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Beta: CrowSkull

The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 30- Volume 0, Episode 28

Terror

Hazel charged at Ozpin with a loud roar. The headmaster was easily able to dodge and counter every attack that was thrown at him. The brute was very strong and powerful, but so was Ozpin. He wasn't able to land a single hit on the headmaster in the past minute of wildly throwing punches and slams at him. Finally, Ozpin ducked under the last one with but a hair's length space away from his knuckles, and drove his cane up into his chin, opening Hazel up for a neck chop which left him gasping for air.

He then brought his cane behind the larger man's neck and forced him lower to his height, using his cane as a wedge for himself to jump and land his feet on the back of Hazel's head, pushing himself off into a flip that forced Hazel to lose balance and tumble forward over himself.

His large body slammed against the ground, cracking the stone on which he landed. He recovered quickly and stood back up on his two feet, but was a little disoriented.

Tyrian screeched as he tried to pounce on Ozpin, nearly catching him off guard and it looked like he was about to latch right onto his shoulders from the back. Only for him to completely go through Ozpin as if he was a hologram. He widened his eyes as he passed right through his body completely, falling onto his hands and knees in the process. He looked up and back to see what attack was coming next, but his vision was clouded by a black shoe hitting him flat against the face. Stunning him and making him feel as if his nose had just been broken as he tumbled back and past Hazel just as he recovered and charged at Ozpin once more.

Ozpin sighed and pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose. "Futile, there is nothing to gain from this beside self-satisfaction. Why must you go through all this trouble for all but naught to happen?"

"Don't play games with me Ozpin!" Hazel screamed as he brought both his fist together and over his head, and slammed them both down into the stone floor beneath his feet. Ahead of him a large electronic shockwave crackled as the stone was blown to bits in a cone shape ahead of him.

Ozpin spun on one foot and jabbed his cane down into the ground below him. A green ward of protection forming around him and defending him completely from Hazel's attack. As soon as the shield dropped Ozpin stood, completely unscathed.

"Urgh." Hazel growled angrily, and stood of against the headmaster, reaching into his pockets and grabbing two red pure fire dust crystals, and preparing to stab it inside of his arms just like he did with the lightning crystals. But just as he was about to stab them into his arms Ozpin appeared in front of him once more, all he saw was a blur of white hair and the crystals were yanked from his hands and he jumped back just as quickly as he came. Both of the flame dust crystals in one of his hands, putting them away in his pocket as Hazel locked eyes with him and snarled angrily.

"You won't be using those anymore I'm afraid, I am just not in the mood for such trivial things." Ozpin said calmly, as if he was already bored with the fight. He really was at that point, the gap between them is clear. As Ozpin was now, Hazel didn't stand much of a chance, and that infuriated the large brute.

"I'll make you pay for what you did to my sister!" Hazel snarled, flexing his muscles angrily as the orange lightning crackled all over his body.

"Gretchen Reinhart, I remember her name." Ozpin said with a sorrowful sigh. "It brought me much sadness to hear of her demise, I am truly sorry for your loss."

"You don't get to be sorry Ozpin!" Hazel hissed. "You manipulated her, filled her mind with foolish ideas of heroism, then she went off and got herself killed on her first mission. She wasn't ready for any of it! She was just a child!"

"She was an adult capable of making her own choices." Ozpin countered, hardening his glare. "She chose to become a Huntress. She chose to come to my school. Not once did I force Gretchen to do anything she didn't already want to do. So this blame you've placed upon me is wrongfully so. Then in retaliation you decided to go against everything your sister lived for, and started working for her."

"Do not lecture me! I don't need to hear any of this from you." Hazel yelled, his muscles bulging and expanded even further to accommodate his highly increased level of strength. "My sister didn't have a choice, she didn't feel like she truly had one. That's what you do with all of your subordinates. That is why Malikai Matsuoka left you when he had the chance… the one man you weren't able to force into working with you."

That struck a nerve within Ozpin, it has always been a sore spot for him. The forceful departure of Malikai nearly put an end to most of Ozpin's plans. It was years before he decided to start working with him again. He even trained the Matsuoka himself, trained him to be better than him, and it ended up backfiring on him in the end after what happened to Summer Rose. But one good thing from this turn of events is that Hazel doesn't know that Malikai has agreed to start working with him again, he must know that he is around, but as long as young Kai is in the stadium, the father would stay.

With a shake of his head, Ozpin calmed himself down, and collapsed his cane back behind his back. Holstering the old weapon there. "I do not see why i should continue this battle, the outcome is clear. Surrender, or I will be forced to take you down myself."

Hazel showed Ozpin what he thought of that notion when he fired off a bolt of lightning from his fist, only for it to pass right through his body as if Ozpin wasn't really there. With a sigh, Ozpin took his cane back out and extended it, he wondered why he even put it away in the first place.

"Very well… You've made your choice."

Tyrian recovered from his tumble from earlier, and hopped up next to Hazel, extending his tail so that it stood erect from over his shoulder. His yellow eyes staring hungrily into Ozpin's, and for the first time that day, there was no satisfied smile on his face.

During the fight, Yatsuhashi was able to pick up Velvets unconscious body, and get her to safety in one of the still operable waiting rooms. Coco and Fox were able to climb out of the out of bounds water from beneath the arena. But they were completely exhausted, Yatsuhashi had to also carry both of them back to where he left Velvet. He made eye contact with his headmaster from several hundred feet behind Hazel and Tyrian. The two men had more important things to worry about to keep an eye on the already defeated students. Ozpin nodded to him, and the student nodded back, closing the gate behind him and taking himself to safety.

The second that gate shut, Ozpin attacked.

Malikai cut through the majority of the foolish members of the White Fang who thought they could stand in his way for longer than a few seconds. His silver sword slick with red blood of a few dozen grunts. Some dead, some injured, he didn't care which. As long as he could get back to his wife and son. The former being pregnant with his future unborn daughter or second son. He needed to make sure they made it out of this terrorist attack unscathed. It was his first priority.

As he was making his way through the city. Albedo found him, filled him in on everything that was going on, and told him that Adam Taurus was most likely going to go to the stadium as well. Probably to go after the Schnees, who most likely the main targets of this White Fang terror attack after Malikai. He also told him that Tai already got Ruby and most of Kai's friends out of there, so her silver eyes would be safe for now. Which was good in it's own right, but his main worry was still Kai. The last thing he heard was that his son was having a match against Pyrrha Nikos, right around the time he got ambushed. He must be tired right now, there's no way he wasn't.

When he did get ambushed, Adam Taurus tried to sneak attack him with his semblance much like he did the other Huntsman before in the video. It nearly worked, just barely grazing him on the side and cutting into his hip. It was a shallow cut but it still bled and hindered his movements. It was enough that he was already up against three other opponents while he was by himself and already injured. But through sheer determination and raw skill he was able to nearly kill one of them, the one who used some sort of chainsaw sword. The girl fighting with them stayed back to help him, she wasn't much help in the fight itself, being far weaker than those she was fighting with.

After getting away from his attackers and fighting his way through the chaos that was the riot of faunus supremacists in the streets of Mistral. He finally found his way to the main entrance of the stadium. The only thing being that it was being heavily defended by what seemed to be most of the White Fang forces. Shooting away at the Mistral defense force wildly as they defend the entrance with their lives.

"We can break through that ourselves." Malikai said as she flicked his sword to rid it of the blood. "We are strong enough, I can see the fire for me to absorb from here."

"While I agree with that notion, you have to consider the collateral damage." Albedo pointed out. "You can go in there and go wild in order to find your child, and while that is admirable, it doesn't mean you can disregard the safety of the innocents within. We don't know who may be still hiding in there, not to mention that your son may also be in-"

"You've made your point Albedo." Malikai hissed, flicking his sword one more time before returning it to it's sheath. "What do you propose we do then, sneak in?"

"That would be the preferable course of action here, yes."

"Is this really a time to be your sarcastic self?" Malikai asked as he crouched down, and used his hand to block out the sun from his eyes as he searched for a way to get inside the stadium without getting spotted.

"Lad, any time is a good time for me to be myself." Albedo countered, searching for a way inside in a different area. "For I have just found a way in."

"Good, this is why you were the scout back in your active duty days."

"My 'active duty days' was just five years ago Malikai, not that long ago. Besides, look at the bright side!" Albedo exclaimed as he slid down the rood of the building they were perched up one, being followed by his old friend.

"How could you possible see a bright side in this shit?" Malikai asked when they touched down.

"I can finally get some action again, that's what!" Albedo exclaimed quietly, lowering his voice as the two huntsman snuck their way to the stadium. "But really, what could Leonardo be doing? I expected mass reinforcements to be here by now, the Mistral defence force is fine and all, but what we really need are Huntsman."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same." Malikai said after rolling his eyes. "Once this is over, I am going to be having a nice chat with that cowardly lion. He has more than just piqued my suspicions now."

"Agreed, he and I have never seen eye to eye before, it would be nice to see him squirm some more." Albedo whispered back to him as they snuck up to the building. "It bothers me to this day how that man was able to hold his headmaster status for as long as he has so far."

"Yeah well, you'll get to ask him that yourself once today is over." Malikai said, ending the conversation as he started to scale up the flat wall with his bare hands and while wearing heavy armour. He did it with little issue, enough so to make Albedo pout for a few seconds before opting for an aura empowered jump so that he could catch up with the silver eyed man.

"Show off." Albedo said when he landed, wiping his suit of the dust that has accumulated over the time he spent searching for Malikai.

"Mhm." Malikai hummed in response, already looking around over the railing and to the arena only to spot Ozpin fighting Hazel and Tyrian, the former was winning of course. He had many times to skill and experience then the two other men. The why as to their fighting was not in question, but the who was what worried Malikai. His hands gripped the railing harder until it dented the metal. Albedo noticed, and walked over to see what he saw.

"Well then, it seems like we know who is behind this now." Albedo said in a deathly serious tone as he observed the battle along with his friend. "I can go down there and-"

An explosion sounded off beside them, cutting off the Signal headmaster and caving in the floor beside them. They both jumped away in time before they could fall victim to the explosion and cave in. But something about the explosion seemed oddly familiar to Malikai… as if he has seen something like it. Besides the explosion being blue, it also had a familiar aura to it.

Vernal stalked out of the explosion made cavern, breathing heavily and appearing with many bruises and torn up clothing. Her blue flaming eyes locked onto Malikai's and she smirked cockily at him, pointing a thumb to herself. "The Hell have you been old man? I've been doing most of the work here."

Malikai sighed and shook his head, relieved to see that Vernal was still alive but concerned that she is injured. She must have been in a tough fight and anyone who could give a maiden a tough fight, especially Vernal, was a big threat. He jumped down beside her and without a word, supported her weight by bringing his head underneath her arm, pulling her up the rest of the way while Albedo started on curiously.

"I have a feeling that blue flaming eyes are not exactly common, is she who I think she is?" Albedo asked.

"Yup." Vernal and Malikai answered at the same time. "I am the Spring Maiden, got a problem with that?" She asked.

"Not at all…" Albedo said as he used his semblance on her, looking into her eyes and into her past. He frowned when he saw that she is part of the Branwen tribe, and witnessed firsthand how exactly she got her powers and every evil thing that she did during her time. But smiled again when she saw her development over the most recent year. In the end of his vision, he concluded that she could be trusted. "Not at all." He repeated, more confidently this time.

"Good… because I don't feel like kicking ass for a few minutes." Vernal said as she slide against the railing and onto her butt, resting her tired and sore muscles. After her battle with that false corrupted Fall Maiden, she had to fight her way through what felt like half of the entire damn White Fang army. She was already tired and a little beat up, and that got her to where she was now. None of them really stood a chance against her, but since she was tired, she got even more beat up because of it. A stray bullet hitting her there, the butt of a gun on the back of her head here. Luckily her maiden aura held up strong and kept her going, but as the adrenaline wore off she started getting more and more exhausted. It was up to the point where she just had to sit down and take a breather. "The Fall maiden, the one who hurt Amber… she's here." She rasped.

Malikai widened his eyes in surprise, and then narrowed them in anger. She was the one who nearly got him killed, he would need to deal with her himself. Unless Ozpin stopped playing around with Tyrian and Hazel, he was the only one other then Vernal who could defeat her.

"Damn it… what about Kai? Marron? Are they okay?" He asked next, his concern obvious even to Vernal, who wasn't really good with reading emotions like his.

"I don't know… I tried to find them but I just couldn't, they're alive." She quickly added when she saw Malikai's sorrowful face. "I just don't know where they are, Raven is with them though."

"Raven? Why would Raven be with my family?" Malikai asked, catching Vernals slip up right away.

"Err… that's something I don't even know how to answer honestly." Vernal said with a shrug, not intimidated by her mentor in the slightest. "You'll have to ask her that yourself when you see her. Shouldn't have anything to worry about though."

"Oh, of course I don't, why should I be worried about my ex being close to my son and wife? No, you're right. Nothing to worry about." Malikai said with a passive aggressive tone, Vernal might have laughed at him if the grip he had on her shoulder didn't tighten to the point of it becoming painful. She winced and tore her shoulder out of his grip, cursing at him for it.

Malikai concluded that she would be fine without him, and stood back up. Turning to Albedo in the process. "Make sure she doesn't get herself killed will ya? It would be a pain to find the next Spring Maiden if she died."

"Yeah? Fuck you too." Vernal gave him a very specific kind of gesture with her middle finger.

"I shall defend her with my life." Albedo promised, nodding his head toward him.

Malikai nodded back, and then down at Vernal, who only pushed her middle finger closer to his body in her own special way of saying go fuck yourself, but also stay alive. She just had that kind of charm.

He turned around, and descended down that man made cave that Vernal made earlier, absorbing the fire caused by it. Just like his son, his flames were of a different color. Not black, but a pure white with a black center. It flamed up the left side of his arm as he walked past, and transmuted it with his semblance, letting the aura flames act as an aura around his entire body. He didn't even need to unsheathe his weapon as the members of the White Fang caught up with him, if they didn't stand a chance against him before, they really were just insects to the angry silver eyed warrior.

He broke into a sprint, decimating everything in his path as he continued his crusade to find his family, and take care of whoever is in charge of this attack.

Albedo peeked into the hole with an indignant huff.

"What did I just say about collateral damage?"

Winter Schnee and her younger siblings were trapped. The Atlesian guards that they had with them had a contingency plan just in case something like this happened. When you are a Schnee, you can never be too careful when it comes to safety in a foreign country, especially one where plenty of faunus are present.

Weiss was able to fight alongside her, but Whitley was a liability. He didn't know how to fight, and he didn't even have his aura unlocked. He needed to be protected, and it didn't help that he was being targeted just as ruthlessly as herself and Weiss.

She ended up creating a large ice crystalline cage for Whitley to hide in. Fortunately, it was very powerful and was able to block the bullets and melee attack of the very angry faunus attacking them. The guards were fighting honorably, and did not let down, but slowly their numbers were dwindling. The Atlesian ship that carried over the student from Signal was still around, and it was even hovering over the stadium itself now. Without a doubt dropping in anyone who was able to fight down to protect the innocents down below.

However, that didn't do anything for the fact that they were pinned down. Winter feels like she already took down dozens of terrorists on her own, and to her credit she did. But more and more just kept coming. For as good as she was, she was not immune to something as trivial as exhaustion. She could keep this up for a good time longer, but she would need reinforcements before she could say that everything was going to be fine.

Strangely enough, there seems to have been a call for a ceasefire on the White Fangs side. They all made for cover and hid even as they kept getting chased. It took a direct order from Winter herself to make sure that none of her soldiers would mistake their tactical ceasefire as a call for a retreat. Besides, that burning red sword slowly being unsheathed in front of her was not what she wanted her men running into.

"Adam Taurus…" Winter said with narrowed eyes, breaking apart her sabre into two seperate blades as she stood off against the well known terrorist.

Adam seemed to already be battle damaged, and while that was comforting to know. Winter was also battle damaged in some areas. His White Fang mask was cracked on it's right side, and a large piece fell off to reveal a light blue colored eye, and the traces of a scar peeking through the side of the part of his face that was still covered by the mask. His black trench coat was still on his body, only ripped on one side, and the red parts of his hair was glowing faintly as he slowly unsheathed his sword and pointed it at her, however he still kept a hand on his sheathe. Something for Winter to keep in mind.

"Winter Schnee." He said with a dark chuckle. "I finally get to kill some of the members of the main family that has caused the faunus such pain. If you give up now, I'll consider making it painless."

Weiss gasped, and her eyes shook as she stared into the man's exposed eye. Her own eyes shaking with fear as she realized that this must have been the man who was responsible for most of the deaths of her family members or even friends of the family. She staggered back when Winter placed her arm in front of her and pushed her back behind her, sword already brandished and at the ready.

"Never." Winter replied as she got into a fighting stance. "Your ideals are mistaken, you blame the SDC for the problems of your race but don't realize that you're only making those problems worse by making the White Fang violent."

"You forced our hand!" Adam roared, mouth curved down in a harsh frown as he glared daggers at the warrior Schnee. "You forced us into having to fight back, peaceful protest wasn't working! You only know the language of violence." He crouched down into a low combat stance. "Luckily, it is a language I know very well."

Adam slashed a wide arc ahead of him while using the full power of his semblance. The entire area turned black and white with the only color being red as the attack grew closer to Winter. She widened her eyes and created a glyph beneath her feet and summoned a Atlesian knight with a large shield. Only to gasp in shock as she watched the attack cut through her semblance like butter. Weiss tried to create a summon of her own behind her, but couldn't even summon anything bigger then herself.

Winter crossed her swords in an X formation and blocked the attack with all the strength she had, the red and black flames burning her hands as she held it back. In the end she barely managed to stop it, but at the cost of one of her blades. She discarded that blade with a huff and stepped in front of Weiss. Unwilling to make an aggressive move while this man was as dangerous as he was. She needed to make sure that she didn't need to get involved in this fight.

Adam knew what she was thinking, and smirked as he sheathed his sword once again, but kept his hand on the hilt as he lunged at the Schnee. Cheers sounding off behind him as he clashed blades with Winter. He was surprised that she was able to defend against the full power of his attack, but that didn't mean anything. It only met that he would have to time it better, or just finish this up close and personal. Something that he was more than willing to do.

When their weapons clashed, his katana glowed as he absorbed the kinetic force of the clash. Storing up the power to use later. Winter sneered at him as she noticed the glow, slowly beginning to piece it together as they kept fighting. She forced her sword up and redirected his blow, spinning off behind his back and delivering a thunderous elbow to the back of his neck, his aura flared to defend his body as he went forward with the momentum and spun his leg with him, almost sweeping the huntress' legs out from beneath her.

Winter recovered and jumped backwards. Not getting a second to catch her breath as Adam attacked her with three black and red clones, each of them striking her sword once before they were all absorbed back into his body and he ended the three hit combo with a fourth powerful strike. Forcing Winter back and making her skid back toward her siblings.

Winter still stood off against him, not willing to back down when both of her siblings lives were on the line. Adam let out more shadows of himself jump out of his body and attack her, before following suit himself with the intent to finish this fight quickly.

Shae was hurt, she got caught in one of the explosions that started everything off. She was separated from the others at the very start. It didn't help at all that her weapon was damaged in the explosion either, or that her leg was now bleeding profusely as she noticed it was pinned under a large hunk of metal.

She must have fallen down a floor when the explosion took place. Her aura was straining to heal her wound, but with the metal on top of it, she wasn't able to fully heal herself.

"Fuck… why did this have to happen to me of all people?" She asked herself as she stabbed her spear underneath the metal to act as a wedge. She pulled down with all the strength she had but it just didn't budge at all. Shae barely had strength left as it was.

"Come on… Dammit!" Shae cursed as she gave up, losing whatever ground she managed to gain.

"Hello? Shae is that you?" A boys voice called out to her, one that she recognized right away.

"Cyan!? I'm over here! I need help!" She cried out, the pain of her situation finally coming at full force as the adrenaline she had in her system faded away. Her orange eyes widening in relief as she spotted the unmistakable head of cyan colored hair, which was now mixed in with the ash of what she hopes is just the wood of the coliseum itself.

"Shae!? Holy shi- I'm coming!" Cyan exclaimed as he caught up with her, and knelt down to her side. "Here, stick your spear back underneath this and we'll lift it up together. When we lift it high enough, you have to pull yourself out, I'll hold it for as long as I can."

"Yeah, sure." Shae said after taking a deep breath. "Let's do this." She was worried that it was also going to hurt, but she would have to deal with it if she wanted to get out of this alive. At any second what was above her could also cave in and crush her to death, and that is not how Shae wanted to go out.

"Okay, one… two… three!" Cyan shouted, and pushed down on the spear as hard as he could. Shae pulled down toward herself as well, their muscles strained with the extreme weight, but she could feel the weight on her leg lessening as the metal was lifted off ever so slightly. They couldn't get it any further, and Cyan placed himself in a position where he could use his entire body to hold up the metal as Shae struggled to pull herself out.

She managed to do it just in time. Cyan's face was red and he was out of breath, but he held it up long enough on his own for Shae to pull herself out of the mess she was thrown in. He dropped it and the metal cut right through the ground. Making Shae sigh a sigh of relief that her aura held up for as long as it did.

"Thanks." Shae said as Cyan helped her up. Her leg must have been broken, it would have taken a miracle for it to not have been broken.

"No problem, do you have any idea of what is happening here?" Cyan asked as he helped her limp to a safer location not surrounded by fire and sounds of combat.

"No idea… I was stuck in there since the start. What happened with you?" Shae asked.

"I got caught in the blast too, I was with Rick at the time but I have no idea where he is now. We got separated in this smoke not too long ago." He hid the fact that his entire back was burned up and he was injured as well, he didn't want Shae to worry more than she already was. He just barely managed to keep hold of his halberd as well, it was collapsed down into a staff and folded at his hip.

"Shit… how long was I out? I didn't even know I was out." Shae said as she rubbed her forehead, the headache already getting worse then what it already was.

"It's been about an hour, I don't know. I haven't really been paying attention." Cyan answered honestly.

"What about Kai? He was in the arena at the time, is he okay?" Shae asked next, if a little frantic. Worried about her not so subtle crush more then anyone at the moment.

"Er… I saw him get out of there with Pyrrha, but I don't know where he is." Cyan said with a shrug. "Don't worry too much about him, you know how strong that guy is. There is no way he is going to go down without putting up a fight. He also as Pyrrha Nikos with him too, so it's not like he doesn't have any backup with him."

"Yeah… yeah, you're right." Shae calmed down, taking a deep breath now that the smoke was thinner and air was more plentiful.

Cyan pitied her, but didn't make it obvious, now was not the time to mess with Shae, no matter how funny it might have been. Her feelings aside, he had to let her know what was happening, and who was attacking them.

"The White Fang are the ones responsible for this." Cyan told her, recoiling when her face snapped to look into his just a few inches apart.

"How do you know that?" She asked, eyebrow twitching with anger not directed toward him. She had a history with the White Fang, not of joining them, but of resisting to join them. Everyone knew that after the other day. She lost her parents to them after they joined them and died on some stupid mission as Shae described it as. So it made sense that she would have resentment toward them all.

"Because I saw them with my own eyes, fighting in the stands and I had to fight some myself before I was able to find you." Cyan explained, challenging her glare with one of his own. Eventually, Shae relented, sighing heavily and growling for a few seconds out of frustration.

"UGH!" She groaned loudly. "Of course those assholes would be behind this, they went from peaceful to completely violent in what, a few months?"

"That doesn't matter now, we have to catch up with the others. Rick too, he has to be somewhere around here." Cyan stopped and placed his hands on her shoulders, forcing her to listen to him. "There is more going on here beside just a terrorist attack, Shae. I saw two men go after Kai right before the first explosion happened. One of them was a faunus, but didn't have a mask, and the other was human. Whatever is going on here, it has something to do with them."

Shae listened with wide eyes, processing all of this information slowly as Cyan started supporting her again. She shook her head in disbelief but can't deny that she too saw what happened just before the explosion, she didn't know who could have missed it. That scorpion faunus tried to inject him with the venom from his tail only for it to be blocked just in time. After that, chaos ensued. She didn't know what happened next. Nor what she had to do next, there was just too many options to think about.

"For now, let's just find the others." Cyan said next, making up her mind for her.

Kai felt himself regenerate more of his aura with each passing second, something that Pyrrha and Raven could also attest to. Strangely enough, the fights have been dulled down significantly. They were able to make it to somewhere where they could see into the arena, and just in time to see Ozpin making swift work of Hazel and Tyrian, it was obvious who was going to win that fight, and didn't see any need for them to join in. Mostly because Raven gave Ozpin such a look that did not inspire confidence in neither Marron or Qrow. So they just said that Ozpin was handling it, and that they needed to focus on finding others and get out of there.

There was the occasional White Fang member, but with the roster they have at their disposal, they didn't stand much of a chance. Marron surprisingly was the one to take out the first few on her own, most likely to prove her worth that she didn't need to be protected. She was able to manipulate the air and stone around her, and although it wasn't as powerful as her sons who has been regularly training with it, she was still able to hold her own.

Slowly, the smoke in the hallways started to clear thanks to the combined efforts of Kai and his mother. The air manipulation part of their semblances being more than just enough to blow it all away. After that they were able to block off some areas they knew no one was hiding it, at least not the good ones.

Raven and Qrow stopped the group when they came up upon a single girl, a girl wearing pink, brown, and white colors. She had a transparent pink parasol blocking her face, but it was see through enough that they were able to see her face.

Marron recognized her as a threat, and when she tensed up. Qrow and Raven did as well, causing a chain effect that caused Pyrrha and Brick to also follow through. Kai didn't know what was happening, but by sensing the other person ahead of them and the climbing heart rates of his allies around him. He got into a combat stance as well ready to fight if need be.

"Whoever you are, you're getting one warning." Qrow said as he stepped up. "Get out of our way."

Neo twirled her parasol out of the way of her face, and showed her frowning pout. It might have been cute if she didn't creepily start sprinting at Qrow. Raven cut her down before she could take another step, but her blade simply crashed right through shards of glass. The second that happened, Qrow and the others were ambushed.

Kai was targeted first, unable to see the woman with an orange flaming eye crashing into him and charging him through the wall, Marron screamed her concern and jumped in after him, right as they hole collapsed closed behind her.

Pyrrha wanted to go after them as well, but the multicolored girl slashed at her side before she could take more then two steps. She was forced to defend herself and push Neo back, jumping back to give herself more distance and wincing when she landed on her bad foot. It was getting better, but it still wasn't at full strength.

Neo sauntered up to her while twirling her parasol, taunting her as she circled around her prey. The girl blinked her multicolored eyes, and the colors switched places.

"Very well… I shall be your opponent." Pyrrha said as she entered a hybrid combat stance, right as the multicolored girl suddenly appeared in striking range.

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During the chaos, Brick was pushed back into one of the already opened doors. He was struggling to keep up against the kicking fighting style of Mercury, as well as the bullets being fired at him by Emerald. His two friends were attacking him, attempting to kill him. Working with the enemy. Why?

"Why are you doing this!?" Brick screamed as he pushed back Mercury, and rolled away from another flurry of bullets shot at him by Emerald. He tried to roll away again but he Mercury was already back on him, somehow moving from one side of the room to right in front of him. He kicked him in the face and launched him backward. The red Violet twin stood back up with the support of his sword, and an angry look in his red eyes.

"You really think enjoyed being you 'friend' kid? This was the plan from the start." Mercury taunted with a dark chuckle. "You and your brother were so annoying. I enjoyed putting that little shit down for good, lets see if you put up a better fight then he did."

"Mercury, stop being a sadist and just kill him already." Emerald said with a roll of her eyes.

"W-what?" Brick questioned, tears stinging his watery eyes. "You killed Rick?" He asked, his voice barely above that of a whisper.

"Hm? Oh yeah, honestly I just can't believe you guys didn't catch us earlier." Mercury taunted, kicking the younger boy away again. "We were originally after Kai, but there's been a change of plans. So we are supposed to deal with you now."

"Don't tell him all of our plans you idiot!" Emerald scolded, hitting him on the back of the head.

"Why does it matter? Kid's going to die in a few anyway, let me have my fun."

As they bickered like he wasn't even an issue, Brick was shaking with rage. He kept his eyes pointed down at the ground as his hand tightened around the hilt of his sword. He earned their attention back when his red lightning started crackling around his body again. Even around his face. He looked up at them with tears in his eyes, and red lightning flowing out of his eyes.

"I'll make you pay for what you did to him!" Brick screamed as she slashed at them, an arc of powerful red lightning coming out of his sword that caught both Mercury and Emerald off guard. There was no way for them to dodge that, and so they had to try and block it. The second in touched their bodies however, it electrocuted them both and drove them to their knees.

Brick charged at them with a roar, slashing his sword across his side and knocking away Emerald, while also throwing his foot to his right and knocking away Mercury, shocking them both with even more electricity.

"I'll make you pay! I'll…" Brick seethed and breathed in deeply. "I'll kill you both."

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Raven and Qrow were left in the hallway, behind them the Pyrrha girl was fighting against that multicolored girl. They were going to go help them, but the two ahead of them now kept their attention. A woman with tiger stripes on her legs and arms, tiger ears atop her hair, dark skin and bright orange-yellow feline eyes. Beside her was a girl with black hair, and cat ears atop her head. On her other side was a girl with a long black ponytail, and dark brown freckles on what was able to be seen on her face, arms, and legs. The latter two both had White Fang masks on, but the one in the middle did not, but had the clothing of a higher ranked officer.

Sienna Khan was the easiest to recognize, she is on most of the wanted signs all over the world. The other two girls neither of the Branwen twins recognized, they didn't care too either. They simply looked to each other, and then back to the three women ahead of them, and both entered a fighting stance.

"Looks like we're going to be fighting together again after all." Qrow quipped as he drew out his sword.

"Hopefully, this will be the last." Raven replied.

"This will be your last battle in general." Sienna said as she readied her weapon, as did her two subordinates.

"No." Raven said sternly. "This will be your last battle."

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Kai coughed up spit as he was slammed against a wall, somewhere else in the stadium. He didn't have time to sense what was going on before he was thrown through a wall. He did have time to sense something hot getting closer to his body. He threw his left hand forward and unleashed the flame part of his semblance.

The masked Cinder widened her eyes and met the black flames with her powerful orange. The attacks both cancelled each other out, and gave Kai the time to push himself back onto his feet.

Cinder didn't want to give him the time to recover and tried to attack him again, but a blast of air hit her side and knocked her off balance. She fell over but recovered with grace, flipping to her side and landing back on her feet and glared daggers at the woman who dared to interfere with her plans.

"You're not going to touch my son you stupid bitch." Marron declared as she held her pipe out like a sword.

Cinder didn't want to give her any more time to live, and wanted to immolate her on the spot. But as soon as she fired a ball of flame her way. A stone wall rose out of the ground.

Kai kicked the wall toward her, and Cinder broke right through it with a kick of her own. She watched on with annoyance as mother and son faced off against her. Kai with his black flaming aura on his left side while Marron releases the full power of her semblance for the first time in a very long time. Her aura was draining quickly, but she knew that it was either go all out, or not at all.

"Annoying… unimportant people should not have the power of nature on their side, that is an ability that should be exclusive to me." Cinder snarled as she let her own aura flare up orange, bright orange flames swirling around her body.

"Why are you doing this?" Kai asked her, Silver Ebony being pointed to her. Even with the blindfold on Cinder could tell that his eyes were staring right at her, despite them being blind and unable to actually see anything. "What do you have to gain from causing so much pain!?"

"Power." Cinder answered right away, and smirked at the boy. "I am going to be taking you to my mistress myself… but she didn't say anything against taking care of you." She sadistically pointed out, smirking at Marron who felt her heart jump up into her throat.

"No, you won't." Kai declared, stepping forward. He felt a heat from behind his eyes as he stood off against his attacker. Angry. The angriest he has been for the first time in his life. No one is going to threaten to kill his pregnant mother and get away with it. "To get to her, you need to get through me first."

Cinder's right eye flamed orange, and she smiled cruelly at the blind boy.

"Gladly."

Yay, another cliffhanger! You guys must love me, right? Right? Yeah, I know you do. As you can see the chapters are going at a much faster pace than before. This is because I am getting less and less time to write, full time job and everything like that taking away from my free time. I had to write this all in two days, and while that is not exactly hard for me to do, since I have written much more words in single days before. Such as a few chapters from one of my other story having like 22k words, all written in a day. Yeah, not my best ideas.

The other two girls with Sienna are Ilia and Blake btw, I just didn't write their names since neither Raven nor Qrow know them. Also, Sienna is there! Yay!

A lot of fights are starting... Ozpin vs Hazel and Tyrian, Winter and Weiss vs Adam, Malikai vs the whole White Fang pretty much, Qrow and Raven vs Sienna, Blake, and Ilia, Pyrrha vs Neo, Brick vs Mercury and Emerald, and Cinder vs Kai and Marron. Holy shit guys... if you thought the fights were getting hectic before, just wait for next chapter.

This one came out early because I have a lot to do tomorrow, so hopefully it doesn't seem too rushed to you guys. As I write this I have to go to work once again. So you know, adult stuff here I come.

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