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 in the vault of Haven Academy, where two figures have snuck in despite the school being operational if a little understaffed. In the Vault, one girl looks confused at everything, given the world shattering story she was told, while another was nursing her eye with a set of ice cubes./div
div id="djs-gflu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Luckily it seems I did not actually blind myself", Aschen said with a bit of joy in her voice as she pulled the ice cube away from her eye. The scar from before remained, but her iris had changed colour due to the heat, and while she did lose her sight out of the left eye temporarily, it was slowly returning, now having a blue right and pale white left eye. Neo was unamused as she turned to Aschen and made a face./div
div id="djs-d9f9i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes I told you it was hard to understand. Not sure I understand it myself. I am a Maiden and if we both want what we desire, we'll need an olive branch for Salem. Or so the voice of Cinder in my head keeps telling me", Neo rolled her eyes as Aschen sharpened a sword, causing her to scoff: "look I didn't want this. But you want revenge on the ones that killed your friend. Cinder is already dead and that leaves Little Red and her friends. You want them, I want my mother. Before we can get them, we need the relic…which is on it's way to Atlas. So will you help me?"/div
div id="djs-71lu1" 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-2ctfl" 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-8aggn" 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-2r1bb" 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-6jg31" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Next time…don't ok", came the voice of Jaune as he gently put his fist against Ruby's shoulder for a slight shove. She smirked at him/div
div id="djs-58qas" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey I did what I had to do to protect my friends and the train passengers", she defended herself as she wobbled on one leg, causing Jaune to realize she was hurt./div
div id="djs-dsd9d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah well that still isn't an excuse. You ok?", he gestured to her leg, prompting Ruby to lift her shoulder. "Either sprained or broke, don't know yet"/div
div id="djs-ecdak" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well I think I can help with that", said a voice that Ruby didn't know. She was blond, like Jaune, had the same eyes. Oh that must be his sister!/div
div id="djs-6qp78" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Saph…", Jaune smirked as the two of them gently nodded. "You take Adrian home. I'll get your friend some medical attention"/div
div id="djs-7fnp" 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 need for that Saphron, I can do it", Jaune counters as he leans down and begins channeling his Aura, only for Saphron to pull his ear and smile: "now now baby brother, listen to big sis and get your nephew home. And tell Terra I'll be on time for dinner!"/div
div id="djs-efde1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Saphron hands her son and the key to the front door to her brother and begins helping the limping Ruby towards the nearest medical building. As a nurse that has an off day, and knowing a few characters that owe her a few favors, Saphron managed to sneak Ruby ahead a little and checked her foot. With a proper ankle brace, a few days of rest and a sweet from Saphron Ruby was settled and went along with the rest towards the Cotta-Arc household. Chatting about sweet nothings and stories of Jaune as a little boy./div
div id="djs-8j72q" 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-c80hf" 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-8ricp" 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-3rqpc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Ren, Nora and Jaune explained what the deal was with Atlas, Terra Cotta got home with groceries while Saph and Ruby were still out, the gang began making plans and a few ideas, yet quickly died down as it was clear that while the Apathy had taken away some of the edge, there was still tension between them. Especially Blake, Yang and Qrow. Qrow looked like he'd explode every second. He hadn't had a drop of alcohol since the farm while he had talks with Terra, while Blake had backed off from Yang, who was contemplating some of the things that were said back at the farm. When Saphron finally arrived home, Ruby able to walk on her own feet again, they began making dinner while Ruby saw the tension between her team and decided that today was not a good day to deal with. Yet the other option was Qrow. So after food, they decided to go to the military base the next day./div
div id="djs-1ouh1" 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-r67k" 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-7ptqq" 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-9f44p" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""IF Miss Schnee has come to her senses and wishes to return home, then OFF COURSE the Atlas military will escort her home. But only her since we don't want to have any…issues with her…less refined friends", Cordovin said as she looked Blake over once and turned away. THere was a crack of lightning in the distance before Weiss smiled and turned her head towards Blake, winking./div
div id="djs-6rmqd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""If this is how you treat me and my friends, I'm sure you'd like to know that I can get you fired from the Atlesian Military. I do believe I know, very intimately I might add, the woman you report to", Weiss said with a haughty smile. Everyone watching her in awe and amazement./div
div id="djs-29psb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes well…Commander Schnee isn't due for another few weeks and inspections have been had. So you can kiss help from that goodbye!", Cordovin said, but Weiss could see a nervous crinkle in her forehead./div
div id="djs-en0k3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We wouldn't want the Ace Ops to hear how a Base Commander in Argus caused the delay between Commander Schnee and her sister? And before I forget, we're not civilians. We're all Huntsmen and Huntresses", Weiss used the training her father had put her through to tactically maneuver her way around this issue./div
div id="djs-drj50" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sadly that won't happen. If you want to return home, I'm sad to say we can't help you. Orders are orders. Good day CIVILIAN", with that Cordovin closed the gate and backed away./div
div id="djs-1va2u" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That went well", Yang added snarkily. Causing Weiss to blush before she relaxed her back and smirked. "Actually that went better than expected. I've made it no secret I don't want to return home, but it's good to know you all have my back"/div
div id="djs-5ljvd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I gave you my word Weiss", Ruby said smiling warmly, as Blake nods and gently held Weiss' hand. "Now all we gotta do is…"/div
div id="djs-a2l09" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Ruby attempted to explain when she saw Qrow walk off. Nervous she walked towards him. "What's the plan uncle?"/div
div id="djs-45dvl" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Plan? The plan is for me to drink till I forget the deep stinkin' mess we're in. I don't care what you youngsters wanna do. Best we go our separate ways", Qrow said down as he jumped off the bridge before vanishing. A small crow flying off towards Argus./div
div id="djs-46g0h" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What's his problem?", Jaune asks, setting us back on the canon timeline./div
div id="djs-48ff0" 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-bq92f" 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-93tpk" 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-cuivb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think it would be best…if we had some time to ourselves", With that, Ren, Jaune and Nora were gone. Stormed upstairs to work through the heavy load of information they were told. From the loss of Ozpin and the fate of Salem. Ruby had attempted to explain the nuance in 'you can't' that Jin had told, but it fell on deaf ears. And as the others stood there in silence. Ruby sighed, sitting down on the couch as her team each had their eyes about./div
div id="djs-6dipi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think it's time we talk about the Goliath in the room", Ruby said solemnly. "We haven't been performing as well as we should"/div
div id="djs-etmvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Talk about an understatement", Yang hissed, still angry from the outbursts of Jaune and co./div
div id="djs-ecqvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yang…not helping", Weiss added, trying to stick up for Ruby, she promised to be the best teammate possible. So time to put my mouth where it matters. Blake flinched her ears as Weiss continued: "Yes I did say it was best to give up after the…farm…incident. But I've since apologized. And while I don't want to go home, there's logic in it. As much as I'd love to disagree with Cordovin, Atlas does have the best weapon systems and defenses. The relic would be safe there"/div
div id="djs-9bgoo" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Except that's not what I'm talking about", Ruby bemoaned as she put her hands on her lap: "We've been at odds with each other, out of sync and uncoordinated ever since Haven. Probably even before that"/div
div id="djs-544ep" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's true we spend almost a year separated, that doesn't just go away", Blake stated matter of factly, earning a finger pointed at her from Yang./div
div id="djs-13cpn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah but YOU were busy with your family when we could train", Yang said, which was instantly cut off by Weiss. "Now now Yang, none of us was particularly helpful at that time. I was sightseeing, Blake with her family which I understand and you were sulking"/div
div id="djs-4p8qm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sulking?! The nerve!", Yang walked aggressively towards Weiss before Blake stepped in the middle of them both, glaring at Yang./div
div id="djs-daq93" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You can be mad at me for leaving all you want. You can be aggravated that I tried to be 'too helpful' in your regard, which I admit I was. But you don't get to threaten Weiss like that. She's trying her best. If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at me", Blake said. Ever since that day Weiss nearly died, Blake had a deep respect for Weiss and didn't like her being threatened, even by Yang. Aided even more by Weiss sticking up for her with Cordovin./div
div id="djs-2qssv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh I'm getting to you in a second!", Yang hissed until Ruby gave a loud shout. "STOP IT ALL OF YOU!"/div
div id="djs-831h6" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""If this can't work anymore then I'm not gonna try. I'll go alone if I have to. And you Yang, you can go back to dad or move about your business. I've lasted this long without you, it would sting, but I'd rather work with a well oiled weapon than a loose cannon", Ruby said, trying to silence them all. It was understandable why they had issues, but Ruby didn't like that this animosity was still remaining. Yang, hurt that Ruby would even suggest this, flared her eyes in red: "Are you saying I'm a coward?!"/div
div id="djs-2b5ar" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I'm saying you're hurt! And it's becoming a problem. I'm sorry for what happened Yang, Blake is sorry for leaving. We have all made mistakes and accepted that. Now please Yang…let go of that anger and grudge", Ruby begged her. Before Yang scoffed: "Maybe we all need a moment…"/div
div id="djs-endne" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""FINE", With that Ruby got up and threw the bracelets on the floor, stomping her good foot off as she walked towards the edge, Blake and Weiss offered to get food Leaving Yang to sulk, trying to call Qrow who hadn't been seen in ages. But he was scattered to the wind. "Where are you?"/div
div id="djs-76vgj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You know, I came here to get away from the shouting", Maria said as she sat at the garden with a book./div
div id="djs-9s2uk" 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-345al" 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-dhf2g" 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-dkq6k" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Dammit Oscar. Why did you run?! Sure I might have been to rough on you..oh who am I kidding this is my fault. Jaune said as he was depressingly gazing out at nothing. Ren and Nora went to a cafe nearby to get something to warm up, but he wasn't feeling it. The long bitter night of searching had taken its toll. Mistakes had been made. Seething anger taken out on an innocent young boy. He wasn't sure what to do or what to believe. Sitting on the cold metal bench as he contemplated his thoughts. A lone leaf amidst the bitter snow drifted into view. Beckoning him his gaze trailed towards the park he saw a wall…and a statue? As he got up to get closer he spied names. Huntsmen and Huntresses. Engraved with flowers and mementos. His wayward steps lead him to a most jarring sight as the visage of Pyrrha stood before him. A statue of his beloved teammate whom he hadn't set eyes on in over a year! Looking at the downcast expression and seeing a memorial engraving speaking of Pyrrha among those who were lost. It seemed just another stab at the champion to be considered among the dead because she can no longer fight as she once did. Tears welled in his eyes as he reached up to place his hand on the statue. In a vain attempt to seek comfort and guidance./div
div id="djs-anbm9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Giving a deep huff. Jaune shut his eyes in contemplation. "I really screwed up this time Pyr. I tried to step up and be the leader you believed I could be. But I'm just a failure. I couldn't do anything to Cinder. I couldn't do anything to that guy Tyrian when he tried to take Ruby. I..I even attacked a 14 year old kid because of the lying bastard in his head like it was somehow his fault! Why did you decide to save me? Why didn't you let me come with you or better yet, why did you have to fight her at all? You should be here right now. Not me!"/div
div id="djs-22g5a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You really are a dolt, you know that?"/div
div id="djs-1uigj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Jaune's eyes opened suddenly and he turned, breathless in what he was sure was a hallucination. Pyrrha sat comfortably in her wheelchair as the woman he presumed was her mother stood behind it. Quietly watching the display./div
div id="djs-2ssjs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I never thought I would agree with Weiss on that insulting jab", Pyrrha quietly stated as Jaune took her in. His mouth flapping but no sound would come for several seconds: "Pa-Pyrrha.. it can't be.."/div
div id="djs-3i2hg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"A small smile graced her lips as she looked at him, "Hello again Jaune. Believe it or not, yes. The handicapped are still capable of moving in vehicles", She added with a small laugh. Hoping for some levity before adopting a serious expression./div
div id="djs-1nbbs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But when did you? I mean last I had heard…", Jaune still seemed to be processing after such a long stressful time. Pyrrha however seemed remarkably calm./div
div id="djs-df2qp" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I couldn't exactly keep in touch with all of you given the CCT being down. But I couldn't remain in Vale forever. I had to come home eventually. And if what I've heard is correct, You've had a much harder time then I can imagine." Pyrrha wheeled herself closer so she could reach out and take his hand. Jaune seemed almost frozen. Afraid to touch her. Giving an affectionate squeeze she smiled./div
div id="djs-8htd2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I've missed you too", Jaune's legs suddenly collapsed under him as he wrapped his arms around her. Her shirt becoming stained with tears as he cried. The sheer weight of emotions he had been holding onto since the fall of Beacon began flooding free in her presence as she wrapped her arms around him in the tightest hold she could muster./div
div id="djs-2h2dq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As his sobbing ebbed he lifted his face and looked at her as she stared back with a small smile and tired eyes. Placing both her hands on his cheeks. She gently wiped his eyes, "Jaune.. I've waited so long to see you again. You've changed so much. From that clueless overconfident adorable dork. To an angst driven, emotional wreck of a man whom I barely recognize in those pain filled eyes."/div
div id="djs-ch9j4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Jaune made to speak but Pyrrha quickly pinched his lips shut, "Ah ah. Do not force me to delve into the Ruby patented Nopes! I've had a long time to think and feel sorry for myself. So I'm going to need you to listen. If it isn't abundantly clear by now I will spell it out. I am a very selfish and competitive person. When I want something I will fight for it. When I'm sure of something. I will act on it. And when I'm scared and don't know how to fight a battle. I will bottle myself up. I have spent most of my life driven by my talents and desires. For good and ill that it has brought me. I've become who I am for it. I chose to let the chips fall where they may and took a gamble on you. And I have not once ever regretted that choice. For all my talents and accolades. I have never been prouder than I have in helping you train and watching you grow. I made a selfish choice to face Cinder when I thought I shouldn't. Because I felt obligated to take that chance. And I made an equally selfish choice in pushing you away because I feared I would lose you. And for that Jaune I am so very sorry"/div
div id="djs-9qej6" 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-35g3g" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Reaching out to cup his cheek. She leaned forward to rest her forehead against his, "I wallowed in self pity for so long. Even Yang found her way before I did. But I made myself one promise that I will not break./div
div id="djs-9e4ne" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"She quickly pressed her hands to his chest and pushed him back slightly with her semblance. An act reminding him painfully of being shoved into the locker that fateful night, "I promised myself…", gripping the arms of the chair she slowly pushed up. Her mother quietly watching and waiting. Arms at the ready should she stumble back, "That I would stop blaming myself.."/div
div id="djs-ds43q" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Slowly pushing herself up as her knees buckle and wobble. A faint black glow steadied her braced leg as she looked him dead in the eyes.; "And that...I would meet you again on my own ...two...feet..", slowly she rose to her full length and made small steps towards him. Giving a wide smile./div
div id="djs-7etha" 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 gotten taller.. I've missed you.. Jaune…", Wrapping her arms around him she locks into a deep passionate kiss as his arms snake around her. Helping support her weight. The pain weighing on his shoulders and the weakness in her ankle fading to nothing in that moment. As the world washed away for the two. A quiet sniffling could be heard as Pyrrha's mother wiped her eyes only to find a tissue offered to her as Nora and Ren stood at her side. At that moment, if only for a moment as two cups of coffee fell to the floor in shock, JNPR had been reborn./div
div id="djs-cs7n4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Thank you young man. And you as well, Ren and Nora…for being the friends I always knew my sweet Pyrrha could make", Helen Nikos smiled as she watched her daughter and her friends. She giggled, "when you're ready, Jason and I await you at home"/div
div id="djs-cdvp" 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-f5bt4" 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-259vr" 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-bnbls" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""For your sakes…just drop this! After all, look at me! You could all become like me!", Qrow slipped and fell on the stairs as he heard that. Being passed out drunk was one thing. But after these kids had made…whatever that was, that blond idiot actually suggested robbing an airship!? He refused to believe it. He watched all these kids defy rhyme and reason, actually pulling off that victory at Haven. The ice queen survived a plane crash! Team RNJR somehow beat that one monstrous Grimm without help. And my ill luck was all there to ruin it time and time again! Yet as he tried to prevent them from making a stupid life ruining mistake, vexed by his antics perhaps, Ruby refused to listen to reason. "I wanna hear him out"/div
div id="djs-7rcjv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Ruby…"/div
div id="djs-51doj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I WANT TO HEAR HIM OUT! I know you're trying to protect us, but just because you don't have an idea doesn't mean we're gonna stop trying! We still have options. Oz hasn't been here to guide us and yet we managed to make it to Haven anyway! We've been in bad situations before and no adult to come save us. Ok there was that time you saved me from Tyrian, but that doesn't mean we've managed to do it our way, all the way. And we'll do it again, even if you don't like it because I don't care anymore what you think! I can't believe I once looked up to you", Ruby said, her heart colder than usual as she was so done and tired of that drinking schtick of his. Qrow however, wasn't taking this lying down. His eyes shimmered. Seeing the daughter of Summer be so done with him was a wakeup call, but Summer would have killed him if he let this fly./div
div id="djs-er6u3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And that's fine. I'm not the perfect role model anyway! I bring bad luck wherever I go, I am always Drunk because of what I've seen. See some of us run away from family when the Grimm hits the Dust Shop, but I stuck around. I gave my life countless times in this pointless stalemate of Ozpin. And the only way I can function if is Alcohol takes the edge off of everything. Because out there isn't just fear or chaos. It's DEATH. Forget the farm, because that's a kindergarten compared to what's to come! But I'm not going to stand here and let you all commit a crime like that. You'd be stupid to think I would!", Qrow said, trying to stand up but he slipped on the carpet of the staircase and once more landed on his butt. Instinctively he reached for his pouch but stopped himself. Clenching his fist he looked at Ruby who seemed even more confident./div
div id="djs-c821s" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You can't stop us. You're alone. And I have a team", Ruby said, stepping forwards, challenging./div
div id="djs-d6ii5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Ruby…you can't possibly think that. Even intoxicated I'm stronger, faster and more experienced than all of you. Not to mention your team isn't a stone's throw worth a damn! You're not able to fight me. All I have to do is put you down in a flash, which I can. The heiress I can take, since she's not nearly as strong as that stuck up sister of hers. I will admit the cat is a loose cannon, but I've faced way worse. Firecracker is like her mother, all bluster and no real skill. And even if you were, you all can't work together! Yang's becoming like her mother, a lone and isolated miserable piece of work. Unlike Winter, Weiss hasn't the experience to truly fight me. Blake's a former terrorist turned Huntress. Blondie is a close range fighter, easy for me to handle", Qrow shoots off in his tirade, earning scornful looks of the ones present. Maria, sensing the anger from the kids, steps between herself and the happy couple holding Adrian who's crying from all the shouting. "That's it QROW!"/div
div id="djs-bd42" 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-njc9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang ran up the stairs, eyes flaring in anger as she aimed to punch him in the face. In a flash the Intoxication vanishes from his face as he sidesteps her attack and steps up a little, ramping up the bad luck, resulting in Yang, still attacking, to slip from the stair and tumble to a knee. Qrow forms a fist and punches, but stops before hitting Yang. "Final warning Yang…next time you try to punch m-"/div
div id="djs-2m360" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang springs up and headbutts him! The others glare in shock as Uncle and Niece fight. She throws punch after punch, which Qrow takes, one by one, turtling up until he's had enough. As Yang throws her punch he catches it and locks her elbow in place, bending it in an unnatural angle, causing Yang sharp pain as she flies over head and lands face first on the floor, Qrow pinning her down as he locks her arm behind her back, manipulating her body with pain. "Alright. Now that the loose cannon is dealt with…"/div
div id="djs-4lk2e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You don't get to call me that! You have any idea how much that hurts! You…dad…even Summer! I didn't get to be a child! Ruby was too small, you were always gone and Dad crashed. I had to be the one to raise her! AND EVER SINCE YOU'VE HATED ME", Qrow took a moment as he looked at Yang and his hold lessened, letting Yang pull her arm free as she tried to crawl away, she was crying tears of frustration and pain. "All because I look like my coward mother?! Well she's the smartest one yet! Oz lied to everyone. When we found out we all wanted to quit! What has Raven ever done differently than us?! I am not like her, but you have to stop comparing me to her!"/div
div id="djs-2mdvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yang…", Blake reached her hand forwards, which was a bad idea since now her anger filled eyes, crying tears of pain, pierced the amber irises and threw her a curveball: "You're no better! When everything went to Grimm you left! I was wounded at home and all my friends left me! Pyrrha had to pick me up with tough love before I grew back into who I needed to be. And after you came back, you pretended like I was weak and defenseless"/div
div id="djs-bfnc7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And I'm sorry about that! I was a coward and ran. You're right. And I'm sorry for what I did. But I promise I won't leave anyone behind. Not again. I'm not running anymore", Blake said as she looked Yang dead in the eye. Weiss reached over and grabbed Blake's hand, earning them all a blush before Weiss nods. "And I'm sorry I didn't stick around. Sure I could have fought off my father, but I was scared. Beacon had fallen. But now I'll be here, for my friends…my family"/div
div id="djs-8sn8i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang and Ruby gasped. Weiss held up her arm which housed the white friendship bracelet. And Blake held up her own one. Ruby squeaked at that and looked at her friends, before she bolted up towards Yang and hugged her. Qrow stumbling back and sticking his head out the window as he threw up. Into the neighbor's backyard./div
div id="djs-dvkkj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's all well and done…but you're still not stealing an Atlesian ship", Qrow said as he stumbled towards the railing and looked down on the gang. For Weiss to perk up/div
div id="djs-2rn68" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""No problem! I have an idea"/div
div id="djs-ctfce" 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-m1ab" 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-6q743" 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-2avqm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Glad you've come to your senses, Miss Schnee! After all Atlas is the best place to be as it's the greatest kingdom in the world", Cordovin spouted as she walked Weiss through the hallways of the Boot. Weiss was on autopilot. Sure she had suggested this plan, yet that didn't mean she liked it./div
div id="djs-ah699" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh as much sense as the world. After all, each Kingdom has a culture worth learning from", Weiss said, sickly sweet in her voice. Luckily this Cordovin wasn't the brightest in the bunch. Perhaps Maria was right and she was sent to Argus just so she won't be a problem with Mantle or Atlas./div
div id="djs-839ee" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes quite but Atlas is…", Weiss tuned out of the conversation as she walked through the hallways and reached the cargo deck. She saw that the door was open and ready for take off. Good that meant her plan was at least partially a success already. As the rant continued, about the beasts of Faunus and the ungrateful people of Anima, Weiss went for the most cliched excuse possible as she excused herself to the bathroom. On the way, despite having an armed escort, she saw a particular familiar bird sneak along with her. Once they rounded a corner, Qrow appeared and knocked both out./div
div id="djs-46vps" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""This is still such a risk", he said unsure, stashing the out cold guards as he and Weiss walked up towards the communication center. From here it would just be a matter of contacting Winter and getting to request an evac. Qrow stood guard by the door, as he did a spark shot through the base panels that he didn't quite catch, but would have massive issues. Weiss in the meantime punched in Winter's personal contact code. Only for static to hit./div
div id="djs-fu9b0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Drat…I was aware this was possible. Blake are you in position?", Weiss said over the radio. Standing a ways off, helping while also providing overwatch, was the rest of the team. Weiss' plan had a backup if the communications weren't working. Realign the comms array towards Solitas and punch through. Blake was the stealthiest, so she would be sent in and deal with that should problems arise. While Qrow and Weiss stayed on the base, Blake snuck through the woods, aided by the rest of them to get one of the dishes in position. And Blake got pretty far, until she actually managed to get near the control panel. Once she was there a loud scream allerted her as one of the technicians was carved straight through. As Blake looked up she had her eyes widen in terror./div
div id="djs-6vt3t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Traitor…finally…I can destroy your eye sore", Blake shivered beyond realization. Standing there, bruised, wounded and worse for wear, was Gray!? How was the former lieutenant even alive!? "Wonder how I'm alive? I can tell you how, but that would be wasted breath. You're dead soon anyway. And your allies won't help you either…as they'll have their hands full right about…now"/div
div id="djs-n1jt" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"as he said that a heavy sounding horn in the air put the base and all of Argus on high alert. From the sea, a massive Leviathan approached, the sea water bubbling at it's hind legs, while airborne legions of Sphinxes and Manticores swarm the city from above. Instantly everyone, aside Blake and Yang, as Weiss and Qrow join the others moving to the city to help as the base fires its mantas and bulkheads, Cordovin trying to enter her battle machine. Yet there are technical glitches all over the place. Thanks to Qrow having touched a panel causing a power failure. While the streets are evacuated with police, what few huntsmen remain and the gang, they try to stop the bleeding as the Leviathan slowly walks towards the shoreline, a Hardlight Barrier activating to keep it out. Blake glared at the lieutenant killing the final engineer before turning his attention to her. "Finally some privacy"/div
div id="djs-652i0" 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-1modi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Just like at the train, Blake was outmatched physically. And by whatever reason, his power only seemed more intense. AS broken and weak as his body seemed, his strength wasn't among that. His strikes hit like trucks and his speed was surprisingly faster than before. Blake needed to use every trick she knew, evading his attacks, striking at joints to unbalance, disengaging when he advanced, Shadows to tank blows she'd die from. Ascending up the dish, his chainsaw blade kept revving as he ascended after her. Until at long last she was out of room to climb away. With a few peppered shots, yet they seemed to bounce right off him. How was he so strong?! Contemplating that, he jumped up to her final hiding place and stalked her. Low to the ground like a ferocious predator. He acted like a Grimm. Staring at her behind that horrible mask. He started his attack sequence. Singing three horizontal times in an easily telegraphed way. Blake dodged as she hooked Gambol around a barrier that would prevent falling off, swung around the Lieutenant and sliced at his ankles. Hoping to disrupt his Aura. Yet instead of seeing his Aura spark, her weapon sliced straight through his flesh, causing blood to run over his heels, before his wounds healed themselves. What the hell was that!? His Chainsaw sword spun around to strike her causing her to Shadow dodge it and jump to the side. Distancing herself from him as she shot bullets at him to slow him down, which he easily batted aside with his roaring sword. So he takes her strikes, but blocks bullets? Interesting. As she's landing, he jumps forwards and hits a button. Suddenly Blake lets out the loudest of screams as the sword that was once a solid shaped chainsaw, was now a whip like structure. The damaging teeth of the chain biting into her Aura as she lept over the railing and crashed into a few set of trees. As she landed she got to her feet only to feel another spike of pain. Looking at her boot she could see it was shredded beyond relief. One bared foot she limped away through the woods as a howling voice screamed after her./div
div id="djs-emnnn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Getting to a clearing was where she stopped running. She was out. Her Aura had taken a blow but the chainsaw had eaten straight through her defenses and caused her damage to her foot. Standing on one leg she watched as the, once more solid, chainsaw sword wielding maniac appeared from the treeline with a soft chuckle from his lips. Not dignifying her with a response he swung his sword, forcing Blake to block the blow as she couldn't move away in time. As the steel of Gambol groaned and sparked, Blake tried to stand her ground but he simply tossed her to the side, her blade shattering in pieces as the Lieutenant glared at her. His eyes glare in fury as he raises his sword for the finishing blow, only for a loud shotgun blast to ring out. "Get away from her"/div
div id="djs-d0cio" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Shooting through the forest, Yang jumps off her bike and lands into his gut and punches him to the side. Heavily damaging his body as Gray coughs up blood. Yang turns to face Blake, before she has to blast herself aside, moving faster than ever, the chainsaw chain rings out and swirls around her. If it wasn't for the aerial maneuverability from Ember Celica, Yang would be shredded. Yet she was faster than that, and more clever. Waiting for the opening, Yang blasts in and begins throwing a few quick jabs, but she has to disengage fast. His weapon is highly predictable as he swirls it around. Trees and rocks are crushed and cut to shreds while Yang desperately tries to make him focus on her./div
div id="djs-6b6gs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You are from Mount Glenn!", he hissed as he smiled. Last time the two of them had gotten him into a bind. But this time she was alone! He sent his weapon out once more, lassoing the biting weapon at her legs, but Yang was anticipating it. She ducked after a tree, which was shredded to logs in seconds, but that opened him up from a twelve gauge as Yang threw the punch in his face. Which he quickly whipped aside. Blake noticed but it made no sense. By all intents and purposes this man should be dead. "You'll die!" "Just go down you stubborn jerk!", Yang hissed after she needed to evade a particularly spicy set of attacks. He was ferocious, unpredictable and sadly mindless. She flipped back as she felt the bite of his blade at her good arm and yelped in pain for a second. How is that so effective? Is it because it attacks so fast in a single second? As the blades bite? Or is he doing something else? No, that's definitely just the blade. His semblance has to have matured, Blake theorized. Somehow managing to stay alive by feeding into endless rage. Yang also seems to notice something and turtles up as the chain pulls him towards her, kicking Yang and powering her up even more. She smirks as from the blow before and now this, she's full powered! SHe leaps forwards and strikes a full power strike to his jaw! Yet as he flies back his chain snags on Yang's sides and shreds through her Aura. And if it wasn't for the leather jacket she'd be a bleeding mess. Luckily it was only a mere laceration. Groaning, she closed the wound with one hand and fired a shot at Gray who was stumbling up from the blow, using the smoking barrel to cauterize the wound. "How is he still standing!?"/div
div id="djs-8lrcq" 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, his rage is somehow pushing his body over his limit", Blake says as she crawls towards Yang. Normally the fight would be over, they'd have defeated anyone by now. Yet as Gray staggers up, now even more blood flowing over his face, mask cracked, Yang gets up and readies herself, as the chain suddenly shoots out towards her. A split second she misjudged it's trajectory and saw it come for her face. Until another shotgun blast rings out. Yang ducks, trying to evade but a bright red sword shoots into her field of vision and catches the chain, saving her from a nasty haircut. Yet as she sees the red sword Yang's heartrate rises as a panic attack is building. Oh no./div
div id="djs-6iuc4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You have seen better days Gray. I barely recognised you", stepping over Blake and Yang, his sword speared into the ground, Adam walks up with an ease of mind and confidence in heart. As he takes the sword he sheathes once more and gets ready in an agressive stance. "You want them…? You go through me"/div
div id="djs-gflu" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Luckily it seems I did not actually blind myself", Aschen said with a bit of joy in her voice as she pulled the ice cube away from her eye. The scar from before remained, but her iris had changed colour due to the heat, and while she did lose her sight out of the left eye temporarily, it was slowly returning, now having a blue right and pale white left eye. Neo was unamused as she turned to Aschen and made a face./div
div id="djs-d9f9i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes I told you it was hard to understand. Not sure I understand it myself. I am a Maiden and if we both want what we desire, we'll need an olive branch for Salem. Or so the voice of Cinder in my head keeps telling me", Neo rolled her eyes as Aschen sharpened a sword, causing her to scoff: "look I didn't want this. But you want revenge on the ones that killed your friend. Cinder is already dead and that leaves Little Red and her friends. You want them, I want my mother. Before we can get them, we need the relic…which is on it's way to Atlas. So will you help me?"/div
div id="djs-71lu1" 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-2ctfl" 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-8aggn" 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-2r1bb" 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-6jg31" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Next time…don't ok", came the voice of Jaune as he gently put his fist against Ruby's shoulder for a slight shove. She smirked at him/div
div id="djs-58qas" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey I did what I had to do to protect my friends and the train passengers", she defended herself as she wobbled on one leg, causing Jaune to realize she was hurt./div
div id="djs-dsd9d" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah well that still isn't an excuse. You ok?", he gestured to her leg, prompting Ruby to lift her shoulder. "Either sprained or broke, don't know yet"/div
div id="djs-ecdak" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Well I think I can help with that", said a voice that Ruby didn't know. She was blond, like Jaune, had the same eyes. Oh that must be his sister!/div
div id="djs-6qp78" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Hey Saph…", Jaune smirked as the two of them gently nodded. "You take Adrian home. I'll get your friend some medical attention"/div
div id="djs-7fnp" 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 need for that Saphron, I can do it", Jaune counters as he leans down and begins channeling his Aura, only for Saphron to pull his ear and smile: "now now baby brother, listen to big sis and get your nephew home. And tell Terra I'll be on time for dinner!"/div
div id="djs-efde1" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Saphron hands her son and the key to the front door to her brother and begins helping the limping Ruby towards the nearest medical building. As a nurse that has an off day, and knowing a few characters that owe her a few favors, Saphron managed to sneak Ruby ahead a little and checked her foot. With a proper ankle brace, a few days of rest and a sweet from Saphron Ruby was settled and went along with the rest towards the Cotta-Arc household. Chatting about sweet nothings and stories of Jaune as a little boy./div
div id="djs-8j72q" 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-c80hf" 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-8ricp" 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-3rqpc" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Ren, Nora and Jaune explained what the deal was with Atlas, Terra Cotta got home with groceries while Saph and Ruby were still out, the gang began making plans and a few ideas, yet quickly died down as it was clear that while the Apathy had taken away some of the edge, there was still tension between them. Especially Blake, Yang and Qrow. Qrow looked like he'd explode every second. He hadn't had a drop of alcohol since the farm while he had talks with Terra, while Blake had backed off from Yang, who was contemplating some of the things that were said back at the farm. When Saphron finally arrived home, Ruby able to walk on her own feet again, they began making dinner while Ruby saw the tension between her team and decided that today was not a good day to deal with. Yet the other option was Qrow. So after food, they decided to go to the military base the next day./div
div id="djs-1ouh1" 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-r67k" 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-7ptqq" 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-9f44p" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""IF Miss Schnee has come to her senses and wishes to return home, then OFF COURSE the Atlas military will escort her home. But only her since we don't want to have any…issues with her…less refined friends", Cordovin said as she looked Blake over once and turned away. THere was a crack of lightning in the distance before Weiss smiled and turned her head towards Blake, winking./div
div id="djs-6rmqd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""If this is how you treat me and my friends, I'm sure you'd like to know that I can get you fired from the Atlesian Military. I do believe I know, very intimately I might add, the woman you report to", Weiss said with a haughty smile. Everyone watching her in awe and amazement./div
div id="djs-29psb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes well…Commander Schnee isn't due for another few weeks and inspections have been had. So you can kiss help from that goodbye!", Cordovin said, but Weiss could see a nervous crinkle in her forehead./div
div id="djs-en0k3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""We wouldn't want the Ace Ops to hear how a Base Commander in Argus caused the delay between Commander Schnee and her sister? And before I forget, we're not civilians. We're all Huntsmen and Huntresses", Weiss used the training her father had put her through to tactically maneuver her way around this issue./div
div id="djs-drj50" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sadly that won't happen. If you want to return home, I'm sad to say we can't help you. Orders are orders. Good day CIVILIAN", with that Cordovin closed the gate and backed away./div
div id="djs-1va2u" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That went well", Yang added snarkily. Causing Weiss to blush before she relaxed her back and smirked. "Actually that went better than expected. I've made it no secret I don't want to return home, but it's good to know you all have my back"/div
div id="djs-5ljvd" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I gave you my word Weiss", Ruby said smiling warmly, as Blake nods and gently held Weiss' hand. "Now all we gotta do is…"/div
div id="djs-a2l09" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Ruby attempted to explain when she saw Qrow walk off. Nervous she walked towards him. "What's the plan uncle?"/div
div id="djs-45dvl" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Plan? The plan is for me to drink till I forget the deep stinkin' mess we're in. I don't care what you youngsters wanna do. Best we go our separate ways", Qrow said down as he jumped off the bridge before vanishing. A small crow flying off towards Argus./div
div id="djs-46g0h" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""What's his problem?", Jaune asks, setting us back on the canon timeline./div
div id="djs-48ff0" 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-bq92f" 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-93tpk" 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-cuivb" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think it would be best…if we had some time to ourselves", With that, Ren, Jaune and Nora were gone. Stormed upstairs to work through the heavy load of information they were told. From the loss of Ozpin and the fate of Salem. Ruby had attempted to explain the nuance in 'you can't' that Jin had told, but it fell on deaf ears. And as the others stood there in silence. Ruby sighed, sitting down on the couch as her team each had their eyes about./div
div id="djs-6dipi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I think it's time we talk about the Goliath in the room", Ruby said solemnly. "We haven't been performing as well as we should"/div
div id="djs-etmvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Talk about an understatement", Yang hissed, still angry from the outbursts of Jaune and co./div
div id="djs-ecqvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yang…not helping", Weiss added, trying to stick up for Ruby, she promised to be the best teammate possible. So time to put my mouth where it matters. Blake flinched her ears as Weiss continued: "Yes I did say it was best to give up after the…farm…incident. But I've since apologized. And while I don't want to go home, there's logic in it. As much as I'd love to disagree with Cordovin, Atlas does have the best weapon systems and defenses. The relic would be safe there"/div
div id="djs-9bgoo" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Except that's not what I'm talking about", Ruby bemoaned as she put her hands on her lap: "We've been at odds with each other, out of sync and uncoordinated ever since Haven. Probably even before that"/div
div id="djs-544ep" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""It's true we spend almost a year separated, that doesn't just go away", Blake stated matter of factly, earning a finger pointed at her from Yang./div
div id="djs-13cpn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yeah but YOU were busy with your family when we could train", Yang said, which was instantly cut off by Weiss. "Now now Yang, none of us was particularly helpful at that time. I was sightseeing, Blake with her family which I understand and you were sulking"/div
div id="djs-4p8qm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Sulking?! The nerve!", Yang walked aggressively towards Weiss before Blake stepped in the middle of them both, glaring at Yang./div
div id="djs-daq93" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You can be mad at me for leaving all you want. You can be aggravated that I tried to be 'too helpful' in your regard, which I admit I was. But you don't get to threaten Weiss like that. She's trying her best. If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at me", Blake said. Ever since that day Weiss nearly died, Blake had a deep respect for Weiss and didn't like her being threatened, even by Yang. Aided even more by Weiss sticking up for her with Cordovin./div
div id="djs-2qssv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh I'm getting to you in a second!", Yang hissed until Ruby gave a loud shout. "STOP IT ALL OF YOU!"/div
div id="djs-831h6" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""If this can't work anymore then I'm not gonna try. I'll go alone if I have to. And you Yang, you can go back to dad or move about your business. I've lasted this long without you, it would sting, but I'd rather work with a well oiled weapon than a loose cannon", Ruby said, trying to silence them all. It was understandable why they had issues, but Ruby didn't like that this animosity was still remaining. Yang, hurt that Ruby would even suggest this, flared her eyes in red: "Are you saying I'm a coward?!"/div
div id="djs-2b5ar" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I'm saying you're hurt! And it's becoming a problem. I'm sorry for what happened Yang, Blake is sorry for leaving. We have all made mistakes and accepted that. Now please Yang…let go of that anger and grudge", Ruby begged her. Before Yang scoffed: "Maybe we all need a moment…"/div
div id="djs-endne" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""FINE", With that Ruby got up and threw the bracelets on the floor, stomping her good foot off as she walked towards the edge, Blake and Weiss offered to get food Leaving Yang to sulk, trying to call Qrow who hadn't been seen in ages. But he was scattered to the wind. "Where are you?"/div
div id="djs-76vgj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You know, I came here to get away from the shouting", Maria said as she sat at the garden with a book./div
div id="djs-9s2uk" 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-345al" 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-dhf2g" 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-dkq6k" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Dammit Oscar. Why did you run?! Sure I might have been to rough on you..oh who am I kidding this is my fault. Jaune said as he was depressingly gazing out at nothing. Ren and Nora went to a cafe nearby to get something to warm up, but he wasn't feeling it. The long bitter night of searching had taken its toll. Mistakes had been made. Seething anger taken out on an innocent young boy. He wasn't sure what to do or what to believe. Sitting on the cold metal bench as he contemplated his thoughts. A lone leaf amidst the bitter snow drifted into view. Beckoning him his gaze trailed towards the park he saw a wall…and a statue? As he got up to get closer he spied names. Huntsmen and Huntresses. Engraved with flowers and mementos. His wayward steps lead him to a most jarring sight as the visage of Pyrrha stood before him. A statue of his beloved teammate whom he hadn't set eyes on in over a year! Looking at the downcast expression and seeing a memorial engraving speaking of Pyrrha among those who were lost. It seemed just another stab at the champion to be considered among the dead because she can no longer fight as she once did. Tears welled in his eyes as he reached up to place his hand on the statue. In a vain attempt to seek comfort and guidance./div
div id="djs-anbm9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Giving a deep huff. Jaune shut his eyes in contemplation. "I really screwed up this time Pyr. I tried to step up and be the leader you believed I could be. But I'm just a failure. I couldn't do anything to Cinder. I couldn't do anything to that guy Tyrian when he tried to take Ruby. I..I even attacked a 14 year old kid because of the lying bastard in his head like it was somehow his fault! Why did you decide to save me? Why didn't you let me come with you or better yet, why did you have to fight her at all? You should be here right now. Not me!"/div
div id="djs-22g5a" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You really are a dolt, you know that?"/div
div id="djs-1uigj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Jaune's eyes opened suddenly and he turned, breathless in what he was sure was a hallucination. Pyrrha sat comfortably in her wheelchair as the woman he presumed was her mother stood behind it. Quietly watching the display./div
div id="djs-2ssjs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I never thought I would agree with Weiss on that insulting jab", Pyrrha quietly stated as Jaune took her in. His mouth flapping but no sound would come for several seconds: "Pa-Pyrrha.. it can't be.."/div
div id="djs-3i2hg" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"A small smile graced her lips as she looked at him, "Hello again Jaune. Believe it or not, yes. The handicapped are still capable of moving in vehicles", She added with a small laugh. Hoping for some levity before adopting a serious expression./div
div id="djs-1nbbs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""But when did you? I mean last I had heard…", Jaune still seemed to be processing after such a long stressful time. Pyrrha however seemed remarkably calm./div
div id="djs-df2qp" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I couldn't exactly keep in touch with all of you given the CCT being down. But I couldn't remain in Vale forever. I had to come home eventually. And if what I've heard is correct, You've had a much harder time then I can imagine." Pyrrha wheeled herself closer so she could reach out and take his hand. Jaune seemed almost frozen. Afraid to touch her. Giving an affectionate squeeze she smiled./div
div id="djs-8htd2" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I've missed you too", Jaune's legs suddenly collapsed under him as he wrapped his arms around her. Her shirt becoming stained with tears as he cried. The sheer weight of emotions he had been holding onto since the fall of Beacon began flooding free in her presence as she wrapped her arms around him in the tightest hold she could muster./div
div id="djs-2h2dq" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"As his sobbing ebbed he lifted his face and looked at her as she stared back with a small smile and tired eyes. Placing both her hands on his cheeks. She gently wiped his eyes, "Jaune.. I've waited so long to see you again. You've changed so much. From that clueless overconfident adorable dork. To an angst driven, emotional wreck of a man whom I barely recognize in those pain filled eyes."/div
div id="djs-ch9j4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Jaune made to speak but Pyrrha quickly pinched his lips shut, "Ah ah. Do not force me to delve into the Ruby patented Nopes! I've had a long time to think and feel sorry for myself. So I'm going to need you to listen. If it isn't abundantly clear by now I will spell it out. I am a very selfish and competitive person. When I want something I will fight for it. When I'm sure of something. I will act on it. And when I'm scared and don't know how to fight a battle. I will bottle myself up. I have spent most of my life driven by my talents and desires. For good and ill that it has brought me. I've become who I am for it. I chose to let the chips fall where they may and took a gamble on you. And I have not once ever regretted that choice. For all my talents and accolades. I have never been prouder than I have in helping you train and watching you grow. I made a selfish choice to face Cinder when I thought I shouldn't. Because I felt obligated to take that chance. And I made an equally selfish choice in pushing you away because I feared I would lose you. And for that Jaune I am so very sorry"/div
div id="djs-9qej6" 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-35g3g" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Reaching out to cup his cheek. She leaned forward to rest her forehead against his, "I wallowed in self pity for so long. Even Yang found her way before I did. But I made myself one promise that I will not break./div
div id="djs-9e4ne" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"She quickly pressed her hands to his chest and pushed him back slightly with her semblance. An act reminding him painfully of being shoved into the locker that fateful night, "I promised myself…", gripping the arms of the chair she slowly pushed up. Her mother quietly watching and waiting. Arms at the ready should she stumble back, "That I would stop blaming myself.."/div
div id="djs-ds43q" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Slowly pushing herself up as her knees buckle and wobble. A faint black glow steadied her braced leg as she looked him dead in the eyes.; "And that...I would meet you again on my own ...two...feet..", slowly she rose to her full length and made small steps towards him. Giving a wide smile./div
div id="djs-7etha" 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 gotten taller.. I've missed you.. Jaune…", Wrapping her arms around him she locks into a deep passionate kiss as his arms snake around her. Helping support her weight. The pain weighing on his shoulders and the weakness in her ankle fading to nothing in that moment. As the world washed away for the two. A quiet sniffling could be heard as Pyrrha's mother wiped her eyes only to find a tissue offered to her as Nora and Ren stood at her side. At that moment, if only for a moment as two cups of coffee fell to the floor in shock, JNPR had been reborn./div
div id="djs-cs7n4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Thank you young man. And you as well, Ren and Nora…for being the friends I always knew my sweet Pyrrha could make", Helen Nikos smiled as she watched her daughter and her friends. She giggled, "when you're ready, Jason and I await you at home"/div
div id="djs-cdvp" 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-f5bt4" 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-259vr" 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-bnbls" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""For your sakes…just drop this! After all, look at me! You could all become like me!", Qrow slipped and fell on the stairs as he heard that. Being passed out drunk was one thing. But after these kids had made…whatever that was, that blond idiot actually suggested robbing an airship!? He refused to believe it. He watched all these kids defy rhyme and reason, actually pulling off that victory at Haven. The ice queen survived a plane crash! Team RNJR somehow beat that one monstrous Grimm without help. And my ill luck was all there to ruin it time and time again! Yet as he tried to prevent them from making a stupid life ruining mistake, vexed by his antics perhaps, Ruby refused to listen to reason. "I wanna hear him out"/div
div id="djs-7rcjv" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Ruby…"/div
div id="djs-51doj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""I WANT TO HEAR HIM OUT! I know you're trying to protect us, but just because you don't have an idea doesn't mean we're gonna stop trying! We still have options. Oz hasn't been here to guide us and yet we managed to make it to Haven anyway! We've been in bad situations before and no adult to come save us. Ok there was that time you saved me from Tyrian, but that doesn't mean we've managed to do it our way, all the way. And we'll do it again, even if you don't like it because I don't care anymore what you think! I can't believe I once looked up to you", Ruby said, her heart colder than usual as she was so done and tired of that drinking schtick of his. Qrow however, wasn't taking this lying down. His eyes shimmered. Seeing the daughter of Summer be so done with him was a wakeup call, but Summer would have killed him if he let this fly./div
div id="djs-er6u3" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And that's fine. I'm not the perfect role model anyway! I bring bad luck wherever I go, I am always Drunk because of what I've seen. See some of us run away from family when the Grimm hits the Dust Shop, but I stuck around. I gave my life countless times in this pointless stalemate of Ozpin. And the only way I can function if is Alcohol takes the edge off of everything. Because out there isn't just fear or chaos. It's DEATH. Forget the farm, because that's a kindergarten compared to what's to come! But I'm not going to stand here and let you all commit a crime like that. You'd be stupid to think I would!", Qrow said, trying to stand up but he slipped on the carpet of the staircase and once more landed on his butt. Instinctively he reached for his pouch but stopped himself. Clenching his fist he looked at Ruby who seemed even more confident./div
div id="djs-c821s" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You can't stop us. You're alone. And I have a team", Ruby said, stepping forwards, challenging./div
div id="djs-d6ii5" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Ruby…you can't possibly think that. Even intoxicated I'm stronger, faster and more experienced than all of you. Not to mention your team isn't a stone's throw worth a damn! You're not able to fight me. All I have to do is put you down in a flash, which I can. The heiress I can take, since she's not nearly as strong as that stuck up sister of hers. I will admit the cat is a loose cannon, but I've faced way worse. Firecracker is like her mother, all bluster and no real skill. And even if you were, you all can't work together! Yang's becoming like her mother, a lone and isolated miserable piece of work. Unlike Winter, Weiss hasn't the experience to truly fight me. Blake's a former terrorist turned Huntress. Blondie is a close range fighter, easy for me to handle", Qrow shoots off in his tirade, earning scornful looks of the ones present. Maria, sensing the anger from the kids, steps between herself and the happy couple holding Adrian who's crying from all the shouting. "That's it QROW!"/div
div id="djs-bd42" 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-njc9" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang ran up the stairs, eyes flaring in anger as she aimed to punch him in the face. In a flash the Intoxication vanishes from his face as he sidesteps her attack and steps up a little, ramping up the bad luck, resulting in Yang, still attacking, to slip from the stair and tumble to a knee. Qrow forms a fist and punches, but stops before hitting Yang. "Final warning Yang…next time you try to punch m-"/div
div id="djs-2m360" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang springs up and headbutts him! The others glare in shock as Uncle and Niece fight. She throws punch after punch, which Qrow takes, one by one, turtling up until he's had enough. As Yang throws her punch he catches it and locks her elbow in place, bending it in an unnatural angle, causing Yang sharp pain as she flies over head and lands face first on the floor, Qrow pinning her down as he locks her arm behind her back, manipulating her body with pain. "Alright. Now that the loose cannon is dealt with…"/div
div id="djs-4lk2e" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You don't get to call me that! You have any idea how much that hurts! You…dad…even Summer! I didn't get to be a child! Ruby was too small, you were always gone and Dad crashed. I had to be the one to raise her! AND EVER SINCE YOU'VE HATED ME", Qrow took a moment as he looked at Yang and his hold lessened, letting Yang pull her arm free as she tried to crawl away, she was crying tears of frustration and pain. "All because I look like my coward mother?! Well she's the smartest one yet! Oz lied to everyone. When we found out we all wanted to quit! What has Raven ever done differently than us?! I am not like her, but you have to stop comparing me to her!"/div
div id="djs-2mdvk" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yang…", Blake reached her hand forwards, which was a bad idea since now her anger filled eyes, crying tears of pain, pierced the amber irises and threw her a curveball: "You're no better! When everything went to Grimm you left! I was wounded at home and all my friends left me! Pyrrha had to pick me up with tough love before I grew back into who I needed to be. And after you came back, you pretended like I was weak and defenseless"/div
div id="djs-bfnc7" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""And I'm sorry about that! I was a coward and ran. You're right. And I'm sorry for what I did. But I promise I won't leave anyone behind. Not again. I'm not running anymore", Blake said as she looked Yang dead in the eye. Weiss reached over and grabbed Blake's hand, earning them all a blush before Weiss nods. "And I'm sorry I didn't stick around. Sure I could have fought off my father, but I was scared. Beacon had fallen. But now I'll be here, for my friends…my family"/div
div id="djs-8sn8i" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Yang and Ruby gasped. Weiss held up her arm which housed the white friendship bracelet. And Blake held up her own one. Ruby squeaked at that and looked at her friends, before she bolted up towards Yang and hugged her. Qrow stumbling back and sticking his head out the window as he threw up. Into the neighbor's backyard./div
div id="djs-dvkkj" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""That's all well and done…but you're still not stealing an Atlesian ship", Qrow said as he stumbled towards the railing and looked down on the gang. For Weiss to perk up/div
div id="djs-2rn68" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""No problem! I have an idea"/div
div id="djs-ctfce" 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-m1ab" 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-6q743" 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-2avqm" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Glad you've come to your senses, Miss Schnee! After all Atlas is the best place to be as it's the greatest kingdom in the world", Cordovin spouted as she walked Weiss through the hallways of the Boot. Weiss was on autopilot. Sure she had suggested this plan, yet that didn't mean she liked it./div
div id="djs-ah699" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Oh as much sense as the world. After all, each Kingdom has a culture worth learning from", Weiss said, sickly sweet in her voice. Luckily this Cordovin wasn't the brightest in the bunch. Perhaps Maria was right and she was sent to Argus just so she won't be a problem with Mantle or Atlas./div
div id="djs-839ee" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Yes quite but Atlas is…", Weiss tuned out of the conversation as she walked through the hallways and reached the cargo deck. She saw that the door was open and ready for take off. Good that meant her plan was at least partially a success already. As the rant continued, about the beasts of Faunus and the ungrateful people of Anima, Weiss went for the most cliched excuse possible as she excused herself to the bathroom. On the way, despite having an armed escort, she saw a particular familiar bird sneak along with her. Once they rounded a corner, Qrow appeared and knocked both out./div
div id="djs-46vps" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""This is still such a risk", he said unsure, stashing the out cold guards as he and Weiss walked up towards the communication center. From here it would just be a matter of contacting Winter and getting to request an evac. Qrow stood guard by the door, as he did a spark shot through the base panels that he didn't quite catch, but would have massive issues. Weiss in the meantime punched in Winter's personal contact code. Only for static to hit./div
div id="djs-fu9b0" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Drat…I was aware this was possible. Blake are you in position?", Weiss said over the radio. Standing a ways off, helping while also providing overwatch, was the rest of the team. Weiss' plan had a backup if the communications weren't working. Realign the comms array towards Solitas and punch through. Blake was the stealthiest, so she would be sent in and deal with that should problems arise. While Qrow and Weiss stayed on the base, Blake snuck through the woods, aided by the rest of them to get one of the dishes in position. And Blake got pretty far, until she actually managed to get near the control panel. Once she was there a loud scream allerted her as one of the technicians was carved straight through. As Blake looked up she had her eyes widen in terror./div
div id="djs-6vt3t" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""Traitor…finally…I can destroy your eye sore", Blake shivered beyond realization. Standing there, bruised, wounded and worse for wear, was Gray!? How was the former lieutenant even alive!? "Wonder how I'm alive? I can tell you how, but that would be wasted breath. You're dead soon anyway. And your allies won't help you either…as they'll have their hands full right about…now"/div
div id="djs-n1jt" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"as he said that a heavy sounding horn in the air put the base and all of Argus on high alert. From the sea, a massive Leviathan approached, the sea water bubbling at it's hind legs, while airborne legions of Sphinxes and Manticores swarm the city from above. Instantly everyone, aside Blake and Yang, as Weiss and Qrow join the others moving to the city to help as the base fires its mantas and bulkheads, Cordovin trying to enter her battle machine. Yet there are technical glitches all over the place. Thanks to Qrow having touched a panel causing a power failure. While the streets are evacuated with police, what few huntsmen remain and the gang, they try to stop the bleeding as the Leviathan slowly walks towards the shoreline, a Hardlight Barrier activating to keep it out. Blake glared at the lieutenant killing the final engineer before turning his attention to her. "Finally some privacy"/div
div id="djs-652i0" 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-1modi" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Just like at the train, Blake was outmatched physically. And by whatever reason, his power only seemed more intense. AS broken and weak as his body seemed, his strength wasn't among that. His strikes hit like trucks and his speed was surprisingly faster than before. Blake needed to use every trick she knew, evading his attacks, striking at joints to unbalance, disengaging when he advanced, Shadows to tank blows she'd die from. Ascending up the dish, his chainsaw blade kept revving as he ascended after her. Until at long last she was out of room to climb away. With a few peppered shots, yet they seemed to bounce right off him. How was he so strong?! Contemplating that, he jumped up to her final hiding place and stalked her. Low to the ground like a ferocious predator. He acted like a Grimm. Staring at her behind that horrible mask. He started his attack sequence. Singing three horizontal times in an easily telegraphed way. Blake dodged as she hooked Gambol around a barrier that would prevent falling off, swung around the Lieutenant and sliced at his ankles. Hoping to disrupt his Aura. Yet instead of seeing his Aura spark, her weapon sliced straight through his flesh, causing blood to run over his heels, before his wounds healed themselves. What the hell was that!? His Chainsaw sword spun around to strike her causing her to Shadow dodge it and jump to the side. Distancing herself from him as she shot bullets at him to slow him down, which he easily batted aside with his roaring sword. So he takes her strikes, but blocks bullets? Interesting. As she's landing, he jumps forwards and hits a button. Suddenly Blake lets out the loudest of screams as the sword that was once a solid shaped chainsaw, was now a whip like structure. The damaging teeth of the chain biting into her Aura as she lept over the railing and crashed into a few set of trees. As she landed she got to her feet only to feel another spike of pain. Looking at her boot she could see it was shredded beyond relief. One bared foot she limped away through the woods as a howling voice screamed after her./div
div id="djs-emnnn" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Getting to a clearing was where she stopped running. She was out. Her Aura had taken a blow but the chainsaw had eaten straight through her defenses and caused her damage to her foot. Standing on one leg she watched as the, once more solid, chainsaw sword wielding maniac appeared from the treeline with a soft chuckle from his lips. Not dignifying her with a response he swung his sword, forcing Blake to block the blow as she couldn't move away in time. As the steel of Gambol groaned and sparked, Blake tried to stand her ground but he simply tossed her to the side, her blade shattering in pieces as the Lieutenant glared at her. His eyes glare in fury as he raises his sword for the finishing blow, only for a loud shotgun blast to ring out. "Get away from her"/div
div id="djs-d0cio" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"Shooting through the forest, Yang jumps off her bike and lands into his gut and punches him to the side. Heavily damaging his body as Gray coughs up blood. Yang turns to face Blake, before she has to blast herself aside, moving faster than ever, the chainsaw chain rings out and swirls around her. If it wasn't for the aerial maneuverability from Ember Celica, Yang would be shredded. Yet she was faster than that, and more clever. Waiting for the opening, Yang blasts in and begins throwing a few quick jabs, but she has to disengage fast. His weapon is highly predictable as he swirls it around. Trees and rocks are crushed and cut to shreds while Yang desperately tries to make him focus on her./div
div id="djs-6b6gs" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You are from Mount Glenn!", he hissed as he smiled. Last time the two of them had gotten him into a bind. But this time she was alone! He sent his weapon out once more, lassoing the biting weapon at her legs, but Yang was anticipating it. She ducked after a tree, which was shredded to logs in seconds, but that opened him up from a twelve gauge as Yang threw the punch in his face. Which he quickly whipped aside. Blake noticed but it made no sense. By all intents and purposes this man should be dead. "You'll die!" "Just go down you stubborn jerk!", Yang hissed after she needed to evade a particularly spicy set of attacks. He was ferocious, unpredictable and sadly mindless. She flipped back as she felt the bite of his blade at her good arm and yelped in pain for a second. How is that so effective? Is it because it attacks so fast in a single second? As the blades bite? Or is he doing something else? No, that's definitely just the blade. His semblance has to have matured, Blake theorized. Somehow managing to stay alive by feeding into endless rage. Yang also seems to notice something and turtles up as the chain pulls him towards her, kicking Yang and powering her up even more. She smirks as from the blow before and now this, she's full powered! SHe leaps forwards and strikes a full power strike to his jaw! Yet as he flies back his chain snags on Yang's sides and shreds through her Aura. And if it wasn't for the leather jacket she'd be a bleeding mess. Luckily it was only a mere laceration. Groaning, she closed the wound with one hand and fired a shot at Gray who was stumbling up from the blow, using the smoking barrel to cauterize the wound. "How is he still standing!?"/div
div id="djs-8lrcq" 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, his rage is somehow pushing his body over his limit", Blake says as she crawls towards Yang. Normally the fight would be over, they'd have defeated anyone by now. Yet as Gray staggers up, now even more blood flowing over his face, mask cracked, Yang gets up and readies herself, as the chain suddenly shoots out towards her. A split second she misjudged it's trajectory and saw it come for her face. Until another shotgun blast rings out. Yang ducks, trying to evade but a bright red sword shoots into her field of vision and catches the chain, saving her from a nasty haircut. Yet as she sees the red sword Yang's heartrate rises as a panic attack is building. Oh no./div
div id="djs-6iuc4" class="daeditor-paragraph" style="margin: 24px 8px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;""You have seen better days Gray. I barely recognised you", stepping over Blake and Yang, his sword speared into the ground, Adam walks up with an ease of mind and confidence in heart. As he takes the sword he sheathes once more and gets ready in an agressive stance. "You want them…? You go through me"/div