12: The Crow & Death Chanter's Candle
Y/n is gone in the room. He is inside the CCT, he is uploading a Anti-Virus software patch for the Atlesian Armies incase someone tries to hack in without being spotted. If the Anti-Virus didn't work, he has a vaccine cure software patch that permanently immobilizes the infected mechs, neutralizes the virus completely and reboots the mech and its only purpose is to protect the people of Vale.
Y/n: *mutters silently* Man, I feel like this stuff is only Aiden Pearce or Dedsec would do.
He completes the tasks that belongs to the protocol. He returns to the room and waits for the right moment.
Beacon
Ruby is still depressed about Blake's mental and physical condition. Weiss slams the table with 2 tablecloths on her palm to get Ruby's attention.
Weiss: Ruby, I need you to pick a tablecloth.
Ruby sees it and confused.
Ruby: Aren't they both the same?
Weiss: *frustrated sigh* I don't even know why I asked.
Weiss left Ruby's table, everyone is setting up the things for the party. Yang just drops the loudspeaker carefully, but her carefulness cause the table and Ruby's seat including her bounce from the impact. Yang asks Ruby.
Yang: So, have you picked out a dress yet?
Ruby: What's the point? Who cares about the dance if Blake isn't going?
Yang: Oh, don't worry, she's going. *saw Weiss* Weiss! I though we agreed! No doilies!
Weiss: *points Yang* If I don't get doilies, you don't get fog machines.
Just then, Sun & Neptune enters the ballroom.
Neptune: Your dance is gonna have fog machines.
Weiss: We were thinking about it.
Neptune: That's pretty cool.
Sun: You ladies all excited for the dress up?
Ruby: Pff, yeah right.
Yang: Laugh all you want. I'll be turning heads tomorrow night.
Weiss: What are you two wearing?
Sun: Uh... this.
Neptune: *interrupts* Ignore him, for he knows not what he says.
Sun: *interrupts* Hey, I may have moved to Mistral, but I grew up in Vacuo. It's not exactly a shirt-and-tie kinda place.
Yang: Yeah, we've noticed.
Sun realizes Blake is not here.
Sun: So, uh... what does Blake think of all this? She's still being all, you know... Blake-y?
Weiss: Obviously.
Ruby: I still can't think of a way to change her mind.
Yang: Guys. *smirks* Trust me. Blake will be at the dance tomorrow. *walks out of here*
Ruby: What about Y/n?
Y/n is currently walking around until she bumps into Pyrrha
Y/n: *bumps her* Oh, sorry. *sees its Pyrrha* Pyrrha?
Pyrrha: Y/n? We need to talk.
At the library
Blake is typing something until a laser point is taunting her making her angry until she had enough of it. She followed the laser and leads to Yang, calling her attention.
Yang: *sing-song tone* Hello~!
Blake: What are you-?!
Yang: *serious tone* We need to talk.
And she drags her.
JNPR Dorm
Ren just came back from bath and Jaune just grabs his arms.
Jaune: We need to talk.
Ren: Ah!
Ren's Samurai shampoo just spins in the air when he let go of it because Jaune drags him.
Jaune: Ren... I'm just gonna come out and say it. You are one of my best friends. These past few months, I-
Y/n: If you're advising about girls, you could've just ask me.
Just then Y/n enters with Pyrrha on her side.
Jaune: Oh, hi Y/n.
Ren: *assumes* Is Pyrrha your partner?
Y/n & Pyrrha: Pfft *laughs*
Jaune: What?
Y/n & Pyrrha: Nope.
Y/n: I'm not her partner... and you're still thinking about Weiss, just forget it. You already found your partner, Weiss also found one before you.
Jaune: Wait, who?
Y/n: Neptune. Sorry man. While yours is...*whispers to Pyrrha* go ahead, Pyrrha. Just say it. You want him to be your partner now's the time.
Pyrrha: *nods* I... *gets close to Jaune* Can you be my partner?
Jaune: *surprised* wait, you mean...
Pyrrha: *blushes* I... I want to be your partner, please? *gets hug by Jaune*
Jaune: Okay, I'll be your partner, my Spartan teacher.
Pyrrha: *happy* Yeah, and I'll be your partner, Jaune.
Y/n: Uh...
Pyrrha & Jaune: For the dance of course! *tomato face*
Y/n: *chuckles* Anyways, as much as I love to stay here. I'm outta here. *runs away*
Nora: Hey wait. 'I was just gonna ask if he can cook me pancakes'
In a empty classroom. Yang & Blake are talking about Blake's issue. Yang is sitting at the top of the table
Blake: Yang, if you're going to tell me to stop, you may as well just save your breath.
Yang: I don't want you to stop. I want you to slow down.
Blake: We don't have the luxury to slow down.
Yang: It's not a luxury. It's a necessity.
Blake: The necessity is stopping Torchwick.
Yang: And we're going to. *taps the table* But first, you have to sit down and listen to what I have to say.
Blake hesitates but just gives up.
Blake: *sits on the table* Fine.
Yang is telling her and Ruby's story about where they grown up. While she's talking about it. Y/n is just sitting behind a door which it was a little bit opened, listening to the conversation. She then mentioned about Summer and what was like to Yang. Then she talks about the night when Summer was "missing", Tai just in deep thought, and her true mother, Raven. Then talks about the backstory of team STRQ, and Raven in a questionable situation, going dark. Blake asks about Raven's abandonment on Yang.
Blake: Why did she leave you?
Yang: *sigh* That question... Why? *stands on the floor and walks to the chalkboard* I didn't know the answer, but I was determined to find out. It was all I thought about. I would ask anybody I could what they knew about her.
FLASHBACK
Yang (present): Then one day, I found something.
A young Yang can be seen that she found a shattered picture frame. She gets it and surveys it.
Yang (present): What I thought it was a clue that could lead me to answers. Or maybe even my mother.
The next day in the past was kid Yang dragging a red wagon with baby Ruby in it, on the road in winter.
Yang (present): I waited for dad to leave the house, put Ruby in a wagon and headed out.
She keeps going to where it leads the clue she found.
Yang (present): I must've walked for hours. I had cuts & bruises, was totally exhausted. But I wasn't going to let anything stop me.
Then it showed an abandoned damaged shack in the middle of the forest.
Yang (present): When we finally got there, I could barely stand.
Yang (young): *pants, sweat dripping down from her face before she wipes it off with her arm*
Yang (present): But I didn't care. I had made it. And then I saw them. Those burning red eyes.
In the abandoned shack, the crimson glowing eyes of the Grimm is seen by young Yang.
Yang (present): There we were, a toddler asleep in the back of a wagon and a stupid kid, too exhausted to even cry for help.
They lunged towards young Yang and baby Ruby.
Yang (present): we might as well have been served on a silver platter.
Just then they were sliced by a sound of a grunt of a man, and keeps slicing them with his scythe. It was Qrow.
Yang (present): But, as luck would have it, our Uncle showed up just in time. He yelled to us that we must get out of here.
The shadow of Qrow with his scythe yells to Yang and slices another Grimm. The young Yang is running for her life while dragging the wagon.
Yang (present): But those monsters catch up and surrounded us.
But she soon finds herself surrounded with Qrow just got knocked back from his target.
Yang (present): We thought we're done for until another one saved us from death.
Then 3 explosive bullets just landed to the Grimms exploding them into chunks, then multiple shots on the Grimm's heads, then the man reveals himself to be wearing a black coat and jeans, with skull pattern showed on his back, with spiked shoulder pads, and a pattern and has wrapped bandages on his exposed torso, wearing black shoes, holding a case of a violin and a gun to shoot the Grimms. (A/n: Just like the trailer above)
Yang (present): He was menacing yet he saved us, when our Uncle was about to check us another Grimm showed up without even noticing but... this man knows about it, in a blink of an eye, he just shoved the gun in its mouth.
The man shoves the gun inside its mouth, the Grimm is biting it but it was no use and the man speaks.
???: Let my bullets be the nails in your coffin, Grimm. *bang*
Yang (present): He's menacing and scary, yet he saved us.
The Grimm is shot through the head and lies down, dead and disintegrating into nothingness.
Qrow: Are you okay, Yang?
Yang (young): *nods*
Qrow just smiles and looks at the man who saved them.
Qrow: Who are you?
???: You may call me, the Death chanter. I only target the evil, not the innocents.
Then thunder flashes and covers their eyes and they saw the man in black is gone.
Present
Yang: My stubbornness should've gotten us killed that night, if it wasn't for them.
She ends her drawing with Qrow's insignia and the man's face. Y/n remembers it so as Granger who just speak inside his mind.
Granger: {The child still remembers doesn't she?}
Y/n: {From the looks of it, yes.}
Blake: Yang... I'm sorry that happened to you...and I understand what you're trying to tell me, but this is different! I'm not a child, and this isn't just a search for answers, *Yang clenches her right hand* I can't just-!
Yang: I TOLD you, I'm not telling you to stop. I haven't. To this day I still want to know what happened to my mother, and why she left me. But I will never let that search control me. We're going to find the answers we're looking for, Blake. but if we destroy ourselves in the process, then what good are we?
Blake: You don't understand! I'm the only one who can do this!
Yang: No, *glows her eyes red and faces Blake* you don't understand! If Roman Torchwick walked through that door, what would you do?!
Blake: I'd fight him!
Yang: No, you'd lose! *pushes Blake*
Blake: I can stop him! *pushes Yang's right shoulder*
Yang: You can't even stop me! *pushes Blake even more*
Blake feels like she has enough, but Yang just embraces her like a part of her family. Her eyes reverts back to normal and they almost shed a tear.
Yang: *quietly* I'm not asking you to stop. Just please...get some rest. Not just for you. But for the people you care about. *walks away* And if you feel like coming out tomorrow, I'll save you a dance. *walks outside*
When Yang opens the door, Y/n is already gone. Blake just simply sighs about it.
Blake: *sighs*
Before the party, JNPR are getting their party clothes ready.
Pyrrha: Okay, Jaune you ready?
Jaune: *breaths* yep, I'm ready. How about you guys?
Ren: Good to go.
Nora: Nora's ready to twirl around the room.
Ren: Nora, please not too much twirling.
Ballroom
Inside the ballroom everyone is inside, Yang is the attendant for this party, and flips her hair for a better look. The door was suddenly opened and Ruby is the one who enters the room.
Yang: Oh, you look beautiful!
Ruby: Ugh *struggling to walk* Can we have a serious talk about how Weiss fights in these? *struggling to walk properly* Whoa.
Yang: *laughs*
Outside, is Sun with his blue jeans, a shirt and a neck tie is going in to the party.
Sun: Stupid, dumb, neck trap *fixes his tie*
???: I knew you look better in a tie.
Sun looks behind him not believing on who just calls to him. It's Blake in a party dress, looking beautiful and no eye bugs anymore because she takes Yang's advice finally. She hold his arms ands they're walking together.
Sun: So...does this mean we're going together?
Blake: *smirks* Technically. Though my first dance is spoken for.
Inside the ball room everyone is having a dance including Yang & Blake, when the two ladies are finished, Yang let Sun become Blake's next partner. Ruby doesn't have any partner. Weiss is having an elegant time with her partner, Neptune and Neptune switches with another male to let him become Weiss' next partner
Ruby: Stupid lady stits.
Ozpin: Not enjoying yourself?
Ozpin suddenly came behind Ruby, he's carrying his cane.
Ruby: No. Everything's fine. I'm just not much of a dansey, pansey... dancey girl.
Ozpin: well, you can't spend your entire life on the battlefield. Even if you may want to.
Ruby: Yeah, that lesson's been floating around a lot lately.
Ozpin: Hmm, if you think about it, fighting and dancing aren't so different. Two partners interlocked. Heh. Although, one wrong move on the ballroom merely leads to a swollen foot.
Ruby: Or a twisted ankle.
Ozpin: It's not everyday that friends are able to come together like this. Time has a way of testing our bonds. But it's night like these that can help keep them stronger than ever. Nights like these are ones we'll never forget.
Then the doors are opened for next students who came in the ballroom.
Yang: You guys are just in time.
It's Emerald in a olive green dress and Mercury in a black-gold tuxedo suit walks in.
Mercury: Wouldn't miss it for the world.
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