Author's Note:

Hey guys I'm sorry it took so long. I was kind really busy with school so this took me longer than is usually does to write a chapter. Hopefully the next chapter will come a bit faster. Like the last chapter, I went through many rewrites with this chapter and I sadly don't have a beta reader. Thank you that one anon that reviewed this story it really helps me to get chapters out faster, but without further ado please enjoy the next chapter of Rising Dragon.

I don't own RWBY

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The closer and closer he got to the city's exit, the more and more Grimm he encountered. He would have to avoid as many as possible lest he want to fight his way through the entire city. As he moved through the small streets and alleyways, he noticed three beowovles searching through the shops near the small corner. The three beowolves were unavoidable due to their position near the alleyway where Longwei was standing.

As he moved closer to the beowolves, he noticed the low roofs of the shops. If he could avoid the Grimm, he could move onto the roofs of the shops and then the only major issues that could stop him would be the nevermores. He watched the beowolves moved on from shop to shop until they were on the farthest shop from him. He rushed as quickly and quietly as he could to get to the shop's roof.

When he crossed the street and went over to where the beowolves were, he noticed how many bodies that were littering the street near the shops windows. He glanced one last time at the corpses before attempting to jump up onto the roof of the shop. Before he was able to get up to the roof, he felt a small grasp on his leg. He turned to the direction to where the tug came from, he saw the middle age woman who was covered in blood. It was oblivious that the woman would not make it through the night, but he wouldn't leave the woman alone. He had seen so many bloodied bodies on his stay in the Grimm infested city. The least he could do is help the dying woman to the best of his abilities.

He moved onto his knees to be able to look at the woman on her eye level. The woman's green eyes looked red, if she had been crying. Looking at her wounds it was easy to see why, the multiple cuts covering her arms, face, and legs looked if they were nothing less than excruciatingly painful. "I know you are in a lot of pain right know, but you need to think positively and smile for me or else those Grimm will come back can you do this for me." The woman nodded to him and smiled at him. "Now how can I help you?" The woman's cracked lips took her time to form the right words and her throat only made soft noises until the words came to her. "My little girl is in there." She pointed to the shop that the Grimm were closing in on. Longwei set the briefcase down on the ground next to the woman, who looked to him confused. "I'm going to bring back your daughter but you have to hold on to this for me." He smiled at the woman and rushed toward the shop. No need for being quiet anymore; it was better that they were focused on him than the little girl in the shop.

Just as he had predicated, the Grimm turned to him and rushed at him ready to attack. When the Grimm had moved closer to him, he pulled the trigger and grab the blade as it barreled Longwei's view. From the flakey, black mist white claws came slashing at him. The claws that he stuck him would have cut him to ribbons, if not for the aura that covered his body. The dark red glow had appeared before the claws even had a chance to touch his skin.

The force of the blow threw Longwei backwards and slammed him into the building behind him. The blow to the back of his head made his vision begin to blur. The Beowulf ran towards him, attempting to make Longwei its prey. He fired Blush one more and allowed Wilt's hilt to crash into the Beowulf's chest and forced the beast back. Quickly moving and grabbing Wilt from the ground, he moved and slashed the beast in two. The beast fell to the ground and quickly dispersed into thousands of tiny black flakes. The man turned and looked around the streets hoping the loud noise didn't draw anymore Grimm to the shop.

He stumbled over to shop noticing that the door wasn't unlocked, and not wanting to make more noise if the alarm was still active, he crawled through the open show window of the shop moving carefully to avoid some of the glass still connected to the windowsill.

When he entered the store, he saw aisles of metal shelves. Each of the beginning of the rows had a poster stating what items the shelves would have contain if not for the store being ransacked by either grimm or the citizens of vale. The only things left on the shelves were rotted food and the occasional can of food. Longwei went up and down each aisle of the store in hopes of finding the little girl.

Walking down one of the seeming endless aisles of the store he accidentally kicked a can of tuna to the darkness to were the shelves seemed to end. The noise must have alerted something in the darkness because he saw a pair of amber eyes stare up at him. Longwei mentally cursed to himself for being so careless when a little girl's life was on the line and his vision had not completely returned to him making it hard to see in the dark. The eyes continued to stare at him until he moved forward slowly. When he had started to move forward, he saw a flash of white and the eyes were gone. It must have been an animal in search for food that had gotten in. Nonetheless if an animal was able to get into the shop that meant Grimm could as well. Without wanting to waste more time the man ran to the end of the aisle.

When he arrived to the back of the store, he noticed that it was much darker than any other section of the store before it. The lack of his returned vision made it even harder to navigate than it was before. He was having to use his sense of touch to navigate alone. That's when he started to smell rotting meet. This wasn't different from when he entered the store but the closer and closer he got to the end of the store the sent become stronger and stronger. The gnawing on his stomach become worse as he walked into the darkness at the end of the store.

Longwei kept walking until he stepped into a liquid and the scent of cooper made its way into his nose. The nervousness that had haunted him proved to not be there without a reason. He had stumbled upon a small body. He had felt the small body's neck in an attempt to find a pulse, but he found none. He picked the body up and moved the body closer into the light near the front of the store. When he got to the front of the store, the small body that he had been carrying had been a little girl.

The girl looked as if the oldest she could have been would be eight. The girl had her blondie hair in two pigtails. The girl, unlike her mother, wasn't covered in too much blood. The only blood on the girl was on the middle of her dress changing it from a nice snow white, to a light pink, into a rose red near the center of her chest. Longwei grabbed one of the curtains off of the show window and wrapped it around the girl.

He moved through the street quickly back to the woman, who was still holding the briefcase like he had told her to. He placed the girl down next to the woman and she started to hug the girl and started to mutter things like "my baby, my little girl." While he picked up the briefcase and was beginning to walk away, until he heard the woman say "thank you". He turned around to the woman and before he could say 'that it wasn't an issue' the woman closed her eyes and he felt the woman's aura leave the woman's body and float away into the wind. He put his hood up and moved closer to the city's exit more determined than ever to carry out what the wizard wanted and to put a stop to this before any more lives were lost.

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She watched the hooded man walk through the streets wobbly, as if the man had been injured. We moved slowly to the entrance of Vale. He had frightened her and made her run out of the store because of the weapon that she saw him use. She had promised herself that she would stop running away, that was the whole reason that she started to wear the white long jacket. She couldn't hide in the shadows anymore with a bright white jacket. That man scared her enough to abandoned the possible food left in the store. Considering all that she saw him do, he didn't seem like a bad person; he had reunited mother and daughter after all.

The man moved through the city gates without much issue from Grimm. She had decided to follow the man; he was the only person that she had seen that was alive and not a white fang member. Looking to the blade that the man was holding, it seemed that the rumors going around that this man had killed Adam. The thought still seemed strange to her due to the fact that it was only a while ago that she had run away with Yang in her arms. The thought of Yang made her heart hurt. She had found the other half Ember Celica that had been left behind once she had her arm taken off. That was a horrible thing that she thought that she could ever erase from her memory.

She saw the man move through the fields that were covered in snow. He walked slowly and quietly and seemed to be attempting to avoid conflicts as much as possible. The man stuck out like a sore thumb. The black long coat he was wearing juxtaposed the color of the snow so much that even a blind person could probably see him. It didn't matter if he was hard or easy to track, she needed answers and she needed them now. The girl placed the blade to the to the back of the man and asked. "Who are you and how did you get that weapon?"

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