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POV BLAKE

"Yang, you need to listen to me. I know you don't want to hear this but it has to do with Ruby!" Yang spun angrily as she stopped her march through the pristine white halls of Beacon's hospital. Yang held up her cybernetic arm pointing her metal finger at me with a snarl across her face.

"Blake you're right I don't want to hear about her….I know I've changed since she died, just deal with it I don't plan on going back to the way things were. We have bigger problems, Weiss just got shot by some assassin and they almost killed me and you too. SO DROP IT!"

Yang turned back around angrily and resumed her march towards the ICU where Weiss currently was. Yang had ran straight to the hospital after I'd chased the shooter and broke down every door that stood in her way. The only reason that she wasn't with Weiss now was that the doctors had forced her away for her surgery. Now that Weiss was out nothing would stop Yang from getting to her side.

I quickly followed keeping pace with the severely pissed off blonde. Flame licked out from Yang's short hair making nurses and other staff jump out of her way in fear. "Yang we need to talk, I need to tell you something about the shooter."

Yang continued on her one-way path and slammed into a staff member to slow to get out of the way. Yang paid no mind to the man as if he was a bug that had smacked into an airship. Yang's path took her around a corner where team JNR was waiting. Ren, Nora, and Jaune all got up from their seats and stood worriedly as Yang headed towards the door next to them. Nora tried to speak but Ren settled his hand on to her shoulder and sat down with her.

Yang stopped right outside the door and grabbed the doors hand and slowly pulled the door open. The one thing Yang was always terrified of was hospitals, for her it was not a place where people got better but where people died. Yang had simply lost too much of her family and seeing another injured always upset her.

Jaune stepped up to Yang and settled his hand onto the handle right on top of Yang's. "You don't have to worry the Doctors said she will be fine thanks to you. Just go in there and wait for her to wake up. I know you'll be the first one she wants to see!" Yang didn't say anything as she stepped into the room closing the door behind her.

"Thank you Jaune, you're one of the few people she'll listen to." Jaune sighed as he sat down in his chair trying to find a comfortable position in the hard plastic of the chair. "Ya well, for now, it's all I'm good for."

I took the seat next to Jaune and placed my hand on his shoulder trying to console him. "It was your quick thinking that saved Weiss and Yang from the shooter's second shot remember that. By the way any news about how the Schnee company is taking their CEO being shot."

Jaune chuckled and sat up in his chair giving me one of his natural cheeky grins. "From what Ozpin has told me they're all freaking out. Luckily Ozpin got them calmed down enough not to storm the school and has placed the three of us as her guards. Once they learned three trained huntsman where guarding her things settled down."

I gave Jaune a small nod and I sat back in my chair placing Gambol Shroud into my lap. "Blake something is clearly on my mind and from the shouting, in the hallway, it sounds serious."

"That's because it is serious." Jaune sat forward and looked right at me forcing my eyes to lock with his. "Blake I know that whatever happened was pretty crazy but remember it's not safe to keep it in. I'm here so just tell me."

Jaune's eyes nor voice wavered as he spoke, whenever he became serious it was clear to everyone. "When I was chasing after the shooter I was so focused on catching them I completely missed things that I didn't realize till after she escaped." Jaune gave me a puzzled look before asking "She" confusingly.

"Ya, I'm getting to it. When I was chasing the shooter I was running as hard as I could and when I look back it was clear that she was hiding something. I ended up stopping her and when she turned to face me she seemed almost surprised, it almost looked like she was shocked. Not because I caught her but because she recognized me. "

"Ok maybe she was someone from the White Fang, I mean weren't you pretty high up in the ranks." I sighed, I always hated thinking about my time spent with...him. All the time I spent fighting for equal rights was part of my past and present but I never wanted to become something even close to resembling Adam in his fight for revenge. "No, I knew almost everyone during my time in the White Fang. After a second she started to attack me and I quickly retaliated. I thought during the fight she was an amateur fight since she seemed to hesitate during every attack. I ended up breaking her defense and I went to stab her but she pulled out a broken blade, even then I paid no attention to it. It finally became clear when I attacked her again. She used her semblance and in the blink of an eye she was on a launchpad and then after that gone."

"Ok so she had a speed semblance, they're not that uncommon." I looked down to my lap trying to hold back a tear as I reached into my pocket and pulled out the wilted rose petals.

"When she used her semblance she left something behind. I only know of one person who ever did that!" I held out the petals and Jaune seemed to freeze as he looked at them. "Ok so the shooter has a semblance similar to Ruby's but she's…"

"Dead I know, however after the fight I started thinking why wouldn't she use her semblance to just run away earlier or why she didn't use it against me sooner. Then there was the blade she'd pulled out I wished I paid more attention to it earlier but it was a broken tanto similar to the one she had. Then not to mention how she knew about the launchpad, it was only used during our initiation and the one three years earlier and after."

"Ok so the shooter has some similarities to Ruby but that doesn't mean it's her. We buried her next to her mother, you saw her die!" I started shaking my head as a few tears fell from my face. "No, I didn't, I saw the ceiling fall around her, she told to run and I did just that. The other thing is when we went back to look for her. Yang wouldn't believe she was dead until we found her. We went back and slowly dug through the tunnel. When we were there it was clear somebody else had also been digging. I just thought it was White Fang looking for survivors. The only thing we ever found was the remains of Crescent Rose, not Ruby. What if Someone got to her before us?"

Jaune looked at me stunned clearly trying to find a way to deny what I'd said. Ren and Nora just sat in silence trying to take all the information in. Finally, Jaune stood up looked at the door to Weiss's room. "Have you talked to Yang about it yet." I slowly shook my head telling him no. "Well, maybe you should?"

A sudden commotion came from Weiss's room seemingly from Yang gasping loudly. I shot up from my chair and burst into the room and found Yang holding a conscious Weiss in her grasp. "How the hell are you awake already." Weiss gave a groan as Yang let go of Weiss then wiped a tear from her face. "We Schnee's are too stubborn to stay down for long."

Yang and Jaune chuckled as Weiss lightly sat up in her bed. Yang grabbed her hand and smiled as a few more tears fell. "Doc said you'd make a full recovery and that you'd be all healed up in a week. Thankfully the bullet missed literally every vital point. Either the shooter is the worst assassin ever or luck was on your side." Weiss groaned as she moved her upper body before looking up at me."Blake what's wrong you look like you've seen a ghost."

I quickly looked to Jaune who gave me a nod. I turned my gaze to Yang and Weiss nervously shifting between the two. "I tried to tell you earlier Yang but you wouldn't listen but know that Weiss is awake I have something important to tell you."

POV SILVER

"Come on Cinder you need to calm down, you'll wake up Kita and Ari!" Cinder didn't let up as she continued to circle around me just as she had been since The girls had fallen asleep on my bed. Every few minutes one of them would stir as Cinder inspected me.

Cinder simply refused to believe that my face had been fixed even though she'd seen what Salem's magic could do first hand. "Cinder please just stop!' Cinder final stopped her parade around the room her short hair bouncing as she stopped "Sorry it's just Salem finally did what she promised to do!" I reached out grabbed Cinder's hand resting it on the newly repaired sling of my face."Salem might not be the best person but she saved my life. I have no memory of what happened to me but it doesn't matter as long as I have all of you."

"Sorry it's just seeing your face after so long is still surprising I almost forgot just how pretty you where." I sat down on the bed being careful not to disturb the sleeping girls as I slowly ran my fingers through Kita's blood red hair. "I almost can't believe it either. I hid behind that mask even when I didn't need to, but now I'm free."

Cinder sat down next to me and rested her hand on my shoulder and pulled me into a hug. A few seconds passed before Cinder released me leaning away from me on the bed and looked back at me and the two girls. "How about you get some sleep, tomorrow we can talk more about this!"

I gave Cinder a nod and watched her get up and cross the large room and lay down into her own bed on the opposite side. I turned away and crawled onto my own bed right between the little figures on it and rested my head on my pillow. Almost upon instinct Kita and Ari turned and squirmed up next to me placing their head in the nook of my arms as I laid on my back. I pulled each girl closer holding them in a relax but tight hold and slowly drifted off to sleep.

POV YANG

"Blake you can't be serious! You want me to believe the person who just tried to kill Weiss, me, Team JNR and even you was…"

"Ruby….I know you don't like it when we talk about her but you can't ignore the facts." Blake had completely taken a defensive stance against me as she stood next to the room's door. Weiss had refused to say anything after Blake had begun telling us about the attacker and her absurd idea.

"Blake you told me my sister died in those tunnels, we buried her right next to her….no MY MOTHER. Now you're trying to say she's alive….I just can't!" I didn't even fight the tears as they cascaded down my face. My father had done the same thing after Summer had died and it almost tore my family apart.

"Blake I know you and Ruby had...a thing but don't do this. My dad did the same thing and spent months trying to find Summer. All he ended up was finding the bottom of a bottle...so please."

"Yang I know it sounds ….impossible. But if what Blake says is true we have to look into it. I don't know why she would do this but if it was her then we at least need try." I looked awestruck at Weiss as she uncomfortably shifted her gaze to me and Blake. If I thought anybody would be on my side it would be Weiss. "Weiss, really you just got shot by the person Blake thinks is Ruby...Why?"

"Because I was there when we looked for her in the tunnels...what if Blake is right and somebody did get to her...would you abandon her?"

"Fine then...do what you want but where the hell are you gonna start, it's been three years." Weiss looked over to Blake and motioned to hand her the scroll in her hand. Blake gave it to her while Weiss started tapping away on the screen. "We need to call the one person we know can find anyone." Weiss tapped the screen one more time and held the scroll up to her ear and waited before a muffled voice came through. "Hello Winter can you please put Qrow on I need to talk to him"

POV Silver

No matter how much you want to sleep in you lose the ability once a child becomes involved. Kita had begun to stir a few minutes ago and her movements had pulled me from my slumber. I carefully propped myself up onto prosthetic and used my free and only real hand to delicately pull back Kita's hair and tuck it behind her ear. I looked down at the base of the bed and found Ari flopped out on her belly. I looked back to the small child next to me as Kita's eyes slowly opened displaying her own silver irises.

This was the sole reason why Salem had allowed the two twin girls to stay with me, for me it was all about getting them out of the hellhole they were in. Salem had sent me out on a mission for the White Fang to take out a gang who were known for hauling "precious" cargo. Once they were dead I would free the Faunus slaves and turned them over to the White Fang creating a batch of fresh recruits with a hatred for humans.

Emerald and Mercury dropped me off just outside of Vacuous eastern walls just as the sun began to set. Beads of sweat formed on my brow as I ran across the roof of the city's ghetto as the setting sun beat down on me. Moving quickly as I could I headed towards the ghetto's northeast end where the gang was hiding out. By the time I made it to the location the sun had dipped below the horizon leaving just a dim glow of light as night set in.

I waited a few streets away from the building using my rifle to investigate the place. It was a good-sized building probably once being a machine shop. As I looked through the scope of my rifle I found the entire building void of life. There were no lights on, no people, no anything but silence.

I looked down at the watch on my wrist and silently sighed, my time was up and I needed to move now. I slowly got up and got up and walked to the back of the roof and quickly dropped into a runner's position. Crouching down I activated my semblance and let it build up till I was about ready to burst. I shot forward and launched myself off the roof and sent myself flying towards the building. Just as I reached the height of my flight I collapsed into a bundle of wilted rose petals and slowly drifted down to the building entrance and slid inside.

The smell of death instantly filled my nose as I reformed inside the building, other than the smell the first thing I noticed was the floors. There was blood everywhere, the floor had gotten the worst of it but even the ceiling had splotches of blood splatter. I quickly unsheathed my sword and poured some of my aura into it activating the runic inscription. The blade started to glow giving me a light source as I walked through the building.

It wasn't long till I came across the first body, I quickly knelt down and turned over the body and jumped back in surprise. The man or what was left of him had his face cleanly ripped off and his skull crushed. I quickly stepped past the body and continued along passing more bodies and their weapons. Clearly, something had attacked them and won.

I spent the next few minutes on the main floor till I found my way to the back of the room where a set of dust infused steel doors sat on their hinges with claw marks cut through them. I ran my hand over the destroyed metal feeling the pattern of the claws. The only thing that could make this was the one thing that didn't belong in a city. Grimm!

I tightened my grip on my sword and stepped down the stairs trying to fight the stench that flowed from the basement. When I reached the steps I ran my hands up the wall finding a light switch and flicked it. Dim lights turned on illuminating the large space exposing a sight worse than the one upstairs.

Along the walls were ten cages each packed with the bodies of at least twenty Faunus spanning all age groups. The cages had been opened by the same thing that had torn apart the steel door. The worst part was the bodies conditions, all of them were covered in dirt and grime from the cages not to mention their own feces. The bodies had been ripped apart having their limbs and organs carved out. The Grimm that had done this clearly knew what it was doing.

As I checked each cage I came up with the same result, all dead. By the time I made it to the end of the room all that was left was a door at the end. I held my sword up ready to strike as I placed my hand on the doors handle. With a quick motion, I threw the door open and stepped into the room.

The room was different than the other but had the same feeling of darkness. Inside the room was a small furnace in the corner and a metal chair bolted to the ground with restraints attached to the legs and arms of the chair. Next to the chair was a cart holding an assortment of knives, drills and other torture devices each coated in blood. The final thing in the room was a large storage cabinet in the corner of the room probably holding more torture tools.

I pulled out my scroll and quickly pulled up Emerald ready to call her and tell her the mission was a bust, however, a light metal clang came from inside the cabinet. I tightened the grip on my sword and stepped forward towards it. Once I was close enough I grabbed the door handle and ripped the cabinet open. A small object lunged out of the cabinet forcing me to sidestep out of the way. I twirled around and found myself looking at a small child holding a knife in her hands. Her silver eyes were filled with fear and tears as she stabbed at me once again. I quickly grabbed the small child's hand and pulled the knife from her hands and threw it away from her.

The girl's eyes grew wide as I grabbed her shoulders holding her in place. "Hey you're ok, you're safe." I pulled the girl into a hug holding tightly as she struggled against me. She kept fighting for a little bit longer but quickly fatigued and relented to my hold. Once she was done I released the terrified girl and looked at he taking in what she looked like for the first time. The girl was young no older than four or five with red hair and a pair of black cat ears perched on the top of her head. She was covered in dirt from head to toe and excrement. As I studied her it became clear she had been here for quite some time as she was severely malnourished as her clothes hung off her body.

I finally stopped my study of the girl and looked her in the eyes and tried to speak to her in the calmest voice I could muster. "Hey you're, I know you're scared but I'm not here to hurt you. My name is Silver what's yours?" The small girl relaxed in my hands even more and the fear-filled look in her eyes eased a little as she spoke in a soft frail voice. "My name is Ari."

"That's pretty name Ari I like it a lot now can you tell me why you were hiding in that locker." Kita's eyes grew fearful again as tears started to form in the corner of her eyes. "It was the monsters!" I quickly stood up still holding onto Arias I picked up Nox Atra. I looked back down to the girl who was clinging to me for dear life. I had a few a options I could leave her here for the police to find if they ever did or I could take her with me. I looked back down at her and instantly made my choice. Hopefully, Salem wouldn't be to upset.

"Ari how would you like to come with me I can take you somewhere safe!" Ari looked up at me as if I'd just offered her a million dollars, "what about my sister Kita?" I gave Ari a confused look as the girl walk back over to the cabinet and pulled open the other door. Inside was a girl almost identical to Ari but slightly smaller and more malnourished.

I rushed forwards and picked up the small girl and tested her pulse finding it to be weak. "Ok then, let's get out of here as quickly as possible. Stay close and you'll be fine." I grabbed Kita and held her up with one arm and began making my way back through the warehouse.

As I approached the area I had entered through a loud noise echoed from the far side of the warehouse from the area I had not checked. My mind went into overload I as I held my sword up trying to guess what had caused that noise. If what Ari had said was true and from all the others signs left behind that meant there was only one thing that could have made that noise. My deduction became true as a large black bipedal shape entered the very hallway I was standing in.

My heart skipped a beat as I looked at the Grimm standing twenty feet away from me. The fools had not captured any Grimm but had caught an Alpha. The Beowolf stood twice as tall as any of its underlings and was covered in bone white armor. The Beowolf's red eyes fell upon me as it loud out a terrifying howl and charged. I quickly dodged left still holding Kita in my arms as the Grimm barreled past me. I activated my semblance and ran straight to the door and kicked it open. I quickly handed Kita to her sister and pushed them through the door as the Alpha slammed into me with one of its claws draining my aura to halfway with one hit.

I rolled to the right as the Grimm swung towards where I'd been laying attempting to splatter me on the ground. I stood up and sped forward with my semblance and slashed Nox Atra across the back of Its legs slicing the tendons and muscle to ribbons.

The alpha roared in pain as it fell to the ground from the attack. It tried to stand up but fell down again unable to support its weight on its leg. I stepped towards the crippled Grimm and stopped right in front of it. The Alpha swung its claw at me but with one swift movement, I cut it's arm off at the elbow. Before it could roar in pain I pushed my blade right through its eye and out the back of its skull ending it.

I walked past the quickly disappearing Grimm and walked out the door to where I'd thrown the twins and found Ari holding her sister as she cried. I quickly sheathed my sword and dropped down picking up the two girls and began trying to comfort her. "Hey it's ok the monster is gone, there's no need to cry." Ari clung to me tightly as she cried into my shoulder. I stood up and pulled out my scroll and quickly sent Emerald a message saying I was heading back. Ari had finally begun to calm down and had fallen asleep in my arms as I began my trek back to the bullhead.

Once I had arrived I quickly stepped into the bullhead where Emerald and Mercury were waiting. "Silver did you complete the job." Emerald turned to face me and grew wide-eyed at the sight of the child in my arms. "No, I didn't they were already dead!" This time it was Mercury who spoke up as Emerald was still in shock. "What do you mean dead and why are their two little brats in your arms."

I pulled a dagger from my belt and held it up to Mercury's throat drawing a small amount of blood. "When I got their all I found were bodies torn apart after those dumbasses tried to cage an Alpha. "These "BRATS" are the only survivors and are now under my protection so NEVER SPEAK ABOUT THEM LIKE THAT AGAIN." Mercury didn't say anything after I finished my threat choosing to stay quite alongside Emerald.

After the bullhead had landed back at Salem's castle Emerald finally spoke saying something about Salem wanting to see me. I gave no response but picked up the girls up and made my way towards the throne room. I stopped just as I entered the large room still holding the sleeping forms.

Salem stood up from her throne and walked towards me stopping just a few feet away. "So what emerald said was true you brought back a pet with you." I gripped The girl's tighter to my body causing Ari to stir in my arms. "They are not pets, they need a family and I intend to be just that from now on." Salem angered at the tone of my voice and stepped towards me fueled with anger but stopped as Ari's eyes fluttered open revealing two silver orbs. All the anger Salem had vanished as she looked at me. "I see it shall be permitted but keep them out of my way, Now leave."

A knock on my door pulled me out of my memories as I stood up and opened it revealing Mercury. "Salem has another mission for you, Cinder will be your partner for this and will give you all the details." Without another second Mercury left without any other word. I closed the door and walked back to the bed where Kita and Ari sat awake. "Mommy, are you leaving again?"

"Yes me and Aunt Cinder have another mission!" I sat down on the bed and let the girls crawl into my lap. Instinctively I began to scratch behind each of their cat ears eliciting a purr from both. Kit, Ari and I stayed like that for some time until Cinder walked into the room dressed in her combat attire. "Hello, Cinder how are you!"

"Good, I take it you have been informed about the mission." I gave her a quick nod as I picked Kita and Ari up and walked with them over to the small kitchen and placed them each on a chair before I began to pour a bowl of cereal for the three of us. "Mercury told me we had a mission and that you would give me the details." Cinder walked into the kitchen and sat down next to me pulling up a file on her scroll. I quickly began to scroll over the mission and paused looking up at Cinder.

"Our next mission is to kill Beacons highest rank team." Cinder nodded as I looked down at the pictures of the trio in the photo making something ping in the back of my head. "Looks like team JNR is our next target!"