Amber Luna
A month.
A long month
A very long month
A whole fucking month spent zipping across the face of remnant. From Atlas to Vale ,Mistral, and then Vacou. We just become the babes of the tabloids, but we also were flying the flag of the SDC. We were keeping up the promise that we gave to Ruby that we would do our best to make life easier for Weiss and the face of her father. We would do what we could short of selling our souls for the company store
It made little sense. For last month we might as well be retired
We're go-getters and thrill-seekers. We are not the sort to seek rest and relaxation. The life of leisure was never ours. Never would be ours thus we the life of a huntress , live by the Grimm die by the Grimm. Flittering around from city to city, just to see and be seen. The celebrity shuffle to be out and about worrying more about what others are doing-that's not us. We are in the Grimm war for dust's sake. Killing Grimm and making the world safe for everyone. We had fought a real war child soldiers every one of us
But here we are travelling in the very lap of luxury. And boy do I mean luxury.
My new sister-in-law is a Schnee in fact the Schnee and thus the Heiress of the Schnee family holdings. Yes that's right family holdings most people think it's these are just the SDC but fact of the matter is that the family Corporation has its hands in about 85 different companies either wholly or partially owned.
Despite this, she's taken nothing from her father in three years. Not since the Vytal festival, our first year at Beacon. Weiss decided to show her independent side the first cut off her monthly allowance she decided to get proactive yes that's the word and using what she had in her bank account she actually leveraged buyout of one of her father's company and an associated company both making dust infused ammunition
That's not to say she doesn't have money. The woman could open a full combat school, stock it , staff it, and give scholarships to all the students. And even then, she'd have enough lien leftover to bury a dragon to death.
So here we are, in the belly of the beast. Well not beast exactly but a very fancy smancy airship.
The legendary Schnee Airship!
No, not a bull-head, not a mere clipper, but an amazing airship and Oh dust, what a airship!
This thing can seat at least twenty, it's got eight staterooms that were more like personal suites, containing queen bed and an en-suite bathroom with a shower.
There was a fully stocked galley kitchen,
The dining room What's complete including a large table that would seat twenty, included were tablecloths golden silverware and doilies
And at the end of the ship is conference room that seats twelve. The massive windows made the room look even larger. I wouldn't want to have to conduct business in a room that big. Who even needed to have meeting while on vacation? Well apparently the Schnee's do .
Their airship even came with its' own pilots and crew to boot
Dust, the damn thing is huge!
And so quiet too, I couldn't hear the thrum of the engines when I was inspecting the place.
The whole ship was plastered with the Schnee Family logo. From the hull to the little lace doilies; from the tiles and even the sheets. Inside and out it's all dolled up, as if anyone could forget who's expensive airship it was. Damn thing had its own name, The Auniq Blizzard, as if there was not enough references to ice and snow.
So, it appears Papa Schnee knows and hopefully kind of approves of the Four Roses. He lent us this thing, his airship for the month of our honeymoon.
It seemed so sweet, and it was lovely gesture or perhaps it was just his way of keeping an eye on his daughter or daughters to be exact..
The pilot announced the two-minute warning. The stewards set everything in order as we prepared to land. We meet in the hangar and the bay doors opened on to the greenest forest we had ever seen. Pictures of fairytale woods didn't do the place justice.
We had come to Menagerie.
The airport was a dinky postage stamp, and compared to the ship we'd just disembarked very outdated. Heck it was old compared to the tarmac old with cracked grass reaching up trying to reclaim the land. Still, this was our target.
On the asphalt were four trucks with several hunters standing around. The four of us descended the ramp and waved off the airship. Before lifting several bags of what that were marked REP were dropped off. The ground crew were also erecting a mini-CCT.
Yep.
Stupid us, are on a hunt.
A grimm hunt.
And on our honeymoon too boot
This at the suggestion of our illustrious team leader Ruby.
God I love my sister
Ruby, our team leader, she had rooked Team JNPR to join us on this hunt. 'How?' you ask?. Well at the end of the war team Juniper felt it owed Ruby the world she figured out exactly what happened on the top the beacon Tower, and Jaune would owe her forever
Well, to answer that, all I have to say is, Ruby can't ski.
Dust-fuck it!
We went to Atlas, home of Weiss.
I've come to love my sister-in-law. So, we went there first on our month-long honeymoon. Ruby was excited as a new puppy, bouncing from seat to seat, only stopping because Weiss captured her with a wrist lock and And liplocked her into submission.
She had suggested going to one of the best winter resorts high in the mountains. Apparently it had skiing winter sports glaciers spas saunas and all the amenities we could ever want. Not to mention the most exquisite food.
It was called The Atlas Shrug.
Turns out Weiss was well-known at The Shrug.
And isn't that just the most hilarious name? I tried not to laugh at that and failed. The mountain, the name, the pun
After a great night's sleep. we went to get our ski gear. Weiss however, had beat us to it. Since she had our measurements, she already had our gear. It was even color coded to boot.
A flair for the dramatic, that one.
Along the shop walls there were pictures of skiing champions and old plaques. Among them, stars above was a picture of a very young Weiss. She was perhaps 9 years old, holding a pair of skis in front of a triple black diamond sign. On her face, there was a smile. An honest to goodness true smile.
Until the wedding, I had never seen such a smile on her face.
The second picture was another one of Weiss. This time, in motion. She was draped in a white and powder blue ski suit. Her hair had been tied up and it streamed behind her like a flag. She looked like she was flying down the course.
Perhaps that was one thing that attracted her to Ruby. Besides that passion, it was her need for speed.
Yeah ,she had fast planes, fast boats and fast cars.
Now, she had the fastest woman in Remnant.
She was a freaking pro.
As none of the rest of us had any experience skiing, Weiss arranged for us to have instructors. Blake and I were doing fine, we got the basics in about an hour.
All Ruby gained was a snow filled suit and a whole manner of bruises.
Weiss tried to help after that. She took over trying to teach Ruby.
We moved up to the next slopes only to discover Weiss's voice could cover a quarter of the mountainside.
Then it happened... a rooster-tail of snow.
Blake looked like she had been side swiped by a snow plow.
I popped up my semblance and 'poof' no snow, only soft steam drifting away .
Looking back uphill, multiple S curves could be seen crisscrossed the slope. The plume was heading down-hill, spraying snow in all directions. It was heading in the direction of the Whiterose . Poor Weiss holding Ruby's hand as she fell again for the twentieth time. "She has an issue with keeping both skis in tandem", that is what the instructor said before abandoning them. The source of the spray was heading their way kicking up curtains of white..
Blake and I decided to go see if we could help. With our newly acquired skills and our boundless hunter's courage we managed to get to there pretty quick. Still all we found were our sisters laughing and brushing the snow off themselves.
Standing beside them was a young man, not on skis but on a longboard.
Bundled in cold winter gear he bowed with noble elegance to Weiss and Ruby while apologizing for covering them in snow.
He drew off his helmet to introduce himself.
"Greetings I am Titian Bay and no need, you are Weiss Schnee and you are the infamous Ruby Rose huntresses extraordinaire and heroines of Remnant."
" and skiing disabled," Ruby mumbled casting a smile upon the new man.
Recovering from his deep bow he turned her way.
"May I ask what brings two of the most esteemed young women to Shrug?"
"We are celebrating our joint wedding " holding out her hand showing her ring.
"Joint wedding? You,Weiss, have gotten married?" Grasping hand to his heart he threw back his head.
"The millions of shattering hearts must have sounded like the Crystal Palace coming to its demise."
"Yes, my sister and her fiance got married at the same time. about a month ago. I take it you heard about it."
"Oh I'm afraid not. I have been away for a bit."
"Oh, where may I ask ?"
A nudge in the ribs is all the answer Ruby got.
Her wife was looking her way, the Ice-stare, was almost as powerful as the Puppy-Pout. Recognizing that line of questioning best left for later Ruby asked turned her attention to the man's board and what it was like to ride it.
It's easier that you think. Would you like to learn ? "
Well, wild cookies could not have been any stronger pull and by midday Ruby was headed down her first double black diamond slope. Titian Bay had done what no other instructor could have. Once on the snowboard, Ruby was an unstoppable demon, clocking speeds over one hundred mph, without her semblance, nearly twice that when she pushed. She could twist, turn jump and shred with the best of them.
Ruby was making a name for herself and loving every minute of it
As the sun was setting, they were finally heading inside the cabin that they had rented. It was called the Weiss Lodge named back when Weiss was a ski champion many years ago
The quartet settled in, talking about the events of the day. "So you're a card carrying board member now."
"Yang, stop it."
" Not a chance snow woman. Now we know where the snowflake falls. It falls for skis."
"Ya-ng "
" Sorry to get you down-slope "
"I will not be shushed "
seeing the WBY members sitting at the firepit sharing hot beverages.
The Princess coffee, the Shadow tea and the Firecracker mulled cider waiting for the reaper was a mug of hot chocolate.
"So is Ruby done flirting for the day?"
Ruby's eyes grew as big as saucers.
"B-Bu-but I-I- I did no such thing " she stammered.
"Really he was kind of cute" Ruby's wife put in sipping her drink. " I could understand it happening ."
The somber looks were coating the faces of the team for all of two minutes I folding first then Blake snorts, then giggles and finally her angel collapsed in grins and smiles and giggles and laughs "
"Yang you need to stop this serial punishment. Look what you did to Ruby,"
" but she drinks milk "
twas a good thing it was a private chalet Ruby's color went brick red.
Stomping her feet she tried to stare a hole in each of us , only to look more cute by the second we could see her shimmer as red rose petals started to shed, piling at her feet.
So here we are standing on the tarmac, there were four trucks parked with several hunters standing around. The four of us exit and waved off the airship. Yes, stupid us... are on a hunt. A grimm hunt. Ruby, our team leader,had rooked Team JNPR to join us into this hunt as well as Teams CFVY and CRDL
There he was, The guy that wrangled Ruby into this hunt.
It was easier to look him over. Titian Bay was tall smooth, not bad on the eye. And he was a freaking faunus ! A dall sheep to be honest.
He is introducing the hunters to someone in front a large well used four by four. A tall, muscular man with black hair, a beard and yellow eyes next to him a woman looking barely half his size her feline ears very familiar had three studs, two in her right ear and one in her left
Ruby was the first to stare something so familiar about her something she was trying to palace so very similar to someone .
"And finally this is Team RWBY lead by Ruby Rose , her wife Weiss Rose , her sister Yang Rose and her wife Blake Rose. may I present Chieftain of Menagerie, Ghira and his wife and mate Kali Belladonna."
Three of the Roses turned on the fourth Rose who was doing her best not to run. Her head was down as she toed the grass.
Her only reply " Hi dad "
Kali rushes forward enveloping Blake in her arms cooing at the young woman.
"Blake my baby girl where have you been "
"Mom things have changed ….."
A rough gruff voice cut through in a near bellow.
" Blake Belladonna what is this, why are you being introduced to me as a Rose , why do all of you have the same last name and human one no less "
" Dad please."
" Please nothing. You were brought up better that that. What happened to that nice Sun boy ?"
" Dad you never really liked him very much ."
"but he was at least a faunus "
Stepping forward our Reaper spoke, twirling her fingers around each other.
" Lord Belladonna?"
"Please just Ghira "
"Ghira, I'm the reason for the circumstances of our names, just before graduation Weiss and I were talking about getting married, young as we are we have dated for three years and we both served during the war, so as the saying goes through thick and thin. Yang and Blake nearly as long
So we decided, as young people do we decided to have a challenge. The stakes were to take the winners last name for a period of one year.
" and I take it you won Mrs. Rose" after all of us looked up thinking this could get old fast
" please it is Ruby, Ghira and the answer is yes . "
" good "walking over to Blake he enveloped her in a tight hug
Now holding her at arms length, he cuffed her on the back of the head
"about time you lost "
"Dad ! "
