After the Fall

After a devastating school fall, Team CFVY continues training at Shade Academy in the desert kingdom of Vacuo while carrying the weight of what they lost. Their vow to leave no one behind shapes their next mission when a distress call asks huntsmen and huntresses to protect refugees from a relentless wave of Grimm.

As the team travels and fights, the story alternates between the present mission and flashbacks to earlier moments at Beacon and before, gradually filling in how the four came together and what shaped them. These shifts reveal their abilities, bonds, insecurities, and the lingering effects of past battles.

The mission becomes both a survival challenge and a test of teamwork as the characters confront danger, personal history, and the harsh realities of Vacuo. Along the way, the book expands the world around them and builds toward a larger sense of what their future in the wider conflict may hold.