Heart to Heart

Chapter 33: Upgrades

Penny started to lead them down the hall from the student mess hall feeling much better now that the others said they were her friends. She never had so many friends before and the joy she was feeling was amazing to her. She had a spring her step, as she couldn't wait to introduce her father to all her new friends.

Ruby smiled at the sight of her robot friend glad that Penny was so happy. She was about to ask Penny about the kinds of material she could get access to in order to enhance her 'baby' Crescent Rose when a rainbow trail zoomed by and then turned around and came back in front of them.

"It is you guys!" A familiar Faunus girl shouted out seeing them. Ruby knew her from somewhere and it took a moment to remember who she was. This was the girl whose partner had faced Weiss and Yang in the doubles round in the tournament, the girl had changed her looks so it was harder for Ruby to recognize her.

The girl's normal organ hair with highlights had originally been in two large pigtails but was now in two smaller tight buns on her head. Her outfit was a bit different with a jacket and jumper of some kind under it. The girl looked behind them all and waved to someone coming up from behind their group.

"See Flynt! I told you it was them," She cheerfully said as everyone looked to see three others showing up.

One was Flynt Coal the team leader of Team FNKI who had been Neon Katt's partner in the doubles. They hadn't seen the other two at the tournament as a boy in white with blue hair and pale skin was with Flynt as well as another boy with short grayish hair, a slightly tanned complexion and glasses was on the other side.

"Well guess you were right," Flynt said with an easy smile. "Never thought I'd see you guys here, did you all transfer to Atlas Academy?"

"Not exactly," Weiss stated with a shrug. "It's kind of a long story."

"I dig it," Flynt nodded knowing that with the blockade going on it couldn't have been easy getting to Atlas. He nodded to his two friends. "Well you two never met the rest of our team but this here is Kobalt." He gestured to the blue haired one who nodded politely.

"And this here is Ivori," He gestured to the other who pushed up his glasses with a small nod and a smile.

"Good to meet you all," Ivori stated.

"And we got a few more people we haven't met before either," Neon said as she glided forward as she as wearing her ever present roller skate boots coming up to Jaune with a smile. "And what's your name?" She asked the tall and kind of cute looking guy in armor.

Yang's eye twitched as the girl was making moves on her boyfriend, oh sure there was no way the Faunus girl could know but this girl had an irritating way of pushing her buttons. Yang quickly linked his arm with hers making a show of pressing up against him.

"Jaune and he's taken," Yang simply said with a bit of an edge to it that practically screamed out that Neon was stepping in Yang's territory. The Faunus girl had surprised Jaune, as he wasn't used to girls coming up to him so strong like this. So he was thankful that Yang had stepped in.

"Ohhh," Neon rolled back a little sensing the mood. She didn't want to start a fight, especially since she knew just how much of a temper the blonde girl had from their fight in the festival. "Whoops totally didn't mean to step in your territory. Oh, hey you got a new arm. Last time I saw you, you were kind of, you know, passed out and missing one."

Yang's eyes narrowed slightly as she knew the girl wasn't trying to mess with her but damn it, Yang's newfound patience wasn't that great and this girl was in her mind, cruising for a bruising at this rate.

Neon's eyes traveled over the rest, the old woman she wasn't sure about, the old guy was kind of hot, in an 'old guy' kind of way. Maybe if he was a few more decades younger she might be interested. The dark haired guy wasn't exactly her type, he felt very reserved plus the way the short orange hair she was getting a vibe between the two of them.

Then her eyes landed on someone else and it was the cutest thing she had ever seen. She smiled as skated up to Oscar. "Oh aren't you the most adorable little man I've seen."

Oscar was taken aback by this unsure what to do or say. "Uh…thanks?"

Neon only grinned as quickly before anyone could do anything she pulled him into a tight hug. "Oh he's just like a big teddy bear. I just want to hug him all day long."

"Oh no," Ivori sighed this was one of the things they had to watch out for with Neon. She loved things she considered 'cute', which varied but they knew where this was going.

Oscar wasn't sure what happened at first, the older girl was just saying how she thought he was cute and the next thing she was pulling him into a tight hug, when she did he noticed a few things. First, she was stronger than she looked, the second was that she smelled nice and lastly because of the height difference he was pulled into her chest.

What he felt against his face he found to be very soft.

As Oscar's face went into a full on blush Ruby's did to but for different reasons. She wasn't sure why but she felt a nasty feeling in her guts towards the older girl. She had no idea why, she only knew that she didn't want to see anymore of this.

"I-I think you can let Oscar go now," Ruby told her as she was able to grab Oscar and pulled him away from the Faunus girl. "We're on our way to meet Penny's dad and all."

"Oh that's right," Penny had gotten distracted and forgot for a moment.

"Just a few more minutes," Neon made a motion to grab Oscar again as Ruby stepped in front of the boy.

"Uh Flynt," Weiss moved closer to the dark skinned boy in a whisper. "I think you might want to prevent your friend from starting a battle." Weiss wasn't sure what had gotten into Ruby but Yang looked ready to blow if the girl kept on like she had been.

Flynt nodded with a sigh he did consider Neon a great friend and teammate but she could try other people's patience without meaning to do it. He coughed getting their attention, "Well we can let you guys go, we got morning classes to get to after all."

Kobolt silently came up and put a hand on Neon pushing her the other way.

"Awwww," Neon pouted. "But I wanted to play with the cutie more."

"You can play later," Kobolt told her.

Ruby watched the girl go before checking on Oscar, he was still heavily blushing and looking very uncomfortable. "Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah I think so," Oscar said embarrassed by the whole thing.

"Maybe we should go on before we run into anyone else," Blake suggested with a bit of a smile on her face.

"Yeah we don't want Oscar to get molested by anymore cute girls," Qrow teased with his hands in his pockets as the boy got even more embarrassed by that statement.

"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby said to him in a warning on teasing Oscar.

Without any further interruptions, the group finally made it to a set of large doors. As they opened they came into what looked like a very high tech workshop of some kind. Ruby's eyes widened at everything. Her inner weapons geek was going nuts thinking of all the cool things she could have done with her weapon growing up if she had access to all of this.

"Father, we're here," Penny called out.

"Well then it's good to see you all," an older voice spoke up as everyone looked at the speaker.

An older man with small glasses and dark skin welcomed them into his workshop. He had a very kind aura about him as she tugged on his vest with its little tool kit in one of the pockets. He also had this very large pink bowtie. What really caught everyone's attention was that the chair he was in suddenly came off the ground, as four mechanical legs that originally looked like just chair legs, were actual legs.

They moved his chair over to them all as he have a warm smile on his face as Penny went to hug him as he hugged her back. Ruby smiled seeing this, you could feel how much the two cared for each other and it made her miss her own dad. She hadn't talked to him since she left home and she was worried about him and how he was doing without any word from her or Yang.

'Maybe when we leave Atlas we can swing by Patch to let dad know we're all okay,' Ruby did mail him a few letters but she missed seeing him.

"So my daughter tells me she's made some more friends," Penny's father said getting Ruby's attention. "I'm Dr. Pietro Polendina and it's so good to meet you all."

He focused on Ruby especially. "You most of all, my daughter has told me all kinds of things about you. Thank you for being there for my daughter."

"Oh it's no problem," Ruby smiled at him. "Penny is my friend after all."

Pietro smiled at the girl and looked the others over but his face fell a bit seeing Yang's arm. "What happened to that?"

"Oh yeah I heard you made this," Yang brought up her arm. "Got kind of into a major fight and-"

"You painted it."

Yang paused as that was not what she was expecting, it was damaged and the thing he focused on was the paint job? Wait, what was wrong with the paint job? She loved the colors she made for it and it matched her perfectly.

"Uh yeah, well I like the colors," Yang paused again. "Also I was hoping you can help me fix it?"

"Let me see," He got closer as Yang held out her arm, as he looked it over.

"Just seems to be surface damage, I can replace the plate and that should do it." He nodded his head although looking at the damage it wasn't a normal kind. Whatever did this had a lot of force behind it, much more than what he originally designed for it to take. He designed it in mind to fight off most types of Grimm but this wasn't a Grimm attack.

"Cool but uh, I was thinking of making another of these to replace the canon." Yang showed him her weapon.

"Is there an issue with the canon?" Pietro asked.

"A few things," Yang explained how reloading wasn't easy, it didn't hold as much ammo as her old one and not being able to take it into the shower for instance because it wasn't water tight with the exhaust vents for the canon was also a problem.

Pietro stroked his beard. "I see, well I can do you one better. How about I make a new arm? I can make it so that the weapon is build into it, I can even make it sturdier than the current model if you'd like."

Yang's eyes widened at that, she hadn't thought of just getting a new arm that would be great. Looking at her damaged one though she had one last thought.

"You think you can still fix this up and remake this?" Yang asked him. "I was hoping to have an arm that was water tight so I can use it in the shower or maybe swim. You know for more every day kind of stuff for when I'm just relaxing?"

Pietro smiled and nodded. "I'd have to remove the canon function but that shouldn't take me that long."

"Nice, thanks." Yang had been through a lot with this arm and she didn't just want to throw it away so if she could have it remade into an arm she could use for showering, swimming or even just hanging out that would be great.

Blake stepped forward and she pulled out her broken weapon. "I'm also looking to get my weapon fixed."

"Oh my, that won't do at all," Pietro said adjusting his glasses looking at it. "Well that's why you're all here. We have plenty of resources to help upgrade your equipment." He turned around as he gestured to a group of bins with their symbols on it. "Please place your equipment there and we can get started. I've reviewed your battles from the Vytal Festival so I have a few ideas to run by you all but if you have any suggestions please let me know."

"Well it's good to see that you're still up and working," Maria stated walking forward as the others started to place their weapons away.

Pietro had a blank look on his face as the old woman was talking to him as if she knew him.

"You gave me my eyes?" Maria told him pointing to them but there was still a pause. "Every ten years I come to get them checked out?"

"Oh yes, every ten years I remember now," Pietro smiled as his memory of her finally clicked.

Maria gave him a calculating look, she wasn't sure if he actually remembered or not. Not that she really cared if he remembered, she saw him only once every ten years after all ever since she lost her eyes. Although the last time she had seen him, he had remembered her. A part of her was wondering if age was catching up to him.

It happened a lot, with age, certain things go and the mind going she had seen happen. It was actually one of the things she always was worried about happening to herself. She travelled and lived alone so if her mind went she would be in big trouble and not even know it. It would be like when she had been blinded that day, frantically using her semblance and weapon to get to the nearest settlement for help had been the worst moment in her life.

The pain and fear she was worried would lead Grimm to her before she could get to help, when she got there, she made up a story of being attacked by a Grimm and somehow got away. Those first few weeks of being blind had been like hell. She was scared someone else would finish the job or she would be left defenseless for any other kind of trouble.

She had gotten a ticket to Atlas after the doctor told her of a man that made cybernetics and could help her to see him. That trip to Mantel had been a long one for her she had to hire a huntsman as a guide and secretly a bodyguard. She hated feeling of being helpless since for someone like her who had been one of the greatest Huntresses of her time it had been like falling into a deep dark hole with no light and no way out.

Pietro thankfully had seen her he even made her a priority. That first time she opened her new 'eyes' seeing the world in shades of blue was both a blessing and disappointing. She had been warned that it wouldn't be as good as her old sight, cybernetics being a new science and all. She did at least enjoy being able to see again, she hadn't felt so helpless at that point. When she saw herself in the mirror however, at the large metallic bug-like eyes she had now.

Well she had been beautiful once, she still had a pretty face but the eyes she knew would be a turn off. She was resigned to this however, she couldn't allow others to guard her forever, and she had to learn how to survive. That was the day the Grimm Reaper truly 'died' and she spent the rest of her life hiding, moving from town to town, keeping a low profile, never knowing who had hired those mercenaries to attack her or why.

Well she had an idea now, if that was a blessing or a curse she was still unsure of.

She watched as he went to work on Yang's arm and she could wait for her own maintenance. Her eyes hadn't been glitching out since the aircraft so she was fine. Besides, she wanted to keep an eye out for Pietro. The man looked more worn out than she remembered and for the man that gave her sight again, she thought it was the least she could do.

Yang watched as he placed her now detached arm into some kind of device, it was flat with robotic arms with either grips or tools attacked to it with a workstation next to it.

"I have the plans right here," Pietro said from the workstation. "I just need to make some adjustments and the forge will do the rest."

"The forge?" Ruby asked looking excited at it.

"My own design," Pietro told her. "It allows me to make anything I need to the tiniest detail, since my hands aren't what they used to be."

He smiled holing up a hand that slightly trembled. He had built this because his hands had gone a few years back and delicate work was beyond him now. Even the strength in them had faded a bit but he knew how to get around such setbacks.

After a few moments he active it as they watched the limbs go to work. They held Yang's arm in place as the ones with tools went to work. One started to cut away at the damaged section with a laser as another started to open up the rest of the arm. While one worked on the damage, the other worked on removing the canon. Yang was impressed by how fast it was going, in no time the damaged section was taken away and a piece of metal was transported into the area from a slot on the table.

More of the robotic limbs came and started cutting the piece into an exact shape of the damaged section. By this point, the canon was now fully removed and the slits were being welded shut. Yang stood transfixed as her arm was quickly being remade before her eyes, she never wondered how her arm was build but looking at it now, she had a guess it had to have been built right here.

Ruby was nearly gushing at it all as her eyes darted around to keep track of everything. Her mind going to all kinds of places of what she could make with something like this, all the custom parts she could make for her weapon.

By the end of it Yang watched as the arm was reassembled and finally a matching yellow paint was put onto the reworked areas. It looked as good as new, she had to wait for the paint to dry but she was wondering what her next arm would be like now. This model she could use for more mundane things but her new 'battle arm' as she thought of it, well she was looking forward to that.

They spent most of the time working with Pietro as he told him his ideas for their weapons and they gave some impute back, he made notes and showed them some of the designs he had planned for them. Jaune was looking at the images of what the man had planned for his shield, he told him about the upgrades he already did but Pietro looked and said he would be able to work with it still.

That actually made Jaune happy the plan was to make his shield able to use hard-light for more protection and could even use other element types. A part of him wondered what his family would say if they saw what had become of their family weapon but Saphron had been supportive of the changes he made to it. He was sure his ancestors would approve as well, at least he hoped.

Weiss wasn't so worried about her own weapon, maybe some maintenance work on it and replacing a few parts to get it to switch dust faster. Blake also didn't want much as she was looking to have her sword repaired. Pietro did say he could reforge the blade at least to make it stronger than ever. Given what happened, Blake hoped it was she didn't want her weapon to break like that in a battle again.

Nora's weapon was getting a bit of an upgrade as she asked if she could ride her weapon. Everyone thought she was just being, well Nora but Pietro seemed to take it as a personal challenge. He did offer her a new belt though. Apparently, the buckle would hold lightning dust she could activate as needed. Nora's eyes lit up at the thought of getting super strong whenever she needed it, she had to have someone like Ruby shoot her with a lightning dust round for it to work.

"Oh man I can't wait to test this out," Nora grinned at the thought of getting super strong whenever she wanted to.

"Just be sure you're not touching anyone when you activate it," Pietro warned her. "You don't want to accidentally send a charge to them."

"Ohhh, good idea," Nora nodded.

Various other were going on with their possible items and by the time lunch rolled around, they were looking forward to a break. Yang went to where the arm was and ran her hand over the new metal testing the paint.

"How's it look?" Blake asked.

Yang pulled back her hand and saw that there was some paint transfer. She signed at that, "Still too wet unless I want to have yellow paint all over the place. If it's not done by the end of the today it should be ready tomorrow."

"Sorry," Blake told her.

Yang shrugged. "Hey I went weeks with only one arm while I was recovering. One more day won't kill me." Then an idea hit her making her grin.

Blake saw it and knew she was up to something. "What?"

"Oh nothing," Yang still grinned. "I just remembered that I got an attentive boyfriend who might help his girlfriend eat if she asks."

"I thought you said you had plenty of experience with only one arm?" Blake crossed her arms raising an eyebrow.

"Hush, let me have this," Yang told her.

Lunch ended up being the same as breakfast with them sitting together and getting a few looks.

"Um…Yang are you sure?" Jaune asked her with a fork with some food stuck to it. He was holding it out to her.

"You're going to let your girlfriend starve?" She said giving him a puppy dog eyes look at him she even put out her bottom lip just a bit to help sell it.

"O-okay," Jaune crumbled under the look. He hated it when girls were sad, maybe it was his upbringing with all his sisters and how closer his family was. Add to the fact that it was Yang asking for help, well he really couldn't muster up the courage to say 'no' to her in moments like this.

So he reached out as she slowly took a bite of a steak with her teeth. She made a show of it slowly pulling it back giving him a look in the eyes that made him blush and started to feel very warm all of a sudden.

"Yang please I'm trying to eat," Qrow sighed seeing his niece pull off a move like that. He didn't mind the relationship she had with Jaune, hell over the time they have been together they had been good for each other. That didn't mean he wanted to see stuff like that, not that he was trying to quick drinking at least.

"Yes please," Weiss stated being across from Yang.

"You're just jealous I have a boyfriend," Yang waved it off.

"I do not!" Weiss stated.

While they were finished, Jaune noticed that the cafeteria had an outside section. "Hey I didn't see that before."

A few turned to look outside it was a nice spacious place with some tables set up with a great view of the city.

"I'm actually surprised there is an open area, I mean wouldn't it be cold?" Ruby asked.

"Oh I can answer that," Penny spoke up although she didn't eat she had joined them the entire time just happy to talk with them. "There are heating units used when this area is open. Some students like the view so I'm told."

"Huh, neat," Yang nodded her head.

Jaune however took a longer look as his mind was starting to come up with something. Penny got a message that Winter wanted to talk to everyone so she was to lead them to her office. As they walked on he took a moment to walk up next to the robot girl.

"Hey Penny can I ask you something?" Jaune said in a hushed tone.

"Of course friend Jaune, what can I do for you?" Penny felt nice being able to call more than just Ruby as a friend. Of course, Ruby would always remain her best and first friend. It was just nice having more.

"About that outside section," Jaune whispered what he had planned. "Do you think it's possible to get access to it after normal hours for that?"

"It should not be a problem." Penny nodded her head. "Normally students wouldn't be allowed but since you are special guests here for General Ironwood you all have special privileges. I take it that his is supposed to be a surprise?"

Jaune nodded his head he would have to get a few more to help but he really wanted to do this. He had been thinking about doing something like this for a while now but they literally had no time for anything lately. He really wanted this to go through without a hitch. Casting a look back he saw that Blake, Weiss and Yang were in a deep conversation about something so Yang hadn't noticed thankfully that he was talking to Penny.

Penny smiled and nodded, "You can count on me, after all I kept that I was a robot secret so this shouldn't be too hard in comparison."

Jaune smiled back thankful for her help, he would have to do something nice for her later as repayment, he just didn't know what.

"Hey what are you two talking about?" Yang asked finally noticing and asking them curious as to what was going on.

Jaune had a bit of a panic there as they had learned that Penny was horrible at lying with her hiccupping every time. He could see the girl panicking as well as her tell was known to them all. Jaune tried to think of something quick. "Oh I was…just…wondering if Penny would like to hang out. I mean we're all friends right?"

"Oh we can have a sleepover with Penny!" Ruby shouted out her eyes dancing at it.

"I've never been to a sleep over before," Penny admitted.

"Cool then we can do that tonight," Yang nodded her head. "Nora you can join us of course, we'll make it a girls night."

"Oh yeah I'm totally in," Nora nodded her head. "We can break out the sleeping bags too."

"Yeah the bunks are only made for one person and not much else." Blake nodded her head. It would be nice to hang out and just relax. It would almost be something normal for a chance, no life and death fights, no dealing with insanity or world-shaking events, just them enjoying themselves.

"What about you guys?" Yang asked Jaune.

Jaune looked to Ren and Oscar, "I guess we'll have a night of our own?"

"Sounds fine to me," Ren nodded.

"Sure I mean what else would we really do?" Oscar shrugged with a small smile.

"Too bad I gave up drinking," Qrow stated. "I know of a few places I could have showed you guys."

"Uncle Qrow," Ruby chided him. "You know they don't drink and Oscar wouldn't be able to get into most places you like to go to."

Qrow shrugged. "Yeah that's true. Sorry about that kid."

"I'm…not too broken up about that," Oscar said with some relief in his voice.

They rode up the elevator to Winter's office as they entered, the place was neat and tidy with very little in the way of personal decorations. There were a few items, there was a photo on the desk but they couldn't see what it was now, as it wasn't facing them. There were a couple of awards on one wall that she must have been proud of along with a plant in the room. Although on closer inspection it was plastic, apparently she either didn't remember to water a real one or just didn't want the hassle of taking care of one.

Qrow was very tempted to just start moving things around her office, just a little to see if she would do anything. He had a feeling she liked everything in just the right place and might be a tad OCD about placements. Maybe later he could get into her office if she left the window opened and start moving things around. He tried very hard to keep the grin off his face at the idea. Hey, he had quick drinking, he needed a new hobby to make up for it and he and Tai had been decent at playing pranks back in school together.

"Good you're all here," Winter stood up and opened up a case as she handed out small devices to everyone. "These are the new generation of scrolls that we have been working on."

The scroll was just a single piece it was much smaller than a normal one. Ruby hit a button as a screen came out the side. It wasn't two pieces you pulled out anymore this had a simple power button and open button on the physical part of it with your typical touch screen controls on it.

"Wow, slick," Yang looked at the screen she would play with it later when she got her arm back.

"There is also the matter of funding," Winter stated.

Oscar knew that without Ozpin being active he couldn't access those funds that Ozpin kept around for new reincarnations. So he was glad that General Ironwood was helping them out with this.

"Keep in mind that the General is giving you some funds to purchase some clothing and gear," Winter stated. "Although I know you brought some with you from Argus, it would be good for you all to have something extra or replacements."

"Yeah that will be nice," Blake had only one set of clothing for winter wear so it was nice to get something more for later. They had no idea how long they would be in Atlas after all so some extra clothing would be welcomed.

"Oh I sense a shopping trip." Yang grinned seeing the money that Winter pulled out.

"If you'd like I can have a ship send you to a shopping district in Atlas." Winter told them.

"Well we do have some time to kill," Weiss stated, as their gear would take some time to be ready for them. It would also be nice to get out and look around.

"We could use some extra things," Ren wanted to get some tea for their room as it helped him to relax.

"I could use a few books to read," Blake admitted that she hadn't really gotten the chance to look around Argus for any bookstores.

"Well sounds like you're going to have an afternoon of fun," Maria stated. "I think I'll stick around though, I'm not as young as I used to be and walking around shopping is something for the young."

"Well you need anything?" Ruby asked her.

Maria thought about it, "Sure I'll give you a few things to look out for me if you don't mind."

"I don't mind at all," Ruby really didn't mind, Maria had been very helpful to her in unlocking her eyes plus she held a lot of experience that Ruby wanted to tap into.

"Penny I'll have you look after them," Winter stated. "But keep yourself aware for any Grimm warnings."

"Rodger," Penny saluted.

-Mantel-

In a small apartment building, Cinder was sitting on a sofa looking through the stations on the TV. She wasn't interesting in the programming, what she was trying to do was get a feel for the situation. The apartment was actually a safe house, one of many she was sure, that the Crooked Man used. She had access to one on Atlas that she had used once before. It was one that she had set up a couple of years ago while here on a mission for Salem.

The only reason she wasn't using that one was that she had to stay near the Cooked Man and Adam. There was still no word from the Doctor but he had only just started to process. She figured if Adam lived, it would take some time for him to be fully up and ready to fight again. Although this place wasn't up to her usual standards, at least it was decent enough.

So far she had seen a lot of talk about the situation in Mantel and Atlas, Mantel was like a pressure pot nearing the boiling point. Ironwood wasn't helping things as his grip on the city was tight and people were getting frustrated. The fact that most of the dust wasn't being shipped out meant that a lot of the economy that Mantel was tied to was taking a huge hit.

She said most because she knew that the Crooked Man had a smuggling business for dust.

Still, she knew that eventually that man was going to ask for her and Neo's help in exchange for his hospitality. Looking at the screen in front of her about a news report on high arrest rates and more violent crimes being committed she couldn't help but smile. Atlas was supposedly the most secure nation with the most powerful military and yet here it was almost on the edge of toppling and Cinder hadn't even done a thing.

Beacon had taken careful planning but this? If she had to take Atlas down all it would take is just the right push in the right places and the whole deck of cards would come crashing down. She would love to see Atlas fall and burn, if only to see the look on Ironwood's face when it happened. There were other things she needed to do first as she knew Salem had Atlas on her list of targets.

In fact she was sure that Atlas would be next on the list, most likely Watts would he sent to deal with it. He could already be here actually but he was a slippery one, he never liked to confront a problem head on. He liked to come at it from the side and safely from a distance if he could. She would have to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary just in case.

Still, now that she knew that the Relics were all under the schools in vaults she needed to open them with a different Maiden's power. She needed to find the Winter Maiden and take her powers given she missed the Spring Maiden. She growled a bit at the memory of Raven. She was going to get back at her. Maybe make Raven watch her pitiful tribe of bandits burned before killing her and taking her powers.

At any rate she wasn't one hundred percent sure she could even take more than one power, no one on Remnant had ever held more than one Maiden power at a time. But then again she wasn't like most other Maidens. The Grimm inside of her could still take more power, so she would take the Winter Maiden get the Relic that should be enough to get her back into Salem's good graces.

Oh and to kill Ruby Rose, that too was something she was looking forward to doing.

TBC…

Just so everyone knows I'm doing some character chapters for a bit, need to build some stuff up before all the excitement happens as there might not be any down time for them. Plus given the show skipped over a few weeks there is plenty that can happen in that amount of time.