The Creed of Remnant (RWBY X Assassin's Creed)

Chapter 60: Victory at Cost (End of Volume 5)

Templar HQ in Mistral, 5:30 pm

Lucy Thorne walked into her office. She was told Haytham and his proxies went to see Lionheart, a meeting he happened not to tell her about. What's worse, Lionheart didn't answer his scroll. Throne hated the feeling of not knowing what was happening in Mistral. She wasn't afraid of a plot against her, but the inability to predict an outcome. She took a deep breath, before noticing a silhouette behind her, reflecting in the window. Throne could make out a hood and a sword on their back.

Thorne: You must be Shao Jun. You have quite the reputation among my men.

Shao stepped out of the shadows, as Thorne turned around to face her.

Shao: You seem calm for a templar stuck with an assassin.

Thorne: If you wanted to kill me you would have done so the second I entered. So, what do you want?

Shao: To talk. Mistral is in danger.

***

Haven Academy

The white flash from Ruby's eyes temporarily blinded everyone. Despite that, she was still knocked out by Emerald who knocked her over the head. Even before everyone's vision returned, two screams could be heard. When the white faded out, the focus fell on the sources of the screams. The first was Cinder, gripping her arm, like it was about to be ripped out by an invisible force. However, that was not as strange as seeing the infamous Ripper wiggling on the ground, covering his face. Perhaps it was simply the fact that Cinder was screaming as well, but a few people in the room could swear Jack's scream sounded like more than one person. Raven used this opportunity and managed to disarm Qrow, before kicking him away towards Nora, Ren, Jacob, Haytham and Gist, who were backing away from Hazel, still blocking their path to the door. On the contrary, Connor managed to get an upper hand on Mercury, blowing him in the head, followed by tripping Mercury with the help of her tomahawk. Before Mercury could even hit the ground, Young landed an uppercut to his stomach and kicked him away. Meanwhile, Shay pulled out his rifle and fired a few warning shots to prevent Emerald from killing Ruby, enough to make her back away at least. Ezio and Jaune ran to Weiss, who was already looking over Arno. It didn't look good, the wound wasn't bleeding, but had fully penetrated the skin and bone, not to mention left a strong burnmark. Vernal considered taking the advantage, but she hesitated, and eventually backed off to join Emerald, Mercury, Cinder and the Ripper who were just below the indoor balcony. Their attention fell to Lionheart who fell down the stairs, being pushed by Oscar who walked after him.

Cinder: Lionheart! Can't you even handle a child?!

Lionheart: That's no child. That's Ozpin!

Hazel: Ozpin?

Everyone turned to Hazel, to see his deadpan expression was replaced by surprise, and then anger.

Oscar: ... What do you mean "oh no"?

Hazel: OZPIN! I should have known! Hiding in the body of a child!

Oscar: Wait, hold on! I'm not-

But Hazel didn't listen. He took out two pieces of fire dust, and injected them alongside the other ones. He seemed to grow in size again. Hazel charged at Oscar, who managed to jump out the way, or for Hazel to immediately backhand him into a column.

Connor: Oscar!

Yang: Connor, wait!

It was too late, Connor already rushed in to help Oscar. She bullet jumped in between Hazel's legs, leaving a couple cuts with her tomahawks as she was spinning, but they only annoyed the raging giant, who tried to stomp Connor.