Well, I've decided that this is the last chapter, at least for now. Hopefully nobody was too mad that I didn't post anything for the last three weeks, but things have been getting out of hand at my house with exams coming up as well as archery nationals, getting lots of driving practice done as well as trying to finish off the last few assessments for school.

However, if you did not notice that I am posting this a few weeks late and are not mad about it, ignore everything that I just said. Wipe it clean out of your mind. Did you do it? Great, let's get going!

Ruby

After the destruction of almost the entire campus of Beacon Academy, the students from the four kingdoms were moved into a hotel inside of Vale. Seeing as there were so many injured students, Professor Ozpin had managed to hire out the top 8 floors of the hotel that was closest to Central Vale Hospital.

The rooms were much flashier than the dormitories that were provided at Beacon, equipped with large 70" holographic screens (complete with surround sound), exquisite and expensive luxury chairs and couches for people to sit on (or in most of the students cases, accidentally fall asleep on) and fully stocked fridges that were connected to the kitchen in the basement, which would send up fresh food when requested.

Each room also had two different bedrooms, equipped with double beds. However, as the three remaining members of team RWBY had become so accustomed to sleeping in the same room, none of them protested when Yang lifted one of the beds into the other room, placing the beds beside each other so that they were all closer together.

All three of them missed Weiss, but Ruby missed her the most. Weiss was her partner, but also her friend at the same time. Once multiple bulkheads had arrived to the scene, several of them had become transports for the injured students, moving them to the hospital for treatment. When Ruby had brought the crew of the bulkheads to Weiss, she had found the heiress under the watchful eye of Eric, who had stayed beside her the entire time since he had come over to her during the middle of the battle.

Eric had explained to them that he had done what he could for Weiss, but was still unsure about whether or not she could survive the damage done to her, as her spine was completely shattered, and no matter how hard he had tried, he couldn't heal the two pieces back together.

Instead, Weiss had been lifted off of the ground with the use of a purple crystal (courtesy of Eric), and the crew members had gently pushed her along through the air. Ruby didn't leave her teammates side the entire way to the bulkhead, and only left when Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch had appeared beside her, requesting that she come with them so that they could hear from her what had happened.

The trio had moved into what was left of the hall, where not so long ago, the students had been dancing and having a great time. The room was now demolished, the walls caved inwards, and part of the roof had fallen into the middle of the dance floor. Shattered glass littered the ground, but Goodwitch pushed them aside with a wave of her wand, leaving the shards in a tidy pile in the corner of the room.

Looking around, Ruby realised that she was not the only person in the room. Lupis was standing near the rubble in the centre of the room, chatting away with a blond-haired boy that had a large battle-axe running across his back. Ruby's keen eye for weaponry told her that it would turn into a semi-auto shotgun if the handle was folded backwards.

Sun was sitting in the place of a broken window, tail darting around quickly. The faunus was eating a banana, and when he saw her, he waved at her, smiling. Ruby waved back, but held back a gag as he gave her a great view of mushed banana.

There were several other students that Ruby did not know, some of them looked as if they could be in their fourth year at Beacon. One student was hiding away in a corner, staying out of everyone's way, observing everybody from behind a pitch black mask. Ruby was barely able to see the student, as he was completely hidden in shadow, the only giveaway was the small gleam of moonlight reflecting of off the side of his mask.

Shuddering, Ruby looked away from the strange student, and turned to find Jaune hiding behind the pile of rubble. Ruby quickly saw why, as Cardin was strutting around the room, a look of impatience on his face.

Dashing over to Jaune, she poked his side, causing him to squeal loudly, and kinda girly too. Once he noticed it was her, he calmed down and stood normally, towering over her.

How could somebody this tall be such a little girl? Ruby thought to herself.

'Oh, hey Ruby. Uh, do you know why they called us here?' Jaune asked.

'Nope,' Ruby responded.

'Ok then.'

Professor Ozpin tapped the ground with his cane a few times, which quickly got the attention of all of the students. Everyone turned to face him and he pushed his glasses further up his nose before addressing them.

'I will keep this brief,' he began. 'Tonight the school was attacked whilst Glynda and I were away from the academy, a worrying statement as it meant that the people that attacked were operating inside the academy, telling their allies when we were gone.'

'Based on the three captives that we have taken from a battle tonight, we can agree that a team from Haven was actually not who they said they were, and instead are a part of the criminal underworld, trying to take out our academy so that we cannot interfere with any more of their plans.'

'What plans?' called out Cardin. 'We haven't actually done anything to them yet, why did they have to attack us?'

'Actually Mr Winchester, we have. Near the end of the last semester, Miss Rose and her team stopped the hijacking of several containers of dust, thwarting a plan of the criminal Roman Torchwick. Obviously he did not take that lightly, and decided to attempt to remove us all from the equation.'

'So you're say that she's the reason that this all happened?' Cardin pointed at Ruby, a menacing glare on his face.

'I'm saying that team RWBY has done the most work as huntresses out of all the first year students. Something that you should prepare to emulate, Mr Winchester.'

Cardin glowed bright red at the comment, turning away from the headmaster.

'However, I would like to know why the tallest tower has been completely destroyed as well as – yes Mr Arc?'

Jaune was waving his arm in the air to get the professor's attention. 'Uh, yeah. Sir, one of the, uh, students I guess, from the fake team, had downloaded information about every huntsman or huntress that is currently working or being trained. They also kinda, set a bomb to blow it all up in the hope that we wouldn't find out.'

Ozpin nodded towards the tall boy. 'Thank you Mr Arc that is useful information.'

'Professor,' Lupis called out.

'Yes, Mr Drake?'

'This orb was inside a transmitter that they used to call a grimm here. Especially one that is supposed to be extremely rare to ever see, and has only been seen since the building of the kingdoms?'

Lupis lobbed the sphere across the room, and Ozpin caught it in one hand. He studied it quietly for a moment before pocketing the orb.

'I'm sorry, but I cannot answer your question Mr Drake. I will look into the matter more once we have time, but right now, I am not sure how they managed this.'

'If you do not mind my asking however, what grimm was it that they summoned? Glynda and I were not here at the time. We saw a large shape in the courtyard, but from our height, we could not see what it was.'

'A Draak,' Lupis replied quickly.

Ozpin froze at the information, eyes fixed on Lupis. 'Who did it talk to?'

Everybody in the room looked to Lupis.

'We all heard the Draak speaking in our minds, but it seemed as if it only wanted me to talk to it. It almost ate Miss Rose when she tried to talk to it. Professor, does that mean something?'

Ozpin was staring at Lupis as if he were a lab rat that he wanted to study. Turning to Goodwitch, the two seemed to have a silent conversation, just like Ruby could with her sister. Looking back to the students, Ozpin's gaze hovered over the rest of the students before settling on Lupis once more.

'Thank you for your cooperation here. We have rented the top 8 floors of the Roosterteeth hotel. The attendant in the lobby will give you and your teams a room to stay in. The hotel is close to the Central Vale hospital, where we are transporting any injured students. You may leave on the bulkheads that are still picking up injured students, but crew members will be paying attention to the injured and not all of you. Dismissed.'

The various team leaders, Ruby had figured out, all started to move apart, making their way towards the airport. Once she and Jaune had made their way outside, they found Yang, Blake, Nora and Ren waiting outside for them, anxious to hear what had happened.

After a quick explanation, the six of them had made their way onto a bulkhead, and being flown into vale. The bulkhead landed on the landing pad on top of the hospital, and they had tried to get in to see Pyrrha and Weiss, but had been waved away, being told that the two were still in surgery. Although Pyrrha's severed arm had been cauterised, the rest of her body was still littered with shrapnel from the bomb, and the doctors were working overtime to get the shards out of her body.

'Why can't she just take them out herself?' Jaune blurted out, forgetting that his partner did not like for people to learn of her semblance.

The nurse at the desk looked at him as if he was insane. 'What is she meant to do? Pull them out with her bare hands?'

Jaune almost replied, but Ruby punching his arm, causing him to yelp, but realise that he was about to let her secret out. 'Yeah, I guess that was a dumb thing to say.'

Walking away, the nurse had shook her head at their retreating backs. 'Pfft, kids these days.'

The six split up inside the hotel, making their way to their rooms. Jaune, Ren and Nora were all on the 79th floor, whereas Ruby, Blake and Yang were on the 79st. Upon entering the room, they had all fallen asleep on the beds (after Yang had moved one), sleeping soundly after the stress that their bodies had taken that night.

The next morning, Ruby woke up to find that Blake and Yang were already up, and had left her in the room by herself. Making her way out of the bedroom, Ruby poured herself a glass of milk, and called up a jar of cookies from the kitchen on the bottom floor.

Ruby wolfed down the cookies before inhaling the entire glass of milk as she read the note that was left on the bench. Ruby could tell that Yang had wrote it due to the messy handwriting on the paper.

Ruby, me and Blake went down to see team Juniper in their room. We didn't want to wake you, so we left you alone to sleep.

A few staff members from Beacon brought our spare clothes from our lockers at school, and I left yours beside the sink in the bathroom. Get something to eat and when you're ready come and find us.

Love you, Yang

Ruby quickly washed herself before getting dressed and brushing her teeth before leaving the room and locking the door behind her with the keycard that had been given to them the night before. She jumped into the elevator and pressed the button for the 62nd floor.

Once the doors opened, Ruby made her way down the hallway to room 627. She knocked twice, and was greeted by Jaune when he opened the door.

'Hey Ruby! How did you sleep?' Jaune asked her as he let her pass.

'Just fine,' Ruby replied. 'What about you Jaune?'

Jaune sighed. 'I didn't sleep at all.'

'Too worried about Pyrrha?'

Jaune nodded. 'I feel really bad about letting that happen to her Ruby.'

'Yeah, but your choice saved her life. If you hadn't done that then she would have been crushed under the tower when it collapsed Jaune,' Ruby said, putting a hand on his shoulder to comfort her friend.

'I guess,' Jaune said. 'Come on in, everyone is a bit further inside.'

The two made their way down the hallway of Juniper's apartment until they reached the main room of the apartment. The other four were lying around on the couches and chairs in the apartment, chatting with each other, but without any enthusiasm.

Nora was talking to Yang about the battle the previous night, attempting to look excited, but failing as her story wasn't as farfetched as they normally were. Blake and Ren were in the kitchen that had been provided in case someone preferred to cook their own food. The two of them mostly stayed silent, occasionally trying to bring up a conversation but neither of them were able to hold it. Instead, they settled for quietly cooking pancakes across the multiple stoves and listening to Nora's tale of how she took out thirty white fang soldiers with one swing of Magnhild.

Yang looked up to see the two walking into the room before calling out to her sister, 'Ruby! You're awake!'

Nora paused her story and moaned. 'Maaaan. Now I have to tell the story all over again.' Nora's eyes widened and a large smile covered her face. 'Now you can all hear how amazing I am all over again!'

'I'm sure you can just keep going and Ruby will be able to catch up from there,' Ren said to his partner, breaking his streak of silence as he flipped a bunch of pancakes in the air. Nora poked her tongue out at the boy, but did as he said regardless.

Yang patted at the seat next to her, which Ruby took quickly, literally dashing across the room in a flurry of rose petals. Her sister turned to look at her. 'You alright Ruby?'

'Yes, Yang, I'm fine,' Ruby sighed. 'I'm not the one who has a broken spine or a severed arm out of the eight of us.'

'Yeah, about that,' Yang started. 'Doctor Jones and Doctor Free from the Beacon sick bay have been looking over pretty much all of the injured students, and they called Jaune not that long after we got here that Pyrrha had woken up. We were going to go and see her, but we wanted to wait for you to get here before we left.'

Ruby nodded. 'Ok then. I guess we can get going as soon as we've eaten all of Ren and Blake's pancakes huh?'

'Oh no no no!' Yang said, placing a hand on her sister's shoulder, forcing her deeper into the couch. 'You've had enough cookies this morning! You don't need any pancakes to go with them!'

'Uggh, how did you know?!' Ruby complained, throwing her arms into the air. Yang's eyes glistened mischievously, but said nothing to her sister.

'Pancakes are done, come and get them!' Ren called out.

After the six had eaten multiple helpings of Ren's pancakes (of which he had made sure to make spares, especially with both Nora and Ruby around), the group had made their way to the lobby in the elevator. Ruby did her best to stay as far away from Yang as she could, as there was no doubt that her sister would smell the pancakes on her breath if she got too close. Blake had snuck a few to Ruby, who had quickly devoured them once her sister had turned away for a second.

As they made their way through the streets towards the hospital, Ruby couldn't help but look at everything that she could, as she had never been in this part of the city before. Most of the shops were restaurants of some sort, each selling different kinds of food.

The one that caught Ruby's eye the most, was the one that specialised in pizza. Although she had only ever eaten it a few times with Yang, Ruby loved the food almost as much as cookies and milk.

Almost.

Inside the shop were several groups of regular citizens of Vale, all of them eating several different kinds of pizzas. At the table closest to the window, was a group of four boys, all of which looked as if they had most likely come from Beacon. Normally Ruby wouldn't have kept her gaze on anyone in the shop, but had to rebel against her natural instincts when she saw one of the boys eating his pizza with a knife and fork.

Seriously? Who eats a pizza with a knife and fork?

The group eventually arrived to the hospital, and once they walked inside, Ruby was sure that she had walked into a giant spotlight instead.

Everything inside the entry room was pure white. The floors, walls, ceiling, desks, seats and uniform was white. Remembering that Ruby had stepped in a small patch of wet grass on her way here, Ruby flinched and looked down at the floor at her feet, waiting to see the dark brown footprint that she had surely left on the pristine tiles.

Instead, Ruby was greeted with her own face, which reflected back at her from the tiles at her feet. She lifted her shoe, and saw that the mud that was on the bottom of her boot had vanished completely. Weird.

The group made their way towards the front desk, where the attendant looked up at the group, not even surprised by their appearance. Obviously she had seen several other huntsmen and huntresses in training today, and had gotten over the shock of seeing people come into the building with various styles of weapons in their possession.

'Let me guess,' the attendant said. 'You're here because one of your friends was put in here because of what happened last night?'

'That many of us been through here huh?' Yang asked the woman at the counter. The brawler was rewarded with a brisk nod.

'So, who are you all looking for today?'

'Pyrrha Nikos,' Jaune burst out. 'Where is she?'

'Let me see,' the attendant said as she scrolled through the list of patients on her computer. The group only had to wait for a few seconds before she had found the room she was in. 'Eighth floor, room thirty-two.'

'Thanks,' Jaune said, as he, Ren and Nora turned for the elevators.

'Wait, what about Weiss?' Ruby asked. 'Where is she?'

The attendant didn't even have to look that information up. 'Ah yes, Ms Schnee. She is still in surgery since she arrived last night. An injury such as the one she took is extremely severe, and it is highly rare for someone to recover from something like that.'

Ruby frowned at her comment. Would Professor Ozpin kick Weiss out of Beacon because she could no longer walk or stand? Was it possible that Weiss wouldn't get better at all, and instead she ended up dead due to the damage done to her body?

Beside Ruby, her sister glared at the attendant as if to say, 'What the hell are you thinking? Saying that sort of stuff in front of Ruby? I should bash you right now!'

The attendant saw her face, and quickly added, 'But I'm sure she'll pull through, she seems like a really tough cookie!'

'Cookies?' Ruby asked, brightening and looking around, expecting to see a jar of her favourite food nearby.

'Thanks for your help,' Yang said, putting her hand on Ruby's shoulder and steering her sister towards the elevators. The group pushed their way through multiple civilians and a couple of students from the various schools who were making their way out of the building, or towards the elevators to visit people inside the hospital.

The group of six took a ride with a group of people from the city. Nobody spoke inside the elevator, and the ten people stood in silence, listening to the music playing inside the elevator. Ruby had heard that there were some places in the cities that had elevators with terrible music. At least this hospital isn't one of those buildings, Ruby thought to herself as she sang along with Mirror Mirror inside her head.

The six of them made their way out of the elevator, squeezing through the gaps between the other four people. Once in the hallway, they began to make their way down the corridors, looking for room thirty-two. Pyrrha's room was the room at the south-west corner of the building.

Jaune led the group, and knocked on the door, before slowly opening it and peeking through to check if Pyrrha was awake. After a moment, he turned around and nodded with a smile, opening the door wider so that they could walk inside, and the group made their way into the room.

Just like the rest of the building, the room that Pyrrha was in was completely white. White walls, floors and ceiling tiles made it seem as if they had walked into an igloo and not a hospital room. White chairs were placed around the edges of the room, matching the sheets that Pyrrha was laying under.

The girl stood out amongst the rest of the room, her red hair and bright green eyes matched with her tanned skin was so easy to see amongst the lack of colour in the room. An I.V tube was hooked up to her left arm, as her right was covered in bandages at the stump of her bicep.

'Hello everyone!' Pyrrha said cheerfully. 'It's good to see you all.'

'Good to see you too,' Jaune said, dragging a chair over to sit beside his partner. 'How are you doing? You know, regarding what happened.' Jaune said, motioning to her stump of an arm. Yang slapped the back of his head softly, resulting in a loud 'OW!'

'Yang!' Blake said, pulling her teammates arm back. 'You didn't have to hit him!'

'Aww, come on. I didn't do it that hard!'

'Regardless, don't do it,' Blake instructed.

Yang threw her arms into the air to show she was backing off. The other two members of Team Juniper took the two remaining chairs and pulled them closer to Pyrrha's bed.

'So, Pyrrha,' Ren started. 'Not to be rude, but, what is going to happen with, you know, your arm?'

Pyrrha looked at her bandaged stump sadly before turning back towards the rest of her team. 'The doctors said that the best thing to do is to simply give me a prosthetic limb, but most medical limbs aren't made for combat, and all of them that are made for combat are really expensive. The more skin you replace, the more it costs too.'

Ruby was standing in the corner of the room, when an idea popped into her mind.

'Hey, Pyrrha!' Ruby called out across the room, making her way towards the bed. 'What if I made you one instead?'

'How would you do that?' Jaune asked, speaking for both him and Pyrrha.

'Well, Beacon has lots of spare parts for modifying, upgrading or creating new weapons right?' Ruby said. 'What if we used those parts once we were back at school to create you a prosthetic arm, one that is suited perfectly to you, so that it does things that help you in combat even more than your normal arm could?'

Everyone in the room was silent for a second as they processed what Ruby had just said.

'That is a good idea Ruby!' Pyrrha thanked the girl. 'I appreciate the thought. Maybe we can get to that as soon as I am back at Beacon.'

'Yes!' Ruby yelled, fist pumping the air. 'I'm gonna make your new arm so awesome!'

The group had talked for another hour or so before a nurse came into the room, carrying a tray of food into the room for Pyrrha. Once the nurse had handed Pyrrha her food, she looked around to the rest of them before saying, 'I was told that someone from this group was looking for Weiss Schnee, is that correct?'

Ruby nodded and raised her hand. 'I was! Is she alright?'

The nurse looked towards Ruby, and took in the young girls clothing before noticing the large weapon strapped across the back of her waist. Nodding as if satisfied, the nurse replied to her.

'She has just come out of surgery, he probably won't be awake for a while, as she is still under a lot of anaesthetic, but you can still go in and see her if you want.'

'I need to get going, lots of other patients to take care of. If you want to see her, she is in room twenty-three on the eleventh floor. Take care guys!'

The nurse turned on her heel and made her way out of the door. Ruby looked to team Juniper, who were all looking towards her and the rest of her team.

'Go,' Pyrrha said. 'My team is here for me, you should be there for Weiss.'

'But – ' Ruby started to say.

'Go see Weiss,' Ren said, talking for the third time since they had entered the room. 'No offense to Pyrrha, but she needs her friends more right now.'

'Yeah!' Nora said. 'We can always meet up again later anyway!'

Yang nodded and put a hand on Ruby's shoulder to pull her out of the room and they followed Blake as they left.

'Well come back and see you later on,' Blake said, pausing at the door as Ruby and her sister walked through the door.

'Worry about Weiss first,' Pyrrha said before Blake closed the door, and the three girls made their way towards the elevators to get to the eleventh floor. This time, they didn't have to share with anybody else, and they stood in different corners of the lift. The music had changed to 'Wings', but the group only heard a small section of it before they reached their destination.

The doors slid open, and the girls walked out, looking around to see which way would lead them towards Weiss' room. The three took a right as soon as they left the elevator, and took a left turn after they passed a few rooms. Once they got closer to their destination, they could hear people talking inside Weiss' room.

'Listen to me you two! D.I.S is one of the most difficult surgeries that can be performed, especially using that type of crystal! Gavin, listen to me. I know that you normally do the most random things when it comes to healing people, but this is insanity! Even if the infusion works, how do you know that it won't kill her afterwards?!'

Ruby could identify that the one speaking was Doctor Jones, one of the two doctors from Beacon Academy Hospital, and it sounded as if he was talking to his colleague, Doctor Free. Doctor Jones was much more trustworthy, as Doctor Free often came up with odd, out-of-the-box solutions, that most people wouldn't trust. Those of them who did trust him, often the solutions worked well. Sometimes, it just made the situation worse.

'Just hear me out for a second Michael!' Doctor Free begged. 'I admit that Dust Infusion is very difficult and dangerous, but it's also the best chance that she has for being able to be a huntress.'

'I understand what you are saying, but the dust type that you are suggesting to use is so dangerous that it could screw things up even worse than they already are!' Doctor Jones retorted, frustration pulsing in his voice.

'Why don't we ask her teammates?' a third voice said. 'They are waiting outside the room right now.'

Ruby looked at her sister, who shrugged her shoulders in response before motioning for her to go in. Ruby turned back to the door before turning the handle and pushing the door open. The three were greeted by a small crowd of people gathered around Weiss' unconscious form.

The two doctors were on opposite sides of her bed, and two other students were standing at the foot of the bed. The four had turned to look at them as they entered, and Ruby was able to recognise the other two students as one of the members of Team Legion, Eric. Eric was leaning against the rail at the end of the bed, fists clenched around the metal as if he had been having a heated argument with the doctors.

'Ah, Ms Rose, Ms Belladonna, Ms Xiao Long,' Doctor Free said, greeting Weiss' friends. 'It's good that you turned up, we have something to talk to you three about.'

'Something that's incredibly stupid and idiotic!' Doctor Jones shouted.

'Wait, what are you all talking about?' Ruby asked the group.

Eric turned around to face the three of them. 'I have been talking to the two doctors about an idea that I got whilst I was fighting that woman last night. However, this idea that I have could either save her life, or kill her.'

Lupis

Before the various team leaders that he had talked to the previous night had left, Ozpin had called Lupis aside, asking if he had time to talk. He had voiced his thoughts on how it had unsettled him that the Draak had seemed to be so intent on only talking to Lupis, and the last time something like this had happened in Remnant, bad things would happen around that person.

'Mr Drake,' Ozpin called out to the student. 'Could you come over here for a moment please?'

Lupis had obliged, and made his way through the moving mass off students who were making their way towards the Bulkheads outside. The suit that he had been wearing to the dance was much tidier than most of the other clothes the students were wearing, but was still scorched around the edges, no doubt from the fire in the dormitories.

Despite the lack of slashes across the suit, it was still darkened by blood, but the only patch that was his was the darkened material at the top of his chest where the blood from his nose would trickle down to.

'Professors,' Lupis said once he was close enough. 'What do you need?'

Ozpin pushed his glasses further up his nose as he looked into Lupis' blue and yellow eyes. 'Mr Drake, I believe that although you do not know it, you may be a key part in things that will unfold.'

'Uh, ok? What does that mean?' Lupis asked, looking slightly confused.

Ozpin waited for a beat before replying to the student. 'Do you know what the significance of the appearance of a Draak means, Mr Drake?'

Lupis shook his head. 'No, I thought that it was a grimm that is rarely seen by anyone, in lots of our textbooks, authors say that the Draak is an extinct species of grimm. I guess that it was called here by that transmitter.'

Ozpin reached into his pocket and took out the orb, which was glowing purple and black and raised the orb so that it was at head height.

'Do you know what this is, Mr Drake?' Ozpin questioned.

Lupis shook his head, 'No sir.'

'Hmm,' he replied, handing the orb to Glynda, who seemed reluctant to hold it, but did so anyway. 'That is a Grimm Sphere, Mr Drake. I believe that the Draak spoke to you about it?'

Lupis nodded. 'It said that the sphere is used for grimm to communicate across long distances and that the Draak came because we called it here.'

Ozpin nodded. 'The transmitting device that was fitted around the sphere would have been used to make it possible for us to send messages to other grimm. It is possible that only a grimm can properly use one of these spheres, and that is why the mechanical device was needed to render it useful.'

'However, the sphere can wait for now. I am more interested on why the Draak specifically wanted to talk to you, Mr Drake. A grimm that is presumed to be extinct would not just appear at the doorstep of our academy just because of a signal from one of their spheres. Why not simply send in large amounts of regular grimm to overwhelm us to take us out?'

Lupis shrugged his shoulders. 'I don't know sir.'

'I believe, Mr Drake, that the Draak wanted to see you, as if it knew of you, and wanted to talk to you itself,' Ozpin suggested, folding his arms behind his back.

'But why did it want to talk to me?' Lupis asked.

'That, Mr Drake, is what I want to find out.'

Now, he was lying down on a small table that would retract into a full body scan machine, waiting for the procedure to begin. Looking to his right, he could see Professor Ozpin and a few scientists waiting in the operations room. He knew that they would be looking for anything abnormal about his body, but he was hoping they would only pick up on what Ozpin wanted to know, and not any other things about his body that he wanted kept secret.

The lead scientist's voice came through on the speaker. 'Alright Lupis, we're going to begin the procedure now. Just relax and stay calm.'

Lupis nodded and took a few deep breathes before closing his eyes. The table retracted into the machine, and a door sealed near his feet, locking him inside. Lights began to flash around him, taking photos of him that took in the most different of things, from the colour of his hair, to the size of his muscles, right down to a genetic level and capturing photos of his DNA.

He counted the time he spent inside the machine, and finally was pulled out at around fifteen minutes. Surely it shouldn't have taken that long?

Once the table was fully out, the scientist's voice came through again. 'All right, we have everything we need. You can leave the room and get dressed again now.'

Lupis nodded again and stood up from the table, making his way to the locker in the corner of the room where his clothes were stashed. He spent a lot of time getting dressed, dreading to find out what had been discovered. Eventually, he had nothing left to put on, and had to stop stalling.

Taking a deep breathe, Lupis walked out of the door and made his way into the operations room. Once he opened the door, Professor Ozpin and the small group of scientists turned to look at him.

'Finally!' the lead scientist said. 'If you take that long to get dressed back at your academy, you must have to wake up two hours before class just to get ready!'

'That is not the focus of our studies here gentlemen,' Professor Ozpin stated. 'We are here to notice any anomalies that would show us why the Draak would wish to speak to Mr Drake.'

Lupis nodded. 'So, did you find anything out?'

The head scientist turned back to the various screens that were showing different images of different parts of his body from different angles. The scientists pulled images off of the screens, making them holographic, 3D models that they could manipulate to look closer at the images.

Lupis wasn't used to this kind of technology, and was extremely overwhelmed by the technology that they had. He was used to x-ray photos depicting broken bones, or stick figure drawings from Doctor Free.

He stood beside Professor Ozpin, who was leaning on his cane, eyes darting between the images they were looking at. Lupis tried to do the same, but he didn't know what most of the images he was looking at were of. How sad that he didn't know the name of some of the parts of his own body.

Eyes flicking back and forth, he eventually saw one scientist looking at the one thing he didn't want them to see. The scientist zoomed in on the image of the two small lumps on the top of his head. Lupis opened his mouth to speak, but the head scientist spoke first.

'What's that there?' he called out, pointing towards the image.

Lupis started to speak, but Ozpin cut over him.

'Just two bruises from the attack last night, that isn't what we are looking for.'

Lupis looked to the headmaster, thankful for the save. Ozpin glanced his way and gave him a small wink and nod.

The head scientist looked their way. 'Those are some big bruises,' he commented.

The scientists scrolled through the images, scrutinising every aspect of Lupis' body for the next two hours. Eventually, the scientists admitted defeat, as they were unable to find anything out of the ordinary in his body.

'We can keep looking over what we have here, but from what we can see here, there isn't anything in his system that would cause the grimm to talk to him individually.'

'Well, thank you regardless,' Professor Ozpin said. 'We will get out of your hair now. Thank you for your assistance.'

'Of course,' Professor Ozpin said, placing his hand on Lupis' shoulder. 'Come on Lupis, we should get going.'

'Yes professor,' Lupis said, slightly disappointed that they hadn't found anything. Possibly it was just a coincidence that the Draak wanted to talk to him? He pushed the thought aside, and left the building, heading back to the hotel to find his friends.

Blake

As the three girls sat around Weiss' bed, she thought back on the events that had happened recently. The dance had been the first good thing that had happened for a while, and she had enjoyed the good time whilst it lasted. Sun had made it even more enjoyable with his wisecracks and funny comments. He had even tried to look civil by replacing his white shirt with a black one, and buttoning it up and he had hung a loose tie around his neck.

Although, it was apparent that he still couldn't keep his Vacuoan side away, as he still wore his blue jeans and black and yellow sneakers, complete with his hip chain. He was also still wearing his dark red wrist bracers, which were slightly uncomfortable to hold whilst they were dancing, but he was likely happy for once the invasion and battle had begun.

Blake had felt good about her skill, at least until she had tried to fight Roman again. No matter what she tried, he always seemed to be one step ahead of her, and she had almost paid the price last night.

Although Jaune was trying to aid her, he ended up getting in the way more than he would help out. However, Blake didn't blame him, she blamed herself for being too angry at Roman to realise what was happening around her.

And then Lupis and his team had showed up, telling them to head inside the tower to take care of Rowan. It had taken them a while to catch up to him, and even when they had, it shocked Blake how easily he had defeated the four of them. The only reason that she and Ruby were able to do anything, was because he had spent all his aura to power the transmitter, which had called in the large grimm to attack them all.

As if the last battle wasn't enough, watching Weiss die in front of her was extremely terrifying, and then seeing Eric struggle to bring her back just overwhelmed her with confusion. Once the heiress had opened her eyes, Blake couldn't hold herself back, and wrapped her arms around the girl, disregarding the protests that Weiss was making.

Once she, Yang and Ruby had settled down, Blake had almost drifted off to sleep, but was interrupted by her scroll, as it beeped from receiving a message. It was only a location and a time, but seeing as it told her to head to the docks, Blake was sure that it was Adam trying to contact her, likely to see if she was alright.

Quietly, Blake had changed and snuck out of the hotel room, making her way towards the dock. The last time she had gone there, the people weren't the sort of people she would trust, and that was during the day. So now, at night, Blake ensured that Gambol Shroud was out in the open for all to see. This was likely the reason that nobody had approached her at all as she walked to the place she had waited last time.

Not long after she had sat down, Adam had come walking towards her from the opposite end of the dock, just like before. He wore the same outfit as well, his black mask shining in the moonlight.

'Are you alright Blake?' he asked once he was close enough.

'I'm fine Adam,' she replied quickly. 'Just a bit shocked that the White Fang was used to do that.'

Adam nodded, lips pursed together in anger. 'You should have listened to me Blake. Because you didn't, how many people died tonight because of that?!'

'I know what happened Adam!' Blake shouted back. 'I was there! Fighting against those that I used to work with, to protect not just myself, but my friends and my home! Maybe next time you could sort out your own issues yourself and not lose your own men!'

'Don't try to pin this on me Blake!' Adam replied calmly, but with a hint of anger. 'I warned you that something would happen, and you ignored me. I didn't know what would happen at the time, but now we have an idea of what Torchwick is capable of doing.'

'Yes, but that doesn't mean that we can plan out everything that he is going to do!' Blake yelled.

'I know that,' Adam whispered. 'But maybe what happened was for the best.'

Blake looked at him curiously. 'What do you mean?'

Adam looked her in the face, and no doubt behind his mask his eyes were locked on hers. 'Because you have now seen first-hand what Roman is going to do with the White Fang, you might be more willing to aid me in getting them back.'

Blake froze at his words. 'Adam, I already told you that I am not interested in getting back more soldiers for you to attack the humans with.'

'Blake, listen to me!' Adam shouted. 'Who would you rather have in control of the White Fang, me or Torchwick?!'

Blake was suddenly thankful that most of the people who were around had left once they had seen her walking around, this conversation would most definitely have caused people to ring the Vale Police Department by now, and then the two would be in a fair amount of trouble.

Blake hesitated for a moment before replying to his last question. 'I will help you stop Roman and whoever he is working for, but I will not help you gain resources to attack any humans, is that clear?'

'Crystal,' Adam replied, beginning to turn away. 'I don't understand why you are still so defensive of humans Blake. Sooner or later, people will learn about you, and they will reject you.'

'You're wrong Adam,' Blake retorted. 'I already have a group of people who care about me, and they know what I am. One of them has even told me that they are going to do everything that they can to get the faunus their rights.'

'Hmm,' Adam replied. 'They may say that to you Blake, but when it comes down to the wire, they will always choose humans over faunus, it is simply their nature. I will contact you when I need your assistance, until then, good luck at Beacon.

As Adam began to walk away, Blake called out to him. 'Adam, wait!'

The tall man stopped, and turned to look at her.

'Last time we met, I asked you this question, and I'm dead sure that you lied to me. So I'm going to ask you again. Do you know, Lupis Drake?'

Adam turned to face her. 'Why do you think I lied to you? What makes you think I know him?'

'I think you lied because last time I asked you about him, you hesitated before you replied. That means that you must have known him, and were shocked when I brought up his name.'

'I see that your trust in me definitely isn't the same. I hesitated because I was trying to place the name to a face, and couldn't come up with one,' Adam replied unconvincingly.

'That doesn't convince me Adam,' Blake replied.

'Why do you think I know him however?' Adam asked. 'There must be some reason why you think I would know him?'

'Because when I first met him at Beacon, it felt as if I had met him before already. The only other place I can imagine I would have met someone else before is in the White Fang. Which is why I am asking you if you know him.'

'You assume that he is a faunus, Blake?' Adam asked her. 'If you think you met him in the White Fang, surely he would be a faunus, yes?'

'Well,' Blake said.

'What faunus type is he then?' Adam questioned.

'Um.'

'Why can't you answer the question?' Adam asked. 'Maybe there isn't an answer because he isn't a faunus? Did you think about that?'

Blake couldn't believe she hadn't thought of that. Why did she think he had been a member of the White Fang when he didn't even seem to be a faunus? He had no ears, tail or any distinguishing marks that would make him a faunus. Hell, from what she remembered of him, he didn't even smell like one either.

'Blake, some people often mistake people for someone else, which is likely what happened when you met him,' Adam said. 'You may have thought you knew him, simply because he looked similar to someone you knew.'

Blake resigned to the fact that he must have been correct and nodded her head. 'I guess so.'

Adam nodded in reply. 'I'll see you around Blake.'

Blake watched him turn on his heel and start to walk away from her.

'Goodbye,' Blake whispered, watching him leave.

Blake was ripped back to the present by Ruby screaming, 'Weiss! You're awake!'

The faunus lifted her gaze and saw Weiss' eyes were open. The heiress looked around the room, taking in where she was. She was squinting due to the brightness of the room, but eventually widened her eyes once she was used to the light.

Ruby crushed her friend in a bear-like hug, but seemed to keep herself under control, as Weiss didn't seem to be in any discomfort. Both Yang and Blake stood from their seats and made their way over to beside Weiss' bedside. Blake pulled out her scroll and tapped Dr Jones' icon to let him know that Weiss was awake.

'Ruby, I think you can let Weiss go now,' Yang said, prising her sister of off Weiss.

'It's fine,' Weiss said, a smile on her face. 'I'm happy to see you too Ruby.'

'We were really worried about you,' Blake said. 'I watched you die in front of me you know?'

Weiss looked shocked at the information. 'Really? So how am I here?'

'Because I happen to be extremely proficient at saving lives,' Eric said as he walked through the door with both Doctor Jones and Free at his side. 'How are you feeling?'

'Tired,' Weiss said. 'And my back is sore.'

'Yes, well it should be quite sore,' Dr Jones said. 'Do you know what happened to it?'

Weiss shook her head.

'Your spine was snapped in two,' Doctor Free summarised. 'The three of us and a lot of the staff here did our best to mend it, but because of the time it took to get you here, and the damage done in the first place, you will never be able to put pressure on your spine without it snapping again.'

'We thought of many ways that would be able to help you, but they all came at the cost of causing you extreme pain,' Doctor Jones said. 'Reinforcing your spine with metal was one, but it would cause constant pain to the muscles around the spine, and it could also scratch away at the bone beneath, causing it to become even weaker.'

'And if you put too much pressure on it anyway, there is a chance that the metal would simply rip away from your spine and possibly kill you,' Doctor Free said. 'As you can see, we were stumped for ideas. Broken spines are extremely difficult to fix.'

'Which is where I come in,' Eric said, drawing the heiress' eyes to him. 'Last night, I fought a woman with dust infused into her body, which made her an extremely tough opponent. However, it gave me an idea that we could use to help you out.'

'We simply wanted to wait until you were awake before we did anything, so that we let you choose what would happen,' Doctor Free input.

Eric nodded towards the doctor before turning back to Weiss. 'Basically, we would infuse gravitational dust into your blood stream, just like the kind Professor Goodwitch uses with her wand, so that you wouldn't need to put any pressure on your spine. Once you learn to control it, you would be able to hover off of the ground and basically move around without having to put any pressure on your body.'

'But there are also risks involved in this plan,' Doctor Jones interrupted. 'Most dust infusion dangerous enough as it is, but meddling with gravitational dust has never been done before due to its nature. For all we know, if we did this, it would worsen your situation. It may end up pulling your spine even more out of alignment, or permanently mess up your internal organs, we do not know what would happen.'

'Or, it could save your life and allow you to continue training as a huntress,' Doctor Free finished. 'It's your call, Ms Schnee.'

Everyone looked towards Weiss, who was laying down on the bed calmly, processing all of the information. 'That is a lot to think about as soon as I wake up,' she said.

'It is,' Eric replied. 'But the sooner this is done, the better.'

Weiss looked up. 'What sort of side-effects would there be?'

'No clue,' Doctor Jones said. 'However you would have seen that woman last night who was attacking Beacon. Basically, you would have the same control over gravitational dust as she does over fire.'

'We aren't pressuring you into doing this Weiss,' Ruby said, looking into her partners eyes. 'But this is the only chance you have at being a huntress.'

Weiss pondered this for a moment before looking up at the doctors.

'Do it.'

Cinder

Roman paced back and forth in front of her. He was frustrated that the grimm hadn't completely destroyed Beacon Academy, that it hadn't been wiped completely off the map.

'As if these idiotic animals were bad enough! Now we can't even count on the damn wild beasts to help out either!' Roman shouted loudly. 'Why can't anything go right when it comes to these damn kids!' he yelled, kicking over a box of dust. Luckily the lid didn't fall of and unleash anything from inside the container.

'Calm down Roman,' Cinder purred. 'All will happen in due time. Your plan was too ambitious, and you tried to pull it off too fast. Because of it, you lost us one of our most valuable possessions. It took me and my two students almost more than a year to find and retrieve that sphere. And because of your plan, we lost it.'

'Well if you were going to be upset over losing the sphere, why did you let me use it in my plan to begin with?!' Roman screamed at her.

Cinder flared her eyes at Roman, causing him to take a step back. 'Are you arguing with me Roman?' she asked calmly.

Roman faltered for a second, but after a moment the fury entered his face again. 'Yes, yes I am!'

Cinder took a few steps towards Roman. 'I would kill you now if I didn't have a plan of my own Roman. Luckily for you, I think several steps ahead before I make a move.'

'Oh really?' Roman sneered, 'And what plan do you have?'

Cinder let loose a little smile. 'In time Roman. You do not need to know my plans. You'll know what you need when you need to know.'

Roman growled at her. 'I'm sick of that phrase. It always makes me feel as if I'm just another pawn in your game. Cinder chuckled lightly at his comment before turning away.

'What about your students, huh?' Roman asked. 'Do you have a plan for them too?'

'In good time Roman, they will come back to me,' Cinder said lightly. 'Until then, I have something for you to do.'

She walked over to a screen in the back of the office they were in and turned it on. She watched Roman's face as he looked over the information, looking at the data and plan that she had set up.

'You're putting me in charge of this?' he asked in disbelief.

Cinder nodded. 'If you pull this off Roman, you will gain my trust once more.' Cinder reached forwards and lit her hand on fire. 'However, this is your last chance, and you will not have another chance to get it back again. If it comes to that, things will go extremely badly for you. Do you understand me?'

Roman laughed nervously and nodded, hands raised in the air.

'Good,' Cinder said, extinguishing the flames in her hand. 'You better get moving Roman, we have work to do.'

Well, there you have it, first volume of Team Legion is over. I'm going to be taking a break from this for a while (even though it may seem as if I've taken one for the last few weeks), but I will continue this story at some point.

In a couple of months I will start to release the second volume on the same day that I usually do. However, I would like to know something. For the second volume, shall I create a new 'story' or just continue it in here, so that you do not have to search for the next one? I would really appreciate it if everyone who reads this would let me know, just so that I can do something that would benefit the majority of you all. Whether you let me know via PM or in the reviews, I would still prefer to know.

EDIT: Volume II is a new story, either find it on my profile page or search for it through the RWBY archive :)

Once I know what I will be doing, I will let you all know with an update chapter. Until then however, enjoy these next few weeks. I won't however, I have exams :'(