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Chapter 3: Well... That Was a Thing

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Delsin and Alex emerged from the forest and found themselves at the temple.

"This place has definitely seen better days," Alex said.

"Well Oz did say 'abandoned,'" Delsin replied.

"Indeed he did."

The pair approached the ruins, cautious of what else could be there. Even so, they found the relics just sitting there in a ring of pedestals. Delsin approached one.

"Are these chess pieces?" he asked.

"Looks like it."

Alex walked to the back of the pedestal ring, and picked up one of the pieces.

"Might as well go big huh?" he said, holding the white king piece above his head.

"Sound good," Delsin said.

Atop a cliff face behind them, two people emerged from the forest. Delsin turned and saw it was Blake, the black-haired girl from last night and Yang, Ruby's older sister. The two slid down the sloped cliff-face and approached the two of them.

"Sup guys?" Delsin inquired.

Yang replied with a big playful smile, "Not much. Just runnin' around."

Blake walked up beside her, a small smile on her face as she saw Alex's face. His eyes hadn't moved from Yang since she'd appeared. Delsin saw it too and smiled. Then Yang turned around and caught him staring.

"Hey big guy, like what you see?" she asked playfully.

Alex broke out of his trance when he realized he was being spoken to.

"Hm?" he grunted, a little more than a little distracted.

"Do you like what you see?" Yang repeated.

"Yep," he said. Unbeknownst to the others present, he was struggling to say even that much. One word at a time was all he could manage and keep his poker face. He shot a pleading look over to his partner for a split second, and while Delsin was certainly enjoying the show, he begrudgingly decided to help.

"As much fun as I'm sure your having, the relics are right over here," Delsin said.

Yang smiled and made a show of turning away, a sly smile on her face. Alex coughed, trying both to regain his composure and hide the severe blush that had risen on his face.

The two girls entered the ring and looked over the relics. Yang stopped by one of them and held it up.

"How about a cute little pony?" she asked cheerily, holding the white knight piece over her head.

"Sure," Blake answered, her small smile growing a tiny bit.

"Well, that wasn't too hard," Delsin observed.

"It's not like this place is all that hard to find," Alex said, traces of red still visible on his cheeks.

At that moment a high-pitched scream rang out, reverberating throughout the forest.

"Some girl's on trouble! Guys, did you hear that? What should we do?" Yang asked frantically, the humor previously in her tone gone.

Blake however, was only slightly paying attention. Her eyes were instead focused on the sky. More specifically, the person falling from it.

Ruby was falling, screaming "Heads up!" until Jaune flew into her in midair, sending them both crashing into a tree, both of them seemingly coming from nowhere.

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Delsin asked.

"I-" Yang started before she was cut off.

Trees off to their right began to fall away, revealing an Ursa charging into the clearing. Just as the group was readying their weapons, the beast collapsed. As it fell, it revealed the red-headed Nora and black-haired Ren, the former extremely energetic, the latter seemingly dead on his feet.

No one could hear their conversation over the distance, but Nora seemed dejected for all five seconds before she vanished. She reappeared behind them, eyeing a white Rook piece. She then placed it on her head and started to dance around, singing "I'm Queen of the castle, I'm Queen of the castle!"

"NORA!" Ren yelled, not as angry as one might assume from his tone.

"Coming Ren!" she beamed, sliding the Rook into her hand.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked.

"I-" Yang started again.

This time the sound came from their right. A red-haired Spartan woman burst through the treeline, a scorpion shaped Grimm right on her tail (Deathstalker). Delsin recognized her actually. He'd spent a lot of time researching Remnant, and remembered she was some big shot warrior. Pyrrha Nikos, if he remembered correctly.

Just then, Ruby rolled out from the tree she had crashed into and stood up, right next to her sister.

"Ruby?" Yang asked.

"Yang!" Ruby replied energetically. She reached in to hug her sister.

"Nora!" the red-head shouted in between them, blocking the hug.

Ignoring the insanity around them, Alex asked "Did that girl run all the way here with a Deathstalker chasing her?"

Yang exploded right then. Literally.

"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! COULD EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?!" she screamed.

Yang got her wish. But only barely. Ruby tapped her sister on the shoulder.

"Um, Yang?" she said, pointing upwards.

The group looked up to find Weiss, barely holding on to the talon of a airborne Giant Nevermore.

"How could you leave me?!" Weiss asked, a trace of fear in her voice.

Back on the ground Ruby replied, "I said jump."

"She's gonna fall," Alex said, prepping himself for something.

"She'll be fine," Ruby insisted.

"She's falling," Delsin said.

Whatever it was Alex was going to do, he didn't get a chance. As soon as Weiss got close enough, Jaune beat him to it. Sort of. He caught her midair, only just realizing that while he had her, no one had him. Just before he hit the ground however, Delsin switched to his Neon power and threw a Stasis Bubble, freezing the two in place. That way when they fell, they hit the ground with the force of a fall from three feet rather than thirty.

As they hit the ground, Weiss landing on Jaune's back, they both let out a short "Thank you," though Jaune's was a little more strained.

"No problem," Delsin replied.

Then Pyrrha slid in front of them, the Deathstalker finally making contact.

"Great. The gang's all here, now we can die together," Yang said faux cheerily.

"Not if I can help it," Ruby said.

She charged off, readying her scythe and using it to propel her forward even more. The moment she got within striking distance though, the Deathstalker swiped with one of its claws, knocking her aside.

"D-Don't worry! Totally fine!" she insisted, her voice shaking.

As the Deathstalker resumed its chase, Yang ran to help her sister. But as she was running, the Giant Nevermore flapped its wings to expel a great cascade of feathers, pinning Ruby down, and blocking Yang's aid.

"Shit!" Delsin yelled.

Time froze for him. In front of his own eyes, he saw his one of his only friends in Remnant, the first person he met, inches away from her death. In that moment, Reggie's dying face flashed in his mind, and with a grip on his brother's badge, Delsin sprang into action.

He shot off with his Neon power, leaving his fellow students in the dust. Dodging through the fallen feathers, he surged forward with speed that shocked even him, and just as the stinger was about to hit Ruby, he arrived, and stepped in front of it.

The stinger tore through him, punching straight through his newly unlocked aura. His blood trickled out of his wound as the stinger protruded from his chest.

"Damn," he said with a little blood trailing from his mouth, "That was my favorite jacket."

"Delsin!" Ruby screamed.

"Don't worry. I'll be fine," Delsin replied, his voice strained.

He dropped a Stasis Bubble on her and flexed his power, moving the field she was locked in.

"Yang! Catch!" he yelled as he threw the field with Ruby inside.

Taking a moment to react to the sight, Yang shook herself from her catatonia and caught her sister as she fell out of stasis. As soon as she saw that her sister was fine, Yang turned back to Delsin.

Delsin turned to face the scorpion monster, it having removed its stinger.

"Okay ugly. You wanna play rough?! FINE!" he shouted as the wound in his chest started to heal.

His hand again went to his wrist and he switched to his Smoke power.

"EAT THIS!" he yelled as he knelt down, and then jumped into the air, shifting into three smoky fireballs on his way. At the height of his rise, the fireballs converged and Delsin reappeared. As he flipped over, a grimace on his face, he activated his Smoke Thrusters and propelled himself downward at top speed. As he crashed into the beast, he released a massive explosive blast of smoke that completely obliterated the monster, blasted away most of the feathers and left a moderately sized crater in the ground where it once stood.

"No one hurts my friends," he said as his body re-formed, fully healed.

The assembled students, with the exception of Alex, looked shocked at this display of power. Deathstalkers were notoriously hard to kill, and he'd done one in all on his own. As the Nevermore flew off to circle back, Delsin doubled over, still in pain even though his wound was gone.

As he was falling, Weiss and Ruby ran up and caught him, the rest not far behind.

"What was that?!" Jaune asked.

"I call it the Orbital Drop. One of my best moves, but it takes a while to charge," Delsin said as the pain started fading.

"But how did you do it?" Ren pressed.

"As much as I'm sure we would all love to talk about Delsin and his superpowers we have another problem on our hands," Alex interrupted, pointing upward.

Jaune followed his finger and said, "He's right, that thing is circling back. What do we do?"

"I say we kill it," Delsin said, pain now gone.

Weiss shook her head, "We don't need to. Our objective is right in front of us."

"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting that thing," Ruby said nodding.

Weiss smiled.

"Run and live. That is an idea I can get behind," Jaune agreed.

"You know, somehow I feel like we'll end up fighting them anyway," Delsin said.

The other pairs grabbed pieces, and they all ran off. Unfortunately, it seemed the Grimm wasn't giving up that easy. In fact, with repeated cries and shrieks, it attracted a small horde of additional Grimm, including several Beowolves and Creeps and another Deathstalker, and a few Ursi.

As they kept running, eventually they reached the cliffside, in an area occupied with ruins similar to the ones that made up the temple. On either side of them was a stone vaulted arcade. In front of them was a deep canyon, housing a tower in its center that stretched most of the way up the cliff-face.

Alex and Delsin stopped and face the pursuing horde.

"Go! We'll hold them off!" Delsin shouted.

"Are you crazy?! There's too many!" Weiss shouted in reply.

"I'll have to get back to you on that," he said, his trademarked grin on his face, "Now run!"

The other students ran off towards the cliffs, and Delsin turned to face his partner.

"You got a crystal in mind?" he asked.

Alex reached into his pack.

"Yeah, I got one," he said, pulling out a golf-ball sized Fire crystal and ate it. As he swallowed, his hair turned red.

"Just curious, what's that one buff?" Delsin asked.

"Physical strength," he said, taking deep breaths and sweating.

"You ok?"

"Yeah. Fire crystals are just really spicy."

"Well get ready. They're here."

They took up positions. Delsin was on the ground as the bait, with Alex on over-watch.

When the horde started closing, Delsin unleashed several Cinder Blasts, wiping out most of the Creeps and a few Beowolves. But in doing so, he quickly depleted his Smoke reserves. Alex picked up the slack where he could, finishing off the Creeps with his fireballs. The Deathstalker in the mix managed to break through and charge the other students.

Delsin had just ran out of Cinder missiles killing two of the Ursi when Delsin heard Alex curse. His partner used the last of his Fire crystal to send up a wall, cutting off the advance of the Grimm Horde.

"Delsin! Can you handle this for a minute?!" Alex shouted.

"Uh, I guess. Why?"

"The tower's collapsing! They need help!"

"Got it! Go!"

Delsin could barely believe what he saw next. His partner jumped off the ruined wall, and Delsin understood what the slits on his shirt were for as his partner snapped out a pair of fourteen foot long bird wings (A/N: that means total wingspan, not length of each individual wing, just FYI).The wings were solid white, just like his hair. After a moment, Delsin shook himself free of the shock.

He returned to face the barely contained horde. Luckily the firewall was releasing enough smoke for him to refuel. Just as he finished, the wall started to die down, and the horde began to charge.

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After he rose to a sufficient height, Alex shortened his wingspan to allow for better maneuverability and speed. He had also eaten another Fire crystal, this one full size. In an instant he surveyed the battlefield. Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren were dealing with the Deathstalker that had broken through, and they had it handled pretty well.

Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake were facing the Nevermore, and they weren't doing as well. They had just totally unloaded on it and the thing was still coming. It charged straight through the tower, knocking it down, and all four of them had fallen.

Alex flew around and caught them, his enhanced strength only barely keeping up. One by one he deposited them on the remains of the tower, using long range fireballs to keep the bird off them. Once they were all down, he dropped between them. Ruby was the first to react.

"You have wings?!" the hyperactive red-head asked.

"Yes I have wings, but I believe you have more pressing concerns," Alex answered.

"He's right. We haven't even hurt it yet," Blake said.

"Well, you got anymore tricks up your sleeve bird-man?" Yang asked.

"You guys have got this handled. But I do need a favor," he replied.

"What?" Ruby asked.

"Tell me, what are your Semblances?" Alex asked, a small smile on his face.

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Delsin wasn't having the easiest time. He'd drained his Smoke a second time, as well as his Video and Water. Even still, the Grimm just kept coming, and he was getting tired. He'd killed off the Beowolves, but by then more Creeps had shown up, as well as two more Ursi and a flock of small Nevermore.

He was on his Neon now, holding Concrete for last, but he was making sure to use it conservatively. Nothing but kill shots. He ran out of Phosphor Beams dealing with the Ursi that kept showing up, and he was using his regular Neon Beams on the flock of Nevermore. He was using his Neon enhanced chain for dealing with the Creeps, but that was more hit and run than frontal assault.

His basic strategy now was run around with his Neon Dash, stop for a moment, pick off a few of the Nevermore, run to the ground to contain the Creeps by smashing a couple with his chain, then keep running so the flock couldn't pin him down.

"C'mon Delsin. You can do this," he said, thinking aloud, "They can't keep coming forever."

Just then a small pack of five more Beowolves showed up.

"Of course that doesn't mean these are all of them either."

Delsin tried to keep the same strategy he'd been using on the Grimm until then, basic hit and run, but he was running out of Neon. After another minute, he'd finished off the flock of Nevermore, but when he stopped, one of the Beowolves caught him before he could resume his dash.

The beast slashed at him with it's claws, and Delsin took them right across the chest. As the beast was rearing for another strike, Delsin managed to get a Neon Beam off and it hit the monster square in the back of the throat, killing it.

He was having trouble keeping his Aura up continuously and the claws had broken skin. At this point even his Conduit healing was struggling to keep up, but Delsin pushed through. He dumped the last of his Neon into a flurry of beams killing all of the remaining Beowolves and all but a handful of Creeps.

At this point, he really had nothing left but Concrete, but he was holding onto that in case something else showed up. He ducked behind a pillar, waiting to heal, and happened upon a small bit of luck. He found a small blue crystal, instantly recognizable as Dust. In a moment he identified it as a Water crystal. He breathed a small sigh of relief.

"Ok, I have almost no idea how this works, but here goes."

He tried his best to extend his Aura into the crystal, and got lucky again, as water began to seep out of his clenched hand. He took a few sips before he amped up the power, completely emptying the crystal onto the ground. Then he opened his arms and drained the surprisingly large pool, completely refilling his Water.

"Aw, yes!" he exclaimed.

He burst back from his hiding spot, his wounds having healed almost immediately after his recharge. In the time he'd been hiding, even more Grimm had shown up. Three more Beowolves and a pair of Ursa Majors.

"All right. Let's wrap this up."

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Ozpin and Glynda were watching them all in varying levels of awe. They were duly impressed with the students, and Alex was certainly powerful, and surprising. But what truly shocked them was Delsin. Ozpin knew a little about the boy's power, but he had single-handedly wiped out more than eighty Grimm. There were more on the way and he was only just now slowing down.

"Incredible," Glynda commented.

"Indeed. I had no idea he was this powerful. He'll make an excellent huntsman one day," Ozpin agreed.

"How is he doing all of that?" she asked.

"I'm not quite clear on it myself, but as far as I understand, it's some kind of genetic mutation that occurs naturally where he is from."

"And where is that?"

"I honestly don't know."

"Hm. And what of his partner, Alex? I thought all of the Bird Faunus were extinct."

"Evidently, that is not the case. Though even then he seems very powerful for one of his kind. It would seem that Mr. Rowe and Mr. Roman have found themselves ideal partners."

Glynda turned away from the professor to look back at the battle. Her eyes widened.

"Professor! You need to see this!" she said, worry coloring her voice.

Ozpin looked at the Scroll.

"Oh dear."

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More Grimm kept pouring through into the battlefield and Delsin was now on his last legs. He was now almost completely tapped out, having only a tiny amount of Concrete left. All of his other powers were now dry. He'd used them up slaying another flock of Nevermore and at least twenty more Creeps. Another Deathstalker had even shown up, and he'd used all but one shot of his Concrete Barrage killing it. Even his aura was depleted.

He'd switched back over to his Neon, his dash not requiring him to actually absorb anything. As the Creeps and Beowolves kept coming, he did his best to keep them contained by running around them, but it only barely worked.

One of the Creeps got a lucky shot on him and he went down, barely enough strength to stand. An alpha Beowolf moved in for the kill, and with a grunt, brought down its claw. Delsin closed his eyes, praying he'd see Reggie when death came.

It didn't.

The first thing Delsin saw as he opened his eyes was a Glyph. Having seen a little of her Semblance on the run, Delsin assumed it was Weiss. As his vision cleared, he saw he was wrong.

It was Alex.

"Stay away from my partner!" the white haired warrior shouted.

With a grunt, Alex threw up his arms and the glyph propelled the Grimm backwards. He then turned to help his partner to his feet.

"Sorry to leave you hangin' like that partner. Won't happen again," Alex informed him.

"Ok... Wait, you're a Schnee?" Delsin asked, still a little out of it.

"Hell no. Like I would ever want to be associated with those elitist assholes."

"Then how-"

"MOVE!" Alex shouted, moving them both out of the way at super fast speed, just as an Ursa claw came down where they were.

That wasn't what got Delsin's attention though. What got his attention, was the trail of rose petals his partner left behind.

"Oh I get it, he's like me. He absorbs power from other people," Delsin thought.

"So that's the other part of your Semblance. Copycatting," he spoke aloud.

"Very good. Only to about 75% though. You alright?" Alex asked.

"Yeah, just super tapped out. You got anymore Dust on you?"

"Sure, what kind?"

"Gimme one of everything."

"Got it."

Alex dug in his pack again, and pulled out a series of the crystals. He held them out to Delsin, who grabbed a Fire, Water, and Earth crystal.

"That all you want?"

"Yeah. I got what I needed. Think you can hold 'em while I recharge?"

"I can now."

Delsin turned away and drained the water right out of the Crystal. Then the same thing with the Earth, refilling his Concrete. As his partner ran off to fight the monsters, Delsin set the tree in front of him on fire with the last crystal, and drained the smoke to refill a third power. He turned back to the battlefield just as one of Alex's new shadow clones absorbed a hit from an Ursa, leaving him a perfect opening to kill it.

"This should be the last wave," Alex said, finishing the beast off.

"How do you know?"

"Did aerial recon a minute ago, no more are coming. I think."

"All right! Lets finish these suckers off then!"

The two squared up next to each other, ready to face the remaining Grimm. Ten Creeps, seven Beowolves, and three Ursa. Alex ate an Ice crystal, this one turning his hair light blue, and Delsin switched to his Water power.

As the Grimm approached, Delsin dashed forward, coating some of the Creeps in water. Alex immediately followed up by freezing them solid. Delsin spun and Released a Pressure Slice on one of the Ursa, cutting off its head, before dashing again, this time coating a couple Beowolves. Alex froze them, and this time, with his new super-speed, he rushed over and shattered the Frozen Grimm. Now at close range, he dumped the rest of his Ice into making a wall that surrounded the remaining Grimm, trapping them.

Delsin caught on and switched to his Smoke Power. He climbed up the arcade wall, and double Smoke Dashed till he was just over the wall. With a smile on his face, he charged his Smoke Thrusters, and shot down to the ground, enveloping himself in smoke along the way. As he hit the ground, the smoke he gathered exploded outwards, blowing apart the wall, and all of the Grimm.

As they watched the Grimm disintegrate, they cheered.

"All right! Got 'em all!" Delsin said, his voice strained from fatigue.

The other students, having finished their battles, looked in awe upon the mess of disintegrating Grimm corpses. They all approached the two men, wondering how something like this was even possible for a student. Yang was the first to react.

"Damn! Way to go Big D," she said with a smile.

Delsin turned to her and laughed.

"You are way to young to call me that," he responded.

"What, I'm seventeen!"

"I'm 24! Please don't."

"Fiiiine. Old man buzzkill."

"How did you guys do all this?" Jaune asked, exasperated.

Before he could answer, Alex and Blake perked up their heads.

"Everybody get back!" Alex yelled.

"What's wrong?" Pyrrha asked.

"Something's coming. Something big," Blake commented, her weapon ready.

The students got their weapons ready, Delsin and Alex taking the front, the rest behind them in various positions, though they were all a little tapped out. A moment later a massive Grimm burst through the trees.

The twin heads of an Elder King Taijitu burst forth. The black head charged straight into the students from the front, while the white one tore down one side of the arcade. The students went flying, even Delsin and Alex. Fortunately, while everyone else was landing, Alex and Delsin managed to catch themselves midair. The first thing they noticed was that this thing was big. Easily twice as big as others of its kind. Using his Smoke Thrusters, Delsin glided to the arcade's still standing side. Alex followed him there.

"This thing is huge!" Alex exclaimed.

"Yeah, you got any ideas?" Delsin asked.

Alex stopped for a moment. Then he smiled devilishly.

"Yeah, I got one."

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Yang had a bit of a rough landing. She'd face planted into a tree. After a moment, she got up, dusted herself off and looked around. Nearby, she saw her partner had fared a bit better. Blake was on the ground next to her.

"You alright?" Yang asked.

"Yeah. You?" Blake replied.

"Fine. Where's everyone else?"

"Around. I can hear them. They're all fine."

"Great," Yang said, relief flooding her tone, "What about that monster? You're super ears picking up anything."

Blake smiled softly, then turned her head to listen. A look of confusion crossed her face.

"Yeah, I can hear something, I'm just not sure what it is."

"Well what's it sound like?"

"I know it sounds weird, but it's like crashing rocks or something."

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Pyrrha had fared pretty well. With her training, she managed to throw her weapon, and embed it in a tree, giving her something to land on. Her partner on the other hand... Jaune wound up caught in a tree. Again. For the third time today, as he vocally complained about from his roost. Pyrrha saw her adorkable partner in his predicament and couldn't help but laugh.

Jaune heard her.

"Yeah, very funny," he complained.

Pyrrha managed to quiet her laughing a bit.

"I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help myself."

"I get it... can you help me down now?"

"Sure."

Pyrrha turned him so she could get him down. She stooped when he gasped.

"Jaune, is something wrong? I didn't hurt you did I?"

"Pyrrha? What's that?!" he asked urgently, pointing back towards the battlefield.

Pyrrha followed his finger. When she saw what he was pointing to, her eyes widened.

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The Elder King Taijitu was no longer the biggest thing on the battlefield. Instead, it was a giant jagged-stone statue, vaguely humanoid, that took that spot. And in the center of it, encased in a hollow crystalline sphere was a brown haired Alex, and Delsin.

"Not so easy now, is it, you stupid snake!" Delsin shouted as the statue kicked the beast away.

"Don't mess with the Pillar of Gaea!" Alex shouted.

"Pillar of Gaea? Cool."

"Thanks. I like naming my special moves."

The two towering behemoths were engaged in an epic battle, and were seemingly evenly matched. The Titan was slow moving but powerful and durable, but the King Taijitu was fast, and could attack from multiple angles with its two heads. Plus, maintaining the titan was requiring a herculean effort on the part of the two young men.

Delsin took control of one of the arms and smashed it into the ground, right where the snake's white head would have been. He missed, but he followed through with a supersized version of his Concrete melee, Ground Smash. The concussive blast wave sent the snake reeling, but its black head quickly darted forward and bit down hard on the hand.

While the two didn't feel any pain from the blow, it was a severe limit to the already low mobility of the titan. Alex saw it as an opportunity though, and took over the other arm. The bite had indeed limited their mobility, but it had also done the same to the snake. With the other arm, Alex reached around and managed to grab the other head. The pair looked at each other and smiled. They took control of the legs, and started to walk toward the crevasse behind them.

Evidently, the snake was smarter than it let on. The black head released its bite and darted away. While it couldn't get far, it did manage to bite back down on a rather large tree, anchoring itself. The sudden tension on the titan's arm made it stumble, and the pair only barely caught themselves in their perch as the titan fell over.

The two were struggling to get the titan back on its feet. As they were, the white head wriggled free of its grip and began to slither up the titan to its chest, where the two young men were housed. It was about to break trough the shell when both of the titan's hands smashed into it. While it reeled, the left hand grabbed it, and when the black head tried to help, the right arm caught it too.

"I've had just about enough of this," Alex said.

"Me too. Finish it off?" Delsin asked.

"You got it."

"Let's go!"

The two took their subservient arms and pulled the snake taught. Then they raised it, and pulled even more, until finally, the beast split in two, right down the center where it's bodies met. Then the titan walked over to the cliff, and threw the two halves down into the crevasse, finishing it. Then they fell backwards, exhausted from the effort as the titan cracked into pieces and fell away.

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Shortly after, an Airship came and collected the students. Ozpin may have been hard on his students, but he was no fool. While a few of them may have been able to make it, several of these students were in no shape to travel back to him. Normally he would hold true to his word, and let them die, as he said they would.

This time though, he found himself making an exception. Especially since he saw the display that Delsin and Alex had made. In all his years of teaching, Ozpin had rarely seen such incredible displays of power, and never from a student, especially ones who hadn't even completed initiation.

He was in the front of the ship while the students were in the back. As the pilot flew them back, Ozpin smiled, hopeful for the first time in years.

CHAPTER END

Ok, now this was a fun chapter to write, in case you couldn't tell. While in reality it was short, I really enjoyed the Giant monster fight. It was exhilarating. So was the sequence of Delsin fighting the Grimm horde.

Also, since I find it really hard to exposition this in without it being forced to all hell, here's a little information on Alex. He has Two semblances, both of which he inherited from his parents. The Dust consumption is one (from his mother), Copycatting is the other (from his father). Now while that second one may seem super OP and broken, please note there are a few restrictions.

1) While he can hold on to all Semblances permanently, it is spotty as to how much of one he gets. Typically he only gets about 75% of one, meaning they are nerfed in some way.

2) Some Semblances he cannot absorb, or have no use to him

3) Using more than one Semblance at a time causes a massive drain on his Aura, meaning he can deplete it all on his own, even just practicing.

Now also, there's a list of buffs for the different types of Dust Crystals, based on ones we've seen so far. (in the actual show, not this fic.) All boosts increase their respective attribute by 50%, and grant a 10% boost to aura while in effect, with the exception of Wind and Gravity.

Fire = Physical Strength

Water = Aura Healing Boost

Lightning = Speed

Earth = Physical Defense

Ice = Aura Damage Absorption

Wind = Aura (Total boost to Aura level of 70%)

Gravity = 25% Debuff to all attributes (due to the massive power it is)

All in all, I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves. Please let me know what you think about the story so far and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.