Lapis: Ashe, come on you've kept them waiting long enough.

Ashe: I'm starting to have second thoughts Lapis.

Lapis: We've gone through this Ashe

Ashe: Okay, okay… so I know I've been gone for a while, three months to be exact, and have only just started to climb out from this little pit of depression I've dug for myself but like my girlfriends said, I can't let one person ruin my happiness so here I am….hope you enjoy the story. Oh and we all updated our images on the profile page go check it out!

Lapis: Special thanks to Sai-Shou!

Chapter 2: An Authors Return, Talon Gets Its Claws Bloody

"What the hell is this?!"

"Who are you?"

"Damn, thought I had more time."

"Both of you get the fuck out of my house!"

"Lets not be hasty Ashe, remember the good times we-"

"LEAVE!"

"Do I know you?"

Ashe woke up with a start sweat dripping from her body as she panted heavily. She'd been having the same dream ever since she saw Sama-that woman again, her eyes had developed bags and she had been neglecting missions and training. Hell, for the last three months she had gone into a depression all because of one woman.

'The bitch didn't even recognize me.' Ashe thought as she climbed out of bed and morphed on her clothes. 'Guess I'm not over what happened a year ago after all.'

The girl opened the door to her room expecting to be met with the sight of a stairway only to yelp in surprise when she started falling, righting herself in the air Ashe managed to right herself in the air before she landed on the ground. The blonde summoned her hammer and got a look at her surroundings only for her eyes to widen in surprise.

"What the hell?"

She was in Vale…or at least she thought she was in Vale.

Everything was falling apart around, building were crumbling, people were getting sucked up into the sky and the planet wouldn't stop shaking. Acting quickly Ashe pulled out a notepad and used her speed to write down 'Ashes body suddenly became as heavy as a fifty ft. elephant' causing the ground beneath her to crack as her weight increased.

'What the hell is happening!?' Ashe thought as she looked up into the sky to see what was sucking the planet up.

Her eyes widened as she stared into the eyes of a large celestial like dragon. She knew this creature, every author has one, he or she would each create or summon a creature to do the things that they can't…destroy the worlds they create.

The creature she chose?

One Aurelion Sol.

"Aurelion?! What the hell are you doing?!" Ashe yelled, her words ignored by the dragon as he continued to eat the world.

"He's doing his job." A voice said as the world turned gray and everything stopped moving.

Ashe turned to the source of the voice only for her eyes to widen as a fist impacted her face. The girl fell onto her back her weight causing her to sink into the ground, groaning the blonde took out her notepad and erased what was on it before jumping out the hole to see her attacker. To her surprise this was also someone she recognized.

"Hey Ashe." Said one Lapis Lazuli as she watched her partner land on the ground.

"Lapis what'd you hit me for?! Why is Aurelion here?! Where is her?!" Ashe said firing off questions as her girlfriend raised an eyebrow at her.

"Why do you think Aurelion is here Ashe? I did say he was doing his job." Lapis asked causing Ashe to stiffen.

Aurelion was doing his job? Then that would mean…oh god.

"This…this world, I created it didn't I?" Ashe said fear in her voice as Lapis nodded.

"Yup, you've effectively abandoned the worlds you've created Ashe." Lapis explained motioning to the world around them and causing Ashes eyes to go wide.

"What! How, I haven't been gone that long-Urk!" Ashe stopped talking when Lapis suddenly appeared in her face.

"You have been gone for three. Months." Lapis said stressing the words. "I think that counts as abandoning your stories/worlds and all for what? A singular person?"

Ashe eyes became shadowed. "It's not like she's some random girl…"

"I know…Ben told me all about her." Lapis said causing Ashes eyes to go wide.

"He what!? Son of a-he promised not to tell anyone but Kate and Jack!"

"Don't you dare blame him for anything!" Lapis yelled causing Ashe to take a step back. "I'm the one who pressured him into telling me about her."

"But why would you-?"

'Maybe because my girlfriend has been in a depression and avoiding me for three months!" Lapis snapped causing Ashes eyes to soften.

"Lapis…"

"Three months, that's how long I've had to watch you suffer all while you refused even acknowledge me. Do you have any idea how much that hurts, especially with my history?" Lapis said hugging herself as the blonde looked.

"…I'm…sorry Lapis, its just-seeing her again—and the fact that she didn't even recognize me…it just brought back bad memories…" Ashe said her eyes not meeting Lapis's.

She then felt said girl suddenly hug her.

"Listen to me..I know what she did to you and I get it, people can be terrible at times." The blue skinned woman said earning a scoff from her partner. "But people are wonderful too. People are the cherries on top of an already delicious sundae. They're bonus. But the person you should be relying on most in this life isn't me or Kate or Jack, not even your own brother…it's you."

That got Ashe to widen

"I say that simply because no one knows you as well as you know yourself. No one can read your mind, no one knows your greatest fears, no one can hear all the little voices inside your head, and for that reason, no one can be a better friend to you, than you." Lapis said holding Ashe tightly as she began to cry into her arms.

"It's important to talk to yourself, love yourself, be your own friend, be on the same page as yourself. Have your own back."

The world turned a normal color as Aurelion went wide eyed before beginning to cough wildly. He then began to spit up everything he had eaten thus far, time seemed to rewind as buildings began to repair themselves and people began to land on the ground before seemingly walking backwards

"Because I promise you, no matter how popular you are, no matter how many friends you have, at some point in your life, you'll find yourself alone in a room, feeling super lonely. It's in your best interest to be friends with the only person in that room." Lapis finished as she and Ashe started to disappear from view.

Sombra woke up from her dream with a slight groan. 'That was weird why would I dream about that girl?'

Shrugging the thought off the woman stretched before getting out of bed, yawning she went to her closet and pulled out a work uniform with a black apron that had the words 'Talons Dust Shop' on it. It had been three years since they had arrived on Remnant, the trio having growing accustomed to the peoples ways hear as well as the new abilities they had acquired. While Gabes Semblance was relatively the same as the abilities he had on earth Sombra and Amelie had gotten upgrades to theirs.

Amelie was now a spider Faunus able to sprout eight spider legs from her back where her tattoos were located as well as spit out webbing, she could also turn her skin back to its blue color allowing her to become emotionless and therefore invisible to Grimm. Sombra, like Gabe, had kept her abilities except they had been upgraded, now she could be cloaked for as long as she had aura and could hack two people without using her EMP. Sombra walked down the steps into the shop to reveal Gabe and Amelie attending to customers their weapons on their sides.

'Old habits die hard I guess.' Sombra thought as she patted the pocket of her apron which held her SMG.

They had opened the shop as an attempt to start anew, but like she said old habits die hard and eventually they had become part time storeowners as well as mercenaries. They had racked up quite the reputation of she said so herself.

"Look who's awake." Amelie said as she put down a box of supplies.

"Mornin' Widow." Sombra said as she went to help her partner with the boxes. "I see Gabe hasn't gotten his coffee today huh?"

Amelie sighed as they both looked over to Reyes who was arguing with a customer.

"I told you we don't accept that kind of payment here!" Said man yelled as the customer glared back at him.

"Oh come on it worked in Vacuo!" The customer, a monkey Faunus with blonde hair, complained his tail swishing about.

"Look monkey boy." Gabe said grabbing him by his shirt. "This isn't Vacuo, now either pay up with the currency used here or get the hell out of my shop you're holding up the line."

There were shouts of agreement as Sombra laughed while Amelie sighed. "No, no he has not."

The spider girl walked over to Gabe and the boy pulling them apart, glaring at Gabe she turned to the boy and was about to reprimand the both of them when the doors of the shop burst open as eight White Fang soldiers rushed in. They quickly subdued the shoppers being rough with the humans yet allowing the Faunus in the store to go free, the leader approached the register and pointed a gun at Amelie and Gabes fac. Both of them showed no emotion on their faces having been in this situation more times than they can count, although they're usually the one holding the gun, sirens could be heard outside the shop as the police arrived.

"None of you move, if I see even one of you humans attempt to run I'll blow your brains out!" The man, a fox Faunus, yelled causing his hostages to flinch in fear. "However you can leave." He said talking to Amelie.

"What?"

"You're a Faunus, I can smell it on you." The man said tapping his nose. "I don't want to harm any of my brethren so you're free to go."

He had expected a sigh of relief and a thank you, what he got was a chuckle and the shake f a head. "I'm afraid it's too late for that."

The Faunus raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?"

"You're already dead"

"Hola, Puto."

That was the last thing the Man heard before arms wrapped themselves around his neck and twisted to the right, a loud snap was heard as Sombra killed the WF grunt before throwing him towards two others. The two gave a shout of surprise as their leaders body sent them to the ground, before they could even attempt to get up two shots rang out as Amelie put two sniper rounds in their heads. The five that were left roared in rage as they charged the now blue skinned woman only for two of them to get gunned down by Sombra who then proceeded to hack the three that were left cutting them off from their aura and semblance. Amelie then smirked as she spat out multiple webbing at the WF grunts feet rendering them immobile as Gabriel leaped over her skull mask on his face.

"Death come for all, DIE! Die! Die!" He yelled using Death Blossom to kill the three as the hostages looked on in fear and awe.

"Death comes for us all? Really Gabriel." As she summoned a spider leg to impale a WF member who had survived Sombras assault.

"Shut up Widowmaker."

"You really need you coffee huh Gabe."

"I believe I can help with that." A voice said as the three of them turned around to see a white haired man with a cane sipping said beverage with a Blonde haired woman next to him. "Though you'll have to do something in return."

Lapis: There that wasn't hard was it.

Ashe: No, in factit was kinda...fun

Lapis: We once again give a special thanks to Sai-Shou for helping with Ashes depression.

Ashe: And I hope you guys continue to follow us as I climb out of my depression and I try to update mor.