Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Wolf and Reaper. Enjoy the 1200-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale.)

Ruby looked at her newest outfit… The one she planned on using for the duration of her self-assigned mission to take care of Cinder.

She had forgotten she cropped her hair to be spiker. She blinked and looked over the waist cincher she wore with a pale blouse. Ruby had fixed up her cape which reached the ground barely, she also wore a short red skirt, split at the side with a brown strap over the gap.

She pulled Crescent Rose to her bed and looked at her red shorts. She rolled her eyes on the insistence of red, Azul had made jokes before he shut down. She kicked her steel-toed boots with brown straps around them.

Ruby also wore black bracers with brown belts around the wrists and black fingerless gloves. Ruby finally looked over her brown belt with several bullets on it and her emblem.

She also packed a pouch on her waist with backup ammo and Dust… and several pairs of clothes in her brown backpack.

Ruby knew she couldn't rely on her team sadly. She wanted Yang, Wiess, Blake… Azul, anyone who could fight to join her mission. Ruby had accepted that she'd be pretty much alone sadly.

She had heard nothing about Pyrrha, Ruby guessed she was hurt and healing. Yang had also told her nobody had seen Professor Ozpin.

Vale might heal up, but they wouldn't be safe from Cinder. She had wounded Vale in a vain attempt for power and left scars the city would never fully heal from for a while.

"I… one last shot with Azul. I know he's hurt, but he's the only teammate I can count on." Ruby stated to herself.

She knew WBY would be dealing with their own thing and Yang wouldn't allow her to hunt Cinder. JNPR was recovering and working to help Vale. SSUN she had no idea what to expect and doubted they'd allow her to chase Cinder.

Penny? She hadn't seen her, and her heart ached to know what was happening with her.

She had no real allies; everyone was patching up the city. She wanted to help.

She held up the only news report she had to go on. Atlas had tracked the White Fang Bullhead armada and their fleet of airships to Mistral.

Ruby guessed that Cinder if she was anywhere? She would be in Mistral, plotting an attack against Haven.

Cinder either wanted the academies gone or they had something for her.

Ruby pulled up her hood and grabbed Crescent Rose. She knew Azul was the only person who might be willing to join her… if not? She'd go alone, Cinder had to be stopped or she'd go after more of Remnant.

(In Mistral)

Cinder growled and looked at the area around her eye. She could feel the pain of the First Dust bullet that had burned part of her face. She adjusted her mask over the burned left flesh.

"I told you… Do your damn job, Taurus. I promised you control of the White Fang and the chance to get back at that girl. I want Haven NOW…" She clenched her fist and crushed the scroll before hissing in pain as her ruined left arm.

She turned and sat down in her chair as her airship continued towards Evernight Castle.

The girl and her mutt of a boyfriend had cost her. She had lost her computer virus, which lost her the chaos of sending Ironwood's army against him. she had to resort to blowing up explosives and then launching a massive direct assault which cost her dozens of troops.

She had also failed to destroy Beacon, the Atlesians had warded off the dragon. They hadn't been as caught off guard as she wanted them to.

She clenched her fist over the fact that she had lost the chance to get the Fall Maiden powers… HER POWERS. She had wounded the Nikos girl before Ozpin and Ironwood showed up.

She growled, one girl and her pathetic boyfriend had derailed months of planning just because they found her with the computer virus. Cinder planned to get her powers back.

Then she'd kill that brat and then her master. Salem had made the mistake of trusting her.

(Azul's Room.)

Azul dragged himself from the bed towards the door. He grunted as his unkempt claws scratched his side.

Azul had kept his room clean and kept… least to the fallen. He had failed as a leader. He kept replaying the crash of the Bullhead. It was one of dozen or so crashes of aircraft, but it was just another hammer slamming him deeper and deeper into the edge of his despair.

He clawed at his eyes and nearly tripped over empty wrappers and crushed cans. He opened the door. Azul already knew who it was.

"Rubes…" The Faunus looked at the ground as his girlfriend crossed her arms.

"Azul? You haven't been going to the therapist, but that's not why I'm here." Ruby said while Azul leaned on the door frame.

He yawned, he had bags under his eyes. Azul felt like he was 40 years older at the moment.

"Rubes, I told Professor Glynda I'm fine. I'm just going through things." Ruby wanted to slap her boyfriend, but it wouldn't help him. he was grieving the deaths of people under his watch.

She'd feel the same way if WBY had been killed in combat. Ruby was happy therapy was free in Vale at the moment.

She saw Azul slowly raise his eyes from the ground to look at the red reaper.

"You look nice." He spoke. she could see the broken smile. Azul was taking the damage to Beacon and Vale hard.

"I'm going after Cinder." Ruby watched Azul's eyes widen as he looked at her.

"She'll kill you, she has an army, Rubes." Azul hissed before he punched the wall.

Ruby watched him look over his shoulder at her. he pointed a clawed finger at her.

"I know what you're trying, Rubes. You're not being fair." Azul crossed his arms at his girlfriend.

"You're mourning them. I get that, Azul. I get we're all hurting; I just know that doing something about it is what I want to do. Cinder won't stop with Vale. Nobody else is going to come with me, because nobody would agree to chase her." Ruby stated.

Azul sighed and hummed. He looked to the side.

"I'll go… But ONLY BECAUSE I'm not losing you. I can't lose anyone else, Rubes. Yang is gonna kill us." Azul sighed and looked at the window.

He still had the scars, and it was those scars that worried him.

Author Notes

Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out that season 7 is the final season. Cinder is going to be the main villain, but I do plan on Tyrian and Roman being major villains. The next chapter will be next Sunday or so and will show Ruby and Azul beginning their trip towards Mistral. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Yang is next Saturday and is 1200, Winter is 1200 words on Saturday, Raven is today maybe.