(A/N)
Damn! The previous chapter was uploaded back on August 6th, really long time, huh? Sorry to keep you waiting, being honest I had Writer's Block for a while, besides I wasted time playing Gears of War 5 and working.
(Q&A)
Shashenka: And thank you pal for reading my story!
Smashgunner: Yeah, to be honest I don't usually read the chapter again, but I better start doing it.
RexGamer15000: Salem nunca debe tener el poder de la caja de carton.
Austinhhh: Yes they will.
Wombag1786: I see you finally posted the first chapter, seems cool. Interesting.
FictionMilitia: Damn right you are.
Gabriel Lemos: It's cool, I'm from Mexico xD and thanks for reading this story.
PardonMySkillz: Today.
Captain Kapitan: I don't wanna give him another rifle, but the FAL uses the same type of ammo as the M60... you understand me, right?
SkullWolfSteam: You're pretty good.
Austinhhh; Big Boss, John or Naked Snake, not Venom.
uzinaki: Thank you my friend.
x-x-TheBurnedMan-x-x: Don't remind me, back on PW when you failed on the torture, Snake's scream always creeped me out.
Gerbenplane: Hahaha... nope.
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Well, let's continue, I really hope you like this chapter.
▪︎ I don't own Metal Gear or RWBY. ▪︎
Chapter 18
After the fight with Raven, Big Boss walked for a long time, for half an hour, to be more precise, and as he walked through that dark forest, Boss continued to think about his current situation, and what would happen when he got to where Raven is, whatever happens, he must be prepared for the worst.
Half an hour later, Big Boss arrived at what appeared to be some kind of village, but it was quite small, and which was protected with several logs stuck in the floor, they were probably used as a defense against the Grimm, maybe it was some kind of camp. With no intention of hiding, Boss continued walking to what seemed to be the entrance to that camp. The entrance was protected at the moment by only two men armed with spears.
"Hey you! Stay where you are!" One of them yelled at Boss, when he approached enough to be seen by the light of one of the torches at the entrance.
Both bandits took their weapons and slowly approached Big Boss, but he just stayed there, like if it was nothing.
"What'd you think?" One of the bandits asked to his partner.
"It doesn't seem like he has many things, besides he dresses weird. Let's take him with the boss, she can think of something for this boy." The other one answered.
"I guess your leader is a woman named Raven, right? I come to see her." Big Boss stated. But after saying that, the wooden door began to descend to the ground, only to reveal a girl.
"What's going on here?" The new voice said, a woman who arrived at the entrance of the camp. She was short-haired and dark brown-colored, and her eyes were light blue.
"This guy says he came to see the leader." One of the guards said.
"To see Raven?" The girl looked at Boss, inspecting him and his equipment with her eyes. "I don't know why Raven would have to waste her time talking to someone that dresses so weird. I'll give you the chance to leave at this moment if you start running."
"If you don't believe me is fine, but you better ask her, I don't plan to leave." Snake stated, but then a small grin appeared in his face. "Besides, I don't think I have to give any explanations to her secretary."
"You little fuck..." That girl did not take Snake's response well, her face looked slightly angry, and soon she took her weapons, which was a two crescent shaped blades, each with a ring-shaped center. "I'll handle this weirdo."
Snake said nothing, instead he just took his combat knife, he was not going to kill her but he would not sit idly by. He was in a combat stance, ready to fight.
"Don't think I'm going to let you take the easy way out." Stated the short-haired girl.
"That won't be necessary, Vernal."
Before any fight began, at the entrance of the camp, Raven made her appearance, stopping that girl from making an attack.
"Raven! Good thing you came, this guy says he came to see you, and I was about to return him where he came from." Said the girl named Vernal, with a small grin, mixed with an expression of pride.
"I know, I told him to come. Besides, I'm sure he would have kicked your ass in seconds." Raven stated with a calm expression on her face,
"What!? This man doesn't seem to be a big deal! Besides, he just thought of using a butter knife to fight me." Vernal answered, almost yelling at what she said.
"And yet he's capable of great things with that knife, or even without a weapon."
"But-!"
"Vernal!" Raven said, almost yelling and with an expression of irritation. "He's here because I say so, and that's the end of it."
"...All right." Vernal lowered her blades, accepting the words of her leader.
"If you see him trying somethin' you can do what you want, but I trust that won't happen, right?" Raven said this last words to Snake.
"...Right." Boss answered calmly, as he placed his knife on the sheath.
"Fine then, now follow me." Raven said, but sounded like an order. It's not like Snake could complain after he got this far.
After making a short exchange of glances with Vernal, Snake followed Raven, while Vernal walked behind the legendary mercenary, watching him at all times in the case he made a weird move. Boss looked around, only to see that inside the camp there were only campfires and tents. In addition, Boss was receiving glares from one or another bandit, they seemed to dislike his presence, others looked at him strangely because of his suit, which was torn from the chest and with traces of blood.
Soon they arrived at the opposite side of the camp, Snake saw there was a large tent, at least larger than the others, it probably belongs to Raven, but a few meters away there was a campfire, along with logs that were used as seats. Raven was the first to take a sit in one of the logs, while Snake used the log on of the opposite side, Vernal stood up, stood aside but in the middle of Snake and Raven, still keeping a eye on him.
At the campfire there was food, although in fact it was rabbits impaled with a stick.
"Grab one if you're hungry." Raven said as she took one of those rabbits.
"No thanks, I brought my own food." Said Snake as he was looking for something on his backpack.
When Vernal heard that, a combination of a slight angry expression and a grin appeared on her face. "Huh!? What's wrong? You can't eat food from-"
Vernal stopped for a moment when she saw that Snake had taken two dead snakes, two snakes! She thought the young man would take some food he had with him, even a chocolate bar, but instead he took two dead snakes.
"...the forest?" Vernal's eyes widened, with slight disgust on her face.
"What? Have you never tried snakes before?" Snake asked as he took one of the sticks and he began to slowly impale the snakes.
"..." Vernal didn't say anything, she never had problems with eating any kind of animal they found. Even once she had eaten wolf meat but never snake.
"I'll have one if that's okay." Said Raven with a small grin on her face when she saw Vernal's reaction. Besides, she wanted to know the taste of a snake.
Snake nodded and put both snakes on the campfire to cook, meanwhile, Vernal only took a rabbit while eating it in silence while sitting on a log.
"I have to admit that I didn't think you would come, although it wasn't that you had another option either." Raven admitted, with a small cocky smile on her face.
Snake didn't answered, he stayed cool but he grumbled a little.
"Tell me, how'd you learned all that kinda stuff? Those moves I mean, you knew where to hit me even though I was faster and more agile." Raven asked, she was really interested in all the combat techniques Snake knew.
"It's something I learned a long time ago, it's called CQC. Close Quarter Combat" Big Boss answered.
"Really? Who taught you that?" Raven seemed more interested, she crossed her legs while sitting on the log.
"I develop it." Boss lied, or just a little. He didn't wanted to make any mention of The Boss to that woman, and as little as possible related to his past life on the Earth.
"That's quite impressive, not many people fight in close combat without some weapon, or at least with something as small as a knife, you almost got me back there." The swordswoman said.
"Wait, you were fighting this guy?" Vermal said surprised that Snake was still alive.
"That's right, besides that he's going to be the new member of our tribe." Raven said quite confident of her own words.
"What, him!?" Vernal said, she didn't believe that a man with those strange clothes would be joining them.
By that time the snakes were already well cooked, at least enough to be eaten. Big Boss took both, one with each hand, and then gave one of those snakes to Raven, to what she took, and soon took the first bite. She had to admit that in fact snakes didn't taste so bad.
"I never said that I would join your tribe, it won't happen." Boss stated, and after that he took a bite to the snake.
"You should know that your skills are comparable to those of a Huntsman with years of experience, in Beacon you would only be wastin' your skills." Raven answered back, while she was eating the snake.
Snake and Raven continued to talk while they ate, although they were saying different things, like discussing and the fact they even had a fight before they talked as if they were simply friends, or at least not enemies. The truth is that both Raven and Snake were only professionals who did what they did best. And Vernal was somewhat surprised and confused, it was the few times Vernal saw Raven speak so calmly, but even asking a Beacon student to join the tribe, she never saw Raven insist so much. Vernal simply wondered who Snake was, because he got Raven's attention, and maybe, just maybe, she felt a little jealous.
"Even so... if you had tried a little harder, you could have defeated me easily." Raven said, waiting for the young man's answer.
"Maybe... if you hadn't contained yourself in the fight." Snake stated, with a small smile in his face. Yeah, he didn't knew what that woman would be capable of in real combat.
Raven hearing that raised an eyebrow. "I guess you're not an idiot as I thought. Of course I was holding back, it wouldn't do me any good if I simply killed you. But you weren't trying hard either."
"Who knows." Said Boss with a small cocky smile as he threw the snake's stick to the floor.
"Then we can agree that we were testing each other." Raven said at the end with a small smile, while she also threw the stick to the ground and rose from that log. "C'mon."
"Where we go?" Snake asked as he got up from the log.
"To my tent, obviously. Oh, and Vernal, I don't want anyone to bother us while we're alone." Said the leader of the tribe to the younger woman.
"I'll keep an eye around here if someone's looking for you." Said Vernal nodding to Raven's order, and giving Snake a last glare.
Snake kept quiet, thinking what Raven was going to say must be important, just maybe, since she didn't wanted someone else to listen to what she had to say. In the end the mercenary followed the swordswoman to her tent. Being inside the place was quite simple, there was a large bed, barrels, a chest, a table with four cushions that were used as seats, several lamps and on a table there was a large skull with horns, which belonged to some animal. Boss wouldn't ask about that.
"Take a sit." Raven said as she sat on one of those cushions, in the middle there was a wooden small table with a lamp. Boss without problems took a seat, then looked at Raven, without any specific expression on his face. There was a moment of silence, nobody said anything for at least a minute, Big Boss and Raven were exchanging glances. Big Boss just waited for Raven to speak, while Raven seemed to be thinking about what she was going to say.
"Tell me, why you decided to become a Huntsman?" Raven asked.
"I didn't decide it. Ozpin just gave me the opportunity to enter his Academy." Snake answered, that wasn't a lie.
"And yet you're not like the rest, your teammates might as well be the poster children for the Huntsman academies. Their motives vary, but they all enrolled to try and make the world a better place. It's adorable. But you? You decided to work as a mercenary for Ozpin and Atlas, do you like the idea of others choosing your actions? That is clearly what Ozpin does best, manipulate people." Raven said, with a neutral look, but her voice showed some resentment.
"Maybe." Snake said. "But so far you haven't proven to be better."
"And yet I'm being honest with you. I fought you, I made you bleed, but I didn't tell you a lie." Said Raven, like if that was worth something. "Now tell me, what you know about Ozpin?"
"...Not much." Unfortunately there was not much Boss knew about the Headmaster, in fact he wasn't even interested in knowing more about Ozpin, Boss only saw him as the Headmaster of the academy and a contact for work.
"I'll take that as a 'Nothing'." Replied Raven with a small cocky smile. "Many people have been the same as you, they have been manipulated by Ozpin without knowing his true colors. He always uses others for his own goals. I know that.. because I was used by him."
"Used by him?" Snake raised an eyebrow, and his eye slightly widened.
"That's right, I told you before I attended Beacon, but I didn't attend Beacon to become Huntsmen, I did it to learn how to kill Huntsmen, me and my brother."
"Kill Huntsmen...?" Snake said those words under his breath.
"Aside from the Grimm, Huntsmen were the only ones capable of hunting us down. Our tribe needed a counterforce. And my brother and I were the perfect age. The entrance exams were child's play compared to what we'd already been through. We were good. So good, that we caught the attention of Professor Ozpin. Even after we were put on a team, I could tell he was keeping his eye on us. Back then, I thought it was because he knew, but it was Team STRQ he was interested in."
"Team STRQ?" Boss asked when he heard that.
"That's right, it was a team made up of me, my ex-husband, my brother, and... my best friend." Raven expressed, for a moment feeling that she couldn't say those words.
Snake noticed that Raven did not give names of those people, but he was not going to ask unnecessary questions either, maybe it was a sensitive issue for Raven, he understood her feeling about that.
"And Ozpin was interested in you and your team? Why?"
"Because old man Oz has a great and terrible secret. One that could spread fear across the world. One that he eventually entrusted to our team, and once I knew, there was no going back. I needed to know more, but with every new discovery I made, the more horrifying the world became."
Snake approached a little forward, his face showed quite interest in what Raven was about to say.
"And that..."
"...is..."
"...something..."
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"...that I can't tell you."
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...
"...what?" Snake asked, confused and slightly angry at that answer.
"Although you show to be one hell of a fighter you still haven't prove to be someone I can trust, I could just give you this information and you would try to run to Beacon, back to Ozpin." Raven stated.
Snake growled, he was a little disappointedly and didn't knew if Raven was serious or was just making a bad joke on him. Raven got up and began to walk towards her bed, where she soon sat on it.
"Maybe you can do something to change my mind. Maybe we can go hunting tomorrow." Raven said as she began to take off her boots, although she was lying a little.
"Do you expect me to stay in your camp and find a tent to sleep simply because you want to?" Snake asked, he really felt somewhat irritated.
"If you want you can try to leave, but... do you really want to do it?" Said Raven with a small cocky smile, at that time she had her bare legs, while she had them crossed.
Snake at the moment felt somewhat cornered, he could know something about Ozpin, even some secret about which it might be useful in the future. But even so he didn't trust Raven or her people. But until now he had no other choice.
"Fine... I'll see if I can sleep near a campfire."
"In fact I was thinking that you should sleep here." Raven answered.
"What? Do you really expect me to sleep on the floor just like that?" Snake tilted his head a little and a small scowl appeared on his face.
"I mean with me, in my bed." Raven said, explaining what she meant.
"Uhh... no, no, that's not a good idea." Snake slightly shocked his head.
"Why not? You sleep with four girls under the same roof, it shouldn't be a problem to share a bed with a woman." Raven deadpanned, she really didn't care, because she thought Snake was smart enough, or at least not stupid enough to try and do something 'funny' with her.
"It's not the same thing." Big Boss said, the problem was not that she was a woman, the problem was that Boss did not trust that woman.
"You shouldn't worry too much about it." Raven answered.
"Y'know... is kinda weird that you don't trust me to tell me something about Ozpin, but you can let me stay in your bed." Snake said as a matter of fact.
"It's not the same, besides, as long as you don't try something stupid I have no problems with sharing my bed." Raven stated clearly, with a serious expression.
And of course, there was the threat, obviously Snake had no plans to do anything weird with her, and if that was the case, there's no need to worry about sharing the bed with the evil mother of her friend and teammate, right? After all, it would only be sleeping, and tomorrow will be another day.
"...Okay, you win." Said Snake calmly as he accepted the idea and got close to the bed.
Raven lay on the other side of the bed, turning her back on Snake, while Snake lay down and did the same, turning to the opposite side, ignoring the swordswoman. He had to admit that Raven's bed was quite comfortable. Even so, he thought the situation was absurd. Raven, on the other hand, did not go around the matter so much, but she couldn't help to think it was the first time she shared the bed with a man since she left Tai, her ex-husband.
"You're nothing like Yang." Snake said, without looking at her. Just a small short comment.
"Huh... I guess you already know why I look like her... but what you mean by that?" Raven asked, also without looking at the mercenary.
"Well, she's blonde, also more cheerful, she's nice and caring, likes to say bad puns and likes to fight." Snake remarked those words.
"Heh... keep sayin' that and you'll lose the other eye." Said Raven with a small smile in her face. Then she had a question in her head. "How'd you lose your eye?" Raven was curious about that.
"Long story short, a guy was going to shoot this girI I meet a long time ago, but I stopped him, and by mistake he ended up shootin' me." Snake explained, the less he could about it the better.
"That sucks... save a girl but loose an eye, I dunno if that can be considered an eye-rony." Raven stated with a small grin in her face.
"Huh... Well... now I know where the terrible taste of Yang's bad puns comes from." Boss said with a small cocky smile. At least he notice some part of Yang in Raven.
"Oh shut up, it was good." Raven complained.
"Heh sure." Snake answered, and then just closed his eye. "Good night."
"Night." Raven answered shortly.
It was not long before they both ended up falling asleep. At the moment Raven didn't notice any bad intentions in Snake, nor did he show any interest in defending Ozpin after what Raven said. Big Boss on the other hand, decided to trust Raven momentarily, doubted she was going to take so much trouble just to kill him later while he was sleeping.
But for now, what they were going to discuss would be until tomorrow.
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The next morning, in Beacon Academy.
It was another day, like any other normal day in Beacon Academy. The students attended classes like they always do. Paying attention to the teachers or sleeping as if nothing interesting happened.
The difference resided in team RWBY.
After what happened the previous night, the mood of the girls was quite depressing. They didn't pay attention to classes. Blake was using her notebook, she tried to draw anything to get herself distracted, but in the end she ended up drawing a picture of Snake. Yang was resting her face on the table, while using her arms as a pilllow. Weiss looked at the front but she was not paying attention. Ruby was looking at the sky through the window, not paying attention to the words of the professor. The girls only thought of the same person, it was normal, because they were worried about their teammate.
After the classes they left the classroom and went to the cafeteria, but the situation was still the same, team RWBY was sitting with team JNPR, and they noticed that the girls looked quite strange since the morning, and now they ate slowly with no interest, or just touched the food with their cutlery.
"What's wrong with you guys? You act as if someone had died." It was Nora who broke the silence.
It was at that moment that the girls stopped and paid attention to team JNPR. But the expressions were still the same.
"Now that I think about it... where's Snake?" Asked Pyrrha, a little worried since it seemed that it was related to team RWBY's mood.
"Snake... he... left for a while..." Said Ruby, she was not crying but she was about to.
"Snake left Beacon!?" That came from Jaune, Pyrrha and Nora. Ren remained silent but was interested about that. In addition, that was loud enough for the other students to listen about Snake leaving Beacon.
Obviously team RWBY could not say that a strange woman came and kidnapped him. As Ocelot said, it was best to keep it a secret so that there was no concern among the students.
"He left... for a while... but we don't know when he'll come back. But I'm sure he's okay." Yang said, showing a rather forced smile, as she felt she was lying to herself.
"Well... I hope he's okay..." Pyrrha said, somewhat worried.
"Maybe he had a problem that needed to be solve, right?" Said Jaune, a little calm about it.
Despite not knowing much about him, team JNPR had mixed opinions about Snake. Jaune felt some jealousy towards Snake since he was brave enough to fight Cardin, besides being in the same team with 4 girls, overall Weiss, besides being a pretty good fighter. And although they didn't talk at all, he considered him a friend. Pyrrha on the other hand considered Snake a good friend and a friendly rival, since until now Snake has been the only person able to fight him and the fact that he didn't see her as the Invincible Girl. Ren thought only that Snake was a good person and a great fighter. While Nora saw Snake as some kind of ninja pirate, because of the patch and stealth skills.
"He..." The voice came from Ruby, and she sounded sad. "... he'll be back... I really hope he comes back."
"Woah, Ruby, are you okay?" Asked Jaune worried about his friend.
Meanwhile, some students in the cafeteria heard what team RWBY said. After all, Snake had quickly become someone well known among students and even teachers in the Academy for being a student who fought against Pyrrha Nikos and drew with her, doing the Initiation alone and even killing a Death Stalker by himself, another thing among faunus, mostly female, was his way of seeing faunus in the same way as humans when he defended a faunus girl from some idiots.
And speaking of that girl, team CFVY were in the cafeteria, managing to listen when some students at the next table said that 'the boy with the eyepatch had left Beacon'. Unfortunately, the information spread erroneously, going from 'temporarily leaving' to 'dropping out of school'.
"Snake dropped out of school...?" Velvet said, surprised and saddened to hear that.
Soon Coco began to pat her friend's shoulder softly. "It's okay bun-bun, I don't think he left school forever... Here, I'll send him a text to see where is he." The leader of team CFVY said as she took out her scroll.
"Haha! That idiot finally realized that he's useless, I dunno why he was here in the first place."
Some students turn to the table where those words came from, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, that comment came from the table where team CRDL was. And that was something that team RWBY heard, and that was something they definitely didn't like.
"Too bad that coward gave up and went crying with his mom, if he continued here I would show him who's in charge here." Cardin said with a rather smug, cocky smile on his face. While his lackeys laughed and nodded at what the leader said.
Although they soon stopped, and their faces suddenly showed fear. "Guys, what's wrong?"
Cardin's response, instead of coming from his teammates, was provided when he felt that someone took him by the back of his neck and lifted him from his chair. Turning slowly, he noticed who it was, and he almost shitted his pants.
It was Yang, and she was quite pissed off after hearing that, her eyes were completely red and her hair looked like it was burning. Before anyone could say anything, Yang simply threw Cardin with all her force through the window, that idiot flew so far that he surely ended up falling on the other side of the Academy.
"IF YOU IDIOTS DON'T LEAVE IN THIS MOMENT I'LL THROW YOU OUT TO THE FOREST!" Yang had a face that anyone would be afraid of, and along with her appearance at the moment would make anyone ruin a good pair of pants.
And as such, the rest of Cardin's team ran away, before facing the fury of the blonde brawler. Before anyone could say anything, Yang turned to see the rest of the students in the cafeteria, she directed her gaze with hatred to anyone who wanted to keep talking about her male teammate (and guy she likes). The other students quickly turned their attention to anything but the blonde girl, either to the food or to their teammates.
"Dammit..." At that moment Yang calmed down a little, but her eyes were still somewhat red.
The rest of team RWBY and team JNPR saw Yang both surprised and worried about what happened.
The morning at Beacon Academy was not being a pleasant one.
— l — l — l —
Back to the Branwen tribe camp.
On the other side of Remnant, Raven was starting to wake up. Her eyes slowly opened, and growled a little, feeling that she hadn't slept enough. As she opened her red eyes, and her brain began to react, she was slowly realizing that in front of her was Snake's face. Pretty close. Snake was still sleeping, not snoring or moving, just standing there.
(He's so young and still he had no trouble sleeping with a woman...) Raven said in her head. Soon she began to get up from the bed, and what she did was start preparing for the day.
And while this happened, Big Boss began to wake up, although more quickly he began to react. Snake began to grumble a little as he began to get out of bed.
"Morning." Raven said, in a simply way as she finished putting on her boots.
"Hey." The mercenary replied, while letting out a big yawn.
"You shouldn't sleep so much, it's a waste of your time." Raven suggested, after having put on her boots she soon took her sword.
"Who are you? My mom?" Boss said, half complaint, half joke.
"Cute." Raven said along with a short and sarcastic laugh, as she rolled her eyes. "C'mon, let's go for breakfast, then we'll go on a small expedition."
— l — l — l —
Later...
After a quiet breakfast, Big Boss and Raven took their weapons and crossed a portal to another place, which turned out to be another forest. Last night Raven said she wanted to go hunting, but Boss didn't feel she was honest.
"Where are we going?" Asked the mercenary.
"We're going to a village called Ludan, I need to buy some Dust." Raven explained.
"If that's the case, why didn't you simply make the portal closer to the village?" Snake asked, somewhat confused.
"It would be boring to simply appear in front of the village, and as I told you, we were going to do some hunting, right? So we'll kill any Grimm that appears in front." The swordswoman explained. "Don't you think it's more interesting like that?"
"Mhh..." Boss didn't answer that, although in a way he thought Raven was right. "Tell me one thing, why did you decide to leave your family?"
"Why'd you ask that?" Raven asked, while both were still walking.
"Well, I'm a little curious about that." Boss admitted. "Yang told me that one day you simply left without saying anything and never appeared again."
"I had things to take care of." Raven answered simply, she didn't soundee sad or worried about that.
"And that has something to do with Ozpin?" Snake asked.
"In a way, yes, but as I told you, it's not somethin' I plan to tell you just like that." Raven stated again, without looking at Snake.
"But is that too important to leave your family?" Of course, Boss wasn't judging Raven, but he just didn't understand Raven, at least not when she doesn't reveal her intentions.
"My husband wouldn't be able to understood, and would have tried to stop me, and I cannot doubt of my actions, if I do it, I would be weak." Raven stated.
"Uh-huh..." Boss just simply said. "Then tell me one thing, do you really love Yang?"
"Why are you still talking about Yang?" This time Raven sounded a little irritated as she was trying to ignore the mercenary while she looked away but kept the same pace while walking.
"Why? Because once Yang told me about you. She had told me that she was always looking for you, she wanted to know why you had abandoned her, she just wanted to see her mother." Snake explained.
"You wouldn't understand, you're still young, the world won't always give you what you want on a silver platter, and Yang should know that, if she wants to see me, then she needs to find me." This time Raven sounded angry, and her expression said that she would not bear Snake's words anymore.
"And she tried, she has tried everything for years, she even got to the point where trying to find you she almost died." Snake stated, with a small scowl in his face.
But having heard that, Raven's eyes widened and suddenly she stopped, then she turned to look at Snake. "...what did you just said?"
"Just what you heard, Yang told me that when she was a kid she found what she believed was a clue to find you, so she took her baby sister and they left home, she told me that they were lost for hours in the forest, until she was tired, and they were about to die because of a Grimm, until her uncle found her."
(Qrow!? You never told me that happened, you fucking drunk bastard asshole!) Raven said in her head, but on the outside she was surprised to hear that, while clenching her hands.
"But you know what? In the end it doesn't matter, it doesn't seem like Yang needs you, and I don't care how hypocrite I might be for telling you all of this." Snake stated. Compared to Raven Big Boss was no better and he knew it, because he never saw his clones as children, and he even tried to kill Solid Snake, but even so, the situation was very different.
Raven didn't know what to say about it, she always thought that Yang would look for her one day but the swordswoman didn't think Yang could be so dumb to do something like that. But back then she was just a little girl, a little girl she never took care of.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
The conversation of both was interrupted when suddenly a scream was heard in the forest, which seemed to be of a little girl. And it didn't sounded so far.
"You heard that!?" Snake said as he took his rifle.
Raven said nothing, instead she took her sword and ran as fast as possible to where that scream came from. Boss had been surprised by the bandit's immediate reaction, but he also started running and following Raven, but she was faster.
But on the other hand Raven felt that she did that by mere instinct, she still felt a slight regret about what she heard from Big Boss.
"HEEEELP!"
Raven felt her heart beat faster, desperately, while she was breathing heavily. Each time Raven felt she was closer and closer, until she jumped to overcome some bushes, there she saw a Grimm, a beowulf, was not big enough like any other beowulf but Raven didn't care. When Raven began to fall after that jump she began to attack that Grimm quickly and repeatedly, mercilessly made several cuts until the creature fell dead.
After killing the beowulf, Raven began to breathe calmly, then began to turn to where the Grimm was looking. "Are you..."
Turning to see the girl, Raven was surprised by the appearance of the little girl, her clothes were simple, she seemed to be 6 or 7 years old. She was blonde, her hair was long, although her eyes were brown, her appearance made Raven think of someone else.
"...okay...?"
"I-I'm... I'm safe now...?" Asked the little girl, she was still scared and her eyes were still tearing a little.
"Yes... yes you are." Raven answered as she placed her sword on the scabbard. "What's your name?"
"M-my name is Sivir..." The little girl answered.
"Sivir... what are you doing out here?" The swordswoman asked, and for the first time she sounded worried about something, or someone.
"Raven!" Snake yelled when he was getting to close.
"Over here." Raven said, while Boss began to pass through some bushes. There he saw Raven and a little blonde girl.
"I see she's fine, that's good." Said Big Boss as he placed his rifle on the left side of his hip.
"Tell me Sivir, you live in Ludan?" Raven asked.
"Yes! That's my home!" The little girl answered quickly.
At that moment, Raven approached Sivir a little and offered her hand. And to Snake's surprise, Raven showed an honest and warm smile. "Here, I'll take you home."
The little blonde girl who was crying at the time soon showed a big smile at the kindness of the black-haired woman, and soon she took the swordswoman's hand. Behind Raven, Snake could only look that scene, in a way it reminded him of when he found Chico when he was in Costa Rica, although it wasn't quite the same. Although Snake could only show a smile at that moment.
A long time passed, but Raven and Snake continued walking towards the village of Ludan, along with the little girl. Sivir was walking along with Raven, while taking her hand, and Snake behind them, with his M4 on the hands. Soon the three had arrived in the village, where they found at the entrance an adult blond-haired woman anguished, when Sivir saw her she immediately ran into her arms, there was no need to mention that she was her mother. In the end, the mother thanked both of them for bringing her daughter back. Sivir said goodbye to both of them, especially Raven, and left with her mother.
Raven watched as mother and daughter were holding hands as they left the place, Raven could not deny that this little girl looked like Yang, or so she wanted to believe, because she never knew how Yang looked like at that age. The truth was that the fault lay within her, for not having been at that time for her daughter, but she was in the perfect moment to save Sivir. Were the Gods making fun of her?
At that moment Raven sighed and turned to see Snake, but he simply showed a small smile. "Why the hell are you smiling?"
"It's the first time I see you worried for someone else." Snake stated, still keeping the same smile.
"Ugh shut up, I don't wanna hear a damn word about what happened." Raven said as she began to walk inside the village. At that moment she was a little angry at hearing Boss' comment, but also a slight blush appeared on her cheeks, but quickly disappeared.
"I guess that means you won't attack this village."
But having heard that, Raven soon stopped, after a second she turned to look at Snake. "How you know that?"
"Well, the people of your tribe don't seem to be the type of person who get things by doing a normal work, besides they aren't exactly friendly. If you need anything you and your people would simply steal it." Big Boss did not know it completely, it was only an assumption, but it seems that he was right.
"Damn you..." Said Raven with a small smile. The only thing Raven could think of is that Snake is what she would call a clever bastard, but she was definitely surprised that he had several talents, mostly for battle. "All right, you're right about that. What are you thinkin' to do? Stop me? Keep an eye on me to see that I don't do bad things? This is what I do to survive."
"I understand, believe it or not, I used to do similar things, but I never stole innocent people." Snake stated. After all, when the Peace Walker Incident began Boss stole enemy supplies, which included valuable information, vehicles, weapons and ammo... heck, he even kidnapped enemies, so they could join his mercenary army.
Fortunately nobody else was at the entrance, so no one else would listen to their chat.
"No... I believe you. There's something strange about you, you're young but you seem to be someone with years and years of experience in training and combat." It was one of the things Raven was interested in Snake.
"Yeah, I'm just good at it." Said Boss in a simple tone, he didn't wanted to talk too much about it. "You know, after this, you should go visit Yang."
"Yang, Yang, Yang..." Raven said rolling her eyes. "Seriously, it seems you're in love with-"
"I say it because it's the best for you, back then you were completely scared when I told you that Yang was about to die. I don't say you stay with her from now on, I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt that she saw her mother for once, It won't make you weak either. Also... I feel that's what you want." Said Boss with s small grin.
Raven felt irritated again, and a slight blush appeared on her cheeks. "You're an annoying idiot... Okay, since you insist too much, I could go visit her." That's what she said, but in fact she wanted that. "C'mon, let's buy some Dust first."
"Right behind you." Said Snake keeping the same smile.
— l — l — l —
Later...
After buying some Dust and crossing a new portal, Snake and Raven appeared in the same place they were last at Beacon Academy. In front of them was the Academy. And it seems that there was no one around. Just the two of them.
"As I promised... we are here." Said the swordswoman under her mask. Only for now she had put it on.
"Thank you, at least I didn't have to spend money on a ticket to come back." Said Snake with a small smile.
"Yeah, sure, but you still have time to change your mind and stay in my tribe." Said Raven about that again.
"Thanks... But as I said before, I will continue in Beacon, at least for a little while longer." After all, Snake finally got a little fond of the place, and didn't hesitate to think the Academy was his home.
"It's your call, although it's disappointin', but I will respect it." In a way, she liked that Snake had his decisions in mind, that they were for himself and not for anyone else. Much less for Ozpin.
Snake began to walk a little to be in front of Raven. "Hey, listen, I-."
Whatever Snake was going to say, he was interrupted when something at high speed tackled Boss, causing him to fall and roll on the floor.
"...I'm listenin'." It was the only thing Raven answered, after seeing that the only thing left in front of her were traces of rose petals. So she decided to follow Snake to where he was, only to see that the person who tackled him was the same girl from that night.
"SnakeyouarehereIthoughtyouwouldnevercomeback!" Ruby said as she hugged Snake and she tear a little in his chest. "I'm... I'm so sorry!"
Snake said nothing about it, he didn't think Ruby would be so worried, instead he just smiled and with his hand he gently pet Ruby's head. Then Boss responded in a calm, but also kind tone of voice. "Kept you waiting, huh?"
"It seems she was worried too much about you." Raven said being close to them, interrupting the moment they had.
By that time Ruby had calmed down a bit, but she soon turned her gaze to the woman with the mask. "Y-you..."
"It's okay Ruby, she's a friend." Snake said taking Ruby's wrist before she could say or do something. Soon he began to get up from the ground along with the scythe wielder. "How'd you know I was here?"
"I... I was just distracted, looking out the window, but then I saw you here coming out of that portal." The young leader answered.
"Ruby!" Soon the rest of team RWBY arrived at the place, and to the girls' surprise they saw who was there. Then WBY said surprised. "Snake!"
"Hey there." Said Boss calmly while raising his hand, along with a small smile.
"Don't you 'Hey there' us! Where have you been all this time!?" That came from Blake. She was happy but she sounded a little angry at Snake's indifference.
"And who is that woman?" Said Weiss as she pointed her finger to Raven, with an expression of disgust on her face.
"She's the woman who took Snake away." Ruby answered, due to her tone she sounded a little angry.
"What!?" Yang, Weiss and Blake said at the same time. They didn't have weapons at the moment but they quickly stood in combat stances.
"Wait, wait! Okay? She's not the enemy." Said Big Boss, while he put himself between Raven and the girls, to avoid an unnecessary fight.
"Snake, what happened to your suit? It's ripped!" Ruby said as she pointed Boss' chest with her finger.
"And there's blood in it!" Blake added when she, like the others paid attention to Snake's chest.
"Oh right... uh, she and I had a fight, that's why it's like that." Snake explained, trying to make it sound like something simple and with no problem.
Although that was not the case, Raven felt the angry looks of all the girls, especially Yang since her eyes were red. Raven was not afraid but those looks made her feel that at any moment they would jump at her and try to kill her.
"Who the hell are you and who you think you are to appear out of nowhere and kidnap our teammate!?" That came from Yang, with red eyes on her face.
Raven said nothing, but remained calm when she saw Yang facing her. It's not like she wanted to jump to hug her daughter, but she didn't wanted to stay quiet either. Raven turned to see Snake, who just remained silent for a moment, until he smiled a little and decided to help calm the situation.
"Let me introduce them to you, they are Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang." Snake said, but the girls didn't respond to it, they had calmed down a bit but they still showed some displeasure at Raven's presence. "Girls, this is Raven."
The moment Snake said her name, Raven began removing her mask. Slowly she removed her mask with her left hand, revealing her face and eyes. And soon team RWBY's expression of anger and mistrust became one of surprise and curiosity, since she looked like the blonde brawler.
"Raven...?" Yang muttered, her eyes returned to their normal color.
"Yang... she's your mother." Boss answered to make it clear.
Hearing that, the girls were surprised, but those who were perplexed by what Big Boss said were Yang and Ruby.
"Oh my Gods..." A surprised Ruby murmured from behind her sister.
"Y-you can't be..." Yang's eyes widened when she saw the mysterious swordswoman.
"Maybe you two need to talk." Big Boss said as he turned to see the rest of the team, the girls gave Snake the reason, and soon they began to leave the place, at least walking away a few meters to avoid being in this personal situation.
Soon Snake and the others left the place, only leaving Yang and Raven. While Yang at that moment felt that her heart was beating faster and she felt that no word could escape from her mouth. In addition to her hands shaking a little, she always thought about what to ask when her mother was in front of her, and now suddenly there were several emotions in her head.
"Y'know, I thought that when you saw me you would give me a hug, you don't have anythin' to say?" Said Raven, with a small smile on her face. The smile was because she was teasing Yang.
"You... you really think I'd hug you and say somethin' when you appear out of nowhere!?" Yang said, almost shouting at her mother.
"Is that the only thing you think about right now?" Raven asked the blonde brawler.
"I have many things to say, many questions, many doubts... All the times I wished you were there for me, and you simply appear out of nowhere." Yang expressed what she felt at that moment. She kept a somewhat sad expression when saying that.
Raven simply kept the same expression. "Is this how you imagined it?" She asked.
"...No, I always thought I would have to track you down to the most remote place of Remnant." Yang explained, she was trying to stay calm but her expression was somewhat sad.
"And here I am, don't you think it's a good opportunity? Tell me the first thing in your head." Raven asked, unlike Yang she was keeping a small smile.
"The first thing in my head...?" Yang asked herself.
"Go on." Raven's smile was a little more notorious.
"I always wanted to ask you where you were all this time, why you abandoned us... and even if at least you thought about me while you were gone... but at this moment all I want to know is... "
"Tell me, Yang." Said Raven.
"WHY THE FUCK DID YOU KIDNAP SNAKE!?" Yang asked, with her eyes in a red color.
"...Huh...?" Raven asked. She expected Yang to ask her something more personal about why she left. Instead, the first thing Yang asked was about Snake.
"You heard me!"
"I thought you would ask something else... didn't you wanted to know why I left? Where I was all this time?" Raven asked, the expression on her face was one of a slight intrigue.
Yang relaxed and let out a deep breath. "Later... first I wanna know why you took Snake, and why he has that wound in his chest."
"Mhh... okay..." Raven said calmly, but then she had a small smile on her face. "I had been keepin' an eye on him for weeks, he seemed like an... interesting boy."
"Wait... if you were watching him, that means..."
"Yes Yang, I was also watching you, and I have to say that you've been doing it well." Raven seemed to show a small smile of pride.
"Well, it wasn't thanks to you." Said Yang, with a slight frown and both arms crossed. "Now answer me, why did you took Snake away? And why does he have that wound?"
"As I said, I was quite curious about him, he's young but he's a brilliant and strong fighter. I wanted to see firsthand what he is capable of, so we ended up fighting... and he won." Raven explained, a little embarrassed to admit it.
"You fought him!? And he won!?" Yang was angry for a brief moment, only to be surprised later. The blonde girl always heard from her uncle Qrow that her mother was a strong and skilled woman with the sword.
"Yeah but we were both holding back." Said Raven.
"That's the only reason?" Yang asked again.
"I have to admit that besides, I was very curious to know what kind of man my daughter's boyfriend is." Raven added, with a small grin in her face.
Hearing that Yang was red, not out of anger, but she was blushing instead. "H-hold on! Snake's not my boyfriend! He's just a good friend of mine!"
"Ohh really? I could swear that there were times you saw him with other kind of eyes. Besides that you seem very worried about him, but I guess it's normal, you're young after all." Raven teased a little.
"Ugh..." Yang's face became more red. Although for a moment Yang turned to see Snake, he was talking to Ruby, Weiss and Blake, surely about what happened, while the girls showed expressions of amazement and concern at every moment while Snake spoke. "N-no... he's not my boyfriend, he.. he's a little too dense... so..."
"Really? Too bad, since it was he who insisted me to come to see you." Raven admitted.
"Wait, for real?" Yang asked.
"He just kept repeating 'Why did you leave Yang? You should go see Yang' like a parrot, that's why I thought he was your boyfriend." Raven replied, although she exaggerated it a bit.
Yang was surprised, she was even blushing, she didn't think that in part the reason her mother was in front of her was thanks to Snake. And just thinking that thanks to her teammate for this chance it only increased her appreciation for him.
"But it's a shame... I would liked to have him as a son-in-law... although if you don't want him, maybe I can keep him for myself~." Said Raven, teasing Yang with a small grin.
"You're not funny..." Yang sighed, and then admitted. "I'm... I'm still thinkin' about how to tell him what I feel."
"Well, you better hurry up, you don't seem to be the only one." Raven stated, obviously referring to the rest of team RWBY... and Yang knew it, but the other girls seem to be on the same situation.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever... so... now, tell me, why you abandoned dad and me?" Yang asked, this time with a serious attitude.
"Sorry, you already missed your chance to ask me that, so you'll have to ask me in another occasion." Said Raven smiling, almost with a grin in her face.
"What!? Are you kiddin' me!?" Yang shouted, and clearly she was angry... again.
"I don't feel it's the right time to tell you that, the only thing I can tell you is that I've been quite busy." Raven stated. "Don't bother asking Snake, he doesn't know."
"Uh-huh... then when's goin' to be a good time?" Yang asked quite frustrated.
"Soon, but today is not the day." Raven clarified.
"One last thing then... even if you're here, that means you won't be back with dad, right?" Yang asked, hoping for a 'yes' as an answer.
"I won't return with your father, and actually I would appreciate if you don't tell this to your father or your uncle." Raven stated.
"And why should I do that?" Asked Yang, trying to challenge Raven.
"Because if you do it I'll disappear again, but if you're a good girl maybe I can give you my scroll number." Raven stated with a small grin.
(FUCK!) Yang yelled in her head. "Damn it, okay, you win, not a word to pops or my uncle about you." Yang accepted as she took out her scroll.
At the same time Raven took her scroll, as they approached the devices to each other mother and daughter began to exchange phone numbers. Then, Raven said. "Done, if you want to talk it's fine, but don't expect me to answer everything you ask."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." Yang answered. "But don't thing I'm okay after you left all this years."
"Ohh really? So what you're plannin' to do about that?" Said Raven, teasing Yang with a small grin.
"What I'm going to do...?" Yang said, while her expression became serious, and her hands became fists.
Raven kept that grin on her face, and all she did was close her eyes. "Come on then... give me your worse."
"Fine then... if you insist so much." Yang said as she showed a slight grin on her face, and soon she began to walk to where her mother was.
Raven simply stood still, letting Yang do what she wanted at that moment, even if that was a punch in the face she would resist. Raven understood that after all her daughter has the right to be angry and hate her after all she did. She was not a saint.
But instead of feeling some kind of attack against her she felt something much softer. When Raven opened her arms she noticed that Yang was hugging her, it was a pretty soft hug. Raven was somewhat surprised, it's not what she expected, but she had to admit that the feeling was... nice. Given the situation since in fact she did not want to ignore Yang, Raven corresponded the hug, giving her a soft hug. The hug lasted a little less than a minute, until mother and daughter separated slowly and gently, and both kept a small smile, although Raven maintained a slight blush for the situation.
"C'mon, let's go back with your friends." Raven stated, to which Yang noted.
Yang didn't feel comfortable when she heard all of that, but she also didn't regret not asking that question from the beginning. As her mother said, that question would have to be answered in another occasion. Unfortunately, Yang is not exactly someone who has patience. But the hug was a start.
Meanwhile, Snake had been talking to Ruby, Weiss and Blake about what had happened to him, at least not completely, he avoided mentioning that Raven is a leader of a tribe of bandits, and seemed to have some kind of hatred or agenda against Ozpin, and the fact that he shared the same bed with Yang's mother. They also noticed the hug between Raven and Yang but said nothing and ignored them a bit, to not to make the situation weird for them.
"Well, that's basically all that happened." Snake said, ending his explanation.
"I still can't believe Yang's mother kidnapped you." Weiss stated.
"But it's good that you came back Snake." Said Blake with a smile.
"Oh here they come." Said Ruby when she saw Yang and Raven, with a goofy smile on her face.
Soon Raven and Yang returned to where Snake and the others were, it seemed that the tension between them had disappeared.
"We're done." Said Yang with a calm smile.
"That means you won't try to kidnap Snake anymore, right?" Said Ruby, trying to sound intimidating, although she was pouting lightly.
Raven couldn't help but think about Summer for a moment when she saw Ruby. Raven just let out a sigh and raised both hands. "I won't do anything like that, I promise."
Team RWBY seemed calmer after hearing what Raven said. They would not say it but after what happened their morals were really reduced. But for now everything would be okay, at least that was what the girls thought.
"Anyway, I have to go, but first... Snake, come here." Raven told the mercenary.
"Huh?" Snake decided to do what Raven said, so he took a few steps forward to where the swordswoman was. "What is it?"
"I hope that the next time we can fight seriously." Raven stated, showing a small smile on her face, as she offered her hand to Snake.
Snake showed a small smile, accepting the words of the black-haired woman as he shaked her hand. "The next time will be better."
RWBY meanwhile smiled a little but genuinely, although they talked about fighting, they knew Snake would not lose against Raven. In fact Ruby and Yang would like to see something like that, or so they thought in that moment.
"Of course." Raven nodded, but just before finishing that handshake, Raven took Snake by his shoulder and approached him with a grin on her face, she got close enough to the mercenary's face, it was quite fast that Snake failed to react completely.
And then she kissed him.
Raven kissed Snake.
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...
Team RWBY went completely blank while their brains tried to process what they were seeing. It wasn't some kind of mistake or misunderstanding, they saw how Yang's mother was kissing Snake, it was a deep kiss and they saw how they, or at least Raven, was using her tongue against Snake's.
"Mom, what are you doing!?" Yang yelled angry at her mom, she really couldn't believe that scene was happening.
"Lewd! Pervert! That's completely indecent!" That came from Weiss, she was both surprised and disgusted, but couldn't deny it was a little interesting.
"Killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkill..." Blake was muttering in silence while she had slit-shaped eyes. Suddenly the faunus wanted to do something quite horrible to that woman.
"Oh Gods I can't see this!" Ruby was covering her eyes with both hands, but being still a curious young girl she was watching the scene through her fingers.
Despite the scene, the girls were blushing while looking that, but they were also quite surprised and angry. But despite that, the whole scene was ended fast, but for the girls of team RWBY it seemed like an eternity of visual torture.
Boss on the other hand was quite surprised, but he was not a little boy to blush for a kiss, even though Raven even used her tongue. Despite that, Snake didn't resist, but did not correspond to that kiss either. In fact it only lasted less than 15 seconds, it was strange, quick, but he wasn't going to deny that the kiss was good. It all ended when Raven broke away, and suddenly she punched Snake in the face, causing the mercenary to fall to the floor.
"Argh!" Snake let out a cry of pain after that punch. "What the hell was all that!?"
"Consider this my little revenge." Raven stated as she showed a small smug smile, and had a slight blush on her face, she quite enjoyed the kiss, she even licked her lips a little. By revenge she was referring to the things Snake had caused so far. Hold back in a fight and make her meet up with Yang. Of course she was grateful for the latter, but she was not happy with everything Snake had said to her about it.
"Well, that was interesting. Take care Yang, and try not to kill Snake." Said Raven still keeping that smile in her face, and after that she just turned around and opened a portal with her sword, to simply leave by walking in it.
(Revenge? Why she would kiss me for revenge?) Snake didn't understand why Raven did that, besides, she has a husband, or had, did that count as cheating?
"SNAAAAAAKE...!"
Snake soon turned to see team RWBY, and he could see that the girls were quite angry, to the point where a dark and evil aura came off their bodies, and there were murderous intentions in their eyes. For the first time in a long time Snake was scared.
"H-hold! I can explain this! I mean, you saw that she was the one who kissed me!" Snake tried to explain, and technically he wasn't lying.
"Get him!" Ruby ordered, and she sounded really angry, like a beast wanting to devour a cookie.
— l — l — l —
From his office, Ozpin could see the whole scene, confirming that it was Raven who kidnapped Snake. He completely ignored the kiss, and the fact that at that moment RWBY seemed to want to kill Snake. In fact, the Headmaster was worried, if Raven said something to Snake, just a small detail of information, it could put Snake against him, and the Headmaster could lose Boss' possible help for future events.
He couldn't risk that, because Ozpin knew what Snake is capable of. The best thing for Ozpin was to respond in the same way, at least that's what he believed.
"Maybe it's time I tell him the truth..."
End of Chapter 18
● Omake ●
The voice of God
Ruby Rose was having the worst morning ever.
Because of her immature attitude, Snake had disappeared because of that woman with Grimm mask, in spite of everything, she felt completely guilty and useless, Ruby felt that she had failed as a teammate, team leader and friend.
And now, Ruby was in that place again, where she last saw Snake, thinking about how she failed to protect her friend. Again the fault consumed her heart, while thinking about what she have done better in order to avoid all that problem.
Soon Ruby felt the tears wanted to leave her eyes. Soon she turned around with the intention of leaving the place.
"Ugh!" But instead of leaving, Ruby ended up bumping into something, or rather someone.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?" Said an adult and masculine voice as he offered his hand.
Ruby turned to see who it was. The man was an adult male, with glasses, he also had a short beard. His hair was short, black but simple. His clothes were also quite simple, but Ruby thought that man looked well dressed. He also had a weird accent, but Ruby was able to understand him.
"Oh yeah, sorry." Said Ruby as she took the man's hand.
"You really seem distracted, and worried." The man stated.
"Oh? No, no! I was just... uhm..." Ruby wasn't exactly a good liar.
"It's okay, you don't have to worry." Said that man in a gentle and calm way.
"Right, I'm sorry." Ruby said with a nervous smile. "Who are you? I've never seen you before."
"In fact I don't work here, I was just passing through, and you ended up running into me, although you seemed to be having your own problems."
"I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to bother you." Said the young girl, a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, I guess you're worried about Snake, right?" Said the man wearing glasses.
"Huh? You know Snake?" Said Ruby, surprised to hear that.
"Of course, I could say that I know him quite well, even though I've never had the pleasure of talking to him." The man stated. But he preferred to hear the problem from Ruby's mouth. "So, what's wrong with him?"
"I just..." Ruby stopped a second to explain her problem. "I just thought I was giving Snake problems with my childish attitude, and I can't apologize right now..."
"You shouldn't worry about that. You see, that's part of growing up, when you're young you can make mistakes, we all have bad days, but we also learn from it to be a better person. Besides, I'm sure Snake won't get angry at you for something like that." The man explained.
"You... you think so...?" Ruby asked.
"Everyone has problems, life will always give them to you, but in addition to trying to solve them, we also have to understand them."
"Understand them?" Ruby asked.
"Look at it this way..." The man in glasses said.
Ruby approached him a little to listen what he had to say.
"We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns."
Ruby was a little confused at first, but she was beginning to understand what he wanted to say.
"You need to escape from your own winter." The man said with a small smile.
"Yeah... yeah! You're right, I understand but... but it still doesn't make him feel better... but thanks for telling me this." Admitted Ruby.
"Don't worry, I just wanted to share this with you. Anyway, I have to go, I have other things to do, I always wanted to be a film director, you know? But I'm glad to be a video game creator."
"You're a video game producer?" Ruby tilted her head a little.
"Video game designer, writer, director and producer." The man in glasses clarified. "I would like to stay to talk but I have to go. Take care Ruby, and say hello to Snake from me."
"Wait, what's your name?" Ruby asked.
"Oh right, right, I almost forgot, you can call me Hideo." The man named Hideo stated. "And remember! 90% of what is considered 'impossible' is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology!"
"Hideo? It's a weird name, but it's cool! And I'll remember that! Said Ruby with a smile. But then she notice something weird. "Wait a minute! How'd you know my name?"
"Ruby!" Soon a voice interrupted the conversation between Ruby and Hideo, it was Yang who was approaching. "What are you doing here alone?"
"Yang! I'm not alone, I am with-" When Ruby was about to mention her new friend, but Hideo was no longer there, it seemed that he simply disappeared. "Hideo?"
"Ruby? Are you okay? Why are you here alone?" Yang asked, worried for her sister.
"I... I don't know... I feel that... that I was talking with God..." Ruby stated, still confused about what happened.
"You... want to go to the infirmary?" Yang asked, worried about her baby sister.
"No. I'm okay... but I feel a little better now." Said Ruby with a small smile.
"I see... come on, let's go back with Weiss and Blake." Said Yang with a small smile.
"Let's go." Said Ruby. (Thanks Hideo, I promise you that I'll do my best to be a good friend and the best team leader for everyone.) Ruby said determined in her mind.
Hours later, Snake appeared along with Raven and... well, the rest is history for the future.
The End
(A/N)
Well, here we go again. Another chapter of Snake's Bizarre Adventures... well, no.
I'm sorry if I didn't detailed many things, especially when Raven and Sivir met, as I said, I had a writer's block but I will not let it happen again, or I'll try at least.
But yes! Snake is back at Beacon and, well, shit got serious, at least for him since team RWBY wants to kill him.
But this is when things are going to get serious, believe me, the next episode is when revelations are going to be made, which you already know what they are about.
■ Is Raven too much Out of Character? ■
I already talked about this in the previous episode but I'll say it again, before you kill me in the Review section.
I'm sure that some of you would have found Raven's attitude wrong in this episode. Obviously it's because she is not like this in the show, she's not an affectionate mother who cares about her daughter, she is a tricky bitch, who will use anyone to get what she wants. But there is definitely something similar in the Raven in show with the Raven in RONOS.
Both are cowards.
What I mean is that both Raven do have a mother's feelings for Yang, and I have no doubt that this will be better seen in the future in some volume of RWBY, the difference is that I wanted to show it long before, thanks to Snake's influence. But since Raven is a coward she cannot express her feelings, I want to believe that it is because her family would reject her.
But still I want to continue showing the other part of Raven like in the show, the evil one, or bitch one I mean.
And of course, Raven in RWBY wouldn't go around kissing young people or showing that kind of affection. I want you to keep this in mind because of two reasons:
1 - I strongly believe that Raven is someone who is impressed by the strength, intelligence and ability of someone. Not of any guy of course, but Snake is not any guy, he's Big Boss. So if you ask me, I would say Raven feels a slight attraction to Snake.
2 - As I put in the episode, it was to tease Yang and partly as a small revenge against Snake. And it worked fine.
Maybe I can add Raven in Snake's little Harem, but I'm not going to use her in many episodes.
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