It took me a while to think of how I was going to build off the last episode of RWBY and at the same time begin to transition into my own thing as season 1 comes to a close, and then I realized it. So I will leave you with this. There are two instances of reversed roles in this chapter...can you find them?

Rise after the Fall

Knives heard the Ursa a good few bit away, "Ursa!" He tried to smell where it was, but the sweet scent of Red Sap clogged his nostrils and he felt blinder than ever before. "Deverou, what's its location!"

He took off his eye-patch and peered through the woods, "A few yards that way! It's engaged Jaune Arc and Cardin Winchester."

"Shit!"

"I can see three far off auras heading towards him, so he should be fine, were going to want to worry about-"

Deverou was cut off as an Ursa reared back and hit him into a tree. "Deverou! Knives yelled, How could I not see it coming? It reared back for another attack, "Caradin!" The blonde stepped in the way of the attack, using his aura's barrier to block it. Luxus shot at it to draw it's attention, and Caradin ran over to Deverou and began to heal his wounds. Knives ran right for the Ursa and drew Jack, Luxus had successfully agitated it, because when Knives ran in, it smacked him back. He felt the force of it bounce off him, as his aura flickered. He didn't know much about using it, but it seemed to manifest most when he was intent on killing.

He zeroed in on the Ursa, drawing a blade across his hand and gripped Jack tightly. The wound stung against the leather grip, and the blood slithered down the blade as he drew on it. It became more refined, it stead of just swirling around the blade it created a second edge for the sword making it sharper. He watched Luxus dance underneath the swipes of its claws, keeping his composure though Knives saw the fear in his eyes. Knives gritted his teeth and dug his heels into the ground and ran, refraining from screaming, as the anxiety filled his body and his lungs as if he was drowning. It turned and swung, he slid under its attack, rolling back to his feet and leaping for its head, he swung, and it split clean from its body. He landed on his feet, and drew the blood back into his body, before his aura closed the wound.

They stood there panting as Edan and his team ran up, "We heard an Ursa, are you guys alright?" Teena asked.

Deverou grinned from the ground, "Nothing we couldn't handle," He looked at his torn up suit, "Gonna need a new suit though."

They all smiled and Edan helped Deverou off the ground. It was quite a walk back to the meeting point, and the other teams looked fine with exception to CRDL and Jaune. "Everything go fine?" Professor Goodwitch asked.

"Yeah," Jaune replied, "Getting the sap was easy."

Knives smiled at the boys new found confidence and realized he had some confidence of his own.

*Later*

Back at Beacon, Knives was feeling good, better than that he was feeling great. He decided maybe it was time to hang out with Ruby. He went to her door and knocked, but Yang answered, "Yeeeees?"

"Hi, is Ruby here?"

Yang smiled, "Ruby, your boyfriend is here!"

"YANG!" She yelled as she shoved her way past her sister and closed the door shut, "Sorry about her…she means well."

He smiled, "I think it's nice to have siblings who will look out for you."

She pouted, "You say that NOW, if you had a brother, you'd be going insane!"

Johann spoke up, "Not that you aren't already!"

But Knives ignored him; he was feeling way too good for Johann to bring him down. "Well I consider my team my family…and Luxus isn't that bad. 'In order to woo a woman you must dress better, be charming and confident! This doom and gloom does not suit you, show off those eyes more!'"

She giggled and smiled at him, "Better than Weiss! 'You can't put on cardboard boxes and pretend you're a robot! You need to study more you dunce! Ruby can you call over Deverou, I'm feeling parched!'"

They both laughed at their teams expense and Ruby looked at his eyes, "I did mean to ask you about your eyes though, are you a Faunus?"

He nervously scratched his head, "Uh, not really no…I guess if anything, you could say I'm half-Faunus." It was close enough to the truth, in all the injections Cain gave him, one was labeled Faunus, after that one his eyes changed, and his sense of smell was heightened. "It was my dad…I didn't get his ears, but mom said I have his eyes."

"Well they're very nice…if you haven't noticed, I like red."

He chuckled and decided on some sarcasm, "Oh really? I never would have guessed, I thought you liked teal!"

She laughed more, it was a nice thing to hear, honest and sweet. He smiled, "You wanna head off to the garden? The roses look nice in the moonlight."

"Why yes, yes we do." She said with a confident smile.

He smiled and followed after her.

*Luxus*

Luxus got away from everyone else and opened up his scroll. He had only one new message, and it was from his father. He opened it, and the image of the stern man with short cut blonde hair and his piercing dark purple eyes; the hawk-like features of his nose and drawn thin mouth. It spoke, "Luxus, this is your father. Your mother and I will be arriving at your school for the festival. I expect you've changed the names of your grand-father's pistols by now to something more appropriate and that you are excelling in all your classes. If you followed my instructions, your teammates are no doubt Caradin Cross and Deverou Tenebrous. I left the final member for you, because a leader must be able to choose the best suited for his second in command. I trust you are leading your team well and that you rank above any of the other teams at Beacon. I expect nothing less than perfection from you, do not disappoint me."

Luxus slid back against the wall and just cried, how could he be related to a man so cruel and harsh? He didn't know how long it had been, but he staggered back to his room, passing the area where he saw Pyrrha and Jaune on the roof, and on his way back he passed a window and saw Knives and Ruby in the garden. Everyone else had grown…Luxus was still afraid, and very much alone…