(Opening Theme: Let's Just Live Performed By Casey Lee Williams)

-Oniyuri-

"It's time to play…"

The whole group continued to walk through the abandoned village of Oniyuri, and they couldn't help but look around some more and just shudder at the thought of the atmosphere around them. "This place is like out of someone's nightmares." Scout said as she shivered.

"Don't worry." Melody said comforting her, "We'll be out of here soon."

"Yeah." Ruby said comforting her too, "Once we're away we can put this place behind us."

"Hey, I see the exit." Rosario said, pointing up ahead.

The group saw the exit just up ahead from where they were, and they were all eager to get out of there, as quickly as they could. Just before they could, Ren stopped and held up his hand, making everyone stop in their tracks. Everyone seemed to tense up, and soon Senka started to growl as did Frosty who was hanging on Melody's shoulder.

"Frosty?" Melody said, "What is it? What's wrong?"

Frosty didn't register Melody's touch when she went to touch his ear. "Someone's coming…" Scout said, "Is what he's saying."

Cristal turned to Senka as he growled to her.

"Now what's he saying?" Roman asked.

Cristal turned to the group, and said, "It's the Shadows, my sisters… They're coming…"

Ren armed himself as did the others as they stood ready for combat. Senka growled to Cristal again, and Cristal's eyes widened slightly. "What? Are you sure?" She said; Senka growled again, as to answer her question.

"What's he saying now?" Jaune asked.

"He said they're not alone…" Cristal said, "... They're with someone…"

"Who?" Ruby asked.

They soon got their answer when they saw a man just jump overhead and land just in front of them. The minute he landed on the ground he armed his weapons which was a pair of arm blades; he charged at Ruby and Cristal, but Rosario and Ren stood in his way. They went at him, with Rosario throwing her kicks and Ren attacking the man with his Storm Flowers, but the man was quick to block their attacks. Rosario armed her blade that was hidden in her leg and tried to hit him, but he block and countered, sending the girl flying. Ren went at him once more, but he was sent flying too.

Despite the others blocking his way he managed to get through with ease, and went to attack Cristal and Ruby. They were quick to block his blades, but he moved so fast that it was hard to predict his movements. He landed a hit on both of them, with Ruby's aura depleting slightly and creating a fresh wound on Cristal's arm. This had caused the both of them to back up. Scout, Neo and Jaune went to charge at him. Scout armed her arm blades while Neo engaged him in hand to hand combat, and Jaune charged at him with his sword.

They attempted to land hits on him but it proved to be pointless. He kicked Scout away, and she ended up hitting Neo. As Jaune went to charge at him once more the man dodged and climbed onto his shield. The minute Jaune looked the man in the eyes, he had gotten an up close and personal look, that made him flinch.

Melody, Nora, and Roman went to charge at the man, Melody went to attack him, but he dodged quick and Nora went to hit him with her hammer but again he was quick to move. With an opening, Roman armed his weapon and fired a round, sending him flying right into a building.

By the time the dust cleared they had finally got a good look at the man, as they saw him holding himself in between wooden frames. The man had pale skin and his long hair was tied into a braid and he had on a dark brown jacket over his white jacket; though it was left open, revealing scars in the middle of his chest and across his stomach. He wore a pair of white pants and a brown buckles and a pair of piercings on his ears and he had on leather vambraces, and he had a pair of leather boots.

Cristal's eyes widened slightly when she saw the man, before she glared at him.

"He a friend of yours Roman?" Rosario asked as she joined the group.

"Why you asking me?" Roman said to her.

"No offense but you used to hang with guys like him." Rosario answered.

"We've never seen that man before, neither of us have." Neo said.

"WE DON'T WANT ANY TROUBLE!" Scout yelled to the man.

"WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO START A FIGHT!" Jaune yelled after Scout.

"ALL WE WANT IS TO PASS THROUGH HERE!" Melody exclaimed.

The man just stood was there in silence, not even answering saying anything. "WHO ARE YOU!?" Ren exclaimed. The man revealed his golden eyes, as he smiled; he dropped himself out of the building and landed on his feet.

Finally he spoke pointing to team CRMS, Roman and Neo, and even Ren and Nora, "Who I am, doesn't matter to any of you, or the two of you, or you, or you, or…"

The man stopped when he had gotten to Jaune, he said to him, "Well… You do interest me."

Jaune was left perplexed by this before the man gave out a chuckle, "No… I only matter, to Cristal... and you."

The whole group turned to Cristal and Ruby; while Cristal still had her glare, Ruby was left confused. "Me?" Ruby said, tilting her head slightly.

The man started to laugh at this, getting the groups attention back to him. "You haven't the slightest clue, do you?" He said with a smile, "How exciting this must be!" He started to laugh again.

"Tyrian…" Cristal said through gritted teeth; earning a look from the whole group, "... Why am I not surprised to see you out here?"

The man before them, Tyrian said to her in a taunting way, "Now, now don't be so rude little Crissy… You know better than to talk that way to adults."

"You know this creep?" Rosario said.

"Unfortunately." Cristal said before giving a brief explanation, "The night Destiny went missing, when she was taken… He was there to retrieve her. I tried to hide her from him, intervene with his search, but let's just say he wasn't alone. In the end he managed to find her and take her away."

"What?!" Roman said, "He's the one who took her?!"

Before Cristal could answer Tyrian answered for her still with a smile, "Tis true Roman. I am the one responsible taking your precious Princess. Fear not though, she's where she belongs now." As Tyrian laughed, Roman was going to charge at him, but Neo stopped him.

Hearing this new information, team RNJR specifically gave a look of anger to Tyrian.

"What do you want…?" Ruby said with a glare.

Tyrian gasped dramatically at this, "The rose has thorns. My little flower, I'm here to whisk you and Crissy away with me."

Nora stood in front of Ruby and Cristal, "And what if they don't want to go with you?"

He scrunched up his lips as he stared, letting his arm fall to his side. "Well…" He said casually, "I'll take them."

Melody soon stood between him, her leader and cousin, "Like hell you will. I'm not going to let you take our leader, and I sure as hell am not letting you take away a member of my family."

Jaune joined up with Melody as did Roman.

"You may have taken Destiny, but I won't let you take anyone else." Roman said aiming his Melodic Cudgel at Tyrian.

"We won't let you do what you want." Jaune said with his sword and shield in hand.

All Tyrian did was laugh once more, "Good."

Suddenly the three of them felt the presence of not one, but two people behind them, about to strike them. "BEHIND YOU!" Scout yelled.

"WATCH OUT!" Ren exclaimed.

It was only than that each of them had reacted. Roman armed his arm blade, to stop a blade from hitting his face, and Melody stopped one from hitting her face as well. Jaune immediately blocked with his shield as he was almost met with an axe blade.

Diamond and Elise were the ones that had attacked from behind.

"Where did these two come from!?" Roman exclaimed before he and Melody were kicked in the face by Diamond, causing them to lose their balance and stumble.

"Well now, the gangs all here!" Tyrian said.

Jaune pushed Elise off of him, and soon saw the red eye on the side of her stomach; he turned and saw Diamond's red eye on her right shoulder. "Guys! These are the Shadows!" Jaune said.

"We see that!" Melody said. She heard Diamond chuckle slightly.

"The daughter of Qrow." Diamond said while folding only one of her fans, "So you're the one that Sinn was having difficulty taking out."

"I take it that Sinn is a friend of yours." Melody said.

"She's the leader of our team." Diamond replied, "And I am one if it's members. Diamond. It's a pleasure."

"At least your a talker. You can do without the Grimm mask over your mouth though."

Diamond only scoffed at this, "If I were you, I wouldn't worry so much on your opponents look, and more about your life."

"How threatening." Roman said jokingly.

Cristal saw that Tyrian had been distracted, and quickly armed her shotgun on of her swords and fired a round in his direction. He quickly jumped out of the way just as he landed on the ground Rosario rushed him; as she kicked at him her heels had fired rounds, and Scout attacked him head on; Frosty and Senka immediately moved away to the sidelines. "Ruby!" Cristal said to her, "My team and I got Tyrian! You guys, Roman and Neo take care of the Shadows!"

"Got it!" Ruby said, "You heard her team! Let's do this!"

Everyone nodded, and they moved to their opponents; Ruby, Jaune, and Roman rushed Elise, while Nora, Ren and Neo, charged Diamond head on. And Cristal and Melody went after Tyrian, like how Rosario and Scout were.

Ruby went at Elise with her Crescent Rose in hand; blades had collided with one another. At one point Elise kicked her back and flipped her axe changing it to a gun. She started to fire; Ruby quickly used her semblance to dodge the incoming bullets. Jaune and Roman came at from the sides, Roman armed with his blade and Jaune with his sword. Just as they were going to hit her, all Elise did was lift her hand and suddenly their weapons stopped. A black aura was seen around their weapons and her hand.

They had realized it was her semblance.

"W-what?" Ruby said with her eyes wide.

Elise waved her hand and the were sent flying in her direction; Ruby quickly dodged. "Polarity?" Jaune said as he stood up, "She's able to use polarity?"

"Let's not worry about it now." Roman said, "Just focus on the opponent!"

Ruby's eyes were still wide, but she shook it off and charged at Elise once more with her Crescent Rose, though Elise managed to gain the upperhand when she saw an opening. She hit Ruby's side with the back of her weapon, and managed to disarm her.

"Your lucky I was told to bring you back alive." Elise said to her as she pinned her, "Though if you try to fight I will break your limbs."

"LET HER GO!" Jaune yelled, as he charged at her again. Elise moved off of Ruby and blocked Jaune's sword and countered him with her axe. Their blades clashed each others, as they did, Jaune couldn't help but wonder why this set up, and her moves were familiar.

"ARKY MOVE!" Roman yelled; He fired his flare gun, and with his cane he hit the flare shot. Jaune only moved at the last second catching Elise by surprise. The flare shot hit her in the stomach causing to fly back but she kept her footing. She held her stomach as she felt a slight burn from the flare.

"NOW RED!" Roman yelled. Ruby nodded and grabbed her Crescent Rose and charged at Elise. She hit with the blade, though she blocked the attack giving her only minor cuts; Ruby quickly added on to her attack when she kicked her in the face, managing to knock off of her mask and she tumbled and rolled on the ground. Ruby went to attack her once more the Crescent Rose though Elise was quick to block her attack, that's when Ruby received a surprise when she got a good look at Elise's face; Her jaw dropped and her eyes widened with shock and disbelief.

"... Pyrrha…?" Was all Ruby had said.

With Ren, Nora and Neo, they were having difficulty against Diamond. Everytime they attacked, she dodged and countered with her fans blades. They jumped back gaining distance from her; Neo motioned to Ren and Nora seemed to get the idea of what the plan was. This time only Neo charged at Diamond, arming her blade that was on her umbrella; She used fencing skills as she tried to stab Diamonds face. With simple movements she was able avoid her blade, but had received only minor cuts.

Diamond folded her fan, and it attached to her wrist. It unfolded into a mini crossbow but had bullets instead of arrows; she aimed the weapon at Neo. She started to fire at Neo, but all she did was smile as she blocked the bullets when she opened her umbrella and the bullets were blocked, and they couldn't hit her. Neo's hidden gun popped out from her sleeve and fired at Diamond. She was able to block the bullets with her second fan. She swiftly threw the fan over in Neo's direction and it seemed to have hit her; but as soon as it hit Neo's body it just shattered leaving Diamond shocked at this.

Though she lost that though when she suddenly heard a shot fired at her. Diamond quickly flipped back as it rained shots; than she was kicked from behind nearly losing her balance. It was done by Ren; Nora quickly jumped from the building with her hammer armed and swung it at Diamond, she was quick to dodge it.

Both Ren and Nora charged at her while disarming her in the process.

CRMS kept going at Tyrian, though all he did was laugh as they threw attacks at him. "You just don't know when to stop do you?" Tyrian said amused.

"Shut the hell up you creeper!" Melody said swinging her weapon at him, though he did was block her attack. He kneed her in the stomach getting her to cry out in agony and hit her in the back making her fall on the ground.

Scout went to attack Tyrian head on, with her hand blades armed, and had extended thanks to her dust enhancements, and she tried landing a hit on him. Tyrian blocked her attacks and went to attack her, but his attacks phased right through her body, as if she were a ghost.

"Ooo, neat semblance!" He said, impressed; When Scout tried to activate her semblance again he grabbed her by the hair as she cringed with pain "But it's not going to help you now!" Tyrian grabbed her face and threw here into the ground making a crater. Rosario and Cristal charged at him together, though he attacked them head on.

"Tell me where Destiny is Tyrian!" Cristal said to him, "I know she's keeping her alive, so tell me where she is!"

"I've got a better idea! You can come with me, and I deliver you to her!" Tyrian said with a smile, before going to hit her; Rosario immediately went to counter him, and she managed to hit him right in the face causing him to stumble.

Tyrian charged at Rosario and she blocked his blade with the blade in her leg. "I know those movements." Tyrian said, "The way you fight, and the single prosthetic leg… Your that boy's sister aren't you?"

Rosario kicked him back making him fly a few feet.

"Now I remember, your the girl who left, who decided to turn down what Cinder had to offer, what WE had to offer!" He said to Rosario, "And now your with these people…"

"Don't talk to me like you know me!" Rosario said as she jumped to kick him. He grabbed ahold of her foot and threw her causing her to flip; though she managed to land on her two feet.

"I made the right choice by leaving, after what I saw your people do to that poor girl!" Rosario said, "You would steal away powers and kill just to get what you want! That's not something for a good case, it's just cruel and horrific! Something I did not sign up for!"

"Sacrifices are necessary to the cause!" Tyrian said as he laughed slightly, "You knew that before you made the mistake in leaving!"

"I didn't make the mistake… Now my brother he's the one that made it, by following that monster. I plan to find him and beat his senses back into him. Right after I kick your ass." Rosario said, before firing a round from her heels.

"GO ON! TRY TO HIT ME!" Tyrian taunted.

Tyrian laughed as he dodged the shots, and went towards her once more this time he managed to get her to loose her footing and used his blade to damage her leg as she was in the air, than he kicked her and she hit the fountain.

"ROSARIO!" Cristal exclaimed, before she found Tyrian in front of her suddenly.

"Where are you looking Crissy!?" Tyrian said catching her by surprise. Cristal jumped back a few feet from Tyrian and felt blood trailed down her face; she had soon realized that she had gotten a cut on her head from him when she dodged his attack. "Damn…" Cristal cursed herself, as she wiped the blood away, "This is one of the things I hate about being a Grimm Hybrid…"

Tyrian laughed as he charged at her again.

Ruby was just in complete and utter shock when she saw the girl, Elise before her; she had the same face as she does her friend, the one many claimed to be the invincible girl. Pyrrha Nikos.

Jaune stood there stunned as well at what he heard Ruby say. "Ruby… What did you just say?"

Ruby spoke again to Elise, "... Are you… Really Pyrrha?"

Elise used this to her advantage and kicked Ruby off of her, making her land near Jaune and Roman's feet. It was than Jaune got a good look at her face as she went to get her mask.

"Pyrrha?" Jaune said with disbelief, "... But… How…"

Elise looked to Jaune and Ruby, "Pyrrha is not my name." Elise said to the two teens, "My name is Elise."

"But… No, that's-" Ruby said her mind going into a scramble at this, "Your Pyrrha! Your actually here!"

"I don't know who you're talking about." Elise said calmly, as she put her mask back on her face, "I don't who this Pyrrha is, but let me assure you, I'm not the person you think I am."

"Pyrrha, what are you talking about?" Jaune said, "Don't you recognize us?"

"It's us, Ruby and Jaune, we're your friends!" Ruby said.

Elise tilted her head slightly before feeling a slight pain in her head, "Ruby… Jaune?"

Roman grunted out of annoyance, "For the love of-"

With his Melodic Cudgel armed, he fired a round at Elise; the shot landed near her feet and she was sent flying into one of the buildings. Ruby immediately stood up, "Roman what are you doing!? Why did you do that!?"

"You could've killed her!" Jaune exclaimed, "Why did you-"

"What am I doing!?" Roman said, "What are you two doing!? You froze up instead of attacking her! What in the hell are you thinking!?"

"How can you say that?!" Jaune said

"How could we attack her!? She's our friend!" Ruby said.

Ruby was taken by surprise when she felt a sudden sting on her cheek. It didn't take her long to realize that Roman had smacked her across the face; Jaune jumped at this when he saw her slap her.

"Don't act stupid!" Roman said to her, "Get your mind out of the clouds and wake up! That girl, Elise is not your friend!"

"But she is her! You can't just-"

"Open your eyes Red, that's only her face! She's not the girl you knew! Hell you know she couldn't be, because you saw her die, and her body vanish because of Cinder!"

Ruby tried to think of something to say but found herself struggling to do so. Jaune than spoke up, "But… she's right there… in front of us…"

Ruby finally said, "Pyrrha is right there Roman… they must've did something to-"

"Listen to yourselves." Roman said to them sternly getting their attention, "Your just talking nonsense now. Just because Elise has her face, doesn't automatically make her Pyrrha. You both know the real truth. She's gone. Nothing you can say or do can bring her back, not even a cheap imitation."

"Roman I can't!" Ruby said, "I mean she's-"

"Don't you remember what Cristal told you?" Roman said, "Huh? You two swore that no matter who's face you saw you would fight to survive! Are you seriously trying to tell me that you're going back on your word just because you think Elise is something she's not?!"

"But Roman-" Jaune said.

Roman stopped him, "No listen to me. I don't even know how the hell it's possible but Elise only has her face, it DOESN'T make her the girl you knew at your school. Even if it was her, would she really want to see either of you get hurt?"

Ruby and Jaune soon came to realize that Roman had made a point. The Pyrrha they knew, the Pyrrha that they once knew was always looking out for her friends, when in school or on the battlefield. She would never want to see any of her friends get hurt. Roman's right, how could they have been so stupid!? They wouldn't go back on their word to Cristal, especially not Jaune.

"Are you two just going to sit there, and think about something that's impossible, or are you going to stand up and fight like the Huntsman and Huntress you were meant to be?" Roman said.

Ruby and Jaune looked to Roman, and smirked slightly at the expressions on their faces. "Let's do this." Ruby said with a smirk.

Just as this was said, Elise had fired a round from her weapon and the three of them quickly moved. As they once more engaged in a fight, Ruby saw how the others were handling things, but she saw that despite their being only three of them, they were clearly outmatched. Finally after sometime the whole team had regrouped and were quick to form a plan before their opponents charge at them once more. Jaune, Ren, and Scout engaged Tyrian, Neo, Melody and Rosario (Despite her leg being damaged) went after Diamond, while Ruby, Nora, Roman and Cristal went fought Elise.

Elise didn't notice but Ruby distance herself as she lined up for a shot, while she was busy dealing with Roman, Nora and Cristal. At one point Nora had gotten Elise's attention, and she charged at her. That's when Ruby took the shot, that had caught Elise's eye as she watched the bullet laced with electricity passed by; It hit Nora causing her to tumble and hit the stone border. This had caused everyone to stop their fighting, as they took notice of this.

Tyrian ended up laughing at this, "Well, isn't that ironic!"

Elise turned to Ruby, "... Your a poor excuse of a shot. I wonder how you survived out here."

What they and Elise herself had failed to notice was Nora standing up and electricity coursed through her body, and the whole group smiled deviously as did Nora. Elise, Diamond and Tyrian couldn't help as to wonder as to why. Nora suddenly had gone behind Elise as she went to hit her with her hammer armed; this gave Elise no time to react.

"ELISE!" Diamond exclaimed when she realized what was going to happen.

There was suddenly a puff of smoke, and that caused everyone to shield their eyes. Finally each of them opened their eyes and looked to where Nora and Elise were supposed to be.

"Did she get her?" Scout said.

Cristal looked around the area and saw Diamond still standing where she was but someone was missing. "Where did Tyrian go?" She said. The group noticed that he was gone too, but when the smoke finally cleared they were all in for a shock when they turned their attention back to Nora. A scorpion's tail stood between Nora's hammer and Elise's face, and the scorpion's tail belonged to Tyrian himself, who had crouched just behind the teenage girl.

He giggled amusingly seeing Nora's reaction, "Surprise."

Elise quickly moved as Tyrian delivered kicks to Nora making her stumble. Tyrian leaped back and landed on the rooftop of a building nearby, while shedding his coat, revealing his sleeveless white jacket and his tail curled; Diamond and Elise soon jumped away from the group, near where Tyrian was.

"A Fanus?" Melody said as she was in shock.

"He's… A Fanus?" Ren said with disbelief.

"You gotta be kidding me…" Rosario said.

"I thought he was giving off a familiar scent." Scout said, "But I didn't think he…"

Ruby stepped forward, "What is this about!? The White Fang!? Roman's betrayal!?"

Tyrian replied as his tail moved in a sinister way, "Plastic soldiers and pawns. My heart and body belong only to our Goddess."

"Cinder?" Jaune said with slight confusion.

Tyrian merely scoffed at this, "Only in her wildest dreams…"

Ruby looked to Cristal remembering what she had told them. "It is true…" Ruby thought in her head. Soon she was brought back from reality when Tyrian launched himself from the building he stood on and landed between Cristal and herself. He armed his blades and went to attack Cristal and Ruby head on; he had sent them flying in opposite directions. Team CRMS were about to help them, but Diamond and Elise blocked their way and started to attack them.

Tyrian turned his attention over to Ren and Neo and used his tail to attack them. They managed to dodge his tail, as it had almost landed a hit on them. Finally he swung his tail catching them by surprise as they were sent flying. Nora, and Jaune tried to attack but he ended up maneuvering them, and countered. He than charged at Roman armed with his hand blades; Roman blocked each of his blades but barely. Each hit he had gotten on from Tyrian only depleted his aura to a considerable amount before he was kicked to the side by his tail.

Cristal charged at Tyrian once more, but just as she was about to equip her whip mode on the sword he had disarmed her and hit her across the face, leaving a bruise on her cheek. Tyrian spun around just about to deliver a kick to her.

"CRISTAL!" Ruby exclaimed. Ruby used her semblance to get to where Cristal was, and she shoved her out of the way. This had caused her to go flying instead as she let go of her Crescent Rose. Tyrian was quick to move as he gotten to where Ruby flew. Right before she could land on the ground, Tyrian let out a powerful kick in her abdomen, breaking her aura; she flew once more.

Ruby toppled into the ground landing on her side and near her Crescent Rose. She tried to get up but the pain was to great. Tyrian soon towered over as he prepared to attack her with his tail; his eyes changed from gold to purple.

"DON'T TOUCH HER YOU SON OF A-AGH!" Melody started to yell before she was kneed in the stomach courtesy of Diamond. Melody tried to use her weapon but it was forcefully ripped off of her wrist by Diamond; she armed her crossbow at her, pointing to her forehead.

Rosario and Scout tried to run over to help Ruby but once again Elise stood in their way.

Ruby shut her eyes as Tyrian went to attack her as she prepared for the worst to come; Though a split second later she didn't feel any pain. That's when she heard Neo scream in horror. She opened her eyes slowly, and saw a puddle of red just in front of her. Slowly she looked up and saw a familiar man with orange hair right front of her, with blood dripping from his side.

"... Roman…?" Ruby said petrified.

Roman let out a grunt as he turned to her slightly; blood was seen coming from his mouth.

"What Little Red…?" Roman said as he tried to smirk, "... Couldn't you see that coming…?"

With a sickening cackle, Tyrian removed his tail from Roman's side, and the man staggered slightly, before he fell backwards passing out.

"ROMAN!" Ruby exclaimed as she went to catch him, his hat falling off in the process.

Everyone stood there stunned by what had just happened as Ruby tried to shake him awake.

Tyrian only laughed amusingly at this getting the attention of Cristal, "The great Will-O-Wisp actually protected one he once considered an enemy! Oh how the great and mighty fall!" Cristal felt something in her snap at Tyrian's word, and the way he laughed; when she blinked her once blind eye turned into a regular eye that was of orange and filled with tar, and faint line of her veins were seen around her right eye.

Her teammates, the rest of team RNJR and Neo noticed this, as they saw her right hand turn into a the talons from a Griffon. "... Cristal…?" Ruby said with a somewhat fearful look; though Cristal didn't seem to have heard her.

Cristal said to Tyrian with a voice that was hollow, "I will send you back to your so called Goddess… IN PIECES!"

With incredible speed, Cristal charged at Tyrian with full force, attacking him with the talons; he blocked her attacks with the help of his arm blades and scorpions tail, but Cristal just kept attacking him with a look to kill over and over again. Diamond and Elise saw Tyrian signal them, and they moved away from what they were doing to back them up.

Ruby noticed them go to Tyrian, and turned to Scout, "SCOUT! SCOUT COME QUICK!"

"Huh-Oh right!" Scout said, at first not hearing Ruby; she ran over to her as did Neo, Jaune and Melody. Melody went by Ruby, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine!" Ruby said to her cousin, "But Roman-

The ice cream haired girl slid on her knees to Roman's side. "Roman! Roman!" Neo said trying to get him to wake up, "You bastard, wake up!"

Scout kneeled by Roman's side and examined the wound.

"What's wrong with him? Why isn't he waking up?" Ruby said to Scout.

Scout placed her ear on his chest, before she sat herself back up.

"This isn't good! He's been poisoned by the tail! It's a neurotoxin; it's already going after his heart!" Scout said, as she quickly started to look through her arm bag that was around her left elbow, "He's going into cardiac arrest!"

"Can't you do anything?!" Jaune said.

"Luckily I came prepared in case of poisons such as this one." Scout said, taking out a syringe from her small bag, "I have a nerve tonic that will be able to help him. It won't stop the poison, but it'll buy me time to fix up an antidote with the materials I have in my bag."

"Are you sure this will work?" Ruby asked.

"Of course." Scout said, "I've designed this nerve tonic myself, it helped a lot of my patients back in my hometown."

Finally after looking through her other pocket, she found what she needed a small bottle of light green liquid. Carefully and quickly she got a small amount of the liquid into the syringe and put the bottle back in her pocket.

"I'm going to have to inject it into his heart, in order to jumpstart it." Scout said as she removed his cape and unbuttoned his shirt slightly to reveal his scarred chest, "It's gonna be close."

"How can we help?" Jaune said.

"I need you all to hold him down." Scout said, "It's going to hurt a lot and I can't have him moving around until all of the liquid in the syringe is gone!"

They nodded their heads and went to do just that; Melody and Jaune held down each of his shoulders, and Ruby and Neo held down his legs. Scout held the syringe firmly in her hand.

"On three." Scout said to them, "One… two… THREE!"

With swiftness the syringe needle had gone into his chest and Roman's eyes shot open as he screamed; he tried to move but Ruby, Neo, Melody and Jaune kept a firm grip on him, preventing him from moving. Scout quickly started to inject the light green liquid into his heart as he thrashed.

Cristal fought, Tyrian, Diamond and Elise head on with brute force. She tried to scratch them up with her claws but it proved to futile; Tyrian laughed at Cristal's efforts.

"I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER!" Cristal yelled as a single wing of a Nevermore appeared on her back; with a wave her wing, razor blades of feathers were sent flying in their direction. They ducked and flipped out of the way as the feather hit the buildings just behind them making them fall.

Tyrian charged at Cristal attacking her with his tail; though she was able to counter it with her own tail, as she retracted her wing and a Deathstalkers tail grew out from her back and blocked his attack. They went at it for a while until Cristal was knocked away by some unknown force that sent her flying into a wall, causing her to cough up a small amount of blood.

She looked up, she saw Diamonds right eye in the same state as her's but, a black claw hand that had emerged from her back.

"A Geist?!" Cristal had exclaimed.

"Avira is a very useful Grimm Partner to have." Diamond said, her voice echoing slightly, "I can see why you like to have Senka around, they give you one hell of an upgrade. All your Griffon does it gives you talons, how will fair against my Partner."

Cristal ignored Diamonds threat and charged at her again, with her talons. She went to try and scratch her up but she just moved with ease. When she tried to go for the fifth time, Diamond made her moved. The claw hand on her back lifted rocks nearby and she threw them right in Cristals direction, and she was hit right in the face with the rocks creating bruises across her face, making her stumble. Elise fired shots at her feet causing her to trip. She wiped the blood off of mouth but was soon caught by surprise by Tyrian when he punched her right in the gut; she dropped her other weapon.

Tyrian hit her with his tail causing her to fly and finally with a swing of his arm blade he landed a hit on her; a giant cut was seen on her shoulder and gushed out like a waterfall; black spots were faintly seen on it. Cristal felt dizzy, as the blood drained from her body, and she fell to her knees. Her orange eye changed back to a blind eye.

Tyrian chuckled at this as he grasped her chin. "One down, and one to go." He said, before letting her fall on her side.

"Should we tie her up?" Elise said.

"No." Tyrian replied, taken the two girls by surprise slightly, "She won't be able to do anything in her current state, besides, I'll use her as leverage, just in case."

All of the light green liquid had gone into Roman's chest and he had passed out once again but this time it was from the pain. Scout removed the needle and leaned her ear against his chest, hearing a steady heartbeat. "His heart is stable." Scout said to them. Ruby, Jaune, Neo, and Melody sighed with relief at that.

"He'll be okay for now, but he's not out of the woods yet." Scout said, "I figure we have 9 maybe 6 hours before the poison starts to attack his heart again."

"Okay, okay." Ruby said, trying to get up, but she clutched her side; groaning slightly, "We have to regroup and get out of here, where's Cristal?"

"She went after Tyrian." Jaune said.

They soon saw their teammates having horrified reactions on their faces. They wondered why until they followed their eyes to why they looked so shocked. Their just in front of them they saw Tyrian, with Diamond and Elise by his side. Cristal was with them, but she was in a bloody mess; she was unconscious and was being held by the neck; his tail was curled around her.

"Oh my God…" Jaune said stunned.

"… No…" Ruby said with disbelief.

"CRISTAL!" Rosario, Melody, and Scout exclaimed. Senka let out a screech and charged at Tyrian; he tried to leap and attack with his talons but, the black claw hand on Diamonds back grabbed Senka and pinned him to the ground, restricting his movements. Rosario, Melody, and Scout were about to run over to her, but they stopped in their tracks when Tyrian held his blade to her shoulder.

"Ah, ah, ah." Tyrian said wagging his finger in a sinister way, "I wouldn't move if I were you. Otherwise I'll remove Crissy's limbs, starting with her arm."

"Cristal!" Scout cried out.

"No way, it's a bluff!" Melody said, "There's no way he would do that!"

"We were only told to bring her and the silver eyed girl back alive." Elise said, "We were never told to bring them back in one piece."

"... Do you really wanna call it a bluff? I will cut her limbs off, and I will make it hurt." Tyrian said as he cackled. As he laughed, he drew his blade closer to her shoulder, as they tried to move until-

"Stop! Just stop!" Ruby said, "We'll stay where we are! Just… Just stop hurting her, please."

Tyrian laughed at this, and removed the blade from Cristal's shoulder, "Perfect." He said as he went towards where Ruby was, "Now… It's time to collect, after I take care of one little thing…"

He let go of Cristal, but dragged her by the collar of her jacket. When he approached her, he knocked, Jaune, Melody, Scout and Neo away with a swing of his tail; Frosty ran to Melody. All Ruby could do was cower as she saw his eyes turn to purple once again, and laughed. The others wanted to help, but couldn't since he threatened to hurt Cristal and leave her in an even worse condition.

Tyrian went to strike, that was when someone burst through a building and put themselves between Ruby and Tyrian. Everyone looked up at this, as to wondering who had saved Ruby this time.

"Who is this now?" Rosario said.

She and Scout heard Melody chuckle slightly. She said with a smile, "... That old bastard…"

Ruby smiled as well knowing who exactly this was that had saved her. Qrow chuckled slightly as he held the end of his blade, that was blocking the scorpion's tail; He looked down to his niece as he smiled.

"Hey."

(Ending Theme: I'm Waiting for the Rain TV Size Performed By Maaya Sakamoto)