Chapter 49: The Reaper of Death

The atmosphere settled as death filled the air, the wind was howling as the ash had stopped falling from the sky. Silence fell over Atlas and Mantle for a brief moment, not a single sound was heard anywhere.

"So...you've finally shown yourself.....Raven..." Scarlet said as she looked down at the Maiden.

Raven glared at her as she grits her teeth. "You killed my daughter! I'll make you pay!"

Scarlet snickered as her tongue slithered out of her mouth as she licked her lips. "Really now? I'd like to see you try and kill me....Spring."

Raven clinched her fist as she looked at Draken, and then over to Jaune. "Is there anyone else alive?"

"I-I think so." Jaune said. "Emerald and Hazel are still around here..."

Scarlet snickered again as she glanced around, she spotted Emerald and Hazel from the corner of her eye as she descended to the ground.

Raven got stood her ground as she drew her sword out, she held her sword high. Her eyes glowed as she dashes towards Scarlet. "DIE!!!"

Scarlet stood there, glaring at Raven. Watching as the Maiden dashed towards her, she grins as she held out her flintlock and musket and started to shoot at Raven.

Raven deflected the dust bullets with her sword as she jumps into the air and came down, swinging her sword down at Scarlet.

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Qrow and Robyn pushed some rubble off of themselves, there was no sign of any Atlas guards. Robyn glanced around as she looked out of the gaping hole. "Oh my god..."

Qrow looked over to see what Robyn was looking at. Both him and Robyn saw a empty vast waste land, that used to be part of Atlas and Mantle. "What the hell happened?"

In the distance something could be seen, something was coming flying towards them. They both took cover quickly as Raven came crashing in, Qrow looked over to see Raven. "Raven, what are you doing here?"

Raven winched in pain a little as she got up, she wiped blood from her mouth. "She killed them...."

"Who?" Robyn asked. "Who killed them?"

Raven got on her defense as she glared out the gaping hole. "Her."

Qrow and Robyn didn't have their weapons with them. And not only that, but Qrow knew his semblance was only going to get them into more dangerous situations. Scarlet flew towards the prison ship as she stopped in front of the three, Raven glared at her as she gripped her sword tight.

"Ara ara." Scarlet said. "Three little birds, all cooped up in one place...this will make my killing a lot easier." She held her hand out as she smirked. "I'll rip all three of you apart, just like I had done to Yang."

"You what?!" Qrow shouted as he was about to run forward, but was soon shot back by the magic Scarlet used. He crashed into the back of the room as he shook his head. "The hell?"

"Magic." Raven said. "Salem's magic, I'll stall her...you two go get your weapons."

Robyn looked at her and then at Qrow. "Right, lets go."

Qrow hesitated for moment, but went with Robyn to retrieve their weapons. Raven used her Maiden powers to fend off Scarlet as long as she could, while the other two left.

Qrow and Robyn were looking around the ship for where their weapons must've been put at, eventually they find what they were looking for. Qrow grabbed his as he clinched his fist, he punched the locker making his knuckle bleed. "Damn her."

"I know, you're angry." Robyn said. "But we can't sit back now and let her chaos continue, we don't even know how many have died.."

Qrow glared at her for a moment, he then turned around and walked off. "The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can look for survivors."

"Agreed." Robyn said as she followed behind Qrow.

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Jaune, Draken, Emerald and Hazel were left in the center of the battlefield as Jaune glanced around the area. He didn't spot Ren's body anywhere, there was too much ash on the ground to make anything out.

"Any thing?" Draken asked scanning around.

"No...there's too much ash." Jaune said.

Emerald was looking for an traces of Cinder, or Mercury. "I don't see anyone else either."

The ground started to shake as the middle of the waste land started to crack. Everyone jumped out of the way as Grimm dug the middle out and rose up, it was covered in ash as well as it glanced around at them all.

"What...the...what is that?" Emerald asked. "I wasn't aware of this type of Grimm being a secret project or anything." She backed up a bit as she shook her head. "This has to be Scarlet's doing."

"Ara, I'm glad you noticed." Scarlet spoke as she was hoovering over head, it had seemed Raven gave her the old switcheroo trick. Which allowed Raven to buy some more time on getting Qrow and Robyn up to speed on what was going on.

Draken looked at the Grimm that had just appeared out of middle of the waste land, he tired to use his semblance on to take control of it, but failed. "What kinda of Grimm is this?"

"Cthulhu" Scarlet said as she flew around the massive Grimm. "The ancient one.." She then landed on the ground as she grins. "A huge experiment I have been working on...fully complete."

"JAUNE!" Ruby called out from the distance. "Where are you?!"

Jaune heard Ruby calling him. "Shit, shit...this is all a trap."

"Bingo." Scarlet said as she flew into the air. "The finale to everyone's life...as I become the new ruler of Remnant." She laughed as she spotted RWBN coming. "Come...come my dear sister, and face your end...each and everyone of you will be crushed in the palm of my hand."

Nora noticed the massive Grimm, as she pointed to it. "Over there! They have to be there. That's the only Grimm in sight."

"Right.." Weiss said. "I just hope Winter's okay."

Ruby used her semblance to dash over to the area, she stopped as she saw everyone expect Ren. But what had her frozen in place was seeing the massive Grimm towering over them. She glanced around for Scarlet but didn't see her in the sky, she noticed Hazel and Emerald standing there.

Hazel gritted his teeth as he looked up. "You monster!"

Scarlet smirked as she snapped her fingers, another Grimm dug it's way from underground and up to the surface. It's claws were long and sharp as it's left arm was in the shape of a scythe, Scarlet cackled as she glanced down "And this.....this is The Reaper of death."

"T-Two new type Grimm....we're so screwed." Jaune said as he fell to his knees and pounded the ground. "DAMMIT!!!!"

A/N:[I can't take credit for Draken's character, credit goes to my friend on Discord. Also the Cthulhu Grimm and The Reaper of Death Grimm are just two types I made up to fit into this story.]