A/N: Here it is as promised, a day earlier though. Apologize for any errors I made in the writing. Review, favorite, follow, and enjoy. Also read the afterword.
Chapter 30:
The messenger eagle rode the warm air current to Beacon Academy. The White Fang wanted the Academy to get their message as soon as possible. The eagle came upon Beacon, and it searched for the message recipient. Spotting her with another human the eagle soared down to fulfill its duty.
"Um Ruby there's an eagle trying to get your attention." Weiss said.
Ruby Rose looked up at the animal, wondering what it could possible want. Ruby held out her arm for the eagle to land on. Recently the voice had been telling Ruby she had to prepare, Ruby assumed this meant she would be getting a message from an outside source. The voice also said it would be coming in by eagle, so Ruby had worn an arm guard to protect against the eagles talons when it landed on her arm. The eagle soared gracefully alighting itself to sit on Ruby's arm holding out its leg.
Ruby saw a message rolled around the eagle's leg; it was a small rough scroll. Ruby carefully took the message from the eagle's leg. As soon as the message was removed the bird flung itself off the edge of the building Ruby was standing on. Not bothering to use its wings it fell straight to its death, a crunch emanating from the stonework below. Whoever had sent the avian messenger defiantly didn't want another message sent back. Weiss gave a small shriek and yelled, "What the hell, animals are committing suicide now! What gives?"
"I think the person only wants one return message." Ruby said in an ominous voice.
Ignoring the warning tone in Ruby's voice Weiss answered, "Well couldn't they send the message from that eagle? Why did they have to make it kill itself?"
Silently Ruby handed Weiss the message. The material was coarse and felt like parchment from the older days, and not the newer paper. Written across the page was stiff cursive words that would barely classify as cursive, they were so illegible it was hard to read them. There were a lot of words on the front compiled in what must have been an important message. "What's up with this cursive, even I cant read it." Weiss asked.
"Oh turn it over." Ruby said absentmindedly who was currently staring off into the distance without seeing anything her mind currently blank with fear, although Weiss didn't know this.
Turning the piece of parchment over Weiss saw another message, this she could read. And from the style of lettering Weiss could tell immediately who had sent it; Roman Torchwick. 'That son of a bitch, why can't he leave us alone? We kicked his ass last time, why is he still hell bent on taking Beacon?' Weiss thought guessing in her head to the message's content. Weiss was right on all accounts, although after reading the words she wished she hadn't been.
"Did you read it?" Ruby said her voice shaking somewhat, the first sign of emotion she had shown since starting ACW two months ago. Wordlessly Weiss nodded, and Ruby unexpectedly burst into silent tears, the now unheard of emotion shook her tall broad shoulders.
"What are we going to do?" Ruby wailed her voice betraying her true feelings inside. "I'm not cut out to solve situations like this."
"You are cut out for it, I know you can succeed. You just have to believe in yourself, and rely on your teammates." Weiss said comforting her friend despite the emotion shown, this sort of thing from Ruby rarely embarrassed Weiss anymore. Weiss had grown efficient at keeping Ruby from spiraling into the insanity that constantly threatened to tear her mind apart. Weiss placed one hand on Ruby's abdominal and the other on Ruby's lower back. "Do you need a massage? Because I don't care what time it is, you can ask me for one whenever you like." Weiss said.
Ruby simply lay down in the middle of the stone roof they stood on. Weiss straddled Ruby, and slipped her slender hands under Ruby's hoodie and rested them on her warm skin. "Why did Roman Torchwick have to send that message?" Ruby asked already enjoying the partial massage she was getting from her girlfriend.
"I think Roman's a vampire, he needs a regular supply of blood. It's been nearly 2 months since we foiled his plans with the Darkness Plague. Roman's simply back for more." Weiss said.
"That's all he wants more blood." Ruby said her tone creeping toward relaxed instead of anxious. Weiss upon hearing her massaging wasn't working fast enough, bent down and started kissing Ruby who enveloped Weiss in her arms. Blake had said kissing Yang was an experience in it self. Yang was so strong that the cat Faunus felt like she was being held in a gods embrace. Weiss felt something similar, except now she was being held in a goddess's embrace.
Secretly Weiss worshiped Ruby, treating her leader more and more like a holy angle that had came to earth than her girlfriend. Ruby kissed Weiss frantically pulling the heiress closer. Weiss moaned as Ruby's tongue entered her mouth, there was no doubt that Ruby was Weiss's girlfriend now. Weiss pulled Ruby on top of her, and the girl's weight pinned Weiss into the stone of the roof. Ruby cradled the smaller girl in her arms pouring all of her strength into the kiss.
Weiss had to pull away she needed to breath but she didn't want to stop kissing Ruby. Ruby ended up solving this problem by parting their lips only slightly to allow some air in. After Weiss got the required amount of oxygen she crushed their lips together. Ruby wrapped her arms around Weiss.
The message lay abandoned where Ruby had stood before Weiss had taken action to keep Ruby's mind from descending into insanity. The cursive side was nonsense, meant to disguise the real message. The print side held the intended message, which was quite long. The piece of parchment was fairly substantial. The message was indeed signed by Roman Torchwick;
I sincerely hope that you are not dying. Because that would be a shame, razing Beacon to the ground wouldn't be any fun without a little opposition. Ruby and Weiss I hope this message reaches you, if it did you would have seen the eagle I sent commit suicide. I trained it for this specific purpose. I don't want you sending any return message to the White Fang except an acceptance of a declaration of war. If you don't respond by tonight then I will come regardless. I want this war to have formality not savagery. If you don't respond by tonight, you will in short have a savage war on your hands. If you agree by tonight you will have a properly conducted war on you hands. Tell the headmaster Ruby Rose; I'm coming for Beacon. But most off all I'm coming to take back my Grim Sphere.
Signed by Roman Torchwick,
P.S. This is an official declaration of war upon Beacon from the White Fang.
The cause of Ruby distress was evident after reading the Message. Ruby's conscience had been right; it had warned her that she would fight when she was least prepared. Tomorrow was Ruby's birthday, a day that was supposed to be a time of relaxation.
After Ruby was more stable than before Weiss came up to the roof, a plan was devised. Neither the students nor the teachers would face Roman's army of Faunus. Ruby the dragon would go and meet the army head on, at first keeping them from reaching Beacon. If they persisted Ruby wouldn't hesitate to start killing them off.
Standing up Ruby gave Weiss a kiss that seemed to last an eternity but wasn't long enough, "This is goodbye for now my love. I will miss you dearly, and I hope I get to see you again." Ruby said in a sincere tone filled with compassion.
Stepping away from Weiss Ruby began to transform herself into the Dragon. Now she knew her drive for power was simply the desire to become a dragon. Ruby had to admit the Dragon was exhilarating, and tonight she would get to experience it in its entirety.
The White Fang army contained more than just Faunus, a totally unheard of and ignored species had joined them and swelled their ranks from 15,000 strong to 1,000,000 total soldiers. Ruby the Dragon, or just Dragon, found the colossal army marching towards Beacon about 100 miles away from the Academy. Dragon knew the White Fang headquarters was more than 500 miles away. The message to Ruby must have been sent when the army had crossed 4/5 of that distance.
Dragon circled the army in a wide enough arch that she wasn't spotted by the keened eyed scouts. Dragon's vision was endless, when compared to the Faunas' enhanced vision. Dragon knew there were creatures of Grimm, whether alive or extinct, that had better eyesight than her.
Among the small amount of Faunus were a race known as elves. These supposedly 'not real' creatures had joined the Faunus en mass to invade Beacon Academy. Dragon found the elves to be stranger than the Faunus, who were strange enough. Every single elf carried a longbow and three quivers of arrows on their backs. Dragon immediately saw the tactic of filling the sky with arrows being used in the inevitable battle.
Dragon decided to thin the Ranks of elves, who more troublesome than the White Fang could ever be. The only problem was there were 985,000 of the elves inside the army. The first ones would be easy enough to kill but it wasn't going to be easy when the elves numbered among the Faunus.
Dragon started attacking the elves, eliminating 50 to 500 per dive or attack. This wasn't fast enough. Using her tail she cut down all the trees surrounding the army and flung the logs and their branches into the army. This proved a more effective method; it slowed parts of the army, and eliminated a few thousand per hit. With enough trees flung Dragon managed to trap the entire army inside a giant ring of uprooted forever fall trees. Roaring Dragon set fire to the trees circling the army, setting fire to the portion that was nearest to the flames. Cutting off a fourth of their men to die by the flames the Faunus and elves retreated into a tighter cluster.
When some of the burning elves came running back to the main group the army was forced to give up two more fourths of their ranks to be consumed by the now raging inferno that surrounded them. The massive trees had been torched and set on fire by Dragon as a tactic to reduce the army's numbers. Dragon couldn't have foreseen her plan working as well as it did.
The army's ranks now contained 235,000 elves and 15,000 Faunus, a substantial decrease from the previous numbers. The people who were left got smart enough to wait for the fire to die down. The remaining army set up camp in the middle of the burning hell circle, and dolled out the necessary rations it would take to survive long enough for them to escape. As Dragon had predicted she wasn't able to thin the army's ranks when the Faunus were dispersed among the elves.
The elves were the race Dragon was trying to eliminate not the Faunus. After all Dragon remembered Blake Ruby's friend and cat Faunus. So Dragon was held back due to the fact that she couldn't bring herself to kill Faunus.
The Faunus and elf captain sat around a contained fire with their most trusted officers, despite the fire surrounding them. The Faunus captain was currently debriefing the officers, so they could inform the rest of the remaining army. "Our army's ranks have been cut drastically. Ever since the Dragon showed up we has lost ¾ of the entire army, all of them were elves. Which leads me to believe the dragon is incapable of being able to kill Faunus." A man named Arum Ferrum, "My son Sebastian Ferrum went to work for the Beacon doctors as a mercenary. He died before he could escape their wrath."
"Sir is that why we are going to attack them?" A Faunus squad captain asked.
"We are cleansing Remenant of these filthy humans. It is our duty as both Faunus and Elves to fight for our survival. And these humans are threatening our survival, so we must eliminate them." Replied Elrohir Eledhwen the leader of the elf liberation army.
"Lle ier i' ra hosse en' quessir, lle ier Seldarine en' apanonar. lle ndengina edan ar' lle ier sii' mellon a' lye gwaith, aa' i' Seldarine tua lle yassen quel marth." said an elvish army commander.
"You are the great army of elves, you are gods of men. You kill human and you are now friend to our people, may the gods service you with good luck." Elrohir repeated the general's words, translating them for the benefit of the Faunus because they couldn't understand the language of the elf.
"I'm sure I speak for all the Faunus here when I say this; thank you, we appreciate your help and invite you to battle the humans of Beacon along side us." Arum replied.
The group continued talking, with what was left of their army surrounding them. After several hours the trees were still burning in a ring surrounding them. It became noon, and Dragon started roaring. The Faunus and elves looked up, just in time to raise their shields in defense. A blast of well aimed dragons fire took out a fairly large group of the remaining army, reducing their numbers to an even 250,000. The army of Faunus and Elves were only 100 miles outside beacon, and they moved very rapidly. Both races were able to run for days without tiring.
Dragon knew she needed to stop the army from advancing. Yet the only way to do that would be to kill them all, sparing no one Elf or Faunus. Since Dragon couldn't kill any Faunus she would have to do with reducing the Elf troops. This would mean there would be some of the troops left to invade Beacon. Dragon was torn, she didn't want to kill Faunus because that would be betraying Blake but she needed to stop the invading force which was comprised of some 15,000 Faunus and even more Elves.
Dragon's human body, Ruby, was asleep at the moment. Dragon wondered if she could be in two minds at the same time. Basically splitting brain processing power between Ruby and Dragon. The strain would be immense, the mental limits would be extreme and might make one or both of them go insane. 'If we work on it I'm sure we can eventually make it work' Ruby said in their collective minds.
'So we share the same mind? That's cool I guess, I mean I'm a dragon and you're a human.' Dragon said.
'I think its convenient actually. Although when I awake I need to be careful. After all I have a split personality with a dragon.' Ruby said.
'So do you think it's possible to share the same mind all the time, while were both awake?' Dragon asked.
'No I feel as if one of us needs to be asleep for the other to function. At least that's what it feels like. I feel like I'm giving you energy while I sleep. Is it helping you any?' Ruby asked.
'Yes your energy is helping, and I have a feeling both of our energies will always help the other. I feel the same way you do. Surprising because I'm a dragon and you're a human.' Dragon said.
'But we share the same mind, we are technically according to science the same person. And I think we're the same person on a psychological level as well.' Ruby said.
'How do you think I should take care of this army? Wait can you see through my eyes?' Dragon asked.
'I think we can both see through each others eyes. I also think you should fall asleep. That way I could go ask Blake if it's alright that you kill some Faunus intent on attacking Beacon.' Ruby said.
'Sounds like a plan. I'll go find a nice comfortable mountain cave to sleep in, or a hidden mountain valley to sleep in.' Dragon said.
Ruby opened her eyes and found Weiss's azure eyes gazing at her. Ruby said hello with a kiss, pulling Weiss into a bear hug. Ruby's bear hugs weren't like Yang's bear hugs. Where as Yang crushed you forcing you not to move, Ruby made you want to not move. Because Ruby's bear hugs were soft sealed the deal. Weiss didn't want to move; because of 1 the kiss, 2 Ruby's bear hug.
Someone cleared their throat behind Ruby and Weiss. Weiss mumble turned into a moan when she pressed ever deeper into Ruby. However Ruby needed to talk to someone else beside her girlfriend for a change, she needed to talk to the cat Faunus Blake Belladonna. "Weiss as much as I want to do this all day...I really need to talk to all of you, and ask Blake something." Ruby said while opening her arms to let Weiss up.
Weiss still clung to Ruby like a lost puppy. Ruby laughed hysterically at the sight; she used to be the one to look like a puppy, it was just strange seeing the tables turned on Weiss like this. Weiss looked up at Ruby with an annoyed expression; she wasn't used to Ruby laughing at her.
"Why are you laughing?" Weiss asked nervously wondering why her girlfriend was laughing at her.
"Oh...I'm just...ah ha he...I can't...tell you...nope..." Ruby's was barely coherent she was laughing so hard. Eventually she laughed so hard pain violently ripped into her abdominal muscles. Ruby's eyes went wide and she blacked out momentarily. Apparently laughing that much hurt.
Blake knelt in front of Ruby a question in her eyes. Ruby whispered to Blake why she was laughing. Blake only barely almost but not quite cracked a twitch of a grin, basically the cat Faunus didn't smile. "What's happening out there? I was told the entire White Fang is moving to attack Beacon." Blake asked
Ruby immediately sobered up and answered her friends question, "Not the entire White Fang only 15,000 members are attacking Beacon. Roman Torchwick has assembled an army. Along with the 15,000 Faunus there were 985,000 Elves. Yes I know Elves. I only managed to get rid of 500,000 of the Elves, I didn't attack any of the Faunus because I thought it would betray you. Blake I didn't kill the entire army because I thought it would mean betraying you by kill those Faunus."
"If they're attacking Beacon? Well try to end them quickly. They may be bad but they're still by brothers and sisters in a sense." Blake said.
"Oh thank you." Ruby said. After a brief explanation on how her link with Dragon worked, Ruby needed to fall back asleep. "I need to sleep, do any of you have some knockout drugs? Or some harmless sleeping pills?"
"Probably the latter Ruby. I don't want you getting hurt." Ruby's white haired heiress said. Weiss reached into a bag, that was leaned up against the leg of Ruby's bed, they were in the RWBY dorm room, and pulled out a box of sleeping pills. The box contained 32 pill bottles which added up to 1,760 individual sleeping pills.
Taking some Ruby almost immediately fell asleep. Ruby was intent to return to Dragon to tell her Blake's words.
Dragon slept in a dark mountain cavern, one she had found while searching for a hidden spot to sleep. 'Dragon wake up. I need to tell you what Blake said.' Ruby said.
'Very well I'm awake and flying back to Torchwick's army. What did Blake say?' Dragon asked.
'She said to keep their ending quick don't let them suffer.' Ruby said.
'Very well. Let me finish this and then I will let you get back to your friends.' Dragon said.
Dragon flew furiously towards the spot where she had left Torchwick's army in the middle of a ring of flaming wood and corpses. When Dragon got to the spot however, she found out they were gone. Dragon could sense some Elf magic at work, 'Fucking cheaters.' Dragon roared and shot towards Beacon Academy.
Dragon caught up with Torchwick's army just as they came within a mile of the front gates of the academy. Roaring thunderously, which did almost nothing to the army, Dragon became enraged. She came streaking into the middle of the army, smashing both Faunus and Elf simultaneously. Magic bolts of fire, ice, thunder, and earth were hurled at her. This was were it got tricky, Dragon had to doge the magic and still thin their numbers. 'Fine if you want to play that way, well then so be it.' Dragon thought.
Dragon responded to the magic with fire. The now angry mythical beast fired stream after stream of dragon's fire at her opponents. The magical and extremely hot properties of Dragon's fire extinguished the Elf magic. The torrents of scorching hot flame enveloped the male and female Faunus and Elves killing them all in an instant.
The battle still lasted over an hour, because half way through the Elves brought up magical shields to defend with. Dragon roared, she was successful in defeating the army. In the RWBY dorm room Ruby jolted awake screaming, "I fucking did it!" Right then and there everyone at Beacon had no doubt who the dragon was. The dragon was Ruby, and Ruby was the dragon.
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Authors Afterword: I'm glad this chapter turned out okay. I'm currently working on an AU RWBY/MTG crossover at the moment. I haven't posted it yet. But when I do I would like it if all of you would go read it, although if you don't I will still be uploading this story. The chapters for Hunting the Grim Sphere might come a tad slower than before however.