Hey guy's how you all doing? Survived your post-Thanksgiving shopping? Good.
I got myself a copy of Rune Factory 4 during it all, at long last too.
So I'm going to write this chapter now that I've torn myself away from the game for right now.
Anyway now we shall see [Spoiler Guard]
I thought I took that down!?
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[Weiss's P.O.V.]
When I saw Winter I made a single decision and acted on it, and as the blonde brute of my team would say-
Screw formalities, after what's I've been through I am hugging my sister.
"Winter, I missed you so much!" I cried out, releasing my wings to bring me toward my sister faster and pulled her into a hug.
I could clearly tell Winter was taken aback by my actions as she leaned back a bit as I hugged her, but she soon returned the hug, "I missed you too Weiss." Winter said after a minute.
We continued to hug for a minute longer until I finally let go, "What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Professor Ozpin called me, he said there was an incident during your last mission. And Ironwood gave me a week off to come check up on you." Winter explained as her wings vanished.
"Oh." I said suddenly feeling a lot more down with the prospect of the last mission being brought back to my mind.
Winter noticed this easily and grew concerned quickly, "Weiss, what happened?" Winter asked.
"Can we... talk in my teams dorm?" I asked, "I'd like to have a seat before I start talking about it." I said.
"Of course." Winter said, "Show me the way."
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I lead Winter to my teams dorm and opened it carefully, as to try not to wake anyone who had fallen asleep (Read Ruby). Turns out it wasn't necessary as the only one's in the room were Zwei and Feyrbrand, both of which perked up when the door opened.
"Come on in Winter, it look's like my team decided to go get some late night snacks." I said swinging the door open much more casually.
Winter looked around the room, more specifically the beds, "Those beds look rather unstable." Winter said.
"They've held for almost a year now, so they're pretty strong." I said, I'll admit, Ruby can tie a string knot.
"I see..." Winter said, "Looks like you got those Bunk Beds you always wanted."
I smiled, "Yes that's true." I admitted.
"Ruff." Zwei barked getting Winter's attention.
"Well who's this little cutie?" Winter cooed picking up the Corgi.
I swear I saw Zwei give Feyrbrand a wink.
"That's Ruby's and Yang's dog Zwei." I said, "He actually a pretty powerful poochie, yes he is~" I cooed scratching the pups chin.
Winter coddled the Corgi for a moment longer before she put him in his doggie bed in front of the dresser by the window, and looked up.
And saw Feyrbrand up close.
"GYYAAHH!" Winter shouted in fear as she stumbled back, falling onto her rear and scrambled back a few feet.'
I couldn't blame her really. We Wingly's have an almost innate fear of Dragon's and Dragoon's after what they did to our kind over 22,000 years ago. We Wingly's don't let things from the past stay forgotten once we've learned it... Although we still don't actually know where the Grimm came from in the first place, I can actually read Dart's journal if Ozpin would lend it to me.
Winter stared at the young Dragon, who had cocked his head to the side, "D-Dragon." Winter stuttered.
This is probably the first time I ever heard her stutter, I've already heard Whitley stutter actually.
"Winter!" I called rushing next to her, "It's alright, Feyrbrand won't hurt you." I said.
"Weiss, why is there an Oum forsaken dragon in your room." Winter demanded.
"It's... part of the story I need to tell you." I said sitting on my bed.
[Twenty two minutes later]
"And then we got on the bullhead and came back to Beacon." I finished.
Winter looked at me, then toward the now sulking Feyrbrand, then back at me, "I wish you hadn't see that." Winter said.
"Ruby had it worse." I said, "She-"
"She hasn't gotten over it yet has she?" Winter asked.
"I don't think so." I said.
"Then she's doing good so far." Winter said, surprising me, "When I first killed someone, it was unintentional as I was trying to capture the criminal, but the ground was uneven and the strike I was aiming to cripple him ran through his lung. I didn't get over what I did for over a week."
"Really?" I asked surprised.
"Really." Winter said, "In fact it's still hard for me to kill anyone sometimes, in a large group of people it doesn't register until the battle has ended."
After that Winter pulled me into a hug, and I easily closed my eyes and returned the embrace.
This lasted for about a minute until we heard someone clear their throat loudly, Winter and I snapped out heads to the door.
Yang stood in front of the door with a large grin on her face, Blake had shuffled past her and was shuffling around Zwei trying to get to her bed, and Ruby was looking at Winter and I with half a cookie in her mouth.
"So Weiss, who's our visitor?" Yang asked.
"Oh, Ruby, Yang, Blake, this is my sister Winter." I introduced.
"Nice to meet you." Ruby said.
"How ya doing?" Yang asked.
"Hello." Blake said not looking away from Zwei, who was looking at Zwei with extreme interest.
Winter looked around the room, "I can't imagine you staying in a room with a Faunus would have been easy." Winter said, that caused Blake to freeze... Or that last bit could have been because Zwei had moved onto Blake's foot.
"How did you figure that out so fast?" Ruby asked as she picked up Feyrbrand and climbed into her bed.
"The bow is a dead give away." Winter said, "It didn't help that I could tell at a glance thanks to my finished Huntsman training."
Yang's gaze hardened rather quickly, "Just don't rip on her for being a Faunus and we'll be fine friends." Yang said.
Winter chuckled, "You think you can take on a fully trained Huntsman and Atlesian Specialist?" She asked.
"Well..." Yang said, "Assuming Weiss stays out of the fight, that's three Dragoons against a Wingly. Those don't seem like good odds."
Winter twitched in annoyance, "You told them." Winter stated.
"After Blake revealed her secret I decided it was only fair to show them my wings." I said.
Winter sighed, "I suppose that is fair, but I think you deserve some form of punishment." She said.
Ruby then flipped her head down to look at us, "Well... Seven of us Dragoons do need to complete a trail that has us fight the previous Dragoons." Ruby said.
'Oh no.' I thought.
"Weiss can challenge Meru to a fight." Ruby said, "And if she win's then that makes us one step closer to our goal."
"And if she loses?" Winter asked.
"Eh, we'll figure out something." Yang said, "Oh we can force her on a date with Jaune." she said.
"No." Ruby and I stated in synch.
Winter stood up from the bed, "I suppose I will see you all in the sparring hall after classes are done for the day." Winter said, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to speak with Professor Ozpin about where I'll be staying for the time."
Winter soon left the room, and the four of us stood in silence.
"Tomorrow is going to be really painful." I said remembering Nora's fight with Haschel.
[Sparring Hall, the next afternoon after class]
[Ruby's P.O.V.]
Me, Yang and Blake sat in the stands with Team JNPR, as well as Sun and Neptune while Weiss was in the arena preparing herself while we waited for Winter.
"Why are you two here again?" Jaune asked Sun.
"Hey this is something I really wanted to see." Sun said, "The more I can learn about these Dragoon's the better by the time I head back home."
"I just got dragged here." Neptune said, poor guy.
"Weiss will be fine." Nora said leaning back, "Meru can't possibly be as tough as Haschel."
"Somehow I doubt that." Ren said.
Finally Winter arrived, along with Professor Ozpin who planned to referee this match.
Winter looked at Team JNPR and Sun and Neptune, "Who are they?" Winter asked.
"Dragoon's." Yang said holding her hand out to Team JNPR, causing Winter to flinch at the prospect of being in the same place as eight (technically seven at the moment) Dragoons, "And friends." Yang said holding her hand out to Sun and Neptune.
"I see." Winter said as Ozpin stepped over to the arena.
"Are you ready Miss Schnee?" Ozpin asked.
"Y-yes." Weiss said.
Her Dragoon Spirit glowed bright blue and then flashed.
On the opposite side of the arena stood who I assume was Meru, who I am surprised wore so little, just a bra, a bow in her hair, another bow in her hip, shoes and a pair of shorts, all of it a mixture of blue and gold, with some silver in it.
"Hey there Weiss!" Meru called rather cheerily, as she lifted her mallet, which had a pole as tall as her with a head the size of a potato, onto her shoulders and grip the two far ends of the pole with her hands, "You sure you're ready to fight?"
"About as ready as I can be at the moment." Weiss admitted as she lifted Myrtenaster.
"Meru." Ozpin said, getting the Wingly dancer's attention, "I have to explain that-"
"People here have Aura and you want me to stop pummeling her when her Aura reaches the red." Meru droned, "Hashcel already went through this with all of us in the afterlife."
"I see." Ozpin said, "You may begin."
[OST- Legend of Dragoon: Boss theme 1]
Meru made the first move, and she was fast.
Meru had covered half the distance to Weiss in just a second, and in another second Meru was right in front of Weiss.
Meru swung her hammer upward, Weiss fortunately managed to push the strike aside with Myrtenaster and retaliate.
Only for Meru to have planted the head of her hammer on the ground and spun on the pole to move around Weiss. Meru then lifted her hammer to smack Weiss in the face, and then spin into another smack that sent Weiss tumbling. "Double Smack!" Meru called.
Weiss quickly righted herself before stabbing Myrtenaster into the ground, freezing the floor solid.
"Weiss is a good ice skater." Winter said, "This might give her the advantage she needs."
"Yeah, we practiced fighting on ice for about a month until we got the hang of it." I said proudly, it didn't start very well because only one of us could actually skate well, yet none of us were good at fighting on the ice.
There were a lot of head on collisions.
Weiss smirked as she skated toward Meru and slashed at her abdomen.
But Meru simply smirked as slipped into a split, causing Weiss's attack to go over her head, then she spun herself back into a stand with her hammer, knocking Weiss down again.
"And there goes that plan." Jaune said with a sigh.
Weiss stood back up, only to get smacked twice by a pair of left spins from Meru's hammer, who then stopped on a dime with her hammer straight up, then slammed it down on the spinning Weiss, then faster than Weiss could recover Meru lifted her hammer back up and behind her before swinging to the left again, this one sending Weiss to the ground, "Hammer Spin!" Meru called as she almost fell over from the out of control spin of her attack.
"This is hurting to watch." Sun said.
"Agreed." Winter said looking like every time Weiss was hit, she got hurt as well.
Weiss stood back up and switched to Fire Dust and slashed at Meru, sending out a wave of fire that melted all of the ice in the arena and caused a large fog.
"Just like the Freezerburn combo." I said.
"Speaking of combo's have you come up with a new name for the Checkmate Combo?" Blake asked.
"Seriously, Ruby get's checkmate against me and the next thing I know you and Weiss burst into the room and wreck it." Jaune groaned.
"Still working on that actually." I said sheepishly while pushing my two index fingers together.
Back to the fight.
The fog was blown away in an instant as Meru was revealed to be in her Dragoon Armor, the size of her hammers head was almost as big as she was.
"Oh boy." Nora said.
Weiss, in turn, conjured her Dragoon Armor and floated opposite of Meru, however Meru made the next move first.
By conjuring the three rings of Dragoon Magic.
The world went dark as blue sparkles fell from the pitch black sky, yet we were still perfectly visible. Then Meru's hammer fell from the air, freezing the ground in a spiked fashion as it landed. Meru floated down and stood on the tips of her heels on the pole of the hammer her arms crossed and eyes closed. The area around Weiss grew cold enough to form mist.
Meru uncrossed her arms and held them outward, spreading further apart, as a blue circle of light formed in the gap between her hands, which then turned into a curved line of blue energy, at the same time three large chunks of ice to burst up around Weiss, who quickly covered herself with her Dragoon wings.
The three ice chunks the clashed together as the wave of blue energy grew larger, trapping Weiss within. "Diamond Dust!" Meru shouted crossing her arms again before slashing them out, sending the energy wave at the ice trapping Weiss and cutting through it, which caused the ice to explode outwards.
Meru lifted up her hammer with one hand and let the end with the head drop into her other hand as Weiss's armor disappeared and she collapsed.
[End OST]
"Weiss!" Winter and I shouted running over to my partner.
"I'm sorry, I think I over did it." Meru said.
"I'm... okay." Weiss said breathing heavily as Winter and I lifted her up, "That was a good fight."
"Thanks, you fought pretty well too." Meru said, "Although it seemed a tiny bit stiff."
"I'll win the next fight." Weiss said.
"You can try." Meru teased as she vanished in a blue light.
[Team RWBY Dorm: 9 P.M.]
[Ruby's P.O.V.]
"Are you sure you're okay Weiss?" I asked.
"Ruby I said I'm fine, stop asking already." Weiss said.
"Fine." I sighed.
"Thank you." Weiss said.
"Oh will you two just kiss already." Blake said, causing me and Weiss to turn red.
"Hey that's my sister you're teasing." Yang said.
'Thank's Yang.' I thought, glad my sister was defending me.
"Leave teasing my sister to me." Yang said.
'Never mind.' I thought flatly.
"Really Yang?" Weiss said, she sounded a little too happy, "I could ask you why you haven't done the same, I often hear you moaning Blake's name at night."
'D-did Weiss actually just do that?' I thought shocked.
"What?" Blake asked in surprise.
"Uhhhhhhhh" Yang gapped looking for a way out.
It came with a knock on the door.
"Oh look a visitor." Yang said, "I'll get the door."
Yang quickly rushed to the door and opened it, and was quickly pulled into a hug by someone I knew far too well.
"Dad!" I called as I rushed over to my dad to give him a hug.
"Hey, what about me?" Uncle Qrow asked.
"Uncle Qroooooooow!" I shouted detaching from my father and latching onto my uncles arm, "Hi."
"Hey there squirt." Uncle Qrow said with a smirk on his face.
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And that's the chapter dear readers.
Now, one thing I just have to say, Meru when equipped with the Dancer's Shoe's and Dancer's Ring, and combined with a Speed Boost, can put her maximum speed a 200.
To translate, that's fast enough to get three turns before any enemy in the get's one.
Yeah.
Plus Meru fight's like she's Dancing, it wouldn't be easy for Weiss's somewhat formal fighting style to combat.
Anyway Next chapter will have Qrow and Tai, as well as Winter and [Spoiler Guard]
SONNOVA
Anyway, please review people, I haven't been getting that many lately and reviews help me feel secure that people are reading my story.