Furla smiled wryly. "Nothing good I'm afraid. You stumbled on something that I'm worried that you shouldn't have seen."
Feeling his heartrate calm down a bit, Tempest retracted, and he rubbed his forehead. "Why shouldn't we have seen that?"
Furla nervously looked over her shoulder, examining the shadows and the silhouettes of the rooftops.
"Who is this?" They heard Racheal call, they turned around to see her and Dannis escorting the man from the building, Dannis led him to the Bullhead as Racheal walked over to them.
"It's a… long story." Alden said before turning back to Furla, "You were saying?"
"These masked people, I assume since you've got a policeman of the third highest rank with you, you know they are classified."
"Yeah, and…?"
"It's how high they have been classified, everyone I've talked to, everything I've hacked into, there is no mention of them, and I think it goes all the way up to councillors."
"Councillors?" Maya asked, "But why would they want to hide their existence from everyone?"
"Oh, I have a few theories." Furla said, "But I need to confirm a few of them,"
"So why did you come here?" Aegan asked.
"I knew they were taking someone here, I needed to confirm he was who I thought he is."
"And?" Alden asked.
"He's a dust scientist, arguably the best on remnant."
"And they needed him… why?" Maya asked.
"That sadly has eluded me, but I can ensure you, it's nothing good at all."
"Right we have him loaded." Dannis said jogging over to join the group, "We can't stay here any longer." Maya nodded and made to head for the Bullhead.
"wait!" Furla called, causing them to stop.
"What is it?" Alden asked.
"If you want to know more about them, I suggest we hear them talk, rather than end up in a situation where they're shooting at you."
"And how do you suggest that?" Dannis asked, looking to Alden with a questioning look, Alden nodded subtly before turning back to her.
"You go to the club with all the shady people of course." She smiled "It will be a fun night out."
Dannis hesitated for a second and turned back to the Bullhead. "Diver, get him to the Beacon infirmary, remember no one can know how we found him, we'll take the next leg."
"If you're sure sir." She said. Dannis nodded. "All right, lets go!" She called towards the cockpit and the Bull heads engines roared into life and lifted form the ground and turned for Beacon.
As the echo from its engines finally drifted away the street was quiet once again.
"Anyway." Furla said, "Shall we?"
The walk was dark, with only the moon to provide enough light to guide them through the crumbling streets.
"I've always wondered why this area isn't renovated, there's more than enough money in the kingdom." Maya said.
"Time? Maybe, the allocation of workers?" Nite suggested, as they crossed the street and turned around a corner.
"Not that, more than half the workforce is not active on construction at any one time."
"You seem to know a lot about the capabilities of the kingdom." Racheal said glancing at her.
"That's because my dad's the assistant of…" She suddenly fell quiet.
"Of?" Aegan pushed.
"Oh, nothing." Maya said. Nite was about to push forward but was stopped by Alden shaking his head. He didn't know what she was about to say, but she obviously didn't want to mention it with their present company.
Alden pushed forward and fell into step next to Furla, she looked at him and raised her eyebrows.
"You… you know about the nightmares thing?" He asked quietly. She nodded, "Do you ever get something similar, but when your awake?"
She looked at him a bit more seriously, "Like ghosts?" He nodded, "And they recognise your presence or even see you?" again Alden nodded. "Your advancing quickly…" She said, mostly to herself. "Did you get their name?"
Alden thought back, he could see the girl walking towards the alley…
"Mum!" He heard her cry out from the shadow of his mind, "Where did you go!?" he shook his head as the flash of green burst before him. "Azerra, you ok?" he heard, "Azerra, Azerra, Azerra?" Echoed again and again getting louder and louder until it was near deafening.
"Alden?" He heard Maya ask and just like that it was gone. He stood there, blinking, staring down at a puddle. He could see himself, slightly shivering from the cold, his hair blowing back slightly in the wind. He could see someone walking up behind him and his eyes widened, there was a girl, her Auburn hair fluttering behind her-
Her eyes glowing an emerald green.
"Alden?" she asked, commenting to herself, "So it does happen."
Alden bolted around, searching for the glowing eyes. But he was only met with the icy blue of Maya's.
"There you are." She said smiling as his eyes refocused. He looked around, trying to regain his mental footing.
"Azerra." He said turning to look at Furla, "Her name was Azerra."
"Azerra?" Nite said, stepping forward, "Who's that?"
"The one before." Furla said, looking at Alden, "In my visions, I follow a girl called Erica, she's… consumed by hatred. We don't exactly see eye to eye. She and Azerra" she said gesturing to Alden, "have come to blows many times."
"What in all the dust is going on?" Dannis said, "I feel like I really don't understand what's happening right now."
"You know that thing I was going to tell you about later?" Alden asked. Dannis nodded, "This is that, and it's way too long a story to be told now, and I don't even know half of it I imagine." He said, sending a sideways glance to Furla.
She rubbed the back of her neck, "Our… Mutual acquaintances," She said looking at Alden, "Have been quite busy lately. I haven't exactly been able to pop over and chat. I do owe you an explanation to the best of my knowledge when there's time." She looked down at her wrist at a small watch. "We don't have much time now either now, we need to keep moving."
They continued onwards, though with most of the party often sending concerned glances In Alden's direction who seemed distracted, jumping at any noise. He was powering ahead, not stopping to see if the other were keeping up. Furla slowed down slightly to fall into step with Maya.
"Sadly, this is going to be normal for a while." She said, "Just as you think you're safe and nothing is going to happen, something pops up and you're back to questioning your own sanity."
"Will he be all right though?" Maya asked, looking at Alden who was just visible at the corner of one of the tower blocks shadow.
"He will be, he'll get used to it. Currently he's trying to get used to sharing a soul with someone."
Maya turned to look at her. "Excuse me?"
"You familiar with the black sibling myth?"
"May have read up on it."
"So, you're doing your research?" Furla said, looking impressed, "It'll help him massively with people like you and your team supporting him in this, it gets… trying at times."
"He shouldn't have to face this alone, though I'm still trying to figure out what this is."
"Well, what do you know about the myth?"
"umm, there are these four siblings, that can't be killed by any mortal means, they go about slaughtering anyone they deem unworthy of, well, life, and when they do eventually die, they'll just be resurrected again and the cycle turns once more."
"Pretty accurate actually, the slaughtering part especially." She said looking down at the ground sadly and kicking a stone. "We're not invincible, and we don't get resurrected, Neither Alden nor I have been running about stabbing who we please for the last few thousand years."
"Then why that part in the myth? They all have a modicum of truth."
"When we die, we give up part of our soul, a bit that was never ours in the first place, transferred down the line from when they first originated but I've never been able to determine when."
"So, Alden has, what? Someone's soul bolted onto his?"
"Not bolted on, we are born with a bit missing, designed to be filled by that part. It contains the important memories of every single lifetime but carries a lot more of the one before. So, the person carrying my part before me was called Erica, who was a complete psychopath. If what Alden is seeing is true, then it puts our predecessors at the same time."
Maya tilted her head in a questioning look.
"Azerra, as far as I can tell was the first to break off, normally events are orchestrated to make us afraid and alone when we're young so it's much easier to fall into her grips, but Azerra was found and adopted, and she got angry and tried to break free of her."
"Wait, stop there." Maya said looking towards Furla "Everyone keeps mentioning a her, Alden said that Eryel and Mansell had mentioned a "She" too, does she have a name?"
"Sadly, that is one of the few things that I don't know, and the thing I'm most worried about with Alden. After a while I started hearing a voice, calling my attempts at resistance futile, tried flooding my head with visons that weren't true. She wants Alden and I; she wants us all, and she already has half of us."
"This is the place." They heard Alden call from the front, he was looking at what seemed to be an abandoned building, but Maya could hear the music through the floor from here.
"You know Junior's?" Furla asked.
"No, but a friend of mine does."
"You mean that blond girl from forever fall?" Alden nodded, "I've seen her in here a few times, really tore the place up once, took on everyone by herself."
"That… sounds like Yang." Aegan said as they approached the door.
"So, what are we doing here?" Nite asked.
"Some of the masked people frequent here when they're on leave or want some privacy, we going to mingle, see if you can get close enough to hear what they're saying. Sorry but we're going to have to rely on our Faunus for this one." Maya and Aegan nodded.
Furla pushed open the doors and they headed in, swamped by the loud music. They headed down the stairs and split up.
Maya looked at Alden who was looking around nervously.
"What's the matter?" She called over the music, trying to talk loud enough for him to hear.
"I hate nightclubs." He simply replied, feeling slightly claustrophobic in the noise and muggy heat of all the bodies,
"Well luckily for you, we're not here to dance." She looked around and noticed a semi- second floor above them, like an oversized balcony stretching across a large portion of the back wall. "I suggest we get a drink and head up there, get a better look."
Alden nodded, and they headed for the bar.
The keeper looked at them, gesturing for them to order something.
"I'll have an island tide, with a drop of ice." Maya said, the barman nodded and looked at Alden. Who having absolutely no idea what he was doing went with the easy option:
"I'll have what she ordered please." He said.
Maya looked at him with a smile, "You really don't know what you're doing, do you?"
"No clue." He replied with his own smile, feeling a bit better after the weird tenseness seemed to start to disperse.
Two small glasses with a suspicious looking blue liquid inside were placed before them, they smiled in thanks and took the glasses as they turned away from the bar.
"This doesn't look exactly… indigestible." Alden said eyeing his glass sceptically as they headed for some stairs.
"This one shouldn't be poisonous to humans." Maya said nonchalantly as she began her ascent. Alden's eyebrows raised and looked at her in alarm.
"Wait, what?"
Maya simply just smiled at him with a mischievous glint in her eyes.
Alden rolled his eyes as his eyebrows lowered. "Oh you… That was rude." He said as they reached the top. They walked over to the railing and lent against it as they observed the crowd below.
The chamber was most heavily populated in the centre, in the large multi-coloured dancefloor, surrounding it was a small elevated walkway where there were several people milling around on its surface. But nothing stood out to them. Even further out towards the edges of the large room where several tables, where scattered. They examined them closely. There were several groups, most talking quietly amongst themselves, but nothing stood out like the masked they had fought earlier.
"I don't see them." Maya said, "Do you?"
"Nope, Maybe they're not here yet?"
"Maybe."
A period of silence followed as they examined the members of the crowd. They could see Nite and Aegan in one of the corners, also examining the crowd like they were. Nearer the middle, under the cover of all the noise they could see Furla talking avidly with Dannis and Racheal. But Not even Maya could hear what they were saying…
"Isn't it Peach's test tomorrow?" Aden asked, breaking Maya's concentration.
She turned to look at him.
"We're in one of the shadiest clubs in town, trying to find a group of mysterious kidnappers and possibly mass-murderers, and you're worried about a test?"
Alden looked at her with a mock offended look "What?"
Maya shook her head smiling, "You're unbelievable." She said, "but yes, it's tomorrow."
"Cool, that's all I wanted to know." Alden said.
"Do you… Believe what Furla is saying?" Maya asked, "About everything? You? Her?"
Alden sighed and looked down at his hands crossed over the railing. "I don't want to; I really don't want to. But either she's telling the truth, or I have got some top-class hallucinations, and hallucinations don't bash you through trees or conjure up new types of grimm. I think I have to believe her."
"Do you think all of this is related to them?" Maya asked making an ambiguous gesture with her hands. "That girl back in forever fall said we'll see them again soon. Since then, we've been involved in a murder, a street shooting, you having a weird type of panic attack and getting stalked by Grimm on a hunter infested island, What if they have something to do with it?"
"I really wouldn't be surprised, you're right, its been crazy since forever fall, we haven't been able to get a break."
"And now we're dealing with the kidnapping of a young girl by a shadow organisation who's apparently planning on killing thousands."
"What a day!" Alden said grinning.
"All in day of a life of a hunter in training."
"Just imagine what it will be like when we graduate!"
"Talking of which." Maya started again, a faraway look in her eyes. "A lot of teams disband when they leave Beacon, do you think we'll be the same?"
"Well, Nite doesn't want to go back to vacuo, and the rest of us live in Vale, so why would we? I'm all for sticking together."
"Good," Maya said smiling at him "I'm glad."
"You just want to keep being in charge, is that what this is?" Alden said smirking at her. This time he was ready. He saw the flash of orange from the corner of his eye and moved his hand to his back and wrapped his hand around the furry appendage before it could hit him.
Maya looked at him in shock, her tail caught in his hand. He enjoyed the revenge on her using it to whack him when he didn't expect it, but he was very careful not to pull it. He stuck his tongue out at her and released her tail as it flopped back behind her.
"That's cheating." She sulked.
"If I recall correctly, that's what I told you when you first hit me with it, revenge is sweet M'lady." He said pretending to cock a hat.
She rolled her eyes and smiled as her gaze went back to the crowd and stiffened, "heads up." She said. Alden followed her gaze to where she was looking to see a new group enter the club. Half a dozen in total, they moved with a strange sort of purpose and Alden couldn't even see one of their faces. They were here.
"What even is this stuff?" Nite said, her face contorted in disgust as Aegan laughed at her.
"I-I'm sorry," He tried to say between breaths, "But your face was worth it!"
"How do you drink this!?" She said putting it down on a table nearby as she tried to concentrate on something else to forget about the awful taste sitting int the back of her mouth.
"I don't!" Aegan said still laughing, "I just thought it would be funny to see you try it!" He said putting his drink down too, Nite narrowed her eyes at him and when he wasn't looking as he was clutching his stomach in his self-imposed glee, she swapped the glasses round.
When Aegan went back to his drink, Nite watched him with interest. His eyes widened in shock and he spat the contents back into her glasses. This time it was Nite who failed to keep her emotions under wraps and started to cackle at his forced misfortune.
He looked at her with lowered eyebrows. "You…"
"Be careful what you wish for!" She singed as she took a sip of his drink, a fruity flavour reminding her of strawberries filled her mouth. Much better.
Something felt wrong.
Most of the club had a fairly care-free feel to it. But suddenly it changed, she could feel… something, it wasn't angry, but it definitely had a malicious feel about it. She started to look around but couldn't see anything out of place.
"What is it?" Aegan asked.
"I don't know…"
Alden felt uneasy, it seemed like he could feel someone touching the back of his neck, but when he looked behind him, he could see nothing. He turned his attention back to the group who had taken a seat at one of the tables. Maya nudged him with her elbows and gestured across the floor with her head.
"If we get over there, I might be able to hear them." She said. Alden nodded silently and whilst still checking around him followed her to their new spot. Maya took another sip of her drink, appearing casual and non-threatening but kept her ears trained down.
"So why are we still keeping him? He's outlived his usefulness, just be rid of him and the girl and we'll be free of the loose ends."
"On this project yes, but we may be able to use him again, the girl is to remain safe, and we have the power to do anything we want with him."
"I think, they're talking about the guy we rescued." Maya whispered, still keeping her attention down, "They're arguing over a girl they're using as a hostage."
"Are they saying where?" Alden whispered back; Maya shook her head. Alden looked back over the crowd below, there was no way he would be able to hear for himself without being found, he managed to lock eyes with Nite who she and Aegan had managed to get closer themselves. He could see Aegan's ears stretched high above his head, trying to hear anything he could. Looking further afield he soon realised he couldn't see Dannis, Racheal or Furla. His eyebrows furrowing, he scanned the crowd again to no avail.
He tapped Maya's arm to let her know he was moving and pushed off from the railing. When he reached the top of the stairs he looked again, his concern rising by the second. It wasn't like they were hard to miss. Deciding there was no other place to look, his gaze turned up to the rafters, there he saw Racheal, he felt relief flood back into him, but why was she up there? He felt his stomach drop to see that she was holding her weapons, she looked like she was tracking something. This wasn't good.
"The sixth group are overseeing the transfer," One of the masked said, "It should reach the target within the next week." Maya was struggling to strain her ears, trying to filter out the noise of the club.
"When is it going to be completed?" Another asked.
"Maybe a day or two after the package arrives, it only needs injecting. But that much dust is going to be incredibly volatile. So, it's a slow process."
"Why not fly it, won't that speed it up?"
"Yes, but it's not that inconspicuous."
Suddenly, she heard a click behind her. She then felt the heavy scratch of metal resting on the back of her head. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man, a pistol levelled at her head. She tensed ready to spring into action, but she felt the barrel press harder into the back of her skull.
"I wouldn't." The man said quietly. Maya quickly began running through her options, dodging was difficult, his finger was already half cocked the trigger. Her semblance may help but he would still attempt to fire. Perhaps if she could get her weapon to expand…
She saw a sudden flash of purple to her side, her vision just registered the split-second appearance of Alden before both him and the man had vanished in a purple flash, reappearing in the shadows at the back where no one was looking.
The man looked stunned for a second, trying to figure out how he had changed location, but was snapped out of it as he heard a rattling sound, but there was no time to react. Alden was already in mid swing, the frontal plate of Tempest smashing into his temple and he rolled onto the floor, out cold.
Maya and Alden looked at the man and then at each other. He was wearing the blank mask, and he had known they were there…
Two gunshots rang out from towards the dance floor. Followed by screams and the sound of pounding feet.
It was a trap…
Maya looked over the railing, there where several masked wading out from the shadow, all with weapons drawn. The doors slammed open and two more walked in with large machine guns slung in their arms, with a sickening crunch that Maya could hear even from this distance they cocked their weapons and lowered it towards Nite and Aegan, but between them was a large crowd of civilians, running in all directions in their terror, right in the way to be gunned down.
Maya's weapon span and rattled as it folded into the rifle and she rested the barrel across the railing. This time she didn't muck about, nor did she hesitate, with so many innocent civilians on the line, her crosshairs swivelled and landed on the head of the first one. She exhaled as she pulled the trigger.
The dragon's head pulsed as the fireball streaked across the room, brushing past one of Aegan's blades as he blocked a bullet from behind him, and slammed into the neck of her target, sending him sprawling to the floor. Before the other one could react, he was also dropped as Maya double tapped him in the chest.
Nite looked up to see where the shots were coming from, she saw Maya standing at the railing, barrel smoking and it swivelled in her direction. The barrel flashed and she felt the rush of heat as the projectile passed inches from her neck and slammed into a masked behind her sending her sprawling to the ground. They flipped back onto their feet and advance on her again just as three more shots brought her down.
The entire building was filled with shouts and screams as bullets found their marks; it didn't seem the masked were targeting them so much as they were targeting everyone. Luckily, the club's security had mobilised and were trading fire as more masked came running through the door. Nite was desperately trying to control her breathing. The gunshots… the screams… the smell of gunpowder, it was just like being back at Vacuo. She felt the tug in her gut as she reached out. She can do something now. Tapping into the fear of the people around her, the black swirling shield began to form and grew, spiralling out and growing even larger until it rose from floor to ceiling, cutting off a large part of the club, separating her and the civilians from the fighting.
Without having to worry about the civilian's safety, they broke ranks and dived headfirst into the chaos.
Form her position overlooking the fight Maya could see a near continuous flash of purple, zapping about from masked to masked, leaving a trail of collapsed bodies in its wake. Dannis was higher up like her, his weapon flashing a brilliant blue as he dropped masked after masked. Racheal was running around the edges of the club, her flying disks bouncing off the walls leaving an orange streak in their wake. She couldn't see Furla though. Through the corner of her eye she saw Alden blink… but he didn't reappear…
There where cries of shock that filled the room as she looked down, there were no more masked in the club, nor were there any bodies, they had just… vanished…
Alden suddenly hesitated he could have sworn he wanted to end up somewhere on the other side of the club, not here. He looked around and nearly had a heart attack as he saw their shimmering qualities. The last time this happened was… He felt his body flood with adrenaline, making his chest spike with pain as his heart started to beat to fast. Surrounding him were the bodies of the masked, their blank expression staring up at the ceiling, the only thing making them unique were the holes for the eyes. Most of them were riddled with bullets from the club's security, others had dust burn marks, a few of them were still alive writhing in pain.
Above all them was a figure standing in a black cloak which they pulled down. Alden felt the panic grip his chest as their red hair tumbled down their back, eye's burning with hateful intent, in their hand was a sword made of ice…
Alden blinked as far away as possible, his gauntlets shrieking as they fire of a hail of lightning dust projectiles.
Eryel blocked them easily as Alden felt the wind at his back change, he rolled just as another figure sailed over where he was standing. Mansell growled at him and began to advance as Alden desperately backed up. Alden was trying to get his muscles under control, but he felt feint as his body went into both shock and a desperate fight or flight response. Just as suddenly as they had arrived Alden was suddenly standing in the middle of the dancefloor, reeling, spinning round, his eyes as wide as saucers as he desperately tried to find the hooded figures in the crowd.
"Alden?" He heard Maya call, "You were gone too long, are you alri…"
"Where are they!?" Alden interrupted, his gauntlets swivelling just in case they were sneaking up on them, he needed to get his team out of…
"Alden!" He heard Maya say firmly, gripping his shoulders to try and ground him. His attention finally was commanded by her and he tried to get his breathing back to normal. "What happened?" She asked.
"Alden!" They heard Furla call. They turned to see her run up to them. "I felt them, they were hear."
"Who?" Maya asked.
"Eryel and Mansell, they were in this club."
Alden nodded weakly. "I saw them." He hesitated, "At least I think I did, I can never be quite sure with them."
"Oh, they were here alright." She said looking around the club. Many were staring at Nite, whose shield had just faded away. "We need to get out of here, before anyone thinks it was us."
Alden breathed in deeply, the calm night air helped to steady his nerves.
"What was that about?" Dannis asked, "You look as Pale as a ghost!"
They quickly retreated to the shadows and Alden took several minutes, standing still and gazing at the stars which could be seen in the sky as he tried to regain what breath he could.
"I think… I could do with that drink you offered." Alden said, still looking around nervously.
That is how they ended up at the Mill-House Hill at eleven O'clock at night, huddled around a table in the corner.
"So, all of this has happened after your trip to forever fall?" Dannis asked. Alden nodded, "the dust robberies seemed to have stopped around then, and that also around the first time I found a sighting report of these "masked" as you call them. So, you think it's got something to do with these Mansell and Eryel characters?"
"Not think." Furla interjected, "This is exactly their Modus Operandi, They have a very large part to play in all this."
"Well, I can see what I can find on the database." Dannis said," They may not be covered by the classification, but I don't think that will lead to anything."
"It's worth a try," Furla said, she then turned to the members of MANA, "During our little shoot off I managed to get one of those masked at the table, they didn't know it was a trap and had a runaway mouth, if you catch my drift."
"Anything interesting?" Maya asked,
"Maybe not about them," Furla said, "But something to do with the dust robberies. They said that huge shipments of it are being moved to a Village on the Northern border of Vale called Maranis. But there's no infrastructure there to do anything with it. He also said that the guy you rescued, Doctor Olson? His daughter may be being held there."
"Right but how do we get there? It's on the other side of the Kingdom." Maya asked.
"Well, if I remember correctly. You get to shadow a huntsman or huntress within the next week on your first mission. Ozpin already knows about the transfer of dust, they'll be a mission to there, all you need to do is get on it."
"Okay, and when we get there?" Maya probed.
"Find out what they're doing there, find Olson's daughter and bring her home safe, and generally throw as big of a spanner as you can into the works. With what we've seen today, it's most likely the inhabitants of Maranis are in danger of being caught up in this. It's a big ask, but you're the only ones who know about this who can operate on an official enough level to help the village if its too dangerous for them."
Maya looked at the rest of her team. "Are you guys Ok with this? It's on the other side of the Kingdom, so we may be there a while. We need to be unanimous on this, it's likely going to be incredibly dangerous, and a long way from home."
"I'm in." Alden said, "They're going to be counting on us, we may be some of the few that can help."
"I agree," Nite said "But that's easy for me to say, home is with you guys."
They looked at Aegan, he looked slightly hesitant, but he summoned his resolve and nodded, "Let's get them." Maya smiled.
Racheal jokingly pretended to shed a tear," Beautiful." She said, "Our little hunters are growing up."
"Oh, shut up." Alden said smiling at her.
Dannis chuckled "On a more serious note, you have the right attitude, you'll make excellent huntsman and huntresses when you graduate."
Furla looked up at the tower clock at the edge of the room. "And with that, you lot should be getting to bed, you have a test tomorrow."
Nite groaned and her head hit the table, "I forgot about that…"
"How did you know about that?" Alden asked her.
"I know many things Alden," She said smiling, "enjoy your dance this weekend."
"Wait, what? I thought it got cancelled…"
"Your friends have taken over the preparations for the ball, didn't you know?"
"How do you know so much about what's going on in Beacon?" Dannis said suspiciously.
"Honestly? You probably don't want to know." She smiled and nodded at them, "I'll stay in touch, stay safe!" She said and headed for the door.
When the door shut with click Alden settled further down in his chair. "What day is it tomorrow?"
"Friday." Aegan said.
"We'll I'm going home after the exam; I've got nothing for a party."
"Neither has anyone." Maya said.
"Well, I guess we'll just have to hit the town tomorrow." Nite suggested
"It will be nice to get a break for once." Aegan said.
Maya snickered, "Yeah, with our luck? What could possibly go wrong?"
Hi everyone, me again!
So as of the 19th of February, I hadn't watched any of season 7, I find it easier to watch it all at once to avoid any confusion from between episodes. So that means I've been out of the loop for a few months. But now There's a few important things to note, the main one being the mention of timelines: which for me is perfect as It gives me a bit more leeway in how I mould MANA to the story, this hopefully can result in MANA working more closely with RWBY and JNPR in the future, but nothing too ridiculous, promise! But I would like to see them working together a bit more. We'll have to see what comes.
So from here on out, the actual story of MANA is going to start to speed up, much less mentions of the whole "black siblings" drama and more actual involvement. So over the next few chapters we'll explore the ball and MANA's first mission, I have been thinking about these events form literally since I began to write MANA, so I'll try my hardest to make sure they reflect it as such! I hope you're looking forward to this as much as I am!
If you've liked what you've read so far please consider leaving a review or PM'ing me, I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas about this and I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the story, thanks for your time everyone!
Until then!
