Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Dragon and her rook. Enjoy the 1700- word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Patch, 2 steps forward, 2 steps back.)

"Easy, you're going to burst the cans!" Skyler yelled; Yang rolled her eyes.

"Stop being a baby, I painted the arm you made me, I can help my boyfriend paint his!" Yang yelled, Winter and Taiyang watched as Skyler and Yang applied sprays of white and blue to Skyler's arm.

Skyler looked at his arm as he and Yang finished, Skyler flexed it and turned to Yang.

"What do you think?" Skyler asked, Yang, whistled and both laughed as Taiyang cleared his throat.

"I'm guessing you two are going to head out soon. You've only been here a week." Taiyang said, Skyler, turned to look at the elder Xiao Long.

"Since your daughter is an Atlesian Specialist… Something NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT…" Skyler said, glaring at Winter who shrugged and then turned back to Yang. Taiyang and Winter walked away to speak.

"We can stay another week or two, I'm not going to take Yang away on another mission so soon. I also need to figure out a plan for going after Merlot, he's probably planning on his next move after wounding Vale." Skyler stated.

"I have a bit of a detour to deal with, Sky…" Yang said, Skyler, turned to her and cocked her head.

"Sure, I think we can handle that. we need to comb through Mistral for Merlot anyway, what's the mission, Yang?" Skyler asked with a smile as Yang looked her boyfriend in the eye.

"What do you know about the name 'Raven'?" Yang asked, Skyler's eyes widened, and he blinked as Yang pulled him into the forest to speak.

(2 minutes later)

"No, you're joking. You have to be kidding me, Yang." Skyler said, leaning his head into his hand.

"That's what my Uncle Qrow said, Raven was her name. you know her?" Yang asked, neither noticed Taiyang listening as Skyler sighed.

"I know a Raven: Raven Branwen, Yang. She's a nasty piece of work." Skyler said, Yang frowned, and Skyler sighed and pulled out his scroll before tapping in some commands and then handing it to Yang.

"I think you should see for yourself," Skyler said as Yang looked through the history.

Skyler looked at Yang as she gasped in horror, looking at the crimes part of the report. Skyler read them out sadly.

"Resisting arrest, assault, murder, theft… Yang, if your mother is Raven, she's not someone you should meet… She's the leader of a bandit army and wanted in Vale, Atlas, and Mistral…" Skyler said as Yang looked ready to cry, Skyler wrapped an arm around her.

"Yang, I'll help you find her, but you're not meeting her, I can't let you…" Skyler started to say before Yang rounded on him.

"Like he-…" Yang started to say before Skyler looked her in the eye.

"Didn't let me finish. I can't let you if I'm not with you, I'm not letting you confront her alone. You want to meet her, we're meet her." Skyler said, Yang, nodded before Taiyang cleared his throat and both turned to face him.

"Were you listening to us the entire time?" Skyler asked, he turned to Yang and sighed.

"I'm going to get some things with Winter filed away. I'll tell them to meet us in Mistral and then we're heading out to find the others once we find Raven." Skyler said, he turned to Taiyang.

"I want to talk about something when we have a chance, but I don't want to ruin your time with Yang, sir. You can come to get me when you're done with… Whatever it is you guys need to do." Skyler said as he turned and walked into the forest and then he was gone as Yang turned to her father.

"Was he telling the truth?" Yang asked, Taiyang could only nod.

Yang sighed and then screamed in anger and punched a tree with her cybernetic arm, shattering it and causing it to fall over as she started to cry.

(With Skyler)

Skyler cringed as he heard Yang's scream, it pained him to hear her in pain, but it was better she knew the truth now than find it out later.

It reminded him of when he found out how vile his parents were to him.

"What happened with Yang?" Winter asked as Skyler turned to her and sighed.

"She just found out who her mother is, Raven Branwen," Skyler said, Winter, blinked and then slowly nodded.

"I can talk to her if you need." Winter put in; Skyler held up his hand.

"No, I think it's better to let her and her dad talk. They have things to work out and from what I overheard; Yang needs more training on how for her not to rely on her semblance." Skyler stated, Winter, nodded.

"I need you to take the Torrent and head towards Mistral, I and Yang are dealing with a detour, and I'll meet you near Haven," Skyler said, Winter, blinked as Skyler started to walk away.

"Wait, what do you mean? You're not coming with us, sir?" Winter asked, Skyler, turned and faced her.

"I and Yang need to handle something personal first, I'll keep you updated… Now go, the longer we wait, the more time Merlot has to keep ahead of us." Skyler said as Winter sighed and walked away to get the cruiser going, she was happy Skyler had chosen to at least have one cruiser with him.

"We're moving out, Colonel Azur stated we are to meet him in Mistral once he and Specialist Xiao Long show up," Winter ordered a pair of Atlesian Soldiers who saluted and moved to carry out their orders.

Skyler watched his soldiers move away, he had one thing to talk about with Taiyang, but he'd give them time. He did know Yang's recent behavior… He had time to think about it as well during the flight over to Patch.

Skyler walked off to make sure he was ready for the journey with Yang. He needed to look at his Dust supplies and ammo anyway.

(2 hours later)

Taiyang found Skyler on a tree stump, he was busy checking over a vial of Wind Dust that he set aside and looked at Taiyang as he walked over.

"Yang ok, Mr. Xiao Long?" Skyler said and Taiyang leaned on a tree.

"You're making me feel old, kid. You can call me Taiyang." Taiyang said, Skyler, nodded and sighed.

"She's fine before you ask… Thanks for giving us some time to talk, I think we both needed that." Taiyang said, Skyler, nodded.

"I know what it's like to find out bad news about your parents. I found out the hard way what my parents were like, I never regretted joining the military out of school, just to stick it to them." Skyler said, Taiyang sighed as Skyler rested his head in his hands.

"I never wanted to tell her, Taiyang, the second she told me who her mother was…. But I couldn't let her go and find her and not know, she'd be more devastated when she found out then instead of now. I love her too much to let her suffer like that, bad enough she blames herself for Vale. She did all she could." Skyler stated.

"I should be mad at you, but the sooner she saw proof, the better, your right," Taiyang said, and Skyler looked into the forest.

"She missed you for the week or, so you were busy in Atlas, I heard it took over a dozen of your soldiers to pull her away, and nearly 30 to stop her from busting through to her. Ruby ran off on some adventure and that made things worse. I almost didn't think you'd come; thought you'd have some new mission or something." Taiyang said, Skyler, looked at the elder Xiao Long.

"I might be a soldier, but I know I love Yang, Taiyang. She showed me what it's like to just enjoy life instead of rushing from mission to mission. I'd have come even if I had a mission, I owe her at least the honor of slugging me in the ribs for worrying her." Skyler said with a smirk as Taiyang laughed.

"You wanted to talk to me about something, you would have been getting ready to go with Yang if you weren't waiting," Taiyang stated, Skyler nodded and motioned for him to go and walk into the forest.

"Let's do this at the house. I don't want to ruin the surprise to Yang, she'd rip my other arm if I did… I think you might do that for her after I ask that of you already." Skyler say, Taiyang frowned but nodded, Skyler deserved that at least.

Both walked inside as a Manta lifted into the sky, Skyler spoke up at this.

"I told Winter to leave with one of the cruisers towards Haven. I figured it'd be better if Yang had some backup… Not that she needs it, I never want to get on her bad side." Skyler stated, Taiyang chuckled, and both walked into the house, Skyler took a seat at the table as Taiyang walked to the window.

"She is a fighter, isn't she?" Taiyang said with a smile as Skyler nodded and smiled, the sound of engines faded as one of the dropships and Mantas flew off to escort the airship, Skyler, the Blizzard and all the soldiers aboard it was all that remained for now.

The noise died away as Taiyang turned towards him.

"Ok, what did you need to tell me about?" Taiyang asked. Skyler cleared his throat.

"I want your blessing to marry your daughter," Skyler said, looking the man in the eye whose eyes widened.

Author notes

Phew, another chapter down. This marks the halfway point of season 4 with the story. The next chapter will take place during Taking Control and is on this Saturday. I also want to point out there are 5 small fillers chapters after Taking Control setting up arc 5. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!