Chapter 6

BEACON

Yang and Ruby were heading back to their dorm after a nice meal in the cafeteria. Yang stretched as Ruby opened the door and the both plopped down on their beds. Ruby yawned enthusiastically and immediately started snoring, and Yang pulled out her scroll to a new message. "Blake and I went to the library to study. Be home later. ~ Weiss" It read. Yang yawned as well. She woke up a few minutes later, or so she thought, without even realizing she fell asleep. She looked at the clock. "Jesus! It's 11?! I need to call Uncle Cieryl!" She pulled out her scroll and dialed his number.

Beep beep beep No answer. She tried again. Beep beep beep Nothing. "Hmm. Maybe hes asleep." she sent him a message. "Just checking in, all good her, Unc! ~ Yang"
and fell back to sleep.

UNKNOWN

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick Cieryl woke with a start, and attempted to sit up. A choice he immediately regretted, as he seemed to have a long piece of shrapnel sticking through his arm, as well as a huge portion of the main engine pinning his legs and abdomen to the ground. He coughed. "Hello?" he croaked out, looking around. He saw the pilot sitting against a tree with one of the turbine blades sticking out of his face plate. He saw his scroll a few feet away, but there was no way to reach it. He reached for Tempus in hopes of using that to reach it. He then noticed that Tempus was under him. "Shit." He said, laying back. "I hope they find me soon..."

BEACON

Yang woke up, got dressed, and checked her scroll. Her message had sent, but hadn't been read yet. She looked at the clock. 1 PM, he should have already woken up and seen it.
A pool of dread filled her stomach, and she shook Ruby awake. "Cookies... mmmmm..." She mumbled in her sleep. Yang flicked her nose and she jumped.

"WAZZGOINGON?" she yelled sleepily.

"Ruby, check your scroll. See if you have anything from Cieryl. He asked me to check in, but he still hasn't seen my messages." Yang replied

"Nope, nothing." Ruby told her.

"That's not good..."

A knock at the door made them both jump. "Come in!" They both chimed, hoping it was their "Uncle"

Qrow opened the door, looking grim. Wrong Uncle Yang thought.

"Girls, we have a problem. The airship your Uncle left in last night never came back. I'm going to find him." He explained.

"We're coming too, Uncle Qrow." Ruby said, grabbing Crescent Rose. Yang was next to her, arming and reloadingher Ember Celicas.

"Let's go" Qrow said, running out the door with the girls following him. "We tracked the last known location of his airship before it crashed so we are heading there now." He said, helping them board another ship.

UNKNOWN

There was rustling behind him, and whispers. "So... here we find the so called... 'Immortal Man'..." A voice said. He tilted his head backwards to see Torchwick, the pink and brown haired girl, and a woman with glowing eyes in a red dress. She, however, was wearing a mask. "Torchwick, finish him off... I didn't sneak you out of custody for nothing." Torchwick raised the barrel of his cane to Cieryl's face.

Cieryl glared. "Remember what I told you, kid." he spat

Torchwick's face changed, and his hand began to tremble. He looked at the woman. "Should we really do this? We don't know what he's capable of. He could potenti-uck..." The woman stabbed him in the throat.

"I told you, when I broke you out of prison. No more hesitation. I never needed you anyway. I just needed someone to control White Fang" she sneered.
Cieryl looked up at the pink haired girl and saw her face. She was mortified as she watched Torchwick die. Her face then changed to an expression of rage. The other woman raised the gun to Cieryl's head, and pulled the trigger. He flinched, but no pain came. In fact, nothing changed. He looked up to see the pink haired girl covering him with her umbrella, he face covered in tears. She pulled a blade from the handle of her umbrella, but the other woman had already disappeared. She kneeled before Torchwick's body, and caressed his hair,
and continued to sob silently. She set him down, and turned to Cieryl. "I loved him, and she murdered him." She mouthed silently. "I no longer serve her. I want nothing more than to kill her now."
She continued. She walked over and helped Cieryl push the debris off his abdomen, and pulled the shrapnel from his arm. "Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick." sounded as his body healed. She helped him up and slung his arm of her shoulder as she picked his scroll, but the battery was dead.

"Nothing to do now but wait." Cieryl coughed out.

CRASH SITE

Yang, Ruby and Qrow's airship was directly above the wreckage. They slowly descended from rappel cables, and started earching the area. "Over here!" a gruff voice choked out.
The three of them went behind some debris and found Cieryl sitting with the pink haired girl who, as Yang remembered, needed to have her ass kicked.

"YOU!" she roared, activating her semblance.

"Wait!" Cieryl said, throwing up his hands."She's an ally now. That woman, the one with the fire. She backstabbed Torchwick. Neo here switched loyalties as a result. She's with us now." Cieryl explained.

Yang relaxed and Ruby piped up. "Torchwick is dead?" Neo nodded, crying again.

"Let's get back to Beacon, we can figure everything out once we get there." Qrow added, helping Cieryl up.

They all boarded the airship and headed back home.