div id="djs-foo" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"In the grand probability of endless potential and opportunity, there exists a timeline where everything goes right, rather than wrong. A timeline where events play out as close to the current one, yet key subtle differences alter and change the fates of those touched. Within the endless reaches of time, space and opportunity, we find ourselves at the outskirts of the Mantle Perimeter Wall, where thunder clouds have gathered and are nearing the wall. Guards of the Atlesian Military stationed there, as well as Mantle Armed forces, swore they saw a figure killing Grimm in the storm that approached. But as the Storm was about to hit, it vanished and became just a wall of smoke and fog. Unseen by any, a blue shaped devil entered the settlement and slowly began walking towards the location of his choosing./div
div id="djs-6327b" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-1g205" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-rbmc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-3su" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"News of storm hitting near the Perimeter wall had spread as an ill omen. Standing to the side cradling Jetstream and looking over the blade of Rebellion one more time, Adam had a feeling as to what could have been inside, yet it was too soon for conclusions. After all, what's the point of worrying about the teacher finding his dead brother if the teacher is probably half way across Vacuo. Adam had spent his time everywhere, but Vacuo was the place people go to disappear and Vergil had seemingly vanished./div
div id="djs-7j3r0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Adamant, you awake?", not directly answering to the fake name he had been taking, Adam's mind was too busy with the possibility of what was out there, he ignored Fiona, focusing on the blade. If it WAS Sensei Vergil, then Atlas was in for a rough awakening./div
div id="djs-50pu0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Broodie…we need your attention here", the voice that spoke did grab his attention. She turned and his sense picked up the colours. Big auburn signature that stood taller than all of them, maybe even taller than Adam, but that's disregarding his horns and hair, which was smushed under his cowl, Joanna Greenleaf. A bright yellow who stood the smallest of them all, yet the brightness of her Aura also linked to her passion and drive. It was an intoxicating energy being close to Fiona Thyme since she'd get everyone on board. The strangest part, or rather the most confusing part, was the blue Aura. Especially because the 'signature' of the Aura felt odd compared to the woman who was radiating it. Off all the four, Adam always found that May Marigold was hard to talk to. Perhaps she distrusted him? Maybe it had something to do about her family. Listening and being aware had made him pick up a few things here and there. Yet he never intruded, trying to keep a low profile. Yet the one who had spoken and wanted his attention, was a Lilac Aura, lighter than Blake's purple soul had been, yet it had a similar drive, Robyn Hill, candidate for Council Woman, hope of Mantle. Adam didn't have much to add there. She would be good. She reminded him of Sienna and Ghira. The political and diplomatic smarts of Ghira with the 'can-do-attitude' and 'drive' of Sienna. It was oddly inspiring being a member of her allies, yet he wasn't a Happy Huntress…/div
div id="djs-235hc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sorry..lost in thought", he said as he got up and walked forwards, earning a sly remark from Robyn. "You sure you're blind? I've never seen someone walk around obstacles like you have"/div
div id="djs-9oiv7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh..I've just had the luck that I got an ADA unit", Adam lied through his teeth. He had found explaining that the use of an Accessibility Dialogue Assistant was easier than simply revealing he was like a bat now, sending Aura pulses out. Plus having that information hidden meant he had a leg up, not that he planned on betraying them. "Those are high tech Atlesian inventions. You've gotta be lucky"/div
div id="djs-9l5c2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What can I do for you Robyn", Adam said as he sat near the meeting table, yet obviously he couldn't see or read any of the papers./div
div id="djs-d0gi5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well we have to figure out why and how there's supplies going towards the SDC mine and for what purpose. Getting our hands on scheduling would take weeks in the tundra which we don't have…", Robyn admitted as she looked over the plans, they knew there was something going on and that Amity Colosseum was 'parked' in the mine. Adam snickered for a second as he got up./div
div id="djs-djkfh" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Give me a few minutes", he said as he walked towards the room he was given in this hideout. Working with a bunch of freedom fighters reminded him of the early days in the Fang. Before the splitting of forces and before the Court. Now off course neither had been operating in Atlas given the very discriminatory mindset of the people here. Yet he did like having a goal again. A cause to fight for, Robyn would do right by the people. And if in the process he got closer to Jacques so he could end his life, well all the better. When he made sure he was not being listened to, he slipped in an earpiece and tapped it once. He could hear static, a good sign./div
div id="djs-cef33" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sensei…this is Gakusei…are you free to speak?", Adam held his breath for a moment. It was the first time he'd reached out to Blake via the private channel. With the many booster towers and the CCT Tower, he was sure there was a high possibility she'd hear him. Now the big thing is both, does she have the time to answer. And would she understand his codenames? Seconds tickled by. His breath kept being held. Until he released it and smiled. "Gakusei…sensei here…what's up?"/div
div id="djs-6l75e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just wondering how life is. Things are fine on my end. I do have a question about the lesson. About the Mines", Adam said, once again holding his breath. There was a moment of silence. Blake is probably thinking of a way to speak in code./div
div id="djs-hm21" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You're studying wrong. Check the material, it's about the battle at the narrow pass. Gotta go now…a Huntress' work is never done"/div
div id="djs-8s5cv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Congratulations", Adam whispered as the communication was cut off. He sighed and walked back towards the group of Happy Huntresses, wondering how best to explain what he'd found out. If he understood the code correctly./div
div id="djs-a8uu0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-7afae" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-4uvmq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4uk0k" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You sure you're playing correctly? This is the fifth time I've won", Clover asked from the back of the cargo truck speeding through the tundra. Qrow wanted to punch him in the face again, mister 'good luck' using his semblance on a friendly game of cards to pass the time as it was now Qrow's turn along with Ruby to escort the resources towards Amity./div
div id="djs-c4hcn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just shut up and deal…", Qrow pinched the bridge of his nose. When had he gotten so tired? He didn't recall ever being this drained. No actually that's not true, he knew exactly why he was tired./div
div id="djs-7478f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Your niece is quite special, isn't she", Clover spoke as he shuffled the cards. Qrow once more felt the urge to punch him./div
div id="djs-cb5l0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""They all are…they've been through a lot, together", Qrow felt a wave of nostalgic pain. Was he talking about RWBY? Or STRQ?/div
div id="djs-akn3i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's a good thing they had someone to luck up to and get them through it", Clover began dealing the cards, causing Qrow to recall how he had been passed out drunk at the farm, causing the tire to burst and nearly giving in to the Apathy had it not been for Weiss and Ruby to hoist him out, how he'd been punched and fought with Yang during the argument following Ozpin's truth being revealed. Yeah, real role model. "Not everyone is so lucky"/div
div id="djs-9k2a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I don't know about that…but I should thank you. You and the team…for looking out for them", Grimm knows these Ace Ops, as bad as they are, are better role models than he was. Maria was right, he was on a good spiral to becoming a disappointment. In truth he hadn't forgiven himself for almost getting them killed. And with the fact Ozpin was gone, Qrow felt alone and lost. Cursed./div
div id="djs-ofh5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What good is saving the world without the next generation waiting in the wings? Hopefully they'll leave Remnant better than we leave it for them", Qrow heard the words and rolled his eyes. Another bleeding heart. Honestly if it wasn't Summer or Ruby, he'd have a hard time believing that. But the strength of Ruby was remarkable. After all, she hadn't given up on him yet. He raised his hand. "Once upon a time I'd have drunk to that"/div
div id="djs-d2t7j" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You shouldn't do that", Clover said. Making Qrow roll his eyes as he played the first card. Yeah, I shouldn't. Ruby made that abundantly clear when I nearly lost her over it. He sighed, softening ever so little as he recalled that time long ago during Maidmass when he had taken it a bit too far and flew upside down as a crow just to prove to Tai that he could. "Yeah…I am trying to give it up"/div
div id="djs-6459d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I meant, deflect a compliment. Those kids wouldn't be where they were if it wasn't for you", Qrow didn't know if that was right. He did know that he would do anything for Ruby. And Yang. It was time to stop looking out for just one. Summer raised both girls. High time I started doing the same. "You've had more of an effect on them than you realize"/div
div id="djs-cia7m" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""uncle QROW…"/div
div id="djs-4eo7t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-54j0n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-7kghi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9ug31" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How about you pipsqueak…five-o-clock-shadow?", Qrow walked up and put himself between Ruby and Robyn Hill. He knew she was trying to get a rise out of them. And he'd known Ruby long enough to know she'd talk herself into spilling information. She was a little naive at times. "either of you wanna tell me why Mantle is put at risk for Ironwood's pet project?"/div
div id="djs-bsfra" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's enough Robyn. As a potential councilwoman you should probably focus on the election rather than harassing Huntsmen", Clover stepped back in, yet something didn't sit well with Qrow. Even if they scoped out this place, even if they saw Amity land and being docked, how did they know specifically to block this road? Supply runs were done over no set course. Different times, different routes in an effort to keep this as hidden as possible. The fact that Hill was here…someone talked./div
div id="djs-ekvnv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think you've misjudged the situation. One way or another these supplies are going where they need to go…", Qrow looked between Hill and the sheep-eared girl. She was right, even with good fortune, even with Penny hiding in the truck, Hill was confident, not backing down. He threw a cautionary glance back, saw an open field. This stank of an ambush…, "...Mantle"/div
div id="djs-cg761" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Then I suggest you do so through the proper legal channels as a council woman…if you get elected", Qrow once again felt like punching him. Why are you poking the rapier wasp hive with a honey stick!?/div
div id="djs-3od86" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Now where's the fun in that?", Qrow swore he'd saw a smirk on her lips. It took him by surprise. She was acting like Summer. Sure Summer was a little quirky and had her shy and insecure moments. But if she knew she was in a good spot, she could be playful like this. Or was it perhaps Raven back when they were at Beacon. Qrow shook his head. No she's neither of them. And he had to focus. Tension was rising in the air, CLover and Hill reaching for their weapons as a confrontation was building. When had he gotten so distracted? He reached for Harbinger and felt his hand shiver ever so gently. Oh withdrawal sucked./div
div id="djs-2ibmd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Robyn Hill…I would like to politely ask of you to call off the three Huntsmen approaching from the back of the truck", in a split second Penny had appeared and began threat-posturing. Once more Qrow threw a look back, they all did. Once again there was nothing to see. But he knew his instincts were sharp. A moment nothing happened before Hill spoke up: "Alright…Joana, May, Adamant"/div
div id="djs-faae1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Appearing out of thin air were two other girls. And a man. Qrow's eyes narrowed. Ruby who was just amazed that Penny had even identified these people, completely missed what Qrow already figured out. Standing furthest away, in a new red coat with a different emblem on a cowl wrapped over his eyes was unmistakably Adam Taurus. That meant that Qrow knew who had talked. But he wasn't going to expose that to the Ace Ops. Not yet./div
div id="djs-44b5r" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""The protector of Mantle huh…?"/div
div id="djs-ak1fk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Let us through…please"/div
div id="djs-2h147" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The tension that had been building slowed. And with relief that this wouldn't escalate, or draw in Grimm, Qrow as well as Hill let out a sigh at the same time. Though Qrow guessed that Hill's sigh had a different meaning. They released the barricade which meant they were allowed through. Heading back to mount into the truck, Qrow threw a quick look at Adam, but said nothing. Giving Clover the final word./div
div id="djs-4ha5n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Robyn…good luck at the election"/div
div id="djs-dnonb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9kcbq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-70adg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-27r5v" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's the Winter maiden…", Weiss guessed as she looked through the glass at the sleeping older woman. She looked peaceful. An odd look. Not for the elder woman, but for the concept of a peaceful maiden. Having seen two for herself, Cinder had been a ravenous lunatic who attacked recklessly and wanted to kill everyone. Weiss would know, she had a scar on her hip to prove it. And the other one had been Raven. At least, they all had guessed it was Raven. Vernal had died in the Mistral vault and Raven had fled afterwards. Either Raven had been the Mistral or she became one afterwards. Regardless of who had been the maiden, one of them was an unrefined brute who had caught and caged Weiss for no reason. And the other had been a brat. Seeing a Maiden in a hospital bed, resting after a cup of tea, was surreal. But the way she lay there, the spiked white hair, the aquatic blue eyes, strong jawline. She looked so familiar and yet so frail./div
div id="djs-79vvm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""She could pass any day now. Until that happens, I'm the only person Fria is allowed to see", Winter admitted. Weiss' eyes opened in shock. That meant…, "Ironwood has chosen you…for when…she dies? How long have you known!?"/div
div id="djs-6cjeu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Since Beacon fell…", Weiss was even more shocked! Her own sister, a maiden! By the man who she fled to just to get away from Jacques. The implications. No wait, not just that…; "Doesn't that bother you!? After all he groomed your entire military career"/div
div id="djs-f825d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It did at first…when the General first proposed it to me", Weiss was eager to hear this explanation of her sister, "but the more I thought about it, the more I saw it as a privilege, as a chance to do real good for Atlas…for the world"/div
div id="djs-5i4tj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But your destiny was chosen for you…without your input", Weiss felt like this was no different than what Jacques had done to them both. Force them into a position that they weren't cut out for. Or rather, not meant for. Weiss held the title of Heir, sure since she was next in line after Winter renounced it. But Winter had denied it out of hatred for their 'genetic donor'. She had accepted a chosen path from a different father figure, without question? Weiss wondered if Winter truly was free to choose./div
div id="djs-317ob" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Perhaps…but I'm choosing it now. I've made it my own", Winter turned to look directly in Weiss' eyes, "And I take great pride in it. Pride that has nothing to do with father…the general…but my own choice in this. Pride that belongs to me."/div
div id="djs-7vdtu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I suppose we both had to do a little bid of growing. Making our own choices to find our way", Weiss said, smiling and hugging her sister. Winter always was a stiff when it came to hugs but when you're in a team with Ruby and Yang, you learn to accept the hug aspect of life./div
div id="djs-a12tj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Like the valkyries from the stories", Winter admitted. Weiss' eyes opened as she looked through the window at Fria. Valkyries of the stories. She then had a lightbulb pop up in her mind. She knew why Fria looked familiar…Nora../div
div id="djs-e0cum" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Speaking of the family name…", Weiss' thoughts were interrupted when Winter checked her scroll after a notification icon./div
div id="djs-deler" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-6b5vi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-e2ag8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-bn1bs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Adam was in the streets of Mantle, he had heard the venomous words spoken through every holoscreen and broadcasting source throughout the kingdom. As he ran through the streets and tried to keep people calm, preventing them from picking a fight with the Atlas military, he heard the sounds of lawmen brute forcing several people who had started causing damage. Overturned vehicles, the feeling of fire in a shop here, a trashcan there, sounds of aggressive force being used, crying children out on the streets who were probably orphans. Mantle was already a powderkeg to begin with, and that disgusting human being had actually put the match on the fuse and smiled all the way through. This could get ugly, especially if this had repercussions for Robyn, given he knew how these things worked from his time in the Fang. As he tried to get kids and people away, the sound of a wire being fired through the air zoomed past him. Intermittently he had used his pulse to see around, or rather the shapes of people around. The military was arresting everyone. He knew that there would be collateral damage from this. He heard the sound of a person hitting the floor and he knew this one hadn't done anything because it was someone he had just vacated away. He could see a set of antlers on the person and growled. Of course. He didn't wanna do it, but he cut the bindings loose anyway. Earning him the attention of the Military./div
div id="djs-6kgsv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Halt…disruption of peace is an offense punishable by jail time", they called out for him. It was amazing how the words of a single snake caused this much unrest. But if he could draw the military away from the people venting and wrongly being accused and caught, he'd take it. Adam ran. He wasn't stupid enough to head back towards the safehouse but he needed time to vanish and get back on task, containing damage. Sprinting through the streets, more allegations being yelled at him for 'illegal weapon carry', he walked into alley ways and through the chaos of the city. As he ran, zipping past people trying to hide or cause more trouble, preventing a kid from throwing a bottle at an Atlas soldier, he could smell rain clouds in the air, as well as ozone. There was a storm approaching./div
div id="djs-ek8dl" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As he made his way through the chaos he inevitably ran into the street where he'd found Dante's body, the pursuers long having lost his trail and given up, Adam stopped. He heard something. A finger rubbing over a metal piece. Sparks flickering off the finger as it generated into the air above. Adam send out his pulse and froze. A deep azure blue Aura stood before him, he didn't need his eyes to know who this was, only one soul ever was this powerful and dangerous. Horrified at how this looks he lifted his hand up and put Jetstream on the floor, Rebellion still in the scabbard. "I have finally found you…Sensei…"/div
div id="djs-56dov" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Adam Taurus…we need to talk"/div
div id="djs-8306s" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sensei…we need to get off the street", Adam tried to say as he felt lightning strike near his feet. The cracking of asphalt and the smell of burned stone hit him as he staggered backwards./div
div id="djs-eb6em" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How is it…I find my student in the streets wearing my dead brother's coat and having his sword…while a message is splayed over the door of his shop?"/div
div id="djs-296ve" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I didn't kill your brother, Sensei. I took his coat and sword in a moment of need", Adam said before he ducked. He had heard the faintest metallic sliding sound and acted on instinct. A slash of aura enhanced air zipped overhead. Slamming into a building at the end of the street and causing substantial damage. Retribution Sever. The sword long range attack he'd learned from his teacher but never had the skill to implement. After all when he tried, all it did was leave an after image as he attacked up to six times in a manner so fast it was impossible to be seen by the naked eye. Yet when Vergil did it…/div
div id="djs-95s6m" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I know you didn't…why would the monster of the White Fang, a raging beast unleashed, claim to have killed a demon? I wonder what makes you think you have the right to take the sword that belongs to my family"/div
div id="djs-81hjc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Adam rolled forwards. He had felt a faint rush of wind pass by him and managed to roll through a slash that would have made anyone watching think the blue dressed man with demonic horns on his head had teleported. Appearing behind Adam and attacked, who rolled forwards and grabbed Jetstream and Rebellion and readied himself. This could get rough./div
div id="djs-dnp23" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Speaking of family, I have to tell you someth-", Adam drew the sword and blocked a strike from Yamato, the weapon Vergil had been using ever since Adam knew him. It was almost the exact weapon as Rebellion was. But somehow and by some way, Vergil had drawn out the very deepest potential of the sword, causing it to be even more dangerous than Wilt had been. Notable because Adam's arms went numb from absorbing the blow./div
div id="djs-f4093" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You dare speak to me of family while my brother's dead!?"/div
div id="djs-3csv3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Did he have a daughter!", Adam said in desperation as he felt twelve cuts on his Aura. Yeah that's Vergil's speed for you. He did the same draw and attack tricks that Adam knew, but the speed and skill, was overwhelming. Twelve slashes in the blink of an eye as Adam sank to his knees. He yelled out in desperation as he recalled the shark girl in Mistral./div
div id="djs-e9nd1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What?"/div
div id="djs-2ud9f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Can…we go into the shop and talk now?"/div
div id="djs-2f8rp" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-brinj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Both men turned to look around and notice the attention they were getting in the fighting and Vergil seemed to calm down a little. He motioned his head as they both entered Grimm May Cry, the place of Dante. AS they walked inside, closing the door and checking to see if no one was going to get inside, Vergil looked over his student./div
div id="djs-a4es0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's surprising how similar you look like my brother now, Gakusei"/div
div id="djs-529co" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I wouldn't know, actually…things have…evolved", as he said that, Adam pulled the cowl off of his head and exposed the damaged eyes. Vergil didn't seem to react though. Or if he did, he wasn't impressed./div
div id="djs-cg8jc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You lowered your guard. What did I tell you about being motivated?"/div
div id="djs-9g2ga" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That didn't work much at all. Regardless not the point. I took the coat and sword. If you want them back…I'll give them back…sensei", Adam didn't want to, but ultimately that should have been the way it was. They weren't his to take./div
div id="djs-bfu11" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Did you take his pistols as well?"/div
div id="djs-fobh3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""No all I found was the sword…and a daughter", Adam said, trying to change the subject./div
div id="djs-38efs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Daughter…why do you guess Dante had a daughter?"/div
div id="djs-198n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Because I found a faunus girl, who had his carefree attitude and white hair", Adam said, sure it wasn't much to go on, but in this world, as much as he knew, there was only one type of bloodline that had white hair, that weren't the Schnee./div
div id="djs-d7rc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That doesn't have to mean anything. There's more White haired out there than the Sparda line"/div
div id="djs-4s8eu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who're also Faunus? Regardless…It's what I hoped to find you about. Should you want to check, the orphan girl lives with a friend of mine, Vic Migel. If you show them this…", he offered up a necklace he had been safekeeping, Gura would know the meaning of it./div
div id="djs-7qflo" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who says I'm going? I still have to find out what happened to Dante"/div
div id="djs-2rcrq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""From what I have found, the Atlas military was involved…", Adam said, he'd been doing some digging yet he hadn't been able to find anything, just yet. It wasn't looking good either./div
div id="djs-48fh8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well…for now…I'll allow you to keep the sword then. Rather you have it, than the animals that stole Ebony and Ivory. Even if guns are a show of weak swordsmanship"/div
div id="djs-4hakk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-66kak" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-f7a3t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-21j33" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4m7ub" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""A day of rest…ordered by the general…", Yang said in disbelief. She had taken refuge at the lower bunk and was looking at Blake who was busy getting herself ready for something, while Weiss muttered to herself. She rolled her eyes and sighed./div
div id="djs-7a2ng" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah you heard what he said, there's a different Atlas coming", Ruby who was in the top bunk, was waiting for Nora and Ren to appear. She wasn't supposed to, given that it was a day off, but she wanted to go to the Rally and see Robyn. She WOULD have gone with Qrow, but the man was once again gone from sight. Where was he even going at night?/div
div id="djs-88b7d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As the newsreport kept on and on about projections, Weiss found herself with an issue. Should she disclose the whole 'i found your grandmother' thing to Nora? Sure she didn't have proof of that, but did that make it fair? She had heard that she and Ren had no family, but would she have the guts to tell her? Winter said she had wanted to accept her destiny. She sighed, Ruby noticing as she reached over to try and shake her out of it when the announcer of the news did it for her./div
div id="djs-dhr72" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It looks like there will be no tie for Jacques Schnee. That clip on fell right off!"/div
div id="djs-9nuff" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""There's no way Jacques could possibly expect lay-offs to be the answer to gaining sympathy. So why do it the day before the election…it makes no sense", Weiss said, wondering what she's missing. After all, Géle had slithered his way into her family. He's smarter than this./div
div id="djs-1i1m4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Seems like a powerplay that backfired. Not that it matters in a few hours. Hill's got that hill covered", Yang said with a pun, causing Weiss to roll her eyes as Blake finally stood up and walked towards weiss. Ruby's interest was piqued./div
div id="djs-82v84" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Where are you going?"/div
div id="djs-1h4o1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well, Weiss and I are going out dancing", Blake blushed as she said that. Something Weiss mirrored as she heard her friend say that so casually. Now naturally it was also a way to mess with Jacques, but still. She looked at the short haired cat and snickered. "You are dancing, I'm going to go to the karaoke machine and forget Jacques and this election"/div
div id="djs-7qgdn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""RUBY come on! We were waiting in the hall!", Nora said as the door of RWBY's room opened, revealing the redhead and Ren standing ready./div
div id="djs-1qqoe" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I still can't believe you're going to that thing", Weiss said as she saw Ruby crawl from the top bunk. Earning the ire of Nora./div
div id="djs-29gem" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just because Ironwood dislikes Robyn doesn't mean we ALL have to", Nora said as she rolled her eyes. Before leaning against the door. "From where I'm standing both are doing their best to protect Atlas. As for who's doing a better job…"/div
div id="djs-2ne02" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But a victory party?", Weiss said, as Blake was standing next to her, leaving Yang to lay back in the bed. Her days as a party girl were definitely over it seems. Ruby wondered if something was wrong with her big sister./div
div id="djs-4vj8c" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey…invite's still open. Penny will work security", Yang looked over at Weiss and Blake getting ready for the dance, her sister going to a victory rally. She didn't want to be there, what's the point of it all. She didn't wanna think of any of that. At this rate, they were still being coy about the whole 'killing Salem' and James was not playing with a full deck. Ruby's instincts didn't seem on point about this. Yet Yang's salvation for the evening came when Jaune popped his head in. "Hey..Oscar and I are hitting the movies so if anyo-"/div
div id="djs-e6sj7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Coming"/div
div id="djs-21e4f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-1n74f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-8l9tn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4ogrh" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Jinn said she can't be beaten", Nora said as they walked towards the Rally./div
div id="djs-d6e2e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""She told Oz that HE couldn't destroy her. There's a chance that we can", Ruby said, a spark of hope in her eyes as she clung to that technicality./div
div id="djs-591al" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But are we sure of this? Maybe we should ask Jinn…or is that wasteful of the question?", Nora added. Making Ruby's foggy head even foggier./div
div id="djs-14np1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I don't know…", she honestly didn't. It would be good to have confirmation. But what if they needed that one question for something important later? There was no good answer, something that was starting to become more apparent as things got further. Was that the thing about growing up?/div
div id="djs-6fk6q" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We should be training right now…", Ren said, the frustration becoming palpable in the air for a second. Ruby looked at him, yet Nora was already up with a reply./div
div id="djs-9e8i3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We've trained enough! Take some time to.."/div
div id="djs-aq5ug" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""WE don't have time!", Ren sounded so angry. Ruby looked between the two as she stood still for a moment. What was happening? First her sister was being distant with team activities, now Ren and Nora were fighting? Why was everyone so…not happy? She looked up at the moon, uncle Qrow I could use your advice right about now…/div
div id="djs-7q9qk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-mf71" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The rally would progress closer to the canon timeline, aside from Nora mentioning that Blake and Weiss were out doing their own thing and that Yang was out with the boys. And in the background of the rally stood a fifth member of Robyn's security detail. Yet he was staying on the backline, after all he didn't wanna draw attention. Ruby has her interactions and complains that she should have indeed gone to the movies with her sister. The speech is being held while somewhere in a dark room Watts is preparing, pushing the online votes to steadily turn into favor for Jacques. Manipulating the rich and stupid was always easy but this was pathetically so. But when Robyn's speech nears its end, a cold shiver runs over Ruby's spine. Simultaneously, from behind the stage, someone also becomes restless. His Aura sense had indicated a shape around the place. One that he couldn't pin down. Ascending towards the rafters and maneuvering around, Adam stood on the rafters. He could see the familiar shapes of the four Happy Huntresses, sensing the nervousness of Robyn even all the way up where he'd perched himself. There was also the familiar ping he found in the way of Ruby's Aura, which was plagued by intense negative feelings. Something had happened recently, he could sense it. And similarly, the pink of Nora that he'd found so bright and happy was dulling and flickering, while the darker pink of Ren was slowly fading into an non existent colour. Whatever they were going through, it has to be intense. And then there was that one purple. A soul he could barely catch. Because there wasn't much of a soul left. Which was curious because what purple he could catch was bright and almost infectious with devotion. But there was a lunacy to it. He tracked it, as best as he could because at one point he lost it near the door, before it appeared near Ruby's signature. Adam's nerves began building. For the first time since his blindness did he actually feel blind. Whomever this soul belonged to. It wasn't the soul of a sane person. Ruby's shivering cold feeling also made her look around when she spied the mechanical scorpion tail and her eyes widened in shock. She looked past a few people and saw those bright yellow eyes pierce into hers while a smile bigger than Crescent Rose crept upon his face as Tyrian looked at her and winked. Showtime./div
div id="djs-35bi8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Things went to hell fast! The first slash of steel cutting flesh caused Adam to become sick. He could see the purple become more clear with every time the sound of deep lacerations and death were inflicted on the people. It was confronting because at one point Adam had been this wild and unhinged. He momentarily froze as the shock of what he once was settled in. Bright lights of numerous nameless souls being sliced and cut down to pieces. In the chaos of blood, death and swiping legs and steel Ruby was knocked to the sides and also dazed as Penny switched to infrared and tried to see what was happening. Which is when she saw a figure in the rafters, being nauseous but also a man with a scorpion tail shamelessly and uncaringly murder his way through the crowd. "Drop your weapons and surrender!"/div
div id="djs-82ka9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"But he was fast. Too fast. Adam tracked the blip, his Aura draining by the second, but the dark mirror was still messing with him. His 'gaze' drifted, Jetstream shaking in his hand as he noticed the shape move towards Fiona. In that moment, when Tyrian's caustic Semblance let him tear a hole into the Aura shield of Fiona, the yellow signature turning so vague and empty it kicked Adam's drive back up. He sprang from the rafters as he drew Rebellion, just like his rage the sword was seething as he drew it, before he clashed with Tyrian's arm blades. He didn't see him, he only heard a sickening laugh and the purple outline became even more clear as he hurt a friend of Adam. This maniac liked mindless pointless murder. Even he had never been that deranged, had he? In another timeline he might have been a deranged lunatic obsessing over Blake, but this timeline was different. As Rebellion pushed Tyrian back, Penny called for Robyn and body tackled her aside, since she saw two figures fighting nearby and one of them was a murderer. In the chaos of that attack, Tyrian disengaged and fled, smiling as his work was done, while Adam tried to track him, but like before, the purple flickered and vanished. Plus he was too concerned with Fiona./div
div id="djs-cuhg2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-2aj6" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"When the light came back on, the sound of the industrial lights activating hinting at that, Adam slipped back behind, not wanting to be seen near this massacre yet still close enough to help. The chaos however was complete. Anger was directed towards the Protector of Mantle, the Faunus who had been working security that Adam didn't know the name off, Marrow, was using his Semblance to freeze the agitated crowd. Moods were off the charts as the news came over the holoscreen. Jacques Schnee had won the election. Adam punched a wall, the honeyed venom of Jacques spoke, Robyn chased off Ruby, pointing fingers at the Atlas Faunus, who ran as the crowd became unhinged. Adam sighed as he appeared from the shadows and walked over to Robyn./div
div id="djs-5u7qb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""They didn't do this…someone else attacked you"/div
div id="djs-a24a5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who?", Robyn asked, the anger in her words was easy to feel. But Adam didn't know. Whomever it was, he was a monster. A genuine monster. When the alarm for Grimm attack rang out, he sighed and steadied himself. There was time for what happened later, right now, there was work to be done./div
div id="djs-bojla" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The fighting lasted for hours. The Happy Huntresses rushed Fiona off towards safety, as Adam promised them he'd keep the common people safe. As the night progressed, with footage of the attack that had been altered spreading like wildfire, so did the panic. Yet in a weird twist of fate, that gave Adam the opening he needed. As the Grimm became so interested in multiple pockets, he had an easier time isolating and killing them. Now of course he couldn't deal with all of Mantle at the same time, but he wasn't alone. Altas military checkpoints were bottlenecking the Grimm in high traffic areas, while the storm was back over Mantle. Adam even occasionally spied a blue flash of sword and speed destroy and brutalize the Grimm. Vergil's investigation hadn't been completed yet and he was still looking into his dead brother. But he was also an enemy of the Grimm. And thanks to their efforts, the death toll didn't rank up too high. By the time most of the riots and chaos had subsided, it was near morning. And as he returned to the Huntresses, he found them busy with a plan. A plan to start hitting Atlas supply lines and steal those for Mantle. If the general wouldn't send the trucks to aid the perimeter wall or the people in need of supplies and construction, they'd simply take it. Adam wanted to make contact with Blake, they needed to fix this, before things got worse./div
div id="djs-jsus" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9khr7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Cowl. Time for a chat", Robyn said as Adam walked into the room and the others turned to face him. He could feel they'd been talking about him, yet he wasn't gonna be accused of nothing./div
div id="djs-37ns3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What about?", he said, nonchalantly yet he kept Jetstream nearby./div
div id="djs-hjd5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You said it wasn't Atlas…how did you know?", Joanna spoke, a mixture of anger and intrigue on her voice. Adam nodded in agreement as he pointed at his horns. Fiona shook her head. "Yes I'm also a Faunus, but I didn't see anything"/div
div id="djs-dvta9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Because you were wounded and on the ground Fi", May added to that, Robyn kept her eyes on Adam, throughout the exchange. Extending her hand towards him. Adam had known this was coming, yet he didn't wanna do it. Reluctantly he took her hand, feeling something tingle along his hand and arm. "Ask your questions, Hill"/div
div id="djs-2q961" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How did you see the attacker?", Robyn asked as her Semblance was coating a vague lilac Aura from her hand over his./div
div id="djs-c0s2a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""My ADA unit allowed me to see", Adam said. He knew he shouldn't, but he had to try. Taking this moment would help him figure out what to say at what point about his Semblance. It would be easy for smarter Atlas people like these four to figure out who he was. But the tingling sensation, like when you sleep on your arm for eight hours, suddenly turned a little intenser. His hand felt like it was on fire, pins and needles were pronged into the skin as he felt Robyn glare at him. They all now knew he was lying./div
div id="djs-5kkmb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And here I thought we'd become friends", Robyn broke the handshake and Adam sighed, he could feel the other three surround him, aggressively. Unwilling to fight them, he held up his hand again and sighed. "Ask me again"/div
div id="djs-148er" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How did you see", it took a while before she offered her hand to him, as if debating whether or not he was trustworthy enough to try again. It took a while but she grabbed his hand and asked her question. Adam sighed before he answered truthfully./div
div id="djs-ealu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I have the ability to store energy and release it as I see fit. And when I lack energy stored, I can use my Aura. That energy is then sent out as a pulse in a maximum of sixty meters from me in every direction. And as that wave hits objects it paints an image in my mind"/div
div id="djs-c03h7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""So far so good. How do you see people?"/div
div id="djs-11eup" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""The image that hits me, also gives me the colour of people's Aura. It's how I identify people by silhouette and strength of their soul. Individuals that I spend more time with get easier to 'ping' those souls. My point being that there was a soul at the gathering I'd never seen before. One that was…insane", Adam felt the tingling in his hand lessen, just like before, causing Robyn to relax. She let go of his hand and sighed./div
div id="djs-d24kg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Telling the truth…"/div
div id="djs-46tud" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Rob, how are we going to get the materials we need for the people now", May asked as she stood next to Robyn and put her hand on her shoulder. Adam also noticed her hand on the hip but he probably was tired from fighting, his pulse wasn't as accurate as before./div
div id="djs-coa86" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I have no idea May…but I know this: we tried to do this legal. And now we're going to go for illegal. Time to hit those supply runs like we should have done in the tundra"/div
div id="djs-3716j" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Going this way will make you a target of the Military. The General won't be happy about this", Adam said, wondering if they'd still have him after that small lying./div
div id="djs-cdnhq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well he likes to underestimate Mantle, so that's going to cost him"/div
div id="djs-6327b" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-1g205" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-rbmc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-3su" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"News of storm hitting near the Perimeter wall had spread as an ill omen. Standing to the side cradling Jetstream and looking over the blade of Rebellion one more time, Adam had a feeling as to what could have been inside, yet it was too soon for conclusions. After all, what's the point of worrying about the teacher finding his dead brother if the teacher is probably half way across Vacuo. Adam had spent his time everywhere, but Vacuo was the place people go to disappear and Vergil had seemingly vanished./div
div id="djs-7j3r0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Adamant, you awake?", not directly answering to the fake name he had been taking, Adam's mind was too busy with the possibility of what was out there, he ignored Fiona, focusing on the blade. If it WAS Sensei Vergil, then Atlas was in for a rough awakening./div
div id="djs-50pu0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Broodie…we need your attention here", the voice that spoke did grab his attention. She turned and his sense picked up the colours. Big auburn signature that stood taller than all of them, maybe even taller than Adam, but that's disregarding his horns and hair, which was smushed under his cowl, Joanna Greenleaf. A bright yellow who stood the smallest of them all, yet the brightness of her Aura also linked to her passion and drive. It was an intoxicating energy being close to Fiona Thyme since she'd get everyone on board. The strangest part, or rather the most confusing part, was the blue Aura. Especially because the 'signature' of the Aura felt odd compared to the woman who was radiating it. Off all the four, Adam always found that May Marigold was hard to talk to. Perhaps she distrusted him? Maybe it had something to do about her family. Listening and being aware had made him pick up a few things here and there. Yet he never intruded, trying to keep a low profile. Yet the one who had spoken and wanted his attention, was a Lilac Aura, lighter than Blake's purple soul had been, yet it had a similar drive, Robyn Hill, candidate for Council Woman, hope of Mantle. Adam didn't have much to add there. She would be good. She reminded him of Sienna and Ghira. The political and diplomatic smarts of Ghira with the 'can-do-attitude' and 'drive' of Sienna. It was oddly inspiring being a member of her allies, yet he wasn't a Happy Huntress…/div
div id="djs-235hc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sorry..lost in thought", he said as he got up and walked forwards, earning a sly remark from Robyn. "You sure you're blind? I've never seen someone walk around obstacles like you have"/div
div id="djs-9oiv7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh..I've just had the luck that I got an ADA unit", Adam lied through his teeth. He had found explaining that the use of an Accessibility Dialogue Assistant was easier than simply revealing he was like a bat now, sending Aura pulses out. Plus having that information hidden meant he had a leg up, not that he planned on betraying them. "Those are high tech Atlesian inventions. You've gotta be lucky"/div
div id="djs-9l5c2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What can I do for you Robyn", Adam said as he sat near the meeting table, yet obviously he couldn't see or read any of the papers./div
div id="djs-d0gi5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well we have to figure out why and how there's supplies going towards the SDC mine and for what purpose. Getting our hands on scheduling would take weeks in the tundra which we don't have…", Robyn admitted as she looked over the plans, they knew there was something going on and that Amity Colosseum was 'parked' in the mine. Adam snickered for a second as he got up./div
div id="djs-djkfh" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Give me a few minutes", he said as he walked towards the room he was given in this hideout. Working with a bunch of freedom fighters reminded him of the early days in the Fang. Before the splitting of forces and before the Court. Now off course neither had been operating in Atlas given the very discriminatory mindset of the people here. Yet he did like having a goal again. A cause to fight for, Robyn would do right by the people. And if in the process he got closer to Jacques so he could end his life, well all the better. When he made sure he was not being listened to, he slipped in an earpiece and tapped it once. He could hear static, a good sign./div
div id="djs-cef33" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sensei…this is Gakusei…are you free to speak?", Adam held his breath for a moment. It was the first time he'd reached out to Blake via the private channel. With the many booster towers and the CCT Tower, he was sure there was a high possibility she'd hear him. Now the big thing is both, does she have the time to answer. And would she understand his codenames? Seconds tickled by. His breath kept being held. Until he released it and smiled. "Gakusei…sensei here…what's up?"/div
div id="djs-6l75e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just wondering how life is. Things are fine on my end. I do have a question about the lesson. About the Mines", Adam said, once again holding his breath. There was a moment of silence. Blake is probably thinking of a way to speak in code./div
div id="djs-hm21" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You're studying wrong. Check the material, it's about the battle at the narrow pass. Gotta go now…a Huntress' work is never done"/div
div id="djs-8s5cv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Congratulations", Adam whispered as the communication was cut off. He sighed and walked back towards the group of Happy Huntresses, wondering how best to explain what he'd found out. If he understood the code correctly./div
div id="djs-a8uu0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-7afae" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-4uvmq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4uk0k" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You sure you're playing correctly? This is the fifth time I've won", Clover asked from the back of the cargo truck speeding through the tundra. Qrow wanted to punch him in the face again, mister 'good luck' using his semblance on a friendly game of cards to pass the time as it was now Qrow's turn along with Ruby to escort the resources towards Amity./div
div id="djs-c4hcn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just shut up and deal…", Qrow pinched the bridge of his nose. When had he gotten so tired? He didn't recall ever being this drained. No actually that's not true, he knew exactly why he was tired./div
div id="djs-7478f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Your niece is quite special, isn't she", Clover spoke as he shuffled the cards. Qrow once more felt the urge to punch him./div
div id="djs-cb5l0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""They all are…they've been through a lot, together", Qrow felt a wave of nostalgic pain. Was he talking about RWBY? Or STRQ?/div
div id="djs-akn3i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's a good thing they had someone to luck up to and get them through it", Clover began dealing the cards, causing Qrow to recall how he had been passed out drunk at the farm, causing the tire to burst and nearly giving in to the Apathy had it not been for Weiss and Ruby to hoist him out, how he'd been punched and fought with Yang during the argument following Ozpin's truth being revealed. Yeah, real role model. "Not everyone is so lucky"/div
div id="djs-9k2a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I don't know about that…but I should thank you. You and the team…for looking out for them", Grimm knows these Ace Ops, as bad as they are, are better role models than he was. Maria was right, he was on a good spiral to becoming a disappointment. In truth he hadn't forgiven himself for almost getting them killed. And with the fact Ozpin was gone, Qrow felt alone and lost. Cursed./div
div id="djs-ofh5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What good is saving the world without the next generation waiting in the wings? Hopefully they'll leave Remnant better than we leave it for them", Qrow heard the words and rolled his eyes. Another bleeding heart. Honestly if it wasn't Summer or Ruby, he'd have a hard time believing that. But the strength of Ruby was remarkable. After all, she hadn't given up on him yet. He raised his hand. "Once upon a time I'd have drunk to that"/div
div id="djs-d2t7j" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You shouldn't do that", Clover said. Making Qrow roll his eyes as he played the first card. Yeah, I shouldn't. Ruby made that abundantly clear when I nearly lost her over it. He sighed, softening ever so little as he recalled that time long ago during Maidmass when he had taken it a bit too far and flew upside down as a crow just to prove to Tai that he could. "Yeah…I am trying to give it up"/div
div id="djs-6459d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I meant, deflect a compliment. Those kids wouldn't be where they were if it wasn't for you", Qrow didn't know if that was right. He did know that he would do anything for Ruby. And Yang. It was time to stop looking out for just one. Summer raised both girls. High time I started doing the same. "You've had more of an effect on them than you realize"/div
div id="djs-cia7m" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""uncle QROW…"/div
div id="djs-4eo7t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-54j0n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-7kghi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9ug31" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How about you pipsqueak…five-o-clock-shadow?", Qrow walked up and put himself between Ruby and Robyn Hill. He knew she was trying to get a rise out of them. And he'd known Ruby long enough to know she'd talk herself into spilling information. She was a little naive at times. "either of you wanna tell me why Mantle is put at risk for Ironwood's pet project?"/div
div id="djs-bsfra" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's enough Robyn. As a potential councilwoman you should probably focus on the election rather than harassing Huntsmen", Clover stepped back in, yet something didn't sit well with Qrow. Even if they scoped out this place, even if they saw Amity land and being docked, how did they know specifically to block this road? Supply runs were done over no set course. Different times, different routes in an effort to keep this as hidden as possible. The fact that Hill was here…someone talked./div
div id="djs-ekvnv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think you've misjudged the situation. One way or another these supplies are going where they need to go…", Qrow looked between Hill and the sheep-eared girl. She was right, even with good fortune, even with Penny hiding in the truck, Hill was confident, not backing down. He threw a cautionary glance back, saw an open field. This stank of an ambush…, "...Mantle"/div
div id="djs-cg761" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Then I suggest you do so through the proper legal channels as a council woman…if you get elected", Qrow once again felt like punching him. Why are you poking the rapier wasp hive with a honey stick!?/div
div id="djs-3od86" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Now where's the fun in that?", Qrow swore he'd saw a smirk on her lips. It took him by surprise. She was acting like Summer. Sure Summer was a little quirky and had her shy and insecure moments. But if she knew she was in a good spot, she could be playful like this. Or was it perhaps Raven back when they were at Beacon. Qrow shook his head. No she's neither of them. And he had to focus. Tension was rising in the air, CLover and Hill reaching for their weapons as a confrontation was building. When had he gotten so distracted? He reached for Harbinger and felt his hand shiver ever so gently. Oh withdrawal sucked./div
div id="djs-2ibmd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Robyn Hill…I would like to politely ask of you to call off the three Huntsmen approaching from the back of the truck", in a split second Penny had appeared and began threat-posturing. Once more Qrow threw a look back, they all did. Once again there was nothing to see. But he knew his instincts were sharp. A moment nothing happened before Hill spoke up: "Alright…Joana, May, Adamant"/div
div id="djs-faae1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Appearing out of thin air were two other girls. And a man. Qrow's eyes narrowed. Ruby who was just amazed that Penny had even identified these people, completely missed what Qrow already figured out. Standing furthest away, in a new red coat with a different emblem on a cowl wrapped over his eyes was unmistakably Adam Taurus. That meant that Qrow knew who had talked. But he wasn't going to expose that to the Ace Ops. Not yet./div
div id="djs-44b5r" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""The protector of Mantle huh…?"/div
div id="djs-ak1fk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Let us through…please"/div
div id="djs-2h147" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The tension that had been building slowed. And with relief that this wouldn't escalate, or draw in Grimm, Qrow as well as Hill let out a sigh at the same time. Though Qrow guessed that Hill's sigh had a different meaning. They released the barricade which meant they were allowed through. Heading back to mount into the truck, Qrow threw a quick look at Adam, but said nothing. Giving Clover the final word./div
div id="djs-4ha5n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Robyn…good luck at the election"/div
div id="djs-dnonb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9kcbq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-70adg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-27r5v" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's the Winter maiden…", Weiss guessed as she looked through the glass at the sleeping older woman. She looked peaceful. An odd look. Not for the elder woman, but for the concept of a peaceful maiden. Having seen two for herself, Cinder had been a ravenous lunatic who attacked recklessly and wanted to kill everyone. Weiss would know, she had a scar on her hip to prove it. And the other one had been Raven. At least, they all had guessed it was Raven. Vernal had died in the Mistral vault and Raven had fled afterwards. Either Raven had been the Mistral or she became one afterwards. Regardless of who had been the maiden, one of them was an unrefined brute who had caught and caged Weiss for no reason. And the other had been a brat. Seeing a Maiden in a hospital bed, resting after a cup of tea, was surreal. But the way she lay there, the spiked white hair, the aquatic blue eyes, strong jawline. She looked so familiar and yet so frail./div
div id="djs-79vvm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""She could pass any day now. Until that happens, I'm the only person Fria is allowed to see", Winter admitted. Weiss' eyes opened in shock. That meant…, "Ironwood has chosen you…for when…she dies? How long have you known!?"/div
div id="djs-6cjeu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Since Beacon fell…", Weiss was even more shocked! Her own sister, a maiden! By the man who she fled to just to get away from Jacques. The implications. No wait, not just that…; "Doesn't that bother you!? After all he groomed your entire military career"/div
div id="djs-f825d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It did at first…when the General first proposed it to me", Weiss was eager to hear this explanation of her sister, "but the more I thought about it, the more I saw it as a privilege, as a chance to do real good for Atlas…for the world"/div
div id="djs-5i4tj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But your destiny was chosen for you…without your input", Weiss felt like this was no different than what Jacques had done to them both. Force them into a position that they weren't cut out for. Or rather, not meant for. Weiss held the title of Heir, sure since she was next in line after Winter renounced it. But Winter had denied it out of hatred for their 'genetic donor'. She had accepted a chosen path from a different father figure, without question? Weiss wondered if Winter truly was free to choose./div
div id="djs-317ob" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Perhaps…but I'm choosing it now. I've made it my own", Winter turned to look directly in Weiss' eyes, "And I take great pride in it. Pride that has nothing to do with father…the general…but my own choice in this. Pride that belongs to me."/div
div id="djs-7vdtu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I suppose we both had to do a little bid of growing. Making our own choices to find our way", Weiss said, smiling and hugging her sister. Winter always was a stiff when it came to hugs but when you're in a team with Ruby and Yang, you learn to accept the hug aspect of life./div
div id="djs-a12tj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Like the valkyries from the stories", Winter admitted. Weiss' eyes opened as she looked through the window at Fria. Valkyries of the stories. She then had a lightbulb pop up in her mind. She knew why Fria looked familiar…Nora../div
div id="djs-e0cum" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Speaking of the family name…", Weiss' thoughts were interrupted when Winter checked her scroll after a notification icon./div
div id="djs-deler" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-6b5vi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-e2ag8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-bn1bs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Adam was in the streets of Mantle, he had heard the venomous words spoken through every holoscreen and broadcasting source throughout the kingdom. As he ran through the streets and tried to keep people calm, preventing them from picking a fight with the Atlas military, he heard the sounds of lawmen brute forcing several people who had started causing damage. Overturned vehicles, the feeling of fire in a shop here, a trashcan there, sounds of aggressive force being used, crying children out on the streets who were probably orphans. Mantle was already a powderkeg to begin with, and that disgusting human being had actually put the match on the fuse and smiled all the way through. This could get ugly, especially if this had repercussions for Robyn, given he knew how these things worked from his time in the Fang. As he tried to get kids and people away, the sound of a wire being fired through the air zoomed past him. Intermittently he had used his pulse to see around, or rather the shapes of people around. The military was arresting everyone. He knew that there would be collateral damage from this. He heard the sound of a person hitting the floor and he knew this one hadn't done anything because it was someone he had just vacated away. He could see a set of antlers on the person and growled. Of course. He didn't wanna do it, but he cut the bindings loose anyway. Earning him the attention of the Military./div
div id="djs-6kgsv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Halt…disruption of peace is an offense punishable by jail time", they called out for him. It was amazing how the words of a single snake caused this much unrest. But if he could draw the military away from the people venting and wrongly being accused and caught, he'd take it. Adam ran. He wasn't stupid enough to head back towards the safehouse but he needed time to vanish and get back on task, containing damage. Sprinting through the streets, more allegations being yelled at him for 'illegal weapon carry', he walked into alley ways and through the chaos of the city. As he ran, zipping past people trying to hide or cause more trouble, preventing a kid from throwing a bottle at an Atlas soldier, he could smell rain clouds in the air, as well as ozone. There was a storm approaching./div
div id="djs-ek8dl" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As he made his way through the chaos he inevitably ran into the street where he'd found Dante's body, the pursuers long having lost his trail and given up, Adam stopped. He heard something. A finger rubbing over a metal piece. Sparks flickering off the finger as it generated into the air above. Adam send out his pulse and froze. A deep azure blue Aura stood before him, he didn't need his eyes to know who this was, only one soul ever was this powerful and dangerous. Horrified at how this looks he lifted his hand up and put Jetstream on the floor, Rebellion still in the scabbard. "I have finally found you…Sensei…"/div
div id="djs-56dov" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Adam Taurus…we need to talk"/div
div id="djs-8306s" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sensei…we need to get off the street", Adam tried to say as he felt lightning strike near his feet. The cracking of asphalt and the smell of burned stone hit him as he staggered backwards./div
div id="djs-eb6em" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How is it…I find my student in the streets wearing my dead brother's coat and having his sword…while a message is splayed over the door of his shop?"/div
div id="djs-296ve" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I didn't kill your brother, Sensei. I took his coat and sword in a moment of need", Adam said before he ducked. He had heard the faintest metallic sliding sound and acted on instinct. A slash of aura enhanced air zipped overhead. Slamming into a building at the end of the street and causing substantial damage. Retribution Sever. The sword long range attack he'd learned from his teacher but never had the skill to implement. After all when he tried, all it did was leave an after image as he attacked up to six times in a manner so fast it was impossible to be seen by the naked eye. Yet when Vergil did it…/div
div id="djs-95s6m" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I know you didn't…why would the monster of the White Fang, a raging beast unleashed, claim to have killed a demon? I wonder what makes you think you have the right to take the sword that belongs to my family"/div
div id="djs-81hjc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Adam rolled forwards. He had felt a faint rush of wind pass by him and managed to roll through a slash that would have made anyone watching think the blue dressed man with demonic horns on his head had teleported. Appearing behind Adam and attacked, who rolled forwards and grabbed Jetstream and Rebellion and readied himself. This could get rough./div
div id="djs-dnp23" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Speaking of family, I have to tell you someth-", Adam drew the sword and blocked a strike from Yamato, the weapon Vergil had been using ever since Adam knew him. It was almost the exact weapon as Rebellion was. But somehow and by some way, Vergil had drawn out the very deepest potential of the sword, causing it to be even more dangerous than Wilt had been. Notable because Adam's arms went numb from absorbing the blow./div
div id="djs-f4093" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You dare speak to me of family while my brother's dead!?"/div
div id="djs-3csv3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Did he have a daughter!", Adam said in desperation as he felt twelve cuts on his Aura. Yeah that's Vergil's speed for you. He did the same draw and attack tricks that Adam knew, but the speed and skill, was overwhelming. Twelve slashes in the blink of an eye as Adam sank to his knees. He yelled out in desperation as he recalled the shark girl in Mistral./div
div id="djs-e9nd1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What?"/div
div id="djs-2ud9f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Can…we go into the shop and talk now?"/div
div id="djs-2f8rp" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-brinj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Both men turned to look around and notice the attention they were getting in the fighting and Vergil seemed to calm down a little. He motioned his head as they both entered Grimm May Cry, the place of Dante. AS they walked inside, closing the door and checking to see if no one was going to get inside, Vergil looked over his student./div
div id="djs-a4es0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's surprising how similar you look like my brother now, Gakusei"/div
div id="djs-529co" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I wouldn't know, actually…things have…evolved", as he said that, Adam pulled the cowl off of his head and exposed the damaged eyes. Vergil didn't seem to react though. Or if he did, he wasn't impressed./div
div id="djs-cg8jc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You lowered your guard. What did I tell you about being motivated?"/div
div id="djs-9g2ga" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That didn't work much at all. Regardless not the point. I took the coat and sword. If you want them back…I'll give them back…sensei", Adam didn't want to, but ultimately that should have been the way it was. They weren't his to take./div
div id="djs-bfu11" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Did you take his pistols as well?"/div
div id="djs-fobh3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""No all I found was the sword…and a daughter", Adam said, trying to change the subject./div
div id="djs-38efs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Daughter…why do you guess Dante had a daughter?"/div
div id="djs-198n" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Because I found a faunus girl, who had his carefree attitude and white hair", Adam said, sure it wasn't much to go on, but in this world, as much as he knew, there was only one type of bloodline that had white hair, that weren't the Schnee./div
div id="djs-d7rc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That doesn't have to mean anything. There's more White haired out there than the Sparda line"/div
div id="djs-4s8eu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who're also Faunus? Regardless…It's what I hoped to find you about. Should you want to check, the orphan girl lives with a friend of mine, Vic Migel. If you show them this…", he offered up a necklace he had been safekeeping, Gura would know the meaning of it./div
div id="djs-7qflo" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who says I'm going? I still have to find out what happened to Dante"/div
div id="djs-2rcrq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""From what I have found, the Atlas military was involved…", Adam said, he'd been doing some digging yet he hadn't been able to find anything, just yet. It wasn't looking good either./div
div id="djs-48fh8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well…for now…I'll allow you to keep the sword then. Rather you have it, than the animals that stole Ebony and Ivory. Even if guns are a show of weak swordsmanship"/div
div id="djs-4hakk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-66kak" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-f7a3t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-21j33" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4m7ub" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""A day of rest…ordered by the general…", Yang said in disbelief. She had taken refuge at the lower bunk and was looking at Blake who was busy getting herself ready for something, while Weiss muttered to herself. She rolled her eyes and sighed./div
div id="djs-7a2ng" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah you heard what he said, there's a different Atlas coming", Ruby who was in the top bunk, was waiting for Nora and Ren to appear. She wasn't supposed to, given that it was a day off, but she wanted to go to the Rally and see Robyn. She WOULD have gone with Qrow, but the man was once again gone from sight. Where was he even going at night?/div
div id="djs-88b7d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As the newsreport kept on and on about projections, Weiss found herself with an issue. Should she disclose the whole 'i found your grandmother' thing to Nora? Sure she didn't have proof of that, but did that make it fair? She had heard that she and Ren had no family, but would she have the guts to tell her? Winter said she had wanted to accept her destiny. She sighed, Ruby noticing as she reached over to try and shake her out of it when the announcer of the news did it for her./div
div id="djs-dhr72" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It looks like there will be no tie for Jacques Schnee. That clip on fell right off!"/div
div id="djs-9nuff" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""There's no way Jacques could possibly expect lay-offs to be the answer to gaining sympathy. So why do it the day before the election…it makes no sense", Weiss said, wondering what she's missing. After all, Géle had slithered his way into her family. He's smarter than this./div
div id="djs-1i1m4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Seems like a powerplay that backfired. Not that it matters in a few hours. Hill's got that hill covered", Yang said with a pun, causing Weiss to roll her eyes as Blake finally stood up and walked towards weiss. Ruby's interest was piqued./div
div id="djs-82v84" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Where are you going?"/div
div id="djs-1h4o1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well, Weiss and I are going out dancing", Blake blushed as she said that. Something Weiss mirrored as she heard her friend say that so casually. Now naturally it was also a way to mess with Jacques, but still. She looked at the short haired cat and snickered. "You are dancing, I'm going to go to the karaoke machine and forget Jacques and this election"/div
div id="djs-7qgdn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""RUBY come on! We were waiting in the hall!", Nora said as the door of RWBY's room opened, revealing the redhead and Ren standing ready./div
div id="djs-1qqoe" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I still can't believe you're going to that thing", Weiss said as she saw Ruby crawl from the top bunk. Earning the ire of Nora./div
div id="djs-29gem" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Just because Ironwood dislikes Robyn doesn't mean we ALL have to", Nora said as she rolled her eyes. Before leaning against the door. "From where I'm standing both are doing their best to protect Atlas. As for who's doing a better job…"/div
div id="djs-2ne02" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But a victory party?", Weiss said, as Blake was standing next to her, leaving Yang to lay back in the bed. Her days as a party girl were definitely over it seems. Ruby wondered if something was wrong with her big sister./div
div id="djs-4vj8c" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey…invite's still open. Penny will work security", Yang looked over at Weiss and Blake getting ready for the dance, her sister going to a victory rally. She didn't want to be there, what's the point of it all. She didn't wanna think of any of that. At this rate, they were still being coy about the whole 'killing Salem' and James was not playing with a full deck. Ruby's instincts didn't seem on point about this. Yet Yang's salvation for the evening came when Jaune popped his head in. "Hey..Oscar and I are hitting the movies so if anyo-"/div
div id="djs-e6sj7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Coming"/div
div id="djs-21e4f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-1n74f" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"…/div
div id="djs-8l9tn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-4ogrh" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Jinn said she can't be beaten", Nora said as they walked towards the Rally./div
div id="djs-d6e2e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""She told Oz that HE couldn't destroy her. There's a chance that we can", Ruby said, a spark of hope in her eyes as she clung to that technicality./div
div id="djs-591al" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But are we sure of this? Maybe we should ask Jinn…or is that wasteful of the question?", Nora added. Making Ruby's foggy head even foggier./div
div id="djs-14np1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I don't know…", she honestly didn't. It would be good to have confirmation. But what if they needed that one question for something important later? There was no good answer, something that was starting to become more apparent as things got further. Was that the thing about growing up?/div
div id="djs-6fk6q" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We should be training right now…", Ren said, the frustration becoming palpable in the air for a second. Ruby looked at him, yet Nora was already up with a reply./div
div id="djs-9e8i3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We've trained enough! Take some time to.."/div
div id="djs-aq5ug" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""WE don't have time!", Ren sounded so angry. Ruby looked between the two as she stood still for a moment. What was happening? First her sister was being distant with team activities, now Ren and Nora were fighting? Why was everyone so…not happy? She looked up at the moon, uncle Qrow I could use your advice right about now…/div
div id="djs-7q9qk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-mf71" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The rally would progress closer to the canon timeline, aside from Nora mentioning that Blake and Weiss were out doing their own thing and that Yang was out with the boys. And in the background of the rally stood a fifth member of Robyn's security detail. Yet he was staying on the backline, after all he didn't wanna draw attention. Ruby has her interactions and complains that she should have indeed gone to the movies with her sister. The speech is being held while somewhere in a dark room Watts is preparing, pushing the online votes to steadily turn into favor for Jacques. Manipulating the rich and stupid was always easy but this was pathetically so. But when Robyn's speech nears its end, a cold shiver runs over Ruby's spine. Simultaneously, from behind the stage, someone also becomes restless. His Aura sense had indicated a shape around the place. One that he couldn't pin down. Ascending towards the rafters and maneuvering around, Adam stood on the rafters. He could see the familiar shapes of the four Happy Huntresses, sensing the nervousness of Robyn even all the way up where he'd perched himself. There was also the familiar ping he found in the way of Ruby's Aura, which was plagued by intense negative feelings. Something had happened recently, he could sense it. And similarly, the pink of Nora that he'd found so bright and happy was dulling and flickering, while the darker pink of Ren was slowly fading into an non existent colour. Whatever they were going through, it has to be intense. And then there was that one purple. A soul he could barely catch. Because there wasn't much of a soul left. Which was curious because what purple he could catch was bright and almost infectious with devotion. But there was a lunacy to it. He tracked it, as best as he could because at one point he lost it near the door, before it appeared near Ruby's signature. Adam's nerves began building. For the first time since his blindness did he actually feel blind. Whomever this soul belonged to. It wasn't the soul of a sane person. Ruby's shivering cold feeling also made her look around when she spied the mechanical scorpion tail and her eyes widened in shock. She looked past a few people and saw those bright yellow eyes pierce into hers while a smile bigger than Crescent Rose crept upon his face as Tyrian looked at her and winked. Showtime./div
div id="djs-35bi8" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Things went to hell fast! The first slash of steel cutting flesh caused Adam to become sick. He could see the purple become more clear with every time the sound of deep lacerations and death were inflicted on the people. It was confronting because at one point Adam had been this wild and unhinged. He momentarily froze as the shock of what he once was settled in. Bright lights of numerous nameless souls being sliced and cut down to pieces. In the chaos of blood, death and swiping legs and steel Ruby was knocked to the sides and also dazed as Penny switched to infrared and tried to see what was happening. Which is when she saw a figure in the rafters, being nauseous but also a man with a scorpion tail shamelessly and uncaringly murder his way through the crowd. "Drop your weapons and surrender!"/div
div id="djs-82ka9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"But he was fast. Too fast. Adam tracked the blip, his Aura draining by the second, but the dark mirror was still messing with him. His 'gaze' drifted, Jetstream shaking in his hand as he noticed the shape move towards Fiona. In that moment, when Tyrian's caustic Semblance let him tear a hole into the Aura shield of Fiona, the yellow signature turning so vague and empty it kicked Adam's drive back up. He sprang from the rafters as he drew Rebellion, just like his rage the sword was seething as he drew it, before he clashed with Tyrian's arm blades. He didn't see him, he only heard a sickening laugh and the purple outline became even more clear as he hurt a friend of Adam. This maniac liked mindless pointless murder. Even he had never been that deranged, had he? In another timeline he might have been a deranged lunatic obsessing over Blake, but this timeline was different. As Rebellion pushed Tyrian back, Penny called for Robyn and body tackled her aside, since she saw two figures fighting nearby and one of them was a murderer. In the chaos of that attack, Tyrian disengaged and fled, smiling as his work was done, while Adam tried to track him, but like before, the purple flickered and vanished. Plus he was too concerned with Fiona./div
div id="djs-cuhg2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-2aj6" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"When the light came back on, the sound of the industrial lights activating hinting at that, Adam slipped back behind, not wanting to be seen near this massacre yet still close enough to help. The chaos however was complete. Anger was directed towards the Protector of Mantle, the Faunus who had been working security that Adam didn't know the name off, Marrow, was using his Semblance to freeze the agitated crowd. Moods were off the charts as the news came over the holoscreen. Jacques Schnee had won the election. Adam punched a wall, the honeyed venom of Jacques spoke, Robyn chased off Ruby, pointing fingers at the Atlas Faunus, who ran as the crowd became unhinged. Adam sighed as he appeared from the shadows and walked over to Robyn./div
div id="djs-5u7qb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""They didn't do this…someone else attacked you"/div
div id="djs-a24a5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Who?", Robyn asked, the anger in her words was easy to feel. But Adam didn't know. Whomever it was, he was a monster. A genuine monster. When the alarm for Grimm attack rang out, he sighed and steadied himself. There was time for what happened later, right now, there was work to be done./div
div id="djs-bojla" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"The fighting lasted for hours. The Happy Huntresses rushed Fiona off towards safety, as Adam promised them he'd keep the common people safe. As the night progressed, with footage of the attack that had been altered spreading like wildfire, so did the panic. Yet in a weird twist of fate, that gave Adam the opening he needed. As the Grimm became so interested in multiple pockets, he had an easier time isolating and killing them. Now of course he couldn't deal with all of Mantle at the same time, but he wasn't alone. Altas military checkpoints were bottlenecking the Grimm in high traffic areas, while the storm was back over Mantle. Adam even occasionally spied a blue flash of sword and speed destroy and brutalize the Grimm. Vergil's investigation hadn't been completed yet and he was still looking into his dead brother. But he was also an enemy of the Grimm. And thanks to their efforts, the death toll didn't rank up too high. By the time most of the riots and chaos had subsided, it was near morning. And as he returned to the Huntresses, he found them busy with a plan. A plan to start hitting Atlas supply lines and steal those for Mantle. If the general wouldn't send the trucks to aid the perimeter wall or the people in need of supplies and construction, they'd simply take it. Adam wanted to make contact with Blake, they needed to fix this, before things got worse./div
div id="djs-jsus" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /div
div id="djs-9khr7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Cowl. Time for a chat", Robyn said as Adam walked into the room and the others turned to face him. He could feel they'd been talking about him, yet he wasn't gonna be accused of nothing./div
div id="djs-37ns3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What about?", he said, nonchalantly yet he kept Jetstream nearby./div
div id="djs-hjd5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You said it wasn't Atlas…how did you know?", Joanna spoke, a mixture of anger and intrigue on her voice. Adam nodded in agreement as he pointed at his horns. Fiona shook her head. "Yes I'm also a Faunus, but I didn't see anything"/div
div id="djs-dvta9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Because you were wounded and on the ground Fi", May added to that, Robyn kept her eyes on Adam, throughout the exchange. Extending her hand towards him. Adam had known this was coming, yet he didn't wanna do it. Reluctantly he took her hand, feeling something tingle along his hand and arm. "Ask your questions, Hill"/div
div id="djs-2q961" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How did you see the attacker?", Robyn asked as her Semblance was coating a vague lilac Aura from her hand over his./div
div id="djs-c0s2a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""My ADA unit allowed me to see", Adam said. He knew he shouldn't, but he had to try. Taking this moment would help him figure out what to say at what point about his Semblance. It would be easy for smarter Atlas people like these four to figure out who he was. But the tingling sensation, like when you sleep on your arm for eight hours, suddenly turned a little intenser. His hand felt like it was on fire, pins and needles were pronged into the skin as he felt Robyn glare at him. They all now knew he was lying./div
div id="djs-5kkmb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And here I thought we'd become friends", Robyn broke the handshake and Adam sighed, he could feel the other three surround him, aggressively. Unwilling to fight them, he held up his hand again and sighed. "Ask me again"/div
div id="djs-148er" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""How did you see", it took a while before she offered her hand to him, as if debating whether or not he was trustworthy enough to try again. It took a while but she grabbed his hand and asked her question. Adam sighed before he answered truthfully./div
div id="djs-ealu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I have the ability to store energy and release it as I see fit. And when I lack energy stored, I can use my Aura. That energy is then sent out as a pulse in a maximum of sixty meters from me in every direction. And as that wave hits objects it paints an image in my mind"/div
div id="djs-c03h7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""So far so good. How do you see people?"/div
div id="djs-11eup" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""The image that hits me, also gives me the colour of people's Aura. It's how I identify people by silhouette and strength of their soul. Individuals that I spend more time with get easier to 'ping' those souls. My point being that there was a soul at the gathering I'd never seen before. One that was…insane", Adam felt the tingling in his hand lessen, just like before, causing Robyn to relax. She let go of his hand and sighed./div
div id="djs-d24kg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Telling the truth…"/div
div id="djs-46tud" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Rob, how are we going to get the materials we need for the people now", May asked as she stood next to Robyn and put her hand on her shoulder. Adam also noticed her hand on the hip but he probably was tired from fighting, his pulse wasn't as accurate as before./div
div id="djs-coa86" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I have no idea May…but I know this: we tried to do this legal. And now we're going to go for illegal. Time to hit those supply runs like we should have done in the tundra"/div
div id="djs-3716j" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Going this way will make you a target of the Military. The General won't be happy about this", Adam said, wondering if they'd still have him after that small lying./div
div id="djs-cdnhq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well he likes to underestimate Mantle, so that's going to cost him"/div