6/Weiss had gone to the guild alone. Like they'd talked about the night before, Ruby was gallivanting about the Forrest as a dragon and Weiss was going to get a quest. Unfortunately, her cloak wasn't dry yet. It HAD been dry, but a certain SOMEONE had spilled a glass of milk all over it that morning at breakfast. Weiss had been feeding Ruby fruit and sandwiches, things you could eat without utensils. She dreaded the day she'd have to show Ruby how to use a spoon.. So, because of that milk mishap, Weiss was going to the guild without her cloak.

Not TOO many people stared at her as she walked about the town, but Weiss made eye contact with some of the ones that did a few times, and sent a quick glare. She just hoped no one would be able to connect the fact that the princess was missing, and a mysterious girl with the same silvery white hair the royal family was known for was wandering around, and realize the obvious. Actually, she hadn't even heard anything about her disappearance yet. Maybe it wasn't public knowlage yet? Hm..

Weiss reached the guild, and walked straight to the quest board, examining her options. One caught her eye. Dragon slaying? She looked closer. According to the quest paper, a golden dragon had been sighted around the city recently. It hadn't done any damage yet, but the city's officials and nobles were worried that it might attack the city if it got too,hungry.

Huh. Reading that, made Weiss kind of sad. That dragon might just be a person living in this town, who fly's off to change form once in a while. before meeting Ruby though, Weiss supposed she'd have also wanted the dragon dead.. Ruby. A spark of worry ignighted in Weiss's heart. Ruby would stay out of sight, right? Weiss didn't want there to suddenly be a 'kill the red dragon' quest posted. She shook her head to rid herself of the thought.

Someone touched Weiss's shoulder. She tensed up, but a second later whipper around and pointed her sword at the persons throat. "Woa! Woa sorry! Ah, I was just trying to ask if you needed help? You look confused." the blonde lady Weiss was pointing her sword at said. Weiss's eyes were immediately drawn to the blonds chest. ...

Weiss removed her sword from almost killing her. "Sorry. no, I'm not confused."

"What're you looking at? Ohh dragon slaying? Gonna go after a dragon?" The blonde joked.

"No. If anything they should just leave it alone." Weiss grumbled, continuing looking for a quest fit for her.

The blonde seemed surprised at Weiss's answer. "What? If it gets left alone, it'd destroy the city!" She exclaimed.

Weiss shrugged "Why would it even want to? Its got to know by now that if it attacks a human, a hundred more will go after it."

The blondes eye twinkled. "You're alright girl!" She ruffled Weiss's hair. "My name's Yang! Whats yours?"

"Ahhk! Dont touch me..!" Weiss complained, batting Yangs hands away. "I'm an adult! I don't need any help!" Weiss tried to look tall. She failed.

Yang raised an eyebrow. "Really? How old are you, 18?"

"...yes." Weiss glared.

"Woa me to! Same age!" Yang rested her arm around Weiss shoulders. Weiss tolerated it, it feeling similar to how clingy Ruby was sometimes. Weiss picked out a quest. Slay 10 shadow wolves, and bring back their claws as proof. shadow wolf fur was awful, Literally no one would by it, the poor wouldn't even use it to make blankets it was so bad. Bad, as in the had a horrid stench you could never wash off after they died, and it was almost sharp, how scraggly it was. The only thing they were good for was their claws, which could be made into necklaces or placed on various accessories.

"Hey." Someone behind Weiss and Yang called out. "Would you like a healing potion? For your eye." the guy offered.

"Dude you can't just ask that, maybe she likes the scar!" Yang hissed. Weiss snorted a little, holding in a laugh. Yang smiled "There we go, smile! It's better to be happy."

Weiss turned away. "I'm not smiling." She pursed her lips.

"Ohh~? You're not~?" Yang leaned in close from behind Weiss, staring at her with a large grin.

Weiss was determined not to laugh. Don't laugh, don't laugh... She glanced at Yang, and saw her crossing her eyes. "PFFFFFTTT–" Weiss tried to hide her laughter in a coughing fit. Yang laughed at her pitiful attempt to keep up her cold charade, and Weiss punched her lightly. "Shut UP." She calmed down after a moment or two, and took a deep breath. "I'm Weiss."

"Weiss the wolf slayer, eh?" Yang noticed the quest she was taking.

"Apparently." Weiss replied.

"So, is that a no on the healing potion?" the guy from before asked.

"Oh, I would, but it'd be wasted on me. My scar's permanent." Weiss raised her hands in a 'no thanks' position.

The guy didn't seem to believe her. "It's an extra anyways, just take it." He smiled kindly.

Weiss did, and smeared it on her eye. The healing potion glowed, then faded. Weiss's scar was still exactly the same, a line straight down her left eye. Both the guy and Yang looked shocked. "Whats wrong? I said it was permanent." Weiss tilted her head, confused.

Yang's eyes widened. "Uh, NO scar is permanent. How'd you get that thing?" Yang asked.

"Would you believe me if I said a dragon did it?" Weiss said in a joking tone.

"Yeah sure, a dragon faced you, and you got out with just a tiny scar. Perfectly believable!" The guy said sarcastically. He shook his head with a smile. "Its fine if you don't wanna say, just be carful miss!" The guy left, looking bewildered at Weiss's predicament.

Yang seemed troubled. "Yang?" Weiss poked her. Yang jolted, and looked at Weiss.

"Ah, ahahahaha..! I've got too, meet someone. See you around Weiss!" Yang jogged off, and left the building. Huh, strange. Had Weiss offended her somehow? Their conversation seemed to be going well, until she saw Weiss's scar didn't heal.. Maybe she'd keep its permanence a secret from now on...

No matter. On to wolf hunting! Weiss left the city, and went towards the forest outside its walls. It was a different Forrest then the one Weiss had first escaped into. Upon entering it, she saw that this one had almost no light seeping through the canopy, almost like it was night.

Maybe Weiss should have come with more then just her sword. The thought ran through her mind, before she heard a rustle in the bushes. She thought she saw someone for a second, but no mater how hard she looked back again, no one was there. Was someone following her? "...Yang? Is that you?" Weiss called, hoping that it was just a prank or something.

But course, it wouldn't be. A large lumbering shape stepped into Weiss's sight. A shadow bear. Seriously? Weiss could definitely, take down down, but she needed wolves! Not a bear! Not to mention, If a shadow bear caught your sent, it'd hunt you down for the rest of its life! She wanted to avoid the bear to save strength for the wolves too, so she dashed off. She dashed off, and discovered that its a lot harder to gather your bearings in a Forrest when you can't see the sky above you. This was great. Perfect. Just peachy!

Weiss could hear growls near bye. She carefully moved around each tree, as not to alarm anything. She peeked out from behind a bush. Wolves! 4 of them! Were there more near bye? ...hmm. Finding so many at once was, great, but could Weiss take them all at once? Or maybe..

This was stupid. This was a stupid plan! Weiss screamed at herself in her head, as she was being chased by an entire PACK of shadow wolves. She was lucky there were so many trees, it slowed them down. She'd never be able to outrun them on open ground. Weiss spotted a climbable tree, and scaled it instantly. From her tree branch safe haven, she watched the shadow wolves snarling and snapping their teeth beneath her, just itching to get a bite out of her. But she was juuust barely out of reach.

Weiss continued her plan. Dart her long sword at their hearts when they got close, and when all of them are down, cut off their heads. She did just that. Because she was so quick about it, Weiss was able to take down all 12 shadow wolves that had been chasing her within an hour. She quickly set about taking the nails off their corpses when she was sure they were dead. She had to do it with her eyes closed, she couldn't stand the sight of the nails being ripped from the flesh. After all were collected, Weiss climbed the tree she had been in to the very top. At the top, she could get a general idea of which way to go to get back to the city. She spied the city walls behind her. Not to far away, but a good distance. ...The canopy was really thick. Maybe, she could–

Weiss found herself jump running across the canopy of trees. She felt like a ninja, it was so fun! Was this joy similar to the feeling ruby got when flying? She'd have to ask later. She almost tripped up a few times, but was able to make it back without falling! Until the very end. Instead of slowing down, and carefully climbing down a tree at the edge, Weiss basically just flung herself over empty ground, crashing down like one would expect of someone who had just seemingly jumped out of a tree. She'd, got too caught up in the moment..

Weiss heard a yell as she fell. Not from her, no, someone else. "Are you ok?!" a voice asked her. Weiss sat up like a bullet and was about to draw her sword. "Wow hey! Calm down! Why'd you jump out of that tree? Is your leg alright?" some girl asked.

"I tripped." Weiss said harshly, as she stood. A jolting sting of pain shot up her leg, making her fall back down. Weiss clenched her teeth and felt small tears from in her eyes. The girl from before stared.

"You need some help?" She asked.

"No. I'm fine. Go, do whatever it is that you were doing." Weiss motioned for her to go away. Weiss knew how she probably looked to this girl. A pale, weak and hurt girl who was to far from home. Hah! Well, this week girl had downed 12 shadow wolves!

"Look girly, I'm not leaving you here on your own when you've either sprained or broken your foot." The girl shook her head. "What were you even doing in there?"

"For your information, I just took down 12 shadow wolves all on my own!" Weiss huffed. Ah. Maybe, she shouldn't have said that..

"Sure you did. Here, let's get you into town and get you to a healing potion." The girl helped Weiss stand. "I'm coco. Want to give me your name?" Weiss clutched her pack tightly, tensing up. "You're sure untrusting aren't you?"

Coco helped Weiss back to the town. She was in a party of 4, 2 of which were guys. Weiss was on edge the whole time, she was so helpless with her foot injured, and with 4 strangers around? Her danger senses were going off the charts. Everything looked like a potential threat. That rock could trip and kill her. That branch could cut her and give her a deadly infection. That shadowy figure watching her from the roof could throw a knife at her. That nail on the ground could puncture her foot and–

Wait. Shadowy figure?

Weiss looked back to the roof, but nothing was there. Was she hallucinating? Coco brought her to the guild, and Weiss sat in one of the seats there and tried to look normal. "Oh look! That's my friend! You can go now!" Weiss insisted. She didn't see anyone she recognized, but she just wanted the nice girl to go away. Weiss didn't want any more traveling companions.

Coco and her party reluctantly agreed. After they left, Weiss was able to breath a sigh of relief. She forgot about her injury and stood, hissing and clutching her foot as she fell straight back down. Weiss hopped on one foot to the front desk. She held out the quest paper and the bag of shadow wolf nails.

"Oh my, you look exhausted." The front desk girl said, wincing.

"You don't know the half of it." Weiss groaned.

"Right, you have all the nails here, and two extra sets! You can turn them in here for a little extra pay on this quest, or keep them." The front deal girl offered.

"Turn them in, please."

"And how many in your party?"

"Party?"

"Your group, how many people were in the group you were in?"

"I didn't have a group. It was just me." Weiss stated.

The girls eyes narrowed. "And how, did you get 12 at once?"

"I found 4 of them, and I got them to chase me. The trees slowed them down. By the time I found a tree to climb, I had 12 tailing me. From the tree I just, punctured the hearts of each one that got close." Weiss could clearly see the awe in the girls face. "Is that, not how people normally hunt them?"

"Swords can't puncture a heart like tha–" the girl started, and Weiss took out her sword.

"Its a rapier blade." Weiss made a jabbing motion. "It can easily slide right through flesh."

"I... Suppose, I've got to believe you then. But, a word of advice. Bring a partner next time? Almost no one does quests alone, because of the danger, and because you don't have a witness. If someone robs you of your loot, and their party testifies that THEY found it, against your word, they'll get to keep it. You're just one person." The guild girl nodded to herself. "Please bring someone with you next time. For your sake."

Weiss was paid for the quest, and thought on the guild girls words. Yeah. Yeah she was right. Maybe, Weiss would take Ruby next time she went on a quest... Weiss hopped on one foot back to her previous seat. Now then... Where to get a healing potion?

"Weiss!" a voice called. Who? "How're you doing?" Yang took a seat next to Weiss.

Weiss made an 'Idk' kind of gesture. A shrug with one eye squinting while looking to the side. "I've been better. Do you know where I can buy healing potions?"

"Oh?" Yang looked at Weiss's foot. It was starting to swell a lot. "Yeesh! That looks like it hurts!" Yang pointed to a stall near the front entrance. "You can get small ones there. I think that'll get your foot feeling better, but you'd better stay off it a few days just to be safe. Hand me a few silver's and I'll get you some." Yang offered.

Weiss obliged. Yang returned and helped Weiss apply it, and even though poor Weiss tried not to show how much it hurt, Yang could tell. Yang sat next to Weiss after smearing it on her foot, and hugged her close. Weiss felt like she was in her sister Winters arms again, and relaxed a second.. But she then remembered where she really was, far from home with no one to look out for her. She tensed up.

"Sorry!" Yang raised her hands. "Ah, my big sister instincts kicked in." Yang smiled sheepishly.

"You have a sister?" Weiss tried to lighten the mood.

"Yeah, she's a total dork. But I love her. Such an excitable little thing." Yang reminisced.

Weiss was reminded of Ruby. "Hah, I know someone like that."

"You got a little sister too?" Yang asked, stretching her arms.

"Yes. Well, no. I have an older sister, but the person I'm thinking of is more a, travel partner."

"So you're a little sister, huh? It suits you." Yang smiled. Her smile kind of reminded Weiss of Ruby too.

"I hope you mean that in a good way." Weiss yawned. The day had exhausted her, and the sun had just barely starting to set. Sunset.. Sunset? Oh! It was almost dark! She'd told Ruby to be back by sunset! Be back where? Weiss had meant back at the room at the inn, but, ruby might've thought she meant ad the guild, since Weiss had said that's where she would be. Uh-oh. Weiss wasn't sure. But, her concerns were put to rest a second later.

"Weissss!" Weiss heard Ruby call from across the guild. Yeah just yell it out there! Why bother trying to keep a low profile? Its not like she'd already outed herself and Weiss to the entire guild.

"Speak of the devil, there she is now." Weiss poked Yang and motioned to Ruby.

As Ruby came closer, she gasped. "YANG!" She nearly teleported to them she was so fast, and tackled Yang to the floor in a hug.

"Who the hell are you– wait, Ruby?!" Yang yelped in surprise.

"Oh Yang I missed you so much~!" Ruby nuzzled her sisters chest. "Ah, and look! I finally did it!" Ruby motioned to her human form.

"Wait Ruby, how do you know her?" Weiss interjected, Yang couldn't be–

"My sister! She's my older sister I told you about!" Ruby chirped, sitting up on the fallen Yang's stomach.

Weiss was silent for a moment. "...biological sister? As in, same species?"

"Yeah! Why?" Ruby tilted her head cutely.

Weiss stared at Yang with pursed lips, unconsciously touching her scar. Yang looked as though some ancient secret she was supposed to protect had gotten out. Which in a way, was true. And Ruby just sat on top of her sister, blissfully unaware of the mental battle raging in both the older girls heads.