Stele (A RWBY story)

The Island (Day 3)

I regained consciousness some time later. I don't know the time, or how long I or rather we were out, but it was still dark. My body felt heavy and in a way... tingly? I guess it would feel like that after a ball of lightning explodes in front of you. I also felt groggy and exhausted still for some reason.

"You were unconscious, not sleeping. So you didn't go through REM and other useful things."

Stele: "And you're still here."

I'm both happy and worried that she is still here. Nothing I could do about it though, but there is one thing I need to do.

Stele: "Where's Schnee?"

Weiss: "I'm right here Stele. And who were you talking to?"

I looked at her, then at Fonti as she was spinning around us, yeah I'm not answering that. I needed to get all my stuff together, I didn't even know where my cuff arm was sent flying to. I could feel it all in the area at least, and walking to it all could help alleviate the way I am feeling.

Weiss: "So, how did you come up with that earlier?"

As she was collecting all the bags and left over items from the others, I was making my way to the first of a few connections I felt. It was a bit hard getting to the connection, although I can see just fine in the dark, I was still tired from everything. Sadly the connection I was following was just a part of my shield that broke from the stingers. At least it was back on me as armor.

Weiss: "Stele?"

Stele: "Yeah, yeah...the lightning. I wasn't one hundred percent sure about it."

Weiss: "What! So I could've died by listening to you!?"

She had stopped collecting now and was yelling at me, I had tried to tune her out, but my damn Faunus senses betrayed me. I was busy watching something else anyways, Fonti, as she was jumping and twirling around. I could still make out her smile as she was spinning.

"She seems really mad at you right now."

Stele: "It's not my problem. Anyways, I was the one that got us out of that problem."

She stopped spinning and was looking past me.

"She's looking at you now. Probably thinks you're crazy."

Stele: "Well you aren't helping."

She stuck her tongue at me before she skipped away from me. I tried to ignore the feeling of having her stare at me as I found my cuff arm on the ground. It still gave a slight shock to me as I put back it in place. I couldn't ignore Schnee anymore as had come behind me and put her hand on my shoulder.

Weiss: "Stele? Are you okay?"

Her hand fell off me as I walked off, but she followed behind me. My attention was on something across the field, Magnhild, which had crashed into a tree.

Stele: "I am just fine! I don't need people worrying about me, and I especially don't need a Schnee worrying about me!"

She stopped a few feet away from me as I reached Magnhild. As I was trying to pull it out, she looked to be trying to say something. She kept on starting then stopping a sentence.

Stele: "Just spit it out already Schnee!"

Weiss: "Fine! You keep talking to yourself! Almost...almost like you are having a conversation with someone that isn't there!"

I stopped pulling for a bit and just looked ahead. Ahead at Fonti, who sat on the bit of hammer head that wasn't in the tree.

Stele: "What...what are you getting at?"