Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Atlesian Airship.)

Yang looked at the crew of soldiers as another round of gunfire could be heard.

She looked back to see the Colossus, along with 2 other Atlesian Cruisers engaging the massive Leviathan.

She knew Skyler was aboard one as it continued to rampage before Cordo scored a shot to its head with ice dust before punching the creature into the ocean.

The flock of Nevermore, Sphinx, and Manticore still proved troublesome as Grimm after Grimm fell to Atlesian guns.

But this was matched by 2 or 3 Mantas being knocked out of the sky. Yang remembered Skyler was somewhere within the flock of death and carnage.

She looked at the relic on Ruby's belt and remembered what had led to this.

Skyler trusted her to take the relic to Atlas, to get one weapon able to hurt Salem to his uncle… while he held off a monster, she was convinced shouldn't be fought by them.

Yang almost wondered if she was being spineless not to help her fiancé to fight off the hulking Grimm… before recalling that the Atlesian soldier entrusted it to her…. using the excuse that as another soldier of Atlas, he gave her orders to retreat to Atlas to inform the general of what had happened.

Yang knew Skyler saw her for more than a soldier, but he was clever, she'd give him that.

"Ms. Schnee? I have a report saying the Grimm swarm has been managed decently enough for the Colonel's forces to withdraw… he'll meet us in Atlas." One of the soldiers at the command console reported as Winter turned to Yang.

Yang looked at the officer who hummed and looked at the relic held by Ruby before speaking up.

"I want you to know that General Ironwood is going to require the lantern when we arrive in Atlas… and I want you to know Atlas right now is under strict control not to let anything get in or out." Yang frowned at this and sighed.

Yang knew from Skyler that Atlas was under lockdown. He had told her how the military-controlled a lot of the city of Mantle and how it was more or less a result of Salem's siege of Vale.

Still, it made her wonder if they could trust the general. Yang knew Skyler trusted his uncle the same way Yang wanted to trust the still drinking Qrow.

He hadn't been truthful about her mother, what else could Qrow not tell her… still? It came from a place of love, something she knew with Skyler, she had.

Yang cracked her neck and got Winter to look at her before the consoles behind her lit up.

"Winter, I want you to inform General Ironwood we are headed straight to the academy to speak with him when we arrive. Merlot has gone right after a Leviathan and was able to launch another stealth strike on us and cause damage to Argus. I don't want to even know if he's got his cybernetic hooks into Atlas, I'm not going to risk it." Skyler pointed out while another officer pressed a few buttons and Skyler appeared in the cabin.

"I'm going to kill you if you do something that reckless again." Yang watched Skyler turn from Winter to look at her and hummed.

"Right after I just helped ward off a Leviathan. And here I thought that was usually a good thing." Skyler stated before chuckling and smirking.

"Yang, I'll be fine. we need to get to the academy and report to General Ironwood right away, though. we have no real ability to help Mantle at the moment, considering only experienced huntsmen are allowed in the city… plus the city right now is dealing with a lot of trouble, I do want to point out a lot of people aren't going to be happy to see us." Skyler sighed, wiped at his eyes, and turned away to look at the vastness of the ocean from where he was.

"This will be the final war with Merlot. He will try and burn down the city and throw whatever he has left at us… whatever Androids, Grimm, White Fang… we lose in Atlas and Merlot will go after Vacuo, and I know for a fact Vacuo won't be able to hold its own against Merlot…" Skyler cut the connection and went to reflect on his ideals.

He had no idea what awaited them at home, enemies, allies? He didn't know, but he did know that to win, there would of course have to be choices mad not even he liked.

"War is always costly… oy, I swear I've been around way too many of my uncle's meetings. I just hope things are fine when we get there." Skyler pointed out.

Skyler had no clue what the final part of the war would be… and he didn't deem anything out of the question.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out this marks the end of season 6, sorry for how short and boring it was… season 7 will be the last of the story. The next chapter is next Saturday and will show the arrival in Atlas. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Yang chapter is 1200, Ruby 1200 Sunday, Glynda 1200 Thursday, Raven 1200 Tuesday, Winter 900 Saturday.