Chapter 71 - 67 - Mountain Glenn (1)

Back at the building, the team has done as instructed, building a fire in the center of the room and huddling around it or standing up.

Yang: "I can't believe we didn't find anything..."

Blake: "We've always been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time. I guess we can't always have luck on our side."

Weiss: "That's not what I meant."

Blake: "Huh? What are you talking about?"

Weiss: "Earlier, about... upholding the legacy. There's more to it than that."

Yang: "Yeah... No, me too. I mean... I don't know."

Blake: "I know what I want to do, but I figured I'd always take things one step at a time. I just wanted to stay with Shallot but I also want to make sure that I can get fair treatment for the Faunus population."

Yang: "Well, it doesn't matter. We know why we're here. Right?"

Weiss and Yang were quiet while Blake wasn't that concerned since Shallot always said worrying about something you can't change isn't something to think about. Only place one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.

Dr. Oobleck suddenly comes rushing into the room.

Oobleck: "Ah, wonderful; a textbook campfire!"

Ruby: "Fire!"

Shallot was tinkering with the device some and placed it outside on top of the building before heading in after Ruby. Shallot grabbed Ruby by her waist pulling her and Zwei by the fireplace and started warming up.

Ruby: "So warm."

Ruby had a blush on her face from being grabbed by Shallot in front of their professor.

Professor Oobleck didn't really didn't care much about students being in a relationship since they are young ȧduŀts and it was only something natural.

Oobleck: "Very good! Eat your dinners and hurry to bed. We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow and we'll need you to take turns keeping watch over our temporary abode. Any volunteers for the first watch?"

Ruby: "Me and Shallot will be up tonight so we will take the night watch."

Oobleck rushes off, and Ruby and Shallot get up to go over to their lookout point.

As Ruby passes Yang, Yang stops her

Yang: "Hey, did Oobleck ask you why you wanted to be a Huntress? I mean... what did you tell him?"

Ruby: "Hmm... No, he didn't. Weird. Oh, well; good night, guys!"

Yang looks disappointed in the lack of an answer. Blake unrolls her mat while taking a bag of Swedish fish out snaking on them before laying down, Weiss tries lying down but fails to sleep, Yang half-heartedly eats her dinner of bread rolls. Soon, all three Huntresses are on their backs around the fire, weapons within easy access, wondering why they are there while Blake already fell asleep.

Ruby, meanwhile, is snuggled together with Shallot in the vacant windowsill of the room as Zwei goes over to her upon hearing the howling of Beowolves. She pets her pooch on the back. While Merlin is laying in Shallot's ŀȧp.

Ruby: "Don't worry. Things will be better tomorrow... Shallot... can we do it again?"

Shallot just smiles before turning towards her telling her she is going to have to be quiet and they won't be able to do it all night since they will need their strength for later.

Ruby's face was blushing and then Merlin seemed to know what was going to happen and lead Zwei away from them.

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The full moon is shining over the ruined buildings of Mountain Glenn, and a lone Beowolf is searching through the rubble. It looks up briefly at the young girl who has it in her red crosshair scope while breathing heavily and panting, but Ruby Rose can't concentrate and just lowers Crescent Rose and yelps slightly while mȯȧning with Shallot behind her pumping his load inside her.

Ruby: "You said that we wouldn't be long."

Shallot: "No one besides your sister has noticed us."

Ruby's face becomes even redder while fixing her clothes

The rest of her team is lying down on their sleeping mats around the fire with weapons nearby, and Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck is higher up, slumped down against the wall next to the hole in the ceiling/floor. The three members of RWBY have their eyes closed, but Yang Xiao Long is the first to stop pretending to sleep while looking in the direction of Shallot and Ruby.

Yang: "Blake, are you awake?"

Blake: "Yeah. It's kind of hard to sleep completely for me when Shallot is up there. I may not be able to see them but I know what they are doing."

Yang: "Yeah, I wanted to ask you something to distract myself from both of them. How can you be fine when another girl is sleeping with him."

Blake: "If you have 8 slices of pizza and you have people you are close to wouldn't you like for them to know how great that pizza is. There are some people on the other hand that you just don't want to share with because they will do nothing but waste it acting as if they enjoy pizza."

Yang: "I don't want to open the bag of pepperoni. What I wanted to ask is why did you become a Huntress? And what was he trying to say?"

Blake: "Maybe he was just curious."

Yang: "You think?"

Blake: "No."

Yang: "Weiss, are you awake?"

Weiss: "Of course I'm awake! You two are talking. And I think he... When I said I wanted to honor my family's name, I meant it. But, it's not what you think. I'm not stupid. I'm fully aware of what my father has done with the Schnee Dust Company. Since he took control, our business has operated in a... moral gray area."

Blake: "That's putting it lightly."

Weiss: "Which is why I feel the need to make things right. If I had taken a job in Atlas, it wouldn't have changed anything. My father was not the start of our name, and I refuse to let him be the end of it."

Blake: "All my life, I fought for what I thought was right. I had a teammate named Adam. More of a mentor, actually. He always ȧssured me that what we were doing would make the world a better place. But of course, his idea of a perfect future turned out to be not perfect for everyone.

I thought of him as a mentor but Shallot told me that a true Mentor will make decisions that will help you not use you. I just didn't want to believe that there were people within the Faunus community that only worked for themselves and that after being suppressed for so long we would have banded together.

I joined the Academy because I knew that Huntsmen and Huntresses were regarded as the noblest warriors in the world. Always fighting for good. But I never really thought past that. When I leave the Academy, I know that I could just live with Shallot but what about the rest of my family and everyone I lived with.

I know that if I asked for the world Shallot would find a way to achieve it because one thing that he is above all else is stubborn. Once he decides something he won't change it."

Yang: "I'm sure you'd figure it out. You're not one to back down from a challenge, Blake and Shallot will most likely be there for you if you just ask him."

Blake: "I don't want to be a burden. He may not see it but if he continues to push himself further along taking care of everything himself he is going to break eventually."

Weiss: "I don't see that happening. He is always cracking jokes and the strongest person I can think of. I don't even think the teachers are enough to give him a challenge. We have gotten more out of his training than we have from our time at the school even though I hate to admit it."

Yang: "He also found another way to become stronger. I don't know how but he just said he figured out how to continuously grow stronger and started laughing out loud. I also think that you are pretty lucky since you have someone you can always count on no matter what. Ruby also seems to be infatuated with Shallot and he seems to really care about her also.

I've just kinda always, gone with the flow, y'know? And that's fine, I mean, that's who I am. But how long can I really do that for? I wanna be a Huntress, not really because I want to be a hero, but because I want the adventure. I want a life where I won't know what tomorrow will bring. And that'll be a good thing. Being a Huntress just happens to line up with that. I'm not like Ruby, she's always wanted to be a Huntress.

Then I heard Shallot's answer which I think is the best way of doing it. He does what he wants and that's that."

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