"Family Reunion"
A/N: Fixed!
"Well this just got a billion times more complicated." Cole said looking at Ruby and then Neo. I knew what he was talking about but so did Yang who was on her in a second, "Ok what's your deal? Do you like Cole or Jacob?" She yelled at Neo, who frowned and shook her head.
Neo pointed to Cole and shook her head no then did the same at me, "She wants to join us but not date us." Said Cole, walking over to help us up. "What just happened?" Weiss asked alarmed "Jake can take care of himself but obviously, from what happened last week, he can't always do everything alone. If Ruby and Jacob can take care of each other then I have one less thing to worry about." Cole answered, turning to Weiss.
"Wow, I didn't even think of that, maybe I should try that instead of knocking out her boyfriends." said Yang with a laugh, great she is calling me her boyfriend and I haven't even asked nor has Ruby agreed.
I had a sudden idea "Neo, can you give us the White Fang locations?" I asked Neo, she pulled a map out of thin air and pointed out five buildings on the map of Vale then I thanked her. I pulled out my scroll and went to my contacts, I scrolled down the list; Blake, Coco, Fox, Panther, Python, Hawk, Glinda, Ozpin, I finally found the contact and the scroll started ringing "Hey, I need you at the safe house in five minutes, be here!" I said then hung up.
Ruby and Yang walked over to me "what's up?" asked Yang, "Don't freak out but a friend is swinging by to pick up the map." I said turning to face them.
A few minutes passed by before the door to the safe house opened then closed quickly, a man walked down the hallway with his head thrown back "What's so important?" asked the man but he froze when he looked down at us.
"Uncle Qrow!" Yelled Yang, Ruby was already hugging Qrow firmly around the waist, "Stone, what the hell did you get me into?" Qrow calmly asked, trying to stay upright after almost being tackled by Ruby.
"Wait, he's your uncle?" I asked confused. "What do you have for me?" he asked pulling Ruby off of him. I walked over and gave him the map marking the locations Neo pointed out in red "These are white fang bases of operations." I told him, while Ruby desperately tried to look over my shoulder. "Knowing you I thought you would take all of them on solo? Also, I know Ozpin assigned you all to the same team but I didn't think you'd get this close." Qrow said.
"You don't know the half of it." Cole had walked into the room, "And what does that mean?" Qrow said, looking concerned. I recounted the last week and a half starting with going to the docks then going storm mode and ending with Ruby and I on the floor in the sparring room.
He stiffened slightly, "If you lay a finger on my niece for any reason. . . well let's just say I'm not a professional huntsman for nothing." Qrow said, dead serious, then he started to laugh. "I trust you with Ruby above anyone else but this whole Storm thing has me worried." he was serious again. "I don't know how but Storm seems to be the source of my power, at least he enhances it a lot." I said. "So how do you know Cole and Jacob?" asked Ruby, "I was the one who trained them, taught them everything they know and told them to call me if they were ever in a tight spot." Qrow answered.
"Apparently losing an arm and being half dead doesn't count as a tight spot," he glared, "but having some information that isn't even relevant to me or my mission is." Qrow sighed.
He looked at me with a slightly annoyed look on his face "I could have been doing something important, let Ozpin or the police handle this." He said, "I needed to talk to you about something else as well, have you ever heard of anything like Storm?" I asked.
Qrow though for a moment before replying, "No, I don't think anyone has but if there is an explanation I know you'll find it." said Qrow. "So, what are you going to do about the hideouts?" I asked. "I'll pass the information to Panther and ask him to start checking them out, he ditched his scroll but I have other methods of contacting him." He answered. "Just tell me where Adam is." Blake had entered the room.
A few days later Ozpin ordered us to return to the school to keep up appearances.
"What are you doing today?" asked Velvet, "Most likely fighting everyone in the school." I fell, faceplate first, into her tray of mashed potatoes and groaned. What happened at the hospital was caught by a security camera and was on the news, "Everyone saw me crush a sword with my bear hands and they all want to fight me now." I was not looking forward to that.
Velvet was my best friend and she knew everything about us but she didn't tell anyone not even her team which I was grateful for.
It seemed the fighting just never stopped for me, after breakfast I tried to play a board game with Yang, Ruby, and Cole but everyone kept coming over to me to ask me to fight them. Eventually I just shocked anyone who wanted to fight me and once I did that they stopped coming.
"How are you so good at this Cole?" Asked Ruby, after Cole beat all of us for the third time in a row, "I'm just too good." Said Cole stretching.
"Hey, we should swing by the house to check on Neo when we go into town." I said getting to my feet. "Why are you in such a rush to see her huh?" asked Cole with a teasing grin "She stabbed me in the knees and, although she seems to have switched sides, I don't want her looking through my stuff while we're gone." I said, a bit defensively.
I walked out to the courtyard before Ruby caught up to me "So you never asked me." she said, rocking on her heels. "What?" I was very confused as to what she meant.
"You never asked me out."
"Oh, I guess I didn't, the last girlfriend I had stabbed me in the back, well more like the face." I said stopping.
"Well tell me all about it," said Ruby with concern covering her face "fine." I sighed, we sat down on a bench under a tree In Beacon's courtyard.
"Her name was Jane, she was about a year older and a huntress, or so I thought, but it turned out she was using me for information on one of my friends, Panther, who is a huntsman that was hired to take down a Gang called the Stallions, I didn't know it but she was a spy for them and was using me to get to him, after she knew where to find him she cut the right side of my face. I would be dead but Cole got back just in time to burn her to the ground before she could finish me off. I'll never forget the look in Coles eyes that night, the way he killed her without a second thought, it was scary. That's why I've buried my emotions since, not wanting that to happen again."
