RWBY: The Black Swordsman Chapter 10

Location: The Schnee Manor


Weiss stepped into her fathers office, her father was sitting at his desk with his arms crossed.

"Weiss don´t just stand there come in, Ironwood and I a very men."

"Father is the same as ever" Weiss noted as she smoothed out her dress and started to walk to the desk to sit down, she gave a small smiled at the general as she passed him.

Weiss sat down, took a deep breath, "I have to get out of here if these white hawks, sound familiar but I can´t remember anyway if they could fight against the white fang maybe they can help us?"

"Father I have to ask but I overheard the general talk about The White Fang and something about the white hawk, whats that about?"

Jacques growled and a small vain appeared on his forehead, "That is none of your concerns Weiss, you just focus on your studies" he snapped and his daughter

This suprised Weiss, her father had always been quick to anger, but he didn´t lose his compolsure by a mere question. "there has to be more to this, maybe the general can tell me where to find the hawks but first I need to get out of here?" Weiss concluded as she worked up the courage to ask about leaving.

She got up and threw a quick glance at the general before returning her attention to her father,

"Father I wish to leave the manor" Jacqeues looked at his daughter in suprise, but the shock soon turned to anger and he gridded his teeth and glared at her.

"No, you may not leave. We have been over this you will stay here where it is safe" he growled starting to get mad, how could he be cursed with two foolish daughters.

Ironwood seeing that the situation could end badly tried to defuse the conflict, "Miss Schnee I think it would be wise to listen to your father" his attempt of trying to reason with the young heiress was completly ignored by the girl who was determind to get her father to change his mind.

"Let me fight!" She begged but one could hear the anger building up in her voice "this is what I trained for, if we don´t do something then it will be the fall of Beacon all over again!

"I SAID NO, NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM!" Jacques shouted as he pointed at the door.

"NO!" it was now Weiss turn to shout, she was tired of walking around the cold manor, she was tired of her father controlling her life but most of all she was mad that her father stopped her from staying with her friends.

"Why do you keep me here? she asked,

"you don´t care if I would go, you never cared about me or Winter you never did, to you we´re just trophies and a way to keep the company going, your just a selfish,greedy coward, even the white fang have more honor.

"SLAP!" Jacqeues had gotten enough and threw a punch at his daughter hitting her square in the face sending her tumbling to the floor.

As Weiss hit the floor, she felt an incredible pain from the punch as she put her hand to her face, her eyes widend in shock as she saw her hand stained with blood.

"Mr Schnee that´s enough" Ironwood said as he pointed his gun at the man, you forget I´m still the law and I will not let something like this happen as long as I´m here. He then offered Weiss a hand and pulled her on her feet,

He led Weiss through the office and out the doors of the mansion. "lets get you out of here, we need to check that wound, Even minor injuries can be bad if not treated.

As they walked in silence Weiss noted how refreshing the summer breeze felt against her face, granted she was bleeding from the head from when she hit the floor but still, she was free.

After sometime they arrived at Ironwoods ship and he escorted her to a small room with a table and gestured to the chairs,

"Please sit miss Schnee we have alot to talk about."

She thanked him and slumped down in the chair while Ironwood took a seat infront of her and sighed.

"I want you to know I admire your courage, not many people have the will to oppose someone as powerful as your father, I now see why Winter talks so highly of you. Not only that but you also showed great promise during the attack on Beacon , we need more people like you, someone ready to take action if you are interested I could arrange for you to enrole at my school?"

Weiss looked at the man infront of her, was he really asking that, she knew he was being nice but did he honestly think she would just transfer and move on with her life.

"Thank you for the offer but no thanks I´m fine. Anyway what was you and father talking about, I know I heard about the Hawk before?"

"It doesn´t suprise me that you have The band of the Hawk caused quite some trouble before. He took out a small device and inserted it into a opening in the table, several images and reports soon appeared on the table.

"Look I don´t know everything but all I can tell you is that they were one of the most fearsome group of warriors in Remnent until they just disappeared but they were led by a man known as The White Hawk. and now several people are reporting that strange and powerful men are working for The Hawk and that his return is soon, god knows we might need him in this war."

Weiss looked at some of the images but two caught her attention, it depicted a man with long white hair, blue eyes and silver armor, he was standing in a clearing with the sun shining down upon him giving him an almost divine apperence .

The second one was a picture of another man but unlike the other picture this man was terrifying, he had spiky black hair, was covered in blood and was wielding a huge sword and under it was a related picture showing piles of dead soldiers, most of which were missing several limbs. She looked at the text underneath the image it read:

Capten of the Hawks, the hundred man slayer, not much is known about the subject, reports and witnesses tells that he is inhuman in combat, savage and extremely deadly. Possibly linked to the black swordsman case :Current status unknown.

Ironwood having noticed what Weiss was looking at started to explain who the men were.

" That miss Schnee", he pointed to the white haired man "was the leader of the hawks, I think there is only a few people still in this worlds who knew his name, I suspected that Ozpin knew anyhow, he had great carisma and was a hero in many peoples eyes.

He then pointed at the other man " He was the Capten of the Hawks, he disappeared along with the rest and is presumed dead but I don´t think he´s gone."

Ironwood got up form the table and stared out the window at the land below, " there has recently been talk about a man called the black swordsman roaming the lands, and death and tragedy follows him, I have been trying to catch this man but with no success.

"If the White Hawk can help us then we need to find him, I will find him" Weiss declared shocking the general,

"I admire your drive but think about this Weiss, we don´t know if it´s even him it could be someone taking up his mantel"

"I know but if he was as skilled as you said then we need him, besides they are the enemies of the white fang so that makes him our ally." She started to sound desperate.

a small smile appeared on generals face as he looked at the heiress, "alright I´ll get you the information and transport you need but you need to report everything back to me, understand?"

Weiss took a brief moment to overthink the proposal, If she could get help from the Hawks they actually had a chance to take on the white fang. but on the otherhand she would have to report to Ironwood but it was a small price to pay.

she straightened her back and looked back to the picture of the hawk, she had made her decision,

"I´ll do it."


Another day neared it´s end as Ruby slowly walked behind Guts, she was tired. It had been several days since she had gotten any real sleep, everynight had been a Grimm attack, strange spirits and other creatures that she had never heard about before. Guts on the other hand showed no signs of tiring but then again he would never allow that to slow him down anyway, but she wasn´t Guts and with the constant pressure and sleep deprived state she was in she started to get annoyed, really annoyed.

"Hey come on, we have been walking for days and you haven´t even told me where we´re going," she whined as she continued to drag her aching feet forward.

"What´s your goal here, I think you atleast owe me some info...Please" she begged. If it was one thing she hated about the man it had to be the way he kept her in the dark, about everything, from the creatures they were fighting, to the where they were going and most of all his past.

Guts turned around to face her and pointed ahead, "we are almost there, as for where we are going... we are visiting some old friends of mine."

This peaked her intress until the reality of his words hit her like a bomb, "wait...YOU have friends? I don´t belive it, there no way someone could be friends with a stick in the mud such as yourself."

She ran up to him and pulled on his cloak, "what´s there names? where are they do you meet them often?" She was eager to glean any information she could about Guts but her entusiasm quickly vanished when she saw a look of sadness crossed his face only to disappear as quick as it came. Guts turned around and started to walk again only now he was moving much faster,

"Judeau, Corkus, Pippin,Casca"

the names had brought him much joy but now they were only constant reminder of what he lost, of what Griffith did, it was a pain he would feel for the rest of his life until the flames of rage that drove him flickered out and died leaving him in darkness.

Ruby looked at Guts who just disappeared over a hill, she pushed her questions further into her mind as she started to run after him, still she couldn´t help but to feel sad for him. It was obvious that he had lost someone dear to him. She looked into her bag and saw that Puck was shaking his head with a small sigh.

"Puck you knew didn´t you?

"No but I could guess it, I seen visons of his memorys and underneth all that rage is just fear and sorrow, but the rage he feels is what I think drives him"

When Ruby finally reached hill she saw a sight that almost made her tear up, A house that eminated a soft glow from the windows and standing outside was Guts and a man with long gray beard, he looked old really old and a little scary but if he was Guts´s friend she knew she could trust him.

She used her semblence to speed to the house, she stopped infront of the man and gave a small bow.

"Hi I´m Ruby are you the friend Guts mentioned?"

He just cocked an eyebrow and looked up at Guts,

"She with you? honestly didn´t fancy you as the one to have kids" Ruby raised a hand and opened her mouth to tell that she was NOT A KID anymore but she was completly ignored by the two men who continued their conversation like she was nothing more then air.

"She followed me" he replied in a tired tone, anyway where´s Casca?"

"The Girl is with Erica in the mine, leave the sword inside before you go."

Ruby looked up, "Casca who´s that?" the way he asked about her, was she his wife or daughter maybe?

"You girl you´re probably tired lets go inside, leave him be." he opened the door and led her inside.


Author's note.

this has been a longer chapter then usual chapter.

Griffith will return soon and i´m thinking of having Weiss join the neo band of the hawk and i will not pull a conviction arc search for Casca