The Grimm Huntress

Uncovered

Maria looked around. "Hey, where is Charis?"

The group looked at each other before realizing who she meant. Eclipse was missing.

"Eclipse!" Ruby yelled. "Eclipse!"

"Queenie!" Qrow started digging through the snow. "C'mon, where are you?"

Before the rest of them could start digging they heard a groan. An arm came from a pile of snow.

"She's in there?!" Oscar exclaimed.

"Hurry, she could suffocate!" Ruby shouted and joined her uncle digging.

Yang and Oscar joined them helping them dig and Weiss and Blake grabbed hold of her arm to try and pull her out. Slowly the snow was light enough for Weiss and Blake to be able to pull her out. Eclipse's hair was almost gray with all of the snow as she held the Relic to her chest.

She coughed. "Thanks. I kept the Relic safe."

"Are you okay?" Qrow checked her over. "No scratches or anything?"

"No more than before." she smiled, clearly tired, as she got to her feet.

"Ah, there you are!" Maria grinned up at her. She hit Eclipse in the gut with her cane. "Bend down a bit, I'm not that tall! I knew I saw you, Charis!"

"Who?"

"Close enough."

"Say, how do you still look so young?"

As they talked Ruby began to scour through the train wreckage and picked up Dust bullets, Yang could be heard complaining as she struggled to get Bumblebee out of the snow.

"Great! This is just great! We're stranded, we lost a third of our party, Eclipse almost suffocated, and we've gained a defenseless old lady!"

With one final heave, Yang managed to extricate Bumblebee, but fell over to the ground, with her motorcycle following suit as she was partially covered in snow. Eclipse called Weiss over to where Ender was buried.

"I'm going to need more wind Dust." she sighed.

"I'll buy you some when we get to Argus, I promise."

Weiss nodded and brought out Myrtenaster, using the last of her wind Dust to blow aside the snow covering Eclipse's bike.

"Thank you!" She threw her arms around the small girl.

"You're welcome."

"My name is Maria Calavera, and I am not defenseless! I'm just a little hard of hearing. And blind without my eyes, that are in desperate need of repair." She tapped on her prosthetics, which opened wide and closed, before opening narrowly again. "Okay, I'm starting to see your point."

"Yang, knock it off, will ya?" Qrow grunted. "If we lose our cool now, we'll just be inviting even more Grimm."

"Does that even matter? Apparently, we've been attracting Grimm ever since we left Haven."

"Oh, and how could I forget about that?" Yang turned to Oscar. "What happened to no more lies and half truths?"

"Yeah, I think it's time we got an explanation..."

Oscar's eyes glowed as control of his body was switched to Ozpin, who furrowed his brow at Yang's accusations.

"I did not lie to you..."

"Well you certainly didn't tell us everything about the Relic." Weiss said, crossing her arms.

"Please, now is not the time."