If Cinder was in on this plan to kill my dad I had to assume so were Emerald and Mercury, so I was no longer so friendly with the strange trio. I was pretty sure they hadn't noticed a massive change in attitude from me, I just tended to brush of their requests to spar saying I was busy or had plans to spar with someone else. so when Yang's match turned out to be against Mercury I was nervous, as the match progressed I relaxed slightly it all seemed like a normal match to me, and I was cheering along with the rest of team RWBY when yang won.

Frowning I saw Yang's head tilt like she heard something and then she spun around and I saw a flicker of something of her face, usually the look she got when somebody did something stupid like attack her when she was in the groove. I watched Mercury like a hawk but he didn't do anything and then she punched mercury straight in the leg, he didn't even say anything from what I could see, it was totally unprovoked and it seemed like she did some real damage. Emerald ran onto the stage and started winding the crowd up and fretting over Mercury, I watched her as they left and I saw the tiny smug smirk she shot yang before they left. Something was up with that and I was going to find out what!

While the rest of team RWBY tried to comfort Yang I was stretched out in my hammock, hacking into every computer system I could get into looking for information on Emerald, Mercury and Cinder. Several search results came back on Emerald showing she was wanted in several places for thievery, and it made note that she was capable of making people see what she wanted them to. Humming I said "hey guys?"

"What is it Dove?" Ruby was clearly not in the mood to be dealing with anything other than her possibly crazy sister,

"Well I think I know why nobody else saw what Yang saw"

"What?" now I had everyone's attention

"Emerald"

"What does emerald have to do with what I saw? I wasn't fighting her"

"Well it says here" lifting and wiggling my scroll for emphasis "that Emerald is capable of making single person hallucinations and she is wanted in various places for thievery"

"Wha...are you saying she made me see Mercury attack me when he didn't?"

"That is exactly what I am saying"

"But why would she get one of her team mates injured like that?"

"Maybe she wants you disqualified, although its not as much of a risk as you think, Mercury's leg can be replaced if need be, both his legs are robotic apparently" I continued reading becoming more and more intrigued the more I read on, and as I did I was beginning to think this whole plot was a lot bigger than getting Yang disqualified or even an assassination attempt on Qrow.

"We should tell people about them they need to be warned"

"Yeah, Emeralds ability actually makes sense as Coco swore she saw Yatsuhasti in the forest even though he had already been knocked out. They are just passing it off as stress induced hallucination, but if it is in actual fact Emerald's semblance then that would make much more logical sense, and I agree that we should warn people about this, Emerald's semblance is a dangerous one."

I was slightly surprised I think that was the most Blake had ever said in one go to me or anyone else for that matter, she wasn't normally one for long speeches. "Uh yeah and that's good uh who do we warn first?"

"Well naturally we should inform the authorities, however in this situation I don't think we will be believed, they will just think we are trying to defend Yang and wont listen to what we have to say" Weiss made a very good point.

"Okay so who do we tell?"

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"So you are telling me that Emerald can make illusions and Mercury has metal legs? It sounds kind of crazy"

"Jaune its not that improbable I already knew Mercury had a metal foot, I can manipulate metal remember, I moved it once in a fight. I didn't really think about it at the time but I wouldn't have been surprised to find out more of his leg was metal what with the way he runs and jumps"

"I guess Pyrrha I just don't know making illusions, if it was Emerald making Yang see things why would she intentionally get her own team mate injured?"

"We aren't really sure our selves but we think it has to be bigger than just getting Yang disqualified"

"...the fall maiden..."

"Pyrrha?"

"I...I have to go, I'm sorry" and then she was gone, tearing out of the room like her life depended on it.

There was a long moment of silence and then Ren spoke up "I believe you, we will be careful the next time we see Emerald"

Deciding this was probably as good as it was going to get we parted ways to go and find Coco and tell her she wasn't crazy.

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Having told Coco she wasn't crazy we had moved on to tentatively trying to explain this to some adults, we figured starting with Qrow might be out best shot.

"Qrow, we know what happened to Yang"

"Huh? what do you mean 'what happened to Yang?"

"Well Emerald's semblance is making single person hallucinations, and Yang is adamant about what she saw, it happened to Coco too."

"And how do you even know what Emerald's semblance is?"

Coughing slightly I said "well I may have hacked the internet and found out she is wanted in various regions for thievery and Mercury is the son of a famous assassin, and Cinder has close ties with white fang"

"What?"

"You heard what I said.." choking as I cut of the last bit as I had been about to say 'dad' at the end.

"What do they look like?"

Lifting my scroll with a picture of Cinder's group,

Qrow's expression went from one of an adult humouring a kid to one of shocked understanding, "shit, they are the ones responsible for Amber's condition"