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"I met her today…I still can't believe how much she's grown…and I still can't believe that I didn't stay with her." she stood in front of the gravestone once again. A ghostly hand gently stroking her cheek and wiping the tears before they fell from her eyes.
"Why did I leave? Didn't I promise to you that if I should meet Yang, that I wasn't allowed to leave her side?" she lifted her fist, wanting to hit herself so badly but another ghostly hand held it back.
"Maybe I should start from the beginning." she whispered, feeling her lips touch hers. The sun was setting, clouds threatened to burst and let rain hail down towards the ground. Patch hasn't changed. In fact it never would.
She didn't either.
"I was keeping an eye on them. On team RWBY. Still can't believe that our little girl became a team leader, heck I still can't believe that the Branwen curse affected them that badly either. Sure it was understandable that me and Qrow would end up in your team but Ruby and Yang? They weren't even twins and they still choose to be near each other…" finally feeling at peace she let her katana drop gently onto the floor, before sitting down herself.
"There were in the outskirts of Vale, you know that old ruin city where people tried to colonize, they went there after Roman and Neo…had I know that those pipsqueaks were getting into more trouble than they could chew than I would've left them dead in that alley back then."the sensation of her cheeks getting pinched stopped her words, she truly wondered if she had become insane "Anyway, our little ones went there to investigate the White Fang.
"I knew of their plans to let Grimm into the city as a diversion for the Queen ,even told Ozpin about it, but it didn't think our girls would pick up on it…at least partial…so they went with our good ol' friend Oobleck" she chuckled "Remember how much coffee he consumed, yeah he hasn't changed one bit and he kind of dragged them through the ruins with his philosophical questions on why Yang, Blake and Weiss do what they do…except Ruby…I kind of understand why. Besides killing as many Grimm as they could find, they even had to challenge their own inner demons, talk about tough lessons…
"Yang has become reckless. It was something I feared would happen sooner or later. I knew what needed to be done, I even knew what I needed to say, but no matter how I thought about it…I couldn't be there for them. And even when I decided to safe her-" the wind rustled her hair.
"Guess I didn't tell you. After they found the underground base -literally underground believe me- they started their assault on the White Fang. Those guys loaded a train with bombs onto the train cars…even got those damn Atlisean Knights from somewhere…The kids were lucky that Adam wasn't there -since he somehow found his way into Vale- otherwise the situation wouldn't have been so favorable. Heck, when they got onto the train all I could do was exterminate as many Grimm above ground as possible since I didn't want an indigestible amount of Grimm walking through the city-" the ghostly touched gently stroke her shoulder "Don't worry, I was fine. If it meant protecting our girls then I'd gladly die. Even took on a Goliath or two and won!"
A little cloud formed over her head, threatening to let rain fall. It took a few moments to realize that everything around her was brighter then her. A sigh escaped her lips when she saw the little familiar cloud, together with a light chuckle.
"Well long story short, the kids got onto the train and those maniacs actually started to blow up each of their cars after dropping them along the tunnel. Each explosion was large enough to blow up the ceiling and since the WF guys got to much negativity on their side Grimm started to drop in." she paused for a moment looking into the ever distant moon up above the clouds "Even I can't stop that many for too long…although something else distracted me…
"I felt Yang in danger. It was the same damn feeling I had when our little girls went and searched for me. Heck it was even worse since I knew that those guys in the train weren't just going to kill them. Anger clouded me and I ripped through the dimensions right when Yang was nearly stabbed by little Miss Neopolitan. Strawberry and Chocolate girl made a face as if she was about to scream -although she can't since she's mute and all- and immediately tried to get away from me. But the moment I saw Yang laying on the floor unconscious and helpless." heat rose from her body, while she was pretty sure her eyes turned blood red. The wind rustled the leafs all around her while anything that was alive ran for its life into the deepest parts of the forests.
It took a cold shower and snow from the little cloud to cool her down but she didn't mind since she also felt that familiar touch on her lips. When she finally calmed down enough she felt lips on her forehead and a smile gracing hers.
"Anyway, when Neo up and disappeared I got left behind with Yang, little fire dragon slowly woke up but I wasn't ready to see her again. Heck had I looked back into her eyes than I wouldn't be here and instead would embrace my children as tightly as possible…You wouldn't hold that against me, would you?" she asked innocently, not expecting anything as she closed her eyes.
I wouldn't
Her eyes snapped open and she forced herself to look all around her. It had to be a trick. Someone was pulling a prank on her. That couldn't be right and she shouldn't be able to hear her at all. It had to be but there she was, mostly transparent and without a body, it was more exact to say that she was made of a head and two hands cloaked by that familiar white cape.
Mouth opening and closing as if she saw a ghost -in fact she was but that shouldn't be mentioned now- the only thing she was willing to do or say or anything was jump up from her place on the ground into that familiar embrace.
Something changed that day.
It was wonderful.
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A/N: Yeah~ I have no excuse for this one…so please enjoy this jolly ride. Not many chapters to go since this wasn't meant to have this many XD
