Sorry for the delay with this one. Vol 5 is amazing so far and due to that announcement from CRWBY that RWBY will be 12 seasons, I'm gonna try and pump out chapters faster to get caught up (goal is 1 chapter a week). Hope you enjoy!
She struggled to open her eyes, her body aching and sluggish. She blinked, her eyes adjusting to the light. Her aura had stopped crackling around her body, okay that's a good sign. She was being dragged by her arms by two White Fang members, so that wasn't a good sign. She craned her neck; mech's and White Fang members were moving cargo around. She could see mech's, and crates full of she didn't even know what being loaded onto a train.
They stopped and Ruby looked back. They were in front of the train, the side door wide open. Various White Fang members where working around the train.
"Torchwick!" The one on her right shouted.
"What is it, Perry?" a familiar voice shouted back.
"We found something you should check out," the one on her left said. She heard footsteps in the train and Roman Torchwick leaned out of the train car, a lit cigar hanging from his lips. He scowled, his eyes narrowing, as he looked at her. He hopped out of the train, swinging his cane.
"Now what do we have here?" He said. Ruby began to struggle, grunting, kicking her feet. Torchwick laughed and the two White Fang members jerked her to her feet painfully, turning her to face Torchwick.
He glowered at her, a smile creeping onto his face.
"Not so tough without your scythe, are you?" She scowled at him. He grinned, and struck his cane across her face. She cried out, eliciting laughter from the White Fang. Her face stung as Torchwick grabbed her cheeks, forcing her to look at him. "So tell me, Red, what are you doing here?" Her nose wrinkled up, her lip quivering, as she shook her head. Torchwick chuckled. "Ohhh thank you, Red, I had been having a bad day. I really needed this." He struck her across the face again, eliciting another cry and more laughter. "Want to tell me now?" he asked.
She spat on his face.
"You little-!" He slammed the cane into her gut, causing her to double over in pain, grunting. The cane struck her back, she grit her teeth as she took the hit. She felt the cane rest underneath her chin, lifting her head back up. "Let me make something perfectly clear," he sneered. "We aren't going to be done until you tell me what I want to know."
There was a boom, and the ground shook, static began hissing from a radio.
"We're under attack! I repeat, we are und-" the voice yelled in pain, an animalistic scream coming from the radio.
Torchwick frowned, and motioned with his head for the two White Fang holding her to let her go. She fell to her knees, clutching her stomach, and felt him step on her back.
"You lot, go check that out. The last thing we need is Grimm getting down here."
There was another boom, the sound thunderous, the ground shaking even more. Ruby craned her neck over and could see White Fang members running, and screaming, some blindly firing behind them with their assault rifles. She felt Roman get off of her.
"What the fu-" Torchwick stopped, and Ruby smiled.
Yang was sprinting towards the fleeing White Fang, her hair ablaze, her eyes red, a snarl on her lips. Weiss, Blake, and Oobleck were following after her, their weapons drawn.
Ruby sprang to her feet, and dashed forward, her semblance helping her put some distance between her and them.
"Someone kill her!" Torchwick shouted. Gunfire started to rain down around her, throwing up dust as the bullets hit the dirt around her. She coughed, and kept sprinting towards her team. There was a boom, heat rushing up her back, and she screamed as she was thrown forward, landing hard on the dirt.
He grinned as he watched that little annoying red brat lay in the dirt, a crater from the grenade he fired smoldering behind her. If that hadn't killed her, she and the others would at least be out of his hair for a little bit. He turned to the Faunus next to him.
"Attach the car, and tell the others; the attack is happening now." The Faunus cocked his head to the side.
"Adam said the attack wasn't until Nov-" The Faunus gagged when he grabbed him by the throat, lifting him off the ground and slamming him against the train.
"If we don't do this now, this entire operation is a bust; just do as I say you stupid animal!" The Faunus nodded weakly and Torchwick released him.
She groaned weakly, struggling to get up. She looked up, her vision blurry and her ears ringing. Her eyes widened, fear shooting through her as she stared up the barrel of a gun, the White Fang holding it sneering down at her. Her lip quivered; she wouldn't be fast enough. There was an animalistic scream and the White Fang member was tackled to the ground. Ruby scrambled to her feet, backing away as Yang yanked the rifle out of his hands, and slammed the butt of it into his mask, shattering it. She pounded the rifle butt into his face, until his aura broke, blood running down his chin.
"Stay down," she growled. He nodded weakly. The fire in her hair died, and when Yang turned to her, her eyes were amethyst, and she smiled as she got up. She walked over to Ruby and offered her hand, which Ruby took. Yang pulled her up and into a hug, resting her head on top of Ruby's. "I am so, so fucking sorry, Ruby." She said. Ruby closed her eyes and hugged her sister back.
"It's fine, Yang." Yang tightened her grip.
"It isn't, Ruby. I shouldn't have kept that from you for so long. I should have told you first." Ruby squirmed out of the hug, Weiss, Blake, and Oobleck arriving.
"Yang, we can talk about that later. Right now, we have to stop the White Fang." Blake handed her her scythe, and Ruby popped the scope and stock into place. "They have mech's and who knows what else on that train." Oobleck cocked his head.
"The ends of the tracks are sealed, why would they-" There was a screech and static as an intercom came on.
"Get to your places, we're heading out, ahead of schedule!" Oobleck's eyes widened, his glasses sliding down his nose, as the train came to life behind them, its wheels grinding against the rail.
"Oh dear," he said.
"What are we supposed to do?" Weiss asked. Ruby turned towards the train, her scythe springing into place. She smirked.
"We're stopping that train."
The door behind him slid open, and Torchwick glanced back, the Faunus in the door way was out of breath.
"They're on the train," he managed. Torchwick groaned, rolling his eyes.
"Then get them off the train, you moron! Have Cerise and Neo help you," he said. The Faunus nodded, and ran off, the door sliding shut behind him. Torchwick shook his head. He wasn't paid enough to deal with those kids.
The wind whipped around her as the train sped down the tracks. Weiss and Yang were struggling to pry open the hatch on top of the train car.
"We have to hurry, ladies, who knows what they have planned with this train." Weiss grunted, falling onto her rear as the hatch sprang open. Yang peered down the hatch, her face going pale.
"Uh, Doc, what's that?" She pointed down into the train car, and Blake looked down into it. Her eyes shot open; she would recognize that crude wiring job and purified Red Dust anywhere.
"That's a bomb!" She exclaimed. Weiss scrambled away from the latch, Yang jumping back with a curse. The bomb lit up, beginning to make a beeping noise.
"Alright, time to go!" Oobleck said. Weiss, Yang, and Ruby ran ahead, leaping onto the other car. "Blake, detach the car!"
"On it!" She said. Oobleck leapt onto the other car, and Blake leapt down, landing on the other car's coupling. She drew her sword, and raised her arm. The car broke away before her blade met it. She stared at it in confusion before shouting "It broke away before I could hit it!"
"What?" Oobleck shouted.
Blake was thrown against the train car, hitting her head against the metal, heat washing over her, both sets of ears ringing. She groaned, struggling to open her eyes. The train car had exploded, reduced to a flaming wreckage. Moonlight was filtering through a hole blown in the roof of the tunnel. A moment passed before Grimm started to pour in from the hole, sprinting after the train, a writhing, black and white wave. Blake gasped and climbed up the train car. Oobleck was staring at the Grimm, his mouth hanging open.
"They're going to lead them straight to the city!" he said.
"What are we going to do?" Yang asked. Oobleck turned towards her before throwing himself onto the floor of the train, gunfire raining down where he once was.
"Likas ta!" Blake heard a voice shout. Kill them, in Ishvi. Blake grit her teeth, there were White Fang a few cars down, firing at them. Weiss frowned and swung her sword, creating an ice barrier on the next car between them and the White Fang. Blake stumbled as the car they were on detached itself from the rest of the train, a beeping coming from inside the car.
"Go!" Blake shouted, sprinting forward and leaping off the train and onto the next, ducking behind the ice wall Weiss had thrown up. Weiss, Ruby, Yang, and Oobleck ducked into cover next to her. Blake could hear the bullets hitting the ice, and the White Fang shouting in Ishvi for them to come out.
"This isn't good!" Yang said. A piece of the ice wall got shot off, the ice falling onto Blake's head. She drew her gun, and fired blindly over the ice wall, eliciting several screams.
"You three!" Oobleck pointed at Blake, Yang, and Weiss. "Get inside the train and stop it!" He pointed at Ruby and himself "We'll keep them busy up here!" Another piece of ice flew off, landing on Yang's leg.
"How the fuck are we supposed to do that?! They're shooting at us!" Oobleck ducked his head down as a bullet flew past.
"Any way possible!" Blake switched her gun to her sword, grimacing.
"Weiss, Yang, follow me!" She leapt over the ice wall, throwing a shadow clone in front of her.
"What the shit, Blake?!" Yang exclaimed. Weiss vaulted over the ice wall, throwing herself onto the train car, sparks flying from the bullets hitting near her. Yang vaulted over a second later, a grimace on her face.
Blake charged forward, her swords drawn, yelling. The closest White Fang member's backed away from her, fear on their masked faces, the rifles shaking in their hands as they fired at her, missing. She yelled, slashing her sword against the closest Faunus, her blade cutting through his aura and abdomen. He staggered back, his blood gushing out, before he fell off the train car. She pounced at the next closest one, stabbing through her mask, her body going limp around her blade. She whirled around, blood flicking off her blade, and slashed the throats of two White Fang open, ignoring their garbled voices as they collapsed, grasping at their throats.
She felt a chill run by her, and she saw a long wall of ice shoot up in front of her, dividing them from the White Fang. She looked back and saw Weiss stab through the rifle of a White Fang member, before retracting her blade and slamming the pommel against her face. She fell to the train car roof, groaning in pain. She saw Yang grab a rifle out of a White Fang member's hands, tossing it off the train, before kicking him in the groin and slamming her fists into his back when he doubled over in pain, punching him through the latch on the car's roof.
Blake cocked an eyebrow as she looked at Yang, who gave her a cheeky grin.
"Found our way in," she said.
Ruby climbed over the ice wall, running and jumping onto the next car. She gasped when the large ice wall shattered, one of the mech's she had fought month's back towering above her, the guns on its arms beginning to spin.
"We've got a problem!" She shouted at Oobleck. He nodded grimly, his weapon springing into place. He ran past her, facing down the mech. The mech aimed it's guns at him as he raised his flamethrower. White fire shot out, engulfing the mech. Ruby's eyes widened as cracks appeared in the glass of the cockpit. The mech slumped, and fell off the side of the train, crashing into the wall, and exploding.
They landed together, the inside of the train car dark and cramped. They stepped past the groaning White Fang member on the ground, Weiss fiddling with something in her pouch. She looked over at Weiss as she pulled out a magazine, the bullets inside multicolored. She gave Blake a smile and offered it to her as they walked.
"Take this, it'll help," she said. Blake nodded, and dropped the magazine in her glock. She popped the clip into place before re-sheathing her weapon.
They entered the next car, and Blake grabbed her sword; that small woman from the White Fang rally stood in the middle of the cart, an innocent smile on her face, her hands resting on her frilly pink umbrella. Yang stepped forward, her gauntlet's shifting into place.
"You two keep going, I'll take care of her." They glanced at Yang, before at each other, and nodding. They ran past the petite woman, who didn't even give them a second glance, and into the next car.
They kept running, occasionally glancing back at one another, as they made their way through several of the cars. They ran into a car, and panic shot through Blake at the all too familiar sound of a chainsaw being scraped against metal.
Cerise.
The giant of a Faunus was lumbering towards them, his chainsaw sword being lugged behind him.
"Keep going! I'll handle him!" Weiss shouted. Blake swallowed; she had seen Cerise in action, what that saw did to humans. She glanced back at Weiss, at her determined face, at her sword. Blake smiled, and nodded. She turned back to Cerise, scowling and drawing her sword. He chuckled, raising his saw, and standing his ground.
Weiss lunged at him, and he swung at her head. Blake parried the blow with her sheath, giving Weiss the chance to place a glyph beneath him and launch him into the air, and behind them. He landed with a grunt, his saw embedding itself in the floor, sparks flying everywhere. Weiss gave her a reassuring smile before turning to face Cerise. Blake gave her one last look before running through the door and into the next car.
"What's new pussycat?" Torchwick asked when she entered the car. He twirled his cane as the door slid close behind her. She snarled and fired at him; he ducked down fire springing from the wall where the bullet hit. She fired at his leg, a grunt of pain coming from him as stone spread around knee. She lunged at him, slashing at him with her blade. He blocked it with his cane, kicking her with his stone leg, hitting her in the gut. She grunted, and fired at him, hitting his shoulder, ice shooting down his arm. He grunted, trying to roll his shoulder. "Got some new toys, I see," he said.
She fired at him several times, and despite his stoned leg, he was able to leap out of the way, lightning, fire, stone, and ice hitting the walls and spreading up them where the bullets hit. He lunged at her, swinging his cane at her face. She blocked with her sheath and stabbed at his belly. He hissed in pain as her blade hit him. He swung at her again, feinting, and striking her knee. She fell to the floor, and fired at him, missing two shots, and hitting him with the third. He yelled as the White Dust round threw him back, slamming him into the wall, the stone and ice on him shattering. He got up, glowering at her.
She charged at him with a yell, swinging her sword, catching his cane. They swung at each other, parrying each other's blows, Blake several more shots, Torchwick dodging them. Blake swung her sheath, hitting his head, knocking off his hat, and punched him with the barrel of her gun, firing at the same time. Torchwick screamed, getting launched into the air, slamming against the roof, before hitting the floor, his aura breaking. He coughed, and tried to scramble back as Blake strode toward him, stepping on his chest, aiming her gun at his face. He smiled at her.
"Why are you fighting us, Blake? We're on the same side." Blake sneered.
"I am not on your side," she spat. He laughed.
"We're both murderers, Blake. I know all about what you and Adam did while you were in the White Fang." Her blood boiled at the mention of his name. She dug her heel into his chest, getting a yelp of pain from him. He shook his head. "Do you really think you can get away from the White Fang? You were born into this group, Blake, it's where you need to be. You think a little black bow is gonna make you a new person? That those humans you call team mates will still care about you when they learn what you've done? All the people you've killed? Stopping me isn't going to stop them from hating you when they learn the truth."
She pulled the trigger.
She placed a shield glyph around herself as the Faunus rose up, yanking his chainsaw out of the floor. He glared at her before chuckling.
"Your head is gonna look good on my shelf." He charged at her with a yell, swinging his chainsaw, sparks flying as it crashed against her shield. She readied her sword, parring the saw when it came crashing through. She stabbed at his shoulder, making him step back, his saw trailing against the floor. He swung at her, she sidestepped, blocking the saw with her blade, sparks flying onto her. She grit her teeth as he yanked his saw back and swung at her again, his body turning with the momentum. She ducked beneath the blade, the roar of the chainsaw in her ears, and lunged at him, stabbing at his knees, at his arms, at his chest. He grunted with each hit. His free hand shot towards her and she leapt over him, stabbing at his shoulders while in the air, landing on her heels and spinning towards him and stabbing at his back.
He spun around, the saw spinning at her, she ducked, and spun on her heel to dodge the saw when he swung it at her again. He jabbed the saw at her, and she raised her blade, sparks flying as their blades met. She stumbled a bit as he jerked his saw back, and his foot shot out. Weiss leapt into the air, throwing a glyph into the air, as his foot slamming into a container and knocking it against the wall. She lunged from the glyph, stabbing into the floor as he leapt back. She stabbed at him, her blade hitting his chainsaw, and jabbed at his exposed stomach. He grunted in pain as he stumbled back, grabbing his stomach.
Weiss closed her eyes, summoning a time glyph beneath her. Energy began to course through her, every part of her reenergized. She opened her eyes, and moved towards him, her movements all but a blur. She threw two fingers forward, summoning several glyphs in the air around him. With a sneer she leapt onto the closest glyph, pouncing from it to the next, lunging at him. She leapt from each one, stabbing into him as she darted past him.
Her glyphs disappeared as she slammed into him, his aura breaking, launching them both into a container, her sword embedded in his abdomen. She yanked her blade out, blood dripping down the blade, and rested it at his throat. He glared up at her, grabbing at his wound.
"Surrender, I don't want to kill you," she said. He laughed, and grabbed her sword, yanking it out of her grasp. He head-butted her, pain shooting through her skull, before he grabbed her by the throat, a strangled gasp escaping her lips. He slammed her against the wall, her skull feeling like it was going to crack as it hit the metal.
"Welcome to the real world, Schnee," he said. He slammed her head against the wall, before slamming his fist into her face, stars appearing in her vision as his fist pounded into her face. His fingers tightened around her throat, the world growing black, as she gasped for air. He slammed her head against the wall and her aura shattered, crackling around in her in a light blue. He head-butted her again, and she felt blood start to run down her face. She could hear him laughing through the ringing in her ears, and she struggled to open her eyes. Fear shot through her when he grabbed his chainsaw from the floor, the blade revving up.
He raised the chainsaw into the air, aimed at her face. Her lip quivered as she stared at the blade. He jabbed the blade forward, and Weiss squeezed her eyes shut. The chainsaw roared in her ears, and she opened her eyes to see the chainsaw spinning in front of her face. He looked over at the door Blake had run through, and lowered the chainsaw, the saw sputtering off.
"No," he said quietly. He let go of her throat, and she slid down the wall, crumpling onto the floor. She weakly grabbed her sword, before groaning in pain when he grabbed her by her hair, lifting her into the air. He looked into her eyes as he said. "I'm going to make that traitor watch, as I tear you apart." He started to walk towards the door, dragging her across the floor by her hair.
Traitor….?
She glowered at the small woman as she stormed over towards her, that stupid smile on her face only making her angrier. She swung at her, and with a smile, she moved her head, her fist centimeters away from her. Yang snarled and started swing at her head; she dodged each blow, her smile only growing, Yang's fists just barely missing her each time. Yang moved forward, kicking and throwing punches, her hair igniting as the little bitch in front of her dodged each one, closing her eyes, and parrying her kicks with her umbrella, all but dancing around her punches. She lunged at her, and the woman's leg shot out, kicking her in the side and throwing her to the floor, knocking the wind out of her. She growled, gnashing her teeth, and looked up at the woman. She smiled at her and gave a wave, sticking her tongue out, the ends of her tongue forked. Yang sneered and the woman kicked at her, and Yang rolled out of the way, springing to her feet.
Yang threw herself at the woman, and she caught Yang's fist, twirling to the side and wrenching her arm backwards, and kicking Yang in the side of her head. Yang cried out in pain, jerking her arm free and spinning to face the woman. She yelped as she was kicked in the stomach, landing on the floor. She launched herself at the woman, firing a shot from her gauntlets. The woman grinned, her umbrella springing forward, taking the shotgun blast. Yang gasped as the umbrella folded up again and was smacked against her face. She punched at her with a yell, the woman dodged it, slamming her umbrella into Yang's side. Yang fired at the woman's feet with a yell, and the woman back flipped away, landing on her hands, and handspringing onto a cargo container, smirking at her.
Yang stormed towards her, punching at her. The woman kicked away her fist, spinning and slamming her foot into Yang's face. Yang staggered back, and threw up her fists as the woman attacked her, smacking her with her umbrella, dancing around Yang as she tried to hit her. The woman kicked at Yang, and Yang caught her foot, smirking and tossing her towards some cargo. The woman landed gracefully, putting her hand to her lips, and her body trembling like she was laughing. She stepped down from the container, smiling at Yang. Yang screamed, and charged at her, leaping into the air, her fist raised. The woman smirked her, eyes narrowing, and Yang saw a flash of silver.
She landed in front of the woman, her lips trembling, her fist aimed at the woman. The woman's smirked at her, her eyes predatory. Something warm ran down Yang's stomach, and backside, her body going numb. She stared at the woman, trying to keep it in, her lips quivering harder. She coughed, blood spurting onto the woman's face. Her forked tongue slipped out, licking the blood off her lips, smiling sweetly. The woman yanked her umbrella back, and Yang collapsed, her blood pooling around her. She stared up at the woman, coughing, the taste of metal in her mouth. The woman cocked her head to the side, smiled at her, and raised her blade.
The woman stabbed down, and a red blade shot into Yang's vision, blocking the umbrella's blade. She saw the woman's eyes widen in fear, and back away, turning and running. Yang craned her neck and her body went cold.
A woman in black and red armor with a Nevermore mask stood next to her, an odachi in hand. She gnashed her teeth, reaching out to her, crawling towards her.
"Mom?" She asked. She looked down at her, the red eyes behind the mask providing no comfort. She turned away from Yang, walking away, and swung her odachi, a black and maroon portal appearing in front of her. She stepped into it, and the portal disappeared.
Yang struggled to her feet, her breathing heavy, her vision growing dark, and she stumbled over to where her mother had vanished. She collapsed, gasping for air, and noticed a small green vial with a needle; an aura booster. Yang reached for it, smearing the glass with blood, and stabbed it into her stomach, pushing the medicine in. She yanked it out, and let it fall from her grip, as she lay on the floor, her blood pooling around her. She hissed in pain, as a soft yellow light enveloped her, and the stab wound started to stitch itself back together. With a grimace she sat up, resting a hand on her stomach, and using a piece of cargo to get to her feet. She gnashed her teeth and stumbled towards the door.
"This isn't over, Raven." She said.
Torchwick laughed as she pulled the trigger again, getting another click.
"I told you Blake, I may be a gambling man, but I never bet my own life." Blake sneered and kicked him in the face, his smug smile disappearing as he was knocked out cold. She reloaded her weapon, her ears perking up at the sound of the door opening. She turned towards the door, smiling.
"Weiss, I-" She froze, her blood turning to ice, her eyes widening. Cerise lumbered into the room, dragging Weiss by her ponytail; her face was beaten and bloodied. He hoisted her into the air, her head limp, and laughed.
"I wanted to give you the pleasure of watching the Schnee Heiress die, traitor."
Cerise raised his saw, the blade revving up. The ice in her veins died, replaced with a fire, her body burning, her lip curling into a snarl. She leapt at him, swinging her sword. Sparks rained down on her as her sword caught the saw. She growled as the sparks hit her face, staring into Cerise's hate filled eyes. He yanked the saw back, preparing to cleave her in two, and Blake stabbed into his chest with a scream, wrenching her arms up, the blade jutting out of his back. His body trembled, and Blake fired into his stomach, not stopping until she heard her weapon click.
The saw fell to the floor, the blade stopping and Cerise went limp on her blade, Weiss slipping from his grasp and falling to the floor with a thud. She pulled her blade out, stepping out of the way as he collapsed, blood pooling around him. She gingerly picked Weiss up, cradling her head in her arms. Blake's vision started to get fuzzy, her cheeks growing wet.
"Weiss?" she asked, her voice breaking. Weiss didn't stir, blood trickling down her face and onto her dress. No. No, no, no, no. Gods, please, no. Blake hiccupped. "Weiss, please. I…. I can't lose you," she said, her voice barely above a whisper. Weiss' eyes slowly opened, that ice blue never looking as beautiful as it did now. Her arm raised up slowly, and caressed Blake's cheek, wiping away a tear. Weiss smiled weakly.
"I guess I couldn't handle him," she said. Blake laughed, resting her hand on Weiss', smiling back at her.
She ducked underneath the remains of one of the mech's, gunfire raining down behind her. Oobleck popped up for a second, fire spewing forth, and screams carrying with the wind. The latch on the car's roof sprang open and Ruby fired at the entrance.
"Ruby, it's us!" Blake's voice came from inside the car. Ruby sighed in relief, before gasping as Weiss struggled onto the roof, blood covering her face, and she collapsed onto the roof. Torchwick's limp body was tossed onto the roof before Blake climbed up, going to Weiss' side. "Doctor! Weiss is hurt!" Blake shouted, he ducked back down, looking at them. He pulled off his backpack, and started to sort through it. Ruby saw a hand come out of the latch and she fired.
"Holy shit, Ruby! It's me!" Yang shouted, climbing onto the roof.
"You guys need to tell me it's you coming-" Ruby's eyes widened at the blood caking Yang's stomach, and staining her shorts. "Yang! What happened?" Yang looked down at her stomach, before shaking her head.
"Tell ya later," she said.
"Here, Blake!" Oobleck said, tossing Blake a green vial with a needle. Blake caught it, and injected it into Weiss' neck, pushing the medicine into it, tossing it aside when it was empty. A light blue light radiated around Weiss for a moment, the cuts on her face closing as the light faded. Weiss' eyes opened, and with a groan, she sat up. Blake hugged her, rubbing her face against Weiss' hair.
"Uh, guys," Yang said, her back turned to them and pointing ahead. Ruby looked where she was pointing, and saw that they were fast approaching a set of rubble.
"What do we do?" Blake asked. Ruby looked at Weiss, locking eyes with her. Weiss smirked, and broke out of Blake's hug, drawing her sword. She slammed her sword into the roof, ice shooting around them, forming a cocoon. For a moment there was nothing, and then Ruby was thrown against the ice as the train hit the wall. She was thrown against the roof, hitting her head on the ice, an explosion filling her ears as the cocoon shot up into the sky, shattering to pieces.
Ruby yelled, flailing her arms as she, Yang, Blake, Weiss, and Oobleck fell from the sky, hitting the concrete, hard. Ruby coughed, her body aching, the blare of an alarm filling her head. There was a smoldering hole behind them, parts of the train jutting out of the ground. Dawn's early light lay on the plaza they were in. Ruby struggled to her feet, glancing at her team mates, who were all struggling up as well.
People were staring at them, their mouths agape, some pulling out their scrolls. There was a screech, and people started to scream, a Nevermore swooping down and grabbing a person, raising him to its beak and biting his head off. Ruby could taste bile, and her body started to shake as the ground shook, and King Taijitu's broke out of the ground, hissing, and lunging at the screaming people. Beowolves, Ursa's, Deathstalker's, and Creeps began to pour out of the holes the snakes and parts of the train had made, swarming over the crowd of people, chasing after them as they tried to flee.
Creeps pounced on citizens, ripping their necks open, and Beowolves slashed open the bellies of citizens, lunging and tearing out their intestines with their jaws. Ursa's mauling people with their giant paws, Deathstalker's snapping people in two with their pinchers, their stingers impaling citizens, leaving gaping holes in their chests.
Ruby's hand shook as she drew her scythe, scowling.
And that's it! Just one chapter left of Vol 2.