It's the dawn of the next day and James managed to evacuate all the citizens of both Atlas and Mantle in a bunker located a few kilometers away from where the ensuing chaos is going to happen. I then went back to where the team was after I finished planning what to do with James. I enter the house and as expected everyone is still asleep.

Raven's sleeping on the couch, Qrow's sleeping on the floor with a few bottles of alcohol next to him and team RWB_ and JNPR are still in their rooms. Instead of trying to wake them up one by one I'm going to go the easy way.

'Ker if you would.'

He then comes out of my shadow and takes a deep breath before roaring loudly which shocks everyone awake. Qrow hits his head on the side of a wall, Raven stumbled up quickly weapon already in hand, and I can hear a few thumps, likely from some of them falling of their beds.

Raven stays in her ready stance still waking up before she recognizes who's standing in front of her. She sighs angrily as she relaxes and rubs the bridge of her nose before looking at me pissed.

"And what was that for?"

"I needed to wake all of you up so that was the quickest way, and besides you want to get up as early as possible today."

"What reason could you possibly give that would justify that?"

"I'll tell you once everyone's up and ready to go."

'*Sigh* Fine then, I'm going to go change."

As Raven goes into her own room, I can hear a lot of hurried footsteps coming down from upstairs. And predictably, it was team RWB_ and JNPR along with Roman, Neo and Oscar all with weapons in hand while most of them are still half awake. They look around frantically before spotting me.

"Dominus, what was that noise?" Ruby asked.

"That was Ker waking you up, now get dressed and get back down here ASAP. I've got some important news." I say.

They stare at me in disbelief for a few moments before all of them eventually go up the stairs again. A few minutes later everyone is up and ready, RWB_ and JNPR are sitting on the couch, Raven and Roman are drinking some cups of coffee and Qrow is sitting on a chair trying to get rid of his hangover.

"So what's so important that you had to wake all of us up when it's not even fully bright outside yet?" Raven asks.

"And where's Maria? I didn't see her anywhere." Ruby asks.

"The reason will answer both of your questions. Salem," Everyone tenses up the moment I say Salem, "is here and everyone that can't fight was evacuated to bunkers overnight."

Raven and Roman choked on their coffee at the news, Qrow sobered right away and a look of shock appears on both teams' faces.

"What!? Where is she!?" Raven shouted.

"She's going to land at the northern side of Atlas where there's a large clear area."

"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" Ruby shouts and drags Roman and Neo out the door.

In the distance I can see her activating her eyes and all of them get covered in a fiery silver aura before Ruby used her semblance to carry them all away in a blur of silver and red.

"I see she's gotten better at using her eyes."

"Better is an understatement, she's pretty much mastered it when we sparred against her." Jaune said.

"We can talk about this later, lets go." I say.

They all nod and we all rush to the northside of Atlas. I get on Ker and let Raven and Qrow in their bird form perch on my shoulder before we fly away. I look back to see that Weiss, Blake and Oscar are riding grimm that Weiss summoned. And JN_R are holding on to Pyrrha as she takes giant leaps easily keeping pace with us.

We reach the clearing in no time and in the distance, we can see Salem riding on her giant and airborne grimm with probably thousands or tens of thousands of a myriad of other airborne grimm flying around it and a black sea of grimm running below it. We all land and see that James is already there with the ace ops and an army of both man and machine behind him.

"What's the plan general?" Ruby asks.

"Team JNPR and Qrow will take 3 of my ace ops along and defend Mantle to the best of your abilities, some of my army are already down there to help. The rest of you stay here and get ready for the hardest battle of your life." He says.

Everyone nods and JNPR and Qrow nods and takes 3 of the ace ops and goes down to Mantle with an airship. The rest wait for Salem tensed as the grimm grow ever closer. We hear a loud crack down from mantle and we look down to see a giant chunk of the land get picked before getting thrown at the grimm that's still quite a distance away. As the giant chunk was thrown, we could see that Pyrrha was the one that threw it.

"…What kind of training did you put her through?" Ruby asks.

"The kind that allows her to do that." I say causing Ruby to just sigh and nod.

I look to Oscar and see that he has a different demeanor, "Is that you Ozpin?"

This causes everyone to look at him, "Yes it is Dominus, it's time to finally end this century long war."

"I'll do what I can to thin down the grimm." I say as I get on Ker.

"I'm coming with you." Raven says as she transforms and perches herself onto my shoulder.

Ker takes flight and we head straight for the grimm at top speed. I take out my axe in one hand and my blade in the other. I channel my ice through the axe and mana through my blade igniting it. We're only a little ways away before reaching the grimm and Raven flies of to the other side of the giant grimm.

We reach the horde and I start slicing heads off the grimm and freeze them, engulfing them in ice and kill some of the grimm running on the ground. And Ker punctured a lot of the grimm with his tentacles through the shadows under their wings. We continue this cycle of killing until we were relatively close to Atlas again.

Ker flew to the other side, and we see that Raven is handling her side well, she gets onto a grimm in bird form before transforming and letting Erebus shoot fireballs at the other grimm before killing the one she's on and transforms again before repeating what she just did again.

'Raven we should head back now, we're near Atlas!'

'Alright!'

She kills one last grimm before perching herself onto my shoulder again and we fly back to Atlas in a big burst of speed from Ker. We land and Raven hops off as she transforms back.

"Get ready, I saw a lot of grimm on the sides of it." I say.

"Sides? Are you sure you don't mean around?" James asks.

"No, that grimm is basically a giant ship, it has a landing area on the sides on everything, so there's likely a whole lot of grimm inside it if what I saw is anything to go by." I say.

"I see… it seems this is going to a hard battle." James says.

"Well we're ready for it, just need to wait for the grimm to come to us now."

And wait we did, as the grimm grew closer everyone got more tense until finally the first groups of flying grimm dive towards us. Before they could even reach us however, they were shot down by James' army. And they weren't given a break as more and more grimm start to dive towards us.

At this point everyone that's able to help is helping repel the grimm and Ruby was especially helpful whenever she flashes them with her eyes. After going through a lot of grimm the main giant one finally landed. It let out a loud roar before letting out thousands upon thousands of grimm either from its sides or out its mouth.

At this point I start summoning the souls I absorbed, I start with Krumos then the dragon and lastly the wraith. The wraith starts warping and killing large amounts of grimm, the dragon helps with both the flying and running grimm. And Krumos is likely killing the most amount of grimm compared to the both of them as he freezes large chunks of the grimm and throws them towards the rest of them.

Ruby along with Weiss, Blake, Roman and Neo charges into the horde of grimm and Ruby quickly flashes her eyes clearing a good chunk out of the horde before charging deeper with her eyes blazing silver. Suddenly something jumps from the mouth of the giant grimm and lands in front of Ruby killing a lot of grimm with the impact.

Once the dust settles, I can see that it's Yang but very different from what she used to look like. She now has horns and black sclera and red pupils, a grimm arm that replaces her right hand while she still has a normal left, her hair is now a faded version of her once gold hair. She's wearing full battle armor that's made of bones with streaks of red that covers everything except her head and grimm arm.

Once Ruby realizes who it was, she drops her weapon and puts her hands over her mouth as she starts to cry.

'Raven, there's your daughter.'

She kills another some more grimm before looking around and spots the crying Ruby in front of the grimmified Yang. She quickly turns into a raven and flies straight to them. I'll let them handle that as I run straight towards the giant grimm. Me and Ker quickly go through the horde and reach the front of the giant grimm.

But before I could go in, Cinder jumped out with her blades in hand and her one eye ablaze. I block her strike and push her back. And now that I get a good look at her, she is half grimm and half human. Her whole left arm is now a grimm arm and some patches of grimm along her other arm and legs.

"You couldn't beat me last time, what do you think makes this time any different?" I ask.

"I have mistress' gift this time!" She shouts.

"You mean your grimm parts? If anything that makes you more vulnerable, gives me more places to attack that isn't guarded by your aura. Not that it matters in the first place, I can shatter your aura with a punch if I wanted to."

"Shut up!"

She charges at me and covers her blades with flames before going for a quick slash. I block it with my own blades before superheating them and slicing through her blades. She doesn't expect this and dodged too late to fully avoid my strike leaving a wound on her side that's been cauterized because of the immense heat.

She angrily sends a torrent of flames at me which I easily block with a wall of ice. Once she stops I dissipate the wall and she's looking at me with shock.

"How's that possible!? Maiden powers are only able to be transferred to women!" She shouts.

"Oh these aren't maiden powers, it's something much better." I say as I send a few swirlings ball of ice like the first I tested this power at Cinder.

She tenses as she sends fireballs and impacts some of them midair but one missed and is headed straight for her. She quickly slices it with a sword made of flames she hastily formed. But this only causes it to explode in front of her face sending shards of ice straight into her face and exploded part of her grimm arm and froze the rest of it. She screams in pain and tries to unfreeze her arm with her flames but it had no effect.

'Ker, tentacles please.'

Shadow tentacles emerge from Cinder's shadow and quickly immobilize her. I approach her and she actually has look of fear on her face. And it grows with every step I take.

I stand in front of her and before she even has a chance to talk I superheat my blades and cut her other arm off causing her to shout in more pain. I then continue by cutting of both her legs causing her to shout the loudest she probably ever has. I throw the disembodied body parts off the edge leaving only the head and half an arm attached to her body.

'Ker break what bones she has left in her body'

And he does just that as I can see the tentacles tighten before I hear several loud cracks along with another scream. I switch to my claws and hook Cinder before I start ripping her soul out of her. It doesn't take much effort as she's already gravely injured.

I absorb it and I can feel intense heat travelling from my chest outwards. I channel it in my hand and I can see the air around it start to get wavy. I put that hand onto Cinder's face and feel it start to heat up and I lift it up to see that the skin has already burnt off exposing the muscles beneath it.

Suddenly an orange energy emerges out of her body and rises into the air before going off into a random direction. With that out of the way Ker tosses the body over the edge as well before he goes into my shadow and we head into the giant grimm as we continue to kill more grimm that just started coming out of it again.