As soon as I read this prompt, I almost immediately realized what I wanted this one to somehow involve the lovely pair's parents. There wasn't really any other way I could interpret this prompt.

Day 7: Strength


The sound of gunfire and clashing swords sounded throughout the forest, most followed by toppling trees and the scared flight of birds as the two Huntresses-in-training battled off the group of bandits. Shortly after being dispatched to help a nearby village defend itself, team RWBY divided itself into two groups, with Ruby and Blake staying behind to protect the village from any resulting Grimm while Yang and Weiss took the fight straight towards the bandits. As it turned out, the tribe was much larger and better equipped than reports suggested, meaning Yang and Weiss almost had more than the two could handle.

Almost.

Yang threw another punch at the group of bandits, sending out bright flares that exploded upon making contact with the ground, throwing most of them back as others ran forward and crouched down, firing off shots at the blonde. She quickly ducked behind a rock, glancing at the stone as it took their fire before smirking to herself as she thumped her knuckles together. Pressing herself against it, she fired off a shot at her feet, causing an explosion that threw her and the rock up into the air. Turning around, she fired a shot back at the rock as she jumped off it, throwing the stone down towards the bandits as she flew away from it.

The thugs narrowly jumped out of the way, glancing back in the blonde's direction as they began to climb to their feet, only for a layer of ice to encase their legs and the ground. Looking up, the bandits saw Weiss gliding over them on a set of glyphs, pointing her rapier at the group as it glowed a bright blue before Yang landed.

"Oh, come on, Weiss," Yang said as she approached the heiress, who quickly jumped down to meet her girlfriend. "Those where mine, and you know it."

"Your welcome, goofball." Weiss said as she rolled her eyes, before looking back at the camp the bandits had set up. "Either way, that should be all the guards."

"Meaning that it's time for the fun part." Yang chuckled as she pumped her gauntlets.

"Yang, hold on, we should-" Weiss attempted to say as Yang charged forwards, before the blonde shot at the ground in front of her, throwing herself into the air and over the camp's wall. Weiss let out an annoyed sigh as she began to follow in her girlfriend's footsteps. "Listen to me for once."

As Weiss prepared to throw herself over the wall, the gates to the camp burst open, allowing a group of bandits to pour out, aiming their weapons at the white-haired girl. With a sigh, Weiss spun her weapon's chamber, setting it to fire Dust, and allowing the blade to glow red as the men opened fire.

As Yang threw an assailant to the ground, she spun around on her heal towards the group of bandits leaving the camp, attempting to fire off a blast at them before she was slashed across the back. She felt her Aura begin to wane as she stumbled forward, spinning around to meet the bandit's leader, dressed in red and black, wearing a mask reminiscent of a Nevermore as she brandished a large, red sword.

"You the head honcho?" Yang asked as she took up a fighting stance. The masked figure merely growled at the blonde as Yang smirked, popping her knuckles before she spoke. "I'll take that as a 'yes.'"

Yang quickly threw another punch, putting as much energy into it as she could as she sent a blast flying at the woman in front of her. The bandit swung her sword at an incredible speed, slicing the blast out of the air, creating a cloud of smoke as she dashed forward. Once she exited the cloud, the bandit saw that the blonde in front of her had disappeared, and quickly glanced around the area before hearing the crunching of dirt behind her. Bringing her sword around in a quick swing, the leader found her swing quickly blocked as Yang delivered a swift punch to her mask, firing off a shot that threw the bandit back, shattering the mask hiding the bandit's face.

As she flew back, Yang quickly began firing at the woman, only for her to once again slash the shots out of the air before landing, digging her fingers into the dirt as she looked up at the blonde, narrowing her teeth as raven-hair fell in front of her red eyes.

Upon seeing the face, Yang frozen, loosening her stance as her eyes widened. "Mo… Mom?" Yang asked as Raven stood up, brandishing her sword once more.

"'Mom?'" Raven asked, tightening her grip on her sword. "Haven't been called that in… Ever." With that, Raven charged forward, and Yang quickly remembered what she was doing as she brought up Ember Celica to block Raven's next strike, quickly attempting to fire off a shot that the bandit easily dodged, swiftly jabbing her elbow into the blonde's face before bashing the grip of her sword into Yang's head. As Yang stumbled backwards, Raven brought up her sword once more, swiftly bringing it down across Yang's chest before Yang tried to fire off another shot. The bandit quickly caught the punch and brought her knee up into Yang's elbow, before spinning around and throwing the blonde to the other side of the camp.

"What have they been teaching you at that school?" Raven asked as she spun her sword around in her hand, looking down at her daughter as Yang began to get up, before the bandit woman quickly jumped into the air. Seeing the figure of her mother coming towards her, Yang quickly rolled out of the way of Raven's boot colliding with the ground, breaking into the stone beneath it as Raven locked eyes with the blonde. "Don't worry kid, I won't hurt you too bad." Raven said as she ran at the blonde, swinging her sword at the girl, who barely had time to bring up her gauntlet to block it. The blade dug into the metal, breaking the weapon on Yang's wrist as she tried to deliver a punch, only for Raven to catch it and bring a knee up into Yang's stomach.

As Yang stumbled back, Raven swung her sword behind herself, opening a red portal in the air before turning back to her daughter. "I'm just sending you home." Raven growled as she lunged at her daughter, grabbing her by the collar before turning towards the portal.

Before Raven could do anything, a blast collided with her chest, throwing her away from the blonde before the portal collapsed. Yang tumbled to the ground, and as she began picking herself back up, an open hand presented itself to her, and Yang looked up to see her girlfriend standing above her. "What would you do with me?" Weiss asked as the two looked back at the blonde's mother.

"Become a kabob, I guess?" Yang tried to joke as Weiss picked her up, before the sound of cluttering boxes and rolling barrels caught their attention. Setting their focus back towards the bandit leader, the two saw Raven picking herself up, brandishing her sword at the two as her eyes lit up red, gritting her teeth as she stepped forward.

"We-we should run." Yang said, causing Weiss to cock an eyebrow.

"You, run away?" Weiss asked, pointing her rapier at the bandit leader. "I didn't think you knew how."

"We can't beat her." Yang said as Raven charged forward. A glyph glowed beneath the pair's feet, and they were quickly flung into the sky over the bandit's head, avoiding the attack. "She's too strong."

"For you, maybe." Weiss said as they landed, before jingling her sword at the blonde with a confident smile. "But for us?"

Turning to face the bandit leader again, the two saw Raven spin around to face them as well, still gritting her teeth as she began approaching them. "Weiss, I'm not going to make you stay here." Yang said, only for Weiss to smile as she tightened her grip on her girlfriend's hand.

"No, but I'm staying anyway." Weiss said, and her confident smirk proved to be contagious as Yang began smirking as well. As Raven charged at them, they quickly released their hands as Weiss put a glyph between them, quickly throwing them to the side as Raven swung.

The two landed on a new set of glyphs as Weiss quickly called out, "WHITE GOLD!"

With that, the two were launched at the bandit, Weiss's weapon crackling with yellow energy as her rapier scrapped along Raven's stomach, but before the bandit could counter the attack, Yang's fist collided with the back of her head, spinning Raven around as Weiss created a series of glyphs around her. The two were quickly thrown from one glyph to the other, slashing and punching at the bandit each time they passed. When Raven tried to take the opportunity to attack Weiss, her weapon was knocked out of her hand by a shot from Yang, leaving the woman defenseless.

The glyphs disappeared around her, allowing Weiss and Yang to fly away from her as the heiress projected a glyph at Raven's feet. Still disoriented, Raven stumbled around before noticing the glyph, only to be thrown into the air as Yang and Weiss closed in again. Jumping onto the glyph, Yang was thrown after her mother as Weiss stabbed her sword into the ground. Seeing the blonde coming in, Raven clenched her fist as she fell towards Yang, only for the blonde to catch her punch and bring her knee into Raven's stomach, before punching Raven across the face as they two spun around. Landing a few more punches on the bandit, Yang jumped off of her, allowing Raven to spin around again to see the mound of ice the white-haired girl had formed.

It broke apart violently as she fell into it, collapsing on top of her before the ice quickly melted. Shaking some water off, Raven glared over at the heiress as she held up her rapier, growling as she charged at the girl before Weiss's sword glowed yellow once more, causing Raven's eyes to widen as Weiss pointed her weapon towards the large puddle the bandit was in. A surge of lighting jumped out of Weiss's weapon, and quickly ran through Raven as she fell to her knees, screaming out in pain as she toppled over, letting out one last groan as she lost consciousness.

"Well, that was…" Yang huffed out as she walked over to her girlfriend, glancing down at her unconscious mother. "Interesting."

"Yeah…" Weiss huffed as well, before straightening herself as she glanced at her girlfriend. "Yang, I'm glad… That you wanted to introduce me to your parents, but I doubt we needed to get your mother's approval."

Yang laughed as she patted her girlfriend on the back, glancing back at the unconscious woman before she spoke. "Come on, let's get these guys tied up."


Weiss felt her hands shaking as she stared at the Schnee manor in front of her, tightening her grip on her wrist as she took in cold breaths. Fighting off Grimm, she could handle. Training sessions where she needed to forgo the Dust in Myrtenaster, she could handle. Their bullhead falling out of the sky as it was attacked by Nevermores, she could handle. But the idea of looking her father dead in the eye, after everything she's been through, she couldn't. She wanted to turn on her heal and run, she didn't care about running the Schnee Dust Company. Her brother could run it and their family name into the ground if he wanted, and she wouldn't mind. She didn't want it, she didn't need it.

And then Yang draped her arm across Weiss's shoulders, pulling the shorter girl into a hug at her side as the blonde looked down at her with an understanding look. "It'll be okay, Weiss." Yang said. "We can handle this."

Weiss looked back at the Schnee manor one last time before taking in another breath. "Okay…" She muttered. "Okay." She repeated, putting more confidence into her voice as she looked back at her girlfriend. "Let's go reclaim my birthright." With a confident smile, Yang patted Weiss on the back as the two headed towards the building, strutting towards their next challenge with the confidence of gods.


"Do you truly believe that such trivial feats mean anything to this company?" Jacques snarled at his daughter and her girlfriend, the former of which felt a shudder run up her spine, almost shaking in her seat as he spoke. "The Schnee Dust company cannot be run by someone who will probably die outside Atlas's boarders. It needs someone who'd know how to run it."

"Well then," Yang began, her eyes almost lighting red as she scowled at the man. "Why are you running it?"

"Y-Yang." Weiss whispered as she placed her hand over her girlfriend's.

"Do you truly wish to question my authority?" Jacques asked as he stood up, leaning over his desk as he scowled at the blonde. "I proved to the company's founder that I was best suited to continue his legacy when he was unfit to. If not for my leadership, this company would not be what it is now."

"What it is now?" Yang scowled. "What it is now is infamous for its labor forces, where Faunus work in circumstances that the androids it has ready access to are better suited. It has business partners more akin to mafias than they are actual business's. And I doubt there's a labor law you haven't broken."

"False allegations with nothing to support them." The cruel CEO said, tucking his hands behind his back.

Yang scowled at him for a moment before flicking open her Scroll, revealing lines of text running along it. "Oh really?" Yang asked as she adjusted herself in her seat, looking down at the device. "Let's see what your employees have to say on that, then.

"Human Resources Manager: 'Truth be told, I'm not sure why I'm here. We have men and women digging into the ground and pulling out dangerous crystals when we have machines that could do the same jobs just as effectively, if not better. It would not only remove countless workers from dangerous circumstances, but would also mean less paperwork on my and the CEO's end.'

"Mining Outpost 16, outskirts of Atlas: 'The working conditions here are excruciating. The caves are dark and cramped, and we live in fear that the slightest sneeze could set off a blast destroying the whole complex. The only comfort comes in the fact that we'll die quickly. We barely get enough benefits from this job, it's just the only way most of us can get paid, but I think I'd rather be shivering in the cold than working in these caves.'

"Mining Outpost 53, west of Vale: 'This job is hell. I'd hate to admit it, but this job is hell. It's one of the best paying jobs a high school dropout could find, but no amount of money could help me keep calm. And despite the number of Grimm that could be attracted to us, no one in management does anything to help prevent the same Grimm attacks that destroyed countless other mines.'

"Mining Outpost 49, Vale Mountains: 'If you told me this is the job I would have gotten, I would never have taken it.'

"And those are just my personal favorites." Yang said with a smirk as Jacques's continued to scowl. "We have roughly thirty-some of your sixty mining outposts, all saying pretty much the same thing. Though, if you want, we could ask the rest."

"You…" Jacques growled before shaking his head. "It doesn't matter. The Schnee Dust Company is currently following every law to the letter, our profits are completely legal enough to keep it running for quite some time."

"Oh, if only." Yang said before tapping her girlfriend's shoulder. "Tell him, Weiss." The white-haired girl stayed quiet, causing Yang to cock an eyebrow at her. "Weiss?" Yang asked as Weiss took in a breath, looking down at her own Scroll.

"Reports have shown that under your management, the Schnee Dust Company offers minimal health and life insurance at best, in spite of laws laying out the proper amounts of collateral needed to reimburse the families of the workers." Weiss sputtered through her explanation, quickly darting her eyes across her device. "We also tested your claims of welcoming Faunus into every department by sending job applications to each one in Vale and Atlas branches, with the only difference between most of the credentials being whether the applicant was human or Faunus. Every time it was anything other than mining, the Faunus applications were rejected. When it was mining, they were the only applications accepted, even when traits would actually hinder the workers, such as gills or tentacles." Closing her Scroll, Weiss finally found it in herself to scowl at her father. "And that's nothing compared to the accounts and histories of your business partners. Tell me, does a Hei Xiong Senior ring any bells?"

"You have no prove of that." Jacques stated as he adjusted his ties, causing Weiss to smirk as she quickly recognized one of his tells. They had him on the ropes, now to drive it home.

"Yeah, actually, we do." Weiss said. "We're familiar with his son, and he'd be perfectly willing to expose your ties with him and every other corrupt business on your list."

"You…" Jacques growled as he slammed his hand on the table, causing the white-haired girl to flinch. "Even if anything you were saying was true – which it's not – It still wouldn't give me any reason to rename you my heir."

"Well, true." Yang said as Weiss pulled up another file on her Scroll.

"But, I'd wager your stock prices would take a bit of a dive once news of this gets out." Weiss said.

"Especially once the reports of child abuse come out." Yang said, leaning towards the man.

"You wouldn't." Jacques snarled at the white-haired girl.

"Try us." Weiss said, shaking her Scroll in her hand.

"So he discriminates in the workplace, he has ties to several known criminals uptown and downtime, he breaks labor laws, and he hits his child." Yang counted off. "Oh, I'm sorry, children. We could easily get Winter on this if need be, and sit back while you rot in prison."

"And the Schnee Dust Company becomes the rightful property of Whitley." Jacques argued. "And you get nothing."

"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that." Yang said. "Apparently that apple didn't fall to far from the tree, and we have all the reports to prove it. For instance…" The blonde gestured towards her girlfriend, who put a finger up to her chin in thought.

"I remember a time where Whitley arranged his toys along the stairs to trip visiting Faunus." Weiss said. "And there's also the way he treated his pets. Remember his pet bird?" Jacques's eyes widened as she said that, causing Weiss's confidence to swell once more.

"Oh, animal abuse?" Yang asked. "Hear that's the first sign that someone's a sociopath."

"You… You actually think this will work, don't you?" Jacques growled, digging his fingernails into the lapel of his suit, telling Weiss just how nervous he was. "Who do you think will win in court? Two girls, or the multi-million dollar company?"

"Speaking of…" Yang began.

"If you tell me that you have reports of the Schnee Dust Company paying off the judges, I will have you thrown out." Jacques growled.

"Hey, you said it, not us." Yang said in her usual, care free tone as she put her hands up.

"And how well do you think the public will take it when they learned you blackmailed me into giving you this company?" Jacques asked, cocking an eyebrow with a malicious grin.

"Far better than they will the blackmail material, I can tell you that." Yang said.

"Of course, it'd be a real shame if it were to come to that." Weiss said as she stuffed her Scroll back into her pouch. "So I'll tell you what, rename me the proper heir to the Schnee Dust Company, and none of this sees the light of day."

"And if I don't?" Jacques snarled more than he asked, balling her hands into fists so tight, his knuckles turned as white as his hair.

"Well, once these files get released," Weiss began explaining, bringing her hands together as she leaned forwards. "You'll either go to prison or go bankrupt from the resulting embargo on all Schnee Dust products." Weiss gave the CEO a confident smirk as she finished, "You really want to play that gamble?"

Jacques tightened his jaw, grinding his teeth as he stared daggers at the two before he spoke. "Very well then." He slid back into his chair, taking in a breath as he continued to glare at the two. "All your files on this get erased completely, and I write you back into the will. The company shall be yours once I step down-"

"Oh, no." Weiss shock her head. "As soon as I graduate from Beacon."

"What?" Jacques snarled.

"You heard me," Weiss said before leaning forwards, resting her elbow on his desk. "Once I graduate from Beacon, this company becomes mine. Do that, and these allegations never see the light of day."

"… Fine." Jacques spat out. "When you graduate from Beacon, but no sooner." He quickly brought his attention to his intercom, pressing onto one of the buttons without taking his eyes off the two. "Sieben, I'll need to rename my heir one last time. Bring me the paper work."

Yang and Weiss traded a confident smirk as the butler responded. "Right away, sir."


"There." Jacques said, pushing the paper back towards the two girls. "The deed is done. Once you graduate from Beacon Academy, this company is yours."

"Excellent." Weiss said as she quickly looked over the paper, quickly assuring that everything was in order. "Now before I go, there's one last thing I want to discuss with you."

"Oh, what is it this time?" Jacques asked.

"Do you know when we graduate from Beacon?" Weiss asked, to which Jacques shook his head. "Last week." Weiss said, causing the man's eyes to widen upon hearing the news. "Get out of my office."


Like I said, when I read that prompt, I knew I wanted them facing their parents, and I knew how. Both halves of this story can represent two different kinds of strength, with Weiss helping Yang when she needs physical strength, and Yang helping Weiss when she needs emotional strength.

If Raven feels at all nerfed for the sake of this story, I'd just like to remind you all that I dropped the actual series after Volume 3. All I really have to gauge Raven's capabilities on is the fact that Neo is afraid of her, which isn't much to go on. There also aren't any Maidens in this continuity, so Raven doesn't have that either. Though having said that, even I feel that her section was too short. But I couldn't figure out how to extend it without it feeling like padding. Jacques's section, meanwhile, became much longer than I originally envisioned it.

In any event, there's only one prompt left before this is finished, and I am going to have fun with it.