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Chapter Cover: A younger Weiss's back looking forward with her white cloak dancing in the wind...

Chapter Thirty-One

Five Years Ago

Clang…Clang…Clang…

The two blades clashed against each other with vicious abandon and forces. The two fighters both of them dressed in similar white robes were both launching at each other as sparks danced each time their weapon made contact with each other. The shorter girl, who had her white hair falling down upon her shoulder, stepped back from the last attack, a look of utter concentration upon her face as she stared at her opponent for a few moments before actually dashing forward.

With a yell, she launched her attack straight at her opponent causing the blades to spark again at their meeting, pushing her opponent a few feet back by the force of the blow she had just send her. The younger girl placed her blade in guard noticing that moment of weakness as her opponent tried to get their footing back so she struck forward like a poisonous snake.

The older girl let out a yell as she was finally thrown back from the latest attack, nursing a wound upon her shoulder as she landed down upon the ground sliding backward.

"Do you yield?" the younger girl asked pointing her blade at her opponent's throat.

She nodded.

"This is the match," a voice called out.

A man dressed in important robe approached them. He also had the white hair of the two girls that were battling against each other and his bleu eyes were like ices as they stared at them. The shorter girl replaced her sword into it's shaft before taking a kneel down.

"Father?" she said.

The older girl did the same.

"You have done well Weiss," Ezekiel spoke out, "Your improvement have been quite astonishing for me and the Council. We are even starting to consider you for the rank of Captain. You not only managed to learn the name of your Soul Weapon, but you also managed to actually to be able to have a perfect control over your Aura."

"I'm honored Father," Thirteen year old Weiss said as she stood back up, "I will bring honor to the Clan if I am given such a rank."

Ezekiel gave her a light nod before turning toward the older girl who was still kneeling down.

"Winter," he said, "You should train harder. As the older sister, I have expected better from you."

"Forgive me Father," Winter spoke, her head bowed, "I will try harder next time."

"Make sure that you will," Ezekiel said before walking out of the room leaving the two girls inside.

Weiss gave her older sister a glance and could see the tightening of the young woman's jaws. Winter was angry that much she could see but Weiss simply turned away from the older girl, after all, it was her fault that she was still weak. Weiss couldn't believe that the said girl had become weaker than her. Winter used to be stronger when they started and yet now, Weiss saw that her sister's strength was too unchallenging for her now.

She made her way through the hallway her eyes finding Sebastian there.

"Training went well I assume," he asked.

Weiss didn't answer him as she made her way past the man.

"Lady Schne…?"

"I thought I told you not to call me that," Weiss snapped giving the man a backward glance, "There is only one Lady Schnee and she is dead because of your incompetence. Go bother someone who actually cares about your input."

Sebastian observed her for a few moments as the girl walked away from him. Even thirteen years old, Weiss had changed quite a lot since her mother died and she blames him for that after all, he was the one who had been with them that day. Watching her now, Sebastian could feel a like a needle was stabbing at his heart. It was close to Weiss's birthday that her mother had passed away and it had been a few days ago now…He chanced a glance toward the window noticing the falling snow from the world outside. The winter season had caused a lot of snowfall this year and it seems that it hadn't stopped.

He worries about the white haired girl.

All Weiss do now is train and train growing herself in strength and power. Sebastian still doesn't know why the young woman had send herself into training. While he may not know the exact reason why Weiss was training so hard, he had an inkling that it had to do something with her mother's death.

Whatever your reason Weiss? He thought, Just be careful…


The next morning, Weiss found herself walking with her Squad. While the entire White Clan responded to the Captain and the Commander, they split the numerous members of the Huntsman and Huntress into different Squads so that they could send numerous troops to different locations. Depend on how strong the Squad members were, they were assigned some different duties like support Squads, Healing Squads and Advanced Combat Squad and so forth…

With Weiss's skill, she had been added to the Advanced Combat Squad along with some veterans Huntsman. The man that was officially the leader of their squad was named Saturn Heart. He was a large man who wore his blue robes quite well and with the symbol of the Schnee family upon his back. Along with him was a girl by the name of Kaya who was in her twenties and the last member was a young man around twenty something named Cal.

"Alright Squad," Heart said looking at them all, "This will be a B-ranked mission so I will expect all of you to be on guard. This is a Grimm clearing mission so it should be just in our job description. This village is situated near one of the Schnee Family Mines so clearing the Grimm should be top priority, civilians will have to come seconds."

"A mining Village?" Kaya said surprised, "Don't those place have their own guards for things like that?"

Heart nodded.

"They do," he said, "But most of them have fallen victims to the Grimm's Dark Breath. So they had abandoned the village. The few that remained are not enough to actually hold the Grimm's off forever so they had send a request here to us…so we'll do our job, is that clear?"

"Yes sir."

Weiss couldn't help but feel disgust within herself at the thought of the mining Village. She knew that the only things that she will be able to find at a place like that are Faunus. The girl hated Faunus now that they were responsible for her mother's death.

"Will there be a problem Weiss?"

The girl blinked returning her attention toward Heart. The man was giving her a critical glance. Weiss knew that her obvious hatred of Faunus were apparent to him ever since she was first placed in his Squad.

"No sir," she said simply.

The man continues to stare at her for a few more seconds before nodding. He turned away from them and the trio followed after him and then they arrived in front of a Doorway. Weiss followed her team through and sure enough, they were now standing in a large forest. The young girl glanced around herself searching for the darkness of the Grimm in the air around them but she didn't sense anything.

"The village is just beyond those trees," Heart said to them, as the Doorway disappeared behind him.

"Man it's quite a difference from the endless snow at Atlas," Kaya smirked, as she glanced around, "Are we somewhere far from Atlas."

"Pretty far," Heart said, "The snow had not yet reached this far outward. Anyway, let's go."

He disappeared using Light Steps and Weiss followed after him. The girl was completely focused on her mission now, her sense alert for any sign of Grimm as they moved through the trees but they haven't been nothing else.

"Strange," Cal said, "I would have thought we'd be sending Grimm by now."

"You're right," Heart said, "Maybe the attacks have stopped…or maybe they few guards that stayed behind managed to push them back."

"Maybe," Cal said, "But what's about the village that have Grimm drawn toward it?"

"Your guess is as good as mine," Heart said, "But here we go."

They had stepped out of the forest and Weiss got a first look at the village. It was small, smaller than she had expected it to be. They were rows of houses in the distance and they all looked rundown at best. It was like the houses could be destroyed by a simple hurricane. Weiss turned her gaze toward the other places noticing the signs of the Grimm attack upon the village such as the black feathers of a Nevermore and of the sign of damages that had been done to nearby cars and building.

"Definitely suffered Grimm's attack that's for sure," Kaya said as they walked forward.

Heart let out a soft hum as they approached the main building of the Village. It was barricaded probably the Village's last stand against the number of Grimm attack they have been forced to endure.

"Hello," Heart asked, "Anyone home?"

The group stood there for a few moments as they stared at the building in front of them. But soon, Weiss could see movements on the second floor and it caused her to place a hand upon the handle of her sword ready to attack if she needs to.

But it was only a man and not only was that, from the two small horns that were growing from his head, the man a Faunus. Weiss can feel her eyes narrow at him.

"Don't attack us please," he said, "We are only the people of the village."

"Are you the one that send in the request?" Heart asked him.

The Faunus shook his head, "No…I'm afraid that was our Mayor…but he died during one of the attacks. We have lost many people and have managed to buried the ones that we could…the rest, were completely devoured by the Grimm."

"They were soldiers stationed there isn't it?" Heart asked, "What happened to them?"

"They all left us behind," the man said sounding angry, "The cowards ran to the mountains and left everyone here to die."

Cal gasped softly, "You mean…that you've been fighting against the Grimm by yourselves for three weeks?"

The Faunus nodded.

"Yes," he said, "We were about four hundred people within this village but now, they are barely forty of us left…each time the Grimm attack, they take many of us with them…"

"I see," Heart said, "Then you should rest easy. My Squad and I will protect this village. I will send word to Atlas of what is going on here and maybe they could send more soldiers to come and protect this place from the Grimm."

Weiss couldn't find it within herself to feel pity for them. When Heart had told them to spread out to the village, she couldn't wait to leave this place behind and head out on her own so that she could hunt down Grimm. The young girl had a hand upon her blade's handle as she walked down the streets with a focused look upon her face.

When she didn't find anything, she decided to report back to Heart. It won't do for her to simply wander around this place. The sun had already started to set behind the trees when she returned with the rest of her Squad. So far, they have been no sign of the Grimm at all during their entire search so Heart had decided to have them position at different places of the village to keep an eye out and to Weiss's chagrin, she had been chosen to guard the large place where the remaining villagers had decided to stay.

So here she was, seating upon the roof of the large Town Hall, with both of her eyes closed. She was meditating to pass the time but also, she had kept her sense outward for the Grimm but she couldn't sense anything…

So we're on guard duty now, she thought, Well that's just perfect…I thought we'll be fighting Grimm and go back without staying here…I mean, just what the hell Heart was thinking protecting these animals? They should all just disappear from this planet entirely.

A sound brought Weiss out of her thoughts and without thinking, she drew her sword and slashed at where the noise came from. She heard someone yell out in shock as her eyes found what look like a young man lying down upon his back. He was wearing a white open vest shirt upon his body and jeans. He looked completely shocked at what she had just done…

"What the hell are you doing?" Weiss asked, relaxing a little now sounding more annoyed at the young man.

He had blond hair Weiss realized and also had a blonde tail dancing behind him as he was slowly getting back to his feet.

"Damn that was close," the young man said looking down at his shirt, "A little closer and it could have been my chest that was split into two. You Grimm Slayers really are something."

Weiss glared at him.

"You dunce, what the hell did you think will happen sneaking up on a trained warrior like that?" she asked, "And who the hell are you?"

"Sun," the young man said, "I'm Sun Wukong."

"I didn't ask you for your name," Weiss snapped.

The young man, Sun, scratched his head a little.

"Really?" he said, "But you asked me who I was…I thought that was what you were asking."

Weiss could feel her annoyance growing.

"Leave me alone," she said, "I have better things to do than talk you one of you. I am on duty."

Sun looked at her, a focused look appearing upon his face.

"There is something I have been meaning to ask you Huntress," he said, "Your people…can fight using Aura right? You use that to kill the Grimm, don't you?"

Weiss didn't even turn to face him, "What of it?"

"Teach me how to do the same," Sun asked her.

Weiss turned her head toward him, a look of surprise actually crossing her features.

"What? Why would I teach you?"

Something in Sun's eyes caused Weiss to feel something in her chest. His eyes were not even looking at her, probably thinking of something that happened a while ago.

"I want to learn to kill them," Sun said, "So that I can have my revenge for my parents."

Revenge…Weiss thought.

Now she understood why the young man's eyes reacted something within her. It was a similar look she wore in her eyes when she decided she had decided to become a Huntress. It was the same eyes she had when she had promised herself that she will have vengeance on the one who killed her mother…

"You'd have a better chance killing yourself," Weiss answered him.

Sun, to her surprise, chuckled at her.

"Probably," he said, "I hate not be able to do anything to help them…maybe I should have just died along with them…"

Weiss stayed silent for the entire night of her vigil over the Hall. Sun had stayed with her much to her displeasure, but the girl simply had decided to ignore him entirely. Despite her silence, Weiss had found herself a little troubled that a Faunus could feel the same way she does about her mother…except that this time, the young man's anger was aimed at the Grimm just as her own anger was aimed at the Faunus…

The strange feeling Weiss realized that she felt within her heart she could feel was pity.

Sun Wukong make his first appearance in this fanfic...but younger one as well...

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Next Time: Five Years Ago part 2

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