Chapter 22:

4 hours until Ruby's predicted death

All was quite at the White Fang Head Quarters. The guards patrolled the 80-meter long fence with precision. Every 10 meters there was a tower, guards walked until they were halfway between their tower and the one next to theirs. Then they turned around and walked back. These patrolling measures, along with the right number of Faunus to staff them, had kept humans from entering the secure compound.

The fence was built around the compound like a square, with the main buildings positioned in the middle. Each length of fence was 20 meters long and 4 meters tall. The total area of the entire compound was 400 square meters. The size was needed. All of the White Fang operations were monitored from this remote, and secure location. The size and manpower available to the White Fang allowed them to have several operations going at once.

At the moment there were 75 different dust stealing operations happening. The 76th operation was being executed inside the compound. Squad 76 had been assigned to watch over the completed dragon skeleton. They were to guard it at all costs, and never let anyone near it or leave with a piece of it. As to the reasons why, Squad 76 was informed of Romans attempt and failure to secure the Grim Sphere, they were to stop the dragon skeleton from being reanimated.

Ruby sat cross-legged a few miles away from the dome that surrounding Beacon Academy. Ruby was attempting to do what she had overheard Roman saying while imprisoned by him, to reanimate a dragon. Dragons were rare now in Remenant, they used to be quite common enough for a mythical creature. However excessive hunting lead to the dragons complete extinction.

Ruby's friends Yang, and Blake sat in front of her. Ruby sat on her girlfriends lap. Weiss further supported Ruby by slipping her arms around Ruby's waist. "Don't worry Ruby once your mind enters the dragon's body, I'll still be here taking care of you. I'll be making sure your human body doesn't get neglected."

After some experimentation Ruby then discovered she couldn't reanimate the dragon. However thanks to something Weiss said the dark haired girl got an idea. Ruby had the idea to posses the dragon. Ruby didn't have a soul to reanimate the dragon's skeleton with, let alone could she make a fully revived dragon out of nothing.

And so Ruby had reached the conclusion was the only way to do this; was that Ruby was going to have to use her own soul. She was going to reanimate the ancient dragon from a skeleton and posses it with her very own soul.

Breathing deeply Weiss began to sing quietly and softly into Ruby's ear. The soothing tone without words relaxed Ruby. Taking a breath to prepare her self, Ruby began the transformation. The transformation of her soul into the Dragon's skeleton, to reanimate it and to posses it and control its deadly powers.

The Grim Sphere pulsed angrily; the artifact hadn't been used like this since an ancient battle. In the battle there was one general of an army, and a necromancer with no army. The necromancer managed to defeat the general, but only by a freak accident. The general had an army almost half a million strong. The necromancer, who had recently forged an artifact that would give him tremendous dark power, summoned the first Grims.

The Grims were the beginning of the end for humanity. The General almost stopped the hoard, however the Necromancer managed to make just enough creatures to overpower the General's army 2 to 1. Paladins killed Grims faster than Grims killed the Paladins. However once the army was down to 6 men on each side, the battle reached a stalemate.

The Grims began to multiply against the Necromancer's will. One Grim was the only one among his spawn who could speak and have coherent thought patterns. The Grim called himself Grimm; he also claimed to be the lord of darkness.

The Grims reproduced by colliding together, forming a single Grim. Then the one combined creature transformed into 4 separate Grims. The exponential growth rate of the Grims did soon swell the ranks of the hoard to unimaginable numbers, and they did sweep the Paladins up in a deathly embrace.

Ruby recalled this story; she just didn't know how she remembered it. The only thing Ruby remembered was that Yang was her sister, and that they had lived for nearly 15 years in the same house. At the moment Ruby was 15, Yang was 17, Ruby's girlfriend Weiss was 17, and Blake was 17 as well.

The Grim Sphere pulsed again, reminding Ruby about her task at hand.

The tension among squad 76 was palpable. The 16 men and 5 women were informed of Ruby's possession of the Grim Sphere. If the leader of RWBY managed to reanimate the Dragon to its original form, then squad 76 would most likely cease to exist.

The assumption was correct; squad 76 wouldn't live for much longer. Ruby Rose, who thanks to her recent exploits, had earned her the title of infamous. The dragon's skeleton suddenly trembled. A few organs inside the rib cage grew. After only a few seconds a massive heart began to start beating.

The thrumming sound startled and disturbed the squad members. Other organs sprouted, muscles and nerve endings grew around the Bones. Massive Muscles, and billions of nerves formed. Completely encompassing the Dragon' skeleton

Soon scales and thick skin began to form over the body, covering every inch. The growing stopped. In the place of the Dragon's skeleton was an actual dragon. The beast had markings in the shape of two giant roses around its eyes. The rest of its scales were black. Anything other than that, such as spikes, horns, and claws, were colored the same blood red as the roses around its eyes.

The dragon swung its tail, taking out half of squad 76 in one sweep. Another flick of its tail eliminated the other half of the Faunus security squad. The dragon's tail was covered in sharp spikes. That was how it was able to kill so many armored Faunus so quickly.

After dispatching squad 76 Ruby the dragon took off for Beacon. Ruby had a keen sense of direction, and used it to fly to the Academy quickly. The dome was immense; it was about the same height as Ruby the dragon. This proved very bad for the dome, but very good for Ruby. Ruby landed, and started taking swiped with her forelegs. Deep gashes started to form in the metal.

Ruby soon grew tired of ripping the dome to shreds. Taking her powerful claws, ruby plunged them into the earth. Lifting the entire dome, Ruby the dragon in a show of infinite strength threw the Dome high into the air. Ruby blasted it with a torrent of dragon fire. The heat was so great, that it vaporized the structure.

Now that Beacon Academy wasn't going to suffocate, team RWBY could rest easy. Ruby may or may not have permanently transformed her self into a dragon, but she had saved a lot of lives that day.

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A/N: This one was a lot shorter than all my other chapters. I hope you didn't mind. Its just that I couldn't find any other way to word this. Leave a like, favorite, follow, or a review if you feel so inclined.