Chapter 16
Everyone woken up the next day to see the weather had improved from yesterday Crimson and Ebony started to notice that the group mood was changing "I wonder what wrong with everyone!?" Ebony said out loud with confusion.
Crimson shrugs to him while watching the group talking among themselves outside when she noticed they were talking about leaving the lamp here she saw out the corner of her eyes her brother was about to move only she stop them "let see what happens if they do abandoned it here we Mark it location and tell our mother where it is!" she whispered to him as they watched the scene.
Watching quietly when they heard Ruby screaming out making both of them worried, rushing to the well they looked down and couldn't see anything when they heard Ruby screaming to her friends about getting it back "brother I will go with them you stay here keep the top side safe" she said pulling out a rope and tying one end to a post and dropping the other end down the well.
"Okay sis just be careful down there and also watch out for our cousin Weiss I am sure mother will kill us both" he said with concern for her and his cousin but added a hint of joke.
She chuckle at his scenes of humour "don't worry we will be fine brother" she said and went to help the group down into the well before she went down herself.
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Ebony looked around seeing the woman sitting down and reading while seeing Oscar looking at the wheel as he went to him "so shall we go look for something to fix this up?".
"sure" he hears him saying as they both walked to a shed to see if there was anything they could use.
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Crimson been walking for a few minutes now and she couldn't get this weird feeling like something was following them but every time she looks around nothing was there.
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Both Ebony and Oscar had returned to the wheel with a air pump and some other things that could help them fix the wheel when they heard the old woman gasp making them both look at her "are you okay!" he asked her when she got up.
"we need to get out of here now you" Ebony saw her pointing to him with her stick "come with me we need to get to the other, Oscar fix the wheel fast" he watched the old lady move with such speed for her age rushing behind her and helping her to get into the well.
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Crimson watched as Ruby rushed to retrieve the lamp only to hear her scream out and running to us when they noticed a whole lot of Grimms kneeling down on one knee she pulled out her rifle and opened fire as they screamed out in pain making everyone except for her to cover their ears when another female voice called out making everyone look around to see it was the old lady with Ebony telling everyone to run now following the woman advice they all rushed off with both Crimson and Ebony trailing behind using their rile to stall them as much as possible.
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They all where rushing through this dark tunnel when they came to a room completely surrounded Crimson pulled out her two last crystal and thrown them making a glyph appeared and two Ursa came out and started to battle into the Grimms they looked around seeing everyone on the ground they noticed Blake on the ground closer to the dark Grimms they tryed to get to her but they couldn't because they too were trap in a corner with Grimms all around them when suddenly a huge white flash make them close their eyes.
After they opened their eyes they saw everyone getting up and rushing to the door Crimson and Ebony tried to kept the Grimms at bay when they saw their own Grimms defeated as they fought desperately changing their guns to their pistol "brother looks like this is the end!" she shouted out over all the commotion that was going on.
"I think so sis shall I read the prayer?" he shouted back dodging a claw from one of those things and firing a shot to it head.
"yes" she screamed looking at the girls desperately trying to pray the door open.
"oh mighty she-wolf we your children stand here in our last stand" he shot one in the knee then kicking to it buddies "give us the strength to carry on" he and his sister dodged a massive claw at the same time "give us the courage to face our end" he throw some knives in to the mod while pulling back to stairs with his sister "we pray that you would forgive us for the wrong doing" he saw his sister jumping over a down Grimm using her chain to keep them back "and should we fall we pray we end up in your promise land" he finished of saying when suddenly a huge white flash engulfs the whole room.
Opening their eyes they saw the Grimms where no long there but they knew more would come quickly they opened the door and rushed through as Ebony stopped and pulled his last grenade out and thrown to the door as a huge explosion sound was heard and dust was coming through the door quickly they rushed out the house and climbing into the wagon as Yang started to drive away leaving the farm place behind.
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The whole journey was spent in quiet no one talked until the old lady spoke on what they were when everyone was talking about not giving up Ebony heard the woman blaming herself as he rubbed the back her with a smile "it wasn't your fault these thing happens" he said to her when Ruby spoke to her asking about her eyes when she replied about her once had silver eyes until an incident happened making everyone gasp in shock except for Crimson and Ebony who had no idea what was the deal with silvereyes.
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As they continued on their journey while explained about the silver eyes and what had happened but everyone was surprised to finding out about the old lady being a legend who went into hiding when suddenly they all heard Ruby scroll went off and it was Jaune as they all turned to see the snow track ending to a field of green where on the top of a hill they could see the city of Argus Yang speeding along with us all smiling away.
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Once they made sure Yang's bike was safely lock up they heard Nora screaming out and tackling Oscar to the ground when Crimson saw Jaune she rushes up to him and giving him a huge hug along with lots of kisses "Crimson I was worried you!" she smiled at his concern for her safety.
Letting him go she faced him with a smile "I told you I would be fine" she gave him another hug when she noticed Ruby was there waiting for him as she let him go to her as they got reunited with each other when Nora started to lead the way to the city telling us what happened when we left them on the train.
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They came to a house which turned out to be Jaune sister home "oh no that his sister!" suddenly Crimson was worried about meeting his family when she felt her brother next to her.
"what wrong sis" he asked as he noticed the worry look on her face.
"that his sister" she whispered to him seeing him nodding with a no clue look on him "I am worried about meeting her what if she doesn't like me or what if she thinks I am not goo..."she stopped by her brother placing a finger on her mouth.
With a smile he calmed her down "sister I am sure she would love to meet you and get to know you!" he whispered back to her with a smile to her.
"But...but what if.." she didn't finish as Jaune then introduced her and her brother.
"and this is Crimson my girlfriend and her brother Ebony" quickly they both looked to Jaune sister with smiles and acting as if nothing was wrong.
"well now my little brother getting a woman" Crimson smiled but was still worried about this "oh come here so I may see you up close".
Calming herself down she walked up to her but was instantly tackled with a hug "I am glad he meet a woman who can put up with his dumbness".
Crimson was relief that nothing bad had happy as she went and hugged her back "I try to keep him on the right track".
When they let go of each other while smiling "good now let's get you all in out of this cold" she hears walking with the rest.
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Hours went by when everyone was talking away Ebony watched as his sister playing with the little child with Yang and Weiss when he was suddenly interrupted "I see she loves children" he turned to see it was Jaune.
Looking back to the scene "yes since she was little she always dreamed of having that perfect family with a loving male and a few children but she then changed her mind due to our parents relationship she saw how it was hard to maintain a relationship and run a whole empire but I know deep down she still holds onto that dream no matter what" he said while watching her and Yang both playing with some toys to the little one.
"I see you never mentioned much about your father?" he sighs in sadness on the mentioning of there dad.
"well our father was a military man he gain the attention of our mother when he was rising quickly through the rank and became one of her personal guards they hit it off real quick apparently when I was only two he left to go on patrol but died protecting some civilians" looking down on the floor with his eyes close "it hard to remember him when your a robot copy of their real son who died in a similar way" he then felt a hand on his shoulder.
"I am sorry for you!" he hears the sincere in his voice.
"it okay I learned to live with it" he smiled a little and went back to watching his sister playing.
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After a few hours they where all at the military base hoping to get a ride to Atlas when the gates was shut right in their faces both Ebony and Crimson were not surprised by this when they heard their cousin being mentioned and the two men went to fetch their commanding officer who was really small "she small for a commanding officer!" Ebony whispered into his sister ear who snicker a little at his comments.
When they suddenly watched the officer praising Atlas as if she worships it "wow and I thought we were the crazy one about praising our empire!" Crimson said out loud stunned by the woman actions.
"ah so your the empire I have been hearing about you know I should consider you all as enemies" this made the group gasp in shock.
"well sorry but we not enemies" Ebony said to her as she turned her attention back to Ruby and after she was finished she slammed the gate shut back on them leaving them to think of another plan the whole mood changed when Nora mentioned about Ozpin and making Jaune asking what wrong as Ruby thought it was best to tell them back at the house.
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After they were back at the house and telling everyone else what happened with the lamp Crimson saw Jaune punching the wall making her worry for him she watched him arguing at Oscar and pinning him to the wall shouting as everyone was trying to get his attention she rushed up to him grabbing his shoulder with a worry look seeing him calm down and walking off "JAUNE!" she shouted after him and rushing up to him.
Slowly knocking on the door she slowly opens the door and saw him on his bed "hay how are you holding up!" she said with concern and worry still.
She saw him looking to her with a sad look "I am sorry for that!" she hears the hurt in his voice walking to him and holding his.
"it okay I know how your feeling" she said leaning her head on his shoulder as they were joined by Ren and Nore.
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Ebony felt sad for his sister watching the man she loves getting angry but he knew to leave them alone to calm down he was out in the garden with the old lady meditating on some feeling he had thinking back to his time with Penny before her death he felt a lot of different emotions going through him anger, sorrow, pain and the need to avenge her death but he also felt he wished he could've saved her, he was then interrupted when he heard someone walking up to them opening one eye he saw it was Ruby who got angry and thrown her scroll away.
When they old lady started to talk about Ruby eye colours and what she knew about them he laughed a little when Ruby excitedly asked about using her eyes to shot laser out of them only to be hit in the head by her walking stick when he heard about the brother and their gift his mind went back the one that the empire was given "we should tell them about the six sister's ships" he thought to himself when he was interrupted again by Yang voice calling out to Ruby when he heard about Oscar being missing he walked into the house to see his sister next to Jaune when everyone was thinking of a plan.
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Crimson and Ebony were together while they were searching the city for Oscar when Ebony slowed down a bit "sister do you think we should tell them about our sister's ships and what they do!" he asked worried about her reaction.
Crimson sighs and sat down on a bench "I don't know brother is it even our place to tell them" she said watching people walking about the place.
"I know it a shame if we don't succeed in uniting the world in harmony it will all be gone" he said while taking a seat next to her as they sat there in silence when something came to his mind "I wonder what our Winter pack is doing right now.
Crimson chuckle a little looking around "if I have to guess then I would have to say there in the bar on our ship getting drunk!" she smiled at the thought of her team at the bar that they left behind after Beacon.
"yer" he said thinking of the scene "well shall we get back?" he said getting and seeing her nodding as they both made their way back to the house.
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It was a few hours when they both came back to the house to see everyone was there when the door opened to reveal Oscar was there making everyone except them two to scream out and tackle him in a massive hug letting everyone into the house Oscar said he made dinner for everyone since he heard that they were out looking for him.
Once everyone calmed down and seeing Ruby arguing at her uncle when Jaune told everyone about his plan Ebony then screamed out with a fist in the air "yes stealing a ship while faced the death penalty!" he stopped seeing everyone looking at him with shock faces his sister face planting herself while shacking her head "okay no death penalty" he said in a less enthusiastic manner.
Once Jaune filled everyone in on his plan and dinner was finished with they all agreed it was best to head to bed only Crimson remained up she was in the kitchen alone sipping away some tea when she heard someone walking in looking up she saw it was Jaune sister "couldn't sleep!" she hears her saying in a sleepy manner.
Smiling to her "yes I had to think about a lot of thing lately!" she said to her while watching her pouring herself out some tea and taking a seat next to her.
"I see listened if your worried about me not liking you then don't I like you already" she quietly gasp looking to her.
"you... do!?" she said stunned by this.
"yes when he arrived here he was worried about you all the time he wouldn't stop talking about you and how you help him out in a difficult situation when he lost Pyrrha" she sips at her cup while smiling at how Jaune did care for her but also sad when Pyrrha name was mentioned "and he told me about you being next in line to rule an empire" her worry had just came rushing back "well I don't care if your are I am glad he met someone to love" she calmed herself down at that.
"thank you I was worried about our relationship and me ruling the empire" she said before taking another gulp of her drink.
"yes he did mention that but let me tell you something, love is a powerful thing nothing can get in it way not even ruling an empire can stop that the only thing that can stop it is the two people who love each other but if they work at it then they will over come anything" she thought about those word feeling better almost she finished her cup of tea and went to place it in the sink.
"thank you it help a lot" she said walking away to Jaune room to sleep for the rest of the night.
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The next day had arrived and after everyone had breakfast they were told more about the plan but until then they had a few hours to them self Ebony and Crimson were contacting their mother when they saw her "my children how are thing" they smiled to her.
"not bad mother we have been in Argus the team are going to get a plane to go the rest of the way" Crimson said for them as they saw a soldier walking up to their mother and whispered something into her ear.
"well good nnes I am only three hours away from your location I will not bring the whole fleet in so not to scare the city so there for I will be arriving with a small transport plane to meet you two remember stay there no matter what even if they all go" they heard the strict demanding voice.
Nodding to their mother they both said their goodbyes and disconnected "well guess we can't go on after this!" Ebony said sounding disappointed at this situation of theirs.
"I am afraid so brother even if we did disobey our mother we both know the punishment she will give us" she felt sad for the both of them no going with the others "come on let do something before we have to do this plan" she said trying to change the mood.
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Time had flown pass when it was now time to put the plan into action they both haven't told anyone of them yet that they weren't going with them to Atlas, they all where at the edge of the forest waiting for the plane when Crimson laughed a little at Jaune antics about how his plan is going to plan.
A few minutes went by when they noticed Ruby couldn't get a hold of Blake making them both worry about all this they started to see everyone was panicking when Ruby managed to calm everyone down when everyone saw the ship coming round the corner closely followed by a huge mech with a cannon "wow nice mech but ours are better" Ebony said almost amazed by the thing.
They all watched as the huge mech turned to face them with it weapon ready giving them no time to move they closed their eyes just when felt nothing had happened they all slowly opened their eyes and saw Weiss had managed to save them when Jaune said about giving it more target to fight this made both Crimson and Ebony smiled.
Once everyone knew what to do Ruby then gave the signal Crimson using her chain wrapped it around a tree and pulling her self to the tree while her brother rushed the opposite way she kneeled down pulling her rifle out and a scope attachment from her bag she placed it on her rifle and aimed giving a few shot on the rocket that were flying around.
Ebony made it to a huge boulder using it as cover he aimed his pistol to it cannon arm hoping to get it attention when he noticed Nora rockets weren't doing anything but they were caught of guard when they saw a blue shield making everyone to stop and be stunned by this.
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Cerise was on the bridge of her ship she had sent three of her best ship to the Atlas border to watch for anything unusual when one of her crew got her attention "your empress air Grimms on the move!" the male crew screamed out to her.
"heading?" she asked him seeing him looking at a screen.
"they were heading for Argus but since we are near they heading for us" he said to as everyone was silent "and there are more heading to the city".
Smiling to herself "excellent we are their distraction get my plane ready with 20 of our fighters planes I will head to meet my children with them and to help down there, get all guns ready bring up the rest of the fighters to keep the ships safe and get shields up!" she shouted out to them all watching as different size of turrets and big twine guns started to pop up from the ships body spinning in the direction the Grimms were coming from.
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Crimson watched as Jaune rushed to Nora to save only for them both to be tossed to a rock "JAUNE!" she screamed using her chain to propel her to him she quickly helped him "are you okay!" she asked with worry.
"yer I am fine" she smile at that as they looked at Weiss and the other being thrown to the grown and Ruby over the edge watching as the huge mech was coming for them only to see it catching a rocket and throwing it to the plane.
Ebony looked worried at the plane when it was flying all over the place avoiding the gun watching it land to pick up Ruby "wow she is crazy!" he thought to himself as they were flying straight to it.
Everyone watched anticipation as the bullet went flying to it only to be bounced off it armour as their hopes were dashed away when they saw the plane being hit by the mech and crash landing into the forest everyone rushed off to it.
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Ebony rushed up to the old lady "are you okay!" he asked her seeing her hitting her robotic eyes.
"I am fine" he smiled to her when he saw his sister next to him.
"brother can you fix the plane up?" she asked looking over the plane damage parts.
"I can try" he said ensure about it but went in side to try.
Crimson stood next to her cousin Weiss watching with fear when Ruby used her speed to get into the cannon and fired a shot making a huge dust explosion causing it to fall due to the weight of it she then noticed her cousin collapsing to the ground in exhaustion helping her get back up on her feet they all turned when they heard the engine of their plane.
They kept hearing the woman in the mech screaming out when their attention was grabbed when they heard that Argus was under attack making them look towards the city seeing the huge Grimm making it way towards the city.
Everyone climbed onto the plane except for Ebony and Crimson Jaune looked to her seeing her smile in a sad way "come on!" he said holding his hand out to her.
"I am sorry we can't mother told us not to go any further than here the now!" she said feeling painful hurt about this.
"but why!" they both heard Weiss asking with a hurt voice.
Shacking their head sadness "we don't know ourselves yet" just then they all noticed 20 fighter planes and one transport plane above them the transport plane landed to reveal their mother was there for them looking back to the other "we will see each other we promise" Ebony said walking away as they closed the door and flew away.
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Cerise did felt bad for what she is doing not allowing her children to go with them but she was doing this for their own safety as she watched the plane leaving she smiled to them "mum why can't we carry on with them" her daughter said pointing to the direction of the plane went.
"I will explain everything to you once we are back on the ship but right now I brought fighters planes to help that town out" she said closing the door as they flew off toward the town.
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Cerise had already contacted the base at Argus telling them they were here to help as she watched her 20 fighters charge ahead to help deal with the Griffin Grimms allowing the Argus troops to deal with the huge Grimm when they noticed it had breached the shield they then saw Ruby's plane was heading to the huge thing "mum we have to help her!" Cerise hears her son cry out.
"yes we do pilot get us to her we will keep her safe" she says to the pilot who nodded and flown the plane towards Ruby only to see it was too late it had broken through the last one Cerise looked at the thing "hit it with everything we have!" she shouts in anger watching her plane using anything it had to catch it attention just then a huge white light engulfed the whole area making everyone to close their eyes.
Once they opened their eyes they saw the huge thing had been turned into stone cheering out in victory only to stop when they noticed the thing breaking free "what!" Crimson said confused by this situation when suddenly they heard the woman and that mech was back again but this time they saw the woman charging to the huge Grimm killing it with a drill.
Once everyone on the plane had calmed down they saw Ruby plane heading away "okay let get back to our ship" Cerise said as she felt the plane moving away followed by her fighters escorts "now child I owe you an explanation" she sat next to them "I have been told by a few of my spy's that Ironwood has closed the borders and have place an embargo on Atlas" she saw then gasp in shock "which has brought up some worrying concerns and I didn't want you to be there trapped and used as a bargaining chip against me so that why I did this" she didn't look at them "I know you will hate me but at least your safe here".
She suddenly felt both of them tackling her to the ground "we understand mum and we don't hate you" she smiles to them hugging the back.
"but don't worry we will get to them" she said getting up off the floor as they staid next to each other for the rest of the journey.
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Jaune was worried about his lover Crimson "I wonder why their mother wouldn't allow them to come with us!" Nora said confused by this situation.
"she must have a reason" Jaune said just when Qrow shouted to them to come and have a look when they reached the window they gasp at the sight the whole Atlas fleet was there "I think I now know why" Jaune said as it clicks into his head why their mother wouldn't allow them to go on.
"Hay don't those three ships belongs to the empire" they all heard Blake saying pointing in the direction where they could see not to far away but out of range was three huge wolf shape ships just staying there like they were watching the borders when suddenly they heard their radio go off making them all even more worried now.