The full moon illuminated the night sky above Haven Academy. On the school grounds, Qrow took the lead as the currently present members of Team RWBY, the remaining members of Team JNPR, Oscar, Draco, Saphyra and I followed close behind. Ruby Rose stopped and looked up to admire Haven's CCT tower, before following the rest of the group to a nearby building. "Daddy? Uncle Draco? Something doesn't feel right about this." Saphyra said.

"Yeah. First he said the operations a no-go, then barely a day later, he's telling us we're all set." Draco agreed.

"Right. Not to mention there's a strange presence about... I can't describe it, but I know it's bad for us. Saphyra, sweetie, maybe make yourself some armor, just in case." I told her.

"Yes, Daddy." She agreed, coating herself in molten metal until it took the form of female Drachen armor (with the stomach filled in) in her mother's colors, creating the Nexus Gae Bolg spear along with it.

We entered the building and were greeted by Lionheart, who was standing on a terrace at the top of the stairs that is being held up by a statue. "Why hello. Thank you for... coming." He said nervously, noticing a certain something. "There... seems to be more of you than last time." He added with a nervous chuckle.

Qrow and the rest of us stopped to look up at Lionheart. "Eh, you know what they say, 'The more the merrier'. So what's going on with the council?" Qrow asked.

"Why... did you bring your weapons?" He asked us.

"What? Leo, we're Huntsmen." Qrow said simply.

"You brought your weapon as well. Did you think you'd need it for some reason?" I questioned him.

"Kid's got a point, Leo. You okay?" Qrow asked.

"Of course! Of course, sorry. Just haven't had my evening coffee." Lionheart explained.

"Coffee? It's night time! You drink coffee this late, you'll still be up at two in the morning!" Draco said incredulously.

"Light on the sugar, my boys. It helps calm my nerves." Leo explained.

"That's the last thing on Earth coffee does." Saphyra said, suspicious of the headmaster's answer.

"Look, it's nice to see you, but we got work to do. Are we getting support from the council or not?" Qrow asked again.

While the two talked, Yang noticed from the corner of her eye, a black bird perched on a balcony railing. "Mom?" She questioned.

Everyone's attention was turned to the bird. It flew away just as Qrow shot at it, but he missed. The bird flew down behind Lionheart, transforming into Raven Branwen, donning her mask. Everyone glared at her. "Raven..." Ruby growled.

"They... they really are magic..." Nora said in shock.

Raven took her mask off with a smirk. "If you're going to shoot me, shoot me. That was insulting." She taunted her brother.

"Okay!" Draco and I said together as I pulled out a pair of BFG's and tossed him one, the two of us taking aim at the woman who birthed Yang.

"What are you doing here?!" Qrow demanded, holding his arm out to stop Draco and I from shooting her.

"I could ask you the same thing. You've been scheming, little brother. Planning to attack your own sister." Raven continued to taunt Qrow while walking down the stairs.

"This bitch is related to two of the best characters in the show?" Draco asked.

"I know, I can't believe it, either." I said.

"Leo... what have you done?!" Qrow demanded once again, although this time aimed at the Faunus headmaster.

"I..." Lionheart started.

"TRAITOR!" Draco shouted like Kylo Ren.

"Leo did what any sane person would in his position - he looked at all the information he had in front of him, assessed the situation, and made a choice. And it seems you all have too."

"You have the Spring Maiden." Qrow accused angrily.

"I do." Raven confirmed.

Suddenly, a sensed a strange essence to Raven's aura and realized something. "She doesn't just have the Spring Maiden. She IS the Spring Maiden." I said.

"What?! How can you tell?!" Qrow asked in shock.

"There's a difference to her aura. I felt the same presence in Cinder. It's a little different, but the power's way too similar." I explained.

"That could be anything. And I'm just supposed to believe your demon senses or something?!" Qrow questioned.

I turned to him. "Really?! You know first hand how conniving and underhanded she is! Is it really surprising she would-" I started, before suddenly turning back to Raven and firing a powerful fireball from my mouth that would easily destroy her aura and vaporize her.

She gasped and raised her hand, her eyes glowing red as she shot a powerful stream of frozen air through it, enough to slow the fireball and weaken it to the point of being on par with a shot from Ember Celica, which she managed to tank with her sword. "Damn you. You Blades are more trouble than any Huntsman!" She snapped.

"Qrow was shocked. "Raven... You're the Maiden. Then that means you killed the old Spring!" He snapped.

"She was weak! She would've never survived in this world! I killed her out of mercy!" Raven countered.

"Sounds to me like just another power play." Draco argued.

"And who are you to judge me?! Any of you!" She snapped at all of us.

"The only people that can still help you." Saphyra said.

Qrow took a few deep breaths, clearly still angry, but still willing to talk things out. "The kid's right, Raven. We can work together and beat Salem! We just need you." He told her.

"All that time spent spying for Ozpin and you still have no idea what you're dealing with. There is no beating Salem!" Raven snapped.

"Not if everyone's a coward like you!" I snapped.

"How dare you!" Raven snapped at me, glaring daggers at me, before smirking and regaining her composure. "Defying her only leads to death. You should know that better than anyone. You lost your best friend and your lover because Ozpin defied her." She said condescendingly.

I was shocked for a moment, before becoming furious. "You rotten, callous BITCH!" I snapped, entering my Devil Trigger and lunging at her, only for Draco and Qrow to hold me back. "I'll rip out your soul and send it to hell, then I'll tear you to shreds in front of your daughter, brother and your whole tribe!" I roared, clawing towards her as Draco and Qrow struggled to hold me back.

"Sai, wait!" Ruby cried, stepping in front of me, holding her arms out.

I looked at her and took a few deep breaths, then returned to my human form and stepped back. "Fine, but whatever you've got to say better be good. Or I'll make good on that threat." I said, letting out a reptilian growl at Yang's mother (search: Alligator Territorial Bellows)

Ruby smiled and stepped back beside me to my right, looking at her technical aunt. "Raven, we CAN stop Salem. We've done things that most people would call impossible. And I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please." Ruby pleaded, holding her hand out.

Raven glared at it. "You sound just like your mother." She scoffed and suddenly drew her sword and created a portal with her Semblance. From the portal, a fireball was launched and would've hit Ruby, but I brought out my right wing and intercepted the fireball.

"Ruby! Are you alright?!" Yang asked, hurrying to her sister's side.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks, Sai." She said.

"That barely tickled. You're losing your edge... Cinder." I said as the False Maiden stepped out of the portal, an annoyed look on her face.

She glared at me, clearly upset about my comment. "I see you're still as infuriating as ever." She said as sh was then joined by Vernal, Emerald and Mercury as they too step out from the portal.

"Cinder..." Ruby said while glaring.

Cinder and her group line up alongside Raven, while the rest gasped. "Oh, no! It's rumple-STILTS-kin!" Draco cried out, looking at Mercury.

"What?!" Mercury snapped.

"It's funny because you lost your legs when your daddy beat you like the disappointment you are!" Draco taunted.

"OH! Got him!" I declared.

"You're Cinder..." Saphyra said, stepping forward.

"Oh? And who are you, little girl? Another poor fool dragged into this war by that pathetic demon?" Cinder taunted.

"That demon is my father. And you killed my mother, Pyrrha Nikos!" Saphyra declared, her helmet briefly melting to reveal herself as the spitting image of Pyrrha with the exception of silver hair and one of her eyes being red.

This seemed to shock Cinder. "Their daughter? But how?!" She demanded.

"Yeah, turns out, when you magically Thanos snap someone, then a demon starts turning himself to ash, the dust and ash mix together and make a kid." I explain.

"And now this kid will avenge her mother." Saphyra said darkly, readying her glaive.

"Everybody, stay calm." Qrow said as we all drew our weapons, Draco pulling out his giant meat cleaver, Bloody Sundae and I readied my Murasama and Masamune katanas, both of which glowed intensely, hungering for Cinder's blood, Murasama for the power she possessed and Masamune for the sins she's committed.

Suddenly, we heard the doors behind us open up. Oscar quickly recognized the threat, a horrified look on his face. "Oh no..." He said.

Hazel was seen closing the doors behind him as he entered. "The White Fang is prepping demolition and securing the school grounds. "No one's getting in, and no one's getting out." He declared.

Outside, a White Fang soldier was seen placing a bomb on the CCT tower. More bombs were being shown, all primed set by more White Fang soldiers. Adam looked on with a vicious smirk. "Once the charges are set, move back to perimeter watch. Tonight, Haven falls." He declared, smiling evilly.

Back inside, everyone watched Hazel slowly approach us. Everyone except Draco turned our attention back to Cinder. "So, you guys are planning to blow yourselves up, too? Then, in the words of the late, great Tony Stark: not a great plan." Draco said.

"Did you not see my Mom's Semblance? She can just teleport them out at the last minute." Yang explained.

"This was all just a trap?" Weiss questioned.

"It appears so..." Ren confirmed.

"Well, it appears they misread the situation. We aren't trapped in here with them. They're trapped in here with us!" I said.

"Raven, tell me... how long have you been with them?" Qrow demanded.

"Aww, don't take it personally, little bird. Your sister was a recent addition. The lion on the other hand... Entrance into the Vytal Festival was a real treat, Leonardo's been sending Salem all sorts of information for a very, very long time. Isn't that right, professor?" Cinder mocked both Qrow and Lionheart, looking to the headmaster at the end.

"Stop it..." The lion Faunus said shamefully, closing his eyes and turning away.

"No." Saphyra said suddenly. "You deserve her sarcastic praise. You deserve every jab or jeer anyone could possibly give you and to constantly be reminded of everything you've done for Salem. You took a vow as Headmaster to protect the kingdom of Mistral and its people and those Huntsmen and Huntresses under your command trusted you. They believed in you to send them into battle and do your best to fight for them as well and keep them safe. And you betrayed that trust by giving them to the enemy who slaughtered them like nothing. Their blood is on your hands. You betray your symbolism as well: the lion, symbol of courage, yet you're nothing but a coward." She said in a harsh tone.

Everyone was shocked at my daughter's words, Lionheart especially, the lion Faunus becoming overwhelmed with guilty, lurching forward and holding onto the railing, lightly sobbing. "Well said, my child. Your mother would've been proud of your words." I told her.

She nodded, readying her staff once again. "And now I'll make her proud with my actions." She said, glaring at Cinder.

"Right. Well, then. Since it seems this can only end in a fight now, why don't we do this. Saphyra and I will take on the Maidens-" I said, turning and looking at a certain blonde brawler. "Sorry Yang, I may have to kill your mother." I told her, before looking back.

"You're the Spring Maiden?! You tricked us!?" Cinder snapped.

"Now's not the time for that! He's trying to divide us!" Raven snapped.

"Ruby, why you and your team can handle Cinder's scrubs, plus Raven's scrub girl, Qrow and Oscar, I'm sure you'd like to have some words with Lionheart up there, Jaune, Ren and Draco, you guys can take care of that big fucker back there." I said, looking to Nora. "Nora, you can help them, but careful not to stress yourself or the baby." I said.

"That's... Not a bad plan." Qrow said, surprised.

"Not bad, Sai." Ruby said.

"When I want things dead, the only thing I think about is how to go about making them dead. I came up with a couple dozen plans already, this just seemed like the most efficient." I said, looking back to the villains.

"If you think it will be that easily, you're sorely mistaken." Raven said.

"The only mistake I've made was allowing all of you to live this long." I said.

Background Music: "Traitor" by Daughtry

I then rushed in at Raven, attempting decapitate her by slicing at both sides of her neck in an X manner, but she brought up her katana and blocked it. However, this left her open to another fireball from my mouth, blasting her back into the stairwell behind her.

"How fortunate. I get revenge and more power all at once." Cinder said, creating a scimitar and preparing to attack both Raven and I, but Saphyra used her glaive to vault herself into the air, spinning and landing in a crouched position on front of Cinder, spinning and striking her across the face. "Aah!" She cried out, staggering back and holding her face. "You'll pay for that, little girl." She said.

"You'll pay for what you did to my mother!" Saphyra countered. Cinder slashed at her, but Saphyra jumped and twisted in mid-air once again, landing behind Cinder and striking her in the side of the head, spinning and hitting Cinder in the gut with the shaft of her polearm, turning more and flinging Cinder into a wall on the second floor, jumping up after her, the two matching each other move for move after this, Saphyra not quite able to match Cinder's strength, but her smaller size making her faster, more agile and harder to hit.

Back with me, I had rushed back into Raven and began trading blows. I was striking quicker with my two swords, but she had more control with her single sword and was managing to keep up. Still, I was managing to get in several minor hits, before she managed to land a decent slash across my stomach. I growled at this, locking blades with her once more, before lunging forward and chomping into her neck with my needle-like teeth and flinging her back into a wall on the second floor as well, Saphyra and I both fighting our opponent on the upper level of the room.

Ruby turned her head towards Saphyra and I, wanting to help against Cinder, but before she could, she turned her attention to Emerald and blocked the bullets she fired, rushing in and swinging her scythe, locking her blades against Emerald's. "Why are you doing this!? Salem is evil!" Ruby told her.

"I don't care about Salem! But I owe Cinder everything!" Emerald snapped.

"She made you one of the world's most wanted criminals! An enemy of all the kingdoms! If you're ever caught, you'll probably be executed! That's all you owe Cinder! I thought we were friends." Ruby told her.

Emerald finally kicked Ruby back, extending the chains of her blades and swinging at Ruby, forcing her to block once again. "It was an act. I never felt anything for any of you. And honestly, you all only ever annoyed me. You especially." She told the young reaper.

Ruby was shocked at this, but glared at her. "Then I guess I won't feel anything for you." She said, rushing in, dodging and blocking a few more bullets, before spinning around and hitting Emerald with the blunt side of her scythe, sending her back into one of the pillars supporting the balcony. She grunted and slouched in pain, before looking up and just barely ducking as Ruby sliced through the pillar, very nearly Emerald as well. This angered Emerald, who sliced at Ruby rapidly from different angles, forcing Ruby onto the defensive, managing to wrap the chains of one of her weapons around Ruby's ankles, spinning and sending her through the air, slamming her onto the ground. She prepared to do it again, but Ruby shot her in the face with her sniper rifle, causing Emerald to stagger back, retracting her blades and letting Ruby go, glaring at the younger girl.

Yang tried to rush in and help Ruby, but Mercury intercepted her. "Hey, there blondie. I'm thinking you owe me an apology for my leg. What do you think?" Mercury taunted, bringing up how he got Yang disqualified from the Vytal fesitval.

Yang growled at this, but then smirked. "You're right. I am sorry... Sorry I didn't break that piece of scrap right off you!" She countered, causing Mercury to growl and rush in. The two then proceeded with their fight, Mercury's anger making him throw more power behind his strikes, making them slower, allowing Yang to maneuver around them and land several strikes on the metal-legged mercenary. She then did a twist and slammed her eblow into the center of Mercury's back,before bringing her forearm, grabbing Mercury's hair, kicking one of his legs out from under him and flinging him over her shoulder, slamming him face-first to the ground.

Mercury slammed his fist to the ground and glared up at her. "You're gonna pay for that!" He snapped, getting back up and charging at her once again.

Meanwhile, Vernal confronted Weiss. "Let's see what the Schnee name really means." Vernal declared as she drew her weapons, while Weiss holds Myrtenaster en garde.

"I'm more than a name." The former heiress declared as well.

"Hm, prove it." Vernal challenged.

Weiss activated a glyph below her and projected herself forward to fight the Spring Maiden substitute. Weiss locked her blade with the one in Vernal's left hand, leaving the right hand open to try and slash Weiss with her other weapon. Fortunately, the former heiress placed a glyph under Vernal and launched her back into the stairwell behind her, causing her to drop to her hands and knees. Weiss then rushed in and tried to stab Vernal, but she narrowly managed to deflect the rapier with one weapon and aimed the other, firing at Weiss, forcing her to jump back, deflecting some bullets while using her glyphs to jump out of the way of others.

Meanwhile, Oscar snuck up the stairs to Lionheart while Hazel confronted Draco, Jaune, Ren and Nora, who held up their weapons defensively.

"I don't wish to fight any of you." Hazel said.

"You should've thought of that before you tried to blow up a building with us inside!" Draco told him.

"If you're with Salem, than you're our enemy. And we have to fight." Jaune said.

"Very well, then." Hazel said, cracking his neck and knuckles and proceeding forward.

Jaune shouted and rushed forward, slamming into Hazel with his shield, swinging his sword at the man's neck, but Hazel caught the blade and lifted Jaune into the air, throwing him into a wall. He then jumped back to avoid Nora's grenades, but simply raised his arms and tanked Ren's bullets. He also blocked Draco's cleaver, although this did cause him to slide back a ways. However, he soon began to push forward, sliding Draco back. "Holy 'roided out jock, this guy's a 'roided out jock!" Draco cried, before grunting as Hazel kicked him back.

"This is bigger than you understand, boy. Than any of you understand." Hazel told them, apparently forgetting about Jaune until the blonde boy hit him in the back of his right knee with his sword, bringing him down on that knee. He threw a punch at Jaune, who blocked it, but was sent skidding several feet back, at which point Hazel turned back to block several more slashes from Ren's blades as the boy rushed in, slicing at him. Jaune returned and the two managed to push Hazel onto the defensive as he struggled to get up while blocking their attacks. This left him open, however, to Nora blasting him in the chest with a grenade, launching him back. He then got back up and growled, glaring angrily at his attackers.

Lionheart nervously watched the fights going on, before jumping back as Qrow leapt up from the lower level and swiped his sword at him. "Qrow, please..." He pleaded.

"You're going to pay, Leo. For every single one of them! I'll make sure of it." Qrow said, readying his sword as Lionheart readied his Dust launcher... thing.

"We both will." Oscar said as he reached Qrow's side.

Lionheart noticed him and readied to face him as well. "Young man, I don't know who you are or what you think you're doing, but for your sake, I suggest you leave. Now." He ordered.

"Kid... You sure?" Qrow said, looking to him.

Oscar defiantly remained stationary before taking a few more steps toward Lionheart. "I'm warning you!" The cowardly lion snapped and held out Stalwart which switched it to active mode, Qrow getting ready to attack, but Oscar held out a hand to stop him and prepared to draw something from behind him. "That's enough!" Lionheart declared and rotated his weapon, having a glyph appear above it, which then (incredibly slowly, might I add) conjured a flaming rock that launched at Oscar, who held out his arms in front of him defensively as the attack explodes. Oscar was unscathed, though his Aura shimmered. He continued to proceed up the steps and drew The Long Memory.

Qrow smiled at Oscar and looked back at Lionheart. "Surprise." He said.

"Ozpin?" Lionheart asked in shock, his eyes widening in fear.

"Not quite." Oscar declared, then proceeded forward as his attacks forced Lionheart on the defensive. Lionheart blocked or dodges most of them, but one drove him against the rail. Oscar hit it as Lionheart avoided another strike, then followed up with a swing that sent Lionheart staggering down the steps. He jumped down to continue attacking and eventually managed to whack Lionheart back a few steps.

"This can't be... I knew you would be back, but... you made it here! You found Qrow! How?" Lionheart asked in shock.

"Do you really think it was that hard? He just had to check the nearest bar." Qrow said.

(Leo... what happened to you?) Ozpin could only wonder.

"Wait. You can't have had this form for long. You're... not really Ozpin right now. Boy. Child. If I deliver you to Salem, she'll have to be pleased with me and I can finally get out of all of this! I can finally be free!" Lionheart theorized, now determined, prepping his weapon again.

Qrow growled at this. "Leo, you just keep sinking lower and lower!" He snapped, rushing in and hammering down on Leon with his sword.

"What do I do?" Oscar asked his mental partner.

(Fight.) Ozpin instructed dryly, at which point Oscar proceeded forward. Between the two of them, Lionheart stood no chance. Qrow hammered on his defenses, allowing Oscar to land several rapid attacks, stunning the lion Faunus and leaving him open for Qrow to land some damaging hits as well. He attempted to fire at Oscar, but Qrow jumped in the way and blocked the attack, the smoke and debris blocking Lionheart's view, until Oscar leapt from the smoke at him, having used Qrow as a platform to jump off, at which point he came down with a heavy double-handed overhead smash to Leo's dome, before smacking him across the face and knocking him halfway down the flight of stairs.

Weiss had been fighting fairly evenly with Vernal, but decided she could use some back-up and raised a wall of ice, attempting to summon her Armor Gigas, but the wall was almost instantly destroyed by Vernal. Weiss looked at the wall in shock, searching for Vernal, but only saw Vernal's weapon come over the wall and hit her in the face. Vernal then stepped on the stump of the wall with a confident smirk. "Don't think I'll let you take the easy way out." She said arrogantly.

Weiss, however, smirked as an idea came to her mind. "Who said I was?" She questioned, creating another glyph under the ice and causing several ice spikes to shoot up and jab into Vernal, launching her back.

Vernal got back up and became furious that she was losing the fight to, in her mind, a sheltered Atlas snob. "That's it!" She snapped, launching herself into the air towards Weiss, but this was her final mistake. Weiss then created a glyph under herself, drastically speeding herself up with time dilation, creating several glyphs around Vernal and rushing at her, striking and flying past, hitting another glyph and launching herself back to strike again, hitting Vernal dozens of times in mere seconds, destroying the girl's aura.

However, before she could restrain her, we all heard a scream. Nora had rushed in to try and fight Hazel, but as she got about halfway, she was hit with an incredible pain and fell to her knees. "The baby's coming!" She cried.

"No!" I cried, trying to get to her, but Raven blocked my way. "Dammit! Weiss, Saphyra! Protect Nora!" I cried out.

"Right!" Both girls said, disengaging from their fight. Cinder tried to attack Sapyhra as she disengaged, but I threw Masamune at her, cutting her left arm. I tried to attack my fiancee's killer, but Raven blocked my path and forced me to jump back to avoid being decapitated, before locking my remaining blade with her sword. "Qrow! Get your sister off me!" I called.

Qrow looked to Oscar. "You got this?" He asked, the farm boy nodding, allowing Qrow to turn into a crow and fly towards Raven and I, becoming himself again and attacking his sister.

Meanwhile, I engaged my next opponent. "Cinder..." I said, reclaiming my other sword and readying them once again.

"Sai. I see you managed to get past that little case of heartburn I gave you." She said.

"The Grimm bug was a nice touch. But then you just had to gloat about it." I taunted.

"It doesn't matter. I've been training. I've mastered these Maiden powers. I've gotten so much stronger. And so much angrier!" She snapped, creating a pair of scimitars and rushing at me. I blocked each of her attacks, noting that she did have some impressive strength behind them. So she was exerting a lot of force behind them. A lot of force means a lot of energy. And she'd already been fighting Saphyra for a good few minutes. I now knew how to win.

"You're only a master of evil, Cinder." I said, blocking her next attack with my swords at an angle, causing her blades to slide right off them, allowing me to slash her left thigh, moving behind her and slashing her lower back. I was then going to come down with both blades and slice her from shoulder to hip, but she blocked my swords, her own blades shattering, but this allowed her to turn around, creating new blades and slashing at me wildly, but I merely continued to deflect the blades, expending as little energy as possible, not taking the full force she was putting behind them, which clearly began to drain her.

I then got on the offensive, pushing back and constantly breaking through her swords, forcing her to spend even more energy creating new ones, even disarming her of one and slicing off her left arm, which was revealed to be a Grimm's limb. She staggered back and regrew the limb after several moments of screaming, glaring at me as she realized she was on her last leg and I wasn't even on my first. "How... We were even at Beacon and you were in your final form!" She snapped.

"That was after fighting off hordes of Grimm for hours, wasting nearly all my energy in the process and seeing my fiancee die. I wasn't in nearly the best shape I could've been. But it's like you said, you've gotten stronger and angrier. I learned the cost of anger first-hand. And I learned to let it go. Instead, I gained something far greater. I child. And through her, I learned a power hundreds of times greater than anger. Patience and understanding. I knew how to win before this fight even started." I said, rushing up, grabbing her by the throat with my right arm. "And now it's over." I said, putting insane amounts of fire and demonic energy into my arm and detonating it directly in Cinder's face.

End Music

Everyone turned at the sound of the explosion, shocked and, in Emerald's case, horrified to see Cinder on the ground, launched from the upper level into the middle of the lobby, her whole left side almost entirely incinerated, her hair and the Grimm arm completely gone. "Heh. Stings a bit, but that's more than worth it." I said, looking at my right arm, now a charred skeletal limb, but slowly returning to normal. "You've failed Cinder. But before your final fall, I'm going to take everything else away from you." I said, opening a portal to Hell beside me, from which a woman roughly around Glynda's age, with pale skin, waist-length platinum-blonde hair, a red dress similar to Ada Wong's in resident Evil 4 and thigh high heeled boots, as well as perhaps most importantly, dragon wings on her back and ram horns on her head emerged from the portal.

"That's... Sai's grandmother?!" Ruby asked in shock.

"Lady Ignis... Goddess of Hell itself." Draco said in awe.

"A goddess... I thought the brothers were the only ones. And with them gone, only Salem." Hazel said.

She looked around for a moment, before her eyes landed on my. "Ahh, my faithful servant and beloved grandson. What is it you've called me for today?" She asked.

I bowed my head to her. "Lady Ignis, I beseech you. This woman before you stole power nearly unrivaled in this world and took the life of my beloved Pyrrha Nikos. I ask you take this power from her and remind her how weak she truly is, so I may have my beloved restored." I explained.

"Ah, yes. She misses you dearly. Then I shall take the power and she will be restored." Ignis explained, reaching a clawed hand out towards Cinder. "You've caused my grandson such pain and strife. Feel every bit of it ten fold." She declared, Cinder screaming as the Fall Maiden energy was ripped from her.

"Cinder!" Emerald screamed, her and Mercury rushing to help, but Ignis flapped her wings, sending a massive gust that sent them into the ceiling, then crashing down to the floor.

Ignis rose her hand, which held a glowing orb that was the Maiden's power. "It is done. Now, watch Cinder, as your greatest achievement is undone." She declared.

Suddenly, a pair of white light appeared beside me. When the first light faded, everyone was in shock and awe to see Pyrrha Nikos standing beside me, alive and well. Then, the next light faded to reveal Damion, as alive as any day before the fall. "Sai..." Pyrrha said in shock.

"We're back." Damion said in shock.

"No... It can't be..." Cinder said in horror, which turned to rage at her greatest accomplishments turning to nothing. She tried to get up, but her wounds stopped her. That and a beam of pure heat from one of my fingers taking another hole out of her body, near where her spleen should be.

I smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm glad to have you back, man." I said, then turned back to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, I... I'm so sorry. I should've been there. I should've saved you. But I wasn't good enough-" I started, before she kissed me.

We then separated and she looked at me. "You've put yourself through hell blaming yourself for my own actions. It was my fault I lost my life, but you took the blame. And look at everything you've done to atone. You've protected our friends, my team and took revenge of Cinder and did the impossible all to get me back. I couldn't possibly ask for more." She said.

"Damion!" Yang cried out, rushing to her resurrected boyfriend, hugging him tightly.

"Yang. I missed you so much, my beautiful burning fire." Damion said, holding her close.

"And now, Pyrrha Nikos. You will receive the power allowing you to change the world." Ignis declared, sending the Maiden power into Pyrrha.

"No! It's MINE!" Cinder screamed, trying to get up, but the pain kept her from doing so.

Once the power was fully transferred, Pyrrha glared at Cinder. "It was never truly yours. But take comfort in knowing that I will use it in ways you could never have imagined." Pyrrha said.

"OH! Cruel irony up in here!" Draco cried out.

"Is this all you needed, Sai. There's a spot in Hell for each and every one of these scum attacking you and your friends. I could just drag them down there myself." Ignis offered, glaring at the villains, who shivered in fear.

I looked at her and bowed. "Thank you, Grandmother, but we can handle everything from here. Maybe get some reservations ready, though. They'll be down in like the next 10 minutes." I said, to which she nodded and disappeared back to hell.

"Mommy!" Saphyra cried, running to Pyrrha and hugging her.

"M-Mommy?!" Pyrrha asked in shock.

Damion was caught off-guard as well. "Sai, what the hell did you do?" He demanded.

"Oh, right." I said, looking to Pyrrha. "Well, it turns out after Cinder turned you to dust and I light myself on fire so hot I was reducing myself to ash, our dust and ash mixed in the air and somehow became this beautiful littler girl, Saphyra. Our little girl." I said, putting my forehead to Pyrrha's lovingly.

Pyrrha was still shocked, but smiled. "Well, I always did want children someday." She said, kneeling down and holding Saphyra close.

"You... You should both be dead!" Cinder screamed, only to flinch from the pain inflicted to her.

"Oh, right. I almost forgot about you. Well, Pyrrha and Saphyra, you two have a nice mother/daughter bonding moment, I need to finish cremating a corpse." I said sadistically, approaching Cinder.

Pyrrha then noticed something. "Sai... Your arm." She said in shock, looking to my right arm, which was still reforming into a complete arm, the skeleton just barely no longer being visible.

"Oh, right. I blasted most of it to ash turning her into this half burnt husk. It's fine. It should finish up healing in less than a minute." I assured her.

"Wait a minute..." Yang said as she and the others began to realize something.

"Oh, what now!?" I groaned.

"So... Saphyra was born when yours and Pyrrha's ash mixed together?" Damion questioned.

"Essentially." I confirmed.

"And you reduced roughly 70% of Cinder's body to ash?" Pyrrha continued the questioning.

"More or less." I again confessed.

"And you lit your own arm up in smoke as well?" Draco asked, walking up as well.

"Yeah, so-" I said, before suddenly catching on myself. "Oh, no..." I said.

Everyone looked up above all of us, where about 10 feet in the air, the ash from both Cinder and my body began swirling around, glowing red with demonic energy, as well as some Grimm-like bone plates forming. "Are those... Grimm bones?" Ruby asked in horror.

"S-Salem replaced Cinder's arm with a Gheist arm." Emerald realized.

Suddenly, all the ash formed together and crashed down into the floor, creating a cloud of smoke that forced everyone to shield their eyes. When we could look again, we saw a boy slightly younger than Saphyra, 7 years old to her nearly 8 now, looking down at the ground with his eyes closed. He wore a red silk shirt similar to Cinder's old Vale dress, designs and all with a bit of a tail, akin to a waistcoat, wearing the collar of the shirt up in a villainous manner. He also had a trench coat like mine, except without a hood and it had Grimm-like armor plating on it, fingerless gloves covering his hands, black pants and black shoes, also with Grimm bone plates making armor. The boy was almost the spitting image of Cinder: her fair skin, face shape and hair color, only in my hairstyle, the only thing the boy seemed to share with me, before he opened his eyes to glare at me, revealing the piercing red eyes with familiar flakes of his mother's amber in them. "Hello, father..." He said with venom in his voice, the voice of Johnny Yong Bosch's, in the tone of Izaya Orihara.

"SON OF A BITCH!" All the heroes shouted at once as the boy suddenly lunged forward.