Chapter 15
It now been two weeks and everything in Mistral was on edge but Cerise has told Mistral council that she would help keep them safe until they were back on their feet and Ghira was told about Sienna Khan still being alive and is now serving her time in the wolf's empire military to pay back all the bad thing she has committed Ebony and Crimson were at the train station with their mother saying goodbye to her "are you both sure about this!" they hear their mother saying with concern.
"yes we want to help get them to Atlas" Ebony said with confidence in his voice.
"I understand but once you reach Argus do not go any further wait there for me I will explain once I arrive there no matter what" they both nodded to her and both knew they couldn't disobey her orders even if they were confused by this "Ebony why don't you go and get something for the journey while I have a chat with your sister" he nods and walks off leaving them alone "so something on your mind daughter" she was confused by her mother word but she think she knows why.
"I don't know what you mean mum" she said placing a fake smile on her face.
"my dear daughter I know something is wrong now tell me" she hear the demand in her mother voice giving in as she knew it was useless to hide it anymore.
"it just I am in love with Jaune but yet I am afraid" she said taking a seat "I am afraid that I will never love him enough because when I saw you with dad you were always busy with running the empire and I am scared I'll be like that!" she looked on the ground.
She feels her mother placing a hand on her shoulders "my dear daughter I can see why you are afraid yes it true it was hard to balance out your relationship with your lover and running a whole empire but it didn't mean I never loved him enough I still found ways to show your father that I loved him" she looks to her mother "you shouldn't be worried about taking over from me right now, instead live the life you want before I step down so use this time to build that relationship between you and Jaune because by the time you take over from me that relationship that you both have build will still be strong and it will grow stronger" this made her think better now hearing it from her mother.
"I see I understand now thank you mum" she hugs into her as they noticed Ebony returning from the shop with some snacks as they noticed the whole group was now climbing aboard the train now, they waved goodbye to their mother as the train began to pull out of the station.
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A few hours into the journey Crimson was sitting in a room alone "hay where is your brother?" she turned to the door to see it was Jaune standing there.
Smiling to him as she saw him sitting next to her "he is walking around the train he likes to explore new thing plus he went to check up on our rifles making sure their safe" she said as they both held hands.
"is something wrong with you!?" she hears the concerned in his voice.
"well I have been thinking about us you see I have been worried about our relationship because I am next in line to rule after my mum and when I was a child I always dreamed about meeting my perfect lover but as time went by I watched my mum and my father relationship they had a somewhat rocky relationship I then realised it because of her job being a ruler to the empire she found it hard to love him and I was convinced that it would be the same with me but now my mother told me something and it's helped me out now I want to work at our relationships" she said closing in and giving him a gentle kiss on the lips.
Once they partied ways she saw the blushing on his face which caused her to smile at his reaction before anything else could happen the whole train suddenly jumps about making Jaune land on top of her she saw him quickly jumping off her and apologising to her as she was helped up by him "don't be sorry it just means you will have to make it up to me in a different way" she saw him blushing which made her chuckle just as Jaune team and her brother came rushing in and started to shout out about the train being under attack from the Grimms as they all grabbed their weapons and rushed off.
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They climbed to the roof of the train where they saw lots of Grimms and one huge Grimm who looked to be commanding them all, Crimson and Ebony smiled to each other and nodding they got up and Crimson using her chain managed to hook her chain onto one of the Grimms legs and giving it a tug making it fly towards her brother who gave it a huge kick in the head making it crash onto the train roof killing it quickly they pause when they noticed a bunch of turrets popping up from the train and shooting off into the Grimm "great now we have another problem" Crimson said out loud while dodging a claw she pulled out one of her grenades and throwing to her brother who kicked it to a group of Grimms which explodes and killing some while making a few other to crash into the ground.
Pausing for a moment when all of a sudden Crimson heard Oscar shouting out tunnel as she and her brother rushed to a gap in the couches and where safely inside the train rushing to meet the other they saw Qrow arguing to a man as they both looked around seeing passenger frighten with fear when they both heard a plan was being formed "sis what the plan go with Jaune or Ruby?" Ebony asked.
Crimson looked around one more time when she hears Oscar saying about the relic being able to attract the Grimms to it she knew then what to do but she didn't want to leave Jaune but she knew Ruby group would need the most help keeping that relic safe "we go with Ruby" she said to him she sees him nodding.
Once everyone knew what they were doing Crimson walked up to Jaune "hay listened I and my brother are going with Ruby!" she said feeling sad to leave him like this.
"I understand just promise me you will by fine I don't want to lose someone I care about!" she hears the worry in his voice making her smile.
"I promise you I will be fine" she place a hand on his cheek and brought him in for a kiss.
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After a few minutes both Ebony and Crimson were at the back of the train on the roof shooting a few Grimms when they suddenly felt the carriage they were on slowing down looking behind them they saw team Rwby and Oscar with Qrow all ready for the fight as they rushed to Ruby side seeing that huge one on the roof with more of those smaller one all around.
Both Ebony and Crimson rushed to a group of them with Crimson pulling out her chain and her brother throwing her some grenades as she used chain like a bat to make them go faster into the group killing them when she turned around she just barely dodged a claw when her brother came jumping over her and kicking it in the head making it stumble back a bit just then he grabbed onto his sister chain giving a pulling making her fly forward into the Grimm as she kicks it in the face making it get angry and about us it fire shot only for her to duck to the ground and revealing her brother behind her with his gun aimed at firing a shot killing it in the face.
As they both looked to the other to see Qrow and Ruby both spinning in the air and killing it but not before it managed to fire a ball towards the tracks which made the whole thing to jump and coming to the ground throwing everyone all over the place.
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Everyone was getting up and shacking their to clear the dizziness out of it when Yang asked is everyone was okay when all of a sudden an old lady shouted out catching everyone off guard, after a while everyone started to gather their belongings when they heard Yang arguing about what happened to no more half truth when he started to argue back about the reason he find it hard to trust people then he went on about the empire abandoning him and the kingdoms when they need them the most making everyone go silent and facing both Ebony and Crimson who were now angry by what he just said.
"we never abandoned the kingdom, we abandoned you because we were only given half truths from you!" Crimson shouted out to him with anger.
When Qrow stepped into to calm everyone down when Ozpin asked where was the lamp when they heard Ruby shouting out and showed that she had the lamp when Ozpin started to ask for it only to be replaced by Oscar who was telling us about what Ozpin was trying to do and the name we had to call out when Ruby said out load the whole place went still nothing moved not even the wind was blowing.
When all of a sudden the lamp started to flout up in the air and a blue misty woman appeared "holy mighty She-wolf it a naked blue ghost!" Ebony shouted out in a stunned voice causing everyone to look at him in disbelief on what he had just said.
Turning back to the woman who was greeting Ozpin when Ruby asked her a question and the whole area was engulfed in a white flash separating everyone except Ebony and Crimson both looked around and calling out to their friends when that blue woman appeared in front of them "well now it been a long time since I saw any of the Wolf Empire".
Both of them were stunned by this facing the woman "you know if us?" Crimson asked her.
"why yes and the real reason why you have came out of your hiding" they both gasp in shock at this "now let get you two back to your friends" they watched as the scene changed to a field with a tower showing a lonely woman names Salem.
As they watched the scene of Ozpin meeting Salem and both of them loving each other only for him to die of a sickness then they saw Salem coming to the light bother pool watching her begging him to bring her lover back only to be refused by him and her walking off.
They watched as the scene changed showing the dark brother and her asking him to do the same thing but not mentioning about her going to his other brother first when he agreed to do it they saw how happy she was only then the light brother came appearing they watched as both brother's were arguing only for the dark one to stop and realised his mistake and corrected it.
They were back at the light brother pool and saw Salem landing in the pool and both brother explaining to her what they have done and they watched as she tried to kill herself and then changed her mind and started to gathering an army to fight the two brothers "at the same time the brothers were busy leading a woman to a land where the light brother Grimms live they guided her across the ocean to this vast land where they told her to create an empire to prevent any future wars and to help them with something in the future" the blue woman said to them showing a woman with brown hair kneeling in front of a wolf statue and the light brother speaking out "I need you to create an army for peace to help prevent wars from ever happening and to help us with some thing in the near future" they heard the statue saying to the woman as she bowed her head.
They watched as the scene changed back to the pool where Salem army was fighting the brothers only to end in death "They left her alone and travelled away but not before paying the other women they speared alive a visit telling her what had happened and what they hope from her in the future to be their sword and their wrath should mankind still be separated from each other the light brother left his light Grimms to her but the dark brother gave the empire something else to use one that I am not allowed to tell they both left these gift for her empire to use and they explained what their plans were and what they expected from her as they left her alone to do her deeds" they all couldn't believe this, this was how they Wolf's Empire was made.
They watched as Salem returned to the dark brother pool were they saw her plunging herself into the black pool hoping for it to kill her only for it to turned into something different.
They saw the scene changed to showing Ozpin talking to the light brother as they watched him explaining to Ozpin what had happened they noticed he didn't mention about the empire when he returned Ozpin to the world where he found it different all the while she mentioned about the empire remaining hidden until they were called, soon they found he was approaching a house and found the woman he loved dearly.
As they watched the scene unfold about Ozpin and Salem both becoming leaders of a new world and had given birth to four girls only for it to end in destruction leaving the man dead.
They watched as the years went by with him fighting her and only to end in old age just to be rebirth in a different body "by this time the empire was now ready to come out and help the world to be United in harmony with each other they sought out the man they were told of and made sure it was him that was asking for help" the scene shows a man kneeling in front of a woman clad in gold armour with a gold wolf helmet asking for help as the woman nodded with a smile.
"years went by and the war with the Grimms grew in size" the whole scene showed fighting in a massive scale where cities became battle ground, field that were once green now no longer green as planes and ships were battling into the enemy in the sky "but by this time Ozpin started to keeping secret from the empire which ultimately ended with them being pushed back by the Grimms which meant the empire only had one option to go into hiding and only come out when they felt it was the right time" they watched as massive amounts of ships all leaving and heading towards the empire where they had remained only to send out some patrols to check on their enemy they all watched as the scene changed back to showing Ozpin asking the lamp his question when another bright flash engulfs them all Ebony and Crimson were alone again and they saw that woman in front of them.
"that gift the dark bother left behind was it in a form of a purple crystal?" Ebony asked her seeing her smile to them.
"yes he gave it to your empire to be used if all else failed it's design is to wipe the planet clean of all life leaving only your empire where a new life would begin and your empire would rule over it for a set period of time then leave them to their own destiny" they both looked at each other knowing what she meant.
"then why not tell them about this?" Crimson asked as she wanted to know.
"because I am not allowed to tell, it down to you all to tell them or not now I shall return you all to your friends" and with that they two were engulfed by the light.
They were back in the forest and it was snowing again both Crimson and Ebony couldn't think what they were told about their empire being made by them two and tricking their family into thinking of another god called the mighty she-wolf but as they thought on it, it did made sense that part of their history was always clouded with mystery and some part were lost but at least they now knew where the six sister's ships got the crystal from they were interrupted when they saw Oscar crashing into a tree and Qrow rubbing his hand.
They two weren't listening into what was being said as they saw the old lady on the ground Ebony rushed to help her while Crimson grabbed their gears when the old lady got everyone to stop and listen to her as she pointed out to a trail as she was still trying to understand this when Ruby agreed making everyone grabbing their gear Crimson thrown Ebony rifle to him that they had brought with them for extra fire power as they checked their rifle for any damage satisfied they both went ahead to check for any danger of Grimms.
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Hours have passed by and they have been walking nonstop now and the weather was starting to get worse when Ruby mentioned about a noise listening out for it they too could hear it walking in the direction it was coming from they saw a small farming community walking into the place both Crimson and Ebony couldn't help but get this weird feeling like something was wrong.
TThy came to the furthest house Ebony help the old lady up the steps when they walked into the house and he helped her up onto a chair "are you okay now?" he asked her seeing her smile.
"yes thank you I never thought the rumours would be true about your empire being nice to us um... not offense" he smiled knowing she didn't mean any harm to that.
"well in our empire we are taught to respect our elders no matter who they are they or where they are from our teachers also told us that elder people hold untold wisdom and knowledge that they might pass down to the next generation so we are always respecting those of the older generation" he said while getting up and walking away.
Crimson watched her brother from the doorway to the room they had picked talking to the old lady when Blake came up to her "is he always like this to older people" she turned to faced Blake.
She smiled to her "yes we all are like that in the empire, in fact older people get treated more better for what they have done to the empire protecting it and serving the empire any way they could so from birth we are always reminded about our elders because one days we will be like that" she walked away into the kitchen to see if there was any food there.
A few minutes into the search they heard Weiss screaming rushing up stair they rushed into the room with their pistol at the ready only to gasp at seeing two dead bodies in the room laying in bed closing her eyes in sadness she and her brother walked up to the bed as everyone else left the room taking Weiss with them as they both coved the bodies with a blanket they kneeled down bowing their heads "they deserve a proper sense off?" she see him nodding in agreement "do you want to do it brother!".
She sees him nodding and pulling out a book with a wolfs head on it as they both closed their eyes "oh mighty she-wolf we are gathered here in this house as we found these two people laying in their bed dead we do not know of their life nor how their death came to pass we pray that their death was not in suffering but a peaceful one we hope their souls are resting in peace in the afterlife" he finished of as they both got up slowly and turned to leave the room closing the door behind them and went to see how everyone else was holding up.
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After they told Ruby how keep Weiss calm and how stop her from going into shock Ebony and Crimson along with Qrow were outside searching the many homes only to find the same when they returned Crimson went to Weiss side to see how she was holding leaving her brother at the door as he kept watch over the place when heard about going back outside to check for anything useful.
As he and his sister went into the kitchen they couldn't think what had happened to this small community when returned to the living area to see Oscar and the woman still there as they waited for the others to return back.
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It was now night time and everyone was settling down as Crimson remained awake seeing Ruby sitting on the stairs looking down "hay what wrong!" she asked with concern in her voice.
"I am just worried about everything" she hears the worry in her voice taking a seat next to her.
"I understand when I was always worried about something my mother would always tell me if I was worried then go talk to your teammates tell them what I was worried about together we would work through it" she said seeing Ruby looking less worried about it now as she watched her getting up and walking off as she went back to the couch laying down next to her brother for the rest of the night.