Chapter 7: The Brothers' Influence
Are you sure he'll take us to the hospital, Tanya? Sitting on the couch in the living room, Qrow brought them back to their cabin after their tedious training session. On what Qrow said about their mother's health, Ruby is getting extremely worried about what's happening to their mother.
Don't worry. I have ways of convincing him to take us there. Waiting several minutes within the living room, the two heard the door creak open. Ruby's eyes quickly turn gold, signaling that Tanya is in control of their body.
"Tanya, Ruby! I'm home-oh. You two are already here. So…how's your training with Qrow?" Crossing her legs and tapping her arms, an unsettling vibe radiating out from Tanya's soul.
"Ruby and I want to ask you about what happened to our mother Tai. Please…tell us what happened to our dear mother that Qrow decided to divulge on this vital information with us." Tai curse under his lips, knowing Qrow wouldn't hide anything important that revolves around a personal matter to Ruby's family. Letting out a sigh of defeat, he looks back at Tanya and starts to listen to their complaints.
A day went by and the sun is rising. Tanya successfully convinced her father to take them to the hospital either using guilt trips or her manipulative nature to pressure Tai; the two souls arrived at their local hospital in the island of Patch. Stepping into the white pristine room, Tail quietly strolled through the entrance with his daughters behind him. Asking the receptionist of where his wife is being hospitalized in.
"Um, Ms. Do you know where Summer Rose's room is? By the way, this is Tai Xiao Long, her husband." The receptionist looks up to Tai to see him pulling out his scroll and showing his Huntsman's ID of who he is. Reading his number, the receptionist looks back at her computer screen.
"The room number for Summer Rose is in room 144 on the second floor." Looking through her data files on her computer, Tai quickly thanked the receptionist and went to the second floor via by an elevator. Ruby was getting a bit nervous about their dad when he remains extremely quiet about this. For Tanya's feelings, she cares less about her mother, but she does care for Ruby's wellbeing since she's literally stuck inside of her host's body. Ensuring her happiness and cooperation is in top performance or there will be hiccups in combat. Addition, Tanya can hear Ruby's nervous thoughts and desperate to see her mother which is really distracting for the Devil of the Rhine. Although, not as aggravating when her mind is replaying of how Ruby suddenly became competent in battle at a young age, which Tanya place the huge blame on a certain entity.
Hearing the elevator lifting them up with its wires revving up, the two souls watched as the elevator opens up and the medical staff casually or hurriedly doing their hospital routine on helping their patients on their wellbeing, Ruby wondered where room 144 is located at while Tanya observed the hospital layout, locating the room number base on the hospital map she read back at the lobby.
"To the right side hallway and walk straight ahead until we make a sharp turn to our left, that's where our mother is located." Telling Ruby the direction of this crowded hallway that was intimidating for Ruby to do her child stature, Ruby hesitated. Tanya wanted to mentally sigh for Ruby's weak mind. So she took control and calmly walks through the medical halls without batting her golden eyes to her dad.
Reaching the room that's labeled 144, the two souls heard medical machines running inside the room and making Ruby even more scared of what she's going to find in there. For Tanya, she's completely unfazed by her mother's dilemma. For Ruby, it hit a nail to Ruby's heart from seeing her suffer like this.
As Tai opens the door for the two souls to enter, they saw a heart monitor steadily beeping and their being covered in a white blanket with some blood soaked on the cloth. Over her mouth is an oxygen mask to regulate her breathing levels and a lot of bandages wrapped around her skin from the deep lacerations. In short, Summer is in a fatal condition from her injuries. Seeing her slowly dying, it made Ruby's heart drop and realization of what mortality truly looks like.
"Mom!" When Ruby saw her mother in a terrible state, she ran towards her and proceeds to grab her right arm; shaking her wrist softly to wake her up from her comatose like state and despair clouded Ruby's mind.
"Mom, wake up! I know you are alright! Please, wake up!" Tanya felt tears dripping down on her face and Ruby's emotions becoming tenser, one of the many stages of grieving, denial. To the Devil, this will take some time for Ruby to get over about her mom. People die, that's one fact of life that you cannot escape.
Hearing the whimpers of Ruby and tears dripping onto her skin, Summer weakly open her silver eyes when she heard her daughter's voice in her sleep. Seeing her, she gently smiled and joy overwhelmed Summer's mind to see her daughter one last time.
"Ruby and Tanya…I'm so happy that you've visited me." Before Summer could make another sentence, Ruby quickly ask her a question of what happened that caused her to become like this.
"Mom, what happened to you, how did you become like this!?" Ruby begged her mother to know what happened, Summer hazily begins to recall her memories but not long. To do the severe amount of blood loss and critical injuries she received, her mind can't concentrate on how it exactly happened, just vague thoughts of what she saw.
"I was in a mission dear…a mission that was important and went…badly after that. Everything was a haze, but then-ARGH!" Summer groan in pain when her wound slightly rupture at her abdomen area when she forced her body to move, steadily, her mind slowly descending into darkness.
"Mom…please, wake up, wake up!" Tanya was about to interrupt Ruby's denial of losing her mother that she was a lost cause until their father steps into their matter to handle the situation. Looking back at him, Tanya saw slight tears running down on her father's face and begins to explain to Ruby that her mother needs some rest.
"Don't worry Ruby, she'll be fine…she'll be fine." When he tries to reassure her daughter, Summer's doctor walks into the room and checking in with her vitals.
"Alright Mr. Xiao Long, your wife-oh no, her wound has ruptured and her vitals are dropping! I need medical assistants and sedatives ASAP!" When the doctor lowered his clipboard to check Summer's health, he immediately saw her open wound at her stomach area when she uncovered her blanket and her vitals quickly begin to drop on the heart monitor. Making the doctor quickly panicked and readying the staff for further surgery.
"Tai, Ruby Rose, can you please step out of the room? We're going to prep another extensive surgery to repair her grave wounds that require concentration." With that, nurses and doctors came in with scrubs suits on, prepped for another surgery. Tai looks back at his daughters and reluctantly nods to the doctor. Gently grabbing Ruby's arm, they begin to leave the room while Ruby was struggling to break free from her father's grip.
On what Tanya is thinking of this entire scenario that has unfolded, she has a massive hunch that Being X is planning on something that she wouldn't like. She has no doubt that the so-called god of light is scheming and making Tanya's stomach sick to the core from thinking about it, the suspect who might be responsible for their mother's misfortune.
Whatever it is planning, Tanya is sure it wouldn't be good for her. Theorizing it involves appeasement of emotions and manipulating her host's pathos, making Tanya want to mentally scowl if her guesses were right. When she heard Ruby mentally yelling out that holy phrase back at her training and the sudden misfortune that befall on their mother, Tanya's intuition has gotten warmer and her mind is on high alert.
When the time comes, Tanya was immediately prepared for what Being X is planning and she's ready for the repercussions of it.
Nightfall shadowed over their bedroom within Tai's humble cabin and Tanya tries to comfort her suppose sister's emotions. Although, it is failing terribly to do Tanya's lack of empathy for others and addition of not having personal social skills for those who are extremely close to her in her previous reincarnations, for she has no clue on how to deal with someone's emotions while trying to be genuinely caring at the same. One crappy move, her host will instantly hate her in which Tanya has no time for Ruby's tomfoolery, especially in combat situations.
Ruby, I know you're beating yourself over this but it is not your fault. We both lost our mother and crying over it wouldn't help on our situation. Tanya started to regret saying that as she felt Ruby's anger rising.
"Yeah?! Why don't you feel any emotions for our mom when I felt your soul back there? Do you even care about her?!" Tanya curse under her mental breath for not showing any empathy towards her relatives. An odd curse that Ruby can tell on what Tanya actually felt in some occasion.
Trying to come up with an excuse, Tanya begins to recall of her previous life and being semi-truthful to her words, cautiously worded to evade any sort of blame from Ruby.
Ruby…you see. The truth is…I have a hard time on opening up with others. Other words, I mostly think about survival. In a war, you have to be closed off and not let your emotions control you. It is to think of a plan and preserving your battalion at all cost. I'm just saying you cannot cry all the time in your darkest moments and you need to way to get out of that situation. Tanya tried to be reassuring to Ruby and carefully worded of what she said as she wouldn't give the wrong impression to her host that she's downright malevolent, Ruby begins to reconsider's Tanya words…although with the wrong idea.
"So you're saying that I need to act and not to mop around right?" To Tanya, she could go along with that, but she meant to face adversity with extreme prejudice. So she goes along with Ruby's perspective than her gritty view of the world.
Yes, stagnating wouldn't help. You got to move forward and think of a way to fix the situation. When she suggested that, Tanya begin to hear Ruby's inner thoughts as she's deeply thinking of her decisions, it made Tanya snarl of Ruby's solution that she comes up with.
"Then I know one thing that I must do, pray for our mother's wellbeing." Now that's what Tanya feared would happen and giving more proof that Being X is trying to convince Ruby to side with him than her. She doesn't want that to happen and her tolerance towards the god went all-time low when she discovered its schemes.
Ruby, that's not a good idea you've suggested to me and it's best if you leave that 'thing' out of this matter as we don't see eye to eye with each other. Anger slowly begins to build up in Tanya's mind whenever Ruby mentioned Being X. For Ruby, she slightly remains oblivious of Tanya's undying hatred towards the god that's eternally screwing with her. But Ruby can feel her rage engulfing Tanya's soul with unholy passion.
Tanya, I know you hold a massive grudge towards the god and saying that he's toying with you, but at least give some kind of respect towards the god that keeps following you. He is the only chance that our mother could survive from this. When Ruby mentally tried to reason with Tanya, the reincarnated soul begins to lose her rationality and rage is starting to leak within her mind. Ruby can feel it and it wasn't pleasant of what she felt.
No Ruby and that's final, I am not going to pray for the so-called god who's constantly ruining my life and being all petty for a simple prayer. This is a warning, I do not trust that prick who made my life a living hell. Giving Ruby her last warning that the Devil will not tolerate of its presence, but the young soul made up her mind.
I will do it Tanya and you're not going to stop me. Hearing Ruby's final decision, the former Wing Commander want to take control of Ruby's body and refuse her to recite Being X's incantations. But that would cause friction between the two. If Tanya finds a way to escape from her host and finds a suitable body for her to control, she will not hesitate on that unlikely opportunity. For now, she will play along with Being X's mind games and gather back her thoughts before her anger takes control again. For a second, she almost felt the shadows were whispering to her.
That bastard...
There was that graveled, sickly voice again. To Tanya, the darkness that lingered in their room seems to be calling out to her from hearing Tanya's mental pleas from the mad god's abusive tricks. Distracted of that sudden sensation that crept within Tanya's mind and trying to deduce rather or not that her mind is playing tricks on her; Ruby begins to recite the prayer to Being X. The deity that called himself the god of light heard Ruby's calls.
"Come on Summer, stay with us!" In the hospital room where the shattered moon rose above from Summer's window, her vitals begins to decline and her heart beat steadily starts to drop. The surgeons tirelessly try to stabilize her vitals and repairing her organs best as possible. Sadly, her physical wounds were beyond fixed as the doctors don't have the time to check every possible damage tissues that possibly hinder her body functions.
Oh lord of light, hear my pleas for salvation!
A soft buzz echoed across the room when her heart rate finally reaches to zero and doctors frantically begin to panic on trying to revitalize Summer before she truly becomes deceased.
Grant life to my mother who gave birth to me and let mankind know of your holy light!
In a split second, a miracle happened where Summer's vitals begin to rise and her heart gradually starts to beat, surprising the surgeons who are trying to keep her alive.
To bring truth to the non-believers and acknowledging your presence from your holy miracles! Guide them of your holy words and not make them astray from the darkness!
Witnessing the miracle, doctors were amazed at how her vitals are returning back to normal and surviving from a near-death experience. To them, it is either faith or luck that Summer survives from her critical state. Whatever it is, they continue to seal her wounds and patching up of the remaining severe lacerations that scattered across her body. Dumbfounded, the doctors were still curious about how her vitals became stable out of thin air like if it was magic to them.
"O' light in heaven, let me say your holy words as a promise of my devotion: Deus Lo Vult, amen." Ungrasping her palms gently and opening her silver eyes when finishing her prayer, Ruby felt a sudden tranquility overwhelming her mind, a sign that the god gave her the miracle. For that massive prayer, it came within their room.
"The deed is done and your mother will be okay. Your faithfulness to me has been proven." Ruby widely smiled of what she heard from the so-called god and her silver eyes glimmered in hope. But that expression changes immediately when her eyes turn gold and nasty scowl spread.
"What do you want Being X and what are you up to?" Her golden eyes stare at the invisible entity who might be manipulating her host to side with him than her.
"It is nothing prominent Tanya. I am here to grant Ruby's safety of her mother. If she prays to me daily, Summer would never be harm. For you…you have fallen too steep of my expectation, the reason you're living within Ruby than being an independent individual." Tanya expected this to happen, granting Ruby of Being X so-called miracles and giving out a mirage that he is the good guy. But she knows full too well that he is trying to make her life a living hell than before.
"Ruby, will you pray to me? To give the truth that the light exists? You will be granted your mother's prosperity if you pray to me daily." Hearing his words, Tanya's eyes became silver and her smile brighten that her mother will be okay if Ruby keeps praying to the god and devoting her soul to the God who saved her mother…but the other soul that resides within Ruby's body, her anger is rising of what the Devil heard.
"Yes! I will pray to you forever and follow your guidance in protecting those who are close to me. Of what you said is true, I will forever to devote myself to the light and your holy teachings!" That was it, those very words strike a nerve in Tanya's mind. Rage clouded her mind and only wanted retribution to the god that outright manipulated her host to obey him. But she isn't the only one who is witnessing this scenario.
"Deus Lo Vult!" When Ruby spoke of his holy phrase, her soul brighten like the sun and sealing her fate as his apostle, its angel. Unfortunately, this made Tanya felt a lot weaker when Ruby's soul is overpowering her and feeling overwhelmed by her sudden burst of aura. To Tanya, she's outright pissed about what she's facing. This is a way for Being X to mock her that Ruby will be his servant while she's giving Tanya a hard time for her to take control of their body. Tanya knew her host will be a prison cell for her when their balance of power shifted to Ruby than her. Blindly following Being X and stopping her if Ruby sees something she doesn't like.
To the darkness, the light violated one of the important aspects of humanity. That one very rule where both entities agree upon which they shouldn't interfere.
For that…it is now angry.
You still mad about it, Tanya?
A couple of months went by; Tanya is sitting down next to the kitchen table and looking through the taxes without Tai's permission. Thinking of a budget to save money and cutting off some stuff they don't need. But she needs a way to convince him to change the family's spending habits. Her mind is still bitter of what happened a few months back with her meeting with Being X. This is one of her ways to relieve her anger of what she bear witness to as her soul becomes unequal to Ruby's brighter soul which Ruby can push around her anytime.
Don't talk to me, Ruby. I'm not in the mood here. Tanya deeply scowls when Ruby mentions her vow to Tanya's arch nemesis. During the rest of their months, Tanya mentally stopped talking to Ruby and remains apathetic to her host like she doesn't exist anymore.
Winter is almost approaching and Qrow's training is nearing to an end. The day where Tanya is going to visit Atlas for her Military Aptitude Test in order for her to be enrolled in the military at a young age, determining if she's worthy to be a military officer in training.
"I see you're doing daddy's taxes, I'm quite proud of you Tige sweetie." Tanya frown when their mother came into the kitchen with crutches between her armpits to do her body is still healing and her lips smiling brightly. Ever since she is healthy enough to walk, Summer starting to call her Tige like she chose the name as if she was born with Ruby. Making Tanya slightly curious about why her mother is calling her that name.
"Mother, why are you calling me that name that father gave me when you first discovered me?" Raising her brow at her mother, Summer's silver eyes looks down in embarrassment and nervously smiled at her. Trying to come up the right words for Summer to explain it to her other daughter.
"You see sweetie…Ruby wasn't the only one who was in my tummy. She had…well, a twin sister. That's what we initially about to name her." Her white cloak covered her silver eyes when she looked down in guilt, her lips crinkled on coming up with appropriate words for her daughters.
"So what happened to her, what happened to the twin?" Both Ruby and Tanya simultaneously spoke curiously to their mother as their eyes turned heterochromia. She nervously still looks down and slowly raised her head in guilt.
"Maybe, it might be best if I show you two of what I meant." Whatever it is that Summer going to show them, Tanya's instincts are telling her that she wouldn't like it and she fully trust her intuition on this matter.
After an hour of walking through the dense woods when the three left their humble cabin, the mother and her daughters that are trapped in a single body approached the cliffside to see a good view of the sunset with its beautiful lushes green terrain below it.
But in front of her, Tanya saw a small gravestone implanted on the ground. Instead of a rose, she saw a stem with magnificently engraved marks that look like thorns. But looking at the gravestone more closely, she saw a name called Tige.
"Tanya sweetie, here is the grave that I was destined to be buried with my unborn child…Tanya, I know it's hard to say. But this is your grave when you…did not make it." Tanya felt tears dripping on her shoulder and she looks up to see Summer with a mournful expression, but she gave the warmest smile that gave Ruby a heartfelt moment. That she knows that her other daughter exists inside of Ruby's body.
"When I heard the news that you're inside little Ruby, I felt joy and filled with hope that you weren't gone. It makes me happy even though I'm a little worried about you two living in a single body." Continuing to pour tears onto Ruby, Tanya's face darkens and the revelation that presented to her.
The god that the Devil despise, sacrificed Tanya's body in order for him to manipulate her…
Finding her grave right in front of her and discovering Summer's revelation to Tanya at the Cliffside, Tanya spoke in unyielding rage yet quietly in the air while the sunset was setting down in serenity…those very phrases, the sign that darkness is approaching in absolute destruction, its devil.
"Homo homini lupus."
After saying that, Tanya's golden eyes begin to pulse in rage and knowing Being X's deception. Tricking Tanya of letting Ruby know of her past by her paranoia, making her host distrustful of her, and murdering Tanya's body to be trapped inside of her sister like a cage. Ruby felt uncomfortable with her twin sister's boiling wrath and something in Tanya's soul begin to itch on Ruby's brighter soul, feeling her sister's soul darkening like an empty void. Like a curse cast upon her.
Tanya? Are you okay sis?
"Anyways Oz, I taught Ruby the basic form of combat at the beginning of summer so I can evaluate her combat aptitude, and oh boy, she suddenly learns way too fast for her own age. It seems a bit unnatural for her to do that. It's definitely something to do with her two souls to get a sudden head start in combat Oz. To you have any ideas what it is that I'm seeing here?" When Qrow gave another report to Professor Ozpin of Ruby's condition, Ozpin silently listens to Qrow's testaments on her nieces' abilities and patiently tapping his fingers together. Even though Qrow objected training his nieces in such a young age, he is forced to train them to do the Council's sudden interest on the twins and Ironwood's arrival at Tai's cabin which pissed off the drunken huntsman in unimaginable proportions.
"And…what did you do after your initial trials for Ruby? Is there something odd that you want me to be informed of?" Ozpin is now piecing the puzzle together on solving Ruby's condition. When he continues to hear Qrow's findings, the headmaster is getting nervous as it sounds way too similar to his condition. Two souls, sudden wisdom in combat, magic…but he needs one clue if it involves religion. Then the answer will be presented to him immediately.
"Well after that sudden fiasco, Ruby returns back to her usual self and doing rather poorly on combat or quickly loses control of her semblance when she used it again. I can remember that like yesterday to me."
Few months ago; Ruby badly fought her uncle in combat and tirelessly gasping for air, surprising Qrow of her niece's sudden ineptitude in combat than her battle trance-like state. Weeks after weeks of observation, her combat posture was poor and Ruby's focus in battle became lackluster. Suspiciously, he asked Tanya if she's doing this. But to Qrow's surprise, she isn't intervening in Ruby's combat at all and trying to give Ruby her advice.
Hell, even Qrow notice that her niece immediately lost control of her semblance and ended up slamming herself into a tree bark behind him. Thinking about it, Qrow wince from recalling that unpleasant memory and dumbfounded of how her semblance manifested in her first day of training.
Retracing his thoughts of what he saw and deducing a question to Ruby of why she's acting like this. Looking back at Ruby, she tightly gripped his heirloom dagger and tightly grasping the grip in determination.
"You still need to practice on your combat stance Ruby. Although I'm rather surprised here, why are you acting like this even though you easily beat me in the first day of your training and got a good grip in your semblance? I really want to know." Qrow raises his brow at Ruby and wanting to know what's going on with her.
"I don't know. It just happens to me." Their uncle clearly sees the blatant lie right in front of him and along avoiding the question entirely of how she suddenly became proficient in combat at her first day of training. Qrow already knows that her niece is hiding something from him and he wants to get to the bottom of this.
"Ruby, please tell me. I know you're lying and I'm trying to understand you of how well you can fight me."
Shyly, Ruby looks back at Qrow and uncertain if she should say it. But she only said this.
"Deus Lo Vult."
When all of the pieces are put together, he is not the only one who is cursed into this world by the gods and he hoped that she wouldn't get a whiff on this.
"There's more Oz. When Summer brought the twins to Tanya's gravestone. I found a pack of Grimm gathering over there like they're about to attack, and oh man, their numbers are huge. I was about to protect them, but something bizarre happened." Giving another case on Tanya, Qrow explains what happened back at the cliff.
Sitting on the branch in his crow form, Qrow watches his nieces staring at Tanya's gravestone and Summer mournfully explain of Tige's circumstances. Qrow could have sworn that he felt great malice radiating out from his niece's body.
Checking if they're okay, he heard growls coming below him and he looks down to see the many Grimm approaching from the woods. Qrow was surprised at how he didn't see them below his feet and the pack was huge. Beowolves, Ursas, many species of them are here…but something weird happened.
Before Qrow could transform into his human form to fight them off, the Grimm whimper in pain and all of them starting to bow their heads down to the ground like they're praying. Suddenly, their red eyes turn gold like someone else is controlling them.
"Submit..." A ghastly voice muttered into Qrow's ears. Below him, the Grimm starting to rapidly decompose of their solid bodies, liquefy itself out of nowhere as their bodies become mere black tar. In a blink of an eye, the black tar shoots off like a speeding bullet as they slithered on the ground like snakes. Before he could warn the sisters of what's happening, the tendrils were moving too fast before Qrow could yell out. The black goo latched onto Ruby's legs like a leech, emerging itself into her flesh as it soon vanished from his sight.
But when Tanya uttered the phrase of "Homo homini lupus" under her lips, Qrow could have sworn he saw black tendrils on Ruby's veins and her golden eyes blackening like…Salem. After Tanya finishing her phrase, the tendrils soon vanish from her face.
Watching the horrifying sight of what happened to the Grimm, but it made Qrow more worried about what happened to his nieces.
"So yeah, Deus Lo Vult and Homo Homini Lupus. My nieces keep saying them Oz, do you know what they are?" Ozpin could not deny of what's in front of him now, those sacred words from Remnant's old religion. Hearing of what's happening to the girls and having two souls is not a mere phenomenon that scientists could explain. Ozpin knows what it is as he followed the same path as them.
The brothers are here to intervene again…for why they are here. Ozpin, have no clue of why though.
"We understand of your grievances Ironwood. We know our decisions are quite questionable, but this is an odd scenario that we the council deem it as important. For this wasn't recorded in Remnant's history of two souls being born. So hear us out-!" Ironwood furiously slammed his fist on his desk and his eyes glaring like daggers at the shadowy figures that are hiding behind the light, upset of what Ironwood is hearing from them directly.
Of where Ironwood is, he is inside his office in Atlas and having a tedious, intense debate with the council of Remnant. He retorts back in outrage.
"That you're recruiting a five-year-old child that we deem as unlawful in Atlas Military, and the fact that you're holding information from me of who she really is quite aggravating! Especially when you assign me personally to enlist her into our ranks! Even worse, she is the niece of a professional huntsman. As the said Huntsman also has close ties with Beacon Headmaster. It was an utmost embarrassment moment for me when I had to fully explain it to Ozpin." Remembering when he had to explain to Ozpin in full detail of what's happening, this was more stressful than learning the truth of who's controlling the Grimm in the world.
To face a child who is a relative to Qrow is a moral dilemma that Ironwood doesn't want to face. Even though he hated Qrow's guts and attitude, he is an important ally to Ozpin. A vital chess piece to Beacon Headmaster…so to say.
"We are well aware that your relationship with Ozpin will most likely deteriorate and possibly compromising Vale's trust to Atlas. Don't worry, we discuss this with the Vale Councilor and agreed to check on this child. We are just implementing an aptitude test for her if she's skilled in combat and strategy. If she fails, we will shrug her off and simply be checking her aura if there's a breakthrough in aura research; although, if she passes the aptitude test…well, you're going to teach her how to command her troops in battle." Ironwood bites his lips of what the Council said to him. It's a taboo to recruit a child that didn't reach the combat school's minimal age. The General hope this girl isn't smart enough or else it's going to be the awkward moment for him to explain to Command about why they have a little girl in officer training.
Everything is becoming a lot stressful for General Ironwood to handle.
The next chapter will be Tanya's conscription into Atlas Military and professionally be studying in military tactics. Also the start of discovering her semblance.
To Durmanstainer, thank you for suggesting me to use Grammarly. But, I'm not sure the software can catch all of my errors or how I structurally write my story properly, although, it does help towards the most obvious errors that I wasn't aware of while I was writing.
