《The Awakened One, Book 1: Remnant》Chapter 40: Who Am I?
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The woman that stood tall at 5’ 9’’ in front of (Y/N) was beautiful, and she had most of the same traits as her mother and sister, repping the signature Schnee pure white, fair skin and perfect white hair that had not a single strand out of place. She had deep, slate blue eyes to go hand in hand with her soft features, but unlike her sister, she had incredible sharp eyes even when she wasn’t glaring like she was now. Her lips were the same as her sister and mother, promoting the sleek, thin pinkness that they had that emphasized softness over thickness. As mentioned before, her hair was perfectly tied back in a large bun that stood high on the left side of the back of her head, and in the front the rest of her hair hung with bangs that flowed along the rights side of her face and curled up towards its edge. She wore a long sleeved, white coat with a dark blue clasp around the center waist holding it shut, but her large bust still stuck out from its opening, and the collar of the coat was held together by a red, jeweled brooch. The length of the coat was long, as it went down to her ankles, and the sleeves of it were split from shoulder to elbow, revealing her long, smooth, bare arms. Underneath the coat, she wore a dark blue waistcoat with silver buttons going down its center, tightly holding her bust back from its true size. On her legs she wore a pair of white trousers that clung tightly to her legs and dark blue garters that lined her long leg. On her feet she had on a pair of long, gray thigh high boots that had black detailing and designs at knee length.
“Well, I guess now is as good a time as any, observe” (Y/N) thought as he looked at the woman.
Name: Winter Schnee
Age: 25
Race: Human
Titles: Former Heiress of the Schnee Family, Ironwoods Top Fighter, The Huntress of Atlas
LVL: 221
HP: 14400/14400
AU: 23810/23810, (+667)
Attributes:
STR; 1327, (+199)
END; 1333, (+133)
DEX; 1341, (+201)
VIT; 670
INT; 1783, (+357)
LUK; 226
*Glyphs (Semblance)*- This is the hereditary Semblance of the Schnee Family, and it is one of the most powerful, unique, and diverse abilities in all of Remnant. Simply put, this Semblance does to much shit to describe here. It speeds up, slows down, traps, shields, manipulates time, powers up, and of course, Summon foes that they have defeated in battle.
‘Never-Green and Forever-Frost’- These are the Signature weapon of Winter Schnee, and it is essentially two blades combined into one that can easily be separated into two high functioning, high Dust utility, and highly sturdy weapons. These weapons are very light weight but durable and powerful, allowing for Winter to dish out powerful strikes, but also move around incredibly fast, and swing just as quick. Using this in combination with her versatile Semblance makes her a pain to deal with on the battlefield, and an asset to all her allies; +20% INT, +15% STR, +15% DEX, +10% END
“Yeah, I could easily fuck her up if I wanted to” he thought as he stared her down. “But how did Neo block that strike? Anyway, what about Weiss though, I never really got a chance to check her out, Observe” as soon as he said the word, the pretty girls status was quickly transferred into his mind as if he already had it waiting in his brain, but now before he took a closer look at the cute, surprised girl.
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The woman looked much the same as her sister and mother with soft pale skin and gorgeous, flawless long white hair, but she did have a very subtle vertical scar that ran over her over her left eye and face. Weiss wore a short, thigh length, strapless dress that gradually shifted from a valiant white, to pale but noble blue at the hem, and the beautiful dress had gorgeous white tulle underneath its skirt, revealing the lacey, snowflake like designs at its bottom most length. The arm length of the woman’s dress completely covered the girls arms, gradually opening up at the edges to grant her wrists lots of extra movement options. On her legs she wore short white boots with wedged heels and were higher at the back than in the front.
Name:Weiss Schnee
Age: 19
Race: Human
Titles: Heiress of the Schnee Family, Schnee’s Princess,
LVL: 44
HP: 2900/2900
AU: 3905/3905, (+92)
Attributes:
STR; 45
END; 183, (+18)
DEX; 191, (+29)
VIT; 95,
INT; 367, (+73)
LUK; 49
*Glyphs (Semblance)*- This is the hereditary Semblance of the Schnee Family, and it is one of the most powerful, unique, and diverse abilities in all of Remnant. Simply put, this Semblance does to much shit to describe here. It speeds up, slows down, traps, shields, manipulates time, powers up, and of course, Summon foes that they have defeated in battle.
‘Myrtenaster’- This is the Signature weapon of Weiss Schnee, and it is classified as a Multi-Action Dust Rapier, which essentially means that it is a Rapier with high Dust utilities for both storage and dispensary. Due it being used heavily in combination with Dust, the amount of versatility that this weapon has is amazing, and in combination with Weiss’s Semblance she is essentially unpredictably powerful on the battlefield; +20% INT, +15% DEX, +10% END
“Yeah, that is about expected, but I didn’t think that she’d be this frail” he thought as Winter prepared to take another strike at him.
However, before she could take another stab at him, a familiar voice calmed her down, “Winter Schnee put your weapon down now!” Well, maybe calmed her down was the wrong choice of words, but the demand the was made by the woman’s mother was certainly enough to grab her attention.
Winter turned her attention to her family who was sitting comfortably in the chairs nearest to the unmasked Devil and his Mistress. “But Mother,” she began to speak, “he is planning on killing you, and you as well Weiss. I promised father, no myself, that I wouldn’t let that happen!” Winter got back into her fighting stance, holding her blade in such a way to guarantee her maximum speed as she charged at the handsome Devil.
“Wait Sister, “Weiss began, “(Y/N) doesn’t plan on killing anybody except for Jacques! He’s the reason that we are here in the first place!” Winter was given pause as she heard her sister’s sudden outburst and as much as she wanted to deny the possibility of something like that, she just couldn’t.
“Mother is that true?” Winter looked over to her mother, waiting patiently for the response that would determine whether or not she’d be killing the man that sat at the large desk.
“It is true, and from what you said I’m guessing that you were sent by Jacques to ‘save’ or ‘avenge’ us, is that true?”
Winter thought about it for a moment, going over the small exchange that she had with her father before she jetted off to head to Vale, and as she came to a realization, she lowered her weapon, “yes, it seems that is what I was told to do. I always knew he hated us, but I never knew he would take it this far” she said depressingly. “I apologize Sir Devil for putting your life in danger without knowing the full context of the situation.” As she stated the apology, she bowed slightly to the man, showing that she was apologetic at the act.
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As Winter gave him the apology, he wasn’t even paying much attention to the girl as he was too busy showering Neo in praises after she defended him beautifully. He rapidly stroked her head, planted millions of kisses across her face, and whispered the sweetest words she had ever heard into her ears. By the time he finished with her, Neo was a melted mess, completely unable to do anything, but snuggle her way deeper into his arms, collapsing on his lap in a blush of red. The Schnee woman’s apology did grab his attention as he turned to her and said, “don’t worry about it Miss Winter, but please call me (Y/N), also take a seat so we can discus everything that has happened. You can catch us up to speed on your conversation with Jacques and then we’ll catch you up to speed on everything that we have learned thus far.” Winter was about to sit down in the chair across from her mothers, but then roaring footsteps suddenly erupted from behind her, and everyone watched as a red and blue duo of claws and knives shot into the room, stabbing at the older woman. Winter quickly dodged the overhead slice that came from one of the girls stiletto’s, then she quickly parried the following strike from the claws with her fused swords. Before either of the twins could attempt another attack, they swiftly stopped when they heard a blissful sounding voice from behind their Bro’s desk. “Aye, Mil & Mel, chillout I’m not in danger at all so there’s no need for the swinging and the fighting. I’m fine.”
They quickly absorbed the command, only nodding their heads as they stared completely enamored by the man who sat behind the desk. As soon as they caught a glimpse of his beauty, they immediately knew who it had to be, there was no one else in the world who could look as great, as perfect, as the man who sat in front of them now with Neo snuggled up in his lap. As soon as they recovered from the initial shock, the twins shot passed the confused Winter and slammed their hands on the desk as they got a much, much closer look at the man they called Bro. Melanie was the first to speak as she said. “Like oh my god, oh my god like, holy shit like, oh my god!”
Miltia immediately followed with, “yeah, I know sis. He’s just so, fucking… I don’t know. His face is just… ugh! He’s just so fucking…. AAAAHHHHHHHH!” As she tried to find the words to describe what she was feeling as she looked at his Adonis like face, she simply erupted in a fangirl like screech that her sister immediately replicated, filling the room with their adorably hyper emotional outbreak. The duo screamed together as they bounced up and down, holding one another’s hands, and shaking in excitement.
“Like, I know right! He’s just so like fucking like….”
“Yeah, he’s like so fucking like…”
“Like HOT/Fucking Perfect!” They simultaneously screamed out as they turned their attention back to their Bro’s face, simply taking in his beauty.
“Bro, how did you get so perfect?!?!” Miltia asked as she closed the distance between them.
“Yeah Bro, like I knew you’d be super fucking hot, but like, Oh my god, I didn’t think you’d be like, super-duper ultra-sexy hot! It’s like, almost too much!”
(Y/N) didn’t know how to answer that question, so he simply said, “Uhm, I think its just the face I was born with.”
“Oh my god! Like, the face Bro was born with!”
“Yeah, you were born with the perfect face Bro!” These shenanigans continued on for a moment longer before Junior and Zeb suddenly walked into the room, coming up since they heard all the commotion and wanted to ensure their boss’s safety.
“Ayo, what the fuck is going on up here?” Z asked as he walked into the large office.
“Boss, are you alright!” Junior quickly walked into the room with his metal club slung over his shoulder, waiting to see if any danger had befallen his Boss.
However, the only thing that was said that could’ve been a possible ‘danger’ to him was quickly exclaimed by the twins who were at the Boss’s desk. “Like look at Bro’s face, he’s so hot/ Come see my Brother’s face, he’s fucking perfect!” The twins both yelled simultaneously, getting the attention of the other two Elites.
“Oh, I gotta see this” Z said as he stepped passed Winter, saying excuse me as he did so. “Oh damn Chief, you are a beautiful specimen. Don’t take this the wrong way, but if I was gay, I’d definitely get up in it if you know what I mean. However, you two might be focusing too much on the Chief, I mean look at Mistress, she is absolutely stunning” (Y/N) softly facepalmed at Zeb’s statement.
“Like we know that already!”
“We’ve saw big Sis’s face almost a forever ago. That’s old news Z, get with the program!”
“When did that happen and why wasn’t I apart of it?” (Y/N) suddenly perked up as Zeb asked the question, after all he didn’t know that the twins had already seen Scarlet’s face either.
“It was like, maybe like, the day after Bro became Bro and Big Sis Became Big Sis” Mel said.
“Yeah, she took a nap here and told us to watch over her while she did it. She showed us her face then! You weren’t here yet Z.” The entire time they were talking about their superiors faces, Junior was still by the door, facing out towards the hallway with his eyes glued shut.
As Zeb noticed this, he turned to his companion from the desk and asked, “yo Junior, what are you doing?”
The Giant man didn’t move an inch, instead shouting, “if the Boss and the Mistress wanted me to see their true appearances, they’d do so in a manner not like this! We just suddenly barged into the room unannounced , and it is because of that, I don’t believe that the Boss would like to reveal himself to us!”
“But he’s not stopping us now, and you know he could. Hell, if he wanted to he could order me to forget that I saw it and I’d do it in a heartbeat, and I’m sure you’d do the same” Z explained as he tried to reason with the man.
However, he didn’t budge until he heard his Boss’s voice from behind the desk, “Junior, you are more than welcome to come see my true appearance! You have earned such a right after working as hard as you do, after proving to me your value as an essential part of this Clan! So, get the fuck over and look at me.”
“Yes Boss!” Junior then immediately turned around, sliding smoothly passed a still standing Winter, and laying his own eyes upon his Boss. “You are just as, if not more, badass and powerful appearing than I expected Boss. Even without the mask you give off an aura more than rewarding of the Devil title!” Junior said as he bowed towards his Boss, and he swiftly bowed to Scarlet, saying the same thing except including the fact that she was beautiful. Soon after that, the conversation died down and (Y/N) was ready to kick them out again so they could continue talking business.
“Alright, I’m glad we were able to have this moment together, but its now time for yall to GTFO again, I’ll come down to chat and update you all once were finished up here” the Clan head said, and after a quick bow and salute from Junior and Z, they were on their way out.
“Like Bro, could we like… you know…”
“Yeah, so can we…. get a kiss or something, before we go?”
“Yes, of course, come here: he said softly as the duo leaned over the desk and received two kisses on their cheeks before giddily walking out of the room with a joyful wave, leaving the door open as they left. “Ok, now you can sit down Winter, I apologize for the sudden outburst that was… well that.”
“That’s completely fine, I see that you and your companions are quite close, and that is something that I respect greatly.” As she spoke, Winter was about to sit down in the chair across from her mother’s again, but a large Grimm suddenly stood up and opened her maw to reveal rows of long, sharpened teeth. She immediately went back on guard, but before she could move, (Y/N) spoke up to calm her down.
“Wait, Winter, that is Scylla my adorable companion. She means no harm and all she’s doing right now is yawning,” he began as he turned to his companion, “hey Scylla can you please go close the doors that the twins left open?” Instead of growling in response, the Grimm clad Byakko simply walked over to the double doors and slammed them shut with a swipe of her powerful claws. “Thank you!” Scylla just smiled a fangy smile at her master before she went back to her corner to lay down, resting her head in her paws.
After seeing the exchange between (Y/N) and Scylla, Winter relaxed into her chair across from her mother and prepared to have an interesting discussion with the people present in the room. “Hello Winter, my name is Scarlet and firstly I want to let you know that you and your family are absolutely stunning, but my actual question to you is how did you get in here? I just want to make sure there aren’t any dead bodies downstairs that need to be accounted for.”
For a reason that she didn’t quite understand, Winter blushed at the red-haired woman’s compliment, but she still managed to smoothly respond with, “once they saw that I was a Schnee that let me pass. I thought at first it was because they were afraid but thinking back on it, I believe it was because you were having such a cordial meeting up here, and they didn’t believe that I would be disrupting anything. Also… thank you for the compliment” the seemingly emotionless woman allowed her cheeks to become rosy as she thanked the woman for the compliment, and (Y/N) simply watched the exchange happen with wide eyes at Scarlet’s flirtatious personality.
“Let’s not waste any more time and get back to the topics at hand, if you would start us off Miss Winter, that’d be phenomenal.” Winter then took the time to explain exactly what happened between her and Jacques, starting with how she was contacted by him, telling her that he had something incredibly urgent that he needed to talk with her about, so she headed back to the manor. When she got there, she immediately went to his office where he seemed distraught about something and then he immediately laid the news that Willow, and Weiss had left the manor in flight to negotiate with the Devil regarding the SD-Block of Dust. She explained how Jacques told her that the entire thing was Willow’s idea, putting her life on the line to save the family name and taking Weiss with her so she could learn how to do it as well. He told her about how he would’ve sent her with them if he knew how dangerous it’d be, but since she had already left, he just left them to their own devices.
Jacques attempted to make Winter feel to blame for putting her mother and sister in danger since she wasn’t home at the time, but she ignored that aspect of the conversation since she knew what a manipulative asshole he was, but she still believed him when he said that they were in danger, so she immediately took off on her ship, asking Jacques for the coordinates and then left to protect her in danger family. After comforting their family about the entire ordeal, it was their turn to explain everything that had led up to that point and this allowed (Y/N) to give his full story about how Roman was planning on attacking and taking over the Dust lot in the first place, so he was being more reactive then active.
After they finished up getting everyone up to speed on the events that occurred leading up to that moment, Willow decided to finally tell the story about how her marriage got turned so upside down, and how all of it was her fault. “I had been introduced to Jacques by my father since he was the son of one of my father’s close friends. He was very nice back then, extremely kind to everyone and everything, very down to earth and levelheaded, and more than anything else, incredibly loving. He was timid in a way, didn’t have it in him to hurt a fly, had no intentions on doing anything in life but take over his families business, and that was when I fell in love. We quickly got married and soon after that I was pregnant with you Winter, and after you were born, I couldn’t have been happier, but then I had you Weiss, and then I somehow got even happier” she said with a glowing smile.
“This entire time everything in our relationship was going well, but all that changed after my father had gotten deathly ill. He was already getting up there in age and it was already about time that he’d pass on, and he of course named me in private only as his successor, which I graciously accepted. Something in Jacques snapped after my father named me his heiress, he had gotten extremely bitter and angry after that, but he only expressed it in fits of rage, mostly yelling, screaming, or braking and throwing things, but never… never attacking me.” Willow stayed quiet for a moment, but she then continued onwards, “he stayed like this for a while, but I had you two to keep him off my mind. Jacques stopped talking to me, he demanded a separate bedroom from me, and I gladly did all those things, because I thought that after a while his anger at not being the Heir, even though he wasn’t a born Schnee, would blow over. During those long six years, Jacques spent a lot of time at my father’s bedside, talking with him, taking care of him, learning from him, and manipulating him in his debilitating state. I always thought that during that time he was trying his best to become close with my dying father, hoping, praying that he’d recount making me his successor and instead name him, but it didn’t work.”
Willow took a long pause after that, taking a moment to gather her thought, memories, and feelings about those days that she spent so much time drowning in liquor to forget. “It didn’t work, and the day that my father died was the same day that he beat me for the first time.” Anger, rage was immediately built up in (Y/N)’s body, he felt like swimming across the ocean and climbing up to Atlas if it’d give him a chance at killing Jacques, but instead he kept it all inside and listened to Willow’s tail. “He hit me a lot that day, more times than I can count, but I just took the beating because I knew he was angry and I though that it would make him feel better. I like to think that it did for at least a moment, but then he realized that punishing me wasn’t what he wanted, he just really, really, really wanted the crown, the title as the head of the house. I had never seen him so determined to do something in his life, as he spent the weeks leading up to the coronation finding some way to either swindle me out of the title of Heiress or beat me into giving it to him.”
“Either way I let him do what he wished, naively thinking that after the coronation he’d simply accept that I was the head and he’d give into my new status, stopping the beatings, the harmful words, the neglection, but I was wrong. All that time that he spent with my dying father had finally paid off as he told Jacques about the place, he spent more time in than any other place in the manor, his study, and after scouring his study for weeks upon weeks before I was officially given my inheritance, he found something. He had found my father’s diary. A thick book of all the inner workings of the Schnee family business, a book detailing all the corrupted thoughts of its leader, a book compiling all the worst of the worst things that my father had done to keep everything afloat and prosperous. However, there was only one thing in that book that mattered, one thing that Jacques needed to take over everything.” Willow held onto the words with everything she had, not wanting to say the things that she knew she needed to. It was her moment to finally be free from the secret that had imprisoned her for her entire depressing married life, and it took her everything just to let out the one word. “Slavery.”
Everyone in the room remained quiet after she released her bondage, but at the same time they were confused by what she meant by it. “Mother, what do you mean slavery? It is true that humans had Faunus slaves a long time ago, but why would that be relevant now? It’s family knowledge that the Schnee Company was built on the backs of the Faunus.”
Willow couldn’t help but release a small chuckle at her daughter’s reasoning, “you’re not wrong Winter, slavery is common knowledge, but what isn’t common knowledge is how long slavery lasted.”
That was when Weiss decided to speak up, “that’s common knowledge as well mom, slavery ended around the same time that the great war ended, and the Faunus received Menagerie as reparations.”
“That is where your wrong dear, slavery didn’t end then. It didn’t end a decade after that, or a decade after that, or even a century after that. The Schnee company was not only built on the backs of slave Faunus but is still running on the backs of the Faunus to this day.” Winter and Weiss were left completely shocked, they simply couldn’t believe it.
“H-ho-how?!?”
“That doesn’t make any sense, mother how are slaves still being used!?!? Slavery was abolished years ago!”
“That is what Jacques learned in the diary, slavery was ‘abolished’ to everyone except for the powerful Schnee’s who ‘discovered’ the use of Dust. The Schnee Dust Company kept using slaves all the way through the Great War, and beyond, using slaves to run mines on the main continents and generating massive profits from it. However, suddenly a secretive organization began freeing all the enslaved Faunus on the main continents, so they were forced to relocate the Slaves to a much more secretive place, somewhere nobody would dare to look, somewhere that freeing the slaves would be near impossible.”
Winter suddenly understood what her mother was speaking of, “the mountains of Solitas, the continent that Atlas floats over, and the place where 99% of the worlds Dust is mined. The mines are still being mined out by Faunus Slaves.” The revelation put both Winter and Weiss on their backs, and both of them felt absolutely sick to their stomachs as they heard what their family was being funded by.
“That’s not possible,” Wiess thought out loud, “wouldn’t we have known about it?”
“Wiess,” Winter began, “have you ever been to a Mine on the main continent? One of the ones that was much further in, not the ones that we visit at the beginning of the year for anniversary” Winter paused for a moment, waiting for her sister’s response. “Me neither.” (Y/N), Scarlet, and Neo simply sat in silence at the revelation, giving the girls time to think over everything. However, (Y/N)’s mind was racing as things suddenly began clicking into place in his mind, painting the complete history of Remnant.
“Girls,” Willow said as she comforted her daughters, “this is the exact reaction I had when Jacques revealed that information to me on that fateful day. I was broken, everything I had known was a lie, the Schnee name, the nobility of owning this last name, the ‘family’ I had once known, and thought was the greatest in the world was being run by the poor Faunus. Jacques told me that if I didn’t give him the title of Master Schnee, head of the Schnee family, he said he would tell the world, and I told him to do it, or I’d do it myself. But then he told me what would happen if we told the world, riots, rebellion…executions.” Tears weld up in her eyes as she spoke, “He said that you’d both be killed, hung, burned, decapitated, executed if I were to tell the public. In my heart I knew he was lying, but I could risk it, I couldn’t allow a possible world where my beloved children would die for a crime they didn’t commit, so I gave it too him. When I named him the Heir, he said that he’d slowly get rid of the Faunus slaves in the mines, but he lied, if anything he only increased it.”
“After the coronation happened, he came to me that night and told me that he needed a proper heir to his Schnee family, and….” there was a long pause after this small comment, but as she got the courage to finally speak, she felt an incredibly warm arm wrap around her shoulders, bringing her into the warmest, most comforting embrace that she had ever felt.
“There is no need for you speak any more, you have been through far too much Willow. I promise I will make everything better, I will bring that bastard to justice, and I will clear you of all your pain. I have heard more than enough. You are not guilty for wanting to protect your children, you are not guilty for wanting to see the best in someone you loved, you are not guilty for being manipulated into depression, and you are not guilty for wanting to see that man dead.” Willow sunk deeper into his warm embrace, letting go the tears of her bondage, crying out her depressive state, sobbing out the guilt of 13 years of hardship. (Y/N) gently caressed her soft head as she cried into his chest, revealing all the pain and sorrow that she had felt all these years. “Willow, you are no menace, you are a survivor. You aren’t a monster, you’re a Mother, and an amazing one at that. You have been through so much and I want to thank you for sharing, thank you for telling me, thank you for being so strong for, not only yourself, but your beautiful children as well.” Willow continued to cry out the rest of her dread, the rest of her hardship into the man’s open and welcoming chest, acting as her healing station, her spring of rejuvenation, a reset button for everything negative in her life. “Willow, even if everyone in this world turns against you, know that I will always be on your side. I love you. And I promise you happiness.”
As she saw the man comforting her mother, Winter walked over to the small chair and wrapped her mother in a tight embrace as well, “I love you so much mom, and I’m sorry it took me so long to finally tell you” she whispered to her mom as the tears managed to break through her façade.
Weiss then came over to give her mother the same treatment, wrapping her family in a hug and repeating the loving words that she let her mom know earlier, “I love you mommy” she whispered to Willow, letting her know that she will always have her family. “I have always loved you and I always will.” The hugs lasted a while, as in hours, and even Scarlet and Neo joined in on the affection, comforting the entire group and turning everyone present into a family of sorts. Even as they broke the embraces, they still lingered around each other for a while, simply sitting hand in hand with one another in silence, marinating in the emotional healing atmosphere that they set for one another. Willow laid scrunched up into (Y/N)’s chest, dominating his right thigh, and Weiss sat with her head resting on his left shoulder, dominating his left thigh. Neo was sitting right in the center, in between his spread legs with (Y/N)’s hand running smoothly through her hair, making her shiver and shake with each of his divine touches. Winter and Scarlet were bundled up close by in the chair next to them, laying on top of one another with Scarlet as the center piece, holding her new partner close to her chest.
The cuddling session lasted a while longer until Willow quietly spoke, “you really have a thing with woman huh dear? You just can’t keep them off you” she said jokingly.
Scarlet then spoke up with, “I can attest to that, Hon really has a way with comforting those who need comforting and protecting those that need protecting. My Honey’s just too lovable, it’s almost contagious.”
“If it’s contagious then I’m not infected, “Weiss said suddenly, “he’s just lucky that I’m feeling a little tired and his chest is this warm and cuddly.” Even as she snuggled deeper into his embrace, she denied having any emotional connection to (Y/N), and her comment managed to get a reaction out of her sister.
“Sure, little sister, if you’re not infected by your little prince charming, then I have no attraction to Scarlet at all. None what-so-ever.” Scarlet took that moment to give the Huntress a fat kiss on the forehead, soliciting an adorable blush and a deep snuggle from the woman.
“Well, I love you all, even you Weiss” he whispered to the girl on his shoulder, making her shove her face deeper into his neck to hide her embarrassment.
After another moment of silence from cuddling, Willow looked up to face her dear and said, “I believe that there is a large shipment of Dust coming in through the train that runs alongside the Forever Fall Forest in two days. I don’t exactly know the time, but it should be worth at least a million Lien raw, which is about a million crystals of Dust. I can tell Jacques that I offered you it as a constellation, a gift and say that in return you agreed to a monthly deal of $100,000 Lien for 25,000 crystals which is about the same amount that we sell Dust to retailers before the premium kicks in. That should be enough to keep the bastard happy enough, so he doesn’t throw a fit that we’re still alive and it also gives you a good value.”
(Y/N) looked down at the woman in confusion, “you still want to go back? I thought that we’d go for the ‘fake your death he announces it to the public, then we hit the uno reverse and show him as the bad guy’ route? You really don’t have to return if you don’t want to, I already have everything in mind to keep you and your family safe.”
Willow chuckled slightly at the name of his plan, “while that plan does sound like the easiest way to oust him, I still have a duty to be at home. If I am going to do this, I want to end it in a satisfactory way and I want to be present when you make that bastards head roll. No quick kills, no poisonings, no silent walk always. I want to make him feel every ounce of pain he made me feel over the past 13 agonizing years.” Even as she was talking about taking revenge, Willow’s face remained completely calm and her voice was eerily soft the entire time, like she was whispering sweet nothings or words of affection.
“Well, if you really want to do it that way then how about I pay $100,000 for 1,000 a month which is about retail value so we can make him really happy, and then the downfall will be that much sweeter.” Willow turned to him with extreme surprise, wondering why he’d turn down such a deal.
“I thought you wanted a steady, valuable income of Dust? Dear, Why would you squander that goal of yours?”
“There are a few reasons, one, I would do anything if it meant ensuring your safety,” he said as he placed a chaste kiss on her lips, “two, right now I have $400,000 Lien curtesy of Roman Torchwick so for four months it’s of no personal charge from me,” he said as he gave Neo a quick and gentle scratch on her scalp, melting her into his touch, “and three is a sort of two for one because in four months there won’t be a Jacques Schnee or a slavery.” If it was anyone else that said that she’d probably laugh or scoff in their face, but because it was (Y/N) she figured that he’d somehow figure it out.
However, Weiss and Winter weren’t as convinced, “how exactly do you plan on killing Jacques in less than four months? There is no possible way that is even remotely feasible” Weiss said as she looked up from his shoulder. “Atlas is the most secure, highly defensive, nation on the planet, and 50% of that defense is owned entirely by the Schnee. And the city is in the sky! It’s a floating battle fortress that is impenetrable, unescapable, indestructible, and unstoppable all at the same time. How do you plan on overcoming all of that?”
“My method is on its way now” her prince simply responded.
Winter then spoke up with, “even though I think your more than capable of taking down one man, I don’t believe that you’d be able to do it in such a short time period. The real impossibility is somehow freeing an entire continent’s worth of Faunus that are being enslaved and kept in Millions of miles of expansive mines. Even if you were somehow able to locate each individual mine, and have an efficient way of transporting all of them to safety, how would you get passed the tens of thousands of military men, both automated and actual, to free them in the first place? I understand that you are powerful, but a feat like that seems almost impossible, even for a little prince.”
“I’ll meet my method in two days” the little prince put simply.
“You have a lot of confidence my Dear, but I’m sure you’ll be able to back it up with something” Willow said confidently.
“Of course, Honey has the confidence, when he says that he’ll do something you may as well already consider it done. Once he puts his mind to something, everything will somehow just inexplicably fall into place like he meticulously plans out every action, or he can see the future. It is actually miraculous to see it at work” added Scarlet.
“I can kinda see the future, but she really not be aware of what her Semblance is” he thought. “It may sound incredibly difficult, maybe even impossible, but trust me when I say that the first steps are super easy. Well, they are super easy for me, especially considering,” he began, “there are two of me/there are two of me.” A man looking identical to (Y/N) suddenly appeared in the room with a streak of black in his wake, and the instant he spoke all of the girls attention suddenly shifted to it.
“Honey, who the fuck is that? I mean, it looks like you, but is it you?”
“Oh yeah, I guess I forgot to tell Scarlet about it. This is my Semblance, it is essentially just an exact copy of me, abilities and everything.” As Neo looked up to see a direct copy of (Y/N), she immediately hopped out of her savior’s lap and went to go physically inspect the clone, checking for any obvious differences.
“This is you Semblance dear? It seems so…. real” Willow said as she looked at the clone from her lovers chest.
Weiss was thinking something similar, as she said, “so, can’t you essentially be in two places at once and no one would know the difference?”
As Winter checked out the clone, she realized that there was a big difference between the two, “that is not exactly the case Weiss. The clone is entirely made up of Aura, so if you are good enough at sensing it, then you can clearly tell the difference. At first I thought it was weird that you could completely conceal your Aura so effortlessly, but now I believe that you simply have no Aura as a draw back for your Semblance.”
“In a very roundabout way, you are not wrong Winter, but the specifics is something that I’ll have to get into later. Just know that I need one of you to take this clone of mine back home to Atlas. Once you’re over the city he can just jump out if necessary as I doubt it would be very easy for him to sneak into the manor, can you do that?”
Winter spoke up with, “yes, I can take him with me. I flew my personal airship here so I’d have no trouble sneaking him on board to take him to Atlas.” After that little step was figured out, the group slowly got up from there comfortable spots cuddling one another and prepared to go their separate ways. They all exchanged their contact information and gave each other hugs and kisses goodbye before they talked about their short-term plans in the meantime before there next meeting. The leaving mother and daughter, Willow and Winter, told them that the next time they were scheduled to be in Vale was for the Summer Tournament which just so happened to be right around the corner so they wouldn’t be away from each other for too long. (Y/N) learned that Weiss would be participating which was interesting news and he also learned that she’d be staying in Vale instead of returning to Atlas with her mother. So, (Y/N) decided to take this opportunity to ‘walk’ her to Beacon instead of flying like Willow offered.
As Winter told the clone where she parked the airship, he silently teleported to its location as to not cause to much of a fuss with the people in the club and the women’s lover put on his Devil attire so he could easily make his way through the Club to see Willow and Winter out. As him, Weiss, Neo, and Hel watched them take off, they slipped back inside the club to say their goodbyes to the other Elites before Scarlet got onto Byakko’s back and Weiss and Neo clung tightly to their lover, so they could begin teleporting through the morning, sunlit streets of Vale, heading their way to Beacon. It took a while for Weiss to get used to the feeling, but after she did they made amazing time, quickly teleporting onto Beacons campus, into the Hope Building, and silently landing in front (Y/N)’s temp room. (Y/N) had dropped his appearance midway through the trip, Scarlet then immediately pulled the Appearance from her chest, revealing her entire beautiful form, Neo hopped down from (Y/N)’s shoulders and smiled brightly as she stood close to his chest, and Weiss seemed a bit nervous as she clung tightly to his right arm.
“I really hope they aren’t too pissed at me” he thought as he stood in front of the door. He then turned to his newer partners and spoke, “Behind this door are the other women that I love very dearly, that you Scarlet, have been looking forward to meeting, and you two, “he began looking at Neo and Weiss, “have only heard of in passing. They can be a little handsy sometimes, but if you let them know your boundaries they’ll respect them, I know that you don’t have boundaries Scarlet” he said addressing the most excited of the group. “Wiess if you want to, just stand behind me at first, they can be a little overwhelming and energetic, but after they calm down, I’m sure you’ll love them.”
“I’m not nervous or anything like that, but I’ll accept your offer of concern” she said as she clung tighter to his arm. Neo was bouncing up and down on her toes, clearly excited to meet them, probably because she had been spending a lot of time with Scarlet and therefore heard a lot about them. She adorably looked up at him before quickly facing the door again, waiting for him to slide his scroll into the slot and unlock the door.
“Honey, I have been waiting for what feels like an eternity to meet these sexy, thicc, juicy, and loving women! Stop teasing me so much and open the fucking door.”
“Yes ma’am!” At Scarlets request, (Y/N) slid his scroll through the doors locking system, turning the Scroll reader from red to green, and granting them entrance into his room where Nix, Pyrrha, Neyah, and Glynda awaited them.
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