It was a cold day in atlas that was filled with heavy snow as a blizzard had blown over the city obscuring vision of what was outside the city. as a result the city only barely had any warning when a massive horde of grim slammed into the hard light shield of the city. this shield was created by ozpin during one of his past incarnation's through the use of the artifact of creation alongside the original city as a symbol of hope for mankind. for a time it worked too , unfortunately humanity is an innately flawed and violent species that can misuse even the best intended gifts.
For salem though the city was an eyesore because what it was meant to symbolize was like a direct insult to her ideals. "after so long i can finally remove this thing you created so long ago , ozma." salem said to no one in particular from the internal palace that sat inside monstra. this grim was a titan by every classification as it was the size of the entire city. it had a distinctly whale-like appearance save for the tail that was more like that of an eel. along it's side were long powerful fins that acted like wings to keep it in the air.
The most terrible feature of monstra however was the innate ability it had to spit out an endless stream of grim essence that actively corroded anything it touched while also turning into more grim. monstra was salem's pet project that she had been growing for years as her most powerful siege weapon to destroy this city once and for all. The people of atlas were nearly helpless in the face of this overwhelming attack but didn't start to panic until the hard light shield that had always protected them showed it's first crack.
It was public knowledge that the shield was also the only thing keeping the city in the air so the moment the shield formed a crack evacuation orders went out swiftly. ironwood almost fell into despair at the situation as all the weapons that atlas had fell short. in the end he swallowed his pride and took the only chance he thought might work , he called leon. as unfortunate as it was this siege came at the worst possible time as the maiden of atlas was extremely sickly at the moment.
Leon was confused when ironwood called him but assumed that something had cropped up to stop the conversion of the kingdom. when ironwood explained the situation however the laziness in leon vanished and was replaced with seriousness. "i'll be there shortly." leon said over the call before hanging up. leon rushed over to glenda to inform her of his departure before ignoring everything to lock onto the moon above with his vision and activate his rakurai while in his space suit. in a single instant leon's body was crushed flat from the extreme g's before regenerating in the moons small and thin atmosphere.
In the eye that used rakurai the sight drastically dipped for a moment before leon's semblance repaired the damage done to it. Leon ignored that however and shot away from the moon with a massive burst of hellflame to circle the globe since atlas was located on the opposite side of the planet from vale. once in position leon summoned his susanoo before activating kami keshin to clad himself in an ultra thick and durable armor before hell fire rocketing straight at atlas. The phenomena of leon's descent caught the attention of the entirety of atlas's population as well as salem who could only curse when she realized what it was.
Much like what he appeared leon slammed into monstra like a meteor sending a shockwave in all directions for several miles. under such a strike there was simply no way monstra could stay airborne as it crashed into the ground , hard. even after that impact monstra was still alive albeit heavily injured since salem had fortified the grim during it's creation process. leon released his kami keshin and his susanoo grew back into it's massive form and roared letting ironwood let out a sigh of relief as he knew leon was here now.
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