The rooks of remnant

chapter 5

Coco pov.

Right now I was sitting in my dorm room thinking about what happened today with the initiation. "Wow. Can you believe what happened today?" Velvet said brushing her hair.

"Yeah he looked so incredible out there." I said kinda spacing out.

"His rage seemed...." Velvet started but not finished as she fell silent.

"Seemed like what?" I asked before hearing a soft cawing of a bird. I looked over to the window and saw Ghost/Nathen. "Really what happened to knocking on doors?" I asked the bird as it transformed into Nathen.

"What can I say? It's what I'm use too." He said shrugging as he sat on the window. "I wanted to apologize."

"About what?" Velvet asked.

"About my outbursts back at the hall." He sighed. "It was very-"

"Don't." I say holding up a hand and walking towards him. He tilted his head a bit confused. "You have every right to be mad at those 2." When I got close I hugged him.

"Thank you. That was the 1st thing I was hoping to say to you both." He said hugging back softly before I broke out. "I was hoping I could ask you 2 something."

"What's that cutie?" I asked tilting my glasses down so I could look him in his attractive eye. He laughed a bit.

"I was wondering if maybe this weekend you could show me around Vale." He asked hopefully.

"YES!" Velvet shouted before fake coughing into her hand. "I mean we would be delighted too." He smiled before looking at me with raised eyebrows.

"Of course. I want to get to know that body of yours hopefully." I say winking unprepared for his response.

"Keep up that attitude and you may get to see more than you expected." He whispered into my ear making he blush.

"Oh my." I say fanning my face as he laughs.

"Well see you on Saturday ladies. Or in the halls. Which comes first." He said before leaning out of the window and falling. I jumped to the window to see a hawk flying into an opened window 3 dorms down.

"He really is something." I hear from our bathroom say. I turn to see Fox standing there with the door open. "Not only kind hearted but an inferno of death." He says walking over to his bed and laying down. "Not to mention his mind." Fox mutters before sleeping. Velvet and I look at one another before shrugging.

Ruby pov.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU 2?!" Weiss was yelling at yang and me. "HOW COULD YOU 2 TREAT YOUR FAMILY LIKE THAT?!"

"ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS ICE QUEEN!" Yang yelled as I sat silently on my bed.

"IF YOU TREATED YOUR BROTHER THAT WAY THEN HOW CAN I TRUST YOU TO NOT DO THIS TO ME?!" Weiss yelled as they were almost touching each others face. Blake got in between them.

"Let's just calm down. Its almost time for bed so we should keep it down for the sake of others." Blake said but gave a bit of a glare to Yang and then looked at me.

"Fine but don't think this is over at all." Weiss said before getting in her bed. "How could you?"

"Because it's how we were raised weiss." I say with tears in my eyes. "Our dad taught us how to be cruel."

"Ruby." Yang started.

"No yang." I say crying. "What we did was wrong. We both know that. If Nathen had been with us any longer then he would be dead!"

"What? We weren't that cruel." Yang said confused.

"Dad had a plan to kill Nathen when he turned 13. He wanted you and me to throw him off a cliff as a lesson about the real world." I explained as everything was quiet.

"He wouldn't. No one is that-"

"I found his journal yang. Dad had everything planned."

"But why?" Blake asked as Yang slide against a wall realizing how screwed we were if anything happened.

"Because Dad hated Nathen."  I say still crying. "He blamed him for both Raven and my mom leaving him." (Oh summer is alive.)

No one pov.

Unknown to anyone outside of Nathens window was an Eagle softly tapping on the window. Nathen was in the shower at the time. The eagle waited for the boy patiently. When he came out of the bathroom Nathen noticed the eagle and opened the window for it to fly in. As it did it flew straight to the end of the bed and sat there looking at Nathen. "Uh hi?" The bird flapped its wings before settling down. "What are you doing in here girl?" He said stroking its head. It cawed happily feeling its feathers straighten out. "Well I need to sleep. Can I trust you not to mess up anything in here while I sleep?" The eagle bowed its head as Nathen smiled. "Good girl." He said and got into the covers if the bed and snuggled in. The eagle then flew out as Nathen slept. Down in Vale Evie was handing a bunch if pressed flowers to henry.

"So what do you think will become of your Brother Mrs. Frye?" Henry asked putting those flowers in a book.

"Jacob will be a fine but reckless assassin of course there's no doubt about that." She said sitting in a chair on the train. "Nathen though?" She sighed brushing hair out of her face.

"Grand master assassin one day." Jacob said walking in the room checking out his next grappling hook attachment.

"Whys that Jacob?" Evie asked seriously intrigued.

"He was raised in a ruthless environment. Then by the Frye twins. He's already considered an elite by the council." Jacob explained.

"Yeah but I'm still concerned for him. What if he has...." evie started but gave Jacob a look of worry.

"The doctor said he should never have one again. If he does though we'll be able to help him." Jacob sighed knowing all to we what Evie was talking about.

"I'm sorry but I'm lost here." Henry said.

"When we were raising nathen je tended to black out and have an episode." Evie said. "These episodes would be very violent and unpredictable sometimes. Mostly him shouting get away. Once when a visiting assassin tried to calm him down Nathen pulled a knife on him. Luckily we has sleeping darts at the time. The assassin said it was done and dealt with this before but we were still worried."

"Wait is it as of he's in a state of a past event?" Henry asked.

"Yes its terrifying." Jacob said. "Its been 2 years since his last episode." He said sitting across from Evie. "Thank goodness we sought help when we did."

"Well I'm glad he's better. But its getting very late. Let us get some rest and continue our mission tomorrow." Henry said taken back.