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"Father, you wished to see me?"

"Yes Weiss, it has come to my attention that you have been neglecting your teachings these last few days."

Weiss shook just the slightest as she closed her eyes, she was currently standing in front of her father in the throne room, she averted her eyes from both his face and the faces of the stone like warriors on the side of the room.

"I've also received reports that you have been scarce around the palace lately"

"Well father, I've been…feeling cramped in my room so I was just…felt like walking around" Weiss said, carefully concealing her worry, just like she was taught.

Her father leaned back raising his head higher

"And how can we correct that behavior?" Weiss thought quickly, she couldn't let her father know what she was doing, she looked into her fathers eyes once again "I believe a trip out to the mountain villa would help ease my anxiety" she said calmly, her mind was working out just how far she could get away.

Her father stroked his beardless face; a habit he kept even after he shaved it, he wandered his eyes over the court "very well, after you meet your new guards they will accompany you to the villa, don't stay long" he consented. Weiss silently breathed out; she managed to get away from her father again. Bowing she walked out. Finally she had time to practice, as long as those new guards did their job that is.


"P-please, c-come this way" the soft voiced rabbit Faunus said, still scared of the new guards. Yang nodded, smiling brightly she thanked the servant as she, Ruby, and Blake went into a room.

The walls were richly decorated with dark wood paneling, in which were engraving, inked in with the most care they showed scenes from far off places, with planes of snow reaching out and deep, golden sands. In short it was beautiful, the crimson red carpet was soft and think beneath their feet, farther ahead were large double doors, they contrasted sharply with the dark interior of the room.

The edges were a sharp icy blue, darkening as it traversed the door, until meeting in the center with the engraving of a snowflake, the crest of the Schnee royal family. They were admiring the room when the door opened, and a girl came out, young lady Schnee.

Immediately the three new guards dropped to their knees, bowing their heads they showed the utmost respect to their new master. She merely looked at them; disappointed she hadn't gotten the red headed spear-wielder but kept up her icy mask, determined to keep her act.

"In two days I will travel to the northern mountain range, I will be there for several weeks, your job is to protect me during that time" Weiss said, her voice making some shiver. Each guard nodded, keen to keep their cool, even if Blake's eyes hardened slightly.

Outside the room they breathed out a sigh of relief "well, that was a thing" yang said folding her arms on top of her head, ruby shivered "yeah, I felt like I fell in the lake again" she said shivering at the memory. Yang just laughed before noticing Blake walking away "hey Blake, where you going, we were going to practice some" yang called as Blake turned back around, her golden eyes still hardened from before. "I'm fine, I'm going to walk around" she said before jumping onto the roofs and running along them.

Yang just shrugged "that girls a lost cause, come on lets go find the other guards, cause you really seemed to like that swordsman." Yang said poking fun at ruby. They moved down the path, yang easily blocking ruby's punches and denials.


Blake watched them from her hidden perch on the roof; a twinge of sadness filled her heart before being roughly shoved down. Sighing she stood up and jumped off the roof, wiping of her clothes she heard a sound, she jumped back onto the roof and stayed still, listening and watching for any unwanted visitors.

Instead of warriors or general servants like she thought a small brown haired girl came into view, the rabbit Faunus. The girl sat down next to the building, holding both her cheek and her left ear. From the looks of it some warrior had injured her, probably pulling her long rabbit ears.

Blake quietly lowed herself from the roof, planting her feet silently she walked up to the crying girl "it must hurt" she said watching as the faunus jerked and shied away, putting up her arms to defend herself. "P-please, d-don't hurt m-me" the soft broken voice called, Blake's heart sagged, remembering the same voice reaching up, just as broken, just as ignored.

"Calm down, I'm going to hurt you" Blake said, moving away to give the scared girl more room. The rabbit looked up, tears in her eyes "y-your, a n-new guard" she said, voice getting less shaky. Blake nodded "and I know how you feel" she said smiling just a little. She reached out, her fingers gently rubbing her ears, soothing them the way she had learned.

"Then you're…"

"Yes, but no one can know" Blake said, siting next to the girl, looking over her injuries "what's your name?"

"Velvet" she answered quietly, still nervous. Blake smiled again "Blake, listen I've got to be going, but before I go promise you'll keep my secret" she said pulling her hands away and standing up. Velvet nodded, feeling much better then before "don't worry, I won't tell a sole" she said getting up as well. Blake stopped suddenly "tell me know did this," she said, intent on remembering who would be so cruel. Velvet blushed and fidgeted "y-you don't have to…he always does this…"

"Name." Blake said more sternly, putting pressure on the word. Velvet looked down "Cardin Winchester, a guard" she said as Blake nodded "thank you velvet. Please wrap up your injuries, they'll heal much faster that way, I'll even help" she offered. Velvet shook her head "but you can't, you're a guard, I'm just a servant" she said, her ears dropping with sadness.

Blake just kept looking "remember velvet, we're the same, no matter the titles they give us" she said before walking off, nearly tearing up when she remembered who taught her those words. 'But he's gone now, just like those memories' those words echoed in her mind, forever remembering that day.


Later that night saw the new guards siting around their common room, a fire was brightly blazing in the center while they served from a pot, the talk came around to their clans.

"So, Pyrrha, are you really from the spear-wielder clan?" ruby asked, stuffing bread into her mouth. Pyrrha nodded "yes I am, if I recall correctly, the silver can and us share a border correct?" she asked ruby, who mumbled something.

Yang spoke in her spot "yes, they do, your clan was part of the second exploration right?" she asked spooning food into her mouth. Pyrrha nodded again smiling "yes that's correct" ruby spoke up "what's the second exploration?" she asked after finally swallowing the bread.

This time the eastern clan's men, Ren, spoke up "you don't remember?" he asked settling down to talk

"After the first clans were sent out to reclaim the Grimm invaded lands; the silver clan, the sun warriors, the ninja sword, and the thunder clan, they settled down outside the city to act as bases. After a while more were sent out; the chi clan, spear wielder clan, and several others were sent out as well. The plan was to take back the land from the Grimm but the clans had settled on the coastal regions, with long distances apart from the city area…" Ren stopped and took a drink. Before he could continue with his history lesson Pyrrha butted in, deciding to stop the lesson because ruby looked confused.

"Basically the clans were to far away to be monitored by the city, becoming their own little countries, that's the second exploration, another attempt at fighting" she said bitterly. The others noticed her sudden hostile change, but before anyone could ask Nora butted in, her forever-smiling disposition distracting them "I remembered the weird dream I had" she said waving her arm around

"It was the dark of night"

"It was day"

"There we were, staring down a hundred Grimm"

"It was two" that continued as they laughed at Nora's exaggerated telling and Rens corrections. It turned out that ever since they were young they had a type of connection that connected their minds, it wasn't fully understood but so were a lot of things.

Finally after Nora finished her story, they started talking again "hey Jaune, how about you? Are you from a clan?" ruby asked him, he had been quiet this whole time. He jumped when he was addressed "what? Oh, no I'm not from a specific clan. I'm part of the arc family," he said embarrassed.

The arc family was a well-respected family of warriors, long ago they fought the Grimm and white fang bravely, over the years they gained the trust of the numerous leaders and were often called in to advise the Daimyo's over the years. Recently there had been a lack of use for them as they started to become an old family, and their recent generations were accused of being much weaker, in both body and mind then the past.

Ruby leaned forward "then you must be good at using your weapon" she said, observing his sword and scabbard. He clutched them, his other hand rubbing the back of his head "oh, this thing? It's a hand me down from my great grandfather, he used it in the war" he said taking out the sword and laying it on his lap, looking ashamed. No one noticed Pyrrha's look of affection, finding him just a little cute.


That was what mostly filled their next two days, in between training, working together, Ruby, Yang, and Blake were getting their things ready for the next morning, they would be setting out for the northern mountain villa. The last two days were mostly ruby and yang trying to get Blake to talk more, which they did succeed somewhat, Blake did start to talk more and become friendlier, even if there was still an air of aloofness around her.

Finally the next morning they stood lined up in front of a horse, on it was the young lady Schnee and surrounding her were 50 warriors, 12 servants, 2 outriders, several pack horses and the guards. A whistle started the procession, they quickly moved out the gates and onto the white bridge, ahead of them stood a line of warriors, keeping a clear line for the procession to get through.

Per orders everyone kept their face covered, it was an order made to ensure that there was no chance for the enemies to recognize them, ruby used her hood to cover her masked face, while Yang and Blake used masks alone.

Leaving the city they moved down the main road leading to the northern mountains, for the time being it wasn't necessary to spread out so ruby, yang and Blake walked in front talking. When they started climbing the mountain road they started spreading out, ruby and Blake being faster scouted ahead and behind with the outriders while yang hung back, getting bored.

Several hours later saw ruby coming back into sight, a few whispered words passed between the sisters before ruby moved back to tell the warriors. Yang smiled and transformed her bracelets, changing them into her shining gauntlets while the other warriors prepared their weapons as well.

It seemed like forever until the action started, two ursi leapt out of the cover, yang reacted by punching one in the stomach with her gauntlets while ruby sliced at the other, then from behind them they heard howls. Beowolves appeared from the forest, they charged at the warriors who engaged them fearlessly, the horses started rearing and plunging, desperate to get away, yang yelled at the servants "hey, get away from here, get to the villa, now" she commanded, blocking an Ursa swipe.

As the servants left ruby took action "any warrior not fighting protect them, hurry" she yelled slicing at another Ursa. As the extra warriors rushed off yang was struck in the back by an unchecked Beowulf, it's claws sliced into her back as she fell forward, rolling onto her back she sent a blast of fire at it's face. Looking up the Ursa's paw was about to land on her, in a rush she heard ruby yelling her name, yang waited for the hit but nothing came.

Yang looked up, standing over her was Blake, her leg was bathed in blood and she was using her duel-wielded katana and sword to block the Ursa's paw. With a yell she pulled on the sheath and sword, cutting the Ursa's paw off. It limped away yowling in pain as Blake kneeled down to yang "your going to get yourself killed" she said examining yang, who smiled "I could of handled it" she said. Blake sighed and took a piece of cloth "this will have to do, stay out of trouble" she warned as she tied the cloth around yang's mid section.

After that another Beowulf attacked them but Blake effortlessly slashed it apart, soon the battle was over; all around them lay the Grimm's dead bodies, along with a couple warriors. The warriors were unsure of what to do but ruby took command, even through a bleeding arm and head she told them orders, to patch themselves up and carry the injured, Yang grinned through her pain as Blake helped her stand up. Blake raised an eyebrow "what's wrong" she asked, as yang answered proudly "nothing, let's go" she said raising an arm in victory.


That night was busy, the healers walked all around taking care of the injured warriors while yang lay on her stomach on a bed. Blake turned to a worried ruby while taking off the cloth covering yang's wound "ruby, why don't you go see if the young lady is okay, it's our duty to protect her" she said stopping ruby from protesting. Ruby frowned but walked out yang called to her "don't worry sis, I'm going to die that easily" she called.

Blake gently removed the blood stained cloth to reveal 4 slash marks on her back, ranging from lower to mid back. Blake inwardly flinched but took a cool wet cloth and started to gently clean the scratches, getting rid of the blood and torn skin. Yang's breath hitched every once in a while but she was mostly quiet, Blake finished and looked over the scratches again "these are going to need stitches, I can do them" she said getting up to grab the supplies.

Yang's eyes were closed but she spoke "how do you know how to take care of this?" she asked, needing some sort of conversation to take her mind off the searing pain. Blake answered her while preparing "I've taken care of a lot of war injuries, sometimes my own, sometimes my clansmen" she said pinching the skin to thread the needle through.

"Thanks for coming back…there" she said, stopping for a moment when her skin was pierced by the needle "it's no big deal, even if I didn't want to I had to, I'm not letting more people die" she said. Not realizing what she had revealed, she had been concentrating on making sure the wound wouldn't form a big ugly scar, yang noticed though "more people huh, you've lost friends then" she asked, eyes still shut. Blake faltered, before continuing "in this day and age who hasn't" she said, her tone telling yang the conversation was over.

Yang was silent for the rest of the treatment, watching as Blake gently wrapped bandages around her midsection. Finally Blake tied it off "there, now don't move and get some sleep, I'll check on you in the morning" she said getting up to wash her hands and clean up.

Yang laid back down on her stomach, drowsiness filling her head, as Blake draped blankets over her, knowing she would be cold while her aura healed her. Yawning she bid Blake good night, then when Blake was leaving she added on "you know, I'll listen to any trouble you have, Blake" Blake just shut the door. Leaning against it she sighed before going to find ruby, she still was injured, Blake's own leg injury had been wrapped by her, leaving Blake with a stiffened walk.


The flickering torches sent flames dancing on the walls as ruby walked through the halls, she was really worried about yang, those scratches looked serious, but she trusted Blake to take care of her, ruby had more pressing matters, at least by the royalties standards. Stopping in front of a door she stopped to fix her appearance, a hastily wrapped bandage covered a gash on her head while another one kept her arm safe. Luckily her red cloak managed to hide most of the blood; she straitened her clothes a little before knocking on the door.

"Miss Schnee? Its ruby, your guard" she called listening for an answer "yes, come in" the icy voice called. Ruby shivered before opening the door and walked in.

There on the edge of a bed sat the young lady, she wore simple clothes, clearly for relaxing but her face betrayed her non relaxed state "tell me of the damages" she said taking in Ruby's bruised appearance. "5 warriors are dead, another 30 or so are injured, they are being taken care of" she said, feeling ashamed that so much had happened under her watch.

The young lady nodded "and your team, what's their status?" she asked, fiddling with her dress's hem unconsciously. Ruby bit her lip "yang is injured badly and Blake had her leg injured while distracting the Beowulf pack" ruby said, drifting back to when Blake told her not to worry. The young lady stood up, and walked to her closet "and what about you?" she asked, searching the closet.

Ruby gently rubbed her arm "it's not much, just a couple cuts on my head and arm" she said surprised when the young lady pulled out a bag, in the bag were medical supplies. She pointed to a chair "sit" the young lady commanded, ruby obediently sat down, still confused as to what she was planning. "Now, don't get to exited, I just don't want the room to get bloody" she warned as she took away Ruby's bandages.

Ruby blushed "y-you don't have to do that they'll heal" she said, not pulling away even though she probably should have. "If their not taken care of they'll scar" she said, briefly remembering her own shameful mark on her face. "But..." was all ruby could get out before the young lady placed her hand on ruby's mouth, effectively shutting her up.

Ruby sat there in silence while the young lady washed her injuries, finally getting uncomfortable she roamed her eyes around and started speaking "thanks for caring, young lady" she said as the young lady stopped "my names Weiss. Don't call me young lady unless we are in public" she said quickly finishing up ruby's bandages and standing up.

Weiss was blushing as she closed the bag and pushed ruby out and before ruby could comment the door was slammed shut. Ruby stood there dumbly before walking back to yang's room to check on her, quietly she tried out Weiss's name "Weiss huh, kind of pretty" she concluded walking off.


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