"i get it , but damn if it didn't feel like you were about to take my head off." qrow said honestly while stopping the shaking of his hands. "i tried so hard to prevent the exact thing that ended up happening so i am ever so slightly ABSOLUTELY VIVID at the person behind it." leon said putting a dark emphasis on two of the words. "Yeah i can tell , but anyways the security cameras you installed showed the culprit when james pulled them the day after. from the public records the girl was known as cinder fall , had a pretty bad upbringing before apparently killing her abusive parents and vanishing about ten years ago." qrow explained.
The man pulled up the image of cinder entering the clock tower that the hidden camera took and leon angrily took out his spare scroll he retrieved earlier that day from one of his hidden safehouses nearby. there was no doubt as he opened a specific file and on the screen popped up the image of cinder , silver and emerald in the warehouse with torchwick. "it was her the entire time , i assumed it was torchwick's idea , but it was her's instead!" leon exclaimed angrily.
"But didn't you end everyone involved during THAT incident?" qrow asked confused. leon shook his head "those three weren't in the city at the time and i assumed that after the operation they would avoid returning. but they actually had the courage to enact their plan even after that set back." leon said through gritted teeth. qrow looked thoughtful "according to the cameras she hasn't left beacon yet , thought the wyvern has taken up residence there along with a small army of grim." he said seriously. leon had a wrathful smile "how far away would you say beacon is from vale?" he asked ominously.
Qrow had the feeling leon was about to do something foolish "twenty miles , why?" he asked suspicious. "I'm about to drop a bomb on beacon and i needed to know how large i could make it." leon said seriously. "Can you do that without getting the wyverns attention?" qrow asked not outright telling leon not to do it because he also really wants cinder dead for the evil she created willingly. "oh yeah , i'ma drop that bitch from the lithosphere." leon said with a angry smirk.
"Do you even have a bomb you can drop from that high?" qrow asked seriously. "not at the moment but give me a day or two and i'll send give everything there a rude awakening." leon said with an evil glint before leaving the house for his safehouse , he had work to do. two days passed after that and they were stressful days for cinder who couldn't figure out for the life of her why she couldn't access the artifact chamber or why she was so anxious. the sense that something terrible was coming for her had suddenly appeared this morning and she had been maintaining a sold barrier around herself in caution as a result yet nothing had happened yet even three hours later.
She wasn't tired even after maintaining the barrier this long thanks to the fact nothing was hitting it letting her recycle the spent energy without issue. this nervous feeling lasted until exactly twelve o'clock noon when it changed. that nervousness changed into an overwhelming feeling of danger making her thicken the barrier to the greatest extent she could even if it burnt through ninety percent of her energy stores. on the outside area of beacon the only warning the grim got was a whistling sound before a silver spear-like object three meters long and a foot with crashed into the ground.
A wave of pure destructive force exploded out on contact from the spear-like object shaking the earth for five miles all around as a mushroom cloud of silver black flame rose from what used to be the beacon plateau. it was a clever thing leon had made his "bomb" , in truth he shaped a large amount of fire resistant metal into a hollow cylinder with a pointed tip. he then inscribed the inside and outside of the thing with infernal script to create an intense pressure inside it that would only be released on impact that he filled with two whole days of compressed hell flame.
The wyvern survived the explosion but suffered terribly as it was covered in burnt or simply erased parts and had even had a wing severed from the force. cinders barrier kept her alive but the sheer impact force took her and her barrier flying away at extreme speed leaving her greatly injured upon crash landing losing and arm while scaring the rest of her body horribly ruining the looks she was so proud of.
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