Death is but a constant between all life in the universe. It can devastate us, is can relieve us, and in the face of death, it can even unite us. But this story is not about death's role in the universe. This story is about the many forms that death takes and how it is a force that cannot be stopped

Coco laid still on the ground, unable to move from both her injuries and exhaustion. Two of her teammates, Fox and Yatsuhashi lay dead beside her. Team CFVYs mission did not go as expected. Barely alive, Coco looked up and saw her last living teammate standing above her. Coco frantically tried to run through her head any reasons as to why this would happen. She couldn't understand why she would turn on her friends. She couldn't understand why she would stab out Fox's eyes, he was already blind. With tears and blood running down her face she looked at Velvet.

"W- we were friends…". She was barely able to speak. "Why would you do this?" Velvet slowly looked down and gazed into the eyes of the broken huntress and spoke in a quiet voice.

"Even if I told you, you'd never understand" She raised her boot above Coco's head and stomped it down.

"Velvet looks like she's barely keeping it together." Yang attempted to break the silence with Blake as they sat and waited for the funeral to start.

"By the way Yang, where are Weiss and Ruby?"

"Weiss took it upon herself to help plan the funeral since Velvet was such a mess once she got back, so she's off making sure everything is ready."

"And Ruby?"

Yang turned in her seat to look directly at Blake.

"She's attempting to walk from the front of the building to the funeral hall. She has a hard time walking in heels, ya know.." Another silence fell upon them. Neither one knew what to say at a time like this. Shortly after, Ozpin walked up to the mic at the front of the room and began the ceremony.

"Good morning students." As their headmaster began to speak Ruby managed to hobble her way to the seat next to Yang. "Today we are here to pay respect and honor to Huntress Coco Adel, Huntsmen Fox Alistair, and Huntsmen Yatsuhashi Daichi." Ruby leaned over and whispered to Yang.

"I didn't know it was a closed casket. I brought different smelling coffee beans to lay next to them."

Yang whispered back to Ruby.

"They had to do closed casket. Weiss said that their bodies were destroyed. Especially Coco, supposedly her face looked like it was completely smashed in by something." As she spoke, Yang had look of sadness on her face.

"There's hasn't been a Grimm attack this gruesome in a while, it's terrifying that something like this actually happened." Blake said as she leaned over to join the conversation.

At the funeral reception all of the students sat with their teams eating at the round tables set up throughout the hall.. Most of the teams were just talking amongst themselves.

"So what did you guys think?" Weiss said as she sat down to join her team.

"It was very nice." said Blake

"Did you need so many doilies in the reception hall" Yang asked, trying to break the uneasy tension they were all still feeling.

"Oh and what would you have suggested? A fog Machine?" Weiss asked with a somewhat irritated look.

"Well, the dance last night got cancelled and we still have all the stuff so…" Yang and Weiss's conversation continued as normal and the tension seemed to be dying

A few tables over, team JNPR just sat in silence.

"So.." Began Nora, "What kinda Grimm do you think killed them!?" Death never really got to Nora .

"Nora, that's not really an appropriate question right now." Ren cut her off before she could go off handle with the subject

"But don't you want to knoooow?! Like, what is its a new type that no one has ever seen!? WHAT IF IT'S ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A T-REX?!" And as usual, Ren's attempt to silence Nora had failed.

As Nora shouted about how exciting team CVFY's mutilation was, Velvet slowly wandered up to Team JNPR's table. She looked extremely nervous, like she wanted to say something to them but was afraid to. She never looked up. In her right hand she was clutching a folded up napkin. Nora's verbal construction of her T-Rex Grimm hypothesis came to a stop as she noticed Velvet standing there silently.

Jaune looked at Velvet.

"Velvet, please forgive her, she tends to get a bit…" but before he could finish, Velvet shoved the napkin into Ren's chest and ran off, out of the reception hall. Ren caught it and looked down at it.

"What is that?" Asked Nora. "IS IT A LOVE LETTER?! You're gonna circle no, RIGHT?!"

"Nora please, you should keep your voice down just a little while we're in here" Pyrrha attempted to get Nora to at least keep her loud thoughts to their table.

As Ren unfolded the napkin, he noticed something was scribbled on it. "PLEASE MEET ME ON THE ROOM OF THE DORMS IN ONE HOUR. I COULD REALLY USE SOMEBODY TO TALK TO."

"Oooooh , so she gonna confess her love there then?!" Nora said as she leaned over to see what the napkin said. "Then what? You gonna deny her at first then as the days go by you'll realize more and more that maybe you two really do go good together then you grow farther and farther apart from you childhood friends as you just keep spending time with her until you forget the rest of us even exist and we just have to go the rest of our lives without you?!"

Ren knew how Nora felt about him and that this probably made her nervous. So he turned and looked deep into her eyes and said

"I don't know, maybe.".

After the funeral, Ozpin sat in his office with Glynda Goodwitch, awaiting Ironwood's arrival.

"James says he believes that there's more to this than a Grimm attack." As Glynda spoke Ozpin turned to her.

"Unfortunately, Glynda, I think he might be right. Team CFVY is more than capable of handling themselves against the Grimm." As Ozpin finished speaking General Ironwood emerged from the elevator.

"Good afternoon Ozpin. Glynda." he offered them both a brief smile.

"Good afternoon general." Ozpin handed Ironwood a cup of coffee. "So we might as well cut to the chase. You believe there's something more than just Grimm to blame for the incident with team CFVY?"

"Yes." Ironwood stated. "I do. They're wounds are like nothing any Grimm attack has ever done."

"So what is your theory then, General?" Asked Ozpin

"I believe a person, or even a team of people may have done this. Team CFVY is very competent when fighting. Whoever did this had to have been very strong and highly trained in combat. And their wounds. The type of wounds they had must have come from something that can think, something with a conscience."

Ozpin looked at Glynda then back to Ironwood. "I understand your concern, General, but we can't go on a witch hunt now. We will need more facts. I plan on questioning Ms. Scarlatina once she's had some time to calm down. We also need more proof that something bigger is going on here."

As soon as Ozpin finished, the elevator doors opened and Oobleck ran out into the office

"Good afternoon Dr. Oobleck" Ozpin said with his usual measure of calm.

Oobleck looked worried as he entered. "Professor Ozpin, very very bad news."

"Well what happened?" Glynda looked at Oobleck.

"It's about huntsmen Lie Ren, He was just found on the ground right in front of the main dormitories."

"Is he alright?." Ozpin quickly stood up.

Oobleck adjusted his glasses and looked around at all three of them. "No sir" he said "He's Dead."

So my friend talked me into doing this. Let me know what you think and if you want to see more!