RWBY Light of Hope Chapter 8
A/N: I am loving writing this story for you guys. I want to hear from you guys, how is this story, is it good? Bad? I didn't get any reviews, I know I sound like someone who wants to be popular but no, I want to see if I could improve on anything, writing structure of the story anything. Critics are now going to be accepted in any way possible.
Truthfully, I am not an English major or anything close, I am an engineer student in my 3rd year in college, so math comes naturally not knowing how to write is a challenge for me. I studied on how to write by reading other people who submitted stories on this site, and went from there.
Thanks for reading guys, it means a lot. I do not plan on stopping on the story ideas, I'm still new-ish so it'll be one story at a time.
Glynda scouted around Beacon once again, checking to make sure it was still safe from Grimm. She knew that there wasn't much Grimm anymore since the Atlasian Military eliminate majority of the creatures, some still lurked in the darkness, waiting for prey to not pay attention.
"Good," Glynda heard airships fly over the school with many other soldiers and huntsmen to eliminate more Grimm so they could establish the CCT and bring back communications among nations once again.
Many Huntsmen were returning back to the helipads so they can go back and heal up for the next assignment.
She seen the ships land with additional hunters and robots, it wasn't as much as last time, since they knew the Grimm numbers were declining since the invasion. The toughest were all eliminated, the majors and alphas took a toll on their forces but they still won this battle to reclaim the school.
"Tai" Glynda noticed one from the bunch, being Ruby and Yang's father.
The blonde huntsman looked to who said his name, to his joy he was happy to see her once again, "Glynda?"
Glynda smiled at him, "Its good to see you again."
Tai would've said the same, but he noticed how worn out she was. Her clothes were starting to tear, and her expression was showing how stressful removing the Grimm was, "You should get some rest, the rest of the huntsmen could handle them."
"I'm fine, I just need to go back and find-" she began to walk away but stumbled.
Tai tried to catch her, "You sure you're all right."
She simply brushed him away, "I'm fine, its just that… we didn't find Ozpin anywhere yet, besides we're almost getting the CCT back up and running again. You should go check to see if it is."
Tai nodded, he wanted to see if he could contact Ruby, "Right."
Tai stopped when he made it to the large tower, he ran in and went up to the communications array. He turned it on and pressed the numbers for one scroll he knew that knows what happens.
"Hello?" A familiar voice answered on the other end.
"Qrow, this is Tai."
Qrow froze up, not wanting to hear from him, not now of all times, "Tai listen, things are getting more problematic by the minute, I'll call you back."
"How's Ruby?"
"Listen Tai…"
"What happened?" Tai was suspicious of the emotion he's currently hearing from his teammates' voice.
Sighing, Qrow had to tell him, "She was arrested last night, she's being accused for the murder of 2 Faunus' last night."
"WHAT? How did you let her?" Tai was furious that the one person he trusted the most had failed him by letting this happen to his daughter.
"I was finding intel on the enemy, when I found out about the attack, I was too late. When I got there, her friends told me what happened, both her and Jaune Arc were being held in their cells, waiting for their court hearings."
"We should get them out now, I'm coming over" Tai pressed the end call button and immediately ended the call.
Qrow grunted, "Damn, I should've been watching her, but he doesn't know the situation here," he looked over to the city from a cliff outside of the city and seen how Atlas soldiers were now coming into Mistral, "and now its much worse."
He pulled out his scroll and sent a message to someone he knew was still in Vale and could help them, "I hope she'll comply this time," he pressed the send button sighing, "I don't want another of our family to be gone."
Over in Vale, a raven was flying over the wrecked school, making circles where Grimm were still alive. The huntsmen around seen the bird making circles over the enemies and they eliminated the Grimm. They waved, thanking the bird for the assistance. Quickly the bird left the area and landed on top of a dorm of sorts.
It looked around making sure no one was around, it walked behind something large and a woman walked out the other side, revealing to be Raven. She pulled out her Scroll and seen a message was unread. She checked on it and she didn't like it, "I don't think that's a good idea."
She quickly left a message to Qrow, declining the offer of helping them right now, "I don't want any of you to die right now."
Her scroll buzzed again, seeing the message, 'Is it because of Summer?'
She bit her lip, not wanting to remember the incident that claimed her friend's life. She closed her scroll, with the onslaught of memories of that mission, a normal Grimm invasion on a small village but quickly turned for the worse when a new species attacked them, with Raven leaving the battle with multiple injuries but carried Summer's lifeless body out.
She quickly snapped out of her memories, she didn't want to re-live them again. Hearing some tapping noises, she came back to her senses to see a person running on the roof of a nearby dorm. She had a closer look to see a Cat Faunus, with long black hair and a black outfit.
"Is that her?" Raven pulled out her scroll to see a picture of team RWBY, and that girl looks exactly like their teammate Blake Belladonna. It looked like she was limping, but what happened to her?
Blake stopped and jumped downwards to an open window, and she shut it behind her.
Thinking of an idea, she jumped down from the top of the large building and landed onto the ground below. She casually walked over to the building and entered, only seeing the wreckage the Grimm did and the students and faculty destroying the Grimm, leaving the walls and floors riddled with damages. The floors with holes, rugs ripped apart and blood.
She seen how Grimm mauled people, killing them quickly and fed on the corpses on her journeys, something she can't unsee. Luckily there were no bodies nearby but a few places where she could imagine students trying to save themselves when the Grimm were invading.
Checking the rooms for anything, she spotted the body of a Vale student, female by the looks of it, clothes ripped by claws. She felt bad but she was on a mission first, "I'm sorry…"
She ran up to the 5th floor, remembering where the cat girl landed. Despite some detours and minor Grimm, she seen a normal white door in front of her. Thinking of the possible circumstances, she raised her hand and lightly knocked on the door.
She heard footsteps slightly making its way to the door, stopping and said, "Who is this?"
Raven paused for a second but knew she had to do this for Yang, "Blake Belladonna?"
"Yang?" The cat Faunus quickly unlatched the door of its locks and opened it, hoping to apologize to her friend, only to see a slightly older version of her, wearing a completely different outfit and her hair was coal black with red eyes.
"Who are you? You're not Yang?" Blake studies the female in front of her, question her motives.
Raven had a good look at the young cat girl, seeing she was extremely tired, possibly from fighting the Grimm in this area. Her arms were covered in bandages; many were red with blood seeping out of the coverings. Her eyes were dark, from the lack of sleep had taken its toll on her, not functioning fully.
Raven smiled at the girl, "I'm here to bring you back to your friends."
Tai looked at his house in anger, how could the person he trusted the most let his daughter be seen as a criminal?
"I can't believe that guy, for how much I went through to make sure he's all right."
He opened the door and slammed it shut.
"Something wrong dad?" He heard someone call out, knowing who it was.
"No, something happened to Ruby…" Tai said, without trying to sound angry, though he sounded really disappointed.
Yang got out of her bed and ran out of her room, "What happened? Is she all right?"
Tai grabbed a nearby chair and sat down, shaking his head, "I don't know, we managed to get the CCT back up and running. I got to call Qrow earlier this morning, I asked him what happened over in Mistral."
Yang was listening, but she wondered what this has to do with her little sis, "And?"
"He told me that she, along with a guy named Jaune Arc were captured by the authorities there, with the evidence saying they both murdered 2 Faunus' last night. They were fighting their best officers until more arrived and subdued them, awaiting their trials right now."
Yang brushed her hair, wondering why would Ruby do that, "That doesn't sound right, she would never do that, and Jaune would never harm another person like that."
Tai got up and walked into his bedroom, getting some supplies, "Dad, what are you doing?"
"I'm gonna get her back, even if it means to fight the authorities. I'll be back in a few weeks."
Yang stepped in front of him, "Then take me with you, I can fight."
Tai placed his hand on her shoulder, "I don't want to lose another family member again, you will stay here and protect the house while I'm away."
Yang thought about it but knew he was right, "…Ok"
Tai quickly ran out of the house and towards his destination, Mistral.
Yang walked back into her room and threw herself back onto the bed, not wanting to think about her disabilities again, "What do I do now?"
"You could go help Ruby?" She heard a voice from outside her window.
She snapped her head towards that direction, got up from her bed and quickly opened the window, revealing that a person was outside, someone she thought ran away.
"Hey" Blake waved at the blonde huntress.
Yang was secretly happy to see her partner once again, but she also felt a different set of emotions of betrayal, "What are you doing here?"
Blake looked back and said, "Yang, I'm sorry for everything, I was stupid for running away, thinking that would help me with this situation. The reason why I came back was the news of what happened."
Yang knew that she was right, they had to find a way to save her sis, "Come in, it must be cold."
Blake sort of felt a sigh of relief set in, but she was too busy trying to hide her shivering, though it was a losing battle. She happily jumped into the warm house, not like the dorms.
Blake looked at her friend, realizing how hurt she was, "Oh my gosh, what happened to you?"
Blake looked at herself, seeing her main outfit was heavily damaged, leaving deep gashes on her flesh, "I stayed at the dorms after the incident, the Grimm were a real problem there. I had to fight almost every day in order to survive, there was a few students who stayed as well, but most were too injured that they passed away."
Yang felt sad to hear that, "I'm sorry for asking."
Blake quickly shook her head, "Don't worry about it."
The blondie quickly got up and ran towards the first aid kit, "It looks like you need some fixing up?"
Blake smiled, "Yeah…"
Yang also pulled out some extra clothes that might fit her friend, "That you may need to change out of that as well," she made a devious smile, examining Blake fully.
Blake had her eyes wide open, "Uh Yang, what are you doing?"
Yang threw her the clothes, "Oh nothing…"
The cat girl wondered what she may have planned but quickly changed clothes.
-DING-DONG-
"Oh who's that?" Yang walked out of her room and towards the door. Opening the door, she was surprised to see who it was, Weiss Schnee.
"Weiss?"
"Hello, may I come in?" Weiss asked nicely.
"Yeah, come on in"
Blake walked out of the room wearing the clothes Yang gave her, to see one more of the team, "Hey Weiss."
Weiss looked at Yang but noticed one major difference the last time they met, "Yang, what happened to your hair?"
Blake also nodded, "I didn't want to be rude, but what happened?"
Yang looked at both of them and smiled, "I thought that this would be a good change you know, I don't know what to do since I lost to Adam…"
"Oh and… am I interrupting anything here?" Weiss asked, seeing Blake in Yang's clothes.
Blake looked down and instantly blushed, "No, nothing happened like that."
Yang simply answered, "Yeah, you missed out on a lot Weiss" with Blake hitting Yang on the head.
Weiss looked at the both of them but didn't care, "It doesn't matter, but I came her for you Yang. I came to take you with me in Atlas for something important."
Yang didn't know what she had planned, "Ok… what is it?"
"I don't want to ruin the surprise, come on the both of you" she quickly opened the door and motioned them to follow her to the limousine outside.
Blake shrugged, "We won't know until we try it?"
Yang smiled, knowing what the snow princess has planned, it has to be good, "Coming!" She closed the door behind her and locked it, leaving a message for if Tai gets back early.
Yang got inside the limo, with the trio going to the airport, and begins their journey for Yang's recovery.
A/N: And thanks for reading another chapter. Most of my time would be playing on PS4, currently playing Dark Souls 3. I love this game so much, I would go back and help anyone with tough bosses, not pvp, I am not good with that:(
