Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Wolf and Reaper. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.
(Mistral.)
Azul laid on his sleeping bag and looked around at the forest. He had used his claws to create a fire rather than waste any dust the duo had so soon.
One could call Azul stupid or genius or both, he didn't care for the opinions of others… or at least, many opinions at the moment.
Ruby sat in her sleeping bag, having had brought her pajamas from Beacon. She looked at Azul who used the flames to keep himself warm.
"It's different in Mistral, isn't it?" Ruby asked, Azul looked up from the embers in front of him and shrugged.
"Yeah, I'd say it's different enough to be considered unique. A lot more forest here. I have no idea how people get to keep themselves safe. You have so much ground where Grimm can attack you and you have no defenses against such… I can kinda see why the last village was so overrun and destroyed. I'm starting to guess Cinder wants to destroy Remnant and not rule over it." Azul muttered while sighing.
"You know Vale isn't your fault… right? we saw it coming but didn't know anything. We saved a lot of people, the school…" Ruby watched Azul return his thoughts to the flames in front of him.
"I lost my entire team, Rubes. I keep having nightmares where I'm running but I either get there only to find what's left of them… or I get to see Cinder executing them one by one and taunting me." Azul stated, he looked at the flames before laying his weapon next to them.
"We're fighting a war and Cinder already punched out a big piece. We didn't save a lot of people and we're fighting someone who doesn't even care how many people she's hurting. Cinder hit Beacon hard to try and kill as many people as possible and stop anyone from fighting her as she got what she wanted. She's going to march to Haven next and burn it to the ground and nothing we do is going to stop her." Azul brushed off his claws and sighed.
"You can't keep blaming yourself for AMET. I know what it's like to lose people… when I was little? my aunt ran away from home, and I never found out what happened to her. Qrow would always tell me she had died or something… I never believed him, I'm smart like him, Azul. You're forgetting me and you were two of the best students in Signal." Ruby stated while brushing off her pants.
"Perhaps… but we aren't kids anymore. I mean little kids; you remember those times we used to play, and you would always chase me through the trees? You'd call me big bad wolf and I'd call you little red?" Azul asked with amusement.
Ruby nodded and smirked. Summer would always compare the duo to the children's fable because of how adorable the duo was. Ruby and Azul were too little to know the meaning of the story and only understood part of the fable.
"Yeah. I forgot people used to bully you." Azul looked at Ruby and hummed.
"And then I met you and we became best friends. You're the only person who wasn't a jerk to me and I never understood why. Your mom used to tell me I would follow you around like a puppy. My dad used to say whenever you'd come over. I'd wait by the door and look out the window or run to the driveway and wag my tail before you guys came there… I never got over the teasing considering how mom took pictures." Azul stated and leaned back in his sleeping bag.
Azul yawned and looked at the shattered moon of Remnant. He had always wondered why the moon was so broken and shattered.
His mother would always tell him stories about what broke it and what didn't break it.
"You know Yang is going to think you were dragged here by me, right? she'd never once considered for a moment that somehow this was your idea." Ruby heard from Azul and caused her to roll her eyes.
"I don't think I care what my big sis has to say about this… Cinder has to be stopped, she isn't going to stop, and once she starts this all over again at Haven? She'll just keep going and going till she burns Remnant down." Azul sighed and started to sleep for the moment.
"Yeah, well? we got a long way to go to get to Haven and we have a lot more ground to cover… we can sprint to the next city tomorrow and get an airship to Haven if we're lucky." Azul muttered before trying to sleep.
Ruby watched her boyfriend before trying to sit down and sleep as well.
That was before she heard growls… and looked at Azul to see him whimpering.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter is done! I want to point out RNJR will still be formed by not yet. The next chapter will be a week on Sunday and will show Ruby fighting Grimm along with setting up Tyrian for a fight with Azul and Ruby. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
Ps: Ruby is 1200 words. Yang 1500 Saturday, Winter 1200 on Saturday, Glynda 1200 Thursday. Penny 1200 Wednesday maybe, and Willow 1200 next week maybe… New Summer story soon.