Teams RWBY and JNR + Oscar and Qrow and Maria had all gotten into their assigned positions.
At first no one talked about what happened. No one quite believed it.
But after Weiss and Maria had snuck their way into the plane, and Blake was on her way to disable communications, Ruby, Oscar, Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Qrow were all waiting for their turn.
And the silence got awkward.
"Uh...so...are we going to talk about this?" Oscar asked them.
"Can we?" Ruby asked.
"She was...dead, right?" Oscar said. "I mean, you saw it."
"I saw it with my own two eyes." Ruby gestured at her eyes. "The second it happened! That's how my silver eyes activated."
"I didn't know that," Jaune said.
"I...didn't talk about it." Ruby had obvious reasons for not telling Jaune this, and they all knew it.
"Look--" Qrow sounded tired. "--I don't know how this happened...but after what we saw two days ago, we know better than to trust anyone who brings people back to life... I wouldn't get your hopes up. I don't think she's going to stay that way. There has to be balance--you heard the god of light."
"What if he was wrong?" Jaune shocked them by saying. "What if balance isn't what he thought? What if life isn't like that?"
"You're saying that the god was wrong?" Ren said. "You're questioning a god?"
"I can't be the only one who thought what they did was unfair," Jaune said. "To Ozma...to all of us. Even to Salem, even if she has no excuse for what she did about it. What if...what if they aren't all knowing? Didn't the lamp say 'there was some things even the gods didn't understand'? When Salem and Ozma met up again?"
"It did say that," Oscar nodded.
"So what? That was some vague idea of love or whatever," Qrow said. "It has nothing to do with this.... This defies everything we've seen, except that someone is pulling strings... It's a ploy to get us to listen to them. A power play. Look, Arc...I'm sorry, but Pyrrha is not back. Not really. Don't get used to her being here."
Jaune looked so...sad? Angry? Bitter? Disappointed? They couldn't tell.
Then he said in a dreadful voice, because it was so hard to read but still made Nora's and Ren's skin prickle with nervousness--and Ruby didn't like it either--
"Are you saying that you don't think we should take her back?"
"I wouldn't," Qrow said. "There's something unnatural about this, if she follows us... Well, let's hope she won't."
"Pyrrha is still a part of this team." Jaune sounded really defensive now. "If she wants to be back, she's back. End of story."
"Jaune," Ruby said warningly, "Uncle Qrow is just worried for us. It's not that we don't like Pyrrha...it's just that we don't know how to explain this. Maybe it is a miracle."
"Sounds like Salem's kind of idea," Qrow said.
"Salem can't bring people back to life--she only destroys them," Jaune said. "We saw nothing that showed she could bring them back."
"It seems if she could, she might have brought back her children..." Ren said.
"That part was so sad..." Nora said.
"Who knows what she's learned in all this time?" Qrow said. "Maybe it's a trick."
"She had her semblance," Oscar spoke quietly. "Right?"
"Polarity," Jaune said. "Yeah...Pyrrha was really strong."
"I can't explain that, but I still don't trust it," Qrow said. "All the stories that went on around her death and the maiden...who knows what could be possible?"
"You think that has something to do with it?" Ruby asked. "That's the magic...?"
"Just what were you going to do to her anyway?" Jaune's eyes narrowed. "You never really explained that part."
"You don't want to know," Qrow said.
"I think I do," Jaune said.
"I think we all do," Ren actually backed him up.
"Yeah." Nora frowned also.
Ruby and Oscar declined to disagree.
Qrow looked...ashamed?
"Look...if the normal method wasn't working, Jimmy had the idea that we could...well, force the soul out of Amber, the last maiden's body, and into someone else's."
"That was what that machine was?!" Jaune hadn't remembered this--the whole thing had been too traumatic...but now it came back to him...and Pyrrha's screaming. "How could you do something like that?!"
"Uncle Qrow...that's wrong," Ruby said.
"Yeah..." Oscar could imagine exactly what it was like, too.
"I'm not proud of it, and we didn't like it, but we were desperate. Amber was never going to wake up," Qrow said.
"Gee, why didn't you just stab her then?" Jaune said. "Why go to the extra lengths?"
[When you realize that Pyrrha killing Amber herself would potentially have had the same effect, and probably spared the danger of her own soul getting snuffed out, you really have to wonder how the headmasters got so dumb.
And before anyone says 'it would have been murder'...it was already murder, or it's pulling the plug, however you want to look at it.]
"We...thought it was safer that way," Qrow said. "If Amber never woke up, Cinder would have got the powers."
"And that makes it okay?" Jaune said.
"Look, kid, at the time, none of us but Oz knew the full story," Qrow said. "I can't be responsible for what we did, thinking it would work. Pyrrha thought so too."
"But in the end, she didn't know," Jaune said. "And now that we know, you have to tell her the truth."
"Why should I?" Qrow said. "Make her angry for no reason..."
"Because it was your fault," Jaune said, "and Ozpin's, but we all know he's not going to have the guts to show, so you should. If she comes back...we shouldn't leave her here alone."
"Think about it, Jaune," Nora spoke. "She's probably safer in Argus. No one but us will know about her, and no one will be looking for her. Her chances of living a happy life are much higher...you know, just...if we're talking about risk."
"Wow..." Oscar looked at her strangely. "That's...a little depressing, isn't it?"
"Well, we do take a lot of risks," Nora said, laughing nervously.
"Nora has a point," Ren said. "Maybe you should just leave her behind, Jaune... Maybe we all should... If it's really her, then it's not a problem to leave her here, with her family. And if it's not her...we should try to make it hard for whatever it is to find us."
"I'm sure it's her," Jaune said seriously. "I could feel it."
"Feelings can be deceiving, kid," Qrow said bitterly.
"Okay," Ruby said, "we don't know she'll come... If she doesn't, let's not worry about it... It's weird, but...maybe it isn't really like Uncle Qrow says, and I guess we'll...know sooner or later. If she does show up, then we'll decide what to do. But we have to focus on what we're doing right now."
It was kind of funny that right after she said that they saw a flash of light.
* * *
Shine and Wally had spent that time getting some better clothes at what they hoped was a reasonable price.
Also, whatever they had leftover, they used on food supplies.
Shine wasn't as upbeat as usual, or as talkative, and Wally began to wonder why.
"Is something bothering you?" he asked. "You think she won't come?"
"I'm not sure her family will let her out of their sight," Shine said. "But that's not what's bothering me. She can do whatever she wants... But, you trying to stop me from saying what I needed to say earlier, that bothers me."
She frowned.
"Oh...that... Uh, I didn't mean to upset you," Wally said. "I just thought that we were throwing a lot at her. I don't even know what I'd think if I were her right now."
"What did you think when it was you?" Shine asked.
"I didn't really feel that different," Wally said, "other than I wanted to go, kind of...but my friends needed me back...so I came... I'm not sorry. There's so much good that happened after that--I wouldn't want to lose that. And hey, I hadn't met you yet...but I guess other than that, nothing changed. I just kind of know that stuff is more serious now."
"I do think you became a little more serious," Shine said. "It sobers you to face something like that... I think visiting my place between worlds had similar effects... It's a reality check, literally. Maybe she doesn't care, really."
"Yeah, but her friends being freaked out must have been weird. Mine weren't like that," Wally said.
"Your friends see the craziest stuff all the time--they wouldn't be surprised by much anymore," Shine said. "But these people aren't used to it yet... Still, I was trying to help her. I felt like you were saying I was wrong."
"I just thought we could be a little gentler," Wally said. "She's been through a lot."
"But she wants answers," Shine said. "From what I know of her, she'd prefer that to being babied at a time like this. We're not close enough for her to like that. But either way, trying to stop me like that kind of looks bad. Can't we talk in private if you think I'm wrong?"
"But how can we do that in the middle of a conversation?" Wally said. "She seems okay, so I'll admit you were fine. Can't we just leave it at that?"
"But if it happens again, maybe you should just make some signal..." Shine shook her head. "I mean, we did go over Sign Language...just saying something like 'pause' or 'slow' to me. Or maybe 'word'." She made those signs. "Just...it's less embarrassing."
"I never thought I'd embarrassed you. I'm sorry," Wally said.
"It's all right... It was an honest mistake," Shine said. "And you were concerned about Pyrrha. I can understand that... I'm more worried about the others, though. I wonder how they are taking this... Qrow seemed more surprised than I would have thought. Something about what Jaune told us about Salem and Ozpin keeps bothering me. I don't know if they think we were right to do this."
"I guess they think that resurrecting someone is wrong, instead of just being wowed by it," Wally said. "I feel like that's kind of missing the point."
"Yes, well, so was complaining that Jesus healed on the Sabbath, but people did it," Shine said. "And people still miss the point to this day. We so do like to feel safe in our rules and habits, that we don't care about what's really good for us anymore."
"But why didn't you tell her why we did it?" Wally said. "I mean...we didn't really, but we set it in motion, I guess, and we had a reason. I think it's a good reason."
"Because if I told her now, she'd feel a responsibility to act on it," Shine said simply. "And she needs to make up her mind based on more than that. I don't want her to work with us out of obligation."
"I think you're right about that. I'd feel really gross about making someone help us just because we helped them," Wally said. "Though this kind of thing is never one I'd imagine anyone would owe us for... Is this normal?"
"My first time, with this miracle, but stuff like this, yes, usually happens the most at the start of the mission," Shine predicted. "I think it's kind of that first dispension of grace and enthusiasm that comes with a new thing. It levels out usually if the mission is longer, but who knows how long we'll be here."
"I hope we go somewhere warmer if it's for a long time," Wally shivered. "Nebraska is pretty cold, but I've been living in Central City for years... It's cold but not this cold."
"You think you're freezing? I live where it's 70-80 degrees 75% of the year," Shine said. "And hotter usually."
The door of the shop then opened with a jingling bell, and they looked and saw Pyrrha, wearing a coat now, and with a shield and a sword over her back. No headpiece--she must not have had one that fit anymore.
She had replaced her armor and eye shadow however.
She smiled at them in a shy kind of way.
"I thought about it," she said.
* * *
Pyrrha's parents' reaction to her arrival had been exactly what she expected--or even more emotional.
Pyrrha wasn't sure how to tell them the truth...so she told them that, in fact, it just wasn't the case that she'd been dead... She'd just been...missing for all this time.
It made it a little easier, but they were still wrecked.
She looked around the house for her old stuff. The sword she found wasn't as dexterous a model as her old one, but it would do for now. She hoped to get it juiced up a little in Atlas...or here...
But really it only took her about 40 minutes to realize that she wasn't staying.
Home was nice, just as it always had been, but...she didn't fit here. She'd grown apart from it, and she knew already that she wasn't going to be satisfied unless she followed the others to Atlas.
She had to know what would happen...and why she was here.
Telling her parents that she was leaving again wasn't easy...and they didn't want to let her.
She had to tell them it was official business and make up some more lies she wasn't proud of.
And even then, she might have misled them about how long it would take...
She told herself she'd send them a message later explaining it more.
She took time to grab some supplies from her room and their supplies before she headed back out and caught a tram to Main Street. She then spotted the two strangers through the store window.
* * *
"So I decided this is the only thing I can do," Pyrrha finished. "If the others are fine with it. I'm sure it must be odd for them... I don't know quite what to think of this."
She thought Shine had known all along what she'd decide, based on how unsurprised she was.
"Well, I think if you want to ride this to the end, then you should," Wally said. "Anyone would want to know, so, as far as we're concerned, welcome aboard. The others will probably come around. I mean, I'm sure your team is thrilled, anyway."
"Let's catch up, then. I hope they haven't left yet. Landing on the plane will be so much more uncomfortable than the ground," Shine said.
"Just how are we going to catch them? From what I understand from my parents, no one is being allowed to fly out who isn't authorized, and I don't have that kind of status, even as a sort of celebrity," Pyrrha said. "Plus officially I'm...dead. So won't it raise some questions?"
"Oh, honey." Shine waved her hand and smiled. "We don't need a plane."
* * *
The purplish-goldish light of the door that they used, once they'd taken cover in an alley, fascinated Pyrrha so much she almost forgot how startled the others would be to see it.
And they were.
"What...the heck was that?" Qrow sounded like he was trying not to cuss in front of his niece.
"That looked kind of like Raven's doorways--but way nicer," Ruby said.
"Wow...that's amazing." Pyrrha was looking around and then at Shine. "How did you do that?"
"Trade secret." Shine winked at her boyfriend.
"Pyrrha, you came!" Nora called. "I knew you'd want to be in on this. This is so great--team JNPR is finally together again! Being team JNR sucked so hard. That's not a cool name at all. I thought Oscar could join us, but there's no word that works with those letters!"
"You could have gone with ORNJ," Shine said.
"Meh." Nora waved it off.
"I thought about it, and I decided that following you all to Atlas was the only thing I could do," Pyrrha said. "If that's all right with you." She seemed so shy about it...just like she was before.
Why did it surprise them that she acted the same? After all, she hadn't had months of experiencing the things they had to make her more grave and less unsure of herself.
But it still was surprising.
Qrow didn't like it. The fact that she seemed so real almost unnerved him more than if she'd seemed off.
"I guess it's been decided already, but on the record I said it was a bad idea," he said sourly.
He got some adverse looks from team JNPR, aside from Pyrrha herself.
"Wait till you see us in action," Nora said to Pyrrha then. "We've all gotten so much stronger...and Jaune has his semblance now!"
"Really?" Pyrrha brightened. "That's wonderful! I always knew you'd find it. So what is it?"
"Get this, he can enhance people's auras!" Nora said. "Like, make us really strong and it can heal people! He healed Weiss from this big wound--and he can make Ren strong enough to mask a whole train!"
"Wow..." Pyrrha was wide-eyed. "That's an amazing semblance. I guess you were worried for nothing, Jaune."
Now, from Pyrrha in the past, Jaune would have thought that was funny--or sweet.
But in light of what happened to her and how it had bothered him...it felt kind of bittersweet...and that hurt.
He tried to smile, though... How would he explain it if he didn't take the compliment?
"You haven't met Oscar yet," Ruby spoke. "But he's learned to fight from Oz..." She stopped. "Well, anyway, he's new. But he helped us at Haven... Did you hear about that?"
"Shine and Wally were telling me what happened," Pyrrha said. "I'm sorry about Lionheart... I heard he was a good man. I'm shocked that he turned on you."
"There's a lot of that going around," Qrow said flatly. "Nikos, you realize if you're coming along, there's going to be a lot of danger. You've been out of the game for months. Do you remember how to fight?"
"I think so," Pyrrha said. "I just found out yesterday..." She stopped. "I mean...for me it was like yesterday."
At that moment they heard yelling coming from the plane.
And then they saw a huge mech thing coming towards them, with Cordovan driving it.
"And...we're going to have to fight that..." Jaune looked.
"If we don't destroy that thing, we'll never get out of here." Ren frowned.
Cordovan fired at them anyway with dust, and they all had to duck.
"Why is she trying to shoot you?" Pyrrha asked, after ducking behind a rock with her usual speed and agility.
"Uh...well, it's a long story," Jaune said.
"Before you suggest something stupid--" Shine and Wally were right by them, and Shine was speaking. "--I think I can solve this one. Jaune, just amplify Pyrrha's aura and have her deal with this thing. It's, like, 90% metal."
Pyrrha sized it up. "She's right, Jaune. We can't destroy it--it's a defense against monsters. I've been living here for a long time. Every now and then these huge Grimm come out of the bay."
"They've been getting worse lately," Ren commented. "Bigger... Salem seems to be changing her approach."
"Then that's even more reason not to destroy that," Pyrrha said. "But I could slow it down, give us a chance to get out of here."
"Are you sure you're up to that?" Jaune asked.
Pyrrha gave him a strange look. "Why wouldn't I be? It's just simple polarity."
"And let's hurry," Shine suggested. "Before that thing gets in a lucky shot."
"Okay, let me just tell the others our plan," Jaune agreed reluctantly.
It was at this point that Maria and Oscar had crashed the plane into the ground.
Blake and Yang also appeared, finally...and they looked like they'd been in a fight. Blake had lost her coat...and they didn't have Bumblebee.
[And take that last part as indicative of the rest of this story. That ship is toxic and dysfunctional, and I refuse to acknowledge it. Also it wasn't developed at all... I'm not giving the writers that one. As a final note, Monty wrote Blacksun when he was still on the job, and I thought it was so disrespectful to throw it away when they are supposed to be carrying on his legacy. It's one of the only three ships that he was around while they were working on, and it's not one to just discard because they felt like it after 3 or even 5 volumes...and because the VA left. Excuses!]
"What's going on?" Yang asked...and then she noticed Pyrrha and the two DJs and frowned.
"Well...Shine has an idea for how to stop this thing," Jaune said. "Uh...Pyrrha, you do know how to do this without hurting Cordovan, right?"
"Of course," Pyrrha said. "I'm ready when you are."
She narrowed her eyes at the mech.
"Pyrrha is going to fight it?" Yang said.
"Don't be silly." Shine tugged her hair. "She won't have to fight it. This fight was over as soon as we got here."
Jaune felt a bit weird about this... He didn't even touch Pyrrha directly, just put his hands close.
She still felt a little awkward, but then she was too busy concentrating to care.
She held out her hands.
Pyrrha was certainly very powerful on her own, but Jaune's power made her so strong she almost overcompensated when she pushed the mech.
Cordovan had no idea what was happening.
"So what happened to Blake?" Ruby asked, since she now had nothing else to do.
"Well...Adam showed up," Blake said.
"What?" Weiss, who'd joined them after getting off the plane, said.
"He found me, I guess," Blake said. "He wasn't retrieved after what happened at Haven. I thought I was imagining it...but we...."
"We killed him," Yang said in a tight voice.
No one said anything.
Pyrrha, however, looked back at Yang, startled, like she couldn't believe she'd just heard that.
But then she pursed her lips and focused harder.
Straining, she knocked the mech over into the water.
Flat on its back, it crackled and stopped moving.
"Whoa, that was so cool!" Wally said. "High five, Pyrrha."
He high-fived, and she returned it, smiling.
"Won't it get up?" Weiss asked.
"No, it won't be able to," Qrow said. "They'll have to haul it up and replace part of its circuits. That'll take all day. We'll be long gone."
"At least we didn't have to destroy it," Oscar said.
But their relief was short-lived, because right after that, they saw a huge Leviathan Grimm rise out of the water and start lumbering towards Argus.
"Tell me that's not real..." Jaune whimpered.
"That's a giant Grimm," Weiss said. "And we just broke the only thing capable of stopping it..."
Silence for the moment.
"We can stop it," Ruby said finally.
"I hate to say this," Pyrrha said, "but no group of huntsmen could kill that thing... It's too big. Dust won't work."
"Oh, but you missed a lot," Nora said. "Ruby can kill it. She'll laser-beam it with her eyeballs!"
Pyrrha looked like she thought this was a joke.
"It's true," Ruby said. "I have this thing called silver eyes. I turned that wyvern to stone in Beacon."
Pyrrha gaped at her.
"Oh, it's so cool to see," Nora said. "Just you wait, Pyrrha. This will be a real treat."
"Now we have to get back in the air," Maria said. "And they won't help us."
"We can try," Oscar said. "Maybe if we say we're going to help."
"With the trouble you just caused?" Shine said. "I regret suggesting what I did."
"You couldn't have known that would show up right now..." Pyrrha said.
"Actually I think we could have. Don't they show up where there's negativity? You didn't think about the Argus military freaking out over you stealing a plane as a reason for negativity?" Shine said.
Pause.
"You guys have some serious tunnel vision," Wally said. "But we can still get rid of it, right? So no harm done."
"Don't get cocky. She can't always do it on command," Qrow said.
"I think I've got it," Ruby said. "Let's just go."
["This Will be the Day" AMV by SoulEaterBlaze]
* * *
A few minutes later they were all on the plane, swerving close to the Leviathan.
Shine hated it. She didn't like heights already, and the plane had open doors and was tilting around. Everyone else seemed used to keeping their balance in this just fine.
"You okay, Sunshine?" Wally asked.
Shine gripped the wall as Maria tilted the plane to the left. "Oh sure," she said.
Maria straightened the plane, and Shine jerked sideways.
Wally grabbed her. "This is a little bumpier than a Javelin...kind of freaks me out."
"What? You two can't keep your footing?" Yang glanced at them. "Where the h--- did you train?"
"Same place you learned manners, it sounds like," Shine shot back.
Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Okay, we're getting in closer," Qrow warned. "Ruby, you got this?"
The Leviathan was pounding on the weird-looking plasma wall in front of Argus.
"I got it. Weiss?" Ruby said.
Weiss was summoning a queen lancer.
"Whoa..." Wally said. "Forgot she could do that... Is that like its ghost?"
"No," Shine said.
"Stop distracting me!" Weiss said. "Ruby?"
Ruby got on the lancer, and it flew out towards the Leviathan.
"Does this feel like a bad idea to anyone else?" Jaune asked.
"I thought it was just me," Pyrrha said, biting her lip. "But if you say she can..."
"She's only done it, like...twice..." Nora said.
"When was the other time?" Shine gritted her teeth as Maria banked away again.
"Against the Apathy," Blake said.
"Still don't know what that is," Wally said.
Ruby was staring at the Leviathan. And she suddenly said something...
No one else saw what happened exactly--except Shine and Wally.
Magic didn't affect them, and they were DJs, so when the blue Jinn appeared and stopped time, they saw it and felt it... To them it was like things began to move in butter.
The plane seemed steady.
Shine moved, and she was moving what felt like a normal pace for her.
She went to stand at the edge.
"What's going on?" Wally said. "This is like those dreams I used to have where I stopped time. I wasn't moving, was I? Shine, was I moving?"
"Relax, Wally, I feel it too," Shine said. "I'll pull you out of it if you're stuck."
She held out a hand. He took it. He felt a little shaky.
But he watched Ruby, who was talking to this big...unclothed, blue woman--who had the snarky look of a genie, all right.
"Phenomenal Cosmic Power," Shine said wryly. "Itty bitty living space."
The genie turned suddenly and looked right at them...and got what seemed an awful lot like a puzzled look, considering she was supposed to have all knowledge.
Then she vanished, and Ruby's eyes suddenly shot out silver light.
Time resumed, and Shine almost fell out of the door of the plane, but thankfully she'd thought to grab the edge while still in slow motion.
Wally yanked her back too. He had a better grip.
"How did you two get over there?" Oscar looked at them strangely. "I thought you were behind me."
"So we were the only ones who felt that... " Shine mused.
"Look." Blake pointed.
The Leviathan had turned partially into stone...but it was cracking and breaking out of it.
And the mech was down.
"How do we kill that thing?" Qrow asked.
No one had any ideas.
Shine's eyes flashed suddenly.
"Well, I think we're up now," she said.
Ruby was looking at the plane helplessly.
"What are you going to do?" Pyrrha asked Shine.
"Maria, can you fly us a little closer to that thing?" Shine asked.
"Do you have silver eyes also?" Maria asked.
"Nah, hers are gold," Wally said.
"Is that...better?" Maria asked.
"I guess we'll find out," Shine said.
No one else wanted to do it, but Maria was apparently convinced. She veered toward the monster.
Shine held on tight and looked more out the door.
"Hey!" she yelled, once they were close enough to be heard by it.
The Leviathan paused just as it was about to take another big step forward.
And probably blast Ruby, so it was a good thing.
It turned and looked at Shine...and the others could have sworn its eyes narrowed with hatred.
Her eyes were glowing again.
"Yeah, you know who I am," she said, recognizing the look. "And you know where I come from. Go away."
The Leviathan opened its mouth as if to shoot.
"Get down," Qrow said.
"No, don't move," Shine said.
She reached up and pulled out...a sword? Out of nowhere.
She held it out.
Wally nodded. "I'm with her." He held up his hand. "I'm not sure what's going on, but the big monster thing should just leave. So...go on, get going."
He waved it off.
No one thought that would work, but the Leviathan snarled at him.
"Don't even think about it." Shine held up her sword more. "If you shoot at us, I'll cut your tongue out."
The Leviathan stopped.
"Now go," Shine said. "Or do you want us to call for help?"
Somehow she made the word help sound threatening.
Then...to everyone's great shock and almost horror, the Leviathan gave a yowl like an angry dog or cat, and then it turned and sank back down under the waves.
[Anyone who gives me crap for Ruby not defeating it should remember that she didn't in the OG show either.]
"Did that Grimm just...run away from you?" Jaune asked.
"If it knew what was good for it," Shine said, putting the sword back--it vanished from sight.
"But it could come back," Nora said.
"It won't come back for a while after that," Shine said. "Hopefully, they'll have the mech fixed by then. Meanwhile, don't you think we should go while the going is good?"
"Yeah, before the military from Star Wars realizes what's going on," Wally reminded them.
The team was gaping at them, but then Oscar shook himself. "Yeah, let's get going. Ruby?"
Weiss's lancer was flying Ruby back right then.
"I'm good," Ruby said, getting on the ship. "What just happened? It looked like the Leviathan turned tail and just left."
"It did," Ren said.
"Huh?" Ruby said. "But...why?"
"They...told it to..." Blake pointed at the DJs.
Shine and Wally seemed to think little of it. "Come on, let's go. Can we shut the door now?" Shine asked, sitting down along the wall.
Maria hit the button to do this and started flying towards Atlas.
"So..." Pyrrha seemed the least shaken up after all that. "You can...control Grimm?"
"Oh, no, I wouldn't presume to do that," Shine said. "And you don't want to control something that hates you. It will always find a way to bite you back. But we can frighten them, it looks like."
"Is that better?" Jaune asked.
"I hope so," Wally said. "I thought it was way cool. I am digging all these new powers."
"They aren't new, you're just seeing them with your eyes for the first time," Shine said.
"Okay...still cool," Wally said. "You get to do this all the time?"
"Hey, this isn't the best part," Shine reminded him. "Just a bonus, really."
"Nice bonus," Nora said.
"Anything else we should know about you?" Qrow frowned.
"Yes," Shine said. "Fighting Grimm always makes me want to sing a song. Mind if I indulge?"
"You want to sing after that?" Weiss said.
"Sure, why not?" Shine said. "You like to sing, don't you?"
"Like it..." Weiss said like it was an odd question. "Well, I'm good at it..."
Shine shrugged.