41Yang, Blake and Wisteria could only look up in shock as they saw Ruby suddenly plummeting out of the sky towards them. "Heads uuuuuuuup!" She screamed as she flailed around through the air, trying to find some way to (safely) bring herself to a stop.
But just as she was about to hit the ground panicking, Jaune came flying through the air and crashed into Ruby, knocking her off course and sending them both into a tree to the left of where Blake, Yang and Wisteria were standing. The former Fanged Wyvern just blinked in confusion. "Okay... what just happened? You guys saw that, too, right? I'm not going crazy?" Wisteria asked.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked Yang while looking at the tree.
"I..." Yang said uncertainly.
Before she can continue, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them and Onyxia burst out of the treeline, thrashing frantically. "Oh, come on, Nyx! Just one little taste!" Nora pleaded as she was revealed to be holding onto the clawed hand-like formation at the end of Onyxia's tail.
"For the last time, NO!" The former wandering colossus refused emphatically, turning quickly and swinging her tail with as much force as she could muster, finally causing Nora to lose her iron grip and get sent flying towards the temple. "Seriously, how many times do I have to say it? That sap comes from MY BODY! Seriously, would you eat someone's sweat?" She said in annoyance as Ren emerged from the treeline in exhaustion.
"Once again... I'm sorry for her..." He apologized tiredly on behalf of his childhood friend.
"Oh, damn. I almost forgot about you. Sorry we left you behind like that, I just freaked out when she jumped on my back like that." Onyxia apologized right back.
Back with Nora, after Onyxia launched her like that, she flew quite a good distance, before landing and rolling even further, winding up sitting right in front of the golden rook. "Oooohh..." She marveled at the chess piece, before suddenly jumping up and grabbing it. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She sang and danced with the chest piece with a pink background behind her, featuring stars and her hammer symbol.
"Nora!" Ren called to his partner.
This caused Nora to quickly stop dancing with the rook on her head, then saluted, dropping the relic into her hand. "Coming, Ren!" She called back as she skipped off to her friend.
"That might be the fastest I've ever seen Onyxia move." Wisteria noted.
"Did that girl just hitch ride in on that Faunus girl's tail like a jet ski?" Blake asked.
"I..." Yang began, even less certain than she was before, when She was interrupted once more as a screech was heard from their right and both Pyrrha and Cerule (the latter running on all fours again) came into the scene as the scorpion creature uprooted entire trees in its chase after them. They narrowly dodged its giant claws, Pyrrha by hurdling in between the spaces of the claw and Cerule by diving low to the ground underneath the claw, popping back up onto all fours and they both kept on running.
"Jaune!" Pyrrha called.
"Pyrrha!" Jaune cried back to her.
"Cerule!" Wisteria called, waving for the Lunagaron girl.
"Wisteria!" Cerule exclaimed in recognition of the Magnamalo girl.
Onyxia then made her way to the group, her heavy plating having made her off-balance and run down the hill quickly to not fall on her face. She then stopped right before a certain blonde brawler. "Yang." She greeted her acquaintance.
"Onyxia! Hey!" Yang greeted, the two sharing a fist bump.
Ruby then stood up in the tree, about to help Jaune, before looking at the Deathstalker below. "Whoa!" She said in amazement and started running off of the branch and landing in a roll.
"Ruby!" Jaune whined.
"Ruby!" Yang exclaimed in both surprise and happiness as her sister landed on the ground and stood up beside her.
"Yang!" Ruby said excitedly, raising her arms as if to give her sister a hug.
"Nora!" Nora declared, coming between the sisters and knocking them off-balance in surprise.
The scorpion Grimm continued to follow Pyrrha and Cerule as they ran. "Did they just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on their tails?" Blake asked.
Wisteria rolled her eyes at this. "Okay, seriously, Blake? We're seeing all the same things you are. I don't know what extra information you're expecting us to have." She said in slight annoyance.
And she wasn't the only one, as Yang was getting angrier until she growled and erupted in a small burst of fire, eyes flashing red. "I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" She demanded furiously, looking around to make sure everyone realized there would be consequences if they didn't give her those two seconds of peace.
The tick-tock of a clock counted down the two seconds of Yang cooling down, Ren running over to a ditzy Nora and Blake and Ruby looking up. At that moment, Silver also emerged from the treeline. "Ruby! I finally caught up with you!" She said as she walked up to the group. "And everyone else as well, excellent... Except Weiss. Where is she?" She asked.
"Um... Well..." Ruby said, pointing up.
Up above, Weiss was revealed to be hanging onto a talon the size of her entire body that belonged to a gigantic Nevermore. "How could you leave me?!" Weiss cried out to Ruby.
"I said 'jump'!" Ruby shouted back.
"I'm genuinely starting to worry about your sanity." Silver told her.
"She's gonna fall." Blake told her.
"She'll be fine." Ruby said dismissively.
"She's falling." Ren stated.
"Dammit! Hang on, Weiss!" Silver said as she prepared to fly up and get the heiress (her tailfin having recovered between the long walk and quick meal), before a clawed hand with a blade on the arm moved in front of her.
"No. I got this." Wisteria said, aiming her hands down, bringing Hellfire to her palms and blasting herself into the air, performing several twists and twirls in the air before unleashing more Hellfire explosions to launch herself higher and higher into the air as she quickly began to reach the heiress.
Weiss had her eyes tightly closed, pleading for her life that her aura could protect her, believing that would be the only way she'd survive this situation. Suddenly, she felt something crash into her, feeling herself tumble through the air, before she realized someone or thing was holding her closely. And she slowly dared to open her eyes to see a purple and red Faunus girl holding her bridal style. "Are you alright?" The girl asked her.
Weiss was in awe at the girl whose arms she was now in, not realizing a light blush running across her face. "Y-yes..." She said meekly.
"Good. By the way, love your music." The girl said.
Weiss was stunned by the past few seconds. Basically all her life, she had been told- and even directly seen- Faunus were the enemy and Schnees could never get along with those creatures. Yet here was this PARTICULARLY fierce and brutal-looking Faunus girl, who clearly knew who she was, not even hesitating to risk her life to jump up and save her. And she even enjoyed her music, despite the fact she must know how Weiss' company and family treat her people. But she ignored all of that and saved her regardless. Maybe all Faunus weren't so bad. Especially this one.
The Faunus girl then adjusted Weiss in her arms so she was in a more upright position. "Alright, now this could get dangerous. Hold on tight." She warned, holding Weiss close to her body with her right hand between her shoulders and wrapped her tail around Weiss' lower, as well as her own, before bringing it back around and holding the flat side of the spear head of the tail underneath the heiress' rear like a seat, while Weiss wrapped her arms around the girl's neck and shoulders and her legs around the girl's waist, tucking her head tightly to the girl's shoulder.
Wisteria then held her left hand down and started to release intermittent bursts of Hellfire to slow their descent, twisting and re-angling herself as needed in order to land as close to the group as possible. And after about a full minute, the two hit the ground, at which point, she set the heiress down. "Thank you, um..." Weiss started.
"Wisteria Champagne." The former Barbarous Beast introduced herself.
"Wisteria... beautiful name." She said with a blush.
"Oh, good! Weiss! You're back! See? I told you this would all work out." Ruby said as she walked up.
"That was almost a complete disaster, you dolt!" She snapped.
The Death Stalker was still hunting Pyrrha and Cerule, but they managed to reach the safety of the others, Cerule by pouncing forward the last bit of distance to land at the far end of the group and Pyrrha diving to land on her side at the feet of the heroes. "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said sarcastically.
"Jeez. Way to kill the mood, blondie." Wisteria told her.
"No one's dying today! Not if I can help it!" Ruby declared, letting out a battle cry and rushed towards the Grimm.
"Ruby, wait!" Yang cried out.
"No, Ruby! Come back!" Silver cried out as well.
She was about to off after the girl, when she suddenly heard the ringing of her Scroll, each of the monster girls having been provided one by Ozpin. And it was none other than the Headmaster himself. "Miss Imperia, I see you and the others have reached the temple, excellent. Then I'd highly advise you to collect your relics and return to the cliffs, QUICKLY." He said in a surprisingly urgent tone.
"What? Why? I mean, we already have reasons to hurry, but what is this new one?" She asked.
"There's a type of Grimm rapidly heading in your direction that we've NEVER seen before. That makes it dangerous, as we don't know what to expect. It looks like a type of massive Grimm known as a Wyvern, but a good bit smaller. Though, a good bit smaller than a giant is still quite large. It's easily the size of the giant Nevermore Miss Rose and Schnee rode in on. I implore you all to escape now." Ozpin said, leaving the former Elder Dragon greatly troubled.
As this was happening, Ruby- who was still screaming- fired Crescent Rose and charged at the oncoming Death Stalker. When the two meet, the Grimm EASILY swept Ruby away and she was knocked back.
"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby assured everyone as she slowly got up. She turned back to the monster and shot it in the skull, but it did absolutely nothing to the beast. At this point, Ruby finally decided to run away from it and sheathed her scythe as the Death Stalker now went after her.
"Ruby!" Yang cried out as she ran to reach her sister. Ruby rushed towards Yang as well, but the Nevermore cawed above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that caught on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her. "Ruby, get out of there!" Yang told her.
"I'm trying!" Ruby insisted while struggling with her cloak.
The Death Stalker approached, raising its golden stinger above a scared Ruby and heading down on the helpless girl. "Ruby!" Yang cried out while reaching out in vain for her sister.
But then, a blue and white blur raced past Yang as the stinger lashed forward, everything going black. "How about you pick on someone who can fight back." A voice rang out.
Ruby opened her eyes to see a girl similar to Silver and Onyxia in appearance, a Faunus girl with way more animal features than normal. In this case, the girl had the feet, ears and teeth of a wolf, but also strangely had reptilian scales and claws. She was stopping the stinger somehow, but Ruby couldn't see from this angle. Leaning to the side as much as she could, she was horrified to see the stinger stabbed into the girl's stomach... Or at least, that's what she thought at first glance, before she realized the girl was coated in a thin, but incredibly solid and sturdy coat of ice armor, the stinger having stuck into one of the plates covering the girl's chiseled abs, but not piercing the glorious abdominal muscles. (Wait, what? Why are you thinking that!? Bad Ruby! Stop it! Pay attention to the evil Grimm trying to kill you, not the beautiful wolf girl saving you! Aah! You did it again! STOP!) The scythe-wielder told herself in her mind.
Cerule then pulled the stinger out of the ice covering her abs and holding it back, waiting for the Deathstalker to give one more strong thrust to try and impale her again. She then felt the stinger move forward and used the momentum, turning and stabbing the stinger into the ground, at which point she breathed a freezing mist onto it to freeze it in place. She then turned and sliced through the feather pinning Ruby's hood with her ice-covered claws, which she then used to give Ruby a thumbs up while winking, not AT ALL helping the girl's current train of thought. "There you go, kid. Now hurry up and get back to your friends." She told the younger girl, before she backflipped over the claws swiping at her.
Yang then rushed up to Ruby and gave her a hug, which Ruby grunted at upon receiving. "So happy you're okay!" She said, the two staring at each other for a moment, before looking at Cerule.
"Should we help her?" Ruby asked.
"Call me crazy, but I think she's got this." Yang said, leading Ruby back to the safety of the group.
Cerule backflipped over the monster as it swung its claws at her, unleashing several bursts of ice from her mouth as she passed over the beast, causing several spots on its shell to freeze. She then made her way to the left side of the monster and unleashed a cloud of freezing mist, similarly covering a good portion of the monster, especially its less armored legs, in a thin layer of ice, slowing it down and limiting its movements. She then hopped onto the beast's back and slashed at its head, weakening and cracking the shell there. She then pulled her arm back, preparing a spear hand strike to impale the beast's brain now that it's armor was weakened, when she suddenly heard a noise coming from the forest and turned to see a fireball flying right at her, leaving her no time to react as it slammed into her and blasted her off the Deathstalker.
"Cerule!" Pyrrha cried out in concern, before everyone looked to the source of the fireball.
"What is that thing!? I've never seen a Grimm like that before!" Blake said in shock.
Meanwhile, the other monster girls were in disbelief. "It can't be..." They said all at once.
It was massive at 81 feet long, a reptilian beast standing on two legs with four red claws on its feet. Its upper limbs developed into powerful wings capable of flight, even despite its body, tail and feet being very muscular and heavy. It was covered in thick black plates and scales that seemed like even the strongest weapons wouldn't be able to pierce. If that wasn't bad enough, most of its body, including its wings, tail, feet and head, were covered in large red thorns, making the act of making ANY FORM of physical contact seemingly impossible without being impaled on the spikes. Its face was covered with the iconic white Grimm mask with red markings, but at the front of its face was a massive red horn. There was no mistaking it...
"It's an Espinas... As a Grimm..." Onyxia quietly said to the other monster girls in horror.
"But how is that even possible?!" Wisteria hissed back in a whisper.
"We can worry about that later. Right now, Cerule needs help." Silver told them in a hushed tone.
"ANOTHER giant Grimm!? And the bird is circling back, too! What are we gonna do!?" Jaune asked in a panic.
"But what about that ice wolf girl!? She needs help!" Ruby said, concerned for her crush- I mean, savior!
"Don't worry, we'll get her and try to give you guys time to get to the cliffs." Silver told them, flying off after her comrade, the other monster girls following quickly.
"But what if the other Grimm join in? Four of them against three giant Grimm? They won't stand a chance." Pyrrha said in concern.
"Then we just have to make sure we get there attention and lure them away as we make it back to the Cliffs. It's still possible we can get away without fighting them." Ruby said.
Cerule groaned after she was blasted off of the Death Stalker, slowly getting to all fours. "Damn, that hurt. Those fireballs was bad enough when I was a giant, now that I'm human-sized they pack a serious punch." She said, before noticed something. "Hey. I'm not convulsing or sick to my stomach. Guess that means it's not a PERFECT recreation of an Espinas. That's good." She said, before looking up and seeing the draconic Grimm charging towards her. Imperfect recreation or not, getting hit by something THAT BIG, covered in spikes, would hurt like hell.
Fortunately, that never happened, as a number of purple fireballs crashed into the beast and brought it to a halt, before Onyxia jumped in front of it and slammed her fists down on the ground hard enough to shatter the Earth before her, causing chunks of Earth to snap upward and slam into the beast, staggering it, before a beam of Dragon Energy blasted it back as Silver flew in and blasted the beast enough to knock it back. She then landed before the Lunagaron girl, extending her hand. "Hope you don't mind a bit of help with this one." She said.
Cerule was a bit surprised at this, but smirked, accepting the hand. "You can TRY, but don't expect to get more hits in than me." She said as she was pulled to her feet.
Meanwhile, Ruby went over and grabbed a gold knight identical to the one Yang picked out and Jaune took hold of a gold rook similar to Nora and Ren's piece, smiling at each other. They then looked back to the Scorpion Grimm and the Raven Grimm.
The Death Stalker finally broke free of its bonds and turned to attack the monster girls, before suddenly feeling its side being bombarded by blasts from Yang's Ember Celica rounds and Nora's Magnhild grenades. The Nevermore likewise tried to attack the monster girls, but it too felt its focus ripped away from this task as it was riddled with bullets from Ren, Pyrrha, Blake and Ruby. The two giant Grimm now had their focus firmly fixed on the normal students.
"Time we left!" Ren declared.
"Right." Ruby agreed, waving to the others. "Let's go!" She declared as she ran forward with everyone following, except for the monster girls, as well as a smiling Yang and Blake as the latter approached her partner.
"What is it?" She asked.
Yang stared proudly at Ruby as she leapt on a boulder and motioned the group onward. "Nothing..." She said as she moved on as Blake smiled in realization- possibly towards the audience- and left as well.
The Espinas Grimm recovered from being knocked down and glared at the monster girls, before noticing its comrades chasing after the other students and decided to assist in destroying the larger group. "Oh, no you don't!" Wisteria snapped as they chased after the Flying Wyvern imitation.
Background Music: "Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace
Silver flew ahead of he beast and spun back around in mid-air to face it and block its path, thrusting her tail forward into its face between its eyes, staggering it once again to prevent it from charging any further. Meanwhile, Cerule reached the two next and once again leapt over her opponent while raining down ice shards on them, doing decent damage and forming a layer of ice to slow down the monster. Wisteria got there next, running up on the beast's right side and spinning with her arm blades extended, so with each revolution, she delivered a slash as she moved past the monster, finishing with a backflip with her tail flared out into its trident-like form, uppercutting the monster and sending it reeling back and turning its back to them, where it was met with Onyxia, who had finally caught up to the group, having stopped along the way to rip up a beach ball-sized chunk of Earth, which she then slammed down on the beast's head.
However, the beast was far from done, turning and swinging its tail to make the group jump back to avoid the spiked wrecking ball. It also unleashed a trio of fireballs at them. After dodging one, Wisteria looked at it for a moment, expecting it to explode like that of a normal Espinas, but nothing happened. "Okay. So the fireballs don't explode. Good to know." She said, turning back just in time for the Espinas Grimm to swing its head into her and knock her back.
"It may not be as dangerous as our Espinas, but we still can't underestimate it. OR let our guard down!" Silver told her.
"Right." Wisteria growled, rolling back to her feet.
The Grimm then stomped forward and hip checked Onyxia, who raised up her arms to block it, her rocky hide thankfully being tough enough to block it. But, it still pushed her back quite a good ways, until she was brought to a stop by Cerule catching her from behind. She then popped up off to Onyxia's left side. "Hey. Remember old Espinas is weak to Ice. Maybe that carried over to this version." She advised.
"Oh, I got you." Onyxia said, pulling out some Ice Dust crystals and crushing them in her hands, the ice coating the rocky protrusions on her arms. Cerule then charged forward and breathed another stream of freezing mist to chill and coat the Grimm in a layer of ice, dodging under its head swings and weaving away from its jumping stomps, before moving in, slashing at its legs with her claws and slamming her tail into them to weaken them, before Onyxia came in, hurling an ice ball at its head to stun it, landing a few solid punches to its head, then jumping up and slamming her fists down to make ice spikes rise up and slam into the beast, doing great damage and knocking it off balance to crash into the ground.
Meanwhile, the teens faced the other two giant Grimm, crossing a bridge to reach safety, when the Nevermore suddenly crashed through it, trapping Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Nora and Jaune on one side and Ren, Pyrrha and Blake on the other. Fortunately, Nora found a way across by slamming her hammer down on the bridge to launch Jaune over, then launching herself with an explosion from her hammer to slam its face right in the center of the Death Stalker's skull. She fired it just as the stinger came down to get her and blasted back again to avoid its reach. However, this also caused her to accidentally knock into Blake and making her fall from the edge.
Silver caught sight of this out of the corner of her eye and looked in horror as she saw her new friend fall. "Blake!" She said softly with great concern in her voice, disengaging from the battle and flying towards the other two battles in progress, not seeing the Espinas getting up and launching several fireballs in her direction. Thankfully, she heard and dodged them, but that just meant they were flying towards the others.
Blake saw the Nevermore above her and launched her whip so the gun's blade sank into the edge of the bridge, but before she could even reach the end of the ribbon for her weapon to catch her weight and allow her to swing, an errant fireball from the Grimm-Espinas hit and destroyed the bit of the bridge her weapon had been connected to, her best hope of saving herself being destroyed along with it. Blake could only gasp in horror at this and twist so her stomach was pointing downwards, spread out like a flying squirrel to catch as much air as possible to slow her fall as she looked for anywhere else she could attach Gambol Shroud to. Unfortunately, the cliff walls around her looked far too eroded and fragile, unlikely to even survive having Gambol Shroud sink into it, let alone catch her body weight. She gulped and closed her eyes as it seemed like her only option was to belly flop into the ground below and pray her aura could save her.
That was, until she felt her descent being brought to a sudden stop. As well as a huge wave of pain shooting up her spine, along with an immense amount of pressure in her hips, crotch and ESPECIALLY her generous backside. In addition, her upper body now felt much lower than her lower half. Looking back over her shoulder, she saw Silver, the ravishing dragon girl she had met last night and befriended due to their mutual love of books. In her clawed hand was a long trail of purple fabric covered in orange cat paw prints, the trail of fabric leading into the back of Blake's shorts.
It was her underwear. Which she was now dangling from in Silver's grasp as she floated in the chasm. She had saved Blake by giving her a MASSIVE flying wedgie. "Blake! Are you alright?" Silver called.
"Not the word I'd use..." Blake squeaked out, before trying to put on a brave face. "B-but I'll live." She said, trying to sound as normal as possible, although her bottom lip was trembling and she was trying to keep her eyes from watering.
Silver soon pulled her higher, allowing her to grab lower and grip the thread between the legholes of the undies, before wrapping her arm under Blake's belly, finally relieving the pressure in her lower regions, before she held Blake under her armpits. "Where should I drop you off? With Jaune or Ruby?" She asked.
Blake thought for a minute, before noticing that Jaune's group already had four people in it, while Ruby's only had three. "Ruby. They need more numbers." She said, watching the colorful group of other girls fight the bird monster as they drew closer, while she tried to get off any shots on the monster she could... while also trying to tuck her panties back into her shorts.
Silver then flew up and dropped her next to Yang. "Think you'll be fine from here?" She asked.
"Yeah. We've got this. Looks like your team needs you right now." Blake said.
"Right." The winged woman agreed, about to fly back to her team.
"And Silver?" Blake quickly called, getting the former Elder Dragon's attention once more. "Th-thanks again for saving me." She said, bashfully brushing her hair back behind her ear and fighting a blush. Silver gave a nod at this, before flying back to assist her team.
Meanwhile, the other monster girls continued to ranged and precision attacks (Wisteria's tail, Cerule's spear hand attack) to land solid strikes on the monster for decent damage, while also avoiding its spikes. But eventually, the Grimm soon became enraged, its black wings lighting up with reddish-orange markings, much like a regular Espinas as it let out a deep, bellowing roar, forcing the monster girls to flinch due to their heightened hearing. This allowed it to swing its head to smack away Wisteria, then hit Cerule with another fireball. It then charged for Onyxia, who leapt to the side to NARROWLY avoid the attack, but the quick action with her less than agile body caused her to stumble and fall, leaving her open as the Flying Wyvern imitation immediately turned back around and charged for her once again, this time not leaving her with enough time to dodge as she was slammed into and sent flying into the other girls.
They all groaned and looked up as the Espinas Grimm now stood fully erect, slowly stepping forward as it appeared to be charging up a massively powerful fireball in its mouth. "No way... It can even do THAT!?" Cerule asked in disbelief, having heard whispers on the winds from hunters about this attack from a Flaming Espinas and how it obliterated a Teostra, the EMPEROR OF FLAME, with a FIREBALL.
"We're finished." Wisteria said.
"Not yet!" Silver said as she flew in and folded her wing in front of her like a shield to bash into the Grimm's face, making its head snap back at the last moment so the fireball was instead launched to the sky. The creature recovered and snapped at her a few times, but she managed to avoid it each time. Seeing that it was distracted, Cerule took this opening to run in and slash the beast's vulnerable underside. This caused it to flinch in pain and turn its focus back to Cerule, who jumped out of the way as Wisteria moved in and did a backflip to hit the monster with her tail, before it began to get peppered with chunks of ice the size of a human head from Onyxia.
The beast roared at this and flew up to the sky, attempting to go and help the Nevermore against the other girls. "No! It's going after the others!" Onyxia said, seeing it targeting specifically Yang.
"Not if we can help it. I've got an idea." Wisteria said. And so, after Onyxia quickly crushed some Fire Dust crystals in her hand, she climbed on Wisteria's back and she launched the two of them after the Espinas Grimm. Then, once they were close enough, Wisteria grabbed Onyxia's arm and swung her around in front of her so they could hold hands, Hellfire in Wisteria's as magma coursed through Onyxia's, both of them unleashing a blast from their hands that sent Onyxia sailing towards the Grimm.
"I! Hope! You're! Hun! Gry!" Yang declared as she fired ar round from Ember Celica into the Nevermore's mouth with each syllable, before leaping out of the Grimm's beak. However, on her way to the ground, she noticed the strange new Grimm flying towards her, ready to snap her up in its own jaws. However, before it could, Onyxia came flying in from nowhere and slamming both fists down on its head, creating a burst of flames the knocked the beast off-course. Yang landed and look up in amazement as her fellow brawler jerked and yanked on the beast's head to direct it where she wanted. "Whoa! Nice one, Onyx! Thanks for the save!" She called.
"No problem! But you owe me one, now!" The former Fanged Beast declared, before delivering more blasts to the beast's head to send it back to the other monster girls, one final, powerful slam from both fists knocking it out of the air and sending it to the ground.
"Nice work, Onyxia! But I think we can all agree we've had enough of this thing. So, let's give it everything we've got!" Silver declared.
And with that, the girl's went to work. Silver went in first, slamming her wing as a shield into the beast's face yet again JUST as it stood back up, backflipping with the momentum from the impact to get some good height, before diving down on it and slashing its back with both wings, breaking through its sturdy shell and exposing vulnerable muscle underneath. Cerule then breathed one final stream of freezing mist onto the beast to slow it down and further weaken its armor, before leaping forward and slashing with her claws to unleash a burst of ice, the combination of which left the armor on its legs in tatters. Wisteria spun her tail around and unleashed two powerful waves of Hellfire that completely blasted off any remaining armor on the beast and knocking it down. This allowed Onyxia to rush in and slam her fists deep into the ground, pulling up a massive slab of Earth, which she punched into with her fists still coated in fire and magma, filling the slab of Earth with the fiery essence, resulting in an explosion that obliterated the Grimm.
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Wisteria whistled at that. "Not bad, Onyx. You put the 'Beast' in 'Fanged Beast'." She praised.
"Thanks. Think we should still help the others, though?" The former Wandering Colossus asked.
Silver looked over and seemed surprised at first, but smiled. "No. I think they have everything handled." She said.
The Deathstalker had already been dealt with thanks to the combined forces of Jaune, Nora, Ren and Pyrrha through the surprising leadership of Jaune, if she heard correctly when someone was giving orders. And they had all seen it when Yang caused the Nevermore to crash into a mountain by firing into its mouth. Now its tail was frozen to the temple in front of it thanks to Weiss. And they then made a slingshot with the ribbon of Blake's weapon, Ruby jumping into it to be used as the projectile to be shot by Weiss with a Glyph for extra power.
Ruby looked forward and pumped Crescent Rose as Weiss turned the circle from black to red and released Ruby at such a speed that the ground behind her launch cracked, rose petals flying from her ascent. With each new shot, she got closer and closer to the trapped Grimm until her scythe caught the Nevermore's neck in its blade and caused them both to fall to the cliff wall. Weiss raised her sword and created a series of white circles up the wall, which Ruby dashed through by firing the entire way up.
Yang, Blake and an exhausted Weiss watched her climb up with the bird in her grasp until, both warrior and monster crying out, Ruby reaching the top of the cliff, circling up, firing one last shot and rending the Nevermore's head from its shoulders in a shower of petals.
She landed beside the severed head as the body of the giant Nevermore fell lifeless to the ruins and crevice below while the girls and, further away, the monster girls, as well as Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren watch in amazement. "Wow..." Jaune said in awe.
"Not bad. These kids are something else. They could probably put hunters in our world to shame." Cerule said, impressed, especially by Ruby herself. [1]
"Well, they are meant to be the protectors of their world. And after seeing what they've just accomplished together... I believe they are capable of doing so." Silver said, smiling up at Ruby as her cape and petals flowed with the wind as she looked down to her friends as they peered up at her.
"Well... That was a thing!" Yang declared happily.
"Still, it's quite shocking that we ran into a new type of Grimm out here in the forest. We were lucky those four were able to handle it." Weiss said, looking back the monster girls.
"Yeah. And they even managed to give us... a hand, in the middle of all that." Blake said, shifting awkwardly and discreetly holding her butt.
"Yep. We were pretty good out here, but those girls are something else." Yang stated with a smile as she observed the girls, especially Onyxia.
(She's got a point. I've never seen Faunus with so many animal traits before. Or animals with traits like theirs, for that matter. The closest would be that wolf girl, but even she's got traits like nothing I've seen before. And not to mention I've never heard of a power even REMOTELY close to Wisteria's before.) Weiss said as she looked towards the girl who saved her. (They were there when we needed them, so I suppose that's enough for now. But I can't help but shake the feeling there's more to them as they let on.) She finished her train of thought as she looked back up to Ruby.
The sound of clapping was heard throughout the auditorium as the newly form teams went on-stage with Ozpin one-by-one, their profile pictures for easy viewing by the applauding audience. "Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark." Ozpin addressed each of them. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, led by... Cardin Winchester!" The headmaster declared as the audience gives one more wave of ovation.
"Well, good for them." Onyxia said with a shrug.
"Eh. I've got a bad feeling about them. I saw each of those guys giving us dirty looks back at the cliffs." Cerule said distrustfully.
"Well... We are quite different from normal Faunus. I'd imagine some people are still unnerved by us." Silver said, giving the boys the benefit of the doubt.
"I saw them screwing with a Faunus boy on the way to the cliffs, too. Those kids are trouble." Wisteria said.
Meanwhile, Jaune and his new team were the next ones to the stage to take their places in front of the headmaster as their faces filled the screen. "Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." Ozpin told them.
Amid the clapping, Nora laughed and gave Ren a hug. "Led by... Jaune Arc!" Ozpin declared, leaving the boy shocked.
"Huh? L-Led by...?" Jaune asked in disbelief.
"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin congratulated the boy.
A grinning Pyrrha offered a friendly shoulder bump to Jaune, but her 'fine leader' was knocked over and fell to his butt in front of the laughing audience. "They're doomed." Cerule, Onyxia and Wisteria said all at once.
"Oh, you three be nice!" Silver scolded them.
"Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long." Ozpin listed the names of the girls as he motioned them over to stand before him. "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by... Ruby Rose!" Ozpin declared, leaving Weiss to look to her right surprised, where Ruby was obviously in shock as Yang went over to hug her sister.
"I'm so proud of you!" Yang said happily.
"Alright! Good for you, kid!" Cerule said with a smile, her tail wagging happily.
Silver smiled at this as well. "She may be young, but she's almost as sharp as that scythe of hers. She'll be an excellent leader." She said.
It was now the monster girl's turn to take their spot in front of Ozpin. "And finally, Silver Imperia. Cerule Snow. Wisteria Champagne. Onyxia Carnelian. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team ICCC (Ice). Led by... Silver Imperia." Ozpin declared.
The girls all nodded at this. "Thank you, professor. But there's something VERY important you need to hear." Silver told him.
After the team ceremony was complete, Ozpin sat in his office with Glynda, having relayed the message to her after being told the information from Silver. "New types of Grimm... Modeled after monsters from the same world as Silver and the others... How are you not more shocked about this?" Glynda asked.
"One must always remain level-headed when processing new information, Glynda. We mustn't rush ahead without thinking. Aren't you always condemning James for that very same thing?" Ozpin asked.
Glynda groaned at being compared to the Atlesian general, but sighed. "You have a point, sir. Still, you DO realize what this must mean, right? There's only one way Grimm like these could pop up out of nowhere." She told the headmaster.
"Yes... There are other creatures on Remnant besides Team ICCC. And Salem must have one of them..." Ozpin said grimly.
[1] This is just Cerule making a statement because she's impressed, please do not explain to me why hunters in Monster Hunter could solo the RWBYverse because they can kill Elder Dragons, so they have to have multi-continental levels of power. Power scaling is ridiculous, just because you can defeat someone does not make you equal levels of power to them. If I beat Goku by kicking him in the dick, that doesn't automatically make me a planet buster...