Volume 3 Chapter 6: A Day to Remember
AN: Greetings, one and all, and a good day to you from The Priestly Pagoda!
Yes, I now have an apartment of my own. And yes, I did actually name it that.
Well, I think I've put this chapter off for long enough, let's see what kind of writing I can get done during my day off. Got a whole bunch of bad stuff coming right up, so… please enjoy the last bit of fluff in the first story of Team RWKY.
Yang groaned as she made her way up the stairs towards her dorm room, making sure to roll her shoulders to work out some of the stiffness. Normally, a good, hard workout in the mornings was the perfect way to kick the day off, but the impending prospect of what tomorrow might mean loomed large in her mind, clouding her thoughts with the daunting challenges tomorrow would bring.
In about thirty hours, she'd be competing in the first singles round of the Vytal Festival Tournament. Just by being there tomorrow, Yang Xiao Long has already been established as one of the eight strongest Hunters-in-training on the planet. And damn if she didn't have quite the list of opponents to go up against. After all, it wasn't as if a couple of her fellow finalists were the Invincible Girl herself, Ms. Four-Time-Champion Pyrrha Nikos; not to mention Penny, that girl that Yang had figured out was actually some kind of super robot. Which actually explained a whole lot, but it didn't exactly make things easier on her.
It was all enough to make a girl feel incredibly nervous. Sure, she was great and all; there was no denying that Yang Xiao Long was a complete and total badass. But against names like that? She wasn't an interkingdom superstar with more tournament wins that anyone else had tournament participations. She wasn't a girl turned science project cooked up by the best and brightest minds in Atlas (though she did consider letting Kassidy take her place, just so they had a science project in the running also). She was just some girl from Patch that punched things really hard.
Yang shook her head as she tried to force her mind off the whole 'doom and gloom' stuff and focus on what she needed to. K always loved to lecture her how step one (or step zero, depending on which specific lecture it was) of beating your enemy was knowing your enemy. There was herself, Pyrrha, Sun, Penny, Mercury, and three other people that Yang honestly wasn't too worried about. Mercury would probably be the closest match for her – ignoring the fact that she doesn't know what his Semblance is, and all that. Penny and Pyrrha would be difficult, and while Yang had no delusions that she was the underdog, she had a few tricks up her sleeves yet. But she needed practice. She needed to prepare.
Which is why it was so utterly confusing when Kassidy – completely out of character – all but demanded that she keep her afternoon free today. Even more than Weiss, if Yang expected anyone to be in favor of her being as prepared as possible for a potential fight, it was K. Unless this was some sort of special training she had in place? Plans she had made to give her an edge? No, something seemed different with her girlfriend early this morning when she went to get beaten up by her uncle. Heck, something seemed different with K all yesterday afternoon after they had won their fight with team FNKI. It seemed like she was watching her after their victory, in a way that seemed to defy common explanation. Yang couldn't figure it out. Something seemed off.
The feelings of wrongness only got worse as she paused outside her dorm room's door and began listening to what was obviously an argument between the duo that argued the most on the team. The first words Yang could make out was Kassidy insisting, "I know what I'm doing."
"Well, I would most certainly hope so!" Weiss fired back. "Especially considering nobody else does!"
"The finals round is tomorrow, Weiss. At this point, all that time in the gym will do to her is wear her out. This'll be a good way to get her mind off of things."
While Yang smiled at how she could hear how happy K was talking about her, she couldn't help but agree when Weiss rebutted, "But that doesn't change the importance of thorough preparation! You, more than anyone, should know that!"
"And I do, Weiss. Which is why Bob has a homework assignment for today, and why I'll be spending all day tomorrow with her also to make sure she's ready."
"As long as you're sure…" Weiss sighed.
"I am sure," K promised. "But can we hurry this up? I want to surprise her, and she'll be here any minute now."
Yang couldn't help but perk up at the mention of a surprise. She waged a war inside herself, but almost poetically the part of her that was impatient wasted no time in deciding that no, she could not in fact wait to find out what the surprise was. Her decision made, Yang nearly slammed her Scroll onto the scanner and entered the dorm room. "Hey guys! What's u-"
Yang paused and blinked at the empty dorm room she found herself in. K and Weiss were in the bathroom? Okay, that narrowed the options of the surprise to something involving K voluntarily deciding to wear makeup… which would make this only the third or fourth time that's happened. Something's definitely going on. Not to mention – were they arguing that loud in the bathroom?! It sounded like they were just on the other side of the door!
"Are you sure you'll be able to finish on your own?" Weiss asked. K didn't answer back verbally, but she must have nodded since Weiss shimmied out of the bathroom door, making sure that it didn't open enough for Yang to see in. Weiss must've seen Yang's tilted head and questioning stare if the way she glanced back was any indication, but didn't immediately answer the obvious question as she instead greeted, "Welcome back, Yang. How was your trip to the gym?"
"Good as usual," Yang answered hurriedly. "What's up with you and K this morning?"
Weiss shrugged. "She's apparently made some very big plans for you and her today. Wants to keep it a secret I guess, since she refused to tell me what it was other than the fact that it wouldn't be training. I'm not exactly impressed, but she insists she has it covered…" Suddenly marching up to Yang, she pointed a finger at her and demanded, "If you think you're not going to be in good shape for the fight tomorrow, you let me know. I'll be sure to put some sense in that dork's brain so you can focus on the tournament."
Yang chuckled. "If she's keeping me from being my best, I'll let her know myself." At Weiss' unimpressed face, she chuckled again and offered, "Thanks for the offer, Weiss, but I think we both know K has an idea of what she's talking about. If she doesn't think this'll hurt things, then who am I to say no to having a little fun with my smoking hot partner?"
"If you insist," Weiss relented, though still not sounding completely sure on the matter. Straightening her skirt and beating off thousands upon thousands of imaginary dust motes, she grabbed her Scroll and walked out the door, offering a casual, "I suppose I'll see you tomorrow, then."
Yang opened her mouth to answer, then snapped it shut as what Weiss said sunk in. Tomorrow?! What was Weiss talking about tomorrow for? Having missed the heiress as she left, Yang instead settled for knocking on the bathroom door. "How much longer you gonna be in there for, K? I still have no idea what's going on!"
"I'm almost done here; give me a minute!" K called back. "In the meantime, we're gonna be out all day today, so dress appropriately."
Yang huffed at the complete non-answer she got. She stalked over to her closet and started going through her clothes as she yelled, "What do you even have planned for our spur of the moment date that'll take all day for?"
"Well, funny you should ask," K's voice answered just as the bathroom door opened. Yang whirled around… and her jaw dropped. Didn't she tell her uncle not two days ago that getting K to wear skirts was pointless? So, of course, what did she find in front of her other than her girlfriend in a short skirt and tights, a pair of sneakers (that Yang didn't even realize K had owned) and a light sweater giving the outfit a surprisingly cute look. Add on the makeup and Kassidy looked completely different from how she normally did. Not that Yang was going to complain.
"Holy shit, K!" Yang couldn't help but exclaim. Eyes narrowing playfully, she accused, "Alright, you're buttering me up for something. What do you want?"
K laughed lightly, one of those laughs that had been coming out more and more recently that Yang absolutely loved. Most people didn't seem to believe that what was essentially a hardened war veteran could be supremely adorable when she wanted to, but damn if her girlfriend wasn't showing some aspects to her personality that must've been so repressed they've only just now started to come back up. "Well, that's actually going to be a bit of a story. And I wasn't lying when I said that we'd be out all day, so you'll want to find something you won't mind wearing until tonight."
Gears running in her mind, Yang turned back to the closet while prompting, "So? Don't leave a girl hanging."
"Okay, first off," K began. "Have you heard of how tech companies like to hold competitions from time to time?" A shake of Yang's head got the woman to continue, "Sometimes they'll come out with some new technology, or piece of software or something, that either they're not completely sure of or are really sure about. They'll occasionally hold… best way to describe them are hacking tournaments. Set up a prize pool, people get to try and beat the software's security or just make it break in general, some coders get a sweet bonus check and the company gets free testing to see how they can make their product better."
"Alright, I can see that happening," Yang said as she pulled a shirt out of the closet. She normally wouldn't wear the white top, as it was too low-cut even for her tastes (and her combat outfit does as much bragging about her body as her mouth does about her skills, if Yang did say so herself), but if K was pulling out all the stops like this then Yang had to ante up. She was pretty sure K would like it anyway. "What's this got to do with today, though?"
"Security company had one this morning. Ten thousand lien first place prize to whoever could crack it."
It didn't take hearing the smug smirk in K's voice to figure out what happened. "Let me guess, you and Bob decided it'd be a nice warm-up?"
"While I wouldn't quite say that," K answered, voice filled to the brim with modesty so false it wasn't even really modesty anymore. "I will let you guess who was the first-place team that beat the system in, oh, I'd say seven seconds or so?"
Yang was trying to decide on shorts, skirt, or pants herself when her grip utterly failed as the facts fully drove themselves home. "You said the prize was ten thousand Lien."
Kassidy sprung up from their bed and hugged Yang from behind, arms going around her waist, head planting itself on her shoulder, and damn if Yang was suddenly finding it a bit hard to breathe right now. "Let's be honest, we've had a lot of shit come up for what was supposed to be the highlight of our year with the festival." Yang couldn't really manage to do anything in reply, so after a brief pause K continued, "You've got enough on your mind with tomorrow as is, so I'm deciding you need a break. Which you do." Yang's girlfriend spun her around to come face-to-face with a look so relaxed and happy that basically nobody outside of RWKY knew existed, complete with the blonde-furred ears standing tall and proud. "What's our date, Yang? Our date is an afternoon of whatever the hell you want to do, my treat."
Yang couldn't think of what she could say to that. So she settled for the obvious one. Pulling K in for a deep kiss, she answered, "Well, what are we waiting for? An invitation?"
Yang couldn't help but chuckle as a couple shrieking kids raced in front of her and K, chasing after some balloons that had managed to get away. K nearly jumped a half-step back but managed to keep her reaction to the sudden screams to little more than that. Still, the fact that she was jumpy didn't sit right with Yang, especially when it was on a day off that Kassidy herself had prescribed. Slinking an arm around her waist to get her attention, Yang asked, "What's up, K? Unless a couple kids make you… a scaredy-cat."
Kassidy stopped where she stood, turning to fix Yang a blank stare. Someone else might have worried for her reaction to the totally awesome pun, but Yang could have predicted the exact moment K broke out into a fit of giggles, trying (and failing) to contain her mirth behind a fist as she leaned into Yang's side. "That was bad and you should feel bad," K tried to argue.
Yang merely rolled her eyes. "Says the girl laughing like a loon."
K narrowed her eyes in a way that was probably supposed to be intimidating, but the look was thoroughly ruined by the way her ears perked up. "You're trying to distract me from something. What's going on?"
Of course her girlfriend would notice. Yang sighed and answered, "You seem really jumpy and tense this evening. Just wanted to help you relax a bit. The rest of the day was good, right?"
K's eyes widened, before she closed them and took a deep breath. Yang worried for a bit, but Kassidy answered, "Of course it was. Today's been amazing so far. I'm just worried that your mom will decide this would be the perfect time to drop in, and I think you know as well as I do what that'll mean at this point."
Yang groaned. She did not want to be reminded. "Can we please not talk about my mom tonight? Today's been going so well."
"It has been," K said, and the way her smirk could be heard was enough to give Yang a good idea of what was coming next. "You really seemed to enjoy dinner."
Yang blushed at the reminder. One of the stalls was selling some super spicy shish-ka-bobs, to the point that they even had a little contest on who could keep down their spiciest meal. Yang, ever eager to prove herself and confident in the fact that she could gobble jalapeno peppers by the handful with no problem, accepted the challenge. And, much to the amusement of all the bystanders, failed inside of thirty seconds. She could still taste the heat of whatever the hell the guy put in that chicken.
She must've made quite the interesting face at the reminder, because Kassidy took one look at her and busted up laughing. A laugh that reminded Yang as to why she thought that had been a great idea. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, K," Yang said with a smile, letting her eyes scan the area around them. Damnit, now she was starting to act paranoid. Can't have that. Suddenly, her eyes landed upon an ice cream stand. Her brain liked that idea, her still-burning mouth really liked that idea, and she was pretty sure K would like that idea too. The decision being obvious, Yang wrapped her arm around her partner's waist and started bringing her along across the festival grounds.
Kassidy's eyes widened when she saw where they were heading. "Dessert sounds nice," she said quietly. Yang turned her head just in time to see K look at her and ask, "What are you having?"
Yang answered by giving her order to the guy behind the cart. "Can I get two scoops of Neapolitan, please?" She took her cone when it was offered, patted K's shoulder to let her know it was her turn to order, then turned to look at why she hadn't ordered yet. She seemed to be reading over the entire order, almost like… wait. Her girlfriend absolutely hated sugar up until two months ago, hadn't had a lot of time to go out exploring recently… no way. Yang's disbelief made its way into her voice when she asked, "You've never had ice cream before, have you?"
K shook her head. "Trying to think what everything would taste like and what sounds good."
"Two scoops of vanilla for my girl, here," Yang quickly said, making Kassidy's decision for her. "A bit of hot fudge too, if that's not a problem?"
Her partner raised an eyebrow, but took the proffered treat regardless, obviously trusting Yang's clearly superior taste buds. In a series of events Yang had to muffle her laughter at, Kassidy furrowed her brows, glared at her treat, and started turning the cone around as if she couldn't decide how to eat it. When she finally heard the small giggles that occasionally escaped and turned her glare onto Yang, she went and took a few exaggerated licks of her own cone to get the message across. K seemed to get the memo, tentatively stuck her tongue out at the treat… and promptly shoved her face into it.
Yang nearly dropped her ice cream from laughing so hard, wandering a step or two away as she held her sides. "Hey!" K whined. "Come on, it's not that funny!"
"Oh, but it is!" Yang denied in between her fits. "If only you could see your face right now." The face in question had cheeks burning crimson from embarrassment, Faunus ears pointed out to the sides from… alright, Yang couldn't even try to guess what that was trying to say, a half-hearted glare that wasn't all that threatening, and a good-sized gob of ice cream perched on the end of her nose. Getting an idea to be a bit cheeky and make her girlfriend even more embarrassed, Yang smirked at her partner and winked before saying, "You got a little something on your face."
"Huh?" K asked. She was about to poke a finger up to try and find it before Yang decided to help her out, kissing the end of her nose and helpfully cleaning up the ice cream hanging on it. Kassidy somehow went both wide-eyed and cross-eyed at the same time, cheeks coloring further as she stammered a bit before eventually getting out, "Uh, um, thanks. I guess."
Yang chuckled before pulling her girlfriend flush against her side and asking, "So? How's your ice cream?"
Almost as if K had completely forgotten about dessert during that whole debacle, she made another attempt and managed to not wear it this time. Her eyes widened, and she mumbled, "This is good."
Yang smiled and ruffled her hair. "If only you had known what you were missing, my dear, sugar-deprived partner."
K hummed in agreement, but a few licks later shivered a bit. "Cold, though. Wind isn't helping either." Fortunately, her partner seems to have a solution to just about everything, and her solution this time involved snuggling even deeper into Yang's side. "Thank God I have a walking space heater as a girlfriend."
The way that her nylon-clad legs brushed up against her own, and the way her body pressed into hers, left Yang unable to truly complain about the situation at hand. Fortunately, it did nothing to keep her from joking about it. Adopting a mock hurt tone, Yang lamented, "So you're only going out with me because I'm hot? I… I feel so used."
"The fact that you are multiple definitions of the word 'hot' is not the only reason why I'm going out with you," K reassured. "You make dinner quite entertaining, too."
Yang brought her free hand up to her forehead. "Oh, woe is me!" They both laughed a bit at the byplay, then a comfortable silence fell over them as they continued to stroll through the Vytal Festival during the start of its final week. Idly, Yang noticed how K was demolishing the treat at a record pace. She wondered if…
"Ow!" K yelped, bringing a hand up to her head. "Ow, ow, ow! What the heck?!"
"It's called brain freeze," Yang explained, pulling her partner in just a little bit closer. "Maybe try not eating it so quickly?"
Kassidy looked over from wincing and was in the middle of giving Yang a look that was half annoyance, half gratitude when someone yelled out from behind them, "Wow! Are you Huntresses?!"
The question got them both to stop what they were doing and pull apart a little bit as they simultaneously turned around to find a pair of little boys – couldn't have been older than eight or nine, really – staring at them with wide eyes. Almost impossibly, their eyes grew even wider when they saw their faces. "Wow!" the kid on the right exclaimed. "You are! You – you're Yang Xiao Long, aren't you?!"
"And you're Kassidy Smith!" the one on the left yelled, pointing at her girlfriend.
Yang giggled a bit at the kids, before frowning a bit as she felt Kassidy stiffen and start shrinking back a little. It took her longer than she would've liked to admit remembering that K absolutely hated being on the spot, and that she probably had some bad memories of people yelling out her name in public. Determined to give her partner a good memory of being publicly well-known, Yang wrapped her arm around K's shoulders, gave her a reassuring pat, and pulled her back in while she answered the boys, "Yup! We sure are!"
"You two are awesome!" the kid on the right said. "You totally wrecked those other two teams you fought!"
"Yeah!" his twin agreed. "You're the bestest!"
Yang beamed at them. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw K give a small smile also. "That's kind of you to say." Suddenly smirking, her girlfriend asked, "But which one of us is your favorite?"
"Yang is!" the right-handed twin answered – without any hesitation. Kassidy hissed at the burn while Yang laughed.
"No, she isn't!" his twin disagreed. "Kassidy would kick her butt!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Uh-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!" the boy on the right insisted. "Tell my stupid brother – which of you could kick the other's butt?"
"Me," Yang and Kassidy answered at the exact same time. They turned a look on each other and nearly busted up laughing, but K stalled her amusement as she gave a serious answer.
"Well, we could both kick each other's butts." When the boys asked her what she meant, K answered, "You see, we're both good at different things. But she's good at what I'm bad at, and I'm good at what she's bad at. We really work well that way."
"So even if I can totally kick her butt," Yang butted in – earning a look from K in the process, "it doesn't really matter. It's not about which of us can beat the other, it's about how badly we can beat everyone else together."
"Wow…" the brothers said simultaneously. The one on the right added, "We're gonna be Hunters too!"
"Our parents haven't said yes yet…" the one on the left added, sending a look at his twin.
"They will eventually," the other insisted. Almost as if suddenly remembering who the girls they stopped were, he suddenly pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. "Hey, Huntresses! Can we get your autographs?!"
K seemed to be at a loss for words, so Yang stepped up to the plate. "Of course you can! What're your names?" Taking the pen and paper, she scrawled out a note for the two of them:
Azure and Forrest,
Work hard and be awesome! I know you'll be great Hunters!
Yang Xiao Long, certified awesome Huntress.
She passed the paper on to K, who took it in slightly limp hands and seemed to stare at it in disbelief. Yang nudged her to get her to do something lest the brothers think she didn't want to do anything. She scrawled a bit under Yang's note, and she got to read it as she handed it off to the brothers.
Forrest and Azure,
Above all else, stick together and work hard. You'll accomplish so much more together than you ever will alone. You'll do amazing, I'm sure of it.
Kassidy Smith, certified more awesome than Yang.
Yang couldn't decide whether to beam in pride at K evidently sharing how much better she is as a part of a team rather than alone or annoyed at her tagline. Like Dust K was more awesome than she was!
"Wow!" the twins breathed out in stereo. The right-handed one – Azure – ran up and hugged them both around their legs as adorably as any little kid could. "Thank you, Huntresses! Good luck in your match tomorrow, Miss Yang!"
"Break a leg!" Forrest added on. And just like that, the two boys ran off, probably to find their parents or to get into some more trouble.
Sighing, Yang felt the need to say, "Well, that was nice!" When K didn't say anything, though, Yang turned around to find her girlfriend staring after the boys. "Uh, Remnant to K, you alright?"
Continuing her almost blank-eyed stare, Kassidy simply spoke, "They wanted my autograph. They… liked me."
Realization dawned on Yang as she recognized what her partner was thinking about. Shimmying up to wrap her arms around K's waist and pull her into a hug, she kissed her softly before asking, "How does it feel to be a celebrity and role model?"
"Amazing," K answered. "But nowhere near as amazing as the woman I'm holding right now."
Yang smirked. "Someone's going for a bit of flattery right now."
"Can you really blame me?" K asked. "You are the best thing to have ever happened to me, by a lot. I love you, Yang Xiao Long."
"And I, you," Yang assured, pulling in for another kiss. The deepening twilight got her attention as they returned to walking through the fairgrounds. "Hey, not to get pushy or anything, but think we should head back to Beacon? It's getting pretty late out, and I want to get up early to make sure we're all good to go for tomorrow."
"Getting up early would be a pretty good idea," K agreed. "But we have another stop to make, first. In Vale itself."
An eyebrow raised on Yang's face. "What's in Vale?"
Kassidy only smirked and turned twinkling eyes on her partner. If Yang didn't know any better, she might have even thought K looked a little bit… hungry?
"So… what's at a hotel that we're waiting on?" Yang asked as she allowed K to pull her inside the building from where she was asked to wait outside.
"The final part of our day today," was Kassidy's simple reply. If it were anyone else, Yang would've been absolutely certain what the final part of the day would consist of as K pulled a door key out of her pocket and drug her into one of the rooms. But surely Kassidy wasn't planning that, right? As much as Yang really, really wanted it to be so, K wasn't that forward, was she? Kassidy let go of Yang, hefted up a small duffel bag she'd held since making a quick stop in Beacon, and nearly dashed into the doorway while asking, "Wait here a bit?"
"So, what are we waiting on?" Yang asked, trying and mostly succeeding to keep the tremble out of her voice. Her hormones seemed to have already made up their mind as to what was going on, but Yang knew that hoping for that would only lead to disappointment.
"Nothing, Yang," came the call from the bathroom. "This is the last part of the day. Like I said, I want today to be about us. And…"
When K trailed off, Yang couldn't help but ask, "And?"
"And I want tonight to be about us as well." The fact that her voice was a little muted, and that you could nearly hear her blush, got Yang's hopes up a little bit. Her girlfriend continued, "No annoying computers, no nosy teammates. Just us."
She punctuated the last two words with opening up the bathroom door and stepping out… and Yang was left wondering if she had somehow been in a dreamlike fantasy for the entire day today. There was no way this was happening. No way. This was too picturesque. She'd imagined it too many times. Still, she could only stare as K strutted up to her and, almost as if reading her mind, pinched her ass hard enough to elicit a small yelp. "Nope, not a dream," K concluded, though Yang barely heard the words as she stared at her partner – not to mention what she was wearing.
"Not a dream?" Yang breathed out, not trusting herself to say more.
K shook her head, before looping her arms around Yang's neck and giving a quick peck on the lips. "So," she began, "shall we begin?"
AN 2:
FOR THOSE OF YOU LOOKING FOR A HAPPY ENDING, THIS IS IT. IF YOU WANT YOUR STORIES TO HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS, THEN STOP READING AT THIS POINT. THE STORY ONLY GOES DOWNHILL FROM HERE. CONSIDER YOURSELVES WARNED.
Well… that happened. The last chapter with any kind of fluff in it, for quite a long while. Heck, as far as my plans go this might even be the last we see of the Yang x Kassidy ship. Figured I'd might as well send it off big. For those of you looking for the last big payoff, this is it.
My most sincere apologies for taking so damn long to get this chapter up. As I kind of alluded to in the first Author's Note, I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off getting life taken care of on my end of things. I'll do what I can to get chapters up more frequently – while I will never again be able to handle 2x/week uploads and will probably not be able to do even 1x/week uploads, it is never my intention to take a whole month between uploads. If I do, please assume things have gotten busy on my end and I simply don't have the time to work on this.
Also, congratulations to miracle3339 for being our TWO HUNDREDTH favorite! For such an auspicious occasion, I bequeath… a boot to the head. And another for Jenny and the wimp.
Coming up next: Yang vs. Mercury, an outside perspective.
Right after these reviewer responses.
Shake N. Bake Mormon: I can see where that's coming from, and I'm personally conflicted on it myself. For most of the time, I like to eliminate ambiguity where I can to remove any chances of confusion (excepting where I want confusion, of course). But, consider this chapter an experiment towards no perspective announcements. Better, worse?
ThornedRose367: Neon struck me as the kind of girl who would not take getting taunted well. Not to mention whenever she made that top-heavy comment, my first thought was, "Whatever you say, Miss Anorexia." Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
Guest: Consider the wires replaced. …have you ever heard the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for."?
SuperbBirb: As you say, Mr. Birb! Yeah, I've been enjoying the reboot whenever I can catch it. Glad to hear I did justice with one of your favorite fights, here's to hoping I can keep doing things justice. I shall do my best to make sure everything else is up to your standards.
TurtleKing96: Gotta love it when that happens. So glad you've enjoyed the story so far, hopefully I can keep meeting your expectations of high quality.
Ultimatrix bearer: Bob has no strings on him. Do not worry about being late… god knows that I have no room to talk with being late with this story. Hell, at my normal 1x/week upload schedule we should be on Black Talon by now, not just halfway through V3 of the first story. Consider your theory debunked.
CookieTheDark: So glad that you've managed to slog through the utter embarrassment of mine that is the first half of Volume 1 RWKY, and so glad that I've been able to keep entertaining you! Sorry for going silent just as you got back, but hopefully things are still up to par.
MorgothII: Well, it took freaking forever, but here's the next update. Hope it's up to your standards.
Tykene: Where did I go? Well, actually a pertinent question since I moved. I now currently reside in The Priestly Pagoda (yes, I did seriously name my apartment that. And my wifi). Yes, I'm still alive and doing well, just pretty darn busy. Hopefully this'll tide you over until I can get the next chapter up.
