Ruby
Ruby stares down at the ground as she holds Crescent Rose by its stock, pressing the barrel against the ground. She has been waiting for everyone to come together so then they can prepare to save the people of Mistral. Luckily Ruby has a plan, and that plan is all they need to get through this. Her round silver eyes turn when she hears Jaune approaching with Ren and Nora, and a scared and injured Thara Nikos at his side.
Ruby stands up and approaches, as Yang walks over as well with Ember Celica activated and at the ready. "Jaune...are you okay?" Ruby asks as she approaches him, holding her weapon in one hand. Jaune looks at Ruby and there is the look of awe on his face, an expression they all seem to share right now. Hearing the constant roars and screams of the monsters that surround them. The poor civilians that have not been able to get to safety in the attack, countless soldiers being ripped apart by monsters that roam the streets.
Jaune exhales as he looks at his hand, still covered in the man blood that he accidentally killed. "It's bad...I just managed to get Pyrrha's mom out of her home – before the citizens burned it down." Jaune explains, sounding shocked and also heartbroken as well.
"But the people are calming down now...what the hell could have happened here?" Nora questions with confusion, and that is when an exhausted yet recovered Qrow Branwen enters the conversation with his sword in his hand.
"Fury – he's using his presence to make the people go crazy with rage. But now that the anger has been used to draw in the Grimm, he has ceased it." Qrow explains as he looks at the tired civilians on the ground, palms pressed to their heads.
"We need to get these people out of here." Ruby states as she stares at the many Nevermores and Griffins that circle the many areas of the gigantic city. She ponders and ponders...
She wants to save everyone in the city, but the concentration of Grimm is so high and the city is so vast that they will never be able to save them all. Hundreds have already been killed by these monsters that have broken through the walls thanks to Lionheart's Betrayal. "How? The city is too large." Weiss points out.
"Then we save as many as we can." Ruby states, turning to them all.
The Huntsmen and Huntresses all come together to discuss their plan to save as many of the Mistraalians in the city of Mistral as they possibly can. Sun and Scarlet and Neptune are utterly broken at the moment, but still fuelled with rage over the death of their close friend.
The loss of Team A.B.R.N makes things much harder as well, knowing that it is only them who can defend the civilians in here and the few surviving soldiers that are not possessed by Fury's rage cloud that has infecting the populous. But they have numbers and through that they have strength.
Team R.W.B.Y, Team J.N.R, Team S.S.N, Oscar, Qrow, Kassius and Winter are here altogether, standing in the circle with their weapons at the ready. Winter looks around and then at the body of Sage which a tarp has been thrown over his body, along with the bodies of Team A.B.R.N. Ruby exhales, she knows what's at stake, and she knows that they need to get the people out, the Relic is out of their reach, but they still have Ozpin's...so that's something.
Ruby opens the silver plains of her eyes as she looks to them all, holding Crescent Rose in her closed form as she turns to them. "I know that we are all hurt right now...but we have to push on." Ruby explains to them.
Sun and Neptune grit their teeth in anger, because they want to take their anger out on something, and what's better than a horde of Grimm in the city?
"Damn right." Sun snarls. Blake and Weiss look at the men that they love with concern in their eyes; whereas Qrow is still recovering mentally from his encounter with the Knight of Fear. But Winter is fully operational once more, spinning her sword through her fingers and her clothes have been cleaned up and her hair is pearly white. Weiss has her long white hair pulled back into an off-centre bun tail and pinned with an icicle shaped tiara. Just like before, she has kept her Schnee Tiara after all this time, and she looks just like the old Weiss Schnee again, her large blue eyes narrowing when she sees the Grimm attacking the city. Leant against the wall is Pyrrha's mother, still alive but wounded.
"We need to focus on getting the civilians out." Ruby states, looking at Thara Nikos who is holding her stomach, she has bruises and silt on her face from the possessed civilians that burned her beautiful home to the ground, the only memories of her daughter reduced to dust. Jaune nods at Ruby, putting his trust in her as he smiles.
"I will do that." He promises, holding Crocea Mors in his hand.
"I will gladly assist." Ren promises.
"So will I." Nora says. "When the civvies are safe in the woods we will come back, leave some soldiers with them and we will help you finish up here." Nora concludes as she stands there, wielding Magnhild in her hands, the pink dust flowing through the metal weapon. A little smile beams across the Rose's face.
"We will all help gather the people of Mistral to get them out; we can only hope that whatever it was that Fury did to them can fade soon." Blake adds, looking around every time there is an explosion.
"The civilians in the lower district are a lost cause, the soldiers are still holding them off down there as best they can. But they won't be able to hold them for long." Qrow warns. Qrow stands back up and his eyes look to the city. The soldiers are all fighting the Grimm as they speak, holding them back for now which is giving them time.
Ruby looks saddened of the cold hard truth that is the fate of the lower class down there. But she knows that he is right, so she forcefully nods her head as she readies her scythe. "We can still save the people up here." Ruby states.
They all help round up the civilians to get them into an orderly line. Nora busts through a door and she sees a bunch of terrifies teenagers hiding under the table. Nora smirks.
"Hi." She greets.
"You know this might be a one-way trip for some of us?" Ren warns with his arms crossed as he listens to Ruby.
Kassius smirks. "I've got no plans tomorrow night." He says as he flicks Lash Equinox up, his blade emerging from it as he stands there.
"Try and stay alive, but remember, the priority is the people. The Relic is gone, nothing we can do about that, but we can save these people from the Grimm. If we get them in the woods, we can get back to them and find a safe haven somewhere." Ruby explains, ironic considering the circumstances with the word haven. There was nothing safe about it, it was all a trap laid out by the mastermind: Doctor Arthur Watts.
Jaune holds the blade of Crocea Mors in the air to guide the travelling civilians in the direction that they need to go. The soldiers are still holding them back but they are running out of time, the Nevermores are being held back for now, but all it takes is one to get through to mess this all up. Ren presses his hand to the floor, pink waves of energy pulsating across his body as he directs his semblance towards the afraid civilians as a Grimm Beowulf that managed to get past the defences attacks them.
The civilians are shrouded in the grey field, concealing them from the eyes of the Grimm beast. Monstrous growls emerge from its jaws as it looks around. Winter stands on the building, forming one of her Glyphs behind her to launch a dust icicle straight at the beast, hitting it in the head and killing it. The family look at Ren and he smiles. They continue on the path. "Keep the fight between us." She narrates.
Ruby stands at the head of the line with rose petals dancing from her red cape as she walks, the people still twitch from the toxic effect that Fury's gas had on them all. "The Knights of Grimm...Death...he believes that all life belongs to him...maybe he's right." Ruby narrates as they all guide the civilians away from the battle. "But we will have no intention of letting him take our lives. No more people will die today." Ruby says with anger in her voice.
Jaune looks at the Nikos Crown on his heat shield and he presses his forehead against it, he misses her painfully but he knows he must go on. For her. Ren grabs his father's knife, pulling it from the sheath and spinning it through his fingers, the howl of the Nuckelavee still echoes through his memory even after it fell.
Qrow flies across the sky in his Crow form, observing the battle at the fallen walls of Mistral, and it is truly terrible. The amount of dead soldiers there, valiantly sacrificing themselves so then the civilians could live to tell the tale.
Ruby continues to walk...but all halts when a dark shadow passes over the crowd. They all look up when they hear the roar of a Nevermore, banking around as it flies towards them. "Nevermore!" Scarlet calls out, spinning his sword through his fingers as the Nevermore circles them.
It continues to glide across the night sky of Mistral, the black hue of smoke trailing from its black feathered body. The red eyes remain fixed with them as it glides; each brawl sends shivers down their spines. They keep their eyes on it and the civilians start to panic, moving faster and faster because the Nevermore is getting closer to the ground. Yang watches the monster as it flies above their heads, the huge feathers smashing through the wind in the air. "It must have gotten past the defences still operational." Yang presumes.
But Qrow keeps watching the titan as it flies closer and closer.
Scaring the civilians that they have rounded up.
"Do not panic, that will just get its attention." Ren says.
"Can't you calm them?" Neptune asks him.
"Not this many people." Ren says, their plan is going to come apart if this Nevermore attacks right now, it could kill hundreds of civilians in one attack if it does. But Ruby watches the creature as it glides as she watches carefully...and her eyes widen when she realises as it passes a tree.
The tree dies and crumbles down as it passes by it, and it has no bone crests like they normally do. And before she can say it, Qrow lands, shifting back into human form with his sword in his hand. "It's Death!" Qrow yells.
The Nevermore dives down and starts soaring straight across the city towards them, the beaks open and it roars aggressively at them. The crowd screams in terror as the Nevermore nears, the massive wings blocking the light of the Fractured Moon out from them all as it gets closer and closer. Qrow looks around as he sheathes his sword. "Everyone! Take cover!" Qrow yells.
Qrow connects to Neptune when he sees an abandoned truck in the road. "Neptune!" He calls, and Neptune instantly nods, joining his side as Death gets closer and closer to their position. Qrow and Neptune sprint through the crowd to get to the vehicle, and they both put their hands underneath it to lift it up. Neptune activates his Trident and he uses it to push it upwards to act as a shield against Death in case he attacks them. Jaune's eyes widen in fear.
"No, no, no...move!" He yells in horror when he sees the fatal feathers on the wings of the Nevermore folding out as it gets closer and closer.
"Back up! Back up!" Qrow shouts to the cowering civilians.
Death's Nevermore Form bellows extremely loudly and it starts spinning round in a corkscrew attack, throwing massive spear-like feathers across the street, stabbing into buildings. "Incoming!" He yells. Three of them are thrown straight into the truck, stabbing straight through, launching both Huntsmen across the street and into the ground. Neptune crashes down as a feather hits the building above him, tearing the floor apart, and sending debris plummeting down towards him.
He yells as it falls onto him, burying him in it. The feathers crash into the ground, knocking everyone on the floor, even killing a few civilians, one of them has been completely impaled by the feather, blood everywhere...Ruby stammers in horror at what has just transpired, their plan has completely fallen apart from the one attack that Death has thrown upon them.
Bad Luck Charm...
Blake groans in pain, grime and lint covering her face as she lies there, a couple of cuts and bruises but her Aura repairs the damage as she lays there. Her large cat-like amber eyes focus on Sun beside her who turns to her and he reaches his hand over to her through the crumbling rubble that has just been fallen around them. The constant screams of the terrified civilians is muffled from the shell-shock that is pulsating in their heads. Sun holds her hand affectionately and she smiles as she looks at him, personally happy to see the Monkey Man is okay.
Sun looks through the cloud of dust that has been formed from his attack, seeing the dead and injured civilians on the road. It was all going according to plan...and Death completely ruined it. Weiss looks around for Neptune, concerned for his safety. "Neptune?" She cries out. She then sees where he is and horror passes over her. He is crawling from the rubble that collapsed on him and his aura has been completely depleted, the blue flicker across his body revealing his weakness.
Blood leaks from many wounds across his body and as he drags himself out, shuddering and grunting in agony, his legs have suffered major lacerations, rendering his legs useless as he cannot stand up. Qrow gets back to his feet, looking across the way to see the crippled Neptune as he crawls out, being helped out with the help of Weiss and Sun. Weiss wraps her hands around him, his trousers tearing as she pulls him out from the concrete chunks that hit him. He screams in agony and she whimpers. "Oh my god...Neptune...your legs!" She weeps as she holds him gently.
She looks at the wounds and they are seriously bad, deep wounds with blood practically pouring out. The bone in his legs can be seen at some points of his wounds, but she only looks at his cut and bruised face. "You're okay...it's fine..." Weiss assures for him, despite that they both know that it is not the case, and he cannot stand up with his legs being in that condition. She holds him by his face and Sun stands there, looking at his best friend in complete agony, hyperventilating from the super-heated suffering in him right now and the tears gushing from his squinting eyes.
"Not again..." Sun stammers. Blake holds his hand as they look at Neptune as Weiss holds the boy she loves with all her heart and Winter reaches out to her, seeing the blood and silt in his blue hair, he has also suffered a concussion by the looks of it as well.
But then...
Scarlet turns round with widened eyes as he hears a devilish roar of a monster that comes towards them. A colossal fire embraced Wyvern glides towards the street that they have been attacked on, and the huge body erupts into a blast of flames. The roar fades away and into the voice of Fury. The massive molten pumice and obsidian constructed Knight slams down to the ground with his superheated fist pounding into the ground with all his might. There is an almighty boom with a shockwave of flames that chars the cars around him. He rises back up, his gritted jagged and molten teeth releasing an intimidating snarl as he walks towards them.
He grabs the truck and he launches it out of his way with all his might, and the flames burn through the metal and other components inside of the vehicle. The car completely disintegrates away into ashes as he approaches them.
Fire ignites in the palm of his hand, forming a fireball that he throws straight at them like a grenade, exploding upon contact with anything it touches. His jaws stretch down as he bawls at them, smoke and cinders trail from the beast's mouth. Sun grits his teeth, spinning Ruyi Jingu Bang through his fingers as he runs towards him with Blake, both out for vengeance against this Knight of Grimm. Scarlet runs with them with his sword and Flintlock Pistol in hand.
Weiss holds Neptune's hand as she looks at him, putting Myrtenaster down by her feet, looking into his blue eyes as he laments in pain from his injuries. "I'm not leaving you." Weiss says to him, warmly holding him. But Neptune weakly grasps Myrtenaster by the hilt with his bloodied hand, placing it into hers with a smile.
"You...have...to...fight." He weakly states, blood leaking from his lips as he looks right back into her eyes. She sniffles as she looks at him, and he caresses her cheek with his hand, then she sees his other hand picking up his rifle. "Kick their asses." He says with a smirk, despite being in so much pain. He nods to her and loads a new dust magazine into the rifle as he sits upright against the fountain he is resting against.
Weiss stands up and she closes her eyes with a sigh, knowing he is right.
Yang and Kassius both charge towards Fury as he stands there, forming fireballs in his palms that he launches directly at them. Yang rolls underneath the flaming sphere that explodes against a building above her, sending burning rubble crashing down into the street where civilians flee out of terror to find the best locations of cover that they possibly can. But Kassius fires Vulcan Nox at Fury and the bullet scrapes across the side of his head, embers and thick black smoke leaking from the wound.
He forms another and he catapults it towards her with all his strength channelled into his arm, throwing it straight at both of them. Kassius rolls aside and Scarlet slides across the road, firing his Flintlock Pistol quickly before he launches his grappling hook to a portion of a damaged building. He swings round and he throws himself towards Fury, kicking him in the side of the head with both feet. "Take that, prick!" Scarlet yells, landing down with a precise roll that takes the remaining energy and blows it away. He instantly spins round and slashes his cutlass across the kneecap of Fury, the huge burning Knight grunts with anger and he immediately turns round to smash the blade of his axe at him.
Scarlet jumps back, just missing the axe head that came crashing down at his feet, which would have been his head if he hadn't moved in the first place. Sun immediately sprints towards Fury, jumping and he smashes his bo-staff across the face of Fury, making him stagger and as he lands he fires his gun-chuck at him multiple times. He spins the many small shotguns attached to chains round with impressive speed and skill, firing them every single time and throwing shell casings across the tarmac. Every single shot delivers deep shrapnel wounds into Fury's armour, and he grunts every single time.
Until Fury catches Sun's wrist and he lifts him off the ground to punch him straight in the side of the head with force. Sun grunts, bouncing on the floor from the impact he makes as he falls, and Fury goes to smash the axe against his body.
Until Blake wraps her grappling hook around his wrist to keep him from doing so. Fury's eyes of fire twitch uncontrollably as he stands there. He turns and sees Kassius running right at him. Fury growls in anger. "Die!" Fury bellows, launching a fireball right at him. He also twists his wrist round as he grabs the cable of Blake's grappling hook and he pulls the much lighter girl off the ground and he swings her like a flail into Yang. They both yelp and grunt as they collide, falling to the ground.
Kassius rolls out of the way of the fireball that explodes not far from him, then he fires both Vulcan Nox bracers downwards into the ground. Using the recoil, he flies up over them in the air and he aims both of Vulcan Nox at Fury, launching rounds straight at him, firing both once before he lands onto the floor with a grunt. The two rounds impact his chest, making Fury stagger back from the impact. Yang slides across the road and she fires Ember Celica right at him, firing rockets into his chest, further making him recoil from the firepower being thrown upon him.
Fury roars in rage as he staggers, the demonic bellows echoing across the street, people flee in terror as they see the Huntresses and Huntsmen fight the beast. Blake swings round the corner once more, and she flies right over Fury's head, flipping over and slashing the blade of Gambol Shroud across one of his arms, cutting it clean off and making him roar in agony. His burning hand lands onto the floor with force, scorching the ground and the flames extinguish eventually, leaving a crumbling pumice hand on the road. Nora and Ren both see the battle against Fury and they join in to help.
Blake, Yang and Kassius continuously shoot him with their weapons, each impact makes him stagger slightly which prevents him from going full berserk on them. Ren shoots at him as well, but Nora has a better plan. She runs straight at him with Magnhild, laughing maniacally as she brings the hammer upwards with force, smashing the head of the hammer right against his head. Fury creates a deafeningly loud outcry from the impact, being launched into a back-flip and smashing his head into the ground.
He is riddled in bullet holes and the flames begin to go out around his body as he lays there.
Scarlet and Sun stand there with their weapons ready to fight, since they can hear a massive crash behind where Fury landed.
A swarm of Grimm come charging towards them, of all kinds as well from Beowulves to Creeps and even some Deathstalkers are here as well. The gigantic Scorpion roars and it slams its huge pincers against the ground over and over again, acting as territorial as ever. It's gigantic tail and glowing yellow stinger rises over its head as it stands there, walking across the street to attack.
Kassius cracks his neck with a scowl.
"Here we go." Kassius says.
They all run to the Grimm, fighting desperately to keep the monsters back.
But where Fury fell...
His hand twitches as the magma that cooled within him begins to ignite again, and slowly clenches into a fist. And the wounds he suffered are slowly repairing themselves with the lava that bleeds out of them.
Fury is not dead yet.
On the other side of the battle,
Ruby zooms across the street, slashing her scythe aggressively at the Beowulves and Creepers that are showing up to attack the civilians in the area, beheading them and cutting them into little pieces as she darts across them. Jaune stands there, blocking the attack from an Ursa with his shield and he remembers everything that Pyrrha taught him. He swings the upgraded Crocea Mors up the black furry chest of the bear, carving the blade straight through the flesh, revealing the glowing red internals. He finally swings Crocea across the neck of the beast, beheading it like he did to the Ursa back in Forever Fall.
The Ursa collapses and he sighs with relief. "Hey, did ya see that?" He asks Ruby. But he is completely shown up as he sees Qrow jumping down and swinging his sword across an entire pack of Beowulves, wiping them out and blocking every attack from the beasts that attack him, jumping in the air to not get slashed by the claws of an Alpha. Winter also fights with him, this time they are on the same side instead of fighting each other on the Beacon Courtyard.
She forms her Summoned Beowulf and points at the Grimm with her sword. The Beowulf howls, sprinting directly at them and attacking them, cutting them down like an Alpha would. She spins round and she takes the smaller blade from her main sword, leaping at the Alpha that is fighting Qrow and she stabs both blades into it and forms a Glyph underneath it. She kicks against it, creating a pulse that sends only her body up that cuts the Grimm clean in half.
Qrow stands ready, his sword held out to launch Winter towards a Griffon that has arrived at the battle. She drives the blade of her sword straight into the stomach of the beast, pulling it down onto the ground. She lands gracefully, perfect form as she stands there, looking at the dead Griffon behind her and then at the stunned Jaune Arc stood there. He then sighs, seeing his moment of triumph stolen by two awesome warriors. But the jokes end when the massive Nevermore returns, diving into the city and the form shifts again in black smoke.
The wings fold into his cape and the Nevermore's body shrinks down into the form of the knight. The wings drag across the buildings to slow his descent, tearing the walls down, crumbling down entire walls of brick and ripping catwalks from houses. He lands down as the rubble crashes around him, the face plates not yet closed, showing the mad burning skull inside. "Perniciem!" He snarls as he lands, speaking ancient tongue as he stands there, the Nevermore Wings retracting into the black cape's form.
Death stands tall, the darkness of the Grimm leaking from the armour plating that makes his body up, the red light bleeding from his eyes as he walks. He creates a deep snarl as he walks through the alleyway, his sword in his hand. Ren backs up when he sees him emerging from the shadows.
"It's Death! Run!" Ren yells.
Scarlet turns around when he sees the monster stepping out from the building, the red eyes fixing with his. Scarlet aims his Flintlock Pistol right at him and pulls the trigger as he stands there, The bullet hardly even scratches the armour, just makes a spark upon contact. Scarlet swings his sword right at Death to fight him, but he is no match. Death catches Scarlet's hand, breaking it and crushing the hilt of his sword from the strength of his metal hand. Scarlet cries out in agony as Death lifts him off the floor.
Sun looks right at Scarlet, his eyes widening with horror.
"Scarlet!" He yells in fear, terrified of losing another friend – another member of his team. Death looks right at Sun. Death creates a deep snarl and he goes to skewer Scarlet with his blade, but Winter throws herself at Death, using her Glyph to zoom towards him. The huge Knight is thrown from Scarlet, and he luckily drops him instead of carrying the Pirate Huntsman with him.
Scarlet falls onto the floor and he groans in agony, looking at his broken hand and shattered sword on the floor. Winter spins her sword through her fingers and she slams the blade of her sword into the floor, forming a glyph underneath herself. The glyph forms a swarm of tiny Nevermores that start to attack Death rapidly.
"Just get him to safety!" Winter yells as she keeps Death back as best as she can. Sun reaches out to him to get him out of there, helping him back up. Death spreads his massive wings out, tearing the entire floor down and he steps out from the building, his red eyes glaring into her blue ones. Winter stares straight at him. "I heard the stories...but I never believed they were true." Winter states as she looks at the Knight as he emerges. Death's wings spread outwards like the Angel of Death.
"And what do you know?" He asks, with a sinisterly deep and demonic voice. But Winter smirks, an expression he really did not expect to see.
"I don't care, I only want to know if can kill you." Winter says. Death chuckles menacingly.
"Why don't we find out?" Death asks, launching straight at her with his sword held tight.
Sun and Blake help carry Scarlet to safety, safety is ironically where Neptune and Weiss are, along with Oscar who is helping with the wounds that Neptune has suffered. Neptune is on the back of a truck and Oscar patches up his wounds with the things that they have found.
Blake and Sun help get Scarlet on there as well and Neptune looks at his hand and the pained expression on his face, they are both in agony. "I need to help the others." Sun says to Scarlet and he nods. Sun turns around and approaches Jaune who looks down the battlefield with disbelief in his eyes. "What is it?" Sun asks.
Kassius sprints towards the Deathstalker and he jumps to the building, pressing his feet against it as he jumps towards the huge Scorpion. He stabs the swords into the tail and he forces downwards with all his might. The huge stinger plunges straight into the top of the creature's skull, killing it instantly. Kassius pulls his swords from the head of the monster and he sees what Jaune can see.
As Kassius retreats back to the others, Jaune says what is on his mind. "Sun...Fury's getting back up." Jaune says to him. Sun looks in the direction he is looking and fear pulsates into his body. Fury rises back up, the wounds he suffered repair themselves with the fire that begins to ignite across his body, the magma glowing brighter as he stands up. An infernal blast of fire erupts in his hand, forming the two Axes that he carries and he snarls in rage. His burning cape blows in the wind as he stares at them, smashing a Creep out of his way with his wrist.
"These guys don't give up, do they?" Sun questions, in awe and sounding hopeless – because they have never faced an enemy that refuses to fall as much as the Knights of Grimm.
Ruby drives Crescent Rose into the chest of a Boarbatusk that she managed to take down but her attention turns when she hears something landing on Haven itself, standing tall and roaring demonically as he stands there, laughing and causing their hairs to stand on end. His Bat Wings spread out wide, the holes in the membranes showing the starts through them. "You've gotta be kidding me..." Sun stammers.
Loss is here as well, emerging from the fallen walls, aiming her bow at one of the fleeing civilians who is heading down the path that they were heading beforehand. The arrow sinks into his spine and he collapses, killed from the attack. Loss lowers the bow, her face concealed by the black veil, only her glowing blue eyes can be seen through it. But from what they can tell from her glowing blue eyes, they seem to be grief stricken for killing the civilian.
Then Qrow sees that Loss and Fear are headed towards the civilians who are fleeing to the forest as planned. Luckily they informed them to head in that direction if the Grimm broke through. And the two Knights are bringing Grimm that way as well, it will be an absolute slaughter. "The civilians..." Qrow stammers with widened eyes.
Oscar stands with them, he has been fighting quite well despite having his training still unfinished. He jumps onto the back of one of the Creeps and he stabs the cane down into the back of its skull with all his strength. The creature roars with pain and he rolls off it. "We can't let those civilians get hurt." Qrow states.
"I can help them!" Oscar states, eager to help out in any way he possibly can.
"You won't be able to take them down yourself." Qrow states, not trying to claim he is a weak fighter but more that nobody here can take on both Fear and Loss on their own. Even facing Fear on your own is pretty outmatched for the Huntsman.
"I'll help him." Kassius volunteers, and Yang looks at him with a worried expression on her face.
"You can count me in too." Sun assures, and a similar face comes from Blake. Qrow looks extremely concerned too, as he looks at the younger boy who stands there with Ozpin's cane in his hand. He knows that it is risky to send him out there, but he desperately wants to prove himself.
"You don't have to do this – you don't have to prove anything." Ozpin assures as he crouches down, and Oscar sighs, looking at him.
"I know – but I want to. It is our duty to protect people, and I can't stand by as those people get slaughtered." Oscar states.
Qrow sighs, because he cannot stop admiring his bravery, so he puts on a smile and pats his black haired head. "Alright...try and keep the Knights off them whilst we hold the rest off." Qrow agrees, against his own better judgement.
Kassius turns to Oscar and the hazel eyed boy looks up at him. "We've got your back, Oscar." Kassius assures with a smile on his face.
Oscar exhales with a shaky voice. "Okay..." He agrees with quivering hands – he may be brave but only a lunatic would be completely unafraid of heading into a battle quite like this. Sun smiles with Ruyi Jingu Bang in his arms.
Yang walks over to Kassius, her hand clutching to his and she smiles at him.
"Come back to me." She begs. Kassius smirks at her, and he gently moves his hand across her cheek and through her blonde hair, around the back of her head as he gently holds her.
"Come here." He says.
She wraps her arms round him, kissing him right on the lips, they both close their eyes as they share this little moment together. In the background, Death throws Winter straight through the building and he transforms into Nevermore form, flying around with a roar, but the two of them break their kiss gently, pressing their foreheads together as she holds him. Kassius smiles. "I'll always come back for you." He promises cockily, stepping away from Yang. The blonde huntress exhales, smiling as she has finally had her moment with him, she thrusts her fists down to activate Ember Celica in combat. Kassius looks down the path, it is clear but Loss is down one of the paths and she will be a problem. Oscar starts to walk forward and Sun goes with him.
Blake closes her eyes, and now she knows what she wants. "Sun!" She calls, making him stop to turn to the black haired Faunus Girl. Blake holds onto his white shirt collars gently, looking up in his eyes. Sun looks into her eyes as well, as this will be the perfect moment. "No matter what...I will never regret seeing you on that boat with me." Blake reveals. She and him share a long and devoted kiss with each other, her cat ears gently curve down affectionately as she holds him and he pushes his hand through her hair, his other round her waist. He nearly lifts her off the floor as he holds her. They break the kiss and they look longingly at each other's eyes.
"You have no idea of how long I've wanted to do that." Sun confesses which makes her blush a giggle nervously. Oscar smiles as he stands there, but Kassius stands there and he knows that they need to get him and Ozpin to safety.
"Oscar! Let's get moving!" Kassius shouts to get his attention.
He thrusts his fists downwards, engaging Vulcan Nox to activate and he wields both Lash Equinox Swords in his hands. Blake and Sun still hold each other's hands but they step away from one another, their hands part and they turn away from each other. Blake draws Gambol Shroud and she returns to combat mode, joining in with Yang as she runs at Fury. Sun runs over to Oscar as well.
"Move!" Sun pushes. The three of them start running down the street as fast as they can to get to the forest, Loss turning to glare at them. Back at the main battle, Fury stands there and he roars in rage, throwing a fireball straight at Team Bumblebee.
Oscar sprints at full speed, holding the cane in his hand, not looking back as Loss launches arrow after arrow at his two Guardians who are keeping him safe. A Beowulf lunges at Oscar but he smashes the rounded head of the cane right across its skull, killing it instantly. He ducks down as a Creep jumps at him, straight into Ruyi Jingu Bang that Sun clatters against its hard headed skull.
"Cover fire!" Kassius calls out, firing his weapons back at Loss who moves around swiftly across the street from them. The arrows dart straight past them as they move aside. Sun holds both Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang, firing them both back at her as well, crouching down behind a torn up piece of road that Oscar runs past, his eyes widen as an arrow narrowly misses him from her Bow. Kassius rolls backwards to stay nearly to Oscar as he runs, firing Vulcan Nox every now and then.
Oscar looks back but when he looks forward, the Nevermore glides round the corner, dragging his claws into the building to turn sharply and transforms back into his Knight form, the wings folding away into his cape. The black blade charges black lightning across the blade. "Look out!" Kassius warns, running up to a parked car and he lifts it up with his cybernetic arm to shield Oscar from the attack that Death is about to fire. The black lightning blasts straight into the car, blowing it apart and throwing Kassius back from the explosion, causing Oscar to stumble as he runs past Kassius.
The wings of the Nevermore emerge from Death's back and he leaps forward. The black smoke forms around his body and he morphs into the Nevermore, gliding straight over Oscar's head, the down-draft of the wings nearly makes him fall over. The Nevermore lunges his talons at Oscar as he runs and just misses as the Nevermore flies over his head.
They need to get to the civilians before the Knights and the Grimm kill them.
Fury grabs Yang and throws her straight into a truck, laughing with rage. The Nevermore of Death flies over Fury and drags his claws into Haven Academy's roof, transforming back into the form of Death who looks down on the battlefield. But when he stands there, Qrow's eyes focus on him, and the hate he has for the Knight fills him with rage.
What Death took from him...
He grits his teeth and he engaged the sword to transform into Scythe Mode. The cogs in the blade start to click and rotate round, the blade extends and the handle does as well. The blade curves and arches down, the light from the moon shines upon it and he slams it down into the ground behind him, staring straight at Death.
"Death!" Qrow yells. Death turns round and locks eye contact with Qrow.
"Corvus!" Death roars back. He leaps off the roof of Haven, transforming into Nevermore Form once more, soaring straight at him, roaring monstrously. Qrow runs at him and leaps right at him with the Scythe held back to dig into the body of the beast.
Qrow yells in rage, slamming it into the body of the Nevermore.
Qrow is ready for Round Two.