It's now been a few days since the attack on the academy and rumors have started to spread about what happened, but from what I've heard here and there they are very far from the truth. We're currently heading to a train station because after some discussion Ozpin decided that we have to go to Atlas so we can group up with James and prepare the best we can for Salem's inevitable attack since that is where the next relic is.

And from what Ozpin told me in private is that he thinks Salem's goal is to bring together all the relics and bring upon the brother gods to the worlds so they can judge it and Salem is hoping that they deem the world unworthy and destroy everything on it including her.

"And here we are, I'll go the tickets, you guys do whatever you want." Qrow says before splitting away from the group.

"I'm going with my brother." Raven says.

"I'll get some snacks." Ruby says and Weiss along with Roman and Neo -who are under Neo's semblance- Ren and Nora follows Ruby.

Jaune and Pyrrha walks away together

"I'll-" Blake gets interrupted by a call.

"Hey Blake, over here!" Someone shouts.

We turn to him and I see a boy with blond hair and a monkey tail.

"I know where I'm going." Blake says before walking towards the boy which leaves me with Ozpin/Oscar.

"Can I talk to Ozpin?"

"Umm ok, hold on… What can I help you with Kratos?"

"I just want to know when you're going to tell them about Salem and all that."

"*Sigh* I hope I never have to Kratos. I fear what they're reactions may be, because I doubt any of them will take the news as good as you did."

"You're going to have to tell them eventually, it'll get worse and worse the longer you keep it secret from them."

"… I know, I'll… cross that bridge when we get there."

"I'll leave you to your own choices. Now, how about we get something to eat?"

"Certainly, follow me, I know a good place from when I was here before."

After everyone has bought and done what they needed to we all met up near the boarding area.

"Oooh I'm so excited we're going to be heading to Argus! Think of the views!" Nora shouts.

"I don't think any of you appreciate how much trouble I went through to leaving Atlas and now we're just heading right back." Weiss complains.

"Don't worry Weiss, I know you're worried but we'll have your back. Promise." Ruby says causing Weiss to smile.

"No one's gotta be worried when we're around." A random person from a duo says walking up to us.

"And who are you supposed to be?" Weiss asks.

"Well Dee and Dudley of course! I'm Dee"

"And I'm Dudley! We're Arugs Limited's very own huntsman, and we'll be keeping everyone safe as we travel through grimm territory."

"Buuut, for a generous tip, we can make sure that your passenger carts get special attention." They say in turns.

"*Sigh* Here's a tip, how about you go fuck off and actually go guard the damn train like you're supposed to." Raven says.

"Yeah, the caboose staff entrance is wide open, who knows how many people have already gotten in." Qrow says walking beside Raven.

This causes them to argue before reluctantly leaving to actually do their jobs.

"I don't want to think what would happen if the train got into trouble and all they had were those two." Ruby says getting nods of agreement.

"Well let's not waste any more time now and get on the train." Qrow says.

After that we all board the train and half an hour later the doors close and the train starts its journey to Argus.

(Small Timeskip)

It's been a few hours since the train started and according to Ozpin, we'll arrive at Argus' train station in 4 hours. And to wait it out I decided to go to the train's bar, and I find Qrow already there drinking away.

"Oh hey, what's up?"

"Nothing much, just wanting to pass the time."

"*Chuckle* I can relate, I'd be bored out of my mind without this stuff. Get a seat, next one's on me."

Suddenly the train shakes and a loud roar is heard from the outside and the screams of panic follows suit.

"Grimm?"

"Grimm."

Qrow opens the window and we both climb up to the top of the train and I see everyone else except team JNPR get on the top as well. Another roar and we all look up to find multiple flying grimm, not nevermores this time.

'What are those grimm Ker?'

'The smaller ones are manticores and the large one in the middle of all of them is an alpha sphinx that is just short of being an elder, so it hasn't developed any real intelligence yet.'

'Damn it, can you grow wings if you absorb it?'

'I don't know, I think it has a 50 50 chance of happening'

'Alright, let's hope it does happen'

The sphinx roars again which is the signal to attack since all the manticores around it are flying towards us. As one gets closer I stop its charge before flipping it over and decapitating it. Then more and more start to appear and are getting closer in bigger swarms.

In the front of the train I see either Dee or Dudley charge at one of the grimm but he got swiped away by another grimm and promptly got his head eaten. The other person quickly got his scroll out and did something with it that causes the train to reinforce and the turrets to activate.

As the turrets fire the amount of grimm that manages to get on the train are reduced by a large amount. And I decide that instead of waiting for them to come to me, I'll come to them. When one of the grimm managed to land I quickly punch it before getting on its back.

I grab a handful of the fur around its neck before pulling upwards on it causing it to fly up. It tries to strike me with its scorpion tail but Ker bit it off before it got the chance to strike. I direct the grimm I'm riding to the swarms of other manticores.

When I'm close enough I slice the head of the one I'm riding before jumping to another one. And I repeat this until the last one which I use to get another swarm. After some time though, I notice a tunnel ahead so I quickly make the grimm fly back.

But the grimm got shot and I had to jump if I don't want to get left behind. Thankfully though I manage to stick my blades into the side of the train and climb up. I look at the others and they haven't noticed the tunnel yet.

"There's a tunnel up ahead! Get inside!" I shout before climbing in quickly.

Not long after me is Qrow then Ruby, Weiss, and eventually everybody but Dudley made it in the train a moment too late and broke his arm making it bend 90 degrees backwards and him to understandably shout in pain.

Jaune puts his hands on him before transferring his aura to him.

"This is gonna hurt." Qrow says before he snaps it back into place making him shout louder than before.

"*Pant*…*Pant*…Thanks for that." He says.

"No problem but you have to turn the turrets off, they're attracting more grimm than it would off." Qrow says.

"What!? Are you crazy!? Those things are what's keeping us alive!" He shouts.

Qrow roughly grabs him by his collars and shoves him up to the wall.

"Now listen here you-!" Qrow wanted to shout but I interrupted him.

"Qrow! He's right, this train and everyone in it would have been in a much worse shape if those turrets were turned off! Did you not see how large the swarms of grimm were and how much the turrets helped!?" I shout pushing him off of Dudley.

"Seriously brother, how could you be that stupid? Has all that drinking finally took its toll?" Raven asks.

Qrow glares at her for a few moments before sighing, "Fine, so what's the plan now?"

"Ooh I know! What about having Ren use his semblance on the whole train?" Nora asks.

"Uhh I haven't used my semblance for this big of a scale before." Ren says.

"But you didn't have Jaune before!" Nora says.

"I... suppose it's worth a try." Ren says.

"I'm afraid that… there's one complication to this plan. This." Ozpin says motioning to the relic attached to his side.

"What about it Oz?" Qrow asks.

"The relic… attracts grimm I'm afraid." He says looking down."

"And you didn't think it was important enough to tell us!?" Ruby shouts.

"Enough! Save all of your yapping for later, I can see the end of the tunnel coming." Raven says.

Ruby sighs in frustration but nods anyway.

"Alright, get everyone to the front parts of the train! After that we'll cut the train off so we'll drawn most of the grimm's attention off the passengers while Ren and his team guards them." Qrow says.

Team JNPR nods and proceeds to usher everyone to the front. Once we're out of the tunnel we all climb back up and I can see Roman shooting the train connecters which detaches us from the main train. The swarm of grimm rush out of the tunnel and start flying again.

The turrets quickly get to work but the sphinx managed to get on board the train.

"I'll handle it, you take care of the rest!" I shout before running at it ignoring Qrow shouting for me to wait.

The grimm shoots a fireball at me but I block it with my blades and as I get close it tries to swipe at me with its claws but I jump out of the way and punch its face hard which stuns it. I hook my blades into its neck and pull myself to its back.

'Ker bite the tail off!'

'Already on it!'

He says before jumping out of my shadow and quickly bites the grimm's tail off after some effort and gets in my shadow again quickly. The grimm screeches in pain and it tries to fly but I quickly cut one of its wings off to not give it the chance to get away.

I switch to my claws and hook them into its eyes before pulling its head back.

'Ker kill it now! It's trying to form a fireball!'

'Right!'

He says before jumping out of the creature's shadow and bites down on its neck. He puts more force into the bite before successfully ripping its neck. But he was a moment to late because the fireball was already formed. After he ripped the grimm's neck the fireball shot out of its mouth and into the mountain next to the train causing large chunks of rocks to fall onto the tracks.

"Everyone, hold on to something!" I shout before stabbing my blades into the train.

The train ramps of the rocks and of the tracks before crashing into multiple trees and coming to an abrupt stop by hitting a rather large rock sending everyone but me and Raven who reacted in time off the train and flying into the snow and unluckily for Qrow, into a tree.

"Ugh… is everyone alright?" Oscar asks.

"I'm fine"

"Good here"

"I'm alright"

"Doing ok"

But for Qrow, "*Groan*… Could be better."

"I'm still alive!" Says an old sounding voice.

Suddenly an old woman with strange things over her eyes and a cane with a skull on top of it comes out.

"That sure was a close one huh?" She says.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Who the fuck is she?" Raven being the one to ask the question.