Lurking Darkness

Rude Awakening

You wake up the next morning, refreshed and ready to fight against the world once again, you roll over to rub your wife's back to slowly wake her. Blake's not there.

"Maybe she's already up." You stretch and begin to get dressed, as you finish up you hear Yang and Weiss outside.

"Blake!!"

"Blake! Where are you!?"

"Where are you?" You ask out loud. You remember a great thing about Aura Bonding.

"Blake? Kitten? Can you hear me?" No response.

"Blake honey, say something." Still nothing.
You go downstairs quickly and you're met with Yang, Weiss and Ruby.

"Where is Blake?" You ask frantically.

"We have no clue."

"My telepathy isn't working to her either."

"There may be clues somewhere. Let's look around." Ruby says.

"Good idea." You run back into your room and you begin your search. After a while of searching, you find nothing, until you check the pillow.

"A note?" Your eyes begin to scan the paper.

Dear Y/n Aspro,

     You may not remember me yet, but once you're done reading this note, you will, I have taken Blake with me to get you and your friends to meet again, I only wish to talk, if you don't come to talk, we will send Blake to the Grimm, beaten and battered. You'll know where to find me when she wakes up. Me and my men will be waiting to talk to you.
-R

You run downstairs and present the note to your friends.

"Guys, I have something..." You toss the note on a coffee table, they all read it.

"Who's R?"

"I don't know any R's." Weiss says after Ruby.

"Well someone has my Blake and I can't get through to her, whoever this "R" is, is going to have their life taken from them!!" You yell angrily as your heat flares.

"R..." Yang ponders.

"You think of something Yang?"

"Yea, but you will not like it..."

"Who is it?"

"It's Raven... it's my mom." You process what Yang just said.

"Raven..."

Ruby's P.O.V

"Raven did this?"

"I think so, the note says, 'me and my men', and, 'you'll know where to find us when she wakes up'. My mother is constantly on the move and leads a tribe full of bandits, mostly men too. It just makes the most sense."

"But why would Raven do this? We haven't seen her in months."

"She says she wants to talk to Y/n, I don't think he has much intention of talking though." Yang bluntly says.

"I'm going to go see if he's okay." You run upstairs and knock.

"Come in." You hear him say.

"Are you okay?"

"Do I look okay? I can't spend one day with my wife before she almost dies and then gets kidnapped my Raven FUCKING BRANWEN. I am NOT okay Ruby. Tell Yang she should make amends with Raven, she won't see her much longer after we meet." You try to be the voice of reason.

"Killing Raven isn't going to solve anything." He doesn't say a single word, all he does is turn his head and looks into your eyes with one of his bright red furious eyes.

"Downstairs now..." You leave the room quickly as you can feel his intent filling the air. He wants one singular thing for Raven now:

Pain.

Y/n is downstairs with a bag prepped and ready, you also called Uncle Qrow and General Ironwood, but he was busy, so just Uncle Qrow made it.

"Qrow, you made it too, I assume they told you what happened."

"Yea kiddo, I'm with you, every step of the way."

"Okay, time for some really, bad news."
You all lean in.

"Raven is the Spring Maiden..."

"What." Qrow states.

"Your sister is the Spring Maiden. I didn't say anything sooner because I thought I had gotten through to her, but I guess not."

"You got through? To Raven?" He chuckles a little.

"Good try kid." His demeanor changes toward Qrow after that.

"How'd you think you did that."

"I told her she was a shitty mother and should try harder, Yang had literally just been impaled and she didn't even as much as bat an eye when I told her. So I told her how fucking miserable she was, she left after threatening me, luckily for her, she's a coward." Yang reacts a bit to hearing Y/n say that about her mom.

"So what're we going to do?"

"We're going to go find my wife, honestly, I don't care what happens to Raven, as long as I have Blake, but I do want to get a few good hits in for kidnapping my pregnant wife."

"Blake's pregnant?" Qrow asks.

"Oh yea, shoulda told you that." You say to Uncle Qrow.

"Now I'm even more on board kid, let's go find my sister."

Y/n's P.O.V

"Y/n?!" You audibly gasp.

"Blake! Where are you? We're coming kitten."

"Forest... east of town, 30 miles..."

"We're coming babe." Nothing, no response.

"Blake?!" You look at everyone.

"Blake just told me where, 30 miles due east, in a forest."

"Let's go." Ruby looks at you.

"We're following you Y/n, I want you lead this."

"Let's move Team AWRY!" You all volt out the door. You haven't noticed m, but you've been above a constant 800 degrees since you learned of Raven.

"I'm coming Raven... I hope you have an army."

Raven kidnapping people? What's happening? Again, thanks for reading! -P