A Golden Goddess

by goodwin761

[Waifu Catalog Story] I died with regrets of having done nothing with my life, but instead of Oblivion, I am given an offer too irresistible to ignore. Out with the past body and in with the stronger, more favorable new female body, I will ensure my new name will be a legend wherever I go! Abridged references, genderbending Hijinx, and Mature situations await!

56. Chapter 51 - Operation Defang Pt3

Chapter 51 - Operation Defang pt.3

Kuo Kuana - RWBY World - 5 Minutes after the end of the previous chapter

[ Two Hours Until Midnight ]

(General P.O.V)

The sounds of battle continue to echo all over the city as the Grimm, White Fang, and Blood Fang fight for control of the city, even as buildings crumble and fires burn in several sectors. However, none of that matters to a certain Scorpion Faunus as he cackles while rushing at yet another RED mercenary that he stumbled upon.

This time it's the RED Pyro who only has enough time to pause from his burning of both the Grimm and the surrounding buildings to look at the incoming Tyrian in confusion before his head is skewered by Tyrian's stinger, making the crazed maniac sneer at the Pyro before dropping him like a sack of potatoes..

"Tch, perhaps I should have not expected the same firepower from this one, he looks a bit more…specialized.." Tyrian remarks before looking at all the flames and cackling before seeing the Pyro's dropped flamethrower.

"Well, at least he certainly had his priorities straight….such a shame I killed him now…" Tyrian shrugs before moving to the dropped Flamethrower. However, the moment he gets close enough to reach out, he hears a loud beeping before his instincts warn him to jump away NOW.

As he does, he sees bullets and a set of rockets impact where he just was before a red laser pointer is aimed at him, his eyes following to see a man in red wearing a hard hat with a very angry look on his face as he holds a button down and the man, the RED engineer, remotely control his Level three Sentry and begin guiding it to fire beyond its natural automatic perimeter to attack Tyrian.

The psychotic Faunus grins as he dashes into the alleys to evade the hard hat-wearing man, using the tight alleys to his advantage to slowly make his way to the RED engineer's position. However before he fully leaves the alley on the other side, a bullet slams into his head and pings off his Aura, making Tyrian duck into the alley for cover again as he realizes that the other side of the alley is guarded by a sniper.

"Hmmm, looks like they're being particularly thorough now that I've been outed as a priority target it seems.." Tyrian says to himself before the Scorpion Faunus takes out his scroll and calls Watts..

"Tyrian, what is it that you want..?" A tired yet dignified voice says from his scroll, the man on the other end of the call has been working non-stop for the last few days to keep track of events in Haven and the situation in Atlas Council, although later he only hears second-hand news right now..

"I have a bit of trouble with a…..sniper of sorts keeping me pinned, think you can do your thing and distract him..?" Tyrian says, making Watts sigh and mutter something under his breath before Watts says..

"Thankfully, the networks in Kuo Kuana is not a total loss yet, I have access to a camera that is slightly damaged but functional it seems, and can see your problem, allow me to give you an opening.." Soon enough Watts quickly gets to work and before long, Watts set off the alarm of the building that is running on the same network which gets RED sniper's attention briefly..

Tyrian goes out before Watts even says anything once he notices the RED sniper look away for a brief moment and aim his hidden vambrace SMGs to try and pepper the RED spy with as many bullets as possible.

While most of them miss, several do land in non-vital areas with enough force to knock him down from his sniping perch. The crazed Faunus grins before he rushes forward up the road now that the RED sniper is unable to provide overwatch, however, when he turns a corner rapidly, he sees a dark-skinned man wearing an eyepatch and drinking heavily, dressed in a similar fashion to the RED team..

This is of course the RED Demoman, and the sole eye of the man locks onto Tyrian and gives a mischievous chuckle. While Tyrian is confused, he hears the sound of beeping to his left and in morbid curiosity turns his head and what he sees is…

The wall of the building to his immediate left has a dozen or so sticky bombs planted in the shape of a smiley face as if to mock the insane scorpion Faunus. The moment Tyrian realizes exactly what he's looking at, it's too late as the RED Demoman detonates them all at once and its enough to tear at least 90% of his remaining aura in one go.

As he's flung into the air, he can see the Sentry gun below immediately lock onto him and fire a barrage of bullets and rockets that quickly fling him into the alleyway to the east and land hard on the pavement with only roughly 4% of his aura remaining..

"Perhaps It is time to retire from the hunt for now, I am sure I can finish these fools off later.." Tyrian says with a dark tone as he plans for his revenge upon these fools who have humiliated him with such an immature way of blasting him..

"No, I don't believe you will.." a voice says from behind as Tyrian spins around with his blades ready to see…himself?!

As Tyrian's confusion at the sight briefly distracts him, the doppelganger takes out a black engraved revolver with slight Christmas decorations on it, not that Tyrian would know that, and fires a round into Tyrian's head, the shot smashing through the remains of his aura in an instant and throwing him into the alley.

As Tyrian groans in pain and disorientation from having his aura so violently broken, he looks up and is immensely shocked to see a familiar Metal bat slam into his face. "BOOYA, I GOT YOU BACK FOR KILLING ME BEFORE!" RED scout says as he is revealed to be alive, completely stunning Tyrian and leaving him open for a metallic spade head to whack him on the back of the head..

"HAHAHA, NOT SO TOUGH AGAINST A REAL AMERICAN NOW ARE YOU?!" Says an alive RED soldier, breaking Tyrian out of his stupor as he begins to scramble away from the two men as he screams…

"YOU, I KILLED YOU BOTH ALREADY, HOW ARE YOU STILL HERE?!" However before he can say more, he is shot by an annoyed RED Spy whose ears are aching from all the shouting, the gunshot going through his gut, and without aura, he is in a very vulnerable state…

Tyrian, for the first time in his life, runs in fear like all of his victims before him. He knows he has to survive somehow, to return to his Dark Goddess's side and inform her of these threats to the plans..

However, his luck finally runs out as he runs right into the RED heavy and RED medic, directly bumping into RED heavy in his mad dash to escape. Before he can run, his head is quickly in RED heavy's grasp as the bald Russian man grins and Tyrian can feel the large man put large hands on his head firmly..

It's right then Tyrian would hear what would be the final words that he would hear from another's lips ever again as the RED heavy says.. "You know, Heavy has been thinking of certain game of thrones death since boss lady showed us that show years ago, Heavy thinks that killer in his grasp would do quite well to see if he can replicate it.."

Tyrian is briefly baffled by the Russian words but soon he is about to understand exactly what he means as the large thumbs of the Russian man begin to push hard into the eyes of Tyrian Callows, making the man scream in pain as he tries desperately to stab the man with his vambraces as all his can feel is utter pain and agony.

As Tyrian can feel the man completely destroy his eyeballs, the large burly hands around his head begin to press down on his skull as he can feel it begin to crack like an egg. "MY GODDESS, PLEASE SAVE ME, I NEED YOU TO—!" Are Tyrian's final words as his head bursts apart like a watermelon in RED Heavy's hands, a savage grin on the big Russian man as he looks at his work..

"Well, 9/10 for accuracy although I do have to dock a point for allowing him to speak and break ze comparison.." Says RED medic as he looks with a morbid fascination at Heavy's replication of the infamous death of the Red Viper from Game of thrones..

It is silence for a bit before RED Medic gets a call on his radio to which he answers by saying.. "Ja, what is zit..?" Before RED Engineer asks if they've seen a fleeing man with a scorpion tail, to which RED medic simply says..

"Ja, we dealt with him, Heavy decided zhe would attempt to replicate ze method of death of ze red viper of ze game of thrones show, it was a sight to see" Which leaves the RED engineer stunned silent on his end before he simply asks for them to return to the forward outpost for the final push..

"Ja Ja, we'll be right zhere Freund.." RED medic says before turning to RED Heavy as he has removed the weapons of Tyrian from his now essentially headless corpse and hands them to RED medic who looks overjoyed to finally have a mecha-shift weapon he can tinker with later..

"Well zhen, let's get moving now Heavy.." RED medic says as Heavy nods and the two leave the body of Tyrian Callows right there in the middle of the street. A Killer who had killed many for his beloved Dark Goddess is now just another tally to the body count the RED team has piled up so far…

Meanwhile, Grey, who watches all of this unfold, has just finished throwing up in the middle of a garden after witnessing the gruesome demise of Tyrian Callows. While she knows she was an enemy and did need to die, she was definitely not expecting to witness such a violent death and one that Heavy did after seeing Game of thrones of all things..

"Ugh…why did I stick around to watch over them after bringing those three back.." Grey says as she shakes her head, she's at least VERY glad that the RED team are on the Pendragon's side as she had no idea just how brutal the mercenaries could be at times..

Thankfully for Grey, she's given a chance to put her mind off what she witnessed as a squadron of Blood Fang come upon the recovering Grey and grin, believing her to be an easy mark due to the lack of a weapon on her.

Grey then suddenly rushes forward and grabs the head of one of the four faunus that makes up the squadron and slams him to the ground, knocking the man out while likely giving him a concussion as well before Grey holds out two palms and blasts two more of the squadron with a blast of Ki, killing them as the remaining one tries to run but a single Ki blast from Grey being fired once again is enough to obliterate the terrified Blood Fang Faunus.

As grey sighs deeply and looks over the carnage she wrought, she grimaces while staring at her hands. "Lord El-Melloi II, I wonder what you'd say if we met again one day, knowing who I have become after becoming a part of sister's family…" Grey says as she can't help but recall her Shishou despite it being years since they talked or even seen each other and despite the fact she knows it's impossible, she hopes that one day she might be able to talk to him one last time..

In the end, though, Grey shakes her head and knows she needs to focus now as this is not the time to think of such things. As such Grey Kai Kais away to join her sisters in White Fang Main camp to lend a hand, unaware of the coming battle that is fast approaching..

Kuo Kuana, White Fang Main Camp - 10 Minutes later

(Arturia's P.O.V)

I gaze over the walls of the camp as I can see the much larger forces of Adam's Blood Fang make their way down the main road with Adam Taurus at the head of the column as he has his hand on his blade ready..

The Helmet of my armor is picking up each and every hostile coming into view on the road, however, I know that's the only large force coming our way as I gaze at Rias and Sona, the latter's peerage having been assigned to fight at the Western Gates in order to focus on the influx of Grimm.

This leaves me with Mashu, Ritsuka (Older), Artoria (Saber), Artoria Alter, Ereshkigal, Raven and Mordred at my side to face the incoming Bloodfang alongside half of the White Fang at the camp with Ghira leading them directly..

I stare at the nervous forms of Mashu and Ereshkigal and simply ask.. "You two gonna be alright, neither of you strictly needs to take point here, you can go help deal with the Grimm if you want..?"

Neither Ereshkigal nor Mashu takes the offer with Mashu even saying.. "Sister, while I can say we are nervous, we will be fine so please…have faith in us sister.." While smiling at me, making me and Ritsuka both smile at the determination on Mashu's face.

Soon I turn to look to my right and spot Mordred and Raven looking at each other, with Mordred soon spoke up and says.. "Hey Raven, wanna compete to see who can kill the most of these bozos before the night is over..?"

Raven chuckles and gives a competitive smirk of her own that is practically identical to her daughter yang's own smirk before she says simply.. "Alright then, the winner pays Qrow's Bar tab.." Mordred's eyes narrow before the smirk returns and she agrees with the two shaking hands on the kill competition..

I just sigh at their antics before looking over to Artoria (Saber) and Artoria Alter positioned at the far left part of the north gate wall and far alright part of the north gate wall respectively, stoically gazing out over the walls towards the incoming forces ahead.

I walk down the stairs that lead up to the Wall Ramparts of the North Gate and head over to the West gate to talk to Sona directly and ask.. "How's it looking on your end Sona?". Sona, currently wearing the Scathach Skadi dress frowns while looking over to me and simply replies..

"I have reinforced the gate with rune magecraft as best as I am capable in my current state as I am still working on fully adjusting to my Demi-servanthood Arturia.." Making me sigh as I can see that the runes, while excellent quality worthy of the Demi-servant that Sona has embodied, it's clear that Sona is still working on expanding the range of runes she can use right now at full effect..

Because the Rune on the gate is a Durability enhancement rune that is pretty standard for a rune magecraft user, meaning I might want to see about getting her a teacher that might help her push her to the point she technically should be by now..

Regardless I head back to my prior position and look to Ghira who's taken to wield a large Warhammer for the coming fight. The large panther Faunus notices me looking at him and chuckles before saying.. "You know, if you want to leave you still can…"

I just shake my head at the offer and simply respond by saying.. "At this point, we are committed so it's just as much your fight as it is ours now.." Ghira smiles at that, glad to see that he's gained such staunch allies..

Soon enough, the two of us look out to the road with the forces incoming. It would be such a simple thing to just jump down, perform a Black Kamehameha and decimate the forces coming our way but it would simply trivialize the efforts of the White Fang and perhaps make stabilizing things in this world harder in the long run..

Still, my family knows that they are to use their power at full strength should they feel it is warranted as I trust them to gauge the situation correctly. Soon, I hear Grey walking up behind me and standing at my side closely, I can't help but smile seeing her without her hood and gently pat her head.

"H-hey…" Grey says while looking at me, blushing as I chuckle and kiss her on the lips and leave her a blushing mess briefly. "Can we get in that action sister~?" Ritsuka (Older) says as Mashu blushes at her side, I chuckle and simply reply with..

"After the battle perhaps.." Ritsuka (Older) chuckles at that and nods at that, seeing the sense in my words and we all turn to face the incoming forces once again as soon enough they're close enough that we can clearly see Adam Taurus himself gazing right at Ghira and sneering at my family before saying..

"Ghira Belladonna, I shall only ask this of you once and once only…surrender, throw the humans you have to assist your forces out and no harm shall come to any more White Fang this day…." Adam gazes squarely at Ghira as he says this..

Ghira Belladonna scowls at the Bull Faunus on road outside the gate and simply says.. "You disappoint me, Adam, I believed that your past would make you want to seek justice and not vengeful retribution upon humanity, if we are to survive in this world, Humans, and Faunus must work together to truly find peace.."

Adam just scowls behind his mask and simply says.. "Oh really, work with the humans that would use Faunus as forced labor in their dust mines, abuse them, treat them like dirt and BRAND THEM LIKE CATTLE?!" The beyond angry Bull Faunus removes his mask to finally reveal the painful SDC brand on his face that has left him unable to see out of one eye…

I can see many of the Faunus on the walls shuddering in anger on seeing that brand, so I decide to intervene in the talk and respond with.. "It is true that the SDC has become the bane of Faunus Mr. Taurus, but it used to be far better before the current CEO took control, one man alone is ultimately responsible for your pain, and one man alone.."

Adam Taurus scoffs at my words, staring right at me now, and says.. "And what of the guards under his employ human, what of the taskmasters in the mines and their disregard of Faunus under their watch..what of them?!"

I can see my words have had some form of effect as now both sides of the conflict are listening intently as I decide to further my point and say.. "The man in question is the same man who would use his own wife as a means to gain control of the SDC, a man who would see his own daughters as mere tools to further his power, driving his wife to become a depressed drinker and both of his daughters to flee, leaving only his lonely son to try and become his father to no avail.."

It doesn't take a genius to know that my words have managed to drive the reputation of one Jacques Schnee right down to rock bottom in the eyes of both the Blood Fang and White Fang listening, not that it wasn't already low to begin with but still..

"Even if my pain may be the result of one man's influence, there have been far too many humans taking advantage and treating us Faunus like mere beasts to pin it all on one man….No, our path to freedom has no other recourse but to be paid in blood at this point…" Adam says, although I can tell that my words got through to him partially as before he puts on the mask, he looks incredibly contemplative..

Before long though he shakes his head, focusing on the fight to come as he turns to his troops, his comrades in arms, and says.. "Today, We shall face our former comrades one final time and purge them from the annals of history, but make no mistake as we face former friends and allies today, and when the battle is over, we shall honor them with a proper burial and swear to avenge them by bringing them justice from beyond the grave against the humans, Blood for Blood my brothers!"

"BLOOD FOR BLOOD!" Cries many of the Blood Fang members as they look ready to fight and end this once and for all. Adam Taurus gives one look at the White Fang on the wall and shouts.. "BEGIN THE ASSAULT!"

The Blood Fang members charge forward, some having brought ladders and a small group of them at the back begin bringing up the boxes of smuggled Dust C4. I grimace as I can sense the Grimm also make their way to the West gates and so I simply say…

"And so….it begins…"

Meanwhile - Atlas Council Chambers

(General P.O.V)

Once more, the Council is back in the chambers as the debate as to whether or not to intervene in the conflict in Kuo Kuana as Jacques Schnee is still attempting to goad the council into pressing on into the city to Re-establish order and build Atlas a legacy that will last a lifetime.

"We cannot afford to continue debating this any further, we simply must make a decision on the crisis in Kuo Kuana before we waste any more time!" Jacques Schnee says boldly, although part of this boldness is an act to show confidence in the wake of the loss of Schnee manor and the disappearance of Willow Schnee, along with the now destroyed physical records of their marriage.

In Jacques's mind, so long as the Public Records Office has a copy, he is able to work on firmly securing himself later. All he needs to do is continue working on his Agenda while his son works on acquiring a brand new physical record obtained from Public Records.

Ironwood has not been able to reach Specialist Schnee yet, apparently, a minor riot broke out in Haven during the last hour that has her required to put her entire focus on dealing with. He can't help but wonder how he plans to tell her that her own mother is dead, but shakes his head to focus squarely on the situation at hand..

"Mr. Schnee, can't you see that we simply do not have the manpower required to hold Haven while amassing enough troops to storm into Kuo Kuana, even if we activated the mechanized legion that we have fully finished.." Ironwood says, trying to make the man see sense but to no avail, as Jacques is determined to put Kuo Kuana under the heel of Atlas and by proxy, SDC..

Jacques scoffs as he can't see why a military man like General Ironwood would be so resistant to the idea of claiming further glory, but even so, he knows that even with this unexpected pushback from the man, he has already secured enough support from the aid of his SDC assets to finally ensure that the inevitable vote swings his way..

However, before the man can use his position as CEO of SDC to call for a vote, yet another interruption from his Son as Whitley bursts pale and out of breath from having run as fast as he could..

At first, Jacques is pleased at his son returning despite the fact he yet again interrupted an important meeting, however as he looks more closely he notices that his son has not returned with the Physical copy he had asked for..

"Whitley, I do believe I told you to only return once you have gotten the new physical copy of–" Jacques Schnee says before he is interrupted by his own son who, while quite out of breath, simply responds with..

"Father, I had them check multiple times, there simply isn't any record of the marriage to mom in the public records office.." The entire Council is stunned silent, none more stunned of course than Jacques himself…

The man just looks frozen as if he can't even process what he just heard, his marriage to Willow Schnee is practically as if it never happened existed legally. His control over SDC, his booming Financial success, his wealth and influence….all gone in a single night.

"W-what…?" Jacques manages to say, struggling to even speak as his mind is reeling from the fact that everything he has worked for over a decade to achieve, it's all gone like grains of sand from Mistral passing through his fingertips.

Once his mind reboots, his mind immediately makes the connection that the tragic fire that seemingly claimed his wife and the marriage documents was a coordinated effort by some unknown party to completely strip him of his influence..

And despite how it has now ruined him completely, he can't help but respect the utter ruthlessness and efficient way that his fall was handled. He would respect it a lot more though if it wasn't aimed at HIM…

He slowly gazes over the many council members who look particularly interested to see how things will turn out next, when at last Ironwood stands up, grinning like a shark out for blood and says.. "I apologize Sir, but the seat you are occupying is for the CEO of the Schnee Dust Corporation and since you can't confirm your marriage to the dearly departed Willow Schnee, I must ask you to leave the council to discuss important matters.."

Jacques so desperately wants to strangle Ironwood in this moment as of course Ironwood would know that detail, his Eldest Daughter likely told him that little tidbit when he became his good little soldier..

However, the man sighs and accepts his defeat with what little dignity remains and leaves the room silently with Whitley rushing behind. He knows that with Willow most likely dead and Winter in the Military, the SDC now falls under Weiss's control and he knows that within the next few hours, Weiss will be informed of this very fact.

If only he had the sense to make Whitley heir while he still could, but alas he knows that his chances of convincing Weiss to accept him in any capacity will fail due to his own past actions at that.

He looks at Whitley with a sense of regret on his face as he knows that if the boy remains with him, there is a chance they'll both be little more than gutter rats by the end of the week. So in this one moment, he takes over half of his physical lien and hands it to Whitley..

"Boy, use that money to take the first flight to your sister in Vale, there is enough for the entire trip there, enough for maybe a day or two of putting yourself up in a decent hotel once you arrive as well.." Jacques says to his son who looks deeply confused at his father's unusual tone of regret and defeat.

"F-father, why..?" Whitley asks, making Jacques sigh and simply reply with.. "Don't worry, I will make my way to you in Vale sometime soon, so please go support your sister, I trust you to do this one request of mine my son.."

Whitley nods shakily and begins to rush off, waving at his father as he says.. "Goodbye father, I will see you in Vale then!". As Jacques Schnee watches his son rush off to get the first flight to Vale, he sighs and knows that at least he did one thing for his family after decades of doing so much wrong…

While he does regret knowing that he lied to the boy, at least he can be certain that his sister will help shape Whitley into a better man than he is. Jacques sighs and goes to decide to make use of his remaining lien to potentially start working on rebuilding his legacy in a way that is solely his own now and goes to see if he can't get some more…humble clothing in exchange for selling his current attire for extra lien..

Unfortunately, Two hours after Whitley Schnee would see his father for the last time, the man who was once known as Jacques Schnee is killed in a mugging gone wrong. And while his killers are caught and arrested, he died in the arms of a kind and humble Faunus who had tried so desperately to save his life, knowing full well who he was but did her best to help him anyway, and only in his final moments does he see Faunus as more than the cheap labor he thought of them as..

Such is the Irony of life in motion..

Meanwhile - White Fang Main Camp

(General P.O.V)

War is Chaos, it is a fact of life.

The moment the Blood Fang had begun their charge upon the Northern gates, the Grimm Hordes prowled about the Western Roads before the West gate began their furious charge to try and assault the walls there too as if goated by the negative emotions occurring near the North Gate.

The ladders of the Blood fang are quick to bring up and while the members of the Pendragon family are quick to try and destroy the flimsy wooden ladders, there are always more ladders, as if the Blood Fang had been preparing for this siege for some time now.

Initially, the defenders are content to remain upon their walls and let the attackers try fruitless attempts to use the wooden ladders to get up the walls. Then they bring out the ones with much sturdier material and while these can be destroyed by the Pendragons as well, it's these new ladders that give the Blood Fang a chance to actually get up on the walls themselves..

"DRAW YOUR CLOSE-RANGE WEAPONRY!" Ghira roars out as he like everyone else quickly draws their blades, axes, and other various close-range weapons and begins fighting the Blood Fang as now they have no choice but to focus on the incoming fighters on the walls.

Arturia slays Blood Fang after Blood Fang as Lux Reginae Tempestas slices through them like she's merely chopping through wheat crops. Her Armor which she bought a while back from Contractor Zack, said armor's features are coming in handy as she is able to constantly be kept aware of what's going on in the battlefield at all times.

Mashu herself has already begin slamming her Shield against many of the Blood Fang who initially looks amused at the cute but sexy girl in the tight bodysuit and armor trying to lug a massive shield.

Of course, that impression of her changed as she quickly used said shield to leave a particularly large Blood Fang Faunus into a bloody red paste on the camp wall using that shield alone. For the briefest of moments Mashu's hair goes gold and her eyes turn green when she does this, likely because, in the heat of battle, she had instinctively reacted as a Super Saiyan would.

Ritsuka (Older) who saw this, can't believe how much her beloved Kohai has grown as a fighter before ducking a chainsaw and landing a three-jab combo with Ruyi Jingu Bang before the Psuedo Servant of Sun Wukong grins and throws the man off the walls..

"And that is why you don't fuck with the master of Chaldea~!" Ritsuka says as she basks in the moment for a brief moment before the Demi-goddess blocks an incoming attack from another Blood Fang and grins, she has been very much enjoying her status as both a Psuedo servant and a Demi-goddess, with her being one of two Super Saiyans able to go Super Saiyan Rose, the other being, of course, Arturia herself..

Of course, unless the situation called for it neither she nor Arturia intend to go that far. Besides she's having far too much fun bashing skills without needing to bother to even go Super Saiyan herself.

Grey however, has no such limits as she is all too willing to use Super Saiyan since she is very much not wanting to use her own Rhongomyniad when it would be both overkill and do way too much damage to the city in the first place, forcing her to rely on fists and Ki alone to take down Blood Fang.

The Two Artorias, both Artoria (Saber) and Artoria Alter, remain quite steadfast and cut down every Blood Fang that gets close, although Artoria Alter is the more ruthless of the two as she often tends to strike killing blows in spots that tend to spill the most blood in order to demoralize the Blood Fang..

Ereshkigal for her part can be seen spinning her spear, one that Ereshkigal has been quite tight-lipped about the name of, as said spear rips its way through multiple Blood Fang at a time and secretly steal the souls of her kills so she can start living up to her title of Goddess of the Underworld again, although in this case she's more ensuring that said souls go to their proper place since she doesn't belong in this world..

Mordred and Raven on the other hand…

"Yo raven, how many you got as I just killed my 14th!" Mordred screams over the sound of conflict echoing around her, locking eyes with Raven who smirks and screams back.. "I'm on my 17th Kill already!"

Mordred scowls as she begins to use Mana burst to start pushing ahead in terms of kills and screams out.. "I'LL NOT LOSE TO A FUCKING NEWCOMER SO FUCKING EASILY, YA HEAR ME?!"

Raven only laughs in response as she's just enjoying this competition they're having despite the fact they're killing Faunus and not mere monsters like Grimm…

However, speaking of the Grimm in this case, the West Gate is holding both better and worse than the North Gate as while the Grimm are unable to scale the walls, the bird-type Grimm in the horde harass the defenders and make attacking the Elephant Grimm that are constantly charging the West Gate difficult.

Of course, Rias and Sona are able to work together to freeze and destroy many Grimm, taking out sizeable chunks of the assaulting hordes with every spell thrown at them. Sona's peerage is working to stick to ranged attacks to deal with the Grimm, leaving both Xenovia Quarta and Irina Shidou barely able to help as they don't have the benefit of having Light Guns like Lint Selzen and Griselda Quarta do..

As such the two former Exorcists are ultimately assigned to protect Asia Argento whenever she has to come up to heal the defenders, often using their blades to keep any would-be dive-bombing Grimm Birds away.

Sayori Genshirou is the only one in the Pendragon retinue that ends up finding herself constantly moving back and forth between the two gates, using her Absorption line Sacred Gear and her abilities as a Vitria Demi-servant to absorb the power of many of the Blood Fang in order to weaken those further in the camp and make them easier pickings for the White Fang troops.

She then uses that same stolen power to transfer it to the defenders in the west gate in order to ensure that her fellow peerage members aren't always needing to rely on Asia so much, despite how good of a healer the Blonde Nun-Devil is…

And yet despite the fact that the White Fang/Pendragon Forces are executing their plan perfectly and grinding down both the Blood Fang forces and The Grimm at a steady rate, they had ultimately lost sight of a very vital detail during the chaos in the camp…

It's only when Arturia's custom armor detects a large build-up of explosives at the north gate that she realizes that everyone had ended up forgetting about the dust C4. Arturia looks out over the wall and sees Adam Taurus with a stoic look and a detonator being put in his hands.

Arturia only gets enough time to warn her family to get away from the North Gate fast, with all the pendragons managing to get away in time before Adam Taurus hits the button on the detonator..

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The North Gate and the North Wall of the camp itself is completely blasted apart by the explosion, killing several Dozen White Fang and Blood Fang together. The Smoke from the blast is so thick that neither side can see what has happened, all except Arturia with her helmet..

There are mutilated bodies everywhere, thankfully none of the Pendragons were hurt, with only Raven being actually scuffed abit. But the area on both sides of the North Gate is littered with the bodies of the dead and those who have lost multiple limbs in the explosion..

One of those in the latter category is Ghira Belladonna, who has a wooden splinter gouging his right eye, burns all over his chest, has lost his left leg and most of his left arm, and is losing blood fast. Arturia rushes over and tries to call over Asia Argento to heal him, but she already has her hands full dealing with those she is closest to already, Xenovia Quarta and Irina Shidou now joining the North Gate Pendragons in slicing through the numerous Blood Fang pouring through the now blasted open North wall and Gate.

"Hold on Ghira, the healer will come soon.." Arturia says, trying to stem the bleeding as best as she can, even trying to use her Godly Ki to try and heal Ghira like she had Raynare during the last world, however, due to the fact that she hasn't the focus nor the time she had back then, not to mention still being inexperienced in actually using her Godly Ki for healing still, she can barely heal anything..

"It's….*cough*...no use….I'm just too wounded…." Ghira says weakly, struggling to see out of his remaining eye as he feels incredibly weak from blood loss. He coughs up more blood and soon continues trying to speak and says..

"Please…y-you got to lead t-the W-white Fang in m-my stead…" Ghira pleads, which Arturia easily agrees to as she knows she's probably the only one Ghira trusts to do so right now since he doesn't know the two Artorias, and barely spoke to Morgan, just Arturia alone..

Before Arturia can try to get help for Ghira's wounds, the man himself grabs Arturia's shoulder with his remaining hand and says.. "I-I won't give T-that Bastard A-adam the s-satisfaction of k-killing me himself in my c-current state, s-so I ask you t-this one f-favour f-from a dying man…"

The words that come out of his mouth are something that Arturia absolutely never expected as her eyes widen big time, staring at the man in total shock as she screams out.. "NO, I REFUSE TO BE THE ONE WHO KILLS YOU, YOU GOT A FUCKING FAMILY TO GET BACK TO FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"

Arturia just looks at Ghira with horror and utter disbelief on her face as she flat out refuses to be the one to kill Ghira, but the Dying Panther Faunus weakly scowls and struggles to say.. "I…w-would rather g-get a m-mercy killing from a-an ally, t-thank be killed a-and used to t-torment my f-family b-by A-adam….please…"

Arturia tries desperately to think of a solution that would allow Ghira to heal rapidly, but every time she thinks of something she immediately dismisses it as it's either something that would take too long to do and risk him bleeding out before it's done or the thing in question is currently in use by one of her family already and is currently fighting hard..

"I promised Ghira..I FUCKING PROMISED YOUR LOVED ONES YOU WOULD SURVIVE…" Arturia screams out as she can feel hot stinging tears come from her eyes, although to the Blonde Goddess, it's the feeling of pure and utter guilt filling her heart that stings the most as she reluctantly gets up and forms a Ki blast on her hand so that Ghira's death would look like it came from the explosion via total obliteration..

Ghira smiles weakly and soon says.. "T-thank you….I k-know….y-you'll w-win t-this battle in my s-stead…". Arturia can't help but scream out feelings of anguish, regret and guilt that make her throat hurt before she finally fires the Ki blast…

And so Ghira dies smiling as he is given a mercy killing by Arturia, who is struggling to come to terms with what she's had to do just now. She stumbles about as she can barely wrap her head around her own emotions but ultimately manages to push them all down because of one simple reason..

People need her guidance.

The White Fang needs someone to lead them with Ghira Gone, her family needs her to be the Pillar of the family right now and she needs to now, more than ever, take charge in this situation..

"PENDRAGONS!" Arturia shouts out, her voice echoing over the fighting in the camp itself. Despite the fact that her family is still fighting hard, she knows she has their attention and so she says only one thing…

"LOOSE!"

That one word is the command that was set well in advance before any of them arrived at Kuo Kuana. It was the signal for one thing and one thing only. It is the command to ignore all previous orders of restraint and at long last use everything at their disposal to fight the enemy..

This single word is met with every member in the family finally unleashing the full might of their abilities as Rias is the first to respond by effective carpet bombing the Grimm and Sona blasting them with various Ice magic and Rune Magecraft..

Mordred, Artoria and Artoria Alter are using Mana Burst to blur around the camp to cut down as many Blood Fang as possible, Raven is using her elemental maiden powers to burn, blast and drown many of the Blood fang as well..

Grey is now fully in super Saiyan and is blasting into the column of Blood Fang outside of the camp itself while hovering in the air to get better shots. Ritsuka (Older) and Mashu are teaming up with both in Super Saiyan themselves and use the additional power of the transformation to kill some more Blood Fang close to the gate as Mashu raises her shield in front of the ruins of the gate..

Mashu glares at the large number of remaining Blood Fang, especially at Adam Taurus before she activates her Noble Phantasm…

"LORD CAMELOT!" Mashu cries out as she slams down her Shield, forming the walls and gates of Camelot behind her to replace the now-decimated defenses of the camp. She had been prevented from using her Noble Phantasm prior due to wanting not to overshadow the White Fang, but with the command to ignore all prior orders of restraint, she can finally use it.

Adam Taurus snarls seeing all his work to break open the defenses of the camp effectively be rendered useless by a mere human with an oversized shield. Meanwhile, Arturia inside the camp rallies the remaining White Fang to her side as she takes charge fully with Ghira unfortunately no longer among the living..

However, before Arturia can do any more..

Both sides stop fighting as they witness a large red pillar of energy suddenly shoot up from the Eastern Road between both the Blood Fang And White Fang Camps. As Arturia gazes at the Red energy pillar, there is only one thought echoing in her mind..

"Izayoi…."

Five Minutes Earlier - Just outside the Blood Fang Camp

(General P.O.V)

Jeanne Alter and her squad have managed to kill most of the contingent that was heading to the White Fang camp through the Eastern Road linking the two. However, the remaining members of the Contingent managed to retreat into the camp with Jeanne Alter, Izayoi, Kiba, Akeno, and Kuroka hot in pursuit.

As they blast open the gates into the Blood Fang Camp though, it is suspiciously empty. Jeanne Alter can't help but snarl as she can tell there is a trap waiting for them as she soon says.. "Be on your guard, it looks like there may be a trap waiting for us…"

The Four nod as they slowly make their way in, unaware that right now they're being watched by Watts on a Camera overlooking the entire camp from above. The Group had triggered the sensors after stepping into the camp which had made Watts focus on the incoming intruders of the Blood Fang Camp.

"Just a little further girls, into the kill box that's been constructed…" Watt says as he waits patiently for the five to make it further into the camp. Once he does, however, he simply taps one button and doesn't even watch to see the results as his focus is immediately back to his earlier duties..

The Five of them jolt as all of a sudden they are surrounded by automated turrets that lock onto them and begin to fire, prompting the five of them to begin evading the shots and begin to destroy the turrets one by one.

This however also triggers the emergency automatic activation of a stolen Mechanized Legionnaire that was taken from Atlas and reprogrammed by Watts in the event this exact scenario occurs..

And as the five of them finish dealing with the turrets, believing the trap to be dealt with, and begin to look around them to figure out where the Blood Fang went, the Mechanized Legionnaire Sniper takes aim right at Izayoi, intending to put a bullet in the back of the Brunette's head.

However, just as the Robot is preparing to line up the shot, Akeno is the one who sees the robotic sniper in time and screams… "IZAYOI, WATCH OUT!". Izayoi looks at Akeno as she's suddenly pushed away from where she just stood before, only to watch in absolute horror as a sniper shot tears right through Akeno's chest and mortally wounded her..

"Aah….aaaah….AKENO!" Izayoi screams out as Kiba immediately spots the Robotic sniper and traces both Byakuya and Kanshou, the Married blades, and she throws them at the Mechanized Legionnaire to destroy it.

Izayoi has Akeno in her arms as she cradles her devil girlfriend in her arms, as she struggles to comprehend what she's seeing right now, she flat out doesn't want to believe it at all. "I-Izayoi…..a-are you..un-harmed…?" Akeno asks, smiling gently at Izayoi as the brunette's eyes are filled with tears..

"I…I'm f-fine A-akeno…." Izayoi says as Akeno gives a weak smile and says. "I-I'm glad….I d-don't think….I could f-forgive myself…if I let….the one I love…..g-get killed in f-front of me…" Izayoi begins to sob as she soon says…

"D-don't w-worry, w-we can go back to g-get help, get Asia…s-she can help you, s-she can save you…" Desperate to try and do something for Akeno, but then Akeno gently raises a hand to cup Izayoi's cheeks as a small amount of blood begins to leak from the corner of Akeno's mouth..

"P-please..t-take c-care of Rias f-for me…O-ok…?" Akeno asks as Izayoi just shakily nods. Akeno smiles warmly as, with what strength she has remaining, she pulls herself up to give Izayoi a heartfelt, loving kiss that lasts for a few moments, but to the two it lasts an agonizingly long time..

But soon Akeno's grasp of Izayoi's cheek weakens and she suddenly drops out of the kiss, her eyes closing as Izayoi grasps Akeno's hand as it falls from her cheek. "A-akeno…..n-no please…please no….PLEASE…" Izayoi begs as she begins to sob in absolute sorrow and grief with Kuroka and Kiba watching in sadness.

Jeanne Alter just looks incredibly pissed and angrily throws a piece of one of the turrets at the gate that least north out of the camp, her own grief manifesting in her own way. However soon said gate opens, revealing the Blood Fang members they were chasing, along with the remaining people in the Blood Fang Main Camp before they got here.

As Jeanne Alter, Kuroka, and Kiba prepare to fight, Izayoi slowly picks up the body of Akeno and walks over to Jeanne Alter, handing Akeno's body to Jeanne Alter. "Go…get her out of here, I will deal with them…" Izayoi says, her voice sounding colder than any of Sona's Ice spells as her grief is mixing with her intense rage..

As Kiba is about to interject, Jeanne Alter nods and gives a dark grin, soon saying.. "Go on then, Indulge in your revenge dear Izayoi..I know I would in your place….". Izayoi simply nods at Jeanne Alter's dark words and slowly walks towards the large contingent of Blood Fang after gently putting her beloved Akeno in the safe grasp of Jeanne Alter.

Kiba wants to go stop Izayoi but a look from both Jeanne Alter and Kuroka stops her in her tracks and reluctantly, Kiba is forced to head back to the White Fang Camp with Izayoi slowly walking towards her foes, her eyes obscured by her hair as the Blood Fang grin, thinking she's marching to her death..

Izayoi looks up and her usual brown eyes are now glowing bright green as the Boosted Gear appears on her right hand, said hand gripping her blade, Balmung, Especially tight as the Boosted Gear is rapidly boosting her, the Sacred Gear responding to her emotional state as she releases a surge of devil power, Draconic energy, and Prana..

The mix of three powers creates a chain reaction as Izayoi is soon enveloped in a massive pillar of red energy coming from her body. As Izayoi screams in anger, the echo of an enraged dragon also reverberates from her mouth as the Blood Fang Before her begins to step backward in fear of this monster of a girl…

And then Izayoi unleashes her wings for the first time since she became a devil, and instead of a single pair of devil wings coming from her, from her back sprouts three pairs of wings that glow with the same red energy.

Soon Izayoi activates her Balance breaker and the scale mail forms on her body, while extremely hot on her body, none who witness right now would be gazing at her form in lust but rather pure and unadulterated terror..

Only once her Balance breaker is equipped in full, does she finally charge at the Blood Fang in front of her, with the men who just a few minutes ago were confident in defeating in what they believed to be a broken girl, now fleeing in terror as the monster they now see her as begins to cut through them so fast that the armor she wears is utterly drenched in the blood coming from the bodies of the Blood Fang she carved through without mercy..

And thus ends the Third hour of the conflict, with so much death and destruction on both sides…

Author's Note

…well…..that's part three over…only one more part to go before we're done with Kuo Kuana..

Should I also mention this has set the record for my BIGGEST chapter to date in terms of the number of words in it..?

Anyway, let's get the plot points out of the way.

Tyrian VS RED Team

Poor Pyro, you only got a chance to burn Grimm and had no time to get a hit in on Tyrian. Still, I wanted to try to carefully balance Tyrian's Remant-based abilities as well as the equipment of the RED team, after which I remembered something..

Doesn't Aura block bullets to a degree…like say a medic's Uber Charge..?

After that, it was only inevitable that Tyrian would get treated to something I think every player from Team Fortress 2 has had the unpleasant experience of dealing with. Being tossed about while invulnerable by an enemy sentry.

And of course, I had to have the Heavy do that specific kill from Game of Thrones, his hands are practically akin to the Mountain's after all. And considering he did ruin the eyes of another silver-eyed warrior in the canon RWBY timeline, I think to a degree it's justified.

The Scene before the Charge at the Gates.

This was to not only map out who is where but also allow Ghira and Adam to have one final chance at Dialogue. Plus Arturia ended up taking the chance to try and push some doubts onto the Blood Fang and Adam Taurus, but of course, it only can end one way..

The Final Council Scene of the Kuo Kuana Liberation Arc

This is the final nail in the coffin for Jacque Schnee and his attempts to exert his influence, which is now practically non-existent without his control of SDC. Not to mention we get to see Ironwood finally get a chance to push Jacques out of the council room, although the man at least left with some measure of dignity left..

And in the end, Jacques would be one of three major characters to die in this one chapter. His life faded while being held by a Faunus woman who simply tried to help him despite knowing who he was, Only realizing the extent of how bad his actions were in his dying moments..

The Siege of the White Fang Main Camp

This part I actually had the biggest trouble writing, as I knew roughly how I wanted things to go but had to rewrite a few parts several times until I was satisfied. This of course includes the fact that Ghira had to die, at Arturia's hands at that.

There is a plot reason as to why this had to happen the way it did, other than simply to ensure adam did not use the crippled Ghira as another means to spite Blake. However, I won't spoil the surprise though..

Not to mention this was the final straw for Arturia as she had to truly step up here, and ultimately chose to finally call for the removal of the restraints she had previously planned for the family to follow during the conflict.

Plus Mashu FINALLY gets to use her Noble Phantasm, at long last!

Blood Fang Camp Ambush and Akeno's Death.

This one was actually the one I was the most conflicted in writing. As I genuinely did not want to put Izayoi through what might be arguably worse than how her Canon self, Issei was put through when Asia was seemingly killed.

But in the end, Wrote it I did.

Yea, about what I said in the last chapter about considering a Therapist…

I think I can safely say that a Pendragon Family Therapist is an absolute MUST after this entire crapshow is over.

Anyway, next time on A Golden Goddess: Counterattack of the Pendragons, Kuo Kuana's Liberation and The Clock Strikes Midnight..

See you all on Thursday everyone!