RWBY: Team LEGN Chapter 12: The Storm, a rwby fanfic

Tris

The night was going extremely well. She had been able to convince Eric to help her get Lupis to ask her to the dance and he had thankfully turned up. She wasn't sure what Eric had done to convince him to do it, but she didn't really want to know. She was just pleased that he had come.

Lupis had been doing his best to dance all night, even though it wasn't really his thing. He hadn't made any mistakes at all, mostly because she was the one leading their dance and would show him what to do.

She had caught small glimpses of the some other people. Eric hadn't tried to get a date to the dance and so he was up at the DJ box with Nathan, the both of them either taking turns to be DJ, or fighting over which song was going to be played.

Garris hadn't attempted to ask her to the dance. He must have finally gotten the hint that she wasn't interested in him. Instead, he was dancing near the center of the crowd with a blond-haired girl that Tris didn't know.

Velvet and Bella were both dancing nearer to the edges of the crowd, trying to not draw attention to themselves. Liam and Yasmine had been beside them a few songs ago, but they were now in the corner of the room in each others arms, hiding in the shadows so that nobody could see them.

Yep, the night was going well, amazing others would say. Tris felt as if things couldn't possibly get better, and that this was the most perfect moment in her life yet. Unfortunately however, good things don't tend to last long.

Tris was aware of Lupis started to fall over, and only brought her gaze back to him when he starting gasping loudly. Looking to him, she was shocked to see that he was bent over, one arm still around her shoulder, the other against his knee, propping him up. He looked up, and Tris was even more shocked when she saw the waterfall of blood streaming from his nose.

'Lupis! What's wrong?' she asked, trying to lift him up. He seemed out of breath, barely able to stand. He couldn't reply for a moment, instead only gasping as he tried to catch his breath. He eventually looked up at her worry in his eyes.

'We need to stop the dance! Everyone is in danger!' he wheezed, pointing to the DJ stand. 'We need to warn everyone!'

He began to limp over to the box, and Tris helped him along, but still slightly confused about what was going to happen.

'What do you mean? How are we in danger? What's going on?'

Lupis didn't stop moving, but did quickly reply, 'The White Fang! They're going to attack us all!'

His reply did nothing but spur Tris on, making her carry him faster. When they were a few meters from the box, Nathan saw Tris carrying Lupis and came dashing over to them.

'What happened to him?' he questioned the fox faunus.

'He says the White Fang is about to attack us, we need to tell everyone else!' Tris quickly replied to the warrior. Nathan nodded and rushed back over to the DJ box, stopping the music and speaking directly into a nearby microphone. People started to complain about the sudden lack of music, but quickly stopped when they heard Nathan speaking.

'Listen up people! The White Fang is coming! They're about to attack us! You need to get your equipment now! If it's in a locker, order it here now! If not, go get it, but make sure you go with someone that has a weapon! This is not a joke, we are under attack, get moving!'

People were confused at the information, but some students were more alert, punching in the launch codes for their lockers into their scrolls, directing them to come to them. In a few moments, lockers were crashing through the windows to the hall, digging into the floor and bursting open, their owners quickly retrieving their weapons.

People began to rush out of the hall, leaving in groups of two to four people to help others who had left their weapons in their dorm room.

Tris pulled her two swords out of her locker, giving the switches a couple of flicks to ensure the adjustable extender was working properly. Setting both of her blades to their maximum length, she began to look around the room to see if there was anyone she could help. Lupis immediately caught her eye, as he was arguing with Nathan.

'Nathan! Where are my swords! I need to get them to help out!'

'You need to slow down! You don't have enough energy to fight back right now! You need to wait until you are ready to fight!' Nathan replied, forcing Lupis down on a seat.

'If you tell him, I'll keep him safe until he's back into proper fighting strength,' Tris spoke up, lifting Lupis out of the seat as soon as he sat down.

Nathan gave her an annoyed look. 'He needs to rest for a bit. It isn't often that he is this tired after using his semblance, so we must still have quite a bit of time left before they get here!'

'No,' Lupis said. 'They're already here.'

Gunfire began to sound from outside the building, and the clash of metal filled the air. Nathan glanced out of a window in disbelief. White Fang members were in the nearby courtyard, outnumbering the number of students that were fighting ten to one. The students of Beacon may have the quality fighting skills, but the White Fang had the quantity in fighters, and sometimes, even the best fighters can be overwhelmed by too many enemies. Eric was an example of that whilst they were all gone.

Tris watched as Nathan turned back around towards them all.

'Fine!' he burst out. 'The swords are underneath an exterior vent on the roof of the west corner of the dormitories.'

Lupis nodded his thanks and he began to make his way out of the building, Tris close at his heels.

'Tris?' she heard Nathan call out to her. Turning back around, she looked Nathan straight in the eyes.

'Keep him safe, alright?' he instructed.

She nodded and began to make her way out the side of the building. She could hear Nathan and Eric both make their way out of one of the many shattered windows to join in on the battle.

Getting to the dormitories was easy, but getting inside and navigating through the corridors was much more difficult, as White Fang soldiers had followed other students inside, and every corridor was a battle for dominance. Tris wanted to jump in and help the other students, but she also knew that she needed to get Lupis to his weapons.

Rounding a corner, they found a group of White Fang members crowded around another student who was backed against a wall. Another student was slumped against the wall, slash marks made across their chest. Even from this distance and through the sound of combat, Tris could both see and hear that they were not breathing, and their heart was not beating.

Motioning for Lupis to stay, she rushed towards the group of faunus. One of them heard her coming, turning to face her whilst the rest continued to torment the student with slashes to her legs and arms. The one faunus that had turned to face her pulled out a gun and aimed it at her as she ran down the hall.

Tris ducked down and slid across the floor, the bullet flying over her head. Standing up, Tris ran forwards a few more steps before jumping to the wall on her right. Placing a leg against the wall, she pushed outwards, leaping towards the masked faunus.

Seeing her fly towards him, the faunus began to panic, dropping his weapon and trying to run. He wasn't fast enough however, and Tris swung one of her blades diagonally across his chest, spinning as she fell and rolling as she hit the ground.

The rest of the faunus had noticed her entrance, and turned to look at their comrade who had fallen to the floor. Tris stuck out a leg and sweeped the legs out from under a faunus. Jumping into the air, she kicked him in the chest and pinned him against the wall with her foot.

Turning to the rest of her enemies, she let loose a flurry of attacks, too quick for them to block. Their swords and guns clattered to the ground first, their bodies quickly following. She looked up at the student, motioning for her to run with a jerk of her head. Once the girl had left, Tris turned back to the faunus that she had pinned to the wall. She swung a blade around and held the tip against his neck.

'Talk, why are you attacking us?' Tris ordered.

The faunus vigorously shook his head left and right, indicating he wouldn't say a thing. Tris replied by pushing the blade slightly harder against his neck. She started to speak, but the faunus jerked his head forwards, forcing the blade to go through his neck.

Shocked, Tris let him fall to the ground. Obviously they were all instructed to not say anything if they were caught. Blood started to pool around her feet from the wound in his neck. She heard a shuffling behind her, and felt hands grab her shoulders, pulling her away from the body.

'Come on Tris,' Lupis whispered. 'We have to get into the fight. People might be dying while we waste time here.'

Tris nodded. Spinning around and marching down the corridor, heading towards the west side of the building.

They made it down a few more corridors before they heard a loud explosion, and the entire building shook. A loud shrieking sound filled the air, and suddenly the entire building was coated in flames.

Lupis grabbed Tris and jumped to the other side of the corridor. Looking back, the spot they were just in was ablaze, and they were now in one of the few spots that was not covered in flames. Tris felt something wet hit her neck, and when she turned, she realised it was just more blood coming from Lupis.

Standing back up, they rushed through the flames, patting out anything that caught onto their clothes. Lupis didn't seemed as worried about his suit getting ruined, but Tris wasn't too comfortable with burning the dress. They don't exactly cover as much skin as a suit would, and she would much rather prefer to go into battle with some decency.

The stair leading up to the higher floors were difficult to traverse, certain sections having already fallen down, others being so weak that they collapsed at the touch. Picking the strongest looking spots, the two leapt across and up the stairwell, bouncing off the walls until they were on the top floor.

Lupis had gone first, and once at the top, he put extra power into his final jump, bursting through the door, knocking it clean off of its hinges. Tris followed him closely, rolling quickly off of the door, as the metal was scalding hot due to the fire.

Looking around, Lupis had already retrieved Hesperus and Lucifer, and was swinging them around, ensuring that they were both still in good condition. Looking satisfied, he turned back to the stairwell and sighed.

Tris looked, and saw that flames had now risen up the entire building, and were pouring out of the doorway, resigning them to the fact that they would not be using it to get back down.

Tris looked back at Lupis, who had also turned to her. Just from the small look, she knew exactly what he was thinking.

'Oh, hell no!'

Blake

After hearing the warning about the White Fang attack, Blake felt regret. Regret that she had not taken Adam's advice when he had come to her. He had told her that even her didn't know what their aims were, but now she knew.

Torchwick was commanding the White Fang so that he could get rid of the Huntsmen and Huntresses of Beacon so that they couldn't resist against him in whatever task he was going to undertake next.

After that, it had all been a blur. She had called in her locker as well as the rest of her team. She felt sorry for the students who had not left their weapons in their lockers, as they would now have to go into the dormitories to go find them. As she pulled Gambol Shroud from the metal container, Weiss spoke to her.

'I suppose you wouldn't know anything about this?' she asked as she gave the barrel of Myrtenaster a spin. She glanced over at Blake who gave her a menacing glare.

'You know that I don't have anything to do with the White Fang Weiss,' Blake said, but quickly looked away.

Weiss looked at her as if knowing she was holding something back. 'But?'

'But if I hadn't been so rash, I might have been able to stop this before anything even happened,' Blake admitted, turning back to the heiress.

'Wait, you did know about this Blake?' Yang questioned as she unfolded her gauntlets across her hands. 'Why didn't you tell us?'

'Because I didn't actually know!' Blake yelled. 'I was told by someone that the White Fang were going to be doing something soon, but I didn't help them because I don't trust them.'

Blake could practically feel Weiss' eyes boring into the back of her head, suspicion filling the heiress' mind. Thankfully, Ruby spoke up before the girl could say anything.

'That isn't important right now guys! We need to get ready to fight them off! If they really are going to come here, then they are going to be coming in force if they want to take Beacon!'

Weiss attempted to speak up, but was interrupted by the sound of footsteps approaching the courtyard. A large mass of White Fang soldiers was making its way over to the building, the members rushing over, swords and guns raised.

'Come on guys. All we need to do is hold them back until Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch get back. Whatever they were doing can't take that long, right?'

The three teammates nodded, and prepared their weapons as the crowd of soldiers made their way closer and closer. Blake was barely aware of the hundreds of other students that also had their weapons raised, ready to fight.

The initial clash between the two forces was the most scary part. Most blades went through bodies instead of being blocked or dodged, and screams filled the air from both sides. Mostly from the White Fang however.

Ruby disappeared in a flurry of petals, dashing through the enemy lines with her scythe, causing mass panic as waves of faunus fell to the ground. Ruby hadn't killed any of them, instead only hitting them with the back of her scythe, or cutting them in ways with the blade that prevented them from fighting back. Unfortunately, some of these ways included cutting some limbs in half.

Yang burst forwards with two blasts from her gauntlets and straight into the fight. Her speed and ferocity made it impossible for any of the faunus to hit her, as she would block a swing from a sword before quickly dispatching them with a couple of punches to the chest or the face.

Weiss let loose a torrent of flames, burning most of the soldiers while the rest of them jumped out of the way of the inferno. Switching dust chambers, she created a large strip of ice along the ground and sped along it, slashing and stabbing as she flew across the ground at super speeds.

Blake simply dodged and weaved her way through the combat, leaving shadow-images to confuse her opponents before she slashed them across the back or chest and moving on to the next enemy. Once she was in the battle, nothing else was important, as she only needed to protect her home.

Although the White Fang were not as efficient at taking out the students, it was difficult for the huntsmen and huntresses in training to fight back when every time they cut down one enemy, ten more filled their place. It was almost as if they were fighting a hydra that was on steroids.

Blake flipped and rolled under blades and bullets, slashing at legs and arms, crippling her enemies. A blade rushed towards her face and she cartwheeled backwards, leaving shadow-images as she continued to back away. Once she landed, she continued to slash through the faunus, making sure that she didn't kill them.

She jumped back when a blade passed by her and ended up with her back pressed against someone else. She turned around and found herself face to face with Weiss. Both girls had their weapons raised and were prepared to attack. Realising who it was, Blake spun back around and continued to battle, staying close to Weiss. The two created a small area around them that was safe from enemies, as they could hold them back.

'Checkmate?' Weiss' voice rang out through the air.

Blake turned to look at the heiress, who had also turned to see her answer. Nodding, Blake flipped backwards. As she flew through the air, she could see Weiss had ducked so that Blake could get above her. Landing, Blake dropped to the ground and swept the legs out from under a few enemies. Off balance, they were lifted into the air slightly, and Weiss spun Myrtenaster around, slashing at them as they fell to the ground.

Spinning on the ground, Blake slashed outwards, cutting gashes across the knees and thighs of multiple faunus. Weiss rolled through the air and delivered a roundhouse kick across all of the bent over enemies. Blake leapt up and placed a foot on her teammates shoulder, launching herself into the air. Quickly changing Gambol Shroud into its kusarigama form, swinging it through the air, increasing its velocity with shots from the pistol attached below the blade.

Blake aimed mostly for the weapons of their enemies, swiping them aside so that Weiss could quickly take out the enemies. As she started to fall, she swung her weapon around again, and dug the blade into the shoulder of the nearest White Fang member. Pulling herself forwards, Blake shot back towards the ground, rolling as she hit. Pulling Gambol Shroud, the blade left the faunus' shoulder, pulling him forwards so that she could hit him in the gut with her knee.

Sweeping her hand across the blade, she pulled the sheath off of her weapon, holding it in her left hand. Blocking attacks with both her sheath and blade, she flipped and rolled her way back over to Weiss, slashing and bashing the knees and ribs of any White Fang member she could.

Weiss slashed across the chests of multiple enemies, before spinning and letting loose a blast of flame from the end of her rapier. Fire engulfed their enemies, and at the other end of the courtyard, the entire dormitory building erupted in flames.

Blake spun and was momentarily blinded by the sudden light. Looking to Weiss with a questioning expression she ask, 'Did you do that?'

Weiss looked just as shocked as her. 'I don't think so.'

Cinder

Pleased with her handiwork, she turned away from the burning building, and began to make her way across the courtyard towards the administration area. Mercury, Emerald and Rowan were all walking behind her. The four cut through the crowd without a care, neither student nor faunus paying attention to them.

Cinder saw the person that she was looking for at the foot of the tower, sweeping his long orange hair out of his face. When he looked up and saw them approaching, he smiled and waved at the four, leaning on his cane with the other arm.

Once they were close enough, he spoke to them. 'Well, fancy meeting you four here.'

'This was supposed to be a surprise attack Roman,' Cinder replied coldly. 'How did they learn what was happening before you were halfway up the cliff?'

'Woah! I am sensing some hostility here?' Roman joked. 'Listen, how am I supposed to know? You are the only four people that were at the dance before I was there. Have you thought that one of your two adolescent buddies snitched on us all?'

'She wouldn't need to,' Mercury responded. 'Because we are both actually trustworthy, unlike you.'

Roman opened his mouth and pointed his finger at Mercury. He began to say something to the boy but Cinder quickly interrupted.

'Enough!' she snapped. 'We will deal with this later. Right now, we still have a task to complete. We did our best to take the records of all current students, but there are likely still some here that we know very little about. I have already noticed that several students are not alive. I thought I told you to keep the men under your control Roman?'

'It's not my fault that the stupid mutts couldn't follow orders!' Roman exclaimed.

'Hey!' Rowan said, pulling out his grenade launcher, twirling it around until it resembled a ball and chain. 'What was that you said about us sorry?'

'Shut it kid,' Roman replied, pointing his finger at the bear faunus. 'Listen, just go get your records and then you can choose later on from whoever didn't die here.'

'Are you kidding me?' Emerald burst out. 'We spent all this time planning this and now it's all going to be ruined because of you? Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if you were one of the casualties here!'

'Calm down Emerald!' Cinder said, extending her arm and placing her hand on Emerald's chest, holding her in place. 'We can deal with this all later!'

She turned and looked at Rowan. 'You've been to the headmaster's office already, take us there.'

Rowan nodded, starting to walk, but stopped after a few steps. Turning around, he glared at the students that had snuck up on them.

'Oh great! More kids!' Roman cried out.

'You aren't going anywhere!' threatened a blond-haired boy in a white dress as he pointed his sword at the group of criminals, the rest of his team behind him with their own weapons at the ready.

Garris

He was sure that the night couldn't get any crazier. Just going to the dance with someone was crazy enough, but when Lupis went up to the front and had Nathan announce the White Fang was attacking, the night became so much weirder.

He was used to some strange things at Beacon, but when he saw Jaune Arc fighting alongside Pyrrha Nikos, both of them in dresses, he couldn't help but stop and stare for a moment.

The two worked together well, the both of them defending the other with their shields as the other would attack in turn, although Jaune seemed to be doing more defending than attacking. They moved as an effective unit through the crowd, taking out multiple faunus every second.

Surely it couldn't get weirder, right?

Wrong.

When the dormitories had suddenly erupted in flames, Garris was sure that he was actually dreaming, because there was no way something like that could have happened. A quick slash across his leg quickly disproved that theory as he didn't wake up in his bed, and he went back to fighting.

And yet, it was even weirder again, as he stood in the midst of a group of White Fang soldiers, both he and all of them staring up in the air, as he watched Lupis and Tris sailing down from the roof, using Lupis' jacket as a parachute to slow their fall.

Snapping out of the trance he was under, Garris went back to dealing with the faunus. Two quick punches to one's head knocked him out. Spinning on his back foot, Garris extended his arm and slammed his fist into a faunus' jaw, rewarded with a loud crack.

The rest of the soldiers had realised he was attacking again, and slashed towards him with their blades. Dropping low, Garris ducked under the swipes and stuck his leg out, spinning around and knocking them all off of their feet.

Blasting dust from his gauntlets, Garris shot into the air. At the peak of his jump, he aimed his gauntlets at his enemies on the ground and let loose a barrage of white dust upon them. The resulting energy pushed them all deeper into the paving, knocking most of them unconscious.

Once his feet hit the ground, he began to run off to another group of faunus, but was stopped when a hand grabbed his leg. Turning around, he saw a faunus holding him with one arm, a sword in his other.

Once the sword started its journey to his leg, Garris activated his semblance, phasing through the blade. The faunus was extremely surprised, and when he looked up, he was gifted a swift jab to the face.

A soft thud came from behind him and Garris spun around, fists at the ready.

However it was only Lupis and Tris who had now landed on the ground. Lupis was covering his face with his arms as Tris pummeled him with her fists.

'You absolute idiot Lupis!' she hissed, saying a word with every strike. 'You know I'm afraid of heights!'

Garris would normally sit back and watch the show, but right now, they didn't have the time to play around.

'Hey, enough!' Garris interrupted, pulling the two apart. 'As much as you probably want to beat him up right now, can we save it until after we take care of the White Fang?'

Tris glared at him for a moment but quickly calmed down. 'Of course. I need to find the rest of my team, I haven't heard from them at all. I can't access their aura levels with my scroll right now, so I'm assuming that they have jammed all communications to any device in the school.'

'We understand,' Lupis said, cautiously lowering his arms. 'We both need to find Nathan and Eric still.'

'You won't have to look far!' a voice called out.

Spinning around, the three saw the two missing members of Team Legion rushing over towards the trio. Nathan had his double-bladed sword in his right hand, both blades changed from their original silver sheen, to a deep red.

Eric was running alongside his partner, looking slightly tired. His usually bulging pouches of dust crystals looked much emptier than usual, but still looked full nonetheless. The symbols on his shirt were glowing furiously, which gave Garris a sense of hope. The brightness of the symbols varied in regards to how much power Eric could use or was using at the time, and from the luminosity of them at that moment, he had a lot of it.

'Feeling slightly better are you Eric?' Garris asked the green-haired boy. 'Maybe all we need to get you ready for battle is to get the White Fang to attack you with hundreds of their soldiers.'

Eric glared at Garris. 'There's more than hundreds of them here Garris, this is a full out attack on Beacon.'

Garris shrugged his shoulders. 'Meh, hundreds, thousands, same difference.'

'That's not important right now. We know how all of this happened,' Tris cut in.

The rest of the team looked over to both her and Lupis.

'How?' Eric questioned.

'When we jumped off of the roof, I saw three groups of students near the administration building fighting each other. I recognised two of the teams, but the third I didn't know,' Lupis said to the group.

'The two I recognised were from Beacon, teams RWBY and Juniper. The third team I've never seen before, but I know that they somehow organised all of this.'

'And you know that how?' Nathan asked.

'Good point,' Garris added, looking at his leader.

'Because, they were fighting alongside Roman Torchwick,' Tris finished for him.

Garris was extremely surprised when he heard the criminal's name come from her mouth, and from the looks on Nathan and Eric's faces, they felt the same way.

'Wait, Roman Torchwick is working with the White Fang?' Nathan questioned. 'How did he get control over them?'

'I don't know,' Lupis said. 'But we need to get over there quickly. From what we saw, Roman and his group were throwing those first years around.'

'You need to go help them then,' Tris said. 'I'm going to go find the rest of Liberty, and we will try to take care of the rest of the White Fang.'

'Alright, good luck Tris,' Lupis said to the fox.

'You too Pup,' she replied, before rushing away into the battle in search of her team.

Lupis looked back to his team. 'Ok, let's go!'

'Right behind you, Pup,' Garris replied smugly.

'Shut up!'

Ruby

When she had heard the incredibly loud, girlish scream that could only be associated with Jaune, Ruby knew that something bad was happening to the leader of Team Juniper. She quickly rounded up the rest of her team, and they made their way through the crowd of students and faunus.

When they had reached the administration building, where Ruby had heard Jaune's scream emanate from, they all saw why.

Each member of the team was engaged in a battle of their own, engaged in combat with one of the students from Haven. Except the bear faunus Rowan was not with them, and instead Roman Torchwick was fighting in his place.

The criminal was in combat with Jaune, and was on the winning side of the battle. Jaune looked beat up, his white dress singed in multiple places, burn marks across his arms and legs. Roman's cane wasn't as sharp as Jaune's blade, but he had more control and skill when it came to offense.

Pyrrha was deep in combat with Emerald, neither of them letting up, alternating between offense and defence. Pyrrha would jab at Emerald with Milo in its Xiphos form before raising Akouo to block a counterattack from Emerald after she deflected the jab. The two continued to exchange blows back and forth, neither of them landing a blow on the other.

Nora, usually extremely effective in combat, was having difficulty taking down Mercury, as he was able to dodge her attacks before reacting with a kick to a random part of her body. From the bruises on her legs, arms and face, Ruby assumed that he had kicked her more than one time. Magnhild was in its grenade launcher form, as Mercury was too close for its hammer for to be effective. She tried to deflect kicks with the gun, or knock him off balance with random swings of her weapon, but he was able to stay out of the way of them all.

And Ren was exchanging blows with Cinder, unfortunately taking more than giving them out, her twin blades more effective than the small blades at the ends of his stormflowers, and her use of fire dust made it difficult for him to react to attacks. Ren struggled to block the blades when he was also trying to avoid blasts of flame.

Team RWBY had joined in the fight quickly, but even with their added help, they were unable to aid Team Juniper, the four criminals were simply much better than the eight students when it came to combat. They were much more experienced, due to them likely having been in combat often when it came to their line of work.

Ruby jumped in with Ren, using her scythe to drive Cinder back so that she couldn't attack the boy so frequently, but this simply resulted in her using fire dust more often, making it difficult for the two to fight back at all.

Weiss darted in to assist Pyrrha, and the both of them began to make progress against Emerald, until one of Emerald's blade cut along Pyrrha's back. Her blades were not made of regular metals, and so as a result, Pyrrha was unable to use her semblance to deflect any of her blows. After the strike, Pyrrha found it difficult to block any more attacks, as the cut was across her left shoulder, which made it painful for her to move her left arm. By herself, Weiss found it difficult to continue attacking the girl, as she began to attack with a faster ferocity, slashing Weiss across her arms and legs frequently.

Jaune was still just as useless as before, Blake having to do most of the work against Roman. The criminal seemed to find it hilarious to be fighting her once more, and laughed often as he blocked blows from Gambol Shroud. No matter how many times Blake darted around him, he seemed to be able to predict where she would be, and could either crack her until one of Emerald's blade cut along Pyrrha's back. Her blades were not made of regular metals, and so as a result, Pyrrha was unable to use her semblance to deflect any of her blows. After the strike, Pyrrha found it difficult to block any more attacks, as the cut was across her left shoulder, which made it painful for her to move her left arm. By herself, Weiss found it difficult to continue attacking the girl, as she began to attack with a faster ferocity, slashing Weiss across her arms and legs frequently.

Yang tried to help Nora in her combat with Mercury, but the grey-haired boy was able to deflect both of their attacks still, his speed much faster than either of them, and he was able to increase it even faster with the propulsion of his boots. Although he didn't land many kicks on Yang, he was able to knock her back and deal more damage to Nora, who was struggling to stay up.

After that, it wasn't much longer before they all began to fall over one at a time. Nora was first, and quickly followed by Pyrrha, the two simply unable to continue due to the pain of the battles. Jaune was dealt with after a blow the head with the end of Roman's cane, Blake following shortly as he let loose a blast at her feet, leaving her curled in a ball to try and escape the pain.

Ren went down when Cinder leapt backwards and started to shoot arrows at him and Ruby. After catching three with his shoulders and chest, he fell on his back, arrows sticking upright, blood pouring from the wounds.

Once Pyrrha had fallen, Weiss struggled to keep her blade in front of both of Emerald's blades, which resulted in her getting hit more often than usual. Once her arms and legs were littered with cuts, she fell to her knees, unable to stand anymore. Emerald kicked her aside, and Weiss fell backwards, curled up.

Yang started losing her fight once Mercury put all the effort into taking her out. Kicks would hit her knees, weakening her before he let another one loose at her stomach. Once she was bent over, he performed a backflip, catching her in the jaw, and sending her flying. It wasn't long before Ruby fell next to her sister, the right side of her dress burnt from a devastating fire attack that Cinder had set upon her.

Ruby struggled to stand again, wanting to fight back.

And then the hand touched her shoulder.

'Where is Rowan?' a voice asked her.

Ruby struggled to remember. Once they had arrived, she hadn't actually seen Rowan at all. He hadn't been there when they started to fight.

'In the tower,' gasped Ren.

Ruby felt a bag get pressed into her hand.

'Listen to me. In this bag is plenty enough crystals of healing dust. You need to heal everybody up, and go after Rowan.'

'What about them?' Ruby asked, her vision clearing as she pointed towards Cinder and the rest of her allies. Looking back, she saw Lupis staring at her, his blue and yellow eyes filled with concern.

'Don't worry, we can take care of them.'

She watched him stand up and walk towards the criminals, the rest of his team in tow. They began to spread out, each of them heading to a criminal each.

Ruby stood slowly, making her way around to each of her friends, snapping a healing crystal over their mouths and wounds until they were all standing.

'We need to get inside, now!' Ruby said to them. Rushing inside, she took one last look back at team Legion. They were all deep in combat, but she knew that she couldn't help them now. All she could do, is try to stop Rowan in regards to whatever he was up to.

The finale is coming up soon! I don't know about you, but I'm kind of excited to get that out. There is going to be much more fighting until then, and it's all going to be insane.

Until then however, I hope you liked this one, it was a bit light with combat, but that will soon change. Take care guys!