Hello again, I'm here to write, hopefully you'll like it.
I want to thanks joshben4c for his comment, I do want you guys to highlight my mistakes, and my grammar mistakes are the highest problem even though I'm trying to do my best, I'll look into something that'll detect mistakes and correct them before posting.
Also I usually update the story when I either got Time or when I'm not reading anything.
Anyway enjoy.
Chapter 11
The Talk
Nicholas excused himself from the dorm room.
After they all decided to help with the professor Ozpin Crusade, to make sure team STRQ won't light a village on fire, they each went to do their own thing.
Juniper Listening to music, Roman tinkering with his cane, and Bart finishing next month homework.
Nicholas didn't have anything else to do so he left the dorm for a walk.
It was quite late, the sun already settled, so he took to the garden.
He saw a glimpse of a familiar Black hair around the corner so he decided to check it out.
He saw the Branwen twin in the garden talking, they were quite far but with the use of his semblance he could hear their conversation.
"This isn't what we're here for, we can't just go with this and you know it" Qrow said defensively to his sister.
"We can't just leave it like we never heard it, what did the tribe do for use?, we don't even know our mother Qrow, why the hell should we stay loyal?" Raven asked, trying her best to convince Qrow about something.
"are you suggesting we just up and leave it like that, they raised us Ray, and if we don't show up, they'll hunt us down" Nicholas started to get what this conversation about.
Summer, Tai, and team JNBR suspended something dark about the twin past, but never got into it much, Qrow was a wild card, you never know what he'll do next, while Raven was more reserved, taking her time to adjust to her new environment, which lead to interesting conversations with both Summer and Juniper.
"so they were raised in a tribe huh?, well they never acted like they knew anything other than fighting " Nicholas thought which made him miss the last part, which resulted in Raven coming his was angry.
He was hiding behind the corner and she just saw him, she took him by the arm and left in a hurry.
"what did you hear?" there was an edge to her voice, almost like praying my answer be nothing .
"Not much, just the part where you both got raised as Bandits" Nicholas Arc was a blunt man, and no one disagreed with that assessment.
"Fuck" Raven hissed, letting his arm go.
"now our cover is blown, fuck, but we got enough experience, we can go back and ready ourselves, or I can just take Qrow and leave them all together I can-" Raven started mumbling to herself.
"what the hell are you talking about" he was confused by her shift from threatening to scared, it unnerved him, seeing one of his strongest friends like that.
"What do you mean what I'm talking about?, you blow up our cover, the whole point of me and Qrow being here is to find a way to fight off huntsmen when they come around the tribe, and now we can't stay because someone discovered us, and now I need to leave my team, my friends behind like they meant nothing to me" she snapped at him.
"Raven, no one is forcing you to leave anyone behind, you're not the same person as the Raven who joined last year, you're in team STRQ, second strongest team in Beacon, you're our friend, and we'll be damned if we let you go without a fight" Nicholas said, his dark blue eyes locked with her bloody red eyes she relaxed a little so he continued.
"Tell me, do you want to leave everything behind and never look back again, or do you want to stay here and fight along side your friends, your family" he said with a smile.
Family was a complicated thing for Nicholas, The Arc family were a Noble house in the kingdom of Vale, so his father didn't Tolerate any weaknesses, his uncle got disowned because he choice to become a doctor instead of a huntsmen.
his older sister, silver, she was his father pride and joy, even Crocea Mors was passed down to her, she was one of the best in Vale, until one mission were she failed, her team was killed and she lost her arm, she could've still worked as huntress again after she got a mechanical arm.
But at that point she have 'Brought shame on this noble family' as his father put it.
After coming back from a brutal event like that, instead of her family welcoming her back and being happy she's still with us, instead got shamed.
Nicholas tried his best to help his sister but when he found her in her room that day.
'she understood her failure and took actions, at less she wouldn't embarrass the family anymore'.
Those word were the last straw to cut his ties with that family.
He even wanted to destroy the sword and shield, but for a note from his sister telling him to take care of it and keep himself safe.
Nicholas Arc didn't understand family until he met his team, until he met team STRQ, and Raven was the same.
"Raven, no matter what happens with you, me, your team, and my Team will always be by your side" he told her, extending a hand to help her stand up on her feet.
She was a strong warrior and she needed to act like one in times like this.
Raven was hesitant, but took his hand, and by the time they got back to their dorm, Qrow already told their team everything.
About the reason they came, about why they didn't want to make friends at first, and about the fight they just had and Qrow realizing that this family is more important then some random tribe of murderers and raiders.
And they needed to get ready because the tribe won't take it well when they realize their investments just went against them.
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Raven sat in her tent, her injuries weren't that bad.
Adam however, had it way worst.
"So, how have you been since last time" Raven asked casually, she haven't seen Adam since he was 11.
She took him in when she found him bleeding after a protest in Mistral, some people thought it would be funny to sell kids to Bandits, they got what they deserved.
After seeing her strength, he asked for her to train him, and after a lot of nagging she Reluctantly agreed.
He was a natural, talented with a katana instead of a normal sword, his goal was to get stronger so he can protect the people he loved, Raven scoffed at his answer but agreed with him.
Until one day he saw a protest in Atlas on the news and ran away.
Apparently he saw someone he knew and went to protect them, Raven never heard of him after.
"I'll say quite good actually, your teaching made me survive a lot of close calls, and help me save a lot of faunus" Adam said bowing his head down in respect.
He got a beating of a life time after challenging Raven , even after all this time he still couldn't defeat her.
"why did you come back here Adam, you ran away to save someone important to you, did you do it or were they killed" she asked, but he hesitate to answer.
"yes I did, she had the same ideals as me, we worked together, lived together, until a few weeks ago she just up and left, saying that we're Violent extremist, who only want death, sh-" Raven cut him off before continuing.
" so you came here to cry about your girlfriend who dumped you, I'm not your mom Adam, at best you're my apprentice, I can give you fighting advice not romance one" she said with a chuckle.
"no actually, I came here for a different reason, on my last job, I fought a blonde boy, huntsman in training-" Adam got Raven attention at that, " and another blonde was with him probably his father, the kid fighting style was too similar to yours, he Predicted my moves and acted accordingly, do you have any conn-" he stopped when Raven started to laugh.
"Oh do I know him?, yes I did train that kid, blonde hair, blue eyes, sword and shield" when Adam nodded she continued, "he's the son of a friend of mine, the one you fought apparently, how was he" Raven asked in amusement, not everyday your old apprentice runs into your new one.
" he was good, not that strong but clever and a little naïve, he gave up his hiding spot to try and reason with us," Adam stated, which was right, Jaune did have a soft heart like his mother.
"So in a fight between you two, would you lose" she asked.
"nah I'd win" he answered with a smirk.
"that's mean I need to train him harder, also" she pulled her sword, pointing it at Adam throat.
"If you ever again lay a finger on him, you'll face me" she stated her eyes narrowing slightly.
" I usually wouldn't agree, but the girl I was talking about, Blake, stood with him against me, I was Furious then, but now after reflecting about myself, I understand why she left, she couldn't handle the way we are headed to" he said with a sad expression on his face.
"huh so what are you gonna do now?" she asked sheathing her sword.
"The white fang plan…, my plan was to attack Beacon academy, to show the world that If they don't respect us, then they'll need to fear us, I even found someone willing to help with this, but now, I found it isn't that great of an idea" he didn't dare look at Raven eyes, and he was right to do so.
"you did WHAT?" Raven screamed, and for a moment he thought he saw fire in her eyes.
"How far has this gone to?" she asked with an edge to her voice.
"we been working together for the last 3 months, we still in the first stages of the plan, and they're preparing to lunch the attack around the festival, I'm going to withdraw my forces, this won't help the faunus, this may as well set us back" Adam said feeling ever bit of shame.
He always hated humans, they treated him like animals, they tried to sell him, and another human saved him, Raven, and he ran away from her, she helped him at his lowest, and after Blake dumped him, he reflected on his actions, seeing how horrible everything he has done, and now again when he's in his lowest, he came back to Raven for help , pathetic.
"no, keep doing what you're doing, do what they ask you to do" what Raven said shocked him.
"are you serious, thousands of faunus and humans will die" he hissed.
"I know, that's why you're going to leak info to me, and I'll give it to the right people who will stop it" she said with a smirk.
"The people you're working with are dangerous, more dangerous than anything you ever dealt with, and no one should know this, but what I'm about to tell you, will Shatter your proactive on the world" she said sad expression on her face.
Adam gulped, Raven didn't care much about anything outside of her tribe, and if she's this worked up about something that's happening in another kingdom, then it must be serious.
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It's been a week since Jaune and Ruby went to the headmaster office, and things started to get back to normal.
At first, they avoided the topic, but when Jaune pressed on, they gave up and talked about how they felt.
Nora was the first, saying that if this grimm had human parts, does that mean grimm were humans before, Jaune had to give the same explanation the headmaster gave him, and Nora relaxed a little.
Ren on the other hand didn't give much, he said he felt uneasy about it, but he understood the risk of being a huntsmen.
Pyrrha was an odd one, she was ok with everything, she asked about the grimm type and how likely to show up again, and that's it.
"And here I was stressing about talking about this" Jaune sighed And fell on his bed.
"You're the one who dealt the final blow, so I would be most concerned about you" Ren stated with his calm voice.
"Well I'm still not sure how I feel about this, a part of me still think I killed a person, while the other part says I saved people" Jaune said, taking a deep breath then continued, "nonetheless, I decided to move on for now, we need to focus because we have a festival to win" Jaune said confidentiality.
Nora and Pyrrha immediately cheered up hearing that, even Ren had a tiny smile on his face.
"so what's the plan fearless leader" Nora said Enthusiastically.
"For now we train, then we're going to study our competition when they start to come, our biggest challenge is our sister team" everyone nodded on that.
Pyrrha and yang were the top of the class, while Jaune and Weiss were close behind, the others were in the top 15.
"how about we go out into Vale today?, we don't have classes and we kinda need to cool off after everything, we can also invite RWBY, we haven't hangout with them in a while" Jaune proposed Ren and Nora nodded in agreement, but Pyrrha looked nervous.
"I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to, if I go to vale everyone would want to have a picture with me and we won't be able to have fun" Pyrrha said with disappointment in her eyes, she clearly wanted to go with them without fans interrupting.
"What if you wear a Disguise?, no one would know " Nora said already in the closet trying to find something.
"Well I do have sunglasses but my hair is the most Recognizable thing about me and I don't have a hat" Pyrrha said.
"Well I think I have the perfect idea" Ren said with a rare smirk, and it was thrown Towards jaune.
"I have a bad feeling about this" Jaune said before Ren started explaining his plan.
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"thank you so much for inviting us with you guys" Ruby said with her bright smile, trying to lift jaune spirit up.
"Yeah we definitely needed to get out after everyone, also you're looking sharp today jaune" Yang said giving him the evilest smile only his aunt Raven and uncle Roman could rival.
"Yeah Yeah, I get it, black t-shirt and white jacket is the coolest thing you ever seen, cut the crap, Nora already said it" Jaune said, annoyed.
"Well Pyrrha does look good in her new rabbit hoodie" Weiss said smirking at him.
"it's actually pretty good idea, this way she can avoid Recognition by her fans" Blake stated walking at the end of the group.
"It's great right, it was Renny idea" and all he did was just smile.
Team RWBY looked like they solved their problem, much like their own team.
"so guys, what do you want to do now" Jaune asked.
"Well I've been meaning to get some clothes" Pyrrha started.
"neat, mind if I tag along" Yang asked.
"Sure no problem, what about you, Ren Nora?" she asked.
They looked at each other then answered.
"we're actually going to visit someone, he helped us when we were kids" Ren said.
"Well that leaves me, Ruby, Blake and Weiss, what do you guys want to do?" jaune asked while everyone started to move.
"Well I personally prefer going around to look at the festival preparation, it's an event that happens once in 4 years time, we can't miss it" Weiss said with serious expression, but her body betrayed her, because she was clearly exited to look around.
"I'm down for it, what about you two" Jaune turned to the rest.
"I'm OK with it, but I would like if we could move along the ship docks, I want to get some seafood" Blake said, and ruby nodded her head.
"Well let's go" Weiss was too exited to wait any longer.
They spent about 2 hours walking around the dock, Weiss bright face as she looked around existed for the festival, and Blake happy with her fish.
Unfortunately her excitement died pretty fast when she saw the remaining of a dust story.
Yellow police tape was everywhere, Weiss had grim expression.
"this Roman torchwick Bastard, he keeps stealing dust, can't the police or huntsmen stop him, how can anyone consider him a hero, this guy is a scumbag, I bet even the white fang are in on this" Weiss rambled, not noticing the look on Jaune's face.
He switched between anger, sorrow, betrayal, hatred then he stopped himself and remembered the look on his uncle face when he met him, he needed answers.
" those white fang animals, they keep screwing everyone up, faunus are all ju-" Weiss was cut off by Blake.
"wow that's rich coming from a Schnee" Weiss slowly looked at Blake, disbelief in her eyes.
"what did you just say" Weiss wanted confirmation.
"You were about to go on about how they were dirty animals that attacks people without reason, right" Weiss didn't answer, but it was clear she was about to.
"of course they are, faunus who stand there while those terrorists running around killing people are jus-" Weiss was cut off again.
"Just as bad right?, of course the people the white fang kill are innocent, like the lumberjack camp leader who put people who lost their homes into impossible contacts, and if she likes how they look, have her way with them" Ruby gasped at that.
"It's true, the story went viral last month, she was directly put there by Jacques Schnee, who denied anything with her methods, when the white fang got their hand on this, they risked on of their own to get the Evidences, almost had her way with him, until they busted the camp and Execute her, with the Evidences they got, they just sped up the processes" Blake said smile for the good the white fang still had and for pissing off Weiss.
"Doesn't change they took the law into their own hands they are terrorists who kill people and steal dust, I mean look, a faunus is literally running from the police right now" Weiss pointed at the monkey faunus who just ran passed them, winking at Blake in the process.
"if we keep letting them do what they want then the city will be in Chaos" Weiss was getting more and more angry, and Blake decided to go along with it.
"maybe we got tried of being treated like second class citizens, looked down on, not having a good job opportunities, and get that look that says 'you are below us' always looking for human for help while we stand there, always expecting a faunus to be the bad guy" the last one was for Weiss, until Blake realized she just outed herself as faunus, and worst, a white fang member.
"W- what" Weiss barely got the words out before Blake ran away.
"what the hell was that" Weiss wasn't the one who screamed that, it was Yang along side Pyrrha, they both had shopping bags in hand.
"you heard her, she damn terrorists, and she was on my team, she was planning on doing something to me, I'm going to inform the headma-" Yang cut her off.
"We need to look for her she's our teammate, we can't just leave her" Yang eyes turned red like Raven , which wasn't good.
"what the hell do you mean, she's a terrorist, if I see her again I will defend myself" Weiss argued still holding the scroll about to call the headmaster, jaune took it away from her.
"it's been months Weiss, if Blake really wanted to hurt you, then she would have already done it, she clearly trying to change" Jaune said receiving a glare from the short girl, and a smile from Yang.
"Whatever, do what you want, but if she doesn't turn herself in, I will personally inform the headmaster to expel her, I'm going back to the dorms" Weiss snatched her scroll and left.
"what the hell is wrong with her now" Yang eyes finally turned back to lilac, but her anger still there.
"The Schnee family has a bad relationship with the faunus, and specially the white fang, from what I've heard her family got attacked pretty often, and they even took SDC partners and executed them on live TV" Pyrrha explained, putting a hand on Yang shoulder.
"Doesn't mean Blake did that, I heard they were peaceful at the start, maybe she was part of that" Yang tried to find excuses, but jaune had to interpret.
"No she was with the new white fang" everyone turned to him, and he sighed.
"When I came to Vale to join Beacon, the train I was in got interpret by the white fang, they were about to blow up the train with Civilians inside-" he got gasps all around, "- I went to stop them but Blake was there too, she protested against it and said this isn't the reason they're fighting for, unfortunately for her, her team decided she should also go with the train, and this is where I came in and helped her against them, headmaster heard this and had a talk with her , I don't know what happened between them but Blake came to Beacon" he finished, this definitely going to have some trouble with Blake after this.
"That's why you two knew each other" Ruby said, not helping the situation.
"That's mean she's trying to change for the better, we need to find her, and see if she and Weiss can make up" Yang said her smile back in action.
"I just send a message for both Ren and Nora for help, and we can also start here" Jaune said and everyone nodded, they're going to find her.
After a few hours of searching without any results, the teams went back to Beacon, the sun already went to sleep.
"Huh where's Weiss" Ruby said as she opened the door for her room, she looked around but couldn't find her.
"Dammit another missing teammate" Yang growled.
"She is in the school, at less this is what the scroll location says" Jaune said hopefully, they were all tired because of Blake, and now Weiss.
Jaune looked around everyone was spent, he sighed and volunteered to check on her, they were only too happy to leave it to him and went to their beds.
"Me and my big mouth, now if I were an angry schnee, where would I got" Jaune walked around the academy looking around, there weren't an students around, nor teachers, the school was like a ghost town in the night, except the occasional upper year teams of four who just came from their mission.
Finally Jaune came around the training arena, where he found Weiss fighting auto drones, she looked exhausted, and her aura in the yellow.
Jaune waited for the round to finish before speaking, she didn't notice him approaching, when she took the last one he spoke.
"You know your team is worried about you right?" Jaune said receiving a tried glare from her.
"Oh really, I thought they were looking for the terrorist, you should know better jaune, we can't trust someone like that" Weiss said.
"We ?, I understand because you're a schnee you don't have the best relationship with the white fang but why me" jaune asked genuinely confused, Weiss looked at him strangely.
"Your family is much target as mine, do you think the white fang just go after schnees , no, they go out on anyone who disagree with them" Weiss said with a huff.
"Weiss, how many faunus do you know on personal level".
Weiss struggled to answer which made him continue.
"What Blake said wasn't wrong you know, faunus have it a lot harder than humans, if you look at history, the white fang were pacifist, doing protest against companies who discriminate, they even had humans in the white fang, but you know what changed?" she shook her head.
"Their leader, Ghira Balladonna-" Weiss eyes widen at that, " -was killed while he was under Atlas protection, , they had him in prison without a charge, and some solider decided to end him, because of that, the white fang turned like that" Jaune said, history as his uncle put it, was grim, and he didn't even know the connection between Blake and the precious leader of the white fang until his dad mentioned it after the train.
Weiss just sat there for 5 minutes, silence raining on them, he was sure Blake wouldn't want anyone to know about this, but if that meant she could come back to Beacon, he had to risk it.
"I- I need to think about this after getting some sleep" she stood up then hesitated.
"Did they.." she trailed off.
"Find her?, no we couldn't, we want to continue tomorrow, do you want to join us".
"I still need to think about this…, thank you Jaune for this, I'm not going to tell anyone about this" she said the last part with little hesitation and left the training room.
Jaune sat their alone for a moment.
"I came to Beacon to find my Uncle and Became a huntsmen, I need to start to make progress on the former" he thought standing up.
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The day after Blake disappearing was the same, they went to look for her in Vale, Weiss made an excuse for everyone, but gave him a look that said she still thinking about it.
without the others knowing, Blake did message him, she asked if they could meet up, he agreed and went without telling the others.
"I guess you could say, the cat out of the bag huh" Jaune got flat look, a laugh, and a confused look on the three people he sat down with.
Blake asked him to come to a Café named Jaune's which was weird enough, apparently the owner name is actually jaune, it was a great ice breaker with him
"So Blake mind introduce your new friend that you're totally ok hearing this conversation and not your actually team" Jaune deadpan which made Blake look down in guilt.
"This is sun, he was the one running away from the police, he's a transfer from Haven who came early, and this is penny, she's the one who arrested Sun, but after a quick explanation they became friends" Blake explained.
The faunus was almost a copy of him but with a tale and little darker skin ton, while the girl had orange hair and green skirt.
"Do they know" jaune asked.
"They do" Blake responded.
"How much"
"Enough"
He eyed her.
"Yes they do know everything jaune"
"Oh so a complete strangers, no offense, deserve to know everything but your team and friends doesn't"
"they hate me now anyway, and Weiss wouldn't want me back"
"They hate you so much they spent 2 days looking for your sorry ass, what are you waiting for"
"I need to prove that the white fang aren't working with human scum like torchwick"
Jaune froze on hearing the name, his scroll buzzed but he ignored it.
"What do you mean"
"you know about the dust robberies, there's a shipment of dust coming later today, we're planning to investigate it, we fine torchwick ,arrest him, and prove the white fang innocent"
"You mean innocent of this crime, not all the others"
"They did the others, this one is just more unjust blame"
"so do you ahve any place in mind"
"You're in?" sun asked surprised.
"Yes but you need to make up with your team after"
"deal"
"Now where do you thing this will happen"
"There is a shipment coming to Vale's dock today at 20:00, it's full of SDC dust top quality, this place has the highest chance of attracting white fang or Roman torchwick" Penny said.
"Good, I'll go back to Beacon and get my weapons, if you want I can grab yours too"
"that will help a lot, thanks"
"Oh yeah, one more thing"
"What?"
"I may or may not have told everyone about how we actually me"
"Dammit jaune"
"And I may or may not told Weiss who's your father"
"HOW THE FUCK DID YOU EVEN KNOW THAT" she scream, getting looks from everyone in the Café.
"Really Blake, your name is Blake Belladonna, same Belladonna who created the white fang, at less change your name if you don't want anyone to recognize it"
Blake dropped her head on the table and silently screamed.
"Well it was nice meeting you jaune" penny and Sun smiled at him.
"that's one way to help my friends and find more about my uncle, all because yang beat up the only informer that uncle deals with" Jaune thought as he enjoyed his cup of coffee, while his friends were looking for the girl in front of him.
Welp, this chapter is a little longer than usual, also some references because why not.
Ren and Nora surviving alone for so long is hard to swallow, they probably were in an orphanage but because both got aura they let them go or something idk, the person they visited isn't that important, probably.
Also if you imagine the dock fight like the show, you'll be shocked, if I write it the way I want, I'm not that good with fight scenes, nor romance.
Enjoy the chapter and tell me if I did something wrong so I can get better.
RIP both Rwby and Akira Toriyama, DBZ was literally my childhood.
Goodbye.