A/N: So it's been a long time, huh? Writer's block been delaying my progress, so it still may take a while to put other chapters for the other stories. Anyway, enjoy the next chapter of Yang's World!
Side note: ... Well I'm an idiot. Sorry about that, I accidentally reuploaded the first chapter.
"Yang!? It's good to see you again! Never expected you to come here!" The local librarian exclaimed as Yang entered the library and approached the librarian's desk.
Yang sighed as she checked into the library "Rubes and her friends been here recently?"
The librarian nodded and tilted her head "Yeah, she and three of her friends come here about a week ago. They needed a map to get directions to Patch. If you need help, I can get you the book they looked at."
Yang smiled at this. "Thanks. Mind if I look around?"
The librarian laughed "Of course, silly! This is the library! Anyway, it should take a while since it's probably placed somewhere else by another person. So try find something you can read for a while."
Yang nodded and then turned to the vast shelves full of books. She went down the fiction section, more specifically the fantasy and adventure part. As she brushed the book's spines, idly reading the titles of the books, she noticed that despite her new arm being bizarre and just illogical. She could still feel everything as if her old arm was still there…
She was brought out of her thoughts as she suddenly stopped in her tracks. Looking back, she saw her new arm stuck to a specific book. With an annoyed grunt, she tried to pry her hand off the mysteriously "sticky" book. Instead, the book came loose and her new arm was in front of her with the book on her hand.
She frowned at the strange incident, but she then shrugged it off when she decided to look at the book's title.
'Strange title…' She turned the book over to see if there was any description. Only to find the same leather material that made up the cover. She then looked inside for a while to see if there was any indication of a short plot summary…
Once again, nothing.
Yang looked at the cover again in contemplation before she shrugged. 'Eh might as well, title seems interesting enough.' With that, Yang managed to find a place to sit and started to read the book titled…
"Over Heaven"…
"Sorry for the long wait! Someone borrowed the book earlier this week and just returned it so…" The librarian trailed off as she saw Yang reading a book with absolute concentration. At this sight, the librarian giggled at the normally action hungry brawler quietly and calmly read a book.
"I see that's books pretty interesting." Yang flinched when the librarian's voice brought her back to reality. "It must be really fascinating to make a girl who admitted "Books are for nerds and I'm not one of them!""
At this, Yang blushed at the tease "W-well… it is interesting…" Then she frowned as she tried to think of the correct words "But it is sort of… strange…" She turned the book over to inspect the title "It doesn't seem to be most fantasy stories that writers make nowadays."
The librarian decided to add a comment to that statement "Well… that book was actually a donation from a local hunting group in Patch."
Yang raised an eyebrow at this fact "A donation? So did one of the hunters write it or…?"
The librarian let a giggle "Of course not! The actual story was that while coming back from a hunt, one of the hunter's hat was blown away by the wind. After he finally caught up to his hat when the wind died, he found this book on a tree trunk. The tree stump wasn't anything special and there was nothing else special or suspicious around the area."
Yang leaned in, curious "So why was it donated here?"
The librarian shrugged "The hunter association, after studying and analyzing the book, gave it back to the man and claimed that it was nothing special. The hunter had to move somewhere else and decided to just donate the book to the library, since he didn't find it interesting nor had a decent price on any of the book stores."
Yang nodded and then looked at the book in her hands "Will you mind if I borrow this book?"
The librarian smiled "Of course, this is a library! In fact, you can keep it."
Yang's eyes went wide "Really!? Ar-are you sure?"
The librarian shrugged "To be honest, I actually forgot that book was here. Everybody, even the entire library staff, doesn't really care about. I haven't seen one take out of that book since it actually came here three weeks ago. So, giving it to somebody who actually likes and has interest in the book is a better alternative."
Yang smiled and hugged the librarian "Thanks, it might be trouble for you though…"
The librarian chuckled "No problem! In fact we joked that the book was so unpopular that nobody would notice it…got…" She trailed off as she noticed something about Yang.
Yang's smile dropped and asked in obvious concern "Is there something wrong?"
The lady bit her lip in contemplation then spoke very gently "Yang… I'm sorry I didn't notice your injury before. Must been hard losing your arm…"
Yang raised an eyebrow and looked at her right "arm" "What do you mean? My arm's back, in fact it's a bit cool if I say so myself."
Yang watched as the librarian continued to look at her with sadness and pity 'Poor girl, her mind must be in denial…' Then she cleared her throat and gave the book to Yang "Here's the book your sister checked out… hope you feel better soon Yang…" With that the librarian hurried back to her desk while casting one last look of concern and pity before going back to her station.
Yang stood still for a while before she turned and opened the book. After looking at the map and jotting down the directions, she placed her new book in her knapsack and headed out the library.
'My new arm…' Yang looked at it as she experimentally flexed and even pinched her other arm 'It's there… even Dad could see it… but why did the librarian not see it?' As she brushed her hair to the side, she didn't notice a strange mark on her shoulder that wasn't there before…
A star shaped mark…
"Hey Ruby, you okay?" Jaune huffed as he, Ruby, and the remainder of his team were catching their breath after defeating a rather large horde of Grimm on their way to Atlas. The clues they managed to find at Haven only caused more questions to pop up. Instead of information, there was more questions than answers. However, they managed to find another clue about the real threat in the country of Atlas itself. So with that information, they started to trek to the cold, mechanical, and industrial kingdom of ice.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Ruby replied as she tried to secretly to cover her hand up and hide something.
"Hey, what's wrong? Something bad happen?" Nora looked curiously at Ruby's strange action.
"No, it's nothing. Just a minor wound…" Ruby pretended to wipe the "blood" off "Just got to get the blood off."
Nora nodded and tilted her head "You know… you're aura has been much faster in healing than yesterday..." Nora leaned in closer to inspect the wound on Ruby's arm "Are you sure you're okay?"
Ruby flashed a grin and held a thumbs up "Yep! Fine! Thank you~!" With a grin back to her, Nora turned and skipped toward Ren continuing to chatter about random things.
Ruby sighed and looked to her right, seeing a golden hand cover her wound. And after a sharp sting of pain, the skin was patched up and the wound was completely gone. She looked at the figure floating next to her. The golden figure was slim, muscular, and about a foot longer than Ruby's height. The top of its head is similar to that of a typical helmet of a soldier, with a curved mark similar to the letter J coming down from the eyes on both sides. On its shoulders, there are stylized wings, one on each side with ladybug motifs all over its body. The final detail was the slings on its waist as if it also was wearing pants.
"So…thanks?" The figure looked at Ruby and then faded away into her body. Ruby sighed as she tried to think of every possibility of the strange… man. Just yesterday, she had lost her semblance of speed and instead this man appeared whenever she wanted to use her aura. Still, it wasn't bad… the man came at her call and either gave her a speed and strength boost or healed her wounds with ease. Still this didn't explain the sudden change of her semblance… if she could call it that.
'Also…' She took a peak at the object in one of her skirt's pouch, looking at the strange object. 'What is this? It just suddenly appeared when I woke up today. Why would something like this be out this far in the wilderness?'
As she walked by Jaune, he raised an eyebrow as he noticed something "Hey, Ruby?" She stopped and looked at her friend. He then pointed at her shoulder near the base of her neck "What is that? Did you ever have that mark?"
"Mark?" Ruby tugged at her corset and took a look at her right shoulder and there she saw…
A star shaped mark.
A/N: (Gasp!) OH MAI GOD! What could this mean…?
…
Iunno.
Anyway, if you have any comments or criticism then feel free to say it.
