RWBY: Revenant

By Endbeats

Chapter 32: Before – Agustus Edelweiss

The Edelweiss family actually has familial connection to the Schnee family. The original founder of the Schnee Dust Company had a sister, who married into the Edelweiss family. As such, they were another elite family in Atlas. My father was the original heir of the Edelweiss technology company, though the stories he told me when I was a kid made it seem like he had no desire to inherit the company. In fact, he sounded a lot like a delinquent…

Sorry, I'm just thinking a lot about the past. Anyways, it was thanks to his position, though, that he and my mother got together.


Eighteen Years Ago...

"Agustus? Agustus! Is that a cigarette? Look at me when I'm talking to you, and get your feet off the desk!" The short instructor, both in height and temper, slammed his ruler onto the young adult's desk, making him jolt a little bit.

"Come on, Teach, this is the fifth day we've been on this lesson!" Agustus complained. His rubbed his white, unruly hair with his hands, covered in rings with jewels, to wake himself up.

"That's because you forget everything I tell you!"

Agustus rolled his eyes. Economics and business was not the path he would have chosen to take. Like everything, it was up to his family to decide everything he did. Every food he ate. Every party he attended. Every hour he existed. And in this oarticular aspect, it was everything he studied. Such was the unfortunate role he had as the oldest of the family. He was the heir, fated to rise above civilians and own the entirety of the Edelweiss Technology Company.

And he hated every second of being it.

Of course, he had a few moments of freedom, which he used to fight with his younger sister like a hunter. Unfortunately, she had the freedom to go to a hunters academy while Agustus was trapped, studying everything under the sun that involved running the company. Now, he used his times of freedom to buy clothes and jewelry, the only thing he enjoyed in his position.

Oh, and cigarettes. Those were nice.

Before the teacher could start teaching again, the bell rang, indicating that their lesson was finished.

The teacher groaned. "Agustus, I have no idea how you'll get the company to run."

"Worst case scenario: It will have to walk."

The teacher rubbed his brow at the joke, then walked out as quickly as he could. Before Agustus could be free, however, the butler of the house walked in.

"How was the lesson, sir? Did it prove exciting?"

"About as exciting as sticking a nail in my eye."

"My, that does sound quite exciting!" As usual, the butler twisted anything Agustus said to reflect what his family wanted. The man wasn't awful to Agustus, though. Just annoying every now and then.

The butler continued. "Anyways sir, your father requests that you come with me on a visit to one of the Edelweiss factories. He states that he wants you to understand every aspect of the company, and the factory is one of them."

"And if I say no?" Agustus took out another cigarette and lit it.

"Well, he'd disinherit you, of course!" the butler said with far too much enthusiasm.

Agustus sighed. As predictable as the threat was, it kept him in check. His father never minced words, nor did he leave any empty promises. He was a man who expected every to follow his word, or suffer the consequences. And as dreadfully repetitive as it was used, Agustus always consented. Several times did he try to leave the house with the intent of living on his own, but every time he came back apologizing in fear of becoming homeless. Finally, Agustus had just come to the sorrowful realization that he was doomed to inherit the company, as unmotivated and unprepared as he was.

Finally, the young adult got out of his chair. "Alright, let's go."


Agustus had seen the faunus workforce in Atlas many times, but it never ceased to disgust him. At least that was true in the past. Now, as he walked through the factory watching the faunus-majority workers skillfully put scrolls together, he felt nothing. He felt no pleasure in seeing them work, nor did he feel pity. They simply worked because they must. After all, the Edelweiss Company was one of the few that actually paid them – not that it was much.

"How many workers are there here?" Agustus asked the butler standing by his side.

"Exactly 452, sir. They work from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M." The large lines of faunus worked without a single word spoken between them, so the sound of the conveyor belts were the only things that echoed in the large room.

"Poor guys," he found himself muttering, though only out of what he expected he should say, not what he truly felt.

"What was that, sir?"

"N-nothing! Let's take a walk around," Agustus said as he walked down the steps that led to the factory floor. Eight rows of faunus that looked as if they stretched for a mile stood surrounding four large conveyor belts. The job was simple: Each worker did one part in the creation of the scroll. They did that for twelve hours with a lunch break in between. Looking up close, though, all of the workers together made a single scroll like it was an art. One worker was like a paint supplier, delivering the bits and pieces of the scroll together onto the belt. Another worker was like an organizer, only setting the parts of the device in certain areas to make the next jobs easier. And other workers were like the artists, fixing each part onto the shell of the glass-like scroll. Agustus was very impressed. Perhaps when he became the company head, he'd increase their pay. If his parents let him, of course.

Agustus came up to the middle a row and walked up between the chairs of one wolf faunus and a bear faunus. At the sight of the heir of the company, the two suddenly stiffened up and worked far more like a robot than before. It made him a little disheartened, but he shrugged, instead focusing on the scrolls at hand. He picked one, half-made scroll off the conveyor belt and took a closer look at the insides. There was so much inside of such a small device, it made Agustus wish he had chosen studying electronics. Such a cool creation….

"Excuse me? Could you put that back, please? Some people are going to mess up if you're stopping the belt like that," an annoyed voice said to the left. Agustus turned his head and looked past the wolf faunus to find a woman with dark-red, long hair, sitting with her hands on the metal edge of the belt. She could have easily passed as a human were it not for her green snake-eyes. She looked very young, too, though she seemed far wiser than she looked. The other people around her were whispering for her to quiet down, but she kept staring at Agustus with irritation.

"Sorry," Agustus responded while backing down from her death stare. Before he could put it back on the conveyor belt, though, his hand slipped and the scroll fell on the hard floor, splitting into hundreds of small pieces.

There was no pause before the woman said something that scared the entire factory and surely stiffened up every person within a mile-radius: "Pick it up."

For a brief moment, Agustus felt anger. He was angry that such a woman would command him, the heir, to do something. He was the heir, after all! But then, it was somehow overtaken by a warm, refreshing feeling of curiosity. Agustus felt his chest in amazement. Who was this woman that could command even an heir? Agustus' delinquent nature was brushed aside as he nodded, bent down, and started picking up the pieces.

"Sir, what are you doing?" the butler asked, stunned quiet from this whole experience.

"Help me out here," Agustus said as he pulled some pieces of the scroll's screen out from under the conveyor belt.

The butler nodded and did as he said, but he was also surprised when the woman sighed and bent down as well. "I suppose I could help you, too. It'll help with production," the woman muttered while picking up miniature pieces of the broken scroll. Agustus could hardly respond as he looked at the woman in respect. For once, someone stood up to him. Even the teachers who went hard on him never commanded or called him an equal. They always presented themselves like lower beings, being allowed the pleasure to tutor someone so rich. This faunus, though, made Agustus very curious.

Eventually, the three finished picking up the pieces, which they all conglomerated into the trash.

"There we go. Let's get back to work!" the woman yelled to the others around her. The frozen workers shook like bobble heads and started working on the scrolls that were piling up. Agustus could hardly pull his eyes away from her. She worked so dexterously. There was no stop to her movements.

Unfortunately, his focus was shifted when the butler started saying his name over and over. "Sir? Sir? Shall we go?"

Agustus forced his eyes away from the girl, then nodded and followed the butler towards the stairs.

"I swear, the moment we get home, I am reporting that… snake to your father!" the butler grumbled angrily while they walked up the steps. Agustus quickly caught a glimpse of her again behind the butler's back. The instant he looked at her, though, he was surprised to find her head turning away, as if she was looking at him. He had to get to know her. He needed to. The heir moved his head back towards his butler.

"No!" Agustus yelped and stopped him, "Please, I beg you. Don't do that!"

"And why ever should I not, sir? She did not know her place!"

Agustus shook his head and came up with an idea. "Look, I'm going to be heir, right? So Father wouldn't like it if I left so many of these jobs to him. Leave this faunus girl to me. It'll be a surprise for Father when he finds out I dealt with this girl and broke her spirit."

The butler rubbed his chin. "I don't know, sir. Such a task hidden from your father? I was given the job of relaying everything to him!"

"Look, you like it when my father is happy, right?" Agustus had an idea how to twist the issue.

The butler beamed and nodded. "Of course, sir! Nothing makes me happier than when the lord of the house is happy!"

"See? So if you tell him, it'll be seen as a chore. If I do it without him knowing, though, then he'll be estatic when I tell him!."

The butler thought for a bit, then nodded. "Alright, I will allow it, sir. But please, let it be quick."

"I'll try my hardest." Before they left the room, Agustus took one last glance back at the faunus girl. Again, her head shifted away and she focused again on her work.


The next day, Agustus managed to finish his lunch fast enough to sneak out to the factory. It was only a mile away, after all. If he did his calculations correct, then the factory workers were going to start their lunch period soon. If he got there in time…

Agustus snuck around the corner of the factory to the side where the massive garage door stood. He didn't understand why their factory had something like this, but it made it beneficial when he saw the faunus starting to pile out of it. He jumped back behind the corner and watched the hundreds of faunus walk out into the empty lot, where they would eat their lunch. Several of them were joking around, with arms around each other's shoulders, but he didn't care for them. All he wanted to find was the one girl.

He moved his eyes through the different hair colors and ears until he found an earless head of long, dark-red hair walking alone with a shopping bag, towards the area Agustus was hiding. Eventually, the faunus woman came to the fence, a good ten feet away from the wall Agustus hug. She was at a distance still and didn't seem to notice the hiding heir, so she proceeded to open her bag and pull out a small sandwich, which she slowly nibbled on.

Agustus took a deep breath. What if she didn't want to see him? What if she ran away? No, he couldn't focus on that. He had to meet her. With confidence, Agustus came out from the corner. Some of the faunus saw him, which caused them to start walking in the opposite direction, but the faunus woman still sat, focused entirely on her food. That was fine, then. It gave Agustus a chance to come closer. He walked and walked, each step heightening his pulse and making him flush in nervousness until finally, he stood over the woman.

The woman still didn't notice him. He gulped, then dawning his typical delinquent attitude, spoke as confidently as he could. "Hey, babe. What say you and I-"

The woman darted eyes of death at him, which immediately shut him up. He just stood there, hand frozen and eyes widened as he stared at this confident, young woman. He couldn't even try to run.

"What?" she muttered, not breaking eye contact, "Are you here to reprimand me? Fire me? Go ahead."

Agustus quickly shook his hands. "No, no, you got it all wrong!"

"Then what are you here for? Do you enjoy watching faunus work?"

"No!"

"I suppose then you're-"

"I just wanted to get to meet you again!" Agustus yelled in the courtyard. It would have been embarrassing, were it not for all the factory workers intentionally ignoring the two.

The woman rose her eyebrow. "W-what?"

"Well, you know, it just surprised me is all, so I wanted to meet you again. Oh, I'm-"

"Agustus Edelweiss. Heir to our great factory's owners. Enchanted to meet you," she interrupted with an eye roll.

Agustus scratched his head. "Err, yeah. Pleased to meet you, too."

The woman nodded and went back to nibbling on her food, effectively ignoring Agustus. Not one to like silence, however, the young man continued, "So why are you sitting alone? All the others are talking in groups."

She then swallowed her food. "I'm new here. Besides, the other workers think that I'm bad luck, what with me telling an Edelweiss family member to do something."

"S-sorry," he muttered. He felt guilty knowing that his intrusion yesterday messed up her social life at work.

The girl sighed and shook her head. "No, don't worry. I don't blame you for anything. To be fair, my personality isn't exactly making people line up to get to know me."

"Well, it did make one person line up."

He swore he saw her cheeks redden a bit. "Then that makes you different. I like different."

Agustus tilted his head. "Well, you're really different, too! You know that?"

The woman stared daggers at him.

"I-in a good way! No one's ever really issued me commands other than my father. They all either kiss my ass, like I'm a god, or ignore me, as if meeting me is like coming in contact with a disease. In a way, it was kind of refreshing."

She took a sip of water. "Since I've been raised, I've been told that if you cause a problem, you gotta fix it yourself. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Do you want to sit down?"

Agustus found himself lowering down beside her, which she didn't seem to mind. He also felt far more comfortable. It was a first in his life, excluding his sister. He replied, "And may I ask, what is the name of the woman who is imparting upon me this wisdom?"

The girl rolled her eyes at his attempt at charm, but answered anyways. "Adya Rasalhague."


My father told me he and my mother talked for three months before they decided to escape. When the time came for them, though, their plans fell through. Luckily, he had my aunt to help them out, and they made it to Vale.


"Agustus! Wait up," his younger sister called out as she caught him trying to sneak out of the house. She dashed towards him, her curled, white hair bouncing with each step. It was her second day back since her hunter's academy started vacation and she was dying to hang out with her brother. Sadly, this time was when he went to meet Adya.

"Shh! Juni! You're going to get me caught!" he quietly yelled.

"What are you doing?" Juni asked.

He looked around to make sure the butler wasn't around before continuing. "I'm going to meet someone."

"Who? Is it someone I know? Oh! Is it our cousins?"

Agustus shook his head. "You know I can't stand the Schnee's. No, I'm going to meet a girl."

Juni clasped her hands together in excitement. "A girl?! Agustus, you sly dog!"

"You absolutely cannot say a word to anyone here. Got it?"

His sister saluted. "You have my word! Now, go! Go get her!"

Agustus nodded, then jumped out the window.


Three months. It had been three months since he started talking with Adya. One month since they started holding hands. How did it occur to him that the warm feelings in his heart was a romantic love? At the start, she was rather hesitant to start conversation with Agustus, but once she realized he meant no harm nor acted like other humans, she warmed up quickly to him.

"Listen, you gotta leave this factory," Agustus said as he held her hand. Her hand was warm, a strange contradiction to the fact that she was a snake faunus. Perhaps he didn't understand how faunus physiology worked. What he did know was that he loved how her hand felt. He just hoped she felt the same.

"Agustus, you know I can't do that! This is a paying job!" Adya complained. She kept telling him how much she wanted to enroll in a university, and the factory was the way she hoped to pay for it.

"I could support you! Give you money and stuff like that."

"Agustus," she groaned, "You know I won't accept money from you. I can't be in debt to someone."

"It isn't a debt! Look, it's a present."

She chuckled. "You just want to get me out of this job as fast as possible so we can leave together faster."

"You got me," he laughed. They both decided that once she had the money she needed, they'd leave Atlas. At the very least, she agreed to him paying for their tickets there. Sure, he felt nervous leaving his family, but it was necessary. He wanted to live for himself, and Adya gave him the strength he needed.

"Adya," he continued, "I wish I could do everything in my power to make this factory better. I wish I could-"

"I know," she rolled her eyes, "Your father is in charge, and he never listens to you. You tell me this every day, Agustus."

"I know, but it pains me when I see you working so much."

She tightened her grip on his hand. "Look, if you want to help me, just keep on coming by during my lunch break. I promise you it'll be all I need from you. Okay?"

Agustus froze for a moment before nodding. "Okay."

After that, the two stopped speaking and only took pleasure in looking into one another's eyes. Agustus always wondered what she saw in him. To Agustus, Adya was a beautiful woman whose faunus background only added to her beauty. She was strong-willed, never willing to compromise her own beliefs. It truly made Agustus love her, a fact that came to him only recently. But what did Adya see in him? Staring at her green viper-eyes made him think about that even more.

Suddenly, a deep voice shook them out of their stupor. "Edelweiss?"

Agustus looked up to find two big, suited men with sunglasses. "Yes?" he replied.

"We're here to take you to your father. And Adya?"

Adya tilted her head. "Yes?"

"Your job is effectively terminated starting today."

"What?!"

Agustus let go of her hand and clinched his fists. "Well, what if I say no to both of those? I am the heir of the company, after all."

The two bodyguards looked at one another before nodding. Then then cracked their knuckles and towered closer and closer above the couple. With a mix of grace and power, they snatched Agustus' arms from under and picked him up, and no matter how much Adya punched at the two giants, they didn't even flinch.


Agustus tried to shake himself out of the bodyguards grip, but it did nothing. They managed to take him the entire way back home, all the way to his father's study. It was there that they finally let go and walked out of the room.

The study was a rare place to enter. Agustus could count on one hand how many times he had been here. It was always a new sight to him, and yet it was never unpredictable. Books, two chairs in front of the desk, and one chair behind the desk. Currently, his father was sitting there, bald and bearded, working on documents.

"You called?" Agustus spoke firmly.

His father did not reply immediately. He continued with his document, signing his name in the areas necessary. After he had finally finished, he looked up with his usual glare and frown and spoke in a raspy voice. "Boy, you've really gotten yourself into something."

"What's it to you?"

His father stood up. "You'd do better not talking to your father that way. You'd also do far better marrying someone of the same class. And species."

A predictable as his father could be, he also had an unwarranted hatred for faunus that all the other business owners in Atlas had. It made Agustus' disgust for the treatment of faunus resurface. "There's nothing wrong with Adya. Besides, how did you find out?"

"You think I'm deaf, boy? I've heard from many accounts of you sneaking out of the house, and our butler told me about your experience in the factory. But, I'm a good father, so I will allow you to apologize so you can return to your studies."

Agustus, hearing that, grew furious. His hands were shaped into fists and he breathed deeply through his nose before getting the past twenty years of torment off his chest. "Good father? Good father?! This is the first time I've seen you since the year started! Hell, I'm trying to remember if it's the first time since last year started! No, you've been far from a good father. You make me hate being a part of this family!"

"Then leave," his father spoke with a red face, "But that means no more money for your precious jewelry and clothes."

Agustus took a look at his hands, littered with rings of gold and silver. On his neck was three necklaces. He felt his clothes. It was a nice part of being rich, but he had found something far greater. Some far stronger and richer than gold or silver.

He found love.

He didn't need money or jewelry. He wanted to start living for himself and that was what he was going to do. Agustus quickly pulled all the rings off his fingers and threw them on the ground. "I'm leaving, then."

His father's eyes widened, to which he followed with a button on his desk. Immediately, the two bodyguards ran in and grabbed Agustus before he could even fight back. He had learned how to use his aura and semblance at a young age, but he lacked the formal training to hold his own or get out of a giant body-builders hold. All he could do was yell and attempt to fight back.

"I'm leaving! I'm leaving!" the man's yell reverberated through the halls.


The young man threw his shoulder into the door for the fifteen time, but it still didn't budge. He was sure it was already bruised, but continued anyways. He had to escape. He checked the window when he first came in. It was boarded up as if his father had predicted this would have happened. He looked for vents, all of which were on the ceiling, fifteen feet in the air. So, he had only one idea, and that was breaking the door down.

Of course, it wasn't working too well.

Agustus sat down on the soft bed in the guest room he was locked in and threw his fist into it. He then took out a cigarette and lit it,as if that would be his answer to everything. On the one hand, it was satisfying that he broke his father, forcing him to actually rescind his promise that Agustus would become homeless. However, the young man had far more trouble to take care of. There was someone waiting for him, someone who had lost their job because of him. He had to find her. At times like this, he focused and thought long about the shape of Adya's face. Her beautiful eyes, her thin nose, her dimples, it all was a perfect recipe for settling Agustus down. Yet, it also riled him up. It reminded him he had to break out. Immediately, he jumped off the bed and started charging for the door.

Before he could hit it, though, a familiar voice came from the other side. "Agustus?"

It took him a while to realize it was his sister. "Juni? Juni!"

"What's happening? Why are you locked in?"

Agustus shook his head and finally decided to tell her the truth. "Juni, the girl is a faunus who works at our company's factory."

"What?"

"Yes. I… love her, Juni. No one else acts like her or treats me as she does. I find her snake eyes breath-taking. I'm sorry, but I'm in love with a faunus."

The door was silent. So long, in fact, that Agustus was worried the revelation would prove too much for Juni and she would run away. However, soon a voice came from the other side. "Take a few steps back."

Agustus consented and walked back to the bed. As soon as he did, though, the entire door was blasted away into smithereens, leaving a giant cloud of dust that made him cough. He stood up and walked forward, but Juni did faster than him and approached him in the room.

"Get out of here, Agustus!" she said, a look of inspiration in her eyes.

"Juni? You're helping me?"

She nodded. "I know we never talked about the subject, but faunus are people. And if you're a person, too, why should you be pulled apart? Besides, nothing would please me more than seeing Dad at a loss."

Agustus ran up and gave his sister a big hug. "We're going to Vale. Come visit us sometime."

His sister started to sniff a bit, which he took as crying. "I'm going to miss you so much."

Agustus let go and looked her in the eyes. "Thank you so much, Juni. I'll be seeing you."

With that, he ran into the hole where a door once existed, into the halls of the mansion.


Adya sat on her moldy desk chair, aggressively tapping her forehead with a pencil. Balancing her money for this coming month was tough, especially since she was without a job now. That was the least of her worries, though. Her thoughts only kept returning to Agustus. Any attempt at calculations for her expenses resulted in her fearing for his safety. She tried to remind herself that she should be thankful she was only fired, and that Agustus was in such a good social standing. Yet, her mind only focused on him.

Upset, she threw her pencil into the wall, sticking it perfectly into the old wood. Still not satisfied, she stomped her foot on the ground, shaking her single room apartment's light around in the process, which the tenant below responded with a thump of their own. She then took to pacing around the room, as if that would calm her nerves. Why was she so concerned for him? She tried to focus on the aspect that he was a human, but she couldn't do that for long. Though some humans were rude and racist, many were good like Agustus.

Besides, she loved him. She didn't understand why, but she did.

After just talking every working day for three months, she had found that his companionship provided more than just simple conversation. No, it got her through the day. It gave her the strength to work harder for the sake of her university costs, as well as for the sake of being with him. That warm feeling was like fuel, and having him separated from her stirred her heart with worry. But why? Why did she love him?

THUMP!

Adya nearly jumped out of skin when her window rang with a sudden, loud sound, like a rock hit the window. Her confusion turned into rage when she predicted it to be the neighborhood kids' new hobby. She quickly walked to the window and pushed open the door.

"He-"

Before she could speak, another rock hit her square in the forehead, making her fall backwards. It wasn't enough to make her faint, though. Just enough to scare her.

"S-sorry!" a familiar voice yelled from outside.

She quickly jumped up. "Agustus!?"


It had only been once that Agustus visited Adya's apartment, when she went to pick up some things for a date they went on a few weeks back. To see such a different quality of life from his own was eye-opening to say the least. The room was probably big enough for five people to stand in, and no more. The floor was creaky, the bed was rough, and the lighting was dark. It was owned by the girl he loved, though, so he couldn't complain.

After she helped him in and closed the door, she gave him a big hug. "I was so worried about what happened. Are you okay?"

Agustus smiled brightly. "Better than okay. I'm… free."

Adya's eyes widened. "What happened?"

He sat down along with her. "I told my father I was leaving the family. He locked me up, but then my sister helped me escape."

"Oh, Agustus, you shouldn't have! You won't have any money anymore."

"I don't care about money or clothes or jewelry, Adya. I care about you. You were the first woman to give me the strength to leave my parents, and for that I'm so glad to have met you."

Adya looked slightly worried, but calmed down. "So what are you going to do?"

"Well, let's do what we planned on doing! Let's go to Vale."

"Vale? Agustus, you know I wanted to get the money I needed for a university before we went!"

"Don't worry, I took a lot of money from home before I left. It should be enough to cover expenses and then some." Agustus tapped the pocket on his backpack, filled with stacks and stacks of Lien.

Adya's facial expression flattened. "You know what I said about borrowing money, Agustus! I won't do that."

Agustus felt a bit nervous, but he fought it back. This woman deserved as such. This woman deserved his love, so he couldn't back off now. He had to ask the most important question of anyone's life. "Then… let's get married! That way you'll have my money, too."

The faunus girl jumped off the side of the bed. "What?! Do you know what you're saying?!"

He nodded. "Yes, I do."

"We don't even have rings!"

Agustus took two out of his backpack then got on his knees. "Actually, I threw all of my rings off except for two for this reason. So, will you marry me, Adya?"

The faunus sat back down and froze. She blinked for a couple of times, gulped, and muttered, "I'm a faunus."

"I know," he replied.

"You're a human."

"I know that, too."

"And you're still choosing me over anyone else in the world?"

"I'd rather have you over anyone else on Remnant, human or faunus."

Adya tilted her head, but slowly grew a smile. "You have a heart of gold, Agustus. I think I know now why I love you. Okay, I accept!"

Agustus beamed back and gave her a small kiss. "You have no idea how happy that makes me! I… love you, Adya."

Adya put on the ring and waved it in the air. A beautiful diamond shined on the top. She had red cheeks from embarrassment, but she seemed happy beyond belief. Luckily, she could still respond in this time of shock and surprise. "I love you, too."

The human of the two couldn't help but stare at her in awe of her beauty. She was a faunus. He knew this. But, what was the difference? Human or faunus, she was Adya. He wanted to keep looking into her eyes. He wanted to brush her hair with his hand. He wanted to ingrain her smile into his brain. He wanted to kiss her, but he knew they had a new mission. A new life waiting for them outside of Atlas that needed no delay. He slowly stood up then reached his hand out to her. "Well, let's go to Vale!"

Adya had no hesitation in grabbing his hand. "Yeah! Oh, but one thing?"

"Yeah?"

"You gotta stop smoking cigarettes when we get to Vale."


(Author's Note: Thanks for reading RWBY: Revenant! It's always such a joy coming back to this. Anyways, if you enjoy this, you should follow, favorite, or review! So, some author stuff: I'm thinking of writing another fanfiction, though it won't be RWBY. Won't start it for a while if I decide to write it, but if I do, then I'll let all you readers know! Also, thanks to RWBY: Revenant, I've been gaining confidence to start writing some actual short stories! I can't send them in for a while since my current job doesn't allow it, but when I do, I'll let you all know as well! Anyways, thanks again for your support, and God bless!)