RWBY belongs to Roosterteeth and the late Monty

Also I want to amend the fact that Qrow is a Branwen not a rose I was confused on the matter but that does not mean Im going to change it .

Ashford and Grimoire stood in a common room right outside of a set of dormitories deep in Chains Gates bowls. Ashford had a look of anger on his face his eyes leering towards Grimoire. "You call that 'gentle'?" Grimoire chuckled as Ashford paced around the room taking a seat in one of the chairs. "I never said my brother was a 'gentle teacher' but I see what your getting at."

Ashford looked at Grimoire who looked as if he had taken a brief walk instead of fighting four very dangerous huntresses. "My brother taught me 'that to advance in the manner of fighting is to bring out your flaws and crush them'." Grimoire paused for a moment looking down the hall as another group of guards passed by. "So I decided to first show them their flaws by beating them, then You and will show them how to improve." Ashford looked at the door leading to the recovery room that the four huntresses had been put into wondering if they had awoken or if they were still asleep. "Does the Headmaster know how long they will be down here?" Grimoire nodded sitting down across from Ashford. "They will stay the weekend and we will train them, the next weekend they will come down here with team JNPR as well." Ashford nodded while he scratched his beard. "I still wonder why you chose to teach team RWBY before JNPR."

Grimoire shrugged. "I still need to gather Alexander's notes he insisted I teach any of his descendants who ended up knowing about us know about all of the sword's abilities." Ashford nodded as a vampire arrived carrying two cups of coffee and two vials of formula, both took their respective glasses and vials and after dismissing the server drank in silence.

"So what will we tell them when they wake?" Grimoire looked to Ashford pondering the question. "Not we but you." Ashford stared at Grimoire before letting out an exasperated sigh. "I figured." They continued to sit and wait before Grimoire got up and walked towards the exit of the common room. "I am going to check on the Jaeger teams to see what they've found so far." Ashford nodded. "Don't burn anything to the ground." He reminded as Grimoire grinned as he exited the room.

In the recovery room

"Ughhh…" Ruby opened her eyes to a dark room illuminated by a single candle. She stayed still for a minute trying to remember what had happened, they lost. She remembered now she remembered how Grimoire had completely annihilated her team in the sparring match. She turned her head from left to right seeing Weiss trying to get up she tried get up to help, only to trip on the sheets of the bed she was in and flop onto the floor with a soft 'oof' accompanying it.

Weiss jumped and then fell onto the floor alongside Ruby with a small shriek and as she laid alongside her leader she groaned. "Dunce." Weiss murmured while trying to sit up. "You alright?" Ruby asked as she got up before leaning down to help Weiss up.

"I'm fine just a little sore due to that cretin." Weiss Fumed as she and Ruby looked to the other two beds in the room seeing Yang in one and Blake in the other.

"Should we wake them up?" Weiss looked to Ruby the question still in the air. Ruby nodded walking around Weiss and Blake's beds to Yang's before leaning over and shaking her gently. "Yang? Wake up sis it's time to talk." Yang groaned as she sat up and seemed confused about what had happened to put her into so much pain before realising it.

"How bad was it?" Yang asked as Blake sat up in her own bed. Ruby shook her head, "He completely destroyed us." Yang winced at the bluntness of the statement before looking around. "Where are we?" Ruby looked around as well at the old style that the room was furnished in. "Still in Chains Gate by the looks of it." Ruby looked to Blake seeing her sitting cross legged on her bed with her hands steepled with her elbows on her knees. "Blake?"

"Do any of you remember what he said before knocking you out?" The room was silent as the three huntresses tried to remember what Grimoire had said. Weiss spoke first, "He said that pride will be my downfall." Yang followed shortly after, " My anger will be my own downfall…" The two huntresses looked to Blake and Ruby. "He really didn't say anything." Ruby murmured. The four of them were in thought not noticing the door to the room open.

"Maybe because he didn't have to." The four huntresses, startled from not noticing the door opening looked to the door to see Ashford standing in the doorway with his arms crossed. "He proved his point that if you're going to survive what Brutus is planning your going to have to think of new ways to fight foes who will most likely be more powerful than yourselves." Ashford sat down on the chair by the door and leaned forward placing his elbows on his knees and placing his hands under his chin.

"To explain why Grimoire decided to train you the way he did, the simple explanation is that he's trained nearly every baron here including me, but you all got it easy in my personal opinion." Ruby's eyebrow raised a slight amount as she adjusted how she was sitting on her bed so she could see past Weiss. "How is that he went 'easy' on us then?" Weiss sent a small glare at the Arch Baron who sat in front of them. A small smile came to Ashfords lips as he shook his head. "Did he take any of your limbs off?" This caught the four of them off guard as Weiss tried to fix her stumble. "No-" She was cut off with a dry chuckle from Ashford.

"Did he bleed you almost dry?, did he break your soul and spirit?, No He showed you your flaws without doing any of those things." Ashford smiled at the stunned silence around him as the four huntresses digested this information. Blake looked as pale as Weiss's hair as she looked at her father whom indeed in one piece but when she looked into his eyes she could tell he had not lied.

"'To fight the darkness of ourselves and grimm we must become it' That is the first thing he told me when I awoke here, he taught me that if you want to fight to protect those you love and those who are innocent, you must become the things you fight." Ashford stood stretching his arms above his head. "There is still much to teach so when you are ready step outside and I will show you in the way that the previous Arch Baron Taught me." He turned and stepped back into the common room picking up his coffee from the table just outside of the door.

Team RWBY sat in silence for a minute before being interrupted by the growling of Yang's stomach. Blake scowled at the brawler as Yang sheepishly rubbed the back her head. "Sorry about that, I guess being beaten does build up an appetite!" Ruby shook her head with a smile of her face. "Only you sis only-" Ruby's stomach chose that moment to growl just as loud as Yang's stomach. Ruby looked down at herself, "Really!? Not what I needed at that moment." Blake and Weiss shared a sideways glance before breaking into a somewhat controlled state of laughter at their partner's situation. Outside of the room Ashford smiled at hearing the joking tones of the four girls in the recovery room.

Hello again! I have been working on trying to catch up to where I want to be, also I am still looking for peoples opinions on the story so far and if you want to you can suggest OCs and the like along with Ideas. Thank you all for reading and I will see you next week :D!