Chapter two: Confiscation

*The Next morning*

Cinder and Ruby were now on the road, they had found an abandoned car with a shot passenger within so they just threw the body out and took the car for themselves sense traveling by car was going to be easier then on foot.

Cinder was in the driver's seat steering there travel while Ruby road in the passenger seat she had crescent Rose within sniper mode and was locked in, Scoped threw as she scanned the vegetation around them, Ammo wasn't a problem sense they hit some fallen Bullheads which earned her a jackpot of ammo thanks to the 50 caliber ammo thats uses for the chain guns mounted on the vehicles. However no matter how much guns, explosives and ammo they had they still needed food and water, Thankfully the grimm seemed to be in human hunting mode instead of animal mode sense Ruby was able to spot a deer a few clicks north-east.

"Cinder, I see a deer, want me to punch a hole through it?"

"Ya go ahead, we can throw it into the trunk and take it with us."

With a grin she mounted up further, took a deep breath, adjusted for the speed of the vehicle and fired, the flash and thunderous crack of Crescent Roses barrel ripped threw the air like a thunderstorm, the Deer didn't realize the mistake that it had made putting itself here as the bullet ripped threw the deer's body killing it instantly.

Cinder pulled up next to it as Ruby stepped out and grabbed its corpse, pulling it over as Cinder opened the trunk as Ruby threw its lifeless body inside.

"That should be good enough for now," said Cinder.

"Ya, until we hit one of the surrounding towns. When that happens we're going to have to hide our identities, because I'm not sure if the news picked up on me, they definitely got you sense your the "big bad" that caused beacons downfall, meanwhile I was just the spy that worked here and there to make sure the plan went along."

"Hm, true. I'm going to be known way more than you are, god where the short one when you need her." Cinder half joked expecting the short ice cream colored haired girl to appear out of nowhere and try to playfully hit her.

"Neo would come in handy right now, her illusions are freaking handy." Ruby groaned in frustration "honestly, she may have been a mute but her company was very much enjoyable. As was the rest of the gang, but nooooo because of that last push from General Ironwood and Ozpin, we got scattered to the freaking wind." Ruby threw her arms up in frustration as Cinder just chuckled, feeling the same.

"True, if we had gotten that back up rally beacon we wouldn't have had to deal with all that."

"Ya you're telling me, I had to detach from Adam and head straight to it to take it out, but by time I got there the message was already out and the general was already on his way. With his new toys." Ruby pinched her nose as she leaned back. "I swear for as much of a tactician Salem claims to be she looked over the whole part of humanity where they're hard headed as shit and don't give up no matter what."

"Hmm, that was a large oversight on the plans part, it resulted in the loss of 35% of the remaining forces being taken out either as POW's or killed, thankfully we got what was needed but we could have gotten absolute victory if it wasn't for her overconfidence." Cinder leaned back into her driver seat as she recalled all that happened, when the tower got knocked out they made there more, getting shit done as planned, however as she reached to top of the tower, She wasn't expecting a secondary alarm which contacted reinforcements, Adam and his group where forced to deal with it as she fought for the maiden, After it was done Ruby was then sense to her, making this the worst case scenario. Because of Pyrrha's extensive meddling and pushing time back further before the General could arrive with backup, it forced Ruby to reveal herself to expedite the plan.

Then the most fucked of all was Salem's betrayal, that freaking Wyvern turned Ape-shit on them which resulted in them diverging their attention from Pyrrha to it, Only freaking reason that thing went down as quickly as it did was because Ruby blasted it with her silver eyes. But she was already damaged which Cinder never forgave herself for.

Sure She had literally just gotten that power not even 5 minutes before this event happened, but she felt a sense of guilt not being able to protect Ruby from that thing…. Well at least it's death gave two good things, motivation to look for a different path in life, and that Scarab sense it popped out of the dragon soon after it died and merged itself with Ruby.

Then came their escape as the entirety of Beacon was soon flooded with Bullhead and the sound of gunfire.

So ya, it was fucked, very very fucked.

"Ya you're telling me, damn Grimm bitch probably set us up for that to happen now that I honestly think about it…"

"What do you mean? You seriously think the reason why we had such an overview was because Salem wanted to kill us? If so that's so stupid, We were her only shot at getting the relic and maiden."

"Ya I thought so too, until I thought about it a little bit further, Salem probably already knew we had the relic and the power from your Grimm augment you used to get said maiden power, and Relic because I literally called that in. So when we had that fight she probably thought it was the best case to get rid of both of us, Just use another creature of grimm to snap the maiden power from you and just kill me, a silver eyed warrior, as far as she's concerned she had the power, Relic, and two tatiors dealt with, making that "her'' absolute victory."

Cinder clicked her teeth at that. "Fits her freaking personality to a T'ee, as well."

"ya it does."

A quiet over took the two as they considered the present.

Currently they're syndicate is located within Mistral, or at least will be making their way to Mistral, which means that once they get there they're going to have to build from the ground up, and fast.

Salem already plans on attacking that Academy next, however considering the fall just happened and she's lost a good number of her own inner circle and will need replacements, she's going to be just as occupied as the rest of the world's forces, which gives them about a year, maybe a year and a half tops to get shit underway and rebuilt.

Thankfully all the Kingdoms are in shambles currently because of the loss of Vale, which means there's many ways for them to exploit the system, and plenty of time to gather their resources and manpower to get this world started.

Question is where are they going to get recruits from? Perhaps they could trick people into the syndicate by posing their group as a faction against Salem?

'No that wouldn't work at all.' Cinder looked over at her dear. 'The moment they see Ruby, they'll run. We need people that will stay because they have hatred in their heart towards a common enemy… hmmm, I wonder.'... "Hey, Baby."

"Yes Babe?"

"How badly does this country hate Faunus?"

"How badly? From what I have heard so badly that Ozpin himself had to recommend an individual who had a benevolent side to them named Leonardo Lionheart, in order to try and quell their hatred, unfortunately They are still very much oppressed over there. Want to bring them into the gang I presume?"

"Yes, What a better way to gain more men than individuals who are willing to raise arms against their oppressors, We have plenty of arms to give as well. And with enough luck Adam himself will see our operation and lend his support to us as well, allowing us to have the White fang with us once it's revealed how bad of a threat Salem is to them."

"Crippling her forces even more, without the Cannon fodder, she'll have to rely more on her own creatures."

"Exactly." Cinder smirked. "Not to mention this place, Mistral, I know about from Arthur's reports that the headmaster of this place is aligned with Salem."

Ruby growled in annoyance at that.

"Tch, so the headmaster of Mistral's Academy is a fucking cowered, huh. Some headmaster he turned out to be."

"I know the feeling, i had the same reaction but this is perfect because it is that fear that will let us take over or take from all of Mistral with ease, without the support of the other countries. Mistral, But most importantly Haven Academy is under-supplied. And facing mass pressure from skyrocketing increases the grimm activity, that's where we come in."

Ruby's eyes widened. "We confront the headmaster and with the reality that he and his kingdom is to face will be forced into either siding with us, or dying there. A coward like him will always fear for death and will do whatever it takes to get away from it. So he will do as we say. So with all the dust, Guns and supplies we have we could supply them with enough firepower to keep their borders protected without fail, then we can take whatever we request. If he tries to deny it we just take away our supplies and his force will crumble, not to mention Salem would just crush him like a bug sooner or later."

"True, however there's still the possibility he's too scared of Salem to consider such a possibility, Which is where I had my original idea. We force him to reveal the Vault and Maiden, take them and we'll leave. Without either we don't risk Salem getting another Relic and we get a second Maiden under our belt. We take our newly created Gang and we leave."

"But where?"

"Vacuo dear, It's the last place in this world Salem would think of attacking now, after all with the display Atlas put into the show Salem will have to focus on Its destruction which will take a very long time. Enough for us to establish ourselves within Mistral. Get the resources and power needed along with taking out that anarchist kingdom, after all once the only structure of order in that place is rubble, they'll cause conflict drawing the grimm in, covering our tracks and allowing us to slip away without a hitch."

"Hm, I like it, but you know it's not going to be that easy."

"I know, but I know Salem, worked with her ever since I ran away from my abusive adoptive family, she's going to take out every threat to her before dealing with the small fries, Vacuo is nothing compared to Atlas and Mistral, that's why we should hit it before she does, steal it's importances and scram."

"Ya, that does sound like a good plan in theory, build up in Mistral, then we hit Vacuo, leaving Atlas as our last important target."

"Yup, so not a bad plan, right?"

"Not at all babe, not at all."

Both Crime lords shared a laugh, before Ruby held her head in pain. "Ahhh! F-fuck!! my head!"

"Ruby!" Cinder quickly pulled over and put the car in park. She reached over and placed her hand on the girl's shoulder, shaking her a little to check if she was still there, or if she zoned out.

Ruby responded with grabbing her hand and clenching her hand around hers, Cinder grunted from the pain sense she was squeezing with the strength of an Ursa, but she bared it for her love.

"Agh-ahhh! T-theres so-something nearby, and- ahhhh! I-its calling me…"

"Calling you!? Is it the Scarab?"

"No… it's something else… something older, Ancient, powerful…"

"... What do we do then?"

Ruby began to breathe as she looked up at her, her crimson eyes unsure of what to do however this nagging feeling was seriously strong. She found herself looking in the direction of the call and Cinder understood.

"Grab your Scythe, let's check this out."

"... You sure?"

"Ruby hell no I'm not sure. However if you are getting some magical mystery call from your little scarab. I would prefer we figure out why, rather than ignore it. We don't know anything about it, apart from it not only having a soul, but also it having magic, so it's best to understand why it's wanting you to go towards this place, then to blow it off. Because quite frankly I'm not risking you possibly getting injured if this is some important side quest given to you by this thing. So get your shit and let's go".

Ruby looked hesitant for a little bit, I mean anyone would. One Second, she's talking about world domination with her hot girlfriend. The next instant her stowaway basically gives her a magical signal saying "Hey go over here". So don't mind the girl too hard that she's a little bit suspicious of this.

But Cinder had already made up her mind, There was no stopping her now. Grabbing Crescent Rose, The two of them headed off into the forest and vegetation.

What little sunlight there was died in an instant, Darkness had completely taken there sight, thankfully because of Ruby's Grimmification, She could see in the dark as cleanly as if she was standing in the light. While Cinder Just conjured a flame.

"You feel anything pettle?"

"Ya, feeling just got a hell of a lot stronger."

Cinder let out a deep sigh. "Well shit, might as well push forward."

They began to walk into the extraordinarily thick vegetation, their eyes darting around to every corner of this place expecting some kind of ambush, thankfully though they seem to be far enough away to where the Grimm having migrated over here just

yet, But they still didn't want to take any chances so they quickly sped along with a ruby taking the lead since she was the one who was their metaphorical compass, to this place.

They walked for God knows how long, trapped within this dark vegetation time was fluxed into nothingness, However they did reach their destination and opened in a cliffside surrounded by thorns, flowers and lush greenery.

"It's inside the cave…"

"Great, This is totally not a trap. Not at all."

"Oh ya, trust me I'm getting the same feeling sparky."

"You know I hate that name."

"Ya, but right now I kind of need something to get my mind off of the possible imminent bullshit we're going to have to deal with."

Cinder looked at her with a playful pout before looking at the ominous cave entrance. "Far enough, I'll let it slide this once."

Walking in the once soft outside dirt and grass was now replaced by hard stone, each step they could hear the soul of their shoes click against the stone, the reverberations were light but enough to make the hair on their necks stand up.

The deeper they went in the more lush the greenery got, it was the same as the outside at first, thick foliage with multiple colorful flowers and Vines but now… now it had gotten a little out of hand for theses two taste, So much so Cinder had to manifest a glass machete to cut the stuff down, while Ruby just used her new claws to handle hers.

After tearing through foliage for 9 minutes straight, they came across a massive room, And my massive they means massive.

This place was probably two if not maybe three times larger than Beacon's courtyard, looking around some streams of light where seen, looking up there where cracks and holes in the ceiling allows light to shine through.

But that wasn't the breathtaking part, no it's when they looked down into the chasm below they were left perplexed.

Massive crystal clear pound was before them, rare indigenous plants normally found in most of the harshest parts of the vale where present, flowers perforated the ground turning the one's damp and dark stone into a bouquet of multicolored flowery gorgeousness.

"Wow." Both girls said at the same time, This place was absolutely marvelously breathtaking. It was a secret oasis that could only be described as a fairy tale creation.

However Ruby felt that tug again, confused as she walked down, carefully climbing down the rocks as she walked through the field of flowers, her hand gently touching their tops as her nails left lines threw them, embodying her placement permanently within this place.

Cinder followed closely behind, her eyes locked onto her lover's back but more importantly what was ahead, Which was a massive white bone.

Ruby was confused seeing the bone, until she felt her head pound, slightly opening her left eye. She was able to see some kind of spinal cord heading back, feeling the call get stronger in that direction. She headed there and wasn't ready for what she saw.

An absolutely massive dragon skeletal remains laid bare before her, And by massive she means freaking massive! This thing was easily four times bigger than the one that was at Beacon!

Its skull was large enough to be able to bite that smaller dragon in half and devour it as a snack! Its spin was so long it seemed like it stretched on for miles! Its leg bones were so long it would be mistaken for Geo formations! For Fuck sake this was a Kaiju! Not a Grimm! A fucking KAIJU!

Cinder shared her shock as she looked at the bones, but soon her eyes began to flicker and Ruby noticed that, as did Cinder.

"My Maiden powers just activated on their own."

"Ya, I just felt my Scarab jitter. But Cinder, doesn't the air feel… different?"

Cinder paused as she closed her eyes and let her aura and magic wash over her and into the floor below her, soon enough her entire world was hit with a massive variety of colors, It was like a 500 kg bomb filled with nothing but paints of various colors Just slammed into her, the energy was like nothing she's felt, it was so pure, strong, and overwhelming she felt herself falling back and land straight on her ass.

"Holy shit, this entire cave is filled to the brim with magic. Pure, and raw."

"Not just that, it's filled with the scent of a powerful Grimm, I can tell because my instincts are currently flaring right now. And I think I know why…"

Cinder followed where she was looking as she locked eyes with the dead dragon.

"Ruby, it looks like it's been dead for thousands of years. You seriously believe its aura is still being felt in this place?"

"No, I'm not saying, I know. What other explanation could there be? That thing has a similar feeling as my Scarab, I don't know why… but all I know is that it's almost like even now after it's death it's trying to complete something ..."

"Complete what?"

"That… I don't know."

Ruby and Cinder approached the bones, mainly the skull because that was the closest of the remains, as they arrived Ruby laid her hand upon the beast skull and felt a tug.

She was confused at this, she tried pulling her hand back but it wouldn't budge.

Cinder got concerned and went to help, only for Ruby to be successful in being able to pray off her hand a little bit but froze when she saw what was on, or more accurately going into her hand.

A stream of jet black essence was being pulled into her hand, as she was left perplexed old wounds from the battle began to heal fast, how does she know? Because her broken rib was now back in place with no more pain to be felt.

She felt her back tighten for a second before s large weight removed her being, almost as if a wave of relief just went through her spin and into her legs, turning them to jelly.

She began to fall back but Cinder caught her, Ruby's eyes were glossy as she was having a reboot, when she came back to the world of the living she shook her head.

"The fuck was that!?"

Cinder didn't know what to say, she just saw Ruby get up and stretch, her bones popped which was to be expected however all the bruises around her were gone.

"Looks like whatever just happened just healed you by a good bit, but how are you feeling?"

"Fine, honestly I feel fine. There's no more aching or bruising on or in my at all, not to mention this tension in my back also went away. And my Scarab feels… contempt."

"... The way that black essence was going into your hand seemed as though you were drawing it out… But after you just said that I'm not sure it was you, who was doing it."

"Ya I was thinking the same thing, seems as though that pulling feeling I had was a hunger sign from this thing, but why here in particular?"

Cinder hummed to that.

"Don't know, maybe because your thing has a fondness for dragons? I mean It popped out of the wyvern and then led you to a dragon's grave to devour what was left of it. Maybe the food for this thing is other Grimm's and since we were out of combat with them for so long it was growing hungry and wanted something to eat?"

"Ya that's probably the reason why, But are we not going to ask the reason why this dragon seems to have a similar MO, to this Scarab within my back? Don't you find it a bit shady that both just so happen to possess some form of magic?"

"No I 100% find it suspicious Ruby, However we barely know enough about the non-magic grimm of today to form a theory on them, I don't want to try to imagine theorizing magical, soul infused Grimm."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "Course you don't."

"Oh ya tough girl? What's your theory then?"

"That these are a special variety of Grimms, judging from the skeleton over there ancient beyond recognition. If Salem's words on magic are to be taken into account, then most likely these things lived during that time, as to how they have it I have no idea, after all humanity seems to have lost their magic somehow but not these guys? I find that a bit strange, then again she only gave us the half truth to basically everything so take all of this with a grain of salt."

Cinder paused for a second. "Honestly… It makes sense but why now?"

Ruby gilded her hand across her back. "Honestly I can't say, But it seriously does feel like now that I got this thing our future is going to get a little bit more… complicated."

Cinder sighed. "Course it is, it's you, ya idiot."

"Love you too babe."

"Hmph, Love you too dumbass."

*Time skip 1 hour and 30 minutes later, Back on the road*

After the eventful time within the cave Ruby had fallen silent with wonder.

Grimms had souls, had magic and apparently are now just vastly different from which she was "raised" to believe, sure she knew they all were not mindless monsters like most believe to to imagine them like them, like "human" with their own feelings emotions and hobbies was downright alarming.

Was the world that much more different back then than it was now? That such bizarre things by today's standards were just a common Tuesday problem?

If that really was the case why were they relieving themselves to her now? Was it all just because of this stowaway within her back? If so, when seriously what the hell is this creature?

It feeds off Grimm essence, grants a major boost to all her abilities, freaking grants her MAGIC, and so on, like it wasnt adding up, none of this was.

She tried to think about it but all she could default back to was that halved assed theory she gave Cinder back in the cave, and that annoyed her because this means there's a new set of problems that can spring up in her life and she sure as hell didn't want ordeal with them, then again with the existence of a immortal magical witch, and immortal coward and a world with a broken moon and you know,Magic. This was honestly par for the freaking course.

'Though could this honestly be some form of special grimm that's now resurfacing? Maybe somehow I got lucky and ended up with one of the nicer ones? If so it seems like it wants a symbiotic relationship with me, it hasn't done anything besides just eat through my hand. Besides that it just gives me power. So I guess that's how these operate then? Attach, give power, get fed Grimm threw conflict, if the host dies pop off and find a new one.' Ruby leaned forward resting her head on the dashboard as she glided her hand across her back once more. 'But that seems way too… Rational, it just doesn't feel right for this thing, why me? Why not another grimm? Why attach to me a silver eyed warrior who's the "main and ultimate weapon against the creatures of Grimm", why was it attached to the wyvern to begin with? And on the topic of winged beasts, what's the deal with that large ass dragon skeleton? It felt like a dead grimm but its bones were there which is strange because aren't Grimm supposed to turn to dust upon death? How could it remain here for these ones? Unless i'm right and these special Grimm's are an ancient older version of the modern grimm, that would explain why they're so freaking large like with this Scarab being the size of my back and that Dragon the size of the goddamn tower at beacon.'

Picking her head up she sighed annoyed as she leaned a little off the passenger seat.

Cinder who had observed for a solid six minutes by now was just chuckling. "Ruby, there's really no need to get all confused and bend out of shape as of right now. If you think any harder and I'm worried your blood is going to burst through those forehead veins of yours."

"Ha ha, funny babe, but seriously it just makes no goddamn sense, sure i know there's more to grimm then the ones we fight, anyone with half a brain can figure that out. What the hell i'm trying to put together is why now, how and again what the hell these things are. We got a scarab the size of a person's back that can Grimmaffy individuals, give them a power boost, give magic, and then can consume grimm essence from dead Grimm's. Then we got Mr enormous fucking dragon back there which somehow created an entire ecosystem within a freaking cave because of its left over life or whatever the hell energy it used to create that crap, and then somehow the Stowaway is connected to this sense it somehow knew the exact location of said Mr ginormous ass dragon and lead me there so it could what we assume is to fill up its belly, but we actually have no idea what it did so ya…. Sorry if I'm overthinking a little sweetheart."

Cinder hearing her partner say all that rolled her eyes playfully, "Here I thought you sucked at word probelms but here you are tackling a question that you know nothing about and doing just as great as I knew you world, not great at all baby."

"Geez thanks for the confidence babe really appreciate the banter."

"No problem dear, however it's a beast to look at it like this. As of now we know nothing except what we just got to view and our theories, until we find some means of being able to figure out more we should leave it be for now, remember we still need to find those Atlas ground base so we can commandeer one of there bullheads and get his ball rolling, we have a lot at stack especially with every second we waist put salem that much closer to recovering and strategizing on there next more, so we need to worry about the present. Not the past or future or whatever."

Ruby took a deep breath and just sighed. "Ya my bad, guess with all this happening so soon i'm a little pressed for wanting answers. But let's forget the scarab for now, we got to hunt down that bullhead, and maybe we can test out our new kits on some Atlas Ground troops."

"You read my mind dear, now let's pick up the pace."

Cinder put the metal to the pettle and vroomed off into the distance, from the maps on Ruby's scroll a town was just around the corner, with any luck the people they seek will be there waiting for a lovely arrival of two gorgeous women.

Hot, sociopathic, murdering woman, but woman regardless.

*Forty five minutes later*

Plenty of time has passed and true to the map they arrived by the outskirts of the town… That was completely in ruins, However just as they were going to call it quotes and just loot the place and hopped bandits were not here, they heard the sound of a roaring engine.

They looked up to see an Atlas Bullhead fly just a few dozen meters past these ruins and land within the greenery a little away from the duo.

Ruby nodded as they hopped straight into the car and went to the location the sky vehicle had landed.

When they were a few dozen feet away so they killed the engine and went out, they quietly went forward making sure they were caught by any potential cams or hidden traps but it seemed like this was a newer base so they hadn't the time to properly set up yet.

So with one last push they were able to peer down below and see the group of soldiers surrounding a lady in a commander's uniform, that was probably their corporal or warrant officer considering how over the tight nicely she was dressed even though she's in a damn forest. But the military and its dress code wasn't what they where interested in, no they were interested in that shiny bullhead a few hundred feet in front of them, however looking at where they were all gathered it made Cinder wonder.

"Ruby, What type of rounds do you have?"

"Standard 50 cal, about two clips of high explosive, one clip of thunder rounds, one of shrapnel, and only half a clip of Aura Piercers."

"Well see that tank over there."

Ruby diverted her eyes over to the large tank probably filled with some flammable content.

"Yes, I see it."

"Think you can make this entire base light up with one shot?"

The girl grinned "Sure, however I advise you to cover your ears and eyes this will be loud and bright as hell. But when everything calms down ima need you to take a few of the survivors."

"I know, I wasn't going to leave you hanging."

"Good now let's get started."

The grimm girl layed down on her stomach, she aimed her Anti-material rifle at the massive explosive tanker and loaded a clip of high explosive rounds within, she spotted five tankers so she was going to put five holes in these damn things.

The first shot was the last most the atlas soldiers heard before they were consumed in a raging inferno of boiling oil and melting steel and fire, the second was a measure to make sure she cleaned up the rest, while the third, fourth and fifth was just overkill strictly for the sake of the fun of it.

The once small outpost was now in flames and in ruins.

The first blast had done most of the work and even if they had enough aura to survive the first which many didn't, the second thru fifth was just a guaranteed death sentence.

"And this is a lesson on why you don't put highly explosive things on the outside and congregate around it, it's never going to end well. Like at all."

"Wise words pettle, now come on the bullhead was far enough from those blasts and you can put up your weapon, I'll handle any survivors."

Ruby shrugged her shoulders as she threw her rifle around her shoulder and walked forward through the burning base.

They passed over burned, charred remains like the reapers of death over a battlefield, limbs were separated and discarded throughout this place, they could spot just about everything honestly, legs, hands, toes, fingers, heads, blood, hearts, brain matter the list goes one.

But Cinder heard a groan up ahead, like the sadist she is, she walked up spotting the only survivor whose legs were crushed by the falled concrete pillar.

The figure looked back yelling for help when it spotted them approaching, at first they could hear him call for them, to which they did because they were kind enough to go greet him at the very least, but when he soon realized they were not friendly he threw himself towards his rifle only to have a glass arrow go threw his hand pinning it to the ground. He yelled and screamed in pain which was just the norm for these two at his point, so Cinder, now bord walked up kicked him across his face before putting a flaming arrow into his eye. He was chard ashes in less then a second soon after.

"How hot."

"Thanks for the compliment, but flattery can wait my dear, our plan is now. We head to the Kingdom of Mistral in order for our first steps towards our dream."

Ruby and her shared a dark giggle amidst the hellfire that burned around them, they approached the ship and hit its hatch button causing its Aft Door to open as they walked inside.

However they stopped as they heard humming, looking forward they saw a pair of familiar faces.

The first was a man who's ginger hair was in a short ponytail under an iconic top hat. He also wore a slick white overcoat and black leather gloves and boots. This man was none other then Roman, the master thief.

To his left however spinning a decapitated pilot's head upon her finger was a short ice-cream haired girl who wore a white jacket with a pink interior, brown pants, and gray boots with very high heels. Under her jacket is a black corset, curved in the middle and at the bottom, exposing her hips. She was also wearing a multitude of necklaces, which hang haphazardly around her neck. This was none other than Neo. Romans trusty partner in crime.

"Well hello bose, Little red, or is it Little white now?" Roman asked with a jab of good hummer as he lifted his cane up to greet her "After all, you kinda got yourself one hell of a makeover."

"Happens when an Ancient Grimm Scarub the size of your back, that possesses both a soul and magic bounds to you by going into said back of yours."

Roman blinked his eyes confused "Come again?" He cleaned out his ears as he leaned back down to her level. "Run that by me again, because I don't think I heard you correctly."

"You heard her Roman now enough of this, we're heading off elsewhere."

"Damn not even three seconds of us being reunited and you're already giving orders, can't let us catch up, not even a little bit boss?"

Cinder Rolled her eyes. "There will be time for that when we take this Bullhead and head off to Mistral, there we can take a break before we all have to work double time to get our gang back up and running."

"Understood, so long I'm being paid for my exolent services. I'll help, just ahh… Keep these Scarab away from me, I would rather not have to pay to get this suit tailored again, you would not believe how outrageous these prices are, like come on. What the hell happened, did a kingdom fall or something because my word the prices have skyrocketed."

Neo, the girl he was with and his right hand partner in crime giggled as Cinder groaned in annoyance and went to the cockpit to get this journey going.

"It's good seeing you too, i almost got worried you two were captured by atlas or the vale resistance. Good to have ya back."

Roman and Neo shared a shared smile as they looked at ruby who walked towards the cockpit as well.

"Ya, same to you too little Red, sorry if you were looking forward to little white but that's the Schnee girls nickname and im not changing up now, not very professional of me to do so."

"Ahah well i prefer red anyways, so be my guess."

She soon vanished from their point of view.

"Good to know Red and the Boss are the same even after the fall…. But i wonder i-"

Neo bonked Roman with her umbrella.

"OW! NEO! How could you!" he fake cried "And i know you were thinking the same now fess up."

Neo just smirked as glass broke away and she was with the girl.

Roman sighed knowing he wasn't going to catch her and just sat back down and enjoyed the quiet while it lasted.

Because shit was about to get much louder that's for sure.

And there you have it ladies and gentlemen this chapters done hopped you all enjoyed it as much as i did!

Neo and Roman have arrived to help our MC'S plans go into motion, and its from here we will go in a new direction, the Mistral arc but with some twist here and there because of all the hands on deck.

Not to mention how will these mystery and ancient Grimm play into Ruby's progression? Who knows you gotta wait until the future reveals itself.

Now until we meet again!

DIO OUT!!!!