Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-27082610-20160601233219

ManOfManyTales wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: Really just Neo and Cinder. Penny has only two possible outcomes, either she's destroyed for good or someone has a backup, although that seems unlikely because they'd have to get a new soul from somewhere in order to power her. Honestly, for me, Cinder is kind of the stretch. Ruby's awakening powers petrified a dragon...which was like 20 times her size. Cinder...was closer to Ruby's size. And that close to an attack of that magnitude and unprepared for it (which she obviously was), I personally believe she was obliterated.

Cinder isn't a Grimm though. More than likely Qrow showed up pretty soon afterward and Cinder decided to cut her losses and bolted. After all, Cinder's been set up as the dragon of this story, so killing her off in the first act doesn't really make sense.