Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Cold Compassion. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.
(Vacuo.)
After the first strafing run, it was confirmed that the White Fang were preparing for an attack on Shade Academy.
"This is going to suck." Winter heard from Slater as he twirled Umbra in his hand and planted the weapon in the ground and sighed.
He watched Winter run her hands over Frostbite while it sat slung on her waist and hummed as she took in the information she had on hand.
The White Fang were coming by air, that meant that they had Bullheads which could provide air support. Winter knew it would be a little bit before air support could reach them.
Winter looked at Slater who continued to pace back and forth, eager to understand the game plan.
"Where is the vault? If the White Fang are staging an assault on shade? They had 3 objectives: the destruction of Shade Academy, your death, and the acquisition of the relic in question." Winter looked at Theodore, who said nothing at the moment.
"Below us. all the vaults are below us; I would assume you know that." Winter heard from the headmaster before humming and nodded.
"Slater, set up a sniper's perch up in the rafters and go from there. I will set up a perimeter near the entrance to the lower levels." Winter ordered; she drew her sword from her belt.
Slater nodded before starting up the staircase towards the upper floors as Theodore sighed and prepared to fight for his school.
"I'm not supporting Ozpin… I'm supporting Remnant." Winter summoned a pack of Beowolves and went to go and block the entrance to the lower levels, it would still be a tough fight.
Winter had no soldiers to back her up besides slater, which meant they were going to have to hold off waves of soldiers from all angles.
Winter hummed and questioned how her sister was faring in Vacuo, things were falling apart all over Remnant.
Her thoughts went back to her mother, within her castle of a home, surrounded by dozens of guards and staff… then Whitney, the bratty sibling who hadn't once shown care for anyone unless he got something from it.
He had shut down when they arrested Jacques, who was rotting in jail, and was using his money to try and break himself out of jail, probably to plan another power play.
"The longer this war goes on, the more I worry about the planet." Winter muttered as she prepared for the first wave of White Fang soldiers.
She had no real idea what the plan was to bring down Salem, but she knew she could be defeated. Her question was why the White Fang were involved in this still, their leadership was destroyed and yet they were coming back as an organized group.
Another explosion, this cut off before thing fell silence, she heard a growl from one of her creations.
The war was on, it was here, White Fang, she wondered why the group was focusing on Shade when Salem was focusing on the rest of the country at the moment.
"Ms. Schnee? I believe they're upon us…" She heard before an explosion came from the front door as the wall exploded off the door.
The first thugs through the door were shot down by Theodore as he pulled a pair of handguns from his coat and shot the duo in the head.
"Well, this is lovely…" Slater muttered before shooting one of the thugs as a new wave advanced through the hole.
Theodore and Winter dove behind cover before another shot rang out and another thug dropped lifeless before a barrage of bullets sparked off his aura and forced him back into cover.
Winter watched one of her creations knock a thug aside before being shot, another was shot and fell to the ground as she sighed and decided to deal with making more summons soon.
One of the thugs rushed up to Winter with a knife only for Winter to kick him backwards and stab the man through the chest before being forced to backflip away.
She used a glyph to block the bullets as Slater fired 2 more times, another death.
"We should have brought more reinforcements… Being polite is going to cost us." Slater sighed and continued to duck behind cover as the fight raged on.
Winter knew backup would survive sooner or later. They would be on their own until then.
Theodore saw another explosion as more enemy force slowly trickled into the building in question.
"This is going to suck really, really bad…" Slater muttered in annoyance at the situation.
It continued to rage as Winter threw a soldier over her shoulder and stabbed him in the back before a bullet grazed her shoulder, she growled in pain as her Aura glowed a light blue.
She cursed and turned to look at the battle around her.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out that next chapter might be a little short. Next chapter is going to end up being in a week or so and will show the second part of the battle for Shade along with more reinforcements arriving in Vacuo. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: Next week will be another Weiss and Cinder chapter hopefully.