A/R Note: People actually read this? And they liked it? What is this world coming to!
Jokes aside, thank you for your continued reading of this half decent Fanfiction.
The two were running for a long time. They didn't stop until daytime, constantly traveling west. When Sonatro was finally exhausted, the woman dismounted him, allowing him to change back.
"You know... You never told me your name, Miss." The woman nodded, pulling out her Scroll and typing a message. "The name is Neapolitan, Neo for short. I don't believe you introduced yourself either." She handed him the scroll.
"Nice to meet you Neo. The name is Sonatro. Sonatro Galeix. Or as other hunters know me, Lion Blade. You may have gathered why by now." She smiled at him. Opening up a map on her Scroll, she pointed to Sonatro where they were.
"Ah! We're right by Patch! We'll be able to regroup with a few hunters there. There should be ferry or something of the sort running. We may have to wait for a few days though."
He turned back to Vale to see a bright flash of white light at the top of the CCT. The huge dragon just stopped moving entirely. Sonatro was confused. Neo looked as well, bewildered. "Well... That just adds to my current list of questions."
They ended up staying the night at a hotel in the city nearby. The ferry came back the next day, and Sonatro payed the cost for both himself and Neo. However, as the ferry was about to leave, the green haired Hunter noticed a few more people coming up. An older man, who looked somewhat drunk. In his arms were a younger girl, with red tipped hair, wearing a red combat dress. There was also a blonde who... Sonatro turned away at the sight to speak with the ferryman.
"Sir, there's a few more people looking to make way to Patch." The driver nodded, and Sonatro stepped back outside, meeting with the new passengers. Neo had a worried look on her face.
The older man spoke. "Hey there, Lion Blade. Haven't seen you in a while." Sonatro smiled. "Nice to see you too, Qrow. Who's the one in your arms?"
"My niece, Ruby. She went through some pretty rough stuff... I can tell you a bit more of what happened in Vale if you weren't already there. And the blonde one... Is Yang."
Sonatro looked to his side, his temperament immediately souring. The Golden Dragon that he heard Qrow talk about so often was now disarmed. He knew it was a bad joke and didn't say it out loud. She looked to him, sorrow in her eyes. That sorrow immediately change to anger upon spotting Neo.
"Why. The fuck. Is she here?" Yang furiously asked. "She's one of the ones who caused all this! Throw her off the boat! Hell, I'll do it myself if I have to! I have one good arm!"
Neo stood up, walking over to Yang. Dropping to her knees, she looked like she was begging.
"Yang..." Sonatro put a hand on her shoulder. "She's asking you to forgive her. We don't know why she was fighting. Maybe she was forced to. We need to hear the whole story before we pass judgement."
"Fine. But if you give me one good reason to, I'm throwing you in the water." Neo nodded. The ferryman called from the cabin, "everyone ready?"
Qrow called back, "Good to go, sir. Ready when you are." As the ship started, Sonatro pulled out a note book and a pen, handing both to Neo, who was sitting next to him. "Yang is going to want to know your story, best explain it now when we have the chance." She nodded and took the notebook, writing furiously but cleanly.
"So Qrow, tell me everything. What the hell happened? One of the last things I saw was a bright light from the top of the CCT. I need he full story."
"Well... Do you know the story of the four seasons?"
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"Fuck... That's a lot... So now what?" Qrow had told Sonatro and everyone else on deck about Cinder's attack on Amber, the plan to use Phyra as the next fall maiden, the destruction of the CCT and Ozpin going MIA.
"Now? We wait. We wait to heal our wounds. Figure out our plan. Then we fight back. Nothing else much to do, really," Qrow said with a sigh. "It's a shame, but it's the best plan we have."
"We. Sure." Yang scoffed. "I'm not doing anything it seems." Sonatro looked down at Yang's right arm. The entire forearm was severed. Opening her bag, she threw her weapons, the Ember Cylica, to the floor of the ship. "I'm done. I'll never fight again."
Sonatro looked to Neo, who was still writing but listening in nonetheless. She looked to him, and looked to Yang, then looked back to the notebook.
"Yang, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to the other members of your team?" Qrow had told him previously about team RWBY, and Sonatro had seen them in action during the Grimm attack, which he had called "The Breech."
"Well... One of our team mates, Wiess Schnee, got picked up by her father. She's on her way back to Atlus as we speak."
"And there was one more. Blake Bell-"
"She ran. She fucking ran! Like she always fucking does! Our friend Sun saw her leave and to that I say good fucking riddance!" Sonatro was taken aback by the sudden anger and contempt for Blake. Sonatro knew what is was however. He'd seen it in his previous team, Team STRR. When their team mate Ryder left for family reasons, Rina was extremely bitter, similar to Yang's actions. But that's because she loved Ryder, and didn't want him to leave.
Sonatro remembered something and groaned loudly, putting his hand on the top of his head, elbow in front of his face. "Damn it!" Qrow looked to him. "What's wrong, Lion?"
"I'm gonna miss Rina and Ryder's wedding! There's no way I'm making it to Minstrel in 3 days now! And I have no way to tell them except via a carrier bird, which isn't happening..."
Qrow smiled. "I'll find one for you, dude. Where do they live?"
"Right around Minstrel's center city, near a park. Neo, are you done writing?" The multicolored girl nodded, handing him the note book. He wrote a letter of apology and well wishes. Tearing the page out, he handed it to Qrow. "Thank you so much! You don't know how much this means to me." Qrow shrugged. "You're right, I don't."
Tapping his shoulder, Sonatro turned back to Neo, who handed him the note book. It seemed like she wanted him to read it for everyone.
"Alright, Neo's ready." Qrow placed his elbows on his legs and leaned forward, while Yang leaned back, arm behind her head. Neo simply sat with her hands on her knees.
"I didn't want to fight. I had no choice..."
A/R Note: This chapter is a lot longer for some reason, I'm not sure why. But yeah, that's chapter 2. My Take on Neo's backstory next time. And I totally didn't realize this while writing chapter one, but I just add to the wizard of Oz cast theme. Cause Sonatro's a lion. May or may not run with that, we shall see.
So yeah! Leave some constructive criticism in the reviews if you enjoyed, and thanks for reading!