Do you know that moment when you say something out loud then immediately regret it? That's me right now, so I replied to someone saying "Really at the length of which these chapters are, I can probably make a four thousand word in one day, that's with my phone, but really it's far more convenient for me to just guarantee one shorty per week." Now I have someone actually PAYING me to make it. Now I know why people wanted me to make an account on p a treon. To guilt me into doing things like this.
Nova Quartz
"you should add Grammarly man, it will help in fixing mistakes that you can't stop"
Thank you for telling me about his great add on! It has been extremely helpful in my time writing this chapter!
Skykitsune
"So you doing the Jaune's the (infinite number of) great-grandson of Salem and Ozzy, eh?"
Not too sure how you came to that conclusion, but you're welcome to theorize however you want! Seriously, please tell me what I wrote that led you to this conclusion.
Guest
"dear writer please make more chapters"
I update every Saturday okay. With this being an exception.
NAME
"Call me curious but what is your process in making chapters anyhow?"
Okay, so this is a long one. I have a sheet of binder paper. In this sheet are various bullet points of how I'm getting from point A to point Z. The day after I post a chapter I immediately begin working on the next one. Saturdays are when I spend the most time working on the chapter, most of the day. Now I do have to confess, it does not take an entire week for me to make an update, Saturdays are just the time I will absolutely confirm a chapter will come out. Unless something comes up. So I then periodically work on it throughout the week whenever I have free time. Sundays I don't work because I want to have a day of free time for my self. Since the chapters are short I do put a lot of thought into what characters say and do, for example, Ironwood's reaction went through two other revisions before I finally settled on the third draft. Anyway...
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One Day Later
Ruby stood before her mother's grave her hood still covering her head, staring sadly downward.
"Hey, mom."
She looks down at the inscription: Thus Kindly I Scatter
"Sorry I haven't come by in a while. Things have been... well, things have been, pretty busy." Ruby said somberly. "Oh, Dad's here, too! He's, uh, you know... Dad." She shrugs. "He's still teaching at Signal. But he told me that he's going to be on some mission soon. I think he misses adventuring with you. Uncle Qrow is still off on a mission. As always." Ruby looks forlornly. "I miss you too." She paused. "Mom. I've learned something about a friend of mine. He... He's married to a bad person, though she seems nice... I just... Don't know what to do right now." She stands there in silence for a while, as if expecting a response. "Everything has gotten confusing and I really need your help." Her voice grows weaker. "Jaune, that's his name, was my first friend at Beacon. He literally picked me off the ground when I was at a low and gave me the time and support to keep going throughout the rest of the day. Now I know he needs someone to be ready for him, but I just don't know if I can. Mom, I am trying to be strong but I need your advice. You just knew what to say and what to do. I could- need that right now." Ruby stared at the gravestone for a while then sighed as she turned to leave.
"I don't know what I expected."
One Week Later
A training drone fell on its back, a javelin was embedded in its face. It sparked and twitched until it finally gave out. The javelin was pulled out and flew back into Pyrrha's hand. Around her other training drones were laying about, some were shot up others were sliced, and others had large punctures in them, like the one before now had.
"Reset!" She commanded for the fifth time that day.
Jaune was arrested not eight days ago and she was still venting in the only way she knew.
Combat.
Since they couldn't compete in the Vytal festival today the training room was the next best place.
"Override! End training session!" Someone commanded.
The Aura board went offline and clean up drones where deployed. Pyrrha looked over to see it was Ren who ended the session.
"Pyrrha." He began walking over to her. "We need to talk."
She huffed and crossed her arms. "There is nothing to talk about Ren. I'm fine."
Ren stopped a few feet from her. "The fact you'd make such a clam when I never made the implication says your not fine." He sighed. "Pyrrha, we're not close in the slightest, but I would still consider us friends. So tell me what's wrong?" Ren pressured.
She easily broke. "Jaune had been arrested by Atlas for being married to the literal leader if the White Fang!" Tears were streaming down her cheeks. "Terrorist that have murdered their way across the four kingdoms! He married that monster and- and made love to her every three weeks for the past two semesters!" She dropped to her knees. "Who was our team leader? Why did he do this? What are we going to do?" Pyrrha looks up at Ren with a desperate look.
Ren sighed and crouched down next to her. "Pyrrha listen. I don't have all the answers, and I don't do much talking with Jaune. But he is a good man. I know he wouldn't be doing this without a reason, marring Sienna Khan I mean, we should- need to give him the benefit of the doubt here." He placed a hand on her shoulder. "We have to be strong right now. For Jaune and for ourselves."
Pyrrha wiped her tears away and slowly got back to her feet.
"Do you really believe that?" She asked.
"Pyrrha I know that. So let's get you to a shower."
Team RWBY made it to the second tier of the Vytal festival. The opposing team was out and they were representing their kingdom to its finest.
They didn't care for it.
Ruby was still confused and unsure of how she should be responding, Yang was left to comfort her sister in these strange times, Weiss was looking on not knowing what to do or how to help, and Blake was just... there.
They were at the fairgrounds, stopped at a noodle stand. Weiss's card was declined for some reason, but she barely reacted to it.
How did everything go from being cheery and up best to brooding and silence?
Rhetorical question, but it's what occupied Blake's head beside her ear revenge plot.
"Hey, buddies! How are all of you today?" Emerald had approached and asked completely oblivious on the atmosphere around them.
"Okay Em, just okay." Yang spoke first.
"We're having a shaky week alright." Ruby followed her up with.
Emerald leaned up against the counter. "Well, I saw you guys fight, that was amazing."
Yang grunted at the praise.
Her smile faltered a bit. "So you... You guys know who's going on to the doubles round?"
"Yang and Weiss. We put it to a vote after the fight." Ruby answered.
Weiss spoke. "I will happily represent team RWBY."
"Yeah... We're gonna kick some butt." Yang has no enthusiasm.
Emerald just stood there awkwardly for a while.
"Well, I'll just be going now."
"See you around Em." Yang said after her.
Emerald got a fair distance away before Mercury joined her.
"So how are the new 'friends'?"
"Confusing."
He raised an eyebrow. "Confusing?"
"They're usually all so happy all the time, but now they seem... Off."
"Well did you at least get what we need?"
"It's the heiress and the bimbo."
"Hm. Well, at least we know what we're working with."
"Yeah."
"What is up with them and why are they so mopey? Is this something we need to know? Something we should investigate." Emerald thought.
*Ring*
*Ring*
*Ring-*
"Yes Ozpin what is it?" Taiyang asked.
"I am sorry to bother you Tai, but this is about Qrow."
Tai became more alert.
"What happens Oz is Qrow okay?"
"I'm not sure about the okay part. But he has been missing for a while now. A month in fact. Absolutely no idea where he could be. Now he was helping me investigating a personal matter before he went off the grid. Do you happen to know anything or did he happen by in the last month or so?"
"Qrow hasn't been here in a long time and I haven't heard from him either. What do you mean by off the grid?"
"I mean his scroll is completely untractable by the CTT, which means he's either out of range or."
"His scroll was destroyed." Tai finished for him.
"Yes, well I'm sorry to have bothered you. Good day."
"Wait! You don't think she has him don't you?"
"It's a high possibility that she does, but I'm not jumping to conclusions."
"Do you need help in finding him?"
"No, it's quite alright. Don't concern yourself with this. Qrow is just as likely to have gotten extremely drunk and wandered off somewhere."
"For an entire month Ozpin?" Tai deadpanned.
"... It is Qrow after all. He's full of surprises." He said after a while.
Tai sighed. "Well keep me updated alright and if you do end up needing help come and ask me"
"I will Mr. Xaio Long. I will."
*Beep*
Ozpin turned back to a map of the city. Red dots were bars he had already looked into. A place called the Crow Bar was the only one where the tender had a description and tab under Qrow Bradwen. He said that Qrow was snoring on his counter one minute then gone the next. His glass the only trace someone was even there.
"Qrow. Where are you?"
What is going on?"
Jaune had been on the run for a day now.
Atlas military personnel were searching for him so his options were limited to living in the slums. Sienna's apartment had already been raided so it was already assumed she was arrested. He caught a brief story in the newspaper about this but he didn't care much.
He was a fugitive to Atlas and the White Fang.
The two groups wanted him. The Fang to kill him and Atlas to interrogate. Fortunately, with the Vytal festival in full effect, it meant slipping into crowds was easier then it was less stress full then to write a four hundred word fanfiction chapter all in one day.
Jaune had nowhere to go, no way to leave the city, and no one to go to.
"How did they find out? How did the White Fang know where I was at? How come no one is at the fairgrounds?" He had been wandering around the fairly small fairgrounds. It was like what thirty stands?
He had been wandering around looking for anyone in team RWBY or his own. Especially RWBY since their fight had ended and the fairgrounds and Beacon were the only two pick up and drop off locations the shuttles took people! Yet here he was dogging robots and still no RWBY.
"Why couldn't things just go back to normal?" He saw a few bots hold their gaze in his direction.
"Time to go!" Jaune bolted away.
Hazel was on one knee before a seer. Salem was sitting on her throne. Looking very disappointed.
"That is most displeasing." She paused. "How did he escape your grasp when you had him right there?"
"There were two convoys. I struck the decoy and Cinder got the real one. From what she told me, the boy managed to unlock his cell and slip away in the fighting."
"Why isn't Cinder here telling me this?"
"She needed to work on an important matter concerning the Fall Maiden."
Her face gained a frown. "Did she really insinuate that my orders are less important than her personal goal?"
"No ma'am I believe she just-" Her eyes begin to burn bright red.
"Tell her, that I will like to have a word with her. Immediately."
"Yes ma'am, right away."
Weiss was running up the main avenue towards the docking bay With Ruby running to catch up with her partner. "Weiss! What is the big deal!? Who is it? Who is she!?"
Weiss as she stops and smiles at the sight of a woman walking down a ramp.
"Winter."
The camera then cuts behind Ruby and Weiss watching winter, escorted by crimson-colored Atlas soldiers and Atlesian Knights as she exits her airship.
Ruby final remembered the name. "Wait... Your sister?"
"Winter!" Weiss cups her mouth as two of them run up to the elder Schnee as she turns to see them. "Winter! I'm so happy to see you! Oh..." Weiss suddenly curtsies. "Your presence honors us."
Winter looks around as she approaches them. "Beacon... It's been a long time. The air feels... different."
"Well I mean it is fall, so, it's probably colder from before, then it is now." Ruby said very uncaringly.
Weiss punches Ruby in the shoulder, causing her to gasp in pain before turning back to her sibling. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Classified."
"Oh, right. Well, how long are you staying?"
"Classified."
"Of course." Weiss nods the smiles in understanding.
Ruby just looks pensively around in the silence.
"You're going to love it here!" Weiss says excitedly. "I know you travel a lot, but so much of Beacon is different from Atlas!" "Vale, too." She discreetly whispers in. "The government and school are completely separate! Can you believe it!? I-"
Winter interrupted her. "I'm more than familiar with how this kingdom handles its... bureaucracy." Her eyes narrowed. "That is not why I came."
"Right! I'm sorry!" Weiss bowed respectively.
"Nor did I come here to watch my own blood fail so miserably in battle. But it appears that I have no choice in the matter."
Weiss gave a puzzled look. "But, we won!"
Winter deadpanned. "Only a novice would refer to that as a victory. I counted at least three strikes missed." Winter waves off her escort. "Leave us." The knights obey, walking two steps backward into the formation as Winter sighs and smiles a little more warmly at Weiss. "How have you been?"
"Oh, splendid! Thank you for asking. I'm actually in the very top ranking of our sparring class! And the rest of my studies are going wonderfully, too! I'm-"
Winter's hand came down to smack Weiss on the head leaving a massive bump on her head. "Silence, you boob! I don't recall asking about your ranking, I'm asking how you've been. Are you eating properly? Have you taken up any hobbies? Are you making new friends?"
"Well, there's Ruby." She gestured to the girl to her left.
Ruby giggles as she pushes the lump back into Weiss' head.
Winter eyes her from top to bottom. "I see. So this is the leader you wrote of. How appropriately... underwhelming."
"Um...?"
"Greetings, Ruby Rose. I wish to thank you for taking an interest in my sister."
"Oh! Uh, yes, o-of course!" She attempts keyword attempts, to courtesy. "The honor is in my uh... court!" She nearly losing her balance with this gesture, waving her arms until she can get back up.
Weiss facepalms.
"I have business with the General and your Headmaster. But, seeing as I'm early, why don't you take me to your quarters?"
Weiss' eyes lit up. "Really?"
"Yes. I wish to inspect them and make sure that they are up to my personal standards." Winter says as she and Weiss begin walking towards the Academy, followed by the androids.
"Of course. Just so you're aware, the bunk beds only look unstable."
"Bunk beds?"
*Ring*
*Ring*
*Ring-*
"Hello?"
"Yes, is this Lisa Lavender for the Vale news Network?" Said a feminine voice.
"Yes this is, do you have a story or something newsworthy to report?" Lisa asked.
"I do have something. You reported a few at ago that Sienna Khan was arrested by General Ironwood yes?" She inquired.
"I did yes. Do you have something to say or add to it?"
"He also arrested Jaune Arc didn't he?"
"Yes, he was arrested on the charge of being a collaborator of The White Fang."
"May I ask what the evidence of this charge is. I mean what did an Arc of all things do?"
"Well, he... I don't know what the evidence was. The General never said anything when he called."
"Yes, well I did some digging and found quite the interesting piece of information."
Lisa was intrigued and even leaned her scroll closer to her ear. "Which is?"
"First I will ask you this. When was the last time Atlas won the Vytal festival tournament?"
"The last time was... Fifty years I believe it was."
"Close. Fifty-two years ago. Since then they have been falling flat on their faces."
"Excuse me but what does this have to do with Arc?" Lisa asked.
"Jaune Arc." Lisa's question was ignored. "Goes to Beacon Academy and is in team JNPR, with Pyrrha Nikos."
"The Mistral champion?" She said surprised. "I didn't know that!"
"Why would you? It was the General himself who spoon-fed this story right to you. Conveniently after the breach and while the Vale council had unanimously voted to make the Vytal festival happen earlier than planned."
"I'm sorry are you saying that General Ironwood is trying to rig the tournament to allow Atlas student a better chance at success?"
"Furthermore." Lisa was ignored again. "He captures the infamous Sienna Khan. Boosting his popularity and public opinion to ridiculous degrees while stirring the Faunus 'pot' so to speak."
Lisa raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean stirring the Faunus pot?"
This time she got an answer. "To have an army and constantly expanding it you need a reason for it, such as an enemy. So tell me what is this enemy?"
"Well, the Grimm of course."
"But we have the Hunter Academies in each kingdom to deal with just that."
"Well... Yes, we do."
"It's The White Fang Lisa. The White Fang is Atlas's justification. So with all that in mind, I did some digging and I found something. Or rather a document in Mistral."
"What document?"
Lisa's scroll ringed with a message. She opened it and her eyes widened as she read the image.
"A-Are you certain of this?"
"It's in the Mistral data banks. You can easily fact check it if you like."
"So Ironwood removes Vale's guaranteed win, gains popular through Sienna Khan, and grows his enemies resolve to resist keeping the Atlas military justified in its expansions."
"Precisely why I had to contact you."
"Thank you for this information Ms?"
"Caroline, Mary Caroline. Have a good day now Miss Lisa"
Beep*
"Cyril! I think I've just found some breaking news!"
Cinder placed her scroll on the table in front of her. A smug look was plastered on her face. She lived her glass and took a sip, the cool fruity taste trickled down her throat. VNN was sure to have a field day with this. Ironwood would be backed into a corner. He would suppress the news as much as he could which in turn would make him look like a tyrant. Cinder laid back on the couch, content with letting the spark fuel itself.
"Heh, spark."
Ring*
She looked down to see her scroll was getting a call.
Ring*
She picks it up and it says the contact was Hazel.
"Ugh, what does he want?" Cinder internally groaned that her gloating time was interrupted.
Ring-*
"Yes Rainart what is it?"
"Cinder, Lady Salem has demanded your audience, immediately."
"... I'll be right over."
Winter, Wiess, and Ruby were all in team RWBY's dorm room.
"So these are our beds. The one with the books is Yang and Blake's respectively. While the one with the sheet and rope is mine and Ruby's. My is the bottom but don't worry it only looks unstable and is in fact very sturdy." She turns her attention to the overcrowded desk with books, pencils, and sheets of paper strewed on and around the desk. "This here is where we do our all of work. It may look overcrowded but is in fact very organized."
*Bark*
*Bark*
Zwei grabbed everyone's attention as he came out from Yang and Blake's bed and walked up to them placing a can if dog off down while drooling.
"N-Now Winter I can personally assure you that Zwei, that's his name is perfectly allowed to be here and I am not just making that Up completely-." Weiss was interrupted by a loud thud. When she looked over she saw that Winter had fainted.
"Somehow this is Ruby's fault."
While I was proofreading I came across this mistake.
Tai sighed. "Well keep me updated alright and if you do end up needing help come and take me"
My mind went immediately dirty with that and I was laughing so hard that someone in the other room had to come in to see if I was alright.
No this isn't four thousand, but it's still pretty long.
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