Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Haven Academy, 'Vault of the Spring Maiden')

Yang continued to dodge the blasts of fire from Cinder while Raven locked blades with her again.

She backflipped away and pulled open her scroll. She looked over the edge.

"Sky, I need backup down here, they're too much!" She said before she fired a shot at the stalagmites to try and buy herself some time.

(With Skyler)

Skyler looked at the battle around him before he heard a voice over his scroll.

"Colonel, we've finally been able to break through the air defenses! We're deploying reinforcements to you now." He heard from one of his men on the Blizzard.

"Well, the tide is turning… I have to get to Yang before Raven goes after her…" Skyler muttered as Winter backflipped over the railing and used a Glyph to stop her fall.

"Go get Yang, we're hold them off… They're going to have to retreat with the reinforcements arriving…" Winter said as Skyler nodded and turned to look at the Specialist.

"Thanks, Winter… Don't get anyone killed that doesn't have to die… You know how dangerous these guys are…" Skyler said as he rushed towards the vault, he saw Mercury try to intercept him before he slammed face-first into a glyph.

Skyler chuckled as he leaped into the vault.

(With Yang.)

Skyler landed in the vault before he dodged a blast of fire that nearly burned off his face. He turned to see Yang Block Raven's sword before she was knocked backward with a kick.

"Should have guessed you'd both backstab each other… Seriously, picked a hell of a time to betray each other…" Skyler said as Cinder swung her sword at Skyler which he blocked with his arm.

He looked at Yang who finally noticed him and he sighed as he dodged Raven who slammed into Cinder, sparks flying from their weapons.

"Glad you could make it…" Yang said as she flexed her right arm. Skyler wanted to help her but knew they were much too busy to deal with that at the moment.

"Yeah, we just got back up upstairs… You shouldn't have come down here alone." Skyler muttered before he turned to his fiancée and then turned to look at Cinder and Raven who were still clashing swords.

"They are going to kill each other… I'd just go and grab the damn relic and let us both leave… But we need the maiden to open the damn vault… I can't overpower either of them at full power, Firefly… Let's get to higher ground." Skyler said he wondered why neither Maiden was fighting them but considered why.

Raven didn't consider them a threat, she was dealing with Cinder, the only real threat in the room… Cinder from what he heard, was too much of a megalomaniac to consider anyone her equal, she'd kill him and Yang if they were a threat, but nothing else… Raven was thinking from a military standpoint, Cinder was thinking with her ego.

It would have surprised him if both weren't trying to gut each other.

"We can't…" Yang went to say as Skyler rushed towards the edge of the room, dug in his arm, and began to climb up as Yang sighed and rushed to the other end of the room and fired her guns which tossed her to another ledge.

Skyler flipped onto the ledge out of earshot as Yang listened to the sounds of gunshots above her.

"I don't think the entire army of Atlas could deal with a maiden… And trust me, I'd like to fight both of them… I didn't think they'd be trying to kill each other, Yang… We're waiting, one of them survives? We deal with them… I've only heard about one maiden before, but they're way stronger than someone like me or you… The good news is without Raven's semblance, we'd end up being able to cut them off… As I said, Bran managed to bring down the airship Merlot had over the school… Backup should be dealing with the rest of Cinder's little group…" Skyler said as he looked at the fight and sighed.

He wanted to fight, but he wouldn't let Yang fight her mother, it wouldn't end well. He was well aware of how strong Raven was. He wouldn't let his fiancé get hurt.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I'm sorry this chapter took a while to come out and it's short, I will make the next chapter hopefully. The next chapter will be in 3 or so weeks and will show the ending of the battle of Haven and the end of Cinder and Raven's duel and their next move. Until Friday, Lighting Wolf out!