whitely began to grow tired. Cinder was close to fainting, never had she fought like this before.

"Fall back!" Mercury cried once again

Any remaining fighters of the living heard and rushed back to the walls of Arktown.

Kali stands with her soldiers. She hears the cries from over the walls of the retreat

"Open the gate!" She cried

Her men run to the gate. Four soldiers remove the crossbeam and open the mighty gate. The injured and weary army rushes in noisily.

"Keep moving, fast! Keep moving!" Kali told the running men

Arslan watches as the army retreat through the gate. The Hybrid battle with the Dragon army nearby.

She looks to her men "Protect the retreat!" She cried "don't let a single one through!"

They fend off the ferocious attacks for the undead.

"Stand your ground!" Arslan cried

Men continue to pour through the gate, Sounds of the battle beyond ring through the blasts of wind and snow.

Maria sits pensively with Ruby. Above, they can see Dia fighting to hover before the dragon lands heavily on a tower. Jaune looks around, he sees the Soldiers rush towards the gate.

"Grab your weapon now! Guard those barricades! NOW!" Kali cried

Near the gate, Ilia tries to maintain some control of the rushing crowd. She ushers Oscar and Whitley into the courtyard. Nearby, Roman takes command of those near him. Arslan and now only a quarter of her men are left, they run towards the gate.

The Hybrids continue their slaughter of the army as men run, everyone flees in great numbers to the gate. The endless waves of undead continue. Soldiers run as fast as they can towards the gate. Mounted guns shoot through the air above them. Mercury takes down a Hybrids with a mighty blow.

The snarling undead wrestles through the wooden palisades.

Winter takes careful aim and shoots a Dust pistol, Killing three Hybrids pursuing the Qrow. He turns around in surprise, looks up to Winter and smiles, then back at the felled creature.

They manage to close the gate, the Hybrids still rushing to them, and banging on the gate.

hearing the sounds of what sounded like an ocean of undead beginning to pile up and hack at the gate. Kali saw this and grabbed some of her men,

"We need to protect the gate!" She cried

her men nodded and they went to hold the gate closed

Ilia walked up the walls and to see the Hybrid army, she looked to Winter

"Light the trench!" Ilia told her

Winter nodded and threw a dust crystal into the trench, It fell and landed on the wood, and She shot at it, but only managed to kill a Hybrid. She shoots again but there misses, she shoots a third time but with no avail.

"Fuck!" Winter cried

She shot once again and this time hits the fire dust crystal and the trenches shoot up in flames, creating a wall of fire, instantly killing any Hybrids in and around the trench. Ilia and Winter cheered but then Winter turned to her men

"Focus all fire on the Hybrids that are on the walls!" Winter ordered

the men did as they were told and began shooting at the Hybrids that made it past the trench before it was lit

Roman continues to pant as he watches the ferocious undead army. The seemingly endless undead army continues to surge forward, snarling and growling. For a split second all seemed fine. Until in the distance, they saw purple flames in the air and heading straight for them...


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The Dark Brother arrived at the walls with Tai and shot flames upon the side of Arktown, Destroying some mounted guns and blasting buildings apart, he then flys to the front and hovers in the air, however, the glow of the flaming trench alerts Yang and her fly back to Arktown.

The Dark Brother sensing this, flys away and waits for her later.

Ilia and Winter watch as Yang directs Raven to incinerate a swath of undead beyond the flaming trench.

Some Hybrids squirm and crawl out of the trench, engulfed in flames. Menagerie soldiers march past Oscar, Whitley, Sienna, and Mercury, who fight to catch their breath. Ilia looks beyond the wall of flame, She sees the Hybrids motionless and staring. Winter looks to see this too.

"what the hell are they doing?" Ilia asked herself

The Hybrid army stands motionless behind the flaming trench. One Hybrid steps calmly forward into the trench, falling forward. Then another joins him, and another still. They pile on top of one another at a quickening pace. Ilia watches as the Hybrids sacrifice themselves, one by one. He realizes that they are forming a bridge of corpses. Other groups of Hybrids tumble into the trench, building other pathways with their bodies. Ilia and Winter watch in horror and Ilia turns to the mounted guns

"Man the walls!" Winter cried

The first wave of undead forge across the corpse bridge. Soldiers hustle to obey the command. Sage looks up, then moves to action. Flynt grabs Neon and they head to help their friends and drags him towards the battle.

Soldiers fire arrows at the approaching ghouls. The undead pours across the corpse bridge and begins to attack the walls.

Jaune watches the onslaught as the Hybrid army restarts their siege. Hearing flapping above, he looks upwards and sees the reanimated corpse of Tai hovering, with the Dark brother riding him. Tai lets out a shriek, and Jaune spurs Dia and they fly.

The undead reaches the exterior wall of Winterfell and pressed themselves against in, en masse. Flaming arrows zip down from the ramparts.

"They're against the wall!" Cried a soldier

Flynt and Neon sprint through the yard. Sage runs up the stairs to the ramparts, ushering soldiers to take a position. The three made it atop and looked down at the horde.

They are piling on top of one another, creating a ramp for others to ascend to the top of the wall.

They snarl and scramble with relentless energy. The three stand ready to kill as the Hybrids they crest the wall.

Neon takes deep breaths as he looks down, wide-eyed, at the relentless ghouls.

The undead climb and strain.

They are approaching the top of the wall.

The highest Hybrid grabs a chain and pulls itself over the wall.

Neon cleaves him in two with a mighty swing, she stabs another in the face, and it topples away with a high pitched shriek.

Soldiers grunt as they slay the climbing Hybrids, one by one. Oscar, Ilia, Whitley, and Winter defend their perches. A Hybrid successfully leaps onto the wall and tackles a soldier. Sage dispatches it with a left-handed swing. The undead start to overwhelm the defense, crawling their way onto the wall. Cinder does her best to battle them back. One soldier gets pulled over the wall and tumbles into the undead mass below. Cinder is stabbed in the back, she turns around and burns her attackers, she is then stabbed again and she falls, Cinder thinks about the last woman she had seen as the Hybrids stab her again and she dies...


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Hybrids begin pouring across the flaming trench. There is no end in sight to the Grimmified dead. The Living army, or what remains of it, shoot and stab the undead as they hiss and growl and they crawl over one another with unflagging battle lust.

Sage looks to see a climbing Hybrids on an empty side of the wall, he slices it, hitting it to the floor. He looks to see the Hybrids completely Overwhelm the wall defenses and sees more coming up

"They're coming up!" He cried "get away from the walls!"

Whitley struggles with two Hybrids, while Ilia goes on a mighty charge across the wall, sending bodies, beams, and snow tumbling to the courtyard below. Whitley struggling with the two hybrids is then saved as Ilia finally reaches him, and liberates him from his captors. They fight side by side.

"Look out!" Whitley cried

He pushed her aside and slays they Hyrbid about to attack Ilia from behind. Ilia takes down another cresting the wall. Qrow fights for breath, recovering from the ferocious battle. A growl makes him look up, just in time to see a Hybrid that leaps down onto him. They struggle, and another Hybrid joins in. before they could kill him they are taken out by two clawed hands, they fall dead and looks to see Velvet has saved him

"you alright!?" She asked

Qrow takes a deep breath before nodding, "I'm fine" he replies

The two then make their way to the wall to help.

Just beyond, the Hybrids break through the wooden rail as they leap down into the courtyard below.

The battle commences in the courtyard as Hybrids pour down from above.

They overwhelm the soldiers once again.

Some mindlessly impale themselves on the stakes of the defensive soldiers.

Soldiers in the courtyard fight back while archers above unleash flaming arrows into the courtyard.

Neo, Lyanna, and Roman join the fray, Weapons in hand.

However, more pour into the courtyard faster than the soldiers can dispatch them.

Velvet uses her claws to slice the head off of a Hybrids as it charges. She runs down the walkway and slashes another, she expertly counters and gores a few more, she fights her way up a stairway, dispatching Hybrids with skill.

Sun fights on and notices Neptune shuddering in the corner, He kills a Hybrids charging at his friend and then turns back to him

"Neptune! Neptune!" Sun cried

Neptune hyperventilates in his trance-like state.

Velvet continues her assault and meets up with Oscar. She spins, strikes, blocks, and kicks, destroying Hybrids left and right. She looks back at Oscar, who marvels at her skill.

Moonstone bullets rain down as more Hybrids rush the wall.

the Hybrids leap into the yard, tackling anyone they could.

As Neon takes a look at the battle, a wooden gate behind her explodes into shards.

A Grimmified Elephant Faunas stand there, bigger than any human and other faunas there.

It charges at Neon and bats her away.

She lets out a sharp scream as she crashes into the corner of the wall.

A horde blocks the stairway below Velvet. With no other recourse, she leaps, tumbling on top of the undead before taking a hard landing below them, Oscar follows as they dodge the attack of a Hybrid and scurried away on all fours. As they tried to exit the stairwell, they are pushed into a wall, Velvet hitting her head. Oscar noticed she was a little dizzy and grabbed her hand. still dazed, she regains her feet as more Hybrids attack.

The undead Elephant Faunas swings its mighty club back and forth, sending soldiers flying across the courtyard. Some land on the spikes, impaled on impact.

cradling her stomach, Neon struggles to find her feet.

The undead giant unleashes a devastating blow that sends a clutch of men flying through the air.

Neptune remains frozen and panting. Sun kills a Hybrid and then looks back to Neptune once more

"Neptune! We need you!" Sun cried

Sun was then grabbed from behind and pinned to the ground, He raises his arms as a Hybrid bites his gauntlets on his forearms. Another approached and Sun uses his feet to keep it at bay

"We can't beat them..." Neptune whimpered "We're fighting Death... We can't beat Death..."

Above them, Velvet and Oscar leap from the wall onto the roof of a courtyard building.

Oscar begins to roll out of reach of a leaping Hybrid, who bounces down the roof and into the courtyard below.

Sun looked back to his friend as he continued to struggle.

"What about Weiss! Don't let them kill her! don't let them take what you love away!" Sun cried

Neptune, still breathing heavily, looks to his friend. He thinks of his team and of Weiss. He sparks to action, Shooting the two Hybrids on his friend. Sun gets up and grabs his Numbchucks. The two look to each other and nod before going to help Oscar and Velvet.

Neon finds her feet, panting and in great pain.

Her face is streaked with blood.

She can hardly breathe and it feels like needles in her skin.

Neon lets out a battle cry and with her sword in hand, charges the giant Faunas. The giant Faunas turns to meet her assault, he reaches down and grabs her by the chest, the grip chokes the breath from Neon. He squeezes harder and her ribs crack. He raises her up to his face, taunting her as he crushes the life from her. Blood pours from her mouth as she pants for breath. The one-eyed giant growls at her and draws her closer. Neon yells in pain, she frees an arm to stabs the undead giant in his good eye with her dagger. The two fall to the ground and Neon's strength leaves her.

She dies.

She wonders about Flynt.

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Above them, the Dark Brother flies on Tai through the swirling clouds. The undead dragon roars, behind them, Yang and Raven are in pursuit followed by Jaune and Dia. The clouds of snow and gusting winds slow the pursuit.

Yang and Jaune fly higher, breaking the clouds to find the moon's illumination.

Their dragons hover. Yang scan the skies for a sign of the Dark Brother.

An eruption of purple flame bursts from the clouds below Jaune. Jaune steers away as the flames as the Dark Brother and Tai fly directly upwards. The dark Brother turns his dragon to Yang, belching purple flame at her. They try to speed upwards and away. But the Flames hit Raven and burn yangs leg and her left-side gauntlet. Yang feels the heat of the fire and removes her gauntlet.

Meanwhile, Jaune and Dia tailspin out of control and they fight to regain control of their path.

Tai unleashes another purple blast.

Raven weaves an evasive path while Yang holds on for dear life.

Then the Dark Brother and Tai turn away and fly to the ground.

Jaune and Dia finally stem their downward spiral.

They come to a hover next to Yang and Raven and look again for signs of the Dark Brother. They exchange a glance, then direct their dragons to dive back into the clouds beneath them.

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The injured Velvet, Oscar, Sun, and Neptune sneak their way through a quiet passageway. She opens a heavy door and enters a dimly lit house. they look to see that they are somewhat safe. so, Oscar and Velvet pause to catch their breath, Sun sits down and sighs, Neptune goes to the kitchen to look for something to drink. He finds a whole gallon of water and begins to drink it. Velvet then hears some footsteps, She gets up and looks around, She goes upstairs and looks through the rooms, but finds nothing. Neptune stops drinking the gallon of water and walks to the living room where Oscar and Sun are.

Before he could enter, a Hybrid tackles him to the ground, and with a shard of wood, stabs him in the shoulder.

Neptune kicks it off and crawls backwards into the hallway, Oscar and Sun rush to save their friend and Oscar quickly kills the Hybrid.

Velvet walks down to meet with them, The windows are then busted through as Hybrids began breaking their way into the house, they run up the stairs and out a window where they see that the house is surrounded by a small mob of Hybrids.

In the courtyard, Arslan, Mercury, Sienna, and Winter continue to fight the undead horde, Winter using her Maiden powers, uses it to make multiple glyphs of Beowulfs and Ursa's to attack the Hybrids.

Neo, Now on her hands and knees, blood droplets fall from her facial wounds, look to the slaughter of the men around her.

She sees she surrounded and is then grabbed by a Hybrid over the wall, dragging her by her hair.

She struggles to break free as more run to her, She closes her eyes and waits for her death, only to be blown away by an explosion of fire dust.

She looks to where the explosion was from to see Whitley, alongside Roman and Lyanna, as they make their way to her.

Her relief is interrupted as she feels a sharp pain, she looks down to see a kitchen knife poking out her ribs, she looks behind her to see the rotting flesh of a Hybrid. It takes the blade out and then goes in for a second stab but is shot by Roman.

She falls to her knees and spits out some blood before being picked up by Whitley.

"I'm not letting anyone else die tonight," Whitley told her

She looks at him and smiles.

They carry her away from the disaster.

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In the basement, distant snarls echo through it. The women and children look around, nervously. Weiss looks at the stairwell leading to the Basement as the snarling sounds echo down. A sudden clank surprises everyone. Weiss walks forward as soldiers begin to pound on the distant door to the safe Basement. The growls become louder.

"Open the door! Open the door!" Cried a guard on the other side of the door

the Guard begins to scream in pain...


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Whitley, Neo, Lyanna, and Roman walk through a dark hallway of a guard tower. Lyanna's flaming sword lights the way.

Hybrid snarls can be heard in the distance.

They approach each corner with great caution.

A door at the end of the hallway crashes down and two figures fall to the floor, they see a Hybrid stabbing a guard as more and more join in. Lyanna and Roman begin to Fight with the Hybrids that pour into the hallway as Whitley pulls Neo to her feet.

Suddenly, a Hybrid stabs the arm and another stabs it in his hand, Lyanna looks to see Roman and kills the two Hybrids, but she is then stabbed on both shoulders and she falls to the ground, Roman weakly lifts his hands up in pain and shoots the Hybrid off.

"You guys ok!?" Whitley cried

Lyanna shook her head, "we need someplace to hide until we can heal" She told him

and without warning, a hybrid stabs Roman in the ankle and he grunts in pain.

Lyanna slams her foot on the arm of the Hybrid, breaking it off and she puts Roman's arm over her shoulder and they begin to limp away with Whitley and Neo. they hear more growling and look to see more Hybrids run after them

"RUN!" Roman cries

Whitley runs the best he can with Neo on his back. The slow-moving Roman and Lyanna, kick and fight with the Hybrids who catch up to them. Whitley turns down a hallway to see a room, he runs to it with Roman and Lyanna slowly behind them, they are still killing Hybrids as they limp away, but more and more begin to pile in the hall.

"Go Inside! NOW!" Roman cries

He stops to hold off the advancing undead. Lyanna looks back with dismay.

Attracted to the sounds of battle, more Hybrids shamble from many passages. Lyanna pulls Roman behind her, She surges ahead to pin a wight against the wall, It stabs her in the gut and Other Hybrids crash into her. Roman picks up his cane and comes to her aid. A mass of undead hustling down the hallway. The two begin to retreat back to Whitley and Neo.

"We've gotta go!" Roman cried

However, Lyanna falls and Roman falls with her as the Hybrids run at them, However Whitley, using his Glyphs, picked up Lyanna and Roman and ran them back to the room. Whitley then moved a shelf in front of a door. They sit down as the Hybrids bang in the door and then chopping at the door. The four wait in despair.


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everyone in the middle of town hears the Hybrids snarling in the distance. Everyone readies their weapons. Maria sits by the three relics with a moonstone dagger in hand.

"Here they come!" Ruby cries "Make every shot count!"

Shadows move among the trees. The snarling grows louder and the Hybrids charge out of the woods, frenzied and in great numbers.

Arktown, Still surrounded by a moat of fire, continue to burn where Raven and Dia laid waste to the undead. The Dark Brother and Tai swoop down. The dragon breathes a powerful Purple flame that destroys a great turret of the city wall and they speed across. The Dark Brother looks backwards to savor the damage, allowing Jaune and Dia to intercept them. Dia manages to grab Tai and clutches Tai in her claws, and the two dragons engage in a mid-air melee of claws and fangs

Ruby and the other teams unleash bullets and swings at the charging Hybrids.

Just above them, Dia and the undead Tai battle, flying jerkily towards the ground.

They bite and rake one another with massive claws, slicing great wounds into each other. Tai clamps his jaws on the neck of Dia and sinks his teeth in. Jaune struggles to hold on, as The Dark Brother readies a javelin. Tai rips his jaws away, purple flame boiling in his mouth.

He bites at Jaune, who twists to evade the massive jaws.

Plumes of purple flames puff from Tai as the dragon continues to snap and bite. Entangled, the dragons spiral downward.

Then Yang and Raven sweep in, taking Tai in his claws as she flew past.

The Dark Brother falls from his perch atop the dragon and plummets to the ground.

Jaune with Dia, still spiraling out of control holds onto Dia for dear life.

Raven chomps deeply into the neck of the undead Tai with a crunch.

Meanwhile, Dia reaches the ground with incredible and tries to transition from flying to running but the velocity is too great, and the dragon ends up sliding on its belly, throwing Jaune to the ground.

Jaune tumbles to the ground hitting a couple of rock and broken metal.

he slowly gets up, but he feels pain on his ribs and sees a small wooden spike in his thigh.

He gathers himself, groaning and panting and he hears Raven and Tai roar above him.

he goes back to check on Dia.

The courtyard is filled with piles of bodies. Mercury, Sienna, and Qrow fight on. Sage kills more and more that try to hurt him and his men, he hears Raven roar above them, He feels drawn up and looks to Yang.

Raven hovers above Arktown. Yang looks down at The Dark Brother. He stands in a field below them, looking up and seemingly unharmed by his fall.

Yang looks at him in anger,

"BURN HIM!" Yang cried

Reven Unleshes forth a blast of flame that envelops The Dark Brother. She looks down with Anger as Raven Continues.

Just below them, Jaune limps towards the Flames.

Raven then ceases her attack and Yang watches the fire dissipate below her.

Jaune gets as close as the heat will let him.

The flames start to clear, revealing the Dark Brother, confident, unhurt and unphased.

He stares up to Yang, smirking at his invulnerability, both Yang and Jaune are stunned.

The Dark Brother creates a javelin beside him.

Yang immediately spurs her dragon to flee and The Dark Brother throws the javelin, which misses by inches as they turn and fly away.

Satisfied, The Dark Brother strides through the smoldering and burning ground towards Arktown.

Jaune sees this and draws Croceas Mors and runs after Him.

The Dark Brother walks calmly toward his target.

Alerted by Jaune's footsteps, the Dark Brother turns to see him.

Jaune pauses as The Dark Brother plants his feet and spreads his hands, beginning what Jaune had feared.

Jaune ran faster, however, he has too much ground to cover.

The eyes of the undead soldiers between them begin to open, their eyes turning the color of Grimm.

Still fifty yards away, the slain soldiers sit up, then stand.

Jaune gets within ten yards of the Dark Brother before the newly risen Hybrids block his progress completely.

Jaune looks behind him to see soldiers resurrected as undead warriors.

Mercury, Sienna, and Arslan continue to fight the undead, yelling and grunting as they dispatch their foes, they pause, as the slain soldiers around them rise to their feet.

Flynt pants for breath as the new undead rise in near silence.

Winter and Qrow look on in horror.

Nearby, Oscar and Velvet with Neptune and Sun do the same.

The wind whistles and the undead clumsily take their feet.

Nearby, the eyes of Neon Katt, Cinder Fall, Penny Polendina, Kali Belladonna, and Carolina church begin to pop open, showing red irises, both piercing and lifeless.

The Dark Brother stands motionless and menacing.

Jaune gasps for breath as The Dark Brother turns his back to him and walks away.

Meanwhile, the crowd of the undead closes in slowly around Jaune.

With no other option, he hacks at the undead that surrounds him... but he can't fight them all.


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The Hybrid Cinder attacks Qrow, with her new sharp nails, She stabbed him in the ribs, but Winter stabs her in the head.

Kali approaches Ilia, who is stunned to see her in such a state, but Ilia takes a breath and attacks what was once her queen.

Penny makes her way to Oscar and Velvet who looked horrified, Neptune shot at her and she was set ablaze.

Neon limped her way to Flynt, who cried as he had seen her, With no other choice, he stabbed her in the head.

ending her suffering.

But that wasn't the only undead the Dark Brother brought back.

The Buried in the basement begins to rise to, Including the corpse of Lie Ren.

They begin to break their coffins and the residents of the basement look on in fear...