"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" Weiss stumbled backwards, the sickle dislodging from her eye as she brought her right hand up to cover the wound. Another cry of pain sounded across the school grounds as the heiress dropped to her knees, clutching Myrtenaster in one hand, her eye in the other.

A howl of laughter echoed around her, "This is better than I imagined! Look at this Schnee groveling before me!" Emerald slowly approached the fallen mass of white, red slowly dripping to the ground. Emerald lowered herself to Weiss, grabbing her face and lifting it.

Weiss' single blue eye met with the red duo before her, fear and pain mixing in her face as she stared, a red line staining the white complexion. "Say goodbye to everyone you love. I'm not letting you walk away again." Emerald lifted herself, bringing her sickle up to deliver the finishing blow.

The weapon came down, aiming for the neck of her fallen opponent, but a flash of red caused the blade to bounce off, nearly ripping it from her hand. Emerald would have stumbled back if a glyph hadn't stopped her. Weiss stood, Myrtenaster surging with red dust in her hand as she struck, once from the left, once from the right. She spun, continuing her momentum, and brought another strike upwards, releasing the glyph to send her into the air.

Feeling the dust coursing through the blade, concentrating at the tip, she sent a fireball towards her assailant. There was a screech of agony as it connected, blasting Emerald back across the school, connecting again with the same building as before, this time causing the wall to crumble around her.

Weiss knelt down again, the pain resurfacing as a few new drops of blood left her hand. She slowly brought Myrtenaster towards her eye socket, gently pressing it against her skin, a warm feeling started to sear painfully.

"Aaaaah... Rrrrgh... Mmmm." As the red dust emptied from the chamber, closing her wound, she shifted the chamber to blue. A soothing cool replaced the heat as a small ball of ice formed, gently growing to fit inside the socket. She closed her eye, testing her temporary bandage and replacement and sighed. "Ruby's not gonna like this."

She shakily stood up straight looking towards the weakened structure, keeping a defensive posture as she made her way towards her opponent. She made a note of the remaining dust left in Myrtenaster. 'No more fire dust, and not much ice left, either. If only I was able to grab some extras before this all happened.' Not wanting to get fooled a second time, Weiss approached, the dust settling to reveal that Emerald was still trying to fight, hindered by a large piece of debris pinning her legs underneath, her weapons nowhere to be seen.

Bright red eyes were slits, glaring at the heiress as she drew near. "So, this is how it ends?"

Weiss kept her eye open, looking around herself once more before addressing her defeated foe. "Not quite, Emerald. You still have some explaining to do."

Emerald retained her aggressive glare, but decided to have some fun. "What can I assist you with, Ice Queen?"

Weiss face shifted from shock to unbridled rage, her knuckles white as she gripped Myrtenaster tightly. "What?! Why does EVERYONE insist on calling me that? What is with that?" The heiress then let out a sigh, relaxing her grip on her weapon, and her posture. "No, I won't fall for that again. I can't let you escape before you answer my questions."

Emerald had a small smirk on her face, watching her opponent attempt to recompose herself. "I am here to serve, Ice Queen."

Brushing off the last comment, the white haired victor turned back to her captive, her resolve steeled. "What's going on, why are you attacking Beacon?"

Emerald scoffed, breaking eye contact, and looked around the school grounds, a hint of sorrow scrapping across her face. "Isn't it sad that how such powerful huntsman fall so quickly to such creatures? It's... horrendous, isn't it?"

Weiss was nearing the end of her patience, not wanting to waste time and let her leader down. "What does that have to do with anything?"

Crimson eyes returned to the icy blue orb before her, the cocky smirk returning to her face. "Why Ice Queen, it means everything. A group as powerful as the huntsmen should be able to prevent their own extinction at the claws of the very things they swore to eradicate."

The single blue eye widened, silver white hair shaking back and forth, the petite white clad huntress in trailing feeling a sudden chill at the choice of word. "E-Extinction?"

"Of course, that is our main goal, to wipe huntsmen off the face of this world," Emerald's voice was growing louder. "To make them pay for the atrocities they have committed against nature." Still louder, a shout coming from the pile of debris, "Huntsmen and humanity have overstayed their welcome, and it's us who will cleanse the filth from Remnant... starting with the schools!"

Weiss took a step back, trying to process the information. "But... What do you mean atrocities against nature? How have we overstayed our welcome?"

"Hahahaha HAHAHAHAhahaha. Oh, that's rich coming from the blood of a Schnee." Emerald continued her laughter, a sound that was driving Weiss crazy. "Your father's precious company is the one that was the biggest causes. Without you, Remnant might have stood a chance of surviving for longer, but humanity, it all of its infinite wisdom, decided to be greedy.

Weiss suddenly knew exactly what Emerald was talking about. The Schnee Dust Company, the biggest supplier of natural dust in all of Remnant. It was easy to know that it had to do with dust itself. But in what way? Was it how they were extracting it from the planet? Or was it the way they were using it? Either way, dust was a part of their life, an irreplaceable source of power. There was no way they could stop using it.

Weiss moved closer to her captive, "So dust mining is destroying Remnant?"

Emerald sighed, leaning back against her stone prison, "You got it, Queeny. Won't do you any good now, will it."

The heiress wasn't about to play any more games. She pointed Myrtenaster, "What is the rest of your plans?"

"Wouldn't you like to know. Sorry, but that's all you're getting from me." The green haired girl repositioned herself, bringing her hands up to grasp the stone imprisoning her. She then started to push the rock off, slowly moving it away from her legs.

Weiss immediately knew what was happening, the blue dust within Myrtenaster concentrating on the glyph that was now formed around Emerald. Within a moment, she was frozen completely.

As she struggled to free herself from the ice, red eyes fell upon her opponent again, a wicked grin falling upon her. "Well well, seems like you're nearly out of dust. No more fire or ice for you, and if you want to get to your precious leader in time, I suggest you start moving now. Never know what kind of... accident may befall that innocent girl after too long."

The blue eye widened in shock as she had drained the rest of her blue dust, leaving just lightning and wind. "Fine, I guess I'll come back for you later." She turned to look out to where Ruby followed Cinder, not knowing how her partner was fairing. 'Either way, she'll need my help, dust or not.'

Weiss formed a glyph underneath herself, infused with yellow dust allowing for more speed. She readied herself, then blasted towards her destination, the airship port, with only one thought in mind. 'I hope I'm not too late.'

AN: And so the plot thickens, though the whole picture is still not here. We'll have another piece in the next arc, following a different character. You'll have to wait to see who, though.

Now, I know Emerald is a little out of character in this situation, though in all honesty, we've only really seen her in this type of situation once. And even then, she was younger and only interested in thieving, so who knows? Again, this is a re-imagining, so characters might be a little off.

That being said, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and please review, follow, and favorite. It's much appreciated.