'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Other's thoughts/Skills
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Chapter 19 New mission
Raine stretched his arms up as he and his team walked down the corridor after another exhausting day of class with Professor Port. He appreciated the man's wisdom time to time but his little narcissistic need to complement his glory days can grate on some nerves. "Finally, no more classes for the day!" He sighs happily.
"It aren't much classes today." Moon stated looking at their schedules.
"I guess it's due to all the exchange students we're getting." Ember stated, "But I'm pretty surprised by how many are entering the Vytal Festival Tournament…"
"Of course a lot of people are entering it!" Raine tells them with a smirk, "It's a worldwide tournament that every Huntsmen and Huntresses from all walks of life and races all compete for the title of Champion of Remnant! And it's a biannually thing, of course people are going to take a chance to do so if they could!"
"You know, for a festival about peace, people sure looks forward to a fighting tournament between Kingdoms." Akai pointed out, "I guess no matter in peace times or not, people will still love to watch other people beat the crap out of each other."
"I guess that's what the Mistral Tournament so engaging in the first place." Their fox Faunus friend added on.
Moon put down her scroll before noticing the scenery in the sky, "Guys! Look!" Everyone stopped to look up, fast flying jets flew across the skies as the larger slower airships docks onto the bay before its passengers flood onto campus' grounds.
"Atlas' military never cease to amaze." Raine chuckles, "But the amount of soldiers are kind of intimidating."
"I've heard that General James Ironwood is personally visiting for the festival." Moon pointed out.
"That would explain the amount of troops around campus recently." Akai stated, "You can't exactly keep such an important person unguarded."
"Hey…" Their leader turned to Ember, "Won't this be a slight trouble? You know, you being a wanted criminal of Atlas and all…"
"Oh, don't worry about that." He tells him, "That thing was settled the very moment I was accepted into Beacon. All charges are dropped in account that I finished the entire curriculum. So don't worry about me getting arrested."
"Freeze!"
Everyone turned to see several Atlas soldiers pointing their rifles at them.
"You were saying…?" Raine pointed out, Ember shrugged in confusion.
At the headmaster's office, Ozpin looked over from his clock tower as more Atlas ships docked down at the bay, accompanied by several fighter ships. "Ironwood certainly loves bringing his work wherever he travels." Glynda points out.
"Well, running an academy and the military makes him a busy man." Ozpin nodded, "But yes, those are a bit of an eyesore. Well, at least it's not the Hunter Clan's ships." The monitor on his table beeps with words [Access Requested] blinking in red, he walking up to it and pressing the comms, "Come in."
The doors slides opened and out stepped a military man of proper stature, his white military coat over his uniform with a white glove on his right hand, his black hair trimmed to standards with an exception of a metal band over his right eye. "Ozpin!"
"Hello, general."
"Please, drop the formalities." James says cheerfully as he shook his hand, "It's been too long." He turned to Glynda with mild surprise, "And Glynda! It has certainly been too long since we last met."
"Oh James!" Glynda waved him off before dropping all forms of joy from her face, "I'll be outside." She then proceeds to leave the room.
"Well… She hasn't change a bit." James chuckles.
As soon as the elevator doors closed, Ozpin pick up a mug and a kettle as he pours a batch of coffee, "So, what in the world has brought you all the way down from Atlas?" He asked, "Headmasters don't typically travel with their students, for the Vytal Festival."
He offers a mug to him, the general gratefully accepts, "Well, you know I much I love Vale this time of the year." He took out a canteen from inside his coat pocket and pours its contents into the coffee, "Besides, with you hosting, I thought that this might be a good opportunity for us to catch up."
The headmaster pours himself a mug as he seats down by his desk, "I can certainly appreciate the quality time between friends, however, a small fleet outside my window has me concerned."
"Well, concerned is what brought them here."
"I understand that travel between Kingdoms has become increasingly difficult." Ozpin stated, "I've heard that you have Grimm troubles by the Bifrost."
"Oz. You and I both know why I brought those men."
They both remained silent, the headmaster sips his mug before placing it down on the desk, "We are in a time of peace." He tells him resting his arms on his desk, "Shows of power like this are just going to give off the wrong impression."
James places his mug down on the desk as well, "But if what Qrow said is true-"
"If what Qrow said is true, then we'll handle it TACTFULLY." Ozpin tells the general, "It's the Vytal Festival. A time to celebrate unity and peace. So I suggest that you not scare people by transporting hundreds of your troops halfway across the continent."
"I'm just being cautious."
"As am I." He added, "Which is why we will continue to train the best Huntsmen and Huntresses we can. But if that's not enough to assure you…" Ozpin pulls opened his desk's drawer and took out a pendant to show him, the same pendant that Raine possess. The symbol of the Creed of Light.
James knew what that means, "Oz, you're not seriously going to trust in those people, are you? They may have been a great force before the Great War, but they are nothing more than fragments of their original might now."
"Fragments have their own way of fighting, James." He tells him, "Just because they don't have a large army doesn't make them any weaker than yours."
"We don't even know their real agenda." James argued, "What if they are just using you?"
"Their leaders are a close associate from my student years." Ozpin assures him, "We trusted each other with our lives and proved many times over. James, not every war is won through force."
The general is about to argue but then his scroll rang in his pocket. He sighs as he answers it, "What is it?"
[Sir! We have found and detained a dangerous criminal on campus grounds, sir! We requested that your permission to arrest him!]
"Criminal…?" James asked confused, just as Ozpin's scroll goes off.
He answers the call, [Ozpin, Atlas men has detained one of our students!] Glynda calls.
"James."
The general nodded, "Soldier, tell me your location."
Back on campus grounds, a couple of Atlas soldiers pushes back Moon as she tries to reach her partner. Ember right now is struggling against his captor as he is pinned against the wall with both his hands behind him, "Let him go!" She cries out.
"Miss, please step away."
"He didn't do anything wrong!" She cried, "This is an abuse of power!"
"Miss, please! You're interfering with Atlas military operations!"
"You know, you should really update the uniforms." Ember stated, "It really doesn't goes well with the peace-keeping."
"Silence, animal!" He shouted, "I know who you are, Ember Schutz. You really think that I'll not recognize you?"
"Sorry, you Atlas dummies all looked the same to me."
"Ember, just blast that guy away!" Akai called out, "He's just a soldier! You can take him down!"
"Wait, don't!" Raine called out, "Don't fight back! And just keep quiet!"
"Why?! He can take them down no problem." She looked at her partner in confusion, "Actually, I can take them without much notice." She flexed her wrists as her two pistols dropped out of her sleeves into her hands but then he grabbed them before she can aim.
"Are you crazy?! You're going to get us in trouble!"
"Oh, says the guy who beat the crap out of CRDL last semester." Akai scoffed, "And what's there to worry? It's just six guys! And their soldiers! A quick bullet to the head and-"
"They are Atlas military men!" Raine stated, "ATLAS! As in another Kingdom?! What do you think would happen if several Huntsmen from Vale beat down their troops?"
"No one has to know!"
"We're in the middle of campus! As in out in the open?" He pointed to the growing crowd of on-lookers, "Do you really think you can take them down quietly with all those people watching?" Akai grumbled as she raised her hands to him, he placing the guns back before she slid them back into her sleeves.
"I'm the guy that you nearly blew the face off of!" The one holding Ember tells him.
"Really? Because I've blown a lot of people faces off." He tells him, "You're going to have to be a bit more specific."
He then elbowed the Faunus in the back hard, dropping him into the floor before the soldier steps on his head, "Either way, you're not escaping this time." He grins, "But tell you what. If you bark like the dog you are, I'll be gentle in the interrogation later."
"Hey! You can't do that!" Moon shouted angrily trying to push into the scene.
The soldier tries to push her back, but then noticed the man walking towards him, "General, sir!" He saluted, Moon using this window to push through and tackles him to the ground.
"Miss Bellflower?" James walked up to the collapsed soldier with Moon beating on his face repeatedly, "What are you doing?"
"Mr Ironwood!" The heiress got up on her feet ignoring the groaning soldier on the floor, "Please, you have get your man off of him!" He pointed at the soldier grinding his foot on Ember's head. The general grits his teeth as he makes his way towards him.
"Lieutenant!"
The soldiers stops what he is doing, turning back and saluting to him, "What are you doing?!"
"Sir, I'm detaining this criminal for arrest, sir!"
"What criminal?!" James shouted pointing at the groaning Ember as he tries to get back on his feet, Moon and Raine running over to help him up, "All I see is you beating on an innocent student!"
"Sir, that student is Ember Schutz!" The soldier pulls out his scroll to show him the wanted poster. After reading through it, the general groaned, "Sir…?"
"Lieutenant, that information is outdated." He tells him as calmly as he could, "His file was updated several months ago." He pulls out his own scroll to prove it, "See? All charges against him is dropped in the condition that he finish his curriculum. So, there's no reason for you to detain him. Let alone arresting him for charges that he no longer have."
"B-But sir!"
"Lieutenant, what's your name?"
"U-Um, Lieutenant Lore, sir!"
"Lore, as of now, you are hereby demoted to Private and detained to the barracks until further notice."
"W-What?!"
"Am I clear, Private?"
"… Yes sir…" Lore muttered, before turning to Ember with a scowl as he walks away, his partner getting back up and following behind.
James sighs as he walked over to Ember who is leaning on the wall with his hand rubbing his back, "I'm terribly sorry for my men's actions. I can assure you that I'll update your information to them as soon as I am able."
"Yeah, whatever."
"Are you okay? I could send a medical officer if you require-"
"No, I'm good." Ember tells him, "Nothing a cold press can't fix."
"Thanks for your intervention, Mr. Ironwood." Moon thanked him.
"It's my job, Ms. Bellflower." He greeted her, "Been a while since we last met. Is your father doing well?"
"Oh, he's well enough." She stated, "Lost a lot of contact numbers, though…"
"I would believe so. Arktiz is definitely the type to do that." James chuckles.
"We definitely need to get Ember to the nurse office." Raine stated as he slaps him in the back hard, the Faunus flinched in pain, "In case there's any lasting damage."
"I agree. Any injury to the back will have lasting effects." Akai pointed out, "Best if you check before it happens."
"Relax, I'm fine-Grk!" He flinched when he tries to straighten up, "Yup… just dandy…"
"Just go to nurse." Moon tells him as she pulls him along, the rest of the team following suit. Raine looked back at the general for a moment before following after them. As James watched them leave, Ozpin walked up to him with Glynda behind him, "Answer me this, Oz." He asked, "Do you honestly believe your children can win a war…?"
"…I hope they never have to."
"Okay, looks like nothing's broken…" The nurse said as she looked over Ember's back behind the curtains, "Do you feel any numbness on your legs?" He shook his head, "Right, everything seems to be in order. A bit of bruising but other than that, you're fine."
"That's what I told them…" He groaned as he put back his shirt.
"They have the right to be worried." She tells him, "Back injuries are the most common idea that brought most Huntsmen to their early retirement."
"I know my own body, miss."
"I know you do." She smiled.
Ember left the office, the rest of team RAEM standing there anxious for the result, "…Only bruising. I'm fine!"
"You sure?!" Moon walked up to him worriedly, "No headaches? No loss of motion? No-"
"Calm down, Moon." Raine sighed, "If he says his fine, he's fine."
"If not, we can always drag him back to the nurse office." Akai added.
"I told you guys, I'm fine! Look, I'll prove it!" Ember jumped up and down a few times, "See? I'm okay!"
"Are you really sure-"
"And, that's where you guys stop it." Akai sighed, "It's only the first couple of weeks of the new semester. There's still some time before we got combat classes again meaning that there's plenty of time for him to rest up."
"…I guess…"
"Say, want to head to library?" Raine asked, "I've heard team RWBY manages to sneak a board game in. Wanna check it out?"
"Sure, I've got nothing much to do today anyway." His partner shrugged her shoulder.
"I kind of need to review my notes too…" Moon stated, "Mr. Oobleck's lessons are the easiest to catch up too…"
"Me with Professor Port's." Ember stated.
"So it's settled!" Raine said with a triumph smile, "Let's go!"
"No need to announce it out loud, Raine." Akai sighed as they make their way to the library.
In the library, team RWBY sat around the table playing the board game, Remnant: The Game. The four girls all looked at each other intensively with cards in their hands, well the two sisters are. Weiss is confused by the whole thing despite being several minutes into the game already and Blake is completely distracted by something else.
"Hmmm… All right… All right! Yang Xiao Long, prepare your Kingdom for battle!" Ruby shouted pointing at her sister.
"Bring it on!"
"I deploy the Atlesian Air Fleet!" She slams a card onto the table hard, Yang flinched in mock horror, "Looks like I get to fly over your Ursai and attack your walls directly!" She declared as she makes flying noises while making a bird puppet with her fingers.
"You Fiend!"
"Annnnnddddd… since Atlas is a part of Mantle, my repair time is only one turn!"
Yang gives an arrogant laugh as her sister looked in surprise, "Pretty sneaky, sis, but you just activated my trap card!" She stated flipping up a card and slamming it on the board, "Giant Nevermore! If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two!"
"BUT, if you roll a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces!"
"That's just a chance I'm willing to take."
As their game goes on, JNPR is seen on the table next to them doing their own thing while ignoring the girls' little game. Ren is reading while Nora sleeps on the other side of the book, obviously really deep in sleep as her friend flipped the page over onto her head without a care. Jaune was reading a comic before Pyrrha confiscates it and replaced it with his textbook, the blonde knight grumbles slightly reading into the book while his partner gleefully reads the stolen goods.
"Have you no heart…?" Ruby moans as she just lost a lot with her turn and Yang's counter move.
"Well, Weiss, it's your turn." Yang tells her teammate.
"I have… absolutely no idea what's going on."
"Look, it's easy!" She tells her as she slides up to the heiress, "You're playing as Vacuo which means that all Vacuo-based card comes with a bonus."
"That sounds dumb." She stated.
"See, you've got Sandstorm, Desert Scavenge…" She shuffles her cards around in her hand, "Oh, oh!" She shows Weiss the card she picked, "Resourceful Raider! Now you can take Ruby's discarded Air Fleet and put IT into your hand!"
"O…kay…?"
"And since Vacuo warriors have an endurance against Natural-based hazards, you can use Sandstorm to disable MY ground forces and simultaneously infiltrate my Kingdom!" She then points a finger at her, "Just know that I will not forget this declaration of war."
"And that means…?"
"You're just three moves away from conquering Remnant!" Ruby groans.
"Y-Yes!" Weiss cheers getting on her feet, "Fear the almighty power of my forces! Cower as they pillage your homes and weep as they take your children from your very arms!"
"Trap card."
"Huh…?"
Yang shuffles the pieces on the board till Weiss pieces are gone, "Your armies have been destroyed."
Weiss slumps over in her chair slightly crying, "I hate this game of emotions we play…"
Ruby leaps into her lap, "Stay Strong, Weiss! We'll make it through together!"
"Don't touch me…"
"Alright, Blake, you're up!"
"Huh?" She regains her bearing, "Oh, um, sorry, what am I doing…?"
"You're playing as Vale, trying to conquer the Kingdoms of Remnant!"
"R-Right…"
"Hey! Can I play?" Jaune asked as he walked up to their table.
"Sorry, Jaune. We already got four people." Ruby tells him.
"Besides, this game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt you possess." Weiss added with a scoff.
"Uuh… you attacked your own naval fleet 2 turns ago." Yang pointed out, the heiress makes an annoyed sound in response.
"Bring it on, Ice Queen!" Jaune taunted, "I'll have you know that I have been told that I am a natural born leader!"
"By who? Your mother?" The heiress scoffed.
"A-And Pyrrha!"
"Hello again!"
"Come on, let me play your hand for a turn!" He begged.
"I'm not trusting you with the good citizens of Vacuo!" She stated.
"So when were you the governor of Vacuo?" A voice asked, Raine walking up towards them with Akai behind him, "You do realise that it's just a game, right…?"
"Hey, Raine!" Ruby greeted, "Wanna play? You could have my hand."
"I could… but that depends." He stated, "Who got the Mistral deck?"
"Yang."
"Ah, then I'll rather take the Vale deck." He stated, "I'm a pro using that."
"Oh really? I don't remember you winning before." Yang stated with a smirk.
"Oh please, that's because Nexus is the one that keeps beating you first."
"Want to bet on that?"
"Winner have to buy the other drinks?"
"You're on." The two smirked as they shake their hands. Akai rolled her eyes at the childish nature of her leader.
"Hey, where's Ember and Moon?" Jaune asked.
"Oh, they're studying at a different table." Raine stated.
"Sup, losers." A voice joked as Sun walked up to them with his friend Neptune following behind.
"Hey, Sun!" Ruby greeted.
"Ruby, Yang, Blake, Akai, Raine… Ice Queen."
"Why does everyone keep calling me that?!" Weiss cried.
"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to a good buddy of mine."
"Aren't libraries for reading?" Neptune asked.
"THANK YOU!" Ren cried happily.
"Snrk! Pancakes!" Nora snorted in her nap.
"Shut up. Don't be a nerd." Sun groaned.
"Geh, geh, geh, geh! [Intellectual], okay? Thank you." He stated, "I'm Neptune."
Weiss looked at him with a bashful smile, "So, Neptune, where are you from?"
"Haven." He walks up the heiress, "And I don't believe I've caught your name, snow angel."
"Oh! Um, I'm Weiss…"
"Ah, that's your type." Raine chuckles.
"Shut up."
"Pleasure to meet you." Neptune greeted, giving her a handsome smile.
"Hey, Akai, sorry for what happened a few days ago…" Sun nervously chuckles.
"You mean when you ditched me at the port?" She stated.
"Yeah, that. Look, I'll make it up to you." He takes out a banana, "What do you say? Bygones be bygones?"
"Hmph… I'll think about it." She tells him taking the offered banana.
"Oh, and Blake!" Sun moves towards the cat Faunus, "I never took you as the board game playing type."
"Right, well, I think I'm actually done playing." She stated getting out of her seat and walking off, pushing Sun aside in the process, "I'll see you guys later." She walks past Ember with a couple of books in his hands and Moon next to him, the fox Faunus looked at her confused.
"Geez… moody much…?" Raine wonders.
"She probably have a lot on her mind." Akai stated, "With what happened last semester and all."
"I… have to go…" Ember stated leaving the library, leaving Moon there with her books in her hands, looking at him walking off with a worried expression on her face.
"So, you're Akai, huh?" Neptune stated sliding up to her, she recoiled back in disgust. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you. And must I say you are one of the most glorious person I have ever laid eyes on."
"W-Wha-…?!" Weiss looked in shock.
"T-Thanks for the compliment…" She muttered as she took a couple steps back, "Mind moving away. You're a little close."
"Neptune, what did I tell you?" Sun stated.
"I know, I know." He tells him, "I'm simply complimenting her."
"Yeah… I better get going too…" Akai stated as she walked off, leaving Neptune looking a little stunned.
"Hey, Jaune! Wanna play?" Raine asked as he picked up Blake's cards, "You can be Vacuo!"
"Isn't Weiss…?"
"You can have a turn…" Weiss muttered as she left her seat sulking away into another table.
Jaune looked at his friend, Raine just shrugged his shoulders in confusion.
Once he left the library, he took to the one place that Blake would go besides the library, her own dorm room. As soon as he reached, he knocked on the door a couple of times, "Blake, you there? It's me, Ember."
"…What do you want?"
"You're worried about the White Fang, aren't you?"
"…Yeah? And what of it?"
"The White Fang isn't yours or my problem anymore, Blake." He tells her, "It isn't since we left."
"That's not true and you know it!" Blake shouted, "What happened at the docks, that's not what the White Fang would normally do. Something's up, and we don't know what and that's just… GAH! Infuriating!"
"Blake. You left the White Fang." He stated once more, "Anything they do isn't your problem anymore, so stop thinking that it is."
"No, it is!" She shouted, "Why can't you understand that?! You, the one that has been waging war on them since you left, should understand that!"
"I know, but my ways isn't right." He stated, "Sure, I've stopped them time to time, but they just regroup and try again. It never ends, Blake. I don't want you to follow that dark path."
"…Just leave me alone."
Ember sighs, "Fine." He starts to walk off then notices Ivory standing there looking at him a bit startled. She glanced around before stepping back a little, "Is there something you want?"
"Y-Yeah… actually, I wanted Akai's help…" She mutters.
"Akai…?"
"I can't believe this!" They then notices the rest of the RWBY and RAEM walking down the hallway with Yang a little pissed.
"Told you I'm a pro with the Vale deck!" Raine chuckles as he opened a can of soda and taking a sip of it, "Ah~ Victory never tasted this fruity!"
"Tch, that's just a lucky break and you know it!" The blonde brawler shouted.
"Oh please, everyone knows that despite having the most trap cards, the Mistral deck isn't really all that great." He laughed, "Especially with Vale's anti-trap cards. You just got served and you know it." He then took notice of Ivory and Ember standing outside of RWBY's dorm. "Oh? That's an unusual pairing."
"Ivy? What are you doing here?" Ruby asked, "Isn't your room down the halls?"
"Oh, I, um… wanted to see Akai about something…" She stated.
"Me?" Akai looked at her surprised, "What would you need me, for?"
"I-It's… um… private…"
"If it's love advice, don't." Raine pointed out, only to get knocked on the head by Weiss behind him.
"Okay, I guess we can talk somewhere else?" She stated.
"O-Our room should suffice." Ivory nodded as she leads Akai away, Raine already following her along with Moon and Ember, "What are you doing?" The assassin asked annoyed.
"What? I want to know." Raine stated.
"S-Sorry, I don't want to bother you my personal problems." The Faunus sniper stated.
"And Akai?"
"She's… kind of knee-deep in this already…"
"Sure…" He rolled his eyes, "Look, is it about what happened with the weapon shop last semester? If it is, I'm joining in. There's no way I'm letting my partner get drag in into a mess with gangs and mafia members."
"Siege isn't exactly mafia, Raine." Ember pointed out, "Or gangs, at that matter."
"Either way, I'm in, where you like or not."
"U-Um…"
"Let him, Ivory…" Akai sighed, "He's the type that gets himself into dangerous situations regardless of our consent or not. You can look at last semester for that."
"That's much is true." Moon nodded, "And we want in too! No matter what it is, we're doing this as a team!"
"Wait, does that mean me too?" Ember asked, Moon glares at him angrily, "F-Fine! I'm in!"
"See?"
"…I guess…" Ivory sighs a little, "Come on, we can discuss it in my room."
"Please not let it be another White Fang issue…" Ember mutters, "I have enough on my plate already."
"God damn it!"
"Ember, relax." Raine tells him.
"Relax?! How did I expect to relax when what we're dealing with the White Fang?!" He shouted, "AGAIN!"
"Well, technically, Siege is just a smuggler that just happens to work with the White Fang." Ivory pointed out.
"Same thing!" He shouted, "First Blake, and now you?! Does every female Faunus we know have to be related to the White Fang?!"
"Fenier isn't part of the White Fang." Torque pointed out.
"I know, and I'm thankful for that."
Team RAEM is now in LIGT's room, they all standing or seating around the floors or beds as Ivory spills her secret along with her connections with the White Fang. Moon was quite shocked to hear it but Ember took it the worst as proven with the results of his shouting.
"Ember, just hear her out." Leaf stated, "Besides, you were part of the White Fang once too, weren't you?"
"Huh? How do you know that?" Ember asked, "I've only told mine and Blake's teams."
"Oh, Raine told me."
He glares to his leader, the swordsman just raised his hands up in surrender, "It just slips out, I swear!"
Ember sighs in defeat, "Fine… what is it?" He asked.
"After that last bout last semester, Siege's trail has gone cold." She stated, "I need to find him but I have no other means of gathering information about him. That's why I needed your help, Akai."
"Mine? What for?" She asked.
"You're an assassin, right?" Ivory stated, "You must have contacts about many known criminals across remnant. You can asked them for information about him! Then I might be able to find a trail again!"
"That's, unfortunately, isn't possible for Siege." Ember pointed out, "From my time with the White Fang, I've only seen him once or twice. He gets the goods, deliver it, and then disappear. It's his modus operandi. I doubt anything can be said about him."
"Not only that, the news have no coverage about him at all." Raine stated, "Remember what happens after? Robbery happened, yes, but there's no report on him, only on that mercenary and the Hooded Vigilante."
"Wait, that's it!" Leaf said understanding it, "That's how he smuggles them!"
"Huh?" Everyone looked at him curiously.
"The robbery is the cover, a distraction so to speak." He added on, "With everyone's eyes on the robbery, behind the scenes, he steals the goods and leaves the scene. All the camera footage will be on the robbers so he'll remains anonymous the whole time! He then loads the goods elsewhere, and delivers it to the White Fang!"
"…It kind of make quite a bit of sense…" Ember stated.
"That would explains what he was doing at the robbery." Ivory stated.
"So, we look for robberies on weapon shops, we can get a lead!" Torque stated happily, "Awesome, let's do that!"
"We'll discuss the plans tomorrow." Akai stated, "Any place we can use for a meeting place?"
"There's the gardens at the back of campus." Gamma stated, "Hardly anyone goes there."
"Then it's settled, then." Raine nodded, "Let's meet up as soon as school ends. We'll begin the operation in the evening."
…
To be continued…
And done! Finally, it's finished! Volume Two has officially started! I originally wanted to have RAEM getting mixed with the canon story but as I wrote out Ivy's arc, I found a better target. I mean, Akai is already involved somewhat so might as well use it as the one of the main plots for this volume.
Trust me, I have a lot planned for this volume, many little arcs that I planned since volume one.
Also, I have read some of the reviews and I wanted to apologize for putting BLAZ on the side since their creation. I wanted to use them but never really got a reason to use them. But don't worry, this volume would see them in action. They would be use as side characters but I'll use them nonetheless.
With that, I thank you all for reading this!