Chapter-32

Ten hours later.

It took a while, but she was able to find out a rough location of where the holiday home was located. Somewhere in the mountains of Atlas, now with the added help of Winter and some friends of hers, they were getting some scouts up there to find out more.

Excited with the news, Mizu alongside Winter and Weiss moved through the school quickly and headed towards Ruby and Neo's room. Where at the door, they could hear the two talking.

"So our next step should be dealing with Ironwood?" Neo was heard asking.

"Yeah, I think we should start eliminating her support or at least anyone that will get in our way. We need to stop her, sooner rather than later. Perhaps if we start eliminating her support, it will slow her plans down or maybe even stop them." Ruby explained calmly, and some ruffling could be heard.

"How do you want to go about it though? We haven't really got the evidence, have we?" Neo asked, curious to see how it would all play out.

"Raven's gathering evidence of him providing the White Fang with weaponry and equipment. She should be arriving back later today. Once we've got everything we'll take it to Ozpin, and then the security council. With him out of the picture, we'll target Cinder's closest allies." Ruby explained and the three women outside chose this moment to enter.

"Hello Ruby, Neo." Mizu greeted upon entering the room.

"Hey sis, and other sis." Winter said cheerfully as she moved into the room quickly with Weiss just behind her.

"Hello." Neo answered, while Ruby mumbled a greeting from the closet, attempting to find some clothes to wear.

"How did it go?" Neo asked, deciding to get right to it.

"We found out a rough location. Somewhere in the mountains in Atlas, we believe that it's possibly located in the highest one it has a road running to it but forests everywhere else. So, it's a perfect bottleneck." Winter explained.

"Well sounds great, do you have any idea about its actual location?" Ruby asked from the closet still attempting to pick out something to wear.

"Not currently. Winter has got some supporters in the military still and they've agreed to send recon flights up to the mountains for us. Were you discussing about removing Ironwood?" Mizu explained while asking the question.

"Aria?" Neo interrupted.

"Grandmother and Auntie already asked, I'm on it." Aria replied back immediately.

"We are, once Raven gets back I'll have everything we need for it." Ruby answered as she knew what was going to happen.

"Are you having issues with clothes Ruby?" Mizu asked as she realised her daughter was lost.

"Can't find anything to wear I want something different but nothing stands out." Ruby blurted out as she sighed dramatically.

"Right I'll be back in a minute." Mizu said quickly as she turned around and left the room.

"Um…ok then." Ruby said as she was unsure just what had happened so she came out of the closest in simply her underwear and went back to the bed.

"So…" Winter said trailing off.

"Anything more we need to say or explain?" Neo asked while Ruby curled into Neo on the bed.

"Well just what your plans are for the coming days and well, just everything." Winter asked.

Neo looked down to Ruby who just simply curled her face into Neo's stomach and laid there, her ears flat against her head as she was relaxed.

"Well as Ruby said we're waiting for Raven to come back to give us enough evidence for Ironwood. Which would have been nice of her to tell me." Neo explained as she glared at Ruby who hadn't told her anything about that. "Anyway once we've dealt with him we want to eliminate support for Cinder. We believe that the White Fang might be losing support with Faunus and then we want to take out Cinder's close associates which we already have identified." Neo finished explaining.

"So quite simple then." Weiss said, speaking up for the first time.

"I guess so, though it's a lot of legwork to be honest." Neo said.

Just at that moment Mizu came rushing back in as she seemed to ignore what Ruby was going and pushed the woman into the bathroom while giving her a bundle of clothes.

It took almost ten minutes before Ruby came out again and she easily made everyone's jaw drop as Ruby seemed to finally look her age.

She had a black skirt on with tights that reached up to her upper thighs alongside black raised boots. Next came a long sleeved cotton blouse which had an almost window like part which revealed some of her cleavage.

A black corset was placed over the top and a short red cloak was wrapped around her shoulders while she had leather bands wrapped loosely around her upper arms and going underneath her armpits to cross on her back over her blouse, with a small backpack on her back.

On her wrists were black leather vambraces, one on each wrist while there were equally black fingerless gloves covering her hands.

Black boots with red tread underneath, that reached up to just below her knee and were strapped up along the boot.

And her choker was on proud display as if the outfit was made for that express purpose as Ruby wore no make-up except for some red lipstick.

Ruby twirled around a little the shorter skirt moving with her as it spun out more while Ruby spoke up shyly, "What do you think?" Ruby asked as she looked over everyone's face.

"You look great. Was this your work mother?" Weiss asked as she stared at Ruby and for the first time saw her as looking older.

"It was something I made for Summer when we were still in school. And well, it's only right for Ruby to have it." Mizu explained as she smiled sadly at the memory.

Ruby simply mirrored the smile as she thought back to everything as she just stood there awkwardly. Unsure what to do currently.

"So, what do we do now?" Weiss asked.

"I guess we just wait and plan. We can't do anything until Raven returns and the scouts you sent report in." Ruby explained while shrugging her shoulders.

"Well what about right now?" Winter asked.

"We could train together." Neo suggested with a smirk at the others as they all seemed to agree.

A/N

So I know it's a short chapter but it's simply a bit of set up for the last one. Might break it up a little because it doesn't flow very well which is mildly annoying for me.

I'm going to try and become more regular on updating for my other story but I won't promise anything as I won't keep it.

Working on two One-shots at the minute, one is a new idea because I watched Aldnoah Zero which is fucking amazing and the music just gives you chills. I love it, but struggling to make a full story out of it annoyingly so I'm going with a one shot.

Anyway until next time.