Chapter 12
It been two days now since Ebony arrived and in those two days he watched as Ghira talk to some of the Faunus crew members about how they were being treated in the empire, he was with Ghira the now as he was getting his answer "well after thinking it through and talking with the crew I have my answer and it is yes I shall help you in return for the support you can give us".
Breathing a sigh of relief he looked to the man "thank you I can promise you my mother will help you" he said to him while shacking his hand.
"then let's get you to meet the leader of the White Fang" he smiled to him as they both walked outside seeing a jeep with the Wolf empire badge on it and his mother maid along with three soldiers waiting for him.
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Cerise was just finished her talk with her son who informs her that Ghira would help sighing a relief she saw a soldier "tell all units to stand down for now talks are underway to try and make peace" she saw him saluting to her and walking off "I will pray for you my son hoping the talks will go smoothly" she looked out the window of the mass of land.
"your empress I have just received news from our spy's they say Atlas has closed their borders" looking to the female who spoke to her seeing the paper and reading.
"why!" she said stunned by this news "Ironwood what are you up to" she thought on this.
"and also we have just received a transmission that the leader of the splinter group is heading to the same island where your son is in a few days time" looking to the her.
"tell my son about this" she sees her nodding and went off.
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Ebony was arriving at the place he saw it almost looks like a temple the whole building was made out off wood as he waited outside hearing Ghira talking to the leader when he heard his name walking in with his party he saw a woman on the chair she has black hair brown skin he saw the stun and shock look which then turned into anger "Ghira you brought a human to our location".
"this human is from the Wolf Empire" he hears Ghira saying to her.
Getting up in shock "you brought the empire to us they are hunting us down" he saw her pointing to her guards "seize them immediately" he watched one of them rushing to him only to be blocked by a long spear which turned out to be held by his mother maid.
Now even he was shocked by this "you shall not harm my mistress son!" he hears the anger in her voice as he watched her twisted the Faunus weapon around causing it to come off his hands and landed on the floor "I must say I am disappointed in my own kind to attack someone without hearing them first".
Looking to her then hearing the woman speak "your a Faunus but yet you don't have any thing like us" he hears the shock in her voice as he watched his guards all pulling out their weapons in case of a fight.
"yes I am" he watched the leader looking like she was thinking.
"then why protect a human!" he looks to his mother maid.
"when I was young my little village was attacked by raiders they caught me and cut off my ears and tails just for fun when suddenly a passing patrol from the empire shot them all dead they brought me back to their empire healed me up their empress visited me personally and offered my a safe place to stay and a job to be a maid for her but also her bodyguard I swore to that day to keep her safe" he saw the scars on her head as she move some hair out of the way.
"may I speak" he said moving up "my mother has held off the hunt because we may have a solution if I may speak to you in private alone" he watched her dismissing her guards as he did the same.
"okay what the solution to our problem human!" he hears the sarcasm.
"well now we are alone I can tell you that your life is in danger" he saw her gasp a little "someone is coming to replace you as leader we have intercepted a transmission talking about taking leadership over the White Fang it turns out the ones who attacked the Beacon Academy where a splinter group in your organisation but we can't tell who they are" he pulled up a scroll and played a recording of three male voices talking about how to deal with the Sienna Khan.
He saw the hurt in her eyes and shock "that... mean... my life ... is in danger!" he felt sorry for her for this to be betrayed by your own.
"look I have a plan if I can guarantee your safety will you work with us" he said hoping for a better outcome.
"and what would you need from me" he watched her sitting back down.
"all we would need is you to hand over the ones who were there on the attack so they may face a trial that way we can avoid any conflict" he said hoping she would agree.
"I see I am sorry but I don't believe the evidence you have brought me" he was stunned by this "even if my life was in danger I am sure I can handle it so I say goodbye" he felt disappointed on that and nodded his head and walked off.
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Hours later he was talking to his mother "mum she isn't believing it" he said disappointed in himself.
"I see but no worries this does present another opportunity to us" he faced his mother with a surprise look on him "we have received news that the new leader is coming to deal with her so we will save her send in the special unit you have they will save her as well as get us the name of this new leader" he finished off the communications and to get it all set up.
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Cerise had just finished her talk with her son when a male human came up to her "your empress you have received an invitation from the Shnee family given by Ironwood" she taken the letter and saw it was an invitation to a ball and fundraising event to help Beacon Academy out she saw it was tonight.
"and it was given by Ironwood?" she saw him nodding "I see they are probably trying to get in my good books still!" she said sounding disgusted by that thought "I suppose it would make it look bad if we didn't accept it" she smiled to her self "okay I will go and tell Camille to wear something fancy she is going as my plus one" he saw him nodding and rushed off.
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Cerise was now arriving back at Atlas in her transport plane with two of her personnel bodyguards along with a female Faunus who had black hair and her skin colour was a dark brown but with patterns she wore a sparkly black dress while Cerise wore a white dress with Gold around the edge and a royal red cloak she saw that same man outside greetings his guests when he saw her "ah your empress I am so glad the invitation got to you I also hope you enjoy yourself tonight" he said.
"me and my guest" she saw him looking at the Faunus woman in a not so nice manner "Camille will enjoy ourselves" she walked pass him seeing others were looking at her guests with disgusting looks.
"your empress I appreciate the invitation but why bring me?" she hears her friend asking.
"because you are my most trusted friend as well as my most valuable spy I have a mission for you after the event is finished I want you to look after my niece Weiss" she walked on in to enjoy the night away.
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It been days now and Crimson was feeling more towards Jaune now and they have been spending time together as well and she now admits to herself that these feeling are of love but yet she couldn't bring herself to telling him because of her life she is meant to be the next leader of an empire the one to take over from her mother and she sees how busy her mother gets even before her father death she just feels when she take the throne she might not have time to spend with him and that bring a sad points to her.
They were currently walking through an abandoned village that looks almost build and almost not built when suddenly she sees Ren holding them up as they all got ready in case when suddenly a fast moving man appears out of nowhere attacking the group she pulls out her chain and wipes it to him only for him to catch it and pulls it around making her crash into Ren she got up to see the man talking to them saying who wasn't important to him when he saw her "you might be valuable to her to help defeat your mother" which made her growl in anger.
"try it buster" she said bring her chain to the ready as he charged at her using her chain to pull herself away and bring her pistol up to fire a few shot as he dodged them she then saw Jaune being pushed away using her chain to stop him crashing into a building when they suddenly saw Nora attack being stopped by a scorpion tail and him explaining who he works for when he suddenly attacks again.
She saw him kicking Ruby far away using her chain and wrapping it around Ruby body and doing a reverse movements she was now in the path of his kick which forced her onto the ground with a gasp of pain "Crimson!" she hears Ruby and Jaune both shouting to her looking up she saw the Faunus man walking up to her with a menacing laughing look "well say good night" she couldn't move in fear when suddenly a smashing sound and a sudden metal hitting sound gasping when she saw the man from Beacon Academy there who had saved her as he smiled to her then seeing the Faunus man backing away and announcing who the man was.
When they went into a fighting she was help up by Jaune as she held her left side in pain "are you okay?" she hears the concerned in his voice.
"I feel pain in my ribs" she said as they watched the whole fight with him when suddenly they saw the Faunus making a hit with the other man only for his stinger to cut off by Ruby as they rushed up to them seeing him running away.
When they all surrounded the injured man and asking questions while she tried to help him ignoring her own pain as they all thought it was best to get away from here she felt Jaune helping her to walk as she was still in pain while Ruby help her uncle to move.
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Later that night Crimson was sitting listening into Qrow story about all this when Jaune shouted about what is going on and why weren't the world told about this when she just steers into the fire "war!" she said unfazed by their shocking gasp she looks up to the moon with a tear "forgive me almighty she-wolf" looking back to the group "my empire long ago before what we call pre hidden era we were contacted by someone who asked us for help at the beginning it was going good we were winning the Grimms were being pushed back" she paused for a second "but set back after set back saw us now on the defensive cities were being taken mass troops being lost the maiden were then placed under our protection years went by and we were almost lost when we noticed the one who asked for help was starting to give us less information on where the maiden where or where the enemy was going by then we realised we were nothing more than pawns in this war so our great grandmother made a choice to safeguard the empire we went into hiding because by that time the enemy was also going into hiding" she looked at the fire.
"wait back at Beacon I saw Grimms but in white!" she hears Ren saying.
"our light Grimms their native to our empire they help us fight the dark Grimms" she said looking to Jaune who sat back down next to her and placed an arm around her making her jump a little.
"I am sorry if that what your empire felt like back then!" she hears the sadness in his voice.
"thank you but we are over it now, now we only want to end this fighting with less fighting as possible" she said seeing him smile to her.
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Ebony was walking around the town at night when he hears his mother maid "how are you holding up with the death of Penny?" he stopped thinking back to that day seeing Penny body laying on the ground.
"not good but getting there I miss her so much!" he sat down fighting to keep his tears at bay.
"I understand how you are feeling when I was young and my home was attacked my mother and father were lose in the attack" he felt her hugging him to comfort him when they suddenly saw Blake and Sun chasing down someone.
"quickly after them and call for reinforcement!" he shouts as they too chased after them.
A couple of minutes and soon they saw one of their transport plane overhead "you there stop or we will fire on you" he hears while climbing up seeing the woman looking around and striking pipe causing steam to rise looking over to see nothing "dam you all circle round she might still be in the area" he say to the plane gaining a salute and watching it going off turning around he saw the maid now helping Sun as he called for another plane to help pick them all up.
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The next day Crimson woke up to seeing Qrow now very sick seeing the blood turning purple "this is bad we need to get help now" she sees the other nodding as they quickly packed up while she and Jaune looked for something to use to carry him.
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Four hours and they had split up Ruby, Jaune and Crimson taken Qrow through the village while the other two went around the mountain when they arrived at the village Crimson couldn't help but get a sense of feeling like she was here before as they walked around a corner she hears gasping looking at the other and saw a wreck gun jeep on it roof with the wolf empire badge on it gasping in shock as it suddenly came back to her why she remembers this place laying on the ground with tears on her "Crimson!" she hears Jaune and Ruby calling to her.
"I remember now" she held onto Jaune.
"what do you mean" she faces the jeep and back to them.
"this place was where my brother was killed" she saw them gasping as she went on to tell them what had happened.
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Many years ago
One night Crimson and her brother with a jeep and a few soldiers were out looking for any signs of their former enemy to see if they were out of hiding when suddenly she noticed a red glow in the distance and smelling fire "quickly there must be trouble ahead" she says as they all rushed off to the place.
When they arrived they saw the village in panic Grimms everywhere and people rushing around "quickly get them out of the town by this bridge" she hears her brother saying while seeing him climb into the gun on their jeep as they directed the people while fighting the Grimms.
"we need to blow the bridge up" she says to him who nodded back as a few soldiers began setting up charges only to discover their time was broken when they had set it up on the other end of the bridge "shit" she says looking over the other end of the bridge seeing her brother holding back the Grimms while the last people crossed "brother charges set but timer is broken!" she shout to him only to hear a scratching noise making her cover her ears as they looked and saw a huge Grimm walking up to her brother "brother come on get out of there" she screams to him.
"No I am sorry sister" she hears him saying then watching him moving the gun to the bridge and using it to set the bombs off causing it to collapse into the water "NNNNNOOOOO!" she screamed and tried to run to him only to be held back by the troops as they watched him shooting it only for it to stab him through the heart and then tipping the whole jeep over as she watched while being dragged off by her soldiers seeing the creature walking off.
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Back to presenter day
"the next day our reinforcement arrived to help civilians out while we recovered my brother body we returned home and I spent months in my room laying awake because of the nightmare I have seeing his death spent months in a room with a person to help me come to term!" she said feeling Jaune hugging into him when they suddenly heard a loud screaming noise which caused the to jump up and ran back to Qrow.