Watching from the shadows I allowed myself to smile as I watched Qrow turn looking over his shoulder again muttering about "..I swear I can feel their eyes on me"

Apparently I must have made a sound as I was suddenly faced with the sharp end of a scythe, flashing a wide grin at him I lifted my wooden staff. The only adornment on the wooden weapon was the twin silver rings that rattled at the top of the staff, twirling it skilfully I smiled as the rings clanked and rattled together.

Settling into a ready position I waited for him to come at me, he didn't disappoint. Qrow was alway rash especially when he was angry. Smacking his clumsy swing aside I tutted, he must be either really drunk or too blinded by rage to be thinking and fighting clearly, I would probably say the anger option as weirdly enough the more Qrow drank the better his fighting got, go figure. Bringing the staff up I whacked the back of his legs as he stumbled past me, letting out a senseless roar of rage he swung at me again. Ducking out of the way we continued to fight this way for a short time while I just drunk in the opportunity to see my father again. Swinging my arm I shot a blast of fire at him, which he barely managed to dodge. Closing my eyes I concentrated and I felt myself lift of the ground as a soft green aura pulsed around me, lifting my arms a huge barrage of vines shot out of the ground and wrapped them selves around Qrow. Opening my eyes I smiled at the sight of Qrow trussed up like a Christmas dinner turkey.

"Qrow Branwen," I had to admit I was shocked by how easily I had captured him, I would put his quick defeat down to him not being completely in his right mind because of grief. It affected everybody differently but with Qrow, it would seem his reaction was uncontrollable rage aimed at any available target as the one he wanted was already gone.

"How do you know who I am?" I watched him take me in scanning me from my worn brown leather boots to the top of my pale green cloaked head, he apparently deemed me not an immediate threat despite his position being at my mercy.

Smiling softly I said "how is team RWBY and JNPR holding up after the beacon attack?"

"How...why do you want to know about them? Who are you"

Sighing softly I said "you forget me so quickly," inclining my head I said "you may call me Spring"

Looking startled he said "you are the spring maiden?"

Rolling my eyes I said "don't sound so surprised I beat you didn't I?"

"Did you?" slashing his way free of the vines with his sword he stepped forwards sword levelled at my chest "now how do you know of team RWBY and JNPR?"

Now I knew why he didn't seem concerned when I first caught him, I hadn't disarmed him so he had used the opportunity of talking to me to get himself free. "I have a relative who was in the attack, they said they all fought bravely however he missed the end of the fight and couldn't tell me what happened"

"Pyrrha nearly didn't make it, but she is fine now. Everyone else took minor damage, Blake and Weiss two members of team RWBY have left, one for unknown reasons and the other for home. Ruby and Yang the remaining members of team RWBY have left with team JNPR to head to Mistral to hunt down more leads on the attackers."

"I see, do you know where about in Mistral?"

"No"

"I see, well it was lovely seeing you again Qrow but I must be going"

"Wait you can't go, your in danger. we have reason to believe that these people are going after all the maidens, they already have fall. I don't suppose you know where summer and winter are do you?"

Laughing lightly I said "we don't keep in touch I'm afraid and you needn't worry about my safety, I was trained by the best"

"I'm sure but still"

"I'm fine" to prevent him from insisting further I turned morphing into the form of a small white dove and flew away.

Missing the half shocked half hopeful look he shot at my back although I did catch the fait "Dove?"

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Staring at my reflection I still couldn't get over my new look, the long unruly raven curls had smoothed out slightly, and the shocking white strand that fell in my eyes was now a bright pale green, and my wings. Once a solid white they were now more grey but with underlying pale green and pink highlights that somehow worked well with the overall look. I had changed up my outfit some so I now sported a long sleeved white crop top that had little pale pink designs around the cuffs, hemline and neckline. The top was paired with a pair of plain white leggings which were tucked into supple leather boots, that matched the double length belt that was wrapped around my waist twice. The belt housed several pouches for holding small items. Hanging from my shoulders was a long pale green cloak, the inside was grey with pale pink and green patterns on it to help my wings blend in.

Pulling the hood of my cloak up I exited the bathroom I had been hiding out in and headed in the direction of the bow of the ship, hoping to catch a glimpse of Mistral before we docked.

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Slipping through the crowed city I was trying to find someone who might know where team JNPR and Yang and Ruby were, however everyone here seemed to be in some massive hurry to get somewhere.

Ducking between several people I managed to slip out of the crowd and pressed myself up against the side of a building, as I did I saw a huge plume of smoke rise up over the north side of the city. Appropriately accompanied by a loud BOOM. Sparing the huge pushing crowd one last look I launched myself skywards and started winging my way towards the scene of the explosion.

Nora, was standing in the middle of the crater she had made with the quickly dissolving form of a large grim under her boots and hammer, landing lightly I closed my wings and peered around at the destruction that had been caused "did you do this all by your self?" At my voice Nora whipped round and fired off several blasts, easily leaning out of the way I said "trigger happy much"

"Oh uh hey there, sorry bout that. What are you doing here?"

Shaking my head slightly I said "well heard a loud BOOM figured I would go investigate, I love a good explosion."

"Oh yeah, me too."

"Hey Nora who are you talking to?"

"Ruby this is uh...you know I don't think I caught your name?"

Giving a little half bow I said "you can call me Spring"

"Spring? Like the season?"

"Yeah like the season, by the way you wouldn't happen to be The Ruby Rose would you?"

"The Ruby Rose?"

"Yeah your kinda famous, what with what you did to that grim at beacon tower"

"Wha...I'm famous?"

"Sure lots of people have heard about it, well around vale any way. I came here looking for answers, maybe I could tag along with you guys?"

"Um I don't know?"

"Fight me!"

"What?"

"If I win you have to let me come, if you win its up to you. Deal?"

"..okay, I guess"