Author note: Hello! Welcome to a new chapter! I hope you guys are doing well. Sorry for not uploading anything these past few weeks.
I haven't been feeling up to writing recently due to finding most of my writing... underwhelming as an author.
Anyway I have an original story up on my wattpad please give it a read if you feel like it. I'm not really experienced but I hope you give it a chance. Anyway here's the chapter!
The Largest Beasts...
Gigantic dark wings cut through the darkness. Illuminated by the soft light of the moon and the raging flame which was around Beacon.
The Great Grimm Dragon roared at the sky, as if challenging the gods head on to a fight. The stone around it cracked and broke to pieces.
The power of the Silver Eyes wasn't enough to bring it down. Jaune rushed to the Beacon Tower, running with all his might. He took out every grimm in his way and saw to it that any huntsman in his path was in a good condition.
In front of him was a group of Beacon students facing off against a pack of beowolves. Jaune saw that they were in the way and opted to help, he dashed forward and cleaved a beowolf in half. Cutting it from shoulder to hip.
The students looked to the boy with golden aura swirling around him, his serious expression as he yelled out,
"If you want to be heroes, get to the tower. Otherwise, get to the landing area, evac ships seem to be arriving"
The students all looked at him and most smirked "I see you guys don't wana back down"
The group of students nodded as the beowolves started to head toward the tower.
"Follow me" Jaune shouted as he ran after the deserting beowolves.
He was worried, he thought back to his best friend and girlfriend who were still at the tower.
"Ruby... Pyrrha... Please hang on"
"How many more are there?" Qrow Branwen asked as he cut an alpha beowolf's head.
"More than we thought, but according to the lights... most of the Behemoths were defeated" Annabeth the Slayer said as she brandished her blade against an Ursa Major
"I don't get how that answers the question of how many Grimm-" Qrow was cut short with a stern look from Glynda.
"Sheesh, I was just telling the truth" Qrow said as he stared at the Grimm which stopped and looked to the Beacon Tower.
They all started moving toward it "Shit, that ain't good" Qrow stated.
"Quite" Glynda followed up as Annabeth went along with them.
She tapped her communicator which was in her ear, "Thorin, the Grimm seem to be heading toward Beacon"
"I see them, tell the others to go toward Beacon tower once most of the Behemoths are slain" Thorin communicated back
"Okay"
Thorin leapt out of the airship he was in, wind whistling by his ear and his silver hair flowing in the wind. He landed with the help of Aether and managed to crush a few beowolves in his way.
"Wait for me, dragon" Thorin whispered to himself as he drew his broadsword and ran toward a King Taijitu which had spotted him.
He rolled under the Grimm's lunge and with pivot, he faced backward and jumped toward the Grimm.
The King Taijitu's fangs were stuck in the ground, giving Thorin a perfect opening to detach its head. He brought his broadsword down and the King Taijitu hissed as its head rolled onto the ground and began to dissipate.
Thorin faced toward the tower once more thinking about his protege and how he was probably heading the same way as he was.
As huntsmen and Slayers were heading toward the Beacon tower to fight against the looming monstrosity, Ruby and Pyrrha were stuck near it.
Pyrrha wasn't injured in the least and Ruby was pretty tired. They knew they could run away but the sight of the beast terrified them. Even though they had trained everyday from when they were children to fight monsters, this brought fear to their hearts.
Even to Ruby, she felt the looming sensation of doom from the roar of the dragon. Pyrrha was first to snap out from the trance.
"Ruby, let's retreat" Pyrrha said as she pulled Ruby's arm.
Ruby shook her head as the Dragon stared at her, more of the stone covering it falling. "Yeah we should"
Pyrrha leapt down what seemed to be an elevator shaft and used her semblance to ride the gears downwards to the ground.
Pyrrha and Ruby made it down as the Dragon broke free, it flapped its wings and roared toward them.
"Oh no" Ruby said as the dragon spewed out a dark flame from its mouth. Pyrrha and Ruby weren't fast enough to make it out of there themselves.
For Pyrrha, her life flashed before her eyes. She remembered her first win, she stood on the pedestal for the first time in her life and she felt proud. She remembered her training, the fun life she had at home with her parents and her uncle. Her thoughts then went to Jaune Arc, her boyfriend. She remembered the warmth of his touch and the joy in his ocean blue eyes as they cuddled with each other on her bed. His eyes of determination against Cinder and his eventual victory.
'I'm sorry' she thought.
For Ruby, she just felt like they had to get out of there. She saw the black flame coming and she instantly floored it, she used all the power in her legs to get out of the radius of the fire. She knew that she could make it out herself but she grabbed Pyrrha's hand and the extra weight made it difficult. In her mind she thought 'its gonna be close'In that instant something hit them, along with Ruby's boost from earlier the thing that hit them got them out of the range of the fire.
Ruby looked at the man who threw something, "Mister Thorin?"
"Yes, girl, it's me" Thorin sheathed his blade on his back and looked up toward the dragon. It eyes him suspiciously and it flew back deeper into Beacon, toward lower buildings.
"You girls head over to Jaune, he'll be here in about-"
"Pyrrha!" Jaune shouted as he reunited with his girlfriend and they embraced. Jaune was obviously worried, yet along with him were Beacon students.
"Jaune, the dragon is still alive"
"Yeah no kidding, Pyrrha and Ruby. Both of you should head back to evac. I can see both of you are drained" he said with worry
Pyrrha was mad at this "Jaune, are you saying we can't help!? What about you? How do you think I'd feel if something happened?"
"Well its not about that, if something happened to you or Ruby I don't know how I'd be able to sleep at night. And I see both of you are not in your top shape, so if I send you both out there along with me and you got hurt I'd feel like I'd be taking the blame" Jaune said
Pyrrha tried to argue only to be silenced by the young Reaper, "Pyrrha, as muh as I'd like to help as well. Jaune is right, we really aren't fit to fight that dragon."
Pyrrha's protests were cut as Jaune kissed her lips once again, Jaune looked her in the eye. "Don't worry, I plan on coming back"
Tears welled up in Pyrrha's eyes, she kissed Jaune again. It was a long kiss and when they stopped Pyrrha embraced Jaune "Promise me you won't die"
"I won't die, I promise. Arc's word"
Jaune lead the charge toward the dragon, through the Beacon hallways where they'd not been seen by the dragon.
Annabeth and Thorin met up along with their respective groups. Annabeth had the huntsmen Qrow and Glynda Goodwitch along with 20-30 Slayers. Qrow told Thorin that the rest of the huntsmen were clearing out the grimm from the outside and would arrive to help soon.
"Not enough time. We have to engage the dragon before it deals more damage" Thorin whispered.
"True, I'll tell Jimmy to send backup if he can but priority should be civilians" Qrow stated as Thorin and Glynda nodded.
The huntsmen in training looked at the dragon they were approaching, some gulped and were seriously reconsidering.
"If you children want to leave, it's okay. A Slayer by the name of Percy is along with another group of students. They are protecting the civilians." Annabeth said, most of the students nodded and headed out to help the rest of the populace.
The rest that remained were told to fight from a distance and deal damage with ranged weapons. They agreed with that of course, and they set up above the school.
Jaune along with Qrow, Goodwitch, Thorin and the Slayers were in front of the dragon. The dragon stood in an open field inside Beacon, it was even more intimidating up close.
It roared once more and levelled its head toward the men and women who would try to slay it. "Scatter!" Jaune shouted as they all ran in different directions, to dodge the black fire which spewed from the dragon's mouth.
Jaune leapt and struck the beast's head with his hammer, but it seemed unfazed. Instead it hit Jaune with its head and he got knocked into a pillar. Jaune got up quickly, The Slayers were already back into the action, four of them distracted the dragon head on as the rest hacked and slashed at the beast's legs, wings and tail.
Qrow, climbed up the dragon, stabbing it in a soft spot in its scaly neck. The dragon roared in pain and grabbed Qrow with its claws and was about to put him in its mouth. But this was interrupted by Goodwitch sending a bench onto its face, leading it to drop Qrow.
Jaune looked to Thorin, who leapt upwards and kicked the beast in the neck and after, he slammed his sword against the dragon's rough flesh. This injured it as from its wound emenated a dark cloud of miasma.
Jaune got up and swapped his hammer to repeaters and started blasting the Dragon with them. The dragon covered its eyes with its wings in annoyance. Jaune sent a beam of aether into the wing, tearing a hole in the thin flesh.
The dragon writhed in agony and flapped its wings. The Slayers and the huntsmen were all thrown a few feet from where they were. The dragon roared and breathed fire around it, the slayers took cover behind Beacon's walls and pillars.
Jaune dashed away and took cover behind a pillar as well. It was a fearsome foe, two slayers didn't make it to a pillar in time. Both men, they threw what looked to be dog tags into a window of an empty classroom.
Both of them got caught in the fire, one fully and the other only half. The parts that touched the black flame disintegrated into black ash. The man who had only one half left fell to the ground after an agonizing scream.
Jaune gagged at the sight but gulped and offered a small prayer on their behalf.
"May your sacrifice not be in vain" Jaune grit his teeth and looked toward the dragon.
"Be careful of the breath, its like normal fire when it touches inorganic material" Jaune exclaimed.
"But organic material gets wiped, got it" Qrow said as he jumped forward once again and slashed the beast's face.
The dragon roared and swiped at Qrow, as it breathed more black flame downwards. No one got hit but it looked like the beast was slowly slowing down. Its movements were still quite fast but the strikes were considerably weaker. Jaune saw the Dragon being tired, if that made sense.
The Grimm Dragon tried to fly and get a better location but due to its wing having a massive hole it couldn't.
The Slayers closed in on the massive creature, carefully as to not get hit with flame as they once again kept cutting its legs. After all that effort, they seem to have severed something because the dragon couldn't move quite as fast anymore and it was limping.
They all backed off as it blew out fire, taking five more slayers' lives. Jaune counted, '1...2...3...23 -ish not counting Thorin or Annabeth'
Jaune internally cursed as he thought of those who died but he didn't forget, Jaune saw the beast trying to fly again with only one wing. It was getting some drag and was honestly starting to float.
"Oh no you don't" Jaune jumped up the walls and stabbed his broadsword into the Dragon's wing, effectively ripping it in two.
The dragon fell and once again roared out in pain. The Slayers and huntsmen felt no pity, and they rushed the dragon which was on the ground. It wasn't getting any easier since the dragon was still alive.
It kicked and clawed away most which approached, using its gigantic body to swat the remaining Slayers. Thorin was wailing on its tail with a long series of cuts along with Qrow.
Glynda was now just throwing debris toward the dragon and making sure that the students had clear shots toward the Grimm's weak spots. You could say it was over, from then on all they had to do was avoid dying.
However what happened next was something Jaune had never seen before. The giant roared, and stuck its claws on the ground. A red aura mixed with a sinister black colour started to swirl around the monster. All the fighters jumped back, the beast roared loudly as it blasted fire once again.
That time everyone was safe, but Jaune looked at it and felt as if it became deadlier, "It can go into an Enraged state!"
"So it seems!" Thorin shouted as they all once again got out of their hiding spots and attacked. But this time it was different, the Slayers which approached it were sent flying. They weren't major injuries but this made it difficult.
The dragon was already near its death and it was only pulling out the last of its strength. Jaune theorized this based on behemoth behaviours but he wasn't quite sure.
The Slayers got close, Thorin and Qrow managed to cut half of its tail off rendering it unusable for the beast. The beast roared and stomped on two Slayers killing them instantly, it then impaled a Slayer which got too close with its claws.
Jaune was horrified, their numbers were dwindling. Only 15 or something people left on the ground against the dragon, and that was counting Qrow, Annabeth, Thorin and himself.
Jaune knew they had to finish his before even more died. The Slayers took a slower approach, making sure that they didn't die. However instead of their hit and run strategy helping them, the dragon got even stronger as it seemed to get time to rest.
"Please for the love of god, send back up" Jaune thought, as more and more Slayers were injured. Only eight people now, counting themselves and those too injured were thrown into the safety of the Academy's walls; not wanting to waste life.
Jaune rushed out along with Thorin Qrow and Annabeth and the other four Slayers as they fought the beast tooth and nail. The four Slayers used their remaining fireworks to stop the beast from breathing fire by throwing them into its mouth.
Jaune then leapt up high, and dealt a large cut to its side. Thorin had the same idea and the beast roared in agony as it moved to catch the Master and Apprentice.
Crow swept in and cut one of its wings' limbs, effectively immobilizing its left wing. They were almost there but with its one other wing it clawed at the four Slayers, Annabeth and Thorin, sending them into the wall and pillars.
Jaune and Qrow got up close to cut its neck to deal a decisive blow and to finally kill it but it was for naught as they were thrown aside once again by a claw and the beast's accurate headbutt.
Qrow's aura broke, as did Jaune's which was a rare occurence. Everyone was tired and it seemed the beast would overwhelm them. Jaune thought to himself "The bigger they are..."
And as if on cue a missile struck the dragon's head knocking it back and making it stagger.
"The harder they fall" The huntsmen had finally made it. The sound of frantic footsteps and guns firing on the dragon roared into the night. As everyone there, Hutsman in training, licensed professional or Slayer threw everything they had at the massive Dragon.
Jaune stood up and coated himself with Aether and ran up toward the beast which was swatting away people left and right with its one good claw. "I'll finish this"
Jaune ran up to the beast and stabbed its head with his war pike. It went deep into the skull but what was important was the bone plating cracked.
Jaune then took his warhammer and with all his strength hit it down toward the ground. The monster's head plummeted and hit the ground with a thud, all the huntsmen used their all to weaken its scales for a final blow. Jaune turned his warhammer into an axe and twirled it in the air.
As he fell, he spun and with all of his forward momentum cut the beast's neck. it severed it off of the body and the people cheered. Finally it was done, the giant Grimm Monster was dead.
Most of the huntsmen in training sat down, some with tears in their eyes. The sorrow of loss evident in some and yet in all of them you could see the aura of victory.
Jaune looked toward the rising sun in the horizon, he sighed and with a smile on his face he laid on the ground. People ran up to him, it was his team JNPR.
"See I told you I won't die" Jaune smiled at Pyrrha who herself sat down and grabbed his hand.
"I knew you wouldn't"
Ren looked at the couple and smiled. Nora ran toward the two and hugged them both, sending the three of them on the ground.
"I'm so happy both of you are okay!"
RWBY reunited by the entrance, Ruby who was waiting for her team got embraced by Yang. " I'm so glad you're okay sis"
Ruby in any other occasion would've pushed her sister away but she returned the hug "I'm glad you're safe too"
In the following months, Ozpin(now in Oscar's body) revealed his secrets after his council, mainly Ironwood told him to. It was mainly revealed toward huntsmen and Slayers but with the information they had it seemed as though it was possible to take the grimm down.
Team RWBY and JNPR along with a couple of other teams were informed. Meanwhile the media wrote article after article telling about the heroism of the Huntsmen, huntresses and Slayers along with the sacrifices of the students and thwir own bravery.
Humanity was banding together, after all they all had a common enemy to work against. In that time frame, investigations also popped up about people who might have been helping Cinder and the others.
Many were locked up, but the truth was most of the worst scenarios were avoided. Jaune Arc and his team along with RWBY were given medals and they were given special training and soon enough they grew.
Jaune was now on a military ship, which was on its way to the continent of Grimm
"Today's the day"
Author's note: Aaaaand thats that! I'll be finishing this up soon but I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It isn't long but i hope its to your liking.Anyway, if ur interested as i said earlier feel free to check out my story on the wattpad but reguardless see you next time!