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Chapter Cover: Weiss standing side by side with Ruby and Yang all of them have their weapons out.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Unannounced
Somewhere
A figure dressed in a white robe was walking through an empty hallway. The young man was walking by himself, his white hair falling down upon his shoulder as he walked a light frown upon his features. The young man continued to walk aiming straight toward the large door that was in front of him. He was dressed with a metal armor shoulder that was a blue color, a contrast to the color white his robes were made out of.
The young man approached it and was about to knock when a voice spoke out.
"You're in a hurry Light."
He turned toward the voice, finding a young woman there. She had her hair falling down upon her shoulders as well and both of her hands were joined together where she stood. The young man had a pale face and her blue eyes were cold, hiding any feeling she was feeling from the inside.
"Winter," he said.
Winter Schnee stared up toward him.
"What brings you here in the Central Room?" Winter asked him.
"The news that reached us a few days ago," he said, "There was an attack on Vale…that's the exact place were your sister had been…"
"And they have managed to defend the place," the white haired girl told him "Why do you continue to worry about every little detail?"
Light stared at her surprised.
"Are you not even worried about your sister?"
Winter gave him a stare, her blue eyes instantly become cold. A sudden rise in Aura caused Light to actually fall down upon his knees in front of the girl. A blue glow appeared around her body as her power surged forward. Light couldn't help but feel the tension rushing through him at the amount of power the Winter was unleashing.
"That girl is no sister of mine," she said.
Light stared at her.
Her power…it's more than I expected it to be, he thought.
"That's enough Winter."
The male voice drew both of their attention as the man stared at them. He was wearing a long white robe upon his form. The man was staring at them, his blue eyes looked at them, looking not even fazed by Winter's released power.
"Lord Ezekiel," Light said.
Winter's power instantly subsided as she kneeled down in front of the man that had just entered. She bowed her head at him before getting back up again.
"Hello Father," she said, "Have the Council come to a decision?"
"They have," the man, Ezekiel spoke out his powerful voice causing the room around him to seemingly tremble at it, "Their decision is to find the exiled traitor Weiss Schnee to answer for her crimes."
Winter narrowed her eyes.
"Is that so?" she murmured.
Ezekiel turned his gaze toward the girl in front of him.
"You will have this task Winter," he said, "You will be tasked to bring her back here."
"As you wish Father," Winter spoke with the inclination of her head.
The girl then turned away leaving Light standing there beside Ezekiel.
"L…Lord Ezekiel," he spoke out, drawing the man's attention toward him, "On what charges is Weiss being summoned back here for? Despite her departure five years ago, we haven't even had contact with her...To be charged like this…"
Ezekiel glanced at him.
"The traitor will be tried by the full Court Council," he said, "what she had been charged with is breaking the law of the White Clan as well as the Universal Law of the Huntress Code."
He walked off leaving Light to stare at his retreating back. The white robes danced at each steps the man made and upon his back was the symbol of the Schnee family. Light stared at him for a few moments before turning his gaze down toward the ground.
Weiss…, he thought, So you're finally going to be brought back here…
An image swam into his mind the sight of a girl that was covered in blood as she lied there on the ground...
The young man shook his head, ridding his mind of the image that had settled in. Just thinking about the girl brought back the dark memories of that time five years ago…
I hope…you're ready to face your father again.
Vale
Seventeen Days since the White Fang attack
"You know Ruby, when I decided to help you study," an annoyed voice spoke out, "I was actually thinking you are going to be studying."
"I am studying," another voice spoke out, "But…I just can't hold everything in."
"You barely read three paragraphs," the first voice said, aggravated, "Stop acting so dramatic."
Ruby Rose let out a groan as she slammed her head down toward the table in front of her. They were many books scattered in front of the young girl as well as her notebook. Across her was Weiss Schnee, and yet again, she had a book seating in front of her. Her hair was tied in an off-center ponytail, and she was dressed in a simple long sleeved shirt and jeans.
The two of them were seating in Ruby's room and Weiss had agreed to help the girl study for the upcoming exams. With all the training they have done these past few months and battling against the White Fang, and worrying for Weiss, Ruby had completely neglected her studies and now that the exams were coming up, for the first part of the school year, the girl had started to focus upon her schoolwork and with how much she had to study she knew that she wasn't going to be able to past.
Having seeing her dilemma, Weiss had offered to help saying that it was basically her fault that Ruby was in that mess in the first place. Looking up at Weiss, Ruby realized how far they had come in the two months since they had met her. When she had come back to school, Ruby had instantly brought Weiss up toward the rest of the group so that she could introduce her to them.
It had been awkward at first considering Weiss didn't actually talk much but as the days passed, Jaune had finally worked to courage to actually talk to the girl and the first thing he had done was trying to flirt with her.
Weiss had shut him down quite quickly, saying that there was no chance at them becoming a thing. Ruby had been afraid that the other two will be angry but Ren and Nora simply laughed at them and ever since then, Weiss had become part of the gang.
On the side of the Huntress work, Weiss had actually joined them during their search and with Weiss there, no Grimm had ever gotten past them to harm anyone else and Ruby could feel herself smiling lightly.
Weiss had become a friend to them now…and she was glad.
"Why are you smiling?"
That voice brought Ruby back to the present, she blinked at the white haired girl who was seating across her. Weiss was staring at her, and Ruby can see the curious look that was in the depths of the blue eyes.
"Oh…it's nothing," Ruby told her, "I was just thinking about everything that had happened since the White Fang attack."
"I see," she said, "It must have been…trying for you to be suddenly thrown into a battle to the death like that."
Ruby nodded.
"It was," she said, "But…I wasn't worried."
Weiss raised a perfect eyebrow at that.
"And why is that?"
"Because we were fighting to protect you," Ruby told her with large grin.
Weiss shook her head lightly and Ruby can see her lips tugging at the corner, probably fighting a grin.
"You're a dunce you know that," she said.
"Hey," Ruby yelled, "I resent that."
Weiss stared at her, her blue eyes seems to twinkle as they stared at her. Ruby knew that she was amused at her reaction.
"With a reaction like that," she said, "How can I not call you a dunce?"
Ruby pouted returning to her studies causing the white haired girl to let out a soft chuckle. Weiss turned her attention toward the window.
"Yang is patrolling then I take it?" she said, "I can sense her Aura from across the city."
"Yes," Ruby said, "She said she like using her Aura to fight against the Grimm."
"If there was a Grimm, he would have told us already," Weiss told her, "She should focus on her studies rather than go out there and play superhero."
"That's Yang for you," Ruby told her.
Weiss let out a soft sigh.
"That brute…," she murmured.
There was a knock at the door of Ruby's room and Qrow entered inside.
"Studying hard I see," he said.
"I swear I am going to die," Ruby yelled, "I can't remember anything….I'm going to fail…I know I am going to fail."
"You're just stressing yourself out," Weiss told her, "You need to be focused."
Qrow chuckled at them.
"Dinner is ready," he told them, "I'm sure that you girls will like to have a break."
"Oh thank The Divine Mother," Ruby said.
"Grow up," Weiss told her, standing up as well, "I hope you don't mind having me."
"Don't get all formal with me Weiss," Qrow told her with a small smile, "Just call me Qrow…Say, have you seen Yang?"
"She is still on Patrol," Weiss told him, "I can feel her Aura heading this way…she must have realized that it was time to eat."
Yang was flying through the air, heading back toward her house. On her patrol, she hadn't encountered any Grimm at all. It was like they were less of them from before the White Fang attacked them. She was actually a little disappointed that they were none present. She had wanted to fight against some of the Grimm but alas she wasn't as lucky.
Could that our Faunus friend was right in saying that the amount of Grimm was because of the Doorway that the White Fang were going to create?
Yang could still remember the sight of the Leviathan that had appeared that day. That thing was powerful…more powerful than anything that she had ever seen before and it's power could have destroyed Vale without breaking a sweat. A frown appeared upon her face.
To think…that there was something like that out there, she thought, and for it to appear here in Vale…
Flashback
"You said that a Leviathan is drawn in time of war?" Yang said, "What did you mean by that?"
The young man turned his gaze toward her, a look of surprise appearing upon his face. His dark eyes stared at her for a few moments before refocusing forward.
"There are a lot of things you should realize about the Grimm," he started, "Despite fighting against them for as long as we have. We still don't know a whole lot about them."
Yang frowned.
"I thought you knew what they were?" she asked.
"Ever since we people have Aura," the young man told her, "They have been Grimm. Ever since the dawn of man on Remnant, the Grimm had been a companion that was always there. It was like humankind was locked in a battle for survival since its birth."
"It's been that long and no one had ever even realized what they were?" Yang said surprised.
"It's not like people didn't try to study the Grimm," he told her, "There were even people who willingly went into the Shadow world to see what the world of the Grimm was like…but none of them returned."
Yang frowned, thinking about it.
"I don't like the idea of fighting against an enemy that we don't know anything about."
The young man chuckled.
"We aren't exactly blind either," he said, "the Clans have developed ways of fighting against the Grimm like the Coating technique Weiss taught you and your sister…we do know that the Grimm only attack humans and that they are drawn in by negatives emotions."
Yang gave him a glance.
"Negative emotions?" she repeated.
The young man let out a soft sigh.
"Hatred, Greed, Vengeance, jealousy, murder," he listed off, "the more violent the emotion, the more Grimm that are drawn toward them. In wars, those feelings are intensified as death and destruction continued to rise…and in those instances, the Leviathan appears."
Yang frowned.
"Do you think our fighting against the White Fang brought the one we faced?"
The young man shook his head.
"No," he said, "Your battles wouldn't have drawn a Leviathan…it could either be bad luck or coincidence that one of them actually showed up. Since we know so little about them due to the rarity of their appearances, that's all I can say on the matter."
End of Flashback
Yang landed down upon the ground in a crouch as she reached her home. The blonde young woman looked up toward the house in front of her. She made her way toward the home when something out of the corner of her eyes drew her attention.
Seating there upon the wall of the other house was a black cat.
The girl stared at the cat and the cat stared right back. Yang stared down on herself noticing that she was still in her Huntress outfit meaning that the cat wouldn't be able to see her…at least, she thinks that she won't be able to see her. All she knew that she was invisible to real people but she didn't know if it was the same thing for animals…
Yang looked up toward where the cat was and noticed that the animal was gone.
Strange, I could have sworn I saw that cat somewhere before, she thought frowning to herself.
"Hey Yang," Ruby called out from the front door, "Are you going to come and eat or what?"
The blonde turned her attention toward Ruby, "Yeah, I'm coming."
Pushing the cat out of her mind, Yang walked home.
A few days later…
"Oh thank God," Ruby yelled out.
It was the final day of the tests and the young girl was completely happy for it. Never before that she had studied this much before. Walking beside her was Weiss Schnee, a light frown upon her face.
"Don't be dramatic," she said, "This test was barely something to sweat at."
"Say the girl that seems to have photographic memory," Ruby said.
"I just remember the essentials," Weiss told her.
"But it all seems to be important Weiss," Ruby told her, "I feel like my brain was about to explode the entire time I was studying and then during the test, I had a hard time trying to remember what I studied for…"
Weiss placed a hand upon her shoulder drawing Ruby's attention toward her.
"Just keep your focus and try to not think too much," she said, "That's the reason you keep stressing yourself out."
"Hey guys,"
Yang waved at them and she had the other three with her. Nora and Ren were talking about something and Jaune looked like he was walking toward his own funeral.
"I see someone was in the same boat as me," Ruby said.
"It was a nightmare this test," Jaune said, "I'm glad that this is over. Now I can actually enjoy the week-end now…hey guys, why don't we plan something over the week-end?"
"Like what?" Yang asked, "A day at the beach or something?"
"That sound like a great idea," Jaune said, "What do you say?"
"It does sound fun," Ren said with a light smile.
"Yay, I'm going to go look for sharks when we get there," Nora yelled, "and we can scare people like they did in that movie we saw the other night Ren."
The young man let out a sigh, "I…really doubt something like that will be possible."
Ruby chuckled.
"Going to the beach?" she said, "Is there even a beach in Vale?"
"Yeah," Jaune told her, "They call it the Forever Fall Beach. It's only a thirty minute drive from the city itself. I went there myself when I was young…the best fun I ever had."
"Forever Fall Beach?" Yang said, "That's the same name as the Forest that's around Vale."
"Well it's because the beach is older than Vale itself," Weiss spoke out, "This entire area was known as Forever Fall. It's after the birth of the city that it was changed to Vale."
"Leave it to the Princess to tell you the history of her kingdom," Yang teased.
"Shut it," Weiss snapped, "And I am not a princess you brute."
"C'mon Weiss, you got a butler, a manor and more money than The Divine Mother," Yang told her "If that doesn't scream Princess, I don't know what will."
Weiss simply rolled her eyes at the blonde as she walked off, "If you're in such a good mood, then I can assume that you've done well in your exams?"
"Exams…Exhams…," Yang said waving her hand in a yeah-yeah motion, "It was a piece of cake."
Weiss gave her a stare, "You didn't sleep through it did you?"
Yang laughed.
"Oh you made a joke," she said, "I didn't know you had it in you Princess."
When she noticed that Weiss wasn't laughing, she stopped, "Oh…you were serious?"
Ruby tapped Weiss on the shoulder.
"Unlike me, Yang is actually quite the student," she said, "In our old school she was the top student in her class?"
"Really?" Jaune said shocked.
"Yep," Yang smiled, "I've got beauty and brains…I'm the ideal kind of girl that guys wants to have in their arms."
The group continued to talk to each other until they had to say goodbye to Jaune and the others as their road split and now Weiss was walking with both Ruby and Yang with her.
"You know…I'm surprised you decided to walk with us," Yang told her giving the girl a glance, "You usually had Sebastian drive you everywhere?"
Weiss stayed silent.
"I didn't have you two to keep me company now did I?" she said giving them a sideway glance.
"Aw," Ruby said jumping upon Weiss's back.
"Hey, get off you dunce," Weiss yelled.
Yang simply laughed at them as Weiss removed Ruby from her back. The white haired girl was once again scolding Ruby, "What's going inside your mind to jump upon my back like that? You could have make us fall down and I don't want to kiss the asphalt right now…"
But Weiss was suddenly cut off by a sudden high pressure of Aura. The very air around the three girls had started to shake at the amount of power that was being unleashed. Ruby could feel something in her chest tremble at the sheer amount of power she was sensing. Yang on her side had become pale with shock at the sudden rise in power that had fallen over Vale.
"W…What the hell…?" she whispered.
"An Aura…this is a powerful Aura…," Ruby said, "Is it the White Fang again?"
Weiss wasn't saying anything as she stood there. The girl was unmoving from where she stood, the wind blowing gently past her hair. Then suddenly in front of them, the young man with the hat appeared there.
Weiss looked up toward him.
Just in time, she thought.
She could feel the powerful Aura that was causing the sky above to become cloudy. She recognizes that Aura quite well, after all, it was something that she had become familiar with back when she lived with her family.
So…they had finally come, she thought.
Noir gave her a glance and Weiss gave him a small nod. The man walked past her and approached the two girls that were with her.
"Sorry you two," he said, "But I am going to need you to come with me."
"What?" Ruby said, "Why? Is it because of that Aura?"
"Just what is going on?" Yang asked.
Weiss gave them a backward glance, "Take them as far away from Vale as you can."
Ruby glanced at her, and she could see the confusion that was growing upon the young girl's face.
"Weiss…what…?"
"Sorry," Weiss whispered to her.
"Dust Level 20, Displacement," Noir said.
The trio was instantly engulfed into the black mass before they were gone. Weiss could feel her breath leaving her in a sigh now that they were gone from here. She didn't want Ruby nor Yang anywhere near her family if she couldn't help it…
And then the presence that was unleashing that entire powerful Aura which had drawn their attention was there in front of her. The white haired girl looked up toward the air in front of her and she standing there with her white robes dancing in the wind and her blue sash wrapped around her waist. Her white hair was dancing in the wind as well. The face looked remarkably similar to her owns but it still had some differences in them like the nose was slightly bigger and the lips were also fuller. The two blue eyes, however, were the exact same shades as her owns.
Weiss knew who it was.
"Hello there," the woman spoke out, "It's been quite a while."
"Indeed it has," she answered, her voice cold and emotionless, "Winter."
A face from Weiss's family appear in Vale...what history lies between the two?
Next Time: The White Clan.
Jacques0 out.
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