Sorry for the wait.
But seriously, I had to rewrite every story that I had saved from my last computer.
And this story is approaching the end.
Finally!
After this story, I will begin in a series.
But to avoid spoiling you any further, I'll let you enjoy this chapter.
Ruby was very troubled, learning that she was part Murakumo Unit was a shock for her. But thanks to professor Relius, she will finally learn more about the family of her mother's side, and even see her again. She didn't know how to react.
"Chill down rubes" said Yang as she patted a punching bag "It's not like you'll change. Maybe you'll find something worth the investigation"
"But what if we find something bad? Or something that shouldn't be found? Or… I don't what to think of all of this" said Ruby as she hugged her head.
"Take it all with one punch" replied Yang while punching the punching bag, sending it through the wall.
"Not everything is strength" said Ruby as she gave her sister an annoyed look.
"Come on Ruby, that was simply an example of how you should feel" said Yang.
"Well that was a bad example" commented Ruby with a long sigh.
"Look on the bright side for once" replied Yang "You can finally achieve one of your dreams" before looking down "Well, it's our dream"
"I know that you wanted to come" said Ruby sadly "But you heard what Professor Clover said"
"I just don't get him…" said Yang with frustration "Why the hell should I stay here?!"
"Calm down Yang, getting angry won't help" sighed Ruby "At least Blake will stay with you"
"Blake huh?" mumbled Yang as she went toward her bed "Why is she staying? I thought that it would be a change for her"
"The answer might surprise you my dear" said the voice of Relius, making the blond brawler jump on her feet as her eyes became red.
"Where are you?!" she asked with anger.
"In my personal laboratory" answered Relius "I'm testing a new way to speak with others without the need of any device"
"Professor?" called Ruby with worries "What did you made?"
"It's simple my dear" replied Relius "Always counting on technology isn't healthy, therefore I tried to use Armagus to connect myself to you. With that you can talk freely without fearing that someone might be listening to you, you can even pass some secret information that shouldn't be heard by others. Maybe That I can increase it and make it work by thoughts, yet, it wouldn't help if someone can read minds. It seems that I need to work on that too even if it would take a lot of time for me to find something"
"Are you okay professor?" asked Ruby nervously "You look like you're talking to yourself…"
"I need to find a metal strong enough to make mind reading impossible, but there's also the fact that someone may have an ability to bypass it. Maybe there're also some abilities that can block other Semblances, or maybe block the Aura of someone…" continued Relius.
"Let's just forget that he's here" said Yang.
"Yang Xiao Long" called Relius "You may have to fight in the other fights alone, but I don't think that would be a problem for you"
"Run that by me again" said Yang with wide eyes.
"Also, Ruby Rose, would you call Weiss Schnee and send her my office" said Relius to Ruby "I need to talk to her about something"
"Sure" replied Ruby "Professor… are you there…?"
"Well that was creepy" commented Yang.
In a dark room, Leonardo was screaming. His body was showing signs of mutilations and burns.
As Neo took a knife, she walked to him and said "You have no idea on how much I enjoy this"
"I already told you everything you want to know" sobbed Leonardo as he tried to forget the pain.
"I don't think that's the entire truth" said Neo with a smirk "I did get some names, but there's still the reason why they choose you. They could have gone to Vacuo, or even Atlas… but no, they choose to come to you"
"I told you tha-" began Leonardo before screaming at the knife that was plunged in his leg.
"It hurts, right?" asked Neo as she smiled evilly "The professor made it just for me, it can inflict the worst pain to anyone just with a sing scratch, very cool huh?"
"What do you want?!" asked Leonardo as he was still screaming.
"The reason why they choose to come to you" answered Neo "Answer my question, and I may end all of this"
"Fine!" yelled Leonardo "Both Mistral and Atlas are planning to attack Vacuo and Vale when there will be chaos! But they knew that the academy in Atlas was more protected, so they came to me, threatened to kill my students, so I had no other choice"
Neo looked annoyed, as she already knew "I think that we all knew that" she said shocking Leonardo "But the real reason. Was the reason… the Nikos family?"
"I… I don't know what-" began Leonardo before being interrupted.
"You can cut the crap now" she said "You are the one who sent them to a deadly mission, and you knew that they will come back alive, so you called some bandits to ambush them, paying them and you told them that they can do whatever they want with the corpses"
"How-"
"Its look like you're not really ready to go back to the surface" sighed Neo "I'll go notify Ozpin"
At that, Neo left the Faunus alone, chained to the chair.
Ragna, with Nu in his left hand and Jin in his right hand, walked to Team RWBY room with an annoyed look on his face.
"Don't say a word" he growled.
Both Ruby and Yang snickered and tried to hold their laughter.
"Are you serious?" asked Ruby, still holding her laughter.
"I need to get a picture" said Yang while reaching for her Scroll.
"Don't you dare-" said Ragna, but he forgot that both his arms were already taken.
Unable to hold herself, Ruby burst into a hysterical laugh "You look so adorable!"
"Who knew that the Grimm Reaper can have a soft side" added Yang while taking pictures "This is going to be my new background"
"I can't wait to say all of this to Weiss and Blake!" said Ruby, still laughing.
"You won't" said Ragna as a dark aura began to be formed around him.
Ruby and Yang looked at him before busting in laughter.
"You are really menacing!" said Ruby while laughing.
"This is too much!" said Yang as she fell on the floor and pounded her fist with the floor.
Ragna had to admit it… he couldn't do anything.
In his office, Ozpin looked at the footage of all the fights of the first day, and narrowed his eyes at a member of Team CDNM (Codename), a blue haired Faunus with two wings one green and the other icy blue, her semblance seemed to be some sort body transformation.
"That's troubling" mumbled Ozpin as he saw how the blue haired Faunus was acting during the fight.
"You don't need to fret" said Relius while exciting the elevator "Everything is going according to the plan.
"I presume that you're going to fly off now…" said Ozpin while looking at the professor.
"I've given the needed instruction to Neopolitan" said Relius while rearranging his mask "Beside, it would be a delight for me to get some new puppets"
"Are you going to do something to Team RWBY?" asked Ozpin while frowning.
Relius merely chuckled and said "They don't have something that would be interesting to use… Ruby Rose maybe, but it would be more interesting to watch them grow stronger and passing their limits by themselves"
"What are you planning exactly?" asked Ozpin.
"You shall see" replied Relius while moving to the elevator.
"That man…" mumbled Ozpin with some anger.
I don't think that I would do the rest of the Vytal Festival.
But on the bright side, I would focus more on Relius and his search party.
See you next time.