[X] Two's sister Five, and a bit more about what happened a month or so back, at this point.
"I was just wondering." Yang shrugged. "We never got the chance to talk about Mountain Glenn much, did we?"
"I suppose we didn't." Two mused, as she took a scoop out of one tub of ice cream and put it in a tub. "I mean, I asked if you and your sister and dad and bird uncle were okay, but beyond that not much."
Two paused, as she looked at the cones in front of her.
"What flavour did you want?" She asked.
"Chocolate." Yang replied.
"Don't have any." Two said sadly. "Just vanilla and strawberry."
"...I'm going to murder Neo." Yang muttered.
Two blinked. "Huh?"
"I said 'Vanilla please.'" Yang corrected herself. Two nodded, and opened the other tub of ice cream in front of her to get Yang's scoop.
"So, what ended up happening to Five anyway?" Yang asked. "Your sister, One, came in and took her off to Atlas. Did she..."
"I haven't really heard too much about what happened to Five either." Two admitted. "One says she's sorting everything out, though, and I trust her."
Yang paused, and breathed. She knew from experience that Two idolised One. Pushing that would get her nowhere. Even if she wanted to know what was currently happening to Five...
"Well, can we talk a bit about what happened before, then." Yang said. "I didn't really stick around for long after Five turned up, and... Well, I hear you and Five kinda broke the ruins?"
Two pouted. "I didn't break them. They were broken when I got there."
"Not what I meant." Yang said. "Apparently you did something big, though. Your Semblance was summoning or something?"
Two passed Yang a vanilla ice cream cone. "Oh, you mean the Egregori? Nah, that's not a Semblance thing, that's a Song thing."
Yang frowned, then licked her ice cream. "I thought the song was your Semblance."
Shaking her head, Two pulled away from her chocolate ice cream. "Huh? Oh, no, my song's not my Semblance. All us Intoners can use Song stuff."
"It's not a family Semblance? I thought you were like the Schnee."
"I never explained what an Intoner was properly, did I?" Two mused, before taking a bite of her ice cream. "It's a... Uh, Three had a full explanation its hard to remember it all..."
"I'm confused." Yang admitted. "Could you freeze explain?"
"It's pronounced 'Please'." Two corrected absentmindedly, while trying to think.
"...Pun." Yang clarified.
"Ah! Sorry." Two bowed her head. "I'm not good at identifying puns unless they're also innuendo coming from Cent because that's like most of what he says I think."
Yang sighed. "I have so much to teach you..."
Two nodded. "Anyway, uh... Ask One about it later, but basically? We Intoners, it's not like a family name or anything. It's like... You know how people are people and then there's Humans and Faunus? And then Faunus is always written with capital letters for some reason but sometimes humans is written all lowercase and sometimes humans refers to humans and Faunus at the same time or something?"
"I think Faunus are a subspecies of human, was the scientific explanation." Yang tried. "Like bears. You have the Ursus Arctos Horribilis and the Ursus Arctos Gyas, but both are bears. We have Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens Faunus, or something like that?"
Two nodded. "Oh, that's interesting. But why..."
She trailed off.
"Getting distracted." She said. "I'll have to buy a book later. Uh, anyway, Intoners are kinda like that. Not human."
"You look human." Yang frowned. "What do you mean? Do you have two hearts or something."
"Nah, more soul stuff." Two replied. "And, uh, unkillable."
"Say wha?"
Two breathed. "It's... I dunno, hard to explain? Three tested on herself, when an Intoner gets hurt they heal easily. Self inflicted stuff not much, so she thinks its only Intoners who can hurt Intoners."
Yang tried to wrap her head around what Two was saying. "And, this makes you unkillable somehow?"
"I mean, the knife in her heart from the guy who tried to stab her kinda gave it away..."
"I... Need to sit down." Yang said, moving to the table.
What was all this, then? Two wasn't human? Five wasn't human? Intoners can shrug off being stabbed in the heart?
...If Two wasn't there, would anyone have ever been able to beat Five?
"Well, I mean, it's not that good." Two continued. "She survived, but she was unconscious for like a week and couldn't move much for a month. Or something. She had a theory she was testing but I didn't understand it."
Yang felt dizzy. "I, uh..."
"You can test, if you want." Two said. "There's a knife here somewhere."
Yang blinked. "What? Oh, no, no, it's fine. I just... It's hard to believe, you know?"
"I know!" Two exclaimed. "We're so awesome! Anyway, I think the way Three put it was that we all have a connection to the Song, and then we all do a filter thingy that makes it One's song or Two's song and so on. And then we use it to make barriers and get stronger and summon our Angels."
"I feel like we started on the Angels." Yang noted. "But then I must've fallen from heaven or something because I'm not sure whats going on."
"What else was there..." Two mused. "Oh, there was the growing thing. Three's hair is always growing, Four's nails never stop, and Five's a cheating cheater who thinks she's so mature and brags about her growing trait which I won't talk about around you innocent minor ears."
"I think I can guess." Yang noted.
"No you can't!" Two insisted. "Otherwise I'd been irresponsible."
"...I mean, oh no, I wonder what it could be." Yang deadpanned.
Two nodded. "Okay. Good. Anyway, my growing thingy is my muscles. It's why I keep breaking things. I finally get close to managing it and suddenly I'm a million times stronger and Cent needs my song to heal his ribs."
She ate some more of her ice cream, as Yang nodded.
"I see..." She mused. "That's a lot to take in..."
Two nodded. "I'll ask Three to send you the essay. Wait, no, One, Three'll fall asleep."
"Wait." Yang sat up. "If the song thing isn't your semblance, then does that mean you and your sisters could have another trick up your sleeves?"
Two blinked. "...Do I have a Semblance? I should ask One. She'll know."
"So the song is just magic, then?" Yang asked, as Two got distracted again. "Also, your ice cream is melting."
In a sudden panic, Two shoved the entire cone and scoop in her mouth and swallowed without chewing.
"Don't choke." Yang advised, as Two put a hand to her throat.
"...I'm good." She decided. "Anyway, I think this is the thing where I talk and people get distracted and we're suddenly rambling about something completely different. Weren't we talking about Mountain Glenn?"
"...Were we?" Yang asked. "You kinda dropped some bombshells there. Figure of speech. I lost track somewhere around the time you said your sister survived being stabbed in the heart."
"Okay, Mountain Glenn." Two said. "You ran off to find your sister and bird uncle, and I fought Five. Won. Then her Disciple arrived after... I think it was your sister who you said fought him off? Yeah, he arrived and they did the thing to summon their angel, Phanuel. So I summoned my two Egregori and they beat up her crab monster and most of the city ruins are gone now."
"I'm very confused." Yang admitted. "But, anyway, I was wondering. You had to fight your sister. How are you dealing with that?"
"I..."
Two trailed off.
"...I feel like I failed her." Two admitted. "I still don't know why she took Ruby and I should have been there to stop her before then. But I can't just sit around and think about what ifs, can I? I have to just work better to make sure I look after my sisters better in the future, don't I?"
She took a moment to think. "And the orphans. I need to look after them. And Cent. And I can't just look after my little sisters, we still have no idea where Zero is so I need to look for her. And... I'd be sad if something happened to you too, Yang."
"...Thanks." Yang said. "But, well, don't worry about me. I'll be fine."
"Are you sure?" The blue haired woman asked.
"Yeah." Yang replied. "I need to look after Ruby. How am I supposed to have her rely on me if I can't even rely on me? If I'm not strong enough to stand by myself, then I'm letting her down."
Two made a sad face. "Yang, I'm sure she won't mind if you had to rely on people. She'd still care for you even if-"
"No." Yang insisted. "Even if Ruby'd be fine, I wouldn't be. I... Just need to be strong enough for her."
Two sighed, reached over, and patted Yang on the back.
"I understand." She said. "I'd feel bad if I let someone down too. Just... You've seemed kinda sad ever since you got here. And you don't seem to be healing properly either. There's scars on your leg and your Aura's been at, like, half ever since you came in. If you're too on edge to relax and recover properly..."
"Thanks for your concern." Yang noted. "But I'm fine."
"If you say so." Two chirped.
Yang enjoyed her ice cream for a moment, before Two spoke up.
"Hey." The Intoner started. "Can I ask a favour?"
"Hm?"
"Well, I'll be leaving soon." Two said. "And I know Ren and Nora are staying to try to get into Beacon next year. They've been helping a bunch around here from time to time, but they don't really know anyone around here. Do you mind being someone they can talk to? Like, they haven't popped in recently because they've been working a job somewhere, but last time they were here Ren noted that he's been focusing on stuff so hasn't been able to relax properly."
"You want me to show them around a bit?" Yang asked.
"Just be a friend." Two asked. "Like, they might need one. Ren acts quiet and Nora acts chirpy but I think they're hurting a bit from what happened before they got to Vale, and they're working so hard just making ends meet and working on getting ready to try the Beacon entry exams."
"I'll try." Yang promised. "Do you know where they live? I'll drop by sometime, maybe take them out for pizza, maybe spar with them if they need help training for the combat exam?"
"Thanks, Yang." Two said. "You're a nice person. I don't want to bother you, but if you have any free time to do this stuff, just... People need people to help each other more, you know?"
"Yeah." Yang nodded, as she finished her ice cream and checked her time on her scroll. "Huh. I should probably be getting home soon."
"Already?" Two asked. "...Though you did come over kinda late, yeah. I wanted to watch the news soon too, 'cause Four wanted me to see if there's anything going on that might be White Fang related. She thinks its suspicious that they've been quiet."
She suddenly clicked a finger and pointed at Yang.
"Hey! She might come over some time. She's been trying to bring the group down, she said, so if there's a bunch hiding near Vale she'll pop by to fight them. I'll tell her to talk to you if she comes over, just to say hi. You might like her. She works hard too, always trying to be better, pushing herself to be better. You'll like her."
"I like how, in one sentence, you went from 'You might like her' to 'You will like her.'"
"Well, I corrected myself." Two said defensively. "I should've been clear from the start, the two of you are good people, you'll really like each other."
"Duly noted." Yang replied. "I look Fourward to it."
Two paused. "You did the thing. Your voice changed tone for the pronunciation of the first syllabal of forw- Ooh."
She started giggling. "Fourward. Ha. That's great."
"At least someone appreciates my talents." Yang said, with a grin. "Right then. See ya, Two!"
"Bye!" The blue haired woman waved goodbye, as Yang left.
And another two weeks pass. Yang keeps working. School has an assignment which she works on in a study group, she keeps up her training, she keeps interacting with people and...
[X] Qrow decides to show her some more of the forest dream vision stuff. It continues making no sense, though...
[X] While keeping her promise to Two, Yang spent a day with Ren and Nora, complete with going out for pizza.
[X] She interacted a bit with a study group at school. Blast, Piran, and then a few students she hadn't interacted with much.
