The Hidden Schnee - RWBY x Fem!Reader - Part 4 - Volume 6
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You didn't intend for Resurgence to get broken. You weren't even completely sure how you kept managing to break your weapons.
You'd managed to take down a Sphinx with Qrow, granting you the ability to summon it but at the cost of Resurgence taking a bullet for you from the train car turrets.
"Kid, you okay?" Qrow asked, his face dropping as he realised you were holding the broken pieces of Resurgence after the train cars had derailed.
"Resurgence took the hit from that stupid turret... I guess I can use the pieces as tonfas? Damn, even the axe blade broke off..." You grumbled, looking over what was once Resurgence before an elderly woman walked off the derailed train cars like it had a fully functioning train had pulled up to the station.
///
You were silent as Ozpin talked, not responding as everyone asked questions.
"Her name, is Jinn, say her name, to summon her." Oscar wheezed, feeling Ozpin trying to prevent him from talking.
"Jinn?"
Ruby's voice was so quiet, it was barely heard. The snow froze in the sky as time became paralysed. The relic glowed bright blue as it flowed through the air, releasing a blue energy before a figure was formed.
"Wonderful! Tell me, what knowledge do you seek?"
///
"I am Jinn, a being created by the God of Light, to aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. I've been graced with the ability to answer three questions every one hundred years. You're in luck, as I'm still able to answer-"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Ozpin shouted, interrupting Jinn.
"Two questions this era. Ah, it's a pleasure to see you again, old man." Jinn smiled, folding her arms.
"Ruby, please, don't."
"Hey..." You, Blake, Yang and Weiss immediately moved to defend Ruby as Qrow spoke.
"Do whatever you think is right, kiddo."
"Jinn. What is Ozpin hiding from us?"
"NO!" That was the last thing you heard as everything went white.
"The hell?" You murmured, glancing around as scenes began to appear.
"Once upon a time, there stood a lone tower..."
"How do I destroy Salem?" Ozpin asked Jinn as she looked down at a previous form of Ozpin.
"You can't."
Your knees landed in the snow, gasping for breath as you processed what you had just been told.
You tensed as you felt a hand pat your head, letting out a sigh as you stood up, giving Maria a nod.
"I think I left half my stuff with Jaune." You admitted, finding your bag in the snow.
"How can you tell?" Blake enquired, watching you pull on a light blue scarf, hiding the emblem on it from view.
"Because I remember throwing my other bag to him when he needed tissues. My ukulele is in this bag though." You explained, leaving Blake to roll her eyes as you revealed the ukulele in your bag.
"C'mon, let's get going, Y/n." Blake replied, gesturing to the trail that Maria had pointed out.
///
Brunswick Farms looked abandoned.
"I don't get it. The empty towns we passed through we all damaged or unfinished. This place looks fine." Ruby stated, reminding you of your travels to Mistral as Team RNJRS.
"Maybe they will left in a hurry? Before things took a turn?" Weiss asked, shivering before you all decided to walk into the house.
"There's something off about this place." You whispered to Ruby, glancing over the family portraits on the wall.
"Let's look for some-" Ruby began, but Weiss' scream had you barrelling up the stairs as Ruby and Blake followed.
Weiss and Yang were on the floor, Weiss gasping for breath as you all arrived in the room.
"They died in their sleep." You stated, approaching the bodies for a moment before backing away. "Let's head back downstairs..."
///
"I'll tell you what, you two keep that fire fed, and I'll find us a story to read before bed." Maria suggested, taking a seat whilst you went to sit on the floor near the fire.
"Works for me. Am I okay to practice my sembalance? I'll make sure they're small?" You asked, gaining a shrug from Oscar as Maria glanced up to spot you summoning a small Sphinx Grimm.
By the time everyone returned, the fire was still going but you had changed options. Instead of practicing your sembalance, you were holding the two pieces of Resurgence in thought.
Ruby woke up to find you sat on the stairs in thought.
"Y/n?"
"I don't like this place. At all." You mumbled before heading outside.
///
"Why is everything acting so... apathetic?" You quietly asked Maria, who instantly looked at you whilst giving you a shrug.
"Y/n, can you help me with the tyre?" Oscar asked, leaving you to nod as the two of you headed towards the shed.
"Figured you could hold up the trailer with your sembalance?" Oscar suggested, leaving you to nod.
"Sounds good, help with endurance I guess." You replied, watching the glyph enlarge before holding up the trailer.
Maria gasping caught your attention.
"Bad scheme?" You were cut off as Maria hurried off.
"The fuck- Oscar, you got this?" You asked, hurrying into the house to find Qrow.
You didn't expect to see a glow from the locked wine cellar door.
"They're locked!" Weiss' voice was muffled as you reached for Resurgence, wincing as you realised your weapon was broken.
You had no weapon to break the lock.
You didn't expect Yang to punch the door through as your summon broke the lock.
"What the-" Yang was cut off as your summoned Grimm disappeared and everyone else ran up from the wine cellar.
"We're back in the house?" Blake began, but before you knew it, you were running outside to find Oscar and the trailer.
///
"The Apathy, they're not strong or ferocious. They drain your will to go on..." You zoned out as Maria explained how the Apathy got to the estate.
"Isn't it obvious girl, I had silver eyes." Maria chuckled, leaving you to glance at her before curling in on yourself.
"I don't think I can look at a farm the same way."
"Y/n. You grew up on the farm your parents live on." Yang deadpanned, leaving you to sigh, your eyes pressed against your head as you thought about your parents.
"Aurora Farms. My father named it after my late grandmother. They set up the farm after they married. My mother's family basically kicked them out of Atlas before I was born. So yeah, I grew up on a farm, where right down the lane, you, Tai and Ruby lived." You chuckled, leaving Blake and Weiss to give you soft smiles.
"Remember when we ice-skated on that lake?" Ruby mentioned, leaving you to grimace.
"I remember falling on my face."
"Wait, why did your mother's family kick your parents from Atlas?" Weiss asked, leaving you to stare at her for a moment before sighing, running a hand over your ears.
"My mother married for love, not for money or to unite two businesses. She married a faunus... my dad, where else do you think I got my ears from?" You chuckled, ignoring how Weiss was staring at you.
"What do you mean, unite two businesses?"
"A story for another time, Maria, you wanted to tell us about silver eyes?" You brushed off Weiss' question, instead looking at Maria as she gave you a knowing look, beginning her story.
The story of the Grimm Reaper.
///
"I went into hiding not long after." Maria ended, her gaze on the road behind to avoid seeing your faces.
"I can't believe it. You, you're the Grimm Reaper. You were a Legend, then you disappeared." Qrow realised, leaving Oscar to frown.
"How does a legend just disappear?"
"You never used your name, never showed your face. Lots of us just thought you were just laying low, but eventually we came to accept that you were probably dead. The stories about you, I based my weapon off of yours. I wanted to be as good as the Grimm Reaper." Qrow reminisced, leaving Maria to sigh.
"Well, I'm nothing but a disappointment, so you're well on your way."
You zoned out after that, staring at photos on your scroll.
"It's comforting, seeing that your generation seems up to the task of inheriting this world. I'm just sorry I didn't do more to leave it in better shape."
You felt Blake lean on your shoulder as you tilted the scroll towards her, ignoring her sad smile as the picture of you and Pyrrha came up.
"Pyrrha knew. She walked in on me in the shower-" You cut yourself off as you heard Ruby's scroll begin to ring.
"It's Jaune! The city? Wait!" Ruby realised, checking her signal before you all looked up, spotting the city of Argus ahead.
"Ladies and gentleman, we have arrived in Argus." Yang smiled, pulling up at the top of the hill as Argus came into view more clearly.
"Thank the gods!" You replied, yawning loud enough that Weiss laughed.
///
"It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be." Yang admitted, glancing around Argus as you all got on the tram.
"It's actually one of the largest non-capital cities in all of Remnant." Ren explained, as the tram led you somewhere.
"So, where have you guys been staying?" Oscar enquired, leading you to raise an eyebrow as Jaune made several noises.
"There you are!"
"Is that-" Blake began, leaving Jaune to just wave at his sister.
"Hey, Saph."
///
"Shut up, there's food!" Ruby exclaimed, shoving a sandwich in Qrow's direction as you sat on the floor with a chuckle and a mouthful of sandwich.
You didn't expect to end up choking on that sandwich as Jaune explained the Argue military base.
"With the CCT system still down, we can't get a call through to Atlas to even tell them we're in Argus anyway." You realised, smiling as Yang passed you a drink.
///
"Weiss, there's something I need to tell you." Yang began, glancing at where you had headed outside into the Cotta-Arc's back garden.
"What's wrong, Yang?"
"I saw Y/n's sembalance back at that estate. She uses Glyphs, like you." Yang explained, nudging Weiss towards the backdoor as a familiar glow appeared as you summoned a small Sphinx, like before.
"She's a Schnee..." Weiss realised, heading out of the door as she watched your Sphinx disappear.
"Y/n, I need to talk to you."
"What about, Weiss?" You tilted your head to the side at Weiss' glare.
"That the fact you're a Schnee and never told me. You have the Schnee sembalance after all. Why didn't you tell me we're related?" Weiss exclaimed, leaving you to step back, glaring at the floor.
"Because I didn't know how, what did you expect me to say? When was I supposed to tell you? Hi, I'm Y/n, I'm your cousin but your dad hates my dad for being a faunus, so he erased my mother from your damn family tree, casting them out to live on Patch!" You exclaimed, your voice getting louder until Weiss put her hand over your mouth.
"You're my cousin?" She whispered, leaving you to nod before you got out your scroll, showing her a family photo of you and your parents.
"Wynona Schnee and Redd Nightshade... my parents, your aunt and uncle." You explained, noticing the look on Weiss' face as she saw your mother's photo.
"I never met aunt Willow, but my mother and yours kept in contact until after your 10th birthday, my mum would send gifts to you, Winter and Whitley at each birthday, she wouldn't tag them but Willow made sure you got them. Until one day the letters stopped coming-"
"Come on you two, we're going to check out the Argus millitary base!" Ruby interrupted, leaving you to quickly close your scroll.
///
"Hmm..." Maria began, leaving Oscar to frown.
"What's wrong?
"Well, I, may know this commanding officer..." Maria replied, her hand under her chin in thought.
"That's good, isn't it? If she's your friend, then maybe she'll be more willing to help us?" Ruby held her arms up in a shrug whilst you just grimaced, glancing at Weiss.
"I wouldn't exactly call us, friends..." Maria replied, putting it lightly.
"Acquaintances?" Weiss frowned, leaving Maria to grimace.
"Not quite.
"Colleagues?" Blake asked in confusion.
"Warmer."
"Enemies?" Yang asked, flexing her fingers as Maria pointed at her.
"That's the one!"
"You bring outside cashews on one flight, and suddenly you're placed on the additional screening list for life!" Maria explained, leaving you to stare at her.
"Cashews?"
"Now, now, let's not give up hope yet. Maybe she's dead?" Maria replied, leaving you to blink in shock.
"Introducing! Special Operative! Caroline Cordovin!"
"Oh no." You whispered, recalling the name as you ducked behind Qrow.
"What?" Qrow whispered, noticing you grasping out to Blake.
"She's one of the reasons my family can't return to Atlas! Discriminatory bit-" You were cut off as the woman came into view.
///
It was in the afternoon after you'd been booted from the military base that Jaune, Nora and Ren had gone upstairs for space.
You didn't expect Weiss to sit down next to you until she was leaning on your shoulder.
"Since when were you two so close?" Blake raised an eyebrow, leaving you to sigh.
"Since I told her my truth... we're cousins."
"Wait, what?" Blake and Yang paused, leaving you to grimace.
"Yep."
///
"Wait, where did Oscar go?" You asked, standing up to look around the ground floor of the house whilst Blake, Yang and Weiss got the others.
"It's Oscar. He's missing."
///
You stayed behind at the Cotta-Arc House to see if Oscar would return, pacing up and down the living room as your scroll ran out of charge in your pocket.
You jumped up as the door opened, revealing Oscar.
"Where'd you go?" You asked, helping him with the paper bags of food.
"Want to help me cook?"
"What are you wearing?" You replied, gaining a playful glare before the two of you walked into the kitchen.
///
You were in the kitchen, charging your scroll when everyone returned.
"Is something cooking?"
"Oh, I thought you guys would appreciate a hot meal after, spending all day looking for me, apparently... I left Y/n watching the casserole." Oscar explained, leaving Terra and Saphron to head into the kitchen to check on you.
"Please tell me you know how to cook casserole? Because it's one of the things we didn't really cook when we trekked across Anima." You explained, leaving the cooking in the hands of Saphron and Terra.
"It's sort of a no-going back idea?" Jaune explained as you stood behind him.
"Well, let's hear it." Ruby replied, a determined look on her face as she turned to face Jaune.
"With Cordo on watch, only Atlas airships have the clearance to leave for Solitas, so we, steal an Atlas airship."
"That's not just breaking the law, that's, definitely worse!" Weiss replied, leaving you to laugh as Adrian made some chuckles.
"I mean, what choices do we have left?" You shrugged, leaving Yang to frown.
"How would we even get onto the air field?"
"Do you think if we got arrested that it would get Ironwood's attention?" You asked, leaving Blake to give you a warning look.
"I just wondered... hypothetically." Your forefingers tapped together as you looked at the floor.
"I want to hear him out." Ruby's voice pierced the silence like Myrtenaster through the air.
You stood with a proud look on your face as Ruby stood up to Qrow.
"And if you think you can keep up with us kids, we'd be glad to have you."
Maria's chuckles caught your attention as you turned your head, ears twitching, "looks like you didn't give her enough credit either."
You grimaced as your stomach rumbling ruined the moment.
"Sorry, but, how long was left on that casserole?"
///
You were zoned out, staring at the ocean as you waited for the Atlas airship to come into view.
You ignored Qrow having a existential crisis as you folded your arms.
"How did you grow up so fast?" Qrow smiled, leaving Ruby to return it.
"I had good role models."
"And she drinks milk." You replied, gaining Ruby's attention as she turned around to stick her tongue out at you.
"Guys. She's not sending fighters." Weiss' voice over the comms had you turning towards the shoreline.
"What the hell is that thing?"
"Is Cordovin, piloting that?"
"Because that's not going to scare the shit out of Argus and bring in the Grimm!" You yelled, loud enough that Weiss heard over the comms.
"Hurry back, Weiss. I need you on the ground if we're going to take this thing down." Ruby instructed over the comms, tapping your shoulder as she realised you didn't technically have a weapon anymore.
"You're joking, right? You want to fight this thing?" Weiss retorted, gripping onto the arms of the co-pilot chair as Maria steered the airship.
"We've fought giant monsters before, this is just a tiny old lady... with one very big robot."
Your eyes widened as Weiss appeared, creating a barrier to shield you all from the ice blast.
"That was close!" Jaune exclaimed, removing his arms from his face.
"They can take my driver's license, but I won't let them take this ship!" Maria declared, leaving you to sweatdrop.
"Rubes, Resurgence is busted but I can use my other skills." You explained, leaving Ruby to nod as you began to run with Nora, Jaune and Ren to get Cordovin's attention.
"Damn!" You exclaimed, spotting Ruby and Weiss ice-skating on the ocean.
"GO!" Jaune shouted, beginning to run whilst you summoned a fully sized Sphinx Grimm, blasting close-range fireballs at the robot.
"What if I hadn't caught you?" Weiss exclaimed, pausing as she spotted you on the Sphinx Grimm.
"I knew you would! Or Y/n would have!" Ruby grinned, waving as you flew past, before you spotted her taking a breath of relief.
You barely spotted Ruby about to fall from the cliff, quickly grabbing her from where she was hanging off by Crescent Rose.
"Nice of you to drop in." You smiled, before it fell, letting out a breath, "I'm glad you didn't die."
"Me too." Ruby replied, giving you a nervous grin.
"No!" Your voice betrayed you as you saw Cordovin's robot throw back the missile Maria had fired.
Ruby gave you a nod as your Sphinx flew the two of you back to the cliffs with the others.
You were staring into space as the team worked out a plan.
"Y/n?" Weiss began, noticing how your ears were twitching.
"Oh no..." You mumbled, panicking.
"Y/n? What's-" Nora paused as she spotted you pointing at something on the horizon, on its way to Argus.
But all of that was forgotten once Jaune pointed out the crashing airship that Oscar and Maria were on.
"Missile launcher springs out, the raw dust gets locked in!"
"Y/n, I'll need your help with this!" Weiss exclaimed, her hand on your shoulder as you nodded, raising your arm to flick glyphs at Ruby to slow her descent.
"Ooof." You mumbled, sitting down on the ground next to Weiss as she gave up.
"You know, I could help you with your glyphs if you wanted..." Weiss suggested, leaving you to smile.
"Yeah, that would be good, also, I noticed back when we were at Beacon, you and Winter are missing a couple of glyphs that my mum taught me." You replied, leaving Weiss to smile.
"That would be nice..."
"Oh gods, we have to tell Winter..." You realised face-palming before your ears twitched again.
"Oh yeah, we have a very large problem on the horizon of Argus... literally!" You pointed to behind Cordovin's robot, the Levithan, Sphinxes, Griffins and Nevermores were on their way to Argus.
Everyone froze as realisation hit. The robot was the only thing that could save Argus... and you all just broke it.
///
"This is your fault! Do you hear me?" Cordovin exclaimed, leaving you to roll your eyes before you heard Yang and Blake returning.
"Was that a giant Grimm?" Yang asked, hearing the Levithan screech.
"Yes. And we just ruined the only thing capable of stopping it." Weiss deadpanned.
///
"Is that Grimm blasting through the hard-light dust shields?" You exclaimed, looking out of the windscreen of the Bullhead.
"It tore straight through..." Oscar realised, leaving everyone to stare in horror at what was happening.
"We can stop it before it hits the next barrier! Ren, you're up!" Ruby organised, leaving Ren to use his sembalance to mask the Bullhead.
"We're too late, pull up!"
"It's on the move again! What do we do?" Blake asked, leaving Ruby to turn to you and Weiss.
"EYES ON US, UGLY!" Nora shouted as she and Yang started firing on the Levithan.
"Is it working?" Blake asked, standing behind the two as Maria steered.
"Unfortunately, yes! Hang on!" Maria exclaimed, leaving you to focus your sembalance on keeping everyone on the Bullhead, on the Bullhead, as Weiss summoned a Queen Lancer for Ruby.
"Wait... doesn't Ruby have the lamp?" You asked, leaving Blake to freeze.
"Oh, crap."
///
You didn't feel time stop as Ruby called Jinn to get more time.
You were frozen instead, using your sembalance to stop your friends from falling out of the Bullhead via gravity glyphs.
It wasn't until time resumed that you all saw the bright light from the silver-eyed warriors wash over Argus.
"She did it... Oh crap! Double crap, Cordovin's back!" You exclaimed, almost slipping out of the Bullhead in the process.
"Let's not fall off, thanks Y/n!" Yang chuckled, holding onto you by the back of your clothes.
///
It was getting dark by the time you were all getting close to Solitas.
"Hey, stop it!" Ruby exclaimed as everyone looked at her.
"You petrified a Levithan, after jumping down the barrel of a cannon!" Ren retorted, leaving Ruby to laugh.
"Don't act like you all haven't done crazy stuff before! I mean, Oscar made a successful crash landing! He's a fourteen year old farm hand!" Ruby exclaimed, pointing at Oscar who blushed at the attention.
"That was seriously impressive." Jaune admitted, smiling at Oscar.
"We'd have been stranded without you." Blake pointed out, leaving you to chuckle.
"Yeah, stranded to the wrath of Cordovin..." Your remark had Weiss elbowing you in the gut, much to your laughter.
"I- thanks but, I've been meaning to tell you guys. I didn't land the ship on my own."
"Ozpin took control?" Nora realised, leaving Oscar to look down at his hands.
"No, he guided me. And then he was gone again." Oscar elaborated, looking down to avoid Yang's frown.
"Does that mean he's been watching us this whole time?"
"I don't know but, it at least means he was looking out for us." Oscar replied with a shrug.
"Hey, if you've never seen Atlas in person before, you don't want to miss this!" Qrow exclaimed, leaving you to stand up, much to your reluctance as you saw the look on Weiss' face.
"Is it weird that I'm sorta nervous?" Ruby admitted, leaving you to pause.
"I feel like, at the rate the relics keep getting unearthed, we're going to end up in Vacuo after this."
"I'll believe we've made it to Atlas when I see it." Yang replied, smiling at Ruby whilst Blake just nodded to what you said.
"Well, believe it." Weiss interrupted, smiling as the clouds began to clear.
"Holy shit." You murmured, gaining looks from some of the others but you just grinned in response.
"You know, you make the trip up to Atlas over and over, but you never get used to that view." Maria replied before her mechanical eyes began to malfunction.
"Weiss, what is it?" Ruby asked, noticing how Weiss had moved forwards to get a better look, the frown on her face scaring you as you gently placed your hand on her shoulder.
Everyone tilted their heads to see what she was looking at.
"The Atlas air fleet. I knew all of our ships were called back, but..." Weiss admitted, leaving Qrow to continue to frown.
"They're set up like they're expecting an attack."
"Manta-5-1, welcome home." The comms activating made you jump enough that you made Nora laugh, leaving you to stick your tongue out at her.
"Uhh... so where do we park? Do we need to go to customs? I don't really know how this all works... I'd never left Patch until going to Beacon, so..."
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