Weiss wondered what kind of divine pagan deity she pissed off in her previous life to deserve this kind of fate. Escaping from the Schnee Mansion was easy enough; avoid the dim-witted all-brawn no-brains bodyguards and security that her father employed and make sure that freak White didn't somehow sniff out her trail all the while. Her father was too busy reeling from the fact that Vacuo of all places continues to defy his expectations, which makes jumping into a bullhead to get the hell out of there was simple. Whitley though… that boy was a whole other can of problems to deal with.

"Good afternoon, sister," he had said, Weiss resisted a twitch in her eye when she heard that boy's voice, "Good to see you out of your room, unlike the last several weeks…" again, she stopped herself from outright battering the kid with all of her might, all these violent thoughts… she shuddered, she probably picked them up from that brute Yang… or gods forbid that lout Courrier…

Her reminiscing was cut short as her kidnappers grabbed her from the small hole that they stuffed her in. Mentally sighing when she noticed that her mouth was still sealed shut with tape, her eyes widened when she saw the state of everything else though, the bandit tribe that took her hostage seemed to be under attack… and definitely not by Atlas seeing as how body parts were littered everywhere with limbs and heads hacked off rolling around on the ground. Weiss heaved as a bandit hurriedly carries her the opposite way.

She winced at the sounds of loud explosions as a burst of colours erupted from the camp before a woman jumped out from the blast, running towards the bandit that was carrying her, "Raven!" the bandit exclaimed in worry as she looked over the woman, "What happened? Did you kill that woman?" the camp was attacked a woman? One person did all of this?!

"Change of plans, Vernal," the woman, Raven, said hurriedly as she looked back to see a mint-colour haired man skating towards them, followed by a woman being carried by… Ms. Greenhorn?! "Shit, you get the Schnee girl out of here; I'll deal with our pursuers!" The woman turned around and pulled out her katana, ready to face down the attackers… if they were going towards her in the first place, Weiss' eyes widened when they ran past Raven and towards her.

"Gotcha!" Raven turned around to see the mint-colour haired guy tackle Vernal to the ground, causing Weiss to be thrown ahead before being caught by Ms. Greenhorn, "Johan! Quick! Disable her limbs!" the other woman quickly ran up to Vernal before punching her in the forehead, knocking the woman out completely, "Alright! The student is secured… now we need to kill the crazy bandit lady."

"She got away."

"Fuck," the mint-haired guy sighed, "Ah well, at least we got the kid, Courrier would be happy to hear about this," they knew Mr. Courrier? These are probably some kind of Vacuan soldiers seeing as how he holds control over the entire continent at that point, but what are they doing over here in Mistral? "Johan, go give Courrier a call and tell hi- HER what happened." Weiss absorbed the information, 'her'? But Mr. Courrier was a man… so either he has some kind of sibling who's a woman or he's married…

Definitely the former, Weiss can't imagine someone like him being loved by… anybody really.

The tape covering her mouth was then violently ripped off, "Ouch!" Ms. Greenhorn stared at her blankly when she threw the tape away, "Couldn't you have done that more gently?" she shook her head, Weiss sighed before Ms. Greenhorn dropped her from her hold, Weiss dusted herself off as she stood up.

"So where do we drop Ms. Moneybags here?" the woman, Johan, spoke up, "'Babysitting' is not in my job description, I will never do it nor ever consider such a thing even if Courrier asked me to." The mint-colour haired man sighed before rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"We'll drop her off in the city; Courrier said that the kid's team or something is in the city too," Weiss perked up at this, "We can just leave her anywhere, she looks unique enough for her team to find her."

"Yeah, well, that's cool and all but they're here." Johan pointed to the destroyed camp as a small group waded through the carnage, two adults, five children, and she knew most of them too! Weiss quickly ditched her saviours and ran to her team.

"WEISS!" Ruby screeched as she ran Weiss, arms wide open for a hug; she quickly bobbed and weaved by the girl's hug before running directly at Yang, "Whuh?" The girl's arms wrapped around open air and nothing as she turned around to see Weiss pointing at Yang with an outraged expression on her face.

"How dare you infect my mind with such brutish and violent thoughts you- you- YOU!" Weiss' clearly gone delirious, she knows that obviously, Yang just laughed before engulfing her in a hug, "Unhand me this instant!"

"Good to see you back, Ice Queen!" Yang laughed, patting Weiss on the back violently, rattling her as she reluctantly returned the hug.

"Nice little reunion," Ms. Greenhorn smiled, "Courrier didn't tell us about this happening, now what?" she turned to the mint-colour haired man, Weiss noticed that Ruby's drunkard of an uncle looked a lot more on edge when he saw them approach, "Do we have to fight them too?"

"No!" the mint-haired man said, shaking his head, "Hey, nice to meet you again, assuming that you haven't forgotten our names, I'm Mint, that's Lavs, and over there's Johan," he held out a hand for Ruby's uncle to shake, "We already know each other and all that so this is just a 'being polite' thing." The man, Mint, was then smacked in the back of the head by the Johan woman, "Ow!"

"No shit dumbass, not everyone have memory as shit as yours!"

"Whose side are you on?" the other adult next to Ruby's uncle asked warily, his fist clenched, he pushed up his old glasses as sweat dropped from his forehead, the man glanced at the destruction, "You did this?"

"No," Ms. Greenhorn shook her head, "Someone else got here before we did," she turned towards the pile of rose petals, Weiss noticed that Ruby's uncle look visibly disturbed by this fact, "Rose petals, I assume you know something about our… mutual enemy?"

"Yeah, what's up with that anyways?" Yang shrugged, crouching down to grab a petal, "Yo Ruby, this kinda looks like yours right?"

"Yeah!" Ruby nodded, "Don't worry Weiss, we'll tell you everything later!"

"I already told you kids what I knew back in the hotel!" Qrow sighed, exasperated, "The only person who knows anything about Sharon Rose and her freaky accomplice or brother or whatever is Summer…" Qrow rubbed the bridge of his nose, "They have no digital presence either…"

"That's rough," Johan hummed, Weiss had to agree, something was seriously up with all of this… Although she needed a quick refresher course on everything since… y'know.

"We better get going then-"

Their conversation was cut short when Mint was batted away by a very familiar red and black double-headed scythe. Sharon Rose materialized behind Johan and Lavs as she yanked the two of them to the ground with her oversized pickaxe, rose petals fluttering in the wind as the bodies hit the floor. Mint quickly slashed at her with his katana but the blade was easily batted away to the side, Sharon twirled around to kick Mint square in the jaw, causing him to stumble back before she grabbed Johan by the collar and threw the woman at him, knocking him down like a bowling pin.

Yang jumped in as eager as ever, fists primed to cave Sharon's head in, to which she sidestepped and flipped her over with ease. Yang was also then thrown towards Mint, stacking another body atop the human pile. Nora moved in alongside Ren, hammer raised and aimed at the torso while Ren prepared a slash at the legs. Sharon, seeing this, dropkicked Nora in the chest whilst avoiding Ren's slash; she then spun her scythe around and hooked the two with the edge before hurling them towards Qrow.

Qrow ducked under the two human projectiles as he unfurled his sword, dashing at Sharon for a quick slash. She blocked the hit with her scythe before twisting it, causing Qrow's sword to be lodged in the scythe's blade, he clicked his tongue at this before letting go of his sword completely, disorienting Sharon as he punched her square in the face. Sharon recoiled from this, allowing Qrow to dislodge his sword and thrust the tip right at her, causing her Aura to flicker as the blade impacted her.

Weiss placed down a Time Dilation glyph, speeding up Qrow's movement as his attacks now placed Sharon on the defence, forcing her back as he sent forward hit after hit with his sword. Sharon noticed this and quickly sidestepped Qrow, although his swing still grazed her Aura, she quickly dashed towards Weiss before slamming her scythe into Weiss' stomach, breaking through her shield glyphs and sending the girl into a nearby tree as a result.

Sharon snarled before jumping at him again, Qrow raised his weapon as Sharon dashed towards the group, hurriedly telling the children, or the remaining two that hasn't been thrown into the forest, to back away as his eyes narrowed on her's. Sharon ducked under one of his swings before grabbing Bluebell by the throat, dragging him a fair distance away before using him as a hostage to negotiate with the group.

Bluebell struggled as she took off his contacts, revealing his silver eyes to everyone; Qrow looked particularly shocked at this, "Now listen," she snarled, her façade now completely gone as she gritted her teeth, "Bluebell, you've been a particular pain in the ass the moment you went rogue, what happened to using your powers against Salem hmm?" she glared at the sweating man, "We don't do work with cowards, so explain yourself before you end up like the Branwen woman's camp!"

"I- I-" Bluebell stammered, looking at Qrow to see if the other man have any other plans to get him out of this situation, unfortunately, Sharon's hold on him guaranteed his impending doom even if someone tries to run up and help.

"Can't even speak for yourself?" Sharon clicked her tongue, dropping Bluebell before slamming her scythe down on his back, his Aura shimmered as his body was embedded into the dirt, one more hit and his Aura will be gone, "Fucking scum-of-Remnant like you don't deserve to live," she seethed, raising her scythe in the air…

Qrow blinked as Sharon was knocked backwards after Ruby shot at her, launching her into a nearby tree like a ragdoll shot out of a cannon. He turned to his niece to see her rubbing her shoulder before giving him a thumbs up, "Nice shot," he remarked, a smirk on his face as he approached Bluebell's nearly-unconscious body, "Up you go," Qrow grunted as he lifted Bluebell up to his shoulders, turning around to see Jaune helping the other two up, "Let's move quick before she comes back again."

Jaune and Ruby nodded as they grabbed they ran over to their friends, Qrow slapped Mint awake before he slapped Johan awake too, Lavs was already up and walking. The group all universally agreed on one thing, get out of the camp first before asking any other questions.

They'd rather not deal with Sharon's crazy ass again.

I would like to apologize for the slow update.

I'm currently dealing with some life stuff right now and recently I've been too busy with shit to actually focus on writing.

Also since I'm not in that groove y'know. No motivation and all that jazz.

So yeah, sorry dudes.

Thanks for reading though.