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Ozpin watched as the Vampyres and his students fought off the attack. He knew how this would end or at least he hoped he knew, the White Fang forces had been virtually butchered by the Vampyres and his students had been able to hold off the Grimm, almost to the point of it looking like they were winning. His thoughts were interrupted as the Dragon that had been circling the school crashed into the ground only a few yards away with the last Atlesian Battleship circling above while bombarding the creature with an insane amount of firepower. "The castle must not fall, Ozpin you know that the Nikos girl will die if you try what you and Ironwood planned right?" Ozpin sighed. "I know." He heard Grimoire groan as he watched a particularly vicious White Fang member being impaled by one of the Grey Guardsmen, one of the units from Atlas that had accompanied Althea to Vale armored in modern body armor and wielding a spear that had barbs on the sides for goreing enemies that they caught.
"You know what must be done, the Castle may fall, but not its inhabitants." Ozpin turned and stared at Grimoire. "And give up the maiden? To her!? Never." Grimoire growled. "Then let me take her from here." Ozpin shook his head. "No we cannot move her." Grimoire sethed for a moment. "Fine, then we shall stand."
He stormed from the tower and saw Cinder standing on the rooftop of a nearby building watching as the students of Beacon fought their way to the tower. "Help the students or put an end to this madness? Alright let's end this here and now before it gets worse." Grimoire drew Ragnarok and moved to opose Cinders advance as she casually moved towards the central tower of Beacon. "HARLOT!" Cinder dodged the first strike by a margin vanishing from the ground that was now shattered by Ragnarok as Grimoire swung again. Cinder parried attempting to use her blades to gut the Vampyre that dared to stand in her way only to watch as she missed and her arms erupt with bloody rivers appearing on them. She growled in pain seeing the Lord of Chains Gate's second in command that Belladonna jumping back after his strike Holding his halberd ready for another strike or to counter one. "You're outmatched Cinder surrender and there may be mercy." She glared at him while preparing for her next move.
She struck forward barely slipping past Grimoire's guard and cut a swath into his armor adding to the countless others. He struck back hitting only air as he watched her run Ashford through from behind spilling blood across the flagstones. Ashford dropped his weapon reaching back and clutching Cinder's head between his hands he swung her forward and smashed her against the ground to a sickening crunch as she made contact. Cinder staggered to her feet and as she looked about herself she saw a horrifying sight, Emerald and Mercury fighting for their lives against the Faunus, Tuxton who they had allegedly killed when they first got there. She moved quickly managing to grab both of them and onto a White Fang transport before Grimoire or any of his subordinates. She watched as Beacons walls cracked and the dragon fall off into the Emerald forest a burning stump where it's head once was and the ship that had destroyed it was turning to the school.
"Mistress, we failed." She growled at Emerald as the thief slipped into unconsciousness, the same as Mercury had during their flight from the field. Cinder looked out at the the Beacon plateau, Vampyres ran down grimm like wolves running down rabbits and the Goliaths that had been approaching from the south had all been wiped out by another force of supposedly Vampyres who carried a banner with a black hill and red castle atop it flying from the banner held by one of the wretched creatures.
"Advance!" The sound of battle rang alongside the voice of the officer as the small band of roving Vampyres who had settled in the outer region of Mount Glenn charged into the flank of the remaining Grimm, black and ashen plate armor shone in the moonlight as battle was joined and Grimm were either gunned down or run through with spear, pike or sword and cleaved in twain by axe and Halberd all from behind the secure line of shields the Glennites had.
The block of Vampyre's cleaved they're way through the ruins of Beacons outer buildings as they massacred Grimm that fell upon them from all sides. The banner, a rallying point for any scattered Vampyric soldiers who quickly took up positions with they're comrades, strengthening the schiltron of halberds and shields with every addition. Across the battlefield other bands of warriors made similar pushes into the school cleaving out massive swathes of the enemy with every new push they made.
"Come on! We need to push forward!" Krieg grinned as he directed three blocks of the Chains Gate Vampyre's who had rallied and as they moved forewards he looked to the banners they had, grey banners with black Chains crossing over them and a white gate behind them, in some cases Vampyre's took actual chains and hung them on the banner. "Sir the Stones Grove forces have re taken the area around the central tower!" Krieg nodded, Althea may be a wild card on some days but on days like this she will turn into the unexpected. "Good tell them we are going to sweep the enemy over the cliff." The younger man nodded and ran off with the message. "I love nights like these, dark, a full moon, the only other light coming from Aura and the sparks of claws on armor and bullets being spat." He breathed in spreading his arms wide. "THIS is why I joined Thorn and Grimoire, because they could end this type of thing. So how about it boys? Who wants to fight an ultimate battle!?" The roar of the Vampyre's spread to every warband in Beacon and even some of the Hunters and Huntresses took up the cry and the blocks seemed to gather faster both in movement and numbers as they swept towards the cliff.
Grimoire took hold of the shattered blade Cinder had left in Ashfords side and pulled, this forced both the sword and a great amount of blood to spill onto the ground as well. "How are you holding up?" Ashford groaned. "Good you can still complain, that means you've still got some fire in ya." Ashford got up and nodded at the hole in his side. "I'm gonna go to the field hospital, best to check up on them." Grimoire nodded and began walking back into the fray as Ashford went the other way.
"Report." Krieg turned to Grimoire as he approached. "Our center and left flanks are holding." Grimoire raised an eyebrow. "Who has the right flank?" Krieg smiled. "The hunters have the right." Grimoire craned his neck and saw a familiar red hood leading that front alongside at least a dozen others. "Huh will you look at that? The apprentice is learning command much faster than I thought." Krieg rolled his eyes as the two advanced with the line. "Where's Ashford? He usually doesn't leave a fight until it's done." Grimoire took his helmet off for a moment. "He was wounded in combat and decided while it was closing he would visit Blake." Krieg nodded and turned to direct some forces.
Ruby cleaved another Beowulf in half as she advanced, she saw glyphs being cast by Weiss to her right and heard Jaune directing some of the hunters in training on her left likely with Phyrra next to him. "Gryphons incoming!" Ruby didn't need to look up to see the impressive flak screen that was quickly thrown up from the long range team at the back made up primarily by Nora and Neptune. She looked out at the massive hoard and she saw the cliff overlooking the Emerald Forest and she knew they had nearly won. "Come on! One more push!" The call had come from the center of the line and she watched as the Vampyre's broke ranks and pushed forward viciously with the hunters in training falling behind. "We have to catch up!" Sun had managed to catch up during Ruby's pause. "Sun your team should take the left, team FNKI to the right and team JNPR to the center lets go!" Jaune had literally sprinted by while shouting those orders and had lead his team into they're slot while team FNKI lead by Flint Coal had taken the right as ordered. Sun whistled and lead his team to take the left and as the other teams advanced quickly through the noticeably shrinking gap between Vampyric and Hunter forces.
Yang groaned as she tried to run her face before realizing she had to move her left arm to do so. She felt the emptiness at her elbow and shot up in her the cot she was in staring at the stump where her arm had been. "You're awake." Yang's eyes snapped over to the other cot where Blake was laying with bandages wrapped around her stomach and next to her cot was her father in scarred and dented armor with a vicious looking bloodstain that soaked through the bandages shoved into the wound. "What happened?" She could barely remember anything from the fight, just seeing Blake being stabbed then red. "You charged Adam, lost your arm for it. I arrived after forcing one of Adam's men to reveal his position, I fought him if you can call it a fight, and took his arm off and him captive." Yang nodded while trying to get comfortable in her cot, and looking around she saw numerous hunters in training or not with grievous wounds, some were missing limbs, others were crying as medics tried to put their guts back in their stomachs.
"It's a mess out there, we're winning but it's costing mortal lives and making immortal lives." Yang looked over to Blake about to ask a question. "You and I were not harmed to the point of requiring Vamparism." Yang nodded. "Where's everyone else?" Ashford sighed. "Cleanup, lots of bodies and rubble to clear, white fang to execute and a thousand minor things in between." Blake groaned at the thought that the White Fang, the group she had tried to save from extermination had practically thrown themselves on Grimoire's swords and had painted targets on themselves for every Vampyre on the world to exploit.
"I know you don't like it Blake, I don't like it either but it's out of my hands and now that people know we exist we have to show that we won't stand for what's been done." He paused as many voices and footfalls passed the medical tent and as they faded off he put his head in his hands and swept his disheveled hair back. "This is a real mess, half the Vale council is dead the other half held up in some old fortress by the walls and the few military forces of Vale just being mustered." Yang huffed as she looked at her arm. "I want to help, but how do I do that?" Blake thought for a moment before she came up with something. "What about General Ironwood? Half his body is mechanical including his arm, maybe we can get one for you?" Ashford snapped his fingers a smile coming to his face as he lept to his feet. "I have an idea… two birds with one stone if you will." Blake and Yang shared a look as Ashford went over to one of the guards who wore simple plate armor and half helms and sipping from a steaming mug, said guard placed his mug onto one of the doctors work desks before running out. Ashford smiled as he returned to his seat beside his daughter and her friend and just before he could launch into an exclamation the flaps on the opposite side of the tent whipped open and Zwei who had been laying on a blanket at the foot of Yang's cot launched towards the flap as a tall man with blonde hair and purple eyes stormed in. "Yang! Yang!? YAAAAAAAAANG!?" Yang groaned as Zwei attacked the man with licks and ran back to her cot. "Blake, Mr. Belladonna, meet my dad." Taiyang nearly smothered Yang as he held her. "Dad please stop! Not in front of my teammate and her dad please!" Taiyang released his daughter and quickly greeted the two only pausing after greeting Ashford. "So you've been helping Ruby get used to… well…" Ashford smiled. "Being a Vampyre? Yeah, she's a good kid and has quite the strategic mind." Tai smiled and nodded before continuing.
"Where is she anyways? I thought she would be here as well." Ashford shook his head. "She's leading the first years alongside one Jaune Arc in securing the school, from the reports i've been getting they've been clearing buildings faster than we can make use of them." Tai's smile was slightly more somber as he nodded. "So Yang what's the plan?" Yang perked up a bit and looked down at the stump of her arm. "I want to help and sent someone to get something he said would help." Ashford shrugged as the two blondes and his daughter looked to him. "It's a secret but this will fix both your problem and one that General Ironwood has recently encountered with the loss of , or at least her body that is." He smiled as the flaps opened up revealing a haggard looking General Ironwood and a few of his technicians. "I heard
you had a plan for solving a couple of mutual problems, ." Ashford looked to Tai who looked to Yang who nodded. "Indeed we do General, Indeed we do."
Well that's the end of the Battle of Beacon and just to tell people things will be different from cannon, this is an AU after all. Thanks for reading.
-LP
