Blake

After she had tied one of her various ribbons around Rowan's hands, ensuring that he wouldn't be able to attack them anymore, Blake's attention was adverted to Yang's voice calling for both her and Ruby from inside Ozpin's office below them.

'Sounds like your sister is up,' Blake informed Ruby.

'Oh yeah, we better get down there. I need to see if Weiss is ok,' Ruby quickly replied.

The pair of them had dragged Rowan back inside, throwing him through the window before carefully lowering themselves in so that they wouldn't miss and end up falling down the tower. Once she had landed, Blake looked up and saw that Yang was bending over Weiss, occasionally shaking her shoulders to keep her awake.

The heiress' white dress was now stained with a dark red. Thankfully, the healing crystal had knitted her skin back together, but it had limitations, and none of the three were sure if there was any internal damage that had been caused by Rowan's attack.

Rushing over to her partner, Ruby fell to her knees beside her sister, putting a hand of her own on Weiss' shoulder. Blake moved closer as well, but hung back slightly to keep an eye on Rowan, just in case he tried anything funny.

'Weiss! Are you ok?' Ruby asked her friend as she shook the heiress' shoulders.

Weiss opened her eyes. She didn't need to say anything for the three of them to understand that she was thinking, 'Do I look like I'm ok?'

'Ok, yeah, dumb question,' Ruby admitted. 'Do you think you can walk? I don't really think that we can just sit here.'

'Ruby, I don't think Weiss should move just yet,' Yang said, placing a bloody hand on her sister's shoulder. 'You may have healed her stomach, but who knows what has happened inside her body? Or if moving is going to do even more damage to her?'

'Yang, we may not have time to wait,' Blake butted in. 'I know that the best idea would be to let her rest for a second, but we can't forget that there is still an army of faunus outside!'

'You should be out there with them,' Rowan said to Blake, a grin on his face.

Blake turned to the bear faunus, glaring at him to tell him to shut up.

'Aww, come on! You didn't think that I wouldn't recognise you? I'm surprised that more people haven't Blake,' Rowan laughed.

'Shut up,' Blake said, pointing her katana towards their captive. 'I left my past behind me long ago. I had dealt with it, and I don't need you to remind me of it.'

'Of course, so sorry Ms Belladona,' Rowan replied smugly. 'I was just commenting that I was surprised you would leave us to join these three humans, even if you didn't know who you would be with at the time. Adam would be especially ashamed of you if he saw you with her.'

Rowan jerked his head towards Weiss, who was still laying on the ground. The White Fang had never been fond of the Schnee family, but Blake had made her peace with Weiss almost instantaneously after their team had been formed. Apart from the once incident when they all discovered she was a faunus.

'Don't you talk about Adam,' Blake hissed at Rowan, eyes narrowing. 'You betrayed him to help Roman!'

'And you betrayed him to save the human lives on that train, not to mention the various other human lives you have saved since you left,' Rowan retorted. 'We aren't so different you and I.'

'We are nothing alike,' Blake snapped back at him.

Rowan laughed. 'Of course, my bad. I left because Adam was a useless leader, you left because he could no longer please you, if you know what I'm – '

Rowan didn't get to speak another word as Yang had dashed across the room towards him and slammed her gauntlet into the side of his head, knocking him out cold once more.

Yang stood up and looked around. 'Sorry, but he was getting on my nerves.'

Blake was thankful that Yang had done that. She didn't like talking about Adam to begin with, but the way that Rowan had talked about him had crossed a line. She was less than pleased at the way he had made it seem they were similar, even if it had led to an obscene comment from him.

Turning away from the unconscious faunus, Blake looked back to Ruby, who was still hunched over Weiss' prone form. The blow that she had received from Rowan had definitely been extremely severe, but without moving her from where she was, there was no way to know what sort of damage had been done to her.

A rustling sound behind her startled Blake and she spun around and what she saw amazed her.

Rowan was awake again, and looking directly at her. It just seemed that they couldn't keep him down. What worried her even more was the fact that he was holding a trigger of some sort, his thumb held over the red button at the top. Once he saw her spin around, he slammed his thumb onto the button, releasing a loud click into the room.

Blake didn't need to look at her teammates to realise that both Ruby and Yang had also heard the click of the button, as she could hear their weapons spin into action. Rowan smiled at the three of them.

'Oops,' he said with a grin, dropping the trigger to the floor.

To hear the resulting explosion, one didn't need to have the super hearing of a faunus to hear the explosion. The loud boom sounded like it came from much further down the tower, likely on the ground floor, and the entire room began to shudder.

Both Ruby and Yang stumbled and fell to the floor, but Blake was able to keep herself upright throughout the tremors that shook the entire tower. A few slabs from the ceiling fell to the floor, breaking into multiple smaller pieces upon impact, but none of them were close to any of them.

Blake spun to look at the rest of her teammates.

'We don't really have much of a choice about letting Weiss rest now,' she ordered. 'Yang, you get Rowan at bring him down, I'll keep Weiss steady.'

Marching over to the heiress, Blake picked her up from the floor as gently as she could. 'Weiss? I'm going to need you to make us a few glyphs to slow our fall, ok?'

'Wait, fall?' Yang said, Rowan slung over her shoulder. 'What do you mean fall?'

Blake looked to Ruby, who immediately understood what she was meaning. Nodding, the short girl rushed towards the window before jumping out, Crescent Rose in hand.

'Ruby!' Yang called out to her sister, watching her pass beyond her field of view. Determination in her eyes, she rushed out after her sister, jumping out of the shattered window and falling out of sight.

Blake slowly made her way to the window so to not cause too much pain to Weiss, trying to keep both of them balanced as the building shook and swayed. Once they reached the window, Blake was about to leap, but was distracted when she saw a large black silhouette making its way towards the tower.

Looking sideways, Blake was hoping that it was a bulkhead with Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch returning to save the day, but instead, she saw something extremely terrifying.

A dragon-like grimm was making its way towards the school, giant wings flapping loudly and its bright red eyes glowed in the darkness, like a torch in a dark room.

Classical white bone armour littered its body, complete with the usual bone mask that marked the grimm. Pointed white bones littered its back, and up the back of its neck to the base of its skull. The rims of its wings were similarly armoured, comprised entirely of the white grimm bone. Pointed shards stuck out from the knees on its four legs and similar spikes ran along the back of its tail, ending in a cluster of spikes, almost resembling Rowan's flail. The look was made complete with razor sharp teeth and claws, making the grimm look like something from a nightmare.

The thing about the grimm that made it even more terrifying, was that it was colossus in size. The Nevermore that they had fought during their initiation was tiny in comparison to this beast. The dragon-like grimm was almost ten times the size of that Nevermore.

Shaking her head to bring herself out of the shock of seeing it, she looked down and leapt out of the window, beginning her plummet to the ground. Aligning her and Weiss' bodies so that they fell quicker, Blake shot past Yang and quickly made her way towards Ruby.

Once she approached her leader, Blake pulled slightly ahead of Ruby to get her attention. Pointing her free hand towards the large grimm, Ruby spun to look at where she was pointing and saw the large beast.

'Ruby, you're the fastest of us all, you need to get down to the ground and warn everybody about that thing!' Blake called out to her leader.

Thankfully, Ruby heard her over the overwhelming sound of the wind as they fell and nodded. Aiming Crescent Rose upwards, Ruby began to shoot her weapon, flying towards the ground at speeds that would make even Doctor Oobleck jealous.

Once Ruby had passed Blake, the grimm landed on the spire of the tower and let out a loud roar, firing flames into the sky. Blake looked back quickly before quickly turning away. As Blake and Weiss fell to the ground, Blake began to talk to Weiss.

'We're getting really close now. I can't stop our fall, so you're going to have to make some glyphs to slow us down, alright?'

Weiss didn't respond.

'Weiss, did you hear me?' Blake asked again.

When she still had no response, Blake looked to the heiress, and was startled when she realised that the girl had fallen unconscious. Her eyes were closed and her long white hair whipping around furiously in the air.

'Weiss!' Blake shouted into the heiress' face. 'Weiss, you need to wake up!'

Weiss' face remained emotionless, and Blake realised that she needed a bigger push to be woken up. Immediately feeling bad about what she was about to do, Blake looked at Weiss and quickly said, 'Sorry Weiss.'

Pulling her arm back, Blake slapped Weiss' face, leaving a red mark on her cheek. The girl groaned lightly, eyes fluttering for a few seconds. Blake slapped Weiss again, and the heiress opened her eyes slowly, looking around her to figure out what was happening.

'Weiss!' Blake called out. 'Listen, you need to conjure some glyphs now, or else we are going to be marks on the courtyard in a few seconds!'

'What?' Weiss asked groggily.

'Glyphs! Now!' Blake shouted, pointing towards the ground that was rising to meet them.

Weiss seemed to respond slightly better to the sight of the ground approaching them. Extending a hand, Weiss summoned a staircase of glyphs in the air. Blake landed softly on the glyph, making sure that Weiss didn't take any force from the landing, before taking a small jump to make her way down the various glyphs.

Once the pair hit the ground, Blake ran with Weiss to a safer spot before gently laying the heiress onto the ground. Weiss' faced scrunched up as Blake rolled her back along the ground, and she let Weiss go even slower to try and lessen the pain that the heiress was feeling.

Once Weiss had her back flat to the ground, Blake stood back up and looked away, preparing to get back to the fight. Just before she took off however, Weiss talked to her.

'Blake, don't go,' she said, gasping between words, biting her lip to distract herself from the pain. 'Don't leave me alone.'

Blake hesitated, but accepted the heiress' request, sitting beside Weiss with her legs out straight in front of her, arms behinds her back to keep herself upright.

'I'm sorry Blake,' Weiss gasped.

'For what?' Blake asked Weiss, confused at her comment.

'Before I met you, I was always just like my father, with a burning passion to treat the faunus as if they were lower than humans,' Weiss confessed.

'Weiss, I know, you don't have to apologise to me about this,' Blake replied, looking away from the heiress. 'I know that the White Fang made your childhood difficult, and that's why you didn't particularly like the faunus.'

'Yes, but all it took to realise that the faunus actually aren't that bad, was when I found out about you.'

Blake said nothing, and instead kept silent so she could listen to what Weiss was saying. It was slightly difficult as the grimm had landed in the middle of the courtyard, and was eyeing up Lupis, but not yet making any moves to attack him.

'Before you, let it slip, that you were a faunus, I treated you as an equal,' Weiss started. 'But after you told us, my thoughts towards you immediately changed, all because of you being a faunus.'

'It took be those twelve hours when I was looking for you to realise that it isn't your differences in appearance that can make you evil, it's who you are that does. That's why when we found you, my attitude was so much more different towards you, because I realised that everything I had ever believed in was wrong.'

'Weiss, it's ok, really. I can understand why your feelings were that way, so you don't need to apologise,' Blake said absentmindedly, keeping her eyes trained on the face-off that was happening not that far away from them.

'I do, and that's why that after we get out of this, I'm going to do everything I can to get faunus the rights that they deserve.'

Blake was stunned by her comment, and whirled around, looking down at the heiress' paler than usual face. 'Really?'

Weiss gave a small nod, grimacing as she did, eyes barely open. 'I feel bad for what both me and my family have done against the faunus, and now, I want to do all that I can to turn it around.'

Blake wasn't normally an emotional person, but even this hit her home. Leaning down, she gave Weiss a gentle hug to show her appreciation.

'You have no idea how much that would mean Weiss,' Blake said.

Weiss didn't respond, and Blake realised after a few seconds that she could no longer hear the girl breathing. Jolting backwards, she saw that Weiss was completely immobile, and when she pressed her ear to the girl's chest, she became even more frightened when she realised that her heartbeat was barely audible, beating incredibly slowly.

'Weiss!' Blake yelled, placing her hands over the heiress' chest and pressing down multiple times. Every couple of pushes, she would lean slightly closer to Weiss' mouth to try and hear the sounds of her breathing. But no matter how much she tried, Weiss didn't breathe, and her heart completely stopped.

Eric

When the explosion had shot out of the tower and Ren along with it, Eric was dead sure that his teammates were, well, dead. He didn't want to make it seem as if he had no faith in the boy's teammates, but he also didn't want to give him any false hope.

It had looked bad from the outside, but on the inside, things were much worse.

Burnt and charred corpses littered the entrance hall, some of them covered with debris from the ceiling above them, and flames were burning throughout the entire room and up the walls. Smoke was filling the air, and neither he or Nathan could see through it.

Activating two fire glyphs in his palms, Eric pushed the fiery blaze away so that it was out of their paths, but sadly, he couldn't do anything about the smoke that was blocking their view. Thankfully, he was able to sense three auras a few hallways away, which meant that none of Ren's teammates were dead. But as they got closer, their chance of reaching them became less likely. Rubble and debris filled the corridors completely, and was rolling out into the entrance hall as well.

Putting as much of his aura into his hands as possible, Eric began to carve his way through the rubble with his flames, putting as much aura into them so that they were at heats that made the fire around them seem cold.

The debris melted into a thick, molten sludge that Eric would flick out of the way before the two would delve any deeper into the hallways. To conserve his aura, he only cut through parts of the rubble, judging whether cuts would make everything collapse on top of them.

The two of them gradually got closer towards the aura signatures, and once they were close enough, Eric stopped the use of his glyphs, just in case he accidentally hit one of the students. He was sure that there wouldn't be much he could do to make it up to them if he accidentally cut off one of their limbs.

Instead, the two opted for a more subtle approach. Nathan would grab hold of pieces of rubble and pull it away, placing it behind them and Eric shifted his glyphs to an orange glow, breaking the debris into several pieces with a strong hit. After a few hits, Eric broke apart a piece of rubble and beneath it was a white shield with a crescent moon symbol imprinted on it in golden paint.

'Nathan! I've found them!' Eric called out, brushing the rubble aside and pulling the boy out from under the debris. Nathan reached over and pulled the unconscious student from the debris as Eric continued to destroy any rubble that was still in the way. Once they had gotten Jaune out of the way, they saw that the other two members of his team had been beneath him, both of which were still conscious.

A girl with orange hair clambered out without aid, but the other girl didn't move, and instead stayed where she was. Eric looked over to her, about to order her to move, until he realised that she couldn't.

A large block of concrete from the upper floors had fallen on top of her right arm, and there was a small pool of blood formed around her trapped limb. Hitting the concrete with his glyphs, Eric was dismayed when he realised that he was barely cracking the stone.

Stepping back, he raised his hand at the block, preparing to fire an inferno of flames at the rubble, but his arm was quickly pulled back by Nathan.

'Are you crazy?' he yelled. 'If you melt that, it'll fall on her and burn her alive!'

Eric shook his head, amazed that he hadn't thought of that. Luckily Nathan was there, otherwise he would have just killed the poor girl. Crouching closer to the rubble, he looked around the edges to see if there was anywhere that they could lift the block off of her arm, but any edges that they could use were either flush with the floor or the gap was too small for them to fit their hands into.

Pyrrha brought her free hand to Eric's shoulder, forcing him to look at her.

'Just go. Take them, and get out of here!' she said, forcing the pain out of her voice. 'You can always come back and get me afterwards.'

As if on cue, the tower began to shudder again, and a loud cracking sounds erupted from around them. More rubble fell from the upper levels, crashing to the floor in the entrance hall. Although they couldn't tell for sure, both he and Nathan were sure that the tower wouldn't be standing for much longer.

'No,' Eric said. 'We are going to get you out of here. Just let us think of something!'

Behind them, Nora was shaking Jaune awake, and the blond haired boy was slowly coming to his senses. As he opened his eyes, he saw Pyrrha stuck under the block of concrete, and rushed over to her, almost falling over as he tried to shake himself awake.

'Pyrrha!' he called out, falling to his knees at her side. Looking around, he saw the puddle of blood that she was laying in, and connecting the pieces when he saw her trapped arm. 'Oh god no!'

'Jaune! You have to listen to me!' Pyrrha gasped, moving her hand to his shoulder. 'Get Nora out of here! There isn't anything you can do to help me!'

'No!' Jaune replied. 'I can't just leave you here Pyrrha! There has to be a way to get you out!'

Eric looked at the boy slowly, waiting a moment to decide if he should say something. Deciding that he should, he said to the boy, 'There is a way that we can get her out. But you probably won't like it.'

Jaune snapped his head to the side, looking straight at Eric. Putting both his hands on Eric's shoulders, he shook Eric back and forth. 'How? How can you get her out?'

Eric breathed in deeply before replying. Looking up at Jaune, he let out his breath before commenting. 'We can get her out, but we need to cut off her arm.'

Jaune didn't respond for a second, and neither Nora or Nathan said anything. Jaune let go of Eric's shoulders, falling backwards so that he was sitting on the floor. Shocked from the information, he moved his mouth to try and make words, but no sounds came out. He looked to Pyrrha, who returned his gaze, and nodded at her leader.

'Jaune, it's the best choice,' she reasoned. 'If they don't do it, I lose my life. Losing an arm is much more preferable to losing everything, is it not?'

Realising that she was correct, Jaune lowered his head, and nodded gently.

'Do it,' he whispered gently.

Eric didn't need to know the pair to know that Jaune must have had extremely strong feelings for the girl, and that allowing this to happen must be breaking his heart. Eric looked to Nathan, slowly jerking his head in Pyrrha's direction, and Nathan nodded in understanding. When he looked back, he saw that Jaune was holding Pyrrha's free hand with both of his. Thinking about telling him that she may break his hands when the pain hit, he left them be. The both of them would be more comfortable this way.

Eric tore a piece of cloth from his suit, and let Pyrrha clamp her teeth around it. Nathan stepped past the three of them, spinning his sword so that the blades merged together, creating a large and thick single blade, and raised the weapon over his head. Nathan hesitated, and looked down at the three of them. Eric nodded at his partner, as did Pyrrha.

Getting it over with, Nathan quickly dropped the blade on Pyrrha's arm, between her shoulder and her elbow. The blade cut cleanly through both tissue and bone, and Pyrrha spasmed on the ground, screaming through the gag that Eric had given her.

However, Jaune almost screamed louder than her as her grip on his hands tightened, and light cracking sounds could be heard as she almost broke his hands. As if the damage to his hands wasn't enough, Jaune looked as if he was about to throw up or pass out when he saw Pyrrha's severed arm as his face turned to a pale white.

Pyrrha was also turning the same colour, and once Nathan had stepped out of the way, Eric leant over and started to cauterise the wound with his fire glyphs. Pyrrha started to scream through the gag again, but it was necessary to stop the blood flow and the risk of it getting an infection.

After a few seconds of burning the wound, Eric stopped the flow of aura to his hands, and fell back so that he was sitting. Pyrrha moved her stump of an arm to look at the damage, and was met with her usually pale arm now red and black, burnt at the tip where the rest of her arm had been severed.

'Pyrrha?' Jaune asked, trying to draw her attention to him and not her severed limb. 'Pyrrha, look at me.'

Pyrrha snapped her gaze to him, and all of them could see that tears were filling her acid green eyes. Jaune gently took the piece of cloth out of her mouth, and Pyrrha started to sob. From the looks of his face, Eric could tell that Jaune had never seen Pyrrha cry before, and he had no idea what to do.

Tapping the warriors shoulder, he imitated the action of a hug, by wrapping his arms around an imaginary person when Jaune looked at him. Nodding, Jaune leaned forwards, and copied Eric's motion, wrapping his arms around Pyrrha and placing a hand on the back of her head.

Pyrrha continued to sob into his ear, so Jaune stroked her hair and whispered to her, 'It's ok Pyrrha, its done. Now let's get out of here.'

Pyrrha nodded softly, and Jaune helped her get to her feet. Nora, who had been extremely quiet throughout the entire ordeal rushed forwards to help Jaune carry Pyrrha, but he simply picked her up from the ground bridal style, nodding to Eric that they were ready to go.

Eric turned around and led them all out of the tower as it continued to crumble around them.

Lupis

He gripped both of his swords tightly as the Draak roared at him, wondering why it didn't spew flames across him and the rest of the students that were beside and behind him. Closing its mouth, the grimm stared at him, large red eyes meeting a set of yellow and blue ones.

What happened next, Lupis would never have expected in all his years.

A loud, booming voice filled his head, and he cried out in shock, almost dropping his blades.

So, you called me with the sphere. I knew that it had been taken, but I didn't know that it would be used so that you could call me here to try and defeat me! the voice roared in his mind.

Looking around, Lupis saw that the other students around him had the same look of shock on their faces, meaning that they could hear the voice too. Lupis had never heard or seen a grimm that could talk before, even if it was mental communication. Looking back at the Draak, it had its face extremely close to his, as if waiting for his answer.

'We didn't call you here,' Lupis said to the grimm. 'I don't even know what the sphere is!'

Oh really? the Draak questioned, raising one of its front legs and opening its claws, showing Lupis an orb with a black glow to it that was the size of his head.

'I have never seen that before,' Lupis said truthfully.

So why is it here in your academy with your own technology around it to summon me here? The Draak roared in his mind. Raising its head, the Draak looked down at him and bared its teeth, hissing loudly.

Ruby stepped forwards in an attempt to talk to the grimm. 'We didn't call you though, Roman Torchwick and the – '

Silence girl! the Draak hissed, darting its head towards Ruby, staring into her eyes. Speak when you are spoken to, not when you want to!

Ruby moved back slightly to get away from the Grimm into her sister. Yang had her fists clenched in anger, but was not yet willing to make a move against the beast. The Draak turned its head back to Lupis before speaking again.

This sphere is only ever used for us grimm to communicate with each other across long distances. They are sacred to us, and I should kill you all where you stand for taking it!

But, I will give you a chance to give me a reason as to why I should let you live. I know that you are all students of an academy that hunts my kind, which is why I am cautious as to whether I should attack you.

Lupis tried to think of a good reason as to why the Draak should let them leave, but he actually couldn't. Anything he thought of only benefitted him and the rest of the students and not the Draak. The grimm took his silence as the fact that there was no reason.

So, you have no reason. I thought not, the grimm said, rearing its head back and opening its mouth, an orange glow at the back of its throat. Goodbye, humans.

Lupis spun around and wrapped his whips around two lights that were still standing. Pulling forwards, he did his best to push everyone out of the way as the Draak let loose a torrent of flames, but the students were all being pushed back by Lupis and his whips, causing the fire to miss them all.

Once they were far enough back, Lupis unravelled his whips from the lights and spun around to face the Draak. The grimm was charging towards the group of students, but stopped when a barrage of pink explosions hit the side of its head.

Spinning around and hissing, the Draak hissed at the new threat. Lupis could see Eric and Nathan standing at the entrance of the tower, astounded as to what they were seeing before them. Jaune and Pyrrha were beside them with the same expression, but their third teammate had a grenade launcher out, and was firing grenades at the beast as rapidly as she could.

The Draak shot flames towards the small group, but missed as Eric lifted them all into the air with a well-timed use of a gravity glyph. The purple glyph beneath them shot them into the air, and once they were at a reasonable height, Eric placed a glyph below that so that they were stationary in the air.

Beside Lupis, Ruby and Yang started to fire bullets at the Draak, but the rounds did nothing to the beasts tough hide, either bouncing off or exploding against its black scales.

'Scatter!' Lupis shouted as the Draak turned to face them all, fire spewing from its mouth. The group of students dashed out of the way, and more were making their way over from the landing pads at the cliff where they had pushed the White Fang away.

Lupis ran along the cracked path, trying to keep the Draak's attention off of him so that he could get around behind it to his team. Unfortunately, the Draak saw him and swept its tail towards him. Lupis dropped to the ground and slid under the tail, barely dodging the various spikes that lined the tail.

As he stood, he slashed his swords at the tail, but they both just bounced off of the scales, just like Ruby and Yang's bullets. The tail stopped in its swing, and shot back towards him. Leaping into the air, Lupis placed his feet on the tail, but quickly fell down and wrapped his arms around the tail as it lifted into the air.

Explosions rocked across the beast's body, but none of them did any damage to its tough hide. As the tail swung by, Lupis could see Garris and Yang working together, but still doing nothing against its scales.

The duo were throwing punches at the Draak's legs, putting more power into the hits with the use of their bullets or dust. Garris had the claws on both his gauntlets extended, but they bounced off just like Lupis' blades.

The Draak roared and flapped it wings to rise into the air. Looking down, it breathed fire across the students, some of which were unluckily caught in the inferno, but others were able to dodge the flames. The Draak sprayed the flames side to side at the students, attempting to burn them all.

The tail suddenly flicked violently, and Lupis was flung off. A glyph formed in the air near where he would land, and Lupis bent his legs on impact, taking a second to aim his jump. Springing forwards, Lupis shot towards the Draak's wing, and sliced through the fragile membrane of its wing.

Roaring loudly, the grimm spun around to try and fry Lupis, but he had already landed on its back and was making his way across to its other wing. Leaping from its shoulder, he fell onto the soft membrane of the Draak's wing, and cut deep gouges into the tissue. Unable to stay in the air, the Draak fell to the ground with a thud, and Lupis jumped down quickly, running away from the Draak before it could seek revenge for his attack.

Although it couldn't breathe flames as far as where Lupis was, its tail was long enough, and swung it towards him. Leaping over it, Lupis barely cleared the spikes on the tail, but heard a loud crashing sound at the same time. Looking over as he fell to the ground, he saw that the tail had crashed through the entrance to the tower, cutting a large gouge out of the base of the tower.

As if the explosion hadn't caused enough damage, now with the missing section of the tower, it began to fall forwards towards the all of the students. Rubble started to fall from the tower, crashing into the concrete or bouncing off of the Draak. Students started to look up and when they saw the tower falling to the ground, they began to scream and panic.

'Eric!' Lupis called out, getting the attention of his teammate.

Thankfully, he heard Lupis and looked over to his leader.

'We need to get them out of the way!' Lupis called out.

Eric nodded and closed his eyes to concentrate. The glyphs on his hands became a deep purple, and he wrapped any students that were in danger in a purple glow, pulling them out of the way of the collapsing tower.

The Draak looked up and fired flames at the parts of the tower that was going to fall on it, the heat of the flames melting the tower instantly so that it wouldn't be crushed. As the tower got closer to the ground, the courtyard began to fill up with rubble, making an uneven terrain for the students to walk on, the debris of the tower creating small ditches and hills out of the building.

As the tower collapses, dust rose from the ground and blinded the students until all they could see was the large dust cloud that was created, and the orange glow of the Draak's flames.

Ruby

Once the dust cloud hit, Ruby had to shield her eyes and when she lowered her hand, she couldn't see a thing. The roars of the Draak alerted her to where it was, and she fired her scythe in the direction of the sounds, even though the bullets were simply bouncing off of it.

Ruby made her way across the uneven battlefield, and tried to find Yang in the dust. Instead, she heard someone calling her name, and when she spun around, she saw Blake kneeling beside Weiss under the cover of a nearby building. Ruby ran over, and as she got closer, she could see that Blake had tears in her eyes.

Sliding to a stop, Ruby realise what was happing and knelt beside Weiss as well. She put a hand over Weiss' heart and became scared when she realised that it wasn't beating.

'Weiss?' Ruby asked, pushing gently on the heiress' chest, but received no response. 'Weiss?'

'Ruby, I'm so sorry,' Blake said, tears streaming down her face. 'I couldn't do anything.'

'Why didn't the crystal work?' Ruby asked, beginning to cry. 'I thought it would save her!'

'The crystal could only heal the surface damage,' Blake explained. 'Whatever happened to her was internal, and the crystal couldn't heal that.'

Ruby stopped for a second, thinking. 'What if we got someone who has expertise with healing?'

'What?'

'Think about it. Eric can use healing glyphs to heal himself in battle. Maybe he can fix Weiss?' Ruby wondered hopefully.

Blake thought about it for a moment before replying, 'It's worth a shot. You go find him, I'll stay here with Weiss.

Ruby nodded before standing and rushing away, looking for Eric. As she ran through the dust, lights would flash around her in various colours. She did her best to stay out of the way of the Draak, as from the few students that would be sent flying backwards everytime they went close to it, it was extremely powerful, and would easily crush her if it wanted to.

After several minutes of searching, Ruby saw Eric beside all of team Juniper, keeping them safe with random blasts of elements with his glyphs. Ruby started to take a step forwards, but something wrapped around her waist and pulled her backwards. She was about to turn her head to see what was happening, but when the Draak's tail slammed into the ground in the exact spot that she was just standing in, Ruby realised that someone had just saved her.

Landing on her feet, Ruby's momentum kept her going and she tumbled around backwards, landing on her face. Someone pulled her to her feet, and when she looked up, she saw Lupis standing beside her, blood pouring down his face and across his suit.

'You need to be more careful!' he shouted at her, flicking another whip towards another student and saving them from a burst of flames that would have incinerated them. Once they were clear, he bent over with his hands on his knees, gasping for breath.

'Sorry,' Ruby said, looking back to where Eric was standing. She started to run back over as soon as she spoke, but Lupis grabbed her arm to hold her back.

'If you're going to Eric, ask him to lend you an entire pouch of ice crystals and tell him that I sent you,' Lupis instructed. 'Once you have them, bring them to me, got it?'

Ruby nodded in response, and Lupis let her go. Dashing towards Eric and team Juniper, Ruby kept an eye out for any sudden attacks that would crush her, but luckily, the Draak paid her no attention this time.

Upon reaching Eric, she started to talk to him, but realised that Pyrrha was laid against a rock, cradling her stump of an arm. Jaune had Milo in his hands in its rifle form and was shooting at the Draak with Ren and Nora.

Forgetting about Eric for a second, Ruby leapt over to Pyrrha to see if she was alright.

'I'm fine Ruby,' Pyrrha responded as if knowing what she was about to ask. 'It's not going to kill me, it just really hurts.'

'I'm so sorry Pyrrha,' Ruby said, trying to comfort her friend.

'Yes, well. Unfortunately, it had to be done,' Pyrrha replied. 'You should get back to the battle, I can't really help you.'

Ruby nodded and made her way over to Eric, pulling on his arm to get his attention. He looked at her quickly before turning back to the Draak and firing at him again.

'What is it?' he asked, laying waste upon the Draak with two sets of electrical glyphs.

'Lupis asked you to give him and entire pouch of ice crystals,' Ruby said quickly, relaying Lupis' instructions to the green-haired boy.

Eric put a hand to his belt and pulled off a pouch, handing it to her without looking.

'Thanks,' Ruby said. 'There's something else I need you to do.'

'What is it?' Eric said, without looking at her.

'My friend is dead,' Ruby said, the sentence causing Eric to stop his attack and turn to look at her. 'But I think you can save her.'

'Listen, people that are alive, I can heal. Dead people, not so much,' Eric said to Ruby.

'Can you at least try?' Ruby begged. 'If you heal her, maybe it will help her come back to us.'

Eric took a moment to think.

'Ah, what the hell. Crazier things have happening tonight,' he said, turning to face her. 'Take me to her.'

Ruby nodded and dashed away towards where Weiss and Blake were. The two leapt across the fallen rubble and past other students that were still pointlessly attacking the Draak. Once they reached Weiss' body, Eric slowed down before falling to his knees beside the heiress.

He put a hand over her heart, checked her breathing, and opened her eyes, to see what her body was doing. 'There's a chance I can save her still,' he said.

Ruby was filled with hope, and rushed forwards to give him a quick hug, crushing his back with her bear-like embrace. 'Thank you so much!'

'Yep, let go and I'll live to help her too!' Eric wheezed.

'Right, sorry!' Ruby apologised. 'I need to go! Thank you again!'

Ruby spun on the spot and rushed away, looking around for Lupis. It took her several minutes to find him again, and once she did, she saw that he was now patiently waiting with Garris at his side. He turned to face her as she approached, his hand outstretched.

Ruby placed the pouch in his palm, which he took from her and handed to Garris. 'You know what to do,' he said to his partner.

Garris nodded, looking towards Ruby. 'We're going to need your help though.'

'My help?' Ruby questioned. 'How can I help you?'

'You and I are going to stand on your scythe, and you're going to lift us into the air with your bullets,' Lupis explained to her. 'From there on in, Garris and I can handle the rest.'

Ruby nodded and swung her scythe around so that the barrel was pointing down to the ground. She stepped on the underside of the blade, and Lupis stepped on beside her. He looked over to Garris, and the two nodded to each other.

'Go,' Lupis whispered to Ruby, who fired her scythe and sent them into the air. Ruby continued to fire her scythe as they rose higher and higher into the air. After a few shots, the two were above the dust cloud, and they could see the Draak in the midst of the dust, spinning around and attacking the groups of students that were hidden in the cloud.

'Get its attention!' Lupis shouted at her as he leapt upwards into the air and flicking his whips down to the ground.

Ruby hopped off of her scythe and aimed at the Draak from in the air. Letting loose the rest of the bullets in her clip, the Draak turned to look at her, red eyes glowing in the dust. Raising its head out of the cloud, it opened its mouth, an orange glow forming at the back of its throat.

A white blur shot past Ruby and when she looked up, she saw Lupis lifted Garris into the air with his whips, the both of them wrapped around one of his hands, and in the other was the pouch of crystals. Spinning once, Lupis flicked Garris towards the Draak, and the latter student let go of the whips, plummeting towards the grimms jaw.

Ruby watched in shock as he disappeared in the fiery inferno of the grimms mouth, before the Draak closed his mouth, swallowing what was left of him.

Garris

In reality, Garris had used his phasing semblance to safely fall through the flames, and straight into the Draaks mouth. Only deactivating his semblance once the inferno had stopped, Garris slipped through the Draaks throat, and down into his gut. Digging one of his claws into the side of the grimms throat, Garris came to a stop not too soon, hanging precariously above the burning inferno that was in its stomach.

Opening the pouch of crystals, Garris dropped them into the Draaks stomach, before firing a blast of white dust at the falling crystals, causing them to explode into large columns of ice. Activating his semblance once more, Garris phased through the Draak as the ice began to pierce it from the inside.

Landing on the ground once he landed, Garris looked up at the chaos he had caused as pillars of ice broke through the Draaks hide, piercing it from multiple angles.

NOOOOOOOO! it shouted loudly in everybody's minds, only matched by the sound of cracking ice that filled the air. A large shard pierced through its throat, and the beast stopped moving. Slowly, it began to disintegrate into the air, leaving nothing behind but a large cluster of ice which was quickly melting from the heat of the Draaks stomach.

At first, the students were unsure of whether they had imagined what they had just seen, but quickly realised that the Draak was dead, and began to yell victory cries, holding their weapons in the air once more.

Garris whooped loudly and held a fist in the air, his voice drowned out by the hundreds of shouts from everybody else. Not a moment too soon, everyone's voices were drowned out by the sound of the engine of a bulkhead flying over them all, making its way towards the landing platforms. Students looked into the air, wondering who was on the ship, but Garris knew exactly who was on board.

'It's about time you guys got back!' he yelled at the landing bulkhead, even though they couldn't hear him.

Once Ozpin and Glynda had made their way off of the bulkhead, they were greeted with a tide of bloodied, beaten, and tired students, all of whom were watching them as they walked off. Garris could tell from the looks of the professors faces that they were surprised at the sight, but also glad that there were still students standing.

'Welcome home professors!' Lupis called out from amongst the crowd. 'You missed the best party ever!'

'So it seems,' Ozpin replied, eyes roaming across the students. 'Someone will have to help me understand what has happened here. I would like to know what has happened to my school.'

The invasion is over, but there are still a few more things that need to be wrapped up. After writing this, I definitely prefer writing combat scenes that don't involve grimm as human/faunus combat is much easier to write. But, I wanted to test it out to see what it was like. Hopefully it was enjoyable.

This is one of the final chapters to this story, so there will only be one or two more to go depending on how I write this. However, I've kinda gotten attached to these characters, so I highly doubt that there will not be a second volume for Team LEGN. There are still some stories that need to be told, and I don't particularly feel like rushing through them in one or two chapters.

Have a great rest of your week, I won't though, school really sucks y'know.