Hello everyone, the reason this message is here is manly because... well, I changed my username, I am now known as "Eternal Rain Spirit" mainly because of my love for rainy weather

Also, the reason why these last few chapter have been so far apart -at least in my opinion- is because I've started collage, so the length between updates may stay the same or be a bit longer

Anyway, enough about me... onto the story!

Chapter 7: Yama village

The gentle hum of the Airship was soothing to the passengers, so much so that Yang had fallen asleep, her head falling onto Wiess's shoulder -much to her annoyance- although for once there was one noise missing

The sound of a motion-sick Jaune

Instead the Dragon slayer was peacefully asleep, his head resting against the window of the Airship

"I didn't know you knew sleep magic Pyrrha" Weiss said, jerking her shoulder up to try and wake the sleeping brawler... with little success

"You should teach Jaune that spell, it would definitely help with his motion-sickness" Velvet said taking a picture of Weiss and Yang, getting a quiet 'Hey' from the Ice user

"I picked up a little bit about it on my last mission, although it's not very good for combat... and, I don't think you can use it on yourself" Pyrrha explained. Blake was honestly surprised, for a four time champion Pyrrha has a very humble personality

Weiss and Velvet excused themselves to get drinks, but even as Weiss got up Yang still didn't wake up from her nap, her head just falling into Weiss's seat, the ice wizard sighed but decided to handle Yang after she got a nice cup of coffee

A few moments pasted between the two awake Guild members until Pyrrha suddenly spoke "your surprised aren't you?"

Blake jolted in her seat, surprised by the sudden question "uh, about what?"

"A lot of new members are surprised, or even shocked when they first meet me. I don't exactly act like a famous tournament fighter" Pyrrha said, her tone becoming very joking at the last part

"Well... I was a little... shocked" Blake admitted, her cheeks turning slightly pink at being caught

Pyrrha looked out the window, a sad smile coming to her lips "I never liked the fame, people placed me on a pedestal when all I wanted was to test my skills" slowly, Pyrrha's smile turned into a genuine one "but when I came to Beacon I wasn't seen as a celebrity, I was one of their comrades... their friend"

"Why are you telling me this" Blake asked confused and she honestly was, Pyrrha seemed to be telling her something that you would tell someone you've known for years

The S-class wizard smiled kindly "your a member of Beacon now Blake, your our friend so I trust you"

Blake was left speechless by Pyrrha's statement. Some time later Weiss and Velvet came back with drinks in hand and continued their conversation with Pyrrha, but Blake still stayed silent as she looked out the window, deep in thought

'Trust, I've gotten along with the people I've met... but do I really trust them' Blake's hand slowly inched to her bow but suddenly stopped as she shook her head 'of course not, I've only know them for a few days, it takes more then that for a person to trust someone'

It was a few hours later that a flight attendant walked over to the Guild members "excuse me"

"Yes?" Pyrrha asked

"The pilot told me to inform you that we will be passing Yama soon"

Pyrrha nodded to the attendant and stood up "thank you. Weiss could you wake Yang and ask her to carry Jaune until we land"

"Wait" Velvet said suddenly realising something "they said we'll be passing Yama"

"Yes, this Airship is heading for the kingdom of Mistral but it passes the town of Yama on the way" Weiss explained as she covered Yang's nose and mouth to wake her up, it only took a few seconds for Yang's eyes to fly open and knock Weiss's hand away

Blake rose an eyebrow at the Schnee's strange way of waking up her blonde friend -if they are friends, it's hard to tell with those two- but meanly at what she just said "if the Airship is flying by Yama, then how are we going to land"

Weiss shrugged her shoulders, silently saying she doesn't know either and turned to Pyrrha for an answer

Said spartan smiled brightly "We jump"

"Is this really a smart idea" Blake asked looking over the side of the railing, her hair blowing in the wind. After Pyrrha had said they were jumping off the Airship to get to the town of Yama, the Beacon Guild members had made their way to the deck of the Airship

"Don't know, but it's definitely a fun idea" Yang said happily, a still sleeping Jaune carried over her left shoulder

"And the Headmaster said this was the fastest way to Yama" Pyrrha said walking up to the railing next to Blake "see you down there" with that Pyrrha vaulted over the railing and dropped down to the forest below, quickly following her was Velvet who used her dolls as a platforms to float down

"Yahoo!" Yang cheered as she and Weiss jump off the Airship

Blake looked over the railing as her Guild-mates fell to the forest, something Pyrrha said just now registering in her head 'the Headmaster said to do this'

The shadow users face morphed into one of shock for a few seconds before sighing and muttering to herself "I don't know who's crazier, the Headmaster... my Guild-mates... or me for following them"

Then Blake did just like the others and jumped

Weiss fell through the air, her hands in their ice-make stance as she concentrated her aura into magic energy. After a few seconds Weiss lifted her hand above her head and then throw them down, shooting a ball of light blue energy to the earth

"Ice-make: slide"

As it made contacted with the ground a large helix of ice was created were it hit, it's surface as smooth as glass. Weiss positioned herself so she landed at the tip of the helix feet first, sliding down it like an ice skater to the bottom were she did a graceful spin

"Perfect" Weiss said to herself, pride evident in her voice

Although she was quickly brought out of her musing when she heard cheering behind her, turning around the ice wizard saw Yang going down the slide at high speed like she was at a water park, Jaune still over her shoulder

Without any time to react Weiss was sent flying as Yang knocked into the back of her legs, coursing her to back flip in the air and land painfully on her back

"Yang Xiao Long, you are such a child!" Weiss said glaring at the blonde brawler

"Me, your the one who made a swirly slide" Yang shot back with a smirk

Weiss was almost growling in anger and would have retaliated if it wasn't for Yang suddenly looking up "wonder how Blake gonna land?"

It's kind of nice

The high view of the forest

The wind on her face

The subtle snores of a still sleeping Dragon slayer

I mean if you ignore all of your natural instincts screaming at you that your gonna die, the feeling of free falling is actually quit pleasant... but, as the ground grew closer Blake thought it was best to save herself from dying and ponder those thoughts later

"Shadow Kama"

Creating the shadow weapon Blake spun it around a few times before throwing it, embedding the blade into a tree witch coursed her to swing around it to lose momentum. As she made it to the bottom of the tree, Blake let go of her Kama and rolled as she hit the ground, standing up without any sign of damage

"Nice moves roomie" Yang said cheerfully as she patted Blake on the back, although because of her abnormal strength, said pat knocked the shadow user face first into the earth

Blake groaned as she lifted herself off the ground and glared at the blonde brawler, who was scratching the back of her head with a nervous chuckle

"Ha ha, sorry" Yang said

Blake would have continued to glare at her roommate but stopped as she noticed something different with Yang, something that used to be over her shoulder "where's Jaune?"

Yang pointed over to a group of... crystals. Forest green crystals that seemed to be growing from the ground, where Blake could see said Dragon slayer finally waking up with a yawn and looking around confused

"Let me guess" Jaune said coming to a realisation "jumped off the Airship again"

"Again?" Blake questioned, although the tone in her voice said she wasn't surprised at all "don't Guilds usually have there own Bullheads to go places"

Blake made a valid point, most Guilds had smaller versions of Airships called Bullheads to travel to further locations, mainly so Guild members would't have to worry about missing their flight or the Airship being delayed

Pyrrha laughed nervously as she gave Jaune a hand up "Beacon has a few but they were either already booked by other members or in need of repair"

"But even then we have less then normal Guilds" Weiss said with a sigh, coursing Jaune to chuckle lightly

"Yeah, because Ozpin spent almost half of it on something else"

"On what?" Blake asked

"OZPIN, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!" Glynda Goodwitch yelled as she gestured with her riding crop to several stacks of crates, all of them containing a large quantity of coffee beans from Mistral... very, expensive, coffee beans from Mistral

Ozpin looked at the crates and took a slow sip from his mug -witch seemed to only make Glynda angrier- and then calmly looked back to the blonde professor "in my defence... that salesmen was very convincing"

Nearly everyone in the Academy could hear Glynda's scream of frustration

"School supplies" Jaune said simply

Blake raised her eyebrow in confusion but decided not to ask further

"Come on, enough talking" Yang said smacking her fist into her palm "let's get this mission started and crack some skulls"

"We have to gather information first Yang, so we won't be 'cracking skulls' any time soon" Weiss said using air quotes at the cracking skulls part

Yang smirked as they started their trek to the village "you obviously haven't seen me get information before, it's a real Yang"

Everyone groaned at the pun, except Pyrrha who tried to force a laugh at Yang's sense of humour... and failed terribly, coursing Yang to pout at her friends "tch, you guys are no fun"

The group of Beacon wizards had been walking for a while now but the village was still not in sight, not only that but the trees of the forest are a lot larger up close, some of them even had the same green crystals growing out of there bark

"What are these?" Yang asked, poking one of the crystals

"There Dust crystals" Weiss said, her tone taking on that of a teacher "crystallised forms of elemental energy that appeared after the Era of Dust, if I had to guess there most likely the course of this large forest area"

"The what of what?" the blonde brawler asked again, tilting her head in confusion

The only response she got was Weiss's groan of frustration "seriously, you do not pay the slightest bit of attention during history!?"

"I take history!" Yang said in shock, as if this was the first she's hearing about it

Velvet giggled and decided to take over before Weiss killed the blonde "the Era of Dust is a point before recorded history, when all of the kingdoms we know of didn't even existed". The bunny Faunus took out her camera and decided to take some picture while explaining "that's why it's called the Era of Dust, because there's no knowledge of what it was like back then, all we do know that when it ended Dust crystals appeared all over the world"

"Hence the name" Jaune said in a rare moment of seriousness "all the history before us, everything it could of been... all of it turned to dust"

"That's a little morbid" Blake muttered in the silence that followed getting a laugh from everyone, even though she didn't mean for them to hear her

After everyone -except Blake- finished laughing, Pyrrha got their attention "alright, the village is only a few minutes away, so let's get moving"

"Right!"

Just as Pyrrha said it took the Beacon members only a few more minutes to reach the high wooden walls of Yama village, once they got through the village gate they decided to go to the nearest -and only- inn and rent their rooms

"Two rooms, please" Pyrrha asked the girl behind the counter, who a few seconds later came back with two keys for their rooms

"So are all us girls going to be sharing a room?" Yang asked

"Actually, they only had two rooms left witch only hold three people" Pyrrha explained

Weiss and Yang both looked at Jaune before raising their hands "not it!"

Jaune glared at the blonde and white haired duo "really?"

In the end the two groups where Jaune, Pyrrha and Velvet -mainly because she lived in an apartment with her three teammates, two being guys- in one room and Weiss, Blake and Yang in the other. In said room Blake laid in her bed reading a book and waiting for Yang to get out of the shower... witch was about an hour and a half ago

'I can see why Weiss charged to the bathroom like a crazed bull' Blake thought to herself taking a glance at the ice wizard brushing her hair, witch reminded Blake of how much dirt got in her hair from Yang knocking her into the dirt

It almost tempted her to tell Yang to hurry up

Though she didn't need to, as after that thought said blonde walked out in nothing but a towel around her body

"Couldn't you have changed in the bathroom" Weiss said, her eye twitching in annoyance at her friends state of undress

Yang rolled her eyes as she pulled out a new outfit from her bag "don't be such a prude, we're all girls here" a look of worry quickly crossed the blondes face "are Jaune and Pyrrha going to be ok, I mean they did-"

"It's fine Yang" Weiss said cutting her off "their relationship ended on good terms, it's best not to pry"

With that their conversation was over, neither of them noticing that Blake had stopped reading her book 'I wonder what happened between those two'

Blake stopped before thinking any more about it, just as Weiss said it isn't their place to pry. The shadow user grabbed her shampoo and change of clothes before heading into the shower

Weiss placed her hair brush down and headed for one of the beds "we should get some rest while we can, Pyrrha said we'll be spending most of the night gathering information"

Yang -now in a change of clothes- sighed and fell into her bed, a few seconds later loud snores could be heard from the blonde, followed by the frustrated groan of Weiss Schnee "Monty, I remember why I left our old dorm and got my own apartment"

In the large cave illuminated by a sphere of light and silver chains, the katana wielding man kneeled under the sphere writing an intricate magic circle onto the stone floor with chalk, all while muttering an incantation in a language that did not sound human at all, coursing the writing to glow an ominous red

"Will this work Master Hagane" a female voice questioned, as a woman walked out of one of the caves paths

She had light green hair that went down to her back and bangs that cover her eyes from view, she wear a green knee length dress under a black kimono with green flower pattern that hung off her shoulders and is tied loosely around her waist with a green belt, as well as green high heels on her feet with black stockings

"Of course it will, they guaranteed it" Hagane said, stopping his chanting for now and standing up, reveling his black formal military uniform with red on his shoulders, cuffs and edge, with black slacks, dress shoes and a sheathed katana at his waist

His black hair was pulled into a short ponytail that barely went down to his neck and a scar went from his left temple to his cheek, crossing over the left of his red eyes

"Once this barrier is destroyed the tome sealed within will be realised, and we can use it's power against those who abandoned us" Hagane said, a smile that dripped with bloodlust on his face

"And what power is that?" questioned a new monotone voice

The two turned to the source to see a younger girl about 18 years old, she had short orange hair and blue eyes, she wore a orange short sleeve T-shirt that showed her midriff, dark green cargo pants that hugged her figure with black combat boots and a pair of black fingerless gloves

Behind her stood man who is taller than anyone else in the cave, light grey hair that was shaved at the sides but the top part was longer and spiked forwards. The grey haired man had grey denim vest that had white fur around the edges and was open to show he wore no shirt, as well as black cargo pants and boots

One could tell simply from the look in his eyes the this man was crazy

The man walked past the orange haired girl, making sure to bump his shoulder against hers "who cares what it does, as long it courses some bloodshed I'm all for it!"

The woman in the kimono sighed and muttered under her breath about a 'Bloodthirsty Brut', before looking at the sphere that their Master said had a tome sealed within "although I am curious myself what power this tome holds"

Hagane chuckled darkly "you all already know the power it holds"

This statement caught the threes attention

"We do?" the youngest girl asked

"Yes, this tome was used a few years after the war, it's power destroyed a village that was home to very powerful wizards" Hagane explained

"I don't remember hearing about something like that" the grey haired man said confused

"The full details of the incident were never released to the public, but even you should have heard of it" Hagane said with slight mirth at the end, coursing the other man to scowl in annoyance

Before he could say anything the green haired woman stepped forwards "what was the name of the village Master?"

Hagane turned away from his subordinates and kneeled once again to the magic circle on the stone floor

"It's name... was the village of Patch"

A/N: Final, done!

Well before I end this chapter I want to tell you all the ages of the three other that were with the Orange haired girl, mainly because I can't figure out how to do that in the story

Hagane = 38

Green haired woman = 32

Grey haired man = 33

That's all, bye!