Chapter 7: The truth

Eri walked over and sat on the one chair in the room then pointed to one near her for him to sit in.

"What do you want?" Roman asked as he sat down.

"First off, my mother. I know she was a Faunus, why were you with her?"
"I met Annala Saire when I was younger. She truly was a beauty, for a Faunus that is. She was also the strongest person I knew."

"Why'd you kill her?"
"What?"
"You killed her didn't you. That's at least what it says in the article I found about it. You were trying to kill me I know but she was trying to protect me, but if you loved her so much why did you end up killing her anyway."
"I didn't."
"W-What?"
"Think about it, I would have killed you when you were younger if I wanted you dead I did raise you."

"You raised me to be a fighter not like a father should raise his child. You ownly cared about making me do all your dirty work and anyway you almost killed me the other day."

"You attacked me and got in the way of my job. Once you left Eri, you became my enemy so there was no telling you who I really was to you or anything." She sat there and looked at him for a minute before talking.

"I want all the files on my mother."

"Why?"
"I want to know about her, of course."
He sighed then stood up and walked over to a cabinet in the corner of the room and pulled out a small folder and tossed it to her. "There are some books at beacon on her if you'd like to know more then what's in there."

"I can't believe I'm saying this to you but...thanks."

"Yeah, yeah."

She looked at him and smirked. "Hows that wound?"
"Healed mostly..And yours?"
Her smirk disapeared. "Fine.."
"Well, I better go now." She stood up slowly with the folder and looked at him only for a moment then started to leave the room.

"There's the truth in there, so beware when you read it, Eri."

"Yeah, whatever." She left the room ignoring him. She went to meet up with the others afterwards.

"Eri!" Rayne came out of nowhere and hugged her. "So, how'd it go? You get answers about...that...thing."

She nodded then looked around and everyone was waiting for her.

"Hey, what's that?" Sun asked looking at the folder in her hands.

"What I came here for."

"I must say how'd you get him to give that to you? Torchwick is hard to get near." Mare spoke.

"I-I..umm...well.."

"She use to work for me." Roman was walking out and heard them talking. The second everyone saw them they got ready to fight except for Eri. "Anyway, I want to give you one more thing, Eri." He handed her a small box and for once she looked at him and he looked calm and sweet.
"What is this?"
"It was your...It belonged to Annala..Anyway, see you later little fox."

"Bye d-" She bit her lip before she could finish saying dad. She shook her head, why was he being so nice to her now and why did he actually look kind for once.

"Let's get out of here." Mare said as she turned and walked away with Amaia beside her, shortly after then was Blake and Sun and far behind was Eri and Rayne.
"Eri, what was that back there?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Roman Torchwick was being nice to you. He's always tried to kill you and almost has more then once."

"He looked different there...He looked kind, and harmless. He wasn't a threat back there."

"Well, I'm just glad it didn't end up like last time when he almost killed you, or the time before when he cut your eye, how's it doing?"
"It's...fine." She lied not wanting Rayne to be worried about her. He did that a lot, but she couldn't say much because she worried about his safety.

"..I was just wondering if you...I mean I and...you..we could...go to..umm." She just looked at him confused.

"Huh?"

"Well I was wondering if we could-Look out!"
She turned to see a girl try and attack her and just barely dodged it.

"What were you doing near Roman Torchwick."
"Why do you care? Who are you, anyway and why are you attacking me?"
The girl had a mask hiding her face so she couldn't see her at all the only thing she could make out was a cat like tail.

"Roman Torchwick is my enemy if you are working with him then you are too."
"We aren't though. We are beacon studen-" She attacked again not caring what they were saying she had two silver daggers Eri dodged one and ended up putting her hand in the way of the other that was going for her head and it went through her hand. "R-Rayne, get...the..others."

"N-No way, let me help yo-"

"Rayne, get out of here and get me help now! Ahh!" She held onto the girls hand so she couldn't pull the dagger out but she kept swinging the other one Rayne saw that she was in trouble and went to attack the girl who kicked him really hard into a building and ended up knocking him out. "Why are you attacking us?!"

"You are working with Torchwick."

"Stop saying that! Yes he use to be my old boss but I left him long ago. He's dead to me now now I'm with beacon academy."

"You use to work with him?"
"Yes!"

"O-Oh...S-Sorry.." She dropped her one dagger and let go of the other one in Eri's hand. "I use to work for him too, but I left him long ago after my close friend left but I heard that he killed her."

"Oh? What's your name?"

"Oh, sorry. My name is Maria." She took her mask of and showed she had bright yellow cat like eyes and she had dark red hair.

"M-Maria?"
"Huh, Do I know you?"

Eri took her hood off that was covering her ears. "It's me, Eri."

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