Volume 1 finale: Difference in strength.

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(A/n): last time, teams RWBY, TN, and their friend Penny get ready to face off against Hazama, a notorious serial killer who is somehow connected to the Malachite house.

Now... Let the match... BEGIN!

Ruby: "HAAA!"

Ruby charges at Hazama using her semblance, trying to strike him every time she passes him, but he dodges every hit till he catches her scythe with his dagger, causing her to stop. However before he could strike her, Weiss jumps in and tries to stab him, causing him to drop Ruby who used her semblance to run back.

Blake: "Weiss, duck!"

Weiss ducks down just in time to dodge a clothesline from Yang, though Hazama wasn't so lucky, and took the full, semblance-enhanced force from Yang, knocking him down. Once on the ground, Blake shots at him with Gambol Shroud while you and Neo jump at him and try to stab him to the floor, with Neo using her sword and you using your claws from fusing with Shadow, however he rolls out of the way and knocks you, Neo and Yang back with the Ouroboros snakes.

Hazama: "HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!! OUROBOROS!"

Ruby starts running at you while your flying back from the attack.

Ruby: "BLAKE, YANG, 'BUMBLEBEE'! THORN, 'CRIMSON PETAL STORM'!"

Blake tosses Yang one end of her Gambol Shroud while she was falling away and starts swinging her around, while you regain your balance and take out Crimson Death, switching it to scythe mode and start spinning in place. Ruby and Yang both activate their semblances, causing a flame trail to come from Yang, and Ruby causing a rose petal tornado on you, with her landing on your scythe, still spinning. Meanwhile Penny and Weiss are attacking Hazama with long range attacks, till Neo charges in and tries to slash at him. Once he dodges, Weiss charges in using her glyphs to speed up and grabs Neo before he can counter. Once out of the way, Penny starts shooting with her weapons again to keep him away from them.

Ruby: "NOW!!!"

You and Blake both launch Ruby and Yang at Hazama, who was still distracted by Penny's attacks, causing him to take to full blunt of both attackers sending him back and crashing into a building. With him still stuck in the building, Penny starts charging her eion cannon (idk what it's called), with you and Yang both charging in towards him, Yang charged by her semblance still but you defused with Shadow so he can cover for you, to keep beating him down till it's done charging. Everytime Yang punches him, you follow up with another punch, not giving him a chance to counter attack. He tries to launch Ouroboros at you two, but Shadow and Neo attack the chain snakes to keep it away from you two.

Penny: "Friends, it's ready, move!"

Blake catches Yang with her ribbon while Ruby uses her semblance to catch you and both of you move out of the way, with Shadow grabbing Neo and jumping away before Penny launches the attack. The beam was so powerful, it knocked down the entire building, along with part of the road behind it.

Once the smoke clears, you all don't notice him anywhere.

Thorn: "Where is he?!"

As you all look for him, you don't notice he's on another building till you hear him.

Hazama: "OUROBOROS! STRIKE THEM!"

The chains come out of the ground, with barely half of you all dodging out of the way while the other half took a huge hit to their aura, dropping it to below a fourth. Only you, Yang, and Penny were able to dodge it, leaving the rest getting knocked down from taking a heavy hit and exhausted from the fight.

Yang: "Everyone ok?!"

Penny: "Everyone's vital signs are ok, but they seem to be pushing themselves now."

Thorn: "Considering this guy is somehow 'stronger' then last time I fought him, I'm not surprised..."

Yang: "Wait, you fought him before?!"

Thorn: "Where'd you think I got the chain marks around my arms from?!"

You and Yang charge at him again, Yang reactivates her semblance and you fuse with Shadow again, while Penny takes the others away from the fight. Once they are a safe distance away, she uses her swords to fling herself back into the fight.

Hazama: "HAAAAAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS SO MUCH FUN! MORE! MOOORE!!! HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!"

Yang: "HAS HE *Punch* ALWAYS BEEN* dodge* THIS CRAZY?!" *Punch*

Thorn: "HE GETS *Punch* WORSE IF *dodge then counters* HE DRAWS BLOOD!" *punch, punch, jumps back*

You jumped back so you can stab him with your claws, however he hits it with his Ouroboros chain's head before trying to stab you with his dagger, however before it connects it gets hit off his hands by Penny's sword before she knocks him back with the rest of them.

Penny: "KEEP HIM BACK! I have a plan!"

Yang: "YOU'RE SOUNDING TOO MUCH LIKE RUBY NOW!"

Yang starts shooting at him with her gauntlets while you switch to Avion and fuse with it to fly at him full force, knocking him down and pummeling him with punches before he can counter with Ouroboros. After a while, you get out of the way while Yang jumps up high and slams down at him with enough speed and force to hit him before the snakes could appear. After the first hit, Yang starts to pummel him into the ground again, with each hit sticking him further into the ground.

Penny: "Friend Yang, move now!"

Still fused with Avion, you charge at Yang and grab her, pulling her away while Penny charges at him, launching another cannon, this time at point blank range.

As the smoke begins to clear, you and Yang see Penny, who's aura was now depleted, being thrown through the smokes at you both, knocking you back down on the floor.

Yang: *gets up slowly, panting* "man... This guy is tough..."

Thorn: *also panting* "He might be stronger then dad..."

Yang: "that's not good... How's Penny?"

Thorn: "I think she's knocked out... Not good..."

Yang: "Shit!..."

You fall on both your knees trying to get yourself back up, then you noticed that Yang is on one knee herself, also struggling to get back up.

Hazama: "Aww... You guys aren't any fun..."

You both look up to seeing him walking towards you. Shadow defuses with you and tries to attack him only to be swatted away like a fly.

Hazama: "Oh well, time to end this and collect my reward."

Thorn: "Reward?"

Hazama: *looks at you like you're stupid* "Wait, they didn't tell you?"

Thorn: "tell me what?..."

Hazama: *sighs, then grabs your head so you can look at him* "well, little guy, your parents, the Malachite, put a hit on you."

Thorn and Yang: "WHAT?!"

Hazama: "I know, that was my reaction too. Apparently, they just want you to shut up about what happened years ago, and it's gotten to the point where they don't care if you live or die... I mean, look at how much the reward is."

He shows you the contract that states he'll get 10billion Lien once you are killed and proof is shown to the family, then he puts the paper away.

Thorn: "..."

Yang: "... Thorn?..."

Hazama: "And to think, they've tortured you for years, and now they put a hit on you, where people from all over the world will try to kill you... Who knows if your new family is even safe now?"

Thorn: "..."

Yang: "Thorn... Don't listen to him, ok?... Screw the others that'll come after you, we'll protect you!" *Tries to get up again, but can't* "shit! Move, Xiao Long!"

Then a chain snake appears and knocks her back, depleting her aura.

Hazama: "and now it's just you..."

Thorn: "..."

Hazama: "... Just hold still kid... I'll make it painless"

He then grabs you and gets ready to stab you in the head, until...

Boom!

Smoke covers you as Hazama flies back, away from you. As the smoke clears, a familiar person is standing between you two.

Qrow: "I think it's about time you run back to your mistress!"

Hazama: "Ah... You know her... Then you should also know she needs the kid..."

Qrow takes out his sword, and points it at him.

Qrow: "Over my dead body!"

Qrow charges at Hazama and starts fighting him, while Ruby and Yang struggles to get back up.

Ruby: "Owe..." *Switches scythe to sniper mode and aims at Hazama* "Uncle Qrow, move!"

He moves and Ruby shoots at Hazama, knocking a good bit of aura off him.

Hazama: "Dammit, you Bi-"

Yang tackles him before he could finish, then starts to pummel him again.

Yang: "THIS IS FOR TORTURING THORN!!!"

She continues to punch him over and over till he knocks her back and before he can counter, Qrow knocks him away with his sword, almost depleting his aura.

Hazama: "Shit!... I'm gonna have to head back!"

Qrow: "NO YOU DON'T!"

Qrow switches his sword to scythe mode and charges at him with speed similar to Ruby with her semblance, and just barely hits him, yet he's still able to get away using Ouroboros.

Qrow: "Shit!"

Yang: "Uncle! We gotta help Thorn and the others!"

Qrow: "... Ok, the bullhead I used should still be in the area, let's use that one."

Timeskip

POV Thorn

It's been a week since the incident with Hazama. Everyone was injured badly, with me and Yang having the most injuries. Sadly, after we were all released, Ozpin asked me and Neo to head for his office. I wonder if it's about Hazama...

Once the elevator stops, we step into the office with Ozpin talking to a group of second years.

Thorn: "Professor, you wanted to see us?"

Ozpin: "Hello Thorn, Neo. Yes, I asked you two to come here to assign your team a mission along with meeting our best second year students, team CFVY, lead by Coco Adel"

Coco: "These are the ones we'll be helping?"

Ozpin: "Yes they are. Team CFVY, meet team TN, lead by Thorn. I believe Ms Scarlatina already knows Mr Branwen."

Thorn: "Ah, you're the one me and Shadow helped a few days ago."

Velvet: "Y-y-yes, that's right... Thanks by the way..."

Coco: "Heh... I already like the kid. Not many people would have helped her, so thanks. If we had gotten to the room sooner we would taken him down ourselves."

Thorn: "Don't worry about it, I'm just glad we were able to help."

Ozpin: "now, Mr Branwen, as I said before, I wish to assign your team to assist team CFVY on a mission. Before I tell you the details though... I got something important to ask you..."

Thorn: "... What is it?..."

Ozpin: *sigh* "... Have you ever heard of something called the 'Deep Vale'?"

A silence begins to fill the room as the screen fades to black.

Epilogue

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A crash is heard from Ozpin's office along with a gunshot sound.

Ozpin: "QROW, calm down! This isn't helping anything!"

Qrow: "Calm down?... CALM DOWN?! YOU TOLD THORN ABOUT THE DEEP VALE! WE SWORE TO NEVER TELL HIM ABOUT IT TILL HE'S READY!"

Ozpin: "I know you're worried about him, but I believe he was ready. You saw how he fought Hazama."

Qrow: "The guy wasn't even trying! He was playing with them! What's more, the kid has a god damn bounty on his head, and you only have ONE team helping him!? Are you trying to kill him!?"

Ozpin: "If we assign more people to him, it'll draw more attention to him instead of protecting him."

Qrow: "... Quick question, did you tell him about 'That' that we found on there?"

Ozpin: "No, and I'd rather keep that hidden from him..."

Qrow: "... This is going to bite both of us in the ass soon..."

Ozpin: "..."

Qrow: *sighs* "ok... Guess I'll go and keep an eye on him during this mission. What is it anyway?"

Ozpin: *places files on two girls on the table, facing towards Qrow so he can read it* " it's to rescue two new recruits from the White Fang who are about to be sold in the black market."

After Qrow reads the files, he turns away and leaves to go keep an eye on you.

Ozpin: (thoughts) " I hope this doesn't turn around and break Thorn..."

(A/n): And that's the end of this volume. I'll try to work on the next one as soon as possible, so keep an eye out for that please, and I hope you enjoyed the story.

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