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Well you had two free "bonus eps" time to return to the story line of the RWBY world XD.
Also the reason Noctis may be quiet for most of the first part of this chapter is really simple. He's trying to avoid getting dragged into Team RWBY's shenanigans XD!
Chapter 10: Long Kept Secrets
It had been a couple of days now since Cor had joined the staff at Beacon, the guys would often have Chocobo races during the night before hitting the dream world, that's if they didn't have too much of a busy day. Every night they had their Chocobo races, Team RWBY and even Team JNPR was cheering them on along with Gladiolus secret girlfriend Velvet. The reason for her being his secret girlfriend was due to Velvet not wanting her team leader Coco to find out right away that she was able to encourage Velvet to ask Gladiolus out.
It was currently a Friday afternoon an all classes had finished early today, so Noctis decide to into town on his own for a bite to eat for lunch. As he was walking down the street with Carbuncle on his shoulder again while having his scroll in hand talking to Carbuncle about last night's Chocobo Races.
"Last night sure was fun. Still can't believe even the teachers came out to watch it. Chocobos really are amazing things aren't they buddy?"
"They sure are Noct. They can really bring people together." Carbuncle replied.
"Heh, can you believe Doctor Oobleck, said he might be able to use his knowledge of history to help the Chocobo race return to it's former glory?" Noctis asked.
"Well looks like Yang might get her own Chocobo after all right?"
"I guess so. Still can't believe she beat Prompto first try last night, when Iggy let her ride his one for a few races."
Before Carbuncle could reply using Noctis's scroll, it buzzed with a message from Ignis that said only one thing. "Meet us at Hammerhead Noct. She's ready."
A few minutes later at Hammerhead garage
When Noctis arrived at Hammerhead, he saw not only his 3 friends there but the whole of Team RWBY and JNPR waiting there for him as well, along with Cid and Cindy waiting outside the building.
"There ya are prince. Paw-Paw didn't want to reveal the old girl till ya got here." Cindy said to Noctis, before she went inside, followed by the doors of the garage to open up within the next few seconds, which was followed by a now fully working Regalia, that also had freshly applied Crownsguard Decal to it, which Noctis found rather fitting given the name of his team back at Beacon.
Once the car stopped in front of the group Cindy get out of it as she spoke up. "Here she is! All cleaned and fixed up as if she was brand new!"
Noctis smiled as he walked up to the car and put his hands on the bonnet closing his eyes as a tear went down his cheek saying only one thing as the memories of him and his father flashing in his head. "Dad...I miss you... but I promise... promise that I will no let you down in this era, I know you will always be watching over me from your throne up there in the sky... once again Dad... thanks for everything."
Noctis then felt a hand land on his shoulder and saw it was Ignis who was smiling at him warmly along with the rest of his friends new and old as Ignis spoke up. "I may of already said this Noctis. But your father would be proud of you, and I'm sure he watching over you with pride. Proud of who you've grown into Noctis."
"I couldn't of done it without you guys Iggy... and don't just mean you, Prompto and Gladio. I mean everyone standing here right now." Noctis replied causing Yang and Ruby to go right over to him and give him a warm loving family hug, not saying a single word. After hug ended Ignis spoke up again.
"Now Noctis sadly you won't be able to drive, due to you being the age of fifteen, same with Prompto here, and while Gladio may be the oldest of us, he is not one for being behind the wheel."
Noctis then spoke up before Ignis could finish his line. "Leaving just you to drive Specs, just like old times right?"
"Indeed," Ignis replied to Noctis.
"Hey!" Yang suddenly said. "What about me!? I'm old enough to drive as well or did you forget I have my own motorbike?"
"I did not forgot Yang. I'd just simply prefer if someone who doesn't have a reckless history, drive the car that once belonged to Noctis's father." Ignis replied.
Ruby then spoke up. "He's right Yang. You do kind of... have a reckless driving history due to the amount of times Cindy's had to fix your bike up."
Yang let out annoyed sigh crossing her arms before she replied to what Ruby said. "Ugh! Fine! I'll stick to my bike!"
Cid then spoke up. "And don't ya fellers worry, you can leave the old girl here when you're not using her. Would also give Cindy a chance to see if she can improve the performance of the car."
"Sure. Whatever works out well I guess." Noctis replied.
Weiss then spoke up with an impatient tone. "We done here now? If we don't hurry up we're going to be late!"
"Not yet Weiss." Ignis replied as he went round back to the trunk of the car and opened it up as he spoke up again. "Cindy informed me of something she found stored in the car's trunk. Someone you'd like to see Noctis."
Noctis went over to Ignis, his eyes going into shock the second he saw what was laying in the trunk. It was a sword but no normal sword. It was a sword that once belonged to a king. As Noctis just stared at the sword he heard a voice in his mind speaking. "A king was father to the Chosen One, and nurtured the Light that would shine upon all creation. This was his mighty sword. It makes the great greater." It was none other then the Royal Arm known as Sword of the Father. The weapon that belonged to Noctis's own father.
A few minutes later not far from the docks of the city
The group had split up to go do their own things by now. Noctis, Gladiolus and Prompto was with Team RWBY, while Ignis was taking Regalia out for a test drive to make sure it was in full working order while Carbuncle had just disappeared suddenly like he normally does. As the group followed Weiss they was walking up to a banner that had the words Welcome to Vale! just being put up above the street causing Weiss to speak up.
"The Vytal Festival! Oh this is absolutely wonderful!"
"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss." Ruby replied causing Prompto to speak up agreeing with her.
"Yeah! It's kinda creeping me out, big time."
"What he said." Ruby replied.
Hearing this Weiss turned to face Ruby and Prompto speaking up. "How could you 'not' smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances, parades, a tournament! Oh the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breath taking!" Weiss said as she started to walk forwards as she finished speaking the group following her as Prompto and Yang let out an unamused sigh Prompto speaking first.
"Killjoy much?"
"I know right? She really knows how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." Yang replied agreeing with Prompto.
"Quiet you two." Was all Weiss said to the two only turning her head to glare at them out of the corner of her eyes over her shoulder.
Yang then spoke up as the group came to a stop and looked over the busy docks from where they was standing.
"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks, when we could of been joyriding in my little brother's awesome looking car with Ignis right now?"
Ruby then spoke up pinching her nose while saying something that had nothing to do with Yang's question at all. "Ugh, they smell like fish too."
Yang then spoke up. "Hey speaking of fish, I bet ya they had a bigger fish to fry back in the Eos Era!"
Gladiolus them spoke up. "Oh you wouldn't know the half of it, from giant crabs all up to a massive serpent dragon sea goddess. But at least we still had some normal fish, or else your highness here would of gotten upset about not being able to go fishing."
Noctis just rolled his eyes at Gladiolus comment before replying. "Shut up Gladio. At least I was the one catching our dinner for the night here and there."
Wanting to change the subject Weiss spoke up keeping her back to the group. "I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving today." Weiss then turned around to face the group as she continued to speak. "And as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom." With that said Weiss turned around and started to walk down the pathway again as Blake spoke up.
"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament."
Hearing this caused Weiss to come to another halt and turn to face Blake trying to deny her true reason for dragging them all down to the docks. "Ah! You can't prove that! I mean surely Noctis would of had to done this very thing back in his era!"
"Not really." Noctis replied. "My father kept me away from his royal meetings, wishing for me to focus on my studies or training with Gladio. Even I can tell you're just here to spy on the opposition. This is exactly why Ignis refuses you to teach the skill Libra Weiss. Besides it only shows what your foe is strong to and weak to. Not what attacks they are capable of doing."
Before Weiss could even reply to Noctis Ruby spoke up having noticed something else down the street which caught her attention as she only said one thing.
"Woah."
When the whole group looked at what Ruby saw, they saw a shop down the other head with broken windows, a broken door, and yellow police tape sealing off the area outside the shop as there was police detectives looking over the scene causing Gladiolus to speak up to Prompto as they walked up to the yellow tape.
"If only we wasn't busy with our lessons to lend them a hand."
"Yeah... the boys in blue sure could use it right now big guy." Prompto replied.
Once they was all standing in front of the yellow tape Ruby spoke up to the detective nearest to them who was currently writing something down on his data pad. "What happened here?"
"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle ever since the crooks have realised your two friends there Gladiolus and Prompto haven't been around as often as they used to be. Not that I blame them." The detective the turned around then turned around and started to walk off as he said one more thing mainly for Gladiolus and Prompto to hear. "This place is turning into a jungle without you two around to lend a hand. Would appreciate it, if ya two could find sometime to help us out over the weekend."
Everyone just looked at Prompto and Gladiolus confused as to what the detective was on about as Noctis spoke up. "Care to explain you two?"
Gladiolus was the first one to speak up. "Yeah, when first moved here to Vale, the neighbourhood we had moved into was a hell hole, but me and Prompto wasted no time in sorting out the local menaces that, we earned a good rep with the police force here. So if they ever had a problem too big for them to handle, they'd call me and Prompto up if they needed us to lend them a hand."
"Yeah!" Prompto said his turn to speak up now. "We was wondering how long it'd take for the bad guys to realised we wasn't that active any more. Well it went on for a good couple months right big guy?"
"Yeah. Well I guess we'll see you guys later, come Prompto we better head off to the station and offer to lend a hand for the weekend." Gladiolus said as he walked off down the street.
"Be there in a jiffy big guy! Cya around guys." Prompto said as he ran off to catch up with Gladiolus as they walked out of view down the street as Ruby heard one of the other detectives talking with one she asked her question to not long ago.
"They left all the money again."
"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick o' sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The first detective replied.
"I dunno, ya know what I mean?" The second detective asked back.
The first detective then spoke up as he moved his small gun around in a circle in his hand. "You thinking the uh, White Fang?"
"Ya I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."
Weiss then crossed her arms after hearing. "Hmph. The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates."
Noctis just rolled his eyes wish Ignis was here right now to stop Weiss from going of on another rant as he spoke up before Blake could. "Can't you go an whole day without insult someone Ice Queen?"
Hearing that nickname Weiss just gave Noctis a deadly glare as Blake spoke up to Weiss. "What's your problem?"
Before replying Weiss turned to look at Blake. "My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."
Blake wasn't happy with Weiss's reply everyone being able to tell that by the tone of her voice. "The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided Faunus."
"Misguided!? They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet!" Weiss replied
"So then they're 'very' misguided." Blake said causing Noctis to speak up.
"Weiss, did you forget, that one of my corrupted ancestors tried to do the same thing back in my era, just to try and end my bloodline? But look I'm still here. Lets face it, if The White Fang was to go that far, they'd still have to deal with the Grimm on their own. Besides maybe if PEOPLE like YOU was more caring for the Faunus Race, you wouldn't have this mess in the first place."
Blake spoke up happy for hearing what Noctis just said to Weiss. "He's right, and either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust Shop in the middle of downtown Vale."
"Hmm... Blake's got a point." Ruby said agreeing with Blake. "Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago... maybe it was him."
Noctis then spoke up. "Well if anything, with Gladio and Prompto lending the cops a hand, Torchwick could end up behind bars by the end of this weekend."
Weiss the spoke up not caring at all about what was just said as she crossed her arms. "That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum! Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal!"
Yang then spoke up looking at Weiss with a mix of disgust and shock on her face. "That's not necessarily true and you're lucky Gladio isn't here or else you'd be in for it Weiss."
The whole group then heard a voice coming from behind them shouting "Hey! Stop that Faunus!"
They all turned and quickly made their way back down the road they came to see what all the noise was about. It turned out it was some Faunus with a monkey tail, who had stowed away on the ship, and had only just gotten found it. As they watched the event unfold, the said Faunus ended up running past the group, Noctis noticing this Faunus giving Blake a wink as they passed him causing him to shake his head as only one thing came to his mind. "He's lucky Gladio wasn't here to see that or he'd be kicking that guy's ass right now."
"Well Weiss." Yang said bring Noctis out of his own mind. "You wanted to see the competition... and there it goes."
Weiss was quick to reply to what Yang said. "Quick! We have to observe him!"
With that said the whole of Team RWBY ran off down the road following the monkey Faunus as Noctis stood there watching them with a dumbfounded look on his face as he spoke what was on his mind out loud. "What the hell just happened?"
After a few seconds Noctis snapped out of it and walked forwards the way the girls had just ran off to, which when he round the corner he saw them talking to another girl just about able to hear what was being said.
"My name is Penny. It's a pleasure to meet you." The girl calling herself Penny said to the members of Team RWBY, who started to introduce themselves as Noctis walked over to them.
"Hi Penny. I'm Ruby."
"Weiss."
"Blake."
"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang said earning a quick hard tap to her side from Blake. "Oh! I'm Yang!"
"It's a pleasure to meet you!" The girl called Penny said with a little hop.
"You already said that." Weiss said reminding the girl.
"So I did!" Was all Penny said back as the group started to walk backwards with Weiss speaking up. "Well, sorry for running into you."
Ruby then spoke up waving to Penny before turning her back fully "Take care, friend!"
Noctis then walked up beside the group as Yang spoke up. "She was... weird."
"Now. Where did that Faunus riffraff run off to, and why didn't you chase after him with us Noctis!?" Weiss asked only for the whole group to notice Penny was now suddenly standing in front of them.
"What did you call me?" She asked causing Yang to go into a panic as Weiss with a dumbfound look on her face kept on looking back to where Penny was standing behind them then in front of her back to Penny confused.
"Oh I'm really sorry, I definitely didn't think you heard me."
"No, not you..." Penny said as she moved pass Yang and went right up to Ruby. "You!"
"Me!?" Ruby asked with a squeak in her voice looking at Penny confused. "I-I don't know, I- what I- um, uh- Oh have you met my adopt brother Noctis yet!?"
Penny clearly didn't pay any attention to what Ruby just as she spoke up. "You called me ''friend''. Am I really your friend?"
"Ummmmm..." Was all Ruby said as she looked over to the rest of her team, who was trying to tell Ruby to say no with the use of headshaking and arm waving, well expect from Noctis who was just looking at Blake, Weiss and Yang with another dumbfounded look on his face.
"Ya, sure! Why not?" Ruby said back to Penny clearly not getting the message her 3 team members was trying to get across to her causing her whole team to fall down onto the ground as if their legs just gave out causing Noctis to facepalm as he spoke up. "Where's Prompto with his camera when you need him? He'd so love to get pictures of this."
As the 3 girls was sitting up, Penny was full of joy from what Ruby just said.
"Ahaha! Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!"
As the group of 3 girl was standing up Ruby spoke up to Weiss who was standing up next to her dusting herself off.
"Ohh, is this what it was like when you met me?"
"No, she seems 'far' more coordinated." Weiss replied.
Penny then took notice of Noctis, who she didn't realise was there this whole time. "Salutations! My name is Penny. Do you know my new friend Ruby here?"
"Noctis, but my friends call me Noct. I'm Ruby and Yang's adopted brother. Nice to meet you Penny." Noctis replied to Penny but before another would could be said Yang spoke up.
"Soo, what are you doing in Vale?"
"I'm here to fight in the tournament!" Penny said with an enthusiastic voice.
Weiss crossed her arms leading her head to the said a bit confused. "Wait... you're fighting in the tournament?"
"I'm combat ready!" Penney said giving Weiss a salute.
"Forgive me, but you hardly look the part." Weiss said causing Blake to reply right away with an bit of an hostile tone towards Weiss.
"Says the girl wearing a dress."
"It's a ''combat skirt''." Weiss replied acting so smug as Ruby rushed to her side acting just as smug as Weiss was as Yang whispered to Noctis.
"I swear, she's not had any sweets yet Noct, honest."
Weiss then spoke up realising something as she walked close to Penny.
"Wait a minute. If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know monkey-tailed rapscallion!?"
Penny just gave Weiss an confused look as she spoke up as Noctis was also getting sick of Weiss's words towards the Faunus race. "The who?"
"The filthy Faunus from the boat!" Weiss said causing Blake to snap at her.
"Why do you keep saying that!?"
"Huh?" Was Weiss only reply as she looked over at Blake as started to walk up to Weiss.
"Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!" Blake said back with an anger tone in her voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to stop referring to the trashcan as a trashcan, or this lamppost as a lamppost?" Weiss replied clearly trying to get under Blake's skin.
"Stop it!" Blake shouted clearly now mad with Weiss.
"Stop what?" Was all Weiss replied with as she walked up to Blake. "He clearly broke the law. Give him time, he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang."
Hearing that caused Blake to clench her right hand into a fist as she let of a low angry grow before speaking. "You ignorant little brat!"
Blake then turned around walking away from the group as Noctis looked at Weiss with a frown as he spoke up. "I'm sure Iggy would love to hear about this Weiss. He won't be happy at all. But I won't tell if you go over and say sorry to her right now!"
"Me say sorry!? I've not done anything wrong, and how dare she talk to me like that! I am her teammate!" Weiss replied as she went to follow Blake clearly not done arguing with her just yet.
"You are a judgemental little girl! Even Ignis is more respectful of others feelings than you are!" Blake said as she stopped and turned to face Weiss as Yang quickly moved to Ruby's side.
"Uhh, I think we should probably go, say maybe find Ignis so he can sort Weiss out?" Yang asked both Ruby and Noctis.
Later that night back at Beacon.
Noctis and Ignis was walking down the hallway, it being just them tonight since Prompto and Gladiolus out in the town working the police force to try and catch this Dust Shop robber before the weekend was over. Noctis had just recently informed Ignis of Weiss's actions today down at the docks, which is why they was on their way to Team RWBY's dorm room. Noctis had just gotten off his scroll after informing Prompto of what was happening, and was told to not tell Gladiolus about what Weiss had said.
"Well Prompto's all caught up with our Weiss problem. He's said he won't breath a word of this to Gladio." Noctis said after he had put his scroll away.
"Yes, that is a very wise decision indeed. We don't want another repeat of what happened between Gladio and Cardin. But I shall be sure to have a long strong worded talk with Weiss in the morning, but for now lets see if things have calmed down between the two girls shall we? I need to ask, can you think of any other trigger word that could of set Blake off?"
Noctis took a second to think back to what was said at the docks today with one other thing he kept hearing that popped up between Weiss and Blake's bitching at each other. "Well the words White Fang come to mind. Wait you don't think Gladio, Blake and Prompto didn't tell us the full story do you?"
"Hmm... well if she has that kind of past with the White Fang, it is understandable that she'd wish for us to not know Noct." Ignis replied.
"Yeah, also how often does Weiss try to avoid having the blame for stuff pinned on her? I even told her to go say sorry to Blake for what she said, but she fully avoided what I said by trying to make it sound like it wasn't her fault." Noctis said earning a nod from Ignis.
"Yes... sadly Weiss does have a habit of trying to pin the blame on others when it is her own fault."
As the two boys neared Team RWBY's room they could hear the voices of Weiss and Blake just able to make out what Weiss's muffled voice was saying.
"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!"
Noctis went to go knock on the door when Ignis put his hand on Noctis's shoulder. "I'll wait outside, if she sees me walk in, she may act differently till I leave. I want to be able to hear what she is really means."
"Noted" Noctis said as he knocked on the door while Ignis leaned up the wall next to the door of room arms crossed.
When the door opened both Noctis and Ignis could hear what Blake was saying while Ruby was saying hi to both Noctis and Ignis.
"That 'is' the problem!" Blake shouted back at Weiss as Noctis walked informing Ruby and Yang, of why Ignis was waiting outside instead of coming in.
"They still at each other's throat's huh?" Noctis asked his two foster sisters who nodded as Weiss spoke up to Blake again as she stood up and walked over to Blake.
"You realize you're defending an organization that hates humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"
Blake stood up having be wounded by Weiss's words. "Pure evil!? That Ardyn ancestor of Noct's is the definition of pure evil! Why do you think they hate humanity so much!? It's because of people like Cardin, people like 'you' that force the White Fang to take such drastic measure!"
"People like me!? And don't go dragging Noctis into this!" Weiss yelled back.
"Why not!? You've been comparing yourself to him all day! When he is nothing like you! You're discriminatory! Noctis isn't!" Blake replied fully aware of the fact, Noctis was in the room.
Noctis only remained silent as he shook his head as Weiss spoke up trying to make it look like she has still not don't anything wrong.
"I'm a victim!" Weiss said causing silent between the two for a few seconds only for Weiss to speak up again. "You want to know 'why' I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Fauns?" Weiss then went over to open window and looked out of it as she continued to speak.
"It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War. As in actual bloodshed. My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember and ever since I was a child, I've watched my family friends disappear, board members executed, an entire train car of Dust... stolen."
Weiss then took a pause from speaking to catch her breath as Yang whispered to Noctis and Ruby. "I guess that explains why she's so protective of Iggy."
Both Noctis and Ruby nodded agreeing with Yang as Weiss spoke up again.
"And ever day, my father would come home furious, and that made for a very difficult childhood. Not even Ignis was able to lessen that pain."
Ruby then walked up to Weiss moving to put her hand on Weiss's shoulder. "Weiss, I..."
"No!" Weiss said causing Ruby to pull her hand back and watch Weiss walk back over to Blake who was now looking her in the face while she hand her arms behind her back hands together. "You want to know why despise the White Fang!? It's because they're a bunch of liars! Thieves! And MURDERERS!"
Hearing this had really gotten to Blake who snapped at Weiss yelling at her without thinking of what she was about to say. "Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!"
Everyone in the room just looked at Blake in shock as Weiss took a step backwards moving away from Blake who looked at everyone with a worried look on her face. "I..." Without another word Blake just rushed out of the room not noticing Ignis who was still leaning up the wall having heard the full thing as Ruby raised her voice calling to Blake. "Blake! Wait! Come back!"
Ruby just stood there looking at the door while Yang, who was now sitting down turned her head to look at Weiss as Noctis spoke up. "Looks like you was right Ignis, oh speaking of which."
Noctis then tapped on the wall near the doorway, which caused everyone in the room to hear a very angry voice come from the hallway, one that made Weiss freeze with fear.
"WEISS!"
After hearing Weiss's name being yelled Team JNPR all poked their heads out of their dorm room's door to see Ignis standing in the doorway of Team RWBY's dorm.
"Me and you are going to have a nice long strong worded talk in the morning young lady! I am very unhappy with what I've heard about you today!"
Two days later Sunday morning, Vale
Noctis, Ignis, Ruby, Yang and Weiss was walking down one of the many streets of Vale, their current topic being about a certain missing member of Team RWBY. Ruby was the one currently talking, clearly worried about Blake.
"She's been gone all weekend."
Weiss spoke up replying to Ruby, her voice having a not caring tone to it. "Blake's a big girl, I'm sure she can handle herself."
"Weiss, come on. She's one of our teammates." Yang said worried for Blake as well.
"Is she? We all heard what she said." Weiss replied causing both Ignis and Ruby to speak up at the same time, Ignis's tone being more harsher then Ruby's tone.
"Weiss!"
Yang then spoke up trying to convince Weiss to stop being so stubborn about Blake. "Maybe she is, maybe she isn't. Either way, she's missing and we need to find her."
Weiss spoke up showing she clearly wasn't listening to what Yang just said. "A member of the White Fang! Right underneath our noses!"
Ruby then spoke up looking down at the ground trying to not pay any more attention to Weiss. "I just hope she's okay."
Noctis put his hand on Ruby's shoulder causing her to look up at him as he gave her a warm smile. "Don't worry, we'll find her Ruby, if we don't Gladio's gonna kick my ass."
Ruby gave Noctis a weak smile as Ignis tapped Noctis on the shoulder after having just put his scroll away. "I just got word from Prompto, that he and Gladio are going to be following up a lead tonight that should allow them to put this Dust shop robbery case behind bars. So I suggest we get looking for our missing friend right now."
Noctis nodded. "Noted. Ignis, you go get the Regalia and drive around town to see if you can find her."
"And what about you Noct?" Ignis asked.
"I'll search by the rooftops. Since I'm the only one of us who can easily travel from roof to roof without attracting much attention." Noctis replied.
Ruby then spoke up. "And we'll search on foot! That way we can check all the alleyways and shops for Blake!"
Noctis nodded at what Ruby said before speaking up. "And remember everyone, if you see Gladio and Prompto go the other way before they see you. The last thing we need right now is Gladio to find out what happened between Blake and Weiss."
A few hours later
Noctis was moving quickly from rooftop to rooftop thanks to his warping ability, using his daggers as his means of transport, due to how light and small they was making them hard to see while also being easy to make long throws with. He yet to seen any sign of Blake, only stopping from warping to another rooftop as he stood at the end of one building leaning forwards on his knee as he got his Scroll out and called Ignis. "Hey Ignis? Any sign of her yet?"
"I'm afraid not Noct. It would seem our friend is very skilled in the hiding arts. Have you heard anything from the others yet?" Ignis's voice asked over the Scroll.
Noctis then heard the sound of Ruby and Yang's below him, and looked down at the trio of Weiss, Ruby and Yang, having stopped under him being able to hear what was being said by Ruby.
"Weiss! You're not helping!"
"Oh! You know who might be able to help!? The police!" Weiss replied earning her an annoyed sigh from Ruby.
"Ugh, Weiss..."
"It was just an idea!" Weiss replied to Ruby before he group got moving again as Ruby spoke up.
"Yeah a bad one."
Noctis then heard Ignis's voice over his scroll again. "Noct?"
"Not yet, I'm just passing over top of them. Seems Weiss isn't being much help Iggy." Noctis replied.
Noctis heard Ignis sigh followed by his voice. "Noctis, please do make sure to remind Weiss, that she caused this mess in the first place."
With that said the line went dead, causing Noctis to put his Scroll away and make a single dagger appear in his hand and drop it over the edge as her heard Yang's voice.
"Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to conclusions."
"I think when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right!" Weiss said followed by her raising her voice in an angry tone. "Hey! Watch it where you drop your things Noctis! That dagger almost landed on me!"
Noctis had to try his hardest to not grin as he warped to the dagger in front of Weiss, and then made the dagger in his hand disappear as he spoke up to her. "Well I think you should start being more helpful and not come up with dumb ideas like you did just now."
As the group of 5 started to walk forwards they all heard a familiar voice speak up behind them.
"And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!"
The whole group turned around with shocked looks on their face as they saw Penny was behind them causing Ruby to overreact a bit.
"Agh! Penny! Where did you come from!?"
"Hey guys. What are you up to?" Penny asked the group, not even fazed by Ruby's reaction just now.
Ruby wasn't sure what to say mostly due to the shock Penny caused her, causing Yang to speak up instead.
"We're looking for our friend Blake. It's kinda really important we find her or one of her adopted brothers might get very angry with a certain one of us come the end of tonight."
"Oooh! You mean the Faunus girl!" Penny said causing confusion on the faces of Ruby, Yang, and Weiss but not Noctis since he already knew Blake was a Faunus. After a second of silence Ruby spoke up with a confused tone.
"Wait. How did you know that?"
"Uh..." Penny the went to point to the top of her head as she spoke. "The cat ears? Surely you guys already knew right or was Noctis the only one who already knew?"
The whole group looked at Noctis as Yang said what was on her mind out load. "What cat ears? She wears a... bow... wait did you already know this Noct?"
Noctis shrugged before speaking up. "Sorry, I can't answer that or I'll just give Gladio another reason to kick my ass."
Ruby then spoke up whispering to Yang. "She does like tune a lot."
Penny the spoke up drawing all attention on Noctis back to her. "So, where is she?"
"We don't know. She's been missing since Friday." Ruby replied as Ignis pulled up on the side of road next to them in the Regalia, as Penny ran up to Ruby after letting out a gasp speaking up while Noctis went over to Ignis.
"That's terrible! Well don't you worry Ruby, my friend! I won't rest until we find your teammate!"
Ruby just looked at Penny struggling to find her words, almost as if she didn't want to drag Penny into this. "Uh, that's really nice of you Penny, uh, but we're-we're okay. Really. Right guys?"
As Ruby said the last part she looked over Penny's shoulder to find Yang and Weiss had suddenly disappeared from view, while Noctis and Ignis had remained causing Ignis to facepalm at Weiss' actions, followed by a sigh as he spoke up. "That girl. Surely if I could become friends with such people as you, Gladio and Prompto, she has no reason to not attempt to make friends with Miss Penny here."
Hearing her name be said causing Penny to turn to face Ignis as she spoke to him. "Salutations! My name is Penny! Do you know my two friends Ruby and Noctis?"
Ignis gave Penny a smile as he took a sip from a can of drink that had the name Ebony Coffee on it, which at first was much a surprise to Noctis, Gladiolus and Prompto, that it was still around in this era.
"Yes I do. I am one of Noct's fellow teammates Ignis Scientia. It is a pleasure to meet you Penny."
Before Penny could reply Noctis spoke up to Ignis.
"I still can't believe you was able to find that stuff here Iggy. I may of asked before but is Ebony really all that good?"
"I may of answered this before but, yes it is. Just stopped to inform you, that I've received another call from Prompto. He said he saw Blake walking with some monkey tail Faunus somewhere in the downtown district not long ago. So I suggest you all head there while I go find Yang and Weiss, and bring them with me to meet you in the downtown district."
"Thanks for the heads up Iggy. We'll meet you there." Noctis said followed by Ignis driving off down the street to go find the now missing Yang and Weiss as Noctis turned to face Ruby and Penny. "Well ya heard him. Time to make tracks guys."
Few hours later
Ignis was waiting outside a store keeping Regalia's engine running waiting for Weiss and Yang to come out of the store they went into. When he saw them coming to he heard Yang speaking.
"Thanks anyway!" Once the door had closed Yang looked over at Weiss who was keeping her back to Yang as Yang spoke up after letting out a scoff of annoyance. "This is hopeless!"
Ignis remained quiet as the two girls walked up to him wanting to see how things would play out before voicing his own view. As the girls was getting into the back of the Regalia Yang spoke up at Weiss who was still refusing to look at her.
"You really don't care if we find her, do you?"
Weiss quickly spoke up as both girls was halfway with putting their seatbelts on. "Don't be stupid. Of course I do. I'm just afraid of what she'll say when we find her. The innocent never run, Yang."
Ignis then spoke up as he pressed down on the accelerator lightly to make Regalia move forwards slowly. "But sometimes the misjudged do Weiss. Let me ask you this, say you was being blamed for a crime you didn't do. You have two choices, end up locked away or run... run and find a way to prove your innocent, which choice would you pick?"
"Oh that's easy!" Weiss said right away. "I'd run and try to prove my... innocent..." Weiss finished saying realising what Ignis was getting at as Yang spoke up.
"Just like Blake could be right now. For all we know, she could of left the White Fang, after seeing other members commit those horrible deeds, instead of committing them herself. That's what we've all been trying to say to you all weekend. She could be trying to distant herself from that part of her life."
Ignis then spoke up in agreement. "Indeed Yang. Mistreatment of the Faunus race caused the White Fang. I'm sure it was nothing but rallies and whatnot at first. But someone with a deep hate for Human kind must of snapped. All it took was one act of violence, to bring the White Fang to where it is today. While they may be respected, that is out of fear."
Yang smiled as she spoke up. "He's right Weiss. Our kind is just jerks to the Faunus. When me, Rubes, and Noct was younger, we used to have some good friends who was Faunus. But in the end the hate because too much for their families, that they had to move away for their own safety. Hell, Noct even took on a group of bullies on his own once, all because they was picking on this Faunus who was younger then they was."
Meanwhile with Ruby, Penny, and Noctis
Noctis, Penny and Ruby was walking down one of the many streets of Downtown Vale. Noctis had just finished explain to Penny how his 'Semblance' worked, since Penny was very interested in Noctis's royal powers.
"Wow! That is amazing! Not only can you use different weapons at will, but you can teleport to their location!? That is a very useful Semblance." Penny said her voice full of amazement.
"Warp, not teleport." Noctis corrected Penny. "And yeah, sure is useful, but it did take a lot of training to learn how to use different weapons. But in the end it was worth all the trouble, as I can be unpredictable in a fight. I could start attacking with my Engine Blade, then land my next hit with a Great Sword and so on."
"I'd sure hate to go up against you in the tournament." Penny replied to Noctis, then she spoke up changing the subject. "So. Blake is your friend?" She asked both of them.
Hearing this caused Ruby to let out an annoyed sign before replying to her. "Yes Penny."
"But you're both mad at her?" Penny asked Ruby.
"Yes." Ruby replied, only to realise what she just said a second later. "W-Well, we're not, Weiss is."
"Is 'she' friends with Blake?" Penny asked.
"Well that's kind of up in the air right now." Ruby replied as she looked over at Noctis her eyes calling to him for help as Penny spoke up again.
"But, why?"
Ruby let out another sigh before replying to Penny, clearly seeing that Noctis was leaving her to this torture known as Penny's endless questions. "Well you see, Blake might not be who we thought she was."
With Gladiolus and Prompto at the docks
Gladiolus and Prompto was currently standing on top of a building overlooking the docks as the sun was now setting for the day. Prompto currently had Hybrid in her sniper mode and was looking down her scope over at the docks since the lead they was following had tipped them off about a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas, which Prompto and Gladiolus didn't even need Ignis with them, to realises that who ever was behind the Dust shop robberies wouldn't be able to pass up a score as big as an couple of Schnee Company freighters.
"Anything yet Prompto?" Gladiolus asked Prompto.
"Nothing yet big guy." Prompto replied as he keep his eye glued down Hybrid's scope. "Man, it's been a long since we've last done a stack out like this right? Wanna go over the plan one last time?"
"Lets." Gladiolus replied. "When the crook shows up, I'll sneak down there and try my best to remain hidden as I make my way to him, while you keep me notified of any thugs. If I get see and the others are alerted to my present, you'll provide me some cover fire while I fight my way to the guy behind all this."
"Yep, but this time I'll be able to do a better join." Prompto replied as he held his right wrist up to show some kind of gadget on is right wrist. "I've worked out the kinks on this baby here, so this time my grappling hook shouldn't cut out on me, and I know stun rounds. Don't worry I packed plenty of low voltage Electric Dust Rounds. One shot will stun them, but a headshot will knock them out for awhile."
"And what if Bullheads turn up this time?" Gladiolus asked Prompto.
"Way ahead of ya pal, brought some high powered Electric Dust Rounds, if I place the shot right, they should cut the power to the Bullheads causing them to slowly fall towards the ground safely." Prompto replied back, followed by him letting out a gasp as he saw Blake with the same monkey tailed Faunus from earlier today causing him to mumble to himself.
"Darn, what's she doing here with him? Crap this going to make things hard for me and Gladio, and I can't inform the guys while Gladio is with me."
"What was that Prompto?" Gladiolus asked not fully hearing what Prompto said.
"Oh umm... I was just thinking out load, about if we should give Iggy and Noct a call, ya know for backup." Prompto said quickly trying to give himself a reason to call Noctis or Iggy on their Scrolls.
"Hmm... yeah best let them know, no telling how hairy things well get." Gladiolus replied agreeing with Prompto, as they both saw a Bullhead arrive down at the docks dropping people off, which one Prompto looked down Hybrid's scope, he saw them all dressed up in White Fang clothing expect for this one guy who was a human Prompto and Gladiolus has had encounters with in the past. "Dude! It's the White Fang and I think their working with Torchwick!"
"Torchwick!? I knew he'd be involved in this somehow but the White Fang? That makes no sense, but now's not the time for those kind of questions. I'm gonna make my way down there, you give Noct and Iggy a call, we're gonna need them." Gladiolus said as he jumped of the building making his shield appear, and started to use it as a skateboard to soften the blow from the fall as Prompto got his Scroll out and started to call Noctis's one. "Come on man, pick up!"
Back with Noctis, Ruby and Penny.
Noctis had just picked his Scroll but before he could even say a word the group heard an explosion, followed by black smoke coming from the docks not far from them as he heard Prompto's voice over his Scroll.
"Noct!? You there bud! It's Blake she's!"
Noctis then spoke up cutting Prompto off from finishing his sentence. "Already alerted to it bud, heard the explosion from where I'm standing and can even see the smoke. Been there as fast as I can."
Noctis then ended his call with Prompto and put his Scroll away as he turned to Ruby and Penny as he summoned up a pair of dual daggers to his hands. "We gotta hurry!"
By the time they got to the docks, they all saw the criminal known as Roman Torchwick holding his gun cane up to a monkey Faunus who was slightly sitting up on the floor in front of him, Noctis and Ruby recognizing him as the Faunus they saw on Friday afternoon. As they all stood on the roof Ruby shouted up catching Roman's attention while Noctis quickly jumped off the roof before he was seen by Roman.
"Hey!" Ruby shouted to Roman causing him to reply to her.
"Oh, hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?"
As Noctis was quickly making his way through the docks unseen he started to hear this Roman guy letting out an evil laugh after he saw Roman had fired and hit Ruby with a shot from his gun cane when Ruby wasn't paying attention causing a bit of rage to build up inside Noctis as he throw both daggers at Roman who turned around just in time to see them about to hit him, when instead Noctis warped to his pair of daggers coming out of a drop kick which landed right in Roman's face knocking him back as Noctis quickly stood up his dual daggers disappearing from his hands.
White Fang members then started to surround him as Roman began taunting Noctis as he was rubbing his jaw after gaining his balance as Noctis saw more White Fang members rushing towards Penny. "Son of a! Neat trick you got there Black. But I'm afraid that won't be good enough to stop me!"
Roman then looked at the group of White Fang members who had formed a ring around Noctis. Along with a few armed Bullheads as well. "Well? What are you waiting for? Get him!"
As the White Fang members rushed to attack Noctis he let out a roar of anger as there was a quick flash of blue light, which died down pretty fast, and everyone around Noctis was looking at him, sharing looks between each other as Ignis arrived with Weiss and Yang, to see what everyone else was looking at. Noctis was standing there with his three currently reacquired Royal Arms, Sword of The Wise, Axe of The Conquer, and Sword of The Father floating around him in their crystallized forms, as there was blue flames coming off Noctis's body causing Ignis to speak up.
"Well, well. It would seem you girls are about to see one of Noctis's most powerful abilities yet. The Armiger Arsenal. Instead of me explaining, why not see for yourselves?"
As everyone expect for the White Fang members around Noctis watched what happened, they was left gob smacked, as they saw Noctis warping to each single White Fang member near him, attacking with unbelievable speed, using a different Royal Arm each time he attacked, warping with each attack as well, even going as far as to take out the armed Bullheads that wasn't even able to hit him as Yang spoke up amazed by this show of power.
"Woah! That's just-just! I didn't even think my little adopted brother could be such a powerhouse!"
"Yes but sadly..." Ignis started but stopped as he noticed a group of White Fang members sneaking up behind them, causing Ignis to make his lance appear in his hand and do a 180 spin hitting all the White Fang members sending them flying into each other followed by them landing on the ground knocked out as he continued to speak as his lance disappeared from his hands. "Noctis can only maintain The Armiger Arsenal for a short time, to simply put it, it's a short burst of speed and power that Noctis can build up to by generating energy from his attacks during battle, the said energy remains stored between battles. Once he has acquired enough energy, he can activate Armiger Arsenal. The more Royal Arms Noctis has, the more stronger this ability becomes."
Ignis then turned around to look back at Noctis who's Armiger Arsenal ability had just cancel out on him as more White Fang members went to form a ring around him, only for Prompto to jump down from the sky landing next to Noctis both of them back to back as he asked one thing. "Yo Noct!? Trigger Happy Time?"
"Trigger Happy Time." Noctis replied as he got down to the ground as Prompto made two revolvers appear in his hands and started to fire both guns at the White Fang members around him as he let out a cheerful laugh. Which soon turned to panic as more armed Bullheads could be seen coming in from the skies, only to have most of them blasted out of the sky by a green energy beam which when Prompto and Noctis looked at where it came from, they saw it was caused by the girl Noctis knew as Penny.
They then saw one of the unarmed Bullheads trying to make off with some of the Dust only for Penny's blades to get stuck in the side of it followed by wires going from the blades to Penny's hands as she started to walk backwards pulling the Bullhead towards the ground.
As it was nearing the ground, they saw something that really put a shocked look on the faces of Noctis, Prompto and Ignis. They saw Gladiolus, had someone lifted up one of the Schnee Dust metal containers with his bear hands and threw without no effort at all at the Bullhead causing to spin out and crash into a group of stacked up containers causing an explosion.
Prompto quickly tapped Noctis on the shoulder whispering. "Psst... looks like someone else on our team has their Aura now. Still wanna bet he can't throw a Deathstalker now?"
A couple minutes later once the police had arrived
The whole gang expect from Prompto, Gladiolus, Weiss, Yang and Ignis was sitting on some boxes near a police car. Noctis had learnt that the monkey Faunus's name was Sun Wukong, who was indeed here for the tournament. When the group saw Weiss, Yang, Prompto, Gladiolus and Ignis walking up to them, Ruby quickly stood up to talk to Weiss. Look Weiss, it's not what you think! She explained the whole thing, you see she doesn't actually wear a bow she has kitty ears and their actually kinda cute."
Being the person Weiss is she didn't pay any attention to Ruby as she walked right up to Blake, causing silence to fill the air between the two till Blake spoke up.
"Weiss. I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with-"
"Stop." Weiss said cutting Blake off. "Do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you?"
Blake just blinked as she stared back at Weiss, no sure what to say as Weiss spoke up again.
"Twelve Hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelves hours I've decided..." Everyone just looked at each other not sure what to say as Weiss went quiet once more, only speaking up when all ears was looking back at her and Blake.
"I don't care!"
Blake gave Weiss a somewhat surprised look as she leaned back a bit before replying. "You don't care?"
"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?"
Blake then spoke up quickly. "No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-"
Weiss quickly put her hand up in front of her face cutting Blake off once more. "Upupupupup! I don't wanna hear it! All I want to know, is that next time something this big comes up... you come to your teammates, and not some... someone else."
Blake looked at Ruby and Yang who smiling at her, causing Blake to wipe a tear away from her eye as she replied to Weiss. "Of course."
Ruby then shouted up as she fist pumped the air with both her first. "Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!"
Blake then went over to Gladiolus while bring an neckless out of her pocket which made the eyes of Prompto, Noctis and Ignis fill with shock as they saw it was the very same neckless that Iris used to own.
"Gladio?" Blake spoke up as Gladiolus turned to face her. "Here, I believe this belongs to you. I'm sorry for not telling you, just mother used to wear this all time and you didn't seem to take notice of it."
Gladiolus remained silent for a few seconds as he took the neckless from Blake's hand and looked down at it. "You know what Blake?" Gladiolus said as he placed the neckless in Blake's palm and closed her hand up. "You keep it. It was passed on from Iris to your mother, who passed it onto you. Just promise me you'll keep it safe okay?"
Blake rolled her eyes as she grinned playfully at Gladiolus. "Yes, Great Uncle Gladdy."
"Hey!" Gladiolus shouted out. "I'd rather keep the adopted brother title Blake."
Prompto then spoke up. "Woah woah! Wait you mean she's your!? And our adopted mother is your!?" The top half of Prompto's body just fell forwards his mind having conked out on him. "Man, just how old is Cor?"
Sun was able to raise his voice to ask what the hell was going only for Weiss to turn to him pointing her finger at him. "I'm still not quite sure how I feel about you!"
Hearing this caused Sun to let out a nervous laugh, completely forgetting about what he was just about to ask the group as Noctis spoke up to Gladiolus. "So got ya Aura now big guy?"
Gladiolus nodded before speaking up. "Yep, think I already know what my Semblance is as well, the anger I get, the more strength I can get allowing me to throw things much more heavier than me."
Noctis crossed his arms grinning. "Sounds kinda like Yang's Semblance in a way, right Yang?"
"Yeah, it sure does Noct." Yang replied as Ruby spoke up right afterwards.
"Hey, wait a minute. Where's Penny?"
The whole group shrugged as Noctis spoke up. "But ya know Gladio? Unlike Yang you're able to think straight while full of anger."
"Hey! That's not true!" Yang shouted in reply to what Noctis just said causing the group to share a laugh.
At Beacon
Ozpin looked up from his data pad after having just looked at the message he received from Qrow. "Hmm..."
He then heard Cor's voice speaking up behind him. "Take it you just saw his message Ozpin?"
"Yes Cor, yes I have. It seems things are able to get a lot more harder then already are. I trust I don't need to remind you how important, is has become now to locate the Royal Tombs?" Ozpin asked Cor.
"Yes I understand fully. With the information I've sent out to the hunting parties. We should find a few within the next week. But I must ask perhaps it is time you took Noctis to... her one?" Cor suggested.
Ozpin didn't reply until he started to turn around to face Cor. "Only if you believe he is ready to see it. I don't want to cause any unnecessary emotional problems to our young friend's mind."
"I believe he is ready to see her one. You're family has guarded the Trident of the Oracle for many years now. Noctis may not look it but he still mourns for her death. For the death of your ancestor. I will not question how her bloodline was able to survive this long, when your only two known ancestors died. But as their ancestor it is time you showed him her resting place... Ozpin Nox Fleuret. You're hand has been forced, it's time to play one of the cards you've been dealt Ozpin."
Ozpin let out a sigh not saying a thing. He knew Cor was right, he knew he had to reveal the truth to young Noctis, even if he didn't believe he was ready yet. But just in cause it was too much for young Noctis to handle, Ozpin's mind had already gone to work, on forming a just incase plan.
Later that night at Beacon
Everyone had turned in for the night, yet Noctis found himself unable to sleep and was making his way down to where his and the guys Chocobos was being kept at Beacon having left his jacket in his dorm room. When he got to where the Chocobos was hidden he found Ruby was there. She was currently feeding the Black one that belonged to Noctis, which Noctis had decided to name Merle. Noctis slowly walked up to his foster sister as he called out to her. "Couldn't sleep huh?"
Ruby quickly turned around to smile at Noctis before replying to him. "Yeah... had such a busy day, yet I can't sleep. I'm just glad to have Blake back with us, and I'm happy that Gladio was able to find out who his sister's relatives are."
"You're not the only one Rubes." Noctis said as he stopped next to Ruby and reached his hand out to stroke Merle's beak as Ruby spoke up a few second later with a mix of worry and sadness in her voice.
"Noctis? What I saw today... that power of yours I saw today... it's not going to kill you right?"
"Nah." Noctis replied with a smile. "The Crystal is no more, just like the Ring that belonged to my family. As far as I can see it. I'm free of my role as The Chosen King, but never the less if I wish to grown in strength, I need to regain The Royal Arms... there's just one I'm not looking forwards to reacquiring..." Noctis finished with looking away from Ruby to try and hide the painful look on his face.
"Why's that?" Ruby asked with curiosity since they was now on the subject of weapons.
Noctis didn't say a word as he walked away from Ruby and made his way to the school grounds, only for Ruby to follow him. Both of them sitting down on one of the school benches as Noctis let out a sigh. "This... this is something me and the guys left out when we told you lot about our adventure... it's do with the girl called Luna..."
"Oh yeah, you never said what happened to her after you fought that sea goddesses." Ruby said with an even more curious tone.
"That's because... because she died Ruby. Before my very eyes... she used the last of her power to give me a fighting chance against Leviathan..." Noctis said it not taking long for tears to go down his cheeks causing Ruby to hug him as she tried her best to comfort him.
"I-I... I'm sorry Noctis... as you know I lost my mother when I was young... but I don't think my pain can even match the pain you must of felt..."
Before Noctis could even reply both him and Ruby heard Ozpin's voice. "Ahh there you two are. I'm sorry if this is not a good time but I feel there is something you must see Noctis, you may come too if you wish Miss Rose."
Somewhere underneath Beacon
After taking a few minutes to straighten himself out, he and Ruby followed Ozpin, who took them to a hidden cave under Beacon, which was hidden in sight this whole time with the help of a holographic wall. The trio remained slightly for the most part till Ozpin stopped the group and spoke up.
"Noctis, there is something you should know. What you are about see... I did not believe you was ready to see just yet, but of late certain events have forced me to... play this card early..."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Noctis asked only for Ozpin to not reply as he took the group deeper into the cave, towards a light at the other end. A light that was shining down on a very well kept tomb, that looked almost like one of Noctis's family Royal Tombs. Once the group had stopped outside Ozpin spoke up.
"Before you open this you should know that in here lies the Trident of the Oracle. The weapon that once belonged to my ancestor. One you was to be married to Noctis..."
Hearing this words caused a look of pure shock to form on Noctis's face as he feel to the ground on his knees, while a memory he had all but almost forgotten rushed to his mind. One he had tried for so long to not think about it. The memory of the day Luna died, her last works echoing in his mind. "L-Luna..." Was all Noctis could say as tears started to flow down his cheeks, causing Ruby to hug her foster brother tightly, while Ozpin looked away as he spoke up again.
"I'm sorry, that I have to show you this Noctis. Trust me, I was stalling for as long as I could, for the day you'd be ready to face this, but as I had just said, I was forced to play one of the cards I've been dealt. Just like you was force to don your family ring."
Noctis had heard every word Ozpin just said yet didn't reply as he kept on crying, only saying Luna's name repealed, which even for Noctis was a struggle to say. He had never been able to truly get over Luna's death. He knew Ozpin was right. He was forced to get over her death just enough to don his family ring when his powers was sealed. He was forced to become the king, to do his role as The Chosen One.
Ozpin then spoke up again as he walked pass Noctis and Ruby. "I'm sorry it has to be this way Noctis. I truly am." With those words said Ozpin made his leave, leaving Ruby alone with Noctis, the young red hooded Huntresses in training unsure of what to say to her foster brother. It hurt her to see him like this, but what hurt her even more was the fact she was powerless to help her crying foster brother.
"Noct... I-I..." Ruby started only to stop when she noticed a bright light in front of her and looked up to see a girl the same age as her and Noctis standing in front of them, with a white glow coming from her long blond hair, white long dress and skin. Ruby was able to speak up but the girl put a finger to her own lips and Ruby's lips to stop her from talking and just watched this girl who suddenly appeared from nowhere place a hand on Noctis's cheek causing Noctis to open his eyes making him say one word. "L-Luna?"
The teen girl Noctis called Luna just smiled warmly at Noctis and then walked away from the two down a different path causing Noctis to break free from Ruby's hold and run after this teen girl as he spoke up pain in his voice. "Luna! Wait!"
Ruby quickly got up calling for Noctis to stop, who didn't listen to her leaving her no choice but to follow Noctis who was following the girl he called Luna. When she found them, she saw Noctis standing in front of the girl who was standing in front of the edge what seemed to be another way into this cave under Beacon. As Ruby got closer she saw the girl was no longer the same age as her and Noctis but instead an grown adult now her dress having turned bigger, while her blond hair went from long to short, yet the white glow around her body remained. As Ruby walked up to Noctis she heard this strange girl speak, her voice sounding very angelica.
"Noctis, oh how I missed you. It is nice to see your face again after all this time. But I'm afraid this may be the last time we will ever meet."
Noctis took a step forwards as he spoke up. "L-Luna? But how y-you died!?"
"Please Noctis, my time is short. I can not remain in this world for much longer. I know you miss me, as I miss you, but remember I am always with you. So I ask you, please don't remain in the past, you have a new life. Full of friends who love you for who you are. All I ask is that you make the right choices in life, and find someone to spend your life with." Luna said as she turned to smile at Ruby, then turned her head back to Noctis. "Goodbye my love." Was the last words to leave the lips of Luna as she slowly faded out of view as Noctis fell to his knees again as tears flowed from his cheeks once more.
Ruby just hugged her foster brother not saying a word as the only sound to fill the air was the sound of cries coming from Noctis. After a few minutes had passed Noctis had calmed down leaving Noctis and Ruby void of all sound, till Ruby spoke up.
"Noct... Noctis are you going to be okay?"
Noctis opened his eyes to look at Ruby who was smiling warmly at him, yet behind her he could see a 15 years old Luna smiling down at him warmly as well, only for this version of Luna to be gone after he blinked before replying to Ruby. "Y-Yeah... I just... I just never got to..."
Noctis wasn't able to finish what he was saying as Ruby put her finger on his lips shhing him and they started to make their way back to Luna's Royal Tomb in silence.
One Noctis had go into Royal Tome of The Oracle to acquire the weapon that once belonged to his beloved Luna he heard her voice in his head say these words. "Strong and noble woman was loved by the world. She granted succor to the star and brought man and god together. This was the trident of her line. It makes allies of the wielder's holograms."
Hearing her voice for what would the last time for now, caused Noctis to smile as he closed his eyes holding his hand close to his heart as he whispered out loud. "I won't let you down Luna... I promise... promise to do as you asked and live my life by my own choices and decisions."
Noctis then turned around wiping a tear away from his cheek as he left Luna's resting place, with a new fire in his heart. A new will to keep him going, the will to live his life by his own making. As Noctis walked up to his foster sister he could feel feelings he hadn't felt for years. Not ever since Luna had died, he felt love. Love for his foster sister, no... someone who he saw as more then his foster sister right now, and somehow he knew she felt the same way about him right now.
Beacon school grounds
Ruby and Noctis was walking back to their dorms holding hands, Ruby with a blush on her cheek the whole time, her voice stuttering a bit as she spoke. "W-Why did you pick me Noct? Y-You know I'm not good a-at this stuff."
Noctis let out a healthy chuckle. "First time for everything Rubes and well, would you rather Prompto be able to keep on making jokes about up getting together? How I see it, this would shut his trap up when he goes to crack one of his jokes about us."
"I guess he was kinda right about us wasn't he?" Ruby asked Noctis.
"Yeah, I guess so... but that doesn't mean you have to say sorry to him Rubes." Noctis replied.
"So... are we going to tell them or we gonna pull a Gladio and Velvet and keep this between us for now?" Ruby asked.
"Up to you really. I mean Yang will end up finding out in no time, which would lead to our other friends finding out." Noctis said.
Well here is chapter 10 and I just want to say, even if this is 2 days late screw it!
Merry late X-mas to all my viewers! I was planning on having this chapter done at least before x-mas day but I ended up getting a cold as an x-mas gift.
Anyway hope you all enjoy this chapter, make sure to leave a review! Till next time laters!
Oh as for what happened to cause Gladiolus to get this Aura, I'll leave that for a little flashback to do maybe in the next chapter.