Neo was currently still in the throne room within the whale. She looked to her scroll once again, noticing Jaune wasn't picking up or answering her messages. She became worried, thinking that he might have been caught by Ironwood. So far, Salem was making no moves, only unleashing more Grimm upon the people of Mantle
"Hazel, I have a job for you," Said the queen of Grimm
At this, Neo listened in
"What is it?" Asked the large muscular man, Hazel,
"I need you and the children to look for Tyrian and Watts, neither of them has returned I would at least like to know where they are or what has happened to them," Salem said "Track them using their scroll GPS if you must, but find them"
Hazel nodded, "Let's go" Hazel told Emerald and Mercury
Neo sighed and watched as they left. Neo decided to walk around waiting until she had heard from Jaune or Until Cinder needed her for some odd reason. For now, she would have to wait on Jaune, and hopefully... he wasn't dead yet
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Meanwhile, back at the Happy Huntresses base, the Huntresses, RWBY, and NR were there and they were trying to form a plan. Fiona, Nora, and Ren were still mourning over Jaune, while the others were arguing.
"What we need to do is get to Amity tower and let the world know what is happening!" Ruby cried
"You think that Ironwood is gonna let that happen, Ruby!?" Yang cried "Atlas will be looking for us! If you forgot, were fugitives now!"
"Look, what we need to do now is get the People of Mantle to safety!" May said "Atlas wants to run and hide fine by me"
"But that's the problem!" Weiss cried "Without the Winter Maiden's powers, Ironwood can get to the Relic and runoff, so he'll be hunting for Penny"
At this May stopped arguing
"So what now?" Blake asked, "Do we save the people here in Mantle, or do we warn the world?"
"We warn everyone," Ruby said "It's the best option"
No one said anything and Ruby was going to assume that everyone was going to go along with her plan.
"So ya just let the people here die?" Fiona spoked up
Ruby looked to her as did everyone else.
Fiona got up from where she was sitting and held Jaune's sword in her hand and looked to Ruby, "Are you really that cold-blooded that you would leave, innocent people, men, women, and children?" Fiona asked "If you want that then go... go warn the world about Salem, but know that if people here die and you could've done something about it... their blood is on your hands"
"I-I-I-"
Fiona didn't even wait for an answer before she moved away and started walking to the front door, before she left, she turned to look at them, "I'm going out there to protect the people I swore to protect because that's my duty, and If any of you want to do the right thing, then I'll be outside, but if you want to follow Red's plan, go ahead, but you'll be abandoning the real mission" Fiona finished and then left out the front door.
Ren moved away from the wall and he went for the front door
"Ren?" Nora called out
Ren didn't look back at her and his hand gripped the handle of the door, "I-If Jaune was here... he would do whatever, to save the people of Mantle... so I'll do the same" Ren said and he left the building
Yang then got up and followed Ren
"Yang, where are you-?"
"I told you, Ruby," Yang said "I told you that if telling Ironwood the truth came to back to bite us... I wouldn't be following any more of your ideas... and leaving people to die... I just can't" Yang said as she left.
Joanna and May also got up and left the room. Leaving, Ruby, Weiss, Penny, Blake, and Nora alone in the House.
Penny looked to her first friend, "Ruby... are you sure this is the right choice?" Penny asked
Ruby looked at her and Ruby had steeled her thoughts and nodded. Ruby knew this was the best course of action. This was the right thing to do. "Yeah... this is the right choice," Ruby said
"We'll follow your lead Ruby," Weiss told her partner
Ruby smiled and they began to form a plan to get back up to Atlas and get to Amity tower and warn the world.
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In the next chapter!
Oscar comes back!
Hazel, Mercury, and Emerald find something interesting while searching for Tyrian and Watts...
Fiona, Ren, and Yang have a heart to heart about their fallen comrade
Winter and the Ace-Ops begin to question Ironwood's Actions
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A Happy Huntress Book 2 (Waiting Rewrite)
FanfictionFiona, as well as the others, must mourn their loss of a great friend and lover, but they must evacuate Mantle before Salem arrives, but things won't be that simple as Ironwood and Salem are moving along with their plans...
