Reaper's War

Chapter 12: Greenwich Forest

A/N: Hello again my amazingly awesome readers! Thought I'd give you another update just five days after the last one. On this one we're still with Blake and Yang then we'll be time skipping a few months so their timeline fits with Weiss and Ruby's in chapter 13. Which by the way has already been written and oh boy have I got something in store for you all. And if you'll notice, I actually put the mature rating on. I would put it to explicit but Wattpad doesn't seem to have an option for that. Anyways! Without a further ado, I give you chapter 12! Hope you all enjoy!

Border of Greenwich Forest

The airship flight to the edge of the forest had taken much longer than it should have. For a start, the engines wouldn't start and then when it did, it only stalled and had to be done all over again. It wasn't just that though.
Yang had woken up late and ended up getting to the airship port much later than her partner. That really didn't matter though since the ship's engine wouldn't start.

Blake had been waiting indoors for Yang for quite awhile and when she did finally turn up, the blonde didn't speak to the cat faunus. She didn't even look at her, simply sitting down and staying silent whilst they waited.

Now after an hour of waiting for the engines to warm up, they were finally standing on the edge of Greenwich Forest, staring into the vast expanse of trees.

Blake stepped forward but before she could take another step, something or rather someone, grabbed her hand. She looked back and saw that Yang had a guilty but sad expression on her face. She still wasn't quite looking at Blake, just looking past her into the forest.

"Yang? What's wrong?" Blake said, concerned. She stepped towards the blonde and was surprised to find herself in her partner's arms a second later.

"I know what you did at Beacon."
Blake froze at the unexpected words but soon relaxed again after hearing the next sentences. "And...I know it wasn't your fault or your choice. I just wanted to tell you, I'm sorry what happened to you and I forgive you."
The blonde's tone of voice was soft and sincere. She held onto Blake a little tighter, reassuring her partner that everything was going to be okay and that she did indeed forgive her.

A few minutes later and they separated, finally setting off into the forest in search of the horde of Grimm, Yang swearing she saw a slight dusting of pink on her partner's cheeks.

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North of Greenwich Forest- 4:30pm

Hours after setting off for the scouting mission, Yang and Blake traipsed through the snowy forest, searching for the large number of Grimm that had reportedly moved through it. They'd found nothing for the first two hours, the trails often running cold because of the latest snowfall the previous night.

Fortunately, all they had to do was keep travelling North and soon enough, they stumbled across a medium sized group of the chaotic creatures.

"Gods, there's so many Grimm gathered here. What's going on?" Yang whispered, crouching low next to Blake on a tree branch.

"Question is, why have they all stopped? Last time I checked, Grimm don't need to rest and they certainly don't need to eat, sleep or relieve themselves." Blake said, also whispering and watching the Grimm cautiously.

"Hmm." The blonde agreed but didn't say anything more in the matter.

The black and yellow pair watched the creatures attentively, waiting for them to make a move of some kind.
As another hour passed, more Grimm had arrived in the area, also stopping and waiting for something. A few split off from the large group, looking as though they were beginning to patrol the area but most stayed where they were.