Here we are at Chapter 49. Let the Battle for Beacon continue. I do not own RWBY or Tales of Berseria. They belong to their respective owners. Here's chapter 49. Enjoy.


Chapter 49: Heroes and Monsters

At Beacon, Blake, Weiss, and Yang fight through the courtyard, going through Grimm, Atlas robots, and even the White Fang who appear to be part of this attack as well. Yang punches her way through several White Fang members, finishing it off with an uppercut to one into the air, followed by a hard left punch to his chest, sending him crashing into other members like a bowling ball. To her right, Blake flips through the air as she slashes one Atlas robot in half, and then shoots the heads off of two more. Three more robots fire their rifles at her, but she uses her semblance to evade the shots as she runs at them. When she gets close, she swings her sword, slicing one in half, followed by a swing from her second blade to take out another, and then ends it off with a cross slash on the third, leaving it in pieces. Behind them, Weiss conjures up some glyphs, holding down some B eowolves. This allows her to skate across the ground, impaling one in the skull with her rapier, and then she moves to swing her sword at the next two, killing them. The three regroup and look around to see more Grimm coming towards them.

"Let's go!" Yang yells and they go for another fight.

However, they then hear something above them, and look up to see an airship falling towards the courtyard. It crashes not too far from them, and from the wreckage, an Alpha Beowolf, and an Ursa Major rise from the smoke. The two older Grimm roar and then race in different directions towards the school. The three girls look at each other before coming to a decision.

"Be safe," Weiss says to both of them.

"You too," Blake says before she runs off to chase the Alpha Beowolf.

Yang gives Weiss a quick kiss on the cheek, "I'll be back as soon as I can," Yang says and then heads off after the Ursa Major.

"You'd better," Weiss mutters before taking her stand against the multiple enemies.

"Weiss!" she hears and looks back to see Jaune, and all the other students from the arena running towards her. Jaune stops next to her. "Need a hand?" he asks.

"It's about time!" Weiss replies and then they all go to fight.

Back with Ruby and Velvet, they make their way across the battleship, but then they hear a loud, monstrous roar behind them and look back to see a giant Grimm Dragon fly through the skies right by them, followed by numerous Griffons.

"Oh, like it wasn't hard enough already," Velvet sarcastically replies.

"Come on, we need to get to the bridge," Ruby says, but then their path is blocked by a Griffon that lands in front of them.

The Griffon charges at them, but Velvet and Ruby run towards it, and slide under it while slashing at its legs. This trips up the Griffon, making it lose its balance, and allowing the two a chance for another attack. They run at its rear, with Ruby attacking high by slashing at its back, while Velvet goes low with attacking its right side. Once they get in front of it, they both fire off a shot at its skull, staggering it. They then finish it off by doing a cross slash together with their blades, severing its head. The Grimm's body falls off the battleship, only to reveal Neo standing behind it. She is wearing an Atlas uniform, but it quickly turns back into her real outfit. She takes a picture of them and sends it to Roman, and then winks at them as she gets ready to fight.

"Get out of our way, or else I'll eat you!" Velvet yells as she readies her blade.

Back at the courtyard, Jaune is seen running towards and swinging his sword at an Ursa, taking it out. Neo is then seen racing around him with a Boarbatusk on her tail, racing by Coco who's firing off her gatling gun at a Gryphon. Behind her is Arslan, and then an Ursa Major running at Nora, who fires her grenade launcher at it, knocking it back. Behind Nora, Ren runs as he fires his auto-pistols at a Beowolf, killing it. As they fight, Pyrrha suddenly notices Ozpin standing outside the tower, looking straight at her. Knowing what's going on, she starts walking towards him, which Jaune notices.

"Where's she going?!" Nora asks.

"I'll go find out. You two stay here and keep fighting," Jaune says as he goes to follow Pyrrha.

Meanwhile, back on Ironwood's ship, Ruby swings and spins her sniper-scythe around as she battles Neo. Neo backflips away as Ruby throws her spinning scythe at her, before it spins back to her and she catches it. She slams the blade into the ship as she fires off a shot at Neo. Neo shatters like glass from the round, thanks to her semblance, showing Roman behind her who fires his cane at Ruby. However, Velvet lands in front of Ruby and uses her arm blade to slash through the shot.

"Man, you two are just determined to be the heroes of Vale, aren't ya?" Roman taunts them.

"What are you doing?! Without these ships, the Grimm will overrun the city!" Ruby yells.

"That's the plan!" Roman replies.

Neo reappears and runs at the duo. She flips in the air to kick Velvet, but Velvet counters with one of her foot blades, forcing her back. Velvet runs at her, throwing several slashing kicks with her foot blades, forcing Neo to jump and get on the defensive. She might have been a better fighter than Ruby, but she has far more difficulty going up against the former Lord of Calamity. Velvet aims her gauntlet and fires off a shot at Neo. When it hits, Neo shatters like glass again. Velvet then suddenly activates her demon claw and swings it behind her to grab a surprise kick from Neo, swinging her around and smashing her into the ground before she throws her back a few yards.

"Hate to break it to you, but I've fought against someone who's illusions are far greater than yours could ever be," Velvet notes.

Back at the school courtyard, Velvet tries to get back up, only for Coco to crash into her on the ground while Neon and Reese race by them. They move around Bolin, Arslan, and Nadir as they surround and fight off a large Gryphon, with Bolin attacking an AK-200 with his staff. Reese zooms by and uses her hoverboard to slice another AK-200 in half before she and Neon continue moving. Meanwhile, Sun is fighting off an Atlesian Paladin, blocking its lasers with his staff. Next, Ren and Nora shoot their weapons at a group of AK-200s. Yatsuhashi is seen striking a Gryphon with his large sword, and then Fox runs behind him while Flynt plays his trumpet, sending soundwaves at a Creep. Reese and Neon then race under the legs of another Atlesian Paladin, its legs becoming encased in ice as Weiss comes from behind it, using her glyphs to jump at it. However, the Atlesian Paladin uses one of its arms to knock her away.

"Weiss!" Neptune yells as he reaches out to her.

The Atlesian Paladin throws a right punch at Yatsuhashi, who blocks with his sword and holds his ground, but the large machine overpowers him and sends him flying backwards. Meanwhile, Ren is trying to catch his breath as another Atlesian Paladin turns around and walks up to him.

"Look out!" Nora shouts, seeing this, and pushes Ren out of the way only to get punched by the mech herself.

"Nora, no!" Ren yells and turns to her, only to get knocked back by the Atlesian Paladin as well.

The Atlesian Paladin turns to Coco, Velvet, and Neptune, and Coco and Neptune start firing their weapons at it. However, the attacks don't seem to be doing much damage.

"Uh, this is bad," Neptune notes as they continue firing.

Coco stops firing, "Well, I guess now's a better time than any. Velvet!" she says, turning to her teammate.

"…Really?" Velvet asks with anticipation.

"Just make 'em count," Coco replies.

Velvet nods to her and walks in front of them, up to the two Atlesian Paladins standing in front of them.

Weiss gets back up, "What are you doing?! She's going to get hurt!" Weiss shouts.

"Just watch," Coco replies, remaining calm.

Velvet stands in front of the mechs, lifting up her right hand. Just then, a light blue holographic copy of Crescent Rose, Ruby's sniper-scythe, appears in her right hand. One Paladin fires its right laser rifle at her, but she jumps up, seen in the air in slow motion. In normal motion, she swings her holographic sniper-scythe at the mech before landing on the ground. Next, the sniper-scythe disappears, and in Velvet's left hand, a holographic copy of Weiss' rapier, Myrtenaster, appears. The Atlesian Paladin swings its right arm at her, but she swings her holographic rapier upwards, using the dust in the rapier to push back the attack and then backflips away before taking the same combat stance as Weiss with her rapier near her head and aimed at her opponent. Velvet shoots forth, thrusting three strikes at the mech and then suddenly punches it away with holographic copies of Yang's shotgun gauntlets, Ember Celica. The attack makes the mech stumble back while Velvet lands on the ground and then fires off two shots at it. The Atlesian Paladin then swings its right arm at her again, but she ducks under it while changing her holographic shotgun gauntlets into a holographic version of Blake's sword, Gamble Shroud. As the mech swings its arm back around, Velvet jumps and stabs her right sword into its hand for the ride. The mech stops spinning, but Velvet jumps off, using the ribbon on her holographic sword to wrap around the mech's legs. She lands away from it and pulls on the ribbon, making the Atlesian Paladin fall down.

Velvet looks back as the second Atlesian Paladin attempts to punch her from behind, but she swings her left blade at it, slicing off its left fist. She then throws her blade at the mech's cockpit, before suddenly firing at it with a holographic copy of Coco's gatling gun. The mech tries to punch her with its right arm, but she makes a holographic copy of Sun's staff, and blocks the attack, before running along the mech's arm and jumping into the air, and then smashing a holographic copy of Nora's hammer onto its right arm, breaking it off the body. She lands back on the second Atlesian Paladin as the first one begins to get back up. She makes her hammer disappear, and replaces it with a holographic version of Penny's backpack that contains her flying swords. She conjures up ten holographic swords before back-flipping off the mech and landing on the ground. She swings the swords around, cutting off the mech's legs, making it fall to the ground. Velvet then positions the swords, in their gun forms, in a spinning circle in front of her and charges up before firing off a massive blast that finishes off the second Atlesian Paladin. However, as she stands from the attack, the first Atlesian Paladin sucker punches her from her right side, knocking her to the ground.

"Velvet!" Coco shouts before firing her gatling gun at the mech.

Neptune, Nadir, and Reese join her and start firing off their weapons at it. Weiss just looks on for a moment before growling to herself and starts running around them, using her glyphs to increase her speed. Suddenly, in slow motion, as she's running, a new glyph with swords on it, her summoning glyph, appears behind her. In normal motion, the Atlesian Paladin prepares to punch Velvet again as Weiss stops in front of her. Weiss attempts to block the punch with her rapier and raises it above her while closing her eyes. However, the attack doesn't hit and she slowly looks up to see a giant sword, being held by the arm of a suit of armor ("White" Trailer), holding back the attack. Weiss has subconsciously made her first successful summoning. The summoned arm deflects the punch away and then swings its sword downwards, cleaving the Atlesian Paladin completely in half. Weiss looks back at the summoned arm before a flash appears in front of her and she looks to see Velvet taking a picture of her with her camera. However, the ground under them starts to rumble. The rest of the group look to the front of the courtyard to see another Atlesian Paladin appear, only this one is more heavily armored and more powerful.

"…You have GOT to be kidding me!" Sun complains as everyone else looks in worry.

The mech begins to run at them, and they prepare to fight.

Back on the battleship, Neo gets back on her feet after getting tossed around by Velvet and grits her teeth before she looks over to Roman. Ruby runs at Roman, who fires off a few shots at her. Using her semblance, she zips past the shots and gets right in front of him, with her scythe reeled back. When she swings it, Roman blocks it with his cane, but is forced back a bit.

"Why are you doing this?! What do you get out of it?!" Ruby asks.

"You're asking the wrong questions, Red. It's not about what I have to gain. It's that I can't afford to lose," he says before he fires off a shot and then quickly swings his cane around to grab the shot and release a shockwave at Ruby. Ruby gets blown back from the shockwave, and falls off the edge, only to stab her scythe into the edge to stop her descent. "I may be a gambling man, but even I know there's some bets you just don't take," he says as he walks up to the edge. "Like it or not, the people that hired me are going to change the world," Roman continues while Ruby kicks a Nevermore away that tries to attack her. "You can't stop 'em. I can't stop 'em. You know the old saying, if you can't beat 'em-," he says, only to get kicked away from behind by Velvet.

Velvet then grabs Ruby and pulls her back onto the ship. Roman looks up to see her, and then looks over to see Neo stagger to her feet.

"You need new lapdogs," Velvet notes. Neo runs at them and thrusts her umbrella at Velvet. In slow motion, Velvet narrowly avoids the attack and activated her demon and grabs Neo's head. She starts absorbing her strength until she's too weak to fight back. "Time to take out the trash," Velvet says before she lifts Neo up and then throws her into the air, falling into a horde of Griffons. "That's one down," she notes as she deactivates her demon claw and she and Ruby turn towards Roman.

Roman gets back on his feet and sees that Neo is gone, gritting his teeth in anger.

"I don't care what you say. We will stop them, and we will stop you…BET ON THAT!" Ruby yells before she and Velvet charge at Roman.

However, Roman aims his cane and fires off a shot in slow motion, then quickly moving his cane around for the hook to grab the shot, and in normal motion, swing the blast in a wide arc. The blast knocks Ruby back, but Velvet quickly grabs her and swings her back around to throw her back at Roman. Ruby swings he scythe at him, but her blocks the attack as she flies past him. However, he isn't fast enough to block a strike from Velvet from behind, and she swings her arm blade at his back. Ruby and Velvet then perform a set of criss-cross attacks that put him on the defensive. But without Neo to back him up, he takes a few more hits until he is knocked back away from the duo. Ruby and Velvet stand together while Roman staggers to his feet.

"You two got a lot of spirit, I'll give you that," he says as he stands back up. "But you forget, this is reality. Reality doesn't care about spirit. The real world is cold. And huntresses like you, the only thing you can do is die like every other huntsmen in history. As for someone like me, we live on. So…I'm going to do what I do best, lie, steal, cheat…" he says as he aims his cane at them. "…And survive-," he says before suddenly a large Griffon appears and swallows him whole from his negative speech.

The Griffon finishes its meal and roars and Ruby and Velvet. The two get ready and run at the Grimm, which responds in kind. However, when it gets close, the two girls jump over hit while simultaneously kicking it in its head. The Griffon crashes into the cockpit of the ship, which erupts in an explosion from the collision. When they land, the ship suddenly shakes and begins to fall from the sky. Seeing that their ride is about to end, Ruby and Velvet run to the edge of the ship.

"Hang on!" Velvet says and wraps her right arm around Ruby's waist.

She then activates her demon claw and takes out a wind Dust crystal and absorbs it. With control over the air, Velvet and Ruby jump off the ship, and fall towards the ground. As they get closer, Velvet uses her demon claw to conjure up a torrent of air to slow their descent until they safely land on the ground. Velvet deactivates her demon claw and she and Ruby make their way to the school as the battleship crashes into the ground at the edge of the city.

Back at the school, the heavily armored Atlesian Paladin starts running towards the students. However, the mech then shuts down and falls, sliding across the ground before stopping in front of them.

"Hm, that went better than expected," Sun notes as he looks at Weiss, who is still hunched over in exhaustion.

"Weiss!" They all look to see Yang running up to them, having already taken care of the Ursa Major. "You're okay! Have you heard from Ruby, or Velvet?" she asks, but Weiss shakes her head. "What about Blake?" she asks again.

Weiss points behind her, "I think she's still going after the Alpha…and some members of the White Fang," she answers.

"You look for Ruby and Velvet. I'll meet up with Blake," Yang says and leaves while Weiss gives her a weak thumbs up. "Please be okay, guys," Yang thinks with worry.


And that's the chapter. I may end up skipping a few scenes, but then again the main focus is on Ruby and Velvet. Anyway, the fight for Beacon continues, but things aren't looking good. Will our heroes survive? Until then, please Read and Review.

P.S. I just finished the story of Tales of Berseria last night, and I must say, while the ending for Velvet may have been a little sad in my opinion, I thought that overall, it was BEAUTIFUL. I already played Tales of Zestiria, so I know the rest of the story. The story just fueled my desire to continue this story, because I honestly think that despite everything she did in the game, Velvet did deserve a second chance at life, so I gave it to her. I think Tales of Berseria may be my favorite one yet, and Velvet is one of my favorite characters in the series. This also helps with some future ideas for my story. Just wanted to tell you all that. Take care until the next chapter.