Guardian

Chapter Fourteen

Yang wiped the tears from her face and sniffed as she found a nearby bench to sit down at, followed by a very worried Blake. "Yeah I'm fine," she grinned at her. "It's just been so long since I've seen Ruby."

Blake comfortingly ran her fingers over Yang's knuckles. "They must have stopped by on their way through I mean even if they are traveling by airship most stop in Vale anyway to refuel. Are you nervous to see her again?"

Yang huffed, trying to relieve her tension. "Sort of. I mean the last time I saw her in person we got into a huge fight."

"Over what?"

"It's a long story."

"I love your long stories remember?"

Yang looked into Blake's golden eyes and found them staring back at her earnestly. She really wants to know. She wasn't used to people having a genuine interest in her past but after being with Blake for a little over a week, she knew her girlfriend meant it. "Remember how Saber said that he could never find a job I failed at?" Blake nodded. "Well there was one job that was a failure and the reason he couldn't find it was because the only survivors are me, Ruby, and Weiss."

"What happened?"

"We had taken a job to escort a small caravan of people to the docks so they could get to Atlas. The only thing we were allowed to know was that they had some sort of important and dangerous cargo with them. Weiss and I weren't so sure about the job but once my sister makes a decision it's hard to change her mind."

"Why were you so leary about the job?"

"Something wasn't right with the guy who gave it to us. We had taken jobs like that one before. Escort jobs where we couldn't know what or who we were escorting. But this guy screamed shady. The job was completely off the books, he approached us, but the pay was really good and he spun one hell of a story about how we would be changing the world. Ruby always had more faith in humanity than we deserve."

Blake rested her head on Yang's shoulder but continued to look at her. "So what was so bad about these guys? What did you find out?"

"We were traveling is a long train of vehicles. Ruby sat up front with the guy who gave us the job, Weiss took a middle car, and I rode my motorcycle in the back where the cargo holders were and while I was there I could see the holders moving and heard noises coming from them. When we pulled over to rest I told my sister about it and we argued over whether or not to confront them about the cargo. I believed we were hulling something illegal and we didn't deal in illegal moves but Ruby believed we weren't supposed to know the cargo for a reason and that it wasn't our job to ask questions. In the end we asked Weiss what to do and she suggested we investigate ourselves. If it turned out to be something bad we would confront them and if not then we would simply pretend not to know anything."

"I take it you confronted them?"

Yang shook her head. "We never got the chance to. Turns out these guys were smugglers who landed an interesting customer. The cargo turned out to be Grimm."

Blake snapped her head up from Yang's shoulder. "Grimm?! What the hell were they doing with them? How did they even capture them?"

"Not sure," Yang shrugged. "See the cargo holders were completely closed off and so the only way to see what was in them was to open the door. Problem was they were locked. Lucky for us Weiss happens to specialize in dust and managed to freeze the lock so we could break it without alerting the others but as soon as we opened that door..." She trailed off and stared at her hands.

"The Grimm broke out," Blake finished for her.

"A few Beowolves crashed out of the holder we opened and the chaos that followed only attracted even more of them."