Oscar's POV

I ran out of Saffron and Terra's house while nobody was looking, with my backpack in tow.

I knew that it was selfish, but I couldn't stay. I couldn't do this anymore.

I never agreed to this. I never agreed to loose my body to someone else's soul. I never agreed to fight a battle that couldn't be won.

But it was too late for me now. No matter what I did, I was just going to become another one of his lives, and there was nothing that I could do about it.

But what I could do was go back to my aunt and tell her the truth about what was going on.

Besides, if I was going to inevitably loose myself to Ozpin, I wanted to spend whatever time I had left as myself in my hometown. Not fighting in a battle I knew I couldn't win.

When I got to the street, I turned around to look at the house one last time, with tears in my eyes.

"I'm sorry everybody."

With that, I ran, never looking back at the house.

I walked through town, but stopped when I saw something.

It was a statue. A statue of Phyra Nikos.

I never knew her, but my friends told me many stories of her, and I could tell that they loved and missed her, especially Jaune.

As I looked at the statue, Ruby's words ran through my mind.

She believed that if there was even a small chance of helping someone, that it was a risk worth taking. And because of that, she died fighting a battle she knew she couldn't win.

There was one part of these words in particular that I could stop thinking about.

"Even if there's a small chance of helping someone…it's a risk worth taking."

And that's when I realised something.

"Deep down, Phyra probably knew that she wasn't going to make it out of her battle with Cinder alive. But even so, she still took the chance."

Saying these words filled me with a new type of determination.

"I don't know how long I have left as me, but I do know one thing. I want to use whatever time I have left to help in whatever way I can!"

With that, I picked up my backpack…and started walking back to Saffron and Terra's house.

But as I was doing so, I realised something.

"Everybody's really tense right now", I said. "Maybe I should do something to ease that tension."

With that, I started thinking…and got an idea.

I walked out of the grocery store with ingredients for a casserole in hand.

As I was walking back to Saffron and Terra's house, I stopped when I noticed something.

It was combat gear that was being displayed in a store window.

After I saw it…I looked down at my own outfit.

"You know what", I started. "If I'm going to continue fighting this battle, then I should probably dress for the occasion."