The month passed smoothly after that and on the last day of the month the end of the year prom was held. leon had briefly taken a small amount of time to check up on the event and was satisfied at how it was set up. in the end it was shown that he simply wasn't needed to make the event a success as every thing was going fine in it. the main planner coco adel was a former student of beacon who stuck around doing odd jobs for ozpin with her team name cfvy.
She was an extremely detailed individual and had even been part of a fashion agency due to her skill and vision in the field. under her guidance the prom was a resounding success with all the students having a great time even after yang spiked the punch. that act was what sent the prom into a chaotic event as most of the students who had never had alcohol were obviously lightweights. jaune had even shown up in a dress to the event as part of a joke that everyone got a kick out of. none of them could know that next week hell awaited them.
The next day was the start of the next year and the first day of the week long vytal festival that had vale filled with foreigners. The first three days of the festival were filled with the preliminary rounds of the fighting tournament in order to create the official tournaments brackets. most of leon's students qualified for the main tournament but only a quarter of the foreign students made it otherwise. leon could tell that his students had their work cut out for them as those foreigners who qualified were the best of the best amongst their peers.
Meanwhile cinder and her people had already infiltrated vale and began setting up their own "event" in weak point's around the city. cinders plan was both simple and complex at the same time as first she placed dust explosives all over the city but especially on the outer walls. once the time was ripe she would detonate those explosives before using the chaos to move the tide of grim nearby beacon into taking over. thanks to the artifact hidden under beacon no matter how much leon hunted the grim nearby beacon and by extension vales was always had large numbers.
Add on the fact that no one knew that inside the mount by mount glen an ancient wyvern slumbered except salem and cinder it would become the deciding factor in cinders plan. the sheer amount of negative emotions that would come from vale during her "event" was sure to awaken the monster and draw it to her. while all of this was going on cinder would sneak into the academy and finish off the maiden she had attack previously completing her powers. once cinder has the full force of a maiden she will be unstoppable by anyone at beacon.
Leon was watching over the stalls set up all over vale and beacon for the festival as the head of security for this part of the festival while ironwood was in charge of the city itself. it was clear however to anyone who saw leon that he was extremely on edge as his entire being was screaming warnings at him. this made him glare at everyone while radiating a slightly suffocating aura as he tried to remain vigilant of everything. even qrow found it hard to approach leon while he was like this as leon felt incredibly dangerous to his own instincts.
The man had even stopped drinking temporarily after seeing leon so high strung as he was intimately aware of how sharps his instincts were. leon was so agitated that small sparks of hell flame popped around him occasionally as his magic reacted to his emotions. unfortunately being nervous and worried like this wasn't a trigger for sharingan evolution or leon would have gotten mangekyou already many times over. this lasted until the third day of the festival when leons instincts spiked and hell on earth descended.
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