*Sorry this chapter took so long to upload, I could make an excuse but to be honest I was just feeling lazy. So anyway this chapter is important and you should read it if you like the story. sorry about the last chapter, I know it was very slow but it was setting up this chapter
Thanks to ExoRipper for Beta reading this story
Without further ado, let's start this story*
The team lifted up their hands, the light that poured through the opening hanger door hitting their eyes, causing the team to blink instinctively. The landing area was hot but pleasant. The wind was hardly felt by anyone in the hanger. The sun was in full view with no clouds, and the ground was filled with amber orange sand. Not a building in sight.
"Wow... Bright day, isn't it?" Yang reported to the rest of team RWBY while stepping out of the Cargo bay.
Ruby noticed that it was also quiet. Too quiet
"Yeah," said out loud with hesitation in her voice "And really quiet." Ruby was now walking out of the cargo bay, looking around for any sign of life in the desolate space.
"Um...Pilot dude?" Yang shouted into the cargo bay.
"It's Yin..." before the pilot could finish off his sentence Yang spoke up.
"Are we in the right place?"
"This is where the coordinates are telling me to go, at most it's a couple of hours walk," The voice had a confused tone, not even he thought the coordinates were right, "plus we're running out of fuel. If we encounter enemy fire we could be outmatched a thousand to one, with little to no fuel left, we'd be caught with our pants down. I have to go back."
"WAIT!" Yang practically screamed, "you're leaving us here?"
"Well...We don't know what's there, for all we know it could be an HQ for the White Fang!"
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Don't forget to pick us up, though." Yang was shutting up. As much as she hated it, he was right, it could be an HQ.
Ruby was looking at her scroll, she was not happy seeing how far away they were from the coordinates on her phone "NONONONO! We have to get closer."
"You heard him right? We don't know what's there or near us, it's too dangerous to go anywhere with low fuel." Blake sat down as she finished her sentence, running her hand through the hot sand, she had fleeting thoughts of her family, her home, her old life.
"You don't understand we'r..."
"Ok guys," Yang sighed "let's go!" since the pilot refused to take her anywhere else, she had been walking towards the team, who only now cut Ruby off from her speech. Ruby's face dropped as she heard the hanger door close.
"Nooo!"Ruby shouted out getting the two teammate's attention.
"Whats wrong?" Yang looked at Ruby, confused as to why her little sis was shouting.
"They dropped us off far away, at least a two-day walk."
"WHAT?" yang shouted out, "THAT IDIOT TOLD ME WE WERE CLOSE THE COORDINATES" Yang took a pause. after a few seconds, she screamed, "MY HAIR WILL BE COVERED WITH DIRT!" Blake had a smile invade her face as the blond whined about how dirty her hair would become.
"Of corse, the first thing you think about is your hair," Blake laughed at the blond, she knew Yang for a while, the face she was pulling indicated thoughts. Thoughts about protection for her blond hair.
"How about we just call Ozpin?" Blake pointed out, Ruby sat down, Yang, however, didn't pay attention she still wanted protection for her hair.
"Oh yeah, duh," Ruby pulled out her scroll, navigated to contacts and called Ozpin.
"Hello, , is there something I can help you with?" Blake watched Yang as she was sizing up something (Oh no, this is not going to end well).
"Yeah actually, the pilot dropped us off at least two days walk away from Weiss."
"Oh dear. Well, let me call them and ask them to take you closer."
"Ok, thank you, sir." Ruby put her scroll next to her lap as she sat down on the ground waiting for a response.
"Oh heavenly sister of mine," Yang sang "Please may thou art give me thine Cloak?" Yang finished her sentence with a smile.
"No!" Ruby replied, not even giving the request a second thought.
After a few minutes of waiting, Ruby received a call from Ozpin
"Hello, Miss. Rose."
"Yes, sir."
"I have some bad news." Ruby's face twisted into a frown as Ozpin carried on.
"I can't gain contact with the transport, it looks like you might have to walk there."
"No worries sir. Thank you, bye."
Ruby hung up the phone and looked at Yang.
"We're walking there."
Team RWBY didn't know at the time what was happening. As they were getting ready to set off for Yang, Adam was entering the final stages of his plan.
After hours of walking the team decided to set up camp and rest for the night, while blake set up the sleeping bags, yang used her Ember Celica, to create a ditch where she could sleep, which took her more or less five minutes.
After Yang had set up her 'bed' and put her sleeping bag in it, she let out a large sigh
"Night guys" This was the first time in days that she would be able to get a proper sleep, with that she blacked out.
Yang looked around, she was in a metal room, in a bed with bandages around her arm, something was off she didn't remember getting injured, but for some reason this felt very similar to the her "Why does it feel like I've been here before?" yang questioned to herself, her thoughts raced as she tried to figure out what had happened, this didn't take long, however, as Blake walked over to her helped her walk to what looked like a doctors room. "Time to get you out of these bandages" Blake whispered into Yang's ear before she could process what was going on she was patched up, Re-dressed, and put her onto, what she could only assume was a medical bed.
Blake started to walk away, but, as if on natural instinct alone, she lightly tugged on Blake's arm.
"Blake, stay with me please." For some reason Yang couldn't fathom staying alone, she must have at this point looked like she was from a different place. and that's when it hit her why it felt so familiar to her, it was an event that happened during the attack on Beacon tower when she was injured by Adam.
"Okay," Blake said calmly, lowering herself onto Yangs' bed, placing her arm onto the blond's face.
"Thank you..." Yang whispered to Blake "You're a life saver" she then she drifted off to sleep.
"Y..N..G" the voice was muffled"YANG! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
"What" Yang was in a daze half from just waking up and half from still being tired where "am I" she looked round at the area it was a street with what looked like destroyed stores on either side of the street
"YANG, WE HAVE TO DO IT SHE'S GOING TO KILL US ALL!" Blake shouted out to Yang, she needed to help, fast. Yang just looked over in horror at what she saw, the tiredness escaping her body.
"NO" Yang shouted to Blake "NO SHE'S STILL IN THERE, WE CAN SAVE HER!" (What? I didn't say that.)the blond tried to move her body however not following her commands (Come on, Damn it, why can't I move? what am I saying?) she watched horror as her body moved on it own to get up. She couldn't stop it.
"YANG, SHE'S BEEN REPLACED, THE GIRL WE USE TO KNOW IS GONE!" Blake screamed in Yang's face.
"GOD DAMN IT!" Yang couldn't stop herself, her body moved on its own as she rushed in, arming her Ember Cecilia.(No. what am I doing? no please, don't make me do this.)
With a single tear dropping from her eye, her body swung her fist forward hitting the girl in white.
"No" Yang mumbled "Don't you die on me!" yang progressed from a mumble to a shout, her semblance activating, sending a giant fireball around her
"Yang," a voice from the sky called for the blond. "we're here!" A black hole ripped the sky in two as a pair of white arms lowered lifting Yang, who was now holding the lifeless body in her arms
"NO!" Yang screamed as the hands grabbed her and took her away from the corpse she was holding."Let me take her with me. please" The blond was enveloped in darkness as she was pulled through the hole in the sky.
Yang's eyes opened scattering around uncontrollably, trying to piece together what had just happened "we're ok. Calm down" the voice was getting more familiar to her. It was the faunus' voice.
"Bl.."Yang stuttered "Blake, is that you?" Yang shot up almost headbutting Blake, her fiery aura almost immediately dissipated.
"Yeah, it's me" Blake looked at Yang with worry in her eyes
"Don't worry I just had a nightmare"
"That looked more than just a nightmare, you activated her semblance"
"It was" Yang paused for a moment before putting on a small smile "A terrible nightmare"
"Guys, sorry to break up your bonding moment but we have to set off now"
"Ok, ok we're going"
It had been a day and a half of walking for Team RWBY. Yang was out of breath from telling Ruby to slow down to a speed that she could keep up with. Blake, however, had no problem keeping up with her.
"Guys, we're getting close to Weiss," Ruby spoke up.
"Thank god. I don't think I could walk for another day in this heat," Yang blurted out.
Yang let out a small laugh."So, how far away is Weiss?" Blake didn't mind the walk as the most amount of walking she had done in the past two months was from the dorm to the cafeteria, she couldn't do more as she had been helping Yang with her depression.
"About 4 hours."
Yang hesitated before she spoke. Between not sleeping for days and the dirt in her hair she was on the tipping point of going berserk. She held back her anger and said:
"Guys, should we have an hours rest to eat and get our energy back."
Ruby and Blake looked back at Yang with a slight glint of anger in their eyes.
"Look, Yang, we're not stopping." Ruby paused for a minute before carrying on "For anything." Ruby zoomed forward using her semblance.
"Even if it kills you?" Yang whispered to herself, her eyes now turning that familiar shade of red.
At that moment Blake felt a warm breeze come over her. She was used to the heat, but this was different. Blake turned around to see Yang with her hands covering her eyes. Blake immediately knew something was wrong.
"Yang! Are you ok?" the blond removed her hands from her eyes. It was just as Blake had thought, Yang's eyes were red and filled with anger.
"Yang! Calm down." Blake was worried about Yang, she hadn't been her usual self lately, she was like.. like Blake was, cold and distant, she didn't talk that much or even make any jokes. Instinctively Blake moved closer to Yang and enveloped her in a hug, feeling the air around her cool to the normal heat she moved away.
"You ok now?" Yang looked at Blake and a smirk came across her face.
"Thanks for loving me, Puddy cat." A blush came across Blake's face.
"Sh..shut up, I was just calming you down," Blake replied, moving her forehead and connecting it with the blonds.
"Wait.. what are you doing?" Yang jumped as Blake didn't move from her spot.
"Don't be so immature, this is what my family did to calm me down when I was sad or angry." Somehow, the caring side of Blake calmed the blond down. Her eyes almost immediately turned into the loving shade of Lilac.
The connection between Yang and Blake was broken as they heard a voice come from the distance.
"GUYS HURRY UP!" with that, Yang stood up with Blake and carried on, walking towards the voice.
"What took you guys so long?" Ruby knew she was faster than Yang but Blake? Blake could almost match her speed, this to no lesser extent made the girl curious. Blake went to speak
"I and Yang were..." She was cut off by Yang, who moved a hand over Blake's mouth.
"We were.." Yang was trying to think of an excuse and failing.
For some reason, Yang didn't want Ruby to find out about their 'moment'. Blake knew something was different, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"We were... admiring the sand! Yeah, that's right." A loud slap was heard as Blake had brought her palm of her hand to her face.
"Um, Blake are you ok?" Ruby said, her voice now had, even more, confusion in it. The short red haired girl spun her body around, her cloak following her. She lifted up her hands, flicking her wrist forward, beckoning Yang and Blake to follow her.
"Never mind. We need to find Weiss, no more delays, Ok!" Ruby's voice shifted to a more demanding tone.
The walk to the coordinates took them a long time. At this point, the sun had set. Blake and Yang were trying to follow Ruby's orders, however, this was becoming more difficult as Yang was worried about her sister. Yang hadn't said anything to Ruby because she told her to stop delaying, though that wasn't the only reason. For the first time in her life, Yang was scared of Ruby. She didn't know what it was. Was it the way she spoke? The way she acted? Or was it the way she changed from herself into... something else?
Yang was brought out of her thoughts when Blake Raised her voice slightly, enough for Yang to hear her: "Get down."
Before Yang could react Blake pushed her down to the ground, sand clinging to her hair.
"Blake, what the hell, my hair," Yang whispered to Blake, the anger getting through her voice.
"Look!" Blake gripped Yang's chin with her palm and shifted her head to a light in the distance.
Yang's face became one of horror. The light wasn't on its own, it was accompanied by the White Fang. Not just the White Fang but humans, human slaves. Yang tried to stand up, but the force of Blake's pull brought her back down, a thud was accompanied by sand flying up and sticking to the blonds unkempt hair.
"What are you doing?" the blond retorted.
"Last time I checked, Ruby was the team leader, thus she makes the decisions." Blake gave a hard stare to Yang, turning back to Ruby she asked for the plan of action.
"So, how are going to do this?" Blake turned to Ruby, the answer she got impressed the Faunus.
"Simple. From what I can see there are only seven guards. Blake, you use your clones and the shadows to approach them, but stay hidden. Yang, you shoot your Ember Cecilia to break up the groups, I will stay back and take out a few of the guards with my crescent rose if something goes wrong I'll go around and distract them, while blake stays in the shadows and waits for them to come pass and attack them."
"Wow, you're a fast thinker." Blake Looked at Yang with a devious smile.
Yang was in awe.
"Ok, fine, you make the rules, I doubt that even Weiss could have come up with that plan."
Then, in case something goes wrong, have Blake jump in with her clones, either as a distraction to make Yang's entrance possible or as a clean-up in case Ruby takes out most of them.
The team got up and put their plan into motion.
"Ready! Go!" Ruby affirmed, Yang armed her Ember Cecilia and shot two rounds at the closest White Fang members, like Ruby said, the guards ran after her.
"Time to have some fun!" Yang raised her arms and posed herself ready to attack.
While they were distracted, Blake lunged forward towards the three guards that were still guarding the slaves. Their backs were turned to the fellow Faunus.
"Hey, boys," Blake shouted out, activating her semblance. Before they could see her, she replaced herself with a clone and hid in the darkness hoping they were stupid enough to hit her clone. The three men rushed towards the clone.
"What! Where did she go?"
Mist appeared as the apparition dissipated, leaving the men confused and wide open.
"Checkmate."
Ruby dug her feet into the ground and transformed her weapon into a sniper and planted it into the ground shooting the remaining guards that were on there own, there was one person, though, a body of small stature with a refined posture, who, when shot at, just dodged without even looking in the direction of Ruby. "Fine" Ruby spat out "let's fight close up" she pushed her body from the position she was in, using her semblance to increase her speed she lunged for the last member. But something was wrong. Since the fight started this figure hadn't moved. Ruby slowed her heartbeat, bringing her scythe down... Metal clashed with metal. Ruby looked part confused and partly horrified as she spurted out
"What? No, you can't be that fast." Ruby moved her to scythe in rhythm with her heartbeat, every time she attacked metal clashed with her scythe. She had found a person that she couldn't out manoeuvre, and, worst of all, the figure wasn't even looking at her.
"who are you?" Ruby demanded angrily, her attacks still not hitting its target.
The answer that she got sent shivers down her spine. The feminine voice had a similar calm and joyful tone that only one person could pull off.
"Forgotten me already?" Ruby stood there processing what had just been said, wide open and defenceless, oblivious to the sword that was finding its way to her body.
"RUBY LOOK OUT!" metal collided with skin and blood was sent flying.
"NOOOOOO!"
*Woooooo, what happened, sorry I left this one on a cliffhanger it's just I want to split the next two chapters up so sorry, anyway, hoped you enjoyed. Any feedback positive or negative is appreciated.*