Chapter 26: Well, This Isn't Good

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Chapter 26: Well, This Isn't Good

Days?: Hello Again! part 2

(Vale: Vale City: Unknown Park)

"Hi, Pyrrha has been talking about you since we formed our team." Jaune is the first one to speak to me, as Nora kept on asking Ren if what Pyrrha said true about how good of a [Cook] I am.

"Oh really now." I glance over to Pyrrha, who just smile since she got nothing to hide. "Did she mention anything bad about me?" Time to test if this Jaune is the same Jaune from canon or not.

"Nope, but she has been helping me out with my swordsmanship. I didn't know if Pyrrha tells you this already or not, but I just wanted to say I'm glad to have someone as Pyrrha as my partner, with all the thing she helping me including my combat training. And I'm rambling now aren't I? Uh, I'm going to stop talking now." Jaune looks a bit nervous now that he thinks he made a fool of himself in front of his partner's older brother.

"Really now. Mind if we spar? I want to see how good you are to make my little sister want to train you herself." I said to Jaune, causing both him and Pyrrha to break into a cold sweat while mentally laughing at them. All my [Persona] find this a little amusing; well, some of them in my Sea of Souls think it's amusing.

"Oh! I think Jaune is a bit too busy to spar with you, Em. How about after the festival? Jaune is supposed to help out with the festival, right Jaune?" Pyrrha helps Jaune out by explaining the reasons why he can't spar against me at the moment, which could true or false. Depending on if Jaune is able to find a way to do so.

Jaune quickly caught on what's going on and eagerly nod his head as fast as possible, much to my and [Persona]'s amusement.

"Spar?" Momoyo appears next to us, causing Jaune to jump a little while Ren didn't look like it fazes him one bit that Momoyo appear out of nowhere and Nora keep on talking with Ren in an excited tone.

"Nope! There's no spar!" Pyrrha quickly stop Momoyo, before she literally knocks Jaune's head off his body with just a few punches.

"Aww. Why not?" Momoyo pouts at Pyrrha, since this whole time staying in Vale and so far, it's boring. Too bad, she came a single night late when there was a battle at the Docks.

"Because of just a one or two punches from you. Would send Jaune to the hospital for a month at minimum." Pyrrha said dryly, which made Jaune shiver in fear as he took a few steps away from Momoyo, much to Momoyo's amusement of this site.

"Then why not with me?" I ask Pyrrha, since we know it is true in Momoyo's case, if she ever decided to give a few punches to Jaune to break his aura shield, then a death blow afterward.

"Don't get me started with you, Em." Pyrrha looks at me with a deadpan, "At least with Momoyo, Jaune would be recognized still depending on where Momoyo throws her punch at. You, on the other hand, would tend to bury you enemy's corpse deep below the ground or burn/explode their remain to the point of not being able to identify them."

Once Jaune heard all this, he did what he usually does when something like this appears before him. Which he bravely hides behind Pyrrha as it looks like being near Pyrrha is the safest spot for him to be at the moment, even if Pyrrha's older twin could rip him piece by piece. He sure that Pyrrha's older twin wouldn't dare to hurt Pyrrha's friends; well, that's what he thinks at least.

"So that's a no?" I ask Pyrrha while glaring at Jaune for being too close to my dear little sister, much to my annoyance, and I could tell Jaune knew about my feeling for him at the moment and took a step back away from Pyrrha, but only a single step away just in case.

"No. I'm not letting you kill my partner." Pyrrha said dully, which gave Jaune the relief of staying alive much longer; however, Ren caught something in Pyrrha's answer.

"Wait. Kill? Not destroy or maim? But kill?" Ren asks in an alarming voice, as he stands in front of Nora and looks at me with caution.

"I'm sure Pyrrha just joking around! Right, Pyrrha?!" Nora tried to calm Ren's nerve down, then ask Pyrrha herself if she right or not, with a big smile on her face at the end.

Pyrrha blinks a few times, as her mind reboot itself once she realizes that she reveals one of the secrets about her older twin brother in front of her team of all peoples and also with team RWBY present as well, besides Weiss, who already knew about her older twin personally, as she mentally berate herself for having a random moment of loose mouth.

"Um...I wasn't supposed to say that out loud." Pyrrha mumble to herself, which leads to Nora's big smile to froze in place and Ren's alert went straight up after he heard Pyrrha's mumbling to herself while Jaune looks like he wanted to laugh or cry, maybe both at the same time.

Team RWBY, not including Weiss, are all shocked to find out there a murderer is among them and the fact that it is one of their friends' older brother at that.

Shigure walks over and place her right hand on my left shoulder, then look at everyone, "Not...enemy." This lead to two reactions to everyone in this little gets together.

Those that don't know me that well or the first time meeting me, don't believe Shigure's words while those that do, are rolling their eyes at the previous group that doesn't believe Shigure.

Yang stands in front of Ruby, much to her little sister's annoyance of being protected when she could protect herself.

Blake didn't know what to do at first. Either back up her team by bringing out her weapons or stop them, but decided to think with both her instinct and brain instead of separate like most time. As she chose to not get involved with either side for the moment.

Plus, after cooling off from the action last night finally sink into her stupid brain, that not only she outright shout at the guy, who could easily crush her like a [Tomato] without effort and a person who could take down the White Fang and Roman by himself isn't someone to mess with. What was wrong with her last night? If it wasn't for Weiss and Pyrrha informing her about what kind of a person Pyrrha's brother is. She would gladly go back to last night and smack her past self for doing something so stupid if she had the chance to. Then again, her mind was a mess from revealing herself to be a faunus and a former member of the White Fang as well.

Blake shakes her head, with the urge to slap herself silly once she rethinks about how lucky she alive every second now. Because standing before her is someone she discovers after begging Weiss and Pyrrha, mostly Pyrrha, if her brother is someone with a strong background in Mistral or go by an alias in the lower section of the Mistral Kingdom, to be someone she never thought she would meet in person, ever.

When she learned what it was after swearing to both Weiss and Pyrrha, with everything she held dear and begin to feel like she met death itself before her. Because not even her former partner, mentor, and boyfriend, could ever defeat Pyrrha's brother when the guy just needs a single thought to kill Adam without letting him know.

And that Pyrrha's brother going easy on Adam at that, causing her to have a nightmare last night and barely got any sleep. If it wasn't for Weiss telling her about this little meeting. She would have stayed in bed, even if it means wasting half the day if she could catch up on her sleep. And this little meeting could be the chance for her to personally apologize to Pyrrha's brother for what she did last night, but so far, her current partner is pretty trying to kill all of them, with the conversation leading to an unfortunate outcome.

Sadly, she doesn't have the courage to stop them, without the risk of earning the wrath of Pyrrha's brother after last night.

"Oh, this is going to be good." Izaya whisper to Weiss, who roll her eyes at him and didn't come to defense my case since she knew I could easily take care of myself.

"Calm down, everyone." Momoyo place a fake smile on her face, when she felt the urge to slap the back of Pyrrha's head for revealing this little fact to her and Weiss' new friends/teammates. Pyrrha should be glad that she didn't reveal about being part of a criminal group at least.

"I think calming down is our least worry when we should be taking him down and lock him in a prison cell. Sorry, Pyrrha, but your older brother is a killer and they need to be put behind bars." Yang scowls while giving Pyrrha an apologize look for a few seconds, then back to glaring at me, with her shotgun gauntlets activated from standby mode.

"They do realize this is Enma Nikos. They're talking about right? The one who would destroy anything that hurt his little sister or fiancee, with those two at the primary of priority while the rest of us are secondary?" Izaya whisper to Weiss, who let out a tired sigh.

Weiss knew this was going to happen and a reason why she wanted her friend's older brother to come with them. This way they could save all those times in Beacon Academy to get their teams to know Enma Nikos better, when he isn't just one of the killers among the rest.

"I should stop them before this could get ugly. And for them instead of Enma." Weiss whisper back, then follow up her words and quickly get in between her team and Pyrrha's older brother.

"Okay, enough! Do you think if he was truly bad. Would you still be standing right now and speaking nonsense?!" Weiss shout at her team, mostly at Yang than Blake and Ruby. She didn't need to say anything to Pyrrha's team members since Pyrrha got that covered.

"Weiss! You can't be serious! I know he Pyrrha's brother, but he a killer still and it is our job to send these guys to jail!" Yang shouts back, as Ruby didn't know which side she should take. One: Is backing up Yang since it's kind of true that they should put criminals behind bars. Two: This is her partner that took lots of effort to be friend with after the first month team RWBY formed. And look like Weiss really treat her close friends really well and she didn't want to be from friend to plain old someone that is partnering with for the rest of their years in Beacon Academy.

"Did you guys forget about Blake?" Weiss pointed out, causing Yang to pause and with a split second to glance at her partner, who flinch at being assumed to be at the same level as a murderer. As any cases, there is a chance of that being a yes or no, depending on the time Blake stayed in the White Fang. Plus, look a bit pale at the moment and lead to having Yang misunderstood a few things because of this.

"Hey! That's different!" Yang quickly back up her partner, who is grateful for having a trusting partner, even having to deal with Yang's bad puns and the same person that pretty much leading their deaths with the way she wants to take down Pyrrha's brother at the moment, which is her reason for being so pale than her usual skin color. Because she really wishes she could knock Yang unconscious, to stop this madness.

"Pretty sure the White Fang's assassins beg to differ when they tried to kill me multiple times." Weiss said dryly, reminding everyone about the bad blood between the Schnee family and the White Fang once more.

Plus, the fact that having to deal with Walter after the party being raided by the White Fang on the first meeting between her and Izaya tend to her view of the world to expand and gaining knowledge about her fiance's criminal group as well, pretty much help too.

"I'm sure Blake was in a different part of the White Fang. It doesn't mean all the White Fang are murderers." Yang quickly made a comeback before she loses this battle.

Weiss raises an eyebrow at Blake's direction as if she asks what Yang said is true or not. Which Blake nod at everyone, even if some of us has doubts.

"Not that I have anything against Blake for being a murderer, seeing how I got a friend who is one. So could you people give it a rest? I know Enma for years now and he isn't like the other common murderers." Weiss explains to her team and Pyrrha's slowly to make sure they could understand her clearly.

"Like Weiss said. My brother isn't evil or something." Pyrrha agree with Weiss while continuing to mentally berate herself for revealing the status of her brother as a murderer, even if she has a small part of being self blame since she knew the real reason why he murder people in cold blood.

"Pyrrha. You may trust your brother, but not everyone is willing to risk their lives by being near a killer just by one person's word alone." Ren said to Pyrrha, as he slowly pushes Nora a few steps back to give them space in case a fight takes place.

"Who said anything about just a single person's words? Besides Shigure and Pyrrha, there's us as well." Momoyo snort at Ren, as she stands next to me, with Izaya doing the same by standing next to Shigure's left side since she already took my left side and Momoyo took the right before he could.

"I'm guessing the rest of you are murderers as well, then?" Ren asks us in a serious voice, with a hint of steel in them as he slowly enters his fighting stance.

"Does breaking someone's bones repeatedly and destroy their future career count? If not, nope, I'm not a murderer." Momoyo replied in a casual tone, but anyone tells she is getting annoyed by Weiss and Pyrrha's teams a little.

Shigure looks away while Izaya just stays silent with a grin on his face, as they didn't respond to Ren's question, but their silences is an answer itself.

"No, but that doesn't change the fact that those 3 are murderers from the look of it and we need to put them in jail now before they could go kill another living being." Yang growl and look ready to launch herself at us, with the intent to beat more than a bone or two.

"Maybe we should talk about this first? I mean, sure he a murderer, but couldn't there be a reason for being one?" Ruby nervously spoke out to everyone, since one of her lessons from her Uncle Qrow is to never judge a book by its cover, no matter how much she wanted to and now it's time for her to use that lesson.

"Yeah, I agree with Ruby! Maybe we should get them to make some [Pancake] as a peace offering?! I pick the one who shall be the first one to try all new kinds of [Pancake]!" Nora shouts in excitement and ignores the part where Shigure, Izaya, and I are murderers as her mindset mainly focuses on the differences between mine and Ren's handmade [Pancake].

"Nora." Ren let out a tired sigh and just for a few seconds to relax his fighting stance before he got it back up, "I don't think it's time for [Pancake] at the moment."

Nora laugh out loud as she slaps Ren's back and sends him crashing to the ground, "Oh silly, Ren! There's always time for [Pancake]! [Pancake] make everything good! And since Pyrrha's brother know how to make [Pancake], then he must be a good murderer!" Nora explains her logic to Ren while revealing that she just wanted [Pancake] made by Pyrrha's brother, who was told by Pyrrha herself that the [Pancake] made by her brother is better than Ren's and wanted to proof of this by eating one.

Ren let out a groan before he got back up and pat himself to get rid of the dirt off him.

"Enough! If you guys don't stop trying to threaten my brother by capturing and thrown into a jail cell! Then I shall become your enemy!" Pyrrha draws out her [Milo and Akouo], as she got into her fighting stance, causing those that wanted to capture her brother and friends, to stop in their tracks.

"Same with me." Weiss said in a cold tone, as she draws out her [Myrtenaster] and took her stance, with her [Multi-Action Dust Rapier]'s tip pointing at her very own team members, much to their shocks.

"Weiss! What's wrong with you?!" Yang shouts at Weiss, with a shocked expression, same with both Blake and Ruby, as they thought Weiss would be the main one, who would demand my arrest.

Then again, almost everyone that knows a bit about Weiss' reputation of hating the White Fang, faunus, and murderers. Well, that's what the public knows about Weiss making her cover stories in the case of someone trying to make a few theories between her and a criminal group.

But, maybe Weiss and Pyrrha's team are a little shock from learning about 3 murderers walking in broad daylight without a care and their minds may have kept on ignoring the facts that Weiss knows we're killers and are friends with as well.

"What's wrong with me? How about the fact that you threaten my friends and most important of all, my fiance?" Weiss fired back her own questions with a deadly cold look.

"Wait, what?" Ren asks in a surprised voice, as he pauses for a moment to look at Weiss, with widening eyes to show how shocked he is at the moment while Nora let out a squeal.

"Who is it?! Who is it?! WHO IS IT WEISS?!" Nora appear next to Weiss and started shaking her, "Let me be the bridesmaid! Come on?! Please?! Please?! I swear I will be good and won't mess with you for a month...actually make it a day!"

Weiss' eye started to twitch and had the urge to stab Nora with her [Rapier], but decided it would be a bad idea at the moment, even when she desires to do so.

"Wait, so Izaya is Weiss' fiance?" Ruby asks a little confused, since she thought Weiss' fiance was still back home and Izaya was just another friend of Weiss.

Weiss stops Nora from continuing to shake her while she sighs at Ruby's question, "Yes. Ruby. Izaya is my fiance. And Nora, I will let you be my bridesmaid if you could stop Ren from attacking my fiance, Shigure, and Enma."

Nora disappears from Weiss' side and hugs Ren from behind, much to Ren's annoyance since he knew when he lost a battle and he can't bribe Nora with [Pancake], when there another person in the area, that would gladly make her [Pancake].

"Okay. I'll stop, if and I mean by a big IF, that Pyrrha's brother and the other two are to be kept an eye on for their further stay in Vale." Ren said to Pyrrha and Weiss, as they both nods at him in agreement, but he couldn't get much out of this when Weiss got Nora on her side.

"So why are you so eager to attack my brother? Look at Ruby, she doesn't look like she about to attack him, even if she a little freak out." Pyrrha looks at Yang, with furrow her eyebrows.

"Let's just say there something in the past that made me not trust a murderer." Yang growl and took a step closer to my group.

"And I think you need to learn that not everyone is the same." Momoyo took a step closer to Yang, as she cracks her knuckles and smile filled with the urge to face Yang.

Shigure looks at Blake, then pull a familiar book from behind her and to Blake's horror. As she knew what the book is and knew it belongs to her when she searches her body for it but discover the book she was looking for is no longer on her person, causing her to freak out on when did Shigure manage to grab it without her notices.

"Are...you...going...to stop?" Shigure asks Blake, as she took out a small bottle of [Powdered Fire Dust] and uncap it, as she position it above Blake's book: The Ninjas of Love, with the intent to burn it.

"NO!" Blake shriek, causing almost everyone to jump, then realize what she just did and cough in her hand, "I mean, please don't burn my book. I promise I won't help them try to capture your friend."

Yang look at her partner with a betrayal look, for just a single book over the priority of catching a murderer.

"It's a limited edition." Blake whispers to Yang, as she kept her eyes on the book in Shigure's right hand and didn't move a single step, with the high risk of losing her precious book, which is being held hostage.

"Come on, Yang. Enough, remember Uncle Qrow and Dad's lessons!" Ruby shout in a whisper voice, as looks at us more nervous now because of her older sister.

"What did Uncle Qrow and Dad's lessons have to do with anything in our current situation?" Yang looks back at her little sister while still kept her guard up.

"Okay, I think we'll just leave and see you later." I said to everyone. Right before anyone could respond, I disappear in a burst of speed, leaving Shigure, Momoyo, and Izaya behind. As Shigure still threatens to destroy Blake's limited edition book if she tries anything funny.

"Same with me. I'm going to let you guys cool off and what not." Izaya agrees with me to leave the area, as he uses his semblance to make him vanish in plain sight.

Momoyo snorts at everyone and follow after me, which I'm heading back to the Hotel we're staying at. And follow my example by disappearing in a burst of speed.

Ruby, who saw two people that look like their's semblance could be speed based like hers, but she doesn't know if it's true or not.

Shigure glance at the empty spots that used to be where her friends and fiance was standing, then back at Pyrrha and Weiss, and then at their team members.

"Bye." Shigure said her farewell to Pyrrha and Weiss, then disappear. A second later, Blake let out a wail at the loss of her precious book, which is still 'borrow' by Shigure at the moment. At this very moment, Blake had decided to never ever mess with Pyrrha's brother and his fiance ever again, even with her life on the line.

3 hours later*

(Vale: Vale City: Unknown Hotel: Unknown Room)

After 3 hours for both Pyrrha and Weiss to inform their teams about us, not all the details, but enough to get them to understand they don't need to worry about their safety or the civilians among us.

Afterward, Pyrrha and Weiss called both Izaya and me about the conversation with their teams and got them to promise not to try to capture us or set up a trap or anything.

Now, that is over, where they bring over our Hotel's Room to apologize to us, which took a bit effort on Izaya compared to the rest of us, since we got used to it and Izaya just wanted to make it a little harder on them because he wanted some fun to relieve his boredom.

"Sorry, okay? I had a little rough experience with murderers back in Signal Academy." Yang rubs the back of her head, as she tells her story about there was an incident during one of her 4 years in Signal Academy's field trips went wrong and a criminal hid in one of the places they went for their field trips to experience the wildness and the killer ambushes them. Which leads to multiple injuries on her fellow classmates and only reason none of them die was that her teacher was with them to take the criminal down, but had a bit of a hard time to do when the criminal kept on trying to attack the students while running away from her teacher for a few minutes or so.

"I guess anytime I see a criminal I would remember that memory of mine and dread what would happen if Ruby was with me, along the rest of my class at that time. I wouldn't forgive myself." Yang mumbles to everyone, as she lowered her head when she remembers another bad memory, where she got Ruby and herself in danger during the time she searches for her real Mother and only thanks to her Uncle Qrow, for saving them from the Grimm.

Ren raise an eyebrow when he notices some of us are looking at him and Jaune, who look at us a bit of doubt but trusting us not to attack him because of Pyrrha and Weiss.

"What? Did you think I would continue my plan to arrest you guys when I got more than half our sides that won't lift a finger to help me." Ren responded in a flat tone, "Plus, there Nora." As if this is a whole answer itself, which in some case it could be and one of them is this one.

"Also, none of us could take on Pyrrha's brother." Blake begins her answer, but started to sweat when she notice Pyrrha glaring at her, "So-orry, I mean Enma, who could easily take us down if he wanted to. Ask Ruby, since she was with me last night and saw how it goes."

Ruby quickly nods her head, "Yeah, and he took down a few Bullheads by himself and I think he used [Gravity Dust], maybe a semblance or something?" Ruby turns her head in my direction, with a pleading look to see if she right or not about the usage of [Gravity Dust] or using my so called semblance.

"No comment" I smirk at Ruby, who pouts and mumble to herself on how unfair I am. Like I was going to give out all my secrets to be used against me later in the future.

"So are we good? Because I'm getting hungry right now and we missed lunch by the way." Jaune asks everyone since he really wants to eat something right now when he missed breakfast this morning too, making it much harder on him than the rest of his friends, who ate breakfast without him.

"I vote Enma to [Cook]!" Pyrrha quickly gives her vote before anyone could, much to Jaune and Ren surprises, and happily to change the topic away from the previous one. Ruby, Blake, and Yang agreed to Pyrrha's vote since they were informed about Pyrrha's brother is a great chef by their team member: Weiss.

"Are we sure that letting a murderer [Cook] something for us?" Jaune whisper to his only male teammate, who just look at Jaune deadpan expression for asking a stupid question when he already knows the answer to it.

'Now, they are just using me for my cooking. Well, better than having to face them in a fight and lead to more problems.' I thought to myself, where I notice Blake and Yang kept their eyes on me before they went back to talking with the others.

few hours later*

(Vale: Vale City: Unknown Hotel: Roof)

After both RBY and JNR apologize to my group, even if it's half hearted, not like I could blame them when both Pyrrha and Weiss pretty much force them to. Well, in Blake's case, she personally, with complete sincerity, apologizes me on how bad her behavior towards me yesterday was out of line for her. And asked me for anything to make up for it.

Which I find amusing when she keeps on shaking in fear like a fright kitten before me, but I didn't want to push it too much, since Blake is Weiss' team member/friend, I think. No matter how much little pride I have that demand me to give Blake a few hits for demanding something from me when she doesn't even know me that well or knowing me through my alias back in the Mistral Kingdom's lower section.

I made sure to tell Blake to not mind it, since I dealt with it in the past already, which kinda wasn't my best choice of words when I said the word: Dealt, to Blake, who completely misunderstood my meaning; well, half misunderstood.

It took me a few minutes to calm her down and carefully explain to her what I meant by dealt with people that acted like she did before me yesterday while pointing out the differences with herself and the others. One of them is Weiss, who would clearly get back at me in the worst possible way: My Money.

Luckily, none of her team and Pyrrha's didn't check on at the time to see if we're doing alright. After Blake finish apologizing to me and look at me, with fearful eyes that glance at the door back into my group's room we staying, for a split second.

I rolled my eyes at her and told her we could go back in, much to her relief and excitement once I made dinner, where I included some fish dishes because Shigure messages me before dinner that she craving for fish. I didn't know why at the time, but I didn't ask Shigure's reasons when all I would get is her blankly staring at me until I go away.

After dinner and cleaning up, with both team RWBY and JNPR heading back to Beacon Academy while giving their thanks for having them over for dinner, even when I could have ordered room service instead of allowing to taste my cooking.

Afterward, I head to the roof to do my daily moon gazing as it made me feel calm for some reason.

Looking at the broken moon in the night sky as the cool breeze blow gently across my body. While I enjoy my moon glazing. There's an unknown swirling red portal appear behind me, but I didn't need to turn around to find out why there is one.

A woman steps out of the swirling red portal and afterward, it disappears.

Finally, I turn my head to glance at the woman, who wearing a shallow cut black dress, five necklaces with an assortment of beads, a red girdle-belt, and a pair of matching gauntlets. An object that looks to be made from feathers hangs from the right of her skirt. She also wears detached black leggings with a red splatter pattern and black leather boots beneath them.

This is Raven Branwen, the birth Mother of Yang Xiao-Long, who carefully walk towards me with a good grip on her [Sword]'s hilt, ready to be drawn out of its scabbard.

For a few more seconds of silence staring at each other in the eyes, as Raven continues to walk towards me. I didn't say anything about the lack of mask she usually wears when I see her, then I turn back to stare at the broken moon.

"Why have you decided now of all time to come to Vale? And don't even try to make an excuse about how you wanted to stay with your sister. I know the kind of person you are and there's something here in Vale, isn't it?" Raven is the first one to speak between the two of us, as she stops right behind me and glare at the back of my head.

"Is it so bad that I wanted to spend more time with my little sister?" I didn't answer her question with an answer she liked, causing her to growl at me.

Raven didn't say anything for a few minutes, "You leave my daughter alone. The rest I don't care about, but you're not allowed to go after her for whatever plans you doing here in the Vale Kingdom. I swear if Yang is involved, you will have to deal with me."

I continue to stare at the broken moon, "And what if I said; my so called plan doesn't include anyone on team RWBY and JNPR?"

"How do I know you're not speaking the whole truth? You've always spoken with half truth, most of the time." Raven didn't fully believe me one bit at all.

"Oh come on, Raven. How long had we known each other? Where the trust?" I ask Raven, as I stand up and made Raven tense from my action.

"There's no trust between us. Not what you did to one of my tribe's members." Raven said in a cold voice and was this close to attacking me.

"We both know that the fault belongs to your side, not mine." I replied back with the same cold voice and Raven could tell that she close to crossing a line that not suppose to be crossed.

"Just leave my daughter alone and we won't have any problem." Raven walks away, as she draws out her [Sword] to create a swirling red portal, which leads to somewhere.

Once I sense Raven is truly gone, I let out a sigh of relief of not having to take on Raven. Even with all the amount of training I have gone through, along with adapting the experiences belong to my [Persona] via dream experience.

I know for sure there a likely chance of me taking down Raven with ease when I barely know her full combat ability. Not including that red portal ability of hers, I have no clue if that is Raven's semblance or not, but I'm not that 100% sure it is and won't underestimate her just because I have [Persona System].

"You can come out now." I called out towards the people hiding in the shadow while the small meeting between Raven and me.

From the shadow, Shigure came out and walk over to me as she stands next to me, then glance at the broken moon before she looks at me.

"How...long...do...you think...we have...left...before...the storm...come?" Shigure asks me, as she looks at me with calm gentle eyes.

"Maybe a week from now or months." I replied, but I know when it will happen, just not the exact date when the Vytal Festival Tournament start.

"Hmm." Shigure took a few steps closer to me and hug my left arm, then lay her head on my shoulder.

"We'll be ready for when it happens." I said to Shigure, then start walking along with Shigure back inside as it is time for us to sleep and ready for the next day.

few days later*

Days?: Oh crap...

(Vale: Vale City: Beacon Academy: Campus: Library)

I started to doze off while we're in the Library and I suppose to be researching about other stuff that could help us by using the Beacon Academy's Library that contains knowledge only belong to this very Library.

Sadly, reading multiple stuff that doesn't interest me kind of bored me to the point of falling asleep. This lead to Shigure having to wake me more than once. Luckily, Shigure doesn't mind one bit at all since she been doing this countless times over the years by breaking me from my monologue to the point of knowing when I'm not paying attention through instinct alone.

"What are you reading, Pyr?" I ask my sister, who pick up Jaune's comic after giving Jaune a textbook to read instead.

"A comic." Pyrrha replied, but didn't answer further since she don't know much about the comic her partner was reading a few seconds ago.

"I thought this was a school to study for becoming a Hunter?" I ask Pyrrha, who just shrug at me, but didn't leave her eyes off the comic when she got more into it.

I glance up and see a Nevermore player piece is tossed over Jaune's shoulder, then another piece is thrown and bounces off his head, causing him to glance over team RWBY's table, where they are playing Remnant: The Game.

Jaune glance at Pyrrha, who is paying more attention to the stolen comic she took from him and then, look at team RWBY as they continue to play their cardboard game.

I roll my eyes at Jaune, then glance over the Library where I could see Izaya searching through all the books that contain anything interest for him.

Momoyo decided not to come to a boring place like the Library and head off to the Gym instead of coming with us to Beacon Academy. It has been around an hour or two, and I don't know if Momoyo still at the Gym or not.

I pay little attention over to team RWBY after Jaune got up and head over, to see if he could play with them, even when it suppose to be study time for him.

"Why not? You've trusted me with way more important stuff before. I mean, you told us all that Blake is secretly a fa-" Jaune begin to explain that he could be trusted to play in Weiss' place, but almost end up spilling Blake's secret to anyone around the area listening on them.

Luckily, Pyrrha darts over and slaps a hand over Jaune's mouth and continue off for him, "Fun-loving person, whom we all admire and respect."

I could tell Pyrrha is getting a bit of annoyed by Jaune's action, but patience is one of Pyrrha's strong points and didn't outright attack Jaune, for making up problems for people. Instead, she is going to put extra effort into Jaune's training later tonight.

With a sense of foreboding after looking at Pyrrha's scary smile. Jaune begins to laugh nervously while shaking a little. And Pyrrha stops Jaune from speaking after she is sure he won't reveal anything important.

I see team RWBY, along with Pyrrha and Jaune looks nervously at Blake, who looks obviously annoyed that her secret is almost revealed to the whole Library.

After all, that I stop listening to their conversations. Looking over to Shigure and see what is she reading at the moment.

From what Shigure told me a while ago about what she wanted to read on a few subjects, that could be inside the Beacon Academy's Library. I could probably guess it's one of the subjects she researching in finding any unknown types of [Herb] growing around the Vale Kingdom she doesn't know yet, since we're staying here for a while.

Looking back at the side, where team RWBY are and discover what little time I stop observing them. Izaya, Sun, and Neptune are standing with Pyrrha and Jaune.

From what little information provides before me, with Izaya staring at the nervous Neptune and Sun trying to solve what kind of problem between those two.

'Now, I wish I had tagged along with Momoyo to the Gym. At least there, I could move my body instead of wasting precious time looking at random books. Then again, many scholars would gladly come to Beacon Academy for its Library alone.' I thought a little tired, as I stand up from my seat and stretch my stiff muscles.

"I'll see you back at the Hotel." I said to Shigure, who silently nod at me and not once take her eyes off the book she currently reading.

I ignore the conversation over at team RWBY and head outside of the Library.

few hours later*

(Vale: Vale City: From Dust Till Dawn)

"Thank you for coming. I hope you come again." The old man said his farewell to me after I made my purchases. Then, I head out of the store with my purchased [Item] inside a plastic bag.

(Vale: Vale City)

'Man, I just keep on see this old man almost everywhere.' I feel a little disturbing how I kept on seeing the old man in many stores.

Beep~* Beep~* Pick up the damn scroll!* Beep~* Beep~*

'Never gets old.' I pull out my scroll and see it's Momoyo who is calling, then answer it with a fake cheerful voice, "Hello~! This is the Candy Store! How many I help you~?"

"Why do you keep on saying that every time someone calls you?" Momoyo asks me, with an irritated voice.

"I just feel like it." I smirk at Momoyo, even when she can't see it, but with Momoyo's intuition, she could sense the smirk on my face with ease now.

"Anyway, why did you call me?" I ask Momoyo, as I continue my walk back to the Hotel I'm staying at with my group for a while until we're needed back in Mistral.

"Remember how you asked all of us to notify you about some strange things happen around us? Well, I'm seeing coffins around me and I'm in some weird place that's similar to the street I'm walking in just a few seconds ago. And now, everything looks like sickly green color, while bodies of water turned into crimson like blood. I don't know if it's real blood. I tried calling the others before I called you, but for some reason, I can't contact them at all and you're the first one to pick up. Plus, I just remember how you asked us to notify you anything strange, even by our world's standard." Momoyo explains her situation as much as possible.

'Okay, now of all time. [Dark Hour] begin to appear? Also, if [Dark Hour] is happening. Why do I see people around me, that are not in coffins? What's with that?' I thought to myself, as I begin to get confused about how at Momoyo's location is where the [Dark Hour] is occurring at.

Ding*

Host, a [Quest] is issued for you to destroy all the [Shadow] within the selected area, where [Dark Hour] is occurring at the moment. Please purchase [Dark Hour: Ticket] in order to enter the [Dark Hour]'s field. Before it disappears afterward.

"Hey, Enma! You there? Don't tell me I'm disconnected!" Momoyo shouts at me, breaking me from reading over the notification appears within my mind.

"Yeah, I'm here. Just hide somewhere, and if you see anything that looks like a grimm, but different color mask or different shape. Do not. I repeat, do not fight them or let them see you." I begin to explain Momoyo what she needed to do and hope I could reach the last place Momoyo was at before she enters [Dark Hour].

"And why do I have to do that? Are you calling me weak?" Momoyo growl at me, as I purchase the [Dark Hour: Ticket], which cost me [100 System Point]. Pretty cheap to me, then again, I have to repurchase every single time after entering [Dark Hour]. Since it's a single use [Item].

[Item Type]: [Ticket]

[Name]: [Dark Hour: Ticket]

Durability: N/A

Quality: N/A

Grade: N/A

Value: 100 System Point

Description: A unique [Item] that is provided only by the [Persona System], where anyone that hold this [Dark Hour: Ticket] could enter the field, where [Dark Hour] is occurring. Upon entering the [Dark Hour] while holding onto this [Item] will automatically send the holder into [Dark Hour] and will stay within [Dark Hour] until the duration of the time over [Dark Hour] is over. As there is varies duration of the [Dark Hour] happen in different areas.

"Nope. Just letting you know there some hidden enemy that the world doesn't know about. Just trust me on this, alright?" I said to Momoyo in a serious tone, causing Momoyo to go quiet for a few seconds until she agreed to my demands of her not fighting a [Shadow] of all things.

"Okay, tell me where the last place you were at." I ask Momoyo to inform me the last spot she was at and just hope the place where [Dark Hour] is happening. That the field of [Dark Hour] isn't that large, because it's going to take me a long time to destroy all the [Shadow].

"Uh, I was heading towards the store: A Simple Wok, to grab something quick to eat, now I'm hiding inside a Dance Club. You better hurry because I hear some noise outside near the area." Momoyo answers me, as she tells me to hurry up because from the look of it. A [Shadow] is close by to Momoyo's current location.

"Alright, just keep hiding and don't fight whatever comes within your sight. I'll be right there." I said to Momoyo while running towards the Momoyo's previous location before entering [Dark Hour].