RWBY V3 C6

## Plot

At Ozpin's office, it's revealed that Team JNPR made it through the doubles round, and Pyrrha will be representing them in the final round. She meets Qrow, who offers his usual snark. Ozpin asks Pyrrha questions about fairy tales, specifically, the story of the seasons. Four traveling maidens visit a callous old man who refuses to leave his home. They all show him great kindness, changing his life. In return, the man (a wizard) gives them great power so they can share their kindness with the rest of Remnant till the end of days. Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. **BOMBSHELL:** Ozpin tells Pyrrha that the story is true. There are four maidens in the world who can wield tremendous power without Dust, like magic. She asks them why he's telling her this. It's because she may be next in line to receive the Fall Maiden's powers. Holy... Glynda and Ironwood come up. Their secret society conspiracy group are the good guys, to make a long story short. Yes, even Ironwood. (There goes my working with Cinder theory). They go down to the vault under the school. Glynda explains the process of choosing maidens to Pyrrha. When a maiden dies, her power leaves her body and seeks out a new host. At first, all that was known was that the power was specifically passed onto young women. As time went on, they found out more. When a maiden dies, the one that is in her final thoughts is the first candidate to inherit her powers. Unless it's a guy or an older woman, then the power goes to someone random, making their job a lot harder. One of the maidens was attacked, and for the first time ever, part of her power was stolen. So- holy %$#@, girl in a cryo tube! Sorry about that, got kinda freaked out there. She's the current Fall Maiden, Amber. She's in a coma with scars on her face. They don't know what will happen when she dies. The person in her final thoughts could be her attacker, or the rest of her power could seek out its other half. They can't tell anyone because that would cause panic, bringing the Grimm to their kingdoms. Their secret group was formed to protect mankind and the maidens from power hungry people who wanted their powers. They removed the maidens from the public eye, allowing their existence to fade away into legend. At first, Pyrrha agrees to do it to help humanity, but there's more to it than that. Pyrrha can't inherit the power naturally, but Ironwood has a solution. He's found a way to capture Aura, and cram it into something else. Pyrrha says that that's wrong, but desperate times call for desperate measures. They can give her Amber's Aura, but they don't know what that will do to her. Ozpin tells her to think about it, but they need her answer before the end of the Vytal Festival. That night is the first night of the final round. Sun, Penny and Mercury made it there too. The first round is... *Mercury* vs Yang. Oh no. Cinder can rig the matches! The fight takes place on a simple stage. The fight is pretty even. At first, it looks like Mercury won, but then Yang activated her Semblance and she beat him, depleting his Aura. As she walks away, a sharp sound is heard, and things are suddenly quiet, despite the still cheering crowd. Mercury tells her that there won't be a next time, and attacks her. Yang shoots him in the leg, causing him to cry out in pain. The audience starts booing her, despite it being self defense. His leg is broken because he had no Aura left. Atlas soldiers suddenly surround Yang, telling her to stand down. Yang looks at the screen. The camera shows her attacking Mercury out of nowhere, completely unprovoked. The rest of Team RWBY is stunned/horrified. A sad piano version of I Burn plays as the episode ends.

## Review

**Cliffhanger!** From here until, well, now (the Saturday before episode 10 airs), there's nothing but cliffhangers every episode. Wow. Game changer. We got a plot dump and a fight, and a cliffhanger. That was a really good episode. I'm just really shocked. I remember watching this for the first time, and thinking "What just happened?"