RWBY: The Black Swordsman Chapter 9

It had been several days since Ruby made it her mission to follow The Black Swordsman and the young huntress had quickly discovered that hiding from him didn´t work. The first day she had tried to use bushes as a means to hide but she stopped when a throwing knife was tossed in her direction inbedding itself in the ground just infront of her feet. It appeared to the redhead that Guts had accepted the fact that she was following him even so the struggler refused to let her get close to him no matter how hard she tried.

And so the days turned to weeks as they left the kingdom and journeyed into uncharted territory. "Where are we? I don´t know anything about this place. To think I would be out in the wild with an elf instead of becoming a huntress, life sure is funny sometimes. When she thought back on the events that had transpired it was hard to belive that any of it actually happened, it was all to unreal. Every other night she would watch the man battle against spirits and monsters far worse then any Grimm she ever seen, that being said Grimm was also frequent as they seemed drawn to the swordsman, "makes sense with his attitude" she added with a smile.

she kept walking lost in thought until she hit something hard which sent her flying to the ground with a soft thud.

"Aww" she complained as she looked up and her breath got caught in her throat as she saw what she bumped into, it was Guts. The man was towering over her as he looked at her, his face completely devoid of emotions. There was only one thing she could think of she let out a nervous laugh and scrathed the back of her head,

"Hi there, how´s it going" she mentally facepalmed as she uttered those words, "n-never mind" she stuttered as she got up and took a few steeps back.

"Hey if you´re going to follow don´t walk around daydreaming or you will end up dead" he stated and continued marching forward, Ruby however was filled with excitement, "Oh my gosh he didn´t get mad or tell me to leave maybe he´s letting his guard down?" The young huntress nodded and started to walk again following close behind the man.

they continued to walk in silence for a few more hours until the sun was about to set as Guts stopped and placed his bag on the ground and turned to Ruby who looked like she was about to faint from exhaustion,

"hey Red make yourself useful and help gather wood for the fire" he asked as he started to wander off i n search of firewood.

"Y-Yes" came Ruby´s response, she was tired yes but she jumped at the chance to prove her worth to the man, maybe then he would start talking more and become less uptight.

Ruby walked of and looked around for wood she thanked the gods that her father took her and Yang out camping in the forest when they were younger, with that knowledge finding suitable wood for the fire was easy. As she was heading back she saw the last light of the sun hit the surface of Remnant and darkness settled.

She looked at where the camp was and saw that Guts had already made a small fire and was roasting some kind of meat over the fire and Puck lying on the side having buried himself in food that he stole from the man during the day. Guts looked up at Ruby as she sat down next to him and looked at the meat he was grilling, it wasn´t anything spectacular but just the sight made the young girls mouth water. Ruby herself had her own supplies but they consisted of mostly dried fruit and meat, nothing as appetising as this.

Guts noticed that her eyes was fixated on the food and let out a sigh and pointed to a rock, on it there was a bit of meat and an additonal stick. The sight made the redheads eyes water as she fumbled out some words of gratitude and made her way over to the food and started to preapare it as well.

While Ruby was roasting her dinner Guts had prepared to go to sleep for the night or as long as he could before any spirits showed up to attack him again, he swollowed the last chunk of meat and turned to the young girl who was happily eating away without a care in the world,

"You take the first watch, wake me as soon as you see anything got that?" he asked and shut his eye and started to drift of. Ruby just nodded and grabbed Crescent Rose and peered into the shadows that surrounded the campfire but as time went on she started to look at the stars lighting up the night sky, casting their cold light upon the world beneath them as her thought drifted of to her friends, to Jaune, Ren, Nora. She wondered if they made it to Haven yet and if Qrow found them, she thought about Weiss, "must be pretty lonely being stuck in Atlas alone" She wondered where Blake ran off to and in terms of Yang. Ruby still refused to belive that Blake would leave them without a reason, there had to be one they just didn´t know it yet. Don´t worry i´ll make everything right again she whisperd to herself as she waited for morning to come.

Ruby however wasn´t the only one gazing at the stars, from her room in Atlas, Wiess Schnee looked at the sky from her large window as she thought back to her days at Beacon the last time she was truly happy, she missed her school, she missed her teammates, her friends, heck she even missed the dolt waking her up with that damn whistle but now she was alone again.

Weiss let out an annoyed sigh and stormed out of her room, she needed to get out, too help her friends, father couldn´t hold her here against her will.
she was going to leave no matter what but it would be helpfull to do so with her fathers blessing of course it was easily said then done.

As she approached her fathers study she stopped when she heard voice´s, it was her father and he appeared to be speaking General Ironwood.
With her curiosity now peeked she placed her ear to the door to make out what they were saying,

"Jacques listen to me, the white fangs rank has been broken we have a real chance now."

"I don´t care I won´t put all my resources on these servants of this White Hawk end of discussion!"

"No he can change every- We can continue this another day it appeares that we are no longer the only one precent".

Weiss shook her head and knocked on the door all the while one thought swirled in her head,

"Who is this White Hawk?"

Author´s Note

Happy Easter and thanks for reading.