Jaune reached the Vytal Memorial Square as fast as he could, Lucy right behind him, calling "Open, Gate of the Lion! Leo!"
Leo appeared in a flash of light, looking around and nodding. Sticking his right fist into the air, he grabbed his bicep with his left hand, "O, Regulus, grant me your strength!"
Glowing light appeared around Leo's hands, while Jaune finally reached the Grimm, which were currently just Creeps, punching out with,"Corpse Devil's Disintegrating Fist!"
The Creep he punched slammed into a wall, exploding into a cloud of ash. Immediately grabbing the ashes, Jaune wrapped them around another Creep, "Corpse Devil's Execution!"
The Creep exploded in a shower of black goo. Gripping Crocea Mors with both hands, he swept it through the air, the goo stained ashes following in his blade's wake and ripping through three Creeps, "Corpse Devil's Slash!"
He heard a howl from behind him, drawing his attention to a Beowolf leaping out of the nearest hole. Pulling back his fist, he was cut off by Leo slamming a fist into the Beowolf's head, smashing it into the ground and shattering both the Grimm's head and the concrete.
Jaune clenched his black marked fist, before slamming it into a Deathstalker, causing it to explode into ash. Jaune and Leo went back to back, preparing from the approaching Grimm.
Jaune breathed in through his nose, eyes shrinking to pinpoints before he howled out a Corpse Devil's Rage. At the same time, Leo called out, "Regulus Impact!"
Ash and Light tore through more Grimm, flensing flesh from bone.
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Ruby wouldn't tell anyone, especially not Yang, who was struggling to keep Meteor up and didn't need to be worrying about her sister, but she heavily suspected that the Grimm had abandoned the idea of taking or destroying the walls and were now focused solely on killing her in particular.
It had started when one of the strange, jellyfish-like Grimm that bobbed among the ranks of the oncoming horde had abandoned its spot to launch at her, spiked tails trailing behind it and tried to stab her through the heart. Ruby had caught it, easily, and crushed it underfoot but ever since, the Grimm were following her…
There was something smart, and it was leading the horde remotely.
Ruby clapped her hands together before spreading them, hundreds of white sphere's spreading out before firing them at the Grimm still approaching as lances of light. Ruby tore the carapace off a jumping scorpion and brought it to her mouth, turning it into energy and swallowing it whole.
Ah, the benefits of having a magical aspect as vague as "White". Ruby flexed her hand, coating it in light, leaping down from the wall and smashing it through a Grimm's chest. Tearing it sideways out of the chest of the werewolf, Ruby coated both hands and began to tear through the Grimm as fast as she could, adding Bellows when necessary to tear through the larger Grimm. Clapping both hands together as the Grimm surrounded her. Breathing out, she stared at one of the jellyfish Grimm and thrust her hands into the air, saying, "I know you're out there, I'll find you, and I'll stop you, sooner or later. White Hole."
Energy exploded from her cupped hands, burning away the mass of Grimm as she did so. She staggered, nearly falling from exerting so much magical energy while injured, when she was caught by Yang, who offered her a white tile.
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Cinder landed on Beacon with the rest of the "reinforcements", eyes immediately scanning for one of her targets. So much magic to take, to make herself so strong no one, not even Salem, could order her around.
"Let's start with the so-called Dragon Slayer," Cinder said, walking in the direction where gouts of flame were flying. Along the way, she casually beheaded an "out of control" (read: under her control) Atlesian Knight. Emerald and Mercury fell into lock step behind her, a smirk on the gray eyed boy's face.
They found the "Dragon Slayer" in the middle of decaying Grimm and slagged robots. He turned towards them, grinning brightly and said, "Hey, I got this area. Go help the others-"
Cinder manifested an arrow on her bowstring, pulling it back and letting it fire at the boy. He dodged it, blinking at them, "You wanna fight? Now?"
Cinder just pulled back another arrow, firing as the boy charged at her and ducking under the arrow. He swung a flaming fist at Cinder, and she barely managed to dodge, letting Mercury kick at the boy, sending a shotgun blast at him.
The boy was blasted back, before landing, pellets falling from his face. A dangerous grin spread across his face, "Alright then, let's do this! Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Emerald leapt in front of Cinder, catching the attack on Thief's Respite. Cinder fired another arrow, which the boy caught and shattered with his fanged mouth while twisting his head to dodge an attack from Mercury. Jumping back, he landed only to immediately launch towards them with his foot on fire, a blur of motion.
The kick hit home in the center of Cinder's gut, sending her flying back and forcing her to climb to her feet. Gritting her teeth, she melted the earth near him, chains rising up to bind him in place as she reached out with her glove. A thread of energy shot forwards and dug into his chest. Finally, magi-
Why was there nothing? He… He obviously had magic, she should be able to take what was rightfully hers!
The chains snapped as the boy flexed, launching forwards covered in flames while Cinder was staggered by the cut connection, "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!"
Seconds before impact, she was shoved aside by Emerald, who took the brunt of the attack, a pillar of flames burning around her. When it went out, Emerald was on the ground, smoking.
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Natsu watched as two thirds of the group that attacked him fled, breathing in for a Fire Dragon's Roar. Only for one of the large robots to charge him and force him to catch it. Releasing the roar, he turned the robot to melted metal. Then there was a rumbling in the distance, and a mountain's top blew off to reveal…
Was that a dragon?
It wasn't quite a dragon, it had wings for front arms, but otherwise looked like a dragon, black drool dripping down from its open jaw. Well, looks like it was time to live up to his name…
"Happy!" Happy poked his head out from the shrub he was hiding in, "Mind getting me to that big thing, little buddy?"
They flew towards the dragon on Happy's wings, and Natsu immediately let out a Roar on one of its wings, burning through it and forcing it to land. Natsu landed on the ground, immediately dodging another clawed swipe. More of the black monsters were rising from the drool of the dragon. Well then.
"With Flames in my left hand! And Flames in my Right! Put them together and this is what you get! Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" Natsu threw a giant ball of fire at the dragon's head, burning away the monsters around it and really melting half its head.
Natsu launched forwards in another Fire Dragon's Sword Horn, shattering the dragon's skull completely.