Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Empty Empire. Enjoy the 1000-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth do.

Willow stepped out of her room in a white nightgown with an SDC symbol on the left breast along with the bottom of it. she hummed. Her hair was let down, resulting in a cascade of near perfect snow-white hair which matched the light blue nail polish on her nails.

"Hmm…" She stated before she slowly pranced down the hallway. Willow turned the corner before noticing something.

Nav stood near the opening to her favorite part of the manor. She walked towards him. He quickly turned and drew his claws from his hands before leaping at her.

Willow flipped over him and summon an ocean blue glyph that knocked Nav to the ground.

"Willow!?" He asked while Willow walked up to the boy and leaned down close to him. she was slightly taller than him to be fair.

"You know, I didn't assume for my bodyguard to turn on me. I can't believe this." She stated before helping him to his feet. She turned to the room and walked inside.

"You're not used to this yet, are you? I think your lost, right? You don't know where anything in the manor is?" She asked, Nav went to speak before Willow cut him off.

"I used to be that way; you know? I grew up in this manor, I always saw it as a maze, its own little kingdom." She stated before she walked into the room.

"I'm nocturnal. Faunus can see in the dark. I'm always restless." He said before following Willow.

Nav blinked as Willow looked at a two-story statue of a King Taijitu which had floodlights surrounding it.

"Willow?" he asked. he turned to look at Willow who leaned on the railing and pointed at the statue.

"I killed that Grimm, you know? The King Taijitu was the FIRST Grimm I ever fought and slain in combat." Willow said, Nav blinked while Willow smiled.

"Your quiet, aren't you? I've been told I talk all the time. I want to talk." Willow said, she got no response from Nav who blinked and looked at the statue.

"I was 13, I was bratty, I wanted the world, I wanted everything. Me and my father were inside a mine my father personally helped open. My father kept trying to teach me the Schnee way. I never once listened and all that, I just kept whining and blah blah blah." Willow stated before she gestured to the statue.

"We hear some screaming, it split the air and I see our workers, part of the 'Schnee Kingdom' as my dad put it. I go to check it out, I was so stupid." Willow said, Nav blinked and crossed his arms.

"You fought a King Taijitu alone? I didn't think they lived in Solitas." Nav said, Willow patted his head playfully and he wrinkled his nose in annoyance.

"This one was far from home then. It rose up, it was massive, it looked at me and I could see nothing but death from it. I cried and I screamed… But it blocked me in, my dad was busy dealing with other Grimm." She said before looking at the ground and tapping her pale feet on the ground.

"I drew my practice sword, not the one I have now and I started cutting. I heard screams and it kept striking me. I saw it rip up my clothes all over…. Least I think it did. I remembered puncturing it's eye and then managed to get it in the mouth." She said, she made a motion to show the Grimm striking at her.

"I must have cut it deep and then I managed to get the other head before it could recover. I was scared, covered in cuts and scrapes and the Grimm knocked me out, I was bleeding." She said with a laugh, Nav hummed.

"I wake up and my dad has the family doctor and a bunch of his soldiers are around him. I ask what happened and he said some of the workers were ok, but he led them to victory." Willow stated, Nav hummed once again.

"My dad tells me I killed it and we took one of its fangs as a trophy. I had it put up in my room, you want to know what I learned that day? I was a Schnee, Schnees didn't earn things through money, they fought. They cut and toiled." Willow said before she turned away from the statue.

"I'm going to talk about it tomorrow, Nav. I'm sure you've heard a lot about how Schnees are greedy and cold." Willow said before she smirked at Nav.

"We aren't. I didn't pick you just because your funny, ally cat. I want to get to know you… And the more you try to act all cold and professional? You're just making me all the more eager to keep picking away till I get to see the cute little flustered Faunus who tries to act all big and tough as my bodyguard." Willow said before she turned away.

"I know how to read people, Nav. I can read you a lot easier than you think. I like you being snarky and silly, just because I'm the heiress doesn't mean I plan to run an all business company." Willow said before walking away.

She made it about half the way down the corridor before smirking again as Nav began to follow the heiress.

"Miss me already?" She purred, Nav wrinkled his nose again but continued to follow her.

Willow was so going to enjoy making Nav crinkle his nose more often.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter done! I apologize for the wait and such, I had been thinking on this chapter. I am going to show the rise of the White Fang, Watts and Ironwood. Next chapter will be on next Saturday or Sunday and will show Nav and Willow going with Nicholas for SDC business. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!