Mama Yang-1

Summer is alive in this story

The On the small island of Patch, home to the two half-sisters of Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long, fighting could be heard echoing around the trees in a clearing, as Yang was sparring with Ruby, and teaching her how to fight without an oversized weapon, and hopefully unlock her semblance.

"Ooowwww." Ruby groaned as she was knocked to the ground.

Ruby is a fair-skinned young girl with silver eyes and black, neck-length, choppy hair that gradates to dark red at the tips.

She wears a black long-sleeved dress with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and around her skirt has a red trim. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trim around the top and red soles.

Her outfit is topped by a red hooded cloak fastened to her shoulders by cross-shaped pins. Her emblem appears as a large silver brooch and is pinned to a wide black belt slung around her hips on an angle, which also carries bullets and a pouch. Breast Size: G-Cup.

"Come on…" Yang exclaimed standing over Ruby. "You totally could've dodged that." She said reaching out her hand to help her little sister up.

Yang is a fair-skinned young woman with lilac eyes and bright golden hair worn loose that fades to pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking out at the top.

She wears a tan jacket that bears her midriff, with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons. Underneath this, she wears a low cut yellow breast-band with her emblem on the left breast in black.

A brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching from hip to hip around the back of her waist, with her emblem emblazoned on the right-most pleat in gold. Underneath this is a long, white, asymmetrical piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts. She wears a pair of brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, with the right sock pushed down just below the knee. A gray bandanna is tied around her left knee. An orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves complete her outfit. Breast Size: I-Cup.

"Yaaang, I already told you. I'm just not cut out for hand to hand." Ruby whined like a child not getting the candy she wanted. "Why can't I just use my beautiful Crescent Rose?" The red caped girl asked, gushing like a schoolgirl with a crush.

"That's exactly why I wouldn't let you bring it." Yang stated, causing Ruby to growl at her older sister. "I'm gonna be leaving for Beacon soon. I wanna make sure my little sis can hold her own while I'm gone."

Yang backed up and took a fighting stance, letting Ruby know to give fighting hand to hand another try.

"Fine." Ruby grumbled before ducking under Yang's punch, as the blonde brawler began to fight.

Ducking and moving forward, Ruby dodged a jumping roundhouse kick from Yang, before the older, brawler quickly turned around, facing her younger sister once again, before throwing two punches, to which Ruby blocked and side stepped on the second one. Seeing an opening, Ruby clenches her fist and throws a punch, to which Yang moves her head and evades without even looking, before sweeping her leg back, knocking Ruby off her legs, sending her falling forwards. The instant Yang's about to throw a punch, something in Ruby snaps, and she goes flying off in a blur of rose petals through the shrubbery around their fighting area.

"Nice one, sis." Yang chuckled. "You're not always gonna be able to run away from your problems, though. Sometimes you just have to stand your ground and fight, no matter what." Yang stated walking around a bit. "Alright, enough rest. Get back out here."

Rustling in the bushes causes Yang to turn around, looking in the direction the sound came from. More rustling from the shrubbery came forward, before the sound of twigs and branches breaking, echoed in her ears.

"Ruby?" Yang asked, raising her hand to block the sun, seeing if it really was her sister trying to pull a sneak attack. Unfortunately, it wasn't her sister, as she recognized the sound of an Ursa's growl. "Ruby." Yang shouted in panic, fearing the worst as the Ursa came out of hiding and roared.

Yang crossed her arms forward, before cocking them back, activating her Ember Celica, just as the Ursa came charging at her. Firing a round behind her, Yang used the momentum of the ricochet to send her flying even farther as she jumped at the Grimm, moving herself forward, Yang rolled on her hands, and onto her feet, as she continued to use the momentum to run at the Ursa.

Standing on its hind legs, the Ursa swung at Yang, but given its size and speed, Yang easily dodged it, by ducking under its arm before punching it in the thigh and waist. Roaring in agitation and slight pain, the Grimm swung at her, knocking Yang away like she was a fly.

Rolling backwards, Yang flipped onto her feet, skidding to a stop. Arming her gauntlets, Yang fired two rounds of flare Dust at the Ursa, whom had headed back to where the unconscious Ruby lay, before the Dust ammunition hit it in the back. This agitated the Grimm even further as it changed course and went charging at the blonde.

Preparing for the attack, Yang raised one of her arms, blocking the Grimm's claw as it swiped down on her. Standing her ground, Yang used her right hand to punch upwards, sending a round of Shotgun Burn Dust into the underside of the Ursa's jaw, knocking its head back, allowing Yang to fire a round from each gauntlet into the ground, sending her up into the air, dodging a swipe from the Ursa, and sending another round into the back of its head, before firing off a round into the air, forcing her downwards, and quickly evading another attack from the Grimm. Slamming her feet into its chest, Yang flipped to the ground ten feet away, before grabbing a foot hold and running at the Grimm.

Sliding to the ground, Yang used the momentum of a shot to slide under the Ursa, before standing back up, and firing multiple rounds at it, just as it was turning around to face her again. Using the momentum of the shotgun blasts, Yang went speeding towards the Grimm, slamming her fist into its masked face with a right hook empowered by a shotgun blast. Before repeating it with the left side, and even speeding to the side a bit, before she blocked the claw of the Ursa, and began holding it up as if she were Atlas trying to hold the world on her shoulders.

Twisting around, Yang punched the Grimm in the face, sending it stumbling back and bit as the punch was boosted with the firepower of her Ember Celica. Continuing to use the momentum of her weapons, Yang slid to the side, ducking under a swing from the Ursa's claw, before she used the blasts of her weapon to slide under the Ursa, into the air, past its swinging claws, before she skid to the ground, and used the momentum of the blasts one more time, sending her towards the Grimm only to be swatted away, through the forest, knocking down several trees.

By this time, Ruby began to wake up, and painfully picked herself up off the ground, finding someone, a small figure, kneeling over her, most likely to see if she was injured. When the small figure noticed she was getting up, they ran away, as if scared of her, or fearing she might attack them.

Forcing herself up on to her arms, Ruby staggered to the clearing, remembering how she was attacked by the Ursa, Ruby went to see what was going on and gasped at what she saw, as she supported herself against a tree.

The sudden gasp caused the Ursa to look in her direction as she gave off the feelings of both fear, and dread. The Ursa turned and began sauntering over to her, as she steadily began to back away, before it roared and went running after her.

Coming back from where she landed, Yang saw the Ursa running towards her sister. Ruby, though scared out of her mind without her Crescent Rose, prepared to fight the Ursa, but before she could even think of sending herself towards the Grimm, a small spear of crimson red fire and royal blue lightning zipped passed the side of her head, hitting the Grimm dead center in the chest, effectively ending its life as a hole was burnt through its body.

"What the heck?" Ruby asked, turning around, only to see a small head zip back behind the tree it was hiding behind, before the rustling of several bushes let her know the tiny person ran off.

"Ruby, are you okay? What was that?" Yang asked hugging her sister out of nowhere, smothering Ruby in her giant mammaries.

"Gah, I'm fine Yang, but there's someone in the forest. I think it might be a kid." Ruby exclaimed releasing herself from the death grip of Boobzilla.

"How can you be sure?" Yang asked, looking in the direction Ruby was looking at.

"Because the silhouette was too small to be either a teenager like us or an adult like mom and dad." Ruby stated. "Plus, they ran away scared, like they were afraid of being hurt by me or something."

"Wait here, I'll go check it out." Yang exclaimed. "Head on home and clean up, I'll be able to handle it from here. I'll give mom and dad a call on my scroll if I need help."

Ruby nodded and used her newly unlocked semblance to race across the island towards the two story wood cabin she called home. Yang silently walked through the forest in the opposite direction, finding several tracks belonging to what she assumed was a child, ten years younger than her no less.

"Guess Rubes was right, it is just a kid." Yang sighed following the tracks nearly a quarter mile into the forest, before they stopped at a tree.

Yang snuck up behind the tree and quietly turned it, finding a young Faunus child, a little girl, as she guess, six to seven years old, with scarlet red hair, three cartilage spikes on her ears, and small scales on her cheeks. She was dressed in torn and tattered clothes that looked like there were strings just barely holding them together. She was silently lying motionless, beside the tree, with bits of a volatile substance around her lips, and the remains of what she was eating sticking out of the ground. Burn Dust.

"No, no, no. SPIT THAT OUT RIGHT NOW." Yang panicked, concerned for the child's wellbeing, praying to whatever deity was out there, it wasn't too late to save her.

When Yang stepped on a twig, the sound of it breaking caused the girl to jump, but before she could escape. Trying to put her fingers in the child's mouth to induce vomiting, she pulled her hand back as she felt the child bit down on her ring finger, causing her to flinch and let go of her, before she gave chase and grabbed her once more.

Before she could try and escape again, the buxom brawler managed to get her arms through the girl's arms, and around her waist before she got herself settled into a sitting position against the tree with the girl firmly in her lap. It was obvious she wasn't being hurt by the Dust she consumed, but Yang still wanted to make sure she was okay. Using her greater strength, Yang waited for the child to tire herself out, using her semblance to absorb the kicks and elbows she hit her with. Though it was surprising how strong such a little kid could be. Eventually she tired herself out, and resigned to her fate embraced in Yang's arms.

Focusing on her face, Yang felt her heart break, as she suddenly understood why she tried to fight her way out of her grasp, as she saw the fear and pain chiseled on the features of her face.

"P-Please don't hurt me." The child cried as tears streamed down her dirt covered cheeks. "I don't want to be hurt anymore."

"Hey, hey calm down, I'm not going to hurt you." Yang stated in a calming tone as she weaved her arms out of hers, and held the girl in a gentle embrace, turning her to face her, causing her to blush for only a moment as her face was right in her cleavage, before she resumed crying. "I'm just wanting to make sure you're okay, and unhurt, you ate some Burn Dust and that's not good for you." She said pushing her back from the hug a bit to look her in the eye.

"You… you mean that candy in the ground?" The girl asked. "It tastes like strawberries."

"Candy, who told you it was candy?" Yang asked, looking her sternly in the eye.

"A nice lady who fed me a piece of green candy that tasted like sour apples, though she kinda looked surprised to see me ask for more. She probably gave me her last piece at the time." The girl exclaimed, calming down a bit.

'Someone tried to murder a child, just for being a Faunus, by tricking her into eating Wind Dust? Oh, if I ever get my hands on her, I'm gonna make her wish she were six feet under.' Yang exclaimed, looking away from the child as her lavender eyes went blood red.

Yang calmed down as she did not want the girl to be scared of her when seeing her eyes turn red, so she held her in a bit of a tighter hug, feeling all over her body for any injuries, finding several sever scars and untreated injuries on her back, arms, legs, and chest. The most concerning scar was one that felt like a branding, shaped like a tribal fairy emblem with a tail etched into the flesh on her back. This particular scar felt old, and felt like it was drawn on her back with a soldering iron on its highest heat setting.

"Alright, as far as I can tell, you've got a few minor treatable injuries, a couple infected ones we can treat with standard first aid disinfectant, and several scars all along your body. Come on, I'll take you to get cleaned up and have something proper to eat besides the 'candy' you found." Yang sighed, looking her in the eye, her eyes back to lavender. 'She also seems to be exhibiting the symptoms of a cold, hopefully it's treatable before it becomes pneumonia.'

Hesitant at first as Yang put her on the ground to get up, she eventually got the courage to grab her outstretched hand and follow her, seeing the bright comforting smile on her face.

"By the way, my name's Yang."

"My name is Athena." She stated as they walked through the forest, returning to the clearing.

Yang led Athena through the forest, to the short walk back to her home, where her father Tai Yang Xiao Long, was busy with tending to the sunflower garden in the flowerbed.

"Hey dad, I'm back." Yang called, Athena hiding behind her instantly.

"Hey my Little Sunny Dragon, did you enjoy your training with Ruby?" Tai asked not bothering to turn around.

"It went well. Where's mom?"

"She's inside getting lunch ready." Tai exclaimed. "Ruby came running in saying you went somewhere to investigate something she saw. Did you find it?"

"I did, take a look." Yang smiled.

Tai turned around to face his daughter, his gaze turning to the child hiding behind her legs.

"Yang… who is that?" Tai asked.

Yang could tell that her father was starting to get the wrong idea on who Athena was, and so she decided to try and settle it before the situation got out of hand.

"Relax dad, I didn't have a kid behind your back if that's what you're worried about. This is Athena, she's who Rubes saw earlier after the Grimm attack from that Ursa. I brought her home, to clean her up and give her something to eat." Yang explained stepping around Athena and crouching down behind her, with her hands on the child's shoulders. "Also, there's something we need to talk about later."

"Alright, I'm trusting your word, you didn't go and have a kid." Tai sighed standing up.

"C'mon Athena, my mom Summer, and sister Ruby would love to meet you." Yang smiled as she took the little girl by the hand and lead her into the house. "Mom, I'm back. What's for lunch?"

"Welcome back Yang. I'm making chicken burgers and tatter-tots." A woman called from the kitchen, before she stepped out. Standing in the doorway to the kitchen, was practically identical to Ruby, wearing a similar blouse, corset, skirt, stockings, and a white hooded cloak that was a stark contrast to Ruby's red cloak. This was Summer Rose, Yang's stepmom, and Tai's wife in his second marriage. Breast Size: J-Cup. "Oh my, who's this little cutie beside you?"

"This is Athena, I found her after an Ursa attacked Ruby and I." Yang explained.

"Oh dear, are you all right?" Summer asked.

"I'm fine. Just depleted on most of my aura. Some of it returned, but it hasn't completely. I'm doing fine though." Yang smiled.

"Well, that's good to hear." Summer smiled.

"I'm needing to get this little girl, cleaned up and then her injuries attended to." Yang said, before turning down back to look at Athena. "Go upstairs and into the bathroom, it's the first door on the left when you go down the hall a bit." Yang exclaimed, directing Athena to the stairs.

"Okay." Athena said as she went to the stairs.

Yang smiled as the eight year old began to go up the stairs, a big hesitantly, before she actually started going up in a fervent stride. When she was at the top, and Yang was sure she was out of hearing range, Yang turned to her mom, with a slightly serious look on her face, as Summer handed her the first aid kit.

"Mom, I need you to contact Uncle Qrow, and ask him to do me a favor." Yang exclaimed, holding the first aid kit to her side.

"What are you needing him to do? He'll be in Vale for a few more day before he heads out on his next mission." Summer exclaimed.

"I need him to search around Vale, and see if he can find anyone talking about trying to kill a Faunus child, by feeding them Wind Dust, making her think it's candy, and the attempt failing." Yang exclaimed. "I found Athena after she ate some Burn Dust, and miraculously there were no negative repercussions."

"Oh dear. Are you sure we shouldn't take her to the hospital?" Summer asked.

"She seems fine, I didn't see any negative effects of her eating it." Yang said. "She ate it like fifteen minutes ago, and I spent ten minutes trying to calm her down."

"She should be ashes by now." Summer said. "I'll give Qrow a call, and ask him to do the search. You go and attend to her. She seems to have a sort of attachment to you."

"I'm possibly the first person to show her actual kindness in a long time, or ever." Yang said. "I'll talk to you later. You don't mind if she joins us for lunch right?"

"Of course not, she's more than welcome to join us. I'll grab some of your old clothes from the attic for after her bath." Summer stated. "But… if she's able to eat Dust, there's a good chance she's possibly the product of an Atlesian Bio-Weapon Experiment."

"Then that's even worse." Yang said. "Athena is a living person. Atlesian scientists experimenting on Faunus children is wrong."

Yang went up the stairs and to the bathroom, only to find Athena lying on the ground with a certain corgi sitting on top of the child, licking her face.

"Aw, is Zwei cleaning you himself?" Yang smiled gaining their attention.

"He jumped on me when I was about to go in." Athena smiled as Zwei jumped off of her and ran around Yang.

"Well, let's get you cleaned up." Yang smiled opening the bathroom door.

"EEEP, Yang, close the door." A childish voice squealed.

"Oh sorry Ruby." Yang chuckled. "Forgot I told you to clean up after getting home."

The blonde brawler looked in the bathroom to see her sister Ruby with her skirt on the floor, corset and shirt off, her cloak, bullet belt, and pouch most likely hanging off the hook on the back of the door, wearing only her black tights and bra, wrapping her arms around her chest in a failed attempt to stay modest.

"Please leave Yang." Ruby said blushing a bit.

"Aw c'mon Rubes, it's nothing I haven't seen before." Yang chuckled. "Besides, we're kinda needing the bathroom so, why don't we all take a bath, the tub is big enough for two teens and one child. We're all girls here."

"What, no." Ruby cried before her gaze fell on Athena. "Whoa wait, you actually found the kid I saw in the forest?"

"Yep, this is Athena, I'm needing to clean her up and treat her injuries, the sooner the better sis." Yang exclaimed. "I'm sorry. But we're really needing to use the bathroom."

Ruby looked at the young girl and sighed before agreeing to bathe with them. Her kind, caring heart wouldn't allow her to say no if it meant helping someone injured.

About five minutes later, Yang was leaning on one end of the tub, with Ruby against the other, while Athena was held close to the MMA champion girl.

"So what's her deal anyway, where'd she come from?" Ruby asked washing the young girl's hair with her strawberry scented shampoo.

"I don't know, I haven't been able to ask her what she's doing all alone. But it's easy to tell, she doesn't have any family." Yang sighed as she scrubbed her back.

"Keep your eyes closed sweetie." Ruby stated as she began to rinse the little girl off with the detachable showerhead.

"Hey Athena, can you tell us where you…" Yang stopped when she finished cleaning the girl's back.

Under the suds and bubbles, after scrubbing off all the dirt and grime, Yang gasped, seeing the injuries on Athena's body, as well as the emblem branded into her flesh between her shoulder blades; the entire thing was infected, and black markings rooting from the branding stretched along her back and onto several unscarred patches of flesh.

'This looks like it was done with a soldering iron, and a steady hand. Meaning whoever did this, has no heart. The branding infection on her back has gotten so bad, it's become a blood infection.' Yang though. 'Yet, she doesn't seem to be severely sick or anything from the bacteria of the infection. Her skin is pale, and it seems cold, but there doesn't seem to be anything else about it. She's only exerting symptoms of a common cold.'

"Ruby, let's dry her off, and get her some food." Yang said. "I'll take her to my room, and you go and get her something to eat. Make sure it's something that's mainly liquid based."

"Uh, right." Ruby exclaimed, getting up from the tub, with Yang helping Athena out of the tub.

After drying off and wrapping both herself and Athena in towels, Yang opened the door to the bathroom, finding Summer there about to knock as she came out.

"Oh, sorry but I brought those clothes from the attic like I said I would." Summer said.

"Thanks mom." Yang said. "Sorry, but Athena won't be able to join us for lunch, at least not for solid foods."

"What's wrong?"

"I'll explain it after I get her dressed." Yang said, moving past Summer, with Athena trailing closely behind her, to her room.

Once in her room, Yang dressed herself in her sleepwear, consisting of a black pair of tight fitting shorts, and an orange shirt, before dressing Athena in the clothes that she wore, consisting of a pair of blue shorts, and a plain white t-shirt.

After moving back the sheets on her bed, Yang picked up the little girl, and laid her down, gently tucking her into the comforter.

"You feeling okay?" Yang asked, pulling up the chair from her desk.

"I'm feeling kinda hungry."

"Is your head hurting at all?" Yang inquired.

"A little."

"Okay, Ruby will be back here any minute with some soup for you." Yang said.

"Yang, is everything all right in here?" Summer asked, slowly opening the door and coming in.

"I'll be right back." Yang said, getting up from her seat, and going to her step-mom.

"Okay." Athena said.

"What's wrong is everything okay?" Summer inquired.

"I don't know." Yang said. "She's exerting symptoms of the common cold, but she's got a blood infection on her back, and if it actually is a blood infection, she should be in a lot more pain and suffering than she is now. But her body's only acting as if it's like I said, the common cold."

"That does seem problematic." Summer exclaimed. "Stay by her side, the rest of the day. If she gets worse by tomorrow, we'll take her to the hospital."

"Agreed." Yang sighed.

"Okay, Yang I made her some soup, but all we had was chicken noodle, and a piece of toast." Ruby said coming up with a tray holding a bowl of cooked soup with chunks of chicken and noodles, and a piece of buttered toast.

"That should be good. Do we have any orange juice? She needs as much Vitamin-C as possible right now." Yang said.

"We have an untouched two gallon jug in the fridge. It's yours." Summer said with a soft smile. "Now you can experience child care, and practice for when you have kids of your own."

"Thanks mom." Yang said. "Mind getting that, and a glass for me Rubes?"

"No problem." Ruby said, running down the stairs.

"I'll go talk with your father, to see what we should do with her." Summer said, putting a hand on Yang's shoulder. "I have a feeling, neither you nor her, are wanting to be separated."

After making sure that Yang had everything she needed for helping to take care of Athena, Summer went down to the living room, where Tai was sitting on the couch, shaking one of his knees up and down in a nervous manner. He was eating his portions for lunch, and he ate it fast.

"Where's Ruby?" Tai asked, wiping his lips with a napkin.

"Upstairs, helping Yang take care of Athena." Summer exclaimed, grabbing her plate off the coffee table, and began eating her food.

"You know what we have to do with that kid, right Summer?" Tai asked.

"Tai." She said, shocked at her husband. "We are not taking her to an orphanage. You know what the SDC has been up to with the Faunus children there as of late."

"You know as well as I what Yang said about her eating Dust and not being killed by it. I'm not saying we take her to an orphanage, I'm saying we take her to Oz." Tai exclaimed.

"No Tai." Summer said. "She's just a kid. Not even ten years old yet, and you're wanting to tear her from the only people to show her love, in I don't know how many years?"

"Summer, she's HIS, kid. The math adds up. Her abilities add up. What's to say she's not already working with HER?" Tai questioned, trying to keep his voice down as to avoid revealing anything to Ruby and Yang.

"I cannot I am hearing this coming from your mouth. She's just a kid. An' you seriously think she's responsible for all those Grimm invasions across all of the four kingdoms?" Summer questioned.

"You know as well as I, that a dragon's negative emotions are what draw in Grimm faster than any creatures, especially in the Faunus Race." Tai said. "Think about it, she might not have been doing it deliberately but that doesn't mean it's not a ploy set up by that monster."

"I am not gonna hear it." Summer said, grabbing Tai's plate. "I expected something like this from Ironwood, or even Raven if she were still here, but from you? I'm shocked at this kind of behavior and mindset from you Tai. You can consider yourself banned from the bedroom for the next week. Have fun camping out on the couch."

"But Summer…"

"Oh no, don't you 'but Summer' me. You know where I stand when it comes to things involving children. That's why I fell in love with you despite already having Yang with Raven, I was drawn in by that sweet and loving nature of yours. But the years have changed you. I don't know how, but you're not the man I fell in love with." Summer exclaimed.

"Summer…"

"You have the week the think about what you've said. I expect you to take that time to not only reflect, but also to do some soul searching." Summer stated.

~That Night: Yang's Room~

"You doing okay tonight Athena?" Yang asked, tucking the child in again after she finished another trip to the bathroom. "You feeling any better?"

"I'm feeling a lot better now." Athena smiled.

"That's good to hear." Yang smiled. "Now, go to sleep, and get some rest."

"Um… Yang?"

"Hmm?" Yang asked.

"I…" Athena was fidgeting quite a bit under the covers, her face kinda flushed red, like she was embarrassed about something. "I don't wanna sleep alone, not again. Could you please stay with me?"

"Of course, just hang tight and I'll be right back. I need to take care of something for myself." Yang smiled, finding Athena's flustered face to be adorable. It reminded Yang of when Ruby was that age. Leaving the room, Yang ran into Tai, as he was just coming out of the hall bathroom. "Dad? What are you doing using mine and Ruby's bathroom?"

"Your mother has kicked me out of our bedroom for the week, which also means I can't use the ensuite bathroom either. When I went to go grab my pajamas for sleep, I found your mother left them outside the door on the ground, along with my toothbrush, toothpaste, and rinse cup." Tai explained.

"What happened?"

"Your mother and I just had some differences in opinions on what we should do with Athena, once she's fully recovered. There's been a string of Grimm Attacks, caused by a Dragon Faunus matching Athena's description and I suggested we bring her in to Ozpin." Tai explained.

"An' mom said no, to all that? Good." Yang said.

"You can't be serious." Tai said, his hopes of Yang being on his side, vanishing.

"Dad Athena is just a child, a scared little girl who, for the first time, in what must be her entire life, is being treated with love and compassion. It's clear that from her injuries, that her childhood, has been a far cry, from one filled with love and affection. Tearing her apart from the first person who's actually shown her that kind of caring motherly warmth, could scar her for life, both mentally and emotionally." Yang said. "I'm not wanting to live with that kind of guilt on my conscience. I doubt you would want to either."

With that, Yang shouldered her way past Tai, and into the bathroom, leaving him to his thoughts, while Yang did her thing. Brushing her teeth, Yang looked in the mirror, an annoyed, and tired expression on her face.

'I can't believe dad was considering taking her to Professor Ozpin. Why the hell would he do that? I mean I know he worked for the man once upon a time, but why him, why now?' Yang thought before noticing something. 'Hang on, did my hair always look like this?' She inquired, bringing her hair forward to stroke with her fingers, examining the scarlet red frosted tips on her golden blonde locks. 'I mean, it looks good, especially with the colors being so compatible, but I doubt Ruby could have done this. Maybe genetics? Only possible explanation I can think of.'

After finishing up her nightly routine, Yang went back to her bedroom, and slid on in under the covers with Athena, who snuggled up next to her. The sudden act of comfort was a surprise, the bed was big enough for the both of them, but it seemed she felt more comfortable with sleeping closer to Yang, with a hug.

Smiling and gently putting a hand on Athena's back, Yang began to hum a gentle tune before it turned into an actual lullaby. It was a song Summer often sang to both her and Ruby, when they were little, and had a hard time sleeping, and figured that it fit perfectly in this situation.

(~Cue Song: Good Night My Angel, by Celtic Woman~)

"Goodnight my angel. Time to close your eyes. And save these questions for another day. I think I know what you've been asking me. I think you know what I've been trying to say. I promise I would never leave you. And you should always know, I never will be far away. Goodnight my angel, now it's time to sleep. And still so many things I want to say. Remember all the songs you sang for me. When we went sailing on a emerald bay. And like a boat out on the ocean. I'm rocking you to sleep. The water is dark and deep inside this mother's heart. You'll always be a part of me. Goodnight my angel, now it's time to dream. And dream how wonderful your life will be. Someday a child may cry and if you sing this lullaby. Then in your heart there will always be a part of me."

The sound of Yang's angelic singing, and the gentle thumping of her heart that Athena could hear, caused the young girl to get droopy eyed, and to fall asleep almost half way through the lullaby. When she finished singing, Yang smiled softly, and covered Athena in more of the comforter, gently and soothingly keeping up her tempo in rubbing the child's back.

"Sweet dreams little dragon." Yang smiled, before she went to sleep herself.

Unbeknownst to her, Summer was standing in the hall, her eyes glistening with joy and pride, as she realized that Yang was taking on more of a motherly role than she thought. An' that gave her joy because of one thing.

'I'm a grandma.' She internally squealed. 'I initially wanted to suggest Yang sing a lullaby to help sooth Athena and help her slumber better, but I never expected that she'd thought to do that herself, and she brought out the heavy stuff, with that song. Oh I'm so happy, I'm now a grandmother.'

Downstairs as Tai was preparing to go to sleep on the couch, he felt a chill run down his spine, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

'I just felt a disturbance, and I don't like it.' He thought.

~Airship Bound for Vale/Patch~

"Reporting in General Ironwood." A woman with silvery white hair, exclaimed as she turned on the holoscreen of the control console to her ship.

"Specialist Schnee. Do you have a beat on the target?" Ironwood asked.

"We do sir. The intel given to us by your friend seems to be spot on. The target is on Patch, and doesn't seem to be moving at all." Winter Schnee said. "The White Fang's sleeper agent is still where the information expressed."

The woman at the helm was a dressed in navy blue, white and gray colored military clothes, and a white coat with a red brooch that exposes upper arms, pants that have garters incorporated into them and black gloves. Breast Size: F-Cup.

"Very good. Keep doing recon for the night, and in the morning, detain and bring in the target." Ironwood said.

"Yes sir." Winter exclaimed.

Once the call ended, Winter sighed, and slouched a bit in her captain's chair. It was a pain for her to be pulling not just one, but three all-nighters in a row, but she was willing to do anything to bring down the terrorist threat, known as the White Fang, no matter the cost, to herself or to others.

"I will bring this scourge of the White Fang's threat, to its knees." Winter growled, as she was brought another cup of coffee. "But father's latest scandal involving the Faunus children of the orphanages, isn't helping to quell their rising anger, or their increasing numbers, and worse, he's pinning all the blame on one of the board members for this travesty, even though it was obviously his idea. But no matter what, I know that my family's honor and pride, will be restored, once he's been dethroned. But until then, the Atlas Military, will purge the scourge of the White Fang, this I swear."