Flakes of snow painted the night sky as they fell upon the courtyard of the Schnee estate. Beneath the cracked moon, Weiss Schnee – a newly created Myrtenaster in hand – prepared for battle.

She stepped away from the sculpture at the edge of the courtyard, and was quickly surrounded by a spiraling tornado of ice and snow. While in the center of this maelstrom, she was slowly circled by a trio of snow white Beowolves.

One burst out from the pack, it's sights set on the heiress. It received Weiss' rapier through the throat for it's trouble. In response the remaining two beasts attacked.

The next Beowolf's head was separated from it's body with a one delicate slash. Weiss launched herself into the air, propelling herself to the third creature with use of a glyph. Another glyph created launched her from the beowolf and back to the sculpture. Myrtenaster's dust cartridge turned to fire. With one fierce slash a wave of fire melted away the Beowolves and dissipated the whirlwind they emerged from.

She marvelled at her weapon. It was performing much better than she thought it would. Truly this was the best blade that money could buy. As she reveled in her victory more Beowolves appeared to face her.

Weiss took a breath and jumped back into the fray with renewed vigor. Her strikes measured and precise, the heiress danced along the battlefield, defeating one Beowolf after another with a combination of sword skills, glyphs, and ice.

She was winning, but she was also starting to get exhausted. Her strikes - while effective - were much too aggressive and exposed too many holes in her defenses. This caught up with her when three blasts of snow spelled her end. The first two simply knocked her off balance, but the third flung Myrtenaster from her grip.

When she went to retrieve her weapon, a Beowolf tackled her to the ground. As the heiress struggled under it's weight, more monsters started to circle around them.

Weiss' eyes went wide, her heart started to race, and her body started to shake. She could feel the monster's breath on her face as it snarled and snapped it's massive jaws at her. It took everything she had to keep the creature from snapping her neck in two, but it was a losing battle. Her strength was fading by the second.

She was trapped with no way to escape. It was over.

The other Beowolves swarmed, and Weiss cried out.

"Natsu!"

A flash of fire erased the monsters crowding her, as well as the fierce whirlwind that surrounded them. When the blaze died down, Weiss found herself being carried in her brother's arms.

He smiled at her. "That was close." He let her down as their elder sister approached.

Winter dropped Myrtenaster before Weiss, the point sticking into the stones of the courtyard. Her posture as perfect as ever, her eyes were narrowed as she looked down at her youngest sibling. With a resigned sigh she spoke.

"Natsu will not always be around to save you, Weiss."

The heiress looked down to her feet, unable to meet her sister's disappointed gaze. "I know. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time."

"Come on, Winter." Natsu said. "Do you have to be so tough on her? She tried really hard."

"Trying and doing are two very different things. If she wishes to leave here, she will have learn to stop trying and start doing."

Winter walked away. Leaving Weiss to lament over her failure. Natsu placed his hand on his sister's shoulder. When she looked to up him he smiled and gave her a thumbs up.


Weiss awoke with a start in the airship's cargo hold. She looked out of the window to the setting sun, soon she would be out of Atlas airspace and on the way to Mistral. She reflected on the words Natsu said to her shortly before she awoke.

Don't worry, Weiss. I'll always be here for you.

She took a breath and leaned against the window.

"Where are you, big brother?"


Just a little something here since the Weiss character short came out a couple of weeks ago. I have a couple other little shorts planned, so be on the look out for those.

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