"Rise and shine Mrs. Adel," Titus called over to her from the log he was sat upon. He glanced over at Ilia who was feverishly messaging Vin and stretched out his shoulders. "You know, I would have thought that the instructor would have been awake before the students."
"My scroll died last night," she groaned as she rolled over and prepared to push herself up to her knees. "So my alarm didn't go off this morning."
"Was that cup of coffee last night really worth it then?" Ilia asked mindlessly as she tapped furiously.
"Lesson number one kids," Coco exclaimed as she stood and trudged out of her sleeping bag in her pajamas. "Coffee is always worth it." She glanced around the campsite and finally met eyes with Titus. "Where's Neela and Eliana?"
"I'm guessing that Neela must have passed out over by the tree. Ilia and I haven't been up too long." Titus informed her. Eliana could be heard groaning, and she slid out of her own bag clumsily, flopping into the dirt and glancing up at them.
"Where's Neela?" Eliana asked. Titus shook his head and facepalmed as Ilia snickered.
"You'll have to wake her up," Coco said with a lazy wave of her hand. "Titus says that she's over by the watch tree." Eliana leapt up energetically and sprinted to the lookout point, shouting short of arriving.
"Rise and shine little hawk! It's a new day and we've got some… bandits… to take…" Eliana's voice stopped short of finishing and she looked back at them with a touch of misunderstanding. "Titus, she's not over here, maybe she went on one of her early morning hunts?"
"Without telling anybody?" Coco asked. Eliana shrugged.
"She always used to get up before the break of dawn and hunt for Grimm back on Patch. Maybe she decided to do so this morning too. Saw the sun coming up and knew it marked the end of her shift and decided 'maybe I'll go kill some Beowulves'," Eliana told them. "I wouldn't worry about it too much."
"Worrying about it is something that I have to do," Coco said. "Can you try calling her?" Eliana nodded, pulling her scroll out and dialing Neela's number. It rang repeatedly, the girl never picked up, and Eliana shook her head. Coco's mind slowly started to weave in and through itself as she let her thoughts and speculations run rampant towards different ideas that could have happened to Neela.
"What premise are we operating under?" Titus asked.
"I'd hate to suggest this, but the bandits aren't exactly friendly towards Faunus, are they?" Ilia pointed out. Coco's stomach turned violently.
"Guys, I'm sure that Neela is fine!" Eliana shouted.
"What do we do?" Titus asked.
"We're going to go back into town and make that merchant talk," Coco told them. "Twist his arm until he tells us where the bandits are and then we'll take Neela back, assuming they have her."
"Come on," Eliana pleaded more than she stated. "Aren't we jumping the gun?!"
"Better safe than sorry," Ilia told her with a shrug.
"I don't get a signal in town on my scroll!" Eliana noted as they began to leave.
"She would have messaged us already if she wasn't going to be back by now," Titus told her. Eliana grabbed her pistols and shoved them into her pants above her belt, chasing after them as they were already making their way towards Shion. Nobody could have taken Neela, she would have kicked their ass. She's fine, and they're just letting the distance from home get to their heads. Eliana was sure of it.
"You could warn a guy before you subject him to this much pain, don't you think?!" Apophis asked as Neela poured on the antiseptic and he seethed through his teeth. He wrenched back his foot from her as she tore the bandage with her teeth, looking up at him and shaking her head.
"For someone with thick skin, you seem to be a bit of a pansy!" She declared. Apophis looked up from her and across the tent at Honey and Lueur who were watching with smiles and eating popcorn.
"And I bet the two of you are getting a real kick out of this," he said. Lueur looked at Honey before looking back Apophis and nodded. "Where did that popcorn come from anyway?"
"Lueur said she found it at an abandoned campsite nearby," Honey told him as she munched happily. "I think Neela's right though, you are being a bit of a wuss." Lueur nodded her head in agreement, the only sound coming from her was chewing. Apophis laughed them off before tensing up again, watching Neela as she worked methodically. She finished the job, standing up and brushing herself off, giving him a nod of approval.
"After growing up on an island where getting immediate professional attention wasn't always an option, I've learned a thing or two," she told them. "You'll be fine once the lacerations scar over in a couple of days. I can activate your aura if you'd like." He nodded, his eyes wide.
"Yes!" He exclaimed. "That would be extremely helpful!" He looked at his teammates and frowned as he slumped back in his chair. "I'm not the best fighter and sometimes I feel like I'm just holding the girls back."
"It's okay Apophis, I've told you before, we're all in this together. Right, Lueur?" Honey said. Lueur nodded slowly, a piece of popcorn balancing on her nose and she threw her head back, throwing the treat into the air and trying to catch it in her mouth, but missing completely. Lueur frowned as Honey giggled and Lueur turned to protest but her girlfriend pulled her in for a kiss, they placed their foreheads together as Honey raised an open palm, closing her ring and middle finger as she placed the hand against Lueur's chest. "I love you Lueur." Lueur did the same back to Honey and they stared into each other's eyes until Apophis cleared his throat.
"Ahem?" He asked. They looked over at Neela and Apophis, Lueur blushing as she pulled away and Honey laughed.
"Sorry about that, we get carried away sometimes," Honey told her.
"I'd hardly call that getting carried away, I think that's sweet," Neela said.
"Do you have a significant other Neela?" Honey asked. Neela pulled Apophis to his feet and chuckled nervously.
"That's… complicated," Neela told her as she placed her hand on his chest.
"Is it though?" Honey asked. "I can tell from the dark shade of red that you're turning that you really care for this person." Lueur tapped Honey on the shoulder and spoke quickly with her hands, Honey gasped covering her mouth and shaking her head. "It's unrequited, isn't it?!"
"You two are pretty perceptive, aren't you?" Neela asked trying to concentrate on unlocking his aura. What were the words that Pyrrha told her she'd said?
"We try to be anyways," Honey admitted.
"Can you let her concentrate for a moment?" Apophis asked.
"I was just answering her question," Honey sneered playfully. Apophis shook his head, looking at Neela who appeared deep in thought.
"You okay?" he asked her.
"Yeah, just trying to recall a story I was told," Neela said. She was able to envision it, and she spoke the words aloud. "For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee." A dark green aura flared and intensified around Apophis, bringing both of the girls to the edge of their seats.
"That was awesome!" Honey shouted. She leapt up and nudged Neela out of the way, grabbing Apophis and feeling his biceps. "How does it feel?" She glanced at Neela. "Will he have a semblance now too?" Neela laughed.
"Semblances don't exactly work the same way," Neela told her. Neela rubbed her neck as she looked at the three of them, Honey's face twisted into a frown. "I'm sorry Honey, I wish I could stay and help, but even right now my team is probably looking for me and I dropped my scroll on the ground before your man took me."
"It's right here," Apophis said handing it to her. "Sorry, forgot that I had it." She looked at him befuddled.
"He's very…" Neela began.
"Thorough, we know," Honey finished. Her eyes lit up. "Call them and let them know you're here! Tell them that we were heading to Haven to get help from the military and we kind of just nabbed you on the way. It'll take a day for them to get here anyway, you could stay and train us! I've always wanted to square off against a huntress!"
"How long was I asleep for that we're an entire day from Shion?" Neela asked.
"It's a funny story and it's funnier if you can read sign language but Lueur may have tamed a young Goliath… at least that's the way I understand the story, I just woke up one morning and it was here and Lueur looked pretty proud of herself. The big ones are kinda slow, but David here can get going pretty fast with the right incentive," Honey explained.
"Why'd she name the Goliath David?" Neela asked. Honey shrugged.
"Please say you'll stay and train us at least until your teammates get here," Honey pleaded. Neela sighed with a chuckle.
"Let me call them first at least," Neela said. "I'll decide from there."
"Thank you! You really don't know how much this means to us!" Honey shouted. Lueur placed her hand to her chin and extended it forward. "Let's give her a moment to make the call!" Honey grabbed Lueur's hand and dragged her out of the tent, Apophis laughed as he watched.
"She's excitable isn't she?" Neela asked.
"They both are," he told her. "I'm five years older than you kids, so I almost feel like an older brother to them, but Honey's right, if you'd be able to teach us something, anything, in the few hours that you might spend with us, it would mean the world."
"Why haven't you tried to travel to Haven before for help?" Neela asked.
"With your team being in the area the bandits must have been hesitant to move, normally we don't have time for a full night's sleep. Not to mention the Grimm and my inability to fight well because of my lack of semblance and until this morning, aura. It should help. If you decide to leave, even that much was enough to give us an edge. Thank you."
"There are better ways to go about getting help than kidnapping people, but you're welcome," she laughed. He rubbed his neck.
"I panicked," he said. "The humans in Shion really don't care for us at all and so the rest of your camp, despite being asleep, made me a bit nervous." She laughed again.
"It's okay," she reassured him. She dialed Eliana on her scroll and the phone rang repeatedly before going to voicemail.
Hey, this is Elli and it seems I can't answer my scroll at the moment. If you're wanting to talk to Neela let me know and if you want to talk to me, leave a message. Thanks, bye!
"No luck?" Apophis asked as she looked at the screen confused and tried Coco. They must have gone into town, we didn't have any reception in Shion Village. Neela shrugged.
"I'll just leave a voicemail with my instructor," Neela informed him. He nodded.
"So you'll just leave after that then?" Apophis asked. "We wouldn't want your friends worrying about you." Neela thought about it for a long moment.
"It would take me a day to get back to Shion, right?" she asked. He nodded. "They would receive my message before I return, I can stay and help train you." Honey burst into the tent, Lueur toppling over her as they ended up in a heap on the ground.
"Great!" Honey exclaimed. Neela shook her head and chuckled. It was like being back at the dorms. She sighed as she glanced around the tent. She hoped Eliana was doing okay.
"I think that it is in your best interest right about now to help us, or I am going to fill you with more bullet holes than they'll ever be able to count!" Coco shouted at the vendor as she threw him against a wall in the marketplace. "Now, the asshole that dropped off the meat yesterday, where is he?"
"I swear on my life that they only come around once a week and that nobody knows where they are!" The man shouted trembling against her grip and looking at the students. "I'll do whatever you want me to, I just don't know where the bandits live! I've heard west of here, east of here, in the north on one of the floating islands, some even say that they live in an alley of Haven!"
"I don't believe him," Coco said. She nodded to Ilia as she dropped him. "Do the thing." He squirmed in fear as he cowered against the wall.
"What thing?!" He cried out. Ilia grabbed his head and took his body, he immediately stopped shaking and stood up straight as he stretched his limbs. "Okay, well I can tell you that he honestly doesn't know anything about the people that we're looking for. I guess that kind of puts a damper on us finding them any faster." Coco shook her head.
"Not exactly," Coco told them. "I always have a Plan B."
"The mayor?" Titus asked. Coco nodded.
"Exactly," Coco replied.
"What's up with the mayor?" Eliana asked.
"Didn't we fill you in?" Titus asked. Eliana shrugged.
"I don't know, maybe," Eliana admitted.
"The mayor is in on it with the bandits," Ilia said through the merchant.
"So let's go rough him up!" Eliana declared. "If they do have Neela, we need to know, right?"
"I wish we could," Coco told her. "But we need him to cooperate. We need to play him, and I have a different idea for doing so."
"How?" Titus asked.
"We threaten the merchant here into telling the mayor he's been robbed," Coco told them. They all nodded at each other. Eliana was determined. They'd find Neela.
Neela stretched as she looked across the clearing in the woods at Honey who bounced lightly on her feet and cracked her neck. Apophis and Lueur watched from the opening of the tent, Lueur offering him popcorn but he turned it away and she gave a shrug, shoveling more of it into her own mouth and chewing excitedly. She blew a kiss at Honey who smiled and blew one back. Neela looked down at her sword in her hand and glanced up at Honey one last time.
"You have a weapon don't you?" Neela asked.
"Yeah, don't worry about it, I'm going to sweep the floor with you. You might be a huntress, but I was forced to survive in the wild," Honey told her. "I'm tenacious. Let's go!"
"Alright, okay," Neela laughed. She tossed her scroll to Apophis who caught it clumsily, looking it over and looking back at her. "It's displaying both of our auras. If one of us drops to zero, call the fight, got it?"
"Yes," Apophis answered.
"Ready, Honey?" Neela asked.
"I've been ready," Honey replied.
"Go?" Apophis offered. They both glanced at him before charging at each other, Neela planting her feet a few steps from Honey and swinging as the girl came in for an attack. The sword met the back of Honey's gauntlet, an orange armored glove that seemed to be made of aura covered Honey's hand and she swung around with her free hand, an eight-inch blade produced from Honey's aura protruded from her right bracer. Neela dodged it at the last moment, swinging around again with the same result, but Honey had planted her feet and threw her momentum behind the block, forcing Neela back. Neela flipped her sword out into her bow which took Honey off guard for a moment as Neela loaded an arrow. Honey deflected the arrow, though it exploded behind her, throwing her forward and she stumbled towards Neela.
Neela prepared to deal a blow but Honey tumbled onto her hands, springing off them and over Neela. Honey swung around, Neela batting her attack down and Honey tried countering but Neela swatted her off with her bow. Honey slid away, smiling at Neela who was clearly impressed but far from giving up. Honey's gauntlets changed once again into single barreled guns, she slammed her wrists against her sides, forcing the Dust canisters into her gloves. The orange hue from her aura was darkened to red, Neela used her sword to block the explosive shots from Honey. She lost sight of Honey for a moment before Honey's feet landed on her shoulders. The girl leapt off, throwing Neela away and she landed flat on her back, rolling out of the way of another attack.
Neela fired an arrow past Honey, seeming to completely miss her mark and grappling a tree past her. Neela found her feet, leaping through the air and planting her feet in Honey's chest. Honey toppled back, the arrow Neela had fired before erupted and threw Honey back towards Neela who waited with her sword. Honey thought quickly, using the backup ice cartridge in her gauntlets to form a two-foot sword from each hand. Her blades met in the middle, clashing with Neela's, the two struggling for a long minute before they both leapt away from each other.
"She's doing great!" Apophis declared.
"You're pretty good for someone who doesn't have proper training," Neela admitted. Honey laughed.
"Just imagine how good you'd be if someone tossed you at the White Fang?" Honey declared. Neela brushed off the comment, Honey, of course, didn't know about her past. Neela fired several arrows at Honey in rapid succession who was able to block a few before being struck by an explosive one that sent her careening away, Neela chased her down to make sure she didn't have time to recover and swung at Honey who narrowly escaped. A second swipe that was blocked awkwardly threw Honey from her feet and as she landed on her back, Neela held her sword to the girl's neck.
"I'm pretty good as it is," Neela said. Honey chuckled as Lueur's arms reached up from the ground and pulled her through a portal.
"Yeah, but I have a teleporting girlfriend," Honey replied with a smirk. Lueur leapt to her feet, looking at Honey who gave her a nod of approval. "Lueur wants to go a round with you."
"Sure," Neela replied. Neela walked back to her starting position, watching Lueur as she disappeared into the tent, and teleporting back out to where Honey had started before. She wielded two short sickles, staring Neela down, unmoving as she pulled her mask up over her nose. "You can go whenever your…"
Before Neela could finish what she was saying Lueur had already disappeared, prompting to Neela to turn quickly, expecting the girl behind her much like Neo typically attacked. She had ill time to prepare, she swung her bow around, Lueur hooked the limbs, leaping and kicking Neela in the chest hard. Neela's aura took the majority of the damage, flipping her bow into its sword form and watching Lueur fall into a portal. She needed to think quickly.
"You're good," Neela called out as she planted an arrow behind her feet and spun to meet Lueur again. They were scrappy, and Neela had to admit that they were more capable of holding their own than she thought. But they'd been fighting for their lives against enemies that weren't trained as huntsmen or huntresses. They each had a thing or two to teach each other. Lueur didn't appear where Neela expected, but instead reappeared where she'd disappeared from, setting off the proximity arrow, throwing both of them away from each other as Neela rolled quickly and found her feet, firing at Lueur who caught the arrow, jabbing it into Neela's leg as she opened a portal beside her. The lightning Dust erupted before Neela could remove the arrow, her aura taking another hit as Neela's leg was numbed and she hit the ground.
Lueur appeared behind her, Neela pivoting on her working leg and blocking Lueur's attack. She threw herself back from another attempt, loading her bow and firing an ice arrow. Lueur attempted the same strategy as last time but the arrow exploded as she reached for it, coating her in a thin layer of ice. Lueur's sickles were frozen in place, she was unable to reposition them, her being distracted gave Neela a moment to recover and charge her.
"Lueur!" Honey shouted. Lueur looked up at the last moment, deflecting Neela's blade but the blow sent her reeling. She opened a portal to fall into, Neela firing a gravity arrow quickly after her, she could hear Lueur exiting behind her as she crashed to the ground. Her chest heaved as Neela walked over to her and extended a hand to help her up.
"Great job," Neela told her. Lueur stared up at her for a long moment before smiling and taking her hand, leaping up with Neela's help.
"Didn't I tell you?!" Honey declared to Apophis. "Huntresses are amazing!"
"Indeed they are," Apophis agreed.
"You want a go?" Neela asked. Apophis shook his head and waved her off.
"I have thick skin and only like to fight as a last resort," Apophis told her. "Thanks for the offer though."
"I just realized," Honey said as Neela grabbed up a water bottle and drank it quickly. "You never really told us about yourself." Neela looked at her thoughtfully for a moment before shrugging.
"I don't know," Neela deflected.
"Come on!" Honey exclaimed. Lueur appeared next to her, hands balled into one another, shaking them gently in front of her as if to beg.
"It's not that great of a story," Neela told them.
"Every story may not be great," Apophis explained. "But every story is worth telling."
"That sounded philosophical," Neela said a bit impressed.
"Yeah, he says weird things sometimes, but come on! Let's hear about Neela Xiao Long!" Honey exclaimed.
"Alright," Neela said sitting cross-legged in front of them. "Where to begin?"
"Wherever you'd like," Apophis said. "If you don't feel comfortable telling us something, don't feel like you have to." Neela nodded at him.
"I was born into the White Fang," Neela said. "My parents were members already when I was conceived, and so I spent the first X years of my life in a camp, never once seeing the outside world and being told that above all else, I needed to fear the humans. When you're that young you don't need a reason or proof that the humans need not be trusted, you only need the word of your parents. I believed them, I had no reason not to, until that day." Neela stared off for a moment before returning to them. "The day they died."
"What happened?" Honey asked. Lueur stood beside her, looking on intrigued.
"The Atlas Military attacked our camp," Neela explained. "Machine and man alike swept through the camp like wildfire and as they killed my parents, my mother told me to run. So I did. What could I do, I was only a child, and after nearly escaping I was injured, an explosive tossing me into a building which arguably saved me, at least keeping me out of the wind. But I was unconscious, I came to a few hours later and I could hear two women talking to each other. They said that the military hadn't followed the plans, none of the Faunus were supposed to be killed except for our leader if he left them no choice. They were coming close."
"Who were they?" Apophis asked.
"My mothers," Neela told them. "A faunus and human that fell in love while training at Beacon, part of Team RWBY that had taken down both the dragon and Salem. They rescued me from death in that building and they gave me a new life. It took a while before I warmed up to Yang, she's the human, but now… Now I can't imagine my life without humans." She seemed distant for a fleeting second. "And I hate to think what I would have become had I stayed with the Fang."
"So, you have a significant other?" Honey asked. Neela's gaze snapped to her.
"What?" Neela asked.
"Something about the way you said humans," Honey said. "Your eyes lit up the same way that Lueur's do when she's talking to me." Lueur nodded.
"Not exactly…" Neela said sheepishly.
"What do you mean not exactly?" Honey asked. "You either do or don't!" Honey leapt up. "You can't just 'kind of love somebody', it's an all or nothing kind of thing!"
"Well, I have this friend…" Neela started. Lueur rolled her hand in front of her, gesturing for Neela to continue. "I like her a lot but I don't think that she feels the same way."
"Have you asked her?" Honey asked. Lueur came closer, nodding.
"Not yet…" Neela admitted looking away. Honey grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her.
"What are you waiting for?!" Honey exclaimed. "I have half a mind to send you back to them now to confess!"
"It's not that simple," Neela said as she began to walk away. Honey laughed as she chased after.
"What do you mean?! You just tell her, that's what I did with Lueur!" Honey said.
"It's different for the two of you, Honey," Neela told her. "Lueur wasn't with you for years. Eliana has been there for me through the good and bad, I could almost argue that Eliana is the real reason that I decided to become a Huntress. I'm selfish when it comes to her." Neela looked Honey dead in the eye. "I can't lose Elli."
"Let her do her thing Honey," Apophis told her. Honey nodded in understanding as she stretched.
"If I leave now, will I arrive in Shion by morning?" Neela asked. She was worried about her friends. She knew that they were safe with Coco, but she always stressed when she wasn't able to see Eliana.
"You would!" Honey interjected. "But I cannot recommend doing that seeing as it'll get dark before you get about halfway there and then you'll run into all kinds of Grimm! At least stay here until the morning and we can send you on your way!" Lueur popped up behind Honey and nodded vigorously
"I wish it was that simple but I might chance it. It's nothing against any of you, it's only the fact that I'm on a mission and…"
"But the mission is to help us!" Honey complained. She looked at the three of them and Apophis shrugged.
"She has a point," Apophis added. Neela's scroll rang and she nearly jumped out of her skin, dropping it as she pulled it out of her pocket before muttering curses under her breath, hoping it wasn't broken as she answered and held it to her ear.
"Elli?" Neela picked up.
"Thank Oum! Neela, where are you!?" Eliana asked.
"It's a long story, I take it you all must have gone into town, I wasn't able to get ahold of you or Coco earlier," Neela inquired.
"Of course! You just kind of disappeared, Neela!" Eliana exclaimed.
"Is that Neela?" Coco asked in the background.
"Yes!" Eliana exclaimed.
"Let me talk to her," Coco asked. Neela could hear the scroll being exchanged. "Neela, I'm sure that you have a great excuse for not picking up when I called you this morning, and that you have an even better excuse for disappearing, but you cannot begin to imagine how terrified I was that we wouldn't hear from you and I would have to explain to Blake that I lost you in the most dangerous of the four kingdoms!"
"When you called me this morning, my scroll wasn't in my possession," Neela explained.
"So then where was it, or more accurately, where are you?" Coco asked.
"From what they've told me, we're about a day to the east of Shion Village," Neela informed her. She heard Coco scrawling something down.
"Who are they and how did they get so far that fast?" Coco pried.
"Like I told Elli before, that's a long story, but they're the ones that sent out the distress signal asking for help," Neela told her. There was a long pause as Coco processed the information.
"I'm sorry, can you say that again?" Coco stumbled over the words as they came out. "Did you just say that you were kidnapped by the people we came to help?"
"Yes," Neela said. She glanced over at Honey who had walked away with Lueur, talking to her about something.
"Are you sure they aren't the bandits? They aren't exactly keen on Faunus," Coco said. Neela watched as Lueur licked Honey's cheek for some reason before vanishing through a portal.
"I am entirely certain," Neela answered.
"Is there any chance that you can get back here by dark?" Coco asked. Neela walked away from Apophis towards the tent and sighed.
"If I come back now it would be on my own, and it wouldn't be before it gets dark," Neela told her. "They seem terrified of the bandits, they wanted to take me with them as a bodyguard of sorts so that they could make it to Haven safely and get help from the military."
"It's not a bad idea on their part, but trust me when I say that it wouldn't be that simple," Coco told her. "Can you convince them to come back towards Shion with you tomorrow?" Neela rubbed her neck.
"I can try, anything that I need to know?" Neela asked her.
"Titus worked a little bit of Atlas tech magic and managed to tap the office of the mayor and I'll give you three guesses as to who the mayor is working with, but the first two don't count," Coco told her.
"The bandits," Neela said unsurprised.
"Apparently the figureheads of the group don't come around too often, so we more or less threatened the merchant of the stand that you and Eliana saw the man selling meat to into telling the mayor that he had been robbed by a couple of Faunus. Now I don't know exactly where he's coming from but I know that it's a few hours walk away and when he gets here to investigate, we're going to tail him. I'd like you, and the victims if they're so inclined, to join us in flushing them out and taking them down. Either way, you need to come back tomorrow. Understood?" Coco asked. "I'm glad you're okay, but we need to stick to the mission and you know that the best way to help them is by taking out these bandits."
"I know," Neela said. "I'll head out first thing in the morning." Neela hung up and turned around to see the three of them staring at her. "Guys, don't look at me that way. You can come with me tomorrow! We can go take care of the bandits tomorrow once and for all." Lueur's eyes became wide and she disappeared.
"We can't, Neela," Honey told her.
"Apophis?" Neela asked.
"I'm not a fighter, Neela," he reminded her.
"Do you really have to go?" Honey asked. Neela nodded.
"In the morning," she repeated. "I understand if you won't come with, I felt the same way once." Honey nodded trying to hold back tears.
"Yeah," Honey said.
It seems Honey, Lueur, and Apophis will stay behind as NITE takes on the bandits. Next week, Chapter 78 - The Camazotz!
Once again, a special thanks to SketchHungry for allowing us to use her OCs, Honey and Lueur!
A big thank you to Carlomontie, Nliast, Y8ay8a, Sa-Dui, Diyaru4500, Demize00Zero, TheCipherNine, SketchHungry, Ookaminoki, Lightning-in-my-Hand, and Dishwasher1910. All of their artwork can be found at Deviantart, you can search Silent-Celica and under my favorites tab, I have a collection for NITE.
Until next week, stay classy!