Chapter 5
The next day both Crimson and Ebony were up and were heading to the dance hall walking in they saw the place being decorated "wow not to bad" Crimson said admiring the work.
"I must say it isn't that bad I guess... it won't... be too bad to come here!" Ebony said looking around shrugging his shoulders to his sister.
"I guess it won't be boring" Crimson said walking around the hall "come on let head to class before we end up late" she said leading the way.
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Later that day Cerise was sitting at a table when she saw that Blake women walking up to her "um excuse me your Empress?" she heard her saying in a shy kind of way.
"please you don't have to call me that your not one of my people please Miss Blake isn't it?" she ask taking a sip of her tea.
"you know my name?!" Blake said shock.
"why yes my two children came to me asking for help when your friends couldn't find you so I deployed 20 of my soldiers in the city to help along with me" as she said she saw Blake being shocked by that which got her concerned "is something okay?!" she asked her.
"can I ask you something?" Blake asked seeing her nodding "can I became a citizen in your empire?" she said quickly to her.
"why if I may asked?" she said then seeing her taking a seat.
"it just your two children were telling me about your empire and how they treat everyone as equal even us Faunus!" she said sounding scared on this.
"my dear child" she placed her cup tea down then get near to her placing her two hands on top of Blake hands "yes my empire treats everyone as equal no matter who you are or what you are tell me does other kingdoms outside of my empire treats Faunus the same?" she asked seeing Blake looking at the ground still.
"no some do treat us some even fought for our rights but there are more others who still only view us as cheap labour and nothing but scums of the world but when I heard about your empire I felt like this is the only place I can be who I want without fear" Blake said looking up to her.
Cerise looked around her three guards "I see my empire doesn't treat Faunus like that they get paid as any other person the same right as a human take a look at him" she points to one of her guards "remove your helmet please" she said to him as they watched him handing his weapon to another guard then placing his hands on his helmet removing it to reveal he is a fox Faunus.
"I see so it true they are better treated in your empire so please can I be one?" she asked again.
"I would but I can't your mind is right at the moment I can see your stress about something think about it first after the festival then come back to me with a clear mind then we will talk okay" she said seeing Blake nodding then getting up to leave.
"thank you for helping us Faunus people" she said smiling to her.
"you are welcome my dear child now go off have fun" she said seeing walk away as she went back to her tea.
"my empress why not let her join" she smiled hearing that one guard speaking to her.
"because she isn't in the right mind set to make that choice and I don't want her to think that just because she can join us doesn't mean she can get away from her past problems she need to think this one through" she said facing the sun that was slowly making it way down.
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It was getting near the end of the day and the dance is just getting started as everyone was inside talking away Ruby saw Crimson walking in as she wore a dark blue navy coat with gold trim around the edge she has four medals on her chest along with a badge of a wolf howling with the two letter "WE" she has the same colour cap on as well her hair done up in a bun style she has dark navy blue trousers a black leather belted and black leather boots around her waist was a pure silver sword with a gold guard handle in a shape of a wolf she also has white gloves on her brother wore the same only he has two medals they were followed by their mother who wore a sparkly black dress that went up to her shoulders all the way down to her ankles she had black high heels on her hair was left down but had a wavy style to it and as always she has three of her guards who's armour looked to have polished for the night Ruby then felt thirst thinking it was best to get a drink.
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Two hours into the dance Crimson and Ebony was watching the crowd when a male with a light oak brown hair colour came up to Crimson "hay their gorgeous would you care for a dance!" Crimson only rolled her eyes at his attempt to wow her into a dance.
"I am so sorry but I not into guys I am more into my own gender" she said pulling a smile to him "but my brother swings that way" she said pointing to him as the male looked at him seeing him nodding.
"yes I do" Ebony said to him only to see the boy walking away fast "well that should take care of him" he said chuckling a little at his reaction while looking around the hall seeing everyone was busy dancing away.
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Cerise walked up to Ozpin "hello" she said to him while sipping away at a glass of wine.
"hello your empress how is your evening?" he asked her.
"it not bad no one tried to... dance with me!" she said a little disappointed at that last part as she sigh "don't get me wrong I have had people coming to asked me questions but I wish they just talk to me or dance with me just like a normal person".
"well I may be a little rusty at it but" I then went in front of her bowing her head holding one of his hand out "care for a dance malady"
Cerise caught of guard by his action she soon brought a smile to her "way of course my dear sir" she gently takes his hand and both walked to the dance floor catching the eyes of the others who gasped and whispered at each other.
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Ebony watched his mother dancing with Ozpin when he caught Penny standing his eyes shot wide open when he saw her in her light green dress with a darker green band around her waist "sis I am just going to talk to penny" he said walking not even hearing her reply back.
Crimson watched her brother going off to the girl when she spotted Ruby leaving the hall "I wonder where she off to?" she thought to herself filling after her.
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Ebony walked up to Penny "why hello gorgeous lady" he said bowing a little seeing it brought a little red to her face.
"hello handsome" she replied back to him.
"I couldn't be a bother and ask for a dance?" he asked with a smile and a hand out to her.
"why I would love to dance" she taken his hand and both walked off to the dance floor "so I couldn't keep my mind of you and the fact that we both are the same" she said to him while getting into a slow dance.
"same here but also I been having these feeling ever since I bumped into you on that day" he said as they both picked up the dancing.
"really?" she asked shocked by this seeing him nodding which made her face turn red again "I too have been having the same feeling I know it crazy even though we only meet a few days ago".
"I wouldn't call it crazy more like it was destined for us to meet like that or in the words of my empire the might she-wolf brought us together" he said as they both chuckle at that a d continued to dance away.
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Crimson continued to follow Ruby until she came to a huge tower she spotted the knocked out Atlas soldier then seeing two of her empire soldiers walking by "you two come with me!" she shouts to them seeing them both saluting then rushing behind her.
When they got in seeing more knocked out soldiers while climbing into the lift "mother" she spoke into a comms.
"yes daughter what is it?" she hears her mother asking over the other end.
"something going on at the tower don't know what but saw a few knocked out Atlas soldiers I and two of our own soldiers are heading up to see" she said while waiting for the lift to reach it floor.
"okay I will come over with reinforcement" she said before leaving.
The lift then came to a stop as she saw the two soldiers pulling out their weapons while she pulled out her sword and the door opened allowing then to rush in seeing Ruby facing a mysterious woman seeing her smirking "you are under arrest!" Crimson shouted out to her only to see her rushing out the window just when Ironwood came walking in "quickly after her!" she screamed to her two soldiers who rushed off.
Crimson walked up to Ruby "are you okay?" she asked seeing her smile.
"yes thank you for coming" she said shaking her hand.
"it okay like we said we are here to help protect the school" she said seeing more of those troops arriving along with her mother as they talked about what happened here.
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"so does this mean you love me?" Ebony asked Penny as they held each other close.
"I guess this does make us lover's" she smiled to him as they kept dancing away to the night.
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Later that night the brother and sister were in their room along with their mother as she wanted to talk to them "now listened to me earlier today one of our reconnaissance drones found an old pre-hidden ship breaker yard" she said seeing their eyes light up at that.
"but how we were taught that when we went into hiding we destroyed all our outpost and base!" Crimson said sounding stunned by this.
"yes but after digging a little in the old archive it turns out this base was not our typical breakers yard what we found was that this breakers yard had taken on a different types of roles such as a project base and some other thing but what we found was a piece of paper that told us about a project called cleansing artillery" she stopped as her son spoke out.
"what that!?" he asked curiously.
"from what was left of the info they were trying to make an artillery gun using the same heat weapon as our six sister ships it seems like they were hoping that this weapon would have helped turn our war around but sadly never got to finish it by then the Grimms and Salem was nearly winning and with us going into hiding so they abandoned it" she said to them both.
"I see!" Crimson looked down then looked to her mother "that what do we do?" she her.
"well in the morning you both will be heading to the location find anything you can on that project and anything else that may seem important we think it will be in the main director office of the place so be careful" she got up seeing them both nodding "goodnight my children" she then walks out leaving them both to sleep the night way.
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The next day team Rwby was heading to get their transport plane when they saw two of those wolf planes and doctor Oobleck in front of them along with Crimson and Ebony "hay guy's what are you doing here and where are there two of your planes and not our?" Ruby asked pointing to them.
"well me and my brother are going on a mission of our own and why there are two of our well one is for us the other is yours" she said smiling seeing Ruby eyes wide open and her face showed of excitement.
"but why not one of our own?" Wiess asked them both.
"well the mission area you all are heading to was considered to hostile for your normal air ships so your headmaster and our empress thought it was best to give you one of our which is a lot tougher we even sent out a recon team to scout out a good landing zone" Ebony said looking over his watch "well we need to go now see you all later!" he shouts out rushing to their plane.
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Team Ruby were in the transport plane that was given to them by the Wolf Empire they couldn't believe the space it had on the inside when they were nearing their location they over heard someone talking to the pilot "raptor 1 this is scout unit 2 we have you in our eyesight your landing zone is clear but be advised there are several ground units Grimms in the area" they all looked at each other apond hearing that.
"hay Doctor Oobleck it up to you now?" the pilot shouts out to him making the other facing him seeing him nodding "okay scout unit 2 we are going in" they then felt the plane heading down.
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Three hours away Crimson and Ebony were nearing their location when they looked out the window and both gasp at seeing the place several large buildings some looking like at least 20 level tall others looking like huge warehouse there were several cranes and other vehicles along with four dry docks for their air ships to land into the conditions of the area wasn't too bad some building had rust on it other had trees and wildlife growing around it "there a good spot to land" Crimson pointed out to the place it was in between one of the dry dock and a huge building seeing her brother nodding to her they then made their way down "well let get this over with" she said.