No one could move as the two fighters continued to stare at each other. The two professors were already rushing to try and save their newest students from the might of the terrifying Grimm that should never have been in the forest to begin with.
Glenn on the other hand stared as the Barroth stared back, trails of black fire leaking from its jaw as it tensed, ready to attack at any moment. And then...it moved. Moving faster than its size should allow it, the Barroth pounced on the blonde ice brawler its jaw wide open to rip him in half.
A grin crossed the blondes face as the Barroth made the first move, his right foot stepping back as his right hand shot up. An ice shell exploded form his gauntlet before the jaw could clamp down on him.
Its head shot up, its jaw clamped shut in utter surprise as the blonde took a few steps back to keep his distance from the large hulking beast. "Let's dance" he said, lunging forward as the beast roared, a stream of black flame exploding form its jaw, scorching the once green grass a dead grey as the blonde side stepped to avoid it.
Twisting towards the flames, Glenn flicked his left wrist, releasing a ice shell that froze the flames before they could reach him. Seeing his chance, the blonde twisted his body, his left hand slamming into the frozen flames, shattering at as the pieces flew towards the Barroth.
In the confusion, Glenn rolled forward, falling into the crouch just under the beast as he cocked both of his arms back, new shells sliding into position as he gave a demonic grin, matching the smile that his mask shard was holding.
Both arms shot upwards releasing the new shells directly into the beats chest, forcing it form the ground as it cried out in pain. Before it could land, the beats expanded its tattered wings, the full length stretching over thrift meters as it flapped once to gain some air.
Glenn was thrown backwards by the force of the Barroths wings flapping, his body rolling on landed as he dug his boots into the scotched ground to stop himself. Looking up, his glowing eyes locked with glowing red as he and beast stared at each other once again.
As if its eyes glinted in annoyance, the dragon released a small stream of flames into the air, glaring down at the rival that would not leave the ground. "I guess you know" Glenn muttered as he stood, staring at the Barroth, lowing his arms with an icy sigh.
The eight other hunters in training gasped, wondering if Glenn was giving up, excepting his death at the hands of this Grimm. Only for the sickening rip of flesh to echo all around them, their attention turning as they say two six foot long demonic icy blue wings stretching out form the blondes back.
As his wings stretched out, his mask fully formed over his face, reviling the golden sneering skull like Grimm mask with glowing icy blue claw marks on the left side. Crouching slightly, the blonde glanced back, sighing sadly as the eight flinched when they say his mask.
Maybe not everyone could accept his powers like others in the past have.
Turning back to the Barroth, Glenn leaped into the air, his wings flapping as he soured to become level with the dragon like Grimm. Flicking his wrists, Glenn noticed that an icy flames enveloped his arms, the golden of his gauntlets turning a familiar snow white as he turned his attention towards the Barroth.
"You got what you wanted, let's continue!" Glenn roared his wings falling once as he dove towards the Barroth, the wings retracting back into his back as he pulled his right fist back. The icy flame increased as the Barroth released a stream of flames, the blonde punching forward as an icy shell shot from the barrel of his gauntlet, followed by a stream of frost flame as well.
Fire and ice exploded against each other, creating a dust cloud as Glenn landed on the ground. With a flap, the Barroth forced the dust to part, staring down at the blonde as he dove towards him. Glenn pulled his right fist back, punching forward as he fired another frost shot towards the diving Grimm.
It exploded against its wings, the flame enhanced ice shot tipping into its scaled wings as it cried out in pain. Seeing it's now falling, trying to regain its balance in the dive, Glenn leaped to the side, rolling to further his distance as the Barroth crashed into the scotched ground.
Twisting to face it, Glenn went wide eyed as a stream of black flames met him, his body engulfed as the Barroth slowly stood up, its releasing its enraged flames at the blonde.
On the cliff, everyone say the blonde disappear under the beast flames, as they went wide eyed in fear. "Glenn!" Yang screamed, her body moving to help the boy, only to be held back by both Ruby and Blake.
"Let me go, we have to help him, Glenn!" Yang screamed as she watched, tears already falling as the flames soon stopped coming from the Barroth, leaving only smoking ash covered ground where the blonde once stood.
"It seems we were too late" a solemn voice spoke as the eight turned to see Ozpin and Glynda standing there, looking at the smoking ground with sorrow filled frowns. "No, he can't be gone, no!" Yang yelled her eyes bleeding red as she continued to shed tears, Ruby opening crying at the thought of her friend's death.
The other looked down, each knowing that a death was something that no one wanted, but sometimes it couldn't not be helped.
"Wait...look!" Jaune called as the ten turned to see something rising form the flames. a single flap of ice blue wings reviled the blonde standing there his cloths burnt, leaving him in just a tattered yellow T-shirt, his skirt ripped in half as his jeans looked ready to fall apart.
His mask was once again a shard n the left side of his face, his lips curled up in a demonic smile as he pulled his gauntlets back, reviling them to be sporting snow white claws, the clawed finger curled into fists as the barrel of the gauntlet extended further forward.
"Only a dragon, can kill a dragon...even those rules apply here" Glenn spoke, his voice hollow as his eyes glowed an icy blue. "Lets see who comes out on top!" he roared, shooting forward, his body enveloped in an icy blue flame, similar to Yang's own flames.
"We should help him" Pyrrha said, turning to see that both of the professors had yet to move from they're places beside them. "NO" Ozpin replied as all eight of them stared at him in disbelief. "You heard his words, this is between Mr Skellington and the Barroth" Ozpin said calmly, only Glynda noticing his white knuckles as he gripped the end of his cane tightly, ready to move if his student needed it.
"We have to help him, I can't lose him!" Yang yelled, surprising Ruby by her words. "Have faith Miss Xiao Long, he will pull through" Ozpin said slowly as the teary eyed brawler turned back to the fight, hoping for the blonde to survive.
Sliding under the Barroth jaw, avoiding its jagged fangs clamping down on his flesh, Glenn punched his clawed fist into its exposed neck, icy flames burning through its black scales as the Grimm cried out in pain.
Rolling to the left, the blonde demon avoided the dragons stomp, twisting back to his feet as he punched the Barroths foot. Flaming ice ripped through its black scales, tarring the limb off as the Barroth roared in agony.
Leaping back, the blonde crossed his clawed armoured hands, a stream of black flames crashing into his flaming limbs as he slid back a few feet. Curling his armoured fingers into claws, he blonde twisted his wrists, slashing through the black flames, dispersing them before he lunged towards the Barroth.
Cocking his right hand back, the blonde swept the clawed limb upwards, an arc of pure icy flames flying towards the Barroth, exploding on contact as he slid to a stop just beyond the dust cloud that was created in the explosion.
Yang looked on relived as she say her blonde standing there, unharmed from the Barroths attacks the others shared her sentiment, Ozpin looking towards Glynda as she prepared to fetch the blonde out of the clearing.
She stopped frozen as the blonde was thrown across the clearing, his back crashing through one of the pillars. Everyone turned to see the Barroth limping out of the dust cloud, its tail retracting as its damaged scales started to fall from its burnt frozen flesh.
Glenn pulled himself out of the destroyed pillar, his clawed fingers slicing into the stone as he pushed forward, straightening up as he narrowed his glowing eyes at the Barroth. His right foot slowly moved backwards, the Barroths working leg tensing as it lowered his head. Glenn lowered his own head; his muscles tense as he was ready to shot forward just like the dragon like Grimm was.
A tense silence engulfed them as neither dragon moved, and then...they lunged.
They met, Glenn's flaming fist crashing into the Barroths armoured snout, the scorched ground cracking under them as they both were blown away from each other. The Barroth skidded to a stop, its working leg pushing its body into the air as it took to the sky's.
Glenn flipped landing in a crouch as he watched the Barroth fly, its flame already gathered in its throat as it roared in the blonde's direction. Pushing off his right boot, the blonde spun, his claw slashing through the air as a wave of icy flame cut straight through the Barroth flames with ease.
Before he could stop, Glenn leaped into the air, his wings sprouting form his back as he soured above the hovering dragon. Turning his rise into a dive, the blonde retracted his wing, pulling his right fist back, the gauntlet cocking another shell into place as the Barroth roared, sending another stream of flames towards him.
The flames met his flaming fist, the explosion sending the blonde higher into the air as the Barroth landed on the ground, its ruined wings unable to keep it air born any longer. Twisting downwards, the blonde glared at the Barroth as it prepared to roast him alive.
Punching forward, the blonde released three frost shells, forcing the dragon to stop gathering its flames as it staggered back in pain. Twisting as he pulled his right clawed fist back, all of the flames that surrounded him started to gather over his clawed clenched fingers.
The group of student could only watch in horror as the blonde abandoned his flaming defence, thinking that he was gathering his aura into his fist, something that would cripple a seasoned hunter if they did.
His fist flew forward, colliding with the Barroth snout as the icy explosion enveloped them both, blocking the students, and teachers view of both hunter in training and Grimm.
No one moved, the sheer thought of what had occurred freezing them in place. Yang slowly walked forward, hoping for anything that Glenn would emerge from the settling cloud, that cute shy smile on his face as he looked up at them.
But as the seconds ticked by, Yang worry grew, Ruby holder her tightly as she didn't want to believe in what could have happened to the blonde.
Movement caught their attention, everyone looking to was a destroyed wing emerging out of the cloud as all hope in the ten sank into despair. They watched on in horror as the deadly Grimm stumbled out of the dust cloud, falling over as it shifted around, trying to stand.
Yang could only see red as she stared at the beats that had killed Glenn, the one thing that had taken away someone she wanted to know more about...someone that seemed just like her.
Before she could enact her rage, the Barroth stopped struggling his body seemingly going still as if it was dead. It was then everyone noticed the other figure beside the Grimm's body, a familiar head of golden blonde hair stumbling around the beast, collapsing to their knees.
Yang was already moving, the other following shortly after then got over their shock.
"Glenn" said blonde glanced up, his limbs barely keeping him form hitting the destroyed ground as he saw the blurry image of a log haired blonde girl rushing towards him. That was all he could see as he body gave out, the strain of using his demonic and draconic powers taken their toll on his body.
"Those scars, did his Aura not heal him at all" a voice spoke as the blonde barely felt himself returning to the waking world. "That is what worries me the most Glynda, the medical scans show he doesn't have an aura" the voice of Ozpin replied as Glenn struggled to open his eyes.
"We saw what he did Ozpin, if that wasn't aura then what was it" the other voice, more than likely Glynda questioned in frustration. "We will find that out in time, for now we should leave the young man to heal, he should be up in time for the team selection tonight" Ozpin spoke again as Glenn felt himself slip bakc into the depths of sleep.
Once again the blonde felt hismelf waking, his body actually having the strength to move as he sat up, his eyes cracking open when he felt a weight on his right arm. Glenn looked, blinking as he didn't see the head of hair of one of his girls, rather than the golden blonde locks of Yang, sleeping on his arm.
"She's been here all night" a voce spoke as Glenn turned to see Ruby standing beside the bed he was one, more than likely a infirmary bed. "What happened?" Glenn asked in reflex as Ruby smiled lightly at him.
"You killed the s-class Grimm, the fight was amazing, you were all over the place, and those wings are you a faunus?" Ruby asked, looking at him in excitement as Glenn chuckled at her antics. "I'm not a faunus, whatever that is, I'm something...different" Glenn said, his voice dropping into a whisper as he wondered what he was now.
His body wasn't that of a devil, and he didn't heave his sacred gear with him, but, he could feel his draconic energy that Albion used coursing beside him demonic one. His questions went out the window as Yang started to stir, Ruby slowly baking out of the infirmary, only peeking to see if Yang would confess to the blonde.
She knew her sister and she knew when she liked a guy...and she liked Glenn a lot.
"Morning" Glenn said smiling as Yang looked at him sleepily. A second later, the blonde was tackled into the bed, Yang's main of hair covering his bare chest as he felt tear drops landing on him. "You're such an idiot!" Yang yelled into his chest, hugging him close as Glenn slowly wrapped his arms around her.
"Don't you ever do anything that stupid again..I don't want to lose you" she whispered just barely loud enough for Glenn to catch as his features soften, his right hand gently stroking her hair. "It's okay, I'm alive, and I'm not going anywhere any time soon" he whispered to her.
Ruby gushed slightly, looking at the romantic scene before her, suddenly having the urge to fill it.
In another world, Sean suddenly smiled. "Someone is going to ruin Glenn life, my legacy lives on!" he yelled, making the other Gremory devils sweat drop at his words.
"Come on, we have team placement to attend" Ruby came back as she noticed Yang helped Glenn stand up, her eyes widening as she finally saw the scars that littered his body, the one that drew her attention was the scare that looked like a hole right above his heart.
"Thanks" Glenn mumbled as he turned the smile at her, Ruby's eyes widening in horror as she saw the matching scare on his back, like it had been stabbed right through the heart. She left not a second later her thoughts wondering how the blonde could have survived an injury like that.
After Yang had helped Glenn get a new T-shirt, and supplying her own pair of half skirt and jacket for him to finish his outfit did the two blonde make their way to the auditorium for the team placements.
"Lead by Jaune arc" Ozpin voice made the two look up to see Pyrrha, Ren, Jaune, and Nora standing on stage, the blonde knight looking surprised as Pyrrha playfully punched his shoulder in praise. "Our next team is a special one, for collecting the white knight pieces as have Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao long as team RWBY, lead by Ruby Rose" each girl stood smiling as Yang hugged her sister only Weiss looking displeased by the outcome.
"The reason for this team to be special is because it will not be a four man team, rather a five man" Ozpin spoke, gathering everyone attention. "For defeating an s-class Grimm and assisting in the defeat of a B-class Grimm, Glenn Skellington will be added to Team RWBY as its fifth member, well done young man" Ozpin said as the blonde stood, giving the four girls a shy smile as he nodded to Ozpin.
"You all have your room assignment, please relax, classes started the day after tomorrow" Ozpin said, dismissing the gathered first years as they each went on their way. Yang went, helping Glenn stand up as he slumped over in pain.
"Let's get to the room" he said, watching as the other three moved, Yang helping him limp towards the dorms, other students giving him odd looks as they heard of his fight with the Barroth. "Come on Dragon boy, let get you out of the lime light for a bit" Yang said smiling as the blonde in her arms chuckled lightly.
"So five team members, four bed, one cramped room, anyone see a problem with this?" Glenn asked as he sat down on one of the beds in the corner of the room. "There are also only two closets" Weiss mumbled distastefully.
"I don't see the problem, Glen's wearing my clothes" Yang said snickering as Glenn glared at her. "Let's just get some rest" Blake suggested laying down on one of the beds as Weiss turned to Glenn with a glare.
"What?" he said. "Aren't you going to get out so we can change" she stated hotly as Glenn shook his head with a sigh. "Nope, use the bathroom if you don't want me seeing you in her panties, I only just got out of the infirmary" Glenn said as Weiss looked slightly ashamed at that bit of information.
"We'll sort something out tomorrow, we have all day, we should just rest" Ruby interjected as Weiss snorted in annoyance, grabbing her knight clothes as she walked towards the bathroom. "What about beds" Blake asked, looking up at the three still in the room.
"I'll share" Yang said almost instantly as Glenn blinked in surprise. He only shrugged as Blake sighed, hoping she didn't her anything during the night, not unlike her favourite book where...stop that.