Part 3 of Nora's story.

Ruby and Weiss had been walking for an hour or so. They hadn't seen a town yet.

"So uh…are you sure you know where the queen's palace is?" Ruby asked Weiss.

"Yes if course I do. I'm not some dolt who just goes somewhere without knowing where it is." Weiss answered.

The two eventually arrived at a forest and entered. Though Weiss did look a little nervous walking in the dark forest.

"Don't worry Weiss, if any monster attack us I'm sure that we can take 'em on." Ruby said to comfort Weiss. Weiss didn't respond, she was too busy looking around and making sure that no monsters were in the area.

They carried on through the forest and were almost out since they could see light coming through trees in front of them.

But then they heard a loud roar. They then went to investigate, despite Weiss not wanting to.

They found the source of the roar. It was a massive Ursa. Ruby took out her scythe and cocked the gun. "Come on let's take it out." "How about we avoid an unnecessary fight?" Weiss suggested.

But before Ruby could say anything back, a black blur attacked the bear. The Ursa attempted to fight back but the black blur was too fast for the Ursa. Ruby managed to get a good look at the figure. It was a girl with black hair. With her sword, she sliced the arms off the Ursa and then decapitated it.

"Wow that was impressive." Weiss said, in awe. "Hell yeah, that was cool!" Ruby said excited. Ruby then ran to the black-haired girl. The girl heard footsteps and turned around to face where the footsteps were coming from.

The girl pointed her sword at Ruby. "Don't come any closer!" the girl said.

"Whoa whoa it's okay. I just wanted to say I think it was cool how you took down that monster." Ruby said, her hands up. Blake put away her sword and Ruby put her hands down.

"What's your name?" Ruby asked. "It's Blake." Blake answered.

Weiss, seeing that it was safe came up to the two. "My name is Weiss." Weiss said to Blake. Blake nodded in acknowledgement. "What are you doing out here?" Weiss asked her.

"I'm on my way to queen's palace." Blake answered. "Really!? That's where we're going too!" Ruby said. "Why are you going to the queen's palace?" Weiss asked.

"The queen had ordered the extermination of my people. I'm going to stop her, by killing her." Blake answered. A slight tone of anger was heard in her voice. Ruby and Weiss then noticed that Blake had cat ears. "Oh you're a faunus. I've heard of the queen's order to exterminate them. How funny, we have more in common than I thought. I'm going to the queen's palace to kill her for vengeance against what she did against my father." Weiss said. "I see." Blake said.

"So why are you going to the palace?" Blake asked Ruby. "Oh I'm just going with Weiss to help her out." Ruby answered. "Strange, I've never met anyone like you. Helping someone just to help, without asking for anything in return." Blake said.

"I've gotten that before." Ruby commented. She then shot a glance to Weiss. "So do you want to join us?" Ruby asked.

"Sure, I think we would have a better chance with the three of us." Blake said. "Awesome, let's get going!" Ruby said. The three then continued on their journey. They walked out of the forest and continued walking to the queen's palace.


The three eventually arrived at another town. This one was the most broken down and poor town Ruby had ever seen. She was aghast at the state of it. All the people were clearly suffering.

"My God…this town is in such a bad state." Ruby commented. "And there are many more like it. Another reason to stop that queen." Blake said in response. Ruby shook her head in disgust.

The continued walking through the town. Then they heard sounds of fighting. They found the source of the sounds of fighting.

The three saw who was fighting. It was a tall, blonde girl. She was fighting against 6 soldiers. She had on gauntlets and would simultaneously shoot and punch at the same time. She defeated the soldiers without breaking a sweat.

"Wow that was amazing…" Ruby said, in awe. Ruby then walked up to the blonde. The blonde turned around and faced the three. "That was really cool what you just did!" Ruby said, impressed. "Thank you for saying so. So who are you three?" the blonde asked. "I'm Ruby." "My name is Weiss." "Blake."

"Cool, my name is Yang." Yang said. "So why were you fighting these soldiers?" Blake asked her. "I hate the queen and her soldiers. You see this town? It's my hometown. You see how bad it is? Wasn't always this way. It was pretty modest town, we were all doing good. But then that queen took power and then she introduced all those new taxes. This town got bled dry. I want to kill the queen." Yang explained.

"Well we're going to the queen's palace to kill her. Want to join us?" Ruby offered.

"Hell yeah!" Yang answered enthusiastically. "So why are you guys going?" Yang asked.

"Vengeance for my father." Weiss answered. "To make her stop exterminating my people." Blake answered. "I didn't have a real reason, just to help these two. But now I have a real reason. I want to stop her and end all these suffering. The state of this town is unacceptable. She has to die." Ruby answered. "Well then ramblers, let's get rambling." Yang said. The four then set out and continued to the queen's palace.

They were so close.


A few hours later the girls finally arrived at the palace.

Yang then announced their arrival to the queen.

"QUEEN MERLOT! YOUR TIME HAS COME! WE'RE HERE TO KILL YOU AND FREE THIS LAND!"

Then the massive doors of the palace opened and hundreds of soldiers faced the four.

The four then looked at each other, then looked back at the soldiers. The four then charged the soldiers, with looks of anger on their faces.