"Agh!" Weiss was hurled back into a rock, feeling her Aura cushion the impact somewhat. She groaned, picking up Myrtenaster and sliding away with a glyph as Siegmund stabbed the ground where she had been thrown.
The two were ringed with flaming trees framed by the setting sun upon a mountain. Despite the Grimm frequenting this very spot, there were none in sight- perhaps they, too, sensed the dread power attempting to exert itself and ran.
Siegmund shook his head, chuckling.
"Meine Enkelin, when will you simply sit down and accept defeat?" He taunted her, blasting a fireball at her from his mouth, which Weiss managed to block with a column of ice, leaving the column itself melted and shattered from the strike.
"You lack strength and experience, Weiss!" Siegmund boasted. "I have fought Grimm and Hunters alike long before you were but a speck in your mother's eye.
I held off monsters you and your father could only hope to stand a chance against. I wield power that would make even the Arcs tremble in fear and denounce their love of manhood before me.
Even my bloodline cannot ever hope to stand against me-"
"Just shut up!" Weiss snapped, before rushing at him upon glyphs. Siegmund levelled his spear at her, ready to run her through, but the heiress was ready for it.
With a graceful kick off of the ground, she slid across Jormungandr's length, aiming Myrtenaster at his side and delivered a quick, deliberate slash to his arm.
"GRAH!" The tyrant roared in pain, grabbing Weiss by the neck and hurling her away as he clutched his side, shaking his head. The heiress crumpled against a rock, smiling weakly, knowing she'd hurt him.
Siegmund stumbled back slightly, clenching his wounded arm's fist.
"You..." He spat, glaring at her with hatred. "...you would dare hurt me?
I see your father has corrupted you beyond repair...so I will have to rectify that mistake!"
With a roar, Siegmund leapt upon her, Jormungandr ready to impale her.
Weiss mustered up her strength, and with a defiant yell, stabbed Myrtenaster into the ground, smashing Siegmund aside with a spike of ice, throwing him dangerously close to the flaming trees.
The heiress winced as she pulled herself up, feeling her Aura approach dangerously low. She stumbled slightly as she stared over at her lumbering opponent, gazing at her with nothing but sheer malice. For a moment, she felt a flutter of fear, knowing how little he was wounded, and how much she was-
'...I...no. Weiss Schnee, how dare you think like that?
They're all coming for you. Father is coming. Mother is coming. Yang, Winter and Blake are coming. Ruby is coming.
They won't leave me here to die, and I won't disappoint them. I won't die. I can't die here!
More than anything...Ruby will be sad...and I won't let her cry on my behalf. I'm not going to let her lose me- and I will not lose her.
I. Won't. Let. Her. Cry.'
The heiress hefted Myrtenaster up, her resolve steeled, as she faced Siegmund, who pulled himself up. He wiped his mouth, snarling at his granddaughter.
"Tch. Do you really think your pathetic friends are coming for you?" The tyrant roared bitterly. "They will not come.
Your parents will not come. Your lowborn excuse of a lover will not come. Your-"
"Please, Opa, stop boasting. You sound like a terrible ripoff of a villain from some stupid anime." Weiss scoffed dismissively, holding her ground despite her state. "I don't need to think they're coming, anyway, cliché as it sounds.
Knowing them, they're already on their way." She smiled confidently, gripping Myrtenaster just a little tighter. "Knowing that apparently useless Faunus, she's already figured out where we are as we speak.
You've already lost. By your own logic, you can't even call yourself a Schnee- you're weak, you're not free, and you've already lost-"
"SILENCE!" Siegmund roared and pulled himself up, rushing at Weiss and coating Jormungandr in fire, opening it up into its two-pronged form, before hurling it at his granddaughter.
"BURN."
Weiss drew Myrtenaster back, adjusting it to the red setting, before thrusting it forwards, as the rapier set itself aflame. The weapons clashed, as a shockwave emanated out from the point of impact, blowing both combatants' hair back with the force.
With a surprisingly quick movement, Siegmund grabbed Jormungandr's handle and leapt up to stab Weiss, only for Weiss to duck underneath him, sliding along a pair of glyphs and pull herself behind him, before stabbing him in the back. The tyrant let out a pained roar, before whirling around with his fist and slugging the heiress, throwing her back- this time, she caught herself with her glyphs and returned to her feet easily, readying herself for a second go.
"I am a TRUE Schnee!" Siegmund roared as he thrust his spear at her, which Weiss barely blocked by switching her chamber back and creating another ice pillar to block the attack. The tyrant opened his mouth and breathed a jet of flame at her, causing her to jump in the air and somersault back, regaining her defensive position.
Siegmund roared angrily, all pretence of calm completely lost to psychotic rage and desire for vengeance.
"I ALONE HAVE NOT SUCCUMBED TO WEAKNESS! I ALONE HAVE NOT BETRAYED MY BLOODLINE!
WEISS, YOU WILL DIE HERE! YOU WILL DIE ALONE! AND I WILL ENSURE THAT YOUR FATHER SEES THE LIFE EBB OUT OF YOUR CARCASS!"
Weiss adjusted Myrtenaster to its yellow setting, scoffing.
"Please. You couldn't even kill your weak son."
"GRAAAAAH!" He charged at her, thrusting and stabbing his spear at her, which she dodged by millimetres, looking for the opportune moment to strike, before noticing one strike aimed straight at her abdomen.
Weiss saw her opportunity, before parrying Jormungandr with Myrtenaster, triggering the Dust effect and sending an electric current running through both weapons and into Siegmund.
"GRAAAAAH!" The man was rooted to his weapon, his Aura shielding him but still feeling the pain.
Despite that, however, he had the power to lift his hand off of Jormungandr to grab Weiss' neck, lifting her up and interrupting the current.
"This ends HERE!" Opening his mouth, he breathed a continuous jet of fire into Weiss' face.
Weiss let out a piercing scream as the flames ate at her Aura, slowly eroding it. Despite the fact that she suffered little injury, she could feel it slowly coming at her.
"I...won't...let...it end here!" The heiress mustered her force and stabbed him in the gut, forcing him back and cutting off the jet as he pulled back.
Weiss slumped to the floor, instinctively rubbing her face and making sure everything was intact, that she suffered little burns. She stumbled slightly, shaking her head and glaring at Siegmund, who was quite a distance away, glaring at her.
She smiled.
"And I won't be alone, either. My parents are coming, my friends are coming, and Ruby definitely is."
"Let us put that to the test then!" Siegmund roared, before pulling himself off of the ground and charging at Weiss, who flipped the chamber on Myrtenaster as he approached her...
Meanwhile, in Beacon Academy...
Blake tied the ribbon of Gambol Shroud around her waist, as Yang opened the door, rolling her head and neck to loosen herself up. Ruby nodded, strapping Crescent Rose to her waist.
"How're we going to get to Weiss?" Yang inquired. "I'm pretty sure no Bullhead flies that fast- it'd take us a couple of hours to get there at least."
"The Lagann will suffice." Blake stated as she grabbed her Core Drill, slinging it over her neck, and finished tying her bow.
"The Lagann? That'll be too obvious!" Yang complained. "They'll see us moving out too easily!"
"If there's any chance of us getting to Weiss before Siegmund does anything, it's worth a shot." Ruby said with a hint of desperation. "We have to get to her before he does something!"
The catgirl nodded to her. "And we will."
"Not without us."
The three girls looked up to see teams JNPR and CFVY, Sun, Neptune and Cardin gathered outside their dorm- fully armed and ready to fight. Behind them, Isara loaded a humongous-looking shotgun that looked far too large for a girl of her size, Melanie and Miltiades adjusted their respective fighting gears, Minako brandished her Evoker, Elsa patted the hilt of Kaltblume while Norn adjusted her kunai, and even Adam and Dove were there- Dove looking distinctly uncomfortable next to the ex-White Fang member, but staying there regardless. Even team MLDY was there, leaning against the wall behind Dove and Adam.
Jaune nodded. "We're going with you, Ruby."
"Weiss is our friend too." Melanie stated confidently.
"I won't let some two-bit villain hurt my Weiss-sempai!" Velvet declared defiantly, with Vivi adding a loud, emphatic "Piii!".
"I don't really know Weiss," Isara stated truthfully, before deliberately, and loudly, cocking her shotgun. "But I know she's your friend, and that's she's one of us, and that she's in danger. That's enough for me."
"Yeah," Sun drew his staff, twirling it around. "Who did you think you were, leaving us out of the party?"
"The Lagann only has space for four." Blake stated. "And Ozpin will notice if all of you go-"
"In case you haven't noticed," Neptune cut her off, slinging his railgun behind him. "We don't really care what Ozpin says."
"Weiss is my best friend." Pyrrha calmly added. "I will not see her come to harm while I draw breath."
"And besides," Minako said with a cheery smirk. "I've been dying to break out Thanatos on someone."
"The Pancake God decreed that I help Weiss!" Nora declared, pumping her chest with her fist proudly. "And I would miss Miss Bossyboots if she died..."
Yang nodded, crossing her arms. "They have a point, Blake. The more the merrier.
Remember, our parents tried to take Siegmund on and nearly lost."
"We still can't bring everyone-"
"That doesn't matter." Yatsuhashi cut her off. "You're not the only one with vehicles. I have an off-road van in the garage."
Sun chuckled. "Me and Isara here fixed up the tanks for faster movement- just in case we needed it. Guess that was a smart move."
Ren shrugged. "We'll just grab the Shinkiro and the Nirvash from the hangar. Everyone will ride with either us or them-"
Neptune nodded. "I'm sure we can cram one or two extra people inside our tanks."
"And where do you think you're all going?"
Everyone looked back to see Cinder, arms crossed.
"You do know you're all supposed to be in your dorms right now, yes?"
Ruby spoke up confidently.
"Professor Fall, we're going to save Weiss." The reaper declared defiantly. "And I will fight to get out of here if it means saving her!"
"Yeah." Yang and Blake backed her up. "We're not backing down!"
Cinder chuckled, shaking her head. "Oh, I wasn't going to stop you."
Ruby's defiance deflated.
"Y-you're not?"
"Of course not." The teacher shook her head. "No, go ahead."
"...you're not even going to give us a lecture about how dangerous Siegmund is?" Jaune inquired, slightly suspicious.
Cinder scoffed, waving them off.
"Please, you're all in my Self-Defense class. I know full well how good you are at fighting things. And that old fart won't stand a chance against my students, no way.
I taught you guys how to fight, so clearly you're going to win. Go get her.
In all likelihood, we'll probably be flying out there ourselves on Bullheads, so it'd be a bit stupid of us to not let the trained fighters we know are trained to help their friend out, eh?"
"T-thanks, Professor Fall..." Ruby smiled at her. "...that really helps."
"You heard the Professor." Blake donned her triangle shades. "Go!"
All the students gathering around moved briskly towards the Tankery hangar or the mecha hangar, with some making for the garage. Ruby, Blake and Yang made for the mecha hangar with great haste, purpose filling them as they did so.
Minutes later...
Yang snapped her fingers as she got into the Lagann, where Ruby and Blake were waiting.
"Hang on! We never told anyone where we were supposed to go-"
"No problem." Blake snapped her phone shut. "I've texted everyone the location.
Let's do this."
"Hang on, hang on." Ruby paused. "Even if we go at the fastest, we'll be there in at least half an hour! That might be too late!"
"You forget, Ruby, we're in the Lagann. We do the impossible. We break the unbreakable." Blake reminded her with a determined grin, before twisting the Core Drill and turning the Ganmen on, shutting the canopy over their heads and soaring into the air.
She pushed away from the pilot seat, pushing Ruby to the controls.
"Huh?"
"Think of Weiss. Think of everything you possibly could about Weiss- about how much you care about her, how much you love her." Blake commanded as Ruby nodded.
"Got it!"
Ruby summoned every memory, every inch of everything she knew about Weiss.
She summoned up every time she ever hung out with Weiss, every time she'd cuddled up to Weiss, every memory she had of her- the first time they met, their first hug, their first kiss- and she summoned up every detail she loved about her- her clear blue eyes, her ivory skin, and that cute, teasing smile she gave when she was actually happy for a change-
"Hang on, Weiss, I'm coming." Ruby clutched the controls of the Lagann tightly, filled with hope that she would get her back.
"Stay put!"
Blake smiled as the Lagann's interface whirred to full. She whipped out her scroll, cycled through her playlist, and selected a particular song.
"Oh...this is going to be badass." Blake squeed happily as Yang felt the Lagann begin to vibrate more and more.
"W-what's going on?"
"Remember that Perceptual Teleportation thing I accidentally did that dropped things in Ylisse and stuff?" Blake reminded her. "I forgot that you had to have a proper aim to make it work. Something to aim for, or someone.
Ruby's just the perfect person for it. No way she'll be lead astray by anything." The catgirl sat back and relaxed.
"Enjoy the ride!"
"Weiss!" Ruby declared as the Lagann began to move rapidly. "HERE I COME!"
Meanwhile, from the outside...
Ozpin was in a meeting with the Hunters who had fought Siegmund at the Kreuzelburg as well as several others, when he heard a loud boom behind him.
Raising his mug, he stood up and looked behind him to see a red mechanical face in the sky disappear into a green portal it was seemingly forming. He looked down to see tanks, giant robots and vans move out of the garages and driving- all in the direction where the face had flown off in.
Ozpin sighed, shaking his head and smiling.
"It looks like team RWBY never disappoints."
"Precisely the spirit of true warriors!" Alexander Arc raised his armored fist and stood up. "And what are we, true warriors that we are, doing here talking? We should follow their example!"
"Damn straight." Andreas followed suit, patting his sword. "My son probably followed them. And what kind of father would I be if I let my son do all the fighting?
Just who the hell do you think I am?!"
"Indeed!" Siegfried roared, standing up beside them. "Enough talk! I have to go save my daughter, if you will excuse our rudeness!"
Slowly, every Huntsman and Huntress stood up- people from the likes of Glynda and Cinder to the likes of Raven and Qrow. Even Beth was present, and she had drawn a massive, silver-plated rifle with a chainsaw bayonet, several shifting components present. The rifle could shift into a massive chainsword, with size to rival the likes of Balmung, Grimmbane or Crescent Rose.
In runic script along the side, the weapon was named Hrunting.
"Let's do this, Ozpin." Beth stated confidently. "Hrunting's been dying for action."
Ozpin sighed, closing his eyes and shrugging.
"Very well, how can I stop you?"
Pressing a button to his side, he activated the intercom to the Bullhead hangar.
"Ready a Bullhead for us. We'll be down there soon."
Weiss dodged a blast of flames as Siegmund stared down at her imperiously, Jormungandr flickering with flames.
"I don't see your so-called friends anywhere near you, child!" He laughed mockingly. "They have abandoned you!"
"Quit acting like you know them." Weiss retorted. "Not all of us are complete monsters who'd betray anyone at a moment's notice."
"You'll be long dead before they can save you." The tyrant then charged at her, sweeping her legs out from under her with his spear, before twisting it upwards and stabbing down. The heiress managed to catch the spear in the middle of its prongs, struggling to hold it away from her.
Both Schnees were locked in a desperate struggle- one to finish off his opponent, another to buy time for her friends to save her. Myrtenaster and Jormungandr seemed to shake with the effort, as if they were alive and understood their wielders' desires.
"I will SURVIVE!" Weiss roared, as defiantly as her father could, before kicking Siegmund in the gut. Surprisingly, despite the blossoming pain in Weiss' foot telling her she'd damaged herself by kicking him, he stumbled back, shaking his head in agony.
"ARGH!" The tyrant winced as he readied himself to strike back at Weiss. The heiress stood her ground, but she was losing steam- her breathing was ragged, her stance was no longer strong, and she felt her strength ebbing with every second she fought. She clutched her knees, feeling the full fatigue of her effort.
'I won't be able to hold out much longer...' Weiss reflected, shaking her head. 'I'm sorry, Ruby...
...looks like I'm going to fail you.
You know...death isn't that bad. I can just...hear Blake's stupid manly music...coming...hey, wait a minute-'
"Just give me a reason
To keep my heart beating...
Don't worry it's safe right here in my arms!
As the world falls apart around us...
All we can do is hold on, hold on!"
"HOLD ON, WEISS!" That was Ruby's distant yelling.
It wasn't just hallucinations brought on by fatigue and injury. She really was hearing them.
"No way..." Weiss looked up, realising where the sound was coming from.
Siegmund looked up too, in time to see the Lagann emerge through a green portal, launching itself directly at him, a giant drill emerging from its forehead and beginning to spin.
"What in the name of-"
The drill smashed into him, cutting him off and sending him flying back as the Lagann somersaulted in the air and landed on its feet. The canopy opened, revealing Ruby, Yang and Blake, as the song continued blaring from somewhere in the cockpit.
Blake smirked. "I TOLD you that song would fit!"
"Guys!" Weiss' spirits lifted, and she could feel her fatigue fading. Ruby and Yang jumped out to hug Weiss, while Blake turned the Lagann to face Siegmund.
"Weiss!" Yang was the first to get to her, picking her up and hugging her tightly. "I'm so glad you're alive..."
"Yeah," Weiss nodded, for once glad that Yang was crushing her in one of her hugs. "I am too."
Yang dropped Weiss in time for Ruby to glomp her, nearly sending her off her feet.
"Weiss!" Ruby squealed happily, kissing her on the cheek.
"Heh. Ruby." The heiress smiled tenderly at her, caressing her cheek. "I love you too."
Blake pointed her thumb at Siegmund. "He's still not done, you know."
Indeed, Siegmund pulled himself off of the ground, growling and shaking his head as he ignored the large dent in his armor from the Lagann's drill.
"You..." He growled. "How DARE you interfere?"
Yang wrapped her arm around Weiss. "Because we can, and she's our friend."
"I'm not letting you hurt my girlfriend." Ruby drew Crescent Rose and unfolded it into its full scythe form, staring down the tyrant. "We'll give you a chance to run."
Blake adjusted her triangle shades, giving Siegmund a determined glare.
"This is the way Team RWBY ROLLS! JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!"
"A BUNCH OF PESTS!" The tyrant roared furiously. "IF YOU WILL NOT GET OUT OF MY WAY, THEN I WILL HAVE TO KILL ALL OF YOU!"
"Fat chance." Yang retorted, before cracking her gauntleted knuckles. "Bring it, gramps."
"GRAAAAH!" Siegmund leapt at them, only for Ruby to swing her scythe to block Jormungandr.
"Not a chance!"
With a massive effort, she pushed the tyrant back, before planting the scythe end of Crescent Rose in the ground and aiming at him, firing several rounds into him rapidly.
Siegmund winced with every shot, but ignored the pain and shot a jet of fire at Ruby's head- only for a jet of blue Dust to meet it in mid-air, blasting it apart. Weiss smiled, the tip of Myrtenaster smoking, as she flipped the chamber.
The tyrant roared and leapt towards them with Jormungandr, screaming curses and threats in some language only Weiss understood, before the Lagann grabbed the spear and punched him back down, tossing the spear aside.
Blake turned to Yang. "NOW!"
"Got it!" The brawler leapt into the fray and onto him, pounding him with Ember Celica, with fist and shell alike.
"You want power? YOU GOT POWER!" Yang roared, punctuating every hit with a punch.
Siegmund merely stared her down, ignoring the force of her blows.
"What you can hit me with is nothing compared to what I can strike with, mere child of dragons!"
The tyrant struck her with his knee, pushing her off of him, as he pulled himself up and grabbed her by the neck.
"YANG!" Ruby rushed in, a flow of rose petals signalling her Semblance.
Siegmund returned the favour, punching Yang repeatedly in the face, gut and chest, before headbutting her and hurling her onto a nearby stone. Ruby attempted to strike Siegmund, but the tyrant was prepared, simply grabbing Ruby mid-air and hurling her away.
"Ruby! Yang!" Weiss yelled, before growling and turning to Siegmund, who was dusting himself off.
"Even your friends are weak!" The tyrant laughed. "What good did waiting for them do yo-"
"GO TO HELL, YOU BASTARD!"
The Lagann crashed into Siegmund's side, throwing him off. He glared at the giant face and its pilot, who was returning the glare with as much disgust as she could.
"Filthy Faunus!" The tyrant taunted Blake. "How dare you touch me?"
"Shut up!" The catgirl raised the Lagann's fist and slugged him away, before spawning a drill from its forehead, watching it begin to spin.
"LAGANN...IMPACT!"
Blake launched the Ganmen towards her opponent, only to realise too late that Siegmund had already recovered.
He thrust his spear into the Lagann's drill, tearing the drill apart, and further into the Ganmen. Blake jumped out to avoid being impaled, landing behind him as the tyrant utterly wrecked the Lagann, tearing a massive hole in its head and face, before discarding the hunk of twisted metal and turning to the catgirl.
"Heh." Siegmund smiled sadistically at her. "It appears as if that suit of armor you wear is gone. What will protect you from me now, Faunus?"
"You misunderstand, dear Siegmund." Blake stated, a grin growing wider on her face as she adjusted her shades.
"That suit wasn't made to protect me. It was made to protect everyone else."
The catgirl flicked out Gambol Shroud, and with unparalleled speed, brushed past him, spawning an exploding illusion at him and knocking him back.
"Grah! Stay still, beast!" The tyrant swung Jormungandr, but to no avail. Blake slashed at him, spawning more and more exploding illusions, tossing Siegmund about like a ragdoll, before delivering a flying kick to his head.
"Agh!" He stumbled aside, shaking his head, before Blake, adjusting her shades, hurled both Gambol Shroud's bladed end and its scabbard at Siegmund, pinning him to a platform of Spiral Power.
"What in the name of Dust?!" He attempted to struggle against the binds, but to no avail. He stared at Blake, who prepared her finishing move.
Unfurling the ribbon at her waist, she twirled it into a drill shape, yelling.
"If you think you're going to hurt my friends..." Blake smiled. "Then I'm going to have to destroy that screwed illusion of yours!"
A drill formed from green energy within the ribbon, spinning as Blake grabbed it and flew at the struggling Siegmund.
"GIGA! DRILL! BREAAAAAAAAK!"
She thrust the drill into him, hurling him aside and landing with a tumble as she discarded the drill.
"And that should-"
"I'm not done yet, you pathetic fools!" The tyrant roared defiantly, his armor badly damaged by the hit. He pulled Jormungandr up, preparing to charge.
"I shall start with-"
"NO!"
He turned to see a very angry Yang, her eyes glowing red, her hair floating with power, jumping at him and rearing back to punch him.
She slugged him straight in the face, sending him flying across the field, forcing him to stop his movement with his spear by stabbing it into the ground. He growled.
"You...I thought I finished you off!"
"My Semblance is force absorption, gramps." Yang flicked a strand of hair out of her eyes, jumping from foot to foot.
"And...just how hard did you hit Weiss?"
"What kind of-"
"Because I've been perfecting this one technique that I kinda stole from Nanoha." Yang cracked her knuckles. "You see, I tried to use this on Weiss earlier, but she blocked it and there wasn't enough power anyway.
I can absorb ambient Aura to power my own hits, too, as an extension of my Semblance. Guess how much Aura you've used?"
Siegmund froze, as he realised that his fire blasts and Weiss' Semblance use created a lot of ambient Aura.
The brawler smirked as she saw the realisation dawn on his face.
"I live for the dawning terror." The brawler boasted, before rearing her suddenly-glowing fist back and running at him.
'I've always wanted to say this.'
"Torchlight...BREAKER!"
Siegmund raised his spear to block her strike, but it was far too strong.
The strike enveloped them both in bright light, before throwing the tyrant in the opposite direction from Yang, leaving smoke trails as he did, and Yang landed with her fist in the ground, the ground around her smoking.
Siegmund crashed into a churning tornado of petals, as Ruby stood in the middle of it, crouched and ready to strike.
She merely turned up, giving him a smile that would scare even an ancient Behemoth Grimm.
With impossible, inhuman speed, the reaper smashed into him repeatedly, swirling petals around her, firing shots and delivering slashes with equal deadliness and accuracy.
The tyrant was bewildered by her sheer strength and could only stare in muted shock.
"What...I..."
"HAAAAAAAAAH!"
Ruby, with one final strike, threw Siegmund out of the tornado of petals, straight into a black glyph of Weiss' which lifted him into the air.
Weiss readied Myrtenaster, spawning a red glyph under her feet.
"This is for everyone you've ever hurt, Siegmund.
You don't deserve the name grandfather.
Now...Omnislash."
With an audible clang, Weiss thrust through Siegmund from multiple directions, seeming to be rushing him from three or four directions at once, leaving only a white blur to be seen, before leaping above him, rapier raised.
At that point, the rest of team RWBY leapt up, weapons raised and ready to smash him down.
"We ready, guys?" Ruby looked to her teammates, who nodded.
"Let's show this bastard what happens when he messes with team RWBY."
"Ready as I'll ever be!"
"Come on." Weiss smiled at her. "Together."
Ruby smiled back, before looking to Siegmund.
He stared at the whole team as they prepared to end the fight, and for the first time, Siegmund felt something that he claimed was only for the weak.
He felt fear.
"TEAM! ALL-OUT ATTACK!"
Minutes later...
The first arrival to the scene was the Tiger I tank, containing Nora, Ren, Jaune and Pyrrha.
Jaune was the first to exit the tank, looking around to see what was going on.
"Guys! Guys! Is everything alr..." He froze.
The edge of the forest around them now only consisted of burnt-out trees, and the grass underneath it dead and ashen. The rocks nearby were cracked as if hit by immense force.
Lying unconscious behind them was Siegmund Schnee, his armor totalled exposing his black undershirt, his Jormungandr lying nearby, planted in the ground.
Ruby was cradling a peaceful sleeping Weiss in her lap, kissing her forehead and sighing happily, as Yang and Blake were looking towards the setting sun as it finally lowered behind the mountains.
"Jaune?" Ren called from underneath. "Jaune, is everything alright?"
"They...they did it." Jaune looked on in wonder as he climbed out, followed by the rest of his team.
Ruby looked up at them, waving.
"Hey, guys."
"Nicely done." Ren whistled, clapping. "I guess you didn't need us to help."
"It was appreciated." The reaper responded, before putting a finger to her mouth. "Now shush. Weiss is taking a nap."
The peaceful smile on Weiss' sleeping face grew as she curled up further in her lap.
Slowly, everyone else arrived- the Bullhead being the last to come. When it touched down, team RWBY was taken onto it for immediate transportation back to Beacon to earn their rest, accompanied by Winter, Ozpin, Alexander and Beth.
Meanwhile...
Siegmund slowly awoke, shaking his head.
"Ugh..." His vision slowly refocused, as he looked up and pulled himself to his feet, stumbling towards and grabbing Jormungandr- only to realise who was surrounding him.
"So." Qrow Rose- a black-haired man in his late thirties, with cool grey eyes and a massive monochrome scythe resembling Crescent Rose- approached him, grinning. "We meet again, Siegmund."
"Indeed." Ysengrim Belladonna growled, readying himself for a fight, equipping sharp, crimson claws. "Long time no see, old friend."
Yin Xiao Long and Freya Schnee merely gave Siegmund angry glares as they too drew their weapons.
"You hurt my daughters."
A tall, muscular man, with bright blond hair and golden eyes, clad in golden armor, a large pair of sun-shaped serrated chakrams slung on his back, walked up behind them. He seemed fairly young, for a man who was supposedly as old as Glynda and the other students of her year. Everything about him seemed to exude brightness, as if he was a miniature sun walking around.
He approached Siegmund along with Siegfried.
"You bastard. Nobody hurts my daughters." Taiyang Xiao Long, father to Yang and Ruby, glared towards Siegmund with all the hatred he could muster. He cracked his knuckles and unslung his chakrams.
"This is for Summer."
"Aye." Siegfried hefted Balmung up, a very excited smirk on his face.
"And this is for my wife and daughters, Father."
Siegmund swallowed.
He knew this would not end well.
END
A/N: Well, I hope your 'kill Siegmund' urges are satisfied, because that is the END to the Cockerel Festival Arc! It's been a fun ride, but all good things come to an end.
So, next chapter, Valentine's Day! Yep! We finished JUST in time to get ready for it!
So, I hope you enjoyed that, leave your ideas, reviews, comments, suggestions, criticisms and thoughts, and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!