A/N: Sorry for taking so long folks. I've been really busy with work, and personal stuff as well as medical. But I have a big huge segment of story that's all coming together and will hopefully be finished soon

Chapter 14

Cieryl paced his room, pondering his life. This had to be done, and he knew it. Question was, what comes after? There was a soft knock on the door, and Cieryl jerked back into reality.
"Come in" he said calmly, and Ruby entered quietly. "Hey. I thought you weren't speaking to me."

Ruby sighed. "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have reacted the way I did. I was just so shocked. Plus I talked to the Doctor after... You're a faunus?" she cocked her head to one side. Cieryl chuckled, and ruffled his hair, forcing his ears to pop out. She looked at him quizically. He smirked and started to explain.

"Ruby, I'm over 200 years old. you learn to hide things like that extremely well in that span of time."

"You can fold them down, can't you?"

"yep." Ruby snorted and laughed.

"I really am sorry. I was in shock... I talked to dad and we hada long discussion about it. I made an important decision as well. Taiyang will always be my daddy... but, if you're okay with it,
I would like to call you Dad. I thought long and hard about it too. I think some part of me knew the whole time, even though I hadn't really realized it yet. Is.. that okay?"

Cieryl's eyes filled with tears, and he hugged his daughter. "Yes, Ruby. I'd be honored. Thank you so much." He looked down at her amd a big smile spread across his face. He looked over her head and looked in the mirror on the wall, and saw his eye, ticking away happily. "Holy shit! Is that the time? Ruby, we were supposed to be down at the airfield twenty minutes ago!"

They both came up to the airship docks, to the rest of team RWBY, Glynda, and RAHB all waiting for them. Glynda tapped her foot impatiently as they boarded. "Sorry, Goodwitch. Father- Daughter moment" To which she rolled her eyes. They were about to take off when Jaune came sprinting up and climbed on, followed by Ren and Nora. "Mister Arc, what the hell are you doing?"

Jaune panted heavily "I'm not letting Yang go by herself. I'm coming to protect her, and my child." Yang beamed and tackled him

"Awwww Jauney!" Ruby chuckled slightly and Nora piped in.

"And Jaune isnt going anywhere without us. We've lost Pyrrha won't lose him." Ren nodded as he added

"Nothing you say will make us stay, professor Goodwitch" Glynda sighed, rubbing her nose where her glasses sat.

"Very well, you three. you may join us."

As the ship took off, an umbrella handle latched to the door and Neo struggled and huffed until she managed to climb in. Glynda looked furious. "Are we taking the entire school?!"
Neo started signing furiously, to which Roy spoke up, translating.

"She says:' I'm not letting my friends go with the possibility of not returning. Not without me.'" His voice had a metallic ring to it, speaking through his helmet. Everyone looked surprised at Neo, as she huffed angrilly.

The group continued their chatter until the pilot announced "We're approaching the drop zone!" Making Cieryl look up. "We're dropping a few miles out from the target, due to heavy woods. Your contact is waiting for you there, Mister Jade!" The airship landed a moment later, and a woman stepped forward. She had bubblegum pink hair, and wore soot coated goggles on her forehead. Her eyes were two different colors, one blue and one green, the green one having a pupil that was noticably larger than the blue. She wore fishnet stockings, and a black leather skirt and black crop top. she had fingerless leather gloves on her hands and had "WILD CHILD" tattooed on her knuckles. Her combat boots crunched in the brush as she stepped forward,
putting a bladed electric guitar on her back. She wiped some soot off her face and everyone except Cieryl gasped as they saw she had a smile literally carved across her face. She grinned at everyone's reaction and jumped on Cieryl, giving him a hug.

"GRAMMMMPS! How are you, old dude?" he chuckled lightly

"Hey my little Firebug" he said as he ruffld her hair. He turned to everyone else "Guys, this is my contact, Violet. She's the great-great-great grandaughter of one of my late teammates.
She's a fun filled little lollipop triple dipped in psycho" he chuckled again at their confused looks. "She's an obsessive compulsive, bipolar, sociopathic pyromaniac." Violet smiled, the grin making chills run down everyone's spine, including Neo's. "So whatcha got for me, Firebug?" Cieryl asked her

She pulled out a crude drawing of a map that was drawn in what looked like crayon and started pointing at a few points that she had marked. "We have White Fang in the area. They have scout patrols moving around these four points. They have outposts here... here... and here..." she pointed to a few spots before continuing. "From what I'm hearing, they are trying to capture Foreverfall.
Something about the King Grimm using Foreverfall for something to do with the dead. I think they are starting to catch on to my snooping, so I've been trying to be discreet." Cieryl nodded "The scouts move in groups of five, and they change every two hours. As far as I can tell, the beast resides in one of these three mountains." She gestured again at the map. Everyone studied the map carefully, and Cieryl spoke up after a moment.

"Alright... I'm willing to bet that it's in the third mountain. Just a gut feeling. So here's the plan. We wait until nightfall, then we move out. Jaune, Nora, Ren, and Neo take out the West outpost with Violet. RAHB, take out the East. Penny, Ruby, Blake, Weiss and I will take out the South. Yang, you and Glynda stay here and keep in contact, letting us know their movements. When we go, Violet, start a forest fire and distract them. Thatshould give us an advantage over their faunus advantages. Once thats complete, we will all scout the area together and form a plan for Foreverfall."

They all nodded in agreement, and set up a small campsite. They waited until sundown, and the plan went into motion...