AN: The next update cycle is RWBY. After the last posting I put up the Poll but have since taken it down and reuploaded it as I forgot to put in an idea I really wanted to see the opinion on. If you haven't gone back to vote again since it was put back up, it would be a good idea to do so now.

AN2: And to whiteelfelder who in the last chapter's reviews asked who held the blade to Roman's throat, that would be Blake. I watched the dock scene for last Chapter, and it looked like Blake was holding the flat of her blade to Roman's throat.

AN3: I tried not to be too graphic in the fight scenes here but be warned that I don't know how much you can handle.

A Grimm Huntsman

Chapter 22

-Harry-

Scowling, Harry grabbed a White Fang agent, sending them flying into the harbor. Looking past the charging mob of screaming terrorists he saw Roman Torchwick grab a white fang agent and disappear with the help of a short woman. "Ha!" Qrow laughed, "Been some time since we got to fight like this, huh Tai!"

"Well it's nowhere near as bad as the last time I had to deal with Yang getting called to the headmaster's office at Sanctum." Tai laughed, "At least that fat bastard could fight!"

"Die human scum!" one Faunus charges Nora only to scream when she sends him flying with a hammer strike.

"Is it just me…or are these guys pathetic?" Jaune calls out, slicing through the gun of one of the grunts.

"They're just grunts." Qrow scowled "Be ready for their boss!"

"Oh, isn't that just friggin wonderful!" Yang yelled out in annoyance, punching fang members left and right as the horde of useless grunts quickly gets thinned. The remaining fang began to fall back around a larger Faunus wielding a chainsaw as a weapon. An explosion rocked the pier as Harry could feel the Faunus' smirk.

"Qrow, Tai, with me!" Harry yelled, falling into his old roll as battle commander. "We need to take out the commander!" He was already charging the Faunus with the Chainsaw, "Ruby, Yang, right flank perimeter; Ren and Nora, the left! Jaune, keep them off our flanks!" his friends charged with him, ignoring the annoyed shouts from the adult huntsmen who were forced to run after them.

Focusing his semblance, Harry let out a ground shaking roar as his hands became alight with black flames. He still didn't have a proper weapon, but his flames were more than enough for this. Ducking under a sword slash, Harry lashed out with a jab, punching the white fang who attacked him with a flaming fist as the man fell screaming, trying and failing to put out the fires. Grabbing the sword from the screaming man, Harry began cutting through the terrorists, Qrow slashing by his side while Tai was sticking to hand to hand, the guards around the leader falling quickly.

"Enough!" the giant with the chainsaw shouted, swinging the sword after seeing yet another terrorist fall, screaming and writhing as the black flames ate at their flesh.

"Hey, you need to be careful with that, someone might get hurt!" Qrow quipped, blocking the chainsaw with his greatsword.

"Silence human!" the giant snarled, pushing against Qrow's sword and kicking out at Tai who jumped back.

"Oh, so original." Tai laughed, dealing a quick combo of punches to take out a charging grunt attempting to save their commander.

"Don't I know it Ta-I!" Qrow's comment was cut off by a bit of bad luck, a stray bullet hitting one of the massive dust canisters, the shockwave sending Tai and Qrow flying, Harry and the fang commander managing to stay in place by stabbing their weapons into the ground. Gritting his teeth, Harry felt the intense heat from the explosion against his skin, glancing over only to see the Faunus commander to give a bloody smirk, the lower half of the man's mask having been shattered by a blow, before the man gave a hard kick to his gut and sent him flying into the flame filled hull of the blown-up and burning dust container.

-Qrow-

"Kid!" Qrow Branwen had never hated his semblance more than he had now. The Faunus commander began laughing, holing his ear as if waiting for the agonized screaming. Screaming in murderous rage, Qrow charged the bastard, his sword taking its scythe form, Tai not even a step behind him as the kid's friends all looked on in horror.

A second explosion ripped through the air as the flames in the burning hull of a container turned black as sin, roaring skyward. A loud, rumbling, growl filled the air as Qrow and Tai stopped, trying to process what they were seeing. Striding purposefully from the container they saw Harry. The kid's clothes were on fire, falling off him as the flames spread, long gashes from the sharp metal of the container stitching themselves together, something that went against how Qrow had been told the black flames worked. The kid's eyes were burning with the same black fire, his face a mask of hatred and rage. As the kid's clothes burnt off more and more, Qrow saw burns from the flames healing and more scars than he had ever seen on one person. Ones he could tell were deliberately carved into the kid's flesh.

The kid let out another earth-shaking roar, shooting forward towards the man who had just tried to kill him. Qrow could do nothing but watch in horrified shock as the kid tore through the remaining grunts trying to intercept him, charging with single minded hatred towards the commander with the chainsaw.

Said terrorist was panicking at what must have looked like a demon of vengeance, raising his chainsaw only for a loud bang to fill the air and the crude weapon to shatter into flying shrapnel, Ruby, still shaking at what was going on, having reacted to save her friend and shot the bastards weapon. The man paused in stunned shock for a split second but that second was all Harry needed. With a yell, Harry reared his fist back before punching, breaking through the man's armor and rib cage, hoisting the now screaming man in the air, Harry's hand buried in the terrorists chest before Harry began yelling as well, his in anger as black flames roared from Harry's eyes and from out of the terrorists mouth, the man being burnt by the kid's black fire from the inside out.

The rest of them could only watch horrified at what they were seeing. Qrow and Tai had killed before, had even slept the same night without issue. Not every monster in the world was a Grimm. But to see a kid like this kill a man without hesitation and so brutally? He was starting to see why Ozpin was so worried about the kid's past and mental state. The idea of getting the kid someone to talk to was starting to seem like more and more of a good idea.

He saw in such shock, he didn't see one of the Faunus he cut down getting back up, the man picking up a sword, "Die human!" the man shouted as he thrust his sword into Harry's back and out the chest. Qrow saw Harry's eyes go wide, blood dribbling from the kid's lips as the flames puttered out.

A new scream filled the air as Yang shot forward, propelling herself with her gauntlets as she delivered a punch full to the face of the last Fang, firing as she did so and turning the man's head into a fine mist. Harry dropped to the ground and Yang stood there shaking and with a look of wide-eyed horror on her face as she stared at the bleeding body of her friend and the headless corpse of the man she had just killed.

"Qrow, go get help!" Tai broke the former bandit out of his shock, the man running over to the bleeding kid and using his vest to try and staunch the bleeding, "NOW!"

"Right!" turning into his bird form and not caring that the kids could see it, he began winging towards Beacon, all their scrolls having taken some bullets in the fight.

-Winter-

Calmly sipping her tea, Winter sat with Headmaster Ozpin and Glynda Goodwitch in the tower office, having wanted to speak to the teacher that knew Harry Potter best. "So you're saying you just found hi-" Winter's question was cut off at the sound of shattering glass, the familiar form of Qrow Branwen breaking through the window and rolling.

"Qrow!" Glynda looked furious before she saw the man's wide-eyed panic.

"Oz, hospital, now!" he yelled, shooting to his feet.

"Qrow, what's going on, explain!" Ozpin demanded, the headmaster joining Glynda and Winter herself on their feet.

"Fang attack, at the pier," Qrow panted, "the kid's hurt bad."

"The kid?" Ozpin demanded, "Harry?"

"Already sent ambulance." Qrow wheezed, "Stabbed, explosion, got a kill."

"Move, now!" Ozpin barked, throwing open the window and leaping to the ground, the rest of them following and using their aura to cushion the fall as they raced to a bullhead, having known taking the elevator would have taken far too long. Winter saw the headmaster throw himself into a pilot's seat, putting in an emergency override code as the bullhead took to the air and shot towards Vale as Qrow got his breath back and began filling in more and more details. Upon hearing of the person she had been sent to help being sent into an exploding dust container Winter felt ill but when she heard how he had killed the fang commander she came close to being sick.

"Yang killed the one who stabbed Harry." Qrow finished, his fists shaking, "I don't know if she didn't mean to kill the bastard or just didn't think but she took his head off and was going into shock when I went for help, Tai staying to try and keep Harry alive."

"I'll see to getting her help." Glynda promised Qrow, comforting the man who looked so broken at having seen what happened to his family, glancing over at Winter to ask if she could help.

"I can try to help but it might be best to find someone to focus on Yang." Winter spoke up, not sure how to react to the man that had always taken such pleasure in riling her up now looked like a broken shell.

Reaching the Vale hospital, Ozpin parked the bullhead on the roof as they leapt to the ground and ran inside, finding Taiyang Xiao-Long and the children in the lobby. A blonde girl who must have been Yang still shaking and wide eyed. Taiyang looked up as they entered, the hospital staff he had been talking to noticing Ozpin. "Your student is in surgery now." The man began telling Ozpin, "The sword didn't hit anything vital, but we need to make sure he doesn't bleed out. This huntsman also said it was only the kid's semblance that helped him survive a dust explosion."

"That's true." Qrow shuddered at the memory.

"Well along with the current injuries he has more past wounds than I've ever seen on someone his age and we want to make sure they're healed correctly and take signs for what had caused them." The man had a hard look at that "The kid was still conscious when we brought him in and tried insisting he not be sedated but I gave the order to proceed with that anyway. They should be administering the sedatives now to begin surgery." The doctor was cut off from saying more by Ozpin's wide-eyed panic.

"You what?!" Ozpin screamed, grabbing the doctor's shoulders before shoving him aside and taking off towards the surgery wing.

"Oz, what's going on?!" Qrow demanded, Winter, Glynda, the doctor, and the group from the pier charging after the frantic headmaster. Before Ozpin could answer, blood chilling screaming filled the air from the same wing they raced towards. Following it and sliding to a stop, Winter and the others saw Harry Potter strapped to a bed, the young man laid bare. His entire body covered in scars, symbols carved into his flesh. The man's eyes were closed but he was thrashing and screaming bloody murder as the nurses and Doctors were trying to hold him down.

"That's what's going on." Ozpin's expression was dark, "This, Doctor, is why he tried to tell you not to sedate him. Whenever he sleeps, this is what happens."

AN: To those who picked it up, I intend for Yang to have some battle PTSD from having her first kill. I've never done anything like that or served in a military so if any of my readers are military or police and could send me a PM with advice for writing someone going through the after effects of their first kill during a fight then I would really appreciate any advice for how to make this realistic and not be insulting to those who have actually gone through this.