DoteJiEndo: Hello my friends!

*ducks to avoid barrage of thrown objects*

*peeks back up*

DoteJiEndo: Okay I deserved that

*briefly ducks again to dodge a rotten tomato*

DoteJiEndo: Dammit Jude, sit your ass down! I saw that motherfucker and I know where you live!

*clears throat*

Anyways, I believe that I owe most of you an explanation. If you're new here well… come back later and most of this will be gone anyways. So I know that almost… a year ago… I promised that I'd try to get chapter 3 of RWBY: Dragon of Beacon up as quickly as possible. Obviously I failed to make the 3-4 week deadline I had hoped to; in fact, I was nearly ready to post it about halfway into December.

You heard right, I said "nearly". For you see it was around mid-December that life decided to viciously, and repeatedly, kick me in the balls. The least of said ball-kickings was a series of engine problems that lasted well into fricking March. That however was not the main reason I could no longer write.

My Aunt had felt ill for months previously but doctors had been unable to find the cause until that same point in time: cancer in both her liver and gallbladder. As you might expect, this caused a major shift in priorities all around. However I regret to say that, about 30 days after being diagnosed, we held the first funeral in my family in almost twenty years.

God if you think that's harsh, you've clearly never had to go to your grandparents and tell them that their daughter had passed away. I hadn't thought it possible to get water from a stone until I saw my granddad that day.

*takes a great many deep breathes*

Ok, so that was absolutely not a bid for sympathy. But seriously, it was a rough few months from that point on. I came back to start writing again, and had to refresh my memory of where I was at and…

…well…

…Screw it…

I really wasn't happy with what I'd already done. There's no easy way of putting it. I piggybacked on the canon storyline a bit too hard, went too far down the rabbit hole on some descriptions, and left hooks that literally didn't matter beyond a brief inkling of an idea that I changed my mind about. So that said I will not be continuing the current storyline.

Still here? Good. Instead I am revamping the offending portions of this fanfic. In the meantime, while I figure out exactly how to get through to the really interesting bits of my plans, I will be posting up four short prologue chapters in the style of the original trailers that started all of this.

Now I can hear the naysayers already: "This jackass already said he'd do things faster and couldn't do it, what's going to be different this time?"

…First of all, shut up. Second, you have neither a heart nor a soul sir.

I have already written the first trailer, and will post the "Dragon" trailer once I've gotten it proofread by a buddy. Provided said buddy survives retribution for that rotten tomato.

*glares at Jude*

In addition the following trailer is already about a quarter of the way done and will follow soon after.

Now, before I get back to it, I'd like to give a quick shoutout to ExoRipper. I greatly appreciate the in-depth reviews and your candor in said reviews. Many of your concerns were among the issues I had going back through it all and will be addressed in the rewrite. However I do also feel the need to apologize as, due to some of the changes I am making, some of the things you liked may not be quite the same, if they are included at all. This is nothing against you nor should you feel that speaking your mind has caused this change. Everything that will be changed has been a result of my own issues with what I have written. That said, I do value the effort that you put into those reviews and welcome you to do so again, if you are willing.

I expect to post up the "Dragon" trailer within a few days of this note being posted. As well, once the four trailer chapters are up, I will be taking down the original two chapters as well as this note. Also at that point the update speed will drop; not because I don't want to write but because I refuse to fill a chapter with crap content just to meet a deadline.

Now then if you'll excuse me, my friend and I have a double date with Jude and his back…

*draws a Bowie knife and walks away*