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Back to the fairytale, back to the show

Back to the wall and there's nowhere to go

Hopeless and desperate, all paths adverse

Things looking bleak, and they're bound to get worse

Helpless and doomed, and there's no way to win

Goals unachievable, faith running thin

Lost and forlorn, impossible odds

That's when you'll learn you've been messing with gods!

Send in your grimm, tear off my limb

Strike me with bolts of lightning

I won't die

The battle seems unwinnable, but all we need's a miracle

We're going up we'll never be denied!

Can't wish away the dismal days

Can't bring back what is gone

Won't waste more tears on yesteryears

Instead we'll carry on

We'll win, we're sure we will endure

And though our goal is far

We'll be the ones to touch the sun

The Triumph will be ours!

- Regular, or the special?

- I'm actually looking for someone.

Goes by the name Shiro Wan.

You ever heard of 'em?

I heard he's a regular around here.

- Who's askin'?

- Hey, I'm not some cop if that's what you mean.

I need Shiro for a gig.

We go way back.

- Way back, huh?

So, he's a friend of yours?

- Hmm, yeah I'd say so.

He's a pretty alright guy.

- Well, in that case

you tell that jerk that he better not show his ugly face

in here until he pays me the lien he owes me!

- Did I say friend? (laughs)

I meant acquaintance.

Really, we're just colleagues.

Anyways, thanks for your time buddy.

I'll just be takin' off now.

Great start.

Heather Shields.

Oh, uh hey there.

I'm looking for Heather?

Look, pal, I've had a rough day.

Do you know where she is or not?

- Daddy?

Does he know where mommy is?

- I, uh, (sighs)

I'm sorry to bother you.

- You got a lotta nerve showin' up back here,

unless you brought that idiot with you.

- How much did Shiro owe you?

- Well, I'd say about 16,000 lian.

Wait, what?

Man, you must be in some serious trouble

with him if you're payin' off.

- His name is clear.

- Yeah.

That idiot.

Yeah.

- April, wait outside.

Thank you.

- So, what's the truth?

- You know, it's better when it's hot.

- You know, you're really obnoxious.

- The truth is that truth is hard to come by.

A story of victory for one person

is a story of defeat for someone else.

By now your uncle has surely told

Ruby and her friends plenty of stories.

- Well he's never given me a reason to doubt him before.

- That doesn't mean those reasons don't exist.

You know, you and your teammates might as well

be the poster children for the Huntsman Academies.

Your motives vary, but you all enrolled

to try and make the world a better place.

It's adorable.

- It's what huntsmen and huntresses do.

- Not all of them.

Some people are just in it for the money and the fame,

but there's even more that are just

looking to grow stronger.

Your uncle Qrow and I didn't attend Beacon

to become huntsmen.

We did it to learn how to kill huntsmen.

Daddy and uncle left that part out, hmm?

Aside from the Grimm, huntsmen were the only ones

capable of ruining our raids and hunting us down.

Our tribe needed a counterforce.

And Qrow and I were the perfect age.

The entrance exams were child's play

compared to what we'd already been through.

We were good.

So good that we caught the attention of

Beacon's very own headmaster, Professor Ozpin.

Even after we were put on a team,

I could tell he was keeping his eye on us.

Back then I thought it was because he knew,

but it was team Stark he was interested in.

- What do you mean by that?

- Constant attention, extra training missions,

turning a blind eye whenever we happened to break the rules

and get in to more trouble than we should've.

Sound familiar?

- What's your point?

How much do you know about Professor Ozpin?

About his past?

- He was a prodigy, one of the youngest headmasters

to be appointed to a school.

- Because that's how he planned it.

Because the man you know as Ozpin designed those schools

and has followers inside every academy on Remnant that are

loyal to him and no one else.

- That doesn't make any sense.

How could he have... no.

Why would someone even do that?

- Because old man Oz has a great and terrible secret.

- [Raven] One that could spread fear across the world.

One that he eventually entrusted to our team,

and once I knew, there was no going back.

I needed to know more,

but with every new discovery I made,

the more horrifying the world became.

- Okay, then tell us.

What's the big secret?

What's so crazy that the rest of us don't know.

The creatures of Grimm have a master named Salem.

She can't be stopped, she can't be reasoned with,

and she will not rest until humanity crumbles at her feet.

- What?

- You know you two haven't even touched your tea.

- Why should we believe any of this?

- Now you're catching on.

So far you've done nothing but accept what others tell you.

But you need to question everything.

Otherwise you'll end up just as blind as Qrow.

And your fool of a father.

- Don't you dare talk about my family like that.

- You need to calm down.

- Yang, please.

- Listen to your friend, Yang.

Your teammate's never let you down before.

- You don't know the first thing about my teammates.

About me!

You were never there, you left us!

Why?

- I know more than you realize.

Not just about you, and not just what I've been told,

but the things I've seen with my own eyes.

I know the Grimm have a leader.

I know people who can come back from the dead.

I know that magic is real,

and I can prove it.

You said Ty told you all about my semblance.

Well I doubt he ever told you

what Oz did to my brother and me.

- Go see for yourself.

- Mom?

- Yang, are you okay?

- I'll be fine once we can get her to take us to Ruby.

- It's okay if you're not okay.

- You didn't believe what she said, right?

- I ... of course not.

Well, not all of it.

It was crazy, we have the dust semblances,

but I mean there's no such thing as magic.

- A raven?

- I've seen that bird before.

- Maybe it belongs to your mom?

- How did you do that?

Well, I could explain it to you,

or you could ask your uncle.

- You're letting us go?

- I'm giving you a choice.

Stay here with me,

and I'll answer all of your questions and more.

We can have a fresh start.

Or, you can go back to Qrow

and join Ozpen's impossible war against Salem,

and meet the same fate as so many others.

But can you really go back to trusting someone

that's kept so much from you?

- All I care about is making sure my sister is safe.

- Ugh.

Yang.

If you side with your uncle, I may not be as kind

the next time we meet.

- You weren't kind this time, either.

- I know.

- This isn't right.

I get one or two of 'em, but all of them?

Raven.

Oh.

- Alright, the first batch is just about done.

- Awesome!

Now we just need Qrow and we'll be all set.

- Do you really think he's going to bring that many people?

This is a lot of food.

- Uh, I don't know.

But it sounds like we can use all the help we can get.

- [Qrow] I'm back.

- Be right there!

- You're going to overcook that.

- No I'm not, shut up!

- [Qrow] Hey, uh, Ruby?

- I'm coming. (gasps)

Fine, you take over.

So we didn't know how many people were coming

so we just cooked all of it.

- Yang, I... I'm so sorry.

I should have stayed, and I should have talked to you more.

I just... I wasn't sure if you wanted me around and...

- I love you.

- I love you, too.

- Uh...

- Weiss?