"Okay, ready?" Ruby asked while a blindfolded Mine stood in the middle of the training ground.

"Y-Yeah...Ready." Mine nodded, a little nervous and scared.

"Okay." Ruby said as she nodded toward Akame and Tatsumi.

The two nodded back before raising the wooden swords they use for training.

And silently, Akame dashed and prepared to attack Mine from behind!

"EEK!" Mine panics as she ducked, dodging Akames attack before it lands.

Then Tatsumi tried To attack Mine next, which she gasps and jumps aside as Tatsumi misses. Then, Ruby attacks last which Mine panics again and just jumps away as Ruby misses as well.

"haah..haaah...haah...A-Are we done yet?" Mine asked, already exhausted.

"Yeah you dodged all three!" Ruby said.

"Wow. That semblance really is awesome." Tatsumi said.

"But you panic too easily. And you waste too much stamina for just one attack." Akame scolded "If you can't keep a cool mind during your Semblance, You'll make a rash decision."

"L-Look It's not my fault okay?! My semblance just warns me by making every fiber in my body scream at me as if my life depends on it!" Mine explained as she removed her blindfolds "It's like whatever's coming at me is certain death!"

"Huh. I guess your semblance is kinda hyperactive." Ruby guessed.

"You need to react much more calmly to it then." Akame said.

"I'll try." Mine nodded.

"...Hm?" Akame then looked over her shoulder for a moment "...This Again..."

"Huh?" The others noticed her being in thought about something.

"Oh. Nothing." Akame said "Just my imagination."

"Okay?" Ruby nodded.


While Akame was in the kitchen, Ruby decided to walk in.

"Hey Akame." Ruby greeted while holding up a box "Got the ingredients you wanted."

"Thanks a lot." Akame said while Ruby placed the box on the table. but she then handed Ruby a cookie "Here. Eat it before the boss notices."

"Awwww!" Ruby cutely cheered before Fully chumping the Cookie while Akame was still holding it out.

"...So...About today during Mines Semblance Training." Ruby said as she fully swallowed the Cookie "What happened? You seemed a bit surprised and also freaked out by something."

"It was nothing. Again, Just my imagination." Akame said.

"Akame, come on." Ruby said as she placed a hand comfortingly on Akames hand, making the older girl blush "You can tell me."

"U-Um...Okay." Akame Nodded "Lately I've...Been hearing Najenda saying stuff."

"...Eh?" ruby blinked "Wait, Can you explain a little more?"

"It happened a few days ago. I could have swore I heard Najenda saying something about 'Needing another lighter'. But when I looked around, I was totally alone." Akame Explained "It's happening a lot lately. During training with Mine today I heard her saying something about...'Pummeling Lubbock into paste' If my memory serves me correctly."

"...uuuuuuhhhh..." Ruby was completely stunned by this.

"What's Wrong?" Akame asked.

"...Well..." Ruby began to explain.


"OW!" Everyone heard Lubbock yelling in pain again.

"uuugh." Leone groaned as she was the closest, and walks toward Lubbock in one of the hallways "What did you do this time?"

"NOTHING!" Lubbock angrily yelled while he oddly laying on the floor "PLEASE JUST HELP! MY HAND IS BECOMING A PANCAKE!"

"What?" Leone then walked over Lubbock and saw that His hand was stuck under a toolbox that Ruby sometimes uses for weapon Maintenace.

After Leone picked it up for him, he finally got up, rubbing his hurt hand.

"Ow ow ow...How does Ruby move something this heavy around all day?!" Lubbock yelled.

"Focus your Aura on your hand dumbass." Leone scolded.

"Oh right." Lubbock just remembered his Aura, and did exactly that as the pain fades.

"Now care to explain why this is here?" Leone asked as he held the toolbox up.

"I have NO IDEA! I was just walking here with one of my bookshops books in hand, And the next thing I know is that the book is gone and the toolbox is in my hand!"

"...Really?" Leone asked, not buying it.

"Hey! It's true! I'm not lying!" Lubbock yelled.

"First the cabinet, now this?" Leone sighed "Seriously how do you keep doing this to yourself?"

"I really don't know okay? I'm still on that whole Cabinet thing right now." Lubbock explained.

"...Hm? What's this?" Leone asked as she looked under the Tool box.

"What's what?" Lubbock looked under the toolbox too and noticed a small green star shaped mark on it.

"Where'd this come from?" Leone asked.

"What even is that?" Lubbock asked too, scratching at the mark to see if it was paint.

"How should I know?" Leone said.

"Guys!" Then they looked back and saw Ruby and Akame walking toward them "Hey listen we need to ask you something-why are you holding the toolbox I use? I left it in my room this morning."

"O-Okay listen, about that_" Lubbock tried to explain.

"you know what? Doesn't matter." Ruby dismissed the explanation "We need to ask you two something important."

"Alright. Shoot." Leone nodded.

"Have you two been hearing Najendas voice around you lately? While she wasn't anywehre near you?" Akame asked.

"...OH MY GOD YOU TOO?!" Both Leone and Lubbock gasped.

"I thought was I crazy!" Lubbock said.

"It happened like 2 times a few days ago!" Leone said.

"...So it goes to the others too." Akame said.

"So do you think that maybe...?" Ruby asked.

"Yes. definitely." Akame Nodded.

"What are you two saying?" Lubbock asked.

"We'll Explain on the way." Akame answered as she and Ruby started walking again, while Leone and Lubbock followed them.


"And fixed!" Bulat said as he tapped the newly fixed cabinet.

"Great work Bulat." Najenda said "And sorry you had to fix it mostly by yourself."

"Oh don't worry." Bulat said "It wasn't hard at all!"

"Of course." Najenda nodded and began to walk away "You can take the rest of the day off if you want to."

"Boss!" Najenda almost jumped as she heard Leone, Lubbock, Akame and Ruby all call out to her out of nowhere.

"Is something wrong?" Najenda asked.

"We need you to come with us." Ruby said as she grabbed onto Her hand, and somehow started to drag The older woman with her pretty easily and inhumanly fast.


"You want me to what?" Najenda asked, While She, Ruby, Lubbock and Akame were all in the same room.

"Just, Think REAL hard about Leone and Leone only, and say something. ANYTHING." Ruby explained again.

"Why_" Najenda tried to speak up.

"Boss. Please. This is important." Akame said.

"...Okay fine." Najenda sighed as she put her concentration all on Leone who wasn't even in the room "...Okay...SOMETHING."

"...Um?" Ruby seemed confused.

"What? You told me to say something." Najenda joked.

"...I will strangle you some day." Ruby threatened.

"Leone!" Akame Called out as Leone walked in "And?"

"...Something?" Leone said.

"...L-Let's try again." Ruby said as she walked out, Leaving Najenda confused.

"Okay...Any second now." Ruby said as she waited.

"_55, 10..._"

"...Numbers?" Ruby said to herself.

"Ruby come in!" Akame called out.

Ruby walked in as everyone looked at her.

"...55...10..."

"What the?" Najenda seemed Very stunned at this.

"...I knew it..." Akame said "...Boss, You unlocked your own semblance too."

"E-Excuse me?!" Najenda gasped.

"Lately we've been hearing your voice inside out head a lot." Leone explained.

"A-And it wasn't just one or two of us, It was EVERYONE in night raid by now apparently." Lubbock explained further.

"I think Your semblance gives you some sort of Communication power." Ruby explained "Your semblance can let you talk to us from far away. And apparently you've been using it without knowing."

"W-Wait Seriously?" Najenda asked, Still stunned by this.

"but can you try it with multiple people all at once?" Akame asked.

"I...I can try..." Najenda said as she put her thoughts to Sheele, Mine, Tatsumi and Bulat who weren't in the room.

"Okay...Here goes...Can anyone hear me?"

"Boss?"

"What the?!"

"U-Um, hello?"

"Uh...Boss? Are you over there?"

"WHOA!" Najenda gasped in shock.

"Boss? What's wrong?" Akame asked as everyone looked worried.

"I...I think I heard them back...All at once." Najenda explained as she calmed down "It's like a two-way communication."

"Whoa..." Tatsumi said in awe.

"...With a Semblance like this...Scouts, messengers or even carrier birds seem unnecessary now." Najenda said in thought "In a battlefield, I can constantly be in touch with every one of my subordinates."

"W-Well there's also the fact that how limited it is. Like it's range, Number of people you can talk to, or stuff like that." Ruby explained.

"Yes that is also important to know I guess." Najenda agreed.

"Wow. Who could have thought the boss's semblance is actually kinda tame compared to ours." Leone said "And I mean that literally."

"Makes you wonder how the others Semblances are like." Tatsumi said.

"About that." Ruby came up with a suggestion.


"Alright...Tatsumi! Go Train real hard for about 5 hours!" Bulat said.

"You got it bro!" Tatsumi accepted right away "...Wait what?!"

"Najenda! You go help him!" Bulat kept talking.

"You leave it to me bulat!" Najenda agreed on the spot "...Hey...wait a minute..."

"Akame! Go on a diet!" Bulat brazenly ordered!

"Sure thing." Akame nodded "...W-Wait NO!"

"What...Is going on?" Leone asked as she had no idea why everyone was so...eager to just accept whatever Bulat tells them to do.

"Do I have to say it?" Ruby asked with a smirk.

"...It's his Semblance." Everyone deadpanned at the same time.

"It is?" Bulat asked, Confused very much.

"I think it causes...A lot of Charisma in his Voice." Ruby guessed.

"...That makes sense." Akame agreed "That's why he's words felt so strong that we couldn't disagree with him."

"Wow Bro! That makes you even MORE awesome!" Tatsumi said.

"Talk about inspirational." Leone said.

"Awww you guys." Bulat said, a little flustered.

Ruby just watches on as everyone congratulates Najenda and Bulat on their new Semblances, Before being Reminded of that one time when everyone congratulated Jaune on taking on an ursa all by himself that one time in forever fall.

The more she thought about it, the more this world started to feel like Remnant to her. It made her feel nostalgic and...actually happy. to have friends worth fighting for again.

...To have a future worth fighting for again.


"Man, Today was somethin'." Lubbock said to himself as he placed one of his bookstores books back on his shelf "Oh well. Guess I'll just get these sorted out to return them back at the store tomorrow...Wait..."

He then noticed...the same green star-shaped mark from before on one of the books.

"This again?" Lubbock said as he picked the book up from the shelf "Where did this come from? Seriously is this star-thing stalking me?!"

*WARP*

"WHAT THE?!" Lubbock gasped...as a different book appeared in his hand!

"W-Where did..." He looked back on the shelf, and the book he was holding a second ago was back on the shelf...where the book he was holding now used t be.

"...Wait a sec..." He then looked at the same book in his hand, and noticed another green Star on it too. Looking back on the other book with the other star, he held his hand up with the book with a lot of concentration...and then!

*WARP*

"Whoa..." The first book was back in his hand, and the second book was back on the shelf "...Huh...That's...Tricky."


{SEMBLANCES INFO}

LEONE: FLAME-OUT

Causes very powerful flames to appear around her fists when she is angered or enraged.

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SHEELE: SICK-SEASON

Causes sicknesses with instant symptoms to victims. The sicknesses can go from simple colds or dizziness to cancer or even tuberculosis.

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MINE: DANGER DETECTOR

Can sense upcoming danger from every direction before they actually happen or come. But she can't tell what kind of danger it is.

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BULAT: CHARISMA CHARM

Raises his Charisma to almost irresistible levels.

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LUBBOCK: SWITCH-ER-ROO

By planting a Star-sharp mark on any object, Or maybe even person, He can switch the twos places instantly.
He unconsciously used it for the week without knowing.

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NAJENDA: HENCHMEN MIND-LINK.

Can communicate with her subordinates.
Anyone she wishes to communicate with MUST BE a Subordinate or Ally.

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AKAME: YET TO BE AWAKENED

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TATSUMI: YET TO BE AWAKENED