Having gotten over my irritation at the others I perched on the edge of my bed and said "so from what we can tell so far, it would appear that white fang is definitely in league with this Salem character. You guys knew this already so this is nothing new however the fact that Adam Taurus is still working with them even though Cinder is mostly out of the picture, is intriguing."
"Yeah and don't forget doctor Watts, Tyrian and Hazel. They are all notable members of Salem's side, and they all have their own allies and underlings that we will need to watch out for."
"Yes, although we have made a small dent in the numbers of the white fang. The other groups will be troublesome as I don't know them as well as you guys do, so I will be relying on you for details on them and such."
"Well we don't know them that well really. We only saw them when we attended meetings, and then we only saw them argue a lot we don't really know much about their fighting styles or tactics really."
"Right so we are dealing with what are essentially unknowns. So we need to..."
The loud shouting that was carrying up from the main floor of the inn was just about understandable '...know...here...what room...in?...you...can't say! ...don't care...find...myself!' there was a loud crash and then the sound of feet pounding on the stairs. Eyes widening I slammed the window open and gestured for the other to start climbing. "What..."
"Shush!" waving my arms frantically I pointed at the open window again, and when they were moving too slow for my liking I started pushing them.
When they all reached the ground I jumped down, gliding the last few feet to soften the landing. Without stoping I started jogging, relieved when I heard the others follow without arguing for once. Five minutes later when we were settled in an ally way and I was sure we hadn't been followed I explained what I heard.
"And why do you think they were after us?"
"Instinct, we did just get rid of a large number of white fang warriors, it only makes sense they would come after us. I didn't think we had been followed although their timing suggests they might have followed you." The last bit was aimed at Emerald and Neo.
Soft near silent cawing interrupted Emerald before she could defend herself, looking up I studied the black shadow drifting lazily over us.
"Is that a hawk?"
"No you idiot. does that look like a hawk shadow?" gesturing at the black silhouette painted on the ground in front of us.
"Its a raven. A very vey nosey raven that shouldn't be there." Hurling a small amount of green dust into the air, I caused a small tornado to shoot towards the bird. Said bird then high tailed it out of there, not wanting to stick around and probably off to cause more trouble somewhere else.
"What was that about?"
"That was Raven"
"Yeah we established it was a raven"
"No that was ~Raven~." The capitol was implied with extra emphasis on the word. "She is Qrow's sister and Yang's mother. She is also a right bitch, and nobody really knows just yet what side she is playing."
"Right...wait isn't she the one that led the attack on shion? You know before it was completely annihilated by grim."
"Yes, yes she was."
"Right so what does this mean"
"It means hiding is pretty much useless now, she will tell anyone she wants to and more than likely they won't be pleased to see us so we need to get allies and fast."
I had barley finished talking before the heavens opened and it started pouring down with rain, gasping and shouting we all made for the nearest shelter. Huddling under the shops awning I shivered and Mercury summed up what we were all thinking "this sucks!"
"Hey at least the guys chasing us will be less likely to pursue us in this weather."
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Qrow pov (yeah another one ;D)
Swirling the ice in the bottom of my cup, I glared at its depressingly empty state and shifted my attention to working out what Raven's deal was. Why just show up like that? There was very little chance I would tell her what she wanted to know, in fact nearly none. Especially if she didn't part with some of her own hard won information, so what the hell was she thinking? What was the purpose of her visit? Groaning at the fact I had no idea what her deal was and I was just going around and around in circles.
Slamming the glass down I stood and left the small pub, shooting a look at the inn across the road where Ruby and her friends were staying. Sighing I walked the streets looking for what I didn't know just for some reason my instincts were telling me to keep walking, in the rain. Growing about the stupid rain I almost missed the faint sounds of fighting and the soft clang of metal on metal.
Picking up the pace I rounded the corner and there they were, the small group of white fang soldiers were having their asses handed to themselves by...no way! Emerald, Mercury and Neo, the bad guys were fighting each other. What the hell, could this get any weirder? Just as I thought that a flash of mint green caught my eye and I spotted Spring weaving between the white fang members dispatching them quickly and with a kind of ease that spoke of years of practice and weirdly enough now she was wielding a scythe. Watching her fight reminded me so much of my Dove that I had to swallow hard and fight the urge to punch something at the same time. Then mentally shrugging I thought 'what the hell' and I jumped right into the fight taking out my own fair share of white fang grunts.
Chest heaving I searched for my next target, spotting Emerald standing next to Mercury talking quietly I prepared to strike when suddenly spring was in front of me "Qrow? What are you doing here?"
"Uh...Spring? What are you doing here? And with them of all people?"
She suddenly seemed to brighten up "oh right, guys come here a sec would ya" Grinning at me she gestured to herself and the other and said "this right here is team DENM and we are kicking bad guy but, thats what we are doing here."
"Uh you do know they are the bad guys right?" I was beginning to seriously doubt this girls intelligence.
"Well they used to be, they defected and now they are helping me take out bad guys as we work our way up to Salem and then we are gonna take out her too."
Shaking my head I wondered over this girl she made it sound so easy, 'yeah just take out Salem, just like that! Soooo easy, not!' out loud I said "And just how do you plan on taking out Salem?"
"Uh...with my natural talent and awesomeness?"
Snorting I was reminded strongly of Dove, she would have said something just like that. "Yeah good luck with that," I was just about to leave when I was brought to a halt by a slim pale hand on my arm, blinking down at the offending appendage I said "what?"
"Well I just thought you would like to know, we just saw your sister. She saw us and then flew that way." she gestured vaguely towards the west. Sighing I wanted nothing more than to chase her down and get some answers but I knew I had to watch Ruby and yang, they were the only family I had left. When I didn't immediately move she continued "You don't believe me do you?"
"No I...I do, I just...I can't do anything about it."
"Cant or won't!?" Snapped the ever snarky Emerald.
Narrowing my eyes at the irritating green haired girl I said "Cant. I have prearranged responsibilities."
Spring snorted and said "doesn't sound like you Qrow."
"I'm protecting the only family I've got left."
"Ah I see" although it really didn't seemed like she did, she tensed up and looked ready to bolt.
"Where are you heading?"
I had no idea why I asked her that, or why she bothered answering. But she did, she said "we are following your nieces and her team mates trying to protect them. There are much less grim than we thought there would be, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" The pointed look she sent me suggested she knew that was my doing, and was just asking to see what I would say.
Grinning I said "I might have had something to do with that. But why are you protecting them?"
I briefly caught an odd tilt to her mouth, which was all I could see of her face due to the huge hood of her cloak. "Call it a personal connection." That was all she said as she turned and started back into the woods, the rest of team DENM following closely behind them.
Shaking my head I frowned, there was definitely something off about that girl.
AN- So guys what do you think, its a long one, not quite my longest I think chapter 2 was longer. So yeah I just watched a new episode of RWBY and ate an entire tub of strawberry ice cream and this marvellous piece of writing is the result of the mad writing sugar high I experienced after that. So yeah hope you enjoy please read and review pretty please, each review makes my day so even if you just write like three words it means the world to me so pleeeeeeeaaaaaase do it. cheers!
-SL xxxx