When they rode out the other side of the portal, the first thing that the Four Horsemen noticed was that they were in some kind of strange green forest. The trees and their leaves shone brightly like emeralds. It was almost peaceful and serene.
"So, we have arrived..." War said as the siblings banished their steeds, who neighed as they vanished into ethereal demonic flames, leaving them to wander the forest on foot.
However, upon looking at his non-masked siblings, Strife noticed something. "Dang, War. Fury. You guys are looking good. I guess the trip was kind to you two." He said, noting how the two looked much younger, looking to be in their late teens. Taking a moment to look at themselves, the Nephilim noticed that they retained their height and muscle definition, but they had slimmed down a good bit from their bulkier, muscle-bound frames.
"The Lord of Hollows DID say he would make us pass as students of this academy. I'd wager that would make these students teenagers. And so our appearances have altered to fit that mold. I just hope it doesn't effect our battle prowess." Fury rationalized their situation.
"So, where should we start looking for the Wizard?" Strife asked.
"With any luck, he might come across us first." Death said.
However, it was then they heard a cry and looked up to see several young humans flying through the air, having apparently been launched by some kind of apparatus. The Four Horsemen stood and watched as they all flew past their heads and deeper into the forest. One individual even seemed to put on sunglasses and launch themselves with shotguns coming from their wrists.
"Well, that's one way of putting it." Strife quipped as his siblings all rolled their eyes.
Heading in the direction of where the humans landed, it wasn't long before the Nephilim discovered one of the monstrous creatures that the Lord of Hollows had shown them. It had the form of a black wolf with bone-like armor around its hide. It then noticed the Horsemen and snarled at them, before letting out a howl to call in the rest of its back, appearing to have 40 members in total, all rushing at the Horsemen. "Well, then. Time to see how these beasts compare to our previous foes." Death said as the Nephilim engaged their targets.
Background Music: "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" By The Bollock Brothers
Death rushed in first, delivering a strong slash to stun his first target, pausing for a moment before slashing again with his scythes connected as one, cleaving the werewolf beast in half, before flinging the scythe forward at two more rushing at him and killing them both as it spun vertically in the air before returning to its wielder. A slightly larger one came at him as the scythe was returning, so he delivered one more powerful upward slash, assisted by his Reaper form to cleave the beast in half. He then delivered another pair of slashes with his scythes separated, taking out two more monsters and connecting his scythe together again and swinging two more times in wide arcs to kill yet another two monsters. Two more larger ones came at him from the front and the back, so, with his blades still connected, he flung the scythe again to spin around him, killing the one behind him, before finishing the one in front of him with another powerful slash assisted by his Reaper Form.
Strife ducked under a swipe of a beast's claws aimed at his head, before raising both of his guns into its face and firing, the force of the bullets actually launching the creature into the air, allowing him to grab one of its legs, spin and fling it into three other monsters, knocking them all down. Another one rushed in at the gunslinger of the Nephilim and leapt towards him, to which Strife responded by running in and sliding as the creature leapt forward, passing underneath it while loading it up with bullets as it passed over him, jumping back to his feet with another one right in front of him, forcing him to draw his curved daggers and deliver a flurry of slashes, before stabbing it in the head to kill it. With all of his targets now in front of him, he drew his guns again and quickly shot down six more of them. "Three, then six... That's nine. I should have ten." He pondered, apparently unaware of the last one rushing at him from behind, before aiming over his should behind him and shooting it in the face without even looking.
The Grimm quickly surrounded Fury, who drew her whip and spun it around herself to catch all of them with light cuts several times, injuring them while preventing them from advancing and blindsiding her, lashing counter-clockwise once, then clockwise three times and counter-clockwise two more times, finishing with a devastating slam, killing the one directly in front of her. She then turned and singled out one of them, slashing it and then shooting her whip out to impale it and reel it in towards her, allowing her to hit it with two counter-clockwise lashes, two more clockwise strikes and finishing it with another slam, while the wide slashes of the combo each killed one more. She then noticed one rushing at her from her right, changing to her Storm Hollow form and backflipping away from its strike, before hurling her Lance at the monster, killing it with a burst of electricity upon contact. She then charged some magical energy into her hand, uppercutting one more and impaling it with her whip again, before switching to the Force Hollow and blasting the last three away as they all leapt at her with her wrath attack, summoning a rock dome around her and blasting it outward.
War delivered a couple powerful swings with Chaoseater, killing one with each slice, before delivering an uppercut with his sword on one of them, leaping up after it, before spinning with his sword and slicing the one he'd knocked into the air, as well as two more waiting down below. Another one rushed in and tried to bite him, but was stopped by a punch to the face, causing it to reel back from the hit, allowing War to grab its leg and swing it up and over himself, slamming it on the ground behind him. He impaled another one directly in its chest, before slicing upward, cleaving its upper body in half while its lower body was still intact. Two more of them. charged at him at once, to which he responded with his own Wrath attack, punching the ground and sending a geyser of blades into the air that shredded the beasts. Now, only the alpha remained. War blocked its attacks, before countering with a powerful headbutt, causing it to stagger back, allowing him to slice its legs off at the knees, sending its body into the air, allowing him to cleave its head off with a deadly downward strike.
End Music
"Well, I'd say we're still in pretty good shape." Strife said confidently, holstering his guns.
"Yes, but now we must seek out this wizard. I doubt he merely lingers in this forest." War declared.
"I would wager the young ones we saw flying through the air are students of this academy the Lord of Hollows spoke of. Finding them would likely lead us to him." Death theorized.
Suddenly, the Nephilim heard what sounded like an explosion, followed by several more of them in rapid succession. "Sounds to me like we've found them, then." Fury said as the Horsemen rode towards the sound. They banished their horses once again as they reached a clearing where a young woman with red eyes and golden blonde hair that seemed to be glowing stood pulverizing a bear version of the monsters the Horsemen had faced, throwing one final and powerful explosive punch, sending the unfortunate ursine through a line of broken trees with a trail of fire starting from the girl and extending down the line of broken trees beyond their line of sight. The girl then turned to face another of the beat monsters
"What?! You want some, too!?" She demanded. They were rather surprised she actually stopped to talk smack to the beast. They prepared to jump in once the beast reared onto its hind legs, likely to attack, but before they could spring into action, the beast suddenly jolted straight up, then went stiff and collapsed, revealing a girl with black hair and a bow stood a distance away from the girl, having thrown out her weapon, a Kusari-gama on a long line of ribbon, into the beast's back and killed in instantly. "I could've taken him." Yang insisted.
"I'm sure you could have. That was quite the performance." War said as the Horsemen stepped into the clearing as well.
"Whoa. Who are you guys?" Yang asked, looking at the Nephilim in shock.
"You look young enough to be students like us, but I didn't see you with us during the launch." Blake said.
"Oh. Well, we're some old apprentices of the head man. We thought we'd drop by and surprise him, but wanted to see how this would all play out first." Strife lied.
"Really? Through the Emerald Forest, filled with Grimm, at the same time initiation is happening?" Blake questioned.
"The important thing is that we have business with your Headmaster. I take it you are to meet with him after this 'initiation' is done?" Fury questioned.
"Pretty much." Yang confirmed.
"Then for now, we shall accompany you. I'm quite intrigued to see what else you can do, myself." Death said.
The figure before them had an air about him the girls didn't want to argue with, so if they had any reservations, they set them aside. "Alright, then. Well, nothing else has changed. I guess we keep heading for that temple for those relics." Yang said, her and Blake walking off.
The Nephilim all became wary at the word "Relic", quickly forming a tight circle. "You don't think they're talking about the relics the Lord of Hollows told us about, right? You know, the ones that could DESTROY THE WORLD?" Strife asked quietly.
"As items for children to collect? Highly doubtful." War dismissed in a hushed tone.
"Additionally, there were only four relics. Clearly not enough for all the children we saw flying through the air." Death added in a whisper.
"Hey, guys! You coming, or what?" Yang called back.
"Of course. Pardon the delay. My brothers and I had a small matter to discuss. Lead the way." Fury said as the Nephilim followed the girls.
After some walking, the six arrived at some old crumbling temple with platforms around it holding various gold and black chess pieces.
"Think this is it?" Yang asked.
Blake gave Yang an incredulous look which Strife found amusing to watch as they went down the hill and to the temple ruins. "Chess pieces? I fail to see how these could possibly be considered relics." War said.
"Well, I guess we should pick one," Blake said as she and Yang headed over to the chess pieces.
The Four Horsemen stood at the side since they weren't participating in the exam. Yang inspected a golden Knight piece before holding it out to Blake. "How about a cute little pony?" She asked hopefully.
Blake smirked. "Sure." She said.
"Awwww, you want cute? Check out my pony!" Strife smirked behind his helmet as he summoned Mayhem, surprising Yang and Blake.
"You guys have your own horses?!" Yang asked in shock.
"Yes, it's why we're called the Four Horsemen." Fury said in a matter-of-fact tone.
Suddenly, a loud girlish scream echoed through the forest, causing the six to get on guard, the Four Horsemen summoning their weapons. "Some girl's in trouble! Blake, did you hear that?" Yang asked worriedly, Blake noticing something in the sky and looking up.
"I've heard human screams before. That is obviously a very wimpy guy." Strife said dryly.
"Oh, how I long for your charming attitude, brother." War sighed.
"You may wish to look up, brothers." Fury said, having been following Blake's gaze upward.
The blonde and the male Horsemen all looked up and saw a redheaded girl plummeting out of the air, careening towards them... and the ground. "Heads uuuuuuuup!" Ruby cried out. Death prepared to catch her with the Deathgrip, but a blonde boy suddenly flew through the air and crashed into Ruby, knocking her off-course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Blake, Yang and the Nephilim were standing. Ruby was dazed by the rough landing, as evidenced by the cutesy Beowulves and stars circling her head.
"Oohhhh... What was that?" Ruby asked as the dizziness passed when she shook her head.
"Eh-hem!" Jaune cleared his throat, Ruby looking up to see the blonde boy hanging upside-down in a tree branch above her. "Hey, Ruby..." He greeted her.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked from back on the ground, looking at the tree.
"Your sister? Strange. I didn't see much resemblance." War noted.
"Oh, yeah. And everyone would totally guess we're siblings at first glance." Strife pointed out.
"I'm more concerned with why shy was falling from the sky." Death brought the focus back to the main issue.
"I..." Yang began.
But before she could continue, several crashing noises were heard in the forest ahead of them and one of the bear creatures came out, claws swiping. Just then, a pink blast of energy hit it in the back and it crashed to the ground, depositing its rider: an orange-haired girl in a black vest and pink short dress.
"YEEEE-HAAAAW!" The girl cheered and rolled off of the creature's back, then got up and groaned, saddened. "Awwww... It's broken." She said sadly as she dashed onto her former mount's neck and observed the carcass as Ren came up behind her.
"Impressive. I think I like that one." War praised.
"Huh. You know, we've never considered Phantom BEARS." Strife said.
"The four Bear-men of the Apocalypse doesn't exactly inspire fear." Fury told her brother.
Ren panted and leaned on the monster, before finally catching his breath enough to talk. "Nora! Please... Don't ever do that again." He pleaded, only to look up again and notice by the pink dotted outline of where his partner should be that Nora had run off again and looked around frantically.
Meanwhile, Nora was now in the Temple, staring at a golden rook relic. "Oooohh..." She exclaimed in awe, before suddenly grabbing it, an animation of stars and her hammer symbol playing in the pink background. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She sang as she danced with the chess piece.
She then looked and saw the Horsemen standing with Yang and Blake. "Whoa! I didn't see you guys at the launch! You look awesome!" She said, suddenly popping up behind War, hanging onto his shoulders. "You and your sword are so huge!" She said, moving quickly in front of Death. "And you're super spooky with that skull mask, but really cool, too!" She said, moving to Strife and popping out near his left hip. "And your armor is super edgy and epic-looking." She said, popping up in several different places behind him to observe him from every angle. And finally, she leapt up in front of Fury, causing the Nephilim to instinctively catch her, holding her bridal style. "And your glowing eyes and hair look awesome! Is it some kind of magic?! Are you a magician!?" She asked.
"I prefer the term combat mage." Fury said, slightly annoyed with the girl, dropping her onto her butt.
"Nora!" Ren called to her.
Nora quickly leapt to her, then saluted, the relic into her hand. "Coming, Ren!" She called, skipping off to her friend.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked.
"I..." Yang started, struggling to process these outlandish events happening back to back.
"We're LITERALLY seeing everything you're seeing. We have the same information and questions you have." Strife told Blake.
They were interrupted once more as a screech was heard from their right and a girl in very Spartan armor came onto the scene as a giant scorpion creature uprooted entire trees in its chase after her. She narrowly dodged its giant claws and kept on running. "Damn, these things get big!" Strife exclaimed in surprise.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha called out.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune called back.
Ruby finally stood up from her position in the tree, looking at the monster below. "Whoa!" She said in amazement, before running off of the branch.
"Ruby!" Jaune whined as his friend forgot to free him from the tree before she leapt off.
Ruby landed and did a roll before standing up, back on the ground. "Ruby!" Yang cried out in surprise.
"Yang!" Ruby cried out happily, raising her arms to give her sister a hug.
"Nora!" Nora announced herself as she came between the two, knocking them off-balance in surprise.
"I think they Apocalypse was less chaotic than this." Fury groaned.
The scorpion Grimm continued to follow Pyrrha as she ran. "Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?"
Yang wa getting angrier until she growled and erupted in a small burst of fire, eyes flashing red. "I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" She screamed.
"Whoa! Fury, I think this girl might deserve your name more than you do." Strife told his sister.
"If you're so eager for a taste of my fury, I'll be happy to deliver it upon you, brother." Fury warned him.
The tick-tock of a clock counted down the two seconds of Yang cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora, the horsemen trying to make sense of the situation and finally, Blake and Ruby looking up. "Umm... Yang?" Ruby asked, tugging on her sister's sleeve and pointing up.
Up above, a girl in a white dress with white hair in an off-center ponytail was revealed to be hanging on a talon the size of her entire body that belonged to a gigantic Raven-like beast. "Weiss called down to Ruby.
"I said jump!" Ruby shouted up to Weiss.
"Whoa! Suddenly, Dust doesn't seem too impressive. Eh, bro?" Strife joked.
"Mock my bird again at your own peril, Strife." Death warned him.
"She's gonna fall." Blake told Ruby.
"She'll be fine." Ruby said dismissively.
"She's falling." Ren pointed out.
"Fury." Death called to his sister, who nodded and made her preparations.
Jaune was finally out of the tree, panting until he looked up and grinned at the sight of Weiss falling through the air, giving him the opportunity to jump off the branch with arms outstretched and catch her in a slowed-down moment. He then smiled at Weiss. "Just... dropping in?" He questioned romantically. Weiss was speechless... and Jaune realized why when they both looked down. "Oh, God." He said fearfully as they hung on to each other, wide-eyed as their moment of suspension ended, their weapons flying behind them. "Oh, noooooooo!" The boy cried.
Thankfully, before they could hit the ground, a small tornado had formed underneath them, holding them about three feet off the ground. The tornado then slowly subsided, allowing the two to land safely. Fury then walked up to them, her hair now glowing yellow and appeared to have lightning sparking in it. "I take it the two of you are unharmed?" She asked.
"Y-yeah. Wow, thanks." Jaune said.
"Yes, you have the formal thanks of myself and the Schnee Dust Company, miss..." Weiss began, before pausing to wait for Fury's name.
"Fury. Just try to make a plan before leaping from deadly heights next time." The female Horseman told them.
"Whoa. Now we're practically twinsies." Yang said, walking up to Fury and standing beside her to their long yellow manes flowed beside each other. "But, what happened to the purple hair?" She asked.
"I have options." Fury said, quickly switching between her Hollows and showing off her hair colors, before returning to her preferred Force Hollow.
The Death Stalker was still hunting Pyrrha, but she managed to land on her side at the feet of the heroes. "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang sarcastically said.
"You joke so haphazardly in the presence of the one known as Death..." Death replied.
"You know what I mean!" Yang snapped in frustration.
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby said with determination before letting out a battle cry and rushing forward.
"Foolish girl!" Death cursed as Ruby fired her weapon, which took the form of a mechanical red and black scythe that also somehow counted as a gun and fired at the Scorpion Grimm, however, the beast shrugged off the bullets and knocked Ruby back.
"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby stuttered as she got up and turned back towards the Scorpion Grimm, shooting at its skull while running away from it.
"Ruby!" Yang cried in horror as she ran forward to help her sister.
Ruby moved to meet Yang, but the giant Bird Grimm cawed above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that catch on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang cried.
"I'm trying!" The Red Reaper groaned, trying to get her cape unstuck with little success. Ruby then looked up to see that the Death Stalker was right on top of her, preparing to strike. Ruby closed her eyes and awaited the finishing blow, but it never came. She looked up to see that the tall, mask-wearing figure with long hair was now in between her and the Death Stalker, riding on a pale, emaciated horse with green fire coming from it, wielding a large scythe, a long slash across the Death Stalker's face indicating he rode in and slashed the beast, causing it to stagger back and stop its attack on the girl. The horse then rushed forward as the figure jumped off his back, appearing to sink into the ground in a flash of green fire, the figure landing in front of her with the scythe now split into two smaller ones. That being said, they were still quite large, not much smaller than Crescent Rose.
The Nevermore then dove down at them, preparing to attack them again. However, a barrage of bullets put a stop to this as the other masked figure, along with the girl whose name Ruby had heard was Fury, rode up to them on their own horses, a white one covered in armor and a black one with fiery cyan blue mane respectively. Strife then continued to fire on the Nevermore with one gun, forcing the flying beast to abandon its attempt to attack the scythe wielders, while using the other gun to destroy the feather pinning Ruby in place, allowing the girl to finally free herself. As soon as she did that, she felt something wrap around her waist, looking to see red whip wrapped around her waist, before she was reeled back and grabbed around the waist by Fury, who rode back towards Yang, dropping her into her sister's arms and banishing her horse in a similar way to the other scythe-wielder.
Yang quickly hugged her sister. "So happy you're okay." She said, before looking to Fury. "And thank you for bringing her back." She said gratefully.
"My brothers were the ones who saved her. I merely got her away from the danger." Fury admitted.
Strife then rode past them and back to the main group as Death summoned a group of four burning ghouls to attack the Death Stalker, allowing him to return to the group. He then walked up to Ruby and Yang, the red reaper quickly stepping forward. "Hey. Thanks a lot for-" She began, before being interrupted by her savior.
Death held a bony finger in her face, pointing at her. "You almost got yourself killed. A warrior must always make a plan before they engage their enemy. And they must always know when they have entered a battle they cannot win." He told her.
Ruby looked down at this. "I... I'm sorry." She said, lowering her head in shame.
"Do not be sorry. Be better. I can see some potential in you. Show me I'm right to think that." He said, reuniting with the rest of the group, the sisters following close behind.
"Guys. That thing is circling back." Jaune pointed out as the Nevermore was indeed preparing itself to attack them again.
"Then let it come. It shall be destroyed." War said.
Weiss then stepped up, however. "Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss said, gesturing to the relics.
"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs." Ruby said, sharing a nod with Weiss. "There's no point in fighting these things." She said.
"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind." Jaune agreed.
"It is the coward's way. A warrior stands and demolishes their enemies!" War declared.
"Think of it as a strategic withdrawal, brother. We have more pressing matters to attend to." Death told him.
Jaune and Ruby then grabbed the white rook and knight pieces respectively, sharing a smile at this, before noticing along with the others that the ghouls were on their last legs, exploding and stunning the Death Stalker, but it would have nothing to impede it from attacking them. "Time we left." Ren told everyone.
The group then hurried towards the cliff with the Nevermore flying after them, then ahead of them. Everyone took cover behind the pillars of another ruined temple as the creature landed on a large tower, letting out a cry of fury. "Well, that's great!" Yang said in annoyance.
And finally, the Death Stalker now caught up to them, smashing through some more trees and charging towards the teens. "Oh, man! Run!" Jaune cried out as they all ran forward.
Background Music: "My Evil Plan to Save the World" by Five Iron Frenzy
Everyone rushed forward, causing the Nevermore to rise up in preparation to attack them. "Nora, distract it!" Ren declared. Nora nodded at this and rushed out from cover, dodging a barrage of feathers, before pulling out her weapon in its grenade launcher form, firing several giant grenades with a trail of pink smoke behind them, slamming into the giant raven and exploding in its face, causing it to reel from the blasts and fly away to avoid more damage. But then, the Death Stalker came up from behind her, preparing to attack, but it was stopped by Ren and Blake slashing it across the face. It attempted to strike them with its tail, but Fury was behind the creature, wrapping her whip around its tail and pulling it back, allowing the group to escape. Fury then allowed it to fling her forward, twisting in mid-air and flinging her Crossblade to slash the creature along its eyes, causing it to screech and block its face with its eyes as the last female Nephilim landed beside the other teens, running for the bridge.
"Go, go!" Pyrrha yelled as they started to cross the bridge, stopping to fire back with her spear transformed into a rifle, Strife and Ren beside her with their pistols, assisting with the covering fire. Everyone had now reached the bridge and were running across, when they suddenly heard the cry of the Nevermore and looked to see it flying straight at the bridge, dodging out of the way just in time to avoid being hit by the beast or caught on the breaking bridge to fall into the bottomless pit below. Ren, Blake, Pyrrha, Strife and Fury were now trapped on the other side of the gap with with Death Stalker, while Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Jaune, Nora, War and Death were on the other side with the tower.
Jaune was quick to get up and look over to see that the group fighting the Death Stalker were struggling to do so, their assortment of weapons not ideal against the beast. "Man, we need to get over there, they need help." Jaune said, Nora smirking and launching herself across.
"Why do you hesitate?" War asked as Jaune looked down below.
"I-I can't make that jump." He explained.
"Brace yourself." War said, grabbing the back of his chestpiece and hurling him across, much to his protest. He then turned and growled at the flying monster. "Without Strife's gun, I cannot reach the monster." He said, before noticing large amounts of car-sized rubble around him.
Blake had been knocked down by Nora, but adjusted herself and grappled to a platform, swinging onto the beast's back and slicing all the way down with her cleaver-like sheath, before leaping up to a ledge where Yang, Weiss, Ruby and Death were on. However, the masked scythe-wielder quickly took her place by launching out a glowing hand and reeling himself in towards the beast, summoning his Reaper form and stabbing the monster in its shoulder blades, steering it into a cliff. This caused it to fall and allow War and Death to beat on it. All the while, the girls were forming a plan.
Back with other group, Jaune, Pyrrha and Nora rushed in as Ren and Strife stayed back and provided supporting fire. Pyrrha blocked one of the beast's claws, with Fury using her Force Hollows axe to beat back the other claw, leaving the beast open for Nora to slam her hammer down on its head and knock it to the ground, stunning it and allowing Jaune to rush in and stab it in one of its eyes. Strife then ran in, jumping onto Jaune's back, leaping up and grabbing onto the stinger and slicing it off with his daggers. Jaune then devised a strategy to finally finish the beast. "Fury! Axe to the head!" He called. Despite a brief grumble about taking orders from a human, Fury did rush in and slam her axe down on its head, breaking into its shell, but not enough to kill. "Nora! Nail it!" He cried out, Nora leaping onto Pyrrha shield and launching herself into the air, before blasting herself back down and slamming her hammer down on the back of Fury's axe, driving it in enough to finish the giant scorpion, the group running off the bridge and back to safety as the remainder of their side of the bridge collapsed, taking the scorpion's corpse with it.
Meanwhile, the Nevermore was significantly weakened by War and Death, managing to throw the two Nephilim off, but it was clear it was at the end of its rope, making it that much easier for Ruby to be launched towards it and hook its neck with her scythe, sticking to a wall thanks to Weiss' glyphs, creating a path for her to run straight up the cliff with.
End Music
Everyone looked up and watched as Ruby scaled the mountain, the Nevermore hooked to the blade of her scythe until she reached the top, launching herself into the air and lopping the beast's head off with the momentum.
"Impressive..." Death hummed as he observed the prowess of the kill.
"Well, looks like you've got competition, Big Brother." Fury noted with a smirk as Death rolled his eyes.
"Wow..." Jaune breathed, too stunned for words.
"Well... That was a thing!" Yang said, unable to come up with something witty for the utterly badass way her little sister murdered the winged terror.
Soon enough, a pair of flying aircrafts far different from the ones the Horsemen knew of the humans using came to collect them all, a man and woman coming out to greet them all. And the Nephilim were able to tell right away that the man was indeed the Wizard they'd been sent to find. "Professor Ozpin! We got the relics! And we even took down some giant Grimm!" Ruby said as she ran up to the Headmaster.
"I saw that, Miss Rose. You were quite impressive when you worked as a team." He said, before noticing the Horsemen amongst the group. Thankfully, he had seen their meeting with Yang and Blake, so he'd heard their excuse of being his apprentices. "And it's wonderful to see you as well, apprentices." He said, approaching them.
Strife leaned in towards War. "He heard that?" He asked his youngest sibling with a hushed voice.
"Their technology is clearly more advanced than the humans of our world. He must have had some form of surveillance. Just go with it." War whispered back.
Death then stepped forward. "Yes, Professor. It's been too long. I believe there is much we have to discuss." Death said.
"Yes, I believe that is for the best. Students, you all go with Miss Goodwitch. My apprentices and I shall take the other Bullhead." Ozpin said, the students nodding and following the female teacher as they were instructed, while Ozpin lead the Horsemen to the other aircraft and climbed aboard. After introducing themselves, they then informed the Headmaster that they know the whole story about him, Salem and the Brother Gods. "I see. Well, this is quite the shock. What you have just told me are secrets I've tried very hard to hide for a very long time." He said, gripping his cane tightly, before looking at them. "And what do you plan to do with this knowledge?" He asked cautiously.
"To aid you, obviously." War said.
"Really?" Ozpin asked in surprise.
"Yeah. You both got screwed over by a pair of gods who think they're the only ones who matter and everyone should follow their rules or suffer for it. We can relate." Strife explained.
"Indeed. What happened to your wife was tragic, but she and her Grimm have become a danger to everyone on your world. They do not deserve to be drawn into your fight. Someone needs to put her out of her misery for the sake of the innocents of this world. And we are very good at that." Fury added.
"Yes. We shall deal with her and these creatures of Grimm. We will not rest until the balance of this world is restored. I swear this to you on our honor as Horsemen." Death declared, holding his hand out to Ozpin.
Ozpin listened to what they said, shocked that these otherworldly beings seemed to actually care more than the gods that once ruled over them. But he then smiled and grabbed Death's hand. "Then I welcome you to Remnant and Beacon academy, students." He told them, shaking Death's hand.