Experiment V

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Chapter 17

After Ferron had given her goodbyes and left, everything seemed to have become peaceful. Or at least as peaceful as it could be. I then noticed that Weiss had yet to return from the 'restroom', I soon received a message on my Scroll that read: Could you come to our room...alone?

I made my way to the room and slipped inside, almost immediately I noticed Weiss. Her back was facing me and she was curled up into a ball. "You wanted to-" I started to say but was cut off by a sudden jolt from underneath me, causing me to crash into a wall but before I could register what had caused my crash I noticed that Weiss had sat up on the bed. Her hair was down, cheeks slightly puffy, and eyes red but she held a cold stare in her icy stare.

"Why?" She asked me "Weiss, what are you-" I started to say but, once again, was cut off. "Why did you keep that information from me? Me! Your girlfriend!" She shouted at me, fresh tears threatening to spill out. "Weiss, I...I couldn't tell you because, I didn't want you to get hurt" I said as I looked away from her in shame. She let out grunt, "You're no different then" she muttered under her breath.

"What do you mean?" I asked as I looked at her and saw a brief flash of pain and despair in her eyes before it was gone "It doesn't matter, forget I said anything...just please don't keep any secrets from us, from me, anymore." She finished as she lowered her head, her bangs blocking her eyes. I stood up, walked over to her and cupped her cheek.

"I promise, I won't keep anything from you anymore" I started to say, raising her head "And you're not weak, Weiss, you're much stronger than you know and don't let anyone tell you any different" I finished, looking into her eyes. She meekly nodded and I brought her in for a kiss. A loving one.

We soon changed and went to bed. Sleep came swiftly to us that night.

"Ruby! Weiss!" Yang called out, awakening me with a start. Quickly looking around, I noticed the room was vacant of its other occupant. Immediately I leapt from the bed and ran to where I heard Yang's voice come from.

I found everyone in the living room, throwing winter clothes and their weapons on. "What the hell is going on?!" I exclaim but instead of any form of response, a letter was shoved into my face.

Yang,

I've taken The Heiress and Little Rose, my reasons will be revealed if and only if you come to the place where your flames almost died before they could even begin to burn. Bring only Summer, TaiYang, The False One, and yourself.

Your mother,

Raven Branwen

"The False One?" I asked, hanging the letter back to Yang as I started to make my way back to my room. "Hurry, we can't waste time!" Summer exclaimed, causing me to quickly dash to my room for my gear. Just as I came back, everyone had began to leave.

We ran through the dark and cold woods, until we came across an old barn. Stopping to catch our breaths, we saw a lone figure and from what I could tell, it was a woman. The more frightening thing being that she was a carbon copy of Yang, save for the black hair, sword, and red eyes.

"Glad to see you could make it, little one." The woman said in a slightly bored tone which seemed to slightly anger Yang but a voice cut in before she could retort or lunge "Where is Ruby?" Blake asked in a threatening tone, venom dripping from her tone. The woman stepped to the side and revealed a bound and unconscious Ruby and Weiss.

I started to make my way towards them but just as I extended a hand, I quickly retracted it to avoid the sword slash from the woman. I jumped back from her "Not quite yet, you can retrieve them momentarily" she said matter of factly. "Enough games, Raven! Why'd you take them? And Who is The False One?" Tai shouted, anger rising with every passing moment.

The woman, Raven, gave him what could easily be described as a death glare. She took a step towards him, her grip on the sword tightening "You will hold your tongue, lest I have to cut it and something else off" she stated in a venomous tone. Tai held in his retort but still held his glare.

"Just answer our questions already" I state, causing Raven to switch her gaze to me. "My reasons for taking them and the person you seek are all in the same answer." She said "And the answer would be?" I asked.

"You, False One." she stated to me.

"What?" I asked her, in shock. "You're The False One, or to put it more simply, you're a being of unstable power." She said, only raising everyone's curiosity except mom's who seemed to be showing signs of panic.

Raven noticed this and called her out on it "Summer, tell me you haven't lied to this boy about what he is." She said as mom began to look around frantically, a trait Ruby has when she's backed into a corner. "I have not, he knows everything" she said, an obvious lie. Raven looked at her with clear disappointment on her face before turning to me once again "Tell me, in the Black Snow, what was the number they referred to you as?" She asked.

I felt my blood run cold at the question "Uh...it was...5-326" I answered, feeling my heart start to race in fear. "Hmm...The Hybrid experiment, thought so" she said as she produced a file from within the top part of her dress and made her way towards me but a gunshot rang out, causing her to drop the file just in time to deflect a bullet.

"This doesn't concern you Qrow, I suggest you leave" Raven stated just as said person came sauntering out of the woods. "When it comes to my family, I'm sure it does" he said as he pulled a flask from a back pouch and took a swig from it.

I quickly dipped down and grabbed the file before the snow soaked completely through. "James, don't look at that!" I heard mom call out but I ignored her and started to flip through.

At first, the pages seemed to be crudely written algorithms and theories, most of which I couldn't make out but one stuck out amongst it all: Human-Grimm Super Soldiers. The theory states the possibility to manufacture beings of unscalable power, something with the aggressiveness and durability of an Alpha Grimm and yet the intellect of man. At first it speaks of taking a fully trained Huntsman and infusing him with 'Grimm Blood' but those were deemed failures. The pages went on and on like that, listing off Huntsman and Huntress alike but soon I got to a flashdrive, taped to the file.

"Now do you understand?" I hear Raven ask, finally realizing that I had been standing there for a while. I nodded slowly, letting the information sink in "Release Ruby and Weiss please...I believe we're done here" I say, keeping my head down.

The trek back to the house was a long and quiet one, especially considering the fact that now Raven and Qrow had joined us.

Once we had made it back and the two unconscious girls had been settled in, the rest of us sat in the living room. Mom keeping her distance from me. I plugged the flash drive into the back of the tv, causing a file to show up on the screen as well as my Scroll which had been connected to said tv.

The screen went black for a moment before it lit up and showed a blonde haired scientist with stubble and black rimmed glasses. A familiar figure. He then began to speak, "Video Log #1, I believe I've finally cracked the code...we were looking in the wrong direction the whole time...but this time, I know i have it!" He said with a tired chuckle.

"D-Dad?" I asked aloud as my eyes began to widen in shock.

And that, readers, is the end of the chapter but don't worry I shall return so don't give up hope just yet, we're nearing the end so stick around and as always...stay tuned readers.