Yang stood in awe as she approached the altar in front of her. Her bride standing there is a beautiful long black dress. Her cate ears perking out and standing upright, indicating her happiness. Her golden eyes brimming with love.

Slowly stepping onto the altar she stood right next to her beloved Blake Belladonna. Her eyes peered through the chapel, seeing the faces that had come to celebrate this momentous occasion. Her father holding a handkerchief trying to hold back tears of happiness. Ruby and Nora holding up a banner saying "Y + B FOREVER". Weiss standing up with her usual dignified pose with Jaune standing next to her in a fancy suit.

Everyone was present. Yang was filled with joy that everyone had come to this special day. Her eyes turned back to her beauty. Those eyes she could stare in forever. She held out her hand, waiting for Yang to grab it.

Slowly she moved her hand to grab Blake's, but ultimately she ended up grabbing nothing but air. In front of her where Blake had stood was now nothing but a floating array of ashes that where soon swept away by the wind.

Yang panicked and looked around the room. The ceiling having disappeared and the sky being a shade of red, red like blood. On the ground of the chapel she saw her father on his knees, with Ruby's battered, bruised and lifeless body in his hands.

Her father looked up at her, tears covering his face.

"How could you let this happen! You were supposed to protect her!" he yelled.

"I…I…" Yang tried to mumble out. The sky tumbled and a purple energy emerged from it as she stood there, helpless to stop anything. Helpless to save those she loved…

With a loud gasp Yang awoke and stood up right.

There was no red colored sky, no despair and death around her, just an ordinary bedroom. Her eyes slowly adjusted to the dark, the only light being a small bit of the dawn's light creeping through the blinds covering the windows.

Yang turned to the nightstand next to her, on which her scroll had been placed. As it lit up the first thing she saw was the time. 8:00 in the morning, she sighed. It was still too early to leave for her appointment. As she continued to look through her scroll for any missed messages, she was instead greeted with the notification of a missed call from her father.

Again Yang sighed, her father had been trying to contact her for a while and she had remained radio silent. It wasn't that she didn't miss him, but it had more to do with the fact that every time she saw him, she feared the look in his eyes whenever Ruby came up. She shuddered thinking back to her nightmare. She knew her father didn't blame her, but she couldn't shake the feeling that he secretly did hold her responsible her for his youngest daughter's death.

Something Yang already did enough herself.

"Morning sunshine.."

Yang stood up and readied her mechanical arm only to realize that it was just Sun that had woken up and was sheepishly waving at her. She lowered her hand in a huff.

"Sorry if I woke you" Yang said.

The monkey Faunus simply shrugged "nah I woke up a bit ago. You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah just a bad dream…" Yang said hesitantly.

She did not feel like discussing the contents of her dream with Sun. This whole thing they had going on was purely physical and nothing more and she liked it that way. They had fun, the intimacy was incredible and he could do astonishing things with that tail.

Part of her felt bad that she was sort of leading him on. She was basically using him to fulfill her physical needs, a temporary pain killer to make her forget the agony of the tragedy they had endured. Sun knew this, he didn't hold it against her, but yet there was a stinging in her chest knowing she could never be for him what he wanted her to be.

She bend down to collect some of her clothes that where haphazardly thrown across the room in their whirlwind of passion. She grabbed her top and put it on as Sun said "you know Yang I love what we have going on I really do but…are you sure you're doing alright?"

The question surprised Yang, not in the fact that Sun had asked that, he was he generally a caring sweet guy, but because she did not know how to react to it.

"Yeah of course I'm doing alright! You know me always going out with a Yang!" she said with a bright smile and confidently pointing her mechanical finger at herself.

Sun sighed in response to that "Yang I've known you long enough to know when you're hiding something, and you're not good at hiding things. What's going on?"

Now it was Yang's turn to sigh. She really didn't want to talk about what she was feeling. It was like a song stuck on replay. But she knew Sun would just keep hounding her otherwise so…

"It's just…I miss them okay. I think about them all the time and I just…I feel guilty I couldn't do anything to save them."

Sun stood up from the bed and walked up to Yang, placing his hands on her shoulders and stared into her eyes silently for a good minute before saying.

"I understand that. We all feel that way, we all lost so much that day. There's not a day that I don't think about how I failed to save Neptune…how I failed to save Blake…"

The loss of Blake had ironically brought the two closer where they would've initially been rivals for her affection. Maybe this was one of those cruel twists of fate.

"But we need to keep going Yang. They would've wanted us to go on and we must do so and never forget them."

"You don't know if they would've wanted that…" Yang muttered while looking down.

"Well what's the alternative. Mulling in our own misery for the rest of our lives. I doubt they would want that for us. Look Yang I understand your pain I really do but we can't go on like this wishing for the world to be different. The reality is that they are gone and we need to accept that."

It felt like a repeat of her conversation with Maria the day before. She had heard this sentiment so often before even from her own dad. She got tired of hearing it, as true as it may have been.

Yang shook herself loose from Sun's grasp and put on her clothes without saying another word to him. The Monkey Faunus also did not say anything else, knowing it was futile to try and change the headstrong women's mind.

"I'll see you around Sun, thanks for last mind" Yang said with a quick glance before she left the bedroom and proceeded to leave the house, just like she had done many times before.

Frieda's had been the restaurant of choice in Mistral for years now. It was set up about two years after Salem's defeat and dedicated to those who had fallen in the fight against her. Yang enjoyed especially good service anytime she entered the establishment as she was a huge player in defeating the seemingly unkillable queen of the Grimm.

She sat in her usual boot, gulping down a drink which had of course been on the house. She came in a bit earlier then was planned and figured she would wait for the others to show up.

The waitress came up with a platter of cheese snacks for appetizers "here you go miss Xiao Long!" she said with a huge smile. Yang's mouth watered at the sight of these delicious edibles. Frieda's never disappointed, especially when it came to treating their favorite customers.

"I swear you never disappoint. Thank you!" Yang said with a smile as she began eating some of the snacks. The waitress smiled back "always a pleasure to have one of the great heroes here. We owe you all so much for saving this world."

Yang was never certain whether or not she liked the title she had been given as "The One-Armed Annihilator" it was mostly just a joking nickname that the people had given her, on the one hand it sounded absolutely badass, but always being reminded of her losing her arm got tired really quickly.

She heard the door to the restaurant open and a child's voice loudly saying "auntie Yang!"

Yang knew that was her que to stand up as a boy with very noticeable platinum blonde hair ran towards her with a huge smile on his face. Immediately Yang's sour mood faded as she opened her arms and enveloped the boy into a welcome embrace.

She lifted him up and spun him around happily. After a few seconds she put the boy down again "it's so good to see you again Jason. How has my little troublemaker been?" she asked smiling at the boy.

"Too much no thanks to your influence" a dignified and very familiar voice rang. Yang looked up and saw none other then Weiss and Jaune standing before her.

Weiss looked as she always did, only older and slightly taller and was dressed in a white fluffy coat and a longer skirt. She looked as though she had been stressing lately, not a surprise with a child like Jason as well being the CEO of the Schnee Dust Company.

Jaune on the other hand had almost transformed into a mirror of his time as the Rusted Knight, most likely on the instance of his wife who could not get enough of his now well trimmed beard, and while his hair was no longer long it was still somewhat scraggly, retaining the man's original charm.

Yang stood up and walked towards the pair, enveloping them in a hug as well. "It's so good to see you both again…" she said trying to hold back her tears.