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"How could it be weak? He was fine last night." Ruby stated but she found her answer when Qrow rested Aodh on his back. The side of his neck that they at first couldn't see had a horrible purple stain on his skin.

They both knew that is where Tyrian's stinger had scratched his neck. Slowly Aodh's weakly opened his eyes. Qrow panicked as he held onto his son. "Take it easy kid, don't move much. you need to rest other wise this poison is gonna do more damage."

"Fly..." Aodh weakly stated to his father. Qrow understood what he was saying and became extremely nervous something which Ruby picked up on.

"Fly? What do you mean?" Ruby asked.

"I'll tell... You later... Fly to Mistral... Get help... We'll wait... At the nearest... Village..." Aodh struggled to speak between the fits of coughing.

Qrow then stood up and looked down at Ruby before turning over to the rest of the group. "I'll be back in two hours with help."

What happened next stunned everyone as Qrow suddenly turned into a black crow and flew off in the direction towards Mistral.

"What just happened?"

Volume 4: Chapter 7: Kuroyuri

(Yang)

Outside of her home on Patch, Yang Xiao Long had just finished spray painting her robotic arm yellow. Along with a new coat for Ember Celica as well. Walking towards the tool shed she takes a quick glance around and spots what she is after. Pulling away the sheet that was covering what she was after. Her motorcycle, Bumblebee.

"I don't remember saying that you were ready." The voice of her father Tai spoke to her from behind. she looked around to find him leaning against the frame of the open shed door. His arms crossed in front of him.

"Oh yeah? You're gonna try and stop me?" Yang asked.

Tai chuckled before he responded. "No. I think I'm still too sore after our last fight. I just wanted a better goodbye than a letter. And, I also have a question for you." Yang nodded at her father waiting. "Where are you going?"

"What do you mean?" Yang asked back confused by what her father was asking.

"Well, despite asking him numerous times not to, I know that Qrow told you where your mother's been at these days. I know how much you wanna see her." Tai then handed over a piece of letter towards Yang. "I've stopped you in the past, but I won't anymore. And we both read the note. We know your sister's headed to Mistral. So, where are you going?"

"Simple. I'm meeting up with Aodh. Like he had planned."

(Team RNJR)

As Ruby and Jaune were carrying Aodh in a makeshift stretcher the landscape was being beginning to look more dreary with each step. "Just hold on Aodh we're almost at the next town." Ruby panted out to her out cold cousin.

In front of Jaune and Ruby was Ren who was acting as a scout while Nora protected there rear from any Grimm attack.

"No... Mom... Amber... Winter..." Aodh groaned out in hallucination.

"I think he's getting worse." Jaune stated in a worried tone.

"How much farther away are we?" Ruby asked in desperation.

"We've gotta be close. Right?" Nora stated.

"Without the map, there's no way of knowing. But I feel like we're close to a near by town." Ren stated to the group before coming to a sudden stop.

"What is it?" Ruby asked not really seeing what caused Ren to stop. See looked on ahead and seen directly ahead of them was a fork in the road with a signpost.

On the sign it read Kuchinashi and Mistral are to the right and Kuroyuri to the left. The road to the right would take them up a mountain path while the road left remained on low land.

"Hey, hey! Mistral! We're on the right path! Oh…" Nora stopped herself when she look at the full signpost.

"Does it say how close?!" Ruby asked.

"No. And it looks like the path takes us up the mountains." Ren answered Ruby.

Jaune and Ruby set Aodh down. "Guys, I don't know if all of us can make that climb." Jaune stated.

Ruby looks at Aodh concerned, before rushing forward to the sign post and pointing at it. "Okay. Well, what about this place? Kuro… Kuroyuri? Can we get help there?"

"That village was destroyed years ago." Ren answered.

"But if it takes us around the mountains, it's the best bet we've got." Jaune thought out loud to the group.

"It will take too long." Ren sternly responded.

"But what if the town used to have a doctor? Maybe we could scavenge for medicine! Right?" Ruby asked Ren hoping he would know the answer.

"It is possible." Jaune agreed.

"We're not going to find anything! We just have to press on!" Ren stated back to Jaune this time Ruby could feel the anger in Ren's voice.

"Ren, why are you acting." Jaune was about to ask before he was cut short by Nora.

"We can split up." Nora suddenly stated cause Ruby to look on confused by what was now happening." Ren and I can cut through the mountains while you and Ruby take Aodh around through the village."

"No, we're supposed to stick together! We keep each other safe!" Jaune argued back to Nora but she was having none of it.

"We don't have time for safe! We don't know how long Aodh and he's only getting worse. If we make it to Mistral we'll bring back help! If we don't, at least we'll have a better view of the land! Up there, we can see if there's somewhere else we can go or if help is on the way!"

There was a brief silence between the four as the weight of this choice was bearing down on them. Ruby briefly glanced back at her cousin. She nodded towards Jaune who in turned sighed. "Okay... Just take care of each other."

"We always have." Nora stated back as she and Ren began to walk towards the right path before Ruby and Jaune picked up Aodh and walked down the left path. The two pair then looked at each other before they were soon out of each other's view.

"They're gonna be fine, Jaune." Ruby offered some hope to Jaune but he couldn't see any in the position they were all in.

"You don't know that." After being unable to try and cheer Jaune up Ruby's expression saddened.

It wasn't a long walk after the fork on the road and soon both Jaune and Ruby walked into the ruins of Kuroyuri. They both looked around the various dilapidated buildings but neither of them could find anything helpful.

"I got nothing."

"Same here. We should get back to Aodh." Ruby stated to Jaune as they both returned back to Aodh who was lying his back against a dead Sakura tree.

"Took you a while to get here." Aodh stated shocking both of them.

"You're awake." Ruby stated as she hugged him. "You were getting worse."

"I'm still bad. I can't move at all... And my head is feeling really light right now." Aodh answered back causing Jaune and Ruby to look at each other with concern.

But their thoughts were cut short when they heard a deafening roar. Jaune's hand immediately went towards to his sword and they both looked around for the source of the noise.

"It sound like it's far off." Ruby stated to Jaune who was still nervous.

"Yeah... But Ren and Nora are still out there."

Ruby looked down at Aodh for a brief moment. She seen that he was fighting to stay away and his breathing was slowly getting heavier. Softly to spoke to Jaune. "I'm sorry."

"Huh?" Both Jaune and Aodh looked at Ruby who was staring at the ground.

"This is all my fault. I should have never dragged you guys into this." Ruby softly spoke in her own sorrow.

"You didn't drag us in. We wanted to come." Jaune stated back to Ruby but she didn't agree with his words.

"But you didn't know about Tyrian, about." Ruby started once more but was cut short by Jaune.

"Ruby. We lost... We lost lost her, too. And Penny, and your team, and in a way... Your sister. But you're still here, despite everything you've lost, everything you could still lose, you chose to come out here." As Ruby now looked up both Jaune and Aodh could see that she was fighting back tears in her eyes.

"You chose to come here Ruby because you felt like you could make a difference. You didn't drag us along. You gave us the courage to follow you." Jaune finished by placing his hand on her shoulder. Know her friend cared about her caused Ruby to smile at Jaune as he smiled back.

"Well Jaune I approve you your marriage to Ruby but I can't say Tai will." Aodh joked at Jaune's expense.

"Wait, what!?" Jaune flustered out. Both his face and Ruby's were bright red with embarrassment.

"Relax kids, it was a joke... But it appears without me teaching you, you're all getting on fine. Huh..." Aodh grinned at both Ruby and Jaune before going into a fit of coughing. Ruby went to move towards him to check on him but he waved her away. "I'm fine... I'm fine... All we can do now is wait... And I honestly I fucking hate it."

Aodh then slowly pulled out a cigarette but his lighter fell out of his hand. Jaune seen this and picked it up and light it for him. "Thanks..."

(several minutes later)

As a second roars sounded off Jaune and Ruby looked around once more and they noticed Ren and Nora running towards them.

"What are you guys doing here?" Ruby asked.

"Did you guys hear that noise? What was that?!" Jaune asked as well.

But before he could answer Ren's eyes went wide as he falls to his knees. They could see that he was distressed about something. "No..."

"Ren! What is it?!" Ruby asked but once more didn't get a response from Ren. Instead they could all hear the clear sound of plodding footsteps coming closer to them.

"Wait, you guys hear that?" Jaune asked.

"I think it would be best if we move... Now." Aodh stated as he tried to get up but couldn't find the energy to do so.

Jaune went to help Aodh up but then the sounds of the footsteps stopped. All five then turned around to a bone horse's head breathes loudly, exhaling black smoke as it done so. Within the bones are glowing red lights and around it is the black flesh of a Grimm. Weapons were covering the back of the Grimm. The body itself looked human in appearance but on the crown of it's head was upward curved horns.

The mouth, the bones, and the eyes of the Grimm were all glowing red as the Nuckelavee twitches its head and roars.

And Cut!

Well for Volume 4 there are gonna be two more chapters that i will be posting. I'll try my best to get them out to you soon but with writing other projects i'm finding it a bot hard to juggle them around but hopefully you won't have to wait me than a month for the next update.

Now there is gonna be a break as well after the end of Volume 4 as well before I begin Volume 5 the reason for this is because i like to be at least a full volume behind the cannon as it currently stands. This is so I could make adjusted changes to the story. I hope you all understand this.

No Q&A for this chapter so i'll see you all next chapter!

So that's all for this chapter folks. If you have a question do feel free to post a review or PM myself. If I don't answer your question on next chapter's Q&A I will try to reply via PM. Thank you for reading this chapter. I hope you've all enjoyed it. Till next time!